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A—2 * MARKET SLUMPS; STEEL, RAILS OFF Brisk Selling Sweeps Away Much of Week’s Re- covery. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 23.—A brisk backwash of selling in the stock mar- ket today swept away much of the recovery from the low levels reached in Tuesday's huge wave of liquidation. Shares ©f steel companies and rail- yoads, particularly, were pressed for sale and taken only at sharply lower prices. As the closing gong echoed through the barnlike trading hall of the exchange, declines of $1 to $10 ‘were numerous. This brought to a close the most strenuous and disturbing week Wall Street had experienced since the spec- tacular uprush of prices in the first few months of the New Deal ended with a precipitant slump in July, 1933. Price averages ended the week #gain back in the area in which they fluctuated from the Summer of 1933 until well along into 1935, leaving in- vestors and analysts struggling for ex- planations as to what had happened to sweeping advances of the last two years. Today’s setback did not take Wall Street altogether by surprise, as er- ratic fluctuations would be in keeping with past experience after such a selling wave as that which came to & climax with the 7,000,000-share turnover on Tuesday. Reports Scanned Eagerly. Yet the week'’s business reports were scanned anxiously for evidence as to whether the stock market was fore- shadowing an important interruption to the course of recovery, or giving way to some internal weakness, or possibly & combination of both. ‘The selling in rails and steels, brok- ers said, was due to fairly obvious reasons. The Interstate Commerce Commission announcement of the granting of freight rate increases ex- pected to increase rail revenues by some $47,500,000 annually met with a disappointing market, when calcula- tions indicated this would not offset higher wage and other operating costs which most of the roads have encoun- tered. Steels were sent tumbling by week- end reports that several mills would curtail production further next week, on top of the drastic curtailment of operating schedules that has al- ready taken place since August. Shares of United States Steel dropped to a new low for the year at & price of $52.50, and ended the two- hour Saturday trading session at $53.37, a loss for the day of $4.25. Early this year the shares of the big steel maker commanded a price as high as $126.50. Encouraging Aspects. Most encouraging aspects of the outlook, as Wall Street inspected the week end business news, were reports of brisk retail trade over the country the past week, in most areas sub- stantially above a yesr ago. Also, while such manufacturing lines as steel and textiles, and build- ing operations, were well under last year at this time, it was noted the | motor makers went forward with large-scale production of 1938 mod- els, Detroit estimates showing 81, 905 cars and trucks made the past week, eompared with only 64,310 in the same week of 1936. One of the reasons advanced for | the slump in the securities markets by Wall Street experts has been the cooling of the Mlation sentiment so rampant & year ago, partly by cut- ting down the Federal ‘‘pump-prim- ing” expenditures, Some see business now in a sort of transition phase be- | tween moving forward under the stimulation of expenditure of Federal | funds, and going it alone. TROOPS GUARD CAIRO AFTER BITTER RIOTS 60 Persons Wounded as Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha Wins Confidence Vote. By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, October 23.—Troops were called out tonight to quell serious anti-government rioting in which 60 persons were wounded as & special Parliament session gave Premier Mus- tapha Nahas Pasha's government & vote of confidence. Police fired into the 1,000 rioters, mostly students, who beat several po- licemen and burned a Blue Shirt (pro- government Wafdist youth organiza- tion) camp before two battalions of troops arrived to assist police. The rioting culminated weeks of political agitation high lighted by a clash between the premier and popu- lar young King Farouk. The King was understood to have | tuken a strong dislike to the Blue Shirts whom Nahas insists are “sol- diers of the Wafd.” The premier was said to consider his authority flouted by Farouk’s appointment of the al- legedly anti-Wafdist Ali Maher Pasha &s his political adviser. In a 30-minute session Parliament gave the premier a 172 majority on & voie of confidence. b e Scouts Make Roosevelt Pilgrimage OYSTER BAY, N. Y, October 23 (#).—Six thousand Boy Scouts made their annual pilgrimage today to the grave of Theodore Roosevelt, laying & wreath in memory of the only man to be honored with the title of “chief Scout citizen.” The late President wes the first honorary vice president | Cross-word puzzle. Readers'- Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, Oct. 24, 1987, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Both sides claim advances on Shang- hai front. Page A-1 Franco hurls army against government in Aragon. A-2 Italy blasts hopes for se‘tlement on Spain. Page A-4 Fascists to repeat 1923 march on Rome, Page A-4 NATIONAL Momentous issues involved in labor conference tomorrow. Page A-1 Stock market gyrations to affect Con- gress agenda. Page A-1 18 Algic seamen charged with violat- ing mutiny laws. Page A-2 Black due to write first opinions in next two weeks. Page A-2 Brisk selling wave sweeps away stocks’ recovery. Page A-2 Roosevelt pledges peace effort in arm- istice day proclamation, Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Nearby flood damage put at over $500,000. Page A-1 Plan for special sales tax on tobacco in D. C. revived. Page A-1 U. S. team leads as horse show returns to Meadowbrook. Page A-1 Hit-run automobile kills man near Laurel, Page A-3 Airlines’ joint operating company re- quired at Bolling. Page B-1 Davidson case evidence now complete, investigator says. Page B-1 Extensive Navy day program planned for Washington. Page B-1 Ex-boxer and woman held in extortion case. Page B-1 Chest Board members to hold luncheon meeting tomorrow. Page B-1 SPORTS. G. W. eleven puts up game fight be- fore bowing to Alabama. Page B-6 Maryland springs major upset in halt- ing Syracuse, 13 to 0. Page B-7 Georgetown gets break in scoreless tie with Penn. Page B-8 Ranks of unbeaten elevens grow thin in hectic day. Page B-9 MISCELLANY. Traffic convictions. City news in brief. Vital statistics. Auto show puzzle, Obituary. Shipping news. Educational. Resorts. Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-12 Page A-14 Page A-14 Page A-15 Page B-5 PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages C-1-3 Editorials and comment. ~ Page C-2 Civic news. Page C-4 Jessie Font Evans. Page C-4 ‘Winning contract. Page C-5 Military and veterans’ news. Stamps. Pages C-5-6 Page C-7 PART THREE. Society Section. Bociety news. Pages D-1-11 Well-known folk. Page D-4 Barbara Bell pattern. Page D-10 ‘Women'’s clubs. Page D-11 PART FOUR. Financial, Classified. Stoeks sell off. Page Industry slows. Page Higher costs cut Peoples Drug net. Stock table. Bond table. Curb table. Page Page Page Page Page Classified advertising. Pages E-5- PART FIVE. Feature Section. News features, Pages F-1-3 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2 Dick Mansfield, Page F-3 Automobiles, Page F-3 Amusements. Pages F-4-5 Children’s page. Radio programs. CONTRACTORS HIT P.W. A. CURTAILMENT Roosevelt Halting of Allotments Is Condemned as “Usurpa- tion of Power.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., October 28. —President Roosevelt's recent order that the Public Works Administration make no further allotments for proj- ects was condemned as “usurpation of power” today by reprssentatives of contractors who control two-thirds of the construction work in the United States. Thege representatives—the board of governors of the Associated General Contractors of America—resolved that the organization “use its best efforts to secure a reversal of this order in order that the P. W. A. be continued with full power.” Most of the P. W. A’s projects are let out to private contractors, while the Works Progress Administration performs most of its construction jobs on a “day-labor” basis. The contrac- tors called for & curb on the W. P. A.— “that it be limited in its activities to those localities where emergency still exists.” Big-time contractors at the meeting today expressed the view it would do no good to curb the W. P. A, with the idea of getting workmen back on pri- vate pay rolls if the P, W. A. is curbed at the same time. —_— _Guidance Group to Meet. The Guidance and Personnel Asso- ciation of the District will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Admiral, Sev- enteenth and K streets, to discuss plans for co-ordination of activities of Page F-7 of the Boy Scouts of America upon its founding, February 8, 1910. various local groups interested in youth direction, Sets Number 1 and 2 Now Available Counter in the Bus Star. By mail—inclose 46¢ Name. ART PICTURES MNY one is entitled to one week’s set of Four Pictures in the Art Appreciation campaign of The Star upon pagnent of only 39c at the Art ess Office of The Evening addressed to the Art Appreciation Counter, The Evening Star. Indicate desired set—No. 1.—2.—3. AQAress . coeemeecnnmmemeemeem e nete st e ne e m e ———— Set Number 8 Available Tomorrow (stamps not accept.at;le) 5 Age (if student) «oceeeeem-n----Years, Page F-6| THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 16 ON ALGIC CITED UNDER MUTINY ACT 14 Arraigned in Baltimore and Warrants issued for Four Others. BACKGROUND— A story of terror at sea was un- folded in Baltimore last Wednes~ day when the freighter Algic docked after a 13,000-mile voyage to South America. Three sit-down strikes, a slaying, a drowning and desertions occurred on the voyage, the master said. The freighter be=- ing Government-owned, the Fed- eral Bureau of Navigation and In- spection began an investigation this week. By the Associated Pre; BALTIMORE, October 23— Eighteen seamen were charged to- night with violating mutiny laws dur- ing a 13,000-mile round trip to Buenos Alres. The men all were members of the crew of the freighter Algic, beset with labor disputes, deaths and desertions on the southern voyage from Balti- more, Fourteen sailors were arraigned be- fore United States Commissioner James K. Cullen tonight and held under $1,000 bond each for hearings November 2, They said they would communicate with their union locals to obtain counsel. 4 Fugitive Warrants Issued. Fugitive warrants were issued for the four others. Three were listed as deserting in Brazil, the other as hav- ing “jumped ship” at Jacksonville, Fla. The warrants made no specific charge of “mutiny” but cited sections of the law relating to “mutiny” as having been violated. Mariners said it was the first time the mutiny laws had been used in criminal action since 1820. The warrants charged the men with conspiring to deprive their captain of authority in a foreign port. The charges were based on asser- tions by Capt. Joseph Gainard that the men refused to obey orders in Montevideo, Uruguay. Gainard said the men struck there in sympathy with & strike of steve- dores on the Montevideo docks. Gainard Held Conferences. | Issuance of the warrants followed conferences of Capt. Gainard with De- partment of Justice agents and repre- sentatives of the Federal Maritime Commission. Gainard previously had told a Fed- eral Bureau of Navigation and Inspec- tion board of troubles on the voyage. ‘The Federal Bureau of Navigation and Inspection turned the vessel's troubles over to the Department of Justice yesterday after an inquiry into labor difficulties. The bureau said the “gravity” of charges showed “probable cause” for action on criminal charges. Incidents Declared Settled. MONTEVIDEO, October 24 (Sun- ! day) (#).—Police said today that | minor incidents aboard the United | States Government's Republic Line | ships Algic and Collingsworth have been settled. The police said there had been no intervention by troops, that the is- sues now were settled and that crews again were working normally. The Collingsworth, which arrived here late Saturday afternoon from the United States, was expected to sall today for Buenos Aires. A brief Incident aboard the ship occurred when local stevedores refused to unload her because of what was said to be a cable from the United States Maritime Federation. The cable, it was said, asked the stevedores not to work aboard the ship in retaliation for measures taken in the United States against her crew for quitting work several hours on the Collingsworth’s last call in Monte- video in sympathy for a strike of port workers. Police petrolled the docks, but the incident was settled satisfactorily within a few hours and the stevedores resumed operations. DEATH OF BOY IN BLAST IS HELD ACCIDENTAL Drum of Tar Explosion in Rising Sun Home Is Fatal to Youth, 12. By the Assoclated Press. RISING SUN, Md., October 23.—A verdict of accidental death was re- turned by Coroner F. I. C. Helm to- day after investigating an explosion which killed 12-year-old James E. Ayers. A drum of tar exploded in the boy’s home last night. The top of the drum hit the boy. His father, Millard Ayers, had been heating the tar cn & hearth. Pal Fractures Farmer's Jaw. 'MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 23 (#).— William Williams, 82-year-old farmer, explained from a hospital bed today how an old pal fractured his jaw. He said he went out to a pasture to catch his favorite mare. “She was feeling frisky—jumping about,” the farmer explained. “She kicked me. I'm sure she didn’t mean to do it.” Franco-British Television Link By Air Tested v the Associated Press. PARIS, October 23 —The French and British general staffs are test- ing & new system of liaison in their air fleets by television, informed avia- tion sources said tonight. The sources said they were making experimental flights, sending the po- sions of their planes to distant posts by transmitting pictures of the re- gion over which they were flying. De- tails of the tests were kept secret. A French plane went to Hendon, England, today for trials. Other flights were expected to be made in South- ern France and North Africa. Gen. Andre Niessel, former mem- ber of the French Superior War Coun- cil, said orders could be flashed by television in a fraction of the time it would take to send them by He also pointed out that BLAGKMAY WATE OPIONS SOON Custom Indicates He Will Draft First Views in Next Two Weeks. By the Associated Press. Unless Justice Hugo L. Black de- parts from custom, he will write dur- ing the next two weeks his first opin- ions as a member of the Supreme Court. Following the regular Saturday se- cret conference yesterday, the tribu- nal will meet briefly tomorrow to an- nounce action on petitions and then adjourn until November 8. In the meantime the justices will devote their entire time to writing opinions on the cases. They were argued during the last fortnight. Most of the opinions will be delivered on November 8. For two weeks the new jurist has remained silent while he listened to attorneys arguing the litigation before the tribunal. What opinions Black will write—if any—was decided at the conferences last Saturday and yes- terday. Cardozo Action Recalled. Justice Cardozo, the latest appointee before Black, took his seat on March 14, 1932. The court adjourned the following Monday for three weeks to give the justices time to write opin- ions. On the next meeting day—April 11 —Cardozo wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Brandeis and Stone joined. He also joined with Justices Stone, Brandeis and Roberts in an- other dissent, but did not write the opinion. Among the petitions before the jus- tices at yesterday's conference was one which, in the opinion of some observers, might provide a basis for & challenge against Black if he par- ticipated in the action. It was an appeal by Haywood Pat- terson, a colored man sentenced to & 75-year prison term for attacking a white woman on a moving freight train near Scottsboro, Ala., in 1831. Black once was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Twice Ordered New Trials. The Supreme Court twice has or- dered new trials for Patterson after he had been given death sentences in Alabama courts. At the third trial he received the 75-year sentence. One challenge of Black’s participa- tion in litigation has been promised as a result of the court’s refusal last Monday to review a circuit court de- cision permitting the Securities Com- mission to subpoena telegrams from three Florida companies. As chairman of the Senate Lobby Committee Black had used telegrams | obtained by the Communications Com- mission from persons under investi- BRITAIN IS LASHED BY ROARING GALE 40-Foot Waves Sweep Over South- ern Coast—Ships Forced to Scurry to Refuge. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 23.—A roaring gale swept a wide area of Great Britain today, lashing 40-foot waves over some sections of the southern coast and forcing shipping to scurry to refuge. The channel islands were cut off from the mainland when the subma- rine cable snapped, shutting off all telephone and telegraph communica- | tion. At Portsmouth boats were washed to the center of the city. The famous Cowes sea-front parade was flooded in front of the fashion- able hotels and the exclusive royal yacht squadron’s quarters. The water was deep enough in some places for 2 row boat and 40-foot waves surged over the main highway from Brigh- ton to Seaford. A section of the balloon barrage, which is intended to protect London from air raids, broke loose at Car- dington, in Bedfordshire. The loose balloon and 1,000 feet of swinging cable endangered commercial avia- tion. London was drenched by a sting- ing rain that ended a 25-day “drought.” PNEUMONIA VAchE TO BE GIVEN C. C. C. MEN Robert Fechner, director of the Ci- vilian Conservation Corps, announced yesterday that 150,000 enrollees, or one- half the number in camps, will be given an opportunity to receive the Felton pneumonia vaccine in the next few days. The vaccine used is an immunizing substance isolated from pneumococci by Dr. Lloyd Felton of Johns Hop- kins University, and the first of the 1937 shipments, which will be admin- istered only to volunteers, will be sent to the 1st and 9th Corps Areas Octo- ber 23. A second shipment will leave Octo- ber 30 for camps in the 3d and T7th Corps Areas, and later the vaccine will be sent to all camps in the re- maining five areas. {sult of her five-day OCTOBER 24, Mrs. Reeves Calls on Acquitted Rival Margaret Drennan, 20, who was acquitted of the slaying of Paul Reeves, father of two chil- dren, is shown as she breakfasted with her family yesterday at Iselin, N.J. Left to right: Sisters Agnes and Alice, the mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Drennan; Margaret and her brother John. ACQUITTED SLAYER SPURNS MARRIAGE Farthest From Her Mind, Miss Drennan’s Reply to Brakeman. By the Associated Press. ISELIN, N. J, October 23.—A young woman acquited by & jury of & murder charge in the slaying of the father of her unborn child turned down an ardent offer of marriage today and said, “I'll never change my mind.” Twenty-year-old Margret Drennan, who told the jury she shot Paul Reeves, young father of two chil- dren, because he attacked her, gave the cold shoulder to a marriage pro- posal from Thomas McGovern, 26, and good-looking, a Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman. Immediately after the verdict yes- terday, McGovern asked Miss Dren- nan to marry him. She refused, and | he again paid suit in vain today. “I'll marry her at any time" the tall, dark railroad employe told news- men. “I'll never marry at any time” said Miss Drennan in a very deter- mined tone. McGovern, whom she met “riding on a train once.” was & “nice fellow and I like him” she said, but that was the status of their acquaintance. “Why, I've never even gone out with him,” she explained. Another caller at the Drennan | bungalow today was Mrs. Myra Reeves, widow of the slaying victim. Margaret'’s parents, Mr. edge Mrs. Reeves' knocks at the front door and the widow left with- out comment. Still upset and nervous as a Tre- murder trial, Miss Drennan sought rest and plenned a trip to some unannounced point. “No,” she said thoughtfully, “mar- riage i5 the thing farthest from my mind. I just want to forget.” HOOVER REITERATES G. 0. P. PARLEY PLAN | Objective of Convention to Boost G. 0. P. Congress Strength, He Tells Leaders. By the Associzted Press. GREENWICH, Conn., October 23.— Former President Herbert Hoover stressed again tonight his” advocacy of a midseason Republican convention as & means of formulating a definite policy on which to base the party's fight against the Roosevelt adminis- tration. The immediate objective of such a convention, Hoover said at a privat meeting of Connecticut Republican’ leaders, would be to increase the Re- publican representation in Congress. “The crisis at the present time is too great to sit by without affirma- tive action on the part of the Amer- jcan people,” the former Chief Execu- tive was reported by leaders attending the session as saying. “The national crusade to save the American people from the New Deal,” the leaders said Hoover told them, must be fought on national rather than local issues. They said he recommended that & committee of 100 meet in advance of the general national conference to work out policies. He disclosed, they reported, that he had discussed the convention idea with leaders in 34 States and with 70 members of the national committee, which will meet early next month to take definite action on the proposal. Jobless Census Head to Speak BIGGERS TO BE GUEST OF RADIO FORUM TOMORROW NIGHT. OHN D. BIGGERS, director .of the Nation's first census of the unemployed, will be guest speaker tomorrow night on the National Radio Forum, sponsored jointly by The ‘Washington Evening Star and the National Broadcasting Co. The program is broadcast over & Nation-wide network at 10:30 p.m. and is heard locally through Station WMAL. An Ohio industrialist selected by President Roosevelt for the census task, Mr. Biggers will be making his first Nation-wide radio address to- morrow night on the job confronting him. It is expected he will deal prin- cipally with the means by which the count is to be taken and tabulated for use of Congress and those con- cerned with administration not only of unemployment relief, both public and private, but also for re-employ- ment purposes. It has already been announced that the census is to be taken by mail with & brief list of simple questions to be directed at the Nation's families. Mr. Biggers met early criticism of the voluntary nature of the census by ssking that judgment be suspended on the the project until it & value of JOHN D. BIGGERS. c-mpleted and that co-operation of radio and other vehicles of extended. the press, publicity be and Mrs. | John Drennan, refused to acknowl- | 1937—PART ONE. yesterday as she knocked at the was no response. Mrs. Reeves FRANCO HURLING ARMY AT ARAGON Decisive Offensive of War Predicted by Aides of Rebel Chief. | By the Associuted Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish fron- tier, October 23.—Insurgent General- issimo Francisco Franco today swung his strengthen army east to the Ara- gon front, next major theater of 4| Spain’s civil war, for what his aides said would be “the decisive offensive of the war.” Tens of thousands of war-weary Asturians surrendered arms to the in- surgents following the fall of Gijon Thursday, military dispatches said, but the interest of Franco's followers al- ready had shifted to the Aragon front. Government Prepared. Government dispatches announced the Madrid-Valencia regime was pre- pared to block the insurgents on all sectors of the long line from the French frontier to Teruel—a front stretching 300 miles south from the border. Veteran Moorish troops with Span- ish foreign Legion detachments be- gan operations yesterday southeast of Jaca, near the frontier. Insurgent dispatches from Zaragoza said that in a single day-long battle the insur- gents regained almost all the territory won by the government in recent weeks. Dispatches from Salamanca, seat of Franco's regime, said opinion was divided on which of two points the new offensive would be based—the Teruel sector where the insurgents might strike toward Valencia, or Zara- goza, from which a drive would start for Catalonia. Move to Barcelona Begun. The Valencia government already has started moving to Barcelona which government source indicated was aimed to end the threat of anarchist upris- ings in the Catalonian capital by the presence of the government’s powerful military guard. Valencia would be left under military rule as the main base of Madrid's defense. Government, forces appeared to be basing their defense plans on & highly mobile army behind the Aragon lines, capable of reinforcing any front, and incorporating itself with defense troops in whatever sector Franco chooses. Renewed pressure was felt on numer- ous fronts after the fall of Gijon, gov- ernment reports indicated. Fighting was particularly severe in the Casa de Campo sector outside Madrid, where machine guns and bombs kept up & 24-hour din. PRSI Fraternity Plans Banquet. Plans for a Founder's day banquet December 10 were made at a meeting of the Pi Kappa Phi Alumni Chapter of Washington, held Friday at the home of Al Reichman, 7435 Fifteenth street. ¢ Mrs. Myra Reeves, widow of the slain Paul Reeves, is shown Drennan in an eflort to get the “truth.” door of Miss Drennan, but there had said she would visit Miss —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Van Zeeland Resignation Is Predicted PREMIER VAN ZEELAND, By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, October 23.—The Bel- gian press today predicted the early resignation of Premier Paul van Zee- land to facilitate investigation of charges he had accepted unwarranted payments from the national bank. ‘The predictions were published after & six-hour session of the cabinet, which considered the results of a judi- cial investigation of the administra- tion of the bank’s administration while Van Zeeland was vice governor. ‘The premier’s political enemies have charged that since he resigned the vice governorship of the national bank—a $25,000 a year post—to be- come premier at a fifth that salary he had received bonuses from the bank contrary to law. ‘The newspapers said Van Zeeland had told the cabinet he intended to return shortly from a vacation to tender his resignation. Decision as to whether the full cabinet’ should resign was postponed until the pre- mier’s return. Foreign Minister Paul Spaak was considered the leading can- didate to succeed Van Zeeland. Van Zeeland has been mentioned as the probable presiding officer of the | even | particularly PRESIDENT PUSHES PEAGE EFFORTS Calls on U. S. to Show De- sire to Avoid War as Armistice Celebration. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt pledged the United States again yesterday to aid in the restoration of “confidence and order among nations” in a world threatened by international lawless~ ness and strife. In an Armistice day proclamation he called on the American people to make the November 11 anniversary of the ending of the World War the occasion for demonstrating America's desire for peace. Describiing the forthcoming Armis- tice day as the nineteenth anniversary of “the cessation of the most de- structive, sanguinary and far-reach- ing war in human annals,” the Presi= dent declared: “Lawlessness and strife In many parts of the world which now threaten international security and even cive lization itself, make it particularly fit- ting that we should again express our wish to pursue a policy of peace, to adopt every practicable means to avoid war, to work for the restoration of confidence and order among nations and to repeat that the will to peace still characterizes the great majority of the peoples of the earth.” Believed Referring to Japan. He did not mention specific cases of “lawlessness and strife,” but it was evident that he referred to the unde- clared war in the Far East between China and Japan and the long, san- guinary civil strife in Spain. His proclamation was issued just one week before a conference of nine- power treaty nations opens in Brussels to consider means of halting the Chi- nese-Japanese hostilities. An American delegation, headed by Norman H. Davis, is now on the ocean en route to take part in the confer= ence in accordance with earlier prom- ise by President Roosevelt that the United States Government will do its utmost to co-operate with other peace- loving nations in restoring peace %o the world. Text of Proclamation. The text of the proclamation: ‘Whereas November 11, 1937, is the nineteenth anniversary of the ocessa- tion of the most destructive, sangui- nary and far-reaching war in human annals; and Whereas Senate concurrent resolu- tion 18, Sixty-ninth Congress, passed June 4, 1926, provides: “That the President of the United States is requested to issue a procla- mation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on No- vember 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies expressive of our gratitude for peace and our desire for the eon- tinuance of friendly relations with all other peoples”; and Whereas lawlessness and strife in | many parts of the world which now threaten international security and civilization itself, make it ! fitting that we should again express our wish to pursue a policy of peace, to adopt every practicable means to avoid war, to work for the restoration of confidence and order among nations, and to re~ peat that the will to peace still characterizes the great majority of the peoples of the earth, Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct that on November 11, 1937, the nine- teenth anmiversary of the armistice, the flag of the United State be dis- played on all Government buildings, and do invite the people of the United States to observe the day with ap- propriate ceremonies in schools and churches, and other suitable places. In witness whereof, I have here- unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington | this 22nd day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty seven, and of the inde- pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty- second. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. TWO MEN, WOMAN DIE IN PLANE CRASH Pilot Crushed as Barnstorming . Tri-Motor Pancakes After Rising Only 25 Feet. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., October 23.—Two men were killed and a 78-year-old woman fatally injured here today in a crash of a trismotored sight-seeing airplane at Tacoma Field. Seven other persons, including two women, were injured. The dead: Pilot Leonard Rhiner, 34, Kansas City, Mo.; Fred Williams, 20, Tacoma, and Mrs, Helen Momblow, 78, Tacoma. The plane pancaked at the field on a take-off after having risen only about 25 feet in the air. The entire superstructure was crushed, the wheels thrown 50 feet away and the dead and injured trapped in the wreckage. Pilot Rhiner had cut off the ignition before he was crushed to death in his seat, preventing fire. The plane, owned by A. H. Walker, Kansas City, had been in Tacoma four days on a “barnstorming” passenger- carrying tour which began in Kansas City August 1. SUBMARINE LAUNCHED AT GROTON SHIPYARD Brussels conference of nine-power treaty signatories, called by Belgium to meet October 30 to seek means of ending the Chinese-Japanese war. SINGER’S FATHER DIES KANSAS CITY, October 23 (#).— Charles M. Talley, father of Marion Talley, the singer, died unexpectedly todsy in a one-room apartment he shared with a friend. He was about 70 years old. Talley was a telegrapher for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad 26 years. Mrs. Talley has been with her daugh- ter in Beverly Hills, Calif. When Miss Talley made her op- eratic debut in New York a decade ago her father went with her, sat in the wings and calmly tapped out the l story by telegraph. 'S Skipjack Is Sponsored by Daugh- ter of Manager of Philadelphia Navy Yard. By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Conn,, October 23. —Her bow dripping a mixture of champagne and rain, the United States Navy’s new submarine Skipjack was launched today at the Groton shipyard of the Electric Boat Co. Crowds stood in a pouring rain as the sponsor, Miss Frances Cuthbert Van Keuren, cracked a bottle of champagne on the bow of the 208-foot fighting vessel. The sponsor is the daughter of Capt. A. H. Van Keuren, manager of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Navy, was the ninth submarine con- tructed at Groton for the United States Navy since 1933, it 3 The Skipjack, designated S-3 by the .