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U. S. NATIONALS FLEE SHANGHAI GUNFIRE
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SHELLS SPLINTER DECKS OF SHIP
TAKING 200 WOMEN AND YOUNG
THROUGH HEART OF RIVER FIGHT
350 More to Leave
Tomorrow for
Manila.
BATTLE COVERS
15-MILE FRONT
Japanese Throwing
Full Land Force
Into Frav.
BACKGROUND
Sino-Japanrse “undeclared war"
grew out nf rlash at Chinese and
Japanese armed forces near Peiping
July 7 and subsequent refusal of
hferpeh-Chabnr Politwql Council to
accede to Japanese demands which
would hare created another puppet
state for Tokio in North China.
Warfare brought to Shanghai as
result of killing of Japanese naval
officer a uwelc ago.
*T the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. August 16.— American
women and children passed safely
through shellfire torlav and began an
officially ordered exodus from stricken
Shanghai.
The first of the hundreds who must
leave this city of war within the next
few days werp sped through the heart
of Chinese-.Iapanese air. land and
sea battle along the Whangpoo River
—on their wav to safety abroad.
Shell fragments tore the decks and
roofs of the tender which carried
200 Americans—many of them refu
gees—to the homebnund liner Presi
dent. Taft, waiting off the Whangpoo's
mouth.
(The United State* Sknbassy in
Nanking completed arrangements
for evacuation of American women
and children from Nanking tip the
Yangtze River to Hankow instead
of downstream to embattled Shang
hai. The first group of 25 de
parted on a cargo boat. Others
were to follow as soon as space on
upriver shipping could be ob
tained.
(Before this exodus the Ameri
can community consisted of 40
men. 50 women and 13 children.
The men will remain here.)
Shanghai was surrounded by the
15-mile front of the Chlnese-.Japanese
war. which raged through its fourth
day here, and United Slates author
ities ordered all their women and
Children out.
*50 More Leave Tomorrow.
Three hundred fifty more are to
leave tomorrow for Manila on the
Dollar Liner President McKinley. A
like number will go Wednesday on
the President Jefferson.
The big liner. President. Hoover,
bringing United States Marine rein
forcements from Manila, can carry
about 1.000 American refugees from
Shanghai about the end of the week.'
The Red Cross at Manila Is preparing
for their reception.
The fiercest land lighting of the
battle for Shanghai roared tonight
along the whole front aroung Shang- 1
hai and north of the Yangtze River |
Starshells from both Chinese and ;
Japanese Imps kppt the sky almost
continuously alight.
Most bitterly contested sector was
along the Shanghai-Woosung rail
way, running north from the city.
There the Chinese army apparently
was throwing a desperate attack
against the Japanese lines, trying to
reach the fortress-like headquarters
of the Japanese nayal forces on the i
northern border of Japanese-held
Hongkew.
1 ur unimurcr inirw men > un snuu
strength into this fray.
Foreign consuls saw hope fade for
preventing a repetition of Saturday'*
international area Chinese bombings,
m'hich killed find wounded thousand*.
The Japanese agreed to refrain from
flying over foreign areas south of
Soorhow Creek, but the Chinese re
fused to promise this—unless the Jap
anese "cease to use the International
Settlement as a military base."
American* Packing.
As a massed fleet of 43 Chinese
warplanes brought the conflict to the
heart, of Shanghai again this morning,
Americans began packing for flight
and concentrating at designated safety
points. Officials then decided the
evacuation was imperative.
One hundred additional United
States Marines and sailors were
landed from the Flagship Augusta to
augment the 1.050 Marines already
patrolling Shanghai's International
Settlement and to cover the evacua
tion.
Admiral Harry E. Yamell, com
mander-in-Chief of the United States
Asiatic Fleet, ordered two American
destroyers to steam at top speed from
Tsingtao to Shanghai, possibly to
convoy passenger ships carrying
American refugees.
British authorities announced 2,061
British women and children would
be taken from Shanghai on the liners
Ba.iputana tomorrow and Empress of
Asia Thursday. Other nations moved
gimillarly to save their country people.
Foreigner* in Peril.
With Chinese and Japanese con
tinuing the fighting, Shanghai'* for
eign communities—including some
4,000 Americans and 8,000 British—
remained in peril of repetitions of
Saturday's tragic bombings. Then
more than l.ooo, including three
'See CHINA, Page A-3 )
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Dramatic Rescue of Americans
Under Fire Is Told by Witness
Wife of A. P. Bureau Chief at Shanghai
Travels With Frantic Refugees
to Board S. S. President Taft.
BY MBS. MORRIS J. HARRIS.
WITe of the Associated Press Chief of
Bureau at BhariKhtl.
ABOARD THE FIRST TENDER
EVACUATING AMERICAN REFU
GEES FROM SHANGHAI. August 16
<£*'•—I boarded this tender at 8 a.m.
looav, me time
set for Its depar- i
ture with refu
gees to the Presi
dent Taft.
While we were
waiting for a
United States na
val guard to arrive
we saw seven
Chinese planes
sweep in and out
of the clouds.
The passengers
—many of them
wompn — rushed
I oown tne stairs ....
, Mrs. Morris J. Harm,
[ to Ret below
decks. They pushed and shoved
| frantically.
Suddenly we heard the explosion of
bombs and the crash of anti-aircraft
gpins. The detonations were an ter
rific that they seemed to be riRht on
top of us.
In the deathly silence that followed
the first explosion an elderly woman
! in a white dress sobbed:
“Please Ood; please, God!"
Most of the women were crying, but
none screamed. Several splinters of
shrapnel came through the deck into
the crowded cabin, leaving jagged
holes in the deck.
Sailors from the U. S. S. Augusta
rushed down into the cabin where we
stood. Thev ordered all women and
children two decks below where, with
the exception of the portholes, we were
completely shut in.
The women kept asking each other
how soon we would leave. One of
them looked at me as if I were crazy
when X told her 1 was making a
round trip to the S. S. President
Taft—and coming bark to Shanghai.
I On the 15-mile trip down the
Whangpoo we saw little, but we heard
continual firing. Extremely tense, all
| the passengers jumped when some one
slammed a porthole covering.
! Several women fretted at the "rare
j lessness.”
On the deck above us there were a
j few men, including mv nephew, whom
I was seeing off home.
There were a number of rhildren
iti the cabin with us. Several women
held tiny babies. Some had left
Shanghai so hurriedly they carried
no baggage Sailors handed out thick
ham sandwiches and apples and talked
j cheerfully to the women to ease the
I tension.
People Feeling Big Burden of
Taxation in Lack of
Funds.
(James A- Mills, dean of Asso
ciated Press foreign correspond
ents, wirelessed from the S. S.
President McKinley, between Japan
and Shanghai, the first completely
vncensored story of Japan's side
of the Sino-Japanese conflict.)
BY JAMES A. MILLS.
ON BOARD THE S S. PRESIDENT
MCKINLEY BETWEEN KOBE AND
SHANGHAI, August 16 —Japan is
pouring troops by the thousands into
the Chinese war stones.
Tne President McKinley, en route
to Shanghai, has passed Japanese
transports carrying 20.000 troops to
Shanghai to reinforce perhaps 80.000
Japanese soldiers and marines already
in China.
The new Japanese forces will sup
plement naval landing parties and
be prepared to resist any further
Chinese attacks.
This correspondent also saw col
umns of Japanese war transports re
turning to Japan from China to pick
up additional reinforcements.
War Unpopular In Japan.
This second Sino-Japanese war is
unpopular in Japan because the people
already are overwhelmed with taxes
and other burdens.
Under the stimulus of government
propaganda the Japanese nation has
accepted the conflict reluctantly as
an accomplished fact from which
there is no backing down.
Although a general mobilisation has
not yet been proclaimed. Japan al
ready is on a full war-time footing.
Fusion of Alleghany and
Chesapeake Corps. For
bidden by Writ.
By the Associated Press.
I BALTIMORE. August lfi—Chief
Judge Samuel K. Dennis today for
1 bade a merger of the Alleghany and
Chesapeake Corps., key-holding com
panies of the vast Van Sweringen
Railway Bystem. He said the merger
would be unfair to the holders of
rlass A preferred stock of the Alle
ghany Corp.
Judge Dennis, sitting in a State
court, ruled that while the proposed
merger plan is not illegal or unfair,
"the legal and illegal features are so
inextricably interwoven and related
that the plan must be dealt with as
an entirety and not by piecemeal.”
Grants Permanent Writ.
He granted a permanent injunction
against the adoption of the plan bv
the stockholders of the two holding
corporations. The plan tvas proposed
In July and was to have been acted
upon tomorrow. The petition for an
Injunction was filed by Tri-Continen
tal Corp. and Selected Industries. Inc.
Later another petition was filed by
Broseco Corp. and Aldebaran Corp.
The University of Pennsylvania also
was a complainant in the suit, hav
ing entered the case after the first
petition was filed.
The jurist said that under the law
and the contractual arrangements in
connection with the original issue of
stock he believed the minority holders
of series A stock, a non-voting class,
cannot lawfully be forced to enter
into the merger plan.
Judge Dennis ordered the Chesa
peake * Alleghany Corps to pay the
costs of the case.
Mattern Will Join Hunt Today
For Polar Flyer Who Saved Him
BACKGROUND—
Sigsmund Levaneffsky, the "Hus
sion Lindbergh," and five com
panions disappeared Friday on a
4.000-mile flight from Moscow to
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Last signals from the plane were
received shortly after it had passed
the Pole.
By the Associated Press.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, August 16.—
Jimmy Mattern, noted American avia
tor, prepared to leave today in his
speedy, twin-motored monoplane to
search the Arctic wastes lor six miss
ing Russian flyers.
Mattern arrived only last night after
a record-breaking non-stop flight from
Oakland, Calif., to Join in the search
for Sigismund Levaneffsky, Soviet ace
pilot, and his five companions.
When Mattern was forced down in
the Arctic several years ago on an at
tempted flight to Moscow it was
Levaneffsky who flew over the polar
wastes from Moscow to And him.
The first day's flight will take Mat
tern over the ice floes of the Arctic,
where the four-motored Russian plane
may have been forced down. He said
he would return to Fairbanks tonight
without attempting to land en route
and will be ready to continue his
search as long as hope remains.
"Hank" Jones, Mattern's meehsnie,
£
will accompany him in his rescue mis
sion. Clear weather was reported
over most of the route the mercy
plane will fly today.
Meantime, attempts will be made to
co-ordinate the search by establish
ing contact with Russian rescue planes
flying from Moscow.
Joe Crosson. Alaska's most noted
aviator, who has directed the search
for the last three days, said today
that if the Russian plane landed in
Alaska a systematic search should
find It. However, he added:
"A rescue in the Arctic regions
would be much more difficult,” he
said.
Leaving Oakland. Calif., at 6:11
a.m. yesterday (9:11 a.m., E. S. T.),
Mat tern dashed here non-stop in 13
hours and 35 minutes, at an average
speed better than 190 miles per hour.
Mattem, who hopes next year to
fly from America to Moscow, went
into immediate conference with Cros
son to map out search plans.
Crosson. veteran of many an Alaska
rescue flight, and S. E. Robbins and
Murray Stewart. Alaska Airways
pilots, soared northward from here
Saturday in a fan wise hunt which
netted nothing.
Soviet planes and two icebreakers
were en route to emergency bases near
the Pole in an attempt to rescue the
six flyers before the bitter Arctic
Winter already setting in, closes down.
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Neutrality Action
by Roosevelt
Imminent.
HULL IS CALLED
TO CONFERENCE
Dangers Foreseen
If Use of Act Is
Delayed.
J
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Despite reluctance of administra
tive circles to invoice the neutrality
act. because for the time being, at
I least, it would help the aggressor more
i than the victim, President Roosevelt
j feels he cannot postpone much longer
J the Issuance of a proclamation de
i daring that a state of war exists be
tween China and Japan.
He will confer with Secretary Hull
late today, presumably on the critical
turn of events in China.
Some White House advisers main
tain that the spirit of the neutrality
act is to keep the United States from
becoming involved in a foreign war
Consequently, even though a state of
war may exist between two nations,
the President should not be com
pelled to issue his proclamation
But even these advisers have now
been forced to admit thar the wording
of the bill "the President shall issue
a proclamation * * * ” is such that
it defeats the actual meaning of the
law and the President has no choice
in the matter.
Mr. Roosevelt can. of course, take
all the time he wants befnr° he is
convinced that fighting between the
forces of two powers means war. But
he cannot maintain that, attitude in
definitely without creating a danger
out precedent. The President de
cided that • state of war existed be
tween Ethiopia and Italy within ♦*
hours after the Italian force* entered
the Ethiopian territory.
White House officials said that be
iSee ROOSEVELT, Page A-3)
IDAHO LAND SINKING
HELD NEARLY ENDED
Settling of Farm Acre* to Be Con
fined to Narrow Limits,
Expert Say*.
By the Associated Press.
BUHL. Idaho. August lfi.—Southern
Idaho farmers, watching appre
hensively the sudden changing of
fertile acres Into deep, rugged canyons,
have been assured Nature has about
exhausted her bag of destructive
pranks.
J. E. Hayes. United States settle
ment engineer, who has studied the
region, told farmers here and at Twin
Falls, nearby agricultural capital of
Southern Idaho, "there is no imme
diate cause for alarm.”
The phenomena, which has de
stroyed approximately 17 acre* of
land on the H. A. Robertson farm
near here, will be confined, he said,
to fairly well defined boundaries on
the one farm.
The area, Hayes explained, under
went at least two, and possibly three,
great inundations of molten lava in
past ages. As successive layers cov
ered each other, they left "air spaces"
"between these spaces, he said, filled
with volcanic dust and earthy de
posits strong enough to bear the
weight of the top layer.
Then came irirgation, with water
seeping through cracks, softening the
fills.
S
ftAMMANY\
AtJD NEW
/ DEAL i
THINGS ARE LIKE THAT IN NEW YORK !„
I I
FOR D. C. IN BILL
Third Deficiency Measure
Includes Sum for Jeffer
son Memorial.
Appropriation* aggregating $4,718.
244 for the District, including $500.
000 for starting construction work on
the Thomas Jefferson memorial, were
included in the total of $78,502,000
carried in the third deficiency appro
priation bill reported to the House
today by the Appropriations Commit
tee.
This is $42,809,520 under the Budget
Bureau estimate* for the final major
supply bill of the current session of
Congress. Nearly half of the sum
saved had been sought for the ad
ministration's farm-tenancy program.
The committee, however, recom
mended that start of this program be
delayed a year. The amount thus
elimianted was $20,000,000.
The Jefferson Memorial appropria
tion was for starting work under modi
fied plans adopted by the Memorial
Commisison as a result of protests
against infringement on the Tidal
Basin area and threatened destruction
of the Japanese cherry trees. In all.
$3,000,000 was authorized for the
memorial under the act of June 3,
1936.
One of the largest items recom
mended in the bill was $23,000,000 to
start a three-year public building pro
gram—Post Office and other Federal
buildings outside the District—which
the committee said would cost $70,
000 000.
To carry out this work, the commit
tee recommended that the Secretary
of the Treasury be authorized to enter
into contracts totaling $47,000,000, in
adidtion to a direct appropriation of
$23,000,000.
The $3,000,000 estimate submitted
by the Budget Bureau for beginning
work on the new $26,000,000 War De
partment building was omitted from
the bill. Representative Woodrum
Democrat, of Virginia, explained that
the committee recognizes a need in
the near future for adequate accom
modations for the widely scattered
function* of that department. He
emphasized, however, that "before
any more large structures, not press
ing^ needed, are to be undertaken
(See DISTRICT FUND, Page~XT)T
G. O. P. Leading
Philadelphia
Registrations
Margin of 89.634
Over Democrats Is
Shown in Returns.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. August lfi—Re
publican* hold a lead of 89.834 over
Democrat*, party leader* estimated
today on the bast* of unofficial re
turns from the fourth and final day
of voter enrollment under the new
permanent registration law.
They said approximately 800.000
Philadelphians would be eligible to
vote in the September 14 primaries.
Unofficial registration total* were;
Republicans, 442.23"; Democrats.
352.523; non-partisan and miscel
laneous, 21.757.
IN
Cincinnati Woman Charged
With Two Slayings—Is
Linked to Others.
B> the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, August 16.—After re
ceiving evidence in what Prosecutor
Dudley Miller Oufcalt termed “the
biggest mass murder in this country.”
the Hamilton County grand jury todav
indicted Mrs. Anna Hahn. 31-year-old
mother, on two charges of murder.
The jurors charged her with the
"malicious and premeditated" slaying
of George Gsellman, 67. who died
suddenly July 6, and Jacob Wagner,
78. a teamster, who died June 3.
The two short-form indictments
were reported to Judge Charles 8. Bell
by Grand Jury Foreman John Mauerle
within 15 minutes after the jury was
called to consider the case.
Police have nine other unexplained
deaths under scrutiny, four of which
were of elderly German men with
whom Mrs. Hahn admitted having
been fripndlv.
Only four witnesses testified. Act
ing Detective Chief Patrick Hayes.
Lieut. George Schattle, chief of the
police homicide sqi^d; detective Wal
ter Hart, and Assistant Prosecuting At
torney Frank M. Gusweiler presented
briefly evidence uncovered in the far
reaching inquiry.
NO GAMES TODAY
No games were scheduled today in
eithfr major league.
The Nationals will be in New York
for a three-game series with the
Yankees beginning tomorrow. A sim
ilar series in Boston with the Red Sox
will follow and then the Griflmen will
head West, not returning here until
September 3 when the Yankees will
be met,
I
House Committee Warns
Payers Not to Devise
New Strategems.
Bl »hf Associsted Press.
The House Wavs and Means Com
mittee warned bis taxpayers today it
would frame additional legislation, and
perhaps make it, retroactive, “should
time reveal that new stratagems'* were
being devised to get, around its bill to
close tax law loopholes
The bill was to be called up In the
House shortly after the committee filed
its formal report.
Because the bill still has to be acted
on by the Senate also. House leaders
spread word among Representatives to
pass it by dinner-time or get ready for
a night session.
The report said the ma jor purpose
of the bill was to seal loopholes, "of
which numerous taypayers have
availed themselves, often by means of
ingenious and complex devices, to
escape the share of the burdens of
taxation the Congress has intended
that they should bear ”
i ontrarr mil Adequate.
Promising to propose additional
measures if necessary, thp committee
said it, considered the present legisla
tion adequate, but recognized the diffi
culty of drafting a tax law whirh
would be proof against all "devires and
schemes which legal ingenuity may
evolve r"
Reluctantly junking wage and hour
legislation until next year, administra
tion leaders now are concentrating on
pushing the tax loophole and two
other key measures through Congress
before adjournment.
They conceded they could not pry
loose the controversial labor standards
bill from the House Rules Committee
and that even if they could, members
were in no mood to remain for a long
floor fight.
This decision left these measures on
the program, which probably can be
completed Saturday night or early
next week:
1. The bill to seal tax loopholes,
against which little opposition has
been recorded.
2. A low-cost housing program, ap
proved by the administration and al
ready passed by the Senate. A House
Committee has revised it drastically
in preparation for debate Wednesday.
. 3. A deficiency appropriation bill,
end-of-session routine. It provides for
necessary Federal expenditures which
developed after regular appropriation
bills were passed
A number of minor bills remained
j on the calendar to clutter up the ari
| iournment rush, but Democratic chief
tains were ready to discard any which
might give any material hindrance.
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40 Trucks Burn.
EVERETT. Mass.. August Ifi i/Ti —
Fire which blazed in the sheds of the
Everett Fuel Co. early today destroyed
40 oil trucks and caused damage esti
mated by Fire Chief James J. Evans
at $150,000 before it was controlled by
firemen of five cities.
SENATE MOTES
BLACK NOMINATION
13TO4,AFTERR0W
Opposition to Approval De
velops Immediately on
Floor.
MAINE REPUBLICAN
DOUBTS ELIGIBILITY
Bitter Clash of Burke and Dieter
ich in Committee Is
Reported.
Bs »hr A'.-ncia'cd Press.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
approved the Supreme Court nomina
tion of Senator Black. Democrat, of
Alabama in a hotly-fought session
today, but opposition to his confirma
tion immediately developed on the
Senate floor.
A few minutes after the committee
had voted. 13 to 4. to report thp nomi
nation favorably. Senator White, Re
publican. of Maine took the floor to
argue that Black was not constitu
tionally eligible for appointment to the
court.
The approval was voted after a mo
tion hv Senator Austin. Republican, of
Vermont to delay action had been de
feated. 11 to 5.
Members of the committee said the
session was one of the liveliest in
years.
Clash in Committee.
In the renter nf .the argument, thev
said, were Senators Burke. Demo
crat. of Nebraska, and Dieterich.
Democrat, of Illinois, who clashed over
Burke's proposal to summon Black
himself for questioning by the com
mittee.
Committee members said Dieterich
used such language tha* Burke rose
from his seat at the table and started
fbr the Illinois member, but Senators
Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico,
MeGill. Democrat, of Kansas, and Van
Nuvg, Democrat, of Indiana, sitting
between them, stopped him.
After the meeting Burke discounted
| report's of personal bitterness and dis
played 8 cigar hp said Dieterich had
given him as they left the meeting.
Cauoe of Dispute.
The row started, committeemen
said, when Dieterich condemned, with
out using any one s name, what he
railed an effort to • besmirch” Black
in the newspapers hv committee mem
bers. Hp mentioned specifieallv stories
attempting to connect the nominee
with certain organisations.
White, in the Senate, contended
that the retirement of Justice Van
Devanter. whom Black would suc
ceed. had not created a vacancy on
the high bench, but that a new seat
was created by the recent Supreme
Court retirement act.
Blark would not. be eligible for this
new placp. White declared, because it
was established while he was in Con
gress.
Senator NppIv. Democrat, of West
Virginia, chairman of the subcommit
tee which first considered the nomina
tion. S8id the argument during the
committee session was chiefly over
"constitutional auestions."
Onlv Two Record Votes.
Onlv two record votes were held in
the executive session of the commit
tee
t<enaTor jveeiv movea to repot” tne
Black nomination favorably. Senator
Burke moved as a substitute that the
committee rielav It until it could ex
amine the legal ability of the nominee.
The vote rejecting Burke's substi
tute was 11 to ft, with the committee
line-up as follows:
For the motion—King of Utah. Mc
Carran of Nevada and Burke, Demo
crats. and Austin and Steiwer of Ore
gon, Republicans.
Against the motion—Neely. Van
Nuys, Logan of Kentucky, Dietench.
McGill. Hatch. Pittman of Nevada.
Connallv of Texas. Hughes of Dela
ware and Ashurst of Arizona. Demo
crats, and Borah of Idaho. Republican.
Then Neely's motion for a favorable
report was approved, 13 to 4, with the
following line-up:
For—Neely, McCarran, Van Nuys,
Iogan, DiPterich, McGill. Hatch Pitt
man. Connallv, O'Mahoney, Hughes,
Borah and Ashurst.
Against—King, Burke, Austin and
Steiwer.
Just before thp committee met. Sen
ator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska had
announced he would demand that
Black be questioned about his qualifi
cations for the Supreme Court.
Senator Austin, Republican, of Ver
mont said he would support Burke's
demand. Both said they were not
concerned with reports that Black
once ran with Ku Klux Klan support.
Senator McCarran. Democrat, of Ne
vada also indicated, as he entered
the committee session, that he would
vote for hearings.
Copeland Hit* Choice.
Meanwhilp, in New York Senator
Copeland, Democrat, of New York
described President Roosevelt's nomi
nation of Senator Black for the Su
preme Court as an “insult to the
American people.”
Copeland, a candidate for the New*
York mayoralty, issued the following
statement at his campaign head
quarters in the Hotpl Astor:
‘‘Simply stated by position is this:
Religious and social freedom is the
fundamental principle of the Ameri
can Government. No man who waa
directly or indirectly connected with
the Ku Klux Klan or was the bene
ficiary of Its sympathy or support is
fit for a place In any Impartial
tribunal and certainly not for place
on the Supreme Court bench.
“I regard Senator Black’s nomina
tion as an insult to the American
people.”
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Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Comics __B-1#-19 Radio __B-5
Drama _B-l# Serial Story ..B-l#
Editorials_A-l# Short Story.-A-l#
Finance _A-17 Sports .-.B-ll-13
Lost <fc Found B-lS Society _B-3
Obituary _..A-12 Woman's Pg. B-14
FOREIGN.
U. S. evacuate* women, children from
Shanghai under Are. Page A-l
War against China found unpopular
in Japan. Page A-l
Nanking Embassy is ordered closed by
Japan. Page A-3
Relnosa reported taken by rebels in
northern clean-up. Page A-6
NATIONAL.
Retroactive tax avoidance legislation
held not unlikely. Page A-l
Judiciary Committee meets today on
Black nomination. Page A-l
Mattem to join hunt for Soviet flyers
today. Page A-l
Congress leaders hope to jam 3 key bills
through this week. Page A-l
German seaplane arrives after south
ern crossing. Page A-l
Move to send sugar legislation to con
ference is blocked. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Gang of colored safe robbers, heavily
armed, captured. Page A-l
Government machinery ready to make
farm loans. Page A-5
A. F. of L. bucks C. I. O. among farm.
white collar workers. Page A-«
Armory appropriation move delights
D. C. National Guard. Page A-l
Week end traffic takes 9 lives in D. C.
and nearby area. Page B-l
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EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. PageA-1*
This and That. PageA-1*
Questions and Answers. Page A-10
Washington Observations. PageA-1*
Datid Lawrence. Page A-ll
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Lemuel Parton. Page A-ll
SPORTS.
Griffs, winning eight in row, start long
road trip. Page B-ll
A's set pace for base ball's “turning
worms.” Page B-ll
Armstrong struts his ring stuff here
tonight. Page B-ll
Vandalia to stuff its ears as trap
shooters get busy. PageB-12
Tennis takes over sports spotlight, this
week. Page B-13
FINANCIAL.
Japanese bonds slump
(table). PageA-17
Pepco output rises. Page A-1S
Stocks go down (table). Page A-1S
Curb specialties gain
(table). Page A-19
Climb forecast in steel orders.
Page A-19
Penney net improves. Page A-19
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Nature’s Children. Page A-12
Shipping News. Page B-J
Vital Statistics. Page B-7
Dorothy Dix. Page B-l4
Betsy Caswell. Page B-14
Cross-word Pussle. Page B-l*
Bedtime Stories. Page B-l*
Letter-Out.. Page B-l#
Winning Contract. Page B-l#
N. L. R. B. Works Stenographers
60 Hours a Week, Congress Told
in* manorial jjaoor tteiauons Boar a
hu been so busy the last few months
trying to improve working conditions
in American industry that it has had
to work its own stenographers “BO or
70 hours a week„" Congress learned
today.
This was revealed in testimony be
fore a House Appropriations Subcom
mittee. made public in connection with
the committee's report approving a
request for $15,000 to make up a de
ficiency incurred by the board during
the 1937 fiscal year ending last
June 30.
In fact, the board was so swamped
with work that it did not know it was
spending more money than had been
appropriated, Benedict Wolf, secretary
of the board, told the subcommittee.
Wolfs remarks answered a com
plaint by Representative Taber, Re
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puDiican, or New Yorx tnat you ougnt
to have an organization that would be
able to tell you whether you were
spending more money than you have.”
"We hope that if the appropriation
is increased and we have sufficient
staff to handle the work.” Wolf said,
"that we will be able to do that.
"Stenographers in our regional
offices are working 60 or 70 hours
a week. We knew that we had no
right to demand that of them, but
we could not help ourselves.”
Board Chairman J. Warren Madden
added that "we are enormously em
barrassed” by having incurred the
deficiency. The excuse, he said, is
that the Supreme Court decision on
April 12 upholding validity of the
national labor relations act was fol
lowed by an enormous Increase in
the board's work.
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