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WEATHER. "
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ParUy cloudy and cooler, preceded by * »,». ,
showeFs today; tomorrow partly cloudy; iNeWS and WirephOtOS
gentle northeast winds. Temperatures Q5nr>/Jasr ltTnmm™ j
i yesterday-Highest, 95, at 3:30 p.m.; low- bUnday Moming and
! est, 76, at a am. Every Afternoon.
OP) Mean. A.aoci.tad Praas. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION
No. 1,692—No, 34,081. ost office, Washington, d.'c. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1937—102 PAGES ** FIVE CENTS I TEN CENTS
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CONGRESS ENDS SESSION;
HOUSING AND DEFICIENCY
LEGISLATION IS PASSED
Wage-Hour Bill
Is Stranded in
House.
USUAL FROLIC
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Roosevelt Sends
Good Wishes to
Senators.
BY J. A. O'LEARY.
A weary Congress- went home last
night after passing the $526,000,000 j
alum clearance housing program and
an $87,600,000 last deficiency bill in a I
tame closing session.
The flare-up in the Senate early in
the day when Democratic opponents
of the President's court plan lashed
back at Senator Guffey. Democrat, of
Pennsylvania for his radio attack on
them Friday night, furnished the only
touch of adjournment excitement to
what otherwise was a dull finale.
Aside from this brief but bitter
verbal tilt in Democratic senatorial
ranks, both houses moved leisurely
through a routine day of approving
conference reports and winding up
odds and ends of business until the
gavels fell, in the Senate a few min
utes before 7, and in the House 25
minutes later.
Thus ended the first session of the
Seventy-fifth Congress, not to re
convene until January, unless the
President should elect to call it back
Into session sooner.
President Sends Letters.
To the Senate, which had side
tracked his Supreme Court plan sev
eral weeks ago, the President sent a
letter expressing his "regards and
good wishes," and wishing its mem
bers a "pleasant and happy vacation.”
A similar letter was sent to the
House, through Speaker Bankhead,
In the House another major New
Deal objective, the wage and hour
bill, was left stranded. Other impor
tant issues that went over until the
next session included farm legislation
and the anti-lynching bill.
After being in session for more than
seven months, the members the
House apparently were anxious to get
away without the usual fanfare of
music and song. In the Senate a few
members jokingly shouted, "No!” on
the motion to adjourn.
Helium Gas Bill Passed.
In addition to the housing and de
ficiency bills, both houses completed j
last-minute action on the measure
to give the Government control over
this country's valuable helium gas
and to regulate its sale to other na
tions for use in airships traveling to
and from the United States or its pos
sessions.
After the deficiency and housing |
measures had been completed and sent \
to the President, it appeared for a
while that the Senate might run on
late into the night debating the nom
inations of T. A. M. Craven to be a
members of the Communications
Commission, and of Samuel H. Ord
way, Jr., for the Civil Service Com
mission. Both appointments were
confirmed, however.
Aid for Cotton Farmers.
One of the last acts of the session
was to make possible price adjust
ment loans to cotton farmers on
their 1937 production. After passing
a resolution pledging consideration of
crop control early in the next ses
sion. which the President urged as
a condition to the making of loans
on this year's cotton, both houses
then made provision for the loans in
the last deficiency bill.
The supply bill makes not to ex
ceed $65,000,000 available from cus
toms receipts to pay cotton groweis
the difference between the price they
get and 12 cents a pound, but not
to exceed 3 cents per pound.
The slum clearance bill, now await
ing the President's signature, au
thorizes $526,000,000 for loans and
grants to State or city public hous
ing agencies for low-rent housing
projects. It contains an amendment
giving President Roosevelt authority
to allocate part of the fund to the
District Alley Dwelling Authority to
expedite its work of reclaiming the
Inhabited alleys of Washington.
Authority Is Created.
A United States Housing Author
ity is created in the Interior De
partment to administer the program.
The bill retains the limit of cost of
*4.000 per family unit in small cities,
but allows a $5,000 unit cost in cities
of more than 500,000 population.
In bringing the last deficiency bill
down to $87,600,000, the conferees
struck out $50,000,000 for benefit pay
ments under the new sugar control
quota measure, awaiting presidential
signature, and left in only $250,000
lor administration of the plan.
They reached a compromise figure
Of $115,600,000 as the limit’of con
tract authorization for the Maritime
Commission in planning new ship
(See CONGRESS~Page A-V)
I -—i
Bats Ready to Take
Possession of Capitol
As Congress Leaves
By the Associated Press.
Bats frolicked in the Capitol
yesterday a short time before
Congress adjourned.
One flew into the “President’s
room” and circled a huge chan
delier. Another darted about the
basement.
"They know when we’re about
ready to adjourn and they’re
taking possession,” commented
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla
homa. i
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Bitter Senate Fight Portends
Permanent Split of Democrats
.
Four Court Bill Foes’ Denunciation of
Guffey Causes Speculation on
Irreparable Breach.
B> the Associated Press.
Spectacular warfare between fight
ing factions of the Democratic party
continued in the Senate yesterday to
within a few hours of adjournment.
After eight months of furious wran
gling, the wearied legislators turned
homeward last night, wondering if the
party's once solid majorities had been
split beyond repair.
They wondered, too, whether they
would be summoned back into special
session this Fall to deal with problems
left unsettled and. if so, pessimistic
ally predicted that the intra-party row
would go on then, from where it
stopped yesterday.
Ends on Note of Defiance.
For it ended on a note of wrathful
defiance. Four of the Democrats who
opposed the Roosevelt court bill arose,
one after the other, and challenged
the administration to unseat them
because of that opposition.
Upon Senator Guffey, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, who had suggested such
a course, the four—Wheeler of Mon
tana, Burke of Nebraska. O'Mahoney
of Wyoming and Holt of West Vir
ginia—poured vials of contempt and
denunciation, while he sat gfimly
looking straight before him and said
nothing.
Then they circulated a 'petition
among their Democratic colleagues
asking that Guffey be ousted from his
position as chairman of the Demo
cratic Senatorial Campaign Commit
tee. They said they had obtained
from 15 to 20 signatures.
The petition was withdrawn later,
however, when Senator Barkley of
Kentucky, the Democratic leader, dis
closed that a week ago Guffey came
to him with his resignation from the
committee. Baikley said he was busy
at the time and suggested that the
resignation go over until after the
session.
Guffey Friday night delivered a ra
dio speech in which he predicted that
because of their opposition to the
court bill, O’Mahoney and Burke
would be defeated. He added that
Wheeler would have ‘ plenty” of ex
plaining to do before 1940.
Wheeler, flushed and angry, lost
no time in calling the speech to the
attention of Senators w'ho knew what
was coming and were in their seats
awaiting it.
Wheeler “Highly Honored.’*
“I feel highly honored.” he said,
"that the Senator from Pennsylvania
has singled me out as one of three
members of the Senate for the pur
pose of broadcasting a speech which
every one knows he did not write
and which every one knows he would
not have dared to deliver upon the .
floor of the Senate because he would
have been afraid that he would have
had to yield to the Senators to whom
he referred."
Guffey, seated in the rear row of
the Senate, sat red of face, unsmiling,
•See GUFFEY, Page A-12.f~
Ml HALTS
N. & W. STEAMER
150 Passengers Wait as 40
Strike When Boat Is Set
to Leave Norfolk.
A sit-dowm strike by 40 firemen, deck
hands and stewards prevented the sail
ing of the Norfolk dr Washington
Steamboat Northland from Norfolk
last right with a near-capacity load of
about 150 passengers bound for
Washington.
J. Allen Riordan, general manager of
the company, said most of the passen
gers had gone ashore again at Norfolk
and there seemed no chance of the
boat sailing last night or early today.
Riordan said the strike was arbitrary
and “unfair" in that he and other
company officials had made every effort
to comply with the demands of the
union. The strike was called as the
steamer was about to cast off her lines
for the northward voyage.
In a telephone conversation with
representatives of the National Ma
rine Union, a C. I. O. affiliate, Rior
dan said he offered to increase wages,
better living conditions and do all pos
sible to comply with union demands.
He said, however, the strikers refused
to permit the steamship to sail,
although he had authorized the boat's
captain to sign an agreement as to
new working conditions.
"Only last May we gave all our
men, from the masters down, a 10 per
cent salary increase, and bettered
their living conditions. Ours was the
last line to cut wages during the
depression. We have never had any
labor trouble before.
“The first we heard of this trouble
was Saturday a week ago, when the
C. I. O. representatives presented
their demands.
“We asked for a month to consider,
then two weeks and finally a week,
with the proviso that the labor repre
sentatives give us 24-hour notice and
a chance of further discussion before
calling a strike.
They agreed to this latter proposal,
and then disregarded it when the boat
was in Norfolk and the company offi
cials were in Washington. I don't
know what the outcome of the strike
will be. We've done all we can to
settle it and get the steamship under
way.”
The company offered increased pay
and the promise of continuing the
negotiations next Tuesday, but the
strikers’ leaders demanded a signed
agreement and said the captain’s
signature would not be binding on
the company.
‘PIED PIPER’ WITH PLANE
WOULD ROUT SPARROWS
‘Sure, It's a Oag, but It Might
Work,’ Declares Airman,
Offering Services.
By the Associatec Press.
PERRY, N. Y., August 31.—An
aerial "Pied Piper” offered his serv
ices tonight to rid this village of spar
rows, so citizens can sleep nights.
Russ Brinkley, a pilot and radio
entertainer in nearby Olean, wrote
Mayor Roy Spellicy he would fly his
"flivver" airplane over the sparrows
and broadcast flfe notes.
“Sure, it's a gag,” he admitted to
night, "—but I'll go through with it.
Who knows? It might work.”
"My plan,” he told the mayor, "is
to attract the sparrows with my pip
ing, lead them out into the country
and lose them.”
Radio Programs, Page F-7.
Complete Index, Page A-Z.
4
FIVE ARE KILLED
Washington Man and Vir
ginia State Road Super
visor Among Victims.
Five persons, Including a Wash
ington man and a Virginia State road
supervisor, were killed in automobile
accidents in Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia yesterday as the
District’s 1937 traffic death toll
mounted to 70 with the death of
4-year-old Audrey Ann Holland.
The other victims:
Theodore Ray, colored. 158 Bryant
street.
William G. Waltman. 58. supervisor
of State roads in Mercer district, Lou- i
iSoun County, Va.
Mrs. Idella Wilson Harrington of
Crisfield. Md.
Ward Beachy, 68, of Grantsville,
Md.
Lester Harrison Barnard, 27, of
Bloomington, Md.
The Holland girl, who lived at 242
Jefferson street, died yesterday after
noon at Casualty Hospital of injuries
received Friday when struck at Kan
sas avenue and Jefferson street by an
automobile alleged to have been driven
by John Shoemaker, 23. of 103 Con
cord avenue, according to police.
Shoemaker was released in custody
of his attorney, Fred J. Icenhower,
pending a coroner's inqifrst.
Killed Near Warrenton.
Ray was killed and his wife suf
fered severe shock in an automobile
collision near Warrenton, Va., in
which John Kenna, president of the
Supreme Court of Appeals of Charles
ton, W. Va., received a fractured skull.
Judge Kenna was taken to the Fau
quier County Hospital and was still
unconscious at 7 p.m. last night. Dr.
George H. Davis, county coroner and
physician attending the jurist, said
he was reacting slowly and described
his condition as critical. Mrs. Kenna
was expected to arrive at the hospital
from Charleston this morning.
Waltman, widely known Loudoun
County farmer and stockman, fell
beneath a moving truck on a road
between Bluemont and Unison, Va.
He died in an automobile en route to
Winchester Memorial Hospital.
The truck, which was driven by
William Sinclair, had been giving
some motor trouble during the mom
tSee TRAFFIC, Page A-7.)
BODY FOUND IN SOUND
IS NOT MRS. PARSONS
Teeth of Dead Woman Do Not
Correspond With Those of
Missing Heiress.
By the Aesociated Pres*.
NEW LONDON, Conn., August 21
—Police Sergt. Dennis W. Cavanaugh
announced tonight a body recovered
from Long Island Sound was “defi
nitely not" that of Mrs. Alice McDon
nell Parsons, missing Long Island
heiress.
Cavanaugh said an examination of
the teeth of the badly decomposed body
established that it could not have
been that of the socially prominent
woman who disappeared from her
Stony Brook, Long Island, home
June 9.
With Dr. Robert KnaufT, New Lon
don dentist, and T. E. Myers, a special
agent of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, Sergt. Cavanaugh spent
more than two hours tonight in a
thorough examination of the body.
Mrs. Parsons’ teeth had “many
more” fillings than were discovered in
the teeth of the unidentified body,
picked up 8 miles south of here today
by a Coast Guard patrol, the police
officer said.
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Two Hotels Razed, Eight
Others Menaced—Five
Persons Injured.
By the Associated Press.
ASBURY PARK, N. J.. August 21 —
Fire tonight swept two boardwalk
hotels and forced evacuation of about
1.200 guests ip these and eight other
endangered hotels w hile a crowd esti
mated at 100.000 watched.
Three firemen, one policeman and
an unidentified volunteer rescuer were
injured. The three firemen overcome
fighting the flames were Edward Bax
ter, Stanley Robinson and Howard
Rowland, all Of the Asbury Park de
partment, who were treated at Fitkin
Memorial Hospital.
Patrolman Thomas Annecharico
suffered cut hands and scorched body j
w'hen he was trapped in the cellar of j
the New Monmouth, where he sought
to rescue a man' reported asleep.
Finding no victim, Annecharico was
trapped by flames. Three walls col
lapsed about him and he escaped by
crashing through a window.
The new Monmouth Hotel, a five
story frame building, housing about
120 guests, and the Park Lane, with
about 100, were rapidly consumed by
the fierce flames that brought fire
men from Asburv Park and several
neighboring communities.
By 11 p.m. iE. S. T.l, less than two
hours aft^r the outbreak of the fire. I
Chief William S. Taggart said the
flames were under control. The blaze
had exhausted itself in leveling the
two structures, he said.
Outbreak of the fire an hour or
more before the usual retiring time at
the resort was given as reason for the
escape of guests and employes. Asbury
Park police reported only the one
fireman injured.
Firemen and police, joined by
Marines and soldiers from Forts Mon
mouth and Hancock, worked fever
ishly in rescuing persons from the
affected hotels, located in the heart
of the hotel section.
Guests and employes meanwhile
streamed forth from the endangered
Sterling. Hazelwood, Wellington,
Thedford, Benjamin Franklin, Com
modore, Columbia and Dana Hotels.
The heat was so intense that on
lookers, attracted to the scene during
one of the Summer season's best week
ends, were forced to keep several
blocks distant.
Firemen estimated the damage to be
at least $200,000.
Double Victory
Of Pitcher Caps
Six Days of Toil
An iron man stunt recorded by
George Mosedale, thin Washington
pitcher, in hurling his team to two
victories yesterday at Griffith Sta
dium to capture the Union Printers'
base ball tourney championship mere
ly topped off a weeks toil which
would have floored a less sturdy slab
man.
Mosedale pitched 333.( innings, or
nearly four full games, in six days,
winning three tilts and twirling ef
fectively in a relief stretch Thursday
against New York. He was voted the
most valuable player in the tourney.
When not pitching he played the ©tit
field and was a consistent hitter.
(Full details in Sports Section.)
MAN ELECTROCUTED
BY “SHORTED” LAMP
John Thomas Baldwin. Hoad In
spector, Killed at Silver
Spring Home.
John Thomas Baldwin. 37, a State
Roads Commission inspector and well
known amateur comedian, was elec- j
trocuted when he turned on a shorted
floor lamp in the basement of his
home at 8604 Mayfair place, Silver
Spring. Md . last night.
Baldwin, who had moved into the
home only recently, had just taken
a shower bath and walked into the
adjoining recreation room. When he
turned on the floor lamp, which police 1
later found to be short circuited, he
was stunned by the shock and fell to
the floor. The lamp fell across his
chest and the current continued to
pass through his body.
Hearing a commotion in the base
ment, his wife. Mrs. Winifred Bald
win, rushed down from upstairs and
discovered his plight, but feared to
touch the lamp and summoned her
brother-in-law, Dr. J. R. Jordan, 1355
Longfellow street.
Before he arrived, however, David
L. Waldron, 611 Maple lane, a neigh
bor, heard her hysterical cries and
ran to the Baldwin home. He turned
off the current and summoned police,
but Baldwin was dead when Sergt.
Joseph Nolte of the Montgomery
County police arrived. Dr. H. H. '
Howlett issued a certificate of acci
dental death by electrocution.
Mrs. Baldwin was prostrated at her
husband's death and placed in care
of a physician. Besides his widow,
Baldwin is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Baldwin,
5811 Colorado avenue, Washington!
Showers and Northwest Winds
Expected to Cool City Today
Maximum to Be 10 Degrees Below Yesterdays 95,
but Mercury Will Rise Tomorrow, Forecaster
Says—Temperatures Kill One, Fell Three.
Relief from the blistering heat that
has gripped the Capital for four days
was in prospect today, but it probably
will be only a “breathing spell.”
Prior to the Weather Bureau’s pre
diction last night that a change was in
the offing, high temperatures took an
other life and prostrated three other
persons.
The rise in the toll came as the mer
cury reached a peek of 95 in the early
afternoon, making the fourth succes
sive day the temperature had ex
ceeded 90.
Northeast winds, blowing down from
the ocean, will be responsible for the
respite, the forecaster said in predict
ing today’s maximum will be about 85
degrees.
Showers are expected to precede the
shift in winds, and the afternoon prob
ably will be partly overcast.
More Heat Is Due.
By tomorrow, however, the tempera
ture is expected to be on the way up
again as the ocean breezes abate and
the skies clear.
Fearing an unbearable week end,
thousands left the city yesterday for
mountain resorts, beaches and other
cool places, not to return until time for
work tomorrow.
The fatality attributed-to the heat
involved Charles Smith, 50, colored, 57
L street, who was found unconscious at
his home an<f died before medical as
sistance arrived.
Those overcome were Mrs. Louise
i
Temperatures
6 p.m.. 88 9 p.m_84
7 p.m..88 10 p.m_82
8 p.m-86 11 p.m_78
Midnight „ 75
Green, 41, of 41 Rhode Island-avenue,
who fainted while walking at North
Capitol street and Massachusetts ave
nue: Raymond Ly.tle, 27, colored, 413
M street, who was prostrated at home,
and Walter O. Willey, 57, of 2005
Kearney street northeast, found un
conscious on the sidewalk in the 1800
block of Rhode Island avenue north
east.
High Recorded at 2:40.
The “high” of 95 was recorded at
2:40 p.m. and the descent from then
on was about two degrees an hour, the
reading at 8 p.m. being 86.
Humidity continued to run un
usually high, driving those unable
to get out of town to the parks and
swimming pools in search of relief.
High temperatures prevailed through
out the East, South and Middle West
during the last 24 hours, but in only
one large city—San Antonio, where
the peak was 96—was the maximum
higher than Washington’s.
Boston and Atlanta had high marks
of 94, while Denver, Mobile, New
York and Savannah recorded 92.
San Francisco had a chilly 64, and
Chicago and Detroit were comfortable
with maxlmvma of 72.
f
D. C. TAX DEADLINE
Commissioners Pressed for
Time to Get Out Stacks
of New Bills.
BACKGROUND—
The President Wednesday signed
the District s tax bill, which. Con
gress agreed to after considering
numerous conflicting suggestions as
to the best means of raising needed
revenues to finance governmental
operations here. Mr. Roosevelt's
approval uas accomparried by a
statement condemning the Tydmgs
price-maintenance rider attached
to the bill.
BY DON S. WARREN.
Pressed for time to get out the
thousands of new bills, the Commis
sioners yesterday ordered a 30-day
extension of the deadline for the pay
ment of real estate, tangible and in
tangible personal property taxes.
Tax Assessor Fied D. Allen said he
also was considering a recommenda
tion for a 30-day extension on the
new business privilege thax bills. The
question is expected to be settled this
week. Probabilities are the Commis
sioners will approve.
At the same time, study of the om
nibus tax act indicated there can be
rid extension of the time for the filing
of returns on the business privilege
tax. These are due on or before
September 16, officials agreed.
Deadline Now October 31,
Normally tax bills on real estate
and tangible and intangible personal
property are due in September and
the first half payment must be made
by September 30, if the taxpayer is to
avoid the 1 per cent per month penal
ty for delinquency. The deadline for
these now has been moved up to Octo
ber 31.
All poooillg V 111. fO.VUU.VVV HV n MtA
program. Congress authorized an ex
tension up to 60 days on any of the
taxes because the delay in enactment
of the law held up the calculation
and preparation of the bills. Assessor
Allen found a 30-day extension would
suffice in the case of real estate and
tangibles and intangible property
levies.
The new business privilege tax. how
ever, imposes a huge additional task
on the present staff of the assessor
and to meet the emergency created by
the September 16 deadline for filing
of these returns Commissioner Hazen
yesterday ordered the temporary as
signment to Allen's office of a dozen
clerks to be drawn from other de
partments. They are to be set to work
Wednesday mailing out the forms for
the business privilege returns.
Funds Transfer Approved.
The Budget Bureau has approved
transfer of $72,000 for the hiring of
extra help for the tax machinery,
but it may require a week or two to
fill 62 approved new posts.
The Commissioners yesterday ap
proved the form of the business privi
lege tax returns and they now are
being printed. They will be mailed
out.
Assessor Allen said he thought it
would not be possible to have the
tangible personal property tax bills
ready before September 16: This
brought an immediate problem as to
the permitted deduction of tangible
tax payments from the business privi
lege tax bills.
As it now stands, while the ousi
ness privilege returns must be filed
by September 16 and the first half
of the. tax paid by September 30, the
tangible tax bills will not be ready
until at least September 16. This
(See TAXES, Page A-7.)
JANE WEIR, ACTRESS,
DIES AFTER OPERATION
Film Player Collapsed Suddenly.
Attending Physician Asks
Autopsy.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANOELES, August 21—Jane
Weir. 21, film actress, died last night
at Good Samaritan Hospital, where
she underwent an appendicitis oper
ation two weeks ag9.
The coroner’s office ordered an au
topsy at the request, said Dr. Frank
Webb, county autopsy surgeon, of the
attending physician.
Miss Weir’s progress was reported
to have been normal until she col
lapsed suddenly yesterday and died in
a coma.
She had been under contract at
Paramount as a stock playar.
A
CHINESE REPEL
BIG AIR ATTACK
NEAR NANKING
Claim 46 Japanese Airplanes
Brought Down Since Start
of Shanghai Battle.
METROPOLIS FORCED TO FREE
7,000 FROM JAIL IN ‘WAR’ ZONE
Invaders Are Reported Planning Effort
to Land 50,000 Reinforcements
on Yangtze’s Banks.
BACKGROUND—
Undeclared Chinese war resulted in deaths of three Americans
at Shanghai a week ago and of sailor on board the United. States
flagship Augusta Friday. Nearly half of the 4.000 American nationals
in Shanghai have already been evacuated with arrangements being
made to take out the rest of the women and children promptly. In
North Chinn defending troops are holding invading Japanese at stand
still.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, August 22 iSundayh—Shanghai’s battle ebbed
and flowed today beneath the sullen smoke of miles of blackened
ruins while high above the Yangtze toward Nanking a Chinese
fleet of airplanes fought and won the biggest aerial battle of the
tragic war.
So complete was disorganization of this great international
community, caught in the vortex of the undeclared Chinese
Japanese war, that its governing council decided it could no longer
be responsible for its own Ward Road Jail, the biggest in the world.
It prepared to turn the 7,000 inmates loose outside the
boundaries of the International Settlement. Murderers, kidnapers,
narcotics traffickers, mostly Chinese but of many other national
ities, were included in the derelict throng that must be freed.
Jail Center of Fierce Battle.
The jail, in the eastern district of the settlement, was the
center of a fierce Chinese-Japanese battle that has lasted for
three davs
Deep-throated Japanese naval guns and Chinese batteries in
Pootung early today resumed the terrific artillery duel across the
Whangpoo River, Shanghai’s outlet to the sea.
It was in such dueling that one American seaman was killed
and 17 wounded aboard the American flagship Augusta Friday night.
Until the battleship guns began roaring Shanghai had enjoyed
the quietest evening of its 10 days of war.
Great fires which raged unchecked in northern and eastern
districts of the city drove out even the contending armies, virtually
erasing the front in those areas. Soldiers and marines, regardless
of the uniforms they wore, had to flee before the flames, in some
places abandoning positions won at the cost of much blood.
Repbrts persisted that the Japanese were preparing for a
great attempt early today to land army reinforcements, said to
total 50.000 officers and men, newly arrived from Japan.
Landing Due on Yangtze Bank.
Japanese officers refused to comment on the reports, which
said the landing was to be made on the south bank of the Yangtze,
some 15 miles north of Shanghai. Chinese asserted Friday their
shore batteries had repulsed an attempted landing at Liuho, 17
miles northwest of here, where a Japanese Army was put ashore
in 1932 to turn the tide of that campaign against the Chinese.
Now, the reports said, the Japanese have established two air
fields on Tsungming Island, at the mouth of the Yangtze, from
which planes are to cover the landing.
The armada hovering in the Yangtze estuary was reported to
be bringing tanks, armored cars and artillery, in addition to
the Infantry.
15 Americans Quit
Chinese Air Firm
Till Conflict Ends
By ihy Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. August 21—Fifteen
Americans withdrew from the China
National Aviation Corp. today until
the end of the Sino-Japane.se con
flict to avoid embarrassing the neu
I trality efforts of the United States.
Pilots and technical experts, they
represented the entire operating per
sonnel of the air line which Is jointly
owned by Pan-American Airways and
the Chinese Government.
They took their step after consult
ing with American authorities here.
It was decided they could not con
tinue to be associated with the com
pany's affairs under existing condi
tions without violating the American
Government’s policy of non-partici
pation in the affairs of another coun
try in time of war.
15 Planes Commandeered.
The Chinese Government already
had commandeered the company's
equipment, including 15 American
planes, and its local terminal had
been destroyed by Japanese bombers.
The entire body of American in
structors in China's aviation schools
also withdrew today. »
They had spent much of the last
decade in the great aviation schools
at Hankchow, Nanking. Nanchang i
and. other points, training Chinese
pilots who now are battling the Japa
nese in the air.
They ended their association for the
same reasons that influenced the of
ficials of the C. N. A. C.
They said they would return to
the United States as soon as possible
and would not return here until the
end of the struggle.
Informed of U. S. Residences.
The United States Consulate Gen
eral disclosed another American ef
fort to avald involvement in the war.
It announced that in Washington and
Tokio Japanese officials had been
formally notified of all points in
Kiangsu, Anhwei and Chekiang Pro
vinces where Americans live.
These are the three provinces
closest to Shanghai. Most of the
Americans concerned are missionaries.
The American action was taken
after Japanese planes had bombed
the American Mission Hospital and
other buildings at Nantungchow, on
the north bank of the Yangtze, 70
miles from Shanghai, a few days ago.
Consular officers said it was hoped
the notification would cause Japa
nese authorities to prevent further
such attacks.
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the 50-mile waterway between Shang
hai and China Sea were reported to
have been increased to 82 ships, ap
proximately half the power of Japan's
mighty navy.
In the air the Japanese air fleets
carried their forays far into the heart
of the great Yangtze Valley behind
Shanghai, seeking to destroy the Chi
nese airforce.
Chinese Claim Successes.
But the Chinese command at Nan
king claimed for its planes a series
of successes as the raiding bombers
from the coast were turned back at »
many points. It asserted at least
eight Japanese planes had been
brought down along the Yangtze Val
ley. while the Chinese lost onJ^ three.
The biggest raid was that attempted
by 20 Japanese bombers from car
riers oft the mouth of the Yangtze,
Chinese officers said The raiders
were en route to Nanking, seeking to
destroy the Chinese capital, when they
were met by an armada of Chinese
pursuit planes above Chankiang, on
the Yangtze about 50 miles.east of
Nanking.
The great air battle of the war raged
above the Yangtze until the Japanese
were beaten off with law of three
planes. The Chinese admitted one of
their planes was shot down and an
other damaged but managed to re
turn to its base..
The Nanking government declared
Chinese airmen had brought down
Japanese warplanes since beginning
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Road Official Sorry
He Left Alexandria
Off Map of Virginia
Bt the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va.. August 21.—
Alexandrians,* State Highway
Commissioner Shirley is sorry.
The commissioner said he had
learned years ago that just about
the supreme affront to a Virginia
city is to ignore its history. The
Ignoring in this case was un
intentional, but that didn’t help
any when Alexandria was omitted
from a historical and recreational
map added to the official highway
map for August.
The mistake has been called to
Shirley’s attention many times
by practically every method of
communication and he wants
^11 Alexandrians to know ha ia
sorry.
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