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Conference Decides Against
Withdrawal From
China Posts.
B; the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. September 23.—De
spite the deepening threat of the
Sino-Japanese War, the governing
precept of the United States' army
of missionaries in China today was
“carry on!”
After an interdenominational emer
gency conference, representatives of
the principal American missions in
China, encompassing upward of 2,000
missionaries, joined in the statement:
“At this hour of China's need we will
never withdraw'." «
This sweeping declaration was tem
pered with a willingness of all mis
sions to permit workers to withdraw
If they desired, but the majority stout
ly announced their intention to re
main.
Many Endangered in War.
The conference was a result of the
dislocation of mission work in a great
portion of the country, growing out
of the war, in which many American
missionaries have been endangered by
Japanese air raids at numerous in
land points as well as at Shanghai.
A considerable number of mission
aries have come here and some have
left China. The vast majority, how
ever, remained at their stations.
All missions, their executives here
aaid, were deciding policies in the
present crisis and the home boards
W’ere not attempting to dictate.
Reports that the Southern Bap
tists had ordered the majority of
their workers to leave China were
dneied at the Shanghai headquar
ters. Rev. M. T. Rankin of Rich
mond, Va., local director, said the
policy being formulated here made
evacuation entirely voluntary.
Two Typify Attitude.
The attitude of the majority of
woman workers was expressed by
Misses Juniata Ricketts of Witt, 111.,
and Ada Russell of Wichita Falls,
Tex., both Northern Presbyterians sta
tioned at Hangchow, where Japanese
bombing planes have been active.
“We have only returned from a
holiday in Japan and have not seen
the destructions in Hangchow.” they
said. “But we are going there im- j
mediately where we are needed—Jap
anese or no Japanese.”
The Northern Methodist Women's
Board said. “We are not intending
to leave.” The Y. W. C. A.—“All are
free to leave, but- none are going.”
The Y. M. C. A.—“No evacuations.”
The Northern Presbyterians, with
600 Americans in China, the largest
single group of missionaries in the j
country, said “many women and chil
dren are rightfully departing from '
places of danger, but the majority of'
workers remain.”
The Northern Methodists an
nounced, “We are not leaving.” The 1
Southern Methodists said: “Our pol- i
Icy is that there is no evacuation.”
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New Postal Puzzle.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., Septem
ber 23 UP).—Postal officials here hope
nobody gets any ideas from a letter \
they delivered for Melvin Atkin, Rus
sell, Kans. They found the ad
dressee, Mrs. Golden Hadley, Atkin's
sister, but had to delve into their
social security files to locate her.
Atkin addressed his sister merely by
social security number, using his own
number as a return.
Roosevelt
(Continued From First Page.)
the private car and waved to the spec
tators.
Also aboard the train during the
transfer from an incoming Eastern ‘
line to an outgoing Western railroad
were Senator William H. Dieterich,
Democrat, of Illinois, an advocate of
the Roosevelt Supreme Court reor
ganization plan; Mayor Edward J.
Kelly of Chicago, and P. A. Nash.
Democratic national committeeman
for Illinois.
Nash to Ride to Omaha.
They entered the President's car
with Horner and Cochran. The lat
ter planned to remain aboard until
the train reached Omaha late tonight.
The 10-car special, bearing Mr.
Roosevelt on a trend-finding trip
across the continent, departed from i
Chicago at 12 noon (Eastern standard '
time).
Horner said as he left the train on
the West Side that he had discussed '
general affairs and no politics.
“We discussed relief for one thing.”
he said. “Since they reduced W. P. A.
by 35.000 in the State there has been
a tidal wave of attempts to get on
general relief. Industry is doing its
best to help.”
The court-reoreanization nlan. said
Horner, was not mentioned. "We were
Just visiting,” commented Dieterich.
Waves From Window.
Since Mr. Roosevelt has arranged to
speak at the dedication of Chicago’s
new $11,000,000 Outer Drive Bridge on
his return from the West October 5, he
did not appear on the rear platform.
But occasionally he turned from a
table near a window of his car and
waved and smiled to railroad workers
and others who assembled near the
tracks.
Mayor Kelly outlined Chicago's re
lief fund deficit and requested more
W. P. A. funds.
The President's special headed west
through Illinois toward Iowa and Ne
braska.
First Talk at Cheyenne.
No stops, except for switching and
servicing the campaign-like 10-car
special, were planned until tomorrow,
when the President will make his first
Republican Executive Committee Meets Here
Members of t'.ie Republican Executive Committee pictured
here as they met today at Republican National Committee head
quarters, 718 Jackson place are: Front row, left to right, Henry
P. Fletcher, general counsel, Rhode Island; Mrs. Marjorie Scran
ton, vice chairman, Pennsylvania; Chairman John Hamilton,
Kansas; Mrs. John E. Hillman, vice chairman, Colorado, and C.
B. Goodspeed, treasurer, Illinois. Back row, left to right, Joseph
W. Martin, Massachusetts; Mrs. Paul FitzSimons, Rhode Island;
Walter S. Hallanan, West Virginia; Mrs. Horace H. Sayre, Okla
homa; Robert E. Burroughs, New Hampshire; Ezra R. Whitla,
Idaho; R. B. Creuger, Texas; J. Will Taylor, Tennessee; Earl
Warren, California; Harrison E. Spangler, Iowa, and Daniel E.
Pomeroy, New Jersey. —Star Staff Photo.
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MISSES RED SNOW
Visitor Spirited to jObscure
Dock After Rex Reaches
New York.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 23.—Suc
cessfully thwarting plans for a Com
munist anti-Fascist demonstration,
Vittorio Mussolini, 20-year-old young
est son of the Italian premier, was vir
tually spirited ashore, under heavy
police guard, upon his arival from
Italy today.
Young Mussolini, en route to
Hollywood to learn the motion pic
ture business, was taken from the
Italian liner Rex at Quarantine, put
aboard a special cutter, and hurried
to a previously unannounced landing i
at the Thirty-fourth street pier, Man
hattan.
Two police boats went out with the
special cutter and escorted it in, and
at the pier were an extra detail of 50
policemen. I'
Meanwhile, crowds of Italians and 1
other well wishers gathered at the
Rex’s regular pier, 20 blocks away,
were disappointed as the liner pulled
in, more than an hour after its star
passenger had been swallowed up in
Manhattan traffic.
If disappointing to any anti-Fascist
who had planned protest demonstra
tions, this secret landing also was un- 1
ierstood to have annoyed Hal Roach,
Hollywood producer under whose wing
Mussolini will study who arrived with
him today.
The landing meant no shipboard in
rear-platform appearance at Chey
enne, home of Senator O’Mahoney.
one of the chief Democratic oppon
ents of the Supreme Court re-organi
zation proposal.
A little later in the day he will
make another appearance at Wen
ctover, Wyo. He will top off the day
with an hour's stop at Casper, home
of . Senator Schwartz, a Democratic
proponent of the President’s court
plan. He expects to take a drive in
that city.
Although several informal speeches
will be made op the 6.000-mile Jour
ney, the President himself has de
scribed the trip as one on which
there will be made "intake” than "out
go”—in other words, more listening
to ascertain the trend of current
thinking among the people.
Special Session In Balance.
It is on what he hears then, ob
servers agree, that may bring deci- '
sions whether he will call a special ‘
session of Congress, and whether he 1
will continue to fight for his broad
social and economic objectives with
>r without further judicial reform.
Yesterday President Roosevelt, con
cerned over epidemics of infantile
jaralysis, annoimced he was forming
i national foundation to “Lead, direct t
md unify the fight on every phase of |
his sickness.”
"The work of the new organization
must start immediately,” said the 1
President, himself a sufferer of. the
crippling disease for 16 years. '
He said he had enlisted the “sincere 1
nterest” of several representatives and
cutstanding individuals who are will- 1
mg to Initiate and carry on the work 1
cf the new foundation and its person- I
nel would be announced as soon as it '
s completed. ,
Meanwhile, attaches said the Presi
dent was looking forward to the :
scenic pleasures of his Journey—
especially in Yellowstone National
Park, around the great Northwest :
lams, the Washington State Peninsula,
and on the trip across Puget Sound to
Victoria, British Columbia.
Hundreds of miles will be covered
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VITTORIO MUSSOLINI. 1
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erviews were to be had. and it left t
lews photographers with only poorly- t
exposed plates. Tlie press was aboard j
he regular cutter which went out to t
neet the Rex. but on reaching the ship (
hey found young Mussolini and his (
larty just pulling away with its police ,
■scort.
Arriving with Mussolini were the «
'talian Ambassador, Fulvio Suvich,
loach and Charles C. Pettijohn, Holly- 1
vood press man. All landed on the :
ipecial cutter. i
This landing also disappointed nearly
i score of Italian society dignitaries 1
vho were aboard the regular cutter
•eady to welcome Mussolini to Amer
can shores.
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by motor on these excursions, while
the trip to Victoria will be made on
the destroyer Phelps.
The President, accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt, left Hyde Park, N. Y.,
»t 4 p.m., Eastern standard time, yes- j
terday.
Only operating stops were made as
the train headed across the shore line j
Df Northern New York and Ohio. The
President retired before 9 p.m. In
3andusky, Ohio, early this morning,
i string of trout snagged by vaca
tioning “Steve” Early, a secretary,
vas put aboard for the first train
jreakfast of the President and First 1
Lady.
James Roosevelt, son and secretary, 1
»nd his wife will join the party at 1
Seattle for the return trip.
In Yellowstone, Mr. and Mrs. John !
Boettiger, son-in-law and daughter,
ind the latter’s two children by a '
’ormer marriage, Eleanor and Curtis 1
5all, will join the party for the trip 1
o Seattle, the Boettigers' home, and 1
British Columbia. :
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HEARING BAN ASKED
The Newport News Shipbuilding &
3ry Dock Co. has appealed to the
Supreme Court for an order to restrain
he National Labor Relations Board
rom conducting hearings to determine
whether there were unfair practices
n connection with the dismissal of
imploye*.
The Eastern Virginia Federal Dis
rict Court and the Fourth District
3ourt of Appeals denied the com
pany’s petition. In its appeal the
:ompany contended it was “not sub
ect to the inquisitorial powers” of
he board, because it was. not engaged
n interstate commerce. It gave as
ts principal business building Navy
vessels.
Republicans ;
(Continued Prom First Page.)
London, Prank O. Lowden, Senator 1
3orah, Prank Knox, Senator Vanden- 1
>erg and other Republican leaders in t
Congress.
It would be important, he em- 1 c
ihasized, that any such policy-draft- i
ng group should reflect a thorough
:ross-section of Republican thought
ind opinion.
For the subsequent general confer
ee Spangler proposed that the Na
ional Committee invite all men and ^
I’omen who have been candidates or
lave been elected for important State
ind Federal offices in recent years,
til party clubs, particularly those of
oung men and women, also would Lj
ie represented. No elections of dele- t
;ates w'ould be required as in the case j
f actual party conventions. ^
Functions of Planning Group.
Elaborating on the functions of the
iroposed planning committee, Spang- r
er said: j
“It is now obvious that certain 0
undamentals of government and of j
overnmental relations to the people ,
lave been transformed into issues
ipon which the Republican party ;
oust take a stand if it is to continue i
o be a political party of service to
he country. These issues cannot be (
lussyfooted. There are questions
ipon which there may be differences \
f Republican thought. These differ
nces, however, are not upon funda- 1
nental principles of government, but
ipon methods of solution of some j
conomic problems. '
Many questions of methods -cannot ]
x* determined until the situation in \ ^
.940 is known. The Planning Com- I
nittee suggested should be continued 1 i
ls to such detail methods for a report
o the Republican National Convention ,
>f 1940. But it ls a certainty that '
lpon the fundamental principles of ,
jovernment the Republican party can
ind must announce its position before t
hat.
‘The Planning Committee should ,
told hearings and make such invest i- i
[ations as may be necessary. The
vhole Republican leadership might be '
wiled for their opinion and comment
>n a preliminary draft, after which
he draft would be drawn for submis
>ion to the conference. All Repub
icans can agree today upon certain
treat fundamentals.”
Fear “Individual" Threat.
Although the idea gained headway
imong Young Republican groups,
ome party leaders in Congress showed
ittle enthusiasm for it. They ex
messed the belief such a conclave
night be used*to build up a campaign
or some individual and thus tend to
plit the party rather than rebuild it.
A demand for Hamilton's resigna
ion came yesterday from Represent
itive Fish, Republican, of New York,
it a meeting of the New York Execu
lve Committee which was considering
■ successor to Charles D. Hilles, who
etired as national committeeman.
Fish asked for a “wholesale house-'
leaning of the party” in State and
lation. Including the resignation of
tuth B. Pratt as New York commit
eewoman.
The New York meeting deferred in
efinitely selection of a successor to
lilies, an "old guard” leader.
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FASCIST DOOMED
ralencia Cortes Condemns Falan
gist Official to Death.
VALENCIA, Spain, September 23 (/PI
-Juan Avila Guillen, high official of
he Falangists ( Spanish Fascists) cap
ured on • the southern front near
’ozblanco, today was condemned to
eath by the Cortes (parliament) at
ae government capital here.
He was convicted of killing a promi
ent Socialist and of attacking the
leftist movement as a party leader
f San Lucar, near Cadiz, before the
tsurrection. Witnesses against him
(ere refugees from San Lucar.
Ill BUSTS FEED
WEST COAST FIRE
Spectacular $100,000 Blaze
Defies Control Efforts
at San Francisco.
Br the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 23 —
Pad by explosions of huge oil drums
and streams of flaming liquid, a
spectacular oil lire In the industrial
section defied efforts of almost the
:ntire San Francisco Fire Department
tor more than 5 hours last night and
?arly today.
Thirty-eight of the city's 49 engine
:ompanies fought the roaring flames
in the Standard Oil Co.'s storage plant
while explosions shook the ground like
a series of earthquakes before the
alaze was brought under control.
Blazing oil gushers and flying sparks
endangered industrial plants and
business structures over a wide area.
Approximately 80,000 gallons of oil
and a large loading station were de
stroyed. Company officials said dam
age probably would not exceed
1100,000.
The fire, origin of which has not
been determined, broke out in a load
ing station and spread to a small
jasoline warehouse.
“Then the whole house exploded,”
said William O'Keefe, who was on the
scene. “The explosion shook the area
like an earthquake and blew oil all
jver the street.”
The explosion added fuel to the
aurning lake of oil which spread
iteadily toward huge gasoline storage
;anks. The successive blasts led
watchers to believe at least eight
ianks had burst, but company officials
nsisted only two tanks were de
stroyed. Each tank had a capacity
>f about 44,000 gallons.
Three firemen were reported injured,
rhe heat was so Intense several fire
hose caught Are or burst. One Are
truck ventured too Close to the Aares
and Its crew was forced to Aee when
the . tower was ignited. The tower
was destroyed, the truck was badly
damaged.
A concrete wall about the adjoining
RichAeld Oil Co. plant, firemen said,
helped in saving it.
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Maryland Motorist Killed in
Collision Near Elkton,
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Roy Poor, 26, of near North East was
fatally injured if( a collision of his
automobile and a truck near here.
James Newcomb of near Earlevllle,
driver of the truck, posted bond
pending an inquest.
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