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TWO PARTIES FACE
MAJORPROBLEMS
Impending Resignation of
Farley and 1938 Parley
to Get Consideration.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The Democratic administration and
the Republican National Committee
both have Interesting political prob
lems for early solution.
President Roosevelt, as head of the
Democratic administration, must de
cide if and when Postmaster General
James A. Farley is to step out of the
Cabinet—and who is to be his suc
cessor.
The Republican National Commit
tee, which is slated to meet the first
or second week in November, will
have before it a proposal for a Re
publican national convention—or con
ference—to be held in the Spring
of 1938. Although there are oppo
nents to the idea of holding a con
vention, chances are it will be held.
Mr. Farley is reported to be about
ready to relinquish his Cabinet job
in order to become president of the
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. From
Washington sources close to the Post
master General, it was declared yes
terday that he will “stick on for a
while longer,” though how long no
one seemed to know. There was a
reticence about future engagements
for Farley that left a feeling his
retirement from the Post Office De
partment might come at any time.
Coldness Held Unlikely.
It is entirely unlikely, however, that
Farley will leave the cabinet until the
President is ready to relinquish him.
Little credence was placed in sugges
tions that a coldness has sprung up
between the President and Farley be
cause of the Black appointment to the
Supreme Court. While it is true that
Farley was “surprised,” along with the
rest of the country, by the appoint
ment of Justice Black, and it is under
stood he attempted to make an elev
enth-hour protest to the White House,
it is asserted he is still the good friend
of the president he has always been.
Even when he leaves the cabinet,
Farley is expected to remain chair
man of the Democratic National Com
miuee. mat is a post which is not
likely to be held by a man not on the
beet of terms with the President—cer
taiuly the present Chief Executive. It
has been said repeatedly that the
President could find a new Postmaster
General at any time, but that he could
not find a man who would fill the bill
as chairman of the Democratic Na
tional Committee as does "Big Jim.”
Reports that Farley was on his way
out of the cabinet have been heard at j
almost regular intervals ever since
1933. However, it is known that Far
ley has desired to get back into pri
vate business for some time, and that
the Pierce-Arrow presidency has been
offered him. A cabinet office pays I
cmly $15,000 a year, and the expenses I
of a cabinet officer in Washington are
large. The motor company presidency
looks to be the opening Farley has
been looking for.
Patronage Dispenser.
The President has retained Farley
In his two posts, Postmaster General
and chairman of the Democratic
Committee, because he wanted him
on the job and because Farley was
able to give a good deal more of his
time running things political while
making his headquarters in Wash
ington. The office of Postmaster Gen
eral has been considered "political” in
almost every administration, because
of the large amount of patronage that
comes under the Post Office Depart
ment itself. But “Jim” Farley, as
chairman of the National Committee,
has been the chief patronage dis
penser for the entire administration.
If he leaves Washington to become
head of a motor company, he may still
remain national chairman, but how
much time will he have to give to
patronage matters, and how much
would he be permitted to do along
♦ livsaeO
If Farley steps out of the cabinet,
the President is considered likely to
pick a new political lieutenant to in
stall as Postmaster General, not to
supplant Farley as national chairman,
but to take over some of the patronage
matters with which the White House
must deal day in and day out. He
might turn to the Democratic leader
of the Bronx, Edward J. Flynn, who
has been an ardent Roosevelt sup
porter in New York ever since the
President was Governor of the Empire
State. Flynn, as leader of the pop
ulous borough of the Bronx, has
backed Roosevelt for years in a war
against Tammany.. And it was Flynn
and other Roosevelt Democratic lead
ers who recently carried the Demo
cratic primary for Mahoney for Mayor
of New York against the anti-Roose
velt Senator Copeland, backed by
Tammany.
Walker Again Mentioned.
Whenever it has been reported
that Farley was about to leave the
cabinet Frank C. Walker, an early
adviser of the President, has been
mentioned as his probable successor.
Again his name is being mentioned.
Walker has held several posts in the
administration, a general handy man.
There Is always the possibility that
the President might decide to stick
to the Post Office Department and pro
mote the First Assistant Postmaster
General, William W. Howes of South
Dakota and a member of the Demo
cratic National Committee. Howes
has been committeeman for a dozen
years. He came to Washington first
to serve as Second Assistant Post
master General when Senator O'Ma
honey of Wyoming was still First As
sistant. When O'Mahoney stepped
out to enter the Senate Howes was
made First Assistant. Last year when
Farley was ”on furlough” from the
Post Office Department to run the
campaign for re-election of President
Roosevelt Howes ran the Post Office
Department as acting head.
Farley, in addition to being Post
master General and chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, also
is chairman of the New York State
Democratic Committee. He has swung
all three jobs. He has traveled over
the country, probably more than
President Roosevelt himself. It is no
drawback for the Democratic Na
tional Committee to have a chairman
who goes from one end of the coun
try to the other dedicating post office
buildings and addressing meetings of
postmasters and postal employes. It
enables the chairman to keep in per
sonal touch with thousands of small
er Democratic leaders as well as the
more important.
The Executive Committee of the Re
publican National Committee consid
ered the proposal for a national con
vention next year, and decided to pass
it on to the national committee for a
decision. The Executive Committee
etood about 16 to 4 in favor of the
plan. Unless there is a change of
heart before the national committee
A
Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, Sept. 2«, 1937.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
WAR IN THE FAR EAST.
Japanese launch big Shanghai push
on 40-mile front. Page A-l
China war testa efficacy of military
aircraft. Page A-2
Willful slaughter charged to Japan by
Wang. Page A-4
FOREIGN.
Hitler and Duce to go to war games at
Mecklenburg. Page A-l
Britain and France bid Italy to talk
Spanish war issue*. Page A-l
Senator Reynolds urges peace at co*t
of ••face” in Orient. Pag6 A-4
NATIONAL.
Black problem seen as barring special
Congress session. Page A-l
Merrill and airline to contest fines on
airport take-off. Page A-l
Metal trades group due to attack labor
board. Page A-2
Disciplinary action of participants in
corn •‘squeeze" is seen. Page A-2
Both major parties face difficult polit
ical problems. Page A-2
Black to arrive at Norfolk Wednesday
on return from Europe. Page A-3
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
D. C. budget not to exceed $48,000,000
under present plan. Page A-l
Dr. Mann speeds Zoo cargo here by
ship and rail. Page A-l
Board of Trade cites figures to show
need of tax reduction. Page A-l
District chapter 21st annual Red Cross
roll call starts today. Page A-2
Hearing on zoning changes scheduled
October 6. Page B-l
Reynolds to push D. C. referendum
plan at next Congress. Page B-l
First residents to move to Greenbelt
within week. Page B-l
Committee to visit slaughter houses in
East proposed. Page B-l
Health Department testing question
able chocolate eclairs. Page B-l
Lonergan sees site change for Jeffer
son Memorial. Page B-l
SPORTS.
Maryland shows balanced eleven In
beating St. John's. Page B-6
Phebus masters A’s for third victory
though hit freely. Page B-7
Navy puts much power on view in rout
ing William and Mary, Page B-8
One of biggest bowling seasons in his
tory certain for D. C. Page B-9
Heelfly scores in Potomac Handicap
and boosts rating. PageB-10
Sailboat skippers haven’t lost interest
for late season. PageB-Il
MISCELLANY.
Shipping news. Page A-9
Vital statistics. Page A-9
Traffic convictions. Page A-9
Educational. Pages A-12-13
Obituary. PageA-14
ftesorts. Page B-5
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial articles. Pages C-l-3
Editorials and comment. Page C-2
Civic news. Page C-4
Winning contract. Page C-4
Military and veterans'
news. Pages C-5-6 |
Cross-word puzzle. Page C-6
Stamps. Page C-7
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages D-l-9
Well-known folk. Page D-5 |
Service orders. Page D-6 !
Barbara Bell pattern. Page D-9
PART FOUR.
Financial, Classified.
Selling stops storks' rally. Page E-l
Retail trade advances. Page E-l
Wheat and cotton steadier. Page E-l
Stock table. Page E-2
Bond table. Page E-3 '
Curb table. Page E-4 !
Classified advertising. Pages E-5-18
PART FIVE.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-3
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2
Dick Mansfield. Page F-3
Automobiles. Page F-3
Amusements. Pages F-4-5 j
Children's page. Page F-«
Radio programs.Page F-7
meets, the chances are bright for the
convention.
Opponents Are Gloomy.
The opponents of the convention
idea are gloomy when it is mentioned.
They see no good to come from it, and
many chances for mistakes. The most
they hope for is that "it will do no
harm.” Either such a convention will
be a “stuffed shirt” affair or it will
oe a fight between factions, or possi
ble candidates for the next presiden
tial nomination, they fear.
Until enough of the voters are ready
to desert President Roosevelt and his
New Deal, there is little that can be
said or written by the G. O. P. which
will prove effective. The Republicans
played a strategic game well when
they maintained a great degree of
silence after the President launched
his Supreme Court bill. They were
in the fight up to the hilt, of course,
but they avoided effect of a partisan
attack which might have driven anti
court bill Democrats back to Roosevelt.
They hope that the schism in Demo
cratic ranks created by that fight will
widen in the next session of Congress.
They hope the Black appointment to
the Supreme Court will help still fur
ther to alienate voters who supported
Roosevelt and the New Deal.
One of the practical difficulties
which opponents of the convention
idea foresee is the method of select-^
ing delegates. There is no ma
chinery by which they can be elected
by the Republican voters. There is
always the possibility that some of
the elements in the G. O. P. will not
be represented, or Inadequately rep
resented.
The proponents of the convention
plan are demanding action. Many
of the young Republicans “w'ant ac
tion now,” . or at least next Spring.
But there seems to be little action
a convention can hope for, outside of
writing a formula: It 1s true the
congressional campaign is in the of
fing. But each district will be an
individual fight, and in many the
issues will be vastly different.
Farley Prases “Reforms.”
NAIGARA FALLS, N. Y., Septem
ber 25 (A*).—Postmaster General
James A. Farley declared his belief
today that no major party would ever
successfully challenge the basic re
forms of the Roosevelt administra
tion.
Farley, who has been mentioned
as a possible candidate for Gover
nor to succeed Gov. Herbert H. Leh
man, addressed the State convention
of Democratic clubs. He spoke
from the same platform as the Gov
ernor, who affirmed for reporters,
just before the convention, his in
tention to retire at the end of the
present term—his third. Farley de
clined comment on reports he planned
Immediate retirement from the cab
inet.
a
U. S. STEEL DEALING
Stock Exchange Opens In
vestigation Into Sources
of Selling Wave.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 25 —In the
first step of an inquiry into sources of
selling which caused the recent market
slump, the New gfork Stock Exchange
today opened an investigation of deal
ings in United States steel common.
A questionnaire sent by the ex
change's Business Conduct Commit
tee to all members required detailed
information on buying and selling
transactions in the stock between
September 7 and September 25,
The initial break in the slump oc
curred September 7. In less than
three weeks steel plunged down more
than *20 a share, shearing about
*191,000,000 off the value of the ap
proximately 8,700,000 outstanding
shares.
Brokers said the exchange action
established a precedent. It has cir
culated many questionnaires in re
cent years, but it was said to be the
first fact-finding survey for a broad
study of the buying and selling cur
rents. Most of the past questionnaires,
it was pointed out, were motivated by
suspicions of irregularities or viola
tion of exchange rules.
To Provide Basis for Study.
It was announced the returns from
the current questionnaire would "pro
vide the basis for a study by the Com
mittee on Business Conduct of trans
actions, both on the buying and selling
sides, during the last three weeks.”
The brokers were requested to in
dicate whether their selling orders
were for long or short account and
to supply details of amounts, prices
stock received or delivered and the
names of customers.
Brokerage circles said the question
naire appeared to be in line with
statements made recently by the ex
change president, Charles R. Gay, in
which he took issue with James ’M.
Landis, who last week retired as chair
man of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Regulation is Hit.
Speaking of Landis’ defense of the
S. E. C, controls in face of Wall Street
opinion they made for "thinness” of
markets, Gay declared that "too
much” regulation threatened to Im
pair the market's functions, but he
added he was In favor of an impartial
study of the market to determine how
it could best be made to function for
investors.
Announcement of the questionnaire
came after the close of the market.
Prices were steadier in the short
session today, but recovery of ground
against yesterday's sharp break was
negligible. Taking the list broadly j
Wall Street statisticians have vari- !
ously estimated the lass in share values |
incident to the September drop at j
from tis non non non on non nnn nnn i
ROLL CALL TODAY
NEW KING TO PAY
Farouk I to Bear Expense of Pro
cession Victims' Funerals.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, September
25 (/4s).—Officials announced tonight
that Egypt's new King, Farouk I, will
pay for a state funeral for 22 persons
trampled to death during a demon
stration of loyalty for the King.
Cabinet members planned to vote
indemnities for families of those killed
today when a panic spread through a
procession of 100,000 workmen trying
to squeeze through narrow gates of
Ras El Tin Palace.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
night.
RECEPTION INAUGURATES
NEW HALL FOR LEAGUE i
Brilliant Fete Is Given by Age
Khan III for 2,500—Criticisms
Fail to Deter Festivities.
By the Associated Presa.
GENEVA, September 25. — The
League of Nations’ new assembly hall
was inaugurated tonight with a recep
tion given by the assembly president,
Aga Khan III, and his Begum.
The 2.500 persons attending the i
party given by India’s delegate and
his wife ate and drank, among other
things, 300 pounds of caviar and 1,500
bottles of champagne.
Despite criticism in some league
ircles of ’’festivities while women and
children are being killed in China,”
delegates danced to the strains of a
stringed orchestra.
The first session will be held in the
new hall Tuesday.
S. E. C. Officials Refuse Comment.
By the Associated Pres*.
Securities Commission officials de
clined last night to discuss any inves
tigations that may be made by them
or the New York Stock Exchange into
causes of the recent stock market
break.
They said the commission has a
formal rule against any publicity about
suspected manipulation of stocks Untu
and unless the commission decides to
issue formal charges.
Officials, recalled, however, that Wil
liam O. Douglas, on assuming the
commission chairmanship last week,
pledged unrelenting prosecution of
stock manipulators.
21st Annual Drive of D. C.
Chapter Seeks to Enroll
75,000.
With a summons to service from
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman
of the American Red Cross, the twen
ty-first annual Roll Call of the District
Red Cross Chapter opens its 21-day
campaign to raise the funds needed to
carry on Its work for another year.
To stir at least 75.000 men and
women to become member of the Dis
trict Chapter between now and Octo
ber 16, Admiral Grayson said:
“Since this Is the first big chapter
to launch the twenty-first Roll Call, it
sets the pace for the country. As Wash
ington enrolls, so the 3,700 chapters
enroll.”
5,100 to Make Canvass.
The 5:100 volunteer lieutenants will
comb Government agencies, homes,
apartment houses, business offices,
public utility companies and profes
sional men's offices in the intensive
campaign to make sure the little red
and white button is worn by as many
as can contribute the $1 membership
fee.
Prom strategically located booths, a
host of pretty girls will wage an axuil
iary campaign for membership, under
the lead of Miss Mabel Boardman, a
Red Cross valiant for 40 years.
The volunteer workers received
their orders during an impressive cere
mony last night at the Sail Loft in the
Navy Yard.
Brig. Gen. P. R. Keefer, chairman
of the District Red Cross, reported to
Admiral Grayson at the close of the
ceremony:
“Admiral Grayson, the twenty-first
roll call of the District of Columbia
Chapter is ready and organized."
Message from Pershing.
At the Sail Loft function, which
was broadcast by Washington’s radio
stations WJSV, WRC, WMAL and
WOL, and conducted to the music of
the Navy Band, a cable from Gen.
John J. Pershing in Aixen-Provence,
France, was read. It declared:
“My enthusiasm crossed the ocean
tonight carrying warmest wishes to
the Red Cross and to those workers
who will do their utmost to make
possible its extensive and beneficial
work. Never has the world needed
the Red Cross more.”
Commissioner Melvin T. Hazen
said:
"The Red Cross is a truly Demo
cratic organization. It belongs to
you and to me. The dues are but
a dollar a year; little enough to ask
when yielding such a tremendous con
tribution to the general welfare.
"Therefore it gives me great pleasure,
as president of the Board of Com
missioners of the District of Columbia,
to set aside this designated period as
a time when all past members will be
asked to renew their memberships and j
for those who have not before enrolled j
aua ineir names to me ranks or
Red Cross members in the Nation's
Capital."
Sperry Reports to Grayson.
Marcy L. Sperry, chairman of the
Roll Call and president of the Wash
ington Gas Light Co., reported to
Admiral Grayson:
“Our organization for this Roll Call
is complete. Our leaders are men
and women who have left no stone
unturned to make this the best Roll
Call in 21 years.”
The men and women he referred
to. all of whom spoke briefly, are: W.
W. Wheeler, vice chairman of the
Roll Call; Capt. T. W. Johnson, rep
resenting the Government group; j
Thomas Groom, financial chairman: j
E. Barrett Prettyman, professional i
group chairman; Charles T. Clag- !
gett, representing the piofessional i
group; L. E. Rubel, publicity chair
man; Charles Doing, Roll Call treas
urer, and Miss Boardman.
FIRST FALL SUNDAY DUE
TO BE COOL AND CLOUDY
Temperature Expected to Fall to
Low of 48 Here Late
Tonight.
The temperature which climbed to
84 degrees at 4 p.m. yesterday will be
gin sliding toward the 48 degree mark
late tonight, the Weather Bureau ure- ■
dieted.
Today, the first Sunday of Pall, will
be cool and cloudy and there may be
showers, the forecaster said. Cool I
weather which has enveloped the Mid
dle West is closing in on Washington, |
it was pointed out. Tomorrow the
mercury’ may not get above 65 degrees,;
the forecaster said.
The temperature yesterday was 8
degrees above normal, but did not
break any records, the forecaster as
serted. The mercury climbed 30 de
grees from a low of 54 at 6:45 a.m.
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1,400 CHILDREN SAVED
8AINT NAZAIRE, France, Septem
ber 25 M°).—The French freighter
Dairiguerrme arrived here tonight
with 1,400 Spanish children from
Gijon, objective of present Spanish
insurgent warfare on the Biscay coast.
The children were transferred to
the Soviet freighter Cooperat.zia, which
sailed for Leningrad, where they will
be established in a Soviet refugee
camp school. The captain of the
Dairiguerrme said he ran the insur
gent blockade of Gijon ‘ without dif
ficulty.”
Hamilton to Speak in Forum
G. O. P. CHIEF TO TELL OF PLANS.
□OHN D. M. HAMILTON, chair
man of the Republican Na
tional Committee, will be guest
speaker on the National Radio
Forum program tomorrow night.
Arranged by the Washington Star,
the Forum program is heard over a
country-wide network of the National
Broadcasting Company. The pro
gram begins at 9:30 o’clock and is
heard locally over Station WMAL.
Hamilton will discuss plans of the
Republican party for the coming
months and the campaigns of 1938.
The Executive Committee of the party
has been meeting here during the past
week, formulating such plans.
'Taking the chairmanship in 1936,
Hamilton drove the Republican party
through an aggressive campaign on
behalf of the Landon-Knox ticket.
For months afterward he bided his
time while political observers pre
dicted the party never would survive
its beating at the polls. In recent
weeks, however, he has joined with
other leaders of the party in plan*
alnr a new push.
1 JOHN D. M. HAMILTON. '
A.
Pinning on the First 1937 Red Cross Button
Commissioner Hazen, right, opened the 1937 roll call of the District Red Cross last night
by buying the first button at a ceremony in the sail loft at the Navy Yard. Miss Mabel Board
man, veteran Red Cross official, pins on the token while Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of
the American Red Cross, watches. —star Staff Photo.
Army Experts Scan China War
For Clues to Planes’ Efficacy
Far East Conflict Is First Real Labora
tory Military Has Had for Aircraft
Since 1914-18 Campaigns.
BY JOHN' C. O'BRIEN.
Military experts here, and presum
ably in staff headquarters throughout
the world, are following Japan's
widely-heralded air attacks on Nan
king and other Chinese cities with
the keenest interest for whatever light
may be shed on the moot question.
"Of what real value is aircraft as an
offensive and defensive arm of the
military establishment?”
Since aircraft of a primitive type
was first used in the World War, un
ceasing debate has raged in all high
military commands on the merits of
this comparatively untried weapon of
war. The views range all the way
from the unyielding skepticism of old
school ground officers to the bold pre
dictions of areophobes that the air
plane would revolutionize methods of i
warfare; that future wars would be
fought in the air; that when air fleets
spread their wings in the next great
war, the trenches would be safer than
the civilian populations in the exposed
cities.
Until civil strife broke out in Japan,
all this debate was academic and
hypothetical. Neither side could point
to an actual test of the effectiveness of
aircraft. The fighting in Spain
brought relatively modern aircraft
into combat for the first time (Italy's
foray into Ethiopia being disregarded,
as the Italian air force encountered
no opposition), but the results were
hardly conclusive. Neither side in
Spain possessed first-class fighting
ships or anti-aircraft defense and
neither army was greatly experienced
in air combat tactics.
Major Power Operating Now.
But now in China military observers
have the air fleet of a first-class \
military power conducting a major j
air offensive. This offensive was !
heralded by a boast of the Japanese
military high command that it would j
wipe out the seat of the Chinese j
government and by thus paralyzing
the heart of the Chinese military j
machine bring that unhappy country
quickly to its knees.
Quickly realizing that the Japanese ;
operations afforded a laboratory test
of the effectiveness of the fighting
plane, military experts here huddled
around the news tickers to follow
the results.
As yet. of course, the experts have
only fragmentary reports of the oper
ations. Moreover, they are in no
position to know whether the Jap
mrw have vet. alteinnted the Diom
Ised mass attack. Some dispatches I
quote the Japanese high command i
as saying that the attacks thus far j
have been experimental, that /ie big t
raids are yet to come.
Aside from that, the experts here j
are reluctant to accept the achieve- I
rnenhs of the Japanese Air Force as '
indicative of what would happen in j
a war between two first-class powers
for the reason that China is con
sidered no match for her opponents.
Neither in the air nor in her ground
defenses against operations in the air
is China an effective opponent of a
first-class air fleet.
Japanese Have Opportunity.
But China's inferiority, as the ex
ports see it. enhances the value of the
Japanese operations as test of what
armed aircraft can do. If ever a first
class air fleet had a chance to live up
to the claims made for it, the Japa
nese, so the argument runs, have in
China. In the air the Chinese are
greatly outnumbered and supposedly
interiorly equipped, and the anti
aircraft defense, while seemingly suffi
ciently feared to keep the Japanese
flyers in high altitudes, cannot be
compared with the defensive weapons
of a first-class power. For the most
part China's anti-aircraft guns are of
small caliber and the firing control
is not exactly effective.
Such being the conditions under
which this ‘‘laboratory test” is being
conducted, what of the results?
Thus far, according to newspaper
dispatches from the front, the Japa
nese raked Nanking with bombs for
four hours, 50 planes participating in
the attack. The reported total cas
ualties were 200 killed and wounded
and the property damage confined for
the most part to the crude huts of the
native population, the important build
ings having withstood the attack or
missed altogether.
Two days’ bombing of Canton pro
duced greater casualties, the estimates
running as high as 3.000, with greater
property damage.
Significance of Results.
Now, from a military point of view
of what significance are these results?
The tentative judgment of qualified
military observers here Is that they
are not highly significant. Certainly
they are not impressive. They hardly
measure up. so it is contended, to the
direful predictions of the Japanese
military authorities.
The initial shock of such a shower
of destruction from the air, it is ad
mitted, is demoralising to a civilian
population. But what military ob
jective was accomplished, the military
expert* Inquire? Can the Chlneee
(round forces be dislodged by such
an attack? Will the air attacks pre
pare the way for occupation of the
city by the Japanese troops? For
the answer to these questions the
military experts are awaiting further
reports from the Japanese front.
Dismissing the factor of the in
adequacy of the Chinese defense
against the air attack, the experts are
convinced that comparable raids on
an American city would not have re
sulted in casualties as great as those
in Nanking and Canton, relatively
small as they are in comparison with
the teeming populations of those
cities. For the Chinese cities are
not as sturdily built and hence yield
readily to the force of exploding
shells, and the population is un
usually dense and has not been
trained to seek shelter in air raids.
If the raids are repeated, it Ls be
lieved heie, the Chinese will learn j
to avoid danger and casualties will
not run so high.
Claims Not Borne Out.
It would be a grievous misrepre
sentation of tiie views of the Capital's j
military observers to suggest that they j
are disposed on the basis of the frag
mentary information reaching here
from China to discredit aircraft as an
offensive weapon. Rather the idea is
that as yet the Japanese operations, i
the most extensive undertaken with
modern craft, have not borne out ex
travagant claims by some air enthu
siasts.
After all the Japanese operations
over Nanking and Canton are aimed
at only one of the objectives for which ■
air attacks are undertaken, namely, |
the harassing of civilian populations
and the destruction of property. The
other main functions of armed air
craft are to harass and disrupt lines
of communication, destroy batteries
and dislodge troops.
The effectiveness of aircraft for
these other objectives is still a matter
of debate. The performance of air
craft around Shanghai and on the
Spanish war front has not supplied
the military experts with adequate ba
sis for a conclusion.
Observations by Experts.
But from what is known of opera
tions In these two theaters of war,
the experts have made the following
observations:
1. The Chinese air force haa not
been able to disrupt the Japanese line
of communication. The Japanese
...
scathed In Shanghai and maintain
an air base nearby. Japanese gun
boats lying in the Yangtze River have
kept off the Chinese flyers .
2. The Japanese air force has thus
far been unable to silence Chinese bat
teries in the Shanghai sector.
3. Although the Chinese troops have
been pushed back, it was ground oper
ations, with little if any aid from the
air. that accomplished the result.
4. In Spain, although Madrid has
been repeatedly bombed from the air,
the population has not been terrorized.
In fact, they have become so indiffer
ent to the danger from overhead that
they have resumed going to motion
pictures.
5. Air raids have failed to alter the
lines of the opposing land forces at
Madrid, which are entrenched just
about where they were when the siege
started.
6. Air bombing has played relatively
small part in gains made by either
side in the Spanish civil war. land
forces having been decisive in all such
engagements.
The view here appears to be that
aircraft form a valuable supplemen
tary arm of the military service. Ac
cording to Maj. Gen. Frank M.
Andrews,'commander of the General
Headquarters Air Force, the Army's
policy is to maintain an adequate
fleet of pursuit and bombing planes
to attack any point on or near this
continent which might be selected as
a base by an enemy. Without a nearby
base, no foreign power, according to
Gen. Andrews, could hope to succeed
in a large-scale air attack on this
country.
Meanwhile the experts are keeping
their eyes fixed on the Japanese air
fleet.
tCODyrirht, 1937, by New York Tribune.
Inc.)
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SNATCHED FROM DEATH
Paralysis Victim Kept Alive by
Artificial Respiration.
DES MOINES, Iowa, September 25
UP).—Two men used artificial respira
tion to keep the breath of life in
George Nibel, 25, infantile paralysis
patient, during a careening 70-mile
auto dash to an "iron lung” respirator
here today.
Physicians reported Nibel's condition
was "very poor." but that he improved
slightly after he was placed in the
respirator.
J. Nibel, the patient's father, and
Dr. G. 8. Brown alternated in admin
istering artificial respiration to the pa
tient during the 1%-hour trip from
Dayton, lows.
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LABOR DELEGATES
MEET THIS WEEK
Metal Trades Group to Act
on Board Censure and
C. I. 0. Stand.
BACKGROUND—
Split of American labor moi'e
ment more than year ago resulted
in tremendous stimulus to or
ganization of workers as C. I. O.
and A. F. of L. both intensified
membership efforts. At same time,
national labor relations law was
being tested and upheld with ad
ministrative board firmlly being
placed squarely on spot in factional
fight within labor forces. Evi
dently no magic solution to com
plications attendant upon C. I. O.
A. F. of L. fight is possible.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Much of the fireworks incident to
the annual convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, opening Oc
tober 4 in Denver, probably will de
velop during the coming week, it was
indicated yesterday as delegates left
to attend the pre-convention sessions
of the Metal Trades Department, pow
erful unit of the A. F. of L. They
will hold several conferences this week.
Feuding bitterly with both the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
and the National Labor Relations
Board, the metal trades group is ex
pected to give considerable thought to
resolutions censuring the Federal
agency for alleged C. I. O. partisan
ship and condemning the practices
and policies of the Lewis labor faction.
Whatever action is taken on either
of these propositions will be sub
mitted to the full A. F. of L. conven
tion for indorsement, with John P.
Frey, department president and bitter
foe of John L. Lewis, sure to lead a
drive for federation approval.
Madden to Speak.
Both the labor board and the C. I
O. will have their defenders within
the federation assembly, however, with
Board Chairman J. Warren Madden
scheduled to appear as a convention
speaker and delegates of the Interna
tional Typographical, a ‘'half-affili
ated" C. I. O. union, still entitled to
seats of the convention floor.
Madden's acceptance of the invita
tion to address the convention was
disclosed yesterday, although the exact
day of his appearance has not been
designated.
Affiliated with the Metal Trades De
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
and the International Association of
Machinists have felt themselves par
ticularly aggrieved by rulings of the
labor board in cases where C. I. O.
unions and the federation bodies were
in direct conflict.
Madden's appearance at the A. F.
of L. convention, however, may have
the effect of stilling criticism before
that assembly.
Domination of League.
With the issue of C. I. O. rivalry
backgrounding virtually all its busi
ness, federation delegates also are ex
pected to do some talking about the
suspected C. I. O. domination of
Labor's Non-Partisan League, an issue
which was raised at the last meeting
of the A. F. of L. Council. Indorse
ment of legislative restriction of child
labor and re-election of William
Green to its presidency are relatively
routine tasks facing the convention.
Concurrent with the last half of
the Denver session will be a week
long meeting of C. I. O. leaders in At
lantic City, beginning on October 11.
Purposely staged as a counter-attrac
tion in so far as news appeal is con
cerned. the C. I. O. conference prob
ably will produce some declaration of
future policy of the Lewis group, to
gether with a rounding up of accom
plishments .thus far.
Meanwhile, the Department of La
bor and administration advisers fret
over the delicate problem of naming
a sucessor to Edward F. McGrady as
Assistant Secretary of Labor. Thus
far no candidate has been found who
can command enthusiastic approval
of both labor factions. Eventually, it
is expected, the appointee will be
picked from a list of dark horses
whose first qualification probably will
be that of not having offended either
the C. I. O. or the A. F. of L.
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FINNS DROP PROTEST
Accept Soviet Explanation Planes
Crossed Border by Mistake.
MOSCOW, September 25 (/P).—A
Soviet explanation that Russian air
planes flew over Finnish territory only
by mistake was accepted without pro
test, the Finnish Legation said to
night.
The Legation said Finnish troops
fired on Soviet planes to show them
they had crossed the 600-mile-long
frontier. About a dozen planes flew
over the border in maneuvers, the Le
gation said. Most recently, on Sep
tember 21, a Soviet plane flew a mile
inside the Finnish frontier to get
medical aid.
Dowd Rozzelle to Be Tried
for Manslaughter in Death
of His Chum.
B” a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., September 25 —
Included among 29 indictment* re
turned yesterday by the Montgomery
County grand jury was one of man
slaughter against Dowd C. Rozzelle,
jr., 21. of Alta Vista, in connection
with the automobile death May 4 of
his chum, George B. Gummel, jr., son
of a Bethesda fireman.
Police Court Judge Harold C. Smith
dismissed a technical manslaughter
charge agaimft Rozzelle at a prelimi
nary hearing shortly after the acci
dent.
Trial was set for October 5 by Cir
cuit Court Judge Charles W. Wood
ward on arraignment of Rozzelle in
court today,
Gummell, who lived at 4210 Leland
street, was a passenger in an automo
bile operated by Rozzelle when it
plunged over an embankment near
Kensington. He died shortly after the
accident of a crushed skull. Rozzelle
was only slightly injured.
Mike Berger, Arthur Mitchell and
James Doy, all colored, were indicted
on a charge of robbery with a deadly
weapon. The trio pleaded not guilty
on arraignment today to robbing Hpr
bert J. Cuff, 56-year-old store pro
prietor at Ednor, of about $20 on
September 16, Cuff was shot during
the hold-up.
H. Curtis Lamson of Bethesda was
indicted on several counts of book
making and maintenance of a book
making establishment. He was ar
rested June 9. No date for trial has
been set.
James E. Spiller and Leithan Brad
ley were arraigned before Judge Wood- •
ard on charges of robbery with a
deadly weapon. Trial of their case
was set for October 4.
The same date was fixed for the
trial of Thomas Martin on charges
of assault and battery and trespassing.
State's Attorney James H. Pugh
announced the return of the 29 in
dictments. They will be made public
Monday, Pugh said. Eight indictments
had been returned previously.
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YOUNG REPUBLICANS
TO MEET HAMILTON
15 Leaders of State Groups Will
Hold Conference Here To
morrow Morning.
Fifteen leaders of Young Republican
organizations throughout the country
' will meet here tomorrow with John
Hamilton, National Republican Com
mittee chairman, to organize a mem- *
j bership program and plan for a larger
j meeting to be held here later in the
; Fall. Tomorrow * session will be at
j 10 a m. at 718 Jackson place.
The following will attend:
J. Kenneth Bradley, Connecticut,
chairman, Young Republican National
Federation: Donald Hornbeek of Ohio,
Henry Bubb of Kansas. Edward Shat
tuck of California, D R. Van Sickler
of Washington, Joe Bottum of South
Dakota, John Carton of Michigan,
Wallace Steams of Massachusetts,
Loren Berry of New York, Miss Kath
ryn Ford of Illinois. Mrs. James Hol
lingsworth of New York, Mrs. Barbara
, Smith of Vermont. Alfred M. Lilientha'.
of New York, Mrs. Cooper Rhodes of
the District of Columbia, Ronald
Bridges of Maine.
Chairman of State Finance Commit
tees will meet here with Hamilton on
Thursday.
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GIRL IN COMA 5 YEARS
TO BE OPERATED ON
Patricia Maguire Faces Removal
of Tumor—Doctors Urge
Surgery.
] By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 25.—Patricia
Maguire, the “sleeping beauty” of
suburban Oak Park, who has lain In
a coma more than five years, will un
dergo an operation for an abdominal
tumor, her family decided today. The
time of the operation was not fixed.
Mrs. Gladys Hansen, sister of “Pat.”
| announced the decision, reached after
more than a week of debating the
problem.
The .sleeping girl's mother, Mrs.
Peter Mile.v, said last week it was a
question whether her daughter could
stand the shock of an operation. Her
condition appeared to be getting wors?.
however, and specialists recommended
surgery.
Miss Maguire, now 31 years old, was .
stricken by encephalitis lethargiea In
January, 1932. and fell into a coma the
next month. She has never awakened.
Through the intervening years her
family has carefully watched her
health, keeping alike their faith that
she would awaken.
NEARBY DEATH LAID
TO HIT-RUN DRIVER
Body of Walter Skillman, 30,
Found Near Fairfax Shortly
After He Left Cafe.
Walter Skillman, 30, of near Waples
Mill, Va„ was killed a short distance
outside of Fairfax last night, appar
ently by a hit-and-run motorist, police
said.
Skillman was believed to have left
a restaurant in Fairfax and was walk
ing toward his home when the acci
dent occurred. His body was found
about half an hour after he left the
restaurant. Police said Skillman was
unmarried and was employed by the
State highway department.
George Allen, 27, of Hyattsville, Md,
and his 3-year-old son, George, jr„ re
ceived severe cuts on the head and face
late yesterday when the car Allen was f
driving struck another machine at
Fifth and H streets. Both were treated
at Casualty Hospital, where their con
dition was said to be not critical. The
driver of the other machine, Louis
Tepper. 29, of 5407 Seventh street, was
uninjured.
Shoe Full of Fish.
SHARON. Pa. —R. B. Graham,
while fishing In a creek, he said, felt •
a tug on the line and reeled in an
old shoe.
Disgusted, he was attempting to
unfasten the shoe when » catfish
flopped out.