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WEATHER. ** <U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Pair and continued cool tonight; to morrow fair and slightly warmer in after noon ; moderate northerly winds, becoming variable. Temperatures today—Highest, 7S, at 3 p.m.; lowest, 60, at 5:45 a.m. Pull report on page A-3. Closing N.Y. Markets—Saks—Page 16 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Iff) Means Associated Press. 86th YEAR. No. 34,376. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. entered m eeeond eleu matter TTTD'C'Tr r'T’WrpC! poet office, WMhlneton, D. C. XUlvJliJli Vv-HiJN io. \ 1 Capture Anking, 200 Miles From Capital, in Most Dramatic Attack. » FLOOD WATERS IMPERIL HONAN PROVINCE DRIVE Campaign Up Yangtze Now May • Become Main Offense on Seat of Government. BACKGROUND— Japanese Navy last week served warning a drive for Hankow, China’s provisional capital, would be made. All foreign shipping was advised to evacuate 200-mile zone between Wuhu and Kinkiang. Wuhu is 326 miles from Hankow and Kinkiang, 120 miles. - Mr the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, June 13.—Powerful Japanese land and river forces to day captured Anking, capital of Anhwei Province, in a swift thrust up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, China’s provisional capital, less than 300 miles farther inland. Rising flood waters of the Yellow River, imperiling Japan’s offensive through Honan Province, increased , the possibility the drive by land and water up the Yangtze may become the main attack on China’s seat of government. A Japanese Army spokesman ac knowledged that fighting In the Chengchow sector, where Japanese are besieging the junction of the Lunghai and Peiplng-Hankow rail roads, was being hampered by mud and rain. Actual flood conditions do not exist yet, however, he declared. Japanese Army engineers said the Yellow had risen 15 feet, but must rise another 15 before the situation could be con sidered perilous. Flow Toward Anhwei. According to official Chinese dis patches from Hankow, the floodwaters already have crossed the vital east west Lunghai and are flowing south east toward Anhwei. If supply lines are cut off by the flood, they declared, the Japanese eould not press their Lunghai cam paign. Actual oocupation of Anking, Japa nese reports said, was achieved by infantry which was put ashore from transports and advanced on the pro vincial capital from the east and | northeast after Japanese warships I shelled the city from the river. The attack on Anking was described as one of the mo6t dramatic of the war, with thick, swirling river fog shield ing the warships' movements more effectively than smoke screens. With the ships only vaguely sil houetted at times, the Chinese shore batteries were virtually useless, wit ness reported. A fleet of minesweepers preceded the main naval force and transports to a place about 10 miles east of Anking [ Where the first landing party was sent ashore. A second landing was made a few , miles from the city after which the flSet left the Army to attack by land and preceded it to lay down a prelim inary bombardment. By the time the land forces reached Nanking's out skirts, Japanese said, the main Chi nese forces were in full flight. They acknowledged, however, they encountered stiff resistance in hand to-hand fighting through Anking's Streets before the city was captured. So thoroughly did the fog shelter the fleet, Japanese said, that small Villages on the river kept lights burn ing, unaware that hostile forces were 4 approaching. In many instances, they declared, the landing parties took the Chinese defenders by complete sur prise in the pitch dark, moonless night. Japanese also reported capture of Tungcheng, 40 miles north of Anking on a connecting chain of waterways. Japan’s fleet now was expected to have comparatively clear sailing as far as Hukow, 65 miles upriver. Be yond that, however, it was expected to be blocked by the strong boom of *unken- rock-laden Junks, timbers. (See CHINA, Page A-3.) IAPANESE REGRET ’ BOMBING SCHOOL Vote Is Transmitted on Lingnan University Bombing Raids on Canton. Br the Associated Press. HONG KONG, June 13.—Japan to day expressed regret that the lives of American members of the stall of American-owned Lingnan Univer sity had been endangered and a Chinese employe of the university had been killed in Japanese air raids on Canton. * This was contained in a note trans mitted to Addison E. Southard, United States consul geneal here, by the Japanese consulate general, replying te Southard’s protest against the raid of June 8, during which three bombs fell on the university campus. The reply repeated previous re quests that American property be identified by flags prominently dis played on the roofs. HORSE KICK IS FATAL FRANKLIN, Tenn., June 13 OP).— Capt. Henry Beverly Hart, 39, United States Cavalry Reserve officer and a 1 trainer of jumping horses, was killed yesterday when a horse he was sad dling kicked him in the chest. ^ Capt Hart had been training jump tag hastes since coining here two . months ago from South Carolina . His widow and a small sen survive him. h Six on Outing in Bay Escape When Freighter Rams Cruiser: Crash Occurs Shortly After Dark Near Fort Carroll—Oncoming Vessel Seen Too Late to Avoid Collision. (Pictures on page A-2.) Six young persons, two of them Washingtonians, narrowely escaped death on Chesapeake Bay last night when a Norfolk-bound freighter rammed a 30-foot cabin cruiser in which they were taking a Sunday outing. The crash occurred shortly after dark just off Sparrows Point, near Fort Carroll, and followed a shower which had sent all but one of the occupants of the cruiser into the cabin. All aboard escaped with minor cuts and bruises. They were Betty Han cock, zi. or 3600 park place N.w. John Pales, 24, of Sliver Spring, Md. Irene Dusch, 22, of Govans, Md.; Jacl Corridon, 23, of 1344 Gallatin stree N.W.; Phyllis Bollinger, 17, of Colleg< Park, Md., and Christian Richter, Jr. 24, of Baltimore, owner of the cruiser The group had cruised near th< mouth of the Patapsco River durini the afternoon and was returning t< the Maryland Yacht Club when thi accident occurred. Saw Outline of Boat Mr. Pales, who said the otheri had gone inside to get out of th< shower, was standing at the rear o: the cruiser when he glanced up t< see the huge prow of the freightei bearing down on them. The rain ha< stopped, he said, and despite the darl he could see the outline of the boal clearly. He said that at about the time he shouted to his companions, Mr. Rich ter, who was steering the cruiser, ap parently saw the freighter through i window and attempted to wheel the cruiser about. The freighter was too close in, how ever, and rammed the smaller craft broadside. The impact tilted the cruiser slight ly, and the prow of the freightei ploughed into the cabin. Those in side were thrown to the floor and against the furniture. Tossed Against Rail. “I fell to the deck," Mr. Pales said “when I saw we were going to b< hit. I was tossed against the rail bj the crash, but managed to get up im mediately and rush to the cabin tc see how the others were.” Despite their injuries, all the occu pants were able to hurry to the deck and begin shouting for help from the larger vessel. The cruiser was pushed along foi several seconds before sailors appeared at a anchor hole on the freighter, jusl out of reach of the cruiser occupants The crash victims were pulled into the hole one by one and were taker to the deck for temporary first aid. crniaer is Located. The cruiser was tied to the freight er but the rope snapped and the smal boat started, floating down the bay It* was located early today and plan* were being made to tow it back tc the yacht club. Nearly $1,000 in jewelry, camera! and clothing was left aboard. Oc cupants did not know how much o! the valuables remained. The victims, two of whom couU not swim, were removed from th< freighter, Lillian Anne of Wilmington and placed aboard the bay boat Kent owned by Tom Bland of Chestertown Md., who took them to the yacht club. They left there by automobile and went to a Baltimore hospital foi treatment. Three stitches were taken in Misi Bollinger’s back. Others were treatec for minor sprains, cuts and bruises Fenner Maryland Students. Mr. Corridon was graduated last .week from the University of Mary land. Other former students of thi same school on the cruiser were Mr Fales, who was graduated two yean ago, and Mr. Richter, who now is i student at the university’s Medics: School in Baltimore. Miss BoUlnge: is a junior it the university. Miss Hancock was graduated froir Central High School in 1935. The crash followed a bay squal which capsized several small sailboats Mr. Fales said, however, the water wai calm when he saw the freighter bear ing down on the cruiser. No Panic or Hysteria. There was no panic or hysterii among the victims immediately aftei the crash, he said. Miss Bollinger ant Mr. Corridon remained calm despit! their inability to swim. "It looked for a minute as if we al were going to be tossed in the water,' Mr. Fales commented. “After w< reached the deck and shouted foi help the freighter kept pushing ui along. I don’t see how the cruisei remained upright.” After they were removed to thi larger boat, he said, they all becam< “a little shaky.” "We were so happy to escape alive,’ he explained, "we sort of forgot pui hurts momentarily.” BENES MAY GUIDE SUDETEN PARLEY Henleinists Bolstered for I Parley by 90% Backing in German Area Vote. BACKGROUND— Communal elections in Czecho slovakia, concluded yesterday, had been feared as a powder keg which might set off Czech-German trou ble. The voting also cas expected to bolster the demands of the Sude ten German party in its talks with ihe government tomorrow when it makes demands for autonomy for minorities, with the watchful back ing of Berlin. By the Associated Press. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, June 13.— President Eduard Benes returned to Praha today from his country estate near Ustl following reports he would take a hand tomorrow in opening his toric negotiations for settlement of the Germanic minority problem. Reports in financial circles said Benes would receive representatives of the Sudeten German party, which has demanded autonomy for 3,500,000 Ger manlocltizens of Czechoslovakia. It was definitely expected that the government’s proposed nationality statute would be delivered to Sudeten members of Parliament tomorrow. It was not clear when the statute would be made public. The government may insist that the discussions remain confidential until representatives of all other minority1 groups—Slovaks, Poles and Hunga rians—have had an opportunity to study the statute. Suae tens Backed Heavily. With the overwhelmingly pro-Nazi attitude of 1U 3,500,000 Sudeten Ger mans clearly demonstrated at the polls, the 20-year-old republic ap proached what may be the moat mo mentous decision since Its foundation. Czechoslovaks were not surprised when Konroad Henlein'a Nazi-sup ported Sudeten German party polled an estimated 90.9 per cent of the total vote in German districts yesterday in the third of three Sundays of munici pal elections. They were more concerned with the outcome of discussions on the trouble some minorities question which wiU start tomorrow between the govern ment and the Sudeten German party, in a triumphant mood as a result of the elections. Yesterday’s elections passed quietly, the only serious disorder being at Maeriach-Schoenberg, where five po licemen and nine Henleinista were in jured when police dispersed a victory parade celebrating a big Sudeten vote. In Czech regions pro-government parties gained substantial majorities, which were Interpreted as a vote of confidence In Premier Milan Hodza’s government. Anxious to demonstrate to Prance, Great Britain and Czechoslovakia's other friends abroad that the gov ernment Is willing to make conces sions in the cause of peace, Is preparing to hand to Henlein's ■ representatives tomorrow precise pro posals designed to satisfy at least some of the Sudeten German demands for more self-government In Sudeten dis tricts. Whether the Henleinlsts will be content with mere concessions, how ever, remained a vital question. An 1 other question causing equal anxiety (See CZECHS, Page A-5.) Quadruplets Born. LIVERPOOL, England, June 13 VP).—Quadruplets were bom today to ! Mrs. Esther Taylor, 29, wife of a teamster. The babies—three boys and a girl— ■ were healthy. The Taylors have four other children. Summary of Today's Star Page. Page. Amusements B-16 Radio -A-14 Comics ..B-14-15 Short Story..B-11 Editorials ... A-g Society .B-3 Finance _A-15 Sports A-13-13-14 Lost & Found B-ll Woman's Page, Obituary ...A-10 B-10 FOREIGN. Japanese troops capture Anting on way to Hankow. Page A-l NATIONAL. Congress to adjourn Wednesday with out rail aid bill. Page A-l Roosevelt lauds slogan of advertising men in message. Page A-l Prospector, acting on ''hunch,” finds missing plane. Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Landis goes on trial for death of wife. Page A-8 Plane makes forced landing on Rock Creek golf course. Page A-t Woman acquitted in husband’s death treated for poisoning. Page A-l* Churchmen ask tJ. S. to halt war ship ments to Japan. Page B-l Man sought in two hold-ups kills sell as police arrest him. Page B-l Two killed, several injured in week end traffic accidents. Page B-l Parade to precede Flag Day exercises tomorrow morning. Page B-l Sunday picnic ends in drowning of four near Seneca, MB. Pm* B-l Hundreds applying for business priv ilege licenses. Pago B-l If EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-S This and That. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 David Lawrence. Page A-8 Jay Franklin. Page A-S Frederic William Wile. Page A-8 The Capital Parade. Page A-S Lemuel Parton. Page A-S FINANCIAL. Rail Bonds Weak (Table)..PageA-1S Stocks Go Down (Table) Page A-1S Curb Shares Ease (Table)..Page A-1T Sloan Hits Wage-Hour BUI .Page A-17 Building Lag Continues_Page A-IS Steel Trade Dull_Page A-1S SPORTS. Nats’ tour of West promisee to be do-or-die affair. Page A-lt Ruth calls turn as Yankee start hitting and climbing. Page A-lt Dlsey Dean’s 8185,000 pussle arm goes to a specialist. Page A-lt Entry deadline falls today for Star Cup golf tourney. Page A-lt Guldahl hopes to make open golf title net him $25,000. Page A-lt Hot weather may handicap Schmeling against Louis. Page A-14 MISCELLANY. City News in Brief. Page A-g Vital Statistics. Page A-l* Nature’s Children. Page B-g Cross-word Pussle. PngeB-14 Bedtime Stay. PagiB-14 Letter-Out PafbB-14 Winning OoaSmet PafeB-l| L h 1500,000 to Start Work on Jefferson Memorial Is Backed by Senators. DEFICIENCY MEASURE TOTALS $279,000,000 135,000,000 to Start Naval Construction Program Is Included in Bill. By 3. A. O’LEARY. The Senate Appropriations Commit tee today struck from the last defic iency bill the $6,000,000 to start new buildings for the War Department and 9ocial Security Board in Washington, but approved the House item of $500, 900 to begin the Thomas Jefferson Memorial at the controversial Tidal Basin site. The full committee followed the recommendation of the subcommittee In charge of the measure in retaining she Jefferson Memorial, but the project itlll faces opposition on the Senate Boor. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah plans to outline the arguments igainst carrying out the memorial as mow planned before the Senate acts. The public building money was al lowed by the House, to be divided squally between the proposed War tnd Social Security structures. Sen ator Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, In charge of the deficiency bill, lndi :ated the Senate group took' the view these items were not of sufficient urgency to be appropriated for at this time. Dp to House Conferees. Whether the two building projects will be sidetracked until next year, however, still depends on acceptance by House conferees of the Senator’s unfavorable action. The deficiency bill as reported calls ior approximately $279,000,000 for aU igencles, including more than $35, 900,000 to start a naval construction program. The only substantial change in the House naval program was the addi tion of $500,000 for a new dirigible for the Navy. The fight over the placing of the Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal Ba tin began more than a year ago. Last year the House itself refused to put the first $506,000 lor the project in the appropriation bill, and the en tire subject went back before the Memorial Commission for study. A new site was decided on but still h$ar the Tidal Basin. Despite con tinued opposition both in and out »f Congress, the House recently ap proved the item. WEATHER TONIGHT TO CONTINUE COOL Slightly Warmer Tomorrow ai Heat Record for Seaton Wat Set Teaterday. Continued fair and 0901 weather tonight, turning only slightly warmer tomorrow, was foreeast today as cool ing breeaes from the northwest gave Washingtonians relief from the tor rid temperatures of the past few days, A driving thundershower late yes terday sent the mercury tumbling after It had climbed to 95 degrees, the highest temperature of the year, at 5:20 p.m. It fell to a 24-hour low of 50 degrees at 5:45 a.m. today and had risen to only 67 by 10 a.m. The Weather Bureau expetced a maximum 9f about 74 during the afternoon. Ousts of wind that reached a velocity of 37 miles an hour during the thunderstorm yesterday knocked down tree limbs throughout the city and upset several sailing craft In the Potomac River, but no serious dam age was repented. The 95-degree temperature recorded jresterday, 2 degrees higher than the previous high mark set last Tuesday and repeated Saturday, was said to be unusually hot but no record beraker for this time of year. The Weather Bureau flies showed the mer cury reached 100 degrees as early as June 9 In 1933. SMOKE STACK KNOCKED ONTO LAUNDRY ROOF rransfer Truck Strikes Wire Holding Structure at Silver Spring, Toppling It. A 80-foot smokestack at the Morn ingside Laundry A Dry Cleaning Co., Silver Spring, Md., crashed Into the roof of the plant toddy when a trans fer truck struck one of the guy-wires supporting the stack and toppled it from its base. More than 70 employes inside the building were thrown Into a near panic by the crash. H. I. Worcester, manager of the laundry, said damage may amount to between $6,000 and $10,000, but ex pected work to be interrupted only a few hours. KENNEDY SEES PREMIER IT. S. Envoy Sees Chamberlain Before Sailing. LONDON, June 11 (A*).—United States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy called at No. 10 Downing street today to see Premier Neville Chamberlain on ine of the American’s series of visits to British officials and tor foreign diplomats before sailing for home June IS. Mr. Kennedy plans fo report to President Roosevelt on the whole European situation. Re expects to be In the tlbited States nine days end *iB attend the graduation of hie eld* ■et son, Joseph, Jr, i SITTING ON THE LID! SLUM CLEARANCE MEASURE PASSED Improvements Bill Among Seven Other District Bills Voted. Legislative action waa completed by the House today on two bills de signed to make more than $33,000,000 available for public Improvements in the District and for Initiating a com prehensive program of slum clearance and low rent housing projects. In rapid succession, the House ac cepted a Senate approved Mil chang ing the Alley Dwelling Authority act, which will turn looee about $13,000,000 for ridding Washington of its slums, and put Its stamp of approval on another Mil authorising the District to borrow $1$,150,000 of P. W. A. funds for a construction program under the 45 par cent grant terms enjoyed by the States. Both measures now go to the White House for the signature of President Roosevelt. The House also completed legislative action on three other District Mils, and subsequently passed three others which require Senate approval. Other BIO* Passed. The other bills going to the White House provide: 1. Modernisation of the original Dis trict aoning law, enacted in 1920. 2. Simplifying procedure in levying and collecting taxes and assessments including authority for the Commis sioners to remove inequalities in the existing tax collecting and tax assess ing system. 2. Authorising the Healing Arts Commission to issue a license to Dr. Sigfried Speyer. The bills passed which still require Senate action would raise the height limit on property at the southeast cor ner of Thirteenth street and Massa chusetts avenue northwest, from 90 to 110 feet; amend the charter of the Society of American Florists and Or namental Horticulturists, and amend the District Banking Code to enable trust companies to follow the same procedure as national banks in reduc ing their capitalisation. Debate on One Measure. There was no debate on any of the bills except the one authorising an increase in the height limitation on the property at Thirteenth street and Massachusetts avenue. Representa tive Brewster, Republican, of Maine, a member of the District Committee, opposed this measure on the ground that continued exceptions of this kind to the aoning law would preclude an orderly development of the city. After approving the eight bills, the House ran into a snag over the con ference report on the compulsory taxi cab liability insurance bill as a result of a parliamentary maneuver of Rep resentative O’Malley, Democrat, of Wisconsin. He forced a roll call of the membership on a point of no quorum, preparatory to fighting the report. Three Major Objective*. The bill amending the Alley Dwelling Authority Act has three major objec tives: 1. To clear the way for acceptance by the A. D. A. of the offer of Nathan Straus of the United States Housing Authority to lead from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 for subsidised low rent housing on terms similar to projects elsewhere. 2. To authorise the Treasury to loan the A. D. A. not to exceed $1,000,000 a year for five years to enable that agency to carry forward Its own alum clearance reclamation for which self liquidating rentals would be fixed. 2. To enable the A. D. A. to acquire land to erect low-rent bousing dwell ings for families substantially equal in number to those whose dwellings it demolishes in squares not adapted to low-rent housing. New Municipal Buildings. The authorised $12,150,000 loan from P. W. A. would go Into tbs erec tion and equipment of new municipal buildings, with buildings for the Mu nicipal Court, the Juvenile Court, the recorder of deeds and a children’s wing at Oallinger Hospital taking first places. Forty-five per cent of the money Would constitute a grant, and 55 per cent a loan which would be repaid In 25 yean. This feature would place the District on a parity with the States. At present the District is still held to the old F. W. A. ratio of 20 per esnt grant and TO per sent loan, with a re quirement that loans be repaid st tbs rats tt $1,000,000 a year. 1 BULLETIN The House today virtually killed the compulsory taxicab liability Insurance bill for the District by rejecting the conference report on the measure 104 to 27. It is un likely another effort will be made to reach an agreement between the House and the Senate before the adjournment of Congress. Reported Missing MOTHER OF VASSAR STUDENT DECLINES COMMENT. JAN GRANT FORD. a siuaeni ai vassar col lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., until June t. Miss Ford, was report ed missing yesterday. Her mother, at Vassar to attend a 25th anniversary class re union, said she knows where the girl is, but declined to say. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, INSURGENTS BATTLE TOWARD RICH PORT Batter Their Way to Oatikirti of Ancient Castellon de la Plana. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE, France (at the Spanish frontier), June 13.—Spanish insur gents, swiftly hurdling crumbling gov ernment defenses, today battered into the outskirts of ancient Castellon de la Plana, one of the richest ports in Eastern Spain. With Albocacer, 37 miles north of Castellon, abandoned by retreating government troops, the city became the outpost of defenses for Valencia, 40 miles farther southwest, Grao de Castellon, the city’s port, was bombed by insurgent planes back ing the besieging land forces. Fliers reported government troops there were loading war supplies aboard small coastal ships in an effort to move them south before they can fall into insur gent hands. The railroad between Castellon and Valencia, Insurgent dispatches said, was cut by air bombardment near Nules, about 10 miles south of Cas tellon. Scores of lesser towns fell before the Insurgent sweep which, in less than three days, doubled the area of insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco's wedge between Catalonia and Central Spain. Franco now holds about 70 miles of Mediterranean sea board from the Ebro River Delta south to Castellon. Before his guns were brought up within range of the city of 40,000 pop ulation and fighting swirled in the orange groves on its plain—La Plana, from which Castellon takes its name— most of the civil population was said to have been evacuated. ADVERB MEN OPEN CONVENTION Roosevelt Lauds Slogan of Federation in Sending Message to Session. By tb» Auocitted Preu. DETROIT. June 13.—The Advertis ing Federation of America received praise from President Roosevelt for its slogan, "Advertising makes work," as business sessions of its 34th annual convention opened here today. "I recognize the important position the service of advertising occupies in our national economy,” said a mes sage of greeting from President Roose velt, "a strategic relationship that carries responsibility for the endeavor to maintain production through wider and more efficient distribution of the goods produced. ‘To this end, your convention theme, ‘Advertising makes work,’ ii of great significance. Recovery wili be accelerated and human happiness promoted in proportion to the spread of purchasing power through the em ployment of the greatest possible num ber of (Mir workers in gainful pursuits “Cenetrective Service.” “Certainly, if advertising is to ren der the maximum of constructive service, it is fundamental that truth be the watchword and that every claim be supported by the highest standard of business ethics. I be lieve the leaders in this field sense their opportunity for promoting so cial and economic progress through trustworthy service.” In one of three sectional meetings this morning, Edith El'sworth of Philadelphia, vice president of the federation, told the Women’s Adver tising Clubs that advertising is one profession where women may hope to reach the top. Concurring in Miss Ellsworth's views, Mrs. Erma Perham Proetz ol St. Louis, a member of the Federa tion Board, advised women hoping to enter advertising to take a home economics course, and to obtain some training in writing. “The field Is limitless” she said Mason Britton of New York, chair man of the federation’s Board of Di rectors, in his keynote address, de clared that “advertising makes work work means jobs, not only more jobs but better jobs.” "Most Produce More.” “If men are to have more,” he continued, “they must produoe mare If they would raise the standard of living they must produce more per unit of human effort expended No one has yet discovered how tx provide greater abundance for all bj dividing less and less among more and more.” George M. Slocum of Detroit, fed eration president and publisher ol Automotive News, called the conven tion to order. Pre-convention activi ties yesterday Included a visit tc Henry Ford’s Early American Village a theater party, social affairs and registration of delegates. A meeting of the Newspaper Adver tising Executives’ Association preceded the convening of the first general A F. A. session. Edward F. McGrady, former Assist ant Secretary of Labor, told member! of the federation that industry was falling behind labor in presenting it! virtues to the public. The former ace trouble-shooter foi the Department of Labor urged indus trial leaders to realise that “It nc longer suffices to confine public re lations to the job of creating a desire for the products of industry.” In stead, he suggested. Industry should employ the methods of labor union! and present its side of the conflict (See ADVERTISERS, Page A-18.) Volunteers Brave Blast Threat To Stop Nearby Gasoline Fire Undaunted by the threat of a ter rific explosion, volunteer firemen from Oxon Hill and Accokeek extinguished a gasoline fire which threatened the safety of fielisia, small Prince Georges County community, yesterday after noon. The fire oroke out when an auto mobile, careening across the highway after a tire Mew out, demolished four gas pumps in a cross-roads filling station and seat gasoline spurting In all (Unctions. Some of the fluid splattered against the engine of the oar and burst into flams* County polios said Bwood C. Posey, fit, of Indian Bead was driving toward - when the tire blew out, throwing the machine out of control and sending k plunging across the road into the filling station of Robert Tllch. Mr. Posey, unhurt, leaped from hit ear and ran to safety when the gasoline caught fire. Mr. Tilch and other occupants of the filling statior also fled the danger aone. The fire departments of Oxon Hill and Acookeefc were called and volun teer firemen from the two oompaniei put out the flames before the hugi storage tanks buried beneath the pumps caught fire. Police said an explosion of the star age tanks would have wrecked thi entire swss roads community. 1 CONGRESSISDUE TO QUIT IN 2 DAYS. KILLINGRAILBUL Barkley Reveals Plans to Adjourn After a Talk With Roosevelt. WAGE-HOUR MEASURE, UP TOMORROW, IS KEY 40-Cent Bate in 7 Yean Agreed On in Conference Trace. Quick Passage Seen. BACKGROUND— Legislative action to aid the rail roads was proposed last winter, and as recently as Saturday it was thought Congress would be kept in session until the passage of two bills—one fo facilitate railroad loans from the R. F. C. and the other to make it easier for rail roads to go into receivership. The aim now is to have an intensive congressional study of the problem during the recess in order to pre pare legislation for next session. By the Associated Press. Senate Leader Barkley told reporters after a conference with President Roosevelt today that Congress would adjourn Wednesday without enacting "any new” railroad legislation. "Since we expect to adjourn not .later than Wednesday night we do not contemplate that there will be any new railroad legislation this session,'' Senator Barkley said. The Democratic leader said spe cifically that a bill to liberalize Recon struction Corp. loans to railroads was not on the program to be completed before adjournment. That measure once was reported to the Senate by its Banking Committee, but was sent back to committee when the railroads proposed a 15 per cent wage cut. The White House conference was attended by Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and House Majority Leader Rayburn. Wage Bill Is Key. Abandonment of rail legislation would leave enactment of wage-hour legislation as the key to adjournment. The lending-spending bill and the second deficiency bill also must be passed. In asserting Congress would adjourn by Wednesday night, Mr. Barkley said this could be done “Unless there is a hook-up we don't foresee.* This would complete the session be fore the President leaves Thursday to attend the wedding of his son John and Ann Clark this week end at Na hant, Mass. Opposition of railroad unions to the R. P. C. lending bill has kept it in the Senate committee. Although Mr. Barkley said no effort would be made to pass the measure, informed Sen ators said they understood the Rail way Labor Executives’ Association would meet tomorrow to reconsider their opposition. The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee reported favorably this morning a bill to create a separate system of unemployment compensa tion for railroad workers. Wage Bill Up Tomorrow. Informed persons said that If this legislation could be enacted the brotherhoods probably would with draw their opposition to the lending bill. The wage-hour bill will come before the House tomorrow under a rule re quiring that It lay over for one day. Members were expected to take little time to discuss the merits of the compromise, formally approved Sun day by 14 Senators and Representa tives participating In 95-degree heat. lewis satisfied. The administration probably will seek to include $500^000 in the defi ciency bill to finance operation of the wage-hour law. Senator Thomas, 1 Democrat, of Utah, said. Mr. Thomas, chairman of the Sen ate-House committee which approved the legislation yesterday, estimated that amount would be needed to op erate a wage-hour division in the De partment of Labor until Congress meets again in January. John L. Lewis, C. I. O. leader, ex pressed satisfaction today with the compromise draft of the bill. “We’ll take it as it is,” Mr. Lewis told newsmen. William Green, A. F. of L. presi dent, was out of Washington. Sloan Statement. A statement by Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the board of General Mo tors Corp., that the bill might “create further unemployment” brought the comment from Senator Ellender, Dem ocrat, of Louisiana that Mr. Sloan must not have read the bill. Mr. Sloan expressed his views in a state ment last night Mr. Sloan’s complaint against the extension of “Federal bureaucracy” is not justified. Senator Ellender said. He asserted that the creation of industrial boards would give employers, employes and the public equal repre sentation in fixing wage minima and hour maxima. “These questions will be settled by those involved and not by a Fed eral bureau,” Senator Ellender de clared. "That was our object in re drafting the legislation.” In the Senate, some Southerners wanting a lower wage scale for their region considered the ^compromise un satisfactory, but there appeared to be no united movement to start a fili buster against the bill. As a result, (See CONGRESS, Page A-3.) Syrian Premier Eicapes Bom>. BEIRUT, Syria, June 13 (JP).—K bomb was thrown today into the auto mobile of Premier Djemll Mardan, but it did not explode. The premier and Nationalist leader was en route fregn Damascus to Beirut to attend the opening of an extension of this Wastim Mediterranean port *