Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1937, Page 5

SOVET FLYERSET LONGFLIGHTARY Break Record Made by Rossi and Codos in U. S.- to-Syria Hop. By the Associated Press. | Modern long-distance non-stop fly- Ing may be said to have begun with | Charles A. Lindbergh's memorable New York-to-Paris hop May 20 and 21, 1927, then & record at 3,610 miles. A few days later, on June 4 and 5, Clarence Chamberlin and Charles | Levine flew 3,905 miles from New York | to Eisleben, Germany, setting a new mark. Russell Polando, set standa for Americans. miles from New York Turkey, July 28-30, 1931, Two British air officers, Squadron | Leader O. R. Gayford and Flight Lieut. G. E. Nicholetts, took the honor from the Americans in February, 1933, flying 5341 miles from Cram- well, England, to Walfish Bay, South Africa. Next came the noted French fiyers, Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos, who set the record broken by the Russians today—5.657 miles in August, 1933, | fiying from New York to Rayak, Syria. | The first Russians to fly over the North Pole to the United States, | Valeri Chekaloff, Georgi Baibukoff, and Alexander Beliakoff, flew 5288 miles from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash, a few weeks ago. Last July this same trio flew 5.858 | miles from Moscow to Nikolaievsk, | Fastern Siberia. but the feat was not N. Boardman and John | the record which still It was 5,011 to Istanbul, | | ’ Flyers’ Course Arctie Ocean \ OENVER RANCIS(O) .&‘i»(m‘ . Y 2 £ o 09 190 00 s d MILES JACINTO Layded Here) Broken line indicates ap- prorimate path followed by Russian flyers in winging from Moscow to San Jacinto, THE EVENING WHTEHOUSE S TALK ROPERSAYS Submitted Labor Speech Through Regular Chan- nels, He Declares. By the Associated Press. Secretary Roper revealed today that he had submitted a recent speech on industrial-labor relations to the White House and three business leaders prior 10 its delivery. Told at his press conference the| speech had been cited by some per- | son3 as indicating an administration | break with John L. Lewis, chairman of | the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation, Roper sald the talk was de-| | signed “to state both sides” of current management-labor problems. { He said the speech went through “the usual channels,” explaining that it was sent to Stephen T. Early, presi- dent Roosevelt's secretary. | In addition, Roper said he submitted the talk to A. W. Harriman, chairman | of the Commerce Departmént's Busi- ness Advisory Council; John D. Big-| | gers of Cleveland, chairman of the council’'s Committee on Industrial Re- | lations, and Charles R. Hook of Mid- dletown, Ohio, whom Roper described | as a student of industrial problems. | Hook, the Secretary added, is asso- | cited with the American Rolling Mills In his talk Roper said that under its constitutional responsibility the | Government has “the inescapable | duty™” of preserving law and order. | At another point the Secretary sug- | gested that since enactment of the EARHART SEARCH FORCE S REDUCED Indications Given Hunt Will | End Saturday-—Delay in Storm. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 14.—Naval au- thorities directing a vast aerial search | along the Equator for Amelia Earhart and her navigator, missing 12 days, reduced the number of searching | planes today and indicated the hunt would be ended Saturday. Flyers of the aircrart carrier Lex- ington awaited passing of a tropical storm today before resuming their | last chance” search for the aviatrix | and Frederick J. Noonan, who disap- | peared on a flight from New Guinea | to tiny Howland Island on July 2. | The storm forced cancellation of an afternoon flight yesterday after 60 planes fruitlessly had scanned 21,000 square miles of the South Pa- | cific during the forenoon. 60 Planes Take Off. “Somewhere” in the 265,000 square miles of search area the pair was forced down, after missing the small coral islet which lifts itself but 2 feet above the ocean. | The Lexington's 60 planes took off while the carrier was 120 miles north- west of Howland and sped southward. They took up positions 2 miles apart in two divisions, one on each side of the Lexington. Each pilot was accompanied by an observer, The planes returned at 4 pm. (E S. T, refueled and were preparing to exiend the hunt when the sudden nese territory fall into alien hands without a struggle.” PEACE PARLEY REPORTED. Conferees Act Without Nanking. PEIPING, July 14 (#).—Peace nego- tiations are under way at Peiping, a high Japanese source said today, to settle the North China crisis with- out consulting the National govern- ment of Nanking The conferees were Chinese Hopei- chahar Political Council officials and Japanese military authorities. No more demands will be made upon the Chinese over the past week's Consulting | fighting in the Peiping area, the Jap- anese informant said. He indicated that Japan now asks only an agreement for withdrawal of Chinese troops from the Wanping- hsien area, retribution for damages to Japanese forces, suppression of so- called anti-Japanese activities, and a campaign against communism in China. The negotiations, “capable of settle- ment of the whole North China situa- tion,” the Japanese informant said, are going ahead despite the Nanking government’s announced determina- tion to recognize no agreement ef- fected locally. The Japanese high command mean- while rushed 2,000 reinforcements, | fully supported with artillery and ar- mored cars, Lo the Peiping battle area today after the defeat of Japanese troop; by the 29th Chinese Route Army before the southern and eastern gates of the city yesterday. They were headed for the Japanese army field base at Fengtai, west of the cily, in the zone where clashes between night-maneuvering Japanese and the 29th Army last Wednesday precipitated the grave crisis between Japan and China. Fighting was halted this morning after an engagement near the Nan- yuan sirdrome, eight miles south of being mobilized as replacements for the troops moving in wholesale num- bers to North China, where Chinese | and Japanese armies have been fight- ing for a week. Just previously & government spokesman had said bluntly that Japan unalterably opposed any foreign intervention to settle the increas- ingly tense crisis in Sino-Japanese affairs. The foreign office spokesman | said the government would consider suggestions of international consulta- tion but any proposal that partook of | the nature of intervention certainly | would be unacceptable. The Chinese demands were pre- sented by Y. C. Yag, charge d'aflaires of the Chinese embassy in Tokio. The | Japanese answer highlighted the im- | passe with the statement that fulfill- | ment of the terms of the now-shat- | tered truce of July 11 was a pre- requisite to any settiement FRANCE SEEKS TO HEL Weuld Co-operate With U. S. and England to End Crisis. | PARIS, July 14 (P —France was reported today to have initiated con- versations with the British foreign | office in an effort to obtain the co- | | operation of the United States in set- | tling the serious crisis between China | and Japan. | French foreign office sources said | France feared the repeated clashes between Japanese and Chinese troops | in North China might bcome a seri- | ous threat to world peace The Ambassador to London, Charles Corbin, was instructed to exchange views with the British foreign office, these sources said. with a view toward close Franco-British-America co-op- | eration. BAXTER PAY TOPS HOLLYWOOD STARS $284,384 Saiary During ‘36 Highest Reported to S.E.C.So Far. By the Assoclated Press. Hollywood listed Warner Baxter, Gary Cooper and George Raft today among its highest paid actors. A report from the Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox Film Corp. to the Securities .CommL\ilon disclosed Baxter topped its pay roll with $284,384 last year. Paramount reported $265.454 for Cooper and $202.666 for Raft. Bax- ter's salary is the highest listed from Hollywood so far for 1936, but some of the large companies have not re- ported. The reports, which give only the three highest salaries of each cor- | poration, showed Twentieth Century paid Director Darryl F. Zanuck $260,- 000 and Director Roy Del Ruth $238 .- 333. Paramount paid Producer Wes- ley Ruggles $188,808. Baxter Got $208,000 in 1935, Comparative salaries for the previous year were available only for Baxter In 1935 he earned $208.000. The late Will Rogers then was top man in the Twentieth Century cast at $258000 The business world, where salaries over $200.000 are comparatively rare STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1937. *xk A—S s T wrel ACSD | reported these 1936 pay rates (includ- ing salaries, fees and bonuses, but not dividends) in the last few days: Federated Department Stores, New York, Director Simon Lazarus, $100.- 680; Director Fred Lazarus, jr., $10 075; Treasurer Edward J. Frost, $80,- 420; all virtually same in 1935. International Mercantile Marine Co., New York, Chairman P. A. 8. Franklin, $69.150; $74.682 in 1935 Coty, Inc, and subsidiaries, New York, Charman Benjamin E. Levy, $50.635 in United States dollars plus 20,957 French francs and 2,860 English pounds; virtually same in 1935, American Snuff President. American Snuff Co., Memphis, Pres« ident Martin J. Condon, $51,070; $54 . 080 in 1935, General Outdoor Advertising Co., Chicago, President B. W. Robbins, $75.827; $55308 in 1935 | International Utilities Corp., New | York, President P. M. Chandler, $56,- | 000. 4 Northern States Power Co.. Minne- apolis, President R. F. Pack, $50,140, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Passaic, | N. J., President S. Simpson. $40.611. | West Virginia Coal & Coke Corp., New York, President John C. Cose grove, $36,850; same in 1935, ! Tax on “Tragic Era.” | DES MOINES, Iowa, July 14 (#).—A vacationing Iowa woman sent the State Tax Board 4 cents use tax on a book she purchased in Minnesota. Her tax return listed the book's name aa “The Tragic Era." The use tax is a 2 per cent sales levy on out-of-State purchases by Towans for use in the State N Peiping, had lasted aimost into the | recognized as a record because they Wagner labor relations law it now 15| tyopical storm halted the flight. | dawn. | did not fly in a direct line | To becoms official, such records must be approved by the Interna- tionale Federation Aeronautique, sit- ting in Paris. io Flight (Continued From First Page.) company near San Jacinto, first saw the plane settle down in the cow pas- ture. He rushed over, but the anly thing he could understand was the note the Russian flyers handed him-— “bath." The second transpolar flying expe- dition far exceeded the d nce of the first, which came down at Van- couver, Wash, June 20 after a hop of 5.288 miles, Greeted by Army Flver. Major Victor H. Stahn of the Army flew here from March Field and greet- ed the fiiers. ! Several ranchers saw the big red monoplane come to ground gracefully. | They immediately teiephoned to town Army officers indicated that the Russians’ leaky gasoline tank caused the forced landing. The Soviet trio left Moscow at 3:22 A.m. Monday (7:22 pm. E. S. T. Sun- day). They passed over Rudolf Is- land, the last point of land between them and the North Pole, at 2:01 p.m, Monday. then battled snow and cy- clonic winds before reaching the Pole at 7:14 pm. a little less than a day from Moscow. On this pnase of the flight the red- winged monoplane was kept at an' altitude of 8880 feet or above wind resistance. After passing the north- ernmost spot on the globe the airmen streaked out across the wild reaches of the Yukon and Northwest territory for the shores of Canaaa, 1,500 miles away Favorable winds kepi the plane ahead of schedule, and last night it became known definitely the objective would be “beyond Oakland.” As eriginally announced by the Kremlin, the flight was to be from Moscow to Ban Francisco or beyond. Just a Short Time. PITTSBURGH —The Bureau of Naturalization told Mrs. Sophie Aro- | wone, native of Austria, she would have to wait until she’s 107 to become eligible for citizenship. Mrs. Arozone said “Okay.” She's 105 w. | Bvihe Associated Press. Calif., via the North Pole. ‘ —Star Staff Artist. | EX-GOV. MORLEY GIVEN | 5 YEARS IN MAIL FRAUD | INDIANAPOLIS, July 14 —A five- vear Federal prison sentence was im- posed yesterday on Clarence .J. Mor- ley, former Governor of Colorado, con- victed recently of using the mails to ' defraud. William A. Bryans of Denver, attor- ! ney for Morley, said an appeal would be taken, and Morley continued at liberty under $5,000 bond. Es the Associaed Pross. (All Times Eastern Standard.) Sunday, July 11. 7:22 p.m.—Mikail Gromofl. Co-pilot Andrei Yunoshefl and Navigator Sergei Danilin took their single-mo- tored monoplane off from Tschelkovo Airport, near Moscow, for California. Monday, July 12. 7:17 am—Airmen reported they were 1,400 miles from North Pole. 1:20 p.m.—Traveling 105 miles an hour through “heavy fog.” 2:01 pm.—Passed over Island, 560 miles from pole 4:15 pm.—Passed over cyclone area at 14.763 feet 7:14 p.m—Flew through snow- storm over North Pole at 8.858 feet.! 9:40 p.m.—Approximately 120 miles on “down hill” side of pole. Tuesday, July 13. 1:20 a.m.— Evervthing all right” 300 miles north of Prince Patrick Island, off North Canadian Coast, 630 miles on American side of pole. 2:58 a.m.— My position is Strait Rudolf | of Melville, evervthing all right.” 3:37 am—Due north of Banks Tsiand, latitude 74, longitude 120, ap- proximately 400 miles from Canadian mainland. 7:21 .m.—“Everything okay” over Great Bear Lake, McKenzie territory, 1,400 miles from pole | 11:35 am.—Over Northern British Columbia, between Fort Nelson and Hudsons Hope. | 1 p.m.—"Advise where to go, Coast or Eas on account of storms. | States boundary | disappears from Los Angeles and San | | “the duty of labor willingly to clear the atmosphere, by identifying the re- sponsible agency within its ranks | through which negotiations * * * are to be effected.” Roper sald today that neither he nor the Advisory Council had any | preference between the Committee for Industrial Organization and the American Federation of labor as a| bargaining agency, but said both are interested “in having a group accepta- ble to all.” No More Thread in Bills. Currency bills no longer contain sl (hreads, fragments of fiber having | been substituted, | and | were ordered to search six islands in From Moscow Rear Admiral O. G. Murfin, com- mandant of the 14th Naval Dis- trict, directing the search, said be- ginning today no more than 42 planes would be engaged in the hunt. The others, he said. would be retained aboard the Lexington for overhauling and refueling. Search May End Saturday. Navy officials indicated the search may end afier Saturday's patrol by the Lexington's planes By Saturday evening. dependent upon the weather, the Navy flyers hope to scan 182,000 square land miles and include in their search the Gil- bert Islands, about 600 miles west of Howland. Meanwhile the mine sweeper Swan the Coast Guard cutter Itasca the southeasiern part of the Gilberts | The islands are the Arorai, Nukunau, 2:20 p.m.—400 miles north of United and 150 south Fort St. John, British Columbia, “Every- thing all right. I don't receive you.” 7 p.m —Believed sighted over Ques- | nel, British Columbia. 8:30 pm.—'We are on our course. Expect to land at Oakland tomor- row morning.” Wednesday, July 14. 12:10 a.m—"Regularly send every hour weather conditions of airdromes San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran- cisco.” 12:30 a.m —"Give answer where | and when land and how long will be covered (with fog) in morning air- | drome San Diego.” 12:37 a.m.— Speed up answer.” 1 1:25 a.m.—Sighted over Roseburg, | Southern Oregon 2:03 am—"Inform us when fog Diego Airdromes.’ 2:07 am—Reported sufficient fuel to reach San Diego. | 2:15 a.m.—Estimated hour and a half from Oakland. | 3:15 am.—Asked Aeronautical As- sociation representatives to “register our position” when the plane over Oakland. 4 a.m —Reporied to have passed over Oakland, Calif,, 6.000 miles from Mos- cow. 5:10 am —Reported sighted near Madera, Calif, 115 miles southeast of | Oakland. 6:40 a.m.—Asked for radio test from Los Angeles and weather reports from Los Angeles area. Tamana, Onotoa, Peru and Tapetues Navy officials said the Swan and Itasca should reach their allotied search area tomorrow. Hope Retained by Family. The Iiasca has been engaged in the search since Miss Earhart and her navigator disappeared on their 2.570- mile flight. The Itasca was stationed off Howland Island at the time as part of the preparations for Miss Earhart's “just-for-fun” globe-girdling journey. | While hope for the fivers ebbed, even in the hearts of the searchers, a sister | of Miss Earhart, Mrs. Albert Mor- | risey of Medford, Mass, said In a radio broadcast, “Of course. we have not given up hope” that the fivars would | be found alive by Navy and Coast| Guard searchers. = China (Continued From First Page.) with the emergency, and a spokesman said: “The government realizes it is faced by a major crisis and it is straining every nerve to make adequate military and other preparations for conflict, which it is feared cannot long be de- layed. and which will involve the en- tire Chinese nation.” Hopes for peace will not be aban- doned, the spokesman said, until the last extremity. But a government official asserted: “Nanking cannot and will not re- main idle to see another slice of Chi- Once again the gates of the city were opened and rail service to Tientsin was resumed. American travelers, Army and Navy officers on China station and their famil fled the city on the first of three trains al- lowed to leave for Tientsin this morning including 150 | Service was said to have been Yo-‘ sumed, not because the military sit- | uation was the Japanese are anxious to avoid improving. but because | protests from foreign powers who are | co-signatories of the Boxer protocols | of 1901. These provide that the road from Peiping to the sea must remain open. Japan malntains the North China garrison, which is engaging Gen. Chung Cheh-Auan's 29th Army,un- der the protocol. Chinese charge that the Japanese troops forced the fight to extend their influence in Hopei Province to virtual economic domination The action yesterday spread the fighting to new areas south of the city and shattered the latest of a series of truces aimed at diplomatic seitlement of the crisis. The first battle & week ago was fought for possession of the Marco Polo Bridge. 10 miles west of Peiping, and until yesterday's running fight between the south gate and Nanyuan the clashes had been confined to the west. JAPAN REJECTS DEMANDS. Appeal Rejected, Tokie Op- poses “Foreign Intervention.” TOKIO, July 14 () —China de- manded today that Japan end the tense North China crisis by evacu- ating her troops from the battie area west of Peiping and halting mass movements of reinforcements to the front. The Japanese government im- mediately rejected the demands. The governmenl's rejection came while all the forces of Japan were = By China' KIDNEY ISORDERS o€ Mountain Valley rect from (amous . 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