Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1937, Page 3

23 OF 63 CHILDREN GET CAMP CARE Gifts to Health Fund Enable Extension of Pro- gram. Contributions to the District Tu- berculosis Association health camp fund mounted today to a total of 81,976, enough to care for 23 of the 65 tubercular children left behind be- cause of lack of money when the eamp on Bald Eagle Hill opened last ‘week. “The spontaneous response of the Ppublic to the tragic situation is simply magnificent,” said Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the asso- ciation. “We had planned to get along as best we could on the limited funds from sale of Christmas seals and had no intention of running a €ampaign for more money. “It is most gratifying that a volun- tary campaign on the part of the pub- lie has kept the money coming in to give these additional children, whose lives have been blotted by tubercu- losis, a chance to regain their healt| 42 Still Uncared For. With room for 125 children in the | new $79,000 health camp built with W. P: A. funds, the association had money to care for only 60 youngsters ‘when it opened on July 6. Even with the 23 additional children provided for by the donations, there still is room for 42 more youngsters for whom a Sum- mer at the camp may mean the differ- ence between a healthy life and creep- | ing death. All of the children taken to the eamp are suffering from tuberculosis in the early stages, which in most cases €an be cured permanently by the few ‘weeks of rest, proper nourishment and medical care provided there. They come from homes where there are ad- vanced eases of the disease and have little chance unless those contacts are broken. $389 Received Today. Mrs. Grant sald $389 in donations | was received today, including one check for $300 from a Washington man spending the Summer at a coast re- sort. An additional $160 check was reported on the way from a local club, and another $150 was pledged to be paid in installments. This total of $699, with some money carried over from yesterday, made it possible to srrange to take 10 children to camp today and tomorrow to bring the total enroliment up to 83. Chinese (Continued From Pirst Page.) eentral government's crack troops had moved north, drawn by the conflict between China and Japan in the Peip- ing area. It was agreed that reports of the movement of 30 divisions were too high. Military leaders denied that avia- #Mon ground crews had been moved | northward toward the trouble zone. TROOPS CONCENTRATING. @esat Forees of Boih Sides Massing | In Peiping Battle Area. PEIPING, July 17 () —Huge troop | coneentrations were reported today to be moving toward the North China sheater of the clash between the Japa- nese Empire and the central govern- ment of China. Actual troop movements were veiled n secrecy, but clogged railways and other indications pointed to massing of military forces of greater propor- tions than previously were involved n elashes between Japanese and Chinese sroops outside Peiping. Reliable reports said “more than oene” of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek's German-trained divisions had reached Paotingfu, 90 miles southwest of Pelping. Such & movement of Nanking's crack army might bring China’s main mili- tary forces face to face with a huge Japanese Army for which reinforce- ments are on the way from Manchuria and Japan itself. Previously Nanking troops have not been involved in the trouble, but six divisions of the ocentral government’s forces were said to be “standing by in North China.” Chinese Sirength. Observers in Tientsin agreed that re- ports of 30 Chinese divisions advancing toward Peiping were exaggerated. The figure was believed instead to represent the central government’s military strength north of the Yangtse, partic- ularly along the Lunghai Railway on a line that would be Nanking's main defense line in the event of major Thostilities. Authoritative estimates declared only six divisions, which Nanking officials admitted were as far north as Chang- ohow, had moved in the Peiping direc- tion, but that only the advance guard -had reached Hopei Province in which Peiping is situated. The Lunghai and Pinghan Railway lines were said to be congested with troops below the Hopel border. Reports from Tientsin, the seaport serving Peiping, said Japan was pre- pering to increase the North China garrison to & full army corps with 7,000 troops waiting in Korea to move to China as soon as billeting arrange- menta are completed. Military facilities of the Peiping- resulted in the death of four Robinson _(Continued From First Page.) Byrnes announced his withdrawal. Earlier, Burke had said he would back him for the leadership. Byrnes, in his statement of with- drawal, said: “Until the funeral services of Sen- ator Robinson were held, I deemed it improper to make any statement with reference to the Democratic leader- ship of the Senate. “To every Senator who has spoken to me on the subject, I have stated that at this time I would not want to Serve as the Democratic leader of the Senate and, therefore, will not be a candidate.” Supports Harrison. The South Carolinian, generally re- garded as a congressional spokesman for the President until a few months ago, would say no more. However, it was common knowledge at the Capi- Harrison. Preliminary estimates of votes in- dicated neither Barkley nor Harrison was likely to develop a decisive lead before the party caucus. Every phase of the court and lead- ership controversies was being can- vassed, however, in dozens of quiet sleeping compartment conversations, ‘which were expected to continue throughout the trip. An armistice will be declared to- morrow morning when the funeral party reaches Little Rock. There Robinson's body will lie in state in the Arkansas Capitol until midafternoon, when the Seantors and Representatives will accompany it to a church service and burial. Garner Goes to Little Rock. Vice President Garner, who has been vacationing for several weeks at his Uvalde, Tex., home, will join the congressional delegation in Little Rock. He will return with it to Washington in time for resumption of the court debate Tuesday. Besides those mentioned above, the following Senators reserved places on the funeral train: Andrews, Demo- crat, of Florida; Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona; Austin, Republican, of Ver- mont; Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi; Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp- shire; Brown, Democrat, of Michigan; Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio; Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina; Car- away, Democrat, of Arkansas; Chavez, Democrat, of New Mexico; Connally, Democrat, of Texas; Ellender, Demo- crat, of Louisiana; Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island; Guffey, Democrat, of Pennsylvania; Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi; Herring, Democrat, of Towa; Holt, Democrat, of West Vir- ginia; La Follette, Progressive; of Wis- consin; Lodge, Republican, Massa- chusetts; Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota; McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada; McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee Minton, Democrat, of Indiana; O’Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming; Overton, Democrat, of Louisiana; Pepper, Democrat, of Florida; Pitt- man, Democrat, of Nevada; Pope, Democrat, of Idaho: Reynolds, Demo- crat, of North Carolins Russell, Democrat, of Georgia; Thomas, Democrat, of Utah; Truman, Demo- crat, of Missourly Vandenberg, Re- Publican, of Michigan. Senator Dietrich, Democrat, of Tili- nois, who is on a speaking tour, plans to meet the delegation in Little Rock. House members in the funeral dele- gation are Majority Leader Rayburn, Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee, Chairman McRey- nolds of the Foreign Affairs Commit- tee, Chairman O'Connor of the Rules Committee, Representatives Robert- son, Democrat, of Virginia; Dingell, Democrat, of Michigan; Wadsworth, Republican, of New York; Robsion, Republican, of Kentucky; Short, Re- publican, of Missouri; Anderson, Democrat, of Missouri; Zimmerman, Tientsin are taxed to capacity at Ppresent. : “100,000” Japanese En Route. Nanking dispatches quoted a govern- ment official as 3aying China had “un- impeachable information” that five Jupanese divisions “totaling 100,000 men” were en route to China. (The total estimate appeared high, bowever, for Japanese divisions even at full war time strength are only 15.000 men.) Tt was known that numbers of Japanese troops were on the way to Ohina and quantities of war supplies oontinued to pour into Tientsin for trans-shipment to the Peiping area. Dismantled planes were among the materials moved by truck and rail out of the seaport. A Japanese military spokesman de- nied the North China garrison would become & full army corps, and said the only reinforcements expected ‘were medical supplies and communi- eation and other suxiliary units. Some Chiness officials were sus- picious of the Japanese troop reports, believing perhaps they had been per- mitted to leak out in order in influ- ence Chinese negotiations to accept Japan’s demands. Virtual aeverance of North China from the realm of the Nanking gov- ernment was believed to be the basis &t the Japanese demands. 1 A Democrat, of Missouri; Snyder, Demo- crat, of Pennsylvania; Nichols, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma; Boehne, Demo- crat, of Indiana; Fuller, Democrat, of Arkansas; Miller, Democrat, of Ar- Clearing the road of charred oil cans tol that it is his intention to support | | Washington. THE EVENING after crash between at Triangle, Va. - SR pige gicit iR s Wreckage of the coupe of was burned to death STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SA VWhere Four Met Death in Crash a coupe and oidl truck which Norton Goodwin, a Marine, who (Story on page A-1).—Star Stafl Photos. kansas; Terry, Democrat, of Arkan- sas; Cravens, Democrat, of Arkansas: McClellan, Democrat, of Arkansas; Kitchens, Democrat, of Arkansas, and | Parsons, Democrat, of Illinois. } LITTLE ROCK LAYS PLANS, LITTLE ROCK. Ark., July 17 (#) — | Military, State police, county and city officers arranged today for the final | homecoming of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson who died Wednesday in | The military and police officials | met with members of the Senator's | family and Secretary of State C. G. | Hall to plan the services and the | handling of what is expected to be | the greatest funeral crowd in the | State’s history. | The first memorial service held here for the late Senator was conducted | last night at the Jewish Orthodox | synagogue by Rabbi J. Shapiro. Black-draped pictures of Senator Robinson appeared in Little Rock store windows. Offices of the United States District Court in the Federal Building were closed. The funeral train from Washington is scheduled to arrive at 7:30 am. Central standard time tomorrow. The body will be taken to the Rob- inson residence where it will lie until 11:30 am. It then will be carried to the Capitol to lie in state. Picked troopers of the Arkansas National Guard will form the honor escort and guard. A horse-drawn caisson will carry the casket from the Capitol to the First Methodist Church for services preceding burial in Roselawn Memor- ial Park on the outskirts of Little Rock. : Gov. Carl E. Bailey, mentioned in all discussions as a possible suc- cessor to Senator Robinson, remained silent. RAIL FACTIONS MEET The National Mediation Board met representatives of the railroads and 14 non-operating unions yesterday in the first of a series of conferences de- signed to avert a strike. The board stepped in after wage negotiations between the carriers and the unions collapsed. The non- operating unions, which include such employes as station clerks and shop- men, asked an increase of 20 cents an hour. Phantom Plane’s Night Flights Throw Spy Fears Into London By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 17.—~The air ministry set up a special court of inquiry today in an effort to track down a night- flying “phantom plane” which has irritated light-sleeping Londoners. In some sections of the press it has been suggested the mysterious twin- engined ship might be carrying an serial photographer, equipped with an infra-red camera, in the hire of a foreign power. While this'possibility has not been entirely ruled out, it is understood that it is not regarded seriously in official quarters. London and his majesty’s govern- ment, however, want to learn just why the flights are being made. The ship, carrying regulation green and white navigation lights, made its first appearance about three weeks ago, fying low over the center of the city. ¢ Since then it has made several noc- turnal flights, swooping low over housetops and jolting London from its sleep with the roar of its two motors. Already questions have been asked about it in the House of Commons and the matter is to be brought up again next Wednesday when Viscount Swinton, the air minister, will be asked what the ministry's investiga- tion has disclosed. The latest appearance of the plane was in the early hours today when it made a wide swoop over the West End before roaring away toward West- minster. Earlier in the week it akimmed over the military airfield at Hendon, caus- ing a landing party to turn out of bed and light flares in the belief it was about to land. When searchlights were turned on, the plane had van- lahed. 3 EARHARi’ SEARCHING FORCE IS REDUCED Cutter and Minesweeper Ordered Back to Hawaii—Lexington and Destroyers Stay. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 17.—Tapering off the seemingly hopeless South Seas hunt for Amelia Earhart, the first two vessels in the search started homeward today. The aircraft car- rier Lexington and three destroyers remained to comb the torrid areas | where the aviatrix and her navigator vanished two weeks ago. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca and the mine sweeper Swan were ordered to return here from equatorial waters after completing a vain search of the Gilbert Islands, 600 miles west of bleak Howland Island. On July 2 Miss Earhart and Pred- erick J. Noonan disappeared on a 2,570-mile flight from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland, the most pre- carious hop on a world-girdling jour- ney which Miss Earhart said was “just for fun.” The Itasca, her fuel running low, started back by way of Howland. The mine sweeper headed directly for Pearl Harbor here. There was no announcement here concerning how long the Lexington with its 63 planes, and the three de- stroyers would remain in the search, which naval authorities have indicat- ed will end today. All this week planes from the car- rier have swept over the vast area in which the aviatrix disappeared. The Navy's greatest search has covered nearly 240,000 square miles, despite the hardships of sickening heat, tropical rain squalls and lack of definite information where the avia- trix came down. “Toys” Explode CHILD HURT TRYING TO BURN BULLETS. STANLEY CARTER, Nine-year-old son of Mr. and, Mrs. Thomas Carter, 1240 Thirty-sizth street, wrapped two .22-caliber cartridges in a piece of waz paper yesterday and set fire to them. Wounded in the right arm and leg when they exploded, he was re- por!ed in good condition at Georgetown Hospital today. —Star Stgff Photo. H # LAB0RHEADS T GTZENS CROLP Charges of Revolution and Sedition Hurled at New National Committee. Special Dispatch to The Star. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, July 17— Charges of revolution and sedition were hurled at the new National Citi- »ens’ Committee today by union leaders directing a 37-day-old strike at the Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s Cam- bria works. The citizens' group was formed Thursday by representatives of 70 communities who criticized the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization and pledged themselves to “restore and protect those constitutional rights that have been taken from American citi- zens by certain unworthy officials.” The attack on the new organization was led by James Mark, sub-regional director of the C. I. O., and supported by the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee in Pittsburgh. The steel union denounced the formation of the group as a viola- tion of the Wagmer Labor Act and asserted it would protest to the Labor Relations Board. Petitions urging settlement of the strike in a “democratic and legal American way” were circulated today in Johnstown. The petition bore the name of the Greater Citizens’ League for Industrial Peace and asserted the continued presence of the C. I. O. in Johnstown would work hardships on business and professional men, Mark said the strike was “in pretty good shape” but the corporation re- iterated that it was operating nor- mally. BACKS COMMITTEE ACTION, G. S. Fay, of Alteon, in Accord With Steps Thursday. ALTOONA, Pa, July 17 (® — George 5. Fay of Alioona said today he was “‘unequivocally in acoord with the action of the National Citizens’ Committee at its first meeting Thurs- day in Johnstown, Pa. He said the only exception which he had made to resolutions adopted by the committee was a “purely parlia- mentary technicality.” Excerpts of his remarks in the Associated Press re- port of the convention made it ap- pear, he said, that he was “entirely out of sympathy with the movement.” of war exists he shall prohibit exporta- tion of arms, ammunition and imple- ments of war to both belligerents and place an embargo on loans or credits to them. The neutrality law now is in op- eration in the Spanish civil war. Some observers found Hull's state- ment applicable to the Spanish situ- ation, regarding which Undersecre- tary Welles previously has declared that nations with opposing political beliefs have assisted warring factions. Hull's conferences yesterday with | the Chinese Ambassador and Japanese charge d'affaires and his long round- table discussions with the State De- partment’s Far Eastern experts, how- ever, made the declaration of Ameri- can policy particularly timely to the | situation in North China. | Although China, through Ambassa- dor C. T. Wang and its envoys to other nations which are signatories or | | adherents of the nine-power pact, has | | requested “some action” in the Far | Eastern controversy, the United | States carefully has refrained from making any commitments. ©One portion of Hull's statement was | considered as of special significance | in view of the world-wide increase in | armaments. | Reduction ef Arms. | Secretary Hull said the United States believes in limitation and re- duction of armaments, but empha- sized: “We are prepared to reduce or in- crease our own armed forces in proportion to reductions or increases made by other countries. | | Observers pointed out that in pre- { vious official statements no mention has been made of any incresse in armaments to match those of any other nation, all emphasis being Placed on reduction. The United States recently an- nounced it would mount 16-inch guns on the two new battleships, It had failed to obtain Japan's adherence to a provision of the London naval pact | limiting guns on new warships to the 14-inch caliber. President Roosevelt and Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, recently said it might be necessary for the United States to allow for two more warships in the next budget. Boon after the Chinese appeal for American action, Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee expressed belief that the United States should refrain from stepping into the Far Eastern situation “sep- arately and singly.” He said he recalled that Great Britain, another treaty signatory, had failed to co-operate fully when the United States called the treaty to Japan’s attention in 1931, at the time of Japanese activity in China which led to the creation of Manchukuo. Asked if he thinks the American neutrality act, providing for em- bargoes sgainst arms shipments to warring nations, applies to the Japanese situation, Pittman replied, “Not yet.” WAFFLE EXPER out of any woman! © FIXT WAFFLE MIXis fully- prepared. The EGGS and al/ other ingredientsare already mixed.You simply add water! No bother. Ne fuss. Get FIXT Waffle Mix from your grocer today. Enjoy glorious ogg waffles with that grand FIXT WAFFLE Southern goodness! MiX quality tized in Haver... ] ; JULY 17, 1937. Teacher Issues Challenge Pretty Isabelle Hallin last night challenged “any one in town” to prove the “malicious rumor” she served cocktails to high school students. The $eacher, “invited” to resign, is shown leaving a public hearing arranged by friends. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ADVOCATES SPLIT ONFARM MEASURE Disagree on Method of Con- trolling Production—Hear- ings Begin Tuesday. the Associated Press. Congressional advocates of general farm legislation embracing the “ever- normal” granary and crop control, were dividing today into three camps. All accepted the granary theory of Secretarv Wallace, under which sur- pluses of good crop years would be stored for use in years of crop failure They disagreed, however, on the method of controlling production. One group, headed by Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Com- mittee, insisted on a voluntary control program under which cash benefits would be paid to farmers who com- plied. The payments would be made from a processing tax similar to those levied under the invalidated A. A. A. A second group, led by Secretary Wallace, would set up a compulsory control system. All farmers would be given marketing quotas in years when Pprice-cutting surpluses threaten. A # / catef bill sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation embodies this idea. The third group, headed by Repre- sentative Eicher, Democrat, of Iowa, proposes price-fixing. Its bill would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture 0 set a “cost of production” price on that portion of farm products needed for domestic consumption and granary needs. Any crops above that amount would be sold at the world price. The question of constitutionality is being raised against each of the methods. The Supreme Court ruled against the processing taxes of the old A. A. A, and some Congressmen expressed doubt the eourt would sus- tain the proposed penalty taxes or price-fixing. Hearings will begin before the House Agriculture Committee on the Jones program. BRIDE, 13, ARRESTED KOKOMO. Ind.. July 17 (#.—Nor- man Cohee, 17, living near here, and Frieda Maddox, 13, of Logansport, were married last night by Rev. George Powell, pastor of the Beamer Methodist Church. Mrs. Lavere Maddox, mother of the girl, asked Kokomo police to arrest the couple. Officers took the youth- ful bride in custody. The bridegroom has been employed as a weedcutter at 32 a day. “FOR HEALTH’S SAKE, SEND IT ALL TO TOLMAN" TOLMAN'S 1 OUSTED TEACHER DEFIES ACCUSERS Challenges “Any One in Town” to Prove Charges at Backers’ Meeting. By the Assoclated Press. SAUGUS, Mass., July 17.—A pretty, blond young schoolmarm last night challenged “any one in town” to prove the “malicious rumors” she claimed led to the School Committee's refusal to reappoint her. Miss Isabelle Hallin, 26-year-old English instructor, shouted her denials at more than 500 townsfolk, who overwhelmingly favored a resolution seeking her reinstatement. The meeting was arranged by friends of the high school nstructor after School Committee members had denied her a public hearing. ““Too Radical” Action Opposed. C. Fred Hallin, her father, urged the audience to drop a previous mo- tion asking the resignation of three School Committee members who op- posed his daughter's reappointment. He declared such action was “too radical.” Wearing an orchid dress and wide- brimmed white hat, Miss Hallin spoke for 10 minutes in a firm voice. She denounced “those malicious ru- mors that were spread about this town” as “thoroughly disgusting.” “Don’t believe them,” she added. “There is not a bit of truth in them. You, my friends, will believe me, I am sure, when I tell you they are abso- | lutely untrue. Denied Serving Cocktails. “But I have been repaid by the clear way the citizens of Saugus have stood by.”” Earlier she had denied rumors she served cocktails at a high school play rehearsal. After the meeting Mist Hallin said “I have no immediate plans. I am going to take a rest for a couple of weeks before I make any decision.” WILLIAM WOLFLEY, 61, DIES OF LONG ILLNESS Retired Employe of Imniigration and Naturalization Service Was New York Native. William Wolfley, 61, retired employe of the Immigration and Naturaliza- tion Service, died last night after a long illness at his home, 1428 R street. A native of Batavia, N. Y., Mr. Wolfley had lived here for 30 years. He was retired about four years ago. He was a member of the Pentalpha Lodge of Masons, Elm Camp of the Woodmen of the World, Bethany Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Sons of St. George. Among survivors are a nephew, Walter Wolfley, and a great-niece, Mrs. Evelyne L. Ensor. both of this city, and three nieces living in Cleve- land. Funeral services will be held st 2 p.m. Tuesday at 1908 H street. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. The body is resting at Joseph Gawler Sons, | funeral directors ESTABLISHED 1879 J:zmmz‘e WASH SUIT Department AKE SURE your Summer suits go to Tolman's— where a SPECIAL DEPARTMENT, which does nothing else, assures the finest laundered suits in Washington! 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