Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1937, Page 6

A—6 THE SUNDAY STAR, WARSHIN AUGUST 1, 1 ARMY OF CHINESE HELD INADEQUATE, Japanese War Machine Still Too Powerful, Experts Believe. By the Associated Press, The undeclared war between Japan and China is just one more active phaze of a conflict that has lasted more than a generation. ‘They fought a declared war in 1894-5, and since then they have fought at intervals of a few years without the formality of a declaration. ‘That has been avoided because from 18985 until now Japan has managed to “localize” the conflict, to choose for an opponent only one section or fac- tion of the huge, disjointed Chinese nation. It is a conflict such as the world has often seen through the ages, when an inert, unwarlike people happened to stand in the path of a strong race on the march of empire. Chinese at Disadvantage. Hitherto the 450.000.000 Chinese, | hating war, despising the soldier, torn | by their own factional fights, lacking | &killed leadership, have been no match | for the Japanese race, humogen(’uu,\.‘ disciplined. almost fanatically pa- triotic, glotifying the soldier and the martial spirit, counting death for the Emperor the greatest glory. Since the two nations fought in 1884 the following territories formerly under Chinese rule have passed to the Ppossession or domination of Japan: Formosa and the Pescadores, Korea, the three provinces of Manchuria, Je- ol and now most of the provinces of | Hopeh and Chahar. Great Empire Built. Japan has built one of the greatest empires of modern times largely at | the expense of China. At each of their successive con- flicts China contends she has pur- chased peace for a little while longer by vielding more land or other con- cession. Chinese have declared this must &top, but although there have been many crises in which it appeared the Chinese would turn and fight, that time has not yet come. Perhaps it is at hand. China's leaders say their country is more united than at any time in decades The new generation is patriotic, hates Japan, demands defense of China's territories. There is strong, skilled | leadership in Nanking in the person of Chiang Kai-shek. But although great progress has been made in modernization of the Chinese Army, | military experts believe it is atill in- | ndequate to stand against the power- ful war machine of Japan Position of Japanese. The Japanese do not admit it is & | timple question of imperialistic ag- gression. They deny territorial am- bitions in North China. They have | assumed the task of “stabilizing” and “maintaining the peace” of the Far East They assert that China, under its present rulers, makes & troublesome neighbor, especially for their protec- torate of Manchukuo, which used to be China's Manchurian provinces. 8o they demand that all around Man- chukuo's Chinese frontiers a special regime be set up to make those fron- tiers safe and peaceful This regime would cover the Prov- inces of Hoveh and Chahar. Therein Japan and Manchukuo would have special economic and political priv- ileges, amounting to control of the two provinces’ economic life and de- velopment and the right to reject Any administration that refused to follow Japan's bidding. Such an administration would be for all practical purposes independent of the Central Chinese government. The Chinese say it would be as thor- | oughly torn apart from the Chinese nation as Manchukuo has been. Demand End of Agitation. Japan also has demanded that | China stamp out the anti-Japanese agitation rampant throughout the country and “co-operate” with Japan in preventing the advance of com- munism in Eastern Asia. These purposes Japan has been try- | ing to accomplish by alternate periods of military threat and diplomacy. In recent months Chinese tactics of obstruction and delay have halted the Japanese advance. That brought matters to a head. When small Chi- nese and Japanese detachments clashed at Marco Polo Bridge July 7 the stage was set for an ever-extend- ing conflict. Chira’s point of view is that the cause of this conflict is very simple. 8he only wants to hold what she con- siders her own. LEWIS SEES DANGER T0 U. S. IN CRISIS Benator Says Enforcement of Neu- trality Law Could Involve America in War. Banator Lewis, Democrat, Illinois, | told the Senate yesterday that com- | pliance with demands for immediate | enforcement of the neutrality law in | the Sino-Japanese crisis could involve | the United States in war with China | or Japan, or both. | The moment the United States an- | nounces either nation as the aggressor | and declares both as being at war, he said, American ships and American citizens in those countries would be geized and imprisoned and the Ameri- can Navy would have to rescue Amer- icans and their property. The President, the Senator declared, must continue his efforts to persuade those in conflict to come to peace | upon acceptable terms and keep the | United States from embroiling itself. | | AMERICAN RADIATOR CO. wiren HEAT 289 COMPLETELY INSTALLED IN 6 ROOMS en Guarantee NO_ MONEY DOWN Up to 5 Years to Pay Minimum Rates DELLO OIL BURNERS Estimates Free. Day or Night ROYAL HEATING CO. 907 15th St. N.W. Natl. 3803 Night and Sun., AD. 8520 He Dives From the Board With the Greatest of Ease Pulling with his arm and swing- o one we’ll bet the & best of you A short hop or so and here he goes, diving ing his body, Charley Zimmy, legless world champion endurance swimmer, goes right up the ladder to the spring board at airport pool to perform be- fore amazed spectators. Loss of Both Legs Helps Man Become Swimming Champion can’t do—a handstand on thumbs and forefingers only. His arms are a mass of muscle and a virtual power house. OFFICIALS CHOSEN FOR CHEST GROUP off the board with the greatest of ease. Zimmy takes a few moments before each dive to measure the distance from his starting position to the edge of the diving board. —Star Staff Photos. BOLT KILLS THREE BRAZIL, Ind, July 31 (#)—Three men were killed and a fourth injured | under water and eat while he floats | as the crow flies and about 120 as the The loss of his legs at the age of 9| in a Chicago cable car accident start- ed Charles Zimmy on the road to a world's swimming championship. Zimmy, now 44 years old, 163 pounds of muscle and power seated on & single roller skate, propelled him- self swiftly with leather-gloved hands into the Airport Pool Building yes- terday. In & few minutes he was | in the pool, swimming like a fish and diving like & rock, to demonstrate his aquatic prowess. Zimmy said he could take the high dives and the low ones, smoke a cigar in the water and even swish his hands and swim backward. The champion proved it. Under his own power he climbed to the spring- board and the high-diving board and | forward, and then dived backward | into the water. He performed on the board his favorite stunt, a handstand on thumbs and forefingers. Because of his buoyancy he has to hold himself under when he smokes beneath the surface. The smoke from his cigar bubbled to the top and floated away. Zimmy is appearing in Baltimore this week end, but he came to Wash- ington to see if he could arrange an appearance before another famous swimmer, President Roosevelt, in the White House pool, if permission fs granted. He plans to return tomor- row and visit the White House. Back in 1931 Zimmy dumped him- self into a& pool in Honolulu and stayed for 100 hours and 15 minutes, over four days, to win the world's endurance swimming championship. The absence of legs is & help, since his body has great buoyancy. In fact, it is difficult for him to sink. Now the swimmer and world traveler is training for another feat. He will plunge into the Hudson River at Albany, August 16 in an effort to swim non-stop to New York City, a distance of 150 miles. This has been done before, but with rest periods in between swims. Zimmy says he can| catch & nap now and then in the water, especially when he takes it easy when the current is against him. Next Winter he will take a crack at the 90-mile Gulf swim from Key West, Fla, to Havana, Cuba, 90 miles away current flows. Recalling the boyhood accident that caused the loss of his legs, Zimmy de- clared “I probably wouldn't have thought of taking up endurance swim- ming if that hadn't happened.” He learned to swim by himself after he had become legless. He is a great | advocate of universal swiming in-: struction for young and old alike. He preaches it wherever he goes. And | boat.” | stadiums, auditoriums, swimming pools, he goes all over the world. Swimming always has been his living Zimmy has fought off sharks and barracuda in waters of almost every ocean. ‘“The sharks arent so bad, | you can scare them off,” he sald, “but those barricuda are tough and | I don't mean maybe.” He has never gone in for speed swimming because he lacks the neces- sary leg motion for speed. His first endurance record, 81 hours, | was made in the Fiji Islands early in 1931. The natives honored him and he lived with a Fiji chief. He likes to recall how one of the Maori tribe of New Zealand stooped down to greet him in native Maori style— rubbing noses. One feat he hasn't accomplished. | That's swimming the treacherous English Channel. On one try. he was | three miles from France and confident of victory. *“It all depends on the | weather.” he related. “A storm came | up and they made me get back in the $75,000,000 SPENT FOR RECREATION P. W. A. Estimates Allotments of That Total for Stadinms, Swim- ming Pools and Facilities. By the Associated Press The Public Works Administration estimated yesterday it had contributed to the butlding of $75,000.000 worth of tennis courts and recreational equip- | ment. P. W. A. allotments helped 301 schools and colleges to build gym- nasiums, stadiums, athletic fields, swimming pools and similar recreation places. In addition, the 1,540 school building projects it aided included athletic facilities. Munictpalities got 90 allotments for public swimming pools, base ball dia- monds, golf courses and stadiums. Nearly one-half of the $15,370.000 | spent in constructing such projects was paid out in Missouri, where Kan- sas City's new auditorium was the largest single unit. P. W. A. money also went into the construction of 23 National Guard armories and several coliseums. WATCH REPAIRING WITH A MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE Mendar. Tues & Wed. Special @) Any Main Soring of First Quality ERNEST BURK ONLY FEW DAYS REMAIN BEFORE PRICES ADVANCE WASHINGTON FACTORY BRANCH STORE ELEVENTH ST. NORTHWEST Easy Payment Terms Entirely Free From Finance Companies’, Excessive Interest Charges Vandegrift Selects Aides in | Group Solicitation Unit for Charity Drive. Officials of the Group Solicitation | Unit of the Community Chest were announced yesterday by John L. Van- degrift, chairman of the unit. He said the group will hold a luncheon Tues- day at 12:30 pm. in the Telephone Building, 725 Thirteenth street The officials, selected by Vandegrift with the assistance of Vice Chairman Harold A. Brooks, follow: Area I, Thornton Owen, chairman; Albert E. Conradis, vice chairman; E A. Drumm, secretary Area II, John A. Reilly, chairman: Washington I Cleveland. vice chair- man: Mrs. Olive W. Swinney, secretary. Area III. Herbert J. Rich, chairman; | Maj. Henry S. Wilkins, secretary. | Area IV, Ben A. Harlan, chairman; Charles A. Goldsmith, vice chairman; | J. Wallace Talley, secretary. Area V, Frederick P. H. Siddons, chairman; Miss Sadia Hartman, sec- retary. Area VI, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, chairman; John K. Anderson, secre- tary. Area VII, Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, chajrman; Mrs. Louisa A. Roberts, secretary. Earl A. Nash is publicity chairman of the unit and Bernard P. Kelly is secretary. o m e Riding in automobiles instead of walking is reducing the size of men's| and women's feet, according to John seriously here yesterday when a bolt 937—PART ONE CO-OPERATIVE EDITOR SPEAKS WEDNESDAY Englishman to Talk at Interior Auditorium—Labor, U. §. Aides on Panel. Labor, co-opere.tive and Government officials will make up a panel to lead discussion when Sidney Elliott, Eng- lish co-operative editor, speaks here ‘Wednesday night at the Interior Departinent Au- ditorium. His topic will be “Co- operatives and Trade Unions.” The panel will be comprised of John Carmody, rural electrifica- tion administra- tor; Edward Keating, editor of Labor; Marion H. Hedges, research director of the International Blduert Kilist, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Eli Oliver, executive director of Labor’s Non-Rartisan League; Thomas Hol- land, director of the United States Consumers’ Project; Don Montgomery, consumers’ counsel of the A. A. A William Sanderson, secretary of the board of the Farmers' Union Central Exchange; Elizabeth Christman, Na- tional Women's Trade Union League; Jucob Baker, president, United Federal | Workers of Amerioa, and R. N. Ben- | jamin, president, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Federation. Herbert 8. Wood will represent the District of Columbia Co-operative League, which is sponsoring the meet- Ing. Senator Schwellenbach, Demo- crat, of Washington will be chairman. British co-operatives employ more than 300,000 men and women, most of whom are trade union members, according to Elliot, whose book, “The English Co-operatives,” has just been lssued. Chile may modify its new banking Lure of Mud Pies Leads 3-Year-Old Into Arms of Law Boy Keeps Policeman Guessing 5 Hours on ldentity. An enterprising young mud pie manufacturer ran afoul of the law yesterday when he extended opera- tions beyond his own neighborhood, and for five hours smiled coyly at po- licemen who attempted to discover his identity. Clad in & checkered sun suit, the Bata, the shoe manufacturer of Czechoslovakia of lightning struck a hay wagon under | | which they were sitting. The men killed were S8am Boyce, 65; | Clyde | Cheezem, 28, all of Center Point. John | Fred Buckalew, 34 and Elder, 64, was injured. All were members of & threshing crew and had taken refuge under the | wagon when & mild storm started. The | and mining laws. b4 A INSTALLED COOL ENTIRE HOME GICHNER NA. 4370 WAgoNn Was ripped apart by the bolt, | Store Hours Monday thru Friday TAMtoSP. M. Saturday: TAMtl1P. M Be Modern! 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