Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1937, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1937 JAPANESE ATTACK LEAVES GHOSTGITY U. S. Mission School Teach- ers Tell of Massacre at Fungchow. By Redio to The Star. PEIPING. China, August 5.—The Japanese Army opened the gates of Tungchow to a small group of Amer- icans today for the first time since the massacre last week. Once the bustling capital of the puppet East Hopei Prov- ince, Tungchow is a ghost city. Most of its 25000 inhabitants have fled, leaving none but old women and children The streets stand silent and empty but for Japanese sentries and occa- sional two-wheeled carts freighted with corpses. At the North China American School in the southern out- skirts of the walled city, James A Hunter, bespectacled teacher from Peoria, 111, and Harry Martin of New York, also a teacher, went through terrifying days of aerial bombardment and street fighting without injury, al- though, using their own words, “we had several real scares.’ There is plenty of evidence of the miraculous escape of the two Amer- icans, and the thousands of Chinese refugees in their charge. The main gate of the school was reduced to crumbled masonry by a shell explosion above the wreckage of which feebly fluttered the tattered United States flag, itself blown to shreds 10.000 Filled Campus. Inside the campus, three wide craters in the lawns and fields, furnish further proof of the bombing of this American property by Japanese planes. A fourth bomb crashed into the wall of the school auditorium and fell to the lawn, where it still lies un- exploded, awaiting the Japanese to came and take it away. “It was pretty bad for a while,” Hunter confessed. “The Japanese barracks was next door to our campus on one side and the Chinese barracks on the other side. Consequently, we were subjected to dangerous cross- fire. To add to our problems, refugees poured in by the thousands seeking the protection of the American flag ‘There were 10,000 of them at the height of the trouble, filling all the homes and buildings on the campus. There are still 2,000 with us afraid to go to their homes. I have just taken a census of my home and find 180 crowding my cellar. Naturally, whenever airplar treated to the cellar Miraculously, the only casualty in the school was a Chinese woman ghot through the thigh, and her wound 1s a minor one.- Stores, Houses Looted. A few dead troops and civilians still sprawled grotesquely in the streets in the vicinity of the American school, elthough gangs of conscripted labor- ers are rapidly clearing up the grisly Teminders of the battle. All the Jap- anese dead have been collected, mar of them fished from the beautiful Jotus pond in the heart of the city where they were tossed after the shooting. Others found on roof tops of homes and in ditches were, in most instances, mercifully shot, the only cruelty coming to the attention of the Americans being the case of a child whose leg muscles had been severed by a big sword. In their search for Japanese and Chosen natives, the rebel peace pres- ervation corps ransacked the govern- ment buildings and made shambles of Japanese restaurants, tea houses, bawdy houses and narcotic joints. ‘There is evidence, too, that the city was pretty thoroughly looted by the | trust created by the settlor, between retreating Chinese, nearby shops be- ing broken into and despoiled, in many cases the contents spilled into the streets was reduced to a scarred shell by the | Chinese fire. Many trucks and hun- dreds of cases of gasoline went up in smoke. (Copyright, 1937.) afety (Continued From First Page) uable in apprehension of drunken driv- ers and otherwise aid in solving traffic problems. “We are out to educate the driving public again,” Edwards said, “‘but along what lines our program will be de- veloped is uncertain just now.” Loose interpretation of the traffic laws, it was revealed at yesterday's meeting, has been a factor in a ma- jority of the accidents here this year, which so far have resulted in 64 deaths, 15 more than for the same period last year. A chart compiled by Van Duzer showed that during the first half of this year highway mishaps have in- creased approximately 40 per cent over the same period a year ago. The outstanding “danger area” is in the second precinct, the chart re- vealed, where, from January through June, & 77 per cent rise in accidents was noted. The first precinct has been the “safest” so far this year, with 8n 8 per cent increase in accidents being recorded. Not a single precinct, it was emphasized, reported a decrease in mishaps over the six-month period. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, who presided at the safety session, said | monthly meetings would be held until the city's accident record showed marked improvement, After the meeting Commissioner Hazen appointed a committee, headed by Van Duzer and composed of In- spector W. E. Holmes and Capt. Arthur Miller, third precinct commander, to analyze the discussion and draft rec- ommendations. Receives Protest Letter. As a result of the most recent traffic fatality here, that of Richard Levy, 4, of 2929 Twenty-eighth street, who was run down Tuesday near his home, Van Duzer yesterday received a protest letter from Chester J. McGuire, a resi- dent of the neighborhood in which the accident occurred. McGuire pointed out that no action had been taken when about a year ago residents of the 2900 block of Twenty-eighth street sent the traffic director a petition urging that Twenty- eighth street be limited to one-way parking, due to its narrowness. In his letter, McGuire said Van Duzer had advised that a one-way parking regulation would not be pro- mulgated because of limited parking space in the vicinity “and the re- sultant TIC FANS== INSTALLED 15-foot- | bombed we re- | inconvenience to residents.” | Report (Continued From First Page.) for incorporation of yachts and coun- try estates, the committee suggested that they be handled by revising the | definition of personal holding corpora- tions. | It also urged that deductions from | gross income should not be allowed | | for expenses of operation and main- | tenance of property owned or operated by a holding company to the extent | the expenses exceed rent or compen- | sation, unless it is established that the | compensation is the highest obtainable, | that there was reasonable expectation { of profit, that the property was neces- | sary to the conduct of the business or | that it was held in the course of busi- | ness carried on for profit | The committee said these changes | would have the effect of placing the 1al holding company on the same idual who cannot off- | set his personal expenses against his income. | Incorporated talents would be | treated similarly. Here again the | committee would redefine personal | | holding companies and include in in- | come the full amount received by the corporation from contracts for per- sonal services of any individual who, | with his family and partner, directly |or indirectly owned 25 per cent or more in value of the outstanding stock Discussing artificial deductions for losses from sales or exchanges of property, the committee noted that | losses can be established under present | law between two personal holding cor- porations commonly controlled. This, the committee said, permits |advantage to be taken of any ad- verse change in the market price with- out an actual transfer of assets into other hands Disallowing Losses. To correct the situation, it recom- mended that losses be disallowed be- tween two personal holding corpora- tions if more than 50 per cent in | value of the outstanding stock of both | is owned by the same individual or | members of his family. | The committee proposed also that | losses be disallowed between an indi- 1v|dual and his partner’s corporation if the individual owns stock in the corporation, "between corporations of husbands and wives, between the set- | tlor of a trust and the fiduciary of any fiduciaries of any trusts created by a common settlor, between a fiduciary | of any trust and any beneficiary of | The Japanese barracks | the trust. | | their rifles at his camera. In the matter tions for interest pense, the committee urged that: In a transaction between persons who are not permitted a deduction | for loss from sale or exchange of | property where the debtor makes his | return on the accrual and the creditor on the cash basis. deductions should be disallowed for expenses and interest accrued by the debtor within the tax- able year but not paid within two and one-half months after the close of the year. With reference to multiple trusts, the committee proposed that the $1,000 exemption for each one be re- pealed Taxation of non-resident aliens de- riving income from American sources would be changed to subject their in- come, when it exceeded $21,600, to normal and surtaxes on net income. Those so taxable would be required to file annual returns. The present law provides a 10 per cent withholding tax on income ob- tained by nonm-resident aliens from American sources. The $21,600 is the | approximate point at which the effec- | tive rate becomes 10 per cent. of artificial deduc- and business ex- | | CLOCK GIVES UP | Metropolitan Life Co. Timepiece to Get New Hands. NEW YORK, August 5 (#).—Madi- son Square's town clock, the three- story-tall timepiece on the twenty-sixth floor of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance tower, which the company claims is the largest four-sided clock in the country, has been out of kilter for the past nine days. | After 28 years of telling the timP,I | it dropped its hands in weariness. A | new set of eight hands is being forged in Brooklyn and will be installed soon, | the company announced today. Cartoons Educate. Colored cartoons are used by Czechoslovakia to induce rural com- munities to construct water systems and bring running water into the One Dead in Spectacular .Highway Accident One man was killed and five automobiles destroyed by fire west of Akron Ohio, when a truck, carrying four new automobiles and a machine driven by Henry C. Moles of Lorain, Ohio, collided. Moles died of burns. Mrs. Witherspoon Leaves $1,000 to Care for Canaries .., . u v s v coveer In an unusual will filed today in) District Court, Mrs. Eleanor E. Wither- | spoon, widow of a wealthy patent at- | torney, left some $200,000 of her es- tate, tentatively valued at $300,000, to | the Smithsonian Institution and set| up a $1,000 trust fund for care n(‘ her pet canaries | Mrs. Witherspoon, who resided at 1756 Euclid street, died July 26 in | Atlantic City. Apparently entertaining a great af- tection for animals, she provided in! her will that none of the money left | Numerous bequests were made to friends and relatives, most of them out of the city: ‘The largest was a $30,000 trust fund ! for the benefit of Mrs. Anna Frances Poole Bush, a cousin, who lived with Mrs. Witherspoon. At Mrs. Bush's death three-fifths of the trust fund will go to the American Red Cross and two-fifths to the Sal- vation Army. Mrs. Witherspoon directs that her executor, the Washington Loan & The truck driver escaped. —A. P. Photo. Raid (Continued From First Page.) which is located at 4927 Battery lane, | |in a first-class residential neighbor- | | hood. i Two More Seized. This morning at about 10 o'clock two other men who drove up in an auto- | mobile were arrested and the car seized. Agents said the machine con- tained supplies for the distillery. The | pair gave their names as Nick Magau- ! lis, 43, and Joe Hodgens, 38, both of | Washington. The agents said all four | | men will be arraigned on charges of | | possession and operation of an illicit to the Smithsonian should be used | Trust Co., after paying the numerous | distillery afd possesion of untaxed | “for collecting birds or animals, dead | Pequests, turn over the residue to the Whisky. or alive, or for purposes of vivisection.” | One thousand dollars was bequeathed to the Washington Loan & Trust Co,, | SPoon Memorial, a $15,000 trust fund | manufactured in large qua the executor of the will, in trust, the income to be used “for the care of any Smithsonian Institution to establish a fund known as the Thomas A. Wither- for the benefit of Mrs. Witherspooi two sisters-in-law, Martha H. Wither- The agents seized 140 white moonshine whisky st gallons of ch as was tities dur- The whisky was con- tins and had ing prohibition | tained in five-gallon pet canary birds or any other pets” | SPoon and Fanny W. Witherspoon. | been loaded in an expensive new closed Which Mrs. Witherspoon had at her | After that the fund will be turned over | truck when the raiders death. She requested that “the cus- | tody of said pets be given to some one who can give them and who already loves them.” At the death of the last of the pets the trust fund will be divided equally between the Washington Humane So- ciety and the Rescue League. Washington Animal | : China (Continued From First Page)) and elong hilly roads toward heavily fortified Chinese positions at Nankow Pass. The Japanese reported their warplanes were bombing Chinese troops near Kalgan to halt all advance into Hopei. As the columns moved through | Peiping. two American photographers were beaten on the head and jostled to prevent them from taking pictures. They were Sheridan Fahnestock, 23- vear-old New Yorker, and Bonny Powell, news reel camera man. Jap- anese news photographers and news reel camera men were permitted to take pictures without objection. Fahnestock was beaten on the head by Japanese while attempting to photograph & cheering Japanese crowd near the Italian Embassy. Pow- ell was shoved and pushed about to prevent his taking pictures of a motor- ized column moving through the city. Japanese officers, reservists and civil- ians ganged up on Powell while sol- diers mounted on passing tanks leveled The Japanese desisted from their attacks only when an Italian guard was ordered out to protect their Em- ssy gates. Two Japanese Army columns marched steadily closer to central gov- ernment troops south of the ancient| dragon capital. Gen. Chiang’s declaration before China’s educators reiterated his stand of two weeks ago, when he told them China was prepared to “face the worst” in the North China hostilities with Japan. The “strong man” acknowledged overwhelming handicaps in the strug- gle, but declared Nanking was “swamped with nation-wide indica- tions” of a determination to resist further Japanese encroachment. He said the “spontaneous response” indicated a unified China stood behind the government'’s position, from which | “there is no turning back.” The government has plans, he said, which “I believe will enable us to strike effectively when the time to| show our hand has arrived.” ! American missions in North China | which missionaries feared might be obliterated if the crisis spreads are those of Catholic, Methodist, Presby- terian and Adventist Churches and the American Board of Missions. Schools whose existence were be- lieved endangered included the Rocke- feller-Pekin Union Medical College, Catholic University and Yenching Uni- versity. In Hopei Province alone American missionary property includes 21 hospitals and 762 churches. Rockefeller - Pekin administrators USED CARS home. PERFECTLY NATU iy, N ©® Drawn natural-pure from Clicquot’s deep-rock sources, this RAL— to the town of Gallatin, Tenn., and the income used for educational loans. A intelligent, care | SImilar $10,000 educational fund Was |1y was fired by three left to the cit* of Fulton, N. Y. The Florence Crittenton Mission Home, 4759 Conduit road, was left $5.000. The will was filed by Attorney Leon- ard Marbury. pessimistically pointed to the fate of the Mukden Medical College when Japan conquered Manchuria. They said the college was rendered inef- fective by “Japanese persecution which drove out competent doctors and others.” Doctors of the institution feel that their college is destined to a simi- lar fate and that, sooner or later, they will be found guilty of anti-Japanism or “whatever other offenses the Japa- nese desire to allege.” On the Shanghai American Emer- gency Committee were specialists in communication, transportation, food supply, medicine, housing and registra- tion. 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