Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1937, Page 4

A—4 » THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, $100,000,000 LOAN FLOATED BY CHINA Money Not to Be Considered War Fund, Says Kung. Britain Consents. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 6.—The Chinese Embassy announced last night that Br. H. H. Kung. finance minister, had reached “agreement in principle” for the flotation of a Chinese government loan of £20,000,000 ($100,000,000) in London. Dr. Kung, in Paris, declared the loan must “not under any circumstances” be considered a war loan, although China is faced with the threat of war with Japan, 3 American, French and Belgian financiers had shown much interest in the loan, said an Embassy spokesman, and it was planned to raise the money through a banking syndicate of which J. P. Morgan is a member. Part might be raised by general subscription, the | spokesman said. To Refund Old Loans. He declared some details remained | to be worked out, but the loan would | be secured on revenues of China’s cus- toms tariff. He indicated it would be | used largely to refund old loans at lower interest rates. He said the British government had given its consent, “because without its consent there would be no loan.” Before going to London, Dr. Kung £pent some time in the United States. He was China's representative at the coronation of King George VI. He is Vice premier as well as finance min- ister of the Nanking regime. Discussions of the loan, he said, were opened well before Chinese and Jap- anese began fighting in North China July 7. He said the loan would run for 30 years, but he declined to dis- close the interest rate. He said it had been suggested British bankers and had not been sought originally by his government. Will Remain in London. It was understood the money would remain in London, to be drawn on as the Chinese government required it. The $100,000,000 loan will be in ad- dition to two loans, totaling $35.000,- 000, at 5 per cent, which Dr. Kung had concluded with the British Chinese Corp., a British firm con- nected in Shanghai with the China Finance Corp. These would finance new railways. One, to cost $20.000.000, would run from Pukow, on the north bank of the Yangtze River opposite Nanking. to Siangyang, in Hupeh Province, tapping country now dependent on relatively slow river transport. The other, cost- ing $15.000,000, would connect She- klung, on the Canton-Kowiaan Rail- way, with Meihsien, in Northeastern Kwangtung Province. = Raid on Japanese Beetles. MANCHESTER, Conn. (#).—A crowd gathered quickly in a field when word spread that five police officers were hunting an escaped convict. Interest in the hunt waned, how- ever, when it developed the “convicts” were Japanese beetles and the “cops” five uniformed Department of Agricul- ture inspectors seeking them. Japanese Swells War Chest $3,000 By Drowning Self | Unable to Fight, He Takes Life to Provide Insurance Money. By the Associated Press. | TOKIO, August 6.—Japan prepares for war with China: Shimezo Maho, a prominent mer- chant, committed suicide so the gov- ernment might have his $3,000 life insurance to carry on hostilities in North China. Before casting himself into the sea from the suicide Island of Oshima, Maho left a note saying he was unable to serve at the front because of physical disability and he was sacrificing his life to assist finan- cially. The government will devote the money to the relief of the families of soldiers at the front. In view of the increasing number of casualties in North China—more than 500 killed and 1,000 wounded— the Empress is dispatching artificial legs, arms and eyes for maimed sol- diers at the front. Japan’s gay geisha girls have taken advantage of the prevailing heat wave to raise war funds. Every time a patron of a geisha house or restaurant complains of the heat the girls fine him one yen (29 cents) to be used for the soldiers who are reported suf- fering intensely from the heat in North China. One group of girls has raised several hundred dollars in this way and turned the fund over to the | & | Another Casual Hazard Americans accustomed to a round of golf on this course near Peiping have to go elsewhere these days, because bullets instead of golf balls are sailing down the fairway. A Chinese soldier inspects his firearms, oblivious to the sign. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937. NURSE REUNITED | Mussolini’s “Friend” in Court \N(OYE TO PROTECT WITH TWIN SISTER Miss Martha Pifer, Missing Since July 26, Found in St. Louis Park. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 6.—Miss Martha Pifer, Government sanitarium nurse, who was found here July 26 after she had disappeared at Albuquerque, N. Mex.,, May 14, was reunited with a twin sister and a brother at St. Louis City Hospital yesterday. Miss Pifer's twin, Mrs. George Chapman of Shenandoah Caverns, and Dr. H. L Pifer of Winchester, Va, arrived here, but declined to dis- cuss the case. Dr. Pifer consulted St. Louis phy- sicians regarding his sister, but said he had made no immediate plans. He indicated she would be removed from the hospital soon. Walter J. Grolton, superintendent of the hospital, said Miss Pifer might leave “at any time.” Dr. Pifer described his sister as “much better” and reiterated the opinion, expressed when he first was notified she had been found here, that | she had been suffering from amnesia. Miss Pifer identified herself when police found her sleeping in a public park, but gave no other information for several da She said she came to St. Louis in July and went to the | park to sleep when her funds were exhausted. She went without food for four days. ! Farm (Continued From First Page.) | — { yet received sufficient assurances | about enactment of crop control Jeg- | islation to warrant him to authorize | loans on this year's cotton crop. | At his last Tuesday’'s press confer- | ence the President had said crop | production control, invalidated by lhe\ Supreme Court's A. A. A. decision | last year, would have to return before Federal price pegging was resumed. Special Session in Question. In response to another special ses- sion question today Mr. Roosevelt | smiled and said it was an easy one to | answer: That he was not consider- ing calling the Senate in special ses- | sion the day after Congress adjourns to consider a Supreme Court nomina- tion. In connection with the special ses- | sion discussion in the Senate, Majority | Leader Barkley said yesterday the | President may call such a meeting in | October or November if the Senate | Agriculture Committee is ready to pre- | sent a detailed crop control and price | stabilization program. Senators La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin; Shipstead, Farmer- Labor of Minnesota, and Lundeen. Farmer-Labor of Minnesota, joined 37 of the 75 Senate Democrats in urg- | ing that course. Simultanecusly, it was learned that Secretary Wallace will lead a squad of top-ranking Farm Administration of- ficials into the corn belt in the next two weeks to discuss next year's soil conservation progran. Wallace and Aides to Talk. Some of these meetings will be mass picnics at which Wallace and his as- sistants will speak. They also may take up general farm legislation, in- cluding the ‘“ever-normal granary” which the President and Wallace con- tend must be tied in with crop loans. The Senate and House Agriculture Committees decided a week ago to abandon farm legislation until January because they could not agree on details. Southern Senators and Representa- tives, however, expressed concern over a slowly falling cotton market and the possibility of a huge crop. They advocated Federal help to guarantee a cotton grower 12 cents a pound for his yield A committee talked to Mr. Roosevelt yesterday. The members said he told them he would consider making loans, not only for cotton, but possibly for wheat and corn, if congressional lead- ers agreed to pass acreage limitation regulations at once, at a possible spe- cial session, or at the start of the next regular session in January. Shortly afterward, the 40 Senators offered their petition for an Autumn session, contending legislation next Winter would be too late. “A large proportion of the farmers of America,” the petition said, “make AUGUST SALE ON ALL Furniture and Lamps CATLINS, Ine. 1324 N. Y. Ave. NW. Natl. 0992 Open Daily 8:30 to §:00 Sat. 8:30 to 1:00 war office. Tasteful Tribute . . . Thoughtful Remembrance Cross.of Flowers C.&C. 804 (Tih St N.W. 808 [4th St MW, FLOWER STORES 609 12th $1, N.W, T F 8t N | that ample time should be taken for their plans and begin to prepare their soil during the Autumn and Winter months.” A forty-first Senator—Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada—signed it, but later asked to remove his name. The document. he said, might be construed as interfering with the President's prerogatives. The demands for agricultural legis- lation confused the pre-adjournment | situation. Leaders hope to end the | session late this month, as soon as| wage-hour, housing and court bills are | enacted. Barkley told the Senate it is mnot contemplated that the session should continue long enough to pass a farm bill. He urged that the Agriculture | Commitiee hold hearings immediately after adjournment. Chairman Smith of the committee, saving he had just conferred with Mr. Roosevelt, declared: “I got the impression that the President would be thoroughly satis- fied if assurance was given him that when we meet in January we will mee? | with & bill ready for consideration and passage before the general planting | season.” Smith Committee Opinion. His committee believes, Smith said, ; an exhaustive study of farm condi- tions. It previously had arranged a serries of regional hearings this F‘au.l Smith told the Senate the petition | asking farm legislation before Jan- | uary “uiterly astounded” him. If a special session is not called, leaders said there was one other pos- sible solution of the impasse: Congress could accept a resolution offered by Senators Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama and Bilbo, Democrat, of Missis- sippi directing the Commodity Credit Corp. to make loans of 12 cents a pound on this year’s cotton crop. R. F. C. Funds Ready. Jesse Jones, chairman of the Re- construction Finance Corp., said re- cently both the Commodity Credit Corp. and the R. F. C. were ready to make loans ‘“assuming the President approves, and he always has.” Bilbo told the Senate yesterday that unless crop-control legislation is passed, Southern farmers will be | *‘robbed of millions of dollars by specu- lators.” He said the carryover of Govern- ment-owned surplus cotton is the smallest since 1930 and, therefore, | there is “no excuse” for the 10-cent | | of early trouble. price. China inued From part of his ‘consular district north of the Yellow River to withdraw south- ward to places of safety. This action followed closely an offi- cial Japanese intimation that the North China zone of hostilities might extend southward to the Yellow River, the natural boundary between North and Central China. The Hankow consular district in- cludes & small part of Honan Prov- ince above the river, but not the larger area in Shantung Province, where United States citizens, on advice of their Consul at Tsinanfu, already were reported comcentrating at Tsingtao, on the coast. In troubled Hankow itself were about 100 Americans, with several score in mission centers nearby. At Kikung- shan, famed Central China Summer | resort, in Honan, about 100 miles north of Hankow, were about 300 Americans, missionaries with their wives and children ‘The Japanese civilian evacuation of Hankow gave every evidence of fears The Japanese 1lth | Gunboat Flotilla on the Yangtze River | declared a state of emergency existed in the area, landed additional marines to reinforce those already ashore and | ordered the evacuation. Hankow, with its sister Wuhan | cities of Wuchang and Hanyang, hes: on the Yangtze some 600 miles south | of the North China zone of conflict, on a direct line. It is the southern terminus of the 754-mile railway from Peiping, down which the Jap- anese have advanced some 40 miles southwest of Peiping. REPORTS U. 8. ALERT. Hirota Says America Guarding Against Enlistments. | TOKIO, August 6 (#).—Foreign| Minister Koki Hirota assured the Japa- | nese Parliament today the United States Government “is carefully guard- ing against” reported attempts to en- | list American aviators for the Chinese Army. | Previously the Toklo government had been reported ready to call Wash- | ington’s attention to Los Angeles dis- | patches quoting Russell L. Hearn as declaring 182 American pilots were ready to go to China to fly Chinese war planes. Hirota declared the United States EISEMAN® Magda Fontages, who claimed to be a “friend” of Musso- lini and who shot Count Charles de Chambrun last March be- cause, she said, he interfered with her love aflair with the Ital- ian dictator, is shown as she apeared before a Paris police court ) conferring with her attorney, Rene Floriot. She was fined $3.75. Government would be alert to stop “any such action.” During the session, Gen. Gen Sugi- yama, the minister of war, told Parlia- ment more troops were being rushed to reinforce the Japanese Army in its undeclared war on China. ‘Temporary suspension of American missionary activity in North China be cause of hostilities is *most likel: Shoichi Murao, general secreta the Tokio Y. M. C. A, told the ciated Press. 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