Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1937, Page 1

(0. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast ) Tair, ronti 0ol tonight, tomorrow partly clondy swowly raing temperatufe; gentle winds. Temperaturea today- Higheat. 82, at 11:30 a.m: lowdit, 66, at 5:30 a.m. Temperature at 1 p.m,, 8. Full report on page A-3. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 10 Entered aa second g post office, Washixgyay, 0. C. 85th YEAR. No. 34,073. ! e - 3 AMERICANS DIE I ————————— e [ FH :/ WITA SUNDAY MORNING EDITION R OF SHANGHAI BY CHNESE PLANES: HULL URGES FOES > Princcton Professor, Mission.' ary and Car Dealer Killed in Foreign Zone Blasts. AR-OVER CITY | IN ATTACK ON !AVANESE SHIPS 16 WAR PLANESNGG | | | ‘ Hundreds of Natives and Foreigners | Lose Lives as Havoe Is Rained on ! (rowds in Settlemenl. BACKGROUND— Killing of Jopanese officer at Shamghai Monday brought Simo- Jopanese undeclared war to China metropolis. Strife had broken out in North China affer refusal of Hopeh-Chahar Political Conneil to yield to demands of Japanese for establishment of another puppet regime arter clash of armed forces meor Peiping July 7. Conflict carries grave threats to international peace By the Associaied Prass SHANGHAI, August 14. At least three prominent Americans in Shanghai were killed and.two other Americans wounded today in Chinese-Japanese aerial warfare that hurled death into crowded parts of the International Settlement, Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson, one of the outstanding msgionaries fn China, and H. S. Honigsberg. wealthy motor car de: f, et death as Chinese bombing planes, supposedly aiming at Japauese concentrations, dumped their missiles into crowded downtown areas, killing hundreds Dr. Robert Reischauer. identified by the United States consulate as a professor of international relations at Princeton, was hit by & bomb in the lobby of the Palace Hotel on Nanking road and died a few hours later in a hospital. His leg was blown off. It. was feared other Americans were among those killed. esti- mated by police at 500. These people died horribly in two terrific bombings, one near the Cathay Hotel at the intersection of Nanking road and the Bun, heart of the International Settlement; the other at the junction of Avenue Edward VII and Thibet road, in the French concession ‘A Reuter, British, News Agency dispalch said police of the French concession reported 456 persons were killed and 828 wounded in the Avenue Edward VII bombing. Police of the Inter- national Settlement estimated that 50 were killed and 75 wounded by the bomb that dropped in Nanking road.» Two Known U. S. Wounded. The two Americans known wounded were J. M. Kerbey. employe of Haskins & Sells. New York accountants, and R. R. Rouse of 8aco. Mont. Sixteen Chinese war planes roared over the city, striking at Japanese warships and troop concentrations, but apparently rain- ing the greatest havoe on the foreign-controlled sections of the city. i Besides the three Americans, several other foreigners were reported killed. Dr. Rawlinson and Honigsberg died in the bombing on Avenue Edward VII, at one of the busiest intersections of the city, where an estimated 300, mostly Chinese, were killed. Dr. Rawlinson. 66. with his wife and 15-year-old daughter .Jean, was motoring past the intersection when the bombs fell. He stopped the car and #epped ouf to be struck in the chest by a bomb fragment. He died at once. | Mrs. Rawlinson, altholigh suffering from shell shock, drove the car to the | foreign mortuary, turned over the body of her husband and then collapsed. Jean was not hurr, Dr. Rawlinson was editor of the Chinese Recorder, supported by the American Boara of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with headquarters »t Boston, Mass. Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by one son here, six grown sons and daughters and three brothers and two sisters in the United States. The hombings came late in thes afternoon, when Shanghai streets were teeming. Japanese planes were in The sir to oppose the Chinese, but they were ineffective. The body of Honigsberg, who had tived in Shanghal more than 20 years and was one of the most prominent American residents, was found humed‘ beyond recognition in a motor car. A Typewriter You Car’t Rile Is Announced DR FRANK J. RAWLINSON. --Copyrighl, A. P. Wirephoto. MRS, RODSEVELT IENORES PROTEST Wi .ttend Fiesta to Benefit | Spanish Children Despite Catholics’ Attack. Br he Associaied Press NEW YORE, August Fraoklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs Carcline O'Day, representative at large, and leading members of Rockland County’s artist colony prepared for a charity fiesta today for the benefit of children of Spanish government refugees, act- ing over the protests of some promi- nent Catholic Jaymen In going ahead with plans for the fiesta this afrernoon on the estate of Adolph Zukor, motion picture pro- ducer, Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. O'Day and others who intended 1o be rhere ig- nored the protests of Mrs. Alice 14 —Mrs | O'Leary, wife of Arthur T. O'Leary, New Vork attorney and head of the | Catholic Laymen's Teague. Those planning 1o aid or take part in the carnival included many artists. sctors apd writers, among them Mr and Mrs. Maxwell Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Burgess Meredith, Charles Mc- Arthur and his wife, Helen Haves: Mr and Mrs. Ben Hecht, Rollo Peters. Loms Bromfield and Mrs. Henry Var- num Poor. Mrs. O'Leary protested by telegram ta Mrs. O'Day, suggesting rhat ihe money from the flesta be used by the American Red Cross or be distributed equally between refugee groups of borh sides of the Spanish conflicr. Mrs. O'Leary made public A reply from Mrs. O'Day staring she had *“No intention of taking sides in the Span- ish conflict.” but that she reserved to herself “the right to assist children whenver T choose to do s0." Mrs. Roosevelt also reaMirmed her intention of aiding the event, Mrs. O'Leary said THREAT TO DAWES KIN SUSPENDS POLICEMAN By he Associated Press ATLANTA, August 14 —Motor Cycle Patrolman A. Douglas Poole received a 28-day suspension today for “man- handling” E. Cutler Dawes. a nephew of former Vice President Charles Dawes. w Fleet Held Ready Police established identification by papers in a pocket in the car. An| nnidentified foreign woman was found | dead beside Honigsberg. | Police estimated that 200, nearly all Chinese. died in the blast on Nanking | road, where a homb, striking in the street, between the Cathay and Palace Hotels, tore a huge hole, tossing bodies for vards. Tt was here that Kerbey | suffered slight wounds. | Caught in Cross-fire. | You Hit, Each Letter Is Equally Black. ‘ Br the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 14.—Invention | of a “sweet tempered” typewriter wo.sK announced today by Joseph SpielVogel | of Newark, N. J. | No matter how angry you are when i INo Matter How Hard| The Police Committee of the ity | | Council convicted Poole on charges of | | conduct unbecoming an officer. Poole arrested Dawes July 30 on charges of interfering with an officer after Dawes bad offered to appear for a truck driver Poole had arrosted on 8 charge of driving through a red light at a downtown intersection. Dawes said Poole seized him by the seat of the trousers, shook him, threatened him and finally shoved him into a patrol wagon and took him to police headquarters where he was fined Ronse. former United States Marine you use it, the machine retuses to get ' $7 in Recorder's Court, now working in Shanghai, was wound- | 1. ed in the left shoulder and knee when ' eaught in & cross-fire when Chinese| PURCh the keys as hard ss you will. planes bombed the Japanese cruiser but the typewriter keeps putting the Idzumo. flagship of Japan’s Dnaval jetrers down on the paper at the same forces here. His wife and child, with even-rempered, undisturbed pace. It him at the time, were uninjured. | tag i St A . e American authorities expressed anw‘ s oac LesoR1avieveryawOD . 1t pushes fears for the safety of an unknown |5 biack s the next one. number of Americans believed o be the “I” key more lightly than the | still inside the battle gones morth of | “W. for if the two fell with equal 8oochok Creek, which ™ns through weight the “I" would be darker than the International Settlement. | the “w.” United States consular, naval 20d| The invention prints type similar marine officers worked feverishlv 10| io that of a printing press. extablish contact with their nationais |yl ol R L In the battle %ones, but 1t was slmost ', Tove giving e ter the same amount of space, as is the case tmpossible 10 enter them. l'on conventional typewriter keys, the Reischbauer on Study Tour. | device with the unruffied temper varies Reischaner. the third American fa- D€ SPAce 1o suit the size of the letters, | tality. was the son of American mis- | 88 in standard type. sionaries living in Tokio, where he| It prints bold-face type when the was born. He was making a study Proper control is adjusted. tour of the Far East. | A complete newspaper, except for ' He reached Shanghai onlv a few headlines, could be produced on the | days ago and had moved only today typewriter, SpielVogel said, for it au- from ihe Astor House Hotel, on Soo- | tomatically spaces the type to bring | chow Creek, 1o the Palace Hotel, be- each line out even at the right as heving the latter, farther from the well as at the left margin. T (See CHINA, Page A-9) | e SRR Y : s 20 RAIL UNIONS CONFER NOTED SCIENTIST DIES e R | Plan > | Prof. Jobn Gordon Thomson Con- { 4 h in Protozoology. | * ducted Besear i L2 ‘ CHICAGO. August 14 (#).—Heads of | LONDON, August 14 (#).—Prof. 20 railroad labor unions conferred to- John Gordon Thomson, authority on | dav on & propossl for & nationsl un- tropical diseases, who conducted re- | empioyment insurance plan exclusively for rail workers. ' George M. Harrison, chairman of including Panama, died yesterday. the Railway Labor Executives’ Asso- He was professor of medical proto- | ciation, said the program would Te- | roology in the London School ot Hy- | &,1e Federal letielation. 1t would, he giems and Tropical Medicine. | by Jack of uniformity in State unem- In 1926 Prof. Thomson served as ployment insurance laws. exchange lecturer in protozoology at! Tha bretherhoods Tepresented in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. conference claim 1,100,000 members, | to Make Job Insurance Schemes Uniform Is Topic. search in many parts of the world rd Summary of Page.| ---- A-3| Obituary B-2 | Real Estat: Page. Art -9 Books .. . Church News, ? B-4.5 _B-6-7 --.-C-16 1to A | Radio B-5 Serial Story..C-10 Short, Story. B-5 Editorials .,.A-H[ Sports ... _C-8-9 Finance . . A-8| Society .. . A-8 Lost & Found C-10 | Woman's Pg. B-8 Comies Drams FOREIGN. Hull urges China and Japan to spare Shanghai. Page A-1 Soviet flvers missing 20 hours after one motor fafls. Page A-1 Tbree Americans killed in Shanghal battle. Page A-1 Spanish loyalists report advances on Brunete front. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Sensfors report many letters asking delay on Black. Page A-1 Talk of special Fall session of Congress is revived. Page A-1 Second of four reorganization bills Dasses House. Page A-2 Plan io lease destroyers may be de- layed indefinitely. Page A-2 Switch by Rules Committee wage-hour bill's only hope. Page A-3 Wallsce begins work on cotion loan achedule. Page A-5 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Senate group substitutes Copeland for May airport bill. Page A-1 Girl, 7, under treatment for rare bone malady. Page A-2 D. C. Gusrdsmen prepare for guests at camp tomorrow. Page A-3 / 10 SPARE CITY to Remove 3,000 U. S.Nationals. 'ENVOY 1S SENT | TO PERIL AREA j(lonlacl Kept With Other Countries on Protection. | | | | Bv (he Associated Press, Secretary of State Hull said roday | this Government has made “most | earnest” representations 1o the Jap- ! anese and Chinese governments mnot 0 use Shanghai as a “theater of operations.” The Secretary said the United Staies Asiatic Fleet was prepared on short notice 10 remave about 3.000 American nationals from the trouble zone if necessary. His statement was made (0 a press conference after Shanghal reporis listed at leasi three Americans killed n tne Chinese-Japanese aerial war- fare over the city The Stale Department, he added. was holding itself jn readiness day and night to co-operate wjth the Navy In order o get vessels post-haste 1o the confiict zone in sufficient time 10 Rive Americans whatever protection 1s necessary. Nationals Kept Informed. Hull said that as s matter of “uina’ precaution” the State Department through diplomatic represematives and military and naval ofciats, was keep- | ing nationals informed of every avail- able opportunity to get aboard ships. He said protection would include guarding nationals on iheir way from cities to harbors. The Secretary told his press confer- ence American diplomats and naval officials had conferred constantly with representatives of other governments who have natfonals in Shanghai on methods of protecting their citize, Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, Hull said, had proceeded to Shanghai io keep in close touch with the situation with rthe view to consolidating all plans 10 preserve American safety, L The United States Government, Hull said, *has Jost no opportunity 1o “in- struct governments hoth at Tokio and Nanking” that operdtions should not be based at Shanghal, Closer Contacts Maintained, The Government, the Secretary ron- tinued, is pursuing its contacts with American officers in the, area of hos- tilities more closely rhan it did with rhose in Spain when the civil war broke out there. Hull said he “greatlv deplored” cas- ualties reported 1o American Dations | .in Shanghal during the last 24 hours. He said that it anything had been | overlooked that would be heipful 1o Americans in Shanghai 1t had been unintentional. The United States. Hull smphasized, principally must cohrinue with other governments on representa- tions to China and Japan to avoid conflict in the international city, He said that while local American organizglions at Shanghai were mak- | ing representations to the two gov- ernments against “any kind of mil | tary or navsl operations at Shanghai” American Ambassadors at Peiping and Tokio were making similar reouests | from day 10 day. - American diplomats in fhe princi- pal conflict 7ones in China have been sent special and standing instructibns. Hull said, 10 close up thejr offices’ See HULL, Page A-9) Dyer Trial Recessed. LOS ANGELES. Augusu14 (#).—The trial of Albert Dyer, accused triple, | child slayer, was ip recess today until Monday. Prosecutors expected to in- troduce Monday or Tuesday his repu- diated confesison that he killed Melba | and Madeline Everett and Jeanette Stephens. ke | Today’s Slaf ' | Woman, 74, slugged' with brick by col- ored prowler. Page A-12 Public Welfare Board seeks $11,34! 567 for 1939, Page A-12 Senate action due today on airport improvement, bill. Page A-12 Resuming of work on slaughter house spurs intsnse_ fight. Page A-12 | District. Legion Convention pledges fight for suffrage. Page A-12 | EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. | Editorials. Page | This and That. Page lsun. Men and Atoms. Page Answers and Questions. Page David Lawrence. H. R. Burkhage. Mark Sullivan, | Jav Pranklin. Lemuel F. Parton. SPORTS. Live rabbit’s feet aid Frye to ringer | title. Page C-3. | Appleton blanks Bosox in defying | Priday, the thirteenth. Cards on win streak despite ab- | sence of Diz Dean. Page C-8. Louis-Schmeling bout this Fall held lkely. Page C-9. Cooper headed golfdom’s money- winning record. Page C-9. Henry Armstrong kayoes “Irish Eddie“ Brink in third. >eE2E222R> 4 MISCELLANY. Letter-Out. Cross-Word Puzsie. Bedtime Story. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics, Shipping News. | Nature’s Ch Page Page - to confer | Page C-8.! Page C-9.| N ‘BCMBING | ONCOPELAND BILL Commerce Committec- Re- jects May Airport Plan as “Unworkable.” BACKGROUND Washington's airport problem he- came crucigl a month apo whey pilots said they would refuse tn operate from the field across the Tiver unless hozards, such as Mili- tary road, were removed. This ul- | timatum led to putting forth e site | at Camp Springs, Md., jor a model | arport.” Tuesday airport officials | and Arlington County agreed on | closing Military road. Yesterday bill ! Passed for Camp Springs anyyay. Rejecting the May bill as “nnwork- ' able,” the Senate Commerce Commit- tee today substituted the Copelsnd measure to close Military road and enlarge Washington Airport and moved for immediste considerarion of the bill by the Senate The Copeland™ bill already was pending on the Senate calendar when the committee met in executive ses- sion today to consider the May bill, passed this week bymhe House. The #enate®comiffitiee stri@x out the en- tire text of the Hse reafre afre ®he enasitg clause and substituted the Copeland billewithout ameridfent. The Copeland hill suthorizes th convevance of Military road right-cf- way 1o Washington Airport in return for a payment of $25.000 for ¢ astruc- tion of 8 subetitute road. It also su- thorizes the leasing 10 tha airport of 53 scres of the Arlington Expen- mental Farm and & portion ef rhe Boundary channel lagoon area. | It was announced that Senaior | Coptland, Democrat, of New' York ! chairman of the Commerce Com- | mitee and author of the bill, would | 85k for passage of ihe measure by | unanimous consént at the earliest op- portunity, possibly this afternoon. Meanwhfle, the Camp Springs air- port bill was passed yesterday by the Ser.ate without debate. Called up by Chairman King of the Distget Committee just before | sdjournment,+ the Camp Springs | measure was addpted by unanimous | oconsent. Tt still réquires House ac- | | tion, however. The King bill cjrries ot the rec- | ‘! omMmendation of the District Airport | Commission for acquisition of & site in Prince Georges County, Md., south | of the rosgy Jleading from Camp Springs ¢0 Meadows. For gcquisition and development the hill authorizes 2 Federal appropriation of 33,286,250 and &xpenditure of $250,000 by the | Secretary of Agriculture to develop ans express highway from Anacostia | Bridde to the airport site. The air~ port is to be developed under direc- 1 tion of the Secretary of War and then | | | partment for operation. Ags passed by the HOuse the May bill would reguire Washington Air- port to pay $25,000 in advance to Arlington County in return for the use of Military road for 25 years. Airport officials said they would have to borrow the money, and that the transaction ultimately would cost $40,000. This is more than the use iof the road is worth io them, since it will pot add to the income of the airport and in itselt will not improve safety gonditions materially, they held. The Copeland bill provides for con- simple to the airport but still requires the payment of $25,000 to the county for construction of s substitute road. To this the airport management has agreed. CATHOLICS WARNED VATICAN CITY, August 14 (#P). The Observatore Romano, official | Vatican newspaper, today published a manifesto by Michael Cardinal Faul- haber, Archbishop of Munich, warn- | ing Catholics to beware of & German government questionnaire, b He told church members not o put | themselves down on a statistical bu- | reau questionnaire as “believers in God” rather than Catholics. Two Rebel Chiefs Surrender. GUADALAJARA,' Jalisco, Mexico, August 14 (P .—Military headquarters ssid today that Pablo and Reuben Candelario, Mexican rebel chieftains, hsd surrendered and thst Andres Esparza. head of an armed group, | had been killed by federal troops. ) ' HE WHO LAUGHS bening - Star SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #x Rn,mr! Letters 'Aski,ng Delay S LAST! enators Tell, of Scores of Reque. The only and Wire Yesterday's (Bome ey, (#) Means Associats, nfirmation for i Hearings to Determine Fitness—Little By the Associated Prexe Senators opposhd 1o confirpation of Sepator Black, Democray, of Alabama. #c a Supreme Court justice reported today receipt of many letters and | telegrams irging driay in action on |"the nomination. > They ssid scores of ielegrams and | letters from individuals and organ- izations asked thaj full hearings be held 10 detérmine Yhe qualifications and legal eligibility of the Alabaman. Statements from members of the | Indiciary Committee indicated, how- ever, ihat the protests would have litrle effect. They showed s com- fortable 'majority of the committee ready 10 approve the Senator's nomi- nation Senator Austin. Republican. of Ver- mont, Jeader of the move to delay diciary Committee action, displaved 10 newspaper men a stack of telegrams indorsing his stand. Most of them were from individuals, but on 1op was one from Alfred A. Cook. chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the As- sociation of the Bar of the City of New work “The members of the legal profes- sin, irr ;spective of party or any dif- feri @ Viewpoini on national policy. - | Effect Expected From Protests. alwavs unite in the rconclusion that any one selected 1o sit In the United States Supreme Court must be judicially qualified,” Cook telegraphed. It is consequently essential that there be no haste in the consideration |of a pominee and that proper and reasonable opportunity be given 1o the bar of the country to submit to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate its views as to the fitness and quali- fications 6f the nominee. “I xefuse 1o believe that membership in the United States Senate in and of itself qualifies one io occupy anv other office and least of all that of | lustice of the Supreme Court. Care- ful and mature deliberation remains vital if the eonfidence snd respect of | the Nation are to be assured.” Ten committee members said they would vote i confirm. the liberal Ala- baman, co-sponsor of the adminis- tration wage-hour bill ‘Three members were definitelv op- poeed. while four ofhers still were non- | Two of these were lean- ! committal. ing toward confirmation, two agains. | The eighteenih member of ihe eom- mittee, Senator Norris, Independent, of Nebraska, has lett Washington for (See BLACK, Page A-9.) SPEGAL SESSION TALK 1 REVVED So Much of Program De- ferred Presicent May Call Congress Back. BULLBTIN. In the first definite expression SO0 WIL CET RAIL PAY BOOSTS Members of 14 “Non-Oper- .ating” Unions to Pocket Raises as of August 1. Bv the Associated Press | CHICAGO, T, Aungust 14. Ap- | proximately 800,000 railroad emploves in Washington wit Associated Press from rthe House leadership on rhe chances of a wage-and-hour bill, Speaker Bankhead today told re- porters ‘it does not look to me now as if that bill will be considered be- fore we adjourn.” who are members of the 14 operating” brotherhoods will | bigger paychecks next pay day. | “non- pocket A wage boost of 5 cenis an hour retropctive to August 1, embodied in an agreement with the Nation's rail- | roads. was ratified by unanimous vote By 1he Associaied Press. A recalcitrant Congress has deferred 80 much of the Administration Dro-' or their representatives yesterday. gram that talk revived today of &| .y, acreement also provided that special Autumn session to enact crop'ihe “share the work” program would control and wage-hour legislation. be abandoned after September 1 at turned over to the Commerce De- | veyance of title to the road in fee | President Roosevelt and the Senate | exchanged a pledge late yesterday ;wherobv a farm price stabilization | measure will be passed “ai the next sessfon” in return for immediate cot- | ton loans. The Chief Executive gave no indi- cation whether he will let the farm | bill await, the regular session in Jan- uary or will call Congress together in October or #lovember. Legisiators discussing the latter pos- sibility noted that Secretary Wallace recently said a special session would be “fine for the farmer.” Consideration Blocked. ‘They said their belief was strength- hour bill, passed by the Senate, will not reach the House floor. An openly hostile Rules Committee has blocked ius consideration. The farm and wage-hour bills are two of five major administration pro- posals which undoubtedly will be left behind in the race to adjourn within & week or 10 days. The others are: | 1. Government reorganization. The | House passed s bill yesterday empow- ering the President to reorganize, con- solidate and abolish executive depart- " (See CONGRESS, Page A-9.) SANTOS ON WAY HERE CandidatetTor kP asident ol Co- lombia Visits United States. MIAMI, Fla, August 14 (#).—Dr. Eduardo Santoe, newspaper publisher snd candidate of the powerful Liberal party for President of Colombia, ar- rived here by Clipper plane late yves- terday for a brief visit to the United States “just as a touris{.” After an overnight stop here Dr. Santos and his wife will fly to Wash- ington, for a brief visit. and will spend several days 1n New York. Then they | will embark for an extended European \ & - | | eaned bv the probability that, the wage- | the request of general chairmen. | The wage boost, represenied a rom- | promise on the 20-cent increase origi- | | nally - asked by the brotherhoods. | George M. Harrison, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Association, | said some of the general chairmen | were dissatisfied with the size of :ae! pay hike but voted approval as “the | best that could be done under the circumstances.” Ratification followed s vote hy the cuses. Their action was protested by | & group of self-styled “rank and fi | the conference. A 20 per cent increase was the goal of spokesmen for 300.000 members of {The five “operating” brotherhoods They and representatives of the rail- | Monday. |FINE WEATHER IS DUE HERE DURING WEEK END less Skies Are Promised for Few Days. Tine weather aver the week end. with skies, was promised District residents by the Weather Bureau today. “Fair and continued eool tonmight," said the official forecast, “Sunday, partly cloudy and slowly rising tem- peratures.” A maximum temperature of 84 was predicted for today, The thermometer rose slowly from a low of 66 at 5:30 am. to 79 at 10 a.m. The mercury will begin to rise slowly tomorrow, the Weather Bureau pre- dicted, but probably will not reach the 905 again until after Monday. More hot weather i3 expected bv the middle of the week. 114 sets of delegates in separate cau- | unionists who had been barred from | roads recessed their conference until | Moderate Temperatures and Rain- | moderate temperatures and rainless | evening paper the News photo Services. Circulation, 134,640. rns NOL yel received ) TWO CENTS. SOVET AVIATORS BELIEVED SAFE A5 MESSAE S HEARD (Flyers Overdue 20 Hours at Fairbanks May Be Down in Arctic. d Press. “NO BEARINGS,” SAYS INTERCEPTED APPEAL Northland Flyers Await Word in Alaska Before Beginning Search for Russians. BACKGROUND. - The Soviet's first successinl trans- polar flight, started m deepest ae- erecy, ended last June 20 at Van- couver, Wash., when “‘poor visibil- y” forced Pilot Valeri Chekaloff and his fiying companions, Alexan- der Belwokof,and Georgi Baibukoff, to come down about 592 miles short of their origmal obiectine—Oak- land, Calif. They fiew 5,300 miles m 63 hours. , Three weeks later o second Soniet 0 roared out of Moscom along the new airlane and extended it 97¢ before bringing ther monoplone down m a San Jacmta, Calif., con pasture flew 6,262 miles m 62 hours miles They By the Associaied Pro SEATTLE. August 14 (®).—The probability that Sigismund Levaneff- skv and his five Russian companions are safe somewhere in the vast Arctic wasles was seen here 1oday when ihe Signal Corps station ar Anchorage re- ported intercepting the first word from the trans-polar plane in nearly 28 hours It reporied the rode message. heard al @ 44 am. (E.S. T ) was only partly readable and translated with the un- readable blanks, staied No bear- | ings * * having irouble with | * " * wave band.” | The Signal Corps’ Alaska communi-+ cations system, which made the an- | nouncement, stated | Following message. ihe first mes- sage which has been received from the plane since 2:40 am., the 13th, was intercepted by Signal Corps stae uon at Anchorage . “Plane heard very weak calling RDYW approximately 8080 kilocyrles a1 6:44 P. S. T, folloging intercepted with banks 19 R 34 F E. Diapazone’ Tt was not known here whether the plane rould send wireless messaaes while on the ground or was fitted ¥th equipment only nsable while aloft, Long Overdue at Fairbanks. , FATRBANKS, Alaska, August 14 /M, Northiand aviators, alarmed at news from six Russian aviators thai ecne motor of their four-motored mono- plane had failed, stood by their planes inday, ready to iake out over 1he bleak Arctic snowflelds, where they fear the Russians may have been forced down. | Siismund levaneffsky, pilot of the plane with which Russia was pioneer- 1ing & proposed transpolar Moscow= United States airline, radioed Moscow At 1 am. todav, Moscow time (3 pm. Friday, E. S. T.) the motor had .ailed. More ihan three hours later, at 9:53 am. Priday, E. S. T, the Jast message | received at Moscow said merely: “How |80 you hear me? Wair." | levaneffsky said ne intended 1o proceed here on three motors. He said a damaged oil line pur the engine out, of commission, but gave no hint he and his five companions intended to interrupt their flight, scheduled to end at Oakland, Calif. A few seconds laler Moscow " contact with the flvers. | The plane was 20 houirs averdie here at noon, E. S. T. and an increasing nimber of observers believed it might already be down. Tt is 4,000 miles here from Moscow. lost Weather Reported GGood. Weather was reported good In Northern Alaska, but the Soviet ‘wpnlhbr camp near the North Pole said the sky was overcast, with vis- ibility between 10 and 12 miles. The temperature was 31 degrees Pahren- heir. | Levaneffsky was 1o land here, then proceed to another refueling stop at Edmonton, Alberta. In pioneering the course, the huge plane carried a small freight oargo in addition to jts sX occupants, twice the number of two previous tran: | polar flights which ended in the United States. Whether fhe plane was down on water, land or the ice cap aL the top of the world were matters of pure con- | Jecture, as was the fate of the giant, monoplane if it had been forced down by storm or lack of fuel. From A. Vartanian, Soviei repro- sentative at Seattle, came only one comment “It, is an unpleasant situation ** Moscow had no later word, the Sig- nal Corps was informed. A crowd assembled at the airport here before 7 pm. (E. 8. T.), the expected arrival time, hut. as the hours passed the field was vacated, Safe Landing Possible. While not. discounting fears for the fyers' safety, airmen here pointed to | the possibility of a safe landing on Arciic ice flelds. They recalled planes |have landed and taken off without trouble from the vicinity of the Rus- sian North Pole observation post. The Russians carried heavy cloth- ing and six months' emergency ra- tions. When he left. Moscow at 10:13 a.m. (E. 8. T) Thursday, levaneflsky esti- mated it would take 30 hours for the flight, here. With 'him are co-pilot Nicolai Kosfenaieff and Navigator Pobeszimoff. The projected route to Oakland was over 6,600 miles. This was Levaneflsky’s second ai- tempt to fly from Moscow across the Pole to the United States. A broken oil feed line forced him to turn back from a point far out over the Arctie Sea and return to Moscow in August, ; 1935.