Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1937, Page 3

ROOSEVELT'S AIM CITIZENS' SAFETY Consideration of Neutrality Action Is Secondary to Protection. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, cataloguing neutrality maneuvers s secondary, concentrated their efforts today on protecting American citizens caught in the Shanghai cross-fire of warring Japanese and Chinese troops. The President, refusing so far to invoke the neutrality law, took the ttitude the hostilities do not yet con- stitute a state of war, $iew of continued diplomatic relations between China and Japan. especially in Safety Primary Concern. The Government’s primary concern was the safety of its citizens in the | On advice of the | tnternational 6State Department, 1,200 Marines were directed yesterday to sail from San Diego within 10 days to bolster the American guard at Shanghai. They Japan Prepares for Possible Air Raids # expected to arrive in Shanghai in ve weeks | Hull asked the United States na- tionals to “get out.” He sought $500,000 from Congress to finance their relief and flight. Hull went at length to explain to newspaper men the reinforcement was being made solely as an ultra-precau- tion to give Americans in Shanghai “all reasonable” protection. ing One Meanwhile, Secretary of Commerce Roper said today “the situation is so Fav Side Opposed. unequal” in the undeclared war be- | As part of Tokio’s preparations for air defense, these home guards exti THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, nguish a fire started by an aerial incendiary bomb while across the North China Sea fires, started by the same sort of bombs, roar across Shanghai, where war i not make-believe. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. China tween Japan and China that applica- | tion of the neutrality us in the position of fa tion.” Roper told his press confer *“we don't want to do that “There is some questior t might “put nce that of neutrality embargoes might be in carrying out the purposes of our peo- ple to maintain peace.” Roper said “We do not wish to sacrifice a ¢ trade relation- thips.” He China undob other marke ments from embargoed. This shift to othe observed, mi; the countr rely on their ne in the event of Marine Increase Scored. On Capitol Hill Re entative Fish, Republican, of New York, ranking minority member of the House For- eign Affairs Committee, termed the ordering of 1,200 additional marines to China “an utterly mistaken policy that may involve us in an Asiatic war.” Roper made public a report showing the United States exported $140. of goods to Japan and bought $92.392,- 000, and travel of all Marine Corp: sted men to the Asiatic Station, due to the Sino- Japanese conflict. The department, in announcing this, made it clear that transportation of dependents to Hawaii &nd Guam has not been restricted The naval auxiliary ship Gold Star, now at the Cavite, P. I, Navy Yard, will sail for Shanghai Friday to evacu- ate Americans in that area, it was an- and nounced today at the Navy Depart-| ment. Protection Against Mobs. Reinforcement of the 1,150 Marines | already in Shanghai was ordered, Hull raid, to protect Americans against mob viclence or harm from guerrilla bands. The United States, he added, con- | templates belligerent attitude toward any but at the same time intends to avold leaning too far back- ward. President Roosevelt was holding in- vocation of the neutrality law in abey- ance, apparently on a day-to-day basis, He was studying each significant de- velopment to determine whether it would warrant banning arms ship- : ments and loans to belligerents. Navy officials said the headquarters | unit of the 2d Brigade of the Fleet Marine Corps and the 6th Regiment | will be dispatched to Shanghai on the | Navy transport Chaumont. The Chau- | mont is en route to San Diego from Honolulu. It will be accompanied on the Pacific crossing by a light cruiser, the Marblehead. Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont will head the contingent and will take command of all Shanghai | Marines when he arrives. no Opposcs Neutrality Act. NEW YORK, August 18 (#).—The Chinese Patriotic Association of Greater New York telegraphed Presi- dent Roosevelt today urging him not to invoke the neutrality act in the Bino-Japanese conflict. f The telegram asked the President *“to exercise your influence as head of a peaceful Nation and signatory-power of the nine-power treaty and the Kel- loge pact to effect withdrawal of Japanese troops from Chinese terri- tory.” It also asked him “To refrain from declaring the existence of a state of war thereby invoking the neutrality act which will have the effect of mor- lly condoning and actually aiding the aggressor.” SENATE RATIFIES ADOPTION REPORT Bill Establishing New D. C. Pro- cedure Awaits House Action. ‘The Senate today ratified without debate the conference report agreed to yesterday afternoon on the bill establishing & new procedure for the adoption of children in Washington. After the House acts the measure will .| go to the President for signature. The measure requires an investiga- tion by the Board of Public Welfare of applications for adoption before | the court enters the decree. The conferees agreed on an amendment providing that the inquiry by the Welfare Board would not be neces- sary when a recognized religious or fraternal organization already had made a study of the case. The bill also stipulates that the | minor must live with the family ap- plying for adoption for six months before the adoption order is made final, and the records in the proceed- ing are to remain sealed thereafter, except by court order. ing one na- | he con- | kinued, “as to how effective application | 5,000 | (Continued From First Page.) | palatial buildings which were "erected at a cost of millions of dollars. Chinese refugees from across the river in Pootung, center of the Chinese operations on the east bank, reported the Japanese bombardments had made | a shambles of the streets and villages | | on the outskirts of the rich industrial area Simultaneously with the naval at- {tack against Kiangwan, a few miles north of Shanghai proper and just | a mile and a half inland, squadrons | of Japanese bombers attacked the Chi- nese positions in the Yangtzepoo sec- | tion of the International Settlement. | | 40 Planes Rain Bombs. | Forty Japanese planes were esti- ed to be raining bombs on the s which the Chinese regulars had wrested from the Japanese in the six | days of uninterrupted battle for this | city Approximately 2,000 Chinese wound- have been admitted to the In- Settlement in the last But only the most serious- lv wounded were permitted to cross | | Soochow Creek into the area where | foreigners are barricaded. The flagship of the United States Asiatic Fleet, the cruiser Augusta, | ed moved into the vanguard position in | Mate Floyd Arnold, of the Fourth | The | Regiment of U. S. Marines, was struck | Stars and Stripes fluttered from three | in the hip by a shell fragment as he | the Whangpoo's battleship row. points and complete of the her guns commanded a and uninterrupted settlement and Fra sweep | Warships Britain nce strung out be- | hind her. | |~ Under cover of the naval and aerial | bombardments, Japanese marines were | rushed ashore at the wayside area‘ | wharves 2 miles below the Japanese | Consulate. There were reported to | have been several thousand men in | ‘rhe reinforcement. They came from | Japan in commercial transports, es- corted by a naval convoy. | 10,000 Face 70,000 Chinese. | The men were sorely needed to the hard fighting Japanese | units of 10,000 or more now deployed im a huge area over Northern and | | Northeastern Shanghai. They face | 70,000 to 100,000 Chinese fighters. | The Shanghai American Club, in the | heart of the International Settlement, served as a haven of refuge for many Americans driven from their homes | in Hongkew’s no man’s land | | The Chinese commander ordered troops not to damage the Shanghai Power Co. and other foreign property | in the embattled Hongkew district of | the settlement. Casualties in today's fighting were believed heavy, particularly among Chinese because they had assumed the offensive. Mayor O. K. Yui, administrational chief of Chinese Shanghai, promised that, in the event of a crushing Jap- anese defeat, Chinese would not pur- | sue the conquered into the heart of | the Foreign Settlement. He sald the | British military command had given | assurances that it will bar Japanese | retreat into the international area. Evacuation Is Speeded. The evacuation of Americans was speeded as mobs of infuriated Chinese roamed the streets, looting and kill- ing, to make even more terrible the havoc wrought by the bursting shells of Chinese and Japanese guns. A tender loaded with 294 American women and children ran the gauntiet of fire for 10 miles down the Whang- poo today, taking a third contingent to safety. At 12:15 the tender reached the Yangtze estuary, and transferred its cargo of lives to the President Mc- Kinley. The liner immediately upped anchor and headed into the China Sea for Manila. 4 The daring Chinese capture of the Japanese steamers took place under the very guns of the Japanese fleet. The vessels, owned by the Misshin Steamship Co., were moored at the Pootung wharf. Picked companies of Chinese sud- | denly rushed the vessels, sailed them up the river to the emergency boom and scuttled them. A furious ar- tillery duel hurled round after round of shell over their heads as the Jap- anese warship batteries renewed their effort to blast out the Chinese from Pootung with broadside salvos. Food Supplies Dwindle. Within the city, stringent pre- cautions were taken to safeguard — 20 To safeguard Broiled Maine 7 5c Lobster Luncheon ___ }) | bolster ESTABLISHED 1888 FAMOUS RESTAURAN T 1101 Conn. Ave. » LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE BYRON S. ADAMS JERTRVSSTIPENENE 512 11 31, Air_Conditionea. TNRERRRNRR RN RY dwindling supplies of food. Armored cars drove back Chinese refugees who attacked trucks bringing in precious loads of rice. Thousands of homeless from stormed the barricades of the Inter- national Settlement, clamoring for food. The Japanese were balked in their effort to conquer all North China by determined Chinese resistance at Nan- kow Pass, gateway to Manchuria. Heavy Japanese reinforcements were being rushed into the area where the island empire is reported to have 65,000 troops already operating. Sixteen transports lay off Taku Bar, unloading men at the port of Tientsin. Railroads from Manchukuo were choked with incoming troops, munitions and sup- plies. The important sea base at Tsingtao, Shantung Province, was being evac- uated by both Chinese and Japanese ‘The Japanese Embassy and Consular staff reached there on their homeward journey after closing diplomatic offices in Nanking. (In Nanking the Executive Yuan of the Chinese Central government approved measures today for the evacuatioa of all Chinese nationals from Japan.) First Marine Casualty. American Marines suffered first casualty. Pharmacist The their stood guard in the American sector of the Settlement's north border along of | the banks of Sooshow Creek. Arnold’s | home is Beaumont, Tex. A squadron of Japanese bombers to- day destroyed the hangars at the Lunghwa airdrome of the Chinese National Aviation Corp. in which Pan-American Airways is a heavy stockholder. The Japanese alleged the port was being used for military purposes but Pan-American repre- sentatives issued a flat denial of the charge. Today's evacuations brought the number of Americans safely out of of the zone of undeclared war between China and Japan to 831. Some 600 have still to make the 10-mile journey | down the Wangpoo to the ocean liners that are shuttling between Woosung and Manila, Cockle Traps Mouse. A cockle recently caught a mouse in Gisborn, New Zealand. The cook of the household went to the pantry for a plate of the edible shell fish for breakfast. Picking up one of the cockles which had fallen on the floor during the night she found that it se- curely held a mouse by the tail. Vgfl}fl“: TO DINE. 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Miss Winifred Sackville Stoner, well known in Washington 20 years ago as | a child prodigy, again is living in the neighborhood of the Capital and is! being sought here as one of the heirs | of the fortune of an English relative who died recently. The *missing” woman now is 35 | vears old and is wanted by her uncle, E. H. Sackville of Washington, Pa With him she is to share the estate of {Dr. John Sackville, a resident of Highbury Park, Kent, England. Others { with claims to portions of the fortune | | are relatives in Asoury Park, N. J.;| Hammond, Ind., and Cleveland. | But Miss Stoner has not kept in touch with her kinfolk in recent | years, and Sackville, a wholesale | | grocer in the Pennsylvania city, has advertised in New York newspapers in | an effort to locate her. Lawyer Saw Her Recently. A clue to her whereabouts was dis- | closed last night by Bernard Sandler, Washington attorney, who said in New York that he had seen and talked | with Miss Stoner within a few weeks | in his office here, She was staying| | then in Chevy Chase | Sandler promised to aid in the search and communicated immediately with friends who might be able to help. | Miss Sloner is a descendant of Baron Lionel Sackville-West, British | Minister to the United States between | {1881 and 1888. He was recalled at | the request of President Cleveland | when his name became known as that | | of the author of an indiscreet political | letter—a communication he said he | had been “trapped into writing.” | _ Her father was the late Dr. James Buchanan Stoner, a physician in the United States Public Health Service who had charge of marine hospitals in Wilmington, N. C,, and Pittsburgh at different times. Miss Stoner's mother was Winifred Sackville Stoner, sr., inventor of the | natural education system of child 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley's Do It Right! D. J. ALL SPORT SHOES Whites, greys, Closed all day Saturday in August her theories and toured the country lecturing about it, with her daughter as a living example of its efficiency. The girl spoke eight foreign guages, published short stories and poems by the hundreds, played the piano and the violin, danced, was an expert swimmer and skater, rode, boxed, fenced and cocked dinners of her own composition; was skilled in chess and other intricate games and | passed the entrance examinations for Harvard University years old. Her mentors included Dr. M. V. O'Shea of the University of Wiscon- sin and Dr. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University At 19 she married Count Philippe Clinton de Bruche of Pari They separated and later he was reported killed 1. a motor accident. Her sec- ond )usband was Louis Hyman of New York. from whom she was di- verced after De Bruche was discov- ered to be still alive. A third mar- riage, to Earl Winston Harrison of when only 10 The estate to which Miss Stoner is | an heir is described as “a good one, | consisting mostly of bonds.” Sandler said today he was hopeful of communicating with her ‘“before night.” ROY N. PURDY, 51, DIES; WAS WAR VETERAN | Native of Washington Left Here in 1924—Was Member of Legion. Roy N. Purdy. 51, World War veteran | and native Washingtonian, died Mon- | day in San Antonio, Tex. according to word received here. He was a brother of Mrs. Ethel V. Fowler, 1623 A street southeast Mr. Purdy left Washington in 1924. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. lan- | , also ended in legal separation. | D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937. 6 HELD TO JURY IN‘T3 GANG' CASES Most of Youths Remanded to Jail in Default of "Bond. Eight clleged members of the “13” gang of yonthful purse-snatchers, housebreakers and automobile thieves were held for the grand jury in Police Court today under $5,000 bond each. Most of the defendants were remanded to jail in default of bond. The youths, who live in the North- east and. Southeast sections, were put down a wave of petty crime during the last few weeks. Two other suspects, both 15 years old, will have Juvenile Court hearings. Detectives are still looking for three other supposed mem- pers of the gang. Detectives sald they made only enough showing against the eight de- fendants in Police Court to hold them under adequate bond, and that addi- tional cases will be laid before the grand jury. Two Plead Guilty. Edward Watts, 19; Joseph Petro, 17; Martin McCarthy, 17, and Peter Riley, 18, were jointly charged in Police Court with grand larceny of an automobile, The latter two pleaded guilty. McCarthy and Broadus Varney pleaded not guilty in another case of automobile theft. Police said the two were arrested in Halethorpe, Md. Gilbert Hardy and Petro pleaded guilty and McCarthy not guilty in $400 and a diamond ring from Miss Marie Tucker, 1901 Wyoming avenue Housebreaking Denied. Petro, McCarthy, Charles Boyd, 18 | and Daniel Fitzpatrick, 22, pleaded not guilty in a housebreaking case involv- | ing theft of $30 worth of merchandlse | from & chain grocery at 2440 Wiscon- sin avenue. | Riley plead guilty on a petty lar- | ceny count in another case and was sentenced to 60 days in jail by Judge John P. McMahon, before whom all eight defendants were arraigned. 'TWO CYCLISTS INJURED | IN CRASH WITH AUTO Elmer C. Beaver, 19, 5904 Ninth street, was in Sibley Hospital today, suffering from a fractured leg and | other injuries received yesterday when | his motor cycle collided with an au | mobile at Michigan avenue and Brookland street northeast. 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