Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Parjly cloudy and cooler, preceded by showers today; tomorrow partly cloudy: gentle northeast winds. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 95, at 3:30 p.m.; low- est, 76, at 6 a.m. \ - UP) Means Associated Pre Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 1,692—No. 34,081. he WASHINGTON, CONGRESS ENDS SESSION; HOUSING AND DEFICIENCY LEGISLATION IS PASSED Wage-Hour Bill Is Stranded in House. Bittér Senaie F ight Portends Permanent Split of Democrats | | USUAL FROLIC IS OMITTED Guffey Causes . \ | he Assoclated Press. Rewsewell) Bendsimnie s o Good Wishes to | ing factlons of the Democratic party | continued in the Senate yesterday to Senators. within a few hours of adjournment. After eight months of furious wran- gling, the wearied legislators turned homeward last night, wondering if the BY J. A. O'LEARY. | party’s once solid majorities had been A weary Congress- went home last | split beyond repair, night after passing the $526,000,000 | They wondered, too, whether they slum clearance housing program and | would be summoned back into special BN $87,600,000 last deficiency bill in & | session this Fall to deal with problems tame closing session, | left unsettled and, if so, pessimistic- The flare-up in the Senate early in | ally predicted that the intra-party row the day when Democratic opponents | would go on then, from where it of the President’s court plan lashed4 stopped yesterday. back at Senator Guffey, Democrat, of | Ends on Note of Defiance Pennsylvania for his radio attack on | ? them Friday night, furnished the only | FOr it ended on & note of wrathtul touch of adjournment excitement to | defiance. Four of the Democrats who Wwhat otherwise was a dull finale. | opposed the Roosevelt court bill arose, Aside from this brief but bitter | ONe after the other, and challenged verbal tilt in Democratic senatorial | the administration to unseat themr ranks, both houses moved leisurely | Pecause of that opposition. through a routine day of approving | Upon Senator Guffey, Democrat, of conference reports and winding up | Pennsylvania, who had suggested such odds and ends of business until the | a course, the four—Wheeler of Mon- gavels fell, in the Senate a few min- | tana, Burke of Nebraska, O'Mahoney utes before 7, and in the House 25! of Wyoming and Holt of West Vir- | minutes later. Thus ended the first session of the Seventy-fifth Congr not to re- convene until January, unless the President should elect to call it back into session sooner. President Sends Letters. Tc the Senate, which had side- tracked his Supreme Court plan sev- eral weeks ago, the President sent a letter expressing his gards and g00d wishes,” and wishing its mem- bers a “pleasant and happy vacation.” A similar letter was sent to the House, through Speaker Bankhead. | In the House another major New | Deal objective, the wage and hour bill, was left stranded. Other impor- tant issues that went over until the next session ipcluded farm legislation and the anti-lynching bill. After being in session for more than seven months, the members ~¢ the | House apparently were anxious to get | away without the usual fanfare of | music and song. In the Senate a few | members jokingly shouted, “No!" on | the motion to adjourn. ‘~ Hellum Gas Bill Passed. In addition to the housing and de- ficiency bills, both houses completed last-minute action on the measure | to give the Governmenf control over this country's valuable helium gas and to regulate its sale to other na- tions for use in airships traveling to | &nd from the United States or its pos- sessions. After the deficiency and housing Mmeasures had been completed and sent to the President, it appeared for a| while that the Senate might run on | late into the night debating the nom- inations of T. A. M. Craven to be a Members of the Communications Commission, and of Samuel H. Ord- way, Jr, for the Civil Service Com- mission. Both appointments were <confirmed, however. Aid for Cotton Farmers. One of the last acts of the session | was to make possible price adjust- | ment loans to cotton farmers on | their 1937 production. After passing | & resolution pledging consideration of crop control early in the next ses- sion, which the President urged as | a condition to the making of loans | on this year's cotton, both houses | then made provision for the loans in the last deficiency bill. The supply bill makes not to ex- ceed $65,000,000 available from cus- toms receipts to pay cotton growe:s the difference between the price ihey. get and 12 cents a pound, but not to exceed 3 cents per pound. The slum clearance bill, now await- ing the President's signature, u- thorizes $526,000,000 for loans and grants to State or city public hous- ing agencies for low-rent housing projects. It contains an amendment Riving President Roosevelt authority to allocate part of the fund to the District Alley Dwelling Authority to expedite its work of reclaiming the | Inhabited alleys of Washington. Authority Is Created. A United States Housing Author- ity is created in the Interior De- partment to administer the program. The bill retains the limit of cost of $4,000 per family unit in small cities, but allows a $5,000 unit cost in cities of more than 500,000 population. In bringing the last deficiency bill down to $87,600,000, the conferees struck out $50,000,000 for benefit pay- ments under the new sugar control quota measure, awadting presidential £ignature, and left in only $250,000 for administration of the plan. They reachcd a compromise figure of $115,800,000 as the limit*of con- tract authorization for the Maritime Commission in planning new ship (See CONGRESS, Page A-4) Bats Ready to Take Possession of Capitol " As Congress Leaves By the Associated Press. Bats frolicked in the Capitol yesterday a short time before Congress adjourned. One flew into the “President’s room” and circled a huge chan- delier. Another darted about the basement. ‘““They know when we're about ready to adjourn and they're taking possession,” commented Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla- homa. e 4 | ginia—poured vials of contempt and denunciation, while he sat gtimly | looking straight before him and said nothing. Then they among their Democratic | asking that Guffey be ousted from his | position as chairman of the Demo- | cratic Senatorial Campaign Commit- | circulated a ‘petition | colleagues | Four Court Bill Foes’ Denunciation of Speculation on Irreparable Breach. | tee. They said they had obtainea from 15 to 20 signatures. The petition was withdrawn later, however, when Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, dis- closed that a week ago Guffey came committee. Barkley said he was busy | at the time and suggested that the | resignation go over until after the | session, | Guffey Friday night delivered a ra- | dio speech in which he predicted that | because of their opposition to the court bill, O’Mahoney and Burke would be defeated. He added that Wheeler would have “plenty” of ex- plaining to do before 1940. Wheeler, flushed and angry, attention of Senators who knew what was coming and were in their seats awaiting it. Wheeler “Highly Honored.” “I feel highly honored,” he said, | “that the Senator from Pennsylvan has singled me out as one of three members of the Senate for the pur- pose of broadcasting a speech which every one knows he did not write and which every one knows he would not have dared to deliver upon the floor of the Senate because he would | have been afraid that he would have had to yield to the Senators to whom he referred.” Guffey, seated in the rear row of | the Senate, sat red of face, unsmiling, i (See GUFFEY, Page A-12.) SITD0WN HALTS & W, STEAMER 150 Passengers Wait as 40 Strike When Boat Is Set to Leave Norfolk. A sit-down strike by 40 firemen, deck hands and stewards prevented the sail- | ing of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Northland from Norfolk last right with a near-capacity load of | about 150 Washington. J. Allen Riordan, general manager of the company, said most of the passen- gers had gone ashore again at Norfolk and there seemed no chance of the boat sailing last night or early today. Riordan said the strike was arbitrary and “unfair” in that he and other company officials had made every effort to comply with the demands of the union. steamer was about to cast off her lines for the northward voyage. In a telephone conversation with representatives of the National Ma- rine Union, a C. I. O. affiliate, Rior- dan said he offered to increase wages, better living conditions and do all pos- sible to comply with union demands. He said, however, the strikers refused to permit the steamship to passengers bound for captain to sign an agreement as to new working conditions, “Only last May we gave all our | men, from the masters down, a 10 per cent salary increase, and bettered their living conditions. Ours was the last line to cut wages during the depression. We have never had any labor trouble before. “The first we heard of this trouble was Saturday a week ago, when the C. I O. representatives presented their demands. “We asked for a month to consider, then two weeks and finally a week, With the proviso that the labor repre- sentatives give us 24-hour notice and & chance of further discussion before calling a strike, Tkey agreed to this latter proposal, and then disregarded it when the boat was in Norfolk and the company offi- cials were in Washington. I don't know what the outcome of the strike will be. We've done all we can to settle it and get the steamship under way.” The company offered increased pay and the promise of continuing the negotiations next Tuesday, but the strikers’ leaders demanded a signed agreement and said the captain’s slgnature would not be binding on the company. —— ‘PIED PIPER’ WITH PLANE WOULD ROUT SPARROWS ‘Sure, It's a Gag, but It Might Work,” Declares Airman, Oftering Services. By the Associatea Press. PERRY, N. Y, August 21.—An aerial “Pied Piper” offered his serv- ices tonight to rid this village of spar- rows, so citizens can sleep nights. Russ Brinkley, .a pilot and radio entertainer in nearby Olean, wrote Mayor Roy Spellicy he would fly his “filvver” airplane over the sparrows and broadcast fife notes. 5 “Sure, it's a gag,” he admitted to- night, “—but I'll go through with it. Who knows? It might work.” “My_plan,” he told the mayor, “is to attract the sparrows with my pip- ing, lead them out into the country and lose them.” Radio Programs, Page F-7. ' Complete Index, Page A-2. e 4 The Strike was called as the | sail, | although he had authorized the boat's | FIVE AR KILLED IN AUTO MISHAPS ginia State Road Super- visor Among Victims. Five persons, including a Wash- ington man and a Virginia State road supervisor, were killed in automobile accidents in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia yesterday as the District’s 1937 traffic death toll mounted to 70 with the death of 4-year-old Audrey Ann Holland. The other victims: Theodore Ray, colored, 158 Bryant street. | William G. Waltman, 58. supervisor | of State roads in Mercer district, Lou- | doun County, Va. | Mrs. Idella Wilson Harrington of | Crisfield, Md. Ward Beachy, | Md. | _Lester Harrison Barnard, Bloomington, Md. The Holland girl, who lived at 242 Jefferson street, died yesterday after- | noon at Casualty Hospital of injuries | received Friday when struck at Kan- | sas avenue and Jefferson street by an automobile alleged to have been driven | by John Shoemaker, 23, of 103 Con- cord avenue, according to police. Shoemaker was released in custody of his attorney, Fred J. Icenhower, | pending a coroner’s inquest. Killed Near Warrenton. Ray was killed and his wife suf- | fered severe shock in an automobile collision near Warrenton, Va., in which John Kenna, president of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Charles- ton, W. Va., received a fractured skull. Judge Kenna was taken to the Fau- quier County Hospital and was still unconscious at 7 p.m. last night. Dr. George H. Davis, county coroner and physician attending the jurist, said he was reacting slowly and described his condition as critical. Mrs. Kenna was expected to arrive at the hospital from Charleston this morning. ‘Waltman, widely known Loudoun County farmer and stockman, fell beneath a moving truck on a road between Bluemont and Unison, Va. He died in an automobile en route to Winchester Memorial Hospital. The truck, which was driven by William Sinclair, had been giving some motor trouble during the morn- (See TRAFFIC, Page A-1.) 68, of Grantsville, 27, of BODY FOUND IN SOUND IS NOT MRS. PARSONS Teeth of Dead Woman Do Not Correspond With Those of Missing Heiress. By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Conn., August 21 —Police Sergt. Dennis W. Cavanaugh announced tonight a body recovered from Long Island 8ound was “defl- nitely not” that of Mrs. Alice McDon- nell Parsons, missing Long Island ‘heiress. 3 ‘ Cavanaugh said an examiuation’ of the teeth of the badly decomposed body established that it could not have been that of the socially prominent woman who disappeared from her Stony Brook, Long Island, home June 9. 5 ; ‘With, Dr. Robert Knauff, New Lon- don dentist, and T. E. Myers, & special agent of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, Sergt. Cavanaugh spent more than two hours tonight in a thorough examination of the body. Mrs. Parsons’ teeth had “many more” fillings than were discovered in the teeth of the unidentified body, picked up 8 miles south of here today by s Cosst Guard patrol, the police officer sald, to him with his resignation from the | lost | no time in calling the speech to the | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION iy Stae D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 922, THERE'LL BE NGBS BRISALS. WERE STILL JUST ONE BIG HAPPY | FAMILY ! 7, 7 Ui, ' 7 TEAMWORK? GEYTVE GUYS THAT VOTED AGRINST THE COURT PACKING BILL. THEYLL STAY AT HOME NEXT TIME.! 1937—-102 PAGES. ¥ Double Victory ASBURY ARKFRE [ i ENDANGERS 120 | o H tcher, hurling his t to t |Two Hotels Razed, Eight Pieter, ' Tuite M o i® o | Others Menaced Five dium to capture the Union Printers’| Persons Injured. base ball tourney championship mere- | By the Associated Press. ly topped off a week's toll which| would have floored a less sturdy slab- ASBURY PARK, N. J., August 21.— | Fire tonight swept two boardwalk An iron man stunt recorded by 0., TAX DEADLI EATENDED 30DAYS Commissioners Pressed fori Time to Get Out Stacks | of New Bills. BACKGROUND— The President Wednesday signed the District's tax bil, which Con- Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. * FIVE CENTS ‘TEN CENTS A » ICHINESE REPEL BIG AIR ATTACK NEAR NANKING Claim 46 Japanese Airplanes Brought Down Since Start of Shanghai Battle. METROPOLIS FORCED TO FREE 7,000 FROM JAIL IN ‘WAR’ ZONE Invaders Are Repbrled Planning Effort to Land 50,000 Reinforcements on Yangtze’s Bank BACKGROUND— Undeclared Chinese war resulted in deaths of three Americans at Shanghai a week ago and of sailor on board the United States flagship Augusta Friday. Nearly half of the 4.000 American nationals in Shanghai have already been evacuated with arrangements being made to take out the rest of the women and children promptly. In North Ching defending troops are holding invading Japanese at stand- still. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, August 22 (Sunday).—Shanghai's battle ebbed and flowed today beneath the sullen smoke of miles of blackened ruins while high above the Yangtze toward Nanking a Chinese fleet of airplanes fought and won the biggest aerial battle of the tragic war. So complete was disorganization of this great international cemmunity, caught in the vortex of the undeclared Chinese- Japanese war, that its governing council decided it could no longer be responsible for its own Ward Road Jail, the biggest in the world. It prepared to turn the 7,000 inmates loose outside the | boundaries of the International Settlement. Murderers, kidnapers, narcotics traffickers, mostly Chinese but of many other national- ities, were included in the derelict throng that must be freed. Washington Man and Vir- | man Mosedale pitched 332, innings., or nearly four full games, in six days, | hotels and forced evacuation of about | | 1,200 guests in these and eight other | | endangered hotels while a crowd esti- | mated at 100,000 watched Three firemen, one policeman and an unidentified volunteer rescuer were | | injured. The three firemen overcome | fighting the flames were Edward Bax- | | ter, Stanley Robinson and Howard | | Rowland, all of the Asbury Park de- | partment, who were treated at Fitkin | gMemurial Hospital. | Patrolman Thomas Annecharico ! suffered cut hands and scorched body when he was trapped in the cellar of | the New Monmouth, where he sought to rescue a man: reported ndeep.} Finding no victim, Annecharico was trapped by flames. Three walls col- | lapsed about him and he escaped by | crashing through a window. winning three tilts and twirling ef- fectively in a relief stretch Thursday against New York. He was voted the most valuable player in the tourney. When not pitching he played the out- | field and was a consistent hitter. (Full details in Sports Section.) MAN ELECTROCUTED BY “SHORTED" LAMP John Thomas Baldwin, Road In- spector, Killed at Silver Spring Home. John Thomas Baldwin, 37, a State Roads Commission inspector and well- gress agreed to after considering numerous conflicting suggestions as to the est means of raising needed revenues to finance governmental operations here. Mr. Roosevelt's approval was accomparied by a statement condemning the Tydings price-maintenance rider attached to the bill. BY DO WARREN. ressed for time to get out the | thousands of new bills, the Commis- | sioners yesterday ordered a 30-day Jail Center of center of a fierce Chinese-Japa! three days. Whangpoo River, Shanghai's outl | the quietest evening of its 10 day: extension of the deadline for the pay- ment of real estate, tangible and in- tangible personal property taxes. Tax Assessor Fied D. Allen said he | also was considering a recommenda- tior. for a 30-day extension on the new business privilege thax bills. The question is expected to be settled this The new Monmouth Hotel, a five- | known amateur comedian, was elec- | Ye€k: ",‘fi"""”"’\"s Arelthe Ooninile story frame building, housing about | trocuted when he turned on a shorted | Sioners will approve. 120 guests, and the Park Lane, with | floor lamp in the basement of his | | about 100, were rapidly consumed by | the flerce flames that brought fire- men from Asbury Park and several neighboring communities. By 11 p.m. (E. 8. T)), less than two | houts after the outbreak of the fire, | | Chief William S. Taggart said the | | Mlames were under control. The blaze | | had exhausted itself in leveling the two structures, he said. Outbreak of the fire an hour or | more before the usual retiring time at | the resort was given as reason for the | escape of guests and employes. Asbury | Park police reported only the one fireman injured. Firemen and police, joined by Marines and soldiers from Forts Mon- mouth and Hancock, worked fever- ishly in rescuing persons from the | affected hotels, located in the heart | of the hotel section. | Guests and employes meanwhile | streamed forth from the endangered | Sterling, Hazelwood, Wellington, Thedford, Benjamin Franklin, Com- | modore, Columbia and Dana Hotels. | The heat was so intense that on- | lookers, attracted to the scene during | one of the Summer season’s best week | ends, were forced to keep several | blocks distant, Firemen estimated the damage to be | the floor. at least $200,000. home at 8604 Mayfair place, Silver Spring, Md., last night. Baldwin, who had moved into the home only recently, had just taken a shower bath and walked into the adjoining recreation room. When he turned on the floor lamp, which police At the same time, study of the om- nibus tax act indicated there can be nd extension of the time for the filing | of returns on the business privilege tax. These are due on or before September 16, officials agreed. Deadline Now October 31, Fierce Battle. The jail, in the eastern district of the settlement, was the nese battle that has lasted for Deep-throated Japanese naval guns and Chinese batteries in | Pootung early today resumed the terrific artillery duel across the et to the sea. It was in such dueling that one American seaman was killed and 17 wounded aboard the American flagship Augusta Friday night. Until the battleship guns began roaring Shanghai had enjoyed s of war. Great fires which raged unchecked in northern and eastern districts of the city drove out even the contending armies, virtually erasing the front in those areas. Soldiers and marines, regardless | of the uniforms they wore, had to flee before the flames, in some | places abandoning positions won Reports persisted that the at the cost of much blood. Japanese were preparing for a great attempt early today to land army reinforcements, said to | total 50,000 officers and men, newly arrived from Japan. Japanese officers refused to Landing Due on Yangtze Bank. comment on the reports. which said the landing was to be made on the south bank of the Yangtze, some 15 miles north of Shanghai. :shore batteries had repulsed an Chinese asserted Friday their attempted landing at Liuho, 17 Normally tax bills on real estate | mMiles northwest of here, where a Japanese Army was put ashore later found to be short circuited, he 8nd tangible and intangible personal in 1932 to turn the tide of that campaign against the Chinese. Now, the reports said, the Japanese have established two air- fields on Tsungming Island, at the mouth of the Yangtze, from avoid the 1 per cent per month penal- | Which planes are to cover the landing. was stunned by the shock and fell to The lamp fell across his chest and the current continued to pass through his body. Hearing a commotion in the base- ment, his wife, Mrs. Winifred Bald- Win, rushed down from upstairs and discovered his plight, but feared to | touch the lamp and summoned her brother-in-law, Dr. J. R. Jordan, 1355 Longfellow street, Before he arrived. however, David L. Waldron, 611 Maple lane, a neigh- bor, heard her hysterical cries and ran to the Baldwin home. He turned off the current and summoned police, but Baldwin was dead when Sergt. Joseph Nolte of the County police arrived. Dr. H. H Howlett issued a certificate of acci- dental death by electrocution. Mrs. Baldwin was prostrated at her husband's death and placed in care of a physician. Besides his widow, Baldwin is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Baldwin, 5811 Colorado avenue, Washington.’ Showers énd Northwest Winds! Exp_ected to Cool City Today Says—Temperatures Relief from the blistering heat that | has gripped the Capital for four days was in prospect today, but it probably will be only a “breathing spell.” Prior to the Weather Bureau's pre- diction last night that a change was in the offing, high temperatures took an- other life and prostrated three other persons. The rise in the toll came as the mer- cury reached a peak of 95 in the early afternoon, making the fourth sucoes- sive day the temperature had ex- ceeded 90. Northeast winds, blowing down from the ocean, will be responsible for the respite, the forecastér said in predict- ing today’s maximum will be about 85 degrees. 5 Showers are expected to precede the shift in winds, and the afternoon prob- ably will be partly overcast. More Heat Is Due. » By tomorrow, however, the tempera- ture is expected to be on the way up again as the ocean breezes abate and the skies clear. Fearing an unbearable week end, thousands left the city yesterday for mountain resorts, beaches and other cool places, not to return until time for work tomorrow. The fatality attributed- to the heat involved Charles 8mith, 50, colored, 57 L street, who was found unconscious at his home and’ died before medical as~ sistance arrived. 5 Thoss overcome were Mrs. Louise 2 Maximum to Be 10 Degrees Below Yesterday’s 95, but Mercury Will Rise Tomorrow, Forecaster Kill One, Fell Three. Temperatures Midnight __ 75 Green, 41, of 41 Rhode Island -avenue, who .fainted while walking at North Capitol street and Massachusetts ave- nue; Raymond Lytle, 27, colored, 413 M street, who was prostrated at home, and Walter O. Willey, 57, of 2005 Kearney street northeast, found un- conscious on the sidewalk in the 1800 block of Rhode Island avenue north- east. High Recorded at 2:40. ‘The “high” of 95 was recorded at 2:40 p.m. and the descent from then on was about two degrees an hour, the reading at 8 p.m. being 86. Humidity continued to run un- usually high, driving those unable to get out of town to the parks and swimming pools in search of relief. High temperatures prevailed through- out the East, South and Middle West during the last 24 hours, but in only one large city—San Antonio, where the peak was 96—was the maximum higher than Washington’s, Boston and Atlanta had high marks of 94, while Denver, Mobile, New York and Savannah recorded 92. San Francisco had a chilly' 64, and Chicago and Detroit were comfortable with maximims of T2. property are due in September and the first half payment must be made by September 30, if the taxpayer is to | ty for delinquency. The deadline for | these now has been moved up to Octo- | ber 31. | In passing the $9.000,000 new tax : tension up to 60 days on any of the | taxes because the delay in enactment | of the law held up the calculation and preparation of the bills. Assessor | Allen found = 30-day extension would | suffice in the case of real estate and | tangibles and | levies. intangible property | The new business privilege tax, how- | - AL August Montgomery | ever, imposes & huge additional task | Americans withdrew from the China on the present staff of the assessor and to meet the emergency created by the September 16 deadline for filing | of these returns Commissioner Hazen yesterday ordered the temporary as- signment to Allen’s office of a dozen clerks to be drawn from other de- partments. They are to be set to work Wednesday mailing out the forms for the business privilege returns. Funds Transfer Approved. The Budget Bureau has approved | sransfer of $72,000 for the hiring of extra help for the tax machinery, but it may require a week or two to fill 62 approved new posts. The Commissioners yesterday ap- proved the form of the business privi- lege tax returns and they now are being printed. . They will be mailed out. Assessor Allen said he thought it would not be possible to have the ready before September 16: This brought an immediate problem as to the permitted deduction of tangible tax payments from the business privi- lege tax bills. h As it now stands, while the ousi- ness privilege returns must be filed by September 16 and the first half of the tax paid by September 30, the tangible tax bills will not be ready until at least September 16. This (See TAXES, Page A-1.) JANE WEIR, ACTRESS, DIES AFTER OPERATION Film Player Collapsed Suddenly. Attending Physician Asks Autopsy. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 21.—Jane Weir, 21, film actress, died last night at Good Samaritan Hospital, where she underwent an sppendicidis oper- ation two weeks ago. The coroner’s office ordered an au- topsy at the request, said Dr. Frank ‘Webb, county autopsy surgeon, of the attending physician. Miss Weir's progress was reported to have been normal until she col- lapsed suddenly yesterday and died in & coma. program, Congress authorized an ex- | tangible personal property tax bills | | The armada hovering in the Yangtze estuary was reported to be bringing tanks, armored cars and artillery, in addition to | the infantry. |15 Americans Quit * Chinese Air Firm | Till Conflict Ends | By the Associated Press. | SHANGHAI, August 21 —Fifteen }Nnuonal Aviation Corp. today until | the end of the Sino-Japanese con- | flict to avoid embarrassing the neu- | trality efforts of the United States. | Pilots and technical experts, they | represented the entire operating per- sonnel of the air line which is jointly | owned by Pan-American Airways and the Chinese Government. They took their step afier consult- ing with American authorities here. It was decided they could not con- | tinue to be associated with the com- pany's affairs under existing condi- tions without violating the American Government’s policy of non-partici- pation in the affairs of another coun- try in time of war. 15 Planes Commandeered. The Chinese Government already had commandeered the company's equipment, planes, and its local terminal had been destroyed by Japanese bombers. The entire body of American in- structors in China’s aviation schools also withdrew today. ’ They had spent much of the last decade in the great aviation schools at Hankchow, Nanking, Nanchang and other points, training Chinese pilots who now are battling the Japa- nese in the air. ‘They ended their association for the | same reasons that influenced the of- ficials of the C. N. A. C. ‘They said they would return to the United States' as soon as possible and would not return here until the end of the struggle. Informed of U. S. Residences. The United States Consulate Gen- eral disclosed another American ef- fort to avaid involvement in the war. It announced that in Washington and Tokio Japanese officials had been formally notiffed of all points in Kiangsu, Anhwei and Chekiang Pro- vinces where Americans live. These are the three provinces closest to Shanghai. Most of the Americans concerned are missionaries. The American action was taken after Japanese planes had bombed | the American Mission Hospital and other buildings at Nantungchow, on the north bank of the Yangtze, 70 miles from Shanghai, a few days ago. Consular officers said it was hoped the notification would cause Japa- including 15 American' 2 Japanese naval forces arrayed along the 50-mile waterway between Shang- hai and China Sea were reported to have been increased to 82 ships, ap- | Proximately half the power of Japan's | mighty navy. In the air the Japanese air fleets carried their forays far into the heart of the great Yangtze Valley behind | Shanghai, seeking to destroy the Chi- nese airforce. Chinese Claim Successes. But the Chinese command at Nan- | king claimed for its planes a series of successes as the raiding bombers from the coast were turned back at many points. It asserted at least eight Japanese planes had been brought down along the Yangtze Val- ley, while the Chinese lost ondy threc. The biggest raid was that attempted by 20 Japanese bombers from ear- riers off the mouth of the Yangtze, Chinese officers said. The raiders were en route to Nanking, seeking to destroy the Chinese capital, when they were met by an armada of Chinese pursuit planes above Chankiang, on the Yangtze about 50 miles.east of Nanking. The great air battle of the war raged above the Yangtze until the Japanese were beaten off with loss of three planes. The Chinese admitted one of their planes was shot down and an- other damaged but managed to re- turn to its base., ‘The Nanking government declared Chinese airmen had brought down 46 Japanese warplanes since beginning (See CHINA, Page A-5.) Road Official Sorry He Left Alexandria Off Map of Virginia By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., August 21— Alexandrians,’ State Highway Commissioner Shirley is sorry. The commissioner said he had learned years ago that just about the supreme affront to a Virginia city is to ignore its history. The ignoring in this case was un- intentional, but that didn't help any when Alexandria was omitted from a historical and recreational map added to the official highway map for August. The mistake has been called to Shirley’s attentlon many times by practically every method of communication and he wants all Alexandrians to know he is 8She had been under contract at Paramount a3 & stock player, L nese authorities to prevent further such attacks, j sorry,