Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle winds, mostly north. Temperatures today—High- est, 85, at 1 p.m.; lowest, 67, at 5:45 a.m. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 12 85th YEAR. No. 34,0 Entered az second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 87. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION JAPAN'S PLANES KILL REFUGEES IN TERRORIZING SHANGHAI ANEW; BRITAIN AWAITS TOKIO APOLOGY 160 AMERICANS FLEE TO LINER Chinese Artillery Shell Japanese Hongkew. BACKGROUND— Undeclared Sino-Japanese war which began July 7 near Peiping spread to Shanghai after killing of two Japanese at Hungjao airdrome there August 9. Four Americans have lost their lives in battles around Shanghai and British Am- bassador was wounded near the metropolis Thursday by Japanese airplane machine gun bullets. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, August 28.—Death and fire from the sky today spread terror through the narrow, winding streets of sweltering Nantao, Shanghai's old- est Japanese quarter with its teeming thousands. More than 600 Chinese died or fell injured under the relentless attack of 16 Japanese air bombers. Many burned to death in fires that spread quickly through the city. Chinese artillery retaliated during the afternoon by shelling Japanese- occupied Hongkew. An undetermined number of casualties was reported as shells fell near the Japanese police station and along Boone and Miller roads. 160 Americans Leave. A few hours before the Japanese bombardment of Nantao, 160 Ameri- cans had slipped down the Whangpoo River aboard a tender to catcn the liner President Lincoln for Manila. ‘The departure was the quietest of the numerous evacuations which have carried 2,000 American refugees to safety since the Sino-Japanese con- flict flared here with death to thou- sands and infinite danger to foreign sections of the city. As on the other evacuation trips, bits of shrapnel and stray bullets from both sides sprinkled the Lincoln's su- perstructure. No one was hurt, how- ever. A Chinese shell exploded near the United States cruiser Augusta, flag- ship of the Asiatic Fleet, sending the crew in a dash for cover. No one was injured by the pro- Jectile, which was fired from a Chi- | nese battery aiming at Japanese posi- | tions in the Hongkew section, The explosion came only a few hours after 17 sailors, injured when a shell struck the cruiser August 20, returned to duty. One seaman was killed in the August 20 shelling. | Battle Center 18 Miles Away. ‘While the Japanese bombers swept over Nantao with their cargo of death and destruction, the infantry and artillery battlefront appeared to be | centered 12 miles northwest of Shanghai, about Woosung, where Lhei great Yangtze River meets Shanghai’s | waterway, the Whangpoo. There was no convincing guarantee of lessened hostilities here, however, and American Marines sped work of strengthening defense works about the international section over which they maintain guard. Thousands of sandbag barricades were thrown up to form a triple de- fense line, and machine guns and small armaments were in position for instant action to defend the settle- ment. British, French and other foreign guard detachments likewise continued to strengthen their fronts. Nantao is the native quarter on Shanghai’s southern fringe, adjacent to the French concession, in which most American residents of Shanghai | live. About 2,500 Americans remain in Shanghai, 700 of them women and children. Most of the others were among the refugees leaving the past 10 days. 8ir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull- Hugessen, British Ambassador to China who was wounded Thursday by a Japanese aerial machine gunner, was reported improved today but his condition still is very grave. Thousands Are Terrified. During the bombing of Nantao thousands of terrified Chinese pushed and crowded through the streets, en- deavoring vainly to escape. Mayor O. K. Yui announced 200 persons were killed and more than 400 injured by the 16 Japanese planes. Besides the normal population of (See CHINA, Page A-3) SWIMMER COMPLETES TWO-THIRDS OF JOURNEY Legless Charles Zimmy Ended 102d Hour in Hudson River at Midnight. By the Associated Press. PEEKSKILL, N. Y., August 28.— Fighting choppy water, legless Charles Zimmy, 46-year-old endurance swim- mer, today had paddled two-thirds of the way to his goal in a non-stop swim from Albany to New York. A fresh coating of grease protected his body from the numbing cold of the Hudson River. Zimmy, swimming strongly, but hampered by inability to retain much food, ended his 102d hour in the river at midnight. His manager, Marvin ‘Welt, said this topped Zimmy's previ- ous record of 100 hours made in a Honolulu pool in 1931. - Welt, who said Zimmy was swim- ming toward vaudeville and sideshow contracts in New York, expressed hope 600 Dead, lnjuredk‘f Is Toll of 16 | Bombers. Japan Landing - 'Léndon Impatient. 60,000 Troops For Shanghai-Nanking Drive Through Kiangsu By the Associated Press. | NANKING, August 28—Military observers said tonight Japan had al- most completed landing an expedi- tionary force estimated at 60,000 troops in Kiangsu, China's capital province. A general advance through the province containing Shanghai, Nanking and other great population centers was expected momentarily. At the same time announcement was made that all women connected with the United States Embassy in this battered and frightened capital would be evacuated to Hankow to- morrow. The order included wives. Landing at Woosung. Japan's fresh fighting forces were put ashore at Liuho, Woosung, Chapoo and other areas along the coast and the broad yellow Yangtze River, which flows from this capital to the China Sea. The “big push” was expected to start through Tanki, Tsingpu and Sungkiang, nearest cities to the coast and immediate tectical objectives of the invading forces. 'Chinese Capital Expects “Big Push” Province Will Start Soon—U. S. Women to Leave. Japanese military authorities said they expected the Shanghai phase of the general advance would in itself require three weeks. Once Chinese forces were expelled from the Shang- hai area, they said, the drive would carry them on to Soochow, powerful Chinese aviation, artillery and in- fantry stronghold, and the Kashing Railway, where imposing Chinese de- fenses have already been erected. Nanking Is Raided. Japanese paved the way for their landing forces along the Yangtze by bombing towns and villages and showering Nanking with the most awesome and destructive rain of mis- siles ever seen here. Civilians by the score were blown to bits or cremated by incendiary bombs as they huddled in their cheap mud huts well removed from any military concentration or Chinese air- field. The poor section of the city | bore the brunt of the air raids. Pov- erty-stricken coolies were principal victims. LIMITED BLOCKADE CONFIRMEDTO .S, Peaceful Foreign Commerce | Exempt, Grew Tells State Department. By the Associated Press. The State Department. received to- day official confirmation of Japan's public announcement that it would not interfere with ‘“‘peaceful com- merce” by foreign nations in con- nection with its blockade against Chinese ports. The confirmation came to Secre- | tary Hull from Joseph C. Grew, Am- bassador to Japan. The Ambassador sent the text of a press dispatch issued by the Japanese foreign office Thursday in which the Japanese gov- ernment announced its blockade in- tentions Hull said at his press conference, however, the Government had received no formal clarification of the extent of the blockade as it would relate to any privilege of pre-emption that Japan might decide to exercise. Pre-emption Wartime Right. In international law pre-emption means the right of a power at con- flict with another to search neutral ships for materials of war destined for its foe and demand right to pur- chase the materials. Ambassador Drew sent the State De- partment the text of the Japanese press announcement after it was handed to him by Kenkichi Yoshizowa, head of the American section of the Japanese foreign office. The state- ment said Japan would fully respect peaceful commerce of third powers and that the Japanese Navy had no intention of interfering with fit. Meanwhile, official Washington ap- praised the implications arising from a flat United States demand that Japan and China respect American rights in the Sino-Japanese conflict. Following is the text of the press statement authorized by the Japanese government in connection with the blockade: “Although Japan has been forced to 12,000 LOYALISTS REPORTED KILLED Rebels Claim “Destruction” of Three Battalions at Zaragoza. BACKGROUND— Capture of Santander, last re- maining Loyalist-held port on Bay of Biscay, this week permitted Gen. Francisco Franco to direct his forces to mopping up other areas before returning to the campaign against Madrid, which has with- stood siege for more than nine months. Insurgent trops were dis- patched yesterday from Santander to the Aragon front, where Loyalists were reported launching a new at- tack. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, August 28.—Spanish insurgents reported today they had “destroyed” | three battalions of government troops attacking their concentration at Zara- | goza, strategic intersection of lines be- | tween government-controlled Madrid, | Valencia and Barcelona and the in- surgents’ latest prize of war, San- tander on the Bay of Biscay. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in & communique, asserted his insurgent defenders of the old capital of Aragon, now one of his most important bases, had repulsed all enemy attacks. The enemy, he said, had left 12,000 dead in Zuera, a few miles to the north. Loyalists Report Gains. The government, however, reported that in a day of active fighting, with warplanes and artillery taking terrific toll of enemy ranks, government troops occupied Zuera, Puebla e Alborton and other enemy fortified positions in a great enveloping movement on the Aragon front. Insurgent casualties and prisoners taken, -the government said, were “‘enormous” in number. The government forces, parched by 110-degree heat, drove their Aragon offensive forward with fierce fighfing, Valencia reported. They sought to isolate Zaragoza from Teruel to the south, another insurgent stronghold. (See BLOCKADE, Page A-3) Summary of Short Story -.B-5 Editorials Society - Finance -.._A-12| Sports Lost & Found C-10 | Woman's Pg. .B-8 WAR IN FAR EAST. Britain awaits Tokio apology on shoot- ing of envoy. Page A-1 Eden orders strong protest on wound- ing of Ambassador. Page A-1 Japan's planes kill refugees in ter- rorizing Shanghai. Page A-1 Japanese landing 60,000 for Shanghai- Nanking drive. Page A-1 Occupation of Nankow Pass claimed by Japanese. - Page A-3 FOREIGN. 12,006 loyalists reported killed at Zaragoza. . Page A-1 NATIONAL. United Mine Workers’ Journal attacks record of Congress. Page A-1 Clinton B. Eilenberger, postal official, dies. Page A-1 Paper reports Roosevelt will travel to far West. Page A-1 Mary Miles Minter's mother denies she killed Taylor. Page A-3 New model of cotton-picking machine unveiled. Page A-3 U. 8. faces first unfavorable trade bal- ance in 44 years. Page A-11 Old-age pensions may complicate troubles of Congress. Page A-11 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Auto thief shot to death by policeman in wild ride. Page A-1 the 145-mile trip would be completed in about 150 hours. Frederick woman found shot near blazing home. Page AR (See SPAIN, Page A-11.) Today’s Star .| John Russell Pope, noted architect, dies. Page A-4 Auto-truck crash victim dies; D. C. traffic toll 71 for year. Page A-4 Maryland State Senator predicts vindi- cation on vice charge. Page A-4 Thomas Moore, local gambler, dies in Greenville, N. C. Page A-10 Local Navy Yard work-load to con- tinue. Page A-14 Utilities Commission seeks 17 more employes. Page A-14 Fair and warmer weather forecast as flood waters recede. Page A-14 SPORTS. Appleton becoming specialist in shut- out wins. Page C-8 Title fight postponement seen as gate- booster. Page C-8 Gehringer looms as batting champion of A. L. Page C-8 Goodman, Billows contest, for am- ateur golf title. Page C-9 ‘West fears California on gridiron this year. Page C-9 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page Answers and Questions. Page David Lawrence. Page H. R. Bukhage. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Franklin. Page Lemuel F. Parton, MISCELLANY. Nature's Children. Cross-word Puzzle, Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Trafic Convictions. Vital Statistics. A-8 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 B-5 B-6 B-6 B-1 B-8 B-8 C-10 Sir Hughe Is Better. STIFF PROTEST BY EDEN READY Yoshida’s Regrets Are Declared Inadequate. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 28.—The British foreign office waited impatiently today for Japan to apologize for the machine gunning of Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambas- sador to China. Foreign office sources said a formal expression of ‘regret,” made by Japa- nese Ambassador Shigeru Yeshida yes- terday, could not be considered an apology Delivery of a strong, formal protest ordered by Anthony Eden, British for- eign secretary, awaited developments in Sir Hughe's condition and possible apologetic word from Tokio. Sir Hughe was reported to the for- eign office as “continuing to improve, | but not out of danger.” British Ship Reported Stopped. Some possibility of increased tension Telegraph (British) News Agency re- port that blockading Japanese vessels had stopped the British steamer Shengking off Woosung, 12 miles from Shanghai. The foreign office, however, had no word of the reported incident. The admiralty, likewise, tion (At Shanghai, the Shengking's operators and British naval au- thorities denied the vessel had been stopped. They said the ship merely “exchanged signals” with a Japanese naval vessel and then pro- ceded.) The belief grew in diplomatic quar- ters that Anglo-Japanese relations might be suspended if the demands in Britain’s note were not met within what Whitehall considered a reason- able period. There was every indication the pro- test would be very blunt. Mere re- grets for the attack by Japanese air- men Thursday on the Nanking- Shanghali road, it was thought, would not satisfy Britain. Indemnity Believed Demanded. The note which Eden instructed James Dodds, Charge d'Affaires of the Tokio Embassy, to deliver was be- lieved to contain a demand for in- demnity on behalf of the wounded en- voy. The foreign office was expected 10 publish the text later in the day. Sources close to the British govern- | ment admitted that the possibilities | for full satisfaction were ‘“very lim- ited,” stimulating speculation on the | thieat of a diplomatic breach. The attitude of the London foreign office was authoritatively pictured as ! one of “unbounded exasperation,” but | still such as to rule out measures that | might mean actual war. Many per- | sons in financial circles were of the | belief that Britain would withdraw her envoy to the court of Emperor Hiro- hito. Actually there is now no British Ambassador in Tokio. Sir Robert L. Craigie, newly appointed to that post, is on the Pacific en route to Tokio, and the Embassy is in charge of Dodds, the Charge d’Affaires. Deny Excuse Reasonable. The government, after full reports from Shanghai, was understood to be firmly of the opinion that no reason- able excuse had been advanced for the attack on Sir Hughe. Sir Hughe was traveling from Nan- king with two aides when two Jap- anese warplanes swooped low over their automobile. One ' dropped a bomb near it and the other wheeled about and strafed the car with its machine gun. The automobile was flying the British flag. The Daily Express commented on delay in Japan's apologies and said “that will be remembered in the ac- count rendered.” The newspaper added that Britain is “strong enough to exact respect from any power on earth” and would be able to get satis- faction in her own time and way. Chamberlain Still With King. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain —who had been thought likely to return from Balmoral Castle in Scotland to take personal charge—was continuing his visit with King George, apparently content to leave the handling of the affair to Eden. The Japanese Ambassador to Lon- don, Shigeru Yoshida, called at the foreign office yesterday to make a formal expression of Japan's “regret” for the attack. In his talk with the Japanese envoy Eden was said to have refused flatly to entertain the contention that Sir Hughe had been imprudent in not notifying the Japanese of his intended trip from Nanking to war-ravaged Shanghai. Just as coldly the foreign secretary declined to accept the excuse that the union Jack on the Ambassador’ auto- mobile was not visible to the attacking airmen. KILLED IN AMBUSH Member of Yugoslavian Parlia- ment Names Assassins. PLAVA, Yugoslavia, August 28 (&). —Assassins, hiding in a grain field, today killed Ramadon Ramadonowic, member of Parliament and government supporter. Before dying Ramadomowic told po- lice than Albanian conspirators op- posed to Serbian rule had sworn a “blood oath” to kill him. He repre- AUGUST was seen in an unconfirmed Exchange | had no confirma- | sented & border district in which many Albanians live, X EX-GOV. ALFRED E. SMITH WILL MAKE SPEECHES FOR SENATOR COPELAND.‘ ¢ Foening Star 28, 1937T—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##% The only evening paper in Washington witg the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 135,375 (8ome returns not yet received.) (®) Means Associated Press. EILENBERGERDIES INSUMMER HOME Third Assistant Postmaster General Went to Poconos in June. Clinton B. Eilenberger, 61, Third | Assistant Postmaster General, died | early today at his Summer home at | Minisink Hills, Monroe County, Pa., it | was learned through the Associated | Press. Ill for over a year, he had gone to his home in the Poconos in | June. | Informed of Mr. Eilenberger's Qeath, | Postmaster General Farley said his aide was a “faithful official” whose “passing is a distinct personal loss to me.” For more than a score of years Mr. Eilenberger was a prominent figure in Democratic politics in Penrsylvania. He was appointed Third Assistant Postmaster General March 6, 1933. He was & member of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee for many years, serving for a time as its treas- urer. During the Wilson administration he was Democratic national commit- | teeman from Pennsylvania. In 1928 he ran as a Democratic candidate for auditor general of the State, but was defeated. Mr. Eilenberger is survived by his widow, Mrs. Florence 8. Eilenberger, and several brothers. Mr. Eilenberger, as third assist ant Postmaster General, directed the complex financial operations of the Post Office Department. He was in charge of collecting all postal reve- nues, supervised the money order serv- ice, classification of mail matter, manufacture and issuance of postage stamps and the administration of the postal savings system. . He had been responsible for the | production of all the new postage | stamps issued from March, 1933, until his illness last Fall. He supervised their first printings and first sales, taking an active part in the cere- monies customarily incident to such occasions. As a representative of the Post Office Department, he also was a fa- miliar figure at stamp collectors’ meetings. He addressed the American Philatelic Society conventions at Chicago in 1933 and at Atlantic City in 1934 and was an honorary patron of the organization. He lived here at the Raleigh Hotel. He often attended social functions of the Pennsylvania State Society. Born near Shawnee on Delaware, Pa, Mr. Eilenberger attended the State Normal School and Drexel In- stitute. Early in his career he taught school. Later he became identified with a number of banking and trust companies, holding executive posi- tions with several of them. WOODERSON BREAKS WORLD MILE RECORD English Star's Time of 4:06.6 Beats Cunningham’s Three- Year-0ld Mark. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 28. — Stanley ‘Wooderson, English track star, cracked the world record for the 1-mile run today by negotiating the distance in 4 minutes, 6.6 seconds in a specially arranged handicap race. This clipped two-tenths of a second off the listed record of 4:06.8, made by the American ace, Glenn Cunningham, at Princeton, N. J, in 1934. ‘Wooderson is a club runner whose chief previous claim to fame rested on triumphs over New Zealand’s Jack Lovelock, Olympic 1,500 meters cham- pion. Hefailed to reach the Olympic “metric mile” final at Berlin last Summer, due to an ankle injury. Cunningham actually was clocked in 4:06.7 when he raced to the world record. That is the time accepted by the Amateur Athletic Union. How- ever, the International A. A. F. does not recognize tenth-second timing for distances beyond the half mile. ‘Wooderson accomplished the record with the benefit of pacing by two Tunners who were given handicaps of 65 and 10 yards and instructions to set the fastest possible pace. ‘Wooderson was clocked in 2 minutes 2.6 seconds at the half-mile mark. Thus he covered the last 880 yards A, Slays Thief POLICEMAN E. L. M'NALE. MINE UNION PAPER ASSAILS CONGRESS “Democratic Leadership ‘ Failed” in Past Session, Journal Charges. “Democratic party leadership failed” in the last session of Congress, the September 1 issue of the United Mine Workers' Journal, appearing today, charges in an article attacking the record of the last session. Following closely the pattern of similar criticism voiced by John L. Lewis, U. M. W. president, just before adjournment, the journal article ac- cuses the Congress eof doing everything it could “to favor the Liberty Lcague, the United States Chamber of Com- merce and the National Manufactur- ers’ Association and to wreck Presi- dent Roosevelt and the Democratic party.” “Leadership was totally ignored,” the journal continues. “In fact, there was no efficient leadership. * * = Democratic party leadership failed. “With Southern Senators and Congressmen in the majority, Con- gress made Southern cotton farmers & virtual present of $65,000,000 and refused to give the wheat, corn and | other farmers as much as a pleasant look. That same Southern group | gave owners of Southern mills and industries the right to continue pay- ing starvation wages to their helpless men, women and children employes and working them long hours under slavery conditions, but Congress re- fused point blank to do anything that would be of benefit to labor. “The only piece of progressive leg- islation enacted at this session was the Wagner-Steagall housing law, and even that measure was so badly crip- pled as to make it practically useless. “About all Congress did was to spend $9,000,000,000, the most astound- ing sum ever spent by any session of the American Congress.” With the Journal being merely an- other voice of Lewis, those interested in the plans of the C. I. O. leader with regard to political developments of the next 15 months are awaiting a radio address which he will give next Friday night on & coast-to-coast net- work of the Columbia Broadcasting ALTOTHEF KALED TOED VDRI Policeman Who Shot Him in Hospital After Trip on Running Board. “I tried to make mystelf thinner than a dime! “I hung onto that running board, while we crashed into car after car, trying to get thinner and thinner!” The fact that Policeman Earl L. McNale lived to tell the story was proof of his ability to compress his body into a small space, despite his 220 pounds. Although the policeman’s own life was endangered by each lurch of the stolen car to which he clung, he did said, until convinced that pedestrians in the street ahead might be run down. McNale had his gun in his right hand. He had difficulty in bringing it to bear on the driver of the stolen car because his right arm was hooked around the doorposts next to the driver, who beat him in the face with his fist at every opportunity. “My right arm was what anchored me to the car,” McNale said today, from his bed in Emergency Hospital. “Every time we crashed into a parked car, I thought the arm was going to be torn from the socket.” Kills the Thief. McNale said he kept shouting to the driver to halt. When he finally made up his mind to shoot, the policeman said, he had taken such a beating he never remembered pulling the trigger. | He fired one shot through the head of Walter Templeton, 20, colored, 1700 block of T street. Templeton slumped over the wheel, and the speeding car plunged out of control into another parked machine | near Twenty-first and N streets, about 10 o'clock last night. The automobile thief apparently was instantly killed. The last crash tore McNale from the running board and threw him into the street. He was semi-conscious when picked up and taken to the hospital by his partner, Policeman H. S. Mont- gomery. The car had been stolen about an hour earlier, police reported, from Mrs. Horace Hickman of 2232 Decatur place. McNale and Montgomery were cruising in a No. 3 precinct scout car | when they spotted the stolen auto- mobile, for which a lookout had been | broadcast, as it came a halt at | Twenty-second and N stfeets. Tried to Scrape Him Off. Montgomery was driving the police cruiser. . McNale leaped to the street, ran over to the stolen car and ordered the driver to, “Stay where you are!” The stolen car cut toward him, McNale said, and he leaped to the running board. As the car gathered speed McNale got out his gun. ‘The policeman said that Templeton, instead -of halting, cried, “I'll get you,” and headed for the curb to scrape him off against the line of parked cars. McNale flattened against the machine to which he clung. In the length of one block the stolen car crashed into eight parked automobiles as it zig-zagged, Montgomery reported. Templeton’s body was taken to the Morgue pending an investigation by the coroner’s office. McNale, who is 47 and lives at 1112 Montello avenue northeast, is under treatment for a wrenched knee and right shoulder and severe bruises about the body. He is expected to be out of the hospital in a few days. Everybody knows something about "The Nine Old Men" But very few know anything about The Nine Young Men Scattered through the Government service in Washington these ‘‘Nine to make the New Deal. Young Men"’ have helped They supply many of the new ideas and they write some of the laws. You will be interested in a series of stories beginning in The Star tomorrow, telling of— The Nine Young Me not resort to his service revolver, he | TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT PLANS TRIPTO FAR WEST SOON, PAPER SAYS { Summer White House, How- ever, Refuses Comment on Report. PRESIDENT’S ADVISERS IN FAVOR OF JOURNEY, Urge Him to See for Himself Sen- timent of Feople on New Deal Proposals. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., August 28— Informed sources let it be known toe day that the chances were good for President Roosevelt making a Western trip this Fall. Summer White House officials, meanwhile, would neither confirm nor deny a report by the Seattle Poste Intelligencer that the Chief Executive definitely was planning a cross-coune try journey to obtain “first-hand” ine formation on New Deal “accomplishe ments” in the Northwest. In the absence of confirmation from the President himself, all they would say was that such a trip had been under consideration. At his press conference in Washing= ton last Friday the President said he had made no engagements beyond September 17, when he will deliver an outdoor Constitution day address near the White House. He expects to ree main in New York State until that date. Urged to Visit Far West. Many of the President's advisers | have been urging him to tour the Far West before Congress reconvenes to see for himself the sentiment of the people on the court issue and other administration proposals sidee tracked at the last session. That such a journey, if made, would see the President delivering at least a few speeches in behalf of his pro- gram is regarded in authoritative quarters as virtually certain. Whether he would tear into the opposition on the court question, ag some of his supporters have counseled, or merely advocate further “explorae tion” of the need for enlarging the Supreme Court, as he did in signing the lower court procedural revision bill, was a subject of much conjecture, The last time the President was in the Northwest was in 1924 when he landed at Portland. Oreg., from his Hawaiian journey for the trip across the continent to Washington. May View Dam Projects. Since then the great Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams on the Columbia River, key projects in the administrae tion's power development, conservae tion and flood control program, have reared skyward and the President ig known to have looked favorably on recent invitations from Northwest Senators to visit them. Bonneville will be ready for opera= tion in October or November. The question of rates for sale of power has been a point of controversy for months with Boulder Dam region representa tives protesting against Bonneville rates being made lower than theirs. Daughter in Seattle. Should the foreign situation be such as to make the trip possible, the President would undoubtedly visit his only daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, wife of the Seattle publisher, and her children, “Sistie” and “Buzzie” Dall. Plans for the President’s second day of a three-weeks’ visit at the fam- ily home here were indefinite. Secree tary Mclntyre repeated no engagement had been made for Robert W. Binge ham, American Ambassador to London, who has just returned from abroad. “The Ambassador is here on pere sonal matters,” he added. Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York Supreme Oourt, and Josephus Daniels, Ambasador to Mex= ico, were down for calls today. Pecora was an early caller. Daniels was expected late in the day. The Mexican Ambassador returned today from a European trip. BEERYS’ DAUGHTER THREATENED IN NOTE Actor's Home Guarded After Demand. Is Made for $10,000. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 28.—Police guarded the Beverly Hills home of Wallace Beery, screen actor, today while Federal authorities studied a note threatening Beery's adopted daughter unless he paid $10,000. Four-year-old Carol Ann and Mrs, Beery are living in the Beery house, Berry is on location in Utah. The letter, composed of words clipped from newspapers, read: “Demand $10,000. Payable not later than Thursday. B. Kelly, General Delivery, Culver City. Dyer Case.” Albert Dyer was convicted of firste degree murder this week for the slay~ ing of three little girls. FIND MOTHER OF FOUR REPORTED KIDNAPED Aviatrix, Found Asleep in Auto, Said She Had Been Drink- ing With Husband. Bs the Associated Press. P GLENDALE, Calif., August 28.-% Mrs. George Weston, 32-year-old aviae trix, reported by her hushand and children to have been kidndped, was found today seated in a parked autoe mobile in the Highland Park districs between Los Angeles and Glendale. Radio Officers W. G. Robinson and D. Brady said they found the woman asleep in the rear part of the car with & man companion asleep on the front seat. The officers reported the woman said she and the man, with her husband, had been drinking lasy night.