Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1937, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1937. *% A3 R T R R B Ay I TR it D R T T R e Burning Cork Smokes Up Capitol’s Face INSURGENTS BREAK FOE'S LINE IN LEON Advance Six Miles Toward Government Defenses on Biscay Bay. BACKGROUND— Gijon, target of insurgent ad- vance in mnorth, last remaining major stronghold of Spanish loyal~ ists on Bay of Biscay. Forces of Gen. Francisco Franco have cap- tured in succession Irun and San Sebastian, Bilboa and Santander. Franco aims to concentrate drive on Madrid and Aragon fronts, By the Assoclated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tler, September 13.—Spanish insurg- ents today broke through hard-fighting government lines in Leon Rrovince and advanced six miles toward the government's Biscayan defense posi- tions. Insurgents said their airplanes smashed resistance south of the Eu- ropa Mountains in a renewal of large- scale fighting. The attacking column is seeking to join insurgent coastal forces in an assault on Ribadesella, eastern gateway to the ultimate in- surgent objectives in Asturias. New Strategy by Asturians. Earlier, guerilla warfare stalled the Insurgent march toward Gijon, last government stronghold in North Spain. Border dispatches reported that bands of Asturian defenders adopted new strategy to halt the Navarrese moving through the northern moun- tains toward the Sella River tc mop up the last government resistance on the Bay of Biscay. The Asturians retreated precipi- tately from their mountain positions and then launehed vigorous counter- attacks, attempting to surprise the in- surgent advance guards. Small bands of Asturians swooped down on the main columns, ambushing outposts and sniping at the main lines. Reports from both contending forces reported little change in the battle lines, however, with the in- surgents still about 50. miles from Gijon. Later the insurgents took advantage of a fog blanket to move toward the government positions again, but were #aid to have been thrown back in bitter hand-to-hand fighting that inflicted many casualties. Further inland the insurgent lines were pressing heavily toward a new highway after occupying Alto del Castro in the mountain heights. Bod (Continued From First Page.) to take a trip with some young girl, eh. Well women talk too much and they 8ll have the ‘gimmes.” A railroad ticket in Bode's pocket revealed he left Jacksonville, Fla., Sat- urday en route to New York. He said he could not remember why he got off the train here. A letter from a New York brokerage | house addressed to Bode in Jackson- | ville informed him search was being made for a dividend check which had been mailed in July. Bode's savings, his accounts showed, ‘were distributed in four New York and one Hoboken (N. J.) banks. A penciled identification card carried his address as “321 Bloomfleld street, Hoboken, | N.J Bode said he was born in Germany | and came to this country “many years | #go.” He insisted he could not re- | member what business he had been in, but added that his work bad “some- | thing to do with kitchens.* | Asked what his fortune totaled, Bode smiled at a reporter and replied: | “Wouldn't you like to know? I| guess you want some of it, don’t you? I guess you have the ‘gimmes,’ too.” | Physicians listed Bode as an am- | nesia case, but said he is undernour- ished and seriously ill physically. | Corvadonga Spurns Truce. HAVANA, September 13 (#).—Judge Eduardo Lens offered his services to- day to reconcile the Count of Covadon- €a and his second Cuban commoner wife, but the former crown prince of Spain and his spouse merely ratified | their intention to divorce. The judge ordered them to reap- pear in court October 14, when the | final decree will be granted . BLAZE AT CAPITOL ATTRACTS CROWD Two Tons of Cork Catches Fire—Put Out Quickly. Damage Slight. Smoke billowed from the Capitol yesterday afternoon as two tons of cork stored under the east portico | caught fire. A huge crowd watched | eight fire companies put out the blaze quickly without damage to the interior | of the building. | The cork, intended for insulation in new air-conditioning equipment in the | House, was believed to have been ignited by a short circuit in temporary wiring or from a carelessly tossed cigarette. The flames flaked off the outer cov- ering from stone arches above, but the damage was slight. Sergt. Vernon Deus of the Capitol police and H. E. Terry, a guide, dis- covered the fire and turned in an alarm. Although eight companies re- sponded, a single hose line proved | sufficient to extinguish the fire. From a distance 1t looked as if smoke | were pouring from the dome of the | Capitol, and a throng was attracted to | the Hill. Several hundred tourists | who were visiting the Capitol were | among the onlookers. Finds Indian Skeleton. CRISFIELD, Md., September 13| (#).—Isaac Lankford, a carpenter, reported that when his foot sank in | soft ground he started digging and unearthed the skeleton of an Indian 7 feet tall. Tomahawks, arrow heads and a necklace of bear teeth were also in the grave, Lankford said. | the girl's pet poodle, found the pair i Double Death CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN, 30, SHOT VICTIM, 14, THEN INHALED GAS. ALICE DEVINE. By the Associsted Press, NEW YORK, September 13.—Police today sought & motive behind the strange Bast-West passion which led & 30-year-old Chinese laundryman to kill a pretty 14-year-old white school- girl customer and then commit suicide, An autopsy was ordered on.the body of Alice Devine, whom George Tong shot to death yesterday in his Brook- lyn laundry before taking his own life with gas. Patrolman William Lau, guided by lying on a cot in the rear of the | l]aundry, Alice with a bullet in her head, Tong dying with a gas tube still pouring deadly fumes into his mouth. Their clothing was disarranged, police said, but there was no sign of a struggle. In Tong's trunk detectives found several pictures of the curly-haired brunette schoolgirl, worn by frequent handling. Alice, after attending church, ap- parently went to the laundry to ob- tain a blouse she intended to wear on a horseback ride. From bullet marks on the wall, police concluded the Chinese at- tempted five times to shoot himself before he turned on the gas. Alice, a seventh-grade pupil, had been shot once, Police said Mrs. Catherine Devine, Alice’s mother, was separated from her husband, a steamfitter. A.A. A.Weighs Apple Buying To Lift Price By the Associated Press. The Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration, officlals said today, is considering action to boost the price‘ of apples. Under the study are the possibilities of large purchases of surplus apples for relief distribution and of organ- izing marketing agreements to control supplies and improve prices for pro- ducers. Apples brought about $1.50 a bushel to farmers in June and averaged bet- ter than $1 for the short crop last year. Recently the price has been 50 cents a bushel. Crop experts have predicted a 204,- 319,000-bushel crop this year, about 75 per cent more than last year and well above the recent average crop of about 165,000,000 bushels. ‘When prices go too low, the A. A. A. said, the public does not benefit be- cause the fruit is allowed to rot in orchards—not being worth the cost of picking. (s Geneva lCormnVueid’hom FII:S( Page) members against any external aggres- sion which would impair territorial | integrity or political independence. The grave situation thus created, 8 letter expressing his “faith in the League.” The Assembly adjourned until 5 p.m. | (11 a.m. Eastern standard time) after | China’s appeal against Japanese ag- | gression was distributed to delegates. | The appeal, saying Japan had in- continued | invasion with all her army, navy and air force, had been filed only a few hours before the meeting | China filed another communication | accusing Japan of violating all inter- national law and all precepts of | humanity. | less slaughter and wanton destruc- tion,” the Chinese charged | The protest particularly referred to alleged Japanese bombing of Red Cross units. It declared also that a Chinese ambulance corps of 43 mem- | bers was forced by Japanese soldiers to kneel, then was shot down en masse, only three men escaping death, { The Chinese also charged the Japanese with indiscriminate attacks on non-combattants. In this con- | nection the bombing of an American | mission hospital at Nantungshow | Wwas mentioned. . Article 10 Is Invoked. China’s appeal asserted the Jap- Anese invasion clearly constituted a | Situation to be dealt with under article 10 of the League Covenant. This articie is intended to protect League redemen il bl o fnd "MILLINERY and HAT BLOCKERS BACHRACH 733 11th St. N. W. “Auto Painting haleys 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley’s Do It Right! which also falls within the purview of article 11, therefore is a matter of concern to the whole League,” the Chinese appeal said. Article 11 provides that any war or threat of war, whether immediately | affecting any League members or not, | vaded China and was continuing the | 15 ® matter of concern to the whole | government League and the League shall take any action deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations. Article 17 Also Cited. The appeal added that In view of Japan’s non-membership in the League, the Chinese government holds, | ~ . | without prejudice to continuing the Intoxicated by the lust for con- | iU | quest, the invader is bent upon ruth- | YA}dity and binding effect of all de- cisions hitherto made by the Assembly or Council in the Sino-Japanese con- flict, that article 17 of the covenant also is applicable. Under article 17 Japan would be invited to sit in at the hearing of the Chinese charges against her. The appeal concluded with formal application for the League to take such actions as might be appropriate | and necessary to meet the situation | Placed Juan Negrin, premier of the | under the articles invoked. The Chinese delegate told the As- sociated Press he was leaving to the League Council the question of re- viving the former Sino-Japanese Ad- STOP those cold draughts that steal in through cracks around the doors ond windows; seal up every opening with this splendid caulking com- pound and enjoy cgmfort on Winter’s coldest"days! M s2.85 PER GAL. Gun for Applying, $1 UTLER FLYNN | 609 C St N.W. ‘ MEtro. 0151 visory Committee, of which the‘ United States was a member. In her appeal China expressed a de- sire for the United States and other nations which are not members of the League but are interested in world peace to participate in consideration of her present situation. British naval authorities were un- able to confirm in any way the Carta- gena report, from unofficial Spanish sources, of the sunken sub- marine. The report was that Spanish offi- | cials had received faint signals rapped | out on the hull of the undersea boat. | Spanish gunners said they sank the | | submarine as a pirate raider. Should the boat be raised, it likely would answer the grave question that | has caused the most serious European | crisis since the outbreak of the Spanish | civil war a year and three months ago. The Spanish government and Moscow, its ardent supporter, have flatly ac- cused Italian warships of waging in- discriminate war on Mediterranean | shipping. i Spanish Premier in Chair. An ironic twist of League custom | | Spanish government, in the presi- | dent’s chair. A wartime premier, by | right of rotation he was given the opportunity to make the keynote BUY COAL NOW before prices advance again and chilly days arrive. MARLOW'’S The coal that lasts the longest and goes the farthest. Quality means economy. 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ADAMS LT T TRNg 512 111H 8. Buy NA. 0311 Left: Scene at the Capitol yesterday as small fire of burning cork beneath the portico. firemen fought a Right: Debris left by the cork. Prompt action by firemen kept the blaze from spreading. —A. P. Photos. China (Continued From First Page.) there were 529 new cases in the for- eign areas, 450 of them in the French concession, where most Americans live. The other 79 were in the In- ternational Settlement. Most of the victims were Chinese refugees who had fled into the for- eign sections. Sixty had died in the last 48 hours. Allows Concentration. The Chinese retreat to their sec- ondary “Hindenburg” line will allow & concentration of greater strength, a Chinese spokesman explained. It was termed a scheduled plan to present a formidable defense from Liuhu to Lotien, from Liuhong to Nanking, out of the range of the deadly guns of Japanese warships in the harbor here. The soft, soggy terrain also is ex- pected to impede greatly the advance of Japanese tanks and artillery. Chinese forces successfully fought off Japanese rear attacks during the withdrawal and in their wake left land mines. Several detachments of Japanese were blown up when hungry soldiers raced into fields to pick tomatoes and other vegetables, only to touch off the mines. The total military area evacuated by the Chinese during the last month tonight was estimated at 150 square miles. New Fires Extensive. Three days of relentless air and ar- tillery bombardment, at the same time, had started a series of new and ex- tensive fires in Kiangwan, Yangate- poo and Hongkew, war-desolated dis- tricts to the north and west of the foreign areas. Great sheets of flame, majestic col- umns of smoke and showers of sparks gave the ravaged districts a pyrotech- | nic aspect that held spectators spell- bound, yet terrified. Anti-aircraft shells exploded a block from the Cathay Hotel, at the inter- section of Nanking and Szechhuan roads, and between the Cathay and the British Consulate. No one was hurt. Warship Removes 23. The first group of American refugees to flee Shanghai aboard a United States warship was evacuated to Hong Kong today by the gunboat Sacra- mento. Of the 23 in the group, 18 were indigents being cared for under the emergency congressional appro- priation of $500,000. The Americans will be transferred to the President Coolidge for the United States September 18. Because of the cholera outbreak at Hong Kong they will not be allowed to land there. In the group were Rev. and Mrs. Stephen Goddard, missionary educa- tors of Richmond, Va., and Miss May Barker and Mrs. Helen Danforth, tourists, of Oklahoma City. Six Japanese planes leisurely bombed the northern section of Pootung, across the Whangpoo River from the native city of Nantao. At least 16 bombs were dropped in an effort to destroy the government alcohol factory. Japanese Warships Raided. Chinese airmen raided the Japanese warships in the Whangpoo River and the Japanese airfleld in the Yangtze- poo area of the International Settle- ment. Some of ‘the Japanese craft i iy CABINIT OR LONDRES, 10} PANETELA, 2 /%2 I8¢ in the lower Yangtze were hit, Chinese claimed. Reports from Nanking headquar- ters said that five Japanese ships in the Shanghai area were struck by the raiding bombers. The right flank of the new Chinese line rests on Soochow Creek just op- posite the border of the International Settlement held by the United States Marines. From there it runs almost due west to Chenju, 5 miles west of Shanghai. From Chenju the line strikes off diagonally to the northwest for 25 miles through Nansiang and Kiating to a point northwest of Liuho, where the Japanese have established a beach- head for troop landings from trans- ports in the Yangtze, Heavy Fighting in North. PEIPING, September 13 (#).— Heavy fighting was reported today between Chinese and Japanese armies pitted on the important Peiping-Han- kow Railway 30 miles south of this ancient capital. The far-off thunder of battle was heard here. Japanese officials said Chinese troops flanking the railway broke through Japan’s lines yesterday, but that the Chinese later were surrounded and annihilated, The Japanese Northwest Army con- tinued its rapid advance across Shansi Province, west of Hopeh, by capturing Yuchow, 15 miles east of ‘Tatungfu, the army's next objective. A Jap- anese dispatch said that Tatungfu had itself been captured. (The leaders of China's powerful Communist - armies, now incor- porated into the central govern- ment, announced in Sianfu their troops were already on the march against the Japanese in North China.) Foreign military observers declared that Japan is now supporting more than 500,000 men in uniform, com- pared with a peace-time strength of 230,000, and that mobilization is con- tinuing. The forces in China were said to have passed 200,000 over the week end, with 70,000 in the Shanghal area. ALLEY PARKING ASKED Unless the Commissioners relax their ban against parking in fire station alleyways, members of the City Fire Pighters’ Association will be urged to refrain from using their private automobiles on official er- rands, C. E. McGhee, president of the organization, declared yesterday. McGhee pointed out that firemen now use their own automobiles on inspection trips and when they are transferred from one station to another. He disputed the contention of Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen that parking in the alleyways must be prohibited to allow the free move- ment of fuel trucks. e e Broiled Maine Lobster Luncheon ___ c ESTABLISHED 1888 Blackstone (igar THE CHOICE OF SUCCESSFUL MEN DRUGHELPS FIGHT ONVIRUSDISEASES, Discovery of Dye Substance Described to Clinic at Georgetown. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. For the first time a drug has been found that has a favorable specific action against a virus disease. This may constitute an opening wedge against a whole classification of animal and plant diseases which in- cludes some of the most virulent and dreaded that afflict man. } The finding was reported before Georgetown University Medical School’s graduate clinic today by Drs. Sanford M. Rosenthal, J. G. Wooley | and Henry Bauer of the National In- stitute of Health. The drug is prontosil, introduced last | year from Germany and hailed at the time as one of the outstanding medical discoveries of the generation. Newly Discovered Malady. The disease is choriomeningitic, a newly discovered malady which apes spinal meningitis in its symptoms, but which is less serious and which, it has been demonstrated, is not due to the meningococcus, the bacterial agent responsible for hitherto known fatal inflammations of the meninges, or linings of the brain and spinal cord The importance of the discovery lies in its implications rather than in its practical significance at present, for choriomeningitis remains a rather rare ailment, although probably much more widely distributed than physi- | cians’ records indicate. Prontosil, a dye substance, first was introduced as almost a specific against infections of the streptococcus, a bac- tory mice were infected with the virus of this new choriomeningitis and then given the original prontosil itself and the sulphanilamide prepas rations. The prontosil gave a marke edly beneficial result. The sulphae nilamide preparations, far more efe fective against bacteria, had no demonstrable effect at all. Prontosil saved the lives of the mice only when given in a big dose against a mild infection. Up to now, the Public Health Serve ice doctors reported, neither prontosil nor any of the sulphanilamide prepe arations have shown the slightest effi« cacy against any other virus disease. Tt has been tested especially with in~ fluenza and encephalitis. But this may be only the beginning of the story. Previous experiments have shown that the different sulphanila. mide formula vary markedly in' their effects against various “cocei” infec~ tions. There is a vast fleld for new variations in the structure of the molecule. If one chance structure is effective against one virus disease it is clearly possible that .other molecular struce tures may be found which will be specific against others. Treatments Developed. Two lately developed surgical treate ments of high blood pressure were described by Dr. Irvine H. Page of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re« search. The first operation was described as “very serious,” and consists of ex- posing the spinal cord and cutting loose from it all the nerves running to a large part of the abdominal region. This area contains several large blood vessels, which thus are de- prived of most of their nerve supply. Two types of patients are benee fited by this operation, Dr. Page said. One consists of young men and women who exhibit symptoms of great nervous overactivity. They are irrie table, easily perspire and blush vios lently. The other consists of patients suffering from so-called malignant hypertension. This is by far the most terium responsible for a wide range | Serious type of high blood pressure. of ailments and perhaps best known | as the cause of the “strep throat” and in some cases of blood poisoning. Single Fraction Potent. Further experiment showed that a good deal of the prontosil itself was unnecessary, and that » single frac- tion of its molecule—a substance since widely publicized as sulphanilamide— was even more potent in its action. During the last year this sulphani- lamide, with certain variations in its formula, has gone from one triumph to another, but with reiterated warn- ings by physicians that its use must be carefully controlled in the hands of the medical profession since it in- volves some real dangers. It apparently plays havoc with the whole pestiferous coccus family. Per- haps the most notable new result reported has been the strikingly favor- able results obtained with the ven- nereal disease gonnorhea, caused by the gonnococcus, an organism close- ly related to the streptococcus. Other variations have been shown, in animal experiments, to be potent in treatment of pnuemonia, caused by several strains of the pneumococcus, and meningitis, caused by the menin- gococcus. Large Organisms. Now any of the cocci are relatively large organisms. They can be seen and easily identified under a micro- scope. The diseases they cause are well known. In many cases, notably with the pneumococcus, serums have been prepared which act almost as specifics against them. For the last half century another class of diseases has been coming more and more to the front. They are, presumably, caused by living organ- isms. They produce some of the most common and deadly of all maladies. One of them, for instance, probably is responsible for influenza. Another is blamed for the common cold. Sleep- Ing sickness, infantile paralysis, par- rot fever and a host of other fatal maladies are traced to the same cause. Now these organisms are far too small to be seen with any miscroscope. Compared with a coccus, they would be like the tiniest of fleas compared to an elephant. They have been the despair of medicine. Generally speak- ing, only two courses of treatment were possible. The first has been generalized treatment to keep up the constitutional resistance of the pa- tient. The second has been treatment with the blood serum of a person who has recovered from the same disease. In the Public Health Service labora- About one-half the patients in each of these groups, Dr. Page sald, ap- pear to have benefited from this operation. In no case has the condi= tion been rendered worse, The second operation is far less radical and dangerous. of removing the sy ganglia in the chest. Sometimes & patient is greatly improved, but the results on the whole have not been encouraging. U. S. FORCES ADEQUATE IN CHINA, SAYS HEPBURN Commander in Chief of U. §. Flee Speeding to Washington for Navy Conference. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 13.— Admiral Arthur J. 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