Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain with lowest temperature about 38 tonight; tomorrow rain, possibly snow and colder; temperature below freezing tomor-* row night., Temperatures today-—Highest, 50, at noon; lowest, 40 at 5 am. 49 at 2 pm. Full report on page A-10. Closing New York Markets, Page 14 85th YEAR. No. 34,167, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1937—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##%% ' SENATE DELAYS ‘PROGRAM, PLANS ' LYNCHING STUDY . ’ “ChiefsDecide toPut Off Reorganizing Measure. THREAT 1S MADE FOR FILIBUSTER | House in Tangle After Republicans Block | Recess Move. Guard Kidnaped | Group Was to Attend Marriage of Prince Ludwig to Daughter of Sir Auckland Geddes. By the Associzted Press | The Senate sideiracked the admin- {stration program today as it prepared to take up the controversial anti- lynching bil Senator Byrnes, Democrat. of South Carolina announced on the floor that & motion would be made for consid- eration of the controversial lynching measure. He said leaders had decided not to permit him to move for im- .mediate consideration of the Govern- ment reorganization bill, only ore of President Roosevelt's measures ready for consideration. There were immediate signs of a fllibuster to block action on the anti- lynching measure. There was a short, sharp explosion on the part of the Southern Sen: rs who have been op- posing it. Senator Wagner, Democrat. of New York, backing the measur has said he lieved any filibust would be short-lived. House in Tangle. The House, meanwhile, was in a tangle over adjourning for the day. After rebellious Republicans blocked Democratic leaders’ effo quit work until Friday, Minority Lead- er Snell forced a roll call on adjourn- ing till tomorrow Senator Byrnes' disclosure in the Benate followed confercnces of Demo- | cratic Leader Barkler with other ad- | ministration leaders | Senators Wagner and Van Nuys, Democrat. of Indiana offered yester- day to delay consideration of the anti- lynching bill uniil after the bill had been disposed of, if Ba | would agree to push any other major legislation in front of the farm measure. | This would have entailed the Sen- ate’s marking time until the farm hill was reported. possibly next week. | The action today left the reorgan- | ization bill. only one of the President’s | measures which is ready for consid- eration now. remaining on the calen- dar to be considered later in tiie ses-| ¥ sion. I Program Bogged Down. Today's developments emphasized the confusion of the general legislative | situation and that President Roose- | velt’s program was bogged down before | the special session was fully underway. | Failure of the Agriculture Commit- | tees to have farm bills ready for either chamber may cost the administration | a full week out of the scheduled five- week session Chairman Smith called the divided Agriculture Committee together to begin drafting a bill, but neither he | nor any other member would forecast | prompt ag:e: Although President Rooscvelt tried | to get the session off to a quick start by sending his opening messa terday instead of waiting a day, leaders also found themselves time. There was little prospect that the farm bill would be ready for House | o debate betore next week. Even the| fundamental dispute between compul- | sory or voluntary control of produc- tion still was unsettled by the Agri- cuiture Committee. | While waiting for the farm bill | House chieftains sought to pry loose | the President’s other major proposal— | the wage-hour bill—which had been | locked in the Rules Committee since summer. | Despairing of getting approval from | the Rules Commiitee, Chairman Nor- | ton of the Labor Committee started circulating a petition to bring the bill directly to the Housetloor. | The petition must be signed by 218 | members, but it cannot become effec- | tive until December 13. That would | leave only a week of the special session for debate and for ironing out any differences between the House bill and | the one passed by the Senate in July. The fourth measurc on the Presi- dent’s program—regional planning— was locked in the Senate Agriculture Committee back of the farm bill. The House Committee has nct completed « hearings. Tax Revision Demands. Despite the President’s obvious at- tempt in his message to hold Congress to the four-point program, the delay on those measures gave impetus to demands for legislation to spur busi- ness activity—particularly tax revision. A House Ways and Means Sub- committee was meeting daily to work out modifications in the corporate surplus and other business taxes, but (See CONGRESS, Page A-3.) WINTER’S BLAST HITS GREAT LAKES REGION Chicago Has Snow Flurries, With Heavy Fall in Kansas, Mis- souri and Oklahoma. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—Wintry weath- » er with snow spread over the Great Lakes region and the Missouri Valley today, accompanied by a forecast of colder tonight. Heavy snow fell in some parts of Southeastern Kansas, Southwestern Missouri and Northern Oklahoma. Chicago had snow flurries, an 8 a.m. temperature of 32 and prospects of a minimum tonight of about 25. Temperatures were considerably be- low normal from the Rocky Moun- tain Divide eastward to the Missis- sippi River. There were rains in the me; | of John J. O'Connell, jr., of Albany,! {d of a Belgian airliner which crashed EDWARD HAYES, Jamesville (N. Y.) Jail guard, was kidnaped and his car stolen today by three escap- ing convicts. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. KIDNAPERS BIND GUARDS AND FLEE 0°Connell Abductors Escape After Sawing Bars at Jamesville, N. Y. (Pictures on Page A-2.) BACKGROUND— John J. O'Connell, jr., was kid- naped in front of his home in Al- bany July 7.1933. He was taken to Hoboken. N. J., in a truck and a ransom letter was sent to Edward J. O’Connell, his uncle. Ajter payment of $40,000 ransom O’Connell, on July 29, 22 days after the kidnaping. was taken from the Hoboken apartment where he had been held captive and driven to the Eronz, where he was released. B3 the Associated Press. JAMESVILLE, N. Y, Nov. 16— Three men convicted of the kidnaping | escaped today in daring fashion from | the Onondaga County Jail here after they had bound and gagged four k<ep- ers. a matron and kidnaped another keeper. | The prisoners were Percy Geary and Jehn Oley of Albany, sentenced to 77 yea and Harold Crowley of New | York City, who was given a 28-year | term. H. H. Paddock, superintendent MI the prison, said the escape occurred | between 2:35 and 2:45 am. today. | Paddock said the three convicts were armed with two guns. Reconstructing | the escape, he said the bars of one of the cells in which the prisoners were confined were sawed and placed to- gether with chewing gum to avoid detection. Keeper Is Bound. When John Corbett, a keeper, en- tered the cell block on the ground floor to punch a clock, a routine duty, one of the prisoners pounced on him, bound him with sheets taken from the cell bed and took his keys. The pris- oner then liberated the other two con- victs and the trio made their way to the guard room on the same floor, Paddock said. There they encountered three BELGIAN AIRLINER CRASH KILLS 3 OF GERMAN ROYALTY 11 Are Burned to Death as Plane Hits Chimney Near Ostend. FAMILY WAS FLYING TO LONDON WEDDING By the Associated Press. OSTEND, Belgium, Nov. 16.—Eleven persons, including five members of {the former royal family of Hesse, died today in the flaming wreckage (near here while trving to land at | Steene Airport during a fog | The dead included the Grand Duke George von Hesse bei Rhein and his wife, the former Princess Cecile of Greece and Denmark; their two chil- dren, Ludwig and Alsenbach, and the Grand Duke's mother, the Dowager | Grand Duchess von Hesse bei Rhein. Cousin of Duchess of Kent. The dead former Princess Cecile was a first cousin of the Duchess of Kent. Two other Germans were in the | party, en route to the wedding of | Prince Ludwig von Hesse, social at- tache to the Germany Embassy in {London, and Margaret Campbell | Geddes. daughter of Sir Auckland and Lady Geddes. They were to have been imarried on Saturday. | The two were the Von Hesse maid, | Lina Henar, and a man named Z. U. | Eisenbach. The crew of three also | were killed. The eleventh person was not at once identified. Prince Ludwig, waiting at Croydon for the party, collapsed when he learned of the crash. | Plane Falls in Brickyard. The plane, owned by the Sabena Airlines, fell into a brickyard near | the Ostend Airdrome. It was en route from Frankfort on the Main to Lon- | don. | The pilot had tried to land, and airport lights were turned on to guide | him. A short distance from the field, | however, the plane struck a tall chimney. swerved and fell. |ANTI-SEMITIC PLOT ON STARS REVEALED | Suspects Under Surveillance on Coast—Cantor Is Reported Suggested Victim. By the Associated Pres: LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16.—Leaders of an alleged anti-Semitic plot to bomb Jewish film notables’ homes are under surveillance, but no arrests have been made since the district at- | torney's office began an inquiry six weeks ago, Chief Investigator Eugene Williams said today. “Apparently the conspiracy never got bevond the conversational stage” Mr. Williams added. He did not ex- | plain why he disclosed the plot. Early in October, he said, he re- ceived complaints of secret anti- Semitic meetings in Pasadena at which a purported “execution list” was being | drawn. Several persons were questioned, but undercover operatives failed to obtain evidence to justify arrests, Mr. Wil- liams said. Published stories here that Eddie Cantor and Louis B. Mayer were sug- gested victims went unconfirmed. ESCAPED PRI.SONER GETS YEAR FOR BAD CHECKS George R. Stewart, who escaped from a District Jail guard more than a month ago after he had been per- mitted to visit his sick mother at Sibley Hospital, was sentenced to an additional year in jail by Police Court Judge Edward M. Curran today on a charge of issuing “mine worthless | checks to department stores while he was at liberty. 2 The defendant, it was testified, | after securing money here on the checks, went to Baltimore, where he allegedly issued two more worthless " .(See KIDNAPERS, P Summary of Page. Amusements D-8 Comics ... C-10-11 | Short Story... B-9 Editorials ___ A-8 | Society _ B-3 Finance A-13 | Sports Lost & Found D-4 ' Woman's Pg. C-9 Obituary . . A-10 FOREIGN. Chinese move government from Nan- king to Hankow. Page A-1 Japanese answer Brussels criticism hotly. Page A-4 NATIONAL. * Administration program side-tracked in Senate., Page A-1 House group puzzled over formula for tax reduction. Page A-3 Barkley gives outlook for extra ses- sion. . Page A-7 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. President, ill with toothache, cangels engagements. Page A-1 City officials accused of anti-labor plot by Madden. Page A-1 Chest total rises to $882,374 on “ladies’ day.” Page* A-1 Revocation of drivers’ permits chal- lenged in high court. Page A-2 Truck drivers refuse to cross Sanitary picket lines. Page A-2 Health group attorneys squared for legal battle. Page B-1 Senator King arrangzs D. C. airport conference. Page B-1 Representatives get protests against Radio North Pacific States, New York and New England. ) business tax. B-1 Dirksen prepares to resume Capital Transit probe. Page B-1 Y . | EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. checks. Today's Star Editorials. This and That. Answers to Questions. Political Mill. Stars, Men and Atoms. David Lawrence. H. R. Baukhage. Mark Sullivan. Jay Franklin. Delia Pynchon. SPORTS. Terps rated superior to Hoyas on attack. Page D-1 Gevinson loses caste in getting nod over Jaramillo. Page D-1 Athletic control at stake in A. A. U. session here today. Page D-2 Fordham's stock rises as Rose Bowl candidate. Page D-2. “Rust” Schmeling's worst foe for Louis bout. Page D-3 Gelf stars open annual conclave at Pinehurst! Page D-3 Jett pin stakes draw Capital's best bowlers, Page D-4 MISCELLANY, Service Orders. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. Shipping News. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Stories. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Cross-word Puzzle. Letter-Out. ‘Winning Contract. Page Page Page Page Page A8 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 | Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-10 Page A-12 Page B-7 Page B-8 Page C-9 Page C-9 Page C-10 Page C-10 Page C-11 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star (2% CENSUS OF THE UNEMPLOYED! Jobless Census Questionnaire Sent Out—Even to W hite House America’s 150,000 Mailmen Distribute Yellow Post Cards Asking Unem- ployed to Answ (Pictures on Page B-1.) By BLAIR BOLLEG. Residents of the White House, club- men, panhandlers, masters of man- sions and sleepers in the park, the down-and-outers and thosc born to ride comfortably on the back seats of town cars—all these and many more were asked today by the Federal Gov- ernment the answer to three little words: Are you unemployed? At 7 am. America’s 150,000 mailmen stepped out to blanket the Nation with big yellow post cards carrying a message from the President to all his constituents urging them if they are jobless or partially jobless, to reply to the 14 questions on the card and drop it in the mail box by Saturday, no postage required When the White House butler, open- ed the door at the ring of the post- man, into his silver tray were piaced & number of the cards. The postman was silent and the butler grinned. The butler routed one of the cards to er 14 Questions. the President. and Rudolph Forster, White House executive clerk, chuckled. H~ arranged this little practical joke. | Among the 421 District letter car- | riers enlisted to help the National Un- | employment Census discover the exact | number of workless persons is Victor McCeney. a veteran man in gray who began 20 years ago to serve the two blocks bounded by North Capitol and First streets, Rhode Island avenue |and V street NW, Mr. McCeney left the City Post Of- fice this morning with 600 of the big | yellow postcards. as well as the usual | Tuesday morning mail and a stack of magazines. He carried the coal easily and remarked, as he boarded a North Capitol street car, that Tuesday is | an off day in the mail-delivery busi- | ness, anyway, and so the census blanks wouldn't add much tc his normal bur- den. “As a matter of fact” | Ceney said, “it isnt | traordinary for Mr. Mec- anything ex- us to have to put (Sea CENSUS, Page A-4) SITOMN ENDS AT FISHER PLANT Union Officials Order Evac- uation Because Strike Was “Unauthorized.” By the Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich., Nov. 16.—Sit- down strikers, who had occupied the Fisher Body Corp. plant here for nearly 12 hours, left at 8:25 am. to- day, and the management took posses- sion of the factory. Dorr Mitchell, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica local here, said union officials ordered the men to evacuate the plant because the strike was “unauthorized.” He said a conference had been ar- ranged for 1 p.m. between union and company officials on grievances which caused the sit-down at 8:30 o'clock last night. The principal grievance, he said, was the laying off of 500 employes. There was no demonstration as ap- proximately 2,000 men marched from the plant. Many of them were day shift workers, who had replaced night shift employes at 7 a.m. Mitchell said the night shift would report for work at 3 p.m. today. Union officials indicated they would demand that the company reinstate the employes who had been laid off and that the work available be divided among the entire force. The plant normally employs 7,500. The strike began a little more than 24 hours after the United Automobile Workers of America rejected a pro- posed new agreement with (}enerll, Motors Corp. There was no violence during the night, although a few clubs were in evidence as unionists told non- unionists to go back into the plant. The non-unionists had sought to leave the sit-down. Some of them were successful in getting over fences, but apparently none got through the gates. Odin Johnson, U. A. W. attorney here, said the real issue was the lay- Off of 500 Fisher Body employes dur- ing the last 10 days. Johnson claimed the union sought to have the men re- turned to their jobs and the work spread among the full force. This, Johnson charged, the management re- fused to do. After the rejection, William 8. Knudsen, president of General Mo- tors, sald no further negotiations would be .conducted until union as- surances were given thai the “no wild- cat strike” agreement of last Septem- ber remained in force, but interna- tional officers of the union appeared reluctant to give that assurance. Britain Builds 19 Arms Plants. LONDON, Nov. 16 (#).—Sir Thomas Inskip, minister for the coordination of defense, announced today that Britain had built 19 special munitions and aircraft factories in the last 20 months in her rearmament program. Eleven of the plants already were in production. [ PRESIDENT IS IL WITH TOOTHACHE {Runs Slight Temperature. Cancels Engagements for the Day. By J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt today remained (away from his desk in the executive office because of a badly infected tooth which kept him awake most of last night and which caused him to run a slight temperature. On advice of the presidential phy- sician, the President canceled his en- Ragements today and consented to remain in the study adjoining his bedroom on the second floor of the White House. The tooth started aching shortly after the evening meal last night but it was not until early this morning, when Dr. Ross T. Mclntyre, the President’s personal physician, went to the President’s bedroom for the usual morning check-up, that any one knew of the President's suffering. Tooth Is Treated. Dr. McIntyre immediately sum- moned Lt. Comdr. Arthur H. Yando of the Naval Hospital staff, who treated the badly infected lower tooth sufficiently to felieve the pain. Ar- rangements will ‘be made for the necessary dental work within the next day or so. Dr. Mclntyre said the President probably would return to the job to- morrow. The President’s semi-weekly press conference, scheduled today, will be held tomorrow. Silent on Trip Report. Reports reaching Washington to- day from Miami, Fla. that the Presi- dent was contemplating a fishing ex- pedition to Florida waters brought no comment from the White House. Aides said the President had no defi- nite plans for the immediate future, other than his annual pilgrimage to Warm Springs, Ga., for Thanksgiving Day dinner with the infantile paraly- sis patients at the Warm Springs Foundation. The President is scheduled to go to Mount Vernon tomorrow to make a brief address incident to the 75th an- niversary of the creation of the De- partment of Agriculture. COLD WEATHER DUE Cold weather will be here tomorrow. The Weather Bureau forecast a rainy Wednesday, possibly with snow late in the day. The mercury will go down to 38 degrees tonight, and Wednesday night it will be below freezing, the bureau predcted. Rail Rate Plea Opposed. ‘The National Coal Association asked | today to dismiss the petition of class 1 raflroads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates in so far as it relates to bituminous coal and coke. 4 the Interstate Commerce Commission |- ANTHLABORPLOTS LAID TO OFFICIALS Relations Board Chairman | Hurls Charges at Mayors’ Conference. | By J. A. FOX. | A charge that officials in some cities had encouraged violence in conniving to defeat the purposes of the Wagner Act was hurled at the United States Conference of Mayors here today by | | J. Warren Madden, chairman of the ! National Labor Relations Board. | | “I should be less than frank .1 | addressing a gathering of mayors if | 1 should fail to point out some of the | shortcomings which we have observed | on the part of some mayors who may or may not be members of my audience today,” he told the conference at the | Mayflower, in the course of a vigorous | defense of the act. | “There are some cities in which the | law of the land as represented in the National Labor Relations Act is being | frustrated with the connivance of the | mayor and other officials who are sworn to uphold the law. Mayhem, murderous assault, and kidnaping ‘hnve been committed with impunity | in some cities against American citi- | zens whose only offense has been that they were union organizers. Some of these crimes have been committed under circumstances in which the criminals could nct possibly have es- caped detection unless the police had been under instructions that crimes | against these people were to be un- | punished. | Cruel Beating Cited. “I have seen a man who is as gentle and deserving of protection | of the law as you and I whose head | was hammered to a bloody pulp with |an iron hammer on the main street of a great American city by a gang of criminals in plain view of many No arrests were made.” Mr. Madden was one of several speakers at a session on Government and industrial disputes. President Roosevelt's indisposition forced him to cancel a meeting with the mayors at noon, and his regrets were brought in person to the con- ference by his son, James Roosevelt. Young Roosevelt explained that his father was “running a bit of a tem- perature this morning” as a result of an infected tooth and that he had been ordered to bed. Sends Best Wishes, for the success of the conference and expressed the hope it would be pos- sible for him to see the mayors at some later time. After his son had concluded the brief message, the conference in re- turn sent the mayors’ wishes for the President’s speedy recovery. The Labor Board head declared that abuses by employers brought about passage of the Wagner Act, and he condoned strikes generated in__t}\f (See MAYORS, Page A-5.) FIRST BUSINESS TAX FINE IS IMPOSED Manager of Cleveland Concern Pleads Guilty to Violating New Law. The Electric Neon Clock Co. of Cleveland, through its local manager, Isadore Hozsha, was the first concern or individual convicted under the new Business Privilege Tax Act when he pleaded guilty today before Police Court Judge Hobart Newman. Mr. Hozsha paid & fine of $10 for failure to take out a business privilege license and $5 for failure to secure a regular business license under the 1932 license law. ‘The fines were recommended by members of the corporation counsel’s office because, they said, Mr. Hozsha secured both licenses as soon as he found out he was violating the law. He was unaware of its existence, it was said. The case was inaugurated last week with the arrest of Morris Cammerman of Baltimore, local representative of the concern. The charges were changed today and the case against Mr. Cammerman dropped. Storm Season Over. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. 16 (P).—The Weather Bureau bid adieu to the hurricane season last midnight without being required to issue & single “big wind” warning. ! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. witnesses. He was a union organizer. | The President sent hiz best wishes | () Means Associated CHINESE GOVER Press. TWO CENTS. MOVE NMENT FROM NANKING Hankow,300 Miles West, Haven for Staff Evacuating as Jap- anese Legions Approach. COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY Not Abandonment of Capital, Say Offi- cials, Stressing Aim of Defemfing City to the Last. BACKGROUND— Conquest of Shanghai compl setond-line defenses on Soochow C tion west of Shanghai, with more t ‘ments, as well as from Shanghai. By the Associated Press. west, because of the threat ating staff and records to a Hank Hankow Major Hav Hankow, as the major haven, of foreign affairs and finance. M; at Nanking until the very last. Of porarily at Changsha, south fo Ha: Kai-shek, premier-generalissimo, “If the Japanese break thro ulation,” said a high official Chinese had viewed with in | 125 miles southeast of here. ment spokesman declared. He asserted that China conte added that: “In this dark hour, some assu immeasurably bolster China’s sp action by the Nine-Power Confer .posmve intentions. 20213115 ADDED First “Ladies Day” Meeting Held—42.85 Per Cent of Quota Raised. Reporting at the first “ladies’ day” meeting in the history of the Com- munity Chest, representatives of nearly 9.000 volunteer workers today turned in a total of $202,031.29 in new contributions, bringing the cam- paign total to $882,374.46, or 42.85 per cent of the quota. Five more report meetings are scheduled before the campaign closes next Tuesday. The metropolitan unit, which took the lead yesterday in the competition among the six Chest units, continued its lead today. reporting a total of 47.1 per cent of its quota. The govern- mental unit was second with 46 per cent. Mrs. Lucille F. McMillin of the Civil Service Commission presided, and the unit reports were made by women workers. The only men on the plaform were President Clarence Phelps Dodge of the Chest; the Rev. John K. Cart- wright, who delivered the invocation, and Herbert L. Willett, jr.,, Chest di- rector. Among those who accepted places on the platform were Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, chairman of the Board Members' Committee; Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro and Mrs. James Clement Dunn of the Special Assignment Unit. Each unit selected two of its women workers for the remaining places. The spirit of victory made yester- day’s meeting enthusiastic as the one- third mark was passed both in point of time and percentage of goal. Director Willett was jubilant over the progress made. Wearing a jaunty paper cap of many colors, iike the hundreds which had been purchased and distributed by the publicity unit, Mr. Willett pointed out that if the campaign kept on at the same progress, it would come out at the goal. But he warned the same pace would have to be continued throughout the cam- paign. A note of gallantry was given the oocasion by “Radio Joe” Kaufman, when he followed the old French cus- tom, and kissed on both cheeks, Mrs. Hannah Keith Howze of McLean, Va., as a elimax to a ceremony in which she had been inducted into the “$1,000 club,” of those bringing in gifts of $1,000. She achieved the honor by obtaining a gift of $1,000 from Ran- dolph Leigh of Fairfax County, chair- man of the Suburban Unit. Further jollity burst forth from the gay-hatted throng when Mts. Harold D. Hynds, reporting for the -(8ee CHEST, Page A-3) A\ 10 CHEST'S TOTAL (Map on Page A-4.) eted with retreat of Chinese from reek, Japanese have launched cam- paign against Nanking, and yesterday bombed Soochow, railway junc- han 700 projectiles. Invading forces attacking city jfrom Hangchow Bay, where they have landed reinforce- NANKING, Nov. 16.—The government decided tonight to move to Hankow, on the Yangtze nearly 300 miles to the to the capital by Japanese armies advancing from Shanghai. The ministry of communications took the lead today by evacu- ow-bount steamer, and League of | Nations technical experts were tq leave tomorrow. For greater security and freedom from Japanese attacks, three | or four cities in all will be used to harbor various civil departments. en for Government. probably will house the ministries ilitary establishments will remain ther departments will locate tem- nkow and in Hunan Province, and at Chungking in the Southwestern Province of Szechwan. The civil departments will be moved. but officials emphasized that this did not mean abandonment of the capital and avowed that the army would defend Nanking until the last with Chiang himself in command ugh our defenses. our army will jretreat fighting for China, determined against compromise or capit- creasing concern the advance of Japanese troops on the “Hindenburg” line of Chinese defenses some Salvation in Hope. “There is salvation in hope, so long as we resist, even if we are pushed to the western border mountains (toward Tibet),” a govern- mpiated no action independent of the Brussels conference seeking to end the Far Eastern conflict, and urance from foreign powers would irit. China wants quick, positive ence, or at least the assurance of “If the powers cannot help China directly, they can at least “refuse to aid Japan, for instance, by | some form of economic sanctions.” CHINESE FLEE THREE CITIES. | Nanking, Tsinanfu, Soochow Throngs Panic-Stricken. SHANGHAI Nov. 16 (#).—Thou- sands of panic-stricken Chinese fled from three of China's great cities to- night to escape advancing Japanese | armies and widespread bombing by Japanese war planes. A great exodus was under way from Nanking, the nation’s capital and ob- ject of a tremendous Japanese drive into the interior from Shanghai. Sim- ilarly, civilians were fleeing from Tsi- Imanfu, Shantung Province capital, north of the Shanghai war area, and | from Soochow, central point in Chi- inesc defense lines between Shanghai and Nanking Japanese planes dumped bombs over a wldespread area of the Shanghai peninsula to smooth a way to Nanking for troops and naval vessels. Foreign military observers predicted the Japa- nese could reach Nanking within a month. Points bombarded included Fushan, Yangtze River port on the water route to Nanking, and Chinese troop concen- | trations between the Chinese defense lines and Nanking. Bridge Blown Up. Japan's North China forces were | approaching the Yellow River, 5 miles north of Tsinanfu. To stem the ad- vance, Chinese were said to have blown | up the Tientsin-Pukow Railway bridge spanning the river opposite ‘he pro- vincial capital. Most of the refugees leaving Tsinanfu headed for Tsing- tao. op the seacoast. One column of Japan's Shanghai armies was almost within sight of Soochow, city of 260,000, about 50 miles west of Shanghai. Miss Sarah Glenn of Chester, S. C., arrived at Nanking today and reported Soochow virtually deserted following heavy Japanese bombardment yesterday. Thousands of Chinese leaving the city crowded roads and canals. Three American missionaries—Rev. H. H. McMillan of Laurinburg, N. C.; C. G. McDaniel of Blackstone, Va., and H. A. McNulty of New York City— remained in Soochow to aid fright- ened Chinese. River Barrier at Kiangyin. The bombardment of Fushan paved the way for an expected attack on Kiangyin, China’s Yangtze River de- fense point some 30 miles to the west. There the Japanese navy must de- stroy a barrier of sunken junks in order to proceed 80 miles upstream to Nanking. All Americans had evacuated Wusih, but four Americans, all of Southern Presbyterian missions, remained in Kiagyin, where an attack was immi- nent. They were Mr. and Mrs. A. Allison, New Orleans; Miss Kathryn Thomp- son, Washington. D. C, and Miss M. C. Wilcox, Elberton, Ga. In their fan-shaped advance, Jap- anese troops have occupied about 4,000 square miles of territory east of a line from the Yangtze to Hangchow Bay, in Chekiang Province south of S8hang- hai