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Weather Forecast From the United States Weather Bureau report. Full details on Page A-2 Fair tonight and tomorrow, except local thunder showers tomorrow afternoon; little change in temperature. Temper- atures today—Highest, 87, at 2 p.m.; Today's News in Today's Star Today's news is tomorrow’s history— The Star keeps you up to the minute lowest, 70, at 5:15 a.m. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 14. 87th YEAR. No. Vandenberg Hifs Lending Bill as "Cheat Device' House Coalition Tieup In Rules Unit Hinted As Senate Delays ° BACKGROUND— Late in June the President asked Congress to authorize' a gigantic program of Government loans for “self-liquidating proj- ” Later the “self-liquidat- g” label was removed. The Senate Banking Committee cut the sum by $310,000,000 from its original $2,800,000,000. BULLETIN. A new turn in the controversy over W. P. A. wage scales threat- ened today to hamper the admin- istration drive to obtain speedy Senate approval of the $2490,- 000,000 lending program Senator Murray of Montana abandoned an attempt to have the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee approve a proposal to put the W. P. A. back on a prevail- ing wage basis. He announced he would seek to attach the pro- posal as a rider to the lending bill By the Associated Press. Senator Vandenberg. Republican, of Michigan termed the adminis- tration’s $2.490,000,000 lending bill today “a device for cheating the debt limit, for socializing business and for another tug at boot-strap | lifting.” He issued a statement while the Senate leadership worked for early approval of the measure and while reports circulated that a coalition of Democrats and Republicans would try to bottle up the legisla- | tion in the House Rules Committee “This,” said Senator Vandenberg, “is the final spree of the spend- thrifts who think they can make an $80,000,000,000 country out of a $60,000,000,000 country by borrow- ing the difference, “Under the impact of universal criticism they have feverishly trimmed their bill of some of its | more glaring affronts to economic | sanity. “But it is still a device for cheat- ing the debt limit, for socializing business and for another tug at boot-strap lifting. “Seemingly they never learn that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear; and you can't build a | solvent prosperity around an insolv- ent Treasury.” | Sidetracked in Senate. ‘ The lending measure was side- | tracked temporarily in the Senate | yesterday when a bill to create new | Federal judgeships and a treaty with | Panama provoked hours of conten- tious debate. Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Deocratic leader, seeking to stir the Senate to a fast pre-adjournment pace, announced that night sessions would begin tomorrow. He urged Senators to stay on the floor so that a majority might be present to transact business. Only a few hours after Senator Barkley spoke, however, two calls of the Senate roll brought only 37 Senators—a dozen short of a quo- rum—to their desks. Senator Bark- | ley then agreed to adjournment until 11 am. today. Roosevelt Canvass Likely. President Roosevelt, returning to | ‘Washington overnight from Hyde Park, N. Y, was expected to can- vass the legislative situation. He was represented as anxious to ob- tain enactment of the lending meas- | ure as well as a bill to double the | present $800,000,000 borrowing power of the United States Housing Au- thority before adjournment. The latter measure ran into trouble in the House, meanwhile, | when the Rules Committee pigeon- holed it for the time being. The committee heard testimony | late yesterday that the leadership wanted prompt action, but ad- journed without acting on a pro- posal to give the legislation pre- ferred status. Representative Cox, | Democrat, of Georgia, a frequent | administrasion opponent, said, “we | may never vote.” Committee members said the failure to give the housing measure | right of way might be followed by a similar move against the general lending bill. It was said authorita- tively that a combination of Repub- | licans and anti - administration | Democrats might wield the com- | mittee's “veto power” against the| latter measure. | Some Not Eager to Adjourn. Although Senator Barkley set the | middle of next week as a possible | time for adjournment, yesterday’s, lengthy Senate speechmaking indi- | cated many of his colleagues were in | no hurry to leave Washington. The | Democratic leader toid reporters that he hoped the Senate would | pass the lending measure Wednes- day night or Thursday. } Senate Republicans and Demo- | crats critical of administration fiscal policies, however, were busy drafting amendments to curtail the lending measure still further. The! Senate Banking Committee already has cut $310,000,000 from the bill. Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio, (8ee CONGRESS, Page A-3.) Roosevelt’s Grandchild Butted by Goat B> the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 25— Butted by a goat, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, 5-year-old granddaughter of President Roosevelt, was treated in a hospital today for “a very slight concussion.” Physicians said the child’s chest 2150 was bruised by the goat, which butted her while she was playing 8t the country home of friends. The mother, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, #pent last night at the hospital. She expected to take her daughter to 83. | Of Wage-Hour ‘Swell Job’ Tribute Explained to House Rules Committee BACKGROUND— 5 Representative Barden, Demo- | crat, of North Carolina has taken the lead in the move to amend the wage-hour law, which be- came eflective last fall. He Is the author of amendments broadening the exemptions from the law's application. Wage- Hour Administrator Andrews has expressed his thorough opposition to the Barden amendments. By the Associated Press. | | Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour ad- ministrator, told the House Rules Committee today that his recent| tribute to labor's “swell job” of | assisting him did not mean he had | adopted a policy of being governed | by organized labor in his administra- ‘ tion of the law. | Mr. Andrews made the statement | | during testimony on the application | of Representative Barden, Demo- | crat, of North Carolina for clearance for the House to consider his wage |hour amendments. These were designed chiefly to grant broad ex-‘} emptions for workers engaged in processing agricultural products. | Representative Cox, Democrat, of Georgia questiongd Mr. Andrews | closely about published reports that | he had expressed belief it would be “pad ethics” for him to support an amendment exempting certain “white-collar” workers from the law | | in view of the “swell job” organized labor had done in co-operating with him in administering the statute. “Is it a policy that you have adopted that you should be gov-| erned by organized labor?” inquired Mr. Cox. “No,” Mr. Andrews answered. Ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Staf WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1939—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. #¥# Andrews Denies Labor Rule Administration MR. ANDREWS. He explained that with reference to the “white collar” workers he had changed his mind merely concern- ing the method that should be fol- lowed in dealing with them. He said representatives from the ‘Westinghouse Electric Co.’s “com- pany union,” among others, had demonstrated to him that basing exemptions for “white collar” work- ers on a monthly salary limit would discriminate against the older workers. “Because older workers get more | money longer because they in service, have been they would be overtime provisions,” he said. “I think it would be better to handle this question by placing a monthly | "(See WAGE-HOUR, Page A-3) U S. fo Send "Aces’ To Aid Intensified Louisiana Probe Department of Justice Orders Six to Join Rogge Immediately The Department of Justice today mobilized its ace investigators for U. S. Need Not Police | 'No Man's Land’ in Virginia, Says Court Assault Case in Parkway Area Brings Opinion State Is Responsible B a Staf Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va,, July 15.—The Roosevelf Calls Congress Chiefs To White House Voices Hope for Adjournment by End of Next Week By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt came back to Washington today to check up on the administration’s multibillion- dollar lending bill and the progress Congress 1s making toward adjourn- | ment. i Before leaving his home at Hyde | Park, N. Y., last night he sent word |to the congressional majority lead- ers, Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky and Representative Ray- | burn, Democrat, of Texas, to drop in a* the White House today and report on legislative conditions. The President hoped they could tell him the lending bill would be out of the way and the legislators ready to call it quits for the ses- | sion by the end of next week. | He had worked out a schedule | calling for his return to Hyde Park | immediately after adjournment, act- | ing there on bills passed in the usual | last-minute congressional rush, and | then a cool week’s cruise off the New England and Canadian coasts. 1940 Plans Indefinite. | | While Mr. Roosevelt’s plans for | the immediate future were fairly | | denied the benefits of the law's| definite, those for 1940 remained as | much a mystery as ever. | At a press conference in a hay | field on his Hyde Park estate, the | Chief Executive virtually challenged | reporters to make something out of | his remarks about a week-end con- | ference with National Democratic Chairman James A. Farley. Mr. Farley stood beside him and neither said a word about third term possibilities or next year's po- litical campaign. ‘The newsmen, basing their judg- ment on what they knew of previous parleys between Mr. Farley and the “the boss,” saw in one presidential statement an intimation a third term might have figured in their | latest conversation. | It was just one of the talks like they have been having since 1928, | Mr. Roosevelt asserted, and those | talks have continued in the same | tenor for 11 years. The results of | the talks, the President said, have | an intensified “no limit” campaign | “No Man's Land” along the Vir- | been fairly effective and he thought | against Federal law violators in Louisiana. ginia shore of the Potomac River is | O. John Rogge, in charge of the department’s Criminal Division, to- eral Government merely because | day was ordered by Attorney Gen- | District and Virginia authorities | eral Frank Murphy to collect the‘h“e refused to accept such el best men available and return to| New Orleans to run down every Sponsibility. : | charge of law violation. ! This was the ruling of United | Mr. Rogge announced 1t a press States District Court Judge Robert | conference today that he will fly to | N. Pollard here today in holding New Orleans tomorrow and will be | the court was without jurisdiction | shook hands with | they would continue to be so. He not the policing concern of the Fed- | added he did not know what re- porters could get out of that state- ment. Farley Going Abroad. | With a huge grin, Mr. Farley the President | after the press conference and said: “Good-by, boss. I'll keep in touch | with you.” He is sailing for Europe | with his daughter later in the week. | joined there in the near future by half a dozen assistants. They ex- pect to remain in the fleld for at least two months. Forty Investigators at Work. It was revealed that at least 40 special Federal investigators are already at work in Louisiana— members of the intelligence unit working on reports of income tax evasion, postal inspectors inquiring into mail frauds, and W. sleuths delving into alleged graft and coercion. Ito hear a case charging James Ed- | The President grinned back and | | ward Gibson with criminal assault | {'&ld the D;mocranc chairman to {in the George Washington Memo-‘ e 309 trip. | rial Parkway near Key Bridge. | The President had noted that oth- | The decision was seen as placing | €T Passengers on the boat would be upon Virginia the responsibility of | his own son, John, and his wife; law enforcement of certain disputed John Hamilton, National Repub- | lands on the west bank of the Poto- | lican chairman; Jouett Shouse, for- | | mac. The Government may appeal, | Mer head of the American Liberty however | League: Representative Ham Fish, | It was understood District and Republican, of New York, who rep- Virginia authorities were approached | Fésents the Chief Executive's dis- - following the alleged assault upon | tYict and is one of the administra- a 20-year-old Washington telephone | tion's severest critics, and Senator | to have the assistance of at least | three members of Mr. Viosca's staff. | S31d. | Rogge said. “I received orders from | | Mr. Murphy today to run down every | | signments. We wouldn’t go to all | ington woman, “on lands reserved operator, May 11, but disclaimed the | right to prosecute. It was then| | that the Federal Government ac-| | cepted the case under protest, it was Mr. Rogge will work in co-opera- tion with Rene Viosca, Federal di trict attorney. He expects, he said, He expressed complete confidence in | Believes It's Virginia's Duty. | i i | Judge Pollard indicated that| ;};i. ?33:2{ ;gm;/ fisrc; and in the| L) ile these areas are in doubt as| “We want the people ‘of Louisiana |to their law enforcement control, | to realize we mean business,” Mr, | D€ har no doubt that Virginia would | 4 assume what is, in his opinion, its | responsibility. lead to the limit. We are using our | The indictment against Gibson best men. Several of them will have | ¥as on two counts of rape and as- to be withdrawn from important as- | sault with intent to rape the Wash- that trouble if we didn't mean busi- | OF acquired by the exclusive use of | Joseph O'Mahoney, Democrat, of | Wyoming. With a chuckle, Mr. Roosevelt said it would be a great boatload, and he would miss his guess if some | were not thrown overboard before | the boat reached Southampton, England. It would not be Jim, he added. | Mr. Roosevelt said he would re- turn to Hyde Park as soon as Con- gress adjourned, which " (See ROOSEVELT, Pagt Ashurst Named P'Tead WHAT DD HE SAY ABOUT THE THIRDTERM? (#) Means Two Bandits and Girl Kidnap 1 T('e Him to Tree Alexandrian Victim Left on Lonely Road 70 Miles Away Two young bandits with a blond girl as their leader abducted the lone attendant of an Alexandria filling station iast night, robbed him of $27 and then left him tied to a tree on a lonely road 70 miles away. Police started a belated search for the trio, riding in a green sedan, after their victim, Roy Allyn, 19, struggled from his bonds and made his way to Fredericksburg, 25 miles from the point where he was put out of the car, to report the robbery. Young Allyn, who lives at 29 East Maple street, in Alexandria, was working at Douglas M. Springman'’s filling station on the Washington- Richmond highway near Hunting Creek when a machine entered the diive at 10:30 o'clock. Covered With Pistol. | Two men alighted, walked into the office and one covered him with a pistol. “Come along with us,” the; - | der‘t’:; Ak il | sition for “a long time” before the Mr. Allyn was pushed into the | Car came to a halt on a lonely road. back of the sutomobile and forced | The man at the wheel, he said, got to lie on the floor with the armed |out and covered the license plates man sitting on guard above him. | wnh_ rags to prevent their captive “Keep still and you'll be all right,” | getting the tag numbers. his captors cautioned. | __Both men then took him | Mr. Allyn said he lay in that po- | HOLDUP, Page ROY ALLYN. —Star Staff Photo. Anti-BriI{Sh Activiiies"? Ohio Pastor Released In China Increase | By Arab Band Affer Despite Pledge Week of Anxiety Pro-Japanese Party Rev. Gerould R. Goldner Extends Campaign; Appears Exhausted; Another Briton Held Reaches Jerusalem By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. SHANGHALT, July 25.—Anti-British | JERUSALEM, July 25.—The Rev. measures were intensified in North | Gerould R. Goldner, kidnaped a China and new British-Japanese week ago by an Arab band, was re- friction arose in Shanghai today in | leased late today. He appeared worn the face of Britain’s promise at| and exhausted when he reached Tokio to stay out of the way of thé | Jerusalem. Japanese Army in China. | The return of the young Mogadore The British consul-general at| (Ohio) pastor ended a nerve-rack- U. §. fo Stand Firm 'On Rights in China, Officials Here Say Japanese to Be Held Strictly Responsible For Army Activities [l | By JOSEPH H. BAIRD. The United States Government | rejects Japan's thesis that its mili | tary operation in China entitled it | to a “special position” there and has no thought of following the British | lead taken yesterday in the Craigie- Arita statement, it was learned to- day in an authoritative quarter. | Contrarily, this Government will | in the future as in the past hold Tokio strictlv responsible for all with the last-minute news. Associated Press. THREE CENTS. Japan to Close Canton River To Shipping Foreign Concession Blockade Is Also Reported Planned BACKGROUND— Capture of Canton by Japanese forces early this year cut off Brit- ish crown colony of Hong Kong from trade with interior. How= ever, Japanese have not been suc- cessful in advancing inland, and large Chinese armies remain in Canton area. Anti-British agita- tion, strongest in North China, has in recent weeks been ertended to Japanese-held South China ports. By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, July 25.—The Jap- anese consul at Canton has notified consular authorities of other na- tions, including the United States, that for “miiitary reasons” the Jap- anese Navy will close the Canton River for two weeks starting at mid- night tomorrow. The move was reliably reported in this British crown colony to be in the nature of a blockade to cut shipping between Hong Kong and Canton and in conjunction with this measure, it was said, the Japanese planned a blockade of British and French concessions on Canton's Shameen Island. It was reported that Japanese sentries would be posted at boti bridge entrances to Shameen where the United States consulate and American business houses also are located. The Shameen sentries, it was dis- closed, will search all persons enter= ing or leaving the island—a prace tice similar to that followed in the Japanese blockade of the British and French concessions at Tientsin, started June 14. No Official Reports. Officially, foreign quarters at Can- damage to American property or | ton were unaware of plans to block- personal injury to American citi- ade Shameen. zens as the result of Japanese mili- | Foreigners generally believed clos- tary activities in China, it was said. | Ing of the Canton River to third | There is no thought here of issuing | Power shipping was designed to fa- a warning to American citizens and | cilitate troop movements, either for authorities similar to that in which | mopup operations of a larger scale the British Government admonished | in the Canton area or for the trans- its official and subject to “refrain|fer of troops for action elsewiere | from acts and measures,” which } on the Kwangtung Province coast. | might interfere with Japanese mili-| A United States gunboat will sail | tary progress. | from Hong Kong about 60 miles up | Authorities here, noting the ex-|the Canton estuary tomorrow, to | treme vagueness of the Craigie-Arita | reach the South China metropolis communique, declined to predict before the river closing goes into | what its concrete effects might be. effect. | been signed, he said. ness.” Receives Anonymous Mail. | Mr. Rogge revealed that he had received a “great quantity of anony- mous mail” from Louisiana, charging all manner of law violations. A few | of the letters in recent weeks have | Asked if he had encountered cases of witness intimidation, Mr. Rogge said he had nothing specific on that score. Mr. Rogge then read the Federal criminal statute providing penalties for coercion or intimida- tion. Mr. Rogge announced the follow- ing investigators will aid him in Louisiana: Harold Rosenwald, special as- sistant to the Attorney General; Alfred B. Teton, a special attorney in the Criminal Division; Albert E. Arent, assistant counsel in charge of the Indianapolis office of the Chi- cago Division, Bureau of Internal’ Revnue, and Floyd R. Rett, an at- | torney for the Securities and Ex- | change Commission. Seeks More Help. Mr. Rogge said he hoped also to bring into the investigation Earl Krauter, an attorney in the Tax Division of the Department of Jus- tice, now on a Chicago assignment, and Arch Buford, now assigned to the Fort Worth and Dallas, Tex., office. The prosecutor declined to be more specific about the investiga- tion, but indicated it would branch out in many directions. He said it was hoped to bring Federal indict- ments already returned to trial at the earliest possible moment. “The investigation has only just begun,” he said. “We have many leads to run down.. I can’t say where they may take us, or if any sensational disclosures will result, but it seems true that ‘where there's smoke there's fire.’” Mr. Rogge came to Washington yesterday from New Orleans to re- port to the Attorney General on the Louisiana situation and to get as- sistants to help him carry through the work. “Are you in touch with the Gov- ernor of Louisiana?” Mr. Rogge was her Dutch Branch ranch home late | aski today. ] ed. “No, sir,” he replied. the United States and under ex- | clusive jurisdiction thereof.” It was this language that resulted in the court’s quashing the indict- ment against the defendant and dismissing the jury after nearly seven hours of testimony yesterday. ‘The defendant is being held pend- ing a parley to decide whether the opinis hall be appealed or LAN] 4 Hitler ot Wagner Festival BAYREUTH, Germany, July 25 (#)—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler attended the opening of the annual Wagner Festival today. It ends August 28. |Of Great Smoky Probe By the Associated Press. | Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari- | | zona was appointed chairman today | of a subcommittee to conduct an in- | vestigation into Supt. J. Ross Eakin's | management of Great Smoky Moun- ! tains National Park. Senator Adams, Democrat, of | | Colorado, chairman of the Commit- tee on Public Lands and Surveys, said he had appointed Senators | Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico, |and Nye, Republican, of North Da- | kota to serve with Senator Ashurst. No announcement was made as to when hearings would be opened or where they would be held. Summary of Page. Amusements, B-6-7 Comics __B-11-15 Editorials __ A-6 Finance __._A-13 Lost, Found_B-11 Page. Obituary Radio Society B-3 Sports __A-10-12 ‘Woman's Page, B-10 Foreign. Japanese to close Canton River to foreign shipping. Page A-1 Anti-British activities in China in- crease. Page A-1 5,000 I. R. A. suspects under surveil- lance in Britain. Page A-4 U. S. consul assured kidnaped pastor to be freed tomorrow. Page A-5 Buenos Aires papers stress Argen- tine Antarctic claims. Page A-9 National. gending and housing legislation running into delays. Page A-1 U. S. to stand firm on rights in China, officials say. Page A-1 Sloan sees business. Page A-2 Hamilton holds European unrest stems to U. S. Page A-4 Spy scare leads to new State De- partment precautions. Page A-2 House coalition making over trans- portation bill. Page A-8 Washington and Vicinity. Trio rob Alexandria gas station man, bind him to tree. Page A-1 Mrs. Pickett, Star society edi! emeritus, dies. Page A-2 Py ¢ laboratories booming | Today’s Star | Police hope to cut traffic toll by | curbing jaywalking. Page B-1 Approval of new armory for com- | munity use expected. Page B-1 Final settlement reached in Park Savings Bank case. Page B-1 City planners approve municipal use of new armory. Page B-1 Editorial and Comment. This and That. Answers to Questions. Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Alsop and Kintner, G. Golld Lincoln. Constantine Brown. Sports. Two schoolboys lead vet golfers in public links tourney. Page A-10 Competition still in sight for big league leaders. Page A-10 Magerkurth case may bring stronger. backing for umpires. Page A-11 Saratoga, oldest U. S. race course, to have diamond jubilee. Page A-12 Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-7 Page A-7 Page A-7 Page A-7 Miscellany. Vital Statistics. Service Orders. Nature's Children. Bedtime Story. Crossword Letter-Out. Winning Contract. Page B-2 Page B-2 Page B-11 Page’B-14 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-15 Page B-15 Page B-18 i Uncle Ray’s Corner. City News in Brief. Shanghai protested to the Japanese | consul-general against detention of | H. Rose, chief of the International | Settlement Municipal Council’s Pub- | lic Health Department, by police of the Japanese-dominated Shanghai municipality. $4,500 Demanded. Mr. Rose, 100 Chinese and a Rus- sian, all employes of the depart- ment, were detained on orders of the Chinese mayor. It was reported that the Japanese-dominated pup- pet regime had threatened to hold them until the International Settle- ment paid arrears for garbage dumping privileges. Officials of the Settlement Mu- nicipal Council said the puppet gov- ernment had been demanding a monthly sum and arrears which were understood to amount to 50,000 Chinese dollars ($4,500). At Peiping the Japanese-spon- sored political party, Hsinminhui, sent instructions to branches in Shansi, Shantung, Hopeh and Ho- | nan Provinces to tighten anti-| British boycotts and demonstrations. Hsinminhui announced plans for a widespread propaganda campaign throughout China, using theaters, moving pictures, posters and car- toons. Chinese Press Bitter. The Shanghai Chinese press com- mented bitterly on yesterday’s Brit- ish-Japanese agreement, calling it “another Munich.” The influential Shungpo declared Britain’s foreign policy “commands no confidence,” while Chung Mei Jih Pao predicted Britain would lose prestige in the Far East and “the Chinese people will lose all confi- dence in British morality.” The American-owned English language China Press declared that Britain was “sacrificing her own honor and interests in a futile effort to defend the empire.” Mortgage Extensions Urged By the Associated Press. An extension from 15 to 25 years for repayment of mortgages to the Home Owners’ Loan . Was rec- ing experience for his aged father, the Rev. Jacob Goldner of Cleve- | land, who broke down during the protracted negotiations which brought alternate hopes and fears for his son’s safety. ‘The younger Goldner had been in the hands of a band of Arab kid- napers since July 18, when he and his father were seized on a trip to visit a Greek cemetery at Mar Saba, on the Dead Sea. The father was freed the next day and sent into Jerusalem with the kidnapers’ demand for $5,000 ran- som. The release came a few hours after one of the keenest disappoint- ments of the week-long negotiations. Senator Glass Quits City Senator Carter Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, quit Washington for the summer today with the tart obser- vation that Congress should have adjourned “some time ago.” “r'd like to stay here and vote against that spending-lending thing,” the Virginian said as he departed for home. “I voted against it in committee and I'm paired against it.” Senator Glass, eldest Senator at 81, lives at Lynchburg. These effects, it was felt, will de- pend largely upon future conditions in China and the way in which the British feel called upon to interpret the statement. Such effects might vary all the way from refusing anti- Japanese plotters of Chinese na- tionality asylum in British conces- sions to recognition of Japan's right to lay down a naval blockade. Considerable sympathy is felt by American officials for Great Britain, | harrassed and endangered on two sides—by the “Fascist bloc” in Eu- | rope and by Japan in the Far East. | It is recognized that the concessions Britain made to the Japanese yester- day were exacted under duress and for that reason may prove valid only so long as the Brii#sh govern- | ment feels weak and menaced. Far Eastern experis here do not | believe that Britain's concession to Japan's claim of special rights in | China will have any realistic effect upon the conduct of war. It was noted that London did not agree to | refrain from granting further | credits to the Chinese, nor to stop | selling them munitions. i The only substantial harm that Britain could inflict upon China, it | e (See U.S. RIGHTS, Page A-4.) Turn for Better Is Seen In Brifish-Soviet Talks By PERTINAX. PARIS, July 25 (N.ANA)—A| turn for the better seems to have occurred in the Moscow negotiations for an Anglo-French-Russian pact | of mutual assistance. | Following a discussion he had with the British and French Am- bassadors, Soviet Premier and For- eign Commissar Molotoff now seems inclined to accept, subject to slight modification, the definition.of “in- direct aggression” drafted by the Quai d'Orsay and the British for- elgn office and embodied in the latest proposals from London and Paris. However, Molotoff would make & condition of his acceptance that consultations among the French, British and Russian general staffs about military arrangements, to be concluded at the same time as the tripartite pact of mutual assistance, should begin forthwith. Maryland Toba Less Chanting, By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July 25.—The chant of the tobacco auc- tioneer may soon be stilled in Prince Georges County. Farmers, disgusted at their inabil- ity to decipher the unintelligible hatter of the auctioneer, are prepar- ing » demand that an amateur be placed on the floor of the local com- mission house. “We can’t understand that North Carolina fellow,” one leaf grower de- clared. “Let’s send him back home and get somebody who can speak English.” Criticism of the “chant,” which ommended today by Senate Banking Committee. has held sway in tobacco sales since cco Men Want More English the commission house was opened in April. broke out at a meeting of the Tobacco Market Committee of the Prince Georges County Farm Bu- reau. The committee, to a man, voted to demand that operators of the local market replace the auctioneer “with some one we can understand.” Members of the group said that their tobacco frequently has been sold at prices they would refuse to consider if they were able to un- derstand what was transpiring be- tween the auctioneer and the buyers. “We'll take our tobacco to the Baltimore market if the commission house don’t get rid of that Tarheel,” several of the farmers asserted. J Dispatches from Chungking told of an air raid on that Chinese capital last evening and of an address by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek be- fore a Kuomintang (government party) assembly in which he de- clared that a “Far Eastern Munich” was unthinkable. The generalissimo spoke before re- ceipt of news of British Prime Min= ister Chamberlain's statement ac- knowledging Japanese right of way in occupied sections of China. No Longer “Watchdog.” He said, “Britain well knows that Japan is no longer her Far Eastern watchdog of 25 years ago but rather a mad dog turning against its for- mer benefactor.” Chinese officials withheld official comment on the memorandum of agreement in the British-Japanese conversations at Tokio pending study of the official text. They generally agreed that Brit- ain was laboring under difficulties but stressed that continued foreign assistance was essential for China to carry out the war of attrition which they said she was fighting not only for herself but for all pow- ers resisting orderly international relations. Fewer than 30 casualties resulted from the several scores of bombs dropped by 27 Japanese warplanes in an early moonlight raid on Chungking and vicinity. 1936 Panama Canal Treafy Is Ratified By the Associated Press, The Senate today ratified a 1936 treaty with Panama requiring that the United States consult with Pan- ama when it decides to take major steps in the face of any threat of aggression against the Panama Canal. Action on the pact came after a two-day debate, during which some Republicans contended it would weaken the United States’ ability to defend the Panama Canal. However, Chairman Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada of the Foreign Relations Committee argued that under the new accord this country would retain its right to take im- mediate armed action to protect the waterway in case of a ‘“great emer- gency” before consulting Panama. The vote was 64 to 15, a two-thirds majority being required for ratifica- tion. ] Britain to Give Poland $37,000,000 Credit By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 25—Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, today told the House of Commons Great Britain had agreed to give Poland credits of £8,000,000 (about $37,400,000), but that the two coun= tries had not reached an agreement on a British cash loan to Poland. He added that there was not time now to get the necessary legislation for such a loan passed before Parlia- ment recesses. The loan under discussion was understood to be for £8,500,000 (about $39,800,000), to be provided by the British and French govern- ments. '