Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Fair and warmer today, followed by local showers and thunderstorms late tonight and tomorrow: moderate south winds. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 79, at 4 pm.; lowest, 63, at 3:15 am. From the Unitec States Weather Byreau report. Full details on Page No. 1,846— No. 35,159. Willkie fo Limif Campaign Cost To $2,500,000 Reduced Goal |5 Set Despite Loophole In Hatch Act By J. A. O'LEARY, Star Btaff Correspondent. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., | Aug. 3.—Wendell L. Willkie tonight proclaimed a determined effort to hold the total cost of his campaign for the presidency down to approxi- mately $2,500.000—well within thé $3,000,000 limit of the Hatch Act and only half the sum spent on the 1936 Republican campaign. He emphasized that he wanted | the $2.500,000 limitation to include the outlays of the independent Willkie clubs and the group of De- mocratic Willkie supporters as well as the National Committee ex- penditures—in other words, the full amount spent on the presidential campaign. Mr. Willkie set this reduced goal | on the campaign budget despm n written opinion from Fletcher, general coun.el o( lhn na tional committee, pointing cut Ohm‘ State or local committees are not included in the $3.000.000 Hatch Act limit on a national' political committee, concluding therefore, that State and local committees | could also raise up to that amount. | Economical Campaign Pledged “We are going to conduct an economical campaign. because we‘ don’t believe in an expensive cam- paign.” Mr. Willkie declared, at Lhe\ end of a day in which he and party leaders sought to cut the party| budget to achieve that goal. | Other developments of the day were: | Announcement by House Minority Leader Martin, Republican national chairman, that he wiu mark off the 48 States into 15 or 16 regions, and #ppoint within the next week per- | gonal representative for each region to serve as a contact man in keep- ing him advised of the progress of the campaign in each area. Appointment by Mr. Martin of Representative Hope of Kansas to be chairman of the farm division of the Western headquarters in Chicago, with Representative An- dresen of Minnesota as vice chair- man. To Meet Farm Leaders. Meanwhile. Mr. Willkie an- nounced that his purpose in flying to Des Moines, Iowa. tomorrow afternoon for an all-day confer-| ence Monday with more than 60 farm leaders is to “learn all I can | about that problem.” He said he wanted to get thetr ideas before completing the agri-| cultural part of his acceptance | speech, and to get a broader cross- section of their views for use in one or two farm speeches later in the campaign. With National Chairman Martin | and Executive Director John M. Hamilton seated beside him, Mr. Willkie revealef that the first step agreed on in the campaign economy program was to eliminate paid speakers and to reduce to a mini- mum the use of sound trucks. Declaring his belief in a hm— anced party budget as well as the Nation’s budget, the Republicans he said, will seek to carry on the campaign with voluntary speakers, who will be campaigning because of their interest in the cause. In 1936, Mr. Hamilton said. the Re- publican Speskers’ Bureau spent $301,000, which included clerical personnel as well as speakers. The tentative decision yesterday was to hold the routine expenses of a Speakers’ Bureau to $50.000. Davis to Introduce Willkie. In connection with the notifica- | tion ceremonies at Elwood. Ind.. August 17, it was announced that Senator Davis, Republican, of Penn- | sylvania, who also began his career | in Elwood, will introduce Mr. Will- kie to the assembled crowd at one | of the exercises that day, on the| &teps of the high school Mr. Willkie attended. This will precede the| speech of acceptance in the city park. It was decided also today to have Representative Halleck of Indiana, | who nominated Mr. Willkie at Phil- adelphia, introduce Chairman Mar- tin as the presiding officer at the| notification ceremonies. Ordinarily, | the permanent chairman of the con- vention introduces the national chairman on this occasion, but Mr. | Martin filled both posts this year, and smilingly pointed out that, ob-| viously, he could not introduce him- | self. In discussing his desire for an eco- (See WILLKIE, Page A-10.) British Ship Reported Torpedoed Off Gibraltar By the Associated Press. CADIZ, Spain, Aug. 4 (Sunday).— The torpedoing of an unidentified British merchantman by a subma- rines a few miles off the British fortress of Gibraltar was reported early today when 35 survivors were landed here by the Palacio, another British merchant vessel. The survivors identified the sub- marine as German but gave no de- tails on the torpedoing or on their ship. Dance Act Pigeon Meets Spy’s Fate In Bucharest Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—Fernando Romero, Mexican dancer, and his wife Sonya arrived from Europe today on the passenger freighter Exmoor—but missing was Mathilda, the pigeon they used in their tour- ing dance act. Mathilda, they said, was executed In Bucharest by Rumanian officials who could not be argued out of their fear that the bird was a carrier pigeon working with spies. ? | Senator Burke, Democrat, of | ever. | promised a statement later, Glass to Support Ticket Despite 3d-Term Views Senator Glass of Virginia, whose third-term denunciation was a high light of the Democratic convention at Chicago, will vote for President Roosevelt in November. The Virginian, who is at his home in Lynchburg, last night made known his intention of supporting the ticket despite his emphatic | views on the third-term question, explaining that as a member of the nominating convention he felt “in honor bound” to abide by the action | taken there. Senator Glass has been invited hy Ne- braska to testify at the hearu.gs starting August 12 on the Burke resolution for a constitutional amendment to limit the presioency | to one term of six years, but does not plan to appear unless Senator Burke insists, he says, believing his stand is so well known that his, at= tendance at the hearing is unnec- essary. “I will, however, vote for and otherwise support Senator Burke's resolution,” the Virginian declared, adding that he had so advised his colleague. Canada Weighs Steps | Against Mayor Who Defied War Law Montreal Official Calls On Country to Resist National Registration OTTAWA. Aug. 3 (Canadian Press).—The Canadian government tonight consldered what action should be taken against Camillien | petrel | | Mayor, who has expressed his in- Houde, Montreal’s stormy tention of defying the government’s national registration act and has counselled Montreal's population te do the same. A statement handed by the Mavor vesterday to Montreal newspaper- men and withheld from publication in Canadian newspapers at the di- | it put Wang Ching-wei in rhm‘ge’ rection of the press censors was read in the House of Commons to- day by R. B. Hanson, Conservative leader. Censorship restrictions on its use were then lifted Charges Conscription Step. In it. Mayor Houde declared “peremptorily against national reg- istration” which is to be held Au- gust 19, 20, 21 as a census of the nation’s manpower and which will be used in the mobilization of men | for duty in the militia on Canadian soil. Mayor Houde charged that the | registration was a “measure of con- | scription” and that the government had pledged itself in pre-election speeches “that there would be no conscription under any form what- | Houde issued his statement after a Montreal civic official had placed city buildings at the disposal of registration officials. At the sug- gestion of Mayor Houde the city | Executive Committee revoked per- mission for use of the buildings. Criticizes Press Censors. Hanson told the Commons today | | that Houde “openly defied the law | of Canada.” He criticized the ac- tion of the press censors in order- ing the “suppression” of newspaper stories about the statement and ad- dressed four questions to the gov- ernment: 1. Is there any longer a free press in Canada? 2. What action does the govern- ment propose to take to vindicate the majesty of the law? 3. Is the government prepared to meet defiance of the law by the | Mayor of Montreal? 4. Will the government have the action of the press censors re- viewed. King Promises Statement. Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King said the House could rely on the government to see that the | laws of the country were upheld. He he would be more conversant with | the facts of the case. In his statement yesterday Mayor Houde said he believed Parliament | had no mandate to “vote conscrip- tion,” adding “I do not myself he- lieve that I am held to conform to the said law and I have no inten- tion of so doing; and I ask the population not to conform * * *” |Recorded Bible Tulks Stolen | SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 3 (#.— The thief who stole a phonograph and four records from the car of Anton Velin of Maple is in for a surprise—when he plays them, he'll | hear four Bible lectures. when ! ] S WITH DAILY EVE WASHINGTON, Japan Profests Aviation Gas Export Ban Crisis Seen Near In U. S. Relations With Tokio By BLAIR BOLLES. | American-Japanese relations en- tered a crucial phase yesterday with Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi's presentation to the State Depart- ment of a communication in pro- test against the presidential em- | bargo on aviation gasoline exports which Japan needs for the pursuit of l.r war against China. Ambassador Norinouchi, who had an interview with Undersecretary of State Welles, said he was acting on instruction from his government. It was believed here that the pro- test touches off at last the gather- |ing diplomatic crasis in our Far ‘Emtem policy presaged more than | & year ago with the American de- | nunciation of the 1911 commercial | treaty between the two countries. There was no indication yesterday as to what Mr. Welles said to the Ambassador or as to when the State | Department will reply, but it was expocted ®that the reply when it le would oe a s:verely” worded statement summarizing anew the | American opposition te Japan's ‘| foreign policy. | U. S. Bolsters Chine®t Morale. The chief aim of this Govern- | ment ig its current Asiatic policy | | {is to bolster Chinese the morale of the Nationalist government headed by Chiang Kai-shek and to | to forestall the Japanese in their | efforts fo bring about the sort of peace that would insure Japanese victory. 1s peace, it ic felt, would free Japanese energy for the move to control what Primg Minister Fumimaro Konoye call¥ “Greater East Asia"—including French Indo- China and the Netherlands Indies. | | Japan has been seeking some sort | of peaceful conclusion og, the Chi- nese undertaking since March. when of a puppet Chinese government with headguarters at Nanking. The administration naturally found heartening the apparent Eng- lish decision to pursue a vigorous policy with regard to Japan after an attempt at appeasement of Jap- (See AVIATION GAS, Page A-4.) Paraguéians Voe deay \On New Consfitution | By the Associated Press. ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. 3.— ‘Plrsgunyans will decide tomorrow {in the second plebiscite in this na- ’tinn‘s history whether®to adopt or | reject a new constitution promul- gated July 10 by Gen. Jose Felix Estigarribia, President of Paraguay since last August 15 and virtual dic- tator since February 18. The first plebiscite was held in 1938, when the armistice ending long hostilities with Bolivia was approved. The new constitution centralizes the administration of the couniry’s affairs, provides for state cegula- tion of production and protection of workmen affd government assign- ment of public lands to farmers. It would supplant the constitution of | 1870. Six Die as Fast Train |Demolishes Automobile BY the Associated Press WILMINGTON, Ill.. Aug. 3—A fast Chicago and Alton passenger train struck an automobile near here today, killing six persons. four of them children, who were return- ing from a swimming trip. The dead were Mr. and Mrs. J. W, | Callahan Joliet; their daughter Eileen, 9; a son, William, 2; an unidentified girl of 14 and an un- | identified boy of about 4. Deputy Coroner Ruth Brannon | said the automobile was demolished and the bodies were strewn along the right of way. |Greece Loses 9 Ships {In War During July | By the Associated Press. ‘ ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 3.—Greece lost nine vessels, totaling 33.544 \ton: in the war during July, it was ‘reported tonight. | Since the war began, Greece has lost 46 ships, aggregating 201,346 tons. Old Law Sidestepped, McNary Escapes Fine on Power Line By J. A. FOX, The Government has finally man- aged to sidestep a 132-year-old statute that put a New Deal power project in a legalistic hole and hung the “threat” of a $3,000 fine over Senate Minority Leader McNary, the Republican vice presidential candidate, it was disclosed yester- day in a decision by Acting Con- troller General Elliott. The trouble centered around the Bonneville Dam, for which the Gov- ernment needed right-of-way for a transmission line across the Oregon farms of Senator McNary and a neighbor. Ownership of the land was to be transferred to the Bonne- ville Power Administration for $3,090, and that is where the hitch came. The ancient statute provides a $3,000 fine for any member of Con- gress who enters into a_contractual arrangement with the Government, so the Interior Department asked Attorney General Jackson just where that put the power authorities and the Senator, The department thought that a contract might be waived, simply consummating the transaction by a simultaneous ex- change of the deed to the land and the check for $3,090. The Attorney General passed, pointing out that the decision was one for the controller general’s office. Mr. Elliott said the suggested pro- cedure was whipping the devil around a stump. He suggested that the right-of-way be acquired by condemnation,” which would make everything proper, even though it did take time. So, now therell be condemnation proceedings. But they're going to be a little on the post-mortem side, for the Bonneville Authority advised the Interior Department yesterday that the transmission line already is in place. Senator McNary, it happens, was a principal sponsor of the Bonneville project, and determined that no statutory legacy from the administration of Thomas Jefferson was going to interfere with some- thing his constituents wanted. He had told the Government to go ahead with the line, and let the technicalities take eare of them- selves later, Un Nazi Air Attack FollowsWarning By Churchill British Warplanes Strike at Foe's Blitzkrieg Bases | B the Associated Press, LONDON, Aug. 4 bomb attacks early today, mass Nazi attack at any time. and no casualties. |heard in Wales well inlénd. Some bombs dropped, but the defense fire re- | sustainéd raid, reports said. Attacls Lasts 45 Minutes. land for 45 minutes, dropping high explosives in attacks, said, on open country districts. A terrific explosion shook water- flew over. ing. The British reported last night the channel to gound at blitzkrieg springhoards while ground forces worked af top s to seal the island kingdom ngalns thvasion. Warns of Propoganda. Mr. Churchill, in a statement from No. 10 Downing Street, likely |hr i man propaganda and to look “with |a double dose” of suspicion on hints that no invasion may be impending ment said, that the possibility of German at- passed away. do not intend an invasion should e regarded with a double dose of the suspicion ghat attaches to all their utt{rences. ‘Our sense of -growing strength | and preparedness must not lend to the slightest relaxation of vigilance or moral alertness.” More Arrive From Dominions. raids on military objectives many throughout Friday. and machine gun fire from low alti- tudes in daylight land, the ministry said. | Hamburg, virtually previously ruined by months of re- | the ministry said. “damage is con- sidered to have been extensive.” Canadian Unit Is Fifth. | brought in to reinforce the thou- sands of Anzacs who came in mid- | June. Disclosure of their arrival followed by only a day the landing of Canadians. | cabinet shake-up to revitalize the | inner councils also were indicated ported by the French newspaper Le Petit Dauphinois of Grenoble. The Admiralty, however, had no comment on Le Petit Dauphinois’ dispatch from Tangier, Spanish Morocco, that two groups of British warships, including five submarines, seven destroyers, two aircraft car- riers, three cruisers and three auk- the Atlantic Friday. peated attacks yesterday. ity said damage was slight. Nazi planes raided the Midlands, land and the Bristol Channel area for a few daylight stabs later, A number of bombs fell on South- nor damage was reported. Volunteers Number 1,250,000. The newly arrived dominion troops are slated for first-line duty tack and blitzkrieg. D. C, AUGUST 4, (Sunday) — German warplanes lashed England, Scotland and Wales with heavy several hours after Prime Minister Churchill warned Britons to be ready for a Authorities said, however, that the raids caused no material damage The heaviest anti-aircraft fire yet greeted enemy planes over many toastal towns and | were | | peatedly broke up attempts at e The Germans cruised over north- east, southeast and southwest Scot- avthorities front property in a northeast Eng- | land coast town as enemy planes Southwest England also was visited but there was no bomb- | Compromise Proposal Hershberger, Reds’ Catcher, Kills Self With Razor Blade their air raiders had gone across ad- | vised the nation to beware of Ger- | “The Prime Minister.” his state- | shes it to be known | tempts at invasion has by no means “The fact that the Germans are now putting about rumors that they At the same time. it was disclosed thai moré men have arrived from the dominions to buttress thé man | | power defending this island citadel and the Air Ministry reported new in Prance. Belgium, Holland and Ger- | Hangars, runways and grounded | aircraft were sprayed wish bombs attacks on air bases in France, Belgium and Hol- Chief targets of night forays were said to have been German air fields and oil depots at Emden, Hamburg, Misburg. Salzbergen and Emwerick. Particularly at the great port of described as peated air attack, and at Salzbergen, The new troops were Australians, of the fifth—and largest—contingent | Strengthening of the first line of home defense—the naval guard—as well as the possibility of anolher\ in Britain’s drive for impregnability. Return of the British fleet at| Gibraltar to home waters was re- | iliary ships, had sailed west into | Again, German bombers made re- but the Ministries of Air and Home Secur- Eastern Scotland, Southeastern Eng- before dawn yesterday and returned east England also late last night, but most were said to have landed on waste land, and neither casualties whenever the Nazi strategy shifts from the slow war of air raid and blockade to the fast war of mass at- Behind them and Britain’s sea- soned regulars in the home defense NING EDITION | + rlam %im? Lmuhwum 1940 —120 PAGES. * )fll\flfllflfllfll fl'l uu{!hdflfl delivered in P) Associated Press. WE Dan‘r RA\SE OUR BOY J/T0 BE A SOLDIER— UNLESS __HE VOLUNTEERS ) 75¢ per month. Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 85¢ per month. Conscription Also Makes Strange Bedfellows Would Use Draft Only 1 Enlistment Fails ' 1 One-Year Term at $30 Per Month Suggested | By Senator Maloney By ROBERT BRUSKIN. A compromise plan to use con- scription only if veluntary one-year enlistments proved insufficient to meet the Army’s needs was proposed yesterday as reports spread that Senator Byrnes. Democrat, of South | Carolina, would lead adminstration forces in support of the Burke-) | Wadsworth compulsory military training bill. Senator Lee, Democrat, of Okla- homa, a supporter of compulsory training, declared an informal sur- vey had convinced him that a com- | promise was necessary to get the bill | | through the House and Senate. Senator Burke, Democrat. of Ne- | braska, asserted, however, that less | than 20 votes would be cast in oppo- | sition to the bill of which he is co- standing that Senator Byrnes would be the unofficial leader in marshal- | ing votes for the measure, sched- | uled for a final action tomorrow by | the Senate Military Affairs Com- mittee. Maloney Drafting Plan. Incorporating recommendations of a bi-partisan group and former Sec- retary of War Woodring. the com- promise proposal is being drafted by Senator Maloney, Democrat, of Connecticut. It would order that registration be carried out as pro- vided in the Burke-Wadsworth bill, | but that conscription be delayed un- | til possibly January 1. In the meantime, voluntary en- listments for one year's training would be attempted, with the basic Army pay scale being raised from $21 to $30 a month. If there were insufficient volun- teers to meet the Army's require- | | ments by the specified date, conq seription would go into effect auto- | matically, However, only enough conscripts would be summoned to make up the difference between the | number who had volunteerd and the quota which previously had been fixed by the Army. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana. looked upon as the un- official leader of a bi-partisan grcup opposing compulsory military serv- ice, said the Maloney compromise would be acceptible to him and others of like views if the Senate would not agree to try the voluntary one-year enlistment system without | any conscription strings. Army Objections Raised. Army officials already nave ob- Jected to this method of obtaining recruits necessary to bring the reg- ular troops and National Guard to war strength immediately. One vet- eran officer recalled yesterday that in 1920 and 1921 several thousand recruits were obtained under one- year enlistments, instead of the standard three-year term, but that it proved costly and inefficient. He added that even if sufficient recruits were obtained, which was doubt- ful, they would disorganize exist- ing troops. He pointed out that undev this plan recruits would be obtained in “driblets” that constant arrival and discharge of the short-term sol- diers would threaten the stability of organizations and it would be all but impossible to train them and regular troops effectively. (See LONDON, Page A-5) President at Hyde Park For Week of Rest By the Associated Press. week's rest. ing staff accompanied him. near future, Radio Programs, Page F-5 Complete Index, Page A-2 ‘ HIGHLAND, N. Y., Aug. 3— President Roosevelt arrived here tonight from Washington, stepping from his special train into aK White House car to motor to his home in nearby Hyde Park for perhaps a Only a small White House work- The President may inspect some Navy and other defense sites in the vicinity. He also is expected to visit the Portsmouth Navy Yard ln the Under conscription, recruits would arrive almost simultaneously and their training could be co-ordinated under a definite program which (See CONSCRIPTION, Page A-5.) Chadwick Seeks G. O. P. Senatorial Nomination By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Aug. 3.—Stephen F. Chadwick, national commander of the American Legion last year and a lifelong Democrat of independent leanings, today announced his can- didacy for United States Ssnater on the Republican ticket. Mr. Chadwick recently -anneunced he would support the Willkie- McNary Republican ticket. He ran for the same senatorial office in 1932 as a Democrat. Beaten by Senator Bone in the primary, he switched his support to Republican Wemy Jones in the final. author. He sald it was his under- | Appeared Depressed After Team’s Loss Of Double-Header | Br the Aszociated Press BOSTON, Aug. 3.—Willard Hersh- herger, 29, popular catcher for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, com- | mitted suicide in his hotel room to- day by cutting his throat with a razor blade, Medical Examiner Tim- othv Leary announced tonight. Dr. Leary said Hershberger, who had been in professional baseball for | a decade and was4n the midst of his The Evening and Sunday Star is the city and suburbs at The Night Final Means TEN CENTS House Fight Due On Senatorships For District Reed to Resist Move To Restore Proviso To Suffrage Bill BACKGROUND— Plank adopted in Democratic platform favoring District suf- frage was followed by House Ju- diciary Committee approval of Sumners resolution for a consti- tutional amendment empowering Congress to grani District na- tional representation and to deleqgate legislative power to a local government. Committee limited proposed congressional power by amending resolution to make permissive representation in House, instead of Congress, thus preventing representation in Senate. Original Sumners reso- lution introduced in Senate by Chairman King of Senate Dis- trict Committee. House proponents of national rep- resentation in both Houses of Con- gress for voteless residents of the District made preparations last night to make a fight on the floor to re- store to the Sumners resolution the provision allowing election of Senate representatives, ‘} Healthy and Happy, Hershberger's Last Message to Mother By the Associated Press, THREE RIVERS. Calif.. Aug. 3—Mrs. Maude Hershberger collapsed today after receiving | | news of the death in Boston of her son. Willard Hershberger. catcher for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. She had received a letter this morning in which he said he was healthy and happy. third year with the Reds, was found lving over the bathtub in his room. his coat and shirt off. There were no notes. Police said they found several un- cashed pay checks in his pocket. Gabriel Paul, for the Cincinnati club, said in a | statement that Manager Bill Mc- | Kechnie had noticed Hershberger's “depressed mental condition follow- ing vesterday's double-header.” both games of which the Reds lost. Seemed in Good Spirits. McKechnie, Paul said, talked to the catcher for some time and after- ward Hershberger “was in much bet traveling secretary | | ter spirits and sat around the lobby with some of the players.” shberger was in “good spirits” orning, the club secretary said. but when asked by his roommate. Bill Baker. if he was going to the park, replied he would go out a bit late. When Hershberger failed to ap- pear, Paul said they called him on the telephone at 1:10 pm. and that | he answered: “I'm sick and cant play, but I'll [come out right away anyway.” Pgul said that Sam Cohen, a Cin- | [ (See HERSHBERGER, Page A-4) Newsmen on Tour 0f Hamburg See ‘No "Pulverization’ Business in Full Swing, Canoeists on Canals, Correspondents Find By the Associated Press. HAMBURG. Germany, Aug. 3.—A small group of German, Italian and | American journalists rode into Ham- burg today on the hard benches of & military transport plane, but in a swift 2!-hour trip through the | city saw canoeists paddling on shady canals and business in full swing. The trip was arranged hurriedly by the Propaganda Ministyy in re- sponse to British reports quoted by the German press as saying this im- portant shipbuilding center had been ‘“‘pulverized.” (An authoritative British source, telling yesterday of 3,000 air raids on more than 100 Ger- man cities, said the port of Ham- burg is “now practically in ruins.” This source said Hamburg, with oil refineries, munitions factories and docks which are in the cen- ter of the city, had beems*“pul- verized again and again.*- It is necessary to bear, in mind the distinction betwen port and city. All attacks, the British source said, had been “planned with studious care with the object of avoiding damage if possible to towns and cities which are non- military objectives.”) Saw No “Pulverization.” On the basis of a 2%-hour trip around Hamburg, one can hardly claim to be an authority on what has been going on in all parts of this third largest city in Germany, but the correspondents saw no “pulverization.” The trip included a visit to the tower of St. Michaelis Church, a popular spot for tourists seeking a bird's-eye view of the city. The (See HAMBURG, Page A-10.) | Army Flyer Dies in Crash; "Chute Saves Companion By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3—An Army training monoplane erashed and burned 18 miles southeast ‘of here late today, killing Dwight W. Brill, 48, of Zionsville, Ind., uptlin in the Reserve Officers Corps. Serg!. Edward E. Toye, 26, of Fort Bénjamin Harrison, a member of the ordanized Army Reserve Corps., escaped by parachute. Spectators said the plane, piloted by Capt. Brill, apparently developed motor trouble, went into a flat spin, exploded and caught fire as 1t struck the ground. Sergt. Toye's parachute landed him 200 feet from the wreckage. He ran to the burning plane and dragged Capt. Brill from the cock- pit, but the officer was dead when removed. Diplomatic Crisis Grows From British Arrest of Japanese Nipponese Ships Reported Ordered to Make for Lisbon, Portugal By the Associated Press. LONDON, Aug. 3—A diplomatic | crisis over Britain's sudden detention of the London representatives of two of Japan's most powerful families— a seizure that almost paralleled the recent arrest of Britons in Japan— appeared to be deveioping tonight. An unconfirmed report that all Japanese ships sailing for Great Britain had been orcered to make for Lisbon, Portugal was circulated by Exchange Telegraph, British news agency. The agency attributed the report to the Berlin wireless The Jap- anese earlier had expressed objec- tions to the British blockade of Europe, which now extends from the Arctic to North Africa. Swift Reaction to Arrests. Britain's arrest of the Japanese brought a swift reaction. The Jap- anese Ambassador, Mamoru Shige- mitsu, went to the very top—to For- eign Minister Lord Halifax himself— to make a ‘“strong protest” and in count he was reported to have made an outright demand that the in- ternees, Satoru Makihara and Shun- sukei Tanabe, be released forthwith. Makihara and Tanzabe, agents of the fabulously wealthy Mitsubishi and Mitsui families—members of a small group of such families which controls nearly all Japanese indus- try and finance—were arrested quietly during the night and other reports indicated that arrests of other Japanese were going forward all over the British Empire. British, but, unofficially, it was de- clared that the arrests were made on the grounds of national “security” under the act regulating aliens in wartime. At the same time, sections of Lhe London press carried reports of the ferreting out of a widespread spy syndicate in the empire, espe- clally in Canada Australia and Burma. All this provided a set of cir- cumstances ‘almost identical under " (See JAPANESE, Page A-10) Mun,-Shot in Leg,_Says Radio Irked Assailant ‘With a severe gunshot wound in his left leg, Earl Sweeney, 25 of Forestville, Md., was reported in serious condition at Providence Hos- pital early this morning. the’ owner of a farm shot him parked automobile. Farmhand: car- ried the injured man to the hos- pital, * original form, a 20-minute interview with the vis- | Nothing was said officially by the | Mr. Sweeney told District police | because he played a radio in his | The provision was removed from the original Sumners resolution by the House Judiciary Committee be- | fore reporting it favorably Thurse | day, 14 to 3. Representative Reed, Republican, of Illinois, who offered the amend- ment. said he had learned a move was to be made to restore the reso- lution to its orizinal form and said he is prepared to “resist” it At the same time, Senator Cap- per. Republican, of Kansas, long a champion of national representa- tion for the District, predicted the House would approve the provision to give the District the right to have representatives in the Senate as well as the House, i Calls It Discriminatory. “I am strong for the Sumners resolution in its original form." he declared. I don't ‘think the reso- lution with the Reed amendment is fair. It has an element of discrim- ination. If the House refuses to change the resolution back to its then we can make a fight for it in the Senate.” With the House in a week-end recess vesterday, no member could be found who would admit he was ready to offer a proposal to counter- act the Reed amendment. Several members, however. said they be- lieved Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee would do it, since it was his resolution. Chairman Sumners could not be reached. It was reported he left Washington for the week end. Senate Unit to Meet. Meantime, a special subcommit- | tee of the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee planned to meet tomorrow to decide definitely whether to start public hearings on the original Sum- ners resolution now or await Houie action. Senator King. Democrat, of Utah, chairman of the special sub- committee, saicd: “The meeting will be brief. All I intend to find out from the mem- bers is whether they want to go right ahead with hearings or wait until the House acts on the Sum- ners resolution.” The time for the meeting has not been fixed, but Chairman King said it probably would be held in the afternoon. He explained the time had not yet been fixed because he had been unable to talk with seve eral members who are not in Wash- ington Representative Sumners and Sen- ator King probably will hold a con- ference before the meeting. Rules Committee Meeting Due. The House Rules Committee, at the request of Representative Sum- ners, is expected to hold a special meeting Tuesday at 10:30 am. to consider a proposal that a rule be granted giving the amended Sum- ners resolution a privileged status 50 it can be acted on within 10 days. Mr .Sumners, however. has not yet | requested the committee meeting, but is expected to do so when he returns to Washington tomorrow. House leaders are confident the rule will be granted. Their views are supported by a poll of the com- mittee which indicated the vote will be practically unanimous. Representative Reed, in an inter- view yesterday, said: “I understand an attempt s to be made on the floor of the Houss as soon as the Sumners resolution as amended is called up to amend (See SUFFRAGE. Page A-3,) '$766,000,000 New High For Postal Receipts By the Associated Press. Postal receipts reached an all- time high of $766.000000 in the fiscal year ended June 30, the Post Office Department announced last night. This exceeded receipts for the year before, the previous high, by $20,000,000. In a statement accompanying the announcement, Postmaster General Fariey reported “a net operating postal surplus for the year of about $8,000,000 with respect to that part of the postal savings that are ren- dered to the public for hire.” Postal gains were general through= out, the country and not confined to |any particular area, Mr, Farley said. For the last six years, the Post Office Department has reported a net surplus after deducting air mail subsidies and estimated costs of handling free mail. Annual gross expenditures, however, have run around $45.000,000 in excess of reve- nues, Exact figures for the Jast fiscal year will not be disclosed until the Postmaster General makes. his an- nual report to the President next | December.