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Evening star., 1937-08-21
SEVERAL FROM DC.
STILL IN WAR ZONE
More Than Score Removed
From Area During
Past Week.

Several Washingtonians still were
reported in the Shanghai war ZONE
today as word came that more than
score from this vicinity had been
evacuated safely during the last week
Among those for whom some fears
were felt were Ann White Lanigan
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rollie How
ard White Of 28l2 Cathedral avenue
and wife of Capt. John r. Lanigar
of the 4th Marines. The Lanigans
and a l-year-old son have been living
in the French concession OF Shanghai
and no word has been receive here
from them since the Shanghai fighting
began last Monday.
Both Capt. and Mrs. Lanigan are
natives of the District. The officer.
assignment to duty in Shanghai was
due to expire on September j. Also
remaining in the Shanghai area are
Frank Griggs of Takoma Park, Nc.
an official of the Seventh Day Ad.
ventist Church, who has been ir
| charge OF educational work there since
1922, and Arthur Kidder, jr, Of Chevy
Chase, Md, pilot for Chinese Ma.
tional Airways, a wholly-owned com.
mercial subsidy of n-American Air.
| ways
Left Husbands Tuesday.
Mrs. Griggs and Mrs. Kidder left
their husbands on Tuesday to joir
refugees being taken to Manila on the
S. S. Jefferson.
Most OF the persons having Wash
lngton connections and among those
fleeing from the area of fighting have
been engaged in educational and mis-
sionary work for the Seventh-day Ad-
ventist Church.
The church Offices at Takoma Park
released the following names:
Mr.. and Mrs. Leighton Holley, Mr.
and Mrs. H. w. Miller and their son
Willis Miller; Mr.. and Mrs. H. H
Morse, the former being principal Of
the Shanghai Adventist Academy
Miss Bessie Mount, for many years
| connected with the church Offices in
Takoma Park; Ethel Jane Porter, g
nurse who received her training al
the Takoma Park Seminary; Mr.. anc
Mrs. L. E. Reed and their young son
Mrs. S. L. Sickes, c. l.. Woods, Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Wood and their son
Wilton Wood.
Cleary Family Listed.
The passenger list of the jefferson
also carried the names of Mrs. Frank
Cleary and two children, said to b1
the family Of Georgetown Foreign
| Service School graduate and recen
visitors to Washington Mrs. J. Bar.
nald Gibbs and two children, and Mrs
D. J. Collins and daughter.
Although both the Gibbs and Collin.
reglstries were listed from Washing
ton, their local address was not estab.
lished.
Mrs. r. NJ OToole, wife of ,
Marine warrant officer, was another
refugee passenger on the Jefferson
giving Washington as her home ad.
| dress.
Mrs. Bertha Yap, reported from
Mclean, Va. was on the passenger
list OF British steamer leayinc
Nanklng for HankoW on Wednesday
|
Evening star., 1937-08-21
MORE REFUGEES
DUE FOR MANILA
Thousands Made Homeless
by Quakes-1,1OO Will
Arrive Monday.
BY the Associated Press

MANILA, August 2l.-War in China
and earthquake here made Manila a
city OF refugees today as authorities
cleared away the debris Of natures de-
struction and prepared for more un-
fortunates from battle-torn Shanghai.
Thousands of Manila's nearly 400 900
residents spent last night in parks
after two severe earthquakes rocked
the city. toppled masonry. cracked
buildings and plunged the metropolis
into darkness
For 376 American refugees who had
just arrived from Shanghai, the
quakes, "a minutes apart late last
night. were an added terror to the shot
and shell from which they fled.
81 Injured in Manila.
Sixty-two persons were known to
have been injured in Manila alone
and scores of others were reported
hurt in Tayabas Province. No deaths
from injuries were reported
A mass tragedy was averted by
minutes in Paete, Rial Province
Several hundred churchgoers had Just
left the 2OO-year-old Catholic Church
when the roof collapsed. strewing
heavy debris over the floor where the
worshipers had knelt a moment be-
fore in prayer.
The 400-year-old Catholic Church
OF Santa Maria, Laguna. was de-
stroyed. Many other churches in Ma
Mia and surrounding provinces were
damaged.
All houses in the town Of Alabat
in Tayabas Province. suffered from
the shocks. Large buildings through
out the area were SCARED by cracks,
water mains were broken and roads
blocked with landslides.
Crack Runs Length Of Pier.
A crack ran the length OF Manila's
huge municipal pier, largest in the
Far East where more than a score
OF Shanghai refugees were terrified
by the quake.
The city treasurer's vault was
cracked. So were several theaters.
half dozen schools, the Department
OF Finance Building, the Masonic
Temple and numerous other ou;uinas
Heacocks Department Store. on Es-
Gotta, Manila's main thoroughfarc
was condemned.
Guests VINO abandoned the Great
Eastern Hotel returned when inspectors
said the building was safe, although
the foundation had been damaged.
Some OF Manila's other large build
lngs and many old churches bore
cracks from the quakes. the most
violent here in SIS years. Electric lines
were down in many sections. Breaks
In three principal water mains flooded
some districts
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Congress
Continued From First Page.)

to add six justices to the Supreme
Court if those over 10 did not retire
The court bill, defeated in the face
OF an unremitting White House battle
in its behalf, was the most important
OF the Roosevelt requests that went
untitled.
Special Session Seen.
Before they paused to appraise what
happened during the session now
ending. Congressman turned their
thoughts to what did not happen.
Shelving of Wage-hour, farm control
and Government reorganization bills
held possibility OF special session
nj October
The wage-hour bill met a peculiar
fate. Passed by the Senate over
Southern objections, it never reached
the floor of the House The House
Rules Committee, majority Of its
members opposed to the legislation,
refused to let it come up for debate.
1t was believed to be the first time
lie Rules Committee, which normally
smothers only those bills the admin
lStration looks on with disfavor, had
killed a Presidents must" or ought"
bill.
The measure, written by the late
Representative Connery, Democrat,
OF Massachusetts, and Senator Black,
would have set up a Labor Standards
Board, empowered to Ak minimum
wages as high as 40 cents an hour and
work week as short as 40 hours.
Southern Congressman complained
1t was fostered largely by Northern
manufacturers, who wished to ham,
string the South in its growing indus
trial development
Crop Bill Falls BY Wayside.
The general CROP control legislation
PRESIDENT Roosevelt asked for this
session also fell by the wayside. Con-
gress did pledge, in 4 resolution sent
to the White House yesterday, to make
such legislation the first order of busi-
ness at the next session, whether it
be special term this Fall or the
regular session next January.
Congressman made that promise In
return for Mr.. Roosevelt's agreement
to approve price-pegging loans on this
years cotton crops A Middle West
farm bloc, led by Representative
Eicher, Democrat, of Iowa had con-
tended vigorously for legislation this
term
One OF the arguments used by farm
Evening star., 1937-08-21

State congressman was that Congress
was doing its bit for city dwellers by
the $526,0O0,0 900 Wagner housing act.
The unsettled issue of whether to
make compliance with control meas
ures compulsory or voluntary was one
OF the biggest reasons for non-agree-
ment on a general farm bill.
Other highlights of the session, in
brief:
Approval Of $500, 900, 900 appro-
priation for relief in the 1888 fiscal
year.
Establishment, in small way, of q
program to help tenant farmers be-
come property owners.
Evening star., 1937-08-21
FIERCE STRUGGLE
AT NANKOW PASS
Japanese Artillery Battles
Chinese Five Hours
for Control.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NANKOW, China, August 21--A
fierce five-hour battle was waged to-
day between Japanese batteries on
the east ridge OF Nankow Pass and
Chinese batteries on the west ridge.
The two forces, not far apart,
fought desperately for the l5-mi,e
bottleneck leading to Chahar and
Mongolia. japanese troops, mastering
large fores for big push when weather
clears, held one-third of the pass.
Chinese had retreated on an average
OF one-fourth of mile daily since
the drive began on August IA.
Bad Weather Interferes.
Japanese donkeyS and American
made motor trucks ran supplies to
japanese ammunition depots within
half mile of Chinese lines. Only
bad weather interfered with japanese
efforts to try to blast Chinese from
the area. through which 10 parallel
walls pass
japanese shells blasted tons of huge
gray bricks from the 2,000-year-o
Great Wall, which was occupied by
Chinese. Huge white puffs from
Chinese guns testified to their posi-
ton atop the ancient wonder of the
world.
japanese Infantry Draws Fire.
Japanese infantry, crawling up a
stony creek bottom, drew murderous
Chinese gunfire
The invaders failed to attack in
hand-to-hand combat, in which Chi
nese forces seemed to be their master
Ear-splitting japanese barrages, how
ever, roared and echoed for minutes
after each salvn down the narrow
deflles of the hills
Evening star., 1937-08-21

host which the New Deal made per-
manent."
Hughes he asserted, has Stated and
provided the issue for tomorrow"
Guffey said the late Democratic
Leader Robinson had declared the day
before his death that he regretted but
two acts of his political career-the
seating OF Holt and efforts in behalf
Of O'Mahoney.
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Homes, Apartments
Going Begging in
Shanghai Want Ads
By the AsSocteted Press.

BY the Associs&ed Press.
SHANGHAI, August 21.-In
the want ad section today:
One apartment. Cheap. Out
side the shrapnel area.
One auto-free. In return for
care until owner can return.
One nat. Cheap. Observation
roof to detect air bombers.
One bungalow. Bargain. Amer
ican Marines within easy reach.
One house. Cheap. Bomb
proof cellar.
The advertisements brought no
replies.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
DC. INSURANCE
SALES DROP

Sales Of ordinary life insurance
in the District of Columbia in
December, 1885, were 7 per cen:
below those recorded for the
same month in 1885, according
to the report of the Life Insur-
anoe Sales Research Bureau Of
Hartford, Conn.
Life insurance sales here for
the entire year 1886 were also
below those for the preceding
year.
OF nearby territories, Virginia
registered gain of 2 per cent
last month over December of
the previous year, while Maryland
lost S per cent.
The Research Bureaus report
sets forth that sales of ordinary
life insurance in the United States
during 1886 showed an increase
over 1885 in 10 States. Elaborat-
ing . previous announcement
which indicated that sales for the
country as a whole were below
country as a whole were below
the previous year, the Bureaus
State-by-State report reveals that
sales in Virginia were better than
IN 1885. but both the District of
Columbia and Maryland are
or itted from the plus column.
A State-byState analysis of De-
Bember sales shows a wide divers
lty ranging from a loss of "a per
cent in Oklahoma to a gain of
81 per cent in Delaware.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Jan. % G.N.s).-Hogs: re-
1eipts. $4,000; steady. Holdovers 500;
Sop, tie.45; bulk, ss.4O91O.4O; heavy,
ilO.26 9lo.45 medium, S1O25 q 1O.45;
light. $l01561045. light lights. $4,000
1880: packing COWS, is.5O@S95; pigs,
i79s.S5.
Cattls-Receipts, 100; steady. Calves,
100 steady. Beef steers, god and choice.
l2@14.5o; common and medium, $76
I1.S0: yearlings $7@1440. But h e r
;attls, heifers, $5612.25; cows, $4.75@S;
'ulls 1907; calves. $S.5O012: feeder
Itesre, SS98.75; stocker steers, $597.50;
toeksr cows and heifers, 3467.
sheep-Receipts 5000: steady. Lambs
SIS 41O.6o; common. 1903: yearlings,
80 vi feeders tI6o0S.5Ot ewes
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

would save on eectrclty and and also on the rent
and fire insurance items.
Although too late for this would also suggest smaller
families for those who such small incomes.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

Albany, y. Y, says: Many married
women are holding down teachers, State, and
other positions. who really do not have to.
Of more married women made home life
what it should be, we would have fewer di-
vorces.)'
''Closng down tight on immigration would
help, but there seems to be so much time
wasted before anything of this kind can
come to pass
"In Scotland anyone who gets the offer
Of job and does not accept it, goes off the
dole"
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

Santa Monica, Cal says: 'In the last 10 years chain
stores have come in and taken the Regular
in four blocks used employ $50 help Now chain stores
employ only 80 and let customers wait Themselves
Los Angeles says: "In California at least thousands of
partially crippled persons could work but kept of
jobs by the compensation insurance law Why should
capable of work be deprived of the chance"
Atlanta, Ga says: after long employment train
Southern railway was let go in 1880 Now instead OF put
ting like back they have conductors the offices
and get their orders by phone This probably in violation of
law"
Hollywood CAL says: view it, the unemployed consist
Of the foowng Q The handicapped unable to work. (2 the
hoboes don't want to work. (3 the raieus migrate in trail
from section another; (4) the improvdent
prefer that Government support them 5 the graers with
ncludng WPA work for fanced grievance; CD those
willing and able work kept from doing by and civil
service regulations" (The writer of the last class
Some of these suggestions good others My only
ments will be- first that of them explain the depression and
the backwarness of building railway transportation and of
foreign trade which still remain.
Second is poor policy try make work by making
Job harder more expensive The cheaper get job
DONE the more money will have to get other jobs done
Milwaukee writes that spite of everything he
can do he cannot decent living He the following
figures illustrating his position:
Yearly Wage $1oOOOO 40 hours week so hour)
Yearly Expnes. 5O459 not including food clothes)
Bal fam of s.. 1854
day for food and clothes!
This includes the following under yearly Ex
PenSe hen SooU; gas and electricity, $4o; tuel SoO nsu
$55 newspapers $459 These items he is treating
sort of fixed charge, before food and clothing.
have two three comments First he should try work
longer hours A 46 hours week He could then
$1,000.
Second, his expenses wisely figured would suggest
that he begin with food and Clothes and figure about follows
Food $40
Clothes ............................. 12O
Rent .............................. 24O
Fuel and light ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 60
House furnishings ................... 4O
miscellaneous "'''''''''''''''''.'..' ZOO
$1,000
I would electricity and gas and also the rent
and fire insurance items.
Although too late for this would also suggest smaller
families for those who such small incomes.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
HANE e.: $:;. i, Ss., Ss s;
BY LEWIS HANEY


During the week number Of individual comments on
causes Of unemployment have been received will list them
with brief general comment.
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+Plus extras.
tt5Oc paid May Is, 1888. SOC paid Au-
gust 10, 1886. 500 paid November Is,
81 per cent paid December IS, 1886.
"a per cent extra. f1a per cent extra.
h75o extra. s2 per cent extra. "1Sc
"a, 1885.
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
BY Bob Edgren, Jr.

IT MAY not sound quite right to you but one
| of the greatest rounds of golf that's ever
been shot was a ~.
Gerald Lowry is blind.
He plays most of his golf on the Kensington
Country Club course, near London, with Russell
Kelly, the club professional Kelly is Lowry's
eyes, in golfng sense He judges the distance
to the hole sets the club behind the ball for the
British captain and sees that Lowry is swinging
towards the hole. Lowry does the rest.
He plays very steady golf, occasionally bring
ing off shots that brilliant. This is partly
because his blindness doesn't interfere with his
swing-it frees it. He never sees any bunkers
or water hazards. and consequently never tight
ems up trying to avoid them Then, too, he has
no tendency to look up. Both of these facts are
important in making good golf swing as Ar
thur Clarkson, a Southern California profess
sional. once proved by series of experiments
he made while swinging a club blindfolded.
Clarkson found he got better distance and di-
rection blindfolded than he did with his eyes
open,
Captain Lowry lost his sight in the World
War He was the first British officer to be
wounded. Apparently the disaster was of kind
to put an end to Captain Lowry's golfng-he had
played little before the war-but Lowry was
not the kind of man to be discouraged and he
shoots DettSr SOu now Lndn ne ever ulu
There have been some blind golfers in
America. One of the best of them was Don
Morgan, a former student at Cornell. Don had
a system of putting that was all his own. He
would stand on the green while the caddy rat
tied the pin in the cup. Occasionally he had to
ask about the side roll although he could often
feel that under his feet Don once gave an ex-
hbition in which he sank eight out of ten ten
foot puts Inasmuch as none of the players in
the gallery could do well, for a month or two
afterwards it was local joke to have the caddy
rattle the pin in the cup before his player
putted
\/OU have heard about a player seriously
/ wounded in the war coming back tosbe a
fine golfer. but did you ever hear about the great
British international golf star who was prevent
ed from playing in the finals of a big Florida
tournament when American shot him?
This man was T. Philip Perkins. He was good,
too In 1928 he won the British Amateur cham
pionship and came over to this country to try
his luck in the American championship. He went
to the finals only to fall before the great golf
of Bobby Jones, who was then in one of his
unbeatable moods
Philip went down to Miami. where he easily
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Sho Is Gittin' Bad Round Here
When Varmints Won't Let Us Be

went to the finals of the Dixie Amateur Cham
pionship, and was great favorite to win over
Tommy Goodwin of New York. The night before
the final match, Philip sought little relaxation
in a Miami night spot, the Embassy Club An
other fellow was there that night who came on
serious business He whipped out a gun and
tried to force the cashier of the Embassy Club
to hand over the money The robbery un-
successful but poor Perkins stopped a flying
bullet which put him out of the tournament. He
couldn't play golf for several weeks afterwards.
He never has shown the form since that he
promised in those days. However the incident
didn't frighten him away, for he turned profess
sional and settled down in the United States.
People have been bumped on the head by flying
golf balls-Bobby Jones once knocked specta-
tor unconscious with a shot that off line.
and Wilfrd Reid shook himself right out of
National Open title with nervous jitters that re-
suited from hitting man on the head with
golf ball-but the majority of victims of these
accidents not human ones.
Gerald Thomas of Fresno, while playing
a par three hole on the Fresno County Club,
hit his first shot perfectly straight but little
too hard AS the ball was sailing over the green
it collided with a passing sparrow, dropped to
the putting surface, and was holed out for
two by the lucky player. The sparrow was in
stantly killed.
Jerry different was the OF James A.
Y Mackenzie of Pebble Beach While he was
playing round at the Monterey Peninsula Coun-
try Club he came to the short 155-yard 14th
with the wind against him. Mr.. Mackenzie
lected spoon for his shot. The ball scared high
into the breeze, and it reached the highest
point of it's flight, it slowed almost to stand
still A seagull swooped down, seized the ball
in its beak and made off to with it. What
Mr.. Mackenzie said on this occasion is not
corded.
Thus we have case in which a bird assisted
a player and another in which the bird and
the player forever after remained mortal
enemies but far stranger yet was the plight of
Mr. Hal w. Johnston. Mr.. Johnston received
little underwater aid which all very mys-
terious
He playing the Westmoreland course in
Portland Oregon, with Mr.. w. M. Cowley
On this course there is short parthree hole
of about 80 yards; it is not so easy, either, be-
cause there's lake between the tee and the
green.
On the particular day that Mr.. Johnston and
Mr. Cowley were playing, the pin was set over
close to the waters edge, requiring very high
accurate shot to stop the ball anywhere near
the hole. Mr.. Johnston chose his niblick swung
carefully, and was greatly distressed to see the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17

Joes drive, although perfectly straight down
the fairway, was so buried in the mud that the
ordinary player would have given up all hope
of playing it out. But Kirkwood was different
Among the tricks at his command is the un-
canny knowledge of what to do in sand, mud,
rocks or any peculiar lie that is difficult The
ball was 160 yards from the greenland, to those
who are not familiar with the game of golf, that
is long, long way under the circumstances
so Joe selected his four iron. He took his stance,
and to the utter amazement of the gallery,
dashed that ball out of the mud to within two
feet of the PIN 1t was probably the greatest shot
out of muddy lie that has ever been played
il, tournament. 1t a shot only Kirkwood
could make and you know Joe has monument
erected in memory of of his trick shots in
the Texas Open.
Well, Joe went up the green to knock in
that two-foot putt The gallery was still dizzy
from seeing the unbelievable shot he had just
played. Kirkwood determined the line, stepped
up to the ball carefully. and missed the two
footer.
That proves all golfers are human
TOMMY ARMOUR once missed a 12-inch putt
and two one-half- inch puts on the same
green. 1t was in the Canadian Open, too, and
the msplay cost him the title. How could he
do it 1t was this way: the 12-inch putt seemed
so simple that he walked up and attempted to
slap the ball in without taking the proper care.
The ball hit the cup and jumped out The star
tied and chagrined Armour without thinking,
angrily slapped at the ball with the back of
his putter; again it hit the back of the cup and
jumped out. Quick as a flash he reached after
it, almost in the same motion, gave it knock,
and the ball around the edge of the cup.
Three strokes-and a championship as
quickly as you could say Jack Robinson
That was hard to take, because Tommy was
then young man, not long over from Scotland
ponship. Later on he won both the British and
American Opens. He is real championship
golfer.
In the professional championship of Northern
California there was play made in the final
match which gave hole-in-one to one of the
players who didn't make it himself.
The fnalists in this tournament, the 1929
championship, Benny Cotrin of Sequoyah
and Harold Sampson of Burlingame.
Both players were shooting beautiful golf;
Cotrins scores for the SO holes were 67 and &c.
while Simpsons were 72 and 68 On the second
hole SIMPSONS iron shot sailed to within three
or four inches of the pin. Coltrin's was in a trap
to the right of the green. AS Sampson was cer-
tain of birdie two on this par three hole, there
was nothing left for Cotrn to do but to try to
sink his shot out of the trap
Coltrin's shot was beauty. The ball hit
the hole, and hung on the lip of the cup almost
but not quite falling in for two
Under the rules of golf SIMPSONS score on
the hole was a one-yet it another player
who put the ball into the cup!