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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-05
JAPAN NOT OUT TO
CRUSH CHINA BUT
ANTI JAP SPIRIT
CONTINUED from page ~

those of Japan and China. Such is
our hope. But we absolutely can
not tolerate henceforth conditions
under which lives and property of
our Nationals are unlawfully men,
aced or under which Japan is not
treated on a basis of equality
with other nations in trade and
commerce regardless of who
should ever WELD power in Chi
ma"
us Japan at present interested
in renewed naval limitation con-
fcrenceS with other powers?" |
asked.
Japan, as has often been re-
peated, is ready to cooperate with
other powers in u naval confer
ence on a fair and just basis, "
said Admiral Yonai.
| asked a definition of n fair
and just basis.
A fair and just basis means
that Japanese National defense
forces in ratio must be equal to
those of any other nation" Adj
miral Yonai replied.
Have hoStilitieS in China ne
cesSitated changes in Japanese
naval policies?" | asked. ION the
basis of Japanese naval expert
enceS in Chinese waters has the
admiralty reached new conclu-
sions regarding types of ships
best fitted for Japanese naval de-
fenSivc and offensive purposes
THE imperial Japanese navy
does not recognize the necessity
of changing naval policies on ac-
count of the Chinese affairs, "
said Admiral GOnai.
at feels that our Nationals res
ident in China, the safety Of
whom is supposed to be guaran-
teed by treaties and international
law, were made the victims of vio-
lence by Chinese regulars and III
otOuS bands in various parts OF
the country so that our naval
landing forces were compelled to
take armed defensive measures.
Our navy hopes that such an eX-
perience will never be repeated.
Have events at Shanghai and
i'm other parts of China, where
Japanese navy men have been OPP
Grating, altered Japan's policy
with regard to use of its naval
and other air forces?" | asked.
THE attitude our navy main
tanned when China attacked the
Japanese at Shanghai August IL
remains unchanged Admiral
Yonai responded.
He emphasized most strongly
that Japan did not seek hostilitieS
at Shanghai, did not desire them,
and did not expect them.
asked him to explain what
caused the Shanghai warfare.
From November 9 1885, when
japanese sailor was shot dead
at Shanghai, until July 7, 1887,
when the clash occurred at Pei
ping, there occurred in various
parts of China such serious Incl
dents as murder and incendiar-
ism, unwarranted firing and 9TH
or acts of violence, totalling &C."
he said.
During july the Chinese sand
bagged, barricaded and entrench-
ed around Shanghai, where they
concentrated vast numbers of reg
ularS, manifeSting enmity against
Japan and creatin" grave uncer-
tainty among the Shanghai pop
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-05

SPEAKING OF DIGESTION and
smoking, Dorothy Malone,
food editor (,fsbO, says: Many
comments from my women
readers show that they find
smoking Camels a pleasant
way 70 encourage good diges-
ton. i myself smoke Camels."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-05
SIX ISSUES ARE
FACED BY COURT

WASHINGTON, Oct. ,. UP)
Here are some of the major ques-
tionS on which the supreme court
already has been asked to rule
during the 1878 term:
|. Will the tribunal, in view of
economic and social needs of the
day and the seeming switch of
the courts majority from con-
servativc to a liberal outlook, re-
verse its earlier ruling holding the
municipal bankruptcy act uncon,
Stitutional and thereby open the
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way for reconsideration of nu-
mcrous 5-to-4 decisions invalidat-
ing New Deal laws?
=. Did congress exceed its pow
or in enacting legislation seeking
to regulate the nations security
markets and future dealing in
commodity exchanges?
3. Do the federal courts have
authority to enjoin sit-dOwn
strikes?
4. May the Department of JUS
tice continue its suit for dissolu'
ton of the Aluminium Company
of America on the grounds of al
legged violations of federal anti
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trust laws?
5. Do such industries as the
shipbuilding industry, purely in
trastatc according to those en-
gagged in 1t, have sufficient effect
on inter.tate commerce to come
under the National Labor Rela-
tons Act?
6. Can a person who refused to
surrender Liberty bonds in COM
pliance with the treaSury's 1885
call now demand-and collect
interest payment on the bonds in
gold Of the same weight and fine
ness as called for on the face of
the bond, despite the dollar de-
valuation act?
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ulace.
I'm August China refused tC
continue business transactions
with Japanese and took such IN
human steps as to sever electric
itv and water supplies. She re-
fused to sell provisions to Japan
csc Nationals and compelled Jap
anese women and children &c
leave.
From the outset Japan firmly
adhered to a policy of non-aggra'
walton. Japanese engaged III
peaceful pursuits in the upper
reaches of the Yangtze river were
ordered to cvacuate, abandoning
their rights and interests built up
by the efforts of years.
Such action was taken fol
the sole purpose of avoiding the
spread Of unnecessary trouble
However, on August 9 japanese
lieutenant and seaman were
shot dead and their bodies mutt
lated at Shanghai, creating a
most tense situation and neccSsl-
tating a small reinforcement Of
the Japanese landing party be
cause the Chinese forces in the
Shanghai area alone outnumbcr-
ed the Japanese 10 times.
Early on August l3 the Chi
nesc attacked a Japanese patrol.
The Japanese did not return the
fire. However, the japanese later
were forced to fire in self defense
against Chinese machinegun at
tackS.
Continuing to hope for a
peaceful settlement, the japanese
government did its utmost to ne
gotiate with the Chinese through
diplomatic channels. The Japanese
with deep appreciation accepted
mediation proposals jointly made
by the American, British ana
French conSulS general.
However, on August II heavy
Chinese bombing planes flew
over the international settlement
and severely bombarded our war
ships, naval landing party head
quarters, the consulate general
and even the settlement itself"
due to such serious provoca-
tons the Japanese government
was reluctantly obliged to change
its non-aggravation policy. Our
navy entertained no offensive in
tentionS whatsoever but our
forces were placed in most pre-
cariouS situation from the outset.
1t is unimaginablc that our forces
would have been so foolish as to
take the initiative and plunge in
to a most dangerous situation"
Admiral Yonai ended the inter-
view by emphasizing that, despite
the extent of ChineSc-Japancsc
hostiliticS and events since thew
started, Japan has absolutely no
intention of imposing severe de-
mandS on China when the time
for a settlement arrives.
"The Japanese government
aims only at peace and order so
that everybody in China includ-
ing occidcntalS can pursue their
occupations" he said.
Throughout the interview Ad-
miral Yonai spoke in Il low voice
with an earneStneSS hat left no
question of his utter sincerity
and his deep sense of conviction
that Japan is fighting Il just
cause.
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BOY, l6, IN CRIME 10 YEARS

TAMPA. Fla. (UP).-SiXteen-
year-old Johnny Robinson, who
told criminal court jury he was
started in crime at the age of 3
by grown-up thieves who hOisted
him over store transomS, has been
sentenced to Two years in prison.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-05
\ 7 Weather
MONDAY

Maximum, 6S degrees; mini
mum, 80 degrees; mean, 63 de-
grccS; days range, 10 degrees;
rainfall, l.29 inches.
Normal mean temperature for
October. 56.4 degrees; rainfall to
date, 1872 inches; normal rainfall
for October, 4.36 inches.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
LOYALISTS TO REOPEN
UNIVERSITY OF MADRID

Iormer Dean Of Cordoba Cathe-
dral Leads Plan for Nergsr
With Three Other Schools.
=
~ the Associated Press.
MADRID, August 26.-With q priest
doing = large part Of the preparatory
work, omciab forged ahead today with
plans to reopen the war-closed Uui-
versity Of Madrid in October.
Father Jose Gallegos, former dean
Evening star., 1937-08-26
ESCAPED CONVICT
HELD IN DETROIT
Prisoner Tells Police He Fled
Texas Road Camp-Had Wea.
pons in Travelling Bag.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August 26.-Clifton
Davidson, 80, alias Jack Moore, who
told police he was an escaped Texas
convict, was held here today.
Two patrolmen who stopped him on
suspicion as he boarded a street car
found an automatic pistol and =
sawed-on shotgun in his travelling
bag.
The patrolman, Wilbur Sanderson
and Melvin Woodruff, said he admitted
that he had escaped last June with 10
other convicts from a road camp at
Retrieve, Tex, while serving a 35-
year term for bank robbery at Rich
ardson, Tex. He had been sentenced
in. 1881.
All the other fugitives have been
either killed or recaptured, he told
police.
L went to Memphis" the police
men said he told them, "and got 5000
in the stick-up Of an ice cream whole
saler. Then I went to Chicago, and
on July held up big product mar
ket there. I got lot OF money
nearly $4,000-and came to Michigan.
I got job in road house and
was behaving myself, but I got sick
Of it and was leaving for New York"
He had SO when arrested.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
Noel COlUurd's
IdeaOfD.C.Heut
IsPut IL, Record
Experience in 1925
Exceeded Tropics,
He Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Edith Nourse Rog-
ers, Republican. OF Massachusetts,
used Noel Coward's description OF
Washington climate in the Congress
sional Record today to show "condi-
tions under which we have been
working during this long and arduous
session"
The quotation from Coward's Pres
ent Indicative" was:
In later years I have travelled ex-
tensively, have sweated through the
Red Sea with following wind and a
skyline of FURNISHED steel. I have
sweated through steamy tropical for
ests and across arid, burning des-
erts, but never yet. in any equatorial
hell, have I sweated as I sweated in
Washington in September, 1925.
The city felt as though it was
dying. There was no breeze, no air,
not even much sun. Just a dull haze
of breathless discomfort, through
which the noble buildings could be
discerned. gasping like nude old gen.
tlemen in q steam room. The pave
ments felt like gray nougat, and the
least exertion soaked one to the skin. "
Evening star., 1937-08-26

OF Cordoba Cathedral and nrofesstr
OF philosophy at the university, has
shouldered the major share of organ
ization under patronage Of the govern
ment's ministry Of education.
The university will be merged pro-
Visionally with the Universities of Va
lencia. Barcelona and Murcia. The
Barcelona institution is the only one
which has remained open since the
war started.
The location Of the joint institution
has not been decided upon, since the
campus OF the University of Madrid
at University City has been one of the
major battle grounds of the civil war.
now in its fourteenth month.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
C. |. 0. PACT SIGNED
BY CLEANING FIRM
Needles Wholesale Company Rec
ognizes Union as Bargain
ing Agency.

The Needles Wholesale Cleaners
and Dyers, 1888 Buchanan street,
signed a contract last night with the
Laundry Workers, Cleaners & Dyers
Union. Local 1877, an affiliate OF the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton. The contract recognizes the
union as the collective bargaining
agency OF the workers and fixes mini
mum wages and maximum working
hours.
1t was the result Of negotiations
which began June %, when striking
workers OF 10 plants, who had been
out four weeks, agreed to return to
their jobs pending negotiations.
Under the Needles contract, which
runs from September / to March /,
1888, the work-week for women is A
hours and that of men is 48 hours
The wage agreement was not dis
closed, for l. was thought that, since
a contract is being negotiated for each
plant separately, wage information
should be temporarily withheld.
Contracts are about to be closed
with the Regal Cleaners & Dyers, 6l2
M street southwest; the Premier
Cleaners, 633 H street northeast, and
Rubenstein Cleaning & Dyeing Co.,
1920 Twenty third street. These three
and Needles are the largest wholesale
cleaning establishments in Washing
ton
Evening star., 1937-08-26
WHEAT PRICE BOOST
ORDERED BY FRANCE
Decree Is One Of Several Promul.
gated by Ministers on Advice
From Bonnet.
he Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 26.-The cost of liv-
ing In France. already rising because
Of the devaluation Of the franc, was
boosted again yesterday when the gov
ernment Of Premier Camille Chau-
temps raised the price of wheat and
bread.
The action was part Of series Of
DEGREES affecting the economic life
OF the nation promulgated at a meet
ing Of the Council of Ministers on
the advice Of Finance Minister Georges
Bonnet.
The program was designed to stim-
ulate production and cut the nations
adverse trade balance.
August wheat will sell for 18O francs
quintal (about sl.95 bushel, nearly
Is cents bushel more than last
year, under the terms of the govern
ment decree.
The price Of q kilogram loaf of
bread was increased from 2.35 francs
to $50 francs (about cents for a
two-pound Loaf.
The decree was intended to aid
wheat producers. Other DEGREES bene-
fitted debtors, industrialists and hold
ers OF government bonds.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
French to Mine Barite.

France is preparing to mine the de-
post of barite recently discovered in
the Basque region near the Spanish
frontier.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
Benefit PLANNED
BY CHINESE WOMEN
Dinner and Dance Monday Spon.
sored to Raise Relief
Fund.

A dinner and dance at the Lotus
Restaurant will be held Monday BY
the newly organized Chinese Women's
Association of Washington. Pro-
ceeds will be used to help alleviate
the suffering Of her countrymen in
the war area, according to Miss An-fu
Wang. daughter of the Chinese AM
bassador.
The association was organized about
three weeks ago, after the unde-
clared war broke out. Membership
includes about so prominent Chinese
women of the District headed by
Miss Yoeh E. Wang, the Ambassa-
doris other daughter.
About half the membership was
present yesterday afternoon at
Twin Oaks. 1925 Woodley road,
where an organizational meeting was
held. A meeting of the committee in
charge of arrangements for the din
ner-dance is scheduled for tomorrow
afternoon.
Tickets are now on sale at the
Lotus and at the home OF Mrs. C. c.
Hung, at 36l5 Warder street.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
PLANES
ATTACK IN NORTH
Battle 26th Route Army At.
tempting FIanking Move.
ment,
By the Associated Press,


PEIPING, August 26.-Japanese
warplanes, infantry and artillery, to-
day pressed their intensive, but in
decisive, assault to break q Chinese
thanking movement and drive Gen.
Sun Lien-chung's 26th Route Army out
Of the western hills
Japanese commanders admitted that
the Chinese hanking movement west
Of their advance positions at Langh-
slang, rs miles southwest of Peiping,
was very strategic" 1t threatened 4
20-mile gap in the Japanese lines from
Mentoukow, west Of Peiping, to Nam
kow Pass, north OF this conquered
city.
Battle Near Liangsiang.
A heavy artillery battle was being
fought IN the vicinity Of Lianghsiang
where two divisions Of the 26th Route
Army were spread out in the low-lying
hills, holding up the Japanese ad-
vance and threatening their flanks.
Bursting shells were counted at the
rate Of 10 explosions a minute They
were clearly audible here, Is miles
from the battle front.
(This dispatch, filed from Peiping
at 2:30 pm. G:30 am, Eastern
standard time) Thursday, was in
direct contradiction of q delayed
dispatch from the Japanese North
China Army headquarters at
Tentsin. The Tientsin message,
set at pm Wednesday-almost "a
hours before-quoted the Japanese
headquarters as reporting the
Japanese near Lianghsiang had
turned the Chinese flank, cut their
north-south line and "annihilated"
the advanced Chinese elements.
forcing their precipitate retreat
with the Japanese in full pursuitD
Foreigners arriving here today from
the Northwest stated there were no
Japanese troops anywhere in the area
between the Peiping- -Hankow Rail-
road to the Southwest and the Peiping-
Suiyuan Railroad to the Northwest.
Chinese OverrunninE Area.
They reported large numbers OF
Chinese, many Of them irregulars.
overrunning the area and plundering
numerous villages.
The United States Embassy was as
sisting all Americans in North China
who wanted to evacuate to do so and
was undertaking to provide them with
safe conduct.
The American diplomats protested
again to the japanese authorities re-
garding the unlicensed use of the
legation quarter by japanese soldiers
The japanese reply was that Man.
yuan Airdrome south of the city was
full Of anti-aircraft guns and we
only hope that Chinese planes appear ;"
Evening star., 1937-08-26
VETERANS EMPL0YE
FOUND DEAD OF GAS
Miss Lillian L. Chandler Sends
Note to Lawyer, Who Sum.
mons Police,

Miss Lillian L. Chandler. IS, an
employe OF the Veterans Administers :
ton, was found dead this morning in
gas-fllled room on the second floor
OF her home, at 30e E street.
The body was found by police. who
entered the locked house by way of
window after Miss Chambers At
torney, Theodore T. Golden, received
q letter from her indicating she in
tended to take her own life, he said
Another note. the contents of which
were not Immediately divulged, Law on
q table beside her. Both police and
the attorney said, however, it con-
tained a farewell message.
Miss Chandler had been emploved
- an adjudicator in the dependent
claims department of the Veterans
Administration since 1890. Fellow
workers said that when she returned
yesterday from a vacation IN Boston
si,e complained OF Ill health and was
allowed to go home early.
She Is survived by q brother Leslie
L Chandler, and q nephew, Everett
Chandler, both Of Boston.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
CHINESE TROOPS
IN WIDE RETREAT
Japanese Found Awaiting
ReinforCements for New
Offensive.
BY JAMES A. MILLS.

ON THE HoNGKEw BATTLE
FRONT, Outside Shanghai, August
26 R.-My own observation OF the
battle areas in Japanese occupied
Hongkew, north of the Shanghai In
ternational Settlement verified today
that the Chinese defenders have fallen
back on a broad front.
Their main lines are pitched now
we'll beyond Shanghai University, on
the Shanghai side Of the Whangpoo
River north Of the embattled city.
Visiting the front lines under armed,
military escort, found the enemies
facing each other across a shallow
no mans land" only about $50 yards
wide. But there was almost no fight
ing.
japanese Near Exhaustion.
The japanese bluejackets seemed
near exhaustion after more than two
weeks Of incessant battle. It was ev-
1dent that they were content merely
to hold their positions until newly
landed army reinforcements could take
over their lines.
Then, officers said, the japanese
would launch a major r-scale offensive.
A Japanese commander told me, how
ever. that at least another month must
pass before any decisive results could
be achieved by either side In Hongkew.
Despite Chinese claims to the con-
trary, I can report on the basis of my
own inspection that the University of
Shanghai, operated by American Bap-
fists, is virtually intact. The only
damage to its buildings, the effect of
shell splinters, can easily be repaired
Elsewhere in once-populous and
thriving Hongkew, however, whole
square miles are blackened wastes be-
cause OF artillery devastation and de-
nherately set fires, Indeed, this once
prosperous industrial district. resembles
sections of Flanders during the World
War.
Charred Skeletons of Homes.
In many areas only gaunt, charred
skeletons remain of thousands Of
dwellings,, stores and small factories.
Chinese property has suffered most
heavily. but both belligerents seem tn
nave spared bombing the vast Honekew
waterworks on which the life of a
greater part of Shanghai depends,
1he saddest spectacle of all is the
great, shell-scarred Ward Road iail
which stands like a huge moreue in
the midst Of scene of utter desola-
ton.
could see some of its {. 500 inmates
peer1ng out from behind barred win
COWS. They have been incarcerated
tnere without hope of escape from
smell and fire throughout the worst
nehtlng japanese refused to permit
their liberation lest they ioin the
Chinese army.
Bodies Strewn in HEAPS.
etreWn around the flre-swept Area
m ghastly heaps are the bodies of Chi
nese noncombatants, men, women and
children.
For every person who escaped alive
Hom the Var-mangled area three died
Farther north, on the Woosune bat
Henelds, where thousands of Japanese
rdn1orcements have landed in def
a1ace OF sheets Of Chinese machine o11n
nfe, the picture is just as tragic.
scores of Chinese villages that saw
less than two weeks ago thronged with
nappy Chinese, prosperous and at
peace with the world. are leveled to
smoking ashes.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
DR.. FRANK TO SPEAK
TO INSURANCE MEN
Former President Of University
Of Wisconsin on Program 1T
Denver Today.


Of Wisconsin on Program 1t
Denver Today.
By the Associated Press.
DENVER, August 26.-Dr. Glenn
Frank, former president Of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, was listed for the
principal address on today's program
Of the forty-eighth convention OF the
National Association Of Lie Under
writer's.
Texas delegates won the 1898 con-
vention for Houston yesterday.
o. Sam Cummings Of Dallas, pro-
gram chairman for the convention,
was elected president of the associ-
atoms council.
Holgar johnson Of Pittsburgh, Pa,
was named vice president; c. j. Zim-
norman Of Chicago, secretary, and
Robert L. Jones Of New York City,
treasurer.
The new trustees are John w.
Yates. Los Angeles; John A. Wither-
spoon, Nashville; Ray Hodges, Gin
cinnati; Isadore Samuels, Denver; J.
Hawley Wilson, Peoria, H.; Harry T
Wright, Chicago; w. M. Du1, Pitts
burgh, and Frank D. Summers,
Boston.
Evening star., 1937-08-26

Foreign-B Born in U. S.
With the 1880 census the foreign
born population of the United States
totaled more than 100000.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
INJURED BY AUTO

TONKAWA. Okla. August 26 (P,.-
John McClarty, 48, of Rochester, N. Y,
was injured seriously last night when
he was struck by car driven by
Irwin Combrink of Billings, Okla, on
highway three miles west of here.
McClarty was walking along the
highway. He suffered several broken
ribs, back injuries and possibly skull
fracture.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
COUNTY AGENT QUITS

WARRENTON, Va, August Is (spe-
c1AD.-Joseph Copley. agricultural
agent for Fauquier County, has sent
IN his resignation to the Board of
supervisors. effective September /. He
plans to accept position with the
A. A. A.
He will become district supervisor
f Agricultural Conservation. and will
have 2l counties in Northern Virginia
under his charge. He expects to con-
tinue his ONCE and residence here for
the present.
Evening star., 1937-08-26
SCHOOL OPENING SET

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK. Md, August 26.-The
rain and Supt. Of Schools Eugene w.
Pruitt had a lot to do with the black
gloom which blanketed Frederick
County's school-age youngsters today.
Pruitt announced the county's public
schools will open September 3.
Pupils Of parochial and other nom
public institutions in this section will
enjoy slightly longer vacations. Hood
College students will not return to
their classes until September 20.
The Republican., 1937-08-19

LESSON TEXT-Exodus 25:1. 2, 8. 9;
29:43-46; 40:34-38.
GOLDEN TEXT-Blessed is the nation
whose God is the Lord. Ps. 1912.
PRIMARY TOPIC-The Meeting House.
JUNIOR TOPIC-The House of the Lord.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Why a Nation Needs Religion.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
The Place of Religion in a Nations Life.