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Evening star., 1937-08-22
BY DON s. XARREN.


Pressed for time to get out the
thousands OF new bills. the Commis-
sioners yesterday ordered a 30-day
extension OF the deadline for the pay
ment of real estate, tangible and in
tangible personal property taxes.
Tax Assessor Fled D. Allen said he
also was considering recommended
tior for a 3O-day extension on the
new business privilege thax bills. The
question Is expected to be settled this
week. Probabilities are the Commits
sioners will approve.
At the same time. study OF the om-
nibus tax act indicated there can be
no extension of the time for the filing
Of returns on the business privilege
tax. These are due on or before
September Is, officials agreed.
Deadline Now October 81,
Normally tax bills on real estate
and tangible and intangible personal
property are due in September and
the first half payment must be made
by September 80, if the taxpayer is to
avoid the per cent per month penal
ty for delinquency. The deadline for
these now has been moved up to Octo-
Der 81.
In passing the 100000 new tax
program, Congress authorized an ex-
tension up to SO days on any of the
taxes because the delay in enactment
of the law held up the calcula ton
finr, ~ hn hills
Allen found 30-day extension would
suffice in the case Of real estate and
tangibles and intangible property
levieS.
The new business privilege tax. how
ever, imposes huge additional task
on the present staff OF the assessor
and to meet the emergency created by
the September Is deadline for filing
of these returns Commissioner HaZen
yesterday ordered the temporary as
signment to Aliens Office OF a dozen
clerks to be drawn from other de-
partments. They are to be set to work
Wednesday mailing out the forms for
the business privilege returns.
Funds Transfer Approved.
The Budget Bureau has approved
transfer of $4,000 for the hiring OF
extra help for the tax machinery
but it may require week or two to
fill 81 approved new posts.
The Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved the form of the business privi-
lege tax returns and they now are
being printed. They will be mailed
out.
Assessor Allen said he thought ii
would not be possible to have the
tangible personal property tax bills
ready before September Is: This
brought an immediate problem as to
the permitted deduction of tangible
tax payments from the business privi-
lege tax bills.
AS 1t now stands, while the ousi-
ness privilege returns must be filed
by September 16 and the first half
of the tax paid by September 80, the
tangible tax bills will not be ready
until at least September Is. This
(See TAXES, Page A-7)
Evening star., 1937-08-22
S|T-D0WN HALTS
n. & ". STEAMER
$50 Passengers Wait as 40
Strike When Boat Is Set
to Leave Norfolk.

A sit-down strike by 40 fireren, deck
hands and stewards prevented the sail
ing of the Norfolk 6 Washington
Steamboat Northland from Norfolk
last right with a near-capacity load OF
about $50 passengers bound for
Washington
J. Allen Riordan, general manager of
the company, said most of the passen-
gers had gone ashore again at Norfolk
and there seemed no chance of the
boat sailing last night or early today.
Riordan said the strike was arbitrary
and unfair" in that he and other
company officials had made every effort
to comply with the demands of the
union The strike was called as the
steamer was about to cast off her lines
for the northward voyage.
In telephone conversation with
representatives of the National Ma
rine Union, a c. I. O. affiliate, Rior-
dan said he offered to increase wages,
better living conditions and do all pos
sible to comply with union demands.
He said, however, the strikers refused
to permit the steamship to sail,
although he had authorized the boats
captain to sign an agreement as to
new working conditions.
only last May we gave all our
men, from the masters down, a 10 per
cent salary increase, and bettered
their living conditions. Ours was the
last line to cut wages during the
depression. We have never had any
labor trouble before.
THE first We heard OF this trouble
was Saturday week ago, when the
c. I. o. representatives presented
their demands.
I'VE asked for q month to consider.
then two weeks and finally q week.
with the proviso that the labor repre-
sentatives give us 24-hour notice and
a chance of further discussion before
calling a strike.
They agreed to this latter proposal.
and then disregarded it when the boat
was in Norfolk and the company off,
cials were In Washington. l don't
know what the outcome of the strike
will be. We've done all we can to
settle 1t and get the steamship under
way"
The company offered increased pay
and the promise of continuing the
negotiations next Tuesday, but the
strikers leaders demanded a signed
agreement and said the captains
signature would not be binding on
the company.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
CONGRESS ENDS SESSION:
HOUSING AND DEFICIENCY
LEGISLATION is PASSED
Bitter Senate Fight Portends
Permanent Split of Democrats
-Four Court Bill Foes De,1lucintiOn of
Cufey Causes Speculation on
Irreparnble Breach.

tee. They said they had obtained
from Is to 20 signatures.
The petition was withdrawn later
however. when Senator Barkley OF
Kentucky, the Democratic leader, dis
closed that a week ago Guffey came
to him with his resignation from the
committee. Balkley said he was busy
at the time and suggested that the
resignation 90 over until after the
session.
Guf1ey Friday night delivered a ra-
dio speech in which he predicted that
because of their opposition to the
court bill, O'Mahoney and Burke
would be defeated. He added that
Wheeler would have plenty" of ex-
planning to do before 1910
Wheeler, flushed and angry, lost
no time in calling the speech to the
attention of Senators who knew what
was coming and were in their seats
awaiting it.
Wheeler "Highly Honored."
Il feel highly honored," he said
that the Senator from PENNSYLVANIA
has singled me out as one of three
members of the Senate for the pur-
pose OF broadcasting a speech which
every one knows he did not write
and which every one knows he would
not have dared to deliver upon the
floor OF the Senate because he would
have been afraid that he would have
had to yield TO the Senators to whom
he REFEREED
Guffey, seated in the rear row OF
the Senate, sat red of face, unsmiling
tSee GUFFEY, Page AID
Evening star., 1937-08-22
IS Americans Quit
Chinese Air Firm
Till Conflict Ends
BY the Associated Press,

SHANGHAI. August 21-Fifteen
Americans withdrew from the China
National Aviation Corp. today until
the end of the Sino-Japanese con-
flict to avoid embarrassing the neu-
trality efforts Of the United States.
Pilots and technical experts, they
represented the entire operating per-
sOnnel of the air line which Is jointly
owned by Pan-American Always and
the Chinese Government.
They took their step after consult
ing with American authorities here.
1t was decided they could not con-
tinue to be associated with the COM
panys affairs under existing condi-
tions without violating the American
Governments policy of non-partici-
patton in the affairs of another coun-
try in time OF war.
Is Planes Communicated.
The Chinese Government already
had commandeered the company's 5
equipment, including Is American
planes. and its local terminal had
been destroyed by Japanese bombers.
The entire body Of American in
structors in China's aviation schools
also withdrew today.
They had spent much of the last
decade in the great aviation schools
at Hankchow. Marking, Nanchang
and, other points, training Chinese
pilots who now are battling the Japa-
nese in the air.
They ended their association for the
same reasons that Influenced the Of
nciaE of the c. N. A. c.
They said they would return to
the United States as soon as possible
and would not return here until the
end Of the struggle.
Informed Of U. S. Residences.
The United States Consulate Cen
eral disclosed another American ef-
fort to avaid involvement in the war,
It announced that in Washington and
Toxic japanese ofncials had been
formally notified Of all points in
Kiangsu, Anhwei and Chekiang Pro-
vinces where Americans live.
These are the three provinces
closest to Shanghai. Most Of the
Americans concerned are missionaries
The American action was txken
after japanese planes had bombed
the American Mission Hospital and
other buildings at Nantungchow, on
the north bank Of the Yangtze, 70
miles from Shanghai, few days ago.
Consular officers said it was hoped
the notification would cause Japa-
nese authorities to prevent further
such attacks.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
BODY FOUND IN SOUND
is NOT MRS. PARSONS
Teeth of Dead Woman Do Not
Correspond With Those of
Missing Heiress.

By the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Conn, August 81
Police Sergt. Dennis w. Cavanaugh
announced tonight \ body recovered
from Long Island Sound was "defi-
nitely not" that Of Mrs. Alice McDon-
nell Parsons, missing Long Island
heiress.
Cavanaugh said an examination OF
the teeth Of the badly decomposed body
established that 1t could not have
been that Of the socially prominent
woman who disappeared from her
Stony Brook. Long Island, home
June 8.
With DR.. Robert KnaufY, New Lon
don dentist. and T. E. Myers, q special
agent Of the Federal Bureau Of In
vestieation, Sergt. Cavanaugh spent
more than two hours tonight In q
thorough examination Of the body.
Mrs. Parsons teeth had many
more" filings than were discovered In
the teeth OF the unidentified body,
picked up 8 miles south Of here today
BY = Coast Guard patrol. the police
oncer said
Evening star., 1937-08-22
TEAMWORK?
Double Victory
OF Pitcher Cans
Six Days of Toll

An iron man stunt recorded by
George Mosedale, thin Washington
pitcher, in hurting his team to two
victories yesterday at Griffith Sta
dium to capture the Union Printers
base ball tourney championship mere
ly topped off a weeks toll which
would have f1oored less sturdy slab
man
Mosedale pitched 332a, innings. 0,
nearly four full games, in six days
winning three tilts and twirling ef-
fectively in relief stretch Thursday
against New York. He was voted the
most valuable player in the tourney
When not pitching he played the eut.
field and was a consistent hitter.
Gull details in Sports Section.)
Evening star., 1937-08-22

y Associate
SHANGHAI, August % sunday)-Shanghais battle ebbed
and nowed today beneath the backened
ruins while high above the Nanking Chinese
meet OF apanes fought and the biggest battle
tragic
So complete dorganizaon this great international
community caught in the undecared Chinese
japanese war; that its governing longer
be responsible for its Ward biggest world
1t prepared to turn the outside the
OF the Settlement Murderers kdnapers
narcoc afnckers mostly Chinese but NATIONAL
ites included in the thong be freed
Jail Center Battle.
The JAIL in the eastern district settlement was the
center OF fierce lasted for
three days.
Deepthroated Japanese in
Pooung early today artillery across the
Whangpoo River Shanghai's outlet to sea.
in such dueling that was killed
and II wounded aboard the flagship Augusta Friday night
Un the batteshp roaring Shanghai
the quietest evening Of its 10 days of
Great fires which eastern
districts OF the city drove out the conendng armies virtually
easng the front In those Soldiers
Of the uniforms they had flames in some
places abandoning positions at the
Reports persisted that the japanese preparing
great attempt early today to land enforcemen
total $4,000 officers and newly arrived japan
Landing Due Yangtze
Japanese officers refused to reports
said the landing to be made the
Is miles Shanghai Chinese asserted Friday their
shore batteries had repulsed attempted landing Iuho
northwest OF
in 1882 turn the tide of that campaign against
Now the reports said the
fields Tsungming Island the from
which planes to the landing.
The armada estuary was reported
be bringing tanks armored artillery.
the infantry.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
PIED PIPER WITH PLANE
WOULD ROUT SPARROWS
Sure, It's a Gag, but It Might
Work. Declares Airman,
Offering Services.
BY the Associated Press,

6y the ASbOCl1le0 fEe1.
PERRY, N. Y, August 21.-An
aerial pied Piper" offered his serv-
ices tonight to rid this village of SPAR
rows, so citizens can sleep nights.
Russ Brinkley, q pilot and radio
entertainer in nearby Olean. wrote
Mayor Roy Spellicy he would fly his
"flivver" airplane over the sparrows
and broadcast fife notes.
Sure, it's gag" he admitted to-
night, but I'll 60 through with 1t.
Who knows? 1t might work"
MY plan," he told the mayor, ~
to attract the sparrows with my pip
ing, lead them out into the country
and lose them"
Evening star., 1937-08-22

; japanese naval forces arrayed along
the 50-mile waterway between Shanz-
hal and China Sea were reported to
have been increased to 80 ships, ap-
proximately half the power of Japan's
mighty navy.
In the air the Japanese air fleets
carried their forays far into the heart
Of the great Yangtze Valley behind
Shanghai, seeking to destroy the Chi
nese airforce.
Chinese Claim Successes.
But the Chinese command at Nam
king claimed for its planes series
OF successes as the raiding bombers
from the coast were turned back at
many points. 1t asserted at least
eight japanese planes had been
brought down along the Yangtze VAL
ley, while the Chinese lost onE three.
The biggest raid was that attempted
by 20 japanese bombers from car
riers of the mouth of the Yangtze,
Chinese officers said The raiders
were en- route to Marking, seeking to
destroy the Chinese capital, when they
were met by an armada OF Chinese
pursuit planes above Chankiang, on
the Yane.ze about so miles east of
Nanking.
The great air battle of the war ragged
above the Yangtze until the Japanese
were beaten of with loss Of three
planes. The Chinese admitted one of
their planes was shot down and an
other damaged but managed to re-
turn to its base.
The Marking government declared
Chinese airmen had brought down IS
Japanese warplanes since beginning
iSae CHINA pooo 80
Evening star., 1937-08-22
JANE WEIR, ACTRESS,
DIES AFTER OPERATION
Film Player Collapsed Suddenly.
Attending Physician Asks
AUTOPSY.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August '21.-Jane
Weir. II, film actress, died last night
at Good Samaritan Hospital, where
she underwent an appendicitis oper-
alton two weeks ago.
The coroner's ONCE ordered an au-
topsy at the request, said DR.. Frank
Webb, county autopsy surgeon, Of the
attending physician.
Miss Weir's progress was reported
to have been normal until she col
lapsed suddenly yesterday and died in
= coma.
She had been under contract ut
Paramount - 4 stock playsr.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Bats Ready to Take
Possession of Capitol
AS Congress Leaves

b the Associated Press.
Bats frolicked in the Capitol
yesterday short time before
Congress adjourned.
One new into the "President's
room" and circled = huge chan
delier. Another darted about the
basement.
They know when we're about
ready to adjourn and they're
taking possession" commented
Senator Elmer Thomas Of Okla
honna.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Road Official Sorry
He Left Alexandria
of Map of Virginia
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, August al
Alexandrians.' State Highway
Commissioner Shirley is sorry.
The commissioner said he had
learned years ago that just about
the supreme affront to a Virginia
city is to ignore its history. The
ignoring in this case was. un-
intentional, but that didn't help
any when Alexandria was omitted
from historical and recreational
map added to the of1icial highway
map for August.
The mistake has been called TO
Shirley's attention many times
by practically every method OF
communication and he wants
all Alexandrians to know he u
sorry.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
D. c. TAX DEADL|NE
EXTENDED 3ODAYS
Commissioners Pressed for
Time to Get Out Stacks
of New Bills.

6ACKGROUND-
The President Wednesday signed
the Districts tar bill, ,uhich Con-
UreSs agreed to after considering
numerous conflicting suggestions as
to the best means OF raising needed
revenues to finance governmental
operations here Mr.. RooseUelt's
approval tUds accompanied BY
statement condemning the Tydings
price ce-mdintenance rider attached
to the bill.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Claim 46 Japanese Airplanes
Brought Down Since Start
of Shanghai Battle.
METROPOLIS FORCED TO FREE
1000 FROM JAIL IN WAR ZONE
Invaders Are Reported Planning Effort
to Land 50, 900 Reinforcements
on Yangtze's Banks.

BACKGROUND
Ondecared Chinese resulted
al Shdngha Deek United
Flagship Augusta Friday
in Shanghai hate be,no
North Ching defending stand
wv ''~'N
Evening star., 1937-08-22

(See CONGRESS, Page 40
Evening star., 1937-08-22

(See CHINA, Page Asa
Evening star., 1937-08-22
WEATHER.

~. B. weather Bureau Forecast)
Partly cloudy and cooler, preceded by
showers today; tomorrow partly cloudy;
gentle northeast winds Temperatures
yesterday-Highest, 95, at $3.50 pm. low
est, rs, at am.
Evening star., 1937-08-22

(See TAXES, Page AID
Evening star., 1937-08-10
MEETING TO PICK
WAGE C0NFEREES
Retail Trade Employees Will
Select Nine Nominees
Tomorrow.

Representatives of retail trade en-
ployes of the District are to be nomi-
mated tomorrow night at the Depart
mental Auditorium for conferences
with the Minimum Wage Board on
the wage standards to be fixed for this
field of employment
The board has announced it will
select three of the nine nominees as
the conference committee for the re-
tail workers The minimum wage
conference for these employees is ex-
pected to be held about September Is.
Arthur l.. Schoenthal, labor repre-
sentative on the board, today urged
all woman employees of District retail
establishments to attend the meeting,
which will be opened at 8 pm.
He emphasized that at the meeting
the retail workers will have an appor-
tunity to designate representatives to
deal with the board in discussion of
the minimum wages to be set for
women and minors In retail trade.
Spokesman for the employers also
will be selected before the board be-
gins its conferences
The initial meeting of the retail
trade workers was devoted to instruc-
tions as to the meaning OF the mini
mum wage law. which was revived by
a decision of the United States Su-
preme Court early this year, holding
its provisions constitutional. The old
law had been imperative IA years, due
to an earlier decision of court.
Evening star., 1937-08-10
Old Babe, Zoo Elephant, Waits
Alone on Soft Bed for Death

Patiently waiting for death to ring
down the curtain on her century of
glorious memories, veteran trouper-
Old Babe, the elephant-rested wearily
on thick bed of hay in darkened
seclusion at the Eco today and listened
with deep understanding to the pratt
tie of children in the sunshine out
side.
Old Babe seems to realize, her sor-
rowing attendants said, that no longer
will the doors of the elephant house
be opened to admit the hordes of her
young friends bearing tributes of
peanuts and sweets. She made her
last appearance two days ago when
she stumbled and found she could
not rise again.
Death may come to Old Babe in q
few days or 1t may leave her alone
with memories for as long as . year" "
Acting Zoo Director Ernest P. Walker
Evening star., 1937-08-10
BANKRUPTCY BILL
PUSHED IN HOUSE
New Measures Designed to Pro.
vide Relief for Wage
Farmers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Legislation designed to provide debt
ridden wage earners relief from bill
collectors. threats of suit and garnish-
ment processes came before the House
today.
Under the Chandler bankruptcy bill,
which sponsors hope to get through
Congress before adjournment, such
wage earners could go into Federal
courts and obtain assistance in settle
ment Of their obligations.
The court would call creditors to-
gether and work out plan whereby
the debtor could settle out of his future
earnings over two-year period.
The bill slashes costs which now
render bankruptcy laws unworkable for
wage earners. 1t also would permit
the debtor to pay those costs on the
installment plan.
The legislation also carries provi-
sions designed to eliminate grave
abuses" which the Securities and Ex-
change Commission reported in recent
Investigations of corporate reorganiza-
ton proceedings in bankruptcy courts
Those Investigations showed, the
commission said, that in reorganization
ventures the inside few" usually in
vestment bankers and the corporation
management, benefited by sacrificing
the interests of scattered, unorganized
investors
The bill would give the courts ad-
ministrative and expert assistance in
dealing with reorganization cases.
Evening star., 1937-08-10
GIRL BOND JUMPER, 49,,
is TAKEN TO ARLINGTON

Raising no protest at an extradition
hearing. Ruth Mosley, 10, colored, who
was caught trying to escape Saturday
while under bond, was taken back to
Arlington County, Va, to face house.
breaking charges yesterday after being
arraigned before Police Court Judge
John P. Mcmahon.
, The girl was returned to Washing
ton from Philadelphia Friday night
after she had jumped bond. Locked
in a private detectives room two doors
from Police Court, she made 1t appear
she had escaped by dangling a rope OF
sheets from the front window and hid
ing in garret.
While she was being sought, the girl
tried to descend another rope from .
rear window but was seen by Judge
Edward Curran froeA his Once.
Evening star., 1937-08-10
TUG TO CONTINUE
DESPITE PLANTS
AIbemarIe to Shift Scene of
Operations at End
of Month.

Memorial and Highway Bridges will
continue to lift their spans for the
tug Albemarle until the end of August.
The United States Engineer Office
announced today that the mast OF the
craft would not be hinged as planned
The reason given was that danger
would result to both the Memorial
Bridge and the Albemarle, even if the
height were eliminated, since the boat
has tall smoke stack that likely
would strike the low curve of the CEN
trail arch of Memorial Bridge.
Complaints against the tug were
made after approximately 5000 AUTO
mobiles, trucks and other vehicles
were held up daily by the opening of
the spans to allow the vessel to pass
up.
Refusal to hinge the mast came from
navlgators of the Norfolk Dredging
Co., owners, on the ground that their
licenses charge them to maintain con-
ditions of safety. The Department of
Commerce would refuse to extend their
licenses If damage resulted from an
attempt to slip the Albemarle under
the low span, they said.
The United States Engineer Office
fully concurs in the decision, according
to E. j. Merrick, civil engineer attached
to the Office.
He emphasized that the tug keeps
the bridge open only four or five min
utes on each of its trips hauling barges
from dredging project above Me-
mortal Bridge down to Gravelly Point.
Countering motorists objections, he
said he had made survey which
showed that congestion was relieved
Immediately after reclosing the spans
on Highway and Memorial Bridges, be-
cause of the wide traffic lanes and ap-
p1oaches.
Since no boats are allowed to inter-
fere with traffic between the hours
of $40 am. and 8 am. and 4;30 pm.
and Sis pm, rush-hour traffic Is
not held up, Merrick pointed out.
After the end of August it is ex-
pected the tugs sphere of action will
be transferred to the Anacostia River
and the Anacostia Bridge will b. sub
ject to the same, Interruptions IT
traf1ic flow.
Evening star., 1937-08-10

said. But when death comes, it will
come naturally, Walker said, pointing
out that there Is no thought of de-
come naturally" Walker said, pointing
She is too much like one of the
family for that" Walker declared.
"She is just old and tired and doesn't
seem to be in any pain. We will make
her as comfortable as we can and
won't try to make her stand up We
all hope she lives until DR.. Mann
(William M. Mann, ZOO directory gets
back from Sumatra. They had quite
an affection for one another"
Believed to be the oldest elephant
in captivity, Old Babe is between 90
and 100 years old She came to the
zoo several years ago, when she was
retired from circus life after q half
century Of leading grand parades, ten
derly accepting peanuts from tinid
youngsters and beating discipline into
unruly young elephants.