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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11

tswisht 1887, United Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. IL. (UP)-
IlpaleSe army spokesman to-
said that Japan must bring
[N men. artillery and supplies
he Shanghai front before she
b hope to win the terrible
,s that entered the fifth week
hy
he battle for Shanghai has
Ethei a Stalemate.
IIPal'S shock troops and navy
} have been stopped short by
numerically superior Chinese,
tsc against q common enemy
neUed to desperate resist
|Cs.
Pestleree today had come to
ali Of more than 100000
enaidened Chinese soldiers
;eHng at Japanese army and
covering warShipS in this war
astated city in the Yangtse
b delta
} struck hardest at the Japan
army, clinging precariously
ioOlhOldS on the banks of the
,lngpOO and Yangtse rivers,
a. International settlement,
French concession. and ada
?. areas.
&oIe than 5000 Americans,
igdlng I. S. naval forces, were
'ner endangered and il was be-
f'a That cholera might hasten
evacuation Of many who have
|1'ed a month of arerial bomb
!, and she'll explosions to stick
1er homes and their jobs.
'Ie Shanghai municipal cOun-
qee!ared that cholera had
aSaed epidemic proportions and
I'a.ed mat lO3 cases were I'M
treatment in isolation hospi-
u the settlement and the
(nceSSion.
Os'G'e the present outbreak
,e lad been no cases in these
:s IN four years.
70. mortality rate so far has
N. IssE-only FIVE per cent.
~ yI foreigners have been strick-
a.. ;ne cases were among Chi
iuc municipal announcement
r.. 800 ga statement by a Jap
r., military spokesman who re-
4 ' Ina mat 20 Japanese soldiers
4, Tea Of cholera in the Pao-
-. urea Just northwest Of the
e.. ,"en'' and that 80 more were
~, ~ japanese intimated that
a. r. u oad spread cholera germs
H.. H. hey were driven from the
} sege. '' "'eN ai'er a oit-
lrricilCSio 'neSe now are fighting
Csllal warfare" ne said.
\ - denied the charge but
), s, ,s was no cholera among
:. attacking armies, which
I,,ivS Stopped Japan's grand of
! ,,,, "a this war front and now
s,sSsii asking scores of Japanese
\ 4, IN the Whangpoo and
EN-. ~ mouth in the Yangtse.
|, , rS health conditions in
m, "o !. Shanghai area have
,iS steadily worse since the
= =, Japanese war spread
,in .nysleIans saw a possibility
lhers' !. UNPARALLELED epidemics.
S,I M Is a shortage of doctors
.i,srv hospitals are jammed with
Ia ana civilian casualties,
w" nave reached a total
b S''s E than $4,000. ''"'
p.5' r 7. Yen, superintendent
,cS &c StoSS hospitals, said his
/ bo oi medical supplies, gauze
az oSsnq1ages were extremely
!. t al that 5000 wounded ts% CHI,
d b ooI;sin regular and make
h rs in the settlement
a,neD,' receiving adequate
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11
MP iPPHooN KILLS "a

|;boo,' Sept. ll.-(UP)-A
E vsvs accompanied by enorm-
(svestss..o today swept across
b SaS. sern Japan, causing Sc
F ""se and killing at least
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11
|)RE MEN And
NEEDED
|I TAKE CITY
|;p.,s Girls Fighting in
|grpt Ranks Are Re-
ported Slain
kNESE DENY GERM
|VAU BEING FOUGHT

|glyGHAI. Sept, IL. up
l.,0rds Of Chinese girls are
w. in the front lines against
Il, These maidCnS have par
80 in some Of the heaviest
81 along the Shanghai front.
IL have been killed and
s,y wounded.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11

|y,yKlNG, Sept. IL. (UP)-
H. than 5000 Chinese were re-
~ killed or wounded today
he japanese capture of Ma
h. g miles south of TientSin,
h a bombing which reduced
! aEn 10 ruins.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11
WEATHER

Nth occasional showers
oS ~. sunday generally fair
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11
GOOD AFTERNOON!

Freddie Bartholomew shouldn't
let his financial tanels worry him
too muehi all troubles are rela.
tive.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
6. ". GIRLS VIE
INGUN MATCH

Ten Sharpshooters Of the George
Washington University'S woman's
rifle team are firing targets today
in the National Rifle Association
intercollegiate team champion
ship.
More than IS universities and
colleges throughout the country
are participating in the contest,
which consists of three stages OF
two targets each. A score of 600 is
possible for each girl. The five tar
gets recording the highest scores
will be sent by each competing
school to the N. R. A. headquarters
here.
In three matches fired recently
against woman rifle teams Of the
Universities of Maryland, Mlchi-
gan and Missouri, the G. w. team
was victorious over Michigan, 4S5
to 480. The matches with Mary
land and Missouri were lost by
scores of 497 to 494 and 500 to 49l,
respectively.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
HEAD RAPS SCHEME TO CONTROL COURT
Effects Of Shoe ting On Career
OF De Chambrun StirS GOSsipS
Denouement Of Near
Tragedy Creates
Speculation

For the first time in at least six
months, l'affaire Simpson, or the
romance Of an American girl who
so fascinated the ruler OF the
worlds greatest empire that he
gave up his throne for her love,
has faded into the background OF
diplomatic interest.
No longer is it the love Of the
former British monarch for the
former Baltimore belle which
causes lie corps diplomatique to
catch it's breath, and perhaps
when unobserved - to exchange
shrugS. The gossip over the tea
cups is eniivened by q newer
theme.
In one sense not so startling, in
another sense more so, the episode
which evokes the current "Ah's
and "Oh's" and Really y-my-dears"
is, rather, the use of a shooting
iron by exotic Madeleine de Fon-
tango of Paris on the popular and
well-poised Count Charles de
Chambrun, American-born French
diplomat, who says he learned his
fluent English "aSSociating with
the firemen in the old fire house
on K Street" here in Washington,
and has been seriously discussed
as a future ambassador to the
United States.
Maui Cnnk - Trio ,a01a
It's a triangle of a new sort.
With love, in a manner Of speak
ing, on two sides, and-according
to the girl-meddlesome intrigue
on the other. The woman ad-
mitS her love. The object of her
alteration, the so-tender lover, is
none other than Italy's iron man,
Benito Mussolini. She confided
her secret to the Count de Cham
brun. The count did his duty as
he saw it. Mussolini learned that
the secret was out. The doors of
MuSsolini'S palace were closed to
the journalist-actreSS who had
won his affection, only to 'kisS
and tell" The young woman
brooded. She purchased a pistol.
And a week ago, in the Nord Rail
road station in Paris, she shot De
Chambrun through the thigh.
So runs the story as carried in
Paris dispatches and halfway
confirmed from Rome. It is the
girls story when arrested. It is
the tale told by her diary. The
count? OF course he Is silent.
Mussolini? The silence deepenS.
Madeleine, so the wires say, is
20 years old. Mussolini is mar.
ried and has grown children.
The count is 62, and q good ,diplo-
mat. Washington knows, for it
knows the count. In fact, he's a
native son. That makes the story
Of double interest here.
Descendant Of Lafayette
There's q tradition of public
service in Europe that is only be;
ginning to develop in America.
Count de Chambrun is a product
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
DEPUTIES GIVE
BLUM SUPPORT
ANDADJ0URN
Dorfot Demands Probe
OF Funds Given to
Aid Red Cause

PARIS, March "a Q.N.SJ.-Ths
French Chamber Of Deputies adj
journed today after an all-night
session that saw Premier Leon
Blum's socialist government get a
362-to-215 vote of confidence fol-
lowing an acrimonious debate on
the recent Communists Fascist
Clichy riots.
A motion to appoint a commits
sion to investigate the riots was
defeated.
Jacques Doriot, former Commun-
ist, who resigned from that party
to form his French Popular party,
asked for a commission to inves-
tigate sources Of income Of the
French Communist organization.
He told Blum:
"The popular front every
where has organized demonstra-
tiOns against the services and
against order. Part Of your ma
jOrity boasts of being with the
popular front only to use it as
a stepping stone for dictatorship
by the prOletariat."
He read Communist documents
expressing determination to link
the popular front closer to the
SovietS.
He estimated that in the past
II years the Communist Interna-
tional has given French Commu-
nists $50, ,00o, 900 francs to pay for
deficits, and charged that the Com
munist newspaper Humanite and
other Red publications subsidize
"multitudinous Red organizations"
Blum openly blamed Commu-
nists for provoking bloodshed in
the colony riots, but he acceded
to Red demands for reorganization
of the French police.
But he refused to give in to Red
demands for dissolution of the
French Social Party Immediately.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
President Set on Court Curb
Before Congress Adjourns
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

International News Service
President Roosevelt has kept in
close touch with the fight over
Supreme Court reorganization dur
ing his sojourn in Georgia, and to
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

lations Of deals he says represent
large sums of money and involve
persons in high positions in the
State. These would not involve
the senators who offered the bill,
he indicated.
He maintains that the bill IS
backed by considerable money, and
promises that it will not get a
favorable report in his committee
for that reason.
Senator Every today said he
would seek to make his bill accept
able to the legislature by offering
an amendment that would require
owners of tracks and others finan-
cially interested in the ventures to
be natives of Maryland. He also
would provide that all employees be
natives, but did not plan to offer
an amendment requiring that
owners of dogs be natives.
Every said he would push for a
vote on his bill Immediately after
the hearing late today, and that if
the finance committee refused to
accept his amendment and he
could bring the bill to the floor
of the senate, he would offer his
amendments there.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

more eventful life. Came college,
and then diplomacy. In a few
years he was back in Washington
as junior secretary. From then
on his rise was rapid.
During the World War, as q
French officer, he was attached
to General Pershing's staff at
CHG in France.
Once more in Washington, he
served first as counselor Of the
French Embassy here. IN 1921,
when Marshal Foch visited the
United States, Count de Cham
brun came with him. And in 1922.
following the return TO France Of
Jules JuSserand, for more than q
score of years Frances Ambassa-
dor to the United States. De
Chambrun was appointed to act as
minister plenipotentiary in Wash
ington ad interim.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
Today in
Congress
SENATE

SENATE
Meets at noon.
Considers Kennedy Maritime
Commission resolution.
Banking and Currency Commit
tee considers Hole bill.
Judiciary Committee resumes
court reorganization hearing.
HOUSE
Meets at noon.
Resumes consideration of depart
mental appropriation bills.
Appropriations u b o mmittee
considers War, Agriculture and
Interior supply bills.
Rules Committee considers Dick
stein subversive influence reSolu-
tion.
immigration Committee consid-
erS hardship cases.
Interstate Commerce Committee
considers natural gas transporta-
ton bill.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

those leaders with whom he has
frequently communicated he has
made it clear he wants it fought
out to the end-with no COM
promise.
The criticisms Of Chief Justice
Hughes and of Senator Burton K.
Wheeler, long considered radical
Democrat, alike have left him
cold. To the arguments Of the
Wheelers, the Borahs, the NorriseS
and others in favor of a constitu-
tional amendment, he has reiter-
ated that it would not be possible
to get one through by the end OF
his second term.
Keep Congress on Job
Moreover, he is prepared to In
sist that Congress sit until his pro
posal is disposed Of, irrespective
of how long that may be. He is
planning a Gulf trip for the last
Of April, and if June and July sees
the debate still going on it is prob
able Mr.. Roosevelt will go to Hyde
Park and leave Congress to stew
in its own perSpiration in the heat
of a Washington summer.
In communication with his lieu
tenants before and since leaving
Washington, Mr.. Roosevelt has
made it clear he does not believe
it possible to promote orderly
stabilized recovery until the power
OF the judiciary to thWart the
executive and legislative branches
of the Government is curbed.
Once that is accomplished, he
does believe it will be possible for
the Federal Government to throw
up such controls as will prevent
another 1929"
Revise AAA and NRA
The controls" the President and
his closest advisers have in mind
are resurrection of the principles
of the Agriculture Adjustment and
the National Recovery Administra
tions, both outlawed by the Su
preme Court, and which gave the
Federal Government some degree
of control over hours and wages
OF labor, as well as prices and
business practices.
To one man, the President Is re
ported to have remarked recently
with some aSperity:
There were no Sit-dOWn strikes
under the NRA."
This seems to indicate that there
is in his mind the reinstitution OF
a modified NRA, once the court il
reinvigorated with new blood of his
selection.
Mr.. Roosevelt has never re
pented the creation of the origina,
NRA, although in his message oi
January 6 he did confess the fault
that 1t tried to do too much.
Also in that message he said that
| while the statute Of NRA has
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

Of this tradition. He descends di-
rectly, for one thing. from the
Marquis de Lafayette. That cir
cumstance accounts for the fact
that he IS an honorary American
citizen. If it were not for the fur
ther circumstance that he was
born on legally foreign soil
of French parents, in 1875, while
his father was attached to the
French Embassy in Washington as
legal adviser, and decided to re-
main q Frenchman, he would be q
natiVe-born American citizen.
Time passed, as the old-tash'
toned movies used to say. The
count passed from pleasant boy
hood scenes in Washington into q
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

been outlaWed, the problems have
not; they are still with u.s.
Initiation Feared
Deeply disturbing to the Presi-
dent and some of his closest ad-
viserS are inflationary tendencies
that have become apparent since
the turn of the year. Wages have
been increased in many indus
tries, led off by steel. In most
cases, especially in the case OF
steel, added operating costs have
been promptly passed along to
the public in the form Of higher
prices.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
SENATOR HINTS
DOG RACE BILL
SCANDAL"
Affecting
High Officials Are
Threatened

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March "a.
Revelations that would affect high
officials of the State were ex-
pected today to result from a
hearing before the senate finance
committee on a bill offered by
Senators w. Frank Every and JOS
eph M. wyatt, Baltimore Demo
Gratis, which would legalize dog
racing.
Senator ]. Allan Coad CD of
st. Mary's, majority floor leader
and chairman of the finance COM
mittee, is Strenuously opposed to
the bill. Should an effort be made
to bring it out of committee, he
has promised to make public reve-
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
FINDS LIBERTY
|NPERILLED
BY PLAN
Trend to AbsoIutism,
Left or Right, in US.
Held Danger
CONTINUED from Page u

IOOHLIHUtU ITUIH "BS II
was the exact manner, he said,
in which the Nazis rose to con-
troll of Germany.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
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Evening star., 1937-12-26

strong for single and too weak for
double raise; since the two-heart
rebid is forced rebid and does not
necessarily show more than a rank
minimum hand, why must a three
spade response now be construed as
game force? If game is demanded,
why not jump to four spades directly
and allow the three-spade response to
indicate that you are perfectly willing
for partner to pass if he opened a
rank minimum hand?"
Mr.. Lloyds reasoning is correct,
and If q partnership so desires they
may arrange to treat the jump three
spade bid in this position as merely
qualified force However, instances
where the original bidder will want
to pass this bid are so rare that for
all practical purposes it may be treated
as an absolute game force, as we
do in our book.
OF late we have noticed a revival
OF the old game OF poker, with the
exception that today in most instances
variation known as "high-loE di-
vide" is played, in which instead of
one player taking the whole not. 1t is
divided between the highest and lowest
hands. High-low players divide into
several camps. First we have the
purists, who call ace high only. As a.
result, the 7-5-4-3-2 is the perfect low
hand. Secondly, there are those play-
ers who believe the ace should be
given special consideration and allow
II TO count either high or low. With
these players A-2-3-4-6 becomes the
lowest possible hand.
For players who are used to plavinr
one game and who suddenly play the
other. we wish to point out that
nine-high hand, which is quite likely
to win low when the ace counts hieh
only, Is not nearly 50 good when the
ace can count for low also,
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Evening star., 1937-12-26
EARLE CRACKS DOWN
ON AUTO SPEEDERS
Pennsylvania Governor An.
nounces Licenses Will Be Sus.
pended for 80 Days.
By Tie Associated Press

oJ tA-S AooOSAhICu ACSo.
HARRISBURG. Pa, Dec. 25.-
Gov. George H. Earle announced to-
night that effective at midnight, De-
cember 81. every Pennsylvania motor
ist convicted Of violating the States
50-mile speed limit will have his
operators license suspended for a
minimum of 80 days, lin addition to
any other penalty imposed by law"
while this action may be deemed
drastic. by some persons" the Gov
ernor said, ut is not only justified, but
wholly unavoidable, II we are to stop
the dreadful carnage on Pennsylvania
highways"
During 1897, the Governor said,
Approximately 2,7O0 of our citizens
will have been killed and $4,000 in
jured by automobiles operated in this
Commonwealth.
This is an all-time high record, -
Earle said, adding that "this dreadful
toll in human lives and human suffer-
ing must be reduced during the COM
ing year."
"Out-of State automobile operators
who violate our 50-mile speed limit, !"
Earle said, Twill be reported promptly
to their own State. in addition to suf-
fering any penalty imposed by our
authorities"
Evening star., 1937-12-26
THIRD DIVISION

Atlantic City has been chosen for
the next convention, July Is to l8,
1898. Charlie Mccarthy, editor in
chief of the Sd Division paper, the
Watch on the Rhine, and Bob Craig
of Philadelphia, are mapping plans for
the session.
Washington Branch will meet jan
uary 10, when committee will be ap-
pointed to serve on the Convention
Committee and make arrangements
20 that the Washington Branch can
travel economically together to the
convention.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
''Monk of Dahl lgren' Mystery
Sculpture at C.. i. Is S0lued
Discovery of Record I'm.
cOuers Artist and
Purpose.

Nearly every visitor to Dahlgren
Chapel at Georgetown University is
aroused to curiosity by the small
sculptured figure of studious monk
that serves as the only ornament on
the north exterior wall
In the many years since the chapel
was built the obscure facts concerning
the Monk Of Dahlgren," as it is now
known, have become embroidered
with legendary details. No one seemed
able to identify the sculptor or offer
a satisfactory explanation of how the
odd little figure happened to be placed
where it is, apparently as an after
thought.
Now for the first time the present
generation at Georgetown University
is able to learn the real facts.
These were disclosed in a recently
discovered record left by the late J.
Havens Richards, S. j., who was presi-
dent of the university during the early
70's, when the chapel was built. The
answer to the riddle came as pleas
ant surprise to the present head of the
university, the Rev. Arthur A. OLeary,
S. j., conversant as he is with intimate
Georgetown history.
Sculptor Traced.
Since the record stated that stone
carver named Farley had executed the
little figure, DR.. O'Leary forwarded the
paper to an old friend, John ]. Farley,
also a sculptor. of ITO Lamont street
NV. He suggested to him that the
Farley mentioned might be a family
connection.
Mr.. Farley replied that the man was,
indeed. his own father, and that he
had reason to remember the sculptur-
ing of the monk, although he was only
small boy at the time. That was
because he had climbed onto the scaf-
folding where his father was working
and had fallen to the ground.
The son, like four or five other gen.
erations of Earleys, had followed in
the footsteps of his father, James
Farringston Farley, who came to this
country in the late COS from Dublin,
Ireland. He now maintains a studio In
RoSslyn, Va, continuing the business
that his father started years ago.
Going back to the record left by
Father Richards, the legendary facts
woven about the Monk Of Dahlgren"
are replaced by his own version of
what took place. The cornerstone of
Dahlgren Chapel had been laid by the
late James Cardinal Gibbons in 1871.
While the chapel was nearing COM
pletion the elder Farley, described as
"a stone-carver from Dublin who had
just come to Washington with his
younger brother" stopped at Father
Richards Office one morning and asked
for some work to do.
Mr.. Farley said there was a stone
larger than the others on the north
side Of the chapel near the rear, i'm
mediately under the cutters of the
caves. He asked permission to carve
it into the similitude of monk and
said he would make the monk with
arms extended upholding the gutter.
Monk Changes Occupation
BY noon Father Richards saw to his
astonishment, he wrote. that the monk
was finished. Instead q holding up
the gutter, the monk was employed In