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Show News Review of Current Events ATTACKS BRITISH ENVOY Jap Aviator Shoots Ambassador to China...Congress Adjourns . . . Fails to Pass Most of 'Must' Legislation Japanese Turn Tide SUCCEEDING in landing -thousands of reinforcements from its transport ships, the Japanese appeared ap-peared ready to turn the tide or. ground battle in the undeclared war In China, while their navy threw a blockade around 800 miles of the Chinese soacoast from Shanghai nearly to Canton, In South China. Only at terrific cost were the reinforcements re-inforcements getting ashore. Many entire landing parties were blown to bits as they attempted to take shore positions under a blaze of machine gun fire and in the face of artillery artil-lery shells and land mine explosions. explo-sions. More than a quarter of a million men were reported engaged In the fighting along a front which stretched from Shanghai northwestward northwest-ward to Tientsin, Peiping, Nankow and Changpei. deep in Chahar province prov-ince and north to the Great Wall. At the northern end of the front the pro-Japanese Mongol troops of Prince Teh battled combined Chinese Chi-nese regular and communist armies. Japanese reported the capture cap-ture of Kalgan, capital of Chahar, shutting off Chinese communication with Mongolia, while the routed Chinese Chi-nese troops fled to the south. Japanese Jap-anese forces broke through the stub- J...J I I I T ' KJm,.. tfiWIl-ii I y j 4 fi'-l V $ t 1 J Abreath.n, & .--V 'V apell! Members l3JL"? ' '-"- - ? of the 73th con- L V I gress, happy In ,-,""a'? TV I adjournment, at r, last, file out of f ' 1 Washington emmmJmmmmummiMm. iiwiwimMiiii m mutma'.M m hj-- A breathing spell! Members j of the 75th congress, con-gress, happy In adjournment, at last, file out of J the Capitol In i Washington. 1 SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Wtittm Ntwpapr Union. born Chinese defenses at Nankow I pass and penetrated the Great Wall. They were reported to have succeeded suc-ceeded In escaping narrowly a strategic stra-tegic Chinese maneuver which would have trapped 30,000 Japanese troops south and west of Peiping. Chinese positions south of Peiping were dominated dom-inated by the well-equipped, well-trained well-trained and mechanized Japanese army, which captured the commanding com-manding high land. But despite all this activity to the Jap Airman Courts Fate A JAPANESE army aviator precipitated pre-cipitated the gravest international interna-tional Far East crisis since the fighting began In Shanghai, and perhaps per-haps Indeed since the Boxer rebellion, rebel-lion, when he swooped down upon a Chinese road to pour machine gun bullets into an automobile flying the hlbit the shipment of arms, ammunition am-munition and implements of war to belligerents or extension of credit to them. Pass the Guffey act, creating a commission to fix prices and control the marketing of bituminous coaL Appropriate $1,500,000,000 for work relief in the current fiscal year. Pass a bill to outlaw personal holding companies and other alleged al-leged means of tax evasion. Passed a reform bill for the lower courts, designed to speed appeals to the Supreme court and permit the Department of Justice to intervene in cases involving the constitutionality constitution-ality of a statute. Ratified the Buenos Aires "peace treaties," which include a consultative consulta-tive pact for common course of action ac-tion when war anywhere threatens the American republics. Extended the CCC three years. The President had asked that it be made permanent Passed a farm tenancy bill to help share croppers buy their own farms. This provides for the expenditure ex-penditure of $10,000,000 the first year, $25,000,008 the second year and $50,000,000 in succeeding years. Railroad Strike Threatens f NLY successful mediation by " the United States eovernment British Union Jack from its radiator. radia-tor. One of the bullets pierced the body of Sir Hughe Natchbull-Huges-sen, Great Brltian's ambassador to China, as she sped in the car to attend a conference with British foreign for-eign service officials. The ambassador, ambas-sador, a veteran of 30 years in the service, was rushed 50 miles to Country hospital where an operation was performed. , Sir Hughes was the highest ranking rank-ing British official in China, where Great Britain has enormous interests inter-ests at stake. He was attacked by a Japanese airplane which did not even have the right of a belligerent since no war had been declared-while declared-while his conveyance was flying the British colors. The last comparable Incident in China was the Boxer rebellion in 1900, when the German Ambassador von Kettler was shot and killed in Peiping. Hooray! School Is Outl north It was upon Shanghai that the full horror of war descended. The international settlement was little lit-tle safer than any of the rest of the great port, except, perhaps, the native district of Chapei, which was gutted by flames and torn by bombs and shells. After two weeks of fighting fight-ing in Shanghai, there were reported report-ed to be 5,160 casualties in the international in-ternational settlement and the French concession, including 1,760 fatalities. - Guffey's Unholy Three SINCE the fight on the President's court plan began in the senate, it has become more and more obvious that a serious split Impends in the Democratic party ranks. It was not a secret that certain of the senators sena-tors and representatives were marked for extinction, fish fries and harmony dinners notwithstanding. But few expected the bombshell that broke when Sen. Joseph F. Guffey Guf-fey of Pennsylvania, in a radio speech Just before the end of the session, openly named Senators O'-Mahoney O'-Mahoney of Texas, Burke of Nebraska Ne-braska and Wheeler of Montana as senators who would not return to Washington after the next elections. Burke summed up reply of the three attacked when he said that if Guffey's statement were true, "we might Just as well forget about Jefferson Island and harmony dinners din-ners and get ready for a real battle." bat-tle." Wheeler, on the senate floor, said that if the "Democratic bosses ... want to drive us out of the I Democratic party they will not have any difficulty in doing so. I say to you (Guffey) that if you nominate your governor of Pennsylvania or yourself for President of the United States, you will not have to drive us out." Admiral Yarnell Protest; r TNCLE SAM was brought nearer - than ever to the unofficial war in North China when a shell exploded ex-ploded on the deck of the Augusta, flagship of the United States' Asi- EVEN if there were more than a few threats of "Wait'll I get you after school," the nation's lawmakers lawmak-ers were happy as schoolboys at the end of the term, as the first session ses-sion of the Seventy-fifth congress came to a close at last. The senators sena-tors and representatives, fairly bogged down with months of wrangling, wran-gling, much of It futile, through the intolerable Washington summer, were glad of release, even if such release carried the implication that there might be a special session in October. But the legislators left the Capitol In the realization that the session Just ended will probably become known less for what it did than what it did not do. Four out of five of President Roosevelt's major "must" measures meas-ures it did not pass; the fifth it passed only with reservations which put a new complexion upon it Congress did not pass the wages and hours bill After being passed by the senate in unacceptable form, with the understanding that it would be Improved In the house, the bill was still buried with the house rules committee when the bell rang. Congress did not pass the new crop control bill which includes Secretary Sec-retary Wallace's "ever-normal granary" project It was agreed that this legislation be brought up during the first week of the January session or the special session. It did not pass the President's desired de-sired legislation for re-organization of the executive department. It did appeared as a chance to prevent a nation-wide strike of 350,000 railroad workers as railroad representatives flatly refused the 20 per cent pay increase in-crease demanded by the "big five" railroad brotherhoods in Chicago conference. The unions said their only recourse was to call out conductors, con-ductors, engineers, firemen, switchmen switch-men and trainmen. Federal mediation would automatically auto-matically postpone the strike 30 days. The national mediation board named Dr. William M. Leiserson, j one of its members, to conduct hearings. hear-ings. Railroads' financial condition precluded pre-cluded the granting of wage increases, in-creases, said H. A. Enochs, chairman chair-man of the carriers' committee. The increase requested would add $116,000,000 a year to operating costs, of which $2,000,000 would be for extra social security taxes and $4,000,000 for extra retirement fund taxes, he said. Planes Land Without Eyes AT OAKLAND, CALIF., civilian and army fliers proved that air transport planes can now be landed under conditions which prevent the pilot from gaining the slightest glimpse of the ground. Using only a radio beam for "eyes," pilots made 100 perfect "blind" landings at the airport there with a Boeing 247-D plane, of the type now used on several of the nation's commercial air lines. The cockpit windows were covered cov-ered with metal screens to prevent atic fleet, killing Freddie John Fal-gout, Fal-gout, a seaman, and wounding 18 others of the crew. The ship was lying at anchor in the Whangpoo river riv-er in the heart of the International Settlement of Shanghai. It was impossible im-possible to determine whether the shell had been fired by the Chinese or Japanese. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander com-mander of the fleet, warned the governments gov-ernments of both nations against vote the White House six new secretaries, sec-retaries, though. It did not pass the proposal to increase the membership of the Supreme Su-preme court by six justices, who would apparently be selected with a view to insuring the constitutionality constitution-ality of New Deal measures. By a vote of 70 to 20 it permitted a substitute sub-stitute measure, which would have added the justices one at. a time, to die a natural death in committee. In addition to failing to enact this legislation demanded by the chief executive, congress defeated the Norris bill to create seven "little TVA's," and the crop insurance bill, proposing a revolving fund of $100,000,000. The senate failed to ratify the sanitary convention with Argentina, modifying the restrictions restric-tions on imports of meat and live stock. However, congress did: Pass the Wagner low-cost housing bill, but with restrictions on the unit cost which wilL it is charged, make the program virtually unavailable for New York and other large cities which constitute the principal slum problems. The $526,000,000 measure was on the President's "must" list shelinre over American and foreign warships. The President and the State department were inclined to leave diplomatic overtures to the military, naval and diplomatic officers offi-cers in China. Thij President declared de-clared that under the circumstances accidents such as the one, which beset the Augusta were bound to occur. Santander Falls to Franco CPAIN'S thirteen-month-old civil war drew one step nearer to a close as Gen Francisco Franco's army captured the city of Santan-der, Santan-der, last important government outpost out-post on the northern coast As the Insurgent treops filed in to occupy the city, it was apparent that the remaining re-maining government army of 50,000 men was trapped in the hills southeast south-east of the city in an area 15 miles square. Probably they were not even aware that Santander's "iron ring" had broken. During the last of the twelve days of Franco's furious thrusts, the city's streets had run red with the blood of anarchists victims, as thirst hunger and terrorism crazed the populace. By the thousands, civilians were fleeing by sea the only way to France. Every available avail-able craft was put into service; hundreds hun-dreds even attempted a getaway in rowboats, canoes, dories and other small craft, some of them using improvised im-provised sails made from sheets. their sneaking so much as a peek at the field. Many pilots flew the ship and, although some of them had never operated that type of plane before, not a single landing was made outside the 200-foot runway. run-way. So successful were the tests, the bureau of air commerce, army, navy and commercial airlines representatives rep-resentatives present agreed that the system would be adopted for the country as a whole. The system, which makes it possible to bring a ship safely to earth, even through snow, rain, fog or dust was called by authorities the most dramatic thing of its kind since the first flight of the Wright brothers. Andrew W. Mellon Is Dead ANDREW W. MELLON, reputed-ly reputed-ly one of the four richest men in the United States and secretary of the treasury in three cabinets, died of uremia and bronchial pneumonia pneu-monia at the home of his son-in-law at Southampton, N. Y. He was eighty-two years old. Shortly before his death he had fulfilled the ambition of his life by giving to the nation what he termed the "nucleus" of one of the finest art collections in the world. The collection he gave was valued at $50,000,000. Excavation is now under un-der way for a $15,000,000 building to house the collection in Washington. Pass a sugar quota which may be vetoed by the President He threatened threat-ened to veto such a bill if it limited the output of Puerto Rico and Hawaii Ha-waii to 126,000 and 29,000 short tons annually, and it does Just that Extend the neutrality law to pro- |
