Show news nerva review of current events CHINAS HORROR GROWS chousa thousands rids dio die in unofficial war senate confirms black appointment house debates deficiency bill 0 9 P ivaa W summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 Westi orn Fews newspaper paper union declared or not its war S war of 1932 was a u se condrate movie sham battle compared with going on over there now the city of inhabitants and its environs are a scene of destruction terror flames and death on a mass scale the horror of which Is unthinkable thousands upon thousands of civilians lie lia dead dying and wounded and the toll increases day after day no estimate has even been attempted to determine the amount of casualties among the chinese and japanese fighting forces indeed such an estimate today might be woefully inadequate tomorrow tor for reports tell of whole brigades being shot or blown bits in a ter square mile after square mile especially in the native chapel district has been gutted by fires that rise in the wako wake of bombs and artillery shells millions of men women and children face slower even more terrible death by hunger for who Is to bring supplies from the outlying farm fields while the whole area Is under terrific fire even in the international settlement life is fleeting insecure tor for bombs and shells drop there too and with refugees inside to be fed shops are rapidly locking their doors to protect their wares from rioters As this is written the chinese land forces outnumbering the japanese four to one are forcing the invaders slowly back to the whang poo in fierce ground fighting whether expected japanese reinforcements will bo be able to turn the tide of battle Is problematical at the same time japanese warships halt half the entire japanese fleet must mastbe be in the Whang poo aro are showering exploding shells upon huge huga concentrations of chinese soldiers eyewitnesses eye witnesses reported that the japanese had concentrated some 40 destroyers six cruisers tour four dread an airplane carrier and many gunboats gun boats in the rivers near shanghai only through a clever maneuver did the chinese prevent them irom rom regaining the tha upper reachel helot Tot the Whang poo and shelling shanghai from the rear the Chi chinese nesb in a surprise attack captured six japanese merchant ships sailed galled them into the heart of the channel and scuttled them preventing passage american authorities in shanghai decided upon immediate evacuation by the yanks living there chere the dinger danger which confronted them wa was emphasized when stray Ja japanese capanes panes bombs blasted the american baptist mission leaving the fate of 20 persons insign in grove grave doubt united states marines were on hand of course to offer what protection they could to american nationals tio nals and reinforcements were quick in leaving san diego calif to join them the U S S augusta flagship flags hlo of uncle sams china squadron lay in the Whang poo alongside the japanese ships with shrapnel lying flying about their ears americans were getting out of china on 1 every available ship it was not considered likely that president roosevelt would invoke invoice the neutrality act so long as no official state stale of war between japan and china existed this would involve the declaration of embargoes on arms and on the extension of credits to both nations a situation I 1 on which would be of at definite aid to the aggressor japan since china Is in tar far greater need bf at war materials japan continued to defend itself officially from rom the wicked chinese whom its foreign office characterized as prejudiced however the defense was being carried on in the other fellows back yard japanese authorities continued to insist that they meant no harm larm to the chinese people and that their aim was still for the cooperation of china Manchu kuo and japan they also revealed that voluntary contributions to the nations war chest coming from all over japan had passed the 2500 mark question blacks eligibility HE senate confirmed the presidents T THE nomination ot sen hugo huge L dlack black of alabama to the supreme co court urt 63 to 16 but only after a bitter fight following which the minority protested that the confirma tion had been railroaded through six democrats and ton ten republicans voted against black Th the eDem democratic insurgents led by edward R burke neb and royal S copeland N Y based their objections principally upon charges that hs he was associated with the ku klux klan and therefore unfitted to sli sit with the high tribunal for reasons of racial and religious prejudice the republicans notably william E borah idaho argued that he could not legally become a member of the court th that at his be tested before the court itself was a possibility when attorney albert levitt r ial 1 1 4 1 1 15 w 0 E appointee in judicial mien former special assistant to attorney general homer S cummings filed a plea tor for leave to pray an order for black to show affirmatively why he should be permitted to serve as I 1 on an associate justice ile he raised the same legal questions as the minority had L 1 that black could not become a justice because during his term as a senator the retirement act was passed permitting justices to retire at tull full pay the constitution provides that no member of congress shall be appointed to an office which was created or the emolument of which was increased during his membership in con congress gress 2 that no vacancy existed on the supreme court anyway since jus tice willis van devanter had only retired not resigned and may still bo be called for judicial service by the chief justice it was expected that the black appointment would become political fodder in the next election campaigns G grist rist from f the he mill A FTER R months of wrangling over LA AA the supreme court measure the wages and hours bill the ever normal granary bill and other administration musts the house of representatives began to act up upon n some othir other legislation in 16 haste with a view to adjournment some day some time the house appropriations committee reported out the years last deficiency fici ency measure to supply funds for government operations overlooked in the regular budget it called tor for two previous deficiency measures totaling nearly a billion had been passed the committee turned down requests from the executive department for in additional appropriations some of the appropriations recommended were tor for new buildings for federal participation in the alie new york worlds fair and tor for participation in the san francisco worlds fair funds for the operation of the jones bankhead farm tenancy act and tor for naval building were denied altogether appropriations for payments lits to federal land t banks a aks and the federal farm mortgage corporation and the national labor relations board were sliced severely the tha house passed the I 1 low ow cost housing bill but with so many alterations te that I 1 it t had to go to a joint committee for or the differences to be straightened out before it could be sent to the white house the senate had approved a bond issue of tho the house shaved it to the house also raised the percentage of funds which local communities must contribute to projects increased the limitation of cost of a single dwelling to or 1000 a room and cut the limit of any one states share in the funds from 20 per cent to 10 per cent the house also passed a bill designed to plug the tax loopholes by which it was alleged the wealthy have been legally or illegally nv avoiding the payment of 0 income taxes which they have a moral if not a legal right to pay the extremely complicated bill carried unanimously after only two hours consideration ar k strange doings at sea ri COUR OUR insurgent airplanes dropped 1 25 21 bombs upon the danish vessel edith and sank it in the medi teran nean came the report from barcelona the crew of 0 20 and a french observer tor for the non i inter bention control were rescued by two fishing boats the owners of the vessel tn in copenhagen sold said it was their twentieth ship to be captured or bombed by the rebels the captain of the french frel freighter ghi peame reported to authorities that a torpedo had been fired upon his ship by an unidentified subah rine which floated beside his ship for several minutes off the Tun tunisian islAn coast when the spanish tanker campen campea dor was sunk stink in inthe the mediterranean terrane the rebel command issued a taking the tha full blame but the captain of the tanker insisted an italian allain It destroyer sank IL it campaign aftermath T TURNED down by the house rules committee when he demanded a special investigation rep bertrand 11 snell of new york republican floor leader has carried direct to attorney torney general homer S cummings his charges of violation of the federal corrupt practices act by the democratic national committee the charges arise from national chairman james A Far parleys leys ingenious method of selling derri socratic ocra tic convention books autographed by president roosevelt for each in a letter to cummings snell charged 1 that sales of the book autographed graph edby by the president in 1936 at each constitute an illegal collection of campaign funds and a direct violation of section of the carru corrupt P t practices act 2 that a colorado man was the victim of eleven specific acts of reprisals by the resettlement administration and threats t to 0 put him out of business since his ref refusal last october to subs subscribe crivy to the book sales campaign 3 that a new yorker was approached pro ached by a democratic campaign committee agent with promise of white house intervention in return for a subscription or retainer snell attached affidavits and a synopsis of the evidence he had furnished the house rules committee rebels press santander 0 from the insurgent lv command said that 35 villages and 1000 prisoners had been captured by the rebels in their drive on santander and the tiny remaining slice of the northern spanish coast held by the government the government admitted that some advances d had been made but refused to concede that general francos forces were threatening the main defenses of the santander area franco in his new drive was using the same tactics which eventually brought about the downfall of bilbao after a siege of many months bombing planes and artil ler lery yvere were pounding the fortifications while other airplanes poured machine gun kare upon trenches and dugouts dug outs insurgents planned the santander advance to require as little manpower as pos possible so as to leave enough men at the madrid front to start a separate offensive there if necessary Y they admitted the loyalists had caught them napping with an offensive west of madrid in july causing them to abandon the santander drive temporarily but declared that that will not happen this time has farley I 1 IS S genial jim parley farley going to resign as postmaster general to become the executive head of an automobile firm that s what his friends in washington say and jim has not denied them the rumor as he has promptly denied denie d 1 similar rumors in thelast the past parley farley it is said seeks to rehabilitate u his pe personal r fortunes As postmaster general he has lost a year over his salary of and is ac jim lm farley cording to his friends today in debt the story went that he be would be come an executive of the pierce arrow motor corporation that new shares of stock would be delivered to him and that he would also be allowed to share in the stock purchase warrants wonder it if the pierce fierce arrow salm sales force is watching the charts tor for maine and vermont french lifeline periled perilea Peri led tarance THE HE paris press disc disclosed loseA that france considers herself in danger of losing her possessions in the near east land and of having her air route connections with the far east severed because of revolts in syria censorship of the news out of syria is strict but some reports have leaked through which indicate the revolt recently quelled was a serious one according to one dispatch the population Is extremely dissatisfied with the terms cerms of the franco syrian treaty signed last september 10 As soon as the proper machinery can be set up the treaty provides a unified syr syrian ian state will be formed from four of the five mandate areas which ch the french hold in the levant large sections of the population diner differ in religion from the syrians in damascus they are willing to be governed by a foreign nation like france as they have been for centuries but they do not want to be subjected to the will ca 0 the damascus politicians it protests lease of ships lof LA A influential newspaper of buenos alres aires argentina caused some str stir by vigorously protesting the proposed leasing of obsolete united states warships to brazil declaring that such an act would upset the balance of naval power in south america secretary of state hull had written a letter to the senate naval committee asking congressional au author thorl ty for the leasing of overage over age war vessels to south american republics when the objections were noted president roosevelt pointed out that the vessels in question were obsolete and were only to be used for train training inZ |