Show news review of current Criz erent events ATTACKS BRITISH ENVOY jap aviator shoots ambassador to china con congress 9 ress adjourns falls fails to pass most of must legislation k I 1 W A breathing spell members of the con gress happy in adjournment at last file out of the capitol in washington A 44 we A summarizes 7 THE TWP WORLDS t WEEK 0 0 western newspaper union jap airman courts fate A JAPANESE army aviator pre the gravest internal dional far east crisis since the fighting began in shanghai and per haps indeed since the boxer rebel lion when he swooped down upon a chinese road to pour machine gun bullets into an automobile flying the british union jack from its radia tor one of the bullets pierced the body of sir hughe Natch bull huges sen sell great britian s ambassador to china as he sped in the car to attend a conference with british for eign service officials the ambas a veteran of 30 years in the service was rushed 50 miles to country hospital where an operation was performed sir hughe was the highest rank mg ing british official in china where great britain has enormous inter ests at stake he was attacked by a japanese airplane which did not even have the right of a bellile belligerent rent since no war had been declared while his conveyance was flying the british colors the last comparable incident in china was the boxer rebellion of 1900 when the german ambassador von kettler was shot and killed in neiping L hooray school Is outi VEN if there were more than a E EVEN few threats of wait get you after school the nation s lawman ers were happy as schoolboys at the end of the term as the first ses sion of the seventy fifth congress came to a close at last the sena tors and representatives fairly bogged down with months of wran gling much of it futile through the intolerable Vv ashington 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 lust 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 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 sec detary 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 presidents s desired legislation for re organization reorganization of the executive department it did vote the white house six new sec ret reianes aries though it did not pass the proposal to increase the membership of the su preme court by six justices who would apparently be selected with a view to insuring the constitution aliby of new deal mea measures stires by a vote of 70 to 20 it permitted a sub statute 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 the senate failed to ratify the sanitary convention with argentina modifying the eions 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 measure was on the president presidents s must list pass a sugar quota which may be vetoed by the president he threat ened to veto such a bill if it limited the output of puerto rico and ha wan to and 29 short tons annually and it does just that extend the neutrality law to prohibit the shipment of arms am 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 1500 1 for work relief in the current fiscal year pass a bill to outlaw personal holding companies and other al lebed 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 constitution aliby of a statute ratified the buenos aires peace treaties which aich include a consulta consulia con sulta tive pact for common course of ad aj tion when war anywhere threatens the american republics extended the 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 ex pend iture of 10 the first year 25 the second year and 50 in succeeding years railroad strike threatens 0 successful mediation by the united states government appeared as a chance to prevent a nation wide strike of railroad workers as railroad representatives flatly refused the 20 per cent pay in crease demanded by the big five I 1 railroad brotherhoods in chicago conference the unions said their only recourse was to call out con doctors engineers firemen switch men and trainmen federal mediation wo would uld auto mati cally postpone the strike 30 days the national mediation board named dr Willi williamm arn leiserson one of its members to conduct hear ings railroads financial condition pre eluded the granting of wage in creases said H A enochs chair man of the carriers committee the increase re requested d w would add a year to operating costs of which 2 would be for extra social security taxes and 4 for extra retirement fund taxes he said planes land without eyes A T OAKLAND CALIF civilian I 1 X 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 perfect blind landings at the airport there with a boeing D plane of the type now used on several of the nation s commercial air lines the cockpit windows were cov ered with metal screens to prevent their sneaking so much as a peek at the field many pilots flew I 1 the he ship and although some of them had never operated that type of plane before not a single landing was made outside the foot run way so successful were the tests the bureau of air commerce army navy and commercial airlines representatives 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 W MELLON reputed aly AA ly one of the four richest men in the united states and secretary of the treasury in three cabinets died of uremia and bronchial moma monia at the home of his son in law at southampton N Y he was eighty two years 0 old id 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 col lection he gave was valued at 50 excavation is now under way for a 15 building to house the collection in washington japanese turn tide succeeding succeeding in landing thou LJ sands of reinforcements from its transport ships the japanese ap 1 feared ready to turn the tide of ground battle in the undeclared war in china while their navy threw a blockade around miles of ox the chinese seacoast from shanghai Shar ghai nearly to canton in south china only at terrific cost were the re getting ashore many entire landing parties were blown to bits as they attempted to take shore positions under a blaze of machine gun fire abild and in the face of artil lery shells and land mine elpio more than a quarter of a million men were reported engaged in the fighting along a front stretching from shanghai northwestward to neiping bankow and Chang pel pei deep in province and north to the great wall at the northern end of the front the pro japanese mongol troops of prince teh battled combined chinese regular and communist armies japanese reported the capture of kalgan calgan capital of shutting off chinese communication with mongolia while the routed chinese troops fled to the south japanese forces broke through the stubborn chinese defenses at bankow pass and penetrated the great wall they were reported to have succeeded in escaping narrowly a stra begic chinese maneuver which would have trapped 30 japanese troops south and west of neiping chinese positions south of neiping were dominated by the well equipped well trained and mechanized japanese army which captured the commanding high land but despite all this activity to the north it was upon shanghai that the full horror of the war descended the international settlement was lit tie tle safer than any of the rest of the great port except perhaps the native district of chapel which was gutted by flames and torn by bombs and shells after two weeks of fight ing in shanghai there were report ed to be 5 casualties in the in ter national settlement and the french conc concession essio n including 1 1760 76 0 fatalities unholy three SINCE the fight on the presidents u 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 sena tors and representatives were marked for extinction fish fries and harmony dinners notwithstanding but few expected the bombshell that broke when sen sell joseph F guf fey of pennsylvania in a radio speech just before the end of the session openly named senators 0 mahoney of texas burke of N nebraska and wheeler of montana as senators who would not return to washington after the next elections burke summed up reply of the three men attacked when he said that if guff guffey ey s statement were true we might just as well forget about jefferson island and harmony dinners and get ready for a real battle wheeler on the senate floor said that if the democratic bosses want to drive us out of the democratic party they will not have any difficulty in doing so I 1 say to you guffey that if you nominate your governor of pennsylvania or yourself for president of th the e united states you will not have to drive us out admiral yarnell protests SAM was brought nearer U than ever to the unofficial war in north china when a shell ex plodded on the deck of the augusta flagship of the united states asi abic fleet killing freddie john fal gout a seaman and wounding 18 others of the crew the ship was lying at anchor in the Whang poo river in the heart of the international settlement of shanghai it was impossible to determine whether the shell had been fired by the chinese or japanese admiral harry E yarnell commander of the fleet warned the governments ern ments of both nations against shellfire over american and foreign warships the president and the state department were inclined to leave diplomatic overtures to the military naval and diplomatic officers in china the Pret president ident declared that under the circumstances accidents such as the one which beset the augusta were bound to occur santander falls to franco S thirteen month old civil SPAIN war drew one step nearer to a close as gen francisco franco s army captured the city of santander last important government outpost po st on the northern coast As the insurgent troops filed in to occupy the city it was apparent that the remaining government army of 50 men was trapped in the hills southeast of the city in an area 15 miles 1 square probably they were not even aware that santander s iron ring had broken during the last of the twelve days of franco s fur furious I 1 ous 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 craft was put into service hundreds even attempted a getaway m rowboats canoes dories and other small craft some of them using improvised pro sails made from sheets |