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The Weather Cnsettled today with seat tered llfht ehowera; fair to morrow. Little rhsnre in tem perature. Temperature Hlfhest yesterday..... 68 Who Can Tell? Juit turn to the classified page tblt morning and see what U advertised there. Yoo may bo surprised to find what you are looking for. Every department offers rel opportunities worthy of your attention. Medford 1IBUNE Lowest yesterday, - ii I -7 r T" II I l II i rull Associated Presa - Iuil United Preat TT'"' . 1 Thirty-Second gear , MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1937 No. 179, 1 . I- : : . : Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. ROOSEVELT, MOROENTHAU FRIENDS FOR MANY YEARS PRESIDENT AND AIDE FARMED JOINING ESTATES INFLUENCE AT WHITE HOUSE CONTINUES UNIMPAIRED BUDGET. "HOT MONEY" ARB CURRENT WORRIES WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Nearly three docdase ago. two gentlemen farmers leaned against the fence on a New York state farm, chewed straws and talked about spraying apple trees. One was broad-shouldered and blond, and his ancestors had Inhab ited the fertile shores of the Hudson for two centuries. The other was slender and dark and belonged to the first American-born generation of a family that had long tilled the fields of a European country-side. Both were good Americans with a healthy Interest In trees. Neither guessed It at the time, but on that common ground was built a friendship that was to bring Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Mor genthau together again as neighbors In the nation's capital one In the White House and the otliei next doo; In the treasury.. Today, while the two are still In terested In trees, they have much more to talk about while figuratively "leaning against the fence." Of late, there have been persistent but Ill-founded rumors that these friendly conversations havo been cur tailed and that Mr. Morgenthau has lost some of the prestige which he formerly enjoyed at the White House. The treasury has been a place of many men of as many minds,-ever since the New Deal began Its finan cial dealings. Only recently, one of the secre tary's Aides, worried lest his chief were losing his influence with the president, asked another adviser If this were the case. The answer was a strong negative. One of the biggest Jobs the presi dent has before htm balancing the budget he shares with "Henry." This week there will be made pub lic a statement over which the heads of the two friends have been bent for a long time the account of the ad ministration's savings put-Into effect at the beginning of the fiscal year. Later they will have to worry about the budget figures for the fiscal year 1C39 which, according to the presi dent's prediction on his recent trip, Is to be balanced. "Hot money," like budgets, is an other problem not new for Mr. Mor genthau, either. Like budgets, too. it la a current one. It refers to the huge pile of surplus funds owned or controlled by international bankers, and invested In American securities or deposited temporarily In American banks, either for safe-keeping or to evade taxes Imposed In other coun tries. Latest figures of the bureau of for eign and domestic commerce show the grand total of these investments, together with foreign-owned dollar balances and other short term In vestments In this country at the end of 1036, topped the seven and a half billion mark. Shifting of large amounts of this sum from the United States to other countries throws the stock and money markets out- of gear. To achieve stable monetary conditions In the United States, experts agree that "hot money" is one of the prob lems that must be met. t So, In brief, arc two of the matters which Gentleman Farmer Morgen thau la confronted with at the pres ent time. Two things, perhaps, turned Henry Morgenthau away from the study of architecture, for which profession he began his studies at Cornell, and back to his hobby of agriculture, which brought blm Into contact with Gentleman rarmer Roosevelt. First, a breakdown In health sent him oft to Texas and the outdoor lite. Second, an atavistic Impulse led him to follow the calling of his Oerman torebesrs farming. As a consequence, when h, left Cornell, he set out to find a fsrm 3f his own, a quest which took him to Dutchess county snd the neigh borhood of the Roosevelt estates. The family was drawn Into public life by Mr. Morcentheu's father who. a year after he had been named chairman of the Democratic national committee, was appointed ambassa dor to Turkey by President Wilson. When r ir':n n rt was IL DUCES PAPER CLAIMS AMERICAN GUNSAID SPAIN Italy Partially Agrees To Troop Withdrawals, But Russia Bitter, British Dubious. MILAN, Oct. 16. (Up) The news paper II popolo d'ltallan owned by Premier Benito Mussolini, In an ed itorial headed "American Sacrifices," charged today that Loyalist Spain has been receiving American arms, first consigned to Russia and trans-shipped to Spain. In order not to spoil the Puritan Impartiality of a great speech," the editorial said referring to President Roosevelt's Chicago address, "which has been rushed to the chancelleries of all states like a booklet of Demo cratic oration, let us pass over the Ingenuous allusions to nations 'which take part In a civil war in a country which has done them no harm.' "We guarantee Instead the exacti tude of the following data which was neglected in the Chicago sermon. "During the month of September alone the United States exported arms and munitions for a total of 400 000, 000 lire. Of this total about 200.000. 000 was absorbed by the Soviet re public which In turn reshlpped arms and munitions, furnished by the United States, to red Spain." LONDON. Oct. 16. Pi Italy today offered to make a conditional "tok en" withdrawal of part of the Ital ian volunteers fighting with the Spanish Insurgent armies, but dele gates of other powers heard the of fer with Mteptlcism. Count EH no Grand! , Italy's spokes man, made the gesture at the session of tho subcommittee of the 27-natIon non-intervention committee, summon ed to seek means of preventing the Spanish war from becoming a Euro pean conflagration. But he Insisted withdrawals be In "equal numbers from both sides," which competent diplomatic quarters declared would mean recall of only a small proportion of the blackshtrts now In Spain even If all foreign vol unteers were taken from the Spanish government's ranks. The meeting waa marked by revival of bitter verbal warfare between Italy and Soviet Russia. Ivan Malsky. Soclet Russian spokes man in the nine-nation sub-corn-J mlttee, made a slashing attack on the , role Italy has played In the Spanish ' war. The only hopeful sign after today's brief, bitter meeting. Informed sourc es said, was the willingness of all delegates to ask quick Instructions from home capitals on the Anglo French "lost effort" to end foreign intervention through committee ac tion. The sub-committee agreed to recon vene Tuesday. Both France and Britain were skep tical, however, of Italy's conditional "token withdrawal" offer. Optimism was lacking for the Tuesday meet ing, at which observers said "the real discussion begins." Informed quarters declared the Italian offer would be "entirely un satisfactory" to Great Britain, France and Russia since withdrawal of equal numbers from each side would harm the Spanish government much more than It would harm insurgent Gener alisMmo Francisco Franco. Diplomatic sources said 100.000 blackshlrt warriors are now ftghtlng for the insurgent while government foreign troops total only 16.000 of mixed nationality. Enmity between Russia and Italy flared anew when Ambassador MaUgy charged Italy and lermany sought delay In order to send the insurgent? poison gas and termed Mussolini's "glorification" of Italian Intervention "an international scandal of the first magnitude. MISSOOLA. Mont . Oct. 1. lift thji Miyhrti. twins. Wlllsrd and John. completed an amicable exchange of wives today. Wlilard was married at the sher iff, office to Eleanor, divorced last Thursdsy by brother John. immedistelv sfter obtaining nia ni- vorce decree. John had driven to Ham- llton. Mont., to be married to Mary, brother Wlllsrd s former spouse, by s Justice of the peace. Wlilard and Mary during their mar riage had no children. John won custody In his divorce decree of two of three children born to him snd Eleanor. John dirt not art for eiistodv of a - .n'.A Infant IVES EXCHANGED BY MONTANA PAIR ! ;iirn r-i'Mi. " I John and Wlilard are Uoorws. Sen. Steiwer Will Make Decision on Future Plan Soon PORTLAND, Oct. 16. AP) Senator Frederick Steiwer of Ore gon, keynoter of the 1936 Repub lican national convention, will decide within " the next week whether to seek re-election next year, the Portland Oregonlan said today. The newspaper said Democratic candidate possibilities include Carl C. Dona ugh, Willis M&honey, E. J. Griffith end Elton Watklns. TROOPS CALLED IN RHODE ISLAND TO HALT RACE MEET Governor Takes Drastic Step Against Rival Claims Criminals Im ported. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 16. JP Gov. Robert E. Qulnn, in a formal proclamation, tonight declared "a state of insurrection" existed at Nar-' ragansett race track and his secre tary indicated national guardsmen would prevent opening of the fall horseraclng season on Monday. The "state of Insurrection," the proclamation asserted, also Included l territory one mile in all directions from the palatial race track of Walter I E. O'hara, with whom Qutnn has been violently at odds for several - weeks. George Mackle, the governor's sec retary, said the proclamation meant that troops of the Rhode) Island na tional guard would be stationed around the track , "not later than Monday morning." Even as the chief executive pro mulgated his order, workmen labored to get the track In readiness for the track's opening. O'Hara, who has been in New York for several days, waa expected to re turn to Providence late tonight. The proclamation- contended that the "danger 'of attendance of "gang sters, criminals and persons of ill repute" at the fall meeting "will cause serious breach of peace" and result In "injury to our citizens" with which civil authorities will be "unable to cope.' Qulnn, In his proclamation, charg ed that O'Hara had "Imported known criminals" into Rhode Island to "In timidate public officials" and that he had "caused large numbers of Pawtucket police to Intimidate and prevent public officials from per forming their duties." REP. FISH FLAYS SINO-JAP STAND WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. (UP) Rep. Hamilton Flh (R.-N.Y.). rent ing R.publlean on the house foreign affairs committee, said tonight that President Roosevelt "ought to be im peached" for failure to Invoke the American neutrality act in connection with Chinese-Japanese hostilities. "The president bas deliberately nullified an act of congress and re pudiated the lav of the land." Pish charged, "and I agree with Represen tative Tlnkham (Rep. Oeorge H. Tink- I ham, R.-Mars.) that ho ought to be i Impeached for not carrying out the law and for endangering the peace of our country." LIS WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 16.--tfV-Mis Alexandrine DuPont, daughter of Lammot DuPont. president of X. I. DuPont de Nemours At Co- was mar ried today to Howard A. Perkins of Stratford, Pa., and Wilmington, in Westminster Presbyterian church. WILLI A MOTOWN, Mass., Oct. 16. iVp Miss Mary Adeline Prentice, Brand daughter of the late John D. Rocxeiener, voamj oecame ,n onaf of Benjamin Davis Gilbert of Clay- Tille, N. T. Mnnney pMHeriitor III. BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. (JP Charl-a M. Flckert, former Sin Fran dsco district attorney, spent a "fairly restful night and Is slightly Improv ed." hospital attendant said today Flckert. who prosecuted Tnomaa J. Moonv and Warren K. Bllltnca tn ' tl-. Ifi4 prrn?dn Dy bom bin ca. is iu with. pTKi.ay-c.a. EARLY FIGHT OVER BLACK ON BENCH Move To Impeach Presi dent's Choice Looms Anti-Lynch Bill Also Storm Center. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. (API- Troubles galore were predicted lor the new and special session of con gress today not all of them origin ating in the program requested by President Roosevelt. The Items for which he asked crop control, more natural resource planning regions, wage and hour legislation, government reorganiza tion and an anti-trust bill are an loaded with controversy, it la true, but there are other disputes lurking nearby. The first of these Is the continu ing row over the appointment ox Hugo L. Black of the supreme court, dispute Involving both his admit ted former membership in the Ku Klux Kian and the question of his technical eligibility. President Roosevelt apparently has determined to say nothing more about the case. But that does not , go for some members of congress. An impeachment effort before tne session Is a few days old would not surprise many Row number two is a congres sional perennial the question oi enacting antl-lynchlng legislation. Before congress adjourned in August, an agreement was reached making an antl-lynchlng bill the senate's second order of business, after tne current .recess.. , , . - t. . Gauging the prospects for contro versy, waahlngton was prone to-add to these the disturbance within the Democratic party left over from last session's fight over the court re form bill. Mr. Roosevelt has said he may or may not recommend such legislation again. He did not mention It when he called the special session. - The president's five-point program Itself holds abundant promise oi controversy. F LABOR AGREE TO MOVE FOR PEACE (Br The Associated Preiu) Organized labor called an armis tice In Its two-year-old civil war yesterday (Saturday) and agreed on a preliminary peace conference In Washington, October 26, intended to unify again the American labor movement. The signal to "cease firing" was the American Federation of Labor's announcement in Denver It had ac cepted a propositi from the Com mittee for Industrial Organization to send negotiating committees to a Washington conference without ad vance conditions, reservations or commitments. The conference agreement followed several days of long-distance maneu vering, neither side willing to recede from Its views on the principles of craft unionism and Industrial unionism. Two C. I. O. conference proposals were turned down by the federation before a third was accepted. Phillip Murray, one of John L. Lewis' chief lieutenants in the C. I. O., termed the Federation's earlier Jockeying on conference condltlona "quibbling." The agreement wis reached prac tically two yean from the date Lewis and 10 "rebel" unions walked out of the Federation convention and or ganized the C. I. O., to embrace unskilled workers in mass production industries. Northern California: Fair Sunday but unsettled In extreme north por tion: ullghtly wanner In Interior Sun day; moderate northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Showers flunda); slightly eoUW In Interior tonisM; strong southerly wind off coast, decreasing tonight. BAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16. JVr Outlook for far weefrn states, period October 18 to 33, Inclusive: Generally fair weather, preceded ftv showers Vrrt of week in Pi.ri.jj tr: !.-."; temper aiuxes e.loi.tijr above aocaul. asaeasssasettf ' I I Itlfl-aaaasamaaJ BEHIND ROOSEVELT 100 per cent, Arkansas' Gov. Carl E. Bailey seeks the senate seat of the late Joseph Robinson in an all-Democratic campaign. FARLEY EXTOLLS PRESIDENT PLANS ON OREGON VISIT PORTLAND. Oct. 16. (A, Presi dent Roosevelt "has demonstrated for all time the Democratic party is fit and able to govern," the touring load er of the national Democratic party. Postmaster-General James A. Farley, told the Oregon Jackson club today. Farley followed this theme at the new East Portland postal station In a dedication speech reflecting the president's insistence upon "uproot ing old evils", and "laying the foun dations for better living conditions" To. Jacksonlans, Farley .jjiV. : "The president will carry fcn in the future as he has In the past, and we will, work toward the end that America shall be a better plaoe In which to live." The bald patronage dispenser as serted there haa not been "a hint or suggestion of graft or extravagance" In all the billions spent on WPA projects. He predicted congress will continue the CCC, and described Bonneville and Orand Coulee as major achieve ments. The program has meant much to the n talon, he said, but "nowhere more than to Oregon and Washing ton . Farley left here to dedicate a new federal building at Salem and to speak at Eugene. LADY, NOW 45, HAS IDAHO 30 BOISE. Idaho, Oct. 18. P Mrs. Lyda Southard convicted slayer of the fourth of her six husbands observed her 4flth birthday today still hopeful she will be liberated from the Idaho state prison In which she has spent Id yeara. "I'm trying to look at the brighter side of life; sometlmci it's hard," she told the Associated Press. "I hope I am released sometime so I can so home to my mother. She's getting along In years and Isn't In good health, you know." Mrs. Southard waa sentenced flep- tember 17, 1921. In Twin Falls to spend from 10 years to life In state's prison following her conviction of poisoning her fourth husband, Ed ward F. Meyer. Her trial was one of the most sen sational In Idaho criminal annals. It followed her return from Honolulu where she waa living with her fifth husband, Paul V. Southard, a naval officer. . She has only one regret that she yielded to the temptation to escape from the women s cell block on May 5, 1931. She was recaptured at Topeka. Kan July 30. 1932. During her year's absence she mar ried Harry Whlllock, her sixth hus band, at Denver, Colo. Wool Mart Quiet BOSTON, Oct, 16. (AU-UflDA) The wool market during the past week was quiet, except for scattered trading In add lota at prices .rregu larly lower than quotations on the bulk of holdings. Largo holders made no attempt to sell because of wide spread Indifference of buyers. Wet lplnt PORTLAND, Oct. 16 (4'r A pelt ing ram storm due to continue over Sunday ended warm rtidtsn summer temperatures today. The weather bu reau said temperature will drop both in western and Interior Oregon to night. JSlrn.vT rr-ufhirly winds will pre rail aloug tb ooaaU TIES AND UPSETS I Half Million Fans See Lead ing Games Five Squads Defeated. Great NEW YORK. Oct. 16. (APi Cor nell, Army, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Tennessee passed out of the undefeated picture today In an other dazzling series of football ex ploits before the bigegst spectator outpouring of the season. More than 550.000 frtns saw the day's 20 leading games. Cornell, minus the services of George Peck, was spilled by an un derated Syracuse array paced by the Olympic sprinter, Marty Ollckman, U to 6. Army, with Its line crum bling at critical stages, bowed to Yale, IB to 7. Georgia Tech lost a heart-breaking 20 to 19 decision to undefeated Duke , as Fletcher 81ms fumbled a punt In I the closing minutes of play and i paved the way for the Blue Devils' final score. AlAbama'a combined pass ing and running attack carried the Crimson tide to a 14-7 decision over Tennessee, hitherto undefeated. Notre Dame met Its Waterloo on ! familiar ground and at the handa of a familiar and respected foe Carnegie Tech. The englneEm won 9-7 on the strength of Coleman Kopcsak's field goal from the 16 yard Una In the third period. The plaguo of ties struck in the far west where Washington and Washington State, Oregon State and U. C, L. A. battled to 7-7 draws. In the Rocky Mountain group. Utah nosed out Oreelny, 7-6, and Colorado won from Brlgham Young, 14-0. Denver dropped a 7-4 verdict to Colorado college and Wyoming eked out a 7-0 decision over Colo rado State. Utah Stato surprised by (Continued on Pag Three.) FEHL'S REPLY TO TO ACTION FILED ' pbRTLAND. Oct. 19. (UP) Bart H. Pehl. former county Judge of Jack son countjr, who reoently sued Gov ernor Martin for $880,000 damages, al leging false Imprisonment, today tiled tn circuit court objectlona to Attorney-General I. H. VanWInkle or his assistant, Ralph Moody, appearing as counsel for the governor. The petition pointed out that the ault waa brought agalnat the governor as a private citizen and resident of Multnomsb county, and as elected snd appointed state officers the attorney general and his insistent cannot le gally represent the governor. Fehl's suit slleged that he waa re fused his liberty from the state nonl tentlary by the governor when he was eligible for discharge for good behavior. He also alleged that the governor conspired with Moody to have him Illegally convicted In Jack son county In 1033 of a charge of atesllng ballots from the courthouse. Moody recently filed a demurrer to the suit on the part of the governor, asking It be thrown out because It did not cite csusea of action. OF E JERUSALEM, Oct. !. AP The Orsnd Mufti of Jerusalem slipped out of Palestine last night, tie.ing to the Lebanese rapubllo aboard a sailboat, as British authorities tightened their control over Moslem activities In a determined effort to suppress terrorism in the Holy Una. The latest action of the Brltlin administration waa to asaum, con trol of the Moslem "WAgr' tne committee In charge of Moslem re ligious properties. The Holy Land was relatively quiet again under strict military vigil But only yesterday two British con stables were slain from ambush ana other acta of terrorism had raauitea In the killing and wounding oi many Jew, and Arabs. SALEM, pet. 10 (P) October 28 has been fixed officially by the Sslem wster commission as the dste for turning water from the new stayton Island supply Into the city's mains. SALEM. Oct. It. HP) A croup of women dropped recently from a WPA sewing propert hers today asked for a hearing before the labor relations DoarO- New Deal Strives To Avert "Crash" Ere 1940 Election PORTLAND. Oct. 18. (API Portland civic workera today heard Benjamin C. Marah. Washington. D. C, executive secretary of the People's Lobby, declare "new deal policies In Industry, agriculture and finance have aterted the Unit ed States In Its next craah." Marsh added that "new deal policies during the next three .veers apparently will be directed to postponing the consequences of the past four years' policies until after the next presldentlsl elec tion." ELDERLY DOCTOR IN LOVEJANGLE Maine Youth Confesses Cruel Murders And Grue some Auto Trip Through Six States. NORTH ARLINGTON. N. J.. Oct. 18 (P) A sleepy-eyed youth of 18 faced quick removal to Maine tonight after Prosecutor John J. Breslln announced he confessed killing an elderly phy sician and hla wife, atutflng their bodies tn a car and driving hla grue some cargo through six northeastern states. The youth, Psul Dwyer, South Paris. Me,, high school Junior and son of a widowed nurse, waa arrested ahortly after 4 a. m. by two patrolmen, who aaw his shoes sticking out of the window of a pnrked automobile where he slept tlrod from a off-hour ride. Taken to polloe headquarters for routine questioning, the youth was ssld by Police Chief deorgo Shlppee to have described resdlly the "double murder" of Dr. John O. Llttlefleld, 67, South Psrls physician, and his wife. Lydls. 84. He began to talk after a patrolman, searching the car, reported he found the body of a woman on the floor below the back seat, with suitcases and blankets piled on top of har. "I might as well tell you," Shlppee quoted the youth as saying. "There's a man in the back trunk, I killed him, too." In the trunk polios found Dr. Llt tlefleld's battered body. Police said the youth confessed he killed Llttlefleld after the physician, during a professional call, remarked that "the girl I (Dwyer) waa going with last winter was pregnant." Later, police said Dwyer admitted he took Mrs. Llttlefleld on a long drive to Investigate a faked atory of her hus. band's disappearance; then killed her when ah. became suspicious. CALIFORNIA DEER SEASON DEATHS 15 SAN PRANCISCO, Oct. 18. (P) Fifteen persons died during the deer hunting sesson In Csllfomla and many others were wounded by rifles snd In automobile accidents. Fatalities last yesr totaled 11 and seven hunters were killed In 1935. Statistics compiled todsy showed It persons died from rifle wound, dur ing the sesson, which closed yester dsy, two were killed tn automobile accidents, one bled to death from knife wounds and one woman hunter dropped dead. F SHOW GIRL DEAD NIW YORK, Oct. 18. IAP) The former Edna Leedom, once one of the moat brilliant aura In no Ziegfcld'a galaxy of "glorified Amer lean girls," died today at the age of 40, a atald Jackson Heights housewife. Desth csme suddenly al ter an attack of pneumonia. Since her elopement on March V. 1038, with Frahk Doelger, brewery heir, Miss Leedom had been only a memory to the Broadway where her name waa once embiseed on theater marquees In danllng letters. A son. Prank Jr, seven, also sur vives. Beg Labor Leader, PORTLAND. Oct. 18 iTl The City council today Instructed Mayor Jo seph Carson to aak William Green of the A. r. of L. and John Lewis of the C. t. O. to compromise the Jurisdic tional strife Involving the Portland sawmill Induau FOR PEACE PARLEY Delegation Sails Wednesday For Brussels For Nino Power Meet To End Jap War. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (AF)- The United Statea moved swiftly to day to Insure Its cooperation wiun other nine-power treaty signatories In a conference designed to halt tM undeclared Slno-Japanese war. Five minutes after the Belgian government's formal Invitation to tho parley at Brussels on Octobe? 30 had been received, Secretary HUl announced this government's accept tanoe and named a delegation 04 five to represent it. Norman H. Davis, of Mew Tera President Roosevelt' "ambassador at-large," was designated America'! chief spokesman In ' conference et forts to find a formula for a peace able adjustment of the far eastern crisis. Secretary Hull wrote Senate Walsh (D., Mass.) ha did not thin this government need or should show tolerance towards actions in consistent with treaties to whica this country Is a party. . Davis la expected to preee for aai agreement to mediate the Slno- Japanese conflict In accordance wiul a policy already outlined by th president, With Davis will go the state d partment'a top ranking expert om far eastern and European problems Dr. Stanley K. Hofnbeck. special political advisor to Secretary Hun on far ' eastern ;' affairs and Jay Plerrepont Moffat, chief of the de partment 'a European division The delegation also will Include) Robert T. Pell, an attache of th European division, who will act a preaa officer, and Charles E, Somen, secretary. The United Statea government, l common with the seven other Biff natorlea of the nlne-pwer pact guaranteeing China's territorial an administration sovereignty wsa in vlted to the conference by Belgium to "examine the situation In tna Par East and to study peaceable means of hastening tho end of tna regrettable conflict' there. ; SHANGHAI, Oct. 17. (Sunday) (AP) The Chinese govnment at Nanking announced today receipt of an Invitation to attend a meeting of the nine-power treaty signatories at Brussels October 80 and an official spokesman said China would accept, Belgium haa asked the nation adhering to the pact, guars n teeing the territorial Integrity of China, tv meet to consider the Chinese-Jap anese conflict. The Japanese north China com mand at Pelphu reported tho cap ture of Shuntehfu, walled Hopes province city SO miles north of tho Honan provincial border. They said Chinese defenders of Shantehfu wen hammered for several hours befors being driven out. This victory gave the Japanese eon trol of nearly all of Hopeh province, Chinese airplanes early today mad a lightning raid on Japanese warships on the Whangpoo river, near Bhang hal, and Japanese troop concentra tions at Woosung. 13 miles north of here. Apparently little damage was done. The Chinese air attack was i retaliation for damagalng raids car ried out by Japanese air forces Fri day and Saturday near Shanghai and at several points tn the southerm provinces ofKwangtung and KwangsU Chinese dispatches listed at least 103 Chinese civilians killed In tho Japanese bombing raids, with hun dreds wounded. Naval planes struck at railway centers and army depot south and west of Shanghai In an effort to keep men and supplies from reaching the Chinese armies massed near thU city. Chinese officials said the Japaneso bombed two trains carrying Chines wounded near lushing, killing m additionally wounding 40. LEHMAN OUT FOR TAMMANY CHOICE NEW YORK, Oct. 16 P Oof. Herbert H. Lehman entered New York City's political campaign today with the election IT days off by proclaim ing his support of former Judge Jere miah T. Maboney, Democrats canal date tor mayor. Lehman, hlmsslf a Democrat fol lowed the lead of postmaster reneral James A. Parley and U. S. Sena. Rob ert P. Wagner and Royal S. Copelend by endorsing the Tammany-backed New Deal opponent of Mayor norell R. UOunrdia. who la also an avowed Kew Deal enthusiast. ,CooUoud on fag Tks.
