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Thirty-Second gear , MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1937 No. 179,
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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.