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Vol. 105. No. 252.
SHANGHAI FIGHT DRIVES AMERICANS FROM HOMES
PPANDED BUSINESS
JNTY FORESEEN
Il STABLE MARKET
SEC Records Show Huge
Backlog of Industrial
¢ Financing
BUDGET CONFERENCE
Reserve Board® Takes
. Steps to Encourage
Security Issues
WASHINGTON.—(/P)—A check
up of Securities Commission rec
ards indicated today that a huge
backlog of mew industrial financ
ing may be released, once busi
ness is assured of fairly stable
market conditions.
one of the gbvious designs of
{he Federal Reserve Beard change
in margin reguirements was to
encourage the floating of these se
curity issues, which would fi
nance new and expanded busi
ness activity.
To some federal economists, one
of the most disturbing elements
in the current industrial situa
tion has been the slump in secu
rity offerings in the wake of the
stock market decline.
Securities Commission records
showed that since September 1,
69 companies have requested post
ponemeni of the effective ddte of
jssues totaling more than $200,«
000,000,
Ten of these issues have since
been withdrawn, but the backlog
remaining on the commission's
books included securities of 44
companies totaling $116,000,000, in
addition to 15 otheryg recorded only
by number of shares. :
Commission officials said this
was only part of the picture. Many
of the bigger companies, they said,
probably ‘were not even filing their
registrations until conditions im
proved, while in other cases brok
ers were holding up the sale of
issues. ajready approved.
Administration officals express
ed Lhope that the new margin re
quirements would create a turning
point in the financial markets, so
that private financing could get to
work filling the gar left by cur.
tailment of government spending.
The board’s monthly summary of
business conditions vesterday
showed that other economic ba-~
rometers had been dropping with
the stock market.
Industrial production, as regis
terel by the board’s seasonally ad
usted index, dropped from 117
roints in August to 111 in Sep
tember, as compared with 109 in
September a year ago.
The hoard’s summary showed
tonstruction, factory employment
and freight holdings declined un-«
der August, but department store
sales were up.
ROOSEVELT CONFERS
HYDE PARK, N. Y.—(®)—
President Roosevelt called his
chief hudget advisers to the quiet
of his study Hhere today for an
€' ded round of conferences on
Yakwicing the treasury’s books.
Secretary Morgenthau and Un
ler-Secretary Magill of the Treas
ury were due from Washington
this evening to pitch in with the
President: on the problem.
Mr. Roosevelt has said he hopes
W bring income and outgo into
halance during the fiscal year
beginning next July 1. Morgen-
Uau has said he did not believe
iy one could tell at this time
Whether that could be done.
' The two echief Treasury officialy
Will talk with the President thig
&ening and probably tomorrow.
On Monday, Daniel W. Bell, the
budget divector, will join Morgen
hau for continuation of the buds
86t discussions.,
Beyond the troublesome corn
]P&H. tie administration is seéarch
g for means to finance a pro-
Wsed long-range farm program to
Melude all major crops. Any ad
litional cost to be incurred as a
sult of the new program, Mr.
Booscvelt has said, must be bal-
Meed by new revenues.
Treasury experts are at ‘work
W on a general study of taxa
on and the house ways and
Means committee will commence
@y aext month a review of the
Whole tax situation. Committec
Chairmay Doughton (D.-N.C.)
bs expresged the = hope that mo
W taxes would be necessary,
but Fresident Roosevelt has left
%en the door to a mew taxing
Weasure,
The President sald recently it
b not heen determined whether
Tew taxes would be needed .
Besides the start of the hudget
“iference the Presinent had two
Othes engagements on his sched-
W fer the . Gay. e Halvdan
Kobt, foreign minister of Norway,
¥ith the Norwegian minister to
e Uniteg Stetes and Mrs. Wil
i Munthe De Morgenstierne,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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Revealing that her 8-year-old “twin sons” are neither her own
children nor twins, Mrs. Elva Mai Bales Tortorice, pictured above
with the boys, countered the tenth attempt of her former husband,
William Bales, for custody of the lads. Mrs. Tortorice said she went
to a hospital in 1929 where the boys, born 11 days apart, were
brought te her from an adoption home. She ang her husband
_perpetrated the hoax to please Bales’ sisters, Mrs. Tortorice said.
Two Teachers Resign, Two
~ Others Selected Thursday
Crier Praised by National
Association in Letter to
President Mell
The city board of education
held its regular monthly meeting
here yesterday, accepted resigna
tions of two tachers and appoint
ed two others.
Resignation of Miss Rgse Mich-~
ael, instructor at the Vocational
school, and Sadie Kirkpatrick,
teacher in the East Athens colored
school, were tendreed the board
and accerted. Travis Osborne
wags. named to the faculty at.the
Childs Street school, and Lucile
Graham was named to succeed
Sadie Kirkpatrick. No successor
to Miss Michael was named.
The board voted unanimously to
request the Banner-Herald to pub
lish a letter from C. B. Glenn,
president of the American Asso-~
ciation of School Administrators,
praising Superintendent B. M,
Grier, ‘'‘who recently was named to
one of the most important com
mittees of the association.
E. B. Mell, princiral of Ath
ens High school, will attend a
meeting of the Sohthern Associa-
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A. M. BRYAT Dica
~ IN HOSPITAL HERE
Well Known Barber Shop
Owner and Operator s
Taken by Death
A. M. Bryant, 72, died at a local
hospital Thursday night at 6
o'cicck after an illnesg of several
weeks.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
©Oconee Street Methodist chukch.
The services will be conducted by
Rev. B. L. Betts, pastor of the
church, assisted by Rev. George
E. Stone.
Interment will be in Oconee Hill
cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home
in charge. Pall-bearers will be M.
C. Wallace, W. F. Fields, Marshall
Bryant, Bob Seagraves, A. G. Dud
ley, C. C. Bridges, Oliver Prather
and Jim Kent.
Surviving Mr. Bryant are his
wife, Mrs. Fannie Bryant; two
daughters, Mrs. Bep Burton and
Mrs. Charlie James; four secns, J.
B. and A. B. Bryant, both of Ath
ens, H. L. Bryant, New York City,
and J. M. Bryant, Augusta; sister,
Mrs. Jim Dunaway Decatur, Ala.;
brother, John L. .Bryant, Indian-
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Children’s Matinece to
Be Shown at Georgia
Saturday at 9:45 a.m.
The great nature piciure, “Bor
neo,” filmed by the late Martin
Johnson and Mrs. Johnscn in
jungles never before seen by man,
is showing today and Saturday at
the Georgia theater.
Saturday morning beginning at
9:45 o'clork a special children’s
matinee will be shown. Admission
is only 10 cents for all children
under 14 vears of age. The Ban
ner-Herald is giving Athens 2hil
dren 50 tickets free of charge.
The tickets are being distributed
by Captain McDonald of the Sal
vation Asmy and are NOT ai the
‘Banner-Hetald offices. They are
being given children who other
wise would not be'able to see this
INVENTION SPEEDS
BONE (PERATIONS
Surgical Range-Finder Is
Announced to College
Of Surgeons
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
CHICAGO .—~(F)—lnvention ot a
surgical range-finder fop hones
which makes it ‘pogsible to mend
a broken hip with a steel nail in a
new, twenty-minute operation was
announced to the American Col
lege of Surgeons here today.
The patient is able to move his
hip four hours after the operation,
gets out of bed into a wheel chair
inside two days, walks on critches
in three or four weeks and goes
back to work in five 1o seven
weeks., Z
The new instrumeny was report
ed by Gilson Celby Engel, M.D.
Associate in Surgery of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and assis
tant surgeon of Lankenau hospital,
Philadelphia, The co-inventor he
said is Hans May, M.D,, of Phil
adelphia. :
The range - finder, with aid otl
the x-ray, enables 3 surgeon to
see the exact direction in which
a steel “nail” needs to be placed‘
to bind together, through their
centers, two sections of a broken|
hip bone.
This operation ig done mnear the
top of the femur, where the hone,
slightly dumb-bell shaped, hends
to fit into the hip socket.
Nails, and also steel pins, have
been used for several years to pin
the two parts of the broker.]
“dumbbell” together. This holds
them until they knit. l
The necessary operation hereto-!
fore has required from 30 minutee'l
to an hour and a half, which in
cases involving patients 60 years!
and over vrisked serious surgical!
shock, The broken hip accident is!
most common among elderly per
sons. :
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Man Accused of Theft |
Of Auto Arrested Here,
. Atheng police last night arrest-’
ed Tromas houston Carlan on a
warrant from Jackson @ county,
charging him with stealing anl
automobils from W. W, Daniel on
October 6. -
He will be turned over to Jack
son county . authorities as soop as
they arrive in !Athens. Chief El
Weldon Wiood has already notified |
them of Carlan’s arrest.
Dfficial Washington Is Cool,
Not to Say Cold, to the Duke
By RODNEY DUTCHER ”
(The Banner-Herald Washington
Correspondent)
WASHINGTON-—ln Washington,
at least, enthusiasm over the com
ing American tour of those two
great lovers, the Duke and Duch
ess of Windsor, falls well this side
of the ponfire-burning stage.
The great heart of America may
go out to these twain in the form
of mob demonstrations, society
brawls over their entertainment
and antics of loeal politicians, But
insofar as federal government of
ficials are concerned, the frost is
on the pumpkin. There is even a
suspicion among _them _that the
Athens Ga., Friday, October 29, 1937.
News In Brief
NEW YORK —#)—Wall Street
speculatorg faced the posibility of
new restrictions today as a result
of a New York Stock Exchange
move to investigate “short sellinfif‘
The Twentieth Centry Fund, in
dependent foundation which the
stock exchange has asked to com
duct the inquiry, was already on
record as opposed to some exist
ing market practices untouched by
the federal market control law,
It went s 0 far as to recommend
four years ago that so-called ‘bear
raids’—short sales of unusual sige’
in a single stock in ‘one day—
should be outlawed as creators of
artificial price slumps. =
“Figures high in the stock eX:
change said they were aware of
this, but promised serioug consid
eration to any changes the fund
may Ppropose.
The findings of the new study
one prominent market figure de:
clared, would “carry tremendous
weight.” i
MINEOLA N. Y. —— A
woman identifying herself as
Myrs. Elizabeth Eaton ‘Guggen
heim, divorced in Reno Tuesday
from Col. M. Robert Guggen
heim, and her escort reported to
Nazissayu police they were beaten
and robbed of S4OO by two men
early today as they were leav
ing a Jamaica avenue restaurant.
Mrs. Guggenheim whose chin
and cheek were cut, said the men
took S3OO from her and her escort,
who identified himself as John
Frey, Jr., 23, said he lost about
SIOO. The robbers escaped.
HOLLYWOOD~— (#) —A bomb
exploded early today under the
home of Clifford B. Clinton, vice
crusader and county grand juror,
but did not injure him or eight
members of his household.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla— (#) —
Laundrymen from Georgia, Florida
and North and Secuth Carolina
ended their convention here last
night. They heard J. Ben Wand,
editor of the Southern Lumber
Journal, describe the Black-Con=
nery wage and hour bill as revoius
tionary and diabolical. u
JEROME, Idaho— #) —R. L
Cornwell and his 10-year-clq son,
Dean and reported six daysg in the
central Idaho wildenress, emerged
at Seafoam ranger sn\atlon last
night and explained they'd just
continued their deer hunt until
they killed a buck.
.PITTSBURG-(AP) A cold wave
swept the western slopes of the
Allegheny mountains today, halt-
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Says Little Farmers Have
Carried Burden Since
1934
i ———— et
‘ GRIFFIN, Ga. — (#y — Senator
‘Whiter F. George told Georgia
farmers today there was ‘“no hope
of economie security or advance
ment” if the old cotton base is re
established in the new crop con
trol legislation to come befere con
gress next month.
Speaking at the harvest festi
val barbecue here, Georgia’s senio
senator said that he favored a
marketing -quota based on acreage
and not on a definite number of
pounds of cotton.
“If the new farm bill,”” he said
‘o "be considered at the extra
session callg for production control,l‘
I pledge myself unreservedly to
work for an allotment to each farm
er on a fixed ang equal percentage
of his cultivated land.
“In the case of new farmerg pro
visions must likewise be made, if
we are to progress. Large farmers |
who have had large allotments,
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be interspersed with one or two
sour notes,
The State Department professes;
vagueness ag to the Duke's sturusi
en tour and thus far there hasn't)
been a peep out of the British em-!
bassy, Later, possibly, this will be|
all fixed up and a happy, cozyi
time will be enjoyed by all Just
at present, however, there’'s a no~‘
ticeable tension in the air at the|
embassy. . t
fckes Cold to Bedaux {
The flippant press conferencs
remarks of Secretary fckes anent
hig cool response to the request of
Charles E. Bedaux—who has full
—~ESTABLISHED 1832«
OPPONEATS LAY OFF
FIGHTING T 0 BATILE
FLOOD IN WAR ZONE
Both Spanish Armies Are
Combating Rising Rivers
~ On Aragon Front
LOOK TO AMERICA
European Powers Expect
U. S. Leadership in
Peace Quest
ZARAGOZA, Spain.—(®)—lnsur-
gent and government armies on
the broad Aragon front quit fight
ing each other today to combat the
common enemy — a flood that
sheeted wide areas in the valleys
of the Ebro river and its tribu
taries.
The Gallego river, rushing down
from the French frentier to join
the Ebro at this insurgen; base
and old Aragon capital, was at its
highest ‘level in. 20 years—2l feet
" b,ve normal.. The Ebro was 22
x: above normal. Heavy rains
Wwere responsible for the high
water,
T'he Ebro flooded roads and rail
ways in government territory near
Hueseca to the north, causing great
damage, It filled trenches, driv
ing the Valencia troops to higher
ground : .
. Zaragoza was forced to taks
flood precautions similar to those
faken in America’s Ohio valley
when the gpring floods come. |
Some of the recent principa’
battlegrounds of this front were
under several feet of water., Hos
tilities were disrupted.
» Government forces were driver
out of positiong near Sabinanigo
in the Jaca sector, in the head
waters area of the Gallego. Al
most the entire fighting zone
m;h of Zaragoza, along the Ebro,
was one great lake.
~ (Dispatches from Madrid told of
progress of the government plan
ffor the gecond transfer of the cap
ital since the civil war began 1§
months ago. including denial by
Home Secretary Julian Zugazago
jtia ‘that the government was
“fleeing” to Barcelona from Val
encia, -
(The government shifted to Val
encia nearly a . year ago when
(Generalissimo Francisco Franco's
insurgents laid siege to Madrid.)
TLONDON—(®—Two other ma
jor world problems — an old one
and a new one—came to the fore
front today as the weary nonin
tervention sub-committee tried
once more to reach ap agreement?
on the withdrawal of foreign
troops from Spain,
Of no direct conmection with the
Spanish civil war but, like it,|
tangled In the maze of Europeanl
affairs were: 2 i
Germany's often wvoiced demand
for return of her old colonies now
| backed by the powerful voice of
!Premieg Mussolini of Ttaly and in
| ereasing indications that FEuropean
powers were hoping for some form
inf leadership from the TUnited
| States in ' the nine-power pact
[talks in the Chinese-Japanese war
}m start next Wednesday in Brus
| sels. CLo bl [N Y
i British laborites and liberals
{ (Continued on Page Five)
Congressman and
Editor Are Hurt
In Auto Smashup
GAINESVILLE, Ga.—(f)—The
condition of Albert 8. Hardy, sr.,
newspaper editor and former
postmaster, injured in an auto
mobile accident last night, was
described as ‘“only fair” at the
hospiusl earty today.
Congressman Frank B. Whel
chel, with several ribs and his
last leg fractured in the same ac
cident, was reported in ‘‘good”
condition.
Hardy has head and internal
injuries and a broken shoulder.
The automobile in which he and
the congressman ‘were reiurning
from Washington plunged 40 feet
from a Southern Railway bridge
near Raldwin, Ga.
Doctors said Whelchel might
have been injured internally.
The congressman and editor
went to Washington with others
to invite President Roosevelt to
attéend the unveiling of a Roose
velt Square monument in Gaines
ville Thanksgiving Day.
They were within 20 miles of
home when the car plunged
through the bridge guardrail and
landed on the tracks 40 feet be
low . 4
Whelchel, a resident of Gaines
ville, is seiving his second term
in congress, representing the
Ninth GQGeorgia district. Hardy is
widely known as editor of the
Gainesville News,
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{ ROGERSVILLE, Tenn.— ® —
' Her divorce petition dismissed,
Mrs. Ellen Jones, 83, waited today
for her 84-year-old husband, Wil
liam H. Jones, to return home.
‘ Testifying in chancerry court
: yesterday, Jones, a stooped farmer
| with long . whiskers, said he
{ wouldn't return until his dahghter,
Alpha, leaves. e
{ Mrs. Jones testified the rift in
RURAL CARRIERS 10
HONOR RALPH ABLES
District and State Offi
cers of R.F.D., Gather
Tonight at 7
By HINTON BRADBURY
THOMSON, Ga,~ (Special.) —
National Executive Secretary
Ralph Ables of the Rural Letter
Carriers Association will be hon
ored by district and state R. F. D.
officers at the Board of Trade ban
quet in Thomson tonight at 7:00
o'clock. g
This ‘will be Mr. Ableg’ first
speaking engagement in this sec
tion of Georgia, although he is
personally known by many:of the
letter carriers who ‘greatly admire
him, especially as a speaker.
This will be she first official ad
dress made in the interest of the
letter carriers organidation pur
chasing “Fr-cxory Hill,” the home
of the late Senator Thomas E.
Watson, father of Rural Free De
livery. :
At the national convention in
New Orleans several weeks ago
Georgia Lefter Carriers Associa
tion officials secured endorsement
from the National , Rural Letter
Carriers Association of a move to
purchase and restore as a nation
al shrine the once-beautiful home
and its surroundings.
Trees and shrubbery, - gathered
from ail parts of tne world by the
late senator, are said to be one of
the most valuable collections in
the south. The home is located in
a large grove of beautiful trees
and can be seen only from a
short distance away. :
The banquet tonight wil be
held in Knox hoiel at which time
Mr. Ables will be a guest of the
Thorason Board of Trade.
Other officials attending ‘will be
E. 8. Sisk of Lexington, secretary
of Georgia Letter Carriers Asso
ciation; W, G. Thornton of Win
terville, president of Tenth Dis-
trict Carriers, and secretary
treasury of the Thomas K. Wat
son R. F. D. Foundation; Ham
ilton McWhorter of Lexington, ané
J. Quinn West, attorneys for the
Foundation, as well as officers of
the Foundation and distriet asso
ciation who regide in Thomson.
J. Quinn West has charge of the
program tonight. C. E. Lokey,
new chairman of the Board of
Trade, will preside.
Following the banquet, Mr.
Ables will address McDuflie county
citizens at Thomson High school
auditorium at 8:30 o’clock. Sev
eral hundred people are expected.
Hold Annual Y.M.CA. {
Gym Exhibition Next |
Thursday Night at 8;
The annual “Y"” gyvm exhibition
will be helgd Thursday, Nov, 4, at
8 p. m. &t the YMCA, .This ex
‘hibition wil be presented by the
members of the ‘¥’ Physical train
ing Classes from the youngest boy
to the oldest man. 'The exhibition
will consist of all the methods of
physical work done by the ‘Y.
Some¢ of the évents to be demon
strated are football, soccer, vollsy
ball, vasketball, casesthenics
weightlifng and a few other
events. This exhibition i one of
the highlights of the Y' program
and the public is ecordially invited
“There viil be w* adaiss on charg-
A. B. C. Paper—Single _opy, 2c—s¢ Sunday
- their b7-year marriage was over
,l“our daughter Alrha.” She told
' | Chancellor George F. McCanless,
| however, “T love that man yet
and I'll live with him, but he
t!can’t come back until he agrees
" {to let Alpha stay.”
;, Alpha, 89, asserted she would
,| 80 back to the farm and live with
her parents “if dad will treat me
| like a grown daughter.”
WALLAGE MEMBER
* [FLOCAL A CLUB
Says He Hopes to Address
Students in Athens This
! Year Some Time
! By O. B. COPELAND
The Agricultyral club, student
organization of the College of
Agriculture, has been elected and
accepted ag an honorary member
A priition from members of the
club and a letter from Secretary
Wallace was presented the club
by H. H. Payne, former secretary
of the organization, at the regular
meeting. He has been unanimous
ly accepted as a member.
In the letter to Mr. Payne Secre
tary Wallace stated that he deeply
appreciated the honor of becom
ing an honorary member of the
Georgia Agricultural elub and that
he hopes to address the students
of the College of Agriculture in
Athens some time this year,
Secretary Wallace has shown
much interest in Georgia especial
ly the College of Agriculture. In
1935 he addressed a gathering in
Wioodruff hall and at a called
meeting all agricultural leaders in
the south, 5,000 strong, visted the
College of Agriculture campus. ,
Harry L. Brown, assistant tc
Secretary Wallace, ig an honorary
member of thig club ang he wili
personally invite tlie sxect'eta,!jytatol
address the student body sometime
this year, at which time he will
take the oath of membership, 7
Dean Paul W, Chapman of the
College of Agriculture, iy very
much pleased with the movement
and has communicated with As
sistant Secretary Brown in regard
to Mr. Whllace’s election to mem
bership in the club and the pro
poseq addresg here.
. o 2
Higher Newsprint
Costs May Affect
- -
Circulation Rates
NEW YORK, -—(#)— Predictlt.«nJ
that many newspaperg may be
forced to raise circulation rates
becauseg of fast rising newsprlnt,
and other production costs, waz!
given today by W. G. Chandler,;
chairman of the newsprint gom
mittee of the American Newspaper |
Publishers Association.
Chandler already has asked pub
lishers to protest to newsprint
manufacturers the threatened price!
increages for 1938,
Newsgpapers in more than fifty
American cities have beey forced
to raise their rateg recently be
causg of inecreased costs, he sald.
Costs have beén advancing re
cently far out of proportion to m-i
creased receipts from advertising
and circulation, and payroils, it
was stated, have jumped ahead of
even the 1929 level, both through
increases to editorial, clerical and
mechanical employes, and from
additional employes taken on, while:
receipts generally are still well
below the 1929 total
Every commodity. going inte
manufacturing a mewspaper, with
one or two minor exceptions, has
advanced in price over the previ
cus year, according to A.N.P.A.|
statistics. e
In one instance, on one group 0‘
newspapers, payrolls in nine months
~ (Continued on Page Five) |
HSME
THREE RIFLEMEN [N
BRITISH ARMY SLAM
Y JAPANESE SHELLS
Damage Spread Among
American Mission and
Other Property
GERMANY DECLINES
Nazi Covernment Refuses
Invitation to Nine-
Power Conference
BERLIN —(#) — Germany for
mally notified Belgium today ‘she
would not participate in the nine
bower pact conference starting
next Wednesday at Brussels,
RIFLEMEN KILLED
SHANGHAI . () — Thres
British ulster riflemen were kill.
¢d and several wounded tonigh*.
during Japanese shelling of Hun.
Jao, suburb to the west of the In
ternational Settlement and homa
of meny Americans and other for.
eigners, British military headquar
ters announced. o
Artillery shelling and aerial at
tack in the Chinese-Japaness wai
spread damage among American
Mission and other foreign proper
ty. During the day British defense
lines along the settlement frequent
ly had been under fire. :
One unidentified foreigner ané
several Chinese also were report
ed killed by Japanese shellg fall
ing inside British lines.
Many Americans and other for.
eigners abandoned their magni
ficent homes in Hungjao to seek
Safety within the settlement, as
the battle for possession of Shang
!hai centered in the subur.an al’éfi
Throughout the day shells ex
'ploded near posts manned by the
royal ulster riflemen. Japanege in'{
tillery, bombarding. Chinese..in. e
Hungjao area, dropued eight shells
into Jessfield Park alone. One o 1
the shells damaged St. John's Uni.
versity. :
Trolley car wireg in the Jeds
field sector were broken, disrupt:
ing all service.
A British policeman’'s motor.
cycle was wrecked a few second:
after he stepped from it. Major
General A, P. D. Telfer-Smollet
in command of the British forces
went quickly to the scene, Ther
he called on Admiral Koyosk
hiasegawa, Japanese naval com .
mander in the Shanghai sector, =
The seventh day adventist sani
tarium evacuated its patientg anc¢
equibment after several bullsts
struck the hospital when a Jap:
anese flyer shot at a group o
Chinese soldiers ang refugees a
the hospital gates.
M. E. SCHOOL BURNED
’ Meanwhile in Shanghai, severa
,miles to the west of Shanghai, the¢
' American Southern Methodist Sus
san B. Wilson School for girls %
set afire and almost deatroy%&fflf’f’
American’s home was demolished
the Southern = Methodist Mission
compound was damaged and it
, 60 oceupants sought refuge in dug:
| outs during bombardment by 26
iJa,panese planes. iy
British army authorities blocke
| aded Soochow . cresk widr junkg
land cargo boats to forestall Japs
| anese naval attacks on the Chines®
“lost battalion” beleagured oppos
site the International Settlement.
i British Tommies, riflegs at theig
shoulders, paced cobblestones along
l the creek while two Japanese naval
!launches withdrew. The launches
had been halted when they gteamse
!-ed up the stream from the Whange
| poo river toward the warehouse,
'Opposite United States maring
| corps lines, where the lone Chinesg
detachment has held off attackerr
since Chinese evacuation of Chas
pei two days ago. kg
' Japanese troops moved a bab
fery of 75 millimeter guns to 1:%
in 400 yards west of the builde
ing. Some military observers
thought the guns goon would m
shelling. e
Thousands of Chinese and fors
eigners south of the creek jostied
each other for positiong on roofe
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LOCAL WEATHER
GEORGIA: Fair to partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday;
slightly warmer tonight ex- =
cept in interior of south por- =
tion, warmer ir south and east
portions Saturday. L
e .
TEMPERATURE e
HlghOst .. .. <y sy s:op <BOO S
Lowest o v a 0 =e <0 ae 40438
MEAS ... s i -m
Normal «. .. .. -+ sou SRB NN
RAINFALL' . =
Inches last 24 hours .. «.. 8
Total since October 1 .. ~1388 =
Excess since October 1 ..., 868 =
Total since January 1.. ..5462
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