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105TH YEAR 30 Pages ROCHESTER. N. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1937 Baa rim at mi at Uetalla Paie It THREE CENTS STOCKS DROP AS WAR FEAR HITS TRADING Doleful Chinese Hunt Debris of Shelltorn Homes GOOD MORNING- Moscow Demands Nations Dub Italy Submarine Pirate U.S.

CITIZENS IN CHINA ASK PROTECTION 4 If fif Protest 'Own Risk' Policy-Japanese Seize Mission Assails President EUHLiiJUVST. I 'J5r mi NL Biggest Dip Since '33-Losses High As $10 a Share Opposes Germany Having Part in Sea Parley Shanghai' (INS) Japanese troops today suddenly seized the million dollar Amertcan-owned Seventh Day Adventist mission In Tangtsepoo and converted It into 7 sv. 1 MRS. T. R.

JR. One of a number of excellent camera studies of the Chinese conflict wrrch were flown across the Paoific by the China Clipper, this picture shows a typical scene of the desolation is from Peiping and shows debris of their homes for 's fury. AP Wirephoto. 'Wetter Water' in Chemistry Hailed at National Meeting Water isn't just water any more. It may be "wetter water," or "heavy water," or "light water," or any of scores of still unnamed Aariants oE water, it was revealed at the American Chemical Society convention yes BUSINESS RAPS WAR WARNING Washington The State Department yesterday ordered the U.

S. consulates at Amoy and Foo-chow in South China closed as American business men in Shanghai protested angrily against President Roosevelt's warning that those who remain in the bomb-torn city do so at their own risk. Secretary of State Cordell Hull declined comment on dispatches stating that the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai had messaged him and President Roosevelt demanding that the Chief Executive's latest statement on Far Eastern policy be "clarified" and that warships protect this country's nationals in the Sino-Japanese battle areas. Hull said that Mr. Roosevelt 'e announcement did not constitute a new policy.

Other officials privately scoffed at reports that the Chief Executive and Hull do not agree on the role America should play In the undeclared war. Both men, it was pointed out, consistently have urged Americans to abandon China until current hostilities cease. Hull persistently has declared that this country has no intention of depriving those Americans who do remain of the protection of marines and oien-o'-war. In declaring that Americans remain at Shanghai at their own risk, authorities said Mr. Roosevelt did not even suggest (hat the marines would be withdrawn.

Their job is to protect American lives and property and as long as they remain in Shanghai they will carry out this task, it was stated. Commerce Department officials said last night that American investment in Shanghai, exclusive of Chinese stocks, bonds and other paper, total more than $97,000,000. American investments in all of China total about WOMAN PAINTER DIES Albany UP Mrs. Ida Pulis La- throp, 70, Albany's dean of women painters, died at her home here last night. Survivors include two daugh-1 ters, Gertrude K.

Lathrop, sculp- I tor, and Dorothy P. Lathrop, IHus- I trator and writer. 1 Moscow UP) Russia made clew last night she wants an Indictment of Italy from Friday's European conference on piracy ia the Mediterranean, and that the suo-cess or failure of that wish may (letermlno her. future course Into the war-clouded horizon. Attack! on merchant (hipping, trowing from the Spanish civil ar, and "particularly by Italian arihips, said a note by the Soviet 'government, "must be considered intolerable The note, to British and French embassies, announced the Soviet Republic's intention to attend the Mediterranean conference bat eddtd disapproval of attendance fry Germany (allied with Italy in friendship accord.) the Russian government held, is not one of those nations with direct connections into the Mediterranean basin.

Making clear he will seek to lay to Italy the blame for attacks rn shipping, the Soviet note declared that Russia "maintains the accusations" that Italy ia responsible for the lose of two Soviet hlp "in their entirety." More Fends on Parley Supplementing the note, officials "aid Russia's next move will be decided after the conference which opens Friday at Nyon, Switzerland. (Italy Monday rebuffed curtly the Soviet charges of attacking merchant shipe, and London dispatches indicated Italy, will come to the conference only on guarantees that Russia' accusations will be outlawed from the council table.) Ru' nked also that the Spanish Madrid-Valencia government be invited as a Mediterranean power which ia one of the victims of "pirate warehlps." The Soviet note wa handed to the French and British embassies last night. The request for explanation of why Germany was invited asserted that only powers "directly connected in the Mediterranean Basin" were supposed to be represented. France, Britain Determined London Itf) Grim French and British determination last night kept alive a 12-power anti-piracy conference despite an Italo-Ruasian breach which jeopardized settlement of European peace problems in the near future. The meeting to check Mediterranean pirate attacks outgrowth of the Spanish war and to preserve freedom of the ueai must go on Friday, with or without angrv Italy's participation, France and Great Britain decided.

To back their stand, the two powers felt they had fleets strong enough to suppress marauders. High Italian sources Indicated, however, that Premier Mussolini may send representatives to the conference at Nyon, Switzerland, despite rage at Russia note ac-. cismg Italy of sinking two Soviet merchantmen. Italian quarters believed the meeting would assume the "intolerable" character of a tribunal with Italy in the role of defendant, a situation Italy suspected Russia of attempting to create. Gei man and Italian officials were understood to be conferring on the question, and it was assumed their eventual stands would be identical.

Britain's Aim Seen Periled Whatever that stand, Informed sources believed an important ef-ftct of the Soviet bombshell was to endanger Britain's avowedlv "important" nronosals tnr th rnn. ference which were believed elastic enough to include consideration of the whole western European peace problem. If Italy attends It was believed she would need a lot of convincing that Britain and France were not behind the Soviet move. If Italy does not attend hopes for improvement In Anglo-Italian telations, along with liquidation of Mediterranean marauders, would be blasted for some time and planned Anglo-Italian talks probably would be abandoned. Official quarters declined comment on Rome reports that Anglo-Italian soundings had been made for British recognition of Italy's Ethiopian Empire.

But the belief Rained credence that Britain planned to Include, thia problem of friction between the two nations at Friday's meeting. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broke his holiday for the second time to return for a Cabinet meeting today which is expected to ratify the British conference program. Dominions Informed Chamberlain conferred at length with Foreign Secretary Anthony being kept informed of developments In what Britain considers New York JF) A headlong retreat In the stock market yester day wiped out many millions of dollars in quoted values and knocked down numerous issues $1 to 10 a share in selling attributed by brokers partly to war fright. It was the biggest break since July 21, 1933. measured by the Associated Press average price of 60 stocks.

This average at the finish was off $3.50 at $60.20. Yet volume of trading on the Stock Exchange, measured by standards of other severe declines in recent years, was not unusually large. Despite gaping losses which ranged to as much as $11 in J. I. Case, transactions totaled 1,871,150, shares impressive only by comparison with the recent extreme dullness.

The total Friday, the last full session before the Labor Day recess, was 690,900. Traders flocked back to Wall Street from summer vacations and Labor Day jaunts reading headlines of new international complications growing out of the Mediterranean and Far Eastern conflicts. While war thrcate have become an old story to the financial district the last few years, international bickerings seemed to Join with business doubts in arraying traders predominantly on the bear side. Commodities Advance From the opening bell, stocks hit the downtrail, with little rallying power to the finish. Some brokers were disposed to minimize the importance of the war factor.

However, most commodities advanced, wheat gaining 2i to 3'4 cents a bushel in Chicago. The contrast between rising commodity and falling security prices was taken by many observers as evidence speculator had their eyes phiefly on diplomatic maneuvers 'f European powers and implications of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Whether the strained foreign situation would join with other influences in preventing fulfillment of optimistic business expectations in this country for the rest of this year wag a question debated in financial quarters. Steel, Chrysler Slump 1 Farm implement, mail order, steel and other industrial groups recently favored on autumn prospects were hard hit. United States Steel was off more than $7 at $97.25 a share.

Chrysler Motors dropped $9 at $67.50. Bethlehem Steel was off $7.25 at $83.25 and Scars Roebuck $6,25 at $80.62 H. Southern Pacific lst more than $5 at $33.62 Mi. Erstwhile war favorites yielded with the rest of the list, International Nickel losing nearly $5 at $56 and Douglas Aircraft nearly $6 around $44. Down $3 to $6 were Anaconda Copper, Du Pont, U.

S. Rubber, New York Central and National Steel. Wheat Prices Shoot Up Chicago Buying oi commodities inspired by war fears struck the grain pits yesterday and shot wheat prices upward more than four cents a bushel. War threats in the Mediterranean and Orient snapped the wheat market out of lethargy of almost a month's duration. Buying was heavy at all the major world marts where dealings in the bread cereal are conducted.

Prices at Liverpool, first of the international wheat markets to open, rose sharply before trading Chicago began. At the opening bell here values leaped more than 2 cents in some cases and at noon touched highs of tl.09 for September wheat, $1.11 for December and $1.13 for May, up more than i cents from Saturday's close. Profit-taking cut these prices to 51.08-1.08, and respectively, before the market closed. Winnipeg wheat soared almost 5 cents at one stage and grain for October delivery in that market was quoted up to $1.29. Index SECTION I Beauty article, page 11.

City news, page 16. Correct Dress, page 13. Editorials, page 11. General news, pages 1 to 9. Household Forum, page 13.

Letters to the editor, page 14. Nancy Page, page 11. Pattern, page 11. Radio, page 11. Skeffington, page 15.

Society 12, 13. Theaters, page 10, Vicinity news, page 18. Waller Winchcll, page 10. SECTION II Angelo Patrl, page 20. City news, pages 17, 18, 19, 30.

Comics, pages 20, 21. Crossword Puzzle, page Damon Runyon, page 20. Deaths, page 27. Doctor Barton, page 20. Doctor Wiggam, page 20.

Financial news, pages 24, 25, 26. Little Benny, page 20. Ruth Cameron, page 20. Sports, pages 22, 23, 24. Uncle Ray, page 21.

Want ads, pages 27, .28, 29. an armed fortress, bristling with troops and guns. Japanese marines threw up sandbag barricades and installed machine gun nests in the church mission, which is close to the international Settlement. American consular officials made immediate and vigorous protest against the act as Illegal confiscation of neutral property. The mission flew American flags conspicuously.

Scores of protests from private American citizens were simultan. eously cabled to President Roosevelt and the State Department in Washington against the President's stay-at-your-own-risk edict. The cables demanded continued protection of American Uvea and proper ty by American warships and American marines. U. 8.

Flags Unmolested Not only the main Adventist mis sion building itself was seized and turned into a military machine gun fortress, but the entire Adventist compound, which is on the Ninkou Road, close to the eastern boundry the International Settlement, was occupied. American flags were Kept flying by the Japanese. The compound was evacuated by Americans Aug. 13 and for the laBt two days members of the mission were forbidden entrance. During the day tens of thousands of Japanese troops tightened the circle of siege around this city as thousands of Americans in China shuddered and protested at thought of being left to their fate without protection of their government.

The day's greatest advance of the invading troops, of which seizure of the Adventist church was a part, was in the Yangtsepoo section which is just around a sharp bend i the Whangpoo River from the International Settlement, where 2,000 Americans live. thousands of Japanese on the outskirts, of, Shanghai broke through stubborn Chinese defense lines to effect junction with forees operating around Lotien and the walled city of Paoshan, a tew miles north of Shanghai. Official warnings to the 7,780 Americans living in China they remained in the country at their own risk, mentioned by President Roosevelt two days ago, were finally issued in certain centers yesterday. Americans Desperate Tirst to receive the warning were the 600 American inhabitants of Peiping, who were told the American Embassy could no longer be responsible for their safety. Typical of the feeling of American residents was a cable sent his head office yesterday by Mark L.

Moody of Lansing, representative of three large American firms. He cabled: "Tell Roosevelt to get off his vacht. nut his feet on the ground, and get some guts above them. Keep the American flag flying. We Americans are not quitters.

The American Chamber of Com merce here sent a direct protest to President Roosevelt against his edict that Americans must leave China or shift for themselves. Although Japanese troops, steadily augmented by landing parties from transports and warships, seemed to be steadily fining in the immediate vicinity of Shanghai, China, claimed victories in other war sectors. CnnlfDiiPri on Pa Vino DELLA CARROLL JJL 4 J) JLJl FRANCO OPENS COUNTER DRIVE Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier UP) Gen. Francisco Franco yesterday launched a new drive designed to encircle the shell-torn city of Bclchite, captured by the government after terrific fighting on the Aragon front. Several squadrons of bombing and scouting planes were sent to this sector of northeast Spain to strengthen the insurgent army in its counter-offensive.

General Franco believed he had sufficient ground troops around Zaragoza to repel the government forces. Government reports, however, told of its army pushing 12 miles beyond Belchite in its campaign to sever Insurgent communications between Zaragoza and Teruel. The capitulation of 600 insurgents defending the Belchite cathedral, after other units withdrew from the devastated city, gave government units complete control. The insurgent dispatches confirmed their loss of the strategic city. General Franco concentrated his air squadrons at Zaragoza, 22 miles north of Belchite, where he had a new air field.

Planes were sent to the Aragon front from Burgos and Victoria. In their, drive to finish conquest of northwest Spain, the insurgent army advancing through Asturias Province reported the capture of Pricto, a village between Llanes and Gijon, was imminent. Asturian defenders were rushing the completion of defensive works beyon Pricto, but insurgents doubted whether they could put up effective resistance. Since taking San-tander, the insurgents have pushed steadily westward, routing small bodies of disorganized Asturians as they advanced. Motorists Warned Of Rome Bad Man Binghamton (INS) New York State police yesterday warned motorists that Clyde Derrick, widely sought desperado who kidnaped two Johnson City policemTn Sunday, might be walking the highways posing as a hitch-hiker, A police guard was established on all roads leading out of the state and a description of the Rome bad man, who also is known as Clyde Lamont, was broadcast in nine states.

Chief Inspector A. B. Moore of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Albany, said: "We are afraid Derrick, a very desperate character willing to ahoot it out with anyone, will stick up some motorist and take his car in an attempt to make a getaway." Church Fete Blast Claims Life of Boy Lodi, N. J. iA) A second fireworks accident during a church religious festival fatally injured a 13-year-old boy yesterday.

Rene Porhiel died in St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic, of Injuries suffered In the premature explosion of an aerial bomb, which climaxed a celebration by St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Salvatore Daleo, 45, also of Lodi, who was setting off the display, was injured In a similar WAR POLICY HIT BY MRS. T.

R. JR. Victoria B. Theodore Roosevelt arriving here yesterday from Shanghai, sharply criticized President Roosevelt for his newly-expressed policy in the Orient and said: "All the protection we had (down the Whangpoo River) was an American flag stretched In front of the smoke stack," She and her son, Quentin, returned aboard the liner President Jefferson with five others, Mrs, Roosevelt dictated her statement while sitting on a suitcase in her stateroom, It was typed by Quentin, a portable machine on his knees, "There were 410 Americans the great majority women and children that went down the Whangpoo River to meet the President Jefferson. Some U.

S. marines were aboard (the tender) and told us to take cover," she slated. Tells of Gunfire "We were jammed in the tiny cabin so that it was literally impossible to move. As we left the customs jetty, we heard a sharp burst of anti-aircraft firing. All the way down the river, only 12 miles, we heard more firing sometimes shells, sometimes snipers' bullets.

"All the protection we had was lan American flag stretched in front of the smoke stack. "I wondered what those Amerl- can battleships were there for. Why did not one of them convoy us as a visible guard? What does all the talk from the State Department mean about protecting U. S. citizens when, In a case of real danger like this, nothing is done? Cites Warships' Presence "If the national administration takes the attitude Americans should stay at home and need expect nothing if they travel or work for an American company in the Far East, then why the Asiatic "And If our ships are not used to guard us, why are they kept at i anchorage in the Whangpoo River where bombs and shells are falling like hailstones? "The Augusta, our admiral's flag- ship, was hit by a shell on Aug.

20. I One American sailor was killed and 18 others wounded. Did this make any difference? The Augusta Is still there, doing nothing. "Only yesterday the President Issued a statement to the effect i thit any Americans staving In! China from now on did so at their own risk. "Neither we nor the other American refugees were staying in China.

We were coming out when told to do so, and yet we were allowed to go at our own risk 12 miles down the Whangpoo River under fire while our ships stayed at anchor, ieir guns covered- in the height of the firing. "None of it makes any sense." "Worse Than Revolution" Mrs. Alexandra Resnakova, Russian violinist, said the battle in Shanghai was worse than the red revolution in Moscow in 1917. She experienced both wrought by Japanese guns. It Chinese householders searching anything left from gunfire that exhaustive tests aver a period of seven years have shown that 90 per cent of anti-freeze losses from automobile radiators are through leakage and spillage, rather than through evaporation.

Expansion and overflow of the cooling liquid, forward surges of the liquid on sudden stopping and leaks account for nearly all losses of anti-freeze solution, whether volatile or not, Doctor Duus declared. Picture, other stories page 19 1 DIES. 12 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK Fort Wayne, Ind. W) A speeding Wabash Railroad passenger train, bound from Detroit to St. Louis, plunged from the tracks at New Haven, near here, late last night, killing at least one person and injuring more than a dozen others, one critically.

The dead man was David Karl-cofe, 65, Detroit, the engineer, ihrown out of his cab by the crash. Newsmen said after reaching the scene the engine, baggage car, two chair cars, a diner and a combination car left the tracks, leaving two coaches on the tracks. Robert E. Miller, 39, Detroit, the fireman, was hurt critically when the locomotive overturned. He was brought to a hospital here, where physicians said he had suffered a fractured skull and probably would not live.

Two other known injured are Louis Prough, 40, believed from Detroit, severe chest injuries, and Ora Jacobson, 33, Fergus Falls, a transient, severe lacerations and bruises. Newsmen said at least a dozen other persons suffered injuries or shock. After regaining consciousness. Miller said the train was going about 45 miles an hour, and that the derailment occurred on a curve at the edge of New Haven. "One minute I was setting op the seat, ad the next thing I knew was waking up out in a field," Miller said.

After leaving the tracks the equipment plowed into nearhv fields, breaking down communication lines. Railroad officials could not give the cause of the wreck immediately. Puerto Ricans Face Judge Attack Charge San Juan, Puerto Rico Iff1) Pinto Gandia, acting president of the Nationalist Party, and nine others were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges of having attempted assassination of District Judge Robert Cooper June 8. The indictment also charges the defendants with conspiracy to injure an official of the United States in the performance of his official duty. Conviction carries a maximum of six years imprisonment.

Baseball Scores INTERNATIONAL I.EAGl Rochester Montreal t. (niht game) Jersey City Baltimore- a Syracuse 7, Newark 6. (nlRht game) Buffalo 12, Toronto 8. (night gunic) NATIONAL LEAGl'E Chicago 8, St. Louis 5.

Brooklyn 6, Boston 1, (Only games scheduled) AMERICAN LEAGCE Washington II, Boston A (I). Wanhlngton Ronton 4 (2). (Only games scheduled) terday, where water heid several spotlights in the day's discussions. The discovery of isotopes, opening up whole- new. fields as yet unexplored in the chemistry of water, has put an end to the former conception of water as simply H20, Dr.

Arthur M. Buswell of the University of Illinois and the Illinois State Water Survey pointed out to the members of the water chemistry eection. Hydrogen, one of the components of water, may have three isotopes, and oxygen, the other component, may have six, giving the possibilities of 18 different combinations in the composition of water, be said. In addition to the isotopes of the elements, there are the ions, which hring the combination possibilities to 33, Doctor Buswell said. Explorations Opened lip What chemical possibilities are opened up by these discoveries are as yet little explored as it was not until Dr.

Harold Urey's recent discovery of "heavy hydrogen," an isotope of ordinary hydrogen, that the field was even known to exist, Doctor Buswell pointed out. And while the water chemists were discussing these various kinds of water, the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry division heard the announcement of "wetter water," made by the addition of a synthetic alcohol compound to ordinary water. The discovery was announced by B. G. Wilkes of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of Pittsburgh, and J.

N. Wickert, of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation of South Charleston, W. Va. "Wetter water" has many industrial uses in processes in which materials which ordinarily repel water must be wet, they pointed out. Unscoured cotton or wool will float for days on the surface of water, unless a "wetting" agent is added, or mechanical agitation is employed, they declared.

The new "wetting" agent is said to be five to 10 times as efficient as any heretofore employed, and can be used in hard water, or acid solutions which render other agents ineffective. New Water-Rencllent And while the industrial chemists were discussing how to make water "wetter," representatives of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. were demonstrating a new water-repellent finish for all types of fabrics.

Developed by Dr. L. B. Arnold the new finish unites in chemical combination with the fibers of the fabric, giving a permanent finish that is highly resistant to laundering and dry cleaning, but leaves the pores of the fabric open. Water in automobile radiators was the concern of other Du Pont company chemists who reported on anti-freeze solutions, declaring that, contrary to popular belief, volatile anti-freeze preparations do not boil away.

In the discussion, presented by Dr. Hans C. Duus, it was declared The body crashed through the roof of Mrs. Louis Carson's home. "I thought a gas burner had exploded," Mrs.

Carson said. "Several rafters of the kitchen broke and the plaster fell on the floor. The body landed only six feet from me." Mrs. Carson was not injured. Corlett's widow, Ruth, collapsed when she was told of his death.

She said her husband, who operated a drug store lunch counter, had heen despondent and was ill when he left home In the morning. Engaged to Clark Gable? Dancer Shies from Query But Ring and Claim of 'An Understanding' Spice Rumors London Delia Carroll, attractive American dancer, said last night that "there's an understanding between us" when asked to confirm rumors of her engagement to Clark Gable, She refused, however, to say whether she and the Hollywood film star actually were engaged. The dancer said she traveled on the same ship with Gable from South America to rew lorn a couple of years ago, and gave newspapermen to understand the romance bloomed on shipboard. She wore a large aquamarine ring on her engagement finger, but would not say whether it was from Gable. "But I admire him very much," she said.

Asked whether she wanted to marry him, she answered: "I don't know; I change my mind so quickly." BLAST KILLS MINERS Pola, Italy Nine coal miners were killed yesterday 900 feet underground when gas exploded in the Arsa mines. Their bodies were brought up to waiting families and townsfolk last night, sfter fellow workers had exca- vated for hours. 1 Man Dies in 1, 500-Foot Plane Leap, Body Crashes Through Dwelling "Shanghai is much worse," she Eden, and also with Malcolm Mac-said. "There (in Moscow) if one i Donald, dominions secretary, not belong to a political party, eating that the dominions were Los Angeles (if5) A man leaped out of an airplane yesterday, fell 1.500 feet, crashed through the roof of a house and landed in the kitchen where a woman was washing dishes. Raymond L.

Corlelt, 37, hired William C. Gage, an airplane pilot, to take him for a sight-seeing ride. Gage said he was returning to the airport when Corlett stood up in the cockpit and tried to leap. He said he shoved his passenger back In the seat, but that he got up again and jumped. he was safe.

In Shanghai everyone Is in danger." Mrs. Resnakova said about the only thing she saved in her flight was her beloved violin. Arrangements were made yesterday for the American Red Cross to meet her in Seattle and send her to New York City. Among Mrs, Resnakovs's fellow refugees was Mrs. F.

L. Davidson, wife of a Shanghai businessman, one of the most important conferences she ever has sponsored. Acceptances to the meeting were received from four of the smaller powers invited Egypt, Rumania, Bulgaria and Turkey. No refusals have hem made to the Joint Franco-British bids thus far. Continued on 1'nge Nine 3.