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SECTION 1 TIIE COURIERJOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1938. Washington By Harlan Miller City Visitors Relate Horrors of Shanghai Bombing By Japs where an immortal once" lay rf" b. t. i it C. U.

.0 horizontal. Within a short drive of Wash Washington, May 18. Strong Sense of Rumor: At diplomatic parties the gossip is that one pf Europe's better Kings, discussing a trip he had in ington there must be scores of such famed bedrooms Mostly they are austere, barren, com fortless, by modern standards Group Hopes To Rebuild Betliel Mission Six Are Guests of Mrs. Henry Almstedt It's difficult to imagine a pair Li of breeches draped over the foot mind, recently said: "But there's no way of predicting what one of Europe's lunatics might do before that!" of the bed, or some underwear crumpled abjectly on the floor, or a pile of small coins on the dresser. I wonder whether Wash 1 ington ever mused, as he climbed into his nightgown, that on spring On the afternoon of the days in 150 years there would be 1,000 tourists peering into his bed IA vote on the room door.

Thurman Arnold $5,0 0 0,0 0 0,000 spend-and-lend I I ri BrV '-A Jsfe. Vv.l. bill, someone counted fifty-two Congressmen in the grandstand at the ball park. (After all. its only about $33.50 for each man.

woman and child, or $150 per One midnight the wife of Ren the fence arm aslant. A writer was complaining plaintively, within Mrs. Roose resentative McSweeney, of Ohio, By MARION PORTER. The terrors of war forgotten or at least pushed into the background six former residents of Shanghai are visiting Mrs. Henry Almstedt.

1067 Cherokee Rd. Two of the visitors, Miss Alice Lan and Miss Betty Hu, petite Chinese girls in their early twenties, were refugees who found anctuary in the International Settlement during the bombing and burning of their native city. These two have the least to say about the war. Other members of the party intrude the American-educated Chinese surgeon, Dr. Mary Stone, end Miss Jennie Hughes, the only American in the group.

Dr. Stone nnd Miss Hughes founded Bethel Mission in Shanghai twenty years ago. 2 Are Orphans. Then there are two little Chinese velt's nearing, that he could not quite fathom the President really meant by one of his speeches. "That's nothing," she said.

"I couldn't quite understand that ona woke up to find her husband standing erect and soldierly between their twin beds at The Wardman Park. "What's wrong, John?" she demanded. "Can't you hear 'em?" he said. "They're playing the 'Star-Spangled at the convention downstairs." either." orphans, Mary Stone Hughes and iflBl Xorma Urbina, both 10 years old At the Spanish Embassy in Washington there's no admission that the Loyalists are losing the war They borrow the Chinese catchword "We may lose battles, but not the war." They bring in returned warriors to tell groups sitting in the lofty ballroom that Barcelona and Madrid are more optimistic about victory than readers of American headlines. The Russian Ambassador is apt to be there and, oddly enough.

A year ago all six of these people lived at the Bethel Mission which is now a shell-pocked, Betty Hu, editor of "Guide to it Handing behind her fir ro-lenfues from the demolithed Bethel Mission in Shanghai, MUs Alice Lan, principal of the School, and Dr, Mary Stone, co-founder of the minion ttcenty ago. Photos. Mary Stone Hughes, left, and Urbina, ttco Chinene urards of the Bethel Mission Orphanage, Shanghai, enjoy roller skating betireen their speaking engagements at missionary $ocietien and church groups. blackened mass of ruins. gaicking through a doorway." On the same day recently three Had not two typhoons intervened.

Dr. Stone, Miss Hughes and the two children would have journalists showed up for the mi Tfc 1 1 1 bite House press conference witnessed the horrifying sights that have been seared on the Hie JjriHIlter UlUC By Damon Uunjoniwith three pungent wisecracks CJ I disguised as questions. One asked F. D. R.

about the memories of Miss Lan and Miss Lu. They (the first four) were the city which was last to receive Japanese attention. Miss Hu said, adding that most of the residents moved into the International Settlement when hostilities started in August. However, a group remained to "protect" the mission. She and Miss Lan were in the settlement that bloody Saturday when a big department store was young gentlemen who enjoy the 1 "fire-breathing spell'' of business.

men while the children play, roller skate and giggle over the speeches they are asked to make before Sunday-school groups and various church organizations. Their elders, too, will take part in the Interdenominational Conference which will meet in Louisville Friday. It was wholesale murder," said Miss Hu describing briefly her Another queried whether the company of the fair the Mexican Ambassador, whose government is harboring Trotsky, the devil of the Russians. Guests listen to tales of bombings and blood transfusions, and then eat ices and dainty cakes. Everyone goes home saying Senorita de los Rios is very plucky, carrying on while the Ambassador's away in Spain.

wage-and-hour bill would have "floors of different levels." The third wanted to know about spending a summer vacation in Tsingtao, Shangtung, when the undeclared war broke jut and Shanghai was fired on. They hastened to return to their beloved mission. A typhoon caused bombed and "arms and legs were "gassing Germany with helium." "Jellying," among the students of the University of Missouri, is to take a girl to a place where they sell soft drinks and whoop it up on soda pop. These places are called "jelly joints." They do not sell liquor. A fellow could learn a brand new language if he hung around the town of Columbia, long Even the cook, who was the last to leave the mission he ran with his baby in his arms when he heard the shrill cries, "the Japs are coming" was unharmed and reunited with the other five members of his family several weeks later.

Miss Lan told how the refugees would swarm at the iron gates of the French Concession, already over-crowded, and how during the night the shop-keepers would smuggle some through. The shops formed a part of the barricade around the concession, she explained, the front door opening on the outside and the back door on the inside. 200 Student Nurses. The mission hospital staff, headed by Dr. Stone, Included about 200 student nurses and five Chinese doctors, she said.

They all helped care for the wounded during the harrowing thr. flying everywhere. They were just a block from the explosion. Lived In Church. For several days they lived in a church before they were removed to permanent quarters.

experiences during the bombing of Shanghai. Wilmore Graduates. An increased deliberateness in her beautifully ennunicated Eng- It seems that nearly half of the 5,000 students at the University of Missouri are girls. There are about 1,200 girls at the exclusive Stephens College located within a putt of the university. Then there are several hundred girls at Christian College here.

Stephens Girls Restricted. The Stephens girls are much more restricted than the Missouri co-eds, and are permitted to meet the young gentlemen of the college only under certain conditions and at certain places and Gilt Off the Dome: Some of the Congressmen are poised like sprinters for the homeward dash, bag packed; they hear their fence lish was the only indication of day they helped nurse the are aslant No Congressman thinks he's one of the fifty or enough. One of the fair co-eds of the University of Missouri was wounded men, women and chil Then a fourth newshawk shot an impromptu wisecrack a rather tart reference to Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago "quarantine" speech The atmosphere got so thick you could cut it with a muffled laugh. At this ir.cment some tactful journalist said, "Thank you, Mr.

President," and the conference ended, at the highest tension of the year. The President took a very deep breath and remained tense in his chair for just the blink of an eye. Then he sat relaxed again. sixty destined to lose his seat explaining to us the elaborate ceremonies attendant upon a dren crowded together on floors and gave spiritual comfort to the dying. Miss Hu, declaring she was Thurman Arnold, the new trust-busting Assistant Attorney Gen them to turn back: they made another attempt and a return en--j cement of the typhoon, together with information about conditions in Shanghai, convinced them they hzd better go to America.

They were in California until about two weeks ago when they joined the two girls in Pittsburgh. Reunion In Progress. So a sort of reunion of Bethel Mission is in progress at Mrs. Almstedt's and a more serene reunion cannot be Imagined. The war is avoided as a subject of conversation and gardening, reading, embroidery, mission work and plans to rebuild Bethel Mission pinning," which is when a girl "puts out' the frat pin of a fel certain times, but, as we gathered, that scarcely minimizes their menace to the happiness of the co-eds, who call the Stephens low of her passing fancy.

one of the most fortunate of refugees, said she and Alice had two meals' a day, consisting mostly of rice and dumplings made simply from flour and water. Occasion This "putting out" is making emotion at the remembered horrors. Both Miss Hu, who is editor of the Bethel Mission magazine, "Guide to Holiness," and Miss Lan, principal of the Mission School, were graduated from As-bury College, Wilmore, a few years ago. Reared at the Mission orphanafee, where they completed their high school work, they returned to their home after finishing college at the American school. The mission was in the part of public display of a pin the girls "Susies young lady may have been secret- Stephens is a rich institution ally there were soy beans.

Eggs, were three for $1 when you could ly wearing pinned to some gar- and constantly expanding. It is ment not commonly exposed to so big now it has to take over- eral, used the word "pragmatic' five times in a half hour chat Apparently the fires will continue to smolder between American pro and anti-Fascists on helium Alligator tears are flowing because Eckener can't have a balloonful to celebrate his seventieth birthday The factions are inflammable though the gas isn't Maybe it would best be used in American Fourth of July balloons. fCopyrieht. the view of the proletariat. When flow quarters down town while cccudv the attention of the vo- she advances the pin to conspic-uousness, it amounts to announc hastily throwing up new buildings.

For generations it has been Nothing subdues a squad of tourists so completely as to stand at a roped-off doorway and gaze into a room where a Great One was born or died or once slept on a tall canopied bied Even the tourist tots are silent and awed months. Dr. Stone, a handsome woman of 65, is the daughter of some of tb.e first Christian convert in China. She was the first woman in her province to have unbound feet and many years later she was the only doctor in a province of 5,000,000 people. ing a campus engagement, and get them, and vegetables were sold by the ounce.

It was dangerous to walk through the streets with a bag of rice in your hand because some desperate starved civilian would snatch it away. "It was bad to see women and children mangled from the shrapnel," she said describing the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, hospitals, missions and orphan then her sorority sistern and his fraternity brethren carry on no the favorite school of the well-! to-do families of the Middle and Rocky Mountain West. It was Stephens that recently paid Maude Adams $10,000 to teach a course in dramatics there. 1 as they gawk into a bedroom littl. The Washington Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson and Robert S.

AHen It's a Sharp Practice. bhe was the physician for the As we gathered from the young Missouri, we think, is one of the Kentucky. By Sam W. Sev era nee most cosmopolitan of all our family of Madam Chiang-Kai-Shek, whom she knows well and admires greatly. American Dresses.

lady's explanation, a campus engagement does not necessarily carry with it any sacred obliga The Burgoo-Master Burgoo Treaty With Germany Security for R.F.C. Loan Garner Bets On Adjournment Date Dr. Stone was educated in tions until death them do part, but just pro tern. It may be canceled on no more formality than ages. "It would seem that a Red Cross only served as a target for Japanese bombs," she added.

Miss Lan, thinking there was plenty of time to move out furniture, first of all had four pianos and some books brought from the mission into the quarters in the settlement. But the next day the America and did clinical work in the return of the pin, though Chicago in 1896 following her American colleges. The School of Journalism has drawn students from all over the world. Forty-six States of the Union are represented in the University and thirty-eight in the School of Journalism. The Eastern lads seem to enjoy it here.

Indeed, we cannot see how any youngster striving to learn journalism can fail to en High spot in recent laugh-pro- tees of the Bill of Rights and meaicai education. She had a she intimated that cancellations have been known where the party Rockefeller fellowship to Johns radio in myiumD -u voking Washington. May 18. Vice President Garner and Senator Fred Brown of New Hampshire, one-time National League star, bet $100 rn a ball game the other day and Brown won. Garner paid off fcy check.

of the second part refused to re iiopKins University. opinion, was marked by the ap mission was bombed and she the Constitution! turn the pin. Our fair informant Just as soon as it Is feasible, seemed to feel that this came isemei Mission will be rebuilt. Dr pearance of Bob Burns as guest star on the Don Ameche-Charlie-McCarthy show and the natural Several days later Brown came to him and said, "Jack, if I cash your check and get a one hundred dollar bill, will you autograph it Taxis, restaurants and cafes in Lisbon, Portugal. lower their under the head of sharp prac tice, however.

wished she had given the beds the preference as for many days she slept on the floor. None of Staff Hurt. Stone said, adding that now the orphanage and Bible School were for me?" clash of wits between Bob andltariffs by 50 per cent after 9 "Oh, I couldn't do that, Fred," Garner explained, "it's against in Hongkong. joy it here, they make the game so practical and interesting. It is just the same as.

working on a newspaper anywhere, with one exception that we have come to deem rather important the She said, somewhat ruefully, that local circumstances contrive to make competition for the at the law to deface currency." Charlie, which developed into a o'clock at night; here we add a sort of Baron Munchausen con- cover charge. test. For those of you who didn't The most miraculous fact about the complete annhilation of the Although the little girls dress in American print dresses, the wo "But I'll take the bill out of circulation. I want to keep it as tention of college young gentle memento mission is that not one single men visitors wear the long hich honr ihe- skit lf me sav that uijuwuww men mighty brisk around here, ghost never walks for the stu "Well, in that event," replied Garner, grinning slyly, "why don't said a former Russian member of the staff was hurt and Rnmc rplatH clnwinff tales of theisians necked Chinese dress, the hems is really a ripnt sta you just keep the check and not cash it? It amounts to the same thing She said Columbia paradise on earth Ambassador to the United States, they all have been accounted for. slit a few inches on each side.

productive fertility of the soil of for college' (Copyright.) "are gifted in the way of 00- his native Mate. Arkansas, ana Charlie tried to match him. Burns uut said the soil was so rich that thes mai we lac pauence. me oe Junior Board of Trade Entertains Orphans youngsters followed his ma plant Senator Soaper Says ing com to get a ride on the corn mans are excellent workers out so thorough that they reveal their plans in advance; the secret of successful diplomacy is to pre- stalk as it grew; that one corn stalk grew so fast that the boyj eared to jump down, and uw ouier man ironi seem marooned in the air. Charlie four cards and in that respect the i the English have it over every If you aren't going to spend the money." Sote Garner has made more than a dozen bets with congressional colleagues as to uhich, day Congress will adjourn.

Their predictions range jrom June 1 to June 15. German Claims Reeardless of what Secretary Hull may think about the sanctity of the United States treaty of 1921 with Germany, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is depending upon it for security for a loan it is extending to the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Before the United States entered the World War, the Lehigh Valley's yards, loaded with munitions at Black Tom Island, were blown' up. by alleged German agents. A claim of damages for 510,000,000 has been lodged against Germany by the Lehigh Valley rn the basis of the 1921 treaty, and the case has been argued back ind forth before the Mixed Claims Commission for years.

Last week Germany asked for more time to answer the American argument and was granted "until July 12. Meanwhile the Lehigh Great Britain has just doubled the tax on tea. the harbor police in Boston are stalk down and Burns hoppered Jer "ace: one knows what be they are going to do next "Here comes the boat! I see it! Listen to the music!" Wednesday at 2 p.m. the city's levee swarmed with 500 Jefferson County orphans who came to keep a date with the Island Queen for the annual boat ride sponsored by the Junior Board of Trade. As the floating palace steamed into sight the.

children came skipping over cobblestones, that his pa did try to fell it with streamed aboard and took complete command. Louisville merchants had contributed liberally to the afternoon's refreshments, Dara Cross, chairman of the orphans committee, said. Mr. Cross was assisted by Bruce Hoblitzell, and a score of young Louisville business men who played "Daddy" for the day. The children were directly in charge of Charles Rogers, from the Kentucky Children's Home; Miss Grace Bartlett, Baptist Chil understood to have the.

local $it uation well in hand. During the afternoon, games and dances were arranged by Mary Long Hanlon, and a continuous puppet show was presented by Tommy Noonan. Due to and heavy canal traffic the Island Queen arrived late for the trip. The United States Coast Guards, meanwhile, played hosts to eager explorers. Capt.

W. T. Farrell gave the youngsters free tours through his spick and span station, which is the only one on inland waters in the United States. Representative Maverick wants a North-South axis in this hemis- an axe but that the vegetation wonder grew so fast that he could not hit twice in the same place. Charlie's comeback was about a cow kicking the roof off of a barn but he finally had his revenge.

Burns yarned about a cousin, the jumping champion of his neck of the woods, who, after a two-mile running start, leaped across the Arkansas River and tumbling from busses "and cars, Valley, needing money to buy locomotives, has offered its claim phere. We must all start looking cause they don't know themselves." Repartee is the bright remark you thirfk of next week. Lin Yutang, Chinese philosopher, says: All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations of the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. How wise was the Southern clamoring to be 'the first aboard. As the great gangplank settled in p.

gainst Germany as security, and is getting an R.F.C. loan of $778,000. for an Eskimo with a Chaplin mustache and a Patagonian with dren's Home, and Mrs. Alvina place 6rphans, big and little, clean a Desurne, Presbyterian Orphans. and mussed, but all happy, A new idea is to combat Fas 1 Jee Jones' Rule A group of Democratic moguls were en route from Washington to Louisvilte for the Kentucky Derby, including Jim Farley, Chip Robert, secretary of the Democratic National Committee, and his glamorous wife Evie.

All of them occupied ordinary Pullmans. Suddenly, while walking through the train, the party stumbled into an ornate private car sank to his knees in solid rock; Charlie countered that once he had jumped the Mississippi River and sank in sold rock up to his Negro who said: "A politkrsl ankles. When Burns remonstrated i platform is jest like a platform at the depth of his sinking, Char-i of one of dese yer railroad cars; cist propaganda in Latin America with programs from here. To receive a valu-1 able prize, tear oft one of those 'colored shirts and mail it in. fC' lie reminded him that, he landed aint meant to stana on; nitl head-first.

Sjest made to git in on." The keenest crack was Charlie Well, interruption of Bergen, who at! various times, attempted to spill Viic vam nhnut the time he was A nature lover who subsisted "Better keep out," Bergen, I'll Tell You in which sat Jesse Jones, R.F.C. chairman. Except for Mrs. Jones, he sat in solitary splendor. "Well, if it isn't little Jesse," hailed Evie Robert, "all done up in a private car.

Just how do you rate that, Jesse? "No, you don't have to explain," she continued. "We know bow you got all your money. We know how you started life selling fence-palings. And now look at your plutocratic existence'." Jesse attempted no explanation, but many of the railroads supplying private cars have borrowed heavily from Jesse's R.F.C. Note Jim Farley was the luckiest winner 0 the Democratic Derbyites.

At LouisvilZe he iron eight out 0 nine races. Ro Ice Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, multi-millionaire Rhode Island socialite, has been trying desperately to organize a filibuster against the recovery bill so far without luck. Too many of the boys are up for election this year to take any chances. Senators George of Georgia, Tydings of Maryland, "Cotton Ed" a month in the Maine Wilds on bark and leaves admits it is no way to live. This may settle an a w'Vm FAX A I VS I 4 mtcx fc4)S "this is no contest for amateurs.

And for me, the sentimental high-light of the show was John Carter's singing of "Absent" old query, are we moose or men? By BOB BURNS time I II Duce's fight talk at Genoa Si- Py Every srk r- P.ick maga- "Sometimes between long shadows on the grass, the little truant', waves of sunlight pass; my eyes zine I Kpe urhr included us in his challenge. It is not known how this affects Boss Hague's dream of a Rome-Jersey City Axis. Copyright. 1938, by N. A.

N. Inc.) erow dim with tenderness the i 7 while, thinking I see thee Well, I'm just an old fool, living! with my fond memories of other Smith of South Carolina, Van Nuys of Indiana, and others who dined 1 1 sums uuier woman is out for the title of "the best dressed woman in Hollywood." Its a nice title if yoj days a dimly lighted parlor, a at Gerrv's table and fought shoulder to shoulder in fierce battles! ww against the White House, are treading softly these days. Frightened I OllSC LsOIHinitlCC ever the Florida primary, they are laying low on any anti-Adminis- i tration antics. O.k.S LxpailSlOH But while most of Gerry pals have run for cover, this does! mt mean the recovery measure won't be subjected to grilling 'I PHvifiii Senate opposition will concentrate on the $1,500,000,000 public works program, to ham-string Presidential control over relief and recovery funds. The antis will try to nail down everything with ear-marking restrictions.

Washington, May 18 The House Banking Committee today faint breeze rustling the curtains, girl of my dreams strumming the; piano and singing softly that same song, while turned the music for her. Charles Lamb said: The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Many Happy Returns To Leonard Judson Knoth, Kut-tawa; born in Lyon County, 1880. Albert Joseph Giancola, music teacher; born at Franklin, 1891. Carroll L.

Cropper, banker, There is little prospect, however, that Senate opposition will be! approved, 9 to 8, a bill to carry can get it but it's pretty hard on the husbands. The other day a husband cams home from a party and he was telling his wife about how nice a certain lady looked at the party, and he said, "I couldn't help noticing how simply and modestly she was dressed." The w-ife said, "Yes, that woman would do anything to attract attention." (Copyright) Watchmen Not Officers The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau. Frankfort, May 18. Watchmen, without the powers of peace officers, are not required successful. Maximum support Gerry has been able to round up, according to a secret poll, is thirty votes less than one-third of the Senate.

yrC p2rmssC til i 1 out President Roosevelt's recommendation for a $300,000,000 expansion of the low-cost housing and slum clearance program of the United States Housing Authority. The measure would increase from $500,000,000 to $800,000,000 the amount of bonds the authority may issue to finance its program. Nathan Straus, U.S.H.A. Administrator, had asked that the Merry-Go-Round At the recent United States Chamber of Commerce banquet, most enthusiastic applause was given the following three guests of honor: Justice James McReynolds, die-hard member of the Supreme Court; Lammot duPont; and Senator Edward Burke of Nebraska, who had treated the Chamber to a violent attack on the National Labor Relations Board. Representative Mark Wilcox of Florida, whom Senator Claude Pepper recently defeated two to one for the Senate nomination, is telling House colleagues that he is "through with politics forever." Wilcox is taking his licking very hard and has a ng list of explanations for it George E.

Davis, young San Francisco lawyer who heads the Tom Mooney Defense Committee, was given great praise by the House Judiciary Subcommittee for his presentation of Mooney's case to the committee. (Copyright, 1933, by Vnited Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Burlington; born there, 1897." Adolphus Gilliam, clergyman, Paris; born in Morgan County, 1897. Talk about embarrassing moments; how that New York woman, who introduced herself on Professor Quiz's program a lawyer, must have felt, when she was asked to name four guaran- to be appointed by the uovernor under the new deputy sheriff law and consequently employers will not be required to deposit with the State Treasurer money to pay their salaries, Guy H. Herd-man, assistant attorney general, said today in an opinion to the Adjutant General's department. 000.000 be doubled.

The committee also agreed, 9 to 8, to waive for a year a requirement that municipalities provide 10 per cent of the capital cost of housing projects. 1 Photo. Ed tear Connelly, surf man for ten year urith tha U.S. Coast Guard in Louisrille, shoics ttco children around the nation as they tcait on the rirer front for. a boat ride..