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War Refugees. BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, Sept. 1 (Wednesday). QP) Japanese naval authorities warned all foreign shipping today to steer clear of the Japanese naval concentrations in the Whang- poo river and the Yangtze estuary, the only route to the open sea and safety for.

hundreds of American women and children marooned in Shanghai. United States and British naval commanders were understood to be discussing inauguration of naval convoys to force a safe passage down the river for American and British mercy ships carrying refugees. Under the proposed plan armed warship escorts would resist any attempts to molest foreign shipping. It is believed Admiral Harry Yarnell would refer the plan to President Roosevelt before being put into effect. BULLETIN.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 1 (Wednesday). 045) Japanese troops pressed desperately against the fire of Chinese machine guns today, fighting to consolidate their forces in the Woosung sector, north of Shanghai. The Japanese lines along the Lotien, Woosung, and Kiangwan sector were broken in many places by the Chinese. Pictures on back page.) SHANGHAI, Aug.

31. VP) The perils of war were aggravated tonight by an outbreak of cholera in this conflict-ridden city where Amer icans are stranded by a ban on American shipping. The disease appeared in the French concession, home of most of Shang hai's American and desper ate efforts were made to halt its spread. Sanitary officers of the in ternational settlement at the same time waged a campaign against the menace of bubonic plague. United States naval authorities can celed all shore leaves for men on American warships stationed here and Chinese hands were ordered off the U.

S. S. Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic fleet. This action was taken because of the danger of the cholera and increasing hostilities between China and Japan. Traced to Slain Civilians.

The menace of epidemic to this metropolis was traced partly to the overtaxing of facilities for removing the bodies of civilian victims killed in Hongkew during air raids, artillery bombardments and machine gunning. Sanitary officers said they were hampered in their work because Japanese military forces insisted on clos ing certain areas, where bodies re main to be buried, to forestall looting and the return of Chinese soldiers. Japanese cleanup squads mean while disposed of many bodies by saturating them with gasoline and setting them afire. The port of Shanghai was closed to American shipping, excepting warships, following the bombing Monday of the Dollar liner President Hoover by Chinese war planes. One seaman was killed and nine persons wounded.

Admiral Issues Order. The ban on American shipping was issued by Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, commander in chief of the United States Asiatic fleet, and Consul General Clarence Gauss because of the danger from bombs and shells. The order advised vessels flying the American flag whether passenger liners or freighters to suspend calling at Shanghai indefinitly. The projected call of the President Grant today was canceled, while the President Coolidge and President Van Buren, which were' due here Sept. 7, were advised to proceed to Hongkong.

The action left marooned 500 American women and children who had planed to leave on the liners. With, them the American colony remained at a total of 2,000 men, women and children. Authorities reached no immediate decision on plans for future evacua-. tions because of the absence of suitable naval vessels. The only available one, the supply ship Gold Star from Guam, can accommodate but sixty passengers.

Italian Ship Attacked. Coincident with the American action, an unidentified bomber attacked but did not damage the Italian operated steamer Lung Shan near Woosung, twelve miles north of BY FliesHome and Marries Actor (Picture on back page.) Jasper, Aug. 31. Special. Tallulah Bankhead, screen and stage actress "who was not of the marrying sort," was wed here tonight at the home of her father, William B.

Bankhead, speaker of the house of representatives. Her husband is John Emery, an actor who hasn't yet had his name listed in Who's Who of the Theater. Impetuous as always, Tallulah was in such a hurry to marry that only an airplane was swift enough to carry her to the altar. The air journey began in New York this morning in a privately chartered plane. Emery was with her on the trip.

When the plane landed at Bir mingham this evening Tallulah stepped out, clad in slacks. She was almost hysterically disappointed when she was received by reporters. She had believed her plans to have been a complete secret. Plans to Fly Back to New York. Then, with Emery still at her side, and smilingly affable again, she admit ted that it was her wedding night.

She explained that she wanted her father to give her in marriage. The bride and her chosen mate repaired at once to a Birmingham hotel to change clothes for the remaining trip to Jasper by automobile. "We'll be back tomorrow morning to return by plane to New York," she promised. Tallulah, a member of an Alabama family that has been in congress for more than fifty years, always has scoffed wittily and imperiously at marriage. Men on both sides of the Atlantic have admired her and often have been her companions, but never a husband had she accepted.

She is 35 years "Once Toast of London. She has been in a number of stage successes since deserting the screen several years ago. She was the toast of London during a recent season and once was mentioned as a friend of the prince of Wales before that gen tleman became Edward VIII. or the duke of Windsor. She is scheduled to appear this fall in New York in "Antony and Cleopatra," as is her new husband.

Emery is the son of Theodore Emery, a veteran of the stage, as were his grandfather and great-grandfather. An aunt, Winifred Emery, was married to Cyril Maude. Appears with Miss Cornell. Emery's most recent stage appearance was as Laertes in John Gielgud's successful "Hamlet." With Katherine Cornell he played in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "Flowers of the Forest," and "St Joan." In 1934 he appeared with Miss Cornell in "Ro meo and Juliet." As a result of his acting in "Hamlet" Emery won a part in the film "The Road Back." Miss Bankhead has been promi nently mentioned for the part of Scarlett in "Gone with the provided she could be persuaded to return to the films. A great many of her admirers have felt that the r61e was tailored to her measure, not only because of her nativity but because of her personality.

THE WEATHER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1937. Sunrise, 6:15 a. sunset, 7:24. Moon rises at 3 :44 a. m.

tomorrow. Saturn and Venus are morning stars. Mercury and Mars are evening: stars, CHICAGO AND VI CINITY Partly cloudy esday and Thursday, prob-a 1 unsettled a times; continued warm. OilNOIS: Partly cloudy, continued warm Wednesday and Thursday; probably some scattered showers. TRIBUNE BAROMETER.

TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO For 24 hours ended at 2 MAXIMUM," 8 P. MINIMUM, .6 A. m. Sept. It 86 .73 3 a.

Noon 84 4 a. -1 p. .85 5 a. 73 2 p. 6 a.

3 p. .85 7 a. 4 p. .85 8 a. 74 5 p.

9 a. 77 6 .82 10 a. 1 p. 81 11 a. 8 p.

81 Unofficial 9 p. 10 p. 11 p. Midnight ..82 1 2 a. For 24 hours ended at 7:30 p.

Aug. 31: Mean temperature, 79; normal, 69; excess since Aug. 1, 128 degrees; excess since Jan. 1, 171 decrees. Precipitation, none; deficiency since "Aue.

1, v.oj or an men. Total since Jan. 1, 19.48 inches; deficiency since Jan. 1, 3.30 inches. Highest wind velocity, 9 miles an hour.

from the southeast, at op. m. Barometer 7:30 a. 30.19; 7:30 p. m.

30.10. Relative humidity, 7:30 a. 88; 1 p. m. 67; 7:30 p.

67. Sept. 1, 1936. Maximum temperature, 71; minimum, 65 mean, 68; cloudy; precipitation, .45 of an inch. Official weather table on pace 27.

BILLIONSESS -A IAW DENIALS About 8 Billions Say Democrats to G.O.P. (Chicago Tribune Press Service.1 Washington, D. Aug. 31. Special.

With the spending policies of the Roosevelt administration and the idangers of uncontrolable inflation looming as a major issue in the 1938 congressional campaign, house Democrats today indicated concern over the Republican blast put out yesterday purporting to show that the last session appropriated 10 billion 252 million dollars. The Republican compilation, prepared for the Congressional Record, indicated a deficit of more than 3 billion dollars for the 1938 fiscal year and a national debt of more than 40 billion dollars by next July Calls Appropriations Lower. Representative Clarence Cannon ID, acting chairman of the house appropriations committee, replied today with a series of tables of his own, contending, among other things, that the session just closed appropriated only 58,427,605,854 and that only $7,448,648,922 was for the fiscal year 1938. Representative John Taber N. XI.

ranking minority member of the appropriations committee, had declared that the appropriations for the session totaled 510,252,892,556 and that virtually all of this sum was for the current fiscal year. Adopts Complex System. Mr. Cannon employed an elaborate breakdown method of arriving at the figure of $7,448,648,922 as being the amount actually appropriated for the 1933 fiscal year and, on this basis, lound that the amount appropriated vas $357,730,248 less than the total appropriations for the 1937 fiscal year, which he fixed at $7,806,379,171. Mr.

Cannon's figures did not jibe Svith those put in the Congressional Record just before the session closed by Senator Carter Glass Va.J, chairman of the senate appropriations committee, who his repeatedly stated ie national debt is closer to 40 billion dollars than to the 37 billion as shown by the treasury statement. Over 9 Billions, Glass Says. Senator Glass arrived a figure of $9,389,488,893 as the total amount appropriated by the last session. This was $946,910,379 less than the "amount appropriated by the 1936 session of congress, according to Senator Glass tabulations, but by deducting the $2,237,000,000 soldiers' bonus appropriated in 1936 he found that t-he amount appropriated by the last session was $1,290,089,620 higher than that of the year before. Mr.

Cannon arrives at his figure of $7,448,648,922 as the amount actually appropriated for the 1938 fiscal year by deducting $974,083,117 which was made available by the last session for the 1937 fiscal year, ended June 30. Cites Three Factors. These deficiencies, he said, consisted cf "three major items practically all of which were expended before the session adjourned. These three sums are for relief and work relief, $95,003,000 for the Civilian Conservation corps and $50,000,000 for crop production loans for the 1937 crop year. "Aside from the crop production loan appropriation," Mr.

Cannon said, "these other appropriations for the fiscal year of 1937 at the past session of approximately $700,000,000 may be regarded as of a nonrecurring nature, as they arose under and extraordinary circumstances which are not likely to recur." Less for Work Belief. Mr. Cannon found it gratifying that the appropriation of $1,500,000,000 for work relief during the 1938 fiscal year represented a decrease of $714,000,000, or more than 32 per cent, below the $2,214,000,000 relief appropriation for the 1937 fiscal year. He did not mention the fact, how-ever, that in addition to the the relief bill reappropriated a total of $223,000,000 in unexpended balances for the WPA and for the PWA, making a total of $2,023,000,000 for the 1938 fiscal year. Moreover, $350,000,000 was appropri ated for the CCC, which previously received its allotments from relief funds.

President Roosevelt, in his last summation, estimated the 'deficit for the 1938 fiscal year at $418,000,000, exclusive of statutory debt retirement, which will be Mr. Taber estimated the deficit at between 3 billion and 4 billion dollars. ERS OF Action in Effect Till Danger Passes. Opening of Chicago schools public and parochial was indefinitly postponed last night by order of the city board of health. The order was issued because of a recent increase of in fantile paralysis cases among chil dren of school age, and as a precau tion against an epidemic of the dis-ease.

The public schools had been sched uled to open next Tuesday. Paro chial grade schools of the Catholic archidiocese were to have started their fall term next Wednesday. Health officers of suburban communities said they contemplated no action at this time to postpone opening of their schools. August Sets Record. In deciding upon the precautionary measure, the board of health took note of the fact that new infantile paralysis cases in the first twenty- eight days of August totaled 98, the largest number in any August in the city's history.

During August last year only twenty-three cases were reported, and in August, 1935, there were sixteen cases. Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the board of health, explained that in previous epidemic years, Septem ber usually produced the peak num ber of cases. For example, in 1916, there were ninety-nine cases up to Sept.

1, but 264 during the remaining months of the year. I In 1917 there were sixty-one cases up to Sept. 1, and 550 during the rest of the year. "We have delayed opening of the schools until we pass the danger period of September," Dr. Bundesen said.

"The disease has not yet reached epidemic proportions, and by taking every precaution we hope to prevent the usual September increase." Seek to Avoid Epidemic The health authorities said they were willing to face possible public criticism for their action, knowing they would be targets of far heavier criticism with a justifiable basis if children fell victims to an epidemic because they permitted the schools to open. The board of health also pointed out that 56 per cent of the new cases in July and August were among children from 5 to 15 years old. During the last 72 hours before the board acted, eighteen cases were reported in contrast to ten cases during the corresponding period a week ago. Each week in July and August showed an increase over the preceding week. Acts After Seeing Mayor.

Dr. Bundesen made his decision to delay opening of the schools after a series of talks with Mayor Kelly, followed by a final conference in the mayor's office after adjournment of the city council. The board of health then issued the following announcement: "It is ordered that the opening of all schools in the city of Chicago be delayed until such time as the board of health advises that it is safe for the schools to open." James B. McCahey, president of the board of education, was notified of the board's order in Wequetonsing, Mich, where he is completing a brief vacation. He immediately made preparations to return to Chicago this morning, and announced that a special school board meeting probably will be called this afternoon to authorize the issuance of proper instructions to all department heads.

Similar action was expected to be taken at once by parochial school officials. Parental Care Urged. "While the situation is not one that should alarm parents unduly," said Mayor Kelly, "it calls for drastic action as a preventive of even more serious We hope it will lead parents to see the importance of keeping children out of crowds and out of contact with large numbers of other children." It is advisable that every possible precaution be taken against a spread of the said- Dr. Bundesen. "Parents should understand that they must be on the alert constantly and that they must make every effort for a correct diagnosis of sickness among children.

They must know that the early symptoms of paralysis are seemingly not serious, that they appear similar to the symptoms of grip or a cold. "Those first symptoms ordinarily Continued on page column 3. ON ORD HEALTH BOARD The Green Bay Packers, profession al football champions, will meet the College AU-Americans tonight at Soldiers' field in the annual game sponsored by Chicago Tribune Charities, Inc. The program will start at 8:20 o'clock. The attendance is expected to exceed 85,000.

The Cubs regained the National league lead by defeating the Dodgers, 4 to 2, yesterday at Brooklyn while the New York Giants were losing to the St Louis Cardinals, 8 to 1. The Cubs now lead the Giants by a full game. The White Sox came from behind three times to beat the Boston Red Sox, 7 to 6, yesterday at Comiskey park. Two runs in the ninth inning decided it. Details on sport pages.

NEWS SUMMARY of The Tribune And Historical Scrap Book. Wednesday, September 1, 1937. LOCAL. Health board delays opening of schools to halt spread of infantile paralysis. Page 1.

Council gets ordinance to license Chicago auto drivers. Page City council passes law for moron alarms on fire escapes. Page 3. Tax collections total $11,615,314 before penalty date. Page 3.

Third warmest August in city's history ends. Page 4. New York called on to pay 35 mil lion dollar tax in year as rapid transit subsidy. Page 6. Demand special session of legislature in Chicago relief crisis.

Page 14. WASHINGTON. Republican charge of 10 billion cost of last congress stirs Democrats to ieply it's about 8billions. Pagel. China offers apology and redress for bombing of American ship.

Page 2. FOREIGN. Cholera strikes Shanghai and en dangers American refugees; Chinese and Japanese meet in battle. Page 1. Russian writer links Putzi Hanf- staengel to Russian marshal executed as traitor.

Pagel Berlin prepares great reception for Premier Mussolini. Page 2. Submarine torpedoes sink Russian ship in Spanish war zone; crew is saved. Page 10. DOMESTIC.

Tallulah Bankhead, stage star, flies to Alabama home, wed to an actor. Page Huge French flying boat ready for attempt to capture North Atlantic trade route. Page 5. Senator Copeland pins responsibility for putting Walker in choice job on Roosevelt. Page 6.

Five killed, 27 hurt In Chicago- Cleveland bus crash. Page 7. A. F. of L.

executives vote to rejoin world federation. Page 14. SPORTS. Packers can beat All-Americans, but will they? Page2L York hits two home runs to beat Ruth's record for a month; Tigers win, 12 to 3. Page 22.

Giants beaten, 8 to 1, by Cardinals; lose league lead. Page 22. Haas' 68 tops opening trials in west ern amateur. Page 23. Employer wins again at Lincoln Fields in Marigold purse.

Page 24. EDITORIALS. An American-British Understand ing; What Caused Chinese Open Parole Hearings. Page 12. FEATURES.

Crossword puzzle. Page 10. Deaths and obituaries. Page 14. News of society.

Page 17, Music review. Page 17, Movie review. Page 17. Radio news and programs. Page 19.

Experimental farms diary. Page 28, FINANCE, COMMERCE. Four Chicagoans convicted of SEC law violations; face seven year prison terms. Page 25, French government takes control of railways by decree. Page 25.

Union Carbide subsidiary contracts for TVA power. Page 25. Central Republic stockholders pay $200,000 more on liability. Page 25. Continental Can, Columbia Pictures report smaller profits.

Page 25. Stocks decline after showing early firmness; volume is small. Page 25, Chicago July business ahead of year ago, below June. 1937. Page 27, Want Ad index.

Page 28, Atctds paid airculatte JULY. 1937 THE CHICAGO TRIEUNB DAILY hi access 800,000 Pi KEEPS $7,000 CLOSE TO HIS CHEST AND FOILS FOUR BANDITS New York, Aug. 31. JP) The closest thing to Joseph Maniscalco's heart tonight was the $7,000 he got as a cash payment in a $68,000 real estate deal. It was even closer than his underwear, and that's the reason the four holdup men who tried to muscle in on the deal couldn't find it.

When Maniscalco, 60 years old and a druggist, walked out of a Brooklyn lawyer's office with the cash, he later told police, four men with guns shoved their way into a taxicab behind him and Anthony Luongo, one of his attorneys. The bandits got only $15 he had in his pockets. WAR PLANE FALLS INTO SALT LAKE WITH 2 ABOARD Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 31. (IP) An army pursuit plane fell into Great Salt Lake at dusk tonight and shortly thereafter one of its occupants was seen to start a two mile swim toward shore.

Aboard were Lieut. Luke Powell, a reserve officer, and a mechanic. Private Henry Pearson. Lieut. J.

J. Thompson, a fellow flyer, said when Lieut. Powell failed to return to the Salt Lake City airdrome he started out to search and soon sighted the tail of the plane in the lake. "A short ways off one of the men was swimming in the water," he said. "I waved to him.

I don't know whether it was Lieut. Powell or Pearson. I motioned to him that I was going ashore to send out a boat. He waved back as if he meant O. HAMBURGER DAN EATS 25 IN HOUR ON THE HOUSE! (Picture on back page.) Rodrick wiped the mustard from his twenty-fifth hamburger off his face yesterday and claimed the title of champion hamburger eater of the world.

In just two seconds less than an hour he had eaten the twenty-five, with pickle and onion, and washed them down with three glasses of water. Dan, a Waukegan High school sophomore, 16 years old, finished 4 hamburgers ahead of his nearest competitor in a field of seventeen. William Masonic, proprietor of a hamburgery at 1701 Washington street, Waukegan, had started a business boom by the announcement that customers eating twenty-five hamburgers within the hour could tear up their checks, or eat them if they preferred. Dan lives at 42 Spring street, Waukegan. City Drivers9 License Law Up to Council BY HAL'FOUST.

Aid. John A. Massen 48th introduced a proposed ordinance before the city council yesterday to create a city drivers license law. Its appli cation would be limited to the 900,000 automobile operators residing in Chi cago, Dut otherwise the provisions are similar to the state-wide life sav ing bill defeated at. Springfield this year because of a Democratic fac tional fight for patronage.

The proposal was referred to the council trafic committee of which Aid. Massen is chairman. He said there will be a full public hearing as soon after Labor day as ha can assemble a quorum of his committee. Good for Two Tears. The licenses would be issued for two year period for a fee of 50 cents to cover administration expenses.

All applicants after Jan. 1, 1938, would have to pass a physical examination, a test on trafic regulations, and demonstrate their ability to drive. The license would be revoked for drunken driving, for hit and run driving, for manslaughter or other felony committed with an automobile, or for fraud in procuring the license Repeated convictions for other less serious trafic offenses would consti tute grounds for suspension not to exceed six months. Step in Right Direction. "A state drivers' law has been defeated by every general assembly in Illinois since 1919," said Aid.

Mas-sen. The ordinance would help Dy reducing the number of accidents in volving Chicago drivers. A state law is to be' preferred, but we have no assurance of its passage soon. I believe the city has authority under its charter to enact this ordinance, The council trafic committee yester day also received a proposal to create a city trafic school to be attended by motorists on orders of the Trafic or the Safety court. 1 Judges Use Other Means.

In the absence of a drivers' license law the courts of Chicago yesterday continued their efforts to curb danger ous drivers by other means. Judge J. M. Braude fined five more trafic violators who had no liability insurance on their automobiles. He set Sept.

10 for hearings on motions to vacate the fines, ranging from WO to $75, and indicated he would reduce the fines if the insurance were taken out. The hearings will be neld in Safety court, where Judge Braude will be sitting in September. Two of those fined were arrested for speeding in aged automobiles. Continued on page 6, column 3. Hitlers Friend 'Putzi' Linked to Red Traitor BY ALEX SMALL.

ChicHSO Tribune Press Service. (Picture on back page.) PARIS, Aug. 31. A new explanation of the disgrace of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's former favorite, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, once chief of the foreign press department of the Nazi party, was put forward loday by the newspaper Echo de Paris. The information is contained in an anonymous article which the paper said was written by a military man who is an expert on questions of central Europe and Russia.

Hanfstaengl now is living as an exile in London after mysteriously and suddenly quitting Germany. Linked to Soviet Traitor." According to the story in L'Echo, Hanfstaengl was implicated in the treason of Marshal Michael N. Tuk-hachevsky of soviet Russia. Tukhachevsky, a vice commissar of defense in Russia, wa executed in June with seven other generals. They were accused of serving the military intelligence service of an unfriendly" power.

Tukhachevsky was a great friend of Hanfstaengel, and turned over to him one of Russia's mobilization plans, the article said. Loquacious and filled with his own importance, Hanfstaengel was unable to keep quiet and boasted all over Berlin that he had bought Tukhachevsky, it was asserted. This came to Hitler's ears after Tukhachevsky's execution and made the Fuehrer furious, with the result that Hanfstaengel was banished and the property he had left in Germany was confiscated, according to. L'Echo. Brought Into Court Dying.

Commenting on Tukhachevsky's death the anonymous author claimed to know the Russian was shot' before trial and was brought into court dying. He may even have been dead and certainly was unaware of what was happening, the writer said. The motive given for hii treason was sincere admiration for Germany which first was acquired when he was in a prison camp during the world war. It increased with the conviction that the only safe road for Russia was an alliance with Germany, which he was sure would be an invincible combination, the article asserted. Until the advent of Hitler, Tukha chevsky thought there was a good chance of Russia attacking Germany with success.

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