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NEW $1,218,000 GRANT FOR COUNTY'S HIGHWAYS
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Weather
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FORTY-EIGHT PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1937
PRICE TEN CENTS
FEAR REVOLT OF CHINESE MASSES
Hundreds Reported Killed In Wreck Of Express Train In India
ANNOiCE PROGRAM OF STATE
Coaches Telescope In Drop Over Embankment
Senator Mundy Gives Out
List Of Local Roads
To Be Repaired
TO END DANGER SPOTS
Puts Grand Total  Allotted
Here For Year Close
To $3,500,000
Senator Leo C. Mundy. following a conference held with Warren Van Dyke, Pennsylvania Highway Commissioner, announced last night that an additional grant of 11,218,098.10 has been set aside for repairs and new construction of highways in Luzerne county. The bulk will be spent in boroughs where road conditions in many instances are deplorable. This amount docs not include ths S250,- 000 allotted for the construction of a by-pass at Luzerne and the re¬ paving of Bennett and Main street in the borough.
The latest appropriation by the mate highway brings the amount allotted for highway improvements here close to $3,500,000, one of the largest sums to be spent in any county of the commonwealth. One of the major items is the construc¬ tion of the new East End bridge. Improve Road At Shickshinny Senator Mundy in an interview 'with a Sunday Independent re¬ porter, talked freely on the pro¬ posed improvements. Among them was the new Shickshinny high¬ way, which has been the source of much annoyance to autoist.';, par¬ ticularly in the winter month.s. The road at that point will be graded and the treacherous hill descend¬ ing into the borough will be elim¬ inated.
The estimated costs of highway Improvements in that municipality Is $521,000, in which the federal government will co-operate with the State Highway Department. Flans For Newport The senator also revealed the highway plans for road improve¬ ments in Newport Township. He said:
"Newport street to Main street will be improved at an estimate expenditure of $3,166.40. Main street to Market sireet, estimated costs $22,074.26; Market street to Coal street, estimated costs $23,- 779.20, and Coal street to Town¬ ship road, $14,,319.40."
The senator also commented that road improvements would be made in the Wanamie section of the township also.
Nanticoke Merchants and busi¬ ness men who requested a new pave for Broadway street, leading to the bridge, will be accommo¬ dated under the new appropria¬ tion.
The department has set aside the sum of $19,680 for this improve¬ ment and also has provided $19,250 for College street.
Glen Lyon a proseperous com¬ munity in Newport Township also will be the beneficiary of the ad¬ ditional appropriation. Senator Mundy revealed. He said Route 40030 will be repaved at an esti¬ mated cost of $88,800.
Big  Jobs  In  Wilkes-Barre
The   City   of   Wilkcs-Barrc   also
will   benefit.   The   sum   of   $40,285
for   Courtright   avenue   and   River
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Madras. India, July 17 (UP)—India's worst train wreck occurred today when the Punjab-Bengal Express plunged over an embankment 15 miles from Patna, re¬ sulting in hundreds of casualties.
Ninety bodies had been recovered to¬ night and rescue workers from Patna searched for more believed to be still in the wreckage.
Estimates of tlie casualties varied, the Exchange   Telegraph   earlier   estimating
280 dead and 250 injured, all natives. Later information, however, indicated that this estimate was high.
Reports from Patna said the first two coaches of the train were buried under the wreckage of the next two, which ran over them, crushing the passengers to death.
The two telescoped coaches had not yet been searched tonight, so the indi¬ cation was that the death toll would mount.
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Violent Action Expected As
Result Of Loyalist Gains
And Improved Position
BOMB REBEL TRAINS
Madrid, July 17. (UP)—Insurgent forces massed on the Madrid front today, the start of the second year of the war, in an effort to check a Loyalist offensive which so far has I
Transformation Of U. S. Foreseen By Scientists
Soil-less Farming:, Fabricated Air-Conditioned
Houses, Synthetic Clothing, Mechanical
Labor Aids Will Work Deep Change
and   re-
Washington, July 17. (UP)—In¬ ventors will make the United States a strangely different country by 1960 through the development of new-type houses, made - to - order climate, foolproof labor-saving de¬ vices, clothes produced by chemis¬ try and soil-less farming, a group of nationally known scientists pre¬ dicted to President Roosevelt to¬ night.
In order that federal government i "Adequacy of reporting inven might gear itself to social-economic' ^!,°J'^.!.']|?^,,f...''®.,'"7.®A':^",'tl• j*.'*" consequences of the changes—par    '  "  ~ ~'~
nological   unemployment, commended;
"Appointment of a joint commit tee of federal agencies to watch de¬ velopments that may cause techno¬ logical unemployment. Results of their findings should be made avail¬ able to industry and labor.
"The whole system of patent laws should be reviewed by a group of social scientists.
tifularly affecting unemployment—
the  feasibility  of assembling data on   applied   science   and   invention resulted in wide gains of territory. I they  surveyed  scientific' probabili-  '" some central location."
Government observers said 15,000 i tics during the next 15-to-25 years. President Roosevelt pointed out to 20,000 Italian troops had been ' The report, submitted to the Pre;<i- 'hat the National Resources Com- brought to the Madrid front. The j dent by the National Resources! ">''lee report was the first of its Loyalist offensive  thus  apparently I Committee of Technological Trends   1""^   ''>'  »">   government  agency,
has succeeded in forcing the trans-| and National  Policy,  foresaw:
fer of Insurgent shock troops to the Madrid zone from Santander, Aragon and Andalusia.
The Loyalist general staff was understood to be pleased by the de¬ velopment, reasoning ' that Gen. Francisco Franco has been com¬ pelled to risk all of his best forces at one point, where a decisive battle might be fought.
Bonihiiig Troop Trains
Recent Loyalist air raids have been concentrated on railroad stations back of the lines to bomb arriving Nationalist troop trains.
Meanwhile, the Loyalists were re¬ ported to have gained more than a mile in the flat terrain on the Toledo highway south of Madrid, between the Sesena highroad and Ciempozuelos.
Thus Franco was forced to de¬ fend three points simultaneously— the Coruna highway at Las Rozas, the Brunetc sector west of the cap¬ ital and Ciebpozuelos to the south. Violent Attack Expected
With the massing of Italian and other insurgent troops, a violent nationalist counter-attack was ex¬ pected. Both sides seemed lo be tensing for action and the first anniversary of the war brought an ominous lull.
A United Press correspondent who visited the front reported most sectors Inactive except for artillery duels and air raids. The Loyalists were busy fortifying their positions for the expected attack.
NEWPORT  LOAN  APPROVED
Harrisburg, July 17. (UP)—In¬ ternal affairs secretary Thomas A. Logue announced approval of the $55,000 Newport Township, Luzerne bounty, bond issue, of which $25- 000 is to fund floating indebted¬ ness and $30,000 for sewer and street improvements.
Ready-Made Houses Due
1. Pre-fabricatcd houses — Com¬ plete, selling for $3,300 or less and delivered ready to set up direct from the manufacturer; trailers in¬ creasingly used by transient work¬ ers and by salesmen to display merchandise.
2. Air conditioning—Will became less expensive with "much greater development along the line of quietly operating devices"; passen-i ger airplanes cooled with "dry ice."
3. Mechanical cotton picker and "electric   eyes"—Development   of  a
practical   picker   is   at   hand   and ] ment.
He intimated he would adopt at least part of the recommendations, and said:
"While it is certain that much of the unemployment caused by the march of technical advance is ab¬ sorbed by new occupations born of new industries, it is equally true that in the meantime labor may pay a very heavy price through re¬ adjustment and adaptations neces¬ sary on the part of workers whose jobs are affected by change.
"Employers likewise are deeply affected by swift technological changes producing obsolescence and displacement of capital invest-
Predicts Edward Will Seek Throne If 'Anything Happens* King George
Lake Placid, N. Y., July 17 (UP) ^The Rev. Robert Anderson Jar- din*, 59-year-old "poor man's par¬ aon" of Darlington, Eng., who married Mrs, Wallis Warfield and the Duke of Windsor, said today he believed former King Edward VIII would try to regain the Brit¬ ish throne should "anything hap¬ pen" to King George VI,
The peppery little vicar who de¬ fied the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform the religious ceremony, expressed the opinion to intimates five days ago before the Baltimore lecture in which he promised to expose tho "back-stage" reasons for Edward's abdication.
"In the event of anything hap¬ pening to King George VI," Jar- dine said, "I believe former King Edward VIII would make a strong bid to return to the throne." Kingly Aiti\Hie« RoKuiurd
He   said   Ihe   present   king   liad  enthusiasm.
given strong indications that he would follow in the footsteps of his brother and attempt to bring about the "resumption of kingly activi¬ ties."
British monarchs since the reign of Queen Victoria have served largely as figureheads, but Jardine pointed out that King Edward, with his desires for social reform and peace, engaged In what his critics believed waa too much political activity.
King George VI this week took a leaf from Edward's book by pay¬ ing a visit to the impoverished Welsh miners, with whose lot the former king had expressed the f'    pest sympathy.
According to Cavalcade London magazine, the king and the cabinet quarreled furiously over tiic pro¬ posed visit, but the king won the argument and went to Wales where he  was  received with  tremendous
probably will force unemployment of one-fourth to three-fourths of southern tenant farmers; photo¬ electric cells will be used to elimi¬ nate labor in factories and lighten housework.
Synthetic Products Promised    '
4. Artificial cotton and woolen¬ like fibres made from cellulose, synthetic rubber, plastics -Cotton, woodpulp, cornstalks and sugar cane will be made to produce cloth¬ ing material; scientists can pro¬ duce 200 tons of artificial rubber in two hours compared to 500 pounds of real rubber made from an acre of rubber trees in five years; plastics will compete with metal and wood industry by pro¬ ducing molded articles in mass volume at low cost.
5. Television and facsimile transmission of newspapers—color television—is already a laboratory accomplishment; facsimile broad¬ casting will produce printed mat¬ ter and photographs "much after the fashion of a modern news¬ paper."
Air Transportation  Developing
6. "Roof-hopper" airplanes, streamlined transportation—Planes probably will be developed so they can take off or land at sharp angles on roof tops in metropolitan areas, development of private flying must be on the basis of lower cost air¬ ships; the public is demanding streamline design "at least in ap¬ pearance;" highways will be ele¬ vated; Diesel engine use has just started.
7. Gasoline from coal—Inten¬ sive development is now underway in Englan<^ and Germany, but more than three times as expensive; "we should guard against a too- easy optimism" but new discovery teciiniques promise great additions to present oil and metal reserves.
8. Tray agriculture — Chemists working on growth of plants by suspension in chemical formulae supplying necessary food; new wheat, corn, sugar beet and cot¬ ton crops will be developed to re¬ sist disease; animals will be better bred, possibly through mail distri¬ bution  of  plasm.
L'neniploynient Problem All those inventions, the scientists said, will produce definite techno¬ logical changes in this country. They agreed the bigg?st effect probablj; would come Irom lecb-
"More than jobs and investment are affected by technical change; family, church, community, state and all industry are subject to its influence. Study and investigation of technological advances and their social implications constitute one of our more important American planning problems. . . ."
E lO-JAP CRISIS
President Assured Country
Will Not Be Tied To
Actions Of Others
SEARCH FOR^^^^^^^^ nationalists EARHART is!    ^"^^^ demand to fight
UNDER FIRE^
NOT TO ERR AGAIN
Washington, July 17 (UP)— President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferred to¬ day on means to bulwark this gov¬ ernment's policy of complete free¬ dom and independence in dealing with the Sino-Japanese crisis.
As reports from the Far East continued to indicate a steady march by China and Japan toward war, the President, Hull and their expc: advisers hewed away all fet- terin'^ issues to assure that this government will not be tied to the action of any other nation in its decisions and actions concerning the Far East.
No  Hasty  Action
Hull made this plain in his re¬ statement of American foreign policy in which he warned Japan and China, indirectly but plainly, that a Sino-Japanese war would jeopardize American interests in the Far East.
Officials gave broad indications that this government will not be stampeded into any hasty action such as formal invocation of the nine-power treaty or the Briand- Kellogg anti-war pact or in calling .^Continued On Page A-t;.
California Congressman De¬ mands Report From Navy, Including  The  Costs
$3,500,000 ESTIMATED
Ending   Aid   To   Publicity
Stunters; Inquire Into
Her Flight Permit
Washington, July 17. (UP)—Rep. Byron Scott, D., Calif., member of the House Naval Affairs Commit¬ tee, demanded tonight that the Navy, Coast Guard and Bureau of Air Commerce submit reports on the search for Amelia Earhart— what it cost and to what extent it interferred with regular duties. Officials said it would be dif¬ ficult to compute the actual cost. Early in the search, one officer estimated the Navy and Coast Guard were spending $250,000 a day on men and equipment In¬ volved. The two week hunt, draw¬ ing to a close this week-end, cost about $3,500,000 on that basis. Offi¬ cials pointed out, however, that a great deal of this money would have been spent in normal activi¬ ties anyway.
Inquiries Into Permit* Scott sent identical letters to Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Navy Bureau of Navi¬ gation, and Rear Admiral Russell Waesche, Coast Guard command¬ ant, requesting "informal reports" on the connection of the Navy and Coast Guard with the Earhart flight, both before it began and after the round-the-world plane was forced down in mid-Pacific.
He requested Fred Fagg jr., director of the Bureau of Air Com¬ merce, to report "on what grounds" Miss Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were granted per¬ mits for the flight.
Scott said he planned to offer legislation preventing use of fed¬ eral faciUties to aid in searching for fliers operating non-official missions.
Rep. Charles Faddis, D., Pa., of the House Military Affairs Com¬ mittee, and Rep. Ross Collins, D., Miss., of the House Appropriations Committee, echoed Scott's demand for   information   on   the   search.
"If it had been some poor father of a family who had been blown off into the Pacific in a fishing boat, do you think the Navy would be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to hunt for him?" Faddis
Publicity Stunta At Own Risk
Collins asserted that the Navy search had been "gloomy and dis¬ astrous" and continued "it is about time we say that in the future if some one wants to pull a pub¬ licity stunt like this they must do it at  their own  risk."
Scott said he wanted the reports submitted to him "informally" but warned that he would introduce a resolution forcing disclosure of the data   if  it  were   not   forthcoming.
"When I receive the full and complete reports, I shall lay it before the Naval Affairs Committee for legislative action to curb future publicity  stunts,"  Scott  said.
Uprising Is Threatened Chiang   Submits  To Invading Army
CITIES IN DANGER
Bombing Planes Massed Be¬ hind Powerful Jap Army To Enforce Demand
READY TO MOBILIZE AGAINST CHINA
As Japan stood ready to mobilize its entire national fighting forces for
the Impending conflict in North China, troops already were drilling in
the homeland.   Even young priests are listed In Japan's army, such aa
these of the Sodo sect of Buddhists, pictured drilling in Tokyo.
Pope Defends Cardinal's Attack On Adolph Hitler
Terms Criticism In Which Der Fuehrer Was Called
'Austrian Paper Hanger' Courageous Defense
Of Church; Greets Chicago Pilgrims
15-MONTHS-OLD CHILD DROWNS   IN   FREEZER
Findlay, Ohio, July 17. (UP)— The 15-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Wagner was drownod today when he tumbled Into a water-filled Ice cream freezer. It was left out in the yard to "sweet¬ en"   in   the  sun.
BROKEN DRIVE SHAFT SMASHES PAVEMENTS
Medford, Mass, July 17 (UP)— Cannon-like "booms", accompanied by showers of shattered concrete paving, resounded as a Boston- bound empty passenger train roar¬ ed past a business-center crossing here today.
Fragments of pavement and steel smashed a liquor-store's window and damaged two empty parked automobiles, narrowly missing pedestrians and twenty cars halted by crossing signals. Six foot-deep holes were torn in the new high¬ way.
Boston & Maine Railroad offi¬ cials later explained that a pin ap¬ parently had broken, freeing a driving shaft which "slapped" the pavement. The flying shaft also broke the air-brake controls, they said, and the train was unable to stop until hand brakes were ap¬ plied two miles farther on,
Castel Gandolfo, July 17. (UP)— The controversy between the Holy See and the Reich government over the position of the Church in Ger¬ many was emphasized today when Pope Pius, addressing a group of Chicago pilgrims, defended the re¬ cent criticism of the Nazis by Cardinal   Mundelein   of  Chicago.
The Cardinal had referred to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler as "an Aus¬ trian paper-hanger and a poor one at that." A furore resulted in Ger¬ many. Cardinal Mundelein was bitterly denounced, Germany pro¬ tested to the Vatican and diplo¬ matic   relations   cooled.
There have been suggestions that the Holy See might issue a "white paper" citing alleged violations by Germany of its concordat with the Vatican.
In his remarks to the pilgrims, the Pope praised Cardinal Munde- lein's "courageous defense of the Church," which was generally re¬ garded as public approval of the Cardinal's speech.
Pope's Health  Improved
The Pope, whose health has shown noticeable improvement in the last week, held a public audi¬ ence. Turning to 25 pilgrims from Chicago, led by Monsignor James Horsburger,   the   Pontiff   said   he
Papal Secretary of State, at the dedication of a shrine to St. Theresa of Liseux in France last Sunday, evoked a series of angry Nazi comments, especially concern¬ ing the cardinal's reference to "race idolatry."
Dc Angriff, Chief Nazi organ, called the speech "a deliberate slander and insult," adding:
"We conclude from Cardinal Pacelli's speech that the Vatican wishes Germany no good. Insults are  being  multiplied."
In the Beobachter, Julius Rosen¬ berg, personally attacked Cardinal Pacelli and the church, declaring that the Cardinal's mission in France was ill-advised and added:
"We are convinced that sooner or later all Germans will under¬ stand that we are a single com¬ munity."
"We will emerge purified from the campaign of hatred conducted by the groups which are united only in hatred of the Third Reich," Rosenberg predicted.
PLOT AGAINST FRANCO REPORTED DISCOVERED
Hendaye,   French-Spanish   Fron¬ tier, July 17 (UP)—Spanish Loyal-
was  glad   to  see  pilgrims  coming  ist  radio  stations  broadcast  a  re-
from such a distant place, "which attests the greatness ot your city and also the greatness of your magnificent Cardinal, so courage¬ ous in defense of the rights of God and the Church and the welfare of   the   soul."
The Pope then addressed several Spanish nuns, telling them he hoped "Spain's tribulations and cares   will   soon   cease."
The American pilgrims and the Spanish  nuns  were   received  in   a
port today that a widespread plot against Gen. Francisco Franco, insurgent commander-in-chief, had been discovered.
The plot centered chiefly in Seville, Salamanca and Burgos, the broadcast said, asserting that hundreds of civilians and military officers had been arrested and many refugees had fled to Gibral¬ tar.
The Loyalists asserted that the plotters   sought   to   overthrow   the
general audience which included I Franco Junta in favor of a mixed several hundred newlyweds and military-civilian government to pilgrims from many parts of the seek an agreement with the Loyal- world. I ists based on the ground of com- The Pope's statement was linked | mon hatred or foreigners mixing with reports that the Vatican, fail- in the Spanish war. ing to better relations with Nazi Leaders of the plot were arrest- Germany,   was   seeking   a   better i ed,   a   broadcast   from   Santander
understanding with Leftist France, which is technically anti-clerical but has not interfered with reli¬ gion  to any extent.
Nazis Plan Reprisals
BerUn, July 17 (UP)—The Ger¬ man government, although officials refused to comment, was under¬ stood tonight to be preparing re¬ prisals for "a series of insults" by the  Roman  Catholic  Church.
The current diplomatic situation apparently was aggravated by the Pope's speech at Castel Gandolfo today in which he upheld Cardinal Mundelein's criticism of the Reich.
Even before the Pope's speech to a group of pilgrims today, well- informed sources here anticipated an aggravation of the conflict be¬ tween   Catholicibm   and   Nazism.
The speech of Cardinal Fauelll|
said.
By EARL LEAF
(Copyright, 1937, By United Press)
Tientsin, China, Sunday, July 18. (UP)—Japan massed some of tha most powerful units of her army, navy and air force within strik¬ ing distance of the populous cities of South and Central China today. Chinese Nationalists feared that Generalissimo Chiang Kai - Shek would yield to a display of superior strength and capitulate on the vital North China issue.
The official Chinese Central Newa Agency reported from Nanking that 400 huge, three-engined Japanese bombing planes have arrived in Formosa, Japan's southern island possession, and are ready to bomb the thickly populated cities of the Yangtse River valley, the South China coast and Canton, if major hostilities   start.
Simultaneously, the new agency said, Japan's squat, bull-necked war minister, Gen. Hajime Sugi- yama, has ordered 400,000 flrst line ressrvists of th« Imperial Army to be prepared for immediate duty in China.
Warships of the Japanese second fleet, ordinarily kept in home waters, also have been ordered to ba prepared for duty in China waters at a moment's notice.
Submission  May Bring  Revolt
So steady was the stream of alarmist Chinese reports from Nanking that Nationalists fe;i;-ed Chiang and his associates In the central government might be at¬ tempting to prepare public opinion for an agreement that, while "sav¬ ing face," really would constitute submission to Japan's demands that her economic penetration of the Ave great North China pro¬ vinces be allowed to continue un¬ checked.
Nationalists redoubled their pres¬ sure on Chinese negotiators in the truce conference here and on the government in Nanking. They sent scores of telegrams to Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan, chairman of the Hopei- Chahar political council—the North China governing body—warning him that any yielding to Japan's demands would be followed by revolutionary outbreaks by tha masses of the Chinese people. Similar telegrams were dispatched to Generalissimo Chiang, who re¬ mained in seclusion at his sum¬ mer villa in Kuling, outside Nan¬ king.
Meantime the "zero hour", set by the Japanese for 11:30 oclook last night, had passed without tha major warfare which Chinese mili¬ tary headquarters in Peiping bad expected yesterday.
There was one minor skirmish outside Peiping but the great con¬ flict expected by the Chinesa showed no signs of starting.
The six divisions of the German* trained central government armies, sent north of the Yellow River by War Minister Gen. Ho Ying-Chin, remained scattered along the Peip- ing-Hankow railway well south of the active war zone outside tha grey walls of ancient Peiping. V. S. Note Ignored
Highlights of the last 24 anxious hours were:
1. Ambassador Shigeru Kawa- goe, heading the diplomatic section of the Japanese delegation at tha truce conference, warned the Uni¬ ted States, and other signatories of the nine-power treaty guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, that the present imbroglio is nona of their business. Replying to Sec¬ retary of State Cjjordell Hull's declaration in Washington that the United States is concerned about warfare anywhere, Kawagoo said: "The attitude of the American (Continued on Page A-B)
Fire Ruins Shickshinny Home; Bucket Brigade Saves Others
Flames   ruined
volunteer
one   home   and i brought    Shickshiany's damaged    two    others    last    night   "re department but before a stream
of water could be directed on tha
when fire broke out in the home of Peter Cottage at 83 Canal street, Shickshinny. Members of the Cot¬ tage family were reported on a visit with relatives in this city at the time the fire broke out. Defec¬ tive wiring in an upstairs bedroom was blamed for the blaze.
Neighbors discovered flames com¬ ing from a second floor room shortl}^ after IQ ocloclt.   An aUrm
blaze, practically all of the furnish¬ ings in the house had been da< stroyed.
The blaze broke through the roof, and sparks ignited the roofs of two adjoining dwellings. Bucket bri- bades were organized hurriedly to save these houses from destruction.
The loss to the Cottage home and furnishings w.is placed at |2,000 !• •arl£ estimates.