Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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FORTY-EIGHT PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1937
PRICE TEN CENTS
CONGRESS ADJOURNS AMID BITTER FEUD JAPANESE AIR ARMADA MOPS UP CHAPEI
SWEEP CITY AFTER NIGHT OF HGHTING
Artillery Duel Opens After
German-Trained Chinese
Push Back Japanese
MAKE FIRST BREACH
State To Build Motor Turnpike On This Roadbed, Relic Of Old Railroad Feud
Attack   On   Imperial   Fleet Has All Guns Retaliate '^ Upon ShoPe Line   '
By H. R. EKINS
Inited   Prwig  Staff  C'orrMpondent (topyright, 1987, By Inlted Press)
.Shanghai, Aug. 22 — iSunday) (UP>-A Japanese air armada cut a crimson iwath through the .smok¬ ing Pootung and Chapei areas of Shanghai today in the culmination of a fierce, night-long artillery duel following a Chinese thrust which forced weary Nipponese naval landing forces into the Whangpoo River.
All night long heavy guns, ma¬ chine guns and rifle fire set up an incessant din while tanks and armored cara rattled through the city in the bitter fighting after Ger¬ man-trained Chinese troops breach¬ ed the Japanese lines along the Whangpoo for the first time. Fleet Sweeps Over <:ity
The battle raged on at dawn and in early morning lhe Japanese air fleet swept over the city, dropping more bombs on Pootung and Chapei until t^hinese anti-aircraft batteries got the range and forced them up to an altitude unsuited for accurate bombing.
Emboldened by their success in the Yangtsepoo area of the Inter¬ national Settlement, Chinese artil¬ lery commanders, using the largest shells of the war so far, attempted to sink the Jaf)anese flagship Idzumo. They sent great geysers spouting all around the "charmed" vcssfl, which escaped with only shrapnel scars.
It was one of the fifst times the Chinese had continued arlillery fire after daybreak, indicating they no longer feared Japanese planes would spot the batteries or felt Ihcy were capable of withstanding an  attack  from the  air.
Machine gun fire spread at dawn over a'wide part of the Hongkcw area, five or six blocks from Garden; Bridge near the Whangpoo water¬ front.
Heavy fighting was under way then along the river in the vicinity of Dixwell and Seward roads, where the Japanese attempted to dislodge Chinese   snipers.
The Cathay Hotel along the Bund, damaged by the bombs of Chinese warplanes a week ago. shnnk with the detonations of Chinese shells.
Japs Forced Ba^rk
When the crack Chinese troops during the night slashed through the Japanese lines on the banks of the Whangpoo, Japanese war¬ ships In the stream immediately changed their positions, focused searchlights on the shore and open- (Continued  on  Page  A-4»
COAL HAUL RATES CUT; SILK WAITS
Mill Strike Emerges From
Critical   Period   While
Anthracite Benefits
BITTER STRIFE IN CROWDED SENATE SPLITS MAJORITY
Lengthy Session Appropriated More Than
Nine Billion But Accomplished Little
Due To The Court Wrangle; Guffey's
Theats To Rebels Are Assailed
PARTY RESIGNATION DEMANDED
P.U.C. SETS PRECEDENT
OFSTAIE COMING AFTERIOO YEARS
Will Be On Roadbed Dis¬ carded After $10,000 Was Spent On It
TO USE TUNNELS
WAR NEWS
Terrific losses from fire and fiprhting in Shanghai. Americans among- suf¬ ferers . ., Tokyo to spurn peace . . . Japan attacks in north ... See page A-4
Feverish slapdash railroad con¬ struction across the meadowlands at Linden, N. J., recently focuses attention on an historic railroad battle half a century ago and plans by Pennsylvania to construct a "dream highway" between Harris¬ burg and Pittsburgh over a railroad roadbed that was abandoned after it had been 65 percent completed.
Unlike the tracks at Linden, which will have to be relaid on a proper roadbed before they carry a locomotive, the roadbed in Penn¬ sylvania was being constructed in orthodox fashion, and as a result the state expects to recover the .$10,000,000 worth of work invested in the project.
While it has been referred to for years as "the dream highway," it is likely that the road, a super¬ highway stretching J64'i miles, hfi'f way across the state, may be under construction next spring. One hundred yeara of anticipation of a railroad or highway over the route gave it its title, but in May the Legislature created a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission with author¬ ity to issue bonds, build the road and collect tolls. The primary pur¬ pose for the road is to provide a safer and quicker crossing over the dangerous Allegheny Mountains.
To ttilizp. Old Tunnels
Following the route of the old South Penn Railroad, the new high¬ way will utilize nine tunnels driven through the mountains in 1884 and 1885 anfj make use of almost all the grading and embankment work done for the railroad at that time.
Almost unheard of since  it was
abandoned in 1885, the story of the
"South  Penn,"  or  Southern  Penn-
(Continued on Page A-11)
GIVEN PROMISE OF NO MORE LAYOFFS
F
Hopkins Also Says Those
Who  Take  Temporary
Jobs Can Get Back
MARCHERS CAMP OUT
Above, route through Somerset county of the "South Penn"- roadbed, built m 1884 for service' between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. Inset: The approach cut and cast portal of Tuscarora tunnel, which wd)I be used. Below: Just inside east end of Blue Mountain tunnel, *Soon autos will roar over and through these.
Buzzards Find Body Of Gunman Wanted Here
Desperado Who Wounded Swoyerville Men In Forty
Fort Crap Game Last March Also Wanted
For New York Dance Hall Murder
Divorcees' Battle Raises The Roof —But It Is That Of Innocent Tenant
Thiensville, Wis., Aug. 21. (OP)— Harry Krug woke up with the sun
• Jlaring in his eyes,
' He started to roll over and re¬ sume his sleep when he took an¬ other look. What he saw; made mm jump out of bed and yell for his wife.
There was no roof on the Kru« home.   And Harry was sure that It
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Then   Harry   looked   out   of   the )J''ndow and saw thnee men pulling L down the front porch.
Pt^Tu'u^™** "" "^ow" the street [ w the home of Justice of the Peace
Gerhart Aussem. The justice sent a deputy sheriff to call off the wreckers.
It developed that the Krugs were the innocent victims of a quarrel between a divorced couple. As part of a divorce settlement Joseph Frederick gave his former wife, now Mrs. Clara GUI, a $3,500 mort¬ gage on his property. On the prop¬ erty was the cottage occupied by the Krugs. Mrs. Gill foreclosed •the mortgage. Frederick, a pro¬ fessional house wjeckcr, then start¬ ed to tear down the cottage.
The Krugs moved out. Frederick and Mrs. Gill went to court to settle the matter.
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Search for Andrew Canzoneri, 35, Nesquehoning gambler, wanted by Pennsylvania Motor Police for wounding two Swoyerville men in a Forty Fort beer garden last March, was ended last night.
Hi^ bullet-riddled body was found in the woods near Atsion Lake, Burlington County, N. J., by .n fire warden who was attracted to the spot by buzzards circling overhead.
Canzoneri, also known under the alias of Albert Manrusco, has been hunted for almost six months as one of the slayers of a New York City dance hall proprietor. Possible connection between this murder and the killing of Canzoneri was being checked last night by New Jersey State Police.
Shot lp Crap Gamn Here
Michael Duffy, alias Tom Don»- hiie, Canzoneri's accomplice in the F^rty Fort shooting affray and also wanted for the New York murder, is still a fugitive from justice.
John Zuba and Michael Benny, both of Swoyerville, were wounded by Canzoneri on the night of March IS last during a fight in the Fort Cafe at Forty Fort.
Canzoneri and Duffy entered the establishment that night and en¬ gaged uba and Benny in a crap game. When the Swoyerville youths began losing steadily, it was discovered the two strangers were using loaded dice.
When the fight started both men drew revolvers and Canzoneri opened fire. Both Zuba and Benny suffered flesh wounds but were not seriously hurt. The gunmen fled from the tavern and escaped in an automobile.
A check of rogues' gallerj' photo¬
graphs revealed that Canzoneri Duffy, both described as "thorns in the side" of State Police at Tamaqua, were the men who did the cafe shooting.
Troopers  Aid  Identification
Circulars were sent to nearby states asking for their capture. A short time later they were named by New York police as the men who killed the dance hall proprie¬ tor   the identification  being made
(Continued on Page A-8)
Washington, Aug. 21 (UP) — Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins promised tonight there would be no more WPA lay- \ offs and that relief workers accept¬ ing temporary private employment will be rehired by WPA.
Joble^ marchers who unsuccess¬ fully beseeched Congress to enact the Schwellenbach-AUen resolution to provide jobs for all needy em¬ ployables hailed the Hopkins prom¬ ise as a "tremendous victory for those now on WTA."
David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance, said Hopkins' announcement represents partial success for the nearly 1.000 dis¬ charged WPA workers who came here In support of the resolution. Camp Near Potomac
They camped tonight in West Potomac Park near the Potomac River. None had the shelter of a tent. Many slept on the ground and many had no blankets. Overcast skies threatened hardship to the marchers, who were moved from the monument grounds today by the National Park Service.
"Tlie only difference between the resolution we have fought for and the policy announced by Hopkins is that his promise Is not retro¬ active," Lasser said. "There are more than 400,000 former WPA workers who do not have private jobs and who will not be helped."
Hopkins outlined a "fixed policy" of granting furloughs to relief (Continued  on  Page  A-4)
TEACHERS OF PRINGLE VOTE SALARY STRIKE
Ceclara of^Prir
by teachers of^Pringle schools at. a meeting held last night. The | walkout is to become effeetive j Tuesday, September 7. the opening day of schools unless their demands i for back salaries are met before that  date.
Teachers claim they are owed be¬ tween two and three months' sal¬ ary and that when the last appro¬ priation of the state, amounting to $5,100, was made, they only re¬ ceived on an average of $20 each on their back salaries.
Teachers contend the appropri¬ ation was made for the express purpose of paying salaries and it should not have been used (or any other purpose.
Hope For State Aid
Teachers were hopeful, regard¬ less   of  their   intention   to  strike, 1
that aid would eventually come from the state department of edu¬ cation. It was mentioned in the discussion on back pays that the legislature had created a special fund to be utilized to aid finan¬ cially-distressed school districts. Pringie would come under this category.
Peter Berry, president of the school board, refused to comment on the action of the teachers. He said, however, that since he was appointed to the school board every honest effort had been made to meet the teachers' payroll.
Pringie district is not the only one on the West Side which owes teachers salaries. Swoyerville school district has not paid salaries for the last six months of the pre¬ vious school term and. like Prlngle, il looking {or «tate ai'
Details Of Textile Settlement
To Be Worked Out At
Meetings Today
Last night, while one of Wyo- ming Valley's leading industries I looked forward to a better retail j price as a result of state aid which. will cut freight rat»s on coal, the: other was emerging from the dan¬ ger period of its strike, which has | tied up all silk mills here the pasl two weeks.
Greatest interest centered on the county's silk-rayon strike situation, apparently not yet definitely set¬ tled despite Friday night's favor¬ able developments in a deadlock that kept more than 10,000 county wage earners idle for two weeks.
Secondary, Insofar as live public interest is concerned, but equally important in the valley's economic structure, was clarification of the Public Utility Commission's "tenta¬ tive" reductions in intra-state freight rates on anthracite ship¬ ped from the region into fourteen important eastern Pennsylvania consuming centers.
From a conference to be held at 11 oclock this morning in New York City, attended by officials of CIO's TWOC organization here, will come instructions that will either countermand or continue or¬ ders to union members Lssued here yesterday when the silk truce was announced.
Opening  Disputed
TWOC headquarters announced yesterday afternoon that Reuben Block, regional organizer, had tele¬ graphed from Allentown that union strikers were not to return to closed silk mills until policies had been formulated at today's confer¬ ence. Meanwhile, several big local silk plants inserted newspaper ad¬ vertisements announcing resump¬ tion of work tomorrow morning.
Block's instructionjT were inter¬ preted by TWOC headquarters to mean that employees of mills which have negotiated contracts with the union were to continue working, but that all others who have been on strike for the past fortnight were to remain away from their looms until specifically instructed to return.
Duplan Silk Corporation largest single employer of the valley's tex¬ tile Industry, announced that the company's mills would "reopen" Monday, but that employees would be notified "individually" when to return.
Wilkes-Barre Silk Company, an- oiher large unit, advertised that "all employees will report for work Monday at 7:15 a. m. except spin- riers." The advertisement further stated that "second shift spinners will report at 2 p. m. Monday; Monday night spinners at 10 p. m, Monday and first shift spinners at 6 a. m. Tuesday."
Ratification Awaited
Although the agreement reached Friday night at a Harrisburg con¬ ference called by Governor Earle was generally hailed as meaning an immediate resumption of oper¬ ations, informed circles did not ex¬ pect a speedy return-to-work move¬ ment of mass proportions because of a statement by Sidney Hillman, head of the textile union, who said:
"Of course the agreement will go into effect when the workers ratify  it."
The fact that Hillman signed the pact with mill owners, however, was taken to mean that the dead¬ lock was definitely ended and that work would resume as soon as union ratification formalities were completed.
Signers of the strike truce and the number of employees of each company included Atwater Silk Company, Wilkes-Barre, 4(X); Crane Brothers, Kingston; 300; Blooms¬ burg Silk Mills, 1,400; Duplan Silk Corporation, Kingston, Hazleton, Nanticoke. Berwick and Wilkes- Barre, 4.200; Hess-Goldsmith, King¬ ston and Wilkes-Barrc, 700; Wiikes- Barre Silk Company, 600; Kerstet¬ ter Silk Mills, Mocanaqua, 200. Election  Provided
The truce makes possible an elec¬ tion    by   employees   to   determine their sentiment on union affiliation, (Continued on Page A-8)
Washington, Aug. 21 (UP)—The first session of the 75th Congress adjourned sine die tonight amid the political debris of a harmony shattering Democratic family feud.
The Senate was first to adjourn. It quit at 6:.')6 p. m. EST. The House then adjourned at 7:23 p, m. and the session was over.
The most bitter intra-party strife in years broke out on the tense and crowded Senate floor in the concluding hours of an eight- months session which was chiefly notable for splitting an overwhelm¬ ing Democratic majority almost be¬ yond  repair.
The conflict, coming in the clos¬ ing hours, was an aftermath of the six months' battle over President Roosevelt's judiciary reorganiza¬ tion plan.
It was believed to have destroyed almost the last chance for united Democratic action if Congress re¬ turns in November to enact farm legislation--as generally expected— or in the 1938 congressional elec¬ tions.
A speech delivered by Sen. Jeseph F. Guffey, D., Pa., on adjournment eve., assailing foes of the court plan as "ingrates," touched off the bombardment.
Senate rebels who defeated the President's judiciary plan took the speech, delivered after Guffey had visited the White House, as a dec¬ laration of war and quickly ac¬ cepted the challenge by daring the Pennsylvanian to campaign against them and by circulating a petition for his removal as chairman of the Democratic senatorial cam¬ paign committee.
Later, Guffey said that he had resigned chairmanship of the sen¬ ate campaign committee "a week ago." Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley also said Guffey had re¬ linquished the post.
So bitter was the Senate debate —in which Sens. Burton K. Wheel¬ er, D.. Mont., Joseph C O'Mahoney, D., Wyo., Edward R. Burke, D., Neb., Dennis Chavez D., N. M., and Rush Holt, D., W. Va., participated —that some of them were called to order for making personal remarks about another senator.
The Democratic conflict, empha¬ sizing the divorce of a section of the party from President Roose¬ velt's leadership, overshadowed pro¬ gress of legislators who plodded toward adjournment.
The lengthy session, which ap¬ propriated more than $9.000.000,(X)0, has perhaps the thinnest legisla¬ tive record of any similar congress because it spent six months wrang¬ ling over changes In the Supreme Court plan, which finally was aban¬ doned.
Determined to end the 1937 ses¬ sion tonight House leaders called that body into session at 10 a. m. The Senate met at its regular noon hour. The situation on major pend¬ ing legislation as sine die adjourn¬ ment approached was this:
1.  Wagner  Housing Bill -Senate
and House adopted a conference report on the ,$526,000,000 measure and sent it ts the White House for President  Roosevelt's  approval.
2. The $140,000,000 third deficiency bill—House-Senate conferees reach¬ ed agreement on a compromise.
3. Unemployed census bill—Sen¬ ate pEissed the House-approved con¬ ference report and sent the bill to the  White  House.
4. Already pending at the WTiite House were: tax loophole closing bill; sugar marketing bill; lower coiirt procedure bill.
5. The House passed the bill pro¬ viding for control over helium ex¬ ports, and sent it to the Senatf, which had passed a similar meas¬ ure but lacking certain restrictions on exports.
The refusal of Congress to act on general (arm and crop control legislation, defeat of the President's Supreme Court plan and sidetrack¬ ing of wages and hours legislation took the heart out of the admin¬ istration program.
A special session In November was generally expected by adminis¬ tration senators. It would act on farm legislation on the basis of hearings to be conducted during the recess by two committees which will visit the midwestern and southern (arm lands to determine the desires of farmers.
Immediately after action on a (arm bill—either at a special ses¬ sion or next January—the Senate has agreed to consider the anti- lynching bill. The House would be expected to take up the wages and hours measure already approved by tha Senate.
But the difficulties that lie ahead o( the administration, despite the crushing victory of President Roosevelt in the 1936 elections, were vividly illustrated by the bitterest Senate debate of the session early this afternoon.
The attack, directed at the ad¬ ministration generally and at Gu(- (ey specifically, led to circulation of a petition for his removal aa chairman of the campaign com¬ mittee as demanded on the floor by O'Mahoney.
Wheeler had opened the attack with a blistering criticism of Ou(- fey that prompted Sen. Robert M. La Follette P., Wis., to call him to order for personal references to another senator.
"The senator from Pennsylvania would never have dared deliver that speech on the floor of the Senate," Wheeler declared as he addressed a crowded, breathless chamber. "I resented particularly his reference to the senator from Wyoming—that he would, in the next election, be left in his 'home on the range.'"
O'Mahoney—sHght, fair-haired— popped up from a front row seat and held up his hand to stop Wheeler. He said he did not want anyone to defend him.
"Nothing,"   he   said.   In   a   low, (Continued on Page A-16)
Mattern Searching Plane Crashes No Report Yet Of Russian Airmen
Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 21. (UP) j - A tri-motored Ford refueling plane, which was to be used by Jimmy Mattern in the search for the six missing Soviet fliers, nosed over in an emergency landing two miles soulh of Fairbanks today. It was  believed  no  one  was hurt.
Piloted by Garland Lincoln, the ] big ship roared past Fairbanks air-1 port in a dense fog. Lincoln had | taken off a few hours earlier from | Burwash Landing, near White | Horse,   Yukon  Territory. I
When   it   became   apparent   the! plane  missed  the  airport,  William! Lavery and Ted Hoffman took off in   another  ship  to  search   for  it. They found  it.  tail  in  the  air,  on | the Tanana River flats.
No  One   Injured
Apparently no was injured seri¬ ously as three men were standing beside the craft. They will be brought here by boat because the flats are  surrounded  by  water.
Mattern was in Point Barrow, awaiting arrival of the refueling plane before starting out on a flight that may take him near the Norlh Pole,   ^^tteru and other fltau ol
three nations set up an emergcncji; base  at  Point  Barrow.
Object of their extensive hunt over barren tundra and Ice floes was the Russian plane carrying Sigismund Levanevsky and five companions on an attempted flight over the Norlh Pole to the United States. They have been mis*ln| eight days.
Speed  Bccomee  Vital
Speed In completing the arrango- ments was becoming a vital factor because the long Arctic night wa« beginning to descend and the houri suitable for aerial survey grew leM with  the  passage  of each  day.
Fog and storm, which had held up the search for several dmyi, showed signs of breaking and tha international rescue expeditions were encouraged by the proepeet o( clear skies.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, famed Arctia explorer, was flying a Ruskiaa chartered plane (rom Fort Smitb, Northwest Territory, to the mouth o( the Coppermine River, where h« plans to establish a base te direot) operation* in tfae eaittrn eeelar ii Uu hunt, .--     ^