The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1932, Page 1

y “i . President Hoover Ready For Trip to Iowa 'HBAVY TOLL TAKEN - BY WALL OF WATER ) is in Paris and Metin in Ontario. | North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ii THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Partly cloudy and somewhat cooler, Probably light frost tonight; Tuesday generally fair, rising temperature. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1932 PRICE FIVE CENTS League Report Condemns Japs DES MOINES WILL HEAREXECUTIVE’S | OPENING ADDRESS; Republican Candidate For Re- election Will Speak Tues- day Evening TO DISCUSS AGRICULTURE White House Aides Expect Him to Touch Upon Other ss Problems, Too Washington, Oct. 3.—(?)—President Hoover was to leave Washington Monday for Des Moines, Iowa, where! Tuesday he will make his “opening campaign speech,” with the day on! which the American people will de-/ cide whether he shall have another, term little more than a month off. | In his speech Tuesday, President Hoover will discuss the issues of the campaign at length for the first time since his acceptance speech in Wash-; ington, Aw 11. Since that time, his Democratic opponent, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, has expressed his views on many of the problems of the day. The president's friends expect him to devote much of his speech in Des Moines to the agricultural problem, discussed by Governor Roosevelt in the same state only iast week. White house aides said, however.| the president also would discuss other | current issues and Republican leaders | expected him to touch on some of the! subjects expounded by the Demo- ratic candidate. 1 Coincidentally, the Republican can-! didate is leaving for his first cam-! paign trip the same day the Demo-| cratic candidate is returning to Al-} bany from his first travels of the} campaign, and both sorties were into! the west. In contrast, however, Presiden: Hoover's trip will be a speedy jump; out to Iowa and back, while Governor Roosevelt spent three weeks in an ex- tended tour of the Middle and Far ‘West. The president and his party wee expected to leave the capital in mid- afternoon, reaching Des Moines about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A stop; will be made at Davenport. Iowa,; ‘Tuesday to pick up Governor Dan Turner and an official reception par- ty and the trip will be interrupted | briefly at West Liberty, Iowa City,; and Newton. ! The committee has estimated that’ President and Mrs. Hoover will 92! greeted by a crowd of 150,000 persons; at Des Moines. Plans for a parade of 25,000 persons to escort the prest-| dent and his wife to the governor's} mansion have been made. | RECEPTION TO BE TYPICALLY IOWAN | Des Moines, Oct. 3. — (®) — Iowa, eagerly awaited the visit of the na-; tion's president and first lady of the} land, both native Iowans. j Final plans were nearing comple-; tion as President and Mrs. Hoover prepare to leave Washington. { Iowa's welcome for its distinguished | guests will be typically Iowan, a sim-| ple, friendly, informal one, H. E. Spangler, Republican national com-; mitteeman for Iowa, said. Fifteen hundred war veterans will serve as escort for the presidential | party in a parade through the busi-/ ness district. | As the president's train enters Iowa! at Davenport a salute of 21 guns will) be fired from the Rock Island ar- senal. Investigators Await Return of Insulls Chicago, Oct. 3.—(#)—Federal and state inquisitorial forces who are searching the labyrinth of the fallen Insull utilities kingdom for possible nooks Monday paused in the hope that three of the organization's dic- tators might guide their steps. Federal Judge Walter, C. Lindley, acting upon the requect of creditors of the bankrupt Insull Utilities In- vestments, Inc. and Corporation Securities, Inc., has asked Samuel Insull, Jr., to return from Paris for questioning concerning an impending bankruptcy hearing against the in- vestment concerns. State’s Attorney John A. Swanson awaited replies from Samuel and Martin Insull whose “voluntary rec turn” he requested Saturday. Samuel Judge Lindley said he had been assured by James Simpson, who suc- ceeded uel Insull as chairman of the of two Illinois utilities, that Samuel, Jr., would return with- out issuance of a subpoena. A hear- ing to discover assets of the defunct companies was continued until Oct. 11. Judge Lindley said it was neces- sary to “question Mr. Insull about certain matters relating to the com- panies, Replies from the Insulls have not heen received. CONFESS MINOT ROBBERY Minot, N, D., Oct. 3.—(?)—Two men | unde arrest at Aberdeen, 8. D., have | confessed participation in the holdup at a Standard Oil company filling station in Minot Sept. 24, and a third member of the bandit trio is being sought by South Dakota authorities, Sheriff R. W. Kennard of Minot said Monday. Warrants charging Willard James “Bad Boy” Knight and Victor Weig, both of Aberdeen, with robbery in the first-degree, were issued Minot. ane RN TEE aT a A Pipe for Her ~~ e | ° 4 Relaxing from her labor of design-' ing Hollywood styles, Mme. Lisbeth, Krausz, Viennese designer, gave the| movie capital something to talk about when she calmly took out her favorite pipe and started pujfing. Mme. Kraus: will remain in Holly-| wood about two weeks, so by ‘hat time your favorite unrelaxed movie queen may be puffing her own corn- cob. BETTER PROSPECTS | FOR BUSINESS SEEN IN NATIONAL REVIEW R. G. Dun and Company Notes} Improvements in Trade j and Manufacturing H Numerous bright spots in the busi-| ness situation throughout the United) States are noted by R. G. Dun and Company in its weekly review of busi-} nes? Representative headings on discus- | sions of various business fields are: | Industrial Trends higher. Commodi- ties Resume Uptrend. Cutting Trades| More Active, Gains in Silk and Wool Held, Textile Recovery Strking. Shoe} Production Increasing and Further Recessions in Commercial Failures. On the other side of the balance sheet are such declarations as Stee!; Upturn Slow. Slight Reaction in! Hides and Heavy Cottons Move Slow- 17. Wholesale buying has increased and many retailers have placed rush re- peat orders. Retail sales also gained in volume with notable increases ia| better-quality lines as compared wita| low-price materials which have beer| pushed during the last few years. | POPE'S ENCYCLICAL EXCITES WRATH OF MEXICAN OFFICIALS| i National Chamber of Deputies] Called to Consider Papal Document PRESIDENT ISSUES THREAT Pontiff's Protest Directed At Laws Restricting Number of Priests Mexico City, Oct. 3—7\—The Mex-| jean government threw down the! gauntlet to the Vatican Monday over! last Friday's encyclical in which Pope}! Pius XI protested against what he! called “the new and legal persecu- tion” of the church and Catholics in! he country. j “If the insolent, defiant attitude, shown in the recent encyclical | tinues,” President Abelarao L. Rod- riguez said in a statement, “I am! determined that the churches will be; converted into schools and shops for | the benefit of the nation’s proletariat classes.” | ‘The president's statement was fol-} lowed by an announcement the na-j; tional chamber of deputies would; meet late Monday to consider the encyclical. “In an nner,” unforeseen and absurd} mai the statement said, “there | has been published the encyclical: ‘acebra anima,’ the tone of which! loes not surprise us because methods | filled with falsehood against this; country are characteristic of the} papacy. i “To protest against the laws that! in their conception oppress the lib-; erty of the church openly incites the | Mexican clergy to disobedience of ; existing laws and provokes a social, disorder within the eternal work of; the clergy, which is unable to resign} itself to the loss of its dominion of! } Souls and possession of property by! sentative Byrns of Tennessee, chair- which means it held in complete| lethargy the proletariat classes that were impiously exploited. ! (The pope's protest was directed! particularly at the laws limiting the/ number of priests in each Mexican! ‘state to as few as one priest to each} 100,000 inhabitants in the state of; Vera Cruz.) j “Mexico will not permit the re-j entry into national affairs of a sub-: ject whose official existence is no’ provided for complete separation of | the church and state. ! “In answer to the open incitation made to the clergy to provoke agita- tion, I declare that at the slightest: manifestation of disorder, the gov-| ernment will proceed with full energy; to definitely resolve the problem that | has cost this nation so much blood; and sacrifice. The commodity price advance now; has endured for 12 weeks with the ex- ception of last week when a slight re- lapse was reported. Advances oc-| curred in 24 lines while recessions! were reported in 18. The latter fig-| ure is the smallest in the last 30 days.j Foodstuffs Gain at Last Of interest to farming communities is the fact that increases in the food- stuffs division exceeded decreases by a slight margin for the first time in many weeks. The chief weaknesses appeared in meats and vegetables. Butter prices were unable to hold higher levels but egg prices advanced. The statistical position of the egg market now is strong. due to the rel- ative scarcity of storage supplies which were materially reduced during September. Discussing evidences of the upswing in business, the review says: “The general movement now has ex- tended to both the industrial and dis- tributive divisions, although the gain in the former is less conspicuous than in the latter. There now is more of a disposition to look forward to a steady enlargement in the consumption of manufactured and raw materials, al- though full cognizance 1s taken of the possibility that upswings may not be so sharp as those occurring since the middle of July. Indications of better- ment are beginning to find their way into the statistical indices of electric power consumption, car-loadings, and the number of telephones in use. Retailers Enthusiastic Retailers throughout the country are unusually enthusiastic about the course of consumer demand during the balance of the year, and have planned to spend in newspaper adver- ising an amount in excess of that devoted to similar promotion work during the closing quarter of last year. For a prolonged period, consumption has been exceeding production, thus storing latent needs to such an extent that their release is starting produc- tive machinery in a constantly widen- ing field. Unfavorable weather in some sections during most of the week halted temporarily the interest in wearing apparel, but gains that are larger than seasonal were made in the sales of dry goods, drugs, groceries, furniture, shoes, and hardware, in sharp contrast with the declines of a year ago in the grocery, hardware, and drug trades. “The automobile industry has run contrary to its old seasonal. swing of Production after August. as the output of motor cars in the’ United States and Canada in Septem-! es for the first time in seven years.” TRIAL 1S OPENED: Henry Frazon, 47-Year-Old; Farmer, Charged With Slaying Ex-Banker | Bowbells, N. D. Oct. 3—(P)—| Guarded in the courtroom by two deputy sheriffs to prevent any pos- sibility he might escape as well as against harm befalling him, Henry Frazon, 47-year-old farmer, went on trial in district court here Monday| charged with the first-degree mur- der of George Keup, mayor of Co-| lumbus and former banker there. Selection of a jury was begun promptly after court was convened at 10 a. m. by Judge John C. Lowe of Minot. Previously Frazon had been arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty. Indication that insanity will be an important feature of the defense came during the forenoon session, } when Attorney Halvor L. Halvorson! of Minot, counsel for the defendant.! asked several jurors whether they! would acquit Frazon if it was proved to them he was insane at the time! Keup was shot Sept. 18. Prazon has asserted he did not shoot Keup and has declared he} knows nothing about the crime. There were indications that the se-! lection of a jury might be completed Monday afternoon. and, in that event, Judge Lowe intended to order the state to begin the presentation of testimony immediately. The pro- secution is being handled by State's Attorney B. L. Wilson of Burke coun- ty, assisted by 2 woman lawyer, Miss Elizabeth Huttner of Lignite, who was graduated from the University of North Dakota last spring. 1 i Name Wenzel Head of; National Association! Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 3—(#)—R. z! Wenzel, chairman of the North Da-| kota Workmen's Compensation bu-| reau, is the new-president of the In- ternational Association of Industrial Accident Boards. He was named at; ae annual convention here last week. GERMAN SCIENTIST DIES Heidelberg, Germany, Oct. 3—(47—} Prof. Max Wolf, 69, director of the Koenigstuhl Observators, specialist in| ber went ahead of the August record|in spectrum analysis and celestial photogral Monda; phy, died iy. | said. ‘east asd west of Richardton in Stark INDIAN IN LEGAL BATTLE Jackson Barnett, 90-year-old creek Indian, who signs checks for thousands of dollars with a thumb print, was involved in another legal fight over his wealth, derived from in a Los Angsies court with his wife, Oklahoma oil lands. Barnett was Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnet! a result of the United States government's effort to force restoratio! ©f $1,000,000 to the Indian’s estate. (Associated Press Photo) Mistrial Is Declared in Action Against Senator DEMOCRATIC MARGIN | OF AT LEAST 100 IN HOUSE IS PREDICTED) Chairman Byrns of Party's Con- gressional Committee Makes Estimate i Washington, Oct. 3—(P)—Repre- man of the Democratic national con- gressional committee, considers that @ “conservative estimate of the Dem- ocratic majority in the next house is 10¢.” The Tennessee Democrat made this statement to newspapermen at a press conference held as he packed his bags Sunday to leave for New York, where he will report the results of his canvass of the situation to par- ty leaders. we Democrats would have at least 50/ to 75 more seats in the n house, but I was too conservativ Byrnsi “Reports from the northern,} eastern, and western states convince me we will have a majority of at least 100 and probably more.” Byrns said “even in California,| President Hoover's own state, and in Towa, the state of his birth, the Dem- Dakotas, Nebraska, Oregon, Colorad>.! Washington, and other normal Re- publican territory will send more Democrats to the house than they ever have before, according to my in formation.” In addition, Byrns said, “indications are that six Democrats at least will win in Pennsylvania. while nearly ail of the Ohio seats are going to be oc- cupied by Democrats in the 73rd con- gress.” “Reports from Wisconsin, Minne- sota, Kansas and Montana, indicate the Democratic contestants are re- ceiving substantial support,” he con- tinued. “The south and border states, with one or two exceptions, will send solid Democratic delega- tions.” Highway Contracts Let Total $700,000! Contracts for $700,000 road con-! struction, and $25,000 raad machinery | were let by the state highway com-! mission at a two-day meeting which | ended late Saturday. Several bids for structural work | were rejected because of high prices, was let. Bids for 9.7 miles on U. 8. No. 10.) county, were. rejected, but contract for grading of the stretch was let. Gaus and Culligan, Minneapolis, | j were awarded contract for 13.4 mits | oil mix work on U. 8. No. 2, Devils Lake, southeast, in Ramsey county. 4 One of Jurors Reported Alleged misconduct of Another Over Week-End New York, Ocf. 3.—)—The lottery trial of Senator James J. Davis wa3) ended abruptiy Monday, Judge Frank J. Coleman declaring a mistrial be- cause one of the jurors was shown to} have reported alleged misconduct of! another juror to defense counsel dur-| ing the week-end. i Charles J. Margiotti, of defens:; counsel, told the court juror No. 7,) Henry J. Moore, reported to him that alternate No. 13, Abe H. Weintrub,! had been telling the other jurors dur-| ing the trial that defense witnesses were lying. Judge Coleman held a formal in-; vestigation, as a result of which h:! alternate No. 13, Abe H. Weintraub./ severely reprimanded Moore. Moors) was paroled in his own custody unti! Tuesday. The man came to his room and Margiotti saw that he was juror No , 7, Henry J. Moore, a photo engraver. He told him, Margiotti said, that juror recognized in our laws, which have! ““Thzee months ago. I predicted that!No. 14 is “putting in against your case.” Later it developed the seconc juror concerned was not No. 14 buy No. 13. é “Every day in the corridor,” Margi- He said he juror didn’t attempt to others that all your witnesses are |iying.” Margiotti said that Moore had beer drinking. “This is the first time in my Ife ae ppamagearna ca locrats will win many seats.” anything like this happened to me,” added: said Margiotti, “and I didn’t know) A “Michigan. Indiana, Illinois, the|what to do.” 1 He said the juror didnt’ attempt to discuss the merits of the case. When the alternate was called the court discovered there Was an €rTOr| station at Daytona Beach. He es- and that he should have named juror 13 instead of 14. He was Abe H. Weintraub, a brok- er, of New York. (Continued on tage Seven) Echo of Honolulu Attack Case Heard New York, Oct. 3.—()—The New York Times said Monday that Gov- ernor Lawrence M. Judd, of Hawail,| and Prosecutor John C. Kelley, pub- lie prosecutor of Honolulu, were to meet in New York Monday to con- sider the advisability of retrying or dismissing the case against the four Hawaiians accused by Mrs. Thomas H. Massie of assaulting her at Ala Moana a year ag HONOLULU OFFICIALS BEATEN IN ELECTION Honolulu, Oct. 3.—(#)—Two men | whose political offices were criticized | in a department of justice investi- gation which followed the Massie at- | but practically all of the 360 miles| tack case were among the defeated j construction on which contractors bid| candidates of Saturday's primary | Claiming he was threatened with! election. They ere James Gilliland, Hono- lulu city attorney, defeated for the Republcian nomination for mayor of Honolulu, and John C. Lane, former warden of Oahu penitentiary. loser among four men seeking the Repub- lican nomination for three seats in the territorial senate. 'People Eating to Live Rather Than Living to Eat, Says Restauranteur St. Paul, Oct. 3.—()—More people are now eating to live and less are living to eat, the Nation- al Restaurant association was told here Monday. Speaking before the opening meeting of the association’s an- nual convention, Ralph Hitz, of New York, hotel and restaurant proprietor, said many dispensers of food had overlooked the changes that have taken place in the American appetites in the last_generation. “People eat less than they for- merly did and they now eat with more thought to their health,” said Hitz, whose firm operates 17 restaurants in its four hotels. | “Perhaps some future historian will refer to the age in which we live as the ‘hot dog and orange juice era.’ At any rate, let's face the fact—many of the fancy foods which were popular before prohibition are no longer pop- ular. “More people now are eating to live and less are living to eat and the quicker we recognize that fact the easier will be our job of merchandising food.” ‘The value of advertising to the restaurant business was stressed by Hitz. “Give the public what it wants, at a price it can afford to pay, and make sure that the public knows just what you have to offer,” he said. | Who Perished May Never \ONE BODY CARRIED 19 MILES| | i H IVTEHACHAP AREA ‘Believe Exact Number Persons Be Known Precipitation of 4.75 Inches Re- corded From 1 P. M. to9 P.M. Bakersfield, Calif, Oct. 3.—(?)— Leaders of volunteers searching the mountainous Tehachapi area for ad ditional victims of Friday's cloud- ‘burst, expressed belief Monday the ;total death toll never may be known. Eight bodies have been recovered, [33 other persons have ben given up as lost and probably as many as 20 un- lidentified itinerants were believed | |swept to their deaths by the 45-foot | vall of water that came roaring down | ehachapi pass with little warning. | The body of one of the victims, Mrs. | Louis Kadd, was found 19 miles from: \her home. Authorities said the force! \of the water may have carried other; bodies greater distances which may} prevent their being located. Tons of | mud and debris were swept through | the canyons and searchers said many! bodies undoubtedly have been buried. Among those believed lost in the; jcloudburst were men riding a freight | jtrain sidetracked at Woodford-Keene | to await repairs to the railroad track. One of the free riders on the train,| who escaped when he saw the water | ‘ome rushing down the Tehachapi; creek bed, said he saw the water strike the train and fling nearly a score of men helter-skelter down the creek. The rain gauge at Tehachapi show- ed a precipitation of 4.75 inches from 1 p. m. to 9 p. m., Friday. Southern Pacific railroad officials; said it would be several days before they could repair their track. The; |railroad estimated its loss by the} |cloudburst at $500,000. ' PRISON CAMP CASE BROUGHT 10 TRIAL Two Former Officers Charged) With Slaying 21-Year-Old | Prisoner i i |Maval armory to its capacity of 5,000} . Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 3.—(P)— |The lengthy probe of Florida priso. | conditions reached a climax Monda; | 8s two former officers were ordered} ‘to trial for murder of Arthur Maille-; | fert, 21-year-old convict, who died in a prison camp sweat box. | Maillefert. a Westfield, N. J., youth} ‘who described himself as a former | life-guard, came to Florida two years; ago to hunt a job and was arrested and convicted of robbing a filling) | caped once by Jeaping from a bridge! i and swimming the Halifax river and} | another robbery was attributed to; ‘him. | | He was recaptured and a nine- ; Year sentence imposed. Other at-, {tempts at escape from the prison camp at Sunbeam finally resulted in; his confinement in a sweat box, a) {small punitive cell, with a “chain j about his neck. On June 3, he was! | found strangled to death and prison! camp Officials said he chose suicide as a final way of escape. { The state charged Georgia Cour-| {son, the camp captain, and Solomon | Higginbotham, a guard, with respon-| sibility in his death, however, and} |they were indicted for murder. | | Mrs. Julia Maillefert, mother of; the dead convict, came here this} week-end by airplane to attend the | trial. Says Pickets Made | | Threat of Violence! N. Dy Oct, 3—(P—} Parshall, 'hanging if he accepted a truck load of grain from a Mountrail county} farmer, W. F. Blum, operator of an independent elevator here, Monday asked authorities to take action, | against a group of men picketing to! ‘prevent movement of farm products} {in _this section. } | Blum alleges the pickets are af- | ies with a communistic group. Blum said a farmer came to his | elevator to sell a load of grain, but on account of an agreement between elevator operators not to take any grain after 6 p. m., the truck was parked in his driveway for the night. He said efforts were made to break jinto the driveway at night, but ‘proved unsuccessful. In the morning, according to Blum, , When the driveway was opened, the pickets moved the truck from the| burgh. , driveway and instructed the owner of | the grain to sell it to some other | elevator. | An oil station attendant who drove! | the truck into the driveway for the |farmer said the pickets made the , Statement they “would hang Blum” [it be dumped the grain in his eleva- | | GIGANTIC ‘BOOM! | In the Culebra cut of the Panama lused. The biggest single explosion sss one in which 26 tons of dynamite were used. New Senator Walter Walker, democrat, was appointed to the United States senate by Governor Adams of Colo- rado to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Waterman. ROOSEVELT SAYS HE IS ‘SATISFIED’ HS TRIP WAS A SUCCESS Democratic Presidential Candi- date Will Begin Southern || Tour Oct. 17 Roosevelt Special, En Route to Al-| bany, N. ¥. Oct. 3—(}—Governor | | | Roosevelt neared the end of his 8,900-' | mile presidential campaign trip Mon- || day “thoroughly” satisfied, as he said, | | that his Democratic drive for the white house had gained strength in| the score of states he visited on the! three-week trip. With scarcely a pause in his activi- ties he will plunge into the Democra- tic state convention at the New York} capital which will name a nominee for the governorship he will relinquish! Jan. 1. He was represented as hopeful ha: mony would be attained and that hi: choice for the nomination, Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman would win. At Detroit, crowds which filled the nd extended outside the building to number estimated by police at 25,000, heard Roosevelt talk on what he rmed “social justice, through social action.” He labelled it a non-politi- cal address. In “our boasted modern civiliza- tion,” he said, there are two schools of philosophy at conflict; one which would “let things alone,” and the oth- er “that strives for something new something that the human race never has attained—social justice through social action.” The philosophy of “letting things alone,” Roosevelt asserted, has “re- sulted in the jungle laws of the sur- | vival of the so-called fittest.” “The philosiphy of social justice,” he continued, “calls definitely, plainly for the reduction of poverty.” He enumerated social legislation toward that end as workmen's com- pensation, old age insurance, public health, hospitalization of the insane, child labor restriction and rehabili- tation of law breakers. “The followers of the philosophy of let alone,” the Democratic nominee continued, “the people who have been decrying all these measures of social welfare, what do they call them? “They call them ‘paternalistic.’ All right, if they are paternalistic, I am @ father.” After private philanthropy, social or- ganizations, the church, city and state have done their utmost to prevent poverty and alleviate distress, Roose- velt said, “above and beyond that the national government has a responsi- bility.” Roosevelt quoted church assertions to support his contention that social justice “now is accepted by moral leadership of all the great religious groups of the country.” Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt were hosts Sunday night at Detroit at a dinner to the newspaper writers, camera men and others of the party who traveled with the nominee on his trip. At the dinner he revealed that ten- tative plans had been prepared for a 10-day campaign trip through the south and middlewest and a final trip into New England a few days before the Nov. 8 election. The southern trip is scheduled to open Oct. 17. It will carry Roosevelt to Baltimore, Atlanta, Warm Springs, Raleigh, N. C., Nashville, and as far west as St. Louis, with a return stop perhaps at Indianapolis and Pitts- FOUR HURT IN RODEO ton, Baird, Tex., were all injured, but none seriously, in rodeo contests here ‘Sunday. CORN CRIB CATCHES FIRE Fire was discovered at 3:05 p. m., Monday in @ corn crib at the O. H. Will and company warehouse in East Broadway. The damage caused by it was small, ae Oct. 3.—()—Eddie Bol- ti LYTTON COMMISSION HITS AT OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA AREA Document Declares Nipponese Military Campaign Was “‘Unjustified’ PROPOSES SPECIAL REGIME Would Have China Retain So- vereignty Over Provinces Involved Geneva, Oct. 3—(4)}—The League of Nations was definitely at grips Monday with the Manchurian prob- Jem—perhaps the greatest test it has faced in its history—following pub- lication of the reports of the Lytton investigating commission which in- ferentially condemned Japan’s mili- tary occupation and turned thumbs down on the Japanese-advised re- gime of Henry Pu-Yi. The commission, in an exhaustive analysis of the situation which be- gan with the opening of the Japan- ese army's drive in September of last year, found the military cam- paign was unjustified and that the new state of Manchukuo is not sup- ported by the Manchurian people. It proposed a special autonomous regime for the territory, with China retaining full sovereignty over the three provinces, and suggested a Sino-Japanese conference to work out the basis of a permanent settle- ment, with the provision the league council take a hand if the Chinese Commission Sets Out 10 Principles | Geneva, Oct. 3—()—The fol- | | lowing 10 principles were set out | by the Lytton commission as the | basis for a permanent peace set- | tlement between China and Japan | in Manchuria: 1—Compatibility with of both China and Japan. 2—Consideration of the inter- ests of Russia. 3—Conformity with the league covenant, the Briand-Kellogg pact and the nine-power treaty. | 4—Recognition of Japan's inter- { ests in Manchuria. | 5—Establishment of new treaty | Telations between China and Ja- interests | pan. 6—Effective provision tlement of future disputes 7—Manchurian autonomy. 8—Internal security against ex- ternal aggression. | 9—Encouragement of economic rapprochement between China | and Japan. | 10—Internal for set- cooperation in | Chinese reconstruction. ee | and Japanese themselves fail to agree. Because of the delay requested by ; Japan and granted last week by the league, consideration of the report will not be taken up until Nov. 14. Chinese Like Report _ Generally speaking, it was hailed in all quarters here Monday, except by the Japanese, with satisfaction. The more the Chinese studied it, the more they seemed to like it. } The report scouted Japan’s con- (Continuea on Page Seven) Ask Receivership for Nickel Plate Railroad Chicago, Oct. 3—(7)—A suit asking appointment of a receiver for the Nickel Plate Railroad was filed in U. S. district court here Monday. It was filed by Leo S. Samuels, of Chicago, attorney for Samuel Caplan of Detroit, holder of three $1,000 gold notes issued by the road Oct. 1, 1929, and due Saturday. on which payment was defaulted. The bill set forth that the notes were part of a $29,000,000 issue, held |by upwards of 1,000 persons and that there was likely to be a multiplicity of suits as a result of the defaults, In addition, Caplan’s bill alleged, the railroad owes approximately §1,- 200,000 in taxes and other obligations. The Nickel Plate has had a colo- ful history as one of the stepping stones in the rise of two of the na- tion's foremost railroad financiers—O. e ane M. J. Van Sweringen of Cleve- land. Less than 20 years ago it was known as 513 miles of rust which nobody wanted. The Van Sweringen broth- ers acquired it, by accident, and transformed the rust into a pot ef gold that put them into one of the key positions of the railroad picture. 164th Regiment Band To Play in Bismarck Announcement that the band of the 164th infantry, North Da- kota National Guard, will : are 1 |