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‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight; tomorrow cloudy with slowly rising temperature; northeast winds. Tem) yeste: ratures—Highest, 64, at 3 p. ; lowest, 30, toda: moderate .m. at 2 am. Y. Full report on page 4 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 32,060. post office, Wa Entered as second class mattel shington, D. C. ‘ ' ; E WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o o Slar. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. BUDCETARY LIMIT ON ARMS PROPOSED FOR U. 5. BY GIBSON AT GENEVA PARLEY American Spokesman Makes Nine Points in Statement of Policy—Bruening Pre- sents Attitude of Germany. PRESENT BUILDING TRUCE AND ORIENT ARE IGNORED Chancellor Declares Indirectly That French Plan Is “Way to Make Conference Fail"—Asks for Peace Based Upon Equal Rights of Nations. (Copyricht. 1932, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, February 9.—Ambas- sador Hugh S. Gibson, acting chief of the United States dele- gation to the World Disarmament Conference, and Chancellor Hein- rich Bruening of Germany pre- sented to the conference today the American and German pro- posals for limitation of arma-| ments, both of which differed at| many essential points from the proposal of France, presented last week by Andre Tardieu, French foreign minister. The American proposal pre- sented by Ambassador Gibson, who was warmly applauded by the delegates as he ascended the rostrum, contained nine points. These included the prolongation of the Washington and London naval agreements, further reduc- tion of naval armament, abolition of submarines and promotion of land disarmament by restricting tanks and mobile guns, discard of lethal gases and prevention of bacteriological warfare, protection of civil populations against aerial bombing, limiting defensive forces to those necessary to maintain internal order plus some contin- gent for defense, and budgetary limitation of expenditures for war supplies when their direct limita- tion has been secured. Bruening Hits Armed Peace. Ambassador Gibson spoke with great delibezation and emphasis. As he turnec to his seat he was besieged by succe: groups of members of othor delegations who <chook his hand and :.\' °d appreciation of his declara- ion Chancellor Bruening’s statemeat | pledged Germany, “with all emphasis,” 10 the advocacy of general disarmament “of an unmistakable nature, such as the L-zgue of Nations covenant envis- £ged.” bul set out no formal program except to ask that the armaments of all nations be reduced to the same low relative us as Germany. He said he would present a formal program later. Referring to the proposal presented by ;Vl Tardieu for France last week, he sail “Let’s do away with the efforts, by this or ihat interpretation of the rules, © for ourselves the possibility of military expansion of power and to take it away from others. That isn’t the right y. That's the way to make the conference fail and to present the un- happy condition of an armed peace resting on unequal rights.” Agrees to Budgetary Cut. Chancellor Bruening introduced a new language into the conference, speaking German, which had to be translated into both French and Eng- lish, He was given warm applause by the delegates, as was Ambassador Gibson. ‘Ambassador Gibson's announcement that the United States would consent to budgetary or financial reduction as a complement to direct limitation of armaments drew special applause from the delegations. This question has long been a stumbling block to preparatory disarmament work. “A decrease in arms is an essential,” Mr. Gibson said, “not alone for the re- of the world, but also to the tion of the whole fabric of peace.’ The United States, he said, advo- cates making the draft convention drawn up by the Preparatory Commit- tee the basis of the discussions of the conference. In this he agreed in the stand taken by Sir John Simon, spokes- man for Great Britain, who addressed the conference yesterday. Gibson added, however, that the United States is willing to consider any supplementary proposal calculated to achieve arms re- duction, Brazilian Closes Session. Soft snow whitened John Calvin's city as the two statesmen, representa- tives of a victor and a vanquished na- tion in the World War demanded, in terms of great moderation and friend-, ship, that the whole world, without ex- ception, disarm. Jose Carlos de Maceno Soares, Bra- zilian delegate and first representative of the small powers to speak before the conference, closed today's session. He said the system of excessive arma- ments produced a classification of na- tions into great and small powers, therefore it is up to the interested pow- ers to take the intiative in bringing about disarmament in which Brazil stands ready to join. Mr. Gibson's declaration of American policy, particularly as it applied to armaments in general, appeared to make a favorable impression among the vari- Envoy to Japan GREW, SUCCEEDS FORBES AT TOKIO EMBASSY. JOSEPH C. GREW. President Hoover has selected Joseph | C. Grew, who is now Ambassador to Turkey, as Ambassador to Japan. The nomination of Ambassador Grew, one of the career men of the diplomatic | service and a veteran in that corps, was sent to the Senate by the Presi- dent today. Mr. Grew will succeed W. Cameron Forbes in Tokio. The latter is retiring As Ambassador to Japan at his own request. Several months ago he made known these wishes to the Secretary of State, but was prevailed upon to re- main at his post until a successor was named. AID FOR CATHEDRA URGED BYPERSHING Choir and Sanctuary on Main Floor Will Be Opensd May 5. A call to the Nation to hasten the | building of Washington Cathedral as | a tribute to George Washington in: fulfilling his desire of “a church for national purposes” in the Federal Cap- ital was urged by Gen. John J. Persh- ing and the Right Rev. James E. Free- | man, Bishop of Washington, today at | a meeting of distinguished men and | women interested in the Cathedral. At the same time Bishop Freeman anncunced that the choir and sanc- tuary on the main floor of the Cathe- dral will be opened for permanent pub- lic worship on Ascension day, May 5. to provide a most appropriate setting for the great services of national sig- nificance which will be held on Mount Saint Alban during the commemoration | of the 200th anniversary of the first| President’s birth. This will occur on | the 20th anniversary of the beginning | of daily services in the Bethlehem Chapel. the first portion of the Ca- thedral to be completed. Eighty Attend Meeting. More than eighty prominent men and women, many of them from different | sections of the country, attended the | meeting, which commenced with a luncheon, as the guests of Gen. Persh- ing, as chairman of the Cathedral’s Na- tional Committee. in the rectory of the College of Preachers. Brief addresses followed by Gen. Pershing, Bishop Free- man, Mrs. William Adams Brown of New York, national chairman of the National Women’s Committee for Wash- ington Cathedral, and former Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsyl- vania, chairman of the Cathedral Executive Committee. Among the lead- ing guests were Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Andrew W. Mel- lon, the new American Ambassador to Great Britain, who, since 1923, has been treasurer of the Executive Committee; Undersecretary William R. Castle, jr., a member of the Cathedral Chapter, and Assistant Secretary for Aviation of the War Department F. Trubee Davison, an Executive Committee mem- ber. Mrs. Hoover is honorary chair- man of the National Womens Com- mittee. Following the luncheon and meeting, thee group made a pilgrimage to the main floor. of the Cathedral and later attended the evensong service in the Bethlehem Chapel. The members of the National Women's Committee will assemble late in the afternoon for a conference with Mrs. Brown at the Ca- thedral Library. Pershing Praised. Former Senator Pepper in his address at the meeting stressed the need of maintaining the employment of ihe skilled artisans on -the Cathedral con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PARIS TO DENY REICH REPARATIONS CLAIMS Laval Tells German Envoy Refuta- tion Will Be Published To- { | night or Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 9.—Premier Laval HOOVER IS MAKING DETAILED PLAN FOR ANTI-HOARD DRIVE Col. Knox Declines to Reveal Campaign Outline Until It Is Finished. STATE LEADERS SOUGHT TO AID IN ORGANIZATION Headquarters to Be Opened Chicago for Nation-Wide Movement. in By the Assoclated Press. To back up the big anti-hoarding campaign now beginning, President Hoover is working out a specific plan of action for drawing hidden dollars back into circulation. Its nature so far is strictly secret Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, national leader of the anti-hoarding organiza- tion, revealed existence of the presi- dential project, but said nothing could be told about it until it was “copper- riveted and complete.” Knox is planning a rapid campaign through country-wide organized units to drive home the idea ‘hat “each com- munity must get behind itseif.” “We must convince each individual jthat for his own selfish interest he 1 must have confidence in his own insti- | wutions and that the effect of withdraw- | ing money from them results in eco- nomic strangulation,” was the way he put the objective. Headquarters in Chicago. Already he has sent out telegrams to obtain names of aggressive men, well established in popular confidence, to head each State Committee. He plan- ned after a further conference with Ogden Mills today to hasten to Chi- cago, where he will establish headquar- ters for the drive. The heads of the national organizations recently called in by President Hoover will serve as a central advisory group. To illustrate his view of the problem, Knox said: “Much of our trouble seems to be a national headache induced by eyestrain from looking across the Atlantic. We can't remedy conditions in Europe, but we can remedy them here.” The Reconstruction Corporation, un- der Charles G. Dawes, meanwhile, an- nounced a set of general rules to gov- ern its lending of Government funds. These provide a limit on loans of three years at the outside, but leave terms, maturity and nature of security to de- cision of the board in each individual case. The borrowing corporation will be required to make a clean breast of | its condition. Special provisions were attached to railroad loans, the entire rule structure following in general the terms of the law creating the corpora- tion. Knox Gives Diagnosis. Sitting with legs crossed in an office adjoining that of the chief executive, Knox announced his ideas for “a quick campaign done against the clock and going down to the grass roots of every community.” The Chicago publisher estimated that 92!, per cent of the articles pro- duced in this country are consumed in the domestic market, with only 7'z per cent shipped abroad. “If necessary,” he said, “we could toss this 71, per cent out of the win- dow and still lead the world back to prosperity. If once we restored confi- dence ai home 90 per cent of our troubles are over.” Meanwhile other agencies for na- tional relief moved forward. Directors of the $2,000.000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation conferred with members of Congress from the agri- cultural States and held an extended parley with Secretary Hyde on agri- cultural loans. Knox. in outlining plans for his campaign, said telegrams already had been dispatched to every State looking for leaders who will be charged with setting up an_organization in every community, uniting in the community newspapers, Boards of Trade, the Am- erican Legion, Rotary, Kiwanis, Ameri- can Federation of Labor and other | groups. Working Out Plan. The Chicago publisher said President Hoover and other Federal leaders were at work on a definite and specific plan “to_bring money out of hiding.” He hinted it might involve some at- tractive magnet for pulling out the es- timated $1,500,000.000 in hoarding, but said no outline of it could be given now. He cited as an example of what is necessary the experience of Aurora, IIl. When peocple became ‘“nervous™” there and began withdrawing money from their banks, he said, an appeal was made to the mayor. “A moratorium on all business was declared for five days,” Knox explained, “and everything was shut down except the grocery and drug stores. During that time the community caught up with itself through town meetings, house-to-house canvasses and a visit from the bank examiners declaring these institutions sound. “On .the first day the banks opened deposits increased by $1,000,000. They have gone up ever since. This is the way to tackle the problem. No one can sit here or in Chicago and solve the situation.” — told the German Ambassador today that Germany has not paid the full cost of rebuilding French areas devas- tated during the war and that the French government intends to publish a refutation of the recently issued Ger- man reparations figures. It was expected that this memoran- dum would be published tonight or to- morrow. The German figures placed the total amount paid at about $13,000,- 000,000, but the French contend that ona about $5,000,000,000 have been paid. 10 INSURGENTS KILLED Nicaraguan Guardia® Has Battles, Navy Report Says. Four ous_delegations. _Apparently its_most (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED Portes Gil's Desire to Retire as En- voy Brings Action in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, February 9 (#).— President Ortiz Rubio accepted today the resignation of Emilio Portes Gil, who will retire as Minister to France 4n order to become a candidate for governor of the state of Tamaulipas. l The killing of 10 Nicaraguan insur- gents and the wounding of a number of others in four engagements with the native National Guard under the com- mand of United States Marines was reported today to the Navy. The officers in command of the Guardia patrols were Corp. Earl T. Grgy, Indianapolis; Lieut. Ralph D. Mmu‘ Batavia, Ohio; Lieut. Arthur C. Small, Hafrisburg, Ill, and Corp. Luke M. Henderson, Loudon, Tenn. One of the Guardia was wounded. Radio Programs om Page C-3 j . EDGAR WALLACE, AUTHOR, ILL WITH PNEUMONIA In Critical Condition at Beverly Hills Home—Wife Leaves England Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. BEVERLY HILLS. Calif,, February 9. —Edgar Wallace, noted English author, is critically ill at his home here. His physician, Dr. E. C. Fishbaugh, said today Wallace had double pneu- monia. Mrs. Wallace leaves England tomor- row, having been notified by cable last night of her husband's condition. MILLS WINS APPROVAL Committee Votes Also to Confirm Ballantine. The Senate Finance Committee today approved the nominatoins of Ogden L. Mills as ‘Secretary of the ‘Freasury'and Arthur Ballantine as Undersecretary. ‘The Mills and Ballantine appoint- ments were favorably acted upon with- | around rear porches. out a record vote. Chairman Smoct sald the decision was unanimous for The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday's Circulation, 124,533, ook Kok UP) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. AL, oL’ BoY, INEYER You Coutp™y s o PLEASE S0 MUCH! Sacasa Resigns LABOR OPENS FIGHT | | | Nicaraguan Minister to U. S. and Four Cabinet Members Quit. T0 BEAT WILKERSON Counsel for Railway Group Charges “Partisanship and Antagonism to Unions.” By the Associated Press. A protest against confirmation of James H. Wilkerson of Chicago as cir- cuit judge on the grounds of “blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions” was filed with a Senate Judici- ary Subcommittee today by organized labor. Wilkerson's nomination was opposed by Donald R. Richberg, counsel for the | Railway Labor Executives’ Association Richberg filed four arguments against confirmation. They contended that: As a practicing lawyer he was “very active in prosecuting injunction suits | against labor organizations and played | a prominent part in Ilingis in limit- ing and destroying, through judge-made | JUAN SACASA. —Harris-Ewing Photo. ARMED MAN HELD N SHOOTING PROBE Prisoner Picked Up With Two | Revolvers Reported in His Possession. Continuing their exhaustive city-wide search for the murderer of Paul Riedel, | 45-year-old baker, and the perpetrator | of three other shootings of the past week, police today picked up a young | man armed with two revolvers, one of | them a .32, the caliber used in all t.hel shootings. The youth was arrested and brougnt | to police headquarters after he had told officers he was carrying the guns “as a protection against the man who. has done all these shootings.” He gave his name as James J. Sul- livan and said he lives at 616 U street | southeast. He was picked up about 10 o'clock this morning at the corner of |Good Hope road and Fifteenth street | southeast by Policeman F. F. Newtoa of MANAGUA. Nicaragua, February 9| the eleventh precinct, acting on a tip INTERNATIONAL ZONE HIT BY WILD SHOTS; U.S. TROOPS ON DUTY Neutral Area in Shanghai Target of Japanese and Chinese Guns. Foreigner Wounded. POWDER MAGAZINE 1S BLOWN UP; FORT DEFENDERS KEEP POSITION Fierce Artillery Duel Rages at Ch'apei. American Infantrymen Patrol Sec- tion Mile From Fighting. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, February 9.—The International Settlement of Shanghai was the target for shells from both Japanese and Chinese guns today as a fierce artillery duel raged over the Chapei sector, and at least one foreigner and several Chinese refugees were injured by the wild shots. Mrs. Harry Robertson, British wife of a detective inspector in the municipal police force, was wounded by a Japanese shell which : burst near her as she was walking along a street in the western part of the settlement. Several Japanese shells struck in this area, over- shooting their mark by about four miles. Her wound, which came from a splinter off the shell, was said to be slight. Today’s wounded in the settlement included, besides Mrs. Robert- son, five Chinese women. On Saturday Dr. Love Rankin of Sweet- water, Tenn,, an instructor in the National Central University, was slightly wounded in the arm by a splinter from a Japanese air bomb. Powder Magazine Blown Up. Machine gun bullets whined across the Kiangwan race track later in the day and aerial bombs were dropping between here and Woosung as the Japanese attacked a large Chinese detachment throwing up defense works behind the Woosung forts. A shell from a Japanese destroyer burst a powder magazine ‘n the fort, causing a terrific explosion and raising a cloud of dense black smoke which spread over the countryside. Nevertheless, the Chinese held on. Up on the northern settlement boundary the 31st United States Infantry took over the patrol from a British detachment. They were close enough to hear the shooting, but their position was about a mile from the action in Chapei. The 2d Battalion spread along a mile of the Soochow Creek. Their patrol was in an area which constitutes the section of Shang- hai’s slums. Facing them was the creek, one of the dirtiest streams in the world, littered with sampans and other small craft which are the only homes thousands of Chinese men, women and children ever had. Americans Build Bonfires. Along the creek bank the dogs and cats, ducks and chickens from the squalid river colony were scavenging for food, while the Amer- ican troops built bonfires against the unaccustomed cold. Behind the American line were dingy | mediately evacuated this area, which is store houses, coal dumps, and small | partly within the Japanese lines Chinese factories against which leaned | Late this afterncon the fighting, the rickety stand: where petty mer- | which went on at a flerce pace through chants served soup and rice to the |the day after the Japanese, apparently natives. discouraged over the prospect of cap- law, the rights of labor to organize.” | Exhibited Bias. | (/) —President Moncada today accepted | e tions of four cabinet minis- That as a United States district judge | c, "e8nations o . - he exhibited “in case after case a bias Uers and that of Juan Sacasa, Minister and prejudice against labor organiza- to the United States, immediately an- :g;s._ inconsistent with judicial fair- nouncing the make-up of the personnel That “in his blind partisanship and | ©f @ new ministry, constituted as fol- antagonism to labor unions Judge Wil- lows: kerson has not followed the law as laid down by the Supreme Court.” ‘That Wilkerson “is an avowed parti- | Francisco Parajon. war and aviation. san of those legal doctrines which give Anastacio Samoza, acting foreign employers and overwhelming advantage =minister. over employes in industrial controver- Guillermo Arguello Vargas, acting Antonio Flores Vega, public works. | riculture. sies.” finance minister. _“To elevate a judge holding such | views to higher authority is to aid in | nullifying the thirteenth amendment,” | Richberg said. To Run for President. Dr. Juad B. Sacasa, whose resigna- Antonio Barquero, education and ag- | To support his charge that Wilker- tion as Nicaraguan Minister to Wash- son had not followed law laid by the ington was accepted today by President Supreme Court, 'it };:bse anem'ggcdl t:.o Moncada, was said by legation officials ichberg cif e | to be starting hi - “Daugherty injunction case" of 1922. | dent. R - | Dr. Sacasa left Washington for Ma- Violated Clayton Act. inagua January 15. Before leaving he He contended Wilkerson had then | announced his intention to resign his attempted to enjoin the legitimate ac- | Post and to work for his own nomina- tivities of labor unions in carrying on | tion at the Liberal Party Convention, a lawful strike and he violated the | Which takes place in the Spring. The express prohibitions of the Clayton act.” | elections will be held next year. DEFII 1 §191.008 speech,” Richberg said. “He attempted to extend the au- !Colladay Compliments Work- ers on Efforts—Final Re- thority of the singl throughout the United. Siatos: ang o port Meeting Held. invaded the jurisdiction of all other district courts. He permitted his court | to be used to prevent the settlement of | the shopmen’s strike and his court be- came a strike-breaking agency in be- half of railway managements which bad defied the Government and flouted the President of the United States. ‘He wrote bitterly partisan opinions in this case, branding as criminal con- spirators labor leaders of unblemished Teputations, although the Government admitted that it had been unable (even with the he‘l’auof the railroads) to pro- duce any evidence connecting a single gnle ott these leaders with any unlaw- ul act. ! With a deficit of $191,003.87 existing “Th ar 000, ganizasions e pame leaders 324 O | in the drive for $2,601,000, the Com- tional agreement with the railroads to | munity Chest campaign was formally protect the welfare of the industry and | terminated today. The grand total Nt et ol stood at $2,400,996.13. FIVE MRMRISH | Edward F. Colladay, general cam- | paign chairman, complimented the | workers on their efforts at the final Mother Dies Trying té Save Them | report meeting in the Willard Hotel. | | He said the drive, already twice ex- tended, would not be continued. He added that if the solicitors retained their faith in the Chest, the public hich dest aets Bam would voluntarily contribute. enough [OW, miles soul of azleton. it i L) The mother. was Mrs. Govmen Ro. | 2dditional gifts during the camidar manelli. She ran to the street to give | V63T t0 Wipe out the shortage. the alarm and then rushed into the | The chairman pointed out the sum burning home to save her children and | ctually raised exceeded by more than never returned. The children were: ‘s 00,000 the amount subscribed last Dana, 14; Betty, 7; Marguerite, 4; Year. and represented the largest sum Joseph, 9, and Ralph, '6 months, | "(Continued on Page 2, Column 7. 14 DEER ROAM FAIRFAX COUNTY AFTER ESCAPE AT MOUNT VERNON From Flames. HAZLETON. Pa., February 9 (#).— Five small children and their mother were burned to death today in a fire which destroyed their home at Tresc- Game Warden Notified to Enforce Law Against Molesting Animals. Special Dispatch to The Star. tive secretary of the State Game Com- FAIRFAX, Va., that he will be expected to protect the deer and strictly enforce the $50 penalty for killing one. Fair- fax County has no open season on deer. In some sections of the State there is an open season on bucks, but killing a doe is forbidden everywhere. ‘The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associa- tion, which manages the historic gs- tate, has made no request that the deer be returned or reported if seen, today, having escaped from the Mount Vernon- estate. County residents may expect to see them any time grazing on front lawns or foraging for food And nothing can be done about 1t. County Game Warden A. B. Carter has been notified by M. D. Hart, execu- 5 | that “a man with a couple of guns” had been seen in that viciniiy. | Examined by Detectives. | Besides the .32-caliber revolver, a 25- caliber gun was found in his pockets. { Sullivan, who said he was 25 years old, was well dressed in a tan-colored riding | outfit, with bocts to match. He told police he had been shot at| while “walking in the Northwest sec- tion” Saturday night and had decided {to arm himself. ~Headquarters detec- | tives subjected him to a relentless | questioning as to his whereabouts that \mght. when Riedel was shot in the | doorway of his bakery at 32151; Mount | | Pleasant street, and on Thursday night, | when the three other mysterious shoot- ings occurred. After being griiled for several hours. | Sullivan was ordered held and booked | at No. 11 “for investigation.” The .32-caliber gun was turned over o Lieut. John Fowler, police ballistics | expert, for comparison with the bullets fired in the attacks. Not the Same Gun. Fowler fired a shot with the gun, |and, after a comparison with the slugs | taken from the bodies of the shooting victims, announced it was not the same gun. All ~the bullets taken from the | bodies of Riedel and the victims of the | other shootings—Gordon T. Backus, an | Agriculture Department forester; Helen | Andrews, 18, of 5611 Sixth street. and Doris Beall, 16, of 1411 G street south- east—are copper-jacketed .32-caliber slugs. For this reason, police are in- | clined to the theory all were fired from the same gun. Copper-nosed bullets ! are not so common as lead or steel | jacketed slugs, they pointed out. Meanwhile, extra-heavy police details, | numbering between 50 and 75 uni- | formed patrolmen and _plain-clothes- | men, canvassed the Northwest residen- | tial ‘section in search of the robber- slayer, said to be “a soft-spoken youth.” Have Description of Man. | Information that the killer is “a soft- spoken youth” was received by Detec- tive Inspector Frank S. W. Burke from David Tievsky, a storekeeper in the 4900 block of Wisconsin avenue, who ; was held up and robbed shortly before (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) 'WOMAN’S BODY FOUND IN LONG BEACH SURF JPocketbook Carried Card Made Out in Name of Mrs. Adelaide Seick. Bx the Associated Press. | LONG BEACH. N.°Y., February 9.— | The body of an expensively dressed | woman, apparently in her eariy thirties, j was found in the surf today not far from the place where Starr Faithful's body was doscovered last year. In’her pocketbook was a membership card to the Bronxville Woman's Club, made out to Mrs. Adelaide Seick, Bronxville. Two men spearing eels at ebb tide came upon the body and notified po- lice. examination indicated the body had been in the water about two days. No signs of violence were dis- cernible, The body was taken to the undertak- ing establishment in Rockville Centre, where the body of Starr Faithful was taken. Miss Faithful's body was found here last June and for months officials continued their in tions in an effort to determine definitely whether ldne-th was due to suicide, accident or Missing Since Yesterday. BRONXVILLE, N. Y., February 9 (). —The Bronxville Women's Club has listed a member by the name of Mrs. J. H. Sieck. Bronxville police said Mrs. Sieck was reported missing early today by her husband, who said she had dis- appesred from her home yesterday morning. A " - | turing the Woosung forts, turned the The young fellows seemed to be en- | o/ 0% ;" peir attack on the Chapei sector which has borne the brunt of nearly 12 days of fighting. A Japanese troop ship which was carrying reinforcements to Shanghai ran aground in the Yangtze River dur- ing the morning. Japanese soldiers were rushed into Chapei, however. to reinforce the bluejackets already there. Today's early attack on the Woosung fortress was turned back by a blistering machine gun fire from the Chinese de- fenders, who hung to their posts in spite of the fact that the guns of the fortress have long been silenced and its walls shot to ruins. Truce Proposal Rejected. Vice Admiral Sir Howard Kelly. com- mander of the British forces, tried to bring about peace during the day by joying it, but the oldtimers who had served with the 31st in Prance and in | Siberia_were exercising the soldier’s in- alienable right to complain. | “What's it all about anyhow?" said one sergeant from Oklahoma, using | more picturesque language than that His answer was a blast from the artil- lery firing across Chapei. It seemed to give him a lot of satisfaction. Eight shells dropped in the French concession tonight. injuring three Chi- | nese women and causing some property damage. It was not known whether the projectiles were Chinese or Japanese. Chinese Shells Fall Short. Chinese shells, aimed at the Japanese | infantry in Hongkew Park, within the | settlement, fell short and wounded sev- eral Chinese refugees, also causing {much property damage. Civilians im- By the Associated Press. Japan’'s proposal for demilitarization of the principal Chinese ports was held tightly today in diplomatic channels somewhere between Washington and the Tokio foreign office. | " Neither tne Japanese embassy nor | the American Government had officially received it, but the attitude of the latter was clearly opposed to such a step. FPhis Government looks establishment of neutral zones, as sug- gested by Japan, as bringing up again the partition of China, which has been denounced in the past by Japan, the United States and Great Britain. Word came from Shanghai from Ad- miral Taylor. the commander in chied of the Asiatic Fleet, that there were 100,000 Chinese troops in the Shanghai- Nanking varea under the command of Gen. Tsai Ting Kai. Japanese Assembling Army. A Japanese Army, Taylor reported. rapidly is being assembled at Shanghai, and approximately 2500 troops have already landed. Others are preparing to disembark from Japanese transports now lying off Woosung. Ambassador Debuchi of Japan called at the State Department late vesterday and said after his visit he has not re- ceived instructions to broach the neutral zone proposal. The abrogation of the nine-power treaty, definitely suggested by a spokes- man of the Japanese foreign office as the first step in neutralizing areas about China’s ports and settling the Manchurian situation as an independ- ent issue, is unthinkable to signatory powers. In fact there is a tendency in official circles to regard the proposal as an effort to bring further peace sugges- tions from the United States and the three powers which co-operated on the original peace plan. . Dr. Hawkling Yen, counselor of the Chinese legation, said demilitarization of zones about China's cities would be “nothing less than dismemberment of China. upon the Says China Would Never Agree. “I can scarcely believe such a pro- posal will be made by Japan to other powers,” he added. “It would scrap all the treaties made in more than 30 years, and, of course, China would never agree to such an arrangement,” he said. As s0 interpreted, the n is in violation of Japan's note sent in No- vember, 1931, to the State Department, which said: “The Japanese government remains unchanged in their stand against the partition of China.” However the Tokio spokesman pre. pared the way for a reversal of this policy by saying the nine-power treaty was based on the theory that China proposing & truce and an immediate | "(Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) i Debuchi Has Received No Instructions To Broach Neutral Zone Plan to U. S. jcould maintain peace and order in its | territory. He added that recent de- velopments have shown she cannot do | this. | There have been riots of serious | character within recent weeks in all | the cities designated by the Japanese for demilitarization except Canton and | Hankow. At Tsingtao the Japanese landed marines and hurned the plant {of a Chinese Newspaper which had printed matter concerning the Japan- | ese Emperor, which his subjects re- garded as offensive. AMERICAN YOUTH HELD AS SNIPER IS FREED | Representations to Japanese Bring About Release of Kay Johnson. | By the Associated Press. | SHANGHAI, February 9.—Kay John- | son, American youth, who was arrested | by Japanese military on charges of ‘inkpmi, has been released, American consular officials said today. Consular attaches added that repre- sentations to the Japanese brought about Johnson's freedom, but the | Japanese consulate officlally main- | tained they knew nothing of an Ameri- | can being held by their armed forces. SHELLING OI': U. S. SHIP AT SHANGHAI IS DENIED All Quiet When Vessel Passed Woosung, Branch Manager of Dollar Line Says. | By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, February 9.—O. G. Stean, general manager here of the Dollar Steamship Line, today denied a report that the liner President Madison had been shelled as it was entering Shanghai Harbor. The skipper of the President Madison told him after the ship arrived here, he said, that all was quiet as the liner ‘Woosung, center of fighting be- tween Chinese and Japanese, on its Bomb Hurts Eight in India. ALLAHABAD, India, February 9 (#). —Three policemen and five civilians were seriously hurt today by a bomb which was thrown by unidentified per- sons at Azamgarh, 100 miles from bere, 1 4