Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1933, Page 5

‘BOTH SIDES CLAM . VICTORY IN CLASH Reports Conflict on Result I+ of Fighting Over City [ ¢ of Shanhaikwan. (Continued From First Page) and Peiping, which carries on the bulk of its commerce through Tientsin. Both sides expected the next imme- diate developments would determine whether the trouble would be localized or would spread into Jehol, the Chinese buffer state to Manchuria since its oc- cupation by Japanese, and would in- volve the Tientsin and Peiping areas, protected for so many centuries by the Great Wall extending westward. Lieut. Gen. Kotaro Nakamura, Japa- nese commander of the treaty patrol at Tientsin, blamed subordinates of Gen. Chang Hsiao-Liang, former Chinese governor of Manchuria, for the trouble. “If your forces attempt further action Bgainst us a grave situation will result all North China,” he warned the ‘hinese commander. Lieut, Gen. Nakamura's troops were the first involved in the fighting at Shanhaikwan. They were stationed in the area under the 1901 agreement, ‘whereby the United States, Great Brit- ain, France and Italy also were per- nm;ed to station troops on the Peiping ute to the sea. Japan Claims Victory. A Rengo (Japanese) News dispatch om Tientsin said Japanese commenced general offensive agains Shanhai- wan at 9 am. yesterday from both and and sea. It said it began after rrival of destroyers and reinforcements f military troops. A severe battle was eported which, the Japanese military rts said, ended in complete victory y 3 pm. Japanese planes also were reported ngaged in the battle, dropping bombs n the Chinese city. The Japanese “iciaimed two g;m:: nge dfound in ; Japanese sen x Sunday evening 1:112.:«: troops which had been staticned in & suburb were sent to the city to Iprotect Japanese residents. The battle ensued. ‘While press dispatches described se- were fighting in the coastal district ‘scuthward and westward from Shan- | ‘haikwan, with the Japanese destroyers Fuyo and Asagao and numerous army airplanes participating, it was authori- tively learned the Tokio government as decided to endeavor to localize the iconfiict. ( URGA ° KUPEIKOU 1. Lower right: Shanhaikwan, one 2. Arrow points to Kupeikon Pass, into conflict with the Soviet Army. -, (R THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1933. TAHEIHO ¢~ MANCHUR, 4 —tN—.— 3E.HOL CHENGTIEH & o CHINCHOW WAL, YINGKOW HANKATKWAN {/DAIREN PORYT ARTHUR of the two doors to Jehol. the other door to Jehol. 3. Blagoveschensk, the Siberian town where the Japanese troops may come 4. Urga, the capitol of Inner Mongolia. TOKI0 SAYS CHINA Events Are Now Out of Con- trol, Declares Japanese Minister of War. (Continued From First Page.) MAJOR OFFENSIVE. PROVOKED ATTACK. FEARED IN ORIENT_ ro xoe e Far-Flung Plan of Japan Seen Behind Renewal of Fighting. (Continued From First Page.) frigid Manchuria, where a clash be- tween Japan and the Soviet Union is feared. Many things may happen when two truculent armies face each other It was learned a conference of war | Within hand or fist shawing distance, mee and foreign office officials agreed even if they are not precipitated by tructions would be sent to Gens. | militaristic policies of state at home. @Muto and Nakamura, the Japanese com- manders in the region, to seek an end | of the fighting before it spreads fur- er. Tt was reported both Ministers agreed ithe dangers of friction with foreign troops existed. These included Ameri- | can troops stationed on the Peiping- 'wan Railway in accordance | ‘Shanhaik with the 1901 Boxer protocol. Operation Unjustified. | It was sald further the Japanese in- Jerests in that locality were so small a Bmajor operation was unjustified. ‘The assertions of Tokio military lead- sers that the Shanhaikwan clash was not Janticipated appeared confirmed by the ap] nce of the war office staff quarters, which re- mained closed through the New Year ~holidays without interruption. ‘The navy, however, continued to take . Rear Admiral Shizuye ® commanding Japanese forces in {North China waters, was aboard the K , the cruiser Hirato, en route to Shanhaikwan from Tsingtao. Other Vlllhl;s at the Sasebo naval base were in readiness to steam to Shan- at a moment’s notice. 3 A war office tpo:esxzm u‘ml tk}e apanese army was desirous of local- *izing Shanhaikwan conflict and had ordered the field commander to “prevent the spread of hostilities. Much jdepends, however, upon whether the leaders “co-operate sincerely in the efforts to restore peace,” said the spokesman. “Gen. Hochukuo,” he said, “has pro- rufll'.ruu.\mlnmmeum:he s bringing up reinforcements. It is ot possible, therefore, to say definitely that the fighting will be localized or to Jpredict where it is likely to spread. I ‘can say, however, that the clash at Shanhatkwan was entirely unforeseen by our side and was in nowise con- nected with the intentions of the Japa- nese army ultimately to make Jehol unmistakably a part of Manchukuo.” EIGHT WARSHIPS PRESENT. Chinese Hold Attack Is Part of Plan for Extended Conguest. - SHANGHAI, January 3 (&) —Eight Japanese warships' were reported to Jhave arrived today at Chinwangtao, the Chinese seaport about 10 miles south- west of Shanhaikwan. Meanwhile, Jap- anese sources here said today’s air, land and sea attack on Shanhaikwan aimed at “elimination” of Chinese troops in that area. They said 4,000 Japanese Infantry nd Cavalry soldiers, two naval destroy: ers and seven air bombers were partici- pating in the attack on the Chinese side f t]}}e eastern terminus of China's Great all. Advices from Chinwangtao stated the situation there was quiet but tense, (with Chinese troops holding themselves Sin readiness for any emergency. Chiang Sees Soong. Gen. Chiang Kal-Shek, chairman of fhe Nationalist Government Military tAflairs Commission, arrived today from Ningpo, following a visit te his birth- place at the nearby village of Fanghwa. | ‘The general immediately conferred ‘with Dr. T. V. Soong, finance minister, concerning Shanhaikwan developments, declining, however, to reveal the nature of the conversation except indicating he was returning to Nanking immediately. Dr. Soong. characterized the attack Shanhaikwan as “only another step n the carefully laid plans of Japanese ilitarists” to invade Mongolia and orth China. After Chiang. Kai-Shek had left Dr. Boong issued a statement cn the latest ‘butbreak. “Two live bombs were discoversd in M Japanese police station at Shanhai- *kwan,” he said. “That is the pretext Mor the latest Japanese drive ir. the "north. It may go down in history with 4he mythical explosion on the South | Manchuria Railway track that fateful fhight last September. Bays Motives Clear. “It is not difficult to divine the mo- $ives for this latest drive. Jehol, the teway to North China and Mongolia, as long been coveted by the Japanese militarists, but attacking that moun- tni.nous province in Midwinter presents iMculties. They hope that pressure pon Tientsin and Peiping through hanhatkwan will result in its surrénder thout fighting. “Thus 1933 begins as 1932 began Wit e shadow of Japanese militarism cast er a world desperately in need of eace. “The Chinese people, in the throes f readjustment to modern conditions, re 11l prepared to resist Japan's power- ul military machine, but my country ill meet a recurrence of the horrors f foreign invasion with the same cour- e and fortitude it has shown in the ar just closed.” CHANG GIVEN WARNING. General Told He Will Be Held Respon- sible for Developments. PEIPING, January 3 () —Gen. Chang _Hsiao-Liang was wamed today by ! ranking Jlgflnese military and naval % officials in North China that he would ‘When the Japanese Army advanced last month to Manchuli Station, west- ern terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, and occupled the immense territory which the mutinous general, Su Ping-Wen, held for two months, the military set-up of the two countries changed more than at any time since the “incident” of September 18, 1931, when the Japanese occupied Manchuria. The advance was without resistance— possibly not without price—though the Hingan Mountains could have been de- fended, or the Hingan Tunnel put out of service, by but a small number of Gen. Su's men. Previous to that the Hingan Moun- tains, a few hundred miles from the Soviet-Manchurian frontier, were con- sidered the line of demarcation between the Japanese and Red armies. For months many had been anticipating a race between the two armies for posses- sion of the Hingans if the Japanese ever made a move to go west of them. That they did so came as a surprise, except possibly to those who made the arrangements. Japan Faces Bankruptcy. The Argun and Amur Rivers and the Yablovonoi Mountain are now the frontier, fixed by nature. The latter is Soviet territory. The two armies are on either bank of the rivers, while around Manchuli, where no rivers flow, only an imaginary line separates them. When that ceases to be by mutual agreement only the mountains remain. From a military standpoint, the set- up is such that the Japanese are in the best position they have ever been for an attempt to carry out the long- cherished ambition of annexing the eastern half of Siberia. They control the Southern Chinese Eastern Rallroad and could cut the Northern Amur Railroad by short flights of bombing planes. At the same time, the navy could operate along the coast and down the Amur as far as Khabarovsk and possibly Blagovest- chensk. One effective obstacle to this is that the rivers are frozen and, before they thaw out next Spring, the militarists | may be over their present peeve over | the renewal of Sino-Russian diplomatic relations. The red army is another ob- stacle, dut the Japanese generals are confident. The present venture in Manchuria is ’cosung Japan around 1,000,000,000 yen (about $200,000,000 at present ex- [chnnge) a year and operations in Si- beria would' add something like 5,000,- 000,000 yen ($1,000,000,000) a year for a few years. It would bankrupt Japan —its vaunted “lifeline of Manchukuo” becoming a ‘“death noose”—but the | militarists do not consider that. (Copyright, 1933.) Celebrates Club Anm'v;rsary. | _BROCKTON, Mass., January 3 (#)— Grace Morrison Poole, president of the | General Federation of Women's Clubs, came to Brockton yesterday to help | | celebrate the thirty-fifth birthday an- | niversary of her own club, the Women’s | Club of Brockton. She sliced a 300- pound cake, which bore 35 candles. | of the night of January 1 when Chinese and Japanese troops clashed, with | casualties on both sides. | ~The warning was conveyed in two | separate letters. One was in the name of Gen. Nakamura, commanding the | Japanese troops in North China, with | headquarters at Tientsin. The other was in the name of Japanese military and naval attaches here. At noon today the Japanese legation lacked eonfirmation of reports claim- ing the Japanese Army had occupied | Shanhaikwan, while the latest Chinese official reports stated the city was still |in the hands of the Chinese, who “re- pulsed the Japanese attack.” Future developments remained today subject to keen speculation here. Man- churian headquarters of the Japanese take the view that the clash was merely “an unfortunate frontier inci- | dent which was easily settled.” Gen. Chang Hsiao-Liang has in- eventual union with the Manchukuo- Japanese Empire should this daring scheme of the Japanese government be successful. While the Japanese Army is now ready to move in the direction of Pei- ping, Tientsin and Jehol the Japanese military have made in the course of the month of December the last move toward consolidating the Northern Manchurian frontier by the occupation of Taheiho, a few miles from the im- portant Soviet city of, Blagoveschensk. This section of the Manchukuo frontier close to Russia is reported to be suf- ficlently garrisoned and prepared for any eventuality should Russia decide to throw her lot with China. ‘The occupation of Jehol seems now to observers of the situation enly of seoo%i;lry importance. Jehol is just 2 bait W enable the Japanese to complete their more grandiose plans. Prepared for Resistance. | The Tokio general staff announced that the operations in China proper wiil not be continued if the Chinese do not offer resistence to the Japanese Army which has been given the task to oc- cupy Jehol. But the Japanese general staff knows full well that the Chinese are prepared to oppose the penetration of that province and consequently the Japanese Army, not making an attempt to go into Jehol through Manchukuo, is now preparing to take the longer and easier road via Tientsin and Peiping. What the consequences of such a move will be is uncertain. The entire problem of the Japanese using the force of arms to defend their alleged rights in Manchuria is at present before the League of Nations. While it appeared possible that the League would take measures against Japan, the Japanese government_has delayed its other oper- ations in China proper. When it ap- peared evident, however, that the dis- sensions between the nations members of the League were sufficiently marked to prevent a sincere collaboration for the defense of the various peace pacts and international treaties, and this was obvious the day the Committee of Nine- teen postponed the examination of the Lytton report, the Japanese have de- cided to proceed without fear of any outside interference. Powers at Loggerheads. ‘The moment seems to have been carefully and well selected. The rela- tions between the Western powers are at present more strained than ever. Be- sides the tension created by the war- debt question, more important discen- | tions have broken out recently between the principal members of the League of Nations. There is at present a seri- ous crisis between Yugoslavia and Italy which is likely to degenerate into a first-class crisis unless the other powers intervene. On the other hand the Ger- man government is reported to have | Indicated its desire to open the ques- |tion of territorial readjustment, this changing certain clauses of the Ver- sailles treaty. France is unlikely to ac- cept good humoredly such a request. Consequently the principal nations forming the League of Nations are at present again at loggerheads and they will have but little time to spare to settle the Far Eastern problem, im- portant as it may seem on this side of the ocean. ‘There is of course the nine-power pact which binds the signatory nations to respect the territorial integrity of China. In certain quarters it has again been suggested that it should be in- voked in this new flagrant case of | violation of the rights of that nation. |But the nine-power pact is based merely on the good faith of the signa- tory powers and does not contain any | clause whereby Japan or any other na- tion infringing the territorial integrity of China could be coerced to respect its signature. } FEW U. §. TROOPS NEARBY. State Department Watches Far Eastern | Situation Closely. By the Assoclated Press. | _Secretary Stimson and others of official Washington watehed the Shan- | hatkwan _situation closely today, and without effort to minimize the serious- ness of the occupation of the Northern Railway gateway to China by Japanese forces. ' Dispatches to the Government gave |mo indication of the origin of the fight- | structed his troops to do nothing to|ing | aggravate the situation, it was stated. | | The Japanese military leaders, however, |are obviously incensed at what they |regard as a breach of faith on the |part of the Chinese and independent | observers are closely studying the pos- sibility that the Japanese may seize the opportunity to bring both Shan- | }\alnkwnn and Jehol into the Manchukuo | fold. Denies Ultimatum. An official spokesman for the Japa- | nese legation here denied today that | any ultimatum had as yet been delivered to Chang. He stated also that there | was no informaiton that Shanhaikwas | had as yet been occupied by the Japa- nese. } ‘The Japanese second squadron left | Tsingtao is morning for Shanhai- | kwan. The garrison at Shanhaikwan | is said to pumber 5,000 men. | A telegram recelved from Gen. Hoch- | ukuo, Chinese commander in the Shan- | haikwan area, said that after an hour’s fighting the Japanese made a breach in the city wall, but Japanese troops | were repulsed by Chinese defenders. He said that at 2 pm. today, all was State Department records do not show | that there are any Americans in Shan- haikwan. An officer and 20 privates of the 15th Infantry are stationed at Chinwangtao, which is 10 miles south on the Mukden- Tientsin Railway. These troops are part of the regiment which is stationed at Tientsin and par- ticipates with the trcops of other West- ern powers in guarding the railway be- tween Chinwangtao and Tientsin. Chinwangtao has a harbor and is the ?on. of entry used by the American orces. OIL EXECUTIVE DIES SAVANNAH, Ga. January 3 (P — | Herbert Roger Gates, 65, of Summit, N. J., junlor executive cf the Texas Oil Co., died in a hotel herc last night. He was on a trip South for his health. He was one of the oldesi men in point of service in the Texas Co. end was at- tached to the New York odice. Sur- are his widow, Mrs. Alice Gates; | one daughter, Miss Frances Gatc~, both 12 DEAD INBLASTS FRANCE PUTS BAN | FIRING TO HOMES) ONNEW ENPLOYES [Ohio Family and - Five In Texas Victims as Oil Is Used on Stove Fires. By the Assoclated Press. SHELBY, Ohlo, January 3.—An en- | tire family was wiped out early today when & fire destroyed their one-story home. The dead were James Miller, his wife Beatrice and their five children, the oldest 8 and the youngest a baby of 3 weeks. ! Mrs. Miller and her children, James, jr., 8; Ethel May, 5; Eunice Irene, 4; Evelyn, 2, and Nanna May, 12 days old, were trapped in their beds. Miller died a few hours after the fire from burns received when he attempted ;0 rescue his family from the blazing ome. Before he died, Miller told his father- in-law, A. W. McGregor, the fire started when coal oil he was using to kindle the fire exploded, showering the three beds in which the family slept with flaming oil. Suffering untold agony as he related his story, Miller told his father-in-law that he got up at 3 a.m. to start a fire in the only stove in the house. As he lighted the stove, the blaze set fire to a can of kerosene he was using. Miller, McGregor said, made repeated attempts to get his family out of the house, but his burning night clothes and the intense heat drove him from the blazing house. He made his way to the home of a neighbor, where he gave the alarm and collapsed, his clothing burned frcm his and Four Children Caught in Blaze; Two Women Escape. MIDLAND, Tex. January 3 (#)— Five persons were burned to death to- day at Barstow, Ward County, when gasoline poured on a wood stove fire exploded. The dead: Walter Hood, 40, and three of his young children and the child of his brother, Jack Hood. Mrs. Walter Hood and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hood were burned severely and were taken to a Pecos hospital. Mrs. Charles E. Nichols, who lived nearby, rushed to the scene when she heard the blast and found the home in flames. She alded in rescuing the three persons. BOY BADLY HURT; DRIVER IS SOUGHT John Curry, 12, in Serious Condi- tion After Being Struck at First and G Streets. Police today were seeking an alleged hit-and-run driver whose automobile last night struck and seriously injured John Curry, 12, of 510 Second street, while at Pirst and G streets. At Sibley Hospital the boy was said to have fractures of both legs, a broken arm and cuts, and may have suffered internal injuries. The boy was taken to the hospital in a taxicab, but police up to late to- day had been unable to learn the name of the cab driver, who left the hos- pital after turning the boy over to au- thorities there. “Two women, Ruby Poynton, 20, and Recka Coblens, 40, were slightly in- jured yesterday in an automobile col- lision in the 1000 block of Bladens- burg road northeast. Both drivers, Ed- ward W. Long, 32, of Fairfax, Va, and Charles Kohn, 38, of Baltimore, Md. were arrested on charges of reckless driving and released under bond. The women were treated at Casualty Hos- ! pital. JOAN OF ARC TO REGAIN HER VICTORIOUS BLADE Park Finds Bent Weapon of Maid of Orleans Lying in Hedge. Joarr of Arc, astride her bronze charger in Meridian Hill Park, soon will hold her victorious sword aldft again. She was disarmed in an unknown manner more than a week ago, but, undaunted, held forth the empty hilt while searchers looked for the blade. Yesterday Officer J. W. Mason of the park police found the weapon, lying Policeman [ bent, -but unkroken, in & border hedge. Children perhaps too young to know Joan of Arc’s history, Mason specu- lated, had played with the blade before casting it aside. It probably was loosened in the hilt when workmen moved the equestrian figure last Spring to a more central lo- cation in the park. The sword will be replaced soon. FIRST BRITISH PAYMENT ON DEBT REACHES BOSTON 146 Boxes of Gold Bars, Valued at £1,468,120, to Be Given to U. 8. Today. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, January 3.—The steamer Lancastria arrived here yesterday bring- ing the first payment on the December 15 British war debt. After discharging passengers and freight the ship left for New York, where 146 boxes of gold bars, with a valuation of 1,468,120 English pounds. will be delivered today to the Federal Reserve Bank. The Lancastria reported a rough voy- “E‘. and was a day late in reaching port. NINE LOST IN GALE LONDON, January'3 (#).—At least nine lives were lost, and probably others perished, in a 60-mile gale, which swept the Coast of England and Ireland yes- terday. Scotland and Northern Ireland were deluged by a fierce downpour, which flooded fields and ran creeks and rivers out of their banks. The nine victims drowned when the Aberdeen Trawler Venitia was wrecked on the rocky coast off Kincerdineshire. High winds in London and other cities felled trees and caused many window panes to be broken. Automo- biles were blown over and there were other mishaps because of the high wind. Many Spring Signs Observed by Groups On New Year Day By the Associated Press. PORT EWEN, N. Y., January 2. —It was New Year day, but: W. E. Galbraith saw & cater- p“é“‘ ported robins. everal persons re) T e George T sighted a fiying North. Employes of the Palisades In- terstate Park Reservation say pussy willows are in bud. .trade unions have compelled the ac- 1 citizens would voluntarily buy up city || i Cabinet Acts to Halt Rapid| Increase of Number on Government Pay Roll. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. | PARIS, France, January 3$—The | | Joseph Paul-Boncour cabinet’s New ||| Year gift to France is a decree sus- | || | pending until December 31, 1933, al ||| additions to the existing number of ‘ Il governmental employes and workers, | ||| unless such additions are authorized || by the finance minister, Henri Cheron. | This decision is considered an earnest | general administrative reform which | Iwould save the country billions of | francs. | Since the World War the number on the governmental pay roll has increased by 17 per cent and is still increasing. It is generally admitted that the na- tion's work could be done by half the present personnel if each man and woman worked usefully. The ambition of most French peo- ple nowadays is to get a government Jjob as a means of both security, tenure and retirement pension. Many new jobs have been created in recent years as the government established new bu- reaus, while simultaneously the powerful ceptance of the “assimilation” of many municipal workers, meaning that they enjoy the same privileges as govern- mental employes as regards pay, pen- slons and other details. ‘The City of Paris has just “assimi- lated” the street car personnel, a step which costs the taxpayers an additional | | $1,500,000 yearly. It is calculated that one worker out of three in France to- day is either in governmental or in “as- similated” service. The cabinet’s decree represents an effort to check this influx. (Copyright, 1933.) . BILLION IN U. S. NOTES || PROPOSED BY KELLER | Representative Also Urges 1 Per Cent Sales Tax to Put 2,000,000 Men to Work. By the Assoclated Press. Representative Keller, Democrat, of Tlinois, today proposed a sales tax of 1 per cent and the issuance of $1,000,- | 000,000 in Treasury notes. “I have sat here for months waiting upon those charged with responsibility || to preseni measures to take us out of this depression,” he said in a statement, | | “and the only measures that have been successful in Congress have been unsuc- cessful for the country.” He advocated that the sales tax re- ceipts be used for a huge construction program, to “put at leasv 2,000,000 men to_work.” Keller’s measure also would levy. an additional tax of 2 per cent on all in- comes over $5,000, create a Department of Public Works and direct the head of that department to provide for a study of a possible ship canal from the Gulf of Mexico to the junction of the Mis- sissippi and Ohio Rivers, appropriate || for varied eypes of construction, includ- ing the elimination of grade crossings and allow loans from the sales tax re- ceipts to States. JONES INTRODUCES | FARM RELIEF BILL!, Measure Proposes to Fix Minimum Prices for Wheat, Cotton, Tobacco, Hogs. By the Associated Press. | Chairman Jones today introduced the || emergency farm relief bill prepared by | the House Agriculture Committee to establish minimum prices on wheat, | cotton, tobacco and hogs, | ‘The bill was introduccd shortly before | & meeting of the committee to act| || finally on the measure. Jones expected | ||| it to be reported to the House before /!!l| adjournment. “I will ask the Rules Committee to- | morrow for a resolution to give the bill a privileged status so that we can pro- | ceed with its consideration Thursday,” | || Jones said. | Speaker Garner said he thought it || best not to limit discussion, but to per- mit the House to debate the bill freely. | Garner said it might be possible to | reach a final vote this week. Meanwhile, Representative La Guardia (Republican) of New York said he was considering an amendment to fix prices | definitely in the bill. The present plan would seek to guarantee a pre-war value || || to the farmer by levying and distribut- || ing to him & tax on processing. The bill as introduced by Jones would | increase tariff duties on the four com- | modities by the amount of the process- ing taxes levied. Since at present there | is no duty on short-staple cotton, a tariff of 5 cents a pound would be ap- ‘plied. : | In the last-minute change proposed by Representative Fulmer. Demoorat, of South Carolina the 5-cent-a-pound cot- | | ton tariff alsc would be levied against jute to prevent its substitution for cot- | ton and to stimulate the use of cotton | || for bagging. | il PHILADELPHIA CITIZENS | ASKED TO RETIRE BONDS ™ | City Controller Suggests Means to | Reduce Debt and Return 1 ‘Workers to Jobs. | By the Associated Press. ! HIA, January 3.—City | ler Willb Hadley yesterday offer- | “prosperity program,” whereby Contre ed a bonds, hand them back to the munici- | pality and thus cancel a portion of the | city’s $561,159,000 debt. Hadley said he would practiee as he | preached, and contributed his entire | January salary of $666 to the city to retire bonds. | “For every million dollars of debt ||| that is canceled,” Hadley said, “I esti- || mate the city will save $57,000 a year || || in interest and sinking fund charges. || That amount would immediately put ||| back 57 necessary employes on the | basis of $20 weekly. | The money saved in interest charges | also might be used ultimately to bring | about a tax reduction, he declared. it Hadley suggested every citizen con- | tribute -something, in amounts ranging from 25 cents upward. Swing Into the Half-Yearly Clearance We have never made such drastic reductions before under any circumstances. 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