Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1933, Page 15

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 8. 1933—PART ONE. NANKING MOVES FOR QK PEAGE Adopts Policy of Restraint Toward Japan in Secret Conferences. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, January 7— The National government at Nanking is vallantly seeking to meet the new crisis it is facing as a result of the Japanese occupation of Shanhaikwan and the possibility of further hostilities. In a series of conferences there be- tween civilian and military which Chiang Kai-Shek, the chief mill- | tary commander, appeared to dominate, | establishment of a future policy with reference to Japan was sought. Although the meetings were secret, it seemed evident that the National gov- ernment is not desirous of aggravating the situation, instead wishing a quick settlement of the Shanhaikwan inci- dent. This policy, the leaders believe, would be most beneficial to the country, and it seems destined to prevail despite the public clamor for armed action against Japan, and the urgings of dozens of lesser militarisis that they be allowed to enter the field against the Japanese. The National government believes that restraint is the nation’s only | course at present, although it is main- tained that if the Japanese attack anywhere in China, Chinese troops will Tesist. While the National government un- questionably is seeking restraint, the newspapers continue to feature extrav- agant reports of the Shanhaikwan sit- uation and also accounts that the Na- tional government is undertaking ex- tensive military preparations through- out the country in anticipation of wide- spread emergencics. These Teports are Neding the fires of public indignation. *The latest newspaper sensation stated that former Manchu officials were | hurrying to Tientsin, believing that the | Japanese Were preparing to re-establish | Henry Pu-Yi, the deposed boy Emperor, who now is chief executive of Man- chukuo, on the dragon throne in the | forbidden city at Peiping as Emperor, the Manchus hoping to participate in | the restoration. | Tang Yu-Lin, governor of Jehol, was | reported to have telegraphed to Nanking | that he was prepared for “a forthcom- Ahg Japanese invasion.” TREACHERY CHARGED. ; Chang Statement Released by Lega- | tion Here. | An impression in official circles here | that hopes for settling the Shanhai-| kwan incident were brighter was cloud- ed last night by a statement of Marshal | Chang Hsiao-Liang, made public by the Chinese legation, accusing the Japanese of treachery. | The marshal's message, released by the ministry of foreign affairs at Nan- | king through the legation, promised re- | sistance to “any further aggression by | the Japanesc,” and attributed to the ‘Tekio government a pre-conceived plan | of “territorial sggrandizement.” A report from Nelson T. Jchnson, American Minister at Peiping, to the | State Department, cncouraged officials here that a settlement of the conflict might be in store. In his message, Johnson said Gen.| Ho Chu-Kuo, Chinese commander at | Chinwangtao, was reported by American Army authorities there to have con- sented to confer with Japanese military officers in an attempt to ease the situa- | tion which has caused so much un- | easiness in North China since January 1. U. S. LOANS TO ABSORB | FARM MORTGAGES ASKED | Milk Producers Urge Continuance of Federal Farm Board as an Entity. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 7.—A Govern- ment fund from which loins at favor- able interest rates could be made to ab- sorb farm mortgages and back taxes was proposed today in a resolution adopted by the National Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation. The dairymen suggested that farmers should be ‘allowed to borrow from the Government the amount of back taxes principal and interest overdue on mort- gages, and at the expiration of the regular mortgage term make repayment to the Government Another resolution voiced confidence in the Federal Farm Board and asked its continuance as an entity Charles Holman, Washington repre- £entative of the co-operative group, said $10.000,000,000 in farm mortgages exist today. | year | Upper—One of the icebergs whose unknown size beneath the water affords a constant menace to ships. A Coast Guard ves Ice Patrol, can be seen through the gap in the ice floe. er of the International Lower—The United 1, mes States Coast Guard cutter Champlain, flagship of the patrol, from which Comdr. F. A. Nichols wil direct search for the icebergs, beginning next month | —United States Coast Guard Photos O protect the lives and property of shipping in the North At- lantic from the grim hazard of icebergs drifting down from th2 North, the International Ice Patrol for the season of 1933 has been organized by the United States Coast Guard, with plans to send out the first ship next month. Sponsored by 13 nations, this inter- national patrol is paid for by the 13 powers, but operated by the United States, using Coast Guard vessels, op- erating out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Comadr. F. A. Nichols has been desig- nated to command the ice patrol this from his flagship, the States Coast Guard cutter Champlain, now stationed at New York City. The other principal patrol ve:sel will be the cutter Mendota, in command of Comdr. W. J. Keester, now located at Norfolk. The cutter Mojave has been designated as the reserve vessel, to be stationed at Boston. In addition to these three cutters, an important part of the patrol will bz the 125-foot, patrol boat Gen. Greene, to be known as the oceanographic vessel. This ship will be the first to put out to | sea, sometime’ next month, to begin scouting through the iceberg area, in orcer to determine when the actual ice patrol should be started with the two | big cutters.. The two cutters will alter- nate, one sfaying at sea, while the oth: puts into pert at Halifax to prepare for | its next cruise. Only three men continue on board at sea—Lieut. R. M. Hojyle, who has bsen assigned to duty as ice ob- servation officer for the season, and two LATIN PEACE PLANS EXPECTED SHORTLY | Gran Chaco and Leticia Disputes Taken Up in All-Day Con- ference in Chile. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, January 7.—For- eign Minister Miguel Cruchaga and his | aides spent all of today considering the disputes between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco and Colembia and Peru over the city of Leticia. It was understood that Chile may formulate within the next 10 days cer- tain suggestions for peace Confer on Leticia Dispute. RIO DE JANEIRO, January 7 (#).— The probability that negotiations be- | tween Colombia and P 1d be con- ducted here matic activily continued here today. Ministers of the two nations, ha een nvolved in a disput Leticia, border ¢ on the Upper Am: zon, conferred separately about the ma ter. It was recalled that the stand has been that th ticia to Colombia must preface cussions of peace. From Lima, Peru, came a report of a 90-day truce, but it was indicated that such an announcement was premature Colombia L y dis- United | IATTACK DESCRIBED | as strengthened as diplo- | |a yeomen. These men will transfer in midocean from one cutter to the other, taking with them the ice information and other data necessary to in- sure an efficient continuity of the work of the patrol force. ‘There is cne important vacancy still existing in the ice patrol for the com- | ing year—the post of oceanographer on board the Gen. Greeme. The Civil Service Commission is looking for & man properly qualified to assume these This ship will make scientific t sea. of the International Ice Pa ignalized by the nce the terrible tragedy the Titani when that majestic ship sank April 1 1912, with the loss of 1,517 lives, not a single life has been lost as a result of colifsion between a ship and an iceberg. Briefly stated, the duties of the Coast Guard in maintaining the ice patrol | ist in finding and keeping in touch day by day with icebergs and field ice, | cetermining their set and drift, report- | ing their prese and location to the Hydrographic Office of the Navy, and | broadcasting the information radio for the protection of shipping. The cutters while on this work also per- | form inciZental service, not to inter- fere, however, with the paramount duty | of the patrol, such as rendering assist- | ance to vessels in distress, giving medi- | | cal aid to crews of passing vessels, re- | moving obstructions to navigation, and | extending such other assistance to the mariner as may be practicable, and conducting scientific observations and | experiments for the aid and further- | ance of oceanographic knowledge. BY GIRL'S FRIEND, Man Companion Regains Conscious- ness at Philadelphia, but Doesn’t Know of Her Slaying. By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, January 7.—Re- covering consciousness after a day and & half of coma, Dennis Boyle told police today that he and 19-year-old Rose McCloskey, unemployed salesgirl, were attacked by two men while they sat in | | Pairmont Park the night the girl was | slain. Speaking coherently for the first time since he was attacked and the girl | beaten to death—her head crushed and | her throat cut—Boyle told detectives | the men attacked them as they sat on cluded bench. “We were there only a short time wher I was hit from behind and stunned,” he said. “I did not see cur assailants, but I think y were white— that is all I remember.” Boyle was not informed the girl had been found dead, physicians fearing the shock might prove fatal Park guards said today there had been several instances reported recently in which young men and women meet- ing in the park had been molested. G. J. Sworzyn & Co., Auctioneers Entire Stock of The Wright Furniture Co. 905-907 Seventh Street N.W. To Be Sold at PUBLIC AUCTION Without Limit or Reserve AT THE STORE OF THE WRIGHT CO., 905-907 Seventh St. N.W. Tuesday and Wednesday, January 10th and 11th, Commencing at 10 A.M. This High-Class Stock Includes: Lounge Chairs Windsor Chairs Console Tables Living Room Suites Bed Room Suites Dining Room Suites Secretaries Odd Wood and Metal Beds Coil Springs Occasional Pieces Living Room Tables Living Room Chairs Terms—Cash G. J. Sworzyn Mirrors Studio Couches Breakfast Sets Unfinished Kitchen Chairs Kitchen Cabinets Dining Room Chairs Etc., Etc., Etc. Immediate Removal & Co., Auctioneers Pairol Ready to Seek Menacing Ice Floes COAST GUARD HAS PREVENTED ICEBERG-SHIP COLLISIONS SINCE TITANIC DISASTER. IOWANS TO DEMAND FARM RELIEF LAWS 1,000 Plan to Appear at State House—Another Foreclosure Sale Blocked. By the Assoclated Pres LE MARS, Towa. served appear at the State H: d relief Jaws as the State Leg- islature convenes next week Their action ne as a development of & mass meeting of members of the Farmers’ Council for Defense after they had halted a foreclosure sale on the farm of John Schimberg for $10.000, It was the formers’ recond such victory in three days. A caravan of farmers to Des Moines will offer support for recomn ations of District Judge C. W. Pitts of Piymouth County, who advocated to Governcr-elect Clyde Herring that the courts be deprived for a period of from five to seven months of jurisdiction in all cases where a money judgment is involved. A crowd of between 800 and 1,000 farmers gathered at the ccurt house today as the Schimberg sale was about to start. Many of the group were the same m:n who Wednesday slapped Sherifft R. E. Rippey at a foreclosure sale cn the farm of John A. Johnson, dragg: Herbert S. Martin, attorney fcr the New York Life Insur e Co., down 18 stone step: and forced Judg: Pitts to write his recommendations to the Governor-elect. CAMPUS BEAUTY BRIDE OF IDEAL MAN OF COLLEGE By the Assoclated Pr CHICAGO, IIL, January 7 beauty and “ideal man” today. Ruth Wenter, 19-year-old contest winner and singer, will b the bride of Paul Cummins, student, who was voted the Z by co-eds at Northwestern University The ceremony will occur in a Wilmette church, with Wayne King. orchestra leader, as best man and Mary Lou Hays, Northwestern co-ed, as maid of Lonor. hflfs Wenter also attended the uni- versity. -Campus will be wed beauty BORA S VISTED BYBRITSHEWOY Official Exception Taken to Senator’s Charges About Gold. 9 The charges in the Senate debate on Wednesday that Great Britain depressed world comuodity prices by forcing India on the gold standard were fol- | lowed yesterday by a visit to Senator | William E. Borah, chairman of the Sen- | ate Foreign Relations Committee, by Sir Ronald Lindsey, the British Am- | bassador. | . The unusual, though not unprece- | dented incident, was explained authori- | tatively as due to British official excep- | tion to the statement of Senator Borah and others that the Indian currency act had influenced the world depression as | charged cr that it was passed under | pressure from London. | | Basis Held Since 1893. The Ambassador is understood to | have told Senator Borah that dia did er for gold in 1925, as tated, but has been on the gold exchange standard since 1893, ex- | cept fc t period during the war. | The Br gov t emphasizes Legislature ey act, opin- ion in India which wanted to go fur- ther and establish gold currency. The fact that debate hould bring a response from Great Britain was taken to Indicate the keen | interest abroad in the rising pressure for new monetary legislation in the| American Congress. It was considered traceable in part also to British sensi- | tiveness to charges in Congress that| London is retarding general economic | recovery by her own willingness to re- | main off the gold standard under pres- ent conditicns. i Reed Doubts Remedy. Senator Borgh had made the point on the floor of the Senate that 32 na- tions had gone off the gold standard, leaving only the United States and France the major powers to adhere m\ that base. Senator David A. Reed, Re- publican, of Pennsylvania, had agreed with him that “it was a great mistake on Great Britain's part to demonetize | silver in India—a mistake from which the whole world is suffering today,” | but had questioned the practicability | of Senator Bofah's proposed remedy. | | | | | the | 13 BUILDINGS SWE#T | BY SPARTA, N. C., BLAZE Large Part of Business Area Re- ported Destroyed by Fire Spread- ing from Restaurant. INDEPENDENCE, Va. January | Thirteen buildings, including the court house at Sparta, N. C., 11 miles from | here, were destroyed by fire this after- noon. No estimate of the damage had been made. The fire is reported to have been ob- served first in @ restaurant from which it spread rapidly. Most of the build- ings destroyed were of frame construc- | {tion. Some of them were business | houses. “'The court house, a brick build- | ing, is sald not to have been insured | John MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FOLK WATCH RIVER LIKE HAWK Winter Inevitably Means Flood Threat and Close Guard Is Kept for Danger of By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, January 7.—Winter has come—as it always does—and the Mid- dle Mississippi Valley is thinking again of floods—as it always has since man first poked a plow in its black dirt and | transformed its gumbo land into a gigantic cotton patch. Winter brings rain and rain brings floods. It's a case of more rain, more work. That's the penalty the rivers demand of men who dare plant cotton on their deltas. River gauges are watched like time- pleces when the rainy season comes. The streams are measured from a low water mark called zero on the gauge. Flood stage is measured from the zero mark and fixed at a height that means an overflow. Hence, when a river reading_says the stage is 30 feet, it means the stream is 30 feey above the low water mark—or zero point—and not 30 feet deep. Gauge Never Changed. Zero point on the important Missis- sippi River gauge here was set 30 years ago. The river was 60 feet deep in midstream then. So when the gauge registered zero it showed that the river depth was 60 feet 5 féet—that is, when the river reaches feet on the gauge it will overflow. ut at flood stage the river really is about 95 feet deep in midstream. Water has fallen as much as 2.9 feet below zero here, but the gauge was never changed. There is nothing spontaneous about floods down here. They come slowly and stay a long time. The natives ex- pect them and they create as well as destroy, for their silt is a tonic to the land. Warnings are issued in ample time Flood stage here is | Overflow. for the folks to move from their river ‘homes, ‘The big houses of the planta- | tions seldom are molested by high | water and families who live in cotton- patch cabins are ready to run. Sometimes the warnings are ignored |and the families decide to see it through. Then it's exciting. It's a | gamble between river and planters, and | the winner takes all. If the levees hold and the river crests early, the planters win. If not—well, it's just too bad. Work Day and Night. The river is watched like a sheep- | killing wolf and levees are nursed like |babies, Crews work day and night | packing sand bags to strengthen the | dikes. “It's hard work and there can be | no letup even during the long semi- tropical nights when rain falls in sheets |and the wind whips the river into a | choppy sea. The dikes crumble and the water eases | through. Men dash about like rabbits. An overseer bawls orders. “Tote them gs and patch that hole” he yells. 3it to the big house,” he shouts to a | runner, “and phone the boss man in | town that this here levee’s done busted, | bacon before you leave the big house ‘cause this water looks like it's gonna stay around °till judgment day.” Cattle is driven to “stomps” perched on stilts. Families move upstairs and | get ready for a siege. The water soon | spreads over the plantation and laps at the galleries of the mansions. Lanterns | flicker across the river and tell that the | levee over there is holding. A steam- | boat whines a signal. The levee workers | keep plugging. Of course they sing |even in the rain, for mostly they Re | colored. Youth Is Picked Up by Lawyer After “Escape” From Trio of Abductors. By the Assoclated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., January 7T.— Stephen Campbell, 25, missing University of Missouri student, assert- edly held for $5,000 ransom since last Monday evening, “escaped” tonight and was taken to police headquarters here by an attorney. Young Campbell, under great nervous strain, told a story of spending six days and five nights captive of two men and a woman. Nat Benton, the lawyer, told police he picked up the medical student 4 miles west of Springfield on Highway 66. The attorney learned Campbell's identity, he said, through a filling sta- tion operator, who let the youth use his telephone, Campbell was badly disheveled and had neither coat nor hat. He wore an old pair of blue trousers, which he claimed replaced his new suit, hat and watch, which he said were taken by his abducto 'MISSING MISSOURI U. |A. P. CORRESPONDENT STUDENT IS RETURNED CITED FOR 1932 PRIZE |New Jersey Publishers Nominate F. A. Jamieson for Pulitzer Award in Lindbergh Case. By the Assoclated Press. NEWARK, N. J, January 7.—The | New Jersey members of the Associated | Press have adopted a resolution rec- | ommending Francis A. Jamieson, Asso- clated Press correspondent at Trenton, for the Pulitzer Prize for the outstand- | ing plece of journalism produced in 1932, Jamieson, the resolution pointed out, | secured a serles of “scoops” in the | Lindbergh kidnaping case, culminating in the “beat” in announcing to the ‘world the finding of the body of the son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- ‘bergh. This, the resolution said, “is un- ‘rivuled in the past decade.” The resolution further stated that | Jamieson’s stories were secured and | written in accord with the highest principles of journalism. Col. Charles | Kahlert, publisher of the Perth Amboy Evening News, chairman, presided. | . Big levee breaks are frightful things. | and git a waggin load of 'lasses and | « B-3° D.C. APPEALS COURT ANSWERS ON WRIT Files Reply to Rule in Action to Obtain Bail in Rum Cases. The justices of the District Court cf Appeals filed with the United States Supreme Court yesterday an answer to the rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not be issued com- pelling them to admit to bail Adolph R. Moder and three cthers convicted on dry law charges here a year ago, pend- ing a decision on their appeal. Jesse C. Duke, counsel for the men, took the case to the highest court when the appellate tribunal refused to admit Moder to bail, and reduce bail of his assoclates, while appeal of the liquor conviction was pending. Announcement Tomorrow. He requested that Chief Justice Mar- tin and his four associates be asked to show cause why his requests were not granted. The highest court is expected to announce tcmorrow whether it will order the attorney’s demands carried out Duke had protested that his clients feared their appeal to the Court of Appeals would be dismissed because of a defective bill of exceptions. He ac- cused District Supreme Court Justice Letts, who presided at the trial; United States Attorney Rover and one of his assistants with deliberately obstructing justice and falsifying the records. Reviewed Progress of Case. The response of the Appellate Court reviewed the progress of the case to date, emphasizing that it had stricken from its files the petition in which the attorney had alleged improper conduct because it was “impertinent, scan- dalous and defamatory” and in viola- tion of the rules of the court. It also pointed out that the charges of improper conduct on the part of the court officers was set for oral argument last Tuesday, but that coun- sel failed to appear or offer explana- tion of his absence, and that there- fore an order had been issued stating that there was nothing in the record to_support the charges. Moder and the others were found guilty of being members of a large liquor conspiracy. WOUNDED AND TAKEN IN FATAL BANK RAID Michigan Fugitive Said to Have Confessed—Posse Corners Three Companions. By the Associated Press. HART, Mich., January 7.—One of four bandits who Thursday looted a bank in Kaleva, killing the cashier, was shot and captured tonight and his three companions were cornered by State police and a posse of deputy sheriffs and vigilantes. The wounded man said he was Wayne Robertson, 26, of Bloomington, Ind. He was shot in the hip by a .32-caliber rifle, but his condition was not critical Police said Robertson admitted he participated in the rcbbery, but denied he fired the shot that killed Ellsworth Billman, cashier of the bank. WASHINGTON GREETS NEW 100 H.P. $1000 COMMANDER NEW 6-PASSENGER SEDAN, $1076 F, 0. B, FACTORY, IS ONE OF 12 SUPERB MODELS IN STUDEBAKER'S NEW COMMANDER SERIES PRICED FROM $1000 UPWARDS Studebaker Presents Startling New Line of Cars Priced from $840 to $2040 Fresh from its sensational premiere at the New York Automobile Show, Studebaker's new 100 horsepower Commander Eight has arrived in town and is attracting everincreasing crowds to the local Studebaker showrooms. Scheduled to sell for as little as $1000 £. o. b. factory, this remarkable new Studebaker is replete with 54 better- ments including that marvelous advancement, Power Brakes, as well as a new, exclusively Studebaker system charge. of entirely automatic carburetion and manifolding. While the fact that a 100 horsepower Commander at $1000 continues to be the spotlight news of the current Studebaker showing, local Studebaker officials point out that the two new President Eights and the new Stude- baker Six are equally extraordinary values. First with free wheeling and first in its price field with Showrooms 14th & R Streets free safety glass in all windows and all windshields of all models, Studebaker again leads its price field with the year’s stand-out development—Power Brakes—available in all Studebakers, even the low priced Six, without extra It is interesting to note how thoroughly Studebaker keeps in advance of style trends as well as engineering trends in its price field. Many of the features spoken of as new by other cars this year are an old story to Studebaker owners. Roominess, for example, obtained by providing each Studebaker a wider tread, was a big factor in giving the 1932 Studebaker line its widespread acceptance. And the 1933 Studebakers are not only equally commodious but they have been given new touches of luxury in uphol- stery, seat cushions and fitments that keep them far in advance of the procession. You notice also that the 1933 Studebakers are de- cidedly low swung. This effect is secured by mounting the Studebaker frame on smaller wheels which give the whole Distributor car increased roadability and steadiness while increasing the aerodynamic appearance. Local Studebaker headquarters say that a majority of all requests for appraisals since the 1933 cars arrived come from people interested in the new $1000 Com- mander. Arrangementsfor demonstration drivesin the 100 horsepower $1000 Commander and the other Stude- baker models have been so well organized that there is very little waiting involved. LEE D. BUTLER, Inc. Columbia 5050 !!-:l Car and Service Department, 2155 Champlain St. (Above V Near Eighteenth) Alber & MeNefll, Inc., 1418 P 8t. N.W, Boyd-Carlin Motor Co., Alexandria, Vs. Paris Aute Service, Quantico, Va. ASSOCIATE DEALERS - Tem's Auto Servite. C37 N Bt. N.W. Joha T. Parran, Indian Head, Md. Nowell Nash Motor Co.. Anmapolis, MA.