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Clothe a
Child for
Christmas
T OOK behind the picture!
Just try It in the homes of
folk you know, or take a look in
the downtown district these Christ
mas shopping days.
The well-dressed hurry wfth
bundles. Children groomed to fend
off cold, laugh at Santa Claus.
But alongside them, rubbing noses
against display windows filled with
clothing, and behind the daily pic
ture of affluence are the children
of hopelessness.
Look behind the picture—and
you’ll find boys and girls who ask
only that Santa Claus bring them
war mclothing for school.
Thin sweaters cover, but don’t
hide, shivering shoulders of these
children.
These are the boys and girls who
await you in the Clothe-a-Child
for-Christ*ias plan of The Indian
apolis Times.
an
TUST look behihd the picture of
their own lives and you see
naught of faith. The only faith
they have is being forgotten.
They may wonder why the boy
or the girl standing near them be
side a store window has a warm,
woolly coat—but they don’t com
plain. They know that plaints go
unheeded in Poverty Lane.
Nor arc they jealous of those of
their own caste who might receive
clothing.
"If you can get a pair of shoes
and some underwear for my
Johnny, I’d appreciate it. I’ve got
to put paper in his soles to keep
the wet out and he hasn’t any
underwear," one parent of the poor
says.
u tt a
go into the home and see
your child and his needs and
then you shop for him, so that he’ll
have one warm outfit in the snowy
days ahead.
The relief agencies of the Com
munity Fund can not hope to make
special gifts of clothing to needy
children Christmas time. The
agencies must spread their work
over an entire year.
But your enlistment in the
Clothe-A-Child campaign enables
those agencies to spread their work
of relief over a wider area. The
boys and girls clothed in this cam
paign will not need garments for a
year. They know how to make
clothing last, in Poverty Lane.
So look behind the picture and
join the Clothe-A-Child move
ment by calling Riley 5551.
Twenty -one new pledges to
clothe children, bringing the total
children clothed to 143, are listed
below.
Washington Bowline teaeue, Illinois al
leys (three boys).
Block Optical T.adies* leaeue and
Woman’s Social bowline leaeue (two
<irls).
Avalon Bowline leaeue. Pritchett alleys.
Auditor's office of Indiananolis Stock.
*ards (boy and eirl).
Employes of Borne Insurance Comnanv
f New Tork (two children!.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Newhouse, Cum
berland. Ind.
A County Judee (boy and eirl).
Monday Before Christmas.
Delta Rho chanter of the Phi Pi Tsi
Sorority.
Division of forestry, Statehouse.
Coffee shoo of Hotel Harrison.
Tau Gamma sorority.
Out on North Capitol Avenue.
Delta Gamma sorority. Butler uni
versity.
H. J. Ronk, 1801 North Alabama street.
(Other Donors on Page 5)
GANDHI LEAVES ROME
Manhalma Fails to See Pope, De
spite Last-Minute Efforts.
P v United I're**
ROME, Dec. 14.—Mahatma Gan
dhi left Rome today for Brindisi,
■where he will board a ship for
Bambav, without seeing Pope Pius
XI, although he made a last-min
ute effort to see the pontiff Sunday.
"I would like to see the pope, but
I understand that he does not see
any one on Sundays.” Gandhi said.
It was understood that the Mahat
ma’s costume of loin cloth and
sandals was not considered appro
priate for a papal audience.
Gandhi visited headquarters of
the Fascist party, the Roman for
ums, Palentine Hill, and the drill
ground of the Fascist Youth organ
ization where a salute was fired in
his honor.
COMA SERUM OFFERED
Unknown Donor Comes to Aid of
Boy in Sleeping Sickness.
Pit United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 14.
Physicians caring for Joe Huggins,
8-year-old sleeping sickness victim,
who today entered the 56th day of a
coma, have under consideration a
serum offer made them by a De
troit man.
They were reluctant to identify
the donor or explain the properties
of the serum until they had de
termined what action to take.
The sufferer, whose case has at
tracted nation - wide attention
showed no improvement today.
Physicians said they were astonished
by the resistance and stamina the
boy is showing. Joe is being fed
liquids through a tube.
Santa’s Question
Box Contest
Starts Today!
See Page 14 for
Full Details.
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The Indianapolis Times
Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight with lowest temperature 20 to 25.
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 186
DEMOCRATS IN
HOUSE HIT BY
G. 0. P. BLAST
Spokesman Beck Demands
Unity for Legislation
in Crisis.
DEBT POLICIES RAPPED
Senator Dill, in Assailing
Program, Declares Aim
Is Cancellation.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Repub
licans opened a vigorous counter-at
tack today in the house upon the
controlling Democrats, criticising
the inaction of the majority party
and defending President Hoover.
Representative James M. Beck
(Rep., Pa.), lormerly solicitor-general
of the United States, chosen as the
administration spokesman, ridiculed
Democrats for their "promiscuous
speaking.” He demanded unity in
what he called one of the four
great crises of the world in the last
2,000 years.
Simultaneously, the administra
tion’s debt policies were denounced
on the floor of the senate by Sen
ator Dill iDem., Wash.), Dill said
Secretary Mellon ‘‘must think the
people are boobs” not to realize his
policy means cancellation of Euro
pean war debts to the United States.
He introduced a bill asking Presi
dent Hoover to call an international
silver conference.
Assails Smoot Bill
In his speech he assailed a bill
designed to relieve Europe and
bolster the silver market at one
operation, introduced by Chairman
Smoot of the senate finance com
mittee. The bill would authorize
the secretary of treasury to accept
silver from foreign governments in
payment of debts to the United
States. The value of the silver
would be the average market price
in the United States in the second
calendar month preceding payment.
An effort to bare all confidential
state department notes in relation
to Manchuria was made by Sen
ator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.).
He introduced a resolution calling
for all Manchurian communications
with Japan, China, the League of
Nations, and American representa
tives abroad. The resolution was
referred without discussion to the
Senate foreign relations committee.
Wheeler Asks Relief
Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.)
Introduced a bill providing that
50,000,000 bushels of the wheat held
by the farm board be ground into
flour and given to the Red Cross for
use in hunger relief.
Beck, in the house, told Demo
crats "it is an undoubted fact that
you have a prospect of electing the
next President of the United States,”
though, he said, it was too early to
tell. He was appealing for unity
and const .‘uctive action, he said, not
only for Mr. Hoover, but for any
President in a time like this.
The Pennsylvanian received a
very attentive hearing as he drew
a dark picture of the yorld’s state
today. The United States, he de
clared, is the only nation that can
prevent civilization from being
wrecked.
"If we fail, then there is no hope,”
he said.
Hoover Is Defended
Beck defended President Hoover’s
right to negotiate the moratorium.
He cited constitutional prerogatives
and cases which he said prove that
the President in the past usually
has been right in foreign affairs
and congress wrong.”
The senate organized for business
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‘ROUGH RIDER’ IS DEAD
Otlo R. Winter, One of the Last of
Roosevelt’s Troops, Passes.
By United Press
DALLAS. Tex., Dec. 14.—Otto R.
Winter, one of the last of Roose
velt’s "Rough Riders,' was dead to
day at the age of 62.
Winter, to whom war was a hob
by, died on his farm near here.
Winter numbered among his most
thrilling adventures his part in a
Venezuela revolution. His side lost
and had not Roosevelt interceded,
he might have been executed.
He was credited with saving the
life of Francisco Maderc, by hiding
him while Diaz agents and United
States authorities hunted the future j
Mexican president.
NEW RULERS OF JAPAN
ABANDON GOLD STANDARD
BY MILES W. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKIO, Dec. 14.—The Stock Ex
change was closed today until
Thursday after the new' government
of Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai an
nounced abandonment of the gold
standard.
Suspension of the gold standard
virtually was completed by the cab
inet’s decision to suspend conver
sion of notes for gold.
The Yokohama Specie bank,
which ordinarily makes exchange
rates, did not quote the yen during
today's business. Unofficial rates
ranged between 38 and 40 cents,
with actual settlements on New
York at around 40 cents.
It was understood that the gov
ernment had decided to let the yen
find its won level, which experts
predicted would be near today's
settlement figure.
A section of the Japanese press
believed that parliament would be
dissolved late in January and that
Depression? This Crowd Doesn’t Give You That Idea
THEY come seeking gifts. And here they are, as the
camera sees them —thousands who throng Indian
apolis downtown streets daily and invade the stores as
the Christmas season approaches.
The picture, taken on the south side of Washington
street looking toward Meridian street, brings forth the
faces of some of the thousands of shoppers who will spend
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CHURCHILL IS
FELLED BY CAB
British Statesman’s Injuries
May Be Serious.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Winston
Churchill, noted British statesman
and former chancellor of the ex
chequer, Is in danger of developing
a pleural hemorrhage, it was
learned today at Lenox Hill hos
pital, where he was taken Sunday
night after being struck by a taxi.
He at first was thought to be
suffering only from a strained
shoulder and cuts and bruises. Later,
however, hospital attaches expressed
fear a hemorrhage might develop.
Nevertheless, they said, Churchill
was “holding his own” this morning.
Dr. Otto Pickhardt, summoned to
attend Churchill, has arranged to
make X-rays today and consult
with Dr. Foster Kennedy.
Churchill, who momentarily for
got that traffic in New York does
not move on the left, as in London,
stepped in front of a tab driven by
Mario Contasino, Yonkers, as he
started across a street to call at the
apartment of Bernard M. Baruch,
international banker.
The British political leader exon
erated the driver. Even if Church
ill’s injuries do not develop into
anything more serious, he will not
be permitted to - return to his suite
in the Waldorf Astoria today.
RAIL WAGES ARGUED
Eastern Heads Open Parley
as C. & N. Rejects Cut.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Eastern
railroad presidents gathered here
today to negotiate with labor on
proposed wage slashes as Chicago &
Northwestern employes voted against
accepting a 10 per cent cut.
According to F. H. Fljozdal, pres
ident of the Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way employes, 75 per
cent of the workers would rather
strike than accept the cut.
The executives’ meeting here to
day follows a general meeting at
which a 10 per cent wage cut was
proposed for all roads.
Tuesday, western presidents will
meet in Chicago, and later in the
week southern rail heads will con
fer at Louisville.
HIGH COURT RECESSES
Quits for Holidays After Short
Session; Reconvenes Jan. 4.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The su
preme court recessed for the holi
days after a short session today. It
will reconvene Jan. 4.
a general election would follow soon
after dissolution.
The new government has only 170
seats in the lower chamber of par
liament, compared with 267 held by
the resigned Minseito party.
Premier Unukai told correspond
ents he would appoint Kenkichi Yo
shizawa. Japanese ambassador to
Paris, and delegate to the League of
Nations, foreign minister in the
new government.
The appointment had been ex
pected and it was understood that
Yoshizawa would accept.
Abandonment of the gold stand
ard was expected to bring rising
prices on the stock exchange. The
so-called new stock of the company
heavily interested in the operation
of the exchange was quoted unof
ficially at 200, a gain of 60 points.
Living expenses and rents were
expected to increase and restricted
imports will affect large department
stores which handle foreign mer
chandise. v
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931
Hoofer's Haps'
Feared His Dancing Days
Over; ‘Sir Galahad’
Chose River.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Sir
Galahad of "The Connecti
cut Yankee” feared for a year
that his Broadway "hoofing days”
had ended because of a leg injury
received in an automobile acci
dent.
Sunday his body was identified
on a slab at Bellevue hospital
morgue, where it had lain since
it was taken from the Hudson
river Dec. 5. It was that of Jack
Thompson, El Paso, Tex.
Thompson, who fought the
breaks that followed his accident,
who spent months in a hospital,
recuperated in El Paso, then un
derwent two operations, could not
fight off the fear that gripped his
heart during the daily trek from
booking office to booking office.
Despite the growing fear, the
32-year-old performer gave an
election day party last Nov. 3 In
his Manhattan apartment. The
guests, who knew he couldn’t get
a job, all enjoyed the party.
Thompson did not.
# n a
HE sat apart from his old
friends. They couldn’t cheer
him. Along toward morning he
donned a coat and started out.
“Going to breakfast?” someone
asked.
“I’me going to throw myself in
the river,” was the bitter response.
That was a joke.
‘‘lt’s too cold a morning for sui
cide,” one guest suggested.
“Wait till spring,” another
chimed in.
“Water wouldn’t hurt you at
that,” another volunteered.
Thompson left.
His friends apparently thought
nothing of the departure.
And when a body was fished
from the river a month later, De
tective Frank McConville finally
found an old room mate who once
had bought shoes just like
Thompson’s. They were S4O shoes.
That’s how the body was identi
fied.
RESENTS WET CHARGES
Underhill Denies Flask Toters in
House of Representatives.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—There
are no flask toters in the house of
representatives, Representative Un
derhill (Rep., Mass.) declared in a
speech today.
Underhill replied to Representa
tive Sweeney (Dem., .O.), anew
member who recently lectured the
house, and insinuated that some
members took drinks in the cloak
room before delivering prohibition
speeches.
Sweeney’s address was “an insult
to men of the house,” Underhill de
clared.
“There are no flask toters here,”
he said. “Canards such as are re
peated here are bringing discredit
to this great body. It is a reflection
on every member, whether wet or
dry.”
JOBS MADE BY <CITY
Scores to Be Put to Work on
Repainting Bridge Dron.
Employment for several score
laborers under the “made work
program” will be provided by a
painting project started today by
the street commissioner’s depart
ment.
W. H. Winship, street commis
sioner, reported to the works’ board
that several extra men will be
needed to repaint all iron work on
bridges within the city.
KANE WINS ACQUITTAL
Intimates He Will Return to Place
on U. of Tennessee Faculty.
By United Press
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Dec. 14.
Elisha Kent Kane, acquitted on a
charge of drowning his wife, will re
turn to his place on the faculty of
the University of Tennessee, he inti
mated today.
their money this year to supply those toys, clothes and
other gifts which will bring happiness and dispel that
bugaboo, depression.
In the right foreground of the picture of the milling
shoppers, a group is gathered around an interesting store
window display.
The photo shows the crowd stretching away to
300 PERILED IN
BLIZZARD TRAP
Fuel Nearly Gone, Roads
Blocked by Snow.
By United Press
GALLUP, N. M., Dec. 14.—Their
fuel supply exhausted, 300 men,
women, and children trapped by a
blizzard in the little mission at
Ganado, Ariz., faced serious danger
from cold today.
Three tons of coal, trucked over
a snow-choked road, reached the
mission Sunday, but was enough
for only eight hours.
The temperature was down to
15 degrees below zero and colder
weather was predicted.
Eighty-one of the 300 were hos
pital patients in the Presbyterian
mission hospital. Exposure to cold
might prove fatal to many of them,
already weakened by illness.
Fences, corrals, frame buildings
have been wrecked to_-obtain fuel.
The coal truck which arrived at the
mission broke through snowdrifts
from six to fifteen feet deep. The
driver and his aids dug through the
deep drifts, but as fast as they
finished digging and went on to the
next drift, the wind whipped the
snow back into the road, cutting
them off in the rear.
Pitiable conditions existed at the
mission. Indians, wrapped in
blankets, huddled in dormitories
and the hospital, endeavoring to
keep warm. Officials and teachers
distributed all available clothing.
BRANDS FOOD GIVEN POOR
‘AWFUL;’ PROBE STARTED
Investigation of food distributed
to Center township needy by In
dianapolis groceries, for which the
county pays, was launched today by
county commissioners, after samples
of “awful” food were inspected by
them.
Commisisoner John Shearer ex
DENIED GAB; SUICIDE
Youth, 18, Ends Life After
Quarrel With Father.
By Times Special •
SANDBORN, Ind., Dec. 14.
John Pahmeier, 18, asked for the
use of the family automobile. His
father refused.
A bitter quarrel ensued, but the
senior Pahmeier remained adamant
and the youth left the house in a
rage.
He obtained an ax and returned
to his home. He entered the garage
and demolished the automobile.
Leaving the twisted mass of wreck
age he entered the house to con
front his father again.
He pulled out a pistol, placed the
gun against his head, pulled the
trigger and fell dead at his father’s.
feet.
Taxes Distributed
By Times Special
FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 14.—Dis
tribution of $435,000, the total of the
fall collection of taxes in Johnson
county, is being made to various tax
ing units. A total of $53,000 in de
linquent taxes is still on the books.
Warns Drivers
Motorists were warned today
that they must have both their
certificate of title and poll tax
receipt before the ywill be al
lowed to purchase their 1932
autemobile license plates.
The warning came fronj
James Carpenter, chief of the
license bureau in the office of
Secretary of State Frank
Mayr Jr.
Plate sales start Tuesday
and there will be no exceptions
to this rule, Carpenter de
clared.
the camera's horizon in an unbroken line except at Me
ridian street, a block away, wher the traffic sign jammed
“east-and-west” pedestrians on the curb while shoppers
automobiles traversed Meridian street.
The crowds, store officials claim, are as big as ever.
Does that sound and look like depression? Hardly!
All Keyed Up
Yale Boy Asks Question
to Start a Riot That
Lands Him in Jail.
By United Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 14
A Yale student being
initiated into membership in a
fraternity approached a young
lady on the street here, halted,
and somewhat shame facedly
asked her a question.
"Can you direct me to a
wooden Indian?” the student,
who said he was George Porter,
asked.
The girl was so frightened that
she fainted. That started some
thing which ended in a fight,
gunfire, a riot call and two ar
rests.
Patrolman John Ahern arrested
Porter because his question caused
the girl to faint.
John Farricielli went to Por
ter’s assistance, and punched
the patrolman rather severely,
when advised to mind his own
business. Town boys, - attracted
by the disturbance, held the po
liceman while Joseph punched
some more, police said.
The riot call followed. Fifteen
patrolmen answered that call.
When the riot squad arrived,
the crow had fled, all except Por
ter, Farricielli, the girl and pa
trolman Ahern.
Ahern revived the girl, and ar
rested Porter. Then several shots
were fired to halt Farricielli, who
started to run. He came back.
hibited meat, potatoes and apples
which were contained in the basket
Earl DeNoon, 2160 Bosart avenue, re
ceived Saturday night.
The meat, boiling beef, was rancid,
Shearer charged. Apples were of
walnut size and potatoes were of a
grade lower than those which are
supposed to be distributed, the com
missioner said.
The groceries, Shearer said, were
delivered by the Thomas Kaston
Grocery Company, Twenty-second
and Olney streets.
"The county owes Kaston $751.12
for food claims,” Shearer said. "If
this is the type of food he is send
ing out to the poor, and seeks coun
ty funds for it, he’ll wait a long
time. If this condition is prevailing
in the county, approved pay claims
to grocers distributing bad food will
be stopped.” •
DeNoon receives aweekly basket
on order of the Center township
trustee. He works on public proj
ects under the "made work” system.
Hourly Temperatures
6 a. m 35 10 a. m 34
7a. m 35 11 a. m 33
8 a. m 34 12 (noon).. 33
9 a. m 34 1 p. m 33
PARLEY IS CALLED FOR
SLASH IN WATER RATES
Petition for lower water rates will
be discussed directly with Indian
apolis Water Company officials at
2 today, in the first conference of
civic leaders, city officials and util
ity chiefs.
They will meet in the office of
Harry K. Cuthbertson, public serv
ice commissioner, who suggested the
conference method of settling the
rate question.
Mayor Reginald H Sullivan and
his water rates committee will at
tempt to bare the truth about the
financial setup, capitalization, oper
ating costs, rates and return, divi
dends and inner workings of the
utility properties.
Comoromise on a rate schedule
that will bring rates down to the
level of present costs of production,
allowing a reasonable return to the
company, is to be sought at the con
ference. •*
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.
NEW MUTINY IN
PRISON HALTED
Leavenworth Convicts Plot
to Cripple Light Plant.
By United Press
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 14.
—A mutiny of twenty convicts in
the boiler plant at the Leavenworth
federal penitentiary was suppressed
by prison officials during the hours
preceding dawn today.
The mutiny apparently was the
first step in a plot to throw the
prison into complete darkness, in
which guards would have been
handicapped in putting down a riot.
Sanford Bates, federal prison di
rector, today took personal charge
of the inquiry into the convict
break from the penitentiary last
Friday.
Three of the prisoners met death
after a battle with a posse. Three
others were recaptured, and Earl
Thayer, 65, the seventh member of
the group, was still at large today.
GOLD SNAP ARRIVING
Mercury to Touch 25 by
Tuesday Morning.
Mantle of cold weather was to be
'laid on Indianapolis’ shoulders to
night as the city and state felt, in
a small degree, the severe drop in
temperature that is sweeping the
northwest.
Borne on a twenty-eight-mile-an
hour wind, the cold weather from
the Dakotas and vicinity, where the
coldest in the United States was re
corded at 4 below zero today.
Mercury here is expected to slide
during the day, to settle between 20
and 25 by Tuesday morning. The
cold will continue through Tues
day.
Snow flurries fell in Indianapolis
early today after a light rain. Tem
perature reached 54 Sunday after
the sun battled the rain for a few
hours. It dropped to 34 at 8 today.
Rain totaled .26 inch in Indian
apolis over the week-end.
Picks Champion
Central High school of South
Bend today was ruled the out
standing Indiana prep grid
iron team by Dick Miller of
The Indianapolis Times sports
staff.
Gn the sports pages today,
Miller announces his annual
selection, which has the ap
proval of the I. H. S. A. A.
Miller, an outstanding offi
cial and gridiron expert, Tues
day will name for Times read
ers his annual all-state high
school football team, the only
recognized high school “all”
selection in Indiana.
Don’t miss it.
Cuthbertson suggested the con
ference method of settlement, after
city officials, civic leaders and busi
ness representatives had filed a pe
tition for lower rates with the pub
lic service commission. The confer
ence may avoid an appraisal of
utility properties.
A similar committee, headed by
the mayor, will confer with Indian
apolis Fower and Light Company
representatives at 10 a. m. Thurs
day.
Members of the committee on
water rates accompanying the
mayor today will be William H. Ins
ley, manufacturer; George L. Leh
man, attorney; John F. White, Mrs.
C. A. James, civic clubs’ representa
tives; Charles F. Remy, attorney,
and Edward H. Knight and James
E. Deery of the city legal depart
ment.
HOME
TWO CENTS
JAPAN WORKS
SECRETLY TO
SEIZEEMPIRE
Banks, Industries and Pub
lic Offices in Manchuria
Are Taken Over.
CHINESE ARE COWED
Forced to Obey Orders of
Foe, Backed by Might
of Armies.
BY FREDERICK KUH
United Press Staff Correspondent
(CoDvriKht. 1931. bv United Press)
HARBIN, Manchuria, Dec. 14.
The Japanese are taking possession
of Manchuria’s political, business,
financial and industrial organiza
tions swiftly and silently—all be
hind the screen of military occu
pation “for protection of its na
tionals.”
This control virtually is complete
in Fengtien province. It soon will
be completed in Heilungkiang and
Kirin provinces. Military censor
ship has kept the world in ignor
ance of these important and sig
nificant development.
The parts of Manchuria now oc
cupied by Japanese troops are be
ing transformed into a country re
sembling a Japanese colony. The
correspondent, who has been
through that occupied zone from
Tsitsihar on the north to Chin
chow on the south, is able for the
first time to offer an uncensored
description of Japanese control in
foreign provinces, where Chinese
authorities now are Japanese ma
rionettes.
Rule Banks and Industry
Fengtien’s political, banking and
Industrial activity are now in the
hands of Japanese "advisors.” Their
orders are law for Chinese officials.
The Chinese police of Mukden are
under the command of Japanese
gendarmerie.
Three Japanese advisors are di
recting the provincial bureau of
finance and industry and the Muk
den telephone exchange.
A staff of Japanese censors super
vises the Fengtien telegraph admin
istration, through which not only
newspaper correspondents, but con
sular representatives, are obliged to
send reports.
Control of Fengtien’s banks, in
dustries, and public utilities wasj
wrested from the Chinese. Suda,
one of the Japanese advisors, to
gether with eight Japanese coun
cillors, is operating the Mukden
frontier bank and the bank of
three eastern provinces.
Manage Trading Concern
The Japanese have assumed man
agement of the big Chinese trading
concern company of Mukden. They
have opened Chinese cotton mills
under Japanese administration.
The Japanese ejected the Chinese
directors and assumed complete
management of the Fuchouwan
coal mine, the largest Chinese mine
in south Manchuria. They ejected
Chinese from the Sino-Japanese or
ganization operating the Penhaihu
coal mine.
Installing a Japanese manager
and Japanese department chiefs,
the Japanese took entire control of
the Chinese Steel and Poker Com
pany of Mukden and closed the
Chinese electric power plants at
Changchun and Antung, pending es
tablishment of Japanese manage
ment under the guise of Sino-
Japanese enterprises.
Citing a military emergency as
their reason, the Japanese, are con
trolling a vast network of Chinese
railways in Manchuria for the pur
pose of realizing two primary ob
jectives:
1. Elimination of Chinese compe
tition against the Japanese-owned
South Manchuria railway and Port
Dairen, and
2. Achieving control of the Man
churian railroads by which tariff
may be diverted from the Chinese
eastern railroad, controlled by
China and Soviet Russia.
Washington Fears Trouble
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
ScriDps-Howard Foreien Editor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—With
peace or war between China and
Japan still an even money bet,
reports reaching the capital today
gave rise to new and grave mis
givings.
The fall of Premier Wakatsuke
and the rise of Premier Inukai of
the opposition, means that the em
peror has shed his velvet glove and
picked up a “big stick” instead.
It also means that Japan’s trend
of the last decade away from Samu
rai, or warrior rule, has received a
decided setback at a time when not
only the peace of the Far East is in
the balance, but peace machinery
and disarmament as well.
The party now in power in Tokio
regards the undisputed control of
Manchuria and Mongolia as in
dispensable to existence of the em
pire and aims to consolidate Japan’s
hold on that part of the world, cost
what it may.
The army faction’s rise to power
at this time is significant. It coin
cides with numerous disquieting re
norts from Tokio, Mukden and other
Far Eastern points. Dispatches in
dicate anew drive on Chichow is
expected, despite definite pledges
to Washington and the League of
Nations.
Other reports declare General
Honjo has asked Tokio for impor
tant reinforcements, and that the
head of the puppet government at
Mukden has netitioned the Japanese
to clear the Chinchow area of “ban
dits.”
As Chinese forces of any descrip
tion could be dubbed “bandits,” for
all practical purposes, the way
"ems wide open for further fight
ing.
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