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RED TERROR GRIPS BIG CHINESE AREA Missionaries Prepared to Flee Posts to Escape Rov ing Bandit Gangs. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, January 12.—A sharp Increase in disorders in Central China vas reported loday as the scattered remnants of the red army of Kiangsi Province overran neighboring prov inces in a desperate effort to reach ether Communist centers. With effective government opposi tion to the roving red hordes appar ently unlikely for the present, mis sionaries in the provinces surrounding Kiangsi were ready to evacuate their stations. Scores already have been forced to flee to places of safety, their lives en dangered by the hosts of bandits strangling irregularly westward. The ferocity of the fugitive red troops was brought to world attention recently with the cold-blcoded murder | of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stam, young | American missionary couple, after their capture at Tsingteh, Southern Anhwei Province, last December 6. JL»ailU9 oil ·rvv «(unnij· « The roving bands of reels move so Swiftly through the country that fre quently villages are set upon without the slightest warning. A letter written by Stam after his capture said he and his family were not aware of the approach of the out law army until it was at the gates of the village. Jhe invading horde swiftly plundered the village and was gone within a few hours, taking many captives and many cartloads of booty. It is the mobility of the bands that makes pursuit by government forces difficult. The mountainous nature of the regions and the absence of good rpads are also obstacles. By avoiding garrisoned main cen ters of population, the itinerant brig ands and reds are often able to escape contact with government armies for weeks at a time. They seldom meet resistance from the smalled villages, protected only by weak "self-defense" forces. The villagers are well aware that any show of resistance would be avenged by a wholesale massacre. In their flight from Kiangsi before the smashing offensive of the Nanking armies last Autumn the Communits remnants have followed two main •"lines of least resistance." One of these routes leads to the northeast. It is estimated that 25.000 Communist and other "irregular" troops have poured into weakly de fended "well," which includes North eastern Kiangsi. Southern Anhwei and and Northern Fukien Provinces. Reds Ilate United States. Villagers of Tsingteh, where the Btam couple lived with their infant child, say it was the army of Fan Chi Ming which was «responsible for the kidnaping and murder of the Amer- | lean couple. They declared that the execution of Mr. and Mrs. Stam was ordered out of hatred by the reds for the United States, because it had shown friendliness to the Nanking government. But the outlaw lead ers showed they were net without a small trace of chivalry when they spared the life of the 4-month-old daughter of the missionary couple. At least 50 missionaries—chiefly American and British—have been withdrawn from stations in Hunan, Kweichow and Szechuan Provinces in advance of the Communist invasion. One group of five British missionaries failed, however, to escape the reds. They were waylaid and captured by Communist troops. Three women In the party were released, but the two men, R. A. Bosshardt and A. Hyman, #are still held by their captors. NEW BILOXI MAYOR ! WINS COURT ROUND former Administration Is Or dered to Return Missing City Records. By the Associated Press. BILOXI. Miss.. January 12.—Biloxi's new mayor and commission Council, who seized physical control of the city hall Monday with shotguns and night sticks, today obtained a manda tory injunction before Chancellor D. M. Russell at Gulfport directing for mer Mayor R. Hart Chinn and the ex commissioner of finance. W. L. Parks, to return the missing books and rec ords of the municipal government to city hall immediately. Pending return of the books, mu nicipal affairs were at a standstill. The court action was brought by a private citizen. Chinn and Parks challenge the new officers on the grounds they are not legally qualified, even though they did receive a majority of the votes. It developed today that Chinn was Indicted this week by the Harrison County grand jury on a charge of assault with intent to kill in connec tion with a fist fight he had last Au gust with City Commissioner John A. Swanzy. LIBRARIAN TO DISCUSS LONG-RANGE PLANNING Association Will Meet Friday Night at Interior Depart ' ment Auditorium. i Long-range library planning will be discussed before the District Li brary Association at a meeting in the Interior Department Auditorium Fri day night by C. H. Milam, secretary of the American Library Association. The meeting will start at 8:15 p.m. snd is open to the public. Others to take part in the discus sion include Dr. G. F. Bowerman, li brarian of the District Public Library; Adelaide R. Hasse. bibliographer for the F. E. R. Α.; David J. Haykin of the Library of Congress. Samuel A. D. Hunter of the Georgetown Foreign Service School. Caroline B. Sherman of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics, Laura A. Thompson, librarian of the Labor Department, and John T. Vance, law librarian at the Library of Congress. f PUTNAM "HAPPY" » Husband of Amelia Earhart Sails for Los Angeles. HONOLULU, January 12 (£").— George P. Putnam, when informed to day that his wife. Amelia Earhart Putnam, had landed safely at Oak land, Calif., after a 2,408-mile flight from Honolulu, said: "Naturally, I am extremely happy." Putnam and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mantz sailed on the Lurline for Los Angeles at noon today. Mantz is me chanic for Mrs. Putnam's plane. V JUDGE WILL TESTIFY AGAINST PIQUETT Offers to Appear to Deny Story Told by Dillinger's Lawyer at Trial. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. January 12.—A new witness against Attorney Louis E. Piquett, counsellor for the late John Dillinger and now charged with har boring him. will testify Monday in the final session of Piquett's trial. The witness is a volunteer—Judge William J. Murray of Crown Point, Ind. United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green accepted the judge's offer today to deny from the stand that Piquett ever negotiated with him about a surrender by Dillinger. Piquett testified yesterday that while Dillinger was hiding in Chicago last May, the judge assured Piquette Dill inger would not go to the chair if he came back for trial. Judge Murray immediately came to Chicago and offered to refute this story. Piquette told it as part of his defense that he sought all during the :ime to persuade Dillinger to give him self up. Th; case is expected to go to the jury Monday noon. MICHIGAN SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS Jesse P. Wolcott of Port Huron Named President of State Association. The Michigan State Association, at its annual meeting last week, elected officers as follows: President, Jesse P. Wolcott, Port Huron; vice presi dent, Prentice M. Brown. St. Ignas; secretary. Donald L. Luxford. Manis tee: assistant secretary, Elsie L. Gould. Hastings: treasurer, Joseph A. Penton. Kalamazoo: acting treasurer, Alvin R. Meissner, Detroit; chaplain, Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray, Detroit. The president appointed an Execu tive Committee consisting of aU the officers as ex-offlcio members and Mark Poote, Bert H. Brockway, Charles F. Consaul, Mrs. Minnie E. Keyes. Delbert E. Libbey. Ralph Teunis, Maj. I. D. Brent, Dr. and Mrs. Marck C. Bullis, Mrs. Edna Blair, Mr. H. W. Harwood, Col. Joel R. Moore. Ihler J. Pairchild, Lucie A. Ford, Mrs. Lenore Gilmore and Wesley Manley. A banquet and dance will be held at the Press Club February 2. Card Party Is Announced. The La Payette Lodge Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will give a card party and dance at 9 p.m., Saturday, February 2, at 2400 Sixteenth street. i THREAT TO BANKER IS LAID TO CRANK Justice Agents irand $25,000 De mand in Boston a "Closed Case." By the Associated Press. NEWTON, Mass., January 12.—A de mand for $25,000, coupled with a threat to "destroy" the 6-year-old son of Thomas P. Beal. prominent Boston banker, were described tonight by De partment of Justice a genu as the work of a "crank" and an "old case." Contrary to earlier belief, Clarence McKean. chief of the New England di vision of the Department of Justice, said his agents had not even Investi gated the threat. Mrs. Beal, the banker's wife and mother of two children, denied pub lished reports that her children were being guarded and not aUowed to leave the family grounds. She said, on the contrary, that both Thomas P. Beal, jr., the 6-year-old object of the threat, and his sister Judith. 7 years old, were regularly attending school. HEADS FRATERNITY Ralph A. Ricketts Is Elected by Alumni of Sigma Delta Kappa. Ralph A. Ricketts is the newly elect ed president of the Washington Alumni Chapter of the Sigma Delta Kappa Intercollegiate Law Fraternity. Serving under him for the year are Edgar H. Boyd, vice president; Briscoe B. Gray, secretary, and Charles M. Irelan, Jr., treasurer. The election took place at the recent monthly meeting of the club in the Carlton Hotel. Sigma Delta Kappa has three active law chapters and one alumni chapter in Washington. Midget Freed From 'Big Man9 Mrs. Stella Royal Wetter, 38-inch midget, appeared before Judge Francis Allegrctti in the Superior Court of Chicago, complaining that her 48-inch husband was too much of a "big man" around their home, as grounds for a divorce. Judge Allegretti. with whom the midget is shown, awarded her a decree. The tiny couple met in 1933 when they were working in the Midget Village at the World Fair. She complained that her husband slapped her "in such places as Peoria and Louisville." RAILROAD LABOR RENEWS DEMANDS * Asks Six-Hour Day, Despite Warning of Joseph B. Eastman. By th· Associated Pnu. CHICAGO, January 12.—Railroad labor today renewed It* demand for the six-hour day despite Joseph B. Eastman's warning that the Nation's carriers could not bear the expense of the plan. The American Railway Labor Executives' Association restated its favor of the shorter work day, more liberal "full crew" laws and curtail ment of the length of trains shortly after Eastman, Federal transportation co-ordinator, had expressed his op· position to the projects in an ad dress before 1,600 representatives of every line In the United States. The association announced it would push législation embodying these pro grams to re-employ the 1,000,000 per sons who had lost their jobs In the industry, although Eastman had de clared: "Take the six-hour day. unless It Is put In at- the expense of labor. It will add at least $400,000,000 to railroad expenses. The shortened work day cannot be applied to the railroads alone without disaster." Nevertheless, labor decided to carry Its fiftht to Congress, because "any program of Improvement muet com prehend » progressive shortening of the work day without any réduction In compensation." The association said It would also back bills to provide larger crews, to limit the lengths of trains, to strengthen the liability claims of em ployes against carriers, to cut maxi mum hours of duty from 16 to 12 and to provide more adequate mainte nance of tracks and more adequate supervision of signals. TOUHY GANG MEMBER SURRENDERS TO LAW Will Stand Trial for Violating· Wisconsin's Anti-Machine Gun Statute. Br th· AMOclsted Pre»». CHICAGO, January 12.—Edward (Father Tom) McFadden, last with one exception of the "Terrible Touhy" gang, surrendered today to await trial on Wisconsin's anti-machine gun law. His conviction would leave only the originator of the gang, Tommy Touhy, reported to be dying, at large, out of all the powerful band which ruled beer selling in Chicago's northwest suburbs, until repeal, and then turned to kidnaping. The charge against McFadden dates back to a minor auto accident In Elk horn, Wis., when he and three others were arrested. He stood trial with the gang In 8t. Paul for the kidnaping of William Hamm. and then In Chi cago. where Touhy. Albert Kator and Shaefer were convicted of the $100, 000 kidnaping of John (Jake the Barber) Factor. Charges against "Father Tom" were nolle prossed when Factor cleared him. Four last Colors Scarlet. Yellow. 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