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Canadian Posse Searches for Slayer of Six
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FATHER AND MOTHER
AND FOUR CHILDREN
HACKED AND BURNED
Believe Slayer Suspect May
Freeze to Death in Sub-
Zero Weather
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BOY IN CRITICAL CONDITION
Manitoba Provincial Officers
Brought to Elma in
Special Train
Elma, Manitoba, Jan. 30.—(^P) —A
madman fled in sub-zero cold Friday
before the wrath of a posse, the blood
of six members of the Martin Sitar
family on his hands.
A special train brought provincial
officers Friday from Winlnpeg shortly
after word was sent that Sitar, his
wife and four of their children had
been murdered and their farm home
set afire.
Tom Hrechkosie, a laborer employed
by the Sitars, is missing. The possi
bility he may have perished in the
fire was discounted. He slept in the
loft of a small house with Frank
Sitar. eldest son of the family.
Those dead are:
Martin Sitar and his wife, Sophie;
Frank, 20; Walter, 11; Bert. 10; and
Jennie, seven.
A son, Paul, four years old, was
taken alive from the burning dwelling,
but his condition Friday was precari
ous. Mrs. Sitar, too, was alive when
neighbors burst into the flaming
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| , Weather Report |
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FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen
erally fair and continued cold tonight
. and Sunday.
■ ■ - For North Da
. kpta: Generally
fair and contlnu
. 'Mv aed cold tonight
** and Sunday,
lift For South Da
m* 5 ko ta: Generally
i aKA fair tonight and
zJfm. l* Sunday, except
/ y possibly snow
Sunday west por
-1 I _A3sdtteg- arT l tion; continued
For Montana:
w* 1 _ Gene rally fair
j. f I -fcJjJU extreme east, un
7settled west and
■'■< rg«SB central, snow
Faff west portion to
night and Sun
day; colder tonight extreme south
west portion.
For Minnesota: Generally fair and
continued cold tonight and Sunday.
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CONDITIONS
The high pressure area, with its
accompanying cold weather, extends
from the Mississippi Valley to the
eastern Rocky Mountain slope. Sub
sero temperatures prevail to southern
lowa and southern Nebraska this
morning. The temperature is rising
over the Southwest but it continues
to drop over the Canadian Provinces;
Prince Albert, Sask. reporting 40 de
grees below sero. Except for gener
ally fair weather In North Dakota,
light precipitation occurred through
out the northern and far western dis
tricts. . ,
Bismarck station barometer, inches:
J 8.36. Reduced to sea level 30.33.
Weather outlook for the week end
ing Feb. 6:
For the region of the Great Lakes:
Abnormally cold first of week, fol
lowed by rising temperature latter
part; generally fair at. beginning, fol
lowed by rather frequent precipita
tion.
For the upper Mississippi and low
er Missouri Valleys and the northern
and central Great Plains: Abnormal
ly cold beginning of week, followed
by rising temperatures north portion,
rising temperature beginning of
week in south portions, then mostly
normal remainder of week; rather
frequent precipitation indicated.
TEMPERATURE
At 7 a. 20
Highest yesterday ■* 5
Lowest last night -20
PRECIPITATION
Amt. 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m 00
Total this month to date 35
Normal, this month to date 41
Total, Jan. 1 to date 35
Normal, Jan. 1 to date 41
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 06
NORTH DAKOTA POINTS
7 a. in. Low Pet.
BISMARCK, clear .. -20 -20 .00
Devils Lake, clear .. -26 -28 .00
Fargo-Moorhead, clr. -18 -20 .00
Jamestown, clear ... -24 -24 .00
Valley City, clear.... -21 -21 .00
Williston. clear -22 -22 .00
Grand Forks, cldy... -18 -19 T
Minot -28 -30 .00
GENERAL .
Other Stations—
Temprs. Prc.
Low High Ins.
Amarillo, Texas, clear 20 36 .00
Boise, Idaho, snow..., 20 28 .04
Calgary, Alta., clear.. -24 -12 .00
Chicago, 111., pcldy.... 4 46 .00
Denver, Colo., clear... 8 24 .00
Des Moines, la., clear. -8 18 .00
Dodge City, Kas., clear 4 22 .00
Edmonton, Alta... clear -30 .12 .00
Havre, Mont., clear... -16 0 .Of
Helena, Mont., snow.. -10 8 .02
Huron, 8. D., clear.... -16 • 8 .00
Kamloops, B. C., clear 0 14 .00
Kansas City, Mo., clear 4 20 .00
Lander, Wyo., clear... -16 10 .00
Medicine Hat, A., snow -22 -12 .02
Miles City, Mont., dear -16 - 2 .00
Modena, Utah, cldy... 20 80 .00
No. Platte, Neb., clear - 4 12 .00
Okla. City., Okla., clear 16 30 .00
Pierre, S. D., clear.... -12 0 .00
Pr. Albert, Sask., cldy. -40 .00
Qu'Appelle,- Sask., clear -28 -16 f OO
Rapid City, 8. D., clear -14 4 ,01
Roseburg, Ore., cldy... 36 42 .14
St. Louis, Mo., clear., 14 38 .00
St. Paul* Minn., clqar.. -14 16 .06
Salt Lake City, U snow 20 28 .02
S. S. Marie, Mich., cldy; 24 38 .16
Seattle, Wash., snow.. 30 38 .01
Sheridan, Wyo., cldy... -26 4 .02
Sioux City, la., clear.. -12 0 .00
Spokane, Wash., cldy. 10 16 .00
Swift Cur., S„ pcldy... -28 -18 .00
The Pas, Man., clear.. -30 -18 .00
Toledo, Ohio, snow.... 24 54 .00
Winnemttcca, N., cldy. 30 38 ■ .18
Winnipeg, Man., dear -24 -14 .00
ORRIS W. ROBERTS,
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Protest Occupation of Shanghai
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
Tribute Paid to Two
Pioneer N. D. Editors
t Will Visit Here 1
RT. REV. BARTLETT
Rt. Rev. Frederick B. Bartlett, who
succeeded the late Rt. Rev. John
Poyntz Tyler at Fargo recently as
Episcopal bishop of North Dakota,
will be the guest of St. George's Ep
iscopal church in Bismarck this
week-end. according to Rev. D.
Pierce-Jones, local rector. Bishop
Bartlett will officiate at all services
in St. George’s church Sunday and
also will speak to the church school
at 10 a. m. At 6:30 o'clock Monday
evening he will preside at a banquet
to be given by St. George's parish in
the service club room of the Grand
Pacific hotel. This will be Bishop
Bartlett’s first visit to Bismarck.
ARIZONA WILL FIGHT
MISTRIAL IVES IN
WINNIE JUDD CASE
Judge Will Await Recovery of
Jurors No Matter How
long it Takes
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 30.—OP)—The
state of Arizona, having spent near
ly $25,000 to date in the trial of Mrs.
Winnie Ruth Judd, will make every
effort to prevent a mistrial because of
illness of jurors. Judge Howard C.
Speakman stated Friday.
No testimony has been given in the
case since Wednesday, when two men
in the jury box were stricken by se
vere colds. Judge Speakman declar
ed he would await recovery of the
jurors “If it takes days, weeks or
months.”
Court has been recessed until Mon
day. Physicians of Joseph L. Stand
age, alternate juror, said he had de
veloped “a pronounced case of intes
tinal influenza.”
Mrs. Judd observed her 27th birth
day In jail Friday. Sheriff J. R. Mc-
Fadden allowed her parents, Rev.
and Mrs. Harvey J. McKlnnell of
Darlington, Ind., ahd her husband,
Dr. W. C. Judd, Los Angeles physi
cian, to visit her.
Mrs. Judd is on trial for the mur
der of Mrs. Agnes Anne Leßoi. She
also is accused of slaying Miss Hed
vig Samuelson, who was born and
grew jip in North Dakota.
Minneapolis Man
Mysteriously Shot
Minneapolis, Jan. 30.-—OP)—Edward
Olson, 35, shot In the head, was found
near death in his apartment under
mysterious circumstances Friday. Po
lice held his wife pending an investi
gation.
Detectives summoned by Mrs. Olson
found him in a hallway. The pistol
apparently used was In a linen closet
nearby.
Olson first said someone else had
shot him and then said he had shot
himself, according to police. JHe was
believed wounded fatally.
Whittier Funeral
Is Set for Monday
Nortbfield, Minn., Jan. 30.—(£*) —
Funeral services will be held here
Monday for Herbert A. Whittier, rail
road contractor and mining operator,
who died Jan. 23 at Long Beach, Cal.
He was railroad contractor many
years and later became Interested in
the lignite industry at Columbus, N.
D., selling his holdings there iq 1927.
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| Today in Congress I
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SATURDAY
Senate
In recess.
Judiciary subcommittee holds hear
ings on Nordbye nomination for Min
nesota judgeship.
Agriculture committee considers
drought relief measure.
Public lands committee holds hear
ings on Utah potassium-bearing
lands.
Home
In adjournment until Monday.
Naval committee continues Akron
hearings.
Expenditures committee considers
consolidation of war and navy de
partments.
Merchant marine committee inves
tigates shipping board.
Memory of George B. Winship
and Charles Edward Boy
den Is Praised
GOVERNOR SEES PROGRESS
North Dakota Press Associa
tion Hears Battery of
Speakers at Minot
Minot, N. D., Jan. 30.—</P>—A
tribute to the memory of two pioneer
newspapermen was paid by W. P.
Davies, Grand Forks, dean of North
Dakota newspapermen, in a memorial
address before the State Press as
sociation meeting here Saturday.
George B. Winship, former pub
lisher of the Grand Forks Herald,
and Charles Edward Boyden, former
publisher and editor of the Lisbon
Free Press, were described by Davies
as men who “carried on with cour
age and fortitude when times were
dark and the future was uncertain.’’
Edward Sullivan, Mohall, president
of the third district group, address-
Velva Man Named
Association Head
Minot, N. D„ Jan. 30.—</P)—W.
H. Francis, Velva, was elected
president of the North Dakota
Press association, holding its an
nual midwinter convention in Mi
not.
R. Gilbertsen, Glenburn; Hal S.
Davies, Minot, and B. W. Condit
Mayville, were elected first, second
and third vice presidents, respec
tively.
Mark Forkner, Langdon, was re
elected secretary-treasurer.
Members of the executive com
mittee include Fred Jefferis,
Washburn: immediate past presi
dent Francis; Gilbertsen; Forkner;
Nels Simonson, Finley; E. D. Seek
ins, Carrington; and Fred Roble.
Granville.
ed the convention on business con
ditions, and urged the newspapermen
to build up the confidence of the
publie.
Pessimism Is Scored
Calling pessimism one of the worst
of sins, S. J. Dornan, Alameda, Sask,
president of the Canadian Weekly
Newspapers association, said “Nu
country was ever built by a pessimist
and no country will ever be saved by
this type.”
With the announcement of winners
and the awarding of trophies in va
rious contests conducted among
members, the annual convention of
the association was to be concluded
Saturday afternoon.
A symposium on “Building News
paper Volume” was among the feat
ures of the sessions. Edward Sul
livan, MohaU, W. H. Francis, Velva;
F. G. Orr, Mott; H. G. Wambheim,
Hatton; and Harry Morris, James
town, were among those contribut
ing to this feature.
Shafer Notes Progress
North Dakota’s record of progress
in the 42 years of its statehood fur
nishes an inspiration and a rebirth of
confidence in the future of the corn
meeting.
“If the next 42 years are to be as
glorious in terms of achievements
and progress as the last 42 years have
been, and I believe they will be, I
think we might be well satisfied,’
the governor said.
Governor Shafer called attention to
the comparative youthfulness o f
North Dakota, citing the fact when
North Dakota was admitted to the
union, Nebraska was 22 years old,
Minnesota 31, Wisconsin 41, lowa 43,
and Illinois 75.
NOVEL LIBRARY IS
KEPT IN UNDERWOOD
Edwqrd Erickson, Through His
Own Methods, Maintains
Institution Free 4
(Tribune Special Service)
Underwood, N. D., Jan. 30. This
little McLean county city claims to
have one of the most unusual circu
lating libraries in the country.
It is not financed by tax money and
the books are circulated without
charge, yet the community has no
wealthy men to endow such an insti
tution.
The answer lies ita the interest of
Edward Erickson in library work. This
has been strong enough to make him
a worker for more literature in the
Underwood district. By various meth
ods, best known to himself, he gets
the books and makes them available
to his neighbors.
At present the library boasts 7,766
books, of which 1,500 were added In
1931. The circulation in 1931 was
more than 10,000.
The institution has been function
ing* for five and a half years but has
never.had official status and has. not
cost the taxpayers a penny.
Last May Erickson entered Into an
arrangement with Underwood busi
ness men whereby th£y pay the light,
rent and heat charges. The agree
ment provides that he shall go on fur*
nishing the books and managing the
library without charge.
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1032
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CHESTER RHINES
Chester Rhines, son of C. E.
Rhines, Regan grainbuyer, has been
awarded a SI,OOO scholarship by the
National Research council and will do
experimental work in microbiology at
tho New Jersey Agricultural Experi
ment Station, New Brunswick. He
will work under the direction of Dr.
S. A. Waksman, one of the leading
soil microbioloigsts in the United
States.
Rhines graduated from the North
Dakota Agricultural college with a
scholarship record which never has
been excelled at that institution and
has since held an experiment station
scholarship in bacteriology. The new
scholarship becomes effective April 1.
Rhines attended school at Regan
but graduated from high school here.
He matriculated at the agricultural
college in 1927.
AMERICAN QUARTET
RELEASED TO NAVY
BY HONOLULU COURT
Four Principals In *Hondr Slay
ing’ Are Given Freedom
Under Bonds
Honolulu, Jan. 30.— (JP)—' The navy
having agreed to cooperate in keep
ing defendants In the Joseph Kaha
hawal slaying In their jurisdiction,
civil officals announced Saturday
they would permit the release of Mrs.
Granville Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas
H. Massie, E. J. Lord and A. O. Jones
under bond.
Circuit Judge A. M. Cristy said Mrs.
Fortescue's bail would be $5,000 and
that for the three navy men $2,500
each.
The four were arraigned Friday for
the second-degree murder of the
young Hawaiian who was one of five
youths charged with attacking Mrs.
Fortescue's daughter, Mrs. r.lassie.
Apparently stirred by the navy’s
attitude in sending to Washington
critical reports of court administra
tion here, Judge Cristy asked co
operation of the navy before fixing
bonds. Lacking the cooperation, he
said, their bonds would be $50,000
each.
Secretary Adams of the navy de
partment announced in Washington
his approval of plans for the navy to
cooperate.
The defendants must report daily
to a probation officer.
Judge Cristy denied a defense mo
tion to quash the indictment. The
motion charged the court had coerced
the grand jury into bringing in the
bill of accusation and It did not rep
resent the true findings of the in
quisitorial body.
Plane With Seven
Passengers Missing
Los Angeles, Jan. 30.—(^P) —A tri
mptored air passenger plane with a
pilot and 7 passengers aboard was lost
Friday night somewhere in the rug
ged mountain and desert country be
tween here and Bakersfield, Calif.,
about 150 miles north.
The plane left Bakersfield at 3.50
p. m., and was due here an hour lacer,
but late Friday night nothing hati
been heard from It. Officials of the
operating company, the Century Pa
cific. clung to the hope that although
terrific winds were reported over the
aera, the plane landed on some little
valley floor, possibly far distant from
a telephone.
Three women and four men, all
Californians, are the passengers. The
pilot is J. V. Sandblum of Los Ang
eles.
Continue Efforts to
Find Lost Submarine
Portland, Eng.. Jan. 30.—(A I ) —The
navy continued Friday its search for
the lost submarine M-2 which sank
Tuesday off the coast here, although
all hope any of the members of the
crew of 60 might be saved has been
abandoned.
Divers worked all night In shifts
with the aid of powerful searchlights.
Navy sweepers Friday encountered
a new large obstruction on the sea
bottom three miles off Abbotsbury.
The find was considered the most im
portant since search began.
COLDEST WEATHER
IN TWO YEARS HAS
NORTHWEST IN GRIP
Mercury Drops to 30 Below at
Napoleon and Minot, 20
Below in Bismarck
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MOST HIGHWAYS ARE OPEN
Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa,
South Dakota, and Mon
tana Report New Lows
< (By the Associated Press)
The coldest weather in two years
swept the northwest Saturday as the
mercury, declining 40 degrees in ?4
hours in some areas, touched 31 be
low in northern Minnesota.
The extreme cold brought suffer
ing to many. In St. Paul a man
froze both feet as the thermometer
registered 15 below’, the coldest since
Jan. 25, 1930.
The cold wave, sweeping out of
the Canadian provinces where 40
degrees below was registered, en
veloped Minnesota, the Dakotas,
Montana, lowa and Wisconsin.
North Dakota looked forward to
continued cold weather as the mer
cury, which dropped to new lows
throughout the state Friday night,
ranged from 18 to 28 degrees below
zero Saturday morning.
Cold Will Continue
Continued cold Saturday night
and Sunday w’as the forecast for
the state.
Minot and Napoleon, where the
mercury dropped to 30 below zero,
reported the state’s coldest weather
while close to that were Devils
Lake with 28 below, Jamestown 24
below, Williston 22 below, Valley
City 21 below and Fargo and Bis
marck 20 below zero.
Valley City’s minimum recording
of 21 below was the coldest of the
year and at 7 o’clock Saturday
morning had not changed although
the mercury at Devils Lake, Fargo,
and Minot had risen one or two de
grees.
The state highway department
said highways in the vicinity of
Steele and Medina on U. S. No. 20,
which had been partially blocked by
drifting snow, were open Saturday.
In the Devils Lake district, a heavy
snowfall was being cleared away by
highway snow removal crews.
Hibbing, with 31 below zero, was
the coldest point reporting in the
northwest. It was 40 degrees be
low at Prince Albert, Sask.
Dropped 40 Degrees
At LaCrosse, Wis„ a drop of 40
degrees was recorded in the last 24
hours. The temperature Saturday
morning was 10 degrees below zero,
against 30 degrees above Friday.
Rice Lake, Wis., had the coldest
weather in two years when the mer
cury sank to 28 below.
The mercury descended 30 degrees
at Charles City, la., since Friday
morning. The thermometer regis
tered 12 degrees below Saturday
morning whereas 24 hours ago it
was 18 above.
The mercury varied 18 degrees
since Friday at Rapid City, S. D.,
where 14 degrees below prevailed.
It was four above Friday. Huron,
S. D., reported 16 below and Pierre
12 below.
Above-zero temperatures were re
placed by sub-zero marks,in many
Montana localities;
DAMAGE SLIGHT IN
ME FIRES HERE
Flames Cause Loss Estimated
at $25 in Residence in
South Side of City
Two fires which occurred in Bis
marck Friday and Saturday caused
no damage while a third partially
In a south side residence.
A fire reported from 1120 Front
street at 11:20 a. m. Friday was ex
tinguished after it had caused dam
age estimated at $25. The blaze
started after tenants had tempted
to thaw out a frozen waer pipe in
a parltion.
A chimney fire at 321 Eighth Bt.
Friday evening and a fire In the
basement of a house at 208 Rosser
avenue Saturday morning did no
damage.
Minnesota’s Oldest..
Active Judge Dead
St. Charles, Minn.. Jan. 30.—(4V-
Municipal Judge Balmon W. Gleason,
90, Minnesota’s oldest active jurist,
died Friday night.
Death came at 10 o’clock. Judge
Gleason had suffered a relapse after
hope had been held out he would re
cover from an attack of bronchial
pneumonia nine days ago. He suf
fered internal hemorrhages Friday.
So much had his condition improv
ed Thursday that a daughter, Mrs. H.
A. Tar bell. Watertown, S. D., return
ed to her home.
At his bedside was another daugh
ter, Mrs. Bertine Hoteling, Mankato.
Japs’ Onward March
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Occupied Nov. 25 First Big Battle
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This chronology-map shows how Japan's troops, utilizing the most modern
methods of warfare, swept swiftly and steadily through Manchuria in the
last four months before occupying Shanghai in China proper as a reprisal
for anti-Japanese boycotts. Seizing Mukden in the first real conflict with
Chinese soldiers, the Japanese drove northward through the Nonni river
district to Anganchi and Tsitsihar. Then came the “big push” through
many cities to the west, reaching a climax in the capture of Chinchow.
Meanwhile, street fighting broke out in many Chinese cities and an Amer
ican mission at Tienstin was shelled. Now the United States is consider
< ing steps to protect citizens in the foreign settlement at Shanghai.
Rail Heads Stand Pat on
Refusal of Union Offer
UTAH MAN SELECTED
FOR FINANCE RUDY’S
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Wilson M’Carthy, Salt Lake
City, Last Named By
President Hoover
Washington, Jan. 30. — (AP) —
Wilson McCarthy, Salt Lake City,
Democrat, banker and lawyer, is
President Hoover’s choice for the
seventh and last place on the Re
construction Finance Corporation’s
board of directors.
His nomination will go to the sen
ate Monday, and should be approved
forthwith. The other six directors,
half of them serving ex-officio, half
appointed, already have pitched in
to work although the appointed
three—Charles G. Dawes, president,
Harvey C. Couch and Jesse H. Jones
—cannot receive their commissions
and take oath of office until Wed
nesday. ,
On the remainder of the economic
program now before congress, Dem
ocratic leaders of the senate got
their heads together and decided to
Eush the Glass (D., Va.) bill for
ank-law revision and relief to the
depositors in closed banks.
They gave an eye to the pending
LaFollette-Costigan $375,000,000 di
rect federal aid measure, but with
out reaching a final party decision
on the project, arranged to make a
try to put it back in committee for
new study. A Democratic group
composed of Senators Walsh, Mon
tana; Wagner, New York, and Black
of Alabama, will make their own
report on the bill in the meantime.
Williams and Kraabel
Leave for Washington
Fargo, N. D., Jan. 30.—(-4*)—Jack
Williams, state adjutant of the
American Legion, and T. O. Kraabel,
North Dakota veterans service com
missioner, both of Fargo, left here
Friday night for Washington, where
they will attend sessions of the na
tional Legion rehabilitation board.
Kraabel is North Dakota rehabilit
ation chairman for the Legion.
En route to Washington they will
stop at Cincinnati, where they wih
attend a child welfare conference for
officials of the Legion. They expect
to return about Feb. 7.
Nonpartisan Meetings
Scheduled for Feb. 24
County conventions of the Non
partisan League will be held Feb. 24,
C. N. Lee, state chairman, announced
Friday.
Precinct meetings in coun ties
throughout the state are to be held
Feb. 10, he said, at which time del
egates to the county conventions will
be selected.
The state meeting, Lee said, will
be held at Bismarck at a date yet
to be selected.
BOX‘FACTORY BURNS
Rice Lake, Wis.. Jan. 30.—(AP)
—Twenty-eight below‘zero weather
handicapped firemen as they fought
a SBO,OOO fire that destroyed the
Ruttner Box Factory Friday night.
A boilerroom explosion was given
as the cause.
Conference Near Deadlock, Al
though Both Sides Still
Profess Some Hope
Chicago, Jan. 30.—(/P) —The rail
road presidents stood pat Saturday
on their rejection of compromise
plans offered by the 20 railway
brotherhoods at their joint wage con
ference.
With only passing reference to la
bor’s counter proposals, Daniel Wil
lard, spokesman for the carriers,
turned back to a reiteration of the
fundamental demand that union em
ployes accept a 10 per cent deduction
from their pay checks for a year.
The conference seemed to be near
a deadlock, although each side pro
fessed to hold hope for an eventual
settlement of the problems of wages
and unemployment.
For more than two weeks the nego
tiations had progressed until Friday
the nine railway presidents flatly re
fused labor's four compromise plans,
basic among them a stipulation that
if a year’s wage cut is agreed upon
there must be no further discussion
of reductions for another year.
At the petition of the union del-
the presidents reconsidered
Saturday, but returned to the joint
conference only to restate the need
for a 10 per cent wage reduction to
save the railways financially and
make a step toward general pros
perity.
Said Willard for the carriers: “A
flat 10 per cent deduction is essential
to railway finances.”
Said David B. Robertson for the
brotherhoods: "Something must be
done for the unemployed railroad
workers who are in need. We feel
that our offer to accept a 6 1-3 per
cent cut outright, and deduct another 3
1-2 per cent for direct relief of fur
loughed employes and for additional
employment is not unfair.”
■ Robertson said that “we both made
another attempt to change the point
of view of each other.”
One Sentenced, Three
Fined in Minot Court
Minot, N. D„ Jan. 30.—(£*) —One
man was sent to jail, three women
were fined, and sentences of six other
liquor law violators were deferred
when they pleaded guilty in federal
court here Friday before Judge An
drew Miller.
Reinhold Grams was senteced to six
months in the Ward county jail; Dor
othy Boyd, Ruby McCauley and Rae
Norris were fined $350 each and sen
tences of Mrs. Oscar Hague. Don Mc-
Cauley, Olen Cassner, Thomas Mor
row, Louis Manson and Floyd Trapp
were deferred.
Man Who Slew Son
Is Declared Insane
Mlllersburg, 0., Jan. 30.—(ff) —
James Stenhouse, Killbuck stone-cut
ter and confessed “mercy slayer” of
his small son, was found insane Sat
urday and ordered committed to the
MasslKon state hospital for the in
sane until cured.
BOY INJURED FATALLY
Verndale, Minn., Jan. 30.—(AP)
—Run down while riding his bicycle,
Gordon Sjobeck, 14, was injured fa
tally by a car driven by Fred L.
Wood of Minneapolis Friday. By
standers said the accident was un
avoidable. He was taken to a Wa
dena hospital and died without re
gaining consciousness.
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The Weather
Generally fnlr and continued
cold tonight and Sunday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Ml STATES AND
GREAT BRITAIN SEND
MESSAGE TO JAPAN
I
American Fleet Ready to Eva
cuate Nationals and to
Protect U. S. Citizens
EIGHT DESTROYERS READY
Chinese Decide to Declare War
But Have Not Yet Made
Formal Announcement
(By the Associated Press)
On the heels of vigorous protest
by the U. S. and Great Britain
against the Japanese seizure of
Shanghai, the navy Saturday or
dered its Asiatic fleet to stand ready
to protect American lives in strife
ridden China.
“Our fleet,” Admiral William V.
Pratt said, “will be ready to evacu
ate our nationals or to protect them
if a crisis arises where mob rule
prevails.
“Our forces will go in and take
whatever steps are necessary to pro
tect our people.”
He pointed out there are a large
number of women and children in
China.
He also said that the ships of the
battle force will leave San Diego
Monday for winter maneuvers off
Hawaii as scheduled, but will not go
beyond those islands at present.
Eight destroyers are now being
prepared at Manila to leave at a
moment’s notice. Four are now en
route from there to Shanghai.
In the strongest move since the
horror of battle has strangled nor
mal life in Shanghai, the U. S. and
Great Britain applied their protest
to the Japanese occupation of the
native city of Chapei.
Report From Consul
It was on the basis of reports re
ceived from the American consul at
Shanghai, Edwin S. Cunningham, to
the effect that Japan—after the
Chinese had agreed to Japan’s de
mands—-had taken sections of the
native city by military force.
The state department had before
it a general summary of the situa
tion, as it applied to the interna
tional settlement, handed to Cun
ningham as senior consul by the mu
nicipal council of Shanghai.
The decisive stand by this coun
try and Great Britain went much
further than earlier representations,
which were based only on the safety
°t foreign citizens and property in
the international settlement.
In reply to those representations,
Secretary Stimson announced Fri
day, the Japanese gave strict assur
ance that rights of foreigners would
be respected.
This assurance was repeated Sat
urday morning to Stimson by Am
bassador Debuchi, of Japan, an hour
or so before announcement was
made of the latest protests to Ja
pan.
Further Protests Probable
The summary forwarded by Cun
ningham to the state department
may be the basis of further protests
to Japan by the U. S. and Great
Britain. It contains a general pro
test “against the violation of the
neutrality of the international set
tlement.”
In a second point the municipal
council protested to the foreign con
suls at Shanghai against the settle
ment being used as a base of opera
tions by the Japanese against the
Chinese.
It protested against interference
by and the sending of Japanese
troops into *arts of the interna
tional set aside under the
settlement defense plan for other
nations to defend.
It specifically mentioned Japan
ese troops being sent to sections
assigned to American Marines for
protection and to the sections
bounded by Honan Road, Range
Road, and Hongkew Creek.
Moutet, Socialist member of
the French chamber of deputies, filed
an interpellation Saturday in the
chamber asking what attitude France
proposed to adopt “in view of the
bloody events In China which have
reached a state of war.”
Two French reserve battalions sta
tioned at Tonkin, China, since the
disorders at Shanghai in 1927, have
been ordered to stand by for move
ment to the French concession at
Shanghai, the foreign office said.
Plan to Declare War
The highest officials of the Chi
nese government, meeting at Nank
ing, a dispatch to the Reuters news
agency from there said, decided to
declare war on Japan.
The dispatch said the declaration
Itself was not issued, but that the
decision was reached at a council of
the government officials.
General Chiang Kai-Shek, forme:
president of China, sent a telegram
to the military commanders through
out the country urging that prepara
tions be teken to defend China and
"to fight for her national existence.”
Trainloads of troops belonging to
the 19th Chinese army began leav
ing Nanking for Shanghai as fast as
possible, sent off by rousing cheers
from thousands of onlookers who
carried banners inscribed: "RmS*
the invader*” “Hold Shanghai at all
costs.”
A spokesman for the Japanese
office said the League of Nations
council “must bear a terrible nspon
slbility If through its action a situa
tion between China and Japan should
develop” which would procipltaf “a
world conflagration.”
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