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Move to Halt Sino-Jap Fighting
JAPAN TO CONTINUE
‘DEFENMPOUCY’
IN CHE CITIES
Announcement Made in Tokyo
Following Consideration
of New Protests
JAP FORCES REORGANIZED
Nipponese Claim Right to De
fend 30,000 Nationals in
Danger in Shanghai
Tokyo, Feb. 2.—(AP) —Dispatches
received hero telling of the opening
of the new battle at Shanghai said
Chinese had set fire to the Japanese
district of Hongkew in the interna
tional settlement and that a large
section of it was burning.
Newsboys began crying their ex
tra papers in the streets, around the
foreign office, describing the battle,
while Foreign Minister Yoshizawa
was conferring with the ambassadors
of the U. S. and Great Britain, who
called to propose plans for a peace
ful settlement of the Shanghai dif
ficulties.
The Japanese were withdrawing
into the northern part of the inter
national settlement because of the
fire, dispatches said, and the Japan
ese consul general was rounding up
refugees near the Whangpoo river,
from where they could easily be evac
uated.
Consider Problems
Official Japan spent most of the
day considering problems arising out
of the situation at Shanghai and end
ed by indicating the country would
continue to follow what it called de
fensive policy in China.
A reorganization of the navy was
announced by the navy office. It
included formation of a third Japan
ese fleets uniting all the naval units
in South China waters, includihg
those at Shanghai, under one com
mand. Heretofore the navy has been
divided into two fleets.
Besides this change the navy was
given a new general head, bringing
it, as the army was brought recent
ly, under the direct supervision of a
member of the family of the *Bi
peror. „ .. .
Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi,
member of the supreme war council
and head of one of the . collateral
branches of the imperial family, was
appointed chief of the naval general
staff to succeed Admiral Shoshin
Taniguchi. A short time ago Mar
shal Prince Kotohito Kanin, also a
relative of the emperor, was made
chief of the army general staff.
Protests Are Presented
The cabinet heard reports on the
Shanghai situation and Foreign Min
ister Hoshizawa presented the pro
tests of Great Britain and the U. S.
against the policy there. A spokes
man indicated the wording and tenor
of the verbal protests presented Mon
day by Ambassador Forbes for the
U. S. was quite “stiff.”
The British and American objec
tions to Japan’s using the interna
tional settlement at Shanghai as a
base for operations, he said, was
equivalent to a request that Japan
relinquish the sector assigned her in
the common defense plan of the set
tlement.
“We have as much right to par
ticipate in that defense,” he said,
“as the Americans or British. Among
the things to be protected is human
life, far more precious than any
property or forms of treasure. Thirtv
thousand Japanese subjects, live in
Shanghai-rdouble the total of the
American and British populations—
and we have every right to protect
the lives of these subjects.”
Today’s session of the Tokyo stock
exchange was suspended in the after
noon because of drastic declines in
all kinds of stocks.
Following the cabinet meeting it
was announced the American and
British ambassadors, acting on in
structions from their governments,
would visit Foreign Minister Yoshi
zawa during the afternoon for a
friendly discussion of the Shanghai
situation and for the purpose of at
tempting to formulate plans for a
peaceful settlement of the dispute.
Also Sent to China
Similar instructions were under
stood to have been sent to the Amer
ican and British ministers to China.
The French and Italian ambassadors
also were expected'to see M. Yoshi
zawa for the same purpose.
An official report received by the
navy department said the firing at
Nanking'Monday followed firing by
the Chinese guns on Fortress Lion hill,
overlooking the Yangtze. The Chin
ese fired, the report said, in the di
rection of the river front, where the
Japanese ships were lying and the
Japanese force ashore asked protec
tion, after which the senior Japanese
naval officer ordered the ships to re
ply with their guns.
A foreign office spokesman cited fir
ing by American and British warships
on Socony hill in the Nanking area
on March 24. 1927, as justification of
the navy’s action. Be said the Amer
ican and British guns fired on the
Chinese city in order to protect their
nationals and the Japanese had the
same right.
SHANGHAI BOMBARDMENT
RESUMED BY NIPPONESE
(Copyright, litt, by The Associated
Shanghai, Feb. 2.— (/f) —Four Jap
anese 18-pound guns, hidden behind
the butts of a rifle range in Hong
kew Park, began to Jour a rain of
shells on the stricken Chapel sector of
Shanghai this afternoon.
Two thousand Japanese bluejackets
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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
Coxey to Open Presidential Race Here
Groundhog Fails to See Shadow
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When Augustus J. Groundhog,
weather prophet for these many
years, tentatively poked his nose
from his hole at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday,
he could not see his shadow.
Augustus ventured forth to make
his annual prediction with reference
to the end of winter. Had the day
been sunny and his shadow discern
able, he would have scampered back
Says Ruth Judd Suffers
' From Dementia Praecox
BRITON DESCRIBES
DISARMAMENT PLAN
AS PARLEY STARTS
Henderson Says He Cannot
‘Contemplate Even the Pos
sibility of Failure’
Geneva, Feb. 2.—(/P) —The wprld
disarmament conference, attended by
I statesmen of three-score nations,
| opened this evening after having been
delayed for an hour while the League
of Nations council met to consider the
problem in the Far East.
Arthur Henderson, the former Brit
ish cabinet minister, acting chairman,
began the session wtn an outline of
its problems.
.“I refuse to contemplate even the
possibility of failure,” he said, ‘‘for if
we fail no one can foretell the evil
consequences that might ensue.”
The enfeebled chairman, in poor
health for several weeks, spoke more
than an hour. •
He called upon the delegates to
“seize this opportunity while it is
still ours—to lead the peoples of the
world one more ste a p toward the hign
table land of peace and cooperation. ’
At the outset he referred to the
ominous thundering? from the Far
East. -
The conference opened in a more,
encouraging atmosphere than had
been expected because of the united
stand of the great powers in protest
ing continuance of the hostilities in
China.
Henderson said this conference had
three important objectives.
(1) To reach a collective agreement
on a practical program for substantial
reduction and limitation of arma
ments.
(2> To determine that no arma
ments may be maintained outside the
scope of that agreement.
(8) To plan for similar conferences
in the future at reasonably short in
tervals of time.
“It is difficult to conceive of a
sharper spur to fear and suspicion
than the maintenance and growth of
colossal armaments.” told Henderson.
"I need not remind you of the stag
gering cost of the World War nor of
the horrifying cataclysm the next war
would involve.” /
He intimated that a way was even
for the introduction of war debts and
reparations into the deliberations of
this conference.
Story of Japan
Runs in Tribune
The story of Japan—from pri
mitive weakness to aggressive
world power in 75 years—is told
in aperies of six stories to appear
' in the Tribune, the first install
ment ot which appears on page
2 of this edition.
Japan, because of its recent ac
, ttvitles In Manchuria and China,
is one of the most interesting
subjects in the world today.
The series Is written by Robert,
Talley for the N, E. A. Service and
the Tribune.
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into his den after predicting six more
j weeks of wintry blasts.
I As it was, he remained non-com-
I mittal and delayed decision until
later in the day.
Local weather bureau officials
bore him out, for they said there
was just a chance that the sun would
come out enough in the afternoon
to make’ his shadow visible.
LO9 Angeles Psychiatrist Testi
fies For Defense in ‘Trunk
/ Murder’ Trial
Court House, Phoenix, Arlz.. Feb. 2
—(£>)—Dr. Edward Huntington Wil
liams, Los Angeles psychiatrist, testi
fied Tuesday that in his opinion Win
nie Ruth Judd, cn trial for murder,
was insane when she killed Agnes
Anne Leßoi and Hedvig Samuelson
last October. Miss Samuelson grew
up in North Dakota.
“I think that she did not know the
difference between right and wrong,"
Dr. Williams said.
He testified the 27-year-old de
fendant was not fully developed in
a glandular sense, “so as to be a nor
mal personr-her arms are too long,
her legs are too long—these are in
dications.”
"I believe that the whole picture
of her since her babyhood, her ac
tions. manner, what she has done
and the way she has done, it, definite
ly indicate insanity of the demen
tia praecox type.
“She has had a mother complex—
a baby complex—since she was very
young.”
Tuberculosis from which Mrs. Judd
b suffering may often cause, or-at
least be associated witji, dementia
praecox, said Dr. Williams.
HUGE FINANCE BODY
SET TO BEGIN WORK
Taking Oaths to Do Their Level
Best For U. S. First Event
on Program
. Washington, Feb. 2.—(JV-Tuesday
the reconstruction finance corpora
tion. biggest hope of the government
for a quick restoration of confidence
in business, went to work.
Taking an oath to do their level
best for the U. S. was the first task
for the directors. After that they
were free to pull their chairs up to
the desk and pitch In on the big job
of lending money to banks and Indus
tries which need it most. Applica
tions already lp. but untotaled, are
understood to seek a large proportion
of the $2,000,000,000 which the cor
poration will have available.
Charles O. Dawes, president, and
Harvey C. Couch and Jesse H. Jones,
directors, received their commissions
from President Hoover Monday. A
thoughtful gesture by Senator* Robin
son of Arkansas, the Democratic lead
er, had cut senate red tape to send
to the white house the approved nom
inations a day ahead of time.
Three floors of the old commerce
department Julldlng have been hur
riedly cleaned and repainted for the
corporation offices. Up to the pres
ent, .without official statue, the direc
tors have been working with Eugene
Meyer, chairman of the federal re
serve board, who .is one of the ex
officio members of the corporation
board*
Wilson McCarthy, of Utah, the
nominee for the final place on the
board will be confirmed by the senate
probably Wednesday.
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
Washington, Feb. 2.—(Fj—President
Hoover, la. an official proclamation,
Tuesday called upon citizens of the
nation to join lb celebrating the 200th
anniversary of the birth of George
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BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932
FIRST GUN R 1932
DRIVE TO BE FIRED
IN BISMARCK SOON
Leader of ‘Coxey’s Army’ Will
Leave Massillon in Air
plane Wednesday
HAS PLAN FOR PROSPERITY
Details of Proposed Non-Inter
est-Bearing Bonds Might
Be Explained
Bismarck will hav.e an opportunity
to see the launching of a presidential
campaign within the next few days.
General Jacob S. Coxey, now may
or of Massillon, 0., and famous as
the leader of ‘‘Coxey’s army” of 38
years ago, announced Monday night
that he would leave Massillon Wed
nesday in an airplane for Bismarck
to begin a campaign for the presi
dency. He expected to make a brief
stop at Indianapolis and to spend the
night in Chicago. Whether he was
flying in a private plane or would use
the regular airlines was not stated In
the Associated Press dispatch telling
of his plans.
Coxey Is a Republican and the prin
cipal plank in his platform is one
calling for the issuance of non-inter
est-bearing bonds as a means of re
storing prosperity. Presumably he
will outline his ideas further in inau
gurating his campaign here.
Although no mention is made of the
fact, it is presumed that Coxey will
enter the North Dakota presidential
primaries, to be held Maroh 15 and
that this is his reason for beginning
his campaign in Bismarck.
The exact date of Coxey's arrival
here or the means he will pursue in
beginning his drive for the presidency
were unknown in Bismarck.
Although famous as the leader of
an army of unemployed years ago,
Coxey is not and never has been a
really poor manr~ ge-ftas 'intftpcml*-
ent means which .have'been estimated
at various times at as much as SIOO,-
000.
Last year he was elected mayor of
Massillon, Ohio, of which he long has
been a resident.
He is 77 years old but says he likes
speed, hence the use of an airplane.
He has been more or less in the lime
light since his famous march on
Washington in 1894. He gets his title
as general from his leadership of that
tatterdemalion army.
'ALFALFA BILL* MURRAY
TO CAMPAIGN STATE
Minot, N. D., Feb. 2.—(JP) —Governor
William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray of
Oklahoma, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for the presidency,
will campaign in North Dakota, it was
announced In Minot Tuesday by
George T. Murray of Berthold, his
brother.
The Oklahoma executive will visit
the state during the week beginning
March 6, the week Just prior to the
presidential primaries, and will spend
two days in North Dakota, with one
address in Minot as a positive fea
ture of his itinerary. The actual dates
of his visit will be. made known short
ly after confirmation by his campaign
manager. George Murray says.
During his tour of the state “Alfalfa
Bill” will be called upon for at least
four major speaking engagements, in
addition to being present at a num
ber of smaller meetings. His mode of
travel has not been determined,
though a plane is being considered.
Prohibition Agent Is
Slain in Mississippi
Gulfport, Miss., Feb. 2.—(AP) —
Federal prohibition authorities of
two states Tuesday led a manhunt
along the Mississippi gulf coast sec
tion for moonshiners who Monday
night killed one member of a dry
squad raiding party and gravely
wounded another.
R. M. Buck, 43, operative with the
federal prohibition office here for
the last four years, was slain, and
Otis Williams, 25, a special agent,
was shot in the breast and left arm
as three agents surprised a party of
men attending a still 30 miles north
of Gulfport.
Smith D. Robinson, the third agent,
escaped without injury. He reported
the still attendants opened fire as
his party approached and then fled.
Bloodhounds were sent to the
scene of the shooting to take up the
trail.
Fargo Negro Pleads
Guilty to Robbery
Moorhead, Minn., Feb. 2.— (JP) —
Monday’s developments In the trial of
the Sabin bank robber suspects:
Sam Abes, Fargo bootblack known
aa “Black Sam.” pleads guilty as Jury
to try him Is 'being chosen. He Is
sentenced to 5 tb 40 years hard labor
[at Stillwater. v .
County 1 Attorney H. C. Steining
reveals what he said was a plot to
murder Zack Lemon and hide his
body In the Buffalo river.
Jake Schumacher i$ accused from
the witness stand by Abes as being
“hekd man” and leader in the Sabin
hank looting.
Edward Redman, alias “St. Paul
Blackle,” begs to be allowed to plead
guilty and likely will be sentenced
i Tuesday. .
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GENERAL JACOB S. COXEY
GOTHAM GANG GUNS
FATAL TO TWO MEN
ANDWOMANMONDAY
Slaughter Takes Place in
Apartment; Three Others in
Party Are Wounded
New York, Feb. 2. — (AP) —Once more
the dogs of gang war are barking in
the Bronx.
The screams of children echoed
Monday night as gang gunners, burst
ing into a Commonwealth avenue
apartment, slew a woman and two
men, wounded another woman and
two men, and fled as one of the chil
dren was panting her story of mur
der to the corner policeman.
Police said Tuesday it was the
“Dutch” Schultz-Vincent Coll gang
war again; that Schultz gangsters
were hunting Coll and succeeded only
in sending death to three others.
Those killed were: Pasquale Del
GrqcOj 32, a Coll confederate who has
TS&en arrested five times in as many
months; Florio Basile, 40, an ex-con
vict whose record dates back to 1912,
and Mrs. Emily Tarrizello, 35. whose
connection with the others was not
entirely clear to police.
The wounded: Mrs. Lena Vinco
guerra, 28, mother of four children
and sister to the slain Florio: Louis
Basile, brother of Fiorio; and Joseph
Parrone, 19. Louis Basile was.critic
ally wounded. A bullet lodged near
his heart.
The six, together with six children,
were eating a mid-evening lunch —
sandwiches, salami and glngerale—
when there was a knock at the door.
One of the children ran to open It.
Three men carrying guns burst into
the room, brushing past the children.
The guns began roaring without a 1
word being spoken. The shots raked
the entire company. There was no
resistance, and police later said there
was hot a firearm in the apartment
At least 18 shots were fired before
the killers turned and fled.
FRAZIER'S BILL IS
BACKED BY FARMERS
John A. Simpson, Head of
Farmers Union, Heads West
ern Group to Capital
Washington, Feb. 2.—(&) —J oh n
Simpson, president of the Farmeis
Union, headed a delegation of farm
ers from eight western states who ap
peared before a senate agriculture
sub-committee Tuesday in support of
the Frazier farm relief bill.
The farmers were from Oklahoma,
South Dakota, lowa. Colorado, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Illinois, and North
Dakota.
Simpson testified that the Frazier
der prevailing high interest rates,"
on farm loans to 1 1-2 per cent, was
“absolutely necessary.”
“Good prices will not bring the
fanner out of the burden of debt un
der prevailing high interests rates,"
Simpson said.
Senator Smith (D., S. C.) contend
ed even if the farmers' debts were
canceled he could not do business
profitably at present prices, and that
some method must be fotftid to im
prove the market for agricultural
products.
William Lemke, Fargo, N. D., said,
"If the farmer is to remain in the
game he must have immediate re
fihanclng.”
Simpson, in calling 0. R. Hyde of
Oklahoma to testify, said "it's a bad
name but he’s all right."
"I understand he said he is no rela
tion to Secretary Hyde," Frasier re
marked.
"If he is, we will fire hftn' out of
the union,’' Simpson replied.
WILL UNDERGO OPERATION
Louden, Feb. 2.—<F>—Prime Min
ister Ramsay MacDonald will under
go an operation, Immediately after
Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, for "a
slight and progressive diminution of
Ch* vision of his left eye," caused by
overwork, it was announoed Tuesday
’The operation means it wm not be
possible for him to go to Geneva
during the coming week-end as he
had planned.
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Four Powers State
Fighting Must End
GRAIN CORPORATION
MOTION IS REFUSED
BY JUDGE GUILFORD
North Dakota-Montana Wheat
Growers Association Bring
ing Damage Action
Minneapolis, Feb. 2. — (JF)—A motion
by the Farmers’ National Grain cor
poration asking the complaint in the
$1,181,000 damage suit of the North
Dakota-Montana Wheat Growers’ as
sociation be thrown out of court was
denied Monday by Judge Paul Guil
ford In district court.
The court also rejected the applica
tion of the defendants, which asked,
as an alternative ruling, the plaintiff
be directed to amend its complaint to
make specific separate causes of ac
tion, which the defendant motion
contended were incorporated in the
complaint.
Judge Guilford ruled the complaint
set up only one cause of action, but
added the pleadings were not drawn
with care. The court directed the
plaintiff be allowed 10 days to change
certain sections of the complaint, in
which, the ruling said, the allegations
were intermingled in such manner as
not to be in logical sequence and that
some essential language was omitted
from® the complaint.
Charge Violating Contract
The Wheat Growers’ association
brought suit on the charge the Farm
ers’ National through failure to carry
out certain contracts had ruined the
credit rating of the plaintiff and re
sulted in the financial failure of the
association.
A memorandum attached to his or
der by Judge Guilford included his
Interpretation of the real allegations
of the complaint.
i This was that the North Dakota-
Montana Wheat Growers' association
charged the Fanners’ National Grain
corporation fraudulently failed and
refused to perform its obligations un
der the national farm board act; that
instead of encouraging and aiding
producer-owned and controlled co
operative marketing in the grain
trade, the grain corporation conspired
with unknown parties* to wreck and
destroy the. Wheat Growers’ associa
tion and otner like associations and
force them out of business.
False Reports Charged
Further allegations, as Interpreted
by the judge, were that the grain cor
poration made false representations
to induce the Wheat Growers’ associ
ation to sign a contract with it June
19, 1930, and that the grain corpora
tion on April 5, 1931, in violation of
this contract, without written notice
as the contract provided, “failed, neg
lected and refused'* to continue to fi
nance the Wheat Growers’ associa
tion, and that, pursuant to a conspir
acy the grain corporation circulated
false reports to grain exchanges as to
the solvency of the Wheat Growers’
association.
Arthur Le Sueur of Minneapolis is
attorney for the Wheat Growers’ as
sociation and Oppenheimer, Dickson,
Hodgson, Brown and Donnelly are at
torneys for the grain corporation.
FEAR 16 PERSONS
IN PLANE MISHAPS
Three Night Airmail Pilots Miss
ing; Wreckage Sighted
in California
(By The Associated Press)
One airmail pilot was dead Tues
day, two others were missing, and it
was feared 13 persons had met dis
aster aboard two air lines on oppo
site sides of the continent.
The dead pilot was John W. Sharp
nack, pilot of a Pacific air transport
mail plane. He was killed when his
plane, en route from Oakland, Calif.,
to Reno. Nev., crashed near Rio Vista,
Calif., early Tuesday.
George T. Douglass, flying the
night mail from Boise, Ida., failed to
reach the airport at Salt Lake City.
He was last heard from about 1 a. m.,
over Strevell, near the Utah-Idaho
border.
Fear was expressed for the safety
of Reserve Pilot Francis H. Rust,
missing on the Kalamazoo-Chicago
air mail run. Snow squalls prevail
ed along the route last night.
A Bimini Airways plane, piloted by
Val Chick of Miami, Fla., and carry
ing four passengers, disappeared on
a flight from Miami to Bimini in the
Bahamas Monday. High seas made
it doubtful the craft could long sur
vive if forced down in the Water.
Searoh still was going on in the
mountains north of Los Angeles for
a Century Pacific air Uner with eif.hf
persons aboard which has been lost
since last (Friday.
VETERAN EDITOR DIES
Ottawa, EM, Feb. 2.— uey— A news
paper' career begun 61 yean ago wm
terminated here Monday night in the
death of EUls M. Clarke. 83-year-old
oolumnist and reporter for the Otta
wa Herald.
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Declaration That Sj n o-J a p
Bloodshed Must Stop Is
Issued at Geneva
GERMANY ALSO IN ACCORD
Discouragement and Cynicism
Press Down on Disarma
ment Conference
Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 2.—(£*>—•
America, Great Britain. France and
Italy announced in brisk military
style at an extraordinary meeting of
the League of Nations council Tues
day that the Slno-Japanese fighting
“must come to an end” and that they
had decided to make further diplo
matic efforts to stop it.
J. H. Thomas, a British cabinet
member, spoke for his country and
the U. S„ and the American delegates
to the disarmament conference sat
near the council table.
That conference was delayed for an
hour while the council met.
When he had finished his brief, but
emphatic declaration of policy, Dlno
Grand! for Italy, and the French
representative announced their gov
ernments approved the stand of
Washington and London. The Ger
man delegate made a similar cordial
statement.
Cited Kellogg Pact
Thomas had cited the Kellogg pact
and the nine-power treaty, and
presumably it was upon the basis of
these that the American government
was cooperating with the other great
powers.
The Anglo-American proposal to
Tokyo and Nanking which Thomas
read was:
“(D—That all acts of violence and
preparations for hostilities shall be
brought to an end.
“(2)—That in the Shanghai area
both sides shall withdraw their
troops as further protection to the
international settlement- and neu
tral zone shall be arranged.
“(3)—That negotiations shall be
gin immediately to settle the dis
pute.”
The American and British govern
ments, said Thomas, would be glad if
the other powers would follow theur
lead, but in any event the two Eng
lish-speaking nations are determined
to stop the fighting and to bring
about a settlement under the terms
and in the spirit of the Kellogg pact.
Cynicism Is Prevailing
While the doors of the chamber
which is to house the long-expected
world disarmament conference from
Tuesday on were prepared to open on
the first session, discouragement and
cynicism pressed down under the
wight of the news from the Far East.
Keenly conscious of the fears and
bitter rivalries shaking governments
and peoples, most of the world’s best
known* statesmen did not appear for
the opening session at all. Secretary
of State Stimson was not there from
the U. S. Prime Minister MacDonald
of Great Britain remained in London.
Premier Laval of France was in Paris,
and Chancellor Bruenlng of Germany
was in Berlin.
Maxim Lltvinoff, commissar for
foreign affairs of Soviet Russia, was
on hand, however, prepared to pre
sent in due time his proposal for a re
duction in armaments and young
Dlno Grandi, Italy’s foreign minister,
came to bring, it was believed, a plan
for extending the current arms truce
over a longer period of years.
Says War in Progress
“War—in everything but name is
in progress,” said Thomas. “Shang
hai has been the scene of conflict in
which artillery and airplanes hive
taken part. To such a state of af
fairs members of the league cannot
be indifferent. If we allow it to go
on the league covenant and kindred
international treaties must inevitably
lose the confidence of the world.’
"It is not without significance to
the league members that the gov
ernment of the U. S. holds an iden
tical view of the situation in all the
efforts of peace which the council
has made in the last four months."
The armies of both belligerents
must retire, he asserted, and a
neutral zone must be organized un
der British and American super
vision.
The British representative spoke
with tremendous emphasis, and by
his side, listening quietly, sat Nao
take Sato, the Japanese represen
tative, poring over a booklet of the
league covenant.
Near the council table sat Dr.
Mary Emma Woolley and the other
American delegates to the disarma
ment conference.
Sato Rises to Reply
Thomas finished, the German
delegate said he has informed his
government of developments. Dr.
W. W. Yen thanked the council for
China, and then Sato rose to reply.
Thomas lit his pipe and turned
sideways in Ills chair to regard his
brown neighbor. -
The Japanese suavely expressed
satisfaction at the "important dec
larations" of the great powers and
said the plan they proposed amount
ed to execution of the procedure al
ready proposed by Japan.
At this there was laughter by
some of the spectators not seated at
the council table.
Sato ignored the interruption and
mod a long statement explaining
that the bombardment of Nanking
was provoked by a Chinese attack
on Japanese bluejackets.
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The Weather
Cloudy tonight and Wednesday;
not much change In temperature.
PRICE FIVE CKNTh
UNITED STATES AND
GREAT BRITAIN PUSH
CONCILIATION PLANS
France and Italy Are Expected
to Do Likewise in Effort
to Avert Warfare
FIVE PROPOSALS DRAWN
Cessation of Violence, With
drawal of Troops, and
Settlement Sought
Washington, Feb. 2.—</P)—ln what
was termed at the state department
as a “good Samaritan” move, the
U. S. stood with Great Britain Tues
day in a concrete endeavor to halt
hostilities in the Orient France and
Italy were expected to do likewise.
While gunfire again raked Chinese
sections of wealthy Shanghai, Presi
dent Hoover and his cabinet waited
anxiously for word whether the peace
efforts would have fruition.
The far eastern authorities took
them under consideration. The pro
posals were:
Cessation of violence.
No more warlike preparations.
Withdrawal of combatants from
points of contact
Neutral zones to protect the in
ternational settlement
Prompt negotiations for per
manent peace.
The text did not mentiop what
further steps would be taken if the
proposals proved unacceptable.
V. S. Avoids Threat
The American government plainly
was avoiding any semblance of
a threat, reserving meantime com
plete freedom to act as future events
may dictate.
Early at his deck, the president
studied developments as told In dis
patches from the navy.
One was that the Japanese had
agreed to discontinue patrols in the
Anglo-American quarters of the in
ternational settlement at Shanghai.
Another, from the destroyer Simp
son at Nanking, reported foreigners
there safe at present and no evacua
tion steps in immediate prospect.
Colonel Richard S. Hooker—in
command at the United States mar
lines at Shanghai—notified that “re
liable reports state two reglmente of
Japanese infantry and of artillery
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| Weather Report I
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| FORECAST
I For Bismarck and vicinity: Cloudy
tonight and Wednesday; not much
i 1 | change in tem-
J For North Da-*
( . rj«- kota: Cloudy to
• * ■ r* —ynight and Wed
, nesday; not much
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vtSm/ AJ south portions to
'WL//' night and ex
treme east por
j (//nmb . ti o n Wednesday
I mor nln g; not
much change in
temperature.
Clnndv F ° r Montana:
%-iodoj Partly cloudy to
night and Wednesday; warmer to
night.
For Minnesota: Mostly cloudy,
snow probable in south portion to
night and Wednesday; not much
change in temperature.
CONDITIONS
Low pressure covers the district
except for a narrow crest extending
from the North Pacific coast across
Montana into Western North and
South Dakota. Light precipitation
has been very general over the Lake
Region, Ohio and Mississippi Valleys,
the Northern Rocky Mountains, and
the Southern Plateau Region. Tem
peratures have risen generally over
the district except for the Southern
Plateau and Southern Saskatchewan
where temperatures fell somewhat.
Bismarck station barometer, inches,
28.09, reduced to sea level 29.99.
TE MPERATVRR
At ? a. m. 00
Highest yesterday 03
Lowest last night -2
PRECIPITATION
Amt. 24 hrs. ending 7a.m. ~ .00
Total this month to date 00
Normal, this month to date 02
Total, Jan. 1 to date 35
Normal, Jan. 1 to date 47
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 ' -is
NORTH DAKOTA POINTS
7 a.m. Lo w Pet.
BISMARCK, cldy. 0 -2 '.OO
Devils Lake, snow .... 0 -4 .02
Fargo-Moorhead, snow. 4 4 .01
Jamestown, snow -2 -3 .03
Valley City, cldy 0 0 .00
Williston, cldy -2 -4 .00
Grand Forks, snowing.. 0 -1 .01
GENERAL
Other Stations—
Temprs. Prc.
_ Low High Ins.
Amarillo. Tox., clear.. 34 40 .00
Boise. Idaho, c1dy..,.. 18 38 .42
Calgary, Alta- clear... - 8 -2 .00
Chicago, 111., c1dy..... 30 84 .04
Denver, Colo., clear... 34 08 .00
Des Moines, la., cldy... 24 34 .08
Dodge City, K*.. -pcidy. 34 40 .00
Havre, Mont., clear.... -14 -4 .01
Helena, Mont., snow.. -0 0 .00
Huron, S. D-. cldy -4 10 .01
Kamloops. B. C., cldy.. -12 -4 .00
Kansas City, Mo- rata 40 42 .00
Lander,' Wyo- clear.... 8 24 .00
Medicine Hat, A- dear -St -10 .00
Mtlee City; Moat- clear -is -2 .00
Modena, utak, snow. . 30 St .10
No. Platte, Nob- city.. 0 30 .OS
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