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SEEN AS THREAT TO
CHINA'S ABILITY TO
PAY FOREIGN DEBTS
Japanese Army Claims 'in Prin
ciple' Jurisdiction Over
Foreign Areas
WOULD USE CAUTIO
Chinese Destroy Property in
Tsingtao at Japanese
Approach
(By the Associated Press)
Japan's conquering army claimed
"in principle" Wednesday the right to
extend provisions of its military law
into Shanghai's International Settle
ment and French Concession, where
thousands of Americans and other
foreigners main their homes.
The Japanese army spokesman an
nounced the claim, under which troops
could enter foreign areas still outside
Japanese control and arrest and try
"all persons" suspected of crimes
against Nippon's armed foroes.
Japanese foroes would proceed
cautiously in any cases where Amerl
cans and other foreigners holding
treaty rights were suspected, they
would be tried by courts of their own
nations, the spokesman said.
Customs Evaded
Japanese freight cargoes,
while, were being landed In increas
in? amounts without payment of du
ties or customs examination.
This caused growing apprehension
on the future of American and other
firms competing with Japax
on the future ability of China to pay
debts of some
«Me,«0ftM9.
indflfflng
external debt of $180,000,000 to the
United States and other countries.
The debts are guaranteed by customs
receipts.
The new Japanese military law
claim was announced as Chinese
troops bitterly contested Japanese
invasion Into two of the nation's
richest provinces—Shantung and
Cheklang. The invaders already have
raised the rising sun flag over most
of northern China, the rich lower
Yangtse valley, and a handful of Chi
na's wealthiest cities.
Chinese, apparently preparing to
abandon the threatened Shantung
port of Tsingtao, began a campaign
of destruction, blowing up all tele
graph, cable and radio terminals.
The explosions, which shook the en
tire city, cut off all communications
and resulted In the greatest tension
among, the populace.
Four British coastal ships departed
for Shanghai, Jammed with foreign
ers of various nationalities, Including
Americans, and hundreds of Chinese,
mostly of the well-to-do classes.
Fearing a breakown of local author'
ity, foreigners were organizing vigil
antes to take control of the city, If
necessary, before the expected Japan
ese entiy. They decided to remain
unarmed, except for batons, thereby
seeking to avoid clashes with armed
elements, either Chinese or Japanese,
but at the same time preventing fur
ther looting and suppressing puis.
Jap Ships Offshore
A Japanese transport and a de
stroyer were lying offshore, but it was
not learned whether many troops were
aboard.
The Japanese have not yet disclosed
the plan of the campaign at Tsingtao,
but it was believed that land forces,
approaching from the west, were ex
pected to take the city.
Latest advices received by the
American consulate were that IN
Americans remained in Tsingtao and
13 were in the city's environs. The
cruiser Marblehead and the destroyer
Pope stood by to aid them. Forty
five were en route to Shanghai on the
gunboat 8acramento and 96 others
had evacuated on coastwise vessels.
Japanese troops pushing southward
from Tfclnan, conquered Shantung
capital, and attacked Talan, SO miles
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ESTABLISHED 1873
JARBER
Disembarking from rf transpkcfffc clipper plane
Norman Alley, Universal newsreel cameraman, landed
San Francisco with films of the fall of Nanking and the
bombing and machine-gunning of the U. S. S. Panay in the
Yangtze river. Alley's film was insured for $350,000.
Dead littered the streets of Nanking (above right) as the
conquering Japanese razed virtually everything but the
city's walls, and recklessly slaughtered the citizens of
China's capital. This was on Dec. 14.
Decks awash, the Panay keels over just before it plunged
to the bottom of the river after it had been hit squarely
by a bomb from a Japaneseplane. Note persons still aboarir
decks awaiting rescue. The shattered superstructure of
the vessel also is visible.
James Marshall (bottom row, left), American magazine
writer, was wounded during the Panay incident. He is
shown in his hospital bed in Wuhu. Later he was taken to
Shanghai for an operation.
Survivors of the attack on the Panay (bottom row, right)
are shown leaving junks near Hanshan to board a British
gunboat which took them to Shanghai.
EYEtherSayPAWth
Too, or NEEther
New York, Dec. 39.—ff—Either
Either or either (take It easy,
Simone Simon and Gertrude
Stein) is correct, but the Amer
ican who uses either (eye-ther)
Instead of either (ee-ther) is tak
ing a chance and likely to seem
silly unless he pronounces path
pawth instead of paath.
Prof. Lee NOrvelle, head of the
speech department of Indiana
university, and a man who can
change his speech as readily as
his hat, used the "either-either"
Example to Illustrate his argument
that good speech should be as un
obtrusive as a man's clothes.
FUNERAL
TO BE THURSDAY
'ormer Bismarck Girl Burned in
Los Angeles Will Be Bur
ied in Inglewood
Los Angeles, Dec. 29.—(*—Funeral
services for Mrs. Margaret Garber
and her 3-year-old son David, who
were burned to death in a Christmas
tree fire, will be held here at 3 p. m.
Thursday, interment will be in the
Inglewood park oemetery, Inglewood.
Arrangements were completed by
her husband, David B. Garber, who
arrived Wednesday morning. At the
St. Vincent's hospital, James Ruud,
Sr., and James Ruud, Jr., who also
were burned In the blase, were report-
I In good condition.
Mrs. Garber, a former Bismarck, N.
resident, and the child were visit
ing with her uncle, Mr. Ruud, when
the tragedy occurred Sunday.
TRAPPER BURIED
Clearwater, Minn., Dec. 29.—WV—
Funeral services were held here for
Allen Legg, a trapper, who died from
tularemia believed to have contracted
from mink or rabbits be was using as
talk
WAR VfcTERAN DIES
Fargo, N. D., Dec. 29.—iff)—Henry
M. Haugen, 46, Sklme, Minn., farmer
and World War veteran, died here
Tuesday.
Philadelphia, Dec. 29.—(/P)—Assist
ant Attorney General Robert H. Jack
son accused "big business" Wednesday
of going on a "strike" against the gov
ernment in an effort to "liquidate the
Hew Deal."
The administration's anti-monopoly
crusader In an address before the
American Political Science association
said big business had seized upon the
recession "as a cudgel to whack con
cessions out of government."
They wish, he said, "to liquidate the
New Deal and to throw off all govern
mental interference with their incor
porated initiative and their 'aristo
cratic anarchy.'"
Jackson said government was "the
only agency with the power to condi
tion capitalism and industrialism to
survive" and suggested business was
blind to the advantages it derives
from the process.
'Business Profits Restored'
"The unvarnished truth," he said,
'is that the government's recovery
program has succeeded nowhere else
so effectively as in restoring the prof
its of business. Labor has had no
such advance. Ilie small merchant
has had no such prosperity. The small
manufacturer has had no such ad
vantage.
'The only just criticism that can
be made of the economic operations
of the New Deal is that it set out a
breakfast for the canary and let the
cat steal it it did not sufficiently
guard recovery from the raids of the
monopolist. One group in the United
States that has no cause for complaint
is the big business group."
Reads Table
In support of this statement, he
read a table comparing what he said
were the 1933 operations of a group
of major business concerns with their
1936 profits.
These showed two automobile con
cerns, Chrysler and Oeneral Motors,!
(Continued on Pag* Tww
Flow of Duty-Free Japanese Goods Into China
IS ON STRIKE TO
BREAK NEW DEAL
Jackson Hurls 'Monopoly'
Charges Anew at Political
Science Gathering
First Pictures of Panay Sinking-Exclusive AP Newsphotos
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
PLANE PLUNGES INTO
LAKE THREE DROWN
Pilot Mistakes Open Water in
Lake Erie for lee During
Fog, Tries to Land
Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 29.—W)—'Three
persons were drowned Wednesday
when a plane plunged into Lake Erie
a half mile off Put-in-Bay. William
Somogy, 30. the pilot, was rescued.
The dead:
Nancy Howard, 42 Delbert Watkins,
30, and Albert Anderson, 45, all of
North Baas Island.
The plane fell into open water as
the pilot, blinded by a heavy fog, tried
to land on the ice.
Hamilton Is Divorced
Wife Charges Cruelty
Topeka, Ku, Dec. 39. (4) Mrs
Laura Hamilton was granted a divorce
in district court here Wednesday from
John D. M. Hamilton, Republican na
tional chairman. Mrs. Hamilton
charged her husband with gross neg
lect of duty, abandonment for more
in a year, and extreme cruelty.
The couple were married on Jan. 38,
19U.
North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper
France Faces Crisis Paris Paralyzed
U» S, Gunboat's Sinking Brings War Crisis
BISMARCK, N. D„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29,1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS
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First Pictures
First newsphotos of the bombing and machine-gunning
of the U. S. S. Panay in the Yangtze river Dec. 14 are being
published exclusively in The Bismarck Tribune today.
These photos are taken from a motion picture of the
whole incident, photographed by Norman Alley of Uni
versal Newsreel and published exclusively by Associated
Press newspapers throughout the United States.
Alley himself guarded the precious
to San Francisco, by a specially chartered United
historical
it was rushed down the Yangtze river to Shanghai by a
British gunboat, across the East China sea to Manila by an
American destroyer, aboard a transpacific clipper
ship to New York, by telephoto to Chicago and by North
west Airlines to Bismarck.
In 14 days these newsphotos were transported approxi
mately 14,000 miles.
Thursday The Bismarck Tribune expects to publish an
entire page of Panay sinking pictures. If you want extra
copies of these historic photos, please call the Circulation
Manager, phone 2200.
To Consider Farm
Loan Applications
Approximately 135 applications for
farm loans will be considered by the
board of university and school lands
Thursday, Land Commissioner Ole B.
Stray announced Wednesday.
Because of snow and cold weather
record as
plane
Airlines
the department's land appraising pro
gram has ceased for the season.
Among appraisers who probably will
be "laid off" Jan. 1 are Former Com
missioner Ludvig Federson and John
Erlckson of McLean county, Stray
said.
The commissioner stated J. E. Ja
cobson, LaMoure county appraiser,
may be kept temporarily on "special
work."
ALLOT $5,000 FOR
1J
Larger Standing Rock Grant
Would Heighten Suffering
Elsewhere, Says Collier
U. S. Indian Commissioner John
Collier notified Gov. William Langer
Wednesday he was making immed
iately available $5,000 for direct re
lief among Indians .on the Standing
Rock reservation.
Collier, who said this amount was
in addition to $7,000 previously al
loted for direct relief, suggested that
L. C. Lippert. superintendent of the
agency located at Fort Yates advance
Justification for any additional
amount deemed necessary.
In his telegram to Governor Langer,
Collier asserted that allotments of
additional sums now probably would
result in suffering in other critical
areas.
The allotment for the North Dakota
South Dakota reservation was made
following a telephone conversation
between Governor Langer and Collier
Tuesday when a delegation from the
reservation, including Chester Paris,
Collier's representative, told of the In
dians' needs.
In addition, Gov. Langer said, 300
Indians are being put to work im
mediately on a work relief project,
cutting river bottom brush.
The Weather•*
Cloudy tonight and
Thursday not quite
so cold tonight.
GROWSI120000 MUNICIPAL
WORKERS ON STRIKE
VIOLENCE IS FEARED
Troops Jam Capital as Popular
Front Government Facet
Grave Test
POLICE EVICT STRIKERS
Premier Chautemps Refuses to
See Workmen Communists
Back Walkout
Paris, Dec. 29.—(/P)—The Pop
ular Front government announced
Wednesday night it would "force"
public service workers to return to
their jobs if unions failed to call
off strikes spreading through
France.
Paris, Dec. 29.—JP}—An estimated
120,000 strikers paralyzed the French
capital's transportation systems Wed
nesday and threatened to cut off sup
plies of water, gas and electricity in
one of the gravest crises of the Pop
ular Front government.
Premier Camille Chautemps, order
ing an emergency session of his cab
inet to deal with the general strike of
municipal public service workers, con
demned the mass walkout and warned
that the government would combat it
with the greatest vigor.
Police, carrying out his warning,
evicted striking workers from six elec
tric plants and two gaa works.
Mobile guards were sent into elec
tric plants In the industrial suburb
of Puteaux to assure their continued
operation.
Condemns Strike
Chautemps condemned the striks
and inferred that hidden reasons lay
behind it—especially significant la
the light of recent Rightist allegation!
that Communists plotted to over*
throw the government during strikes
in mid-November.
The premier In a statement assert*
ed the strike had been "deliberately
provoked."
After a preliminary meeting with
his principal ministers, the Radical
Socialist premier had declared the
government would assure maintenance
of essential services for the metrop
olis.
Socialist* Support Strike
His statement followed close upon'a
vote of solid support of the publio
service strikers by the national con
gress of the Communist party, itself
segment of the Popular Front.
Chautemps refused to see a delega
tion of strikers. The premier was de
scribed as determined not to negotiate
with the workers until they returned
to their jobs.
The General Confederation of Labor
estimated 120,000 were on strike.
Subways and buses were paralysed
by a total shutdown and water, gaa
and electric services were running on
reserves.
Squads of steel-hatted mobile
guardsmen moved into the capital
from the provinces. They joined the
blue-caped gendarmerie guarding vital
centers of the capital while the strike
mushroomed.
Troops in Readiness
Troops of "the military government
of Paris," the army region surround*
(Continued on Page Two)
FDR MIGHT MAKE
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
AGAINST CRITICS
Support of Corporation Licens
ing Bill, Ickes Speech
Strengthen View
Washington, Dec. 39.—(AV-Three
developments gave fresh support Wed
nesday to the belief expressed by many
officials that the Roosevelt adminis
tration would make an active cam
paign against its business critics:
1. Reports reached congressmen
from high administration sources that
the president at a recent cabinet
meeting endorsed the principle of the
Borah-O'Mahoney bill to license In
terstate corporations.
2. Senator Norris (Ind., Neb.),
a
Roosevelt backer, suggested the sen*
ate renew Its investigation of lobby
ing In an effort to offset what he
ermed "organised propaganda"
against the president's legislative pro
posals.
3. Secretary Ickes anonunced he
would deliver a radio speech Thurs
day night on "it is happening here."
Associates predicted he would dis
cuss relations between government
and business.
The reports concerning Mr. noose
velt's views on the corporation licens
ing bill encouraged its friends to be
lieve It might become the chief vehicle
for the administration's proposed at
tack on the monopoly problem.
The Borah-O'Mahoney bill
vides that an enlarged federal
commission would charter
tlons engaged In interstate or foreign
commerce. Licenses could be denied te
firms violating the anti-trust laws.