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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

Miss Vera Hathaway, forme teacher in the Wrangell Hig School, sends Christmas greeting to friends here from Sioux Fall: South Dakota.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

The World War put soldiers in the trenches, and the rest of us in the hole.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
UPTURN IN BUSINESS
FORECAST BY MOSES
Reassured by Conversations With
Business Leaders in Capital,
He Announces.
By the Associated Press.

CONCORD, N. H, December 26-
United States Senator George H. Moses
said today that recent conversation
with financial leaders at Washington
Nations business prospects in 1882.
L found them much more optimistic
As to the future of American business
than the general news reports from
New York would lead one to think,
he said. "One of the foremost of these
financial leaders found discernible many
very direct indications of an upturn,
epd he was very definitely of the
opinion that by the end of 1882 the
Nation would be we'll back to the level
of business activity which preceded the
crash"
Senator Moses expressed doubt that
Congress would approve that section
Of Secretary Melons tax program
which would enlarge the number OF
Federal income tax payers by bringing
into the group those earning smaller
incomes than are now taxable.
The Senator predicted that there
would be some increases in the income
tax levies in the higher brackets and
also said certain nuisance taxes
probably would be restored. He be-
1ieved Congress would approve the
Hoover reconstruction corporation plan
During the interview, he received a
telephone call from Ray Benjamin
prominent California Republican and
personal friend of the President. While
declining to divulge what they talked
about, Moses said:
II think that American people are
becoming more and more conscious OF
the effort President Hoover has made
to lead the country out of the business
depression and I believe that this will
b very helpful to him"
Evening star., 1931-12-27
D. c. TRUCK OWNERS
PLAN TAX BATTLE.
$4,000, 900 Cost to Be Added
by House Measure,
Leader Warns.

Threatened with added operating
costs estimated at 100000 annually.
truck owners here are girding for a
fight on three fronts.
An additional imposition locally of
more than 100000 is forecast If the
Mapes weight taxation program is car
ried out. while new levies on CONNER
cial motor vehicles, which would boost
expenses by thousands of dollars, face
the operators who 60 into Maryland
and Virginia-in the latter State by the
discarding of reciprocity.
Further. it was brought out last
night, the Mapes motor set-up would
have the effect of legislating of the
streets certain classes Of vehicles by
limiting tonnage
The situation confronting all estab-
lishments using trucks for the conduct
OF their industries. as we'll as those
strictly in the trucking business, was
outlined last night in a statement by
Jerome Fanciulli, executive secretary of
the Commercial Motor Vehicle Owners
Association of the District of Columbia,
which includes bus operators also. and
is being revived because of current de-
velopments.
Group Will Reorganize.
A reorganization meeting is to be
held at the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States Tuesday night, when
members will be enrolled, and officers
elected, that definite line of action
may be mapped out.
Under the proposed schedule in the
House legislation, officers of the asso-
citation figure that the direct tax on
trucks will approximate 1000 900 an
nually. According to Fanciulli's figures,
the light delivery vehicles, averaging
about half ton, used by the small
retailers, would pay about $40, while
the larger trucks, geners ly of the and
l ll2-ton type. serving laundries, bak-
cries, department stores and similar es-
tablishments. would pay about $40. The
levy on moving and storage vans would
vary from $3.50 to $500 yearly, while
dump trucks. used for hauling coal or
sand for example, would be taxed $500
or more Added to this, of course, would
be the doubled gas tax
An idea of what would be ertailed
in the increase is shown by compari-
son of what is paid now by a 11a-ton
truck which is operated $4,000 miles
and the amount under the Mapes pro-
posal.
Estimating fuel consumption at 10
ICnptinued on pace . roI,Inon Az
Evening star., 1931-12-27
RAGING DIXIE FLOOD.
WH|RLS Z TO DEATH.
Levee Crews Continue Fight
to Stem T0rrent-Crest
Expected Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLARKSDALE, Miss, December 26.-
Flood fatalities were reported in the
water bound Delta country today as
levee crews continued a prolonged fight
to save the Tallahatchie River dykes
at the towns of Glendora and Sumner
Word from Mimms, Miss, where
backwaters from the swollen rivers have
covered thousands of acres Of lowlands,
said that colored man named Hender-
son and his 6-year-old son were
drowned as they slipped from levee
into the rampant Tallahatchie River
In the same section, rescue crews in
skiffs continued a search for Mr.. and
Mrs. Pope Whitten and their fuor chill
dren, missing since early this week
when they fed from their farm home
near Stone.
Crest Expected Today.
Clear skies in Tallahatchie County
today cheered citizens of Glendora anc
Sumner and convicts from the State
pSIllLeIlIldTy LII d DdIIle dSdIiloG tlle
slowly cresting Tallahatchie.
Levee workers struggled with weak
ened embankments along mile front
to save Glendora. Already half the
| residents have evacuated to higher Sec
tions and others are prepared to follow
The river was expected to reach its
crest tomorrow. The water reached the
top Of the levee today, but resident:
| hoped that their continuous elevation
of the levee by means of sand bag!
would prevent the swift currents from
| surging over
| The situation was almost as seriou!
at Sumner, nearby town, where the
post Office and Baptist Church are in.
| undated.
Spend Sleepless Yule.
The people of Sumner and Glendora
| spent a sleepless Christmas night fight.
| ing the waters approach. At Summer
| they believed the fight had been won
provided there is no additional rain.
The YaZoo River, which carries of
! the waters from the Tallahatchie anc
| the Yalobusha. came to a standStill to-
day right at flood stage at Greenwood
and its recession was expected In {
few days The Tallahatchie was fall.
| ing above Greenwood and the danger
from the Yalobusha was diminishing
The Ouachita River at Monroe, La.
was just in food stage, but no suffering
| was reported there.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
SACK CLUE UPSET
IN GIRLS MURDER
Cincinnati Victims Funeral At.
tended by 600, Including
Reunited Parents.
By the Associated Press,

CINCINNATI Ohio. December 26-
Chemists tonight upset another clue in
the search for the slayer of Marian Nc
Lean. 6, kidnapped child, whose body
was found in cellar here Tuesday.
DR.. Otto P. Beherer, city chemist. re-
ported he could find no trace of blood
upon a gunny sack turned over to him
by a special investigator from the sher-
Ill S office, who found it in the cellar
today.
City Hospital chemists also said that
articles turned over to them by police
showed no trace of blood.
Meanwhile questioning of Charlie
Blschof, 46. who found the child.
body, and James Devenny, his brother
in-laW, continued, but without appar-
ent result.
Marian died of internal injuries caused
by criminal attacks. Gau believed her
body may have been taken to the cellar
in the sack
The remnants of the broom were
found, Gau said In a stove in the room
OF a man held for investigation Police
withheld comment on its significance.
Six hundred persons filled the cathe-
dral for the funeral. Among them were
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Mclean, parents
of the slain child! Separated 18 months
ago, the father and mother have been
reunited by the tragedy.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
PORTUGUESE REBEL
PLOT FRUSTRATED
5000 Troops Patrol Spanish Bor-
der to Quell Expected
Uprising.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal, December 26.-
Authoritative quarters said today that a
plot of Portuguese exilels in Spain to
enter Portugal and try to overthrow
the dictatorship of President Carmona
Christmas day had been frustrated.
The conspirators planned to cross
the frontier of Alemtejo Province, ac-
cording to the account of the plot, and
Join with dissatisfied persons in Portugal
to establish a government" The exiles
were thought to have numbered 300.
Ofdcials heard of the plot three DAYS
ago. They reinforced troops at Evora
and Elvas, while detectives disguised as
peasants learned of the plan.
The Governor at Elvas sent a corps
in tanks and armed with machine guns
along the front" and the plot failed tc
materialize.
The Alemtejo territory has beer
watched since 400 rifles were uncovered
recently in that district.
A Portuguese force of 5000 men under
Col. Tassos Sousa, military Governor al
Elvas, was patroling the boundary to.
night. 1t was reported emigrants hac
concentrated in the Spanish town oi
Rozales de la Frontera, facing upper
Alemtejo.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
CINCINNATI GOVERNMENT pL AN
SOUGHT FOR NEW YORK CITY
Organizations Announce Campaign, and Blanks Will Be
Distributed and Meetings Held.

ment is entirely non-partisan, and that
its aim is to put the city of New York
on a business basis.
I'VE would have no patronage" he
said, land positions would be filled on
merit and ability Those who are now
in the city's employ would need have
no fear of their jobs If they are COM
petent, full-time workers and their jobs
are necessary. Should the independent
candidates be elected, we would not
penaliZe a worker because he supported
the Tammy ticket. We would insist,
however, that he keep out Of politics
hereafter"
Dr. Schief1in said the organization
would be open to recommendations from
the Hofstadter Legislative Committee
now investigating the city government.
Ths Cincinnati system" is the CITY,
manager form of government and nom
partisan. It went into effect six years
ago.
The city, under this control, built
miles Of new streets ana cleaned up its
government lnd has become known as
one of the Best governed cities in the
count14,
Evening star., 1931-12-27
MORE TROOPS RUSHED.
Chinese Hordes Sweep Toward Mukden
Rail Towns.

MUKDEN. Manchuria, December 26
R).-Two battalions of infantry were
ordered into the area between here and
Antung today to relieve the skeleton
detachments at three settlements along
the Mukden-Antung Railway.
Chinese irregulars in overwhelming
numbers had swept down on Feng
Huan-Cheng, where only 80 men were
stationed, another force had struck at
Ssutaitzu and third was believed to
have moved against Kao LINEN. Com
munications were cut and details OF
the engagement were lacking.
One battalion was ordered up from
Antung and another on the way from
Japan by way of Korea was directed
into the sector.
Over to the West, the menace to
Chinchow appeared to have been
lifted The japanese detachment driv-
ing down from Mukden was reported
to have been withdrawn to the South
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 2)
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Voice That Doomed
Underwood Ballots
May Be Heard Again
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala, December
26.-The voice that doomed IA
votes for Underwood" at the
Democratic national convention
in 1924 may be heard again at
the 1882 party assembly.
Judge William w. Brandon of
Tuscaloosa County, former Gov
ernor of Alabama. tonight an
nounced himself as a candidate
for delegate at large from Ala
bama to the Democratic national
convention next year.
Should he be elected, the for
mer Governor will be candidate
for chairman of the Alabama
delegation, a role he made famous
in 1924, when his voice rang
through the convention hall in
New York City casting Alabama's
vote for the late Senator oscar
w. Underwood for President.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
MEXICANS ASK CONSUL
BE OUSTED IN KILLINGS
salazar at Piedras Negras Con-
doned Death Of Two at Hands
of q. 8. Guards, Is Plea.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, December 26.-Dis-
patches from Piedras Negras said to-
day that Mexicans there had requested
the removal of Francisco B. Salazar,
Mexican consul, because he had con-
doned, they said, the killing Of two
Mexicans by United States border
guards.
The consul was reported to have
said that the two Mexicans, who were
slain near there this week, were bandits.
The dispatches said the Mexican
colony of Eagle Pass, Tex, also had
petitioned President Ortiz Rubio, Min
lister of Interior Teller and the presi-
dent of the National Revolutionary
party here to have the consul with
drawn and dropped from the Mexican
diplomatic service.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
MOUNTAINS COMBED FOR PILOT
MISSING SINCE CHRISTMAS EVE
Lieut. Bobbt Believed in Disabled Plane Crossing Peaks
on Way From Michigan to Virginia Home

closely watching the rising ranges from
the Pennsylvania border into Elkins.
Meanwhile, State police of the two
States, aided by mountaineers and
townfolk, pushed a search of the hills
long after dark.
Bob Lindsey, farmer of Beckey's
Greek, southwest of Elkins, reported
seeing plane flying low over the noun
tains yesterday. He said the pilot ap-
parently was in difficulty, but continued
on southwark over the peaks.
The planes which arrived in Elkins
tonight were held in readiness at the
private field on the farm of E. Dice
Harper, aviation enthusiast, who helped
organize the search today. Other planes
are expected tomorrow.
The aviator left Michigan Christmas
eve to visit his parents. He made a
brief stop yesterday at Uniontown,
stxeaking away from there at 12:z5 pm.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Consequences of Any Armed
Action Rests on Chinese,
Toxic Declares.
FRENCH AND BRITISH
ENJOYS HEAR DECISION
Statement Read to Ambassadors
but Text of Answer to Notes of
Concern" Is Withheld.
Sy the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press.
TOXIC, December 27 Sunday -
The japanese government told the
American, British and French Ambas-
eadors, in effect, today that Japan must
continue its operations against Chinese
Lanchuria.
Responsibility for the consequences
Of any action which may be entailed
upon the Japanese Army in self-de-
fense" must rest entirely upon the
Chinese, the statement said.
League Opposition Denied.
The statement giving Japan's stand
was handed to the Ambassadors with
formal replies to recent notes of the
United States. Great Britain and France
expressing apprehension at reports of
military operations in the Chinchow
area. 1t explained that the Japanese
action in Manchuria did not run against
the League of Nations resolution of
December 10, either in letter or in spirit.
so long as the ChinchoW military
authorities, while Stimulating an unag-
gressive attitude, continue to instigate
and manipulate movements of bandit
organizations against the japanese
Army, as well as the japanese and
other peaceful inhabitants" the state
ment said, "and so long as the officers
and men of the Chinchow army mingle
in large numbers with bandit groups,
rendering it impossible to distinguish
the bandits from regular troops, so long
must responsibility for the consequences
of any action which may be entalled
upon the Japanese Army in self-defense
rest entirely upon the Chinese.
Statement Is Read.
The statement was read to the AM
bassadors by Matsuzo Nagai, vice min
lister of foreign affairs, when they visit
ed the foreign Office shortly before
noon.
The replies to the American, British
and French notes were not made pub
lie and were described as being little
more than brief formal acknowledge
ments. They we're not all the same in
wording, as the communications from
the foreign governments were not
identical.
A communioue issued by the war Of
fee said Chang Hsueh-Liang's Chin
chow defenders had completed defense
works in the Tahushan region, in the
area west of the falling River and at
other places His army, including 1r-
regulars, was estimated at $4,000 men,
ali well supplied with ammunition.
No formal warning has been served
on Chang. it was said, and the Japa-
nese consul at Peiping has resumed ne
gotiations with a view to accomplishing
a retreat from Chinchow without re-
course to arms.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
CHILEAN POLICIES
PROTESTED BY REDS
Handbi|Is Urging Demonstra.
tions Against Government
Passed at Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
SANTIAGO, Chile, December 90
Handbills calling for demonstrations
against the government were distrib-
uted at a Communist mass meeting
here tonight, while a small force OF
carabineers looked on.
Less than 300 persons turned out
with one small banner to protest
against the policies of the government
and to demand the dissolution of Con-
gress., Inflammatory speeches were
prohibited by the carabineers.
Government officials were determined
that there would be no repetition of
disorders which resulted in So deaths
IN Northern Chile yesterday.
Raid Workers Club.
Police raided a workers club, finding
red flag, numerous soviet documents
and many proclamations they described
as subversive.
They also found a womans Com
munist center they reported Pro-
feSsional agitators were back of the
movement, the police said.
In preparation for tonight's meeting
a manifesto setting forth the Com
munist demands was issued
These demands included: Amnesty for
those who took part in the September
revolt; amnesty for the leaders of the
disturbance yesterday in Atacama
Province; minimum salary of "a cents a
day. or payment of 60-cent dole daily
by the government or by the capitalists; !;
withdrawal of carabineers from mem-
ployment camps; no new income or
wage taxes on the employed; dissolu-
ton of the Coash Nitrate combine and
appropriation without indemnity of the
nitrate industry; appropriation of large
estates; dissolution of Congress, and
protest against the policies of former
President Carlos Ibanez, which the
present government continues"
A group of army officers flew today
to Copiapo, capital of Atacama Prov
ince, to investigate a report that sew
eral soldiers were recognized among a
crowd Of 300 persons that attacked the
barracks of regiment there and held
it briefly yesterday.
Carabineers in Reserve.
Twenty carabineers on horseback and
afoot allowed the mass meeting here
to assemble in front of the National
University tonight, but were on guard
against disturbances. Several thousand
carabineers were kept in reserve at
their barracks throughout the city.
The comparatively small size of the
gathering was unofficially attributed tc
public feeling against the recent out
breaks and fear that carabineers pa
trolling the streets would be reinforced
with civil guards
OF the 36 dead after yesterdays fight
ing, 81 were officially listed as Com
munists slain at Vallenar
One of the bodies in the morgue al
Vallenar was identified as that OF
Anibal Cuadra, alleged leader of the
uprising at Copiapo, who was under.
stood to have arrived at Vallenar by
airplane in a military uniform after
the attack at Copiapo had been re.
pulsed Another was identified as that
of a Russian.
Most of the fatalities we're caused by
hand grenades and dynamite bombs
thrown into building by carabineers
to dislodge the revolutionaries.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
WOMAN JUROR GETS
PERJURY SENTENCE
Ex-EmpIoye of W. B. Foshay
Who Blocked Conviction
Given Six Months.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, December pa
woman, who two months ago dead
locked a jury for week and outlasted
II men to bring about disagreement
today was adjudged in contempt OF
court by perjury and was sentenced to
six months and fined $1,000.
The woman, Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark
was cited in the findings for "delib-
erately concealing' her former en-
ployment under w. B. Foshay when she
was examined for service with the jury
which heard his recent trial with six
former associates on mail fraud charges
involving millions of dollars.
Her counsel announced that she
would seek mitigation of her sentence
in an effort to avoid long separation
from her two small children. 1t was
believed to be the first such action
since women were permitted to serve
on Federal juries. An appeal will also
be considered during the 42-day stay
VI SSIlUCIlCC BldIlItu ny oOilli
B. Sanborn and Gunnar H. Nordbye
of Federal District Court.
Others Voted for Conviction.
She, as juror, insisted on acquittal
deadlocking the jury, which was dis
charged after a weeks effort to agree
The II men voted for conviction on
all II counts Of fraud brought against
Foshay and associates growing out OF
the collapse of Foshay's utility operat-
ing and stock selling enterprises in
November. 1929.
Mrs. Clark, who showed no emotion
as the decision was read, referring to
her conduct as "reprehensible. that has
in a large measure carried its own
punishment" and calling attention to
past business disappointments of hel
husband, D. D. Clark, a real estate
operator and former banker, with the
statement: This may have created
in her mind some antagonism toward
organized society,""
Her willingness to talk to strangers
of her desire to serve as juror, which
negatives to some extent the realiza-
ton on her part of the seriousness o1
what she was doing, coupled with hel
unyielding attitude in the jury room
(ContinlIed on page . Column Al
Evening star., 1931-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELKINS, W. Va, December 26.-
From the giant Cheat Mountains Of
West Virginia down into Southwestern
Pennsylvania a search was spread to-
night for Lieut.. E. H. Bobbitt, missing
Army pilot.
Bobbitt was en- route from Selfridge
Field, Mich, to his home in Hot
Springs, Va.
Reports that a plane resembling
Bobbitt's was seen yesterday, flying low
and with difficulty, spurred the search
In the Elkins region, where some Of the
mountain peaks rise 1000 feet.
Three Army planes arrived at dusk,
prepared to take up the hunt at dawn.
Fhey eakne IN 1som Unioutown, Pal
Evening star., 1931-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, December 26.-The New
York Committee Of One Thousand, the
Citizens Union and the Women's S
Municipal League, announced today a
campaign to change New York City's
form of government, using that Of
Cincinnati as a model.
Blanks will be distributed, said DR..
William ]. Schieff1in, chairman of the
Committee of One Thousand, and voters
will be given an opportunity to sign
their names to the following:
Il favor change in the city govern
ment and will support an independent
ticket in 1888, provided the candidates
meet with my approval"
Three mass meetings will be held in
Town Hall, in January, February and
March, and the Cincinnati system will
be explained by Mayor Russell Wilson,
Henry Bentley, chairman of the Gin
cinnati Charter Committee, and Charles
p. Taft, I'd.
Dr.. schieffiin explained that the move
Evening star., 1931-12-27
JEAN HARLOW so ILL
SHE'S CARRIED TO STAGE
Doctor Says She Needs Complete
Rest, But She Makes Three
Appearances in Pittsburgh.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, December 26.-Jean
Harlow. screen actress, was so i'll to-
night she had to be carried from her
dressing room to the stage, but she
made three appearances at a theater.
Her physician, DR.. J. M. Lichty, said
the actress is suffering from intestinal
influenza and that she needs COM
plete rest" She must remain in bed
tomorrow, he added. Mrs. Jean Ballo,
mother of Miss Harlow, is with her.
Jean is not seriously i'll, but it is
one of those illnesses that might de-
velop into something serious" the
mother said.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
A. l. DAY WINS DIVORCE
Capital Mans Marriage in Ger
many in 1900 Recalled.

RENO, New, December 26 [P.-
Arthur L. Day, director of the Carnegie
Geophysical Laboratory at Washington
and former instructor in physics at
Yale, was granted a divorce here today
from Helene Day, to whom he was mar
ried in Hesse, Germany, in 1900. The
suit charged desertion.