The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-30
NEWS AGENCY TO BLAME FOR STORY
 ABOUT STIMSON
Secretary of State Mis- quoted and Japan Was ArOus d. Anti=Jap Riots in Cities in U. s.
BY MILES w. VAUGHN United Prcss Stoff Correspondent

United PrcSS StOff Correspondent
 Tokio, November 30 - (UP) - The "stimson incident" appeared tional affair and a domestic polit- ical issue, as the story behind the incident became known.
 War Minister General Jiro Mi nami said after a cabinet meeting at which he asked Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara for details of his conversations with Ambassador w. Cameron Forbes regarding the Jap anese agreement not to attack Chinchow that he, Minami, con sidered the matter closed.
 This was interpreted to mean that efforts of the opposition to embarrass the foreign minister over the Stimson incident had end- ed.
 The foreign office retracted its statement denouncing Stimson af- ter 1t became known that news agency blunder misquoting Stim- son was responsible for what threatened to be the most serious international incident in the Man. churian problem.
 S. Shiratori, chief of the intelli- gence bureau and spokesman for the foreign office, issued vigor- ous condemnation of Stimson Sat urday on the basis of a news dis patch from Washington which said that Stimson had accused the Japanese army of Running amuck" In Manchuria and that he had accused Japan of aiming to take all Manchuria from China.
 When 1t became clear that Stim- son had been misquoted, and the foreign office had been informed of the facts by Ambassador W. Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi in spokesman revoked his earlier statement. He said that the gov ernment considered the incident closed. No government statement will be issued.
 The news dispatch which caused all the trouble was distributed by the Japanese Rengo News Agency on the basis of an Associated Press dispatch from Washington. It was confirmed by the Rengo Agency. which is allied with the Associated Press and receives a subsidy from the Japanese government, that the cable purporting to quote Stimson was received from the Associated Press via San Francisco. Riot In Chicago Chicago, November 30 - (UP) - Two fatal shootings and the wounding of an innocent bystander in an argument over the Sino- Japanese situation threw Chicago's Chinatown into confusion today. The dead were Moy Choon NJ, 36, and Moy Him, 3S. The wound- ed man was Moy Tong See, 32, critically hurt with bullet wound in his neck. Police riot squads patrolled the Chinese quarter fearful of revenge slayings by relatives of the slain men.
 Chinese leaders assured author ities the shootings were not an out break of Tong warfare but had re- suited from a political argument over conditions in Manchuria. The slain Chinese had attended a mass meeting of the Chinese Con- solidated Benevolent Association at which Manchurian affairs were discussed. Bystanders said they became involved in an argument
  shot as they struggled to draw re- volvers and carry on the feud. See was wounded by a stray bullet. Police questioned scores of Chi nese before they could learn the cause of the trouble. Then a ser les of raids threw the district into confusion.
 It was learned the two Chinese slain and the wounded man were blood relatives of Frank Moy, un- official mayor" of Chinatown. More Riots in New York New York, November 30-(UP) - A meeting called by the Chi nese Alliance to discuss the Man churian situation ended yesterday in a riot, with one Chinese stabbed in the back and four persons in jail.
 Max Lauber, speaker. was charged with felonious assault. Police said he chased Chuey Tim from the fight and plunged pocket knife in his back. Lauber is a member of the Workers Ex- Service Mems League. said to be a Communist organization.
 Police said the fight started when Lauber praised Japan's att tttude toward the workers In cer- tain respects, and charged the Chi- nese capitalists with crushing the laboring class. Boos were heard and in a few minutes fists were flying.
 The other three persons held were charged with disorderly con- duct. They were: Philip Nicholas, 25, of 59 East 59th street; Sam Gong, 42, of 42 Mott street. and Sun Lee, 39, 26 Mott street.
 Report Chinese Active
 Mukden, Manchuria, November 30 - (UP) - Japanese airpiane scouts reported increased Chinese activity In the Chinchow area to. day after withdrawal of Japanese troops to the north started.
 Asked if the Chinese activity constituted provocation, a military spokesman replied. mot yeti.
 Seven Japanese troop trains left