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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
BY FREDERICK KUH (Copyright 1881 By The United
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Anganchi, Manchuria, Nov 20--- (UP)-An independent government in Heilungkiang province was de- clared at Tsitsihar to-day by Chang Chin Hui, the Chinese political leader who was carried to power with the Japanese army advance in Manchuria.
 The establishment of provi- sional regime, without allegiance to the Chinese Iational govern ment, virtually completed the ex- tension of Japanese control in the Manchurian railroad area.
 The Japanese influence has been enforced in the capitals of all three provinces, Mukden, Kitin and Tsit- sihar, which lies within the Soviet sphere of influence.
 General Ma Chan-Shan, whose army was scattered after 0 futile defense of Tsitsihar, was attempt ing to reorganize opposition to the Japanese in Heilungkiang province. Bombing planes. troops and cay. airy from Japanese endorsements were spreading over Q wide front north and east of Tsitsihar, ready to break up Chinese concentrations as quickly as possible.
 Japanese aviators bombed Gen eral Mas headquarters at Hailun, north of Harbin, but 1t was not de- termined whether the Chinese mile itary leader had fled that district. He was believed to be in the region of Koshan and Hailun. although Chinese claimed he was within 30 miles of Tsitsihar.
 The Japanese advanced steadily along the railroad line from Tsit- sihar to Kohsan, capturing Lung kiang after repulsing an attack by the Chinese troops. The Chinese were reported entirely disorganized in flight from Tsitsihar.
 The government of Chang Chin Hui, former governor of the Har- bin district under Japanese tutel- age, may be temporary. until an- other regime can be organized.
 What Jap General Says
 Copyright, 1881, By The United
 Mukden, Manchuria, Nov 2e--- (UP) = General Shigero Honjo, commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, believes peace and progress lie ahead of "this rich land" of northern Asia.
 "Japan wants peace in Manchu- ria," General Honjo told the United Press in an interview in which he outlined briefly the results expect ed from the occupation of the Tsitsihar area.
 "Japan believes peace is not far distant and that there are better prospects than ever for this rich land"
 The stolid, white-haired military leader who directed the Japanese offensive aganist General Ma Chan Shan at Tsitsihar tersely declared:
 That a new and stable gov
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Southern California football game

Southern California football game en route.
 Immediately after the game the mayor will take train for Chi- cago. He will leave Chicago at 9:3S D. m. The next evening on the Overland Limited arriving at San Francisco Tuesday morning.
 A possible political motive for the Journey was indicated in Cali mornia comment which said Walk CT within one week probably would have more united support from laboring classes all over the coun- try than any other ofiiceholder.
 But regardless of the various in- terpretations placed on the Walker trip, friends of Mooney pointed out that the mayors action placed him in the company of many noted leaders who have declared a be- lief in Mooney's innocence. They include: Rev John A. Ryan, of the National Catholic Welfare Confer ence; Rabbi Stephen A. Wise, Rab- bi stephen A. Wise, Rev John Haynes Holmes, Dr Albert Einstein, Senator Edward P. Costigan, and Clarence Darrow.
 Judge Franklin Griffin. who pre- sided at the Mooney trial called 1t lone of the dirtiest jobs ever put over." All of the living jurymen have asked for Mooney's pardon.
 Six of the seven judges of the California Supreme court voted last year against e pardon recommend. ation for Warren K. Billings, who was convicted with Mooney.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

plain that he would fight any pro- small taxpayer. He regards the along with increased normal tax base by lowering exemptions.
 He said larger incomes should bear the brtint of the increase. He was very careful to emphaeize democrats do not intend to put an undue burden upon wealth, busi- ness or industry.
 Representative Garner, demo- crat, Texas, prospective speaker, has refused to disclose his position.
 The Mellon program is drafted along lines of the 1924 revenue act, which if followed would provide normal rates of 3 per cent on the first 5000 taxable income, per cent on the next $4,000, and per cent above that. Present normal rates are one and a half, three and fve, respectively. Exemptions of the 1924 law were S1,000 for sin- gle persons and s2,600 for married persons. Present exemptions are $1,500 and $3,5O0.
 1ue W0lIo k4OuSo UeuleU LnAL President Hoover had any specific 'tax program" A definite express sion of the administration's attitude may be expected early next week.
 washington, Nov 20--- (UP)- Congressional leaders planned to- day to revise and repass the gov- ernment-operation bill President Hoover vetoed last spring, despite recommendations of the presidents commission.
 Senator Norris, repn., Neb., an- nounced he would reintroduce his old vetoed bill in the optional gov- ernment ownership form in which 1t last passed the senate.
 Chairman McNary said his sen- ate agricultural committee would undoubtedly take the measure up early in the session. He said he would study the commission pro- gram, but he recalled that hiT com- mittee unanimously endorsed the Norris plan on several previous oc- casions.
 Unofficials,. Chairman James of the House Military affairs commit tee which handles Muscle Shoals legislation anhounced he and Rep. Percy Quin, dem, Miss, were work ing on a new bill along the lines of the old Norris plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

(C0nt1nueu from EaB0 1.p
 sible, however, that some modil- cation of their legislation will be seriously considered by House ana Senate committees.
 The house wet bloc Is planning an organization meeting soon. Their adherents predict they will have more than hundred mem bers. Rep. Linthicum. lefn., Md, probably will be reelected chair man with Rep. Beck, repn., Pas chairman of the legislative conn mittee. :, fication will be incorporated m legislation now being drafted. The attack Is expected to center around the proposition for q referendum.
 The bolder attitude has been shown in the fight started by Rep. Britten, repn., H., against coi1- tinuance of Senator Fess, repn.s Ohio, dry, as chairman of the re- publican national committee.
 Bingham today joined the critic ism of Fess saying: T believe his letter to James w. Wadsworth of New York on the prohibition ques- tion was a mistake. Fessc missed the point entirely. (Wadsworth asked concerning Q referendum and Fess answered denouncing re peal). I think the weak point in the dry position is their opposition to a referendum"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

villagers . re not in the liquor business as such--they say they are merely putting their crops to the most profitable use.
 And they have only contempt for the eastern shore across the bay, home of Prohibition Director Woodcock, where the counties. they say, go in for local prohibi- ton laws dry voting, and wet drinkine." St Mary's county never has voted dry.
 No stranger can come Into this region and buy a drink. Neither can he buy liquor to take away with him. But once he is favorably known, southern Maryland hospi- tality is his to the fullest.
 The attitude of the populace was summed up briefly by one old farmers wife whose son was ar- rested for selling whiskey. When the revenue men, arrested the youth and seized his car, the old woman remarked:
 "Why can't they let folks make an honest living?"
 W0odcock has called this region the wettest in the United States, ana his agents have been trying hard to dry 1t up. So far their ef- forts have succeeded In making the people more cautious, increasing the price, and in some cases cutting short the aging process.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

The powerful teeth of a huge steam shovel bit into the ground to-day at the site of the new post ofIlce and by noon a yawning hole greeting passersby. Thus starts the first step in the erection of Waterbury's new federal building. Thirty men are busy tearing down the old building which Is expected to De only a memory in two weeks.
 Several scores of unemployed men were present watching oper- ations which started bright and early this morning. Trucks were lined up ready to receive the fill ing as 1t was excavated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
DIGGING CELLAR FOR NEW POST OFFICE
Steam Shovel To Complete Job
 By December 20
Work of Raging Old Structure VIII Be Completed Within Two Weeks -Sub-C Contractors of Several States Enter Bids

The windows have disappeared from the second floor of the old building. Men are busy at work tearing out the interior.
 Herbert Goldsworthy, vice presi- dent of the Murch Brothers. con- tractors, left town last evening af- ter arranging preliminary details.
 It was learned that bids from sub-contractors for work on the building have been received from a dozen states. Some of them come from as far west aS Chicago.
 The excavation work will be completed by December 20, it was learned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
NEW PLANE ON
 WAY TO CANAL

Miami, Florida, November 20 - (UP) = The American Clipper, new giant amphibian of the Pan- American Airways, started at 11:10 a. m. a. m. today on her inaugural flight to the Canal Zone, with Col onel Charles A. Lindbergh at the controls
 The departure was delayed for more than an hour when Q starter broke as the motors were being warmed up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
CASTON B. MEANS
 SPENT NIGHT IN THE CITY JAIL
Means Was Beating His Wife When Policeman Took Him Was N0t0ri- Ous in Harding Regime

Bethesda, Afd, November 20 - (UP) - Gagton D. Means, spectac- ular figure of the Harding admin istration scandals. spent the night in jail here and today, was released in $500 bond on charges of assault- ing a policeman. Webb Hershber- ger of the Montgomery county po- lice reported that he went to the means home in Chevy Chase in re- sponse to g call, and found Means beating his wife. Means struck her In the policeman's presence, and hit the policeman several times when an arrest was attempted. Hershberger reported.
 Means was a leading witness in 1923-24 in the senate Investigations of the justice department and the veterans bureau. He later served Q term in Atlanta for mall fraud in connection with the National Caslket Company case. His latest public exploit was "the strange death of President Harding" a book written in collaboration with May Dixon Thacker, dealing with alleged undercOver developments in the Harding administration. Mrs Thacker has repudiAted the book as based on charges which are not proved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
WILL INTERVIEW CHINESE GENERAL
 OVER THE RADIO
United Press War Cor respondent Frederick Kuh to Repeat His COpy- righted Story By Re- quest

New York, Nov 20-(UP)- American radio listeners tonight will hear an American war corres- pondent interviewing a Chinese general. The exclusive interview which Frederick Kuh, United Press staff correspondent in Manchuria, had last Sunday with General Ma Chan-Shan at Tsitsihar will be re- enacted over a nationwide network for the Columbia Broadcasting sys- tenn as part of Time Magazines weekly program "the march of time."
 Editors of Time said Kuh's in- terview contained such dramatic material that 1t was easily adapted to raido dramatization. The Uni- ted Press granted permission for re-enactment of the copyrighted in- terview.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

tContlpueo from Fa8e 1.) sel, and New York State Senator John J. Hastings.
 The venture was born in touch- ing applications for aid dispatch cd to the mayor by Mooney's aged mother, his sister Anna and the labor leader, himself. When walk CT read the message from the S0- year-old woman who appealed for 6 last opportunity to see her son free, he was moved to tears.
 The aged woman's son has spent 1S years of Q life sentence in San Quentin prison after conviction on charges of participating in the bombing of the preparedness day parade in San Francisco in 1918 costing 10 lives.
 It was understood that Walker intends to leave before .e:20 D. m. for South Bend, Indiana, where he will witness the Notre Dame-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Groom Drove the Auto
 and Fiancee Killed

Lowell, Mass. Nov ao.-(UP)- Miss Jean ouiiette, ze. was killed when the automobfls in which She was riding with her 1ance was in collision with another in Cardinal O'Comnell Parkway early to-day.
 Her sweetheart, Charles F. Le- duo, 23, insurance agent, and the operator of the other car, Harold 1T. McKelvey, 25, were held in bonds of 42,D00 on technical charges of manslaughter.
 Leduc and Miss Ouilette were to have been married next Easter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

 liquor here, but there is . stigma attached to one who made bad whiskey.
 Discussions here of the strange spectacle of q farm community of several thousand people almost e unit against national prohibition. reveals that the distillers gener- ally are farmers, descendants of the first Colonists, who grow chief ly two crops-rye and tobacco. The tobacco goes to France for manufacture of cigarettes ordi- naires."
 The rye leaves southern Nary land in liquid form.
 St Mary's county has few boot leggers in the sense that large oities have them. The farmers and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

budget.
 The Mellon program, which also includes some mercedes in surtax rates on large incomes has been endorsed by several senate admin istration leaders, though most house republican leaders declined to commit themselves. The latter, however, are generally acquiescent in a tax rise.
 The tax bill must originate in the house, and within the next few days leaders there are expected to develop the general outlines of their plans.
 The man who will be chairman of the house ways and means com mittee if democrats organize, Rep resentative Collier, Miss. made 1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

action in defense of International obligations. The sanctity of treaties is at stake. not through Japar's police action, but through the un- willingness of China to recognize it's obligations"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Unidentified Man
 Killed and Two TruckInen Arrested

Bridgeport, Conn, Nov 2o-(uPe Two Bridgeport truckers Wera arrested to-day charged with cang- ing the hit-Rnd-run death ok an unidentified man last night.
 Albert Cook, negro driver, was held in $2,EOO bonds for the corr oner and Ralph Demaio. his helps CT, was held in e1,O00 bonds.
 Witnesses said the truck failed to aiaclxen its pace after knocking down the well-dressed man. The victim, about 16 years old, died at a hospital Q few hours later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
ExpIosion i'm Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Nov 20-(UP)- An explosion in the fashionable Chestnut Hill district of the city shortly before midnight shattered windows in houses many blocks away, and awoke Marquis A. Fers rante. Italian consul general. who lives but few blocks away. He expressed fear that 1t was a bomb meant for him.
 Police who have guarded his home since the arrival in this ucountry of Foreign Minister Dino Crandi of Italy assured the consul general he had nothing to fear.
 Director of Public Safety scho- field expressed the belief to-day that the explosion was caused by q leaking gas main since Q six. Inch gas conduit was shattered at
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Defiant Wet Town
 Has No Apology

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Mayor Walker Is
 Leaving Tonight

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Congress Vets
 Very Ambitious

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Democrats Will
 Fight Tax Raise

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Washington, Nov 20-(UP)- Signora Grandi, wife of the Italian foreign minister, left here by train at 10 a. m. to-day to join her hus- band in Philadelphia.
 She will arrive in Philadelphia at 12:45 p. m. and make her head quarters at the Bellevue Stratford hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-19
Sue To Recover
Mexican Land

LOS ANGELES, March 10. W.n)-
Suit to recover $1,000 acres OF an
old land grant in Mexico, including
the 500 acres on which the town OF
Aqua Caliente. Lower California, is
located, is to be instituted by heirs
of the Bandini family, it was learned
today.
Elliott Bandini, with Ralph Ban
dini and Mrs. Byron T. Brockway,
has retained Attorney Howard j..
Fish to take their claims before
the Mexican department OF agri-
culture, Fish revealed.
The claim is based on land grant
of 27,OOO acres in Lower California
and 100000 acres in what is now
San Diego county, California, given
by Don Jose Maria Enchandia to
Santiago Aguello, Elliott Bandini's
grandfather, in 1929. The grant was
confirmed by Governor Pho Pico IN
l846 and by Benito Juarez in 1861,
Fish said.
Aguello died in 1868 and his wife
eight years later. President Diaz
confirmed the Mexican portion OF
the grant in 1879, but due to differ
ences between the heirs, constant
litigation resulted with the San Di-
ego county land eventually being
lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-19
PERSONNEL OF
CITY COUNCIL
REMAINS SAME
Oral Resignation Made By
GianOla Declared Not
Legal

Affairs of the Ell Centre city
council remained unsettled today
after the discovery last night that
the oral resignation of Fred Gian-
ola, councilman, rendered four
weeks ago, was not legal and could
not be accepted by the council.
No steps were taken to choose a
councilman &c succeed Gianola, al
though he indicated that his writ
ten resignation would be forth
coming as soon as other members
of the council agreed on a sue
cessor. $500
Gianola had no statement to
make today, other than that, un-
less other members of the council
indicate their choice of a candi-
date to take his place, he will con-
tinue to serve until his term ex-
pires.
Illegality of an oral resignation
was discovered at the regular
meeting of the council last night
after Mayor Fawcett brought up
the subject.
Aside from the matter of Gia-
nolas resignation, the city council
last night took up number of mat
ters having direct bearing on civic
improvement in Ell Centre.
Dorsey Whitelaw, city attorney
reported to the council the result OF
a conference in Los Angeles with
officials of the Southern Pacific
railroad company on the proposed
State street crossing. 1t was defi-
nitely established, said the city at
torney, that the crossing will be
built, and the railroad company de-
sires to cooperate with the city in
every way possible. :,
Details Of division of expense will
be worked out by officials of the
Southern Pacific, and not by the
railroad commission, unless a dead
lock occurs between the city and
the company. Officials of the COM
pany promised a written communi-
cation soon setting forth their attl-
tude. The conference was marked
by the friendly attitude OF the
Southern Pacific men towards Ell
Centre, said Whitelaw.
A committee from the State Street
Improvement association, appeared
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-19
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SOUTHERN BLOC
FILlBUSTERS In
STATE SENATE

SACRAMENTO, March 10. U.P)-
Angered by efforts to jam through
a vote on reapportionment, South
ern California assemblymen launch
ed a filibuster on the floor of the
assembly toGay.
The movement was simply an ef-
fort to spar for time in order to
permit the Mckinley reapportion-
ment bill, now before the senate,
to reach the assembly before vote
is taken on the reapportionment
bill by Assemblyman Edward
Craig, Brea.
Heated arguments, bristling with
personal attacks, charges of "un-
fair tactics" rubber stamp pro-
cedure," and "railroading" were
flung back and forth across the
floor in the debate over rules and
other motions made for the pur-
pose of holding up the proceedings.
The reapportionment issue broke
soon after the assembly convened
today, when NJ S. Meeker of Ker-
man sought to have expunged from
the assembly journal the record of
yesterday which placed in the
journal the two Craig reapportion-
ment bills.
These measures were brought
from the committee on engrossment
and enrolment in an irregular
manner" Meeker declared. They
appear on the files in the wrong
chronological form, and therefore
should be removed
After two hours of debate with
the southern California members
doing most of the talking, an at
tempt by Assemblyman Roy Bishop,
Alameda, to end the battle by ad-
journment failed of passage by
vote of 81 to 49,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-19
LIGHT
VOTING RECORDED
AT POLLS TODAY

Exceptionally light voting was re-
ported today in five FL Centro pre-
cincts, and throughout Imperial
county, in the election to choose an
assemblyman to fill the place of the
late Myron D. Witter.
A check at AS today showed that
out of a possible 1900 voters in the
five Ell Centro precincts, only 266
had cast ballots. Little interest had
been displayed in competition for
the post of assemblyman, with only
three candidates making strong bids
Voters in the Ell Centro precincts
marked 81 ballots at the fire hall,
SIS ballots at the court house, s35 at
the Globe Grain and Milling COM
pany, 55 at the police department
and 60 at the high school, checkur
at AS today showed
A slightly heavier vote is expect
ed this afternoon, when busines.
men and workers make their wa,
to the polls before balloting is closes
at 7 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-19
RECOVER ALL
BODIES BURIED
BY LANDSLIDE

QUINCY, Cal, March 10. U.p)-
With the recovery of three more
bodies shortly before 10 a. M, to-
day, all five victims of the cave
in of the new Western Pacific tun-
mel near Keddie had been account
ed for.
The three bodies brought out to-
day were those of Hugo Johnson,
Los Angeles; Gus Lund of Quincy
and John Hagenson, Sar1 Francis
co. The two recovered last night
were identified as those of Arvid
Falk, Portland, Ore, and Aaron Ed
mondson. San Francisco.
Complete Identification of the
victims today revealed that Hokan
Anderson of San Francisco, prev
iously reported as one of the men
entombed when the roof collapsed,
was not present in the tunnel at the
time of the disaster.
An error in timekeepers' records
was held responsible for listing
Anderson as among those missing.
The cave-in occurred in tunnel
number two on the Western Pa
cific extension early yesterday
morning. Six men were trapped by
the slide, only one of whom es-
capped alive. Swan Hedin of Quin-
cy, the last man to enter the tun-
mel before the landslide, was res
cued by fellow workers near the
mouth of the tunnel. He was only
slightly injured.
The other five, who had pene-
trated to a greater depth, were
crushed by tons of earth and rock.
Many of the bodies were horribly
mangled by the sharp stones and
from being crushed against ma
chinery used in the construction
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-19
YANKEE FLYER
REPORTED LOST
in PHILIPPINES

MANILA, March 10. (U.P)-Four
United States navy destroyerS be-
gan search today for William G.
Brophy, Los Angeles aviator, who
was believed to have been forced
down in an isolated section OF
Luzon while flying from Hongkong
to Manila.
Brophy left Macao, Hongkong, at
$50 a. m. today with fuel estimated
sufficient to carry him until $50
p. m. A ship reported sighting his
plane Is miles out of Macao but
since then no word has been re-
eeived.
Naval authorities ordered the
destroyers John Paul Jones, John
d. Ford, Truxton and Peary to
quarters to start the search around
the Island of Luzon, while the
Philippines broadcasting company
issued a request for information as
to Brophy's whereabouts.
Brophy left Shanghai q month
ago on a proposed nonstop flight
to Manila but was repeatedly forced
down by engine trouble.
LOS ANGELES, March 19. tU.D-
The United State department OF
commerce, division of aeronautics.
has an aviator listed here as q. w.
Brophy, TIC Seventh street. Phoe-
nix, Arizona. II was believed that
Brophy was the william q. Brophy
reported lost between Hongkong and
Manila.