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The Washington times., 1931-11-21
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PROMISES
SENT To
LEAGUE
Japan Withdrawal to Railway
Zones in Manchuria May
End Heavy Conflict

QUAI D'ORsAY, PARIS,
Nov. p I.N.S.). Japan's
promises to recall her troops
to the railway zones in Man
churia as speedily as possible
and avoid armed conflict with
China were read aloud by
Aristide BRAND, of France, to-
day when the League of Ma
tions Counsel met in plenary
public session in an effort to
find a way out of the Man.
churian muddle.
Kenkichi Yoshisawa, japanese
delegate, sat unmoved as BRAND
told the council of the promises
Japan had made. When the yet
eran president of the council had
concluded his opening address,
YoshiSawa rose and delivered q
prepared address in French, pro.
testing that Japan had done all
in her power to avoid conflict.
Dawes Seat Vacant
. The Japanese delegate de.
clared Japan was willing to with.
draw her troaps .frcrn recently
occupied territories regardless OF
whether a neutral commission to
investigate the situation was ap-
pointed or not.
A seat was reserved at the cour1.
Gil table for Ambassador Charles
G. Dawes in the hope that he
might have received new instruc-
tions from Washington permit
ting him to participate actively
in the debate. But he remained
outside the circle of delegates.
and his chair was taken by girl
stenographer.
SEe Cooperation Asked
In the course of his opening
address, M. BRAND attempted to
lay the groundwork for orderly
discussion of the crisis by request
ing DR.. Alfred SEE, Chinese dele
gate, to keep strictly to the ques-
tions before the council in any
speeches he might make.
BRAND remembered the scenes
at Geneva when SEE on several
occasions threw the council into
an uproar by impromptu inter.
jections charging Japan with
various acts of aggression.
Standing on the councils reSo'
luton of September 80, pledging
all to work for peaceful settle
ment, Yoshisawa formally pro.
posed appointment of a neutral
committee of inquiry to inveSti-
gate the crisis at first-hand.
Fixed Policy Blamed
He demanded that the. COM
mittee visit not only the war zones
in Manchuria. but also China,
charging that the Manchurian
trouble was the direct result Of
the fixed policy of the Chinese
National party to break existing
treaties"
Following Yoshisawa, DR.. SEE
assured BRAND that he had no
desire to conplicate the argu-
ment, but that China has been
invaded and treaties violated"
He said:
"My government cannot bar
gain over withdrawal Of jap
anese troops. We are ready for
any reasonable collaboration
with the League of Nations"
Question of Inquiry
For the first time, DR.. SEE re.
vealed his country's intention OF
invoking Articles XIV and XVI
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MyrG Marsh MGrries
Broker in Arizona

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 81 GN.S0.
The eighth couple from the
screen colony to elope from Holly
wood to Yuma, Ariz.. to marry,
Myra Marsh, film actress, and
her husband, John A. Van Pelt,
40, rich Los Angeles broker, were
expected to return today.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of Novern.
ber 10, SITS, ,583 ,639.74.
Expenditures, $8,071 ,506.42
Customs receipts, SIT, ,975, ,408. .03.
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THE WEATHER

Mostly cloudy with continued mild temperature
tonight and Sunday; gentle sOutherly winds.
Temperature yesterday-Highest, rs, lowest, SO.
Humidity yestsrday-Hishest, 90; lowest So.
l Full Weather Reporf on Page II
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10

by him; and without him was 49,
any thing made that was mad )
(John 1:1-3). The Lesson Sern,o,,
also included the following nas
sages from the Christian Sciana
textbook, Science and Health r-itt
Key to the Scriptures" bv Ma
Baker Eddy: Genesis i. II H.
beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. The infinite has No
beginning. This word beginninq S
employed to signify the onlv tbat
is, the eternal verify and unity of
God and man, including the mn
verse. The creative PrincinIa
Life, Truth, and Love is Cod Tbs
universe reflects God. There Is bnt
one creator ana one creation. This
creation consists of the unfoIdino
of spiritual ideas and their identiz
ties, which are embraced in the in
finite Mind and forever reflected
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
PENSION COMMISSION MEETS
Miss Elizabeth Hazard Elected
Delegate to Motherhood Conference

At the June meeting Of the
Mothers Pension Commission held
at Dover, Wednesday among the
items of business transacted was
the appointment or election of Miss
Elizabeth Hazard as delegate
to attend the Motherhood Confer
ence on social work to be held in
Minneapolis, June IA to 20. Mrs.
J. M. Lank of Milton was elected
to act as vice chairman during the
absence of Miss Tschudy and Miss
Lizzie Woodruff. For New Castle
county four new applications for
pensions weer received and four
granted. New applications from
Kent and Sussex counties were
held over because of lack of funds.
In Sussex county, six families re-
ceiving pensions were reconsidered.
In Kent county two families were
considered. One case of typhoid
fever was reported. In New Castle
county, Is old cases were recon
sidered, four reduced and two dis
continued,
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
FEDERAL AGENTS MAKE RAID
Mrs. NJ. Goodyear Held Under $500
Bail For the Upper Court

Mrs. M. Goodyear, living be-
tween Frederick and Rising Sun,
was taken into custody Friday af-
ternoon by Federal prohibition of
ficers assisted by County Con-
stable Lee r. Cochran, of Smyrna,
after a raid had been made at the
Goodyear home where the officers
found 81 bottles of high powered
fome brew beer; 140 empty beer
bottles; two 20 gallon containers
with home brew mash in them.
Mrs. Goodyear was brought to Do
yer and arraigned before Magis-
trate w. d. Burton, by whom she
was held in $500 bail for the upper
court. In default of bail after
waiting an hour or two, she was
committed to Kent county Jail. One
of the Federal officers asked Mrs.
Goodyear how long her supply of
saleable beer would last to which
she replied it would be gone in
day.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE
Negro MOtorist in Jail, Faces
Drunken Driving Charge

When Mrs. Samuel S. Sarde, of
Camden, was driving out of Cam
den toward Dover Thursday after
noon, to visit her sister, Mrs. J.
Evans Cook, her car was struck
and forced into a peach orchard
near the Cook home, by an auto
mobile driven by George W.Adams,
colored, of Milford. Mrs. Sarde
being almost in front of her sisters
home, called for help. Constable
Cook, the husband of her sister,
came to the road to inquire about
the trouble. The negro in a bois-
ferrous manner let it be known he
did not care what happened. Con-
stable Cook attempted to take hold
of the man to place him under ar
rest when the negro turned on
Cook and in the tussel, Cook fell
to the road. Cook in his attempt
to arrest the negro was interfered
with by Ris Passwaters and Mary
Brown, both negroes and occu-
pants of the car which collided
with Mrs. Sarde's car. Officer
Cook after regaining his feet went
to the house to get his blackjack
and while in the house, Adams and
the entire party jumped in their
car and drive off. State Highway
officers Powell, King, Conrad and
Moore on being notified of the as
sault, located Adams on the road
from Camden to Frederick and
took the party back to Camden
and took them before Magistrate
Charles DUPONT Ridgely where the
following charges were made and
sentences imposed: George W.
Adams held in $1,000 bail on charge
of assault and resisting a public Of
ficer. He was also fined S100 and
cost for operating an automobile
while under the infiuance of liquor;
fined $28 and costs for reckless
driving, and $28 and costs for OPP
Grating an automobile without
license.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
VALUE KENT DITCHES $4,000
State Highway Department Plans
to Take Over Maintenance

In accordance with the law pass
ed by the last Delaware Legisla-
ture relative to the State Highway
Department taking over the ditch
es of Kent County for up-keep and
maintenance, a meeting of the rep
resentatives of the several ditch
companies and the tributaries
thereto was held last week in the
Representative Hall in the State
House. There were representatives
from 19 diffrent ditch companies
and their tributaries 1t was as
certained that there are in Kent
county 100 miles of main bitches
and 101 miles of branch bitches.
the assessed valuation of which is
between $4,000 and $4,000. The
purport or intention of the ditch
bill which passed the Legislature
as construed by those interested in
the ditch proposition is mainly to
have the State Highway Depart
ment keep the bitches cleaned out
from obstru ction. Under the pre-
vious arrangement where the
bitches were looked after and con-
trolled by individuals, assessments
were made for such cleaning out,
and under the new law such work
will be delegated to the State
Highway Department. The appro-
priation made in the bill for the
work was $4,000. Another meet
ing will shortly be called for the
purpose of taking some steps to-
ward Carrying out the provision of
the new act of Assembly.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
COMMENCEMENT AT FELTON,
George G. Herring Addresses %
Graduates at Exercises

The commencement exercises of
the FELTON, High School of the
special district of FELTON, were held
Friday evening in the auditorium
of the new school. The speaker of
the evening was George c. Herring
Jr., of Wilmington. Mr.. Herring
is former graduate of FELTON,
school. He is now practicing law
in Wilmington. Following is the
list of graduates Myrtle Welch,
Millard Benson, Ella Belts, George
Carey, Lillian Coverdale, Mariana
Eaton, William Carbutt, Viola
Holdman, Ann Hammond, Homer
Hopkins, Dorothy Hughes, Clar-
ence Jester, Daniel Tatman, Mary
Lynch, Rawlins Minner, Sara
Moore, James O'Conner, Warl
Scott, Dorothy Sipple, Thelma Tay-
lor, Homer Torbert and John
Walls.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
Christian Science Churches

God The Only Cause and Gre
ator," was the subject of the Les
son-Sermon on Sunday, June Z. in
all Churches of Christ, Scientist.
Golden Text: Let all the earth
fear the Lord: let all the inhab-
itants of the world stand in awe of
him. For he spake. and it was
done; he commanded, and it stood
fast" Psalms 33:8,9). Among
the citations which comprised the
Lesson-Sermon was the following
from the Bible: I'm the beginning
was the Word( and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God
The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT DAY
Event of Home Demonstration
Clubs, Tomorrow, at Newark

The Third Annual Achievement
Day for New Castle County Home
Demonstration Clubs which is to
be held at Wolf Hall, Newark, June
18th, promises to be the biggest
and most interesting event ever
hel for the home-makers of New
Castle County. All rural home
makers and their families are cor
daily invited to attend. Each
family is requested to bring a
picnic lunch and the University
will furnish coffee and ice water
for their lunch. An excellent pro-
gram has been prepared which will
begin at 10 o'clock Standard Time
The morning program will consist
of reports by some of the farm
women of their achievements in
improving their kitchens and liv-
ing rooms. Poppy club songs will
appear at intervals on the pro-
gram. Some of the outstanding
features of the afternoons pro-
gram will be an address by DR.. ].
Paul Wintrup, of Wilmington, Sec
retary of the State Dental Associ-
alton; a playlet entitled, Listen
ing In" to be put on by members
of the "Three-In-One" Home Dem
onstration Club; and the awarding
of prizes and honors for the var
Gus achievements in home making
this year. There will be an un-
usual exhibit of homemade braid
ed, hooked and crocheted rugs,
Passe Partouted pictures, and rem
ovated furniture; all done by var
ious members of the Home Dem
cnstration Clubs. Everyone is in
vited to visit these exhibits even
if they cannot stay for the entire
program.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
PRISON TERM REDUCTION
Earl White, Serving 20 Years for
Robbery, Given Communication

The State Board of Pardons
Thursday, after hearing the appli-
cation of Earl White, serving
twenty years for highway robbery,
decided to commute his sentence
to end on September 2S, next, at
which time he will have served
eight Of his twenty years sentence.
White and Joseph Smith were
charged with highway robbery in
the New Castle County Court, in
Wilmington. Smith entered plea
to assault and was sentenced to
two years in Jail while the high
way robbery case against him was
dropped. White was given a tent
ence of twenty years, fined $500
and sentenced to forty lashes. At
the trial it was stated that White
came to Delaware from Kansas
where it was reported that he had
been implicated in a bank robbery
for which he had been tried, the
jury disagreeing in the case and a
new trial ordered. Before the sec
ond trial White left Kansas and
went to Philadelphia, later going
to Wilmington where was was al
legged to have committed the high
way robbery. White protested his
innocence of the Wilmington rob
berry and since that time it has
been learned that Paul Burgett
confessed to the Kansas robbery
and is now serving a term in jail
there. On account of the short
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
WESLEY INSTITUTE, DOVER,
GRADUATES A CLASS OF 27
22 DIPLOMAS IN ACADEMIC
COURSE; 5 IN COMMERCIAL
g Commencement Exercises Held
Last Evening in Auditorium of
COllege-Meeting of Trustees

Commencement exercises of the
Wesley Collegiate Institute was
held in Dover yesterday, Tuesday
evening, June 9th, in the Auditor
ium. The Institute will complete
its fifty-eighth year. 1t is the only
Educational School conducted by
Wilmington Conference. There
were % graduates in the academic
department and five in the com
mercial department. The follow
ing received diplomas in the aca-
demic department: Henry L. An
derson, Cambridge, Md; John H.
Anderson, Dover; Burget I. Birk
Cayo, Mambi, Cuba; Ashworth
Burslem, Dover; William E. Cham
bers, Preston, Md; Sara r. Glenn
ents, Dover; Cecil V. Culver, Fred
erica; William A. Grafton, BaIti-
more, Md; Virginia w. Harring-
ton, Dover; James Oliver Hazard; !;
Milton; Samuel M. HUM, Camden:
Ain L. McSorley, Little Creek;
Theodore P. Martens, Dover; Ev-
erett c. Matthews, Dover; Mae
McCabe, Selbyville; Katherine M.
Moore, Bishop, Md; Theodore Mel
son, Dover; Helen Protopapas New
York; Thomas G. Roe, Dover; AL
vim Deely, Greenwood; James
Coady Walton, Jr., Dover; Lloyd
S. Tyler, Rhodes Point, Md. The
following received diplomas in the
commercial department: Betty H.
Cooper, Camden; Victor Cruz, Vic
toria de Las Tumas, Cuba; John
w. Gibson, Centreville, Md; Jane
B. Horney, Philadelphia; Samuel
H. Tyler, Hooper's Island. The
commencement exercises began
Saturday afternoon with a Junior
recital followed by the oratorical
and defamation contest at s
o'clock in the evening. The bac-
calaureate sermon was preached
Sunday morning in Wesley M. E.
Church by the Rev. Frank Herson
of Milford, and the sermon to the
school was preached in the even
ing in Wesley M. E. Church by the
Rev. M. E. Wheatley, of Middle
town. Mondays exercises consist
ed of the Glass Day program in
the afternoon and the senior recital
in the evening. The annual meet
ing of the trustees was held Tues
day morning and there was a
game of ball between the varsity
baseball squad and the alumni The
alumni held a business meeting in
the afternoon and banquet in
Wesley M. E. Community Hall in
the evening. Three new members
were in the board of trustees this
year, including w. w. Mack, of
Dover, Wilbur Fell Davis of Fed
eralsburg, Md, and Thomas ].
Mowbray, of Wilmington. Several
of the institutes graduates this
year will enter Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, University of Delaware,
Duke University, Syracuse Uni
versity and the University of
Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
Many Carbon Compounds

Some 100000 compounds of car.
hon are now known.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10

sentence received by the other
man, and White being declared in
nocent of the Kansas offense, the
board decided to commute the
sentence. A sister of White, from
Wichita, Kansas, has been at Do
yer for a week working for the
pardon of her brother.
Smyrna times., 1931-06-10

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Smyrna times., 1931-06-10
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The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Megality of Traps

The legality of traps in Alas kas has been challenged not a few times. The claim is set forth that the trap is @ special privilege contrary to the law of 1924 which specifically provides that fishing shall be general.
 Tn Oregon last May, the gill; netters asked the courts for an injunction against the Barbey Fish Company to prevent them from operating fish traps and a fish dock in the Columbia Rive from Sand Spit Island. Recent ly the courts held that the Bar bey Fish Company could not interrupt the "frec drift" of the gill netters so the Instructions must be removed. The company has appealed the decision to the higher courts.
 This case has a very important bearing on the trap issue in the Territory where the law of 1924 specifically provides that where any gear operates, any other gear might be operated. But un- der the regulations no seine or other type of gear may be oper- ated withing 100 yards, any di- rection, from a trap.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
When the Law is,Anarchic Editorial from the Washington, D. C. "News)

Wisely the Wickersham Com mission on Law Observance and Enforcement is looking 'to the inside Cf the cup" to discover to what extent the law is being fouled by the very courts them selves.
 Widespread and scandalous is the laWlessness of the law that the Kenyon subcommittee has set about to. investigate, but it is the opinion of this paper that no where will the Kenyon prob CTS uncover. such legal anarchy as in the California cases of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings.
 Some Established Facts
 We know, for instance that the five defendants in the bomb ing cases were arrested on July 26 and held ncommunicado un- til August 7, that they were den- jed benefit of counsel, that Mooney complained of his illeg- al treatment before the grand jury.
 We know that witnesses were coached, that they were given free board and lodgings for months, that they were promis- cd rewards and favorS.
 We know that Mrs. Edeau, one Of the witnesses" was promis- ed aid in the release of her con- vict husband for testimony that was so false that she was not called again as a witness!
 We know that the five chief witnesses to convict both Moon ey and Billings were either con- fessed or proved perjurers, and that in the case of the Edeaus it was known by the prosecutionl that they were lying at the time
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

with the Times, more or less, and believes that any mode of travel should be sufficient for congress men who come to Alaska to study at first hand, the problems of Alaska.
 The objection of the Times to the bureau-conducted tours of congressman is sound. The sole purpose of any bureau is to per- petuate itself and justify its policies. To that end, every per son of any official connection who comes to Alaska under the loving guidance of any bureau, is going to look at Alaska con- ditions through the colored glasses of the bureaus and those glasses, seldom if ever are per- nlitted to look into the dark and dirty corners of Alaska. The beautiful scenery, glaciers and mountains are shown; the fine capital and other show places are to be seen; the fine modern ly equipped cannery, all in the finely colored picture as the more fortunate see it.
 But the squalor of the canner-
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

they testified.
 We know that innocent epson salts was called an ingredient of explosives by a state expert witness" on the stand, that the material evidence of the alibi pictures of the Mooneys on the Filler Building roof was posses sed but suppressed by the prose cution, that the court and prose cution saved from jail the per- jurer Oxman in his perjury trial by closing his mouth when he was asked if he actually was iii San Francisco at the time he &wore he saw Mooney and Eill- iLgs plant th,. bomb.
 We know that Judge Franklin Griffin, whom the people of San Francisco have honored by five re-electionS, has cried out against the Mooney case that was tried in his court: Tt was one of the dirtiest jobs ever put cver."
 We have from the very lips of Prosecutors Brennan and Cunha the cynical admission that they tried Mooney and Billings not on direct evidence but on their reputations!
 Conspiracy Is Charged
 And we have it from Woodrow Wilson's Densmore Report that district Attorney Fickert's office was in a conspiracy to convict the innocent and free the guilty.
 Here, indeed stands American justice stripped of all pretensel of law, as savage and anarchic as the mob. They in California "have made a scare crow of the law" and yet men and women of America are asked to honor it.
 If the Wickersham Conmis..I
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Faith in the Country
From the Seattle Times

Confidence of outsiders in an industry or a region is best i" spired by evidences of confidence on the part of those doing busi- ness within that region ard therefore qualified to forecast is future.
 Falling into difficulties not unrelated to the general depres- sion, the Cascade Paper Com pany of West Tacoma has been acquired by the Everett Pulp & Paper Company.
 The Everett concern, of which William Howarth is president and treasurer; A. H. B. Jordan, vice president, and w. J. Pilz, secretary-manager. has a record of success extending over a peri cd of forty years, during which time it's paper products have achieved wide distribution along the Pacific Coast and in more distant markets.
 Its executives ought to know something of the future of the paper and pulp industry in the Pacific Northwest. Their pur- chase of the West Tacoma plant is more eloquent than anything they could say.
 Incidentally, there is a dis tinctly optimistic ring to their statement that they expect soon to operate the West Tacoma plant, now closed down.
 Within the last few years,
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

This publication has always Contended that removal of the fish trap system would give the resident fisherman greater earn ing power-hence greater spend ing power. The fishermen have realized the verity of this state ment long since. The following demonstrated fact may be at tested to by any number of fish ermen operating out of Wran- gell.
 In the first week of fishing in the Point Ward district the fish ing crews averaged from ten to twenty-five thousand salmon. Tn the second week of fishing the crews did not pay for the gasoline they burned up trying t0 find salmon. The first week showed plentiful salmon because the traps from Cape Chacon to Union Bay were not in opera ton. The salmon, unobstructed reached the upper stream" dis tricts. Immediately the traps got into operation the salmon cid not reach the upper stream districts; the fishermen could net even pay or the salt they put on their foods.
 While the fishermen put up plaintiff walls decrying the sys- tenn which prevents them from earning a decent living, those who benefit most by the higher earnings of these people, idly sit by waiting for the crumbs which fall only occasionally from the richly laden tables of the trap operators.
 It is we'll said that Ignorance is the mother of prejudice, and the saying is Q demonstrated fact, for the ignorance displayed and the indifference, toward this vital problem, makes it so much the harder to solve.
 From The Pacific Fisherman
 For March, 1921
 "The pack of Red Alaska ill 1919 was but 1,2O4,343 cases, and that of 1920 probably larger. Not since that of 1899 has the output been as small. The packs for the five years 1914 to 1918 in- elusive, averaged 2,269,350 cases, or nearly 100 per cent more than