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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
JAPANESE ISSUE
WARNING AGAINST
ANY INTERFERING
Will Not Tolerate Move
To Obstruct Anti-Ban-
dit Campaign.
BY ID. c. BESS
United Press Staff Correspondent


MUKDEN, China, Dec. %. U.P)
japanese headquarters announced
today its intention Of clearing all
Chinese irregulars to the west of
the Lao river.
The announcement was accom-
panied by warning that ''if any
party attempts to obstruct our anti
bandit campaign, We will have abb
solately no hesitation in destroy
ing them
The campaign was concentrated
south of Mukden, the campaign TO
the north having been completed
and the expedition withdrawing.
Chinese casualties north of Mukden
were about 200 and Japanese less
than 20.
japanese headquarters estimated
the Lao nregulars at 100000, whose
number and discipline had greatly
increased since the japanese with
drawal of November 81. The Sit
uation made necessary a decisive
campaign which started yesterday
and was proceeding smoothly, head
quarters said. ChinchoW would not
be touched unless he irregulars
interfered, t he announcement
said.
TOXIC, Dec. %. UP)-Advancing
across Manchuria in drive against
bandits, Japanese troops n d
bombing planes captured two Chin
ese citadels today and ordered war
ships into action to head off the
beaten defenders.
Advices received here from Yin
kow said that japanese had occu-
pied the citadel at Telenchuangtai
in South Panshaw, disarming Chin
ese soldiers.
From Haicheng it was reported
that another wing of the japanese
front had taken the Niuchuang cit
adel while airplanes continued a
bombing foray westward along the
Laio river.
A cruiser, two flotaillas of des-
troyers, an aircraft carrier and a
special service ship based at Kure
and Sasebo, within cruising dis
tance of ports near the Manchurian
front, were ordered to prepare tc
sail for Chinwangtao. The order
was believed intended to cut off e
retreat by the Chinese.
Earlier in the advance, japanese
troops captured Fakumen, one o!
the largest cities north of Mukden
the center of Japanese activities.
NANKING, Dec. %. U.P)-Chinese
Nationalist leaders and representa-
tiveS of the Canton government ex-
pect formation of a new Chinese
government within a few DAYS to
replace the cabinet which disap
peared yesterday with wholesale res
ignations.
WI Chao-Chu CDR. C. C. Wu)
former Chinese minister to Wash
ington, told the United Press a
new government would be formed
this week. He expected Eugene
Chen, Cantonese eader, to return
here from Shanghai Thursday.
Meanwhile the essential services
of leaderless China were carried on
by foreigners and Chinese civil SER
wants traditionally removed from
Chinese politics.
Barring military coups, the fate
of China appeared to rest with the
conference of Kuomintang party
leaders here which was expected
to last for the rest of the week.
To meet the threat of japanese
attack on Chinchow and to cooper
ate with Cantonese leaders, the
party was expected to create a
committee to handle foreign affairs
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
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w 'says:

PEIpING, Dec. %. (SpeciaD
Vice President Marshall found
what America needed. l can
tell you what the Orient needs.
Don't bring a lot OF clothes.
You can get anything here,
toilet articles, cigarets, shoes,
Scotch and all Of the American
standard equipment, but for
mercy sakes bring a pillow. One
with feathers in it. These out
here are stuffed with rice,
which wouldn't be so bad If
they had cooked 1t first.
YOurS
Evening star., 1931-12-30
MAIL BOMB KILLS
POST OFFICE CLERK
Three Others Seriously Hurt by
Internal Machine in
Easton, Pa.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
EASTON, Pa, December 3O.-One
clerk was killed and three others seri-
ously injured today when a bomb in a
mail package exploded in the parcel
post division of the Easton Post Office.
Edward Werkheiser died in a hospital
shortly after his admission.
John House Is in the EaSton Hospital
with both forearms blown off, one eye
blown out and other injuries which may
result in his death.
Arlington A. Albert is clso in the hos
pital. His condition is reported as fair.
Clarence Keller was ordered to his
home. His condition was not considered
serious.
The entire post Office was thrown into
confusion. All work was suspended as
explosive experts and State, county and
city police began an investigation.
Five other packages, believed to have
been mailed by the same persons who
mailed the one which exploded, are be-
ing examined.
mailed by two young men, described as
mailed five other packages, addressing
all of them in the lobby of the post
office
Rev. P. T. Stengle, pastor of Men
monte Brethren in Christ Church, was
in the lobby addressing some mail and
saw the two young men at work. He
said they had left the building only
five minutes when the explosion shook
the place.
Werkheiser was able to give police
short statement before he died. He
said he and the other clerks were Sis
picious of the packages and were of
the opinion they did not contain the
merchandise that was declared, so they
began to open one of th.em.
House had both hands on the pack
age, which was resting on a scale, when
it exploded The steel scale was twisted
like wire and was thrown about 10 feet,
carrying with it parts of Houses hands
Werkheiser was standing beside House
and he apparently had one of his hands
on the scal for it, too, was torn of.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
NAVAL LABORATORY
BLAST HURTS TWO
One, Horribly MangIed, May
Die as Result of Explosion
of Plane Flares.

Two men were hurt, one critically,
when an explosion wrecked a loading
platform at the Naval Research Labora-
tories at Bellevue today.
William C.. Carver, 1923 s street
southeast, civilian employe, was taken
to Providence Hospital so horribly
mangled it was thought he could not
live. J. c. Lane, colored, 1887 Hay
street northeast, another civilian en-
ploye, was said at the hospital to be
suffering mostly from shock.
Newspaper men and police, first to
arrive on the scene after the explo-
sion, were denied admission to the
grounds, but Admiral H V. Butler,
commandant of the Navy Yard, who is
in charge of the laboratory, said the
two men were loading airplane flares
from storehouse into box car when
an explosion occurred on the platform
between the two.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
CARS MAY OPERATE
TO FEB. | IF TITLE IS
SOUGHT TOMORROW
Van Duzer Asks States to
Recognize 1881 D. C. Tags
for 80 Days.

Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer wrote today to motor vehicle
commissioners of all States requesting
recognition Of 1891 District automobile
tags until February /. The commits
sioners of Maryland and Virginia ad-
vised The Star the request would be
granted.
At the same time Brig. Gen. Pelham
D. Glassford, superintendent of police,
came to the aid of the $4,000 procrasti-
mating motorists whose cars have not
been titled. with an order TO the force
to permit operation of the untitled cars
until February /. If the owners apply
for title before the close of the year
A receipt from the traffic department,
indicating that the car owner has ap-
piled for a title, will prevent arrest.
Can Operate for Month.
Heretofore Mr.. Van Duzer had an
nounced that the traffic act forbids the
operation Of an untitled car after jan
uary l. Gen. Glassford, however, took
the position that the filing of an appli-
cation for title complied with the
intent of the law. His decision will
permit thousands Of car owners to
operate for a month without fear of
arrest If they go to the traffic depart
ment, at 462 Louisiana avenue, before
closing time tomorrow, make formal ap-
plication for a title and get a receipt
Drivers of all cars carrying 1881 tags
during January will be required to
carry receipt indicating that the car
Ia, LA-
ton has been filed for title.
Mr.. Van DuZer said it would not be
necessary for the owners of cars whose
vehicles have been titled to carry the
title certificate, if they had in their
title had been issued.
Gen. Glassfords order directing
leniency toward motorists whose cars
have not been titled, was distributed
by Capt. B. A. Lamb, acting supervisor
of the Traffic Bureau in the absence
of Inspector E. W. Brown. In view
of this order Capt. Lamb said he ex-
pected very few arrests would be
made on account of the title situation.
Expect Reciprocity.
Mr.. Van Duzer said he expects motor
vehicle commissioners in all States to
extend recognition of 1881 District tags
until February /, in view of existing
automobile reciprocal relations. A num-
Der of the States already have asked
the District to extend the time limit on
cars from their jurisdiction in the Dis
trict after January /, and the request
has been granted
Virginia is one of the States. Cars
Continued on Page 3, Column ~
Evening star., 1931-12-30
COuzens Demands
That Congress Cut
Own Salaries First
Slashes for Cabinet Mem
bers Also Proposed Before
Workers Pay Is Touched.

Congressional leaders were told to-
day by Senator Couzens, Republican,
Michigan, to start any salary slashing
in the Government with 25 per cent
cuts in their own pay checks before go
ing to the workers.
This business Of cutting salaries is
starting at the wrong point" asserted
Couzens Let us make rs per cent
cut in the salaries of members of Con-
gresS and cabinet members.
when we have first evidenced our
willingness to make sacrifices, then it
will be time to discuss reductions for
others.
II favor this especially, since mem
bers OF Congress have six to nine
months a year in which to engage in
other remunerative enterprises"
Evening star., 1931-12-30
BOY SHOT IN HEART IMPROVES
AS BLOOD PUMPS OUT BULLET
Missile Pushed Into Artery Rounds Arch
of Aorta at Base of Neck and Passes
On to Groin.

Once inside the heart, the bullet
passed into the left ventricle, then was
forced up the aorta Qargest artery of
the body, through another large artery
leading through chest and abdomen
and into the left lilac artery, which
carries blood to the left leg. The
missel now is in the femoral artery.
Doctors said had the bullet failed to
round the arch of the aorta at the
base of the neck it would have gone
through the carotid artery leading to
the head and, on reaching the base of
the brain, would have caused death.
The physicians hope the bullet will
work farther down in the femoral ar
terry to point in the left leg where
it can be removed without danger.
Evening star., 1931-12-30

BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio December 80.
Shot in the heart, a boy here was
saved when the blood pushed the %
caliber bullet into an artery.
The bullet finally lodged in the boys
groin where surgeons said today it
would be permitted to remain for the
time being.
The boy. Harry Besharre, was shot by
a playmate Saturday. He was reported
in good condition.
The bullet lodged in the wall of the
hearts left auricle. Expansion and
contra ction of the heart muscles worked
il into the auricle. with blood clot
building up behind 1t preventing hemor-
image,
Evening star., 1931-12-30
TRAFFIC LEAGUE FIGHTS
PROPOSED RAIL MERGER
Union of c. & o. With Illinois Line
Opposed by Southern
Group.

BY the Associated Press.
The Southern Traffic League today
protested to the Interstate Commerce
Commission against the plan of East
ern railroads to make the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois Railway a part of the
Chesapeake & Ohio system in the four
system consolidation.
The road, under the commission S
consolidation plan, made public in
1929, was assigned to the Chicago g.
Northwestern.
The protest did not suggest any sys-
TEN to which the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois might be attached 1t pointed
out the road is an important link in
the North-and-South movement of
traffic and was designed and planned
primarily for that particular purpose.
Assignment to an East-andWest trunk
line system, it contended, would ulti-
mately disorganize and disrupt the
flow Of North-and-South traffic.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
BOOST
ROOSEVELT To END
THIRD PARTY TALK
Westerners and Independents
Look Upor New Yorker
With Favor.

Western Democrats today seized
upon the threatened Republican split
for third party to advance the cause
Of Gov. Roosevelt of New York as the
best man to meet this situation.
Senator Dill of Washington, in a
formal statement, declared the best
way for the Democratic party to meet
the threat and even the creation of a
third party in 1882 will be to nominate
Franklin D. Roosevelt for President.
Senator Wheeler of Montana asserted
that unless Roosevelt "or some liberal"
were nominated by the Democrats a
third party is inevitable.
Some of the Republican independents
who are bolting President Hoover and
talking Of third party movement are
inclined to look favorably upon Roose-
yelt should he be nominated by the
Democrats.
Norris FavOrs Roosevelt
Senator Norris of Nebraska, the like
ly head of a third party ticket, IS
known to be inclined favorably to the
New York Governor.
1t is generally conceded that should
Roosevelt be nominated by the Demo-
Gratis, there would be less likelihood of
third ticket.
However, the fight against renomina-
ton Of President Hoover is the first
problem Of the Republican independ-
entS,
Only today Senator Norris signalized
the differences within the party over
the President. He took notice of an at
tack directed at the Republican inde-
pendents, as attributed in stories pub
liShed today to Charles D. Hilles, party
committeeman for New York.
The Senator said if HilleS could get
his way and drive from the party all
members dissatisfied with Hoover he
won't have enough left to make the
necessary pallbearers for the corpse"
1t was one of the most emphatic
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
BANDIT, II, HOLDS UP II PEOPLE
IN BUSY TWO HOURS AND HALF
Youth Commanders Chauffeur and Limousine Battles
Police and Is Captured in Another City.

with $233 and another stolen car.
1:05 a.m.-Appeared at the Fort
Shelby Hotel in Detroit and forced a
chauffeur to drive him away in a
limousine.
1:3o am.-Held up another Detroit
gasoline station, robbed three men of
$50, shot at the patrons and escaped In
the limousine, still driven by the chauf-
feur.
1:50-Exchanged shots with police
near Dearborn.
8 a.m.-Captured while trying to
hold up gasoline station near Ann
Arbor.
The police said Krok confessed all
the robberies.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
SUSPECT Is ARRESTED
IN OHIO CHILD SLAYING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASS0clated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, December 30.-A
man giving his name as John Carder
and his age as 20. was held by police
here today for questioning in connec-
ton with the Staying of 6-year-old
Marian Mclean Of Cincinnati.
The man was arrested on informa-
ton obtained from a houseman at
home on the North Side where he had
asked for food
Detectives said the man denied kill
ing the child, but said it was estah-
lished he came to Indianapolis from
Cincinnati on the day the body Was
found
Officers described the suspect as
half-breed Indian They said he seemed
below normal in mentality.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
SHIP WRECKAGE FOUND

LONDON, December 80 ga mes
sage to Lloyd's from Koenigsberg,
Germany, today said a lifebuoy and
some wreckage from the missing steam
er .Liro has been found of the coast of
East Prussia.
The steamer left Hull. England, De-
cember 10. 1t is an Esthonian ship
and carried crew of II and some pas
sengers. 1t has not been reported since
December i3.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
HUNGARY AWARDS PREPARATIONS
DUE GREECE TO HORSE DEALER
Makes Partial Payment 1907 Deal Without Waiting
for Decision on Debt.

Efforts of the son, Ignatz Schwarz
to collect resulted in his imprisonment
later at Athens as spy suspect, but
on his return he appealed to the Hun
garian courts, with the result that the
ministry of justice finally has awarded
him $4,000 and granted an attach
ment against the reparations balance
which Hungary is supposed TO pay to
Greece.
Hungary, therefore, will not be obli
gated to consider further reparat-ons
payments to Greece untA the hcrSe
dealer has been paid.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
RUSSIA FIGHTS PLAGUE

MOSCOW, December 80 (P.-The
Russian frontier was closed today on
the Persian border between the towns
of Ordubad and AStar because of an
outbreak of plague in the Persian viii
lage of Mrali, in the Ardebil district,
reports to the Tass Agency said
The reports said the plague had been
in existence there for two months ana
% deaths have resulted.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
BY the Associated Press.

ANN ARBOR, Mich, December 30
Until he was knocked down and cap
tured in gasoline station near here at
8 am. today, 17-year -old Stanley Krok
of Detroit was busy young man. Here
is how the police say he occupied him
self during the two and half hours
preceding his capture:
1890 a.m.-Held up a Detroit gaso-
line station, forced five men and a
woman into the oiling pit and escaped
with 500 and a stolen automobile.
1245 am.-Held up Detroit restau-
rant, locked the proprietor and seven
customers in the basement snd escaped
Evening star., 1931-12-30
Former Manchurian War Lord
Begins Evacuation to Point
South of Great Wall.
CIVILIAN REFUGEES SEARCHED
ON WAY OUT OF ACTIVE ZONE
Gen. lannon's Forces Occupy Strategic
Positions Commanding Important
Railway Junction Near Objective.

the
CEINCHOW Manchuria December 3OThe Japanese military
apparently the today direct advance
Chnchow Chinese soldiers began evcua Marshal Chang
-IiangS
said they aboard what be the last train to be
before it commandeered transport into
Chnchow.
Meanwhile number of tranoad of Chinese troops moved
southwark today inside the Wall other
Chinese withdrawing rapidly
Chinese populace railway
directed
confusion attempting the
Southbound
Travellers night said their
periods Japanese
searched hundreds of Chinese civilians
thev a heavy layers
of Winter clothing as the search proceeded.
The few foreigners who the train said when arrived
Hnnntun
they themselves eyed supcousy but Chi
moeSted.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
BY tn, Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 80
The Hungarian ministry OF justice
without waiting to see what happens
to reparations payments next month,
today awarded part of Greeces snare
TO a Hungarian horse dealer:
The horse dealers claim dates PACK
to 1907, when his father, Moritz
Schwarz. contracted to deliver hofses
TO the Greek government and oeposlteo
$4,000 bond in Athens. A dlSnuOe
arose over deliveries and the World war
began before Schwarz could get his
Bond back.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
Spain Has Officer Surplus.

MADRID, December 30 CP).-The
ministry of marine today ordered
that no entrants be accepted at the
naval academies in 1882 because of
surplus of officers. Similar action was
trants at the military academies
Evening star., 1931-12-30
DAWES SAILS FOR u. S.
Ambassador to England Comes to
Confer With Hoover.

LONDON, December 80 P.-Am-
bassador Charles G. Dawes left for
Southampton today to sail for the
United States on the liner Europa. He
is making the trip for conferences with
President Hoover and Secretary Stim-
son preliminary to the opening of the
World Disarmament Conference at
Geneva, where he will head the Amer
lean delegation.
He plans to return to Europe with the
other members of the delegation about
January 20.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
INDIAN STRIKE CALLED

Bombay Group Wants to Show
Strength of Workers.
BOMBAY, December 80 (P1.-The
Executive Committee of the Trade
Union CongreSs-left wing of India's
labor movement-today announced a
call for a one-day strike throughout the
country on February to demonstrate
to the government the strength of the
workers
Evening star., 1931-12-30
Populace Leaves Kowpangtze.

One Chinese passenger riding in q
firSt-class coach, an employe of the
American Trade Commissioners Once,
was forced to undergo the search, they
said, in spite of the fact that he car
ried letters of identity from the trade
commissioner and from the japanese
consul general at Mukden.
West of Hsinmingtun the train
crossed the mo mans land" of the
present conflict. but the area was quiet.
Most stations were patrolled by village
militia, many Of whom wore arm bands
with the inscription, THE righteous,
brave army"
When the train arrived at each sta
ton, villagers crowded up to the win
dows, asking, When are the japanese
coming" Practically no Chinese troops
were visible along the route, they said,
except a small guard, which accompa-
MED the train to Tahusan, where the
Chinese Railway running northward to
Tungltao joints the main line of the
Peiping- -Mukden system.
Fired at Planes.
Three travellers from the West said
their train was frequently stopped at
sidings to allow troop trains, westward
bound, to pass.
japanese bombing planes flew over
KoWpangtze yesterday and dropped a
few bombs, killing one soldier and
wounding several civilian bystanders.
The Chinese soldiers fired their rifles
at the planes, but did not hit them.
Scattered groups of Chinese troops
were gathering to oppose the Japanese
westward advance, but the main por-
tionS of the Chinese forces were steadily
withdrawing from the area east of
Chinchow.
Evening star., 1931-12-30
NEARBY POINTS TAKEN.
Tahushan and Kowpangtze Fall to
Japanese Invaders.

MUKDEN, Manchuria, December 30
FO.-Gen. Kamura's Japanese brigade,
advancing westward from Hsinmintun,
captured Tahushan at 2:35' pm. today
and continued on toward Kowpangtze.
A powerful contingent of Gen. Ia
mons division, proceeding northward
from Panshan in armored trains, oc-
cupied the outskirts of the important
railway junction Kowpangtze at pm.
and made camp for night.
The advance from Hsinmintun be-
gan early this morning
Move In Motor Trucks.
One regiment moved in motor trucks
and the other, which entrained at Muk-
den, continued on by train from Hsin-
mintun at 7 am.
The fact that the vanguard was using
motor trucks was taken to indicate the
Japanese expected little resistance in
the early stages of the progress. A
large Chinese concentration, recently
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1931-12-30
GIRLS ARE GUARDED.
IN VICE INQUIRY.
Gang ReprisaIs Feared After
Testimony of White Slave
Ring Is Given.
BY a staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star
PHILADELPHIA, December 30
Having opened an extensive drive here
against two vice rings allegedly traf-
ticking in young girls in the District OF
Columbia and seven Eastern States, the
Federal Government today is holding
its witnesses under guard for fear of
possible gang reprisals.
Two young women who testified at
a hearing before the United States
commissioner here yesterday are being
held in the House of Detention in
Washington at their own request. 1t
is understood they expressed fear they
might be killed for having testified.
First public knowledge of the drive
was gained at yesterdays hearing when
Chester Renzuli, "a, of Philadelphia,
was held in $4,000 bond for an extra
dition hearing after 18-year- old jose
phine Shubert told how he had taken
her to 13 different roadhouses for i'm
moral purposes during the past year
and half.
Use Gangster Methods.
The two gangs, one in Philadelphia
and one in Baltimore, are said to have
adopted the tactics of the Chicago liquor
racketeers-that is, they enter into an
agreement with the proprietor of a
road house to furnish girls at certain
price, and any attempt to secure girls
from another source at lower prices is
confronted with machine guns and
other traditional weapons of gangsters.
A number CT recent road house
shootings, including that last month
at the Old Colonial Tea House, Bladens-
burg, Md, are said to have resulted
from attempts to defy the gangs.
Miss Shubert, also known as Jean
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1931-12-30

Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow in
creasing cloudiness, possibly followed by
rain in the afternoon or at night.
observation-disclosures, 49, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, 81, at 7:30 am. today
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1931-12-30

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.