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damaging as blockade. japanese
who live in great numbers
throughout China, and are making a
good living, have been compelled to
close their stores and leave the Chinese
territory. Chinese merchants who are
still doing an important trade with the
rest of the world have withdrawn their
patronage from the Japanese transport
lines and are sending their goods in
British and American bottoms.
AngIo-U. S. Trade Benefits.
China is one Of the most important
customers of Japan because it can sell
manufactured goods at a lower rate
than any other country in the world.
Chinese merchants, obeying the or
ders of their guilds, have Cancelled the
orders from Japan and are placing
them with British, American and
French export houses. The same thing
applies to the raw material which
Japan needs and is buying in large
quantities from China. The Chinese
exporters refuse to accept orders from
Japan, and prefer to keep their goods
in warehouses than sell them to the
nation which is now trying to take
away from them one of the richest
and most important provinces.
The Japanese merchants and indus
trialistS are severely hit, and it is be-
lieved in well informed quarters here
that the reaction of the japanese bust
ness men will be such that even the
powerful military caste will be COM
PEELED to yield and begin to realize that
the Japanese general staff has over
played its hand.
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DR.. C. w. STILES GIVEN
HIGH PRAISE AT DINNER
Former u. 8. Medical Director II
Honor Guest Of Friends In
Event at Club.

A dinner In honor OF DR.. Charles W.
Stiles, q former medical director Of the
United States Public Health Service,
who was retired october /, was given
Saturday night In the Cosmos Club by
number Of his former colleagues and
friends. Ninety-five persons were pres
ent.
DR.. Stiles achieved national renown
by his discovery of hookworm In the
country and his fight to stamp 1t out in
the South, where it was prevalent.
DR.. Maurice c. Hall Of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry, Department of Agri-
culture, presided. The following guests
spoke:
DR.. William II. WEIGH Of Johns Hop
kins University, DIR. William Thayer,
also of Johns Hopkins: DR.. A. M. Stin-
son, a. medical director of the United
States Public Health Service; DR.. N. A.
Cobb of the Bureau of Plant Industry,
Department Of Agriculture; DR.. Paul
Bartsch of the National Museum, DR.. G.
L. Marriott, chief of the Bureau of Ento-
mology, Department of Agriculture; DR..
T. S. Palmer of the Department of Ag-
riculture Biological Survey and DR..
Benjamin Schwartz of the Bureau of
Animal Industry. All lauded DR.. Stiles
and told of various phases of his work.
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WOMEN'S WAR UNION
MEETS HERE JAN. 18
Seventh Farley on Cause and Cure
of Conflict to Bring Nota-
bles for Talks.

Che Seventh Conference on the Cause
u Cure of War, in which IL national
kJmens organizations are yearly par
Elephants, meets January 10 TO 81 at
the Washington Hotel
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, confer
ence chairman, announced today that
the worlds economic dilemma and its
relationship 70 international peace
problems. such as disarmament prog
ress, will be one of the leading discus
sions under the general topic Of World
ParadoxeS." Plans will be made in jan
uary, it was said, for leaders in the
Cause and Cure of War movement to
act as observers at the international
Disarmament Conference, TO be held
next February in Geneva.
The Russian situation, the Kellogg
peace pact and the Polish corridor are
ether subjects for consideration at the
forthcoming Washington conference.
Among some OF the prominent speakers
on the program are Herbert Feis, eco
nomic adviser to the State Department;
Will Irwin, magazine writer: Prof.
Philip Brown CT Princeton University;
Calvin Hoover, professor of economies
at Duke University; George Soule,
writerAand economist, and James @
NcDO "a. - -'-'~n or the Foreign
@el.csWAr
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TIENTsIN ISOLATED BY RIOT.
American Missionaries Ask Guard rs
They Evacuate Station.

1HCy ENdCudH StdtIOn.
TIENTSIN, November 8 (P).-The
18th United States infantry and troops
of other foreign countries were stand
ing by here today and Chinese troops
from Lang Fang and other garrison
centers were reported rushing to this
city following riots last night between
the Japanese concession and the Chi
nese city.
Tientsin itself is virtually isolated
American missionaries occupying the
mission which stands half way between
the japanese barracks and the south
CITY aplied for an escort to enable them
to evacuate their exposed position
safely.
Concession Is Barricaded.
Chinese officials claimed to have un-
covered a plot with the arrest of eight
men in civilian clothes last night before
the rioting began. The men, they said,
were captured in the east suburbs adj
joining another part of the japanese
concession and the arrest forewarned
Chinese officials, who Immediately called
out the troops, police and militia and
harricaded the entrance to the con-
ceSsion.
SLATED with the Cu-Man Flutes. who
have been holding nightly conferences
at the home of WI Kwangi-Slng. plot
ting the overthrow OF Chang Hsueh-
Liang and the substitution Oh a gov
eminent friendly to Japan.
Chinese declare nearly 1000 rebels
gathered on the main road leading from
the Japanese concession TO the CITY pc
fore the riottng began. The city au-
thorities, they said, made a snow OF re-
sistance and this caused the rioters TO
change their plans and to decide to at
tack from the suburbs as well as from
the concession.
The rioters, they said. were all Sc
creted inside the concession and dl-
rected their attack against the south
gate. which they took at l am. The
scattered firing during the night awoke
inhabitants Of the Chinese city, but
they at first believed it to be japanese
night maneuvers in the concession.
Prepare for New Attack.
Chinese officials, fearing a renewal of
the attack tonight, made preparations
for resistance.
It appears that during the exchange
of shots between police and rebels two
Japanese soldiers in their own bar
racks were killed by stray bullets and
the japanese military demanded that
the Chinese police withdraw to point
300 meters from the Sino-Japanese
boundary.
The Chinese asked for half hour in
which to comply, but were unable 10
carry out the movement in the required
time, and it is cnalged Japanese tank
opened fire on the police. The Chinese
police charge that two shells which
dropped in front of the Chinese head
quarters were fired from the japanese
barracks.
This morning the city was quiet, but
business was at a standstill
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chow, to communicate with Gen. Nah
preparatory to attacking the Japanese
at a point not designated.
Minister of War Minami postponed
his departure for the military ma
neuvers at Kyushiu because Of the stu
ation at TahSing and the trouble at
TientSin
According to the Japanese war office,
the trouble at Tientsin was caused by
crowd of rioters calling themselves
the National Relief Corps, a body OPP
posed to the Manchurian Governor.
The war Office here said this group
claShed with Chinese soldier guards in
various sections of the native part of
the city and that the f1ghtirg reached
the border OF the Japanese concession.
Garrison Stands BY.
The japanese garrison was ordered
to stand by to protect the $3.50 Japa-
nese residents. One Japanese soldier
was shot and killed by stray bullet.
A dispatch from Tientsin early today
said the Japanese commander had not
yet determined the cause of the out
break
There are no signs" said the war
office, 'of either the (Chinese) govern
ment or riotouS troops assuming the
offensive against Japanese soldiers at
present, but the japanese, nevertheless,
are prepared to meet any emergency"
message from the Japanese COM
mander at Tientsin said the disturbance
appeared to be due to "China's in
ternal troubles, in which Japanese mill
tary authorities have no intention to
interfere. The garrison accordingly is
observing strict neutrality"
Tho uor T,oiYisfey ciIo0actaJ fy,
the event future developments should
require it, an international army be
organized in the Chinese city to pro-
tect foreign residents.
Peace Talk Hoped For.
A faint hope was sensed in official
circles here that conversations in Paris
between Aristide BRAND, chairman of
the Leageu of Nations Council, and
Kenkichi Yoshizswa, Japanese repre-
sentative in the League, might open
the way toward peace.
It was said, however, that the con-
versationS could be successful only IF
BRAND comes around to see our View
point"
According to the reports here, BRAND
indicated willingness to consider
Japan's contentious.
1t was authoritatively stated, how
ever, That there was only the bareSt
possibility so far of any compromise,
the stumbling block being the evacua-
ton of japanese troops from Man
churian points outside the Japanese
operated South Manchurian Railway.
-. Reports that League members might
with@.aw their diplomatic representa-
tives from Japan as a means to coerce
the latter into withdrawing her troops
from Manchuria were looked upon by
the Toxic foreign Office as nonsensical
propaganda.
This matter probably will be taken
up with Sir Eric Drumnond. secretary
general Of the League OF Nations, in
the form of a protest, as 1t appeared
here that the reports of suggested dip
lomatic withdrawal emanated from
persons connected with the League
secretariat.
Propaganda Move Charged.
japanese asserted they had inter-
cepted Chinese messages indicating
that the Chinese concentration south of
Anganchi was scheme to entice Japan
to move troops farther northward
into Manchuria and thus supposedly
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strengthen the Chinese case before the
League of Nations.
The Toxic government received word
that the volume of Chinese reports cir
culated in Paris and Geneva had
aroused much comment.
Japans reply to Geneva is expected
to call attention to the activities of a
member Of the Leagues Health Com
mission who for weeks has been in
Shanghai allegedly working in close CO.
operation with T. v. Song, Chinese
finance minister.
The Japanese assert this health COM
mission members bill for radio and
telegraph messages in the last six weeks
has totaled 100000 tabout $45, 900 at
current exchange rates..
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AIR SERVICE INCREASED
Third Daily Round Trip Flight
Started on Line.

A third daily round-trip air passenger
schedule between Richmond and Nor
folk, Va, was opened today by Eastern
Air Transport. At the same time
Hopewell, Va, was added as flag stop.
The new schedules give connections at
Richmond with planes to Washington,
New York, Atlanta and Miami.
No mail is carried yet on the run,
which was inaugurated late last month.
The increased schedule. it was an
nounced, was necessitated by heavy
passenger traffic. Planes now leave
Richmond for Norfolk at 9 am. and
1925 and $50 pm. On the return trip
they leave Norfolk at 1890 am. and
1:55 and 4:45 pm, the trip requiring
less than an hour.
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Many Deaths Reported.

SHANGHAI. November 8 (P).-Riot-
ing, described by Chinese as having
been instigated under japanese direc-
ton as rebellion against the Chinese
government, held the native city of
Tientsin, North China, in a panicky
grip early today, necessitating the call
ing out of American and other foreign
troops to protect the international sec
tions of the city
Unconfirmed Chinese advices said Sc
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CARDINAL IN CAPITAL

William Cardinal O'ConneH, Arch
bishop of Boston and dean of the Amer
lean hierarchy, has arrived here to
preside at the annual meeting of the
hierarchy at Catholic University We'd
nesday.
Cardinal O'Connell is at the house of
the Oblate Fathers,
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Former Governor to Speak.

Former Gov. Robert A. Cooper Of
South Carolina will speak at an open
meeting of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans in the Confederate Veterans
Home, 1922 Vermont avenue, tomorrow
night at o'clock.
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j. S. FORCE GUARDS
T|ENTS|N SECTION.
Chinese General Reported as
Declaring War on Japan !
in ManChuria.

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STIMSON AND HOOVER
STUDYING IMPORTANT
MOVE IN MANCHURIA

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Propaganda Move Charged.
japanese asserted they had inter-
cepted Chinese messages indicating
that the Chinese concentration south of
Anganchi was a scheme to entice Japan
to move troops farther northward
into Manchuria and thus supposedly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-10
7[[a51[5 lS[S1IzY5 Ll[Sl lIlaaI5 7 [DJgh7a[n1 CazzA[S ll5L[S I,5sss sssssI

SYNOPSIS: Superintendent Richmond regards the confess sion found beside the poisoned body of her chauffeur, Green, as solving the murder of An nabclle QucrdIing. Previously he suspected Dr. Netherton, who he believed planned the mar riage tO her niece, Marjorie Blake. Jimmie Haswell sees this theory disproved by Netherton's engagement to Audrey Winford and by love between Marjorie and Captain Stirling. Marjorie's sister, Evelyn, engaged to Lio- rel DuckwOrth, reports her aunt's will found, its threat to disinhcrit Marjorie and herself in the event of marriage in- valid, because unsigned. As Aud rcy tells Jimmie the car seen near the murder was Stirling's Green is found poisoned. Jim mic receives a letter from Mar jorie disclosing her marriage to Stirling. He astounds Rich mond by declaring Green a vic- tim of attempted murder.
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DOUGLAS NEVIS
LOCAL REAL ESTATE CHANGES HANDS FOR
 DELINQUENT TAXES

An auction sale CT the delinquent tax property of Douglas was held at the City Hall Saturday after noon City Clerk Felix Gray, wielded the h a m mer conveying about half dozen of the best parcels to a small group of in- vestors present who were ready and willing to increase their own tax burden. L. w. Kilburn purchased the Dora Simpson estate consisting of lot on D street, adjoining some of his own property. Mike Reisser acquired the Santonen and Hardy lots in block 26; Mrs. Ed Bach purchased the Joe Ferguson lot on St. Ann's Ave, block 36 and Susie Shorty the Willie Harris house on Beach road. The remain der of the property sold went to the city.
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Chapter 25
SEEDS OF PARADISE"

Had a bomb burst in the room Superintendent Richmond could not have been much more startled than he was at Jimmie's quiet but defi- nite pronouncement. That Green had killed Miss Querdling was a solution that fitted in with all the known facts. The suggestion that it was incorrect was not only sur prising, it was also unwelcome, for it meant not only that Richmond was wrong, but also that if Green was the victim of an attempted murder, there would be a new prob lem to solve
 suppose you have reasons for what you are saying, MT. Haswell?' His tone was cold
 Quite so,' said Jimmie coolly Let us deal, first, with Greens supposed attempted suicide. You have now had the chemists analy- sis of the poison that was used, Rather rare and unusual poison was it not?'
 Tt is, but I don't see how you can tell me, as we have been careful to keep it in strict confl- dence"
 T will not only tell you what it is," answered Jimmie, but I will tell you things about it you per haps have not heard. The name given to you is perhaps Picrotoxin an extract from the berry Cocculus Indicus, which yields a deadly crys- talline poison"
 Richmond's open-mouthed silence admitted the truth of the state ment.
 "A more poetic and perhaps more sinister name for the crystals was Seeds of Paradise At one time but not now, they had a limited medical use, and a less legitimate use was discovered by corrupt brew
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CTS. Tn minute qu a ntities they sharpen the flavor of beer. In slightly larger quantities they add to it's intoxicating properties.
 The symptoms too, are unusual. There is profuse precipitation and great abdominal pain, causing con- vulsions Unconsciousness follows, but it is said that death has been delayed as long as 19 days, some times with intervals of confused consciousness"
 You have heard from our doc tors" said Richmond shortly.
 T do not know your doctors, and did not know they had completed their analysis. The explanation is supremely important. When Con- stable Roscoe found Green in a dying condition he took away what he regarded as his confession, and the glass which still constained some of the stuff he had been drinking. Among the things he left behind was the bottle from which the drink had been poured. I took that bottle. It was practically empty, but not quite"
 T do not think you should have taken that" MT. Haswell," Rich mond's tone was a little offended T went to the place the next day myself, and it was gone"
 If I had left it, do you sup pose it would nave remained till you came? There was poison in the small residue in the bottle. I sent it to chemist and got his report this morning."
 How do you suggest it could have been done?" asked Richmond
 That seems fairly obvious. Green had an occasional drink in his own quarters. Nothing could be easier than for some one to get a bottle of the same brand as the row or his mantle, or to borrow one oi his, steam off the seal unscrew the stopper and put in the poison. Ther the stopper would be screwed in again and the paper re-stuck The bottle, replaced on the mantel, will be opened and it's poisonous con- tents taken in due course" 1 But" said Richmond, might not Green have put his poison in the bottle, thinking it easier to mix ir that way? You base your argu- ment on the assumption that he would put it in the glass, Besides you have to account for the con- fession in his handwriting.
 T admit the proof so far is not complete said Jimmie. T think the confession was forged before hand and kept until Green was in lsuch a condition that it could be placed by his side. I should not even be surprised if his finger prints were found on it.
 They were!" said Richmond a little triumphantly. And no others l-except of course Roscoe's." l "A gloved left hand and a right hand used with care in writing would account for that. Thsr Greens inert fingers could be i'm pressed.
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Old papers at Tne Emplre office
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would have been impossible tc show how it could have been swal- lowed by Green, except intention ally. I concluded there must be poison in the bottle"
 While he was speaking, the buz- ger on the superinterdent's desk sounded. He took off the receiver and listened. Its the hospital, he told Jimmie anxiously as he waited for the connection. Doubt less it was about Green. If only he could speak. That would clear things!
 Copyright. 1880, J. B. Lippincott
 Company
 Jimmie sets strange stage in tGm0rrow's instaIlment. Will his plan relieve Richmond's dismay?
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More theory!" observed Rich mond.
 Green ate supper in the house 1 and remained until about 8:20. Il was 10:30 when we found him. Ii the confession was his, the ink would have been almost wet on the paper. I looked at it while ! Netherton was examining the pa tient. It had dried black, as though written for at least "A hours. What do you make of that?"
 Tt does not follow that he did not write his confession the day before. He might then hesitate over the decision to dc away with himself"
 But the pen and ink were by | his side" said Jimmie. why have them there if the confession was already written? You may say that the ink might not have been dry as I thought. Then absolute proof would be lacking, but let's see if al the evidence together will not amount to proof.
 'The confession was written n a sheet torn from his mileage book, when Green had note paper and envelopes on the shelf It is a fair surmise that any one else writing a confession for him would have chosen paper peculiarly his a sheet from the book that was al- ways lying in his room.
 "The ink on the nib Of the pen was wet, while the writing was dry suggest that the person wno placed the confession there dipped the pen in ink to give realism, not supposing the discovery would be made until morning. You might also say that Green had started to add something to the note and changed his mind.
 50 we fail of actual proof. But if we take all these things to- gether, the poison in the bottle, the dry writing, the wet ink, the choice of paper-do we fail then?"7a
 Richmond was not yet convinced and Jimmie asked to see the con- fession. Richmond opened the safe and handed the paper to him Il was penned in an uneducated hand and, if not the work of Green, was a fair imitation of his style. l While Richmond, at Jimmie's sug- gestion, was scrutinizing it, Jim mic unwrapped paper enclosing an ordinary pen. This is Greens. Ros- coe forgot to take it. Examine that nib carefully. Green always used fine-pointed one, as all the en- tries in his book, even to the last day, show. The writing is like his, but try yourself to see how the upstrokes in that confession could be produces by pen like this"
 Richmond started copying a few of the fatal words. He compared the letters with the original and saw beyond question the thing was impossible. The upstrokes had been made with a broader nib. He was faced with a cumulative proof that he could not deny.
 Why did you not bring me this before?" he asked in a low tone
 My case was not complete It was only this morning that I got my chemists report Had there been no poison in the bottle il
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VOTERS REGISTERING

Registration has started off live ly for the city election to be held next month as over thirty quail fled during the first week of regis tering For the present, those de- siring to register may do so after 5 pm. at Clerk Gray's residence.
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ON SICK LIST

Mrs. John Feusi and daughter Elizabeth are both victims of the Flu at their home. The latter has been i'll for the past week but is somewhat better today.
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AT THE COLISEUM

Little Johnny Jones'" Vitaphone production, all-talking picture is the attraction at the Coliseum the ater for tonight. Several special features including the serial, .Tho Indians Are Coming" are added at fractions.
La gaceta., 1931-03-02
LAS DAMAS DE HONOR Y
Ell COMITE DE FESTEJOS
DEL CASTILLO CRISTOBAL
COLON NUMERO SIETE

FL microbes pr6ximo Sc reu-
niran en- ell palacio del Casti-
Ito Crist6bal Colon No. 7, las
Damas de Honor y ell Comite
de Festejos del Castillo, que
preside ell conocido joven An
tonic Gonzalez MIN.
Mas de 200 senoras Y seno-
ritas, familiares de los MEM
bros del Castillo, figuran entire
las Damas de Honor.
Gonzalez ha mandado a bus
car I'm mant6n de Manila para
sortearlo entire las damas; I'm
par de zapatos sorteara entire
los caballeros.
Grandes fiestas va a prepa-
rar Ell Comite en- honor del Sc
cretario supreme de la Orden
Caballero del Aguila de Orc,
Mr.. Anton. que arribara a Tam
pa dentro de pocos dfas.
ALH
La gaceta., 1931-03-02
UN De PERIO-
DICOS DEJA UNA FORTU-
MA DE MAS DE $4,000.

Una repentina enfermedad
cause aver la muerte, en- ell hos
pital de la Isla Davis, de@Char-
les E. Maupin, de So amos, IN
vendedor de periodicos.
Luego de fallecido ell hombre
Sc hizo un registro en- su habi-
taci6n de la casa n1mero 14O2
de la avenida Florida, descu-
briendose que era dueno de una
fortuna de $4,000, la mitad de
la cual tiene depositada en- ban
cos de Tampa, Texas Y Virgil
MIA.
Polizas de SECURE con TN va
Tor de $25. 900 Sc hallan extern
didas a favor de su hija, Sra.
R, c. Bussey, de 0lney, Texas.
En-. espera de 10 que dispon-
gan los familiares ell cadaver sc
halla d~epositado en- la funeraria
de ]. [. Reed.