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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
GOTWALS ORDERED
TO RETIRING BOARD
Engineer Commissioner, III,
Will Get Examination by
Army Surgeons.

Maj. John c. Gotwals, Engineer Com
missioner of the District, who has been
i'll and out of his Office since last June,
today was ordered to appear before the
Army Retiring Board for examination.
The order, it was explained today at
the War Department is the result of
the report of surgeons at Walter Reed
Hospital who have had Maj. GotwalS
under their treatment.
The date for the examination has not
been set. Whatever decision as to Maj.
Gotwals' retirement status is made
must be concurred in by the Secretary
! of War,
| Maj. Gotwals is presidential APP
| pointee to the Board of District Com
misSionerS
AT his home today Maj Gotwals said
! that he felt fine" He takes about two
hours exercise each day and has daily
massage he said, and with this treat
ment he fully expects to come back"
Has Been iii Since June II.
He said he could not say whether he
would ever return to his duties at the
District Building, from which he has
ALREADY DS6Il dUStIlI SIA tlOllLilS, Uub IlC
was quite confident of getting back to
Army duty eventually. His malady
makes it very difficult for him to move
about, but the difficulty is gradually
disappearing.
Mai. Gotwals became Ill on June II,
last, and has received treatment at
Walter Reed Hospital. He also has been
treated at Warm Springs. Ga, and has
since returned to his home at 3l05 Ca
thedral avenue.
During his absence. Maj. Donald A.
Dawson, the senior assistant Engineer
Commissioner, has been acting in his
place, not only on the District Commits
sion, but on the many boards OF which
the Engineer Commissioner is ex-officio
member. These include the Zoning
Commission, the Public Utilities Com
mission and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Served in France With A. E. F.
A native of Pennsylvania, Maj Got
walls is slightly more than 40 years OF
age He was graduated from the
Pennsylvania State College, with the
degree of bachelor Of science IN civil
engineering, in 1906, and received a
! civil engineers degree the following
wear. He practiced his profession until
WV
Army as probational second lieu
tenant in 1913.
His first assignment was with the
I'd Battalion Of Engineers, with which
organization he served at Fort LeaVen-
worth. Kans., and in Texas. He was
assigned to duty at washington Bar
racks in this city in 1915 and during
this tour of duty was student at the
Engineer School. In the Summer OF
1917 he was assigned to the lst En-
gineers and accompanied that organi-
cation to France.
overseas he served as commander OF
the searchlight depot, A. E. F.; IN
charge of searchlight section, once Oh
| chief engineer. A. E. F.; commanding
officer 46th Engineers, under Gen. NC
Kinstery, war damage section, Peace
| Commission. Paris; member OF the
| enemy war material board, office OF the
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, January ia 1000
pound whale-shark. rare deep sea fish
which many scientists say is the only
kind that could have swallowed Jonah,
has been harpooned and towed to dock
here.
The big fish was caught in the Gulf
Stream off Miami by a fishing party
headed by Capt. Tommy Clifford. Fish
ermen said they knew of but three rec
orded catches of whale-shark in South
Florida waters.
None we're mounted. but this on"
will be, its captors said. cas-. Q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
RADIO BARES Staying
OF u. S. NAVY VETERAN
Light Burning for Days Also In
strumental in Leading to
Body in Philadelphia.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, January ia
radio which had been going constantly
for several days, and lights which had
been burning day and night led police
to discovery of the body of Walter Shep-
pard. Navy veteran. He had oeen
bound, gagged, robbed and beaten 10
death
Neighbors said they had not seen MN
since Thursday The body was found
last night.
Robbery was suspected, since Shep-
pard recently inherited some money
from a relative.
A woman, who said she was Mrs.
Alice Sheppard, AZ, was picked up Tor
questioning today. She said she lived
with the slain man until two weeks ago
and knew nothing of circumstances sur
rounding his death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
PROBE Of CHILEAN
LOANS IS ASKED
Link, if Any, With Nitrate
Grant Sought-MeIIon
Custer Action Delayed.

BY the Associated Press
An investigation of Chilean loans
f1oated in this country, with particular
bearing on any connection they may
have with nitrate concessions, was
asked of the Senate Finance Com
mittee today by Senator Johnson, Re-
publican, California.
Johnson, who originated the investi-
CATION of foreign securities sold in this
country, asked the committee to ascer-
tain from the Chilean Ambassador
through the State Department what
loans have been extended to Chile dur
ing the past decade and the connection,
if any, between the loan and the Cos
ach nitrate combine, Guggenheim in
tereSt.
The Californians request was in a
letter to Chairman Smoot OF the
Finance Committee, pointing out that
the Chilean Ambassador, Miguel Cru
chaga, had asked the committee 70
investigate the notation of loans to his
country.
This request for an investigation of
the facts" johnson said, does honor
to the nation making it. and in my
opinion it should not be ignored
Information Requested.
johnson asked that the Chilean Am
bassador be requested to furnish the
following information:
What loans have been contracted for
by Chile In the last decade, conditions
under which they have been fioated
and the American banking houses
which have participated.
If the nitrate combine known as
Cosach came into being with standing
liabilities of f60,00O,O00. and if so, the
creditors of such debt.
If such liabilities existed whether
they have been paid and to whom.
If the Chilean government feels the
turning over to the CoSach of the
misunderstanding lands jeopardized or i'm
paired its capacity to pay the holders
of bonds of its foreign debts.
Asks About Consequences.
What the consequences have been of
TIE concession made by the Chilean
government to CoSach Combine of the
export. tax on nitrate and certain i'm
port taxes
If the export duty was partially or
at all restored and, if SO, whether its
restoration was for the benefit OF the
national treasury or in favor OF Cosach
creditors.
Whether large sums were paid in
connection with the organization OF
Cosach and, if SO, who received these
sums.
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and feldspar mining From the same
locality have come several other min
erals containing uranium.
Many specimens of uranium ores
from Spruce Pine have been observed by
biologists to contain dark brown to
brownish-black material whose optical
properties seemed to distinguish 1t from
the material with which it was asso-
ciated. Finally two specimens were Sc
cured which were sufficiently free of
intermixed materials that 1T was pos
sible to make meteorological and chem
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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NEWSPAPER BARRED
BY COURT ENDS PLEA
Knoxville News-Sen tinel Drops
Petition for Writ as Trials At
fected by Ruling Close.

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY January 19.-As
a result of Circuit Judge Henry R.
Prewitt modifying his order barring
Knoxville News-Sentinel reports from
his court at Mount Sterling, the paper
today had the Kentucky Court of APP
peals dismuiss its petition for a writ
against the judge. He recently modified
his ruling to make it apply only to the
Harlan labor trials, and these have
ended in Judge Prewitts court.
The original order vas issued after
Judge Prewitt took exception to the
Tennessee papers editorials on his con-
Duct of one of the labor trials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
CRIME BOARD is SOUGHT.
Policewomen Also Demanded by Ha-
waiians at Mass Meeting

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, January 10 (R).-Reso-
lutions urging appointment of a crime
commission and provisions for police
women in this city were adopted at a
mass meeting under auspices of the
newly formed Citizens Organization for
Good Government here last night.
The meeting was called at the request
of Gov. Lawrence M. Judd, who said he
wished to obtain more detail for a social
and recreational program to combat
crime.
Col Curtis P Iaukea, former secre-
Continued on Page 4, Column A.
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Il. S. GUNB0AT HUNTS
PIRATES ON YANGTZE
Proceeds to Scene of Freight Ship
Looting-Another American
Vessel Fired On.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIpING, January 1s,-United States
Consul Adams at Hankow reported to
the American legation here today that
the United States Gunboat Oahu is
proceeding to low point on the Yang
I've River. where bandits on January
is looted an American-owned freighter'
s Sc aT Capt. Charles Baker, American
and six Chinese, all of whom are being
He also reported that the American
ou,ned steamer Chita was fired upon,
the Chinese usIcrmaster killed ano s
Chinese meIbsbf the crew wounded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19

BY the Associated Press.
NANKING, China, January 19.-
The official Chinese News Agency
Koumin announced tonight that
the severance of diplomatic rela-
tons with Japan was imminent
because of the Manchuria con-
troverSy.
Foreign Minister Eugene Chen
is the latest convert to such a
stand, the agency said, and addi-
tional Chinese leaders are rallying
to his viewpoint, the latest being
the Christian General Feng
-HSiang.
1t was also learned that Premier
Sun Fo had persuaded former
President Chang Kai-Shek and
the LeftiSt leader, Wang Ching
Wei, to return to Marking to re-
sumo an active part in the gov
eminent. The date of their ar
rival was uncertain, but it was
possible that they would fly to-
morrow from Hangchow, where
they are holding a conference with
officials.
Concession TO Chang Seen.
Ever since Marshal Chang went into
retirement month ago predictions have
been made that he would be recalled
more or less on his own terms, depend
ing on the exigencies of the situation.
It is now generally agreed among OBJ
servers that there will be radical
changes in government and that Chang
will enjoy greater power than before.
Officials known to be at odds with the
former President were reported TO be
preparing already to leave the capital,
II he comes back 1t is probable that T..
V/Soong will be recalled to head the
finance ministry, although Kuomin re-
ports he Is slated to be Minister TO
France
Japan's reply to Secretary Of State
Stimson's recent note citing the nine
power treaty in connection with the
Manchurian situation was called i'm
pertinent to America and insulting to
China" by a spokesman for the Chinese
foreign Office today.
Hopes for U. S. Action.
1.-THE japanese assertion that the
welfare and safety of Manchuria are
matters of extraordinary importance to
Japan" the spokesman said, lis per-
fectly true because Manchuria, as
source of raw material and massive
means to Japan's domination Of China
is indeed of extraordinary Importance
to Japan in her preparation for the
eventual war which the Japanese gen.
eral staff considers inevitable for the
mastery of the Pacific Ocean"
That part of the. leaders of the ma
tional government are anxious to have
the powers convene to discuss Man
churia was clearly shown today when
Sun 70, government leader, addressing
a group of officials, expressed the hope
that the United States would take
further steps toward solution OF the
Manchurian dispute on the basis OF
the recent Stimson notes.
Sun Fo also said he hoped the united
States would call "a second Washing
ton conference" for the purpose the
statement was taken to refer to the
proposal now reported before the Chi
1,ese government to ask for confer
ence Of signatories to the nine-poWer
treaty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
Firemen Send Bill
AndHOld Car After
Putting Out Blaze
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 19.-Non-
residents of MelroSe Park would
do we'll to go somewhere else and
have their little fires.
Arthur H. Landregar of Oak
Park, a suburb, thinks it is per
fectly silly, but the Melrose Park
police are keeping his car until
he pays $25 for putting out a
blaze in his motor.
The suburban firemen ex-
planned that they eXtinguish fires
on a piece work" basis. collect
ing per fire and time put in.
Lately collections have not been
so good. So when they were call
ed to save Landregar's sedan
from destruction, they billed him
for $25. He refused to pay and
they turned the automobile over
to the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
RARE WHALE, WITH BIG MOUTH
OF JONAH STORY, IS CAPTURED
4,oOo-Pound Fish, Caught in Florida Is Only Species
Meeting Specifications of Bible Tale.

approximately $4,000. The Bureau Of
Fisheries at Washington and American
Museum of Natural History at New
York we're notified of the catch brought
in here yesterday.
Scientifically, the fish is known as
Rhinodon-typicus. 1t has a slate gray
body with white spots and authorities
say 1t is the only variety with a mouth
big enough to swallow a man at one
gulp.
A. E. Lingo of Collingswood N. J.:
Alfred A. Sack of Newark, N. J., and
L. A. Camp and Paul E. Shipe of Miami
"'crc the ether members of Capt. Gif-
-c:1~ parry.
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Ex-EMPERoR ACCUSED.
Orders 10 Jail Hsuan Tung and Other
Leaders Reported at Marking.

PEIPING, China, January 70 LP)-
Chinese dispatches from Marking to-
day said the government there had
decided TO order the arrest OF the for
mer Emperor Hsuan Tung and a num-
Der of other prominent Chinese and
Manchus on charges OF Sedition and
giving aid to the japanese in Man
churia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
Four Dead in Mine Blast.

OVIEDO, Spain, January l9 CP.-
-Four miners were killed, Is injured and
An undetermined number trapped in
an explosion at the Boo Aller Coal Mine
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
RAIL UNIONS STAKE .
CUTS AGAINST Jobs.
Offer to Trade 10 Per Cent
Pay Slash for Same Rate of
Employment Increase.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, January 19.-An offer to
trade 10 per cent cut in pay for
10 per cent increase in jobs has been
laid before the Nations railroads by
their 100000 workers.
Give us a guarantee you will put
the same number of men to work you
employed in 1880 and we will listen to
your request for a voluntary pay roll
reduction" spokesman for the workmen
in effect told nine executives negotiat-
ing for the railroads yesterday.
1t was the first time that labor has
come out f1atfootedly with an offer of
barter since it opened the parley on
wage cuts and unemployment relief
with the rail chiefs last Thursday.
Based on Peak Year.
AS actually worded by the spokesman
of labor, the proposal asked for the
same total of man hours" as prevailed
in 1880. This total was 10 per cent
greater than in 1881, labor chiefs said,
and was used because it represented an
average between 1929, peak year and
1881, low year.
Labor contends a guarantee Of jobs
would accelerate business recovery, be-
cause it would restore confidence and
release S2,000,0 900 in purchasing
power now held back by fear
The workmen's barter proposal was
ar answer to the request of the rail
committee for a more detailed sugges-
ton on sterilization of employment,
the cornerstone of the union program
III the conference
The rail presidents had said in a
general way that the wage reduction
would stimulate employment, but ex-
dressed doubt they could guarantee jobs
10 q fixed number of workmen. They
are to reply to the new union offer
TO-DAY.
Demands Reiterated.
Although the carrier spokesman have
Indicated they could not agree to some
of the planks of the labor platform,
among them the principle of the six
hour day, the labor chiefs yesterday re-
iterated their demands that they be
accepted.
An agreement has been reached on
che of the union demands, that an
emergency employment bureau be es-
-tablished. The bureaus will be in
charge of E. J. McClees at New York,
j. w. Higgins at Chicago and c. P.
Neill at Washington.
The three directors, who head re-
g!onal railway organizations, will call
upon chief executives of organizations
representing the class of labor required
end they will furnish the men, it was
agreed.
os mn nDUTp To TAKE CJTT
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PRINCE ESCAPES INJURY
Falling Plank Narrowly Misses
King Georges Youngest Son.

King Georges Youngest Son.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, January 10
P).-Prince George, youngest son Of
the King, escaped injury by a scant few
inches today while he was making
tour of the industrial districts of this
city.
AS he walked into one workshop, q
heavy plank, which had been used TO
prop open window, fell at his feet. He
jumped back quickly, but made light of
the incident and went on his tour CT
inspection
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
CHINA MAY BREAK
WITH JAPAN OVER
MANCHUR|AN ISSUE.
NOTE TO i. S. IS HIT.
Chen and Feng, "Christian
General" Reported to Be
Joining in Move to Sever
Diplomatic Relations.
9-P0WER TREATY REPLY
DECLARED IMPAIRMENT

Insulting to Chinese, Foreign Of
fee Says-Present Drive Seen as
Forerunner of Strife to Rule
Pacifc-Second Conference Here
Is Sought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
Jugoslavian King Asks Advisory
Rody On Economic Problems

Body on Economic Problems
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, January 10
(P).-King Alexander authorized the
minister of trade today to draft bill
providing for the creation of an eco
nomic council of 80 members to be
chosen from trade and industry.
The council would pass on all eco
nomic proposals before they are sub
mitted to parliament.
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o. s. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair with lowest temperature about %
degrees tonight tomorrow increasing
cloudineSS and warmer.
Temperatures-High SO, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, "a, at am. today.
Full report on page B-4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
COUNCIL TO AID TRADE

Continued on Page A, Column H.
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continued on Page 2, Column A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-29
Call OF International Red Aid

tice the most cruel violence and ILL
treatment.
"Workmen and workwornen. toilers
of the town and villagel Such a des-
tiny threatens all OF you, your fanni-
lies and friends.
"The aim of the Ira. is your own
aim.
The work of Ira. is an INSOFAR
able part of your general struggle for
bread and work, against the new i'm
perialist war, against the attack on
our only revolutionary fatherland -
the Soviet Union.
BE prepared to join in masses the
ranks Of the IRA.
THE badge of IR.A.-the red BAN
ner waving behind the prison bars
must find the place IL deserves in
every workers family and every
farmers family.
Long live the Ira.
Long live the international soil
darity Of the toilers in the struggle
against white terror, fasclsm and the
war danger.
The Executive Committee of the IRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-29

starvation and capitalist oppres.
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-29
the Unity Between the
Struggling Workers, Farmers
Solidarity Expressed in Deeds Recent Struggles; P.
gle against impoverishment and

gle against impoverishment and
bankruptcy.
1--WE especially denounce as
SlanderouS the statement of Ma
yor Hays that this deliberate as
sault upon the unarmed farmers
is undertaken in behalf of the
workers Of this city. We work
ers are italy concerned in the
victory OF the farmers. Such a
victory will, by preventing the
bankruptcy of those who till the
soil, advance the interests Of all
toilers.
eve declare that the enemies
of the farmers are also the enc
mics of the workers in the city.
Ours is common cause. All of
us are threatened with mass star
walton and misery as a result of
the greed of the bankers, the
gigantic trusts and wealthy land
owners. 1t is in the interests of
these parasite exploiters and by
their orders that the city, county,
state and federal government
forces are being employed.
"We call upon the striking
farmers to stand fast in their
determination to win their just
demands. We pledge them our
every possible support, morally
and materially. We will gladly
join them in the effort to estab-
liSh stronger mass picket lines
and mass resistance against the
brutal attacks of deputized thugs.
Forward in the common fight
of all toilers!"
In and around Minneapolis and
st. Paul, where the farm strike is
going on just now, unemployed
workers under the leadership of
the Unemployed Councils have
stormed the market centers, Selling
box-cars, storming stockyards and
turning loose livestock and main
tanning militant picketing together
with the striking farmers. At the
same time solidarity meetings have
been organized by the unemployed,
calling for support to the farmers
strike against the marketing COM
panies and exposing the Holiday
leaders who are sabotaging the
mass picketing.
In Beltrami and Clearwater
Counties in northern Minnesota,
workers and unemployed in the
same manner have gone on the
picket lines with the farmers.
WITH WORKERS
On the other hand, the striking
farmers in Iowa repeatedly de-
clared that "our strike is not
against the workers, but against
the market monopolies. The Ne
braska farmers in big mass meet
ing declared their solidarity with
the workers by stating:
ITO forestalI the action of the
middlemen who will tell the
workers that the farmers strike
is the cause of higher prices, in
their efforts to cripple our
strength by dividing the workers
from us. we are resolved to give
free food and milk TO the unem-
ployed and needy of the cities.
This relief will be distributed
through our own agencies and
not through any PROFESSIONAL
reief organization, the officers
of which receive any salary
whateyeSr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-29

The following call has been issued
by the Executive Committee of the
International Red Aid, Of which the
International Labor Defense Is the
American section:
Join the army OF the International
Red Aid.
'"Closs our movement of interna-
tional revolutionary solidarity.
Strengthen the defense and as
sstance for the proletarian prisoners
of capitalism.
"On November 10, world congress
Of I. r. A. is being convened. This
congress will review the ten years
work of our organization. It will call
upon all of you to join the IRA, to
extend and strengthen its ranks.
THE toiling masses of all coun-
tries must hear the voices of the IRA.
It's call must find an unanimous
answer.
Look all around: Fascist, police
and court terror is raging with I'm
heard of cruelty in all capitalist coun-
tries. Listen: A call for help is heard
from all capitalist prisons. A call
Tor resistance 10 the jailers, who prac-