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The Washington times., 1932-02-20

FLOYD GIBBONS of the Japa-
nese military effort.
The japanese are apologetic-
ally smiling, but are bitterly
embarrassed.
The Chinese are jubilant.
For II hours, from s a. m.
to 8 p: m. Saturday, some
10000 trained Japanese fight
ing men, employed their full
strength. and the most mod
ern implements of war in a
futile effort to take any oc-
cupy the single Chinese viii
lage of Kiangwan.
Sunup to Sunset
Yes sir, from almost sunup to
sunset, strong units of the I'm
perial Japanese army, navy. and
air forces have been dropping
and hurting whole blacksmith
shops of hot metal on a small
cluster of Chinese hutS, and I'll
be doggoned if they have yet
been able to oust the compare
lively small number Of Chinese
defenders, well entrenched be
hind and under the smoking
ruins of the village.
If this news doesn't burn up
a lot of joSs-sticks in China in
the early hours Of this morning,
and also blow off a lot Of hats
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
Slayer of Reporter
Beuins I4-Year Term

CHICAGO, Feb. 20 QNS0.
County Jail officials today were
preparing to transfer Leo v.
Brothers, to the Joliet State
Penitentiary where he must serve
a term of IA years for the
murder Of Alfred j. Jake" Lingle,
racketeering newspaper reporter
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
Perhaps You
HaUen't Seen
This Furnished
apartment

LOCATED on 21st st. N.
W., near George Washing
tor University, this large
living-rnom. kitchen and
bath apartment. with gas,
heat and electricity fur
nished. can be rented for
$S5 per month. II you
are student and your
housing budget is limited,
see this offer featured to-
day in the Apartments
Furnished" columns of the
Want Ad Section OF this
newspaper,
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
Bessie LOUe, Film
Star, Has Daughter

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 20 G.N.S0
Bessie Love, film star. today was
the mother Of a daughter, Pa
tricia, born yesterday in a Holly.
wood hospital. Miss Love in pri-
vate life iS Mrs. William B.
Hawks, wife of a broker.
The Washington times., 1932-02-20

linese ended
in failure to
achieve even
t h e limited
o b je C tt YES
scheduled for
the initial ad-
vance.
F ore i g n
m iii t ary OBJ
S e nv erS are
puzzled over
the unexpect-
ed b | O cking
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
600 WoUNDED CHINESE TN SHANGHAI

There 1910 wounded Chinese in Shanghai Hospitals
lust prior the general Japanese offensive launched last
night These figures reported to the State Depart
ent today by American Consul General Edwin Cunning
ham at Shanghai
The Washington times., 1932-02-20

TOKYO Feb. 20 (LN.s)-Japanese Consul General Mural
at Shanghai today protested to his against the
action Of 100 American Marines in entering the Nagai spin
ming mills in Shanghai search concealed weapons
The Washington times., 1932-02-20

LONDON, Feb. 20 (LNs).-Exchange Telegraph dis
patches received here from Shanghai stated the Japanese
forces captured the second line of the Chinese defenses at
Woosung late this afternoon
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
CHINESE CONSOLIDATE FORCES

LONDON, Feb 20 )-Dispatches from Shanghai to
the evening newspapers say the Eighty and Eighty
ninth divisions Of Chang Ka-Sheks Chinese army have
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
LATEST WAR BULLETINS
CHINESE SHELL HITS JAP DESTROYER

LONDON, Feb. 20 (INS.).-A Chinese shell hit Japa-
nese destroyer in the battle Shanghai killing several
members of the and nurng the commander according
to Central News dispatch Chinese claim also to have scored
direct hits other Japanese warshps The Japanese
rines suffered heavy casualties in the attack Kangwan
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
D AY
Of PUSH"
FUTILE
Failure Costs Million Yen
and Probably Heavy Loss
of Life to Nippon
By FLOYD GIBBONS

Noted War Correspondent and "Head-
line Hunter" of the Radio
Copyright, 1882. by international
News Service)
The Washington times., 1932-02-20
By FLOYD GIBBONS

Noted War COrresDOndent and Famous
Headline Hunter" Of the Radio
Copyright 1882, by International
News Service)
SHANGHAI, Feb. p, Sun
day, 1908 a. m. (LN.S.).
Hello, everybody!
The first day of Japan S
scheduled push against the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
Bigger Dirigibles

Airship authorities say that the present giant dirigibles Graf Zeppelin, Akron of the future, and that others twice as big will be in common use for air transporta- ton, particularly for journeys of more than 1000 miles. The ultimae bulk of airships, they believe, will be around l5,000.00O cubic feet. Air liners of that size will carry passengers and freight between Washington and Germany in two and a half days
 The 100000 cubic feet limit has been set. it is explained. by calculations which demonstrate that airships must approach that size before they can compete successfully with the various forms of surface transpor- tation. At present the expense of building and operating the great )dirigibles with which the public is familiar is so great that pas senger fare is almost prohibitive.
 Perhaps the aeronauties experts are right, and the dirigible rather than the airplane is to be the favored means of air traansporta- tion for long distances. At present. how ever, the public regards the dirigbile as something of freak while it has accepted the airplane as an established carrier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1882
No Hope For Mooney

Governor James Rolph. Jr., has so flatly refused to extend clemency to Tom Mooney that it begins to look as if the nationally known "lfer' in San Quentin penetentiary would spend the rest of his days in that institution. There was considerable surprise when the governors announcement was made in Sacramento yesterday after noon. Public opinion had finally seemed to have balanced the scales of justice and Mooney seemed about to be freed. But there is no gainsaying the governors reply to the pardon plea. It is final until another executive may rule in that state.
 Perhaps the fact that Governor Rolph was mayor of San Francisco at the time of the bombing of the Preparedness Day Parade in 1916 caused him to close his ears to the pleas of thousands of Americans who have come to regard Mooney as martyr Not so, Governor Rolph. As mayor of San Francisco he headed that memorable parade and no doubt was an actual eyewitness to the staying of the ten people and the injur- ing of forty others by the bomb. Incident ally Governor Rolph is the fourth governor to deny Mooney pardon.
 There will be much outspoken criticism of the governors action. There IS plenty of wholesome as we'll as maudlin sentiment about Mooney in the United States today. Even Mayor James J. Walker interested him. ally pleaded for him. However. if anybody cares to read the official report submitted by the governors legal advisors which cov- CTS the entire case and the evidence designed to prove Moneys innocence there may be vastly different opinion on the subject One of the conclusions stated simply that Money and the radicals publicly and pri- vately opposed the Preparedness Day Par ade: their insensate hatred of our present form of government and desire to substi- tute the red flag for the Stars and Stripes impellcd them to commit the deed. ...
 We mustn't lose sight of the fact. too that the bombing outrage occurred in Cali fornia and there are residents native-born with love for their state such as all of us have for our native state who recall vividly the tragedy of July 22. 1916. when peace full parade was transformed into battlefield on which lay dead and dying Three thousand miles across the continent we are too apt to regard Mooney as martyr, for many of us have come to the opinion that he was railroaded for crime of which he was not guilty. But when we read what Governor Rolph and his legal advisors have to say about the entire case, we wonder if such grievous mistake, as Mooney claims. could actually have been made in his con- viction. If so. he is still being wronged; if not. the American people are being hood winked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
The Wedding Postponed

Much to the disgust of the natives of Martha's Vineyard the much-diseussed wed- ding of the heath hen and the prairie chicken is not to materialize. We had visions of another popular tune to vie with the various wedding marches of Tin Pan Alley. such as have caused the feet of thousands of dance-inclined madeaps to gyrate strangely of recent years. But, alas and alack, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation has had its say and no prairie chicken will invade the male domieile of the heath hen, the last of its species and name to the con- trary the male of the species.
 Marthas Vineyard has been since time immemorial the habitat of the heath hen which has been one of our native birds much sought by huntsmen. In fact, 1t was SO much sought that it has actually come to the point where there is but one male heath hen in the world That's catastrophe, but sure indication of the thoroughness of this modern machine age of ours. It's also an indication of the ruthlessness of our mighty hunters who find such sport in filling their bag with wild fowl to the limit each day of the hunting season.
 Lost year the obituary of the last heath hen was published throughout the nation. Conservationists who had watched the de- cline of the race lost trace of the sole re- maining bird. But he evidently is sturdy old fellow inasmuch as he is the last of his kind. For he reappeared this year and IS definitely among those present on Marthas Vineyard now receiving the best of attention from state officials and native residents. The experiment of introducing his majesty to prairie chicken. the only American wild fowl that most closely resembles the heath hen was suggested and approved on all sides. How ever, the powers that be have spoken. But certain natives of Marthas Vineyard. ac- eording to all reports, are not adverse to bit of bootlegging, even if it involves not one prairie chicken. but bevy. A harem for the heath hen! Down with the Con- servation Departments ideas on birth control!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
Good Minds in Good Bodies

Another blow has been struck at the beautiful but dumb" theory. A psychology professor in Teachers College. Columbia University. has been supervising study of exceptional children in New York public schools. She says that gifted ones surpass those of average intelligence in beauty of face. height. weight and strength also in character. They are better in athletics than average children. except peculiarly enough, they find it difficult to lift their body weight. They are poor at chinning them selves or making standing broad jump
 What now becomes of the puny, anemic little bookworm. the pale and thin teachers pet who got that unpleasant title by always knowing the answers to all questions? What also, becomes of the idea that the big. fine looking youngsters are agreeable and good athletes. but not very bright? Perhaps the ancient ideal of sound mind in sound body has been getting better break in our educational system in recent years than it did a generation or two ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
How New York Graft Scandals Were Exposed

Two years ago Samuel Seabury, ex-iudge of various New York courts and one-time candidate for governor of New York state, was utterly unknown in the country at large.
 To-day he is one of its best known citizens, and there IS nor a city or town in the country where newspaper readers do not remem- Der his gallant fight to expose and remove corrupt office-holders In New York city.
 Obviously, the biography of such a man ought to be highly inter esting document; and WaiteF Chambers has provided, in Sam uel Seabury--a Challenge, a book that makes extremely good reaa- ing.
 MT Chambers may occasionally give his recital something or the tone of an ultra-laudatory cam paign document. but for the most part he simply tells a straight. un- varnished story. He uses approxi- mately the first half of hfs book in telling of Judge Seapurys career before the current tnvesu- gations made him famous.
 Descended from early American stock, born in New York the year of the Tweed ring exposures. Judge Seabury had made a' name Tor himself as a capable judge, high- grade lawyer in private practice and a liberal, Independent demo- crat fin politics.
 Then came the investigations. Mir Chambers justifiably goes into detail ana presents an admirable summary of the disclosures that were made. lie also takes pnins to show how Judge Seabury not only tried to expose and oust cor- rupf oflce- -holdcr6. but sought to arouse citizens 10 tho miserable
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22

Professor Herman H. Chapman of the Yale Forestry School suggests in the current issue of the Yale Forest School News that George Washington be made the patron saint of forestry. It's good suggestion and comes at the proper time. This is Wash ington's Bicentennial. Congress has done a great deal to make l932 known around the world as such. but it could go just bit far ther by comforting the mantle of sainthood upon Washington for his interest in the ad- vancement of forestry. It'sa pity that there
 isn't another Washington alive today to make the country tree conscious. Profes- sor Chapman says. The independence. self reliance and judgment of Washington were developed by his activities as surveyor of woodland areas his military scouting and campaigning in the Pennsylvania forests. and his extensive operations as lumber man in the Dismal Swamp of Tidewater, Vir- ginia. His freedom from affectation and his ability to persevere and to await results grew from his occupation as scientific. large scale farmer. life which he preferred to the cares and responsibilities of war and stateeraft. !. {. Why not adopt George Wash ington as the patron Saint of foresters' He would be the last. I am sure, to object. And so would the foresters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
So They Say

If everyone slept out -. and especially on these jolly, frosty nights-we should all live to be 100.
 Lord Baden-Powell of England
 One out of every seven boys un- der l8 engaged in coal mining in Pennsylvania met with an accident in one-year period. Miss Beatrice Mcconnell of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor. - sIt
 Political leaders who boasted that permanent era of prosperity had arrived are partly responsible for the depression. Richard Whitney. president. New York Stock Exchange. lN 'Fa
 Unless we can show that pay ment of the bonus will benefit the country and promote the general welfare we are not entitled to have this bill passed.
 -Representatiyc Wright Putnam sponsor for the bonus bill.
 Despite all the dry claims to the contrary, the state of Ohio Co wet. People are convinced the dry law has been . failure both morally and economically.
 -kIrs Amana stone Mnther. mem her of tho Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
Is Hoover Slipping?

Although women prohibitionists warned President Hoover this week that any candi- date who opposes the 18th Amendment this fall will be defeated, it is the eoneensus in we'll informed circles that if the republican national convention should adopt wet plank in its platform the president would not repudiate it. Ever since his Wicker sham commission failed him in that it did not report that prohibition was a marvellous success and just what this nation needs he has been more or less compelled to readjust his views on the subject.
 Publicly he has not changed his status one degree from what it was four years ago when he became the candidate of the repub lican party. Perhaps he won't have to ex- press himself this year. Certainly if the republican convention ignores the prohibi- ton issue or dodges it as skillfully as it has in the past twelve years there will be no necessity of President Hoover saying one word about problem that has plunged this nation into the worst conflict of emotions and viewpoints that it has ever witnessed.
 But when confidential advisers to the president and prominent republican officials start demanding action of the prohibition question in one form or another. then Mir Hoover can do nothing but slide the way his props have fallen. Now prominent cabinet member, name not given, has di- vulged referendum plan which it is be- lieved may even win Hoover support. The unknown author might be Secretary of War Hurley, since he is as close to the president as any cabinet member and is known to Save swung to the wet side in the last few exciting years of prohibition. But it makes little difference who it is since it is simply an indication of the trend of opinion in the ranks that are in immediate proximity to the president.
 Even that ardent prohibitionist. Senator Smith w. Brookhard of Iowa. is of the opinion that there must be referendum to sscertair public opinion on prohibition. But he couples his suggestion in the form of constitutional amendment. which will per- init definite number of states to demand such referendum upon any amendment to the Constitution when they so desire. The pfoposaI of the Cabinet officer for a refer cndum states simply that Congress by ma jorify vote may call special national cleo tion in an off-year. Other plans for refer ,nda depended upon the action of two-thirds ,f fhr legislatures of the state It stsms |,irIy certain amid alI this turmoil and eofssIou al'sndant on spbs''En''pn Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
APPLE BLOSSOM TIME.
Christian Science Monitor


 New England is modest. Its claims for public attention often times are apologetic in tone. It's perennial invitation to visit its lakes its mountains and it's beaches never is unduly colored. Never has it wandered into the field of exaggeration in spreading its sample attractions before prospec- tive buyers.
 Turning the pages of New Eng lands prospectus, one may won- der why so many things have been overlooked. Its outstanding at- fractions. which speak for them selves. are not so much in need of exploitation as those of which the outside world knows little or nothing. New England is not all mountains, lakes and seashores. It has scores of attractions which never are enumerated in the bar gain sale of beauties with which 1t balances it's budget.
 And among these are its apple blossoms. The first opening buds on the cherry trees of Japan are the signal for a festival which spreads through great channels of publicity to the far corners of the world. And yet year after year acres upon acres of New England apple trees burst into magnificent bloom and fill the air with miles and miles of fragrance-without even the publicity of an item in the Bi-Weekly Agriculturist and Advocate. And this beauty Is the more lovely because 1t springs suddenly from dour and rocky hillsides but lately freed from snow.
 Apple blossom time in New Eng land--it soon will be here--is worthy of all the adjectives, that can be piled on the great blanket Of pink and white perfume which nature drops over the greater part of that area in the month of May.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
VISION AHEAD
tNew Haven Register)

(NeW Haven ReglSter)
 Fine appeals to common sense packed the hearing on prohibition before the subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee. The question was approached and cov- cred in full from nearly every as- pect, and 1t was resolved into sim pie problems of arithmetic. In view of such appeals the state of mind of those who still advocate pro- longing the noble experiment" be- comes more puzzling than ever.
 It is puzzling because all that mass of wisdom that was presented probably will not be sufficient to return the nation to condition of safety on the subject. Not much more than the late lamented Wickersham re- anybody who was open to being convinced. Therefore a rather cyni- cal attitude toward the immediate results of this latest array of facts and figures is inevitable.
 Yet the cynicism over this epi- sode should be tempered with hope. These hearings are serving their purpose. It will not be long before there will be listening to such appeals. It will be months. but probably not years, before many of those who still crowd in that group which merits the old classification of none so blind as those who will not see" will be mighty glad to look at the ques- ton from a saner point of view. The huge financial burdens hanging oyer, fhe country are felt now. But wait until another national tax bill or two have to be paid. Then there ought to come a rush of the present obdurates to the relief guaranteed in a revision of the experiment. They will not see the solution now. But they soon will.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
THE MATTATUCK STATE
 FOREST
(New Britain Herald)

(New Britain Herald)
 Keeping tab on the state forests Is nothing for anyone with poor memory. They now exist in some profusion. The state forester has distributed a booklet describing the Mattatuck state forest in de- tail historically to the present day; but if anyone in New Britain were to buttonhole a friend and ask for directions to get to the forest he probably would be met with a blank stare. Yet the Mattauck state forest Is within easy automobile riding of New Britain; and if it is worth a special booklet of 23 pages, well illustrated. 1t must be worth visiting.
 The Mattatucl. state forest al- most due south. of Thomaston. It has an area of 2.583 acres, most of 1t rugged and hilly. or mountain ous." Two leading highways pass right through it. the one from Thomaston to Waterville. the other from Thomaston to Watertown. Many autoists from these parts drive right through 1t when going to Waterbury. though they may be in too much of hurry to take due notice.
 The forest lies within the area described in the curious deed given by the Tunxis Indians of Farming ton under date of February 8. 1857. according to the booklet and this deed Is recorded In the town rec ords of Farmington. At that time the Naugatuck river and it's tribps taries. ''sparkling and undecided, ' were teeming with Ash. and the woodlands abounded in game, v
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
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CERMANS REPULSED

On April 22, 1918, fighting of great intensity broke out again be- tween the British and the German troops opposing each other on the Lys sector. German attacks, in the main, were repulsed.
 Reports that an early peace would be signed between Rumania and the central powers were cur rent in western Europe. Rumania had been virtually non-com- batant since Russia's collapse.
 Guatemala announced that 1t considered itself in the same posi- tion as the United States in the war. This amounted to virtual declaration of war on Germany and her allies.
 German losses since the begin ming of the war were placed at 4. 456,O00 men by Karl Bliebtreu. German military statistician. This figure was more than double the correct amount, according to allied statistics, and observers in France and England were at loss to un- derstand 1t.
 Permanent losses, according to German casualty lists, were not more than 100000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
 Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER 44H
By RODNEY BUTCHER

leader, are not horrible examples, but:
 One day recently Pat was burn ing up the g. Q. p. for perpetrating the Hawley-Smoot tariff. He re- called how Watson had assured the country in June, 1890, that thanks to that tariff the country would regain the peak of it's pros- perity within a year. Quoting a later speech from Watson, he said:
 That is the kind or argumen. he uses in trying to fool the peo- pie and it is possible to fool some of them. and my friend is 50 adroit that he can fool more thar anyone else I know of"
 Did Public Servant Sunny Jim" Watson get sore at that? He merely said:
 T thank the senator.
 That much of the exchange may have been slightly funny. but 1t went on ad nauseam. Each ses- sion sees hundreds of pages of far worse drive1 piled into the long all-containing Con- gressional Record at $5S page.