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Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February I6. 1917

Fire destroyed the West Cotton
gin at West yesterday afternoon,
the loss being estimated at about
$4,000. Insurance covered the
baled cotton but machinery and
building were a complete loss.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Rain today and tonight; heavy
rains and SHOWS in the mountains;
Wednesday fair and cool; strong
southwest shifting to northwest
winds off shore.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
L. A. STOCKS

A farmer at Newport, Wash, has
two COWS that produced twins
within the same hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

A. II. Rehkopf ranch of 100 acres
which is located northwest of Holt
vile was sold yesterday to Thomas
j. Williams of Missouri, the price
being $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
The Weather

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy, unsettled weather
tonight and Wednesday with rain
this afternoon and tonight; tenn
peratureS below normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
@aIlSeC
POULTRY

LOS ANGELES, Feb -. UP
Following are today's market quo
totinpc.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

Joe Schorzman, Delco, Idaho has
hen turkey that began laying i'll
early spring and is still laying
every other day.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

Guy Beynon. well known insur-
ance man, recently brought his
family from Santa Barbara and will
reside in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
TEN YEARS AGO
February I6. 1922

The cattle situation from the
standpoint OF the stockman in the
valley is in a healthy condition and
rapidly improving. Profitable con-
tracts for the coming year recent
" were entered into by a number
of stockmen. Production will show
so per cent gain this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

The Irish are at it again. But they
can be excused for they have been peace
full for 10 years and that's long time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

A Santa Clara county farmer
was recently fined $50 for shooting
robins.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
PAUL TON HINDENBERG

FIFTEEN years ago he was the worlds
L second greatest william, his villainy
being exceeded only by that of his inn
perial master.
For several years past he has been
the real reason why Germany has not
fallen into state of anarchy.
Paul Won Hindenberg now announces
that he will again be a candidate for the
presidency of the German republic,
principally to offset the radicalism of
Adolph Hitler
Many may not yet be ready to con-
slider "Old Paul. as hero, but millions
who once considered him a villain are
now ready to admit that he is a splen-
did old man. He has given the world
an example of fidelity, first to his kaiser
and then to the oath of office given him
by the German people, that many other
men in public life might we'll follow.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

Add to the worlds troubles, revolt
in Costa Rica 1t is not a breakfast
food but a little republic down in Cen
trail America.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

Wonder if Giannini wired back to San
Francisco, "Veni, Vidi, Vici''.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16
LOCAL WEATHER
Recorded by +. A. Baughman
u. S. Weather Bureau

Minimum this morning. ....-...
Maximum yesterday -..............
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

If all the protests Britain and the
United States are doing, were strung
out, they would reach from London to
Shanghai
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

Road test results differ slightly IN different eors
ANY GASOLINE that's low in its
octane Efficiency is just naturally
'lazy" in today's improved motors.
Side by side you have, illustrated
above, two actual hill-climbing knock
tests that speak for themselves. "Stand-
ard" Gasoline's high Octane Eff
cheney is most evident on the hills.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-16

Standord" Gasens's superiority is elxeys evident!
The car of today matt have motor
fuel of high Octane Efficiency to
accomplish its best work.
InJi5t on either "Standard" Gasoline
or Standard Ethyl Gasoline at Stand
ard Stations, Inc, and Red White
and Blue Dealers.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
By DIXON HOSTE

SHANGHAI, Feb. IS 1892 p.
nfD GNSD.-Japanese trans
ports poured more men and arms
into Shanghai today.
The Chinese, Spurred by re-
cent successes and renewed pleas
from national leaders for a
stand to the DEATH" also massed
additional troops.
Thousands of Chinese troops
stand ready to fight in towns and
villages all about Shanghai. The
strength of the defenders is much
greater than foreigners had be-
lieved.
Japs Outnumbered
Observers placed the Japanese
numbers, with today's arrivals,
at about $4,000, while the Chinese
strength was put at a considerably
higher figure.
Troop movements in the direc-
ton of Shanghai indicated that
the japanese may be planning to
outflank the Chinese of the
Chapel area, cutting them off
from their Woosung forces and
driving them back along the rail
way.
Sixteen tanks, six large and
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
WOMEN To LAUD
MRS, HEARST

The late Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
mother of william Randolph
Hearst, will be honored at cere-
monies. throughout the country
during this week, marking the
thfrty-fifth birthday anniversary
of the National Congress Of Par
ents and Teachers, of which she
was a co-founder.
Founders Day exercises will be
led by a special program in Wash
ington, in which Mrs. Hugh Brad
ford, national president, will par
ticipate, tomorrow. night at Pow
ell Junior High School.
Mrs. A. A. Birney. first presi-
dent of the District Congress of
Parents and Teachers and sister
in.law of Mrs. Theodore Blrney'
who organized the movement here
with Mrs. Hearst, will also partici-
pate in the ceremony.
Speakers will include John M,
Gibbs, of the National George
Washington Bicentennial Com
mission; Edwin Hegge and Charles
Stengle, of the District CommlS-
sion, and w, w. Wheeler.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
Gibbons Dreams of Maine Disaster, Sees
1t Re-Enacted at Shanghai

but crazy nuts burned up with
misplaced patriotic Zeal-insane
zealots who would do such a
terrible thing to blame the dis
aster on the other side and try
to bring America into this mess
on their side.
Japanese here in Shanghai are
all eager to have Uncle Sam side
with them in their war with
China. The Chinese here in
Shanghai are eager to bring
Uncle Sam into this fight on
their side against Japan.
It was all horrible, Jimmy, and
it meant death and war and dis
aster, and then I woke up in a cold
sweat as the Speedboat bumped
against its dock on the bund.
No More Chop Suey
Gosh, what a relief! No more
chop suey dinners-I must lay off
that Sukyaki diet-thats what I
resolved as I ordered mess of
ham and eggs in my room at the
Cathay Hotel and sat down to
read a newspaper.
OF course, Jimmy, you and !
know that such a thing couldn't
happen, and both of us hope to
God it never does. But listen!
It did happen, Jimmy-by
golly-it did happen just "a years
ago today in Havana Harbor.
Yes, sir, this day, February IS,
1898. an American warship an
choled in that harbor, neutral
and peaceful, observing progress
of a war between SpaniardS and
Cubans. was blown up and 26S
American boys went down with
their ship.
And your Uncle Sam got
dragged into a war with Spain
and then got kicked into posses
sion of lot of Far Eastern
islands which made him more
than ever one of the great powers
of the Pacific.
Don't laugh. Jimmy, Just ask
your dad if he remembers the
Maine.
Good night. kid See you later.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
Chinese Massing Many Thousands
Of Troops for "Stand to the Death"

ten small, were lowered from the
transport ships along with stores
and equipment They immedi-
ately set out to the north, lum-
bering their way ostensibly to
Woosung.
Among the latest arrivals from
Japan. were dozens of carrier
pigeons, which came in large
crates, hundreds of cavalry
ponies, and a number of <Six-inch
hoWitzerS.
The troops were billeted in
the northern district, where they
took over houses in the Dlxwell
and Scott Road areas.
Chinese military officials
warned against the possibility
that the Japanese army might
employ gas shells in their pro.
jected Woosung attack.
Gas Peril to Americans
Chinese officers said they were
convinced the japanese landed
gas equipment and added:
"It would be impossible to
limit destruction to the Chinese
alone. 1t is inevitable the
deadly fumes would blow to-
ward the International Settle
ment, leaving Americans and
other foreigners at its mercy"
The Washington times., 1932-02-15

several American Marines had
just left.
Shells Drop Frequently
1t was not determined from
whose guns the exploding shells
came. The "dud" was believed to
have been fired by the Japanese
A company of the Shanghai
Volunteer Corps evacuated their
blockhouse quarters during the
night, because of a rain of
Japanese shells directed at
Chinese hidden in the shattered
remains of the North Station.
Heavy shells dropped every one
or two minutes.
Powers To Protest
Representatives of principal
foreign powers, including the
United States, said they would
protest to their governments the
landing of japanese troops within
the International Settlement.
The Shanghai Municipal Coun-
Gil planned a protest to Japan,
declaring the settlement was
created for defensive and not Of
fensive purposes.
The British consul was under
stood to have been told by Japan
last week that such landings
would not continue to be made.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
Excellent Day for Battle Is Marked
By Apparent LuN Before the Storm

Aside from a half hour of ar
tillery bombarding of the Chinese
positions in the Markham Road
railway yards, the Chapel front
was quiet at o'clock this after
noon.
This was felt to be the lull be-
fore the storm.
> Japanese planes were up, but
they did no bombing, simply
watching the effects of the artil-
.lery fire.
The Dollar liner President Gar
field passed up the river unmo-
Tested through the Woosung fight
ing zone. 1t was ahead of sched-
ule with a large list of American
passengers.
Fine Day for Battle
1t was reported Japanese war
ships were holding up and search
ing all passing Chinese vessels,
and Harbor Master Lexington
left Shanghai for Woosung to
investigate the matter
Today dawned an excellent day
for fighting.
Three more shells exploded this
morning within the northern
part of the United States Marine
sector, and one shell, which failed
to explode, fell into a tent which
The Washington times., 1932-02-15

within the next "a hours.
From the land side, it is diff
cult to approach Woosung because
the Japanese have now drawn their
line across the narrow spit of
land on which it is situated. But
on ship flying the British flag
l had an excellent view of the
front. The ship ran within 200
yards of the fort.
The 60-year-old fort itself is
not nearly as badly damaged as
reported. Practically all the guns
on the V-shaped point at the con-
fluence of the YangtZe and
Whangpoo rivers, Is miles north
east of Shanghai. are still in
place, their black muzzles peering
from dirt parapets or emplace-
ments.
My ship was within 200 yards
when a large japanese destroyer,
its nose almost against the Woo
sung wharf, began firing at short
range. I saw a roof fly off
large building. The destroyer was
firing slowly and deliberately as
it each shot had a particular pur-
pose.
The Chinese Naval College had
three big holes in its roof. Rows
of houses were demolished. The
town was burning in two places.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
D. K.
JUSTICE LETTS

After several weeks delay, the
Senate Judiciary Committee to-
day recommended the confirma-
tion of the nomination of F,
Dickinson Let's, former member
of Congress from Iowa. to be an
associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
Confirmation is expected at the
first executive session Of the
Senate sometime this week.
Justice Let's received a recess
appointment from President
Hoover last summer.
When the Blaine King sub
committee opened hearings on
the nomination, one witness
appeared in opposition, claiming
Justice Let's had had some part
in the witness disbarnent as an
attorney here and that he was
unjustly disbarred.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
"No Aggression" Japan
Tells Ambassadors

TOKYO. Feb. IS Q.N.S0 1.-THE
ambassadors of Great Britain,
the United States, France, Italy
and Germany visited the Japa-
nese foreign office today at the
invitation of Kenkichi YoShi-
Zawa, foreign minister.
Yoshizawa again explained
that Japan's aim in Shanghai
was merely protection of her
nationals and that the present
military activity constituted nei-
ther aggression nor occupation.
YoshiZawa said the recent dis
patch of additional infantry re-
Inducements was necessitated by
the fact that $4,000 Chinese
troops are now posted in or near
Shanghai.
SHANGHAI. Feb. Is, 1855 D. m.
Q.N.S0. - The Japanese army
division billeted in, the Scott
Road area of Shanghai received
its baptism of fire today.
Chinese trench mortars kept
up steady bombardment of the
whole neighborhood. Japanese
artillery raked the Chinese lines
in the hope of finding and
destroying the Chinese mortar
emplacementS.
The task was difficult, how
ever, as the emplacementS were
hidden in the ruins of Chapel
and are difficult to ferret out.
Intermittent fire was heard all
along the line this evening.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
275 Men Get Jobs
For Week in Parks

Public Buildings and Parks Of
ficials today gave 275 unemployed
men work for one week cleaning
public parks under the plan put
into operation in January by the
District Committee on Employ
ment.
The men will be replaced next
Monday by another group of ap-
rroxfmately the same number
The men work five days, six hours
a day, and receive 40 cents an
hour, '
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
LEAGUE GROUP
CAM 7 FRAME
CHINA VIEW
Secret Farley of Council Is
Postponed to Permit
Further Study
BY FREDERICK X. ABBOTT

GENEVA, Feb. Is (I.N.S.).
The League of Nations Coun-
ell, which had been scheduled
to meet in secret session this
afternoon on the Shanghai
conflict, postponed the meet
ing until tomorrow or Wednes-
day.
The drafting committee was un.
able to draw up a satisfactory
text explaining the councils re-
luctance to call an extraordinary
session of the League assembly on
it's own initiative, as asked by
China, 1t was understood.
The drafting committees prob
lem was particularly acute since
it's old excuse. that Of not hav.
ing sufficient information on the
Shanghai controversy, failed to
hold today, following publication
of the Leagues Shanghai COM
mittee final report.
Seek to Involve United States
A move was gaining ground
today to involve the United
States in the assembly. It vas
pointed out the precedent for
this had been established when
the United States participated in
the Leagues opium commission
and, therefore, since it is vir-
tually a foregone conclusion the
assembly will appoint a commits
sion to study the Shanghai trou-
BILE, 1t was hoped the precedent
will force the United States into
the matter
The Leagues Shanghai report
declared an open state OF war
had existed since February 3.
This report was far more cen
serious of Japan than the first,
made public several days ago.
It stated:
"Any pretense of truce has
been abandoned. The offensive
is entirely in the hands Of
the japanese, whose declared
object is to capture the Woo
sung Forts and to drive all
Chinese troops considerable
distance from Shankhai."
Who Broke Truce?
Concerning the moot question
of who broke the truce declared
February 2, the report stated:
"a complete truce never
really existed. 1T is impossible
to establish which side should
be held responsible for break
ing the truce"
Japanese bluejackets were re-
sponsible for a reign of terror" "
according to the report, and the
Japanese committed numerous
excesses. including summary exc
cutions."
The Washington times., 1932-02-15

tiny little fellow sitting way up
high on a noble-looking bay. war
horse, surrounded by members Of
his staff. all gold-braided.
With binoculars to their eyes,
they looked westward across the
rice fields, studded with huge
mounds of numberless Chinese
graves-peered across the mesh
work of criSs-cross creeks and
bitches of the flat, low country
side toward the setting sun,
which was going down like an
enormous orange of molten metal.
1t brought out the black sill
houette of crazy-looking six
story Chinese pagoda. whose up
turned caves and tiled top made
it look like a half a dozen 1890
derbies piled one on top Of an
other in a secondhand dealers
window.
Excitement and Rest
You see. Jimmy, there was both
excitement and reStfulness in that
scene and I was tired and had
just cabled a long yarn about
Japanese fears that the Chinese
might attempt to sink Japanese
troopships by using floating mines
in the Whangpop River - you
know, those great big metal con-
tainers of heavy charges of cx-
plosives.
They're big round dirty-looking
sea monsters with protruding
warts all over them. only those
warts are delicate percussion fuses
and when one of them bumps
against the side of a vessel on or
below the waterline-well. sir, it's
just simply goodnight for that
vessel and everybody and every
thing on board.
TaylOr'S Flagship
I was thinking about the posi-
bility of those things floating
down the old Whangpoo and just
at that moment my speedboat
sped past the United States
cruiser Houston, the flagship of
Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor,
commander of our Asiatic squad
ron.
Jimmy, there's one of the pref
tieSt battle buggies on all the
seven seas of this here old spin
ming golf ball of a world, and
when you meet up with her with
the eyes and heart of a born
Yank and see her colors-our flag
flying way out here on John
Chinaman's equivalent of the Mis-
sisSippi River-well, kid. she
kinder gives you an old tug and
a gulp around and about the up
per left hand vest pocket and all
of a sudden you want to go com
pletely George M. Cohan.
And then, Jimmy, guess your
old headline hunter must have
fallen asleep there in the back
seat of that speedboat.
I had a crazy impossible dream
that one of those much-feared
floating mines had bumped
against the sides Of the flagship
Houston. Up she went and down
into the muddy waters of this
Chinese River with more than
1000 American boys on board.
Fanatics on Both Sides
Why?-I asked, and the question
answered itself that fanatics on
both sides of this ASiatic con-
flict are all anxious to involve
Uncle Sam in this mess-T don't
mean sane Japanese or Chinese
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
DETHR0NEMENT.
Of CAROL ASKED.

BUCHAREST, Feb. IS G.N.SO e.
Political sentiment of Rumapia,
already at fever pitch because of
an expected cabinet crisis, was
further inflamed today by the
published demand that King
Carol II be dethroned.
Gen. Alexander Averescu,
leader of the peoples party and
former premier, signed the article
in the newspaper he publishes.
A ministerial upheaval was
generally regarded following the
recall of Nicolas Titulesco, who
headed the delegation to the
Geneva disarmament conference.
He is also president of the
League of Nations assembly.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Noted War Correspondent and
-.. - Radio RrOadCaSter

Copyright. 1892, by International
News Service)
SHANGHAI. Feb. Is G.N.S0 .
Hello everybody!
And hello, Jimmy, come over
here and hop up on your uncle's
knee, cause feel a story coming
on.
It's a yarn that started with
a .yawn late this afternoon as l
sat all muffled up in a great
coat and muffler in the stern
seat of a speedboat coming up
the Whangpoo River after having
a look-see around the hostile
Chinese and Japanese lines fac
ing one another at Woosung
Greek.
The air was cold and the
steady throb of the motor made
me drowsy. Not only that, but
I have been missing a flock of
sleep the last two busy battling
weeks here in Shanghai.
Peace and War
The scene on this river, Jimmy,
and on both shores is the
Strangest mixture of peace and
war you could imagine.
Merchantmen and men-of-war
flying the flags of all nations
and ranging in size from slim de-
stroyers and pot-bellied, high
bowed mine-sweeperS to great big
10,00O-ton cruisers moved majes-
tically up and down or rode
motionless at their anchor chains
while thousandS-yeS, sir, literally
thouSands-of native wooden craft
moved in and out among the big
fellows.
High-pooped Chinese junks with
full stern and lug sails of patched
canvas ribbed with bamboo spars
and flat-bottomed barges with
coolies working long sweeps on
both sides and funny little bob
bing sampans with buggy tops of
straw mating and aquatic rum
BILE seats from which they are
with single oars
Jimmy, this here river is just
crawling with life-bargemen,
fishermen, coal leaders, river rats
and houseboat inhabitants.
Some Pirates, Too
Say, you know there are just
hundreds of thousands of men,.
women, and kids who are born
on these boats and spend their
whole lives on them and die on
them.
Yes, I guess some of them
are pirates also. because they are
pretty tough looking customers
you know-barefooted and some
bare to the waist with ugly
knives cleaning in their belts
against their yellow bellies, but
don't interrupt me again because
I want you to get this yarn.
LiStenl And on the west shore
nearby I cold see columns, Of
smart looking Japanese Cavalry
trotting along the military road
that runs between Shanghai and
WooSung. and sometimes batteries
of heavy guns would rattle by
the big broad steel rims on their
wheels banging over the cobble-
stones as outriders on six horses
bent lashes over the animals
backs and moved them into a
gallop.
At road intersection I saw q
Japanese brigade commander, a
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
Mill Owners Seek Damages for Raid
From Air on Billet of u. S. Marines

The Shanghai municipal coun.
Gil today considered its first case
concerning compensation for losses
arising from Japanese lombard.
ment' of the International Set,
! tlement. Many were expected to
follow.
Mill Seeks Damages
The Hung Chang Weaving and
Spinning Company asserted that
when japanese aerial bombs were
dropped on the Wing On Mill, in
which American Marines were
billeted, their workers fled in
flight, refusing to return for
work.
For this and specific losses
from damage incurred, the com
pany served notice of intention to
seek reimbursement from the
Shanghai municipal council.
A research committee to com.
pile statistics of war damages ha;
been formed. and property owners
have been instructed to file lists
of their losses.
Johnson Makes Tour
American Minister Nelson T.
johnson made a tour of the lines
held by United States Marines
and the American Thirty-first In
fantry. He plans to return to
Nanking tomorrow.
Sentences ranging from six
months to two years were meted
out to 1873 Chinese looters by a
special district court.
Despite the dangers of shell,
fire. Japanese riflemen behind
barbed.wire barricades, as we'll as
Japanese marauders and irrespon.
sible Chinese, riSked their lives
to duck in and out of deserted
The Washington times., 1932-02-15

CHINESE MASS BIG ARMY
To MEET ONSLAUGHT BY
AIR. LAND AND SEA

Chinese ships to come to anchor
under threat of being sunk.
At the same time the destroyer,
with decks cleared for action,
brought its guns to bear on the
unarmed Chinese ships.
The coolie crews went into a
panic, some plunging over the
side. The japanese destroyer
lowered two small boats with
armed boarding parties.
Under cover of the destroyer's
guns the boarding parties climbed
up the sides of the Chinese ships,
searched the Chinese officers and
crew for arms, and made a
thorough examination of the en-
tire ship and cargo for explosives.
No munitions were found on
either ship, but the japanese
ordered both to go upstream and
return to their berths in 5hang-
hal.
The Washington times., 1932-02-15
Continued from Page -

(Continued from Page -
ing of the forts, the japanese
navy employed new tactics for
the first time during these hos
tilitieS.
Cleared For Action
In the midst of this mornings
operations in the lower Whang-
poo, two Chinese 5,000-ton cargo
steamers started slowly vending
their way through the river traf-
fic down stream from Shanghai
toward the Yangtze.
! Opposite the river berth of the
United States destroyer Barker a
single japanese destroyer steam
ing upstream blocked the river
below the Chinese ships.
varicolored flags of the inter
national code fluttered from the
japanese foremast. sending an
order across the water for the