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FARM RELIEF TURNED OVER TO AID BOARD New Group Holds First Meeting With Hoover at White House. TASKS ARE OUTLINED President Warns Program Can Not Be Magic Wand' to Cure Ills. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Unitr*! Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 15. The gigantic task of farm relief passed into the hands of the federal farm board today. After spending an hour with President Herbert Hoover at the White House the board retired to temporary quarters in a downtown hotel to begin its first meeting. Chairman Alexander Legge said he could give no indication of what the board would take up first, but said he planned to have Us members get to work immediately. In delivering his formal charge to the nev board. President Hoover said one of the principle purposes of the federal machinery would be. to more clearly adjust production o consumption and to create permanent, farner-ovned business institutions for marketing agriculture products. He warned the farmer that such a program could not be accomplished by a magic wand or an overnight action."

Wide Authority Given The text of the President's farm board sta.ement follows: “I have no extended statement to maize to the fr-deml farm board .is to its duties. The wide authority and splendid resources placed at your disposal are well known. “I am deeply impressed with the responsibilities which lie before you. Your fundamental purpose must oe *o determine the fact and find solution of a multitude of agricultural problems, among them to more nearly adjust production to need; to create permanent business institutions for marketing which, owned and controlled by the farmers shall oe ao widely devised ad soundlyfounded and well managed that they, by effecting economies and jiving such stability, will grow in strength over the years to come. ‘Through these efforts we may establish to the farmer an equal opportunity in our economic system with other industry. “I know- there is not a thinking farmer who does not realize that ail this can not be accomplished by a magic wand or an overnight action. Heal institutions are not built that way. "If ve are to success It will be bv strengthening the foundations and the intiative which we already have in farm organizations and building steadily upon them with the constant thought that we are building not for the present onlyi but for the next, year and the next ) decade. Leaders Form Board 'Tn selecting this board I have -ought for suggestion for the many ! scores of farmers' co-operatives and other organizations and yours were among the names most universally! commended: you thus are in a sense, the representatives of organized agriculture itself.

"I congratulate each you upon the distinction of your colleagues and upon appointment. I invest you with responsibility, authority and resources such as have never before been conferred by our government m assistance to any industry.” The board is to administer the national agricultural program authorized by the $500,000,000 farm bill signed by the President a month ago today. A fund of $151,500,000 is available for immediate operations of the board. Additional Increments of the $500.00.000 revolving fund authorized by the farm bill may be made available by congress, at the recommendation of the President, as needed. The present pressing problem of a wheat glut at gulf ports is expected to receive the immediate attention of the board. Movement of the current cotton crop will be its second major undertaking. -ODt Still to Be Named The emergency marketing power of the board will be carried out through existing co-operative associations. which may secure credits through a gigantic stabilization corporation whenever an emergency is declared for any commodity. Owing to difficulty in finding a man to represent the wheat producing and marketing interest, President Hoover had designated only seven of the eight members of the board in time for today's meeting. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Hyde will be an exofficio member of the board. Those thus far selected are: Chairman. Alexander Legge. Chicago. Vice-chairman. James C. Stone. Lexington. Ky. Charles C. Teague. Santa Paula. Cal William T. Schilling. Northfield. Mina Oarl Williams. Oklahoma City. C B. Denman. Farmington. Mo. Charles S. Wilson, Hall, N. Y.

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Murder Is Charged in Dry Death Federal Agent Faces Charge After Youth Dies of Bullet Wound. B'i United Pres? TULLAHOMA. Tenn., July 15. Bruce N. Ashburn. federal prohibition agent, faced first degree murder charges today in connection with rhe killing of Edwin Smith. 22. who was riding in a car the officer suspected contained liquor. No liquor was found in the car. Ashburne. and two other federal agents, J. N. Spurrier and J. O. Anderson, gave chase to the car containing Smitn and three companions. on the highway near here Saturday night. When the car failed to halt on orders, the officers fired, it was charged, and one bullet struck Smith in the back. He died several hours later. A murder warrant was sworn out by Smith's father but has not been served. Ashburne is reported to have left for Nashville.

SAFE AT BALI PARK LOOTED Yeggs Carry Away Empty Box. Overlok S3OO. A quartet of masked yeggs who ripped open a safe in rhe offices of ‘the Indianapolis Baseball Club, I Washington Park, early today, car- ! ried away only a tin lockbox conitaining two building and loan asso- ' ciation books, belonging to William , Clauer. secretary. Two smaller safes in the same | office, one containing S3OO. were unClauer said. | While three of the men pried [ open the safe door. Steve Jackson. 65, of 228 North East street, watchman, had a grandstand seat to the robbery—under cover of an automatic pistol in the hands of the fourth yegg. Clauer and police today agreed that the robbery was committed with expectations of finding a. large sum of money, comprising Sundav's receipts at the ball park. The‘ management had removed the receipts Sunday evening. Although the yeggs constantly impressed Jackson with information that they were members of a Chicago gang. Clauer and police believe they were Indianapolis men, because all were cautious in keeping veil masked, and because one of them knew the routine of the telegraph boxes. Tw- men who drove into a filling station nearby at 3:15 a. m. filled their roadster with gas. and drove north, were sought by detectives in connection with the robbery. Vesper McKinney. 28, of 1228 West Washington street, attendant, said they had an automatic pistol on the seat of the car.

BLAST ROCK CITIES Philadelphia Fire Reaches Dynamite on Pier, By T tilted Press PHILADELPHIA. July 15.—The central section of Philadelphia was rocked this morning by blasts when fire reached several tons of dynamite stored on Pier 34 near Delaware and Green streets. The detonations were heard for miles. Virtually the entire fire-fighting organizations of the city was at the, scene, in response to four alarms. Fire boats also aided. Several firemen were overcome by smoke. There were twenty separate explosions. fire department officials said, and sections as far as Camden and Frankford were rocked by the concussions. LINER ESCAPES BLAST Europa. New Floating Palace. Nearly Destroyed Again. Bv United Press HAMBURG. July 15.—11 l fortune that has marked the building of the North German Lloyd Line's magnificent new liner, the Europa. narrowly was averted again today at the re-launching of the vessel, which was almost destroyed by fire in April. During the launching an explosion of undetermined origin sank the dock near which the Europa slid into the water. The v esse!, however, was undamaged.

SWORD-FISHING SHIP BURNS 140 MILES AT SEA; EIGHT ESCAPE IN OPEN BOATS

By l lifted Pr. tt BOSTON. July 15.—A thrilling story of fire at sea and of hours spent in open boats at the mercy of the elements, was told here today by eight Gloucester fishermen who. hungry and almost exhausted, had been picked up after ail hope of escaping death appeared to have vanished. The rescued men. Capt. Eddie Farrell and his crew of seven of the Gloucester sword-fisherman Benjamin Wallace, were landed at the fish pier here today after

POLISH OCEAN FLIER DIES IN AZORES CRASH Second Man of Crew Is Injured Seriously When Plane Burns. FRENCH AIRMEN SAFE Question Mark Returns, to Paris After Battle With Storms. BY PEGGY WARD United Tress Staff G’orret pon font HORTA. Azores. July 15.—The attempted trans-Atlantic flight of the single-motored Polish biplane, Marshal Pilsudski ended in a disastrous crash on Graciosa island, one of the Azores group, wherethe fliers sought a haven after developing serious motor troubles. Major Louis Idzikowski. whose great, ambition was to pioneer a cross-Atlantic trail from Paris to the United States, was killed instantly in the explosion which followed the crash to the rocky ground when a forced landing was attempted. Casimir Kubala. the other member of the Marshal Pilsudski crew, miraculously escaped death and is in a hospital suffering from various injuries. The machine completely was destroyed. The spot where the accident took place is about thirty-five miles north of Fayal, in the Brazileira section. The crash of the Marshal Pilsudski came Saturday night, after the plane had been fighting bad winds throughout, the day, almost from the time it hit out to sea after leaving Paris at dawn. The Governor of the Azores notified the Portuguese government of the tragedy Sunday adding that imposing funeral services were held on Graciosa island at a spot called Guadalupe, for the dead Polish flier. The Governor stated that the Portuguese colonial troops accorded full military honors to the major, in the presence of high island authorities. .

Major Idsikow-skl was 38 years old, one of the best known fliers in Europe, a veteran of the World war with the Russian army. When Poland became an independent state and formed an army of its own. Idzikowski joined its air force and served as a member of the Kosciusko Escadrille. He w-as recorated three times for bravery while serving with the Russians. French to Try Again BY RICHARD D. MoMTLLAN. _ PrMS Staff Corresoon'Jp’if PARIS. .July 115.—Although the attempted trans-Atlantic air race of the airplanes Marshal Pilsudski and Question Mark ended in failure and the death of noe of the Polish fliers, the French aviators. Dieidonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, still undaunted. will try again. Neither the failure of their own flight nor the tragedy at the Azores, where the Polish plane. Marshal Pilsudski. crashed Saturday night after developing motor trouble." killing Major Louis Idzikc-wski and injuring Iris mate. Casimir Kubala. discouraged the Frenchmen in their determination to blaze an air trail from Paris to New York. After getting a perfect start in their attempt to cross the Atlantic last Saturday, Coste and Bellonte. far out at sea. decided to turn back to JParis because of terrific winds and their effects upon the plane's fuel supply. They overcame the hazards of hail, storm and rain and landed at Villa Coublay airport outside of Paris. “What happened to the Poles? - ’ vas the first question Coste shot at the United Press reporter who shook hands with him when he came out of his cabin at the airport. The news of the tragedy was a great shock to both Frenchman. “We are very tired." Coste said, “but it was a great experience. We will try again.' 1 “On our outward journey we ’met. bad weather 300 miles from the coast," Bellonte said. “The hail- | stones were as big as eggs. There i was a fierce adverse wind. We were ' able to go little better than fifty miles an hour." “We opened a bottle of champagne over the Atlantic, drank to our future success and started back." The Frenchmen were almost at the Azores when they decided to go back to Paris rather than risk a j landing on the rocky islands where the Polish flier met his death. Their wireless apparatus broke ; twice, they said, but they managed to repair it both rimes and to keep in touch with ships and radio sta--1 tions.

being taken from dories by the Boston trawler Gale while adrift about 140 miles south-southeast of the Boston lightihip Sunday morning. Many hours before the rescue, the Benjamin Wallace, fired by the explosion of her fuel tanks, had burned to the water's edge and foundered, forcing the crew to set out in the dense fog in two dones without food or water. Besides Captain Farrell .those saved were Cook J. E. Cardinka.

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Sleeper Killed By L nit>A Press NEW YORK. -July 15.—Andrea Reardon, 45. walked in his sleep once too often. He rolled from a four-story roof to which he had climbed, and was killed.

KING RALLIES IN OPERATION Doctors Remove Portions of Two Ribs. Btt United Pres? LONDON. July 15.—The British empire breathed freely-again today after a tense period during which* its ruler. King George V, underwent his third operation of the year, when the monarch's physicians and surgeons announced he had withstood the ordeal remarkably well. Portions of two ribs in his right chest were removed, it was announced, in order to drain an abscess an inch and a half across which had formed beneath the scar of his original operation last winter to drain the infected pleural cavity. A second, operation was pcrlcrmed some months ago when his recovery was not as speedy as his doctors had hoped. One of the^t, wo ribs operated upon today was the same which was cut in the last operation when the abscess was first discovered. Dr. Hugh M. Rigby and Dr. Wilfred Trotter were the surgeons who performed the operation upon the monarch in the king's bedroom. Besides Rigby and Trotter signing the official bulletin were Stanley Hewett, Francis Shipway and Lord Dawson of Penn. The surgeons and physicians emphasized the operation purely was a local one and expressed hope that the king would soon recover. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 64 10 a. m 71 7 a. m 66 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 67 12 (noon).. 74 9a. m 71 Ip. m 77

SNOOK SEEKS SANITY TRIAL Slayer of Theora Hix to Demand Jury, Bv fji <tcd Press. COLUMBUS. 0.. July 15.—Appointment of a sanity commission to determine the mental condition of Dr. James H. Snook, confessed slayer of Theo Hix, Ohio State university co-ed, will be demanded Tuesday, the former instructor’s attorneys .announced today. If Snook were found insane, he would be committed to the state hospital at Lima and thus would escape trial on a first degree murder charge in connection with the coed's death. Three alienists would compose the commission. If they adjudged Snook insane, a jury would be impanelled to hear evidence on the issue. On the jury's verdict would rest Snook's fate. Although Snook's attorneys have intimated their client would plead insanity, today's announcement was the first definite move along that line. It was recalled George Remus, former millionaire Cincinnati bootlegger, who kiled his wife, had himself adjudged insane and thus blasted the state's first degree miuv der charge against him. Remus was committeed to the asylum, but later was released. If the jury finds Shook sane, he must stand trial and the defense, the county prosecutor declared, will then have no basis for its pleas of insanity.

TRANSFER $9,092 FROM SCHOOL REPAIR FUND Board Votes to Make Up Other Deficits. Resolution transferring $9,092 from the elementary school general repair fund to a number of other funds to meet deficits was adopted today by the school board. Objection was made by Theodore F. Vonnegut, minority faction member. who said: “I vote ‘no’ to the item of S4OO transferred to the buildings and grounds department supply and expense fund for the reason the department is run loosely, its management fails to inspire confidence and it is generally demoralized."

John John Gibbs. Chester Perkins. Alonzo Bennett. Edward Swan, William Tpke and James Angelo. * a a m WE put out of Gloucester about three weeks ago and headed for Georges bank for swordfish.” Captain Farrell said, in describing the last trip of the ill-fated Banjaman Wallace. ‘‘After making a good catch* of ninety-two we started for home. I was working on deck when I decided to go below for a cup of cos-

NEWORLEANS CARS ARMED; STARTSERVICE Heavily Guarded Trams Make First Trips Without Disorder, GUARD STRIKEBREAKERS l. S. Marshals on Hand to Enforce Injunction Against Strikers, Bn United Press NEW ORLEANS. La.. July 15. Street car service was resumed here today with strikebreakers under federal protection. Loaded with armed deputy United States marshals and flanked by automobile loads of police, the first car proceeded slowly down St. Charles avenue without disorder. Hundreds of striking street car men mingled, with crowds of curious as the heavily guarded car moved at a snail's pace down the wide avenue. Resumption of service on the eve of the third week of the strike of 2.000 street railway men for higher wages and shorter hours. Rioting and pillage that followed the strike resulted in two deaths, more than a hundred injured and extensive damage to company property.

Later the public service company obtained a federal injunction to prohibit union men from interfering with the operation of street cars with strike breakers. The first car returned to the barns after an hour’s run through the downtown streets, without having picked up a single passenger. Immediately afterward more cars rumbled out of the barns, and the company proceeded slowly and cautiously to put sendee back into full swing. Shortly before noon officials of the company estimated twenty cars were in operation.-

Two Drown in Highland Club Pool Negro Employes' Swim Without Permission: Costs Lives, The season's accidental drowning toll in Indianapolis increased to four today as police added the names of Arthur Harden. 30. Negro, Chicago, and Ralph Conn. 36. Negro. 618 Douglass street, Highland Country Club employes, who drowned in the club- swimming pool late Sunday night. * William Young, a third Negro employe of the club, was saved when Clarence McDaniels, club employe, heard his screams and threw a life preserver to him. Club officials today said the trio went swimming without permission after the pool was closed. According to Young. Hayden got into the deep water at one end of the pool, and Conn dived ir. to save him. Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier said Conn struck his head on the cement bottom as he dived.

$175,000 LOAN SOUGHT FOR CITY HOSPITAL USE Sum Would Be Paid Back From Fall Taxes. An ordinance authorizing a $175,000 temporary loan for the city hospital was asked of the city council today by City Controller Sterling R. Holt, The loan will be for five months, at not more than 6 per cent interest. It will be paid on receipt of fall tax receipts. The money will be for current expenses. The board of works asked disannexation of a part of Thirtyeighth street so the county can proceed with a resurfacing contract inside the present city limits. The district v.lll remain outside long enough to permit completion of the improvement, Feight Bus Line Asked John W. Patterson, Covington, today petitioned the public service commission for permission to operate a freight truck line from Covington to Danville. 111., passing through Waynetown. Hillosboro and Veedersburg.

fee. There was a strong odor of gasoline fumes below and I ordered my men not to smoke until the fumes cleared. “When I had had my coffee I returned to deck.* About two minutes later I heard a terrific explosion. It threw me three feet into the air. Flames shot from the forecastle and from the cabin companionway. “I rushed to the forecastle, where four men were sleeping. Three of them struggled through the flames to safety. The fourth

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JIM BOOSTED BY JIM! Green Led Davis to Moose Altar WHEN you shake hands with Jim Green, chief of the statehouse police, who presides at the information desk in the statehouse corridor each morning, you don't “shake the hand that shook Jack Dempsey's." but you do shake the hand that guided Jim Davis to the altar for initiation into the Moose lodge. This was the initial step which put Davis into the life work which eventually made him a cabinet member under three Presidents of the United States. For the Jim Davis whom Jim Green made a Moose is no other than Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, now talked of as possible candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania.

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Jim Green ‘HUMAN CORK 7 IS QN~ WAY TO SLEEP MARK Doctors Unable to Awaken" Man - Who Floated 75 Hours. By United Press ATLANTA. Ga.. July 15.—Norris Kelam, the Human Cork." Culpepper. Va.. set one record and today was well started on another. He collapsed Sunday after being in the waters of a local lake for seventy-five hours, and was taken to a 1 hospital for treatment. ctor tried to awaken Kellarn today to give him nourishment but he remained asleep, apparently out after another endurance record.

KOS CASE JURY IS INCOMPLETE New Venire of Fifty Is Called, Delay in obtaining a jury in the trial of Max Kos. 34, of 245 West Thirty-eighth street, whose car killed two workmen repairing a street car track New Year's eve. was encountered today at the opening session before Special Judge Harvey Grabill in criminal court. Kos is charged with involuntary manslaughter. A special venire of 100 was exhausted and an additional venire of fifty was ordered for Tuesday morning. Ira. L. Holmes, attorney for Kos, expects to prove with fifteen witnesses that Kos was not intoxicated when his car struck and killed r 1 Fulkerson. 1236 West Wzshir n street, and William R. O ' nc. 817 Rylbolt street, as they were working on the street car tracks at Linvood avenue and Washington streets. Judson L. Stark, prosecuting attorney. and Paul Rhoadarmer, chief deputy prosecutor, have called twenty witnesses to prove Kos was intoxicated. According to Rhoadarmer. a bottle of liquor was found in Kos' car following the accident. Kos, World war veteran, received the croix de guerre and distinguished Service cross for bravery under fire.

LOCKJAW BOY LOSES 8-DAY DEATH BATTLE Tdanus Caused by Cap Gun Explosion Kills Youth, 11. Harold Coble, 11. of 325 North Bright street, died in city hospital shortly after noon today after an eight days’ battle against tetanus, resultant from explosion of a toy cap pistol in his hand July 2. For a week after the accident his parents knew' nothing of his injury. When his arm swelled last Tuesday, the boy told his mother he scratched his hand on a nail. The mother, striving to open his clamped jaws, scratched her finger and for several days was in danger of tetanus infection. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coble, and eight brothers and sisters.

was trapped, bu,t a few moments later he. too, got- out. a a a “T)Y this time the fire was *5 spreading the full length of the ship and we hastily lowered our dories. The first was launched easily enough but we had trouble with the second. We barely had got the second one clear when another explosion, worse than the first, shook the ship. “Before we got out of sight of the Wallace, six more blasts oc-

Because in his days of greatness. Davis, supreme dictator of the Moose and founder of Mooseheart, “the City of Childhood." hasn’t forgotten his first friends. Green sits comfortably in a chair at the statehouse these hot days, rather than working at his old trade of fireman in a Crawfordsville industrial olant.

“QURE I'm for seeing Jim Davis made Governor of Pennsylvania.” Booster Green declares. •You see. he got me this job." His friendship with Davis startback in Crawfordsville. where orphan Jimmy Green was reared by Mrs. Emma Wilson, mother of Henry Lane Wilson, one-time ambassador to Mexico, and United States Senator James Wilson from Washington. “It was back in 1906,” Green begins the story, “and the Moose lodge was in a bad way. There were only two lodges active, the one I belonged to at Crawfordsville and another at Frankfort. ‘The Moose had been started some years before by a group of theatrical people in Cincinnati, but was dying out. We got together with Frankfort lodge members and decided on Jim Davis of Anderson as leader. He worked in the tin mills and was a big man in the Eagles. a ft a “TNAVIS consented and I led U him to the altar, because T was sergeant-at-arms. The initiation was in the Crawfordsville, lodge, but the Frankfort lodge members weer there. Davis was Moose No. 147. with Murray Dunlap. later mayor of Anderson, being 148. “We called Crawfordsville the mother lodge and Frankfort the daddy. Abner Jones was supreme dictator and Ed Barr was secretary. They put on the work after I got Davis to the altar. “Among those present, who are still living, were Charles (Skid) Galey. now of Frankfort, and Jefferson Irvin. “From the time Davis joined the Moose it began to boom and so did he. He wasn’t, anything of a speaker in those days, but he soon learned. “He and Andrew Mellon are the only two men living ever to be. members of three cabinets. If he ever quits I want to see him a Governor.”

WOMAN ENDS LIFE Two Take Poison; One Succeeds. One woman was dead and another believed recovering today from poison taken with alleged suicidal intent, police reported. Mrs. Lillian Arnold. 36. of 2939 Brookside avenue, died at city hospital Sunday night as result of poison which police believe was taken to end her life. Coroner Charles H. Keever is investigating. 1 Mrs. Walter Jackson, 27. of 2814 East Michigan street, who collapsed in 1300 block on North Pennsylvania street, was believed to be recovering from an overdose of sleeping tablets. twoTraTnmen Tilled Engine, 7 cars Derailed by Switch Other Crew Members Escape. Bv United Press _ TOMAH, Wis., July Id. Two trainmen were killed when the second section of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train No. 12, Minneapolis to Chicago, was derailed near here today. The wreck occurred as the train passed over a switch from one of the main lines to* a parallel set of rails. The engine and seven of the cars were overturned. The train carried no passengers. Others of the crew' escaped serious injury. ENVOY TO LIBERIA DiES WJliam P. Francis Succumbs at Capital of Negro Republic. WASHINGTON. July 15.—William P. Francis. United States minister to Liberia, died today at Monrovia, capital of the Negro republic, the state department announced today. Francis' home was at St. Paul, Minn. He was appointed by President Coolidge in 1927.

curred in rapid succession, causing the ship to bob up and down like a cork. It was a mass of flames as the fog shut it off from our view. “For hours we picked our way through fog that limited visibility to only a few feet. “Then the fog lifted suddenly and shortly afterward we were sighted by the Gale. “We had neither food nor water and were so chilled and exhausted that we would not have been able to hold out much longer.”

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RED TROOPS HURRIED TO CHINA BORDER Russia Rumbles With War Talk as Ultimatum Reply Is Awaited. AIR PATROLS BEGUN Nationalist Government to Mobilize Defense Force of 100.000. Rt United Fte*>s Russia rumbled with war talk while China seethed with rumors of vast movements of troops today, and international political experts awaited the outcome of the threeday ultimatum which Moscow sent to Nanking over the seizure of, the Chinese eastern railway at Harbin, Manchuria, and the deportation of 900 Russian officials and employes of the road. Reports from Mukden said the Nanking government had ordered 100,000 troops mobilized and preparation made to move them to the border within forty-eight hours if a later conference deemed this necessary. Othpr reports fr<?m Harbin said travelers reported Russian railways in certain sections filled with troop trains bound toward the border. Japan Watches Developments Mukden had additional rumors that the Rusisans already were entrenching and establishing border aviation patrols. Meanwhile General Chiang KaiShek, chief executive of the Nanking government test Peiping for Nanking where he was expected to make an important announcement regarding China’s policy regarding the soviet. At the same time. Dr. C. T. Wang, foreign minister of the Nationalist government, was on his way from Peiping to Shanghai where he was to formulate China's reply to the soviet. Tokio. capital of Japan, which has large interests in Manchuria, had adopted a poliy of waiting and non-interference, while European capitals, particularly London and Berlin, were studying the situation confident that war would be averted. Peiping seemed confident that Moscow was merely bluffing. Similar reactions were apparent in Harbin. A Peipmg paper went so far as to suggest the ventuality that Japan particularly fears the seizure of the south Manchuria railway. League to Keep Out Reports from Geneva indicated that the League of Nations will not intervene unless either China or Russia asks. The league would welcome a chance to show Russia that it is effective, it is felt in league headquarters. but it is probable that, should the opportunity arise, the league would adopt a policy similar to that which it manifested in the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute last winter. In that instance it obtained the consent of both nations to the appointment of a third nation—the United States- - to arbitrate the differences.

War Talk in Russia By In it id MOSCOW. July 15.—War-scarred Russia reverted again today to talk of conflict with the equally warbruised republic of China as a result of mass meetings, resolutions, editrials and thousands of speeches throughout the Soviet Union Sunday on the Chinese situation. “We don’t want war, but we are ready to leave cur machines and take up arms in defense of the proletarian fatherland,” was the burden of all these speeches, editorials, mass meetings and resolutions, in an indignant Sunday wherein the populace pledged support to the government's ultimatum. Blame for the Harbin incident, the seizure of the Chinese Eastern railway and deportation of Russian officials of the road, was placed at numerous gatherings upon western Europe. Armed conflict was envisioned, but there was an underlying conviction that some way would be found to prevent warfare. Political circles were fearful that Nanking would ignore the three-day ultimatum like it ignored for many weeks the May 31 note (ft Leo Karkhan. easten foreign affairs secretary, after the Chinese raid upon the soviet consulate at Harbin. The ultimatum dominates the thought and conversation of everyone in all circles at Moscow. Considering the state of the public mind and the firmness of the press, decisive action of some sort is believed to be inevitable at the end of the three-day term unless Nanking accepts the ultimatum's proposals or makes counter-poposals. TEAR GAS SAVES FUNDS Bank Burglars Fail to Open Hoopeston - * 111. j Bank. Bu l'ni(‘ <f Pri tt HOOPESTON, 111.. July 15 —Tear gas set for automatic release when the first door of the money vault had been blown open, today routed burglars at the Farmers State bank here. The yeggmen fled with SIO,OOO in negotiable paper, leaving th* cash Untouched.

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