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Boy, 15, Haunted by Blood Money, Admits Murder for Books.

Hu Timet Special Lowell, Ind., Sept. 22.—Murder is parsed today in whispers in Latin at the Lowell high echool. Geometrical triangles are drawn "with blod-red “s-s-'s, ain’t that too bad about Perry?” While in a jail cell, a 15-year-old boy lies in a bunk awaiting trial for slaying because he wanted school books like those that hide the whispers in Latin and geometry classes. The boy is Perry Swank Jr., 15. He killed Eugene Duckworth, 69, fe filling station proprietor. Now, the books Perry wanted have pretty triangles in them marked “A, B, C - ’ or maps of Gaul and its division into “three parts.” The lettered lines of the triangles, however, deal naught of what you should do if you haven’t money to buy books to go to school. And the division of Gaul does not deal with Perry’s unemployed father and his inability to buy books for Perry. a a a SO here’s why murder is parsed on lips today in Lowell’s high school. It’s why, after twelve hours of battling off detectives with immature evasions. Perry confessed, “I robbed his filling station because I needed money for school books. He resisted. I had to kill him.” Perry was just a boy before this happened. Deviltry sure! Just the same kind of watermelon-stealing meanness we all got into as youngsters. He was a sophomore at the Lowell school. He played football. He wasn't a stare like the Dick Merriwefi of fiction fame, but just one who could run, and boot the ball whenever necessary. Perry needed books to attend school this fall. His dad didn't have the money. He took a chance and got a generous merchant to extend him credit so he could get the books to attend school. The bill worried him. a a a SUNDAY he took his father's gun and walked three miles to Duckworth’s filling station. He’d get that money to pay the bill he owed for books. "It was the easiest place I coula think of to hold up,” he explained to detectives. *- The filling stationed owner knew him. Perry knew he’d been town marshal. Duckworth tried to grab the boy’s gun. I told him to hold up his hands. He was spunky. So I had to kill him,” cried the boy. Rifling the dead man’s clothing, he obtained S4O. A motorist picked him up a short distance from the station. "Where are you going?” the motorist asked. "Church,” replied the boy. Maybe it was the first thing Terry thought of, but he got out at the church. He went inside. Evening services were under way. His hand dug deep in his pocket, clasping the S4O in money. “Blood of the lamb,” sang the choir. The bills in his hands imparted the dank feel of a dead life. "The sermon was depressing,” he told detectives. a an HE fled the church. He ran to the choir's words "blood of a lamb.’ He threw the gun away. He took the bank bills from his pocket. “That S4O was ‘blood money,’ so I J&.ied it in a stove,” he recited as he lighted one of the innumerable cigarets he has smoked since his arrest. "That’s all. Then you came and jfiot me at my home.” he added Ijer tween pulls. But that’s not qute all, Perry. ;Are you wondering how detectives (happened to come to your home? How they happened to know you were at the filling station? Well, you see, Perry, one of those girls who studies in the Lowell high school on how Gaul was divided into three parts—studies books you had to kill too buywell, she up and told police she saw you run from the filling station. That’s why murder is parsed behind paid-for textbooks today in Lowell high school.

‘DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY’ HOST TO ‘MA,’ HUBBY Famous Rancher Opens Desert Castle to Newlyweds. Hy United Press DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Cal., Sept. 22.—Walter (Death Valley) Scotty, who twenty years ago startled the world by hiring a special train to carry him from Los Angeles to Chicago in record-break-ing time, was' host today to the newly wed Mr. and Mrs. Guy Edward Hudson, who escaped from Las Vegas, Nev., for a honeymoon. CRUISER LAUNCHING SET New British 7,000-Ton Craft to Leave Dockyard Thursday. Py United Press PLYMOUTH, England. Sept. 22. H. M. S. Leander, Britain’s first medium-sized cruiser of 7,000 tons and equipped with eight six-inch guns, is expected to be launched at Devonport dockyard, Thursday. Its modern turbine machinery is expected to make her one of the fastest cruisers in the navy. The latest British cruiser is the Exeter which was launched at Devonport in 1929, and the pre-ent one is of an entirely new class.

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HEWITT STAYS I AS STATE JOB RELIEFJHIEF Existing Organization Will Remain in Charge, With New One Helping. PROGRAM IS OUTLINED Leslie Returns From Visit to Hoover and Gives Out Plans. Dr. John W. Hewitt will remain head of Indiana unemployment relief, and the old state organization and the new one, of which Warren Fairbanks is director, are expected to co-operate. This was the program announced by Governor Harry G. Leslie today, upon his return from a week-end spent with President Herbert Hoover, where unemployment relief for Indiana was discussed. That it is the President’s plan to use existing state organizations for relief also was stressed in a letter to the Governor from Walter S. Gifford, head of the Hoover commission of which Fairbanks is a member and Indiana appointee. In the letter to the Governor, Gifford inclosed one sent Fairbanks, in which this idea of co-operation and co-ordination was emphasized. Program Is Outlined It outlined three points for the national commissioners to follow in carrying out their programs in the states. They are: 1. Aid collection of relief funds. 2. Assist in administration of relief funds. 3. Extend employment as much as possible. So far, Fairbanks has been working with a newspaper organization, built up by himself. The state committee, of which Hewitt is director, with title of secretary, has been organized in all counties for more than a year and actually has provided jobs. Will Continue Work That it will continue to contribute this important bit and that unemployment relief also will be one of the principal points of the highway maintenance program was asserted by the Governor today. "We will retain the old organization, and the new will co-operate with the old,” Governor Leslie declared. "This matter of co-operation is very important, and there should be no wrangling about appointment of personnel and similar powers. "I intend to confer with Fairbanks about the program and am sure that it will be worked out for the greatest benefit to the needy and to care for the unemployed.” Another of Gifford's instructions to state representatives on the Hoover commission was for them to consult with their Governors and offer any possible assistants to the existing organizations for relief. Tries Suicide in Poolroom Swallowing a quantity of poison, William L. Miller, 54, of 45 North Hamilton avenue, today attempted to commit suicide in a poolroom at 27 South California street. His condition is not serious and he was slated on a charge of drunkenness.

Cold Shoulder By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 22.—President Herbert Hoover received what even ardent Republicans in Detroit characterized as a "cold reception,” here Monday. On his trip from the railroad station to the American Legion convention hall, where he delivered his address, he was greeted by undemonstrative crowds. He received applause at the legion convention, but it was not an enthusiastic acclaim such as the legionnaires gave to Calvin Coolidge at Boston last year. On his return trip to the station. Hoover passed through attentive, but inarticulate throngs.

TRUCK SALES TO STATE BY STATE OFFICIALS ARE CHALLENGED BY AUDITOR

Long disputed right of state officials to make sales to the state officially was challenged today by Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, in a request to Attorney-General James M. Ogden for a legal ruling. Officers in question are Representative Sam Farrell, member of the state budget committee, and Homer York, Indiana state reformatory trustee. Both are sales representatives of the Indiana Truck Company, and long have been the center of criticism due to the preponderance of Indiana trucks purchased by the state highway department. Williamson's query on the question of their status follows: “Please advise me as to my responsibility in paying per diem vouchers to Representative Sam Farrell as a members of the state budget committee and Homer York as trustee of the Indiana state reformatory in face of the fact that both are connected with the Indiana Truck Company, which sells trucks to the state highway department. “Yaik recently issued a public statement wherein he set out that

STATE ROAD WORK HALTED BY STRIKE; WAGES DEMANDED

Discharging of Employe Touches Off Bomb; State Police Are Defied to Force Truck Drivers to Move. BY DICK MILLER Strike by thirty-six truck drivers working on State Road 36, two miles east of Rockville, Ind., late Monday, threw 200 laborers out of work and halted construction. John J. Brown, state highway commission director, dispatched state police to the scene and prepared to seek legal advice from the attorneygeneral on steps to bring about resumption of work. When Dewey Talmadge, foreman for the Sun Indemnity Company, who bonded the William C. Johnson Trucking Company before its alleged bankruptcy, discharged O. G. Harbison of Russellville, Ind., Monday, he touched off the bomb that developed into a general strike.

111N MIDWEST DIE IN STORMS Six States Are Swept by Violent Wind, Rain. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Sept. 22.—Violent wind and electrical storms, which killed eleven persons, broke the long September heat wave in the midwest and southwest today. The storms swept six states Monday night and early today, injuring at least a score of persons, leveling farm buildings and piling splintered communication poles along highways. Three fatalities were reported in Oklahoma, two in Missouri, two in Kansas, one in lowa and one in Wisconsin. The storm also caused extensive loss in Illinois. The social hour was starting on the University of Missouri campus, Columbia, Mo., when the storm struck. Fraternity and sorority houses were damaged and the administration building partly was unroofed. Albert Coad Jr., son of the mayor of Parsons, Kan., was trying to find shelter when the gale lifted him from the ground and carried him 200 feet. He was injured slightly. Near Fairfield, la., a schoolhouse was unroofed, but the twenty pupils were not hurt. Near Crawfordsville, la., a school hack overturned and the horses ran away, but the pupils escaped Injury. Heavy rains which accompanied the storms ended a September heat wave which set records in most of the stattfS. great benefit to livestock and ranges.

CARD CHARITY TILT Indians to Face I. P. and L. Nine on Monday. The Indians and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company’s baseball club will “bat it out” Monday afternoon at 3 in a game to provide money for the wage fund of the Emergency Work Committee, Inc. Norman A. Perry, owner of the Indians and the Perry stadium, where the game will be played, donated the team’s services and the ball park for the purpose. William H. Book, civic affairs secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said game tickets now are on sale at the ball park and at the Chamber building. The proceeds will be used to pay wages of needy unemployed who will work on public and private projects this winter under direction of the emergency work group, Book said. The power company’s club is one of the crack teams of its kind in the country. The team went to the semi-finals in the national amateur tournament and is city champion. NAME SELIG RECEIVER George Barnard, Attorney, Selected by Judge Baltzell. George Barnard, Indianapolis attorney, was today appointed by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, to be receiver for Selig’s, women’s ready-to-wear shop, which was closed recently. Barnard succeeds Melville Cohn, appointed receiver In December and who resigned.

Farrell does not make such sales and he alone is responsible for them. “However, I have been informed that a budget committeeman can not be interested in sales to the state either directly or indirectly, and . that trustees also are barred by law from such sales. “Since the budget committee meets this week, I would appreciate an early reply.” Members of the state budget committee are scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to consider items invohed in adoption of the new budget Oct. 1. Farrell asked Ogden for an informal opinion regarding his status many months ago, but the answer never was made public. Governor Harry G. Leslie reappointed Farrell to the budget committee with full knowledge of the fact that legality of his position had been questioned. No opinion on the matter was asked from the attor-ney-general by the Governor. The Indiana Truck Company has a $90,530.46 truck contract now pending before the commission, delivery having been held up until the Governor mee with the commissioners. "4

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Harbison, it is said, demanded his wages to date, including money owed him by the Johnson company, before the latter went into the hands of a receiver. Failing to receive either, Harbison drove his truck in front of the concrete mixer and paving machine and defied any one to move it.' Others Join Strike Contractors called Rockville authorities who threatened Harbison with arrest. He demanded they produce a warrant. When officers threatened to obtain a warrant, other truck drivers moved their trucks in line with Harbison’s and told authorities to “get warrants for us, too.” Roy Dennison, president of the Indiana Road Paving Company, general contractors for the road project, came to Indianapolis and, according to Brown, told him the road work was at a standstill. Later, state police are said to have threatened the strikers with arrest if they did not move their trucks from the highway. Demand Their Money The men replied: “Pay us our money and we gladly will get off the road,” it is reported. Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings were on file today in federal court against the Johnson company. The action was brought by the Hadley-Mahoney Company, Acme Radiator Company and Auto Equipment Company, and asks appointment of a receiver. The companies allege the Johnson firm owes them past accounts totaling $515. Brown said today he could not see how truck drivers could be arrested for blocking the road, because it is not a public traveled road, but a project under construction. He said he was not familiar with action the highway commission could take in the controversy. Brown said he believed the men were “unduly alarmed that they would not get their money,” because the general contractor was responsible for every cent of labor from I, he time the job began. He said he believed the men should be given something to tide them over, pending settlement. Dennison, according to Brown, claimed that records of back wages, due the men previous to Aug. 21. when the Indemnity Company began paying workmen, were in such a jumbled condition that it was j “difficult to tell who has money ! coming and who has not and how j much.” Wants Work Finished Brown said he wants the road work continued. “If the weather breaks, there is little chance of the road being completed this fall,” Brown said. Andrew Alexander Jr., operator of a fleet of trucks on the rftad, today said he had been notified Monday by his men that they were on strike in sympathy with Harbison. Alexander, who has several thousand dollars coming from the Johnson company and its receivers, said he would make no effort to have his men enter the role of strike breakers. Six truck drivers from Indianapolis sent out by the Sun company Monday refused to go to work after they learned there was a strike. Some of them said Johnson still owed them money for work on the War Memorial project last winter.

WALKER IS READY TO FACE SEABURY PROBE Demands Public Hearing, on Return From Vacation in Europe. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Mayor James J. Walker, resuming his duties today, after an absence of seven weeks on a tour of European health and pleasure resorts, is ready to answer any questions Samuel Seabury and the city investigators may have to ask, but he will insist on a public hearing, he indicated. “I won’t discuss any of those subjects now%” the mayor said, when he arrived on the Bremen Monday night. “There is one proper place for that, and as far as I’m concerned, that place won’t be secret to newspaper men or any one else. “I don’t see that it’s anybody’s business who paid for my trip or how it was paid. The fact is that I paid for it.” call mooney Boycott Arizona Labor Group Votes Ban on California-Made Goods. By United Press TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 22.—A boycott on all California-manufactured goods in retaliation for the continued imprisonment of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, was voted by the Arizona State Federation of Labor in convention today. By a vote of 31 to 1, the delegates asked all union men in the state to refrain from purchasing articles made in California until full pardons are given Mooney and Billings, convicted of the 1916 preparedness day parade bom|jdng in San Francisco. -

BONUS SPEECH WINS PRAISE FORHOOVER Admiration Is Voiced by Legionnaires for His Courageous Stand. BEER COMES TO FRONT Prohibition Battle Certain on Convention Floor at Detroit. (Story of Parade and Convention Pictures, Page 8.) By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 22.—Shouts of praise for President Herbert Hoover were mingled today with shouts of “we want beer,” as thousands of American Legion men turned their attention from the bonus to prohibition and accepted the latter as now the most controversial question before their annual convention. “That speech took courage,” declared Si Kaspers, commander of the South Dakota legion, in commenting upon the President’s warning Monday that until after the depression the government could carry no additional burden of expenditure without “grave risks.” Kasper’s comment was characteristic of that of many others who came to the convention prepared to fight for a bonus, but declared, after hearing Mr. Hoover speak for thirteen minutes, that they were “with him to the finish.”

Beer Cry Rises While some delegations declared they still planned to vote in favor of a bonus, the general feeling faded that the fight over this question would be the most bitter of the convention. In the place of the cry for the bonus arose the cry for beer. This demand first was heard as President Hoover left the speakers’ platform Monday. It then was shouted in fun, but the cry was taken up and, although Mr. Hoover apparently did not notice, the shouting was general as he hurried back to his train. Today the shouting was more serious. Among the thousands of delegates the impression was general and almost uncontradicted that the legion would heed Mr. Hoover’s warning and dismiss immediate bonus payments from its list of issues. “The President has a sane, sensible stand,” declared John R. Quinn, Los Angeles, former national commander. “California will back him.” Admiration Is Voiced Robert H. Rogers, Maryland commander, said “It was typical Hoover logic and we are for it.” Many Legionnaires expressed admiration of the President for making his hasty trip here from Washington to make his plea direct to the Legion. They considered it courageous of him to bring right to the convention floor his plea that the situation was “second only too war” and his suggestion that the former soldiers now aid their country by not asking for a bonus in a time of financial difficulties. “It was a wonderful message and sounded the sentiments of a majority of the Legionnaires,” said Frank C Corry, Vermont commander. Governor Wilber M. Brucker of Michigan said: “The President’s speech was most timely and Michigan Legionnaires, I know, will cooperate.” This prediction was made despite the fact that Michigan delegates had been instructed to vote for a bonus. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York today urged the legion members to maintain the same ideal of unselfish service to country in peace time crises that they displayed in war. The message was read by James Roosevelt, son of the Governor. RADIO surfs SETTLED Independents’ Anti-Trust Law Attacks on R. C. A. at End. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, announced today that suits against the corporation brought by various independent radio manufacturing organizations had been settled.

AIRMEN SAFE ON SHIP AFTER WEEK IN SEA WITH WRECKED PLANE

By United Press Three aviators the world had given up as lost, and whom fate cheated of success on a trans-At-lantic flight almost within sight of land, were safe aboard a ship today, after floating for a week on the wreckage of their plane. They were Willy Rody, young German w’ho bought the Junkers monoplane Esa with money he inherited; Christian Johanssen, a young Dane he secured as pilot, and Fernando Costa Veiga, youthful Portuguese adventurer, who joined the party at Lisbon, the starting point of their flight. Costa Veiga had an injured leg, but the others were unhurt. They were rescued Monday afternoon off Newfoundland by the freighter Belmoira, en route to Russia. Captain Christian Hald of the Belmoira radioed the story of their rescue from the bobbing wreckage. BY CAPTAIN CHRISTIAN HALD i Skinner of the S. 8. Belmoira) ABOARD S S. BELMOIRA, Sept. 22.—We picked, up the wrecked

Jackie Must Skimp Now By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 22.—Jackie Cooper. 8-year-old film player, who delights in "Skippy” roles, can spend $1,600 a month for maintenance and education. His mother, Mrs. Mabel Leonard Cooper, told Judge Charles Crail today that Jackie earned $1,300 a week, has SB,OOO in the bank, a SIO,OOO endowment insurance policy and a contract for eighty weeks’ work, with options bringing his salary to $4,000 a week.

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BRITAIN’S ACTION MAY SPUR WORLD ECONOMIC PARLEY

Gold Standard What is the “Gold Standard?” The world faces no problem today of more vital importance than the British financial crisis. On Monday the British government suspended the gold standard of payment. What does that mean to the average reader? It is as vague and unfathomable as a Sanskrit manuscript. On page 13 of this edition is a clear explanation of what gold standard means. Read it and you’ll understand more about the Eritish problem.

HEAT RELIEF COMING Showers Today Will Cool City, Is Forecast. Temperatures that today again began a climb into heat wave figures are due for a sudden slump late this afternoon or tonight, the United States weather bureau predicted this morning. Thunder showers are expected then to cool the air, and Wednesday will be fair again, but somewhat cooler than today, the fore* cast stated. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 76 10 a. m 82 7a. m 76 11 a. m 84 8 a. m 77 12 (noon).. 85 9 a. m 81 1 p. m 86 TENOR POOR FISHERMAN John McCormack’t Daughter Beats Him With 165-Pound Catch. By United Press REDONDO BEACH, Cal., Sept. 22. —John McCormack may be reeognibed as one of the world’s greatest tenors, but his own daughter, Gwendolyn, can beat him at fishing. Miss McCormack today displayed a 165-pound marlin swordfish she landed alone after a fifty-five-min-ute battle. Tenor John failed to get a nibble.

trans-Atlantic plane Esa and its crew in latitude 42.26, longitude 54.31, Monday afternoon. The three aviators, Willy Rody, Christian Johanssen and Fernando Costa Veiga, were saved after they had been in the water 158 hours. Costa Veiga had an injured leg. The other two were in good condition. although they were much exhausted. Johanssen says the plane failed to reach its destination because of engine trouble about thirty minutes after signaling the S. S Pennland a week ago Monday afternoon. (The report from the Pennland was the last that had bem heard of the Esa until Captain Hald’s message). The fliers said they had sighted only one ship during the intervening days they were adrift. It passed within one kilometer, but did not see their signals. They had given up h >pe and did not expect our ship to see them, as they were sev “al miles away when we passed. £ ,

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Hope Voiced That Crisis May Help to Bring Solution in Financial Tangle. By United Press Out of Great Britain’s decision to suspend the gold • standard may come' “anew era” in international financial relations, with closer cooperation to solve the world's economic problems, experts predicted today. An international conference seeking to end the unsettled • condition of foreign- finances through redis tribution of the world’s gold, was under consideration in London. Such conference also would attempt to solve such problems as war debts, reparations and disarmament, all of which affect present-day conditions. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, in two speeches, urged the calling of an international meeting to end the “dislocation of gold reserves” under which 65 per cent of the world's supply has been amassed by Prance and the United States. Co-Operation Is Pledged Prom various capitals—Washington, Berlin, Geneva—came demands for friendly co-operation. In Paris the government indicated its desire to give whatever aid is required to support Great Britain’s position. J. P. Morgan, in London, announced his belief that the British government’s action was "a step in the right direction.” American financial experts echoed Morgan’s words. The staid house of lords exceeded all Britain’s speed records Monday when the gold standard bill was passed through its three stages in the record parliamentary time of two minutes. The measure was not debated and was approved without a vote. The bill was received from the house of commons at 10:58 p. m. and approved at 11 p. m. The royal commission sat and gave assent to the bill before 11:10 p. m. The house of commons also set a parliamentary speed record in disposing of the gold standard bill. The measure was received at 4 p. m., was debated and passed in all stages by 10:55 p. m., and sent to the house of lords three minutes later. Commons Works Fast The London Stock Exchange, which has been closed for two days during the gold crisis, will be reopened Wednesday. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange reopened today after being closed Monday. The Berlin Bourse will remain closid today and Wednesday. Financial quarters doubted whether the bourse would open Thursday. Brazil adopted the dollar instead of the pound sterling today as the basis for exchange. “In view of the instability of sterling, we had to put exchange on a dollar basis,” Correa Castro, director of the Bank of Brazil, said. The Greek government decided today to close the Athens Bourse for five days, owing to a continued fall of stocks. The Brussels Bourse, closed Monday, will be reopened today. An authoritative outline of administration opinion indicated today that Great Britain’s abandonment of the gold standard is expected considerably to improve British conditions and eventually to benefit the United States. First natural result of the. new policy expected by this government would be an increase in British commodity prices. Reports that dairy prices had increased were received from London todajj^

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LEAGUE MOVES TO CURB WAR IN MANCHURIA Commission Is Ordered to Make Hurried Survey and Report. LOOK TO U. S. ACTION Chinese Plea to Block Invasion by Japan Is Heard. BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Sept. 22.—The League of Nations, facing a test of its power to enforce peace among members moved swiftly today to prevent further hostilities between China and Japan in Manchuria. The council hastily evolved a scheme to dispatch a commission, composed of the military attaches of various neutral powers, to the scene of the trouble, empowered to make a survey and report on the proposed immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops from Chinese territory. The impression grew as the session proceeded that further developments hinged on the attitude of the United States. The project, suggested by Lord Robert Cecil of Great Britain, envisages a commission composed of the United States military attache at Nanking and the British, French and Italian military attaches and the German consul, all at Mukden. Seizure Is Charged The council intends to transmit the minutes of its deliberations to the United States. Dr Sao Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to London and chief of the Chinese delegation to the league, charged Japan with seizure and occupation of part of the Peping railway, seizure of many Chinese officials, transfer of the Japanese military staff into Mukden, and heavy destruction of life and property. He gave the latent casualties as 600 Chinese killed and charged that 1,000 were held prisoner. Sze was the first diplomat to arrive. He carried a large number of telegrams and several papers. Denies War Intention Kenkichi Yoshiwaza, Japanese ambassador to Paris and representative on the league council, arrived late. His pale, thin face was expressionless. He looked tired, but was smoking a huge cigar, as usual. He went to his seat and remained there until the meeting convened. Yoshiwaza, speaking to a tense audience, declared that Japan did not intend to wage war on China. He said that China just had proposed direct negotiations with Japan with a view to settlement of the Manchurian conflict. The proposal, he said, was “well received” in Tokio. Disregarding the Chinese insistence on the council’s immediate intercession, Yoshiwaza demanded that further discussion be postponed until the next meeting.

Called Act of Aggression Bn United Preen SHANGHAI, Sept. 29.—The ;invasion of Manchuria was called a premeditated act of aggression by the Japanese government, in a resolution adopted here by a meeting of representative Chinese leaders, the Kuo Min agency reported. “Unless the Kellogg pact can curb the territorial ambitions of a powerful country against its weak neighbors, it is an impotent instrument to preserve peace among the nations of the world,” the resolution said. Russia Not Hostile Bn United Preen MUKDEN, Manchuria, Sept. 22. —Japanese and Russian officials appeared today to be in agreement over the Japanese occupation of Mukden, despite reports from Harbin of violent Russian reaction. The Soviet consul here was not disturbed over movement of Japanese troops toward North Manchuria. Japanese military officials said an arrangement had been made to halt the troops at the Sungair river and that they would not enter North Manchuria proper. Japanese deaths in fighting at Changchun were placed officially at 180. There was no estimate available of Chinese casualties. Telegraph lines were cut between here and Harbin, but service continued on the Chinese Eastern railroad. Bank Is Bombed By United Press HARBIN, Manchuria, Sept. 22. Chinese threw Y mbs at Harbin branch of the Yokohoma specie bank early today, but the bombs failed to explode. Japanese Hold Railway By United Press CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, Sept. 22.—Japanese troops today controlled the Bsupingkai-Taonan railway, a Chines-operated road of 194 miles connecting with the South Manchuria railway. Head offices of the line are at Ssupingkai, southwest of here. Claim Arsenal Destroyed By United Press PEIPING, Sept. 22.—The Chinese claimed today that the Japanese had smashed the Mukden war machine, destroying the arsenal, trench mortar factory, airplanes and supplies. -

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