Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1931 — Page 1

HOOVER FACES BITTER FIGHT IN NAVY ROW Congress Expected to Take Action in Clash With League. MO APOLOGY OFFERED Gardiner, Chief Critic of President, Is Rated as Expert on Topic. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER l nit'rt Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—President Hoover’s special committee to investigate activities of the Navy League is expected to determine whether the navy has had any part in the league's criticism of the chief executive. Congress is likely to step into the dispute before it is over. A general investigation, with attendant clashes between large and small navy groups, is regarded as inevitable. For weeks antagonistic feeling has been brewing between President Hoover and some, influences in the navy department. These are expected to be torn open. Washington is awaiting appointment of the President’s special committee, which is due soon, in expectation that it will precipitate one of the most stirring clashes over the navy since the exposure of William B. Shearer’s big navy activities at the Geneva naval conference in 1927, which were financed by shipbuilding coftcerns. Has Faith in Adams President Hoover recently indicated complete confidence in the loyalty of Secretary of Navy Adams. But he has made no secret of suspicions directed at some other unnamed persons in the navy department, and has charged them with attempting to start a ’ backfire” against his economy program. Acting suddenly and emphatically when the Navy League, over the signature of its president. Wiliam Howard Gardiner, charged Mr. Hoover with “abysmal ignorance” of the proper function of a navy, and other shortcomings, the President followed up his denunciation of Gardiner’s broadside with a White House explanation that the purpose j of his investigation is in part “tp show r the true purpose of these falsehoods and the people who are Interested in propagandizing them.” He is ready to announce his committee as soon as the Navy League submits a list of its membership from which he wishes to select some of the committee members. Gardiner “Knows His Navy" An attempt will be made to determine whether Gardiner issued his criticism of President Hoover on his own initiative, whether he represents the sentiment of the Navy League as an organization, and whether he received any inspiration from inside the navy itself. He is known favorably to many navy officers. Though not a navy man. Gardiner, one officer said, could stand up in a debate on seapower against anyone, including the navy’s admirals. One officer .said he thought Gardiner would be fully competent to sit on the navy general board. He never has served in the navy and beyond saying he was in "W'ar W'ork,” his war-time activities were undisclosed. Naval officers were inclined to welcome the investigation, feeling • hat. the ease for a larger navy would receive a public hearing. On the other hand any contacts Gardiner may have had with navy officers, if exposed, might have consequences for those involved. Gardiner, a slender, gray-haired man of 56, who wears a two-inch stiff collar and resembles a brisk college professor, appears a. trifle stunned but uncowed by Mr. Hoover's unexpected shot across his bow. Makes No Apology Move He showed no inclination to offer the apology requested. He is working amid rows of filing cabinets, stuffed with naval data and tonnage tables, aided by two men and three women assistants, collecting his ammunition. For ten years this retired engineer, long a partner of Henry L. Doherty in public utilities management. has worked without pay, turning out a bewildering flood of pamphlets advocating a larger navy, firing broadsides at the Washington and London naval treaties, overlooking no chance. He was dining with Rear Admiral Hilary Jones, retired, former head of the navy general board and a severe critic of the administration naval limitation policy, when he was informed of Mr. Hoover’s demand for an apology. DIES ON VISIT TO CITY Philadelphia Woman's Body to Be Taken Home for Burial. Mrs. Agnes M. Schwenk, 74. of Philadelphia, died of heart disease Friday while visiting with her husband. a retired cloth merchant of Philadelphia, at the home of her daughter. Mrs. James L. Kalleen, 3841 Washington boulevard. Following funeral rites at 1:30 this afternoon at the Hisey & Titus mortuary, the body will be taken to Philadelphia, where services will be held Monday afternoon. Chicago Stocks Opening tßv James T. Hamili & Co.l —Oct. 31Ass Tel Util... 18 Hotld Hersh ißi 3% Bendix Avia .. 17*> Insull com 11'* Sirs Warner .. 12% Instill pfd .... 44** Cent Pub 8 iAi St. Insull 8s 40... 55% Cord Corn ... 7 Lib McNeil Prod 7% Cont Chi com.. 2% Mo Kan P Line 3 Cont Chi pld. 25V* Middle West 10% Com Edison .144% U S Rad A- Tel I*% Chicago Sec % Utah Prod .... 1% Griesbv Grunw 2 Walgreen Btrs.. 12% Gt Uts Aircraft 2%,

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 149

MYSTERY SHROUDS AUTHOR’S IDENTITY; KILLED BY LIQUOR

Bride of Clerk

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Peggy Green Bradley, above, only daughter of former Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan, surprised her family and friends when she eloped with a soda clerk, Glen Bradley, from lonia, Mich., and was married at Bowling Green, O. Peggy married her first husband, Norval Tyrrell, in 1927, but divorced him last April when they were still students in Michigan State college. She has a 3-year-old daughter.

FUND DRIVE TO BE SPEEDED UP Workers Hope to Attain Goal by Wednesday. final $1,043.6841.00 Total to date 6811,051.83 Percent of goal 66. Amount needed 354,634.17 Three thousand workers in the Community Fund campaign have a ’•fighting chance” to attain the goal of $1,043,686. in the opinion of David Liggett, executive secretary of the drive. Reporting $98,846.17 in additional subscriptions at the Friday meeting, the workers raised the total amount pledged thus far to $689,051.83, or 66 per cent of the campaign’s aim. No report meeting will be held today, but another is scheduled for the Claypool Monday noon. The drive, which was to have closed on Monday, has been extended until Wednesday in the hope that the $354,634.17 of the sum set as the goal, yet unpledged, will be raised in those days. “If we plug away and continue to obtain additional increases from last year’s subscribers, and more money from persons who did not give last year, we can make it,” Liggett told the workers Friday. WAREHOUSE IS LOOTED OF CIGARETS, CIGARS Thieves Get Merchandise Valued at $262 at Schnull & Cos. Prying bars from a window in the Schnull & Cos. warehouse, 2131 Northwestern avenue, thieves Friday night carted away cigarets, cigars and cash valued at $262. The booty included scores of cartons of cigarets of all brands, cigars valued at SSO, five cans of straberry preserves and S2O in cash. Arch Vingar, 213 G Northwestern avenue, walking in the alley in the rear of the warehouse, summoned police when he discovered several bars of soap lying in an alley. Search of the warehouse revealed a box containing forty-eight cartons of cigarets had been left on the roof of the building.

QUIET TONE PREVAILS IN LIVESTOCK MART Cattle Trade Nominal on Meager Receipts; Sheep Steady. Extreme quietness prevailed in livestock at the Union Stockyards this morning. Hogs generally were steady. The bulk, 180 to 200 pounds, sold for $4.75 to $5. Receipts were estimated at 2.000; holdovers were 86. In cattle the market was nominal, quotably steady. Receipts were 100. Vealers were steady at $7.50 down. Calf receipts numbered 100. In the sheep market lambs were scare, with choice salable kinds ranging up to $6.50. Receipts were 100.

Rooster Won War for Allies, General Asserts

By United Press lONDON, Oct. 31.—The early t morning crow of a rooster prevented the central powers from winning the World war. according to a story told by General Rafael de Nogalis, Venezuelan who commanded a Turkish division, in his “Memoirs of a Soldier of Fortune.” Writing of the attack on the Suez canal in January, 1915, he states: “That affair, according to the majority of Turkish soldiers, turned out to be a failure because two of our reserve officers were carrying in their saddlebags several chickens and a rooster, to have fresh eggs for breakfast.

Man Found Dead in Shack Is Believed to Be of Wealthy Family. By l nil) and Prrss GREENWICH, Conn.. Oct. 31. Police are seeking the story behind the death of Patrick Butler, derelict, who drank himself to death in a shack on the municipal dump here. A schoolgirl’s memory book identified as that of a former Philadelphia debutante; autobiographical stories of adventure around the world on “windjammers;” phonograpn records of operatic and other classical music, and reports of wealthy relatives in Cleveland and San Pedro, Cal., added to evidence the man was not “just a tramp.” The schoolgirl’s ’memory book,” bearing the name “Jean Riley” has been identified as the property of Mrs. Richard G. Croft, the former Jean Riley, Philadelphia debutante. She told police Friday night she thew the book away in Philadelphia ten years ago and had no idea how it fel linto possesison of Butler. Not Ordinary Tramp A dog-eared and well-thumbed copy of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” was on the table in the sheck. His battered suitcase contained a collection of phonograph records of operatic and other classical selections. “This is no ordinary tramp," said Detective Sergeant Martin “For one thing, tramps don’t carry suitcases.” Information supplied by an 18-year-old son of William Kriskey, owner of property next to the dump, swung the investigation to Cleveland and San Pedro, Cal. The youth said Butler had told him he was born in San Pedro and had a wealthy sister there. Butler told the boy he had another wealthy sister in Cleveland. Police recalled that when Dr. Hume, headmaster of Canterbury school, mentioned in the “memory book,” was questioned Friday, he said he once knew a Patrick lutler of Cleveland who used to attend social affairs at the school. Manuscript Is Accepted The Kriskey boy said Butler received an acceptance slip from a New York publishing house a few days before he died from drinking. The boy did not recall the name of the publisher and the slip could not be found. “If I should die, I want the proceeds to go to my sister in Cleveland.” Butler said, according to Kriskey. One of the manuscripts, written with pen and ink, carried the inscription “Patrick Butler, P. O. Box 23, Auburn, Me.” at the bottom. Mrs. Croft told a United Press correspondent Friday night she did not recall ever having had a “memory book” such as the one found in Butler’s suitcase. A few moments later police arrived with the book and she recognized it, she said, as one she had discarded in Philadelphia ten years ago. Croft, a New York business man, who lives in this fashionable suburban town, said he was a member of the Princeton football team. Among the pictures in the album was a group photograph of the Princeton squad.

DULL SUNDAY LOOMS Little Chance of Clearing Skies, Is Forecast. Dsmal weather, with overcast skies and rain probable, will make dull the colors of Halloween and Indiana football games today. Indianapolis, with .03 inch of rain since Friday, can expect more precipitation with no chance for skies to clear before Sunday. J. H. Armington. weather burean chief, fore* cast. Rain was general throughout the state Friday night, and it is possible skies will clear before tonight in the southern part of the state. If this happens, weather forecasters warned against heavy frost. Week-end temperatures will range near 50. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West wind, 12 miles an hour; temperature, 42: barometric pressure, 29.91 at sea level; ceiling, overcast. light- fog and rain, 1,100 feet; visibility, 2% miles; field, wet. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 43 8 a. m 42 7 a. m 43 9 a. m 43

“The enemy, according to our Askars, never suspected our presence on the eastern shore of the Suez canal until dawn—when the blessed rooster suddenly stuck its head out of the saddlebag and let go a sonorous “cock-a-doodle-doo.” which put the wary British wise to our scheme. “But for that confounded rooster—so our Askars claim —wc probably would have won the World war. because by interrupting the traffic on the Suez canal we could have cut off England from India and Australia as well as France from her north and central African possessions.”

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931

SON PREPARES TO FIGHT FOR EDISONRICHES Plans Immediate Action in Effort to Break Will of Inventor. SAYS HE'LL HAVE HELP Suit to Be Filed Regardless of Relatives’ Course, Claimant Asserts. By United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Oot. 31. Actual plans for contesting the will of the late Thomas A. Edison will be begun Monday, the inventor's son. William J. Edison, told the United Press today. He will go to New York at that time to confer with his attorney in formulating action to be taken in an effort to break the will which bequeathed the bulk of the $12,000,000 estate to Charles Edison and Theodore Edison, younger halfbrothers of William L. Edison. The contest will be brought on the grounds of "undue influence,” Edison said. When told of reports that members of the Edison family had held a long consultation at East Orange, N. J., late Friday. William L. Edison said he is not particularly interested in the action his brothers and sisters may take. “I am speaking and acting for myself only,” he said. “I do not know their attitudes or intentions.” He reiterated his statement, however, that “I will not be alone in the contest.” Friends recalled an incident here today in the relationship of William L. Edison and his father. The great inventor once stopped in Wilmington to visit his son and left him a fancy towel as a gift. Os this, William L. Edison commented to friends: “A towel is about the only thing my father ever gave me.”

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—The stock market continued to rise today. Initial prices were up fractions to more than a point and volume was slightly larger than Friday. United States Steel common featured the industrial section, rising to 67%, up %, after opening at 67%. Sentiment in the steel industry has been showing steady improvement and rate of operations was reported on the uptrend. James A. Farrell, president of United States Steel Corporation, told members of the American Institute of Steel Construction, meeting at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va„ that there were unmistakable signs of business recovery. New York Central rose 1% to 54%. Atchison opened at 110, up % and then moved up to 110%. Chesapeake & Ohio was at 33, up %. American Can firmed up to 82%, up %. Westinghouse 47, up %; Woolworth 57%, up %; Bethlehem Steel 26%, up %; Sears Roebuck 42%, up %, and General Electric 30%, up %. Electric Power and Light opened unchanged at 18%, but drifted lower in the early trading an exception to the general trend. Other utilities maintained a firm tone. Copper utilities maintained a firm tone. Copper shares were steady, while foods, oils and mercantile issues moved ahead. New York Stocks Opening (Bv James T. Hamill & Co.l —Oct. 31— Am Can 82% Johns Mansville 32% Air Red 64% Lie & Myers B 56 Atchison 110 Mont’v Ward... 12% Anaconda 15%1N Y Central... 54% Am For Pwr... 16 N American.... 38 Am Tel & Tel. .137% Nafl Cash Ree. 18 Auburn 124%!Penn R R 32% Bvers A M 19%!Packard 5 Cons Gas 73VilRadio 13% Case J I 50 RK O 7% 3hes Ac Ohio 33 ISinclair Oil 7 Fox Film A .... 8 St Oil of N J.. 34% Gen Foods .... 36 iTexas Corn 18% Gillette 15 1 i‘U S Steel 67% Gen Mot 26% United Coro ... 14% Gen Elec 30% Un Alrcrft 15% Goodyear 24 !Un Carbide 35% Gold Dust 2H', Vanadium 19% Gen Am Tk Car 46 1 i j Westinehouse .. 46% Int Nickle S%'Woolworth 57

URGE MEMORIAL FOR SALEM’S ‘WITCHES’ Mayor Promises Approval For SI,OOO Appropriation. By United Press SALEM. Mass., Oct. 31.—Salem's “witches,” if they returned in spirit this Halloween, would find residents of Gallows hill seeking to honor their memory. The city council of this 305-year-old community, known as “The Witch City.” has sought a SI,OOO appropiration to buy a site for a memorial to the nineteen innocent victims of the witchcraft delusion of 1692. Mayor G. P. Bates said today he would approve the project. Erection of the proposed memorial would climax a campaign begun by City Councillor Michael Magrath a decade ago for some tangible testimonial, not only to those who were hanged but also to those who ended the persecution. ANDERSON BANK CLOSES State Eaminer Takes Charge; Asserts Total 54,000,000. Citizens Bank of Anderson, second largest institution in the city, was closed voluntarily by directors today. Luther F. Symons, state bank examiner, left Indianapolis at once to take charge. Assets of the bank totaled about $4,000,000. N. M. McCullough is president and Carl L. White is cashier.

Trunk Killer ‘Back Home ’

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Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of the two women whose bodies were shipped in trunks from Phoenix, Ariz.. to Los Angeles, is shown above in an auto as she was taken back to Phoenix, -where she will face trial for the murders. Mrs. Judd will plead self-defense. Sheriff ,J. R. McFadden, who escorted her to Phoenix, is shown looking in the car window.

RUTH JUDD TO FACEGRILLING Phoenix Police Will Seek Death Riddle Answer. By United Press PHOENIX. Ariz., Oct. 31.—Intensive questioning of Mrs. Ruth Judd, charged with murders of her friends, Mrs. Agnes Anne leroi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson, in an effort to solve the engima of the slayings, was planned today by police. Mrs. Judd -was returned to a cell in jail here just two weeks after her friends were slain and their bodies shipped to Los Angeles in luggage. Though Mrs. Judd feared mob violence, the crowds which surrounded the jail were made up of curiosity seekers, who sought only a glimpse of the woman who evaded a widespread hunt by police for days. She had been brought here by motor car after waiving extradition from Los Angeles, where she was taken into custody.

GIRLS’ GROUP TO HOLD GOLDEN JUBILEE FROLIC Reserves to Celebrate at Phyllis Wheatley Branch of Y. W. Golden jubilee celebration will be held by Girl Reserves of the Phyllis Wheatley branch Y. W. C. A. at services at 3 Sunday. The Rev. Charles Watkins, pastor of St. Paul M. E. church, will speak, and a musical program will be given by the girls’ club of school No. 23, in charge of Mrs. Mary S. Hopper. Girl Reserves and Hi-Y Club of Crispus Attucks high school gave a Halloween party at the branch Friday night. Entertainment was in charge of Rowena Hardwick. Members of the Wheatley branch will hold a formal opening of industrial department activities Thursday evening at the Jordan music hall.

BLOCK SALESPEOPLE HOLD ‘PEP SESSION’ Eight-Foot Birthday Cake Is Cut as Anniversary Sale Opens. Fantastic Halloween costumes, song parodies, cheering and other stunts featured a pep session held by employes of Block’s store this morning in opening the store’s thirty-fifth anniversary sale. Pep talks were given by M. S. Block, vice-president; S. B. Walker, controller; George M. Binder, advertising manager, and H. C. Pock, men’s furnishings buyer. Prizes were announced for the floors having the greatest increase in sales. A huge birthday cake, nearly eight feet tall, made entirely of blown sugar in the Block’s bakery, was shown in one of the store’s display windows.

DEBS RADIO STATION’S LICENSE IS RENEWED Commission Overrides Proposed Ban on WEVD by 3 to 2 Vote. By United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. The federal radio commission Friday renewed the license of Station WEVD, operated in New York by the Eugene Debs Memorial fund. The commisison reversed the recommendation of Examiner Elmer W. Pratt, who said the station should be taken off the air because of obsolete equipment and infraction of broadcasting rules. The decision was by a vote of 3 to 2. Chairman Charles McK. Saltzman and Commissioner W. D. L. Starbuck dissented from the majority opinion. Station WEVD has presented programs of interest to working people and has adapted its schedule to early morning broadcasts for men who work at night. Girl Charged With Theft Charged with the theft of S2O from an acquaintance. Miss Mary Hill. 18. of 2520 North Delaware street, today was held by detectives on petit larceny charges.

Not Our ‘Moon ’ By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 31. Thirsty Americans wil get a new thrill from the “gaucho cocktailaccording to Fortunato Felle, who has succeeded in distilling an extract of “Yerba mate” after twentyfour years of experimenting. Felle described the gaucho cocktail as follows: “It is as light as Chateau Youem and as dark as Dublin stout; as smooth as Napoleon brandy and as rasping as “moonshine;” it makes the gay gayer, and the dumb able to speak.” He hastened to add that the yerba extract also could be used to make frappes, soft drinks, and soda water.

RULES AGAINST ROAD WORKERS Ogden Holds State Is Not Liabel for Wages. BY DICK MILLER Claims for wages and contract payments sought by workers and subcontractors on state Roads 43 and 56, probably will go unpaid by the state highway commission, is was learned today. Friday, Attorney-General James M. Ogden ruled as not applicable to the highway commission the 1931 state law, giving officials the right to withhold final payament to the general contractor on public works until payaments to subcontractors and labor liens against the projects are settled. Ogden’s opinion was turned over to John J. Brown, commission director, with whom the claims have been filed. Workers faced starvation for weeks on Roads 43 and 56 subsequent to the financial collapse of the William C. Johnson Trucking Company of Indianapolis. This was followed by failure of receivers and bonding companies to pay the workmen wages. Roy Dennison, state politician and president of the Indiana Road Paving Company, held the general contract for Road 56 and the Burns Construction Company was general contractor on the other road project. Under the ruling, these firms probably will be paid, immediately. According to reports from workmen, they will co-operate in a federal court suit in an effort to obtain back wages and construction cost payments. HOLD NEGRO AS SLAYER William Rain Charged With Slashing Woman’s Throat Fatally. , Idtnified by three witnesses as the man who slashed the throat of Mrs. Hattie Harris, 41, Negro, of 1210 East Fifteenth street, Willian Rain, 48, Negro, ot 1627 Garfield place, was held today on a charge of murder. Rain was trailed to his home Friday night bf the men after Mrs. Harris staggered from her home and slumped on the front lawn. She died shortly after.

Read the Cisco ‘Kid’ in The Times Pinks Monday Romance, adventure, bank robbery and gunplay, all in the Arizona desert and wild cow towns on its border, blend to make the story. “The Cisco Kid,” one that will keep the reader a-thrill from start to finish. The romantic had man of the blistered barrens of the Southwest leads his cavalrymen pursuers a merry chase and in his wild flight finds time to make love and to save a widow’s ranch from the greedy fingers of the town banker who holds the mortgage. This serialization from the Fox picture, now appearing at the Apollo theater, will start in The Times Pink editions Monday. You've liked "Pagan Lady,’’ and “Sob Sister,” in the Pinks. You’ll like “The Cisco Kid” even better.

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JAPANESE TROOPS MASSED FOR ADVANCE INTO RUSSIAN TERRITORY, AFTER WARNING Tokio Ready to Back Its Note to Moscow by Force of Arms, If Necessary; Soviet Officials Depart From Harbin. CHINESE CHIEFS PREPARE FOR STRONG RESISTANCE Guerilla Leaders Are Freed From Prison to Raise Army for Manchuria: Communists Sound Call for Uprising Against Canton Rule.

MRS. SIMMONS RESTSJN JAIL Poison Trial Arguments to Start Monday. BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT LEBANON. Ind., Oct, 31.—Mrs. Carrie W. Simmons, alleged poison slayer of her daughter, Alice Jean, surrounded by her family, rested in the Boone county jail today as attorneys prepared arguments for presentation Monday to the jury. The state is not expected, through statements of Prosecutor Ben Scifres and Roy Adney, special prosecutor, to ask that Mrs. Simmons be condemned to death, should she be found guilty. Defense counsel w r ill plead with the jury not to convict the 47-year-old farm mother and will continue its intimations that a “mystery” killer placed strychnine capsules in chicken sandwiches at the fatal picnic here June 21. Judge John W. Hornaday has allowed six hours of argument to each side and the case is expected to be turned over to jurors for deliberation Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Four verdicts are possible: First degree murder, calling for the death penalty; second degree murder, with a life sentence; voluntary manslaughter. with a two to twenty-one-year sentence, and acquittal. If the woman is freed, it is likely the state will try her again on a charge of murdering her other daughter. Virginia, who also was a victim of strychnine at the tragic outing.

MURRAY’S HOPES DEALT BLOW BY INDIANA LAW Must Pledge Hoosier Delegation to Standard to Secure Votes. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray will have to capture the Democratic state convention to pledge the Hoosier delegation to his presidential standard. This was the sad news conveyed to the Oklahoma Governor’s Chicago headquarters today by a copy of the Indiana election laws sent them by J. Otto Lee, clerk of the election commission. C. A. Cunningham, secretary of the Murray-for-President headquarters for the Mississippi valley in the LaSalle hotel, wrote the election commission asking what steps were necessary to enter “Alfalfa Bill” in the Indiana presidential primary. The answer is that there will be no presidential primary here next year. WOOD RUNS FOR JUDGE Indianapolis Attorney Announces His Candidacy for Nomination. Announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for circuit court judge was made today by Carl E. Wood, Indianapolis attorney, following formation of the ’Wood for Judge Club” Thursday night by Democrats in the Third ward. Resolution lauding Wood for his ability to occupy the bench was adopted by the club, officers of which include John M. Cain, chairman; Judge James D Ermsotn, secretary, and Joseph F. O’Mahoney, treasurer. Blind Scientist Critically 111 By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—Professor Edwin B. Frost, 65, blind director of Chicago university's Yerkes observatory for years, today was reported in unchanged condition at Billings Memorial hospital, where he lies critically ill. The astronomer was reported suffering acute gall bladder trouble. Title Directories Placed Certificate of title directories have been placed in every automobile license branch in the state and information may be obtained from them without coming to the statehouse ft was announced today by Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr.

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By United Press TOKIO. Oct. 31.—A movement of Japanese troops northward from Manchuria into Russia territory is impending, according to a Nippon Dempo News Agency dispatch, received here today from Mukden. The report of the concerted advance followed an exchange of notes between Tokio and Moscow, in which the Soviet government claimed it was “strictly mentral in the Manchurian controversy between China and Japan.” The dispatch reported three Soviet officials had departed from Harbin, a Russian center in Manchuria, for Moscow, on receiving word of the impending Japanese troop movement. White Russians in Manchuli and other points in Manchuria are withdrawing to Harbin, the dispatch said. While Japan apparently was preparing to enforce its “friendly warning” to Russia, it was understood that Chinese military commanders in Heilungkiang province were strengthening their forces, with evident intentions of defending their strongholds. General Ma Chan-Shan, chairman of the Heilungkiang government. released fifteen guerilla leaders from prison with instructions to raise two brigades of infantry. Defenses also were added at Stitsihar, a central city of the province. The government here Issued a formal denial that Japanese Con-sul-General Ayashi at Mukden had been questioned by army authorities there, on the ground that he had revealed military secrets. It was admitted, however, that the army considered Ayashi had been “meddling.”

Chinese Uprising Urged BY D. C. BESS United Pres* Staff Correspondent PEIPING, Oct. 31—The Socialist Soviet republic of China, advised by Soviet Russia, has broadcast to Chinese Communists an appeal saying they have been given the opportunity of a generation by Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The appeal was broadcast from the republic headquarters in Kiangsi province. This is the time to strike, the Soviet manifesto declared, not only at Japanese and other imperialism, but at the Kuomintang party and government, accused of betraying the “toiling masses” of China. Hits Government Policy “At no time has the Kuomintang’s betrayal of the Chinese masses been more clear than in the weak-kneed and vacillating policy pursued by the Nationalist Kuomintang government, following the imperialist aggression of the Japanese,” says the manifesto. “The unhampered Japanese conquest of Manchuria falls logically in line with the Kuomnitang's ruthless persecution and suppression of the Chinese revolutionary movement, for the revolutionary masses constitute the only force that successfully could repel the invader.” The “Socialist Soviet Russia republic of China,” which signs the manifesto, declared that its armies have repulsed the attempt of General Chiang Kai-Shek to crush them, and that Japanese aggression should enable them to act now on the offensive. It declares that the so-called government at Canton is no different from that at Nanking. Sounds Call to Arms The manifest continues: “The Socialist Soviet Republic of China therefore summons the Chinese workers and peasants to a struggle for the complete and nation-wide realization of the workers and peasants’ revolution; to strike at enemies within and without China by destroying the white terror governments of Nanking and Canton. “The Soviet Republic of China calls for a class-conscious stand for withdrawal of Japanese troops from Chinese soil, return of the South Manchurian railway and all territorial concessions to China, the cancellation of all Unequal treaties under which Japanese imperialists hold and enjoy special privileges in China.” 11 IN ROYAL PARTY DIE Indo-Chinese Family Perishes When Barge Hits Submerged Rock. By United Prma LUANG PRABANG, French Indochina. Oct. 31.—Eleven members of the Indo-Chinece royal family were drowmed today with two secants when the royal barge struck a submerged rock in the Mekong river. The names of the victims were not made known. None of the bodies was recovered. Paul Reynaud, French minister of colonies, wired his condolences to the king, in residence here. Nab Alleged Embezzler Indianapolis detectives today arrested Charles A. Kidwel, 1516 West Twenty-eighth street, on a charge of being a fugitive from justice for his return to Clinton county. He will face trial there for embezzlement, officer* aagl

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