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PLEA TO LIFT CITY PARKING BANISDENIED Downtown Merchants Say Business Is Injured by Traffic Law. PLAN CALLED SUCCESS Citizens’ Group Decides That Present System Relieves Congestion. Early morning parking ban on downtown streets will continue, the citizens’ traffic committee announced today, following hearing of objectors’ petitions that it be repealed. The committee, headed by Todd Stoops, chairman, and with a committee from the city council, and decided that the new traffic ordinance, which also provides for the tow-in, Is an aid to traffic and should not be changed. Other members of the traffic committee besides Stoops, who voted against a change in the ordinance, included: Ernest C. Ropkey, Leo F. Welch and Maurice E. Tennant, city councilmen; James P. Tretton, Indianapolis Street Railway Company manager; Herbert E. Spencer, assistant city attorney; H. B. Steeg, city plan commission secretary; Charles R. Myecs, board of safety president, and Walter O. Lewis, board of safety secretary. Complaints Are Heard Complaints from a score of downtown business men, including representatives of the Merchants’ Association, were heard by the committee Monday afternoon at city hall. “A survey has shown that early morning parking has decreased our sales and that other provisions of the law have hampered trade from out-of-town,” Victor C. Kendall, treasurer of L. S. Ayres & Cos., told the committee. “Several standholders at the city market practically have been ruined by the ordinance, since the tow-in provision scares women shoppers into outlying business districts,” P. J. O’Mahoney, city Market Association, declared. Frank S. Fishback, restaurant operator, informed the committee that unless it recommended a repeal of the early parking ban, a suit for injunction to prevent its enforcement will go forward immediately in Hamilton circuit court. Others Voice Objections Other objectors to the present ordinance included George Vonnegut, of the Vonnegut Hardware Company; O. F. Hammer of the Indiana Motorists’ Association, and officials of the Merchants’ Association. Stoops was ordered by the committee to inform busines men that “police report the ordinance is a great aid to traffic and, since no one has offered any substitute for the early morning parking ban, it shall remain the same.” Both President Ernest C. Ropkey and Leo F. Welch, city councilmen, declared they would oppose any change in the ordinance.

GLORIA AND HER NEW HUSBAND WED AGAIN Settle Doubted Legality of Ceremony in East by Repeating Vows. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10.—There will be no more legal objections in California to the marriage of Gloria Swanson, screen actress, and Michael Farmer, sportsman and automobile magnate of France. The couple had assured themselves of this today by going through the ceremony for the second time in Yuma, Ariz., after attorneys expressed the opinion that the first marriage, performed in Elmsford, N. Y.. Aug. 16, was illegal here because Miss Swanson had yet obtained a final decree of divorce from her previous husband, James Henri La Baily De La Falaise. Marquis De La Coudraye. Three hours after Miss Swanson's divorce decree became final, she and Farmer appeared before Justice of the Peace E. A. Freeman in Yuma and were pronounced man and wife. TWO RAILROADS LINKED $14,500,000 Line Joins Great Northern and Western Pacific. By United Press BIEBER, Cal., Nov. 10.—A new meeting of the rails, six decades after the new world empire was linked by its first transcontinental line, sealed the last frontier of America today by uniting the Great Northern and Western Pacific railways. Two hundred miles of road, following the route first marked by Isaac I. Stephens, pioneer Governor of California, linked the two roads. The line, in itself an engineering triumph, brought the Great Northern from Chicago and the Twin Cities across the northern empire and down across the Cascades into the Sierras of California —and San Francisco. DAMAGES PLEA DENIED Castleton Man Cleared of Charge of Negligent Driving. Raymond Wadsworth, Castleton, Ind.,* today was cleared of charges of negligent driving when a jury in superior court 3 denied $3,000 damages sought by Mattie Dennis, Negro, m behalf of her son, Sam Dennis Jr., 9, because of injuries suffered Oct. 21 In an accident near ttey home, 2400 M&rtindale avenue,

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FALLING LEAVES STIR MEMORY OF HERO’S MOTHER

Autumn Day When Flier Son ‘Went West ' in World War Vividly Recalled

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Lieutenant Schoen’s grave in a French cemetery.

Dreiser Is Indicted in Kentucky By United Press PINEVILLE, Ky„ Nov. 10.— Theodore Dreiser, noted New York novelist, who led an investigating committee into the Kentucky coal fields last week to examine conditions, was indicted by the Bell county grand jury today on charges of misconduct. The indictment, returned before Circuit Judge D. C. Jones, named Marie Pergain, otherwise unidentified, as Dreiser’s companion in the alleged misconduct. The investigation was ordered by Judge Jones, whom Dreiser’s committee criticised for his attitude toward striking miners. Bond for each defendant was fixed at S2OO, but neither was in custody. Dreiser was understood to be en route back to New York. What steps would be taken to have an arrest order on the indictment served was not indicated. The witnesses before the grand jury were reported to have claimed they saw Miss Pergain enter Dreiser’s room, and that toothpicks placed against the door, still were there the next morning. Dreiser Jeers Charge By United Press NORTON, Va., Nov. 10.—Theodore Dreiser declared today that it would have been "impossibie” for him to have been guilty of misconduct with a woman companion, as charged in a warrant issued at Pineville, Ky., where he conducted an investigation into Kentucky coal field conditions. “I, do enjoy the companionship r f ladies, and am fond of their conversation,” he was quoted by Bruce Crawford, editor of Crawford’s weekly, as saying, “but I do not belie\’e the notorious laws of Kentucky could make me guilty of adultery.” Crawford, a member of the Naj tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, of which Dreiser | is chairman, said the noted author of “An American Tragedy” had i authorized him to issue the stateI ment. Crawford explained that Dreiser did not deny the “companionship” of women while at Pineville, but added that “the charges of misconduct are ridiculous.” “Why, he hardly ever had a minute to himself while there,” Crawford said. “Both men and women constantly were stopping to talk with him In the lobby and halls of the hotel, and possibly did talk with him in his room.”

SAFE RESISTS YEGGMEN Combination Battered Off, But Strongbox Is Unopened. Battering the combination off a safe in the offices of the Schlitz Brewing Company, 425 South State street, Monday night, yeggmen gained entrance to the vault, but failed to open the strong box, police were informed today. The yeggmen gained entrance to the building by breaking the glass in a door in the rear of the building and unlocking the door. The combination had been broken off with Pledge hammer, and the strong <ttered. It contained only a s. . amount of money, officials of the company said. Stamps valued at $2 were taken. ROWBOTTOM OUT SOON Ex-Hoosier Congressman Waits on Parole Papers. By United Press LEAVENWORTH. Kan., Nov. 10. —Harry E. Rowbottom, former congressman from Indiana, today awaited receipt at the office of the warden of the federal prison here of parole papers believed en route from Washington. Rowbottom, who has served nearly eight months of a year and a day sentence for selling postoffice jobs, had expected to be released from the penitentiary Monday, but the papers failed to arrive. It was learned at Washington the parole was mailed Monday night and it was expected it would be received Wednesday. The former congressman will be eligible for release immediately upon its arrival. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 56 10 a. m 59 7a. m 57 11 a. m 58 8x m 59 12 (noon).. 59 8 ft. QL*it* 50 Ip. m 58

BY ARCH STEINEL WHEN leaves fall, sometimes they build themselves a shrine. You’ve seen them in Indiana’s autumn drift aimlessly to the ground, or side-slip and twirl to the ground, or maybe brush each other In an airy dog-fight. And this autumn is no different from the rest of the autumns’that have passed since Nov. 11, 1918, unless you should see a woman standing on a porch, looking westward at dusk. The woman, Mrs. Effie SchoenMorgan, may be looking west from the porch of any of the homes she builds. She may be at her own residence at 6283 College avenue. But it’s always to the west she looks—to the leaves and their “dog-fights.” For it was on Oct. 29, 1918, that her son, Lieutenant Karl J. Schoen, went “west” in the Argonne in his plane. u n k MRS. MORGAN returned recently from a visit to her son’s grave in a French cemetery. “I’m glad I left him over there,” she says, in tribute to the man for

54 ORDERED TO LEAVEMARKET Operators of Stands Are Behind in Rent. An order for the ousting of fiftyfour market stand operators who are delinquent in rent was issued today by the board of safety. Harry R. Springsteen, market master, was advised to vacate the stands unless rent, long past due, was paid by Nov. 10. For several weeks the safety boara through its secretary, Walter O. Lewis, has been trying to collect rpproximately $5,000 owed by stand operators for rent covering the last year. The safety board also has advised Springsteen not to rent several stands on the Alabama street side of the market. The board proposes to construct rest and checking rooms for customers to attract trade on this side. Several delinquent renters charged today that the tow-in provision of the traffic ordinance was in a measure responsible for their “near ruined condition financially.”

ERRORS IN LAYOUT OF CITY COST MILLIONS $150,000,000 Spent to Straighten and Widen Streets. Because the city’s early fathers had not sufficient foresight to plan for Indianapolis’ expansion, the city has had to spend millions of dollars in correcting their errors, E. B. Steeg, city planning engineer, told the Riverside Civic Association Monday night. Approximately $150,000,000 has been spent to straighten jogs in streets and to widen thoroughfares since the mile square was laid out by a Washington (D. C.) engineer in 1821, he said. Almost $140,000 will be required to straighten Illinois at Sixteenth street, before West Sixteenth street can be widened. Steeg said more than 33,000 acres of land have been plotted in city lots in Marion county in the decade of the planning commission’s existence, MARKOWITZ TO SPEAK Ft. Wayne Rabbi Is Slated for World Council Address. Rabbi S. H. Markowitz •of Ft. Wayne will be the speaker at an Armistice day luncheon sponsored by the Indiana council on international relations at the Y. W. C. A„ 329 North Pennsylvania street, Wednesday. Last summer. Rabbi Markowitz travelled through seven European countries as a member of the Sherwood Eddy party. He will speak on his observations of present European conditions. The public is invited to attend. Reservations may be made through the Indiana council. AUTO MISHAPS SLUMP Only Two Minor Accidents Occur in Fifteen Hours. After scores of automobile accidents in the last few weeks, many of which have resulted in loss of lives, police records from 5 p. m. Monday until 8 today, carried reports of only two minor automobile accidents. Late Monday police investigated an accident at Thirteenth and Delaware streets and this morning officers were called to 1721 Roosevelt avenue.

‘YELLOW DOG’ CONTRACT BARED BY STREET CAR CO. MOTION

Right of collective bargaining is forbidden to employes of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, company officials contend in a motion filed today with the public sendee commission. Neither can the unemployment situation be taken into consideration in any wage and hour arbitration by the commissioners, they assert. The motion, filed by David E. Watson, cotfpany president and counsel, citedK form of “yellow dog"

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whom Schoen field is named. France is beautiful in „he fall of the year.” * A large stray leaf, accompanied by some smaller ones, twirled and nosed to the ground near the Gold Star mother. It quivers much as her son’s plane must have quivered that October day he went “west.” “You know, I never thought of Karl as not coming back,” she mused. “He was my oldest boy. I always looked on him as head of the family. Yet he looked like a mere boy that day it happened,” she said. tt tt tt "TT was a fight they say you x could see with the naked eye. It started about dusk, as the sun went down. Karl’s machine gun jammed. A German plane fired on him and hit him. He could have landed safely, but he didn’t. He went back up after the German. He shot the observer with his automatic pistol. Then his plane fell. “The found him with his pistol still in his hand. The artillery shot down the German plane. If Karl would have got him, it would

Nutty Governor Harry G. Leslie today took pity on the poor pecan producers and in a formal statement from his office called on all Hoosiers to eat more pecans during the week of Nov. 22-GB. That is National Pecan Week, the Governor’s statement says, and continues with the following praise for this nut: “The pecan is a product of most excellent qualities. Not only is it exceedingly palatable, but also high in nutrition, affording to its consumers structural elements beneficial to the human system. “Available now at unprecedentlaljylow prices, the pecan with its high food value constitutes a real buy for the American public.”

CREDIT POOL ACTIVE $400,000,000 Already Is in Corporation, Director Says. By United Pretf WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va„ Nov. 10.—A total of $400,000,000 has been subscribed of the $500,000,000 sought by the National Credit Corporation, with expectation of total subscriptions reaching $600,000,000, it was revealed here today by John M. Miller Jr., Richmond, Va., banker, a director of the corporation. He said the corporation already is making loans, and its operation has had a stimplating effect. He attributed recent rises in price of wheat, cotton and other commodities partly to its influence.

SPECIFY CITY LABOR Safety Board Opens 36 Bids for Fire Houses. Contractors must use local union laborers in construction of two new, bungalow-type fire engine houses, the safety board agreed today after opening thirty-six bids on the projects. The houses will be built at Fiftysixth and Illinois streets and at Broadway and Eleventh street. Successful bidders will be announced Wednesday, Charles R. Myers, board president, stated. Estimated cost of both projects is $30,000. They will house equipment from engine houses No. 16, now located at Sixteenth street and Ashland avenue, and No. 8, now located at Massachusetts avenue and St. Clair street. On recommendation of Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell, the board approved reduction of John McMahon, chauffeur with Pumper Company 20, to first grade private, and promotion of Charles C. Bevis to chauffeur of Pumper Company 12, both effective Nov. 11. JOB BOARD IS NAMED Further Relief for Unemployed Indicated by Appointment. Further relief for the unemployed was indicated Monday night by the appointment of a Building Trades union committee to co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce in its property repair program. Those appointed by William Holmes, Central Labor union president, are Emil Salisbury, chairman; Frank McKamey and Harry Peats.

contract which each employe is required to sign before securing a job with the company. Provisions of this contract preclude collective bargaining, the Watson motion sets out. It asks that any collective bargaining proposal in the petition of employes pending before the commission for arbitration be stricken out. Citing sections of the employes’ petition asking for an eight-hour day. and seven-day *eek, so that

have been his fifteenth plane,” she explained. Leaves stirred in the trees‘about her. Some fell. She looked to the west, as she'll be looking this Armistice day. It’s in the west that leaves have their “dog-fights,” just like planes, and sometimes leave a shrine for autumn-time.

GALL PRISONER KINOFHOOVER Booze Suspect Declared to Be Brother-in-Law. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.—C. V. Leavitt of Santa Monica was taken to court there today on a liquor possession charge. Prohibition agents who aided Santa Monica officers in making the arrest at the beach city Monday night said that several Santa Monica officers identified Leavitt as the brother-in-law of President Herbert Hoover. President Hoover has a sister, Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, living in Santa Monica. Santa Monica officers said that with federal agents they captured Leavitt and Cliff Bailey, also of Santa Monica, when they emerged from a building with “half a sack of liquor.” Thomas Noe, chief prohibition agjnt, said “half a dozen Santa Monica policemen looked at Leavitt and declared he was related by marriage to President Hoover.” When Leavitt was arrested, officers said, he denied the alleged liquor, twenty pints in all, belonged to him. Leavitt and Bailey pleaded not guilty to the charges and were released on $259 bond.

U. S. DRY AGENT HELD ON MURDER CHARGES Dry Liquor Snooper Accused of Killing Young Truck Driver. By United Press DENVER, Nov. 10.—A federal prohibition agent faced a charge of murder today in connection with the death of Melford G. Smith, 20-year-old truck-driver, fatally injured during a scuffle over three ounces of wine. Henry Dierks, the agent, is charged striking Smith on the head with a revolver when the truck driver strove to retain possession of the liquor. Smith died in a hospital the next day. The city council and more than 100 citizens of Englewood, a Denver suburb, where Smith lived, at an indignation meeting adopted a resolution which denounced the fatal beating of Smith as “an act like that of the cossacks of Russia.” KIDNAP SUSPECTS - HELD Four Men and Women Are Pinched in St. Louis Investigation. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10.—Four men and a woman, taken in a raid on a clubhouse on the Meramec river, near here, were held today as suspects in connection with the kidnaping of Alexander Berg, wealthy president of a fur company, believed in the hands of kidnapers since Friday night. The clubhouse is owned by William (Bow Wow) McQuillan, East St. Louis gambler. A note reported found in a rural mail box in St. Louis county was turned over to St. Louis police. The note demanded $25,000, said Berg was “o. k.” and warmed the family to stop co-operating with police. GARNER ISSUES PLEDGE Democrats to Have Full Legislative Program, Says Leader. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Assurance that the Democrats will have a full legislative program was given today by Representative John Garner, Democratic candidate for Speaker of the house. Garner returned from Texas thisnoon predicting that the Democrats will organize the house. SEEKS SIO,OOO VERDICT Jury Finding Likely Today in Auto Injuries Suit. A jury verdict is expected this afternoon in the $lO 000 damage case of Miss Ella G. Hughes, dressmaker, 1946 North Alabama street, against Russell R. Byers, 1044 Eugene street. Miss Hughe? is seeking damages in superior court one for disabilities she claims she suffered Dec. 8 when knocked down by Byers’ auto, alleged to have been driven on the wrong side of the street at Vermont and New Jersey.

employment could be given a larger group during the present period, the Watson motion says that the unemployment situation should not be given any consideration. Tliis is based on a strict adherence to the company contract which makes the public service commission the final arbiters in wage and working condition controveries, the motion declares. It also asks that the name of Howard H. Johnson be stricken from those of petitioners as he is

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Mrs. Effie Schoen Morgan, mother of Lieutenant Karl Schoen, who died thirteen years ago when his plane fell in a W’orld war dog fight.

SON PREPARES FOR EDISON WILL FIGHT

The Very I-dea By United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.— “Can you see without your glasses?” a stranger asked J. F. Ball. “No,” replied Ball. The stranger took the glasses, robbed him of $614. Ball was an hour finding his way to a police station.

WILL SKID 18-Degree Drop Here Is Forecast. Eighteen-degree slide in temperature is predicted for Indianapolis and the north portion of the state tonight, with the mercury expected to hit 40 by early Wednesday. Rain fell here early this afternoon. The predicted fall in mercury follf.ws an autumnal heat wave, which pushed the thermometer to 71 Monday afternoon. Warnings of heavy frost in the north part of the state were issued today by the weather bureau. ROOSEVELT ‘TOO BUSY’ Hasn’t Yet Had Time to Consider Presidential Nomination. By United Press ALBANY. N. Y., Nov. 10.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt stands by his statement after his re-elec-tion last November, that he is too busy with state affairs to consider the Democratic presidential nomination. The Governor made it known that he will make no effort to gain the support of state delegations for nomination to the country’s highest office, despite urgingsof friends. Governor Roosevelt’s attitude was disclosed after inquiries were made relative to the recent visit to this state of United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler and several other Montana Democrats. It was said Wheeler intended to urge the Governor to line up the state delegations.

“a former employe,” not now in the service. Other signers of the employe petition are James Green and Harry Pearson. The Watson motion pleads to strike out the eight-hour day request also on the grounds that it is unfair to those men who like to work twelve hours a day and would cause inconvenience to the traveling public. Commissioner Frank Singleton has the case iopharge.

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Half-Brother, Charles, Made Target of Accusation in Statement. By United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 10.— William L. Edison is pressing hi: already announced pian for contesting the will of his father, the late Thomas A. Edison. Before leaving today for New Yoi’k, he announced he would consult there about the contest with an attorney and his sister, Mrs. Marion Oser of Connecticut. The latter had indicated previously that she did not intend to join in a contest, which William has said he would base on a charge of “undue influence.” Edison issued a statement attacking his half brother, Charles, and accusing him of a campaign to “discredit my case.” The will left the bulk of the $12,000,000 to $14,000,000 estate to his two half-brothers. Slaps at Article Edison said he and his wife were going to New York by automobile today. Edison’s statement referred to an article signed by Thomas A. Edison Jr., praising the late Thomas A. Edison and discussing family affairs. This article, William suggested, cid not represent “an independent action of my brother.” “I believe,” the statement continued, “that it is part of the program to discredit my case on the impending will contest by implying that I am the only one who never stuck by my father. “1 believe further that this campaign is being directed by the interests headed by my half-brother Charles, selfishly concerned in maintaining the will .and codicil thereto at its present status. Sorry for Brother “I am not attacking my brother, Tom, nor any of my father’s children. If my brother Tom does not see fit to fight for his own rights, that is his affair. I merely am sorry for his weakness. But when he allows himself to be dominated by those defending the present disposition of the estate to the extent of inferring in the public press that my relations with father were not of the best, as I am convinced in this case, that is my affair. To avoid possible misconception, I declare emphatically that my father and myself were on the finest of terms up until the day of his death. There never was anv question of sticking by father,* as he approved of whatever activity I chose to engage in on my own volition, in whatever part of the country I might be.” ‘ORIENT’S MORGAN’ DIES Japanese Baron One of Wealthiest Men in Far East. By United Press TOKIO, Nov. 11 (Tuesday).— Baron Eiichi Shibusawa, known as “the J. P. Morgan of t*fe Orient,” died at 1;50 a. m. today.

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HUNDREDS DIE IN MANCHURIA BATTLE ZONE 700 Slain in One Conflict; Japanese Troop Train Is Saved. ADVANCE ON RAILROAD Tokio Backs ‘lndependents' Who Seize Mukden and Defy War Lord. BY D. C. BESS United Press Staff Correspondent MUKDEN, Manchuria, Nov. 10.— Japanese troops battled Chinese irregulars in a renewal of warfare in Manchuria today. The chief clash was near Chenchiatun, north of Mukden, where a band of 1,000 Chinese bandits attacked a Japanese military train carrying wounded soldiers from the Nonni river district. The bandits were driven off after a battle lasting several hours. They rallied later to threaten Chenchiatun. Residents of the town were reported in panic. The Japanese military train was carrying 173 wounded and the bodies of fifty-four dead from the Nonni river district, where Japanese forces were intrenched in preparation for a threatened counter-attack by the Manchurian forces of General Ma Chan-Shan. The attack was made thirty-seven miles north of Chenchiatun, which is on the Manchu-rian-Mongol border. Casualties Arc Heavy The fighting, which began Monday against irregulars in several districts, was reported to have resulted in heavy casualties. Japanese advices estimated 700 Chinese were killed or wounded in an engagement near Haicheng, fifty miles northwest of Dairen, where a serious situation existed. Two Japanese were killed. Thirty Chinese were killed in another fight in the same district. General Ma has instructed his massed forces along the Chinese Eastern railroad to attack Japanese lines at Tashin, some fifteen miles south, advices to Japanese officials said. The Japanese troops along the Taonan-Anganchi railroad total about 2,000, considered sufficient to turn back the threatened attack. While Sino-Japanese military movements were in progress, the final step in Mukden’s civil revolt against Marshal Chang HsuehLiang, Manchurian dictator, took place at 2 p. m. today with the formal inauguration of an Independent government. Assisted by Japanese Yuan Chin-Ki was at the head of the government, presumably assisted by Japanese “advisers” who have become a part of civil units in other Manchurian cities. The chief concern of Japanese authorities was in other regions of Manchuria, where troop detachments have been sent against Chinese irregulars in the last two days. There also was great concern as to developments at Chinchow, in south Manchuria, where a large force of Chinese soldiers loyal to Chang Hsueh-Liang, was reported gathering. Casualties among the Chinese have been reported heavy as the Japanese troops enforced their control in scattered sections of Manchuria. Protection of the TaonanAnganchi railroad, which joins the Chinese Eastern, was given as the chief problem of the Japanese forces. Japan has supported Chang HaiPeng, a Manchurian general friendly to Tokio, in his Efforts to gain control of the area, which includes the Fiussian * in^uencec i city Stimson Seeks Peace “// L mini Ptvhh WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. While Secretary Stimson planned another and perhaps final effort to help restore peace in the Far East, state department concern over disorders in Tientsin, China, was heightened today by reports from the American consulate there. The consulate said British and French quarters of the city were uneasy because “of possible repercussions” to the firing there Monday. Most of the 600 American civilians in Tientsin live in the British and French concessions. Stimson guarded his new plan “ waa learned > however, that he studied at his home Monday night the drift of a communication drawn up during the day by the department's far eastern division. Confers With Hoover There were indications that the document was a secret memorandum .or the Tokio foreign office. Stimson has been carrying on a voluminous correspondence with Foreign Minister Shidihara of Japan, in an effort to persuade Tokio to* avoid hostilities. President Hoover and Stimson conferred Monday on the alarming turn of affairs in Manchuria. Conditions in Tientsin were described in a.message received last night from Consul-General Frank P. Lockhart. It was the first official report received here on the Tientsin disorders of Monday. At the time Lockhart’s dispatch was filed, 3 p. m., he was still in doubt as to precisely what had happened. Evidence was conflicting as to whether there was firing within the concession itself. Americans in Tientsin and their property, worth $9,500,000, are bei? guarded by toe Fifteenth infant *

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