Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1931 — Page 3

DEC. 5, 1031.

CHIN CHOW IS STRICKEN BY FEAR OF JAPANESE SIEGE

CHINESE ARMY DETERMINED TO AVOID FIGHTING Makes No Efforts to Shoot Down Scouting Planes Over City. STREETS ARE DESERTED Foreign Observers Foiled in Establishment of Neutral Zone. Frederick Kuh. United Pres* correspondent In the Manchurian area disputed by Japan and China, was the first newspaper man to reach Chinchow. headpuarters of Marshal Chant Useuh-Liane’s army. Hub’s description of the city and his interview with neutral observers are contained in the foilowlnr dispatch. BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent (CoDvrlKht. 1931. bv United Prcssi CHINCHOW, Manchuria, Dec. 5. A Chinese army of 25,000 men billeted in the Chinchow area today appeared determined to avoid all offensive action against the Japanese. Chinchow was stricken with the fear of siege. The native population ■was frightened by Japanese airplanes flying over the city. There was no sign of preparation for defense or offense. Neutral observers here told me that a Chinese offensive was out of the question. They believed that 1 he proposal to create a neutral zone had failed, chiefly due to the Japanese attitude. The city was under semi-martial Taw. Shops were boarded up. Streets were empty, except for military sentinels and an occasional clattering rickshaw. On Scouting Duty Japanese airplanes have passed over the city daily, but Chinese soldiers made no attempts to shoot at them. Neutral observers said the planes were on scouting duty. The foreign observers, both military and diplomatic, were quartered at the university dormitory. The cold weather found the men none too pleased with their mission. The observers told me that after eleven days of inspection, they were convinced that Chang HseuhLiang’s army was not concentrating for defense or attack and that the troops were receiving no reinforcements. The soldiers mostly were billeted in villages between Shanhaikan, at the great wall of China, and Tahoshan. The observers reported 25,000 Chinese troops in the area. The observers were instructed originally to prepare a neutral zone in the Chinchow area. A break in the railway line between Chinchow and Mukden prevented them from establishing contact with the Japanese headquarters. Streets Almost Empty As the first correspondent to reach Chinchow since the Japanese abandoned their recent push southward toward the city, I found the Streets deserted except for military guards stationed at short intervals. I arrived here on the first train over the Mukden-Peiping line since the dynamiting of four small bridges Nov. 27 during the withdrawal of the Japanese troons. I hailed a rickshaw and started for the university dormitory to confer with the neutral observers. My rickshaw was accompanied by Chinese soldiers who kept their fingers on their revolver triggers and shouted the password when they were challenged by guards at short intervals. We passed rows of boarded shop fronts, drove through deserted tunnels and through quiet streets. The city obviously was afraid of a siege. I was taken through a huge iron gate barring entry to the inner wall of the city and clattered along to the observers’ headquarters. Here I found Colonel Nelson Maregtts and Lieutenant H. S. Aldrich of the United States, Colonel Badham Thornhill and Captain P. W. A. Staples and Consul Moss of Great Britain, Captain Fieschi and Counsellor Lepice from the French legation. All were eager to return to Peiping, but only Captain Aldrich, Colonel Thornhill and Kuehlborn left Chinchow. They went to Shanhaikwan to continue their investigation. Cavalry Along Line The observers said that in addition to the 25.000 Chinese troops in the district three cavalry regiments totaling 3,300 men were stationede on the Tahosan-Tungliao railway line. The troops were commanded by Chang Hseum-Liang’s chief of staff. General Yung-Chen. The observers told me that the Chinese discipline was good and that the troops unquestionably obeyed Chang. The soldiers would retire within the great wall immediately if Chang so ordered, the observers said. The observers said that YungChen still placed hope on action by the League of Nations. I went back to my rickshaw and was driven to a dingy Chinese hotel. The city was dark, save for the lights used by sentries. I came to Chinchow with Henrik Kaufrmmn, Danish minister to China, and Lovat Fraser, British military attache at Peiping. We were warned at Mukden of the danger that bandits might attack the train or derail it, but the jourr.°y was without incident. Peasants Returning Throngs of peasants returning to China after seasonal farming in Manchuria were aboard the train. Japanese soldiers at the Mukden station searched the peasants and opened their greasy bundles and bedding rolls, seeking arms or other .contraband. A squad of Japanese troops left the train at Chuli-Ho, where the Japanese have established their southernmost outpost except for a few troops at Hsinminfu. I saw my first Chinese armored train at Tangchiawopu. obviously unequipped for fighting. Crude Chinese trenches and dugouts north of Tahoshan indicated the Chinese first line of defense.

Boy Puts His Dog on Auction Block to Aid New York's Poor

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Proceeds of a dance to be given Dec. 11 by the interfraternity council and the intersorority council of Butler university will go to the Indianapolis made work committee to help provide jobs to unemployed men. A loving cup will be presented to the fraternity or sorority selling the most tickets to the affair, which will be held at the Indiana ballroom. The cup (shown in the picture and held by Miss Viola Brewer, a Butler student), was presented by Maxwell C. Lang, fraternity jeweler, 312 Kahn building.

STATE’S MENTAL CASE POPULATION IS 9,753 Men Slightly Outnumber Women in Eight Institutions. Eight state institutions for mental cases had a total population of 9,753 on Sept. 30, close of the fiscal year, John A. Brown, secretary of the state board of charities, announced Friday. Institutions include Central State hospital, Indianapolis: Logansport State hospital, Richmond State hospital, Evansville State hospital, Madison State hospital, Ft. Wayne State school, Muscatatuck colony and Village for Epileptics. Total population was composed for 4,912 men and boys and 4,841 women and girls, 6,991 of w’hom are in insane institutions, i ,937 in institutions for the feeble-minded and 825 b epileptics.

WILLIAM R. BESS . CLAIMED BY DEATH

Restaurant Man Had Lived in Indianapolis for 22 Years. William R. Bess, Guaranty cafeteria manager for eight years, died Friday at his home, 1210 North Oxford street. Christian Science and Masonic services will be held at 1:30 Monday in the Flamer & Buchnan mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Bess, a World war veteran, was Indianapolis Restaurant Association president, past master of Monument lodge and a member of the Scottish Rite, Optimist Club and the American Legion. He had lived here twenty-two years. Private funeral services for John Virgil Hamilton. 50, Bcmis Brothers Bag Company foreman, who died of bronchial pneumonia Friday, will be held at 1:15 Monday in the home, McFarland road, and at 2 in St. Mark’s English Lutheran church. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Last rites for George W. Lambert. 69. Indianapolis stock yard employe for nineteen years prior to his retirement nine years ago, who died Thursday at his home, 905 Greer street, will be held at 2 Monday in the Immanuel Reformed church. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mrs. Caroline Rees Jones, former Indianapolis resident, who died Mond' , v in New York, was buried Friday in Crown Hill cemetery. She lived here from 1870 to 1900, her husband. Robert H. Rees, an Indianapolis merchant, dying in 1898 Friends here learned Friday of the death of Howard O. Sage. Portland, Ore., formerly of this city, in

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‘Sale’ Nets $250 for City’s j Jobless, But Jimmy Gets Back His Pet. I By SEA Service NEW YORK, Dec. s.—Jimmy Yorio has his dog back. And the city’s unemployment relief fund is larger by $250. In addition to that, Jimmy’s junk-dealer father has an extra SSO to help care for his family of fourteen this winter. And all because the 10-year-old boy decided the other day to sacrifice his pet. He saw the idea in a newspaper. It was a drawing that had been contributed to the nation-wide relief campaign by George Clark, staff artist for NEA Service and The Times. It showed a boy in a community relief headquarters. Offers His Dog He was holding a dog, and was saying to the man in charge: “If you would take him and sell him to some rich kid would it help i any?’’ Jimmy knew it was going to be a tough winter. In the public squares where he worked as a bootblack he had seen thousands of hopeless, jobless men. Members of his own family were desperately poor, but they knew others who actually were starving. So he took Chickie down to campaign headquarters and donated him to the cause of the unemployed. And it was advertised that Chickie was to be sold at auction. Jimmy Stays Away They did it up in style. A big Salvation Army truck, with three horns blowing, drove through the streets of Greenwich Village, and pamphlets were distributed explaining the sale. When the truck stopped at a busy corner a radio microphone was installed. The auctioneer came in a big limousine. He was Grover Whalen, former New York police commissioner and now one of the divii sional commanders in the drive for funds. Chickie was there, much bewildered but affable. But Jimmy Yorio, his master, was not there. Jimmy was at home, and said he hoped they wouldn’t expect a guy who had given away his own dog to have to stand around and see it sold. So he sent his best friend, Nick Lombardo, to the autcion as his proxy. Chickie Home Again Jimmy would have felt better had he heard what Grover Whalen was saying: “New York just won’t stand | for a sacrifice like this. We may be hard up, but we haven’t reached | the point where we can see a boy parted from his dog. “Scores of people have written in protest. Here’s a check for SIOO, | with the condition that SSO goes to Jimmy’s family and SSO to the relief fund, and that Jimmy Yorio keeps his pet . . . Here’s another check, and another. “I shall auction this dog, as promised. I’ll tell you right now, i though, that the highest bidder won’t get Chickie, but a signed cer- | tificate. Now let me hear your bids ...” When it was all over, $250 had been collected for the jobless, SSO had been set aside for Jimmy’s family, and Nick Lombardo was racing like mad through tenement streets to restore Chickie to his master’s arms.

an automobile accident. Surviving are the widow, a daughter, Mrs. Joel A. Baker, and two sons, Clarence O. and Russell Sage, Indianapolis.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Garrett Ensley, 844 North Capitol avenue. Chevrolet coupe, 79-793, from in front of 844 North Capitol avenue. Herbert Bledsoe, 2330 Ralston avenue. Ford coupe. 762-857 from Martinaale avenue and Nineteenth street. Mathew Chastain. 1015 Dawson street, Chrysler coach, 774-835, from parking space at Technical high school. Edgar Blessing, Danville, Ind., Ford coupe, 590-793, from Senate avenue and Market street.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Elliott Allen, 514 North Alabama street Ford touring found at Ogden and North streets. Clyde E. Green, 1039 Tabor street. Hudson. sport sedan, found at Meridian and Vermont streets. George A Knapp, 1024 North Alabama street. Maxwell sedan, found in front of the Puritan hotel.

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Twelve chimes, the replica of those at West Point, are contained in this 172-foot bell tower which has been presented to the University of North Carolina. John Motley Morehead, United States minister to Sweden, and Rufus Lenoir Patterson, tobacco manufacturer, donated the SIOO,000 tower to the school as a memorial to members of the two families distinguished in North Carolina history.

LEAP NEW PRESIDENT OF DEMOCRATIC CLUB Wayne Township Chairman Honored by Party Organization. Carter Leap, Wayne township Democratic chairman, was elected president of the Wayne township

Democratic club at a meeting this week at V. F. W. hall, King avenue and Walnut street. Other officers elected: Mrs. Howard Shelby, first vicepresident; Walter Bradford, second vie e-president; Mrs. Anna W. Owen corresponding secretary, Mrs. Nell McCarthy, recording secretary, and

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Roy Wallace, treasurer. Directors are: Thomas Connor, Charles Fouts and Alva Gulley. Meetings of the club are held the first Wednesday of each month. ACCIDENT VICTIM WHITE Mrs. Sarah Fuller Erroneously Reported as Negro. Due to an erroneous report of an accident by police, The Times Friday stated Mrs. Sarah Fuller, 38, of 3301 Hovey street, is a Negro. This is not true. The accident occurred at Thirtieth street and Cornell avenue.

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‘I'LL MISS MY dog: says boy CHAIR Youth, 17, Condemned to Die Thursday, Finds Solace in Bible. This Is the third and concluding story of a series tracing the life of Russell McWilliams. IT, to a cell in Joliet penitentiary where he awaits electrocution a few minutes after next Thursday midnight. The last legal appeal has failed. It seems certain the youth will die in the electric chair, the youngest person ever executed in Illinois. BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec s.—Seventeen-year-old Russell McWilliams, with six days between him and the electric chair, blotted out that ominous prospect for a few' moments today ’oy chatting enthusiastically about ‘Man Dog,” his Collie. “He’s a real pal,” exclaimed Russell, the Rockford (111.) youth who was condemned to death because he shot and killed William Sayles, 64, street car motorman, in a holdup last Aug. 29. The youth’s blue eyes brightened and his lanky, six-foot form straightened. “I got a letter from a man who raises Collies In California yesterday,” he said. “The California man told me about his dogs and their good points. Shucks, Man Dog is as good as any of them. Finds Solace in Bible “Besides, he’s a real pal; always barked when I drove up the driveway at home in my car. I—l sure will miss him.” The youth’s shoulders sagged and he dropped into the rocker in the solitary confinement building. He looked around for the Bible sent him by Mrs. Mildred Kerrison, Rockford woman who became interested in him after his trouble. His fingers sought out the Bible and he opened it. There were marks on a passage in the book of St. Luke where the Bible was opened. The passage was: “Judge not and ye shall not be judged: condemn not and ye shall not be condemned; forgive and ye shall be forgiven.” Russell read the passage. He did not seem to realize that condemned men in many countries had sought solace for centuries in that passage. It was like a discovery to him. Deluged With Letters “You know,” he said, “I believe that is the right dope. If they just would give me another chance, I’d piake a good man out of myself. I didn’t know there was so much good philosophy in the Bible until I started reading it after they put me in here.” Russell’s time is spent reading his Bible, sleeping and reading and answering the scores of letters that come to him from men, women, boys and girls all over the nation.’ He is allowed to answer such as he chooses. Most of the letters are from mid-dle-aged or elderly persons who sympathize with him in his plight and offer condolences or suggestions for his spiritual welfare. Some, from young folk, make him out a hero. “They just don’t know any better,” he explained. “I was a fool to drink and fool around with guns. The liquor got me into this jam. I have no one to blame but myself.” "Overgrown Small Town Boy” The youth’s attention was called to rows of small crosses chalked on the wall of his cell. He explained that guards told him they were calendars of other prisoners who had no other way to keep track of the time. One row of fourteen crosses indicated the last two weeks

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in that cell of a prisoner who later was executed. “No, I don’t have to keep track of the time that way,” Russell said. “They let me have newspapers. I guess they treat me better than they do some others.” Assistant Warden E. M. Stubblefield explained why. “Russell’s just a big overgrown small town boy,” he said. “He is no hardened criminal. I hate to see him go the way that killers go. We are trying to make it as comfortable for him as possible.”

STANDARD OIL SLICES PRICES OF AUTO TIRES \ Reductions Ranging From 8 to 15 Per Cent are Announced at Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. s.—Reduction of automobile tire prices ranging from 8 to 15 per cent was announced Friday by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The reductions, effective Dec. 1, cover passenger and truck tires and inner tubes. All passenger car tires, with the exception of two sizes, were reduced 15 per cent in price. One size was reduced 10 per cent and one 8 per cent. Truck casings were reduced 10 per cent. Reductions in tube prices ranged from 4% to 16 per cent. The Lee Tire and Rubber Company recently announced a 15 per cent price reduction for automobile tires.

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Sale of 250 New 45-Lb Cotton and Felt Mattresses $3.95 Capitol Furniture Cos. 211 E. Wash. St.—Ll. 8912

Eleanor Harter

In order to help Washington high school become “doll conscious,” Eleanor Harter, 717 West drive, Woodruff Place, sfoke to the Washingtonians, senior girls’ honorary’, Thursday afternoon about the dolls she collected in Europe. She has dolls from Holland, Scotland, Switzerland, Russia, Brittany and other countries. One of her collection is from China. The talk was part of the program of the Washingtonians in sponsoring the annual doll contest at the west side school. The contest opened Wednesday and will close Dec. 16. The entire school competes in making dolls, which will go to charitable institutions for distribution at Christmas time.

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LUNCH WAGONS ARE ROBBED BY NEGRO GUNMEN Bandits Get S6O in Three Holdups; Residence Is Looted. Two Negro gunmen, who staged three robberies Friday night, obtaining S6O from operators of lunch wagons and a north side grocery, are sought today by police. The bandits struck first at a Standard grocery, 1201 East Nineteenth street, where they thrust guns at Oscar Johnson, manager, and Mrs. Mary Mitchell, 1808 Ashland avenue, and looted the store cash register. Police said the bandits obtained about $55. A few hours later, the Negroes held up Mrs. Leona Hirsch, 38, of 645 Massachusetts avenue, operator of a lunch car in the 100 block. West Washington street, and fled with $5. While police still were probing this robbery, the Negroes added another victim to their list. He was Julius Ward, 816 North Illinois street, employe in a lunch wagon at 1307 North Illinois street. Ward told police the bandits obtained $2.75 and they entered the place with revolvers drawn. Breaking into a pharmacy at 3901 East Tenth street operated by James Neidhumer, burglars early today stole $55 in merchandise. When Sam Ajamie opened his grocery store at 1448 Roosevelt avenue, early today he told police he found thieves had stolen foodstuffs valued at $23 and $lO from the cash register. Burglars gained entrance by prying open the rear door.

Milk for Children

By Times Special MARION, Ind., Dec. s.—For the second year milk will be supplied free to needy school children here, school officials announce. Children whose families are financially able to pay will receive one-half pint of milk daily for 2 cents. Costs of the milk for underprivileged children will be assumed by the schools. Store Bandits Active By Times Special MISHAWAKA, Ind., Dec. s.—Jack Davis, graver, was robbed of S4O by bandits in the fifth store holdup here in two weeks.