Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1931 — Page 1

SENATE GIVEN BILL TO CURB ‘SLUSH’FUNDS Nye Committee Measure Is Aimed at Wild Orgy of Campaign Spending. HUGE EXPENSES BARED Cost of Senate Races More Than 15 Times the Total of Salaries Paid. BY MARSHALL Mr NEIL TirriM .Staff Corresnondent WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—A bill to strengthen and amend the federal corrupt practices act, so the 1932 presidential and congressional compaigns may be free from “flagrant abuse,” was introduced In the senate at noon today by the Nye committee, which investigated elections in eighteen states last year. To help assure pasage of the measure and to quigt controversy, the committee’s report avoided reviews of election conditions in particular states, although it unearthed among other things, the “grocer boy Norris” campaign to unseat Senator George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.).This campaign has been attributed to come Republican party leaders. The committee found that $5,305,712 was spent, in the 1930 campaigns to elect United States senators—a sum more than fifteen times greater than the annual salaries of the offices sought. I,aw Called Defective ’The bulk of these expenditures, ggregating 54.398.121. was . . . • oncentrated in eighteen states, in A-hich the amounts expended ranged from $03,375 to $2,005,033,” said the report. It was submitted by Senator Gerald P. Nye (Rep., N. D.) as he introduced the committee bill. The report showed the committee realized that some of the expense was unavoidable, but it also made clear that the immense expenditures were “largely the result of the defective character of the existing law, which Imposes substantially no limitation upon expenditures and does not even provide effective publicity as to the source of contributions or the amount and character of expenditures ...” The bill proposed today was not only the result of specific inquiries into individual senatorial races, but, also, of advice received from prominent experts on election laws. It was said to incorporate as well suggestions of earlier committees that made similar inquiries.

Expenditure Is Limited Tt provides that a candidate for j the senate or his agents can not spend more than $50,C00 in his behalf; that a candidate for the house can not spend more than $10,000: lhat candidates for the presidential • nominations can not spend more ! than $250,000; and that candidates ; for the presidency and vice-presi-dency can not spend more than $5,000,000. The measure, the report explains,! is built on the principle that “the election process, from The time a , candidate announces his candidacy or-takes any other step looking toward his ultimate election, is a single process, regardless of the method which may be used in any state to determine the will of the electors,' and that the “cor option of any nart, of this process is a corruption of the whole.” In addition, under the committee hill, the candidate for office becomes legally responsible for the expenditures of all persons and committees whom he or his agent has authorized to act in his behalf. Would Halt Racketeers All unauthorized persons and committees receiving contributions or making campaign expenditures becomes subject to the penalties provided in tine measure. “This,” the report says, “effectively will curb the growing activities of •political racketeers’ who use the names of popular candidates to enrich themselves. The proposal sets up a joint congressional committee to which reports of contributions and expenditures would be made, and provides for local publicity on these matters through clerks of United States district courts. “The early passage of this.” says the report, signed by Nye and Senators Dale (Rep.. Vt.); Dill cDem., Wash.) and Wagner (Deni., N. Y.), “or some other adequate revision of the present federal corrupt practices act is necessary if presidential and congressional campaigns of 1932 are to be free from the flagrant abuses which investigations of this and other committees have revealed in connection witn previous campaigns ”

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 192

FAMOUS LONGWORTH-GANN FEUD AT LAST IS ENDED

Smiles Replace Chilly Nods and Washington Hostesses Sigh With Relief

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HOOVERS READY FOR CHRISTMAS Two Trees Are Installed at White House. By Ignited Pres* WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— Workmen w'ere busy today installing Christmas trees and decorating the White House in traditional yuletide dress for the holidays. Two Christmas trees of medium height ivere put up outside the broad portico of the White House, their green-pointed branches contrasting with the w'hite columns of the presidential mansion. Wreaths were ordered for the windows. A gay round of Christmas parties has been arranged by the President and Mrs. Hoover for thpir sons and grandchildren. Allan Hoover, also, is coming from the coast, for the reunion, and is due late Friday. He flew part of the way. Herbert Hoover Jr., with his family, is due from California Tuesday. Mrs. Hoover plans to meet them at the station. She is taking charge of the week’s festivities, personally supervising the arrangements. A children’s party on Wedesday is the first big entertainment at the White House. A dance will be given for Allen Hoover next Monday night.

UNION BANK CLOSES Rail Brotherhoods’ Firm in Cleveland Shuts Doors. By United Pres* CLEVELAND, Dee. 21. The Standard Trust bank, the railroad brotherhoods first venture into Finance and credited with assets exceeding $22,000,000 in 1930, was in the hands of the state banking department today. C. Sterling Smith, president of the bank, announced that the board of directors believed depositors would be protected best by letting the state liquidate the bank's assets. The Standard Trust's last financial statement showed a capitalization of $2,000,000, deposits of $lB.633.998, and assets of $22,047,026, with a surplus of $1,155,510. The engineers’ brotherhood was said to have its “war chest” of $2,000,000 on deposit. The bank W'as organized in 1920 as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Co-operative National bank by Warren S. Stone, tnen head of the union. POLA NEGRI IMPROVES Temperature Normal. Film Star Is Resting Well. By United Pres* SANTA MONICA, Cal., Dec. 21— Pola Negri, motion picture star who underwent an operation for removal of an intestinal obstruction last Wednesday, appeared to be recovering today. “The patient has rested well today and her temperature is normal,” her physician. Dr. Leo J. Madsen, announced. Unofficially he said, “everything looks rosy from now on.”

MURRAY NOT TO QUIT Aid Says Radio Reports of Resignation Are Lies. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 21 Claude Weaver, secretary to Goverriyr William H. Murray, today branded as “lies ’ radio reports that the colorful Oklahoma Governor had resigned. Inquirisr were received at the Governor’s office from several points :n the state, where it was said reports of Murray's resignation were picked up from a radio broadcast. Weaver said such reports “were entirely without foundation.'' Murray’s program of initiated measures suffered & severe defeat at last Friday's special election. Hourly Temperatures 6a. ra 45 If) a. m 49 7 a. m 47 11 a. m 50 Ba. m.,.., 47 12 (noon).. 52 ? a. m,.... 48 1 p. 53

By United Prr* WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The long-celebrated social feud between Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Mrs. Edward Everett Gann has been brought to a happy ending. The two women met Sunday* at a luncheon party. The coldness of the last few years was replaced by friendly smiles and a cordial chat. The hatchet, Washington society said today, has been “buried officially.” The war for social precedence started when both declined to attend a sunper party given by Mrs. Eugene Meyer several years ago. From then on the battle raged. Invitations, if not discreetly distributed, led to complications which echoed even through the corridors of the state department. Hostesses shuddered at the prospect of an open clash. Many a teacup was poised in mid-air at the sudden hint of a social entanglement.

HEIRESS FOUND IN EAST, WITH MEMORY GONE Columbus Girl, Relative of • Indianapolis Couple, Is 111 in Hotel. ' fly United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 21.—A tele- | phone call from the Narragansett i hotel, at Providence, R. 1., was rej ceived by relatives of Miss Virginia | Penfield here today, stated that the heiress, missing for several days, I was a patient there. I Dr. Brown, house, physician at the hotel, placed the call. He said Miss Penfield was suffering from loss of memory and was under his care. She disappeared last Thursday : after leaving the Man,' Lyons school, Sw'arthmore, Pa., to return to her home here for the holidays. Miss , Penfield, daughter of Clare J. Penfield, wealthy Columbus merchant, last was reported seen in a Philadelphia railway station. Tlie relatives here ivere given no details of how she reached the Providence hotel. They had believed she suffered a nervous breakdown, however, and had instigated a search throughout the entire middle west. Cousin Lives Here “I’m anxious to get home, so I can go horseback riding with dad,” was the main topic of the last let- | ter of Virginia Penfield to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clare J. Penfield of Columbus, 0., before she disappeared in Philadelphia Thursday. Miss Penfield is a lover of all i animals, and is director of the Co- | lumbus Humane Society, according |to Mrs. Robert Denham, of 3335 ! North Pennsylvania, a cousin of the missing school girl, i “She was going to take her horse j with her this fall to Swarthmore, | when she went, to school,” Mrs. Denham said this morning, “but the 1 animal developed a foot disease and she thought it better to-leave it in Columbus for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Denham were at the Penfield home in Columbus aK day Thursday before returning home. "We thought some of remaining until Friday morning, when Virginia was to arrive, but Mr. Denham had to come to Indianapolis for business reasons. News was received of her disappearance shortly after we left,” Mrs. Denham said. | Miss Penfield had her debut party ! a year ago last November, shortly ; after her 18th birthday, according to Mrs. Denham.

Ad Nauseam By United Pres* PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 21 Christmas radio programs sponsored by advertisers are turning Christmas carols into hairrestorer ballyhoo, in the opinion of Dr. David M. Steele, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany. “Last night, while I listened for five minutes, I heard ‘Holy Night, Silent Night’ used to introduce a hair restorer. "Come, All Ye Faithful,” was sung on behalf of a beauty ’shoppe.’ “Milton's Hymn to Nativity was sung to promote the sale of anew model automobile, and ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’ was the prelude to the announcement of an undertaker’s parlor. "I ask you: We have seen His star, but where is he?”

MURDER DEFENDANT TO EXPOSE GAY REND Handsome West Virginia Dentist Held in Divorcee’s Death. By United Press RENO. Nev., .Dec. 21—New revelations of night life in the Reno divorce colony were promised today as Dr. Carl Pierre Andre, handsome young Fairmount (W. Va.) dentist, resumed his court fight against, a charge of slaying young Martha Hutchinson. Accused of hurling the girl from his speeding car as the aftermath of a quarrel, Dr. Andre has summoned more than a score of witnesses to describe events preceding the fatal accident. The dapper defendant who claimed Mrs. Hutchinson either jumped or fell to her death, also will take the stand himself. Defense counsel indicated today that several witnesses would be called for testimony regarding Mra. Hutchinson's asserted intoxication.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931

War Debts Issue Can Not Be Evaded , Kahn Tells Probers;

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Investors, Not Banks, Have Foreign Bonds, Finance Group Is Told. BY PAUL R. MELLON United Press Staff Correspondent . WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Otto Kahn of Kahn, Loeb & Cos., Wall Street bankers, told the senate finance committee today that if war debts and reparations could be “taken out in the middle of the ocean and dropped in,” he would favor it highly. ‘•But,” he added, “there is no way to do it.” The billions in bonds which American bankers have floated for foreign borrowers in this country since the war now are in the possession of investors, not banks, Kahn told the committee. Kahn expressed the opinion that Germany would pay her private debts, but emphasized that he was not talking about reparations. Opposes Debt Reduction Asked if he believed “a temporary emergency justifies the permanent scaling down of Europe's debts, he replied with emphasis: “I do not.” France, he said, is capable of paying her obligations. But when asked whether France should be made to pay, he answered: "We should do what is expedient. If it were possible to find a way by which all these war debts and reparations which hang around the necks of nations like mill stones, could be taken out in the middle of the ocean and dropped in, I would be in favor of it. “But there is no way. How it can be done is a problem of statesmanship.” Tells of Financing Kahn, discussing his own firm's post-war financing, said it totaled $577,750,000 in loans floated by his firm and $559,000,000 in loans in which his firm participated with 4. P. Morgan & Cos. Kahn's figures brought the total of American loans to foreign borrowers described before the finance committee investigation of foreign loans to $3,355,103,000. The hearing closed soon after noon, to resume with Kahn continuing his testimony Jan. 4.

LESLIE SOUNDS PLEA Give Temporary Jobs, Asks State Executive. i Pleading with the fortunate to aid the needy, Governor Harry G. \ Leslie today urged state residents and firms to donate, temporary jobs to the poor. Leslie's request w'as made in his proclamation of Christmas Cheer week, being observed throughout Indiana, starting today. “There are odd jobs around every home and business that well could be given to those w'ho need work, so they may have a Christmas of their own earning,” he declared. bandits’wounds'fatal Chicago Death List Mounts to 73 as Two More Succumb. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 21—Seventythree bandits have been killed in Chicago since Jan. 1. The total was registered today after Daniel Murphy, Kansas City, wounded a week ago when he fled from police w'ho sought to question him, and Bartholomew O’Donnel, shot in an attempted holdup, died Sunday.

MUD YULE? MAYBE ‘Anything May Happen,’ Is Weather Warning. Don't be too sure Christmas I weather will be quiet and mild. At this time, with temperatures above normal throughout the midwest. J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief, describes the situation as "scrambled.” Conditions are unsettled, and it is a tossup whether mild weather will continue or a sudden change will bring snow ? and cold. There is no noted inclination either way, according to Armington, and anything might happen. The only spot of zero weather is in midwestern Canada, where mercury readings are at zero. This is 5 degrees above normal for the area. Rain and cloudy weather with light rains are on the city's menu for the next twenty-four hours.

MRS. LONGWORTH was deprived of her official position last spring at the death of her husband. The feud, then, technically was ended. But the curt nods and cold manner still persisted when the two socially ambitious women met at state affairs. The occasion of the reconciliation was a luncheon given by Mrs. Evalvn Walsh McLean, whose divorce troubles reached a climax last week, when her husoand served her with a summons wrapped in a gay Christmas parcel. At Mrs. McLean’s right was Vice-President Curtis, with Mrs. Longworth beside him. Opposite Mrs. McLean, at the foot of the table, was Warren Delano Robbins, the White House ceremonial officer, with Mrs. Gann at his side. Mrs. Longworth and Mrs. Gaon smiled across the table, chatting in friendly fashion. And so, with this gesture to Washington society, one of the capital's most famous contretemps was at an end.

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Clothe a Child for Christmas

“TUST four to go- !” •I In golf that expression teems with the tension embodying that last four holes of an eighteenhole match: in basketball it can mean four minutes of play left; in baseball it could be the ninthinning rally, when the home club is four runs behind. But in this case it means there are just four days of shopping left for you and your Clothe-a-Child for Christmas. Just four days left to make 1931's needy school child warm and comfortable for 1932's school days. With 258 donors to the Clothe-a-Child movement of The Times, it is the hope that the closing time of the drive—4 p. m. Thursday—will see more than 350 children provided with warm wearing apparel. For indigent school children of the city have “four to go,” too—four months of wintry school weather—before spring gives them surcease from chill winds, rain, sleet, and snow. Every donor to the Cloth- aChild plan makes it possible for relief agencies of the Community Fund to level their budget of aid over a wider territory during the ensuing year. And now let’s halt long enough to doff our “kellys” to a few of the big contributors to Cloth-a-Child plan. There's the Universal Club, with twelve children being made warm because of the club’s generosity. But anew group edges near, tne club for top honors today, with the Lincoln office of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company seeking two more children to make their score seven boys and girls clothed. The “hello” girls admit a telephoned "kick” out of the campaign that rivals their first day at a switchboard. ft st it WE'RE having the time of our lives dressing our youngsters. That's why we. want two more.” a leader of the telephone operators declares. And as for another bunch of real sports of the city, mention must be made of the ten-pin artists and their twenty-two youngsters adopted for the Yuletide. The twenty-two children score was run ,up by bowling leagues, individual bowlers, and owners of alleys.

CITY FAVORS WIDENING Works Board Sanctions Two Street Improvements, Refuses One. Two major street improvement projects were approved today by the | city works board, and a third was : postponed indefinitely. Widening and resurfacing of ! Michigan street, from Randolph street to Tacoma avenue, at a cost lof $19,594, and resurfacing pf I Speedway avenue, from Indiana avenue to Sixteenth street, $10,877, ■were approved. j Project delayed by the board was j improvement of Walnut street from : Holmes avenue to Concord street, i Estimated cost of this project is $12,858. Two Hurt in Plane Crasi* R'J United Prt** OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 21.—L. W. Price. Tulsa and N. C. Morse, 1 Columbus, 0.. are recovering from ! injuries received when their Trans-continental-Western air transport | tri-motor developed motor trouble and crashed Saturday at Municipal [ airport.

Leaders Determined to Push Measure Across Before j Holiday Recess. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The senate met today under the threat of night sessions to get the $252,000,000 Hoover debt, moratorium in Europe's stocking before Christmas. But the gift may be qualified ! sharply by an expression of congressional policy in opposition to any further cancellation or reduction of war debts. White House pressure for immediate enactment of the President's domestic credit relief program has failed. Congressmen are determined to have their Christmas holiday begin after Tuesday. President Hoover carried his battle for immediate action on his economic program to the senate at another breakfast conference today, with leaders of both parties, but Walker Newton, his secretary, said there was slim possibility that congress would alter its plan and not take the long recess. In their own defense, many of them assert that Mr. Hoover could have obtained action on all his emergency bills long before now if he had been willing to summon congress in extra session last summer or early in the autumn. May Cut Vacation There still are rumbles from back senate benches against the projected fortnight Christmas vacation and the time might yet be reduced to one week. Senate and house leaders have agreed it will be impossible to create before the holiday the $500,000,000 reconstruction .finance corporation or to make additional treasury funds available to federal land banks and joint-stock land ban>v The house Saturday passed the land, bank bill, making an additional $100,000,000 of government funds available to bolster the. depleted capital of the agricultural I credit system. The bill also extended a quasimoratorium to farm debtors by permitting them to extend lapsed mortgage payments over a five-year period. The bill now goes to the senate. Night Sessions Promised Senate Majority Leader Watson said he would keep the senate in session tonight and Tuesday night to ratify the war debt moratorium. Senator Johnson (Rep., Cal.), who leads the senate fight, against ratification, concedes that the morator- | ium resolution will win. The house ratified it in a night session last Friday and attacked a reservation against cancellation or further reduction. Chairman Collier of the house ways and means committee announced today that his committee would set to work on a tax increase measure immediately after the holiday recess, with the aim of passing a bill in the house by February. Secretary of Treasury Mellon advocates a retroactive measure, with the new rates going into effect on taxes paid next year on income of the present year. To achieve this, the bill w'ould have to be signed before March 15. Chairman Collier is opposed to the retroactive feature, and many Democrats agree with him. This promises to be quite an issue in | the tax battle. Turns Down $40,000 Job By United Press LOUISVILLE, Dec. 21—Federal Judge J. I. Dawson today had dej dined the presidenecy of the Mis- : souri State Life Insurance Com- | pany. which carried with it a salary 1 of $40,000 a year. TRAPS TAX DODGERS Assessor To Get Complete Check on Autos. Nearly two millions dollars will be placed on tax duplicates of Center township by ferreting out of auto tax dodgers under anew system started today by John C. McCloskey, assessor. McCloskey estimated that more than 65 per cent of the automobiles i in the township are escaping taxa- ; tion. Under a new' filing system, assessment blanks will be chacked with statehouse records, to disclose names of owners failing to list automobiles. McCloskey said that added assessments will place more than $50,000 in the county coffers. Money colj lected the remainder of the year will be held in a special fund, but next year the fund will be placed in charge of the county auditor for 1 distribution to taxing units.

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OIL FIRM WILL OPERATE HERE Phillips Company to Open Filling Stations. A chain of gasoline filling stations covering Indianapolis and the state will be established early next year by the Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Okla., a $300,000.00(1 company, it was announced here today. Indianapolis has been made eleventh division headquarters, with R. D. Collins, formerly of Minneapolis, as division manager A headquarters staff of aprpoximately thirty-five persons will be employed. Collins today announced the company has purchased tw r enty-one gasoline' storage plants in Indiana, including one 100.000-gallon plant here, from the Shell Petroleum Company. The. plants purchased were in cities where. Shell had duplicate plants as result of its acquisition of the Western Oil Refining Company. The Phillips company now operates in fifteen states. Gasoline will be piped from the refinery at Borger, Tex., to East St. Louis, 111., and there transferred to tank cars for Indianapolis. .J. A. Fortner, formerly at Bartlesville, and G. S. Huey, formerly division manager at Chicago, have been assigned as assistants to Collins. Temporary headquarters of the company at located at the Severin. WORKERS MADE ILL BY ’HOPPER POISON FUMES Two Who Mixed Mash to Curb Pests in Critical Condition. By T nited Pra>* DENVER, Dec. 21.—Thirteen men who mixed a poison mash last summer with which to kill the millions of grasshoppers that swarmed throughout northern Colorado were revealed today to be themselves the victims of the poison. The thirteen suffered arsenic poisoning from inhaling fumes of the arsenic placed in the mash to kill grasshcpers. Two of th egroup w'ere said today to be in serious condition. The men had been employed by Logan county to make the mash. Logan county was overrun wdth grasshoppers and tremendous crop damage was threatened by the pests. MILLIONS GET CHARITY Census Bureau Reports 1.287,778 Families Are Aided Monthly. By l nited, Prefix WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. —An average of 1,287,778 families a month received unemployment relief from private and public organizations during the first three months of the year, the census bureau reported today. The private organizations spent $75,492,789 in affording this aid for the three months. The data was compiled from reports from 11,525 cities and towns representing 90 per cent of the total United States population. The survey was undertaken in cooperation w'ith the children’s bureau and the Russell Sage foundation. BLO WATT HE RM IS DUE Ellis to Seek Dismissal of Insull Interests’ Petition. Motion to dismissa plea of Insull interests to retain the therm system of gas measurement in northern Indiana cities will be introduced by Commissioner Howell Ellis at a hearing this afternoon before the public service commission. The commission recently ordered retention of the cubic foot measuring system. Spurned Laborite Premier Quits By Untied Prtn* MELBOURNE, Australia. Dec. 21. —James Scullin, Australia’s Laborite premier, resigned today after the defeat of his party in Saturday’s election and advised the governorgeneral to accept Joseph Lyons, leader of the victorious United party, to form & new government.

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NEW JAPANESEi DRIVE STARTED IN MANCHURIA Three Battles Expected in Smash to Clear Land of Chinese. CHINCHOW TO BE GOAL 1 Plane Squadron Leaves With Infantry. Supported by Artillery and Tanks. BY D. C. BESS United Press Staff Correspondent MUKDEN. Manchuria, Dec. 21— Japan's “anti-bandit” campaign began in Manchuria today as a prelude to a southward drive toward Chinchow. A battle was expected between one Japanese battalion and 7,000 Chinese irregulars. Military headquarters here exI pressed the hope that Marshal j Chang Hsueh-Liang's Chinchow | army would evacuate when it became apparent that Japan meant jto clear Manchuria of Chinese 1 forces. The Japanese were prepared : t.o use force if necessary, soon after i the present campaign against irregular bands. ! Brilliant sunshine aided tha 'Japanese attack from the air. Airplanes left here, ostensibly for the north, throughout the day. The : aerial attack was expected to be the J chief Japanese weapon. Carry Full Equipment I General Shigeru Honjo sent the first, infantry battalion of railway guards north with full equipment, including tanks, machine guns, field guns and airplanes. Headquarters said the troops would begin the preliminary drive intended to clear 20.000 Chinese irregulars and bandits threatening the South Manchuria railway zone. A battle w'as expected today between Tiehling and Fakumen, where headquarters said 7,000 irregulars were gathered. A single Japanese ; battalion was considered suffice to I disperse them. Three Battles Expected Careful preparations were made : for the campaign to eliminate three large concentrations of irregulars before starting a drive toward ChinI chow'. ! Today's battle w'as expected to j be the first of three, j The second probably will come ! around Chenchiatun, where, accordj ing to headquarters, 4,000 irregular* are threatening the Japanese posi- : tions. The third was expected to be i southwest of Mukden, in the Liao ! river district, near Chinchow', where i headquarters stated 3,000 irregulars | and bandits w r ere concentrated. Stimson Is Silent Bn United Pres* WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Secrej tary of State Stimson maintained silence today in the face of all questions about the Japanese advanres from Mukden. He explained he had no official information about [ the military movement and wpuld not indulge in what he called advance speculation. OVERLAND BOOSTS PAY Grants 10 Per Cent Increase to Workers Under SIOO a Month. | By l nitrd Pres* i TOLEDO. Dec. 21. —Approximately i 1,000 workers of the Willys Overland Company today were firm believers in a Santa Claus. They were planning a happy Christmas because of a 10 per cent wags increase granted all employe* receiving less than SIOO a month, retroactive to Dec. 15. The Willys Overland Company several days ago reported the largest deliveries in a single day in two j years. FILIPINOS MUST WAIT Hurley’s Report Will Set No Date for Island’s Independence. : By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 21—Seer eI tary of War Patrick J. Hurley indicated today that his report on Philippine independence, would up- * hold promises ot political freedom made by the United States, but I would set no definite date for ' American withdrawal from the i islands. Hurley said he w'as approaching the subject with the best interest of the Filipinos at heart. Auction Bavarian Jewels By United Pres* LONDON, Dec. 21.—The Bavarian crown jewels were auctioned at Christie's today, bringing 39,300 pounds '5190,998) at par.

Wrecked; Kills By United Press STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 21. —A passenger injured when an automobile struck a pole, shot and killed the driver Sunday night, according to police today. Climbing out of the wrecked car, Giuseppe De Andrea, 53, drew a revolver and without a word shot Anthony De Francisco, 35, according to the story police said Ralph Costelli another passenger, told them. De Andrea then calmly called a taxicab and rode to a doctor's office. The doctor ordered him to a hospital. Police overtook him there. In the meantime, De Francisco died. Police arrested De Andrea, who was to be operated upon today.

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