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MUNCIE BLOND HELD AS HEAD OF BANK GANG Former Carnival Trouper Called Brains of State Bandit Band. SHERIFF DENIES GUILT Net Rapidly Closing About Pair Now in Jail, Says Bureau Sleuth. BY ARCH EDDY United Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 30.—A middle-aged blond, former carnival trouper, and a sheriff who, if charges are true, was traitor to his oath of duty, today were accused as plotters to put bank robbery on a business basis. In jail were Sheriff Ira Barton, 42, of Blackford county, whose term of office ends Thursday, and Mrs. Hazel E. Green, 42, Muncie, both charged with conspiracy and accessory before the fact in a series of Indiana bank raids. Chief Investigator Charles Bolte of the state criminal bureau faced the prisoners with a rapidly growing mass of circumstantial evidence substantiating, he said, confessions by captured members of the gang. ‘‘This woman is the brains behind one of the most active bank robbery gangs that ever operated in the midwest,” Bolte said. Prisoners Make Charges The revelation of the plot came when Lorenz Capetelli and Frank Valentino, captured by a posse Christmas eve after the robbery of the Dunkirk, Ind., bank, charged Barton double-crosed them. Valentino and Albert Erabetta, a companion, pleaded guilty to robbing the bank and have been sentenced to twenty-year prison terms. Capetelli at his wife’s plea, said he was not guilty. Mrs. Gfeen, whom ploice said they had suspected in several previous robberies, was described by Bolte as having influenced the sheriff to join in the gang operations. Bolte said the gang was promised aid in obtaining layouts of Blackford county banks and that police officers were hired from their pests to make the raids easier. ~ Wife Pleads for Troth Police of Hartford City, Mt. Summit, and Montpelier, where banks were raided, corroborated this phase of the bandits’ confession. The bandits said they had also arranged that if they were jailed in Blackford county their escape would be arranged “within a few hours.” Barton, who was a well-to-do farmer until he won election as a peace maintained silence when accused of the plot, except for an occasional burst of weeping. He sobbed when his wife, whom he married only a few weeks ago, after being divorced Sept 22, pleaded with him" to tell her the truth regarding the charges. Capetelli and Valentino told authorities the gang had met several times in Muncie at Mrs. Green’s apartment, which was used as a rendezvous and hideaway from which the raiding operations were directed. Blackford county residents said the sheriff had been an industrious official, but not overly popular. In recent months he had been, they said, something of a reformer, crusading against liquor law violators and other criminals Check Sheriff’s Bank Account Mrs. Green had visited at least one of the towns where a bank was raided with a traveling carnival. Police believed Mrs. Green Persuaded the sheriff to enter the plot with promises of considerable loot. The officer’s bank accounts and expenditures were being checked in an effort to learn if there had been any abnormal deposits or purchases in recent months. Mrs. Green, Bolte said, was known in the underworld at Muncie and was believed to have acted as a tipster for Muncie city officials. The officer declared she was found in the vicinity of the bandits on several of their raids and was believed to aided in preliminary work and in making getaways. The woman was not believed to be wealthy. Barton moved Monday from the jail, where he had lived during his term of office, to anew residence he just had built. GAMBLER, EX-SCHOOL SLEUTH PUT ON SPOT Found Dead in Chicago Park With Unlighted Cigar in Hand. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Abe Cooper, 42, gambler and former school board investigator, was slain today in a typical gangster “ride” in Franklin park, in the western limits of the city. Just a few minutes before the body was found, state highway patrolmen observed the sedan in which Cooper was believed slain pass them on the road. Three men were in the machine and the officers, Edward Krotz and George Edgren, believed they observed blood stains on the running board. Apparently Cooper had been slain as he was about to light a cigar. In one hand he held an unlighted cigar and In the other a box of matches. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 36 10 a. m 38 7a. m 36 Ha. m 39 Ba. m 37 12 (noon).. 41 9 a, m 38 1 p. m 41*

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 200

Woman Forgets Fear of Gun; Shots Rout 6 Negro Robbers

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Mrs. Myrtle Blickenstaff

U. S. AID URGED TO HALT FAMINE MARCH; INDIANA DRIVE ON ‘DOLE’ IS BARED

Optimistic Letters Being Solicited to Stave Off Federal Relief. Governor Harry G. Leslie's unemployment relief commission took on a pro-Hoover political tinge today, when it was revealed that optimistic letters are being solicited to combat any effort at national relief. A circular letter was sent out to county relief chairmen by Dr. John H. Hewitt, Leslie relief director, saying that reports are sought from them for the New Year. Last line of the letter of solicitation reads: "Confidentially, w*e want this information to combat the dole.” County relief chairmen are largely well-to-do persons who have not been dispossessed, and are not feeling the depression around the ’waistline'." ' Write ‘Sunshine’ Answers Their response was immediate. To them the so-called “dole” means what the national administration has sought to make it mean —any federal aid. Proponents of federal aid in local relief have jxiinted out that to extend it to the unemployed is not establishing a precedent, as federal money long has been drawn on to aid local schools, roads and t*he like. Early replies to the Hewitt canvass set out that “local relief is ample, “conditions as at least 90 per cent improved over last year,” “we always have poor people who won’t help themselves,” and such phrases. Scarecely any of the letters failed to carry the requested “no dole” reply. One Assails Progressives One chairman used capital letters to emphasize his point as follows : “W can get along without the dole and also without these ‘Sons of Wild Jackasses.” Senators La Follette and Costigan of that group been hearing testimony from expert, nonpolitical relief workers, showing how badly national work is needed in the presnt catastrophe. ‘SAFE AND SANE' EVE That’s Chief’s Order to 40 New Year’s Cops. Forty Indianapolis police will be assigned to make New Year’s eve celebration safe and sane, Chief Mike Morrissey anounced today. He said officers will be directed to prevent traffic mishaps and ordered to arrest all drunken drivers. Police also will keep a watchful eye on downtown celebrations. Federal authorities have not announced their plans to curb the flow of the New Year’s liquor. Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner will be helpless to aid outside the city limits during early hours Friday, when he loses seventeen deputies through a county council economy order. .

PENNY IS KING! IT BUYS ANY DISH IN CAFETERIA OPERATED BY PUBLISHER

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The penny took its place with coins of more imposing mintage today at the onecent restaurant, the first charitable enterprise sponsored by the Bemar MacFadden Foundation. In this cafeteria, the penny is king. One cent, converted into a food ticket, can be exchanged for any one of thirteen items. A reporter found that 5 cents produced an adequate breakfast of cracked wheat, with milk and brown sugar; whole wheat bread and butter, soaked prunes and raisin coffee. The menu embodies some of the health food principles of Bemarr MacFadden, publisher and physical culture advocate, who established the Foundation. On the opening day sore than 4,200 “meals” were

• * a • m Wife of Coal Company Owner Takes Revolver Instead of Money From Cash Drawer and Blazes Away at Holdup Men, Who Flee.

“nY jlminy, that’s a woman for you.” And thus, Mrs. Myrtle Blickenstaff was complimented by her husband today for “throwing a chill” into six Negro bandits. And at least two of the bandits can be grateful that Mrs. Bllckenstaff’s aim is not as steady as her temper. For Tuesday night, when she was alone in the offices of her husband’s coal company at Twenty-fifth street and the canal, she forgot all about her fear of guns and took several shots at her would-be robbers. “Why, it was only Tuesday morning when she told me to take that gun out of the office. She said she was afraid of it,” her husband said today.

AUTOPSY CASES ARE UNDER FIRE New Evidence Presented in Vehling Inquiry. BY DICK MILLER Grand jury spotlight today again was focused on alleged curiosity autopsies performed by Coroner Fred W. Vehling and his aids, as the investigation into Vehling’s administration neared an end. Witnesses, it was said, were called in the case of Andrew* Higdon, 515 North Noble street, who died at city hospital, Sept. 6, of liver ailment and complications. Higdon was in the hospital twen-ty-four days prior to his death and underwent an operation. Records show he died as a result of his illness, but the death was characterized as a “coroner’s case.” Records show the autopsy was made by Drs. Bennett Kraft and Harry Rabb, hospital internes, and deputy coroners apparently took no p?rt. Dr. Rabb signed the death certificate filed at the city health board and diagnosed causes of death as the same for which Higdon was treated. * An order has been issued at city hospital by Dr. Charles Myers, superintendent, prohibiting internes from w*orking with the coroner on autopsies. If autopsies are refused by relatives, internes are ordered to refrain from performing them under guise of coroner’s cases. The grand jury’s report of the probe will be made to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker not later than Monday. The jury can return bills of indictment and Impeachment, or both, or decide evidence does not warrant filing of charges. STUDENTS TO GET AID Illinois University Plans Loans to Prevent Withdrawals. By United Press URBANA, HI., Dec. 30.—University of Illinois officials set in motion today plans to provide financial relief to keep needy students in school. A permanent organization for recommending loans was formed by three relief committees of the university senate. The committees studied replies by 2,600 students to questionnaires. It was reported that most of them are in need. DAWES SAILS FOR U. S. Disarmament Chief to Confer with His Delegation. By United Press SOUTHAMPTON, England, Dec. 30.—Ambassador Charles G. Dawes sailed for the United States today aboard the liner Europa for conferences with members of the American delegation, which he will head at the Geneva disarmament conference.

dispensed, including two bowls of soup apiece to Count and Countess Ilya Tolstoy. Facilities for more than 5,000 meals were installed during the night. Food is dispensed in regular cafeteria fashion. Diners buy tickets at the cashier’s desk, under a framed pen and ink sketch of MacFadden, and proceed in single file along the wall to the steam tables. The customer names his dish and passes from the steam table to the bever-age-bread and butter department and finally the dessert stand. This morning about 100, mostly shabby, chilled men, formed little knots inside the newly whitewashed store awaiting the 9 o’clock opening. A sign in the window read: “Ladies invited,” but none was apparent, thought Countess Tolstoy has inspected the ~t>lace.

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‘‘But I wasn’t afraid, 1 was mad,” was Mrs. Blickenstaff’s rejoinder. Near closing time Tuesday night, two bandits entered the office, while four others renamed on the outside. Mrs. Blickenstaff was commanded to “get that money.” “I remembered the gun in the cash drawer, so I decided I’d show ’em. I got the key to the cash drawer, opened it, and took out the gun. Then I fired,” she recounted. The two bandits in the office fled pell-mell, and were joined in their flight by four waiting companions. “I was so excited I don’t: know whether I hit one of them or not. He was only ten feet away when I shot,” she said.

America Is Facing Specter of Starvation, A. F. of L. Witness Declares. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Edward F. McGrady of the American Federation of Labor, today told the senate relief committee that American wage and salary earners had lost $18,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000 in 1931. “The specter of starvation is drawing nearer all the time,” he said. McGrady said that if states and committees are unable to provide unemployment relief, the A. F. of L. wants liberal federal appropriation, “so human lives may be saved and hunger, misery and want alleviated.” . He estimated the totally unemployed numbered 7,500,000, and that 6,000,000 men are working one to three days a. week. He urged upon the committee relief for miners in Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, asserting that mining sections of Pennsylvania alone will require $15,000,000 this winter. The estimate of wage and salary losses in 1931 was reached on a basis of comparison with 1929 levels. McGrady said that bank deposits of all institutions which closed in the year ended Sept. 30, 1931, aggregated only $1,500,000,000. Business failures reported for that period amounted to $750,000,000, less than one-twentieth of the combined wage and salary loss of American workers. The entire American foreign trade (Turn to Page 2) MURRAY IS IN RAGE ‘Alfalfa Bill’ Will Have Support of Home Democrats. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 30.—Governor William H. Murray was definitely before the country today as a candidate for President, with an indirect pledge of support from the state executive committee of the Democratic party. “Whether you like him or not, he is your Governor and deserves your support,” National Committeeman Scott Ferris said. The sentiment was unanimous. And as a result of the committ >e’s voting, it is considered certain by most party leaders that “Alfalfa Bill” will go to the Democratic national convention with the Oklahoma delegation’s pledged support. TYRONE POWER DIES Famed English Actor Is Stricken Suddenly. By United " J ress HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 30. Tyrone Power, member of a famous English stage family and for more than forty-five years prominent as a dramatic actor, died suddenly at the Hollywood Athletic Club today. Power ‘ retired early Tuesday night apparently in excellent health. Early today, he arose and complained to his son, Tyrone Jr., that he was suffering intense pain. It was believed heart disease was the cause of death. DELAY 0. K. ON STREET Works Board to Inspect Alleged East Michigan Defect. Final approval of assessments on widening and resurfacing of East Michigan street, from Highland avenue to State street, was postponed today by the works’ board. The board will act on the matter Monday, after inspecting r retaining wall on the route, which property owners complain is cracking. Confirmation of assessments for construction of a sidewalk on the north side of Sixteenth street, from Delaware to Illinois streets, was given by the board. .Cost of the walk was $1,067.92.

GARNER FLAYS AIDS, ORDERS TAXJLENCE Rainey and Collier Told to Quit Making Statements on Party Program. MILLS ALSO TARGET Treasury Assistant Is Only Talking Through Hat, Says Speaker. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—John Nance Garner, Speaker of the House, today sharply rebuked two of his leaders concerned with tax legislation for issuing statements interpreted in some quarters as outlining a Democratic tax program. He advised the two—Democratic Floor Leader Henry T. Rainey, Illinois, and Chairman James W. Collier of the ways and means committee—to remain silent until a tax program is formulated. He then turned upon Undersecretary of Treasury Ogden L. Mills with sharp criticism for taking their statements as the occasion for an attack on Democratic tax policy. “Mr. Mills set lip a straw man, as he does frequently, and then knocked it down,” the Speaker said, referring to the undersecretary’s statement. Turns Fire on Mills “Ogden Mills is talking through his hat. If he knows what the Democratic tax program is, then I wish he’d tell me. If anybody knows what the Democratic tax program is, I’d like to have him tell me about it. “Mr. Mills fixed up his own case, then fixed one up for the other side, and then attacked the Democrats.” Mills attacked particularly the Democratic proposal to levy high taxes upon the wealthy, describing it as “soaking the rich.” Rainey’s expression of his own views were erroneously interpreted by some newspapers as the outline of a Democratic tax program. Garner lectured Rainey and Collier at a two-hour-and-a-half session in the Speaker’s office today. He did most of the talking. When the two leaders came out, Collier remarked, with a smile, hat he “would not have another tax program in the next twenty-four hours.” Program Not Ready Garner said afterward that when the Democratic tax program was ready it would be announced publicly. That will not be right away, lie indicated. The joint policy committee of senate and house leaders, he explained, would formulate the general outlines to be worked out by Democrats on the ways and means committee. “Any Democrat can speak out about what he thinks, but what I object to is this expression of opinion being labeled a party program,” Garner said. He said he had determined upon a policy of silence upon the Democratic legislative program until it had been formulated. RAISE QUOTA OF DEBT Local Democrats Contribute 53,000 to National Committee. Indications that success has crowned efforts of the Marion county Democratic organization to raise its quota of $3,000 of the national committee debt incurred in 1928, were received today at a luncheon in the Washington hotel. Thomas D. Taggart, national committeeman from Indiana, and county and city executives were present to turn in their reports on the Victory Fund drive. Quota for Indiana was fixed at $25,000 by the. national committee. CURTIS IS OPTIMISTIC Vice-President Sees Prosperity by Middle of 1932. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. —VicePresident Curtis hopes the coming year will be known as “1932 A. D.— after depression.” Discussing the business situation, Curtis said industrial activity has been picking up slowly. He predicted that the country would be on the way to prosperity by the middle of 1932. “My New Year's wish is that we will look back upon 1932 as the period after the depression,” he said. •MUSCLEING INMCHARGED Merchant Ceps Face Trial in Fight Over East Side Territory. Charges by each of two merchant pclicemen that the other was trying to “muscle in” on his east side territory, are to be aired in municipal court, Jan. 5. Edward Pruitt, 3505 East North street, and Alonzo Gates, 4407 East Michigan street, merchant officers, will be tried before Judge Clifton R. Comeron on assault and battery charges.

1932 Model By United press NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—F10 Ziegfeld, who “glorifies” the American girl for his Follies at about this time every year, has issued specifications . for the 1932 model, thus: Blonde. Weight, 118 pounds. Heights, 5 feet, 6 inches. Fuller curves than last year. Less streamlined.

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BOMB EXPLODES IN POSTOFFIGE

One Man Killed, Another Is Dying; Seek Strangers.

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EASTON, Pa., Dec. 30.—A bomb intended for shipment to New York City, exploded in the postoffice today, killing one man and injuring several others. The bomb was one of five packages, each addressed to a prominent Italian-American in New York City, left at the postoffice by two men shortly before the explosion. They were left at the parcel post window for mailing. Edward Werkheiser was injured fatally, and John House, postal clerk, was taken to a hospital. Both his arms had been blown off and doctors said he had little chance of recovering. At least three others were Injured as the bomb shattered windows and partitions in the postoffice building. Employes said two men withdrew five packages from a carton and had them stamped for parcel post to New York. Asa clerk was handling one, it exploded. The four other packages contained explosives, the postal workers said. During the confusion the two men who had presented the packages for posting had disappeared. Generoso Pope, personal friend of Mayor James J. Walker and owner of the II Progresso, Italian language newspaper, was one of the intended victims.

EINSTEIN ARRIVES Scientist to Spend Winter of Research in West. By United Press PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 30.—Dr. Albert Einstein, foremost scientist of the world, arrived today from Germany to seek in collaboration with others a mathematical equation to explain diverse conceptions of the universe. His ship, the Portland, of the Hamburg-Ameriean line, docked last night. Dr. Einstein was unable to leave until after quarantine inspection at 7 this morning. Without the fanfare or acclaim which interrupted his work here early this year, he will be escorted with Mrs Einstein to Pasadena, where they will live until spring. Work will be his only object. California Institute of Technology and Mt. Wilson observatory scientists will co-operate with Dr. Einstein, whose equations on relativity, concepts of the universe and curvature of space and time have startled the scientific world. VETERANTe~PORTER‘ DIES Richard Onlahan Dean of Capital News Correspondents. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Richard V. Oulahan, chief of the New York Times’ Washington bureau for many years and dean of the Washington correspondents corps, died here today of pneumonia.

THEY ‘HAD TO HAVE CAR’ ON sl6 A WEEK; MAN IS HELD AS LAZY HUSBAND

The Pattens had to have an automobile, and now Hanely Patten, 528 North Elder avenue, is under suspended sentence for being a lazy husband. His wife Lena and their three children were the complainants before Wilbur Royse, special municipal judge. “He always was harping about getting an auto,” she told the court. “He got it. all right, by using $25 of my Insurance money. Then he left home Christmas eve and hasn’t dQne anything for us at all.” But Patten had something to say about the car atMfchis reputed laziness.

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EE! You get a break here. No kissing! No hugging! They handle you like you’re a real he-man. “Sure, it’s tough on mom and pop when they come to see me, but they’ll learn. They’ll learn their babes are really grownups and don’t like to always be mugged and petted.” And it’s in this manner that Jackie Lee Pass, 9 months old, would talk if his coos over the bottle of milk handed him by Miss Gladys Kerby, city hospital nurse, were translated. The hospital prohibits nurses in wards for babes resorting to the politician’s salaam. And what’s sauce for goose ie sauce for gander, for mothers and fathers, too, are barred love smacks. “In fact,” explains Miss Kerby, “parents are not permitted to pick up children in cribs when they come on visiting day.” tt u EVERY precaution is taken by the hospital to prevent transmission of contagious diseases. An ailing nurse means a nonworking nurse as far as children in the nursery are concerned. Rubber gloves, sterilized gowns, are other attributes to the bodily welfare of the city hospital babes. “It’s tough sometimes when a cute youngster is placed in the ward. You 1 should have seen the little girl w*e had last week—but —rules are rules,” Miss Kerby adds. The ban on kissing cramps the style of the nurses as much as the parents. “You se§, after you’ve mothered one through a long siege of illness, by instinct it’s pretty hard not to express yourself outwardly,” another nurse says. And if grandma and grandpa don’t like this embargo on kissing they can’t do much about it—until—Jackie and Susie get back in their own bailiwick. HOOVER RECEIVES GIFT Premier Laval Sends Yule Parcel, Contents Remain Secret. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—President Hoover has a Christmas gift from his recent visitor, Premier Laval of France, but what it is remains a mystery. The gift was brought to the state department Tuesday by secretary of the French embassy. Both French and American officials professed not to know what the gift package contained, although one hazarded the guess: “It might be a clock.”

“Your honor, she wanted the car just as bad I did,” he said. “She always v' nts to go some place. The reason x < :ft home was becuase she fusses with me until about 1 every morning.” Patten said he was a packing house laborer, making sl4 to sl6 weekly. His ninety-day sentence and SSO fine were suspended, provided he pays $lO weekly from his pay check for the upkeep of his wife and children. “Keep up the upkeep, too,” Royse warned. “If you don’t, tfcere are ninety days waiting for you/'

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LAST CHINESE ARMY IS OUT OF MANCHURIA Occupation of Country Is Complete, With Invaders Near Chinchow. CHANG’S RULE AT END War Lord Leads His Troops Back of Great Wall to Avoid Conflict. By United Press TOKIO. Dec. 30.—Japanese troops and airplanes engaged in heavy fighting and captured two cities today as they advanced across a desolated country* toward Chinchow*, deserted by the Chinese as their last stronghold In Manchuria. Hundreds of Chinese casualties, most of them in the ranks of irregulars, were reported to have occurred in a hand-to-hand engagement which preceded the Japanese capture of Jaoyingho. The Nippon forces, accompanied by armored trains, automobiles and motorcycles, as well as bombing planes, continued toward Chinthow and at 3 p. m., captured the town of Tahushan. Chinese soldiers burned railway bridges as they crossed in retreat, impeding the progress of Japanese pursuers. Chang’s Rule at End BY D. C. BESS _JLl r i'V^ T^ re ®s, s . taff Carre*Dondent PEIPING, China, Dec. 30.—Remnants of the once powerful war machine of Marshal Chang HseuhLiang retired today from Chinchow, gateway to Manchuria, and left Manchuria in the hands of the Japanese. The retreat to the Great Wall meant the end of Chang’s influence in the country he once dominated. It marked the achievement of tw*o principal Japanese objectives—elimination of Chang's power and retreat of the last organized Chinese army from Manchuria, a country* half again as large as Texas. The long-expected battle betw*een Japanese and Chinese at Chinchow was avoided presumably because Chang realised the hopelessness of facing a superior Japanese force. Civilian Government Remains Chang announced that he had ordered the evacuation because he did not “desire to afford the Japa- ' nese the pretext for further aggres- ; sion in north China.” \ Chang also announced that the ; civilian government and the normal garrison stationed at Chinchow j under ordinary circumstances would i remain there. The foreign observers, including diplomatic and military representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France and other nations also will remain. Destination of his retreating troops, seme 25,000 men, from the Chinchow area, was Shanghaikwan, on the border of the Great Wall. The retreat meant these 25,000 would be scattered throughout north China, adding to possibility of rioting at Tientsin and other cities which have suffered before from the entry of the hordes commanded by Manchurian w*ar lords. Japanese Gain Goal Chang’s troops, who had waited at Chinghow for weeks expecting a Japanese attack, which they eventually retreated to avoid, took their new orders with the stoicism of the paid oriental soldier. Competent military authorities here believed that the men would display the same loyalty to Chang that they showed when he was supreme In Manchuria and after his power and his personal fortune were toppled over by the Japanese. The Japanese were determined that the power of this young overlord, son of the famous Chang TsoLin and one of the most picturesque figures inf China’s everchanging military and political revue, must be broken. They finally gained their goal. U. S. Opposes Course By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—United States opposition to Japan's course in Manchuria will continue, despite the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Chinchow*, last Chinese stronghold. What course the Unite! States may take beyond passive disapproval is conjectural, now that Japan has extended its sway throughout southern Manchuria, and Secretary of State Stimson refuses to answer questions. Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang’s evacuation order is viewed here as completing the Japanese occupation. Thus the state department and the League of Nations are confronted with accomplishment of what they strove for three months to prevent. One official, however, pointed with pride to the fact that there had been no formal warfare. SEEK AIRMAFIiTvaIN Search for- Army Flier Will Be Abandoned After 24 Honrs. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—Unfavorable flying conditions have hindered the search for Lieutenant E. H. Bobbitt Jr., missing army flier, and officais here, despairing of finding the aviator alive, said today the rescue effort would be abandoned in another twenty-four hours, 'f not successful by then. • Four army planes left Bolling field today to co-operate with eleven planes from Hot Springs, Va„ in searching over the mountainous territory of West Virginia, where Bobbitt is believed to have crashed Christmas eve on a flight from Selfridge field, Michigan.

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