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PLEA VOICED BY BAKER FOR FREEPRESS Issue Is Fought Out Before Kentucky Court of Appeals. RULING IS PROTESTED Noted Attorney Questions Right of Jurist to Bar Newspaper Men. BY JAMES I\ KIRBY Timn Staff Cnrret>onrirnt FRANKFORT, Ky.. Jan. 7.—The issue of freedom of the press in the United States is at, stake here. In an address before the court of appeals of Kentucky, Newton D. ! Baker, former secretary of war, , Thursdav pleaded the cause of the j Knoxville News-Sentinel, a ScrippsHoward newspaper, against the. edict of Judge Henry R. Prewitt of Montgomery circuit court, which barred reporters for that newspaper from his court room. A decision may be handed down today. Before an audience that filled every corner of the chamber of the highest court in the state, and which included Governor Ruby Laffoon, Mr. Baker protested the right of the judge to inflict vicarious punishment upon a reporter because of ! an editorial carried by his newspaper. Safeguard of Liberty “The publication of news, the publicity of trials are among the great safeguards of liberty in a free country,” Baker declared. "If what Judge Prewitt has done in this case ! can be done and allowed to stand, then it is within his discretion to exclude any representative of any newspaper and all representatives of all newspapers." He characterized the editorial as a ‘‘temperate, philosophical, and just statement, wdiich well might have, been made by this or any other court of final jurisdiction with due. regard to the general philosophy and dignity of the judicial proceedings. "When the last word is said," he said, "from the time of the Declaration of Independence to now, the great safeguard of the people of the j United States is an informed public opinion, molded by a vigorous and alert press." Danger Pointed Out •If there be an opinion here which concedes to any judge the j right to play favoritism among the ( audience, to decide whether he will j let John stay in or keep James out. \ if that be an implied power of any judicial officer presiding at any ; trial, then it is not at all difficult to conceive tempestuous times in which the public will be excluded from the trial except where it may sympathize with the proceedings, and the great corrective of public opinion will be withdrawn.” The appeal on behalf of the freedom of the press and free, speech evolved out of Kentucky's bitter economic warfare that has centered the eyes of the nation upon the unhappy conditions in the coal fields of the Blue Grass State. It has as its background the turmoil in that, industry, the feuds between capital and labor, the bloodshed in the struggle of the miners for an existence. Out of Harlan county, w'here Theodore Dreiser recently was indicted as the result of his bitter | strictures upon conditions he found there, came the principals in the j murder trial for commenting upon , which the News-Sentinel was barred from Judge Prewitt's court room. Flag Pica Made The commonwealth attorney who prosecuted the mine death case, W. C. Hamilton, in his final plea to the jury, urged the jurors "not i,o let the American flag surrender to the red flag.” The News-Sentinel commented editorially upon the prosecutor’s impassioned plea to the jury: “So long as our courts permit themselves to be a stage for the tirades of political and social prejudice, they will not obtain the full confidence of those who believe in evenhanded justice.” It, was to these statements that Judge Prewitt objected. The reporter who had rovered the trial. John Moutoux, was barred from the court room and later cited for eontempt. Later Judge Prewitt withdrew the contempt citation. Another reporter for the paper. Jack Bryan, who had no connection with the trials, was sent to cover the next trial, that of William Nightower. president ot the miners’ local, on the same charge. Bryan likewise was barred by Judge Prewitt. Asks Writ of Prohibition The newspaper appealed for a writ of prohibition from the highest court of appeals, and it was this Baker argued Thursday. In his father's defense, Attorney Allen Prewitt charged that the editorial was designed to coerce and embarrass the judge in his decision on Jones' motion for anew trial and on future trials growing out of the same case. Challenging the jurisdiction of the higher court to review his father's act, he suggested that impeachment by the legislature was the remedy, if he had erred. Two Die for Murder P<J 1 ll'' I"** OSSINING, N Y.. Jan. 8.-Joseph Caricari, 27. and Alfonso Carrato. 41, were put to death here Thursday night for the murder of Giovanni Volpe in Laiyhmont a year ago.

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VOLUME 43 NUMBER 208

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Convalescing from a recent operation. Pola Negri, worldfamous film star, is shown here, right, with her nurse, Edith Anderson. leaving the hospital at Santa Monica, Cal. BRANDS TARIFF BILL ‘GESTURE Purnell Opens G. 0. P. Fight on Democratic Measure. Ilii I niled Ores* WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. The house began work on the Democratic tariff bill today under an accusation from Republican ranks that their measure is “merely an empty gesture" dictated by political expediency. Opening debate against the bill, Representative Fred S. Purnell 'Rep.. Ind.) declared the house “ought not to make a gesture nor play politics with a groat national emergency." If Democrats really believe the tarifl is a party to the depression, then they should specify certain rates and change them, he said. The measure specifies no changes in rates. It asks President Hoover to call an international tariff conference and strips the chief executive of iris power to raise or lower tariff rates 50 per cent upon recommendation of the tariff commission. It also provides a "consumer's counsel” to represent the public before the tariff commission. Replying to Purnell, Representative William B. Bankhead (Dem., Ala.), said Republicans knew the Democratic party could not secure enactment of a bill for revision of tariff rates. “This is the only gesture our party can make at this time,” Bankhead said, adding that President Hoover and the Republican senate are opposed to any revision. A test vote showed 214 supporting the measure and 174 against it, in the roll call on adoption of a rule for consideration of the bill, when Republicans sought, to kill the measure at (he outset by defeating the rule. BODIES SENT HOME Husbands Prepare Funerals for Women Fliers. Ry l vitert Press HARRISBURG. Pa.. Jan. B.—The broken bodies of Mrs. Ruth Stewart and Mrs. Debie Stanford, society matrons, killed in an airplane crash fifty miles from here, were to be sent home today. Alcee Stewart, wealthy St. Louis lumber manufacturer, claimed his wife's body. W. L. Stanford. Camden, N. Y., a rural village fifty miles north of Syracuse, was driving here today to take his wife’s body back to Camden. Fate of the two women who started out from St. Louis ten days ago on a pleasure trip to Buenos i Aires, via New York and Havana, i was discovered by Paul Comly French, a United Press staff correspondent on the peak of the mountain.

TARZAN took up again the trail of Pan-at-lee. He followed it down the stone pegs to the nearest cave, and then further along the upper tier. The ape-man raised his eyebrows when he saw' the direction in which it led. and quickened his pace. He almost had reached the third cave when the echoes of Kor-ul-gryf were awakened by a shrill scream of terror. It was . . Another thrilling incident in the new Tarzan picture story TARZAN THE TERpiBLE by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Begin ning Monday, Jan. 11, IN THE TIMES

GIFFORD HUS PLAN FOR U. S. ; AID TO NEEDY Local Relief Sufficient This Winter, Is Belief of Hoover’s Aid. ■ ■ SHIES AT $5 BUDGET Job Director Admits That Sum Not Sufficient for Family’s Weekly Need. Ry I nitrii Press WASHINGTON Jan. 8.-Walter S. Gifford, director of President Hoover's organization for unemployment relief, argued against federal appropriations for the destitute, in testimony today before the senate committee considering unemployment relief bills. “It wouffi seem that the combined efforts of communities, counties, and states can take care of the situation this winter,” he said. During the lengthy hearings thus far, the preponderance of evidence has been in favor of federal aid. Representatives of many organiza- j tions and communities have as-; serted that adequate relief could not be provided unless the government took a hand. Gifford, however, stood firmly behind the administration attitude that each community should care i for its own cases of suffering and distress. Cites “Some” Hardships “A check of the unemployment relief situation by states, which J. just have made, emphasizes again the existence in some parts of the country of great hardships resulting from unemployment,” Gifford told the La-Follette-Costigan committee. “At the same time it indicates that, subject to action by legislatures in possibly four or five in- ! stances, each state will care, for its own who must have help this win- ; ter. "While the istuation varies in dis--1 ferent localities, local governments as a whole always probably have made the largest money contribution. The private agencies cooperating with them have, in general, taken care of problems which the governmental agencies operating with a certain rigidity under statutes can not handle so well.” Sees U. S. Aid as Harmful Gifford said that federal appro- j priations would lessen community and state responsibility and tend to i diminish “the sincere and wholehearted efforts of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers engaged both in raising and administering relief funds.” “Individuals would tend to withdraw much of the invisible aid they now are giving; private funds raised by popular subscription would become less; efforts to spread work and to provide work that would not be done except for the emergency would be lessened; business organidations would tend to do less for | former employes. "Communities, counties and states I j undoubtedly would appropriate less j public money. The net result well might be that the unemployed who) are in need would be worse, instead of. better off." Shies at S5 Budget Senator La Follette Rep.. Wis.) cited testimony of Allen Burns of the Association of Community Chests and Councils, who said that j in cities like Philadelphia, Cleve-" land and Pittsburgh “we are i appalled and wondering how they j ; are going to get. funds to get ! through.” i “My information is that, they can get through.” Gifford said. "Do you think that a family of two adults and two children could get through on $5 a week, as they do in Philadelphia?’’ La Follette ! asked. „ Gifford said he thought that was : rather low. “Would you like to try that for ■ your own family?” La Follette asked. "No.” Gifford replied. | FEAR SCHOOLS FAILURE State Board Says Parochial Students May Be Charges. Members of the Indiana board of education today notified Indian- | apolis public school officials they i must take over operation of pai rochial schools in event of their financial failure. , | The resolution was passed after a parochial school at Loogootee failed and the town had to continue education of 310 pupils The state is responsible for pu oils’ education after a school failure under the state law George C. Cole, state instruction superintendent, said he feared other parochial schools will collapse. He said the warning was issued in view of the overcrowded and poor financial conditions of all In- ! diana public schools. FIGHT LAWYERTTaRREST Attorney in Kentucky to Defend Miners Is Jailed. Ry United- Press NEW YORK. Jan. B.—A protest | against the arrest of Allan Taub, ’ New York attorney, has been made to Governor Laffocn of Kentucky by the International Juridicial Association here. Taub was sent to Pineville, Ky., Tuesday the international labor defense to obtain release on bail for nine labor-press, relief defense and miners’ union representatives who were arrested when deputies raided the miners’ union office there. Charges of criminal syndicalism and uniawfuljronspiracy were lodged against Taub.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932

Out-Foxed

E.y Science Serrice MKINLEY PARK, Alaska, Jan. B.—When the mess gong rings at Toklat construction camp in Mount McKinley national park, six foxes appear regularly at the mess hall with men of the construction gang, demanding a handout. Two of them are red foxes and four are of the cross species. The cook at the camp reported to Park Superintendent Liek that, although she shows no partiality in feeding these self-invited guests, there are times when one inadvertently will get a larger portion ot meat than the others, and right away a fight starts. When this happens she is compelled to leave the cook house and let the foxes turn it into an arena for a short time. She further states that she is thinking seriously of submitting a bill against the National park service for services performed in boarding six of its w'ild animal wards.

MINERS SCORE IN DEATH TRIAL Officers Shot First, Says ’Ambush’ Witness. Ry United Press MT. STERLINGS Kv., Jan. B. The first shots in the “ambush” gun fight between Harlan county deputy sheriffs and striking miners at Evarts, May 5, came from the automobile occupied by the officers, J. W. Freeman, non-union miner, testified today in the murder conspiracy trial of William Hightower, Evarts mine union local president. Freeman denied that Hightower or any other officer of the local tried to arouse strikers to violence. Freeman, who said he was a “nonunion coal digger,” testified that W. B. Jones, union secretary, sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge similar to that against Hightower, "never had made threats while I heard him speak.” Defense counsel sought, to show through questioning that miners were not incited to violence in the ambush of deputies last spring in the Harlan strike area, the basis of the trials here. Freeman was asked: “Did Carl Williams <9. miner) draw a pistol and ask 100 men to go to Black mountain and kill Jim Daniels (deputy slain) adding that he had served in the World war and had seen men falling all around him?” “No such statement was made,” Freeman replied. GIVEN MOONEY DATA Senate Finally Gets Report of Wickersham Probe. By l nit cd Pres a WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. The Mooney-Billings report for which the Wickersham commission denied responsibility, was submitted to the senate today in response to a resolution offered by Senators Costigan 'Dem.. Colo.). Walsh (Dem., Mont.) and Cutting (Rep., N. M.) Walsh and Costigan refused to permit the findings of Wickersham commission experts to be made public immediately, but. it was believed the report eventually would be printed in some form. ‘ARMY’ LEAVES CAPITAL Priest Leads Jobless Homeward After Vigorous Relief Plea, By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—“ Cox’s army” of 10,000 unemployed were on their way back to Pennsylvania today after an impressive demonstration in the national capital. The jobless caravan moved out of Washington by truck and bus as it came—orderly and singing patriotic songs. The "army” was led by Father James Cox of Pittsburgh, a Catholic priest, who presented to congress and to President Hoover a petitefn asking extensive and immediate unemployment relief. DAISY DE VOE IS FREED Clara Bows Fx-Serretary Appeals Fur Coal Theft Conviction. B y I nit erf Press LOS ANGELES Jan. B.—Daisy De " r oe. sentenced to eighteen months in the county jail on conviction of stealing a fur coat from Clara Bow, actress who employed her as secretary, was free on $2,500 bail today. Her release was granted by the district court of appeal pending decision on an appeal of her grand theft conviction.

THOUSANDS NEED FOOD IN FLOOD-SWEPT REGION

By United Press SUMNER. Miss., Jan. B.—An appeal lor United States troops to patrol the crumbling levee sector in the flooded Tallahatchie river valley was sent to the war department today by citizens of Glendora, one ol the hardest hit of the dozen towns in the inundated area. Appeals for food, clothing and j shelter have been broadcast for the 2.000 inhabitants of East Tallahatchie county, made homeless by a levee break Wedensday. A wall ce water 150 feet wide roared through the fissure, flooding 50.000 acres of farming land from three to eleven j feet deep. The break occurred on i the Sharkey plantation, eight miles from Glendora. Hundreds of of livestock were (Jrowned and property damage

‘GIVE US BEER,’ SENATE URGED BY EDUCATORS •It’s Harmless and Can Save Our Youth From Booze,’ Say Yale Experts. BACK 4 PER CENT TYPE Brew Is Aid to Social Life, High in Food Values, Professors Assert. By I titled I’ress WASHINGTON. Jan. B.—Two Yale professors went on record before a senate beer committee today as favoring the return of beer in an effort to save the country's youth from hard liquor. Dean Clarence W. Mendell, in a letter to the committee holding hearings on the 4 per cent beer bill of Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.), said beer developed team play by bringing people of divergent types together. Failing to get beer, he said, students turned to hard liquor. Previously, Profesor Yandell Henderson had said that "cutting off beer has had a bad effect upon college student life in promoting the drinking of the highly intoxicating forms of distilled spirits. Henderson, professor of applied physiology and expert on volatile poisons at Yale, estimated it would take “eight or ten quarts” of 4 per cent beer to cause what he would consider intoxication. Dean Mendell Writes Senator Bingham read the letter from Dean Mendell, who will |be unable to appear before the j committee. “There hardly can be any doubt,” : Mendell's letter read, “that, the effects of hard liquor on the boy’s constitution and especially on his outlook on life are bad. T believe that the effects of beer in such quantities as any normal boy would consume it are harmless. “It. is a, dangerous thing and a very ominous- thing for the future of the country to have its future living at the high tension at which boys today are living and trained, under a system which gives them unconsciously deep - seated contempt for law.” Henderson said it would be hard to change the present habit of hard liquor drinking, but urged that “we see that the oncoming generations are not forced to know and drink liquor by the kick in contains.” He Likes to See It He made clear his own preference j for beer with the remark, “I'd like to see good beer.” “Then,” he added. “I wouldn’t have to pour down my throiit some of the concocitions my friends offer and which I drink just to be polite.” Two Capitol policemen wandered into the hearing. They displayed interest in the proceedings, i Henderson characterized prohibition as “the worst experiment in design and execution that I ever have heard of.” i Henderson said alcohol has a sedative effect opposite to that of coffee j ‘ln my opinion, a man who needs ' a cup of coffee to wake him up In the morning and in the evening j after a. hard day’s work, needs some beer to quiet him down again,” he said. j Bishop Canon, prohibition leader who was in the audience, smiled amid the general laughter. Aid to Digestion Chairman Metcalf asked if diluted alcohol as in 4 per cent beer could be classed as a food and aid to digestion. “Yes, I should think it would,” replied Henderson. Bingham next called Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner of New York City. Norris “agreed emphatically” with Henderson. He said beer contained j many valuable nutritious solids, ! most of them derived from hops, | in addition to alcohol. "The advantage of beer, in my opinion.” he said, “is that it pro- ! vides us with a nutritious drink which is not indigestible. In reply to a question by Senator Bulkier, he said that beer less than j 2.75 per cent by weight would not sustain the nutritious solids. Hourly Temperatures fi a. m 32 10 a. m 38 7a. m 32 11 a. m 38 8 a. m 33 12 moon).. 30 i 9a. m 35 Ip. m 41

was increased by many thousands of dollars by this latest break. Refugee camps were taxed anew! as new hundreds of homeless trekked through the mud or were brought! by boats to makeshift shelters. Harrowing experiences were reported by relief workers, who appealed for more boats. Water was six to ten feet deep around many Negro cabins and residents were found clinging to rooftops or splashing on rafts as aid arrived. Four villages were abandoned today. Tippo. Macel. Vance and Gaynes. all settlements of a few i hundred persons. At Sumner, Glendora and Webb, the larger towns in this area, water was from three to ; four feet deep. Only a few homes on higher ground were occupied.

EXILE ‘DISCOVERED’

Leslie Finds Lad Is Not Hopeless

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John Tooley, 13, the “exiled” boy of Gibson county.

SIX months ago. John Tooley, j 13, of Princeton, was sen- ; fenced to the Indiana boys' school j at Plainfield by Circuit Judge Claude Smith of Gibson county for stealing tools worth $2 from a blacksmith. Six months ago Judge Smith issued his famous exile ruling, banishing the boy from Gibson county. The sentence to Plainfield followed when the boy disobeyed the exile edict by returning to his home to obtain clothing to leave the county. Six months ago Judge Smith declared that John was feebleminded, a "hopeless case." a a THE stir created by the case brought it to the attention of the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. Attaches said they would interest the Governor in the lad's plight. Newspaper stories appeared daily for a week telling of the banishment, with denials from officials of the Plainfield school that John was feeble-minded and that his former record at the school | was bad. The Governor took no personal action in the case. Today, six months later, John was declared not to be a “hopeless I case” by Governor Leslie. The Governor, making the first visit of his administration to the Plainfield school, asked O. H Negus, superintendent, about John. a a a THE bov was called in the Governor's presence, and they talked for the first time. The Governor said officials of thp school reported John had a good record. John, if he continues his resent,, record. will be eligible for parole -within a year's time. Trustees of the school say a good home, far from the court of Gibson county, will be found lor John if he makes good. STUDENT SHOOTS SELF Feared Capital-Labor Views Bar to His Success in Life. By United Press MANCHESTER, N. H.. Jan. B. Fear that he could not succeed in life because of his views on capital and labor was advanced today as a probable motive for the suicide of William Penn Montgomery IV of Washington, D. C., here Monday night. Instead of returning to Massachusetts Institute of Technology after the Christmas holidays, the j brilliant 20-year-old engineering j student came from Washington to j Hotel Essex and shot himself to death. He used a service revolver that belonged to his father, an army officer who died about a year ago. GOLF PARLEY CALLED City Municipal Links Group Heads to Confer Today. Conference between city park board officials and representatives of the Municipal Links Association ] was to be held at 4 today to dis- j cuss plans for operation of munici-j pal golf links this summer. The conference was to be attended by A. C. Sallee, parks su-, perintendent; A. G. Lockwood, golf superviser, and four rperesenta-; fives of the association—John Niblack, Harry Schorenstein. Jack Crawford and Christian Emhardt. PLANE WRECK HUNTED Goodyear Blimps Search in Everglades for Flier. j By United Pres* MIAMI, Fla., Jan. B.—Two Good - 1 year blimps were ordered out over Ithe Everglades swamps in search !of a wrecked plane sighted today j by a flier from Tampa about twenI ty-five miles from the Miami air- ; port. j Airport authorities believe the ; piane might be that of a flier named ! Rigney from Tajsfpa, who was rel ported to be cao&ing a passenger.

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DEATH CLAIMS J. W. FORONEY Ex-Congressman Famed for Tariff Bill, By United Press SAGINAW, Mich.. Jan. B.—Joseph w. Fordney. 78. who for twentyfour years w r as congressman from, the Eighth Michigan district, died at his home here today. He had been ill lor some time. Fordney retired from active participation in politics in 1923. He was most famed for his joint authorship of the famous Fordne.v-

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passed and fortune descended on him suddenly with the announcement, of his wealthy employer—Wilhelm Boeing—that henceforth they would be" partners. In 1388 he made his first, entry into politics, running successfully for alderman. Ten years later, the Republicans elected him to congress, and for the next twelve terms he represented the district. SNOW WARNING OUT Thermometer Scheduled to Drop to 25 Degrees. Snow' flurries again were posted on the Indianapolis weather bulletin today by forecasters. With the mercury in the 30s early today, temperatures are scheduled to slip to 25 tonight, under cloudy skies. Light snow is predicted in several sections of Indiana. Heavy frost, fog and smoke greeted Indianapolis this morning. Visibility was reduced to a half-mile during the early hours. DROP MURDER ’cHARGES Ohio Officials Satisfied With Two Youths’ Fire Death Alibi. R l/ t inted Press GALLIPOLIS. 0., Jan. B.—First dpgree murder charges against Albert, Ramer. 15, and Ellsworth Moyer, 17. in connection w-ith the deaths of James White and seven of his eight children, were dropped today. Sheriff Charles Swanson withdrew the warrant against the youths when they repudiated “confessions” that they set fire to White’s home. They offered • evidence that they had not been in Gallipolis last April 7, when the White home burned. STATE MAN IS INJURED Vincennes Resident Hurt in Car Mishap in New Y'ork. By United Pres* GOSHEN. N. Y., Jan. 8— Floyd Stoeltinge, 26, prominent Vincennes (Ind.) man. was reported recovering from injuries suffered in an automobile mishap near here Thursday night, at a local hospital today. In some unexplained manner. Stoeltinge fell out of a car that was being driven by Dwight W. Keyes. 24. also of Vincennes. He i was not seriously hurt. The men i were en route to New Yo City.

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U. S. INVOKES KELLOGG PACT TO AID CHINA Firm Declaration of Intent to Uphold Rights Is Sent to Tokio. DEFENDS -OPEN DOOR* Decisive Stand Is Taken td Protect Business of America in Orient. Rt United Press The Japanese cabinet resigned today after a bomb attempt had been made on the emperor. It is customary for cabinets to resign as a formality under such circumstances and a chance m government was not believed likely. The Stimson note regarding Japan's obligations was received in Tokio without concern and it was believed there a satisfactoryreply could be made. In Washington it was indicated that protests by American business firms against infringement of their interests in Manchuria and the far east largely had caused the Stimson note. The Chinese were understood to have decided on an appeal to the League of Nations for an international boycott of Japan, applying the penalties of Article XVI of the league covenant. The French indicated they would not follow the lead of ’he United States in sending a similar note to Japan. The Stimson note still was under consideration by the British. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. The Hoover administration has struck boldly to save American business in China from being strangled by Japanese occupation of Manchuria. In doing so, it. has come, to the defense of the. historic “open door” policy for China. It also seeks t<J protect the. territory and administrative authority of that vast, weak empire, and to throw around it the protection of the Kellogg anti-war pact. This is the mpamng of Secretary of State Stimson’s action in citing to Japan and China the Kellogg pact and some unidentified provisions of the nine-power Pacifir pact, warning that the United States will recognize no treaties or agreements infringing upon them. This action was taken by dispatch of an identical note to both powers Thursday, Takes Stand for Rights The note said, in substance: 1. The United States will not regard as legal any Japanese-Chinese treaty which destroys American treaty rights, either those relating to trade opportunities or those protecting Chinese sovereignty. - 2. America will not recognize at legal any Japanese-Chinese treaties obtained by military force in violation of the Kellogg pact. The United States acted a)on<% but it hopes other signatories to this treaties will follow its lead. The other parties to the nine-power park have been notified of America’s action. A high official interpreted this action as "an invocation of th* rights of the United States and its citizens under the nine-power pact and the pact of Pans." Treaty Not Named Stimson did not name the ninepower treaty. He incorporated, un identified, some of its provision-, without, however, calling for ths consultation of powers provided to* by the treaty. Japanese embassy officials did nofc regard the action as an invocation, of the treaties. They held t.h<i United States had entered a reser* vation to protect American right* against future developments. Congressional reaction was favorable on the whole. Some members, however, doubted whether the action would be effective. Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee said: No Thought of Boycott “The nine-power pact, according to its terms, covers the problem a* presented by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Its terms specifically prohibit the verv things which, Japan has been doing, and if that treaty w'ere respected and upheld by the nations signatory to it, it would solve the Manchurian problem.” Thp admission now awaits the result of its action. Officials would not speculate as to the possibilities should Japan ignore the warning. There is no thought of battleships or boycotts. The Unit'll States has no thought of withdrawing its ambassador from Tokio. High officials feel that in time of such trouble as this, more than ever, channels of peaceful diplomacy must be kept open. MURDER SUSPECT HELD Los Angeles Laborer Thought to Be Clara Olson’s Sweetheart. Ry I nited Press LOS ANGELES. Jan. R.—Jerom* Hegeman, 23, laborer, a suspect in the slaying of Clara Olson at Prairig Du Chien, Wis., was under arrest here today. Officers were, checking his descrip- ! tion with that of Erdman Olsorij j 18-year-old college sweetheart of th* girl, sought since her body was dug from a shallow' grave several year* ago. Police said Hegeman's description . did not tally exactly with that at Olson, but that they w’ere holding him until a check could be madfl wfith Sheriff A. M. Scoville of Crawford county, Wisconsin. i

McCumber tariff bill in 1922. He was born Nov. 5, 1853, in Blackford county, Indiana, the tenth child of a poor farmer. Michigan's great forests attracted him at 16 and he came to Saginaw. Four years later he w'as a fullfledged timber cruiser. In 1873 he married Katherine O'Hearn. Another decade

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