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PEACE OF CIVILIZED WORLD LINKED TO CHINA CRISIS

DARK DAYS OF 19H ARE JUST AROUNDCORNER Europe’s Attitude Toward Ending Warfare Is ‘Let Uncle Sam Do It.’ BRITAIN MAY LEND AID Dominions Alarmed; Other Powers Would Like to See U. S. Ertibroiled. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrippi-Honard Forflen Editor WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The hext ninety-six hours are expected to decide not only the fate of China, but of the peace machinery of the civilized world. Failure of the United States and Europe to curb Japan in this crisis, it Is admitted on both sides of the Atlantic, will throw the world back to where it was in 1914, when nations grabbed what they had the power to grab, and held it if they could. The attitude of Washington will depend largely upon how far London, Paris and Geneva are willing to go, and at this writing America apparently has been deserted by England, France and the league to face rampant Japan alone. Both Britain and France have been increasingly inclined of late to give Japan a free hand in China, so long as she does not interfere with their special spheres of interest. Dominions Alarmed Nevertheless, Britain’s hand may be forced by her dominions. Canada and Australia, two of the strongest, are alarmed over the danger to them of a Japanese-controlled Pacific. It is not thought that the United States would risk drastic action alone in the far east. But, supported by Great Britain in turn backed by her potent dominions, a financial, and possibly gradually broadening, boycott might be attempted. But France is in a position—and apparently in the mood —to nullify even such mild measures as these. French Indo-China, obtained by methods not unlike those now being used by Japan, is a paying investment and there is more ripe colorial fruit next door ready to drop into France’s lap, if the tree is shaken hard enough. That Japan is moving heaven and earth to drive China into such a frenzy that she will declare war against Japan, or in desperation commit some act which will give' Japan a half-way plausible excuse to declare war against China, is seen here. Throat of China Japan could have taken Peking, the old capital, or Nanking, the new, with greater ease and far less danger of international complications than she risks in taking Shanghai. But Shanghai is the throat of China —her New York, her principal source of revenue in the guise of customs receipts. Deprived of these, she will go to pieces. The writer learns that China was on the point of giving Japan the opportunity she seeks a w r eek ago. Not only was she on the verge of breaking off diplomatic relations with Tokio. but of declaring a state of war between the two countries. Had this been done, it is understood, Japan was prepared to set up an actual blockade and resort to open war, the more quickly to bring China to her knees. The movement to leave the United States to face the perilous far eastern crisis alone, is said to have arisen out of Europe’s ugly economic situation. To interfere with Japan’s ambitions woul£ be to borrow trouble and expense when Europe has plenty of both at home. None Are Interested There is hardly a nation in Europe really interested in keeping China intact. On the contrary, there are those that stand to profit were she to fall to pieces. To maintain peace when something is to be gained is one thing, but peace for peace's sake is another. Let Uncle Sam do it. Finally, when all is said and done, a war between the United States and Japan would be to the liking of certain European circles. It would be a big war, it would be a costly war. And both nations would need a lot of aid. in goods and financing. If Europe could keep out, it might not be a bad thing—especially as Japan and America, two of the world's leading industrial and commercial powers, would eliminate each other as Europe's rivals, for a long time to come. The United States has a $50,000,000,000 stake abroad. More than half of this is in war debts, commercial loans and investments. The rest is in territory, the merchant marine, and so on. LOCAL PASTOR NAMED EPISCOPAL SECRETARY Diocesan Officers Elected at End of Fifth Annual Session. The Rev. William Burrows of this city is the new secretary of the Indianapolis diocese of the Episcopal church. Election of Mr. Burrows as secretary, Henry W. Buttolph, treasurer; the Rev. Francis Keicher, assistant secretary, and W. W. Hammond, chancellor, was held at the closing meeting of the fifth annual diocese convention Thursday. Members of the standing committee of the diocese are Mr. Burrows, the Rev. E. A. Powell, Charles E Judson, W. N. ,'Cox, the Rev. George S. Southworth and Hammond. New officers of the House of Churchwomen are; Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood of Indianapolis, president; Mrs. A. W. Cole, Lafayette, vice-president; Mrs. Charles E. Judson, Indianapolis, secretary, ar.d Mrs. William F. Mullen, treasurer,

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Major-general frank R. M’COY (above) is to represent the United States as an observer with the League of Nations’ commission of inquiry named to study conditions in China in connection with the Chinese-Japanese crisis. CHINESE ARMY SEIZES HARBIN Manchurian City Wrested From Japanese. BY MILES W. VAUGHN United Tress Staff Correspondent TOKIO, Jan. 29.—Chinese forces i gained control of Harbin today, i while Japanese troops rushed from ! Mukden to the city’s defense. Chang Chung-Hui and other proJapanese leaders of the Chinese were arrested. The occupation occurred after several days of guerilla warfare, which led to the dispatch of Japanese reinforcements from the south. Failure of General Hasebe, commanding the Japanese relief expedition, to arrive caused increased anxiety. ASIATIC FLAGSHIP IS HELD READY IN CRISIS Dry Dock Plans Canceled; Carries Four Planes. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Orders for the heavy cruiser Houston, flagship of Admiral M. M. Taylor, commander of the Asiatic fleet, to go into dry dock at Manila for repairs, have been canceled by the navy department because of the situation existing in the far east. The department has not issued orders for the Houston to prepare for departure for Shanghai, and it was not known whether Taylor plans to follow the four destroyers which left today for Chinese waters. The Houston, only cruiser in the Asiatic fleet, has a force of sixtythree officers and 512 enlisted men. It also carries one marine officer and thirty-five enlisted men. It transports four airplanes. COLLECT ’32 STORE~TAX Keystone General Store Will Bear License No. 1, Issued Today. With less than $400,000 in chain store taxes collected for the years 1929 and 1931, Lewis O. Johnson, head of the state department, announced collection of 1932 taxes has been started. Johnson said he expects more than $600,000 to be collected as this year's tax. Store license No. 1 for 1932 went to W. W. Johnson of Keystone, general store operator and brother of the state official.

SHANGHAI, ‘ORIENT’S WICKEDEST CITY,’ IS EXOTIC BLEND OF EAST AND WEST

Hfnry F. Misselwitt, United Press Staff correspon lent, for fire years, was stationed in the Orient. He has written the following story descriptive of Shanghai. the modern city of the Orient. BY HENRY F. MISSELWIJZ United Press Staff Correspondent ■YTTASHINGTON, Jan. 29. * Shanghai, sometimes described as the wickedest city of the Orient, spreads its exotic blend of east and west along the low banks of the Whangpoo river some twenty miles upstream from where the Yangtze meets the sea. Young Chinese maids, in sheer silks and modern in fashionably bobbed black hair, fox trot to American jazz in swanky night clubs with sleek Chinese youths educated in universities of Europe and in the United States. Old from the country-

The foreign settlement in “the New York of China” where anything may happen. This picture shows Shanghai’s waterfront, with principal buildings indicated.

SHANGHAI, the world’s newest powder keg,” is the commercial and financial capital of China’s 400,000,000 people, and a city of vast importance in world trade as well as in China’s economic affairs. Its strategic position at the basin of the Yangtze river makes it practically the only outlet for foreign trade for 180,000,000 people. Asa place of contrasts, it is perhaps without an equal in the world Its population of 3,000,000 is a strange mixture of western enterprise and oriental squalor. It is the fifth largest port in the world, the largest in Asia, and the major link between China’s teeming millions and the western world. More than 60 per cent of all Chinese cotton mills

Japan Marches On

'"T* SIBERIA 7 |l V'S-i"' J V. / |\\ / , NONNI RIVER ) ’ |s|_ Wp y BRIDGE ; j ..' I TSITSiHAR l | Jiff;! 4„.!Oca,py Nov. HARBIN |7 J|L " ANGANCH! Cily o( &nlnj / / _ , „ tr Manchuna / Taken Nov. 19 ) W / JCM /V ' \ \ J Jr ■■ : ‘‘i •'f ThL: Y MANCHURLIA , L, MUKDEN |T Jr Jr f:SINMIN Captured Sept. 18 in * [Occupied Nov. First Big Battle'^. . V'':-. J | Occupied Jan .2 * v ; t X / #! TIENTSIN :• V Japanese Stronghold) • V '* / j ; Shelled Nov. 10 lli • : „ /V \;'U JLlflli %U - This chronology map shows Row Japan’s troops, utilizing the most modern methods of warfare, swept swiftly and steadily through Manchuria in the last four months before threatening to occupy Shanghai in China proper as a reprisal for anti-Japanese boycotts. Seizing Mukden in the first real conflict with Chinese soldiers, the Japanese drove northward through the Nonni river district to Anganchi and Tsitsihar. Then came the “big push” through many cities to the west, reaching a climax in the capture of Chinchow. Meanwhile, street fighting broke out in many Chinese cities and an American mission at Tientsin was shelled. Now the United States has taken steps to protect citizens in the foreign settlement at Shanghai.

COMIC OPERA WAR? SHELLS SCREAM ‘NO’

BY H. R, EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932, by United Press) -SHANGHAI, Jan. 29.—Bombs, machine gun fire and booming guns in the area of hostilities where Japanese marines are fighting to occupy Shanghai, today provided ample proof during a personal tour of the battleground that this is no “comic opera war.” The machine gun fire, sniping and airplane bombardment of the Chapei area north of the settlement combined through the night and day in a deafening roar. Eighteen miles away, the distant sky was illuminated before dawn by flashes that marked the Japanese naval bombardment of the Chinese forts at Woosung. down the 'Whangpoo river. The Chinese offered unexpected resistance. They were protected Thursday night by the darkness. Clouds covered the moon. But today they continued to fight it out when every foreigner in the city thought they would turn and run. The Japanese, fearing the Chi-

side come to the city with farm produce. Swathed in coarse blue clothing in winter or thin blue cloth in summer, they mingle with the younger generation. Against the background of the swiftly changing east, foreigners from the far corners of the earth come and go on their endless missions. Traders, descendants of men who came out in the clipper ship days of the last century, own spacious estates on the outskirts of the city. Others come for a week, a month, or a year, with “get-rich-quick” schemes” in which high intrigue often plays a sinister part. 8 8 8 TALL Sikhs from India, rifles slung in readiness over their shoulders, police the international settlement, their bright turbans,

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are situated there. Workers employed by these mills number more than 125,000. Silk cloth, shipbuilding, iron and steel, cigarets and many other products are turned out in vast quantities by Shanghai’s manufacturing plants. Called a western city in China, Shanghai nevertheless numbers less than 40,000 foreign inhabitants among its three millions, and nearly half of these are Japanese. British subjects in the International Settlement number more than 7,500 and Americans are estimated at 1,800. Population of the International Settlement and the French concessions, which are governed separately, is approximately 1,500,000, and most of the city’s industries are there.

nese might get reinforcements, fought to take over the north station, just barely outside the settlement and always a “danger spot” in that rough area in the native city. I tried to get to the north station just at dawn. It was not an easy task getting through the lines. A heavy rain fell, but I found Chapei aflame and the fire spreading rapidly through that district, a spectacular sight. Terror-stricken Chinese fled through the darkness, seeking shelter in the settlement. As long as they were not armed, the sentries let them in through the lines. After numerous challenges by Japanese sentries in the Chapei area, I got to Chapei and was permitted to walk about. Fires shot flames skyward, seeming to hurry the red dawn. A Japanese airplane droned overhead—a forerunner of the attack. I went back through the settlement lines of patrols with Chinese refugees flocking in on all sides of me.

black beards and flashing eyes part of the picturesque setting. United States marines, smart in khaki uniform; British Tommies, French sailors, Japanese forces mingle with the passing throngs along the bund, or water front, and Nanking road. Foreign men-of-war lie off the bund in the Whangpoo river, ready to protect the lives and property of nationals from overseas. In 1927, when trouble in the Canton revolt was at its height, forty-six warships stretched along the waterway. In the foreign areas which stretch from six miles along the river front and have a perimiter of nearly thirty miles, handsome mansions, modern banks, hotels and beautifully appointed clubs flourish. Taxicabs, busses, trackless trams run on the avenues, cluttered with rikisha and ancient

JAPAN BOMBING HELD UNETHICAL Violation of International Law, Experts Claim. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Government authorities on international law said today, in discussing reports that Japanese bombs had fallen around an American Methodist home in the international settlement of Shanghai, that the bombing of unfortified communities even in wartime, was a violation of international law. They quoted Article 25 of the Hague convention of 1909 on the laws and customs of war on land as follows: “The attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended is prohibited.” When Japanese bombed Chinchow, Manchuria, last October, Secretary of State Stimson told Tokio he considered its action as of “very serious importance.” “The secretary of state,” Stimson said, “is at a loss to see what right Japanese military planes had to fly over the town, thereby provoking attack, and to drop bombs, “Casualties among civilians have been asserted by the Chinese to have taken place. Bombing of an unfortified and unwarned town is one of the most extreme of military actions, deprecated even in time of war.” Officials recalled that during the World war, some unfortified towns were bombed, but that such action always led to sharp protests.” BOYCOTT AIDS SPINNERS Chinese Ban on Japanese Goods Helps Industry at Home. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—China’s boycott of Japanese goods during the fall months of 1931 made it possible for Chinese cotton spinners to recoup virtually all the losses suffered in the earlier months of the year, according to reports received today by the department of commerce. Many trade estimates placed net profits of Chinese cotton spinners higher in 1931 than in the previous year. MINER TO SPEAK HERE Tash Will Compare National Union With U. M, of W. A. Meeting Here. Joe Tash, one of seven men under indictment in the southern Illinois mining district for alleged violation of anti-syndicalism laws, will speak at a meeting at 8 tonight at Workers’ Center, 932 South Meridian street. Representing the National Miners’ union, Tash will speak on “The Way Out for the Miners.” He will compare the program of his organization with that of the United Mine Workers of America, now holding its international convention here. Tash will appear here under auspices of the Trade Union Unity League.

Chin ese wheelbarrows. Overhead, airplanes from Hungiao airdrome drone hourly on their air mail and passenger runs. it tt a ON the bund, the Shanghai club with its “longest bar in the world” stands, just below Avenue Edward VII, the boundary between the French concession and international settlement. A few blocks away the American club faces the municipal building —itself a magnificent stone structure covering a city block. Night clubs run until dawn, filled with tourists from the liners that call almost daily at Shanghai and steam up the river to the heart of the city. The British still have 5,000 men in Shanghai and the United States has 1,200 men in the Fourth regiment of marines, who went out

U.S. WARSHIPS 1 ARE RUSHED TO CHINA’SCOfIST Nearest Naval Aircraft Are in Manila, Three Days Distant. i By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Admiral M. M. Taylor, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet, today advised the navy department that three of the four destroyers he had ordered to depart from Manila would proceed at once to Shanghai. The fourth will take a position lat Wuhu. Taylor said the four ships left at 8 a. m., Manila time, today. At full speed of twenty-eight knots it would take them about forty hours to reach Shanghai. Earlier reports had indicated the destroyers would join the Yangtze river patrol and operate along the river about 150 miles from Shanghai. Upon arrival of the three addij tional destroyers from Manila, the United States will have five destroyers, each carrying an ordinary ! force of 115 men, at Shanghai, and 'five more within easy sailing distance. At Shanghai are the destroyers Truxton and Borie, each with six officers and 115 men. Another addition to the forces guarding Chinese waters was made Thursday when the destroyer McCormick reached Hongkong with a crew of 121. All destroyers in the Asiatic fleet carry the same armament. Taylor Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, who won the distinguished service medal for his services as commanding officer of the battleship Florida during the World war, directs the movements of the fiftythree ships of the Asiatic fleet from his flagship, the heavy cruiser Houston at Manila. Taylor, a native of Washington, was a naval academy appointee by order of President Grover Cleveland in 1896. During the Spanish-Amer-ican war he served on board the U. S. S. Olympia, Admiral Dewey’s flagship. The admiral has had numerous details of duty in the office of naval operations. He assumed his present post as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet in August, 1931. Aircraft 3 Days Distant The nearest naval aircraft to China are at Manila, three days’ sailing distance. Admiral Taylor had four planes on board his flagship. In addition, the aircraft tender Jason, under Commander E. D. McWhorter, carries six scouting planes and six torpedo planes. The fourth regiment of marines consisting of fifty-two officers and 1,173 enlisted men under Colonel R. S. Hooker, a veteran of thirtytwo years commission service, is stationed at Shanghai. Marine forces in China have no airplanes. A legion guard of fourteen officers and 419 marines is maintained at Peiping. The remainder of marines in the Asiatic division are stationed in the Philippines. Six officers and 266 enlisted men are housed in the barracks at Cavite, P. 1., and fifty enlisted men are aW Olongapo, P. I. Admiral Taylor’s flagship carries one marine officer and thirty-five enlisted men. Fleet to Hawaii Soon In event of serious outbreaks in the Chinese area, this country probably would be forced to dispatch warships from San Diego and other stations on the Pacific coast. The naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, ten days’ sailing from Shanghai at high cruising speed, has a force consisting only of submarines, mine craft and auxiliary vessels. However, during winter maneuvers the entire battle force of the United States fleet will be in Hawaiian waters. Eight battleships, seven cruisers, twenty-four destroyers and the aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington will be in the Hawaiian area during February and the first week of March. WOMAN GETS ORDER AGAINST REARREST Supreme Court Enjoins Cameron From Enforcing Warrant. Temporary injunction against rearrest of Mrs. Ruth Cassel, 529 North Alabama street, for trading under a false name, was issued Thursday night by the supreme court. The order was granted after Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron instructed a bondsman to bring Mrs. Cassel into court late Thursday, after her release on bond following the second arrest for the same alleged offense. The case had been dismissed by deputy prosecutors Sept. 7, and last week she won $250 damages in a superior court for the alleged false arrest. James A. Livingston, Twen-ty-second and Wheeler streets, a grocer, was defendant. The supreme court set Feb. 9 as date for hearing on a permanent injunction against Cameron.

The police are controlled by the British in the international settlement. The commissioner is British, usually an officer sent out from the Indian army. The inspectors and others are British, and under them are the Sikhs and Chinese patrolmen and traffic officers. Their equipment includes machine - guns, tear bombs, a great “retf Maria” truck with machine-guns on swivels and searchlights. All as modem as any crime-fighting machinery in the world. They need it. Chinese kidnaping gangs and opium rings are bold. The gansters fight it out along the lines of the best western traditions. ft ft u SHANGHAI is a city of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants. Os these, possibly 50,000 art for* v

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Nelson T. Johnson (above), United States minister to China, is one of the principal figures in the delicate situation arising out of Japan’s decision to invade Shanghai, where many Americans reside. Nelson is a veteran of twentyyears in the diplomatic service. He has served in Manchuria as well as in China proper. He can converse with Chinese in their own language and is an authority on Chinese history. GHURCH BOMBED IN SETTLEMENT Presbyterians Report All Shanghai Missions Safe. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—The Young J. Allen Memorial home, Methodist Episcopal South institution in Shanghai, bombed today by Japanese, is in the heart of one of the most densely populated sections of the international settlement. The home is part of a group of institutions owned by the Methodist Episcopal church south, clustered around Allen court not far from the northern border of the settlement. The Young J. Allen church, one of the finest in the city, and a boarding school for Chinese children, also are parts of the group. A cablegram from Shanghai to the baord of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church of the U. S. A., today indicated all fortyeight Presbyterian missionaries in the Chinese city were safe. The cablegram, signed by the Presbyterian China council, agency for the board's eight missions in China, stated: “We do not anticipate any danger.” It was estimated at the board’s offices here that there are about 150 missionaires of all demonimations in Shanghai. NATIONALISTS TRY TO BOLSTER RESISTANCE China’s New Foreign Minister Asks Support for Strong Policy. By United Press NANKING, Jan. 29.—An effort was made today to get the reorganized national government functioning against the Japanese. Lo Wen-Kan, named foreign minister to succeed Eugene Chen, sought support for a strong policy. Wang Ching-Wei was named chairman of the executive yuan, or council. Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, founder of the Kuomintang, or “people’s party,” took the post of chairman of the legislative yuan, or parliament. Meanwhile, Japanese who were or. dere to evacuate, left the capital. Twenty-eight men, eight women and six children departed. The staff in the Japanese consulate-general remained on board a cruiser in the Yangtze river, off Nanking. SHOTS PERIL CHILDREN Gangsters Riddle Racketeer on Crowded New York Street. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Scores of children playing in a street were imperiled by gangsters’ bullets Sunday night as a racketeer was shot to death by three men in a motor car. The victim, Thomas Patalino, 28, was walking down a street in which nearly 100 children were playing when the slow-moving car overtook him. The three occupants leaned from the car, took deliberate aim and fired. Patalino fell with five bullets in his body. The killers’ car then picked up speed and in turning a nearby corner passed two policemen.

eigners, including the Japanese who predominate. There are upward of 4,000 American civilians in Shanghai; 8,000 British, 1,500 French and some 2,000 other ■westerners aside from the Russians. There are perhaps 18,000 Russians—“men without a country”— there today. They form a problem. So far they have not been permitted a voice in the government of either foreign concession area. Shanghai, as far as the foreigner is concerned, is ruled by the municipal council in the international settlement, and the French municipal council in the French concession. The international settlement is so called because it is composed of the old British, Japanese, and what was to have been tbe Americas canceasiaßi

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U.S, BOYCOTT VIEWED FATAL TO JAPANESE ‘Nippon Could Not Live Six Months,’ Walsh Declares: Arms Ban Urged. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.—Belief that Japan could not survive for six months in an economic war with the United States was expressed today by Senator Thomas J. Walsh (Dem, Mont.), a member of the senate foreign relations committee. No one in the senate is predicting war of any kind between the United States and Japan, but Japanese policies in China have focused attention on the potentialities of the oriental situation. Chairman Frederick Hale of the senate naval affairs committee, who participated in the futile fight to defeat the London naval treaty in 1930, said today that the ChineseJapanese situation warranted prompt action on pending naval construction legislation. “I shall explain the comparative naval situation in a speech in the senate next week,” he said. Arms Export Ban Urged Senator Clarence Dill (Dem., Wash.) told the United Press he would ask the foreign relations committee Wednesday to act on his resolution forbidding export of arms or munitions to Japan or Chinfi. A dozen senators have assured Dill they will support his measure, and there are indications of rapidly increasing sentiment for such a prohibition. Walsh expressed the opinion that the United States holds Japan almost in an economic vise. He estimated Japanese sales of silk and tea to this country aggregated $250,000,000 a year, and said the proceeds were used to import food into Japan. I “There has been talk,” he said,” of operating our fleet against Japan in the far eastern water or whether, | if Japan seized the Philippines, we | could regain them. Boycott Viewed “Deadly” “I do not believe the people of the United States would go to war to regain the Philippines. If war should eventuate from the situation in the Orient I do not believe it would be necessary for the United States to fire a single shot. Japan could not survive an American economic boycott for six months. Her tea and silk are not essentials for us. “I am not in a position to judge whether an economic boycott is warranted or desirable at this time. It would be a two-edged sword. Japan could cut off most of our trade with China with her fleet.” Dill said today that there had been no material shipments of munitions to the Orient so far, and that his resolution was designed primarily to cope with a condition which might arise if the ChineseJapanese trouble eventually involved Soviet Russia. Munitions Sales Deplored “If Japan should carry her policy into Mongolia,” he said, “and thus cut communications into Soviet Russia, there would be war between Moscow and Tokio next summer, and Japan would have to import vast quantities of munitions. “If we allow our munitions makers to sell either country they immediately will have a financial interest in that struggle. “There is another fact we should keep in mind. The United States I has vast interests in the Pacific. We ! must protect them. “While we desire to avoid trouble with all other countries, it is well to remember that with conditions as they are, it is not to our interest to furnish munitions of war to any nation in that part of the world.” SHANGHAI AMERICANS INCLUDE MISSIONARIES Michigan, Ohio Women are Wives of Churchmen in Stricken City. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A partial list of American citizens in Shanghai includes: The Rev. W. A. Main, of Dcs Moines, general treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal church in China. Dr. Aile S. Gaile, of Oakland, Cal., matron and physician at the i Shanghai American school. Miss Willow Hecker, Miami, Fla., ; missionary. Mr. and Mrs. George Fitch. Mrs. Fitch is from Albion, Mich.; Fitch, born in China, is secretary of the Shanghai Y. M. C. A. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Vanderburgh. Mrs. Vanderburgh is from Delaware, O. Vanderburgh, born in China, is a missionary. Bishop Paul Kern, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Paul B. Kern, wife of Bishop Kern; Misses Virginia and Katherine Kern, daughters of Bishop and Mrs. Kern. The Rev. Sid R. Anderson, Nashville; Mrs. Sid R. Anderson; Miss Louise Robinson, Murfreesboro, Tenn. ‘LIFER’ IS RECAPTURED Murderer’s Seventh Escape Comes to Grief In Burglary Attempt. By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 29.—Recaptured again after his seventh escape from the Georgia state penitentiary, Jack Martin, alias Barfield, today was held here for southern authorities. He will be returned to resume his frequently interrupted life sentence for slaying a Macon planter during a holdup. Martin was recaptured Thursday night when two patrolmen noticed a window had been jimmied at the home of Charles M. Tann, suburban resident vacationing in the south. They found the convicted killer cowering in the attic. Three Killed in Plane Crash ; By United Press MONTICELLO, Fla., Jan. 29. Three men were killed in an airplane crash here Thursday. The dead: Fred Wisher, pilot, Bloomfield, Conn.; William Sargent, 32, Moniicello, and Harvey Watson, 24,