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VEHLING JURY ACCEPTED BY PROSECUTION Defense Closely Questions Talesmen on Prejudice Against Coroner. BRIBE BID IS CHARGED Action Is Rapid in First Session of Trial of County Official. Selection of a jury to try Coroner Fred W. Vchling on a bribe solicitation charge moved rapidly in criminal court today, with the state tentatively accepting the jury late in the forenoon session. Four prospective jurors were excused on state peremptory challenges, and defense attorneys this afternoon grilled the veniremen. The state confined its questions to general phases, but stressed probable prejudice of veniremen and whether talesmen believed a county jpfficial should pay criminal penalty 5f he were convicted of the charge. Sudden passing of the jury by the state was a surprise to attorneys and spectators. Quizzed on Prejudice Defense attorneys questioned the talesmen more slowly, seeking to if there existed prejudice against a county coroner who also operated an undertaking business. Each was asked whether he had any dealings with Vehling or other Indianapolis or Marion county funeral directors. The state’s peremptory challenges brought dismissal of Dan Killion, 1504 Fletcher avenue; Aleck Mathley, Oaklandon; Richard Newkirk, Warren township, and William Off, 3851 Washington boulevard. Off said he was well acquainted with Vchling and his relatives. For the purpose of expediting questioning, Fred C. Gause, special judge, asked prospective jurors a series of questions when court opened. Family Ig Present Vehling is surrounded by members of his family, and Thomas McGeo and Fred Barrett, attorneys. Eph Inman of the defense is ill at his home. George Sheehan, Indianapolis attorney, under indictment as a suspect in a New York bond theft last fall, also is a member of the defense counsel. Quizzing Luther Pottage, 927 East Tabor street, defense counsel learned he had read The Times during the expose of charges against Vehling before the grand jury opened its probe. When defense attorneys sought to excuse him for cause, Gause took up the questioning and ruled Pottage remain on the panel, after the prospective juror said, he had formed no opinion. Vehling is being tried, after several delays, for an alleged attempt to obtain $l5O from relatives of Benjamin Stickel, gas victim, who succumbed in his home, 331 East Tenth street, last March. Threat Is Alleged The state charges Vehling threatened to return a suicide verdict unless he received the money. Under ’his act relatives would not have received double indemnity on insurance policies, as provided in accidental death. The state’s case is being presented by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, and Oscar Hagemcier, grand jury deputy. Other members of the tentatively accepted panel, in addition to Pottage, are: Hamilton M. Leonard, Franklin township; S. J. Van Sickle, Warren township; R. W. Nelson, 5130 East Michigan street; George Perry. 4542 North Delaware street; Elmer Raeburn, near Southport; Clay Lowes Acton; Clarence Lauterbur, near New’ Bethel; William Neese. Wayne township; Harry Templeton. 6216 Park avenue; James J. Talbert. 6243 Park avenue, and Walter Wachstetter, Warren township.' Prior to opening of the trial it was expected a week would bi consumed in jury selection. State’s attorneys .say they can present their evidence in three days. BODY FOUND IN RIVER Woman Is Identified as Escaped Central Hospital Patient. Body of Mrs. Mayme Young, 46, escaped patient of the Central State hospital, was found in White river, near Northwestern avenue, late Monday. She had been sought since Jan. 8. The body was unidentified for several hours. Leland Morgan, 4914 East Tenth street, son-in-law of the woman, identified the body at the city morgue. She is believed to have committed suicide. Cecil Robinson, 36, of 726 Congress avenue, found the body on a log near the bank of the stream While fishing. The body apparently had been in the river several weeks.

No Cal-umtiy By United I’rtet NEW YORK. Feb. 9.—Will Rogers, returning today from a fc-orld cruise, claimed he was the only American tourist who ever visited Cairo and did not see the Sphinx. “I thought it was unnecessary,” he said. ‘‘l’ve seen Coolidge.”

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy and warmer tonight with lowest temperature above freezing; Wednesday unsettled with mild temperature.

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Ruth Judd Doomed to Noose; Suicide Attempt Is Feared

“Death by hanging” was the fate Winnie Ruth Judd (right), “trunk murderess.” heard from the lips of William Choisser (left), court clerk at Phoenix. Ariz., when a jury Monday night speedily convicted her of the slaying of her former friend and fellow nurse, Agnes Anne Leroi.

MUSSOLINI AND POPETO MEET Premier Will Visit Pontiff Thursday. By United Pre<is VATICAN CITY, Feb. 9.—Premier Benito Mussolini will visit Pope Pius XI at 11 a. m. Thursday, the first time an Italian premier has visited the pope since 1870. The visit will mark the final settlement of differences between the church and the Fascist state. And it will be Mussolini’s first meeting with the pontiff. Definite time for the meeting was set today. The date of the visit also was confirmed in a communique issued by the government. Mussolini will be acompanied by the Italian ambassador to the Holy See, the minister of justice and the undersecretaries of the interior and foreign ministers. Besides being accorded the usual tributes given the heads of the government, Mussolini will be treated with exceptional deference as the chief promoter of the Lateran treaties, which resulted in conciliation between church and state. FIEND HELD INSANE Cincinnati Girl’s Slayer Is Committed to Asylum. By United Press CINCINNATI, Feb. 9.—Charles Bischoff, confessed attacker and slayer of Marian McLean, 6, today was ordered committed to the Lima hospital for the criminal insane by a court of five common pleas judges. The judges heard testimony last week, at a sanity hearing in which three alienists, appointed by Judge Charles S. Bell, reported Bischoff mentally incompetent. He will be observed thirty days In the institution. If Dr. W. H. Vor-w bau at Lima then believes him sane he probably will be brought back here for trial on a charge of first degree murder. MARDI GRAS JOY BEGINS Celebrants in Gay Costumes Pack New Orleans Streets for Festival. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 9. New Orleans was abandoned to carnival today. Thousands swarmed the streets celebrating Mardi Gras, oldest and most spectacular American festival. Before dawn the celebrants gathered, garbed in gay costumes and weird masks for a day of revelry. It is the 106th annual Mardi Gras.

LENT, STARTING WEDNESDAY, IS OASIS OF SPIRITUAL REST IN DESERT OF SPEED’

BY SARAH S. PRATT THE penitential season of Lent begins tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10, and lasts for six weeks, ending with Good Friday and Easter. Lent is being observed far more generally in this city than heretofore. It may be considered an oasis of mental and spiritual repose in a desert of rush and speed. It often is amusing to observe how the word “Lenten” is applied ingeniously to modes of rush and speed during the season. A man once said to me, rather facetiously: "Your Lent was never heard of until 400 years after Christ.” Well, what of it? One may believe that a custom which has grown for 1,500 years may be of value. Every custom has to reach the consciousness of a people before its value is recognized. Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays were not recognized as general holidays until the years had made those two appreciated. forty days of Lent exclude

Jurors Take Little Time to Decide Blonde Is Guilty of Murder. BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 9.—Special guards were posted today at the cell of Winnie Ruth Judd, attractive, frail, 27-year-old Indiana minister’s daughter, who received news of her conviction on a first-degree murder charge so calmly that officials feared she was “faking,” preliminary to a suicide attempt. The nurse, whose alleged double murder of her friends startled a nation with its brutality, was convicted by a jury of twelve men, who deliberated less than three hours Monday night without considering an insanity plea advanced on her behalf. Barring successful appeal, she will be the second woman to die on Arizona’s gallows, for death by hanging is mandatory after convitcion on a first dgere# murder charge in this state. Yawns As Verdict Comes She was convicted of the charge of murdering Agnes Anne Leroi. Superior Judge Howard Speakman will pronounce sentence Feb. 23 and at that time set the execution date. Defense attorneys announced they would move for anew trial and, failing that, appeal the case to the state supreme court. Mrs. Judd stifled a yawn as the foreman of the jury gave the written decision to the judge, who passed it to the clerk to be read. She appeared not to hear the clerk’s words and the expression of her unusually pale face was fixed. Dr. William C. Judd patted his wife gently on the shoulder, but she paid him no heed. Six Ballots Taken Although most testimony of the three-week trial dealt with insanity, G. B. Thompson, jury foreman, explained this question was not discussed. “On the first ballot we decided she was guilty,” he said. “On the second the vote was ten for the death penalty and two for life imprisonment. On the sixth ballot we were unanimous.” T. J. Lassen, juror, told the United Press that no other finding was possible. “We made sure this one won’t ever get another chance to kill,” he stated. “There’s no use putting them in asylums, anyway. Let’s all go home and get some sleep.” The defense contended Mrs. Judd was insane when and if she killed Mrs. Le Roi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson the night of Oct. 16. Loses Eggs, Appetite and S4O By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Joseph Roske lost his eggs, his appetite and S4O all at the same time. He was frying a pan of eggs when holdup men entered his room, dashed the eggs to the floor, knocked Roske unconscious and fled with his money.

Sunday, for Sunday is the day on which Christ arose. Churchgoing on Sunday would appeal to hundreds of people if they once would try it. It gives a man a chance to “size up” his own soul. To the ancient religion of the Jews, Christianity owes much. They were a nation of warriors, prophets, priests and kings. Their God was a rigorous God* but much of their worship was beautiful, even sublime. To it we owe the altar, candles, vestments, ideas of sacrifice, in which many Christians render unto God the "tithe’’ or tenth of their incomes. a a a npHE description of Solomon’s temple may be considered the earliest architectural blueprint. When we read the psalter and sing some of the canticles, we are uttering the inspiring creations of Jewish prophets and kings. Many of the first followers of Christ were Jews and used their own liturgy as g vehicle for

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932

SLASH NAVIES, ABOLISH WAR GAS, U.S. PLEA Elimination of Submarine Also Asked in Proposal Offered at Geneva. BOLD GESTURE MADE Limitation of Artillery and Halt on Civilian Bombing Part of Program. By United Press GENEVA, Feb. 9.—The United States today proposed to the world further decreases in naval armament, complete abolition of the submarine, limitation of heavy mobile artillery and complete rejection of poison gas and bacteriological warfare. •These were the high points in a nine-part proposal made before the world disarmament conference here by Ambassador Hugh Gibsonfone of the American delegates. In a bold and dramatic gesture, the American government suggested to the other powers a scheme of disarmament touching virtually every phase of warfare. *T. The American government advocates consideration of the draft convention as containing the outlines for a basis for discussion, while expressing its entire willingness to give full consideration to any supplementary proposals calculated to advance the end we all seek. Would Prolong Naval Pacts “2. We suggest the possibility of prolonging the existing naval agreements concluded at Washington and London, and we advocate completing the latter as soon as possible by adherence of France and Italy. “3. We advocate proportional reduction from the figures laid down in the Washington and London agreements on naval tonnage as soon as all parties to the Washington agreement have entered this framework. “4. We advocate, as we long have done, the total abolition of submarines. “5. We will join in formulating the most effective measures to protect civilian population against aerial bombing. “6. We advocate the total abolition of lethal gases and bacteriological warfare. Suggests Gur. Restrictions “7. We advocate the computation of the number of arrtied forces on the basis of the effectives necessary for maintenance of internal order plus some suitable contingent for defense. - The former are obviously impossible of reduction; the latter is a question of relativity. “8. We agree in adoveating special restrictions for tanks and heavy mobile guns, in other words, for those arms a peculiarly offensive character. "9. We are prepared to consider a limitation of expenditures on material as a complementary method to direct limitation, feeling that it may prove useful to prevent a qualitative race, if and when quantitative limitation has been effected.” This sweeping program is not an “American plan,” in the sense that it must be accepted or rejetced in toto. It was merely a series o£ suggestions, any or all of which might be accepted by the other powers. The United States, of course, pledged itself in advance to their acceptance. AIR STRIKE CALLED Century Lines Are Crippled by Aviators’ Walkout. By United Press CLEVELAND, Feb. 9.—Pilots of the Century air lines, which handle nearly one third of the nation’s air traffic, declared one of the first strikes in the history of commercial aviation today, refusing to go aloft because of salary reductions. Planes, scheduled to leave Cleveland airport this morning, remained on the ground despite favorable weather and all trips were canceled by company officials. Pilots were reported demanding their old salary of $350 a month instead of the new rate effective today, providing a guarantee of $l5O a month and $3 an hour for day and $5 an hour for night flying.

their new faith. Christ himself was a strict observer of these teachings. He also was a diplomat. When he began His work, it was not to destroy but to adjust. He kept the passover, which became our Easter. The Lord’s prayer, which He gave His disciples, is said to be one taught Him by His Jewish mother. Certain numbers—three, seven and forty—have special significance both in the Jewish and Christian religions. Moses spent forty days on Mt. Sinai preparing himself to deliver the ten commandments to Israel. When Jesus went into retreat before beginning His ministry, He remained forty days in prayer and fasting. Easter probably was observed long before Lent. Lent has its name from lentum, meaning springtime. a a a Rabbi feuerlicht of this city has told the writer that the Jewish calendar provides a

Kiss and Band Blare Start Mayor Drive

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By United Press SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—With a kiss for Laura La Plante, movie actress, and serenades for the voters, Victor Aloysius Meyers, harmony -in - high - chairs candidate for mayor of Seattle, threw his campaign into high gear today. In his spare time he is an orchestra leader. The blond actress has been drafted as Meyer’s campaign manager for a w r eek, to “go after the male vote.” She will address luncheon clubs, business organizations, and other male congregations. “Get your reservations in early,’’ Meyers advised the men’s clubs. Meanwhile, Meyers’ three orchestras travel the streets playing for the benefit of the voters—especially the housewives. , His platform includes: Hostesses on all street cars and cracked ice on the owl cars; a springboard on the Aurora bridge for the benefit of those who wish to commit suicide; a piccolo player who weighs 240 pounds for police chief, and a guaranteed solution for the liquor problem —by prevention of the singing of “Sweet Adeline” after 11 p. m. without special permission of the copyright owners. Meyers will contest for the mayoralty nomination with nine other candidates in the primaries Feb. 26. “I am not as economical as I might be,” he told voters, “but I have a hell of a good wife. As soon as I am elected, I will turn city affairs over to her. In two weeks’ time the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, will be sending commissions to Seattle to study our economy program.”

TOKIO POST TO GREW Ambassador to Turkey to Be Forbes’ Successor. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—President Hoover sent to the senate today the nomination of Joseph C. Grew, New Hampshire, to be ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.to Japan, succeeding William Cameron Forbes. Grew has been ambassador to Turkey since 1927. W. Cameron Forbes, present American ambassador in Tokio, has desired for some time to relinquish the post. JUDGE FLAYS TOW-IN Sheaffer Rules Police Only Can Impound Double-Parked Cars. Scoring the municipal automobile tow-in ordinance, Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer today ruled that police only have the power to impound cars which are parked double. The court, declaring he was “tired of these cases and don’t want any more in this court,” issued his ruling after discharging Robert Vollmer, 26, of 5539 East Washington street, whose car was impounded Monday. Vollmer was charged by patrolman Roy Losh, commander of the towin truck, with parking in a restricted space at Ohio and Delaware streets.

season of self-examination and penitence. The period comes just before their New Year, in the fall. “Forty days,” the rabbi said, “is none too long for rest and tonic and introspection. One or two days would not afford the atmosphere.” We have to concede that fifty days would not be too much for suitable repentance for some of us. Ash Wednesday was so named from the custom of the priest in touching the foreheads of the faithful with ashes on the first day of Lent. This symbol also is derived from the Old Testament. Ashes was the symbol of penitence and mourning. Sackcloth and ashes were worn by King David in grieving over the death of his son. Mordecai, oppressed by the wrongs of his people, wore sackcloth and ashes, thus inspiring Queen Esther to petition her kingly husband to free her people. It was the happy fortune of my youth to live in a village, This

ARTILLERY MOWS DOWN CHINESE IN DESPERATE SMASH AT FOES’ LINES

Defenders of Homeland Go Over the Top, Through Withering Fire. CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY Stubborn Resistance Halts Invaders on Other Shanghai Fronts. BY H. R. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent fCoovrieht. 1932. bv United PresD SHANGHAI, Feb. 9.—The Chinese infantry rushed Japanese artillery positions, but were flung back after a furious attack late in today’s terrific fighting along the twenty - mile Shanghai - Woosung front. The Chinese w'ent “over the top” in the Chapei sector just before dusk. They came over in waves after a heavy artillery and machinegun barrage, and advanced within War only way Japan can “save face,” says Simms’ story on Page 2. 500 yards of the Japanese lines before sharp counter-fire forced them to drop back. The Japanese rushed reinforcements from Admiral Kichisaburo Nomurt’s flagship Idzumo, lying in the Whangpoo river. Their army and marine forces held their lines under the desperate Chinese rush, but the tide of battle was in doubt until the reinforcements came into the front line defenses. Losses Are Heavy Heavy losses were reported on both sides. The Chinese advanced through the shell holes and blackened ruins of Chapei, just over the border of the international settlement. Their artilllery flung countless shells into the fringe of the foreign area. Many landed well within the boundary, during a day of renewed terror. I tried to get an accurate list of casualties from . both sides, but headquarters refused to give out the figures. There is no doubt the deaa and wounded ran high, but responsible authorities refused to accept obviously wild estimates heard on all sides. At 7:45 p. m. (5:45 a. m., central time) the fighting waned on the Chapei section. It ended a day of the most severe battling in the fornight of the fight for Shanghai. The danger to the international settlement was feared growing daily. One foreign woman was wounded by shrapnel as shells flew thick over the settlement. Chinese Stand Firm The Japanese concentrated their attack earlier in the day at Woosung, where thirty-three units of their fleet gathered to bombard the forts. The Chinese put up an amazingly stubborn resistance, and, as far as I could learn tonight, no material change in the relative positions had occurred there despite the heavy Japanese firing and land attacks. The Japanese apparently consolidated their positions along Woosung creek, between the village and the forts at Woosung, ten miles down the river from Shanghai proper. Meanwhile, a momentous conference of Chinese military and civil authorities was held in the offices of Mayor Wu Teh-Chen in the native area. It seems to me they have decided on a desperate effort to bring some semblanace of unity out of the chaos in government and meet the Japanese with a solid front. Peace Plans Fail By United Press TOKIO, Feb. 9—Peace efforts in China, led by the United States and Great Britain, appeared to have fallen flat today, with Japan’s refusal to withdraw her troops in Shanghai unless Chinese withdrew first. Discouraged diplomats were about ready to admit failure in the efforts to halt hostilities, it tacitly was admitted. The British wanted the Japanese

village was full of decorous churchgoers, but Episcopalians were few. Churches were cold, and a daily Lenten service not convenient. At a time when the duties of janitor were esteemed a privilege by leading citizens, the fine-toned bell was rung twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday night. That bell was given to St. Mary’s by grand old Trinity of New York. a a a ON Wednesday nights in Lent, carrying our prayer books, we youngsters trotted obediently into church, listened to the Scriptures, said “amen” to the old collects—“ Almighty God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made—” we joined in hymns led by a small reed organ, and went home feeling virtuous. We would not have dared to have a party or go to one on that night. On Thursday night the Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist bells would ring, and carrying hymn-books and Bibles, they

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SPIRIT OF CHINESE UNBROKEN IN WAR

BY T. V. SOONG Chinese Minister of Finance i Written for the Indianapolis Times) SHANGHAI, Feb. 9.—China’s manhood, armed only with rifles, machine guns and gas pipe mortars, is battling for China’s independence, so solemnly guaranteed by international pacts and agreements to which the powers are parties. Despite the Japanese invasion of the three eastern provinces (Manchuria), a flagrant breach of the Washington treaty, the Kellogg pact

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while airplanes simultaneously showered incendiary bombs. The Japanese sent warships to Nanking and Swatow, later bombarding Nanking.

PEACE LEADER SLAINJNJAPAN Former Finance Minister Is Victim of Assassins. By United Press TOKIO, Feb. 9. Junnosuke Inouye, former finance minister of Japan, was wounded fatally today by two assassins who attacked him as he was walking to a political meeting. One killer was captured. Shot once in the right chest and twice elsewhere in the body, Inouye died at 9 p. m., an hour after being removed to a hospital. Inouye’s assailant was identified as Konuma Tadashi, 24, from Ibaraki prefecture, who had been living in Tokio since December. He said he was disgusted with Inouye’s financial policy. Inouye, as a member of the Minseito party cabinets under Premiers Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki, favored a mild policy in China and incurred hostility of several extreme national groups in Japan. Once previously it was reported he had been threatened with assassination. Inouye strongly opposed Japan’s going off the gold standard and prevented it as long as he could. About ten years ago he was in New York, as a representative of the Bank of Japan, and favorably impressed bankers here with his financial knowledge. and Chinese to withdraw fifteen or twenty miles to prevent clashes. The British likewise transmitted to the other diplomats the acceptance at Shanghai of the proposal for direct discussion between the Chinese and Japanese on the Shanghai incident. T w powers were to participate in a round table parley on general problems, including Manchuria. The Japanese replied that their lines were only a few hundred yards beyond the original defense positions to which the powers were asking they withdraw. They held that the important point was for the Chinese to withdraw out of cannon range. Japan reiterated that Manchuria was a distinct and separate affair and not connected with the Shanghai incident. Japan’s scheme for neutral zones around half a dozen major Chinesecities would not necessarily supplant or overthrow the nine-power treaty, it was emphasized in government quarters today.

would all go to prayer. Nobody would have gone to a party on Thursday night. Those churches did not especially observe Lent. They were circumspect the year round. It was sometimes said, “You use Lent to do all your spring sewing.” This serious charge one had to admit was true. There was a lot of beautiful white needlework beiqg done. Sewing ranked then almost as a religious duty and a pleasant one. To this day I consider 'ewing and cooking the greatest accomplishments of woman. Many persons—women especially—use Lent as a time to vary routine. They read biography and history more often. They hear good music and lectures frequently, and this city affords much in these privileges. Some will plan during this Lent to carry out that fine Boy Sccut idea of doing one good deed each day; even now the world is reaping fruit from this beautiful taught.

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and the league covenant, the Chinese government persistently has maintained a correct attitude toward Japan, refraining from all retaliatory acts, and according the fullest protection to Japanese lives and property, although properly refusing to interfere with the patriotic spirit of the nation in refusing to buy Japanese goods and services. In a high-handed effort to crush the Chinese national spirit, the Japanese authorities, under pretext of settling a minor incident involving three Japanese monks, presented an ultimatum to Mayor Wu Teh-Che of Shanghai, demanding dissolution of the people’s patriotic organizations. The unconditional acceptance of the ultimatum at 1:45 on the afternoon of Jan. 28 was described as highly satisfactory by the Japanese consul-general. Yet the same night. Admiral Shiosawa transmitted to the Chinese authorities a note ordering the Chinese troops to evacuate north of Shanghai, and half an hour later without warning suddenly attacked the city, laying waste the whole Chapei district, using heavy artillery

JAPANESE gunmen, self-styled •Ronins,” Illegally armed with revolvers, clubs and knives, molested, shot and bayoneted innocent civilians withii. the Shanghai settlement territory. Even women and children were murdered, while, without due process of law, suspected snipers were executed. Ambulances were attacked. An American lady, i Dr. Love Rankin, was injured seriously. Chinese noncombatant dead and wounded are estimated at several thousand. Many of these were killed within the international settlement. Chapei, a district inhabitated by I 500,000, was deliberately burned. The greatest act of vandalism was I the bombing of the plant of the j Commercial Press, valued at 10,009,000 taels (about $3,350,000), destroying an invaluable library containing irreplaceable ancient manuscripts. Even American institutions of learning were destroyed. *r n a WHILE civilian casualties run into thousands, the Chinese j military casualties to date are about | 1,000, and the Japanese 1,200. This I is due to the fact that the Chinese J were defending and in the first few j days had only one regiment facing j the Japanese landing party. Despite the Japanese mechanical superiority in warships, airplanes, tanks and all kinds of artillery, the north station area, which they had expected to capture within three hours, still is held after nearly a fortnight. The same Is true of the Woosung forts, although it is expected the great guns will be put out of action early as a result of the intense bombardment by the Japanese fleet for many days. The stubborn resistance of the Nineteenth army, still keeping the Japanese at bay, undoubtedly surprised everybody. For the first time, the Chinese army, with woefully inadequate equipment, faced the might of Japan unafraid, showing how to die. We understand the Japanese rejected the essence of the four-power proposals, whereafter they sent two divisions to Shanghai, fully demonstrating their conquistadorial intentions. (Copyright. 1932, by United Press! COOLIDGE SUED FOR STATEMENT ON RADIO Summons Server Gets “Thank You;” SIOO,OOO Is Asked. By United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb. 9. —Former President Calvin Coolidge has been named codefendant with the New York Life Insurance Company, of which he is a director, in a SIOO,OOO damage suit by Lewis Tebbetts, St. Louis insurance broker, charging Coolidge made defamatory statements in a radio speech Oct. 6. “Thank you," said Coolidge as he accepted service from a deputv sheriff. According'' to Attorney Charles Weinberg of Springfield, plaintiff’s counsel, Coolidge, in his radio talk, said: “Beware of the so-called “twister’ and ‘abstractor’ or any agent who offers to save money for you by replacing your policy in another company.” WINS POISON VICTORY Toxicologist Says One Thallium Victim Will Recover. By United Prt FRESNO, Cal., Feb. 9.—A partial victory in the fight against thallium poisoning in San Joaquin valley was claimed today by Dr. J. c. Munch, Pennsylvania toxicologist, when one of the patients was able to leave the hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 29 10 a. m 37 7a. m 30 11 a. m 39 Ba. m 32 12 (noon).. 41 9 a. m 34 1 p. m..... 43

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