Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1932 — Page 1

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JAPANESE MASS NAVY AND ARMY FOR NEW SMASH Air Force Hurls Tons of Bombs on Chinese, but Defenders Hold Grimly to Shanghai Positions. BOTH SIDES HEAVILY REINFORCED Desperate Stand Made Against Invaders Stirs Admiration of Foreign Observers in War-Torn Area. BY H. R. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent (Coovrieht. 1932. bv United Press' SHANGHAI, Thursday, Feb. 11.—The Japanese concentrated their naval and military forces at Woosung and Shanghai today for a decisive drive to push the Chinese army twenty miles from the city. The Chinese redisposed their forces to meet the attack and the ominous preparations appeared to indicate a major battle on the twenty-mile front, from Woosung forts to the city.

LULL COMES IN PEACE EFFORTS U. S. to Defer Action in Far East. BY JOSEPH 11. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The administration, it appeared today, plans for the present to follow a "hands-off” policy toward the Chinese-Japanese imbroglio. The whole far eastern situation was canvassed in detail at a cabinet meeting Tuesday. No formal decision was made, and it is understood the cabinet members were divided in opinion. Some felt America should continue its police efforts. Others felt these at present, were futile. It aipears the, latter* group’s opinfon"\m! prevail.' Secretary of State Stimson had before him an appeal from nine important Chinese business men in Shanghai, asking the United States to “counsel Japan to honor her plighted word and collaborate with your government and other co-sig-natories (of the Kellogg and ninepower pacts) in the establishment of a durable peace in the far east.” If Japan ‘‘can not be persuaded to listen to reason,” the appeal said, “the pact signatories should employ economic sanctions, or other ‘speetly and more effective measures,’ to preserve peace.” After the cabinet meeting, Stimson talked with Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador, and Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Italian amabassador. Both envoys said later that no further peace moves by the western powers were contemplated now. WORK TO HONOR EDISON Ford Will Keep Busy as Tribute on Friend’s Birthday. P\f United Press DETROIT, Feb. 10.—Henry Ford will observe Thomas A. Edison’s birthday Thursday as the hopes of other men will—by working. In a statement issued on the eve of the late inventor’s 85th anniversary, Ford said Edison was more interested in work than anything else. “Nothing would please him more.” Ford said, “than to know his country applied itself to work on his birthday. Those who haven't got work can find . omething to do. Edison started and made his own work.” BANDIT TO DIE IN CHAIR Electrocution of Merchant’s Killer Third Under Leslie Regime. Third electrocution during the administration of Governor Harry G. Leslie will take place Friday at the Indiana state prison when Herbert Johnson. 34, bandit-murderer of a La Grange (Ind.) merchant, will pay with his life in the death chair. No petition for commutation of the sentence had been filed today with Leslie. Johnson is one of six men awaiting execution in death row. Electrocution of Walter Carlin, convicted of the murder of a Madison (Ind.) policeman, is scheduled to take place Tuesday at the prison. HITS PHILIPPINE PLEA Hurley Condemns Proposals for Granting Islands Independence. * By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Secretary' of War Hurley today vehemently condemned proposals for granting independence to the Philippine islands at this time. Political chaos in the Orient, Hurley told the house insular affairs committee, makes it untimely to consider Philippine independence. Hurley’s abrupt statement was made after the committee virtually had concluded hearings on six pending independence measures. John Drinkwater, Writer, Is 111 Py United Press LONDON, Feb. 10.—John DrinkW'ater, poet and author, was ill today at his north London home with bronchial pneumonia.

The Indianapolis Times Mostly cloudy tonight, probably becoming unsettled Thursday; continued mild temperature.

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The Chinese moved a large body of troops into the Kiangwan area below Shanghai, in anticipation of the Woosung advance toward the city. The Chinese move sought to cut the Japanese line below Shanghai and separate their forces here and in the Woosung area. The Japanese preparations followed a day of heavy aerial activity on the Woosung front. Bombers Are Active The Japanese made no efforts during the day to capture the Chinese positions at any point along the twenty-mile Woosung-Shanghai front. They kept up a desultory bombardment. One bomb destroyed the huge clock tower of Futan university. Several buildings in the Kiangwan district near the race course were aflame. Japanese scouting planes found the Chinese artillery positions at Kiangwan after which their artillery opened fire. Japanese bombers zoomed low, <*EoP2in&., tons of high explosives. Chinese aritlTalrcfSTt “’gtffis' and a handful of swift pursuit planes harassed the attacking aerial fleet. The air attack was reinforced by heavy shell fire from the Japanese artillery positions. Salvo after salvo was fired broadside into Chapei. On the Woosung front, ten miles below Shanghai, Japanese warships continued broadsides to reduce the Chinese fortifications to submission. Japanese Captain Executed The Chinese executed a Japanese steamboat captain captured on board his ship off Lunghua arsenal above Shanghai. The Japanese was taken to military headquarters. After a summary hearing he was shot. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, commanding Japanese forces, asserted that the' “Japanese navy is attempting to restore order.” “We are seeking to maintain our own defense positions,” Nomura told me, “but the Chinese continue their provocative acts, assaulting and executing Japanese and attacking the Japanese lines. ‘T demand that the Chinese troops withdraw and cease attacking the Japanese defense area. Otherwise, it will be necessary for the Japanese naval and military forces to push the Chinese army twenty miles back of Shanghai.” This has been the Japanese objective since the outset of their offensive against the Chinese forces in Chapei late last month. Fear Crisis in Settlement Within the international settlement, the ominous silence during the night prior to the aerial bombardment was believed to presage a general offensive w'hich might result in a crisis involving American and other foreign troops. Edwin S. Cunningham, United States consul-general, said he had not yet replied to the note from Mayor Wu Teh-Chen Tuesday protesting against the continued use of the international settlement by the Japanese forces. Cunningham added that he might not reply. The Chinese troops in the last two weeks have surprised foreigners by their remarkable ability to fight and repulse the Japanese naval air and land attacks. The men are well equipped. They wear padded uniforms, especially suited for the inclement Shanghai winter rains and snows. Japanese Are Snappier They are less snappy than the perky Japanese troops and marines, but their heavier uniforms and great coats seem better suited to climatic conditions. The Chinese wear short slategrey knee breeched uniforms, with wrapped puttees of varying colors, chiefly gray or olive drab. They wear felt slippers, while the Japanese troops are equipped with heavy black shoes. The Chinese soldiers so far have shown extraordinary discipline. Their rifles appear clean, bayonets glistening. Latrine lines are well kept, comparatively. The Chinese officers w-ear natty tailored uniforms and Sam Browne belts, with leather shoes and puttees. The Japanese soldiers at Woosung are less colorful than their marines ; and bluejackets in Shanghai. They I wear serviceable black-green steel helmets, khaki uniforms and put- : tees, and carry heavy knapsacks j held on their backs by crossed khaki 1 straps. W

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Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon aren’t the stars in this picture. The young lady on the left, who is just five months old and whose name is Barbara Bebe Lyon, was the featured person. The picture was made just before the Lyons had their young daughter christened at a Hollywood church.

JAPANESE PLOT TO STIR ALIEN WRATH CHARGED BY CHINA

A Game Guy! By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 10. George Washington was an unlucky gambler, Rupert Hughes, novelist, declared Tuesday night in a lecture here. Hughes said that the father of his country kept books on his wins and losses at cards over a period of four years, and wound up with a net loss of $35.

FEAR SOVIET MOVE Rail Line Seizure by Japan Met by Ominous Silence. by United'"Press MOSCOW, Feb. 10.—The government continued its mysterious silence today on Japan’s seizure of trains on the Chinese Eastern railway in Manchuria, and the occupation of Harbin, and the silence was regarded as an ominous sign. The situation was tense. The Japanese activities continued to hold first place in popular interest and in the press. Foreign political observes especially pointed out the failure of official organs to comment on the Japanese spectacular capture of Harbin, Soviet Russia's chief center of influence in North Manchuria and headquarters for the Sino-So-viet controlled Chinese Eastern railway. CHAPLIN LIKES EUROPE Comedian May Not Return to U- S. for More Than Year. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10—Charlie Chaplin likes Europe so well he may stay there another year, in which event it will be at least a year and a half before the public will see him in andther picture. Carlyle Robinson, who went to England with Chaplin a year.ago. returned here today with word that the comedian has no immediate desire to resume film work. AIMEE REACHES CUBA Evangelist, Husband, Enjoying Every Moment of Honeymoon. By United Press HAVANA. Feb. 10—Aimee McPherson Hutton. California evangelist, and her husband, arrived today on their honeymoon. “I don't know how long we will remain,” she said, “but we are enjoying every moment of our honeymoon trip.” She came directly from California on the steamship President Hoover.

EDGAR WALLACE, FAMED AUTHOR, DIES IN WEST

By United Press BEVERLY- HILLS. Cal., Feb. 10. —Edgar Wallace, British author and playwright, noted for his mystery stories, died early today of double pneumonia, after a brief illness. He contracted a cold last week which developed into pneumonia Tuesday. The crisis came Tuesday night, and although for hours the writer fought for life, he died at 4:45 o’clock. Robert Curtis, his secretary, and Walter Huston, actor, a friend, were at the home when Wallace died. Wallace would have been 57 years old next April. His widow, Mrs. Ethel Violet Wallace, was his second wife. There are two sons and two daughters. Mrs. Wallace left England today aboard the Majestic for his bedside. Funeral arrangements will await communication with her. The author came here several months ago to write screen plays for R-K-O-Pathe, and had produced three, one of which is nearly ready for production. He had been in almost perfect health prior to his illness. As he lay semi-conscious in his home Tuesday night, too ill to be moved to a hospital, a London audi-

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Maneuvers to Force Foreign Troops to Fire on Them Bared by Defenders. By United Press NINETEENTH ROUTE ARMY HEADQUARTERS, SHA N G HAI, Feb. 10.—The Japanese were accused by Chinese army headquarters today of “perfidy” in trying to “draw the fire” of the international settlement's foreign troops upon the Chinese. A statement issued by the route army headquarters called the world's attention to what it claimed was a plan of the Japanese to entangle the Chinese in the wrath of the foreign patrols of the international settlement. The Chinese have been warned by the powers of the settlement against retreating into or violating the settlement. Now, according to the statement-appeal, the Japanese are engaged in a move designed to encircle the Chinese, and then, in extremity, to expose the Chipese to a three-way Japanese fire, augmented by the fire of the international settlement forces. Unfairness Is Hinted The Chinese troops, said the statement, have been ordiered to avoid overt acts that might bring them into conflict with the settlement authorities. But, the present course of the foreigners in allowing Japan to land forces in the settlement and use it as a base of operations against the Chinese smacks of foreign disregard and the neutrality of the settlement, the statement charges, in effect. The statement concluded with an appeal to the world to force foreign troops not to carry out their announced intention of firing upon the Chinese if they invade—in flight or pursuit—or endanger the settlement. U. S. Troops Shifted Foreign defenders of the settlement were on the alert for any contingency. During th<> recent fighting. Japanese shells fell within fifty yards of the Amreican position in the settlement, manned by American volunteers. The position will be taken over today by troops of the Thirty-first United States infantry. Six hundred French reinforcements arrived Wednesday from Indo-China aboard the flagship cruiser Waldeck-Rous-seau. More than twenty shells have fallen within the international settlement during the last twenty-four hours, American Consul-General Edwin S. Cunningham reported today. One of the shells injured a British woman. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 60 10 a. m 66 7 a. m 60 11 a. m 69 Ba. m 61 12 (noon).. 71 9 a. m 64 1 p. m 72

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Edgar Wallace ence witnessed the premier of his play, Pack,” latest of more than a score of plays and literally innumerable stories, novels and scenarios he had written.

VEHLING USED LAW AS CLUB, WITNESS SAYS Threatened Verdict Change in Gas Death Cases, Sister Declares. CITES HIGH FEE DEMAND Coroner Scoffed at Hint of Legal Battle, Court Told by Woman. ‘‘l’m the law in Marion county, I’ll change the verdict.” That statement, attributed to Coroner Fred W. Vehling, today was placed before a criminal court jury as the vital part of the state’s evidence in the trial of the coroner on the charge of soliciting a bribe. Mrs. Margaret Arnold, 1014 South Gale street, a cousin of Benjamin Stickel, gas victim, and one of the star state witnesses, gave the testimony. Vehling is alleged to have demanded $l5O, an auto, household goods, and $1,900 in insurance policies to bury Stickel; his wife, Letha, and her brother, William Coble a year ago. The trio died in their home, 331 East Tenth street, from fumes from a gas heater. Price Held Too High ‘•Vehling had the bodies at his undertaking establishment,” Mrs. Arnold testified. ‘‘When -we went there, Vehling told us it would cost more than $1,900, the car, $l5O, and furnishings to obtain burial of the Stickels and Mr. Coble. ‘‘Vehling was told that was too high and he said it would take several hundred dollars to have the bodies turned over to another funeral director.” Mrs. Arnold said when she and other relatives suggested they might obtain a lawyer to fight their battle, she testified Vehling told her: ‘‘l’m the law in Marion county and what I say goes. I’ll change the verdict.” Two Verdicts Possible Although Mrs. Arnold testified Vehling did not set out how he ! might alter the verdict, only two were possible, it is said. One was accidental death and the other suicide. Under suicide, double indemnity would not be paid on insurance policies held by the victims. On cross-examination by Eph Inman and Thomas McGee, defense attorneys, Mrs. Arnold said she had read in newspapers the \ day of the deaths that police stated Vehling returned accidental death verdicts. Asked if she believed Vehling supplied “good caskets and a good burial,” Mrs. Arnold replied: “I did not.” When asked if Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, had talked to her about the case, she said George Sheehan, a defense attorney, had talked with her. Sheehan Actions Probed Sheehan, it has been reported to court officials, had questioned several state’s witnesses after introducing himself under a false name. The reports are being investigated. Sheehan, who appeared openly in the case Tuesday, now is under indictment as a suspect in a New York bond theft last fall. Charles Ettinger, chief deputy county clerk, testified that the verdict on Mr. Coble’s death was attested March 3 and filed May 28. Verdict in Mrs. Stickel’s death was sworn March 18 and Mr. Coble’s on March 5, he testified. In his opening statement, Mattice rehearsed evidence the state intended to introduce to prove the bribe solicitation Charge. Defense Claims Proof McGee set out that verdict dates to be produced would disprove the charge that Vehling withheld verdicts until after the alleged bribe solicitation took place. He said the defense will show Herman Stickel, brother of Mr. Stickel, had signed the order for burial of the bodies for $1,300. The courtroom was crowded today as presentation of evidence was started. Several relatives and friends of Mr. Stickel will testify. The state may complete its case Thursday. Vehling, if convicted, can be sentenced to state prison for two to fourteen years and fined a maximum of SIO,OOO, or both. Eph Inman, ill Tuesday, was at the defense counsel table today. The jury selection was completed with rapidity heretofore unheard of in criminal court. The state had accepted tentatively the jury before the close of the Tuesday forenoon session and both sides had given final approval shortly after 4 p. m. Members of the panel are: Hamilton N. Leonard, farmer, Franklin township: William A. Umphrey, investment securities salesman, 4531 North Meridian street; Andrew J. Van Sickle, farmer, Warren township: Frank W. Sargeant, Citizens Gas Company employe, 4225 Rookwood avenue; Harry C. Sohn, carpenter, 954 Hervey street; Elmer A. Raeburn, of near Southport; Clay W. Lowes, farmer, Acton; Clarence O. Lauterbur, railroad employe, R. R. 9, Box 498; Frank C. Snell, salesman, 1317 Wallace street; Harry G. Templeton, realtor, 6216 Park avenue; Walter Wachstetter, contractor, Post road and Twelfth street, and James S. Talbert, truck gardener, 6243 Park avenue. In addition to the trial involving Vehling, impeachment proceedings are pending in circuit court. This i case probably will be tried shortly j after disposal of the criminal court { count.

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E. L. Cord Century Lines Hangar Will Be Picketed by Aviators in Lockout. David L. Behncke, president of the Air Line Pilots’ Association, today challenged Ehrit L. Cord, wealthy president of Century Air Lines, to operate Century’s tri-motor planes without yielding to the association's demands for better pay and working conditions. In this article, Behncke declares that the issue is between Cord and ail air line pilots, and reveals his organization's plan to picket the Century hangar. BY DAVID L. BEHNCKE (Written for the United Press) CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—Twenty-one ‘pilots, locked out by E. L. Cord, president of Century Air Lines, a division of the Cord Corporation, have agreed unanimously under no consideration to back down in their stand against Cord’s drastic pay cut, approximating 40 per cent. The Pilots’ Association wishes it to be clear that this is not a fight between Cord and his pilots, but a fight between Cord and all air line pilots of the country. The Century pilots have kept faith with Cord, but Cord has not kept faith with the pilots. The pilots have used every available means of trying to arbitrate. After several conferences, we entered into a gentlemen’s agreement, which Cord violated by effecting a lockout twenty-four hours in advance of the date set for final arbitration. It is highly improbable that Cord can recruit a crew of experienced air line pilots, capable of carrying on safe operation and fly his trimotored planes day and night on schedule, for the ridiculously low pay scale Cord offers. Pilots coming to Chicago to fill vacancies of the pilots who were locked out will be interviewed by the association and the situation will be explained fully to them. If they then replace the pilots who were locked out in their attempt to secure reasonable pay and working conditions, they will be listed as undesirables and forever treated as such. HEAT MARK BROKEN Mercury Climbs to 72.8, Feb. 10 Record. All winter heat records were shattered today, when the mercury rose to 72.8 shortly after noon, under a blazing sun. Soaring since early hours, the mercury had broken the former Feb. 10 record of 68, established in 1898, before noon. The former all-February and all-winter record was 72. Cloudy skies at 1 had caused the thermometer to slip back to 72. Unsettled weather, with continued mild temperatures, is forecast for Thursday. MAN SLAIN AT DANCE Fatal Shot Fired in Home Near Boonville. By United Press BOONVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10—Roscoe Allen, 30, was shot to death today at a dance at the home of Russell Chapman, four miles northeast of here. His assailant was not identified. Sheriff Otto Gentry said there apparently were no witnesses to the murder. He ordered all persons who attended the dance to report here for questioning, including Allen’s wife.

Watch for ‘Stemmers’ They Want Your Cash They are here today and gone tomorrow. But when they are gone, so is the money their victims gave them for food, clothing, transportation and telegrams- to their friends and parents. These stem artists daily work their racket in Indianapolis. They are the kings of mocchers. Stemmers don’t want anything less than sl. Often they get $2, $5 or $lO from individuals and much more from local companies. Their plans are laid weeks ahead. They have estimated what they think Indianapolis is “worth” to them. And they generally get it. You are not safe from stemmers if you have more than lunch money in your pocket. Stemmers have “hooked” private citizens, charity organizations, policemen, judges, lawyers and some of the city’s wealthiest men. Sometimes they work alone. Again, a child helps their case, and regularly, a man and woman, posing as husband and wife stranded in the city, do {he stunt. No one is immune from their racket. Local charity groups have organized to stop them. The Times today stars a series about stemmers. Read it on Page 2. The second story will appear Thursday.

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ALL DEMOCRATIC STATE OFFICIALS ASK RE-ELECTION Stand on Records for Return to Offices, Candidates Say in ‘Round Robin’ Announcement to the Public. MAYR RENOUNCES GOVERNOR AIM • New Harmony Keynote Sounded; Service of High Character Stressed in Bids for Second Terms. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY All Democratic statehouse officials today announced that they will be candidates for re-election. The announcement, made in a round robin statement from the secretary of state, treasurer, auditor and superintendent of public instruction, sounds anew keynote for Democratic harmony.

JOHN D. SEES SLUMP ENDING Rockefeller Is Improved, After Slight Illness. By United rress ORLANDO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10. —John D. Rockefeller Sr., apparently has recovered completely from the cold which kept him indoors during the last two weeks. The 92-year-old oil magnate Tuesday night entertained a small group of friends at his winter home, the Casements, here, after a day .of interviews and posing for newspaper photographs. Rockefeller is convinced business conditions are improving, he told his friends Tuesday night. “Talks with friends the country over prove this,” he said. “I am encouraged greatly. In fact, reports from every source indicate a constant upward turn and I do not feel cause for concern.” To friends who inquired about his health, he said: “I am grateful to be alive, well and happy. I am getting along nicely. It was only necessary that I remain in, as a matter of care.” He said he hoped to resume his daily round of golf soon. DOCTORS DOOM BUSY Abandon Plans for 1,000-1 Chance Operation. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Baby Diana Moore’s “1,000-to-l chance for sanity” was wiped out today as noted surgeons said there is no hope for her to be other than an idiot. They examined the 13-months-old child when her mother, Mrs. Lillian Moore, 19, demanded a sanity-or-death operation for it. “The child is microcepholic,” an official statement by the neurological center said. “She had a congenitally undeveloped brain and nervous system. She can not be benefited by any surgical procedure.” Mrs. Moore took her child back home today. She said she would spend her life trying to teach the child to use its arms and legs properly, a function its brain ailment now prevents. HIGHWAY EMPLOYES ARE REFUSED PAY Mann Ouster Suit Ties Up Funds Sought by 75 Workers. Revealing that seventy-five county highway department employes have not been paid for two months, Clinton H. Givan, attorney for Charles Mann, superintendent, was met with a refusal to his pay request from county commissioners today. The commissioners have withheld the pay because the employes are appointees of Mann, whom they are seeking to oust at the end of his four-year term. Mann also was refused his request for pay for January. Commissioners balked on the request that 1932 bonds be provided for county highway employes. Without the bonds the county can not collect property damages or theft losses from employes.

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For it removes the possibility of Frank Mayr Jr., now secretary of state, from the field as a possible candidate j for the governorship. Speculation has been rife for months regarding Mayr’s plans. In making announcement today as a candidate to succeed himself, Mayr gave a statement to The Times. Announces His Candidacy “I am a candidate for renomination and re-election to the office of secretary of state,” he said, “and will submit my candidacy to my party and the electorate on the character of service rendered by the several departments of the state government that have been under my charge as secretary of state during the last fourteen months. “It is not in disparagement of the efforts of my predecessors that I say that I have striven constantly to increase the efficiency of these departments since taking office, and I am grateful for the many expressions of satisfaction and good will that have come to me from those who have had occasion to transact business with my office. Appreciates Party’s Faith “I am deeply appreciative of the generous partiality of my fellow Democrats in selecting me as their standard bearer in the last state election, and I hope my official conduct and personal contacts have been of a character to retain their favor and cause them again to place me on their teiket for the office of secretary of state when candidates for higher pbsfs in the duties of state and nation will lead the contest.” No major scandals have occurred in any of the offices held by the Democrats at the statehouse during the last two years. Treasurer William Storen has taken care of the state’s cash with considerable fortitude during a period when bank failures have occurred almost daily, which might have meant wiping cut great sums through injudicious deposits. Records Are Good As auditor, Floyd E. Williamson has collected $1,500,000 more gasoline tax in a year than have officials of any previous regime, despite the depression. George C. Cole has carried on the work of the state superintendent without criticism and now is leading a fight to retain Indiana’s fine school standards against the onslaught of any false economy, while at the same time favoring cutting governmental costs wherever possible. All candidates agreed with the Mayr statement that they will run for re-election on their records. ACTION PLEDGED ON CREDIT RELIEF BILL ' Measure May Offer Aid to Victims of Closed Banks, Watson Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—Senate Majority Leader Watson said today that agreement had been reached at a White House conference today to expedite action on emergency legislation designed to ease restruction on the discount paper with federal reserve banks. This program is considered as supplemental to the emergency credit operations of the administration’s $2,000,000,000 reconstruction finance corporation. It was understood that the emergency bill also may contain provision for aiding depositors of closed banks. In any event, such legislation is being urgently demanded by President Hoover and is scheduled for early congressional action. EXPLORERS SEEK WHITE G |R L IN SAVAGE TRIBE Report of Captive in Australian Wilds Stirs Hunt. By United Press SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 10—A white girl, who for nine years has been living among a tribe of little known aborigines in the wilds of northern Australia, was sought today on basis of rumors filtering back to civilization. Reports that the beautiful young girl, about 18, had been seen recently resulted in organization of an expedition to penetrate the wilds. The district where the girl is reported captive is little explored and almost nothing known of the natives. The few white men who have established contact with the natives claim they wear no clothin, have no domestice animals and live under crude wind shelter*.

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