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Chinese Heavily Reinforced to Meet Offensive, Due in Next Two Days. TANKS, ARMY ARRIVE Defenders Ready to Meet Challenge With Best in Their Army. BY H. R. EKINS, United Press Staff Correspondent (CoDvrleht. 1932, bv United Fressi SHANGHAI, Feb. 15.—Baby tanks, heavy artillery, and men—--20,000 khaki-clad Japanese fighting men, equipped with galoshes—have been unloaded and are ready for }ie well-advertised, apparently evitable offensive here against >,OOO inspired Chinese troops. Although no ultimatum has been issued to the Chinese, Lieutenant General Kenkichi Uyeda has prepared a statement demanding their withdrawal. He threatened that failure to comply would bring “sterner measures.” At 7:30 p. m. (5:30 central time) today, after thirty-six hours’ respite, the international settlement again was rocked by the roar of big guns as the Japanese and Chinese started a bombardment in Chapei. Shell Japanese Area The Chinese directed their fire into the Japanese section of Hongkew. Numerous shells fell in the Japanese defense area. Japanese naval officials report that the main body of the Chinese force at Woosung forts had started to retreat under fire from Japanese destroyers and aerial bombing, but the Chinese still held their positions at nightfall. Meanwhile, General Uyeda rushed completion of preparations for the big offensive, which was expected to start at the latest on Wednesday unless the Chinese withdrew. The Japanese commander inspected the Japanese front lines late in the afternon. The Chinese apparently have united finally under General Chiang Kai-Shek. They dispatched thousands of reinforcements to meet the threatened offensive. Crack Division on Scene The Japanese, meantime, withdrew their freavy forces from the Woosung sector, where there were conflicting reports of their success or failure Saturday, and used them to reinforce the Ninth division in battered Chapei. At 3 p. m. (1 a. m. central time) fighting there was at a minimum as the Japanese indicated they might give the Chinese thirty-six more hours longer to meet their demands before beginning the offensive. Men from the Japanese Ninth division, a crack Nipponese fighting outfit, marched through the crowded Hongkew streets, accompanied by ten small rumbling tanks, five large tanks and mountain and field guns. The Japanese had decided to discontinue aerial raids in deference to world opinion and the safety of the international settlement., unless they considered aerial bombing absolutely necessary. They also began disarming civilians who caused numerous incidents such as the attack on American Vice Consul A. R. Ringwalt. Chinese to Resist Wang Ching-Wei, acting Chinese president and one of the country's most influential figures, said in a statement that the Chinese intended to resist any Japanese offensive. Reports that a dud shell fired by Japanese, had struck a United States marine tent in the defense area occupied by American forces were denied by marine officials. The only damage in the area was caused by an aerial bomb which fell on the Wing On cotton mill Feb. 11, where marines were stationed. Reports were circulated thus morning that the Chinese were withdrawing from the Chapei positions. Investigation showed that the movement behind the Chinese lines was a replacement of troops by fresh soldiers, apparently eager for the duty before them. Defense Area Fired Upon Chinese trench mortors shelled the Japanese defense area late Monday while the Ninth division marched into positions. Several shells fell near Uyeda's headquarters. Several houses in the vicinity were damaged, but no Japanese was hit. The headquarters escaped the shells. Japanese howitzers returned the fire. General Uyeda summed up the Japanese position curtly. "The Chinese army must withdraw* from Shanghai. And the farther, the better,” he told the United Press. General Chiang Kai Shek, China’s greatest military strategist, arrived at Nanking and indicated he would come here soon to direct warfare against Japan. FESLER NOT IMPROVED # Attorney. Traffic Mishap Victim, Still in Serious Condition. Condition of James W. Pesler, prominent attorney and chairman of trustees of Indiana university, remained serious at Robert W. Long hospital today. Fesler is suffering from head injuries incurred Friday when he walked into the side of a street car at Washington and Illinois streets. Fesler is 67. and resides at 4035 North Pennsylvania street.

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Vigorous Objection Made to Use of Quarter as Military Base. VICE-CONSUL ATTACKED Note Also May Be Sent on Beating of American. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. The state department announced today that Consul-General Edwin S. Cunningham at Shanghai, co-operating with the British consul-general, had protested to the Japanese consulgeneral the landing of Japanese troops in the international settlement of Shanghai Saturday. Attention was called by the state department to the fact that Washington already had protested directly to Tokio on the same subject when other Japanese troops were landed in the settlement recently. Strenuous objection was made to the use of this neutral territory as a Japanese military base. Meanwhile, Secretary Stimson awaited a complete report on the beating of American Consul Arthur Ringwalt, last Wednesday. It is considered a protest to Tokio will be made on this incident. The incident is the second of its kind in the last few weeks. It follows an apology from Japan for the beating of Vice-Consul Culver B. Chamberlain in Mukden recently. Consul-General Edwin S. Cunningham reported the attack on his junior colleague to Stimson only Sunday, although it is understood to have occurred Wednesday. Women Handled Roughly He said Ringwalt and Mrs. L. Young, an American citizen, “reported to be of the Chinese race,” were beaten by Japanese civilian volunteers as they were searching for the woman’s young daughter. Ringwalt carried not only a diplomatic passport, but also a Jap-anese-approved pass from the Shanghai municipal council and a pass from the Japanese consulate. He was assaulted as he tried to defend Mrs. Young from rough handling by the Japanese. Cunningham’s report stirred officials from a quiet Sunday rest. Junior officers of the state department telephoned the dispatch to Stimson at his home, Woodley. Diplomatic and consular officers abroad are, under international law, immune to attack. The gravity of abusing them was illustrated by the Chamberlain incident. Stimson then formally protested to Tokio. Japan apologized and punished the attackers. Three Incidents Arouse Ire The beating of Ringwalt makes three recent Japanese actions to which the United States objects. Saturday two Japanese bombing planes flew over the International settlement in violation of a promise that they would not do so. Undersecretary of State Castle conferred briefly today with Italian Ambassador Giacomo De Martino on the Shanghai situation. At the same time, General Douglas Mac Arthur, chief of staff of the army, consulted with Stimson’s office. Cunningham reported to the state department that on Saturday the Japanese consul general told him troops would be landed Sunday at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha wharf. Shortly afterward, Cunningham delivered to the Japanese consul-gen-eral the following protest: Protest Is Registered “I have the honor to refer to a telephone communication from your consulate general at 3:20 o'clock this afternoon, informing me that Japanese troops were expected to land at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha wayside wharf in the international settlement Sunday, Feb. 14. “In connection therewith I have to state that on behalf of the American government, I protest against any use whatever by either of the disputants of any part of the international settlement as a base or channel in connection with military operations.” Cunningham reported that the British consul-general was making j a similar protest. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 29 10 a. m 34 7a. m 29 11 a. m 35 Ba. m 30 12 (noon)., 38 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 41

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T TUNDREDS of Times readers are clipipng William McKenney's tips on scoring contract bridge, a series of six articles which will continue through Thursday. Many fans can’t score in auction and ten times that number can’t score contract, so here is your chance to learn from an expert. The series started Friday. Get the back numbers and learn the whole system. Pink readers who like the special serials which have been Tuning in The Times late afternoon editions will get a thriller when they read ’'Beast of the City,” which start in the Pinks Wednesday. It’s by Jack Lait, favorite of Sunday magazine section fans. This makes it a double treat for serial readers, as "Dime a Dance Girl” gets hotter and hotter with every installment this week. v lt looks like a millionaire

Only Spanked? By United Press RICHMOND. Cal., Feb. 15. The string of the kite that Wayne Mahan, 13, was flying became entangled in a 60,000.volt power line. The line short circuited, burst into flame and parted. A loose end fell on A. G. Paice, knocking his hat off and burning it like tinder. Still burning, the wire bored through fifteen inches of asphalt paving and topsoil and sliced a big gas main. The gas ignited with a roar. Policemen and firemen finally shut off gas and electricity, and got the fire under control. Wayne Mahan got spanked.

LIMIT SPEED ON NATIONAL ROAD Officials Move to Prevent Mishaps West of City. Thirty-five mile an hour speed limit for the National road west of Indianapolis, was decreed today by joint agreement of state and city police and the state highway department. Decision to set the definite limit and arrest those violating it was made at a conference called by Director John J. Brown of the state highway department. The move follows repeated accidents occurring in the congested suburban district, where the road was widened more than a year ago to forty feet. Saturday two persons were killed on the road at Lyndhurst and a week ago a boy was injured there. Signs will be erected by the state highway department setting out that the speed limit is thirty-five miles and the intersections will be marked with warning signs at Lyndhurst drive and West Morris street, it was announced by A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent.

FLAYS WALL STREET Banker Lays Stocks Plot to Operators. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Wall Street financial interests were charged today before the house judiciary committee with depressing and raising the value of stocks on the New York exchange to force legislation they desired. Harold Arons, New York banker and lawyer, said Wall Street had withheld “recognition” of the reconstruction finance corporation, but as soon as President Herbert Hoover announced his federal reserve liberalization legislation, which they wanted, ran up stocks in a spectacular rise. ROOSEVELT TO TOKIO Phillipihes Governor May Have Audience With Mikado. By United Press MANILA, P. i„ Feb. , 15. —Governor General Theodore Roosevelt sent a radio message to United States Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes today accepting an invitation for a visit tp Tokio. The visit may result in an audience with the Mikado. Governor Roosevelt said he would spend two days in Tokio, arriving Feb. 19. EDWARDS ESTATE MYTH “Heirs” Downcast as Dream of Sudden Riches Burst. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Hopeful “heirs to the Edwards estate,” supposed to consist of leaseholds in New York City, were downcast today with disoovery the estate is entirley mythical. The British consulate in New York said there was no foundation for reports that the British government is preparing to act “to protect the heirs.” BACK SEAT DRIVING 0. K. “Four Eyes Are Better Than Two,” Says Detroit Traffic Judge. By United Press DETROIT, Feb. 15.—1f he could, Judge John J. Maher of Detroit traffic court would assign a back seat driver to every motorist convicted on a traffic offense. “Four eyes are better than two,” Maher said in an expression of his opinion. “Mothers-in-law and maidi en aunts can help make the streets 1 safe for pedestrians.”

catch for Ellen, and the ash can for the struggling young artist. The last article on housing in Indianapolis appears today and this set of stories has been an eye opener for the public. * a a TEACHERS • and pupils are finding a mine of information an dentertainment in the pictorial story of George Washington, first strip which appeared Friday. It will continue through Washington’s birthday, and it’s well worth clipping for your scrap book. There’s variety galore in the articles of Dr. Morris Fishbein which will appear on the editorial page this week. Today he tells of the cause of stuttering; Tuesday, he tells why the restless child needs the doctor’s care; Wednesday, control of narcotics: Thursday, barber shop sanitation; Friday treatment of ingrowing nails. On

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‘JEKYLL-HYDE’ BRAND PLACED ON CORONER Vehling's Tactics Assailed by Prosecutor Wilson in Final Argument. CASE TO JURY TODAY Defense Attorney Makes Strong Plea to Clear Accused Official. Branding Coroner Fred W. Vehling as a “Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde,” Prosecutor Herbert Wilson today made the state’s initial closing argument in the coroner’s criminal court jury trial on a charge of soliciting a bribe. With but three hours of arguments remaining, it is expected the coroner's fate v/ill be placed in the hands of the jury shortly after 4 this afternoon. Climaxing one of the swiftest trials of a public official ever to be held in Marion county, Wilson sketched the fundamentals of the state’s charge that Vehling threatened to change the verdict in the Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Stickel and William Coble gas death cases unless given insurance policies, $l5O in cash, an automobile and household furnishings. Faces Long Term If convicted, Vehling faces two to fourteen years’ imprisonment, a fine of SIO,OOO, or both. This judgment can be suspended, all or in part, by the court. Partial closing argument of the defense was made during the morning session by Fred Barrett, one of Vehling’s attorneys. While a crowded courtroom listened, Barrett moved spectators and one defense attorney to tears with a vivid word picture of the state's battle to ruin Vehling and place him behind “prison bars.” Barrett’s plea was made after Wilson, attacking Vehling’s alleged tactics in handling of death cases, pleaded with the jury to “restore the public’s confidence in public officios.” Threat Charge Cited “What is the public coming to if it can’t have trust in public officials —the men who betray them,” Wilson said. “The great trouble with the government today does not exist across the seas, but right here at home, with our own governing officials.” Wilson reviewed testimony of relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Stickel and Mr. Cobel, in which they claimed Vehling threatened to return a suicide verdict rather than one of accidental death, which would have prevented collection of double indemnity on insurance. “Vehling wanted that funeral,” Wilson declared, “and he said he’d change the verdict if he didn’t get it.” Testimony Is Attacked Wilson attacked the testimony of character witnesses for Vehling. These included several Indianapolis undertakers and business men. “Any one of us,” Wilson said, pointing to the jury, “could commit murder tonight, and bring a dozen character witnesses into court tomorrow.” Wilson described the “lamentable” circumstances under which he said relatives of the dead persons were forced to “fight” for the bodies with Vehling. He attempted to refute the defense statement that $2,000 was not too much for the funeral of the victims. “It doesn’t make any difference if the defense showed $2,000 was a ‘fair price’ for the funeral,” he said. “The attempt to solicit a bribe remains the same, whether the funeral cost was SSOO or $5,000.” During Barrett’s argument, requiring nearly an hour of the defense’s allotted time for final statement, George Sheehan, co-counsel lor Vehling, wept openly at Barrett’s reference to prison walls for the coroner if convicted. Sheehan now is under indictment in criminal court in connection with an alleged $60,000 bond theft in New York last fall. Several spectators were seen to cry. Barrett attacked alleged indifferences in testimony of state’s witnesses, asserting the discrepancies reflected on the state’s case. Thomas McGee and Eph Inman, other defense attorneys for Vehling, were to complete the closing defense argument this afternoon. Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, will complete the state’s argument, and Fred C. Gause, special judge, will read instructions to the jury.

Saturday, Dr. Fishbein will start an interesting series on care of babies’ teeth, which every mother should read. Smith or Roosevelt? That’s the big question with Democrats today and on Page 7 you'll find what the setup is in the midwest on these two rivals for the presidential nomination. Tuesday, the the United Press reviews the situation in the solid south. Also in the realm of politics, Ben Stern tells today how Barkis is willin’, Barkis in this case being John Fredrick, Kokomo manufacturer, who could be induced again to enter the race for Governor, if the Democrats also should happen to be willin’. One stray shot may plunge the United States into the war in the far cast. This is the warning given by Smedley Butler today in the first of three articles on the

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Ingenious Idea By United Press EVANSTON, 111., Feb. 15. Wanted—six young geniuses by Northwestern university for experimental purposes. President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern announces today that he had written high school principals asking them to recommend six geniuses for special study courses, and similar environment conditions “We would like to see,” Dill said, “if a Jeremy Bentham, Ben Franklin, James Watt or Lord Byron can be turned out under modern educational conditions.”

FEAR COSTS $20,000 Small Boy Given Damages in Court Suit. A jury awarded a 7-year-old boy $20,000 damages today in superior court four, after analyzing a fear complex, which surrounds the boy like a dark pall since he was struck a heavy blow while at play. The jury gave the judgment to Billy Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hawkins of 415 South Alabama street, from Tony Caruso, 60, of 601 South East street. The boy has been afraid to play, his eyesight is impaired and his talk impeded, the parents charged. Caruso admitted striking the boy with a pop bottle, Aug. 13, 1930. while the boy was playing in front of his home. Physical injuries, , parents said, are overshadowed by the state of fear in which the boy was left. He is scared of automobiles, street cars and other noisy objects. “Clasping his hand over his heart, Billy is overcome with fright at the slightest provocation,” the father, a barber, testified. Billy apparently is a normal child except, for his eyesight and speech.

1,200 BACK TO JOB Resume Work in Rail Shops at Beech Grove. Twelve hundred employes of the Big Four locomotive shops in Beech Grove were returned to work today, railroad officials announced. The heavy locomotive repair and maintenance shops resumed work on a forty-hour week schedule which was effective before the last shutdown. Decision to reopen the shops followed national agreement of railway labor groups with operators to take a 10 per cent reduction in wages. It was announced only former employes are to be reinstated.

war situation on Page 2. The other articles will appear Tuesday and Wednesday. ana A FEW jumps ahead of ail the the other fashion experts, Amos Parrish this week will regale women readers of The Times (and a lot of the men, too) with the following topics: Today, bright colors make the smartest spring costumes; Tuesday, cotton and wool liven up spring silks; Wednesday, new spring suits for men; Thursday, red, white, and blue for spring dresses; Friday, Up-in-back hats; Saturday, George Washington type furniture. Mrs. Walter Ferguson, the nation’s greatest woman editorial writer, on Tuesday will take issue with Henry L. Mencken on cookery. Her theme Wednesday will be "Don't Expect Your Children

Ex-Fruit Merchant Cheered as He Regains Control of Huge Bank Chain. By United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 15. Amadeo Peter Giannini, billiondollar banker, who started as a fruit merchant, “came back” out of his retirement today to wrest control of the Transamerica Corporation from Wall Street in a spectacular battle of proxies.

Giannini swept into control of the financial system by polling 15,371.578 votes out of the 24,153,900 cast. Two hundred s t ockholders, whose confidence in the banker helped him to build the corporation into a system that spread from coast to coast, and that was at one time valued at $1,100,-

000,000, cheered madly when the result of the poll was announced. Elisha Walker, Wall Street banker, who assumed Giannini’s position in control of the institution last year, upon the founder’s retirement, was not present. It was announced that Giannini would assume his old position as chairman of the board. He will accept no salary, he said, although his predecesor, Walker, received SIOO,000 yearly. Retired in 1930 John M. Grant, manager of the London office of Transamerica, will be president of the reorganized concern, at $20,000 a year compared to the $60,000 paid to G. A. Bicigalupi. The entire Walker slate of directors was ousted. Giannini announced his retirement to private life in 1930, confident, he said, that the affairs of the company were in competent hands. Decline in the stock market and unfavorable banking conditions during the year drove the company’s stock down from a high of $67 to $2 a share, and the slump cracked the company’s assets down from $1,100,000,000 to approximately $300,000,000. Charged Pledges Broken The policy of Elisha Walker, it was announced, would be to dispose of a majority interest in the banks controlled by Transamerica, and in line with this decision the Bank of America, with its sixty branches in New York, was merged with the powerful National City bank, Transamerica becoming the largest stockholder in that institution, with 8 per cent of the outstanding shares. Giannini was vacationing in Austria when the National City bank deal was announced. He cabled charges that the new directing managment of Transameria had broken its pledges to him when he retired, and indicated he would return to fight for control of the company.

to Be Perfect. Thursday, "Football, a Refined Racket; Friday, "Solomon Wasn’t So Wise.” Heywood Broun on Tuesday will take to task those who enjoy pain, to pose as martyrs, and Wednesday, Hearst, the Democratic party’s 1932 problem. Third of the series of "The Child in the Painting,” on art masterpieces, will appear on The Times weekly school page Wednesday. a a a THE background story of the Sino-Japanese war is being told daily in The Times by William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Simms is the greatest authority on foreign affairs writing for the pres3 in this country today. The automobile show, with a dazzling array of new cars, is on this week, and Times reporters

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SUPREME COURT POST GIVEN TO JUDGE CARDOZO Jurist Who Believes With Holmes That Law Must Change With Times Appointed to Highest Bench by President Hoover. EXPECT LITTLE SENATE OPPOSITION Outstanding Qualities and Ability Outweigh Fact That New York Already Had Two of Nine Seats on Tribunal. By United rress WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, a judge who believes with Oliver Wendell Holmes that law’ must change with the times, w’as appointed today by President Herbert Hoover to take Holmes’ place on the supreme court bench. The nomination, a nonpartisan one, w’as sent to the senate, and is expected to be confirmed with little or no opposition. t Cardozo, a lean man of 61, with high forehead and piercing blue eyes, was approved widely by leaders of the legal profession and of the senate. His appointment constitutes a recognition by Mr. Hoover that his outstanding qualities and ability outweigh the fact that New York state already had two of the nine judges of the highest tribunal Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone.

Cardozo, now chief justice of his state’s highest court, the court of appeals, has served for seventeen years on the state bench. He was elected and re-elected following his appointment by Governor Whitman with the support of both party organizations. Cardozo’s appointment insures the continuation of the evenlybalanced division of the supreme court on vital social and economic questions. His own writings and what others say of him both indicate that he is a leader of social and legal philosophy on the same manner as was Holmes. Concerned With Social Justice His book of lectures, published in 1921, on “the nature of the judicial process” cites Holmes as one of his chief sources, in the course of an exploration of his own mind of the method by which judges do, and should determine the law. Cardozo’s concern as expressed herein is much more with social justice than with the precedents which from time immerrorial have been supported to govern justice—and judges. “Property, like liberty,” he said again, “though immune under the Constitution from destruction, is not immune from legislation essential for the common good.” He recognizes that judges make law, between the “interstices” which law-makers have not filled out. “I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life,” he said. “Not a judge on the bench but has had a hand in the making.” Cardoza approaches his judging with humility. Praised for His Writings “A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition,” he said once. At another point he spoke of his personal reactions to the law: “I was much troubled in spirit in my first years on the bench to find put how trackless was the ocean on which I had embarked. I sought for certainty. ... I have become reconciled to the uncertainly, because I have grown to see it as inevitable.” Cardozo’s writing has been praised as outstanding for its clarity and beauty. He is a native of New York City, and lives there with his sister in an old-fashioned mansion with overstuffed furniture. He is fond of joking about the “ugliness” of the house. He does not take exercise. His duties keep him much in Albany, where the court of appeals sits. Cardozo ip a picturesque figure, with a thin face and pale skin, a

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and feature writers will give you the full story of the exhibition. Vern Boxell, Times’ basketball columnist, who scored a grand slam last spring by naming Muncie to win the Indiana prep cage crown more than a month before the tourney, announces his annual tilt choice on today’s sport page. It’s Vincennes! Next Monday Boxell will pick an all-state team from the 800 Hoosier high school quintets. Along with this you get all the regular features of The Times—the best comics, Jane Jordan’s Manners and Morals, Tracy’s daily column on world affairs, made doubly interesting by his inimitable philosophy; radio, aviation, sports, society and other woman’s page features, late markets, complete sport coverage, and Walter Hickman’s dramatic department. You get all the news and the best features in The Times., %

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sharp high-bridged nose, blue eyes and a lofty forehead. He reads Latin and Greek for pleasure and likes concerts and the animal pictures in the movies. He is a graduate of Columbia law school, where he finished with highest honors at the age of 19, and is the second Jew to be a trustee of Columbia university. Justice Louis D. Bradley is the only other Jew on the supreme court now. Last year, Cardozo was awarded the Roosevelt medal for distinguished service in the development of public law, and the citation said. His penetrating mind and unusual literary felicity have clarified for the legal world the function of the judge in shaping and developing the law.*’ It also quoted former Governor Alfred E. Smith’s comment that Cardo “embodies every qualification consonant with the highest judicial ideals; a scholar of immeasurable attainments, a lawyer of unbounded legal erudition, the very embodiment of impartiality, fairness and justice.” Choice Approved by Norris Cardozo in 1927 declined President Calvin Coolidge’s offer to appoint him a judge of The Hague court of arbitration. In 1930 he was widely urged for the supreme court vacancy to which President Hoover named, first, Judge John J. Parker, who was rejected by the senate, and later Owen J. Roberts, whose nomination was confirmed. A number of law school deans who were meeting here then, mcmoralized the President t oappoint Cardozo. Approval of the senate judiciary committee, to which the nomination must go, was foreshadawodc before the appointment when its chairman, Senator George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.), commented that if he were doing the appointing, either Cardozo or Circuit Judge W. S. Kenyon would get the place of Holmes. Senator W. E. Borah (Rep., Ida.) a member of the same committee, urged Cardozo’s appointment upon the President, despite the territorial inequality. Praised by Senate Leaders. “If there were two Virginians on the bench, and John Marshall was a candidate for a vacancy, I don’t think there should be any hesitation,” Borah commented. Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem., N. Y.) was the first to urge Mr. Hoover to appoint Cardozo following Holmes’ retirement. Wagner explained he did so without Cardozo’s having any knowledge of his move, appointment was enthusiastic. All Senate response to the Cardozo factions were quick with praise for the appointment.

PLEDGE AID TO BANKS | Columbia City Depositors Promise Not to Cause Further Runs. An optimistic note was sounded in the state banking department today when it was announced by offi- ; cials that two banks reopened, | under depositors’ agreements to co- ' operate, and federal reconstruction finance corporation is expected to aid liquidations in Indiana shortly. The banks are the two closed recently at Columbia City. They are the Farmers Loan and Trust and j the Columbia City State bank. Both have 95 per cent agreement from j the depositors not to cause another i run, banking department officials said. ‘TOO MANY HOSPITALS’ Secretary Wilbur Vigorously Opposes Further Veterans Construction. By United Prets CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Secretary of Interior Wilbur today vigorously j opposed construction of any more government hospitals for war veterans. "Our national government has gone far eonugh, if not too far. in : hospital building and construction,” 'he declared in an address before the American Medical Association’s annual congress on medical education.

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