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Branch Cabell It uaed to be James Branch Cabell, but with the publication of "These Restless Heads” the author has chopped off the James. Hi* latest Is published by Mcßride and i the February choice of the Literary Guild. * U B BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THE thing that I like about Bruce Barton is that he- docs not attempt to "cheapen” the thing he writes about. He simply and honestly is trying | to rub elbows with the characters in the Bible. Maybe twenty years ago, if Barton had written "He Upset the World,” just published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, the author might have been jailed or given a ride on a rail out of town. Today the question, what is religion? is bein answered many times in a very human manner. The answers have ceased to be revolutionary when humanly honest and not written just to shock or kill a beautiful idea. n n u "He Upset the World,” is a book about Paul. Barton asks the question: "Why is Paul so uninteresting to most of us? Partly for the reason that the books about Jesus, written in former days, failed to make Him real or appealing. He was presented as a divine visitor on a brief vacation from heaven. He had no real struggle, no crises. He was never tempted to leave the whole enterprise and save His life by going quietly back to Galilee and His Carpenter shop.” And also: “So with Paul. He, too, is presented in his biographies as an actor chosen by an Almight Producer for a predestined part. God has determined to establish aj church. He selects Paul to do the! work. Paul is a saint. He can not 1 fail.” The greatest idea of Barton in his | new book is determining what ! Jesus really accomplished is: "He! came not to found a church or to j formulate a creed; He came to lead' a life.” Here is a truly great human understanding of the subject handled. nun Here is a strange one. Neither the publishers of “The Clairvoyant” nor the Book League of America which chose the book for its March publication, knows anything of the author, Ernst Lother. All they know is that he is dramatic critic of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna. Some newspaper men must lead a retiring life. nun Six characters, all dead, who arrive in the next world in "The Kingdom in the Sky,” by Alice Brown, author of “Old Crow,” and there they meet Julius Caesar and others, it will be a March publication of the Macmillan company. an The Century Company announces that “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” is celebrating her thirtieth year by a sale of 4,500 copies. Since the book was published October, 1901, the total sales are now hoverding around three quarters of a million copies. n n n On Monday, Feb. 29. Claude Kendall, New York publisher, will publish “Thirteen Women,” by Tiffany Thayer, who wrote “Thirteen Men.” I have read an advance copy and I assure you get an asbestos cushion and chair when you read this one. * n * THE winner of today's book review is Archer Shirley. R. R. 9, Bex 478. who reviews “The Lady Who Came to Stay.” by R. E. Spencer. From now on, the reviews submitted must not be over 200 words in length. We are trying to get thumbnail reviews and the readers’ own reactions to the book. Send in your book review’s to the editor of this department, and the winners each week, until further notice, will nave choice of one of several good books as soon as the winners get in touch with this department. Shirley’s winning review is in part as follows: One of the outstanding novels •written within the last few months is that very entertaining story. ' The Ladv Who Came to Stay.” written by R. E. Spencer of our own city. ••The Lady Who Came to Stay” is anew type of ghost story, a really Interesting one. even ts you don’t believe in ehosts. because Mr. Spencer brings them before you in such a way that vou resent them hot at all, but look forward to their next comine with expectancy. •••This Is one of the most powerful and gripping stories that has been published recently and will well repay the reader who is seeking something different in his fiction. * n CONINGSBY DAWSON has pounded out another novel for Coningsby Dawson readers. This time it’s about Santa, her second husband Clive, and her first mistake, Dicky. The characters are commonplace. the situations somewhat hackneyed and the writing approaches mediocrity. Its name: “A Path to Paradise” (Knopf).

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SOVIET WRATH FLAMES OVER TOKIOACTIONS White Russian Plots Are Supported by Japan, Moscow Charges. OPPOSE TROOP MOVES Nipponese Accussed of Plan to Attack Vladivostok, Pacific Port. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—The Soviet government has expressed sharp dissatisfaction with Japanese plans to transport troops to points on the Soviet-Manchurian frontier and with alleged Japanese support of ! ! anti-Soviet white Russian activities, I it was revealed today. The press at the same time I charged Japan was organizing a White Russian army to attack Soviet forces at Vladivostok. Leo Karakhan. assistant commissar of foreign affairs, asked Japanese Ambassador Hirota for con- J firmation and explanation of four ; reports: That the Japanese command at Harbin intended to transport troops to the Soviet frontier. Charge Japanese Plot That the command proposed to reduce fares for soldiers transported over the Chinese Eastern railroad. That Russian emigres were increasingly active under Japanese protection and support. The nature of the proposed independent state in Manchuria. The Soviet press charged that the Japanese were organizing the white Russian army to attack points at one end of the Chinese Eastern railroad while the Japanese attacked the other end. Vladivostok, eastern terminus of the railway, is Russia’s great seaport in the Orient, practically its only seaport after loss to Japan of Porth Arthur in the war of twentyfive years ago. The text of the interview between Karakhan and Hirota, which took place two days ago, was published today. Explanation Is Demanded Karakhan asked the ambassador' whether the Japanese command in Manchuria had asked for facilities to transport troops to Imyanpo and Pogranichnaya, at the eastern terminal of the Chinese Eastern. Since such movement would involve a frontier point, the foreign office pointed out that it raised a political problem beyond the competence of officials of the Chinese Eastern railway. Karakhan considered that the proposal of the Japanese command to agree to 50 'per cent reduction of fares over the Chinese Eastern railway for soldiers, and free transportation destined to protect the railroad, was a political question affecting existing treaties between Russia and Japan, and Russia and China. The Chinese have a half interest in control of the railroad. Karakhan demanded an explanation of reports that exiled czarist' Russians are increasingly active against the soviets “under the protection and direct support of the Japanese, which contrasts with the Japanese ambassador’s assurance to Karakhan and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff that the Japanese would not support the emigres.” Army Is Ready Moscow also asked for “information about the new formed government of Manchuria, and the nature of the government.” Ambassador Hirota undertook to confer with his government on the matters mentioned. The Soviet army is ready to spring to the defense of Russia’s frontiers against any attempt at intervention by czarist Russians or foreign powers, General Vassily Bluecher, commander in chief of the special far eastern army, told a mass meeting of government leaders at Khabarovsk. Bluecher made his address on the anniversary of the red army on Feb. 22. The text of the address received here today revealed the tensely patriotic state of mind in the Soviet region bordering on Manchuria. The Soviet standing army numbers more than a half-milion. Its reserves number 4,500,000. v FARM BUREAU GROUP PLANS ANNUAL PARLEY Stockholders to Meet March 1 and 2 at Sevcrin; Gurley to Speak. Annual stockholders meeting of ; the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-op- ; erative Association will be held March 1 and 2 at the Severin. Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, will speak at 8 Tuesday night on “Shall We Co-operate.” Other speakers for the sessions will include Lee Highlan, of the livestock department; O. B. H. Miller, Sixth district director; B. B. Benner of the Central State Grain l Association, and John Thomas, president of the Hancock county P’arm Bureau. TWO DIE IN CRASHES Fatalities Occur at South Bend and Columbus. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 26.—Mrs. Florence Griffith, 28. Rockwell, la., was killed instantly when the auto in which she was riding collided head-on with another on a highway near here. Mrs. Vera Carter, whom Mrs. Griffith was visiting. I was injured critically. i Hu United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind., Feb. 26.Adam Rutkowski, 32. Mishawaka, was killed and Ralph Alexander, also of Mishawaka, was injured seriously when the truck which Alexander was driving plunged from i a highway near here and over--1 tum^.

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Not Even a Nip 327 Pints of Liquor in House, but Nary a Drop for Flu.

EARL SELLS, 33, of 2408 Eas,t Thirtieth street, will have to get over an attack of flu without using a single one of the 327 pints of bonded whisky police said they confiscated at his home today. The whisky, valued at nearly $2,000 by Sergeant John Eisenhut, who said he believed it was genuine bonded liquor, was found in a concealed sub-cellar, police said. Sells, ill in bed with flu, was not taken into custody, but was ordered to report to police headquarters for arrest as soon as his condition improves. Eisenhut said Sells pleaded with the officers to give him at least one pint of the liquor “to cure his flu.” Police were sympathetic, but turned down the request. An automobile with a rear compartment arranged for transporting liquor was found at the house, Eisenhut said. It was registered under the name of “Frank Taylor, Hotel Linden.” Search of Sells’ home was conducted by Eisenhut and patrolmen Freeman Smock and Otto Fulton. ASK U. S. RACKET _AW By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Representatives of St. Louis business and civic interests today appealed to congress for legislation enabling the federal government to join in the ca'mpaign against kidnaping.

JAPANESE TROOP MOVES SHOW SOME GROUND GAINED

In the following analysis of the Shanghai military Mtuation, General Ely refers to reports ttilt the Chinese have about fifteen planes available. Early today the Japanese claimed to have destroyed fourteen. If both these sets of figures are correct. It means virtual destruction of the entire available Chinese sir force. BY MAJOR GENERAL HANSON E. ELY. TJ. S. A. Retired (Copyright. 1932. by United Pressi. WASHINGTON. Feb. 36. Renewed attack by Japanese infantry, supported by twenty whippet tanks in the vicinity of Tazang on the north flank, and renewed air bombing of Kiangwan. with some forty air bombers, is reported. An advance of about 1,000 yards was reported by the Japanese on their north flank. , w

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FIGHT HOARDING, PLEA TOJ.ABOR Federation Asks Members to Help Dollar Drive. Letters urging co-operation of more than 1,600 state labor organizations in the Citizens > Reconstruction Organization .campaign against hoarding, will be circulated by tfye Indiana State Federation of Labor, it was announced today. Support of the federation was pledged by T. N. Taylor of Terre Haute, president, and Adolph Fritz, "cretary, in a conference with Richard Lieber, Indiana campaign chairman.- • • • • Letters to the labor groups read, in part: “Those who have hoarded money must be persuaded that it is safe for them to invest their funds in government bonds, government securities of all kinds, and, besides, that it is their duty to do so—that, all money of the nation may be used for legitimate purposes and to stimulate business in every possible way.” . Alfred M. Glossbrenner, president of the Levey Printing Company and Indianapolis candidate for mayor on the Republican ticket at the last election, has been appointed Marion county chairman of the anti-hoard-ing drive. The appointment was announced by Louis J. Borinstein, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Borinstein was appointed by Lieber. Former Rosamond Castle Dies NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Mrs. Alan Winslow, the former Rosamond Castle, daughter cf undersecretary of state and Mrs. William R. Castle, died today at her home here

A battle is made up of a large number of local combats, often fluctuating. There were commanders in the Boer war and also in the World war who withdrew their troops when not half of them had participated in battle, because the commander, instead of having knowledge of the whole action, accepted his own view of some local combat, where his troops w’ere worsted, as being the general situation. Likewise, unskilled observers easily may be misled by the fluctuations of local combate. a a a WHEN material gains are made you may look for the movement forward of artillery and po6ts of command. The

Upper Left—This graphic picture, rushed from Shanghai, gives an idea of the way the war-tom district looks after the tide of battle sweeps on. Note the dead Chinese in the street, and the destruction of buildings and factories by shells, bombs and flames. Center Left—This closeup of a Japanese defensive position, cammanding the North Station area at Shanghai, shows Nipponese marines packed behind a heavy sandbag redoubt, their rifles reinforced by machine guns and armored cars. Lower Left—Japanese lost no time in dragging light field pieces toward the front after they took charge of fighting around the Woosung forts. Photo, rushed from China, shows artillerymen moving forward, pulling their guns and caissons. Upper Right First aviation casualty in the fighting around Shanghai was Wong Toon, Chinese aviation ace, shot down in battle. He was bom and schooled at Marysville, Cal., then went to China and became an army flier. Center Right—Men of the Thirty-first United States infantry are shown in their position on the international settlement border at Shanghai. The area around them has been the scene of much fighting. The doughboys have “a free front seat.” Lower Right—When the Japanese army relieved marines in the fighting around Woosung, an intensive drive behind the lines resulted in arrest of these Chinese as snipers. Hands bound behind them, they waited death or prison. Texas Band Plans Tour By United Press AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 2s.—'The orange and white uniformed student band of the University of Texas and their accompanying student group .of cowboys will tour Europe this summer if plans materialize. ,

echeloning to the north and west in the last twenty-four hours of Japanese artillery would seem to indicate they had made a certain amount of what x they consider to be real gain. The twenty whippet tanks reported used in the attack arc a comparatively small number. In the World war often thirty-five or forty were used with a single brigade. These tanks are valuable in reducing strong points and barbed wire, but at Shanghai the swampy ground, cut up by streams and canals, is very unfavorable to their use. nun IN addition to tanks, the principal superiority of the Japan-

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‘MARCH OF TIME’ TO - GO OFF THE RADIO

By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The weekly “March of Time” radio program will be discontinued after tonight’s broadcast because its sponsor, Time Magazaine, says its advertising purpose has been accomplished and m SYSTEM RAPPED Excessive Cost of Running State Cited by Beckett. By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 26.—Figures showing that wage decreases have not been met by proportionate decreases in costs of government were presented here Thursday night by Joe Rand Beckett, Indianapolis, executive secretary of the Indiana Association for Tax Justice, who addressed the Allen County Taxpayers’ Association. In 1913, considered by economists generally as a typically normal year, Indiana citizens paid $60,169,783 in taxes—township, city, county, state and federal. This includes licenses and fees of all sorts,” he said. Beckett said in 1913 persons employed in Indiana totaled 1,036,710, and the average annual income was $368 and the average tax per person was SSB. In 1929, the yearly wage was $319 and taxes, S2OB. In 1931, the wage dropped to $506, a decrease of $313, but taxes were $205, a decrease of only $3 from the sum paid when the worker received $Bl9 a year.

ese is in their air service. Reports show that, while the Chinese have only about fifteen planes available, the Japanese have more than 120 planes at Shanghai, with bombers capable of carrying as much as 2,200 pounds of explosives. The largest air bombs used to date have been reported at 250 pounds. The continued air bombing, with large bombs up to 250 pounds, eventually should reduce most of the machine gun nests and dugouts of the Chinese in both Kiangwan and Tazang. These undoubtedly are hastily constructed and probably are near the surface, as the Chinese handily can dig down only a few feet, some ten or less, due to water under surface.

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“further expenditure on radio fit this time would not justify itself.” The fact that tens of thousands of listeners have protested its discontinuance, Time says, is “testimony to the leanness of radio fare.” "Unlike the newspaper, which sells advertising to fulfill its prime function of giving news, the advertisement is radio’s prime offering,” the magazine asserts. “Also unlike a newspaper, which increases its pages along with any increase in advertising, radio is restricted to the hours of the day. Os these hours, it sells as many as it can. Naturally, the evening hours, when most listeners are tuned in —the ‘front page’ of radio—are virtually the property of the advertiser. "Should Time or any other business feel obliged to be the ‘philanthropist of the air,’ to continue paying for radio advertising it does not want, to provide radio with something worth while?” The Columbia broadcasting system, over whose network the program broadcast, complimented Time on having achieved its primary purpose, and denied that it is necessary for any company to pay for something it does not want to “provide radio with something worth while.” It said another sponsor would continue, the type of program sponsored by Time. LIFE TERM IS FACED Logan sport Man May Be Sentenced as Habitual Criminal. By United Press LOGANSFORT, Ind., Feb. 26. Wilbur Miller, 32, faced life imprisonment on an habitual charge here today, following his return from the Indiana state reformatory, where he was serving a one to tenyear term. Miller was identified as the bandit who robbed a gasoline station last December. He was held in default of SIO,OOO bond. ARSON TRIAL DATE SET GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 26. Trial of Oscar R. Rich, 60, Sullivan, on a charge of arson, was for April 8 at a conference between Attorney Sllnkard of Bloomfield, representing Rich, and Prosecutor Marshall B. Abrams of Putnam county. Rich Is charged in a grand Jury Indictment with burning a $4,500 building he owned at Bainbridge, ten miles from here, in December, 1930, to collect insurance.

JAPAN HOLDS ALL TRUMPS IN FAR EAST U. S. Islands in Pacific Are at Mercy of Nippon If War Comes. TREATY STAND AMAZING Tokio’s Claim That 9-Power Pact Does Not Apply in China Is Startling. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreicn Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Japan's claim that the nine-power treaty to safeguard China’s territorial and political integrity does not apply, because conditions there are unsettled, is viewed here with amazement. Navy and state department officials emphatically assert that the whole purpose of the treaty was to remove Pacific and far eastern areas from the realm of conquest, to make possible a program of peace and disarmament, in which the United States voluntarily made the heaviest sacrifices. Purpose of navies and naval bases, a naval authority declared, is to be able to strike wherever national interests may be endangered. Patiently, therefore, if the far east still was to be regarded as a field for conquest, the United States would not have left its interests there undefended. At Japan's Mercy The Philippines, Guam, Samoa, and other American interests in the Orient, it was pointed out, today are hostages in the hands of Japan, offering constant, tangible proof of our good faith. Should Japan scrap the four-power pact as well as the nine-power treaty, these interests would be hers for the taking. From Yokosuka, great Japanese naval base, to Guam, is only 1,350 miles. From our nearest base, in Hawaii to Guam, it is more than 3,300 miles. From Bako, in the Japanese islands, to Manila It is a bare 800 miles, while from Hawaii it is 4,500, and from San Francisco, 7,500. Between Hawaii and the Philippines lie the Japanese outposts in the mandated islands of Jaluit, Ponape, Truk, the Bonins, and so on, whence our warships, en route to relieve Manila, easily could be waylaid. 2,000 Miles to Hawaii From our Pacific coast bases to Hawaii is more than 2,000 miles. By the time our fleet could reach Hawaii, tacticians assert, the Japanese fleet could do the 1,350 miles to Guam, and the 800 miles to the Philippines and take possession. At Guam are only a few antiquated six-inch guns—no match whatever for the sixteen-inch thunderers of Nippon’s Negatos and Mutsus. And while the United States naval base at Cavite, on Manila bay, is somewhat better armed, Manila would not be attacked from the sea, but taken from the rear by forces landed farther up the coast. Very few troops are stationed there. If Japan forced a war on the United States, navy men say, our fleet would have to wait at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, until sufficient ships could be built to risk the 4,800 mile voyage from there to the scene of conflict. All this should make it perfectly clear, it is observed, that very definite peace pledges regarding the Pacific and the far east were indispensable before the United States would scrap its then existing defense machinery and leave its every interest west of Hawaii at the mercy of Japan. Danger Spot of Orient China long has been the danger spot in the far east. It is an open, secret that the great powers have been anticipating her break-up and planning to grab her territory. For the last forty years the menace has been more marked than ever, and ; statesmen have feared that another world war might get its start there. Accordingly, at the Washington % conference, China was as much in the spotlight as naval limitation itself. It was recognized that her domestic affairs were chaotic and would continue to be so, probably for decades to come. It would take many years for her to switch over from medieval ways ; to modern and, pending the transii tion, she would be too weak to de- ' fend herself. The nine-power treaty, pledging ; the signatories not to take advantage of her chaos therefore, thus became the keystone to the whole far eastern peace structure, and. this structure, in turn, became the foundation of the agreement to limit sea power.

U. S. LOSING MARKET South African Corn Replacing U. S. Crop for Canadian. Use. By United Press OTTAWA, Feb. 26.—South African corn rapidly is replacing United States corn in the Canadian market, import statistics for the last two years revealed today. In 1930, imports of corn from the United States totaled 4,986.958 bushels valued at $4,324,464. In 1932 they had dropped to 2,208,087 bushels valued at $1,338,519. Imports from South Africa, meanwhile, more than tripled. HOOVER LAGS IN POLL’ Runs Far Behind Governor Roosevelt in Cincinnati Straw Ballot. CINCINNATI, Feb. 26.—1n a straw vote conducted by the Ciricinnatl Post, President Hoover received only 1,880 votes, while Governor Roosevelt received 2 647. Former President Coolidge recurved 1,220 votes and Senator Borah 488. Newton D. Baker received 1,204, Governor Ritchie 572, Owen D. Young 252 and A1 Smith 210. Total Democrat votes were 4,675 to 3,588 Republican. ,