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FORECAST: Occasional rain probable tonight and tomorrow; temperatures, with lowest tonight about 36.

VOLUM

E 49—NUMBER 229

rising

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 3, 1937

MAY BET

House Body Discusses Tapping Levy-Free Salaries As Revenue Source.

BORAH RAPS FARM BILL |

Charges Measure Is Road to National Suicide; Scores

4 Validity. TAX REVISTON—House Ways and Means Subcommittee discusses advisibility of taxing 50 billions of tax exempt securities and levying on tax exempt salaries. "ARM BILL—Senator Borah flays theory of scarcity in Administra- | tion crop control plan. Says it) threatens national suicide. WAGES AND HOURS BILL—President William Green of A. F. of L. announces the federation would | submit a mew Wages and Hours Bill for consideration of Congress.

BUSINESS — Alfred P. Sloan Jr., General Motors’ board chairman, blames fear for slump in industrial production.

WASHINGTON, (U. P.).—The House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee today discussed the advisability of taxing $£50,522,000.000 of tax exempt securities and levying on tax exempt salaries. No decisions were reached.

Dec.

Smoke gets in your lungs—and here is graphic ,

pictorial evidence of what it does.

On the right is a typical Indianapolis lung. blackOn the left is another, The normal, pink lung is shown #1 the center.

ened by smoke.

IN WEST RAISED

‘Weiss May Carry Fight for No One Willing to Alter Law,

ICC Authorizes Increase as Lines Request Higher Freight Rates.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U. P.)— The Interstate Commerce Commission today authorized a passenger fare increase for Western Southwestern railroads which it was

| estimated will amount to $2,500,000

annually.

“We continued discussion of the taxing of state and municipal salaries,” Chairman Fred M. Vinson (D. Kv.) said. “We also discussed the Glass proposal in relation to tax exempt securities and had a general, broad discussion of the abolition of tax exemptions through constitutional amendment, and by statute. “We reached no agreement on any these items.”

of Discuss Glass Plan

The Glass proposal is a plan advanced by Senator Glass (D. Va.), when he was Secretary of the Treasury by which the income from tax exempt! securities would be used to determine the rate on which a tax- | paver is assessed. The rate would he applied only on his taxable income, however. Some committee members believe such an indirect levy on tax exempt securities is possible without constitutional amendment. Mr. Vinson said there was no estimate on how much revenue mignt | be raised through proposals discussed today. Treasury statistics. he said. show that the net total of interest bearing Federal tax exempt securities is $35.548.000,000 of which $12,993,000. 000 is wholly exempt and the remainder subject to surtaxes. State and local exempt obligations total | $14.854.000,000 net, while the similar total for territorial and insular possessions is $120,000,000. Senator Borah (R. Ida.) today flayed the theory of scarcity in the Administration crop control legisla- | (Turn to Page Three)

10 ESCAPE FIRE IN APARTMENT HOUSE

An alarm spread by Paul Davis, 23 saved 10 persons from possible | injury when fire broke out in an | apartment house at 816 N. Delaware St.. easly today. The blaze apparently started in the first-floor apartment occupied by Mr and Mrs. Ollie Owens. who arrived home while firemen were at the scene. | Mr. Davis, son of Mrs. Owens, asleep in the apartment, was awakened by smoke which filled the rooms. He said he found the living room ablaze. After calling the Fire Department, Mr. Davis aroused the other occupants of the building. | Fire was confined to the Owens’ living room, causing damage to furniture and the building estimated at $150.

Invalid Is Burned

To Death at Bloomington

BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 3 (U. P.. —Funeral arrangements were being completed today for Mrs. W. XK. Payton, 62-year-old invalid, who was burned to death in her home here late vesterday. The fire was believed

| Union Pacific, Santa Fe, | Pacific, Great Northern. Sioux Line;

| cording to a Census

to have started from a defective stove. Unable to remove her mother

| Washington

from the burning house alone, Dora | Payton, 18, ran to neighbors to sum- |

mon help but by the time she returned the roof had collapsed.

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The increases authorized were: 1. One-way tourist sleeping car fares from 2 to 2!:. cents per mile with a corresponding increase in the round-trip fare. 2. The round-trip 30-day coach fare from a basis of 180 per cent of the one-way fare of 2 cents per mile to a basis of 190 per cent. 3. All-year excursion fares 10 per |

| cent over the present rate.

4. Round-trip station-to-station

first class fare with a six-months | limit

on the basis of 1 2-3 of one-way fare of 3 cents per mile | to a basis of 1 5-6.

5. A one-way transcontinental

| special coach fare of 15 cents per |

mile to be increased 14.5 per cent

| and the round-trip transcontinental six-months limit excursion fares to | be increased approximately 13:34 per |

cent. Major railroads affected by the passenger fare order today were the Northern |

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; Northwestern. the Rock Island: Missouri Pacific; the Southern Pacific. | and St. Louis-San Francisco.

40 STATES REPORT GAIN IN POPULATION

U. S. Estimate 129 Million, Indiana 3,474,000.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 (U. P).— The Census Bureau today reported population gains this vear for 40 states and the District of Columbia. In the remaining; states, the population was estimated unchanged from the previous vear. The total population of United States on July 1, 1937, Bureau

the

pro-

visional estimate, was

by divisions and states follow: July 1, July 1, 1933 State hounsands) United States 4 129.257 Maine 5 New Hampshire ... Vermont winieie Massachusetts ...,, Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey ......s. Pennsylvania ...

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10 | Ohio

| Michigan | Wisconsin IINEBOBA verve svvavenivin | Towa

Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas West Virginia Kentuckv Tennessee

PATKAnNSas ..... pe...

Louisiana Oklahoma 2548 | 6.172 539 | 493 235 1,071 422 33 101

Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah

Nevada

6.154

and lif the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility

| utility

limit | spent | enlarge the plant we'd have to earn

the |

129.257,000. | The estimated popuiation figures

not so bad. for

Times Photo

Dr. Herman Morgan, City Health Board secretary, says the smoke blanket which chokes Indianapolis residents several days monthly largely is responsible the high number of pneumonia deaths and respiratory diseases here.

RAILROAD FARES Council Battle Indicated

After Talks on Problem

Coke Price Cut to Legislature.

State Senator Jacob Weiss, Indianapolis, indicated today he would carry to the Legislature the fight for the sale of coke at reduced prices

Co. fails to “do it voluntarily.” Meanwhile, Thomas L. Kemp, manager, said the company was “drawing up estimates on enlargig the plant's coke capacity to take care of the entire city.” “But remember,” he said, 25 or We

a return on that investment.

| can mot raise the price to 83.000

gas consumers in order to lower it l'to 15,000 coke consumers.”

Exemption Is Sought Senator Weiss said:

“If the Citizens Gas & Coke Util- | | ity would live up to its name and “put teeth” in

|'serve the people of Indianapolis, |

who are the owners of Utility, it | termine smoke vioiations, league of- |

“if we | 30 million dollars to! 'want to know the real cause of i

la proposed | Smoke

Oren Says Following Conference.

A battle over proposed Amend- | gospital,

ments to the City's Smoke Abate- | ment Ordinance loomed today after an informal conference of City | Councilmen with Mayor Boetcher. Referring to vesterday's session,

William Oren, Republican, said: “No one there was willing to change the

law. We have enough laws now if |

they were enforced.” Dr. Silas J. Carr, Democrat, but we are not 1 personally

smogke abatement, going to.do it blindly.

before anything is done.” The Council recently voted down amendment to the Ordinance, and Smoke Abatement League officials indicated it would be reintroduced at next

Monday's Council session.

The proposed amendment the present ordi-| nance by legalizing equipment to de- |

would make arrangements with the | ficials said. coke outlet in Cincinnati for an ex- |

emption from the sales agreement

| for the Indianapolis district. Our | smoke evil would abate overnight.

4-Point Plan Offered Roy O. Johnson, league attorney,

| yesterday recommended a four-point |

“The Citizens Gas & Coke Util- | program. including a $30.000 annual

ity could very well exempt a suffi- |

| cient amount of coke to be sold to”|

| | Indianapolis citizens at two or three |

| dollars under the present price withi out affecting the gas rate one single | penny. “The price of coal is going up. If | the price of coke were reduced, con- | sumers would burn this smokeless | fuel instead of cheap. soft coal, and | he worst of the smoke evil would | be eliminated almost automatically. “I insist that the municipally | owned gas plant should sell its coke ' produce to the citizens of Indianapolis at discounts to make up the | investment in this utility by the | citizens of Indianapolis. | “Let it not be said that this cannot be done. If the utility management won't do it voluntarily, we will find other means to accomplish

| smoke in New York and

{

|right for the Council to pass an or- |

{his when the next Legislature con- |

venes.”’

LARCENY SUSPECT

ac- |

A prisoner *who gave his name Pete Brown, 20, of 432 Indijerked away and escaped

as ana Ave.

{where hard coar is burned.

appropriation by smoke control department; member commission to abatement work; violators by the City legal depart-

‘ment, and an educational campaign. | “They have |

Mr. Oren said today: elsewhere When-

{ever the wind drops to one mile an |

(hour you can't expect to have any- | thing else. Personally I never would spend $30,000 for the program.” Claiming that “the smoke pall o~curs only a few times a year and

| then nobody can do anything about | 1S not |

it,” Dr. Carr added that ‘it

dinance without an investigation.”

‘Laws Enough Now’

“Real ered. We are willing thing within the bounds of reason,

| but feel there are laws enough now

[ally I ‘oughly

ESCAPES OFFICER

are enforcable. want to Investigate thorwhat the cause is before we adopt a program for relief.”

if thy

Although no definite action was |

| taken at the session, Mavor Boetch-

er said “some of the Council mem-

| bers felt that no drastic ordinance

| from Patrolman Walter Gibson as |

he was being taken into Police Station this afternoon.

should be enacted, expressing the belief that the job of smoke con-

| trol is one of education.”

Patrolman Gibson said he hung |

lon to the prisoner's coat but the latter slipped out of it and ran out the front door. The prisoner on a larceny charge.

FOUR-YEAR SEARCH

ENDS AT FT. WAYNE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U. P). |

—The Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tion today announced the end of a | t for Horace Alverson, 56. wanted on a charge of |

four-vear h

| transporting a stolen car from Chicago to Peru, Ind.

| Alverson was arrested yesterday | | by Ft. Wayne, Ind., police. and FBI | He jumped a $1000 bond

‘agents.

| er's proposed $350,000 bond issues | mobile accident had asked for shel- |

had been arrested |

| sion to discuss the

Meanwhile, Council members gave

2DEAD, 4 HURT CRITICALLY AS CAR, TRUCK HIT

Cause of Head-on Collision West of Richmond Not Known.

‘Five Speeders Fined and 17

Others Will Face Court Later.

"TWO are killed, four critically tet

| ACCIDENT PREVENTION

said: | “We will do everything possible for |

would |

estate has to be consid- | to do anyv- |

I person- |

jured in traffic accident

Richmond.

near

TWENTY-FIVE motorists fined $209 |

for traffic law violations.

BUREAU sidewalks for pedestrians boulevards.

| POLICE school to train officers in | enforcement of new State safety law opens in Lafavette,

(Editorial, Page 22) RICHMOND. Dec. 3 (U. P).—Two | persons were Killed and four others critically injured last night in a | head-on auto-truck collision on U. |S. 40 west of here. The dead were: Economy, Ind. Ivan, about 26. The injured,

along

28, brother

Denver Oler, and his

all in Richmond were: Howard Oler; Mrs. Wave Walker, Richmond: Carl | Bane, 18, Richmond : James Burton, | Richmond; Rue Ewing, Carthage: Howard Brooks, Mount Comfort, O Police said Mr. Ewing and Mr. Brooks were riding in the truck |'which was filled with logs. Miss Walker and the five other men were riding in the car. Cause of the crash was not determined immediately,

Police Crack Down; Accuse 22 of Speeding

$10 more suspended. The others were {to appear in court later,

Kentucky Ave. traffic on the lert side of the street at 52 miles an { hour, Joseph Smith, 205 8. Arsenal Ave. was fined $20 for speeding and $20 for reckless driving.

Arrested after witnesses said he

the City for a |phad been racing with an auto in8 NiNe- |yolved in a fatal accident, SUpervise | gohrader, 811 N. Alabama St. prosecution of | fined $15 on a cnarge of failing to

George WAS

| have a driver's license. Victim in the accident was Robert Wilson. 21-vear-old bridegroom, 1152 Gimber St., killed Nov. 24 when (Turn to Page Three)

DEPUTY KILLED AS FUGITIVE ESCAPES

Sheriff Seriously Wounded; Posse Searches Woods.

LAGRANGE, Dec. 3 | posse of State Police officers today searched Imorth of here for a man identified |as Robert Shaw, 27. alleged slaver of Harry Spice. a deputy sheriff, who sought to arrest him for a Ken{dallville robbery last night. The shooting today occurred at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Walter | Deventhaugh, four miles north of here. They told deputies that a man whom, the authorities identified as | Shaw came to their home late last

(U. P)—A and local the woods

informal approval to Mayor Boetch- | night, said ne had been in an auto-

for a South Side street improvement.

Thoroughfare Discussed The Mayor called the Council sesproposed im- | provement which will provide =a |main thoroughfare in that section [and other proposals. He said simi-

| future. Councilmen also indicated they would approve an ordinance before [thie Council now calling for a $110.- | | 000 bond issue to complete construc- |

|tion of the new City Hospital wing.

STATE GETS LEVEES ALONG OHIO RIVER

[in 1933 when he was scheduled to | ,.

1.658 | =o to trial on a car theft charge,

officers charged.

Bobbitt Outlines G. O. P. Policies to Committee

(Photos, Page 3) Arch N. Bobbitt, TI Indiana Repub- |

28 | lican chairman. today outlined his | 21 | policies before the newly appointed 21

executive commiitece in closed session in the Claypool Hotel. Resolutions outlining a program for 1938 were expected to be drafted

discussion by members from all over the state. Subcommittees to enlist young voters, expected to be named, along with

labor and agriculture, were |

Committee meeting also are to be

selected, it was reported,

| day was the Interrelations Commit- | tee of the Indiana Republican Edi- | torial Association, indicating that

| River flood projects Meeting with the committee to- |

| Times Specinl | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.— Three | Indiana levee projects are on a list of 15 approved for immediate construction along the Ohio River, it

,/ was learned today when Co

men from the area wired President | Roosevelt for fund approval. Under the proposed 15-project plan, Evansville will receive $2,142 - | 780 , Tell City, $1256250 and Cannelton $1,105,000. Total for all pro)-

Committees to draft a program ects is $24,532,600. be submitted at the next State |

The President agreed to use $24.- | 800,000 of the relief funds for Ohio when emer- | gency appropriations were passed last session. Rep. John W. Boehne Jr., Evansvie joined in signing the message

to the President asking that these! | this afternoon following round table the breach between the editors and | funds be released now. the 20 committee State Committee had been healed | some discussion as to ‘W

hether the

since Mr. Bobbitt assumed com- |'wording should include “insist” or

| mittee leadership.

ecutive commtitee, an

“suggest” and the latter finally was

Mr. Bobbitt reorganized the ex- | decided upon. advisory

Rep. Eugene B. Crowe. Bedford,

other groups to ii-ndle special prob- | group to aid tae chairman and | declined to sign because Lawrence-

ment 2 a State Committee publicity | haus EE to be drafted.

attorney, 1s ado_o

A resolution favoring appoint- Sos Committee. John K. Ruckels- | burg was not on the list approved. Indianapolis All the Indiana towns to get ap‘district. |

proval are in Mi.

lar meetings would be held in the!

There was |

ter. The deputies traced Shaw to the Deventhaugh home and as five of them approached the house, they said, Shaw suddenly appeared in the door, fired a volley of shots and ran for a clump of woods. Deputy Sheriff Spice, who was in the lead was killed. Sheriff Irwin Cazier of | County and another Deputy Sheriff, | State Police said, were seriously wounded. Shaw, according to here, was wanted for {last night in Kendallville of a | grocery store during which Ear! Eu- | litt, 21. ® clerk. was shot in the abdomen.

authorities

46 ARE ARRESTED HERE

Five of the speeders paid $62, with |

Charged with passing a line of |

Noble |

the robbery |

Entered as Second-Class Matter Ind,

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

_ Bangs Wins |

REGAINS OFFICE AT HUNTINGTON

Impeached Mayor Warned By Judge Against Court Order Violations.

sponsors construction of |

MARION, Ind, Dec. 3 (U. P)

JAPAN'S TROOPS

RCED OUT OF MERICAN ZONE

———

‘Hot Words Exchanged During Protest of

Invasion of Defense

Sector After

Strang Parade Bombing.

INDICATES

—

A LL

ACTION BACKED

English High Gormand Is Shien Up to Get

SHANGHA=U. 8. Marines halt

Army Ready for “Emergency’

Japanese “invasion”

Duce’s

Paper Ridicules Boycotts.

of Amgrican de«

fense sector of International Settlement,

WASHINGTON=State officials reveal they S. Marines and Japanese troops.

near-clash of UU, against parade, | WARSAW=Yvon Delbos, conversations,

French foreign minister,

feared such an incident awn Had warned Japan

arrives for alliances

Circuit Judge O. D. Clawson ruled | PARIS=—Gen. Franco reported ready to agree to withdrawal of 3000 foreign troops on each side in Spanish war,

today that Mavor Clare W. H. Bangs of Huntington was impeached wrongfully by his City that he should continue until his term expires Dec. 31, 1938. There were insufficient grounds for impeachment, the Judge ruled, although he said Mayor Bangs was

in office

Council and |

HANKOW=-German sources report

LONDON=<Britain worried over increased fortifies strategic

Shanghai area:

mderwav,

ageressiveness In Army high

efforts to mediate war

Japanese island of Hongkong.

command shaken up and vounger officers promoted to prepare for

any “emergency.”

MILAN=TII Duce’s paper ridicules New York Times’ suggestion to hoveott

Germany, Ttaly and Japan,

guilty of civil contempt for violating |

several court injunctions,

the Judge held. Judge Clawson upbraided Mavor Bangs for violating court orders restraining him from extending the City's Municipal Utility Plant to | commercial users and warned him | against repeating the violations, “This is not to be construed as a mandate for vou to return to Huntington and reopen the Municipal | Light Plant,” Judge Clawson ruled. | Mayor Bangs was impeached [March 22, 1937, on 19 charges of misconduct in office. He was elected in 1934 on a plat- | | form of providing municipal power to private consumers at a lower rate | than Northern Indiana Power Co. When the power company enjoined | him, Mayor Bangs disregarded the | | order. He was cited for contempt of |

| court and in 1935 spent 101 days in |

his own jail at Huntington. Another violation in 1936 sent him back to | jail for 282 days more. He fought the contempt and permanent injunction to the State Supreme Court, judgments were upheld. Following his inpeachment, Bangs obtained a change of venue | to Grant County Circuit Court, ana finally won.

rulings but the

When Judge Clawson finished his |

opinion the crowded courtroom cheered wildly, friends or | Bangs. CALLS 22 WITNESSES |

AGAINST DALHOVER

SOUTH BEND, Dec, (U. P= Twenty-two witnesses have been summoned to appear in U, 8S. District Court at Hammond Monday for the trial of James Dalhover, “triggerman” of the Al Brady gang who is charged with the murdc: of State Policeman Paul Minneman. The summons were {issued by S. Marshal A. W, Hosinski for from Logansport and Officer Minneman was the gang was fleeing of the Goodland

partisans of Mayor

U witnesses Goodland shot while from the robbery State Bank. Deputy Sheriff Elmer Craig, logansport, woundea by the gang 2s they fled from the robbery, was among the witnesses called. Dalhover has pleaded guilty to Minneman's murder but the witnesses will {be heard to determine the degree of punishment.

BANDITS GET $24, 800 FROM POSTAL CLERK

LOCKPORT. i. Dec. 3. P)Five bandits carrying machine guns

held up a postal clerk and his police |

escort today and escaped with $24 800, The clerk and a policeman were wounded slightly by bullets from the robbers’ guns. The clerk, John West, guarded by Police Chief Fred Lintner, placing the money in his automobile prior to transporting it to the Pirst National Bank of Lockport when

I held up.

There was | no evidence of anything criminal, |

of court |

Mayol

most of them being |

was

o 0

SHANGHAI Dec, 3 (U.

P.) =

Japanese troops seizing

control of a large area of the International Settlement ran into the determined opposition of United States Marines today and immediately began contracting their lines,

Hot words passed between Marine and Japanese officers,

land the Japanese immediately withdrew from that part of the United States defense sector of the International Settle. ment which they had entered, and began giving up part of the WYO. area which they had seized,

TOBIN HOPEFUL OF LABOR TRUCE

‘Teamsters’ Chief Says His Union ‘Deeply Involved’ In Controversy.

a ——

WASHINGTON, Dec, 3 (U.P) = | Daniel Tobin of Indianapolis, Team- | sters’ Union president and member of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, said today the Council had discussed for two hours a proposal for peace with the Committee for Industrial Organization, settlement might be arranged. | Mr. Tobin said he did not see any prospect of immediate arrangement of a permanent peace treaty but that he thought a truce could be arranged. “Our union is involved deeply this question,” he said, "and would like to see a settlement.” “We have been talking the matter lover and President William Green and Mr. Harrison (George M., Harrison, Federation peace negotiator) have made a complete report on their conference with John L Lewis.” Mr. Green and Mr for six hours vesterday with Mr, Lewis and Mr. Philip Murray of the C1. “I hope a treaty can be arranged,” Mr, Tobin said. “We expect to make certain suggestions to (Turn to Page Six)

NLRB ATTACKED AS PRESS FREEDOM FOE

aq. P.O.

in we

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 ~Senator Bridges (R. N. H.) today denounced the WNational.-Labor Relations Board in the Senate as a menace to press freedom while a magazine editor challenged the Board'« power of subbena Senator Bridges attacked the Board for its efforts to subpena magazine material on which Hartlev W. Barclay, editor of a steel trade magazine, bitterly criticized the Board for its conduct of the Weirton Steel Co. case “In my judgment this is one of ithe most open attacks on freedom lof the press we've seen,” Senator Bridges said. “It is one more typieal arbitrary action by the Board.”

New Clothes for Rags—In Memory Of a Girl Who Lost Her Life

(80 Children Clothed—Donor’s

uniform (because he had to),

Clothe-A girl—his little girl, crying because

else. In the office at the time was

| Times in memory of her killed several years ago in an auto | come to select a child to clothe. “I'll take that girl,” she said. to the store they

And away

later she returned with a smiling child to meet the The girl wore new shoes, stockings underwear. coat, hat and carried a little purse and

grateful father. ‘a bundle of extra

A World War veteran, wearing his old Army came into The Times -Child offices yesterday with a crying little

The child wore a tattered coat, shoes from which her feet protruded, and nothing Her eyes were red rimmed, her voice husky.

woman who annually clothes a child through The own daughter who

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W. Maryland St. You, too,

= |

she was cold. a thin dress, making an appo sonally taking hi an Indianapolis

was wreck. She had clothing for the Or you may athletic team. or urer, and select

went. An hour

vou want

ree smiling persons them went back to see an will have at least one worry off her mind. So it goes at Clothe-A-Child Headquarters, at 206

can help make fortable for the

the office, Two of ill mother who now

left

some child comwinter by phoning Riley 5551, intment to meet a child. and perm on her to a store to shop

Or vou may send a check or cash to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” of our exporienced

and leave to one shoppers the selection of the child. zo In with your business, lodge, society associates, appoint a treas-

shopping committees. Then phone

Clothe-A-Child and let us know how many children to clothe. The cost oi outfitiing a boy or

cording to need,

girl varies ac-

but averages {rom $8

He was hopeful that a'

Harrison met |

| cers

[half hour

It was the culmination of wild scenes involving nation- | als and troops of the United States and Great Britain that followed the suicide gesture of a Chinese patriot against Japanese | Sraops engaged in a “victory par- [ ade” through the International | Settlement. The Chinese threw a hand grenade at the parading Japanese, paid for it with his life a few seconds later, but touched off oe- | currences that for a time threate | ened to have a most serious result, | Japanese troops immediately seized complete control of the area in which the incident occurred==an area defended hv White Russian volunteers of the Shanghai Defense Corps. They aimed pistols at U.S, Marines and British soldiers. pushed foreigners about with rifle butts, set up machine guns, Methodically they extended this seized area until it had passed far enough up Bubbling Well Road to enter the U. 8. Marine defense area. The grenade had been thrown at noon: by then it was approaching dusk Col. Charles Price, commander of the Fourth Marine regiment, ac» companied bv Capt. Ronald Boone, drove up to the Japanese line. Sentries poising bavonetted rifles, halted them. Both got out and de=manded to see the commanding officer The sentry officer refused to call him. There were hot words.

Sentry Officer Complies

sentry officer finally com= but when the American offidemanded to be escorted to the commander, he refused flatly. Capt. Boone and his adversary exchanged more heated compliments and the escort was provided A later they returned, and

The plied

| Japanese officers began giving the

fapartment

(Settlemen t—powers

"eommand to withdraw What passed between the Marines and the Japanese commanders was not known. but Col, Price was heard to exclaim “You are practically invading United States defense sector must withdraw immediately.” The Japanese troops were defi nitely within the American defense zone when the Marine commander took action. They had seized an area that included the Foreign Y. M,C. A, the Park Hotel, and an house beyond the Park Road and all within the sector Some foreigners feared that the Japanese would seize upon the incidents to assume stringent powers over all of Shanghai, including the that their spokesmen have indicated that they wanted in past statements. It had been charged in some quarters that today’s parade of 6000 heavily armed

he You

troops through the Settlement where there are thousands of Chinese ref-

ugees—a parade that was opposed by all foreign authorities—<had been for the purpose of creating a size (Turn to Page Three)

RAIN AND WARMER FORECAST FOR CITY

TEMPERATURES

2% 10%. Mm... 2 11 a. m, 30 12 (Noon). 33 19.9%... Rising temperatures with oc. casional rain tonight and tomorrow were forecast by the Weather Bu=reau today. Tonight's lowest tems perature will be about 36, it was predicted, Temperatures during the morning were about six degrees below the average. the Bureau said Little smoke was noticed in the downtown area this morning, a contrast to yes terday’'s heavy pall, »

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