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VOL XL NO. 85.'
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Battling In Manchuria; 120 j
Chinese Killed; Efforts for
Settlement Seem Hopeless
GENEVA^*—Fresh, alarm over, he
Manchurian situation was spread in
League of Nations quarters today
when news was officially, received that
Japanese troops had. moved on Thi
thirar, an important strategic point
in Northwest Manchuria. Dr. Alfred
Sz.e, Chinese spokesman, called at the
League secretariat and held a private
conference .with Sir Eric Drummond
secretary general, in which he voiced
China’s fears that the new. develop
ments indicated Japan has no inten
tion to withdraw its. troops within the
railway zone
The opinion, was expressed by those
in . touch with the controversy that the
situation had become worse during
the last week. League authorities
were concerned lest Russia step in to
take some.military action, against
Japanese occupation. Soviet action,
it was suggested here, would alarm
Poland, and .Rumania and increase the
difficulties of the League Council’s
peace message.
TOKYO.—Manchurian peace was
banished to the future today by a bat
tle between Japanese and .Chinese
troops for possession of. a dynamite
wrecked bridge. .The. Japanese rushed
reinforcements to the scene whre the
Taonan Anganchi railroad crossed the
Nonn rivcr„.and> further fighting was
in prospect. The War Office here an
nounced fifteen Japanese and an un
determined number. o£ Chinese, sol
diers had been killed and many
wounded, and said positive'and effect
ive measures had been taken by the
Japanese to meet the threatening sit
• uation facing them on. the Nonna
river.
GENEVA.—Calling on the League
of Nations to stop the incendiary ac
tivities of Japan, in Manchuria, China
charged tonight that Japanese troops
and airplanes in the vicinity of the
Nonni river have killed 120 Chinese
soldiers in the last two days. In two
notes submitted to the League secre
tary China described the war activi
ties in the disputed area and acrused
Japan of hemming in and harrassing
Chinese troops to as to force an en
gagement. Dr„ Alfred Sze, Chinese
spokesman, asked that the president
of the League Council attempt to in
r duce the Japanese government to call
a halt.
GENEVA.—The League of Nations
yesterday considered a plan to ask all
members to withdraw their diplo
matic representatives from Tokyo in
am effort to force Japan to make
peace with China in Manchuria.
WASHINGTON.—Japanese Am
bassador Debuchi today declared that
it. was the present intention at his
government to withdraw its troops
from the Nonni river. He said Rus
sia had no mititary force in Man
churia.
h Alaska Interests At
[■ The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. S. j
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8—Some days'
ago Delegate-Wickersham had a con
ference. with- Henry O’Malley, Com
missioner of. Fisheries, on the pro-]
posed, regulation that would permit!
limited commercial fishing in waters
outside of the Yukon river. The Del
egate submitted many letters and pe
titions that he had received on the
subject from residents of Alaska in
the area affected. At the conclusion
of the discussion the commissioner ex
pressed the . opinion that he would
recommend to the Secretary of Com
merce that the regulation be made,
effective January 1, 1932. and if it
should develop after the first season
that it Was proving harmful to the
residents e£ the Yukon river the reg
ulation would he revoked. Later other
petitions were received, which , did not
tetd to1.change the commissioner’s
viewpoint and which brought forth a
later, under date of October 5, in
which among: ether things Commis
sioner said:
“I feel that:.the many petitions ad
dressed to tV' indicate clearly a pre
ponderance) of ^sentiment among resi
dents of that Yukon river, favorable to
limited commercial fishing in waters
outside the Yukon. The petition from
Ruby advocates that the Yukon river
be opened to commercial fishing from
its mouth to the Canadian boundary
and that a limit be placed on the ex
portable pack of any person, corpora
tion or association. In this connec
tion, let me say, the White law of
•fane 6, 61924, does not give the Sec-1
retary of Commerce authority to open
the Yukon river to commercial fish
ing for export purposes. It is only
waters 500 yards outside each mouth
of the Yukon that can be opened for
such commercial activities.
“In the petitions on the letterheads
marked ‘Nenana’ it is asked that the
Government prohibit the establish
ment of a cannery or canneries at or
within the mouth of the Yukon. It is
obvious that those resiionsible for the
signing of these petitions have been
laboring under a misapprehension
that a Salmon cannery or canneries
would be established in the Yukon
delta region. In this connection I
want to say that nothing of the sort
has been contemplated or is likely to
occur by reason of the proposed new
regulation.
“The exceedingly limited amount
of commercial fishing in waters out
side the Yukon, which would; be al
lowed, would not justify the estab
lishment of any salmon cannery. The
cost of bringing a earner yin to tins
region would be prohibitive.- The
total catch of 50,00(1 king salmon
would be divided among'.: all persons
engaged in commercial fishing in
these waters.
“The only thing contemplated; by
the proposed new regulation isrthat
mild-curing or salting operations-wit!
be conducted by local’ residents of
the lower Yukon region.- The /work
would be done by the loealiTesidcuts#
who are in an impoverishes '' idtiott
and need economic relief. Them
(Continued on Page 3.);
MAHATMA GHANDI MIXES
AT FORMAL RECEPTION
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE
LONDON.—Wearing a loin' doth
and shawl, Mahatma Ghandi attended
a formal reception today at Bucking
ham Palace and stood before the
king from whom he had been trying
for years to wrest the vast Indian,
empire. It was the first time the
humble little nationalist leader, who
claims to represent sixty million un
touchables and three million other
Indians, mat George V, and he seemed
to like it immensely. “The King and
Queen were most friendly and gra
cious,” he said; “I also liked the
Prince of Wales.”
Japan Rushes
Gold to U. S.
IS PREPARING FOR EVENTUALI
TIES; $75,000,000 GOLD LANDS
•FRISCO IN PAST 30 DAYS.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Fortifying her
position in this country and prepar
ing for any eventuality that may
arise from the Manchurian crisis,
Japan yesterday landed $23,500,000
in gold in San Francisco, bringing her
total shipments of the yellow metal
to this port in thirty days to $75,000,
000.
in furtherance of her preparedness
campaign Japan has also contracted
for 9,000 tons of Guggenheim pro
cessed niter, due to pass through here
shortly. As this became known, the
insurance rate on shipments to Man
churia was elevated one par cent
above that applicable to other Chi
nese points, bringing the first ini
quiries From showers on war risk in
surance.
FOSHAY JURY AT MINNEAP
OLIS IMPOSSIBLE TO AGREE
MINNEAPOLIS^—The trial of W.
B. Foshay and six of his aides, which
lias been in progress here during the
iast several weeks, ended yesterday
and th jury was discharged today be
I cause of inability to reach an agree
1 merit on a verdict.
Counsel for the defense cited the
accounting records brought into court
as government exhibits as their main
reliance in seeking an acquittal. The
records, it was argued, showed con
clusively that no aUempt ever had
been made to cover up the activities
of the various Foshay enterprises.
The government contended that the
values were rapidly increased in or
der to overcome the steadily increas
ing deficit and if the defendants had
fixed the values, which they kne wto
be proper, no one would have been
induced to invest their money in the
.MUttVa.
BEFORE ONE CAN GET LICENSE
TO SHOOT DEER IN MICHIGAN
W ASHINGTON. — Before hunters
can procure a license to shoot deer in
Michigan this fall, they must go be
fore a notary and swear they have
not violated a deer law of the State
in the past three years nor shot a
person while hunting during the past
dve years, says a bulletin of the
American Game Association.
This requirement was adopted by
he 1931 Legislature to make the
.sport safer.
C. F. Lottsfeldt and Joseph Oates
made the trip to Ophir yesterday,
to which point they took the mail.
Planning To
1 Bring Peace
WITHDRAWAL OF DIPLOMATIC
REPRESENTATIVES FROM TO
KYO MAY BE NEXT MOVE.
GENEVA.—The possibility of a
concerted withdrawal of diplomatic
representatives from Tokyo as the
next move in the China-Japan conflict
was considered by League of Nations
■ leaders tonight, in planning for the
! next meeting of the Council in Paris
on November 1(5. In fact, the legal
section of the Secretariat, under or
; ders from Secretary General Sir Eric
Drummond, was studying Article 15
of the League covenant to determine
.whether-the member nations could be
1 asked to remove their ambassadors
and ministers in the event that Japan
i continues to reject measures of arbi
tration. This article deals with sanc
tions cf a military and economic na
ture to be invoked against an aggres
sive nation.
MOSCOW.—The communist inter
national urges . the workers and op
pressed peoples of all the capitalistic
world to support China against the
imperialists.
SAN FRANCISCO.—With one out
of five contests for seats in the House
of Representatives decided, that from
Pennsylvania and four other seats
were being battled for in Michigan,
New York and two Ohio districts,
with Democrats leading- in three of
the four districts.
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Tell of Deeds
Of Heroism
SEVERAL KILLED WHEN ANTI
AIRCRAFT GUN EXPLODES
ON U. S. S. COLORDAO.
SAN DIEGO.—The bravery of
wounded soldiers who ignored pain
and minor injuries that they might
help comrades more seriously hurt
was told today as the death list from
a series of three accidents, involving
,the U. S. naval forces along the Pa
j cific coast yesterday, mounted to
seven. The stories of heroism came
from the U. S. S. Colorado, where an
antiaircraft gun exploded while the
ship was 45 miles at sea engaged in
an attack upon a mythical enemy of
the air. Four men, an officer and
three enlisted sailors were killed out
right as broken steel, hurled like
shrapnel, sprayed the decks. Another
sailor died today and a sixth was on
i the verge of death.
! U. S. Commissioner W. T. Vander
pool and Deputy U. S. Marshal Stan
ley J. Nichols, who were Tuesday vis
itors, after giving attention to certain
business matters, returned to Mc
Grath on Wednesday, via plane.
PHILADELPHIA.—Edward Low
ber Stokes, Republican, was elected
to Congress from the Second Penn
sylvania district. His election fills the
vacancy created by the death la3t July
of Representative George S. Graham,
also a Republican.
Demand Big
U. S. Navy
HOOVER POOHPOOHED, AND AD
VOCATES OF A STRONG FLEET
ARE BUSY ATC APITAL.
WASHINGTON. — The brightly
lighted stage of naval controversy
was seized by Congressional advo
cates of a strong fleet today to spring
a demand that the Navy be built up
to parity with the British fleet at
once. This development came as the
Hoover five-man board found itself
stalled in its preparations for receiv
ing evidence intended to disprove the
charges of William Howard Gardiner
.hat President Hoover was seeking to
starve the Navy.
WASHINGTON.—In the face of
President Hoover’s word that false
hood had been uttered, the executive
committee of the Navy League today
supported William Howard Gardiner
, in his declaration that the Chief Ex
! ecutive was ignoring the Navy and
the country’s defense. With but one
dissenting vote, the group, containing
some outstanding figures in Amer
ican life, issued a declaration of
faith in the president of the League
! and support of the position he had
' taken.
Henry Breckinridge, of New York,
. former Assistant Secretary of War,
. dissented, asserting he could not con
done the unseem^ and unjustified
language used by' Gardiner in the
pamphlet which termed Mr. Hoover
“abnormally ignorant on Navy af
fairs.”
Must Handle
‘It’ Yourself
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FRUIT INDUSTRIES, LTD., PUTS
BURDEN UPON THOSE W HO
BUY ITS PRODUCTS.
WASHINGTON.—Those who have
depnded on Fruit Industries, Ltd., for
their enjoyment of home-fermented
wine must hereafter attend to the
ferm.entation and bottling themselves.
That concern announced today it no
longer will put the keg in the cellar
or have anything to do with what
happens after the origina lsale of
their grape concentrates. Further
more, concentrates sales will be made
hereafter only through established
stores, not by means of direct-to-the
home delivery. Even at the neighbor
hood stores it no longer will be pos
sible to buy the product known as
Vine Gro.
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FIVE KILLED WHEN BURN
ING AIRPLANE CRASHES
CAMDEN, N. J.—Five persons are
known to have been killed early to
! day when a Washington-New York
i transport plane burst into flames in
midair, a few minutes after leaving
Central Airport here, and crashed on
a small park the Marlton pike. Wit
nesses said the take-off had been un
eventful, and the ship circled the
field twice and fell.
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Pilot A1 Monsen of the Pacific In
ternational was a Saturday arrival,
bringing with him the first -winter
mail, about 600 pounds, consisting of
• both first and seeond class matter.