THE RUSKO TIMES
VV.>L XL NO. *40‘<
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JapAirmen
Drivediinese
i’HIVESE REPORTED KILLED
AIR ATTACK SOUTHWEST
OF MUKDEN.
TOKYO,. Dec- 7,—Reports received
in this city today state that 300 Chi
nese were killed- when. Japanese air
planes bombarded Kung Ta. Piu, to
the southwest of Mukden.. These re
ports are confirmed in dispatches to
the Rengo- News Agency from author
itative sources. It is admitted in offi
cial circles that preparations are
being, made at Mukden headquarters
for a new Japanese offensive in., the
direction of Chinchow, where the Chi
nese are reported to be rushing de
fense works aL numerous points..
Should another Japanese drive take
place, it is admitted in government
circles that it, will be a major opera
tion, lasting several weeks. The Chi
nese . are reported to have 45,-000
troops in the Chinchow region and it
is understood that these troops have
been ordered to resist in case of a.
Japanese forward movement. The
Chinese have not yet complied with
the Japanese demand that Chinchow.
be evacuated by them. It is under
stood that the Chinese killed in., the
bombing southwest of Mukden were
bandits, and not attached to any reg
ular Chinese forces.
Not a . word has Bden. received
from Brothers George J;. Fettes and
M. Lapeyre since their departure for
Ganes creek, some: days ago..
Congress
Convenes
HOOVER WARNS THAT TAXES
MUST GO UP AND EXPENDI
TURES GO DOWN.
WASHINGTON, Dec. T*—The new
national Congress, born in the thick
of political unrest and confronted by
legislative tribulations greater than
those of any preceding Congress in
recent times, convened today, with
the Republicans in control in the
Senate and the Democrats returned to
power in the House after more than
a decade of defeats.
Representative Garner of Texas
was elected speaker of. the House by
a. vote of 218 to 207 for Snell, and
immediately after he had taken the
oath he administered the obligation in
turn to the entire membership of the
House and to the various officers who
will serve under Democratic direction.
Trouble, is brewing in the Senate
for the narrow Republican majority,
but nothing of a disturbing char
acter appeared today during the
brief, tinv the S riate was in session.
Slate.*, ejita of contests were read
a^a-nsi, Bankhead of Alabama and
Bailey; of. North Carolina during the
oath-caking, in the Senate. Sixty
three holdovers answered to the Sen
ate ro.l call of. the total membership of
96. Sixteen new members and almost
100 new House members presented
h .msclves, and virtually all of them
are incWashington for their first Con
gressional experience.
Many important questions are ex
Alaska Interests At
The Nation's Capital
(By W. Aj Si
WASHINGTON;. Nov. 12.—There
are at the present time two midship
men at the-Annapolis Naval Academy
front Alaska; applicants for the third
place having failed in the examina
tions last spring. Delegate Wicker
sham has jiist.annouaced his appoint
ments. for. next year,, as follows;
Principal. Edward F. Stackpole, of
Ketchikan, first alternate, James W.
McCauley; of .Fairbanks; second al
ternate;. Ralph Alonzo Holdimer, of
Anchorage; third alternate, Earl La
gergran,, of Juneau. They, will be
given; at mental examination. on the
tbirduWedneaday in February or the
third ^Wednesday in April, as the ap
plicant may elect,, to be held under,
the supervision of the Civil Service
Commission. In. Alaska these points
are Anchorage. Fairbanks.. Juneau
and Ketchikan. All candidates are
requiked"ttov b« citizens of the United
St&tds and).most be not less than 16
years of age nor more than 20 years
of age,'on.) April lv of the calendar
year* in which he expects to enter the
Naval Acfidftmy. Each Delegate or
Congressman is permitted to have
two (Cadets* Ax the United States Mil
tary Academy at West Point. As
there arennttr-kwe cadets from Alas
ka, ,»nl. neithei- will graduate until
the summer of-l9S4, no appointment
•am be made krrtMl the. end of 1933, in
preparation forrexamination the fol
lowing spring;*'' Candidates must, at
that date of admission to the Avad
emy, July 1, be between the ages of
lT-and. 28. years.
Nearly all the business interests of
Wrange.l have s-gned a petition to
the Postmaster General asking that
the present postmaster, John W.
Stedman, be continued in office. If
the Department decides to make a.
change* B. Y. Grant is likely to be
appointed postmaster.
At the request of (he Seward
Seward Chamber of Commerce the :
Delegate has taken up with the In
terior Department the increased rate
on coal shipments. Before the pres
ent increased rate was made effectve
on March 25, 1931, the freight rate
from Jonesville to Seward was $2 per
ton, and now the rate is $3.50 per j
ton; fro mSuatrana to Seward the !
rate was $3 per ton, and now is $4,511.
It is estimated that the- advanced
taric must necessarily have a. deter
rent eeect on the shipment of coal
from the Matanuska mines to. Sew
ard, Cordova and Southeastern Alas
ka. Most of these ports am now
supplied with British Columbia coal,1
to the extent of about 60,008 tons per
year. Another complaint is because
of the inadequate facilities available;
at Seward fbn the handling of lhrge |
quantities of coal, the need' af'bunk
ers causing a redaction i in > shipment1
and consequent loss of rmvanue to the
Alaska Railroad.
Secretary of tbs- Interior Wilbur
has given the Gonrananiji : formal
endorsement to the encouragement of
the Boy Scouts of the (Anbfctf States!
to acquire a knowledge of lUa Ihdian,!
(Continued from Pag* 34
pec ted to come before the session.-in
eluding a proposal to increase taxes,
revision of the banking laws, creation
of new credit agencies, ratification of
the moratorium, and a thousand and
one other matters.
WASHINGTON, Dec. To -bal
ance ho bodies of the national treas
ury and hasten the eturn of pros
petit,., I‘resident H.-rrer recommend
ed in Lis annual n im-.age to Congrcs;
which was delivered today, increase
taxation, with a many-pointed pro
gram for the cure of credit “par
alysis.” Congress was warned that
ani.ss taxes go up and government
ev j enses go down there will be a de
ficit of $4,400,000,000 by the end of
ae fiscal year.
The President did not suggest any
eiliod of tax revision to bring in
chu needed revenues, but he recom
mended that whatever plan might be
adapted along that line be retained
a operation for at least two years.
There is a recommendation for the
creation of a reconstruction corpora
tion, the purpose of which would -be
to make advances to needy industries
and provide for the release of the
frozen assets of banks which have
Tu.led. Many other recommendations
are made.
The F’residcnt Informed the law
makers that he would deal more fully
wl.ii th .axation question in his bud
get message. He did say, however,
that the deficit this year wou.d be
j ir; ally advanced by borrowing, but
u.. iit.au should be advanced to
. e . e e year’s budget.
- uuiu has a president been more
ui.pbat.c than President Hoover in
\v^., ln0 Congress that to go beyond
the limits he prescribed in expendi
tures, necessitating additional taxes
and borrowing, “will destroy confi
dence, denude commerce and industry
of its resources, jeopardize the finan
cial system, actually extend unem
ployment and demoralize agriculture
rather than relieve it.”
The message flatly opposes any in
crease in expenditures for veterans
“until the country has recovered from
the present situation.”
The question of prohibition was not1
mentioned in the message.
The message warned that there
must be further decrease in b%h j
naval and other arms if the world ‘is
to regain normalcy.
CANADIAN COaniLNISTS
CONVICTED AT TORONTO
rOEKONTTO.—Eight members of the
Canadian Communist party were con
victed by a jury Thursday night of
being nr - hers of an un’awful associ
ation ! art hg members of
such i>(j .ation . being parties
to a. seditious cons; acy.
The tr.;4] lasted for several days.
Crown- Prosecutor Norman Soismer
vilLe announced that a motion will be
made for confiscation of the property
of the Communist party in Canada
and to deport such, of those as can be
deported- j
TORONTO.—The eight communists
v oted of plots against the govern
ment on. the testimony of a Canadian
mounted policeman who pretended to
be one of them, were sentenced, seven
from one to live years and tha eighth
from one to two years.
WASHINGTON. — Virtnally unre
ftrictrd permission has been granted
riy the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to the railroads of the coun
try to increase freight rates by more
than $100,000,000.
About the only restriction is that 1
the higher rates may not remain in i
*ffect. longcs than Match 1, LUX.
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
Confident that
... r. control of the
. ‘ f Representatives,
.s nave agreed to
<-f .<•:••• • Wets for a vote on
’.h( . : • c..estion during the
- : , :: of Congress. It has
J*. used what proposal the
.• ... . for a vote, but that
a voce *v.J..be taken seems reasonably
certain at this time.
On the Senate side, Senator Wat
son, Republican leader, of Indiana,
and Senator Borah, dry stalwart, have
expressed willingness for an early
showdown on the question.
Representative Rainey, Democrat,
;..lnuis, and Snell, of New York, say
the new House will face the issue di
rectly. .Representative Linthicum, of
| Maryland, Democrat and leader of the
i House wet bloc, claims 150 votes for
repeal of the Eighteenth amendment,
which shows considerable increase in
wee strength, if the estimate is cor
i rect.
Repeal of the prohibition amend
. nt wou.d require a two-thirds vote
n both branches of Congress, after
.t would be necessary to have
Re action ratified by-two-thirds of
he States.
A number of anti-prohibitionists in
Congress favor a referendum on the
,. ol..,n of repeal.. Senator Borah is
quoted as saying: “Let’s have it out.”
Lit he made .t clear that he is not in
favor of. a referendum. He says he
will vote against repeal if the ques
tion comes up in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, .Dec. 8.—The Sen
ate was involved today in a fight over
the election of »• president pro tem,
the seating of Senator Moses, as pre
dicted, having been prevented by the
revolt of a dozen Western Republi
cans who refused to forgive Moses for
referr.ng to them: as “sons of a wild
jackass.” After trying in vain to
reach a decision today, the battle was
put over until tomorrow.
Three ballots were taken today and ■
neither party was able to muster a
majority, the 12 bolting members
scattering their votes in such a way
that the Democrats were unable to
take advantage of the situation. The
Democratic minority stood solidly for
Pittman of Nevada throughout the i
fight.
W h ie f ■ Democrats were not able
to eb.' ir oho ' for president of
they score a victory
c.stion os, compelling
' ! to numerous con-,
iQTON. — Arising early
- aight’s'rest in warm bil
t _ Vgation of 1,600 men and
women, representing the ranks of the
unemployed, advanced on the Capitol
and the White -House today in an ef
fort to bring their demands to the at
tention of Congres and the President
of the United States.
Singing and: chanting slogans, the
delegatus marched up and down
Pennsylvania avenue and made sev
ora futi e attempts to. get into the
donate chamber, and also the White
-i. :s . They, sought to impress the
national lawmakers with the import
mce f making: provision for some
f "i* n.'ploym?nt insurance, but
the Senators refused to receive them ‘
They also were informed that Presi
dent Hoover would not see them.
There were qo disturbances, the (
marchers mov'r.g on when requested
House, the natlo- al lawmakers and
the President i.now why they are in
Washington. The newspapers hi#vo
.given them a ;ot of publicity.
CHICAGO.—Union labor has begun
to deliberate on the proposal of the
nation’s railroads for a voluntary cut
of 10 per cent in wages.
Executives of the big brotherhoods
are to decide whether or not organ
ized labor will consent to a reduction
for a period of one year. The pro
gram calls for preliminary group
meeting between union representa
tives, followed b/ a meeting at which
a.l of the delegates will be present. A
decision is expected within a few
days.
NEW YORK.—Americans are con
tributing generously to the commun
ity chests which are being raised
throughout the country for the ben
efit of the unemployed during the
winter. The indications are that the
funds will exceed earlier expectations,
many communities having already
gone over the top.
The National Community Chests
organization, which is directing the
campaign, announces that the sum
of $03,442,000 has been raised thus
far, which is 99 per cent of the goal
originally set. Campaigns are still
under way in man- parts of tbo
country.
WASHINGTON.—The government
has moved to separate the convicted
members of the Capone gang. Ralph
Capone, no woccupying a cell at
Leavenworth, will be transferred to
McNeil Island, far from the scenes of
his former operations and from his
former pals. This action, it is be
lieved, will make communication more
difficult.
A1 Capone is still in Chicago,
awaiting the outcome of his appeal.
WESTPORT, Mass.—Const guard
ers, assisted by customs officers and
police, made a driv:- by land and sea
yesterday on a group of alleged rum
runners and succoeded in arresting
thirteen suspects and capturing 42
cases of liquor.
The drive also resulted in sinking
the New Bedford motorboat Star.
Coast Guarders claim that the Star
attempted to ram a Coast Guard
boat. The attack was resisted with
machine gun Hre, and the Star went
dow nafter its engine exxploded.
Those on boa'i escaped death, while
six eluded the waiting officers.
WASHINGTON.—As a result of
disclosures which are about to be
made in a report prepared by the
American Federation of Labor, con
cerning working conditions on gov
ernment contracts in the Mississippi
flood area, the Department of War
has started an andependent investiga
tion and there is the illikelihood that
the matter will also he brought to the
attention of Congress. It Ls claimed
by Federation investigators that con
ditions of incredible brutality earist
where contractors are at work on
levee construction, which is part of
the government’s big flood control
program. Negro workers,, it is stat
ed, are held in virtual peonage by
the contractors and are subjected to
the lash and other abuseAr>-fally«_aa
brutal as those of slavery days.