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News Review of Current Events the World Over Japan Sucrectls in Pushing China Out of Manchuria Plans for Unemployment Relief ami Government Economy. Rv EDWARD W. PICKARD JAPAN. Ignoring tlie orders of the I.eague of Nations and resentfully disregarding the notes from the United States and other powers, is apparently to have her own way in Manchuria. Con veniently dubbing all opposing forces "ban dits," she sent her armies forward from Mukden during the week in an advance that was destined to reach Chinchow. Ite- | si stance was met at various points but was overcome witb .? armored trains, oorab en. a an |Qg p]ane8 aod artil lery, and the Chinese steadily fell back. Finally Mtirshal Chans Hsueh-llang decided it was better to give the Japa nese no further excuse for carrying the warfare into North China, so he ordered all his forces to withdraw within the Great Wall, and this move ment was begun immediately, accom panied by much confusion and the flight of the panic-stricken civilian population of fhe region. Thus the Japanese gained complete control of Manchuria and the gallant fight put up by General Ma Chan and by the troops directly under command of Marshal Chang has been in vain. In Nanking the new coalition govern ment was organized and a new cabinet appointed with Eugene Chen, leader of the Canton faction as minister of for eign affairs. It was thought that Chen might be able to negotiate a settlement with Japan on the basis of guarantees for fulfillment of treaties in exchange for military withdrawal of the Japa nese. MOSCOW charges that Czecho slovakia has been plotting to pro voke war between Russia and Japan, presumably to promote the sale of war munitions. The story was that a Czech diplomat had tried to instigate the assassination of Koki Hi rota, Jap anese ambassador to Moscow, and the man accused turned out to be Carl Wanek. secretary of the Czech diplo matic mission to Moscow. The gov ernment at Prague recalled Wanek but scouted the allegation that the mission itself was involved in any plot. Wanek has a reputation as a special ist in military affairs in several large European countries, and counts among his associates the military attaches of several allied capitals. M All ATM A GANDHI, returning ro Bombay from the round table conference in London, told a vast throng of his followers that he would not tllnch from sacri ficing the lives of a million people as the price of liberty for India, and he warned them that in the com ing conflict with the British they might have to face bullets Instead of staves. His utterances plainly In dicated that he is about ready to aban don his policy of pas sive resistance. "If the fight is in evitable. I will expect every son and daughter of Mother India to contrib ute his mite." he said. "However. 1 will not abandon attempts to save the nation from a fiery ordeal. If, on the other hand, there is no single ray of hope I shall not hesitate to rail u(m>ii you to bear any amount of suffering." He counseled his followers to keep their 'leads, despite the bloody events In the northwest frontier province, the arrest of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehcr and deportation of Abdul GrafTur Khan, leader of the "red-shirt" tribes men. Tiie trouble on the northwest frontier of which Gandhi spoke is giv lng Viceroy Lord Willingdon great con cern. The anti-British red shirt or ganization staged violent riots near Peshawai and foughi with the troops, many being killed and wounded. WASTE and extravagance In the federal government must be re duced. in the opinion of President Hoo ver. and many others as well, and it wa$ announced at the White House that the President was preparing a special message to congress recom mending the consolidation of depart ments and bureaus. He wants imme diate legislative action providing foi grouping all construction activities of the government under one administra tive head and the transfer of the ship ping hoard and all federal merchant marine activities to the Department of Commerce. According to a statement Issued by the President, the purpose of the con solidations is to cut the cost of fed eral government, curtail the growth of Independent bureaus, eliminate over lapping and promote efficiency While refusing to set a definite figure Indi cating 'he savings which would follow the consolidations. Mr. Hoover said the grouping last year of all veterans' ac tivities under the veterans' adminis tration Is expected to save from $10, OOO.IMNi to $1.r>.<500.000. Chairman Cochran of the house ex penditures committee, which will han dle the consolidation legislation, is In accord with most of the Chief Execu tive's recommendations. DURING the holiday recess a sen ate committee considered two bills that call for the appropriation of fed eral funds to care for the unemployed. and heard testimony and arguments from social workers * from Chlcrgo, New York and other cities. One of the measures, in troduced by Senator La Follette of Wiscon sin. provides for the appropriation of $250, The other, fathered by Senator Costigac of Colorado, puts the amount at $37.ri.000t000. Mr. Cos tigan told the commit tee that nothing short of government help could provide necessary relief for the unemployed. Some of the wit nesses heard estimated that as much as $700.000.<100 would be needed for relief during 1932 and that the funds from state, city and private sources would not he sufficient to carry the load through the winter. President Hoover is now, as always, opposed to a direct appropriation from the treasury for unemployment relief purposes, holding that it would be In the nature of a dole and would be a dangerous precedent. Senator La Follette W' ETS In the house of representa tives, it now appears, are to ob tain only one vote on prohibition In this session. They may have their choice of whether this shall be on it referendum proposal for repea. of the Eighteenth amendment or on a meas ure calling for modification of the Volstead act to permit the manufac ture and sale of light wines and beer. Representative Rainey of Illinois. Democratic floor leader, said the Judiciary committee would not report favorably on either measure. "The wets will have to bring the bill to the floor through the petition of 145 mem bers." he said. "That Is the only way In which they can do It. They will have but one vote and that either on a referendum or light wines an.i beer. They can't have both. The rules of the house will be so inter pre ted." He said he felt the referendum had the better chance for "getting by" be cause many drys, himself included, would vote for it. NEITHER reparations nor war debts will be Anally settled at the European conference which Great Brit ain has called to meet January 18 In Lausanne, if the pro gram practically agreed upon by Brit ish and French treas ury experts is adopt ed. They suggest a new three-year mora torium for Germany on the conditional re parations and that. Germany be required during that period to pay the unconditional reparations into the e ? ? Bank for. Internal!.... 8,",or Hu" al Settlements, such amounts to oe immediately reloaned by the bank to the German railways or re- invested within Germany, thus avoiding all cash transfers abroad by the reich. The creditor powers would under take to concede to Germany an In partial re-examination of her capacity to pay reparations toward the close of the moratorium period. On this side of the water Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee comes for ward with a call for international av tion to lower tariff harriers as the first step In solving the debt problem The former chairman of the Democrat ic national committee says payments can be made only through the restore t!on or nealthy International trade, that tariff walla have strangled trade and that It Is ?'fatuous*' to insist on debt payments and at the same time have world commerce hampered. The Jonator, who is a member of the Dem ocratic policy committee in congress, says he purposes to offer a resolution looking toward a tariff conference of the nations. SENATOR CAREY of Wyoming Re publican, and bis subcommittee on banking amended the house bill to in crease the capitalisation of the federal land banks by adding the sum of 000.000 to be used in granting post ponements on farm mortgage pay ments. This additional sum i: to be repaid to the federal treasury by the banks when their need for the money has passed. Senator Carey believes tl.e amendment will permit a morato rium and, at the same time, avoid weakening the banks. A favorable report on the measure with the amendment was decided upon by the committee. |3 RESIDENT HOOVER announced * the appointment of the fourth mem ber of the American delegation to the disarmament conference at Geneva, the iua i selected being Norman U. I Davis of New York, who was under secretary of state in the Wilson ad- j ministration and chief financial ad viser to the American delegation in the negotiations that resulted In the treaty of Versailles. Later in llie week the remaining del egate was appointed, he being Hugh Gibson, ambassador to Belgium, a vet eran in such negotiations. As alter nate in case any delegate cannot serve, Hugh Wilson, minister to Switzerland, was named. Arthur Henderson, former foreign secretary in the I^ibor government of Great Britain, told correspondents in Pari* that he expects to preside over the arms confcrence, although he no longer is in office. BOTH federal reserve and commer cial hanking otliciais nre severely criticized for their course with respect to the stock market collapse Id the fall of 1929 in an ap pendix to the report being compiled by the senate banking and currency committee's subcommittee which Is Investigating the national and federal reserve banking sys tems. The committee, headed by Senator Carter Glass. Derno crat, of Virginia, who en ass wag gp^gQ,. for thG Federu. Reserve act in congress, is particularly critica* of what It holds to have been the bark's excessive par ticipation in the security markets and of the "mischievous" effects o, loans made to brokers "for account of others." A suggestion Is jiTered that the banks be prohibited from acting for corporations, investment trusts and others in making bucb loans. At the same time, the report shown the na tion's bankers are opposed to new re strictions upon their investments In securities. Actin" under a resolution by Sen ator Glass to "make a complete sur vey of the national and federal reserve banking systems.* the subcommittee Is expected to bring in a bill to revise those systems in some particulars. D AILROADS west of the Mississippi were granted authority by the in terstate commerce commission to put recently authorized freight rate In creases Into effect on one day notice. The increase order allowed five days for giving notice, instead of the cus tomary thirty days. The Southern Pacific Railroad com pany and Its employees* organization reached a harmonious agreement on the wa?e reduction problem when 15. 000 shop employees accepted a 10 per cent cut in pay. The company noti fied the maintenance of way men that j heir wages would be reduced 15 per cent In thirty days. There was a general expectation that the railway labor unions would accept a 10 per cent wage reduction effective about tfte middle of January as the re sult of conferences in Chicago and Cleveland, and that the Canadian unions would adopt the decision of the American unions. FINLAND had a national referendum on the question of abolishing the country's prohibition laws, and on the basis of early returns It was estimated I that the 90 per cent of the Finns had I voted wet The result of the referen dum will not finally decide the prob lem hut will serve to guide the gov ernment. A RCH BISHOP DIAZ, head of the ** Catholic church In Mexico, has iu structed the priests and all other Catb olics to- disregard the new law passed by congress which, limits to 25 the number of priests in the federal dls trirt. So the chances tor renewed trouble there are good. I 1932 Western Newspaper UnlM.) SHERIFF ARRESTED AS BANK ROBBERS' AID Astounding Story Told by Bandits in Indiana. Portland, Intl. ? A plot unprecedented in Indiana history to make hank rob bery ?'safe'* in Blackford county was charged by two bank raiders after Sheriff Ira Barton IkuI been arrested. The scheme worked successfully, the bandits told authorities, until a bank outside the county was raided by mis take and the gang was captured. Bar ton characterized the charges as a ?'frameup." The charges were made by Frank Valentino, Cliicago Heights, III., and Lorenz Capelli, Steger, 111. Valentino and Albert Frobatta, Chicago Heights, were sentenced to twenty years In prison for the Christmas eve robbery of the Dunkirk (Ind.) bank. The three were captured In a gun fight with a posse. An unidentified companion was slain in the battle. Capelli is awaiting trial. Valentino and Capelli told SherlfT Lon Wlierly of Jay county where the Dunkirk holdup occurred, that Barton was "tip-off" man for the gang. Cor oner W. W. Avres Blackford county, the only man with authority to arrest the slieri^, took Barton Into custody and brought him here. The bandits said they entered Into an agreement whereby they were giv en plans and information which en abled them to rob successfully the Cit izens* bank at Hartford City, Ind., twice and a Montpelier, Ind., bank. The gang did not know that Dun kirk was not In Blackford county, they said, and, when arrested for the rob bery charged they had been double crossed. The story told by the two also named a Muncie (Tnd.) woman. Jay county officials said the bandits worked on a percentage basis. Of the $12,000 loot in the Harvard holdup on July 6. $.'i,800 was paid for the tip-off, the pair said. Arrangements were made, the ban dits said, so they could conduct their raids when considerable sums would be available in the. hanks and when county peace officers were absent. It was also agreed that. If any mem bers of the gang were arrested and placed In the Blackford county Jail they would be enabled to escape with in five days. Barton's term as sheriff had only two days to run. He was succeeded January 1 by Tra Mannix. Barton, who Is about forty, was a farmer be fore his election as sheriff. WASHINGTON BRIEFS Claude It. Porter was elected chair man of the interstate commerce com mission to succeed Ezra Bralnerd, Jr. American health authorities have re duced the tuberculosis death rate to the lowest ever recorded. Surgeon Gen. H. S. Cumming declared in a report to congress. President Hoover announced ap pointment of Norman Davis, former undersecretary of state, as a member of America's delegation to the Geneva arms conference. Appeal of Henry M. Blackmer. Colo rado oil operator, from fines for con tempt of court, is opposed by the gov ernment In a brief filed in the United States Supreme court. Blackmer was ] fined $00,000 for falling to return from Paris and testify In the Fall-Sinclair oil scandals. Vice President Charles Curtis Joined In the fight for a reduction In govern- I mental expenditures with the asser tion that many millions of dollars could be saved by abolishing duplica tion in government bureaus and by dis continuing the printing of unnecessary public documents. The treasury Is preparing to ask congress for a free hand to negotiate with railroads for payment of *39,000, 000 still due the government for se curities acquired through the transpor tation act and on debts dating from the period of federal control and op eration of the natlon*s carriers during the World war. Liner Wins Race With Death to Port Norfolk, Va. ? 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TI1E RAMSAY CO., World I'atent Attorneys. 273 Uujik 8t..OtUvwa,Caa. Recall Colonial Days Entire rooms from Colonial man sions in the South and New Engl&ml have been transported to St. Louis and installed in the City Art mu seum in Forest park to illustrate early American architecture. Acquisi tion and removal of the five early American rooms as completed at a cost of $50,000 and Is one step in the museum's program for a rehabilita tion of its building. Dominating the crest of Art hill in Forest park, the St. Louis Art museum was built for the world's fair of "ilKM and is one of the three remaining structures of that exposition. The American in teriors, authentic examples from Colonial mansions. come from Charleston, S. C. : Alexandria, Va. ; Salem and Newburyport, Mass. SORE THROAT FIVE minutes after you rub on Musterole your throat should begin to feel less sorel Continue the treatment once every hour for five hours and you'll be astonished at the relief. 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