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MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, “JANUARY 4, 1938 (TW ELVE PAGES) PRICE THREEl CENTS
JAPS CAPTURE F. D. R. Warns Asrainst "Misuse of Powers of CapitaL” \
THE NATAL CITY FRIENDS AND FOES
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can Airmen Die In A
Plane Crash At Hankow. Som Of Preadeot’s Critic^ Hudson Motor Co. However, Say Tkey W 9 Shanghai, Jan. 4— (A P )—Japa nose Infantry columns today drove Recalls 6,000 Men deep Into the "Holy Land of China Await His Special Mes- —central Shantung province—and reported capture of cities more than sage Od Business Beforii 50 miles south of Tsinan, the al- To Detroit Plants
ready occupied provincial capital. (Dome!’ tha Japanese news agen- Makmg CommeDts; cy, In a dispatch to Tokyo said the Detroit, Jan. 4— (A P )—A. B.|, T t has become Increasingly clear Japanese vanguard had captured Barit, president of the Hudson Mo- to us,” Barit said, "that with busl- trast Its Tone Fitk Reeei$ Chufu, 70 mUes south of Tsinan tor Car Oo., told a gathering of nesa flowing down as It has been where Confucius, China’s great recently, we were In position to do newsmen today that hla company sage, was bom In 650 B. C. more than announce a new automo- Speeches Made By A idei (The Japanese Army said It will recall 6,000 men to work with- bile—we could In a way aet the pace in the "next few weeks,” as part of would accord ful protection to the In the matter of putting men and tomb of Confucius at Chufu, to the a plan to put “ men and money back money back to work. to work.” At the same time he an- great (fonfuclan temple there and “If the automobile Induatry waa Wa$hinfi!t(Hi, Jgn. 4-— (A F ) to the present Duke of Rung, 77th nounced the Hudson Company will able to lead the way out of the de- —Severml Republican leaden lineal descendant of the sage, now start production this week on a new preaslon. It seems reasonable to ex- joined the maijorlty o f Demo> chief ritualist of his temple.) car "In the lowest price field.” pect It to do something abrat lead- The recalling of 6.000 workers, he cratic Congressmen today A Japanese military epokesman, ing the way out of the receaaion. reporting- "steady progress” for the said, will IncreaM the factory per- “While there are confidence in- terming “concillatoiy* Praal- j; march through Shantung, said one sonnel to 12,000 men and add $1,- *?* eesslon of Congress. President Roosevelt warned that "mlrase of the powers of esp- spiring moves of a general natura dent Roosevelt’s pledge at Japanese column had seized Tawen 250,000 to the monthly pairroll. He that can and should be made, there operation with business if tiia the capitalistic system will destroy Itself through lU own abuses.” Shown on the rostrum (left to right) as Um esUmated that 311,000,000 wlU be kow, on the Tlentsln-Pukow rail- parliamentarian of the House of RepresenUUves. Vice President Gamer, Speak- Is one specific job for Industry— latter abandons *1iarRiftiI^j way, was said to have taken Anchi- er William B. Bankhead, and James Ro-jscvelt, son and secretary of tbs Preeident. expended for tools, production ma- that Is to put more men and money er force, advancing west of the ndl terials and other costs. to work wherever passible.” practices. 'way, was said to havetaken Anchl Some of the President's fi ehuang, also about 60 miles south however, criticized Ma eccnoote of Tsinan. The spokesman said the ic views and said they wooia Chinese set fire to Tawenkow be- SEE A BH UON fore fleeing from the town. Five await his special message aS ether towns along the railway were SLEUTHS DISCOUNT LATE NEWS STATE OFnCIALS UNABLE business legislation bttfon de> reported captured. DOLLAR DEHQT termining their course. Planes Support Drive Administration lieutenaatg Japanese hom ing planes sup- FLASHES! TO FIND $210,000 CHECK ported the Infantry advance by KIDNAPING THEORY described Mr. Booeevd^s bombing heavily many cities along speech at the opening o f Coi)»; FOR N m YEAR the railways behind the Chinese MISSING YOUTH FOUND. gress yesterday aa coi New London. Jan. 4— (AP) — front. Including Suchow, the vital Paper Co?ering Largest Sin- tive and reassuring. Junction of the Tlentsin-Pukow and Richard W. Heurtley, Jr„ 17-yeats- "BIG STEE” SEES Change In Business Condi- IN BENNETT CASE old, who started out from Oartrn Senator McNary of Oregon Lungbal railways In north Klangsu province. last Thursday or Friday In a eanoc gle Transaction In Park- and Representative Snell of Suchow Is the main objective of to paddle to Florida, waa picked np Hons Alters Situation, today off Rooky Point, L. I„ aerooo FEW LEAN MONTHS New York, the Republican floor the Japanese armies driving south- leaders, were among those who ward through Shantung and also Dangler Of Ford Motor Co. Long Island Sound from Sayhrook, way Purchases Not On BLOODY nCHTING by the Oooot Guard Patrol Boat called it "conciliatory." another force advancing northward Says Treasury Head; CCC, CO-835. above Nanking. Its capture would Several membera of both pariSea Executive Has Been Miss- C2det Boatswains Mato Balpli A. FQe; Is Delaying Probe. Corporation Head BdicTet, eontraated ita tona with r a o ^ ah* give the Japanese all the trunk rail- MeCkirdy radioes Boaa 4,- hai . way Unkliq; Helping .Tientsin Highway Sayings Opposed IN TERUEL STREETS drsoaaa by Baeratary lokoa oStf Ae> •t • - ' — that the boy araa tliBSlrronraBjra Af aiotent Attorney General Hobart M. with Nanking and Shanghai.' ing Smee Yesterday; Po- paddling but oeemed to be fat good However, That Boflnesf Japan's warplanes also carried Hartford, Jon. 4.— (A P )— State Jaekoon. condlUoa otheririse. offlciala Investigating the Merritt The latter offdala had acctiaafi destruction Into central China In Washington, Jan. 4.— (AP) -b ’ce Ifint At DopemenL see what a Japanese naval spokesman Usually well-informed officials pre- Snow Hampers Mass Offen- BIO JEIVEL THEFT. Parkway purchases were puzzled Win Pick Up Thereafter. aecUona of big buslneaa o( going “oa atrlke” agalnat government ragnla* said was a campaign to ’’crush directed today that President Kings Point, N. Y., Jan. 4.— today by their Inability to find a China’s reorganized airforce” In- tlono. Mr. Roooevelt aatd yeater> Roosevelt’s budget for the next fis- sives Of 200,000 Troops Four gunmen Invaded the palatial check for 1210,000 covering tbe lar- cluding ’’large numbers of Soviet BULLETIN! home of J. Edward Meyer today, gest single transaction In the $6,- PltUburgh, Jan. 4.— (A P )—John day: planes.” cal year would carry a Sl.000,000,- “Only a amall minority (o( bnite Detroit, Jan. 4.— (AP) — held six persons prisoner for more 000,000 purchase of rights of way. Letter Perry, new president of the Forty Japanese planes from bases 000 deficit, and that he would re- Capt. Donald 8. Leonard of the than an hour and then fled with neoa men and bankera) hava die* vise hla estimated deficit on this Now Battling For Tbe City The officials reported the check Carnegle-Illinola Steel CorporaUon, near Shanghai flew to Hankow, state poHce announced this Jewelry and other valuableo report- Is either lost or stolen. They are played poor cltlsenahip by engaguig year’s budget to 11,250,000,000. advanced a predlcUon today that nearly 600 miles up the Yangtze afternoon that Gertrude Ben- ed to be worth $60,000. not prepared to say which but they In practlcea which are dlihontte or ''jj river, and delivered a crushing blow They made these forecasts after nett, miMing 17-year-old daugh- see the naUon’a large steel consumers definitely harmful to ooclety. Ihla Mr. Roosevelt told Congress yester- Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron- Indicated that Ita recovery la essen- at the new Chinese airbase there, ter of Harry Bennett, Ford KOVACS WINS MATCH tial to their investigation. Btatement la stralghtforsranl oad day that the budget for the 1939 tier. Jan. 4.—(A P )— Beleaguered will buy on a "hand-to-mouth” basla the spokesman declared. He said Motor Oo. personnel director, Coral OaMes, Fla., Jan., 4,— The check waa Issued to the for the first few months of 1988. true., No peroon In any reoponalbla fiscal year, beginning July 1, would and Russel] Hoghes were mar- Insurgents and Spanish government all Japanese planes returned safely. be unbalanced but the deficit would (A P)—Up and coming yonng Frank Green Point Realty <3o. for pur- At the same Ume the whlte- place In the government ot tho Both Sides Lose Heavily ried at $ p. in. yesterday In troops fought today at rifle range Kovaea displayed Impreoslve form chase of a Greenwich tract in whijih ualred, S6-year-old execuUve of the United Stetea today haa ovor takaa be smaller than this year's. Aubom, Ind. Chinese admitted they bad suf- Secretary Morgenthau, comment- through the Ice-crusted streets of today In the Miami BUtmore ten- G. Leroy Kemp, appraiser and agent U. S. Steel CorporaUon’s largest any poolUon contrary to It.” fered 5,000 casualties In fierce fight Capt. Leonard sold be nis tournament as he defeated Don of the highway department, repre- subsidiary declared be believed busl- ing on the Presldent’a announce- learned of the marriage from Teruel. In guerrilla warfare that Unfavorable ing for control of the Shantung rail ment. said that business conditions Jacobs of Miami, $-1, 0-4, In a de- sented the state, according to nesa would "pick up aoon”, but ways, but declared Japanese loeses County Clerk Carl Walters at may determine the tide of the civil layed first round match. vouchers on record at the capitol. added; Senator Davla (R-Pa), commaate Anbum. He sold, however, conflict see ed that the Prerident’a apeoeb nn$it also were heavy. (CnntlnoMl on Page Pwo) Money Turned Over. "However, I am not here to fore- Chinese reports that Hangchow, the eouple had not been found. Snow checked mass offensives by MARKETS AT A GLANCE The money, it was learned, was cast." have been arritten “after ha got ttta the 200,000 troops of the two arm- New York, Jan. 4.— (A P )—, turned over by the Green Point universally unfavorable reaetkm” to capital of c:3ieklang Province, bad ies on the front encircling TerueL Perry, who rose to a top-notch been recaptured from the Japanese Detroit. Jan. 4.— (A P )—Searchers Stocks—Strong; steels lead rdfly. Company to the Prudence Company execuUve poeiUon In “Big Steel” the declarationa of Ickes atad Jae|i> and sleet grounded airplanes and Bonds—Mixed; oecondaiy rails of New York which became Insol- son. Repreaentetlva Woodruff (K *' were flatly denied by Japanese army for Gertrude Bennett, missing 17- bogged motorized units In the from a mill hand In hla home town officers In Shangbai. Informed for- NEW WAGE-HOUR year-old daughter of Harry H. Ben- continue under pressure. vent In 1932 and whose former of Worcester, Moss., came here Mich), on the other hano, called tlw mountainous terrain. president Arthur H. Waterman df Roosevelt message “more auava aad eign authorities placed little cred- nett, Ford Motor company personnel But within the city Iteelt 180 Cnrl^HIgber; oils and special- from Birmingham, Ala., where be ence In the (Chinese reports. The ties In demand. New York Is president of the West- was president of the Tennessee polished, but Just os unbending aad director, turned today from abduc- miles to the west of Madrid, there port estates which sold 25 acres of Japanese pointed out that they had MEASURE FAVORED was the crackle of rifle fire and Foreign Exchange Easy; ster- Goal, iron and Railroad Company, vicious” as the the apeechea by tha tion to romance os the probable mo- ling, franc decline. land to the state in 1937 for flS.'l,- another aubaidlary of U. S. Steel. other taro men. restored service for military pur- tive for her disappearance yester- fighting at close range. 000. Mr. Waterman is now a de- poses on the railway linking Shang- Both sides claimed control of the Cotton— Very steady; firm stocks He said be saw no IndlcaUon that Obaervers were quick to note that day, but professra to be without and wheat fendant In New York In a suit for fteel prices \ ould drop In the near hai with Hangchow, 120 miles to the clues to her whereabouts. provincial capital. It appeared a Pittsburgh address last night tv Sugar—Improved; steady spot more than 32,000,000 arising out future, and told a press conference southwest, and declared they were Mrs. Norton, Head Of House CaptsJn Donald 8. Leonard, of the that the insurgents held the advan- of the Prudence Ctomponir’s activi- Secretary Wallace araa along tha fully in control of the Hangchow State police, said the young woman tage. but an earlier announcement market. yesterday that he believes con- same theme as the PreoMaBt’s. Coffee—Quiet; disappointing Bta- ties. sumers temporarily will purchase vicinity. last was reported seen at 7 o'clock of complete domination of the Ter- The lost check Is Impeding the "Workers and government o n In virtually deserted Tslngtao, Labor Group, Is Now uel front was not borne out. xllian oupport, only for their needs and will not often critical a few eapitalista last night with RuaseU Hughes, 21- Investigation of Attorney General "stock up.” ot year-old trap drummer, on the cam- One band of insurgents lashed at CSiarles J. McLaughlin. According for very good reaaoi.a.” Wallace (OOBttnoed on Page Two) pus of the Michigan SUte Normal the Madiid-Barcelona enemy from CANADIAN OFFIClAl^ DIES 10,000 Men Recalled said, adding, “It la Important to re- Ready To Revise Her BQL to Mr. McLaughlin, Comptroller C. Steel operaUons rose this week college at Ypailanti, where both were a church and tbe shambles of an ad- C. Swartz and Deputy Treasurer member that capital IteeU la differ- students. Hughes also was missing jacent seminary, dynamited last to 26 per cent of capacity as 10,000 Ottawa, Jan. 4.— (Canadian Thomas H. Judd, the state’s flies ent from a few short-oighted today. week by government troops. A P ress)-S ir George Perley, 80, n.en were recalled to work In this and records have been com)>ed for district. Operations fo? two weeks tellsts. Washington, Jan. 4.— (AP) — Previously a gasoline station at- Barcelona government communique former High Commissioner for the last three days but no trace of Tt doesn’t do either labor or UNEMPLOYED NAB Chairman Norton (D-NJ) of the tendant at YpsUantl had told police said the church was captured. previous had been at 17 per cent, Canada In London, died last night. the missing check has been found. low point of the cur—'nt recession. agriculture any good to scare capi- House Labor committee, encourag- the couple drove westward on High- I TTnite Positions. Sir George, Omservstlve member Mr. McLaughlin Is analyzing In- way U. 8.-112 at 3:20 p. m. yester- New Pact Next Month tal: Instead they must all find araya ed by President Roosevelt’s renew- Government troops consolidated of the Canadian Parliament for the dorsements on all of the 200 or to work together PALAUAL RESORT ed demand for legislation to end day. after buying gasoline at his To Perry, If he follows In the positions In a municipal building In (bounty of Argenteull at the time more checks Issued by the state In footsteps of his predecessor, Ben- Colby M. Chester, chairman of the "starvation wagea and Intolerable station. That turned the search to- payment for Merritt Parkway land. ward Indiana and C3ilcago, but n sally against Insurgents within of hts death, had been In government iamin F. Fairless, will fall the task National Association of Manutae- hours," said today she was ready to the Hotel Aragon,—another haven service almost continuously since of negotiating a new contract next turers and head ot tbe General go to work all over again on a labor Captain Leonard said authorities In TREASURY BALANCE. Illinois and Indiana had been unable for the Teruel garrison since a Ma- 1904. month with the Steel Workers Or- Foods (torporation, was among the Former Workers At Big Mex standards bill. drld-Valenela army captured the He was minister of overseas mili- to pick up the trail of the vanished Wasliington, Jan. 4.— (A P )— ganizing Ctoromittee, affiliated of few Industrialists who had Imme- Her committee will meet next couple. city In a surprise offensive Dec. 21. tary forces of c;anada during 1916 John L. Lewis’ C I. O. Fairless is week to decide on a couree of action. On the snow-swept front outside TTie position of the Treasury on diate comment on the Rooeeveit ad- Am the hours passed with no word and 1917, high commissioner 1914- now president^ of the parent U. 8. dress. ‘ ican Hotel Demand Wages Mre. Norton eoid she personally from them, fears grew that they the city, first aid corps struggled December 31: 33. secretary of stetq In 1926 and Receipts 313.392,212.9$: expendi- Steel and its management corpora- He said he araa favorably Impriaa favored reopening public bearings might have been Involved In an acci- to bring wounded of the past day’s minister without portfolio 1980-35. tion, U. S. Steel of Delaware. dent. fighting to shelter. Hundreds of tures 326.9.57.890.35; balance 32.- ed by the Prerident’s Stetemento OK And Then Occupy Rooms. and drafting a new wage-hour bill, He was born at Lebanon, N. H„ Falrless signed the first contract rather than trying to patch up the Drew Money From Bank frozen bodies were, said to have 072,840,959.12; customs receipts for Improved business-government rela- and educated at Harvard. the month 330,129.021.12. with the steel union almost a year tions, and expeeaa^ bepe a tattered measure which a rebelUous Strengthening the theory of an been left on the Icy battlefields. ago and hundreds of other corpora- Hindered by the drifting snow, basis for understanding has House rejected at the special ses- elopement was the discovery that tions, big and little, following suit. Agua Caliente, Mex., Jan. 4— sion. She expressed belief, nevertbe- Miss^Bennett withdrew $50 from her the government admitted a slight Perry parried questions on the created." (A P )—The luxurious Agua CbiUente loss In positions outside Teruel but leaiL the administrative features of bank account at 2 p. m. yester- CorporaUon’s relsUonshlp with the On the other' hdiid, SeSafor dope- Hotel and Casino, one-time play- day. did not specify where, Govemmiult union by commenting; land (D., N. Y.), expreoasd disap- the latter bill—on which much of communiques said several Insurgent ground of film folk, was held today tte controversy centered— were Bennett was dlslncltned to discard Meat More Plentiful "There has been very little ac- pointment In the meaaage, asserting by a grimly-determined army of machine gun neats were taken In a "splendid” and should be retained. entirely the theory that his daugh- Uvlty th our relaUnnshlp with the that "to restore business prosperity foraer employes who demanded ter might have been abducted by sudden attack at Muela. , there must be the assurance—real Some foes of the defeated blU Coate As Comoallage. C. I. O. It has just gone on with- ’The right to work.” some o f hla enemies. His alarm In 1938, Say Packers out any particular activity of any assurance—that la government ie The $10,000,000 resort has had a pointed quickly to President Roose- was caused In part by anonymous In some instances tanka could be 'velt’s recommendations of ”a floor kind.” the intention to co-operate and as- hectic existence eince Mexico's antl- telephone calls received yesterday, thrown into battle, and behind them below which Industrial wages shall The contract, governing hours, sist the efforts of business.” gnmbUng laws first turned It Into a warning him to guard his home. He government forces attacked. In Chicago, Jan. 4.— (A P )— Mr.xer prices were expected to stimulate not fall, and a celling beyond which expressed the belief his daughter white coats for camouflage. wages and working condlUons, ex- Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.), ghoat playground, but Its seizure by Average American, whose meat diet consumption. Wholesale meat pires February J8. Conferences re- took a similar view, saying that the workers was the most blzarrs would communicate with him if she Grounded planes and heavy ar- were able to do ao. waa reduced during 1987 to the low- prices have declined 7 to 49 per cent garding renewal are scheduled to national income would recede. In- twist of alL (OMtteaed om Page Ttee)- tillery which could not be moved since mid-September. In Washington. J. Edgar Hoover, because of the Icy roads, delayed eat point of the century, except for begin February 7. stead of increariag, “antil we pro- . Accompanied by their families, Etech Individual In the nation ate ceed by consistent, pattern to glte director of the Federal Bureau of decisive maneuver, however. I 400 arorkera took over the bote) 1935, svaa aowred ...today by pack- an average of 129.8 pounds of meat DBCUNES TO DEBATE honest, productive, American buol- Investigation, raid Im aaw no Indi- Insurgent General Francisco ers he could expect more and trig- Tcsterday. They locked the gates cations of a kidnaping. Franco Is driving to recapture Ter- and lard In 1937, the Institute esU- ness a fair chanoa' to prosper and behind them, barring 'poUce zyih of- Stores To Close ger helpings this year. mated. This was 6 per cent less Woahington, Jan. 4.— (AP) — provide Jobe under the cempettUvn- The search was being directed uel. an Important insurgent hose, More plentiful livestock feed sup- fldals at the Agua CaUente CO. from the second floor of & Beimett for much (ff the nearly 18 months than the per capita conaumpUon in Robert H. Jackaon, asalstent at- CapItellsUc system.” The hotel was confiscated by the plies, the Institute of American 1936 and only 2 per cent more than Tomorrow Noon home at YpsUantl. Bennett, his of warfare, so that he may cut In packers said, svould be translated torney general, declined today to de- *Eestares Ooalldeaoe* Mexican government last Septem- face drawn from worry and lack two the parts of Spain still In gov- that of 1935. bate Benjamin A. Javits of New In accordance with the schedule into increased meat production. 'Die Per capita conrampUon has been While Senator Johnson (I _ ber. Baron Long, president