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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938 YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO SEND DELEGATION TO STATE CONCLAVE SENATE GROUP i time in many weeks, although large-scale Japanese troop landings still were not considered imminent. (The aerial activity was considered the result of a Japanese desire to sever the railway link between Canton, coastal metropolis, and Hong- Kong, British crown colony, before a land drive on Canton.) United States naval authorities here announced that efforts to salvage the American gunboat Panay, sunk by Japanese bombs in the Yangtze River December 12, had been abandoned after the ship's safe, official papers, and some personal property of the crew had been recovered by divers. The investigators found a four-teen-inch hole in the main deck, where a large bomb had plunged through to explode below decks and blow a seven-foot hole in the Panay's hull. The engine room and superstructure were shattered. 1 to Suchow to direct a major counter-offensive along the Tientsin-Pukow Railroad, the route of the Japanese columns gradually closing in from north and south.

Suchow Is the junction of China's east-west "lifeline," the Lunghai Railroad, and the Tientsin-Pukow line. Beside the 2,000 slain, more than 2,000 other Japanese were reported by Chinese to have been wounded in the Battle of Tsining, 100 miles northwest of Suchow. The massed forces clashed there Wednesday and the Chinese finally left the city to the victorious but battered Japanese. Chinese forces were said, however, to be threatening to trap Tsining's captors by an attack on Yenchow, about 15 miles to the Japanese authorities at Shanghai insisted their forces were continuing the southward push through Shantung Province and routing their foe fcs they neared the vital railway junction. Although official confirmation was lacking.

General Han Fu-Chu, the Shantung Governor, was 3aid to have been arrested for failure to halt the sweep of Japanese troops over China's "sacred" province. The failure of Han's troops to halt Japan's southward thrust was said to have made difficult the defense job now being directed by Chiang. Advices from Hankow, one of China's provisional capitals, said ths Chiang regime had executed Oh'i Min-Yu, former General Secretary of the Executive Yuan (Council) for activities subversive to the Generalissimo. Chu was a brother-in-law of Wang Ching-Wei, former Foreign Minister. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, American-educated chief of the Chinese air force, flew to Hongkong from Hankow, but her associates declined to state the purpose of the visit.

(A dispatch from Hongkong said Japanese land planes, based on aircraft carriers in South China waters, had appeared for the first a I- "VXjf I CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. British naval maneuvers. The Unitad States cruisers will observe them. el- Shanghai, January 14 (Friday) (AP) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's armies fighting on China's "last line of defense" were reported today to have killed 2,000 Japanese in desperate, but futile, resistance at Tsining, Southwestern Shantung Province. At the same time the Generalissimo was said by Chinese sources to have strengthened his military hand by arrest of one of his Generals and the execution of a former government leader accused of trying to undermine his authority.

Chiang, Chinese said, had flown Young Democrats made their bimonthly meeting yesterday a "peP meeting" for the state convention in Columbus. At the top left is a group of the young women members, left to right, Dorothy Brannigan, Lucille Ahern, Ruth Hendy, and Lucille Puttmann. At the top right are Alberta German, Luther Gunsett, and Mrs. Helen Gunsett. Below is Judge George E.

Tebbs, the speaker, center, with John Barrett, toastmaster, and Miss Dorothy Lambert. Aiming At Ouster Of Chief Enforcer For Ohio Liquor Bureau. Metzenbaum And Humphrey In Heated Battle Over Accused Inspector. BY HERBERT R. MENGERT.

Columbus Bureau, 207 Spahr Building. fecial dispatch to the enquiheb. Columbus, Ohio, January 13 James Metzenbaum, Cleveland, counsel for the Ohio Senate Investigation Committee, tonight told Alfred Humphrey, head of the Enforcement Bureau of the Ohio Liquor Department, "we hope and propose to remove you." The statement came after Metzenbaum delivered several fiery orations in a hearing of the committee. Humphrey had been questioned on why he had not discharged or suspended Joseph Maiden, liquor Inspector, whom the committee accused of having raised hotel bills in his expense account. Metzenbaum insisted the case against Maiden was proved.

Under the law, Maiden is allowed immunity if the committee has legal authority. After many quarrels and collo quies, Humphreys suggested coop ration. Then Metzenbaum thua dered forth his threat. QUESTION IS REITERATED. Metzenbaum and Senator Verner E.

Metcalf, Washington, Republican member of the committee, volleyed questions at Humphrey, asking him repeatedly, in different forms, whether the reason that Maiden has not been discharged is "be cause he has something on you." Humphrey denied this each time With emphasis. The quarrel began over the ques tion of whether Humphrey used due diligence in getting a transcript of the committee proceedings. The inquisition continued for nearly two hours, with dozens of brief orations hurled at the wit ness. Humphrey finally promised to suspend Maiden tomorrow and eaid he would go into the courts. Armed with photostats of hotel bills, Metzenbaum sought to make Humphrey admit that Maiden's bills were forged.

Humphrey insisted Maiden would have a fair hearing. STENOGRAPHER SWORN IN. On the question of whether Humphrey was telling the truth about the transcript, Metzenbaum caused W. F. Okey, the court stenographer, to be sworn and finally Metzenbaum became a wit- Glenn t'iflh at Race PA 3426 DOCTOR OSTROM Dentist TAKE THE ROUTE OF BBS BC" ii olio most ffctv for relieving hadacht, muscular qthei, timpU nervousness and functional periodic pains.

Does not contain opium, or any of its derivatives. 10 A 25 sizes. iilllllMUIWMIMjlll indorse your program and offer my aid wherever possible." Judge Tebbs thanked the audience for the cooperation which the Young Democrats gave in his recent campaign. state, and Federal governments augurs well for the general welfare of our citizens. "When young people today are taught to become interested in government and' its operation for the torney General's office was studying the question of the committee's legality.

The issue also was raised by the office of J. T. Ferguson, Auditor of State. No time for the delivery of the opinion was set, but it is expected early in the week. Pending determination of the main question, Allison was advised to treat the committee as if it has power.

The Senate took no steps to enforce a contempt proceedings on Allison. The issue was considered dead. Each side indicated it had gained a point, the Senate Commit-mittee getting the papers and Allison following through on his position that he would do as the Attorney General advised him. The issue of paying the bills remained in abeyance. BILLS ARE COMBINED.

In the House Finance Committee a subcommittee of members was named to prepare a composite bill, combining the Kilpatrick bill for a general investigation with the Senate bill for granting $40,000 to the Senate investigators. The subcommittee may recommend a combined bill, in which case it may fail in the House or be passed by the House and placed in the lap of the Senate. Predictions of a deadlock were heard. The House withdrew a request on the iegality issue on other bills, clearing the way for consideration of the investigation bill without additional legal advice. Members may debate the point on the floor.

The quarrel between Humphrey and Metzenbaum began soon after Humphrey was sworn. Humphrey asserted he had asked for the transcript and failed to get it. Metzenbaum contended that Humphrey "prevaricated." To the witness, Metzenbaum thundered, "You are putting words in the record that you shall have to retract, sir." Later he shouted, "We know your cunning methods, sir, and that you practice iniquities." As Metzenbaum told the story of Conferees Favor Cincinnati's "Young Democrats" will be represented by a large delegation at the state convention of Young Democratic Clubs in Columbus January 21-22, it was announced yesterday at the bimonthly luncheon of the Young Democratic Club. Dunham Matthews, Chairman of the delegation, reported that Cin clnnatians would be given prominent places on the program. Reservations indicate that the delegation is to be the largest in many years, he said.

Yesterday's luncheon was the last before the state convention. A capacity audience greeted the speakers at Shillito's dining room. The speakers promised that young Democrats of Hamilton County were ready to take an active part in the primary election this year. John Barrett, President of the club, was toastmaster, Judge George E. Tebbs of Municipal Court, the guest speaker, said.

"The future of America's democratic form of government is in its youth. The work that you young people are doing to bring about a better understanding of today's vital problems confronting local, ness before the committee, interrupting his own testimony occasionally to blare forth a new attack on Humphrey, whom he accused of being "cunning" and of trying to pervert the facts. Finally, at the end of the hearing, Senator Metcalf said that both Humphrey and Metzenbaum might have believed that each was right in his own mind. Humphrey had insisted that he was supposed to get the transcript and Okey swearing he had called Humphrey's office to tell him that the transcript was ready in Okey's office. "It's immaterial, anyway," said Metcalf.

"Both men may be sincere." Metzenbaum immediately engaged the Washington County Senator in close conference. At the close of the hearing Senator J. R. Seidner, Mahoning, asked Humphrey a complicated question, as to whether when Humphrey read the stories of the testimony in the newspapers he would discharge any other persons believed to be guilty of any improper action. Humphrey answered, "I still retain the right to use my own judgment." Other Senators ended the colloquy by asking that the committee adjourn for the week.

Otherwise, the day was a bootless one in the committee proceedings. The big story about the refusal of M. R. Allison, Director of Finance, to return Senate vouchers blew up when, Allison surrendered the vouchers on an opinion from the Attorney General's office con veyed in a letter to him. The Director was informed that the At- SCENIC BEAUTY TO rmrvat long, lifarnr ur.

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It is with the greatest of pleasure that I heartily his meeting with Humphrey, the liquor inspector nodded assent at various points. Metzenbaum dramatized these nods to say, "You not assent, sir, because you know I speak the truth." "Am I correct, sir?" he asked Humphrey. "As far as you've gone," said Humphrey. "The rest of it will be correct, too," said Metzenbaum. "My statement is the accurate, unimpeachable, unassailable truth." As Metzenbaum continued, Humphrey asked whether he could make a statement.

"You will bow to the will of 7,000,000 people, speaking through the Senate," Metzenbaum thundered. "If you were diligent, why didn't you send for the transcript? Your story was just a good out." Humphrey angrily responded, "I don't need an out." TRANSCRIPT HANDED OVER. Finally Senator Seidner's transcript was given to Humphrey, ending one phase of the argument which flared up again at times. Humphrey suspended a liquor inspector who owned an agency, without a transcript, and Metzenbaum asked, "Why the difference?" Then he turned to Humphrey and asked, "Are you afraid to dismiss Joe Maiden?" "No sir," said Humphrey. Metcalf took up the questioning and asked, "Has he (meaning Maiden) got the bluff on you?" Then Metzenbaum shouted that if the Assembly were not sent home and the committee obtained funds, "we'll level your department and reduce it to ruins." He charged public resentment would deal with Humphrey and shouted at him, "You'll live to learn." Metzenbaum told Humphrey the whole state "resents" the fact that Maiden was not suspended, although the Senate heard the testimony December 29.

Slight Change The Senate formally named its Conference Committee, choosing Bernard Donovan, Harold D. Nicholas, and Lawrence A. Kane, as had been forecast. The House members found the Senators adamant on the beer tax and one of the House conferees ventured the opinion that the brewers had even greater influence with the Senators than the public utility corporations. The Senate accepted the House amendments to the Supreme Court alley bill, adopted a resolution to ask the United States to name a new battleship and Senator James Matthews, Clark, presented a bill designed to reduce the prospects of livestock rustlers being able to sell stolen stock in city markets.

GLASS WORKERS TO MEET. Union Conference To Precede Sessions Throughout Nation, Delegates from throughout the nation began to arrive in Cincinnati yesterday for a wage conference of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers of America, to open today at the Hotel Metropole. Paul W. Fuller, President, said every local union in the industry would be represented. After three days of union conference, representatives will begin a meeting with employers at the same hotel, at which wage rates for the estimated 20,000 workers In the industry are to be negotiated.

New Deal Is Cited As Halting Recovery Ky Senate Witness CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. each state to apportion to local communities upon any basis it may decide compatible with relief needs. "The determination of the amount and character of work relief and of those eligible for relief should be primarily the responsibility of the state and local community. This recommendation is not to be taken as opposing a Federal program for public works on a non-relief basis." Taft said the Federal state matching need not necessarily be on a 50-50 basis. SPECIAL GRANTS URGED.

For the care of interstate transients, he urged that the Federal Government make special grants to states from the general relief fund. The Federal standards of admin istration, Taft suggested, "should require within each state and city a unified or at least a coordinated administration, under an adequate and inclusive merit system of appointment, of all public assistance and general relief programs to which the Federal Government con tributes funds." Walter A. Haas of the San Fran cisco Community Chest told the committee relief recipients in California "rose between September and December, 1937, at the rate of 21.2 per cent." as compared with an increase rate of 5.6 per cent in the same period a year earlier. Additions to the relief rolls during the 1937 period were 55,060 greater than in 1936. Kelly said that so far as the durable goods industry was concerned, at least, there were three indispensi-ble requisites to restored prosperity.

"The first of these essentials is confidence," he said. "That is, such a belief in the continuance of conditions favorable to the successful outcome of long-range plans as to encourage and stimulate initiative and hazarding of capital and credit. "The second essential is an open and free-flowing capital market. "The third is equitable and reasonable taxation." JOBLESS CENSUS BEGUN By C. I.

0. Director's Office To Be Clearing House For Lists. Paul W. Fuller, Regional Director of the Committee For Industrial Organization, announced yesterday that the Committee For Industrial Organization is conducting a drive to register every unemployed member of its unions in this district. Every Committee For Industrial Organization local union already has set up a committee to take the names of persons laid off, Fuller said, with his own office serving as a clearing house for the work.

In this way, he explained, his staff expects to be able to bring relief cases to the attention of the proper officials and, by having sejv regated the most needy, to obtain action on urgent cases first. It hopes also to see that members' seniority rights are preserved and to contribute exact local Information to a national Committee For Industrial Organization survey. Some employers are cooperating by supplying lists of men laid off, he added, A Group of SILKY, LUSTROUS, UNIFORMLY CURLED It LACK PE II SI AX A Mil SWAM, I'll or IIOX COATS In Proposed Utility Tax Bill Rate A Group of HOLLANDER-DYED, DEEPLY PILED IIUI)SOX SEAL COATS Luxurious pells dyed muskral. ISGk eC" Cnlnnihun Huiwnn, 207 Mpnhr Biillriinf. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE E.S'UI IHER.

Columbus, Ohio, January 13 Members of the Legislative Conference Committee on the utility tax bill to provide funds for relief urged that the rate be increased from .65 per cent to .8 per cent in a meeting of the committee today. The Senate adjourned until Tuesday, when the conferees are to resume work. Meanwhile, plans appeared to be in the making to end the sessions next week, with the probability that the House may adopt a resolution to adjourn sine die, giving the Governor power to adjourn the session if the Senate proves obdurate. The Governor obtained ground for this action through the statement of Lieutenant Governor Paul P. Yoder that the Senate planned to do nothing with the pending supplemental appropriation bill at this time.

It is indicated departments can continue to function on 1938 budgets, although there may be 1937 bills left unpaid. The House Finance Committee today approved the Lawrence and Metcalf bills to up commissions for study of delinquent taxes and the tax and revenue situation generally, withdrawing suggestions that the Attorney General is to be asked for opinions on the subject. The action was taken after it appeared the Metcalf bill largely was drawn in the Attorney General's office, giving color to the idea that it aa deemed constitutional. Sincerely, FUR SALON V. Fourth Slrcrt I 7k tfiiri H.

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