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an folILIo L-d Lb Story in Column rive ONE OF THE LEADING METROPOLITAN SMALL CITY NEWSPAPERS OF AMERICA IOWA CITY PRES-CITIZEN A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Entertainment for Every Member of the Family. Latest Quotations by Wire from All the Principal Stock and Grain -Markets. null (Jf. Full Leased Wire of The Associated Press' Agency in the World ESTABLISHED 1840 IOWA CITY, IOWA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS iA mm 1M Afo) lluvl Irtllrt) IU1 la) la) nji A Allfg VJ V-I mini II till 111 Toward Final Vote on Farm Aid Bill! Call on Science to Solve Baffling Chicago Mystery Herring Takes Oath as 26th Governor of State Will ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Well, left see what we can read In out' daily paper and then agitata folks breakfast with In the morning.

"Democrats In clash in senate, Carter Glass and Huey Long fight over banks." Get your senate gallery seats now for the next four years, for there is going to be fun and amusement for everybody, "bring the kiddie." 1 Arguing over banks, I didn't know there was i i any left. "Debt issue flares up again in i Paris." It flared, but It didn't "flare up" enough to do us any financial aood. Even at a French statesman's salary, it will cost jready Vr Muehlberger has an-France more than 20 million a nounced that a stain' found on the year Just to arque over it. stairway leading Into the three "Japan takes anotrer hunk of gtory nat Dulidlng was blood. Tnar.

dauy headline Meanwhil Police Captain John we don't pay any attention to any more. Japan's alibis are the dlrector of tbe Investigation, ITU 'fftlnrf 111 Assembly Sees Ceremony Before Legislature DES MOINES (AP) The twenty-sixth governor of Iowa, Clyde L. Herring of Des Moines, Tliupfday was Invested with the powers of the elite executive of the state at a solemn ceremony before a Joint assembly of the state legislature. The oath of office to the new democratic governor and his first assistant, G. Krasotiel of Harlan, was administered by Chief Justice James W.

Kindlg.of the Iowa supreme court. Directly after taking the oath of office, Governor Herring began his Inaugural addrees to an audience of legislators, state officials, and their friends and relatives. Tha colorful ceremony In the house chambers amid a setting of floral decorations furnished by sbatehouse greenhouses began a series of events which was to be climaxed Thursday night by the inaugural ball. Shortly after 1 p. in.

th lilting strains of -martini -music in the legislative halls as the program was opened with a concert by the Roosevelt high school band. With Matt Cooney Dubuque, president pro tern of the senate presiding, the convocation was called to order. The Invocation was given by the Rev Stoddard Lane, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church of Des Moines. The floor and galleries were packed with sfiectatore, admitted by ticket. Thursday night the ceremonies were to continue with a recepilon.

In the governor's chambers starting at 8 o'clock. Governor and Mrs. Herring will head the receiving line assisted by a committee of 62 persons including the new state officers, their wives, members of the supreme court and their wives, several former governors and their wives and others prominent In state affaire. SAVE CHILDREN FR0M MAD DOG 2 Cleveland Men Trap Afflicted Animal in Truck Cab CLEVELAND (AP)-A during battle of two hien against a large dog. maddened with inbies, was credited Thursday with having saved several children, playing nrarhy, ftom attacks by the animal.

By an ingenious plan, the men Hiccecded In trapping the dog In the cab of an auto-truck, where he was held nntit a dog warden arrived. The animal was in a -violent zs Analyze Stains Found On Schildhauer Stairs CHICAGO (AP) The fingers of science were being employed Thursday in an effort to solve the Kdwin 0. Schildhauer claying mystery. With microscopes and chemicals, Dr. Clarence Muehlberger, coroner's chemist, analyzed stains on a pair of curtains, strips of carpet and pieces of wall paper and flooring taken from the home of Mrs.

Frances Schildhauer, pretty widow tt ho has denied all knowledge of the slaying of her husband, the Austin high school bandmaster. Al- continued checking the widow's story of her husband's supposed abduction by two men the night of December 10th. Her Btory, which remained unshaken through aeveral police questionings, asserted that "the bandmaster waa kidnaped about 100. feet from their home while she looked out the window. She said she ran screaming from the building and attempted to follow the car.

Stege said he discovered persons present In the vicinity at the time of the supposed kidnaping had heard no outcries. Investigation disclosed, Stege said, that the widow had been intimate with men other than her husband and he frankly said he doubted many points In her itorjf. BABY VANISHES FROMHISCRIB Wqnian Wakens to Find Infant and Maid Missing DES MOINES (AP) Detectives Thursday sought the four-weeks-old son of Mrs. Mary A. Loll, who disappeared from his crib Wednesday afternoon while the mother slept nearby.

Mrs. Loll said she had lain down at the suggestion of "Mrs. Garrison" who was doing housework for the mother, explaining that she wais a new "resident of the neighborhood. When Mrs, Loll awakened, she said, both the child and "Mrs. Garrison" were gone, Mrs.

th Mid she never had seen the woman before Monday, and detectives were locatelthe "Garrison" home in the neighborhood or to find anyone who knew tie woman, Mother Makes Visit To Son, jConvicted of Slaying Iowa Deputy WATERLOO (AP) Mrs. 8u: san Griffin, 79, Wednesday spent JO minutes with her son, Patrick who faces death by hanging for the slaying of Deputy Sheriff W. F. Dllworth. It was a tearful reunion, the first since the crime waa committed.

Likewise, it was the laat before Griffin starts his expected trip to Fort Madison. Griffin, tor whom a district court jury recommended the death penalty, will be sentenced Monday, Senate Subcommittee Works on Beer Bill WASHINGTON (AP) The senate judiciary subcommittee considering changes in the house 3.2 per cent beer bill reDorted "nro- Explains Fighting in North China The Japanese explanation of the present fighting between Japanese and- Chine se forces in" North China was given to Secretary of State Stlmjon by Japanese Ambassador Katsujl Debuchl who It shown leaving the state department after the conference. BANDIT FLEES WITH $35,000 One Robber Wounded and Captured in Ohio Bank Holdup CLEVELAND (AP) A robber escaped with $35,000 In cash In a holdup of the Commercial Savings and Loan company of Berea, a suburb, Thursday after a gun fight In which hits companion was shot And -aptured. The gun fight developed when former Councilman Charles Fox, who arrived at the bank soon after the holdup, resisted efforts to force him into the bandits' machine. Fox'a suspicions were aroused vi hen Jhefounri the of th hankT locked.

He rapped. One of the gunmen came to the door, carrying a satchel containing the loot. He turned his gun on Fox and ordered him to "come along." A they reached the curb. Fox wtrncfc one of his csptors in the and seized his gun. He fired five times and the bandit fell.

The second gunman "snatched the satchel and afoot as scores of citizens ran to Fox's aid. Hold Five in Plot To Destroy Home and Collect Insurance DES MOINES (API Charles E. Sellers of Chariton and four other persons were held in Lucas county Jail Thursday In connection with the alleged firing of a home at Chariton in order to collect $5,500 Insurance on household goods. Fire Marshal John W. Strohm said that Sellers had confessed starting the fire and had implicated Mr.

and Mrs. H. E. Keller and two sons, David and Walter. The five were Indicted by Lucas county grand jury.

Sellers Is a son-in-law of the Kellers. I IP i I ove TARIFF CLAUSE SURE TO CAUSE HEATED FIGHT Many Legislators Hope To Put Amendments Into Measure DEMOCRATIC CHIEFS ARE ENCOURAGED Would Fix Price Level In Marketing Period For Three Basic Products WASHINGTON (AP) The house plugged persistently Thursday to get through a shower of amendments and reach a final vote on the emergency relief bill. Much remained to be done on the 25-page allotment measure. Reading under which amendments are in order was not quite at the i half way mark. The bill's demo-1 cratlc sponsors were encouraged by increased success in warding off changes in the price-fixing plan as set up by the agriculture committee.

Tariff Fljjht One ct the chief obstacles to be cleared was the tariff section. "I regard the tariff controversy as the main thing in the bill's path now," said Jones 'of Texas, the author of the bill. Impending opposition already had been hinted at on the floor by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a high-ranking republican on the powerful ways and means committee. Ha criticized the agriculture committee for "assuming prerogatives" and "writing a tariff bill." Says Tariff Justified Jones replied that ince' farm relief was the major purpose of the allotment measure, his committee was justified In propping a five-cent a pound tariff on short staple cotton and Jute and in increasing ex-feting tariffs by the amount of the processing taxes levied on benefitted commodities wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs. Similar tariff Increases have not jet been provided for the three commodities put In the bill on the house floor, dairy products, rice ant! peanuts, but when the proper section is reached, they will be offered as amendments.

Before reaching the tariff provi sions, the house faceLvotes on sec-1 Hons to which committee amendments will be offered to establish en initial marketing period for wheat, cotton and hogs during which their values shall be 75 cents a bushel, nine cents and five cent a pound, respectively. Norman Luce Gets 20 Year Sentence For Slaying Iowan DAyENTORT (AP) Norman A. Luce was sentenced to 20 years In Fort Madison Wednesday for the slaying eight years ago" of Ethel Collicott, automobile dealer. Luce recently was convicted of second degree murder after his arre In California. The court overruled motion for new trial.

Extra Session to Depend Upon Fate Of Beer, Farm Bills WASHINGTON (AP) Representative Ralney, democratic leader, told newspapermen Thursday "there will be no official announcement of an extra session of the new congress until we learn whai happens to the beer and farm relief bills." Organizer of Bach Music Fetes Dies BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) Dr. J. Fred Wolle, whose organization of Bach music festivals made him nationally known In music circles, died Thursday after a long ijlness, he waa 6 year old. WAR LEADERS OF FAR EAST HOLDPARLEY British Naval Officers Aid Negotiations "For Peace JAPANESE TROOPS MOVE INTO JEHOL Report Chinese In Province Ready To Oppose the Invasion (By The Associated Press) and Japanese military leaders are reported to have met in the presence of British naval officers at Shanhaikwan to discuss peace terms, but meanwhile there were -indications that troop movements were continuing In the northern Chinese province of Jehol.

A Japanese advance on Llng-yaan, in southern Jehol about 100 mllPH-from Shanhaikwsn, was said to be and Japanese troop movements from Mukden to Ohlhchow, In southern Manchuria, lto were Japa Use Planes From CMnchow" dispatches described the Japanese movements as calculated to forestall ohe possibility of a Chinese offensive. The Chinese force in Jehol waa estimated at 130,000 men, Including Chang Hsiao-Liang's regulars and organizations of volunteers. Japanese planes, it was reported, reconnoitered Jehol city, the provincial capital, and Chaoyang, the next largest city, near the Manchuria border. Precarious Peace SHANHAIKWAN, China (Delayed In transmifelon) Peace hovers over this sfaell-scarred walled city, dividing Manchukuo and China proper but It Is a precarious peace, apparently likely at any time to flare into war. Seven days have parsed since the Japanese troops drove the Chinese from the ramparts of this section of the great wall of dhlna, nearest the sea, but Marshal Ohang Hsiao-Liang, the Japanese assert, has thus far manifested no desire to settle the quarrel which almost threw China and Japan Into large pcale warfare.

(Chans Is military commander of north China). The city remained paralyzed Thursday, only a small percentage of Shanhalkwan's population having returned to their homes, despite Japanese assurances there would be no more fighting. Await Chinese Proposals Gen. Yoshlmlchl Suzuki, commander of the fourth brigade, who i hastened here from Suidbung when the new conflict broke out, was sitting patiently In a freezing cold stone house, formerly occupied by Gen. Ho Chu-Kucv-the-routed Chinese commander of Shanhalk-wan, awaiting the arrival of Chinese peace negotiators.

"The Chinese must make proposals to us not we to them," General Suzuki told tlie Associated Press. In the ruined portion of Shan-haikwan near the south gate of the great wall, where scores of Chinese and Japanese soldiers were killed January 3rd, the most striking feature of the landscape was the Star-Spangled Banner fly-ins over the American Methodist Episcopal mission. Great Wall Damaged Traversing the top portion of uhe gTat wall which encircles Shanghalkwan at this point, the Tlter ascertained that the extent of the battle havoc and mined area covers about six city blocks, but the majority of houses destroyed were cheap, one-storied dwellings. The great wall Itself was badly damaged In many sections, especially near the south gate and tbe famous Sexagonal tower. From the west gate here of the great wall, a solid line of Chinese troops were visible along the Shlh river, only 1,000 meters dis-Una Uhaat ttmM-OItiha a a BlUaJ.

TO TRIM COSTS OF GOVERNMENT Recommends Repeal of iowas Mandatory Road Laws ADDRESSES JOINT SESSION ASSEMBLY Chief Executive Favors Measures to Halt Foreclosure Abuses DBS MOINES (AP) Draatio reduction In governmental operating costs, tax reduction and revision and complete reorganization of the state government were rec-rmmended by Gov. Clyde L. Her- ring Thursday In his Inaugural ad-dress to the Iowa legislature. The new governor advocated legislation to encourage full development of farmer-owned -and eon-trolled marketing agencies, a hslt In the abuses of foreclosure' and creation of new agencies for agricultural credit as necessary to aid the farmer. Ha asked ratification of the "lame duck" amendment th federal constitution and reeont-h'ivJed leplslnt'on for ths partisan nomination and election of the Judiciary In lows.

Tax Revision Devoting considerably more than half of his message to a discussion of tsx revision and reduction and of the necessity for governmental revision, ths foernor-pralsed the work of the legislative tax reduction committee and proposed that Its work be continued by a new committee. In the address before the Joint session of the Iowa general assembly he also recommended rs- puai of mandatory road laws, sug gested that the legislature consider changing the law requiring penalties for failure to pay taxes and the possible postponement of tax sales. Reorganization At the outset of his message Governor Herring said he had departed from the accepted custom by n6t outlining his position upon "every possible question" which may come before the legislature but that he would submit further recommendations as the session progresses. Regarding reorganization of the slate and local governments, the gcvernor said that before the end of the session the results of a survey- and study of the structure of the Iowa state government would be laid the legislature. i This survev.

he said. "wfirre. onimend a definite reorganization program, not only of the structure, of the government as to Its official functions but also as to Its financial set-up. Ruchjeprganiza-tion, he said would save "tremendous sums for the taxpayers of Iowa and give thorny. more efficient governmenf7' Ancient System- "The ((induct of public business toa its being carried on under i'" "iucra cosi oi govern- ment and many ot them have followed very closely the plan advocated in Iowa 12 years ago.

"Since Civil war days there has been a constantly growing tendency to strip the executive of real authority, and to distribute It In these arious boards and commissions. For 12 years I have advocated that most of these political (Continued on Page 10) Weather IOWA: Cloudy, probably light snow and warmer In the east portion Thursday night; Friday partly cloudy Presents Repeal Resolution Sen. John J. Blaine (above) of Wisconsin wrote dramatic chapter In prohibition history when he presented to the senate the judiciary committee's report favoring proposed "repeal" amendment. It was the first time that a standing committee of the upper house had recommended repeal of the eighteenth amendment.

LIBBY CLAIMS LARGEESTATE Potential Heir to Many Millions Kept in Incubator PHILADELPHIA (AP) A tiny bit of humanity, potential heir to millions, kicked his feet in the warmth of a modified lncu- bator Thursday, ut terly oblivious to the stir his rather unexpected arrival created. He is the three-and-one-half pound son of Mrs. Llbby Holman Reynolds, former Broadway torch singer and widow of Smith Reynolds, heir to tobacco millions who was shot to death under mysterious circumstances last July on the Reynolds estate In Winston-Salom, N. C. The duration of the baby's stay in the Incubator will depend, piiysiclans said, upon his progress.

Mrs. Reynolds also was reported She-occupies a special suite on the seventh floor of the institution and nearby are her mother, Alfred Holman otl Cincinnati," and Mrs. Eoulsa Carpenter of Wilmington, a close friend. While interested parties speculated upon the disposition of Smilh Reynolds' estate, estimated at between $15,000,000 and 000,000 Mrs. Reynolds' attorney in New York announced she Is prepared to claim, on behalf of herself and child, not only the intpre.it from the money, now in trust, hut the trust fund itself.

Mrs. Miller Selects 2nd Auto Inspector DES MOINES (A P) Mrs. Alex Miller, secretary of state, Wednesday night appointed Maj. E. C.

Con-ley of Marshalltown Inspector in the motor vehicle department. Lew Wallace, superintendent of the department, said Major Conley assigned temporarily to Polk county but that he will work later In northern The appointment Is the second by Mrs. Miller who'pians to reduce the number of Inspectors from 25 to 14, thereby effecting a savings at t7a.0M la. deoartnuwiUl xpeuss. 1 interesting and unique thing about that war.

Yours, 'tide XV6 ft WW UUMf 4U. DEATH RIDES WINTER GALES Minnesota and Calif ornia Suffer Most from Weather By the Associated Press Two widely separated states, Minnesota and California, Thursday surveyed the results of death-dealing Weather In the form of a blizzard, sub-zero temperatures and gales. While the north country was discing Itself out of snow-blocked highways and recording at least tbree deaths which came with mercury readings as low as 17 degree below zero, Southern California was counting the damage and loss of life it sustained from an 80-mile gale. In way of contrast New York lolled In its warmest January 11th in history Wednesday with the thermometer at 58 degrees above zero. Chicago and the middle wept had winter temperatures but no snow.

In California, reports said the wind, viciously blowing through orange groves and acres of oil well derricks, had claimed at least two I lives and caused property damage opproaching a million dollars, North Dakota also felt the brunt of the blizzard which resulted In two sMers freezing to death while on their way home from school near Kennedy, Minn. At Crook-ston, a man dropped dead after shoveling snow. State Board Rejects All Bids on Proposed Fine Arts Structure DES MOINES (AP) All bids for construction of a proposed line arts buildlng'at University of Iowa were rejected Wednesday by the state board of education. W. H.

Gemmlll, board eecretary, said the five bids submitted were too high. Earthquake Rocks New South Wales SYDNEY, New South Wales (AP) Houses rocked and walls cracked in tha towns -of Goulburn and Yass, New South Wales, as result of an unusually strong earthquake early Thursday which lasted one minute. Though the main 5'hock occurred about 140 miles stage of the disease, devised and adapted to Biiotherwarden, said. th? horsrback and stagecoach per- "When they're like that they al-TkwI he continued. "If the taxpay-ways Jump' for the throat.

He er is ever to get his dollar's worth might have killed any number of In service from his government, children." Ferry added. this antiquated system must be The dog first attacked Charles completely overhauled and rebuilt Masek late Wednesday. Holding In place must be set up a the animal at bay with a club, compact and efficient method for Masek shouted for help and was public affairs. Other answered bv Ernt-t Card, who was tatM likewise burdened have In driving by in a trurk. Iast 12 ar recognized the Carrl attrsrtrd tha rtnr'K atlen tion and when it rushed at him.

jumped Into the cab and out again on the other aide, slBmming the! door behind, him. Masek, who had! followed the dog, shut the door on the other side, and the animal was Imprisoned. Farmer Who Shot Brother Gets 8 Years in Prison CHARLES CITY (AP) Will Crandali was sentenced Wednesday to eight yeans In Fort Madison penitentiary for the death of his brother, Fred Crandall, shot on a farm near here. Crandall pleaded guilty ts saaaslauahtast from here. It wis felt In the Sydney gress" after a long session Wed-suburbs of Coogee, Bond! and Belle- nesday and Chairman Blaine said vue Hill.

No casualties were re-; It would be ready to vote on Us ported, measure Friday, bSv-irft.

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