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TTTE TCTCATTLETCOTCO DAILY TCEFOTCMETC. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932. offices of the Consolidated Railroads 1811 DEED UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT AUTO REGISTRATION RECEIPTS INCREASE of Cftba learned by telephone from Havana that the earthquake damage had not been as large as first reported and that the number of Injured was 1 estimated at about 300. The Cuban Dominican Sugar owning large plantations in Cuba, said apparerttly its properties were not in the area most severely affected, although there had been no direct word from them. With this instrument a new day dawns in home entertainment consuls general that the Japanese were occupying Woosung.

Shells fired from Chinese artillery in the Chapei sector fell in the Japanese headquarters near Hongkew park, in the grounds of a boys school and on the road leading to a rifle range, but they failed to explode. Later in the afternoon Japanese airplanes joined in the terrific bombardment of the Woosung forts, and a bombardment was also begun on the forts of Poochan. Observers believed that the two forts were bombed to complete destruction and fears were entertained for the safety of the cable heads of the eastern and commercial Pacific companies which are situated between them. The Great Northern cable head is located about a mile south of the Woosung fortifications. There were reports that the Japanese warships in the river were landing nearly a full division of soldiers at a considerable distance from Shanghai and were shelling Chinese reinforcements advancing along the railway from Woosung.

DEMOCRATS FAVOR PUBLIC WORKS PLAN All Our $1 Briar Pipes (no exceptions) ARE 69c Each THIS WEEK Headquarters for Pipes and Smoking Supplies the Red Froni Drugstore)' 112 MAIN f. -PH0EJS6a. Total of $1,249,658 in January Largest in History Slight Falling off In Pleasure Cars. MONTPELIER, Feb. 3 Registration receipts at the office of the motor vehicle department during January totalled $1,249,657.74 this year, as compared with $1,223,018.60 in January of 1931 and $1,130,698.77 In January of 1930.

This year's receipts for the month were the largest in the history of the department. There was a slight falling off In the registration of pleasure cars, which dropped from 34,697 to 34,609, but the latter figure was much in excess of 32,628 in January of 1930. Commercial cars registered were in January of 1932 as compared with 5,444 In January of 1931 and in 1930. Operators' licenses totalled 50,029 as compared with in 1931 and 44.809 In 1930. There were 970 junior operators' licenses as compared with 1,001 Ini 193 lj there were 42 motorcycles registered as compared with 49, there were-377 transfers of registration as compared with 369, there were 287 dealers licenses issued as compared with 288, there were 311 repairers' licenses as compared with 296, there were 65 zone licenses as compared with 24, there were 108 motor busses registered as compared with 111, and there were 188 trailers registered as compared with 132.

University of Vermont Retains Rights In Tract Although Land Has Been Sold Several Times. MONTPELIER, Feb. 3. By a three-to-one decision the Vermont supreme court yesterday" morning gave a final interpretation to a series of laws passed during the early days of Vermonts statehood and sustained a plaintiffs verdict returned in the Laihoille county case of the University of Vermont against Walter C. Ward of Morrisville.

The majority opinion was read by Justice Frank I). Thompson of Barton and the dissenting opinion was read by Justice Sherman R. Moulton of Burlington. Chief Justice George M. Powers, a member of the trustees of the University of Vermont, was disqualified.

The suit Involved a deed given by the University of Vermont on May 3, 1811, transferring a tract of land in Morrisville. The land was a part of the public lands set aside by the state for the benefit of the state college and the deed contained the phrase that the agreement would remain in effect as long as grass grows and water runs. During the years the land was transferred through various owner-snips until Peter Fontaine of came into possession of it subsequent to 1915, Fontaine died and the administrator of the estate sold a certain tract of woodland to the defendant, Walter C. Ward, who cut and removed timber. The university claimed that a portion of the timber had been reserved to its use in the original transfer of the property and sought to recover damages.

The case was tried in Lamoille county court and a jury rendered a verdict of $1,341.75 In favor of the university. Ward took numerous exceptions to the rulings of the trial Judge and to the verdict and appealed the case to the supreme court. Would Appropriate $750,000,000 to Provide Work and State Aid for Countrys Jobless, WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (P). Backing for a giant public works program as an unemployment relief aid was iormjing today in the senate Democratic ranks as an alternative to the LaFollette-Costlgan direct relief plan.

The Democratic maneuver developed as a shawdawn approached ca Senator LaFollettes Wis.) strenuous campaign to force consideration of the $375,000,000 authorization for aiding states to feed and clothe jobless. I The idea under consideration by the Democratic steering committee is for a $750,000,000 bill, the sum divided equally between construction and loans to states. It came up In a meeting yesterday but decision was put off until today. LaFollette himself denounced the public works plan as an attempt to sidetrack the real issue and contended it could not be put into operation in time to meet the Japanese Destroyer Sunk. SHANGHAI, Feb.

3 (P). Chinese guns from the fort at Woosung sent a Japanese destroyer to the bottom of the Whangpo river, Chinese headquarters announced here tonight. Further than that, the announcement said, that the Chinese garrison still held the fort despite a raking fire from Japanese warships in the river. RCA Victor Radio Phonograph with seven sensational features including records that play for 30 minutes! A 10-tube Super-Heterodyne radio with RCAVictors sensational new 10-point Tone System! A phonograph that reproduces through a new system of electric amplification! Records with 15 minutes ofmusiconeacb side! A record changer that plays any ten 10-inch records indefinitely! Home recording apparatus that makes your own 10-inch records through a studio type microphone! Cabinets acoustically balanced and built like Old Master violins! Even a new kind of phonograph needle that lasts longer and improves tone! All this and more in one handsome, hand-finished cabinet at about half the price of a few years ago. See it and have a new kind of complete home entertainment revealed to you! Easy terms arranged.

IRAES9 AND I wouldnt HAVE TO COME TO A FOOL BANQUET TO GET WARM IF I HAD SENSE ENOUGH TO PHONE 225 AND GET NUESTIS Washington Takes Precautions. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (yP). China accepted the American and British proposals as a basis for peace with Japan today but the state department did not expect to hear from Tokyo as readily. It was plainly evident in cabinet circles that President Hoover and his advisors felt more encouraged than for days that more tragedy would be averted at Shanghai.

Nevertheless, precautions for protection of Americans there and elsewhere In China were relaxed not a bit. The President was reported as insistent on the inclusion of an acknowledgement of the effectiveness of the Kellogg pact as a basis for any negotiations conducted under the good offices of this country. The whole negotiations are being carried on swiftly, and numerous telephone calls are being made across the Atlantic toward the assured cooperation of the United States, Great Britain, France, and' Italy. The navy dispatched the destroyer Edsall up the Yangtse river to join the Simpson at Nanking. Some Americans are evacuating.

Tragic Effects of Unemployment. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 nationwide degradation of living standards, tragic effects on children of undernourishment, and a mounting number of broken homes were described to the senate today by Senator Costigan Colo.) In support of federal unemployment relief appropriations. Costigan urged the senate to adopt the bill he and Senator LaFollette Wis.) are sponsoring for appropriation of $375,000,000 to aid the jobless. SOMERVILLE BANK IN STATES HANDS JAPAN HAGGLES ON PEACE PLAN.

(Continued from Page Chinas sincerity in making a similar pledge. 3. Withdrawal of Japanese bluejackets from points where there is great Japanese population is impossible unless the Chinese withdraw to a safe distance. 4. Establishment of a neutral zone is acceptable and perhaps Japan may accent a permanent agreement that no Chinese troops be allowed within a stipulated distance of Shanghais International settlement.

Such an agreement would be similar to the 4 Tientsin boxer protocol. 5. It is impossible for Japan to agree under any circumstances to participation of anv third power in the nrgotlations with China so far I as the Manchurian controversy is concerned. Todays newspapers, reflecting a general reaction toward the program of the great powers, asserted that the foreign proposals are encouraging China and discouraging Japan Just enough to prolong the trouble. 800 WOMEN DEMAND MILITARY STRENGTH TO INSTALL A HEATING-1 SYSTEM THAT WILL KEEP MY HOME comfortable The finest after dinner speech ever made is delivered in a mans home, when he says This house certainly is warm and comfortable.

Fitch Plumbing and Heating Co. JESSE C. JOHNSON tGES SELLING OF PRESCRIPTIONS 1 6 FOREST STREET Telephone 225 93 Main Street, March Upon Congress But Rind Most of Leaders Absent for Warships. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (JP).

Eight hundred women marched upon congress yesterday to demand a strong army and navy, but the leaders they sought were elsewhere. The entire delegation attending the womens patriotic conference on national defense staged the march. They called at Speaker Garners office but found him absent; they hunted for Democratic floor leader Rainey, and appropriations committee Chairman Byrne, but neither was to be found. They did get hold of Representative Vinson chairman of naval committee, and told him thrdugh their spokeswoman, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president general oi'the D.

A. We came oteito ask you to bring your bill out on the floor of congress and then see that It Is passed. His bill calls for $625,000,000 of warship building. The next man they interviewed was Representative McSwain S. a member of the military affairs committee: He was urged to stand for a strong national defense.

Women ami Children Leaving. NANKING, Feb. 3 (JP). American and British women and children began to evacuate Nanking this afternoon. travelling by boat to Shanghai.

Foreign business men and missionaries had not yet decided to leave the city. The British river steamer Woosung left with more than 40 women and children, including the families of employes of the American International Export the Texaco Co. and the British American Tobacco Co. The United States consulate was not advising Americans to leave Nanking, but promised to assist those who wanted to. The British consulate advised its citizens to get their women and children out of town.

a i Could Not Turn Its Assets Into Cash Fast Enough to Meet Withdrawals When 90-Day Period Closed. SOMERVILLE, Feb. 3 (JP). The Somerville Institution for Savings was closed today. Closure coincided with the expiration of the 90-day period invoked by its directors during which depositors could not withdraw their funds.

The principal offices of the bank In East Somerville and Its Steele Square branch were taken 'over by John F. Rich, a bank examiner. In the name of Arthur Guy, state banking commissioner The bank was subject to a heavy run at the time the Highland Trust Co. and the nearby Medford Trust Co. closed their doors last fall but at that time managed to weather the storm.

Shortly thereafter, however, the 90-day clause- was Invoked. Fred P. stock well is president and Harriet Osborne, treasurer. In announcing the closing Commissioner Guy said: The trustees of the bank were unable to turn their assets into cash fast enough to meet the demands for withdrawals, and for the protection of the depositors requested me to take bver their College Dean Says Some Doctors Make $1,200 Yearly Off Bootleg Prescriptions of Liquors. WASHINGTON, Feb.

3 (JP). Dr thur Dean Bevan of the University of Chicago testified before a senate committee today that 90 per cent of liquor prescriptions issued by doctors In the country are bootlegging prescriptions. A large number of doctors have not been able to resist the temptation of selling prescriptions, some selling their whole quota of 400 a year, he said. It makes it possible for a doctor to make about $1,200 a year out of these prescriptions. Of the 160.000 medical men in the United States, the lower half make make less than $2,500 a year.

There has been a terrific temptation to make $1,200 a year Gift of the prescription of alcohol. QUAKE WRECKS PART SANTIAGO. (Continued from Page One.) Why try home-washing methods on ma good 1 sweater when for so little money we can clean it and reshape it by our Steam-Sterilizing process? Every fibre of the wool tells how thorough is our cleansing process. And we reshape the garment so that every edge is perfectly straight. mumm The gleam of newness in every fibre Proper equipment knowing how to handle knitted goods makes it safe for you to entrust such work to us for cleaning.

GOODNOW, PEARSON HUNT, INC. FIRE LOSS PAST YEAR $24,850, (Continued from Page One.) Three Banks Fail to Open. PITTSBURG If Feb. 3 UP). Three banks the First National of Fit-cairn, the People's National of Pitcairn and the First National of Traf-lord failed to opn today.

Their deposits approximate $1,600,000. Directors took the action to protect creditors. B. J. Bleakley.

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China accepted the British and American peace proposals today to bring about cessation of hostilities between herself and Japan. The acceptance was announced by the foreign office and steps were immediately taken to avoid further fighting shortly after a group of Chinese aviators, with dramatic ceremony, had made their wills and been photographed, resolved to give up their lives In Chinas defense. The acceptance was accompanied by an agreement between Chinese and Japanese officials that neither would resort to further hostilities at Nanking unless provoked. A con-I ference between officials of the foreign office, Chinese military author! -I ties and Japanese consular and naval 1 officials, was held on one of the Japanese warships. Martial law was declared and the commander of the Nanking garrison ordered Chinese troops and police to make a special, effort to protect foreigners.

The truce alleviated public nervousness and fears that a Japanese attack on the city was impending. In the meantime, the Chinese and Japanese warships in the river proceeded to put distance between them. The Japanese ships moved up the Yangtze and the Chinese ships sailed down the river until they were eight miles with the British and American naval vessels between them. The foreign office announced that China had replied to the Anglo-American notes and accepted the proposals as a whole. vent pillage and assist in rescue work.

Hospital facilities were quickly exhausted. The emergency hospital, with accommodations for 300, was quickly filled with the more seriously injured and emergency hospitalization was provided in other quarters for hundreds more. Practically every home in the city was evaluated, the frightened occupants fleeing to the open in their night clothing. They gathered in terror-stricken groups in the small parks which are scattered throughout the city. The Venus and Casa Grande hotels facing the Central square were emptied of guests who sought safety in the square.

Huge blocks of stone crashed down from the top of the ancient cathedral facing a third side of the terraza paved square and into the midst of the huddled masses. Screams of the injured and dying added to the confusion. The water plant was one of the public buildings partially razed by the earth shock, cutting off tje citys water supply. Ambulances and motor cars moved streets, picking up the dead and in-with difficulty through the Uttered Frantic efforts to communicate with Havana were fruitless as all lines between the eastern and western extremes of the island were down. Radio dispatches from the yacht Kenkoga finally carried the news to Havana and government officials hurriedly prepared to rush aid to the stricken Oriente city.

Word was received here that planes loaded with medical supplies, physi- clans, army and government officials and relief workers took off at dawn from Havana airports and expected to reach here shortly after midday. Fire broke out in several parts of the city simultaneously but because of the water failure could not be combatted. A number of those killed or injured were prisoners locked in their cells in the municipal prison, unable to escape when the solid masonry walls characteristic of the city crumbled about them. Passageways leading to some parts of the prison were blocked by debris, making immediate attempts to transfer the trapped men impossible. Fifth Shock Kills Many.

SANTIAGO, Cuba, Feb. 3 (JP). A fifth earthquake shock struck Santiago at 6 a. m. (Eastern standard time) today.

Many children were among those killed, and the number of injured was placed jit 2,000. The roof of the maternity ward of the civil hospital fell, killing many women and children. August, September, 6: October, 16; November, 9: December, 19; January, 13. The central station apparatus made one trip to Marlboro, onq to Dummerston, one tp Putney and two to South Vernon. The first bad fire occurred March 27, when the Hood place was destroyed with a loss of $5,500 and a near loss of life.

Previous to this the apparatus answered a false alarm from box 63 on March 17. On April 24 the house owned by Dennis Duggan on Elliot street was damaged to the extent of $300 by fire which was believed to be incendiary. Frank Bean, a resident, was tried for arson, but was not convicted. Two box alarms from box 51 were next on the list, one on April 25 for a chimney fire in the house owned by Mltor Mas taler on South Main street. The other, sounded May 5, was false.

The Fourth of July was marked by an alarm from box 62 on Maple street, where a small fire in the home of Harold Miner was extinguished without damage. On Oct. 11 an alarm from box 113 at the corner of Western avenue and Brattle street brought apparatus from both stations. but it was found that wires had short circuited and set a tree afire. On Nov.

26 a chimney fire in the apartment of Marie Gelpi in a VaL-gar street tenement led someone to sound an alarm from box 13. No damage was done. The home of Henry R. Brown at the corner of Oak and High streets was damaged to the extent of $4,000 on Dec. 20.

when an alarm was sounded from box 42. A wooden frame building on Elliot street, almost directly across from the fire house, was damaged about $300 by fire Dec. 28, box 32 being sounded. It is owned by the Federal garage and occupied on the ground floor by Hammarlunds market. The building on Flat street housing Harry Kinsons harness shop and Prudent Rattes barber shop was damaged by fire on Jan.

8, an alarm from box 36 being rung in. The loss was $2,000. The building is. owned by the W. L.

Goodnow syndicate. The years final fire was on Jan. 18 when the firemen themselves discovered an early morning blaze in the building owned by John Fenton across the street from the central station. In this blaze the loss wa3 $5,000. Damage was done in three instances when the bell alarm was not sounded.

One was when the Goodwin home burned, another when a blaze damaged the pump house at the Dickinson farm on the Black Mountain road to the extent of $500 May 26, and the third when a garage and automobile owned by Hugh Freeman on Spruce street was destroyed with a loss of $250 on Nov. 22. SENSATIONAL MODERN DRAMA. Return Showing of Bad Girl at the Latchis Tomorrow Only. In response to numerous requests, the management of the Latchis theatre have secured a return showing of the vivid modern drama.

Bad Girl, for tomorrow only. Marked adherence to its human qualities characterizes the Fox Film version of Vina Delmars novel. Bad Girl. Frank Borzage's direction has tended to emphasize this quality. James Dunn, as the sensitive, nervous.

conscientious young husband in this, his first, picture gives a performance of astonishing strengtlf. All future estimates of the screens leading actors must take this tal-lented young man into consideration. I He presents a new type of film $tar and a personality of Infectious charm. Sally Ellers, as the glrl-bride heroine, is especially well suited, both in personal charm and ability, to the deeply emotional role she portrays. The characterization is one calling for a diversity of moods and emotions.

The feminine lead in Bad Girl is the i greatest opportunity yet given Miss Eilers, and from her capable handling of the part she is destined for more such splendid vehicles. Colorful character bits add much to the charm, entertainment and rich human interest appeal of the picture. These roles are taken by Minna Gom-bell and William Pawley is seen the same part, that of the hard boiled brother, that he took in the original stage production. Pilot Walton Waite of the Reed-Whitney Flying service, who had been at the airport in Burlington several days with a four-passenger Stinson cabin plane, left there Monday afternoon for Lake Placid. N.

Y. He had as passengers his mother. Mrs. A. W.

Waite, and his brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. O. Mudgett, all of Morrisville.

They returned to Burlington that night. Yesterday Pilot Waite with Pilot Robert St. Jock of Morrisville returned to Lake Placid, where tbev will use the plane for passenger work during the Olympic winter games. Shanghai Battle Rages. SHANGHAI.

Feb. 3 (JP). The mast severe battle of the present series of hostilities at Shanghai raged today as the Japanese land forces and airplanes delivered another smashing attack on Chapei while the Japanese warships in the Whangpoo river rained a crushing shellfire on the Woosung forts 16 miles away. The United States cruiser Houston, flagship of the Asiatic fleet, arrived in the river just in time for the battle. The Houston, which carried a landing part of 300 American marines, was warned not to proceed directly to Shanghai but to stay down It he river beyond to the forts to avoid entering the line of fire.

Afterwards the cruiser moved up te river to Shanghai and tied up before the city. The fire upon the forts was directed from the guns of six Japanese destroyers. It covered a landing party of bluejackets sent to occupy the Chinese fortifications. While it was going on Japanese airplane bombers roared over the Chapei district of Shanghai, scene of a bloody slaughter and destructive fire last Friday, and- rained down bombs which resulted in fresh fires in a number of areas. Observers who watched the battle from a distance said the area was a veritable inferno.

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Get yours this week. $8.35 The 9x12 ft. size Costs Only All Americans Are WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (). Navy airmen estimated 10 killed and 200 injured today by the earthquake at Santiago, Cuba, and reported all of the more than 700 Americans there safe.

Vice Admiral Willard dispatched the destroyer Hopkins from the American base at Guantanamo carrying medical, aid to the stricken. An estimate to the state department from the naval embassy placed the injured at 300. Conditions were described as reassuring. "I PE DABLt SRCHANDISE Religious Sanctuary Damaged. HAVANA, Feb.

3 UP). The city of El Gobre, a few miles west of Santi-i ago, was reported today to have been badly damaged by the earthquakes which shook the eastern end of Cuba. El Cobre, which has a population of about 5,000, is widely known as a religious sanctuary. $154 Month Commence Railway mall clerks, men 18-35. Oteady work.

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