Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 13

PAGE THIRTEEN Friday, December 24, 1937. DECATUR HERALD SNOW WHITE AND SEVEN DWARFS FILM PREMIERE ATTENDED BY NOTABLES REBELS RUSH AID TO BREAK TERUEL SIEGE Garrison Trapped in of Hri TV lW II lifftp EMPLOYMENT DROP IS TAPERING OFF WPA Chief Say Sudden Declin Has Let up Since Dec. 1 By Associated Press WASHINGTON Aubrey Wi lliams, deputy administrator of th works progress administration, de-. irUreH vesterdav that the decline employment in the United States leveled off since Dec. 10 1 nere nas oevn a it-i-uj employment." he added in an interview.

Williams' view was supported by Isador Lubin, chief of the bureau cf labor statistics. Lubin-said scattered reports "indicate the rate of iy- Their statements followed an e- timate by Leon Henderson, con- for WPA that on had -rfn-H in ih iohless list. Ay .1 a '-if: 'v. inary as Loyalists Capture City By Associated Press HENDAYE. FRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER Insurgent forces striving desperately to relieve com-i T- 1 rades still holding out at Teruel yesterday reported successes' againsi tne governmeni which captured that strategic city in eastern Spain.

Driving to the relief of the Spcl, Henderson said the surgent garrison still machine-gun-1 figure might increase to about thre ning and defying the government' miuion during January and Feb-forces from a twin-towered sem- 'ruar- inary overlooking the city, an in- Tne federal reserve board esti-surgent column of artillery and in- mated factory employment fell 5.8 fantry reported it had smashed' through government lines. per cont in November. The radio station at Salamanca, The November increase in un-insurgent headquarters, announced employment was caused by drop at 8 p. m. that the garirson con-lof 13 per cent in industrial produc- I i Among the notables at Carthay Circle ney's "Snow White" premiere were Free-theater Wednesday night to see Walt Dis- man Gosden, and his children.

2 MILLIONS I Chinese Loss 750 Millions IFFTFOR ARTi1 Six Months Of Invasion MJLJM. 1 1 Vll rill 1 By Associated Press SHANGHAI Nearly six months i Jananese invasion has cost i of Jap China at least 750 million United States dollars in physical property damage. Millions have shared this loss, in shattered homes, destroyed factories, ruined crops! This item is easiest to reckon in the sum of China's staggering losses, perhaps one of the least important. It takes no account of; Brig. Gen.

Percy P. Bishop to ma-the scores of thousands of non- general, and Col. Jay L. Bene-combatants killed, of the disloca- rijct to Brigadier general. JAPS SET UP PUPPET RULE AT NANKING Autonomous Commission' of Chinese Dominated by Invader's Army Bv Associated Press SHANGHAI irrmay) A new "autonomous commission," manned by obscure Chinese, but spon-j sred by the Japanese army, held jvray in conquered Nanking to-dav while Japanese forces drew a crrdon tighter about Hangchow, csrital of Chekiang province 100 rr.

southwest of Shanghai. Americans and other foreigners were warned by Japanese authorises to flee Hangchow before Japanese columns driving toward the from northeast, north and nnrrhwest. completed their conquest. Five Americans and 26 other foreigners were believed to be in Hangchow. 9" Americans Flee Ninety-seven Americans fleeing wsr threats in Central China were among 1nn refugees who started bv an international "Christmas ex-jress" train from Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, for Canton and H-Tgkong.

Both Japanese and Chinese had beer, informed of the identity of the flag-draped train, expected to read) Hongkong Christmas or the dav af'er. Three hundred more Americans were prepared to board American warships Tsingtai harbor, 390 miles north of here, if a feared Japanese attack on that province port materialized. Administrative Commission Japanese officials indicated the new Nanking commission was intended primarily to be an administrative unit for the Nanking district, taking over local functions of the regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek which fled the former capital of all China a month ago. "t-ever. Japanese officers, asked whether the commission was to be considered as completely replacing the old Nanking government, replied, "that is possible, although it is too early to say." Heading the commission was Tac Hsi-Shan, described as a 61-year-old philanthropist and since the outbreak of the war.

head of the Nanking branch of the Red Swastika society. Chinese counterpart of the Red Cross vice-chairman and eight other commissioners completed the all Chinese but none of national reputation. Denounce hiang's Government The commission issued a proclamation denouncing the former Nankin; government for "leading the Chinese people into indescribable misery and distress for the last decide by pursuing anti-Japanese and pro Communist policies." How the new governing body was to he related to the Japanese sponsored "provisional government of China" set up in old Peking last week, aspiring to be heir to the Peking regimes that ruled China before the revolution of 1926-28, was not made clear. Dismember China Japanese authorities would not discuss whether the Nanking or the Peking regime had the better chance of becoming Japan's choice for an all-China government Referring to the suggestion Japanese policy was in ef-fec to dismember China by set-t -n up many local regimes they sa.n they had "no information." Already half a dozen local governing bodies have arisen in conquered parts of China, and Japanese leaders apparently have mde little effort to encourage their amalgamation. Westerners experienced in the Orient have uggested that the Japanese intended to divide and rule, making tise of the ages-old Chinese separatism, the strong local and provincial feeling that except in certain periods blocked attempts at effective national government in China RANTOI STl'DENTS IN PLAN CRASH Bomber arrmg Boys to Denver "Pancakes:" None Hurt By Associated Press rrNVKR A huge, dual -motored army bombing army plane fincaked" while taking off at the municipal airport its nine passengers, five of them air corps student graduates.

escaped injurv. Capf. K. N. Walker, the pilot.

I en route to Hamilton field! the graduates from the army' corps technical school at Ran-j ''''I HI. The group spent the night, hers The graduates were J. D. 1 "odes. H.

E. Perkins. CI. J. Am-1 J.

S. Doherty and J. S. Chamberlain. Joseph Foster.

80, Of Ficklin. Dies! By Staff Correspondent TOLONO Joseph Foster. 80. Ficklin. died at 10 a.

m. Thurs-I in the home of his son. John. 1 He had been ill for several with a heart ailment. Besides his son.

John, he leaves mother son. William. Ficklin. Funeral services will be held at 2 rn. Sunday in Cartwnght ffiurch.

four miles west of Tuscola. will be in Cartwright cem-j ry. Walt Disney and his wife seven dwarfs, who acted as SOLONSASK BIGGER NAVY Borah Believes U. S. to Aid Trade By Associated Press WASHINGTON A demand for a more powerful navy and air force, to serve notice on foreign nations that the United States is "not afraid" of a fight, came yesterday from chairman Edward T.

Taylor (D-Colo) of the House ap- propriations committee. He said many Americans, particularly in the West, believe this country should not submit "supinely" to Japan's "insolent treatment." "I feel," Taylor told reporters, 'that conditions have changed throughout the world so much since August that our country would be justified in showing the world that we are going to get ready, and that we are not hunting a fight but are not afraid of one." Borah Hits "War Hounds" Senator William E. Borah R-lda), who commented on the Far Eastern situation before Taylor spoke, declared the nation should be on guard against "war hounds," who seek to build up a belligerent psychology. 'I do not think that we ought to get out of China, or leave the East," he said, "and neither do I think that if we fail to do so we are going to war with Japan." He expressed confidence that President Roosevelt is seeking to adopt every practicable measure to avoid war. "It' does not require any great amount of courage or statesmanship." the senator added, "to throw a people into war, but it sometimes requires a vast amount of courage and great statesmanship, when the war hounds have hit the trail, to keep a people out of war." Wheeler Asks Withdrawal Unlike Borah, Senator Burton K.

Wheeler (D-Mont) advocated the withdrawal of American troops and ships from China and favored proposals for referenda prior to any war. Senator Gerald P. Nye R-ND) suggested, however, that the United States be permitted to declare war without a vote of the people if a foreign power invaded any country of North, or South America. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent last night to Ambassador Grew in Tokyo two officials reports of 4,000 dramatic words on the sinking of the gunboat Panay. rjrAML ac in nrspnt thpm in the Japanese government.

Sends Panay Reports President Roosevelt and Hull read the reports during the day. One was the account of the skipper of the Panay, Lieut. Comm. James J. Hughes, Washington, D.

C. the other contained the offi-i cia! findings of the naval board of inquiry. I Hughes' report will be published today and the board's conclusions on Saturday morning. VON LAMBSDORFF DEAD HANOVER. Germany (AP) Lieut.

Gen. Count Gustav von Lambsdorff. 70, died here yesterday. He co-operated with the late er ccnt and factory pay rolls 10.8 tion. The reserve board's seasonally adjusted index of production fell from 103 in October to 90 in November.

A year ago production was at 114 and earlier this year averaged 116. Production fell off particularly, the board said, in steel, textiles, shoes, minerals, manufactures, bituminous coal and iron ore. Christmas DINNER BEN'S BARN 761 Eit Eldorido St. ROAST NATIVE TURKEY and dressing ith cranberry sauce ROAST LONG ISLAND DUCK and dreinr with buked applt. 4 HOK OF Chicken noodle imip.

fruit or shrimp cocktail or Tomato juice. 8veet Pickle. Celery Hearts with Potatoe or Candied Yams with Garden Peas or Creamed Cauhflomer. Head Lettuce Thousand Island Dressme. Dessert Plum Pudding.

Hard Sauce or Pumpkin Pie with wnipped cream. Coffee or Milk. 75c BAR SERVICE AMATEURS WANTED FOR ENGAGEMENT APPLY IN" WRITING HOWARD LE ROY HOTEL ORLANDO es Opn 6 p. M. It Happened One Nite" GARIX C.

COLBERT PUS RRn "BOHEMIAN GIRL' Lakeside Tavern Route 16 Phone, 4711 Steak and Chicken Dinners Entertainment and Dancing MRS. NELL BLEN'Z. Proprietress GIVE THEATRE TICKETS OPEN 12:15 P. M. 25c to 5:.

10; After; ChiI4. 10c LAST 2 DAYS ROBERT YOUNG JAMES STEWART l.innp) Rarr more. Florence Rlr? NAVY BLUE GOLD' PLCS "OCR GAM;" NEWS Coming Sunday Paramount's Epic Thrill Drama "Wells Fargo" TliKATItE lit KE1S End Ti.nile Open 12:15 P.M. 20c to 5:30 2Sr After ONLV TAXI DANC RAthKT SEC RETS EXPOSED IN "PAID TO Plus SALLY EII.EKS in "DAM, Kir PATROL" PMS AMATF.IR FROLIC TOMORROW OHLY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Patriria Earr Scott Colton "ALL AMERICAN SWEETT" Plus ZAHE GREY'S STORY "Thunder Trail" Gilbert Roland Trs TTfft9M Hunt Pluti Marsha ftnflr etd tinued to hold out. Claim Loyalists Faltering It said the condition of the government forces in the sector "is more and more critical." Other insurgent contingents were said to have dislodged government units from the strategic Zar-agoza road northwest of Teruel, along which the government previously had reported its troops ad vancing on Albarracin, 15 miles to the west.

The Teruel garrison, which said some of the city's inhabitants had joined in the stand in the seminary, was in communication with insurgent officers at Irun, near the French border. Franco Rushes Reserves Generalissimo Francisco Franco hurled reserves into the battle to break the government's hold on Teruel and free the defenders of the seminary. which insurgents hoped would become a second Al cazar, scene of an heroic resistance and final relief like the insurgent feat at Toledo early in the war. A message was broadcast for the Teruel defenders: "Our columns are advancing. All Spain admires your heroism." Wednesday the government 'announced and insurgent authorities admitted the fall of Teruel, which jfor months had been a spearhead at the southern end of the insurgents' Aragon front, pointing menacingly toward Valencia and the Mediterranean coast.

Yesterday insurgent officers declared the government's triumph there which government adherents hailed as the greatest offensive triumph of the war would become a "second Brunete." They referred to the government capture last July of Brunete, west of Madrid, which the insurgents recap- tured after both sides had suffer- ed heavy losses. HOBO KING TO ECROPE CINCINNATI (AP, Jeff Davis, president of the Hoboes of America, yesterday applied for a pass port to Europe, saying he planned to sail from New York late in January to attend conferences in I England with officials of European hobo organizations affiliated with the Hoboes of America. Attention Crang's Super Nite Club 2.13 N. Main Street pleased to announce a change in entertainment Also in personnel. Featuring COTTON CAIRNS The Singing Bartender POPULAR PRICES No Cover Charge upi-n It p.

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IN ru s. a sf cosn Bin hit 0 Pdi r-n tf being greeted by one of the official welcomers. DEWITT THEFT SQUARED AS $5 COMES IX MAIL By Staff Correspondent CLINTON A $5 bill yesterday squared a. four-year-theft by a for mer stucieni 01 tne bunion community high school. Restitution was made by the former student whose identity is unknown.

In February 1934 a coin purse belonging to a Clinton young woman, then a student in the high school, was stolen. The purse was returned but the $5 in change was taken. Today a letter containing the $5 was received by the father of the young woman. The sender of the letter asked that mention be made through the papers so they ithe sender) would know the money was received. JOHN CITIZEN HEADS HOME Trains, Planes, Buses Holiday Rush By Associated Press.

CHICAGO Metropolitan Americans are going home for Christmas in greater numbers than for several years. Railways, airlines and bus firms reported yesterday their prospects were for holiday business in excess of last year, which was the heaviest since the depression. The movement towards towns, hamlets and farms to spend the Yuletide with "the folks" has been under way for a week, but will reach its peak today. Airlines at Capacity Airlines have been booked to capacity through the weekend, with all available equipment in service. Trains have been running in mul tiple sections and with extra cars since mid-December.

The New York Central has run more than 120 special trains and extra sections in and out of Chicago since Dec. 14. and will boost the total to 200 in the next two days. Officials said holiday business was greater than last year and estimated it might exceed 1936 by 20 per cent Operating to the South, the Illinois Central reported that all its major trains have been operating in extra sections. In addition to holiday traffic, the road announced that seasonal travel to the South was 10 per cent over last year and likely to be the biggest since 1929.

General Erich Ludendorff. who died Monday, in the capture of Liege. Belgium, in 1914. CAROLINE'S CLUB Invite you to We now have the In Decatur. patronlre our club most popular linger PAT Formerly with LOFTUS Vincent Lopea Orrhcitra iidi and his swim; baxd No Coter harce 3 Garments 4 Cleaned and Plain Pressed Standard Service 50c reCHUMBLFYi CLEANCTS tiial 5319 DAIRY CO.

Wealthy Chicago Woman Endows Institute By Associated Press CHICAGO The will of Miss Kate S. Buckingham, noted art patron, establishes a two million trust fund for the Chicago Art institute and leaves one million dollars for an Alexander Hamilton memorial fountain here. Attorney J. P. Wilson disclosed last night.

He estimated the value of the estate at "approximately four million dollars" and said he was revealing the will's contents before actual filling "because of the unusual public interest arising from the chaiactcr of the provisions contained in the will." Singer Gets Money The will made public by Wilson left a $20,000 bequest and a trust fund to Joseph Horace Benton of Norman, Ok. Wilson identified Benton as Joseph Ben-tonclli. tenor of the Metropolitan and Chicago Civic Opera companies and a distant relative and protege of Miss Buckingham. It left $513,000 in bequests to VT persons in various parts of the United States and annuities of each to 10 other people. Miss Buckingham, last member of an eminent Chicago family, died i Dec.

14 at the age of 79 and was buried at Zanesville. her birthplace. DEMO BOOK SALE IS HELD LEGAL Attorney General Refuses Demand to Prosecute Solicitors By Associated Press WASHINGTON Attorney General Homer S. Cummings has decided that the Democratic national committee's sales of books concerning the 1936 Democratic convention do not warrant a criminal prosecution. This was disclosed yesterday when Rep.

Bertrand Snell of New York, the Republican House leader, made public a letter from the attorney general dated Nov. 20. Snell had contended that sales of the Democratic convention books to corporations violated the corrupt practises act, which forbids political parties to obtain contributions from corporations. Cummings' letter said: "A comprehensive study of the law and the facts has now been completed, and the conclusion has been reached that a criminal prosecution would not be warranted." The attorney general added, however: 'My study of the general subject leads me to the conclusion that it is desirable to amend the statute, with a view to broadening its scope and rendering it more effective in important particulars. To this end.

I shall, in the near future, submit to the Congress pro posed amendatory legislation. Few Names Recorded For Christmas Baskets Names of but 350 of the 1.000 needy families expected to receive Christmas baskets today and Saturday have been cleared through the bureau set up by the Council of Social Agencies tk. orvir for tne protection Hnnnrt Miss Frieda Klopfen- stein of the Family Welfare Agency pointed out yesterday. Without a large majority of the givers clearing names through the k. i iti ffpetiveness is offset by h.

names which may be! rfnnlirated without anv control Even names which are filed at the bureau may be duplicated by agencies which do not check with it. Lists made up for the Christmas bureau's use are used solely for I TIJ IT IPPIVI? ADMV PHIL11 FIN ARM 1 CHIEF PROMOTED U. S. Advances General In Command of Island Defenses By Associated Press WASHINGTON President Roosevelt yesterday promoted Bishop, now in command of the harbor defenses of Manila and Su- hie bays, Philippine Islands, succeeds Maj. Gen.

Douglas Mac-Arthur, who retires voluntarily Dec. 31. Benedict, now chief of staff of the eighth corps area, at'Fort Sam Houston, will fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Bishop. Secretary Woodring at the same time announced Benedict would become superintendent of the military academy at West Point upon the retirement in February of Maj. Gen.

William D. Connor, now hold- lng that post. 10,000 PLAN NAZI PROTEST Catholics to Join in Mass Demonstration ST PATTT. Minn (Special) More 10 000 St Paul Catholics agreed yesterday to join in a mass demonstration Jan. 16 on behalf of "oppressed Christians" in Nazi Germany.

The demonstration, suggested by a committee of the Catholic City federation of St. Paul, has authorized by Archbishop John Gregory Murray. "I am ready to co-operate in designating a day of public reparation for the offenses committed against God by such a nefarious Nazi government program," the archbishop said in a public statement, approving the plan of "giving sympathy for brethren in Germany who have been appalled by a process designed for extermination of the Christian faith." He termed the Nazi anti-church policies "the most terrifying program initiated by a government." The demonstration will consist of prayers and sacrifices in all Catholic churches and a mass meeting in the municipal auditorium. Franklin Godwin Writes Home for Old Passport Franklin G. Godwin.

16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Godwin, 437 South Monroe street, a student in t-ngland for the past 11 years. wrote dome this weeK for a passport he used when he was 5 years old. He wanted to take a trip to the Swiss Alps for the holidays and discovered that he faced the complications of digging up his old passport.

He will turn it over to the the American council in England wno wjn ifSUe a new passport for the trip to Switzerland. The vacation periods at Uppingham, where Franklin is attending school, are longer at the time of religious festivals, but are shorter in summer than those in the United States. At Christmas and Easter a month is given over for this purpose while the summer va- i ration stai-linff aSont Ancmet 1 mn. onlv TYPEWRITERS FORTAntr Raral. Renlnrtan.

rnder- r4. Renlalt. all ttandartf maftea re- evnoiuvnra ana renam I'prwriiera. nan. (nf terms.

Repairs. srpiie. offie Caaipnent. Years wtt Remlnrtaa Niemann 415 Main SL Phone 2-7591 tion of industry and trade, mean- ng unemployment and starvation for more scores of thousands the loss of territory. Foreign Losses Extra Moreover, it does not include the scores of millions of dollars lost by Americans, British and other foreigners in the fighting at Shanghai and Nanking and 100 million dollars loss to Japanese interests in the destruction of mills and other properties at Shanghai.

A large proportion of the damage was done by China's own soldiers, who at Shanghai and in followed a policy, of "scorched lan'dij broken tile" seeking to leave nothing of use to the invader. Surveys, made largely by foreign authorities, resulted in this summary of Chinese property loss: Industrial damage at Shanghai $250,000,000. Other destruction in the Yangtze valley $50,000,000 Damage in Hopei province, of which four-fifths was to farms $250,000,000. Damage to other North China provinces nearly all $200. 000.000.

agricultural Total $750,000,000. Shanghai, whose horizons were fire-rimmed for three months of combat for the city, has counted the damage to China's greatest industrial center. It will take at 250 million dollars to rebuild t' mills and factories shelled, bomb ed and burned. Native Plants Ruined The Bureau of Social Affairs of Greater Shanghai in its final survey it fled in November said 70 per cent of the 1,500 native industrial plants in the Hongkew and Yangtzepoo districts of the international settlement have been destroyed. AU the 3.000 factories, large and small, of the Chapei district of Shanghai are gone.

Their assessed value was more than $110,000,000 What Japanese shells and bombs did not level was fired by retreating Chinese soldiers. Nantao. the last Shanghai district to fall, lost more than half of its 2.270 factories. Pootung savedj about 500 of its 1.000 plants. Japan May Rebuild Of the 3.070 Chinese-owned factories remaining, about half are in foreign-governed areas untouched by hostilities.

In the opinion of American and foreien observers, Japan is now in a position to rebuild the, city's industrial system along us own lines. Damage in and around Nanking, the faUen capital, has been difficult to estimate because rigid Japanese military control has prevent ed foreigners from investigating: conditions there. Scores of villages Ineai there were burned by the Chi- of the scorch- nese in cursudinc ed land, broken tile" policy Arthur School Theft Nets Burglars $2 By Staff Correspondent rrt- ARTHUR Thieves who sacked the Arthur high school of- ice early- Thursday stole $2 from one of the desk drawers but could not get $160 left in the school safe. Sheriff Clark Edwards reported Sheriff's officers said they be- A ncB Lhristmas bringing you ncm joysii our nish ihn Yulclide icason. i that purpose, according to President ilieved the thieves hid in the Duiia Ralrh G.

Long, of the Council of'mg after a basketball game and PHILLIPS Social Agencies, and are not en- waited until all had left before tered in any welfare agency or re-'ransacking the office and sever-lief files. al other rooms. BAND ACT AND Serial No. GIVE THEA7KE 1ICKEIS.