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PAGE THIRTEEN December 24, 1937. DECATUR HERALD JAPS SET UP PUPPET RULE AT NANKING 'Autonomous Commission' of Chinese Dominated by Invader's Army By Associated Press SHANGHAI (Friday) A new "autonomous commission," manned obscure Chinese, but sponsored by the Japanese army, held sway in conquered Nanking today while Japanese forces drew a cordon tighter about Hangchow, capital of Chekiang province 100 miles southwest of Shanghai. Americans and other foreigners were warned by Japanese authorities to flee Hangchow before Japanese columns driving toward the city from northeast, north and northwest. completed their conquest. Five Americans and 26 other foreigners were believed to be in Hangchow.

97 Americans Flee Ninety-seven Americans fleeing war threats in Central China were among 300 refugees who started by an international "Christmas express train from Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, for Canton and Hongkong. Both Japanese and Chinese had beer. informed of the identity of the flag-draped train, expected to reach Hongkong Christmas or the day after. Three hundred more Americans were prepared to board American warships in Tsingtai harbor, 390 miles north of here, if a feared Japanese attack on that Shantuns 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. However, Japanese officers, asked whether the commission was to be considered as completely replacing the old Nanking government, replied, is possible, although it is too early to say." Heading the commission was Tac Hsi-Shan, described as a -old philanthropist and since year outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese war. head of the Nanking branch of the Red Swastika society. Chinese counterpart of the Red Cross. Two vice-chairman and eight other commissioners completed the body, all Chinese but none of national reputation.

Denounce Chiang's Government The commission issued a proclamation denouncing the former Nanking government for "leading the Chinese people into indescribable misery and distress for the last decade by pursuing anti-Japanese and pro-Communist policies." How the new governing body was to be related to the Japanese 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 that Japanese policy was in effeet to dismember China by setting up many local regimes they said they had information." Already half a dozen local governing bodies have arisen in conquered parts of China, and Japanese leaders apparently have made little effort to encourage their amalgamation. Westerners long experienced in the Orient have suggested that the Japanese intended to divide and rule, making use 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.

RANTOUL STUDENTS IN PLANE CRASH Bomber Carrying Boys to Denver "Pancakes:" None Hurt By Associated Press DENVER A huge, dual-motored army bombing army plane while taking off at the municipal airport yesterday. but its nine passengers, five of them air corps student graduates. escaped injury. Capt. K.

N. Walker, the pilot, was en route to Hamilton field with the graduates from the army air corps technical school at Rantoul, Ill. The group spent the night here. The graduates were J. D.

Rhodes, H. E. Perkins, G. J. Ambrose, J.

S. Doherty and J. S. Chamberlain. Joseph Foster, 80, Of Ficklin, Dies By Staff TOLONO Joseph Foster.

80, of Ficklin, died at 10 a. m. Thursday in the home of his son, John. Tolono. He had been ill for several weeks with a heart ailment.

Besides his son, John, he leaves another son. William, Ficklin. Funeral services will be held at 2 m. Sunday in Cartwright church, four miles west of Tuscola. Burial will be in Cartwright cemetery.

ATTENDED BY NOTABLES Walt Disney and his wife being greeted by one of the seven dwarfs, who acted as official welcomers. SOLONS ASK BIGGER NAVY Borah Believes U. to Aid Trade By Associated Press WASHINGTON -A demand for 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 appropriations committee. He said many Americans, particularly in the West, believe this country should not submit "supinely" to Japan's "insolent treatment." 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- Ida), 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. get "I East," do out he not of said, think China, "and that or we neither leave ought do the to 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. Grew was to present them to the Japanese government. Sends Panay Reports President Roosevelt and Hull read the reports during day.

One was the account of skipthe per of the Panay, Lieut. Comm. James J. Hughes, Washington, D. the other contained the official findings of the naval board of inquiry.

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 DEWITT THEFT SQUARED AS $5 COMES IN MAIL By Staff Correspondent CLINTON A $5 bill yesterday squared a. four-year-theft by a former student of the Clinton 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 so they (the sender) would the money was received. papers, 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 multiple sections and with extra cars since mid-December.

The New York Central has run more than 120 trains and extra sections in and of Chicago special, 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 We invite you to patronize our club. We now have the most popular singer in Decatur. PAT LOFTUS Formerly with Vincent Lopez' Orchestra Also BERNICE DOWERS.

RUDY AND HIS SWING BAND No Cover Charge Plain 3 Cleaned Garments and Pressed Standard Service 50c CLEANERS Dial 5319 11 A new Christmas bringing you new joys--is our wish this Yuletide season. PHILLIPS DAIRY CO. REBELS RUSH AID TO BREAK TERUEL SIEGE Garrison Trapped in Seminary as Loyalists Capture City By Associated Press HENDAYE, FRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER Insurgent forces striving desperately to relieve comrades still holding out at Teruel yesterday reported successes against the government army which captured that strategic city in eastern Spain. Driving to the relief of the insurgent garrison still machine-gunning and defying the government forces from a twin-towered seminary overlooking the city, an insurgent column of artillery and infantry reported it had smashed through government lines. The radio station at Salamanca, insurgent headquarters, announced at 8 p.

m. that the garirson continued to hold out. Claim Loyalists Faltering It said the condition of the government forces sector more and more critical." Other insurgent contingents were said to have dislodged government units from the strategic Zaragoza road northwest of Teruel, along which the government previously had reported its troops advancing 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 Alcazar, 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 for 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 recaptured after both sides had suffered heavy losses. HOBO KING TO EUROPE CINCINNATI (AP) Jeff Davis, president of the Hoboes of America, yesterday applied for a passport to Europe, saying he planned to sail from New York late in January to attend conferences in England with officials of European hobo organizations affiliated with the Hoboes of America. Attention Crang's Super Nite Club --233 N.

Main Streetis pleased to announce a change in entertainmentAlso in personnel. -FeaturingCOTTON CAIRNS The Singing Bartender POPULAR PRICES No Cover Charge FREE PARKING HITS upen 6 p. m. Today only DICK PURCELL IN "KING OF HOCKEY" ALSO. BOB ALLEN IN "RIO GRANDE RANGER" Cartoons and News Salvation Army Benefit Show.

1:30 Today AN IDEAL GIFT BRINK For Christmas! A CASE OF 7UP: Call Your Dealer! FREE 5c AVON! Candy, Kiddies! Bars KENNY BAKER, RADIO STAR, IN (MR. DODD Takes FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE PLUS, A SECOND BIG HIT DEATH STALKS the STREETS of SHANGHAI. MR MOTO THINK Peter Lorre BAND ACT AND Serial No. 8 EMPLOYMENT DROP IS TAPERING OFF WPA Chief Says Sudden Decline Has Let up Since Dec. 10 By Associated Press WASHINGTON Aubrey Williams, deputy administrator of the works progress administration, declared yesterday that, the decline of employment in United States had "leveled since Dec.

10. "There has been a let-up in disemployment," he added in an in- Williams' view was supported by Isador Lubin, chief of the bureau of labor statistics. Lubin-said scattered reports "indicate the rate of decline has been cut tremendously." Their statements followed an estimate by Henderson, consulting economist for WPA. that Leon, two persons had been added to the jobless lists since Sept. 1.

Henderson said the figure might increase to about three million during January and February. The federal reserve board estimated factory employment fell 5.8 per cent and factory pay rolls 10.8 per cent in November. The November increase in unemployment was caused by a drop of 1 13 cent in industrial production. reserve board's seasonper, ally 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. Among the notables at Carthay Circle ney's "Snow White" premiere were Freetheater Wednesday night to see Walt Dis- man Gosden, and his children. 2 MILLIONS LEFT 'FOR ART 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 unuspublic interest arising from the character of the provisions contained in the Singer Gets Money The will made public by Wilson left a $20,000 bequest and a 000 trust fund to Joseph Horace Benton of Norman, Ok. Wilson identified Benton as Joseph Bentonelli, 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 57 persons in various parts of the United States and annuities of 200 each to 10 other people. Miss Buckingham, last member an eminent Chicago family, died 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 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 proposed 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. The service is for the protection of donors. Miss Frieda Klopfenstein of the Family Welfare Agency pointed out yesterday.

Without a large majority of the clearing names through the givers bureau its effectiveness is offset by the uncleared names which may be duplicated without any 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 that purpose, according to President Ralph G. Long, of the Council of Social Agencies, and are not tered in any welfare agency or relief files. Chinese Loss In Associated Six Press Months of SHANGHAI Nearly six months Japanese invasion has cost 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 the scores thousands of noncombatants killed, of the dislocation of industry and trade. meaning unemployment and starvation for more scores of thousands, or 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 their retreat up the Yangtze valley, followed a policy of "scorched land, 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 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 agricultural $200.000,000.

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 least 250 million dollars to rebuild mills and factories shelled, bomb ed and burned. Native Plants Ruined The Bureau of Social Affairs of Shanghai in its final sur. Greater.

fled in November said 70 per cent of 1,500 native industrial plants Hongkew and thine Yangtzepoo districts of the international settlement have been destroyed. All 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 saved about 500 of its 1,000 plants. Japan May Rebuild Of the 3.070 Chinese-owned factories remaining, about half are in foreign- areas untouched by hostilities. In the opinion of American and other foreign observers, Japan is now in a position to rebuild the city's industrial system along its own lines. Damage in and around Nanking. the fallen capital, has been difficult to estimate because rigid Japanese military control has prevented foreigners from investigating conditions there.

Scores of villages near there were burned by the Chinese in pursuance of the "scorched land. broken policy. Arthur School Theft Nets Burglars $2 By Staff Correspondent ARTHUR Thieves who ransacked the Arthur high school office 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 believed the thieves hid in the building after a basketball game and waited until all had left before ransacking the office and several other rooms. 750 Millions Of Invasion PHILIPPINE ARMY CHIEF PROMOTED U.

S. Advances General in Command of Island Defenses By Associated Press WASHINGTON President; Roosevelt yesterday promoted Brig. Gen. Percy P. Bishop to major general, and Col.

Jay L. Benedict to Brigadier general. Bishop, now in command of the harbor defenses of Manila and Suhic bays, Philippine Islands, succeeds Maj. Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, who retires voluntarily Dec.

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 holding that post.

10,000 PLAN NAZI PROTEST Catholics to Join in Mass Demonstration ST. PAUL, Minn. (Special) More than 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 been 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 England for the past 11 years, wrote home this week for a passport he used when he was 5 years old. He wanted to take a trip to the 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 who will issue 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 a month is given over for this purpose while the summer vacation starting about August 1 continues only six weeks. TYPEWRITERS PORTABLES- -Royal. Remington.

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Main 2-7591 St. Christmas DINNER at BEN'S BARN 764 East Eldorado! St. ROAST NATIVE TURKEY and dressing with cranberry sauce ROAST LONG ISLAND DUCK and dressing with baked apple. -CHOICE OFChicken noodle soup. fruit or shrimp cocktail or Tomato juice.

Sweet Pickles, Olives, Celery Hearta with Potatoes or Candied Yams with marshmallows. Garden Peas or Creamed Cauliflower. Head Lettuce, Thousand Island Dressing. De Dessert- Pumpkin Plum Pie with Pudding. whipped Hard Sauce cream.

or Coffee or Milk. 75c BAR SERVICE A AMATEURS WANTED FOR ENGAGEMENT APPLY IN WRITING HOWARD LE ROY HOTEL ORLANDO Alhambra Last Times Open 6 P. M. "It Happened One Nite" CLARK GABLE COLBERT PLUS LAUREL "BOHEMIAN GIRL" Lakeside Tavern Route 36-Phone 4711 Steak and Chicken Dinners Entertainment and Dancing MRS. NELL BLENZ.

Proprietress GIVE THEATRE TICKETS OPEN 12:45 M. 25c to 35c After; Child 10c LINCOLN LAST 2 DAYS ROBERT YOUNG JAMES STEWART Lionel Barrymore, Florence Rice 'NAVY BLUE GOLD' Coming Sunday Epic Thrill Drama "Wells Fargo" GIVE THEATRE TICKETS Ends Tonite. Open 12:45 P.M. 20c After ADULTS ONLY -TAXI DANCE RACKET SECRETS EXPOSED IN "PAID TO Plus SALLY PATROL" PLUS--AMATEUR FROLIC EMPRESS TOMORROW ONLY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Patricia Farr Scott Colton "ALL AMERICAN SWEETHEART" Plus-ZANE GREY'S STORY "Thunder Trail" Gilbert Roland Marsha Hunt Fxtra-Donald Duck and Pluto GIVE THEATRE TICKEIS.