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THE DE CATUR DAILY REVIEW I FUTY-F0URTH YEAR NO. 59. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933. 16 PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS. GERMAN REICHSTAG BUILDING BLAZES; PLOT BLAMED Jap Bombs Chance to Cermak as 'Reasonable Live' Given Link Berlin Fire To Red Revott Plot Hitler Orders Communists Seized After Reichstag Building Blazes.

PneumoniaSpread Ends SMOKES CIGARET, SYPHONS GASOLINE; MAYBE HE'LL LIVE Joliet AP Maurice' Metzger smoked a cigaret while syphoning some gasoline for his stalled car Tuesday. Lawrence Reedy said he let Metzger syphon some fuel from the Reedy automobile, and saw him suck it up from the tank to start it flowing. Suddenly there was a flash. The gasoline tank in Reedy's car blew up, enveloping Metzger in flames. At the hospital it was said A disastrous fire of incendiary origin ber having confessed Above photo shows a front view of the famous building, one of the most imposing governmental structures in the World.

International News Photo. extensively damaged the interior of the Reichstag building in Berlin. The fire was attributed to Communists, one alleged mem- Drop, But Do No Harm "Murderous" Assault on Chinese Stronghold Made With Captured Shells. EYE WITNESS STORV By HERBERT. EKINS.

(Copyright 1933 by United Press) Yehpeishou, (At The Front With The Chinese Troops By Courier To Lingyuan) UP This sprawling village of mudhouses, which has become a strategic point in the Chinese defense of Changtehfu, capital of Jehol, was showered Tuesday with Japanese bombs, fore-runners of an expected murderous bombardment by air and long range guns. Crouching in a dugout outside the headquarters of Col. Fan Chingchun, who commands the 688th Chinese regiment of the 30th Independent infantry brigade, I watched explosives drop over the unsheltered territory. Most of them exploded harmlessly in open ground. Captured Bombs.

One of the bombs fell dangerously close to the dugout but failed to explode. Officers examined it and found it was a six-inch trench mortar shell, evidently taken from the ammunition stores of the Mukden arsenaf. It was evident from this fact that the Japanese have been forced to the recourse of using these' captured shells as aerial bombs. Another bomb falling while I was training binoculars on the district, wounded two women, a man and a child, despite Japanese assurances that the peasant populace would not be harmed. Shoot Down Refugees.

Shortly after this incident, I saw a Japanese airplane swoop over the highway and turn its machine guns on carts bearing peasant refugees out of the district. The Chinese commanders say that such attacks occur daily on Jehol highways. Acting on Governor Tang Yu-Lin's orders, the defending troops have withdrawn from their posi tions at Pingfangtsi to stronger positions northwest, resting on Chmgkou. This leaves a fairly clear path for the oncoming Japanese forces, now moving slowly and cautiously under constant aerial reconnaissance. As he watched the bombs fall.

Colonel Fang Chin-Chun a friend of General Chang Hsueh-Liang as well as a staunch military supporter, said in English. Give 'Em Hell. "We're, ready to give them We'll use our bare hands or clubs if necessary." Upon Col. Fang Chin-Chun's ability to hold Yehpeishou depends, perhaps, the fate of Lingyuan, the half-way goal of the oncoming Japanese on their way to Jehol city. Observers expected the battle to be joined within a few hours.

Tokyo Surprised When U. S. Shuns Arms Bon Tokyo AP The British government's embargo on new arms shipments to Japan and China has caused that country to momentarily replace the United States in the villain's role of the international drama as seen through Japanese eyes. America's failure to follow suit was regarded as surprising. Authorities, agreed however, Japan was self-sufficient and that the embargo would only handicap China.

As long as the embargo is impartial and confined to finished munitions, there is little likelihood of trouble over it," said a government spokesman. But if an embargo is applied to Japan alone the government willhave to consider seizure of arms shipments to China, he said. FEAR YANKS WILL REFUSE TO LEAVE CHINESE WAR ZONE Washington AP The safety of 3.000 Americans in the Peiping and Tientsin area is the cause of much concern to state department officials as Japanese and Manchukuo forces sweep southward through Jehol toward North China. Civilians in China never evacuate when orders are given by diplomatic and consular officials. This is true of Europeans as well as Americans, who have been through so many revolutions and civil wars that they generally refuse to leave their homes.

The 1,300 marines and soldiers the United States has at Peiping and Tientsin could not be evacuated except by agreement with the Japanese, Italians, British and French, who also have small defense forces in the two cities. Military observers say American lives would be menaced should Chinese mobs attack and Japanese colonies in those cities because of the possibility that the uprisings might develop into a general anti-foreign movement similar to the Boxer uprising in 1900. Retired Admiral Dies. South Orange. N.

J. UP Rear Admiral Edwin Stewart. 95, retired, died early Tuesday. He had been ill for some time. "FOIL" CIVIL WAR Bv KKIC KEYSER.

Berlin VP The Hitler government Tuesday ordered the arrest of every Communist connected with the government, for alleged complicity in a terrorist plot which began with the attempted destruction by fire of the Reichstag buildings. A ban on the Communist and Social-Democrat press was decreed by Herman Wilhelm Goering, minister without portfolio in the Hitler government. Tart Of riot. Goering charged that the Reichstag fire was part of a plot for a Communist uprising which had as its goal destruction of ay government buildings and "the wholesale looting of Berlin." Evidence uncovered Tuesday indicated that the Reichstag fire, which left the main hall of the legislative building a mass of charred ruins, but which spared tne library of the historic edifice, de liberately was set by a Dutch Communist named Van der Luebbe, acting in concert with several conspirators. Police reported that after the fire was discovered, men were seen rushing through the building with lighted torches.

Van der Luebbe said he had no confederates in his attempt to de stroy the government buildings. To Fight Uprising. "We are ready to fight to the utmost any attempt against the state's authority" Goering's of ficial communique said Tuesday. "It can be stated now that the first attack (of the Communists) has been parried. The entire Berlin police force is in readiness, and auxiliaries are being mobilized.

Learn Of War Plot. Police revealed that a raid on Liebknecht house, Communist headquarters, last Friday uncovered "instructions" for the beginning of a widespread reign of Communist terrorism throughout Germany, with the hope of civil war to follow. A significant paragraph of the instructions was quoted as follows: "For attacks on the police, women and children, preferably belonging to the families of police officers, should be used to march in front of the attacking rioters." Drastic Orders. The communique states that soon after Goering arrived at the burning Reichstag building, to find its famous dome threatened by the flames, he sat down and wrote his drastic orders. The investigation, according to the minister, already had disclosed beyond a doubt that the fire was incendiary.

Torches made out of tar compounds were found in leather bags, hidden in Reichstag literature and distributed from the cellar to the top garrets. "The entire central part of the Reichstag has been destroyed," the Communique said. Foil Uprising. "Through our discoveries at Liebknechthaus, a Bolshevist uprising has been averted, but this blaze at the Reichstag was in tended as a signal for the beginning of serious disorders which had been timed to start at 4 a. m.

Tues day. In the scheme was a plan for the wholesale looting of Berlin, with acts of terrorism against the life and property of our citizens." An immediate roundup of suspects in connection the supposed plot was started and before morning more than 80 prisoners were held in Berlin cells. Most of them were leaders of the Communist party. Some of those arrested were said to be deputies, but the police refused to reveal their identity. Named Senator.

Nashville, Tenn. AP Gov. Hill McAlister Tuesday appointed Nathan L. Bachman. Chattanooga, former justice of the Tennessee supreme court.

United States senator to succeed Cordell Hull, named secretary of state in the Roosevelt cabinet. Moratorium Idea Late In "Catching Beverly Hills, Cal. There wasent a soul in America that when they picked up their Paper dident utter the same sxpression, 1 1. that's too bad," when they read that Mayor Cermak ad pneumonia. Lots of states and places are C9lltn pa, Rush Room For Mayor Physicians Believe Mayor's Condition Satisfactory.

Miami A Mayor Cer-mak's pneumonia area in the right lung has remained stationary in size since Monday, physicians said Tuesday after a brief examination. Failure of oxygen tents to function properly caused his five attending physicians to order an oxygen room a portable tentlike affair, 9 by 10 feet from New York. It will be brought by plane and will reach Miami Tuesday night. Mayor Bests. "We did not make a complete examination of the pneumonia area," Dr.

Karl Meyer said, "because the patient was resting and we did not wish to disturb him with an examination that would require half an hour. Our brief examination, however, indicated no spread." Pneumonia is confined to the lower lobe of the right lung and was described as a "localized pneu monia consolidation." The doctors reported that "the chest findings seem stationary, and Dr. Meyer explained thi3 referred to the pneumonia. Reasonable Chance. Dr.

E. S. Nichol said the mayor had "a reasonable chance to live" and that he saw nothing to indicate that he did not have "an excellent chance for life in the next 24 hours." Mayor Cermak is suffering from a bullet wound inflicted by the assassin Giuseppe Zangara. "Every passing day without unfavorable complications adds to his chance to recover," Dr. Meyer said.

Woman To Govern Illinois Schools Horner Appoints Mrs. Eva Batterton to State Educational Department. Springfield UP Illinois' State Normal colleges and other matters within the jurisdiction of the state department of registration and education will be governed temporarily, by a woman for the first time in their history, starting Wednesday, according to an announcement by Governor Horner Tuesday. Mrs. Eva Batterton, Springfield, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the office of state superintendent of public instruction in 1930, will assume office as assistant director of the department and at the same time become acting head in place of Michael F.

Walsh, Woodside, whose resignation is effective Tuesday. Mrs. Batterton, one of the first women to be elected to a public office in Illinois, was notified by Horner late Monday that her appointment is to be sent to the stat senate Wednesday for confirmation. Mrs. Batterton has been chief clerk of the state treasurer's office.

Senator 111. Washington UP Senator Rob- ert B. Howell of Nebraska remained in a serious condition luesaay at Walter Reed hospital where he is. ill of 4- Fair Decatur and vicinity; Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, slightly 1 de Wednesday. Illinois and In- I diana: General- fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly 1 de Wed nesday in Missouri: Gen erally fair tonight and Wednesday; little change in temperature.

DECATUR WEATHER Dr. L. E. Coonradr U. S.

Official) record: High Man I 7 m. Toes 28 3 p. m. Mon 3R I Noon Taes 50 Low Tues 26 I Vttciv Compiled by Review Commnnitr Service: Sun rose. 6:34 a.

m. Sets. 5:51 p. m. Decree days -Tuesday, 2.1; since Sept.

16. 3916; same period year ago. 28X3. Lake level at dam Monday noon. .6 ft.

above dam; Tuesday. .6 ft. above dam. Barometer Monday noon, 29.62s today, 29.60. r.

S. WEATHER AT 7 A.M. TODAY. Highest last 24 hours, lowest last night. and precipitation Boston ...36 26 Chicago .40 32 Cleveland 32 30 Denver ...62 30 Duluth ...38 28 N.Orleans 64 54 1.02 New Vorlc 36 28 0 St.

Louis 50 34 0 E. Fr'cisCO 58 46 0 Seattle .42 34 .46 Wash ton 44 32 Winnipeg 40 6 0 Kan. City 52 36 L. Angeies 64 50 Miami ...7 V3 3 Jiy Legislatures Of Three States Rush Bills To Aid Banks Emergency Legislation Enables Institutions to Limit Withdrawals. By UNITED PRESS Three states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Arkansas, Tuesday had authorized emergency banking status by hurriedly passed legislation enabling banks to limit withdrawals by depositors.

In Maryland, bankers and. legislators were unable to agree on the form of similar legislation, and the bank holiday declared by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, scheduled to end Wednesday, was expected to be extended until Thursday to give time for "legislative action. In Delaware Governor Buck was expected to sign three legislative bills passed Monday night that would allow "freezing" of bank deposits should such action become necessary.

Limit Withdrawals. In Pennsylvania, both houses of the legislature passed and Gov. Gif-ford Pinchot promptly signed a bill permitting the state secretary of banking to impose arbitrary limits on the percentage of depositors which any bank may pay. The bill specifically authorizes the banking secretary to permit banks which are forced to limit withdrawals to stay open. Until the new bill became law the secretary was obligated to close any bank which did not pay demand deposits in full.

The measure was passed after conferences participated in by the governor, legislative leaders and financiers. It was hailed as a "con-structi-e measure to save the banking structure of the state." Ohio Acts. Two bills were jammed through the Ohio legislature at a night session, and George White signed them at once. One authorizes the state superintendent of banks to limit withdrawals from any bank for 60 days if he considers the action necessary. The limitation may be extended for further 60-day periods.

The other, designed to speed liquidation of banks forced to close, permits the superintendent of banking to take charge of any institution after adoption cf a resolution by the directors requesting such action. It also permits the superintendent to reopen a closed bank with simplified procedure, when approved by the court of common pleas. The Arkansas legislature passed its limitation law Monday and the governor signed it. The Clearing association of Little Rock promptly authorized six banks there to limit withdrawals to 5 per cent for an indefinite period. The Maryland legislature was ready to pass legislation similar to that adopted in the other states as soon as experts could agree on the bills desired.

Ford Lays Dans. Meanwhile, in Detroit, Henrv Ford proceeded with the task of organizing new banks, of which he will own all the stock, to take over the business of the First National and Guardian National banks. Ford indicated in an interview that he would run them on a basis of ab solute safety for depositors, and that loans would be made for pro ductive purposes only, never fdr speculation. i About 20 banks in Indiana, in cluding several in Indianapolis, operated with restrictions on withdrawals under authority of dras tic banking act passed last week. BOMB MINE HOME IN SPRINGFIELD UP The "home of John Mcnier, employed at the Woodside mine of the Peabody coal company here, was bombed Tuesday.

The bomb was touched off in the front yard of Monier's home and damaged the front cf the building. No one was hurt. The bomb consisted of powder packed in a lead pipe and covered with the sleeve of a sweater. Burned to Death. Davenport, la AP Dr.

J. T. Haller, well known Davenport physician, was burned to death Tuesday when his automobile went into a ditch and caught fire six miles west of the city, as he was answering a call. Packer Advanced. Chicago UP William B.

Tray-nor was named treasurer of Swift Company, packers Tuesday succeeding Laurence B. Carton who died several days ago. Traynor is 47 years old and a student of economics and finance. Named for Envoy. Paris AP Andre Lefebvre de Lay Boulaye, personal friend of Fresident-elect Roosevelt, will be named ambassador to Washington to succeed Paul Claude), it was learned Tuesday.

he could not recover. Roosevelt Works On Speech; Will Complete Cabinet Cabinet Will Be Ready to Start Work Saturday. Hyde Park AP President-elect Roosevelt expected to finish wr.H-ing his eight-minute inaugural address Tuesday. He also was ready to announce the remaining three cabinet members, who undoubtedly will be Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, attorney general; Miss Frances Perkins of New York, secretary of labor; and Daniel C.

Roper of South Carolina, secretary of commerce. Biding his time until he takes of fice Saturday, Mr. Roosevelt was, expected to move with celerity thereafter in his plans for the promised "new deal." To Call Congress. A call for a special session of congress and an announcement on the world economic parley are ex pected within a few days after in auguration. Two days after taking office, he goes into conference with state governors on ways, of closer, cooperation between states and nation toward better times.

Formal announcement of his secretariat was expected momentarily. It was expected to include Louis M. Howe of New York, Marvin H. Mclntyre of Kentucky and Stephen T. Early of Virginia.

The President-elect will have his cabinet with him at Washington Saturday ready to do business. Some will go on his special train which leaves New York late Thurs day and some will meet him in Washington. Wednesday he was expected to leave Hyde Park for New York. P. M.

A. To Sign New Contracts Operators and Scale Committee to Meet in Hillsboro. Hillsboro UP i i a 1 and members of the scale committee of the Progressive Miners of Amer ica will meet with coal operators at the Hillsboro Country club here Wednesday to consider a new wage scale to replace the one expiring the end of March. President Claude Pearcy, Gillespie, and Secretary William Keck, Belleville, conferred with members of the union scale committee at Gillespie Tuesday on plans for the meeting with the operators. Union officials and representa tives of the operators, it was said, anticipated a prompt accord over scale so that men may continue at work instead of allowing diggings to stand idle while both sides engage in a long discussion, as has been the custom in the past.

1 SPRINGFIELD CUTS CITY PAY, BUDGETS Springfield UP A 10 per cent wage cut and other retrenchments are included in the city budget of Springfield which is scheduled to be adopted Wednesday. The wage cut is expected to result in an an nual saving of between 538,000 and $40,000. Retrenchments are necessary because of the city's loss in revenue. TWO SEIZED IN KIDNAPING CASE Chicago UP Chicago police, acting at the request of Springfield authorities Tuesday arrested Theodore Patterson and Edwin Moore, alias Pritchett, wanted in connection with a Springfield kidnaping case. An attempt to apprehend Joe Renaldo, also wanted by Spring field, was unsuccessful.

BETTY CO-ED HIT BY FRAT PIN BILL Madison, Wis. AP Pity the poor University of Wisconsin co-ed if a bill introduced in the legislature becomes a law. It would be illegal for any person not a member of a fraternity to wear its insignia. HALT COURT CASE WHEN JUROR IS OFFERED A JOB Chicago AP A job stopped the wheels of justice momentarily in the trial of two persons accused in a bombing case. The hearing was stopped when Juror Edward Fletcher explained he had just received an offer of a job, after being out of work a year, and he thought he should take it.

The attorneys and the court agreed. 1 R.F.C. Loans State 6 Millions; Warns: "That Will Be All" Chicago Gets 275 of New Illinois. to Washington A The Reconstruction corporation in granting loans to four states for emergency relief Tuesday told Illinois officials that the corporation can loan that state no more money after Mar. 31.

Illinois was granted $6,245,143 of which goes to Cook county, bringing the total loaned that state to $44,738,621. The maximum amount the corporation can loan cne state is At the same time Ohio was granted a loan of $2,257,565 for use during March, Iowa was granted and Wisconsin $3,608,222. Ford's Secretary Reported Missing Police Asked to Conduct "Quiet" Investigation for Aide to Auto King. Detroit AP Ernest G-. Liebold, general secretary of Henry Ford, was reported missing to the Detroit police Tuesday.

Police said a request for a "quiet investigation" of his disappearance was made by a man who identified himself as an official of the Ford Motor Co. At the Liebold home and at the offices of the Ford company it was said that nothing was known of his disappearance. Mrs. Liebold was reported to be away from home. The state police post at Ypsilanti early Tuesday broadcast a report of Liebold's absence, stating that he was last seen Monday after noon when he left the Ford of fices in Dearborn.

Litbold, for many years general secretary to Henry Ford, has been In charge of the Ford fiscal policies. A few days ago Ford assigned him to assist Edsel Ford in the organization work preparatory to formine two new Detroit banks which will be under control of the Fords. CERMAK VOTES IN CHICAGO ELECTION Chicago UP Chicagoans voted Tuesday to select 50 aldermen for the rcun'cipal council. Police Com missioner. James P.

Allman detailed two policemen to each polling place. Last minute "write in' campaigns have been underway With 'lis signature written a shakv scrawl. Mayor bal lot was cast by 'the board of elec tion commissioners, who had re ceived it by mail from Miami, where Cermak is ill from a bullet intended for President-elect Roose Al Smith Hits At Inflation In His Depression Cures' Former Presidential Candidate Gives Suggestions to Senate. Washington AP Straight from the shoulder counsel from Alfred E. Smith to the senate finance committee Tuesday embraced recommendations for a federal bond issue to finance enlarged public construction, a war debt moratorium aimed to expand American foreign markets, and recognition of soviet Russia.

He was out to help the committee in its search for ways and means to improve the national situation, and he let his hearers' know at the outset his opposition to inflationary schemes. Let States Act on- Repeal. Adverting to the prohibition repeal resolution now before the states, he opposed congress fixing the manner for states to call conventions to act on the amendment. "Assume that 15 or 20 states wouldn't call conventions?" asked Senator Barkley (D. Ky.) "would you leave it up in the air?" "I'd leave it up to the states," replied Smith.

"I don't believe inflation will help us at all," said the 1928 Democratic presidential nominee. Blow at Inflation. "It is just like giving sic't man a shot in the arm. It to.ke a stiffcr shot the next t' A consolidated trans; sys tem under federal reg. -and with a national secretary for trans portation was another Smith proposal.

He was a member of National Transportation committee that has been- surveying the rail road field. Scour Denver For Kidnaping Victim Legionnaires, Others Help Police Hunt for Boettcher. Denver, Colo, of action were toward ending police and the UP Two courses pursued Tuesday the vigil kept by- family of Charles Boettcher, for the return of the young millionaire held by kidnap ers since Feb. 12. Claude K.

Boettcher, father of the young social and business leader, apparently was making'ev-erv effort to resume negotiations with the abductors to effect pay ment of the S60.000 ransom and return of his son. It was reported negotiations were progressing. Under the direction of Chief of Police Albert T. Clark the intensive house-to-house, person-by-person check of' buildings and people swung into full action Tuesday. Approximately 4,000 American Le gionnaires, political block captains, service club members, and other volunteers participated.

Named for Circuit Judge Vienna -AP Chairmen of the Democratic county committees in the first judicial district in convention here Monday, unanimously endorsed George White, of Marion, for circuit judge to fill the vacancy caused by. the death of Judge D. J. Hartwell. The term expires in Mellon Sued For 220 Millions In Tax Dodging Plot Charge Ambassador Helped Steamer Line in Giant Suit.

Washington AP Andrew Mel lon and two of his former treasury associates have been named de fendants in a $220,000,000 civil suit the largest ever filed in the District of Columbia supreme court. The suit charges connivance with officers of unidentified foreign steamship companies to evade payment of income taxes. Besides Mellon, who is ambassa dor to Great Eritain and former secretary of the treasury, David H. Blair, one-time commissioner of internal revenue, and Alexander W. Gregg, former acting general counsel of the revenue bureau, were named defendants.

The suit was filed by David A. Olson, who resigned recently as a stock market investigator for the senate banking committee after charging that he had not been given a free hand. Failed to Collect. Mellon was accused in the of not only failing to collect in delinquent taxes from the steamship lines but with plac ing the government in such a position that it was forced to refund some $10,000,000. The suit also asks interest on the $220,000,000 which would bring the totaj ttamages up to many more millions.

Action was. based on a statute of 1863, making federal of ficials liable for double the amount of damages. Under the statute a citizen imy sue in behalf of the United States, with whatever amounts collected going to the treasury. Amended Returns. Okon's attorneys alleged that the treasury officials wrongfully per mitted the steamship companies to make amended tax returns based on the revenue act of 1921, instead of the acts of 1916, 1917 and 1918.

The suit charged that Mcilon conferred with steamship officials in March, 1927, "for the purpose of assisting said companies in attempts to defeat the claim of the United States." BUTTER, EGG AGENT BEATEN TO DEATH Chicago AP A woman's apron bound around his head, the body of August Hittcrman of Marengo, butter and egg peddler, was found in a cinder pit back of a public school at 26th St. and South Halsted avenue Tuesday. Hitterman, 65 years old, had been beaten over the head. The body was half concealed by a heap of ashes. TENANT FARMERS SEEK RENT SLASH Hartsburg (Special) Tenant farmers of the Scully estate in this communiiy are planning to seek a reduction in the 1933 cash rental.

A meeting of more than 100 tenants was held here Monday night to protest against the rates. Recently, the 1932 rental was reduced to approximately $2.50 an acre, but the 1933 rental was set at $5' an acre. Th5 farmers want the rents adjusted on a sliding scale dependent cpon the prices of farm products rather than a fixed amount. The Scully estate operates 31,000 acres of land in Logan county. a moratorium on atDls, 5T taxes, banks.

Takes us so long to of anything for ourselves. Funny we thought of it for Europe, but not for ourselves. Why pour all that reconstruction money into a bani, when all you had to say was, "Vl'e are going to pay you out as oon as we are able to pay you out," Taura. wiu. acyiFBg.

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