Show news review of current events the world over aa V 5 japans military S seizure of shanghai 0 creates dangerous 0 situation china demands forcible steps by v league of nations i by EDWARD W PICKARD ORE trouble for the world devel M MORE ops aps in the orient japan push log ing her campaign to put an end to tile tl anti japanese boycott in china and anc with the added provo cation of riotous dent dem 5 a g a I 1 1 n s t 1 her nationals pals ir in Shar shanghai igbal assembled 24 warships at tant great port and the th military occupation ol of the city was begun by a force of about marines to protect the foreign sett settlement leme nt tour four regiments ol of american marines and dr W W yen e several battalions ol of british troops were standing by and warships of those nations were hurrying to the scene meanwhile before tile council of the league of nations in geneva dr W W yen the chinese minister to the united states set forth his count rys side of the controversy and demanded that the council enforce the league covenant without delay in washington president ind secretary of state stimson were considering onside ring what america might do in the crisis they proposed to great britain that the two nations apply economic embargoes or boycotts to trade with japan but the be macdonald government seemed reluctant to do anything more than to dispatch warships for the protect protection Jon of the international settlement the mayor of shanghai had yielded to the japanese demands hut but new demands were put forward and immediately thereafter the japanese ma flues were landed and proceeded to seize chapel the chinese quarter As they swept through 11 ll the district they encountered the desperate resistance ot of several thousands chinese troops whereupon whre pon upon planes were brought into action and chapel was thoroughly bombed conflagrations nearly destroyed the densely populated quarter and the fatalities were undoubtedly heavy the bloody battle continued for hours and at one time the chinese defenders had recaptured the important north railroad station the japanese had previously made their way across the Whang poo river to Poo tung site ot of big japanese cotton mills and evidently intended to advance further into chinese territory also they had shelled and occupied woosung Wo the fort at the mouth of the Whang poo their warships at the same time had bad gone up the yingtse and three cruisers were lying oft off ready to shell that capital city the chinese nationalist tion alist government was busily mobilizing all its strength and calling on the league of nations tor for help chiang kal kai shek former president den was made premier and apparently was virtually the dictator HAT course the united states W WHAT government would follow was uncertain but the stiffening ot of its policy toward japanese encroachments encroach ments was indicated by the sending of four more warships to chinese waters from manila they were destroyers and their presence was requested by rear admiral T Y S williams commander of the tan tse patrol secretary stimson cable to tokyo asking the intentions of japan and received what was called a reassuring reply but it was stated in washington that president hoover was proceeding on the theory that japan would be violating international law it she landed troops on chinese soil for any purpose but the protection of japanese nationals and their property russia came into the picture again when japan asked permission to use the chinese eastern railway in manchuria to transport troops to harbin where chinese soldiers were maraud ing russia flatly refused the request stating it intended to observe neutrality tr tra lity allty HEN the league council had bad w WHEN beard both dr W W yen ten and naotako sato the japanese delegates joseph paul boncoeur who replaced briand as chairman warned japan to go easy at shanghai he admitted that the situation was grave yen not only relies on the nine mine power treaty and the kellogg pacts pact but he also threatened to invoke article XV of the league covenant which Is followed by article XVI and the latter la Is the one that provides tor for sanctions against nations that resort to war furthermore war might well be made to cover such operations as those of the japanese against the so called chinese bandits some of the nations in the league are mighty timid it ID the matter of sanctions yen in his bis talk took a stronger position than the chinese have previously taken before the council and his characterization of the arts acts of japan wag forcible and uncompromising he complained too about the slowness in the formation of the leagues commission of inquiry and in its ita getting to manchuria where it will not arrive until april H t abandoned the reparations conference in lausanne france and great britain are still trying to tolve solve the problem without the aid of the united states premier laval in conversation wih lord tyrrell british ambassador suggested a temporary plan calling for a moratorium on reparations until after the american elections the moratorium would expire before december 15 aiice the next french payment to the united states Is due after the french elections in may and before expiration of the new moratorium a conference would be called at lausanne or elsewhere to negotiate a permanent agreement such a plan would be in line with the american attitude that Germ germanis germanys anys reparations creditors agree among themselves before tile the question of adjusting war debts Is broached NE notable result of the whole ONE 0 manchurian affair is the announced determination of sir eric drummond to relinquish early next nest year yea r his bis position as secretary general of 1 the league of nations fir eions ile he has held that office since the days of the peace conferee conf confer crene eu e and has been a most important figure in the organization Se several severah verai governments sharply criticized the secretariat because of tile the extreme position sir gir erie eric taken by the league drummond at the beginning of the manchurian embro ilo and some diplomats accuse accused rl sir eric of trying to force the powers into committing themselves to action in defense of the covenant which might have led to war with japan sir eric was evidently disgusted with what he considered the weak fiction action of the league council especially at the paris session and felt that the league had suffered great loss of prestige the other league officials do not wish to lose his services and it was considered possible they might prevail on him to change his bis mind about resigning this however seemed likely only if the council would take a sterner attitude toward japan SEVERE S EVERE loss was sustained by both the business and the sporting world in the death of william wrigley jr which occurred at his winter home in phoenix ariz the chicago capitalist known universally as the magnate of chewing gum and the owner of the chicago cubs of the national baseball league had many other and vast interests including banks mines real estate projects and the moving picture industry born in germantown pa 70 years ago he be ran away at the age of eleven and started business in new york as a newsboy in 1891 he be went to chicago and formed his oun company which soon began the manufacture of chewing gum and was vastly successful all his varied enterprises resulted in bringing mr wrigley a great fortune estimates by his associates ranged anywhere from to he was the he majority stockholder stock holder in the william wrigley jr company whose earnings in 1930 exceeded acome WHATEVER may be the final outcome thomas 11 massie of the american navy his mother in law sirs mrs granville fortescue and E J lord and albert 0 jones will not have to pay the death penalty tor for the killing of joseph Kaba hawal bawal ln in honolulu suspected attacker of mrs mas ale the four defendants in the sensational case were indicted by the grand jury in honolulu but the charge Is second de arce murder the pen P mrs granville aree fortescue rt ity for which Is 20 years y to life imvris A transcript of proceedings of the grand jury indicated that body attempted to make a report earlier and that circuit judge cristy refused it the transcript revealed he be pleaded with them to lay aside race prejudice to consider crimes as defined by statutes not as ag defined by individuals cristy repeatedly told the grand jurors that whether the accused four should be punished for killing the hawaiian was a question for the trial jury to decide the defense attacked the indictment on the ground that the grand jury was coerced by the judge penitentiary the historic AF A F english prison near plymouth was the scene of a violent mutiny in which more than convicts con victa fought desperately all one day with the guards and police the rioters who were enraged because no sugar was served with their porridge burned the principal buildings before they were subdued there were no fatalities but 93 03 of the prisoners were wounded UDAS financial affairs were aired C CUBAS before the senate finance committee and it was revealed that a sonin son in law of 0 president machado had a part in a loan of made by the chase national bank to that country carl J a v vice lee president of the bank said had bad gone eone to jose obregon as an off official lelal of the chase companas comp anys cuban branch tor for distribution to the banks that took part in fit the loans Us ue said the relative of the cuban president had only a minor part in negotiating the ion loan n and denied be was employed for that purpose herbert D brown chief of the united states bureau of efficiency testified that a report he had made of conditions in panama had been changed by officials of the national city bank back lie ile said liis his report bad pointer pointed out a way by which the country could avoid borrowing bor borrow rolIng ins but that the bank went ahead and loaned it ua UEY LONG of louisiana finally HUEY L A abandoned the governors chair and went to washington with it h his pink pajamas and took the oath of senator correspondents and visitors to the national capital anticipate that his presence in the upper chamber will nili provide many interesting incidents before being sworn to tn senator long lone told interviewers that the democratic Democrat le party was sure to lose if it nominated franklin Frank lii roosevelt noo sevelt tor for president but rould not be beaten it if its choice was either pat harrison robinson or garner garnar his fourth choice lie he said I 1 was waa at al smith ue lie asserted that prohibition hibi hIbIt tion lon 1 is 14 4 not a party issue and should have no DO place in a platform hack back in louisiana paul N cyr for the second time took the oath of office as gove governor anor and pregal prepared red to file suit to oust alvin 0 kins king named by long as governor when lie he went to washington mr king occupied the executive offices in baton rouge and had heavy guards stationed there WICE in two days the advocates bof TWICE of a large navy were badly jolted first the house naval committee agreed to shelve the vinson ten year warship authorization bill though giving the measure its approval then the naval committee of the senate indefinitely postponed action on the hale bill authorizing all warships needed to bring the navy up to the tonnage limits allowed by the london treaty CHARLES CHARLES G DAWES president of the reconstruction finance corporation and eugene meyer chairman of the board were busy getting ready to start the machinery of the huge concern and the seriate senate committee on banking had bad before it the names of two democrats appointed members of 6 the board by president hoover they were harvey C couch of arkansas and jesse IL jones of texas final approval of eugene meyer the treas ury cry investment in the reconstruction corporation was given in both bran branches clies of congress to a report reconciling conci ling the different provisions of the senate and house both political parties were supporting the next item on the presidents Pres identa program which was to give aid to depositors in closed banks through a corporation to make loans on sound but assets in those institutions two bills were vere under consideration era tion one drafted by republicans and providing merely for the establishment lish ment of this corporation and the other introduced by senator glass directed mainly at overhauling the count rys banking system EAR ADMIRAL MOFFETT chief REAR of the naval bureau of aeronautics told the house naval committee that the airship akron was far superior to any other airship ever built and immediately afterward E C davidson general secretary of the international association of machinists related to the committee the story of how an investigation of the materials used in the akron which two men charged were faulty led to the dismissal of the men by the goodyear company many defects were left in the airship according to the two men E C mcdonald an inspector and W B underwood a workman admiral moffatt denied the allegation made in a letter that the akron would collapse from her own weight it if forced to land without a mooring mast maat he said the airship could carry five small or four large airplanes which would not need wheels because they are handled by trapeze arrangement on their tipper wings HAT was denominated a communist WHAT uprising troubled the government of salvador but martial law was proclaimed and the revolt was quickly suppressed on the other side of the world in kashmir thousands of moslems were reported to be looting and burning the homes of hindus and the maharajah mah arajah appealed to the british for help disturbances continued tn in spain where the government was confronted with an attempt to set up it a proletarian dictatorship the decree disbanding the jesuits of spain was put into effect and the property of the order confiscated SIX men perished when the FIFTYSIX FIFTY british submarine M 2 went down near portland and failed to come up again it was reported that the vessel exploded I 1 W 0 mi 1932 western newspaper union colonl |