Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune, The (Newspaper) - January 2, 1932, Muscatine, Iowa Older Than the State of Iowa THE MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND Associated Press and NEA Service ESTABLISHED 1840 NO 2 MUSCATINE IOWA SATURDAY JANUARY 2 1932 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Japanese Army in Chinchow All County Employes Keep Jobs Kaufmann Reelected Chairman of Su Muscatine countys official or for the year 1932 was perfected today when the board of supervisors administered the oath i of office to the various county ofj their deputies and clerks I reelected Fred R Kaufmann chairman and transacted other i business The personnel In the various ofi f ices in the courthouse and j county appointments will remain the same Salaries Not Settled The fixing of salaries for the j various which has been i considered by the board for several weeks was deferred until next Monday when the board will Again be in session Chairman Kaufmann announced more time for considering the salary scale was needed Selection of the three official newspapers for publication of pro of the board of super visors in 1032 was also before the hoard Four applications were read those of The Muscatine Journal The West Liberty Index The Wilton Advocate and Mid West Free Press The board de clared a contest existing and will i instruct each paper to file a bona fide certified list of its paid sub scribers in the county with the county auditor The matter of selecion will come before a later meeting Listed affirmed by the board Tipton and Ulan Dorothy Hagermann M dep to the clerk of court Miss Ida Grimm deputy county record er Arthur Sharer deputies to county treas urer and Arlo Griffin and William Wittich clerks in that depart ment Carl Walters and Miss Josephine Fry deputies and Miss Flossie Christensen clerk in the office of the county auditor Miss Margaret assistant to the county superintendent of I t schools L G Pace and Ralph Dill deputies to Sheriff Fred B Nes per and Andrew Ernst court bailiff and deputy The appointments at the county home will remain the same with Mr and Mrs Ed O Kemp as super Mr and Mrs Louis Stauffer assistants Mrs Opal War Hero Dies PAUL GERALD PAU General Pau Noted French Soldier Dead Continued On Page 8 Col 1 T G Hodgson 55 Taken by Death Illness of Week Fatal to Lo cal Man Funeral Will Be Held Sunday Thomas G Hodgson 55 died at his home 1107 Lucas street at Friday night after an 111 of one week with a compli cation ot diseases He was born in Liverpool Eng land July 8 He had re sided n Chicago for years and then a few years in Davenport before coming to Muscatine Surviving are hts widow Mrs Emma Hodgson two daughters Mrs Elliott Peoria 111 and Sirs F G Seofield Davenport three sisters Mrs Annie Muscatine Mrs Amelia Davis Ogden Utah and Mrs Lizzie Cox Cork Ireland an aged aunt Mrs Ruth MacDonald Wapello He a button cutter and was a member of the First Baptist church The body Is at the Fu neral Home and will remain there until Sunday afternoon when serv ices will be conducted at at the First Baptist church by the Rev V L Shontz pastor Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery AUNT HEX BY ROBERT Maybe it dont mean noth in but I never a wid ow that wasnt always she something cumin Publishers General Paul GerEid Pau noted French war commander died here today aged 83 Since the end of the war Gen eral Pau has devoted himself to looking after wounded veterans At the time of his death he was rt sident of the French Red Ci s He himself lost an Lrm In the warof 1870 When the crushed and beaten of France returned to what was left of their bered country after the Franco Prussian war of 1870 there was among them a young officer Paul Gerald Pau who had en tared the service as a cadet and fought his through to a captaincy Spirit If there was one man with those retreating defenders whose spirit was unconquered his name was Captain Pau Maimed and saddened though he was he could not feel for a moment that his beloved was vanquished He ultimate triumph he believed had merely been postponed and the day would come when he could face again those powerful invaders from the north Through the long years that intervened between 1870 and 1914 he took his place as one of the most patient and confident of the architects who planned and prepared for a return match with the victors During this period he had advanced at a steady pace until he became in 1911 a brigadier general and a member of the supreme war coun cil of France At this point he was retired because of his age Firr Flames Anew Then great day for which he had waited so long As all Europe became a vast mo bilization camp the old fire flamed out strain in General Pan and by popular demand he re entered the supreme council of j war to accept command of the army of Alsace It was there that his right forearm had been shot away in the battle of Froe in Prussians he said on that day I have but one arm but it shall be of bronze There was dramatic grandeur in the spectacle of that brave old veteran engaged once ter nearly half a century on the same battlefield and against the same foe and this time turning Seek Truce to Prevent Indian War Powerful Influences at Work With Lord Viceroy i Bombay roy Lord Willingdon tonight rejected Mahatma terms for settlement of Indias political dispute and grave de were believed to be Imminent He sent Mahatma Gandhi a telegram that the government would hold him and the congress responsible for uny action they may take and that the government will be to meet any action Gandhi smiled when he read the message Bombay Indi There were indications today a truce might be reached ma Gandhi and the British gov in India to avert tion of the civil disobedience cam Powerful influences were at work to persuade Viceroy Lord Willingdon to receive Mr Gandhi without placing any restrictions upon the matters to be discussed Heretofore the viceroy has Insist ed that he will not permit discus sion of the recently enacted pro ordinances extending the power of local authorities to deai with political disorders Business Men Alarmed Many telegrams have been sent to Lord Willingdon by business interests which feel that another nationalist campaign would pre a grave economic crisis and Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru was active in negotiations to prevent war It was Sir Tej Sapru who as peacemaker saved the negotia tions between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin former viceroy from collapse last year and who poured oil on the troubled waters of the recent round table confer ence in London Gandhi Listens Gandhi with his proverbial pat is listening to the peace makers appeals but because the Continued On Page 7 Col 6 Continued On Page 7 Col 5 U S Is Drafting Policy on Arms Attitude to Guide Delegation at Parley in Geneva Next Month Washington AP The United States will make no to the nations at next months general ment conference at Geneva but a detailed policy has been laid down to guide the American delegation A draft plan of the attitude to be taken by the Americans on points expected to arise in the conference will undergo a final polishing in conferences between Secretary Stimson and dor Dawes chairman of the dele gation who is to arrive next week One point provides for assent to a combination of direct and budgetary limitation in reducing land forces Direct limitation gives each nation so many guns so many soldiers so much am munition Budgetary limitation allows each nation to spend de fined amounts of money on arms troops Another policy item is tion to suggestions that size of battleships be reduced from the Washington limit of 35000 tons The question has to come up again in 1935 under the naval treaty terms and the United States feels no country is ready to build these highly Ex pensive ships now Cost of Living Will Rise If New Tax Plan Passes Program Would Cost Muscatine Resi dents Plenty How much will the proposed tax Increases and new miscellaneous taxes proposed by Secretary An drew W Mellon cost Muscatine and vicinity if they are put into effect by act of congress Considerable with the exact total a matter of conjecture It will be recalled that the proposed taxes are about as fol lows Tobacco products except ci of 16 per cent over the present tax The present government tax on a pack of cigarets Is 8 cents A man who smokes a pack a day now pays the government a year He will pay more These figures do not Include the Iowa state tax Amusements Ten per cent tax on all tickets selling at more than 10 cents At present there Is no tax on tickets sell Ing for less than Bank checks A stamp tax of 2 cents on each check or draft No such tax now Telegrams A tax of fl cents on each message costing from 14 cents to 50 cents a tax of 10 cents on each message costing 50 cents or more No tax at present Telephone calls Same as telegrams Automobiles Five per cent tax on new cars No such tax now Trucks Three per cent tax on new ones No such tax now Tires and accessories Tax of 2 12 per cent No such tax now Radios and phonographs a sales tax of 5 per cent also applies to phonograph records No such tax now Real estate transfers A stamp tax of 3 cents for each of value In excess of No snch tax now Stock transfers increase of one per cent in the existing stamp tax on sales or transfers of capital stock Postal rates designed to overcome the 150 000000 annual deficit Post master General Brown recently recommended S cent letter post age and higher rates on other mall For the mathematically inclin ed here are some figures which may prove interesting and pro vide several hours of diversion for those tired of discussing other things Tax on Cigarets Take cigarets for instance Figures from the office of Ray Johnson state treasurer show that for the year 1930 the Iowa tax of 2 cents a package brought in Indications are that the 1931 tax would exceed the total given A division of the state total by 99 on the assumption that sales in this county would be average for the 99 counties in Iowa pro vides the information that the county paid approximately 155 in taxes to the state at 2 cents a pack Three times Us amount representing the governments tax of 6 cents a pack is on which the 16 23 per cent increase would be Then amusements Two Musca tine theaters on which figures for 1922 are available paid 1923636 30 Suspects in Kidnaping Plots Seized Chicago AP Pat Roche chief investigator of the stated attorneys office announced today he would call in recent victims of kidnapers to view IS men and 12 women held incommunicado in a loop hotel as suspected members of a midwest Among those Roche said he would summon were Fred J Blumer wealthy Monroe Wis brewer and Frank Richley of both of whom had been abducted and held captive Roche declared he had an air tight case against the suspects and that he had enough evidence to place them on trial but declin ed to reveal their names saying he wished to prevent applications for habeas corpus writs until the men and women were booked The chief investigator who has worked on the roundup for two weeks with the cooperation of Peoria and St Louis police would not confirm rumors that some of those held have been identified al ready D A Dobry Given Five Year Sentence Davenport CAP D A Dobry former president of the now defunct D A Dobry Securi ties company who was convicted Dec 11 of making a false state ment to the Iowa securities de was today sentenced to serve a maximum term of five years in Fort Madison prison by Judge D V Jackson in district court It was indicated that would turn to the higher courts for a reversal of the verdict against him in an effort to escape prison Judge Jackson fixed an appeal bond at which Dobry was expected to furnish this afternoon Continued On Page 7 Col 4 Death Summons J B Schenck Well Known Resident of West Liberty Found Dead in His Bed 3000 Marooned By Southern Flood Glendora Red Cross survey of the river flood zone that showed 3000 people were marooned in thelt homes many of them in need of food led Mayor Meyer Turner and the town council of Webb to a call today for boats to hasten rescue work WILL ROGERS says Aboard S S President Shanghai was knockout Its Brooklyn gone English Say where did they get thli Chinese chop suey stuff T I have run the legs off every ricksha motor man in China and nobody ever any more heard of It than Nevada did Volstead Another hoax was that a word good his bond Well with the chop suey That might have been In the old days but not since the missionaries and business men come in Chinese are jint human anybody now Youm 1191 Im Park Entrance to Be Surfaced State Highway Commission Approves Improvement for No 160 Congress Sets Record With 9000 New Bills Washington AP these is the proposal to increase large sized record the present capital of land banks passed gross has piled up In four weeks Ld m the hands of the senate with only 14 its Thousands will die of neglect members have introduced 9000 others will be pushed aside by the emergency program relief and As the members return to work j taxation bills from their Year So far since congress met Dec holiday they face this mountain of i 7 only six resolutions have printed paper a number of meas been approved and passed ures say the room clerks I They include approval of the in which in the past have taken three oneyear moratorium or four months to pile up appropriation of for The house with more than four j the veterans administration ai grant of funds for the em service for Olympic to enter free of restrictions exten of the war policies com times the membership of the sen ate has done the biggest job of introducing It has 6559 bills to the senates 2419 Of the total a scant fingers on both hands would mission of amending the raust add them up have gone Morris amending the even half way to passage Among i penal lavs Journal News Service West B Schenck aged 73 a life long resident of this community was found dead in bed this morning at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles McCann on Calhoun street where he had made his home for some time Fu neral arrangements are incom plete He was the son of James and Marie Schenck and was born on a farm seven west of West Liberty Jan 2T living there West Liberty about 10 years ago He was married Dec 1 1899 to Mabel Applegate of Downey who died a number of years ago To this union one daughter Margaret was bora She is now Mrs Walter Coxen of Oxford Other survivors are three sis ters Mrs Marv Crozier of Carroll Mrs Joseph Bowman of Downey and Mrs R W Brooke ST of West Liberty and two brothers James Schenck of Chicago and Charles of Muscatine He was a member of the Odd Weather tonight becoming fair Sunday Colder tonight ex cept m the extreme northwest por tion Colder Sunday in the ex treme east portion tonight and Sunday except generally fair in extreme south portion somewhat colder Weekly Wither Forecast j Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday Jan 4 For the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys the northern and great plates Rather frequent precipitation temperatures normal or betow for the most part Kiver Stages Dubuque 40 fan 01 Davenport rise j Muscatine 50 faSl 02 I Keokuk rise St Louis 106 rise 13 Approval has been given by the state highway commission to a plan for the improvement of state primary road No 160 leading north approximately two miles from federal highway No 61 to Wildcat Den state park according to information given The Musca tine Journal today by Mrs Mabel Volland of Iowa City Mrs Volland is a member of the state board of conservation Fred White chief engineer for the highway commission has been authorized to verify a county survey covering the highway A road to the park from No 61 is expected to be finished during the summer Lawrence Tibbett Takes Second Wife New Lawrence Tibbett Metropolitan opera bari tone and motion picture star and the socially prominent Mrs Jan nie Marston Adams Burgard were married Friday night in a quiet civil ceremony Only members of Mrs Tibbetts family and a few intimate friends were pres ent at the wedding and reception which followed Radio and opera engagements of Tibbett caused the couple to defer their planned honeymoon trip to Europe until early spring This was the singers second marriage and his new wifes third Afore Bombs Taken From U S Mails By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Federal and local authorities in many cities worked today to end the bomb menace which has spread through the east and mid dle west Since Wednesday when the first of the infernal machines ex in the postoffice at Easton Pa causing the death of three persons at least a dozen have been sent by mall or express Most of these were for Italian consuls or others identified with the fascist movement Scattered bombings or attempt ed bombings were reported from many localities Friday Homes of Italians Guarded Fourteen places In Chicago homes and business houses of prominent citi zens were under guard In the mail departments of the Chicago federal justice agents and postal inspectors were working with the clerks detain ing each suspicious appearing package In the various express companies the same procedure was being followed Italian consuls and agents In Detroit Cleveland and Youngs town O received bombs but in each case they were turned over to authorities Arrested f Italians at Trinidad Colo and Paris nj were damaged by bombs Friday At Bellaire O police stationed at the home of Angelo Italian merchant arrested three men and seized M sticks of dy placed under his house use on a dynamite bomb placed under a porch at Seattle burned but in time to save the house of Yoshito vice dent of the Sumitomo bank Proposes Congressional Frobe AP Con gressional investigation of fascist and antifascist activities in the United States wait proposed today by Representative Fish New York republican who last year directed an inquiry ioto communist activi ties through the land Strict Watch at Cleveland AP A strict watch was kept today at the of fice of the American Railway Ex press company in fear that addi tional tombs had ben mailed from New York to Cleveland Posta Inspector Harry E Get said at Easton Ia Friday night that he had been told four more parcels thought to contain bombs bad been sect here besides the oni discovered Thursday at th office of Count Cesare P A Italian consul Italian Consul Guarded Pa Federal officers and plainclothes police Manchuria Is Yielded by Chinese Victorious Jap Array Takes City Without Firing Shot Chinchow For the first time in centuries of history the Rising Sun flag flew over this city signifying its capture by a Japanese army The first victorious brigade marched in early this afternoon There was not one Chinese de fender in the city for the last troop train had left several hours earlier rolling down toward and the wall at the end of a disordered exodus which began several days ajo Take Their Time The Japanese had taken their time on the way down from the river IS mUw to the north so that the Chinese could complete the evacuation Having taken this last stronghold it was possible that the Japanese might keep right on along the rail way to the real gateway to Manchuria In the shadow of the great wall Are Cheered As the Japanese into UM mcin street of this city the Chinese citizenry men women and children lined the curb cheering and waving flags many of which looted though they had been made In a hurry The captors look over the head quarters building of the provincial government and a proclamation In the of General Honjo the Chinese civil officials to remain Continued On S CoL 4 in the Reap Rich Harvest to Float ing Foreign World War AP submitted to the senate by ing banking houses prof Its running Into the millions have been made by floating In Uw United the Tabulations of the into taled of overlapping transactions and Incomplete ac counting In some directions show In the Bale of 000000 of such All participating la disposition of 11071000000 of this total made more than grow prof its If this rate held good for UM entire amount something like In went to American These and other were nude public Friday by the sen ates finance committee IB contin uance of the bond sale tion launched by Senator of California as a part of OB the policy It bis contention that the banking houses art interested to cancellation of the war lo protect the private and the sold by them to the public of the prominent have told the committee they be the private have priority of payment over gov Next Monday Otto Kahn Kew York financier will be recalled la the committees bearing After him the to beer Clarence Dillon of and company and W W president of the bank I Continued On Page 7 Col Coxey Becomes Mayor Fights for Dream O Thirty feeling that I am trying to help eight years ago he was Jacob S Coxey leader of a scrag gly army of unemployed To day be is Mayor Jacob S Coxey of still the ides that came to him in a dream Coxey at 77 was formally sworn ia as mayor Friday a plain black suit and an the downtrodden and underfed and that I am going to try to solve great economic problem which our nation faces Thirtyeight years ago last mid night I had a dream in which the plas I hse advocating that time came to meThe plan to issue 1200000 in low ic low as a dollar to be used a fashioned cottar his eyes j medium of exchange in patting the flashing behind he as to work on public im the nation j prorements eyes turned to Massillon j Monday he said he win Tbe people may not understand ask the city council lo approve mv faBy bat they a 1 the bonds POOR PA BY CLAUDE Dan married the be had hired to keep bis but she quit him Her stopped got to be bis wife the children was ten respectful
