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FOR le: complete lin And all_points o ALLIED VAN ship b Furniture Repairing Upholstering Chair Caneing CLAY ARMSTRONG 1235 10th St. N.W. Mctrcpqlitgnv 2062 ich insures low - READY FOR CHINA _|to Huey P. Long's throne s | Long .| o a1 U. 5. WARSHIPS | 12 Seaplanes in Powerful Asiatic Squadron, Or- dzred to “Stand By.” By the Associated Press The Asiatic Fleet of 51 vessels and 12 seaplanes, ordered to stand by in readiness to evacuate or protect Ameri- cans in China, has its base at Manila, At present the Houston, cruiser flag- ship of Admiral Taylor, is at Manila, as are most of the destroyers which make up the larger part of the fleet The flagship has a crew of 63 officers and 512 men § Two destroyers are at Shanghai an four more arc en route. Three Are patrol in South China and one is at Nanking. Other fleet units, with the exception of Yangtze River gunboats, | | are in the Philippine port These include a gunboat, a converted | yacht, 12 submarines, 2 submarine ten- | ders and a rescue vessel, 2 mine sweep- ers and 3 aircraft tenders. Flagship Built in 1930. The Houston, Admiral Taylor's flag- ship, is one of the Navy's most modern | warships. It was completed and com- | missioned June 17, 1930, under the con- gressional act of 1924 authorizing lh?l construction of eight new cruisers Its armament con. of nine 8-inch | guns, four 5-nch -aircraft guns, | two iriple torpedo tubes and carries four observation aircraft | | " Including the Houston. the names the war craft composing the fleet | and their location follows | | The Tulsa, gunboat with a crew of | 9 officers and 148 men, now at Hsin Ho, | 600 miles north of Shanghai; Isabel,| converted yacht, 5 officers, 79 men Manila. ! Yangzte patrol. Rear Admiral Yan- cey Williams, commander: Luzon, gun- boat, 11 officers, 54 men, Hankow, 600 miles above Shanghai; Tutuila, gun- boat, 5 officers, 51 men, Low Port, 156 miles_above Hankow; Panay, gunboat 5 officers, 54 men, Mowangtsui, 500 | miles above Shanghai: Oahu, gunboat, | officers, 54 men, Hankow: Guam, gunboat, 5 officers, 51 men_ Chungking 1,500 miles above Shanghai: Monocacy gunboat, 4 officers, 13 men, Ichang 1,000 miles above Shanghai: Palos, | gunboat, 4 officers, 13 men, Hankow. | South China Patrol. | China patrol, Capt. C. W.! Early mmander: Mindano, gunboat, | 6 officers, 54 men, Canton, 700 mil south of Shanghai; Helena, gunboat, 7 | officers, 79 men, Canton | Destroyers, Capt. I E. Dortch, com- mander, having an allowance of 6 officers and 115 men: Black Hawk destroyer tender, 33 officers, 573 men Manila; Paul Jones, en route to Sha hai from Manila; Whipple, Manil Smith Thompson Manila; Barker, M nila; John D. Edwards, Manila; Stew- art, Pagoda Anchorage, 400 miles south | of 'Shanghai; Parrott, en route to Shanghai; Edsall, en route to Sha hai: Bulmer, en route to Shangt Perry, Manila; Pope, Manila; Pills- bury, 'Manila; John D _Ford, Manil Tracy. en route from Swaton to Ma- | | MacLeish. Manila; Simpson, Nan- | king. 125 miles up-river from Shanghai; | McCormick. Pagoda Anchorage; Borie, ! Shanghai; Truxton, Shanghal Canopus, submarine tender, cers, 373 anila; Pigeon | vessel, 5 officers, 62 men, Manil tender, 23 officers, 353 me South 31 om- | Tescue Bever, | Manila, | | Eleven Submarines. | | Eleven submarines having crews of 5 | officers and 39 men each are at Manila under the command of Comdr. F. W. Scanland. They are the S-30 to the S-41. i Minecraft—All at Manila; Finch mine sweeper, 5 officers, 52 men, Bit- | tern, sweeper, 5 off men Aircraft_tenders, all at Manila—J. , son, 19 officers, 230 men; Heron, 5 offi- cers, 49 men; Avocet, tender, 5 officers, | 49 men; 12 aircraft with 12 officers and 108 men Auxiliaries at Manila—Pecot, oiler 11 officers, 126 men | The disposition of the United States | Marines in the Far East is as follows: | Fourth Regim at Shanghai | | commissioned and warrant officers, 1,173 | men; legation guard at Peiping, 14 | commissioned and warrant officers, 419 men; Marine Barracks, Cavite, Philip- | pine’ Islands, 6 officers, 266 men, plus | 50 at Olongapo board Houston, 1 | officer, 35 men DR. CYR DECLARES KING IS IN REVOLT; | o) (Continued From First Page.) in Louisiana, | |1s heading “insurrectionary forces and | has d the office” Al suit to oust King, he said, probably will | |be filed in Lake Charles Monday | Dr. Cyr reached Baton Rouge unex- | pectedly today from his home at Jeanerette after Acting Gov. King had gone to New Orleans to meet Senator se Governor's Two Held for Shadowing. Dr. Cyr declared he has had twe men arrested at Jecnerette for shedow- ing his movements and reporting to the King administration. Sheriff Pau! A Landry of Iberia Parish, confirmed this, saying he arrested E. Tucker and | L. H. Courtney of New Orleins, on a charge of conspiracy on complaint of Dr. Cyr. They were held in jail over night and released today on $400 bond Documents found on them. the heriff said, indicated they were follow- ing orders from King and Long. and were using a State Highway Commis- sion_automobile | When Cyr's presence became known {in Boton Rouge, administration guard: | #round the State House and the Go ernor's mansion were increased, “The exccutive offices of the State of Louisiana are now in the hands of armed insurrectionists,’ said Cyr's proclamation. “Alvin O. King at the head of the insurrectionary forces has seized the Governor's office and is attempting, supported by armed guards. to conduct the executive department of the government of Louisiana. Office in Hotel Room. now froclaim that the seat f the cxecutive government of Louisi- |ana 15 now established, pending th | present insurrection, at room 443 Heidelberg Hotel, in the city of Baton | Rouge. E ther myself or Mr. A. Leon | Terry, secretary to the Governor, will be found there at all times.” Is that so?” Senator Long said. on aring of the establishment of Cyr's, | “official Governor's office” at Baton | ( Rouge. 1 Well, “I do if he hasn't the capital again, and I thought it took | a constitutional amendment to do that. | The last I heard of him, he was being Governor over in his hoxe in Jeaner- ette, and now he’s up and moved his | capital over to Baton Rouge. ‘Nobody’s paying any attention to| that man." ISABEL AGF.ERS NAMED Isabel Agers will serve another term | as president of Job’s Daughters Choir, ! according to the results of the election of officers at the semi-annual meeting of the organization. Other officers elected ere: Dorothy L. Linz, vice pres- | ident; Grace Thompson, —secretary: Emma Bell, cssistant secretary, and Mathilda Zimmerman,/ treasurer. up and moved | | | nopoly WILL FILE SUIT @ | choosing merely professing to do so. Flagship of the Asiatic Fleet THE HOUSTON ORDERED TO MAKE READY FOR CHINA. The cruiser Houston, flagship of Admiral M. M. Taylor of the Asiatic Squadron, which 2 | League Head Says Doctrine of “Open Door” in Trade Depcnds Upon Fleet. Japan’s Control of Islands, Aimed at Asiatic Empire, Held Peril to America. BY REX COLLIER. Apropos the Sino-Japanese embroglio, William Howard Gardiner, president of the Navy League, called attention in an interview yesterday to a previously re- corded declaration by him, that Japan's practices of on and mo- Far East make advisable an American flect p flagrant and danger- there.” eater importance than the or Shanghal situations, per ner s “is the basic namely, whether the ine of equality of eco- y for all and of the ritorial and govern- will survive or be sequest in maintenance “adequate ous_ine “Of f Manchuri se. Mr issue at American nomic doc abandox “As I} pointed out on a previous occasion, real adherence to the open- door doctrine would end conquest for speci ivilege and thus remove what is probably the greatest and most im- al cause of war. ailure on gur ipport to that part to give ef- 3 doctrine, inau- gurated by us in Mozambique in 1832 would bs, in my opinion, a greater blow to the so-called peace machinery of the world than the abolishment of the League of Nations or the scrapping of the Kellogg pact Tells of Japanese Conquest Plans. Mr. Gardiner, who attained spread notice recently for his ignorance” thrust at Preside in connection with the Na been known as a clos Eastern affairs. He China and other 1923 and again in 1929 Mr. Gardine estimate of Japan's intentions in the Far East is summed up in the following statement “As is well known, within the Japa- nese bureaucracy two quite different plans have been contending for prefer- ence. What might be called the Japa- nese territorialists' plan is sponsored by the Chosu clan that predominates in the army Naturally, this is reminiscent of im- perial Prussian thought in its desire to spread direct military,. political and economic control progressively over ad- jacent parts of the continent of Asia as extensively as possible, 50 that the Jap- anese of the future may live, in the main, on economic exploitation of China and of the Chinese. wide- abysmal t Hoover has long student of Far visited Japan atic coun in Maritime Supremacy Plan. “In contrast m to this territorialist plan is w it be called the Japa- nese maritime plan that is supported by the naval Satzuma clan. This springs from an apy tion of Mahan's doc- trine to the effect that the ability to conduct extensive communications by sea of one’s seif and the power to deny adequate communications by sea to s opponent has been a most potent -reaching factor in the history —and this because such con- trol over communications by sea gives preferential access to overseas lands and to their human and material resources while enabling one to minimize such access to ene’s opponent in peace and virtually to deny it to him in war “Apart from the Aleutian Islands, the Hawaiian _Islands, the Philippines, Northern Borneo, & few small and scat- | tered American or British islands and | the coastal islands, all the islands of the Pacific north of the Equator are in the hands of the Japanese. “One effect of this is that the sub- marines or airplanes based on islands remote from Japan proper could seri- ously impede the advance of an enemy force toward Japa home waters. Another is that c 1 of the entire insular barrier to Northwestern Asia makes it possible for the Japanese navy to isolate that region from direct over- seas communication. Thus they can| deny commercial access to it from the | sea, except by a naval force based near enough to break through the barrier ef- fectively and to hold open tne breach created. Would Menace 1 “So when some talk easily of throw- ing this or that force into China, say, gainst brigands, it does not seem that they have given due consideration to the control the Japanese might exer- cise over such operations, because of their naval hold over the northern part | of the insular barrier lying across the lines of communication to Northern China and Siberia “The Japanese see for themselves, a5 the reward of astute persistence, & future empire that shall enfold Eastern Asla and command the Pacific. They parry interference from the United States and from Russia, when that drugged giant shall have returned to potency. But we, on the other hand. see that such a future Japanese empire would cebar us from Asia and could menace cur future security S. Security. Three Courses Open to U. S. “The evident intention of the Jap- anes> empire to continue practices that have proved so vastly profitable and are so very promising would seem to confront us with the necessity of from among the following courses: “We should be prepared to offer the Japanese, in convincing terms, a pros- pect even more profitable than their vision of empire if they will abandon their practices end really adhere to our policy (th2 open door), instead of | “Or we should be prepared—also in convincing terms—to mike their con- tinuance of their practices unprofitable to them. “Or, regardless of our own ultimate interests, we should abandon our half- | hearted attemrt by our policy to sub- stitute equality of opportunity, equity and peace for the immemorial pro- cedure of war, sequestration and sub- jugation for gain. “It does not appear possible to offer | peace treaty; ness to sail from Manila to Shanghal. | GARDINER SAYS U. S. MUST BOW | TO JAPANESE OR BUILD UP NAVY ) WILLIAM HOWARD GARDINER. greater profit than they see for them- selves through persisting in their usual practice “But it would be possible to make eminently unprofitable to them to their practices of sequestration and_monopoly: and this in terms that would carry conviction to them, namely, a navy capable of supporting our policy and our interests in the Far East—a navy within the naval limitation trezty in every specified respect and fully up to the “treaty ra essential respect In short seem to confror of choosing be of a force adequ dangerous inequity there, ¢ donment of our attempt equity for force. Mr. Gardiner ment he had immediate re Immediat> release?” Certainly. Let me show its da will note that this statement is a v batim extract n article I wre for the Atlanic Monthly in April, 1924 It f adows so well the prese uation, however, that no modification now seems necessary (Copyright. 1932. by Newspaper Al HYOE REITERATES CHARCES ONLOANS Repeats Wilson Administra- tion Gave Nations Money After Armistice. it continu: Far East necessity our aban- to substitute { the s was for was ask just read a North America By the Assoclated Press The fifth chapter of the Secretary Hyde-Senator Glass dispute over wheth- er the Wilson administration made u authorized loans abroad after hostili- ties ceased found Hyde vesterday re newing his charges. “The situation boils down to this," the Secretary of Agriculture said in a statement; “Secretaries McAdoo and Glass_(Secretaries of the Treasury un- der President Wilson) had power o make loans to foreign governments ‘for the purpose of more effectually provid- ing for the national security and de- fense and prosecuting the war. Evi- dently this limitation narrowed their power too much Refused More Power. “They asked for more power. gress refused Con- Nevertheless they loaned after the necessity for defense was over, nearly all of the $1.828023334 which McAdoo said was authorized but not alloted. on the morning of Novem- ber 15. 1918, or four days after the armistice. “Now they say they had the power in the first place. If they did, why did they ask for it, and if they didn't, why did they make the loans?” Hyde added: “The official correspondence con- | tained in Senate document' No. 86 re- veals that $61,000.000 was loaned to Czechoslovakia after the armistice and | before that country was created by the | that money was loaned to Russia to pay her expenses at the peace conference; that loans were made to enable foreign countries to pay in- terest on debts to private bankers, and that hundreds of millions of dollars were loaned to foreign governments after those governments had opened discus- sions with the Treasury upon cancel- lation of their obligations “Will the Senator deny any of these statements, or will he claim that the expenditures were for the ‘national de- fense?' “Calling Names Fatile.” Again quoting Senator Glass as ask- ing for power to make the loans, Hyde said “calling names is ‘the pettiest and cheapest of tricks, fully up to the gentleman’s standards, but they prove nothing except his own peevishness and lack of other defense for his cause. Senator Glass has twice vigorously denied the Hyde charges on the Senate floor. They were made originally by the secretary during a political speech predicting the re-election of President Hoover. SENTENCE BOOTLEGGERS | Twenty - eight convicted bootleggers | were sentenced by Judges Gus A. Schuldt | and Ralph Given in Police Court yes- terday to pay fines ranging from $1,000 to $100. Jail sentences were given to thos» unable to pay. For the second time in as many days Judge Schuldt imposed the maximum penalty when he ordered Howard Stew- art, 34, colored, of 645 Monroe street, to pay $1,000 or go to Jail for 60 days for second offense possession. Judge Schuldt also remanded Dewil- ton S. Duvall, 24, of 1501 North Capitol | street, to the grand jury under $1,500 bond. He was arrested for transporting 108 half-gallons of liquor. The highest penalty which Judge the Japanese convincing prospects of | Given imposed was $500 fine or 30 days. NN L A A st has been ordered to be in readi- JPANESE PASS ONUS T0 LEAGUE Declares Responsibility Will Rest on Council if World Conflict Comes. By the Assoclated Pres TOKIO, January 30.—A “terrible re- sponsibility” will rest on the council of the League of Nations if “a world con- flagration” is precipitated through its action in the Sino-Japanese contro- versy, a war office spokesman declared tonight This declaration came the heels of hints from authoritative sources that Japan eventually may withdraw from the League if a second commission of inquiry is sent into the field The war office statement referred to the fact that Dr. W. W. Yen. Chinese delegate at the League council meeting at Geneva, has invoked Articles X and XV of the League covenant. As a re- sult of this step. another Commission of Investigation may be appointed There is no question of breaking diplomatic ions with China, and Japan is not thinking of war with her heighbor,” the war office spokesman said on Sees World Calamity. declared it national calamity if sidered scriously Chin ng Sino-Japanese That would mean.” he upon thece treaties. whose validity can- not be disputed. and concerning which the League should not consider slanders by one against another Such a gesture by the League would invite international anarchy. In short ue covenant might lose its would be an interna- the League con- objections to eatics said, “a slur He he Rengo (Japanese) News Agency heard from Harbin, Manchuria. that a was immine outh of the city between troops of Chao, former commander of the Chinese Eastern Railway Guard, and a Japanese brigade ch had reached Kushsiangtun, the first station south of Harbin Russian Tension Grows. n circles here received reports ing increased tension cn the part of Russians in Harbin, which was said to be filled with the soldiers of Ting Chao, many of them in mufti Special dispatches declared anti-Jap- anese sentiment was increasing in Harbin, and tha had rred outside the city between Ting's s and Japanese troops he Rengo correspondent reported tnat Gen. Jiro Tamon, Japanese com- mander, was preparing for drastic ac- tion against Russian employes of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, whom he used of damaging the road in order to prevent Japanese troop movements. WASHINGTON BOOKS ISSUED FOR BLIND Braille Department nial Commission Publishes Five of Bicenten on First President. The Braille department of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, which has been engaged in preparing literature on the patriotic cel- ebration for the schools for the blind over the country, has just completed publication in Braille of five new books on Washington All the new publications are made from the series “Honor to George Washington,” prepared and edited by Dr. Alfred Bushnell Hart, and were translated into Braille by Miss Dorothea Jennings, in charge of this department of the commission. The books are now on their way to the commission from Kentucky, where they are being published. A thousand copies of each will be distributed among the schools, librarfes and public school classes for the blind throughout the country. Copies also are going to Porto Rico, Hawali and the Philippines. The series includes “Washington and the Constitution”; “Washington, the Colonial and National, Statesman’ ‘Washington, the Military Man"; ‘Washington, the Business Man, “Washington, the President.” 1932—PART ONE. RUSSIA IS SILENT Press Prints Without Com-l ment News of Destruction | Along Chinese Eastern. By the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, January 30.—Today's news- | pepers published without comment a | Tass (Russian) News Agency dispatch | from Peiping reporting “serious de- | struction” of the property of the south- ern part of the Chinese Eastern Rail- road in Manchuria. | The damage was done, the dispatch said, by order of the Chinese command, apparently in an effort to retaliate for | the Japanese action in commandeering | trains to carry troops up to Harbin, | where fighting has been going on be- tween Chinese factions, The report said a number of branch | lines had been ripped up, bridges had | been destroyed and railway employes | who resisted were beaten by Chinese soldlers. It appeared, howet that the So- | viet government would not depart from its .policy of making every effort to avold being drawn into the Manchurian dispute, even to the extent of coun- tenancing violation of the railway property which it owns jointly with China. Yesterday a government official said Russia would countenance any act pe | mitted by the Chinese authorities in | connection wih the railway It did not sav what the Russian at- titude would be toward any develop- | ment which the Chinese opposed. 66 FAMILIES AIDED BY D. C. COMMITTEE, Mrs. Wiley, Chairman of Employ- ment Subcommittee, Tells of $3,038 Distribution. A total of $3038.54 was distributed in food to 666 families, children’s in- situations and charities as a _result of the recent supplementary relief cam- | paign conducted by the Food Conserva- | tion Committee of the D. C. Committee on Employment. according to a report just made public by Mrs. Harvey W.| Wiley, chairman of the subcommittee In 'an analisis of the report, the work of collecting this food was segr gated into four categories, namely, a | canning campaign by local housewives: | food canned under the diregtion of | \iss Emma S. Jacobs. director of domes- tic science in the public schools; dona tions accruing from a gift campaign in stores, “pantry parties.” given women's clubs, conations by ck stores. and money donated to purchase special foods to supply a balanced raticn Distribution of the food began Jar iary 14 and continued to January 21 Mrs. Wiley superviscd the work. he was assisted by Miss Gertrude Van Hosen, vice chairman, and Miss Jacobs. The deliveries were mace by the nine storage of the District aided by ation Army. Provi- dence H-spital and the Pranklin Laundry In addition to to destitute familics given to chjldren’s in: e food distribu special gifts itutions. DR PRICE TO ;&DDRESS | SCHOOL OF FIREMEN Dr. David J. Price. ed were principal engi- ge of the Cherhical Engi ision of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture, at the request of Chief George S. Watson of the Washington Fire Department. will address the local fire fighters' school of instruction for its officers on February 4 and 11 Dr. Price will devote sp-cial conside! ation to the dust-explosion hazard which firemen face. Ther certain of dust or chemical will plode when suddenly scattered by heavy stream of water, and he will give the firemen the benefi. of the infors tion which his bureau is constantly d veloping from its dust-explosion testin station at Arlington, Va This lecture service for the Washing- ton firemen is similar to others whic have been held by chemical engines of the Agriculture Department throus out the countr High above other \ coffees | 5 Lofter § i I quality IlOWNIL{G & BAINES BOricnda - @offex _It's Vacuum Sealed! . 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SABUIAGE Overtures Made for Plane When Graf Is Found Una. vailable, but Members Protest. By the Associated Press GENEVA, Switzerland, January 30.— The League of Nations tried to hire the Graf Zeppelin to carry its original Manchurian Investigation Commission to the Fer East, it was learned today, but the Graf is dry docked for the Winter and could not be made ready. Then the League struck & bargain with a Dutch passenger airline for rates to Hong Kong, and the company guar- anteed to cover the ground in 10 days. Now the League secretary is trying to convince the commissioners that they cught to go by air if they are to get there before it is too late The chief difficulty is that the com- missioners, most of them elderly gentle- men, are not air-minded. They appear to have received with marked coolness the prospect of a strenuous 10 days in the air across Europe and Asia to the other side of the world Besides, they hoped to have sevcral weeks en route to get acquainted with their problem. They had plann-d to g0 to China by way of the Urlited States. e This is the commission of four Euro- peans and Gen. Frank R. McCoy, U. S A, eral weeks ago. created by the League Council se Dr. W. W. Yen, the Chinese League representative, has in- | sisted upon the necessity of getting the | commission on the job quickly. |WAR ON ‘DOUBLE PARKING’ | Police Arrest 15 Taxi Drivers in Downtown Section. | Instituting a drive against the “dou- | ble parking” of taxi cabs in front of places of amusements, Policemen K | P. Greenlow and M. C. 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