Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1932, Page 4

~A4 = SPECIAL ASSEMBLY OF LEAGUE CALLED Session to Meet March 3 to Pass on China’s Claims. Against Japan. (Continued From First Page.) gaid Dr. Yen in reference to China's rejection of the Japanese ultimatum. *The situation is simply intolerable. We are prepared to resist, and an attack on the 19th Route Army Ehanghai will be regarded as an attack on the Chinese government.” Japanese Delegate Jeered. M. Sato heard ironic laughter from gpectators when he said Japan's inter- ests in Manchuria and Shangbal had never been protected by the League and he drew jeers when he said his coun- 1rv restored to force only to defend the interests of her people in China. It is regrettable that the council wili_transfer this matter to the as- sembly.” he continued. “because that will not settle the conflict.” The League covenant should not be applied to China, the Japanese spokes- man said, because she was not a uni- fied nation, but a chaotic one. He de- nied that Japan was trving to Str up tiouble in China and said her troops weuld be withdrawn from Shanghai when her interests were safe. leaving the city under international protection. Dr. Yen ridiculed the statemgnt that Japan had never received aid from the League. “She occupies 200,000 miles of Chinese territory,” he sald, “and has bombarded Shanghai and Nanking ‘What she needs is punishment from the League, not help.” * Recalls Korean Promise. To the charge of chaos, he accused | Japan of helping one side against the | other in China in order to promote dissension. “England and America want to see & strong. united China,” he continued. “Japan wants to see just the opposite. But China is united now as never be- Tore. “Japan is waging a war from which #he wants to gain all the advantages without assuming the responsibility. Japan's statement that she won't annex Manchuria recalls the statement she made she wouldn't annex Korea The last time the assembly met in extraordinary session was in 1926, when Germany applied for membeiship in the League. Her bid was repudiated and the session was considered a failure. FEELING RIS AGAINST JAPAN. Big Powers Fearful Lest Small Nations Force Them to Act. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, Switzerland, February 20 ~—The League of Nations Councii’s last- minute appeal to stay the impending Japanese offensive at Shanghai has falled. Messages flashed over the League's own wireless begging Japan and China to cease firing and urging | ¢ the expiration of its in Geneva today. it Junder- of cannon, the | rattle of machine guns, the crash of falling bombs and the cries of the| wounded could actually be heard by the delegates of more than 50 nations. who March 3 will transform themselves | from @& disarmament conference into| the first world assembly ever called to anply the League covenant and try to halt a war. Tempers are Tising against Japan. There is talk of sanctions everywherc, | Armament manufacturers, fearful lest | some sort of embargo end their prof- ( itable business in the Far East. have rushed their scouts hither. The big powers, reluctant to take definite action of any sort against Japan, are anxious lest the little powers force their hands. U. S. May Be Invited. ‘The Assembi it is said, may last several days. Official Chinese and Japanese versions of what has hap- pened will be circulated, as also reports of the League's committee at Shang- hai and a report from the Council seeking to justify its failure Convocations to the Assembly were wired out todey. Present indications are that non-meml countries like | the United States. will be invited to sit | with the Assembly in a consultative and advisory capacity with the right o speak. but not to vote, ‘The smal powers are worried lest| the Council's demonstrated impotence will permanently discredit the League and deprive them of all peaceful guar- anties. Some. therefore, favor breaking diplomatic relations with Japan and even a world embargo against Japan, Among these are said to be the Scan- dinavian countries, Spain and Switzer- land, ‘The big powers represented on the Council are still obviously reluctant to act yet. It was evident last night that they were disappointed and even re- sentful that Japan thus far has com- defending | | Ambassadors | | War Scenes ing the fighting there January 29 unified and independent China would be to everybody's best interest. Japan and the European powers, while they have paid lip service to this viewpoint and even consecrated it in solemn treaties, seem never really to have adopted it. What Japan is now seek ing, therefore, is to flatter and p! up to the European powers, it is said, in order to isolate the United States. Japanese diplomacy is supported to some extent in this, it is feared, by Great Britain and France, and has consistently tried to keep Washington and Geneva apart, not unsuccessfully. It remains to be seen whether th | United: States wil] accept the League's probable invitation to sit with the | Assembly and to what extent in this Assembly the small powers concerned about seeing the League Covenant kept can push the big European powers into jaction in defense of the treaties and the world's existing peace machinery. (Copyright, 1932.) JAPAN TO MAKE STRONG PLEA. to London and Rome Likely to Join Delegates. TOKIO, February 20 (4#).—The Jap- anese government prepared today Lo present a strong delegation at Geneva March 3, when the League of Nations Assembly will convene in extraordinary session to consider the Sino-Japancse controversy. The decision was made after receipt of information that the Japanese el- fort to prevent the calling of the League Assembly had been voted down by the League Council at Geneva. A foreign office spokesman said the Jap- anese delegation before the Assembly would probably inc':le Ambassador pletely ignored iheir 12-power note ap- pealing to Japan's responsibility as a /| great power and to Japan's better nature. | Affair Not Ended. It would therefore apparently be a | grave mistake to consider the lflmr‘ ended as far as the League is con-j cerned. The contrary seems to be more | nearly true, namely, that in a deeper | sense it is just beginning. It is pos- | sible certainly that the Assembly will fing itself as helpless as the Council has been, but it is also possible that the | Assembly will bring about a situation whetein Japan finds itself suddenly de: serted literally by the entire world. Meanwhile there is much aiscussion | in political circles regarding Japan's | real intentions. Among the ideas put | forward in this respect are the fol-; lowing | fundamental aim, it is said, ! is to establish once and for all its| hegemory in the Far East. It desires, | on the one hand, to prove to the west. ern powers that Japan henceforth in- | tends to handle Chinese affairs in its own way withont outside interference and, on the other hand, to demonstrate | to China the impotence of its allcged | American and European friends and the consequent necessity of coming to | terms with Japan. There was a danger from the Japa- nese viewpoint that, if Japan had not | suddenly acted, China would have been | developed and consolidated by Ameri- can capital and by activities in hygiene, edugation and transportation of the League of Nations, which had begun to | co-operate in these respects with the Nanking government. Japan Has Own Ideas. Japan has its own idess, it is de- | elared, regarding the fature of Chira. Already Manchuria is equipped by apan with a puppet government and as been declared independent. Japen will not for the present annex Man- ehuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia, but it intends to protect and develop this vast rich Chinese area. Japan's operations in Shanghal are widely belleved, therefore, to be aimed essentially at forcing China and the Western powers to acknowledge the Manchurian independence, at breaking the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods end at preventing Great Britain, the Uniled States and others, in the mean- while, from profiting by this boycott. Onge these aims are ackieved Japan, it 4s predicted, may be willing to re-es- tablish the status quo in Shanghai. Reports to certain Council powers in- dicate, moreover, that Japan would be glad to see North China separate itself from South China and it is likely it will use its influence in this sense. The main obstacle to these alleged Japanese policies is the United States with its determinat] to maintain the open door. and ti°ritorial and administrative int ity in China. United States hinks that » Japan Tsuneo Matsudaira, Naotake Sato and Ambassador Shigeru Yoshida. | M. Matsudaira is Ambassador to Lon- don and M. Yoshida to Rome. Naotake Sato is the Japanese representative on the League of Nations Council. M. Sato sent the last-minute appeal of the League Council for extension of | the ultimatum period to the foreign of- | fice early this morning, but almost as soon as the communication reached the desks of high officials newsboys in thc streets Were crying extras reporting that the big battle had begun at Shangbai. ‘The government immediately prepared a reply to the Council. It still awaited finel corrections by Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa, and probably will be transmitted to Geneva LOMOITOW. Government officials maintained that the Council's appeal to Japan was “high- ly irregular,” but said Japan would not Teply directly to the appeal, but would send a letter to acting President Paul Boncour of the Council acknowledging his letter and inclosing a statement of the government address to all the pow- ers in reply to the accusations contained in the appeal. It was forecast officially it would also contain a vigorously word- ed indictment of China. Meanwhile the more than 13,000,000 Japanese voters showed a much stronger interest in the news of the developments at Shanghal than in Japan's national election which went forward during the day. The vote was much lighter than usual. FULL REG!ME DEMANDED 8Y CUBAN “OLD GUARD” Manifesto of President H&chndn's‘ Opposition Breaks Long Silence. By the Associated Press. | HAVANA, Cuba, February 20.—The | “old guard” opposition to the admin- | istration of President Machado broke its long silence last night with a mani- | festo attacking the government and de- manding “return to & full constitu- tional regime." Among those signing the manifesto were the four leaders of the revolt last August, who were liberated last month In the course of what President Machado cal'sd the “Campaign for Cordiality.” “Lhe four are former President Mario | G. Menocal, Col. Carlos Mendiets, Col. | Roberto Mendez Penate and Col. | Aurelio Hevia. | Cosme de la Torriente, former Am- | bassador to Washington, also was a signer. | Political commentators said the | manifesto marked the nearest approach | to unity the heterogeneous elements of | the government's opposition have been | able to make. E Upper: Japanese marines behind a sand bag barricade in the Chaj Lower: Ill and wounded Japanese soldiers of the drive on Mukden, Manch Hospital as they arrive by train in the Capital city. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932. From Two Chinese Fronts district of Shanghai on lookout for snipers dur- Paramount News-Associated Press Photo a, being removed to the Tokio Army ~—Wide World Ph 'DAMAGE SUIT NAMES ‘I WALTER F. BROWN! IEx-(}om;'ict Claims Appointment He Paid for Was Not Made and Refund Refused. Chinese Asks Court To Free Daughter FromW hite Husband CO. February d v r | as | e parent, to &n m: l riage of his 17-yea 1 Daisy Ellen Fung. to Geor ley, who, the father chs a white man Baxley, the petition for ann ment sta poses as a Chinese under the names of Sheo Yow Lee and Chi Pek Lee. The suit asks the marriage be annuled because intermarriage of whites and Chinese is illegal. VIRGINIA EDUCATOR ILL By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga, February 20.—John | B. Dove. former member of the Repub- lican State Central Committee, yes- | terday filed suit against Postmaster General Walter F. Brown and Dirrelle Chaney, administrative assistant. for $50.000 damages in connection with the alleged payment of $500 for a post- mastership that was not granted. | Dove, who seeks $500 actual damages afld $49,500 punitive damages, recently | tentlary here for barter of Federal offices. it § = Bt | The suit, filed in the City Court of Dr. Mitchell in Serious Condition Atlinta, claims ttie ds}f]end;nu "(2_ After Operation. | resented to him that the Postmaster E: | General would obtain the appointment RICHMOND, Va., February 20 (#).— | of E. B. Benson 8s postmaster at Collegs Dr. S. C. Mitchell, head of the Depart- Park'. ?::o::‘l)n{\én l\a:urb( h‘kr érp:‘; = Triversity ment of $5 e order of Mr. Brown, ment of mstor_wA at Lh!:‘ .bmuuu) of Dove avers that the money was paid Richmond, was in a critical condition put return of it was refused when the last night at a local hospital. He un- appointment was denied. ‘ derwent an operation during the after- | . ) " . | noon. He has been a patient at the| One Dead in Communist Riot. | hospital for a number of days. | PERECIN, Czechoslovakia, February Mitchell forme president | 20 (#).—One person was killed and sev- of the University of South Carolina, eral were wounded yesterday when the University of Delaware and the gendarmes broke up a demonstration | Medical College of Virg! by hundreds of Communists. ¥ Woopwarp & LoTHROP > 0 Stassve You Are Cordially Invited to Hear Patriotic Music by the Woodlothian Chorus Monday Morning, February 22nd G Street Balcony at 9:20 AM. “Stars and Stripes” “Land of Hope and Glory” *“Recessional” *“America the Beautiful” Selected “To Thee, O Country” “Medley From the South™ “The Star Spangled Banner” *“Washington™ The Fountain Room Will Be Open Until 12:30 Monday Its usual light luncheons and refreshments will be served. The Tea Room Will Be Closed All Day Monday—February 22nd. THr FoUNTAIN ROOMYADJOINING THE DOWN STAIRS STORE. PR TE S TR TT R AT TR R R R AR SRS S S B S ‘AumPleu‘d a term in the Federal peni- | FFTTTTT ET R TR T TR BT TS TR ST SRS TS |JAPANESE TROOPS IN'KIRIN ATTACKED 500 Chinese Driven Off After Three-Hour Fight at Tunhua. By the Associated Press. CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, February 20—Five hundred Chinese soidiers fought stubbornly for three hours today | to capture the town of Tunhua, one of the most important strategically in Kirin Province, but they were driven off with heavy losses. ‘The Japanese lost 3 dead and 12 wounded and for a time before they drove off the attackers it appeared that they would not be able to hold the town. | Reinforcements were sent down from | Kirin and Changchun, and Japanese scouting planes flew over the battle. The Japanese command previously | had sent troops from Changchun to Kirin to maintain control of the Kirin- Tunhua Railway, which the South| Manchurian Rallway built for the Chi- | nese and which is now under Japanese | conteol. | The city of Tunhua thus acquired great importance in the Japanese plans, which were to continue the | Kirin-Tunhua }ne direct to the Korean border, giving the Japanese direct rail- way access to the heart of Manchuria. Reports from Harbin said Gen. Mah Chan-Shan had sent 2,000 of his cav- alry troops to Payen, northeast of Har- bin, to disperse remnants of Ting Chao's army, which were reported loot- ing that district. Gen. Ting Chao defended Harbin for several days until he was finally driven | out by the Japanese under Gen. Jiro ‘Tamon. | | WHEAT EXPORT HEAVY VANCOUVER, British Columbla, Feb- | ruary 20 (#).—Estimates that more than 5,000,000 bushels of wheat. or 135,000 | tons, have been booked in the past week for export from Vancouver to Europe were made by grsin men on the floor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange yes- terday. An’ estimated total of 120,000 bushels were booked last weei. Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. Debut of Helen Ware Quartet, Helen Ware String Quar- tet, named for its promoter and first violinist, and includ- ing three other oqutstanding ‘Washington musicians, Agnes Chase, second violin; Inez Becker, Viola snd ‘Mable Duncan, cellist; held its first concert last night in the Sears Roebuck Gallery. Every avall- able chair was filled for this premier per- formance. Bee- thoven's second “quartet in G major” was fol- lowed by two sketches from Ernest Bloch's “In the Moun- “Dusk™ and “Rustic Dance” heard Helen Ware, for the first time in this city. The familiar Mogart “quartet in D major No. 18" completed the program. All four members had that ability not only te play the notes at the same moment, but to feel the music as one and to balance the color of the instruments. They had ulso a keen sense of rhythm and those pre- cise attacks and swift black and white contrast that =o increase the subtlety of four part playing. They worked hard, knowing that chamber music cannot be rippled off like the meaningless solo performances from a virtuoso's fluent fingers The Beethoven inten:ified in in- it went alor The first a warm, spirited tone giv- ing real style to the final “Allegro moto quasi presto.” The fi sketeh began a little thi worked to more sure lines climax. The “Rustic Dance” had a rough, jolly humor. The quartet as a whole found the slow movements difficult to sustain unless a large tore was demanded. They had their best moments in more qui moving templ such as the Mozart “Minuetto.” Here there was buoyancy and & crisply ornamented style. D.C. Bicentennial Program At Friday Morning Club. F all the Bicentennial programs that have been and probably will be give in Washington, none could be mére delightful than the three-act pageant written and di- rected by Miriam Hilton. “Good Gitfs From the Graces" had its first, and it is to be hoped not sole, per- formance yesterday morning before the largest Friday Morning Club au- dience of the season. Euphrosne, one of the troduced each act with ntnut&;\‘; tales of the music of the period. Eileen Torovsky caught the spirit of the eighteenth century in her reading cf the part. All the musie in the pageant was heard in the time of Washington. The first act showed Nelly Custis (Gertrude Lyons) sing- ing with her teacher, Reinagle, in the music room of George Washing- ton's home. Young ladies and gen- tlemen joined her singing glees and catches. George Rimgelf Jjoined in the dances. Evelyn Scott, as Mr. Juhan, played a violin so0lo in the entr’acte, then the whole party paraded to their seats in the front row to view the second act, a concert in the “assembly” room Mr. Brown (really Dominico Iascone of the National Symphony Orchestra, looking seraphic in pink satin and a white wig) played the “Grand Flute Overture,” followed by two songs from Mr. Hodginson (Vera Ross). Next, a delightful Clementi duet for four hands by the Misses Storer and Sully (Sade Styron and Isibelle Suibb), followed by two more songs from a Miss Hallam (Ruby Potter). ‘The flute entr' acte of G-ssec's “Tambourin” was so completely charming that the audience de- aces, fn- The chef-dceuvre of the morning came in the last act, after the pretty, formal dances by two young ladies (Virginia Hortenstine and Katharine Vaughan), at the “Grand Bafl at the Mansion of a Diplomat.” Mr. Alex- ander Reinagle (Louis Potter) gave a most dramatic rendition of the “Grand Historical. Military Sonata, Battle of Trenton,” by J. Hewntt In German piano-teachers' brogue, Mr. Reinagle announced the events of the battle and they were varied, not to mention being very amusing, as they hopped lightly from cannon and ‘“general confusion” to erossing the Delawsre, from trumpets and VARIED BUSINESS OF D. C. REVEALED | 727 Kinds of Enterprises Listed Here by Directory—Grocers Lead- ing With 1,701 Stores. ‘Wide diversification of business in the | District is emphasized in the new Boyd's 1932 Directory, just off the presses. A total of 727 kinds of busi- ness enterprise is listed in the directory, with retail grocers leading the fleld with 1,701 stores. The book. which contains 2.348 pages. centers attention on the George Wa ington Bicentennial with a full-page re- | production of the Houdon bust of Wash- |ington and a brief article regarding the Bicentennis ‘That the horse of bygone geperations has not passed from the field of useful- ness in Washington is shown by the | fact there are listed 16 blacksmiths, 3 horseshocrs, 1 harpess cealer and 1 livery stable. Phonograph dealers wha | nandle this product exclusively number but 2, and the total of miniature golf courses has dwindled to 6. President Hoover, who appeared on page 833 of the 1931 directory, has moved this year to page 813. flerce onslaughts to plaintive pray- ers of the Hesslans. The various pianists were o clever in imitation that the long-sought harpsichord Was never missed. The pageant closed fittingly with a musical toast to George Washing- ton. D.C Washington Pianist In Wilmington Recital. MANY Washingtonians will attend the recital by Winifred Mc- Gregor Michaelson, former Washing- ton girl and known for her work as an artist-planist. which wil be given this evening at 8.30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Irenee du Pont in Wilmington. Miss Michaelson s the new director of the Wilmingtcn Music School and is being pre- sented in this recital by the faculty and board of this school. Miss Michaelson will play the Bach “French Suite in G Maj Beethoven's “Sonata Op. 10, No. 3"; a “fantasy” and three “etudes” by Chopin, and the Brahms “Inter- mezzi” and “Rhapsodie in E Flat Major.” —_— | Nearly 11000 motor vehicles were taken into Switzerland last year. FETTTTTETTTE T TR R R R SRR T T AT ERE T T EE T TR some of the memorable incidents | t miniature stages, are all shown in our G street windows. They : torically accurate and as educational as they are interesting. You will see— ELEVENTH AND s hirstincu F Vneremply 0o ploce ot Fe e shwpocubed iy e MBvEmay i 5 - — Washington the boy Washington as a cou;:{ry surveyer th Washington’s courts ranon Aprit 30 1189 R ew Varb Cfy T We pay tribute to George Washihgton— the Father of His Country N the eve of one of the great celebrations of our times, our minds and hearts are thrilled as we pause to commemorate the two hundredth anniversaryof that great American—George Washington. Itiis especiallyfitting that we, of the Capital City, pay him tribute. This very city, in which we live, was sponsored, from its beginning, by Mr. Washington. And so care- fully thought out and plarned was this city by the Father of His (;ouxltry, that the original foundation is still “the fundamental plan of the city. But it is not only as a builder that we would do him honor. In a life so full of incident—a life of distinction and greatness from his early youth until its close at the end of the eighteenth century—the career of this truly great man was marked by outstanding distinction, whenever and wherever Destiny called upon him to play a part. The Palais Royal feels that no one incident in' this remarkable life can fully portray this man, whose memory we revere, and honor in this Bicenten- nial. So we are presenting to Washington, for this celebration, a series of unusual and unique tableaux, which faithfully and artistically reveal ts in his life. These tableaux, presented on They are his- ¢ 17 Washington the artisan : As a delegate to the First Continental Congress Crossing the Delaware The Winter at Valley Forge Washington’s Farewell to his mot!: Washington’s First Inauguration Lafayette visiting at Mt. Vernon This is our tribute to the great Washington. tribute by coming to see the tableaux—we will be happy to have you. e PALAIS ROYAL TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400 KOO NP N NN YOO YRR XX G STREETS N.W. Will you, too, pay it your KRR NN NN x x X X x x X X x X X % x x X * X X x < % EY * % X * x x X x x * x * X * X x x X X X % *x x X * X X X X x X x * % x X X x X X x X B x « X x « X x x *x X B X X x »*