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JAPAN DENIES PLAN FOR SOVIET RAID Documents Published in Mos- eow “Fabricated,” League Commission Told. By the Aseciated Pres 'TOKIO, March 5.—Gen. Sadao Araki. minister of war, told the members of the League of Nations Manchurian In- vestigating Commission that Japan has no intention of invading Soviet Russian territory, but that if the Soviet Army menaced Manchurian territory Japan | would have no choice but to defend it. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 5. 1932 NEW AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY “PAT" BELLINGER TO COMMAND AIR FORCE IN “Early Bird” in Navy’s Avia- tion Service Gets Ap- pointment. New Job Puts Him in Charge of U. S. S. Carrier Langley. By the Associated Press An “early bird” in naval aviation will head Uncle Sam’s enlarged aircraft force in Asiatic waters. He is Comdr. P. N. L. Bellinger—1| plain “Pat” to his friends, though his Members of the commission conferred ‘with the war minister at the war office for two hours today. The war office declared the “docu-| ments” published yesterday in the Mos cow newspaper Izvestia purporting to elucidate plans of Japanese military leaders for an invasion of Siberia were “entirely fabrications.” The Soviet government, the war office spokesman said, entirely misinterpreted Japan’s military intentions in Man- churia. There was no intention, he said, of having the brigade which now is occupying Imienpo, Hailin and Nin- guta to proceed farther eastward. Al- though disorders were reported along the Western Chinese-Eastern Railway at Manchuli and Hailar, he said. there was no present intention of sending troops there. It was believed, he said, that Gen Mah Chan-Shan, Governor of Hailung- kiang Province, would be able to quell any disorders in that portion of his territory. He also characterized the recent as- sertion of L. M. Karakhan, acting Soviet foreign commissioner, that the Japanese were concentrating tréops in Northeastern Korea as unfounded and added that on the contrary the Korean garrison now is only at half normal strength, two of its brigades having been sent to Manchuria last September and December, leaving only two brigades in the garrison. To the commissioners he stressed Japan's overpopulation problem and the comparative poverty of the islands, mentioning also that a large portion of the world is closed to Japanese emigra- tion. He explained the ideals and tra- ditions of the Japanese military organi- gation also. According to a Japanese officer, who was present during the interview, the Earl of Lytton, British representative and chairman of the commission, and Gen. MoCay, American member, were Gen. Araki’s chief questioners. They questioned him closely concerning thg strategical role of Manchuria in Japan's imperial defense scheme. In reply Gen. Araki, as director of the military policies, which are the pal cause of the commission’s geseuce in the Orient, gave a his- rical resume of Japan's defense prob- lems respecting adjacent continental aress, from ancient times to now, in- cluding an explanation of the necessity of the military operations m Manchuria during the last six montns. Aware of Soviet Concentration. The spokesman said no troops had been sent to Korea since the Man- churian campaign began. The war office, he said, knew about recent ad- ditions to Russia’s Far Eastern garrison which it estimated totaled approximate- 1y 50,000, along the Ussurl frontier. Re- cent reports from Vladivostok giving the total Red Army increases as 100,- 000 were exaggerated, ne said, in the opinion of Tokio military officials. hough Japan’s forces in Man- churia do not exceed 25000, of which only 10,000 are in North Manchuria, the Japanese command is not worried, et hece sre Deleved 10 for iese are e ehension the e relcerated previous denials tha Japanese military officlais are ak #white” Russians in Manchuria, ~He said the army was not now contem- lating _reinforcing the Manchurian gxee although it was considering a pos- aibflity of diverting one division which ‘was mobilized for the Sh&nml expe- dition to Manchuria to repi a di- wvision now there. * UNIVERSITY WOMEN HOLD COLLEGE DAY Capital Branch Opens Club House Today ‘to Inform Public of Edu- catiorial Facilities Offered. The Washington branch of the Amer- fean Association of University Women today is holding its third annual Col- day at the club house, 1634 I street l'lsg: club house opened at 10 o'clock this morning and was to close at mi tonight. College day was inaugurated three years ago by the association to afford first-hand detailed information of the facilities offered by the various col- leges and universities in the countr: Prospective coliege students are wel- comed to be informed along any line about the schools they propose to at- tend. Members of the alumnae of more than 35 institutions have set up booths to dispense data about their respective schools. Approximately 100 registra- tions were received at last year's Col- lege day. To premote interest and attendance, the association distributed printed mat- ter to the high schools and preparatory sehools in the city. Policy in Far Eastern Situation. “As @ protest to Japan and a warn- hich < lons,” the the Loyal ind comprising _busi apaneses silk. ich also indorsed timson's policy in tion. was adopted =t the regular | group in the University Ci followed an address by Dr. H. E. Wool: ever, a_writer —: international affairs. Dr. Evereti M. Ellison, a local phy- sician, is past president and an active leader in the international circles of the the Knights of the Round Table. Page McEtchicon, a secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, is bead of the local Knights. BICENTENNIAL PROGRAM A special program, including a George Washington play, will feature enter- tainment to be sponsored by the Bur- roughs Community Center, in honor of the Bicentennial Celebration, tonight st Eighteenth and Monroe streets northeast ‘The program will begin at 7:45 o’clock and be under the direction of Mrs. D. E. Middleton, community secretary; Miss Marjorie Schuster, dance director, and others. Mrs. Laurette Marks Hull- KNIGHTS OF ROUND TABLE| VOTE FOR SILK BOYCOTT' Resolution Also Indorses Stimson | disre- | €d Table, | professional | Action | full name is Patrick Neison Lynch Bellinger—who was the eighth officer in early Navy history to be designated as a naval aviator. His new job, as commander of air- craft, Asiatic Fleet, will put him in charge of the U. S. S. Langley, cne of the Navy's three aircraft carriers, with tenders, and a force of approximately |25 planes. Set Seaplane Record. He will have command cf eight times as many planes as the entire Navy had in 1912, when, with five other young officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, he was detailed to take flying instruc- tion. Naval aviation was iess than two years old then, and the first Navy sea- plane had been purchased bat & year | before. Bellinger was then a lieutenant, junior grade, and in a year after quali- fying as a fiyer, hung up a world sea- plane record for altitude by sscending %o 6,200 feet in 45 minutes. The present mark i5 now more than six times as great. He was a member of the cviation unit attached to the U. S. 8. Mississippi when the Atlantic Fleet was crdered to Mexican waters in April, 1914, n con- ASIATIC WATERS | COMDR. P. N. L. BELLIN nection with the occupation of Vera Cruz. That unit consisted of two air- planes, none fitted for land work, but used continually for 43 days in scovting over the trenches protecting the city. Awarded Navy Cross. Most notable, however, ~was Comdr. Bellinger's participation in the first transoceanic flight, the pioncering ve: ture of 1919 which resulted in the suc- cessful crossing of the NC-4. Bellinger was named commanding officer of the NC-1, which flew from Newfoundiand to near the Azores, where landing W made on the ocean and the crew 1escued by the Greek ship Icnia. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his service In connection with the NC flights, and also honored with the Portuguese decoration of the Towver .nd Sword of the grade of commander. His present command is the U. S. S. Wright, flagship of th> aircraft, scout- ing force, from which he will be re- lieved in June and join the Asiatic Fleet aboard the Langley in August. TOKIO SHOTS KILL INDUSTRIAL LEADER Baron Dan, Assassin’s Vic- tim, Directed Far-Flung Mitsui Interests. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 5—Baron Takuma Dan, managing director of the house of Mitsui, which controls one of the world’s greatest fortunes and is Japan's leading commercial organization, was shot and killed today in the heart of Tokio's financial district. The assassin was immediately arrest- ed. He was Goro Hishinuma, 21, a farm boy from the Ibaraki prefecture, a rural district north of Toklo, whence also came the slayer of Junnosuke Inouye, former minister of finance, who was shot last month. Youth Is Captured. Baron Dan was shot as he alighted from an automobile in front of the mag- nificent Mitsui Bank Building at 11:40 a.n. The youth fired one shot from & revolver, which struck the baron in the right breast. He was carried to a medi- cal room inside th building and died 40 minutes later. His wite and son were with him when he dled. Police who questioned the young as- sassin said his mind apparently had been inflamed by recent attacks upon Baron Dan in connection with large purchases of American dollars by the Mitsui interests just before Japan went off the gold standard in December. Ultra-patriotic organizations made much. of the incident, claiming it was detri- mental to the welfare of the country. Former Finance Minister Inouye, who was recently shot and killed, also was one of Japan’s most noted finan- cial leaders. Baron Dan was educated at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology. He was vice president of the Japan-Ameri- ca Society and a close friend of many leading American financiers. Worked Way in U. S. School. The assassin was clad in shabby Oc- cidental clothes. He hid near the marble entrance of the bank building and drew his pistol and fired as the baron walked across the sidewalk through a bustling 3aturday morning business crowd. Bank policemen seized him immediately. Baron Dan led a group of Japanese business men to the United States in 1921 on a mission to improve commer- cial relations between the two coun- tries, Baron Dan worked his way through the school at Boston a half century ago, becoming a mining engineer. It was through the Mitsui mining inter- ests that he rose to become managing director of the Mitsuigomei Kaisha, holding corporation for all the far- flung and widely diversified Mitsui en- terprises. e MAN TIED TO TREE, Pair Found With Stolen Car in Georgia Returned to Lake City, Pa, to Face Charges. By the Associated Press. LAKE CITY, Pa, March 5 —An- thony Moreland of Chica was kid- naped here Thursday night and was left tied to a tree by two men, who took his automobile and fled. The car was recovered in Valdosta, Ga., yesterday and police there arrest- two occupants. They gave their names as Joe E. Johnson and Stickman Herndon. Police quoted Johnson as confessing he was & member of a gang that rob- bed the Lincoln National Bank at Lin- coln, Nebr., several years ago. The officers also said he told them of ping from prison at San Quentin, and @ number of other places. Lake City office: brought the pris- oners here. They were charged with automobile theft and Johnson's finger- prints were sent to the Department of Justice in Washington with a view to determining if it has a record of him. Moreland experienced no ill conse- quences in the kidnaping. He gained his freedom soon after the kidnapers left him deep in a wood. DEBTS ARE DELAYED El Salvador Suspends Foreign Pay- ments in Crisis. i SAN SALVADOR, Republic of El Salvador. ment yesterday temporarily suspended | payments on El Salvador's forelgn debt, due to decreased enue and the neces- sity to attend first to maintaining forces to “combat Communism.” The country’s debt to the United States is $12.900,000 and to Great lng will serve as accompanist. miting il pericpae Ll icipate, about 30 other boys and girls. ' Britain $4,469,000. Dr. Meguel Tomas, t‘g: n‘f:a y:’mum of finance, Il-\d‘ uh;’. en Tesume payment debt shortly. i SUSPECTS CAUGHT March 5 (#).—The govern- | THOUSANDS SIGN PEACE: PETITION 18 Washingtonians Among Those Backing Move Begun by Harvard Head. Indorsement of thousands of persons throughout the country, many of them leaders in their respective fields. has been accorded the Lowell petition for international peace, it was announced by the American Committee on the Far Eastern Crisis yesterday. To date 18 Washingtonians have added their names to the petition, ac- cording ‘to the committee. The move- ment was inaugurated by President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University and favors the economic boycott of ag- gressor nations by neutrals as a means of maintaining peace and preventing war. Specific protest is voiced against the existing Sino-Japanese situation. Among those who have signed the petition are: Charles W. Bunn, vice president of the Northern Pacific Rail- way; Dr. Tyler Dennett, historical ad viser to the Department of State, 1929 1931; Victor Elting, Chicago attorney: Representative Morton D, Hull, Illinois; Frank W. Taussig, former chairman of| the Tariff Commission, #nd Herbert J. Tiley, former president of the National Retail . Dry Goods 'Association. Signers who described themselves as residents of Washington: are: Helen Brabrook, Rebecca Matthews, Fannie A. Abell, Donald B. Stough, Hazel H. Feagans, Pane F. Woolfitt, Ethelwyn L Hine, Queene Pambookjian, L. H. Du- quette, Marian Spencer, Ellery C. Stowell, D. Virginia Humphries, P. C. Chiane, Florence Hoffer, Tchi Y. Yun, Margaret Z. Ramsey, Horace A. Bacus and H. K. Bosle: CLERKS’ SECRETARY LAUDS POSTAL BILL Thomas F. Flaherty Says House Measure Will Benefit at Least 5,000 Workers. Legislation Tequiring postal vacancies | to be filled, enacted by the House yes- terday, was praised last night by Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. He said 5000 workers would benefit by it According to Mr. Flaherty, there are approximately 25.000 postal substitutes in service, mostly in first and second class post offices, and many are now re- quired to work as substitutes, although regularly employed. The legislation is intended to correct this situation | _“If properly administered, this legisla- | tion will result in Ailling at least 5,000 vacancies that have been permitted to accrue in the postal service,” said Mr. Flaherty. “It will put an end to the practice of placing a substitute at a Tate of 65 cents an hour into a job that should be filled by a regular employe at a higher rate of compensation. “Owing to a falling off in postal revenues and the lengthening of the | tours of regular clerks to cover a 10- hour period, and other economy prac- tices of the Post Office Department, the substitutes have been deprived of work opportunities and many of them hav been forced into the unempioyed arm; SPAIN FIXES PENALTIES Agrees on "20-Year Sentences for Rivera Followers. MADRID, Spain, March 5 (4 —The Responsibilities Commission unanimously | agreed yesterday to demand 20 years | imprisonment for all generals and min- isters sharing in the responsivility for the Primo de Rivera coupe d'etat and dictatorship. The commission, at a plenary session, also agreed that the generals and min- isters should be forbidden ever to hold any political or official post posal will be presented to Congress Tuesday. | _ The punishment would affect former Ministers Martinez Anido, Castedo, Calvo Sotelo and Galo Ponte, the Marquis of Guadalhoroe, Gens. Federico Berenguer and Munoz Cobos, and about 15 others connected with the Primo de Rivera regime. A. U. DEBATERS WIN Capitalism Argued in Contest With Rutgers Team. The undefeated varsity debating team of American University chalked up an. | Rutgers University. The American U. team, consisting of Max Tucker, Robert Marcus and Arthur Murphy took the affirmative of the question, “Resolved, that capitalism as | & system of economic organization is | unsound.” The American University women's team, consisting of Charlotte Magee and Winona Buchanan, met the Syracuse University women’s team yes- terday afternoon st Hurst Hall in s “l:dynddn".“hummm The pro- | other victory last night at Hurst Hall | on the local campus by winning over | ICHINESE, REPORT NANZIANG ATTACK Commanders of 19th Army Say Big Japanese Force Opened Fight. (Continued From First Page.) Chapei continued during the day as new districts were open, but unre- stricted entry will not be permitted until all bodies have been removed and the streets cleared, Japanese authorities announced Some of the returned Chinese already have begun to construct mat sheds over the sites of their former homes. Others merely stood about and gazed for hours at the wreckage and then trudged back to the Settlement, muttering as they | went, Woosung Village Deserted. Woosung village was silent and de- serted and wrecked, except for a few Japanese soldiers on patrol. The great Wingon cotton mill is a skeleton, its walls filled with shell holes and its tall chimney balanced on a mere fragment of brick and mortar. ‘There were indications that the peace discussions between the Chinese and apanese might be resumed Sunday. They were slated to have been resum but Japanese officials said the ved because of a belief it was now impossible to reach a solution. 0-operation with the other coun- . Yoshinori Shirakawa said, “Japan expects to settle the Shanghal situation as quickly as possible, enabling our forces to return to Japan at the earlicst possible moment.” He said he hoped an international round-table con- ference would take place here soon. WANTS U. S. IN PARLEY. Japan Worried by Indicated Reluctance to Join Shanghai Conference. TOKIO, March 5 (#).—Japanese offi- cials expressed Worry today over what they looked upon as indications that the United States was reluctant to join a round table conference at Shanghai to discuss a permanent solu- tion of the situation there. Washington's attitude, they said, ap- parently was based on two impressions Which seemed to be widespread in Eu- rope and America and which the Jap- anese government insists are false. These are, first, that a definite Sino- Japanese armistice agreement was reached aboard the British cruiser Kent at Shanghai, February 28, and second, that Japan. in accepting the proposals of Joseph Paul-Boncour on February 29, thereby agreed to an immediate cessation of hostilities. A government spokesman said the five points which Dr. W. Yen, Chinese representative, presented to the League of Nations Assembly as the agreement alieged to have been made aboard the Kent, actually were only the Chinese proposals at the Kent con- ference, which the Japanese later re- fused to accept. In accepting the Paul-Boncour pro- posals, he said, Japan merely agreed to attempt to arrange an early armistice, whereas the military operations ac- tually ended by the Chinese retreat, beating the diplomats to the desired result. AMERICAN TO JOIN PROBE. Admirals of Four Nations to Investigate State of Hostilities, Admiral M. M. Taylor, commanding the Asiatic Fleet in Shanghai, has been authcrized to join the British, Italian and French admirals in investigating whether the hostilities at Shanghai have stopped. A message was sent to him last night in compliance with the request of the League of Nations that the interested powers at Shanghai investigate the actual state of hostilities. The cessation of hostilities is a neces- sary preliminary for the round table conference to agree upon armistice terms. Meanwhile, the State Department dis- closed that a Department of Commerce investigation had found that in Janu- ary of 1932 the sales of munitions by this country to Japan amcunted to only $1,800. During the entire year of 1931 the sales of arms and munitions by American firms to the Japanese totaled $12,000. e DANCE CLUB FACES SERIES OF CHARGES Illegal Sunday Shows and Failure to Pay Entertainment Fees Alleged. The Caverns Club, dance place at 2001 Eleventh street, through the man- ager, William C. Evans, was named de- fendant on three charges, of failing to pay an entertainment license tax and two of sponsoring vaudeville shows at an fllegal hour on Sunday, in Police | Court yesterday. Evans, arrested through the efforts of Lieut. Frank Varney and police of the second precinct and women's bu- reau, pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. Without ~hearing testimony Judge Schuldt continued the case until March 16 The club, it is charged. on two occa- i sions. Februery 7 and 21, violated the District regulations which prohibit the giving of vaudeville shows on Sunday, afternoon and 11 al night. It is also charged that the club spon- sored entertainment and dancing on December 15 and “divers other days" without paying the tax. Two other charges stated that no entertainment tax had been paid on February 7 and February 21. _—————— Army Drops Ex-Air Chief. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 5 (#) — Col. Arturo Merino Benitez, former chief of the Air Corps. was dismissed from the army yesterday. He_was one of the chief aids of for- mer President Carlos Ibanez and lately he has been writing strongly worded articles for magazines and newspapers in which he attacked the present Air Corps commander as Well as other gov- ernment_cflicials, foreign diplomats and foreign business organizations. Two Generals Die DefendingWoosung Rather Than Retreat By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, March 5.—Two Chinese generals, Tang Chi-Shui and Cong Chao-Yuan, both of the 19th Route Army, perished in the defense cf the Woosung forts, an official communique Yester- day said. Both refused to follow the or- ders of Gen. Tsal Tink-Kal, 19th Route Army commander, that they evacuate the forts when the Chinese retreat began. They chose to die fighting and left a message pleading with the nation “to continue to resist the foreign invader” and expressing the hope au the.lost territory soon would except between the hours of 2 in the| [ZVESTIA ADMITS BORDER DEFENGE Soviet Paper Claims Posses- sion of Tokio Documents Proppsing Invasion. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, March 5—Soviet Russia is increasing its army in the Far East for defense of the Siberian frontier “against Japanese attack,” the govern- et nows;?per Tzvestia said yesterday. In this first official acknowledgment that Russia is engaged in defensive military preparations, Izvestia asserted the Soviet government had come into possession. of documents attributed to high Japanese military officials, con- taining proposals not only for the in- vasion of Siberia but also for combina- tion with other nations in an attack on the Soviet Union. “Recent events in Manchuria. par- ticularly the serious increase in the number of anti-Soviet provocations, compel us to strengthen our d(-fepsivv capacity for safety at our borders” the newspaper said. “We cannot ignore the fact that responsible representatives of Japanese military and non-military Circles openly have raised the question of a raid on the Soviet Union and an- pexation of border provinces Documents Quoted. The newspaper then quoted docu- ments which it attributed to u fied Japanese officials. “I consider it ne these documents. “to assume a firm policy with relation to the Soviet Union and to be ready to start war at any moment. The first purpose of such a war must be not only to protect Japan against Communism, but to occupy the Soviet Far East and Eastern Siberia. Another document quoted said: “Tak- ing into consideration the armed forces of the Soviet Union, war must begin soon. Any delay would make conditions more favorable for them, and I consider it necessary that the empire start a war against the Soviet Union as quickly as possible. There must be propaganda to attract the Western neighbors of the Soviet Union, so that it may be de- stroyed inside and outside by means of the White Guards and other anti-Soviet elements.” Recalls Inaction on Pact. A third such document said: “Con- | sidering the general conditions, we may conclude that the Soviet Union is unable to carry on a war at this time. The present is very favorable for our em- | pire to decide the problem of the Far East,” These documents, said Izvestia, “com- pel us to pay strict attention to every- thing that is happening in the Far East.” Izvestia recalled that two months have passed without an answer to the Russian proposal for a pact of non-ag- gression with Japan, and it described as “significant” the movement in Japan “looking toward violation of the fish- ing concessions in the Soviet Far East.” “Actually,” said Izvestia, “this move- ment has nothing to do with fishing, but is only another expression of the | anti-Soviet elements who would like to have free action in Far Eastern waters in their plans for aggression. “Neither can responsible Japanese circles evade responsibility for the anti- Soviet activities of the White Guards in Manchuria, despite their claim that they know nothing about their activities. We could cite ‘numerous proofs that these activities are directly connected with the Japanese occupation of Man- churia. “These facts indicate the increasing danger of aggression against the Soviet Unlon from Manchuria, requiring vig- ilance on our part and necessary meas- ures of defense.” 1 SIX-HOUR RAIL DAY PLAN IS APPROVED Senate Committee Advances Reso- lution Directing I. C. C. to Study Its Effect. By the Associated Press. A House resolution directing the In- terstate Commerce Commission to in- vestigate the advisability of a six-hour day for railroad employes was approved today by the Senate Interstate Com- merce Committee. The committee agreed to report with- out recommendation the Capper-Kelly bill to allow manufacturers of trade- marked or branded commodities to fix their retail price. The hill was reported without recom- mendation, Chairman Couzens said, be- cause of its highly controversial nature developed in long and exhaustive hearings. The House resolution: which the com- ittee approved would direct the In- terstate Commerce Commission to in- Vestigate the effect upon operations, service and expenses of applying the six-hour day to tne various classes of railway employes. The resolution was adopted by the | House in January and a similar meas- ure previously had been approved by the Senate Committee. e HORSE IS SUPPLANTING MACHINE ON FARMS Cash™ Motive Power to Be Used Less, Predicts State Official of Kansas. By the Associated Press TOPEKA. March 5.—From all indi- cations Old Dobbin is going to spend more of his time this year in the har- ness in front of some farm implement and less in stall and pasture than in recent vears. As noted by J. C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, there is a distinct trend under present con- ditions toward more utilization of the horse on the farm and less use of power machinery. This is occasioned largely by the fact that the horse is not a * h™ motive power, while the machine is. In other ‘words, it takes little or no cash to use horses, “The horse and their feed already are on the farm,” Mohler said. “No cash is needed to hitch the horse and start him to work. It doesn't take money 'for Gasoline or spare parts to make him go. - e GOV. MURRAY WILL WAGE ‘PASSIONLESS' CAMPAIGN By the Associated Press. MINOT, N. Dak., March 5—Gov. W. H. Murray of Oklahonia said today he had “no absorbing passion to be Presi- dent,” but will campaign in Nebraska, Florida, Alabama, and possibly Penn- sylvania, in an effort to win backing in his fight for the Democratic presi- dential nomination. ~ He said arrangement will be left with “the committee at home in Oklahoma City, which is strong for me.” Making the last three of seven ap- pearances in the State today, he ex- pressed the opinion he will win the support of North Dakota voters in the | March 15 presidential preference pri- mary. mMmot. Rughy and 'I)J{e\'l.ls Lake were today's the Governor, who will leave City. for Oklahoma inidenti- | ;ary,” said one of | FAMOUS IN MANY ACTIVITIE Gen. Sherrill, Native of Wash- ] ington, D. C., Has Extraor- dinary Record. Soldier, Traveler, Author Be- gan Career by Winning Yale Track Titles. Special Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK, March 5 (N —| Gen. Charles Hitcheock Shermii- the 64-year-old lawyer who has just been | named as Ambassador to Turkey, has | won fame s a diplomat. soldier, trav- | eler, author, educator, politician, busi- ness man and athlete ' om the days when he w: | track titles In’ Yale he hec pnring energetic figure in movement in which he has taken part, and his in- :}:rests hévt; been so varied as to have en sufficlent to have crow e lives of three or s o rn in Washington, D. C., he was the son of Charles H and Sarah Ful- ton Wynkoop Sher and although | his home has been New York for many years, he has spent recently & | part of each year in the Capital. While at Yale, where he received his AB. in 1889, Gen. Sherrill won, in | 1887, the American 100-yard cham- pionship. He aiso won seven inter- collegiate championships on the track. Originates Track Matches. His interest in athletics never w: | He originated the series of r,,:f,’:f:.’ | Uonal inter-university track matches that began with Yale vs. Oxford in 1894, alx)xd f\;r many years he has been a member of the Intern y Cun;mmfl. ational Olympic After receiving an A. M. from Yale in 1892 he devoted himself to the. prac- tice of law in this city. which he had begun the previous year, continuing until 1909, when he became American | Minister to Argentina, serving there with distinction until the Summer of 1911. He then declined to become Am- bassador to Japan and, because of ill health brought on by overwork, retired from the diplomatic service. He is credited with having increased the American-Argentine trade {rom $47.000,000 to $80.000,000 annually. He returned to the practice of law | |in 1912, continuing as a working mem- ber of his profession until after the | World War. He has business connec- tions also, being chairman of the board of the Berkshire Fine Spinning Asso- | ciates and a director of the Shellmound Cotton Plantation Co. Ardent G. O. P. Campaigner. Gen. Sherrill never ran for political | office but, long an ardent Republican, | he took part enthusiastically in or- ganizing parades and mass meetings | during political campaigns. For Taft | and Sherman in 1908 he organized a parade of more than 90,000 business men in this city and in 1913 he was | the man behind the great mass meeting in Madison Square Garden which en- dorsed John Purroy Mitchel for mayor. | In 1916 he organized and was grand marshal of the gigantic preparedness parade, which was an even greater suc- cess than the 1896 sound money parade. also due to his initiative. Gen. Sherr|'l was colonel and aide- CHAPE] REFUGEES FIND HOMES RAZED Enz:ire Blocks in Ashes. Open Spaces Pitted With Shell Holes. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHAI = March 5.—Pressing homeward in the wake of the war, thou- worked in Chapel returned to that ruined city yesterday to look upon a ghastly picture of death and devasta- tion. Not a single building has escaped the bombardment. Streets were Jlittered with the debris of the fallen city. The Chinese Army had long since fled, but there was | still life of a kind among the ruins. )}\:nngrzl dogs skulked where the bodies y. [} Entire Blocks in Ashes. | Block after block of houses lay in ashes, and the districts which escaped the shelling were wiped out by ‘the fire. Open plots of ground were pitted with shell holes and bomb craters. Over all of it was a net of fallen telephone wires | and power lines. At one place a pile of coffins had been struck by a bomb which shattzred the boxes and tossed the bodies among the ruins from which they previously had been removed. Japanese soldiers and sailors, with glittering bavonets and drawn pistols, subjected every person entering the city to the closest scrutiny. As the day| wore on and the crowd became too| large to be controlled, the influx was checked by military order. Market Place Wrecked. A few fires were still burning and smoke was rising from the ashes of many homes. In the market place there was nothing but wreckage. Among the dead there appeared to be as many civ- | ilians as soldiers, but few women had been caught. | In the adjacent section of Hongkew, | where the toll of battle was not so henl\‘y, conditions were returning to nor- mal. Chinese and foreign residents were returning to their homes and some of the stores were open. Schools will open again Monday. FICTION WRITERS FIND | NEWSPAPER MARKET C. E. Nelson Traces Development of TFirst-Run Material for Daily Press. ‘ “One of the newest developments in the newspaper fleld is the production of first-run _fiction.” said C. E. Nelson, Sunday editor of The Star. in an a dress before the class in journall George Washington University, ste day afternoon. The speaker added that it created a larger market for the writers of stories, and was made possible by the serving of groups of papers with the same material. He pointed out that previously the writers of fiction had no market of any importance in the press. Speaking of feature articles such as are published by the Sunday papers Mr. Nelson advised the students that the best of them were “suggested by daily news articles.” He added: “Many things do not make important nev stories, but are especially valuable as a basis for feature articies.” He em- phasized the value of such work with the assurance that the newspapers were glad to give encouragement to new talent. | Mother and Five Die in Fire. | ST. JOHNS. Newfoundland, March 5 (#—The wife and five children of Robert Best were burned to death ves- terday in s fire at North West Arm, information Labrador, fn ol Fudson Bay Co. here said. b | tee of tI sands of Chinese who once lived and s | National Associst S GEN. CHARLES H. SHERRILL. de-camp on thke staffs of Gov. Higzins I, and when the United d the World War, Gov. Whitman appointed him State adjutant general. With the rank of brigadier general he w head of the Sta Nationsl G 1 in charge of Federal draft in the tember 1, 1917, until Sep 1918. Due largely to his efforts in_popu- arizing the guard, 2,000 at the time th entered the war to 39, On Septem- ber 8, 1918, it was es d that under him 242,036 men went stom the te to Federal training camps, in add to 122.000 that volunteered man praised him highly defatigable work Founder of Arts College. Gen. Sherrill founded the Coll Fine Arts of New York Unis dected it for many years and he universits represented it ab university awarded him an LL gree in 1918. Highly praised as an author, he has written profusely. Among his works are “Stalned Glass Tours in France,’ 1 Stained Glass T in Eng- 1909; * Glass Tour in 1913 Eighteenth “Modernizing . “Have We a rime Mir Gov. W for his de- Gen. Sherrill is a commander of the French Legion of Honor, a commander of the Order of Leopold I of Belgium. a grand officer of the Czachoslovakian Order of the White Lion, a commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star, a commander of the Orange Nassau of Hollen mander of the Order of th Italy trian Ord:r of Merit He b7'ongs to the A soclation of the City of Kapp2 Epsilon, Sons of t Society of the War of 1812, Founders and Patriots, and Society of the Colo- v 2 T a com- Crown of rican Bar As- w York, Delta American IS STENGE RESCIF SEAOAST BIDS “udubon President Tells Geo- graphic Scciety of Work Among Species. _ The fight that is being made up and I-wn the Atlantic Coast and along the res of the Guif of Mexico to birds from destruction and to provi tuaries in which they will be saf was described to members of the Na. tiona! Gecgraphic Society last night by Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, president of the n of Audubon So ties, in an address at the Washington Auditorium. As a result of this work some bird species that had practical disappeared 3 lished reappearincs of cormorants along the coast of Maine, Dr. Pearson said. Large Numbers. Saved. In the sanctuaries established Florida numbers of s ospreys, s and egrets -are being Pezrson pointed out that the prop:sed Everglades national park wou!d be a most important factor in preserving Scutheastern bird life Much clandestine hunting is going on in the region, although this is held in | check somewhat by the em! yment of rds by the Audobon Societ I Pearson ‘took a trip over the Ev in a small d oon and was so enabled ful study of the region colon e in he Tremendous Flocks Shown. riking _ photographs r in illustrating ews of tremendous flocks geese that winter on the nctuaries on islands off 12 coest and on the nearby | Rail ild Life Sanctuary, also in | Louisiana. On the latter preserve the | birds are fed rice. Inland sanctuaries described by Dr. Pearson include the Roosevelt Bird Sanctuary adjoining the cemetery in which Theodote Rooseveit is buried on Long Island and the Sheldon W L ary in Northern Neva where prong-horn antelope and the | rure sage.hens are protected. Motion pictures presented intimate studies of owls, hawks and ruffed grouse. “DRUNK” SUIT SETTLED 0il Company to Pay Former Em- ploye's Wife $20,000. LOS_ANGELES. March 5 W er. who sued the 0,000, charging it of her husba emplc agreed to a settlement $20.000 yesterday. Mrs. Wheeler claimed Joseph C. wheeler, her husband, was forced to entertain _customers of the company With lquor, became addicted to its use c s discharged rior Judge M ker Wood today approved a settlement of $2.500 ach for the two Wheeler children, ary. 8, and Pierce, 5, but held he was ithout authority to approve the com- pany’s agreement to pay Mrs. Wheeler $15.000. Her attorneys said, however, the Loui: c Co “dr nkard made ot { She could sue if the company failed 0 | Sii 8 keep the agreement as to her. TORTURE LM.D TO POLICE] i Ala., Indicted “Extreme Cruelt GADSDEN, Ala, M Charges of extreme cru the torture of a youth holding his face again pipe, were preferred age! E. W. Robertson and W in indictments returned here yesterday. They were also accused of beating him with a rubber hose in applying “third degree” methods aimed at forcing him to answer questions about an offense for which he was Gadsden, Pair in 5 P)— in luding ¢ b hot steam i Policem *ge of | Order. of the| and a grand officer of the Aus-| = Reyolution, | a former | D LEADERS ASSAILED | AS SHORT SELLERS Outstanding Financial Men Accused by Legislator at House Hearing. By the Associated Press. Responsibility for the recent bear market was placed on “yesterday’s bulls” in testimony today before a House Judiciary Subcommittee by Represente ative Sabath, Democrat, of Illinois, sponsor of legislation to prohibit short selling “The men Who now are bears,” he said, “are the same who during the criminal inflation of 1927 and 1928 were bulls. t occurred since 1928 at y date will be d grea crime of America; ‘And those who built up the bull market are just those who are { destroying it no direct evi- eived many com- ing that some of our institutions and most men are short sellers. al short selling started in 1929. Directors of large porations sold out and sold thou- s of shares short. To my mind it minal on the part of these direc- who knew the conditions They had the President and Mr. Mellon telling the people to come in and buy and that everything was all | right, taking money from thousands of poor. The American people have | been mulcted out of billions and bil- lions.’ Broad Inquiry Ordered. A broad investigation of all stock market manipulations will be begun by the Senater Banking Committee Tues- day, the resolution authorizing the in- quiry having been adopted by the Sen- ate yesterday. Administration charges that profes- sional speculators have been driving down security prices for personal gain and at the expense of returning pros- erity will bé the first objective of the quil Both bulls and bears will be investigated, Grease Contract Let. The Commissioners today awarded to the Century Stearic Acid Candle Works, | Inc., of New York City comtract for the | sale of five tank car loads of garbage grease at one-half of 1 cent per pound free on board tank cars at the Distric! arbage reduction plant at Cherry Hill, Va. There was only one bid recetved | for this contract. THE WEATHER Distriet of Ceclumbia—Cloudy and slightly warmer, followed by rain be- ginning late tonight or tomorrow morn- ing; lowest tempcrature tonight about 44 degrees: colder tomorrow, much colder tomosrow night; gentle to mod- erate shifting winds, becoming fresh northwest tomorrow. Maryland—Cloudy followed by rain beginning late tonight or tomorrow morning changing to snow flurries to- morrow in west section; slightly warmer in east and central portions tonight; colder tomorrow, much colder tomor- row night. Virgipia—Rain lage tonight and Yo- morrow, changing snow flurries_ in z:tm portion w; - somewhat |- #armer In east and colder in extreme w t portions tonight; colder tomorrow, much colder tqmnorrow night. West Virginia—Rain changing to enow and colder tonight; tomorrow snow flurries and much colder. Report for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.67 29.713 20.75 29.712 Yesterday— 4 pm. 8 pm. Midnight Today 4am. . 8 am. Noon Highest | Lowest ..... 37,5am. Year ago. Tide Tables. | (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic_Survey.) Today. 6:40am. 1:06 am. 7:18 pm. 1:28 pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. 6:35 ow 6:34 6:06 5:59 a.m. 4:35 pm. lamps to be lighted one- Tomorrow, 7:34 an. 1:52 am. 8:00 pm. 2:15 pm. High Low High | Low Sets. Sun, today. 6:05 Sun, tomor | Moon, today.. Automobils half hdéur after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1932. Average. Record. 3.55 7.09 327 6.84 375 8.84 3.27 9.13 70 10.69 413 10.94 471 10.63 401 1441 gzn: 10.81 November 2.37 gg; Detember 332 .56 ties. Weather in Various Cit . 246 ] August ..... eptember .. October | Te uiveston, elena, _Mont.. 30.06 Huron,'S. Duk.. 30.24 India Jacksony £ G Hi n 3 apolis.Ind le.Fla. 29.66 6 3 Portland, Portland, Oref ... Cloudy 055 Clear FOREIGN. snwich time. today.) Temperature, Weather. ceres 31 Clouds (Tam Station London, England Frauce ... e 1ol Gibraltar. . . Greo: Horta (Fayal). 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