Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1932, Page 19

CONFUSION RULES INCHINA SITUATION Fighting Is Still Reported De- spite Truce Accepted by Japan. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. A state of complete confusion reigns in international diplomatic circles in regard to the Far Eastern situation. Japan has of y accepted a urmee. | What that truce means nobody seems | to_know. | The Chinese. tative at Genev denounced the spite of the Japanese troops Cc their represen- | Yen, have | because, in | truce, ress hard | ghting s | thwest of deny _this, accepted the | g reporied minor opera- | anghai area. | stating that th truce and that by the Chinese i tion to clean up the Report. news the lers-in- oops present at | the French | have been plete report niral Taylor, ican forces instructed _on other admirals t from the chief of the neu Shanghai, and the and the Italian instructed to on the real situation. P ight to join t investigation. Until these reports are received the League is bound to mark time. The Japanese wish the League to summon a round table conference in order to settle the Shanghal situation. The League, however, has decided to take no such step until it knows what actually is happening in China. A con- ference will not be called by the League, ac ng to information re- ;‘N\cfl in Washington last night, un- ess | 1. The League is informed by her own agents that hostilities have actu- ally ceased, and 2. Japan has submitted a plan for the withdrawal of her troops within the Shanghai area. The members of the League fully realize that the withdrawa! of the Japanese troops, some 35,000 men, cannot be accomplished within a day or two. but it wants Japan to give positive assurances that the Japanese units will hdrawn without more delay than Iy necessary. ‘Whether Japan will do so is uncer- tain. From all reports received from Tokio it appears that a kind of war | hysteria has seized Japan and mili- tarism is rampant throughout the country. ‘The latest news seems to indicate that there is a tendency on the part of the Japanese rulers to demand a substan- tial indemnity from China for all the losses suffered by Japan in the fight for Shanghai. That is to say, an in- demnity for the men killed in action, ‘whose families will have to be paid a pension; the payment of pensions for those incapacitated by wounds received in acticn, and an indemnity for all losses Japanese property has suffered during the 35 days of severe fighting in Shanghai Fear Port Occupation. This plan of the Japanese govern- ment is considered again to be merely an excuse for the occupation of some further portion of China, presumably China's five most important seaports, since it is evident that the Chinese can- not pay anything in their present eco- nomic and financial situation. The nations present at the assembly of the League of Nations have begun to i 's intentions with the f distrust as the nations ch have been in close touch with during these five months of g in Manchuria and Shanghai. Without a single exception the 52 rep- ! Tesentatives of the civilized world have reached the conclusion that Japan is not playing fair either with China nor with the rest of the world. But after all, ncbody knows what can be done to bring Japan to respect the treaties and obligations she assumed when she became a member of the League. The small nations still believe in some direct action, while the big powers, which have important economic and political interests in Japan and do not want to be drawn into a conflict with that nation, are reluctant to take anything more than platonic measures. As far as the United States is con- cerned, our situation is very clear. The administration has laid down the principles_of the American policy in the Far East twice in the course of the last two months; the first time by the Stimson note of January 7, when the Secretary of State expressed in urequivocal terms that we insist on the principle of the open door policy and that this country would not recog- nize any territorial gains Japan may obtain by force from China;: the second time the position of the United States was made clear in a letter Secretary Stimson wrote to Senator Borah in which he informed Japan and the other signatories of the Washington naval treaty, the four-power pact and the nine-power pact that all these treaties are closely interrelated. With these two declarations, the case of the United States rests. Secretary Stimson believes that he has given the world enough ammunition to help the | other mations taken an action which, not being fraught with as many t would be, would | Japan to abandon while angers as a boyc neverthel League Free to Act. to the I of Nations ¥ wishes to_ settle League decides , it is believed eventually | will be forced to abandon her aggres- de and adopt a new concilia- In such a case her position aterects in Manchuria inter es is determined to| of Nations | ment of . 3 | PAGE COUNTY HAS 10 FIRES IN THREE WEEKS Alger this week | Stanley makes the tenth fire in the county in the last three weeks, all of undetermined origin and in different sections of the county. The majority were vacant houses, some have been barns, and a few were occupled resi- dences. e contents of the Alger building were destroyed. A smoke house 15 or 20 feet away v ned was $900 the buil ing. Mr. and were 3 from home and on return saw smoke issuing from the eav Officers from the insurance are investigating alleged mysterious cir- cumstances connected with the burn- ing of three vacant houses near Shen- andoah in the last week. 3 bill was the most reasonable regulatory There | o SUNDAY STAR. N, D. €, MARCH 6. down the Atlantic Coast. national board, Girl Scouts of lle inent society Mayor Alsop. Jacksonville Welcomes Mrs. Hoover WIFE OF PRESIDENT SHOWN AS SHE WAS GREETED BY COMMITTEE. RS. HERBERT HOOVER (second from right) is shown upon arrival at Jac The welcoming party, left to right, front row America; Mrs. Hoover; Mrs. T. Mrs. Thomas P. Denham, Florida vice regent of the Mount V Abner G. Withee, president of the Federated Garden Circles of Jack b oman, and Miss Louise Clark, president of the Woman's Club of Jackson Al nville, Fla, March 1, on a cruise E. Boggs, member of the > of the mayor of Jack- s’ Association of the Union; s. Waldo E. Cummer, prom- 1 PLANS TO BE BARED | FOR DENTAL CLINIC Dr. Weakley to Give Report on Four-State Session to Open Here. A rteport on the progress of the “Four-State Post-Graduate Clinic,” to be held under the auspices of the Dis- trict of Columbia Dental Soclety at the Mayflower Hotel, March 20, 30 and 31, | will be made by Dr. Arthur D. Weakley, | chairman of the Clinic Committee, at a meeting of the soclety Tuesday night at_George Washington ity Dr. Henry Kiein, of Johns Hopkins Hospital, guest speaker at the mee ing, will disc Ter Advances In the Relatlon of Nutrition to the Prob |lems of Dental Carl Altendance al th indicated by aceeptances cetved, prom 1 hreak Dr. George Hendegeon of president of the Maryland Dental clety. Dr Warren Coumbe of Wilm ton, president of the Delaware De Soclety, Dr. Halph Snapp of Winehe ter, prosident of the Virginia Dental Soclety, and Dr ¢/ B Stramm, of Fair mount, president of the West Virginia Dental Boclety, have aiready gromised o atlond, and hring large Aelsgations from thelr States Clinieians for the three daye will the comblned Army and Mavy lleaders, Dr Clarenre O Sim Louls ahd Dr £ € Tinkiner of Minne apolis On the opening day visiting ladies il be guests at luncheon mud a bridge party, tendered by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the District of Columbla Dental 8o- clety. Mra. Charles T. Baseett 1 presi- dent of the Univ linle, a wiready 1o all recoras Ialtimore be poTps breakfast and reception st the “Butler home at Newton Square.. “: After their honeymoon, Lieut. snd Mrs. Wehle will live at Pensacola, Fla, where he has been assigned to duty at the Marine flying base. Miss Butler's n was of ivory velvet with long close-fitting sleeves and a long train. The long tulle veil was inset with a panel of lace from her mother’s wedding veil. She carried & bouquet of Spring flowers. The bride was born in the Philip- pines while her father was stationed there. She studied at Darlington Semie nary, West Chester, and at Miss Fer~ ris's School in Paris, and made her debut in Philadelphia in 1925 when Gen. Butler wa: as the city's director of publi . Lieut hle. | John W. Wehle a graduate of St vers, Mass,, and the Washington Marine Institute. |ELECTION REGISTRATION OFFICERS ARE NAMED | Special Dispatch t LA PLATA, | Board of Supervisors Charles Coun lowing to act as | for the ensuing term LIEUT. AND MRS. JOHN W. WEHLE. | District 1—James F. Matthews liam A. Cooks ¢ | the ceremony in Holy Trinity Emscopal s, Bowling. Dis Church. Gen. Butler gave his daughter in marriage. The Rev. Jacob A. Winte stein performed the ceremony. The bride was attended by Miss Margaret Banes of Villanova, Pa, her maid of honor, and six bridesmaids. Dwight Leroy Tarris served as best man Marine officers in full dress uniform Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, |formed a glittering arch of swords h officers of the Army and Marine | under which the bride and bridegroom and many others prominent in|passed to their car after the ceremony. affairs and witnessed' The wedding guests also attended & Butler’s Daughter Weds MARRIES LIEUT. JOHN W. WEHLE OF MARINE CORPS. and Mrs. is March 5 of Elections fol named the fol stration officers Ry the Associated Press EST CHESTER, Pa., March 5. brilliance min- ng flowers and thel Peters of Maj and Lieut. trict 4—J. Neale Hamilto: District 5 Thomas I Cox, Fi married toda Approximately 600 guests, including 1 s R. Bowling. 9—Denton Higgs, Levin Canter, District 10—Louis S. Hyde, L. G. Behind Mrs. Denham is —A. P. Photo, VIRGINIA BILLBOARD Delegates Vote Down Reid| Measure to Put Tax on Road Signs. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | RICHMOND, Va. March 5.—Despite its engrossment yesterday by a vote of 49 to 39, Delegate Hugh Reid’s billboard bill was defeated in the House of Dele- gates this afternoon by a vote of 42 to 34, with 24 members registered as not voting. Measures designed to regulate and tax outdoor advertising signs have | met with like treatment at the last| several sesslons of the General As-| sembly. | When the matter came up today Delegate Reid asked that it be passed by until Monday, claiming that it was unfair to vote on the bill with so many members absent, due to the Saturday | session. Opponents objected. Supported by Moffett. The bill was supported by Delegate W. Stuart Moffett of Staunton, who heretofore has been opposed to bill- board legislation. In a speech before | the House he declared that the Reid asure ever introduced on the subject. ese signs have glutted our high- ways, many of them being placed with out the permission of property owners, he said. | Delegate Wilson W. Vellines of Nor- folki, billboard operator, and Delegate Daniel Coleman, also of Norfolk, led the opposition. Vellines declared that the measure discriminated against the small operator in that it would have practi- cally abolished the small metal signs that are tacked up along the roads. The garden clubs, he said, mean well, | but do not give enough thought to the people Who make their business from t?e manufacture and operation of such | signs. Moffett replied that if Vellines con- tinues to oppose all measures designed for the “regulation or taxation of bill- boards that he will eventually find him- self run out of business altogether. Required 51 Votes. Reid stated this afternoon that it would have been impossible to have the measure passed with 24 members not voting because the bill carried a tax provision and therefore required 51 votes to pass. | Delegates Reid and E. H. Allen, the latter representing Fairfax County, | were the only Northern Virginia mem- bers to vote for the bill. Delegates J. Fred Birrell of Alexandria, George W. Herring of Prince William County and Daniel Porter of Orange County voted | against the bill, and Delegates Wilbur C. Hall of Loudoun County and R. A.| McIntyre of Fauquier County were | among those registered as not voting, NON-RESIDENT VOTERS MUST PAY INCOME TA Virginia Commissioner Rules Case of Bristol Man Ab- sent for Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., March 5.—Accord- | ing to & ruling of State Tax Commis- | sioner C. H. Morrissett, Virginians who | 1):“ outside the State, but who retain their right to vote in the Common-| wealth, must pay their income tax. This applies to hundreds of Virginians who live in Washington. Leonard R. Hall of Bristol protested ainst the payment of the income tax behalf a client who had been called for tax payments, though for the vear for which the sum was assessed he had lived and earned his income outside of Virginia, while retaining his | legal residence in the State. SIX ELMS ARE PLANTED HONORING D. A. R. HEADS Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va,, March 5. —Six American white elms were planted, with ceremony, by Shenandoah Valley Chapter, D. A. R., | on the new high school grounds here | Thursday, one each in honor of llu:i six regents of the chapter, the trees being donated by members of the chap- ter and one by the chapter itself. The principal address was by Mrs. Howard K. Brown, vice regent of the chapter, and the program was prepared by Mrs. G. C. McKown. The regents | honored were: Mrs. G. B. Wiltshire, | { Mrs. Florence L. P. Brooks, Mrs. Paul | H. Martin, Mrs. Edgar Sites, Mrs. G. B. Geyer. Coberly Funeral Is Held. | W. Va, March 5 (Special). | —Funeral services were held yesterday for James A. Coberly, one of the oldest | practicing lawyers in this section of the State. The Rev. J. H. Corcoran officiated at St. Brendan’s Catholic Church. Burial was in St. Vincent's Cemetery, at Kingsville. | actually ITALY FREE OF SOCIAL UNREST, U. S. TRADE OFFICIAL REPORTS| B".l. FA".S m PASS Miss Elizabeth Humes Gives“ Authentic Close-up of Conditions There. Declares Italians Like Us and Like to Trade With Amer- ican Firms. Italy has safely weathered the hard- est year yet experienced under Fascist rule; trade has languished, particularly with the United States, and is further hit by recently promulgated import tariffs, made by a stroke of the Mus- solini pen, but the Itallan populace are patient and Italy unlike most of the rest of Europe is experiencing little or no soclal unrest. This painted by the Department of Com- merce trade commissioner at Rome, Miss Elisabeth Humes, reperting in per- son to her superiors here, after a three- year absence at her foreign post. This capable and experienced young business woman is one of three feminine is the picture | | i MISS ELISABETH HUMES, down 32 per cent in value, 15 per cent in volume, while exports show a de- cline of 18 per cent in value and less than 1 per cent in volume U. S. Position Suffers. members of the Department of Com- | merce foreign staff. They outrank any women in the foreign service of the United States. In addition to Miss Humes, they are Miss A. Viola Smith, the American trade commissioner at Shanghai, China—and still at her post there despite the shot and shell of the Japanese invasion, and Mss Gudrun Carlson, our trade commissioner at Oslo, Norway. A Close-Up of Italy. Miss Humes with the Italian business and political situation at her finger tips has come home to get a close-up of business conditions in this country and to do some missionary work with American business interests to promote foreign trade with Italy. The United States formerly in first place in the na- tions of the outside world as a pur- veyor of goods to Italy has yielded her lead to Germany, and though trade be- tween Italy and the Soviet is increas- ing, our trade commissioner still has a message of cheer for the American business men. She finds little streaks of silver in the business clouds. “We have just seen the close of prob- ably the hardest year Italy hus yet had to weather in the 10 years of Fascist rule,” sajd Miss Humes in an interview here. “Unemployment has reached nearly a million, increasing 65 per cent during the year. This figure is, how- ever, deceptive as an index of indus- trial and commercial activity, as pro- duction has not declined proportion- ately. About one-third of the unem- ployed are recelving insurance. The government employs large numbers on public works and is applying a Winter program for absorbing many thousands more on projects involving a $45,000,000 | expenditure, Finances Running Behind. “Go stead vernment finances behind, but, at that, no worse than in many other countries, and con- siderably better than most. Last fiscal year showed a deficit of just under a billion lire. The current fiscal year was budgeted for half a billion deficit and after the first five months showed well over a billion. Customs receipts and eturns, except the turnover tax, was raised from 1 per cent to T cent in the Spring, have been nd expectations. on industrial activity during v marked reduction in all i ries with the exception of pbuilding and rayon. Steel produc- on is down 20 per cent, cement 11 per cent, with all textiles, with the ex- ception of rayon, working from only 66 to 70 per cent of normal. The auto- motive industry seems to be one of the hardest hit of all Even with the mar- ket closed to foreign cars by a 150 per cent duf down to the minimum far bel “Rep majc “By the express will of the head of | the government, the lire has been maintained at or near par. This has been made possible by Ttaly's new for- eign obligations, the improving balance of trade and the actual physical scar- cf f the lira (only 14,000,000,000 in circulation)—all of which has made speculation difficult “When for fiscal or protective pur- poses. it is considered expedient to raise import duties. this can be done over- night by a stroke of the pen. In Sep- tember & general 15 per cent ad valorem duty was applied for fiscal purposes without warning, to all items, with few exceptions, and during the year the specific duty on a number of items, notably radio, nitrate fertilizers, grain, flour, etc., w ised to prohibitiv levels. It is still too early to judge just what the effect of the 15 per cent ad alorem duty will b, General Revision of Treaties. “The Government is following up its announced policy of a general revision of commercial freaties, favoring those countries that buy from Italy, and ne- gotiations for new agreements Wwith France, Germany and Spain are now under way. In this connection, it is interesting to note that while the agree- ment with Russia resulted in & 66 per cent increase in exports to Russia dur- | ing the first nine months of 1931, the long credits are said to be proving bur- | densome to Italian suppliers in spite of the guarante= of the Italian Govern- ment of their ultimate payment. “Ital foreign trade balance has improved under the depres- sion. Exports for the last three months of the year exceeded imports, and the unfavorable balance for the year is only & billion and a half as compared with four and a half billion for 1930. As compared with last year imports are are running | v, the domestic output is kept | “The position of the United States in Italy's import trade has suffered dur- ing the past year. In terms of values we sold Italy almost 50 per cent less goods during the first nine months o 1931 as compared with 1930. A good | part of the loss may be written off to | the decline in prices. Nevertheless, our relative position in the trade has been reduced. In 1930 we still occupied first place as a purveyor of goods to Italy with 15!, per cent of the total im- ports, followed by Germany with During the first nine months Germany stepped up to first place with 121. per cent, while we took second place with 11, per cent. Our losses are to be attributed largely to re- duced imports of wheat, cotton and lumber.” In conclusion Miss Humes offers the | following ray of hope. “Italians like Americans and like doing business with them,” she says. “Both our products and our straight-forward business meth- ods are appreciated in Italy. The country is pro-American and it would, |indeed. be unfortunate if the positions | gained by our trade should be aban- doned. There is still business to be had in Italy.” (Copyr DISPUTE FOLLOWS FARM LOAN ATTACK Letter Scoring Land Bank Policies Read by McFadden—Opposed for Entry in Record. at, 1932.) By the Associated Press. Representative McFadden, Republic- an, Pennsylvania, yesterday precipi- tated a sharp clash in the House Bank- ing Committee by reading a letter at- tacking the Federal Farm Loan Board Its writer, Clinton E. Caldwell, of Manila, Ark, assailed Federal land bank practices, particularly those the St. Louis Joint Stock Land B Representatives Seiberling of Ok Luce of Massachusetts and Beedy of Maine, all Republicans. objected to the letter going into the record because of a concluding paragraph “full of opinions.” Representative Busby, Democrat, Mis- sissippi, demanded its 'admission, say- |ing it was an authentic expression of opinion from one of the affected farmers. Beedy suggested the question of in- cluding the letter should later be con- sidered in executive session—and it was left that way The committee was considering a to authorize payment of farm mortgages Wwith bonds issued by mortgagee banks. - HOMEMAKERS TO MEET AT HAYMARKET THURSDAY Session Will Be Addressed by J. W. 0'Byrne of Virginia Polytechnic Extension Service. lo: the Special Dispatch to The Star. HAYMARKET, Va, March Spring meeting of the Prince William County Chapter, Virginia Homemakers' Association, will be held Thursday in Parish Hall here, preceded by a luncheon at 12:30 p.m., which will be served by the ladies qf the Haymarket Community League. J. Wilbur O'Byrne of the Virginia Polytechnic Extension Depanmenv.gi:v}ul talk on “Use of Native Trees and Shrubs in Yard Planting.” Mrs. Egbert Thompson of Woodbridge will preside. Anotber important meeting sched- uled for Haymarket on Thursday will be that of the chairmen of the Home for the year. This meeting will be held in "Parish Hall at 11:30 am. Members of the group are Mrs. Otis Latham, Haymarket; Miss Kate Boley, Greenwich; Mrs. J. O. Bittle, Nokes- ville; Mrs. T. Powell Davis, Bethel; Mrs. Kate Keys, Dumfries. 4 5.—The | Demonstrations Groups who will dis- | cuss and decide on the county project | | | ' | of | I I SAVE AT Sears, Roebuck and Co. 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