Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1932, Page 4

"A4 ¥ KREUGER ACCOUNTS FOUND fl\LSWIE[}i Swedish Match King Said to; Have Directed Entries , of Fictitious Assets. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, April tion of the books of the Kreuger & Toll Co., made under direction of Ivar Kreu- ger, Swedish match king, who commit- ted suicide at Paris recently, have been discovered by accountants checking the firm’s accounts, tar’s Teport just issued The report said entries were made in the books which eliminated substan- tial balances owing to the parent com- pany by Kreuger and subsidiary com- panes, while liabilities to other subsid- jaries also were eliminated Some Assets Fictitious. In some instances, the auditors said, the book asscts were entirely fictitious. duplications of assets appearing on the books of associate companies or figures greatly exceeding the items they were supposed to represent The report said the manipulation seemed also to extend to the profit and loss accounts of the different companies concerned and that the profits for 1930 were fictitiously increased A firm of Eng accountants made the check. They had no doubt, the said, that the Kreuger & Toll balance sheet, and & consolidated balance sheet accompanying it. were “grossly wrong,’ although these agreed with the balances appearing on the firm's books. Similar Condition Shown. A cursory exzmination of the books of the Continental Investment A. G., a subsidiary of the International Match Corporation, showed a similar condition, the accountants added ‘The auditors of the board of Kreuger & Toll are seeking a way, the report said, to liquidate the company in such & manner that interests of creditors will be safeguarded and Kreuger's industrial undertakings continued in some man- ner. For this reason, they said, the accountants would be given access to all of Kreuger's business documents. U. 8. INVESTORS LOSE. Between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000 Kreuger Paper Involved. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily News STOCKHOLM, April 6—Ivar Kreu- ger, Swedish match king, who died a suicide in Paris on March 12, influenced governments and was on friendly terms with premiers and Presidents—includ- ing President Hoover. Price, Water- house & Co., British accountants, an- nounced last night that the 1930 ac- counts of Kreugsr & Toll were com- pletely false, and it is reliably under- stood that brevious accounts were of the same caliber. American_investors who bought be- tween $250.000.000 and $300,000,000 worth of Kreuger paper, and who now’ ose most of that sum, were Kreuger issued | sentatives in the Higginson & Co. ers of that concern was among _the rectors who affixed the fraudulent 1930 oll therr signstures stetemer Durgnt himsell like the Swedish di Teriovs, Wes unguestionsbly ignorant of the True siare of affmiv. Kreuger's per BOnL! Suggestion thai the “Swedes would Teseni heving foreign suditors oversee the buoks of Bweden's lsrgest bsnking concern’ hat prevente an imspection «f he secounts by certified accountants Fowr seperete of Te mOWw tv senting Kreuger & wo Tepresenting; rmationsl Match ‘cer- eflorts to save the ch assets for Amer- be under way with the ar- rival here tomorrow of their attorney. Meanwhile, the Swedish investigating commission is still at sea regarding the method in which Kreuger dissipated tens of millions of dollars in assets. His persona! papers will now be examined in the hope of shedding more light the matter. Y (Copyright, 1832, by the Chicago Daily News, o D. . PORT AUTHORITY BACKED BY CHAMBER Need for Co-ordination of City's Maritime Facilities Stressed by Committee Head. Proposals for establishment of a port authority were indorsed last night at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors in the Homer Build- The Public Recreation Committee, headed by T. S. Settle, reported exist- ence of a marked need for co-ordina- tion of control of the city’s maritime facilities. Mr. Settle pointed to the success of such plans in New York, Philadelphia and other cities. He ex- plained the program called for & com- mission of se members to have charge of water traffic in Anacostia, the Washington Channel, Georgetown and Alexandria Dr. George C. Havenner, chairman of the Committee on Law and Legislation, reported progress has been made in drafting amendments to the District ch would improve the sys- mbers of the coro- | as providing proper Jegal instructions for the jurors At the suggestion of George E Keneipp, chairman of the Transporta- tion Committee, the directors reiter- ated their stand in support of the ac- tion of the Public Utilities Commission installation of meters on TWO DEATHS ACCIDENTAL Certificates Issued Covering Fatal Falls of Capital Residents. ridental death were Coroner A. Magruder the case of who died yesterday morning as & result of a fall from a sixth story dow, and Leroy Gans, 19, who died vesterday from injuries Certificates of s ssued by Ac MacDonald yest Olin Lambert, 30 v a fall from a porch at his | k of Morse street ambert fell from his apartment sw in the 7600 block of Georgia e, apparently while walking in his sleep. Gans fell from a first floor porch Monday afternoon. MINSTRELS AT HOSPITAL Apollo Club to Entertain Patients at St. Elizabeth's. The Apollo Club Minstrels, headed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly of the Municipal Court, will present an enter- tainment tomorrow night at St. Eliza- beth's Hospital for the entertainment of the patients there. Several of Washington's entertainers have given their services for this show, which was presented at Walter Reed Hospital on St. Patrick’s day. Following its ntation at St. Elizabeth’s, the show fill be staged at Mount , the ' .Home and other 8.—Falsifica- | according to an audi- the |in Asbury Church. Scott Program To Be Given Monday, A PROGRAM of music by John Prindle Scott will be given next Monday evening at 8:15 o'clock at Barker Hall in the Y. W. C. A. Building. This program, which has been arranged by Mrs. Ches- ter Adair, will feature two choruses, a quartet, an en- semble group and several so- loists Among those taking part will be the Eliza- beth Somers Glee Club, un- der the direc- tion of Mary Burneit; the Chesapeake & Potomac Male Chorus, under the direction of Robert Davidson; an ensemble com- posed of Helen Turley, contralto: Willlam Santelman, violinist, and Edward Vaccaro. cellist; a quartet including Elsie Schulze, soprano Mary Apple, alto; William Shana- han, tenor, and Herman Fakler base (all under the direction of Claude Robeson): Oscar Kuldell, who will sing a baritone solo; Floyd Jennings, tenor; Robert Ruck- man,~ pianist; Helen Turley, con- tralto; Herman Fakler, baritone, and Ruby Potter, soprano. Guest accompanists for this event will include: Louis Potter, Claude Robeson, Helen Middleton and Mar- garet Morgan Harry. Helen Turley Soloist Ensemble At the Arts Club. BRIEF and beautiful program was given last evening at the COLORED CHURCH PARLEY 15 BEGUN Sixty-ninth Annual Session of Ashury M. E. Confer- ence Opens Here. Organization in preparation for the conduct of business today marked the formal opening of the sixty-ninth ses- sion of the Washington Annual Confer- ence in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, Eleventh and K streets. Bishop William F. MeDowell presided. |The Washingtoa Annual Conference takes in all the colored Methodist Epis- copal Churches in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Memorial _services were held this morning in honor of dead members of the conference. Business sessions and | McDowell were to be other features | today. { Lay Delegates Meet. | In addition to the meetings in As- {bury M. E. Church, a meeting of lay | delegates got under way this afternoon |in the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church, Eleventh and R streets. Ses- |sions are % continue through Satur- | day. { District Commissioner Luther H. | Reichelderfer addressed the delegates | last night at a meeting preliminary to the formal opening of the conference Addresses also | were delivered at the night session by a number of others in behalf of groups and organizations as follows: Dr. W. H. Thomas, M. E. Churches; Dr. R. W. Brooks, In- ternationl Ministers’ Alliance; Dr. E. C. Smith, Baptist Churches; Miss Nannle Burroughs, Federation of Women's Clubs; Frank D. McKinney, fraternal organizations; Dr. G. C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent of schools, in behalf of educational organizations, and Addison W. Chapman, in behalf of the local church. Response was made by Thomas 8. Tilden. Anniversary Session. An anniversary meeting of the board of the Epworth League also was held last night, at which an address of W come was delivered by J. W. H. Small- wood. Anniversary addresses were made at the latter meeting by Dr. A. P. Shaw, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, and Dr. N. E. Davis, secre- tary of the Board of Hospitals, Homes and Deaconess Work. CAPT. GORDON-SMITH TO LECTURE TONIGHT “Dick"” Douglas Will Describe Ex- periences on African Trip 1 at Y. M. C. A. Travel lectures by Capt. Gordon Gordon-Smith, military attache of the Jugoslavia_ legation, and Richard Douglas, Georgetown University senior who accompanied Martin Johnson to Africa, will be given tonight at the Central Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street | “capt. Gordon-Smith will speak on “Serbia to Jugoslavia,” at 8:20 o'clock in the assembly hall of the Y. M. C. A His lecture will be fllustrated with slides, Women as well as men are in- vited,| There will be no admission charge. | “Dick” Douglas, who wus one of three | Boy Scouts Explorer Johnson took With him into the African jungles a few years ago and who also has flown over an Alaskan volcano, will describe some of his experiences before the Phalanx Fraternity of the Y. M. C. A. at 8:40 | o'clock in room 219. |1t will be “guest night,” and Robert | Carrico, president of the fraternity, has extended & general invitation to young men to hear the lecture. KINDLER TO GIVE PLANS | Conductor of National Symphony to Address Women's City Club. Hans Kindler, conductor of Wash- ington’s Nstional Symphony Orchestra, will disclose plans for the orchestra's second season at a special meeting of {the Women's City Club, 736 Jackson | place, Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Kindler will | william Lee Corbin, president of the | clun. Arrangements were made by Mrs. Ralph F. Couch. chairman of the Music Committee. talk, members will be entertained by Miss Helen Donofrio, soprano, who will sing several selections, mccompanied at the plano by Mrs. Edith Virden Smith. | SALVATION ARMY HELPS Wwill Provide Free Information Service to Visitors. Pree information service to visitors to the Nation's Capital will be furnished until the close of the Bicentennial year by the Salvation Army, from its bureau at 1115 Pennsylvania avenue, it was an- nounced_today. An exhibit showing the Army’s work nurln"mthe World l"me . operations, prison activities and Sum- mer camp work will also be on display. an address to the conference by Bishop | in behalf of A.| be introduced by Mrs. | Following Kindler's | its industrial THE EVENING Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. Arts Club by the Soloist Ensemble of the Institute of Musical Art, Otto Torney Simon, director, assisted by Robert Ruckman at the piano. Mr. Simon, long an advocate of dim lighting, last evening had atmoe- phere in keeping with the music. A note on the program read, “Choral effects, as here represented, are the result of applied technique to emo- tional values. Subdued lighting may be an element of introspection and serenity for the audience.” How- ever the lighting affected the listen- ers last evening they were enthu- siastic over each number and at the close of the program insisted upon an encore. Mr. Simon has a well- balanced ensemble the colorful tone and effective shading being only enhanced by the clear enunciation of the singers. The opening number was devo- tional, Schubert's setting of the Twenty-third Psalm sung in the re- ligious spirit required Cesar Pranck's very beautiful setting of the 150th Psalm with its “Hallelujahs,” which rang out clear. was the only number last evening which stirred a feeling of exultation and left the hearer tingling. There was much same- ness to the program, the last two groups of the ensemble carrying out the same exquisite beauty, which leaves the hearer placid. At the close of the program Mr. Simon and his ensemble repeated the last selec- tion, Barratt's “Orpheus With His Lute,” from Shakespeare’s “King Henry VIIL" Mr. Ruckman played a group of solos, showing himself to be an ac- complished pianist as well as an excellent accompanist. He has one pronounced fault, a matter of care- lessness in the playing of his chords, his hands seldom striking the notes at the same time. K. B. STRIKING COLUMBIA STUDENTS BATTLE IFists and Eggs Fly on Cam- pus as Result of One- Day Walkout. | I | [ By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 6.—A group of Columbia University athletes wrested & 15-foot strip of crepe from more than twice as many striking students today in the first disorder attending the one- day strike in protest against the ex- pulsion of Reed Harris, editor of the Spectator, student newspaper. The strikers had proposed to use the crepe to tie a gag on the alma mater | statue in front of the university library and a rough and tumble scrimmage, in which some of the strikers suffered minor injuries, resulted. The athletes, who supported the stand | taken by Dr. Nicholes Murray Butler and Dean Herbert E. Hawkes in the explusion of Harris, apparently escaped unscathed. Barrages of Eggs. Speakers took their turns on - the steps of the library building to urge the students to join the strike. Some of them were targets for barrages of eggs thrown by opponents of the strike, several of the missiles struck the alma mater statue The scrimmage over the striy of crepe started short!: their posts at the entrances to the university buildings. About 200 stu- dents went to the library steps instead of to their classes. Arthur Goldschmidt, member of the Social Problems Club, which sponsored the one-day strike, mounted the pedestal of the statue “It s my sad duty to inform you that we are going to gag alma mater,” he shouted Then some one threw a bunch of sputtering firecrackers into the crowd, which momentarily scattered. A group of strikerr then produced the crepe. elderly watchman protested and at- tempted to take the crepe from the students. About 1% athletes, led by Shelley Wood, a senjor and substitute member of the crew, went to the support of the watchman, seizing one end of the crepe. About 25 strikers grabbed the other end and the scrimmage followed. Athletes Get Crepe. Some of the students were knocked down, and the glasses of one were broken. Howard Westwood, a law stu- | dent of Tecumseh, Nebra. alone re- | tained his hold on the crepe and was dragged more than 200 feet. His clothes were torn, but he got up smiling when forced finally to relinquish his grip. | The athletes disappeared crepe. Pist fights occurred spasmodically | elsewhere on the campus. Gerard Ker- |rigan. a freshman of New York, was | stopped by William Love, a junior, of Memphis, Tenn., as he started to enter Hamilton Hall for a class. A scuffie followed an attempt by Kerrigan to take an and both were suffering from bleeding noses when they stopped. Several of the professors today called off their classes because of the strike and others announced examinations had been postponed. Others conducted their classes | ZIONISTS WILL DISCUSS | - HOMELAND MOVEMENT | 3 | symposium to Be Presented at Jewish Community Center Tomorrow Night. | Prominent local Zionists will par- | ticipate in & symposium on the Jewish homeland movement at the Jewish Community Center, Sixteenth and Q streets, tomorrow night, it was an- nounced today. The development of Palestine from the establishment of the first two col- onies there a half century ago, to the World War period, will be discussed by Dr. Carl Goldenberg. Rev. Louls | Novick of the Sixth Street Synagogus | will outline the religious aspects of the | Palestine rehabilitation, while recent developments in the Holy Land will be | discuzsed by Ben Zion Emanuel of the Jewish Education _Association Open discussion by the audience will follow the scheduled talks, and an in- | vitation has been extended to the nub-| |lic to attend. e POLICEMEN ADDED Openings in Park Foree. |to the United States park police, leav- | ing five vacancies yet to be filled out of | the dozen created by the acquisition of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. | The other vacancies will be filled after | Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and Capt. R. C. Montgomery, police superintendent, have had an oppor- tunity to examine the candidates who have l{gur:ed. The new policemesgare George G. Fulcher. Willlam E. . and Vernon O. Goltry, after pickets took up. An | with ‘the | “on strike” tag from Love's lapel, | Three Appointments Leave Five| Cloud, 19, of 125 D street southwest, Three new members have been added | STAR, WASHINGTON, PLAN NEW CABINET IN . JOHN'S RIOT 'National Government Expect- ed in Newfoundland After | Mob Storms Premier. By the Associated Press ST. JOHNS, Newfoundlind, April 6. —Newfoundland was expected to resort to a national government today to pla- cate the mob which yesterday smashe: the windows of the House of Assembl. and. caused the precipitous flight into hiding of Premier Sir Richird Squires. Resignation of the Squires govern ment, the promise of which halted the’ angry mob's determination to throw the prem! into the harbor, had not' been recefved at 10 a.m. today. The suggested national government would be headed by F. C. Alderdice, present opposition leader. Sir William | Coaker, minister without portfolio in/ the Squires cabinet, was expected toy advise Gov. Sir John Middleton to ask | the Squires resignation. Meanwhile, with the>political future of the dominion in doubt, war veterans were banded to combat the mpb sway. ‘The ex-service men were called on to check pillaging after 10,000 men., women and children, howling that they would drown Sir Richard Squires, prime minister, in the harbor, con quered police and partly wrecked the House of Assembly of this British Do- minion. Liquor/ stores were looted. Several persons Were hurt Rescued by three clergymen, Sir Richard took refuge in an undisclosed place, and the mob was told he and his government had despatched their resignations. So far as known early today, however, no officlal resignations had been tendered. Series of Troubles. ‘The riot culminated a series of trou- bles, financial and otherwise, which rocked this colony, Britain's oldest, for months. Once before a mob, shouting demands for increased doles for the jobless, attacked and roughly handled the premier. The disturbance yesterday, which started at the Colonial House, but quickly spread over the city, resulted from a charge that Sir Richard falsi- fled Council minutes to facilitate transfer of public money to a political fund. Ten thousand strong, the citizens, numbering many unemployed, marched to the Colonial Building. crying for a “proper Investigation.” The mob grew sullen and then clamorous as its depu- tation encountered delay in gaining admittance. ‘Mountfes” tried to push the crowd back. A ragged man tore a police- man’s cape off. Drawing batons, the officers belabored the crowd, and in a | trice tumult roared Flinging sticks and stones, the mob forced police to re- treat. They smashed almost every win- dow in the buildfhg, crashed down | doors and tossed every movable object out of the basement, even a piano. Official Papers Thrown About. Official documents, tattered, littered the street. The librarian, Miss Morris, was hit by a stone. A bystander suf- fered a broken log. Constables Laite and Leyman were hurried to a hospi- tal e crowd’s rush was so violent it knocked a policeman’s horse off its | feet. Penned inside the building with the lice, the prime minister was rescued By two ministers and a_priest, who| the growling Later he One of | 1 escorted him through throng to a private house. 1eft the house by a rear door. his rescuers, Rev. W. A. Godfrey, had sponsored the resolution demanding that the charges against Sir Richard! be investigated. Resignation Announced. During the riot, it was announced from the steps that Peter Cashin, for- mer minister of finance, and Sir Wil- liam Coaker, minister without portfolio, had been sent to Gov. Sir John Mid- dleton to hand him the government's resignation. Later it was learned they | had asked the Governor to require the premier’s resignation. It was Cashin who mad= the charges | originally, in explaining his recent| resignation from the government Unemployment and budget deficits have had Newfoundland in hot water. Last December a new system of treas-| ury management, intended to keep ex- penditures down to receipts, was inaug- urated under experts from Great Brit- ain. Dissatisfaction with duties on food- stuffs end fishermen’s supplies was be- lieved to have added fuel to the crowd's unrest. PURPOSE OF PEACE . PARLEY EXPLAINED Director of Conference Addresses Women Assembled to Plan for Sessions. The purpose of the National Con- ference on International Peace, to be held here during the week of May 2, was explained yesterday by Dr. Arthur Deerin Call, director, at a meeting of about 40 women, representing various Washington organizations; which was called to plan for social activities in connectio: vith the conference. e meeting at the National Woman's Country Club, in Montgomery County, Md., where those who attended were guests of Mrs. Walter” R. Tuckerman. Dr. Call explained the relation of the American Peace Soclety, of which he is an officer, to the conference, which will consider the development of the objectives for which the American Peace Society has stood throughout the century of its existence. He sald the objectives are the maintenance of the objects for which America was founded —"the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'—as well as peace among nations. “The present conference,” he said, “is to enable thoughtful men and wom- en of the United States to take stock of their duties toward institutions for the establishment of international jus- tice, with particular reference to the elimination of international war.” INQUEST HELD IN KILLING OF TWO COLORED MEN One Shot in Fight and Another Blain in Alleged Attempt to Enter Home. Inquests were being held today in the deaths of two colored men, James Car- roll, 52, of 71 Fenton street, and both of whom were fatally wounded yesterday. Carroll, who died eafly today at| Freedman's Hospital, was shot in the face and chestin & fight at his home yesterday with Walter Mason, accord- ing to police reports. Cloud was shot to death while al- legedly breaking into a Southwest home. John B. Alexander, colored, 32, of 61, G street southwest, walked imto the had shot a man attempting to break. into his home. Officers went to his house and found Cloud dead in the D, C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932. Jane Addams Saw Far Remarks Concerning Unemployed Made in 1893 Found to Be Just as True Today as They Were Then. BY CARL SANDBURG. These sentences, spoken by Jane Ad- dams of Hull House, are portentous: “We have always known some people that were out of work: we have always | known many people who Wwere uncom- fortable, improperly housed, inadequate- ly fed and more or sed lest Jack curious _experfence when the majority our acquaint- of work; when people whom hav known only soci 1y, whom you kno: because their chi dren come to your clubs, or cause they come to your house as guests, when these peop come to you in tears and woeful distress. “And the curious part of it all, and that which sticks to you most cl 18 the mental suffering that is entaile The people are horribly harassed by fear of debt, by the thought that their children may get the impression t! their fathers and mothers are paup: “We can name people whom we h: known for years, without any me disturbance, who have gone insane dur- ing the last three months. I supp many business men have failed and glven way under the strain, but you may not know that the insane asy and the county poor house have nefer been so full.” Thus Miss Addams spoke before the Sunset Club of Chicago on the eve- ning of December 21, 1893 She 1- Jane Addams. closed with the plea to leading busi- | ness and professional men “We ought to come together and regard it as a common trouble, and we should consider not what shall we do with the unemployed, but what shall we and the unemployed do together, { that he may all as brothers grow into & wider and better citizenship.” In the swashbuckling novels it is often proclaimed, “The bold man takes what the timid one prays for” In real life this viewpoint shades off into another which counsels, “Be bold—but be not too bold” I think of an old Irishman who told me. “Go easy on how you chase after a thing you want For if you don't chase after it at all, at all it may come to you anyhow. And when it comes to be your own. your very own, it may mot be what you want at all, at all.” (Copyright. 1932. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) REDUCTION IN MARINES NEARING COMPLETION Recruiting Officer Expects Corps to Be Down to 15,343 Men * by July 1. ‘The Marine Corps will be down to its reduced strength of 15,343 for the com- ing fiscal year by July 1. Col. Julius S. Turrill, in charge of recruiting, said today only a few first enlistments of high school graduates are being made. mainly in the South. The service is obtaining its replacements by re-enlisting former Marines who have been discharged not more than three montks. The organization has been cut from its post-war strength of 18500 and is being graduzlly reduced to the figure of 15.343, where it is to be maintained indefinitely, under present plans. Nebraska Democrats Set May 5. LINCOLN, Nebr., April 6 (#.— Chairman T. S. Allen of the Demo- cratic Central _Committee yesterday announced the State convention would be held May 5 at Omaha. The Re blicans will convene in Lincoln the same day. (OUZENS DEFENDED AGAINST BLANTON Clancy Denies Senator Has $100,000,000 in Tax- Exempt Securities. By the Associated Press Representative Clancy, Republican, of Michigan, in acspeech inserted in the Congressional Record today, denied statements made by Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, that Sen- ator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, had “invested nearly $100,000,000 in tax-exempt securities and piys nothing in the way of income tax.” _ The assertions “are untrue and the implication that Mr. Couzens is not | public spirited and that he is avoiding obligations to the Government and to the people are without foundation,” Clancy said. “He is probably the most public spirited and philanthropic among all_the millionaires of the country.” Clancy said Couzens “earned his for- tune by the sweat of his brow and by | his brains,” and that the | Senator had given about $20,000,000 to | charity. “In the wet-and-dry debates in the House since this session opened. in December, posed to the eighteenth amendment and some have specifically charged that the purpose of the millionaires is to avold taxation and place the burden of taxation upon the poor,” he con- tinued. “It has been one of the most striking phases of the ‘soak-the-rich’ speeches and policies of some of the dry mem- bers of Congress. “One of the this attack is that certain dry mem- bers have singled out Henry Ford and | mentioned him by name on the floor of the House and have denounced him and his policies, whereas Mr. Ford is one of the few remaining millionaires who is issuing statements in support of bone-dry Nation-wide prohibition.” The difference. between the warmest and coolest months in equatorial regions is less than 10 degrees. Michigan | a number of dry members | have attacked millionaires as being op- | amusing features of | SHANGHA PARLEY - - STILL IN DEADLOCK Both Chinese and Japanese Stand Firmly by Their Demands. | By the Assoctated Press. SHANGHAL April 6.—Both the Chi- nese and Japanese who have been par- ticlpating in the armistice negotiations ihere for several weeks announced %o- night that their governments had in- structed them to stand firmly by their demands, and there appeared no im- | mediate prospect of a break in the | conference deadlock when the discus- sions are resumed tomorrew. Meantime, the armies in the flers | prepared for what might come if the truce negotiatios should collapse. There were hea movements into strategic positions behind both front (lnes and the Chinese reported that three full regiments had been brought up to reinforce their side. “China will not talk about political matters under the noses of Japan's big |guns,” one of the Chinese delegates | told the Assoclated Press, “and we will | attend no round table meetings until | the Japanese troops are back where they belong.” The military subcommittee was still occupied with the problem of the Japa- nese withdrawal and there were reports from Tokio that if the Chinese would agree to participate in a round table conference after the truce, they would be willing to fix a time limit for the withdrawal of troops. The Japanese delegates here said these reports were | “news” to them. The situation was further compli- cated by the discovery of what the Chi- nese called a “puppet” government in Chapei, that district which the 19th Route Army defended so stubbornly be- fore the Japanese drove them back and marched in. This organization calls itself the “Temporary Association for the Pres- | ervation of Order” and is composed of Chapei property owners organized with the sanction of the Japanese military authorities. MISS IT! SATURDAY IS THE LAST DAY! ADMISSION FREE NATIONAL "GENERAL WAYNE KING AND HIS ORCHESTRA " Today and Tomorrow Only a few more days in which to enjoy a visit to the spectacular General Motors Exhi itl Only a few more days to gfiend this truly thrilling event—lively, enter- taining, full of interesting things to see! Aftractive seftings, gay music, special features of unusual appeal invite you fo a most enjoyable experience. « » Here is a great parade of outstanding values — comprehensive, varied, WASHINGTON AUDITO THIS WEEK ONLY—10 AM.to11P.M. EXHIBITS MOTORS Friday and Saturday and decidedly worth while. Here is a brilliant revue— exceptionally complete—of new model Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, LaSalle and Cadillac motor cars. Included also are imporiant Fisher Body, AC Producis, Delco Household Appliances, and Frigidaire displays. <« » Join the crowdsl Come any time. But remem- ber, the Exhibit closes Saturday. Admission is free. RIUM 1STH AND E. STS. N. W.