Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1933, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, LEAGUE NAY FORE QUK TOKO ACTIN Japan Faces Conciliation at Once or Dismissal at Geneva. BY CONSTAN1INE BROWN. The League of Nations, encouraged by the reassertion of the American policy of non-recognition of territories acquired by armed force, has decided to make & short cut to the interminable Manchurian negotiations and adopt the Lytton report, in case Japan cannot present within the next 48 hours an | equally acceptable solution to the Far Eastern problem. This was the news received today | from Geneva where the Committee of | Nineteen began this morning discus- sion of the Sino-Japanese controvers: The adoption of the Lytton report, | Which is forecast by diplomatic observers | present at Geneva has two principal points which are not palatable to Ja- pan. First, the report finds that Ja- pan’s action since September 19, 1931, brand her as an aggressor, and second, that the new State of Manchukuo is a puppet state, set up by the Japanese | military, and does not actually repre- sent the desire of Ks inhabitants. Japan May Withdraw. ‘The adoption of the Lytton report by the Committee of Nineteen will be of | utmost importance. If Japan refuses | to accept the decision of the League, the Council will have to apply article 15 of the covenant, which provides for sanctions against the recalcitrant na- tion. ‘There is little likelihood that strong actions will be taken by the League. According to the observers at Geneva, it is possible that the Japanese may act 10 forestall the League, which is said | to desire to expell Japan from its mem- bership, and will withdraw from that organization shortly. Such a withdrawal will bring about complications, the most important of all being the cancellation of the man- date given Japan over the Pacific group of islands, at the end of the World War. ‘These groups include the Marshall, the Marianne and the Caroline archi- pelagos. There is of course still hope that the Japanese might become more con- ciliatory when they realize that public opinion the world over is against them | and that even those nations which here- tofore have been following & policy sympathetic toward Japan are now changing and adopting a hostile atti- tude. Roosevelt's Attitude. The major parties and especially Great Britain and France (Italy has al- ways been in sympathy with the Ameri- can point of view) have been greatly encouraged in hearing that President- elect Roosevelt is in full agreement with the policies of the Hoover administra- tion in regard to the Far East. Secretary Stimson visited Gov. Roose- velt in New York and discussed with him the Far Eastern question. Soon after this conversation the Japanese at- tacked and occupied Shanhaikwan. Secretary Stimson took advantage of this new act of the Japanese and - iterated that the policy of the United States as contained in his note of Jan- uary 7 had not changed. ‘This statement, widely circulated abroad, Jed the foreign governments to believe that Mr. Rocsevelt must have given his complete zpproval to Mr. Stimson's policies, othexwise the Secre- tary of State would not have taken the trouble to make such a definite and formal statement. H ‘The American Ambassadors and Min- isters abroad were made to understand the same thing, and they in turn in- formed the foreign governments that the Roosevelt administration will fol- low the same ipolicy in regard to Man- churia, while from private quarters the foreign rmments were told that Mr. Roosevelt may adopt even a stiffer policy than that of the Hoover admin- istration in the Far East. Simon Changes Stand. All these reports encouraged the for- eign governments, especially France and Great Britain, which had Already bzgun to lose patience with Japan after the latest activities of the Japanese army in China. ‘The British government always has been divided in regard to the Far East- ern policy. Ramsay MacDonald and Baldwin were in favor of supporting the United States, but met with a very stiff opposition from the secretary of state, Sir John Simon. The recent develppments in the Far East, however, changed the point of view of Sir John. The Japanese began invading territories where Great Brit- ain had important interests. The Brit- ish Ambassador at Tokio made friendly representations warning the Japanese government. These representatives were answered with the usual protestations of the Japanese foreign office that nothing was further from the mind of the govern- ment than to advance in a_territory where Great Britain has such impor- tant interests. But the British ob-| ervers on the spot reported that the Japanese Army was determined to fol- low without restraint whatever plans | Japanese general staff had decided | John Simon, W policy of sanctions the only policy which co: the League was to “put the screw” | Japan and terminate the long and | ks which have been going on opposed | decided that | be followed | Accept or Become Outcast. ‘The French governmenht t last election whict ught the oclalists into power, been favorable oward a strong policy toward Japan. The present premier, M. Paul-Bon- cour, is a strong League of Nations man and would do anything in his power o preserve the prestige and the po- itical efficiency of the League ma- nery. The smaller hations were from the beginning strongly in favor of a 1 of sanctions. With this set-up, the Committee of Nineteen began its discussions today apparently determined to put an end to the policy of procrastinations which has Iasted now for over a year, and take steps which will lead “either to Japan's acceptance of the world's ver- dict Ememm to her by a council of con: tion, or become, for a while at least, an outcast. since WOUNDED MAN HELD IN PROBE OF FIGHT Prisoner Refuses to Tell Police How He Received Injury to Head. Charles E. Nelson, 33, of the 1200 block of Oates street northeast, was held for investigation today while ninth precinct police sought to learn who he was fighting with early today when he received & wound on the head. Found on the street in front of his home, Nelson was taken to Casualty Hospital and treated for a cut on the forehead. He had more than $500 on his person at_the time and is said to have told police he had been to a gambling estab- sishment. He refused to name the per- son with whom he had beep fighting. Stricken by Heart Disease. Stricken by heart disease while wash- dishes in the kitchen at her home. 1914 H street, last night, Mrs. C. Reed, 65, died at Emergency Hospj- tal & few hours later. | budget and restore prosperity. treatment of dry speakers by the ra pected in the event of rej ISHEPPARD SOUNDS NEW CALL TO DRYS IN ANNUAL EULOGY Senator Assails Repeal Movement on Thlrteenth A nniversary of Prohibition. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. “The present movement for repeal of the eighteenth amendment obtained its principal impetus from the plethoric pocketbooks of & few millionaires, de- termined to shift the weight of taxation from their own shoulders to the masses, even if it doomed the masses to per- petual poverty and woe,” Senator Mor- ris Sheppard of Texas, author of the prohibition amendment told the Senate | today. The Texas Senator chose the thir-| teenth anniversary of national prohibi- tion in the United States to deliver his attack upon the wet movement. On Januaiy 16, 1920, the country was “dried up.” It has been the prncuce; of Senator Sheppard to sound & new call to the drys of the country on these anniversary days. A year ago he ad- dressed a Senate overwhelmingly dry.| Today he addressed a Senate prepared to pass a beer bill and to submit a new amendment to the Constitution re- pealing national prohibition. Some of his colleagues likened the Texan's speech to “a voice crying in the wilder- ness.” 3 Senator Sheppard declared himself flatly against the Democratic party'’s platform pledge to Tepeal the prohibi- | tion amendment. “I stated during my speaking trip in behalf of the Democratic ticket in the last campaign that I had not changed my views on prohibition, that I was op- posed to both Democratic and Republi- can planks on that subject, and that I supported the democracy on economic grounds,” said Senator Sheppard. A year ago Senator Sheppard an- nounced that he would support a resb- | lution to submit a repeal amendment if instructed to do so by his State primary. He insisted today that al- though the victory had gone to the wets in the Texas primary, it had been so merely because the drys had abstained from voting and that he did mnot feel himself bound, therefore, by the resuit. He said he was convinced that prohibi- tion, because of paid wet propaganda, could not get a fair hearing in the coun- try today and so he would vote against resubmission of the question. “Ordinarily,” said Senator Sheppard, “I favor the submission of any ques- tion to the people Whenever there is a genuine desire on the part of any sub- stantial number for submission. In- deed, I said as much in this Senate when speaking in behalf of the submis- sion of the eighteenth amendment, adding that I would vote for submis- sion, even if I were an anti-prohibi- tionist, in order that the matter might be decided by the proper tribunal. That situation, however, is no precedent for this. The present condition is the re- sult of paid propaganda and not of any spontaneous movement among the people. I am opposyd, therefore, to sub- mission under the pfesent circumstances | and at the present time. The country has been saturated with such subtle and such vicious misrepresentations regard- ing prohibition that it would be impos- sible to secure a fair hearing on the facts at this juncture. A feeling amounting almost to an obsession has been widely established to the effect that the return of liquor will solve the farm problem, conquer the depression, supply the needed revenue, balance the ‘The screaming mobs in the gallerfes of both the great party conventions at Chicago s a sample of the difficulty at this time of securing a fair and decent hearmgi for prohibition.” Discusses Primary Vote. With regard to the Texas primary, the Senator said: | “A so-called referendum on submis- | sion was held in connection with the | State-wide Democratic primary for the nomination of State officials in my, home State of Texas last year. The | drys ignored the referendum almost solidly. They voted for State officers, | but refrained almost entirely from vot- ing on submission. A State-wide meet- ing of Texas dry leaders advised the drys to take no part in the referendum on the very just ground that the sudden order for the referendum, without prio notice and within less than six weeks from the primary in which it was to be held, did not afford sufficient time for | proper presentation and discussion and | was resulting in widespread protest and | confusicn among Democratic voters. | Although practically unopposed and left | to dominate the situation, the forces for submission polled less than half the | entire primary vote, or 405,309 out of | 973041, The remaining 567,732 either did not vote at all on submission or | voted against submission. Of this last | number 450,114 did not vote at all on | submission and 117,618 voted against | have in a wet United States, on the killed on the roads of Great Britain in 1931 was 6,691, or about 18 a day. The number injured was 202,119, or about 561 a day. The authorities agree that the principal cause of these deaths and injuries is the legalized and regulated liquor traffic—the liquor traffic ‘brought injured in this country every year— like to say. There are approximately 1,500,000 motor vehicles in Great Britain, 26,500,000 in the United States. On the basis of the number of cars on the highways of both countries, we would same ratio, 113,000 killed and 3,400,000 justify but to demand its continuance. more than twice as many killed as we lost by battle deaths in the World War, nearly 10 times as many injured. In dry United States the number killed per annum by accidents connected with mechanical traffic is between a third and a fourth of the figure in wet Britain in proportion to the number of cars on the road. “Prohibition has made such progress in helping conditions as not only to Justify, but to demand its continuance, The figures and studfes of the Govern- ment indicate a decline in liquor con- sumption from an average of 23 gal- lons per capita in wet 1914, the last un- qualified wet year, with illicit drink in- cluded, to an average of 7% gallons in dry 1930, including illicit drink. Does any one with the good of the country at heart want to return to the former status? The claim of increased drink- ing is due to the fact that happenings among people of station and influence and their satellites are chronicled far and wide while the doings of the vast bulk of our inhabitants who earn a liv- ing with the labor of their hands never come into public notice. What a per- version of reason it is to say that be- cause the prominent few insist on breaking the law and becoming part- ners with the underworld drink must be forcedy’upon the ml(.isses wtth1 its accompanying poverty and degradation. Members of mmhl let.sg:penk of their little coteries as if they consti- tuted the Nation. Because they see drinking in their own circles they think the whole world drinks. “Everybody is going out of town,” they will say, for instance, of Washington in the early Summer, when, as a matter of fact, nearly 500,000 people are remaining in town and will stay in town. “No profounder disaster could befall this Nation than the surrender of an ideal, an ideal embodied in its basic la' proclaimed to all the world and demon. strated to be just. Run down the flag of prohibition and run up the flag of drink and the saddest transformation that ever marked the struggle of man- kind for its own redemption will have been achieved. It will be the first time this Nation ever abandoned a_principle or deserted a responsibility. It will be che first time this Nation ever muffled its drums and lowered its standards in retreat from a position once taken and shown to be right.” SHULER DETERMINED TO SEEK OFFICE AGAIN Will Run for Governor or Senator “to Retrieve Rights as Amer- ican Citizen.” By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 17.—Say- ing he would dedicate “ihe remainder of my life to retrieve my rights as an American citizen and salvage consti- tutional guarantees,” Rev. Robert P. Shulef last night announced he would become a candidate either for Governor or United States Senator from Cali- fornia “at the proper time.” Mr. Shuler said the United States Supreme Court decision keeping ~his radio station KGEF off the air partly prompted his determination to run again for public office, but that it was spurred also by recent pardons granted by Gov. James Rolph, jr., to violators i)( the Wright act, State prohibition a will carry this fight to the fin- | ,” he said. “At the proper time I| will become a candidate for Governor | of California or for the United States | Senate, my decision depending upon | what I conceive to be the most avail- | able route to the largest service in the hour of sore peril to which autocracy | and despotic infringement upon our rights and liberties have brought us.” THIRD STUDENT SLAIN BY POLICE IN HAVANA Officers Declare Victim Failed tol Heed Orders to Halt—Spanish submission. In my judgment, it cannot | be said that a vote of less than half the participants in that primary for| submission was such an indorsement as I am required by the Texas election|Mariano G. Gutlerrez, 20, the thirc | th In | student slain here in three weeks, was | ciliation efforts were futile and that the law relating to Senators to observe. my judgment, a majority of all of those | voting in the primary for all purposes was necessary before the referendum could be said to have been a represent- ative expression of the will of the pri- Jpary, voters and such an expression as | would be justified in follow®fg. In his plea for the retention of na- tional prohibition Senator Sheppard declared that “the repeal of prohibi- | tion would be the beginning of the dis- | memberment of the soul of America.” | He added that “prohiition marks an | advance in the application of Govern- ment and law to human rights of such significance as to justify every argu- ment for its retention in the Consti- tution.” | “To repeal prohibition is to put the right to appetite above the rights to| life, to liberty and to happiness in their true significance,” the Texan said. “The danger to the United States of a return to legalized alcohol capnot be woverstated.” o Senator Sheppard said in effect that in this age of machinery, alcohol will not mix. In addition, he declared that the problem today is to feed the peo- ple, to care for the vast number of unemployed, not to give them intoxi- cvating beverages. development, of the machine and pro- hibition had gone side by side to make the greatest era of prosperity the coun- try had ever seen. Collapse of Prosperity. “It was marked,” said Senator®Shep- pard, “by the greatest efficiency and the largest pay for the individual worker the world has ever witnessed. Next came the collapse, due to speculation, which made the Mississippi bubble and the tulip craze conservative in com- parison; and a time of loss, stagnation, want and unemployment that might well have been succeeded by revolu- tion and by chaos had tne liquor| traffic been in operation on & legalized | basis. Liquor propagandists, bounti- fully financed, capitalized the general dissatisfaction and depression to start & movement against prohibition, & movement artificial in its character, venal in its origin, and false in its representations. As a result of that movement declarations appeared in| both party platforms for repeal or| alteration of the eighteenth amend- ment and resolutions are now pending in Congress to that effect. These declarations had no place in political party platforms, because prohibition is | Bok @ party question. ‘As an indication of what may be ex- al, observe the accidents on the highways of wet Great Britain. The number of persons He sald that the| Citizenship Claimed. HAVANA, Cuba, January 17 (f). turied yesterday. | He was shot Sunday night when, | police said, he and two others failed to heed the officers’ orders to halt, and, instead, opened fire on ihe police. His two companions escaped, apparently unhurt, but Gutierrez was shot in the return fire. The shooting occurred after police had searched a house, in which, they said, they found arms and ammuni- tion, and which the trio was about to enter. Relatives family was Spanish. Charge d’Affaires Rafael Forns of the Spanish embassy said Jater he had established the| youth’s Spanish citizenship and “an| ample investigation of the killing” would be made. SCOUT TROOP ELECTS Sandy Spring Unit Namnes David Brigham Patrol Leader. Special Dispatch to The Star. | _SANDY SPRING, Md., January 17.— Qfficers were elected by Boy Scout p 230 at the home of Theodore Beall in Ashton, with John Bancroft, the Scout Master in charge. Davié Brigham was elected patrol leader of Beaver Patrol, assistant pa- | trol. Arthur Cashell; ' Flying Eagle Patrol leader, Hilton Ladson; assistant patrol leader, Henry Benson; Troop Scribe, Richard Lansdale, jr. HUSBAND IS MISSING Brentwood Wife Asks Police to Hunt Missing Spouse. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 17.— Mrs. Clara Duncan, 3740 Dewey street, Brentwood, today asked county police to search for her husband, David Dun- can, 4l-year-oild World War veteran ’lnd taxi driver, who has been miss- ing since Sal 3 who is im | sies in London and Paris. | D L s era), | o e Hikk y et g thei‘rummond, League secretary gener: [LEAGUE EXPECTED T0 JUDGE DISPUTE End of Conciliatory Attitude Toward Japan Attributed to U. S. Influence. _ (Continued From First Page.) best friend on the League Council,| stated flatly that unless Japan produced } by tomorrow satisfactory proposals for a settlement, the League would have to drop conciliation and pass on to Judz-i ment. | He was immediately supported in this | stand by the French representative, Rene Massigli. Every one was taken aback, and the little powers, which all along had been wanting the League to act, were pleased.” Thus says the newspaper Paris-Midi today: “It is perceived that the United States, though not a member of the League of Nations, is able to force a decision on the states, great and small, at Geneva.” Present Situation. The technical sitdation now appears to be as follows: % Japan will make no satisfactory pro- posals at tomorrow’s meeting. China will protest. A move will be made to recommend and judge without a further hearing of the two parties. The committee will adjourn to con- sider, Sir John Simon will leave imme- diately for London to lay the situation before a meeting of the British cabinet. The discussion will be resumed, prob- ably without Japan or China, & few days hence. There may even be a new Special Assembly next week. The League sophistry, that the events in Manchuria and China are not in the nature of a war or an aggression, but are merely a dispute, will be main- tained, but the members now at last will be obliged to maxe up their minds as to what, they think regarding the right or wrong in this dispute. This will net be easy. Both the Brit- ish and French cabinets are understood | to be divided on the subject. Meanwhile, it has apparently been demonstrated that even in the present exceptional interim and circumstances, the United States can continue to have a foreign policy and defend its inter- ests effectively, provided President Hoo- ver ¢nd President-elect Roosevelt agree. Much interest has been aroused abroad by the report that President-elect Roose- velt is seeing Norman H. Davis, who has served abroad as a personal envoy of the administration, on Thursday in connection with the Disarmament Con- ference, the bureau of which reconvenes in Geneva on Monday. (Copyright, 1933.) FIRMER POLICY EXPECTED. Sir Eric Drummond Says Hope of | Conciliation Is Small GENEVA, January 17 (#).—All sorts of stories were circulating today alleg- ing American influence in the League of Nations' Committee of Nineteen's shift in favor of a firmer policy to- ward Japan. Geneva newspapers reported recent contacts between Washington repre- resentatives and foreign offices in London and Paris, at which an Ameri- | can desire to expedite the League pro- cedure in dealing with the Sino-Japa- nese controversy was reputedly con- veyed. | Hugh R. Wilson, American Minister | to Switzerland, and other American | officials here have been in close touch | with League authorities the past few days and Wilson received from Sir Eric Drummond, the League secretary gen- eral, an account of yesterday's com- mittee discussions. { At that meeting the committee ad- mitted possibility of conciliation in the Manchurian controversy was extremely small and prepared to adopt a firmer policy with- regard to the Japanese activities in Manchuria. It will re- convene tomorrow for a final attempt to reach & settlement on a conciliatory basis. The apparent change in attitude of | British and Fronch members of the committee created a sensation. Some | persons attribtued it to American in- fluence, but others said the chanke was due to developments in the Far| East, including the occupation of the Chinese city of Shanhaikwan by Japa- nese troop: JAPAN BARS NON-MEMBERS. Conciliation Sicps Taken As Tokio | Troops Bomb Chinese in Jehol. | TOKIO, January 17 (%) —Foreign Minister Uchida, with approval of the cabinet, instructed the Japanese dele- gation at Geneva today to insist that the Drummond formula be changed to ! omit_invitations to non-members of | the League of Nations to a conciliation | commission to deal with the Manchu- rian issue. The Japanese newspapers featured | cable dispatches attributing a renewed anti-Japanese atmosphere at Geneva to the activities of the American embas- Japanese officials expressed the view at news from Geneva indicated con- assembly shortly would proceed toj frame a report in accordance with! paragraph 4, article 15, of the League Covenant, the nature of which would determine whether Japan would quit the League. This part of the Covenant provides | that, when conciliation reports fail in a controversial matter between nations, a report be drafted on such a conflict| with a recommendation for League action. The formula attributed to Sir Eric uld provide that the Committee of | Nineteen issue z general invitation to non-members of the League to partici- pate in conciliation. This was to sub- stitute for a previously drafted proposal to extend the invitations particularly to the United States and Russia. Japan also opposed the previous proposal. Chinese Troops Bombed. ! Japanese airplanes bombed Chinese | troops in the Kailu district in North-! east Jehol Province Monday for the| second successive day, it was learned here today. Japanese reports from Tungliao, the Japanese barracks near the Jehol- Manchurian border, told of the air/ attack. Japanese military leaders expressed he view that the air bombings plus| internal discords” were breaking up the Chinese volunteer concentration at that point. This, they believed, was preventing a contemplated attack on Tungliao by the Chinese. After the first Japanese air raid Sun- day, the Japanese residents of Tungliao, an important railway center, were or- dered to seek safety within the Japa- nese barracks, because a Chinese coun- ter attack was anticipated. The largest Chinese army in Jehol province to defend that northern gate- way to the ancient capital of Pelping and the Mongolia interior a projected Japanese in conlunmtlnz in the Kailu district sev- eral 2 Movéments of Japanese troops also indicated it a principal scene of activity in their campaign to annex Jehol to the state of Manchukuo, set up in Man- churia the Ji b by lapanese. center at | can is still ering | leg injuries received during i Victoria’s Coach Preserved. and Kallu, directly lu, northern gateway miles | was cited for heroism and was awarded Soldier Dies MAJ. GEN. GEORGE C. RICKARDS. BEN. 6. C. RICKARDS DIES AT AGE OF 71 First Chief of Militia Bureau Expires at Home in 0il City, Pa. Maj. Gen. George Collins Rickards, 71, first chief of the Militia Bureau, died Sunday at his home at Oil City, Pa., it was learned at the War Depart- ment today. Gen. Rickards was one of the 10 major generals who acted as pallbearers at the funeral of President Harding. He also was a pallbearer at the burial of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Headed Militia Bureau. Following the adoption in 1920 of the national defense act, which created the Militia Bureau to administer National Guard affairs headed by National Guardsmen, Gen. Rickards received the appointment as first chief and took of- fice on July 1, 1921. He retired as chief after completing his four-year term. When President Wilson called out the National Guard for duty on the Mexican border, Gen. Rickards sold his private business and prepared to spend the remainder of his life in the vice. He dévoted more than 40 years to the National Guard, having been one of its most distinguished general officers. Cited for Heroism. During the World War, Gen. Rickards the Distinguished Service Medal. He received shell wounds in 1918 while commanding the 56th Brigade of the 28th Division in the Argonne. Besides his service with the Pennsylvania Na- tional Guard, he had spent eight years in the Federal service. As chief of the Militia Bureau, Gen. Rickards lald down the vital policies that have meant so much to the con- tinuous growth of the National Guard in this country. No announcement was made regarding plans for his funeral. HOLY SHROUD MAY BE PUT ON.PUBLIC EXHIBITION King of Italy Consents to Display and Pope Pius’ Permission Is Expected. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, January 17—The holy shroud in which the body of Christ_is said to have been wrapped after the crucifixion probably will be exposed to public view in connection with the Holy year celebration, it was said in semi-official circles yesterday. The shroud, which has been the prop- erty of the Iialian ruling house in the last five centuries, is kept in a marble jewel-studded case in a cathedral in Turin. King Victor Emanuel is understood to have given his consent to plans for showing the shroud publicly. Msgr. Maurilio Fossati, archbishop of Turin, came to Vatican City to confer with Pope Pius, whose consent to the pro- posal is considered likely. The shroud was last exposed in 1931 after being kept from the public view for 32 years. MISSING FLYER FOUND Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot Forced Down Last Friday. OTTAWA, Ontario, January 17 (#)— Word was received here yesterday of the finding of Sergt. Purgis of the Royal Canadian Air Force, who had been lost in Northwestern Ontario since Friday. Sergt. Purgis was transporting a plane from Camp Borden to Winnipeg and made a forced landing at Sturgeon Bay. He was found by searching parties in three planes and was taken to a hospital at Sioux Lookout, Ontario, suffering from frostbite and exposure. command of Gen. Chu Ching-Lun. i ‘The Japanese military leaders justi- fied their activities in that section of Jehol as anticipating raids by the Chi- nese on the railroads. Gen. Chu's army included “Red Spears” and “Big Swords.” The Japa- nese described these as motley volunteer outfits which straggled across the north- | ern Jehol border after the Japanese crushed the uprisings of Gens. Ma Chan-Shan and Su Ping-Wen in North- western Manchuria. The Japanese asserted several days ago these forces were preparing to at- tack the railway station a¢ Tungliao and the Japanese air raids on Kailu fol- lowed. ‘This evening the war office issued a statement declaring alarmist reports to the effect that China is preparing for a | large-scale war against Japan were Chinese propaganda intended to fright- en Western powers into the belief that a world war will result if nothing is done to prevent a Sino-Japanese con- flagration. The statement warned the Chinese that such propagandist activities are like playing with loaded guns and might actuaily produce a war, in which case the full responsibility would be that of China. When you have rioney invested in our 6% First Mortgages -you are ar- ranging for a definite in- come, the rate of which will not change during the life of the mortgage. May be purchased in amounts from $250 up. B. F. SAUL CO. National 2100 925 15th St. N.W. ANUARY 17, 193 RULING AWAITED ON RADI PATENTS Supreme Court Weighs Claim of Federal Government to Inventions. The United States Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision shortly in a contest involving title to valuable patents enabling the operation of radio receiving rets by ordinary house electric currents, after the case was placed in the hands of that tribunal yesterday. Solicitor General Thacher concluded the cral argument he began Priday to sustain the Government’s claim to three patents granted Percival D. Lowell and Francis W. Dunmore and assigned by them to the Dubilier Condenser Corpo- ration. He insisted the patents were con- celved by the inventors while in the employ of the Bureau of Standards and while engaged in research work. The inventions represented a natural de- velopment of the. work assigned them, he said. He insisted the Government’s title to the patents did not require a specific assignment to the employes of resarch to make the particular inven- ticns, James H. Hughes, jr., in urging the court to rustain the decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in deny- ing the Government's claim, contended it would require a new construction of the law to hold that one employed as a research expert was employed to invent. He asserted the Government could claim title to inventions conceived under a specific contract of employment and denied the two Government em- ployes were assigned specifically to per- form work requiring inventicns. a value! Says: I really started some action when I said I'm going to clear out EVERY OVERCOAT in stock at one ‘swoop.’ EVLERY OVERCOAT m the house at one final Price [9 I figured that a lot of men were waiting for me to “‘shoot” the gun off . . . and $19.75 for ANY OVERCOAT is really the “works” - . . this store looked like a bee hive all day long Monday ... and if values advertise themselves, there’ll be a fresh crowd today. But it takes more than a couple of crowded days to “break” a stock of Overcoats the size of ours and you fellows who haven’t been in yet can be sure of a coat for any occasion . and believe me, brothers, at $19.75 it will pay you to buy one, even if you have to send it to the “moth balls” 'til next year. MRS. VAN WINKLE'S FUNERAL TONIGHT Founder and Former Chief of Wom- en’s Bureau of Police Department to Be Buried in Jersey. Funeral services for Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, founder and former director of the Woman’s Bureau of the Metro- politan Police Department, will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock at Hysong's parlors, 1300 N street. The body will be taken to East Orange, N. J, for burial. Mrs. Van Winkle died yesterday after an illness of more than a yesr. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Hilda Ginger, and two sisters, Migs Frances H. Ginger and Mrs. Arthur Lesser -of Maplewood, N. J. A nationally-known social service worker, Mrs. Van Winkle came to Wash- ington in 1918 2nd established the Wom- an's Bureau during the administration of the late Raymond H. Pullman, then.the major and superintendent of police. She met with much opposition in the development of the bureau, and the fact that it remains today as an im- portant adjunct to the Police Depart- ment is due to her untiring and cease- less efforts to prevent its abolition. Mrs. Van Winkle alto was a former president of the International Asso- ciation of Police Wemen and was recog- nized as America’s outstanding authority on women in police work. She was re- tired from the Police Department last gunlut:lry on account of her failing ealth, LEGITIMATE STAGE CHAIN ORGANIZATION FORMED Washington Included in Plans for 24 Consecutive Weeks of Shows. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 17.—A group of producers, playwrights and business men formed an organization here yes- terday to present Broadway theatrical productions on & chain of 25 cities. This new group, the Union Theater League, named as president, Morris Green, well known manager who produced “Desire Under the Elms,” “The Greenwich Vil- lage Follies,” “The Dubarry” and “Rain or Shine.” Operating on a subscription member- ship plan, the group plans to send out plays and musical comedies on a unit basis so that each city will have 24 consecutive weeks of shows. 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