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ARBITRARY BUDGET SLASH THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933. “Not a Bad Boy” *% A3 IMATSUOKA CLAIMS GOVERNOR BATTLES | | SPLIT OVER MAYOR Rumored Comeback Attempt of “Big Bill” Thompson Creates Stir. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 29.—With the presence of “Big Bill” Thompson in the background, Chlcagtfi political factions appeared today to be split wide open over the selection of a world fair mayor. A bill before the State Legislature which would authorize the City Coun- cil to elect from outside its own mem- hip a mayor to serve out the un- expired term of Anton J. Cermak was the chief point of contention. Sponsored by Gov. Henry Horner and Democratic National Committeeman P. A. Nash, the bill would provide means of selecting a chief executive until 1935. Also, it has provided the grounds for a free-for-all battle with no holds berred. Mayor Pro Tem. Already the Council has elected from Its membership a mayor pro tem. He is Alderman Frank J. Corr, retiring, lit- tle publicized character until he suc- ceeded Cermak, the victim of an as- sassin’s bullet meant for President Roosevelt. Charges made in the Legislature at Springfield that a group of Democrats had undertaken to elect a picked can- didate without giving the public a voice in the matter resounded in Chicago to- day. éne of the allegations made in the Legislature was that before Corr was elected the Democrats obtained his sig- nature on a resignation for use at any time. The Democrats denied it vigor- ously. lele bill received 70 votes in the State House of Representatives yester- day, with 102 needed for passage as emergency legislation. The Senate adopted an identical measure, 42 to 2. Sponsors expressed confidence the needed votes would be obtained when it is called for another ballot in the House. Remains in Background. ‘Thompson so far has remained far in the background, but reports have been current that he was planning a political comeback. Regarding a personal candi- dacy his oft-repeated statement in last Fall's campaign was recalled: “I will be ready when Chicago needs me again as mayor.” As for the possibility of other candi- dates, they are legion. To mention a few—Charles E. Merriam of the Uni- versity of Chicago, veteran fighter for low public utility rates; Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton, Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, Alderman Oscar Neilson, long a stanch supporter of Thompson; Alderman John S. Clark, Judge Daniel S. Trude and National Committeeman Patrick Nash. "DEAN TO ADDRESS PRINCETON ALUMNI Minerals’ Vital Influence on World Politics to Be Discussed by Dr. Hugh §. Taylor. Distribution of the mineral resources of the earth as a prominent factor in the problems of international friend- ships and hatreds will be emphasized by Prof. Hugh S. Taylor of the faculty of Princeton University, speaker and guest of honor at the lunchecn of the District of Columbia Princeton Alumni Association tomorrow. The luncheon will be held at 12:30 o'clock at the Univer- sity Club. Dr. Taylor is dean of the department of chemistry at Princeton and is in ‘Washington to attend the eighty-fifth annual meeting of the American Chem- ical Society. Variations in the natural mineral re- sources of the political divisions of the world will be shown by Prof. Taylor as causes of disturbed politics, heavy taxa- tion and of marked fluctuations in ex- ports and imports which lead to tariff changes affecting the interrelationships of peoples. Inasmuch as it is the synthetic products of chemists which tend to equalize these disparities in Tesource, laboratories hold the key to future world power, according to the distinguished dean. NATIONAL PARK DINNER TO BE GIVEN APRIL 9 Secretary of the Interior Ickes and the director of the National Park Serv- ice and Mrs. Horace M. Albright will be guests of honor at a National Park dinner to be given the evening of April 9 at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Ickes is unable to attend, being detained by her duties as member of the Illinois General Assembly. Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Association, and Mrs. Delano will be host and hostess. ‘The dinner is to be held in connec- fion with the annual meeting of the executive board of the association. Officials of the park service will be spe- cial guests. There will be a program including exhibits and illustrated talks on the scenic, geological, biological and archeological aspects of national parks and monuments. SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR ELEGTRICAL REPAIR SERVICE. CALL The ElecMic Shop on Wheels. Inc. and a complete electric shop will be brought to Sour door. Wis. 4821, LONG-DISTANCE, MOVING BETWEEN A Eastern points. _“Service since 1890." vidson's Transfer & Storage Co. 1117 &t._n.w. _Nat. 0060. NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE American ‘Security and Trust Company has declared & dividend of two per cent on its Capital stock of $3,400.000. payable April 10th, 1933, to the stockhoiders of record at the close of business on March 31st. 1933. CORCORAN THOM, President. FREDERICK P. H. SIDDONS, e " Secretary. NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN OF THE DIS- solution of the partnership existing between Richardson A. Baker and Louls Busse, trading as Crown Heating Service. Al per- sons having claims submit same to James D. McQuade, Attorney at Law, 515 Trans- Portation Building. RICHARDSON A. BAKER, o LOUIS_BUSSE. Persons in hell! More women or men? E. Hez Swem. Pastor. Sun. 8 pm. Baptism. Centennial Bap. Ch.. 7th & Eve n.e. 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ed by any other than myselt 1 on. ELLESMERE L. " from March 5 . DUNN. 141 Adams st. D.W. i DAILY TRIPS, FULL AND PART LOADS; Baltimore, Philadelphia. New York, Boston, 5 points; unexcelled WINDOW DRESSER—SH( —specializing_ladies’ and men's sonable prices. Phone Lincoln 591 man_Applestein. . BE SURE TO SEE THE NEW $08.00 KEL- ‘winator Refrigerator. A model to suit every purse. Sold on easy payments. . J. DeMoil & Co.. 12th and G. 3ie ARCH 30 FROM PHIADELPHL WeRIL “1 ROOFING TINNING HEATING F. M. Amberger, Inc. Registers Plumber, D. C.. Md. 701 Wisconsin_Ave. Cil Gas Range Repairing Complete Service. Lowest_Prices. THE DALY-HOPPER CO. o 1802 11th St. N.W. North 3976. ARCHITECTS = owners, all know the oonomical hz‘:';u? of placing their or- ders_with this relial us! OONS #5 le firm. ~Consult us! ING 933 V 8t. N.W. COMPANY North 4423 WOULD HOARD 3 SURPLUS D. C. FUNDS IN TREASURY (Continued From First Page.) money expended through the District appropriation bill is paid by local tax- payers. Not orie penny of it constitutes a natlonal expenditure. To cut it down, as the Budget Bureau proposes to cut it down does not diminish by a cent the national expenditures, does npt relieve in the least the national taxpayer from any part of his heavy tax burden and does not help in the slightest to bal- ance the Federal budget. No Tax Reduction Promised. None of the purposes of the Presi- dent’s. economy pregram is satisfied by its application to the District appro- priation bill, so far as the millions con- tributed by the local taxpayers are con- cerned, and it should not be applied at all to them. If a cut is made in the appropriations of the local tax money, the reason far the cut should be that expenditures of the local tax money have been extrav- agant and wasteful, that the amount cf tax money exacted from the local tax- payers to meet these excessive outlays is too great, and should be reduced, and that local taxation would, as a result of these cuts, be reduced. But no reduction of local taxation is | promised by the Budget Bureau cuts On the contrary, various schemes have been discussed in Congress by which to plaster the local taxpayers with addi- tional taxation at the very time when a larger number of them than ever before are unable to meet their tax bills. The effect of the cuts proposed by the Budget Bureau is to take several millions—the estimated amount is some- thing over $9,000,000, not including the revenues from beer taxation, which may reach $300,000—of the local tax- payers' money, unless local taxes are cut, and to hoard them in the National Treasury, where they can be used by no- body, either by the President to balance the national budget or by the com- munity for the promotion of commu- nity welfare. The cuts proposed by the Budget Bureau, if carried into effect, would result in the discharge of men already at work, the prevention of employment- giving and necessary public works. And all of this great wiping out of useful, decently paid employment is being pro- posed in a bill which carries more than a million dollars for the care, at the rate of about $3.50 a week per family, of those who are unable to get work. More iron- ical still is the fact that employment- creating and municipal-benefiting jobs are stricken from the District bill, while vast schemes are set afloat in other leg- islation proposing the utilization of idle men at public expense in tree planting and other forms of reforestation. If the Budget Bureau recommendations are carried into effect, the District will be well represented in the camps of the unemployed tree planters. Alternatives Presented. The Budget Bureau has presented Congress with the choice between two alternatives. One is to pile up in the Treasury an idle fund of $9,200,000 of unspent Jecal revenues. The other is to effect a reduction of local taxation in the next fiscal year amounting in the maximum to $9,200,000. And there is a third alternative—not presented by the Budget Bureau, but which may be chosen by Congress— which is the appropriation of money to be raised by local taxation on nec- essary community enterprises. As the figures stand today, the esti- | mates are so framed that if the present rate of taxation is continued and the Budget recommendations enacted into law as framed, the District would have three idle surplus funds in the Treas- ury at the end of the next fiscal year as follows: 1. A surplus from general revenues amounting to $6,200,000. 2. A surplus from gasoline tax rev- enues amounting to $1,800,000. 3. A surplus of water revenues amounting to $1,200,000 (even allow- ing for the proposed refund of 10 per cent to those fortunate and comfortably fixed taxpayers Wwho can pay their water taxes on time). As a matter of plain common sense, these potential surplus resenues should either be appropriated on necessary public work, or taxes should be so re- duced that the revenues will not have to be raised. If local taxpayers were given the op- portunity (which so far is denied them) to decide between spending the money to be produced in the next fiscal year by a continuation of the present rate of taxation, or of being given the bene- fits of a reduction in taxation, they would probably decide in favor of tax reduction. Government salaries have been re- duced (or will be on April 1) by 15 per cent. Salarles of employes in all branches of local industries, as well as the professions, have been reduced, many of them as high as 50 per cent. There is the greatest local army of unemployed in the history of the city. ‘Taxes Hold Rents Up. A few days ago the Department of Labor prqduced figures to show that the cost of living since 1928 has de- creased by 21 per cent for Washing- ton as compared with 23 per cent for the Nation at large. Local rents were said to have decreased only 6 per cent as campared with a national reduction in rentals averaging 24 per cent. One reason why rents have been maintained at a relatively high level in Washington is that Government pay of employes was not reduced as early as the pay reductions throughout in- dustry at large, in other cities of the country. But another reason is found in the 1|fact that local real estate taxes have maintained the high level of the Pprosperous years with virtually no re- duction, except in scattered points, in the assessment. Here is what has happened to local .| real estate assessments since 1928: veeesese...$1,118,093,162 «eee 1,138,057,905 1,182,463,345 1,211,162,618 1932 1,226,691,948 1933 . 1,229,359,566 In other words, the assessment level 1928 ... 1929 . 1930 1931 on which taxes are based has been steadily increasing. Some of the in- crease, of course, is accounted for by new construction. But for the last few years new construction has been at a minimum. The remarkable thing in Washington is that there has been an increase in assessments instead of a drastic decrease. Most home owners know from bitter experience that their real estate taxes today, when sales are few and far between and property values are depreciated, are as high, if not higher, because of the unyielding assessment, as in 1928 and 1929, at the peak of prosperity, when values were inflated and the market in real estate was relatively active. Owners of busi- ness properties have found, from bitter experience, that the voluntary—not forced—sales price for property today is in numerous cases below the figure at which the property is assessed for taxation purposes. Tax-Delinquent List Mounts. It is going to be a practical impos- sibility, with reductions in salaries and increasing local unemployment, for many home owners to meet fixed charges on home purchase and at the same time pay their taxes. The mu- nicipality has the highest tax-delin- quent list in history today, and nobody to buy up the tax titles. The law of diminishing returns, in relation to the real estate tax, is beginning to assert itself with a vengeance, There should be relief. It should be relief afforded through assessment downward of real estate properties, and possibly through reduc- tion in the real estate tax rate. This rate is comparatively low among the cities. It is the target for uninformed attack by members of Congress who seem to think that tax rate and tax burden are synonymous. The reason for Washington's relatively low tax rate is because of the excessively high as- sessment at 100 per cent, demanded by law and rigorously enforced by a con- scientious tax assessor who must defend his assessments before every session of Congress. There is no reason why the real| estate tax rate should not be reduced. The Budget Bureau has cut appro- priation estimates to the point where, | if Congress followed them, the District’s | expenditures from general revenues| would be reduced below the level of the fiscal year of 1925. ‘The Budget Bureau proposes expendi- | tures from general revenues for the| next fiscal year of $28,037,800. The | general revenue appropriations for the fiscal year 1925 were $31,175,672. The tax rate for the current fiscal| year is $1.70. In 1925 the rate was $1.40. In 1925 the real estate assessment | was $819,625,572. | In 1933 the real estate assessment is $1,229,259,566. | Ten cents in the real estate tax| rate produces $1,800,000. 30-Cent Cut Reasonable, With a potential surplus of general | Tevenues amounting to $6,200,000, the real estate tax rate could be cut by 30 | cents, or to the level of 1925, and there would still be a balance in the general Tevenues of approximately $1,600,000. | But there is in addition a gascline tax surplus, if the present rate of taxation is continued and the budget estimates prevail, amounting to $1,800,- 000. This money is not available for anything else than street and road im- provement. A 2-cent gasoline tax yields about $1,992,709 a year. If gaso- line tax money is to be unused and is to lie idle in the Treasury, why not cut the tax in half and save the tax- payers at least $996,354? There would still be a comfortable surplus of un- used gas tax revenues. The water fund surplus will amount to $1,200,000. A few years ago Con- gress boosted water taxes 25 per cent | in order to carry out some betterment work that would improve the system. Now the betterment work has been halted. The water fund money can be use for nothing except for im- provements to the water system. If the improvements are not made, why tax the property owners? Congress graciously permitted, in the defunct ap- propriation bill now revived by the Budget Bureau, a 10 per cent discount for the fortunate water-tax payers able to pay their bills on time. Why not extend some benefit to the unfortu- nate water-tax payers who, because of their various misfortunes and mishaps, may not be able to pay their bills on time? They are the ones who stand in greatest need of relief. Their water taxes could be cut by a comfortable margin, and still leave unused water funds impounded in the Treasury while unemployed ditch diggers draw their weekly $3.50 from the Board of Public Welfare's unemployment relief fund. A drastic reduction by 26 per cent of municipal expenditures, even though it carried with it a needed reduction in taxes, however, is not a wholly desirable thing for the community, It means additional unemployment. It means the Postponement of public works. It means curtailment of municipal services, the closing of libraries, the crowding of schools. the loweging of all standards in municipal work. It means that the taxpayer who is saved a few dollars one year in his annual tax bill by tax reduction is going to be forced to fork those dollars out in another form to care for those who have been thrown out of work when municipal activity ceases. The task facing Congress is to find, first, whether the proposed reduction of the Federal contribution to Wash-] ington, without any commensurate re- duction in the Federal obligation to Washington, is justified to the extent proposed by the Budget Bureau, and on what grounds; second, if there is reduction of the lump sum on the ground of national economy needs to compensate the local taxpayer by some relief from his high taxes, and, third, to provide for the wise expenditure of what revenues remain to prevent the crippling of the city and the throwing of additional hardships on taxpayers whomflresdybuindlfl'l'lth_ hardships. | ordinance was not effective. | published in the City Bulletin. The | fleet, | struments of precision_controlling an | CINGINNAT'S LAWS Council Called for Action to Save Invalidations Running Back to 1927. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, March 29.—Cincinnati officialdom was thrown into consterna- tion last night by a new ruling of the Ohio Supreme Court, which threatens to invalidate every city ordinance en- acted since 1927. ‘The court refused to grant a rehear-* ing on its deécision holding the City Bulletin was not a newspaper of general circulation, and that it therefore was not a proper place to advertise legal notices required to make legislation effective. The Bulletin was a paper published at city expense. Several attorneys took the view last night that the city is without law save for the State law and the city charter, since all its ordinances since 1927 have been published in the Bulletin. Council Session Called. A special informal session of the City Council, with all city officials attending, was called at once and an all-night session was likely should the council attempt to re-enact all the laws which were published in the Bulletin. On the basis of the court’s decision, announced last January 26, more than 30 injunction suits have been filed attempting to prevent enforcement of certain ordinances, and numerous per- sons charged with speeding have been acquitted on the ground the traffic Lawyers expressed the opinion that under the court’s ruling any city in the State which publishes its legal notices in & municipally-operated paper is placed in the same position as Cin- cinnati. ‘The legality of the appointment of nearly 5,000 Cincinnati officials and em- ployes is questioned under the decision. Among the ordinances which might be worthless are those fixing gas and elec- tricity rates and reducing the salariés of municipal employes. The city also | faces the expense of republishing the ordinances in regular newspapers. Injunction Case Origin. ‘The case originated in a petition filed by Louise Bising in Common Pleas Court, June 6, 1930. She asked that the city be enjoined from collecting two assessments totaling $775.35, levied on her property, contending the assess- ments were not legal because they were city won in both Common Pleas Court and the District Court ot Appeals, but the Supreme Court in January granted the injunction in a decision holding the assessment notices should have been published in a regular newspaper. The City Bulletin has carried an average of 175,000 lines of legal adver- tising annually for nearly six years. NAVY HOLDS SECRET GUNNERY PRACTICE Combined Atlantic and Pacific Forces Engage in Unprecedented Maneuver Off West Coast. By the Associated Press SAN PEDRO, Calif., March 29.—The Navy yesterday added a new page to the history of Yankee gunnery and seamanship records with an unprece- dented secret firing maneuver. Some 75 miles off shore, west of the Channel Islands, in a drill ground from which all commercial shipping had been cleared, the United States combined Atlantic and Pacific | forces, carried out the greatest gun- nery event of the year, force practice. Details of the tactics, dispositions, | distances and results of the firing are official naval secrets. They involve in- inferno of fire against the surface craft | and air forces of an enemy represented by moving targets. The feature was a high seas battle maneuver that many naval strategists had declared impossible, a counter- march of dreadnaughts in the midst of battle, with mighty turrets concen- trating salvos of high explosive shells | on targets as ships turned. — INUTE YSTERY Can You Solv%fl P Dr. Fordney is professor of criminolo a famous university. His advice is often police of many cities “when ronted with particularly baffing cases. This problem has been taken from his case- book covering hundreds of criminal investi- gations. Try_vour wits on it! Tt takes but ONE to read! Every fact and every clue necessar. its solution are in the here is only one answer. y story itself—and t! How good a detective are you? The Mender of Toys. BY H. A. RIPLEY. R. RIPLEY has asked me, his secretary, to tell you of & glimpse I had of an intimate side of dear old Prof. Fordney’s life. I had been sent for his famous case- book—Mr. Ripley wanted further data on the Falcon affair. When I arrived at the professor’s home I was told he was in the ATTIC! Peels of childish laughter greeted me as I ran up the stairs. Standing in the doorway, I saw the renowned crim- inologist seated near the windows busily engaged in his single hobby— mending toys— while 10 eager little faces watched him. “You are trying to fool us, profes- sor,” fairly squealed young Rog, his black eyes examin- ing his Mickey Mouse which had just had its ear replaced. “No son, that’s a true story!” Then, catching sight of me, he cordially in- vited, “Join us, my dear. I was telling the children about a great, big man, 6 feet 3 inches tall, much taller than Billy's dad, who bore an ugly scar on |5 ffs checx which he insisted had been caused by the kick of a donkey.” He squinting at a wooden soldier | g paused, which he held at arm’s Ap] length. par: ently satisfled with his job, he handed kS it to Billy, who hugged it close. “Rog, here,” he continued, “says that the man must have been kneeling or lying down when it happened. No. He was_standing right straight up! “You tell them how it occurred,” he said, turning to me with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. He KNOWS I can NEVER solve his problems and I couldn’t this one—but I know now! DO YOU? If you have a story for Prof. Fordney, send it to him in care of this paper.’st. He will be delighted to receive t. (For Solution &te Page A-7.). [ LINDBERGH SUSPECT IS FREED, AKRON, Ohio, March 29 (#).—Fifteen: year-old Proveno “Peanuts” Marcella, accused of attempting to blackmail Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh for $25,000, will be released on parole, it was decided yesterday by Juvenile Judge Oscar Hunsicker. “He's not a bad boy—just one who had read too many imaginative stories,” the judge commented. MORTGAGE FILED ON MITCHELL HOME Son of J. P. Morgan Takes Third Action Against Properties Totaling $1,150,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 29.—Henry S. Morgan, & son of J. P. Morgan and partner in the banking firm bearing his father's name, has filed a mortgage of $150,000 on the Southampton home of Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman of the board of the National City Bank, it was learned yesterday. The mortgage, drawn on March 2, 1931, and executed and acknowledged on March 3, 1931, was filed several days ago in the Suffolk County clerk’s office at Riverhead, Long Island. ‘This is the third mortgage filed by Mr. Morgan against properties of Mr. Mitchell and brings the total recorded amount to $1,150,000. The previous mortgages covered Mr. Mitchell's New York City residence and his home at ‘Tuxedo Park. The lien covering Mr. Mitchell's Southampton establishment sets forth that it was given to Henry S. Morgan “to secure payment of an in- debtedness.” THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, with low- est temperature about 32 degrees to- night; tomorrow fair, with rising tem- perature; Friday showers and warmer; gentle northwest and north winds, shifting to east or southeast tomorrow. Maryland and Virginia—Fair tonight; tomorrow fair, with rising temperature; Friday showers and warmer. West Virginia—Fair _and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer, followed by showers tomorrow afternoon or night. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers very cloudy this morning. Report for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.98 30.07 30.15 Yesterday— 4 pm. 8 pm. . Midnight Today— 4 am. 8 am, 30.24 Noon 30.25 Record for Last 24 Hours. Highest, 55, 1:30 p.m. yesterday. 30.15 56. 33, 4:00 am. today. Year Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 74, on March 14. Lowest, 14, on February 9. Tide Tables, (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. 16:09a.m. 4:32am. 10:40 pm. 5:07 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun, today .. 5:59 Sun, tomorrow 5:57 6:29 Moon, today.. 7:18am. 10:24 pm. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, Average. Record. January . 3.55 709 '82 February "84 March 91 April '89 May '89 June 00 86 28 ‘TomorTow. 10:48a.m. 5:11am. 11:21 pm. 5:47pm. High Low High Low Sets. 6:28 6.84 884 9.13 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 10.81 8.57 8.69 October . November . December ‘Weather in Various Cities. '89 01 Statlons. 9 2 [**** -a0joutoreg, 2 64 0.01 Cloudy 34 010 Clear 6 48 Cles Cloudy PBt.cloudy Clear Chicago, il . Cincinnati, Ohi Cleveland, 'Ohio Columbia, 8. C Denver, Colo. El Paso, Galveston, Helena, Hurou, S. Dal Indianapolis.Ind Jacksonville Fla. Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Clear g Cloudy Los _ Angeles. Pt.cloudy Louisville K: Clear Miami, Fla New Orleans: New York, N. Oklahoma " Cit: Omaha, Nel Philadeiphia . Phoenix, Ar Pittsburgh, Portland, M Portlan Clear Clear Clear 2 Pt.cloudy 14 Pt.cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Snow. Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Clear Pt.cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Station London, Ensland Stockholm, Gibraltar. Spain . 54 n (Noon, Gréenwich time, today.) Horta (Fayal), Azores. Cloudy (Cutrent observations.) . Georges, Bermuda. , Pa San Juan, Puerto Rico. . Havans, L\MMA' Year | .| days after the ship left New York for POLICY JUSTIFIED Japanese Diplomat Says Time Will Vindicate Action in Manchuria. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 29.—A belief that “time will vindicate” Japan’s ac-! tions was voiced last night by Yosuke Matsuoka, who was in the international spotlight as head of Japan's delegation to the League of Nations. “Japan has been waging a war against a world that has misunderstood her and she has suffered a defeat,” the American-educated diplomat said, in addressing the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in his first formal address slncfi he returned from Europe last week, “But I believe that time will vindicate her actions,” he continued. “I am con- fident that, at a not far distant date, the rest of the world will say that we have not been wrong or selfish in our motives.” He made no direct reference to Japan's withdrawal from the League. Much of his address was a crisp her lack of integrity and responsibility. Dealing in Fictions. “In the League's eagerness to deal with the Manchurian question,” he said, “it neglected the big question that lies at the root of all the troubles in the Far East—the anarchy in China.” He told his audience that the world powers “have long been dealing in fic- tions” regarding China and averred that “peace and welfare in the Far East is the purpose of Japan and the reason for Manchukuo.” ‘The fundamental cause of the trouble in the Far East,” Matsuoka de- clared, “is the lawless condition in China, the impossible reign of self-will in that country, without recognition on her part of her obligations to her neighbors. China has long been der- elict in her international duties as a sovereign state, and Japan, as her near- est neighbor, has been the greatest sufferer on that score. “The powers of the world have long been dealing in fictions regarding China. Long ago we should have noticed that the first article of the covenant requires that a state, domin- ion or colapy, to be a member of the League (of Nations) shall be ‘fully self-governing.’ China is no such state. Treaties Can’t Apply. “Beyond China proper her sovereignty has long been gone, while within China proper there has been mno constituted government, supreme and able to rule. The Nanking government administers today the affairs of less than four—I might even say threc—of the 18 prov- inces, while Communist hordes over- run as many as six. “The world cannot deal in such fictions as that of China’s integrity and | expect the League of Nations to up- hold the letter of treaties as they might be applied in Europe or America.” Matsuoka reviewed the motives of Japanese interventicn in Manchuria, said that “the good work of my country is on record” in physical developments there. and charged the League with unfairness in condemning Japan's actions. question is only one phase, or. rather, an upshot, of it. In the League's eagerness to deal with the Manchurian | question it neglected the big question that lies at the root of all the troubles, in the Far East—the anarchy in China. | “For the solution of that problem the League could do nothing, for that re- quired force and much force. * * * League Refused Hearing. “But that was not the question be-| fore the League. The question the League was asked to answer was ot | whether Japan was warranted or| justified in taking action in Manchuria. | It was whether we took action contrary | to the letter of the covenan | “The League refused to hold a hear- | {ing of the reputable men representing | Manchukuo, zlthough I made several| | serious efforts to get them a hearing. Would you not think it fair for the League to do this before handing down a momentous verdict intending to de- cide the fate of Manchukuo?” Matsuoka said in his introduction that he was “prompted to speak with greater confidence” in view of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s inaugural address in which, he said, Roosevelt “pictured America as ‘a good neighbor in a world of neighbors.’” Roland S. Morris, former United States Ambassador to Japan, expressed the view that “the absence of both Japan and the United States from the League is a world misfortune in these critical times.” He said that “the present lack of any responsible government in_China presents to Japan a problem so baffling that one should be cautious in apprais- ing the significance of present events.” “I would like to suggest,” he con- tinued, “that as regards the Far East we cultivate an dpen mind. INJURED BALTIMOREAN IS TAKEN FROM LINER Dr. Amos S. Hutchins Removed at Sea to Miami Tug After Break- ing Leg on Ship Stairs. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 29.—His leg ‘broken when he fell down a stairway aboard ship, Dr. Amos S. Hutchins of Baltimore was removed from the Grace Liner Santa Elisa in the Gulf Stream off Miami yesterday and brought to & hospital here. 'IPhe leg was broken Sunday, two Panama. He received no other in- Juries. A tug boat, carrying Dr. E. Clay Shaw, Dr. E. H. Adkins and Dr. Cay- etano Panettiers, all friends of Dr. Hutchins, went out from Miami to meet the boat as it hove to in the Gulf Stream. The injured man was lowered over side to the tug, and the Santa Elisa proceeded toward Panama. The attending physicians said Dr. criticism of China for what he termed | ing [ lic—end Gov. Hutchins would be in the hospital here about six weeks. PLAN FIRE PROTECTION - McLean Firemen Discuss 10,000- Gallon Cistern in Walter Heights. Special Dispatch to The Star. MCcLEAN, Va., March 29.—Plans for construction of a 10,000-gallon cistern in Walter Heights for fire protection were discussed at the meeting of the McLean Volunteer Fire Department last night. Henry Hushke, president of the Walters Heights Citizens’ League, stated that plans are being made by the ap- proximately 20 householders in his sec- tion to raise the necessary funds, esti- mated by Chief J. H. Beattie to amount to about $300. Safe and Sane Antiseptic It is unnecessary to use harsh, irritating solutions to overcome germ infection. I Antiseptic gives you safe, sure protection at low cost. This powerful, pleas- ant tasting antiseptic is absolutely pure and effective. Excellent for throat irritations, ‘bad breath, minor cuts, ing and loose dandruff. Get for only S9¢ today at Peoples. Drug Stores, IDEAL ANTISEPTIC e ——————————ee . TROUBLE JOYOUSLY Minnesota’s Farmer - Labor Executive Declares He “Loves a Good Fight.” ST. PAUL, March 29.—Troublous times find the Nation’s only Farmer- Labor Governor “right at home.” By his own admission Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota is “ill at ease when State affairs are quiet—but right at home when a good fight bobs up.” And the contention of his friends that he “loves a good fight” has been strikingly illustrated by his several recent surprise appearances in the thick of heated controversies. He has gone personally before legis- lative groups to steer t::e Farmer-Labor ship over rough barrfers and before self-styled Communists and farm hol- iday advocates who have stormed the Capitol. Gov. Olson, dominant figure in turn- Minnesota’s political complexion from a Republican hue to the Farmer- Labor banner, is in his “best form” in extemporaneous battle. A Boxer in College. A boxer while attending the Uni- versity of Minnesota, the Governor | probably added to his inherent instincts while serving 10 years as Hennepin County attorney. ‘When a radical group rushed to the Capitol one day and a delegation crowd- ed into his private office, Olson told a protective cordon of police to “get out and I'll handle this myself.” And he did. Deflantly arising from his desk until the group fell back in silence, he snapped: “I'm Governor here. Cut out the foolishness and get down to business.” A few minutes later the radicals de- pn{nud, their mission apparently in vain. And when hundreds of farm holidayf proponents swarmed the Capitol and | demanded the Legislature “do some- ' thing” for farm relief, Gov. Olson lost ! no time in appearing personally on the Capitol steps to address the men. Under Olson’s regime Farmer-La. borites have made heavy inroads into Minnesota's officialdom, sending five men to the House of Representatives in | Washington, along with one Democrat | and three Republicans, as well as con- | g(:llmg the House of the State Legis- | ure. Backed Roosevelt. | Yet Minnesota, sole contributor to a | third party at Washington, has a far- reaching Republican background. The | State voted Republican in all presi- dential elections, prior to the last, when it threw its support to Roosevelt, who | was backed by Gov. Olson. | . Minnesota's House of Representa- | tives, now Farmer-Labor controlled for the first time, is offset by a conserva- tively controlled State Senate. 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