Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 17

Washington News TWO KILLED, NINE | HURTINWEEKEND TRAFFIG MISHAPS Alexandria Man Succumbs to Injuries Received on Highway. BETHESDA COLLISION IS FATAL TO BARBER Driver Taken to Hospital With Fractured Jaw Facing 2 Charges. Second Crash at Scene. Two men were killed and nine others injured in a series of week end traffic accidents in Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia. Three of the injured are reported to be seriously hurt. The dead are John Patrick Alex- ander, 49. of 720 North Columbus street, Alexandria, who died yesterday at the Alexandria Hospital from head injuries received when struck on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Saturday night, and Harry W. Craw- ford, 43-year-old barber of 201 St. Elmo avenue, Bethesda, who was al- most_instantly killed when an euto- mobile in which he was riding crashed into the rear of a wrecking truck on the Rockville pike "at Bethesda. Park police named Dallas W. Dort | of the 400 block South Lee street, | Alexandria, as driver of the machine | which struck Alexander. He was re-, leased without bond, pending an| inquest. Driver’s Jaw Fractured. they were working with blow torches, Tippett. Standing, left to right: T. @he Foen WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935. Escape Death in Blast These three men, employes of the Bituminous Products Co., in George= town, escaped serious injury today when this tar tank wagon, on which , exploded. On top of truck is Frank E. Carpenter and Sylvester Gordon. —Star Staff Photo. Carl G. Youngerman. 27, of 7510 ( Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda, driver of | the car in which Crawford was riding. | INBLAST OF TANK right jaw and serious cuts of the face. { Trio Receives Only Minor He was taken to the Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital by the Bethesda fire Hurts—Georgetown Area Shaken, rescue squad. Montgomery County police said to- day that a warrant charging Young- erman with manslaughter and the unauthoried use of an automobile was issued last night by Justice of the Peace Fred K. Van Court. They said they were told that Youngerman, employed by the Imirie-Rowe Motor Co.. took the machine without his employers’ authorization. The accident occurred near the en- trance to the Woodmont Country Club a few moments after a wreck truck, owned by Call Carl, Inc., and oper- < “BABY BONDS" GIVE - 250 EMPLOYMENT Presses Now Running Full | Time—Plate Printers’ | Furlough Ended. » ated by Joseph Hawkins and Ray- mond C. Booker, had pulled a car owned by John T. Shafer, 2038 Eight- | eenth street, from a ditch paralleling ! the pike. The automobile driven by Younger- man struck the rear of the parked truck as Hawkins, Booker and Shafer, who escaped unhurt in the earlier mis- hap, prepared to re-enter their ma- chines and leave the scene. Craw- ford was thrown from the automobile and was dead when police arrived. Escapes in Collision. Arthur P. Gorman of Rockville, mo- torman on the Rockville division of the Capital Transit Co., narrowly es- caped injury when the car operated ; by Youngerman, thrown out of con-| trol by the first crash, careened across | the road and struck his machine. Gor- man’s car was badly damaged. Two pedestrians were seriously in- jured when struck by automobiles in Alexandria. They are John Morris, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morris of 409 North West street, who sus- tained a fractured skull, and Cleve- land Mason, 50. of No. 6 Rogers lane, who received a fractured leg and severe head cuts. Both were admitted to the Alexandria Hospital for treat- ment. § Alexandria police said Mason was struck by a hit-and-run driver in the 800 block North Washington street. They named U. C. Clarke, 22, of the 100 block East Maple street, Alex- andria, as operator of the machine which hit young Morris at the inter- section of West and Princess streets. Four persons were injured, two of them seriously, when the automobile in which they were riding overturned near Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street. Four Victims in Upset. The injured were: Nancy Sentz, 19, of Alexandria. Va. and Orville K. Wright, 23, of 1609 K street, both of whom may have skull fractures; Ed- ward T. Johnson, 25. of Clarendon, Va., driver of the machine, and Wil- liam E. Clark, 23, of 1609 K street, Three men escaped with only mifior | Rushing forward a program of pro- | bruises when a big tar tank truck 1 which they were repairing at Thirty- third and K streets exploded this morning, sending debris high into the air, breaking windows a block away and resounding with a roar through- out the entire Georgetown business area. The workmen were overhauling a tar distributor truck of Bituminous Products Corp., which had not been in service for about 30 days. A blow- torch was being applied to the tar- incrusted joints of distributing ap- repeirs. generated by the heat of the blow- torch was blamed by E. B. Magruder, for the explosion. He estimated that this gas, generated in the rear, found its way up into the tank until it filled the tank beyond its capacity and then let go. Workers Are Stunned. The men working beneath the truck were momentarily stunned by the ter- rific blast, but to their great surprise, escaped serious injury. T. E. Car- penter found a sizeable knot on his forehead. Sylvester Gordon discovered a small scratch on his right fore- finger and Frank Tippett escaped with only a slight nick on his left ear. The blast performed many odd tricks. It «plit the big cylindrical tar tank and hurled pieces of the appa- ratus high into the air, throwing two big metal signs on top of the adjacent building of Milton Hopfenmaier, where several windows were broken. Shaken From Chair. In the Bituminous Products Corp. about half a block away nearer the river bank, one wirdow was broken, and the force of the blast was strong enough to shake Assistant Manager Magruder from his chair, he said. both of whom received cuts and One piece of a steel bar from the paratus on thé rear, in order that | the pipes might be taken apart for | Gas believed to have been | assistant manager of the corporation, | bruises. All were treated at Emer- [ill-fated ftruck was driven through gency Hospital where X-rays were to | the heavy steel side of another tar be taken to see whether the two more | distributing truck belonging to the seriously injured have skull fractures. | same corporation, on the other side Several other persons were injured |of the driveway. in traffic mishaps over the week end.| Windows also were broken on the Among these were William Duley, 31, | north side of K street. of 1619 Potomac avenue southeast, . thine at New dersey svenas ana 5| ENFORCEMENT PLA MAY BE EXTENDED street southeast, and Lee Allen, 27, Treasury Pleased With New York colored, address unknown, injured when struck by a street car last night Results of Federal-State- City Co-operation. at Fourteenth and Q streets. Duley twas said to be in a serious condition in Providence Hospital with a skull fracture, while the colored man’s con- dition was reported undetermined at Emergency Hospital. . y the Associated Press. A plan to tighten up on liquor law MOTORISTS IGNORE CALL| TO MD WOUNDED MAN enforcement through a tri-party- co- operation of fhe Federal, State and Virginian Reported Accidentally|municipal agencies—tried out in New Shot Tay Three Hours Until York—probably will be extended to other States. Wite Finally Obtains Help. The Treasury Department said last Special Dispatch to The Star. night it had found the scheme satis- factory after joint work of its alcohol DANVILLE, Va., February 11.—|tax unit, the New York “A. B. C.” Wheeler Sparks, 45, is in Memorial | Board of Liquor Control and the New Hospital suffering from a serious bullet | York City police. wound in the chest after being brought [ After conferences between Treasury here from his home in the county,|officials, Gov. Lehman and Mayor La Where he lay wounded three hours be- | Guardia, the alcohol control unit set up cause no way could be found to get{a school in New York City at which him to medical assistance. about 100 unemployed men, most- Sparks is $aid by Deputy Sheriff R.|ly accountants, and as many members M. Fowlkes to have been accidentally | of the city police force attended. After wounded by a shotgun which was|brief intensive training the graduates being handled by Robert Noell, 19.|made a door-to-door canvass of New Noell was lodged in jail here pending| York's liquor-selling places. investigation. Treasury officials said last night Mrs. Sparks said she remained on|that “several hundred violations” had the highway for nearly three.hours|been found, including sale without trying to flag motorists to take her | license, non-payment of Federal taxes wounded husband to a hospital, but)and illegally blended liquors. A “con- that none heeded her. Finally a resi- | siderable number” of arrests were dent of the section was reached and | either in the offing or had been made, b;ou(ht him here. the Treasury said. » . | duction to have the Government's | new “baby bonds” ready by March 1, the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing is taking on a total of about 250 | temporary workers. | Plates have been finished for all denominations of the new bonds, from | $25 up to the largest, $10,000, and | printing presses now are working full | time, some of them on a 24-hour | basis. | Three Shifts Working. Ten or 12 of the presses are |now on three shifts of eight hours j each, running continuously, according to Alvin W. Hall, director of the bureau. All furlough for plate printers has been removed, for the first time in several years. When the last of the furlough was lifted it stood at a day and a half a month for each man. ‘The lifting of this furlough means an ! increase in pay for each of the 350 printers. No more plate printers are needed, Director Hall explained. ‘The new people being taken on for temporary employment are being ob- tained from the Civil Service register. About 175 have already been given employment, and it is expected that about 75 more will be added. The new employes include women oper- atives, pressmen and skilled helpers. No limit will be placed on the first series of bonds, it is understood, and the Government will issue as many as the market will absorb. The bonds will be sold on a discount basis of somewhere between $75 and $78 for a $100 bond, making the interest somewhere between 2 and 3 per cent. No bond can be cashed within 60 days after its issuance, but anytime after those first 60 days it can be turned in and will be paid with interest to date. No one person may buy more than $10,000 worth in any one year. TWO NEW TRANSIENT BUILDINGS PLANNED Facilities for 250 Are Expected to Be Obtained Owing to Meningitis Quarantine. Two additional buildings capable of housing 250 men are expected to obtained today to reliev® the crowded conditions in the lodges of the Tran- sient Relief Bureau, which has been under quarantine for spinal meningitis since last Wednesday. Meanwhile Dr. Edward J. Schwartz, acting District health officer, said to- day there is still little cause for appre- hension on the part of the public. Altogether there have been eight sus- pected cases, three of which have been discharged, with one death. This leaves four active cases now in Gal- linger Hospital. Richard W. Gebhardt, transient re- lief director, in announcing: the avail- ability of the two new buildings, ex- plained that they are not in the shop- ping district downtown. He made the explanation after a number of vigor- ous protests had been filed- with the District Commissioners by merchants and department store heads against the use of lodges in the shopping area for detaining the transients. A conference of health, relief and District officials was held today. to go o suspect cases were re- ported today, CHESTCLINIC IS SET Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., February 11.— The monthly chest clinic for Arling- ton County will be held at the Claren- don Health Center Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 1 pm. Dr. H. A. Latane of Alexandria will be the clinician. Children as well as adults are urged to attend. The tuberculin test will be given the children. L4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 3 INVALIDS SAVED! AS FRE DRNES 20 FROM APARTMENT 4-Story Structure in Em- bassy Area Damaged by Spectacular Blaze. SERVANTS ARE HEROES IN THRILLING RESCUES 10,000 Watch Firemen Fight Flames Raging Through Four Floors. Three invalid women, one of them aged 93, were rescued and more than 200 tenants forced to flee when fire last night swept the Decatur Apart- ments, 2131 Florida avenue, located in the midst of fashionable residences and diplomatic buildings. A burning cigar butt, tossed on a pile of trash in the basement, is be- lieved to have started the conflagra- tion, which broke out at 7:20 and was fought by nearly 200 firemen for three hours before it was checked. Half a dozen firefighters were over- come by smoke and a number of others escaped death when a whole floor collapsed beneath them, burying them in a pile of debris. The firemen overcome were treated on the scene and returned to fighting the fire. A colored butler rescued a helpless woman by carrying her in her in- valid's chair down three flights of stairs through the smoke and flames. Damage Put at $40,000. Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sul- tan and Fire Marshal Calvin C. Lauber today were inspecting the building, which extends through an entire block to Decatur place, trying to make an accurate estimate of the damage, tentatively reported at about $40,000. Soon after he had finished his sup- per last night, Daniel Mitchel, & jani- tor, discovered flames sweeping up from the basement through a dumb waiter shaft to the roof and back down to the basement from another shaft, setting the entire four floors afire. Smoke and flames billowed quickly through the apartment as five alarms were turned in, in quick succession. Flames more than 50 feet high flared into the sky only a short dis- tance from the Chilean Embassy and Irish Legation. No. 9 Engine Company was the first to arrive. A woman screamed from the top-floor window as the flames, shoting up a dumb waiter shaft on the Decatur place side, ate their way through the third and fourth floor apartments, filing the halls with smoke. She was led to safety by other tenants. Flames Draw Throngs. By the time ladders were put up and firemen connected several thou- sand feet of hose the entire upper structure «f the L-shaped building was a mass of flames which shot more than 50 feet into the air, lighting up the neighborhood for several blocks and attracting thousands. Mitchell. who discovered the blaze and turned in the first alarm, turned in alarms threughout the building, sending the tenants rushing for the stairways to safety. There are no ele- vators in the four-story building. Meanwhile, firemen, commanded by Fire Chief Charles E. Schrom, fought their way through the dense clouds of smoke, smashing out windows and tearing down doors to get at the flames. The roof of one wing of the Le shaped building collapsed just as the firemen seemed to get the flames under control. While inspecting the building after the fire was out, Lieut. J. C. Stein and a squad from No. 6 engine company, crashed through a floor weakened by the flames. They escaped injury. Just after the first alarm, Earnest Carpenter, a 19-year-old colored but- ler. employed in the building, heard screams of two women on the second floor. Breaking into a room, he dis- covered Mrs. Minnie Berger, 65, an invalid, sitting in a chair unable to move. Sweeping the woman and chair up in his arms, he ran down the stairs to the street where firemen met him and carried the woman to the Farnsborough Apartments next door. Miss Elizabeth Bill, 93, was carried from the building by Ier nephew, Murrell J. Dawes, 30, who had just entered the building when the alarm sounded. He ran to his aunt’s apart- ment and found her and Miss Pheobe Dawes, 40, his sister, in the room. Carrying Miss Bill, with his sister gg:gmg to his coat, he rescued them Maid Rescues Woman, 85. Mrs. Virginia Fairall, 85, who lay helpless in bed, was carried out of the building by Charlotte Everson, a colored maid, to a tailor shop across | be: the street where she remained until taken to Emergency Hospital, where she was treated for shock. Canaries, goldfish and several cats and dogs were rescued by firemen, fighting to keep tenants from rushing back into the building to save other belongings. Arthur Campbell, 50, returning from a visit to his mother in Emergency Hospital, found his fourth-floor apart- ment in flames and battled firemen in trying to enter the house. his wife was in the room, he tried other entrances to the apartment, but was turned back each time by fire- men, who told him every one was safe. He later learned his wife had gone to thevhome of -a relative. several blocks away. Mr. and Mrs.. Jerry_B. Flood had just finished dinner when the flames burst into the room through the dumb waiter shaft in their third-floor rooms. Flood, a finance agent for ithe Ford Motor Co., grabbed a few valuable papers and small articles, but was unable to save a prize collection of his wife’s 10,000 Waich Battle. after making his rounds in the build- ing while firemen shoveled debris out ® ny Staf BB Photo taken last night at height of fire in Decatur Apartments. —Star Staff Photo. Boy’s “Green Flame” Fatal A Doris Curtin, 9, Runs; Through Home With Dress Ablaze. Parents at Church When-‘ Children Experiment With Alcohol. It was an exciting experiment, | making “a green flame,” and the Cur- tin children drew near as 11-year-old | Joseph set out & pan of alcohol in the i basement of their home at 518 Var- | num street and prepared to strike a match { Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. James | Curtin, were attending church yes- To Sister Watching Test‘ terday morning, a fine time for the [ young experimenters to go ahead with their plans undisturbed. Joseph had | been enthusiastic about his researches since he received a chemical set for [ Christmas. Only recently a playmate had told him how to make the “green flame.” Nine-year-old Doris and Katherine, two years younger, crowded close when | Joseph struck the match and lit the alcohol in a pie pan. Joseph watched the flame spread a weird light and was not aware that Doris had run upstairs until informed by Katherine. Neither child, they said, knew that their sister's skirt had been ignited by the green flame. Doris had run upstairs to put it out, | not wishing to alarm the experi- menters. The flames, however, were gathering headway, and Doris rushed wildly about in the upstairs rooms, quite unable to cope with them. ‘Then she ran back to the basement. Joseph and Katherine, by this time thoroughly alarmed, helped Doris back upstairs and ran a tub full of water in the bath room. Doris’ dress had almost been burned from her be- PENNSY INAUGURATES ELECTRIFIED SERVICE Many Watch as Congressional Leaves Union Station for New York Trip. ‘With spectators crowding vantage points to witness the departure of the train, the Congressional, of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, pulled out of Union Station at 4 o'clock yesterday after- noon under electric power, formally launching electrified service over the ‘Washington-New York division. A half-hour later, the Southbound Congressional left New York behind an_electric engine. Reservations were heavy for the trips inaugurating the new service. By March 15, the Pennsylvania ex- pects to have all passenger trains be- tween Washington and New York electrically-operated, and after that, the freight service will be shifted over from steam. « Wy the windows, declared that the blaze, starting in the basement, made a complete curcuit throughout the build- ing through dumb waiter shafts. peculiar construction of the attic, made with a double ceiling and re- enforced roof, caught like tinder and was impossible to get at with axes or hose. The firemen had to wait for the flames to burst through sections of the roof before they were able to shoot in streams of water to ex- tinguish the blazes. Most of the tenants sought safety in' the Farnsborough Apartments and the fast-spreading flames threatened the adjoining building, which was be- ing soaked with water as a protection. Firemen inspecting the building later found plates and food set on dinner tables, where they were left as occupants fled to safety. Many of the tenants’ entire belong- ings were destroyed. Expensive pianos and household articles were damaged DORIS CURTIN. fore she was helped into the water. A neighbor, hearing the child's screams, hurried to the rescue and called an ambulance. Doris was re- moved to Emergency Hospital, where she died of her burns 12 hours later. Engineer Expires On Funeral Trip With His Nephew J. William McCarter of «Aiken, S. C., Victim of Attack. J. William McCarter, 70, of Aiken, 8. C, a locomotive engineer of the Southern Railroad, died suddenly to- day after being stricken on a train while accompanying his nephew, J. H. Staubes, 110 C street northeast, to New York with the body of the latter’s wife, Mrs, Bertha M. Staubes, who died here Saturday. McCarter was stricken wille on & Pennsylvania Railroad train which left Washington around 8 a.m. today. He was. transferred from that train atthe 5100 block of Bladensburg road to another train, which brought him back to Washington less than half an hour later. He was pronounced dead at Union Station shortly afterward. Staubes continued on to Nashua, N. H,, with the body of his wife. Mr. McCarter was going as far as New York with him. Mr. McCarter’s body was to be car- ried to Aiken, 8. C., for burial. Mr. McCarter drove up by automobile from Aiken several days ago with his niece, Mrs, A. 8. Davis. SLIP LOSES SPELL BEE Hyattsville Boy Got “Fictitious” Right First Time. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 11.— Jack Zucker, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Zucker of University Park, last night.won a spelling bee held by the Young Peoples’ Fellowship of Pink- runner-up, had rectly, but when asked to spell it again made an error. - Young Zucker was awarded a cake offered by Mrs. H. B. Mayhew. 4 MEMORIAL RITES TOHONOR LINCOLN |40 Organizations to Take Part—Barkley to Give Address. | Memorial services at the Lincoln | Memorial will be conducted at noon tomorrow with some 40 patriotic and civic organizations taking part in the | celebration of the birth of Abranam J Lincoln. Senator Barkley of Kentucky will deliver the principal address during | the services. The United States | Marine Band, directed by Capt. Tay- | lor Branson, will play when the vari- ous organizations assemble for the half-hour service to lay wreaths. The ceremonies are under auspices of the District of Columbia Com- | mandery of the Military Order ol | the Loyal Legion. Col. Lawrence C. | Crawford, U. S. A, retired, is chair- | man of the Committee on Arrange- | ments and Charles Mason Reme; will | be master of ceremonies. | U. S. Offices to Let Out. President Roosevelt has arranged | with heads of the various Gov | ment agencies to have Federal em- | ;plnyes excused during the regular | lunch period to attend the services. | Organizations taking part in the | services are the Board of District | Commissioners, the Pennsylvania Com- mandery, Militant Order of the Loyal Legion; the commandery in chief of the order, and the District command- ery, National American Gold Star Mothers, District Department of the American Legion, Lincoln Post, No. 17, American Legion; Department of the District of Columbia, American Legion Auxiliary; the American Red Cross of the District, American War Mothers, District of Columbia Chap- ter, American War Mothers: Aztec ciety, Children of the American Revo- lution; National Society, Dames of the Loyal Legion: National Societ Daughters of the American Revol tion; District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. El- len Spencer Mussey, Tent No. 1, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Department of the Po- tomac, Grand Army of the Republic; Italian World War veterans of the District, Kallipolis Grotto, Depart- ment of the Potomac, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Gen. William H. Beck Circle, No. 4; U. S. Grant Circle, No. 1, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Reserve Unit to Participate. The District Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars; District Chap- ter, Military Order of the World War; Reserve Officers’ Association of the United States; Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba; National So- Jjourners; Heroes of '76; National So- clety, Sons of the American Revolu- tion; District Society, Sons of the American Revolution; William B. Cushing Camp, No. 30, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; William B. Cushing Auxiliary, No. 4, Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War; District Department, United Spanish War Veterans; District Department, National Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans; National Society, United States Daughters of 1812; De- partment of the Potomac: Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Re- public; Burnside Corps, No. 4, Wom- an's Relief Corps of the G. A. R.; the Lincoln Corps, No. 6, Woman’s | Relief Corps of the G. A. R, and the Sheridan Corps, No. 12, Woman’s Re- lief Corps of the G. A. R. —_— DIRTY TAGS NATURAL So Rules Judge Taking Personal Bond of Hacker. Dirty automobile tags are the rule rather than the exception according to Judge Ralph Given,who in Traffic Court today took the personal bond of Fred A. White, a taxi driver, charged with having unreadable tags. In ‘White's personal bond Judge Given remarked that “every- body’s tags are dirty- after a spell of weather like this.” He advised the driver, however, to be more careful. r Club of 1847, Gov. Thomas Wells So- | " Society and General PAGE B—-1 LORD LYTTON PLE FOR JAPANESE AID STIRS TOWN HALL Statesman Declares Tokio Can Save League Aims by New Pact. FORUM RECORD IS SET BY AUDIENCE OF 1,500 Briton Fears Naval Building Race, With Subsequent Enmity, if Accord Is Not Reached. An impassioned plea to Japan to save the aims and purposes of the League of Nations, described as the only good to com= from the World War, was made last night by Lord Lytton in an address made befora a capacity audience at the Town Hall in the Shoreham Hotel. He said no effort had been made by the world powers or by the League of Nations to bring the collective system of world peace to the attention of Japan. The audience of more than 1,500, the largest ever to attend one of these weekly forums, included members of the diplomatic corps, among them sev- eral from the Orient. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to Wash= ington; Lady Lytton, Henry L. Stim- son, former Secretary of State, and several members of the British Em- bassy sat near the platform. The audience listened with rapt attention breaking the silence only with ap- plause. At the conclusion of the ad- dress, an ovation was given the chair- man of the League Committee, chosen jto investigate the Manchurian affair and author of the famous Lytton re- port. Develops Brilliant Climax. Lord Lytton began his speech with typical British calmness and deliberd- tion, developing his subject gradualiy until he struck a brilliant note of oratory at the climax. He dominated the situation throughout the ques- tioning oy the jury and the audience, most of the questions being in accord {with the statements of the speaker. “Japan has been at great pains te | make the rest of the world acquainted {with her point of view through speeches of her statesmen and ths documents she has sent to the Leagus of Nations,” the British statesman |said. “But in return she has nos shown the same concern to maks known to Japan the views which ths | rest of the members take on the sub- ject, except such as are critical of her actions in the past. “Can we blame Japan if she has | shown little disposition to modify her | own attitude and to bring it into ling | with the rest of the world? Japan | does not even know what the world's | opinion is, except that it thinks she 1 ought not to have done what she did in Manchuria. She never has been informed what she could do to set herself right.” | Sees a Naval Race. Lord Lytton said Japan’s renuncia- tion of the naval treaty threatened a situation fraught with the grave dan- ger in the Far East unless a substi- tute could be agreed upon. He fore- saw a naval building race, establish- ment of huge fortifications in the Pa- cific and creation of enmity, inse- | curity and suspicion between nations | unless an accord is reached. Speaking of the World War as a war {of destruction, from which only one i good development came—the collective | system for making world peace—Lord | Lytton said the part taken by Japan { was the lightest of all and that she | realized substantial gains from it, but that the greatest gain “which was taken from no other nation” was the collective system. “Japan claims she fought two wars over Manchuria and that she staked | her very existence there,” Lord Lyt- | ton said. “Two hundred thousand | dead lie buried there. She spent a billion yen there. Manchuria is, in fact, the life line of Japan. Cites League as Answer. “There is a stronger answer to that. Hundreds of millions of do}lars were spent, the dead count runs into the millions, and the rest of the world | staked its very existence for one thing. They did not take it away from any one, this one gain. Unlike the war gains, it is shared by the victorious and the vanquished alike. It means more to them than Man- churia can ever mean to Japan. It i is the Hfe line of their civilization. “Now, why has that never been | said to Japan, about that collective system she has so thoughtlessly chal- lenged? Would it fall on deaf ears? I cannot believe it. “Japan’s policy extinguishes otr hope of world peace. It would deny to the children of those who died the fruits of their sacrifice. The wrong done to China pales into insignifi- cance beside the wrong done the rest of the world by shattering its most cherished ideal. For the deferise of that ideal the world must stand firm and united.” The speaker said Japan could not refuse, if the rest of the world ap- pealed to her, to save this solitary gain. He said the world must sym- pathize with the Japanese people and recognize the fact that they need raw materials for her tremendous popu- lation on her small area. Blames League for Criticism, He said the United States could of- fer just as effective co-operation with Great Britain in helping maintain peace in the Orient as if she were a member of the League of Nations. He said the League had made no effort to meet Japan on this question. The League's failure, so far, lies in its wil- lingness to take only a critical view of Japan’s action, instead of trying to ihow Japanese people what was at e. “The greatest possible danger is ahead unless there is a satisfactory replacement of the naval treaty,” he declared. Members of the jury panel were Representative James Wadsworth of New York, William R. Castle, former Undersecretary of State and Ameri- can Ambassador to Japan during the 1930 Naval Arms Conference; Senator Albert D. Thomas of Utah, author of “Chinese Political Thought”; Sir Will- mott Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times and former Far Eastern correspondent, and Prederick Moore, member of the Japanese dele- gation to Geneva, ’