Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1935, Page 5

WILSON, LANSING EXCHANGES BARED Senators Urge Neutrality | Measures Be Enacted Before War. By the Associated Press. Correspondence between President | ‘Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing on the subject of neutrality policics during the World War was put fo.- ward today by members of the Senate | Munitions Committee in support of thelr contention that pending neu- trality measures should be enacted by Congress. Chairman Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, and Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, signed a letter to Chair- man Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, of the Forcign Relations Committee, in which they quoted “hither to un- published correspondence” of Wilson and Lansing, Secretary of Stat It indicated. they said, that neutrality policies “must be fixed before the declaration of a European war or not be fixed at all” The shift in policy to which Nye and Clark referred was permission for belligerents to borrow money in the United States - “Since the matter of an embargo | on foreign loans and credits to belli- gerents is before you now,” they wrote Fittman, “we specifically invite your attention to the danger of allnwmgl i a repetition of the same historic de- velopment which led to entangling foreign economic ailiances and for | which the United States still has to ! pay billions in uncollected war debts: * & & “If Congress imposes no restric- tions on munitions sales and ship- ments before a w breaks out in Turopa. it will be impossible for Con- gress to form a poiicy later without incurring representations that such a new policy involves the taking of sides egainst one particular belligerent.” Attached was a letter from Lan- sing to Wilson, dated September 6, 1915, stating that he and Secretary | McAdoo of the Treasury were agreed that “the flotation of large bond issues by the belligerent governments” was essential if European purchases here | were to continue. For them to stop. | Lansing said, would cause a “critical economic condition” of “industrial de- pression, idle capital and idle or, numerous failures, financial demorali- 7ation and genera! unrest and suffer. ing among the laboring classes.” Earlier in the war, Secretary Bryan had declared that banking loans to nations at war “is inconsistent with the true spirit of neutrality.” Lan- sing asked Wilson i “Can we afford to let a declaration as to our conception of the ‘true #pirit of neutra ' made in the first cays of the war, stand in the way of our national interests, which seem to be seriously threatened?” Lobby [ i | AGoninued Brom Firsy Rege )i o Congress who voted against the bill He declared, however, he did not re- member whether he formulated that policy Later there was another clash be- tween Hopson and Chairman Black when the former was questioned about an arrangement he had to finance the business of the Jones Operating & Financial Co. of New York, headed by Edward J. Cheney. Hopson Voices Protest. Hopson objected to the refusal of the committee to let him go into a detailed explanation, claiming he was not being allowed to “tell the whole truth.” Records produced by the commuttee showed that Hopson collected $497.000 | from the Jones company between 1920 | and 1933, and Cheney got $497,000 Hopson admitted he had sole control over the company’s finances, although his name was not linked with it. | It was the effort of Senator Schwel- lenbach, Democrat, of Washington. to force Hopson to admit that he did | not use his name in connection with} that company to keep that informa- tion away from Associated’s stock- holders, that caused the second flare-up. Hopson afterward denied there was any effort made to keep his connection with the company se- cret. He's “First Victim.” Hopson arrived before Chairman Black convened the hearing. waiked over to the press table, and toock a seat | “I will borrow this chair,” he said, “until I find out whether I'm to be the first victim.” He was. The first question fired concerned | the cancellation of Associated’s ad- | vertising in the Miami Herald, and in- dicated the committee intended to con- | ords of the firm. Black told him to | Seismic tinue its inquiry into the company's efforts to influence newspapers with respect to the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. | this firm, with a working capital of ; Our owu State Department, where MT. | By the Associated Press. $5.000, had earned $2,725,138 between | Saito's eminence in the foreign fleld | Hopson testified the ccmpany’s ad- vertising in the Miami papers was dropped because the circulation “was | such that it did not get sufficient value out of it." | Bill Recalls “Death Valley” Scotty President’s Signature Would Confirm Ownership The home of “Death Valley” By the Associated Press NOTHER chapter to the fan- A tastic history of “Death Val- ley” Scotty, a bill confirming | his title to his magnificent home in the famous Nevada Valley, rests at the White House. The story goes back a long way, and there are manv unexplained parts, how and where “Death Valley” Scotty mined rich ore that he once used to dazzle the country. and what hap- pened when he failed to display any more of it. It was perhaps a half century ago that threescore and ten—appeared at towns on the outskirts of the sun-burned Death Valley with chunks of rich gold ore. A gold race ensued. He settled on a little spring in the edge of Death Valley and bought—or thought he did—the holdings of a band of Indians, There he built a little shack About two earlier Albert M. Johnson, wealthy Chicago business man, was suffering ill health and went West to get in Scotty—now at or beyond his | 1900 or perhaps a year or| THE EVENING of Vast Tract of Land. Scotty. Below, Scotty himself. | better shape. In his wanderings he came upon “Death Valley” Scotty's | cabin STAR, WASHINGTO | If there is anything Scotty could do | it was cook. Johnson stayed with him | a month or six weeks. His health improved. Finally he began with Scotty to pour out hundreds of thou- sands of dollars into construction of a huge mansion on the site of the little shack near the spring. | To date, according to Senator Pitt- | man, Democrat, of Nevada, author of the bill, about $500.000 has been in- vested in the mansion, and it is not entirely complete. No other dwelling is within scores of miles. “It is a, grand place,” the Senator said, “with concrete fence posts in- closing miles of terrain.” Several years ago Death Valley was made a national monument. Scotty’s title was shown to be worthless. he and Johnson set about b | from the Government at $1 acre—the usual price for desert land. Senator Pittman’s bill, now awaiting presidential signature or veto, would give him full title to his holdings. Envoy Takes Vacation Busy Ambassador Saito Finds Time to Write Poetry. Special Dispatch to The Star. EW YORK. August 19.—If im- aginative, fun-loving. mischief- making Americans please, Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambas- sador to these United States, would be delighted to spend the remaining days of his vacation steadfastly im- mured in his Summer home at New Canaan, Conn. With all nature dreaming in the deep August silences, the shade of vine or tree but partially mitigating the ardors of the Midsummer sun diplomats withdraw mentally and physically, in so far as they may, fiom affairs of state and are well ccn- tent to let the world run itself. 1lu such mood. Japan's envoy departec from broiling—and embroiled—Wash- ington for the rural solace of the Connecticut countryside, there to relax in complete dissociation from cares that irk and and problems that per- plex. But no. First he is called from his pastoral retreat to protest against the cartoon of Emperor Hirohito in Vanity Fair, and, having accomplished this with his unfailing tact, he sighs heavily and returns to the country. But now again he is roused to deal with the fantasy of a Seattle Hunt Club in the course of a parade, in which a club member, garbed as the Japanese ruler, draws a carriage con- taining a fellow club member made up as the Emperor of Ethiopia. The incident was closed with apologies from the mayor of Seattle, and Mr. and orphans” who owned utilities stocks. He said he believed such a campaign would have more public appeal. Both Black and Schwellenbach aft- erward grilled Hopson about his con- nection with the Jones company and developed that the firm had a working | capital of $5,000, which he advanced. He refused to swear, however, that he put additional sums into the com- pany until he had consulted the rec- get that information. The committee records showed that 1926 and 1933. Committee members meanwhile ar- ranged to continue their inquiry into lobbying into the next session of Con- HIROSI SAITO. Saito is more than willing that it shall remain so. If it be permissible to employ a col- loquialism in dealing with so dignified and puissant an diplematic representative of a great nation, it might be said—indeed, has been said--of Mr. Saito that he is Japan’s diplomatic “Johnny-on-the spot” in important emergency. Sig- nificant factor in most of the confer- ences since the World War, an ob- server of the European diplomatic scene from that tower, The Hague, he was sent to the United States as Ambassador when relations involving his nation, Russia and the United States were in a pre- carious state as a result of develop- ments, mutliform and complex, in the Far East. It was a master move, and so recognized in a dozen chancelleries, where tongues wagged and heads shook and nations were advised to | prepare themselves for alarming symptoms of international uphezval. Concern was no less pronounced at | was appreciated at its highest value. | What was not expected, not even suspected, was the genius of this 49- year-old diplomat for fellowship. Hopson then was questioned about gress, indicating the utilities issue | Poise, tolerance, supreme good-nature complaints filed with cofficials of the ' might play an important part in the | Were found to be among his important Associated Press and the United Press and other press associations about stories which originated in Washing- ton about the utilities bill. | “Whenever I read anything in the | to be sceking a compromise on it be- | newspapers containing lies and which | fore adjournment of Congress. A | was unfair, that was prepared by the professional propagandists in Wash- ington.” he replied, “I tried ta get the rest of the truth in the hands of the men who wrote the stories.” | Hopson also was questioned about the purchase of stock in the Penn- | Southern Co. from a New York lawyer | named Williams, who was connected with the Irving Trust Co. and the | questioning suddenly shifted to the | activities of the Associated against | the utilities bill when it reached the| Sénate. | Hopson admitted he had sent a telegram from Miami to his New York | office suggesting that efforts of the company be concentrated on the Senate. A few minutes later there was a| flare-up when Hopson referred to his telegrams as “personal” business and made reference to the Government's publicity activities. Chairman Black rose in his seat and declared: “Mr. Hopson, you an- swer my questions. I don't want any argument. If there is anything like that again it will be taken up with the Senate. We don't want any argu- ment.” Widows and Orphans Stressed. Hopson admitted, after the flare-up, that the Associated not only sent congratulatory messages to members of Congress who voted ainst the | bill, but it also adopted an “emotional” | campaign to defeat the measure by | calling the public’s attention to the secz the law would have on “widows . 2 next presidential campaign. The utilities bill is still deadlocked in conference between the Senate and House, with Democratic leaders said major point at issue is the section— voted by the Senate—which would | characteristics. Socially charming, he | gains his ends through the exercise of sweet reason and positive refusal to become overwrought. His appraisal of himself serves better than anything an observer could write to define him. “I am,” he says, “a lazy man. I ke to write poetry—and that proves individual as the | ernational watch | So | M S — it. When I ought to be going through | diplomatic correspondence I look out | the window at the sunlight and write a poem—or revise one. I will quit Shakespeare for contract any time, although I am not crazy about it and I am a good Sunday golfer. I am always ready for a good time with people. I am nonchalant—shall I say happy-go-lucky?” | But don't be fooled. Mr. Saito does things. He is a master of the fait accompli. If you want his measure, | consider the sturm und drang of American-Japanese relationship in the past few years—and then consider the fact that even periodicals with a curi- ous sense of humor and hunt clubs lacking common sense cannot raise an international ripple beyond the power of Mr. Saito to still with a smile and a soft word or two. | (Copyright. 1935.) 'STRIKE PROPOSED TO SAVE UNIONS “Governmental Destruction of Principles” Plaint of Painters’ Appeal to Green. By the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 19.—The Ohio State Council of Painters urged | William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, last night to | call a general strike to “prevent gov- ernmental destruction of trade union- ism principles.” The action was taken after the council approved withdrawal by the Cincinnati Painters’ Union of mem- bers from Works Progress Administra- | tion projects and advocated a similar | policy by all locals and councils in | Ohio. The union protested wage scales of the W. P. A. The council also sent a protest to President Roosevelt. | Sixty-five delegates to the one- session conference, preceding the opening of the Ohio Federation of Labor Convention today, branded the W. P. A. program as “ruinous to | American standards of living.” f : . POLICE PLAN SHAKE-UP | Commissioner Valentine Reported Stirred by New York Laxity. | NEW YORK, August 19.—Dissatis- | fied with the recent functioning of | | the police department, the Times said | | today, Commissioner Lewis J. Valen- | tae has issued a drastic confidential | order designed to eliminate incom- | tents. ‘The paper said most of the 300! veterans of the department who are | over 60 probably would be forced out | by the order. It was predicted also at headquar- ters, the Times said, that wholesale | retirements on half pay would result. | require the mandatory abolition of all holding companies deemed ‘“un- necessary.” ¢ In a letter sent to the President yesterday, Representative Pettengill, Democrat, of Indiana, appealed for concessions to “honest differences of opinion” in order to break the dead- lock. Mr. Roosevelt has fought for | the mandatory Pettengill said: “There is so much in the pending bill that ought to become law that even if section 11 clause) were blessed by all the saints of politics, it ought not to be per- mitted. The securities act, if wisely and bravely administered, plus a tax on intercorporate dividends, control of intercompany profits and other regulations provided in the pending bill would wipe out superstructure companies.” abolition clause. CAPTURE NET TITLE Melvin Dower and Delwin Blue cap~ tured the senior tennis doubles cham- pionship of the District Playgrounds for Takoma Park this morning when they defeated Sam Root and Paul Borden of Chevy Chase, 6—1, 6—3. The junior championship went to Park View when its team of Doyle Royal and Harry Landsman trimmed Richard Buckingham and Angelo Bo- lenza of Chevy Chase, 6—2, 6—1, -4 (the abolition | By the Assoclated Press. Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, barely missed failing to ob- serve his 58th birthday anniversary yesterday. versary. “I expect my wife has forgotten about it, too,” said the Lone Star State legislator, now in his sec- ond term in the Senate. One of the Senate's best story tellers and sarcastic baiters of the opposition, Connally said his y- haired Texan's long legislative suit has been oil and money. He intro- duced the bill that brought about the 59-cent dollar by & reduction in the Senator Tom Connally Forgets 58th Birthday and Is Reminded Democrat | He had to be reminded of his anni- | gold content. He also was author of the “hot oil” act which prohibited interstate shipment of oil produced in excess of output allowed by State| laws. 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