Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1940, Page 4

'Japan’s Report Omits .Reference fo Defense ‘Of Mandate Islands " Neglects to Tell League " Whether Pacific Group 7' lIs Being Fortified N By ANDRUE BERDING, R Associated Press Stan Writer Japan, in a report to the League - of Nations on her 1938 administra- tlon of the Pacific mandate islands, has omitted all reference to whether . or not she is fortifying them, it was -learned yesterday. This is in sharp contrast to the 1937 report which - said categorically that they were not < deing fortified. &) A copy of Japan’s report was re- ceived by the State Department several days ago from the American * Embassy in Tokio. Japan is required *by a treaty with the United States to provide this Government with a —duplicate of the report. ¢ The islands—623 in number in 2 three groups, the Mariana, the Caro- » line and Marshall—were taken by e Japan from Germany during the + World War. & Pelew, one of the islands, is about + 400 miles east of the Philippines, and > the American island of Guam is + surrounded by Japanese mandate Extensive Work on Harbors. Congress refused last year to vote funds for harbor improvements at Guam on the grounds that Japan . might consider it a provocative action. The Japanese reported to the League of Nations that they had made extensive harbor improve- ments in the mandated islands. ‘The 1938 report was filed belatedly. When it was late in arriving, the State Department instructed the American Embassy in Tokio to in- quire whether it would be forth- coming. Existing treaties between Japan and the Western powers, including the United States, preclude Japan from fortifying the islands, in the opinion of officials here. Consequently, it is believed the permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations may decide to ask Japan a direct question on forti- fication of the islands. The commis- sion meets at Geneva, Switzerland, in June. Construction Plans. On the subject of harbor improve- ments, the 1938 report says: “The bays and harbors of the {slands are mostly surrounded by coral reefs and cannot be made into good ports of commerce without a fair amount of improvement works. Accordingly, plans were laid for the | construction of harbors in succes- sive stages to begin with, the har- bor of Tanapak, in Saipan (not far to the north of Guam), the most important island in respect of pro- ductive industry, was constructed and a pier was built.” ‘The report adds that the increase in the number and size of vessels calling at the port made it neces- sary to enlarge it. Works were started in 1938 under a six-year plan involving a total cost of 1,860,~ 000 yen. The report says that at the port of Marakal, in the Island of Palau, a channel was cut for easier and better passage by steam launches and a wharf was constructed. The work proved inadequate and au- thorities decided upon the construc- tion of the port of Palau extending over six years, costing altogether 2,673,000 yeh. Work started in 1936. e report shows that only 12 foreigners (no Americans) visited the islands in 1938. The visitors were one Filipino, two Dutchmen, two White Russians, two French- men, four Dutch East Indians and one Australian. (Last month a fishing boat from the Island of Saipan was wrecked at Guam. The Gov- ernor of Guam asked the author- ities at Saipan for permission to . 8send the sailors to Saipan on an American boat. The Saipanese preferred to take off the sailors on the high seas and the Ameri- can boat did not get to Saipan.) Trade Increase Reported. The report said that “trade in the territory has been showing signs of healthy development,” but pub- lished only the 1937 figures. Total trade during 1937 was over 61,500, 000 yen, the report added, an in- crease of about 39 per cent, com- pared with the preceding year. Other statements in the reports: No duties “are, in principle, im- posed on exports or imports to and from Japan.” Customs duties are imposed on imports from foreign oountries. Chief articles of export are phos- phate, sugar, copra, dried bonito and alcohol. Most imports come from Japan, after which follow the United States, Fxench Indo-China, British Indo-China and Siam. Publications in the islands are epntrolled by “the rues for the con- trol of newspapers in the South Bea Islands.” “Importation of news- papers into the territory from for- eign countries is also controlled by tie same rufs, although there has arisen no occasion for invoking or applying them.” Japanese Exceed Natives. Japanese exceed the number of natives. The total population as of June, 1938, was 121,128, of whom 70,141 were Japanese, 50,868 were natives and' 119 were foreigners, chiefly missionaries. Spaniards led all the foreigners, fc..owed by Chi- nese and Germans. Japanese has become the lan- guage of the people. No one in the territory has per- mission to sell or manufacture guns or explosives. “Natives are not per- ,mitted to drink liquors except on ceremonial occasions and for keep- :nz health.” Narcotics are prohib- ted. The report described an intensive effort by the Japanese to educate the natives and better their sanitary and health conditions. There are 26 public schools, with 9,527 pupils. Hospitals have been built in the principal islands, and public and itinerant physicians administer to the natives, it said. Mass to Be Tuesday For Charles F. Pace Requiem mass for Charles F. Pace, chief financial clerk of the ~@gnate, who died Wednesday, will held at 10 am. Tuesday at St. ~RJul’s Catholic Church, Fifteenth . V streets N\W. “ eral services were held yester- ’% at Hysong’s funeral parlors, - burial in the vault at Mount " Olivet Cemetery. - b | the Plains” and “The River,” and THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, STUDY OF AID NEEDED BY DEFENDANTS INITIATED—Miss Beatrice Clephane, director of the Legal Aid Bureau, shown yes-~ terday with Judge George C. Aukam, presiding judge of the Municipal Court, where she sat with him at the bench to begin a survey to see what legal and soclal aid is needed by indigent defendants who appear before the court in landlord and tenant cases. ~—Star Staff Photo. "The Fight for Life,” U.S.Film, inDemand Here and Abroad Officials Considering Releasing Picture To Highest Bidder By BLAIR BOLLES. ‘The extravagant praise accorded by motion picture critics to the Fed- eral Government's first full-length movie, “The Fight for Life,” has| brought to the United States Film Service in the Office of Education requests for distribution rights from the United Kingdom, France, South America, Canada and the Philip- pines, as well as from 16 commercial distributors in the United States, it was learned yesterday. ‘The European interest rests on two considerations: The satisfaction of European audiences with the Government'’s two previous dramati- zation films, “The Plow That Broke ico. As a background for the pic- ture drama, through it runs music arranged by Virgil Thompson. Mr. Lorentz in 1935, at 29, was & movie critic who believed- that he could make pictures that were dif- ferent. He sold himself to Rex Tug- well, then head of the Resettlement Administration. At first Hollywood scorned him, but recently Hollywood | groups have offered him as much as $2,000 a week to quit his $6,500-a- year job with the Government. the fact that because of blackouts, the popularity of the motion picture has increased greatly since the first | two months of the war. In those two months the movies' stock dropped because the civilians in the | warring nations were still unad- justed to life with blackouts. Weigh Distribution Plan. Seeing the possibility that “The Fight for Life” may become a steady source of revenue for the Govern- ment, the film service is contemplat- ing a suggestion that it grant the American distribution rights to the highest bidder. This policy has been followed in the past for foreign dis- tribution. But in the United States the “Plow” and the “River” were given by the Government to what- ever theaters wished to show them. Four thousand theaters showed the “River,” one theater in New York City nine times. While it computed the * ble income the Government could derive by leasing the “Fight for Life,” the Film Service at the same time faced the prospect of liquidation on July 1. The House Appropriations Com- mittee recommended against sup- plying $160,000 to keep the U. 8. Film Service going in the next fiscal year, on the ground that no statu- tory authority existed for its opera- tions. Pare Lorentz, the director of the service, visited Washington yester- day from his New York headquar- ters when he heard of the Appro- priations Committee action. He said that General Counsel Foley of the Treasury Department in July, 1939, issued a memorandum approv- ing the statutory foundation for the Film Service and that the memo- randum in turn was approved by the General Accounting Qffice. The service was started under the Re- settlement Administration,” moved to the National Emergency Council in 1938 and was transferred to the Office of Education under the second reorganization plan last year. “The Fight for Life” is a 70- minute motion picture of the strug- gle to save the lives of the women and children at childbirth—the women and children in.the “one- third ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-housed” group. Mr. Lorentz wrote it, pro- duced it, and directed it. It opened its rum 10 days ago in New York. It was taken from the book by Paul de Kruif with the same name. Built Service Around Music. It is expected that within two weeks the Procurement Division of the Treasury will issue invitations to producers in the United States to bid cn the rights to “The Fight for Life.” While these preparations are under way, the Films Service has heard of a'new reaction to its sec- ond picture, “The River,” released in 1937 and still being shown in this country and in the United Kingdom, The Rev. Warren S. Stone, pastor of the Kanawha Presbyterian Church in Charleston, W. Va., built a church service around music taken from “The River,” which dramatizes the Mississippi and its meaning of the lives of those persons along its banks, from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mex- Dorgan Calls Russell Appointment ‘Insult’ By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 23—Thomas 3. Dorgan, father of Massachusetts’ teachers’ oath law, protested today the appointment of Bertrand Rus- sell, famous English mathematician, as a lecturer on philosophy at Har- vard on the ground he “advocates companionate marriage.” In a letter to President James B. Conant of Harvard, Mr. Dorgan characterized the appointment, an- nounced a month ago, as “an in- sult to every American citizer. in Massachusetts.” Mr. Dorgan, now a legislative con- tact man for the city of Boston, re- minded the Harvard president that under the Massachusetts constitu- tion the university’s instructors were obliged to “promote Christian- ity” and “teach the principles of charity and virtue to youth en- trusted to their care.” College officials said Mr. Dorgan’s protest would have to await Presie Yo 7 During this sale only $199.50 Preserve New Deal By Choosing Garner, Sheppard Asks Parfy Vice President’s Record Cited as Two States Await Primary Test man,” said Senator Guffey. “He has done splendid’ work for the Demo- cratic party. I am confident that he will always do the proper thing.” ‘ Senator Van Nuys argued that Mr. Parley should give up the chairma: )y -he had dmfinmu, other candidates. ' Indiana has s favorite son candidate in the person of Federal Security -Administrator McNutt. Mr, Farley’s friends said yesterday they saw no more reason for him to relinquish his position as national chairman than for President Roose- velt to resign the presidency, if the President is to become a candidate for renomination. They contended the President has a tremendous ad- vantage, from his office, over other potential candidates for the presi- dential nomination at the 1840 Democratic convention, ‘The third termers may ponder the advisability of breaking not only with Mr. Garner, who made it possi- ble for President Roosevelt to win his first nomination for Chief Execu- tive by releasing the Texas and Cali- fornia delegates pledged to him, but with Mr. Farley, who managed the Roosevelt campaigns in both 1932 and 1936. 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