Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1940, Page 3

Peace Common Aim, " British Ambassador Tells Japanese Better Relations Between London and Tokio Are Predicted by Craigie By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 28.—British Am- bassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigle, in a surprisingly conciliatory speech, predicted today an improvement in relations between Great Britain and Japan. The two nations, he said, “ulti- mately are striving for the same objective, namely, a lasting peace and preservation of our institutions from extraneous, subversive in- , fluences.” At the same time he announced that he and Lady Craigie would leave in mid-April for a 2!2-month trip to the United States on a “pri- vate holiday.” Arita in Audience. , The Ambassador’s distinguished audience at a luncheon of the Japan - British Society included Prince Chichibu, Princess Chichibu | and Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita. “Bearing in mind the declared Intentions of the Japanese govern- ment and the measure of success already achieved.” Sir Robert said, “I have a definite feeling of cun- fidence in the future of British- Japanese relations." He said there was isfaction in the thought that the innate good sense of our two na- tions * * * has prevented animosities of the moment from hardening into deep-seated resentment or pre- manent estrangement.” Divergences Serious. “It would be idle to deny that there have been serious divergences of national policy and outlook,” Sir Robert continued, “but what has struck me most is the extent to » Which the real differences have been overlaid by a mass of misunder- standing, misrepresentation and, all too often, fostéred by the unwelcome attentiofis of interested third parties. “Already there is growing in each « country appreciation of the extent | to which thfe actions of the other | have been villified and misrepre- | sented.” » The Ambassador listed reverence for the throne, religious tolerance and respect for old traditions and customs as attributes Great Britain and Japan have in common Strive for Same Objective. “Japan and Britain are two mari- time powers on the fringe of conti- nents and vitally concerned in events on those continents,” he noted also. | “The methods may in some cases‘ differ, but both countries ultimately | are striving for the same objec-| tive, namely, lasting peace and pres- ervation of our institutions from ex- traneous, subversive influences. “It is surely not beyond the powers | of constructive statesmanship to bring the aims of their national pol- {cies into full harmony.” ,Deny Speech Hints Recognition for Wang BONDON, March 28 (#).—Foreign | Office sources said today the speech of Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie in Tokio, considered un- usually conciliatory in some quar- sters, did not foreshadow British | recognition of the new Chinese re- gime Japan is establishing under Wang Ching-wei. It was asserted that Sir Robert’s reference to “the unwelcome atten- tions of interested third parties” re- ferred to German activities. Other- wise official comment was withheld. Craigie Talk Surprise To Observers Here Sources close to the State Depart- ment exhibited surprise today at news from Tokio that Britain's Am- bassador to Japan had declared the | two nations were striving for the same objective. While there was no official com- ment, one informed observer drew attention to the disparity between the British envoy's declaration and +one delivered by the American Am- bassador to Japan, Joseph C. Grew, last October. Mr. Grew then told the Japanese that their China ad- venture and infringement of Ameri- can rights were keenly resented by the American people. Another observer speculated on Whether Britain might be trying to counterbalance Russia’s assistance to Germany by wooing the Japanese, to the detriment of Russia. Two other questions were raised: 1. If Congress should authorize the proposed embargo on the ship- ment of war materials to Japan, where would Britain stand on the matter? 2. Is Britain tending to condone the invasion of China, and thereby slienate the support of Americans “room for sat- | THE EVENING MONTGOMERY, ALA.—ARMY TRIES NEW AERIAL “FLASH”—This unretouched aerial photo- graph was made from a United States Army plane at night with the aid of a flashlight bomb loaded with 25 pounds of powder and synchonized with a camera in the plane. was dropped from a height of 4,000 feet and exploded at 3,500 feet. student at the Maxwell Field post-graduate school, invented this new night-picture process. . STAR, . WASHINGTON, D. The “bomb” Maj. George W. Goddard, a —A. P. Wirephoto. Lincoln (Continued From First Page.) | publican group offering its name to hard-shelled reactionaries. “Progressives. will not be misled by the deceptive propaganda of an organization which pretends to be progressive, but which in reality has absolutely no kinship with the Progressive party and progressive principles.” The Kyle statement hits at the i tactics employed in the interest of | the Dewey candidacy. It does not | make any suggestion that Progres- | sives go into the Republican pri- | mary and vote for Senator Vanden- berg’s delegate slate. However, the Vandenberg supporters say that it will be interpreted as urging the Progressives to oppose Mr. Dewey and to that extent it will help the Michigan Senator. The only former Progressive office- holder to make an open statement for any group of delegate candi- |dates is former Representative | Boileau, who delivered a radio ad- | dress Tuesday urging suppart for the {‘Roosevelt-Farley” slate, backed by Charles E. Broughton, Demo- | cratic national committeeman, and Leo Crowle; Mr. Boileau gave it as his opinion that the Broughton- Crowley Democratic group is the official Democrtic organization of the State. Another Democrtic group—head- ed by Gustave J. Keller and Ed- ward Curry—claims to have the only Simon-pure Roosevelt delegate slate in the field. It, too, has made its appeal for support of the La Follette Progressives, asserting that “daily it becomes more apparent that only Roosevelt can defeat Republican re- action in America in 1940.” It charges that the “Roosevelt-Farley” | slate is really for Farley and not for renomination of the President. La Follette Resolution Cited. The Garner people, in their cam- | paign literature and on the stump, are calling especial attention to the fact that Senator “Bob” La Follette in 1928 put through the Senate an anti-third term resolution. Said Senator La Follette the day the resolution was adopted by the Sen- ate: sible effect, for good or ill, upon the political fortunes of President Coolidge or any other individual or any party or faction. My concern was and is for the maintenance of a traditional principle as old as the Government itself: That no man should hold the presidential office for a longer period than eight years, or more than once employ the king- ly power and prestige of the office to renominate himself and thus de- stroy that principle.” The Garnerites ask how on earth a La Follette Progressive, in the face of that pronouncement made by the leader of their party—even though it was made a dozen years ago—can now support Roosevelt for a third term. Nevertheless, unless those who know the tendencies of the Progres- sives are mistaken, a lot of them will support the Roosevelt delegates in the primary and will cast their ballots for the President in the who denounce it? — preference vote against Vice Presi- Ma Ferguson Puts Out Feeler For Third Term By the Associated Press. DALLAS, March 28—Over the prairies, rolling hills and mountains of Texas floats Mrs. Miriam A. (Ma) Ferguson's trial balloon for a third *term as Governor. The 64-year-old grandmother re- feased it in a blustery wind that al- most battered voters to their knees. Bhe asked that Texans send her a postal card at her Austin home if they want her to run. Off and on, Ma Ferguson and her husband, James E. Ferguson, have been hitching at the Governor’s rack since 1914. Twice Ma was elected, the only an Governor of Texas. Twice her 68-year-old husband was elected. ‘The first time, as he took office in 1915, he said to the Legislature and ¢hrong attending his inauguration: “If you love me like I love you, no knife can cut our love in two.” ‘Two years later, early in his sec- ond term, he was impeached and ousted, barred forever from holding public office in Texas. On that September day in 1917, after the Senate found Ferguson guilty of misconduct in office, one of his attorneys stood in the Senate before the president, and 10-acre voice: -ism Wifll be ‘an issue in tical campaigns of Texas just | Jemeie as James E. Ferguson re- | in the land of the living.” That prophecy has been borne out thus far. as Governor Ma’s first race was based on a plea to clear her husband’s name. An amnesty bill was passed but later was repealed. Dan Moody, implacable foe of Ferguson-ism, defeated her for a second term. Ross S. Sterling, Houston oil man, beat her in a comeback bid in 1930. He asserted she freed too many con- victs, paroling and pardoning 3,500 of the State's normal 6,000 prisoners. Mrs. Ferguson came back in the next election, upsetting Sterling in 1932. Mrs. Ferguson says if she runs her platform will call for less dis- crimination against people over 45 years of age; a gross receipts tax to aid the aged and a third term for President Roosevelt. “Rcidity Makes My Joints Ache” Don't let arthritis settle in your bones. Doctors recommend & nat- ural alkaline water that tends to neutralize pain - causing toxins. Phone MEtro. 1062 for Informa- tion and booklet. Mountain Valley Mineral Water Bottied at Hot Springs, Arkansas MEt. 1088 1405 K 8. N.W. “I did not offer the resolution with | any concern whatsoever for its pos- | dent Garner. Particularly will this be true in the urban areas. Out in the country districts the farmers are no longer so strong for the President, it is said. The Vandenberg managers make no secret that they hope for some Progressive support — Vandenberg, whom they name now a progressive Republican. But even more do they hope for the support of a lot of Republicans in the State who are inclined to favor Senator Taft of Ohio for the presidential nomina-| tion. Senator Taft has kept out of | the primary contest himself. | Just how easy it is for the | Progressives to vote in the Demo-| cratic or Republican primary is | understandable when it is explained | | that every voter, when he goes to | a polling place, is handed two bal- | lots, joined together by fasteners. One is a Republican, the other a Democratic ballot. The voter takes these ballots into the voting booth, marks one and folds it over. He also folds over the ballot he does| not use. When he comes out of | the booth he drops the one he has marked into the ballot box, and the other into a waste basket. The two ballots are identical in color and appearance from the reverse side, Neither Senator La Follette nor his brother, former Gov. Philip La Follette, and not any of the Progres- sive party leaders have sounded off in support of any presidential candi- date. It is officially stated at Pro- gressive headquarters that no state- ment will be made. What is being done via the grapevine, if anything | has not come to the surface. It has been suspected, however, that Senator La Follette might be willing to throw as many votes as he can to his friend, Senator Vandenberg, who stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the arms embargo fight C.ertainly none of the La Follette Progressives have come out for Dewey. Play Careful Game. The Progressives are playing a careful game. Senator La Follette comes up for re-election next No- vember. He will get the Progres- sive nomination for Senator with- out opposition. Phil La Follette, although he has made no announce- ment yet, may run again for Gov- ernor—against Gov. Heil, who took La Follette into camp in 1938. They are not seeking enemies, whom they | might make if they favored one one Democratic slate or one Re- publican slate against another. If they are to win, they must have support outside of the Progressive party. The defeats the Progressives sus- tained at the polls in 1938, when the Republicans elected a Governor and a Senator and seven Republican members of the House, disrupted the party to a considerable extent. Their purpose now is to rebuild— and they do not wish to make any more enemies than they have to at this stage of the game. Dr. L. F. Wilbur, 33, Dies; Former Navy Chief's Son By the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, March 28.—Dr. Leonard Fiske Wilbur, 33, son of Curtis Dwight Wilbur, United States Secretary of the Navy from 1924 to 1929, died Sunday of typhus fever at his post at the American Board Mission Hospital in Taiku, Shansi Province, according to reports reach- ing Peiping. Dr. Wilbur fell ill at a time when his colleagues were down with in- fluenza and other ailments. Two days after he was stricken with typhus Dr. Wilbur forced Chinese assistants to carry him to the operating theater, where he per- formed a successful Caesarian on a | Chinese woman. Dr. Wilbur died 12 days later despite attentions of doctors from neighboring missions. ‘With him at the time of his death were his wife, Jean Spaulding Wilbur, and two small children. PONTIAC SIX—EIGHT—TORPEDO TRADE NOW. LIBERAL ALLOWANCE H J BROWN PONTIAC, Inc. Direct Factery Dealers Ressiyn, Va. (Just Across Key Bridge) PIOPOSAIS COMM ] (ONERS. D. GTON. March 22 BRI se-le rfmmm 1 be recelved ‘st Room orer Butiding, e 108" ptne AW 6. 1540, and then Bublicis opened for erading. paving. curb- Ing and otherwise |mproving various road- ways with about 42.000 square yards of d cement enncreu pavement, or Apply 427, District !orspmmm and specifications. ‘coMM NERS, D. C.. WAEHXNGTOE March 1080 Seated broposals e -t" Room 320. District Bullding, o'clock am. et | ever, ruled after an War (qgntinpgq _Pzgn_nvl‘?‘lrscr Page.) then fire and smoke streamed out of the rear of the bomber. As the flaming plane started down witnesses, expecting a crash, were surprised that the pilot could make a landing. No burns were found on the hody of the man killed by jumping. It was believed his companions did not attempt to use their parachutes | because of the low altitude. Burning fiercely, the plane was| consumed in less than an hour after | landing. Since there were no ex-| plosions it was believed the homber carried no bombs. Release of Sub Sought. The German submarine which became stranded in Norwegian waters 2 miles off Odden was towed into the harbor of Mandal, on the southern tip of Norway, by a Nor- wegian warship. | The submarine was identified as the U-21, 250 tons, and naval au- thorities believed she was bemg, used as a training craft since there | | were nearly 50 men aboard, almost twice the normal complement. Many of the crew were under 20 years| of age. The German Minister to Oslo | asked that the submarine and crew | be freed on the grounds that the, vessel took refuge in territorial waters because of bad weather and engine trouble. The Norwegian admiralty, how- inquiry that | the submarine was stranded due to an error in navigation and that en- | gine trouble resulted from the| stranding. | Elaborating on land action yes- | terday, the French command said | that bad weather restricted air ac- tivity, but two German recon- naissance flights were made in the | west and north and French planes | again flew deep into Germany. On the French and German banks of the Rhine six miles north of Basel, Switzerland, meanwhile, powerful electric beacons were lighted by an “unofficial agreement” between France and Germany to warn bel- ligerent warplanes away from neu- tral Swiss territory. German Vessel Sunk. The British Air Ministry an- nounced last night that a scouting plane of the British coastal com- mand had attacked and sunk a German patrol vessel in the North sea. The semi-official British Informa- | tion Service said British planes dived from the clouds against heavy anti- aircraft fire and aimed bombs at one of four vessels. One plane re- ported a direct hit. “There was a big explosion. Be- (oM Wholesale Discounts Up to 50 Cents a Ton Urged for Coal Code Trial Examiner Files Price Report With Bituminous Divisicn THURSDAY, Trial Examiner W. A. Shipman filed with the Bituminous Coal Di- vision today recommendations for discounts ranging from 10 to 50 cents which mine owners may allow registered coal wholesale distribu- tors when minimum prices are finally established. The discounts depend on the size and kind of coal, the district in which it is produced and the sec- tion in which it is sold. A flat dis- count of 10 cents a ton would be allowed on coal resold to railroad companies, regardless of all other factors® If these discounts are allowed, of- ficials said the beneficiaries would be wholesalers who deal in not less than one carload lots. The scale would serve, in effect, to fix whole- sale profits on soft coal wherever mined and distributed. Howard A. Gray, director of the division in the Interior Department, announced he will hear arguments on exceptions to the examiner's recommendations on April 18 at the Washington Hotel. Mr. Shipman, who has been conducting hearings on the discounts since November 27, filed his report yesterday. The fixing of distributors’ dis- counts is one of the final steps to- ward making minimum soft coal prices throughout the country. Three different discount zones are recommended for districts ‘one to eight which produce 70 per cent of the Nation's soft coal. These dis- tricts comprise the fields in Penn- sylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Eastern Kentucky and Northeastern Ten- nessee, Maryland, Virginia and the Dis- trict are covered in zone A, which governs the coal shipments to desti- nations also in Connecticut, Dela- ware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsyivania Rhode Island, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. Following are the discounts recommended for coal mined in| the eight districts and sold in this | | A zone: Lump coal, 2 inches or larger in size; double screened coal, with | smallest size 2 inches or larger and | domestic mine run, 17 cents a ton. Lump coal, under 2 inches in size; double screened coal, with smallest size under 2 inches, 15 cents a ton. | All other sizes of coal 12 cents a Discounts for the two other zones in this principal coal-producing area | run slightly higher. Mrs. Fiermonte vcontlnued From First Page.) arrived here by an early morning | plane. returned to New York, probably to- night or tomorrow morning. Shortly after her graduation from a New York finishing school Mrs. Fiermonte—then Miss Madeline | Force—married Col. | home in Newport, R. I. He was old enough to be her father and had been forbidden to remarry under terms of a divorce by his first wife, Mrs. Ava Willing Astor. She was married to William K. Dick, multi-millionaire New York | banker, in 1916. They were divorced in 1933. marriage, was estimated at $4,500,000. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Force. When | the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage Col. Astor placed his young wife—soon to become a | mother—in a lifeboat from which she was subsequently rescued by the liner Carpathia. On August 14, 1912, John .]acob Astor, the sixth of the name, was | born to her. By the terms of her come of a trust fund of $5,000,000 | as long as she remained a widow. i In the event of her remarriage, it was stipulated, the fund should go to William Vincent Astor. The will also provided a $3,000,000 trust fund for any child which might survive him. | After the Reno divorce from Mr. fore the flame and smoke had died down, the British aircraft had flown | into a cloud to escape the storm of the crew saw but three ships.” the service said. STEUART SERV sively. In Italy she met Fiermonte. 1933, after having been refused per- I mission to land in Bermuda. ICE SATISFIES REPAIH NOW! Lincoln-Zephyr Does your car rattle? Shimmy? Steer hard? Stubborn about starting? Pump oil? Brakes poor? Need o nnaml overhail? The safest answer is STEUART SERVICE. 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Suter, executive secretary of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation for the Dis- trict of Columbia, for many of the District’s ills. Addressing a meeting held last night in the E street branch of the Y. W, C. A, under auspices of the family welfare division, Washington Council of Social Agencies, Mr. Suter declared: “Overnight, Washington has grown from a small city to a metropolis, but the Federal Govern- ment has not increased its contribu- tion to the expenses of the District in proportion to the growth of the community.” Only through obtaining the right to vote here will citizens be able to solve the District'’s problems, Mr. Suter said. Relief Problem Discussed. Lack of sufficient funds for welfare | and relief work here was stressed by a number of others at the meet- ing. Robert E. Bondy, director of the Board of Public Welfare, said there are 37,000 persons registered for work with the District of Colum- bia Center; 11,000 employed on W. P. A. projects, 5,700 receiving unem- ployment compensation, and 6,500 receiving relief from the Public Assistance Division. Paul Edwards, director of the District W. P. A, asserted he be- lieved in economy, “but not to the extent that citizens lose sight of | the fact that there is a great human need in this community which must oe met intelligently with consmxmve | criticism from the citizens.” Mr. Edwards sugested that an in- | telligent solution of the unemploy- | ment problem requires information | about the unemployed, such as where | they came from, how long they h!ve ‘been here and their skills. ! \ William Savin Speaks. | { William Savin, director of the | Family Service Association, said that | | when people suffer too long, as a| | result of poverty, they must have | custodial care, either in penal in- | stitutions, hospitals or sanitariums | for the insane. He expressed the ’beuer it is false economy not to provide adequate relief, since the | latter is cheaper than eventual eom- mitment to institutions. | Others who took part in the dis- \ cussions included Morris Klass, di- | rector of the Jewish Social Serv-| ice Society; Msgr. Lawrence Shehan, 3 director of Catholic Charities; Mrs. Horace Phelps, chairman of the Welfare Committee of the Federa- | tion of Citizens’ Associations; Harry | Wender of the Southwest Citizens’ Association and Dorsey Hyde, jr., chairman of the family welfare di- vision, Council of Social Agencies. | The importance of co-operation to | obtain funds and facilities for wel- | | fare needs here was stressed. {Airplane Used to Keep Frost From Orchards By the Associated Press. PINEHURST, N. C., March 28.— Harold Bachman kept the frost away from S. B. Chapin’s peach or- chards with an airplane. 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