By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
NJ {LITARISTS of Japan, led by a
i group of young army officers who
were Impatient with the government's
policy of economy and restraint in the
rom soda ; matter of advances
in China and Mon-
golia, suddenly staged
a revolt in Tokyo with
the avowed purpose
of eliminating liberal
statesmen whom they
considered obstacles
to the restoration of
a military dictator
ship under imperial
rule. Seizing certaln
government bulldings
Emperor in the capital, they
Hirohito rushed to the homes
of the listed statesmen and succeeded
in assassinating four—Premier Admiral
Keisuke Okada; Admiral Viscount Ma-
koto, former premier and lord keeper
of the privy seal; Gen. Jotaro Wata-
nabe, chief of military education, and
Koreyiko Takahasil, finance minister.
Several others were wounded, and
servanis of all of them were killed.
Emperor Hirohito immediately took
charge of the situation, called a coun-
¢il of state and made Fumio Goto tem-
porary premier. Martial law was pro-
claimed in Tokyo and the loyal army
forces, largely outnumbering the reb-
els, surrounded the latter in the build:
ings they had taken, Meanwhile the
second fleet, also loyal, up to
the mouth of Tokyo bay, Its guns doml-
nating the city.
During the first day of the uprising
an agreement was reached that the
rebel troops should return to thelr bar-
racks, but this they refused to do.
Then the censorship, temporarily
raised, was clamped down again. Dip-
lomatic quarters in Shanghal received
a report that Gen. Sadao Araki, former
minister of war, had established a mili-
tary dictatorship. He has been the
most chauvinistic of all Japan's high
army officers
Political observers In Tokyo belleved
that the emperor's advisers would urge
the right wing elements to be given
a chance to form a cabinet, to see
whether they would be able to con-
duct the government.
Even liberal political sources shared
this belief, confident that such an ex-
periment would produce a strong pub
lic reaction to the left, permitting early
restoration of a normal government,
S up the new farm bill, substitute
for the invalidated AAA, both houses
accepted the revised measure and it
was sent to the White House, Senator
Borah argued in vain especially against
the so-called “consumers” amendment
which authorizes the “re-establishment,
at as rapid a rate as the secretary of
agriculture determines to be practic-
able and In the general public interest,
of the ratio between the purchasing
power of the net income per person on
farms and the income per person not
on farms that prevailed during the five
year period August, 1000, to July, 1014."
Speaking of the extraordinary dele.
gation of power to the secretary of
agriculture, Senator Borah sald: “We
are now asked to confer upon him a
task which would require omnipotence,
It is manifestly on the face of it an ab-
surdity.
“This idea that even by divine pow-
er you can go out and equalize the pur.
chasing power of the producer and
equalize the purchasing power of the
laborer, when above them both is a
power which Is fixing a rule under
which they live, is to me Inconcelvable.”
moved
N THE ground that the seed loan
requirements of farmers can be
met from relief funds on hand, Presi.
dent Roosevelt vetoed the £30.000,000
crop production bill passed by con
gress, In his message he called atten.
tion to his budget message urging that
congress provide additional taxes if it
enacted legislation Imposing charges
not covered In the budget. He sald he
expected, last year, that such loans as
the seed loan would be tapered off. He
realizes they still are necessary but
added:
“1 am fully convinced that the Im-
mediate and actual need to whiek I
have referred can be met during the
year 1038 by an expenditure of funds
materially Jess than that proposed In
the bill under discussion.”
UMMARY removal of Maj. Gen,
Johnson Hagood from his com
mand of the Eighth Corps area be.
cause of his critical expressions con.
cerning the WPA and
other New Deal activi
ties stirred up a pret.
ty row in Washing.
ton. Gen. Malin Craig,
chief of staff, signed
the order to Hayood,
Ly order of the see
retary of war and the
President. The Re
publicans in congress,
backed up by Tom a
Blanton of Texas and :
some other Democrats, Gen. Hagood
assailed the action vigorously, and
Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island In.
troduced a resolution for am Inquiry
into the Incident on behalf of “free
speech.”
Breaking its “usual rule of silence”
the War department made public a let
ter from General Craig to Secretary
Dern, declaring Hagood's record was
“marked by repeated examples of lack
of self-contrel, irresponsible and in-
temperate statements.”
Hagood had told a house subcommit-
tee that It was “almost impossible” to
get WPA's “stage money™ for “any-
thing worthwhile,” These remarks,
sald Cralg, “can only be characterized
as flippant In tone and entirely un.
called for and designed to bring ridi-
cule and contempt upon elivil agencies
of the government.”
Accusing him of “thinly velled” op-
position and “contempt” toward War
department policies In the past, Cralg
pointed out as “contemptuous” Ha-
good’'s references to CCO activities as
“hobbies,” “collecting postage stamps”
and “taking an interest in butterflies.”
Seeking a quick settlement of the
controversy, Senator Byrnes, Demo-
crat, and Representative McSwain,
Democratic chairman of the house mil
itary affairs committee, both of whom
hail from Hagood's home state of
South Carolina, arranged a conference
with Secretary of War Dern. This
had no result.
ENATOR VANDENBERG of Mich
igan has formally declined to en-
ter the Ohio Presidential primary, but
does not bar himself from considera.
tion for the Republican nomination.
Writing to the Republican state come
mittee of Ohlo, In reply to an inquiry
as to whether he would run, Vandenberg
asserted his “sole Interest” in the
publican convention was that it should
make “the wisest possible decisions
respecting both party leadership and
party policies”
To conform to Ohlo law, the Borah
forces have found the required “sec.
ond cholce,” This is Frank BE. Gan-
nett of Rochester, N, Y., publisher of a
chain of newspapers, who has agreed
to fight alongside the Idaho senator
for Ohlo's 52 delegates, to recelve the
votes of those pledged to Borah should
the nomination of the latter be blocked
in the convention, Mr. Gannett has
expressed the belief that Borah 1s the
one member of the party “most likely
to recover the upstate New York
vote,” and he also holds the view that
the Idahoan would be the strongest
candidate In the agricultural states,
V HILE walting for Instructions as
to what to do In the matter of
taxation, the members of the house
and many others—directed thelr atten.
tion to the Investiga-
tion of the activities
of the Townsend pen-
sion plan promoters
Speaker Byrns ap
pointed on the probing
committee of eight two
avowed Townsendites
~John H. Tolan, Dem-
ocrat, and Samuel L.
Collins, Republican,
both from California,
The chairman is J.
Jasper Bell of Mis-
souri, Democrat, author of the resolu
tion for the Investigation. It was un-
derstood that Mr. Bell had already
gathered a mass of Information to
substantiate the charge that the
Townsend plan has become a huge
racket. The leaders of both parties In
congress have been getting rather
nervous over the growth of the Towne
send movemen! and are glad to see it
attacked ; but some impartial observ.
ers call attention to the fact that the
way the committee is going after it
smacks of unconstitutional abridge
ment of the right to petition.
It was expected that one of the first
questions to be considered by the com-
mittee would be the salaries received
by Dr. Francis E. Townsend, author of
the scheme, and R. E. Clements, for
mer California real estate operator,
co-founder and general manager,
SENATOR NYE of North Dakota is
determined that the war profits
bill devised by his munitions commit.
tee shall be brought up for considera-
tion at this session. Indeed he more
than threatens a filibuster to bring
this about, if necessary, to get the
measure out of the hands of a finance
subcommittee which Is headed by Tom
Connally of Texas, one of Nye's bit
terest opponents,
The Nye bill provides for stiff taxes
on earnings and virtual confiscation
of individual Income above $10,000 a
year in time of war. In addition it
would empower the President virtual
ly to conscript Industrial leaders to
maintain production of essential war
supplies,
lo.
a songs
J. Jasper Bell
{JNEXPECTEDLY revolting against
administration direction, the house
voted down, 172 to 164, the bill to
exempt from state and local taxation
bank stocks held by the Reconstrue
tion corporation, A similar measure
passed the senate 38 to 28 the day be
fore. The defeat was surprising be
cause the measure had been unank
mously supported by Republicans and
ts on the house banking com.
mittee. Democratic leaders expressed
the belief that the measure would not
he revived,
The legislation was written after
the Supreme court held In a Mary
land bank ease that the stocks held
by RFC were subject to taxation,
OV. EUGENE TALMADGE is yir-
|
not enact an appropriation bill, but he
to carry on,
honor treasury warrants,
porary operation of fiscal affairs,
Then depository banks, the United
States post office and the state's at-
torney general took a hand. Mall ad.
dressed to the suspended officers was
impounded,
tax remittances; all but one of the
depository banks refused to honor
state checks pending a court decision
on the legal status of de facto offi
cials; and Attorney General M. J. Yeo-
mans, once cited by Talmadge as an
authority for his actions, declared his
position had been misinterpreted.
EATH took from the scene two
men prominent in national life
Albert Cabell Ritchie, governor of
Maryland for four terms, and Henry
Latrobe Roosevelt, as-
sistant secretary of
the navy and distant
cousin of the Presi
dent. Mr, Ritchle was
a leader among con-
servative Democrats,
from the start a de-
termined foe of npa-
tional prohibition, and
in 1082 a candidate
for the Presidential
nomination by his
party. Though beaten A- C. Ritchie
out by F. D. Roosevelt, he had the sat-
isfaction of seeing his repeal plank
put into the Democratic platform. Of
late he had been an outspoken eritle
of the New Deal policies, for he was
a champlon of state rights.
Henry IL. Roosevelt was the fifth
member of his family to serve as as
sistant secretary of the navy, and In
recent months he had played an In-
creasingly Important part in the af-
fairs of the department, acting as
secretary during the lliness of Secre-
tary Swanson, He was a student in
the naval academy class of 1900, but
left before graduation to Mecome a
second lieutenant in the marine corps,
in which service he rose to the rank of
colonel,
Fen
peLiricas conditions in Puerto
Rico, notoriously unsatisfactory,
may be rectified as a result of the as-
sassination in San Juan of E. Francis
Riggs, chief of the insular police, and a
district police chief. Riggs, a former
United States army colonel, was shot
by two Nationalists: two hours later
District Police Chief Francisco Velez
N. Ortiz attempted to put down a Na-
tionalist riot at Utuado and was killed
Gov. Blanton Winship announced
that a full inquiry into the incidents
would be energetically pushed, Deplor-
ing the slaying of Riggs as “dastardly,”
he asserted a revival of capital punish.
ment and a ban against carrying of
firearms, being urged upon the legls-
inture, would prevent such crimes,
The assassins of Riggs were caught
and admitted the killing, saying It was
in revenge for the Rio Pedras “massa
cre” in which police killed four Na-
tionalists Inst November. While being
the murderers, the police
sald, reached for guns and were shot
to death.
questioned,
EVELOPMENTS in Washington
lead to the bellef that the Cope
land ship subsidy bill has been aban.
doned. Word came from the White
won House that the Presi
dent, although he
initiated the princi
ples of the measure,
would not press for
its passage; and Sen-
ator Royal 8. Cope
land, whose commerce
committee approved
the bill which was a
part of the adminis
tration program, is so
irritated that he may
Sen. Copeland 4... +. Senator Guf-
fey of Pennsylvania has prepsred a
rival measure, not yet introduced,
Shipping interests have given warn.
ing that new construction for foreign
trade will continue to be paralyzed by
uncertainty and lead to additional In-
sistence by the Navy department on
the bullding of its own auxiliaries
APT. ANTHONY EDEN, British
foreign minister, stood up in the
house of commons and warned the
world that recurrence of the World
war was Imminent and in his opinion |
could not be averted except by a sys |
tem of collective security “embracing |
all nations In an authority which is |
unchallenged and unchallengeable”
Eden impressed upon members of
the parliament the difference between
a policy of collective security and one
of encirclement, such as the “ring of
steel” which Germany complains 1a
being forged about her by France.
“The British government will have
no lot or part in encirclement,” Eden
sald,
USSOLINI had an ambitious plan
for a fivepower agreement that
would embrace Italy, Germany, Aus
tria, Poland and Hungary. But when
it was submitted to Hitler he de
clined to enter the combination. How.
ever, the reichsfuchrer, it 1s sald, told
Mussolini Germany looks with sym.
pathy on the stand Italy has taken,
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Bervice
What is this?
This Is a “dog wagon.”
What is a “dog wagon"?
A “dog wagon” is a lunch room on
wheels, It is a horse car that has
tired of a gypsy life.
What ls the purpose
wagon”?
Its purpose is to see that indigestion
is preserved as a sacred American in-
stitution,
Do many
wagons”?
You wonld be surprised.
What do they eat?
They eat any
without {
make it appetizing
Don't the
ever prepare food
an $
man?
Now and then you find one so acto.
ated not
cook In a lunch
confuse cooking
house painting and
What does he do?
He cooks everything
your
burger steak
FDODnge, Prepares soups
fuel ofl
that would take
football player's shoes
Is there any
None, except the t
of a "dog
people ent in “dog
chefs
to
eve
but often. Onee
egen to a crisp,
ts
WOR
and creates a
*
the cleats out of a
excuse fo
henry
body who comes into a
to eat is
walt for anything fit to eat.
How do you explain tl
lunch
It can only be expl
clusion that all incompetent cooks go
to lunch wagons before they die,
in too much of
wagon cook
2—He didn’t
detalls
care
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al thi
grammar
he stood
the foot of the class
in arithmetic He
was a total loss
problems,
5—When hiv fo
grocery store
with the wrong ch
6--His
count but
trouble.
T-=10 college he
bell but he was a 3
and oarsman. He had trouble remem.
bering the signals but managed to get
away with It
8—He had personality and was a
good mixer wherever the conversation
didn’t turn to anything serious
O-—It took hin five years to grado
ate, despite the fact he had taken a
course that called for no deep think.
ing and included nothing very intri-
cate,
10--His folks were worried over his
future. Lester would have been wor.
ried over it too If he had ever stopped
to think about It,
11-~He nearly thonght about it now
and then but he couldn't concentrate.
12-~When he went out into the world
there was much skepticism about
whether he would do well.
13—And all the people who predicted
he would be a failure were fooled.
14—He chose a business career and
when the American Big Business World
found out about his outstanding men-
tal characteristics, It knew at once
ike sent him to the
he always came
ange
defense
that
was that he conid
he hated to take
was the class dumb
varsity football star
15-It realized at once that had the
perfect equipment for a director In a
super-corporation,
16—And it put hitn on twenty dif-
ferent boards
MORAL~It's all done by reflectors,
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CURIOUS FACTS WORTH
KNOWING
1-The common or garden worm has
no backbone,
2-The world has never discovered
a genius able to invent a type of at
tached can opener that would be any
good in a pinch. .
8-—Red ants can be avolded at out-
door picnics by serving lunch In the
automobile,
4-Ninety-two per cent of all the
kalsominers in the United States are
named Charlie,
B-1It is sald that there are 307.870
hairs in the average human beard, but
neither major political party will dis.
6—Observations made during forest
fires spreading across farm lands show
that cattle do not care for pop corn.
T—The island of Guam has no vaude-
vile people who do roller skating acts,
8A typewriter ribbon may be
cleaned by rinsing it in bolling water
for half an hour, but it will be a ridie.
ulous procedure unless you are through
with it for typewriting purposes,
ON
eating an alligator pear,
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He hasn't any senses
His actions are the most absurd,
His energy intense,
He hops upon a little perch
But is no sooner there
Than with a quiver sand a lurch
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