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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
TOXIC SENDS
CANCELLATION
NOTIFICATION
Note Delivered To State De-
partment At Washington By
japanese Ambassador
EFFECTIVE In TWO YEARS
Action Also Means Termina :
tion OF London Treaty Limit
ing Naval Tonnage
EFFECTIVE in TWO YEARS
By HOBART C. MONTEE

By HOBART C. MONTEE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Japan
today formally abrogated the
Washington and London naval
treaties, effective December 81,
1886.
Notice that. Japan is. freeing
herself from the limitations i'm
posed by the naval treaties was de-
livered to the state department by
Hirosi Saito. japanese ambassa-
dor, upon cabled instructions from
his government.
Japan called for new "equit-
able agreement" that would inn
pose the same limitation on arm
aments of all nations instead of
Japan having the short end of the
present 5-5-3 ratio with the United
State and Great Britain.
This common upper limit should
be fixed as low as possible, the
Japanese foreign office said in g.
, statement distributed throughout
the world.
"In order to render 1t difficult
for any power to attack another,
but easy to defend itself, the Of
fensive arms should be totally
abolished or drastically reduced,
and the defensive arms adequate
ly provided" the japanese con-
! tended.
Japan said that "far from en-
tertaining the slightest wish to
enlarge her ornaments, Japan en-
deavors to promote the cause of
peace by establishment of the
principle of non-menace and nom
aggression"
Hope For New Agreement
The administration remains hope
full some new agreement can be
reached.
Japan's notice of intention to alb
rogate the naval treaty also was
notice that after 1886 Japan will
not consent voluntarily to be lin
tied to a navy only three-fifths as
large as the navies of the United
States and Great Britain. To that
extent her notice was considered a
challenge to the other forces.
Under the treaties now entering
upon a two year period of lame
duck" status, Japan is forbidden to
lay down any new warships until
the end of 1896, with the exception
of single destroyer of $500 tons
displacement which is to replace a
vessel which was lost in storm
last year. She is built up to the
limit Of treaty permission.
The United States must build
68 ships, in addition to those al
ready building or appropriated for,
to reach treaty strength. Great
Britain must build approximately
40. The construction of these ships
will produce approximately the
5-5-3 ratio set up by the Washing
ton treaty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 90. = Japan
today acted formally to reduce the
Continued on page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
Nv EDWARD w. LEWIS

United Press stan correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 A
war department scandal affecting
the national defense shook official
Washington today. Secretary of
War George H. Dern and a federal
grand jury indicated they would
press for full exposure and string
ent action.
The final report of the house
military affairs committee as sub
mitted to congress after an invest
igation into department procure
ment methods, bristled with broad
charges against lobbying activities
of contract negotiators.
It involved two high army Off
GERS, (unname6, and revealed that
Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois,
chief of the army air corps faced
a sweeping investigation into charg-
es that he had been inefficient
and testified falsely" Foulois was
distinctly not involved in the re-
port with the graft charges.
Leslie c. Garnett, federal district
attorney, said today that "if con-
ditions are as I understand they
are, shall present the committee's S
evidence to the grand jury"
He referred specifically to COM
mittee charges that high ranking
officers, other than Foulois' had ac-
cepted loans of money or gifts
from lobbyists in return for alleged
information regarding army con-
tracts.
Case Separated
FouloiS' case was separated by
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
DISTRICT PREPARES FOR ELECTION
Registration Closed With Approximately 5000 Ex-
pected To Vote In February

Registrations for the approach
ing irrigation district election
closed yesterday and the district
rolls are now being checked with
the county registration books in or
der to make whatever corrections
might be necessary on the district
lists. 1t is estimated that in the
neighborhood of 5000 voters are
registered for the election on Feb
ruary 6, but this number cannot
be authenticated until the check
up is completed.
District electors will ballot for a
director from the Brawley and Ell
Centre districts as we'll as a dis
trict assessor collector and treas
urer.
Ira Aten has announced his can
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
CAPITAL SHAKEN BY CHARGES OF
SCANDAL in WAR DEPARTMENT
High Army Officers Assertedly Involved In Sweep
ing Investigation Promised By Dern And Federal
Prosecutor

the committee from those involv-
ing unnamed high ranking off,
GERS" The veteran flyer who heads
the air corps was accused last June
by the special investigating sub
committee of "willfully and delib-
erately violating existing law in the
purchase of airplanes and aircraft
material" His removal was asked
on this basis and on others includ-
ing finding by the committee
that "he accused superior officers
of wilfully attempting to deceive"
the committee.
One high ranking officer the
committee said had burned at his
home secret contract specifica-
tionS document after showing it to
an interested dealer. Another, the
report alleged, conferred with a
fugitive from justice, knowing at
the time the sought for lobbyist
was wanted for questioning by the
committee. The report indicated
the officer had sought the confer
ence to silence possible production
of evidence showing he had OBJ
tanned an alleged $500 loan from
the fugitive.
Legislation and new army regula-
tons were recommended by the
committee to center army contract
responsibility and to make compet-
tive bidding more prevalent.
The, committee, it was under
stood, kept the names of officers
involved secret in order not to
/ hinder the war department inquiry
ordered by Dern on December 13.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29

An interesting visitor at cham
ber of commerce headquarters yes
terday was Walter S. Campbell,
former director of agriculture for
Australia. Campbell was accom-
panied by his son, and they are
making a tour of California to
study agriculture and particularly
irrigation. The senior Campbell is
almost 90 years old but still in pos
session of all his faculties and much
interested in his visit to Imperial
Valley. While here, he gathered a
great deal of materNl for the pur-
pose of writing articles for the
Australian newspapers on the sub
ject of local agriculture.
His work for the Commonwealth
of Australia has been interesting.
He was in the department of agri-
culture as director for nDarly SO
years until retired on a pension.
Since that time, he has still been
working semi -officially for the
Australian government, The dis
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
VARIANCE IN
STATEMENTS
BY OFFICIALS
Naturalized United States Citi-
zen Charged With Saying Hit
Ter OF Jewish Descent
PLACED UNDER ARREST
Consul Plans Investigation Of
Second Imprisonment Of This
Country's Nationals
BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent

BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1894, BY United Press
WALDMOHR, Germany, Dec. 20.
Miss Elsa Sittell, of New York,
was in solitary Imprisonment at the
county Jail today, facing a charge
of slandering Adolf Hitler. 1t SEEM
ed improbable she could be released
even on parole to await trial be-
fore next Wednesday
It was understood G. A. Maxim
son, American consul general, was
ON his way here in an effort to see
her. Miss Sittell has received no
visitors since her arrest Monday.
Requests for her release have been
made to the state IS attorney but
no decision in her case is expected
until after the New Years day
holiday.
Miss Sittell was arrested last
Monday, the day after she left
Paris to seek the parents she had
not seen for 10 years. She has
been held at Waldmohr. it was
learned, despite a statement by
Waldmohr police that she had been
indicted and imprisoned at another
place which they refused to name.
The charge against Miss Sittell
is publicly insulting both Hitler
and customs guard who examined
her luggage"
). Court officials at Frankenthal
Uniformed the United Press that
Miss Sittell said: "Hitler Is of Jew
ish descent,o and that it is with
making this statement that she is
charged.
Born In Lorraine
American Consul General Doug
las Jenkins took charge of the case
In Miss Sittell IS interests today.
Miss Sittell, it was said at Paris,
Is a naturalized American. She
went to the United States in 1925.
She was born in Lorraine while 1t
was German territory. When
France got it after the World war,
her parents elected to go to Ger
many; she to remain and be a
Frenchwoman.
Miss Sittell had been employed
by the New York firm of which
John w. Davis, former Democratic
candidate for President and former
ambassador to Great Britain, is a
member. She was engaged in
translating documents from the
French.
Several weeks ago Miss Sittell
resigned and sailed for France.
She said she was going to seek her
parents.
The Sittell case in some phases
paralleled the experiences of Miss
Isobel Lillian Steele of Hollywood
who has just arrived in the United
States after months of imprison-
ment.
In Miss Steele's case it was
weeks before American authorities
even learned she was held, and
months before they obtained her
release on charges of espionage, "
never formulated and never ex-
planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
Teams Needed On
Canal Operations

Chan Livingston, manager of
the local unemployment office
was notified last night that 25
teamsters with 4-up teams are
wanted for the force account
sector of the All-American canal
west Of Calexico. Livingston is
sued the call for these men to-
day.
Farmers will be given prefer
ence, Livingston said this NOR
ming and they will be placed on
this work if they respond to the
call. He added that the stock
must be qualified to perform the
work as detailed by the superin-
tendent of the work.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
NepheuU OF Local
Woman In Wreck

Mrs. E. E. Miles, 600 Brighton
avenue, has just learned that a
nephew named Wendell Tarkoff
was killed recently in an accident
near Harvey, Ill
Details of this accident were
printed in The Press on Wednes-
day Of this week. An automobile
loaded with people on their way to
work was struck by fast passen-
ger train at grade crossing near
Harvey and all were killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
FILM STAR IN HOSPITAL

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 30. U.P)-
Claudette Colbert, film star, was a
patient in the Queen of the Angels
hospital today. Attaches said she
entered the hospital for a crest. !"
Miss Colbert IS latest film ap-
pearance was in the title role of
the production cleopatra. +"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
JAPAN OFFICIALLY ENDS NAVY PACT
Germany Holds American Girl For Insult To Hitler
DATA ON RIVER

Light snowfall has been gen.
eral over the middle and upper
basins of the Colorado river and
promises to continue over Sun
day is the message reaching here
this morning from the Yuma Of
flee of the weather bureau reIa-
tive to weather conditions in the
watershed.
A decrease of 210 second feet
is noted in the river flow at
Topock for today, with 4,730 Sec
ond feet being recorded at that
point. At the Grand Canyon
the flow rose 100 second feet to
a mark of 4420 with an increase
of 100 second feet for the spill.
The diversion was lowered from
$500 to 5000 second feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-29
mkMllL-..
R!S9S;

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. %. (Spe-
ciaD-The only trouble about this
suggesting that somebody or
something ought to be investi-
gated is that they are liable to
suggest that you ought to be in
vestigated and from the record
of all our previous Investigations,
it just looks like nobody can
emerge with their nose entirely
clean.
I don't care who you are, you
just can't reach middle life with
out having done and said a
whole lot of foolish things. If I
saw an investigation committee
headed my way I would just
plead guilty and throw myself on
the mercy of the court.
Yours,
Evening star., 1934-02-25
TRUCE IN GASOLINE
PRICE WAR CALLED.
Independent and Chain Dis
tributorS Agree to Ne
g0tiate Issues.

A truce to permit further negotia-
tion of the gasoline price situation in
Washington has been agreed upon by
both independent and chain distri-
butors while settlement of the
threatened renewal of a price-cut-
ting war is being sought.
L. S. Scott, chairman of the Dis
trict Petroleum Code Committee, said
yesterday the major companies had
argeed to maintain their present
prices at least over the week end in
the hope that some agreement can
be reached.
Joseph Amato, leader of the inde-
pendent dealers, continues to insist
upon price differential of y to 2
cents on third-grade gasoline and the
independents are underselling the
major companies by that figure.
The right to charge the lower price
is denied by the chain dealers but
Mr.. Scott obtained their promise not
to cut prices below the 13.3-cent
minimum until further conferences
can be held.
It is contended by the larger deal
ers that the so-called third-grade
gasoline actually is as good in quality
as second grade gas handled by them
and because of that fact should be so
Evening star., 1934-02-25
ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK
AT A. U. CEREMONY
Tentatively Accepts Invitation to
Talk at Inauguration Of
Chancellor.

President Roosevelt has tentatively
accepted the invitation Of the Ameri-
can University to speak at the inaugu-
ration Saturday of DR.. Joseph M. M
Gray Of Detroit as chancellor of the
university, according to an announce
ment yesterday by that institution
The program will be held IN Conti-
mental Hall. beginning at 2:30 pm,
with delegates from 200 leading edu-
cational institutions in attendance.
The acting chancellor for the past
year, Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, will
deliver the charge to DR.. Gray, who
will deliver brief inaugural address.
Prof. Will Hutchins, university mar
shal, is chairman of the ceremonial,
and DR.. A. c. Christie, president of
the Board of Trustees, is chairman
Of the committee in charge of the in
auguration.
Following the ceremony a reception
in honor of Chancellor and Mrs. GRAY
will be held in the Women's Residence
Hall OF the American University, on
the campus, Massachusetts, and Ne
braska avenues
DR.. Gray Is the former pastor of
the Central Methodist Church of De-
troit. He holds degrees from Syracuse
University, Baker University, Dickin-
son College and Drew Theological
Seminary. He is the author of several
DOCKS and a frequent contributor to
magazines.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
FAUQUIER COUNTY Group
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Gen. William Mitchell Heads
Fish and Game Conserva-
tion Association.

WARRENTON, Va, February "a
At the annual meeting of the Fau-
quier County Fish and Game Protec-
tive Association held here, Gen. Will
liam Mitchell was elected president
for the coming year. D. H. Lees was
named vice president and F. W
Sharp secretary and treasurer.
The association voted in favor of
an educational program for game con-
servation among schools of the
county.
The following committees were
appointed, with authority to act on
any business coming up between meet
ings, the president and secretary to
be members of the committees: Fox
Hunting, Fletcher Harper and Thomas
Atkinson. jr.; Fishing, DR.. w. G. Trow
and H. L. Gaddis, and Shooting, j.
D. Richards, DR.. Richard Mason and
Francis A. Davis.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

New York avenue northwest, now the
home of the American Institute Of
Architects. and dozen or mere other
bul dings in the city.
Hos"I,l in Civil War.
A part of the building the Civil
Service Commission now occupies was
used as a hospital during the Civil
War, and some of its rooms served as
morgue
The commission itself added to the
historical interest of the contents
when it brought with it the table
about which the first three civil service
commissioners and their secretary sat
to draft the original civil service rules,
and also the desk and chair used by
Theodore Roosevelt when he was
member of the commission from 1889
to 1895.
Washington people, perhaps natur-
ally, persist in calling this edifice the
"Old Patent Office Building 1t
seems to me that that expression be-
Titles the dignity of this architectural
patriarch; that 1t would be more re-
spectful to refer to it as the civil
Service Commission Building" and
stop calling it any organizations "old"
building. This monument to beauty
may not be a cast-off, but it may ex-
pei. If circumstances should ever
cause the Civil Service Commission to
go into new quarters, we will feel that
the building leaves us, not that We
leave it.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
TRIBUTE TO BE PAID
LAFAYETTE ON MAY 20

Centennial anniversary of the death
OF Gen. Lafayette will be celebrated
May 20 in many parts of the United
States with exercises recalling his
service to America during Revolution
ary days.
In Washington services will be held
under joint auspices of the American
Friends Of Lafayette, patriotic socie-
ties and historical associations.
A resolution recently was jointly in
troduced in Congress by Representa-
tive Norton and Senator Kean, re-
questing that a committee be ap-
pointed to make arrangements for the
commemorative exercises to be held
May 20."
Evening star., 1934-02-25

Alexandria attorney, who Is chairman
of the committee of lawyers arranging
the first annual reunion Of the classes
of 1922 and 1923 Of the National Uni
versity Law School. The reunion, to
include q banquet, will be held March
3 at the University Club, and will
mark the reorganization Of the uni
versity's alumni association.
DR.. Hayden johnson, chancellor Of
the university and dean of its law
school, and DR.. Charles Pergler, dean
of Nationals School of Economics
and Government, will head the faculty
members who will be guests of the
reunion. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1934-02-25
DEATH Of INSANE .
PAT|ENTSPR0BED|
Wisconsin Legislative Body
Forecasts DismissaIs
and Prosecutions.
BY the Associated Press.


OSHKOSH, Wis, February 25.-
An investigation by Legislative
Committee into charges of brutal
treatment and violent death among
patients at Northern State Hospital
for the Insane was capped today by
the forecast of its chairman of whole
sale dismissals of staff members and
the criminal prosecution Of some
The forecast was made by State
Senator Morley Kelly, chairman. The
inquiry was initiated by pathologists
not connected with the institution, who
reported that Oscar Schrader. a
patient, had been choked to death.
Numerous deaths, attributed to
heart ailments. also attracted the
attention of the investigators. The
inquiry brought out that most of
the patients were physically vigor-
GUS, the professional witnesses as
serted the proportions of deaths
ascribed to heart Affections was
above normal.
Norman Brown, an attendant who
had cared for Schrader, was held
on a charge of first-degree murder.
Three other attendants have al
ready been suspended DR.. Peter
Bell, 37-year-old superintendent of
the insane hospital, asked for and
was granted leave of absence after
the investigation got under way. The
removal of about Is physicians and
attendants will be sought, Kelly said.
DR.. Nathan S. Schwartz, who re-
signed as assistant physician in
1882, testified Hans Anderson, so,
actually died "of an injury to a kid
ney induced by external violence"
although the certificate. signed by
another physician, attributed death
to a heart ailment. Anderson, DR..
Schwartz testified, had been injured
by an attendant who jumped on
him.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
ORDER OF. WASHINGTON
TO MEET TOMORROW
Annual Dinner Of Patrit C So
ciety Will Be Held at
Shoreham.

The Order Of Washington will meet
at the Shoreham Hotel tomorrow
night at o'clock for its annual
dinner. DR.. George Tully Vaughan,
president general, will preside DR..
Vaughan is.successor to the late Rear
Admiral Charles Herbert Stockton,
who had been head of the order for
many years.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the dinner consists Of
DR.. Joseph G. B. Bulloch, Col. VIII
Ham M Conrad, Maj. Amasa NJ Hol-
combe, Thomas Campbell Washing
ton and Daniel Smith Gordon.
The Order of Washington is a pa
triotic group named after Gen. George
Washington, and has a number of his
collateral descendants on its mem
bership roll. The ancestors of each
compatriot of the order must have
arrived In America prior to 1850, to
have been the founder of a town. or
to have held some position of honor
in the Colonial service, and his de-
scendants must have aided the Col
onies in attaining their independence.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
ENJOYS TO BE GUESTS

DR.. Leonide Pitamic. envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary, and Capt. Gordon Gordon
Smith win be guests Of honor at .
luncheon meeting Of the Society Of
American Military Engineers at the
Army-Navy Club tomorrow at 1880
Pm.
Capt. Gordon-S Smith, attache, royal
Jugoslav legation. will speak on "The
Political and Military Developments
in the Balkans"
Evening star., 1934-02-25
SOCK AND BUSKIN CLUB
WILL PRESENT DRAMA
Mystery Dance Play Will Precede
Performance Of Community
Center Girls.

SSasWA SAAA1s
The Sock and Buskin Club of
Washington, comprising a group Of
girls at Park View Community Center,
will present an adventure play In
three acts. "The Magic Weavers," at
7:30 pm. Friday in Park View Au-
ditorium under direction Of MRS.
Donna Taggart.
A prologue entitled "The Dance of
the Flames" a Chinese mystery dance
drama, will precede the play. Leading
roles will be played by Betty Wilver.
Dorothy. Haver, Mildred Dean, Jac-
queline Droney, and Jeanette Nc
Geary. The flame dancers will be
Patricia Collins, Norma Lee Bunting,
Mary Carney, Norma Royal, Edith
Rupertus. Barbara Rupertus, Mar
guerite Hannaman, and Margaret
Riseling.
Girls taking leading characters in
the play itself are Marcia Amanuel,
Catherine Cronenberg, Caroline
Tiencken. Dorothy Wolf, Blanche Ba-
ruch, Margaret Mcdowell, Dorothy
Parker. Elsie Phillips, Dolores Nor
ganston, Mae Weyrich, Mary Jane
Fox, Charlotte Young, Marjorie
Branscombe, Evelyn Proctor, Chris
tine de Binder. Barbara frost and
Kathleen Norris.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
PLAN BANQUET DANCE
Hardware Retailers to Hold An
nual Event March 8.

The Washington Chapter Of the
National Association Of Hardware Re-
tailers will hold its fourth annual
dance and banquet March 6 at the
Mayflower Hotel. (
Rivers Peterson Of the National As
sociation will be the principal speaker
at the banquet, which is scheduled to
start at 7:30 pm.
Other guests Of honor will include
Thomas Howell of the Virginia Asso-
citation and T. Johanesson Of the Bal
timore Chapter. Fred Weaver is
chairman of the General Committee
on Arrangements, Leon Wedding,
president Of the chapter, has charge
of the entertainment
Evening star., 1934-02-25
CIVIL SERVICE UNIT
IN HISTORIC HOME
Structure Formerly Used by
Patent Office Has Many
Traditions.
BY LUCILLE FOSTER McMILLIN,
Member United States Civil Service
Commission.

HIS is not story for the men,
bers of the Association of Old
/ est Inhabitants, but rather one
i for those who, like myself, have
Evening star., 1934-02-25

advertised with a corresponding rise
in the retail price.
Less than 10 days ago the inde-
pendents and major companies had
apparently settled an earlier war
when the prices were raised from 10
cents to a price above the cost of pro-
duction. The diferentia1 insisted
upon by the Independents has brought
on the renewed threat.
The Washington times., 1934-04-09
HEALTH PARLEY.
PLAN URGED

Suggestion that the District
Commissioners consult with the
surgeon general in regard to ap-
pointment of the head Of the
Health Department here was made
today by the committee on pub
lie health Of the District Medical
Society. -.
This suggestion was made, 1t
was pointed out, not in any at
tempt to have the Federal Gov
ernment control the Health De-
partment but to make for more
efficiency.
Neither the Commissioners nor
local physicians are in q position
to know when men with the
proper training are available for
such an important post, 1t was
pointed out by the committee, and
a trained man is needed to fill the
office.