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Evening star., 1937-08-31
CHINESE BLAME
JAPAN FOR WAR
Tell League Committee Foe
Is Following Policy of
Military Conquest.
BY the Associated Press,


GENEVA, August 3l.-China held
Japan fully responsible today for the
undeclared war in the Far East. which
she charged was precipitated by ia
pans 'irrevocable policy of military
conquest and expansion on the Asiatic
continent"
The attack on Japanese foreign poll
cy was not an appeal to the League
Of Nations for action under the cove
nant, but rather was an Informative
statement to the Leagues Advisory
Committee on China. The United
States received copy OF the indict-
ment as member OF the committee.
China accused Japan Of rejecting all
Chinese efforts to settle local conflicts
by direct negotiation, mediation or ar
bitration and warned that the world
as yet has only witnessed the begin
ming" OF hostilities.
Report on Manchuria.
The China Advisory Committee was
organized in 1892 to investigate the
japanese conquest OF Manchuria. It's
report led to Japan's withdrawal from
the League. A new regime in Man
churia under Chinese supervision was
Its principal recommendation, and that
Japan would not accept.
The case is aggression pure and
simple" the Chinese note declared;
China is exercising her natural right
OF self defense, the failure Of all other
means of repelling violence having
compelled her TO resort to force which
is contrary to China's wish; Japans
present action in China is continual
ton of the aggressive program started
in Manchuria in September, 1881"
Covenant Declared Violated.
The note charged that by using
war as an instrument of national
policy" Japan was violating the fun
damental principles Of the League
Covenant, the Paris peace pact of
1927, and the nine power Washing
ton treaty OF 1922
League officials said it was conceiv-
able session Of the Advisory Commit
tee would be convoked at Geneva, but
that the Assembly would have TO au-
thorize it.
The Chinese note was sent to the
American Legation at Berne, and to
Howard Bucknell, the United States
representative at Geneva.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

South American radio stations will
observe day Of silence "in homage
to wireless"
Evening star., 1937-08-31

ago to halt the Japanese advance from
Manchukuo.
Chinese troops, however. were still
operating in the hills west of Peiping.
Two French Catholic missionaries ar
rived at Peiping yesterday noon to tell
OF swooping raid Of 1000 armed
Chinese irregulars in the early morn
ing.
The aged Father Francois was
wounded and captured for ransom in
The raid on the mission 10 miles north
west of the city. Japanese answered
defiant messages Of the Chinese with
4 column. of tanks and cavalry.
Wars are not new to me-" the
missionary said. This Is the NTH
time have taken in my thousands
Of refugees"
Evening star., 1937-08-31
JAPANESE DOUBLE
DEBENTURESL|M|T
Also Exempt Soldiers From
Taxation-WiI| Delay
Reply to Britain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, August 31-Japan today
exempted her soldiers at the Chinese
front from taxation and doubled the
present 500,000000 yen tsl45.0O0,-
000) limit for the issue Of industrial
debentures by the government.
Cabinet approval Of the wartime
measures was obtained by Finance
Minister Okinobu Kaya after the
ministers had heard Foreign Minister
Koki Hirota report on the British
protest against the serious Wounding
OF Great Britain's Ambassador to
China. Sir Hughe Montgomery
Knatchbull- Hugessen, by Japanese
airmen
Hirota told the cabinet Japan's re-
ply to the British note demanding an
apology and promises against attacks
on civilians would be delayed pending
further investigation Of the incident.
The Japanese admiralty announced
the empires mainland air forces had
ralded Hsuchow, the junction of the
Tientsin-Pukow Railway, destroying
Chinese trains loaded with munitions.
Dispatches from Tsingtao said jap
anese Consul-General Otaka, with his
staff, military officers and the ma
jority Of Japanese residents had evac-
uated the Shantung Province seaport
aboard two steamers.
Admiral Shen Hung-Lieh, the city's
mayor, pledged responsibility for aban-
doned Japanese property.
Eight Shinto priests were reported
by the Domei (Japanece) news agency
to have arrived in Japan from Tsingtao
with their most precious possessions
the embodiment of the Japanese deity
and the list of Japanese soldiers killed
at Tsingtao during the World War.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
Baptist Missionaries Safe.

RICHMOND. Va, August 81 (P).-
The Rev. Charles E. Maddry, executive
secretary OF the Southern Baptist
Foreign Mission Board, said yesterday
the boards 215 missionaries in China
were safe, but its schools and other
properties had been heavily damaged.
The japanese, Dr. Maddry said, have
"deep-seated hatred for mission
schools, as they represent the spirit
of democracy and equality. which Is
opposed to all japanese principles"
He said he and the Rev. j. w.
Decker, executive secretary Of the
Northern Baptist Foreign Mission
Evening star., 1937-08-31

Lloyd Triestino liner Conte Verdi, out
bound for Hong Kong. Observing the
Hoover's distress. the Italian liner ap-
preached the Hoover, offering assist
ance, which Capt. Yardley declined
with thanks. Later the British cruiser
Cumberland came alongside
The Hoover's passengers were as
founded that any one should have
difficulty in establishing the identity
of the ship, with its many American
flags, the familiar dollar mark" sign
of the Dollar Line and the name Of
the vessel fore and aft.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
JAPANESE REPRESENTED
AS OPPOSED TO WAR
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SWARTHMORE, Pa, August 2l.-
A japanese delegate to the second
Friends World Conference said yes
terday 90 per cent of the Japanese
people are opposed to the present un-
declared war between Japan and
China.
The present invasion Of China by
Japan is motivated by a militaristic
clique. which is trying to protect the
Manchukuo experiment" said the
delegate, Seiju Hirawaka of Toxic.
This experiment has thus far
proved colossal failure. Japan is
spending much more money in Man.
chukuo than she is getting out of it,"
Evening star., 1937-08-31

Board, planned to have the United
States State Department present a
claim to the Japanese government "for
every dollars worth Of property" the
Japanese have "wantonly and de-
liberately destroyed"
The claim would be presented the
State Department as soon as estimates
can be made Of the damage to Baptist
mission property, he said.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
SNOW IN WYOMING

CHEYENNE, Wyo, August 81 P,.-
Heavy snow flurries fell between
Wheatland and Chugwater, on the
plains Of Southeastern wyoming Sum-
day night
The snowfall was thick enough to
all but obscure the road" Frank M.
Strong, W, P. A. official, said yester-
day. Fields appeared white"
Evening star., 1937-08-31
Japanese Officer
Who Divorced Bride
Killed in Action
BY the Associated Press.

I
NAGASAKI, Japan, August 81.
-Comdr. Kaoru Fujita obtained a
divorce from his bride of three
montne when he was ordered to
the Chinese war front. He did not
want thoughts of his young wife
and his home to distract him from
whole-hearted attention to duty.
His family was notified officially
today he had been killed in action
in North China.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
News Behind the News
Liberal Conference Postponed Dam
aoe to Court Reform Feared C. TOugh
Cur For Sea Commission

WASHINGTON-The national conference Oh
constitutional amendment. which once prom
ised TO be an historic session ana "as' Scileuueu
to begin here March l8, has been postponed
because its sponsors didn't want to get III tile
wav of what they considered, temporarily the
big band-wagon. ..o
might prove an embarrassment to RooseVeIts
Supreme Court proposal. proclaimed after tiie
cali for the conference. Then it began TO appear
that most of the leaders in the movement ana
the delegates would be in favor OF the PRESIDENTS
plan. plus an amendment
The conference was planned to bring the no
erals of the country together and get them De-
hind a constitutional amendment since progress
sives appeared to be divided between perhaps a
dozen different plans for Supreme Court cnahge.
1t may yet be called again for that purpose
But as the event drew near, 1t became ap-
narent that the liberals could no more agree as
to various other problems possibilities and phas-
es of :he meeting than they had previously been
able to agree as TO the most desirable type OF
amendment.
The only thing organizers of the conference
ever did agree on was that they would rather not
take chance on embarrassing the Roosevelt
drive 10 change complexion of the court.
The newly appointed permanent maritime
commission is being viewed interestedly by many
who wonder if it can eliminate persistent scan
dals arising from relations between government
and the merchant marine.
The great difficulty tn, New Deal experiences
N-AS
government. at salaries far smaller than they
can command in private industry, was demon
strated prior to selection Of Joseph P. Kennedy
as chairman Roosevelt tired everywhere to get
what he calls tough guy" to head the COM
mission He caught someone who would pound
the tatle in the public intereSt-during ADJUST
ment between now and Juy-of ocean mails
contracts These contracts would have brought
ship owners s160000,000 if. they had not been
Cancelled by Congress.
KENNEDY. who. as chairman of s. E. c. made
Wall Street happy by lenient administration OF
the Securities Exchange Act, didn't want TO
come But Roosevelt insisted.
Former Congressman Ed. c. Morgan fought
shipping graft in the House and was instru-
mental in framing the present merchant marine
act Thomas NJ. woodward, now consumers
counsel CT the Bituminous Coal Commission, sery-
ed wears with the old shipping board before
being pushed out. He always insisted on honesty
in relation to ship subsidies These are the two
members expected to insist on an adequate mer-
chant marine whose creation will not cheat
taxpayers and line pockets of ship promoters.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land has superin-
tended navy construction. Rear Admiral Henry
S. Wiley whose labor policies have made him un-
popular with union leaders, is the fifth member
He will stay only temporarily to relate the work
of the ney, commission to that of the liquidated
commission, of which ne was a
member.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
ONE PLACE WHERE
HOT AIR IS COSTLY

United States senators and repreSen-
tatives spent $4,000 in 1886 to get
speeches printed that were never made
Now. it is all right if senator or repre-
sentative wants to spend $173,000, even
if he spends it for manicures-if only
the $4,000 is his own. In this case,
it wasn't. The money was provided by
the taxpayers of the United States.
Congressman and senators, through
these printed but unspoken speeches,
are among the greatest contributors to
any editors waste basket. The current
Supreme Court spasm has made the
waste basket speeches even more nu-
merous than usual, bringing almost a
certainty that the 1886 figures will look
like pkers when the 1887 printing bill
is presented to the chap who pays the
taxes.
1t happens this way. Some senator
gets an idea he wants to put over to the
folks back home, and he writes a speech.
Maybe he delivers the speech at meet
ing of some club somewhere, or on the
radio or maybe he doesn't ever deliver
it. Then. on the floor of the senate, he
very politely asks the chairman if he
may have the speech reprinted in the
Congressional Record Very probably
not the chairman, nor anyone else, wants
to hear the speech. So they take the easy
way out-and print it. It's printed at
government expense, and mailed at gov
ernment expense across the nation-to
the waste baskets.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
BY HENRY SUTHERLAND

HOLLYWOOD. March l8. Uel-
Shows of the week
Seventh Heaven" (20th Century
Fox.
This Partisan idyll retains its
appeal through the years and de-
spite rather ordinary performances
by James Stewart and the highly
touted Simone Simon.
No audience has ever failed to
fall for the John Golden play or
the silent screen version Q927 in
which Janet Gaynor and Charles
Farrell cleaned up so resoundingly.
This edition should fare no worse
OF the two leads, Stewarts' work
is probably the better. although he's
a bit too rugged and honest-appear
ing for that very remarkable fell
low" and glib egoist, Chico.
AS Diane, the dancehall girl
turned from suicide in the Seine
to a seventh story heaven by the
young sewer cleaner, Simon walks
through prettily, pouts constantly,
and at no time puts over the emo
tional qualities of the part with
conviction.
Otherwise. J. Edward Bromberg
plays the astrologer in par, Victor
Killian and Gale Sondergaard are
effective as "Chico's" skyline neigh
bors, and Jean Hersholt splendid
and unrecognizable as the priest.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
THE VESTS GROWTH
rs NOT .SLOW

Not many decades will pass, some
believe, before the Western states are
as thickly settled as the Atlantic states.
America continues to move westward,
they point out, in course that is slow
but sure.
During recent years, it has not been
so slow. One survey resulted in the es-
innate that 10000 Americans have NOV
ed from the drought stricken middle
west in recent years to the Paclflc
Northwest How many more have moved
to California was not estimated, but we
who live here know that the total is a
big one.
The migration is not all bad. Twenty
thousand new farms have been establish
ed in the Pacific Northwest by the new
Settlers" There has been no such de-
velopment of farming operations in the
southland, because lands are not avail
able on a large scale. Greater develop
ment may be expected when more land
is thrown open.
We can encourage this movement II
we wish, or discourage it if we feel 1t
advisable-but we cannot stop it. The
only thing remaining is to make the
most of it. By making sure that the
right kind of settlers stay in our COM
munity, we can do them and ourselves
a service.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
q on Sol says
x FRANK WATANABE
W. BY 20 HOLDEN
TWO SIDES
BY Ep HOLDEN

Nv u SIDES
What causing such plenty of striking
-sit-downs? Something wrong on the
photo say my brains. So l go skipping
around on my rubber feet to poke an
SwerS.
1t seem those boss gentmen are will
ing to paying work folks everything
but more wages. Both sides are agree
to that point.
Employ fellow say: INA ma mustn't
sitting upon my investment, that are
prohibit of law" But how is about an
law for prohibit reasons of sitting? All
them labor asking are life, liberty and
a new suit.
While Congress are playing cards
with Supreme Court strike persons are
collapsing in own pants.
Every manufacture goods list have
got a printing on bottom side which say:
@Prices are subject to changing without
notice" So why not are salary similar!
Thank you. please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
TROUBLE IN TIE
TAXI DANCE HALL

Ell Centro's Filipino taxi dance hall,
where white girls sell dances to brown
skinned Islanders, again has been the
scene Of violence This time one Filipi-
no shot another in a fit of jealous rage
over a white woman.
It makes one wonder how far civiliza-
ton has penetrated under some brown
skins-and some others.
If we are to have such places of enter
tainment exclusively for the Filipinos-
and perhaps it is better that they be
segregated-then at least there should
be some sure-fire method of determin-
ing that there will be no shooting or
knitting on the premises. If necessary,
every patron should be searched.
The taxi dance hall, to say the least,
is not among the city's most outstand-
ing attractions If it is, as some say,
a necessary thing, then at least make
its supervision the strictest possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Local Governments Can Use Lot OF Reform

ment at Washington, asking it to
do the things that states and cities
should be doing for themselves.
The matter of unemployment re-
lief is a single example.
Nebraska recently gave us help
ful tip about state governments. BY
doing away with the traditional
two-house legislature. Nebraska III
automatically eliminated much ~
the waste and expense and made
the processes of state government
far more directly responsive to the
will Of the people than they ever
are apt to be under the old sys-
tenn.
In the same way, such cities as
Cincinnati and Milwaukee have
shown that it is possible to have
city governments that work hon.
estly, efficiently, and openly. Any
city can follow suit, whenever its
citizens grow tired of being fool
ed by the beWniskered devices of
old-line politics.
But where are We going to get
an example of county reorganiza-
ton? 1t would be hard to imagine
a more antiquated or expensive
unit of government than the coun-
ty. There are thousands of sucA
units where there should be huI II
dreds, or scores; each one eats up
the taxpayers money with unfail-
ing appetite, and most of them are
the breeding ground for petty poll
ties of the most sordid type.
j: x X
If we could bring these state.
city, and county branches of gov
ernment up to date, rid them of
lost motion, graft and the run
away expenses that those two
things breed, we would find the
federal government immeasurably
benefited. And the democratic pro-
cess as a whole would flow along
much more smoothly.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
TEN YEARS AGO
March IL, 1917

Cooperating with county Off
cials, the agriculture extension
service and the. realty board, A.
w. Sanborn and George j. Alli-
son, representing the state realty
department, have arrived in the
valley to spend few days look
ing over recent grapefruit plant
ings which are being subdivided.
Work on the construction of
the new Union Depot in Ell Centro
is being rushed and in one week
the site has been transformed
from an open field into net
work of moldS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18

Her Husband Lies" (Schulberg
Paramount.
Formula melodrama which suf.
fers chiefly from total lack O.
suspense.
Cortez plays gambler attempting
to break his younger brother ton
Brown of the gambling habit, sue
eeeding eventually at the cost oi
his life.
Best performance is that of Akin
Tamiroff Tamiroff as lieutenant
of the gambling mob puts over his
sinister specially without aid OF
wierd makeup in which he usually
works.
Double romance couples Corte2
and Gail Patrick, Brown and June
Martell. Patrick has little to do
except wear clothes fetchingly, she
does well. as usual.
Midnight Taxi" Goth Century
Fox).
Alan Internationally Of much
better partS-iS again anchored to
picture in the skidding Oman
cycle.
Dinehart does an agent posing as
a cab-driver TO catch counter
feiting gang, and entire action takes
place at night, which gives Barney
McGill a shot at some fine photo
graphy.
Sig Rumann, Gilbert Roland and
Harold Huber make acceptable
gangsters, and Frances Drake goes
through the motions OF the love
interest.
Much powder is burned in this
one.
That Mans Here Again" WAR
ner Brothers..
Hugh Herbert turns in another
screwball comedy of his own fam
iliar type. Otherwise the picture
is notable as American debut of
17-year-old Mary Mcguire, imported
as the Mary Pickford of Australia
Miss Mcguire, a strikingly beauti-
full lass, plays with spirit and un-
derstanding, and will shortly be
seen in better roles.
Tom Brown, Joe King and Teddy
Hart contribute capable supporting
roles.
when Love is Young" ((Uni-
versaD.
With the exception of one song,
sung with surprising talent by Vir-
ginia Bruce. this musical is soporific.
Number is Would I Be Wasting
My Time" tunesmithed by Jimmy
McHugh and Harold Adamson.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18

It would be a very good thing IL
the present arguments over pro-
posed changes in the Supreme
Court would lead people to mediate
on other branches of the American
system of government that could
do with a little reform.
It probably won't work out that
way, because people are getting so
emotional about the Supreme
Court that everything else is for
gotten One group seems to feel
that our chief problems will be
solved if he Presidents plan is
adopted; the other, that they will
be solved if it is defeated. No one
has any time to look at humber
institutions.
But in the long run it is prob
ably far more important that we do
something effective about our To-
cal governments than that we
come to a final decision on the
place the high court ought to oc-
cupy. q.
The word government" doesn't
simply mean Washington. 1t means
the 48 state capitals, the innumer-
able city halls of the country, the
thousands of county court houses,
the infinite number OF offices in
which local boards, commissions,
and supervisors do their work. If
we want to clear the decks for q
new era, we might well forget
about Washington for time and
go to work on these less exalted
places.
For the obvious fact is that very
very few of these lesser divisions
of government function without the
most appalling waste, inefficiency,
and confusion. And it is because of
that fact that we are forever piling
new jobs on the federal govern
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
March Is, 1927

March 18, 1927
Mr.. R. P Moore, who has been
i'll, is conyalescing and is able
to sit up portion of each day.
Argyle Mclaughlin, cotton ex-
pert at the government expert
mental farm at Bard, is in the
valley this week in the interest
of planting Egyptian cotton in
the valley this fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
TWENTY YEARS AGO
March Is, 1912

Marcn 10, lSlG
Sam Danenpurg, well known I'M
perial Valley business man, has
opened a branch of the Imperial
Valley junk company on Imperial
avenue in CaleXico.
DR.. F.. w. Peterson has returned
from Los Angeles where he at
tended a medical convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test

/. Who is commander of the Ma
drid defense against Spanish rebel
troops?
2. Who wrote "A Shropshire
Lad?
3. Is Newfoundland part of the
Dominion of Canada?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Today's Horoscope

Most persons whose birthday IS
today are noted for their kindness
to others. They make good neigh
bors and fine friends. ct
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
One-Minute Test Answers

One Minute Test Answers
l. General Jose Miaja.
2. Alfred Edward Housman.
g. No. 1t is a separate British do
minion. and has steadfastly refused
to unite with Canada.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Dpfinition-a-Day

"Proletariat' refers to the wage
earning class not possessed of cap
ital.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
StrOlls Thru HOLLYWOOD

Lesser parts are capably handled
by Gregory Ratoff and John Qualen.
Production is first class, although
photography is a bit on the dark
side.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Words of Wisdom

A politician thinks of the next
election: a statesman of the next
generation.-J. F. Clarke.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18

HERE'S crunchy goodness -
ready to eat - and oh, 80
appetizing!
KeIlogg's Corn Flakes -
crisp, golden flakes OF corn,
always oven-fresh and flavor
perfect; Kellogg's Rice krispies
- tempting rice bubbles that
snap, crackle and pop i'm milk
or cream; and kellogg's PEP
800 Bran Flakes toasted
flakes of whole wheat with
enough bran to be mildly
laxative.
After your family has tasted
these delicious cereals, you'll
want TO go TO your grocer and
put in a big supply. You'll find
you get many generous serv-
ings for only few cents. And
kellogg's are SO convenient -
SO easy 10 serve! Made by kel-
1ogg i'm Battle Greek.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Thought for the Day

We created man: and know wat his soul whisper
eth to him aid closer TO him than has neck
yein.-The Koran.