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Evening star., 1937-02-28
Lawrence of Manchuria. -

Plainly as gesture of conciliation to-
ward China, Japan is making significant
changes in her army high command.
They seem to indicate, despite the per-
petuation of militarist supremacy in the
newly established Toxic government,
that more moderate trend in policies
affecting the mainland Of Asia is con-
sidered desirable. Conspicuous in the
army shake-up, embracing no fewer than
1900 shifts of posts and 900 promotions,
is the transfer of Lieutenant General
Kenji Doihara from his previous sphere
of duty in China to command domestic
division not far from Toxic.
General Doihara, famed as the Law
renee of Manchuria" because of his
pioneer work in paving the way for ex-
tension of Japanese power in China, has
been looked upon as the spearhead of
imperialist aggression and propaganda
activity there. Many credit him with
having been the master mind that in
spired the coup of Mukden, in September,
1881, which led to Japan's progressive
penetration of North China. The meas
ure of the success of DoiharaS ire
pressible activities is the relief expressed
at Nanking and Peiping over the an
nouncement that the general has been
shunted to field of usefulness remote
from the scene of his Chinese triumphs.
China leaders long held him principally
responsible for the underground machi-
nations which kept their country in
terror and turmoil for five years. Doihara
revealed rare talent for intrigue, espe-
cially capacity for directing the subtle
undercurrents Of Oriental politics. He
proved himself particularly expert in
playing one Chinese faction against an
other at psychological moments and ex-
plotting resultant disunion to further
Japanese ambitions. An incorrigible be-
lever in Nippon's sacred mission" in
the Far East, it was with difficulty that
superiors at Toxic were able to restrain
his zeal Another Of Japans principal
policy -molders in China, Lieutenant
General Seishiro Itagaki, chief of staff
of the imperial army in Manchukuo, has
also been given home divisional COM
mand.
1t would be premature to assume that
the mere removal of General Doihara
and others of his ilk from the arena Of
their imperialistic endeavors means that
China no longer has to fear depre-
dations at the hands of Japans super
militarists and imperialists. Only on
Friday the Toxic foreign Office found
occasion to proclaim anew that Japan
considers herself "have not" nation,
with an irresistible urge to claim larger
place in the sun, respecting both markets
and raw materials. China must un-
ceasingly have in mind the covetousness
of her powerful neighbor and Japan's
demonstrated readiness to satisfy her
economic needs by use of force.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Fifty years ago the District received
scant consideration in Congress in the
:, matter of needed
Olst1ict LAY legislation. T h e
In the House. Star of February
81, 1887, says:
at is said that Congressman Willis
proposes to play the dog in the manger
and prevent the District from having
another day for the consideration of its
affairs. He threatens an amendment
substituting for consideration Of the
educational bill for that of District af-
fairs if the Committee on Rules so much
as proposes this favor for the District.
He does this probably not from hostility
to the District but from zeal in support
ing the educational bill. Mr.. Willis is
by the Constitution local legislator for
the District as well as a national legiSla-
tor, and in that capacity has certain
duties. Is it not enough that the affairs
of the District have less legislative at
tention than those of any community in
the United States; that its exclusive
Legislature fritterS away even con-
temptible allowance Of time granted 1t,
takes every opportunity to steal its day
to consider other matters. and If forced
to its disagreeable constitutional duty
usually appears without quorum, so
that no measures except those without
opposition can be passed? The District
has important matters before Congress,
some OF which may be successful even in
a quorumleSs session. Mr.. Willis cannot
aid the educational bill by denying the
District its day. for unless his purpose
to amend is abandoned no proposition
in favor of the District will be presented.
Cannot he and other Representatives with
pet measures on hand remember for a
few minutes that they constitute the
local District Legislature. and by common
consent forbear to press their favored
propositions to the point where District
interests will be sacrificed without bene-
fit to themselves?"
"The amendment to change inaugura-
ton day to the 30th of April says The
Amendment to Change ruarv o.
Date of Inauguration. 1887, w S
the Judiciary Committee of the House
on the 22d of June-which came very
near being the longest day of the year.
Inasmuch as the amendment was neither
Republican. nor Democratic. nor North
ern nor Southern, nor sectional, nor po-
litical,, but simply one which would pro-
mote the comfort and convenience of
every class and condition of American
citizens, North and South, East and West,
and one which had received unprece-
dented approval from the public gen.
orally, it was the plain duty of the
Judiciary Committee to act and to act
promptly. The amendment had been
carefully considered and revised by the
Senate, it is only half a dozen lines in
length, and it should have been passed by
the House in June, almost certainly early
in December If the people of the United
States do not want it, their State Legis-
latures will not ratify it; but if the people
of the United States do want it-and
the indications are that the citizens of
distant cities take much more interest
in the matter than the citizens of WASH
ington do-they may well feel indignant
if the measure be defeated by the in
action of few listless members of the
House of Representatives"
Evening star., 1937-02-28

A suggestion has been voiced in the
Maryland Legislature that pedestrians
be required to wear coat tail lights.
Pedestrians still have their rights. but
have not employed desperate methods
of enforcing them. The coat tail light
would be hindrance to a protest against
cruel and unusual driving by means of
a sit-down strike.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

A sapient comment to the effect that
war cannot happen again because events
have demonstrated that it is not safe,
recalls the sad experience of number
of young gentlemen who hurried to the
fray under an impression that war con-
sisted mostly of handsome uniforms on
parade to Sousa's High School Cadets
March"
Evening star., 1937-02-28
No Steel. No Ships.

Secretary Perkins sit-down on the
steel the Navy needs for new ship con-
struction plainly has some of her cabinet
colleagues in dither. This was indi-
Gated last week when three members
OF the cabinet engaged in an informal
guessing contest over what might be
done Miss Perkins said she thought the
tariff might be revised and foreign steel
used for building American ships. Sec
retary Roper said that would never do,
but the Navy might go into the steel
business on its own. Secretary Swanson
said the Navy was not equipped to go
into the steel business, and the proposal
was not practical: In the meantime, the
admirals. anxious to get busy on their
new deStroyers and submarines, are pri-
vately giving vent to salty old nautical
expressions which convey a woetul lack
OF appreciation of the finer points of
social justice and the labor movement.
The impasse which has delayed or pre-
vented bids on furnishing steel for the
Navy is generally blamed on the pro-
visions of the Walsh-H -Healey act, outlaw
ing child labor and requiring certain
minimum work-week standards for Gov
ernment contract work. But Senator
Walsh raised his voice in the Senate on
Friday to deny that his legislation was
deserving of this blame. The Senator
did not attempt to fix that blame. But
he pointed out that the act gives the
Secretary of Labor the discretionary
authority to modify the acts provisions
when, otherwise, they might impair the
conduct of Government business or
when Justice or public interest will be
served thereby
The Navy has sought such modifica-
She attributes her refusal to the fact
that notifications would constitute q
bad precedent, and she believes, more
over, that some of the steel companies
at least are antagonistic to the laws
provisions. AS Senator Walsh said she
may be entirely correct. The refusal of
the steel companies to bid under the
terms of the Walsh -Healey act, however,
is based on considerations which demand
their day in court. The companies are
working on a forty-four hour week,
while the Walsh-Healey act establishes
a forty-hour week. The steel industry
went from the forty to the forty-four
creased after the depression, with COM
mensurate increase in weekly wages.
They contend now that as the Navy
work would consume only part of pro-
duction, it is impractical and disorganiz-
ing to split hour standards between pri-
vate and public contracts.
Miss Perkins, of course, is not as much
interested in the Navys steel needs as
she is in the forty-hour week for the
steel industry. The Navy is not as much
interested in the forty-hour week as it
Is In getting bids for the steel it needs.
The steel industry, with one eye on Miss
Perkins and John L. Lewis and the other
on the Nays needs, has simply shut
both eyes for the time being. 1t knows
the Government has had to cut corners
in obtaining other supplies-automobiles.
for instance The President will decide,
OF course, whether the Navy gets it's steel
now or whether he wants Miss Perkins
to fight it out along the line she has
taken. But publicly, like Br'er Rabbit,
he is layin' low and amt sayin nothin.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Strictly Practical.

weren't you in favor Of my sugges-
tion?" asked the colleague.
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum.
But you didn't say word in its.
behalf"
"Why confuse matters? What you
needed was more votes, not more argu-
ment."
Evening star., 1937-02-28

While Herbert Hoover as President an
nounced himself frequently as in favor
of efficiency" he never tried to sub
stitute superficialities of title for working
groups from whom definite results were
expected.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

Aviation enthusiasts refer to the earth's
atmosphere as an ocean to be sailed by
aircraft. Those who inhabit the land
itself are rated as stationary molluscs.
They are not even given the status of
poor fish"
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Fatherly Counsel.

"Is your boy Josh making much OF
fortune in the city?'
mo, sir!" exclaimed Farmer Corn
tossel. II cautioned him about that.
He promised to make what money he
needed to live comfortable, but not
enough to get him suspected of bein'
q racketeer"
Evening star., 1937-02-28
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Evening star., 1937-02-28

The Supreme Court is said to be up
to the minute on its work; model of
patient industry to be charged neither
with the laws delays nor the insolence
of Office.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Nearly Through Selling.

From the Chicago Daily News.
If the major league base ball clubs
have completed their live stock sales and
purchases, the practice games can begin.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Inconsistent.

From the Burlington Hawkeye Gazette.
Americans are people who love the
wide-open spaces and keep right on
crowding up in the big cities.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
The Statesman and the Song

There are better days before us
And our statesmen Joined the chorus,
Even though it missed connection with
the radio at home.
And we ought to have hook-up.
As affairs begin to look up
That will bring the cheering message,
wheresoever we may roam.
Better days draw near for certain.
Time has pushed aside the curtain
Where the clouds had gathered round
to keep the sun from shining
through.
On the whole, the song is pleasant.
If the statesmen do not falter, soon
well all be singing, too.
Jud Tunkins says advice is mostly
like household medicine, easier to give
than 1t Is to take.
"A great leader" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, rs . man who studies the
direction a public movement will take
and hurries 10 rs to keep little in ad-
vance Of the crowd"
Evening star., 1937-02-28

Love and Weapons.
A love affair
Brings hope renewed.
It may, with care,
Not cause q feud.
Let Cupid use
His bow for fun
And still refuse
To tote q gun.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

"Read yoh Bible" said Uncle Eben,
"an' try to understand it by yoh own
self. II you axes anybody to 'splain it.
you's liable to git into an Argument
datW waste de best years OF yoh LIE" ;
Evening star., 1937-02-28

ernment has come all the way back over
ground given up at the time six Supreme
Court justices upset the A. A. A.
But that is not ALL Its officials propose
a push on to other fields of control, aimed
at further help and protection to the
individual farmer.
Mr.. Wallace has decided that. with all
of these aids, there still is no assurance
that farmer is going to be able to hold
the farm that he owns or that the rent
ing farmer is going to have a chance TO
become a farm owner.
So the Government plans now to go
further and to attack basic problems OF
land ownership and land use, again
using its powers to effect reforms and
its cash to convey tangible benefits to
individual citizens.
Thus the new program of the planners
calls for use of Government taxing
powers to take away profits from the
sale of farm property, if speculative; it
calls for Government assistance to farm
owners who may be hard-pressed and
threatened with loss of their mortgaged
farms, and it calls for Government aid
to help farm tenants become farm
owners.
In a word, Mr. Wallace wants to
stabilize the present farm population on
the farms of the country and to use
Government resources to improve their
lot.
The idea at first is going to be to
choose a few thousand farm tenants
from among the 100000 and to set
these few thousand up in business, ade-
quately supplied with land, machinery.
live stock and low interest, long maturity
loans that will enable them to pay out
during a lifetime. AS many as 25,000
may be aided in this way during a single
year. But 2,975,000 others will expect
and demand similar treatment from .
paternafistic Government
And II farmers are to bs helped BY
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
Almost Half Again as Much
AS Spent on Land Forces
Last Year Is
Requested
NAVAL ESTIMATES
OVER 500 MILLIONS
Greatest Peace-Time De-
Tense Budget In Britain's
History Calls for Expendi-
ture of 1896, 1875, 900, With
Air Force Estimates Still
To Come

London, March 4.-(AP)-Britain s
"mechanized and modernized" army
told Parliament today It's estimated
expenditure for 1887, Gin defense of
the empire and discharge of interna-
tional obligations" would total $41O,-
$4,000, almost half again as much as
for 1886.
With yesterdays 1887 naval esti-
mates of $525, 1926, 900, the total army
and navy figures comprise the biggest
ornaments bill Great Britain ever has
known in peace times, 1896, 1876, 900
The air force estimates are still to
come.
Alfred Cooper, secretary of state for
war, told the House of Commons $685.
100000 of the $131 ,465, 900 increase
over the 1886 expenditures would he
raised by loans, leaving $315, 5000 600
as the official estimate for the budget
The army personnel, he said, in dis
cussing the army's share of Great
Britains greatest peace-time re-arma-
ments program, would be increased
to 10000, exclusive of units in India,
as compared with 158400 in 1886, and
186,4OO in 1914.
The increased expenditure, he ex-
planned, was due mainly to Expansion
and acceleration of the program for
bringing our military preparations up
to date"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
Roosevelt Prepares Speech
To Deliver at Victory
Dinner Tonight In
Capital
4TH ANNIVERSARY
OF TAKING OFFICE
Finds Congress Fighting To
Perpetuate Policies Enun-
ciated in First Administra-
ton; House Debates $526
Million Naval Appropria-
tons

Washington, March a (AP)-
The Senate heard today the
1886 presidential campaign was
the most expensive in history.
From it's campaign expendi-
lures committee, it learned the
reported cost of the big political
fight, conferred about President
Roosevelt and Republican Nomi-
nee Alfred Landon, was $685.
973, 1929.
The figure included the expenses of
a variety of independent organiza-
tons, as well as those of major par
ties.
With it's report on costs, the COM
mittee submitted an estimate the
whole outlay for the election may
have run to $48,OOO,OOO. 1t also pro-
posed a drastic Tightening of election
laws.
President Roosevelt rounded out his
fourth full year in office, with light
schedule of engagements which per-
mitted him to prepare during the
afternoon a speech he is to deliver to-
night to the Democratic Victory Din
ner.
Rail Financing Revealed
Chairman Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
Continued on Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
France To
Cut Franc
EUen More

Paris, March 4.-(AP)-Definite
pegging of the French franc at
about % to the dollar and crea-
ton of a free gold market was
forecast for this weekend by in
formed financial quarters today.
This is a further devaluatiOn of
about 2 LIZ percent.
Premier Leon Blum is prepared
to set a definite value on the ma
tiOnaI currency in a new effort to
extricate his government from
current financial difficulties,
these sources said.
Official financial circles main
tanned silence on the predictions,
but acknowledged the Socialist
premier "has a strong trump up
his sleeve, which he expects to
pull out at the right moment"
(The franc is currently quoted
at 4.65 cents, about FL IL to the
dollar. At the rate of % to the
dollar, the francs value would APP
prOximately 4.54 cents.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
ANOTHER Staying
OF CHILD BATTLES
New York Police Find 15-MOnths-Old
Infant Slain; Death by Rape
of Baby Girl

New York, March 4.-(AP)-Mur-
der by rape was the conclusion writ
ten by police today on the sordid
death of four-year-old Joan Morvan,
but by odd coincidence New York au-
thorities were confronted with the IN
solved and violent death of another
child, boy Is months old.
Within period of three days the
two children died, the Morvan girl
from injuries inflicted, the State
charged, by Howard Magnussen, 26
candy-maker.
But of the death of Gordon J.
Keith, Jr., an infant in arms, Bronx
officialdom knew little. DR.. Louis
Lewsmowitz, the medical examiner
reported the boy, son of Mrs. Kath-
crime Keith, waitress employed in
Manhattan, had succumbed yesterday
to a fractured skull, a brain injury
and severe Commissions of the arms
legs and abdomen.
How and when the injuries were
suffered no one professed to know.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
Many Industrial Disputes
Continue Despite Jubi-
lation Over Vic
tory With Steel
OIL, MOTOR, TEXTILE
INDUSTRIES FOLLOW
John Lewis Supporters Lay
Plans for Vast Unioniza-
ton Movement in Nation;
More Steel Firms An
nounce Higher Wages; Sit
downers Halt Plant
(BV The Associated PresSO

New strikes and outbreaks OF
violence in old ones emphasized today
the prevalence of industrial disputes
almost forgotten in the jubilation over
organized labor's compacts with the
steel industry.
Upwards of 10000 workers were idle
in disputes affecting a half hundred
business and industrial firms.
While strikers and employers
sought compromises, leaders of the c.
l. o. viewed with satisfaction it's con-
tract with the Carnegie Illinois Cor
poration, and mapped plans for the
eventual unionization of all industrial
workers in the nation.
John Lewis supporters said the
drive in the steel industry would be
extended to the oil, automotive and
textile industries.
c. 1. o. units sought recognition as
the sole bargaining agencies for Chry-
sler Motor Corporation and General
Electric Corporation employees. A
shoe union was projected by the New
England G. I. 0. council.
G. I. o. gains did not heal the
breath with the American Federation
of Labor. President William Green
said the federation would not tolerate
extension of support to dual and
rival organization.
Several additional steel firms an.
nounced higher wages.
A sit-down strike of 5000 night
shift workers halted operations at q
Detroit plant of the Briggs Corpora
ton, builders of car bodies. A union
official said the strike was in protest
against a speed-up of the assembly
line beyond human endurance"
Two drivers were beaten and two
trucks were burned in a blockade by
1000 striking Rhode Island truck
drivers, who struck for a closed shop
48-hour week and wage increases.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
~ !. G.. RASk ERVILL


e. raleigh March 1.-The old age pen
bo Y',S' school machinery and free text
~Y'ks bills are still the snags holding
t p legislative progress, and indica-
A., "9 are mat they may keep the Sen
~, ana House in a snarl for another
sitv tF and thus further delay the pos
Jl"'y Of an early adjournment.
w. y, while the old age pensions bill
nr a9 iihally blasted out of the appro-
i ne committee by administra-
csl a dynamite and put on the House
roa .'lodr for consideration on second
hahn today, there is every reason to
as 1--we mat it is going to have about
had "iocn trouble in the house as it
'''o In committee.
~ determined Fight Looms
tho ''aIIIAan D. L. libby Ward, of
tbo.. "bpropriations committee, and
coY %t VINO agree with him that the
s2oa ,y' eS should not be required to pay
99V year from ad valorem tax
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04
POSTPONE INQUEST
OF WOMAN'S DEATH
Await Results of Autopsy on Mrs.
Jennette Trader, Accused
Slayer of Husband

Salisbury, Md, March 4.-(AP)-
The coroner's inquest into the death
of Mrs. Jennette Trader, accused hus-
band-slayer- was postponed today un-
til reports are available on the au'
topsy expected to give the jury scien-
tific information on causes of the
widows death.
Because autopsy reports will not be
finished for at least week, the pos
sibility today's session of the inquest
would be merely a perfunctory one
doomed as the jury was scheduled tc
meet at 10 a. m. Postponement follow
ed shortly afterward.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-04

A government mine was exploded
last night plunging the sector into
another spasm of intense fighting.
Each side thought it was a signal for
attack by the other
The insurgents apparently were dig
ging a new tunnel toward the hospital
when they hit a protective mine laid
several weeks ago by government
troops. The explosion ripped apart a
small section of the building. Several
insurgents were reported killed.