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The Washington times., 1938-02-05
ULtin1dtun1 to Tokyo
Calls for Size of
Capital Ships
Is DAYS TO REPLY
BIZ RORERT g. NIXON

BY ROBERT u. NL6ON
UN.S0. The United States,
Great Britain and France today
demanded a showdown with Japan
on the size Of battleshipS world
powers will build and the caliber
of guns they will carry.
In the first ultimatum delivered
to any government since World
War days, backed by identical
notes from the other two demo
cratic powers, the American Gov.
ment gave Tokyo IS days in which
to declare itself once and for all
on the size of it's capital ships,
either now building or projected.
INFERENCE PLAIN
The inference was stark and
certain that:
If Japan, within the allotted
time, does not give definite assur.
ance that it will not build battle.
ships in excess of the 35,000-ton
and 16-inch gun limit laid down
by the Washington and London
naval treaties, the United States,
Great Britain and France are pre-
pared to build superbattleships to
the ultimate limit Of their powers.
This, it was learned in Naval
circles, may mean battleships Of
$4,000 tons, mounting upward Of
twelve 18-inch gunS-the most
destructive Naval fortresses ever
envisioned afloat.
(The present limitation Of cap.
!tal ships is $4,000 tons displace.
ment with nine 16-inch guns, the
guns greater than those on any
ship afloat in any navy.)
LEFT PARLEY
Japan walked out of the 1886
arms limitation conference in
London. It demanded that the
$50 ratio laid down by the Wash
ington naval treaty of 1922 and
the London treaty of 1880 be
wiped out and that. Nippon have
naval parity with Britain and the
United States. This was refused.
Since then Japan has refused to
disclose its naval program.
Reports have come to the naval
intelligence services of the United
States. Great Britain and France
that Japan is building four -aw
battleShips of $4,000 tons displace.
ment, mounting either 16 or 1s-
inch guns.
Numerous consultations, in view
OF the new naval construction pro-
grams of Britain and the United
States to meet the threat from
Japan. have taken place in Lon
don in recent weeks, but none of
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The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Two Bandits Shot
In Paterson HOldup

PATERSON, N j., Feb. 5 U.N.S0
Two bandits were shot and seri-
ously wounded today when they
were trapped by police following
a holdup Of a grocery store here.
A gun battle resulted on a main
thoroughfare when the holdup
men elected to fight it out. Within
a few moments both were on their
way to the hospital.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Justice Reed
In First Parley

Q.N.S) Justice Stanley Reed
participated in his first confer.
ence with other justices of the
Supreme Court today to agree
upon decisions TO be announced
Monday. The high court is ex.
pected to announce decisions fur.
ther marking the limits of Fed
eral taxation of salaries of EN-.
ployes of State agencies. In four
cases the Government maintains
that it has the right to levy in
come taxes on the salaries of en-
ployeS of State bank liquidation
agencies.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
RaCketeer Found
Dead in N. Y. Auto

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 G.N.S0.
With a bullet in the brain, the
body of Joseph Malloy, 80, lay in
the morgue today while police
tried to figure out who killed him
and why. Malloy was found dead
in parked car.
Malloy, known as a smalltime
racketeer, former bootlegger and
runner for bookmakerS, disap-
peared Monday after talking with
Elizabeth Conetty, Is, his sweet
heart and a former Willimantic,
Conn, girl. on the telephone.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Cores Recovering
From Auto Hurts

Former Senator and Mrs.
Thomas Pryor Gore, injured yes
terday when the automobile in
which they were riding collided
with a District truck at Twenty
second and P Streets Northwest.
were reported to- have spent "a
comfortable night" at Emergency
Hospital where they were treated
for slight lacerations, bruises and
shock.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
RUSSIA YIELDS
TOu.S. DEMAND
in RUBENS CASE
Diplomat to Visit
Spy" Suspect

O.N.S.) The Soviet government
today, after many weeks Of delay,
granted permission to the United
States Government to visit Mrs.
Ruth Rubens, central figure in
the bizarre international spy mys-
terry.
An attache Of the American
Embassy in Moscow is expected
to be permitted to see Mrs. Rubens
this afternoon, 10y w. Hender
son, charge Of the embassy, re-
ported to the State Department.
AGREEMENT CITED
The American Government last
month demanded that the Soviet
authorities live up to an agree
ment made at the time this Gov
eminent extended recognition to
the Soviet Union that when Amer
ican citizens are arrested in Rus.
Sia, permission of visit must be
granted American authorities.
The demand was made in for
NAL note after Soviet authorities
insisted for several weeks they
had no information as to the dis.
appearance of Mrs. Rubens and
her husband, q mysterious indi'
vidual who obtained at least two
american passports under a fraud.
ulent identity and whose national.
ity is still unknown.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Stock Market Up,
Dull at Opening

NEW YORK. Feb. S Q.N.SO
The stock market opened higher
in dull trading today. Several
leaders, including Bethlehem, Gen.
eral Electric, Allied Chemical.
|Kennecott and Union Carbide,
chalked up overnight gains Of a
point and more. Steels, motors,
rails, coppers and chemicals were
among the strongest groups.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
DEWEY would
GRILL DAVIS IN
EIGHT MURDERS
Hope Dare Warned
To Stop. Talking

+ PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5 d.N.s0
''Dixie" Davis was in tighter
spot today than he imagined. The
disbarred lawyer and fugitive from
Justice knew when he was ar
rested here that District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey Of New York
sought him as the brains Of New
York's $100, ,000, 900 a year num-
bers racket. What he probably
did not know was that Dewey will
question him about eight murders.
The once dapper Dixie" was
uncomfortable when the surprise
information was sprung yesterday
as he sought his freedom on lower
bond and saw his habeas corpus
plea 60 over until Monday.
HOPE THREATENED
Most startling of the disclosures
It was followed by another-a re-
port that Hope Dare, Davis sweet
heart who was arrested with him.
had been warned by an unknown
voice on the telephone to:
"Quit talking or something
will crack down on you"
Davis was pictured as a "freigh-
tened man"-not q criminal, but
just scurTying out OF Dewey's path,
by Lemuel B. 5chofields his cou1l.
sci, who was reported to have been
paid 5000 as q retainer fee.
But Bryan A. HeGmes, special
assistant attorney general 0f
Pennsylvania, scoffed at the de-
Ecription.
Instead of being the fright.
0ned man pictured here" Her.
mes told the court, ''he con-
tinued to dominate this criminal
empire while a fugitive from
JuSL1Ces
DAVIS HANDCUFFED
Judge James M. Barrett, remark
ing that "a few days delay" should
impose no hardships on the de-
PENDANTS Gin hiding more than
seven months by their own ad-
mission" refused immediate de-
cision on the habaes corpus plea.
Davis appeared in court hand
cuffed to George Weinberg,
claimed "strong-arm man" who
was with he and Hopo Dare when
New York and Philadelphia police
and one of Dewey's assistants
raided an apartment here.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Eckert J. Sacks
80 Years Young

Eckert J. Sacks. president Of the
Washington Permanent Building
Association. is 30 years young"
today. A resident Of Washington
more than IS years, Mr.. Sacks
was born in CaSsel. Germany, He
assisted in organizing the associa-
ton more than so years ago.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05

Without bloodshed, he has
accomplished overnigh t
what Satin did a few months
ago when he shot Marshal
Tuchachevsky and seven red
army generals.
And Hitler has done it for
the same reason as Stain.
First, to achieve unqualified
overlordship of the armed
forces. Second, to prevent
accomplishment of the desire
of both the red army and the
reichswehr to bring about a
rapprochement between the
Soviet Union and Germany.
Gen. Werner Won Fritsch,
commander in chief of the
German army, and the seven
generals Of the reichswehr
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
SilnOne Gaining
In Fight for Life

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. S Q.N.S).
Condition of Simone Simon, the
petite French actress, suffering
from bronchial pneumonia, was
described by her physicians as sat-
iSfactory today. They added, how
ever, she still is not out of danger.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Chinese Envoy
To Quit Tokyo

TOKYO. Feb. S (1N.so-Mem-
bers Of the staffs of the Chinese
Embassy and all consulates in
Japan will sail for China tomor-
row aboard the liner Empress of
Canada, it was announced today.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05

was not assured. Thus they
were classed as conservatives
as compared to those men,
hers of the Nazi party and a
few generals who were will
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The Washington times., 1938-02-05
This Opportunity
Won't Happen
Again This Year

There probably will be
no other month this Yeu
when used cors CON be
purchased for prices os
low as those being quoted
this February. c. E. Bote-
ler. automobile expert OF
BUrY-Pote. stresses the
particular advantages in
buying q used cor now, in
q spscicl AUTOGRAM
message on the Used Cor
Classified page.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
THIEF TAKES $40

Almas Temple officials reported
to police today the theft Of $40
in cash from a locker in the base.
ment Of Shrine headquarters in
the 1900 block Of K st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
Purge Blasts Hopes
OF Berlin Soviet Pact
Old Army Regime Plotted Alliance With
Reds to Rule Europe

IEditor's te-Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hit1er's under-
lying purpose IN his "purge" of the German army COM
nuGnd to stfe groUing Increment for rGpproche-
ment bete0eem Germany and Soviet Russia H. R. Knck-
erbocker, the noted roofing correspondent of Iterd
tiona NeUs Service dc1oses the fo1owing reve1O of
the situation cabed from his present Headquarters in
pnTIS.)
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
NAZIS JUBILANT
TREASURY CONDITION

U.N.S.! Treasury balance Feb
ruary 8 $2,97O, $685. ,54S.41; internal
revenue, $15,955,523.02; custom
receipts, $2,55S, 800 .s3: receipts,
$3,5S5, $3.50, 300; expenditures, a..
sac, ,e02,l72,
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
BY PIERRE J. HUSS

decades of monarchical rule, 13
years as a democracy and five
years of national socialism, Ger
many was transformed today into
a totalitarian state-100 per cent
brown-Shirted Nazi from top to
bottom.
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler at
tanned this pinnacle of personal
power by abolishing the prestige
and, influence of the "Potsdam
Clique" composed Of old-line Prus-
sian army officers who hitherto
exercised a check-rein on Nazi
party activity through their in
fluence over the reichswehr.
GOERING CHIEF AIDE
With the fuehrer in the front
rank of power was Field Marshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering, slated
to become deputy war lord under
Hitler. Ahead, for Germany and
the world at large, may lie some
new surprise" In the
filed of Nazi expansion.
Whether this is to be a bold
stroke to bring restoration Of Ger
war-lost colonies, extension
of Nazi activity in Austria or per-
haps even seizure of the free city
of Danzig, remained in the realm
of pure speculation.
But the fuehrer, having placed
the go million people of Germany
under his direct personal COM
mand, busted himself at the chan
cellory in consultation with his
closest associates.
ANNOUNCEMENT DUE SOON
When the Reichstag meets later
in the month, he may announce
what steps his strengthened Nazi
regime has decided upon.
One of Hitler's most significant
acts in his "bloodless purge"
which ousted 13 generals, reshuf-
fled the government and trans
ferred some of the Reich's lead
ing diplomats, was his award of
the field marshal's baton to
Goering.
AS time goes on, actual super
vision Of the army is to be left
more and more in Goering'S hands
as top-ranking officer. He will
also act as a balance wheel be-
tween the Nazi party and the Off
GERS corps, thus forestalling posi-
BILE future revival Of the PruSsian
nluLary camp as 3 domlnaClng
army influence.
NAZIS JUBILANT
Jubilant Nazis hailed Hitler's
coup as a landmark in history:
firmly establishing the Nazis as
rulers Of Germany. In old-line
army circles there was glum 81
lence.
The inspired Nazi press paid
halting tribute to the contribu-
tions of the dismissed army OF.
Continued on Page 2, Col. u
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
By H. R. 'KNICKERBoCKER


PARIS Feb 5-Rechsfuehrer Adolf Hitler has mastered
the German general staff and made himself for the first
time dictator fact we'll the German
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
CLASSED AS
CONSERVATIVES

Above all, they were
determined to engage in no
military adventure in which
Germany's eventual success
The Washington times., 1938-02-05
i. S., Britain and France in Edict;
Hitler Army Purge to Continue
FHehrer Rec eiUes
NeIU Generals
In Group
POWER ABSOLUTE

BERLIN, Feb. 5 (I.N.S.).
In his newly-won capacity
as supreme war lord, Richs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler laid
down the law to the German
army this afternoon. AS
commander-in-chief of the
Reich's entire armed forces,
Hitler summoned to the
presidential palace all COM
manding generals through
out his regime.
The Fuehrer, meanwhile,
moved to extend his shakeup to
all ranks and sections of the
army to ensure absolute loyalty
to his regime.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
THAT GRAND FEELING
ON YOUR VACATION

Everybody wants to enjoy a vaca-
ton. Everybody who goes on one intends
to enjoy it. Some succeed, others fail.
A lot Of us are inclined to overlook one
of the things that makes any vacation
more enjoyable. 1t is embodied in the
admonition:
PAY your bills before you co.
1t is a comfortable feeling to know,
while fishing or swimming or dancing, or
doing any of the many other things va
cations are for, that you'll come home
with your personal financial record clean.
1t is exceedingly pleasant to know that
you don't have to spend the last week of
the rest period-and the neXt few months
after that-worrying about paying the
bills that piled up beforehand.
So many of us put off paying current
bills for month before we leave, spend
all our money on one grand splurge
while we are gone and come back to II
more months of worry about finances,
that it's a wonder we are able to enjoy
any part of our vacation.
This year, it might be worth while to
wonder bit before going whether it is
worth our while to live the life of Riley
for two weeks-and a life of financial
despair for 80 more
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
YOU CAN'T KEEP
CHILDREN FOREVER

A mother of two children in Los An
geies shot her husband to death because
she wanted custody of the children after
the couple separated-and she wanted to
keep them with me forever"
There will be no more pain for the
husband. He's dead. There will be suf-
fering for the wife, but she has inflicted
1t upon herself. And for her it will end,
one way or another, soon after she is
tried.
The children are the sufferers. now
and tomorrow. To their graves they will
carry the thought that violent death sep
arated them from both parents - death
inflicted on one by another of the par
ents.
If this is manifestation of parental
love, the world and its children would be
better off without it.
We have heard all our lives of the
protection parents give their children.
Sometimes it strikes us the children need
protection from, not by, the parents.
SO often a selfish possessiveness is
mistaken for parental love. The former
binds children hand and foot, making
them forever conscious of the debt
they owe their parents, of the duty"
they have toward those who brought them
into the world. The latter frees the chill
dren to live their own lives when they are
able, making them self-reliant and, thus
better citizens. A child does not ask to
be born. More parents should remem-
Der that
True parental love is thing that
strives to make life worth living for the
children-and the best way to do that is
to teach them to live their own lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
Mr.. AESOP, MEET
MR.. KAPLAN

(Christian Science MOnitor)
$50 now is givink in de noosepeppers
de news dat We are going to have Mr.. Ae-
sop's febbles in de cless" Thus would Mr.
Kaplan, the leading character of Leonard
@: Ross's "Education of H*Y*M*A*N
K*A*P*L*A*N,' announce to the rest
of the AmericaniZation class of adults
the news that the adult education divi-
sion of the WPA in New York City has
issued an edition of Aesop's Fables for
classroom reading.
One is reminded Immediately of Mr..
Kaplans stirring spitches-pardon US
Mr. Parkhill, speeches" - on holidays
and nature and Open Questions. Perhaps
we can guess at his rendition of "de
goose dat lait do golden eX," but we
should like most intensely to hear how he
would answer two questions in the WPA
text opposite the story Of the Ant and the
Grasshopper.
One is :: make short speech to show
that the Ant might have acted more con-
siderately." That point seems to have
been neglected when we went to school,
but no doubt Mr.. Kaplan would feel a
fine compassion for the ''onemplQyt moo
zician" who came to beg Of the Ants after
having sung for them through the sum-
mer.
And then: make short speech to
show that the Grasshopper might have
acted more wisely" Now, from the man
whose comparatiyes ran, Good, batter,
high-class, we are sure that the Grass
hopper could become, ''viZe, viZer real
smot."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
SCHOOLS AND THE LEGION

1t is bit obscure, just what mott
waited a Columbia professors attack on
the American Legion, but it is cheering to
find a group of 800 Los Angeles teachers
hitting back in defense of the Legion.
If such projects as Imperial county's
own Hipass Health camp is an attempt
on the part of the Legion to dictate stand
ards for American children, as the Col
umba professor charged is being done,
then let us have more of this sort of die
tation.
Somehow or other we agree with the
Los Angeles teachers that the worthy
professor wanted publicity more than
ANYTHING else
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
News Behind
the News
Killing RumOrs -.
Closing Plants :.

WASHINGTON.-The years most
sensational rumor has been killed
off by the General Motors an
nouncement of operating schedules
The rumor, believed and repeated
in the highest places, simply was
that the big three automobile COM
panies were going to close down
until after election.
The version attributed to Gov.
Frank Murphy of Michigan, after
a visit to the White House, was
that this move was deliberately
planned as a political blow at the
New Deal. Fantastic or otherwise,
the yarn was given so much Gre
dence that Solicitor General ROD
ert H. jackson was asked to check
up on such laws as there might be
which covered conspiracy against
the public welfare"
From Palo Alto came a report
that Herbert Hoover had explained
to Leland Stanford professors that
the industry would fold up until
after elections, delaying decisions
on new models and postponing fall
openings, because of its uncertainty
and fear.
Correspondents who kept trying
to check these and other versions
could be sure only that the industry
would produce relatively few cars
in the next two or three months
because of heavy inventory, that
there was inside pressure for post
ponement of fall openings until
January and that many interested
persons-including certain automo-
bile men-had engaged in lot Of
loose talk.
Now General Motors announces
that it's plants will close on an
average only three weeks longer
than the usual annual shutdown
for inventory and model change
overs. Which means at least one
thing less for Washington to be all
hot and bothered about.
President Roosevelt told the COM
mittee which is going over to study
British labor laws and conditions
that he wanted it to find out why
there was relatively little opposition
in England to union organization
and collective bargaining.
There's so much dynamite in H.
R. 1896, a bill introduced by Con-
gresham David J. Lewis of Mary
land, that it probably never will be
considered seriously.
The bill proposes that any U. S.
senator or representative who en-
cages in law practice with a part
ner or associate who acts as an
attorney or agent in any case ain
opposition to the interests or in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03

the service of the United States"
shall publicly disclose all items of
income received by himself and
partner in that connection.
The obvious next step would be
to require lawyer-members of Con-
gress - disclose fees from and iden-
tity of all clients whom they or
their law firms represent, which
in many cases might be no end
embarrassing.
But Lewis, who tossed the bill
in at the last minute, apparently
is seeking to build up campaign
issue against his opponent, Senator
Millard Tydings, members of a
Baltimore law firm.
Girl employees under John l..
Lewis at the big United Mine Work.
ers headquarters here are required
to give up their jobs when they get
married.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
CHECKING THE
CHI.SELERS

(Alemeda Times-Star)
An interesting little item-and not
SO little at that-comes from the office
of the state controller who passes on the
correctnessa nd legality of claims pre-
sented the state for payment. "Within
the last year" according to the item,
"bills for supplies and services aggregat-
jected by the controllers office"
That's lot of money and the fact
that the controllers action was correct
is attested by the further fact that none
OF the claims have been successfully
pressed for payment.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-03
Bruce Cation Says
- The State = Master or Servant!

abstraction. the state-in ot1
words. itself-into an end in its
a whole that is gerater than
sum of its parts.
Now it ought to be obvious &
this is a direct reversal of eve
thing that we in America have
ways thought about goverlmel
To our way of thinking any fd
of government, from board
township trustees ON up, exl
solely to serve the citizens. 1t
no existence apart from them.
is their agent and it cannot C
ceivably be anything more II
that.
So when we run into Someth
like this new German labor
We get the clearest possible pict
of the difference between a 1
society ana q uicCdlofSiiip.
In a free society, the state
lists for the individual; in a {
tatorship, the individual exists
the state.
In the one, the ordinary hun
beings chance for happiness
the dominant consideration;
the other, it is no consideration
all.
We can do our democracy
greater service than by getting
distinction between II e
kinds of society clear in otf mi