The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-28

the White House, foliowin
 When that concert was over, the King asked his host if he could get recording of what he had heard. Result was that all the singers-Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith, Alan Lomax, the Kentucky moun- tain singers and the Negro spiri- tualists - made records of three numbers each. And Tibbett and Kate Smith threw in a little per- sonal greeting to the King and the President.
 The album contains eighteen 12- inch photograph records. Only four sets have been made -. one for the King and Queen, one for President and Mrs. Roosevelt, one for Secretary Hull and one for British Ambassador Sir Ron- aid Lindsay.
 The studio which prepared the
 transcriptiOns signed an agree with with the State Department not to release any of these rec
 ords to the public. These are the only four sets that ever will
 be made.
 NOTE-Vice President Garner, who did not attend the Marian Anderson concert at Lincoln Me- morial, was forced to sit with the King and Queen and the Roose- velts in the first row during Miss Anderson's recital at the White House. He had rather a glum look on his face and did not ap. plaud once, even though the Queen applauded vigorously.
 JAPAN MEANS WAR
 The uncensored reports regard ing Japanese insults to the Bri- tish in China are worse than the newspaper accounts. The British don't want too much sensational news to get back to England, for fear of arousing the British pulp lie, but the real fact is that at least one British woman has been raped by Japanese soldiers, and many other insults have been perpetrated.
 Reason for this news suppress
 sion is the obvious. fact that the British cannot afford. a war in the Far East while a war also is ready to break in Europe.
 And the Japanese have made all too clear that they are ready for war. This fact was laid be- fore British Ambassador Cragie
 by the vice minister of foreign affairs in Tokio when the Bri- tish first issued their threat to blockade Japan.
 Ambassador Cragie was in- formed that such a blockade would draw from Japan an immediate declaration of war. The incident at Tentsin, Cragie was told, was a local matter, involving the wrath of the local Japanese commander against the British Consul Gen. eral; while blockade against Japan was national matter, which would be resisted by the en- tire Japanese navy.
 This differentiation, of course. was sheer poppycock. since the Japanese government is behind the Tientsin fracas. But anyway, this threat, when cabled to Lorl- don by Cragie. produced great con- sternation in the cabinet, and is the chief reason Britain delayed carrying out its threat.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Justice Department officials, picking up their phones the other morning, were surprised to hear the operator say, sIs 1t an official or personal cadl?' Somebody had shown Attorney General Frank Murphy the monthly telephone bill, and he put out an order, afr fecting 2,500 employees In the building, banning all personal calls
 Commentators on the Black Tom" case, which was decided last week in favor of the United States against Germany, credit Amos Pealsee, New York lawyer, with doing most to bring about that victory Investigators of the Boiling Field crash that caused the death of the Mexican flyer, Francisco Sarabia, found that the daring ace was overloaded not only with gasoline but also with i2 suitcascs and miscellaneous cquip- fnent, including on electric Iron,
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