Show news aws review of current events the world over washington bicentennial opened hy by president hoover stimsons sons stern warning to japan chinese pushed back in terrific battle by EDWARD W PICKARD covery VERY city lown own and hamlet in the AJ A J united states and most of the capitals of the world paid tribute to the character and achievements of george gdorge washington on monday A the two hundredth anniversary of 0 J his birth the celebrations ak br brat a ions fostered by congressman sol blooms blooma 11 will continue in this I 1 country through most of the year in one X form or another of nc fic lally the ble bicentennial enten doings were president opened in washing hoover ton when president hoover delivered an address before a joint session of congress which was attended by all high officials of the government the members of the supreme tue court and the diplomatic corps standing before the brilliant gathering mr hoover called on the american people themselves to those arl principles sciples befitting a free people of which washington was a living exponent we have need again he said to bring forth the picture of the glories and the valor of lexington and concord and add bunker mil hill the suffering and fortitude of valley forge the victory of yorktown we have need to revive tho the meaning and the sheer morat moral courage of the declaration of independence pen dence the struggles of the continental congress the forming of the constitution no part of these great events the president reminded those who packed the gall galleries erles can be separated from the name and the dominant leadership of george washington there were many other ceremonies in and near washington the president laid a wreath on washington 0 tomb at mount vernon the richmond climon d light infantry blues and tho the richmond grays marched in a colorful parade through alexandria the national education association in convention were addressed by mr hoover and in the evening there was a grand colonial ball in washington and a nall ball at gadsby ya tave tavern rn in alexandria duplicating ns as far as possible the last ball washington attended there in 1708 tto the bedlum of a letter to senator borah secretary of state served notice natice on japan arid and the world at large that the united states still stands by the open door policy enunciated by john ilay hay in 1899 recognized by the washington conference of and implicit in the cine power treaty and other agreements concerning the pacific these pacts ile ho declared to be interdependent aud and the maintenance of the integrity of china necessary for the welfare not only of china but of the whole world in effect mr stimsons sons statement Is n threat by the administration that the united states will abrogate the washington treaty limiting the capital ship strength of the naval powers and restricting american defenses in the western pacific it if japan persists in disregarding the nine power treaty guaranteeing the territorial integrity of china ue ile said if the pacific treaties had been faithfully observed such A situation as now exists existe could not have arisen by skilful german soldiers C COACHED the chinese troops in tho the shanghai battle farea area successfully withstood a terrific attack by the japanese Japan esp that lasted three days ond and cost uncounted U lives the invaders shelled the positions held by the chinese along the line to the woosung Woo forts almost continuously and repented repeated attempts to adv vance a n c e tho the infantry were made but at tho the close of the operations the chinese badly battered were T V soong still there two days later inter the japanese airmen made a furious attack on KIan Klan gwan showering down huge bombs on the defenders bad and then the troops again attempted to rush the chinese positions without any success reinforcements were calla calle for and the tokyo government wi had just won it a victory in the elections elect forts decided to send two mole moe army divisions livis lons and a full general to supersede aleut gen the chinese government encouraged and determined to resist to the last was hurrying more troops to shanghai and the energetic T V soong bong S was making marked progress in his great grea i task of raising money mon e v to keep up the fight large alons were received not only from all parts of china but from chinese in many other lands As tho the week neared the close the japanese enraged by the resistance abey had met launched a new of nilve fenile that was reported to be driving the Clit neso babkin disorder this was the bloodiest battle so far in tho the shanghai conflict japanese Ju planes dropped cans of gasoline on Klan gwan and bombs ignited the explosive nod and conflagrations resulted reply to the latest admont i JAPANS tion of the league of nations council was received in geneva and was found to be a stiffly worded and resentful retort the japanese government it said could not understand why the appeal of the twelve powers was made to japan instead of to china the real aggressor the league pact it added does not exclude self defense nor does it leave china freo free to attack everybody in sight tokyo told the league that its observations are obscure and superfluous tor for japan entertains entertain no territorial or political ambitions in china japan said the note cannot consider china as an organized people in the sense used by the league covenant and declares it Is impossible to treat the chaos in china as it it were order altogether the reply from tokyo was little less than a slap in the face for the league council ONE NB seeming result of the war in the orient was the approval by the senate naval affairs committee of the hale bill authorizing the expends ture of tor for the building of our navy up to tonnage parity with great britain and to the treaty ratio with japan reversing its attitude of several weeks ago the committee votsy unanimously to report the measure to the senate with a recommend recommendation att on that it be passed at once A similar bill is still stuck in the house naval affairs committee BEFORE uri ORE getting too far away from china the latest developments in manchuria must be recorded with the assistance of friendly chinese in eluding general ma who formerly fought them the japanese have carried out their Z plan to mako make manchuria a state independent of china they created a new state which means land of peace and it was announced that it would be ruled by henry pu henry buyl rl the young nian man who for a time was waa the boy emperor of china changchun was selected as the capital of anauo and public buildings there were being prepared for henrys installation which was set for march 1 it was believed lie would be declared president or dictator for life of course the government of anauo will bill be quite subservient to japan this new state will not be permitted to exist unchallenged however already rebellious forces have been collected and are reported to be moving against hal alsin governor of alrin province and one of the leaders who organized anauo their attack was directed primarily at imlej po 10 miles from harbin to the disarmament D DELEGATES conference in geneva will just talk until the easter recess which will begin march ID 19 and last probably two weeks then the sub commissions will get busy with all the proposals for armament reduction that have been made by the various nations meanwhile the delegates can mull over these thirty five plans and the draft convention offered by the preparatory commission such was the decision of the steering committee which apparently thought the delay would give things a chance to turn for the bet better ter ambassador hugh hug h gibson and his colleagues of the american delegation like this arrangement atall at all and said so BO but they were overruled f tor or france germany and great britain were in no hurry burry to bring matters to a deci decision FRANCES RANCE S nl new w premier la Is andre tardley Tard leu and his ministry and policies have been promptly given a vote of confidence by parliament tardley will make no change in the french disarmament and reparations policies he told the deputies the government he said will participate in negotiations with a view to adjusting the reparations schedule but it will not permit repudiation of existing agreements in the field of disarmament the new ministry agrees with thelast the Jast that security la Is a prerequisite to lo reduction of arms one change made by however was the subject of hot deba debate te lie has united the arnny army navy and aviation ministries into a single ministry of defense the portfolio being given to francois fran cols the premier defended the plan warmly pointing out that the unified ministry gave france a tremendous advantage over other countries so in discussing discussion any schema scheme of disarmament and would enable the nation to make drastic cuts both budget budgetary itry and direct in certain branches of armain armament ent without sacrificing defensive GOV WILLIAM 11 MURRAY ot 1 oklahoma la is now a ful full bifi fledged dg d candidate for the democratic presidential nomination calling the newspaper men to tho lie executive mansion in oklahoma city al falfa bill handed out a statement to that effect in it he declared he would make maka no trades form no combination nor compromise on any principle for delegates or for the nomination if successful my hands will be free of gov murray baneful influences he said bald 1 I feel reasonably certain of the election if nominated thereupon this spectacular gentleman departed for indiana where he be made a number of addresses calculated to further his ambition senator burtone Bur tonK wheeler of montana wrote to governor murray asking tits his opinion of the senators bill to establish a bimetallic curren currency cys and the gov governors ernoes reply shows he thinks as did william jennings bryan ali there ere can be no dispute about both gold and silver representing value even without reference to value as money ho he wrote since a sound currency should represent a limited proportion of value plus a reserve of actual mone money yand and since there Is not sufficient lelent gold to do this without a diminution of the money in circulation it would seem essential that silver should be added as was intended by the constitution the government should coin a out sufficient amount of money gold and silver allver to take care of normal business and in addition a sufficient tent per cent to become the basis for token money through bank currency the world will suffer until that Is done GARNERS plan for an S SPEAKER economy committee to survey the possibilities of a reorganization of the government and reduction of federal expenditures was accepted by thil tha house the resolution being adopted by a surprisingly larger large bipartisan majority the commit committee tep which Is to report by april 15 was named and began its by asking ashing president hoover for his detailed views on reorganization and economies drafting of the reven revenue ue bill increasing taxes to meet the deficit was started by the house ways and means committee the measure will include a manufactures sales tax that Is expected to bring in secretary of the tha treasury mills told the committee that he wholly approve of this feature but that the treasury would prepare a workable plan plad for assessment and collection of such an imposts lit it ts Is proposed to apply the tax at the point of final processing before the article goes to the wholesaler the same tax Is to io be levied 0 on n imported articles in addition to the tariff representative beek beck of penns pennsylvania ya made an an eloquent appeal to the house to refuse the tip appropriation of asked by the appropriation committee for the enforcement of prohibition during the fiscal year 1933 the house applauded him generously and then voted to sustain the appropriation AMON DG DE VALERAS flanna fall EAMON party won the elections in ireland and he be Is almost certain to be tho the next president of the free state with seven districts yet to elect he and his bis labor allies have 7 77 seats in the new t dall dal eimann to 08 68 for the government party and its independent supporters president cosgrave said lie he and his party bad decided to go into opposition on and not to seek any alliance to keep the eamon do flanna fall out of valera power the irish labor party according to its leader thomas johnson will go along with do de valera in his program of economic reconstruction but it stands by th the treaty with england and it if de valera tries to abrogate this the will turn his party out of office they can do this holding the balance of power in dublin it Is believed th the e life of the new government will be short candidates will oppose paul von 11 for the presidency of germany the nomination of adolt adolf hitler leader of the fascists or national socialists was formally made as ai was that of theodore duesterberg head of the steel helmet organization he being the nationalist candidate the communist nominee Is eu fast F ast Tha elmann the entry of duesterberg and hitler indicated that their attempt to unite on a candidate to run against von hindenburg had broken down hillers Hit lers headquarters recently had denied he was seeking the pres presidency ROOSEVELT of new byork GOVERNOR bork took the bull by the horns defied tammany and ousted from office sheriff thomas D parley of new york city the governor said he be was not satisfied with Far parleys leys explanation of his income as revealed by the legislative isla tive investigation committee parley farley has said he would give hla his support to Roosevel ts candidacy for the presidential nomination regardless of what action the governor might take la Is hla Is case politicians did not gree agree on the possible effect 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