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Show THE LEW SUN.LEHI.UIAH - s News Review of Current Events the World Over "Washington Bicentennial Opened by President Hoover Stimson's Stern "Warning to JapanChinese Pushed Back in Terrific Battle. By EDWARD W. PICKARD EVERY city, town and hamlet In the United States and most of the capitals of the world paid tribute to the character and achievements achieve-ments of Ceorge Washington on Monday, the two hundredth anniversary anni-versary of his birth. The celebrations, celebra-tions, fostered by Congressman S o 1 Bloom's c o m m i alon, will continue In this conn try through most of the year In one form or another. Officially, Official-ly, the bicentennial doings were opened when President ' mmi.iwMii : si rX h President Hoover In Washington Hoover delivered n address before a Joint session of congress which was attended by all high officials of the government, the members of the Supreme court and the diplomatic diplo-matic corps.- Standing before the brilliant gathering, Mr. Hoover called on the American people to rededlcate themselves to those principles befitting be-fitting a free people of which Washington Wash-ington was a living exponent "We have need agnin," he said, "to bring forth the picture of the glories and the valor of Lexington and Concord and Cunker Hill, the suffering and fortitude of Valley Forge, the victory vic-tory of Yorktown. We have need to revive the meaning and the sheer moral courage of the Declaration of Independence, the struggles of the continental congress, the forming of the Constitution." No part of these great events, the President reminded those who packed the galleries, "can be separated sep-arated from the name and the dominant dom-inant leadership of George Washington." Wash-ington." There were many other ceremonies cere-monies In and near Washington. The President laid a wreath on Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon; Ver-non; the Richmond Light Infantry Blues and the Richmond Grays marched In a colorful parade through Alexandria; the National Education association in convention were addressed by Mr. Hoover; and In the eveulng there was a grand colonial ball In Washington and a "blrthtitght ball" at Gadsby's tavern tav-ern In Alexandria duplicating as far as possible the last blrtbnlght ball Washington attended there, In 1793. THROUGH the medium of a letter let-ter to Senator P.orah, Secretary of State Stimson served notice on Japan and the world at large that the United States still stands by the open door policy enunciated by John Hay In 180!), recognized by the Washington conference of 1921-22 and Implicit In the nine-power treaty and other agreements con cerning the Pacific. These pacts he declared to be Interdependent, and the maintenance of the Integrity Integ-rity of China necessary for the welfare not only of China but of the whole world. In effect Mr. Stlmson's statement Is a threat by luv nuHiiuiauuituu tuui t-tiv vuiisu States will abrogate the Washington Washing-ton treaty limiting the capital ship .strength of the naval powers and restricting American defenses In the western Pacific If -Japan persists per-sists In disregarding the nine-power treaty guaranteeing the territorial Integrity of China. He said if the raclfic treaties had been faithfully observed such a situation as now exists could not have arisen. COACHED by skillful German soldiers, the Chinese troops In the Shanghai battle area successfully success-fully withstood a terrific attack by the Japanese that lasted three days f and cost uncounted f lives. The Invaders s shelled the post tions held by the - t. ... -ji T. V. Soong line to the Woo-sung Woo-sung forts almost continuously and repeated attempts to advance the Infantry In-fantry were made, but at the close of the operations the Chinese, badly battered, were still there. Two days later the Japanese airmen made a furious attack on Klangwan, showering down huge bombs on the defenders; and then the troops again attempted to rush the Chinese positions, without any success. Reinforcements were called for and the Tokyo government, govern-ment, which had Just won a victory vic-tory In the elections, decided to send two more army divisions, and a full general to supersede Lieut. Gen. Kenkichl Cyeda. The Chinese government, encouraged encour-aged and determined to resist to the last, was hurrying more troops to Shanghai mi the energetic T. V. Eocng was making marked progress in his great task of raising money to keep up the fight. Large contributions con-tributions were received cot only from all parts of China but from Chinese In many other lands. As the week neared the close the Japanese, enraged by the resistance resist-ance they had met, launched a sew offensive that was reported to be driving the Chinese back in disorder. disor-der. This was the bloodiest battle so far In the Shanghai conflict Japanese planes dropped cans of gasoline on Klangwan and Mlao-hungchen, Mlao-hungchen, bombs ignited the ex-plosive ex-plosive and conflagrations resulted. JAPAN'S reply to the latest admonition ad-monition of the League of Nations Na-tions 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 ap peal 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 free to attack ever) body in sight Tokyo told the league that Its observations ob-servations are "obscure" and "superfluous," "su-perfluous," for Japan entertains no territorial or political ambitions in China. Japan, said the note, cannot can-not consider China as an "organized "organ-ized people" in the sense used by the league covenant, and declares It Is Impossible to treat the chaos In China as If It were order. Altogether, Alto-gether, the reply from Tokyo was little less than a slap In the face for the league council. ONE seeming result of the war In the Orient was the approval by the senate naval affairs committee commit-tee of the Hale bill authorizing the expenditure of $775,000,000 for the building of our navy np to tonnage parity with Great Britain and to the treaty ratio with Japan. Reversing Revers-ing its attitude of several weeks ago, the committee voted unanimously unani-mously to report the measure to the senate with a recommendation that It be passed at once. A similar bill Is still stuck in the house naval affairs af-fairs committee. BEFORE getting too far away from China, the latest developments develop-ments in Manchuria must be recorded. record-ed. With the assistance of friendly friend-ly Chinese, includ- ing General Ma, who formerly fought them, the Japanese have carried car-ried out their plan to make Manchuria a state Independent of China. They created cre-ated a new state of Ankuo which means "hind of peace" and It was announced that It would be ruled by who for a time was the "boy emperor" of China. Changchun was selected as the capital cap-ital of Ankuo and public buildings there were being prepared for Henry's Installation which was set for March 1. It was believed he would be declared president or dictator dic-tator for life. Of course the government gov-ernment of Ankuo will be quite subservient sub-servient to Japan. This new state will not be permlt-ter permlt-ter to exist unchallenged, however. Already rebellious forces have been collected and are reported to be moving against Usl Hsia, governor of KIrin province, and one of the leaders who organized Ankuo. Their attack was directed primarily at Im lempo, 90 miles from Harbin. Henry Pu-YI nenry Pu-Yi, DELEGATES to the disarmament conference In Geneva will Just talk until the Easter recess, which will begin March 19 and last probably prob-ably two weeks. Then the subcora-mlsslons subcora-mlsslons 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, com-mittee, which apparently thought the delay would give things a chance to turn for the better. Ambassador Am-bassador Hugh Gibson and his colleagues col-leagues of the American delegation didn't like this arrangement at all and said so, but they were overruled for Trance, Germany and Great Britain Brit-ain were In no hurry to bring matters mat-ters to a decision. FRANCE'S new premier is Andre Tardieu, and his ministry and policies have been promptly given a vote of confidence by parliament Tardieu will make no change In the French disaraiiment and reparations repara-tions policies, he told the deputies. The government, he said, will participate par-ticipate In negotiations with a view to adjusting the reparations sched ule, but it will not permit repudiation repudia-tion of existing agreements. In the field of disarmament the new ministry minis-try agrees with the last that security se-curity Is a prerequisite to reduction of arms. One change made by Tardieu however, was the subject of hot do bate. He has united the army, nav) and aviation ministries Into a single ministry of defense, the portfolio b Ing given to Francois PletrL Tht premier defended the plan warmly, pointing out that the unified ministry minis-try gave France a tremendous advantage ad-vantage over other countries In discussing dis-cussing any scheme of disarmament disarma-ment and would enable the nation to make drastic cuts, both In bud-getry bud-getry and direct In certain branches of armament without sacrificing defensive de-fensive strength. GOV. WILLIAM n. MURRAY of Oklahoma Is now a full-fledged candidate for the Democratic Presidential Pres-idential nomination. Calling the newspaper men to the executive mansion man-sion In Oklahoma City, "Alfalfa Bill-handed Bill-handed out a statement state-ment to that effect In it be declared he would "make no trades, form no combination nor compromise on any principle" for dele gates for the nom lnatlon. "If success ful my hands will of baneful Influences," be Gov. Murray be free said. "I feel reasonably certain of the election if nominated." Thereupon this spectacular gentleman gen-tleman departed for Indiana where he made a number of addresses calculated to further his ambition. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana wrote to Governor Murray asking his opinion of the senator's bill to establish a bimetallic currency, cur-rency, and the governor's reply shows he thinks as did William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan. "There can be no dispute about both gold and silver representing value, even without reference to value as money," he wrote. "Since a sound currency should represent a limited proportion of value, plus a reserve of actual money, and since there is not sufficient gold to do this without a diminution of the money in circulation, It would seem essential that silver should be added, add-ed, as was Intended by the Constitution. Consti-tution. "The government should coin a sufficient amount of money, gold and silver, to take care of normal business, and, in addition, a sufficient suffi-cient per cent to become the basis for 'token money, through bank currency. The world will suffer until that Is done." , SPEAKER GARNER'S plan for an economy committee to survey the possibilities of a reorganization of the government and reduction of federal expenditures was accepted accept-ed by the house, the resolution being be-ing adopted by a surprisingly large bipartisan majority. - The committee, commit-tee, which is to report by April 15, was named and began Its work by asking President Hoover for his detailed views on reorganization and economies. Drafting of the revenue bill Increasing In-creasing taxes to meet the deficit was started by the house ways and means committee. The measure will Include a manufactures sale tax that is expected to bring in $000,-000,000. $000,-000,000. Secretary of the Treasury Mills told the committee that he didn't wholly approve of this feature fea-ture but that the treasury would prepare a workable plan for assessment assess-ment and colection of such an Impost Im-post It is proposed to apply the tax at the point of final processing process-ing before the article goes to the wholesaler. The same tax is to be levied on Imported articles. The Democrats also contemplate Imposing excise taxes on numerous articles and services, Including telegraph and telephone messages, gasoline, electricity, gas, theater tickets and possibly candy and chewing gum. j EAMON DE VALERA'S flanna fall party won the election in Ireland and he is almost certain to be the next president of the Free State. With seven districts yet to elect, he and his labor la-bor allies have 77 seats in the new dall eirnnn, to CS for the government govern-ment party and its Independent sap-porters. sap-porters. President Cosgrave said he and his party had decided to go into opposition and not to seek any alliance to keen the fianna fall out of power. ' The Irish Labor party, according to Its leader, Thomas Johnson, will go along with De Valera In his program pro-gram of economic reconstruction, but It stands by the treaty with England, and if De Valera tries to abrogate this, the Laborites will turn ms party out of office. They r, ; . 1 V H -I 5- Eamon de Valera tatermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers WORK TO BE GIVEN. FARM BEAUTY TLAN. FEDERAL LOANS SAVE, LAW IS CITED TO CITY. PRICE, UT.-The Treasurer mei with the city council recently and asked that $34,700 worth of tax anticipation an-ticipation notes Issued In 1931 and held by him be paid Into the sinking sink-ing fund with interest. He contend- i ed it was unlawful lor me cuy i use sinking fund money lor general purposes. SPTCINGVILLE, U T. Damages of approximately $5000 were sustained sus-tained in a fire here, which partially par-tially destroyed the frame warehouse ware-house owned by the Salt Lake and Utah railroad near the Springvtlle cannery. CEDAR CITY, UT. At a recent meeting to reorganize the executive committee of the Cedar City community com-munity welfare workers, It was decided de-cided to take definite steps toward providing work instead of furnishing furnish-ing supplies TOOELE, UT. Under the direction direc-tion of the county agent and the U. S. A. C. extension service a campaign cam-paign will be launched on a farm cleanup and beautification project. pro-ject. OGDEN, UT. City and county commissioners have agreed to cooperate co-operate with the state road com. mission in immediately bettering the road from Harrison avenue to the mouth of Ogden canyon. Dan gerous curves will be taken out of the dugway and it will also be wid ened at several points. , PRICE. UT. Approximately 80 farmers from Carbon county and CO from Emery county have ap plied for federal feed loans, accord' Ing to O P. Madsen, county agent CALDWELL, IDA. A morator ium on 1921 reclamation payments and a 50 per cent reduction In the 1932 payments have been effected by R. B. Scatterday, local attorney, and Wlllard Robinson, manager of the Gem Irrigation district, thru their efforts in Washington IONE, IDA. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the Midland Elevator company warehouse recently. re-cently. Loss was estimated at $20,- 000 and included three cars filled with grain and two empty box cars on a siding near the warehouse. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Suit has been filed by the Twin Falls Bank and Trust company against the county and S. C, Stewart, the county assessor, for refund of $2,2- 80 In taxes alleged paid last year on capital stock. The complaint al leges that the statewide system of valuation and assessment discriminates discrimi-nates in favor of national banks. NAMPA, IDA. According to re cent reports a fourth political party is to be entered in the cam paign in Canyon county this fall to be known as the Taxpayer's league. NAMPA, IDA. Due to the large number of dairy cattle shipp ed out to the markets the past fall and winter, livestock men expect an advance In the price of cattle throughout western Idaho and eastern Oregon. - HONEYVILLE, UT.-A number of Japanese men have purchased tne Hotel here from the Utah-Ida ho Sugar company in order to re model it and use it for a school. church and amusement hall for the Japanese people. RICHFIELD, . UT.-Heavv falls of snow and continued cold weath er have caused heavy losses which will probably exceed 20 per cent to sheep and cattle owners on the winter range, according to advices from the Fish lake national forest office. Sixy-five head of cattle on the public range near Kanosh had dwindled to 45 head. OGDB.V, UT.-One of the heav iest snowslides in the history of Weber county occurred recently on the south side of Ben Lomond mountain. The slide tore down big tres and at the bottom the snow una aeons was piled to of 20 to 60 fet Scenes and Persons in the Current N i a l t ? s v L I ""I " V. 5 f e -vi sin ! 'vX&J- ff) i Vluj i j AVirinifi Jilfff rtitii T - - MmfttiuYiitfti'-' v fMtt.MMMM 4 1 55 huh.:.. ,PV 1 i M i "J" II h it fci.B'ii r i .. i cttAnf mKa..4 u .... i - M n. i .. .. l Japanese marujtf m ouauguai nuuui iv cacluib a viuuese cooue accused of R t I pushing a rotary plow through the high snowdrifts after a terrific blizzard that tlTi ' emithnrostpm Colorado. S View in Chanzchun. the omita! of tha nom m a nP btmu under the auspices of Japan and of which Henry Pu-Yi, former emperor of China, Is tob Site of the Great Hoover Dam Is Flooded a height SPRING VILLI; UT.-A total of lo-O pounds of poison bait was used In the rat campaign conducted rwently in Springville, Mapleton. sod Payson with 540 citizens cooperating. coop-erating. PROVO, UT.-rrovo was chosen for the 19J32 encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans, department de-partment of Utah. The encamp-nictit, encamp-nictit, which was held last year at Ogden, will begin July 11th PROVO, UT.-To secure tie ex-ension ex-ension of Provo city water mains into their section, residents of the Grand View district, which lies Just north of Provo. favor annexation annexa-tion iIlt0 the city, a .delegation of cithenstold the Provo city com- can do this, holding the balance otLZtv C:,' 1DA-The local power. In Dublin It Is believed the ifw I!8ht and power plant was life of the new government will be1 Vth ten feet water short - -- ice gorge in the Snake i Tk oce-haIf mil above the GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT of X mihst he flui with Ice, New York took the bull by the1 Sot tT l,n,wayi to OT-horns, OT-horns, defied Tammany and ousted 'SrS. ti? l W8S cut-ff from office Sheriff Thomas D. Fa W .."l? en.tlre towa la 5ark- ley of New York city. The governor d Ivtr thi? p,ant saM h rn, i iaK8 over the load. ley's explanation of his Income as'tj: ' Conimlttb revealed by tht legislative Invest- W for Fro"er I gatlon committee. (ft 1131. WMUra NmpiMt CnlJ roueo celebration Joly 25 and 20. to be ees have Days and held here Pi i ' ' i i I - "r-wSf";;Ww , y . ""4, is soothi Followlne heavv storms In the mountainous rpHnna nf tha - - - -O- nu tuc oiic ui uit iiL Ho ry In Uniillnll AnnnnM A n A Ji AL. A. . 1 t 4.1 . ... I aiu jjwuiuci. taujuu n ua uuuueu, mo wuier Buomergiug me open air garage ana entering the tins der construction. Property damage was rather severe. SIAM'S NEW ENVOY When Jim Preston Was Impeacti 1 it r ' forigln ; I: Is at ephys flits of t I Japan Most iriglnati Jrpanea r An esoeclallv noserl nnrtmtf t Phya Subarn Somnnti tha na-i appointed minister from Slam to the United States, who has arrived In Washington and assumed his post ARGENTINA'S CHIEF : M l X AS - - :t - th 5 ' I- in, it.-- -li fcw' U T4f :xl'X:i iZ t.r.. ' ' : - , n i .m, i i"" I the 1 i f ' ' : ' mXMMmmm Hi; X- X X f ' i:?: t it f The Washington newspaper correspondents took m p,j chamber to hold a mock court of impeachment of Jama w who retired as chief of the senate press gallery afte? Lf Ice. The photograph shows Miss Ruth Finney, ofScnpp S papers, presenting Mr. Preston with a silver coffee servi or the Washington newspaper corps' esteem. Navy's First All-Welded Vessel 77T ' Gen. AuffUStin P. Jnefn been Inaugurated Went of the Argentine repubUc German Telephone Device A scientific ma . reports h Germany a number of telephone i nave been pnntnruwi ik . .. i devices whereby anyone who rlngv - -u uuus mat ne is nw home rap oct a messfl on keyboard attached to the telephone me messarn hoin j . Paper tape on the friend's desk. I Co. feielif laa all 4 TMi 'ire -o n 7 cr :r!4 : A :-. t. : : S -at The first all-welded vessel In the United Sta launching, when a powerful floaUng orane .lock on which 5t was built and lowered tt " nse!'' The vessel Is the Yard Motor Tug 15 and w r mouth navy yard. She is Co feet long. P bol and entirely welded, with not a bolt or rivet u lien, ffca f I itr h Is Sic fc. |