Show I ITO JAPS BUILD MONUMENT TO fiRST U. U S. S MINISTER By Associated d Press TOKIO May Jay Roland 18 Roland 5 S. S Morris the American ambassador and a number of or prominent Japanese were present Wednesday at the laying laying- of or the I I cornerstone of oC a bronze statue which I will be erected at Kanagawa near Tokio in memory of or Townsend Harris the first American minister to Japan Tapan The ceremony was held on the grounds rounds of oC the famous Camous Buddhist temple tern tem pie pIc where was sl signed ned the tile first treaty of oC commerce between Japan and the United States Slates The Thc statue will be bc erected as the result of oC the efforts orts orts' of oC Naka- Naka I mura a merchant of or Yokohama at whose fathers father's house Mr oIl Harris Banis stayed stal when he first came to Japan Mr idea met with the warm support of oC Viscount Kentaro Kaneko president of or the tile Americas America's Friends as association association association as- as and of oC the Japan American-Japan association The site Mite of the statue Isun is i un under er the giant camphor tr tree e where Mr oIl Morris planted the Stars and I Stripes |