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In America and 8ml Britain tl tt ere was wasIntenso wasintenso weIntenso Intenso Indignation over the latest latestoutrages latestoutrages latcioutrages outrages No responsible 'Person Person 'Personhinted ' pcrsohinted crson crsonhinted hinted that the United States SUtes Sthtes or orGreat orGreat cGreat Great Britain should go to war with withJ withJapan witJapan J Japan pan on their account but the theman theman th man tn In the street .treet treet . felt there should shouldbe shouldbe shoul shoulbe be aome some way , , short of war , , by bywhich bywhich which the Japanese Japane.e Japanee . could be forced forcedto forcedto force to cease their murderous attacks attacksApologies attacksApologies Apologies may satisfy aaUsfy the diplomats diplomatsbut diplomatsbut but they 4Q do not restore livesPresldCItfllooseveit's lives lJves lJvesPreaJ PrealdenlTRoosevelt'B PrealdenlTRooseveltB PresldCItfllooseveit's PresldCItfllooseveits PreaJ eitfRoosevelt ' . protest was wasdirected wasdirected wa I directed through Secretary Hull to toAmbasaador toAmbassador tAmbassador Ambassador Ambasaador Hirosi Hlrosl tHroat Salto Saito Satto with the therequest therequest request that It be . sent .ent ent to the Em Emperor peror peroe Hiroblto HlrohIto Ifirohito of Japan . . . It de demanded demsnded manded msnded apologies apololfle . , . , full tun tuB compensation compen compensa sa sation tion Bnd and guarantie guaranties . against repeti repet-t repet t - tlon tion of similar attacks aUaeka Brit- Brit BritIsh - Ish Jab foreign office omce wa was . in touch wtth with wtthWBlblngton withWashington witWashington WBlblngton Washington by cable but Foreign ForeignMlnilter ForeignMinister Minister Mlnilter Eden denied that the Brit- Brit Br-It- Br It British BrItish - - - ish would take the lead in Inter International international national action . . Even Tokyo was waa . stunned .tunned tunned by the theattack theattacki th < attacks attack attacki . on American vessels ve.sell vesell . , . and andthe andthe an the planned celebration ceiebratio over thecapture the thecapture th < capture of cit Nanking Nanldna Nanklng wa was . called caUed off offBefore offBefore Before the Amerlc.n Amerlcn American Americn . protest protestreached protestreached reached Tokyo the Japanese of offlcial ofScials ficiala flcial Scials . and commanders began apol apololtWng apologizing oglzing oltWng ogizing and explaining explaJnJna To prove lu its lulincerIty itssincerity lt < sincerity lincerIty the government prompUy promptiy promptiyrecalled prompUyrecalled prompt ! ; recalled Admiral Telzo Tetto Mitlunaml Mltsunamt , , in charge of naval aviation and re rel1eved relleved Ileved l1eved lleved him blm of ot his post . . He Immediately Imme ImmedlateIy diately dlateIy resignedSurvivors resignedSurvivors resigned Survivors of the bombing bomblng most of ofthem ofthem them wounded told how the Panay Panaywent Panaywent went down with colors flying andIts andIts and andJapanese Its gunners Orlng firing to the last at the theJapanese theJapanese Japanese airplanes They agreed agreedthat agreedthat that the attacking planes were flyIng flyIng fly flyIng Ing so low that it was impossiblefor Impossible for their pilots pilota not to knpw knw kn ? > w theywere theywere they theywere were bombing f foroign foreign relgn ships Theysaid Theysaid They said the Japanese excuse th-it th it th'lt thlt thit ' - VI viibility vis vi-i vi i visbllity , > - bllity bUlty bility was poor over the Yangtsethat Yangtsethat Yangtse Yangtsethat that day was false _ . - - - I ! Early Tax RevisionS RevisionIJMMONING Revision RevisionCUMMONING I SUMMONING ISUMMONING S CUMMONING IJMMONING house ways and andmeans andmeans anc means committee members and andtreasury anctreasury ; treasury economists to a conference confer conferI conference conference I ence in the White House President PresidentRoosevelt - Roosevelt directe directed directedthat directedthat directethat that revision rl'vlslon rlvlslon . ' o Oi . the thetaxes thetaxes thtaxes taxes that oppres oppress oppressbusiness _ > business be carrIed carrIedthrough carriedkk came kk < t \ ' Jl through as soon as aspossible asaI a a-I a I - , - > yj possible Tho Those Thoseti T h o s scalled e ecaned , ti * caned called were Robert RobertL RobertI RoberL L . I . . . Doughton Daughton of ofNor oNorth 1 ' N Nor o r t h Ii Carolina Carolinachairman CarolinaSsit Carolinachairman ; Ssit Ssitchairman chairman of theS thehouse the S " \ ! house committeeS committee " : Fred 'red red ' Vinson of Ken5l4 Ken Kentucky KenK i -S S 5 5l4 5l4skrSt ; - ? Hl skrSt skrStlucky y \ . V , i "i i " ) \ i . tucky lucky chairman of ola olaa or a aDoucht aR a L Uoughian Doughton Doucht n Doughtonsubcommittee nsubcommittee subcommittee on ontaxes ontaxes ontaxes taxes Secretary of the Treasury Treatury TreasuryMorgenthau TreaturyMorgenthau TreasuryMorgenthau Morgenthau and Undersecretary UndersecretaryRoswell UndersecretaryBoswell UndersecretaryRoswell Roswell Boswell Maglll Magill MagillOn MagilLOn . On leaving the White House MrDoughton Mr MrDoughton MrDoughton Doughton gave out the cheering as assurance assurance assurance surance that the best besl possible tax taxbill taxbill taxbill bill would be ' formulated 'ormuiated ormuiated quickly and andthat andthat andthat that the taxpayer would be given givenevery givenevery givenevery every consideration considerationIf If the contemplated measure can canbe canbe canbe be rushed through congress It Itmay itmay Itmay may be made effective etJective on January January1 1 sturting stitrtlng starting out what business and In Industry industry industry dustry hope will be a Happy NewYear New NewYear NewYear Year for ( or them and for ( or all the oa na oaUOD naibis naUon UOD ibis . . . In his press conference the sameday same sameday sameday day the President gave business ad additional additiorial additional ditional ditiorial encouragement asserting assertingthat assertingthat assertingthat that the ftle interstate commerce com corn commillion cornmission cornmission million mission should take action to pre preserve preserve preserve serve the . solvency .olve-ncy .olvency .olve olve ncy - of the railroads railroadsHe railroadsHe railroadsHe He declared himself in favor of prl pci prlvate pcivate private vate ownership and operation of the therailroads therailroads therailroads railroads but said laid receiverships of ofthe ofthe ofthe the lines cannot continue without withoutfinancial withoutfinancial . ftnanclal financial adjustment adjustmentShortly . . , Shortly ShorUy after thl this . the commerce commercecomml commercecommls.sion commercecommls-slon commercecommls slon comml commls.sion commlssion - . lon put in a 8 sour note by byoverrulIng byoverruling byoverruling overrulIng the carriers petition for ( or15 15 per cent immediate Increase In Infreight infreight ! freight rate ratei rates . . : _ - -i- i - ' iI - I i First Flight Celebr Celebrated'RIDAY Celebrated CelebratedfRIDAY ted : FRIDAY fRIDAY 'RIDAY RIDAY ' December 17 was the- the theI the thea thethirty ' a - thirty fourth anniversary of theepochal the theepochal theepochal I epochal air all " flight night of the Wrlghl Wright Wrlghlbrothers Wrightbrothers Wrightbrothers brothers at Kitty Hawk Ha\\k Ha k \ N C and andthe andthe andthe the day was fittingly observed by byall byall byall all aviation interests Inlerests In the country countryUnder countryUnder countryUnder Under orders from 'rom rom ' the army ge-ner ge ner gener general general general - al stat . staff .taft taft ! every military flying ymg post 1.051 1051 postsent 1.051sent postsent . sent up all Its available aircraft al at althe atthe atthe the exact hour when the two Inven Inventors Inventors inventors tors first made their plane fly About Aboutone Aboutone Aboutone one thousand fighting planes " were "ere ere in inthe Inthe Inthe the air at the same timei time timeSteel i < - _ - - - Steel Workers MeetM MeetEMBFRS Meet MeetKytEMBFRS KytEMBFRS EMBFRS of the Steel Workers WorkersOrganl1ing WorkersOrganizing Workersi'M WorkersiM M MEMBFRS ' Organising Organl1ing Organizing committee , . , alftlJat aflthat aflthated alftlJatcd afniiated cd ed with the C . C . 1 I 0 opened their theirtint theirfirst theirfirst tint first convention convenUon in ID Pittsburgh and - . , _ _ _ _ _ V S Sir . . _ _ 'C C ' ir ) ) , ' SCt , ; I : "k k " . ) S . V VS VV V _ _ _ S S 4 4S S . C _ _ _ _ Hugh lIugb It Wilson Wilsou pictured 'ph-tured 'ph ph tured ' ( ( - above above'a abovea ) ' , . a veteran veleran of the American dipb- dipb dIpI- dIpI dipbmatlc dIpImatle dipl.matic diplmatic - . . - . matlc matle srrv servi.e servie srrvl I < ( . e and Slid now assistant asslstanl sec- sec secretary se seretary - < . retary 0 of ' state slale la 18 Is to be our new am ambassador ambassador anbassador bassador to 10 Berlin succeedlnr succeeding succeertln ( Wil Wit WitiIin WilUam Willam Uam iIin E Dodd Iodd I > ) odd whose resignation resignationwas reslgnatiowas was submitted to the Presidentwere President ' were asked by Chairman Philip PhilipMurray PhilipMurray Philli ' Murray to give their officials tun full tunpowers fullpowers fupowers powers to negotiate wage agree agreements agreemerits agre agrements ments merits to replace those tholl expiring expiringFebruary expiringFebruary explrinFebruary February 28 23 with 445 firmsMurray firmsMurray firms firmsMurray Murray said IBid he be had every rea rca reaSOD rcason reison SOD son ' . to believe 100 000 . steel .teel teel workers workersout workersout workerout out of 123 12S 125 : 000 now working in sheet sheetbar sheetbar sheebar bar plate sheet sheets . and black platemills plate platemm platmills mm mills . will be displaced dJsp/aced dJsp aced ) / by machin machiss machinery machisscry machinery ery cry eryit _ _ it- it - itSloan's crySloan's Sloan Sloan's Sloans ' s Great Gre t Gift GifttLFHED GiftALFRED GIFtA ALFRED A /tLFHED tLFHED / LFRED P SLOAN SLOAK ' JR ill chair chairI chairman chairAi I A-i A i Aiman - * . man of General Motors corpora corporation corporatlon : tloD tion . , , announced he was donating dona Ung securitles se- se securities se- se securities - - curities worth approximately S10000 $10 10 $ 000 000 to the AlfredP Alfred i P Sloan foundationwith foundation foundationwtth foundationwith wtth with the hope of at pro pro- promoting promoting proCaSV - - ; CaSV CaSVrnoting moting rnoting a widerknowledge widerknowledge wider | knowledge of basiceconomic basiceconomic basic Reconomic , economic truths truthsIn truthsIn | In his announcement announce | yment , I Iment ment Mr Sloan said saidhe saidhe ' he deemed it properto proper properto to turn back part oft-ie oft ie of ofLie ofLie Lie - proceeds of hisIndustrial hisIndustrial his Industrial activity to aid in bringing about abouta wellA A A I P ' " Sloan Bl < > aD Jras lr Jr Jras lras a broader as weU well as a better understanding understandmg of the theeconomIc theeconomic theconomic economIc principles and national nationalpolicies nationalpolicies nationapolicies policies which have characltize charadtized charadtizedAmerican characl charac let . , -tize tize - tizeAmerican ized izedAmerican < American enterprise down through throughthe throughthe througthe the years and as a result of which whichIts whichits whicits Its truly marvelous development hasbeen has hasbeen habeen been made possibleOnce possibleOnce possible possibleOnce Once the proper understanding Is IsachIeved isachieved 1achieved achIeved he said the people may maypromote maypromote ma ; promote the objectives objecUves that aU all aUhave allhave alhave have so much in mind mindThese mindThese mindThese These he listed as asMore asMore asMore More th ngs lor for more people peopleeverywhere peopleeverywhere peopleeverywhere peopleeverywhereAn everywhere everywhereAn An opportunity for achJevement achievement achievementGreater . Greater security and stabilityMr stabIlity stabIlityMr stabilityMr Mr Sloan est established a bhshed the founda foundatlon foundation foundalion tlon tion on July Ju1y 6 1936 Incorporating it itIn itin 10 In Delaware as a Qonprvflt Qon aon profit membership mem membershlp membership bershlp bership corporation corporatioss . . . _ - i- i ' - iHungary $ - - Hungary P Pays yS A LIttleONLY LittleO LittleNLY Little / NLY eleven nations defaulted de'aulted deaulted ' ontheIr ontheir on ONLY O their war debt payments to the theUnited theUnited theUnited United States due on December 15Hungiry 15 15Hung1ry 15Hungiry Hung1ry Hungiry lined up with Finland In Inthe inthe Inthe the honest list and sent to the treas tress treasury tressury treasury ury a check tor for $9828 9828 $9 9 $ 828 as partial partialpayment partialpayment ! payment The installment In'itallment Initallment ' due from fromI fromHungary fromHungary fromHungary I Hungary was S51 $51 51 $ $ 240 her total debt debtI debtis debtis debtis I is more than 33 mIllionsFinland millions m1l110ns millionsFinland Finland Fmland made its customary semi semiannual semiannual semiannual : annual payment to the treasury A AI Acheck Acheck Acheck I check tor for S232 $232 232 $ 142 was turned over overto overto overto to this government by the Baltic Balticrepublic Balticrepublic Balticrepublic BalticrepublicPope republic republici _ i- i ' - iPope republicPope Pope Pus PIUS P us AnxiousA AnxiousT AnxIousAT AnxiousA Anxious A T Asecret A secret consistory in which whichhe whichhe which/I which I A AT / . he created five new cardinalsPope cardinals cardinalsPope cardinalsPope Pope Pius read an allocution ex cx expressing cxpressing expressing pressing his grave anxieties be- be because because be because - - cause of the wars in Spain and Chi Clii China Cliina Chlna na and his fears 'ears ears ' for f.M fM . the future 'ulure ulure ' be- be because because be because - - cause of the upheavals whch wh ch are areU areii areU U ii e e natural concomitants ofarmed of armedconfHcts armedconflicts armed confHcts conflicts The new card nals are Arch Archb b shop Gu seppe Piziardo pwardo Pizzardo vaticanmdersecretary vaticanindersecretary Vatican Vaticanundersecretary |