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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Washington Bicentennial Opened by President Hoover StimsonV Stern Warning to Japan Chinese Pushed Back in Terrific Battle. By EDWARD W. PICKARD EVERY city, town and hamlet !n the United Stated and most of the capitals of the world paid tribute to the character and achieve-' ments of George Washington on Monday, the two hundredth anniversary anni-versary of his birth. The celebrations, celebra-tions, fostered by Congressman Sol Bloom's .co mm Is- glon, will continue In this country through most of the year In one form or another. Officially, Official-ly, the bicentennial doings were opened when President President Hoover in Washington 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 court and the diplomatic diplo-matic corps. Standing before the brilliant gathering, Mr. floover called on the American people to- rededleate themselves to those principles befitting be-fitting a free people of which Washington Wash-ington was a living exponent. "We have need again,'' lie said, "to bring forth the picture of the glories and the valor of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Mill,- 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 cere- Mnnlaa In a t f W tl cfl f 1 1 trtnn The President laid a wreath on Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon Ver-non ; the Richmond. Light Infantry Blues and the " Richmond Grays through Alexandria; the National Education association In convention' were addressed by Mr. Hoover ; and in the evening there was a grand ToionTaFbalT lfPVV'ashlngton ancTa 'blrthnlght ball" .at Gadsby's tavern tav-ern In Alexandria duplicating as far as possible the last blrthnlght ball Washington attended there, In 1798. 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 new offensive that was reported to be driving the Chinese-back 1n 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 explosive 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 appeal 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 everybody 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 lu 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. TnROUGII the medium of a letter let-ter to Senator Borah, Secretary of State Stlmson served notice on Japan and the world at large that the United States still, stands by the Open door policy enunciated toy John ilay In 1899, recognized by the WnntltMrtnn onnfnronpa f "10,21-22 and implicit in the nine-power treatyj andlother agreeinents-cnnr eernlng the Pacific. These pacts lie declared to be Interdependent, and the maintenance ol the Integrity Integ-rity of China necessary for the welfare not only of China but of the whole world. In effect Mr. Stlmsori's statement Is a threat by the administration that the United States will abrogate the Washington Washing-ton treaty limiting the capital ship strength of the naval powers ana restricting American defenses In the western Pacific If Japan' persists per-sists in disregarding' the nine-power treaty guaranteeing the territorial Integrity of China. lie said if the fiiuv , v -v r observed such a situation as now exists could not have arisen. COACHED by skillful German soldiers, the Chinese troops in the snangnai Dame area successfully success-fully withstood a terrific attack by the Japanese that lasted three days and cost uncounted lives.. The Invaders . shelled the posi tions held by the Chinese along the 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 Ihere. 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 it x T. V. Soong a full general to supersede Lieut., "" The Chinese government, encouraged encour-aged and determined' to resist to the last, was hurrying more troops to Shanghai and the energetic T. Y. Soong was making marked progress in bis great task of raising money to keep np the Cght. Large com trlbutions were received not only 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 up to tonnnge parity with Great Britain and to the treaty ratio with Japan. . Reversing Revers-ing Its attitude of several weeks agev- the- committee - voted unanimously unani-mously "to r epor t'Th e" ni ea s u re;iot li e senate with" a recommendation jthat 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 record ed. With the asaistanre-of-MendJ ly Chinese,-Includ ing Genera) Ma, who former l.y fought -. them, the Japanese have carried car-ried but their plan to make Manchuria a state independent of China. They created cre-ated a new state "of Ankuo which means "land of peace" and It was announced that if would be ruled by who for a timer I 1 Henry Pu-YI Henry Pu-Ytr 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 Klrih province, and one of the leaders who organized Ankuo. Their attack was directed primarily aHiifcr lempo, 90 miles from Harbin. D ELEGATES 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-missions subcora-missions will get busy with ail the proposals for armament reduction 4hat 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 com mlttee. which apparently thought, the delays 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 France, 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 Tardien will make no change in the French disarmament and repara tions policies, he told the deputies. The gtnerumentr1rald. "wttTTar-tlclpate "wttTTar-tlclpate in negotiations" with a view to adjusting the reparations sehed ule, but it will not permit repudiation repudia-tion of existing agreements. In the field of disarmament thejsew minis try agrees with the last that se curlty Is a prerequisite to reduction of anna, i'A''j One change made by Tardieu ; however,, was the subject of hot d ; bate. He has united the army, navj and aviation ministries Into a slngU' 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 ad-' vantage over other countries In discussing dis-cussing any scheme of 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 H. MURRAY of Oklahoma is now a full-fledged candidate for the Democratic Presidential Pres-idential nomination. Calling the newspaper men to the executive manJ i slon In Oklahoma Y 1 Clt?. "Alfalfa -Blir Iiuuueu out a nmiw ment to that effect. In It he declared he would "make no trades, form no combination nor compromise on any principle" for delegates dele-gates for the nomination. nom-ination. "If successful success-ful my hands will be free of baneful influences,' be 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 a1 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,- . "The government should coin a sufficient amount of money, gold and silver, to take care of normal business,-and; In. addition al sufll. dent per cent to become the basis for -'token' money, through bank currency. The world will Buffer until that Is done:' Gbv. Murray SPEAKER GARNER'S plan for an economy committee'' to survey the possibilities of a reorganization of the government and reduction of federal expenditures wa3 accept-ed accept-ed by the house, the resolution being be-ing adapted 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 13 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. i EAMON DE VAI.ERA'S flanna fall party won the election in Trolunrl anrf fa fllmnsf- pprtnltl tn be the" . nexTpresiueTit or use Free State. With seven districts yet to elect, he and his labor la-bor allies have 77 seats in the new dail elrann, to 68 for the eovern- ment party and Its independent s u importers. im-porters. President Cosgrave" "said he and his party had decided to go into opposition and not to seek any alliance to keep the flanna fall out of power1. The Irish Labor partyt according to Its leader, Thomas Johnson, will go along w 1th De Valera in his pro-! gram of economic reconstruction. J but It stands by the treaty withj England, and if De Valera tries to abrogate this, the Laborites will! turn his party out of office. They can do this, holding the balance of power. Iu Dublin it Is believed the life of the new government will be short. 1 Eamon de Valera Intermoiintain Hews Briefly Told for Busy Readers . , . .. WORK TO BE GIVEN. FARM BEAL'TI PLAN. FEDERAL LOANS SAVE. LAW IS CITED TO CITY. PRICE, UT. The Treasurer met 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 sink? Ing fund with interest. He contended contend-ed it was unlawful for the city to use sinking fund money for general purposes. . BPRINGVILLE, 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 Springville cannery. CEDAR CITY, UT. At a recent meeting to reorganize the executive committee of the Cedar City com-, munlty welfare workers, it was decided de-cided to lake 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 thmoulhof Ogilen canyon. Dangerous Dan-gerous curves w ill be taken out of the dugwiiy and it will also be widened wid-ened at several points. PRICE, UT. Approximately 80 farmers from Carbon county and 60 froin Emery county have applied ap-plied for federal feed loans, according accord-ing to O. P. Madsen,; county agent. - CALDWELL, IDA A moratorium morator-ium on 1931 "reclamation payments and a 60 per cent reduction in the 1932 payments have been effected by R.- B, Scatterday, local attorney, and Willard Robinson, manager of the Gem Irrigation district, thru their efferis in Washington. IONE, IDA. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the: Midland Elevator .'company .warehouse re-icentlyv.-Losswfts- estimated at- $20, OO-and imhitled- 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 v Twin Falls Bank and Trust company against the county and S. C. Stewart, the county assessor, for refund of $2,2-30 $2,2-30 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 recent re-cent . reports a fourth political party Is to be entered in the "campaign "cam-paign in Canyon comity this fall to be known as the Taxpayer's league. KAMI A, IDA. Due to - the large number of dairy cattle' shipped 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 the hotel here from the Utah-Ida-bo Sugar company In order to remodel re-model it and use It for a school, church and amusement hall for the Japanese people. RICHFIELD, UT. Heavy falls of snow and continued cold weather weath-er have caused heavy losses which will probably exceed 20 per cent, to shk'p and cattle owners on the winter range, according to advices from "the Fish lake national forest office. Sixy-five head of cattle on the puMic range near Kanosh had dwindled to 45 head. - OGDKX, UT. One of the hcav-lest hcav-lest snow-slides in , the history of Weber county occurred recently.- on the south side of Ben Lomond mountain. The slide tore down big trees. 'and at the bottom the snow and -debris was )lled to a-helghTj Of 20 .to GO fet . SPRINGVILLE, UT.-A total of 132(5- poimds of poison bait was used In the rat campaign conducted recently in Springville, Mapleton, and Payson with 540 citizens cooperating. coop-erating. PROVO. UT. Provo was chosen for the 1932 encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans, department de-partment of Utah. The encampment, encamp-ment, which was held last year at Ogdai, w ill begin July 11th."". TROVO, UT. To secure the extension ex-tension of Provo city water mains Into their section, residents of the Grand View district, which lies Just north of Provo, favor annexation annexa-tion into the city, a delegation of citizens UU the Provo city commission. com-mission. - - ST. ANTHONY, IDA. The local electric light and power plant was flooded with ten feet of water when an lee gorge in the Snake river broke one-half mile above the GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT of New York took the bull by the horns, defied Tammany and ousted from office Sheriff Thomas D. Farley Far-ley of New York city. The roTernor said he was not satisfied with Far-1 ley's explanation of his Income as revealed by tht legislative investigation investi-gation committee. - plant. Jamming the sluice with Ice, which caused Hhe-spfltwayg to ov-" erflow. The current was cut-off, throwing the entire town in darkness, dark-ness, until the Ashton power plant could take over the load. LOGAN, UT. Coromitttees have Scenes and Persons in the Current News jt J r-.,rwt r 1 . - w i if rf 5 iE'SW Urmtivea lPii t. til i w-"X-:.-rjmr v j ,iu I V 1 I 1 I fl 1 I ,k.r i , i , wi 1 Japanese maruie in Shanghai about to execute a Chinese coolie accused of sniping. 2 Low pushing a rotary plow through the high snowdrifts after terrific blizzard that tied np transport; southwestern Colorado. 3 View in Changchun, the capital of the new ilanchurlan state, Ankuo, under the auspices of Japan and of which Henry Pu-YL former emperor of China, Is to be the rule, Site of the Great Hoover Dam Is Flooded 6 Following heavy storms in the mountainous regions of the upper Colorado, river ihe. site of the J dam in Boulder canyon was flooded, the water submerging the open air garage and entering the tunnel der construction. Property damage was rather severe. SIAM'S NEW ENVOY When Jim PrestonWaAJmpeachl tour r "rfX v " w.iui.yM.i..1..u.l.,w, ,n , W I hi r iH hv hm !t Am v - An especially posed portrait . of Phya Subarn' Sompatl, the newly appointed, minister from Siara tothe United States, who has arrived In Washington and. assumed his post. ARGENTINA'S CHIEF t Gen. Augustin P. Justo, who has been inaugurated constitutional pres ldent Of the Argentliiiu-cput Germaa Telephone Device A scientific magaiine reports tlur in Germany a number of telephoni-have telephoni-have been equipped with typewriter devices whereby anyone who ring-ap ring-ap a friend and finds that he is nu The Washington newspaper correspondents took over the , chamber to hold a mock court of Impeachment of James D. Prf wno retired -as chief of the senate press gallery after 34 years o! ice. ine photograph shows Miss Ruth Finney, of Scripps-Howard papers, presenting Mr. Preston with a sliver coffee service as of the Washington newspaper corps' esteem. Navy V First All-Welded Vessel i - : - ! I i HI. A X ' em i . ... . been chosen for Frontier Days and j'1 bome can rap out message on rodeo celebration July 23 and 20. to be held ber keyboard attached to the telepbotif the message beina transferred-to paper tape on the friend's desk. The first all-welded vessel in the United States navy tut Munching, when a powerful floating crane hoisted the craft ff itock on which ft was built and lowered It late the water t ? The vessel Is the lard Motor Tug 15 and will be used t the j mouth navy yard. She la 65 feet long, powered with DeUwl & and entirely welded. witH not a bolt or rivet in the huIL f e i ;ve bing ticros! nd c lib or Jaco tomes fceouf blis tamo dra matu 118 61 and hatisn lgia c quic smal 1 fami Iner, maki fr fp tch mg on; It I tese ents lalia Ja rea es, ho la |
