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VOL. 121; NO. 281. PLATTSBURGH, K Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER SO, 1931.

ESS FEAR OF RENEWED FIGIf

Danger of Renewed Warfare in South Manchuria Continues Despite With­drawal of Jap Troops — Secretary Stimson Comes Out on Top in His Newspaper Controversy With Ja­panese Foreign Office

PRICE THREE CENTS

YIN HERE

OFLABORER Charles Cronin, 72, Expired

Yesterday

Lindy Declines John D/s Invite . To Accompany Him To Services

IWJUREP MYSTERIOUSLY

DODGES GRISH WHILE

OVERCROWD Plane Plunges Upon Roof at

Pittsburgh

SUFFERS ANKLE INJURY

Air Mail Flyer IVleets With First Mishap in Four

Years

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 23. (UP) — Air Mail Pilot Melvin Gariow, 27, meeting Ms first mishap in four years, maneuvered Ills disabled plane from over the heavily crowd­ed stopping district yesterday to the Allegheny River front, where it crashed with minor injuries to two men. Gariow jumped at an altitude of about 500 feet after it went into a tail spin, he said. The plane

MUKDEN, Manchuria, Nov. 23 (UP) — The danger of renewed fighting in South Manchuria con­tinued tonight, despite withdrawal of some Japanese troops and pre­liminary arrangements for estab­lishing a neutral zone in the Chln-cliow area.

Unofficial Japanese sources re­ported fear of a battle at ChineJ&ow, although the southward offensive

of the Japanese army was halted thirty miles north, of Chinchow and the main force ordered withdrawn.

Marshal Chang Hseuh Liang, nominal ruler of Manchuria, who is at Peiping, agreed in principle to withdraw Ms concentration of forces south at Shankaikawan, In China proper.

^Details as. to protection against bandit raids remain to be settled, however. It was said Japan would demand all Chinese troops be evacu­ated*.

Marshal Chang said he. would withdraw only after arrangements for defense against bandit hordes in the area.

Meanwhile, reports relayed by British military observers at Tient­sin said the city was calm and under Japanese control. No Chinese demonstrations has been establish-

Police Investigating Believe There Is Possibility

Car Struck Him

Without revealing the cause of his injuries, Charles Cronin, 72, died yesterday at the Physicians hospital from a hemorrhage of the brain. Cronin, who is believed to be a native of Syracuse, was brought to the hospital Friday-night fa a delirious state by Oliver B. Fraser, overseer of the poor in the town of Ellenburg;

Regaining consciousness for a few moments at a time,, he told attend­ants he had relatives in Boston and Somerville, Mass., but police In those cities have been unable to lo­cate them. FoKce also heard that the aged man had two sons in Sy­racuse.

Mr. Fraser, who brought Cronin to the hospital, could not be reached by phone last night, but it is re­ported he did not realize that his

BAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Nov. 29.

(UP) — Colonel Charles A. Lind­

bergh, forced to delay his- north­

ward flight to New York because

of one of the heaviest fogs in the

history of this section, declined to­

day to attend church with John I).

Rockefeller, Sr., whose winter horn©

is at Ormond. Colonel Lindbergh, flying an army

observation plane northward from Miami was forced down at Flagler: Beach, twenty miles north of pay-tona yesterday. He spent most of today at the Flagler Beach hotel, resting and receiving intermittent reports of the weather.

The flight northward -will not be attempted until Monday a t the earl­iest

The elder Rockefeller, learning that the famous flier had landed near Ormond, sent an invitation by telephone for Colonel mnakergb. to

attend religious services at .the First Union Church.

The message was received over Flagler Beach's only telephone, which is in a drug store, and relay­ed ta Lindbergh by a messenger.

The flying colonel received it without comment, though it is not known, whether he answered i t

Rockefeller later attended churchy as usual accompanied only by a number of servants.

Colonel Lindbergh r e c e i v e d weather reports from the I>aytona Beach coastguard- station. He -was warned! that near-sera weather pet-vailed along the Atlantic seaboard, with a dense fog extending to the round* The fog extended, too far

west to permit a detour.

The coasting station reported at noon that th© fog was clearing around Jacksonville but that It continued north of that city.

Colonel Lindbergh is returning to New York after a flight across tfie Caribbean sea in a huge Pan-Amer­ican Airways plane, the American Clipper.

ADAIS SGOR HOOVER POLICY ONNAYALGUTS

" i

Report Sent to Chief Cites Need of Ships

QUOTES NAVY OFFICERS

U Destroyers Asked to At­tain Limits of London

Agreement

•WIRE CHASE SAVES YEAR OLD GIRL

passenger had received any injury, QUO for POlSOtt DOSe a t 2* but tJmt he was seriously ill. At ~ • , • . « , . - . *

Trooper Halts Car at 1:40

plunged downward, crashed upon J ed.

the roof of Machinery Hall at the j WASHINGTON. Nov. 29 (UPJ— Exposition building, and slipped off j secretary of State Henry L. Stim-into a court, where it struck two S son remained one point ahead to-parked automobiles. .night in his exciting newspaper

Gariow suffered an ankle injury J controversy with the Japanese *or-as be landed safely on the roof of jeign office; the Exposition building. Hi* para-1 Announcement fa To*** that *1»

^Cirfui 1 «wJ* •*!•><•» t-*'± .««*«««. ***•<*%«•* ***j*«vt$

but that the hospital an examination dis­closed his condition. A large bruise on his left shoulder was also; un­covered.

Police were notified and an inves­tigation commenced Saturday. Ma-lone barracks, headquarters for Troop B, state police, detailed Ser* geant Leo L. Lavasscur of the Chazy patrol to probo into the mat­ter. A telephone conversation 'with him at Mooers last night brought the information that he believed Cronin baG been struck, by a car, cither last Tuesday or Wednesday. Asked if he knew where the sect-dent occurred *n4 th* Ideality «fE

M O T I A T M S TO I D TRAM

WAR UNDERWAY Parley Begun Result of Brit­

ish Customs Duty

SAVED FROM DEATH

Five Drops of Poison'Would Have Been Fatal to Waggaman Bant

lVsro.«u&p-<Be$?gfo "Johns,*' Charter©!. Pa., wui marks he. never -made mean*

injured slightly by flying debris. |situation had returned to its status! The two auta-tnob'.ips were, unoc- |0f Friday, for Stimson has not cupied. Nearby pedestrians .fl.e.1 as \ withdrawn but has adhered to Ms the craft hurtled downward. J ̂ presentation against a Japanejse

The plane was demolished and J advance on Chinchow, in the Maii-the automobiles were damaged bad­ly. A heavy odor of gasoline hung over the vicinity and police issued orders against smoking.

— •

CLERK OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SICK

AT LOCAL HOSPITAL

Slight improvement in the condi­tion of Julian Roberts, 60, of Eiiza-bethtown, who lies critically ill in the Physicians hospital was noted last night. Mr. Roberts, who has been clerk of the hoard of super­visors in Esses county for the past 25 year?, was admitted to the hos­pital last Wednesday where he was operated on by Dr. C. A. Silver Of rthis city.

His wife, the former Zee Carpen­ter, visited his bedside last night

filr. Roberts is a member of the Mason a

churian war zone. Officials receiv­ed with relief the United Press Mi-port that Japan had revoked its bit­ter statement of Saturday, denounc­ing Stimson "for flying into a tan­trum regarding the Japanese more on Chinchow."

c»aid**»* obULcwA from him. District Attorney Aa&rcw W. Ry­

an, returning from an oat of town trip, was Informed of the affair. Accompanied by Sher.ff A. L. Sen­eca!, Mr. Ryan departed early last night for Merrill to pierce the cloud of mystery which obscures the death. They were Seined by Trooper R. M. Travis from Malonc

As the result of tho probing the district attorney ordered the arrest of the following men, occupants of

It will mean that, disregarding,tho tenement house in which Cronin the news agency blunder, Stimson's | " « i d e d : Salvatoro Devlto. John resort to publicity in his effort to Br men James Rlnaldi, Pedro San-

,_ chi, Joseph Medalli, Andrew Me-halt the Japanese advance was sue . Avoy, Peter Amedla, James Floyd,

John Vargi, Adolph Martin, Paul

SEABURY FOR PRESIDENT BOOM WAY BE LAUNCHED

cessful. Stimson said Friday that he was

at a loss to understand the Japanese Frft*. G £ o rS° Alblni, Sylvester Ven-advance, because the Japanese gov ._ ' z\, Peter Maris and James Chinca.

emment had promised him no such I ™ « * m * a ™ « » o t committed

move would be made. l t o &l b u t w e r e o r d c r c d n o t t o l e a 1 r , i ! Only a few hours after this sur- '»>* tenement house until further!

information on the affair could bo] 'obtained. Mr. Ryan will return to!

(Copyrighted by V.P.) NEW TOEK, Xov. 23 (UPt— The

name of Judge Samuel Seabury probably will go before the Demo­cratic national convention as a candidate for the presidential no­mination in 1932. Out of a convul­sion that hat shaken the Tammany temp'e to its foundation, there emerged t-.-d-ty the sinister form of Tammany's rn-st hated enemy as a potential r -v - r in the national party and a- **.- possible standard bearer.

Seabury'g name, whicli is still an­tagonist e to Vie Tammany faction whooe I"UI^TS i,e has harried night and day f,.r tight months, -Bill be present' a to t'̂ e convention by the political r : wx re of the -west and south.

His Lirdi'Ia'-j- will be their an­swer t'j t •- intense Republican campaign cr;. i.f New Tork cor­rupt: on, for it has been Judge Sea-

• bury, •nith gnm diligence and dog­ged ptrb'ittt r.fx, who has directed the workmsc vl an investigation in­to TanimjJi;.- c^Titn-l.

The Seaturj" be cm, originating in the m.ddle -R>.t: and deriving its strength chi<-fij. outside of Kew Xorl^ vvEl til.c tangible form with-

prise statement, the Japanese for­eign office announced tho ndvaneio had been halted and thn troops would be recalled. It was not until the next day that the distorted news dispatch was broadcast throughout Japan, that the foreign office to Tokio showed its anger.

A remarkable phase of the Stim-son-Tokio exchange was that both the American and Japanese state­ments were made on the basis fit

[press reports. Stimson made his 'statement on the basis of a United Press dispatch correctly reporting; the Japanese advance. He held up> a press conference while he prepar­ed a statement The Japanese statement, based on the distorted •version, was published by the semi­official Rengo as received through the A.F, with which it is affiliated.

The Japanese ambassador had not been advised officially of the revocation but it was said Ambas* sador Debuchi reported last night that Stimson was misquoted and ex­pected this -was sufficient to reas:-suro his government

HITOSOK, K. Y.* Noov. 39—Sadie, telegraph and State Trooper* yes­terday saved 3tfr. and. Mm. Cfcwles E. Wastaouia i^ta, jpo|»oa!nr ttosir

T l » WMwiHwiaw warn « • -yen**

***** w*miim. r**t

aijfht «t tit* Ikorn* tst 1&». &» S» Pmtfc at <Slen» SWs.

Janice had been ill and Mss. Waggaman was carrying «. bottlo of medicine which was to be put in the baby's railfc. She placed tho bottle on * shelf in th<* Pratt medi­etas chest

They were late getting away this morning. At the last minute Mrs. Waggaman. remembered the fcafty's medicine. She grabbed & bottle from tho cabinet and hurried into tha car.

A few minute* after their de­parture their hostess happened to look in tho medicine chest. Tho baby's medictao was still there, hut a bottle of eye medicine -which re­sembled it closely was gone. Five drope of It, swallowed, would be fatal.

Mrs. Pratt telephoned tho office of tho power company, where Waggaman was to. stop before con-

FRENCH FINANCE HEAD

Wlir Seek Agreement to Ra-move Necessity for Battfe

With Tariff

P A I S S ^ HOT. ZK « J P > — 3sre«o-tlat&aa ta *s**4 * fhmtaMtt *****

BrttiUa u d pr«i»r«tio«i *«r % wnt*

tlnuing on to Poughkeepsle. "For heaven** sake, stop Mr,

Waggaman J" she pleaded. "His wife took a bottlo of poison which

TOM MIX REPORTED OUT OF DANGER NOW

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 23 (UP)—Apparently safely pass the crisis of his dangerous illness, Tom Mix, famous motion picture star, was showing steady improvement today.

An official bulletin issued by his physicians today stated, "we are very optimistic in being able to re* port definite improvement in Tom

Mix's condition." It was signed, by in. the nex<«few wteks by opening, Dr. R. Nicholas Smith, Joan Scrota-1

jteaflauartei'S at St» Loai^ Mo,

'f

ly and Gura Stout

Merrill today to continue tho inves­tigation.

Meanwhile an autopsy was per­formed at the Physicians hospital by Dr. Leo F. Sehiff and Dr. I r a . , . . . . , , . , , .„ . , „ , M _ , , . , . . , . sho thinlis is medicine. Sites go-X. Rowison of Plattsburgh at the I

* * -r-s ,•* i - . » - « * _ . « toff to give tho baby two drops in request of Dr. Edwin W. Sartweli . . _. _,. . , | milk at 10 o clock and a teaspoon-

of Peru, Clinton county coroner.' ^ « •, , t. __^ Ifnl &t 2 o'clock." Death was caused by a hemorrhage J « of the brain declared the coroner. In | T h e w a r n l n ^ v™* io° l a t e - m ^ addition numerous contusions about i***10* 1 m d a l r c a d y I e « t h e o f f J c e -the body were found. H i s a e x t s t o » ^ ^ t 0 b e ' U b a n y * The remains were then removed to ' s t a t o t r o o p e r s w r a n o t i £ ! e a *

the undertaking parlors of John J. j T b e y s e n t 0 U t t h c ^ " ^ o v e r ^ O'Ketl of 72 Brinkershoff street j P°U c e t e l e t yP° s * " s t e m - A S c i i e " where. they will beheld ^aflmg nectady radio station broadcast tho word from relatives of the dead | n e w s a n d ^ ^ listener, to watch man, if they can be located. U P ua- l f a r t h o Waggaman car. Ul late last night no funeral ar- I A U a l o n S t h c f05*1 »« tweea Glens ruagements had been made. j r a l l s ^ Poughkeepsie State troop-

Cronin was an employee of tha B.! ers« armed with the Waggaman H-R. JL. Construction Company of|cense number, were scrutinizing Syracuse, which is building the j e v e fy a t l t o t h a £ Passed. Chateaugay-Lyon Mountain high-1 A s 2 o'dock neared the efforts way. He and sixteen other mem- . ' e £ t h o P̂ Mee wer© redoubled. It bers of the read gang were left j w a s 1:ii> w h e n Sergt. Dewey IAW-stranded without funds in an old. rence of the State troopers singled tenement house along the right of! out the Waggaman'car in the midst way. The men claimed they had not o* traffic in Hudson.

"You're Waggaman, aren't you?", he asked. The surprised driver nodded his assent

"Have you gnren the baby her medicine yet3'*

nVe gave her two drops this morning," Waggaman replied. "We were just stopping to give her some more."

"Well, don't do it," said the of­ficer, explaining.

little Janice TBESS rushed to *. hospital, where doctors decided she waa not serolusly harmed by the smalt dose sh© had ireceived. Then the family continued on to Pough-keecsia,

h*m''wi \_ -

*&•» f«<s«!a-tty !«(«*«* WttWh •eat* gen«?y casto»tta 4uty and 'in* Im-:postt!oa of a. future permanent tar-:izt t*t»iep arounS the foreign trade cf tho eountey.

Fi^nch Finance Minister5 Pierre E. Flaaden went to London yester­day. He said his visit ha& no sigs nlflcaae© and that he was merely out to enjoy a few days shooting, It was understood, however, that he wou'd confer with Walter Runchnan* president «.>f the British board of trade, and with Sir John Simons, British foreign secretary.

Flandea Is expected to seek an agreement or compromise which, will remove the necessity for Franco tr> battle with the new English tar­iff.

Tho French finance minister also I* reported ready to dicuss prelim­inaries for a general financial con-ferene« at which war debts and reparations would bo the chief issues.

Flanden has been specially Inter­ested in the outcome of the tariff Issua'because Prance and Germany are negotiating for economic co­operation. A subcommittee of the French and German economic com­mission concluded a study of meana to reduce wasteful competition In railroads, rivers, air and sea trans­portation. It was decided to invite other countries to participate in a conference preliminary to an accord which might mean reduced com­petition in sailings on the North and South Atlantic steamship lines.

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PLATTSBURGH COUPLE HAVE NARROW ESCAPE

WASHINGTON. Nov, 29 (UP)— A sharp attack upon the navaj econ­omies imposed by both IPrestdent Hoover and Congress was made yesterday by Secretary of Navy Charles Francis Adams in the Navy's, annual report tft the Presi­dent,

Tha report contain^ a recom­mendation fpr enactment of the naval construction, bill which, failed at th« last session. This bill would have authorized; nearly ?140»<H)O,O0u for 11 destroyers, two cruisersv sev­eral submarine, and other additions to the fleet.

Secretary Adam's report cited fig-urea and quoted "far seeing;" naval officer* as contending that large? appropriations are essential to . an "adequate^ navy of minimum; si?e within the. limits set by the 1330 liOndon navifl, treaty. I t i* expected to lift the, curtain on, th* winter naval budget batHe—a, conflict that wOX be fought anions big> little; and middle-sized navy advocates, and tocluasltesldent Hoover* bis, K«.vx X«a*ua conflict!, and, fh* other eon,-trQver*Wt &tte*Uo»s^wMea. liay« be--com* embroiled ia th# ssasral ques­tion of; ttm K*vyv 1$* y*wHa«wt has indicated he will oppose *4dl-tlon*l *nthorlwatloik ot war»b% ««*.•« atructle* ju«t B W .

4 M 4 ahte waafaftBB; w

COUNCIL ACTS TO AVERT NEW CLASH

League of Nations Sees No Beason for Jap Advance Toward (Mnchow~~ Mov^ to Establish Neutral 2mm Between Chinese and Japanese Troops — Denunciation of Stimson Retracted by TSfippon's Foreign Office

(Copyrighted by U.P.) PARIS, Nov. 28.— The League of

Nations CouncU of twelve, with China and Japan absent, agreed to^ day that there was no valid reason for the advance of Japanese troops toward Chinchow, in South Man-, t;b,uri,a.

Acting to prevent a new clash, te the war *one and; estahltsb * netn tral *one between Chhiese and Jap­anese troops, the council decided it was fallacious for Japan to use the pretext of a dangerous military concentration as a reason for an of­fensive.

Aristide Briand, president of the council, explained the decision to Kenklchi Yoshfcsawa, the Japanese delegate.

It was ported, out that the re­ports of nine neutral observers in Manchuria, have convlnce'd the council that the Japanese offensive was unprovoked. French reports said, "hx the Chinchow region there was %o sign ofafe Ohinese attack. It does not appear/ important defense positions "have been organised hy the Chinese.**

33r. Al&ed Sise* Chinese delegate, inforowa Arttttfo Brian* of cam,-ese approval oi a pjaa, ioi» establtan- -

ixnr * »*«twj mm, Japan approved th* «E*ffi**«a

scheme bet lr3*I»t# <-hiiMi»« troop* fe* witbi*r^wa aouttewar« and, wa» wnforte« .t* sjniT» '̂ (WMbtft ftgftiBSt «*» »ian Iter »*«tr»l <»b*«t-ver* to tab* cbarve Ja UM area.

giving the impression that the army; commanders of Japan wer* plan-. ning military expeditions against; the forces of China in the neigh-* borhood of Chinchow, and that If sincerely trusted that there was ng basis for that report.**

TOKIO, Nov. 29 WP>-Th* Jap^ aaese foreign office today retwucted! its denunciation of United States* Secretary of State Henry I*. S t te* son after learning » new* agency: blunder was responsible for what threatened to be the most serious international "incident* of th* 34an<* churla; conflict

Stimson had been conaenuieii in » strongly worded statement issq«4 by; S. SMrsteri, chief of the intelli^ gence bureau and, apokeamaa <or» the foreign, office, ©n the basis of a news dispatch f » m Washlngtoai purporting to show that Sttmsoni accused th» Japanese army of "mm* nlng; wancfe," In Manchuria*

The news dispatch, di»trlbute4 b>i the Bengo News Agency o« th» basis of an A, P. atory f*<m tTwdbb-ingtos. was prominently 4fc$feyf<£t in Toklo newspaper* wceept 13BH Nichl-KicM, arowabaif wW* te«l«««« tloi*,

XAtMtw it wa* takie* t» Wai*to«-. to» by Wewtary «C atato WMfaaawt-and AmbMMkAer W. C W M N O Forbes mm bafptiia Pw«tci| Ktato» ter Stero© SJhidefcar*, ^

JayaaM* Atnbaaa«4or Kalsuji XVbqcat in WaaaiartoB akw «ab^4

«S*t Ommmt-Jftm Ommi im€ »*.wl «miQQftfi»wBlI*«peo*1fc!*li«c«l Foretga WHsS** Baron 365f«ro year* aJthougJs *4S%2«,5S4 was ap­propriated tor the savy last winter-.

"It should be borna i» mind," Adams told Mr. Hoover In the re­port, *'that many of the most expe­rienced and far-seeing officers feel that amounts reasonably in. execs* of those being annually appropri­ated can be used advantageously— in fact, ajre essential to provide ade­quately for the Navy's minimum, re­quirements within treaty limits.

"Especially la this the existing condition in view of the fact that the average expenditure for increase of the Navy (new construction) and major alterations <modernlsted) have averaged only .43,572,000 dur­ing the nine fiscal years 1S2S-S1, In-elusive, a sum which falls far short of providing for replacements and depreciation." .

Such a statement Is flat opposi­tion to the administration's pro­gram, which provides for no< new navy construction. It is in direct contrast with the President's recent budget statement, which pointed proudly to construction now going on and estimated that this country's naval construction during the next fiscal j-ear would be double that of Great Britain.

President Hoover, in his broadside In favor of reduced Navy appropria­tions* has heretofore emphasized that Secretary Adams has been •working in harmony with him In his effort-—an indication which, was borne out by this report as to the recent reductions. But the report leaves no doubt that Adams holds that new construction and modern­ization funds have been inadequate over the period of the last eight

I years, Professor and Mrs. Samuel Todd • The President has not been ex-

SMdehara for a *fuH e:tpian*iloa.** of the secret intercommuntcatti?ns •with the United; States Secretary of State Henry I*. Stlmson.

The war minister was said to have asked that th* explanation bo given at today** cabinet meeting. On Saturday- the Sdyufcal party de­manded Shldehara's resignation be­cause of reports of "alleged prom­ises**" to Secretary Stimson

been paid since. November g and that about ?S5 "was due them for their -work.

Louis Barbonl, 410 Fabius street, Syracuse, president of the B. R. L. Company, appeared on the job last week and took the records and re­ceipts, disappearing at night, the men said. The sixteen men left are lall that remain of a large crew 'Which members have drifted away jUf-ead.l* because of troubles over f>*y. The nine-mile road job is ||LlH*irt half finished after ta/ee year* faring which it has frequently been held up hy litigation ao4 fin­ancial difficulties, J

of 123 Brlnkerhoff street, returned

T.» where they called o» their

pected to make any recomnicnda-Saturday from a visit to Roscoe, N. tlons for further building at the

coming session of Congress, in view daughter and her husband and also of recent developments and the ira-vislted friends In Albany, jminence of the disarmament parley

While motoring through, they had 'in Geneva, a very narrow escape from serious* injury and possible 4eattu The ac­cident occurred near Liberty, N. T. on a stretch of icy roaa. They had ' successfully negotiated a, hill and -were just breaking over the top when tho car skidded around on the road and overturned on the left side of the road, had It overturned on tho right band side they would have been hurled several hundred feet to the railroad tracks below. Aside from a severe shaking up they were unhurt. The car was damaged somewhat by bent fend-

Walker Confined With S«v«r« Cold SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. S3 (UP)

—Mayor James J. Walker of New York city was confined to his bed at the hotel tonight by a, "rather severa1* cold.

15r. James Gallwe, Governor James Rolph Jr's., physician, was called In to examine, the mayor.

Mayor Walker is scheduled to go before Governor Rolph Tuesday morning to argua for a pardon for Thomas Mooney. He said he wish­ed to take every precaution against tastes hi* vote* before tha beariag*

TOKIO, Nov. 39.—The statement of Henry I* Stimson, American se­cretary of State, to= the American press Friday, voicing; his surprise at reports that Japanese troops were advancing against Chinchow, coupled with his disclosure of ex­changes between the diplomatic re­presentatives of the two countries, created, deep resentment In official circles her* tonight, i t called; forth a sharp rebuk« from the Foreign Office spokesman, who declared that If Mr. Stimson "were to lose Ms head at such a. critical moment, the consequences would b& very grave Indeed.'* To this statement a. Foreign Office official added the warning that if tho American Sec­retary's remarks were found to be correctly reported, they would lead to "diplomatic difficulties'* between the United States ^nd Japan.

The War Office joined in protest­ing against Mr. Stimson's remarks in a statement denying that the Foreign Minister Baron Kijuto Shi-dehara, had assured Mr. Stimson that there would be no hostile op­erations toward Chinchow, last stronghold of the Chinese in Man-vchuria. The Wax Office said that "there is not the slightest reason for believing that the Japanese were planning aa attack on Chinchow."

In order to ascertain whether Secretary Stimson was quoted cor­rectly in the Japanese Foreign. Of­fice yesterday,, the Secretary of State said;

"•'Ail I have to say is that you gentlemen have the record of what I said at my press conference: yesterday. From that record you can see tor yourselves that the For­eign Office has been entirely mis­informed of something I not only did not say yesterday* but never said."

The record of the press confer­ence of Friday, November 27, shows that th© Secretary of State spoke to the correspondents as follows:

"On tha SSrd of November I ask­ed my ambassador to Te-klo to tell Baron Shidehara, the Foreign Min-

spoJ?*sman revoked hi* mxiMr* statement and said tb* government considered: the incident closed, Nsg government statement will be is-* sued.

Although the statement rnisinter^ prettog the ITnited Statea view-* point was broadcast 3» Chj&a, *h« hope was expressed, It wouJJ not have an unfavorable influflPwe ©a the peace negotiations, now in pr%« gress.

SNELL SEEKS POSITION OF

FLOOR IiEADlR WASHINGTON1, Nov, 29. <W>—

The battle between rival groups for the House of Representatives floor leadership, to be, decided to party conference tomorrow, continued over the week-end, with the leading* candidates both confident of vie* tory.

^legations supporting Reprt*-* tentative John, <>. TUscnj, H^ma.* veteran Republican, leader in the last session, and Representative. Bertrand 3& Snell, &ew York, chair­man of th© powerful rules commit* tee when the Republicans were in control, held their final conference toaay.

Because of the prevalence o$ many a favorite sen candidate, the outcome of the conference tomorrow is diffieiut to predict. Most of the delegates are divided in their sup­port and until they start to break it is hard to tell what the decision will be. Many ballots were believed to be necessary*

The nomination, actually, Is for* the speakership* but the Pemc^rats with a slight majority undoubtedly will organise the house* SnelJ con­tends it has been the practice eves slr^a the house has been organize** that a defeated candidate for tht speakership becomes automatically floor leader of his party,

Tilson eisims that even if defeat-* ed tor the nomination for speaker, he still is Republican floor leaden He bases Ms statement on his elec­tion for tho portion at the party conference at the last session before the death of tho Speaker Nicholas. X.c-ogworth, who was renominated at th© time. If he is? defeated the

ister of Japan, that I had seen with .party may become involved in « jficeat «EDreli€jasiQ» jjress re£orts[teehnxeal dispute o\er this J?oiS*»

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