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FAMED MONEY EXPERT FLAYS BUSINESS FEAR Princeton Professor Pictures Thoroughly Sound and Sturdy America. INSISTS U. S. IS SAFE Return of Confidence All That Is Needed, Says E. W. Kemmerer. liy I nihil I'll hh NEW YORK. Nov. s.—America needs only a return of confidence to puts its vast gold stores to work, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer of Princeton university said today. Speaking to a distinguished audience at an advertising club luncheon. the famed ‘doctor” of the world's monetary ills, said that America’s gold standard is secure, indicated the United States ought not to practice the inflation in which Great Britain now is indulging. and declared that New York has become the world's money center. ' With confidence restored, money Ifind bank deposits again will move set their normal rates and wholesale tommodity prices then, in my judgtnenf, will return to a level not far different from that prevailing during the eight years preceding the trash of 1929, a level that will be set least 25 to 30 per cent higher than that now prevailing,” he said. Pleads for Confidence The handsome, grey-haired professor, who has administered to and Corrected the gold troubles of eleven Countries in the last twenty-eighi s’ears. painted a picture of a thoroughly sound and sturdy America. The tonn of his discussion, in effect, tvas a pica for the United States to chase its fears and doubts and make the depression of 1929-1931 only a tnemory. “It will be found that the high Value to which gold was pushed during this crisis was only a temporary emergency value created by fi psychology of extreme and widespread public distrust which the Iral facts never justified,” he said. Great Britain’s recent economic trouble may be attributed in no small degree to the evils of her deflation policy, Dr. Kemmerer pointed but.

Stresses Safekeeping 1 “What gains Great Britain may realize from the suspension of the gold standard will be of temporary character and will be bought at the expense of some severe losses. How long British labor will stand the punishment of fixed wages, accompanied by. a rising cost of living remains to be seen.” Dr. Kemmerer said it was a desire for safekeeping that brought the world's gold streaming to America rather than any desire on the part of the United States to corner the supply. "Money hoardings in the United States today amount to upward of 6 billion dollars,” he said. “Postal savings have increased from 180 millions to 500 millions in the last Sixteen months. The gold reserves of oftr federal reserve banks are still more than a billion dollars above the legal requirements, and we have outstanding hundreds ot million dollars in gold certificates. Fears Not Justified “The difficulty at present is pritnarilv one of lack of confidence. Much of our gold is still comparaidle, but it will be put to work tvhen people abroad and people at home come to believe it can be put to work safely and profitably. "The gold standard in the United States today is strong—very strong •—and the fears entertained by some timid persons and some ignorant persons at home, as well as fears publicly expressed by some envious persons and some ignorant persons abroad, of a possible breakdown of the American gold standard have no justification whatever in the cold facts of the situation.” Whitney Is Optimistic Jilt I ii ilrtl f’re*x NEW YORK. Nov. s.—lt will take only "a small event to turn confidence to such a degree that we will come into better times.” Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, told tire Brooklyn committee of the emergency unemployment relief committee at a campaign dinner in Brooklyn Wednesday night. "Perhaps that event has happened.” Whitney added. "We don't know, but it can not be far off.” Overoptimism caused the depression, he said. MEDICAL SERVICE FREE Haag Firm to Fill Prescriptions for Needy This Winter. Medical prescriptions will be filled without charge for destitute persons in Indianapolis this winter by the Haag Drug Company, officials of the firm announced today. The only requirement for having prescriptions filled free will be presentation of a statement from the physician writing the prescription, that the person presenting it is unable to pay for it, it was stated. PEACE BURDEN ON U. S. Laval Says This Country Could Prevent Future Wars. By Unitrtl Pm PARIS, Nov.s—The United States, if it wished, could prevent further wars. Premier Pierre Laval told former Representative Victor Heinz of Cincinnati in a conversation today. ‘lf America wanted to.” Laval said, "by a single, gesture it could solve the whole problem of peace. "Let the United States pledge its assistance to prevent or halt war. No nation would dare make war. Thus, America never would actually be called upon to furnish assistance.'

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Mayor Coxey Will Try His Pet Finance Plan

HU I nitrrl Prrgs MASSILLON, 0., Nov. 5.—‘ General” Jacob Sechler Coxey, who led his ragmuffin army of unemployed on "Washington 37 years ago, today as mayor pledged his every effort toward helping the “working classes.” Victor in Tuesday's mayoralty race by a substantial majority, Coxey

told the United Press today his campaign platform would be adopted, including the promise to issue low Interest bearing bonds as a medium cf local exchange. These bonds, issued for a long period and bearing one mill interest, would be issued in denominations of 25 cents, 50 cents, one, five and ten dollars. They could be traded or exchanged for merchandise. “We ve got to do it, for the people have no money,” the white-haired campaigner said vigorously. The plan is similar to the one he agitated for years in congress. It provided that 25-year, non-interest bearing bonds be issued to stimulate public improvements and reduce municipal interest charges. "Then, were going to buy the waterworks,” Coxey said, “if the utility won’t sell, we’ll build a waterworks of our own. Rates - must come down. We’re going to buy the output from the electric company and distribute the power to consumers. The company can’t refuse to sell us all the power we want. Furthermore, they'll give us a low base rate or we’ll go to the public utilities commission.”

Coxey said he will have the support of eight or nine of the city councilmen, who were elected with him. . "The underworld was against me,” he charged. ‘ The Chamber of Commerce was against me. So were the banks, the public utilities, and the newspaper. They spent $25,000 and used every method in the * political game to defeat me, but I was elected by the working classes and some business and professional men. And it cost less than $150.”

TOW-IN TRUCK AGAIN 'IN SPAT' Cop Speaks and Car Parked Illegally Is Let Alone. Police tow-in truck No. 9. drawn into the spotlight recently in connection with “boners” in enforcement of the tow-in law, is responsible for another complaint to The Times today. About 9:15 this morning, according to wftnseses, truck No. 9 came to a halt in front of 220 North Illinois street and began the preliminaries of towing in a double parked car. The car bore license No. 83-COl, according to witnesses complaining to The Times. Just as operators of the two-in truck started to attach the crane chain to the front axle of the illegally parked car, a motorcycle policeman, whose identity was not learned, rode from an alley near where the car was parked, and conferred with the policeman in charge of the tow-in truck. Two-in operations ceased immediately, the witness said, and the two-in truck drove away. Twenty-five minutes later, two women emerged from a building nearby, entered the double parked car, and drove away. At the same time, witnesses said, the motorcycle officer left the scene. At the statehouse, it was reported the car with license 83-001, a large sedan, is owned by Oral Muterspaugh, 1947 North Lasalle street. SHORTRIDGE STUDENT GETS SCOUT HONOR Charles Robbins Awarded Medal for Community Service. Two hundred fifty hours of community service were given formal recognition Wednesday night when Charles Robbins, 15, a Shortridge sophomore, was awarded a service

bar at the Boy Scout court of honor in central library.. Robbins, member of troop No. 29. with headquarters in Central Christian church, completed the 250 hours Wednesday. He has assisted in the Community Fund campaign. Irvington troops still are in the lead in the scout “air derby.” Troop

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No. 9 is first with 1,118 points for awards, troop No. 3 is second with 1.054 points and troop No. 80 is third with a score of 1.017. Nine scouts were promoted Wednesday night to star rank. They are Harry Hadd. troop No. 9; James Gipe. No. 18; Albert Fessler. No. 60; Maurice Kelly. No. 72; Charles Williams. No. 78; Robert Pierce, No. 72; Richard Stradling. No. 80; Luther Goebel. No. 87; and Hix Meier, troop No. 88: PROLONG LABOR PARLEY Rail Leaders Hope for Answer on Wage Conference. By l nitrrl Pre/if WASHINGTON. Nov. s.—Railway labor leaders decided today to prolong their Washington "war council” in the hope that their proposal for a national conference on wages and unemployment would be answered promptly by the railroad executives.

LIFE AEOAKD THE U. S. S. AKRON, GIANT NAVY AIR CRUISER is graphically Illustrated in the scenes above. On the left? A shows Lieutenant Anthony Danis, the • ship's weather man, at work m the Akron’s serological room. Kis a typical scene in

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Talkie Tests By l nitrrl Prrss WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. Mrs. Hoover is having her voice tested for the talkies. The first lady has not been satisfied with recent news reels which have carried her voice. She had no experience in such matters so she asked the talking picture concerns to let her experiment, it was learned today at, the White House. In the experiment, a sound device was set up in the library of the executive mansion and Mrs. Hoover spoke' in several different tones. When the pictures and sound are developed, she is to decide which tone she likes best.

$13,000 LOSS IN NORTH SIDE FIRE Blaze. Started in Vacant Home, Is Costly. Fire which started from sparks on the roof of a vacant house at 2128 Central avenue, shortly before noon today, spread to three nearby structures, causing damage estimated at $13,000 before the blaze was extinguished. The fire started" when Walter R. Burford of Lawrence, paperhanger, built a wood fire in the furnace of the vacant house to dry walls and ceiling for papering. The flames spread to the residence of “Bert Keene, druggist, 2134 Central avenue, and to 2126 Central avenue, occupied by Paul Earhart and C. F. Benson. The blaze also spread to a vacant duplex at 2122-24 Central avenue. Majority of the loss to building and furniture was covered by insurance. owners said. Burford told police and fire squads he heard someone yell “fire” several times, but did not heed the alarm until he heard the roof crackling abdve him. The roof of the vacant house collapsed. Traffic was tied up for some time. Two alarms were sounded for north side departments. Losses to the properties, all of which were frame structures: 2128 Central avenue. $4.C00; 2126 Central avenue, $5,000; 2134 Central avenue. 52.000, and 2122-24 Central avenue, $2,C00. MOOSE WILL INITIATE Women to Be Taken Into Auxiliary at Ceremonial Tonight. Women of the Moose will initiate a class of candidates tonight with a

special ceremonial in honor of Mrs. Nell Mahoney, deputy grand regent of Indiana, who has played a prominent part in the steady growth in membership and scope of activ i t ie sos the women's auxiliary to Loyal Order of Moose. Ind uc t ion of candidates will begin at 8 in Moose hall, 135

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I WINE JUICE’ IS WITHDRAWN i FROMMARKET Willebrandt’s Company Bars Product Following on Court Rulings. AIDED BY FARM BOARD Firm Will Continue to Make Concentrates ‘Minus Servicing.’ i By L nitrrl Prat* WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Fruit Industries, Ltd., a beneficiary of federal aid, has decided to discon- : tinue selling its grape juice product, I Vine-Glo, which has been used widely as a base for home wine making. It will, however, continue on the market a concentrate under other ! trade names, selling it in cans and bulk —but without “servicing.” Hitherto agents have ‘'serviced” Vine-Glo, that is, bottled the product resulting from exposure to fermentation. Court decisions casting doubt on the legality of Vine-Glo were the cause of today's decision, announced by Donald Conn, managing director of the concern. He refused to say whether federal officials had offered any suggestions for discontinuing the Vine-Glo, but Prohibition Director Amos Wood- | cock revealed that his department ; had been planning new instructions | to his agents in the light of the re- ! cent court decisions. Willebrandt Is Attorney Mable Walker Hildebrandt, former | assistant United States atiorneyi general, has been active in Washington as attorney for Fruit Industries, Ltd. During the last week she has made several calls at the White House, j but whether they had any connec- | tion with today’s announcement i was not known. Reports that sale of the concentrate would be discontinued were heard in Washington Wednesday night. Many persons received telephone calls, warning them that if i they desired to stock their cellars, | they should place their orders be- ' tore midnight. Deny Hoover Connection Secretaries to President Hoover denied that the White House had any connection with today’s announcement. fruit Industries has been under the federal farm board’s financial wing. It was said to be the first organization to receive a loan from the board after congress voted a half billion dollars to aid farming. Up to this spring loans from the board to fruit industries amounted to $2,500,000. A commitment to loan $700,000 more has been made, but thus far this fund has not been drawn upon. The government has been under attack from time to time because of its financial aid to an organiza- ‘ tion dealing in the materials for making wine. Chairman James C. Stone of the farm board said the board had taken no part in discussions leading up to the Fruit Industries announcement. •It is no concern of the farm board.” Stone said. “It’s their own business.” Drys Are Elated In the Ukiah Grape Products Company case at Kansas City, Federal Judge Otis based his decision on section 30 of the Volstead act, which holds it unlawful “to advertise, manufacture, sell, or possess for sale, any utensil, contrivance, machine, preparation, compound, tablet, substartce, formula, direction or recipe, advertised, designed, or intended for use in the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor.” The decision of Fruit Industries to discontinue Vine Glo was regarded by dry leaders here as a victory for j prohibition. “It is a step in the right direction,” said F. Scott Mcßride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. Similar comment came from Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Rep., la.). j He said the decision was a victory ior the drvs and affirmed his con- j fidence that the nation is getting “drier and drier.” 'Pretty, but Not Fat’ By L'nitcd rresi KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Nov. 's. “Pretty, but not fat." were among the specifications for employment as office girl with the Ukiah Grape Products Company, which was involved in the grape concentrate case in Kansas City. A circular on office arrangement specified that “the office girl must be pretty, but not fat, of good family, a Protestant and a prohibitionist.” Three Offices Robbed B’i Tiin€ Special KOKOMO. Ind., Nov. s.—Bandits looted the offices of the Metropolitan and Prudential companies of | SSO in change. In a nearby den- ' tist’s office $lO in gold was stolen, j

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IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA a tt a a a a a a a THE VISION OF THE FUTURE—Regardless of whether it is a mirage or really a portent of a great day coming, Soviet Russia's ambitious Five-Year Plan for vast development is bending millions of Russians to their tasks with amazing enthusiasm. This striking layout by Staff Artist Joe King, showing two Russians gazing over the spires of Moscow’s ancient Kremlin at a vision of .a busy Utopia of prosperity and plenty, typifies it all.

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This is the first of twjlve remarkable articles by Julia Blanshartl. staff writer, whom NBA Service and The Times rent to Russia to get the biggest story in the world today. X'o casual tourist stopping at fashionable hotels and traveling de luxe. she lived with and among Russians as they went about their daily lives under their amasing social and economic system, and here she presents the story of a people, not the story of a cause. BY JULIA BLANSHARD, Staff Writer for NEA Service and The Times. (Copyright. 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) IF you lived in Russia— You would live in a drab and shabby land but a land that is alert, vigorous and hopeful. You would have less to eat, less space to live iifr, less to wear and less to spend than in America. But you would not starve. You would not be unemployed. Everywhere is activity. You would live not for yourself alone, but for the state. Like it or not, that is Russia. I have just returned from my second visit to the U. S. S. R.—the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The first was in 1925. Arriving in Moscow again, the Alexandrovsky station seems almost empty of the groups of ragged families that used to> huddle together, sleeping on the concrete floor, waiting for their trains. The rough cobblestones leading from the station have been replaced by a smooth, wide, asphalt street. New buildings are in progress all along. I see no hordes of beggars as there were six years ago. n n a SIDEWALKS are crowded with drably dressed men and women going about their business. There are no lines waiting in front of employment agencies for news of jobs. There are no breadlines of starving people. But there are lines of people farther on. They are customers waiting at the co-operative stores for their allowances of meat, fresh tomatoes, melons. Sometimes they must wait hours and return again the next day for the simplest necessities, for Russia is short of practically everything and in addition, has not solved, her problem of distribution. Occasionally It is altogether impossible to buy what you want. Good soap for example. Once I could not get envelopes. Butter often is unobtainable and sometimes costs $6 a pound! nun ON the corner stands a cop. He is in uniform. He raises his hand as we approach. It is a traffic cop and above him is a modern, automatic traffic signal. I see two autos and one truck the whole length of the street! But Russia is planning to have more. I pass a sign prohibiting jaywalking. “One ruble fine for crossing in the middle of the block.” Other "safety first” signs say, “It is prohibited to get on tramcars while in motion.” Street cars pass in a steady procession, each car has one or even two trailers. Every one is jammed. Every back platform has men, women and children hanging on. You get on the back, pay your 10 kopecks (5-cent) fare, get a recepit and push through to get off the front. If you are a pregnant mother or a mother with children, you get on in front. Crowds wait every stop. Moscow has 2,500,000 population. It

might house and transport 1,000,000 comfortably. n n n I NOTICE a motor ambulance pass with a red cross on its side. A | woman in soiled white apron and I with a kerchief ’round her head I sits inside. She is the interne. Some big busses pass. One is a I sight-seeing one, crowded with workers being taken on some kind of an excursion. There are fewer horse-drawn droshkies. “Droshkies are an anachronism. Moscow must be motor- : ized,” the government says. Drosh- | kies are the only form of transpor- ; tation not run by the government. Probably in a few years the droshI ky will be as hard to find as our 1 hansom cabs of the past generation. Suddenly as we turn into Kuz- | netsky Most (Moscow’s Main street) I see a brand new, shiny red and j gold hook and ladder. Moscow seems to have gone modern, at least : in the way it fights fires. But there is no fire. The hook and ladder rises in the middle of the street and firemen clamber aloft to erect a gigant’*’ banner. It says: “This is the way to address an envelope correctly.” There are huge illustrations. If you lived in Russia you might just be growing literate. You must be schooled in the right way to address your letters or what is the use of your writing them? nun TT'VERYWHERE are banners, ban--11/ ners of the Five-Year Plan. Moscow is like New York in war time. Her enemies are inefficiency and laziness. One sign, posted j everywhere, gives the numbers ; 4—518. That means Russia aims | to complete 518 new projects in four years, instead of five. ! A chart posted at every, factory, | school, mill and farm has six fig--1 ures across it: A wireless set, an airplane, a locomotive, a street car, a tortoise and a small snail. Under these figures are such slogans: "Are you a snail in pro- ! duction? The country needs workI ers swi* as the wireless!” | Some f ctories list their workers under the figure that approximates i their speed. Some make slow workers receive their pay at different windows from the fast workers. Everywhere there are imitations of America, for Russia apes our i mechanical skill while despising our system of private ownership. Communism crowned with American efficiency is her goal. The new factories are being built in part by American engineers and American mechanics run the tractors on the , big co-operative farms. n n n IF you lived in Russia, nowhere would you see any counterpart of the American business man. Noone in Russia is rich. There is no Wall Street, no private _ banks, no 1 private employers who hire thou- j j sands of workers. One day I walked into one of the biggest clothing factories and asked to see the manager. He was an earnest young Communist working- j | man, in a gray cotton Russian blouse, patched shoes, his office was ‘ small and unpretentious, his desk was a small table.* He introduced me to the shop chair-lady who had an office next to his. “We run the factory as part of

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the National Clothing Trust,” he said, simply. "The workers and the state decide what wages and | prices shall be. All workers belong |to labor unions. There are no prii vate capitalists.” n n u I WENT with an American journalist to the biggest Moscow j bank to try to get American dollars I for a check. I We were shown into the president's office by the girl with a big | tea kettle in her hand who was | taking tea around for lunch. The i president, a man dressed in the | smock of a factory worker, was undoing a sandwich he had brought j from home, done up in newspapers, j He ate his lunch completely with- ! out self-consciousness, as he talked | to us. i Moscow seems most like a froni tier town, so great is its activity, straining to push up its new factories, hospitals, workmen's homes, schools public buildings, parks, motion picture studios. nun NOTHING in Moscow, however, typifies Russia's frontier enthui siasm and spirit so much as the enterprise in the hinterland; the great 1 dam at D.ieiprostroi, where three shifts of men and women laborers keep the work going twenty-four hours a day to complete the "Muscle : Shoals of Russia;” or the two-blocks i long tractor factories now being hurried through at Kharnov: or the granaries, community eating houses, schools, nurseries and other buildings at Verbluid and Gigant on the collective farms in order that they may fulfill the quota, j All through rural Russia new in- ■■ dustrial towns rear their chimnies j and collective farms their granaries ■ and silos. With the Five-Year Plan forging ; ahead, there even seems to be a | sense of humor developing. There are many anti-Communist jokes bej ing handled about. One of the most popular of these j tells of the heated arugment by a surgeon, an engineer and a Bolshevik, over their respective value to society. nun is no argument,” said JL the surgeon. "If I hadn't been there to make Eve out of Adam's rib, where would any of us have been?” "Oh,” said the engineer, “and if j I hadn't been there to make order ; ! out of chaos, where would Adam i and Eve had been?” i “Well,” the Bolshevik raised his hands in modest gesture, “Who, I ask you, who made chaos?” j The Soviet government can afford jto be lenient with jesters. Fourteen years after the chaos of the revolution, they have pulled a disorganized nation together and conceived and partly carried out the most gigantic economic plan the ; world has ever known, the Fivej Year Plan. Next—Woman’s place In the Soviet scheme . . . absolute equal- : ity between the sexes, with both men and women working at heavy labor and doing housework . . . Lenin's widow, leader of the fight to banish illiteracy among Russia’s millions by 1933 . . . womCn sailors in the savy, women generals in the Red army. FLOWER SHOP OPENED Pettis Dry Goods Company Adds New Service for Customers. Another new service feature has been added by the Pettis Dry Goods Company with the creation of a modem flower shop on the main floor, offering prompt delivery service by telegraph messengers. Reorge W. Darnell has been appointed manager. The shop is located near the elevators, and a short distance from all street entrances. Special telephone service is provided the flower shop staff in addition to the regular trunk lines through the Pettis’ private exchange. A capable staff of experts with long experience in the creation of floral pieces, special designs and , color schemes appropriate for vari- ; ous social functions has •‘been hired j by Darnell. '

SOVIETS HOTLY DENY MOVING ON MANCHURIA Russia Wants Only to Keep Neighborly Relations, Army Ruler Says. ASSAILS U. S. POSITION s Reiterates Stand That Nation Is Ready to Lay Down Arms With World. Japan and China are engaged in warlike maneuvers and the sound of battle reverberates in Manchuria. Russia, vast land of the Soviets, is vitally interested, lits policy and position toward the Manchurian struggle are set forth authoritatively in an interview granted the United Pres* by Rlementi Voroshilov, Soviet war commissar, who is outranked in the Communist state only hv Stalin. It is the first ime he has spoken for he press, and his views are important at this critical time. BY FREDERICK Ki ll Tnitrd Press Staff Correspondent (World Copyright. 1931, by United Press! MOSCOW. Nov. s.—Klementi Voroshilov, Soviet war commissar, said today, in his first press interview, that Russia's policy toward Japanese occupation of Manchuria will depend "entirely upon the sincerity of Japan's desire to. maintain neighborly relations with us.” The vigorous, ruddy faced war chief, whose power is second only to that of Josef Stalin, sat behind his overladen desk and hammered home these points: 1. Russia is anxious to preserve friendly relations with Japan and China. 2. Reports of Russian concentrations near Manchuria are “nonsense.” 3. Russia's policies never would colaborate in “partition of China.” 4. Russia's policies are incompatible with occupation for intervention. 5. The United States position toward the Manchuria crisis is “vague and equivocal.” 6. The “sincerity of effectiveness of the League of Nation’s efforts” to keep peace in Manchuria is dubious, he held.

Answers Questions Quickly Voroshilov, an impressive military figure with graying hair and a flimsy blonde mustache, sat at his desk and answered questions without hesitation in connection with the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and the possibility of a conflict with Soviet interests which would draw the Communist government into the controversy. The war commissar, who directs the Russian army of some 600.000 men or more, spoke candidly, sometimes with a burst of humor and again with deadly seriousness. Referring to dispatches in the Moscow press quoting United States Congressman Fred A. Britten as charging the Soviet with mobilizing forces near Manchuria, Voroshilov denounced the charge as “inciting and brazen.” He branded Britten "a political bandit.” Stresses Peace Policy "There is nothing like a movement of troops in the vicinity of Manchuria,” the war commissar said. “The Soviets never have helped, nor are they helping the Chinese or Japanese in Manchuria. All reports of transfer of Red soldiers to the bolder or anywhere* in Siberia is nonsense. Not a soldier nor a gun has been shifted in that region since the conflict started. "The Soviets believe that socalled assistance is tantamount to direct intervention and would result in partitioning of China and suppression of Chinese independence. The Soviets would be committing a crime if they undertook the partition of China. "We have no doubt the so-called great powers would rejoice if we collaborated in China's partition, but the Soviet Union never would adopt such a policy. The Soviet’s peaceful policy is incompatible with methods of occupation and intervention.” He said the Chinese generals did not play a vital role in China’s affairs, but "perhaps they are no worse than generals in other countries.” Calls Note ‘Red .Bogey’ "However, the decisive point is the peaceful policy of the Soviets,” he continued. "The Soviets respect the independence and the sovereign rights of China.” Asked to interpret the recent Japanese note to Moscow charging Soviet aid had been given Chinese troops, Voroshilov suggested that it was merely to raise the "bogey of a Red menace" in the east to imp-ess European fnd American public opinion. He left no doubt that he viewed the possibility of effective action by the League of Nations in the conflict with deepest pessimism. So far as the Soviets are concerned, we favor and will continue to favor maintenance of amicable relations with Japan.” Reaffirms Arms Policy After jocularly protesting that it was the first time in his career he had submitted to a journalistic inquisition, Voroshilov turned the tables and began a barrage of questions about western political and economic affairs, showing great interest in Germany. In concluding the interview, he reaffirmed the Soviet attitude toward the 1932 world disarmament conference. "We approach the conference with a spirit of seriousness and loyalty.” he said. "If the least possibility arises to limit arms, we are ready to do so, but if the conference like many others—becomes a mere platform for empty phrases, our delegates as usual will expose them mercilessly. We stand by our previous declarations in favor of universal and complete disarmament.” At past disarmament parleys, Russia has proposed immediate and total disarmament, charging other nations were not sincere in their support of proposals for scrappii|g arms.