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Editor Timet — TN answer to the comment brought forth by "Lodge Member” in your Nov. 17 edition, let me reply that from the tone of the party I think he has the interest of his beautiful buildings and their affected valuation more in mind than the actual social significance of the so-called "street walkers.” Not that I am saying this in defense of prostitution, as who am I to pass judgment on a practice that has come down through the ages? It is a simple matter to say that this disgrace should be eradicated, but what is to be done about it? Should the police drive the “street walkers” out of the city to other metropolises or would our critic be one to subscribe to a fund for their subsistence if the business be suppressed, as even prostitutes must have food and shelter. In the defense of the fair city of Indianapolis, let me say that as a traveling salesman I have been in most of the "union station” towns between New York and 'Frisco and find Indianapolis a comparative sanctuary in respect to morality. There are innumerable cities where "street walkers” are found parading even on the main thoroughfares. I might cite Washington, D. C., as an example. TRAVELING MAN FROM NEW YORK. * a a Editor Times — 1 WOULD like to express an idea in The Times w'hich has impressed me lor quite a while concerning unemployment. I have visited county institutions in different states where they support the needy. They are principally supported by agriculture. Some of them have as small amount of acreage as 150 acres, with a dairy of twenty cows, twenty brood sows, sheep and all kind of other livestock profitable to raise, poultry, etc. Besides, an adept supervision by those who show that they are worthy of their place. Now, regardless of those w’ho assert that overproduction is the cause of unemployment, do you not think that Marion county and the Community Fund, raising millions of dollars, could invest it in land and improve it with buildings and conduct it after the style of Purdue university, and put every idle man at work raising products from land now growing weeds, not paying taxes, and still have wealth instead of idleness, poverty and graft and waste? TIMES READER. a a Editor Times — A. FEW words for Mr. Dry Voter of Marion. When you were a child and passed a licensed saloon on the corner, you didn’t hear anything compared to what you now would if you slip through a couple of alleys and vacant storerooms into si “speak.” You can go into at least two houses in every block and buy booze. They are paying no license. When the saloons were here, our children did not have their flasks, as nowadays. They were not allowed in saloons and now they can empty a "jug” in any bootleggers. The eighteenth amendment is an idiotic law that never was enforced or never will be. So bring back the saloons and safety for all and more money for our Uncle Sam, and work for the unemployed. MRS. ADAMS. a a a Editor Times — AN article in your issue of Nov. 18, was signed "Your in Hopes.*' In regard to the state highway department your husband must be a "Rep." for you are scared that he may lose his job because the Democrats got in. I'm thankful to know my husband is an honest Democrat. Where do you get that honest stuff? My husband worked at, the state highway department and he got let out because he was honest. I have plenty of proof of that. I do hope that Governor-Elect McNutt will clean out the state highway department when he gets in of men who have been working there ten to fifteen years. Why not give someone else a chance? They have families, too. This should Include the state highway garage. A. READER. a a a Editor Times — THE discussion in your contributors’ column concerning married working women leads a mere man to add his views. People protesting against married women’s earning remind one of the kind unable to see, anything beyond its own little piece of ground. What difference would it make in the general situation if a few hundred thousand women should all be discharged tomorrow? Have not many large corporations done that very thing, and has it helped any in relieving the unemployment situation? If these persons would protest conditions that caused the present depression, they would do more toward relieving the little fellow than by robbing some woman of her job. If they could think long enough to realize that unequal distribution of incomes, robbery perpetrated by bond owners and utility owners, heavy tax burden on the farmer and small land owner, along with the non-taxinv of "intangibles" and incomes, caused depressions, they would demand immediate equalization of and relief from their burdens. In the present clamor for tax relief, there is a danger of saddling on us a sales tax which would hit the farmer and the little fellow hardest. Income and inheritance taxes are just and should be, levied to relieve the land owner. H. s.

The Indianapolis Times Fair and continued cold tonight with lowest temperature about 18; Tuesday fair with rising temperature.

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G. 0. P. BEER LEADER SEES HOOVER 0. K. Representative Britten Predicts President Will Sign Proposed Bill. CONFIDENT OF ACTIOIN Volstead Act Will Be Modified in Short Session, Is Claim. By 'l imes Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.— A confident prediction that President Hoover would sign a beer bill when passed by congress was made by Representative Fred A. Britten (Rep., 111.), after a conference with the chief executive today. Britten made his prediction after Representative Dyer <Mo.), ranking Republican on the house judiciary committee, said he was "confident” his committee would report promptly on a prohibition repeal resolution. Representative John Milligan <Mo.) assistant Democratic house whip, expressed confidence the short session would modify the Volstead act to permit manufacture and sale of beer. He warned against "a prohibitive or excessive tax" on beer. Mandate of the ePople Britten said that in view of the mandate of the people who voted wet in many states at the recent election that he believed a beer bill would pass the house in the first week of the coming session. He also was confident that the senate would take favorable action, and that in view of this unanimity in congress and the Republican prohibition plank in its platform, the President would not veto such legislation. Britten said he intended to call a meeting of wet Republicans in the house between now and the openin gos congress, Dec. 5. Public Is Safeguarded "I believe that we will be able to get a beer bill through the house before Dec. 10,” Britten said on leaving the White House. Britten said that the Britten bill for modification, carryin ga 4-cent tax on a pint of 2.75 per cent beer included all the safeguards promised in the Republican platform. He emphasized that it would not permit the' refurn of the saloon and that beer would have to be consumed away from the premises where purchased except in certain cases such as clubs, beer gardens and restaurants. The Chicago representative said that under his bill beer could be sold for 10 cents a pint retail. MERCY TO BE SOUGHT Hartford City Killer’s Relatives to Seek Life Imprisonment. By Vailed Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nov. 21’. Relatives of John A. Moore, 29, sentenced to die in the electric chair March 2 on charges of murder, will ask Governor Harry G. Leslie to reduce the sentence to life imprisonment, Prosecutor James R. Emshwiller announced today. PLEADS FOR TRIAL Winnie Ruth Judd Makes Fight to Escape Noose. By I 'nited Press PHOENI, Ariz., Nov. 21. —Winnie Ruth Judd today began what may be her last great fight to escape the hangman’s noose. Six attorneys were to present oral arguments before the state supreme court for anew trial for the woman whom a jury decided killed Mrs. Agnes Anne Leroi. Defense arguments were based on six asserted errors, chief of which was the allegation that Superior Judge Howard Speakman erred when he refused to instruct the jury in a self-defense verdict. Dr. Poling to Speak Here Dr. Daniel A. Poling. New York. Christian Endeavor leader, will speak at a luncheon at the Columbia Club, Nov. 29. He will address a mass meeting at Central Christian church that night.

CRAZY LIKE FOX,’ IGGY BOASTS CRIMES

By Vnitcd Presi Chicago, nov. 21.-A 17-year-old youth, who twice has been confined in an asylum, but whom officers now describe as being “crazy like a fox,” sat in a jail cell today and boasted, the police said, about the girls he had attacked and the men he had killed. “I sure killed ’em, but the Docs say I’m crazy, so what are you going to do about it?” was the remark accredited to James Gggy the Bad) Varecha, accused of terrorizing south side residents with a series of holdups. Police said that Iggy, arrested in a burlesque theater, confessed killing Prank F. Jordan in a holdup last Wednesday night and to attacking Miss Lillian Henry, niece of John A. Alcock, former police commissioner. Then, they said, the youth grew boastful and told of other killings which they had not even accused him of. m * m HE told them somewhat boastfully they said, of having shot five Mexicans in street fights, of having shot two other men in holdups, and of having attacked another girl last August. ‘‘But the Docs all say I’m crazy, v

Hitler Is Given Chance to Form New Cabinet

Told by Hindenburg- to Attempt to Obtain Reichstag Majority for Regime Headed by Nazis.

By United Press BERLIN, Nov. 21.—President Von Hindenburg gave Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader, six hours today in which to obtain a reichstag majority which would support a cabinet headed by a member of Hitler’s party, presumably Hitler himself. * It ’vas understood that Hitler firrn.j reiterated his claim that he must be appointed chancellor before the Nazis would co-operate with any cabinet. The president and the Nazi leader conferred for the second time during the current negotiations to form anew government. Police reserves were called out to clear a way for Hitler’s automobile to pass over the 200-yard route from the Kaiserhof hotel to the presi-

CHARITY FUND TOTAUIISING $2,500 Is Sent in Mail by Booth Tarkington. Total pledges to the Community Fund have reached $507,900.20, which is 48.2 per cent of the goal, $1,052,000, it was announced at a luncheon of workers at the Claypool today. Total pledges today, up to noon, were $99,397.22. Sent by ware from their home in Maine, a Community Fund contribution of $2,500 was received here today from Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington as fund workers met at the Claypool with the hope of reporting a total of $500,000 gathered for the city’s needy. The drive goal is $1,052,000, Each year the Tarkingtons’ subscription has increased, starting with SI,OOO three years ago. The Tarkingtons add SSOO annually to their offering. The author and his wife were solicited by mail at their home in Kennebunk, Me. Other increased gifts reported by the special gifts division included: Thomas D. Sheerin & Cos., $1,500; State Atuo Insurance Company, $5,000, and Henry Holt, $1,500. The Indianapolis Water Company subscribed SIO,OOO and Mrs. Capitola Perry, $5,000. Other gifts included: Sears-Roebuck Company, $1,500; Arthur R. Baxter, $5,000; Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, $3,300, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Aufderhide, $5,000. BITROFF CONVICTED Found Guilty in U. S. Court of Liquor Nuisance. Arrested more than a year ago in a raid which resulted in seizure of choice whisky and beer, Claude Bitroff was convicted in federal court today on one count of a liquor nuisance indictment and acquitted on three other counts. He will be sentenced Saturday morning by Judge Robert C. Baitzell. Raid resulting in Bitroff’.s arrest was made by deputy sheriffs and federal dry agents on a house he had rented in fashionable Williams Creek. Bitroff insisted the liquor was not his property. Some of the liquor seized in the raid disappeared from a storeroom in the federal building and led to discovery that much of a large quantity of choice liquor seized in Evansville also was missing. SHOOTS YOUNG BROTHER Little Hope Held for Boy, 8; Gun Goes Off by Accident. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 21. Sitting in his mother’s lap while she read the funny paper Sunday, Wayne Hoffman, 8, was shot accidentally in the head by his brother Joseph, 17. Slight hope is held for his recovery. The older boy had just finished cleaning his rifl# when the accident occurred. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 25 10 a. m 22 7a. m 23 11 a. m 24 Ba. m 22 12 (noon).. 25 9 a. m 22 1 p. m 27

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James (Iggy) Varecha and they sent me to an asylum once so if they say now I’m not crazy—well, then, I ask you. what will that make of them?” Varecha asked the police. "This boy not only is sane, but l is as cunning a criminal as we

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dential palace. Thousands of Nazis jammed the streets, shouting, "Hail Hitler!” and singing the Nazi battle song. Von Hindenburg is seeking a successor to Chancellor Franz von Papen, who resigned last week because he lacked support for a coalition regime. It was understood that if Hitler became chancellor, it would be on condition that he follow Von Papen’s policies, and leave ultimate selection of the new cabinet to Von Hindenburg. Politicians noted that a carefully worded official communique made it plain that the president had not yet commissioned Ritler to form a cabinet, but merely had requested an outline of Hitler’s chances of obtaining a parliamentary majority.

END RCA TRUST WAR WITH U. S. Government’s Suit Settled by Consent Decree. By United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 21. The government’s anti-trust suit against the Radio Corporation of America and others'was settled today when a consent decree was signed here by the judge of the United States district court. The decree of injunction, drawn up by government attorneys and agreed to by the defendant, set forth numerous stipulations to which RCA must conform in the matter of domestic stock and foreign contracts. *lt directed the complete divorcement of the General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Comffany, and enjoined the deferidants from attempting to Restrain trade by means of patent licenses or similar devices in violation of the Sherman anti-trust laws. The suit against General Motors Corporation, General Motors Radio Corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph Cos., and Western Electric Company, Inc., was dismissed. General Electric and Westinghouse, who now own a controlling stock interest in RCA, according to the decree, are to divest themselves of their stock holdings. They must dispose of a half of their holdings of the common stocks of R. C. A. by immediate distribution ratably among their stockholders and their holdings within three years. In the meantime they are forbidden to impose any limitations upon the powers of their stockholders freely to transfer or dispose of the shares. FRANKFORT TO BUY, OPERATE WATER PLANT Earnings Will Pay for Property, Under Officials’ Plan. By imes Special FRANKFORT, Ind., Nov. 21. Members of the city council and a citizens’ committee conferred with officials of the Associated Public .Utilities Company at Columbus, 0., today preparatory to purchasing the Frankfort Water Works Company. The city expects to make a mu-nicipally-owned plant out of the water works, letting earnings pay for the property. OFFICERS AT ATHENS AWAIT INSULL PAPERS Chicago Deputies Expect Documents for Arrest in Short Time. By United Press ATHENS, Nov. 21.—Charles Bellows and Andrew Vlachos, assistant state’s attorney from Chicago, said today they expected papers for the arrest and extradition of Samuel i Insull, indicted utilities magnate, to arrive here within ten days. “We hope Insull will realize the futility of contesting extradition, and surrender to United States authorities,” Bellows said. "We intend to fight to the last ditch, and are confident our mission will be successful.”

have observed in a long time,” said Drs. H. Douglas Singer and Harry H. Hocman, who heard the confession. ,When arrested, Varecha denied his identity. When officers prepared to take his fiilgerprints he told them: “Never mind the ink, I’m Varecha.” Varecha, an intelligent appearing youth who insisted on being photographed smoking a cigaret, “just to show that I'm cool,” was captured because of his boastfulness. n a * A FTER he attacked Miss Henry -TV last Wednesday he held her prisoner in a stolen automobile for several hours, boasting to her of his “career.” During that time she obtained such an accurate description of him that police were able quickly to • guess he was Varecha. Then, on Saturday night, Verecha went into the burlesque theater and bragged to the man sitting next to him. “I'm the guy they’re looking for on account of those murders, and I’ve got two guns,” he whispered. The man slipped out, called police, and “Iggy the bad one" was taken to jail. _

CZECHS ASK U. S. FOR WAR DEBTJLEUEF Request for Revision Made as Roosevelt Starts for Washington. GOVERNOR KEEPS SILENT May Act as Observer Only at Conference, Friends - Assert. BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. A fourth European nation appealed to the United States for war debt relief today as President Herbert Hoover completed arrangements to meet President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt Tuesday m the quiet of a White House study for a discussion of the whole field of foreign financial obligations. The request for debt revision was presented by Minister Ferdinand Veverka of Czecho-Slovakia, who asked postponement of his country’s $1,500,000 payment, due Dec. 15. Meanwhile, it was stated in a high official quarter that plans for American participation in the world economic conference probably would be discussed by Mr. Hoover and Governor Roosevelt along with the debt problems. Joins Other Nations Czecho-Slovakia joined Great Britain, France and Belgium in urging the United States to reconsider the European war debts. The Czecho-Slovakia debt totals $91,879,671.03. This represents cash loans by the United States of $61,974,041.10, and war and relief supplies worth $29,905,629.93. Czecho-Slovakia was the first European nation to fund its debt to the United States. It did this in 1923, soon after the world war debt funding commission was created. It contracted to pay an average interest rate of 3.3 per cent, as high as the rate given any other nation. The administration source which suggested the probability of the economic conference arising at the White House discussions, did not, however, connect it with the debt issue. Stimson Prepares Data In accepting the League of Nations invitation to the conference, the state department specified that war debts and tariff rates should not be discussed there/ This represents the view of the Hoover administration, but it is r.ot known whether the Democrats, into whose administration the conference would extend, share a similar view. Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state, it was learned today, has been working for several days preparing data on war debts and ether questions for the White House conference Tuesday. He does not, however, expect to attend it. , Stimson met the press today, but declared at the outset of the conference that he would not answer any questions regarding war debts or Japan’s reply to the Lytton commission’s report on Manchuria. Roosevelt Is Ready By United Press POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 21. —Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon whose shoulders has been placed the burden of disposing of the international war debts problem, leaves his home today for New York on his way to Washington, where he will confer with President Hoover. The President-eleci sets out for Washington without revealing either the extent of his intended participation in present negoiaitions, or any of his views on a situation which will, for four years at least, perplex his own administration. He goes, however, armed with a mass of information gathered by various economists, and tonight, at his home in New York City, he will complete his study of the situation, closeted with Professor Raymond Moley of Columbia, his economic adviser. May Act as Observer Friends are of the opinion he will adhere strictly to the last paragraph of his acceptance message to the Hoover invitation, that the debts problem presents a responsibility belonging to the Republican administration until March 4. The Governor’s friends have reiterated frequently that Mr. Roosevelt possesses no federal authority and, consequently, look for him to act as an observer only, obtaining a comprehensive outline of a situation that may confront him as President. Will Attend Dinner Mr. Roosevelt will leave Hyde Park this afternoon at 3:30, and motor to his New York home. He will entrain the following day at 10:45 a. m. for Washington. Arriving at the capital at 3:30 p. m. In Washington, he will make his headquarters in the Mayflower hotel. greet congressional leaders, and attend a dinner in his honor to be given by the Press Club. The Governor plans to leave Washington for Warm Springs, Ga., Wednesday at about 2 p. m. SHOWBOAT PIONEER DIES Charles Breidenbach o t Evansville Succumbs at Home. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 21. Charles Breidenbach, 75, operator of a showboat on the Ohio river more than fifty years ago, died at his home here Sunday. He was said to have been the first showboat operator on the Ohio.

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‘MODEL BOY’ HELD AS MURDERER OF STEP-GRANDMOTHER

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'HEATHEN' SLAIN BY CULT KING Leader of Negro Band Makes Sacrifice. By United Press DETROIT, Nov. 21.—A self-styled “king” of a Negro religious cult today admitted he offered up a human life Sunday afternoon on a sacrificial altar at his home. His wife, his aid In the organization, confirmed his confession. Robert Harris, 44, said it was preordained centuries ago that he was to offer the life of a human to his gods. James J. Smith, 40, also a Negro was the victim. “The sacrifice was to be a person not a believer of the religion,” Harris told detectives. ‘‘lt was to be the first stranger I should meet when I left my home Sunday. After Harris met Smith he invited him into his home, he "I quited him with a wagon axle aqd then laid his body on the altar,” the cultist said. "There the rites prescribed that a knife should be plunged through the heart.” Neighbors notified police of the strange ceremonies at the Harris home. When they arrived the body of Smith lay outstretched on the altar. A knife had been plunged into the heart. The head was crushed by blows. MERCURY ON SKIDS Temperature Is Forced Down to Low Twenties. Riding on chill winds from the northwest, winter today forced down temperatures to the low 20s where the mercury is scheduled to remain tonight and most of Tuesday. The cold wave will .be accompanied by fair weather, however, according to J. H. Armington, United States weather forecaster. The mercury will drop to about 18 tonight as compared to the 45-degree reading Sunday, Armington said.

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I. A. C. BIG TURKISH BATH SCHOOL,’ TAX BOARD TOLD

“The Indianapolis Athletic Club is a big physical training school, giving courses in Turkish baths for children.” This theory was advanced before the state tax board today by club officials wheii evidence was taken to support the Indianapolis Real Estate Board's contention that the club is not entitled 10 the 75 per c~*t tax exemption allowed them by the state board. The state board exempted all but 25 per cent of the club's property on the grounds that the club is using 75 per cent of the building for a school of physical education. Ruling was withheld by the board. Difference in regard to the num* ber of “pupils” enrolled developed as club officials were questioned. Richard Papenguth, athletic director of the club, testified that there was “one pupil” taking corrective gymnasium exercise under direction of a doctor.

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Illinois Officers Claim 16-Year-Old Lad Has Confessed Crime. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 21.—Bertram Arnold, 16 year-old "model student” whose teachers considered him exceedingly bright, diligent and obedient, returned to Chicago wearing handcuffs today to face charges of murdering his “grandmother,’ and throwing her body into an abandoned cistern. Like a bewildered child, young Arnold stumbled into the coroner's office today to undergo another ordeal of the many that face him because he beat to death his stepgrandmother, Mrs. Ellen O. Saxe, with a hammer. He retold the story of how he asked the kindly woman he called "grandma” for the use of her automobile, how she refused and then slapped him when he retorted impudently and how he then beat her on the head until she was dead. Listening were Coroner Frank J. Walsh, Deputy Coroner Abe Margolis, several police officers and a jury composed of four alienists— Harry Hoffman, Francis Gerty, H. Douglas Singer and James Whitney Hall. Cook county authorities who went to Mount Carroll, 111., after Arnold and brought him back today to Riverside, a Chicago suburb, said the youth confessed to killing Mrs. Saxe. Complex for “Showing Off” Harry Ditchburne, assistant state’s attorney, and other authorities who questioned relatives and friends of young Arnold, Sunday, while the boy still was a fugitive, said Bert appeared to be a "pathological case.” He had a “complex,” they said, for ’‘showing off” before other youths and girls of his age, and, despite his brilliancy, could become momentarily dangerous if refused some privilege which would deny him an opportunity to impress associates. Young Arnold was arrested Sunday night in a restaurant at Stockton, 111., a small town 130 miles west of here near the Mississippi • river. He was peeling potatoes to earn a meal. Trace Trail of Blood The youth had been suspected since shortly after his “grandmother’s” body was found in the cistern, Friday. His father, C. B. Arnold, wealthy manufacturer, attended a theater witjh his wife, Bert’s stepmother, that night. Returning home, they discovered signs of a struggle, called police, and traced a trail of blood from a couch in the living room, through the kitchen and to the cistern. Mrs. Saxe's body, the face crushed, was floating in eight feet of water. A short time later, Arnold discovered that his son was missing, then that Mrs. Saxe's automobile had disappeared. He believed his son had been kidnaped by the killers of his mother-in-law. Friends of Bert’s told police that the youth attended a dance Friday night, apparently after Mrs. Saxe was killed. At the time of the slaying, Bert’s half-sister and half-brother, Gordon and Ellen Arnold, 7 and 9 years ; old, were asleep in the house.

Remster Bingham, club secretary, said there are eight children given gym privileges. Questioning for the real estate board was conducted by Attorney John Royse. A. E. Martin, club auditor, cfffered the testimony regarding what Royse termed “the Turkish bath school.” He said he considered the bathroom of the club “an educational activity.” especially since it was used by school children. Club activities testified to by the auditor included the swimming pool, bowling alleys, handball courts, dining rooms, barbershop, cigar stand, card 'room and dance floors. For the most part these are educational, he contended. Papenguth admitted, however, that the club is not an accredited school of physical education. Bowman Elder, club treasurer, and Leroy Sanders, accountant, also represented the club.

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JAPAN BOLDLY DEFIES LEAGUE ON MANCHURIA Tells World Substitute for Her Policy Will Not Be Tolerated. LYTTON REPORT FLAYED Cites U. S. Interpretation of Pact to Prove it Is Not Guilty. By United Press GENEVA. Nov. 21.—Citing the American. British and French interpretations of the Kellogg pact to prove that Japan was not guilty of treaty violation in Manchuria, Yusoke Matsuoka, Japanese delegate, told the League of Nations today that Japan can pot consider any substitute for the present government in the Manchurian state of Manchukuo. Matsuoka's voice rose nearly to a shout when he read the United States senate’s ratification of the Kellogg pact recognizing that the right of self-protection may be extended beyond the borders of a country. ‘No Such Consideration’ The Japanese delegate spoke for fifty minutes. Drfl Wellington Koo, chief Chinese delegate, looked at the ceiling, as though day dreaming. Matsuioka spoke slowly, in perfect English. Most of the delegates read copies of his speech. The council adjourned after Matsuoka’s speech, to convene again at 4 p. m. to heai* Dr. Koo. Matsuoka said flatly that the mere consideration of a solution other than the maintenance of the Manchukuo government "possibly might lay the whole far eastern question open to serious disorders . . . We can enter no such consideration.” Cites Mexican Affair The Japanese delegate claimed Japan acted in self-defense in Manchuria and referred to the precedent set by American expeditions into Mexico in 1916 and 1917 when Mexico was unable to protect United States interests. Matsuoka asked the council to look at Japan's record in foreign intercourse in contrast with China’s. "We ask the cquncil for a little patience,” he said. "If the western world will bestow upon us only a fraction of the tolerance they so generously bestowed on China, it will be gratefully received.” “We w'ant war with no nation. We want no more territory. We are not aggressors. We desire deeply and earnestly the welfare of our great neighbors,” Matsuoka said. Lord Lytton, head of the commission that investigated the Manchurian situation and whose report was flatly rejected by the Japanese, reddened several times when Matsuoka flatly challenged the findings of the commission. Officialdom Gasps BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Japan's reply to the Lytton report on the Sino-Japanese conflict given out by the Japanese embassy here today, stole the spotlight, momentarily at least, from the war debt nullabaloo, and left officialdom gasping. Blandly claiming self-defense as justification for their "war” against China, the Japanese government, with equal bluntness, warns that "it can not allow either the necessity or the appropriateness” of what was done “to be the subject of discussion.” In effect, therefore, Tokio presents the League of Nations, the United States and other signatories of the Kellogg pact and nine-power treaty with a fait accompli and defies any or all of them to alter It if they can. Says Show Is Over Japan declares the show is over in ihe region of Manchukuo, and that nothing remains for the league and the other powers to do about it except extend recognition. Any other course, she says, would tend to destroy the peace and order of that part of the world. Japan brushes aside all charges that she violated either the covenant of the League of Nations, the Kellogg pact outlawing war or the nine-power treaty safeguarding the territorial and administrative integrity of China. There was no violation of the Kellog pact, she avers, because she was acting in self-defense. Kellogg himself declared that "every nation is alone competent to decide whether circumstances require recourse to war.” Furthermore both Britain and France specifically adhered to the Kellogg theses. Says China in Chaos China, Japan holds, Is not now a government, but a vast, disjointed territory filled with chaos. Communism and civil war between rival war lords. While as for Manchuria, she always has been more or less independent, any way, and the presence of Japanese troops merely gave to her people the chance Ihey have long sought to free themsleves in reality. The Lytton report, in whole and in part, is unacceptable to the Tokio government—particularly its principal recommendations that Manchuria be returned to China and that a semi-autonomous government, under Chinese suzerainty, be set up there. U. S. Golf President Dead By Times Special CHICAGO, Nov. 21.—Robert Myron Cutting, president-elect of the United States Golf Association, died suddenly at his suburban home near here Sunday night.