Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1936 — Page 1

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$40,000 BLAZE AT FISHERS IS HELD IN CHECK Shift in Wind Saves Town in Hamilton County From Destruction. ELEVATOR IS DESTROYED Residents Form Bucket Brigades to Protect Homes From Flames. BY TOM OCHILTREE Timn Staff Writer FISHERS, Ind., March 25.—A shift of wind saved this small Hamilton County community from destruction today as a swiftly-burn-ing fire destroyed the Fishers Grain Cos. elevator and burned several homes at an estimated los sos more than $40,000. For less than two minutes, the wind shifted from a westerly direction to a northerly direction, threatening houses and homes. Three grainery employes, John Crossley, Herchell Kessler and Dick Blackford, were forced to flee from Ihe elevator as the flames raged through the 80-foot wooden structure 150 feet into the sky. Six Houses Singed Six houses were singed by the flames. Twenty-five persons in the threatened area moved their household goods into the street as fire apparatus played water onto the houses. Fire officials believed that if the wind had remained from the north, the entire town might have been destroyed breause of lack of water. Smoke could be seen four miles down the highway, even after the fire had passed its peak. Ten minutes after the fire was noticed, flames shot through the structure, and residents formed bucket brigades to save their own homes. The elevator was left a smoking ruin as the iron sidings were crumpled by the heat. Homes of J. H. Allen. Mrs. Josie Hartman, Dr. J. p. Heath, R. E. Harold and Vorie Manship and the telephone exchange were singed by flying sparks. The local operator remained at her post, calling nearby towns for fire apparatus. M. C. Comas, president of the grainery, said the loss was partially i covered by insurance. Fishers is a ; community of about 250 persons 16 ! miles northeast of Indianapolis.

SENATE FIGHT FACES PETTENGILL HAUL BILL Serious Obstacles Foreseen for Aet Passed by House. Jly I nihil Press WASHINGTON, March 25.—The Pcttengill long-and-short haul bill, subject of bitter controversy in the House before its passage there late yesterday, faced an uncertain future today in the Senate. Although the measure commanded a House majority of 215 to 41, there are serious obstacles to Senate approval. The bill would permit railroads to charge less for a long haul of freight than the sum total of intermediate rates subject to I. C. C. supervision. CITY INVITES PARLEY ON TROLLEY LEVIES Kate Based on Mileage for Trackless Vehicles Suggested. , The Board of Public Works today sought a conference with the Indianapolis Railways to determine the mileage rate to be paid by the company for use of the city streets by trackless trolleys. A letter was sent by the board requesting that negotiations be opened not later than Friday. Trackless trolleys in the city are estimated to run over approximately 49.3 miles of streets. DEATH SUSPECTS FREED Alibi for Rloomingdale Murder Is Substantiated by Police. State police have released Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Haddad, of Michigan City, held in the Marion County jail since Sunday for questioning in connection with the attempted Bloomingdale bank robbery last week in which a bandit and cashier were slain. Capt. Matt Leach said alibis of the couple had been substantiated. TRO7 0,/v TRIAL IS SET Filling Station Operator Loses Tlea for Lower Bail. Sam Trotcky. filling station operator. was arraigned in Marion County Criminal Court today on charges of embezzlement and grand larceny. He pleaded ‘not guilty.” Trial was set for April 2. Judge Frank Baker denied the plea of Howard Bates, his lawyer, for reduction in the bond of $25,000. MEMPHIS Wt MAN FINED Nurse Sent to Prison for Forging Narcoth' Prescription. Miss Lucille Klein. 39, who claims she is a graduate nurse from Memphis. Tenn., was fined SSO and costs and sentenced to 120 days in the Indiana Women's Prison by Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell today on charges of obtaining narcotics by forging a prescription. Chicago School Chief Dead CHICAGO. March 25 —William J. Bogan, 65, superintendent of Chicago public schools for eight years, died at his home last night after a Jong illness.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Fair tonight with lowest temperature near freezing; tomorrow' increasing cloudiness becoming unsettled in the afternoon.

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Homes, jobs, resources, ail washed away in the flood, these refugees eat hungrily of the simple fare provided at a Red Cross station. Tens ot thousands of persons in the inundated areas are being cared for similarly with donations Horn sympathizers. Indianapolis and Marion County people today had contributed $14,279.29 of the SIB,OOO asked oi them by the American Red Cross. Contributions should be addressed to the Red Cross Headquarters, <77 N. Meridian-st, and checks should be made payable to Arthur V. Brown, treasurer.

NEW FIGHT FOR STEVE MAPPED Defense Counsel at Odds With State View, Hints U. S. Action . The state and defense attorneys for D. C. Stephenson, former KuKlux Klan dragon, were at odds today over what avenues are open to him in his fight to escape serving the entire life sentence for murder, now that the Indiana Supreme Court has barred itself to further action. J. Edward Barce, assistant attorney general, said there are but rwo immediate state routes open; a petition for a writ of error coram nobis to the Hamilton Circuit Court where he was convicted, Nov. 14, 1925, and executive clemency. Alban M. Smith, La Porte, Stephensons chief counsel, while he has not decided what the next move will be today, indicated it would be made in Federal Court. Hints at U. S. Action "It would be absurd for us to file a writ of error coram nobis,” he said, ‘ since by so doing we would recognize the jurisdiction of the Hamilton Circuit Court, a thing we always have attacked. ‘‘We have claimed that the original trial court itself was in conspiracy against Stephenson, even though there might be no error on its records. “The Federal Court previously ruled out our case by holding that Stephenson hadn't exhausted all remedies in the state courts. It is evident now that the state courts have closed their doors to him.” The Supreme Court made permanent a temporary writ of prohibition directed against Judge Wirt C. Worden. La Porte Circuit Court, preventing Judge Worden from hearing a writ of habeas corpus action brought by Stephenson. Climaxing several weeks of legal maneuvering between Stephenson’s (Turn to Page Three) ROOSEVELT FISHING IN FAVORITE SPOT Barracuda Is Sought in Bahama Waters. till United Press MIAMI. Fla., March 25.—President Roosevelt today revisited his old fishing grounds in the British waters of the Bahamas, calling at Cat Cay and Great Inagua Island in his quest for barracuda and the gamey bone fish. Two bulletins via Navy radio to temporary White House executive offices at the Miami Biltmore, traced the course of the chief executive. The bulletin said: “To Secretary Marvin H. McIntire: ‘ The President in Monaghan (destroyer) left Cat Island for Mathewtown, Great Inagua Island at 5:45 p. m.. Tuesday.” ‘To Mclntire from the President: ‘Both ships (Monaghan and Dale) spending day at anchor near Cat Island 50 miles from San Salvador, the landfall of Columbus. Fished this morning catching enough for supper. Proceeding tonight to Great Inagua Island. Rendezvous there tomorrow with Potomac. All well.” Times Index Births 16 Movies 13 Hooks 11 Mrs. Roosevelt 8 Bridge 11 Music 6 Broun li Pegler 11 Clapper 11 Pyle 12 Comics 19 Radio 6 Editorials ... 12 Serial Storv.. 9 Fashions 9 Short Story.. 19 Financial ... lfi Society 8 Hoosier Editor 12 Sports 14 Johnson 11 State Deaths. 5 Merry-Go-R’d 11 j Want Ads ... 16

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State Flood Near Crest; New Danger at Cincinnati

Ohio May Go Over 60 Feet, Is Prediction as Rains Swell Tributaries. By United Per its CINCINNATI, 0., March 25.—The Ohio River may be surging toward another and greater flood at Cincinnati, United States Meteorologist W. C. Davereaux reported today. The new rise probably will pass 60 feet, he said. He was unable to tell how much higher the water would rise. The river passed its predicted crest of 59 feet here and rose to 59.6 feet early today and then was about stationary. It was believed it would begin to fall, but heavy rains in the upper Ohio Valley have sent tributaries out of their banks and pouring new floods into the Ohio. The Ohio has done comparatively little damage here and its peak had been so flattened by spreading that its force was considered to be practically spent. Widespread suffering existed in small Kentucky communities on the other bank, and further small, lowlying communities may be inundated. But Louisville and other cities were considered safe. Relief and rehabilitation efforts were centered on the Kentucky shore, where several thousand families had been driven from their homes and disease threatened. Fifty blocks of Newport and Covington, Ky„ still were under water. Homes in Maysville were flooded and half of Augusta was inundated where only two of 26 business houses remained dry.

Pittsburgh Threatened By United Press PITTSBURGH. March 25.—Lowlying sections of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers prepared today for more high water before they had finished clearing away the debris left by last week’s record flood. W. S. Brotzman, Federal meterologisfc, predicted at 10 a. m. that the waters at the ‘‘Point,” confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers to form the Ohio, probably would reach a crest of between 31.5 and 32 feet about midnight. Flood stage is 25 feet. Such a crest, however, would be 15 feet below the devastating flood of last week, which did an estimated more than $20,000 000 damage, much of it in Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle” business center. TWO STOCKS HIT NEW HIGHS; TRADING QUIET General Motors. Allied Chemical Are Feature Issues. By United Press NEW YORK, March 25.—The stock market turned higher today in quiet trading, featured by new highs in General Motors and Allied Chemical. General Motors made a peak of for 1-H gain, while Allied crossed 200 for the first time since 1930 on 7 1 - points rise to 203. U. S. Steel was strong at 64 1 ->. American Telephone climbed to 163 v j. Sears Roebuck was active and had 2 '-s gain. Railroads generally were easy. CUTS FATAL TO ACTOR MCvilough, Veteran Comedian, Dies as Suicide. By United Press MEDFORD, Mass.. March 25. Faul T. McCullough, 52-vear-old member of the veteran comedy team of Clark and McCullough, died today from wounds inflicted with a razor in a suicide attempt Monday night. McCullough's act in grabbing a razor from a barber's hand and slashing his ownthroat and one wrist was attributed to a nervous disorder for which he had been under treatment.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936

High Waters Continue to Inundate Lowlands on the Ohio. Ohio River flood waters continued to spread over southern Indiana bottom-lands observers predicted that by the .a of the week lowland residents will be returning to their homes. Dwellers in the villages of Markland and Florence, in Switzerland County, left their homes today as the river stage rose three feet. Class work in Florence schools was to be halted and the school building may be converted into temporary living quarters for the town’s 275 inhabitants. Markland’s 200 residents expected to be isolated from the rest of the state by the flood waters. Grocery stores in both towns reported sufficient food to outlast the flood if excessive rains do not prolong the high water. At Vevay the river reading was almost 51 feet with a 53.5 crest expected. Warnings were sent to lowland dwellers not to return to their homes until they were assured that the flood crest had passed. Aurora, isolated by the high waters inundating highways, expected a 60-foot crest today with recession (Turn to Page Three)

1934 ARMS EMBARGO INVALID, JUDGE RULES Proclamation on Gran Chaco Was Held Unconstitutional. By United Press NEW YORK, March 25.—President Roosevelt’s arms embargo proclamation of 1934, forbidding shipment of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay, who were then at war, was held unconstitutional today by Federal Judge Mortimer W. Byers. The court held this opinion in sustaining a demurrer to the first of two counts in an indictment charging the Curtiss-Wright Aeroplane and Motor Cos., affiliates and several individuals with conspiracy “to defraud the government of its functions” in carrying out the President's proclamation. The defendants were accused of shipping machine guns to Bolivia during the Gran Chaco dispute.

MERCURY TO DROP, WEATHER MAN SAYS Freezing Temperatures in City Possible. The mercury is scheduled to drop to freezing some time tonight, the Weather Bureau predicted today. Although tomorrow may be cloudy, the chilly spell is not expected to last long. Temperatures held to a steady rise this morning. IRISH OFFICIALS HUNT ADMIRAL’S MURDERERS Four Killers Escape After Slaying Harry Boyle Somerville. liy United Per** CORK. Ireland. March 25 Civil guards throughout southern Ireland sought today a car in which four men escaped after killing Vice Admiral Henry Boyle Somerville, retired, one of Great Britain's most distinguished naval officers, at his home at Castletownshend. There were two clews—tire marks in the road before the admiral's home and a British recruiting poster which the assassins threw on the floor in the hall of the home. The poster was believed to disclose the motive for the murder, as Somerville had been active in the campaign to obtain recruits for the British navy. Admiral Somerville was 72.

POLICE HUNTING HIT-RUN KILLER Aged Woman Tossed 50 Feet by Impact; Young Driver Gives Chase. An intensive search was begun by police today for the hit-and-run driver who struck and fatally injured 80-year-old Mrs. Eva McGill, ' T . Beville-av, while she was on her way to church last night. The a( iident occurred at Beville-av and F New York-st. Her leath brought the Mario. County traffic toll to 25 for the year. The victim’s body was hurled 50 feet and thrown against another automobile. Without slackening speed, the driver of the death car raced east on New York-st. A description of the vehicle was given by Richard Trustee, 20, of 129 S. Ritter-av, who pursued the hit-and-run car but was outdistanced when forced to stop for a traffic signal. He said the fugitive’s car was a dark green or blue coupe. Police found the cover to the car’s crank (Turn to Page Three) VIOLENCE FLARES IN GLOVE PLANT STRIKE Indianapolis Firm’s Plant in Ohio Picketed. By United Press COSHOCTON. 0., March 25.—Violence broke out today at the picketbesieged Indianapolis Glove Cos. plant, kept idle by 20 striking girl workers armed with clubs. Sympathetic men, members of unions supporting the strike called because of a 20 per cent wage reduction, attacked four youths who they thought were trying to enter the plant. One suffered serious head injuries. A hundred non-striking women kept from their jobs camped in Mayor W. L. Craig’s office, awaiting arrival of a government conciliator. JESSE JR.'S MOTHER IS ORDERED TO TRIAL Mrs. Livermore Longcope to Face Court for Shooting Son. By United Press SANTA BARBARA, Cal., March 25.—Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Longcope, divorced wife of Jesse Livermore, spectacular Wall street operator, was ordered to trial today for shooting their 16-year-old son, Jesse Jr. The thrice-postponed hearing was set by District Attorney Percy Heckendorf after physicians informed him Jesse Jr. would be well enough to stand a court appearance. Since his release from Cottage Hospital, where he was in a critical condition for more than two months. Jesse Jr. has been living with his mother.

Brother Denies Victim of Flogging Was Communist

liy United Pn TAMPA. Fla., March 25 —A denial that Joseph Shoemaker,, lashmurder victim, was a Communist was made today as Judge Robert T. Dewell delayed until this afternoon his ruling on a change of venue motion in the trial of three former policemen accused of flogging three labor organizers. As Judge Dewell recessed court to study exhibits in the venue plea. L. D. Jack Shoemaker, brother of one of the flog victims, issued a statement to the press that Joseph Shoemaker was "not a Communist.” Jurors were ordered to reti m this afternoon and witnesses were told to report tomorrow.

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DESPITE ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVAL EQUALITY TREATY

OARP SPLIT IS LAID TO THIRD PARTY THREAT Townsendites Discouraged as Co-Founder Clements Quits Post. BY MAX STERN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. March 25. Townsendites in Congress were outwardly unruffled but privately discouraged today after the resignation of the Old-Age Revolving Pension Plan’s co-founder and vice president, Robert E. Clements of Long Beach, Cal. The resignation, coupled with Clement’s statement that it resulted from “fundamental differences’’ between himself and Dr. Frank E. Townsend, took the capitol by surprise. “It was very unfortunate,” said Rep. McGroarty (D„ Cal.), sponsor of the Townsend Plan bill. “It was particularly unfortunate in view of tht pending investigation.” The schism, it is learned, grew from Dr. Townsend’s announcement that he would launch a third-party movement, a course criticised by Clements as impractical and dangerous to the Townsend Plan’s suc-Ci’-SS. Reort' '"ization Also Blamed The • second collision is said to have followed Dr. Townsend’s reorganization of the OARP’s directorate. Meeting with his brother, Wal ter Townsend, a Los Angeies hotCi porter, Dr. Townsend is said to have decided to enlarge the triumvirate— Dr. Townsend, Gomer Smith and Clements —into a five-man directorate. At Kansas City Dr. Townsend announced two new names, those of Dr. A. J. Wright, a Cleveland exclergyman, and Gilmore Young of San Francisco. This move Clements is said to have interpreted as a coup by the doctor to diminish his power. The final difference came over the presidential candidacy of Senator Borah. Dr. Townsend’s indorsement of Borah was bitterly opposed by Clements, who held that Borah was not a real Townsendite. Borah’s subsequent criticisms of the transaction tax, and his suggestion that “we can afford a S6O-monthly pension” instead of the S2OO Townsend one, caused Dr. Townsend to temper his indorsement, or at least his headquarters to do so. No one knows who will succeed Clements. His successor will be named by the four remaining directors. But many think that his mantle will fall on the broad shoulders of Gomer Smith, Oklahoma City lawyer and newly named vice president of OARP. Committee May Guide Policy In the meantime, policies may be guided by a committee already in existence. About 10 days ago an attempt was made to arbitrate the Townsend-Clements feud and bring about peace in the management. Dr. Townsend named Dr. Wright, Clements is said to have named Tom Wallace (the movement’s radio director), and Wright and Wallace selected a neutral third, Frank Arbuckle, a former California state Senator. Efforts by this committee to’ get the doctor and his former Man Friday to shake and make up failed. Clements will be the first witness at tomorrow's House investigation of the Townsend plan. His resignation is effective April 1. Dr. Townsend will arrive soon to testify. DROP LAMSON CASE, CALIFORNIA IS URGED Petitions Ask Abandonment of Effort to Convict Salesman. By United Press SAN JOSE, Cal., March 25.—While David A. Lamson waited dejectedly, petitions were circulated in at least two Santa Clara County communities today demanding that the state! abandon its three-year-old effort to' convict the former Stanford presssalesman of slaying his wife. Allene Thorpe Lamson, who was found dead in her bathtub on Memorial Day, 1933.

Shoemaker, Sam Rogers and E. F. Poulnot, labor organizers, were seized by a masked mob Nov. 30 after they had been released from the city police station where they were questioned concerning alleged Communistic activities. Shoemaker died of the tarring and flogging given the trio. C. A. Brown, Jonn R. Bridges and C. W. Carlisle, former city policemen, are the first of 11 defendants to be tried in connection with the floggings. Former Chief of Police Richard G. Tittsworth has been indicted as an accessory. L. D. Shoemaker said his brother was a Socialist in Vermont until he .realized the party was not strong.

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Simms Finds Diplomats Muddled in Search for Continental Peace. ALL PLANS ARE VAGUE London League Meeting Flunked Opportunity to Obtain Compromise. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor . LONDON, March 25.—1 have been an eye-witness to most of Europe’s troubles for 25 years. I have seen many a mess and muddle. But never have I witnessed so complete or so crazy a situation as that now confronting this quarter of the globe. Despite what official communiques may say, and despite what individual delegates may opine, nobody seems to have the slightest idea which way he or anybody else is headed. All seem to be aware they are going some place, but to be pleasantly ignorant of where they will stop. I stood on the red plush stairway that leads down from the council chamber of St. James’ Palace as the secret meeting broke up late yesterday. Constructive Plans Lacking Down they all came—the great leaders of modern Europe—headed by the handsome and extraordinarily youthful British foreign minister, Anthony Eden. And they were mostly smiling—behaving exactly like boys dismissed from classroom for shamelessly flunking their lessons. Which is precisely what they had done. To the issue at hand—collective peace or war in Europe—admittedly none had an answer. Everybody seemed vague. None had a constructive proposal—save one. And liis proposal was to adjourn sine die until somebody thought up something, whereupon they would sound a call and meet again, the next time at Geneva. Not to be too cynical, one worthwhile thing lias been done since the muddling began: Namely, the postponement of hostilities. Cooling-Off Period Here At one time it looked like war in 48 hours. That failed to materialize, and now comes a cooling-off period while Europe waits for its great minds to evolve an idea for the League council to ponder. Perhaps, too, a miracle will happen. Perhaps somebody will hit upon a plan whereby Europe's groping statesmen may find a way out. For the moment, however, there is a chasm deep enough to swallow the liner Queen Mary between the views of the British and the French. Between Germany and France is another chasm even more colossal. Between Italy and the Locarno powers, of course, and between her and the League of Nations, is a gulf that can be bridged only by the League’s permission, tacit or expressed, for her to have her way in Ethiopia. The whole conception of collective peace was never in such dire peril as today. It is the result of the failure to apply the rules as laid down by Woodrow Wilson and other architects of the league. None has dared hew to the line and let the chips fall where they might. They backed down on Manchuria. They backed down on Ethi(Turn to Page Three)

PROCESS TAX PLAN SHELVED IN HOUSE Group Feels Other Levies Will Meet Needs. H\j United /’/< * WASHINGTON, March 25—The House Ways and Means tax subcommittee today shelved the President's proposal for $221,000,000 in new processing taxes covering 33 different commodity classifications. The subcommittee decided against congressional consideration of the processing levies because of belief that other taxes would yield more than $792,000,000 annually, Chairman Samuel B. Hill said. The other taxes are a corporate surplus tax and a so-called windfall tax on uncollected or returned processing taxes under the old AAA. 40 HOMES SHAKEN BY LAND FALL IN MINE Collapse Brings Quake Fears to Residents vs Illinois Town. Uy United Pretn JOHNSTON CITY, 111., March 25. —An "earthquake” which shook 40 homes, flattened out a highway grade and opened at least one surface crack, was diagnosed today as a land fall in a subterranean mine. The fall may stop leaking of water from one mine into another where it bad threatened to halt operations.

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Japan and Italy Invited to Join Treaty Aiding World Peace. NORMAN DAVIS HOPEFUL Points to Difficulty of Reaching Accord Under Present Conditions. BY FREDERICK Kl’H United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 25.—The United States and Great Britain set an example to the world today by agreeing to maintain naval equality. The agreement v a s disclosed while delegates of the United States, the British Empire and France signed in the Queen Anne drawing room of St. James's Palace a six-year naval treaty which limits ships,by sizes and gun calibres but makes no restrictions on the number of ships a signatory may build. Japan, Germany and Italy—all important naval powers—were not parties to the treaty. Norman H. Davis, chief American delegate, and Capt. Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, effected the equality agreement by an exchange of letters whose details were completed only a few hours before the palace ceremony. Eden Backs Davis Stand Mr. Davis's letter emphasized that British-American naval equality remained the guiding policy of the United States. Capt. Eden’s acknowledgement said that the principle of equality was one to which Britain also adhered. Mr. Davis pleaded eloquently for real naval limitation and expressed the hope that the present treaty would lead to a more inclusive one. He made an indirect plea also for Japan, Italy, Germany and Russia to adhere to the terms of the treaty signed today. With good will on the part of all naval powers, Mr. Davis said, a naval race could be prevented after the expiration of the Washington and London treaties Dec. 31. Davis Is Optimistic “The instrument we are about to sign,” he said, “falls short of our best hopes in that it makes no provision frr quantitative reduction and limitation. This the American government and delegates deeply regret. “If we bear in mind, however, the world situation when the conference opened and the critical developments which have occurred during the course of those deliberations it becomes evident that w have accomplished far more than most if not all of us anticipated. “It is a commonplace that armaments are a reflection of international stability and distrust. We are at present going through days of profound economic, political and military disturbance. In the circumstances a drastic reduction of naval armaments was manifestly not to be expected. There was indeed some question whether anew naval treaty could be concluded at all or whether we might not be forced to revert to a situation in which there would be no limit for the size of ships as well as for th® numbers.

C. S. Attitude Is Unchanged "We have, nevertheless, through pent effort negotiated anew treaty which not only perpetuates much that was of value in the older treaties out which contains new or strengthened provisions of the greatest importance.” He pointed out that at the opening of the conference last December he said that the United States favored a substantial measure of reduction in existing naval armaments. Our attitude in this respect has not changed.” he continued. ‘ We still believe that only by some method of limiting and reducing both numbers and types will it be possible to stabilize fleet relations sufficiently to exclude all competitive building. Therefore, while we recognize that qualitative limitation is of value, we have not abandoned the hope of achieving in the future a quantitative limitation in navies and in addition to the treaty we are today signing a supplementary protocol in which we register our desire to achieve further measures of reduction in any substantial treaty.” Japan is Asked to Join Lord Monsell directed a strong appeal to Japan to join the treaty. “The Japanese government," he said, ‘‘will see that in the treaty there is not even the slightest trace of the ratio system, to which we understand their country takes such strong exception. "We ail noted with satisfaction the assurances given by the Japanese statesmen that Japan has no intention of doing anything likely to promote a naval race in the future, and since a race in types is even more dangerous and expensive than a race in numbers, we have every hope that this draft treaty will commend itself to the Japanese government, when they will have had time and opportunity to consider its provisions.” Lord Monsell expressed belief that if all the principal naval powers accede to the treaty, a naval race will be eliminated for another period of years.