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f ORDER RESTORED IN TOKIO UPRISING
MILITARISTS KILL PREMIER, AIDES
TO REMOVE ‘CORRUPT INFLUENCE”
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State of Emergency Declared.
Fleets Called to Police City
After Leaders Are Slain.
NATIONALIST LEADER IS CALLED
TO FORM NEW GOVERNMENT
i Young Officers Riot to End “Financial
and Bureautic” Difficulties Caused
by Liberals’ Regime.
BULLETIN.
LONDON, February 26 <*>>.—Dispatches from various
British news agencies stated tonight that 3,000 Japanese
soldier-rebels were holding the Tokio metropolitan police
headquarters against government troops.
BULLETIN.
LONDON, February 26 (**>.—1The Japanese Embassy
stated at 6:40 p.m. (1:40 p.m.. Eastern standard time) today
that the newly-appointed acting premier of Japan. Fumio
M Goto, and all his cabinet had tendered their resignations to
the Emperor.
f _
(Copyright, 1036. by the Associated Press.)
TOKIO. February 26.—Young officers of the army, who said
» they wished “to remove corrupt influences from around the
* throne,” assassinated Premier Okada and two other cabinet min
isters today.
The government declared a state of emergency and ordered
■V two fleets from the high seas to police duty at the great cities of
Tokio and Osaka.
Emperor Hirohito invested Fumio Goto, strong Nationalist,
with the acting premiership immediately.
Under strong military precautions, the streets of Tokio were
quiet late tonight and the government declared the whole na
tion was calm.
This correspondent personally motored around the capital,
finding the majority of theaters and restaurants closed, advertising
lights darkened, and traffic suspended in several central districts.
The insurgent officers who decimated the cabinet said their
purpose was to protect the national policy.
Aqmirai saito ana taucation cniei Main.
In addition to Premier Okada, they killed Admiral Viscount
l Makoto Saito, lord keeper of the privy seal, and Gen. Jotaro
| Watanabe. chief of military education.
“ They also shot Korekiyo Takahashi, minister of finance, and
Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, lord chamberlain of the imperial court.
(Reports by the Japanese foreign office to embassies abroad
stated that Takahashi died of his wounds. Riichl Takahashi, son
of the minister, now working in New York, received a cablegram
early this morning from his brother in Japan saying his father
had been slain. This was in conflict with official announcements
in Tokio that he had survived after being wounded.
A navy office communique was the first intimation that the
fleets had been ordered out. It said the first and second fleets
were proceeding to Tokio and Osaka Bays for the purpose of
guarding those ports and that they would reach their destina
tions Thursday.
The first and second fleets comprise the navy’s most powerful
units, including battleships which recently have been engaged in
maneuvers in the Pacific.
Coastal defense warships already had arrived off Tokio late
tonight.
. The premier-designate. Goto, was minister of home affairs—
I the office which carries with it control of the police—and senior
I civilian members of the Okada cabinet.
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L in a snowstorm which blanketed Tokio
within a few hours.
The conspirators struck before sun
rise.
Call Victims From Homes.
They went to seven different points,
surrounded the residences of the men
they wished to kill, and then called
their victims out into the snow.
When the men they sought appeared,
they pressed revolvers against them
and fired.
According to the war office, the
Insurgent officers concerned in the
assassinations decided to take action
for the purpose of removing “corrupt
^ elements around the throne,” whom,
W they considered, should be charged
| with the crime of destroying national
polity.
They said they believed that the
government was being torn by financial
factions and bureaucrats at a juncture
in which the nation was confronted
with various difficulties.
The officers said in their manifesto
that their purpose was to protect the
National polity, thereby fulfilling their
duties to the throne.
Liberals Win in Election.
The recent parliamentary election,
which demonstrated a swing toward
Liberalism in the Japanese electorate,
had estaolished Premier Okada more
firmly in power than he had been
• since his induction into office in 1934.
The young officers’ action was re
gaided as an attempt at a military
coup d’etat.
Young officers previously had. criti
cized Premier Okada, a retired ad
miral. as not sufficiently supporting
► the military program on the Asiatic
mainland.
The assassins began their work be
fore 5 am. and their tasks were com
pleted before the city had awakened
from slumber.
The stock exchange was closed, and
business was badly hampered, but still
the populace remained calm.
Others in Cabinet Escape.
The following members of the cabi
net were reported to have escaped in
jury: Koki Hirota, minister of foreign
affairs; Tatsunosuke Yamasaki, min
ister of agriculture and forestry; Ad
miral Mineo Osumi, minister of the
navy; Keisuke Mochizuki, minister of
(See JAPAN, Page 3.)
ARMY PILOT KILLED
Single-Seater Crashes at Shreve
port With Capt. G. S. Gimmler.
SHREVEPORT, February 26
OP).—Capt. Karl G. E. Gimmler. pilot
of the 1st Pursuit Group of Selfridge
L Field, Mich., was killed at Barksdale
Field today when his single-seater
Army fighter crashed during ground
gunnery practice.
His plane plummeted into the
ground in a long dive toward gro
•targets.
Tokio Newspapers
Contain No News
Of Assassinations
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, February 28.—Only four
of Tokio's many afternoon dailies
published today and none of them
mentioned the day’s main events—
(a military coup and assassination
of several Liberal leaders).
Their pages were well filled with
columns of foreign dispatches and
pictures of the city blanketed with
heavy snow.
Snowfall and poor visibility pre
vented several steamers from enter
ing Yokohama Harbor, including the
trans-Pacific liners General Pershing
and Tatsuta Maru.
The brevity of this news dispatch
from Tokio, one of the first to be
received after the military coup seized
control of the Japanese government,
indicated the strict censorship en
forced by military authorities.
Mention of the two steamers being
unable to enter Kokohama Harbor
was an ironic commentary on the
situation.
With the biggest news of the day
centered in Tokio, all mention of It
was deleted from the dispatch.
The brief report notably carried no
mention of whether the other Tokio
dailies voluntarily failed to publish or
were closed by the military as op
positionists.
I. i
Bank of Japan Stopg
Business, British
Envoy Tells Eden
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 26.—An
thony Eden, Great Britain’s for
eign minister, told the House of
Commons today the Bank of
Japan had suspended business.
Eden said the British Ambas
sador in Tokio had reported that
troops lined the streets and that
ail public buildings and official
residences were guarded.
It was indicated that the sus
pension of the bank’s activities
was temporary.
The Ambassador, added Bden,
said the city itself was quiet.
German Airmen Jailed.
PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, February
26 (JP).—Six German Army aviators
from the Kottbus Regiment were sen
tenced to eight days in Jail yesterday
at Kretnitz, on the German border.
The soldiers, arrested there in two
automobiles, said they crossed the
border unwittingly in a fog, but the
judge would not accept their story.
PREMIER OKADA.
Slain.
VISCOUNT SAITO.
Slain.
MINISTER TAKAHASI.
Seriously Wounded.
FUMIO GOTO.
New Premier.
RUNAWAY BOY SOUGHT \
AS ANOTHER RETURNS
Police aid was enlisted today in the
search for 8-year-old Billy Phillips,
who dressed during the night and 1
I slipped away from his home, at 5029
Seventh street, before the family was
awake. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph J. Phillips and a third
grade pupil at Truesdell School.
The child's disappearance was dis
covered about 7:30 o’clock this morn
ing. A search of the neighborhood
failed to disclose any clue to his
whereabouts.
Robert Vidi, 15, of 213 E street, re
turned home last night after being
missing for a week. He told his
mother he had "just been walking ’
around.” ]
Revolt Ended,
Says Envoy
Here.
DENIES COUP
IS EFFECTIVE
“New Law of State”
Is Expected in
Other Circles.
By the Associated Press.
Ambassador Hirosi Saito told news
men today that the designation of the
former minister of interior Goto to
head a new government in Japan in
dicated there would be no funda
mental change in the empire’s form
of popular government.
The envoy said direct advices to
the embassy from Tokio disclosed that
today’s assassination of government
leaders did not represent a military
coup by heads of the Japanese Army.
He attributed the outbreak to young
army officers impassioned with patri
otic Idealism.
"Complete order has been restored
in Japan and business is proceeding
as usual.” the Ambassador said he
was advised.
"The situation will affect in no way
Japanese relations with the United ;
Ctotoc ” I
Merely Protest, Envoy Says.
Ambassador Saito said the leaders
of the uprising did not Intend to take
over tne government, but merely to
protest against some of its actions.
He added that they may have been
influenced by the recent election in
which the liberal party gained some
strength.
"The leaders," he said, "were loyal
to the Emperor as well as the army
as a whole.”
Saito said that as a result of the
uprising, the military in Japan tem
porarily has assumed some police du
ties for the protection of certain
places.
Other advices received in diplomatic
quarters here said army troops re
sponsible for the uprising were re
ported to have announced they will
promulgate "a new law of state" this
afternoon in Tokio.
There was no explanation of the ex
cression, "new law of state.”
This information said a mimeo
graphed statement was left at each
of the principal newspaper offices in
Tokio this morning by groups of sol
diers, alleging that the present Japa
nese had been drifting away from the
true spirit of Japan and that it had
usurped the prerogatives of the Em
peror.
Naval Treaty Cited.
The signing of the London naval
treaty in 1930 supplementing the
Washington limitations act by which
Japan was given the short end of the
5—5—3 ratio was reported cited as
one evidence of the trend.
Newspaper translations of the state
ment contained in this passage:
"If this condition is permitted to
continue, the relation of Japan to
China, Russia, Britain and the United
States will become explosive in nature.”
The statement was reported to have
been signed by Capt. Nonaka and Capt.
Ando, both of the 3d Infantry Regi
ment, stationed in Tokio.
Soldiers who delivered copies of the
statement were reported to have said
that another announcement would
be issued at 5 o’clock this evening, at
which time a “new law of state" will
be promulgated.
Meanwhile, Tokio and the remainder
of Japan were reported to be under
strict military control.
THEATER EMPLOYE
SOUGHT IN LOSS
$1,472 Disappears From Safe of
Avalon—Warrant Issued for
Frederic Birdseye.
Coincidental disappearance of $1,472
from the safe of the Avalon Theater
and Frederic Birdseye, assistant man
ager, led to the Issuance today of
a warrant for Birdseye’s arrest on
a charge of larceny.
The loss of the money, the week
end receipts of the motion-picture
house at 8612 Connecticut avenue,
was discovered yesterday.
Report that Birdseye; son of Col.
C. H. Birdseye of 22 Grafton street,
Chevy Chase, Md., was missing was
made to police by Charles E. Mc
Gowan, executive of Warner Brothers'
Theaters, with offices in the Earle
Building.
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Senator Writes 6.0.P. Com
mittee, Leaving Candidacy
Question Open.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of
Michigan made public today his for
mal declination to have his name
used in the Ohio presidential preferen
tial primaries.
His determination not to enter the
Ohio primaries was set forth in a
letter written by him to Ed D. Schorr,
Ohio Republican State chairman.
Schorr had addressed a letter to
the Michigan Senator inquiring
whether Vandenberg would consent
to have his name used in the pri
maries, which take place May 12.
The letter did not close the door
to Senator Vandenberg's ultimately
becoming a candidate for the presi
dential nomination or accepting such
a nomination if it came to him at
the hands of the Republican National
Convention in Cleveland next June.
Opposes Instructed Delegates.
Said Vandenberg’s letter:
"This will reply to your letter of
February 19. I am seeking no in
structed delegates to the next Re
publican National Convention. This
is my attitude in my own State of
Michigan. Manifestly it will be my
attitude elsewhere. Therefore, I shall
not avail myself of the privilege of
entering your Ohio primaries. My
sole interest in the Cleveland con
vention is that the Republican party
shall there make the wisest possible
decisions respecting both party leader
ship and party policies to the end
that we might stand the best chance
to win in November and to restore
the Republic. I am greatly indebted
to you for your generous inquiry.”
Schorr had written Senator Van
denberg saying that he had been
directed by the Republican State
Committee to Inquire whether Van
denberg would consent to the use of
his name by candidates for delegate to
the Republican National Convention.
Under the Ohio law, the written con
(See VANDENBERG, Page 4.)
ACTION CONTINUES
ON SOUTHERN FRONT
Badoglio Reports Flyers De
stroyed Defenses at
Ghigner.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, February 26. — Marshal
Pietro Badoglio reported Intense patrol
and aviation action from the Southern
Ethiopian front today, while the Ital
ian forces on the northern front re
mained quiet.
The communique from the com
mander in chief said:
"On the Somaliland front, one of
our motorized columns leaving
Neghelli, deflected to reconnaissance
on the edge of the Sidamo territory,
driving back groups of armed Ethi
opians between Wadara and Socors.
"On the Webbe Gestro intense ac
tivity prevailed for our patrols.
“Somaliland aviation bombarded
military encampments of Ethiopians
at Ghigner, destroying defense works.
"On the Eritrean front there is
nothing notable to report."
Capture Denied.
ADDIS ABABA, February 26 (A1).—
The government announced today that
Ethiopian troops still are holding
Amba Alaji Ridge in Northern
Ethiopia, which several times has been
reported captured by the Italians.
Frederick C. Alderdioe Diei.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Febru
ary 26 OP).—Frederick Charles Alder
dice, twice premier of Newfoundland
and since 1934, when a commission
government replaced the Legislature,
commissioner of home affairs, died
early today. He was ejvyears old.
Father Coughlin9
Due in D. C. Today9
Too Busy to Come
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. February 26—There will
be no meeting in Washington today,
cordial or otherwise, of the Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin and Representa
tive John J. O'Connor, Democrat, of
New York, who recently threatened to
kick the priest if he would go to
Washington.
Father Coughlin announced after
the challenge, for which O'Connor later
apologized, that he would be in the
Capital February 26. It was announced
at his office today, however, that he
and Eastern repreeefttattres of his
National Union for Social Justice were
in conference and that he had no
intention of going to Washington.
The controversy between O'Connor,
who is chairman of the House Rules
Committee, and Father Coughlin arose
over Father Coughlin's charge O'Con
nor was blocking a vote on the Frazier -
Lemke farm bill.
SEED LOAN VETO
SENT TO SENATE
President Says,. However,
Relief Money Will Be
Used for Purpose.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt today vetoed the
so-called farm seed loan bill, authoriz
ing an appropriation of $50,000,000
from the Treasury. At the same time,
however, he informed Congress that
he appreciates the fact there is still
need for crop production loans to
farmers and .that to meet this need
he will issue an executive order making
it possible to use emergency relief
money for the purpose.
The veto and the assurance were
made known in a special message to
the Senate today.
The President based his disapproval
solely upon the ground that Congress
made no provision for raising the
$50,000,000 involved, and because he
is of the opinion that a special ap
propriation at this time is both in
advisable and unnecessary.
The veto was challenged by Senator
Smith. Democrat, of South Carolina,
who said he would "insist on a vote'*
to override "as soon as the time is
propitious ’’
Smith, chairman of the Senate Ag
riculture Committee and Senate spon
sor of the administration’s A. A. A.
replacement bill agreed upon in con
ference yesterday, made the statement
(See FARM BILL, Page 5.)
BANKS BAN FUNDS
TO TALMADGE AIDE
Refuse to Honor $100,000 Check.
Postmaster Holds Up Hail
Delivery.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, February 26.—The Ful
ton National Bank of Atlanta, today
refused to cash a check for $100,000
presented by J. B. “Tobe” Daniel, Who
was named by Gov. Eugene Talmadge
as State treasurer to succeed the
ousted George B. Hamilton.
The Georgia Railroad Bank <i Trust
Co. of Augusta, a State depository, re
versed a decision to pay checks drawn
against State funds by Daniel.
The Atlanta Journal said there were
“reports that more than 100 State de
positories carrying State treasury bal
ances would not pay out any of the
money” to defacto officers.
Mail, including tax remittances, was
held up.
Postmaster Lon Livingston an
nounced be was impounding letters
addressed to Hamilton and Controller
General William B. Harrison, who was
removed with Hamilton Monday on
charges of misconduct for refusing to
countersign a $139,000 Board of Con
trol warrant on 1H6 funds which Tal
madge had appro v&i.
GEN. HAGOOD ISSUE
FLARES IN HOUSE
Woodrum Attacks Speech.
Officer’s Friends Seek
Court of Inquiry.
By ih» Associated Press.
The removal of Maj. Gen. Johnson
Hagood from active command after he
j d criticized W. P. A. spending was
denounced in the House today as “dis
graceful persecution” and defended
by an administration leader as the
penalty for disloyalty.
Describing the officer’s appearance
before a House committee. Representa
tive Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia,
declared:
“Gen. Hagood squared back and in
an arrogant, dictatorial way proceeded
to ‘lay out' the administration and his
commander in chief. He should have
been disciplined by his commander in
chief if he had been a Republican or
TVm tvpoF ”
Nebraskan Defends Hagood.
Representative Luckey. Democrat, of
Nebraska, denounced Hagood's re
moval as “the most disgraceful perse
cution ever imposed on an officer of
the United States Army.”
“Because the officer had the cour
age to express his own convictions be
fore a committee he is punished,” he
said.
Woodrum contended permission
given an officer to testify “fully,
freely and frankly” before a congres
sional committee “doesn’t give him
license to be disloyal to his chief or
to step aside and give opinions on
legislative matters.”
The controversy was touched off
when Representative Faddis. Demo
crat, of Pennsylvania, took the floor
to say that Republican efforts to make
tSee HAGOOD, Page 2.)
TREASURY’POLICE
MEASURE OFFERED
Bill to Form Secret Service Unit
Revised to Meet Narcotics
Treaties.
Revised to meet the views of the
State Department concerning activi
ties of this Government under inter
national narcotics treaties, the Pill tc
consolidate five police agencies of the
Treasury Department into a new Se
cret Service Division was reintroduced
today by Chairman Doughton of the
House Ways and Means Committee.
The bill, providing for merger of the
present alcohol tax, narcotics, custom:
inspection, secret service and person
nel investigation units under a single
chief, to be appointed by the Secretary
of the Treasury, authorizes the new
division to exercise all functions with
regard to foreign and domestic drug
control areements now vested in the
Narcotics Bureau.
The commissioner of narcotics would
continue to perform, under direction of
the chief of the Secret Service Division,
functions required under treaties to
which the United States is a party in
so far as they concern co-operation
with foreign governments, duties re
lating to co-operation among States for
drug control and activities in connec
tion with supervision of the legitimate
drug traffic.
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Editorial -A-8
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Serial Story—.-.A-6
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i Women’s Futures.B-ll
WO RELIEF
FUND MOVED
BY COMMISSION
Will Act on Welfare Board’s
Request to Prevent
Want in Capital.
SUM WILL BE SOUGHT
FROM BUDGET BUREAU
_
Present Money Will Be Exhaust
ed by April 15, According
to Figures.
BY DON S. WARREN.
Acting to prevent a collapse of the
program of relief here, due to ex
haustion of funds, the Commission**! s
today verbally approved request by the
Board of Public Welfare for a de
ficiency District appropriation cf
$600,000 to meet needs between Dow
and July 1.
The Welfare Board's statement, filed
with the Commissioners this morning,
showed present funds would be ex
hausted April 15. Later in the week
the Commissioners expect to draft the
supplemental appropriations request
and send it to the Budget Bureau.
I Commissioner Allen, who two months
ago estimated the additional needs
would be greater than $600,000, an
nounced he would call upon private
social agencies and civic workers to
i support the request for extra fu; ds. ,
The board submitted a financial
j statement to indicate present District
I funds will be exhausted during April.
The board calculated there will be but
$489,505 left March 1. showing an ex
| pected deficit of $79,494 between then
! and July 1, when the new fiscal year
I opens.
rne esumaie oi me supplemental
need was figured on the most con
servative basis, making full allowance
l for use of Federal funds to be made
available here for care of the aged,
the needy blind and dependent chil
dren. the city heads were advised.
Burden Thrown on District.
The crisis, anticipated by Commis
sioner Allen, former relief administra
| tor, is attributed principally to the
j sudden ending last November of Fed
j eral grants for local relief. This threw
| the burden of caring for all the relief
] cases, not included in the Federal W.
j p. A. program, onto District resources.
| The Welfare Board’s statement
stressed the point that while some 13,
000 relief cases have been transferred
to W. P. A., there still remain nearly
10,000 dependent on the District for
aid.
Urging the Commissioners to pro
pose the additional District relief
| funds be made available ‘‘at the earli
: est posible moment,’’ the board said:
“It was impossible to anticipate,
! when the original appropriation for
; the present fiscal year was made, that
j Federal relief funds would be with
| drawn.
Hoped for Funds.
“This request was not made pre
viously because it was anticipated
that the general relief expenditures
i would be reduced to a greater extent
by the assignment of employable un
employed persons to works progress
i projects.
“It was also hoped that social se
curity funds would be made available
earlier in the year, so that the full
amount of those appropriations could
be used to supplement the general re
lief appropriation.
“While more than 13,000 persons
previously on relief have been as
signed to works projects, there still
remain on the relief rolls 10,000 fam
ilies and unattached Individuals.
About 4,500 of these are unemployable
and another 1,000 are employable, but
ineligible for the W. P. A., because
they came on the relief rolls since
November 1. The remaining 4,500
fall into smaller categories.
Larger Number Applying.
"Some are on works projects, but
at wages insufficient for the needs
of their families. Some are tempo
rarily incapacitated because of illness
and so have lost wages under W. P. A.
Many have returned to the relief rolls
recently and so have not yet been
assigned to works projects. There
are still others for whom no projects
are available as yet.
“The most surprising factor in the
statistics is the larger number of
persons applying for relief. The in
take during the past month has been
as high as it was a year ago, though
the total case load is only one-half
as large as a year ago.”
"’he relief appropriation for this
! year out of District revenues was $2.
000,000. Calculations by Elwood
Street, welfare director, show that
more than $1,000,000 was committed
by the end of December. Because
of the ending of the Federal grants a
25 per cent cut in relief payments was
ordered for December. The cut was
lifted in January because of the suf
fering by relief clients.
Street found there was available in
the District purse, February 1, only
$864,505 for the remainder of this
fiscal year. February commitments
total $350,000. Allowing for a $25,000
allotment to the Works Division, there
will be left, March 1, but $489,505, he
said.
The $600,000 estimate allows for
some diminution of the relief load,
the welfare board said. It was fig
ured there will be 9,600 families on
the rolls in March, 9,200 in April,
8,800 in May and'8,400 in June.
Band leader Marries Actress.
LONDON, February 26 (vP).—Jack
Donohue, American dance band
director, was married at the Caxtou
Hall register office today to Solvai
Jenny (Mrs. Tutta Rolf), Swedish film
actress. ^
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