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DEMOCRATS IN RED
DESPITE BOOK SALE
Chrysler and Two Brewers
Best Customers for
$250 Souvenirs.
Bf the Associated Press.
Records of the House cleric showed
today the Democratic party was $167,
SOO In the red on May 31, despite the
•ale of $165,905 worth of its national
convention books in the preceding
three months.
Walter P. Chrysler, the automobile
manufacturer, and two brewing con
cerns were listed as the best cus
tomers for the $250 souvenir books.
Chrysler bought $12,500 worth. Sub
* scriptions for $10,000 worth each came
from the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co.
of Milwaukee and Anheuser-Busch of
St. Louis. The Bethlehem Steel Co.
took $5,000 worth.
Sale of the books have been criti
riied by House Republican Leader
* Snell of New York. He asked an in
vestigation, charging violation of the
corrupt practices act, which forbids
corporations to contribute to polit
ical parties.
The New York Times said state
ments to it by purchasers indicated
•bout half the books had never been
delivered.
The Democratic National Commit
tee's report for the three months ended
May 31 showed victory dinners on the
March 4 week end brought in $368,824.
Contributions and other receipts
brought the total income for the pe
riod to $655,132.
Disbursements totaled $606,350, leav
ing a balance of $48,782 against un
paid obligations of $216,582.
Among the committee's debts are
$50,000 due the United Mine Workers
of America and a like amount owed
Walter Jones of Pittsburgh.
MANY BOOKS NOT DELIVERED.
Timm Says Some Purchasers Expected
Only -Good Will.”
NEW YORK. July 27 W.—The New
York Times said today "an informal
investigation" had revealed that
"about half” of the Democratic Na
tional Convention souvenir books, for
which corporation heads paid $250
each, were never delivered.
Many purchasers simply paid for
the souvenirs without expecting de
livery, according to the newspaper,
and regarded the expenditure as "a
• Judicious investment in the good-will
of the administration ”
Others who insisted on delivery
found themselves up against the
problem of what to do with the books
after they arrived, said the Times.
The paper quoted Robert R. Young,
chairman of the Alleghany Corp. and
the Chesapeake Corp., as stating he
had instructed the distributors to
send $3,750 worth of the souvenirs to
young cousins, nieces and other
relatives.
For this service, the Times said.
Young paid the distributors, John B.
Gallagher & Co., an extra charge for
embossing the names of the recipients
on the covers of the volumes.
One of those whom the Times
quoted as refusing delivery of the book
was James H. Rand, Jr., president of
Remington-Rand, Inc. The paper said
he was one of several whose pur
• chases totaled $16,250 worth, who de
clined to accept their orders "on ma
ture consideration."
On the other hand, the Times said,
the American Radiator and Standard
Sanitary Corp. directed the distributor
to forward its $15,000 order. The
copies were distributed among execu
tives.
The Times said the distributor was
unable to say what proportion of the
books was undelivered because the
staff responsible for the work had been
disbanded July 1. when the Demo
.cratic National Committee ordered
distribution discontinued.
Wage-Hour
(Continued From First Page )
Nuys measure as a substitute for the
1 somewhat similar C&vagan bill, which
the House passed.
Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North
Carolina, told the Senate the South
does not approve lynching, but be
lieves in the right of States to deal
with the problem and therefore op
poses a Federal law.
"We depiore, hate and abhor lynch
ing,” he declared. "Lynching is mur
der; but this bill is a matter of sur
rendering our conception of our
States.’’
Vote on Tabling Bill.
The rote by which the Senate re
fused to consider the anti-lynching bill
* follows:
TO TABLE—II.
DEMOCRATS—37.
ADAMS LONERGAN
ANDREWS McCARRAN
BAILEY McOILL
BARKLEY McKELLAR
BILBO MINTON
BLACK MURRAY
BONE NEELY
BROWN (N H.) OVERTON
BYRD PEPPER
BYRNES PITTMAN
CARAWAY RADCLIFPE
CHAVEZ RUSSELL
CONNALLY SCHWELLENBACH
DUFFY SHEPPARD
ELLENDER SMITH
HARRISON THOMAS lUtah)
HATCH VAN NUYS
JOHNSON (Colo.) WHEELER
KINO
REPUBLICANS—2.
DAVIS FRAZIER
PROGRESSIVE—1.
LA POLLETTE
FARMER-LAMORITE—I.
LUNDEEN
AGAINST TABLING—34.
DEMOCRATS—24.
BROWN (Mich.) HUGHES
BULK LEY LEE
BULOW LEWIS
> COPELAND LOGAN
DIETERICH MALONEY
DONAHEY POPE
GERRY SCHWARTZ
GILLETTE SMATHRRS
GREEN THOMAS (Okls.)
HERRING TRUMAN
HITCHCOCK TY DINGS
HOLT WALSH
REPUBLICANS—10.
AUSTIN McNARY
BORAH STEIWER
CAPPER TOWNSEND
SALE VANDENBERG
DDGE WHITE
Baker to Address F. C. A. Local.
Jacob Baker, president of the United
. Federal Workers of America, will ad
dress an open meeting of Farm Credit
Administration Local 14 in room 600,
old Southern Railway Building, Penn
sylvania avenue and Thirteenth street,
tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. and will pre
sent the charter of the F. C. A. local
In the U. F. W.
Hotel’s Bee Swarm Is Shoveled
Into Box Before Nervous Crowd
Raleigh Hotel employes are show'll gazing perplexedly at the
bee swarm which settled on the lobby entrance canopy yes
terday. _—Star Staff Photo.
After thoioughly disturbing door
men, taxi drivers and passersby for
several hours yesterday afternoon,
the Raleigh Hotel's unwanted bee col
ony buzzed contentedly in a regular
hive today instead of on the margu?e
at the Twelfth street entrance to the
hotel.
It took Second Precinct Policeman
Bryan R. Torrance, a bee fancier with
33 hives of his own, to shovel the
swarm Into a box while standing on
the radiator of his automobile.
Torrance’s feat was performed before
a crowd that included a policeman or
two, several taxi drivers and hotel em
ployes, and some photographers who
wished it was their day off.
The hotel management previously
had asked the aid of the Department
of Agriculture, a professional bee
dealer, the fire department or any one
else, in fact, whc would like some bees
to take home. There were no cus
tomers.
No casualties were reported as the
insects buzzed about the door.
FOOD IS RATIONED
IN BUFFALO STRIKE
Peace Efforts Deadlocked
as A. F. of L. Demands
Closed Shop.
BACKGROUND—
One week ago truckers and meat
packers walked out in Buffalo, and
rigid picketing of food supply
houses since has caused serious food
shortage in this city and suburbs of
1,000,000 persons. Strikers are in
American Federation of Labor,
which boasts 85,000 members in
Buffalo territory. The union is de
manding a closed shop.
By the Associatec Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y„ July 27 —Striking
grocery truck drivers and retail food
merchants deadlocked today in a new
attempt to settle Buffalo's food strike
as storekeepers rationed out supplies
to harassed housewives.
American Federation of Labor lead
ers representing 1,000 idle drivers
walked into the peace conference bear
ing an ultimatum to “Hold out for a
closed shop or nothing."
They indicated they also might re
vive original wage and hour demands,
believed to have been compromised in
negotiations last week with the Rev.
Father John P. Boland. New York
State Labor Relations Board chair
mon O nrT rna/tinl tna/Tintnv
Pour police squads rushed to a retail
store operated by one of the large
grocery chains involved in the strike
when a deliveryman was prevented I
from unloading. There was no dis- j
order.
The companion strike of 1,000 C.
I. O. butchers at three major packing
plants also continued deadlocked.
Grim grocery truck drivers strength
ened picket lines around 14 wholesale
houses and the packers faced a stale
mate in negotiations, at least until
Wednesday, as retail stores of eggs,
butter and poultry dropped almost
to nothing.
Butchers estimated meat supplies
would last only three days. Some
rationed meat to customers, but there
was no general plan for dealing with
the shortage.
Aid Promised in Blockade.
Owen J. Kavanagh of the Buffalo
Central Labor Council pledged the
territory’s 85,000 American Federation
of Labor members to help maintain
a blockade around the warehouses
that supply poultry and dairy prod
ucts to a million persons.
At the same time, Hugh Thompson,
Committee for Industrial Organization
regional director, refused to negotiate
with representatives of four strike
closed meat-packing establishments
when they advised him they had no
authority to sign a union contract.
He said they told him the proper au
thorities could not get here before
Wednesday.
D. C. Taxes
(Continued Prom First Page.)
appropriation bill. It would be bad
administrative practice, the commit
tee declared, for the local government
to attempt to raise more revenue than
is actually required under the bill.
A bitter fight in conference against
retention in the tax bill of the Sen
ate-approved income tax plan and the
proposed heavy land levy was fore
cast meanwhile by House conferees.
Chairman Palmisano of the House
District Committee, who heads the
House conference group, said he is
duty bound to battle in conference for
the cardinal features of the House tax
bill. These include the gross receipts
tax and the increase in the real estate
and personal property levy from $1.50
to $1.70. The Senate substituted for
these two plans the income tax and
the increase of 1 per cent in the pres
ent levy on land values. ,
Palmisano will be supported by vir
tually all members of the House Con
ference Committee. These include
Representatives Kennedy of Mary
land and Nichols of Oklahoma, Dem
ocrats, and Dirksen of Illinois and
Short of Missouri, Republicans. Ken
nedy, Nichols and Dirksen were mem
bers of the special subcommittee of
the House District Committee, which
framed the original tax program.
Choice Unexplained.
Although it had been assumed that
all six members of the special subcom
mittee of the District Committee,
which framed the original tax pro
gram, would be named as House con
ferees, Speaker Bankhead appointed
only three of them—Kennedy, Nichols
and Dirksen. Representative Cole, Re
publican. of New York was left off, as
well as Representatives Allen of Dela
ware and McOehee of Mississippi, both
Democrats. Cole was replaced by Rep
resentative Short, Republican, of Mis
souri.
No explanation was given by the
Speaker for his choice of conferees.
It is known that Chairman Palmisano
recommended Representative Ran
dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia as
one of the conferees. The Speaker,
however, substituted Nichols.
Only one of the House confereees,
Dirksen, is knowm to favor the income
tax plan. He fought for Its adoption
in committee as well as on the House
floor. His ballot for it in the Confer
ence Committee would be lost, how
ever, since the House conferees must
vote as a unit.
Senator King also expects a lively
fight in conference, but he is confident
the conferees will work out a solution
to the perplexing tax problem.
• You know,” he said, “the House has
twice disapproved an inoome tax for
the District. I don’t believe the
House conferees will give in easily to
the Senate.”
City Needs May Be Heard.
The Commissioners may be given an
opportunity to lay before the Confer
ence Committee data to support their
contention it would be unjust to
saddle District property owners with
the burden of defraying 70 per cent of
the impending deficit.
Senator King said personally he
would be glad to receive the informa
tion, but he did not know whether
other members of the committee de
sired to hear their arguments. He
proposes to let them decide the ques
tion as soon as the conference con
venes.
The Senate conferees were ap
pointed last week. In addition to
Senator King, they are Senators Mc
Carran of Nevada and Tydings of
Maryland, Democrats, and Capper of
Kansas and Austin of Vermont, Re
publicans.
--•
Senate Confirms Eastman.
The Senate last night confirmed
Joseph B. Eastman for reappointment
to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
JAPAN PUTS WAR
issuno CHINA
Hirota Tells Parliament
That China Holds Peace
of Orient.
Bs the Associated Press.
TOKIO, July 27.—Japan put the
question of peace or war In the Orient
squarely up to China today as an ulti
matum demanding expulsion of Chi
nese troops from the zone of hostili
ties west of Peiping expired.
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota told
a Joint session of both houses of Par
liament that China holds the key to
settlement of the crisis caused by the
two powers’ conflicting economic in
terests in the North China provinces
of Hopeh and Chahar.
“I confidently hope Nanking will
take such effective and appropriate
measures as accord with our desires
for peace,” Hirota said, “and bring
about an early and amicable settlement
of the crisis.”
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye,
answering a question, insisted Japan
had no territorial ambitions in China
and said: "What Japan wants from
China is not territory, but co-opera
tion.”
He said he still had faith that China
would fulfill her promises to Japan,
but if she failed finally, the Japanese
must take "decisive measures” to re
move the difficulties.
It is Japan's mission to keep East
Asia peaceful, the premier insisted.
Japan must keep communism from
entering North China from Outer Mon
golia, he added.
New Clash Reported.
Meanwhile the Domel (Japanese)
News Agency reported renewed
Chinese attacks on Japanese forces
at Nanyuan, important Chinese mili
tary airbase and headquarters of the
Chinese 37th Division south of
Peiping.
The dispatch said Japanese troops,
aided by airplanes, quickly subdued
the Chinese. Nanyuan previously
had been the scene of fighting in the
intermittent clashes.
In London Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden told Commons that Great
Britain had expressed to Japan its
"earnest hope” that Japanese troops
at Peiping would not go into punitive
action against the Chinese.
He said the British government was
in constant touch with other powers
interested in China, "particularly the
United States Government.”
iu or mei oy Loan.
Finance Minister Okinobu Kaya an
nounced the greater part of Japan’s
North China expenses would be met
by a "North China loan,” which he
did not further explain. He also
asked the Diet for 96.000,000 yen
(about *27.840,0001, a request an
nounced previously to finance the
North China operations.
The atmosphere in Japan's pala
tial Parliament Building was tense as
members of the Diet assembled to hear
the leaders of the government describe
the situation that flared into open
warfare west of Peiping on July 7.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi re
ported in a dispatch from Shanghai
that Gen. Sung Chen-yuan, com
mander of Chinese forces in the two
provinoes, had decided to resist the
evacuation demand and had sent an
urgent request to the central gov
ernment at Nanking for reinforce
ments.
The newspaper Asahi declared in
a bulletin from Nanking that the
Chinese Premier, Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-shek, had concluded a gen
eral clash between the two nations
could not be avoided and was con
centrating troops of the central army
in Hopeh Province.
Military in Conference.
Shortly after dawn the army gen
eral staff and the war office heads
went into urgent and continuous ses
sion to determine on measures to
cope with the new and graver situa
tion. After conferring with his staff,
Gen. Gen Sugiyama, minister of war,
left for the palace to report to Em
peror Hirohito.
The Emperor also received admiral
of the fleet, Prince Fuahimi, chief of
the naval general staff, and Field
Marshal Prince Kanin, chief of the
army general staff.
Dispatches to Ashai from its Tient
sin correspondent asserted a general
and widespread clash in North China
was inevitable. Nichi Nichi declared
Japanese troops stationed at the
Fengtal field headquarters, 5 miles
west of Peiping, were ready to move
into advance positions.
China
(Continued From First Page)
brought into the foreign quarter under
a heavy escort of Chinese troops. They
had been faced with annihilation after
fighting their way into the outer edges
of the city through a hand-grenade
barrage at the Huangan gate.
Two Japanese soldiers were killed
and four wounded in the clash while
two Chinese were killed and one
wounded. Two Japanese newspaper
men were reported to have been
wounded.
After winning their way into the
city, the Japanese barricaded them
selves in an ancient temple cemetery,
surrounded by thousands of Chinese
troops and gendarmes. After parleys,
the Chinese escorted them to the
Embassy.
Chinese declared the Japanese
aerial bombardment of Langfang, on
the railroad to Tientsin, yesterday
morning killed 1,000 Chinese soldiers
•nd civilians. It was this clash that
caused the crisis to reach its present
and most acute stage. Fighting had
been virtually halted for a week under
terms of a truce between local mili
tary authorities.
The Chinese declared they had been
attacked while carrying out terms of
an earlier Japanese demand to re
place the 37th Division garrison at
Peiping with troops of the 38th
Division.
Japanese Garrison Doubled.
Japan has more than doubled her
normal garrison in North China in
the three weeks of crisis. Under the
Boxer protocol of 1901 she—with other
major powers—was given the right to
maintain a garrison in the area to
keep the railroad to Tientsin open.
It was with these troops, which as
sert Japan has special economic rights
in North China, that the bridge
guard at Marco Polo clashed.
A unit of 800 troops of the 29th
Army, stationed east of Peiping, was
reported to have been disarmed by
militarized Chinese police of the East
Hopeh regime, which is friendly to
Japan. Japanese troops were said to
have supervised the disarming at
Tungchow.
Eight Chinese were wounded at
Tientsin when a bomb exploded in
the Japanese quarter. Japanese de
clared the explosion was accidental,
but tension was Increased.
Japanese police started searching
street cars for persons suspected of
anti-Japanese sentiments. Sandbag
and barbed wire barricades were erect
ed around the important areas in the
Japanese concession.
REJECTION IMPENDS.
News Afency Reports China Will Re
fuse to Move Troops.
SHANGHAI, July 27 (A5).—The Cen
tral Chinese News Agency reported
from Peiping today that a Chinese
government official had announced
Imminent rejection of Japan’s demand
that the 37th Chinese Army get out
of North China trouble points.
(Nanking advices reported the same
decision impending, without confirma
tion.)
The Chinese central government at
Nanking was reported today to be
massing troops for movement to the
north in the face of a Japanese ul
timatum that Chinese troops must be
withdrawn from Peiping area by noon
tomorrow.
The Sino-Japanese crisis over con
trol of North china was considered
by Nanking to have taken a decided
turn for the worse as the Japanese
ultimatum was directly opposed to a
statement by Chinese Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek that his government
would not accept dictation as to the
movement of its military forces.
movement is Secret.
The Pukow railroad station, across
the Yangtze River from Nanking, was
the concentration point for the troops
moving to the north. Their numbers
and destination were concealed as a
military secret. Pukow is the south
ern terminal of the railroad to Tient
sin. headquarters of the Japanese
Army in North China. At Tientsin
the railroad links with the east-west
line from Peiping to Manchukuo.
At 4 p m. (3 a m., E S. T.) the lo
cal headquarters of the 4th Regiment
of U. S. Marines received the only dis
patch out of Peiping since midmorn
mg. It was sent from Peiping at 2 p m
It was from the Marine Guard of the
United States embassy and declared
that the city was quiet and the vicin
ity about Peiping also seemed quiet.
AMERICANS IN PEIPING.
State Department Estimates 1,300 Are
In Danger Zone.
Br the Associated Press.
State Department officials estimated !
today that 1,300 American citizens, in
cluding Marines on duty, are now in I
Peiping, scene of clashes between
Chinese and Japanese troops.
The American Embassy there has '
675 United States citizens registered,
including 223 men, 267 women and 185
children.
The embassy guard of Marines, under
the command of Col. John Marston of
Germantown, Pa., consists of 22
officers and 489 men. In addition 93
are listed as the dependents of the
military personnel, living in the Marine
barracks.
Officials said a large percentage of
the American citizens were mission
aries or attached to Peking Union
Medical College and Hospital, one of
the largest institutions in the Far East.
The Embassy staff, headed by Am
bassador Nelson T. Johnson, consists
of Frank P. Lockhart, counselor. Putts
burg, Tex.; George R. Merrell, jr„ first
secretary, St. Louis, Mo.; Laurence E.
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Dr. Guillermo Patterson Is
Victim of Heart Attack
in Havana.
Dr. Guillermo Patterson y de Jaure
gui, until several months ago Ambas
sador from Cuba to the United States,
died last night of a heart attack in
Havana, according to word received
here today. He was 70.
Dr. Patterson left here February 9
and recenly was named Ambassador
from Cuba to Mexico. He was sta
tioned here about two years.
Two of his daughters are in Wash
ington. One is Mme. Ernest Schlatter,
wife of the attache of the Swiss Lega
tion, and the other Senorita Olga Pat
terson, who is visiting with the Chilean
Ambassador, Senor Don Mauel Trucco
and the latter’s daughters.
Two sons, Enrique Patterson and
Guillermo Patterson, and another
daughter, Senora Margaritta Patter
son Riva, are in Cuba. His son En
rique was third secretary of the Cuban
Embassy here while Dr. Patterson was
Ambassador. All the children are by
a former marriage.
Dr. Patterson recently was married
to Senora Concha Ernandez, widow of
Senor Sanz of Havana. News of his
death was received with a great deal
of sorrow at the Cuban Embassy.
Fidelity
<Continued From First Page.)
the Government department's inten
tion to circularize all shareholders
with a six-page letter and question
naire which would place the share
holders on definite record.
The Treasury, it was learned, had
pointed out that it would be necessary
to have a sufficient number of share
holders subscribe to shares in the new
First Federal or the new institution
could not be opened. Announcement
of the Treasury policy came after
the conference from five officials, in
cluding Deputy Controller of the Cur
rency William Prentiss, jr.; Deputy
Controller Gibbs Lyons, George P.
Barse and L. A. Kelly, counsel, and
James H. Nolan, receiver.
May Form Committee.
The shareholders were represented
by George A Sullivan, Dr. Robert B.
Tyler and others.
Dr. Tyler said the shareholders
probably would form a committee to
confer with the Treasury on the ques
tion of reorganization. This com
mittee also would make attempts to
Salisbury, second secretary, Chicago;
Robert Lacy Smith, second secretary,
Berkeley. Calif.; Oliver E. Clubb, sec
ond secretary. South Park, Minn., and
Cecil B. Lyon, third secretary, Staten
Island, N. Y.
Foreign Service officers now on duty
in Peiping aa students of the Chinese
language include James K. Penfleld,
New York City; John S. Uervice, Ober
lin. Ohio: Charles S. Millett, Brockton,
Mass.; Edward E, Rice. Saginaw,
Mich., and Troy L. Perkins. Hind
man, Kv.
Surgeon Who Sought
To Save McKinley’s
Life Is Stricken
El the Associated Preu.
SAN DIEGO. Calif., July 27
Dr. Edward C. Mann, 02, who at
tempted to save President William
McKinley's life by an operation
after the President had been shot
by an assassin, was In a critical
condition from a heart ailment
today.
Dr. Mann was placed in an
oxygen tent last night.
Dr. Mann and his father, who
was head of the University of Buf
falo’s Medical Institute, operated
on McKinley at Buffalo Septem
ber 0, 1901. McKinley died eight
days later.
Congress voted gold watches
for Dr. Mann and his father.
bring back the First Federal Savings
and Loan Association into active par
ticipation in plans for reorganization.
There were indications that Deputy
Controller Prentiss would be willing
to receive the committee and talk over
the situation again.
"The door is not closed to reor
ganization,” said Prentiss.
Officers of the newly chartered First
Federal last night announced with
drawal from their previous intention
of buying the assets of the old Fidelity
in order to make available 85 per cent
of the shareholders’ account.
The First Federal originally had
Intended to open long before this, but
protracted negotiations between the
First Federal, and the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board on the one side and
Treasury Department officials, who
are in charge of the Fidelity, on the
other, apparently reached an impasse
yesterday.
In his letter, which it had been pro
posed to send to shareholders con
cerning reorganization of the Fidel
ity, the receiver had estimated that
the ultimate result of receivership
liquidation might approximate 85 per
cent. This is the same figure which
the First Federal had planned to
make available to shareholders. The
receiver, however, pointed out that
his estimate must be recognized as
merely an estimate and that future
liquidation might yield less than 85
per cent.
JEWS PROTEST TO POLES
Delegations representing the Jewish
People’s Committee Against Fascism
and Anti-Semitism protested yester
day to American and Polish officials
against treatment they said has been
accorded more than 3,000,000 Jews in
Poland.
Their petitions, contending Poland
is failing to observe provisions of the
’ Polish minority treaty guaranteeing
rights of Jews, were presented to Sec
retary Hull, Count Potocki, the Polish
Ambassador, and Chairman McRey
nolds of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Death Plunge Held Suicide.
LONDON, July 27 (*>).—A coroner's
verdict today said the death of the [
beautiful Lady Cardigan, who plunged
from a West End hotel window to the |
street last Saturday night, was "sui- 1
I cide while of unsound mind.”
CANBEAVERTED
Envoys in Tokio and Peiping
Instructed to Express
Views.
Ej the Asioclatfd Prut.
Secretary Hull said today the Amer
ican Ambassadors in Tokio and Peiping
had been instructed to express the
hope to the Japanese and Chinese gov
ernments that hostilities would be
avoided in Peiping.
The Secretary’s statement was made
at his press conference in answer to
questions based on announcement in
London that the British Ambassadors
were taking similar action.
The French Ambassadors to both
countries are understood to be making
similar observations.
Hull explained that the action taken
by the United States was independent
of any action taken by other countries
and was in harmony with the policy
the State Department has followed
since the first outbreak of clashes be
tween Japanese and Chinese forces in
North China.
It is understood, officials said, that
Hull issued the instructions in view
of the fact that approximately 1.300
Americans, including the Marine guard
at the American Embassy, are in Peip
ing and presumably would be endan
gered by any fighting within the walled
city of the ancient capital.
Hull told correspondents the State
Department had been in almost daily
contact with the Japanese and Chinese
Ambassadors here and had taken ad
vantage of every opportunity to pro
mote a peaceful settlement.
In answer to a question the Secre
tary said no consideration had yet
been given to invocation of the nine
power treaty, signed by the United
States as well as China and Japan. It
guarantees the sovereignty and terri
torial integrity of China.
Asked whether the United State*
had considered mediation in the dis
pute the Secretary pointed out that it
was requisite in such cases that the
two countries involved in the con
troversy agree that mediation pro
vided the solution and made the re
quest of a neutral country to act in
that capacity.
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