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Japan to Expound
'Open Door'Attitude
To U. S. and Britain
Grew and Craigie to See
Foreign Minister
Tomorrow
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, Dec. 7.—Japan has pre
pared a further exposition of her
attitude toward foreign economic
rights in China, and Tokio news
papers said today it would be given
to the British and United States
Ambassadors tomorrow.
The American Ambassador, Joseph
C. Grew, and the British Sir Robert
Leslie Craigie, were expected to
meet with Foreign Minister Hachiro
Arita for discussion of the open door
Question.
The newspaper Asahi said Arita
would outline the Japanese claim to
special economic position in China
and give limited assurances that
other powers would not be deprived
of business opportunities.
Reflects Public Opinion.
The foreign office spokesman said
the Asahi interpretation was not offi
cially inspired but that it “very
accurately reflects public opinion.”
Asahi stated that Arita would dis
cuss abolition of all extra-territor
iality rights, (exemption from jur
isdiction of local courts and other
privileges given by China to coun
tries with foreign concessions), “for
the benefit of China.”
Previous Japanese assurances to
respect the rights and interests of
third powers in China, Asahi said,
“does not mean it will respect vested
rights and interests as they now are.”
The newspaper indicated "ad
justments” would be made, and that
Japan would “strive to confine
whatever damage that might be in
curred to as small an amount as
possible within the scope permitted
by the new order in China.”
The article then repeated the main
points in the Japanese reply to the
American protest of October 6
against discrimination against third
powers, stating specifically that for
eign commercial rights would not be
permitted to interfere with China's
“national defense.” Washington
has indicated the Japanese reply
was not fully satisfactory.
The foreign office spokesman was
asked whether Chinese railways
w’ould be included in a consideration
of foreign interests, since foreign
investors hold mortgages on a num
ber of the lines.
The spokesman said it was not
yet decided what disposition would
be made of these commitments,
hinted that some adjustment was
being considered, but did not state
its nature. The Japanese Army now
has gained control of the principal
Chinese rail terminals.
Britain Considering
Finance Aid to China
B> the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 7.—The British
government is considering financial
assistance to China to combat Jap
anese domination of the Far East at
the expense of Western powers.
The Earl of Plymouth, undersec
retary for foreign affairs, cautioning
Japan to “realize their present pol
icy is bound to have incalculable re
percussions." told the House of Lords
last night that Britain was disposed
favorably to give “assistance to
China in connection with export
credits."
Lord Elibank, peer and insurance
company director, urged economic
action against Japan by reducing
Japanese exports to British colonies.
. withholding foreign exchange and
credits, and closing Hong Kong, In
dia and Straits Settlement ports
to Japanese shipping.
T. V. A.
<Continued From First Page.)
field of public distribution of elec
tricity. The number of ultimate
consumers served under this type
of contract has been rapidly in
creasing.”
Members said today the investi
gating committee might wind up its
inquiry next week in order to prepare
a report.
Only a few witnesses remain to
be heard in the six-month-old in
vestigation. Congress authorized
$50,000 for the inquiry after dissen
sion among members of the T. V.
A. board resulted in the ouster of
Chairman Morgan by President
Roosevelt.
Meanwhile, Senator Bridges, Re
publican, of New Hampshire, who
was instrumental in obtaining the
investigation of the T. V. A. power
program, said he would ask Con
gress to investigate another phase
of the Government's pow'er activi
ties.
Senator Bridges declared P. W.
A. approval of the proposed pur
chase of nrivate electrical proper
ties by two Nebraska water power
, districts was part of a “deal to
pull some of P. W. A.'s power chest
nuts out of the fire.”
He contended Congress should
Inquire whether the districts would
not soon be known as "the out
standing folly of the New Deal”
without the acquisition of $90,000,
000 of private utility properties.
The P. W. A. has loaned money
to the Loup River Public Power
and Central Nebraska Public Power
, «nd Irrigation Districts, and has
approved an arrangement whereby
the districts may borrow from
banks to finance the purchase of
the private properties.
Senator Bridges said Guy C.
Myers, financial agent for the powder
districts, would get a 2'5 per cent
fee of approximately $2,225,000 on
the $90,000,000 in bonds the districts
propose to issue to finance the pur
chase. K
"The New Dealers have been
shouting about alleged ‘water' in
private utility stocks,” the Senator
said. Certainly they have been fol
lowing m the footsteps of Samuel
Insull in this case.”
Senator Norris, Independent of
Nebraska, veteran advocate of public
power ownership, and the late Ar
thur Mullen, Omaha attorney and
Democratic national committeeman,
were active in the organization and
promotion of the districts.
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SPORTSMAN DIES—Wallace D. Kenyon, photographed at the
Old Dominion point-to-point races at Warrenton, Va., yesterday,
just after he had presented a trophy to Mrs. John A. Hinckley
(left) and Mrs. Robert C. Winmill. Mr. Kenyon suffered a heart
attack and died in his automobile while driving to his home
nearby with Mrs. Kenyon. —JDarling Photo.
Roosevelt Will Aim
At Same U. S. Outlay
Despite Defense
Paring Other Expenses
Will Meet Increase,
Advisers Believe
By the Associated Press.
The administration expects to
hold expenditures in the next fiscal
year to the same level as 1938-39, it
was disclosed today, even though the
outlay for defense probably will be
much larger.
A high official said President
Roosevelt's advisers were confident
the increased armaments cast could
be offset by reductions in other ex
penditures, such as relief.
Budget estimates for the fiscal
year beginning next July 1 have
not yet been announced, but Mr.
Roosevelt's forecast of expenditures
for the current 12 months was about
$9,000,000,000 when he revised it last '
July. •
At his press conference yester- 1
day the President said he favored
a pay-as-you-go policy for the con
templated increase in armaments,
even if a tax increase should be
necessary.
He added, however, that new
levies might not be needed, because
certain Government expenditures,
are self-liquidating. Stephen Early, I
presidential secretary, told reporters
afterward that “budgetary adjust
ments" might make higher taxes
unnecessary.
Some officials have expressed hope
that business improvement would
make it possible to pare relief ex
penditures, one of the largest items
in the Federal budget. Congress j
appropriated $1,425,000,000 for W. P.!
A. until next March 1. and at that
i time Mr. Roosevelt forecast an ad
: ditional $500,000,000 would be need
ed for the succeeding four months.
Estimates have varied as to how7
much additional money the admin
istration may ask for armament
purposes. Some informed persons
have predicted military expenditures
might total as much as $1,500,000,000
next year, compared with $1,150,000.
000 made available for the Army
and Navy this year.
Mr. Roosevelt said yesterday he
had no intention of linking the
armament program to attempts to
stimulate business. National de
fense is to be strictly a matter of
national defense and nothing else,
he declared.
Discussing objectives of the arms
program, the President said pro
posals to obtain an adequate supply
of certain strategic materials for use
in wartime might properly be in
cluded
Although he said the United
States lacked ample supplies of some
minerals such as manganese and
nickel, he added that it would cost
too much to stimulate the domestic
manganese industry.
Mr. Roosevelt expressed doubt
that this country was lagging be
hind other nations in technical de
velopment of aviation. Assistant
Secretary of War Louis Johnson and
some other officials have said re
cently that this country's pre-emi
nence in aviation was threatened.
Mr. Johnson has indicated that a
major increase in the Army Air
Corps will be one of the War De
partment's requests next year. The
Navy will need an estimated $150,
000,000 additional for new warship
construction.
Wallace D. Kenyon,
Industrial Executive,
Expires in Virginia
Sportsman Succumbs to
Heart Attack After Ride
In Hunt Club Race
A heart attack was fatal yesterday
to Wallace D. Kenyon of Crest Hill,
near Orlean, Va., and Providence,
R. I., prominent sportsman and in
dustrial executive.
Mr. Kenyon, who had Just finished
riding in a point-to-point race of
the Old Dominion Hounds on the
properties of John T. Ramey and
John A. Hinckley near Orlean, was
driving to his home nearby with
Mrs. Kenyon when he suffered a
heart attack and died in his auto
mobile.
Mr. Kenyon was president of the
Webster Silver Co. and of the Mag
num Tennis Racquet Co., both of
North Attleboro. Mass., and a direc
tor of the Midland Trust ’ Co., of
Providence. He was. in addition, a
director of the Rhode Island Hos
pital of Providence and a trustee of
the Butler Hospital of Providence.
A graduate of Yale University of
the class of 1914, Mr. Kenyon was
a member of Phi Beta Kappa
Honorary Scholastic Fraternity and
a prominent clubman. Among the
clubs of which he was a member
were the Jacobs Hill Hunt Club of
Providence, of which he was an ex
master of hounds: the Hope Club of
Providence, the Dunes Club of Nar
ragansett, the Yale Club of New
York City and the North Wales Club
of Warrenton, Va.
Surviving are three children, Ann.
G. Webster, and Walter: his widow,
Mrs Mildred Webster Kenyon, and
his mother, Mrs. Walter Kenyon of
Providence.
Funeral services will be held in
; Providence.
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Harrison Recovering
From Influenza
B> thp Associated Press.
Senator Harrison. Democrat, of
Mississippi, ill since last week with
influenza, was said by his associates
today to be much improved.
The Senator was able to sit up
yesterday and dictate letters. He
was expected to return to his office
the latter part of the week.
Farmers in Rhodesia are planning
a free circulating library.
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Monopoly Committee
To Take Up Glass
Industry Next
Group in Recess Until
Monday After Study
Of Auto Patents
By JOHN C. HENRY.
In recess until Monday, the Mo
nopoly Committee plans next week
to spread on the records the details
of how patents vital to the glass
industry are tightly controlled by a
“closed shop” of relatively few glass
manufacturers.
Although declaring the picture
need not be considered a reflection
on that industry, Senator O’Ma
honey, Democrat, of Wyoming, the
committee chairman, emphasized in
discussing committee plans that the
situation in the glass Industry Is
radically different from that in the
automobile field.
Nearly 40 executives of the glass
industry have been informed by the
committee that their testimony may
be required next week.
Concludes Automobile Study.
As the committee concluded its
consideration yesterday of the auto
mobile industry, Chairman O'Ma
honey summarized two days of open
examination of patent usages in that
field as follows:
“Generally, we can say the auto
mobile industry employs patents
largely for purposes of protection
against infringement suits.
“The industry does not try to
make money out of patents through
royalties. What royalties are charged
seem to be primarily for the pur
pose of recovering development costs.
“In no case, apparently, are pat
ents used to obtain control of the
market. Patents are assets, but
not crucial ones in this industry.
“Patents are not used in this
industry to suppress competition.
“While the testimony of these
automobile manufacturers is highly
persuasive,” the chairman concluded,
"observers should not deduce that
their methods are necessarily ones
which might be applied to all of
American industry, nor that auto
mobile practice is entirely perfect.”
Group Research Emphasized.
Most of the final day's testimony
on automobile practices was devoted
to examination of two officials of
General Motors Corp., President
William S. Knudsen and Research
Chief Charles F. Kettering.
Both emphasized their belief that
the day of individual invention of
revolutionary products is passing,
and that our economy is passing into
a stage of group invention. The de
velopment, they said, as compre
hended in operation of research di
dision of the big corporations,
should lead to accelerated progress
during the coming years.
General Motors is a member of
the Automobile Manufacturers’ As
sociation and participates in the pat
ent pooling of that group. Since
1930, however, such exchange of
patent rights among the member- :
ship has been confined to those in
existence before that date, with sub
sequent discoveries not becoming
general property of all. ;
It was in connection with discus
slon of these policies of holding
patent rights among^ a group that
several committee members indi
cated their favor for a shorter term
of patent life than the 17-year span
now in effect, or for some require
ment for exchanges on payment of
reasonable feds.
Wadsworth Pledged
Backing for 6.0. P.
Minority Leader
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Friends of Mr. Martin
Insist, However, His
Choice Is Assured
Although friends of Representa
tive Martin, Republican, of Mas
sachusetts, are claiming sufficient
pledges to assure his election as
House minority leader, Representa
tive Reed, Republican, of New York
announced today that the delegation
from that State will cast most of its
support for their colleague, Repre
sentative Wadsworth.
According to Mr. Reed, the New
York Republican sentiment is di
vided among 10 votes for Represent
ative Wadsworth, 4 for Representa
tive Martin and 5 others noncom
mittal.
Mr. Martin and Mr. Wadsworth
are the only candidates officially in
the field, although Representative
Jenkins of Ohio, Ditter of Pennsyl
vania, Mapes of Michigan and En
glebright of California have been
mentioned. Supporters of Mr. Mar
tin are claiming 109 of the 169 votes
available. Selection of a successor
to Representative Snell of New
York, who did not seek re-election,
will be made shortly before the
opening of Congress on January 3.
Mr. Martin was assistant minority
leader under Mr. Snell and headed
the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee, which was instru
mental in nearly doubling party
strength in the House In last
month's election.
Associates regard him generally as
a "middle-of-the-road" Republican,
with neither ultra-liberal nor ultra
conservative tendencies.
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Georgia’s average per acre yield of
corn in 1938 was estimated at 11.5
bushels, the same as the year before.
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Star Will Take Radio
Listeners to Council
Of Grade Children
Fifth of Series to Be
On WMAL at 4 P.M.
Tomorrow
Even the elementary school chil
dren in the District's public school
system have their student councils.
Tomorrow at 4 pm. over Radio
Station WMAL. The Star will take
Washington parents into a meet
ing of a student council session of
children from the third to the
sixth grade at the Brlghtweod
School.
The children take up assembly
programs, the school gardens, the
school library-- of the playground,
and any number of other items af
fecting their life at school.
This will be the fifth in a series
of broadcasts sponsored by The Star
with the co-operation of the Na
tional Broadcasting Co. and the
public school authorities to bring
to Washington parents and tax
payers a better understanding of
the modem school system which
is developing their children.
Also on tomorrow’s program will
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Edmunds School, in the form of dia
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mother.
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It was pointed out that, although
last week’s broadcast was at 4:15
p.m., tomorrow’s program will be at
the regular time of 4 p.m.
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