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/7 COTTON MARKET — <o, 115ge zel%lgt.os.‘_‘... St AN [r]oz, No. 85. [apgn*l;mnsl)ipk)nmtic World almadge Pardons Leland Harvey And Aubrey Smith I } ey Once Had 110 Years Sentence and Smith 145 Years ARE NOT KILLERS"” l vernor Examines Rec «ds of Two and De cides on Pardon TLANTA, Ga—(#-—Governor I adge Friday pardoned Leland | ey and Aubrey Smith, two ofi eia’s most notorious prison} pes. : ey at one time bad 110 s to serve and Smith 145 s. Both had participated in a ¢ of robberies and Smith had , boasted that he “will never papture alive’” but was return o prison each time he got away out much trouble. wernor Talmadge, in announc- l the pardons, said -that sinco‘ visit to the prison farm at cdgeville a yvear ago, when hel_ muted ' Harvey's sentence to| | vears, he had seriously con red a pardon for both men. ; By had those boys down B i 1 the death cell about t‘our’ séven feet right next door to} execution chamber,” the gov r said, recalling his wisit to farm jarvey has tuberculosis and! ked pretty pale when I was[ s, The guards told me he t himself in pretty good shape standing on his head and ex sing in other ways. “Are Not Killers” B 0 boys are not Killers. Be- | en them they stole about 8800.! en I talked with Harvey a| 6 ago I asked him why I\6? 't change his ways since he| got such a reputation as an | ppe artist He said: ‘Well,| grnor, they gave me about a.l dred and ten years and I just| B make it out. If it was cut to | pre I could make it I wouldl nge my way’.” { overnor Talmadge said that | irsday he redquested from Sup-{ tendent Lawrence the record | the boys and that the superin- | dent said their conduet had ! n good. “I am immediately! ling pardons,” he announced. i he governor said he was moti- | d partly by comparison of thei Bords of the two men with those : several bankers who "hadl ten widows and orphans out their money and then drew i sontences or no sentences at hese boys,” he continued, “had! R "others, were only waifs you Bt say, and the sum total of g thefts was only a few hun d dollarg,” o in peace and sin no more,” | ;-‘wa.,.;qm;- avised both Ha.rvey‘ fl Smith in sending them theirl dong farvey's term of 110 years was | conviction of five highway rob- | 18 In Bibb (Macon) county.‘ h“ar‘.uf':m“npfid to 20 years on[ ' charge., Another five yc«ars( F added on conviction ‘of lar- | V. of an automobile in t'hei | ounty and an additional | [ ears for the same offense in N (Atlanta) county. I :,fw convictions = were f(’ri ; crimes ranging from theft| , dutomobile to a npumber ofi .. lshway and public rob-i ‘C: 'gr,,‘v of armed robbery, a | | “nience offense in Florida, is | - 28ainst Harvey in Miami. [ dnd Smth . ag chargedl ~ D 8 up .a night olub| 1 1923. They were armed | g C¢ Without a ghot beingt ——— ! . — e LOCA l L WEATHER --——-—~ . i onighs, *;a"”:eme' east portion portion Satur‘deary_ N ‘ T T fi:e%:::_mw‘"g weather re- Mding at ; the 24-hour period : 2t € a. m. teday; i, TEMPERATURE e e “ esssisinig b 0 8 ; i *eesse wpmunin.D . RAINFALL I Sl 4 homw. ... B hee . HCE Apeil gl 8 N Avers. Y Since Aprfl 4.0 1B botar °C_ API raintall, .l ; 3.58 et - January 1......14.66 Chcy smcfi ‘lggua!x ‘; 2.32 ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service Fiery Interview With Kaiser, Lost 25 Years, Is Published Says That “‘Yellow Peril” Makes War With Japan Inevitable (Editor's Note: The Kaiger gave an indiscreet interview to an American newspaper man in 1908. The German for eign office, according to the story, blue penciled much of the dynamite. The expurgated version was announced for publication in the December 1908 Century magazine. Before it appeared, however, the for eign office requested suppres sion, and sent a cruiser to New York to pick up the pages and consign them to Davy Jones’ locked. When the crates con taining the sheets failed to sink, they were fished out and the copies fed t, the flames. The “lost interview” is now, published for the first time. By HOMER McCOY BOSTON—(#)—What the Kaiser said to William Bayard Hale, journalist, that night back in 190§ —an international mystery for a quarter of a century—was revealed Friday. The famous “logt’ interview,” which caused s, many headaches and so much speculation, is pre sented lin the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine by William Harlan Hale, son of the man to whom Emperor William I 1 of Germany spoke so freely, and as his country thought, so indis creetly. This is the gist of the views expressed by the Kaiser: The inevitable world crisis was a clash bhetween Japan and -Occi dental nations: TFEast and West must meet, and the West must conquer. Great Britain was guilty of a sort of political miscegenation in allying herself with Japan. War was necegsary. War was Mrs. T. H. McHatton Named Head Of Ga. Garden Clubs CGLUE HOPE DIMMED IN LINDBERGH CASE Gold Belt Buckle Found On Suspect Rejected by Investigating Officer NEW YORK—(#)—The gold belt buckle found on William Lardner, 37, inmate of Leavenworth priscn, was rejected Friday as a clue to the Lindbergh kidnaping. Police Lieutenant James Flinn, why has been connected from the start with the kidnap investiga tion and the search for the ransom money, said: “None of the money went sos any belt buckle.” The buckle was purchased ir Switzerland, and the police lieu tenant said that none of the $50,- 000, tossed over a oemetery wall by “Jafsie,” has turned up in Europe. Lardner, a former resident of Boston, is serving a three-year sentence for attempting to pass a counterfeit SIOO bill at the Boston, Mass., Airport. Enroute to Leavenworth, Lard ner tried to bribe his guard to per mit Him ‘to make a call to mem bers of Roger Touhy's gang in Chicago. The prisoner produced a gold belt buckle, saying ‘“they’ll only take this away from me here, so you’d better have it. I bought it in Switzerland and it cost $30.” United States Marshal John J. iMurphy. at Boston, said federal agents had followed clues in the ‘Lindbergh case to Switzerland. Records of Lardner's arrests showed he was in or near New York at the time Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, Bronx educator, passed $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh’s lmoney to the purported kidnapers lef the Lindbergh baby. Marshal Murphy said Thursday la. photograph of Lardner will be | sent by mail to Dr. Congdon, wheo had said he could identify the pur. Iported intermediary. i e i FOUR TIMES TWO HARRISON, Neb— (# —Twins lare the rule in the family of Mr, and Mrs. Tvan Sayer. 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B e M‘b{" P;é B ren 98 BBe e o i O B . % RIS R Hera is photograph of the for mer. Kaiser William of Germany taken shortly after the famous in terview which has been found af ter 25 years. Christian. The Bible was full of fighting. = The greatest . .soldiers were Christians. - : . Theodore Rocsevelt, then presi dent of the United States, was his hero—the dominating, militaristic leader he hoped he himself was. The course of history was large- Mrs. Jarnagin Named Cor responding Secretary; Mrs. Monroe Wins Prize ATLANTA—(®M»>Mrs. T. H. Mc- Hatton, of Athens, Friday was elected president of the Garden Club of Georgia at the closing ses sion of its annual convention. Other officers named are: Mrs. Lansing B. Lee, of Augusta, first vice president; Mrs. James W. Woodruff, of Columbus, second vice president; Mrs. Dan D. Hor gan, Macon, third vice president; Mrs, Walter Doreyloss, Savannah, recording secretary; Mirs. Milton P. Jarnagin, of Athens, correspond ing secretary and Mrs. Richard Johnston, of Atlanta, treasurer. ‘Macon was selected as the site of the 1935 convention. Mrs. John F. Monroe, of Athens, won the poetry ©prize and the Perennial Garden Club of Colum bus and was given the scrapbook award. The Marguerite Garden Club of Columbus won the year book prize, A memorial flower garden in front of the Athens General hos pital dedicated tc the memory of the late Mrs. BE. K. Lumpkin, at whose home the first Georgia gar den club was founded during the ‘nineties, is being planned by the Athens eclub, the oldest in the United States. Mrs. T. W. Reed, of Athens, sl member of the organization for 37 years, recalled Friday that the | club was the first to demonstratoi to the city that it eould have vege ‘table gardens in the fall. She said ‘the club used to have rose shows on the city hall lawn in the spring, The whole community would be Einvited and an orchestra hired to [play for the guests. . Fourteen garden clubs of Col umbus will co-operate in sponsor ling a mammoth flower show to be ' Held at the fairgrounds |May 3, Mrs. George Burrus, Jr., said. Each iclub will have three 'projects—an iexhibit or *“glimpse” of any one flower, a still life picture or “ghad !owbox.” and a table arranged with ‘flowers for a special occasion such as adinner, lunchean or birthday. i An annual camellia show in { January Wwhich attracts visitors i from many states was reported by { Mrs. [Lansing B. Lee, of Augusta. i The old Medical college buliding {has been taken over by Augusta lclub women and the grounds are ‘ being developed, the building itself ! o ; (Continued on page six.) Athens, Ga., Friday, April 20, 1934 Cerman Cruiser Sent to Prevent Publication 25 Years Ago ly determined, not by the clash ing of social forces and economic trends, but by the deeds of great men and personalities. Thus the Kalser spoke. It was one evening in July, 1908, (Wit he consented to the interview by Hale, cloge friend of Theodore Roosevelt. - The meeting was on the imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, at anchor in the fjord of Bergen. In the Atlantic Monthly, Hale ‘writes that the emperor voiced “the most amazingly indiscreet statements ever uttered by the head of a great nation.” The world situation was precari ous at that time. The first-rate powers were in a fine state of balance—like a mixture of chemi cals, ready to explode with the addition of some catalytic sub stance—g rash speech for exam ple. The Russo-Japanese war was three years past. Germany had come to a cross-roads and was a little off the path. She was carry ing on a naval race with Great Rritain, a military race with France. The Algeciras conference, at which England, Russia and Italy had opposed the fatherland in agreeing to recognize the priority of French interests in Moroco, had left her somewhat of an Ishmael among nations. : So, the German foreign office evidently believed that the Kaiser had spoken too freely. The Hale interview was to ap "pear in the Century magazine, De cember 1908. The German foreign office gave it a thorough editorial scouring, removing most of the dynamite. ~ Then, it was decided that the in- (Contlnued on Page Six) ACTION RUSHED ON HOUSING PROJECTS Administration Orders New Vehicle for Use on Road to Recovery WASHINGTON-~ (#) —Adminis tration orders were out Friday for a new vehicle to use on the road to recovery, The projected wmachine would make available ag much as $1,500,- 000 in lumps of from S2OO to $2,- 000 for the renovation of small homes throughout the nation. The program was approved at a White House conference Thursday marking abandonment of a previ ous proposal for heavy government spending in mass home bhuilding and slum clearance. Blueprints of the program call for nationwide publicity through regional committees to persuade home owners to repair their homes. (Continued on Page Six) “Y” CURTAILMENT FUND NOW $470.50; BALANCE $1,009.50 o A total of $470.50 of the $1,480 needed by the Y. M. C. A. to meet obligations which must be paid this month, was reported at the Thursday night meeting of the board of direc tors finance committee of that organization. The next report meeting will be Monday night at 6 o’clock, when the entire board of di rectors is expected to be pres ent. The meeting will be a short one and supper will not be served. The directors will select a few names each of friends of the association to contact and will hear the third report of the finance commit tee. The $1,480 is needed to make the annual curtailment in the building mortgage of SI,OOO and to pay S4BO interest. All friends of the association who desire to help in the finan cial stringency may do so by contacting any member of the finance committee, composed of E. R. Hodgson, E. E. Lam kin, M. G. Nicholson, Sam Nickerson, T. F. Green, Jjr., Abit Nix, Tate Wright, Mor ton S. Hodgson, George H. Thornton and N. G, Slatgh {ar. S b BIOT SQUAD CALLED FAOM ATLANTA FOR KILLER DEFYING MOB Police Kill Slayer of 10- Year-Old Boy at Experiment, Ca. CHIEF BRAVES FIRE Criffin Officers Send For Help After Crowd Is Threatened EXPERIMENT, Ga.—(P—W. M. Ward, a mill nightwatchman, was | fatally wounded Friday by ma chine gun fire from Atlanta offi cers who were called here after the watchman had killed a 10- vear-old boy .and then defied po lice who tried to arrest him. Ward was, shot down by the Atlanta officers after they: h\d routed him from the house with tear gas where he had defied lo cal police for several hours, hold ing them at bay with pistols, a shotgun and a rifle. A detachment of Atlanta police headed by Chief T. O. Sturdivant, armed with machine guns and gas, regponded to the call for help. Sturdivant got out of his car in front of the home where Ward had barricaded himself and im mediately let go a gas shot. Officer Bailey of Atlantd was standing beside the chief with a machine gun. Ward retreated into the house and lecked the door. Chiet Sturdivant went to a window and used the gas gun twice. Ward then ran out of the hack door and leveled a gun at the chief who had gone ta the back of tlie house. Officer Bailey, who had accomi ‘panfed the chief, then hrought his ' machine gun into action and Ward fell with several bullet wounds in his body. He was taken to a Cirif- I’fin hospital where he died 45 min utes later, . 'HOLDS OFF POLICE FXPERIMENT, Ga—(/—Hold ing a ecrowd Bot bay with two pistols, a shotgun and a rifle, W, M. Ward, a mill nightwatchman, Friday morning defied police seek ing to arrest him for the fatal shooting of a ten~year old boy. Terrified citizens of this com munity, ‘which is a- suburb of Grif fin, telephoned police for help. Ward had gone to the Butlet home and, firing through & screen door, had shot Fred Butler. The boy died a few minutes after ar rival at a hospital, Griffin and Spalding county po lice, rushing to the mill suburb found Ward standing on the front porch of his home, blood covering his face, daring a crowd to come get him. Ward was armed with (Continued on Page Two) KILLER ADMIT PART IN LED FRANK DEATH Confessed Slayer of Lou isiana Girl Identifies Self With Famous Case SHREVEPORT, La.—(®— Fred Lockhart, saved three days ago | from death at the hand® .of an llnfuriated mob, identified himself ' Friday as a participant in the sen sational Leo . Frank lynching In Georgia in 1915. Lockhart, held for attacking and killing }ls‘year-old Mae Giffin, turned from reading the Bible to tell that he drove the automobile which carried Frank from the Georgia prison at Milledgeville 110 miles to be hanged at Marietta, Ga. | “I know mow how Frank felt | when he was taken from the Geor | gia prison and hanged,” gaid Lock | hart. Leo Frank, a young man and a college graduate, whose home was at Brookiyn, N. Y. was lynched ’Augus; 7, 1915, after his death | sentence for the slaying of Mary Phagan had been committed to life imprisonment. Member of Mob Lockhart said he was a member of the mob <which battered f{ts | way int, the Milledgeville prison to get Frank. The mob took Frank to Marietta in order to hang him near Mary Phagan's grave. Asg Lockhart told his story, four { companies of national guardsmen | patrolled the Parish courthouse grounds. The troops were called out Tuesday night while an angry crowd was storming the court tiouse: battling unsuccessfully to Ireaoh Lockhart in the rooftop jail | Lockhart, who said his real | (Continued From Page Two) Gay Crowd Pours Into City For Brightest Week-End On University Social Calendar Mrs. McCurry Made Vice - President of National D. A. R. WASHINGTON —~(#)— Mrs. Julian Benson McCurry of Athens, Ga., former state re gent of the Georgia division of the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, wasg elected a vice president general by the Daughters at their national convention here Thursday. Mrs. McCurry was one of seven vice presidents general chesen, Other vice presidents general named were Mrs. William P. H. McFaddin of Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Frederick F, Gundrum, Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs., Bessie Carroll Higgins, Spencer, Towa; Miss Minnie M. Dilley, Northfield, Minn.; Mrs, Henry | Zoller, Baltimore, and Mrs. ‘Roscoe’ C. O'Byrne. of Brookvillg, . Ind. Attorney General Cummings and secretary Roper addressed the D. A. R. at their session Thursday. ¢ UNIVERGITY R.O.T.C GIVEN HIGH RATING Inspection |s: Completed Thursday With Record S 5 Percent Perfect Military inspection was com=- pleted yesterday for the current year at The University of Georgia, with 95 per cent perfect record, Colonel H. E. Mann, in &arg®h of the University R, O. T. C. sgaid here today. Major Wilson Spann, of the Fourth Corps area, stationed at Fort McPherson, spent Monday and Tuesday inspecting the infan try division and Col. B. L. Burch, a former University of Georgia P. M. S. and T. went over the cav alry division in detail. Colonel Burch said that the University’s military department shows very high rate of efficiency in every detail, and praised the fine work done by the regular army officers and enlisted men on duty here. Both Dr. 8. V. San ford and Col. H. E. Mann ex pressed themselves as gratified at the successful outcome and the inspection. “All the credit,” Colonel Mann gaid, “is due to the hard and pain staking work of the officers work ing with me, to the fine spirit of cooperation and conscientious work of every member of the cadet corps, and to the good will and continual support received from Dr. Sanford and the faculty of the University.” Highest mark on the indlvidual tests given members of the eorps was made by Marion Allen, Mil ledgeville, grandson of Mrs. Toombs Dußose of Athens, The inspection included public reviews of both cavalry and In fantry, theoretical classroom work, field maneuvers, practical prob- I"‘m’~ and an inspection of the ' stables and other government prop erty used by the R. O. T. C. unit. Cadet officers are: Colonel of the Cadet Corps, W. W. Buchanan, Athens: executive lieutenant col oney, R. A. Stephens, Atlanta; adjutant captain, Frank Killing heck, Morganton, Cavalry regiment: Colonel, Lus trat Winecoff, Atlanta: lieutenant colonel. Marion H. Allen jr. Mil ledgeville; ecaptains.. R. E. Snell. ing, Athens; W. T. Ezzard, Dal ton; E. W. Tucker, Athens; H. B. Walker, Conyers. | First Squadron: Major W. A. , Fuller, Atlanta; adjutant captain, 'E‘ M. Hodgson, Athens; captains :of troons, R. H. Hodgson, Ath {ens: Emmett Mitchell, Thomas | ville, | Second Squadron: Major, W, B. | o (Continued On Page Three) | et 'Local Postal Employes » ; Receive Refund on Pay i Toeal rnostoffice emploves have received a total of $555.70 from the government under the recent bill ‘passed by Congress refunding 5 iper cent of the 17 per cent cut for iFebruar_v and March, it was learn jed today. The pay-roll for the subsequent tmonths, it was shown, will be in {creased by approximately $75 over | that during the cut, while the cut ‘ia $550 under the uew bill in com | parison with the SBOO under the {ls per cent reduction, e A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Little Commencement Begins This Afternoon With Baseball Came HOLD THREE DANCES All Fraternities Planning Varied Entertainments : For Visitors Crowds of laughing girls and boys began to pour into Athens today to begin the gayest and brightest week-end of the yeayr— Little Commencement week-end at the University. Festivities will begin this eve ning with various affairs at the different fraternity houses, while the week-end proper wiil open with the first Pan-Hellenic dance of the week-end tonight at 9 o'clock in Woodruff hall. Mal Hallett and his orchestra, on their first Southern tour, have been se cured by Pan-Hellenic Presidemt Jot Thomas, Jesup, to play for the three dances—the one tonight, the tea dance Saturday afternoon, and the concluding dance Satur day evening. J Woodruff hall is to be decorated with the Okefenokee swamp in south Georgia as motif. Cypress trees and Spanish moss are painted around the dance floor, with a canopy of solid blue over ‘the dance floor. The decorations ‘have been prepared by the Land lscape Architecture club, Richard Dupree, Athens, president, under the direction of Hubert B. Owens, associate professor of landscape architecture, and Pan-Hellenic lcouncu faculty advisor, ! Following the Georgia-Auburn bassball game this afternoon, which was to officially open the week-end, the Pelican club will hold a dinner-dance at the Geor gian hotel at 7:30 with Jack Dale )and his Bulldogs furnishing the 'music. Fraternities will hold buf fet suppers and open houses fol lowing the dance tonight, and ’other affairs have been arranged ‘fur Saturday and Sunday. Girls who wilr attend the vari ous house-parties being held by fraternities over the week-end are: | Pi Kappa Phi / Edith Taylor, Athens; *a‘deline Harlagn, Tampa, Fla.; Martha Lee Allan, Athens; Dorothy De Klyne, Atlanta; Mrs. Aubrey Stoudenmire, Athens; Ida Hardman, Raleigh, N. C.; Rosolyn Walsh, Garfield; Louise Stephens, Forsyth; Clara Hargrave, Thomasville; Reia Ran dall, Atlanta; Mary Wallace, De catur; Virginia Holbrook, Corne lia; Jane West, Atlanta; Gladys Helberg, University of Alabama, and Elsie Peace, Athens. Chaperons: Dr. and Mrs, J. A. McClain, Athens; Mr. and Mrs. Richard ¥. Harris, Athens, and Mrs. Maude Warner, housemother Sigma Chi Mary McCormick, Thomasville; Eulalia Miller, Baconton; Rosa (Continued on Page Six) Services for Dr. J. C. Bennett to Be Held Saturday Friends in Athens of Dr. J. C. Bennett were sadden to hear of his sudden death in Jefferson Thursday. Dr. Bennett was well known in Athens and throughout this sec tion, having been engaged in the active - practice. of medicine for some 45 years. He was 65 years old and had been in ill health for the past year. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning = from the First Baptist church, *of - which - Dr. Bennett was a deacon. The ser vices will be conducted by Rev. R. M. Rigdon, pastor .of the church. Interment will be in Jef ferson cemetery. Dr. Bennett is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lizzie Dixon Ben nett; daughter, Miss Miriam Ben nett, Jefferson; one son, J. C. Bennett, jr.; brothers, George D. Bennett, ?oyt Bennett and Mor gan Benneétt, Athens, and Dr. Joe Bennett, Gray, Sam Bennett, Sar asota, Fla., Emory Bennett, Ken tucky; sisters, Mrs. Ned Pender grass, Grifin, and Mrs. J. M. Nix, Commerce, and Mrs. Sarah Mahaffey, Athens, half-sister; step-mother Mrs., Hannah Ben nett; and one grandchild, William ißennett Dye, Jefferson. _ Dr. Bennett formerly was wor shipful master of the Jefferson lodge of Masons and a member of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. He had also served as secretary and treasurer of the District Medical association. ; HoYE LEAGUE FOREGASTS ORAMATIC DECISION ON ARMS MAY 2 Showdown on Disarma« ment Expected at Ceneva Conference UPSET BY JAPANESE Stand Revealed in Note Almost Disturbing as Franco-German Talk TOKYO—(#)—The world as rep resented by foreign diplomats in Tokyo seemed dazed Friday by Japan’s ‘“restatement of policy” to ward China and what the diplo mats regarded as her audacity in issuing it. \ The representative of other pow ers, still wondering at the. exact meaning of the declaration, labelled it variously a “white-hands-off- China” statement and an “Asiatic Monroe doctrine.” . Japanese officialdom appeared bewildered by the world’s hostile reception of Tokyo's declaration which, in part, holds Japan is sole ly responsible for maintaining: »tho‘ peace of east Asia. ; There is almost unanimous con curréence among the diplomats on two points: . First, that Tokyo's staternent constitutes the most startling and most ambitious declarations of pol icy the orient has witnessed since Japan's 21 demands to China in 1915; and Peace Depends on Japan Second, that how far Japanese doctrines menace world peace will - depend entirely on how Tokyo in terprets and applies them. . /On the latter point,»authorities do not believe Japan intends to at tempt to expel Maj, Gen. Hans Von Seeckt, German chief miliatry ad viser to the Chinese nationalist government. y Nor, in the same connecticn, de well-informed persons believ Nip ponese attempts may be «xpected to expel the American aviators now in China or to hold up ship ping carrying Amrican airplanes to China. Rather, it is believed Japan desires to post a warning for the world to read against inter ference in Japan's determination to dominate China’s destiny, when in the “restatement” she says she objects to other nations supplying China with military airplanes and instructors. In a new statement Friday, a foreign office spokesman attempt ed to somewhat allay the fears of Washington and London tha; Ja pan plans to flout the nine-power and other treaties, but the note of defiacne to white nationg still is dominant. “Japan shares responsibility for maintenance of the peace in East Asia only with asiatic powers, par ticularly China.” P GENEVA— (#) —League of Na= tions circles forecast Friday & dramatic showdown on disarma ment on May 23. : That is the date when represen tatives of the nationg in the world disarmament conference will re turn to Geneva in full session to attempt to catch and pull together the flying strings of the many sided problems of arms control, kIR There are even unconfirmsd ru mors that France may insist upon an investigation of German arma ment before consenting to nego tiate any sort of a disarmament treaty. - Bu¢ the differences of France, Germany and Great Britain form but one section of the problem as a. whole. 5 Japan Disturbing Friday a tendency was seen in Geneva to link what one official called the “disturbed” disarmament situation with developments in the far BEast growing out of the newly stated Japanese policy that - -west ern powers must keep hands off - China. s l Some progress was seen by well informed sources here in the Brit ;ish “white paper” revelation at !London Thursday that Germany 'had expressed a willingness to Epostpone reductions of armaments by other powers for flve years. ’ This stand, taken in a previously ‘unrevealed note to Gre2; Britain, it was stated here, may reduce the iapprehensions of France regarding Germany’s arms. Unexpected: and disconcerting, but probably logical. was the opins jon expressed concerning France's memorandum to London in which the French, assuming bilateral ne gotiationg were “rendered vuh"‘g Germany’s defense moves, demand ed that a full disarmament con- R _— ; - T, (Continued on Page Six)
