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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON MARKET s o MIDDL|NG Re K 12%c pREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. .. 12%c ~.’_——_——-————_-_———_ [Vol. 102. No. 226. THER Washington ashingt - Lowdown e ) — Willis Thornton .——-"—_F “gabor’'s Brain Trust” | No “Royal Road” Dillmger? Oh, Yes! 4 i puring the absence on vaca- l tion of Rodney Dutcher, Ban ner-Herald Washington corre- ! gpondent, the daily Washing ton column will be written by ! willis Thornton, ! PERRELS Banner-Herald Washington I Correspondent. WASHINGTON.—With almost he whole American Federation of abor organization in San Fran isco for the annual convention, eadquarters here is pretty much qmed over exclusively to “Labor’s Brain Trust.” You didn’'t know organized labor had 2 prain trust? well, it has. The current vogue ¢ turning to the colleges for aca femically trained help is by no eans confined to the government br to industry. Labor's brain trust isn’'t called hat—it's known as the research tafi—but it comes to the samel hing. | This staff was formed more| nan a 4 year ago to prepare labor’s | Lide of the argument when thei odes were formed. Now that they bre completed, it continues to metion in keeping unions in omed on code developments, ! ompliance, and interpretation. The three principal members are il college graduates of compara ively recent years, and represent kome of the ‘mew blood” which is boine infused in the Federation in uch guantities’ of late. i They are Boris Shishkin (Co umbia), Marjorie Clark (Wiscon i and Nebraska), and W, £ biolden (Harvard) . l Shishkin, Russian-born, worked ! n the construction, a]uminum,' betroleum, shipping, cleaning and iveing, lumber, and fabricated{ Inetals codes. Viss Clark specialized on autos, ! butber, furniture, textile, and can-} bing codes. She has lived in Mex- | ico, and has a book forthcoming | 0 the labor movement thepe. Holden handled the metal min ine wheat liour milling, cement. palt, and electrical manufac'turingl odes. Much discussion now going on in the San Francisco convention i< crounded on the research and bractical experience of this “Labor prain Trust.” of which you hear ittle, but whose facts and figures: nd direct contact with the unionsl in the field are a sort of “ammu- | ition dump” for the battles now | being fought on the labor front. I il I The Federal Trade Commission is “cracking down” on “civil ser-l vice schools” which give the im ression that they are a sort of direct hiring agency for the gov-' mment and that they have jobs Bto offer students who take their courses. They haven't, and though the government has no objections to courses that prepare applicants Bior civil service ‘examinations, it's out after the ones that give an | impression that they control the jobs Right now, far instance, there are 40,000 men and women taking ezaminations all over the country for stenographers and typists. They'll be rated on their examina tions, and jobs are filled from the I"p of the list on down to the ottom rh‘m can imagine how much | thance the Jowest 30,000 haye of | Beting jobs. even if they are ;'W’]""f "'l‘ Joe Doakes’ Civil rvice School. & Justice building, J. Edgar . ‘over, Uncle Sam’s No, 1 sleuth.l \ illed his famous collection. )r R souvenirs are a bullet- | coced straw hat that once was | g”“ by a fellow named Dillin- R ~Hundreds of people are g © quite & thrill out of being r P 'l_ at the convention of f"":u‘w """'l* here—they'll do it g who wants the record b .. DY the by it YO b it the government has on , 14 the fingerprints of several g 'ed children whose parents , they might be a mark for ) ‘°rs some time in the fu f you think di E 1 iplomatic posts are & consider the job, taken v ) Frederick Pomeroy Hib “ oon to leave as minister to % Moy IH\ Hr-'_e relieving John Ham traores 2CVeagh, who has. con goo malaria and must leave Lo Y. The last minister to e & Charles E. Mitchell, died o . D€ year is regardéd as € thee > there, compared with this ”""Ili,‘;f in most posts. And in Monrovig, {'ihmatnc. condition at Posed "“tr\: l‘t- Hibbard is sup- RID Libaets 0 do something to .l ria eradicate slavery and of the ',,,'”_ij'tßig_ht in the midst “‘avhz'::mn nn NRA confusion, Bon “B;erehants are put baost PationE ue KEagzle Week” to ang ""‘Jducef: of NR’A stores well, too . & it’'s doing Mothering thse i L Bht, 1934 . — (Copy » NEA Service Inc.) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service Georgia National Guard Re-Mobilized Hundreds to Witness Joe Kﬂight In Action Here Tonight at 8:30 | ————— | Cairo, Ga., Lightheavy Is Recognized as Champ In Some Circles BOTH FIGHTERS READY First Bout Tonight at Franks’ Arena Wil Start at 8:30 By F. M. WILLIAMS Professional boxing, which has entertained thousands of rabid fans during the last few months that it has been progessing in this city, will reach a thrilling climax tonight, when two great battlers hurl themselves from their corners to stage what ghould be the best battle that has ever been held here as Earle Johnson, of Atlanta, meets the Southern champion, Joe Knight of Cairo, Georgia, and Mia mi, Florida in a ten round battle at Franks arena, located on the cor ner of Foundry and Oconee streets, at 8:30. Both boys are well known, and the fight is expected'tvp thrili the record-breaking throng that will turn out from the start until the finish. The admission will be $1.50 for a ringside ticket, and 75 cents for other seats. | Knight, probably the best de fensive fighter in his class in the world. will be the favorite to take the match, but the 21-year old Johnson is out to make himself known to the boxing world, and may spring an upset. One can never tell. “Ready To Go” “I'm in great condition, and will be ready to go when the bell rings tonight,” said the popular Knight this morning. “I realize that T am in for a battle, and I wil] attempt to end it as quick as it can be done,” he continued. Johnson did not have much to say, but stated that he w=2s iln shape for the fight, which he hoped to win, and that he would give Knight a great battle. “‘l'm out to make the fight of my life, and it Knight whips me he will know he has been in a battle,” said John son. ; Botp fighters went through a light workout in Memorial hall vesterd2y aftornoon, and the large crowd that witnessed the workouts went agway shaking their heads at the ‘cleverness of Knight, and the hard-hitting of Johnson. Johnson confined his work to a few rounds of shadow hoxing, and about ten minutes punching the (Centinued on Page Five) IOWA FARMERS TO I VOTE ON CONTROL e | Referendum This Week Expected to Influence AAA in Future Course S o DES MOINES —(AP) — The farm administrations question—-I “dp you want to continue controll ed agriculture?’ — is being ars wered by lowa farmers at the polls this week. The poll is a part of the national referendum which the AAA is con ‘ducting to obtain direct farm sen timent on whether another agricul ture adjustment program is want ed. The AAA is asking farmers to vote “yes” or “no” to twu ques tions: “Do you favor an adjustment program dealing with corn and hogs in 1935?” and “do you favor a one contract per farm adjustment program dealing with grain and livestock to become effective in 1936?” * Towa'y answers to these ques tions, although they will not act ually determine the future course of the farm administration, gre €x pected to bear great weight with the AAA, since this is the nation’s largest corn and hog producing state. Farmers in general apparently favor the production adjustment idea. although many have objected to the administration’s methods of aceomplishing it. Farm leaders themselves hold divergent views on the poll. Mile Reno, champion of the minority groups—the farm union and farm holjdy association—dismisses the referendum with the words: «The AAA will control the polls and determine the votes. Tt (the réferendum) doesn’t mean a thing.* ~ Director R. K- Rlisg of Towt ex tensfon gerviece and Chairman R. M. Evans of the corn-hog commit ‘tee. however, predict the farmers will favor another control pro grams oo Principals in Famous “American Tragedy” Trial g & s e ™ B e y 3 R k. o i, Ao, R ; R . W T 4 o e b e b f ¢ - Y, b Lo 2? ;1 A i R b e R - SEEEES T, R PRI TrE e MRS R T L WHIEREOTN U e S R, SO R IR 2 TN P Ny 9 e ™ LB NG el ‘i W T, el 8 e TR Y RO f S " g - Vreda McKechnie Score of Witnesses Called Today As Bobby Edwards Goes On Trial TALMADGE SPEAKER e - Ceorgia Governor Advo cates Merchant Marine In Louisville Speech LOUISVILLE, Ky.—(®)—A strong merchant marine as a safeguard against war was advocated Mon day by Governor Eugene Tal madge of Georgia in an address before the national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The governor, who is honorary chairman of the national maritime league, told the veterans transpor tation facilities at the outbreak of the World War would have mater ially shortened the conflict and asked “how long will we ceontinue to go on without providing for an adequate merchang marine” “Merchant seamen have render ed valuable service in every con flict in which the United States has been engaged,” he .said. *“Side by gide with the veterans in every war has been the merchant seamen. The seaman, like members of your organization, has served abroad. He is the instrument- which makes foreign sorvice possible.” Reviewing the nistory of ship ping, he said that early recogni tion of the value of seapower “is found in the fact that the very first laws passed by congress concerned the development of this form of‘ transportatiorn.” | fWhen the World War broke, | we had just 17 vessels engaged in foreign trade. These were immed jately impressed into service. Oth er tonnage was seized, bought,; commandeered and requisitioned wherever it could be found. , “‘Ships, ships and more ships’ rang the cry. Perhaps never in history of civilizatlon were ships more clearly a condition of nation al survival., In the heat of con (Continued on Page Five) AA to Pay T I AAA to Pay Twelve Dollars Per Ton for o l Peanuts This Year] VIENNA, Ga.—(&P)—Prices to bel paid to farmers by the Agrieultu ral Adjustment Administratlon' for peanuts for crushing at the mills under the rental a..d benefit payment plan have been announ ced here by Senator Walter F. George. Democrat, Georgia. Senator George said sl2 would be paid per_ton for Spanish poa-I nuts. Runner peanuts are to bring: $8 per ton. Other prices are: sl6; for Virginia Jumbo type, and 881 per ton on full 1934 crop to far mers who will agree to.cut thelrl 1935 acreage to the average of) 1933 and 1934. | The senator said sls per ton| will be allowed on not more than 20 percent of the present crop if the farmer makes an agreement with the oil men to use it for crushing purposes only. Spanish peanuts should be worth S6B a ton, based -on these prices and the value of oil today, Senator Grore& said. “This does not take into consideration com? petitive sellers,” he added. Benefits to farmers will be paid after acreage reduction agree ments are signed in 1935, he said. The payments are to come from a processing tax of one <cent, an nounced last week by the AAA, Athens, Ga., Tuesday, October 2, 1934 P 13 &2% {,;{’( » - FRE A PR Rot B 3 " YAS L A 5 g R PR - e , s NG ) -s, T 4 2 o i it I i) iy L / E 10 i M % e/ N i v gießenie g - B R : 3 & e R el Robert Edwards ‘i - American Tragedy’’ Trial Is Attracting Interest Over Entire Nation y b BY LEO W. SHERIDAN WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — () — The commonwealth summoned more than a score vr witnesses to day in an effort to prove that Robert .‘}llep Edwards blackjacked Freda McKechnie to death as they swam in Harvey’s Lake. It was Pennsylvania’s ‘“American Tragedy’’ trial, with the prosecu ‘tion charging that the 21-year-old mine surveyor plotted one sweet heart’s death so that he might marry another. F¥Freda was the home town girl; Miss Margaret Crain, the friend of college days. Fredas body was found floating in the lake after she and Edwards had gone swimming during a rain storm the night of July 30. Harold Flannery, assistant dis ;trict attorney, told the jury last night that the prosgecution will prove Edwards promised to marry Miss Crain whiie plotting the death of the other girl. ! “We will show the intimacies of these two,” Flannery shouted. “We will show what was back of this crime. And we demand the ex treme penalty—the electric chair.” It was then that the flushed vouth moved for the first time dur ing Flannery's address. Today District Attorney Thomas M. Lewis will open the testimony by ecalling upon County Detective Richard Howell, a neighbor of the Bdwards and the McKechnies. He will trace his investigation back séveral vears when Hdwards and Freda ' met while working in 2 Wilkes-Barre brokerage office. State’s attorneys decline to say whether an effort will be made to obtain a statemen from Miss Crain. a music teacher in East Aurora, N. X, She has refused to attend the trial and the law will not permit she be subpoenaed. Mrs. Geo. McKechnie, the girl's mother, today told of Edward's courtship of her daughter. She said: ‘“They had been very friendly before Bobby went to Mansfield college. After that their corres pondence dwindled down.” She said Ferda had “another bov friend, George Thomas,” but she “proke off with him. Bobby cameé back from school and came to our (Continued on Page TFive) THE News IN A NUTSHELL By Jack Braswell Several indictments returned by grand jury, while $30,600 suit | against Bass Bus company filed by Mrs. Frank Fabris, was being tried in Superior court, | Salvation Army special gifts | campaigners meet for breakfast at Costa’s tomorrow to go over plans. George W. Munden, of Monroe, N. C., succeeded R. H. Gloyd as manager of J. C. Penney store here. University registration 301 more than at this time last year. Ruth Elder, the first woman to attempt a trans-Atlantic flight, is a visitor in Athens. Earle Johnson of Atlanta will meet Joe Knighey, lightweight champion of the South, in the main hout on the program tonight at the '~ Loy E. Rast, director of the ,m‘c' o TR Ay B Ty g 5 ~':> R ot B R e R el TR "-f@ .- ; a )ﬂi &5 i R B e S T S E, 7T SRS S N g. A . T, 4 2 T > R . Lo A Tuk " " B i o L R- M &1 g M’# oty S RIS P i R £ IR AR 4 %@:ﬂ» ; R O A 2 LA b 7 omait I e AT NS& E g By - A% Nl e >k T i Bd g ey ) % Margaret Crain I ELOYD N ATHENG | Managership of Penney's Store Changes, Cloyd Going to Florida George W. Munden, who has been manager of the J. C. Penney stog in Monroe. ‘N, C, since i, 1982, arrived in -Athens Iyeatb.ﬂkly to succeed R. H. Gloyd las manager of the Penney store there. Mr. Gloyd 1 ill = become ;manager of the Pen ~y store in 1 ¥t. Pierce, Fla, { Mr. Munden has been with the Il'onney company since 1929, How tever, before joining the company ,he had twelve years experience in Imerchandlsing. He is an active { Mason and was a member of the t Monroe Rotary club. In announc |ing that Mr. Munden had been { promoted to the Athens store, the I.\lom'oe Enquirer stated that f"since taking over the manage | ment of Penney’'s in March, 1932, i month by month the store has ! made gains in sajes and prestige, Mr. Munden being a worker and Ikeen business executive. He is a | believer in advertising, and in no &small measure accedes his success lin store management to the local ! newspapers.” | While a resident of Monroe, Mr. | Munden was active In the civic "affairs of that community, and he {and Mrs. Munden were Aamong | the community’s most popular and | widely esteemed citizens. While | he has not had time to meet but la few of the residepts of Athens, | Mr. Munden was very favorably iimpressed with the city and visi | bly pleased over having establish | ed his residence here, ! Mr. Gloyd is making plans to { assume his new duties in Florida labout the middle of this month. He has recently made a business | trip to Ft. Pierce and reports | that it is a thriving community. A new building ‘is being construct |ed for the Penney store, Mr. | Gloyd said, adding that the Pen | ney company is establishing sev loml stores in Florida in extending | its large business. | Mr. Gloyd came to . Athens as | manager of the Penney store | about eight years ago, succeeding . —— : (Continued on Page Five) | Sandy Creck Soil Erosion project, . addressed the Atlanta Lions club I-'lt a meeting at which the Athens | Lions gave a very interesting pro- I gram. | “Our most dangerous enemy if i.l:.pan and our plancs should be \'designed to attack Japan,” Brig. I'(Ten. Wm. Witchell, retired, told the | president’s avaition commission to | day. I PWA today allotteq $2,831,700 for | non-federal projects in seventeen | states. I As a result of litigation growing inut of a tax dispute, Mayor Her- Ibex-t Smart and two other city of ficials of Macon will”have to ans ,wer gontempt charges there Fri day. i President Roosevelt had alreads (Continued on Page Five) I s E' E ' 4 e Washington Star Says - 2 Witnesses Shattered Hauptmann Alibi |i ; | Civil Engineer Says He] Saw Hauptmann Night Of Kidnaping I TODAY'S DEVELOPMENTS l IN LINDBERGH CASE (By the Associated Press.) Investigators search for uniden tified associate who apparently knew Bruno Hauptmann, indicted for extortion as the Lindbergh ransom receiver, allegedly passed ransom money last February, | District Attorney Samuel J. Fo- ’ ley went to Trenton, N. J,, lur{ conference with governor and At torney General David T. Willentz, of New Jersey, presumably re garding New Jersey's evidence | against Hauptmann and the ques- | tion of his extradition, althou:_'hl Foley said there was nothing he could say in Trenton about extm-I dition. l Assistant District Attorney Ed ward Breslin, of the Bronx, in} Foley’s absence, directed ques tioning of acquaintances and | friends of Hauptmann. { Authorities a'so sought William | B. Dennis, a civil engineer, who said he saw Hauptmann within a few miles of the Lindbergh home the night of the kidnaping, and in October of the same year said he saw the same man at a guide camp In Maine. ‘Washington, D. C. Star says two secret witnesses have shat tereq Hauptmann’s alibi that he 'was not the “John” of the Lind (Continued on Page Five) ‘I N% L[ ‘lsl B E.B‘U;N i Famous Case Is Started Today After Two-Year Legal Struggle UNITED STATES COURT HOUSE, CRlCAGO.—(&)—Samuel Insull, sr., tead until 1932 or a $4,000,000,000 public utility system, went on trial in U. S. district court at 10 o'd¢lock (Central stand ard time, today for mail frauds which it was charged cost inves tors $143,000,000. Insull, in a gray scak suit, was almost the last of the 16 defend ants to arrive in Judge James H. Wilkerson’s court on the sixth floor of the courthouse. “I have nothing whatever to say,” the principal defendant de~ clared. He waived interviewers to ward his gcn, Samuel, jr., who en tered the corridor with him. A final defense - motion came from Attorney Floyd E. Thomp son, re'pn-seming Insull, sr., when Judge Wilkerson asked if both sides were readv to fry case 26,900, after a two-year legal struggle in which Insull was sought in three nations. ‘Thompson challenged the array of veniremen, claiming that the defense attorneys had mnot been aliowed sufficient part in the lot tery by which the prospective jurymen were chosen. Insull, whose 74 years span the “glectric age” from its early Edi son days to a zenith Wwhich his own empire ¢f electric power rep resented, denies that the collapse of that empire was due to any (Continued on Page Five) b Rl ———————————————— | I LOCAL WEATHER P e Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday TEMPERATURE Highest. ... daess seea 524.76.0 TOWRBE. s, suin ners Bsvea BBy ] MORR, .2 . ioienk thie <s4 0018 NOPIIRL. . s ciks asrbu anscßi RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours.. .... 0.00 Total since October 1...... 0.00 Deficiency since October 1.. .18 Average October rainfall.. 2.91 Total since January 1......38.59 Deficiency since January 1 1.78 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday ' Famous Visitor | ! us Visitor R I ' & I. [ easll :;.:‘m T I £ T L U e g™ R YRR ) o 3 ] Sr ) L . " % g o : ’ %% 3 " | I s I L e T | g, | bcee Ly Ruth Elder, famous trans-At lantic woman flier, who was visiting in Athens today. The | above photograph was taken just before Miss Elder hopped I off for her daring flight. ( (Story on Page 2) | | & (ANWGE SUIT I & ! | & ’ IGrand Jury Returns True . Bills; Divorce Docket Is . Completed Monday | A $30,000 damage suit against Bass Bus Lineg, filed by Mrs. Frank Fabris of Jeff Davis coun ty wag being tried in Clarke su perjor court today. Mrs., Fabris claims that she was permanently ‘injm'od to the extent of $30,000 on IMarch 10, 1934, while a passenger on a bus driven by H, L. Bass en }route to Macon. | The accident, so Mrg. Fabrig | petition states, occured either in Putman or Morgan county when Mr. Bass tried to pass an automo bile in front of the bus causing -the , bus to run into a ditch. The ir-'hwk broke her hip, Mrs. Fabris | claime and she sufered other inju 'riw:, The taking of testimony in the ; case was begun yesterday afters I noon and continued today. i The defense is seeking to show that Mrs. Fabris was injured in a f fall prior to the date on which she‘ !(‘l:iimﬂ to have been hurt in the‘ accident while g passenger on the | | bus. | ~ The gand jury yesterday al’ter-: ' noon returned true bills against! ' Jonas Johnson, charged with bur plarizinz Younkin’'s filling sta-l tion; Jack Harrison, chargeA wltpl stealing a truck from G. A. | Christian’s; Jack Harrison charg-i ed with burglarizing the Mu Beta chapter house; Wil] Henry ']‘hom:esl charged with murdering Robm‘tl Butler, both Negroes; Pink Evans, | charged with assault with intent | to murder Lizzie Fvans, Negro; | Lonnie Latimer and James Motes, charged with burglarizing O'Kel ley's store. Divorce cases disposed of yester- | day follow: Mrs. Marjorie .lunr\s; versus Wiley Jones, first verdict: | | George Wray versus Lillie I’.rII; !\\’l';l}'. first verdict; Mrs. Louella | I,A\l:ms:ly versus J. F. Massay, I‘lx's'.l ’ (Continued or Page Five) I AR e 8 | Mitchell Brands as | 13 s M ” I “Disgraceful” Loss | l-. - E Of Dirigible Akron | —_— i | WASHINGTON.— (/) —Calling | the loss of the Navy dirigible | Akron “disgraceful.” Brigadier | | General Wiliam Mitchell, retired, | | tolg the President's aviation vﬁm—l | mission today that with fifty di-| rigibles the United States could! destroy Japan within two days if‘; | war broke out. ! | Mitchell, former asisstant r-hiefl of military aviation and a Stormz center in army circles since he | began his efforts for a unified a_irll service in the 1920°5, said that the‘ wigid airship was “a great imple- | ment in time of war.” ’ Dirigibles have a larger cruis- | ing radius than any other air-| craft, he said, and “with compe-i tent crews competently handled, ; they are probably the safest” i means of transportation, ‘ Numerous accidents to American | dirigibles, he said, “have been due! either to the gross stupidity of people who send the ships out or the inability of crews to handle the ships.” Criticising the orders which sent out the Akron in the face of a storm. and its course which he said prought it into the storm’s path, he declared “people who do ‘things like that oughtn’t be allow ed to handle ships.” = HeME f ki < 'Utmost Secrecy Surrounds ' Plans for Cuardsmen = Called Today 5 " ; . “RADICALS” FREED I Martial Law Ordered by Covernor Recently Is I Still in Force - . ATLANTA, Ga—(P)—Six com= panies of the Georgia National Geard were ordered mobilized early today by Adjutant General Lindley Camp . and moved to an unaunnounced destination. i The order of Governor Tal madge invoking martial law in any localities where troops were situated during the national tex | tile strike has never been withe- I drawn, i The last act of the national guardsmen in the strike zones came when the adjutant general's !men took into custody 15 men at | Shannon, Ga., termed “radicals® by General Camp. The general has kept the men under arrest | since thut time. : | “Radicals” Released I Shortly after announcing the [ mobilization, General Camp- said [he had released the men from Shannon this morning under mili tary charges. He said they would remain at their homes pending the sitting of a milite.y court to hear their cases. The general did not make known the nature of the charges. s General Camp had classed thess. Jman as the biggest “trouble lmakers" the guardsmen had faced during the national textile strike. The companies ordered out today are composed of 522 men and ofi cers, Bix Tompanies Called The companies on the move, all of the 121st Infantry, are: e Company A of Jackson. $ { Howitzer company of Monros. Company H of Albany. Company B of Barnesville. Comany C and Service company of Macon. : ‘ The adjutant general in issuing ! his order for the mobilizatiqn did | not make public his reason but it i has been known for sometime that | trouble has been brewing in the Inm‘thr‘rn part of the state around Rossville, just across the state lline from Chattanooga. A | PREPARE FOR WAR | Official Army Pamphlet ~ Spreads Uneasiness Over ~ Country BY GLENN BABB < (Associated Press Foreign Staff) . TOKYO—(®)—An official army pamphlet which urged Japan 'to make ready for a possible war with Russia spread uneasiness among the nation’s economic leaders to - day. This was reflicted on the stock exchange. Leading shares declined on an average of two yen ({(about 60 cents.) - Newspapers said members of the cabinet as well as civilians were taken back by the army’s surpris ing manifesto, which proposed drastic changes in the nation's weanomic life and in non-military government departments. It asserted the United States has three airplanes to Japan's ons and that America wanted a 2 navy larger than this country’s in order to sup pory vigorous policies toward the Orient. Newspapers asserted Ceneral Senjuro Hayashi, minister of war, would be questioned at the next cabinet meeting about responsibi -lity for authorship of the pamph let. Political writers predicted the statement would be a grave politi cal issue at the impending specll! session of the diet. < A war office spokesman, asked if the pamphlets were approved by General Hayashi, who is now tray eling in western Japan, declined to reply but said “I can state that the pamphlet expresses the vww_q' of the Japanese army.” o The pamphlet said the strength ~of the Japanese army prevented the Soviet from interfering 'wltkﬂ ‘power of the Japanese navy and ‘made “futile the threats” of Henry L. Stimson, former United States _secretary of state, . . smer