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y1- ' : T 1st Games Near Salem two major foot , ; ball team, Salens high aad Willamette, play their first . ' arames September 27 and 8. Keep posted . on their fT "On VCS 7eather Partly cloudy and cool to day; ' gratle to mod era to northwest wind. Max. temp. Friday, 9, min. S3. South wtad. - - prospects, read the 6tat man sport page. IiHiLTlLTH YEAR J Salem Orecjon, Saturday Morning, September 23. 1940 v IMce So Newsstasds 5c No. 113 r ! Him n slg: VMS ;OTiU.!i n x j Alter IjKlD'I i '' '' .' Endless Duels Mark Day and Attacks Large Scale Assaults on Invasion Ports Made, Ministry Claims Long Range Guns Figure; in Fighting ; Shells Fall Upon Dover LONDON, Sept. J 8 ( Saturday ) -fly-The air ministry .announced today that IS 5 German warplane were ahot down during yesterday's heavy air fighting over England. The ministry also reported "large scale attacks on enemy in 'vaslon ports", on the continental coast had been carried out by the royal air force as well as attacks en communication in western Ger- many No details ?f the damage in flicted hare been received yet, the ministry said. The ministry added that one British pilot previously reported missing was now known to be safe,' ' - LONDON, Sept. 2 8 ( Saturday J -P) With s mighty barrage that almost smothered the sound of falling bombs, British ground guns early today fought a heavy nasi air raid on London -the cli mactic attack la aistJsulrig aer ies of assaults loosed Teeterday "by hundreds of German planeaxJipen U -England, t -. rl t. Southeast London was intermit tently as bright as day under the light of sazi flares; salvoes of ex plosive bombs, and incendiaries as well, fell in the city from soutb . east to northwest. Nowhere was the anti-aircraft artillery more thunderous than in the very center of the metropolis. There, too, heavy bombs came down three in quick succession In one Instance. :. , It was major attack, oneot the heaviest In many nights. Dur ing the day the nails had struck nln ami : a sra.in at London, but their great formations wero brok en up short of the city, Vd the air ministry, and the damage in Londonfrom those forays was of ficially declared to have bees Slight. : :' Thoasaaid Germans Downed in Month , By 10:45 o'clock last' night (1:48 p. m. PST), the air minis try announced, at least 130 Ger man planes had been shot down to 3 4 British, losses. At almost the same time, it was declared that a recapitulation of the books of violence showed that more than 1000 raiders had been de stroyed during .; September.- the second month in whleh niat fig ure had been exceeded. To yesterday's almost eddies aerial duels all about, the English coast was Joined one of the hea viest artillery battles of the war a- long bombardment and counter-bombardment by German and British gun across ' 22 miles of the "strait of Dover, during which for a time German shells fell upon the Dover area at the rate of one every two minutes. " One - German plane caught by searchlights over central London n.nn,ru4 with anti-aircraft v smv urvaava - . shell bursts, dropping out of sight suddenly. Observers believed ground batteries had chalked up another victim. Bursting bombs and incendiary fires lighted London's pre-dawn horizon, but fire-fighters quickly brought the new biases under control- , -'v: .: , .- ,- - The close of the third week of steady raids was not confined to London. ; Rescue workers still were attempting early today to dig trapped people from the ruins of a number of workers homes in a northwest coast town. Six other northwestern cities were bombed as well as villages In the south west, southeast, the midlands and In Scotland. " - .-, Bombs were dropped now, and again on London during the , day by groups of nasi planes able to break through the outer defenses, but the great actions were fought out along the English coasts. i One slnnle such battle, visible to men and women 1st southwest London, involved at least ! 100 planes. The skies were ; dotted black with bursting anti-aircraft shells and an occasions! column of oily smoke from a crippled craft. - . f ' ' Poslmastership Open WASHINGTON, Sept, 27-3V Appllcations will be received by the civil service commission until the close of business October 11 for the Cioverdale, Ore postmas-tership. $ Berry Sparks. Webfoot Victory Over Devil Dogs Are Badly Making It 12-2; Crowd of 75,000 Sees Southern Methodists Best UCLA EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 27. Oregon football team, sparked by Halfback Buck Berry, opened its 1940 schedule here tonight with a 12 to 2 win over the San Diego Marines. : Oregon threatened to score . , '., 11 J f dui it was not until miaway able to push over a touchdown. Berry established the touch down setup by breaking over the Marines' right tackle for 34 yards to the 3-yard line, whence FulK back: Marshall Stenstrom made it on the third try. Berry's place kick try for the extra point was blocked. The Marines got a safety in the fourth quarter when Curt Mech am was tackled behind the line after receiving a bad pass from center, on the Oregon six-yard marker. A coffin-cornered kick by Hal Roise. former University of Idaho -player,-put the collegians near their own goal posts. " Berry chalked up Oregon's sec ond . score with a 1 4-yard gallop through the Marines' right tackle. Home's place-kick for the extra point was no good. Oregon collected 11 first downs (Turn to page 1, column 4) - Food Stamp Plan Will Be Extended To Cover Entire State, Is Program Considered by Welfare Commission PORTLAND, Sept. 17.-(flV-The state public welfare commission said today plans were progressing for extension of the surplus food stamp system into all Oregon counties. At its meeting today, the com mission announced extension of the method for distributing sur plus commodleies to welfare cli ents into 12 eastern Oregon coun ties on October 1. Five additional counties will Inaugurate the system about No vember 1, Administrator Elmer Goudy said. - Counties to start the plan in cluded Harney, Wasco, Deschutes, Wheeler, Sherman, Hood River, Jefferson, Morrow, Gilliam, Crook, Lake and Grant. '" The other fire are Klamath, Umatilla, Baker, Wallowa and Union, counties. Complete spread of the system, now operated only in Multnomah, Marlon and Clackamas counties, will eliminate direct distribution of surplus commodities, Goudy added. The three heavily popula ted western counties now cover SO per cent of the case loads In the state, i - . ... ; - ' The commission also approved continuation of WPA aewlng pro jects In Oregon; approved arti cles of Incorporation for the United ' States committee for the care of European children, Port land branch, and voted to elimin ate a . question requiring old age assistance applicants to state their religion. Woolgrowers to Meet PENDLETON, Sept. J7-)-President Mae Hoke of Pendleton said today the Oregon Wool Growers' association , would hold its 1340 convention at Lakeview, Dec 1 to 3. Robinson Is Freed in Death Case: 14 Persons Indicted The Marion county grand Jury's first report since July, delivered yesterday to CIreuit Judge L. H, MeMahan, eiearea turner u. xiuu? inson, f Rickreell gunsmith, of a voluntary manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Jo seph Williams, and also resulted in extensive revision of the guest list at the county Jan. ; The Jury's not true bill return ed in the Robinson matter quash ed a criminal charge -placed against the latter after Williams died from Injuries received ina gun-swapping altercation at his trailer-house In the" Liberty dis trict.' 1 . - Deputy District Attorney Jo seph B, t Felton ; said yesterday following the Jury's report that the investigating body would meet again next Monday, and would ' probably report on addi tional criminal matters next Tues- dIn addition, to the Robinson matter, the grand Jury reported on 33 other criminal matters. la all it returned 24 , bills. 14 of them true and 10 not true. Of o Marines Outplayed hut Get Safety (AP) The University of three times in the first half i.1 L! J f 3 At A 11 in me xnira penoa mat n was Non-High Budget Set at $215,602 $112,410 Tax Levy for 41 Voted by Committee in Session Friday A total 1141 budget of 1115. (03.03 for the Marion . county non-high school district was ap proved yesterday by the district's budget committee meeting at the office of County Superintendent Agnes C. Booth. The budget calls for a tax levy of 3112,410.14. Largest expenditure provided for is 3110.000 for tuition of non- high district pupils at high schools in Marlon, Polk and Clackamas counties. Next largest Is 1103,328.02 to be devoted to principal payments 93 warrants due. Other sums ln- Ttrnts, 250 for audit of "Go-dis trict's books, 1 100 tor emergen- ties, ls 9 for board members travel expense; if election ex pense, S postage, 12 printing. 325 for clerical assistance, and 125 for office and bookkeeping supplies. . Deducted from the 2 15,6 02 to tal expenditures will be an esti mated 140,059.31 in receipts, which will leave 1155,442.71. From this a deficit of 143,131.77 will be forwarded, leaving the tax levy at 112,410.S4. Citizen members of the budget committee who participated in clude J. P. Gille, J. T. Bauman. B. D. Fidler, Alvln Krug and Flor ence Barnes. Regular directors are Ernest Werner, chairman of the budget committee; Roy Rice, Frank Hines and Eugene Flnley. Michael Welnacht, another di rector, was not present Astor Is Married To Mary Cushing By Mary Elizabeth Plummer EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., Sept. 27-ip)-Tall, slender, Mary Cush ing, one of the three daughters of the late Dr. Harvey Cushing, famous brain surgeon, is the new Mrs. Vincent Astor- bearer of a family name powerful in Amer ica since the days when the first John Jacob Astor made a for tune in furs. She was married today at her mother's summer home in this peaceful seaside resort to that Astor's 49-year-old great,' great grandson - a multi-millionaire yachtsman and largest single owner of New York real estate. The bride Is in her early thirties. Three days after the first Mrs. Vincent Astor, a leading New York music patron, obtained a divorce In Wyoming, ending a marriage of 28 years, the brief, simple ceremony took place in a living room overlooking the ocean. the 14 true, four were secret. Eight persons indicted by the Jury who have been held In Jail appeared before Judge MeMahan Immediately following the report to plead guilty and ; accept sen tence from the court,- . - These included Verion George, who was sentenced to serve two years In the penitentiary on a charge of contributing to the de linquency of a minor; Gerald Cor bett, placed on : parole from the state prison for a year after plead ing guilty to a charge of taking away a female under It years of age without the consent of her parents with Intent of marriage; and John Webster, automobile lar ceny, sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary. 1: . . Cases of Robert Hughes, also charged .with larceny of an auto mobile, and Eugene Milton Ken nison, giving a check 'without suf ficient funds to cover, were con tinued for sentence, i Evelyn Pyell, charged with child abandonment, was released on her (Turn to page 2, column 4) wmen CIO Officials In Washington Ousted, Lewis "Red" Charges, Discord Over Convention Are Supposed Reasons Dennett Special Target of Attack; Books to Be Audited SEATTLE, Sept. 27-(flVJohn L. Lewis intervened today in the dissension-torn affairs . of the state CIO organization with or ders for a committee of six to take over direction of the Wash ington industrial union council. The committee headed by Ri chard Francis, state council president. Immediately ordered the removal of Eugene V. Den nett as secretary-treasurer. The state council -ended its an nual convention at Olympla Sun day with a vote that the executive board, of which Dennett was a prominent member, had called the convention Illegally. The or ganisation called upon the na tional CIO chief to take over its direction until another convention eould be called "legally." The convention has been shark ed by anti-communist blasts by Francis and other northwest CIO leaders. Francis had called for "a house cleaning." William Dalrymple, regional CIO director for Oregon, was one of the six named by Lewis to take over tfi UU 66iJl- The .new committee TSTVL. to (Turn to page 2, column I) Mulenbroicli Is Quickly Indicted Weak After Kidnap; Meets Captor, Who Later Is Grid Prep Speaker REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 27-6P)-One week, to the day, af ter little Marc de Tristan, Jr., was snatched from the hands of his nurse, Wilhelm Jakob Muhlen- broich was indicted today tor the kidnaping. The grand Jury required only fire minutes to return the indict ment, and Muhlenbrolch's ball was set at 1100,000 the amount of ransom the kidnaper demanded but never received. He will be ar raigned next Monday noon. One of Muhlenbrolch's captors. Cecil Wetsel confronted him to day in the San Mateo county Jail. Sheriff James J. McGrath asked Muhlenbrolch "Do you know this man?" "Oh yes, I know him, the pris oner said, nodding to Wetsel. How are youT How do you do?" He put a hand through the bars and the two shook: hands. "No hard feelings, are there?" The prisoner asked. "No hard feel ings," Wetsel answered. LOS ANGELES. Sent. Cecll Wetsel. captor of the 'kid naper of little Marc De Tristan last week, came here by plane today for a theatre engagement and delivered a pep talk to the football team of Washington state college, his alma mater. "Take advantage of all the breaks and you'll go through to win," he told the Cougar team. here to play the University of Southern California' tomorrow. His capture of the De Tristan kidnaper, he declared, was "Just luck." "All I got was a break and I took advantage of it, he added. You do the same thing tomor row when you play U. S. C." wetsel played guard and tackle at Washington state in 1922 and 1923. ' 1 , He will appear on a local stage in an act with Judy Canova, "Hill Billy singer, opening tomorrow. Wetsel consented to make the appearanee only in the hope of paying 'Off the mortgage on his Eldorado county sawmill, a spokesman said. Acetylene Plant Will Be Included PORTLAND, Ore!, Sept. 1 -Pacific Carbide and Alloys, Inc. now constructing, a new carbide plant here, announced today plans for an acetylene production -unit in the verynear future.' Specifications for the new addi tion are being drawn In the San Francisco offices of the firm. President E. F, Goodner said.' Construction of the - 3250,000 carbide plant was started August 1 and will be ready for operation by October; W, . . . - v -- --.- Japan Insists That She Isn't Picking Scrap Emperor Says It's Peace Move- but "Mission" v Will Be Pursued Public hot Excited ' but Press Takes View It Means Hostility By The Associated Press) TOKYO, . Sept. 27 Japan cast her lot squarely with the Rome Berlin axis today,- but hastened to tell the world in general and the United States and Great Britain in particular that it did not mean she is .going- to enter the. European war or pick a fight with anybody. ; Rather, Emperor Hlrohlto and Foreign Minister Posuke Matsu oka Insisted, it emphasized above all Japan's determination to carry to completion her self-proclaimed mission of establishing a "Greater East. Asia" by peaceful means. "But there is no telling whether there might not arise occasions and circumstances calling for mo mentous . decisions in Japan's part, Matsuoka told the nation in a broadcast. . . , An Imperial rescript, Issued un der; the seal of the emperor, de clared that in lining up with Ger many and Italy, Japan was moti vated by the "fervent hope that termination of disturbances and restoration of peace will be real ised as swiftly as possible." Echoing the words of the em peror and the foreign minister. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakl chlro Sums declared. "We are not gqing to partici pate in the European wr We, are not going to attack any country. Hopes to Compose Dispute With US ma asserted Japan had not abandoned hope of composing her difference with the United States, Varca preceded the signing of the new three-power pact by - a day WTii. " em cargo on scrap iron. one oT!laaTPirW2L3eeded sinews of war. Announcement of the pact failed to stir nationwide excitement. Newspapers went on the streets with extras but the Japanese pub lic read them In silence. The press did . not share the peaceful views officially proclaim ed. It declared the United States now has definitely allied herself with Britain and China and one newspaper; the Influential Asahi, asserted a Japanese-American clash ''now seems inevitable." Asahi compared the two na tions as a "Japan determined to establish a sphere of self-suffic iency and a United States equally determined to meddle In affairs on the ether side of a vast ocean with every hostile means short. of war. Posters, printed both in Japan ese and English, appeared near (Turn to page 2, column 1) Rehearing Denied In Election Case The state supeme court dis missed Friday a petition for re hearing of the suit brought by Representative W. R. Osborne, Amity, against Peter Zimmerman. Yamhill county, involving a pri mary nomlatlng election contest. Osborne charged that he was deprived of the nomination for state representative from Yamhill county because of errors In count ing and tabulating the votes at the last primary election. He sought a recount, . The lower court held for Zim merman on the ground that Os borne failed to file his contest pe tition within the five days re quired by law. This decision was reversed by the supreme court. Zimmerman asked for a rehear ing. Zimmerman, on the face of the primary election returns, defeated Osborne by IS votes. Under the supreme court's lat est ruling the case may be revived before Circuit Judge Arlle Walker of Yamhill county. Hobo King Orders Subjects to -Join Defense Program PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17-Un -Jeff Davis, king of .the hoboes. sent word by grapevine and mall to 1,010,000 "subjects" today to "get off the road" and Into the military service or defense Indus tries.' '- .y - ; , : "This la no time to be gazing at ' the scenery, . said the man who . claims leadership over that type of wanderer who is not afraid to work occasionally. "It is the nation's most critical mo ment not hour. . Davis said his decision was reached when-Japan's link- with I uermany . ana . itaiy . neeame known. Hf urged registration of all hoboes. -- !We must take stock' of who's who . and find out' the nincompoops,-he added. -vv . . . ' Germany y japari Italy : Sigh Pact; Aim at US i. . . - i If;; United States Attacks One, Others Will Join Fight, Is Substance; Might Mean Russia too - but It Is Mentioned as "not Affected' . . By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, Sept. 2L- (AP) Germany, Japan and Italy landed together their totalitarian arms and the energies of their -quarter billion people today in a ten-year pact of mil itary and Economic character which means plainly that all three will help each other against the United States if any one of them becomes Involved with America. McKay Heads for Airlines Hearing - Service Here Is Sought; Eugene Group Also Goes to Capital . State ' Senator Douglas McKay left Portland - by airplane last night for Washington, DC, to plead Salem's Interest In estab lishment of main line service here before the civil aeronautics board on behalf of the chamber of com merce and other interested or ganisations. The, CAB will give United Air lines a hearing Monday on a peti tion for adding Salem, Eugene and Klamath Falls to it sched ule of regular stops on the Portland-San Francisco route. The chamber of commerce yes terday issued a statement-declaring Salem would hare sufficient truffle to warrant the air line stop here. Senator McKay will return home by air early next week. EUGENE, Sept, 27-(-WUl-lam M, Tugman and H. J. Cox of Eugene were en route to Wash ington, DC, by air today to seek civil aeronautics authority approv al of a United Airlines stop here. .The chamber of commerce said the trip wag "the , latest .step- in providing Eugene with a suit able airport for regularly sched uled landings here. Voters will Fallot in November on a proposal fto ralseTu&a; JCT.i. munlcl pal airport. Mass Promotions Order Announced 113 Army Men Advance to Take Appropriate Rank in Expanded Force WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-Jpy-The largest mass promotion of high ranking army officials In nfmrHm hiatnrv was annnnnoat Hoday. as a means of providing commanders for the nation's rap idly expanding land forces. Submitting a list of 112 pro motions to the senate, the chief executive stressed that the ad vancements were temporary, as in the world war, and that the officers would revert to their low er permanent grades should they be transferred to less Important duties or the army be reduced in size. The promotions, accompanied by a general resshuffling Of .key military posts, involved the cre ation of 85 . new generalshslps. They Increased to 187 the num ber of . army officers of the per manent or temporary grade of brigadier general or higher. Aside from the army promo (Turn to page 2, column 2) Hint of Thing to Come -J Acquired by Freshmen EUGENE, Sept, 27- CP)-The University of Oregon freshman class had a hint of things to come today copies of a tough business administration examination were distributed by mistake In place of sheets of Oregon songs. Democracy Weakened Under New Deal. Willkie Charges MADISON, Wis., Sept. J7-iP-Speaking In the home state of the LaFollettes. WendeU L. Willkie charged tonight that President Roosevelt "went through the mockery of seeking to preserve democracy but used the ' influ ence of , the presidency , "to de stroy it., t. V v - -4 - The rep u b 1 1 e a n presidential nominee, addressing an applaud ing crowd in the University of Wisconsin field house, referred to Mr. Roosevelt's attempt to defeat opposition members of congress In 1222, and then added: ' -1 The theory of American gov ernment ia that there should be three separate - -coordinate branches. ' " " . . i. -- "Yet .the president of- the United States did not like the way members of both the house and senate voted, and therefore he put on the purge, and threw the full weight of the presidency to throw those men from public life. ' '."Thus he went through the This thunderbolt or authoritar- Ian diplomacy, conceived and stage-managed down to the names on the dotted lines by Adolf Hit ler, was signed this afternoon In Berlin's sumptuous new chancel lery by the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy and the am bassador of Japan. (Authoritative Associated Press sources 1 foreshadowed , the pact two days ago.) The treaty itself does not men tion the United States But this much is clear: no Eu ropean power, save soviet Rus sia, can ever think of attacking the signatories. Soviet Russia, is specifically named in the treaty's article five, which says carefully that the "po litical status which exists now" between each of the contracting powers and the. soviet union is in no wise affected. Germany now has a non-aggression pact with Russia. . .Therefore, the United States Is the only other power envisaged by Article 2 of the pact, as follows: "Germany, Italy and Japan. . . undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three powers is attacked by a power at present not Involved in the European war or in the Chinese-Japanese conflict." As for Russia, however, and In spite 'of the treaty provision, she still may find herself between two fires: Japan and Germany, with Italy on the sidelines. The pact leaves unsaid that any contracting party, can, change its -present political status in ref erence to the soviet- nnloh. , In that case such a power would be free to act a It wished. Indeed, the Russian article then might -not be binding, on the other signatures, as welL Hence there is no guarantee thlrKvl!!-",! remain out of the conflict. , "r . Nevertheless in the . of neutral observers, the clearest effect of the treaty was this: Jf the United States enters the Eu ropean war she will be engaged Immediately in the Pacific by a Japanese navy wnlch is the third largest in the world: and so in volved that the United States fleet would not be able to be of material assistance to Britain In either the Atlantic or the Med iterranean. In the words of Foreign Minis ter Von Rlbbentrop, of the third relch the. pact also Is directed agslnst "inciters of war" over the world and those states which "harbor the intention of mixing (Turn to page 2, column 7) Rain, Snow Mixed In State Weather PORTLAND, Sept. 27-taV Rain , and snow were mixed up today in Oregon's weather map. Portland received 1.21 inches of rain In the 24 hours preceding 7 a. m., and added another .58 of an Inch In the remainder of the' day. At Mount Hood, Timberllne Lodge officials reported the first snow of the season, with four inches on the ground and the temperature at S 2 degrees above sero. Telephone repair crews la bored overtime at Portland to fix more than 2.000 telephones put out of commission by the storm. Other points reporting rain in cluded Albany .92 of an Inch, Sa lem .81. Newport .74. Eugene .44, Hood River .20. Medford .42. mockery of seeking to. preserve democracy but using the influence of the presidency to destroy It. Willkie spoke of the supreme court reorganisation bill of 1127 and asserted that there had been "a perfectly constitutional way to . change supreme court ..opin ions and personnel. - , He then added that while the chief executive had demanded re organization of the court on the ground that some Judges were too old, he recently had ."appointed a secretary of war who was beyond the age limit he set. - ----- - : Willkie noted that appropria tion bins must' be inaugurated in the house of representatives, and said this was done originally to prevent a chief executive from "building within himself enor mous power and bankruptcy could produce the end of free govern ment." - --. ". "And yet," he said, "retaining the form and abandoning the . (Turn to page 2, column 8) aj Cl JJC4AA" lA I is Call Step Foreseen Is, Declaration ' ; i ? - " Anticipated in Decision on Policy; Tronhle . Feared, Shanghai British : Notahles, Group Favoring Aid Received . Cordially hy FDR By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Sept. 27-6P- The Washington government made it more than plain today that It Intends to follow its present for eign policies including that of assistance to . Great Britain re gardless of the thinly disguised warning to this country contained in the new German-Italian-Japa nese military alliance. ; , In the first place, the pact was scarcely two hours old before Sec retary Hull had Issued a formal statement, saying that it had beeo fully expected, and "fully taken into account by the government of the United States in the deter mining of this country's policies. At almost exactly tne aame time, President Roosevelt was en gaged In activities which scarcely could have escaped the attention of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo. In quick succession he received Lord" Lothian, the British ambassador, and a party of his colleagues; a group of Americans urging all possible help to England, and then. entered upon a conference with officials in charge of the, Amer ican defense program. A spokes man for the aid-to-Britaln group said it had been "enthusiastically ncouraged." Mutual Assistance Pledged by Three The treaty . in question was signed today in Berlin, to the ae- companiment of a full display of nasi pomp and ceremony. Under - urh rhr "wltTi all Tr11tll economic and military means" if any one of .them "la attacked by a power at present not involved tn the European, war or in the Chi nese-Japanese conflict.' Since, of all the great powers. only Russia and the United Statea are not engaged in one or the oth er of those conflicts, and sinew Russia Is tied to - Germany by treaty, many thought the eoncla- ? "r scapable that the new pact was aimed-TW ' roB It was motivated, a nrevallinsT opinion ran, by a desire on the part of the axis powers to stop or retard American help to Great Britain, and, in the same way, to end such anti-Japanese actions as me recent loan to- cms a ana ia banning of scrap iron and steel to Japan. ftn a. e arte a s iniHUK V PaJ.aa81slt ' . - I Principal Fear The only apprehension appar ently felt by state department officials, who received word of the conclusion of the treaty with a noticeable lack of surprise or excitement, was that it might -ea-courage the extremist group -f the Japanese military clique to some aggravation of the situation at Shanghai. There Japan and the United States have been engaged in, a dispute as to who should patrol a section which was for merly held by the British and la which the American .consulate and other interests are located. - There was no sign that the United States was planning fur-' Urer immediate economic moTea against the Japanese, but it was plain that several such economic weapons are still held' in reserve including the ejection ef an embargo against imports of Jap anese silkvSnch a (step, many be lieve, would hit Japan In a vital spot. ' - i ; At President Roosevelt's mid morning press conference, he de clined to comment on the pact beyond answering "yes and no, somewhat archly, to a question whether the treaty had b, -a- pected. - But Secretary . Hull .. was ready for the correspondents when they had questions to - ask. The first .inquiry, of . course, dealt ing, the secretary drew a prepared statement from . his inside coat pocket and read It: The reported ggreement -or alliance," he said, "does not In the view of the United Stales, substantially " alter a - sitaatlea which has existed, for several years. Announcement of the alli ance merely makes clear to all a reiauonsnip .waicn u wm Isted and to which this govern ment has repeatedly called atten tion: " .. "That such an agreement naa been in process of conclusion has been well known for some time. ? That fact has been fully Taken into account by the government f the United States in the determining of this country s policies.- Secretary Wont Be Cross Examined - "On what occasion - ha "the. government, called attention to this relationship?" a reporter asked. - - '- "I must decline to be cross ex amined, Hull replied and tke dis cussion moved on to other, sub- Jects., -.. - .-.-.-- . Lord Lothian brongnt wua sua (Turn to page 2, column 8 )
