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CHAPTER XXIV—Continued
—22—
He saw her shoulders shake and
knew that she was crying; sud
denly, in a rage, she was on her
feet again. “How dared he—how
dared he do that!” she said, her
eyes glittering dark blue In her
white face. "How dares a man treat
a woman who loves him that way!
Ah, bnt she wanted him,” Tony said,
crumpling, speaking gently, hope
lessly again. "She wanted him, and
Larry’s so kind—so generous—”
A silence, during which the man
smoked and watched her. Then,
suddenly, she looked up, spoke qui
etly, as If she were very tired:
“I'm sorry to treat you to these
fireworks, Joe. You’re—awfully kind
to me. I’m all right now. I think
maybe you’d better take me to
Bendy’s; I’ll have to tell Bendy, and
Alvin will smile his smug little
whiskery doctor smile at what hap
pens to girls who fall In love with
married men.
“I’ll get used to It after a minute.
You do. Even when a man's arm Is
cut off, or his leg, they say he gets
used to It like that—In a second.
I wish I could hate Larry. I wish—”
For a moment her whole body
was In revolt, as If touched by a
hot Iron, her arms flung up, her
head thrown back, and her mouth
opened as If to find breath.
"I couldn’t do a thing like that
to a dog!” she whispered, collapsing
again. “I could not, Joe. It’s me—
it’s me this is happening to; no, I
couldn’t do it to anyone 1 I’m sorry.
I’m really all right now. I’ll get my
things. Bendy’ll worry If I’m too
late.”
"No, you Just lie there on the set
tle and think about It for a while,
and I’ll tell Brenda, it she tele
phones, that the company’s leaving
and that Til bring you home. Lie
there a while and get your breath,
and you’ll be all right”
His big hands punched pillows be
hind her back as Tony obediently
stretched herself on the fireside
seat She lay there passive, her
eyes on the fire, her breast still
occasionally rising and falling on
a great sigh.
“It doesn’t somehow seem like
Larry,” Tony presently offered In a
weak little voice.
“Larry was never what you
thought he was.”
“It hurts me—somehow It hurts
me horribly to have you say that”
“I suppose It does.”
“Larry is the only man—the only
one—who ever—whom I ever—” the
girl began confusedly, and stopped.
“And that hurts me horribly, so
honors are even,” Joe Aid.
“It is impossible tor me to be
lieve that you think of me what I
think of Larry,” Tony presently
recommenced. “We’re all playing a
lone hand In this life, aren’t we,
Joel”
“I don’t think of yon what yon
think of Larry,” Joe said flatly.
Tony’s ringed eyes moved to him
in weary Inquiry.
“Don’t?”
“No. I know yon, Tony, and yon
don’t know Larry. Tm not knocking
him, mind you," Joe said. “But I
say you don't know him. I do know
you. I know every lovely inch of
you. I know that you're the woman
for me, and that I’m the husband
for you. We’re alike. We like the
same things. We talk the same lan
guage.
“You and Larry aren’t alike; Tm
not' saying this to make you feel
any better. I know you feel rotten
tonight. And you will feel rotten;
It'll take you a long time to get
straight about It. But I say that
you love—well, this place, and the
ocean and the kitchen and Bendy’s
kids, and the dogs, and all that
He doesn’t He’s Lorenzo the Mag
nificent”
The girl laughed weakly; her face
crinkled in to'tears.
“Oh, he Is,” she said In a whis
per.
“Ruth was rich; Larry’s probably
inherited a fortune. She may have
left a dozen legacies, but Gran was
rich, and Ruth would have Inherit
ed Gran’s money, and he gets It
all, or certainly most of It He’s
rich now; be likes It that way.”
“Ah, that’s not quite fair.”
“Maybe not But about things
like that you and Larry never
would have seen eye to eye.”
Tony was not listening. Her
long wet lashes glittering In the
soft lamplight she was looking
thoughtfully at the Are.
“Oh. Joe, why did It have to
happen this way! Why did I have
to be the woman to live through
this?”
There was a long silence.
“I don’t know," said Joe then,
pulling on his pipe, and Tony’s un
happy little laugh died away Into
another long pause when neither
spoke. Where his thoughts went
the girl neither knew nor cared.
To Tony all the world was com
posed of Just two persons, a beau
tiful woman, sinuous and jeweled
in the exquisite thin robes of fine
batiste and delicate laces that Caro
line especially loved; a tall brown
man with his arms about her.
“You women are strange," said
Joe.
“Are we?"
“You bet your life you are."
“You know—you know damn
well that what you feel for Larry
Is excitement, curiosity. You think
it would be thrilling to have him
carry you off to a suite at the Fair
mont hotel, make love to you.”
“Thank you," Tony said drily,
as he paused, pondering over his
pipe.
"Well, Isn’t It true?”
“It Is not true."
“Knowing,” Joe continued, as If
there had been no Interruption,
“knowing that whatever lasts In
marriage, that doesn’t Knowing
that It can’t last, It never does—
whatever It is—that thrill that he
gives women, that makes them say,
‘I’d rather have him mean to me
In that magnificent way of his,
keep me waiting, despise me, throw
me down, than not have him at
all!’"
Tony swallowed; spoke lightly:
“Is that the way women feel to
him?”
“You know It.”
‘T do not know It,” she said In a
low, hurt tone. She lay silent,
staring at the fire. After a while
she stirred and said that she must
go, and Joe making no protest, she
pulled on her old gloves and they
went out Into the cold sharpness of
the night together. At the door
she leaned against him.
“I wish I could stay here, alone
with you, forever, and never see
any of them—any of them, again!”
“Why don’t you?”
“You could go Into town of Mon
days, Joe, and come back on Thurs
days. I’d be completely happy alone
with the dog and Rita. She'd come
over and sleep nights if I was
frightened.”
“Stay, If you like," Joe said.
“You’re so tremendously comfort
ing to me,” said Tony, her eyes
shut, her head resting against his
shoulder for a moment. “I'm so
sorry about all this!”
“I’m going up to town tomor
row early—about nine. Shall I stop
for you?" he asked practically, aft
er a moment.
“Will yon? I think I’ll not tell
Bendy tonight I'll wait until Al
vin’s gone tomorrow and tell her
then. I’ll have to face every one—
Aunt Meg, Mgry Rose; she’ll pity
me so that I’ll want to kill her."
“Married 1” Tony breathed to her
self In an almost lnaudtble under
tone, out of her own thoughts. On
the trip to Brenda's house she did
not speak again.
CHAPTER XXV
<«rvO YOU still feel that you want
to see him again?" Joe asked.
Tony’s face dimpled as she looked
thoughtfully down at the sand she
was marking Into even ridges with
a bit of silvery smooth driftwood.
"Not as I did,” she said, color
ing a little as she smiled.
"Almost willing to take a chance
that half youb children will be
Dutchy-looking little blonds?”
"Almost. I love Dutchy little
blonds."
Joe lay silent for a while In the
warm sand. Presently he said:
"Well, I Imagine you’ll have your
chance soon.”
“My chance?"
“To see him.”
"Oh, yes, that Now that your
grandmother’s dead they'll prob
ably come West”
She fell to musing, and Joe pulled
his cap a little farther down over
his eyes and appeared to dream.
"After the office yesterday this Is
heaven," Tony presently said. “Is
there anything In the whole world
more wonderful than an antumn
sea, snd gulls, and Waves coming
In, and sunshine like this?”
“It’s swell," Joe murmured Inelo
quently.
"Autumn sunshine,” Tony went
on after a apace. “Pure and thin
—and sad, somehow. Cosmos In
stead of lilacs, and flgs instead of
cherries, and that soft veil ovdr the
sea.” And unexpectedly she con
cluded with vigor: “I adore It!"
Joe laughed lazily.
"You almost had me In tears,
Tony. You were going on Into
the sere, the yellow leaf, your voice
getting sadder and sadder. I
thought you were going to end up
with the death of Little Nell.”
Tony laughed, too,' a trifle shame
facedly.
.
"Well, I do love It—autumn.” She
meditated deeply. "Spring first,” she
decided, “then autumn. Then win
ter, and then summer.”
"Summer last of all?”
“Oh, yes—don’t you think so?”
“Well, I like corn on the cob.”
“Yes, and peaches,” Tony conced
ed. "But there’s something so cock
sure about summer.”
“Wluter’s one long revel of drag
Ing wood In, down here.”
"And wet walks, and rain sluic
ing down, and pancakes for break
fast!”
“Not that you often touch them.”
“I know. But I love that warm
kltcbeny smell of hot butter and
sirup and hot cakes on a freezing
morning.”
“If they come through with the
Bio offer—”
“‘If they come through!* What
nonsense! Why, they’re begging
you on their knees.”
“Well, then, If I accept the Rio
offer—No, but what do you sup
pose they eat for breakfast In Rio?”
“Coffee and melons and sour
bread and fried chicken,” Tony an
swered readily.
“Will you go to Rio with me,
Tony?”
“Do you want me to, Joe?”
“To’ knows ah do, honey.”
“I reckon ,yo’ does.”
They basked on in the mild sun
shine, and the lazy wares came
punctually In a smother of emer
ald and Ivory over the near-by
rocks, spread In Interlocking circles
on the strip of sandy beach, and
went away again, leaving the little
pools brimming, and the silky pur
ple and blue ribbons, weeds and
mussel shells glittering and drip
ping.
“You’re easy on my old eyes,” the
man said presently, glancing up.
“I love to have you think so. We
ought to go up pretty soon; Bendy
was going to telephone about din
ner.”
“I thought they had company.”
“They have. But It was only Cliff
and Mary Rose. And If Patricia
was all right they said they might
all come over.”
“I hope nobody coines!”
They climbed the great ridges of
rock up to the cliff level and were
at the garden’s end, where the new
brick paths and the tall roses and
chrysanthemums were rustling in
“Not as I Did,” She Said, Coloring
a Little.
the afternoon airs, and the slender
beeches sent trim shadows across
the lawn. Jn this setting, and with
the descending sun flashing In ev
ery window, the square-cut house
did not look too awkward; there
was a pleasant air of green-and
whlte seaside hospitality about it
and Its open windows and awntnged
terrace.
“I love this house,” Tony said,
as they went In. "It was my escape
In the darkest hours of my life
from everything—even myself. I
used to come down here from the
office, beaten, broken, and the si
lence of It, and your not question
ing me, not watching me. I'm very
fond of you!"
In that last phrase she was ad
dressing the fireplace; she laid her
cheek against it She had helped
him build It
“Do we need a fire?"
"We will, as soon as the sun
goes down. We might as well, for If
they’re coming the room’s bound to
seem cool."
“Ton know, Tony," said Joe, on
his knees with logs in his long
brown hands, “you were bound to
run into something like—like what
you did run Into. I wouldn’t grudge
It If I were you.”
"Grudge It?”
“Yep. I wouldn’t let myself re
sent It feel that I was out of luck
falling In. love with a man J couldn’t
have. If you hadn’t done that you’d
have married one of those fellows
In the office. Did you ever think
of that!”
She was In the deep leather chair,
watching him seriously.
“I suppose that’s so.”
“It’s so of every woman like you;
It has to be so. You were young In
lots of ways, old In lots of ways,
eager and Impulsive and mad to live.
You just had to run your head Into
something.” f
“I wonder,” Tony said, frowning
faintly, looking away.
“You changed for Larry; you
grew up. You were—well, like those
pictures In Bendy’s book, when yon
first met him. Yon grew older and
wiser and lovelier."
“And better and more beautiful?"
Tony suggested In tbe pause.
“Yon know It’s true. Yon’re one
of the successful women of San
Francisco now. You’re certainly one
of the loveliest’*’
“Joe," Tony began, after a pause.
Be flung down an armful of logs.
“Shoot"
“Do yon suppose a person ever
could come tp be glad of—of any
thing like that—like what hurt me
and humiliated me and made me
hate myself and every one else?”
“I think," Joe said, standing pant
ing on the hearth, looking down at
her, “I think that’s just one of the
things one might be glad of."
“A la Browning," Tony suggested.
“Then welcome each rebuff that
turns earth’s smoothness rough.’”
“Exactly—a la Browning. And a
la every one who ever really grew
up. Larry's never really grown up,
you know, and neither has Caro
line.”
Tony was not listening. Her
eyes, fixed In reluctance and appre
hension, were looking straight
through the eastern windows toward
the stretch of farm road that
curved to the highway a mile away.
“Company!” she exclaimed dis
gustedly.
“Oh, hell,” Joe said simply.
“And I don’t know that car, and
X don’t recognize that man who’s
driving—”
“It’s a chauffeur—there’s a man
and woman In the back—damn!’’
Joe said, looking over her shoulder.
They turned toward the terrace
door and together went out to meet
the visitors In the car.
“It’s Larry,” Tony said then.
“Larry and Caroline.” She dropped
a suddenly cold band to meet Joe’s,
warm and hard and waiting. “I’m
In for It nowl”
The newcomers descended; there
was a little laughing confusion ot
hand-clasping and kissing on the
terrace. Larry was heavier than he
had been, Tony thought, but as
handsome and brown, as shrewd ot
gray eyes as ever; Caroline was
at the peak of her exotic and star
tling beauty. In dashing black and
white, with a great scarf tied un
der chin, gauntlets with flaring
cuffs, a great sliver fox skin linked
about her shoulders, and a hat
about six weeks In advance of the
mode on her satin black hair, she
Instantly made Tony, In her brown
pumps and pleated skirt and sweat
er, feel like a little girl.
“Tony, luck to find you here!”
Larry said. “I was going to ring
you up tomorrow.”
Did he mean It? Or was he Just
a little confused? Tony could not
tell. She was only overwhelming
ly conscious that the dreaded mo
ment had come: she was speaking
to Lawrence Bellamy again.
“You didn’t let us know!” she
stammered.
“You must both lunch with us to
morrow,” said Caroline.
"When’d you get In, Larry?” This
was Joe.
“Just this morning. We hadn’t
been In an hour before we tried tc
telephone, but they said you
couldn’t be reached by telephone.”
“I have one, though. But It’s nol
In the book.”
“Joe, what’s this about Rlo?”de
manded his sister.
“Oh, they want me to go down
there for three years for the
Foundation. It's a pip of a chance.”
“And are you going? Let’s not
let him, Tony!”
“It’s a wonderful chance,” Tony
said. “Buc let’s stop freezing out
here and get warm!”
They all went in to the Are;
Larry sent the driver away with
careful Instructions.
“Get your dinner at the hotel
and come back at nine. Joe, you
can give us dinner?”
“Can we, Tony?”
“Joe, we’re burled in food.
We’ve ham, we’ve enchiladas, we’ve
alligator pears.”
“Oh, fine I” Larry said. He
gripped their hands In a hearty,
happy manner. “He can’t always
have been like this!” Tony thought
“Tony, Joe,” he said, “It seems good
to get back and hear your voices
again and have Tony planning fot
meals! Meals seem to be your fate,
Tony.”
"Don’t they?”
"And how are you all—you»
aunt and Cliff and Brenda?”
“All, flourishing. My brother
Bruce has a political Job In Sacra
mento now, and be stays up there
Cliff’s married, you know, and they
have a baby girl. Bendy has two
boys, and feels that she ought to
write a book to tell other mothers
how babies should be raised.’*
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Origin of Lighthouse*
The earliest lighthouses of which
records exist were the towers built
by the Libyans and Cuscbites In
Lower Egypt, beacon fires being
maintained In some ot them by
priests. Leeches, a Greek poet (660
B. C.), mentions a lighthouse at
Slgeum, now Cape Inchlsarl, in the
Troad, which appears to have been
the first light regularly maintained
for mariners. ThfAmous Pharos ot
Alexandria was regarded as one of
the wonders of the world. The tow
er Is stated to have been 000 feet
In height It was destroyed by
earthquake In the Thirteenth cen
tury, but remains are said to bare
been visible as late as 1350. The
name Pharos became the genera]
term for all lighthouses, and the
term pharology has been used for
the science of lighthouse construc
tion.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Hitler’s Peace Proposals Scouted by France—Big
Italian Victory May End Ethiopian War—
Lowden for Republican Key-Noter.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
® Western Newspaper Union.
ADOLF HITLER’S proposals for
peace In Europe, together with
his flat rejection of the plan of the
other four Locarno powers for set
Adolf Hitler
iiemeui vl me
Bhlneland a 11 u a
tion, were handed
to British Foreign
Minister Eden by
Joachim von Blb
bentrop, and passed
on by Eden to tbe
French and Bel
gian ambassadors
In London. The
British cabinet
thought the Ger
man scheme worthy
of consideration, but the French
government looked upon it as a
"cunning plan” to split the Locarno
powers and make Hitler the
virtual dictator of Europe. Premier
Sarraut and Foreign Minister Flan
din were consulting on steps for
frustrating the reichsfuehrer and
preserving a united front of the
Locarno nations.
Hitler’s note made these pro
posals :
1. A "standstill” agreement to ex
ist on both sides of the German bor
der for four months during which
Germany, France, and Belgium
would make no troop movements.
This “armistice” would be guaran
teed by a neutral commission.
2. A 25-year nonaggression pact
between Germany, France, and Bel
gium, guaranteed by an Internation
al arbitration court, to be negotiat
ed Immediately after the French
elections.
3. Negotiation for nonaggression
pacts between Germany and her oth
er neighbors.
4. Germany to return to tne
League of Nations as an equal If
the league covenant Is separated
from the Versailles treaty and with
the understanding that colonial con
cessions will be made.
5. When a general settlement is
In sight conferences to be held to
secure the prohibition In warfare
of gas, poison and Incendiary bombs,
bombing of civilians, bombing of
towns more than 12 miles from the
battle zone, and the abolition of
heavy tanks and heavy artillery.
0. A general economic and dis
armament conference.
FOLLOWING the example of Ger
many, the Austrian diet has re
pudiated that nation’s military obli
gations under the St. Germain
treaty. By unanimous vote it ap
proved a bill introduced by Chancel
lor Kurt von Schuschnlgg, providing
for general national military service
“with or without arms.” Every male
from his eighteenth to his forty
second year is liable to conscrip
tion. This move, which has the sup
port of Premier Mussolini of Italy,
was not unexpected, and though It
aroused the little entente nations to
anger, probably their formal pro
tests will bring no result.
The new law is not likely to bring
any great change at present in Aus
trian armaments, for Austria al
ready had disregarded both the
treaty of St. Germain’s disarmament
provision and its restriction of ar
maments without serious objection
from other countries. Tanks, for
bidden to Austria under the treaty,
were actually paraded around the
Ringstrasse some months ago un
der the eyes of foreign military at
taches whom she had invited to at
tend.
Hungary may now be expected to
violate the treaties and rearm, that,
too, being a part of Mussolini’s
policy.
PEACE negotiations between Italy
and Ethiopia, outside the League
of Nations, seem imminent, for
emissaries of Emperor Haile Selas
sie already have
been received by
Marshal Pietro Ba
doglio, and the Ital
ian undersecretary
of colonies Is In
East Africa to con
duct the prellml-.
narles. This news
followed closely the
dispatches telling
of « great victory
won by Badogllo's
northern troops
over 20.000 fresh
Marshal
Badoglio
and picked Ethiopian soldiers whose
fight was directed nnd watched by
the emperor himself. The battle, at
Mai Ceu, lasted all day and the
Ethiopians left 7,000 dead on the
field as they fled to join the main
body of SO.OOO troops south of Lake
Ashangl eight miles away. Italian
fatalities Included 10 officers and
about 1,000 soldiers, most of the
latter being Eritrean Askarls. It
was believed , Marshal Badogllo
would follow up this victory with a
smashing blow at Dessye, main con
centration point of the Ethiopians,
unless peace negotiations stop him.
Just before this battle the Italian
air bombers practtcall.v ruined
Harar, second city of Ethiopia.
GERMANY’S men and women to
the number of 44,389,140 de
clared by their rotes In the reich
stag elections that they supported
the policies of Hitler. Only 542,898
had the nerve to vote against the
relchsfuehrer, and a still smaller
fraction refused to go to the polls.
Among the latter were the former
Crown Prince Ruprecbt of Bavaria
and his wife.
Hitler’s victory was thus extraor
dinarily complete, and the Nazis
celebrated It with wild rejoicings
in Berlin and other cities. It was
the culmination of a three years’
campaign In which the leaders
sought to persuade the population
of the relch that only Hitler could
save the country from great danger.
The new reichstag will be the
largest in history, having about 740
members. Most of them will be of
ficials of the Nazi party.
For the first time In the history
of aviation a polling booth was
established In the air. It was aboard
the new dirigible Von Hindenburg,
whose 104 passengers and crew
voted solidly for Hitler. The Hin
denburg and the Graf Zeppelin
cruised over the Saar and the
Rhineland all day long.
LEADERS of both major parties
are perfecting the arrangements
for the national conventions and
picking out the chief orators for
F. 0. Lowden
those occasions.
The Republicans
have tentatively
selected Frank O.
Lowden, former
governor of Illi
nois, as temporary
chairman and key
noter of the gath
ering in Cleveland.
If this choice
stands it is pre
sumed the perma
nent chairman will
be an Easterner, possibly Walter
Edge of New Jersey, former am
bassador and senator.
Some Western governor is want
ed by the Democrats as their key
noter, and the honor may be given
to Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, O.
Ben Ross of Idaho or Clyde C. Her
ring of Iowa. For permanent chair
man at Philadelphia Senator Rob
inson of Arkansas is likely to be
picked. The speech putting Presi
dent Roosevelt in nomination for a
second term may be delivered by
Senator Wagner of New York.
New York Republicans of the Old
Guard persuasion scored a decisive
victory over Senator Borah in the
primaries, and the Empire state
delegation to Cleveland will be un
pledged to any candidate. The tri
umph of the conservatives was com
plete. Not only were the Borah
candidates defeated in nine con
gressional districts in which they
made contests, but the organiza
tion candidates for delegates de
feated independent,candidates not
pledged to Borah In three other
districts.
Maine Democrats in their pri
mary pledged ten convention votes
to the renomination of Mr. Roose
velt.
The Kentucky state Republican
convention instructed the four
i state delegates at large to vote
for Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kan
sas for the Presidential nomination.
This, with previous developments,
assured Landon of 18 of the state's
votes.
WHILE a house committee Is
delving into the financial op
erations of the Townsend plan or
ganization, Dr. Francis E. Town
send announced in Washington a
complete reorganization of "Old
Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd.” The
shake-up followed a spilt between
Representative John S. McGroarty
of California, who has pushed the
Townsend plan in the bouse, and
the California doctor. Doctor Town
send accused McGroarty of conniv
ing to convert Townsendltes In Cal
ifornia to the Democratic party.
Townsend said henceforth the
movement would be managed by a
board and that he would present
to it 90 per cent of the profits of
the Townsend National Weekly.
The national headquarters of the
movement will be moved from
Washington to Chicago, which was
chosen for lta central location and
accessibility.
Another new policy of the move
ment will be the selection of an
auditing firm to regularly audit
finances and report to the directors
of each of the Townsend clubs.
Townsend will remain as presi
dent His board of directors was
named as follows: Gomer Smith,
Oklahoma City, vice president; Gll
mour Young. San Francisco, na
tional secretary; Dr. Clinton Wun
der, New York, J. B. Kiefer,
cage, Frank
and Nathan J.
WILLIAM N. M'NAIR, the Utah
ocratlc mayor of Pittsburgh,'
appeared as a witness before the'
bouse ways and means committee'
and was almost thrown out on hie
ear.
Unable to halt McNair’s biting ti
rade against wasteful spending on1
tbe one hand and the proposed*
new punitive tax on corporation'
earnings on the other, Chairman
Robert L. Doughton threatened to
call a policeman bodily to evict the
mayor. i
“Why all this dignity?” shouted Mc
Nair. “Good night 1”
A committee clerk brought a po
liceman to the front of the room'
as the congressmen quickly passed
a resolution to excuse the witness.
McNair said he would leave “glad
ly” and departed.
CITATIONS were issued by tho
Post Office department against
alleged lottery associations oper
ated by Mrs. Oliver Harriman, prom
inent In New York society, and
Alfred E. Smith, Jr., son of A1
Smith. They and others asso
ciated with them were summoned
to appear In Washington and show
cause why fraud orders should not
be issued against them.
According to the charge, both per
sons are operating lotteries. Mrs.
Harriman heads the “National Con
ference on Legalizing Lotteries,
Inc.,” and Smith heads the “Golden
Stakes Sweepstakes."
Despite vigorous opposition,
which will reappear on the floor
of the senate, the senate committee
on Immigration and naturalization
Secretary
Perkine
reported ravoramy
the Kerr-Coolldge
alien deportation
bill, which Secre
tary Perkins has
been trying to get
through congress for
three years. It will
give her and two
other members of
an Interdepartment
al board discretion-'
ary power to harbor
radical and even
criminal aliens.
otherwise oeportame, in this coun
try. The same bill recently was re
ported favorably by the house com
mittee.
Pending action by congress on the
measure, Secretary Perkins has been
holding up the deportation of some
2,800 aliens mandatorily deportable
under existing law, contending that
they are ‘‘hardship cases.” Some are
radicals, some have criminal rec
ords, and others entered the coun
try Illegally. By “hardship cases”
Secretary Perkins means that they
would be separated from family ties
or put to some other inconvenience.
Secretary Perkins refused to pro
duce information respecting the 2,
800 “hardship" cases until Reynolds
Introduced a senate resolution,
whereupon she permitted him to ex
amine the records. ;j
UNABLE to raise $3,200,000 to re
deem two bond Issues reaching
maturity, the province of Alberta,
Canada, defaulted. Premier Wil
liam Aberhart, leader of the Social1
Credit party, admitted he could not
get the necessary funds. In last
fall’s election the Social Credit par
ty won a big victory. One of the
planks in Its platform advocated
the payment of $25 of social credit
“dividends” monthly to every citi
zen. None of these dividends has
been forthcoming as yet.
'T'HOUqp Kokl Hlrota, the new
* Japanese premier, said a few
days ago that while he was in office
there would be no war. It Is evident
nig government
really Is looking
for serious trouble
with Russia. This
feeling is expressed
by E1] 1 Amau,
spokesman for the
Tokyo foreign of
fice, who said: “Ja
pan must prepare
for Soviet aggres
sion."
Recent activities
Indicate the Reds
EiJI Amau
are availing themselves of the crit
ical situation which developed after,
the recent military revolt In Tokyo
and are increasing the strength of
their troops along the Manchukuan
border."
Amau said the “recent Soviet pol
icy has been to Are on any persons
near the border.” He said he re
gards this as rather strange beha
vior for a “friendly neighbor."
The tension was increased when
Moscow learned there had been
heavy fighting in Outer Mongolia,
ally of Russia, where Japanese and
Manchukuan troops had crossed the
border. B. S. Stomanlakov, Soviet
vice-commissar for foreign affairs,
told Japanese Ambassador Tame
klchl Ota that the situation did not
permit “waiting pacifically for de
velopment of events.”
He declared “serious responsibil
ity” would fall on the shoulders of
the Japanese government If the
fighting in Outer Mongolia were al
lowed to continue.
‘ At the same time the Manchu
government issued a warning that
unless the Outer Mongolian govern
ment “takes
terminate ail
against
relations of
threatened Wtl
contingency.”