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# WAGE FOUR CATTARAUGUS REPUBLICAN. WEDNESDAY, DEC. Z$, 1935 21 Republics of America Agree on Defensive Pact Argentine Plan Adopted with Some Modifica- ’• tions After Objections to U. S. Plan HULL SATISFIED Engineers Final Agree ment as Covering Es sential Needs Lima, Peru, Dec. 23 (IP )— The 21 republics of the W estern Hemisphere proclaimed their “decision to main tain and to defend” their continental solidarity “against all foreign inter vention or activities.” i as a substitute for its m inister or for eign affairs. “Fifth, that this declaration shall be known as the declaration of Lima.” Lima, Peru, Dec, 24 (IP) — B razil's signature today gave the unanimous hacking of the 21 American republics to a Pan-American conference declar ation on continental solidarity and defense. Afranio Hello Franco, head of the Brazilian delegation, signed the dec laration a t 12:25 p. m., bringing to an end two weeks of controversy over the action the conference should take. The agreement, previously signed by the other republics, was announ ced Thursday night as proclaiming _ „ the decision of the nations of the F o llow in g m o re an ^ - W estern Hemisphere to m aintain and exhaustive lsevtsbions ey 1 to defend their continental solidarity a t a unanimous decision last night to ■ declare their “common concern - in cate the peace, security of terri torial integrity of any American re public is threatened by acts of any nature that may threaten them .” The declaration which was finally approved was drawn up by Argen tina, which throughout the confer ence had insisted that no mention be made specifically of aggression from off the continent. A rgentina’s empha sis of this point was regarded as a reflection of her fear that the United States some day might turn aggres- so.. Albany, Dec. 23 (IP )— Proposed Dr. Carlos Concha of Peru, ch a ir - : legalization of a pre-paym ent plan of man of the conference, declared, • insurance to cover costs of medical however, that there were ‘‘no basic treatm ent, endorsed by the State discrepancies” between the Argentine ; yjedieal Society, appears certain to draft which delegates agreed upon evoke bitter debate in the 1939 Legis and proposal:- against ail activities. foreign intervention or M E D IC A L C A R E L A W P R O P O S E D State Medical Society and Health Doctors for Legislative Decision submitted by other countries. iature. Chief opposition is expected from The declaration, which cai’ries Pan- t £}10se physicians who favor, instead, American solidarity a long step for- ^o-ealled “group practice eo-oper- w ard if faithfully adhered to. con-! a^}ves” 1Knv functioning in several tains five articles following a pre amble exalting Pan-American unity. Pact Succeeds Pessimism parts of the country. Dr. Joseph S. Lawrence, of Albany, executive secretary of the State had par ent liawks for Fred Schmidt, jr., of Philadelphia Natural Sci ence museum, when he removed a young hawk, for banding, from nest atop a high dead tree. R A I L R E P O R T W A I T S A C T IO N B Y R O O S E V E L T Many Recommendations of Committee W i n Wide Acclaim, b u t Haul Clause, Other Factors Stir Debate Agreement was reached on a daj ; Medical Society, said yesterday that which began in pessimism over t h e ; ke jiad appeared recently before a f a c t th a t Argentina Wednesday n i g h t ; igorj^lative committee for re- had cast her own declaration into the codification of insurance laws to en- eouference and indicated it was up dorse proposed legalization of to the other nations to take it oi i medical insurance. leave it. This stand was taken despite ■ «This would be in addition to the existing provision which authorizes j group hospital insurance,” he ex- j plained. Dr. Lawrence said he j “would assume” that some member j of the committee would sponsor the J necessary legislation. Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, former W ashington, Dec. 23 (IP )— The President’s special committee on rail roads recommended today creation of a transportation board to be charged with responsibility for regulating all modes of transportation, The committee, composed of three representatives each from railroad m anagem ent and labor, proposed a comprehensive program for\ immedi ate rehabilitation of the carriers. The committee urged revision of the rate-making rules of the Inter state Commerce Commission and sub stitution of a new ruie “applicable to all modes of transportation.” Repeal of the so-called long and short haul clause, which prevents railroads from charging less for a long haul than for a short haul over the same route, was also proposed. The committee suggested that a court be established to have exclusive jurisdiction over m atters connected with railroad reorganizations, reliev ing the Interstate Commerce Commis sion of all responsibility in that field. The committee also recommended that the I.C.C. be relieved of respon sibility for prescribing a general plan for consolidation of railroads there- I I i T f / ^ l Y f / ’IV T O 1 restoring to the carriers all initia- llAKKl- nUrAlr30:fVB’ but, »W™val by the ; transportation boai’d of any proposed rARINFTic°nsoiidation” V l 1 ▼ Ma As v n u u i u A The committee has been steadily at U n rip A p D A D C D I 'vovk s*nee a special mediation board V f I v J j | K U l i l K I tuinefl down a proposal by the ear- j ricrs that employes take a 15 per W D A LJ Q x. ' ecnt waffe cut. The cut had been sug- • r • -rA- H.G3.C1, o t o r m gested as a way to improve the line’s Center in Recent Elec- I finances, but with that possibility gone, other avenues were explored.” j There was no immediate indication as to how much of this program might win Congressional approval, Washington Daybook ■ B y Preston Grover - By PRESTON GROVER W ASHINGTON—The shift in Congressional attitude toward business is well illus trated by the eagerness of a Senate tax committee to listen to plans for coddling business in stead of punishing it. Two years ago the undistributed profits tax was enacted as a com bination punishment and reform measure. It was argued that big corporations were piling u p exces sive idle reserves instead of pay ing them out in wages and divi dends which would swell consum ing power and increase taxable income. So, a tax was imposed on earnings kept in corporate re serves to compel a corporation either to pay taxes at once or pay out extra wages and dividends which could be taxed in the regu lar income brackets. Corporations protested that the law penalized thirty managers saving against a rainy day, and at the same time made it impossible to save money for plant expansion and improvement. So many com plaints were made that last year it was almost wiped out by the sim ple device of rediicing the tax vir tually to nothing. ❖ Of. Seek 4Siep Out* S p u r s XJOW a special Senate committee I ^ is learning from experts how to apply taxation to encourage business to step out with new vigor. They talk of “incentive tax ation” to encourage such things as plant expansion and moderniza tion, as well as to encourage such worker-benefit programs as profit- sharing and pension trusts. Just where it will wind up is something else again but the sit- u:dion contrasts significantly with the sock ’em attitude of 1,936. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.. chairman of the Genera] Motors Corporation, told the committee that a blanket reduction of taxes would be the greatest piece of “incentive” be could think of in that line. Inci dentally. that has been the theme song of most of the industrialists apoearing before the committee. Throughout the first and second depressions the greatest sluggish ness has been felt in the capital goods industry—among the ma chinery makers and tHe tool mak ers, the very ones who would first be p u t to work if manufacturers of consumer goods began demanding new equipment. * * * Several Proposals Made ALREADY a basketful of “in- centive tax” methods have been proposed. Sloan suggested a tax rew ard to companies installing new and more efficient equipment. “America’s production plant is ob solete, as measured by todays technology,” he told the eommit- • tee. “Today the tax structure and its administration tend to discour age the substitution of the new for the old.” Installing new equipment not only would stimulate the capital goods producing the equipment, he said, but would help the plants which bought it to lower eosts ©f manufacturing con sumer goods. Thus at one blow- purchasing power would be in creased on two fronts. Other proposals include lax re wards for companies setting up trust funds for pension or sim ilar w o rker benefits. A t present only those companies which contribute an 35 per cent share to pension funds can offset the donation from taxable earnings. Presents Many Problems A LREADY the Congressional tax Y* technicians are con cerned about 'difficulties of putting “incentive taxes” into effect than about w h at they might do to reve nue, although that of course ulti m ately will be the primary con sideration. Badly an incentive tax might unbalance competition among rival compa nies and in the end disrupt busi ness even more seriously than the undistributed profits tax. One thing is certain. More gov ernm ent revenue must be had and it can come only from two sources. One is from sterner and broader levies, and the other from in creased national earn in?? which will turn out more revenue under present rates. U . S . R E J E C T S N A Z I D E M A N D F O R A P O L i Envoy Told Ickes* Sp< on Dictatorships pressed Views Major ity Americans CITES NAZI POLICY tions, P rom o ted OTHERS SHIFTED or how much of it Mr. Roosevelt he the fact th a t the 20 other republics, as Concha’s statem ent indicated, al ready had agreed to a m ajority dec laration. Leaders o f the delegations erect in C o n c h a ’ : office fo r an e f f o r t to bring together the Argentine view , and the document proposed by the : president of the American Medical I Col. Harrington Named j ^ l^ oagn^'tn tadde at f Acting Head of W. P. A., Williams Made N. Y. A. Administrator W . P . A . F U N D S D E P L E T IO N B Y F E B . 7 T H S E E N Pittman in Statement Assprts People of U S. ‘Do Not Like* Gov ernments of Jap? Germany W ashington, Dec. 22 (IP) — S' ner Welles, acting secretary of s* disclosed today th a t the United St* had rejected Germany’s demand an official apology fo r Secre Ickes’ speech in Cleveland last S day attacking dictatorships, Welles told Dr. H ans Thomsen, German chaige d’affaires, th a t request came with singularly grace and impropriety from a gov m ent which had so persistently m itted its controlled press and o cials to attack American leaders, eluding Presidents Wilson and R od velt and present members of the inet. A s s e r ts Public Shocked The acting secretary of state vised Thomsen that Ickes’ remar repiesented the feeling of .an ov whelming m ajority of the Ameri people who have been profoun, shocked by recent events In German Welles’ statem e n t to the Ger envoy was couched in strong and compromising term s which the Uni ; ed States rarely uses in diplomat discussions with a friendly gove ment. He told Ihom sen th a t the man government m u st now surel; H U N A G R Y P L A N S J know that the recent policy pursue 1 in Germany had shocked and con L A W O N j founded public opinion in the U n it gath- United States, Brazil and Peru. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull probably saved the con ference on the continental solidarity issue by telling the leaders at that point that the Argentine declaration previously had been approved by the United State delegation despite hopes for something stronger. In any event, Hull said, the Argen tine document was practically the same as the m ajority declaration and, with slight modification, would do. When one delegate offered the ob jection that this meant the surren- cura^ Vt, der of 20 republics to one republic, Hull was said to have told them all came to the conference to perfect American solidarity and defense and they could not do it by leaving out ■one im p o rtant republic. He said he did not consider it a surrender to subscribe to a declara tion which contained the substance Association, said that, under the so ciety’s proposal, payment of $1 a month would entitle the payer to a credit of $130; a $2 monthly prem ium would build up a 3300 credit, and a 335 yearly payment would en title him to a maximum of $500. Under the “group practice co-oper ative” p la n described by Dr. K in g s ley Roberts, medical director of the Bureau of Co-operative Medicine, several physicians including special ists in various branches of medicine, form a single unit to offer complete medical service, both preventive and Washington, Dec. 22 — Harry L. Hopkins, lanky storm center o f 1 congressional criticism of federal re- j lief spending, was appointed Secre tary of Commerce today by President Roosevelt. For his place as head of the Works ' Progress Administration, spender of New Deal agencies, Mr. 1 Roosevelt named Col. Francis C. Har- , rington, army engineer who has been ; an assistant W.P.A. adm inistrator. | He was designated “acting” W.P.A. ! adm inistrator. ; Aubrey Williams, deputy W.P.A. adm inistrator, was appointed Nation al Youth Administrator, and some , White House aides said he was ex - 1 1 Wheeler and a sizeable bloc of j western senators have expressed o p - ' position to repeal of the long-and- short-haul clause, which prevents 1 railroads from charging a lower rate ( for a long haul than for a short haul j over the same route in the same di- j rection. Like many other of the committee’s , recommendations, repeal of the , clause has long been one of the major le g i s l a t i v e o b j e c t i v e s of the r a ilr o a d s . , They have contended it prevented them from meeting competition. Legislators Indicate Em priation to Pass Con gress Quickly Despite! Charges of Political1 Use j Restrictions Necessary, Con tends, to Bar Jewish Refugees from Out side States more profoundly than an thing that had taken plafce in man decades. Welles warned Thomsen th a t pressions of public indignation sue as Ickes’ were inevitable. .. ^ . , i i pected to resign from his W .P.A. lor a fixed sum per month r , post, williams already is executive per person. i The average sum paid by subserib- J ers. it was brought out. is $2.20 a I month per person or $4.50 a month for a family of four. Among contentions of the Ameri can Medical Association and others opposing this plan are that it elimin- Rail and Labor View* John J. Pelley, p r e s i d e n t of the As sociation of American Railroads, commented that the report appeared to be “the most comprehensive and construcive that has ever been made as to the transportation problem and proposals for its solution.” He said the report was unanimous. But Alexander F. W hitney, presi dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, declared the document was ust another smoke screen to tickle ! t ates the free choice of a physician by and spirit of the majority pioposa . ^ pat-ic-nt and, because a fixed sal- Slight modifications were then made ■ aj.y js pak, tQ thp doctor> vemoves and agreed to. ( competition and tends to lower the Text of A g reem ent | q u a]ity of medicaJ care . The official English translation ot Qn thfi other ^ proponent. ( director of N.Y.A. j Hopkins moved into the cabinet va- i eancy created by the resignation of ! Daniel C. Roper after some of the ^ ie ckin 0f Hie public, give the rail- | most controversial months of his ca- roads a little re*lief and possibly to : reer. W.P.A. activities were a m ajor take something from the public as : point of Republican critiesm in the , wen as employes.” 1936 presidential campaign a n d j said the committee’s proposal the continental solidarity declaration agreed upon follows; “The American republics declare; “First, th a t they reaffirm their con tinental solidarity and their pui’pose to collaborate in the maintenance of the principles upon which said solid arity is based. “ Second, that, faithful to the above mentioned principle and to their absolute sovereignty, they re affirm their decision to maintain and to defend them against all foreign intervention or activities that may threaten them. “ Third, and in ease the peate. se curity or territorial integrity of any American republic is thus threatened by acts of any nature that may im peril them they proclaim their com mon concern and their determination to make effective their solidarity’, co ordinating their respective sovereign the “group co-operative” set-up con tend the indemnity medical insurance proposal ignores preventive medicine and offers no adequate diagnostic ser vice beyond what can be rendered in a doctor’s office. •o Employment Drops 0.5, Payrolls 2.8 Per Cent In October - November again in 1938 the cry of “politics in 1 relief” was heard in congressional and gubernatorial contests. Speeches and other public utter- i ances for or against those he consid- j ered friends of the adm inistration frequently brought upon Hopkins the condemnation of Republicans and Democrats regarded as “conserva- j tive.” j Legislative reaction to Hopkins’ J appointm ent indicated his handling of W.P.A. was likely to be subject to a general investigation before the Senate acts on his confirmation. Albany. Dec. 23.— Employment in New York state factories dropped 0.5 per cent from the middle of October to the middle of November. Total payrolls were 2.8 per cent lower than last month. During Novembei the reporting factorie? totaling 2,553, employed 422*685 workers on a total weekly {ayroll of $11,102,425, according to a statem ent issued today by Indus- wills by means of procedure of con- j trial Commissioner Frieda S. Miller, sultafcion established fay conventions, An earlier report based on reports in force and by declarations of inter- j from. 2,241 factories had indicated a American conferences, using m e a s -; drop of 1.1 per cent in employment ures which in each case circum -, and 3.3 per cent in payrolls. stances may make advisable. “I t was understood the govern ments of the American republics will act independently in their individual capacities, recognizing fully their juridical equality as sovereign states. “Fourth, that in order to facilitate consultations established in this and other American peace instruments, the ministers of foreign affairs of the American republics, when deemed advisable and at the initiative of any one of them, will meet in their sev- #r«I capitals by rotation and without protocolary character. “Each government may, under special circumstances or for special reason?, designate a representative Observance of Election and Ar mistice Days by many factories low-1 d istant future I will have specific and ! t he report a t Chicago said his organi- ered navrolls somewhat-' thi« noi-mn definite thine-a to sav of this ioh ” ■ _ ____ i r \ n a it.. ered payrolls somewhat this period. The usual changes, as measured by the average movements from October to November over the last 24 years, v e r e reductions of 0.7 per cent for employment and 1.3 per cent for wage payments, Employment was about 6 pei- cent lower than in No vember of last year. Payrolls were approximately 5 per cent lower. This is the most favorable comparison th a t has been made in 1938 with the corresponding month of 1937. Front October to November in 1937 employment decreased 5,3 per cent and payrolls 9!2 per cent. W ashington, Dec. 24 (IP )— H arry L. Hopkins was sworn in as Secre tary of Commerce at a brief White House ceremony today, and imme diately asserted he wanted the Bus iness Advisory Committee created by his predecessor, Daniel C. Roper, to continue functioning. The slender form er W. P. A. chief told reporters most of the advisory group’s members were his personal 1 stated friends and th a t he expected to con-1 * “j cannot express an opinion as to fer soon with their^ chairman, W. i other recommendations without Averill Harrim an, railroad executive, j having had an opportunity to study There had been reports that some j the complete report.” ^ , Donald D, Conn, executive vice that consolidations be worked out by individual railroads was so broad and nebuloq^ that “no man who repre sents labor can concur in it unless there is some provision for protec tion of labor that would be dis placed.” Railroad stocks and bonds, contin uing an advance which began Thurs day, moved ahead both before and immediately after publication of a summary of the report. C. E. Denney, president and trus tee of Erie Railroad, said a t Cleve land: “I am in full accord with the recommendations covering the mod- fication of the rate-making rule, re peal of the so-called long and short haul clause, the release by the gov ernm ent of control of the Mississippi barge line, reduction in the railroads-* expense of eliminating grade cross ing and improvements made neces sary by Federal navigation and flood control projects, also the repeal of the so-called land grant statute,” he members of the council were contem plating resigning. “A t an appropriate time in the not president of the Transportation As sociation of America, commenting on definite things to say of. this job,” j zation was 100 per cent behind the the Iowan said. He added he would recommendation th a t all forms of start work Monday, though probably transportation be centralized. not at his Commerce Depai’tm ent desk. Hour Blaze at Bradford Bradford, Dec. 24— Bradford fire men battled f o r almost two hours last night to extinguish a blaze in River street that for a short time threaten ed to sweep through the entire neigh borhood. E fforts of the firem en con fined the blaze to two houses, one of which suffered chiefly from water and ,sraoke damage. “W ithout having studied this re port I would say th a t we favor a centralized regulation of all form s of transportation,” Conn said, uWe do not favor one group over the others, not favor any one group over the others. Our aim is regulation of all transportation for the best interests of industry, agriculture, transporta tion and the general public?’ The association’s membership in cludes railroads?, airline?, busses and motor truck operator*. -a Washington, Dec. 22 (IP) — Congres sional leaders put an emerge-icy re lief appropriation at the top of the list of prospective legislation today aiter Aubrey Williams, deputy ad m inistrator, announced the W. P. A. would he out of funds February 7. Williams told a delegation of relief workeis from Pennsylvania yesterday that unless Congress appropriates more money, the W. P. A, m u st begin trimming its rolls January 26 and shut down completely 12 days later. Senators Norris (Ind.-Neb.) Wheel er (D-M ont.), O’Mahoney (D-Wyo). Murray (D-M ont), Schwartz (D— Wyo. and Representative Cannon (D.-Mo) expressed confidence Con gress would quickly approve an emer gency appropriation. Senator McNary of Oregon, the Republican leader, predicted there would be little or no Republican op position, He indicated Republicans would make no attem p t to bring up suggested changes in the method of distributing relief during discussion of an emergency bill, deferring their proposals until measures for the next fiscal year are introduced. C. I. O. C h ief A s k s B illion John L. Lewis, C.I.O. leader, called on Congress to appropriate $1,000,- 000,000 to carry W. P. A. through to June 30, 1939. Unless this is done, he said, “ 3,200,000 American workers and a t least 10,000,000 human beings dependent on them will face disas ter.” Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, recently said the Administration intended to ask ap proximately $600,000,000 to carry the W. P. A, through from March 1 to July 1. the start of a new fiscal year. i The $1,425,000,000 appropriated! for the W. P. A. by the last Congress had been scheduled to last until March 1. Senator Davis (R. Pa.) charged W. P. A. rolls had been “filled to the very limit” during political cam paigns. He attributed the subsequent decline of relief rolls this W inter to this f a c t and asserted that “politics, not economic conditions, determines the num b er of jobs.” Davis, in a letter to W. P. A. Ad m inistrator H a rry Hopkins, called W. P, A . “a filthy mess” and “a great public tru s t badly abused.” There were indicatiens of definite action by the Senate Campaign Ex- penditm-es Committee on recommen dations for stringent prohibitions against political use of relief funds. Chairman Sheppard* (D-Tex) said after a committee m eeting he favored not only strengthening of the general laws against Influencing and coercing Federal employes fo r political pur poses, b u t the insertion of some such specific ban in relief appropriations bill*. Budapest, Dec. 23 (JP) — Hungary confronted Europe with a fx-esh Jew ish problem today when the govern m ent placed before parliam ent sweep ing measures to restrict Jews’ p artici pation in the economic and political j Berlin, Dec. 24 (IP )— A propag da m inistry spokesman today d clared the “ Ickes incident” was clos diplomatically a f t e r i t culminated 1 the United States’ rejection of German protest against a speech b the Secretary of the Interior. Though regretting th a t Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles* life of the nation. j rejection “left a sting behind,” . Hi* ! The anti-Semitic program was in-1 spokesman said the protest was j troduced in an eight-minute session j devoted to reading of a government statem e n t on the Jewish problem. Hungary was obliged to protect herself “against possible infiltration of Jew’s” from neighboring countries with a population of 200,000,000 in which sharp anti-Jewish measures are being taken, the government of Prem ier Bela Imredi explained. In the lower house some govern m ent members shouted, “this is only the beginning!” C z e c h s A s k R e s t r i c t i o n s Meanwhile, in Prague, the Youth Group of the government controlled N ational Unity P a rty proposed th a t Jews be classified as members of a new Czeclio-Slovak minority, and no longer be considered citizens. Under the proposed program, Jews’ rights would be regulated by special law and even Jews speaking Slav languages would be included. All Jews would be excluded from gov ernm ent and teaching positions. One grandparent of Jewish belief would be enough to classify a person as a Jew. The pi*oposal also suggests revision j of all citizenship rights granted since the outbreak of the World W ar, in cluding provision fo r labor and mili tary service and a special service for Jew’s and Gypsies. S P Y C O N V IC T E D O F P L A N T H E F T Los Angeles, Dec. 23 (iP> — Karl Allen Drummond, 21-year-old air craft plant employe, awaited sen tence today on his conviction last night of esponiage, with the penalty prescribed by laiv fo r his crime of stealing aviation data two years in prison. the Senate Foreign Relations coz Drummond, a form e r inspector for j tee, issued the following state! councjied in such term s th a t diplo matic action ended with the strong American retort. Not even diplomatic quarrels m u st interfere with the Christmas spirit, so there will be no official “reaction,* said the spokesman, adding t h a t Nazis are regarded by many a s h e a th en; yet I think we are better Chris tians than some other people.” Press R e p lies to P ittm a n At the same time Senator Pittm a n ’s four point statem e n t ex pressing disapproval of the Berlin and Tokyo governments elicited an angry reply from (the officially in spired commentary service, Deutscb- er Dienst. Under the caption, “ Disturbance of Christmas peace,” the service said; “Senator Pittm a n ’s declaration constitutes a carefully timed, brutal disturbance of the Christmas peac#. “W hat cynical baseness and a t the same time w h a t im p udent smug* ness is apparent from these utter* ances by a man, who, as the commit tee chairman (of the Senate Foreiga Relations committee) occupies a posi tion of responsibility, yet who actfc W’ith complete irresponsibility. “He didn’t ask tbe American peo ple. yet he considers him self author ized to insult a gx-eat European pot**- er in such an unbelievable manners. “A fter all, h e m u st know he insulh* the German people in its entirety a n # in all its strata ivhen he arrogaU to himself such expressions of o p i n ion.” The propaganda m inistry spok« man, in stating Hie “ Ickes incident?! was closed diplomatically, deelar®#* “ We don’t think utterances 1! Ickes’ help promote the Christmae spirit.” i J Pittman Issues Statement W ashington, Dec. 22 (iP)— Senator Pittm a n (Dem., Nev.) chairm an of the Northrop Aviation Company in its factory a t nearby Inglewood, was accused of stealing blueprints of a revolutionary new naval bombing plane and attem p ting to sell them to Japanese agents for $2,000. “My object has been achieved,” the defendant said, from the witness s tand. “I’m th e goat.” In fiding Drummond guilty, Judge Yanktvich termed the defendant's testim ony a fantastic afterthought concoced long a f t e r he told his story to Federal agents. H e declared today, without immediate tion: “1. The people of Hie U i States do not like the government; Japan. “2. The people of the United do not like the government of many. “ 3. The people of th e United in my opinion are against any of dictatorial government, €* nistic of Fascistic, “4. The people o f the United have the r ig h t and power t o enf morality and justice in aceo* Drummond’s so-called patriotic mo tive f o r stealing the plans would h a v e ! with th e peace treaties with os. been revealed to governm ent men j they will. O u r governm ent do«a last July had i t bten genuine, (have to usa military fore# and Tht esse wa* tried without a jury* | nut vml*m necessary.”
