May 7, 1933

Despite public misconception there is no magic in the word "guarantee," said George S. Van Schaick, Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York, discussing the mortgage guarantee situation at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Thursday evening.

M Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in talks with Amb Ota of Japan, reptd to have offered to sell ry to Japan for 300,000,000 gold rubles; Japanese reptd considering offering 30,000,000 rubles; sale complicated by Chinese and French interests; note from Li Shao-keng to Kuznetsoff milder; reiterates Manchukuo's claim to full ownership, and says Peiping-Mukden agreements are incomplete

Mlle. Michele d'ldier, the 15-yearold stowaway from Grenoble, France, who captivated detectives, court attendants, a judge and immigration officials with her pretty French accent, turned out yesterday to be just Mary Whittier, runaway high school girl of Hazleton, Pa.

MR. NORMAN DOUGLAS must have a lot to look back to. He has wandered about the world. He has seen behind the facades of diplomacy and has had the delights of bobemianism. He has known all sorts of people from statesmen and men of letters to tramps.