Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1931, Page 2

'HOOVER AGAINST . WAGE REDUCTION Administration Keenly Dis-! appointed Over Announced Pay Cuts. (Continued From Pirst Page.) Pensylvania and some of the other roads have cut salaries. The hope was expressed in official circles here today that the cuts in ‘wages announced by the steel corpo- rations and in salaries by the General Motors Corporation would rot be & signal for a general reduction in wages throughout industry. It is trus that wages have already been cut here and there in industry, but, generally speak- ing, wages have been maintained at high levels despite the depression. The situation was looked upon, however, &s ve. “;n analyzing the situation, was called to the fact the cost of liv- ing has been reduced since the depres- sion set in 1920 by about 11.7 per cent. Such a reduction in the prices of essentials, Including food, clothing, shelter, fuel and light, it was said, would make the blow to cnel wage e.:n‘:: 21 the proj reductions in wage: easier wpmp:segn othe other hand, the fear was expressed that a reduction in wages might lead to a contraction im- mediately in buying by the wage earners and thus retard still further a return of good business, added production and greater employment. Foodstuffs Decline. At the Labor Department Bureau of Btatistics it was shown that the great- est decline in the cost of living had taken place in foodstuffs, which have dropped 23.5 per cent in prices during the two years of the depression. Cloth- ing prices showed a decline of 9.4 per cent and rents are down 7.5 per cent. Fuel and light have dropped 3 per cent and household furnishings ap- roximately 11 per cent. ‘The miscel- eous column, including all neces- saries not classified showed a reduc- Picture of Restored Wakefield SHOWS GIANT HACKBERRY TREE EXISTENT IN WASHINGTON’S DAY. attention | i NEW photograph of the Testored ‘Wakefleld, Va. showing, at lefi ce of George Washington at| t, the kberry tree believed to have been growing in the days of the Pirst President. The photo shows also fig trees in the garden. Bicentennial Commission.) (Photo by United States George Washington that the step. would hasten a revival of business. Formal statements of cor- porations concerned merely stressed unsatisfactory present conditions or new standards of value. United States Steel took the initiative and announced a 10 per cent cut, affect- 1ing 220,000 employes, October 1. Bethle- hem Steel followed suit. It will reduce wages 10 per cent October 1 for 50,000 employes. Youngstown Sheet & Tube ordered & corresponding cut. The General Motors Corporation an- nounced a 10 to 20 per cent reduction for 25,000 salaried employes. Some 150,000 employed on an hourly wage basis will not be affected. Five-Day Schedule. tion of less than 1 per cent. The United States Rubber Co. ans The records of the department showed | nounced a five-day working schedule, the decline in the cost of living has|gtarting October 1. This will mean a been gradual. It did not become marked | requction of about § per cent in wages until June, 1930, and the greatest drob | t5 25,000 employes. The hourly scale in the cost of food occurred in the 8iX | wiil not be touched, but no one wiil be months ending last June 30. given more than five days’ work. ‘The suggestion was advanced today (" The American Smelting & Refining that had the wage cuts in the big In-{Co, and the Utah Copper Co. announced dustries of this country been made im-|10 per cent wage reductions, effective mediately aftér the crash of the stock | October 1. market and the beginning of the busi-| A forecast of resistance came from ness depression in the Fall of 1929 labor | Matthew Woll, vice president of the would have been far less able to bear it | American Federation of Labor, after and maintain adequate standards of liv- | the announcement by United States ing than it is today, with the reduction | Steel. He said: 3 in the cost of living. “I can only express great regret and Are Eecalled. profound disappointment at the action Fledges 2 of the United States Steel Corporation. In this connection the comment Was | The disappointment is particularly mede today that President Hoover. bY | justified because this action is in sharp his call to leaders of industry, 1abor | gontradiction with that of the cor- and agriculture to confer with him at some time ago in reducing the White House in the Fall of 1929, | dividends, but declining to ecut wage had accomplished a great deal. At that | scales. At that time the attitude of time pledges were made to him by in-|the United States Steel Corporation HEAT STILL HOLDS GAPITAL IN GRIP Relief Forecast for Friday, With 1 Dead, 15 Pros- trations Yesterday. ‘The final day of Summer brought a slight abatement in the heat. ‘which caused one death antl 15 prostrations in Washington yesterday, ‘The mercury still was under 90 at noon and promised to stcp several de- grees below the high mark of 97 Te- corded yesterday. A return by Friday to the usual Fall temperature is fore- seen by the Weather Bureau. Although the mercury remained un- der that of yesterday, pupils in the elementary schools here were dismissed t 1 o'clock because of the heat. All of the public schools in Alexandria were closed at noon for the same reason. Richard Smith, colored, 39, of 511 Third street, died at Freedmen's Hos- pital last night after he was cvercome by heat during the afternoon at Thir- teenth and Upshur streets. Smith was removed to the hospital following treat- MRS, VARE BEATS CANADIAN WOMAN Virginia Van Wie and Mau- reen Orcutt Also Advance to Quarter-Finals. By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO; N. Y., September 23.— Ivlrllnll Van Wie of Chicago, who lost to Mrs, Glenna Collett Vare in the finals in 1928 and 1930, advanced to the quar- ter finals today in the Thirty-fifth ‘Women's National Golf Championship by defeating Frances Williams of Lehigh, Pa, 5 and 4. Mrs, Vare, the defending champion, overwhelmed Mrs. Charles Eddis of Toronto, Canada, 4 and 3. Mrs, Leo Federman of New York scored & 2-and-1 victory over Mrs. Helen Payson Corson of Philadelphia. Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J., also moved into the third round. She rogistered a 5-and-4 victory over Ber- nice Wall of Oshkosh, Wis. In & match that went 19 holes, Helen Hicks, Metropolitan champion, defeated Marion Hollins of Santa Cruz, Callf, 1 up. Enid Wilson, British championship hope, won from Mrs. L. C, Nelson of Dayton, Oltio, 4 and 3. Mrs, lLeona Pressler of San Gabriel, Calif., defeated- Fritzi Stifel, West Vir- ginla State champion, 1 up. The match ended on the twenty-first hole. Mrs. Vare and Mrs. Eddis were trap- ged on the second shots on the first ole and made splendid recoveries to the green, each taking two putts for 5s ! | s. Mrs. Eddis won the second hole with a birdie 4 after playing her third shot from the rough to the green and rolled in a 15-foot putt. Mrs. Vare pulled her second shot into a trap and re- quired two strokes to get out and on the green and then took one putt. At the third Mrs. Eddis was trapped on her second shot and reached the car- pet in 4, using two putts. Mrs. Vare was easlly on in three and down in two strokes with her putter to win the hole and even the match. Halve Next Three Holes, Mrs, Vare and Mrs. Eddis halved the fourth, fifth and sixth holes to re- main all even. They played each hole in orthodox fashion, getting three pars apiece. Mrs, Vare lost the seventh to be 1 down. The champion was trapped on her second and took two shots to get out. She was on with her fifth, while Mrs. Eddis wi on in three. Each took two putts, the Canadian star win- ning the hole with a-5. Both drove to the right of the eighth fairway. Mrs. Vare was over the green with her second, while Mrs. Eddis was short in a trap and pitched out over the green and was on in 4. Mrs. Vare pitched on to the green and took two putts for a winning 5 to square the match, Mrs. Eddis using two putts. Mrs. Eddis lost the ninth hole to go 1 down when she stymied herself on her first putt. Thelr cards: l Legionnaires Parade in Detrojt LEGION COMMITTEE REJECTS BAN ON BEER ISSUE AT CONVENTION . (Continued From First Page) he “likes beer,” but gonsiders food and clothing more important. Further restriction of immigration and the promotion of public works as & means of unemgloymem relief were recommended in the main body of the Unemployment - Commission’s report. Consideration by employers and work- ers of the five-day week and the six- hour day also was recommended. ‘The morning session was featured by reading of greetings from Premier Mussolini of Italy and a request from Howard Coffin, official of the General Motors Corporation, that the Legion consider a proposal to revive the War- Below: Members of the 33d Division marching in Detrolt at the opening of the American Legion convention. Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Governor ot Porto Rico and one of the speakers at the convention, is greeted by one of the famous Legion mascots. ~—A. P. Photos. held in Boston, the 1931 meet in Detroit, ’ next year's scheduled to go to Portland, | Oreg., and the 1933 meeting in Chi- | cago, interest in the commandership | appeared today to have centered on the | South, with the ‘understanding’ that | that section should be thus recognized | New York, meeting in caucus Tuesday, | is reported by its department leaders to have cast its 92 votes for Stevens, A total of 1,415 votes will be cast. ‘The new commander will be elected at_tomorrow’s session. Mrs. Louise W. Williams of Tuckahoe, | N. ¥, and Mrs. W. H. Morgan of Ed- | wardsville, Tlls., will be placed in nomi- | nation today for national president of | the Legion Auxiliary, with indications of & close contest when the election is | held at the closing session tomorrow. Bot] e been promi- also will be placed in nomination toda: including the five vice presidents. These nominations are mere formalities, inas- | much as the vice presidents have been | CHINESE RETREAT 'BEFORE IAPANESE Russians Reported Mobilizing as Harbin Is Left to Invaders. —_— By the Assoclated Press. PEIPING, China, September 33— Foreign official dispatches from Harbin reported today that Chinese troops were evacuating that city injanticipation of its occupation by Japanese forces reported to be advancing northward from Chang-Chun. A report that Russian troops were mobilizing on the North Manchurian border was regarded by Chinese in Har- bin as atrengthening their belief that & secret understanding exists between Japan and Soviet Russia for a division of spolls in Manchuria. ‘The dispatches confirmed a report that bombs were thrown at tne Japan- ese consulate and other Japanese build- ing in Harbin Monday night, but that there were no casualties and only slight 16,000 Japanese Troops. It was estimated here that Japanese troops now oceu Manchuria num- ber 16,000, mmx police, nfiw d reservists. ‘were reported. The faculties of the principal uni- versities here have addressed a RUSSIAN MENACE AVERTERD, Japanese Decision Not to Ocoupy Hashlg Seen as Safeguard. mEHANGHAL September 23 into the Sio.Japanese. im ma' parently was averted today by the cision of the Japanese military not seemingly has determined to -| keep the Manchurign crisis strictly m-m-mmmm:mm“ dustrial leaders that wages would not | was received with satisfaction by all | ment by the fire rescue squad. | b Gouncll ‘of Defeiie. selected at divisional eaucuses. ing all interventions, whether by Russia, labor leaders agreed that|who believed that any dislocation of | they would co all in their power 1o |wage wvent disputes involving labor and ::p\ayEA ‘These . pledges have generally kept up to the present. They were, in effect, gentlemen's agreements. The President, it was said today, is still nlmh on thue"md hubt: carry through the present depression. n the oghzr hand, some of the industrial Jeaders who conferred with the Presi- dent in 1929 assert that their under- standing of the agreements were that they should run for the period of one year, a period long since ended. Hope was expressed in official quar- ters that there would be no general ment_pfficial in touch the ""dquml Toinied ok mtmucfiddh 3 as e- = g there has g::mhnm a steady increase m the amount of money in the savings banks. It was his opinion that the time had arrived when the wage earners small salaried people, who undoubted- Iy luvedbeen rm;:‘x‘m;. :?.uld begin to spend again an ve & to business and employment of labor. ‘Whether the threat of wage cuts now made would halt this trend, be not sey. Low Level Passed. ‘This official also said the depression reached its low level in this country some time ago and that the country had been bumping along on the bot- tom, but holding » fairly steady level for sometime. He sald that after the low level had been reached in August, seasonal in part, there was reason to expect there would be an upward trend of business. Buying “was the crux of the situation, he said. In the depression of 1921 the wage cuts had been made almost - ately, it was recalled today. Lamont Without Comment. Becretary of Commerce Lamont would not comment today on the wage cuts ordered by the steel and other corpora- tions. At the Labor Department it was indicated that an official statement might be made later. It is no secret that Secretary Doak is strongly opposed to wage cuts at this time. The attitude of the White House to- ward the whole question of wages and the need for the upkeep of the living standards was interpreted as a blow toward any egitation that might arise for cuts in the pay of Federal employes. For the Federal Government to urge ‘wage cuts for its employes at this time would be tantamount to an invitation to all industry to follow sult, it was said. Chairman Wood of the House Appro- priations Committee yesterday made a tentative suggestion that salaries of higher paid Government officials could well be cut in view of the Treasury deficit. The saving from such cuts, how. ever, would be infinitesimal when com- red to a four or five bililon dollar budget of Government expense. Gifford Views Given in April, At the President’s relief headquarters. where Walter 8. Gifford is in charge, it ‘was recalled that Mr. Gifford’s last pub- lic utterances on wages was nade in April in an address to the annual As- sociated Press luncheon. He said then: “Although the present scale of wages would be equivalent to a large increa: 4f commodity prices and the cost of liv- ing should stay down, we ought, I be- lieve, to make every effort to maintain the wage scale.” Affairs of the steel industry were dis- cussed todav with President Hoover by Charles F. Abbott, executive director of the American Institute of Steel Con- struction. Mr. Abbott said later yesterday's ac- tion concerning wage cuts was not discussed. He sald he called solely for ond | nized. hot would be a most dis- turbing factor, economically and socially. Action Held Not Helpful. “All I can say is that the action of the United States Steel Corporation will certainly not be helpful, regard- less of the causes that may have prompted it. I fear that this action may well encourage others to do likewise and prove the result of even more serious perturbations than we have yet witnessed in the Na- tion's life. A general is inconeeivable that the worl will take this blow without resistance.” Washington advices represented Pres- ident Hoover and his advisers as hope- that the action of U. S. Steel would have no sweeping reflex among the employes of big business generally. Months ago Mr. Hoover sought to pledge the industrial captains against & lowering of wages. He has recog- wever, that in these matters the Government only can advise, and that decisions must be made by each eo?wnuon on the facts it individually is fa 3 The B. P. Goodrich Rubber Co. an- nounced that, effective October 1, it would reduce the hours of work of salaried employes 10 per cent and com- pensation for employment would be cut proportionately. General Refractories Co. of Philadel- phia said it had reduced wage rates similer to that effected by other in- dustries. MINE WAGE TO BE CUT. 10,000 Laborers in Arizona Affected by October 1 Change. PHOENIX, Ariz, September 23 (#). —A wage reduction of 9.1 per cent, af- fecting upward of 10,000 copper mine laborers in Arizona, will become effec- tive October 1. . Notices of the reduction, which |brings wages back to $4.50 a day for miners and $4 a day for muckers, the base rate of May 1, 1921, were posted yesterday at the major mines. Announcement was made that the Old Dominion mine, oldest in the State, would be closed until the price {of copper increases. The Garfield, |Utah, smelter of the American Smelt- |ing & Refining Co. and plants of the {Utah Copper Co. have announced 10 |per cent wage cuts, effective October 1 STEEL WAGE TO BE CUT. Pittsburgh Plant Announces Change Affecting 20,000 Men. PITTSBURGH, September 23 (#).— The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora- ticn announced today tbat wages in its plants would be reduced spproximately 10 per cent, effective October 1. The action of Jones and Laughlin, one of the largest independent steel concerns in the country, follows a similar course ) by the United States Steel Ccrporation and other steel firms. Jones and Laughlin employs about 20,000 men. WORKERS PLAN MEETING. | Protest Against Steel Wage Cut Plan- ned in Pittsburgh. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohlo, September 23 (#).—A mass meeting of steel work- ers is scheduled to be held in Pitts- burgh next Sunday to protest the wage cut announced by United States Steel | Corporation, a Yepresentative of the In- | ternational Labor Defense League, & | Communist organization, | after a meeting here last night. The | Speaker wculd not state the time or iplace. He sald steel workers frcm the purpose of reporting to Mr. Hoover | Youngstown would participate. the situation confronting the steel con- struction industry st this time. “Politically we have jusi awakened to the fact,” Mr. Abbott told the Presi- dent, “that if we desire to organize trade and industry, to maintain the wage scale and to maintzin employ- ment, it is necessary to permit trades ;.nd industries to earn reasonable pro- ts. LABOR TO FIGHT CUT. Announcement of Four Industrics Va- riously Interpreted, NEW YORK, September 23 (#).—An- pouncement of impending wege cuts in steel, motor, rubber and copper indus- tries was subject today to a varlety of laimed its resist- | by his widow. | M borc i G155 'AUTHOR AND TRAVELER DIES OF HEART ATTACK By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 23. — Isaac Kahn Friedmsn, author and newspaper man, died yesterday of a heart attack. Friedman traveled in Japan, China and Korea as & correspondent for the Chicago Dally News. Besides writing many magozine articles, he wess the author of severzl books, among them “The Lucky Number,” “Poor People, “Ily Bread A'one.” “The Autoblograpl of & Beggar” and “The Ragical” He studied at the Universities of Michigan and Chicago. He is survived ho was Mrs. Bara M. mare | of wag: reduction announced yesterday announced | hy | increased, Autumn Due Tonight. Of 15 others who were prostrated, 4 remained in hospitals today, Ncne was Dbelieved seriously affected. Autumn was scheduled by the as- tronomers to arrive at 24 minutes after 7' o'clock tonight, when the sun ggosses the Equator. ‘The local forecast is for showets to- night and somewhat cooler, followed by still cooler Weather tomorrow and to- morrow night and normal Pall tempera- tures by Friday. ‘While the tic seaboard and most of the South: red under Midsum- mer temper: , the Northwest re- frost and:eved freezing weather some Jocalities. tforecnt Charles L. orologist, predicted that the .coolness coming out of the Northwest probably would to the Atlantic Coast to- day and tomorrow, but added that some Southern sections t see more of the officially departed Summer. Two Siill in” Hospital. persons remaimed for treatment today at Emergency Hospital—Irving Reid, 46, of No. 2 Sixth street north- east, who was overcome while working at Sixteenth and M and George Reynolds, colored, 43, of 1001 First street southeast, who was prostrated while employed in construction work at tge Japanese embassy. Neither case was considered - Those who remained for treatment overnight at Casualty ‘Hospital were Reuben Harrell, 29, of 726 Fiith street, and Henry James, 30, of 1422 Ninth | street. Harrell fainted while working at the Woodward School, and James | was overcome while working at Penn- | sylvania and Minnesota avenues south- east. |~ Others treated at Emergency Hospi- |tal during the afternoon and dis- charged included: Margaret Berkley, |17, of 1334 Irving street, who fainted |while at work at a downtown depart- |ment store; Ralph Hicks, 26, of Me-| chanicsville, Md., who collapsed on the | | street; Wililam Ingram, 22, of 483 K| | street’ southwest, who was overcome on |the street; 5-year-old Marion L. Dodd, Stanhope = Apartments, who fainted | |while at play near her home; George | | Clark, colored, 38, of 229 R street, wbo collapsed while at work at the Wash- |ington Terminal; Charles Johnson, col- |ored, 51. of 615" Half street southwest. |who fainted on the street, and Alex | right, 57, McPherson and Dennison streets, who “was treated by an Emer-! gency Hospital ambulance surgeon and ‘Two { - \removed to his home in the patrol from |No. 13 precinct. Others Sent Home. Samuel Williams, colored, 26, of 2212 I street was treated at Casualty Hos- | |pital jand discharged after he was | overcome while at work at Fourth and K _streets. | Two persons overcome while work- | ing at Camp Meigs—Willlam Lyles, 29, | and Gilliam Hobson, 46—were treated at Sibley Hospital and sent home. | Albert Sengleton 46, colored, was stricken yesterday afternoon while en route on a street car to his home, at Brentwood, Md. He was discharged after treatment at Preedmen’s Hospital. WOULD ELECTRIFY TRUNK LINE ROADS Engineer Urges Three Billion Gov- ernment Loan for Project to End Depression. By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, September 23.—The eco. |nomic depression would be ended by electrification of 50,000 miles of the Nation's trunk line_ railroads, Joshua D'Esposito, internatiSnally known con- | struction engineer, said yesterday. | DEsposito proposed that the Fed- eral Government loan $3,000,000,000 to the rallroads to finance the program. { The loan could be made at a low in- | terest, and payable in 25 years, he R s i r L) m would ide em- . ployment for hundreds of thousands of “skilled and unskilled workers in mines, shops, factories, electrical plants and raflroad trackage.” sald. “Stock market values would be especially securities of | basic metal firms, steel plants, public :uu;)mu and “‘l‘;“tdh.: ’ sal t proposals for hugé construction projects |y s B o Mrs, Vare, out.. 5 54 5 Mrs. Eddis. out. 54 6 54 35 6 6—44 Mrs. Vare and Mrs. Eddie halved the tenth with par 4s and ‘the Philadel- phian wen the next three to become 4 up. At the eleventh, Mrs. Eddis pulled Ler drive to the left among trees; while Mrs. Vare's was trapped. The latter played out safe and was on in three. Mrs. Eddis had difficulty in getting out of the !r.e;u ll;lld took three to reach the green, rs. Vare sank a 20-1c for a birdie 4. e Mrs. Eddis’ drive at the twelfth land- ed in a trap while Mrs. Vare's was on. The champion got down easily in two putts and Mrs. Eddis took the same number after a shot out of the trap. Both ‘were on the 550-yard thirteenth in 3 and took two puts aplece to halve the hole. They halved the fourteenth :!755—4! fitteenth with an eagle 3, canni) 30-foot putt. % pi ol Their cards: Mrs. Vare, in.. Mrs. Eddis, in.. Followed By Gallery, + Miss Orcutt and Miss Wall were fol- lowed by a gallery of 100. They halved the first and second holes, getting pars on the first and birdies on the second. The Englewood girl became 1 up on the third hole, where she planted her spoon shot on the green and got down in two putts for a birdie 4. Miss Wall was short on her second and on in three, taking two putts. 4 They halved the fourth with par 5s and then Miss Orcutt added another hole to her lead to become 2 up on the fifth, where she got a 4, and Miss Wall missed the green on her second shot and was trapped, taking one to get on and two putts. Each went one over par to halve the sixth. Going to the seventh 2 up, Miss Orcutt and Miss Wall halved that hole with 5s and then Miss Orcutt played sensationally, to get par on the eighth and an eagle 3 on the ninth to become 4 up. At the ninth Miss Orcutt a long brassie to the green and 20 footer. Their cards: Women's par—Out.. 5555435 Miss Orcutt—Out.... 54454453337 Miss, Wall—Out..... 54555454 5—42 Four up at the turn, Miss Orcutt won the tenth and eleventh holes, where Miss Wall was short on her shots to the green. Miss Wall captured the twelfth after Miss Orcutt drove into a trap and she also won the thirteenth. There Miss Orcutt's drive was trapped and the took two to get out, finishing the hole with 7. Miss Orcutt won the fourteenth. Their cards: Miss Orcutt—In.. Miss Wall—In 4541 444 5538 GEN. JOHN B. BELLINGER DIES AT WALTER REED Former Acting Quartermaster Gen- eral to Be Buried at Mili- tary Academy. Gen, John B. Beliinger, 69, former | acting quartermaster general of the Armj, died at Waltor Reed Hospital last night. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the hospital ciapel, following which the body will be sent to West Point for burial. Gen, Bellin- ger was admitted 10 the hospital last month. In 1909 he constructed the harbor defense at Manila, and seryed until 1912 on the staff of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. He was awarded the Distinguished Serv- ice Medal for service in Stheria during the World War. Gen. Bellinger was a member of the Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs in Washington, 29 MUNICIPAL BUILDING PROJECTS UNDER WAY Twenty-nine municipal building proj- ects now under way here will cost $4,473,629.15, Albert L. Harris, munic- ipal architect, revealed today in his an- nual np(;;t:m i Some T construction jobs were completed during the fiscal ye:r ending June 30. Their contract values totaled $1,635,316. More than 30 new schools or additions were completed during the last fiscal year or now are under process of construction, the report disclosed. Harris reported 92 'r cent of mll '-m;rog:h"telon of $6,000,000 inicipa nter propert; ! P y had the for recent month $2,420, ‘worth was shipped from B T In & Y of rice with par 5s and Mrs. Vare won the | Hines Gives Warning. The Legionnaires were warned by a former comrade in arms, Administrator Frank T. Hines of veterans' affairs, not to risk public good will by demanding further payment on wdjusted .service certificates. Hines said: “One with his ear to the ground cannot have failed to hear an occasional rumble and criticism di. rected toward the American cause of its anticipated furtl mands in behalf-of the ex-service “We must not forget that the in- tangible asset of good will is the most valuable we ean possibly - g former brigadier general “The Legion has had it unboundedly. It has it today. But it is a fickle thing and must be carefully guarded. Nothing can vanish more quickly.” Urges Care in Appeal. Hines urged also that the ex-service men think carefully before demand- ing at this time pensions for widows and orphans of veterans whose deaths were not caused by war service. But the 7e~ionnaires should determine to ask this, he added: “Then, 1 earnestly urge that the effectiveness of your appeal, in such an admittedly worthy cause, be not per- | mitted to be discounted, as surely it | will be, by any other action looking to an even greater incumbrance against | the Treasury, such as the further pay- ment on adjusted service certificates.” Hines said that from March, 1931, to | June, 1932, actual expenditures for vet- erans of all wars will total approxi- mately $2,000,000,000, including consid- erably more than $1,000,000,000 in loans | on_compensation certificates. | The mounting expenditures for ex-sol- diers, he sald, have increased steadily in proportion to other Government out- lay! He held the legislative commitments for this burden were made largely in a spirit of fi'lfllud( by a pre rous Ni tion which had come to feel that 3 old bugaboo of hard times had been forever banished. There was no certainty, he cautioned, that a program undertaken in such generous times could continue unrevised now that the pinch of harder days had come. Rights of All Equal. “The rights of all citizens are equal,” Hines said, “To my mind no group can afford to put forth a policy of seeking material advantage at the expense of another. “In our present national economic emergency we must consider the plight of our citizenry at large, even at a ‘umpoflry sacrifice of our own just needs. The bonus question was pushed into prominence last night by a statement from the national commander, Raiph T. O'Neil, {n which he renewed his promise that there will be full and free discussion of the issue. It was the first utterance on the subject by a Le- gion leader since President Hoover’s address at the opening session Monday in which he called attention to the condition of the National Treasury and asked that no burden be added to it. Comdr. O'Nell's statement regarding the bonus, which renewed a pledge he made last week, came as & surprise at a time when many leadérs believed the issue was dead. Some States have in- structed delegates to vote in favor of demand for immediate payment of the bonus certificates at face value. Numer- ous delegations are objecting to the resent interest rate of 4% per cent on nus loans and in this they have the support of the commander. Wants Full Consideration. ile. my personal views are my sald O'Neil, whose report op- posed any action which might place a burden on the citizens of the Nation, “as national commander and chairman of the convention I shall see that the bonus question is considered on its merits to the reasonable limits of the desire of those holding divergent views ) it. There will be no attempt directly or indirectly by the chair to influence the decision of a single dele te. This is a question the Americ: n must decide for itself. ;hfie it is important enough to justify ull, without_interference.” ‘The Detroit News says that Henry L. Stevens, jr., Warsaw, N, C., attorney, appears to be the choice for national commander for 1931. “With eight or more candidates in the field, and few—if any—of the de- partments, other than the candidates’ own States apparently interested in the race,” the paper says, “the contest ai today to be ‘in the bag’ for Stev- ens.” The News explains its surmise as 'Whi own,” a) I be- Band Competition Starts. | ‘The vice presidents thus named are: Mrs. C. F. Snover of Fort Atkinson, | Wis,, Central division; Mrs. Agnes J.| | Bourisk of Sanford, Me., Eastern divi- | sion; Mrs. R. W. Waldrop, Bessemer, | Ala.,, Southern division; .Mrs. Maleolm | Douglas of Seattle, Wash., Western di- | vision, and Mrs. James Morris of Bis- | marck, N. Dak., Northwestern division. | Bands and drum corps from posts | throughout the country today began a | full day of competition to determine | winners .in the various divisions in ‘musical -organizations. ~‘The ‘contest is an annual feature of the Convention. l Competition started this morning and was to continue throughout the day, with the for tonight in Navin Pleld. 4 At the Convention in Boston last year | the Milwaukee Electric Post Band and the Miami Drum and Bugle Corps were declared winners. Mussolini Sends Greetings. Greetings from Premier Mussolini of | Italy were brought to the convention by Admiral Baron Alferdo Acton of Italy. | ‘The message sald: “I beg your excellency to bring my | cordial greetings to the overseas and European comrades assembled in this| meeting, where the spirit of brother- | hood and co-operation is revived whuhi has led us to victory. | “It is equally necessary that this same spirit animate today the people and the government and make, us over- | come the difficultiés that are in the| way for the world pacification.” ‘The baron attended the convention as representative of the Italian veterans. An invitation to visit Italy was ex- tended by the baron. - That country has indicated several times that it would like to entertain the Legion convention, possibly in 1937, The convention adopted & report’of its Junior Base Ball Committee which | | recommended that the 1932 contest be | conducted under practically the sames rules as those of this year. IMOVE TO PRE\TE_IF PUBLIC HEARING IN _(Continued Prom First Page.) | S | which he would not deny, had caused | the latter corporation real embarrass- | ment, especially on account of the in- | nuendoes in the press, which he dis- | missed as irrelevent to the present is- |sues. He sald that the La Follette anti-merger act deals with control of stocks or bonds and does not dcal with control of physical assets through a management contract. There is a man- agement contract in existence between the American Telephone mission has expressly the Central Public Service Corporation submitted a management contracy to the Public Utilitiss Commission a year ago and have avoided all the unpleasan: to take this st:p. Agents of the Central Public Service Corporation have been to Washington; made by the local company; it has rec- ommended the employment of execu- tive officers; it has exercised the same management “that accompanies true ownership of a subsidiary corporation, Mr. M rson admitted. But all this, he said, was a thing of the . The commission assumed a hostile attitude toward the management and, therefore, the management ceased. ferred to. Arthur Dean, counsel for the trustees of the Westfield Trust and the Wash- ington & Suburban Companies, said he to protest against commission free and extended consideration | W the only body empowered decide whether the law has lated, and, therefore, no other body can investigate the matter, and on the further ground that the La Folleite :l:cl-li\arler act is vold and unconstitu- nal He threatened to enjoin the com- by law. to' been vio- | GAS PROBE FAILS| & Telegraph | Corporation and the Chesaprake & | Potomac Telephone Co,, which the com- | Gas Light Co. approved,. and if | had been well advised it won'd have | publicity attendant upon their omission | the C. P. S. has supervised purchases | Service Co. a two-year option to Spirit of Patriotism” float which the Legion parade. headed —Wide World Photo. 1 any use whatsoever of records irrele- vant to the issue. . Spaulding Flannery, had been retained by Mr. Peirce this morning, urged acceptance of a stipu- lation, rather than the undertaking of a laborious investigation which would last two weeks or two months, at the end of which the commission would have no more facts than it could get by the stipulation. Owns Westfield Trust. Mr. Peirce said he owned the West~ fleld Trust, which was established March 1, 1930, to acquirs other trusts. It appeared, however, that the West- field Trust really mcquired a group of what was poetically describel as “tree corporations.” It is said there were 11 of these to be acquired, but the names of only three have been mentioned thus far. They are the Ashwood, the Beech Tree and the Pine Tree tions. | The Westfield Trust, he said, was or- | ganized by the Peirce Investment Co., | which he owns, and which paid the Westfleld Trust $10,000 for bene-. ficial share This $10,000 was later repaid to the Peirce Investment Co. by Mrs. Peirce. Mr, Peirce saild he does mot know whether he receives any income from the Westfield Trust and that he does | not control the action of the trustees under the trust. He sald he has tried to tell the trustees how to invest the money but they would not' listen his advice. . He , however, that they had used some ol it to buy Central Pu‘hlic Service stock below the market price. 4 Then it appeared fhat 11 “tree” cor- porations were organized to hold stock in the New York and Richmond Gas Co. That stock was bought out of a& loan of $13,725,(00 by the Central Pub- lic Service Corporation to the West- field "h-uat on the note of the Westfield Interested Bankers. Mr. Pelrce related the events leading up to the purchase of the Washington After & few preliminary failures, he went to Harris Forbes & Co., investment bankers of New York, ng houses, who put up a million dollars each and borrowed $10. ,000 from the Chase National Bank to swing the deal. They. organized the Seaboard Invest- ment Trust, into whose name the Wash- ington Gas Light Coi's stock was trans- ferred, and then gave the Central Public buy the beneficial shares of the Seaboard Investment Trust for $6,000,000 and as- sumed the obligation of the loans. The option was not exercised and expired in the Spring of 1§31. The stock was bought by the .Westfield Trust instead, which borrowed $10,500,- 000 from the Southern Cities Public Service Co. to retire the loan from the Chase National Bank. Then the West- fl;ld Trust sold $6,400,000 worth of in the Seaboard Investment Trust, which had meantime changed its name to the Wachington & Suburban Co.s, to the Harris Forbes & Co., to be resold to the public Out of proceeds of this sale the Washington & Surburban Co.s retired a loan of $1,000,000 made by W banks to the xandria : Co., which had been acquired the Washington & Suburban Co.s. X In_addition to the ferred shares to and bonds mentioned, 171,000 shares of common stock of the Washington & Suburban Co.'s are owned by the West- lo- | field -Trust, Mr. Plerce said. Ketor Sued for $80,367. ANGELES, September 23 (#).— , Western film actof, yester- for $80,367 in lor ‘Hobbis, who rg- ously in League of Nations Kellogg anti-war pact nkn-wnq?' e Although the Japanese chief of staff in Manchuria ordered troops to into Harbin to protect the Japa- mmg t-::;“nubenubhet at it was not Russian interven- t of the oecn“zd w8 of Japanese residents ot Kwa) apanese Chf cities are moving in boties to places of safety. 3 About 100 persons, comprising the en- tire Japanese tion, moved from Hanchow to hal today and the €vacuation of Nanking, the Nationalist capital, also was begun. Women and children engrained from the capital for i, while the rest of the Japanese community, totaling about 70 persons, ited on the water front, off which lay a Japanese cruiser. At Manchull, near the Manchuria; n border, all Japanese were re- ported concentrated at the Japanese consulate, fearing Chinese reprisals. Japanese residents of Tsitsihar, 2lso in Northern Manchuria, were arriving at Harbin, .en route to places of safety, while a large portion of the Harbin Japanese community was preparing to ::rv':dl:n the wake of others already de- to|LOCKED DOOR MYSTERY IS CRUCIAL POINT IN SHELTON TRIAL (Continued Prom First Page.) them ‘remarked that the “bombshell has g » Nearly 200 of his supporters, consti- tuting a defense committee, met at the church last night and discussed the re- sults of the day’s hearing. This com- mittee has actively participated in work- ing up the defense, Including the rais- ing of funds. and they interested four other bank- | PTe: Dr. E. B. Regester of Alexandria is in charge of the prosecution. Dr. Shelton 15 represented before the board by Rev. J. J. Rives of the Francis As- bury Church and Rev. H. H. Sherman of the Board of Christian Education. ‘They are be! advised in legal matters by Raymond B. Dickey, a local attor- ney, and Robert H. Jones, jr. an at- torney and friend of Dr. Shelton's from Atlanta. Dr. Hammond said nouncement would be hearing is completed, when the verdict will be given out. A s 1 affair,” he lll:i - : the less publicit; , “an - y given it