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" ment” be invoked to suspend virtually ARMS TRUCE PLAN Navy Holiday Starting No-| vember 1 Sought—Assem- : bly Adjourns. Hy the Asséciated Press. i " GENEVA, September 20.— .1 Twelfth ‘Assembly of the League of Nations ad- ‘Journed this afterncon after having se! iu motion a plan, for an armaments truce, beginning November 1. The League Council, however, remained in session to consider the Sino-Japanese gonflict in Manchuria. I “The closing session was marked by an .@xchenge of appeals that the powers ‘use ev-ry means to make next Feb- Tuary's Disarmament Conference stccess, and the members congratulated “themselves over the collahoration ef the Tnited States with the League's wor at this sesslon, expressing gratitude to Becretary of State Henry L. Stimson for his interest in the Lemgue's work for peace. The move for an armaments truce, although it was less direct and con- ‘crete than some of the delegates had desired, was characterized as a valua- ble contribution to the success of the meeting next February. Accomplishments Summarized. Lord Cecil, for England, erted that this session, which opened “with an ex- pectation of barrenness, has been one of our most fruitful meetings.” Despite outside criticism, he said, the session showed the League at its best. Representaiives of several of the other nations echoed his sentiments. In the three and a hall weeks of the | session the Assembly recorded these ac- | complishments: Ufiprmlvnd Mexico into the League as a member of the Assembly. 1t invitad non-members, including the ‘Unitad States, to participate in its dis- armament discussions. America, Brazl, Costa Rica, uépc and Turkey accepted ted. lflflmflfl:fl action to dovetail the League covenant and the Kellogg pact. It concluded & convention for the protection of whales from indiscriminate hter. i sae a convention “for It concluded . means of preventing hening the e hodsing & umber of minor bod! provisions for checking warlike’ aggres- sion. Economic Relief Taken Up. It authorized the European commis- alon to cenunu‘: its Y:E‘Tk !X‘no:, :‘mth‘:l’ ar and to invite ipa! non- Furope n states lnp‘Mrluon of any | | of universal concern. 1t discussed measures for relieving the world’s . economic Ities and au- further study of a number o icusiey and Dnance, . - merce, in . It nuthom & study of the economic #m‘.“"mm pact proposed by Sovie Last night it adopted the following resolution recommending an armaments the govern- | THE EVENING WO0D FORCED OUT, | PICTURE STAR RETURNS FROM HAWAIL | TATSY RUTH MILLER, Screeh actress, in private life Mrs. Ta Garnett, shown as s:e vas greeted & her husband when she returned to San Francisco from a vacation in Hawail. —A. P. Photo. VIOLATIONS PERMIT ON UM L0 FEN Doran Tells Retail Druggists' Only 1 Per Cent of 40,000 Get Into Difficulties. | These reports were to the effect that | the then-existing accounting system was By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 29.—Dr. James M. Doran, United States commissioner | of industrial alcohol, today told dele- | gates to the thirty-th’rd annual conven- tion of the National Association of Re- | tall Druggists that despite thousands D(: alcohol transactions under strict regu- lations, only about 1 per cent of all the druggists in the United States holding | permits involved themselves in any re- | rious difficulties during the past year. “I have tried to stress the fact that in all his operations that | ts | the elate to the national prohibition act | for & lod of one armaments.” to ‘The proposal was e mmediate after the Disarmament Conference in Geneva in February, and objections in- by the Japanese del 9 It was more nearly identical with the made by the Itallan “gentleman’s agree- all arms building on land, on sea snd the alr for one year. It was de- scribed as an “extension” of the original talian plan. Hugh R. Wilson, United States Am- bassador to Switzerland, already has approved a cne-year armament holiday, except for royer construction. Great is in favor, but Japan is op- | m‘\lnfl the attitude of France is not | BRUENING WEIGHS PLAN FOR V. S. TRIP AS LAVAL LEAVES (Continued Prom First Pag ‘was to study methods of closer economic co-operation among others to find new marketing poesibilities. ‘The communique was emphatic in #aying the plan was not directed against the interests of othe: nations—"“The solution of problems put to the com- mission in nowise will be be affected by the mutual tariffs.” ““The commission will work in harmony with universal efforts to combat the economic crisis,” the statement con- tinued. “Co-operation with other n raising of customs is & public servant and as such is en- | titled to the full confidence and sup- of other public servants” Dr. n said. | “Over 22,000 druggists now hold per- mits to dispense ‘medicinal liquor on | and probabiy about 18,000 | additional have permits for | the use of alcohol in compounding and | other ‘work, “It is not surprising that so many | thousands of permits, handling hun- | of thousands of transactions | under a rigorous law and complex reg- | ulations, would produce some viola- | tions, technical or otherwise. The as- | tonishing thing to me is that only about | 1 per cent of all the druggists in the | United States holding permits got into | any serious difficulties last year in con- | nection with their permit activities.” The retail t, Dr. Doran said, | can lead the way In bringing about “a | real moratorium in gloom talk and pes- | simism” and that the American phar- | macy will be one of the “focal points of | mnational strength that through real service for public health and welfare will radiate strength and confidence { | every community throughout the land.” | PREVAILING WAGE FOR D. C. APPROVED ____(Continued From First Page) | was this letter which brought matters to & head. ‘The memorandum submitted by the assistant municipal architect with ref- srence to the rates per hour, pproved today by the Commissioners, said: case there is any dispute that the above is not the prevailing wage scale, | and which dispute cannot be adjusted between the parties, the attention of contractors should be called to the pro- | vision of law that the question ‘shall be referred to the Secretary of Labor for determinaticn and his decision thereon shall be conclusive on parties to the contract.’” Painters are omitted from the 17 building trades affected by this new schedule, it was admitted, but the list is by no means closed o further ad- ditions. tons will be sought wherever necessary.” ‘The communique concludes: “This action will be the first step to co-oper- | ation which has become the need of the hour and in which all are called to participate.” Much satisfaction was expressed in both German and French official cir- cles at whai was described as an au- gury of a happler future, but some ob- nervers showed a disposition to call for qQuick, concrete results. The organs of extremist factions. w30 won a smashing victory at the polis in Hamburg, declared the pro- posed co-operation with France meant that a rich neighbor was about to “pa- cifically penetrate” the fatherland and the end would be complete financial 4and industrial serfdom. BRIAND GETS MANY GIFTS. German Admirers Load Him Down With Cakes and Fishing Tackle. BERLIN, September 2 (#).—Aristide Briand was equipped either for a quiet fishing expedition or a tea for two as he down with a complete angler’s outfit, to which he is no stranger, and several china piates filled with dainty cakes— *10 sweeten Franco-German relations.” BRUENING NOT EXPECTED. United States Has Heard Nothing to Indicate Visit From German Leader. ‘The American Government is not ex- pecting & visit to the United States by g of Germany. jons that would pre- a visit have been made either ent Hoover or the State De- partment, nor has any invitation been extended by the Government. Chemistry of th The salts which give the sea iis blue color seem to be chiefly compounds .(m whu , in whl:l.:-n:n;nf.r is \-er;; % copper. m¢ presen gnt Smn s of tures. e Sea. countless millions of sea crea- Painters Not at Work. Walsh explained that at the time in- ; formation was obtained from the vari- jous contractors so as to enable agree- i{ment on what should constitute a " no painters hap- pened work on District proj- {ects, There being no conclusive evi- | dence as to the “prevaillng wage" being paid painters in the District, their wage will be decermined later as in the case iof any other trades-omitted from the authorized list. Mansion Has 3656 Windows. Mellerstein House, Roxburgshire, Scotland, into which the Earl and Countess of Haddington recently moved, has 365 windows, 1 for each day of the year. The estate is also noted as the home of a pack of hounds established in 1787 by George Baillie, an ancestor of Lord Hacdington. ! A truck driver, Scincie Douglas, col- | ored, 35, tried to lay down the law to | Charles A, Keigwin. Georgetown Law | 8School professor, with the result that | Secincle was taught a lesson today that | cost $10, the Traffic Court being used | as & class room. | Professor Kelgwin, author of a num- ! ber of law books, told Judge Isaa¢ R.| Hitt that he was nearly run over hy s’ truck, several days ago, as he ste) from the curb at Willard an Seventeenth streets, The rude sound- | ing of the vehicle's horn warned him | just in time to allow & leap Iorward | thet rrobably saved his life, the pro- | fessor related. Irritated, he ‘ollowed the truck down the street and ap- proachedthe driver when it halted. | reports were rendered in the Spring |ercised over him and his departments {TRUCK DRIVER LEARNS LAW LESSON AT HE SAYS ON STAND President Reveals How Chi-: cago Concern Dictated to | Washington Gas Co. ___(Continued From First Page) 1 day concerning the circumstances of | his resignation, Mr. Weaver said he quit about four or five months ago, ! purely of his own volition. He ex-| plained he “had too much to do." | Mr. Weaver declared he tendered h's resignation informally at a meting of the directors, without first discussing the step with any one. He added he never did put it in writing. He pald Mr. Peirce was chosen as a director about a month after he resigned. Found Situation Changed. Mr. Wood said that when he was made president of the gas company in April, 1930, he reported to Fred 8. Bur- roughs, who was one of the bankers who arranged the sale of the stock in the local company to outside interests. About the Fall of 1930, however, Mr. Wood said, “this situation began to terminate” and he found himself re- porting to Col. Peirce and other offi- cers of the Central Public Service Cor- poration, He said he understood the reason for this was that the Central Public Serv- ice Corporation either had an option’ on the stock of the local company or else an obligation to find a purchaser for it, and the corporation therefore felt it ought to take steps to protect its investment and make the property ettractive for prospective purchassrs. ‘The questioning next turned to the subject of a change in the mechanical system of account.ng, which took place in the local company last Winter. This was dictated by Morrison, acting under orders from R. A. Gallagher, controller of the Central Public Service Corpora- tion, Mr. Wood said. The cost of the change from one type of machines to another was about $40.000 a year and interest, and depreciation on ‘that in- vestment would amount to about $6,000 a year, according to Mr. Wood. By making the change, the company was able to get rid of two clerks, whose aggregate salary was $2,500 a year. System Declared Sound. The testimony developed that the lo- cal company had empioyed a firm of Baltimore accountants, Haskins & Sells, to examine its accounting system and make periodic reports, and that such | of 1930 and again in the Spring of 1931, sound. When pressed for a reason why Mr. Wood had consented to the change, after he had admitted he was perfect- ly satisfied with the old system, he ex- claimed: “Sometimes you go along with the | tide, you know, up to a certain point.” “Who composed the tide?” asked As- sistant Corporation Counsel Willlam A., Roberts, conducting the examination for the commission. \ “Mr. Morrison was the immediate | man and behind him was Mr. Galla- gher and the Central Public Service Corporation, of course,” Mr. Wood said. “Was Mr. Morrison not just an out- sidz consultant?” “He was a consultant with far more power than I ever would give to one.” “From whom did he get the power?” “I finally told him how much power he would have as long as I was presi- dent of the company.” "Plellu answer my question, Mr.| “He got the power finally from Mr. | Gallagher, the controller of the Central Public Service Corporation.” 1“What right did Mr. Gallagher have | to give him the power?” | “He was the representative of a large investment. We might as well be frank about this thing. They wanted ! us to conform with their system.” “But you were satisfled with your own system?” { Persuaded by Bankers. “Our system gave me all the informa- tion | wanted. It was a good System It was in charge of a good controller. “Then how did Gallagher persuade | you to overturn it?” “If there are bankers in a situation, the bankers usually control. That is | the usual practice in corporations. The | Central Public Service Corporation were | the bankers in this situation.” At the hearing yesterday, Walter M. Russell, chief engineer of the Washing- ton Gas Light Co., was called on for| detailed explanations of the control ex- | by the Central Public Service Corpcra- on. He said when he took office in the Fall of 1930, he was told the C. P. S.| had a small minority interest in the Washington property, but nobody had a majority interest, as the stock hold- | ings were scattered. He said he had been impressed with the engine:ring pessitilities of developing a “by-prod- uct” gas plant for supplying Washington | with gas, probably locating the plant at | Alexandria. . He did not know the cor- | poration bad decided to use natural gas until after the contract for its pur- chase had been signed, although he knew discussions to that end were under way. ! Mr. Russell said he recommended that the west station of the gas com- | pany be abandoned as a manufacturing plant, except perhaps for standby pur- | poses during peak load hours, and that | the company spend $1,000,000 (roughly) for development of the east station as & manufacturing plant. This plan did not meet the approval of Hurlburt, Russell Plan Rejected. After the difference of opinion had developed, the matter was referred to engineers for the United Gas Improve- ment Corporation, Philadelphia con cern. Those enginecrs prepared sev- | eral plans. One of them, referred to as plan C, followed Russell's views very closely, and he was in favor of its adoption, but it never was adopted.! The differences became so acute that it was necessary for President Wood to dictate a_memorandum telling Russell that in all future differences Hurlburt was to be the “last word.” Other differences were revealed in lotters (o the local company from Vice President D. C. McClure of the C. P. 5. In which he suggested a plan for tiring old cmployes of the company in an effor. to save $401,900 a year in operating cxpenses. The company was told not to let sentimental reasons stand TRAFFIC COST OF $10 | Code of “Jump When Horn Blows” Bows to Ordinance Giving Pedestrian Right of Way. “Say, don't you know you'rs supposed 0 give the right of way to a pedes- trian?” asked Kiegwin, | “Oh, yeah.” leered Douglas, to the ac- | companiment of laughter by his two, companions. “Didn’t you know you're' supposed to jump when I blow my horn? I'll say you did.” i Keigwin was silenced. He noted the license mumber of the truck and im- STAR. Career Ended LASSITER WILL RETIRE FROM U. S. ARMY. MAJ. GEN., WILLIAM LASSITER. Maj. Gen, William Lassiter, who has had 46 years' active military service, will be (ransferred to the retired list autematically tomorrow, September 30. on reaching the age of 64 years. He was recently relleved from command of the Hawailan Department, with station at Honolulu, £nd is now on his way to New York City. Born in Petersburg, Va. n 1867, he was graduated from the' West Point Military Academy in 1889 and assigned to the Fleld Artillery. He has had ex- ve service in this city, first in the general’s department, later on in the Wa tment general staff, and in 19 was assistant chief staff in cl of operations and train- ing. He was brevetted for gallantry in action at Santiag) de Cuba during the Spanish War and later was with the Army of Occupation in Cuba. X He served three tours in the Philip- pines and was with Gen. Funston's expedition to Vera Cruz in 1914. During the World War he first com- manded all the United States troops in England and later was made a major general and chief of artillery in the 2d Army, which participated in the Champagne-Marne and the Aisne- Marne defensives and in the St. Mihiel offensive. Later he commanded the 32d Division during the occupation of the Coblenz sector on the Rhine, For these services he was decorated by the United States, Great Britain and France. Since the armistice he has commanded the Field Artillery School at Canep Kr.ox, Ky.; the Panama Canal Depertment, the 6th Corps Area at Chicago, the Pnilippine Department, the 8th Corps area at Fort Sam Houston and the Havalian Department at Hono- Iulu, 'PANGBORN AND PAL PREPARE FOR SEA HOP Pair at Samushiro Beach, Japan, Ready to Attempt Pacific Flight Tomorrow, By the Assoclated Press. SAMUSHIRO, Japan, September 29. —Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr.. American aviators, flew here from Tachikawa Airdrome, near Toklo, to- day and set about preparing their big monopiane for & non-stop flight to the | United States. Weathbr © permitting, they plin to roar away from the natural beach here at dawn tomorrow. Their exact desti- aation was indefinite. 2 ‘They will be ineligible for the $28,000 prize offer of Seattle business men for .+ non-top flight from Tokio to the Puget Sound city because of their de- cision to start from Samushiro, 375 miles from the capital. They said they might land at Wenatchee, Wash., where Pangborn’s mother and brother Percy reside, or Boise, Idaho, or Salt Lake City. Utah, By continuing non-stop to Salt Lake Boardman and John Polando, who flew from New York to Istanbul, Turkey, last July. WATCHMAN BADLY HURT IN ELEVATOR SHAFT FALL Skull Fracture and Other Injuries Received in Plunge at Secur- ity Trust Building. Arthur L. Seaton, 64, of 613 Twenty- third street, was critically injured early today in a 35-foot plunge down the elevator shaft at the American Security & Trust Co., Fifteen*h street and New York avenue, where he is employed as a night watchman. Seaton was making his rounds of the building shortly after 4 o'clock, wnen the mishap occurred. Thinking the 1ift had been left at the first floor level, he opened the door of the elevator shaft and stepped in. He fell uncon- scious to the subbasement, two floors | below. A fellow employe, Wade Hogan of 1607 Fifteenth street, found Seaton’s prostrate form at the bottom of the shaft shortly after the man's disap- pearance had been noticed by other watchmen and a search instituted. Seaton was ?xven first aid treatment by members of the fire rescue squad and_then removed to Emergency Hos. pital, where physicians found him suf- fering from a fractured skull, cuts and bruises. in the way of separating the ‘old em- ployes from their jobs. Russell testified e was opposed to this and he believed the property could not be efficiently operated if the plan were put into effect. He said he re- classified all his employes, although whether any of them were fired as the direct result of McClure's letter did not clearly appear in the testimony Alfred Dean, counsel for the West- field Tiust, made a statement for the record in_ whicl e said the “organiza- tion chart,” missing from the gas com- pany files, had been destroyed on his suggestion to President Wood, some three or four weeks ago, and that he had told Assistant Corporation Counsel Roberts about thisscme three weeks ago. The chart, he said, showed Morri- son as “acting supervisor” or “super- visor” of the accounting department, over Ennis, the controller, iwho now heads the company’'s accounting forces. Morrison was an accountant sent dow: by the Central Public Service Corpor: tion to revise the local company's ac- counting system. aMr. Igrnn said he advised Mr. Wood to have the chart destroyed because of sts bad effect on the morale of the company’s employes, if it should be | Seen by any of them. SEES CENTURY OF BOOM Putlisher Predicts Prosperity to Begin With Chicago Fair. CHICAGO, September 20 (#).—The | 1033 World's Fair in Chicago will i sugurate 100 years of the greatsst pros- berity America ever has known, John R of the Hartford mediately hailed a taxi and journeyed to ‘Police Court, where a warrant for Douglas’ arrest was readily given him, upon which the man was brought be- O udue "Bt tned Dougias $10 snd ludge an f(“tf\d'. severe lecture, bl:} 'hlgnm hs said e man fore he would m penalty. us than the publiz perdod ef unyreccdented pio: have begun befors January 1, when the world. fair opens. -C:nneeticut will be répresented at the exposition with exhibits showing the State's con- tributions to the Nat . - - | It was estimated that 58,000,000 pesos SECOND BODY MAY - BE COLLINGS CLUE Wounded Man Washed Ashore Believed Possible “Pirate” in Death Mystery. By the Associated Pre 1 MINEOLA, N. Y., September 29— ' The body of A man was washed up on | the shore of Long Island Sound today | at Eatons Neck, g short distance from the place where Benjamin P. Collings | of Stamford was murdered by “pirates.” Officials who have been working on | the Collings case were notified and | started at once for Eatons Neck. In her story of the slaying of her husband, i Mrs. Collings told of a wounded man the two slayers had with them when they boarded the Collings cruiser. It was thought the body found today {might possibly be that of the wounded {man, who had died and been disposed of in the sound. Tennis Shoes Clue. Hope of tracing the ownership of a pair of chca,p gymnasium shoes was also spurring officials in thejr investigation of the murder. Mrs. Collings had the shoes on when she was found in a moored motorhboat the morning of September 10. She said two men, who killed her husband and abducted her, supplied her with the shoes after one of them had ob- served she was barefooted. “We're up against a stone wall if we can't trace the shoes,” Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Fred J. Munder of Suf- folk County said. All Oiher Clues Fail. All th2 other clues officials thought might help pierce the mystery still sur- rounding the case after nearly three weeks of investigating have been of lit- tle or no avail, Munder said. Nothing has yet developed that will enable any one to answer the question of who threw Collings to his death from the cruiser Penguin or to explain the motive. Several pieces of men’s clothing found in Long Island Sound not far from where Collings was drowned will be shown to Mrs. Collings next time she goes to Long Island, Munder said, in the hope that she might identify them as some of the articles thrown over- board by the two men as they paddled her in a canoe from the Penguin to the motor boat. Clothing Lead May Help. “We have little hope, however, that this will prove an important angle of the case,” Munder sald. He expressed a hope Mrs. Collings would be on hand to testify once more when the inquest is reconvened Priday. Her attorneys have sharply criticized the conduct of the inquest session lust Friday at which she appeared. They described it as a “spectacle instead of a judicial proceeding.” Munder said the case would not be submitted to the Suffolk County grand jury this week, but might be in two weeks if anything develops. Doctor Recovering, Dr. Otto H. Schultze, medical autop- sy-expert, who refused to give certain requested information at the inquest, was reported resting at his home today after a breakdown. Dr. Schultze, who is medical adviser to several district attorneys, refused to answer .wkat he thought were foolish questions at the inquest. MISSOURIANS VOTE TO FILL HOUSE SEAT; ’32 OMENS SOUGHT| % om First Page) 218, the Demscrats 216 and the Fagmer-Labor 1. Seek Longworth Seat. Democrats hope to retain the sev- enth Missourl seat, regained by Major after two years of occupancy by John W. Palmer, Republican, and to cap- ture the first Ohio, vacated by the death of Nicholas Longworth, Repub- Miean nominee for Speaker for his fourth term. Although they have but little hope of taking the remaining five, they would tie the seats, 217 to 217, if the first Ohio and two other Republican districts fell to the Democratic fold, and they retained the seventh Missouri. | With the assistance of Kvale, Farmer- Labor, Minnesota, they could organize the House, because it takes only a ma- Jjority of one to do it. Kvale, however, has not indicated with which party he will vote. The Democrats are reported unani-| |mous for Representative Garner of | | Texas, their,leader for the past two| {years,” as nominee for Speaker. Thus| front to thtfi |they ‘can present a unite Republicans on organization. Tilson and Snell Pushed. The Republicans, on the other hand, | must eaucus again to select a successor | to Longworth. A number of their ranking members have been suggested, | although Representative Tilson of Con- i necticut, floor leader for six years, and | Representative Snell, chairman of the| Rules Committee for the same period, | Lave been pushed forward by different | factions as outstanding candidates, | With Longworth, Snell and Tilson | formed the triumvirate that controlled the party's legislative program. Inde- | pendent Republicans from the North- west displayed dissatisfaction with this leadership last February, than a dozen bolted the Republican caucus. Since then it has been pre- dicted by an independent spokesman that unless Snell or Tilson selected a running-mate for floor leader that was acceptable to the Progressives a repre- sentative of that group would be nomi- the special nated for Speaker. of all le the independents After the results elections are aval A are to gather in Washington about No- vember 15. They will decide then what course to take when the Republicans caucus shortly before Congress convenes December 7. Mapes Suggested. In the meantime a regular Republican group, fearful of a Democratic House jconfronting the Hoover administration, has suggested a compromise slate. Rep- resentative Mapes of Michigan, a regu- lar, was proposed as nominee for , and Representative PFrear of WikConsin, who was active in the La Follette progressive movement in 1024, was advanced for floor leadership, Other Speaker nominee possibilities have been suggested, and several State delegations intend to w: a battle for one of their number at the Republican caucus. Included in those proposed are Representatives Luce of Massachusetts, Michener of Michigan, Ramseyer of Iowa, Hoch of Kansas. Barbour of California, Britten of Illinols, Darrow. of Pennsylvania and French of Idaho. Until the House is organized, Con- gress will be unable to do business. ‘Twice before in contests over the speak- ership the House was two months in naming & Speaker. JOBLESS AID ASSURED Chile Invckes Law iding Finances for Public Works, SANTIAGO, Chile, September 29 (#). ' -~The Chilean government today com- pleted its plans for alding the unem-| ploved by invoking the provisions nf A law which would allow the Central Bank to loan up to 80 per cent of its capiial and reserves to the State. when more AIbmlflm'i..m )‘emla..e {;flhm’ - outlay public works at a flat rate it g of 3 pesos & day [eaeeg i WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931 | SENATORS PREDICT DRY 1SSUE DOOM Watson and McKellar Believe Parties Will Sidetrack Prchibition. By the Assoclated Pres:. ‘ Beer, and prohib:tion generaily, will be barred from both Democratic and Republican national conventions next year, if Benator Watson of Indiana is correct as a prognosticator. And it will be stamped firmly from the Democratic platform if his party harkens to the plea of Senator Mc- Kellar of Tennessee.. Both yesterday added their voices to the steady drip, drip of liquor talk that promises to spill over into coming con- | gressional sessions and the 1932 elec- tions. ‘The Republican Senate leader forecast that both conventions would abandon any attempt to commit their parties on the prohibition issue. McKellar Prediets Victory. Senator McKellar, in an address at Rogersville, Tenn,, said nothing but a wet plank could prevent a Democratic victory in 1932. He appealed for a campaign based on economic issues and the tariff. Contend! the liquor issuz would give “Mr. Hoover only possible chance,” McKellar urged that his party's platform provide only for enforcement of all laws. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the de- bate brought cleavage between two ad- ministration stalwarts. A pr 1 by Semator Bingham of Conni it to sponsor & new bill for 4 per cent beer was met by a chal- lenge from Senator Capper of Kansas, doubting that the beverage would act as a tonic for economic afiments. Would Air Congress Views. Bingham's insistence that oozga vote on his bill was supported by o resentative Schneider of Wisconsin, also a Republican, who contended every member of Congress should be compelled to let the country know his stand on the question. A reduction In consumption of dairy products, soft drinks, ice cream, candy and other confections was foreseen by Senator Capper if 4 per cent beer were legalized, Portraying in the background re- turn of the saloon with beer, the Kansan described as infinitesimal the number of persons who would get jobs making beer as conirasted h the total unemployed, end the grain con- :lum:i as contrasted with that pro- uce Wets Enlarge Picture. Meanwhile the organized prohibition and anti-prohibition forces continued to_weave their part of the picture. ‘While one of those organizations op- ed to prohibition was reported ask- ing members of Congress their views upon submission of the prohibition question to State conventions, as pro- posed by the American Legion, a power- ful offensive was planned by the 3 Admif “we've lost some ground” and that “recent developments have akened us,” Edwin C. Dinwiddie an- nounced the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the Eight- ecnth Amendment wotld continue to focus its drive on the national political conventions. Head of the national temperance bureau, he was designated to seek reg- la:‘ of a majority of the American , 1abor unions, lawyers and doc- tors on the side of prohibition. JERSEY DELEGATES SILENT. Effort of Representatives to Draft Beer Petition Is Veiled. NEWARK, September 29 (#).—An ef- fort of New Jersey’s congressional dele- gation to unite on a petition to Pri dent Hoover for legalization of 4 per cent beer was lost today in a fog of silence. For four hours party leaders con- ferred yesterday with David Baird, the Republican gubernatorial standard bearer, and then adjourned, an%:: official indication as to what took place. The conference, convened by Repre- sentative Isaac Bachbarach, dean of the delegation and ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, had been widely hailed as aiming to unite the deiegation for the return of beer, both as an unemployment relief measure and as an ald to Baird’s cam- P aign. ‘When the conference adjourned, its articipants left Baird's camj headquarters maintaining tight-lipped | silence. Representative Bacharach, who prom- ised to “speak freely” as he entered the conclave, was among those who hur- ried from headquarters when the meet- ing adjourned. DEMOCRATIC LEADER PRAISES MACDONALD Arthur Mullen, Back From Eng- land, Commends “Brave Sacri- fice’—Opposes Dole. By the Assoclated Press. NEW' YORK, September 29.—Arthur Mullen, veteran Democratic national committeeman of Omahg, Nebr., on his return from England characterized Ramsay MacDonald’s formation of a national government as a “brave sacri- fice.” “Now Mr. MacDonald’s uct assumes the proportions of not only a very brave, but & very necessary thing,” Mr. Mul- len said “The England we saw in our three- week stay was indeed in bad shape spiritually and politically. The ques- tion of the dole, perhaps, is one of the most serious facing the country today. “The effect upon workers of receiv- ing money for their livelihood from pub- lic funds is bad, to say the least.” ‘Mr. Mullen declared he would vigor- ously oppose any movement to insti- tute the dole as an unemployment re- lief measure in this country. He said he has been opposed to the system since its_inception. The Democratic leader was accom- panied by Mrs. Mullen, CAVE-IN BURIES TEN Workmen Trapped as Five-Story Tenement Collapses. NEW YORK, September 20 (#).—At least IOY\\'Orkmen were buried in the debris today as a five-story tenement being removated llm'i!]‘l.‘lmm“m.h street and Second avenue Nine were carried to the street short. ly after arrival of ambulances and police and fire department e squads. At least one more Was known to be still under the heaped wreckage, Man Held in Bank Case. A man with a bountiful supply of names was arrested by New Orleans police last night and held for Federal authoritics misapplication, of jona vona Na "sald Pari ‘The officers Sa as J. P. vona, 3 was known William 181 | prief in Legion Chaplain CHOICE OF 'VETERANS AT DETROIT CONVENTION. ° REV. FATHER H. A. DARCHE, Bradley, IIl, who was elected national chaplain of the American Legion at the Detroit convention. —A. P, CO0LIDGE REPEATS REFLSAL T0 RN Former President Reiterates Stand and Declares for Hoover. Former President Coolidge is a head. liner in today’s issue of the Saturday Evening Post with a political article relterating his farewells to the presi- dency and supporting President Hoover. ‘The article by Mr. Coolidge caused wide comment in official and political ‘Washington today. Senator Pess of Ohio, chairman of the. Republican , National Committee, discussing the possibility of the former President becoming a candidate for President in 1932, said Fess Expresses View. “I have never believed that former ident ‘would be a candi- stood by most of the country.” Senator Fess said that, in his opin- ion, President Hoover would be renom- inated and re-elected, and that- the for- mer President would aid to this the White House.” Sees Future Race. ‘The Democratic Senator said that he did not believe former President Coolidge wished to become President at a time when the coriditions were so bad in this country. He inferred that Mr. Coolidge might prefer to run for the presidency again in 1936, if condi- tions tmproved. . e |AL CAPONE ORDERED ‘ TO TRIAL NEXT WEEK Vain Fight Made to Have Tax Indictments Voided—Access to U. S. Records Denied. By the Associated Press. . CHICAGO, September 29.—Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson today over- ruled demurrers to indictments charg- ing “Sdarface” Al Capone with dodging the Federal income tax and ordered the gangster's trial to start a week from today. Mwm:‘: had prepares ir ‘attempt to throw out the indictments, but the court denled the defense motion with only brief oral arguments. An effort to gain access to Govern- | year, ment records was also rejected. Judge ‘Wilkerson refused to turn over the Government's documents, which may be used in evidence, after Jacob I. Grossman, assistant United States dis- 1. F. Burke, G. 0..P. Counsel, Says Vietory ficoarded as Certainty. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In the West the renomination of Her- bert Hcover for President is generally regarded as a foregone conclusion and the impression is growing that he will be re-elected In 1932, according to James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania, general counsel, of the Republican Na- tional Committes, who 'reported to President Hoover today the results of his cbservations on a political survey trip covering 18 States. This heartening news was reported orally to the President. A written report in detail will come slong later. For nearly an hour during the forenoon this veteran of many political cam- paigns, who is looked upon as one of Mr. Hoover’s closest political advisers, acquainted him with all he saw and heard during his trip, which included talks with numbers of individuals and groups cf Republican. and. business leaders. Finds Confidence in Hoover. When asked after his session with the President for his reasons for regarding the President’s poiltical future 25 bright- ening, Mr. Burke said: “The whole world has been going through an economic iliness, and -the one old-fashioned physician who has rmlmdk&t tb“e” bedsid never ‘s business mwfiufi it all has been Herbert Hoo- ver. Ppeople of the country are now beginning to realize this and to nm clate just what Mr. Hoover has doing to keep this Nation on a steady This through the West, which carried Mr. ke as far as the Pacific Coast. was made with the knowledge of the President. At the national head- quarters here, and at the White House as well, gloomy reports were being re- ceived from over the country, and for the purpose of making a careful survey of conditions, political as well as economic, Mr. Burke decided to person undertake the task of getting first- huumfmlhn as to the true state i too much.” umw&‘hmkh-n in 1924 declified d a 40-page | ate crats would nominate for President next ", “Gov. Prankiin D. Roosevelt of New York is far out in front in the race for popular choice of the party today. What will happen, however, between now and next June I, of course, do not know. Other trict attorney, asserted the petition was an effort of Capone's counsel “to_find out what evidence the Government has.” ‘There are 22 counts in the indict- ments that charge Capone failed to file tax returns and tried 'to evade pay- ment of taxes on an income ex: $1,000,000 for the years 1925 to 1929. The defense demurrer raised techni- cal points in seeking to invalidate the indictments. DANISH GOVERNMENT RUSHFS LEGISLATION FO. GOLD SUSPENSION (Continued From Pirst Page.) raised today from 8% per cent to 9% per cent. Banks Closed. LAHORE, India, September 29 (#).— The Pecples Bank of Northern India, with a pald-up capital of about £253,308, failed to open its doors today. It was sald to have had large sums tied up investments and to have been subject heavy withdrawals. RHEIMS, Prance, September 29 (#). —The Comptoir D’Escompte Bank, the principal industrial bank in this region, ‘cll‘o;e.dwlu doors today. It was founded STOCKHOLM, September 29 The Stockholm stock ex open today, and will remain further orders, nounced. in to BANGKOK; Siam, September 29 (#). —The currency of Siam will remain on the gold standard, but quotations of gold exchange will be taken from New York instead of London, it was officially announced today. RIGA, Latvia, September 29 (#). v'g: nhlzthox;'mmely lnmmd‘ tad‘:y t the Latvian governmen no in- tention of suspending the gold standard. The Belgian embassy, on_the basis of an official dispatch from Brussels, de- nied today rumors in New York's finan- clal circies that Belgium would aban- don the gold standard. NEW ORLEANS, September 29 ()~ | $2,000 4 to. men have been in the lead for presiden< tial nominations early in the game, just as McAdoo was in 1924, but have fafled to win the nomination for President when the Democratic Convention as- sembled.” Senator Copeland, questioned about the recent boom for legislation ing 3 or 4 per cent beer, said he such a law would be ‘put through, but that he did not believe the incoming Congress would take such action. Sees Litile Hope for Repeal. “I do not 3 or 4 per cent beer as an intoxicating beverage,” said Sen- and the question of lguor and stead act so as to I have seen tco many men k wet vote were permil that literally millions of men and with the understanding that beer and per- have just come ator Copeland, who is a physician who has given a good deal of study to drinking prohibition, “I Lelieve that Congress would be justified n amending the Vol- permit light wines and beer. But I do not think this Con- gress will do anything about it. dry. - However, if light wines and beer vor itted in this country, I believe women who are opposed to the eight- eenth amendment today would faver it light wines would continue to be mitied. XL By - said Senator & that the af on the Legion Dr. Clarence True , who ehnpdw the Le; naires with be- a drunken lot, i3 ins to inquire about the Legionnaires in De- go further and eighteenth amq t. w n’{emdum on r ref Against Saloon's Return. “The sentiment of the