Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1931, Page 5

WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931. CANADA’S ECONOMIC ') LEADERSHIP URGED| \./ N7 Premier Bennett Declares Domin- ion Is More Powerful Now Than Ever Before in History. | By the Associated Press MONTREAL, October 15.—Premier R. B. Bennett in an address at McGili | University yesterday called on the Do- | minion to “‘march’ fearlessly” to meet better economic conditions. Some nation, he said in acceptance of a degree of doctor of laws, must lead | the way back to prosperity. “Why the worst charge against Capone, but | should it not be Canada?” he chal- that about sizes up the condition of | lenged. the rest of the country, | “Canada,” he sald, “is more powerful We haven't been any more used | today than ever before. Why then to the silk underwear than Capone | cannot we go forward again? was, and this old cotton is scratch- “If we were without resources, if our ing us and that's what we are beefing | people, too weak to be governed, aban- Py doned government and plunged into so- clal and political chaos, then we would have to walt until some stronger hand The veteran has already signified his lifted us from the morass. loyalty and patriotism in a manner that | “But Canada needs no help from cannot_be questioned.” | others so long as each one of us is The President’s reaction to the bonus | ready to help our fellow citizens where- demands was not revealed, but it is|ever and whatever they may be. known the President has not changed *'We have lost nothing but confidence his views on the subject since his ardent | in ourselves. If each of us will look [appeal, made in person at the conven- | at the facts and recapture the faith |tion of the American Legion several| wecan regain it. Never will we be con- weeks ago in Detroit, to forego con-|tent until we have achieved that pros- Figures on Loans Cited. | Sideration_ of the borus legisiation perity which is our birthright.” Comdr. DeCoe called attention to | this time. = figures released by the Veterans' Ad- | Some years ago a learned Italian = - SN ministration, announcing that 93 archivist ‘went t ke y cent of the veterans wh have secured | CAR OWNERS TO APPEAR [Cheese. 1t was handed him wtampes e loans on their adjusted compensation in a sheet of an early illuminated mis- IN PARKING LOT PROBE ter an investigation of a reported certificates have used these loans for | sal. Inquiring where it came from, he worthy purposes, and that 32 per cent learned that the farmer wrapped up all of_these veterans were unemployed his parcels in these papers, which he The plan for a Nation-wide campaign found lying around in an empty castle, in the interests of the bonus will be | “parking racket” yesterday, Officer and the archivist recovered two wagon- carried on in an energetic fashion, ac- William G. Liverman of the Traflic loads full of priceless early manuseripts Bureau today brought two employes of — a downtown parking lot into court on | seven charges of parking in the down- | town area between 8 and 9:30 am. | cording to Comdr. DeCoe. He said The men are Charles B. McDonald | EVER FRESH petitions already have been distributed and Leroy G. Eakes, both employed at CITRATE or MAGNESIA STAR. HOOVER RECENES GASH BONUS PLEA . F. W. Commander Informs President of Plans for Na- tion-Wide Drive. THE EVEXNIXG Will Rogers Says: BRAIN MOBIEIZING URGED BY RITCHIE e Governor Pleads for Eco- nomic Direction in a “Lead- erless World.” Awarded Peace Prize JANE ADDAMS WILL USE MONEY ON UNEMPLOYED. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—As soon as the Government lawyers had shown that Al Capone wore silk underwear, why they rested their case. They looked at the jury and fig- | ured that would be the most damaging _evi- dence they could bring before ‘em. I don't | know if that's In an appeal to President Hoover to- day for his approval of immediate cash | payment of adjusted bonus certificates, Darold D. DeCoe of Sacramento. Calif.. commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, informed him his organization is planning an intensive Nation-wide campaign that will carry this issue direct to the people. ‘During his talk with the Executive, Comdr. DeCoe laid before the President the high points of the legislative pro- gram of his organization for the com- ing year, the feature of which is the demand 'for immediate cash payment | of the bonus. This is in pursuance of resolutions unanimously adopted by the recent national encampment in Kansas | City He stressed also the need of | Wor 4 War widows and orphans’ pen- sions, end the equalization of pensions of veterans of all wars. THE AT AVENUE SEVENTH By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, October 15—Calling for “leadership in a leaderless world Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in an address at Founders' day exercises | of Carnegle Institute here today, plead- ed that “a united and courageous front by the men of light and leading now | will do much to check the wave of | hysteria and fear which has been sweeping the people off their feet.” | | “What we need today,” he said, “is A % & moblization of the constructive brains of the country and of political oratory o 'see botn politics Tealistically.” Finds No Magic Remedy. Gov. Ritchie said the problem of the hour, in his opinion, is how to make “politics and _economics understand each other, pull together for the com- mon good ‘and bring order out of the | existing chaos—a chaos which may be | due nearly as much to psychologic as| to economic or political causes, but which, in any event, has no carthly Tight to exist in this era of inteliectual | enlightment and material plenty. | “It seems to me this leadership must | come from economics The day for meeting a crisis by beating the political | tom-toms has passed. The scientific| and trained mind of the Nation must! be drafted and listened to. That is always & hesd thing for politics to e e “It may Le bad politics to say it, but there is no magic remedy. * * * Aljthe things which created the wealth of our past we still have. The founda- tions on which real prosperity must build are still here. * * * He must ‘Always Foremost in Value, Sakscrest Is Also Foremost with Fashion’s Finést Developments, and Now Saks Presents: =+ * It is time| and economics 1SS JANE ADDAMS, founder of Hull House, Chicago, as she was pre- sented with her check yesterday upoa being awarded the $5.000 prize of the Pictorlal Review. The prize is awarded annually to the American woman, who, in the opinion of a committee selected by the magazine, has contributed most to the national life. The award is given for & contribution in literature, the arts, science, philanthropy or social . Addams won because of her lifelong activity in behaif of inte She will use the money to help alleviate the sufferings of Chicago's unemployed. The Mahoping Savings & Trust Co., —Wide World Photo. £l affiliated with the Mahoning National, 2-TROUSER SUITS OF HOPSACH signatures of 10,000,000 citizens as an | evidence of public sentiment in favor of the cash payment. He said also the plan contemplates a Nation-wide news- paper poll of World War veterans on this issue. idation plan is completed, all three by his organization in a movement for will continue business under one roof. a parking lot on Tenth street between G and H streets. Liverman told Judge | Ralph Given that he saw the men have little faith in his country or little vision of the future who cannot foresee at last A& prosperity greater than ever. * - 1 Says Panic Was Necessary. “Of little use can political leadership be when, with a surplus of cotton and a deficit_of clothes, the most it can tell the planter who has stood the ccst of growing his cotton, is to stand now the cost of plowing up and destroying every third row of it. It seems almost as if panic was required to make us see —if indeed we do see—that the law of gupply and demand still works “The question of forced industrial em- ployment is upon us. I believe it to be true that a nation’s supreme obliga- tion is to protect its citizenship. If its | citizens are threatened or attacked government must guard them or defend them. * * * Both social justice and its own material welfare demand that industry should plan some provision for its labor when enforced idleness comes. ust as it does for the upkeep of its! plant. for interest to its bondholders and dividends to its stockholders, and for its injured workmen.” BURMESE SAIL TO ATTEND' ROUND TABLE IN LONDON Most of Delegates Understood to Be | in Favor of Dominion Status | for Country. By the Associated Press. RANGOON. Burma. October 15— | Nineteen Burmese sailed today for | London to take part in a round table conference in November which will de- cide whether Burma shall be converted into an independent state or an| autonomous province within an Indian federation of states Mahatma Gandhi and his Indian | Nationalists have expressed fears that | if Burma is separated from India the British would continue to dominate it. | Most of the delegates are understood | to favor a dominion status for their | country. Burma is abou but has three lation. It ha sources of miner:’ rubles and sapphires MAUDE ADAMS INVENTOR Perfects Lighting System for Re- the sizes of Texas, imes that State's popu- | crmously rich Tre- | patroleum, timber, | turn to Stage. NEW YORK, October 15 ().—Maude Adams, who is coming back to the stage after 13 vears, has perfected a new pro- cess of stage lighting and a syst>m of remote control. Miss Adams, who for vears has oeen interested n photography and lighting. said the new bulb she has perfected is 30 times as powerful as modern spot lights. The new bulb also will change colors without use of gelatine slides. MERGER PLANNE Three to Consolidate as Two Others Permanently Close Following Run. By the Assoclated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, October 15.— Formation of a consolidated bank here to include the First National, the Com- mercial National and the Mahoning Na- tional was under way today following the permanent closing of the City Trust & Savings Bank and Dollar Savings & rust: Co. today and the temporary closing of the First National. Closing of the City, Dollar and First, the latter two of which have been under joint management, was necessitated by heavy withdrawals during the last fev weeks, officials said. Plans Due This Week. The City Trust had resources of $18.- 260.000 and the Dollar’s resources were $23,242.000 September 29, according to bank statements of that date. Plans for the consolidated bank are expected to be announced in detail by the end of the week. It will be rein- forced by $2,000.000 of new capital which has already been subscribed. The Youngstown district’s principal in- dustrial and mercantile establishments | and many leading citizens joined in the subscription. Will Use One Building. The First National will remain closed for two or three days, it was announced, until details of the consolidation are worked out. Meanwhile the Commer- cial National and Mahoning National remain open. As soon as the consol- THE HECHT CO. treet a HAS YOUR DOWNY | will continue as a separate institution. Resources of the merging banks as of September 29 were given as follows: | First Nationa), $22,782.000; Mahoning | National, $7,935,000; Commercial, $9,- | 234,000. Resources of the Mahoning | Trust were given as $3.181,000. u.s, WILL SEEK RETURN | OF ASTOR TAX REFUND $10,000,000 Principal and $6,000,- 000 in Interest to Be Asked of Federal Court. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 15.—The New York American says the Federal Gov- ernment will move to have set asile the $10,000,000 in taxes and $6,000 000 in interest, which the Government re- funded to the estate of Viscourt Wil- ltam Waldor{ Astor. The newspaper says that Assistant Federal Attorney Coleman of New York, recently returned from a trip to England, where he obtained depo- sitions from Astor's servants, learned | that Astor set a trust fund of $48.000,- | 000 aside for his two sons in anticipa- tion of death, thus evading an in- heritance tax Federal Judge Caffey, who ordered the refund on July 1, will be asked to reconsider his decision in view of the depositions, the American said, Tax on Sunshine Proposed. To help the national finances in France, a tax on sunshine has been| proposed. The argument is that, as sunshine spells health and enjovment. | people who live in a sunny part of the country should pay more to the na- tional treasury than those who live where it s damp and dull. It is urged | that the people in each district should be taxed according to the number of "hours of sunshine recorded for it an- nuall t Seventh Declares Patriotism Proved. He emphasized that his organization has included immediate cash payment of these certificates programs since 1929 and that it deter- mined to maintain a consistent policy in that direction. in its legislative “For those who oppose immediate cash payment of these certificates,” the commander said, “there is no need to appeal to the patriotism of the veterans Jrom, NEW YO | move the cars from the lot yesterday mornirg before 9:30 and park them on | _ the street near the lot. 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