Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Westher Buresn Forecast) Partly cloudy and tomorTow. z-. yesterday. Closing N.Y. Markets. Pages13,14 & 15 Highest. ; lowest, §7 cooler tonight snd 7. at 1:30 at 7am to- The WITH SUNDAY MORNING EBITION Entered as second class matter e, Washington, D. C. post REORGANIZATION OF COALITION- CABINET Conferences With King and‘ Ministers Held to Prepare for New Parliament. SNOWDEN'S SUCCESSOR SEEN EARLY PROBLEM | Huge Conservative Majority May | Make Protection an Issue Despite Opposition. | By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 29.—The British National government was back at work today under the direction of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, caution- ing humility over the resuits of the election and addressing itself to the sober task of executing the “doctor’s | mandate” it asked and received from | the people. Backed by an unprecedented majority of more than 500 of the 615 seats of the House of Commons, the prime min- ister began today a series of confer- ences with King George and with his | cabinet to lay the groundwork for the rehabilitation program which is to be presented to Parliament early next month. The British press, adding its voice to that of Mr. MacDonald and Stanley | Baldwin, Conservative leader, elumned‘ the country to remember the victory ‘was a triumph of the National govern- ment and not of any party, in spite of the fact that the Conservatives will oc- cupy nearly five-sixths of the seats in the new Parliament. Protection May Be Problem, | The predominance of conmnuven‘ led to the expectation that a demand for a full-blooded protection policy | would be the first trouble encountered - by MacDonald. He is pledged not to impose protestion until it has been fully investigated ard scientific legls- l1ation has been prepe ‘96 | Othor mcasures wi.. . are expecied to | maie up a principal part o‘ll:‘tlxé‘?‘:: g X e §7e peing Ficgotiasons fer 8 review or) & the - adv trace balance, | el: ug:xenou: majorities,” said the | Tumes, which supcrted the Ne- g-ve: t, this mommghn “do .-Areen m?‘ of A 128 should be no 1 2, c‘:‘ax or over Innm' .fiw ¥ | satistaction ‘thet the cal of Iitish democracy has been shown so unmisiakably to Jow formed | of it by the defeated.” May Enlarge Cabinet. 5 Besides his ccaference with the King today, the prime minister was to preside | cver the cabinet meeting, which is the first of a series of m: to be held dul the next days to draft the | which George will "!d{ from the thrcne when the new Perlia- | ment is ed with full state cere- ‘monial 1 | on 0. The of the cabinet will | occupy much of Mr. MacDcnald's time between now and then. appointments are in his own many consultations will be necessary The general belief is that the abbrevi- ated emergency cabinet, formed in Au- gust, will be considerably enlarged. There was much speculation, espe- cially, about who would succeed | Philip Snowden as chancellor of the exchequer. Snowden is expected to receive A peerage and a seat in the House of Lords, but it was believed he also will hold a place in the expanded cabinet. ‘The choice for his place at the head of the exchequer is supposed to lie be- tween Neville Chamberlain, Conserva- tive, now minister of public health, and _Walter Runciman, one of the ontinued on Page 4, Column 4.) FORD CO. DECLINES TO DISCUSS PAY CUT Detroit Rumor Follows Recent Heavy Labor Turnover at Auto Plants. DETROIT, October ~A recent heavy labor turnover at the plants cf the Ford Motor Co. has started go in automotive circles that the compat is contemplating a lowering of is min- tmum wage scale from $7 to 86 a day fér regularly assigned employes. A minimum of $§ for probationsry em- ployes has been in effzct for som At the offices cf the company t mored reduction could be neithe firmed nor disproved. Most departments of have been working on a t week basis for nearly twd have been working fve while still others rece; clased down entirely, supposedly preparation for the production of a now to be brought out some time y 1 !Charges Ignorance and Ac- ! with maritime matters. ‘Fcr acceptance HE most earnest wish of all the people of our country is for a reifval of buriness trat vill speed up industry. insure emclov- ment of now idle workers, stabilize commodity .and security values, and open gracully expanding work-opportunity While it may be true that final complete recovery from the depression must await removal of adverse world conditions, it is certain that we delay recovery by passively accept- ing our relation to the international situstion and in failing to make a concerted. deter- mined effort to correct domestic conditions. As the most nearly self-contained Nation, we have within our own boundaries the ele- elemental factors for recovery. Our national wealth, even stripped of the inflated value foolishly placed on it, still is greater than our pre-war wea'th; it is greate-, t0o, than it would have bcen under any normal in- crease between 1914-1931 The overwhelming volume of our domestic business in comparison with export trede places us in a position to develop internally a constructive recovery if we grasp the op- portunity which still is ours. The committee of the President’s organi- mtion to which was assigned the task of studying unemployment and offering plans ~ and suggestions for its relief has concluded MARRY A. WHEELER. the second month of its intensive research. It has adopted a program which is directed chiefly toward temporary relief, but £lso supgesis for consideration certain fundamental causes end infiuences £ that a founcation may be laid for rebuflding a Sbund, permanent n-tional pre-perity Statement of Harry A. Wheeler, chairman of the Committee on Plans and Suggestions of the President’s Organizatiom om NAYY GROUP_ FRESDENT S B NAVY GROLP HTTAGKS HODVER ON FRANGQUIPLAN German Credit Proposal Concerns Bankers. Commander-in-Chief of the | BY the Associated Press. A:‘-;md Navy, President Hoover, has | Attention was given at the White exhibited -;;mml ignorance of why |House today to publish:d reports that navies are tained and of how they | Emile Francqui, Belgian minister of are used to accomplish their major miz- | state, and international banker, had sion,” the Navy League of the vm::'p,md before President - a)plan a pamj States Charged todey 0 e tho Naves [for establishing a bank for interna- The Jeague. Which maintains headguar- | tonal credits, designed_primarily to ters at 1749 E street, insists tha . o 0 Sam's sea forces are being suborcinated :::;'y“ frozen short-term credits in Ger those of forelgn lanJs. = laining cm'{""me Navy League of | Officials would neither affirm nor deny on of | the reports. It was said, however, M. the United States I!_ln ounm:‘: iy s o iiaed ch aceurate in. | Prancqui conferred at length with the formation es to maval matters” the | President Tuesday night when he was pamphlet it issued over the name of an overnighi guest at the White House. ‘Willlam Howard Gardner, its president. | Theodore Joslin, one of the Presi- ‘dtnl‘a scecretaries, sald M. Francqui's Charge Secret Agreemcnt. “financial ideas concern bankers rather The Ch'et Executive is accused of en- | than governments.” foring sscret esreements with Prime Was not expanded. but was interpreted Mnister Ramsay Ma-Dcnald during the ;u;fl:: mdlnuzn l.hf.h;;rzmm of the ‘British premier | Belgian financier m ve been re- ington Vi of the Br e Pident | fered by the ‘bankers e uh‘wnomldbeemme:mm Sov=r's d-legate: = e Brt + o I35 whot. Presicent | Jouin said the banksr an had refused to vield to them 'Iriend ot the nmm';- .- at e In 1927." The Precident's 50’ jated with him during the J inaction in the work of bringing the | M. Francqui has left the Capital and American Navy uo to u'\:n;'on tre,n:,"h believed en route back to w strength, the I says, is hampering T Yecovery of the employment situa:| FRANCQUI SEES BANKERS. tien | il Wi'h reference to Presiient Hoover's Belgian Discusses Plan for Bank to A rmistice day addrecs of 1929 and sgain 7 f Thet of T35, whereln “he Dronossa| Thmile German Shori-Term Cyedits. that sea-bome food supplie: should be NEW YORK, Octobsr 20 (#).—Emile ‘mmunized frcm scizurc in t'me " ' Francqui, the Bel o d the League's pamphlet hes this to say “It would be difficult to express too| T T e eciuoe e | HlNDéNBUfl.fi ASKS UNITY IN CRISIS President Hoover into exhibiting the Earnest Appesl Made for Common abysmal nce of why navies are maintained end of how they are used Effort to Overcome Slump. to accomplish their majsr mission that cuses Him of Entering Se- cret Pact at Rapidan. his p 1 to immuniz> sea-borne food supplies displayed to thcse, hore and abroad, who ere intimately conversant of his suggestion would have worked not only diametri-elly counter to the interests and weight of the United States in world affairs, but, in efie-t would have made for bigger and bloodier wars. And yet such is the psychologY g.ihe Associated Press that is not only controlling our internal naval policy, but dictating its externa! subordination to those of foreign naval powers. Held Up Construction. “It hss bee: necessary, however, to say whet has been said sbove if we are to have a real appreciation of the im- pelling motives back of President Hoover's efforts. at every turn. to re- (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) LARGE CREDIT GROUP Il SOUTH PLANNED By the Assccited Press. ATLANTA, Ca. October 29.—Clear- ing house ofiicials of the sw.a Fede al Racorve district have approved the plan of a Southern Credit Association combination complete subs-riptions the $500,000,000 National Credit porrtion suggesied by Pre-ident Hoo The officials, meeting here yesterda: expressed the opinion such a Souther: crgan zation would prevent “sacrific of cotton and other farm products They approved the plan for the credit pool for the purpose of “improving the economic situation now prevailing.” The district was divided into separate 2. 1 T vana Ee-tric R and conguctors for 45 cays in Augst end Septe foced new difMiculii's with its emplores today. A strike was docreed unless a new set of demsnds, inclydirg wage in- creases, is accepted. LEWIS SAYS WRITERS OF TODAY ARE SUPERIOR TO THOSE OF 90s America Powerful Nation With Childish Spirit, Author * Tells Audience in Address on “A World on Fire.” | He praised the “realist school” | Hemingway, Undset and Huxley for their accurate delineations, in fiction, of contemporary history. | “Current fiction,” said Lewis, “is far superior to that of the $0s. The gay 90s were easier to live in than of in | today, but the trouble with some peo- ple is that they dont realize they are . 'pot living in 1890, but in 1931~ good minced few 'w‘:: He o a and meny other suthors. X America, be said, is & great nation { power, “but, after all,_a rather childish spirit” | “Fiction.” he explained, “tells us | about people and makes them live. ; :lncy s wooden, merely the march } i BTRLIN, October 29.—For the third time since be became head of the re- public President von Hindenburg -de- parted from his custcmary reserve to- dey to address an earnest. almost fatherly, appeel to the new Economic Advisory Council at the opening of its first session. His plea for a domestic truce and & common effort to overcome Germany's trous economic situation was com- cd by some of those who heard him s famous war guilt speech on his birtaday anniversary, in 1927, d to ris speech in March last year tlaining why he signed the Young laws, Urges Use of Own Strength. Help from atroad, he told the coun- cil. must be predicated upon the union of divergent factions at home, and Germany's situation must be determined L by poiitical and economic con- siderations in the rest of the world. 1 expect,” he said, “that you will animated By an inflexible will to off from our people whatever can warded off by Germanys own ngth be thus can & basis be created for ccoscary in ational efforts at ing the entire world crisis. Cniy the corscic and of supreme effort will our people to bear with dignity ih a fealing that all belong to- her. whatever proves to be an in- apzble fate Ask Collaboration. N-ne of you will fail to realize to what extent Germany’s Situaiion delermined by, world political and mic consideration. _These con: the great tasks of Germany’s for- eign policy.” Soiemnly and in & manner which clearly betrayed his anxiety the Presi- dent told the 25 Council members that part must be forgotten and that collaboration between the government ' omic experts is & COOLIDGES RETURN HOME Leave 0ld Homestead in Vermont for Northampton. UTH, Vi, October 29 (P — MI’PL.‘;I(—?&L Calvin Coolidge today left the old Coolidge homestead here. w! they had spent & and Autumn, to in_Nertbampton. Rain ;Il“ parted parently faced roads of the Summer to their home the party and they dartve part return Mass. s de- ap- over rain- & long ness of devotion | i { here | Marion. where they were to 1 BERALLENDI URCED N 0PN RELEF PROGRAM Hoover Group Appeals for Release of Hoarded Funds to Trade Channels. ASSIGNMENTS IS ASKED Another Pool for Rediscounting Paper to Benefit Small Producers Advised. The President’s Organization on Un- exployment Rellef tocay made a spe- cial appeal for more spending in- stead of hoarding, and, in turn, more liberal lending by banks in order to “lessen distress from unemployment and hasten business recovery.” A Teport containing a 10-point pro- gram was made public by the Presi- dent’s group. It was drafted by the Telief organization’s committee for lur- ing better times, the members of which are representative leaders of industry and labor, with Harry Wheeler, Chicago banker, as chairman. ‘The committee said it sees influ- ences “at work giving promise to aid | the upturn,” but it urges resumption of normal buying by persons who have Jjobs and rebukes those uneasy individ- uals who hide away money which might be mixing freely in trade channels. Gifford Praises Findings. Walter 8. Gifford, national relief di- rector, commends the committee's find- |ings and requested ‘“immediate and thoughtful consideration of all individ- {uals and organizations” of the recom- mendations. One of the important features is a | recommendation for the dividing of civil service assignments with the un- employed. Another head light of the report is an appeal for the expansion of credit relief by the formation of ancther pool :orr::flc;unln:ec?n‘gflry classes of paper (01 e benefit of e smaller prod m_;i_hdmrxbumn. o e committee also urged steps to give needy “white collar” \':rkeneg;l‘lv time jobs at least, and the suggestion was made that employment of wives where husbands are making a living should be locked into. Also in this category of investigation went the case of sons and daughters living at hcme but not contributing to the family - get and teachers lmtrucun: in :“ot‘h day and night school, Wheeler's committee, wi among iis 18 members, Wi president of the of Lavor; Daniel Willara, the Baltumore & Ohio Railroad, Mathew C. Sloan, president of the New e e o con would hasten economic recovery, Program Is Outlined. The program of the committee in- cludes the following recommendations and accompanying comments: “1. United national action to encour- i m Green, ‘Pederation president of ™ lfe every American citizen now em- ployed resume normal 3 use available income to b W normally needed and Ln&r replacement of which labor is employed is & condition precedent to any hopeful program to constructively increase empl t; continued and further r¢ of consumption of goods and of expendi tures for improvements and replace- | ments inevitably will offset any and every effort for emergency relief. “The American people must be brought to realize that by restricting purchases to bare necessities at this i they are further decre: volume of business and spreading the catastrophe they so atiempt to avert. Public Confidence Needed. “2. Public confidence in our financial and credit structures must be re-estab- lished. Withdrawals of money from circulation for hoarding seriously re- | strict _credit and operate to delay busi- | ness recovery. The creation of the Na- tional Credit Corporation and such further agencies, either public or pri- vate, heretofore suggested by the Presi- dent to insure further and more cer- {tain fluidity of banking resources, will {bring ready response in increased a |tivity in productive and distributi { forces of the country. “The participation by the banks in the pool created by the National Credit | Corporation represents the full meas- | ure of helpfuiness to the existing situ- | ation that banks can reasonably be | asked to subscribe. be helpful, but under existing condi- tlons it cannot relapse certain types of credit at points most necessary to the | stimulation of buying and expanding { production istribution among | that class of smaller ucers and dis- | tributors whose number is legion and | whose aggregate contributions to the | unemployment situation would be very great if made effective. It may be dif- | ficult to organize a private enterprise {to cover this particular field, vet it | seems quite reasonable, if a pool were | created, to rediscount these secondary | classes of paper. The very existence of | such a pool would justify local banks to Teopen lines of credit and corre- | spondent banks to rediscount the re- | sulting paper. | 3. In addition to expansion of basic | credit facilities, including those already | instituted by the President. bankers of | the United States may make their ef- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) 'FIVE COTTON PICKERS DIE AS TRUCK UPSETS ing Transported to Planta- tion in Tennessee. | By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 29.—A truck loaded with cotton pickers went into a ditch near Marion, Ark., early today, carrying five persons to their deaths and injuring mote than a score of others. Occupants of the truck, residents of Marietta_and Curtisville, in. Prentiss County, Miss., were being moved to the Eason plantstion, 35 miles north of plck cotton. The dead: Mrs. Ollie Alien, 23; Alvie Cummings, 7. Herbert Gilmore, 18; Wiley Nichols, 23, and Wiley Ni jr. 3-month-old baby. {DIVISION vOFEIVIE SERVICE | and | Harvey R. Dickens, Its operation will | Score of Others Injured While Be- | ening Sfaf. WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1931 —FIFTY-TWO' PAGES. N There 1S a Santa Claus! Yesterday's Circulation, 115,969 TWO CENTS. BANDIT ACTVITES THREATEN SERIUS *FAREAST TROUBLE |Reported Endangering Rail- | way Property in Which Japanese Are Interested. PEP # Means Associated Press. SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENT UNCONFIRMED AT TOKIO 500 Said to Have Been Sent om Armored Trains to Proteot Line in Manchuria, By the Associated Press. m there. Disorganized soldiers who become bandits were reported in- creasingly active. Tells Petitioning Couple to “Sit Down Quietly” and Consider Duty. ,Both Had Admitted Nothing | Impossible to Forgive Had Occurred. A wife and husband in litigaticn over { the custody of & 12-year-old boy snd 8 10-yeer-old girl, after a married life of 16 years, were advised today by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat in a memorandum opinion to “forget about I rights, grievances and courts” and.to “sit down quietly and think soberly of their duties toward each other and to- ward these two children.” Mrs. Lois B. Dickens, Moncure, N. ©., had brought suit against her husband, 18 Ninth street southeast, for the childre: custody, declaring that they had “brcken up housekeeping” last June and have since ll;ed nflg. ne&kwmu the other of anything e to forgive, or which indicates that either is have the custody of the children. Chief Justice Wheat declared “this boy of 12 and this girl of 10 need, snd :;ILI their rll,l‘i,l’ hmhlve. a home where ey can en, e greatest privilege of childhood, the loving care of hoth ther and mother. They are being de- ived now of that inestimable biess- and instead are being made the i of a quarrel between their 'THINK OF CHILDREN. NOT COURTS. JUSTICE WHEAT ADVISES PARENTS Sk W CANADIANS INVITE EMPIRE SESSIONS Bennett Tells Governments | to Come to Ottawa Earliest Possible Date. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, October 28.—The | Canadian government will invite the various governments of the British Em- pire to gather at Ottawa “at the earli- est possible date” for the imperial con- ference which was postponed last Au- | Premier Bennett, in proposing the convention of the various British im- perial groups, had previously set August 12 as the tentative date for the session, but as economic and political conditions overburdened the various dominion of- ficials, postponement requests con- tinued to arrive at Ottawa. ‘The results of the British elections are now thought to have turned the tide in favor of such a session, in view of Premier Bennett's renewed call last night. Premicr Bennett a year ago this month at the plenary session of the Imperial Conference in London said to the_ delegates: "I offer to the mother country—and | to all parts of the empire—a preference | !in the Canadian marzet in exchange | for a like preference in theirs, based upon the addition of 10 per cent in- crease in the prevailing general tariffs, or upon tariffs yet to be created. | “In the universal acceptance of this offer, and in like proposals and ac- ceptances by all the other parts of the empire, we attain to the idea of em- Ip\n preference.” | BODY OF UNIDENTIFIED | MAN FOUND IN RIVER 60-Year-0ld Vietim m.covarod‘ Floating in Potomac Below ‘Wharves. 1 Ei bl s;:‘ EDISON'S SONS GET MOST OF ESTATE Provided for Widow B<fore Death—Two Will Divide Shares of Children. By the Associated :>2ss. NEWARK, N. J., October 29.—Thom- as A. Edison left the bulk of his estate to the two sons of his second marriage; leaving it Jargely to them to decide how much the older children could have and how scon they could get it. He pro- vided for his wife before he died and 50 left her nothing in the will filed to- day. X The value of the estate Was not men- tioned in the will. b Not only were Charles Edison and ‘Theodore Edison, sons of the inventor and widow, named executors, but legatees wit full power to distribute the residue among themselves and their half broth- ers and sisters whenever they deem wise and in such proportion as they think best. Had Settled Property on Wife. The will spoke of the widow as “My dear wife,” and explained that no provision was made for her in the will | because Edison had settled sufficient | property on her while he lived. | The inventor left all his shares of " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CARAWAY OPERATED ON AT LITTLE ROCK Senator's Condition Termed Satis factory After Removal of Kidney Stone. CAPONE MAY MOP AS APPEAL PENDS Warden Thinks He Would Be & Better Off if He Quit Read- ing Detective Yarns. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 29.—The ques- tion which worries Warden David Moneypenny is whether Al Capone shall scrub and mop. ‘These menial labors; performed along- side wife deserters, alimony dodgers and ordinary thugs, the warden of the county jail said, would keep Al's off his troubles. : As for troubles, Moneypenny asserts the Scarface gang overlord has many. s >, but he was granted | night’s freedom to attend th: zation of his aged mother. . She A the court was told, and ol |'her son's predicament. | Ahern said he was still undscided | about appealing to the Supreme Court. It he should decide against such pro- cedure, he :zkuk tne United States a fort- e hosp:ta'i- 1s 111, Court of A to vacate its order granting the gangster staying execution of the tence. While Capone county jail .he does not ward his 11-year term. | A Rt prison sen- tays in the Bt credit to- | P | |FRANCO’S FRIEND CAUGHT | | Pablo Rada Captured Two Days After Escape From Prison. SEVILLE, Spain, October 29 (#).— Discovered by two girls, Pablo Rads, former flying compan! of Maj. Ramon | Pranco, was arrested today two days after he had escaped from prison. Rada, who was jailed on charges inciting the revolt at the Tablada drome last Summer, was | 8t a student in the district when | ter] the girls recognized Kfl and informed | tions during Franco accused | Friends of authorities, also was Tevolt but cmnfl i | of complicity in the | prosecution through his deputy’s munity. DISAPPOINTED COLLETTE’S EFFORT TO SEE HER PRIZE BRINGS DEATH | Three-Year-Old Found Where She Tried to Reach Toy Witch After Leaving Sick-Bed in Night. Little Colette Strong. called Co Co | prising réluctance to join the costumed | for short, never got to act the part | pot—a |of Mammy Witch at Garfield Play- | ': 2£¥