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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair and slightly colder tonight; to- morrow partly cloudy; gentle north winds. Temperatures—Highest, 49, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 35, Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 _— al 7:30 a.m. today. he #n WITH SUNDPAY MORNING EBITION ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 118,359 No. 31991, Bmersd a Entered as mecond class matter Washin WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 1931 —FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. FH¥ () Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. DRY VOTE IN BOTH HOUSES FORESEEN INNEXT CONGRESS Watson and Rainey Join Snell in Voicing Willing- ness to Permit Poll. REFERENDUM QUESTION EXPECTED TO COME UP Republioan Senate Leader Believes Sentiment Would Go Against Wet Sympathizers. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A vote on & prohibition referendum proposal in both Senate and House in the coming session of Congress loomed D as a probability today On the heels of the statement Gerday by Representative Snell of New York, Republican choice for the House speakership, to the effect that he be- lieved the House would vote before I on the question of the prohibition refe endum, Senator James E. Watson of In- diana, Republican leader of the Senate said today “I shall not attempt in any way to prevent & vote on any phase of the temperance question which may be brought before the Senate at the com- dng session. At the same time, Represcntative Henry Rainey of Illinols, the probable Joor leader of the Democrats in the ouse in the coming session, declared hat he also would not oppose bringing e prohibition issue before the Housc Jor a vote snd expressed the opinion at it should be deelt with promptly Pressing for Votes. If the wets in Congress and out are | feally anxious for a vote on the pro- hibition issue in Congress at the se: sion which begins next Monday, it be- gins to look as if they could have ons Certainly some of the wets, including Senator Hiram Binghsm of Connec- ticut, are earnestly pressiag for a vote on 2 prohibition referendum proposal Senztor Watson said that he be- lieved that the present Senate “would vote dry overwhelmingly” if the prohi- bition {ssue in any form, including a referendum, should come before that bedy. He said that he did not himself ezpect to bring up the prohibition issue as Republican leader, but that he yould oke no effort whatever to prevént a in the Senite if the matter came un. He said that he expected it would c'me u Senater Bingham's resolution, ealling for resubmission of _the eighteenth smen’ment to the people, is expected to be referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary. That committee has been strongly dry jn sentiment. Whether it would agree now to a referendum pro- posal, such, for instance, as that ad- vanced by Senator Bingham, remains to be seen To Push Economic Action. Senator Watson insisted that so far #s the Senate program is concerned he | ber of the House is being opposed by | former Gov | master General John H. Bartlett, in the planned to keep measures dealing with the economic much interest at growing out of the fact Representative Snell made his statement to the press yesterday, say- ing that a referendum on prohibition should be allowed to come up in the House at the approaching session fol- Jowing a visit to President Hoover at the White House There were other “ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) U. S. SHARE IN D. C. FUNDS UP TUESDAY Mapes Committee Hopeful for Early Action on Federal Con- tribution to Distriet. The question of what recommenda- #ion shall be made to Congress regurd- ing the contribution of the Federal Government toward support of the District considered at the next meeting y of the Mapes Com- mittec he committee is studying the between the Govern- » municipality of the Dis- g today was to have sidered the Federal contribution question, but put it off until next Tues- will be Mapes and other mem special committee, Mr day, hope a decision can this question Tuesday iportant of several luded in the repo airmar reache i tion bill, which con- of the Mapes Comr eixstence until Decem Mapes said he hoped ied by the committee ed of in the House during té o organize all of the ommittees It is probable the committee meeting next Tuescay will not be the Jast be- fore the report is presented to the House. standing ¢ situation in this country | WOMAN TESTIFIES ACCUSED OFFICER HAD BEEN DRINKING |Detective Barrett Goes on Trial on Charge of Beating Slaying Suspect. IOTHERS DECLARE YOUTH SHOWED MARKS ON FACE | Filling Station Manager Says Em- | ploye’s Cheek Was Bleeding ”‘:‘i‘""‘ S tedt When He Saw Him. Jersey d herat | ny that Headquarters Detec- | T 1 tive Robert Barrett had been drink- Mrs. Dorothy F. Dienelt, resident manager of the apartment house in Victory of Percy H. Stewart| that he appeared to be Inissicston | shortly before the alleged assault on | & young colored suspect. 3 | Barrett is charged with having beat- The Democrats coming into the House % s aext Monday to_elect Representative | 1 Baber with his fists after placing ; AL oe hep | Mrs Dienelt said Barrett was talking 2f e glection, Jesterday o 8| 4n'a doud tone and that other police. | ing at the time it is alleged he beat | & suspect in a murder case was in- troduced by the Government today at which the assault by Barrett is said in New Jersey Gives Party ‘Gm'gf M. Baber. John N. Garner Speaker now have 219 the former under arrest as a suspect cessor to the late Representative Acker- | MeN present were trying to persuade { the trial of the officer on brutality to have occurred, said she smelled Policeman George Sorber also went 219 Members. Votes, two more than a bare majority, | i the fatal shooting of Mrs, Elizabeth man, in the normally sirong Republic- | him to leave. 'She said she saw Baber MAIORITY INHOUSE | | whisky on the detective's breath and on trial today on a charge of assulting - ‘ Says Detective Was Loud. but four more than the Republicans, as | J2Ynes, cashier at the Garden T Shoppe. an fifth district of New Jersey. as the officers were taking him out of \used over this remarkable vic-|the apartment, and that his eyes were tory in the closest division of the House | puffed and his face scratched and in history, the Democrats are now look- | bleeding at that time. . ing hopefully toward the first New( Rapid progress was made in the case, Hampshire district, normally Republic- | Which is being tried before Justice an, where & former Democratic mem- | James M. Proctor, At 10:30 o'clock {after the government had exercised three challenges, a jury of 9 men and 3 women was impaneled | special election January 5. This elec-| In his opening address, Assistant tion, however, will come too late to dis- | United States Attorney Julien Richards turb the present proportion in the|told the jury the Government would Speakership contest | introduce evidence to prove that Baber X | was brutally beaten by Detective Bar- Three Seriously Il rett when the latter placed the youth Only death, serfous {llness or other | under arrest in his apartment in the untoward event will prevent the elec- | Marne, Thirteenth and Belmont streets, tion of Garner as Speaker. But there | on the night of April 6. are at least two Republican members and one Democrat seriously 1, who wil | Howds Enicy Thsgal. be unable to attend the organization “'We will show you,” Prosecutor Rich- meeting of the House. The Republicans | ards declared, “that Barrett and three are entatives J. Will Taylor of other policemen, after being refused ad- Tennessee and Donald F. Snow of | mittance to Baber’s apartment by the Maine. The Democrat is Representa- | resident manager, climbed in through tive Clarence F. Lea of California a window and waited for him there, al- Democratic leaders, among them | though they had no warrant or legal Garner, called the result in New Jer- | right to enter. We expect to prove that sey sn omen for the 1932 presidential | Barrett, as Baber unsuspectingly opened election, ~ Stewart’s victory converted the door of his apartment, struck the a normal 35,000 Republican majority | youth heavily in the face without rea- into an edge of 1,902 for the Demo- | son or warning. We will show that crats. He defeated Donald H. Mc- | sarrett followed Baber to a couch and Lean, Republican. | struck him again. The New Hampshire district cannot| “The evidence will prove that Baber be won in time for representation at|began crying and that the police officer the organization of the House, but|then accused him of having committed the Democrats will need every vote | two murders, both charges being denied even after the January 5 special elec- | by the suspect. At this point one of the tion to flll it The seat has been oc- | other officers asked Barrett to stop cupled by & Democrat once before in|beating the boy. We will show that | recent years. Among voters of the| Barrett replied district are the mill employes of Man-| “'Get the hel hose ballots, if a strong | out hi ¢ offers, the Democrats believe | severa they will win, rett, C for soxe time Democrats Win Five. | i} Five out of seven recent elections | Bruises Seen After Arrest. to fill House vacancies have favored| The pros told Jthe fax ~ the Democrats. Three of the five vic- | witnesse Ny - cther] tories took seats which had been oc-|face was unmarked prior {o his arrest, cupied by Republicans | but that it bore several bruises after his The House wet bloc also gained an- | release cighth precinct sta- other member. Ackerman was a dry, | tion h he was held three while Stewart is opposed to prohibition. | days f stigation. Richards said A week ago the Democrats elected | no charg er was placed against the Richard M. Kicberg of Corpus Christi | youth from the fourteenth Texas district, | ™ The which had been held for 10 years by | fense (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. Pige 7, Ghlie 45 MAY LEAVE SICK BED | HARRISON RESIGNS TO AID HOUSE G. 0. P", U. S. TARIFF POST Representative Taylor, I1, Offers to| International Ceme to Vote if Control and former Assistant Post- | 1l away, we will beat it | It will 'be shown that| blows were struck by Bar- them leaving Baber deaf openir was g statement for the de- Attorney E. Rus~ (Continued § Relations Chief Leaves Office After Fletcher Hangs in Balance. Quits Chairmanship. o | Leland Harr hief of the Tariff | Commission's onal relations ective November | xiay. His resigna- | the commission, whom Mr, Har- appointment a ief of the divi- Tenn., December 2 () entinel today received | icygion ta J. Wil Taylor & 50 'y v, am he sent to W?shlnx‘; [ Hon was. acee i would leave his sick bed | oo py snd g0 fo the Geplall . . "\ isced ¥ to cast his vote, if it might de-| . © o FL e the orginization of the House o “5 " of the Republicans, i n Representative Taylor of the second | M. Harrison T of Tennessee, is recovering in his home or o his hospital from an appendi- | m.nt and no egram, addressed to William | cerning n Tyler Page, clerk of the House, read: ! at the commi. ‘While I am still considerably phy-) ment of the res ally indisposed, if after investigation The re you find that my vote might determine | chief of ik the organization of the House in favor | year ago of the Republicans, I shall undertake t0 | personal frienc be in my seat Monday regardless of the | commission. Mr. | consequences to myself. “Please advise | the same day s Mo me here in care of the Baptist HoS- | signed several uee, pital.” in office while resi from Represen copy of a te on acting t be reached at today for a state- nformation con- was obtainable No announce- 1 had been made ! was appointed as division about & P. Fletcher, a chairman of the left office on cher, who re- ks ago, but remained h —SOCIE'i'Y VAl;OMAN PLANS LONE TREK THIS WINTER TO ALASKAN WILDS Mrs. Edward M. Biddle to Native Women in Frozen Yukon Area. A successor was being r) and Mr. Har- hile serving in Mr. Harrison re- service shortly before inted by the Tariff Com- T has be ssociated with slon since its establishment. PLANS AIR SPEED TRIP chosen. The chairmar, rison had been friengs w the diplomatic corps signed from thi: | he was appo mission. | Dr, Bra | the comm! Study Living Conditions of Aviation Editor to Hop to Havana tord was convincing that t hunter, she has never before traveled in Effort to Beat Hawks' Mark. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, December 2.—Mrs. Baward M. Biddle, prominent soclely woman of this city, today told of a lone trek she will soon make into Central | ‘Alaska to study customs and living con- ditions of native women for six months this Winter The trip, 'she said, has been her cher- ished ambition since her girlhood read- ing of Arctic explorations. Her three children will remain here &t the Biddle residence in Ardmore. Mrs. Biddle will carry two guns, o leeping bag and two suit cases with imeras and photographic equipment hile she is ~onsidered an experienced NE\;ARK. N. J., De Lou Reichers took off in his g plane from the municipal niisponuidl 8:04 am. today in an attempt to beat Prank Hawks' flight Cuba, and return - Reichers, who the magazine Libe by T. O. Warfield, Hawks' record, was 17 hours and 14 hours and 35 m spent in the air refuel at Miami bo in such wild country, she said. In | Alaska she will wear the hooded fur | jacket. trousers and muklok of the | Eskimo. cember 2 (\.— She sald she expects to leave New York next week on the first lap of her trip to Seattle. From there she will go by boat to Seward, Alaska, thence by train 500 miles northward into the in- terfor and the last 500 miles by dog sled to the environs of Nenana, on the Yukon. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, well known Arctic explorer. and Dr. Gaston Burke, medical missionary to Fort Yukon, she | said, have assisted her with plans for - | the trip. ¥ - aviation editor of Tty, was accompanied | established July 23, 3 minutes, of which inutes actually were Reichers planned to th going and coming. -ograms on P:ge B-15 e e SN ousE s \\‘\\\- - G0V, ROLPH HOLDS FATE OF MOONEY Executive Decision Expected After Prosecutor Fickert Says He Favors Pardon. By the Associnted Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 2.— ‘The case of Tom Mooney has been transferred from the solemn chambers of the California Supreme Court in the State Building here to the Gov- ernor’s office, two floors below. The fate of the man who has served 15 years in prison for a murder which he says he did not commit rests with the | only individual who can pardon him. The pardoning power of Gov. James Rolph, jr., James J. Walker, Frank P. Walsh and Aaron Sapiro pleaded in impassioned tones for executive clemency for the man who was convicted of placing a death-dealing bomb in the vicinity of a parade in San Francisco July 22, 19186. “No court can help him,” sald Wal- ker “The League of Nations cannot ald him, none of the 47 Governors can do any good, all the king's horses and all the king’s men are powerless. Only your excellency, the Governor of Cali- fornia, can right this wrong, correct this miscarriage of justice.” Mayor Walker announced after a visit to his physician that he would leave for New York late today. Decision to Be Delayed. Mooney will not know for weeks, erhaps months, whether he is to be reed or remain an attendant at the officers and guards’ mess at San Quen- tin. Gov. Rolph and his advisers, Matt 1. Sullivan, and Lewis F. Byington, representing the law, and Daniel J O'Brien, State director of penology, must study the record, one of the most voluminous in the history of jurispru- dence, covering a period of 15 years. A balliff outside the court chambers may have had the right slant. A spec- tator remarked as he left that it was too bad Mooney might have to wait three months to know his fate. “What's three months,” asked bailiff, “to a man who has been Jail for 15 years?" The arguments for the pardon stood out in sharp contrast. Walker spoke dramatically. Walsh, 67 years old, who has studied the Mooney case more than a dozen years, sald calmly over and over again that Frank C. Oxman and John MacDonald, key witnesses in the conviction of Mooney, were proven per- Jurers. Walker recalled that he said to him- self “What can I add?” when he was asked to plead for Mooney, and how he was finally persuaded by a telegram from Mooney’s 83-year-old mother After reaching California he called on Mrs, Mooney and on Tom Mooney at San Quentin Prison “And oh, your excellency,” he said, “as I saw this old lady with whom you are familiar, when I first looked into her face and thought of one who had gone before, it made it possible for me today to address vou, and only possible by great sacrifice. I wasn't satisfied I knew enough about human nature to know that kind of motherhood can never see any wrong in her boy. “And so, to satisfy myself, 1 went the in Former Senator Marries the Sister Of His First Wife ¥ the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December | | 2—word of the marriage of J. W. Harreld, Oklahoma City, for- mer United States Senator from Oklahoma, and Mrs. Thurlow Lahman, Ardmore, sister of his first wife, was received here to- day. The ceremony was per- formed yesterday afternoon at Shreveport, L Harreld er, 1930. PROBE OF LEVEE LABOR ORDERED | Action by Congress May Fol- . low if Results Do Not | Satisfy Critics. | B: first wife died in was stressed yesterday as | By the Associated Press. A thorough airing appeared likely to- day for charges of near slavery in the levee construction camps along the Lower Mississippi. News that a Federation of Labor in- vestigator was going to report condi- tions of incredible brutality, use of lash and pistol butt, on Negro laborers held in virtual peonage by contractors on the big Government flood control job, set in motion a War Department investigation If its findings are not satisfactory to erties, there even possibility that Congress may look into the situation. However, the chief of Army engineers, Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, is on the spot, and the regional supervising engineer of the Army has been instructed to report fully on conditions. Will Publish Report. | The Labor Federation intends to give full publicity to the report as soon as the investigator, Holt E. J. Ross, gets it here. Press reports of a preliminary statement by Ross were the first the Army engineers heard ‘about the al- leged condition, but Gen. Brown al- ready planned to look into protests from around Vicksburg, Miss.,, that employment had been slashed in the Government shops there. Representative Collier of Mississippi took these complaints to Brown, but said he had not heard about the peon- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) FORMER REICHS!_!ANK CHIEF BADLY HURT Dr. Hjalmar Schact Severely In- down yonder and inside of the walls of | San Quentin tation; I knew the record Wanted to See Mooney. I wanted to see. The recoit the record clear, the here had been a miscarriage of justice. And yet, the terribleness of this crime. 1 could not efface from mv mind the terrible con- sequences of making any contribution, of being party to any kind of a move- ment that would take a despicable guilty one out of the hands of the law and away from just punishment that should be visited ‘upon him. “I wanted to satisfy tnyself before T “But was fine made one word of plea to your excel- | lency, look into his face with a prayer on my lips to Divine Providence for guidance, for a better understanding of (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) T knew Mooney by repu- | jured When Car Slips From Frozen German Highway. By the Assoclated Press WARREN, Mecklenburg, Germany, December 2.—Dr. Hjalmar Schact, for- mer president of the Relchsbank, was serfously injured here today in an au- tomobile accident The limousine in which Dr. Schact | was traveling overturned at noon on a slippery frozen road. He sustained heavy gashes on the head and sprained }lmhs, and was brought to a hospital here. | _His son was slightly injured but the chauffeur was unhurt. WIN, LOSE OR DRAW Ely Culbertson Will write the most graphic and accurate reviews of the coming spectaculay CULBERTSON-LENZ Contract Bridge Match. Beginning December 7th and continuing until 150 rubbers are played for charity. THE CULBERTSON TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS WILL APPEAR Exclusively in The Evening Star in Washington TEA HOUSE GANG'S ARREST INMINENT |Suspected “Trigger Man” Is Caught in Philadelphia. Vice Probe Progresses. Arrest of the other members of the |band of gunmen who raided the Old| Colonial Tea House early last week,| killing one man ard wounding five other persons, se>med imminent today, | | following the capture in Philadelphia | | last night of an alleged gangster who is | said to have acted as the “trigger man” in the Bladensburg shooting. Meanwhile, Department of Justice agents were continuing their investiga- tion cf a vice ring of which the Mary- land road house is alleged to have been a mt. ith “white slave” charges placed Rgainst four men including the man- ager of the tea house and two others Wwho were in the place at the time of the gun battle, the Federal operatives were endeavoring to uncover evidence aglinst similar establishments in all parts of Maryland, New Jersey and' Pennsylyania, | Cornered by Detectives. The reputed “trigger man,” Peter Abbott, 28, was captured after two de- tectives cornered him in a house in Philadelphia’s “tenderloin” district. Ac- | cording “to dispatches from Philadel- | phia, he surrendered only after one of | | the detectives overpowered him, throw- | ing him to the fioor. | _Abbott, a resident of Philadelphia, was arrested av the request of Balti- | more police, who have been participat- | ing in"the ‘threz-cornered investigation | of “the shooting. He is charged with | the murder of Grover Amick, Washing- |ton gas staiion employe, sald by his| | friends to have been an innocent by- stander. A charge of robbery also has| | been lodged against Abbott. ! | Two girls were in the house with him, but they escaped while be was tussling with the detectives. A search was be- | gun for them immediately, in the hope they might be able to throw some light Jon the vice ring’s activities. Sought Since Last Week. | _Jeremiah J. Crowley, chief of Prince | Georges County police, when notified of | | Abbott's arrest, said “he's the | we've been looking for since the 1 part of last week.” | _Although the chief said he was not | sure what steps would be taken next | in the investigation, it was announced | that Sergt. Willlam Feehley of the Baltimore Detective Bureau had been sent to Philadelphia to take Abbott into | | custody. ~Steps toward extraditing him | | were not expected, however, until after | his arraignment in Philadelphia. In the meantime. Lieut. Cornelius Roche, also of the Baltimore Detective | Bureau, and Constable Andrew Gasch | of Hyattsville were continuing their ef- | | forts to learn the whereabouts of the other members of the bandit gang | The men held on “white slave” | charges are Charles Levitt, wounded | proprietor of the tea house; Cisberto | Renzulli, allas Chester Clark; John J. Bartlett, alias Felix (Man o' War) Boc- chicchio, and William Hancock: War. rants charging them with conspiring to | violate the Mann act by transporting | women from Washington and Philadel: | phia to Bladensburg were sworn out by | Justice Department agents. Two Guarded in Hospital. Levitt and Bartlett are under police guard at Casualty Hospital, where they | are being treated for wounds received | {in the shooting. Hancock, who escaped | injury, is lodged in the county jail at | Upper Marlboro, while Renzulli is held | in_Philadelphia. | Renzulll_was arrested after County Policeman William Clifton traced a tele- phone call for Levitt from Philadelphia. Cleared of suspicion in connection with the shooting and released by a magis- trate yesterday, he was immediately re- arrested by a deputy United States mar- shal. Nicholas Tronco, arrested with Ren- zulli, but later ordered released by Chief Crowley, is being held for further in- vestigation, at the request of Justice | Department operatives. ‘Warrants Out for Six Women. Warrants for the six women under bond of $1,500 each as witnesses to the shooting were sworn out by Justice Department agents yesterday, accord- ing to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the: department - Bureau of Investigation. Five of the women were at liberty, but the sixth, Mrs. Verne Edwards, 24, still is confined to Casualty Hospital. Some of the others were picked up immediately, Hoover said, and efforts were being made to ascertain the where- abouts of the remainder. The object of the warrants, he explained, was simply to hold the women as witnesses in the investigation, as well as in the gun battle. man | atter | to BRITAIN MAY ASK POSTPONEMENT OF ARMS CONFERENCE Growing Fears of Failure at Geneva Revealed in London. AUTHORITY OF LEAGUE IS BELIEVED SHAKEN | ? i \ Manchurian War and Economic | Crisis Dim Hopes Despite Desire | for Peace Program. BY NEGLEY FARSON. | By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, December 2.— Evidence is increasing here that Great | Britain will favor, if not openly pro-| pose, postponement of the general dis- armament conference scheduled for Geneva next February. As late as two weeks ago the British foreign office has been giving insistent | and emphatic reasons why the confer- | ence should be held in February. Its tone is now changing to reasons why | the world situation might make the | parley inadvisable at such a time. ‘ Failure Greatly Feared. | An apparently inspired editorial in| the London Times today says that for- | mer Foreign Minister Lord Reading, in | an indirect form, raised the question of | postponement at the National Peace | Conference Monday and that “the opin- | fon can hardly be held anywhere that| the circumstances of the present mo- | ment are propitious for its (the confer- | ence's) success or that any marked | change for the better is probable before | February. And if doubt seems to be | thrown on the advisability of never- | theless holding the conference at its appointed date, it is not because its success is not desired, but, on the con- | trary, because it is realized what an | | immense mistortune it would be for all | ¢ T European stability if it should meet and fail” | ‘The London Times says that the au- thority of the League has been some- what shaken by its inability to control events in Manchuria. It might be irre- parably damaged if there be a break- down of the disarmament conference “with which its prestige is more closely linked than with any other enterprises.” United States Attitude Usderstood. Countries which have most to gain from disarmament, says the London Times, are thcse which have been drastically disarmed by the peace| treaties and the initiative for post- | ponement must come from them. “Does Germany, in particular, be- lieve that three months hence would be a good moment to open the ccn- | ference?” the newspaper asks. “In her | present economic and financial extrem- | ity would she be in a position to press| her case to the best advantage?” | The newspaper says that the United States desire to hcld the conference JAPAN WILL INSIST ON NEED G+ TROOPS 10 0PPOSE BANDITS Tokio Also to Stand by Briand Declaration Against Chinese Taking Initiative. MARSHAL CHANG ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING OUTLAWS Withdrawal of Government at Chinchow Also Included in Demands to League. By the Associated Press.- TOKIO, December 2.—A spokesman for the foreign office announced today that Japan will insist upon the right to act against bandits and other law- less elements in Manchuria. It is this point upon which agreement on the League of Nations resolution at Paris is said to hang. “This is an all-important question with Japan,” he sald, “which the League apparently doesn't realize.” Tokio's insistence on the right to use troops against lawless elements, he said, is necessary because it is difficult to dis- tinguish between Chinese bandits and soldiers, and also because the govern- ment has information indicating that the forces of Marshal Chang Hsueh- Liang and Chinchow local authorities have been supporting bandit groups, feeding them and using them in opera= tions against the Japanese. Stand By Declaration, The spokesman also said that if Ja- Pan’s reservation to the League resolu~ tion regarcing issuance of orders Manchurian commanders to take no inlu-, tiative which might lead to loss of life is not embodied in the resolution itself, but taken care of in the declaration of Chairman Briand announcing the reso- lution, Japan will insist tha. the declaration be considered bi the resolution itself, iy hd e Government's final decisi so-called “bandit laws" andogthuenr modifications of the League Council's resolution may be announced tomors Tow. The instructions will be given to Ambassador Yoshizawa at Paris as soon as & conclusion is reached by Foreign :flnbm ?‘unn Shideshara and other Mcials who are preparing to spend & gog%m;{ Lgéc?:?m in conference. announ the question of establ 8 i should merely withdra within the great wall. Liang's government at also be withdrawn.” Back Mukden Government. Japan also proposes that the inde- pendent Chinese government set up :l Mukden under Japanese auspices, with Yuan Chin-Kai at its head, shall con- trol the neutral zone after the with= drawals. It was explained that apparent), there had been some mhunde?spt-mm as scheduled is well known and that it is well understood that the American | attitude is that there can be no fur- ther debt reduction until “‘progress has | been made with the reduction of arma- ments."” ' But, the writer continues, other ques- tons are linked with the League and | disarmament, notably the French in-| sistence cn “security”—"and security quite unavoidably raises the point of | maintaining the status quo.” | British Strength Weakened. Herein lies the real British disin- clination to enter the disarmament conference under the present condi- tions. England herself is in severe | economic and financial straits. The| French gold fist can be used, not cnly | to sway this country financially, but | weaken her strength at interna- | tional conference tables. | For such reasons the British are in-| clined to believe that it would be| ethically_wrong _to try_t) force the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) REPORT PLANE FELL | INTO BAY UNVERIFIED Aberdeen Army Officials Quiz Duck Hunters in Effort to Trace Burning Craft. By the Associated Press. ABERDEEN, Md., December 2.— Acting on a report a burning airplane had fallen into Chesapeake Bay near the Havre de Grace race track, officials of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in- | vestigated for 3 hours today, but could | find no trace of such a mishap. | Report of the plane dive was given by two filling station attendants who sald they saw the ship burst into flames when about a half-mile high over the bay, and then dive. Officials canvassed dozens of duck hunters and others in | the vicinity but could not confirm the | report, and expressed the belief it was unfounded. | Vatican Bells to Go on Air. VATICAN CITY, December 2 (#).— The music of the Bells of St. Peter's will be broadcast by the Vatican radio s(b;’llon next Tuesday, it was announced today. | recapture Tsitsihar, in some quarters regarding Jay X meaning when she lnetfmnwdg her P:El: ingness to leave the civil administra- tion in Chinese hands. The official spokesman today empha- sized that as far as Chinchow is con~ cerned Japan did not mean she way g;iggede!g ngfilcehw a rre)tent:on of the vernment which Marshal - tablished there, S fi The foreign office statement, he de- clared, applied only to local adminis- trations in towns and districts under the present Chinchow government. The feeling expressed here was that as long as Marshal Chang retains the government at Chinchew there is bound tenslon because it leaves him With a base in Manchuria “from which to direct activities of bandits the Japanese.” St HAILUN ATTACK REPORTED. Dispatches Say Mah’s Cavalry Driving Japanese Forces Back. SHANGHAI, December % (#).—Dis- patches from Harbin, Manchuria, said that a detachment of the cavalry of Gen. Mah Chan-Shan clashed today southwest of Hailun with Japaness forces and was driving them back. The action was describsd as part of a counter-attack by Gen. Mah to from which his army was driven in Midnovember by the Japanese offensive on the Nonni River, Hailun is Gen. Mah’s birthplace, an he retired there after his fl‘l’ghL Irolg Tsitsihar. Frequent reports have said he was reorganizing his army there, more than 200 miles east of its fore mer position. Japanese military authorities in that area sent back a call for airplanes and artillery, the dispatches said. DEMAND ALAKMS LEAGUE. Insistance on Chang's Withdrawal Seen Blow to Peace Plans. PARIS, December 2 (#).—News that the Japanese government was insisting that Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang's government be withdrawn from Chin- chow behind the Great Wall as well as his troops threw new alarm into league quarters this afternoon. This development was regarded as a threat to the hopes for an early agree- ment on the council's resolution on plans for a pacific settlement of the Sino-Japanese capflict in Manchuria. A Japanese spokesman told the As- sociated Press, “The Council is not tak- ing seriously our demand about the 2, Column 1. INDUSTRY SEEKS ABLE LEADERS, ENGINEERING SOCIETY REPORTS, Conventional Type of Executive Passe—Broader Appre- ciation of Human E By ‘the Associated Press. | NEW YORX, Lecember 2—Industry | is calling more men of exceptional abllity and fewer of the conventional | types to its upouilding, the Americln‘ Socety of Mechanical Engineers said NANKING, December 2 (#).—The state council of the National govern- ment tonight decided to accept an in- vitation for China to participate in the Chicago Ce! ary Exposition in 1933. * in a “progress report” today. | “Leadership of a radically newer and more powerful cider,” the report stated, | ‘is making iis appearance through bro.ger a) pll;zch‘..flon of the human ele- ment an induence ress and economic stability.” p::n i lement Demanded. “The fleld of marketing” it added, “is now in the greatest need of sound common sens: and engineering skill.” Regarding wages, the group opposed the view of “orrnodox economists, in- cluding many of our bankers,” that wages should b reduced in proportion to reduction in commodity prices. 5 oup beieves,” the statement concluded, “thet it is more important to stimulate the buying power of the masses than to make further reductions in labor costs.”