Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1931, Page 2

A2 z¥\ PHLIPIE LBERTY COMMISSION SALS Members of Insular Congress Coming Here to Seek Independence. <% . Is By the Associated Press. MANILA, December 5—The eighth Philippine Independence Commission D. . HEADS SELECT JOBS COMMITTEE Board to Direct Employment of Idle Men on City Work. The District Commissioners today ap- | inted & committee to handle the em- ment of 300 jobless men on various sailed for the United States today. A manifesto issued before sailing ex- | pressed hope the commissioners would | “find Washington in a ready dispos: to comprehend the prob country.” The commission was warned, how- ever, in a letter sent to Senator Sergio Osmena by President Manuel L. Quezon | of the insular Senate, that admin- | tration at Washington is not to the principle of Phil autonomy, and also that Congress th se will be busy with grave pro lems, and may not be able to give at- tention to independence ted Quezon Unable to Sail. Quezon, who has been ill since his return e in October, did not Senator Osmena heads the others being Speaker Mz 1 Ho of Repre: tative Pedro Sabi inola and Democrata party, the | Nacionalista party ature is on and com- the commission and is gene: discussions with sional leaders 10-year au- pendence, a free hand expected t base its administration and congr upon Senator Quezon's tonomy proposal This i a compromise providing lim- ited free trade with the United States with limits on Filipino emigration to America for 10 years, then a plebiscite in the islands on independence. Will Be Here Till June. The commissioners will go to Wash- ington via San Francisco. Senator Osmena will return in March, but the others wil planning to at- tend tk al conventions in June and urge adopuion of Philippine | independence plar Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, who recently investigated conditions here for President Hoover, both eco- nomic and political, will confer with members of the mission before making & final report on his inquiry. Sending of this new mission to the United States was denounced last night in a_demonstration under auspices of the Radical party. Senators Quezon and Osmena and Speaker Roxas were described as “traitors to the cause of independence.” FOUR DOORS SMASHED IN RAID NETTING TEN William Dietz and Sam Melincov Held Under Bond on Gambling Charges. A raiding party, led by Assistant United States Attorney Roger Robb, smashed through four heavy doors and agwall at 433 Eleventh street yesterdey afterncon to arrest 10 men, among them Willlam (Jew Boy), Dietz gnd Skm Me! 4 i npu {2, Melineov and Shelfie we, a colored porter, weré released labt night after & police investigation. Dietz was charged with illegal posses- sion of liguor and maintaining a nui- sance. Melincov was charged with maintaining a nuisance, and Rowe with illegal possession. Dietz was released under $1,000 bail, while bond for the two others was fixed at $500 each. Their arraignment was continued untll next Friday by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court today. Dietz and Melincov were arrested early Wed- nescay after a fight in Child's Restau- rant with a policeman. Yesterday's raid came after police had picketed the place for several weeks, The raiders, who were in the place almost two hours, confiscated a small amount of alleged alcohol and | beer, they said, and also reported find ing an elaborately equipped bar and | alleged gambling paraphernalia. | Dietz and Rowe were sald to have | smashed a quantity of containers be- hind the bar before police reached them NYE BODY DRAFTING BILL ON ELECTION Committee Sebsion Is Called to Plan | Senate Measure to Air Campaign Funds. By the Associated Press Hoping for success in passing it this session, Chairman called together the Senate Campaign Punds Commit- | tee today to whip to shape ‘s bill lo‘ DUt teeth in the corrupt practices act, | The principal item in the proposal | of the North Dakota Senator is greater | publicity for campaign contributions, | 1o strengthen Federal supervision of the | elections | The bill is a result of recent Senate | investigations into election campaigns, | perticularly the lengthy inquiries by{ the Nye Committee into the 1930 elec- tions The committee still has to draft a | Teport to the & te of its inquiry into the 1928 political activities of Bishop Jemes Cannon of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South. As a result of this inquiry, the quired into the use of anti-Smith funds By Bishop Cannon in that campaign nd indicted him on a charge of violat- rrupt practices act also has to decide | to report Miss Ada L. Bur- hmond, & secretary to t. She ns by the committee in its Cannon inves- tigation. She, too, was indicted with Bish CGannon by the grand jury and the trial is now pendi 100 POLICEMEN HUNTING ARMED CRAZED MAN P the Assoctated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 5— Nearly 100 policemen were rushed to the outskirts of fashionable Rittenhouse Square early today in search of John Abraham coln Willilams, crazed col- ed night he shot a police officer in the shoulder T. ‘Williams escaped through a rear door of the house after firing through the door at the officer, Abe Silber, who sought to arrest him when residents of the place had reported he threatened them with & gun. Pilot Ends Leg of Long Flight. BUDAPEST, December 5 (#).—Ely | Committee, so that matters suggested [EXTRA GUARD MADE | with the demonstration, pointing out it | Toute to Washington ¥ District government projects, whose sal- aries will be paid out of CoTmunity Chest funds. Lieut. Karl B. Schilling aide to Assistant Engineer Commissioner | H. L. Robb, was named chairman. Jere | J. Crane, business manager of the Bc of Education, and William Champion, chlef inspector of the Highway Depart- ment, are the other members of the committee. he committee will place men pro- vided by the District Committee on | Employment, of which E. C. Graham is | chairman, on jobs giving three days a week of eight hours each and be paild 45 cents an hour. The plan will be | modified later to take care of 500 men who will work on school playgrounds,'n District road jobs and other projects The Commissioners named Daniel E. Garges, secretary of the Board of Com- missioners, to be liaison officer betw the Commissioners and the Employment | of the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, GLASSFORD FOLLOWS MILITARY PROCEDURE IN MARCH ORDERS (Continued From First Page) ber 6, in two caravans. One by the way of Wisconsin avenue, the other by Bladensburg road. Exact time not known. The number to arrive is estimated at 1,500, with 60 to 80 trucks. It is ex- pected that the “hunger marchers” will be_identified by arm bands The plan of the organization is to quarter the men in one building if n men to be quartered ate homes. The trucks at some point designated authorities. lans call for a meeting Decem- at the Washington jtortum, from '5 pm. to 12 midnight Sunday, December 6, at which time delegates will be elected to present the petitions ng archers” at the Capi- Monday, December 7 plan contemplates a march from nt of organization, which has not d, to the Capitol. the marchers to remain until the delegates present the and then return to the Audi- where & meeting is planned from Z to 6 pm., when the marchers are suppased to leave the city. The representative of the “hunger marche 1 this city is Herbert Ben- with offices at 1410 G street, rther information will be issued s an addenda to this order. Capitol Force Augmented. 2. Co-operation with the Metropeli- by the committee requiring board ac- |tan Police Department: tion can be handled speedily without a. The Capitol police force assisted waiting for the regular board meeting, [by reinforcements from the Metropol- held every Tuesday and Friday. AGAINST MARCHERS AT CAPITOL GROUNDS (Continued From First Page) have a parade as soon as they arrive in Washington tomorrow, the plans calling for a meeting of the columns from the North and West at some cen- tral point and marching to quarters to be provided for them in unoccupled churches and buildings in the muniei- pal center area. The route of this procession and other detalls are being worked out at the conference of police officials which began in the office of Gen. Glassford at 11:30 o'clock. The problem of housing the demon- strators virtually was settled through a decision of police and District officlals to permit them to occupy the buildings in the Municipal Oenter area, which are being put in shape for unexpected use. ‘These arrangements were made possible through the co-operation of the Salvation Army and the Central Union Mission. The old and abandoned Presbyterian Church on John Marshall place and the Salvation Army quarters at 481 C street are to be turned over to the marchers who are without funds. To those with funds police will give a mimeographed list of boarding houses and small hotels. ‘The Police Department also has established a food- and supply store room in the old Presbyterian Church, where donations of food, blankets or cots are to be recelved. The mission houses also are to aid in feeding and quarteéring the marchers who are without funds. Banned From Bullding. Proposal to use a wing in the new Department of Commerce Building for quartering the demonstrators was abandoned as impractical, according to Gen, Glassford. He said a survey of the two unoccupied wings in the new buillding convinced him it could not be usedsfer temporary housing. Use of the new building for hous- ing the demonstrators also had met. with some public and official opposi- tion. Plans of -the leaders of the demon- strators to invade the floor of the Sen- ate and House to present unemploy- ment relief petitions were revealed by Her Benjamin, who s arranging for the demonstration, at & conference with Senator Borah of Idaho. The Senator told him that outsiders had no place in the Senate or House chambers and to leave that plan out of his program. Subsequently Senator Borah issued | a statement which was virtually a man- ual of conduct for the marchers while in Washington. He said the demon- strators had a “perfect right to come to the Capitol to petition the Govern- ment” and that there will be a deter- mined effort to help those in distress. Termed Communistic. In an open letter to Gen. Glassford, Ralph M. Easley, chairman of the ex- ecutive council of the National Civic Federation, charged the march to| Washington 1s a “straight communist movement.” He declared it was de- signed only to exploit the unemployed and to “befog the people into believ- ing that the communists represent the wage earners in the absurd demands they will make in Congress if they get a hearing." The American Civil Liberties Union also issued a statement in connection b would have observers stationed at vari- ous points in Washington tomorrow and Monday to watch for possible clashes | between the marchers and the author- | ities and to act as witnesses in any trials that may follow, should the legal rights of the demonstrators be violated. However, Roger N. Baldwin, director | of the union, said the organization is hopeful ‘that the whole affair will go off peacefully.” The Washington Arrangements Com- mittee for the marchers held ite final meeting before the demonstration at Typographical Union Hall last night and completed all details for the unem- ployment conference, which is to open tomorrow at 6 pm. in the Washington Auditorium. ‘The principal speaker will be A W. Mills, organizer for the Unemployed Councils Mills is en| in one of the trucks. MARCHERS EJECTED. Put Out of Charity Misslon in Row | Over Food. PITTSBURGH, December 5 (F).— More than 500 “delegates of the un- | employed,” traveling to Washington, |D. C, were ejected from the Helping |Hand, charity organization, building | here last night when they became en- | gaged in a controversy with the man- agems The Helping Hand had agreed to feed members of the delegation, but when | the group started to hold a meeting to | protest the food, they were “put out,” | Mary Miller, chatrman of the Helping | Hand, satd The delegation held several meetings | during the evening, which police de- scribed as “quiet,” and the men “bedded | down" for the night on the floor of the | meeting rooms, while the women and | children were taken into homes about | the city. The caravan of trucks and cars moved out of the city for Union- | town. It was planned to spend the night in Cumberland, Md. SHIP RESCUES MADE Lifeboat Braves Fierce Storm to Save Eight Passengers. STOCKHOLM, December 5 Eight 'ngers were rescued last night from the German stesmer Mildburg, re- ported in distress yesterday off Oeland Island. The rescue was made by the orew of a lifeboat, which braved a ferce storm and & heavy sea to reach ?— Beinhorn, noted German fiyer, arrived here from ne;zem today ona nu:z;mh igrade, Sofia AD - :\‘X. l'll‘g“g:e final destination still to be decided upon. A the vessel. n-{m-my-mumwmwbe not a8 ous as was 3 5 and “the "1 members' Of the Crew re- mained inform the “hungar marchers,” to this head- quarters itan Police Department will have en- tire control of all police activities with- in_the Capitol Building b. The perk police force will have control of all police activities within ts of the parks, buildings and normally under its jurisdiction commanding officer of the park force has authority to call on precinct for reserves in case of an_emergency Department of rer police forces of this city, through their agencies will send immediately ation of importance concerning co Justice and d. The use of Federal troops is not contemplated. 3. Mission of the Metropolitan Police Force, The mission or objectives of the Met- ropolitan Police Force is to maintain the “Hunger Marchers” under surveil- lance, individually and collectively, dur- ing the entire period of their visit to Washington tection against curlosity and trouble seekers; law and disturbances by mild action, and, should force become necessary to apply only such force as may be essen- tial to restore and maintain order. to afford them full pro- to prevent overt violations of Reprisals to Be Avoided. 4. General instructions. & On marches, and in assemblies and meetings, the “Hunger Marchers” and spectators will be kept sufficiently separated so that either group can be dealt with without affecting the other group. b. “Hunger Marchers" will be treated with the same consideration as spec- tators. c. Reprisals by police officers for abu- sive language or for assaults of an in- significant character will be avoided d. Force if necessary will be appiled by & group under the direction of a ser- geant or higher commander and by &n individual police officer only in an ex- treme emergency. e. In the street parade and within the Capitol grounds, “Hunger Marchers” will be permitted to display flxgs, ban- ners and devices. 1. Within the Capitol grounds the hunger marchers will be kept Ina body and separated from spectators within a roped srea. Moving within the Capitol grounds they will be required to break formation, proceed without )vmuflc and without any indecerous man- ffestation. (The prohobition of the Capitol police regulations against pro- cessions and assemblages has been sus- pendad by competent authority for this oceasion.) ©. Tear gas bombs will not be used unless ordered by & leutenant or higher officer, Commanders’ Duties Defined. 5. Operation, functions and respon- sibilities. a. Precinct commanders will give special attention to the detection and supervision of sympathetic demonstra- tions or other such actlvities organized within their precincts. In an emerg- ency they will call on these headquar- ters for reinforcements. . The commander of the Traffic Bureau (Assist. Supt. E. W. Brown) will supervise the entry and departure of the “hunger marchers” He will be assisted in such manner as he may di- rect by the commanders of precincts through which the caravans pass, and by such units of the reserve as he may call for. c. Inspector T. R. Bean will have charge of the arrangements for and supervision of the street parades. The force to be used to be determined when the route is decided upon. Upon arrival of the “hunger marchers” at the Cap- itol Grounds he will place not less than half of his force temporarily at the disposition and command of Inspector O. T. Davis. d. Inspector O. T. Davis will have charge of arrangements and supervision over the demonstration within the Capitol Grounds (but not within the doors of the buflding itself, where supervision will be in charge of the Capitol Police) e. Not less than one hour before the arrival of the hunger marchers at the Capitol there wlil be reported to Capt. S.'J. Nash, Capitol Police, 55 men in charge of a lieutenant. They will oper- ate under the orders of Capt. Nash. f. Inspector J. F. Beckett will have charge of the arrangements and super- vision of meetings at the Washington Auditorium. The force avaflable will comprise men from the third precinct and such additional men as he may call for, g. Precinct commanders will have immediate supervision over “hunger marchers” quartered within their re- spective precincts. They will be as- sisted by such reinforcements as they may require. 6. Command and communications: Béginning at 9 am., December 6, and continuing without interruption until the “hunger marchers” have left the city a message and information center will be established at police headquar- ters under the supervision of Lieut. F. A. Varney for the receipt and dispatch of messages and orders. (Call National 4000 and ask for “message center”). ‘The major and superintendent or an inspector representing him will be on duty at headquarters end in clcse touch | with the Message Center during the en- tire period. PELHAM D. GLASSFORD, Major and Superintendent. NANKING STUDENTS RIOT Government Charged With Weak Policy Toward Japan. NANKING, December 5 (#).—A erowd of 500 students created a sharp disturbance here this afternoon, in a demonstration against the government, which, the students charged, is pur- suing & weak policy against Japan. e Convicted by Dublin Tribunal. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, December 5 (#).—The military tribunal, function- ing under the public safety act yester- day sentenced Thomas Breen to six months' imprisonment, after he had been convicted of holding up and rob- bing a Free State soldier last Septem- ber. Evidence was that Breen was armed at the time of the holdup. ‘Three other defendants were over on & charge of illegal drilling, HEFLIN ASKS DELAY ONBANKHEAD SEAT Counsel Charge $11,531 Spent in Campaign Disquali- fies Alabama Senator-Elect. | BY the Associated Prass Former Senator Heflin in a letter to all Democratic Senators today asked support for his contention that John H. Bankhead, whose Alabama Senate | seat he is disputing, stand aside until the Senate Elections Committee has re- ported. A Democratic conference yesterday decided Bankhead should take the oath pending further developments. Heflin, who ran as an independent in the election in Alabama last year, sald he felt his position regarding Bankhead's seating had been misrepre- sented to the Democratic caucus. Asks Delay Only Until Report. “I have never insisted that Mr. Bank- head stand aside until the contest is concluded,” he said. “All I ask is that he stand aside until the subcommit- tee can make its reports on the law and the facts thus far developed to the Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions.” Chairman Hastings has reported to the Elections Subcommittee that there were widespread violations of election laws in the Alabama eléction. The | subcommittee has not acted on that report The Senate Elections Subcommittee faced today the problem of deciding whether campaign expenditures of $11,531 by Bankhead, when the Alabama State law fixes a_maximum of $10,000, disqualify him from taking the oath The Republican forces may seek to use | this issue to bar him Monday. Heflin's attorneys argued the point for more than three hours before the committee yesterday and Bankhead's lawyer was given time to reply today. No effort will be made to have a re- port for the Senate on the contest itself by Monday, for it involves a maze of technical legal questions about election laws and their violation. In fact, Chair- man Hastings of the subcommittee ha begun to doubt whether it will be po: sible to report Monday even on the question of expenditures. Primary’s Legality Challenged. One other point may be raised. Hef- lin has challenged the legality of Bank- head’s election on the grounds the pri- mary in which he was nominated was unlawful. His lawyers argued before the committee yesterday that Bankhead’s name was filegally on the ballot in the general election, and that as Heflin re- celved more than 100,000 legal votes, he is entitled to the seat. Prank A. Hampton, Heflin's attorney, argued Bankhead's expenditures during the campaign were sufficient to disqual- ify him under the State law. Horace Wilkinson, another Heflin law- yer, sald that in addition to the funds reported by Bankhead the Democratic State Compaign Committee had spent $29,000 to elect him and the organiza- tion candidates for governor and lieu- tenant governor. Says Voting Was Not Secret. Senator Watson, Indiana, Republican, asked if any {llegality in the primary ‘was not wiped out by the voice of the people as expressed in the general election. Wilkinson cited & number of Ilej cases which he sald disproved this theory. One was a decision of the Alabama Supreme Gourt throwing out an election that it held was called illegally. Wilkinson also charged only two counties complied with a State law requiring that in towns of more than 3,000 population voting booths must be provided. He said this destroyed the “secrecy of the ballot.” WELLINGTON KOO AND DR. SZE QUIT POSTS IN CHINA —_(Continued Prom Pirst Page) bandits and other lawless elements in Manchuria. ‘The decision to make the new thrust after the Japanese withdrew an offen- sive last week in the direction of Chin- chow was made, it was stated, after re- celving reports sald to indicate that bandits were active along the Peiping- Mukden Raflroad and that Chinese troops were concentrating in the region of Tahushan and other places almost within striking distances of the South Manchurian Rajlway. Reports from Nanking that conversa- tions between Dr. Wellington Koo, Chi- nese foreign minister, and Japanese Minister Shigemitsu relative to the es- tablishment of a neutral zone at Chin- chow have broken down also helped to infiuence the decision. “Tucked Into Withdrawal.” Army authorities here and at Muk- den, the announcement said, decided to | take measures to deal with s situation | which they considered was partially | Erought about by the previous with- drawal following orders issued on No- vember 27, at the time Japanese troops were advancing upon Chinchow. Mili- tary intelligence reports, it was said, in- dicated Chinese troops began immedi- ately to occupy the former Japanese position. “Dr. Koo's announcement that the Chinese will not evacuate Chinchow was most unfortunate,” authoritative source said today. “The Japanese army was bound to take it as a challenge. Army circles alreody were much ag- gravated as they felt the army was tricked into a withdrawal a week ago by apparent promises of Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang that he agreed in prin- ciple, at least, to the evacuation of Chinchow and now, like a slap in the face, comes a definite opposition to the entire plan for a neutral zone and other pians of the League as well as of Japan to_prevent a_serious clash.” i Earller today a foreign spokesman said he feared the Japanese civil gov- ernment might not be able to keep the army in Manchuria in check. The fear, he said, was based on what was con- sidered the failure of the Chinese to withdraw their troops from the Chine | show srea. |, A dispatch to the newspaper Asa | from Mukden said officiae here ors | considering a concrete plan to handle the Manchurla situaticn as soon as the military phase is concluded. The plan, the dispatch said, includes the establishment of & high commis- TR B 1'sack was handed to him by the store D. C., SATURDAY, DETECTIVE FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT |Barrett Convicted on Charge of Beating George Baher in Tea Shop Probe. | | Headquarters Detective Robert J. Barreft was convicted in District Su- preme Court yesterday of making a third-degree” assault last April 6 on George B. Baber, 21-year-old employe of the Standard Oil Co. After hearing all the testimony, the jury retired to consider its verdict, de- liberating & little more than three hours | before announcing it was ready to Teport Justice James M. Proetor ordered Barrett released under his present bond | of $1,000 until his attorneys, Harry Whelan and E. Russell Kelly, decide whether they will move for a new trial, Is Third Officer Convicted. Barrett, who was prosecuted by As- sistant United States Attorney Julien Richards, is the third policeman to be convicted on brutality charges as a re- | sult of the investigation of the Police | Department. The other two are James Mostyn and William R. Laflin. A member of the Detective Bureau's homicide squad, Barrett was accused of beating Baber with his fists after placing the youth under arrest in the Marne Apartments, Thirteenth and Belmont streets, in connection with an investigation of the Garden T Shoppe | murder case Denies Testimony of Drinking. Baber testified he was slugged several times by the detective, receiving three cuts, b s and an injury to one ear. Several tnes for the Government sald Barrett had been drinking The detective’s defense was a general denial of the drinking and assault charges. His testimony was supported by that of threc other detectives who | were with him in Baber's apartment when the youth was arrested. All of the detectives admitted, how- ever, that the youth may have been struck_unintentionally when he walked into the dark apartment and was grabbed. LEAVITT EXONERATED OF LIQUOR CHARGE Hoover's Brother-in-Law Found Innocent of Wilfully Pos- sessing Rum. By the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif, December 5.—Because he did not “wilfully and unlawfully possess liquor,” C. Van Ness Leavitt, retired plumbing contractor and brother-in-law of President Hoo- | ver, was a free man today. Police Judge C. A. M. Spencer ruled at the end of a trial without jury yes- terday that the California State liquor law makes it necessary to prove a de- fendant wilfully and unlawfully pos- sessed liquor before a conviction can be obtained. Leavitt was arrested last November 9 when he allegedly stepped from a grocery store with a gunny sack con- taining 19 pints of liguor. He said the proprietor when word reached the store that police raiders were in the neigh- borhood. The proprietor, C. R. Dailey, /had once been convicted of! Hootlegging. “1 started for the door to get out of the place” Leavitt testified, “and just (25 1 was going.through the.door Dalley thrust the gunny sack in- hands. Automatically T téok 1t -flfiem 20- ing. I dropped it outside of the door and then was arrested.” sloner’s office with a general or ad- miral as its head, to subordinate all military and civil services. The opinion prevails in influential quarters at Mukden, the said, that such an institution be preceded by a transitory n with dictatorial powers ‘enough to keep Chinese militarists in control, besides co-ordinating poMticl and mil- itary affairs. A Rengo dispatch from Mukden said | 1,000 mounted bandits armed with ma~ chine guns were reported concentrating, apparently for an attack on Kun ipu, |20 miles southwest of Mukdeh. Chinese police have requested assistance from the Japanese military authoritles, the | message said. A scouting plane was sent to the | vicinity and it was expected that troops would follow. U. 8. TO RECEIVE REPORT. MUKDEN, Manchuria, December 5 | (@) —The United States Government is |to have a special report on the situa- tion in Manchuria from its own mili- tary observers, Col. James G. Mcllroy, United States military attache at Tokio, who has been |on a tour of Northern Manchuria for several days with a party of other neu- tral attaches under Japanese auspices, has left here for Chinchow to meet Col. Nelson Margetts, American attache | from Peiping. | The two will collaborate on the re- | port. Col. Margetts has been in the | Chinchow area since before the Japa- | nese_advance last week, which was | | halted half way between Chinchow and | Mukden when the army received orders | to withdraw. CHINA WON'T WITHDRAW. PARIS, December 5 (#).—Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese representative, told leaders {of the Council of the League of Na- tions today that the Chinese will not gthdraw ~from Chinchow, but will “Aght and die there if necessary.” The Japanese position was reiterated by Nobumi Ito, Japanese legal experty who declared to the Council's Drafting Committee that his nation was unal- terably opposed to intervention by a third party in the Manchurian quarrel either through a commission of inquiry or_through neutral observers. Those who heard M. Ito said ‘it was their impression Japan was determined | to get the Chinese military and perhaps civil government out of Chinchow and behind the Great Wall of China. It was understood the members of the Council gave Dr. Sze no hope of as- sistance in the matter of China's re-| | taining Chinchow, but rather pleaded with him to avoid conflict, even if it | became necessary to withdraw behind | the Great Wal et T T AN E-lwyd e (ele] [¢] bound - Will cover the Culbertson-Lenz $5,000 to 81,000 Bridge Match in the liveliest and most graphic review The Evening Star THESE MATCHES START DECEMBER 7 BERTSON charity bet Contract by telegraph exclu- sively for AN TR 5T P T WO TV MR TR DECEMBER 5, Clgra Bow Reported Wed 1931. . REPUTED GROOM DENIES MARRIAGE, HOWEVER. CLARA BOW AND REX BELL. By the Assoclated Press. LAS VEGAS, Nev, December 5.—A ceremony in which Clara Bow, red- haired film star, reputedly became the bride of Rex Bell, her actor-suitor, was the subject of conflicting reports today. Bell, on whose ranch Miss Bow has been in seclusion several months to regain her health, denied they were married. Harley Harmon, district at- torney here, and William Schuyler, deputy county clerk, declared they were witnesses to the wedding ceremony. District Judge Orr, named as per- forming the ceremony, would neither affirm nor deny. The judge, who has married many Hollywood celebrities, said he did not wish to discuss the matter. The wedding, according to Harmon and Schuyler, took place Thursday night. A marriage license was obtained b{ Miss Bow and Bell a short time pre- viously, Schuyler sald. The actress gave her age as 26 and Bell his age as 28. In denying he and Miss Bow were married, Bell intimated announcement of a wedding might endanger certain contracts the actress has ‘with studios. Miss Bow is expected to return to Hollywood about January 1 to re-enter pictures. Miss Bow's career has been one of the most sensational in Hollywood. Her admirers are reported as having been Harry Richman, New York night club entertainer; Gary Cooper, star; Dr. Earl Pearson of Dallas, Tex.; Vic- tor Fleming, film director; Robert Savage, former Yale University foot bell player, and Gilbert Rowland, a wealthy Californian. She never before has been reported married. GANDHI GOES HOME, AIMS T AVERT WAR Indian Leader Quits London. Large Crowd Bids Him Good-By. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December . 5.—Mshatma Gandhi, disappointed over the failure of the second round table conference to grant Indla what he considers “real freedom,” left London to return to India at 9 am. today. He took the boat train at Victoria Station on. his way to Paris, traveling third class. A large crowd, chiefly his own people, but including many English friends, gathered at the station to see him away. They garlanded him with flowers and sang “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow.” A special force of police was stationed around the platform. White Caps Evident. White “Gandhi caps,” symbolic of India's campaign for freedom, dotted the cheering crowd, some of them worn by Englishmen. Mme. Naidu and Pandit Malaviya accompanied Gandhi to Folkstone and George Lansbury, Labor party leader, was among those who bade him good-by at the station. The mahatma’s last act in England was to ask Sir Samuel Hoare to send on to Brindisi with him Willlam Evans d William Rogers, two stalwart Scot- land Yard detectives who have guarded him night and day since he came to London. Afraid of Friends. “I want them, to save me not from enemies,” he said, “but from friends who might kill me with kindness.” Sir Samuel consented and the ruddy, smil- ing detectives set out with the mahat- ma for their first visit to Italy. Sir Samuel Hoare, Prime Minister MacDonald and Lord Sankly made a last-minute appeal to Gandhi yester- day for peace in India. The mahatma replied he would do his best to avoid a | renewal of the conflict, but reiterated the final word rests with the Indian Natlonalist Congress. Gandhi bade farewell to England shortly before noon today, sailing from Folkstone on the Channel steamer Maid of Kent for Boulogne. SENATE SUIT FAILS TO OUST DR. SMITH FROM POWER POST (Continued From First Page.) llogical to construe the Senate com- munication to the President as merely a message of encouragement and to advise him of the fact that there ac- tually had been a test vote and that a clear majority favored confirmation of the nominee. When it is reflected that several months may elapse before the second day of actual executive session expires, it will be seen that unless the Senate meant the its notification, the sending of it was futile and even misleading. Balked by Precedents. “Constitutional theory, parliamentary usage, Senate rules, ‘geynate recedents and considerations of practice proce- dure alike lead to the conclusion in the instant case that when the Senate, in conformity with its own rules, unani- mously ordered notice of consent to be sent to the: President, it once for all surrendered its control of the matter and its right to reconsideration, and left the Executive free the make a con- stifutional appointment,. ‘When a com- mission was signed and sealed and ir- respective of the steps taken by the 2ppointes to quality, the President con- ferred upon him title to the office in question, and of it he can not be de- prived unless removed by the President u:c&?;;ding to law.” The ouster action ftuted against Dr. Smith bee:v::e l}!::t with Commissioners Claude L. Draper and Marcel Garsaud, dropped in the reor- ganization of the commission Charles A. Russell, solicitor, and William V. King, chief accountant, n ol tant. Mr. King later buc!.nchmmn.“u, and Garsaud, tive action, P President to act upon | | | | turmotl. CREEN TO DEMAND LEVEELABOR PROBE A. F. L. Report Will Be Sent War Secretary Asking Pun- ishment of Guiity. By the Associated Press. President William Green of the Fed- eration of Labor will demand a thor- ough investigation of working condi- tions on the lower Mississippi levees, which he considers intolerable: Green announced yesterday he would transmit a report by his investigators to Secretary of War Hurley, and that he expected punishment of those respon- sible. “Evidently exploitation of defense- less workers has been practiced in a most vicious and reprehensible way. One can scarcely comprehend that working people in any section of the United States could be so oppressed,” he said. The levee work in Mississippi and Louisiana is being done by private con- tractors for the Army Engineers. It is part of the great Federal flood control project. Describing conditions as “amazing and shocking,” Green asserted workers |on Government projects near Lake Providence, La., and Greenville, Miss., 1are ]pa&d wages far below a subsistence evel. “The amount given them,” he added, “was as low as $1.235 for a 12-hour work day. Addcd to this was the fact that they were compelled to spend these small earnings in Government commis- | saries, where they paid for goods at high prices and where they found their incomes totally }nndegunte to buy even the bare necessities of life. “The inhuman treatment accorded many workers is revealed in the fact that when they were injured and thus became incapaciated they were neg- lected and treated in a most shameful way.” Already the War Department is awalting information on charges by Holt Ross, a representative of the Labor Federation, that the lash and pisto! butt are wielded frequently on flood-control projects around Vicksburg, Miss. A blanket denial of the charges has been issued by R. G. Church, secretary and manager of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Branch of the Associated General Contractors. He termed them “another gesture of the labor group to discredit ;“l %l;-ssel; and kinds of em- ployers of labor their program to unionize the South. e —_— FASCIST REGIME IN GERMANY SEEN MATTER OF WEEKS (Continued From First Page.) already convinced of the inevitability of Fascism's ultimate triumph and is not disposed to throw the country into Observers also say that Bruening is showing distinct signs of strain aind fatigue and is becoming much more inclined to compromise than to fight. ‘The signs also are that Catholic opinion in Germany is veering toward Hitlerism after 2 years of bitter hostility. The fact that Premier Mussolini of I finally made peace with the Vatican has impressed German Catholics, as have Hitler's assurances, apparently al- ready given, concerning his attitude toward the church and definitely aban- doned “wotanism,” or worship of old Teutonic pagan deities. It is presumed that the eminence of Hitlerism makes other events on Eu- rope's calendar relatively unimportant. Among these are the International Bank ses‘sliom at Bh:Ql to lgn on Ger- many’s Young plan moratorium re- quest, the bankers' investigations in Berlin concerning frozen credits, and, finally, the disarmament conference scheduled for Geneva in February, which now, it seems,#nust be postponed. Even the convening of the American Congress, which been eagerly watched bq.;wi‘i" of the nwneumcy ’:tl usl ratifying the Hoover maratorium, s less discussed today than the portents from CermanY: Coppright, 1813 FOR PARTY SESSION Mrs. Wiley, National Chair- man, to Give Opening Address Today. The biennial convention of the Na- tional Woman's Party began today at the Mayflower Hotel and will continue through Monday. The morning was devoted to registration of delegates and Mrs, Harvey W. Wiley, naticnal chair- man, was to deliver the opening address at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon A!_ the opening session heads of standing committees and permanent councils will report on the work in their departments. An “equal rights hour” will close the program Speeches Are Scheduled. Among those scheduled to be heard were Miss Maud Younger of California, congressional chairman; Muna Lee of Porto Rico, director of national activi- ties, and Josephine Casey, field worker for the Woman'’s Party, with long expe- rience in factory work. Mrs. Wiley and the other members of the National Council of the Woman's party will give a reception for the dele- gates tonight at 9 o'clock at the Alva Belmont House, national headquarters of the party. Guests of honor will include the Min- Ister from Colombia and Senora de Lorenzo and Dona Juanita Molina de Fromen, representative of Nicaragua on the Inter-American Commission of Women. Many in Receiving Line. Assisting Mrs. Wiley in the recelving line will be Miss Alma Lutz, North Da- kota; Mrs. Burnita Sheiton Matthews, Mississippi; Mrs. Dora G. Ogle and Mrs. Edith’ Houghton Hooker of Mary- land, Mrs. Jane Norman Smith, Mrs. John Jay White, Mrs. John Winters Brannan and Mrs. Ruth Vandeer Litt of New York, Mrs. Nina E. Allander of the District of Columbia, Miss Laura Berrien, Georgla; Miss Elsle Hill, Con- necticut, and Miss Maud Younger and Mrs. Willlam Kent, California. W.C. .U SESSION AIRS DRY SITUATION Wets’ Prospects in Congress Dim but Unpredictable, Dr. Isora Scott Says. By the Associated Press. A forecast that wets in the cor Congress would ge$ nowhere in a enactment of laws against prohibition was pronounced today before the Wom- an's Christian Temperance Union. Dr. Isora Scott, who ‘apital, lined up the prospects in an exceedingly frank dl.uuul:on for & ! rally of white-ribboners. She predicted sl port for a bill to make the buyer equally guilty with the seller of liquor, and said the author, Senator Shep- pard of Texas, ‘is not likely to lead an aggressive fight for the measure.” Drys See Enough Law Now. “In fact, the friends of prol believe,” she revealed, "!hl&p Vl’gbm enough law if we could get the people to observe the spirit of the eighteenth amendment. In such an event we should not have need of punishing the buyer and there would be no seller if there were no demand for the drug.” Dr. Scott called for a tightened pad- lock law and proposed authorization of access“to wholesale and retail in- dustrial alcohol ~dealers’ premises to facilitate tracing shipments. All the bills wets in she “suspected” rictsed hawt you: Doubtful of Congress’ Action. “We are hoping they will get no fur- ther than they did last sessio; hi was introduction and referrl.ngxrz ;’ro:)cetr‘ committee for consideration,” she con- - tinued. “However, no one can prophes, with assurance about this. If o‘:m ?‘ndz from the wets in the newspapers, he thinks 2ll the Congress is fast coming their way. If one reads the line-up of the important leaders in the House un- der Democratic leadership, qne doubts any great victories for the web bills, We shall see what we shall see.” Tonight the women will banquet with members of Congress as their guests. They said they expect at least 100 Rep- resentatives and Senators, During the debate at yesterday's ses- slon, one Southern member after an- other declared they would repeat their 1928 desertion of the Democratic pres- idential ticket if a wet were nominated. At the height of the discussion, Mrs. Nelle G. Burger of Missour, who began it, remarked: “Don't think we are turning this into & Democratic caucus—but there lies the danger.” Demands Roosevelt’s Stand. The 400 in attendance cheered for several minutes as Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, celebrated Georgia white-ribbon campaigner, called out, “I am not one of the Democrats who voted for Herbert Hoover and 1s dissatisfied now.” Former Representative Upshaw of Georgia asserted he had been informed Gov. Roosevelt of New York “is not for repeal” and demanded an answer on Roosevelt’s stand. Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin of New York declared Roosevelt is for repeal. “If he did or did not come out for repeal,” Upshaw came back, “any man who nominated Al Smith for President is too wet for me.” Bays Georgia Wets Gain, Mrs. Marvin Williams of Georgia said opposition is stronger than ever in her State and that “we don't think we will have the influence we had in 1928 (over the party nominee and platform), be- cause they say now we are out of the party.” “As the first Democrat to raise the flag of rebellion against the nomination of the former Governor of New York," Upshaw shouted, “and as the first Democrat to support Herbert Hoover, I want to thank the Lord there are still a few dry Democrats.” Several in the conference responded with shouts. All dry Democrats were asked by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, presiding, to _stand. “We = were Democrats,” Upshaw shouted back, “until our party got drunk.” would be re-introduced. , | 'WOMEN RECISTER -