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A-2 BATISH BOVOTT ORDERE N NI Campaign of Urged as Aftermath of Conference Failure. ¥ By the Associated Press. Less than a week after the second Round-Table Conference closed in Lon- don without providing, Mahatma Gand- | hi sald, for “real freedom” for India protests, including a call for a revival of passive resistance and the boycott, | have been registered in three important Indian centers The Provincial Conference in Bengal | urged a boycatt of British goods, banks, insurance companies and shipping lines. The Council of the All-India Moslem League, at New Delhl, expressed dis- satisfaction with the British ment’s faflure to announce a decision concerning the safeguarding of Moslem rights Urge No-Rent Drive At Lucknow 8n a subcommit- tee authorized local subcommittees to begin a no-rent campaign immediately BERHAMPORE. Bengal, De () —The Tenewal of the pas snce campalgn against the British gov- ernment was foreshadowed tc fol lowing a resolution adopted by ti Bengal Provine Conference of the Na- tional Congress last night declaring the time has come to resume the campaign and the boycott NEW DELHI. India, December 7 () =-The council of the Ali-India Moslem League was on record today as express- ing dissatisfaction with the failure of the British government to announce a decision on the safeguarding of Moslem rights in India. The action was taken &t & meeting yesterday. ember resis Organize Resistance. LUCKNOW, India, December 7 (4 Local District Committees of the Con- gress of the United Provinces have been authorized by an Agrarian Subcommit- tee to begin a no-rent campalgn imme- diately. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Fcliowing the action, which was taken yesterday Nehru left for the district of Rae Bareli, and two other members of the subcom- mittee went to Bara Banki to hold other meetings. The District Committees are located at Rae Barell, Etawah, Cawnpore and Unao. MONTREUX, Switzerland, December ¥ () —Mahatma Gandhi observed his day of silence today at the villa of his 1rfend and biographer, Romain Rolland, French writer His first impressions of Lake Geneva after his arrival last night were of pouring rain and mists around the mountains. He intended to remain in- doors all day. OBSERVERS DENY . CHINA IS MASSING i CHINCHOW TROOPS ~—$Continued From Pirst Page) tion nullifying that made by Japan i _Krmnud e government also has decided, it was said, to agree to the formula pro- fiqud bf its Leegue representative, jobumi Ito, regarding the scope of the proposed Neutral Commission of In- in Manchuria, - and instructions to effect probably will be sent to M. Mo tonight, Reports from Mukden that sbout 300 Chinese were killed when Japanese air- bombed Kungtapiu, to the south- were confirmed in a dispatch to “the Rengo (Japanese) News Agency, reached here as authoritative uarters admitted Mukden headquarters Was planning & new campaign in the @irection of Chinchow. ‘The bombing near Kungtapiu took place yesterday, the dispatch sald, and the Chinese killed were bandits. Official circles expressed the hope their objectives still could be gained by peaceful means, but they added further trouble is indicated in war office reports that the Chinese are rushing additional defense works at numerous points near Chinchow and that further concentra- tions of Chinese troops are taking place &t Newchaung, Tahushan and other places If another drive does take place, mili- tary circles said, it will probably be a major operation lasting at least several weeks. This opinion apparently was based on official news indicating that Chinese forces in the Chinchow region number as high as 45,000 and are well equipped. Chang to Get Blame. The dispatches from Mukden als reported Gen. Honjo, Japanese com- mander, issued a final warning to Marshal Cang Hsueh-Liang to evacuate his forces behind the Great Wall According to officiai circles here Japan looks t) Chang Hsueh-Liang mlone to save the Chinchow situation from developing seriously. In view of {the fact that the Chinese government at Nanking washed its hands of the jneutral zone proposad, it was said, and that Chinchow is held to be clearly jwithout the limits of the League, of- yficial circles saw only one way out ,and that is for Marshal Chang to take the responsibility himself The government, it was stated, is de- Sermined to try every way possible to javold & collision at Chinchow, but {there will be imminent danger of a eclash as long as Marshal Chang's troops continue what is held here to be a_threatening attitude along the ddao River west of the Peiping-Mukden Raftway. CHINESE TO DEFY ORDER. NANKING, December 7 (#) —China Mill not comply with t Japanese de mand that she evacuate Chinchow, ac- ‘tording to an officlal spokesman, ar Chinese troops will be ordered to resist #n _the event of a Japanese attack The spokesman’s statement was made connection with dispatches from ukden, which reached here by way of okio yesterday, saying Gen. Honjo Vapanese commander, told Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang at Peiping to with- draw his soldiers from the Chinchow prea In the meantime Dr. Welll Chinese foreign minister nounced his resignatior drew it after a government, officia confirmed news that Dr. Alfred Sre spokesman for Ch at the League Council at Paris, his Tesignation. which announced at the same time &5 that of Dr. Koo na continues to object to the YLeague's resolution on the establish- ament of a neutral zone, the spokesman $aid, because no date has been set for khe completion of the Japanese with- Mrawal and because Japan was offered Ppolice rights in the proposed zone Japanese dispatches from Manchuria Indicated a conflict in the Chinchow ¥icinity as increasingly likely PROTESTS “HONORABLE” ‘Theron McCampbell, the new Demo- eratic Assemblyman from Monmouth County, N. J., has protested over the #se of “honorable” before his name, In a letter to the vehicle commis- er acknowledging receipt of license , he directed that clerks hereafter gton Koo, who an- aturday, with- imous appeal from and official sources - job does not ‘entitle me to use “flubdubbery’ as ‘Hon.' in front Resistance | govern- | subcommittee i= headed by| Leader of *"Nazis” Declare National Socia is € Bru Leader of the the party celior Heinr % By Cable to The Star BERLIN, December 7 a totally new diagnosis of its economic | man realizes that Germany is at tt | The talk of fulfillment of both pi (NANA) ble thing so tragic Anybody delivered r has not e economica be Versailles end of its power today ate and political debts is the most laugh- French opinion has not progre: To be sure opinion years ago recognized the suicidal insanity | 3,000 and 4.000 per of the economic arrangement forced by the vi torious powers on Germany remembered that Cambridge University raised his voice in the criti- cal days, calling the attention of the world public to the economic disaster working behind the tyran- nical paragraphs and the whole hideously insgne THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D (. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1931 Hitler Diagnoses Ills s for Entirely New Set-Up, Says French Seek World Domination, and Predicts End of U. S. Isolation. BY ADOLF HITLER, ny, popularly known as the “Na ted shortly to Teplace the administration headed by C ¥ What the Germany of today needs is and industrial situation. Even a blind imaginable, if it were not so sad and Unfortunately, this is the case. miller with the speech Premier Laval ecertly in Paris must admit that official d one inch, and ven begun to realize the gravity of the 1 problem of the world today enlightened British end American in 1918-19. It will Prof. Maynard Keyncs of document. Although Austro-German and American protests were heard at the time, also, the malady of victo beclouded statesmen the brains of in those days. responsible European German’s Protests Howled Down. In vain man Versailles ADOLF HITLER. delegate to Versailles, and he himse! Count ven Brockdorff Rantzau, the Ger- refused to sign the His protests were howled dow was forced to leave his post, mak- treaty ing room for representatives, then supreme, of the Catholic, Center and International Social encyclopedia was blind hatred solemn- | ized by the signatures of all the “great | statesmen” of the world, the German | delegation having been forced previous- ly to indorse this document. | sailles treaty was signed under duress, yet this circumstance, which alone | would suffice to disqualify any agree- ment in the eyes of the law, Was canon- ized and sanctified by the concerted efforts of & large majority of the world governments and the world press. This continued long years, without any noticeable effort on the part of the weak-kneed German government to bring things to an issue. Yet.economic conditions claimed, in their increasing- arrangement for Germany and the rest | of the world I need only allude to the tremendous army of the unemployed as an accursed | consequence of the Versailles arrange- | ment. I need only call attention to the gigantic sums necessary in countries of the world to prevent the | perishing and revolting of the unem- ployed masses. Consequences Pointed Out. Does the world realize that if Ger- many actually could fulfill her political payment under the Versailles treaty this could only be effected by screwing up German exports to the fantastic figures of $15,000,000,000 te $20,000,000,000 yearly? Does the world tomatically means the breakdown of al- most all the existing economic systems? It would mean dumping compared with which Russian dumping dwarfs 10 nothingness. Roughly speaking, Ger- many would be the only country in the reverse would be true in most other countries. This sounds like a paradox, but it 1§ perhaps an instance where what George Meredith would have called " “the artistry of fate” turns the tables on world history. If Germany were enabled by a world sagreement and tariff arrangements to export. the above-mentioned quantities of goods, and that is necessary if Ger- Germany probably would be the only thriving country on the planet. It would be German goods Uber Alles. That is hardly the sense or the pur- pose of the Versailles treaty, and proves ment. Near End of Vicious Circle. We are obviously near the end of a vicious circle. The Versailles treaty proved to be within 13 years the most formidable boomerang in the history of modern Europe. The world's politi- cal wisdom reached its end in a blind alley ‘What will be done if our party gets power? ‘The world must not expect fireworks from me. The contrary is the case True, Germany, which is on its sick bed today, will need an entirely differ- ent treatment from that prescribed by the Versailles quack doctors since 1919. As will be remembered, German's reputation as a commercial nation of the first order before the war was besed on Germany's progressive con- servatism, and her solid honesty was almost & proverbial trade mark. One of my chief aims is to restore the world-wide credit of German com- merce, industry and finance. It must not be believed that Ger- many and I stand for anything but the old, forgotten virtues of our fore- fathers, the frugality, inner discipline and honesty which are the corner stones of any state and commonwealth. Saving must take place along the whole Jine. 1 mean a stop, must be put to the extravagant meth loans municipal and national. ceuse, while all private debts, we will cease to borrow capital | as far as possible, and cease o enter llofln arrangements at wicked interest, such as 12, 15 and more per cent. Tespecting Promiscuous Loans Opposed. all promiscuous {must stop. I am confident the world will soon feel vastly different about Germany when it is proven that her s0le aim is to reconquer and create con- fidence in our entire business dealings. It is inevitable that a firm, though- | ful impression made thus is going to do more good than a thousand silly conferences. This does mot mean we refuse to listen to reason. The very contrary is the case It will be in Berlin that the unvar- nished state of Germany's condition will be put before the world. It will be in Berlin where we will inform the world of our program, which is based on the Spartan state ideal Necessarily, the feeding, warming, i clothing and housing of our suffering | masses of men, women and children | will be one of the first problems of our government. That it must be effected largely in a more or less summary man- ner is readily understood |, Only one ‘method is adoptable and | 1 say that is, What will make the mark go furthest in order to feed our people and pay our debts? T regret very much { that I am unable to give further de- j talls on this point. Why should I. by promulgating carefully though - out { plans, act as a prompter to the mori- | bund system of today? Regarding unemployment, 8oubtless the German state will be able to solve this problem in a large degree through public works carefully calculated, how- ever, not to interfere with existing industries. Touching the gold stan- dard, T regret that I am compelled to shroud myself in silence, for reasons similar to the above, French Motives Attacked. I wish to say, however, that T see no reason why Germany should take the iniative. It must be understood, notwithstand- ing, that the gold standard dogma, like all dogmas, has a limit, especially when overdone to the degree that Prance is coing it today. As is well known, France is hoarding practicaily the entire gold of the world in bank vaults in Paris and this is being done not only on ?:l‘lnlclll grounds, but is primarily po- itical. French imperialism, the desire to dominate Europe, yea, the world, is :“fla:‘ the l:nhler ‘polmml decisions presen rom Washington, London, Vlflm.“l{ouu and 1e world remembers what happened then. The Ver- | ly sinister development, & revision re- | various | realize the consequences—that it au- | world without unemployed, while the | many is expected to pay tributes, then | the absurdity of the entire arrange- | 5 used in obtaining | { Germany and I stand for this be- { borrowing list parties. The keynote of the Versailles All are practically paralyzed by France's domination of the gold situation and .therewith the political situation If France is permitted to continue to | pursue her policy of financial bullying 'and political extortion, as is now the case, the world in & certain sence will | become French, France thus realizing | her program of world domination, com- | pared with which certain dreams of Louls XIV appear insignificant and in- | nocent. The area between Cadiz, Calais, Copenhagen and Constantinople has become virtually French territory. The rest of Europe will have to bow down before the new factor, whose | manpower in case of war will come | from Africa, the meaning every Amer- ican school child can realize. Europe | under Prench domination will cease to | be European and will be in danger of | becoming African. A parallel is the Roman Empire in decline using in- | creasing numbers of Teutonic soldiers | and faliing gradually into the hands of | various Germanic races. Europe and the world have the | choice, If world conscience suffers de- | feat through French militarism Europe |is lost and the ultimate outcome will be chaos. \’ End of U. S. Isolation Seen. | America is dally turning more from an observer into & sufferer in the Eu- | ropean drama. The time is coming when America will be forced to discard the old Washingtonian doctrine of polit- ical isolation. She will find it impos- sible to expand commercially through- out the world while simultaneously pre- | serving her political aloofness. America will have to “talk up” in this hour of destiny. As a matter of fact, the United States has already started to express an opinion on the present situation 1 refer to the statements of Senator Willlam E. Borah and Representative Louis T. McFadden. There you have genuine American- ism ascerting itself in plain everyday | l]anguage. That is perhaps the reason why the man in the street has taken | an’ interest in the involved problem Senator Borah today is almost as well known in the world as any of the great | statesmen of the past 50 years. The now historic clash between Pre- mier Laval and Senator Borah has served to flluminate the world problem On one side is regional, revengeful narrowness; on the other side a vast capacity to visualize problems, so to speak, from above. That is and always has been the only way to lead man- kind ot of threatening situations onto common ground, good will and mutual understanding. | Things Must Be Reshaped. Of course, things in Germany must be reshaped entirely. You must realize the masses who are going to sweep our | delegates into control are thoroughly | disgusted and disappointed with ail |goings on since Germany signed the | Versailles treaty. Those millions be- hind me today are not expecting me to preserve the present system. Quite the contrary is the case. They | are yearining for a new state, new ideals and heroic conceptions instead of the banal platitudes our parliamen- tarism has bestowed on them these last vears. Those masses want to feel some | one single head is responsible, and riot the ubiquitous anonymity of the state bourgeois party system. Scventy-five per cent of all my fol- lowers are hand laborers and belong to the prolftariat. This will in itself suffice to put at ease any one who might fear secret monarchial plotting behind our party. March on Berlin Spiked. It stands state which will emerge in the not dis- tant day will not be abused for the pleasure of some selfish cliques. That would be utter insanity. Nevertheless, new Germany will not hesitate to re-employ whatever was use- ful in the old pre-war regime, Here Jet me say that the absurdity on Berlin and the like is evident. The collapse of the present regime is only a question of weeks or months. Why, then, try to hasten the process whose inevitability is a mere matter of organic necessity? It is like trying to hasten the coming of Spring with & pocket | lantern. Spring is surely coming for our poor, unhappy Germany, but we cherish no illusions that the beginning of our re- gime will be easy. However, we are en- tering on this effort with a solemn determination to give Germany back to the Germans. Thus far Chancellor Bruening has made no reply to the Hitler statements, but tomorrow or the next day he will address the nation in a radio broadcast. Recently he has been devoting much time to consultations with the cabinet concerning a new series of emergency decrees which President von Hinden- burg is expected to sign tonight, and by tomorrow he probably will have learned from Prof. Ludwig Kaas, the Centrist leader and apostolic protonotary, what the Catholic hierarchy thinks of Hit- ler's bid for power. Prof. Kaas s ex- pected back from Rome tonight. Meanwhile government circles char- d the Hitler assertions as “va- " and expressed confidence that the chancellor will be able to make out a good case for himself, good enough at least to give him leeway for the Winter program of price and wage ad- Justments, on the success of which the government’s futurc hangs. (Copyright. 1031, by the Noith American Ner per Alliance, Inc.) | HITLER DISAVOWS COUP. Says He Expects Ballot Box to Put His Party in Power, | BERLIN, December 1T (#)—-Adolf | Hitler, Germany's Fascit National So- | cialist leader, depends upon his National | Soclalists to be invested with the go i erning power by way of the ballot box |in elecl?glu to choose members of the | Reichstag. | "The enemies of nazi-ism are dying of starvation, politically speaking,” he | said last night. “That is, their ad- herents are dwindling while ours steadi» ly increase. Wherever elections are held we land on top. Only today at o the wab - 1031 Silver of all rumors concerning a Nazi march | THRONG INSPECTS - SILVER STAR HOME ‘Record Crowd of More Than 3,000 Visits Residence in Spring Valley-Section. | FeL = | | An unprecedented number of visitors | was attracted vesterday to the fifth Star Model Home at 4929 Rockwood parkway in the Spring Val- ley section of Wesley Heights, on the occasion of its public exhibition under auspices of The Evening Ster Attendance at the initial day’s show- ing of the dwelling entered in the Silver Star series by W. C. & A. N | Miller, developers ‘of Wesley Heights, Was _conservatively placed at between ons. The home will be open for public inspection each | day and evening for the current 30-day period, and The Star extends a cordial invitation to prospective home owners and builders of greater Washington to visit the dwelling Reflecting the influence of Norman- French architecture, the mansion-like house is built of stone and is set well back on a wooded lot. It was selected {for a place in the better homes dem- onstration by The Star's committee of specialists in related phases of home building. First to Be Furnished. ‘The new exhibit home is the first of the series this year to be furnished, and In this phase of its decoration selec- | style of the house, emphasizing at the same time the homelike comfort that is characteristic of the dwelling. Fur- | niture was provided and arranged by | Dulin & Martin | 'The first floor library, immediately to_the left of the spacious reception hall, | ground floor plan. The library and the dining room, also giving off the recep- | tion hall, open through large Prench | doors onto & terrace-bordered garden lin the rear. A commodious kitchen with all modern improvements is en- tered both by way of the dining room and through = curving passageway leading from the main hall. The large, well-lighted living room is on the right of the front door upon entering. The second floor, reached by way of a sweeping circular staircase from the | reception hall, has five rooms and three | baths, including the master bed room | and guest suilte of bed room, sitting | room and bath. The third floor has three servants' rooms and bath. A fea- ture of the home 15 its abundance of | cedar-lined closets y Includes Recreation Room. | The basement includes & large fin- ished recreation room additional servants' quarters built-in garage, laundry room lockers complete the basement ment | ™ e sturdy construction of the model | divelling is graphically illustrated by | means of & cross-section of the bufld- ing displayed in the garage. This ex- hibit reveals in minute detail the vari- ous stages of the construction process, | from basement foundation to Toof gauging in actual size the thicknesses of walls, ceilings and floors. The model home is reached by driv- |ing out Massachusetts avenue to Ne- | braska avenue, left on Nebraska avenue, | past the American Untversity and bear- ing to the right on Loughborough road to the first paved avenue on the right, leading down into Spring Valley, a dis- | tance of one block, then left on Rock- | wood parkway to No. 4929 The house also may be reached via | Massachusetts avenue to Cathedral !avenue, thence through Wesley Heights | to the intersection of Loughborough |road and Indian lane, following from | there to route described above. 1,000 WILL TESTIFY A large and ar- | Nine Former Chicago Sanitary Dis- trict Trustees and Employes Accused of Plot. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 7—More than 1,000 witnesses were called today for | the opening in Criminal Court of the $5,000,000 conspiracy trial involving | nine former trustees and employes of the sanitary district of Chicago. The State's charges were that the de- fendants misspent the taxpayers' money ! in padding pay rolls, awarding contracts | without competitive bidding, construect- | ing a million-doliar bridle path beyond | their prescribed province, and commit- ting other extravagances. | Two of the defendants, James M | Whalen and John J. Touhy, are still | members of the board of trustees that supervises the Chicago metropolitan area’s drainage system. The others are | Timony J. Crowe, former board presi- | dent; Frank J. Link, John K. Lawler, August Miller, John T. Miller and Mar- tin E. Delstein. to reason that the new | o STUDENTS ORGANIZE ANTI-CHAOS LEAGUE College and Prep School Pupils Form Group to Promote World Good Will. By the Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 7.— College and secondary school students gathered at Yale yesterday and banded themselves into the North Atlantic Stu- dent League of International Co-oper- ation The organization, formed for the study of foreign affairs and promoting inter- national good will, hopes. in the ‘words of President James Rowland Angell of Yale, to counteract “provincialism, pa- rochialism and nationalism.” Speakers, among them Sir Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary of Imbra- dor, described the league as essentially a movement of youth aimed against world chaos | sir Wilfred told the gathering that youth alone could have conceived such an_organization he gathering was planned by the Yale round table of international rela- tlons in co-operation with the secondary 1 schools Society for International Co- operation. The latter organization will become & part of the league formed yes- | terday. | NUTIN LUNG FATAL BALTIMORE, December 7 () — Pneumonia which developed after a nut | kernel had been removed from his lung. | today took the life of Hoe Edd Baker, ! 20-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Her- {man Baker of Nashville, N, C. { ‘The child died four hours after the complication set in. Dr. Waltman F | Zinn, who removed the nut, Friday in & ! delicate bronchoscopic operation. after the child had been rushed here from | North Carolina. had pointed to a speedy recovery as late as § o'clock Iast night. | per cent of the votes were National So- i clllgo\ Some day, maybe very soon, there will be new Reichstag elections. That will be our ‘march on Berlin,’ for the overwhelming section of the German people will sweep our candidates into 25 power,” | tions were made in keeping with the, is an outstanding feature of the | in addition to | IN $5,000,000 CASE| IWILLETT IS SLATED | l FOR D. C. J0B BODY |Assistant Chest Director Urged as Successor to G. J. Adams, Jr. | E. C. Graham, chairman of the Dis- | trict Committee on Employment, said | today that he would endeavor to secure | the services of Herbert J. Willett, jr., { assistant director of the Community | Chest, as secretary to the committee to | succeed George J. Adams, jr, who has | ;re«-mned as secretary. Serves Without Pay. Mr. Adams has served without pay as secratary to the Empioyment Commit- tee since its foundation in November, |1930. Mr. Graham said that Mr. Adams’ resignation was prompted by dissatis- | faction over policies recently adopted [by the committee. Mr. Adams could ;nm be reached for commen®. Mr. Graham was asked if Mr. Adams' | successor would be paid and replied that | he probably would ! It is understood that the most recent | cause of Mr. Adams’ dissatisfaction was | | the temporary halt of the plans to put | | 500 men to work on rious District | | government projects, with funds to be | | supplied by the Community Chest. DISTRICT BRIDGE PLAYERS TO HE above trpohies will be awarded the winners of the first anni tournament, to be conducted in and Saturday, under the auspices of the Washington Bridge League., ces to Win These VIE FOR HONORS IN TOURNEY. 1 bridge the Shoreham Hotel Thursd: Friday CAPITOL WRITERS TOHONOR PRESTON ;Press Gallery Members to Fete Director. | Name Standing Committee. Former The newspaper men in the press gal- | leries of Congress are planning an ap- | propriate tribute to James D. Preston, who retired recently as superintendent | of the Senate press gallery after more | than 34 years of service to become Sen- ate librarian. | The correspondents, at their biennial meeting Saturday, created a Special Committee to recelve subscriptions anc | make other arrangements for a fitting observance of Preston’s retircment from the gallery. The news gatherers also elected their Standing Committee to supervise the Senate and House gal- | leries. The results of the balioting fol- lows: | John Snure, New York Herald-Tribune, 130 votes; John Suter, Associated Press, 126; Warren Wheaton, Philadelphia Public Ledger, 122; Charles O. Gridley, Denver Post, 104; Carlisle Bargeron, Washington Herald, 98; Fraser Edwards. Universal Service, 96; Leo Sack, Clev land Press, 86; Charles S. Hayden, ! Nashville Banner, 76, and Ralph Collins, Mrs. Frank B. Guest is exhibiting the prizes, most auspicious of which | NeW York Sun, 42. is the Eynon trophy. The championship events are a contract pair match and a contract team- of-four match, for which Plans Are Shifted. i M:. Adams first made arrangements | for this with F. M. Davison, District | maintenance officer. M. Davison, after | publicly announcing that the 'plans | would go through, later withdrew, and | | the plans were shifted so that they would b> handled through & committee appointed on Saturday by the District | Comtmissioners. REFORMS IN DISTRICT JURY SERVICE URGED IN MITCHELL REPORT (Continued From First Page.) |cable to the United -States district |c . including the Supreme Court of he District, to the effect that indict- | ments shall not be invalidated because | of the presence of ineligible grand jurors {1f not less than 12 eligible jurors vote for the indictment. A rule which would require disclosure of grand jury pro- ceedings would be objectionable, but. this roposal could be applied in practice by | disclosure of nothing more than the | number of grand jurors voting for the | indictment. ~ Supplementing this pro- posal, legislation should be adopted limiting the time for making notations | to quash indictments because of dis- qualifications of grand jurors, Urges Legislation. “The above proposals relating to! criminal cases should be made appli- | cable to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. In addition, | legislatiop should be enacted applicable | | to that court revising the peesent law | respecting the qualifications of grand‘ and petty jurymen and authorizing ap- | proved and more efficient methods of selecting the names of qualified per-| sons to be placed in a box from which | is drawn the lists of those to be sum- moned for jury service.” The eligibility of jurors in the United States District Courts is now determined by the law in force in the respective States and no change in that system is desirable, but in the District of Colum- | bia a different condition prevails. Many | grounds of ineligibility now exist which have no real relation to availability or | impartiality of jurymen. The task of making up lists of eligibles for jury| service fs especially difficult jn the | District, where so many grounds of in- | eligibility exist, because of the nature of “the population, and bevause there aren ot in the District, as there are in the States, poll lists from which the names of eligible residents may be. obtained. “The_justices of the Supreme Court of the District have gone as far as the present law permits, in Improving the methods of drawing jurors and in guarding against the presence of in- eligibles. Within the past two years the | justices of that court have revolu- tionized their administrative methods of conducting the court’s business and | have adopted an_efficient system; the criminal docket is practically current | and great progress has been made in | disposing of equity cases. Although the | docket of civil jury cases is still con- gested, the approved methods of ad- ministration and the diligent efforts of | the justices which are being directed | ! at these problems point to a removal of | the congested conditiors at no distant | date. The adoption of the proposals herein made respecting criminal cases | 1 will complete the legislation presently | needed by that court.” Other Recommendations. The recommendation of the Attorney | | General was one of = four-point pro- | gram designed to imprison criminals more quickly after arrest, and to set free the innocent. Besides the grand jury recommenda- | tions he wants: Nine new district judges. with 17 judgeships, now temporary, to be made | permanent. Defendants to be allowed to waive | the requirement of indictment by a grand jury. The Supreme Court to be authorized to draft uniform rules to be enforced in criminal cases after verdicts in the District Courts and the Circuit Courts of Appeal Embodied in his annual report also was the news that he will specify soon how the bankruptcy laws might best be amended, being convinced by a study in his department that at present these are failing. President Hoover, who or- dered the inquiry, will get the first re- port on its results, ! The Mitchell document carried with | it reports by hié subordinates | G. Aaron Youngquist. assistant in| | charge of prohibition, said liquor cases | disposed of during the year ending June 130 totaled 61,268, compared with 52,-| 437 for 1930. 3 anibition Director Woodcock calcu- | lated that agents under him made 63.- 117 arrests and seized 8499 automobiles, 76 boats and 21,541 stills. A total of 51,360 persons were con- victed, 30,108 received jail or peniten- tiary sentences and 36341 fines were imposed. The average fine was $154 and the average sentence 224 days His proposals for additional judge- ships were recommended by the last conference of senior _circuit judges. { District judgeships would be made per- | manent in Massachusetts (2), southern | district of New York (2), Eastern New York, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Michigan, Eastern Missourl, Western Missouri, New Jersey, Northern Texas, Northern Ohio, Southern California, Arizona, Southern Towa and Minnesota, along with the circuit judgeship that is now temporary in the ninth circuit on | the Pacific Coast. ‘Additional judgeships would be cre- ated in the southern district of New York (2), Southern California (2), Eastern New York, Northern Georgia, West. Virginia, Southern Texas, Western | Missouri. e BUILD SCHOOL IN DAY Construction Gang Sets Record for Own Children’s Education. A school house 20 by 50 feet, to house 30 pupils, was built in one day st Cape Creek, Oreg., by a State highway con- crew. "r'i'lg:m::udenu will be the children of the builders and the teacher is the olamolmenr. for one year. manent Tetention. expected to compete. BOOM RODSEVELT; BAKERDRAFTGANS Movement for Democratic Favorites Grows as Congress Opens. By the Associated Press. Movements for two Democratic presi- dentlal possibilities—Gov. Roosevelt of New York and Newton D. Baker of Ohio —stepped out briskly just as Congress met. The nomination of Roosevelt on the first ballot was predicted last night by | James A, Farley, New York Democratic State chairman, after a round of talks with congressional leaders. Out in Ohio a “draft Baker” cam- paign was announced by Martin L. Davey, the Democratic nominee for Governor of that State in 1928, Mr. Baker, who declined to become an active candidate, waved the draft movement aside deftly by saying he expected Ohio's delegation to be pledged for Gov. White. Of course, he said nothing about refusing the nomi- nation. Farley stopped over here en route to Warm_ Springs, Ga, to confer with Gov. Roosevelt. Among other things. he will discuss with the Governor over the possibility of -entering the State presidential primaries in the Spring. “After my conferences tonight,” Far- ley said, “I am more convinced than ever that the Governor will be elected by acclamation on the first ballot.” It is the understanding here that neither Roosevelt nor Baker will enter the Ohio primary and that Gov. White will be given that pivotal State's del- | egation. Announcing the Baker draft movement, Davey said & State-wide or- ganization' was being perfected to carry on the campaign. MAN KILLED BY AUTO OF PACIFIC FLYER Hugh Herndon, Jr., Technically Charged With Manslaughter in Red Hook, N. Y., Accident. By the Assoclated Press. RED HOOK, N. Y., December 6.— | The automobile of Hugh Herndon, jr., Pacific flyer, struck another car near here yesterday and ‘Robert O'Brial, 26, | | of Upper Red Hook was killed. Hern- don was not hurt, but his wife, the former Mary Ellen Farley of -Albany, suffered a silght bruise in the face, After Herndon had been held about two hours, while the accident was. in- vestigated, he was released on a techni- cn:l charge of manslaughter in $2,500 bail. Herndon reported, and State police sald their investigation showed he was correct, that OBrial's car came from a “blind” side road and started across the Albany Post road. The Herndons were traveling south from Albany, where they had visited Mrs. Herndon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Farley. 'HOUSE MAJORITY MAY BE AFFECTED Four Election Contests to Be Sent to Committee for Recom- mendations, The decision by the House on four pending election contests is expected to affect the narrow margin of majority the Democrats have over the Repub- | licans. Congressional districts involved are: Tlinois’ eighth, to which Peter C. Gra- nata, Republican, holds the election | certificate; Indiana’s eighth, to which Albert H. Vestal, Republican, is ac- credited; Oklahoma'’s first, held by Wi ley E. Disney, Democrat, and Pennsyl- vania’s_thirtieth, held by Willlam R. Coyle, Republican. ‘With the House composed of 219 Democrats, 214 Republicans and 1 Farmer-Laborite, party leaders plan no | action to prevent any of these certificate holders from taking the oath tomorrow. But their cases all will go to elections committees for reports on whether they shall retain their seats. | Granata’s election is being fought by | former Representative Stanley Kunz, Democrat. On a canvass of ballots, a | notary public declared Kunz the real | winner. Claude C. Ball, Democrat, filed a| contest against Vestal after an official | count made the Republican victor by | nine votes. Subsequently, however, Ball | | failed to take testimony and file it with the House clerk within the 90-day pe- | riod fixed by law. | Disney's margin over former Repre- | sentative Charles O'Connor was less | than 300 votes and the Republican opened a contest. A partial recount reduced Coyle's plurality over Everett Kent, Democrat. Hinkler Reaches Le Bourget. 1LE BOURGET, France, December 7 | (®)—Capt. Bert Hinkler, who flew | actoss the Atlantic from Natal Brazl, | to Africa, landed here at 9:30 a.m. to- day from Tours. He planned to take off again for London, permanent trophies have been donated, to be retained Smaller copies of the cups will be given to the winners for per- Besides the Capital’s best,” several out-of-town teams are —Star Staft Photo FARMERS CALLED T0 BACK PROGRAM 0’Neal Urges U. S. Control of Markets, Tax Cuts, More Credit. BY the Associated Press ; CHICAGO, December 7.—Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, opened the thirteenth annual national convention today by demanding for agriculture more Federal regulation for grain and cotton exchanges, true equality with other industries, an improved market act, less taxes and more credit. | Takes Militant Stand. “In formulating our program we must | make it militant,” he declared. “Let’s more completely organize agriculture, | strengthen and co-ordinate our service | organizations to get greater collective | bargaining power; to strengthen and | perfect our market system, that the American tarmer may have the benefit of the tariff. “Let us adopt a permanent, long- | time national land policy; secure a bet- | ter financial system for agriculture—an honest dollar for the Nation; provide a more equitable tax system and a fairer representation of agriculture in all | Government agencies; and a co-ordina- tion of all agricultural forces in a com-~ | mon program. “To carry out that program we must have a huge array of men and women throughout the Nation. The only voice that is heard in the Nation today is the voice of organization. We must be aroused and organized. It is our only salvation.” Backs Farm Board. President O'Neal said the only ones ropposed to the Farm Board were those previously in “undisputed control of our marketing system and who have profit- ed greatly thereby.” While compliment- ing the work done by the board, O'Neal said, “We insist that the marketing act should and must be amended by Con- gress, which almost at this minute is being called to order. We insist that this Congress give the Pederal Farm Board authority to charge all units of any given commodity, moving in the channels of trade, their proportionate shares of all’ necessary natural costs and losses resulting from the control of crop surpluses.” He sald the federation was against the present system of corn and grain exchanges, because, without regulation, “a small group have profited by market manipulations for many years.” As to the cry of “get the Govern- ment out of business’ in connection with agriculture, he said, “American ag- riculture is perfectly willing to get the Government out of business if it gets out of business for everybody.” Wants Equalization Fee. “The equalization fee,” he continued, “will, in fact, definitely take the Gov- ernment out of business. The cost of the marketing program utilizing the equalization fee will be borne by the farmer himself and not by the Govern- ment.” The present administrators of the Farm Loan Association, he said, needed to be changed, because they were un- | sympathetic with rural needs and ideals. He also proposed relief of the taxation Lurden on lands withdrawn from pro- duction and reductions or rescinding of |taxes on legume lands; also a broad soil-erosion control prpgram. SWEENEY ON TRIAL FOR DAY SLAYING Defendant to Plead Self-Defense M Street Killing. in A jury of 12 men was chosen today to | try Elmer John Sweeney, 24 years old, on a first degree murder charge in the death, May 17 last, of Talley Day, a police character. James R. Kirkland, an assistant United States attoney, told the jury in Justice James M. Proctor’s Division of the District Supreme Court the Gov- ernment would show Sweeney shot Day through the temple in a brawl precipi- tated by an argument in a card game at 1523° M street. The prosecutor declared he would prove a companion of Sweeney threw a “gin buck” into Day's face, whereupon Day opened fire on several of the men with whom he earlier had played cards. Kirkland said Day’s shots went wfd, while Sweeney fired only once, but accurately. While Bertrand Emerson, jr., and H. R. Stephenson, defense attorneys, reserved their opening statement, it was indicated Sweeney would elaim he shot Day in self-defense. George Souri of 626 Thomas street northeast, an uncle of Day, the first witness, told of identifying the body at the District morgue. Under cross- examination he insisted the dead man's real name was Day. Defense counsel failed in an effort to prove that Day was an alien and the slain man's real name was something else. Attorneys predicted the case would g0 to the J.ry late tomorrow. Australia i3 rounding up Communist speakers. . L3 Resolutions were adopted reciting the long and valuable services rendered by “Jim” Preston as head of the Senate |gallery. The committee to arrange for honoring Preston follows: J. Fred Essary, chairman, and George R. Holmes, Fra- ser Edwards, Paul Mallon, George Durno, Lewis Wood, Jay Hayden, Charles O. Gridley, Ulric Bell, E. § Leggett, Edward T. Folliard, Carlisle Bargeron, G. Gould Lincoln, Lowell Mellett and Ruth Finney. G. Gould Lincoln of the Washington Star, who was chairman of the Stand- i ing Committee during the last Congress, | presided at the meeting. FASCIST PARTY’S SECRETARY QUITS Giovanni Permitted to Resign After Insistence on His Part. Giuriati By the Associated Press ROME, December 7.— Giovanni Giuriati resigned today as secretary of | the Pascist party and was succeeded by his assistant, Achille Starace. The official announcement, contained in the party'’s order, said Signor Giuriati was permitted 'to resign after much insistance on his part. “The head of the government, while regretting Giurati’s request, accepts it,” the communication said. ‘“He has ex- pressed his appreciation for the work he (Giuriati) did, especially in regard to organization of the Young Faseist Combat and to charity and social serv- ice institutions which are now furc- tioning in ail provinces of Italy, for his work in purifying the party and for his efficient organization of public em- ployes in the employ of the party.” Signor Giuriati will turn over the reins of office to Signor Starace tomor- row noon at the Venezia Palace in. a | short formal ceremony. His successor | was leader of the Venice and Trento | sections of the Fascist march on Rome in 1922. He has been vice secretary of the party since 1921, has twice been a member of the Chamber of Deputies | and holds the rank of lieutenant gen- eral in the Pascist militia. 1,200 PACK COURT AS POWERS TRIAL IN SLAYING BEGINS (Continued Prom Pirst Ragmll were stationed to prevent & demonsilils tion. Powers Listens With Indevesh, A moment after Powers had | his place Judge John C. Southern, fense Counsel J. Ed Law and Pr tor Will E. M%l:’éx took their places court was opened with the “oyes, of Sheriff W. B. Grimm, ) Powers followed the questi of the prospective jurors with keen inter est. He showed no emotion, however, at the first mention of his possible fate. “Haven't you heard people say about Powers that hanging’s too good for him?” the defense attorney asked as he examined a talesman. Powers did not move an eyelid. Law's most insistent questions were whether the 20 men temporarily in the jury box had been in a “mob” that gathered outside Powers’ cell and jeered the prisoner; whether they had seen or hard on the radio a song based on the case, and whether they had read pamphlets about Powers' life being hawked on street corners. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flemming, Northboro, Mass., sister and brother-in- law of Mrs. Lemke, took their place among witnesses sitting on the stage. They kept their eyes fixed on Powers, who carefully avoided looking at them. RAMMED SHIP IN PORT Spanish Steamer Slightly Damaged. Tug Rescues Helpless Craft. HULL, England, December 7 (#).— The Spanish steamer Arnotegi Mendi, which collided with the British trawler St. Gatien off Flamborough Head yes- terday, arrived at Sunderland today slightly damaged on her starboard side. The Spanish steamer Manu, which was reported helpless in & 100-mile gale in the North Sea off Bridlington with- out fuel, has been picked up by a Dutch tug and is being towed to Hum- ber, near here. POTATO CROP REDUCED LONDON, (#).—This year’s potato crop in England and Wales will be 817,000 tons below the average for the last 10 years, according to the esti- mates of the ministry of agricultura, The total crop expected is 2,354,000 tons, which is & drop of 389,000 from last year. The crop is also below the ave in quality, disease being the cause. ef CHRISTMAS| GREETINGS v