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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy; not quite so cold to- night; tomorrow Increasing cloudiness, probably followed by rain; moderate southwest and west winds. Temperatures —Highest, 47, at noon today; lowest, 29, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers & The Star's Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 = No. 32,005, nost _office, Entered as second class matter Washington, DG WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, G BPITION BEEDY DENOUNCES MFADDEN CHARCE AGAINST HOOVER Pennsylvanian Rebuffed by Statement Agreed Upon by Own Delegation. HOUSE CHEERS BANKHEAD STAND ON ACCUSATION House Gives Before Committee Mills Information to Senate. Stimson Appears as By the Associated Press A strongly worded denunciation of the charges that President Hoover de- | ceived the American people to ald Ger- | many rang out today in the House. Representative Beedy, Maine, Republi- can, called the statement by Represent- ative McFadden of Pennsylvania, also | a Republican, “unquestionably a false- hood.” Democrats were prompt to point out that the charges against the President did not come from their side. Mills Before Senators. The storm of debate broke in mex, e shortly after Undersecretary of e reacury Mills told the Senate Finance Committee (a}l\lrfi 1o ratify the | moratortum would do irretrievable dam- | he country. | agf\p‘;o;rmg before that committee at | the same time Secretary of State Stim- son was urging the House Ways an Means Committee to act promptly ‘(;‘n the debt-suspension —measure. 'Mms warned that any deviation by this country from the moral principles in- volved might be taken by other coun tries as an excuse to default paymen e debts. i S‘lll‘xn;win's appearance was a little de- | Jayed while the Ways and Means grou;z} sottled a dispute over whether RL.'p;;: sentative McFadden, who vesterday de- | nounced President Hoover's morat?‘nu 4 actions in the House, should be heard | by it. It was decided that he should. McFadden Is Rebuffed. ] n was rebuffed by the; .a‘?’fi&?fidfi,y 25 of his Pennsylvania, House colleagucs of a_resolution ex- | pressing _complete confidence in_the | President's moratorium measure, declaring against debt cancellation. Beedy said the assertions of Mc] den that Mr. Hoover had acted sl agent of the German government in | Initiating the moratorium “are al = lared e e ‘o my study of the Congres- | jonal Record and in all my study of ig:‘eancan history I have heard ng}m:g to parallel the infamous speech 1l ‘Q gentleman from Pennsylvania el “His announcement that Pre's ehx} | ‘Hoover, in December, 1930, decehe? s own cabinet to aid the German go\erni; | ment and rob the American people is | unquestionably a falsehood. Beedy Demands Proof. I dden sat silent, listening, when | Bxgfim‘; “I never expected to live to| read in the Congressional Record such | an utterance from a man I believed to | be a patrio tic American citizen. I demand the proof that the Presi- dent was an ngeutl Od(eéhe German gov- ent,” he conclu : en'}'l;:e entire Republican side arose and lauded. | .pge‘ptesentali\‘e Bankhead, Alabama,| was applauded by both sides | grcTfifr:Li'sle when he called attention “that these charges—amounting in ef- | fect to an impeachment of the Presi- | dent of the United States for high| crimes and m'\sd(‘meano‘l:js—do not come | mocratic_side.” ‘roBr:"f(glie !ll?(e; House Committee, Secre- tary Stimson outlined the economic conditions in Europe at the time the moratorium was proposcd, and s2id the sacrifice of France was larger than that country. e L;epcawdl much of the testimony given yesterday by Mills, who retold his story today to the Senate Finance Com- | tee. k) T etore hearing Stimson. Chairma Collier of the Ways and Mezns Com mittee, said there would be full dis- cussion of the moratorium in the House, no filibustering. 3 D ebresentative Rainey of _Tilinof ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BAKER IS IN GOTHAM ON “BUSINESS ONLY” Member of Party Denies Visit Fol- lowing Former Gov. Byrd's Trip 4 Has Political Aspect. | | | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 16.—Newton | D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wil-| son administration and frequently men- tioned as a possible Democratic presi- dential candidate in 1932, arrived in New York City today from his home, in Cleveland, Ohio. Baker was not available for an inter- view, but a member of his party, who said he had authority to “speak for Mr. Baker,” asserted that he was here sole- ly on business and had no appointments Telating to politics. “Mr. Baker is going downtown on; business,” the spokesman said over the telephone. “He is making a number of calls and it would be impossible to reach him. He is here on business only and has no political appointments.” At the offices of John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and former Gov. Alfred E. Smith it was said Baker had no ap- pointments. Neither Raskob nor Smith, it was sald, knew he was coming to New York. ‘The former Secretary of War is the second outstanding Democrat listed among the possible candidates who has visited New York this week. Former Gov. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, who, it is sald, may be Virginia's favorite son at the Democratic National Convention, flew up here Monday with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Col. and Mrs. Henry Breckinridge. Col. Breckinridge was Assistant Secretary of War under Sec- retary Baker. On the day former Gov. Byrd arrived in New York the Richmond News- Leader, published by his friend, John Stewart Bryan, ran an editorial advo- cating the nomination of Baker for President. ‘Former Gov. Byrd also declined to talk politics yesterday and said he was here on business, trying to sell 100,000 of the 185,000 barrels of apples raised this season in his orchards in Virginia, | air (5 First Frame of New Dirigible ZRS-5 to Be Raised Saturday Ingalls and Others to Wit- ness Work on Akron’s Sister Ship. By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, December 16.—The first main frame of the ZRS-5, sister ship of the U. S. 8. Akron, will be raised at Goodyear-Zeppelin dock Sat- urday. David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, and a number of the city's aeronautic and civic leaders will witness the raising. The frame to be raised Includes the forward engine rooms of the new ship. It is 133 feet in diameter and weighs approximately two tons. It goes into the air in a much more complete state | than did main rings of the Akron. No intermediate rings will go into the Saturday. Next week. probably a main ring and three intermediates will raised together. This will enable engineers to keep up a production schedule calling for the erection of the principal parts of the first bay by January 1. HURLEY DECLARES DEMOCRATS HAVE NOTHING 10 OFFER Secretary Says Leaders in Congress Await Hoover for Ideas for Program. | brief, | man had submitted his resignation to | President Hoover yesterday. HARTMAN RESIGNS UTILITIES POSITION; - SILENT ON REASON Action of Commission Mem- ber Revealed Today by Chairman Patrick. VACANCY IS EXPECTED TO BE FILLED SHORTLY Former Official Had Been Under Fire During Year for Prac- tice Before I. C. C. Harleigh H. Hartman has submitted his resignation as a member of the Pub- lic Utilities Commission of the District. His action was announced by Chair- man Mason M. Patrick of the commis- sion. Gen. Patrick’s statement was very He simply said that Mr. Hart- Mr. Hart- man did not come to the District Build- ing today and his books and papers were removed yesterday. Mr. Hartman declined today to make any statement as to his reasons for re- signing or as to his plans for the fu- | ture, saying it was “too soon” for any statement as to either He said that he intended to stay in Washington for a whiie and to con- tinue, at least for the present, his duties |as professor at the Wasnington College of Law. Further than that he would not com- BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Secretary Patrick J. Hurley of the War Department carried the war to the Democrats in an address to the | Republican National Committee, meet- ing at the Willard Hotel today. Declaring that President Hoover has |sent to the Congress a well designed jand sound economic program to aid in the economic recovery of the coun- try, Secretary Hurley sald: “Our Democratic friends have neither | accepted nor rejected that program. The Democrats have offered nothing in lieu of it. “The Democrats have no program. They are probably walting to get all | of the President’s ideas to use them | in an attempt to set up a program | of their own. We hear the Democrats mumbling a lot about ‘fiddling while Rome burns’ but notwithstanding all that kind of talk, the President's pro- | gram is before Congress and if there | is any fiddling being done during the | conflagration, Congress is doing it.” Call on President. At the conclusion of Mr. Hurley's| address the committee adopted a report | submitted by former Senator Charles A. | Rawson of Iowa for the Committee on Memorials. | It took up and adopted without op- | position the report of the Committee | on Call of the National Convention, | which fixes the delegate strength of the | convention at 1,154 and the date for as- | sembling, June 14, 1932, in Chicago. | Having concluded its business, the committee then adjourned. The mem- bers of the committee went to the | White House, where they were received by_President Hoover. | If any of the members of the com- | mittee had intended to bring before the session the liquor issue, they abandoned the idea. The prohibition question was not mentioned. Mr. Hurley said that it was President Hoover and the Republican party who had prevented the adoption of a Fed- eral dole in this country. Says Hoover Blocked Dole. “It is singular enough,” said Mr. Hur- ley, “that the first speech attacking the administration’s economic program by the new Democratic Congress advocated the dole system. In my opinion, the dole system would have been adopted if it had not been for the efforts of the President of the United States.” Outlining what the President has done to aid the people of America in the present period of distress, Mr. Hur- ley said: | “This Nation has passed through 15 | depressions in the last century. Never in our history has a President been called upon to direct the Nation’s com- merce, industry and banking; to create jobs for millions, to provide funds for the care of the unemployed, to lead in | the mitigation of the effects of the de- | pression, to mobilize public opinion and | the economic forces of the Nation for its recovery. All these things have been | done by the present Chief Executive of | the Nation. “Throughout the depression the Pres- ident has been doing the work that should properly fall upon the leaders of industry and commerce and banking. “In all previous disturbances finance has had its intrepid leader or leaders. Today we hear leaders of finarice shout- ing for leadership, but presenting very little evidence of that quality in their own establishments. They fall back on the President of the United States— throw all their problems on to his lap and throw up their hands and shout ‘Save us.’ “From the very beginning the Presi- “(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) o German Floating Debt Reduced. BERLIN, December 16 (P).—Ger- many’s floating debt as of November 30 stood at 1746,000,000 marks, or 55,000,000 marks less than on October 31, according to official figures made ment. Appointed in May, 1929. Mr. Hartman, formerly a valuation attorney in the Commission, was appointed to the local utilities commission in May, 1929, to fill an_unexoired term of 14 days. This appointment resulted from the failure ol the Senate to confirm the reaap- pointment of his prececessor, Col. Har- rison Brand, jr. Mr. Hartman was then given a recess appointment which was confirmed by the Senate in 1929 and expired June 30, 1931. He was serving | under another recess appointment when he_resigned. During the current year Mr. Hart- man was under attack by a local news- paper for allegedly unethical practices in 1925 when h2 was a valuation at- torney with the Interstate Commerce Commission. According to a long serics of letters reproduced in the paper, Hartman had accepted employment from Charles Hansel to represent a group of Eastern railroads while still a member of the commission’s staff. After accerting this- appointment, the X purported to show, he continued to act for the commission in ene case involy- ing the valuation of the Great Northern Railway. He later was said to have re- ceived a fee of $10.000 for his work for the Eastern railroads. White House Silent. After the publication of the attack Mr. Hartman stated that the commis- Sion knew at the time of his employ-| viewed the prospects without enthu.| ment by the Eastern rallroads that he was so employed, although at the time Tepresentatives of the commission stated that they knew Mr. Hartman intended to go into priva > practice, but were not acquainted with the identity of his client There was no comment at the White House today upon Mr. Hartman's resig- nation. The letter to the President was received late yesterday and laid on his desk this_morning. Although the V'hite House said the President has no one in mind at this time to appoint in Mr. Hartman's place, it is understood that there will Interstate Commerce | R aprEAEe REPRE (¥ q OUR FIGHT s ST TN Zi ny Star. every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,444 DECEMBER 16, 1931—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. #%% (#) Means Associate d Press. TWO CENTS. g - 7 A IS %,::’Q/z':9< = g, CoNQRE SS 158TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOSTON T | debate, the House this DEBATE ON MAPES TAX BILLS 15 CuT Other Cities Help Bear Capital Burden. BLANTON CITES LOW RATE OF AUTO ASSESSMENTS Most of Time Is Consumed by Criticism and Defense of President. With two hours allowed for general afternoon is nominally debating the bill introduced and reported yesterday by Chairman | Mapes of the Special Committee on Fis- cal Relations of the Federal Govern- ment with the District of Columbia from 1 per cent to a maximum of 5 per cent on incomes in excess of $50,000. Most of the time, however, has been devoted to extraneous matters, prin- cipally to criticism of and defense of EASPAR Y ARMS CONFERENCE Henderson to Preside Despite Opponents; Postponement Efforts Fail. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. | By Cable to The star. | PARIS, France, December 16.—The | General Disarmament Conference will { duly open in Geneva on February 2 as mer British foreign minister presiding, it is announced today in League of | Nations circles. The press and whispering campaign to get Mr. Henderson out of the chair on the grounds that he no longer rep- | resents anything has apparently failed. | Mr. Henderson is now sojourning at etters | Cannes on the Prench Riviera, where | he is said to be taking French lessons preparatory to conducting the great Geneva debates, which, like all League business, will be transacted in two lan- guages, French and English. There have been several efforts dur- ing the last few months to get the con- { ference postponed. A year ago France siasm. Then it was reported from Washington that Hugh . Gibson, American Ambassador to Belgium and naval disarmament expert, after long conversations with President Hoover, felt the moment to be inopportune. Will Meet On Schedule. Germany at times has showed some hesitation and quite recently a number of test statements have been made by Great Britain apparently with a view to_postponement. Meanwhile the French government NOTTOBE DELAYED scheduled with Arthur Henderson, for- seems now to believe that the confer- ence will begin under conditions favor- able to the French thesis. and hence, for the first time, it really favors open- ing the debates on the date fixed. As no other power appears to be ready to take the responsibility of moving its ad- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) be no great delay in filling the vacancy. i It was learned that three or four names of persons gualified to fill Mr. Hartman's place on the commission have been laid before the President. MATRONS TO SEARCH " WOMEN FOR LIQUOR | | Customs Officers at Detroit Put on | . COMMITTEE SHELVES WORLD COURT ISSUE Borah Says It Will Be Reported Out After Action on Do- Feminine Force to Stop Big Part of Petty Smuggling. | until | January 1, Col. Pickert said, to expedite By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 16.—Customs matrons went on duty at Detroit points of entry from Canada last night be- cause, Col. Heinrich A. Pickert, col- lector of customs explained, 85 per cent of the petty liquor smuggling is’ now being done by women. The matrons will remain in service after Christmas, possibly until the searching of women suspected of having contraband concealed on their persons. They were recruited from the clerical staff at the customs house and will be on duty day and night. Usually it is easy for the regular inspectors, who are men, to prevail upon women smugglers to surrender their contraband, the collector ex- plained. A policy of deporting all Canadians caught smuggling has reducéd dras- tically the number of offenses, he said, but women are proving more ready to take chances than men. Soviet Ship Founders. ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 16 (P). —The Soviet ship Illitch, out of Odessa, foundered near Smyrna today as the result of a violent storm in the Aegean Sea. Six other ships were driven ashore and salvage operations were pro- public today. ceeding. mestic Matters. By the Associated Press. The protocol for American adher- ence to the World Court was laid aside ' today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until Domestic problems confronting Congress are out of the way. The decision putting the protocol back in the pigeonhole was reached 'by common consent of the committee and after brief discussion. Chairman Borah said postponement was “with the understanding that as ' soon as pressing domestic matters are | disposed of, the con:mmze will take it up and report it out.” pHe is f" foe of adherence to the court, but is willing for a showdown at this session. Court friends willingly agreed to the postponement on the ground it would be bad tactics to press the question when the domestic e{iunomlc situation manding attention. is.lc;g;e has geen no test of strength so far on the issue. FLYER ABANDONS ATTEMPT AT RECORD 90-DAY SCHEDULE OF CONDUCT GIVEN MAN FOR DISTURBING PEACE Can’t Quarrel With Wife, Must Stay Home Ni ights, Must Work Hard, Report to Sheriff and Miss Movies. By the Associated Press. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich,, Decem- ber 16.—Justice of the Peace Ray Cal- lens has devised a 90-day schedule of conduct for Mart Peltier, who dis- turbed the peace with a .32 caliber pistol Saturday night. Justice Callens ordered Peltier to: Get up without quarreling with his wife. y Go to work on time and work hard. Report to the sheriff on quitting for the day. Be/ confined in jail until 6 p.m. . go straight home to supper at :15 pm. Bgeye at hm'necfi.he‘tm!st of the night. “Gee, gosh! Can' even go to & Pleadsd Peltier in vain, Head Winds Balk Effort to Cross Continent From Los Angeles in Ten Hours. By the Assoctated Press: PUEBLO, Colo., December 16.—J. R. Wedell landed here at 11:03 am. (M. 8. T.) today, and called off his transcontinental flight record attempt because of the slow time made to this point. New Orleans racing pilot took oflmferom Los Angeles at 5:09 am. iy facer sald he had encountered bad :Iinda which reduced his speed at times to 90 miles an hour. His red and silver monoplane was hastily re- . fueled for a take off eastward, . 4 Improper Parking On Hill Interrupts Telephone Service | By the Assoclated Press. | WARSAW, Ind., December 16. —Because Fred Albertson parked his automobile at the top of a hill without setting the brakes firmly, the town of Burket, 12 miles south of here, and the surrounding farming community were without telephone service for more than five hours. The automobile rolled down the hill yesterday and crashed into a box containing all the cables leading from the telephone exchange. REUNITED CHINA - APPEARS LIKELY l | |Coalition Rule Seen After Shake-up—Japanese Flag Flies Over Manchuria. | | | | | | By the Associated Press. NANKING, December 16.—China, split in two since last Spring, when the Can- ton government was formed in opposi- | tion to the Nanking .egir.e, seemed likely to be united today following a | shake-up which began yesterday with | the resignation of President Chiang Kai-Shek. | Chiang himself admitted the Canton faction was to tal: the upper hand. “My comrades at Canton said they ‘would come to Nanking only on consid- i |eration that I resign,” he said, “and this means that must retire before | peace and unity are restored.” Coalition Anticipated. A coalition government was loced for today. The belief wa: that the Canton | leaders, many [ them some of the strongest figures in Chinese public life, | aoulu return here for the reconcilia- | on. Among them are Eugene Clen, for- mer minister of foreign ffairs; C. C.| Wu, former Minister to Washington, ¥hy resigne: L . Spring to join the | Canton movement; Sun Fo, former min- | ister of railways and son of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and Hu Nan Min, veteran | member of the Nationalist party, whose | virtual imprisonment of Chiang Kai- Shek led to the secession of the Can- ton group. Chiang's resignation was accepted by political observers as a serious setback o the so-called “Soong Dynasty,” the group associated with the Soong | family. Soong Resignation Denied. T. V. Soong is minister of finance. Three women members of the family are married to men prominent in Na- tionalist affairs. Mme. Chiang Kal Shek is one of these. Mme. Sun Yat Sen, wife of the first President of | China, also was a Soong, although she broke away from the family four years ago. The six Soong children were all edu- cated in the United States. Their | mother, Mme. K. T. Soong, died last July. The three sons, two of whom bold minor posts under the govern- ment, all went to Harvard. High government and Nationalist party icials denied today that Finance Minister Soong has resigned his post. CHINESE FLAGS VANISH. Emblem of Japan Flies Over Most of Manchurian Centers. (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press.) MUKDEN, Manchuria, December 16. —The sun flag of the Kuomintang, Chi- nese Nationalist party, once hoisted over Manchuria by Marshal Chang Hsueh- Liang as a taken of Manchurian fealty to the Nanking government, had practi- cally disappeared today. In its place was the rising sun emblem of Japan. Among the large cities, the Chinese flag is seen only at Harbin where it is flown in conjunction with the red flag (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) SR, U. S. PRAISES BRIAND Edge Extends Congratulations on Work in Far East Dispute. PARIS, December 16 (#).—United States Ambassador Edge today extend- ed to Aristide Briand the congratula- tions of the American Government on the work of the League of Nations Council in connection with the Man- churian dispute. M. Briand asked the Ambassador to renew the appreciation he already had expressed publicly for the aid given the Council by American diplomacy. Radio Programs on Page C-6 BINGHAM SEES DEFI IN MAPES REPORT Senator Declares Stand Is Result of Controversy With House. ) Senator Hiram Bingham, Republican, of Col cticut, chairman of the Dis- trict subcommittee of the Senate Ap- propriations Committee, declared today that the recommendations of the Mapes Committee in the House for a heavy increase in District taxation and a slashing of $3,000,000 from the Federal contribution “are what was to be ex- pected from a committee organized in pursuance of a resolution that was in- troduced in a spirit of controversy with the position taken by the Senate.” “It is really a defi,” Senator Bingham added. “The report seems to me to warrant the repetition of the belief of our fathers that taxation without repre- sentation is vnjust,” he said. i In beginning his comments on the | report, the Connecticut Senator stated: ‘ “I heven't seen the full report, but the | details that have been reported are | what was to be expected from a Com-i mittee organized in pursuance of a spirit of controvers: taken by tne Senate. Copeland Against Cut. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, a member of the Senate District Committee, reiterated his position of the past of opposition to reducing the | Federal contribution. Senator Copeland Which to reach the subject of taxes. of | said that as time goes on more and lUmp-sum appropriations or the District | more taxable property will be taken from the tax books by the growth of the Government here, and added: “I think Congress should be very slow to take action unfavorable to the District.” President Hoover, which Representative Blanton of Texas referred to as “Re- | Publican Party Wash day.” Representative Frear, Republican, of Wisconsin, the only member of the special committee who declined to sign the Mapes report, lectured the House at length on his proposal that addi- | tional taxes be levied on real estate and otherwise to a total of $14.000.000 above the current revenues of the Dis- trict. By doing this, he said, the Fed- cral contribution for support of the National Capital could be discontinued Blanton Speaks. However, Representative Frear em- phasized his conviction that “no mem- ber of Congress will oppose any appro- | priation to beautify the Capital City | many | and make it the most beauti ful city in the world.” Representative Mapes in urging fa- vorable action by the House cn the in- come tax bill, which would repeal the present intangible personal propert tax, said it is estimated such a measur would raise $750,000 to $1,000,000 more than the present intangible personal property tax. In opening the discussion on this District bill, Representative Frear said “Both papers this morning and the papers last night criticized without gloves those v.ho have been engaged in the work of this committee in trying to give to the House the facts that have come to us through the experts and through the studies we have made, but I am not going to answer the| billingsgate of one of the morning | papers BY OTHER MATTERS Frear Argues Pesidents of providing for an income tax graduated | RILEYS WAIVE JURY TRIAL ON CHARGE OF CHILD CRUELTY Justice Letts Will Rule on Evidence in “Closet Prisoner” Case. AUNT TESTIFIES EDITH WAS “A NORMAL CHILD” Brother Tells of Finding Teeth on Floor After Sister Was Beaten. In a surprise move, Mr Har and Mis. Newman Riley today waived a trial by jury on charges of cruelty to 12-year- {0ld Edith Riley, alleged “closet prisoner,” | and elected to be tried by Justice F. D, [ Letts in District Supreme Court, Before a packed court room the jmotion to waive jury trial was offered | by Defense Attorney H. R. Stephenscn | this morning when Justice Le | vened court in Criminal Divisi The motion was accepted by the justice !and the case then was outlined to the |court by prosecution and defence | attorneys, ] s con- Brother Testifies. Francis Riley, 15-year-old brother of | Edith, upon whose complaint police entered the Riley home November 6 land rescued the little child from the |closct, testified that Edith had been kept in a closet three or four years, and in the cellar eight months in 1928, “dur- ing the visit of Aunt Emma He said that his stepmother beat Edith cruelly with her fists and shoes jand sticks,” “I don't remember how times, but I know it's been | plenty.” ‘My father never laid the weight of { his hands on my sister.” he said. My | Stepmother told him she'd correct the | chiidren | “One time I | stepmother was killing my sister. | Pather “I understand.’ Tren one time my father protested and she told him to ‘get out cf the way correcting the children.’ s told my father my Found Teeth on Floor. . “Once when she was sick they had the doctors for her.” he said in response [to a question Assistant _ United | States District Attorney William H. | Collins as to the medical care Edith l‘had received. The boy, who has been living with his maternal aunt, Mrs, Louise M. Hall since Edith was rescued from the closet, said that | “Those of us who know the man that | 9C¢ his stepmother took some rice §5the publisher knew his character, and now the characttr of some of the |, others who are responsible for such (S2id that after one of statements and would object to our own | FeDf, UPStairs where pared with theirs, and | records being com, yet they abuse men gso wants to sit’ here and matters. Thinks Statement Is Answer. “I am not geing to discuss them. but | i . | 1 am going to emphasize a situation | | resolution that was introduced in a n | i3 with the. position | that confronts the country in regard to . child. the City of Washington and the District of Columbia that you should know Your members who come from outside of the city should know what is being done here, and it is something which ought to be discussed frankly before the House because we have no other way by dole. as 1t was called this morning “So 1 am going to Tead briefly. not from the additional views which expressed vesterday and put in the Record, because I think that is prac- [ tically 'a complete answer if the com- that no one discuss District | the I | The New York Senator pointed out | Mittee is correct in its facts, and. we that along a portion of Pennsylvania 81l agreed about that—but I am going avenue, for example, there had been (!0 discuss the effect of this unfair essentially valuable property, but that | taxation scheme upon the rest of the for years there has been discussion that ‘ country, and in relation to a publisher the Government was considering ac- | Whom I speak of in the highest terms quiring it. In the past few years de- | Decause I believe he is a gentleman | velopment of this area by the Govern- Whom we all respect.” Rieht hus begun. | _, Representative Blanton, formerly a e e T sena e Rttt remberiol the District Committee would go fully into | Subcommittce which will soon draft the oy | District appropriation bill for the next Capper Remains Silent, ?cgl yea;‘. als(;] spoke on the financial & 5 Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- | people of " the National "Grite) Lo trict, Committee 15 Vithholding com- | evoted the eatly and most lengthy pare ment at this tme on the program put |of his discussion to lecturing. thy R forward by the House committee, publican administration The tax bills, being new legislation, | would be considered by Senatér Cap- per's committee if they should be sent | over by the House. This committee is | entirely separate from the subcommittee | headed by Senator Bingham, which handles the appropriation bill. ‘The Special House Committee which yesterday recommended these drastic changes in fiscal relations, was created nearly two years ago, just after the House had agreed to increase the Fed- eral contribution to $9,500,000 a year. At that time the Senate favored the Federal contribution of $12,000,000 a year. while the House insisted that $9,- 000.000 should be the limit. Within a few hours of the adjournment of Con- gress in the Summer of 1930, the House agreed to compromise by allowing the $500,000 increase, but immediately thereafter created the special commit- tee which brought in yesterday's report. HIKERS IN WILMINGTON Bonus Marchers Off Today for Bal- timore on Way to Washington. WILMINGTON, Del, December 16 (#)—A group of 36 men, sald to be World War veterans who are hiking to Washington in efforts to obtain full payment of bonus certificates, were guests of the Salvation Army here last night. Their leaders said they would leave for Baltimore early today. The group left Philadelphia Monday and stayed in Chester, Pa., that night. |from the Federal Evidently taking offense at opposition voiced by Washington newspapers to the new tax proposals and the suggested reduction of the lump-sum contribution Government, botn Representatives Frear and Blanton at- tempted to show the House that pub- lishers of Washington newspapers, The Star, Post, Times and Herald being mentioned, have a smalier tax burden than that carried by publishers of pa- pers throughout the country. Representative Frear referred to a table of comparative taxes, quoting ‘he figures for Cleveland, Boston and other | cities, and arguing that the taxpayers there help to bear the burden in ‘the Capital City, which they felt should be borne by the residents in the District of Columbia. Representative Blanton made refer- ence particularly to the assessment on automobile owners, pointing out that while people throughout the country pay an average of $14 per car, in Wash- ington the motor car owners merely pay a regisration free of $1. Mr. Blan- ton sald he would put in the record @ statement from the District asses- sor, showing how large corporations have been evading payment of taxes. =7 “Wine Bricks” Sale Illegal. RALEIGH, N. C., December 16 (#). —Possession and sale of “wine bricks"” was held to be illegal in North Caro- lina under the State prohibition laws by A. A. F. Sewell, assistant attorney general, in an opinion yesterday. TOY BATTALIONS TO ASSEMBLE AT MOVIE BENEFITS SATURDAY Poor Children to Receive Gi fts Presented for Admission to Metropolitan and Tivoli. e toy parade is on the march! o your conscript fall in line—help boost a Santa Claus battalion down shabby streets, dim alleys, up to the darkest doors of Washington. These doors, once the parade breaks ranks, will be flung open by uncounted children, em. Christmas ippled, undern children, eager to welcome the marchers. Send a bright emissary with thas parade, straight to some home—and there are many this year—which lies in the shadow of Christmas lights. The toy battalions assemble Satur- day morning at twin concentration (Caontinued .on Page 3, Column 5.) | which the dog had refus ed and “put it | in a pan and gave it to my sister.” He the beatings he Edith was and nd several teeth lying on the floor. Mrs. Hall, who preceded Prancis on stand, told of Edith being taken | from the home of her grandmother by {court order and committed to the | father and stepmother. During the lat- ter four years of Edith's life with the Rileys, she said, she had not seen the She testified that before Edith | went to live with the Rileys, however, | “Edith was perfectly norma! in every | way.” { Roomers Never Saw Edith. Two drug store cle; bell and Isaac Green & they rocmed at Mrs, Riley’s from Sep~ tember to February. 1930, and from | November, 1926, to Augu Te- spectively, folloved the stand. Both testified the: scen Edith during their residence at the Rileys. Campbell said he was laid up at one time for a month with a broken leg, but during that time never saw the child nor heard it Mrs. Emma Klein. an aunt of the Riley children, introguced some surpris- ing testimony on cros Xamination. Alter stating on direct examinaticn she had lived in the Riley home for eight months, from October, 1928, to May, 1929, without ever seeing the little girl, |she testified on the cross-questioning that she “was forced to come to the Riley home to live and that three times | T made efforts to leave but she (Mrs. | Riley) kept me from going." “You mean to state that you were forced to lve with the Rileys against | you will2" asked Defense Attorney Ste- | phenson. " “I couldn't swered. “How did you come to go to the Rileys?” “T was asked by Mrs. Riley to come there to be a companion to the children.” Not Allowed to Leave. Mrs. - Klein insisted she was under surveillance during the eight months she lived with the Rileys and was not al- lowed to leave. She said also that when she came there she brought with her a " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) ACID HURLED AT MAN; JILTING IS BLAMED May Lose Sight as Result of Call to Say Farewell Before Marriage. . Lewis Camp- chifflet. who said live,” Mrs. Klein an- By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 16.—Joseph Virga, 35, had a glass of acid thrown in his face early today as he went to the apartment of what police said was a spurned woman to say farewell be- fore his marriage to another woman. As Virga, blinded and screaming for help. wandered about the hall of the building, the woman, who police said was Dolly Meyers, escaped. Other ten- ants found Virga at the bottom of & flight of stairs down which he had fallen and rushed him to a hospital. Physicians said he has lost the sight of one eye and possibly will lose that of the other. Police patched together what they believe is the correct version of the affair from the mumblings of Virga and the statement of a pretty young woman who called at the hospital, but left when an attendant told her she could not see Virga. Her name was not obtained and Virga refused to give it to police. But both she and Virga stated they were to have been married toda! y. From a reliable source, police said, they learned Virga and Miss Meyers had been “keeping company” for some time. They added that Virga at first refused to identify the person who had thrown the acid, but later admitted was -Meyers, A N