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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WEDNES RILEYS WAIVE JURY - INCLOSET” CASE Justice Letts Will Rule on Evidence on Charge of Cruelty to Child. (Continued From First Page.) wagon load of furniture, which Mrs. Riley took from her with a promise to pay for it later. “I never got any money, she said “When you went down into the basement while you lived with the Rileys did you see or hear any child?” @sked Attorney Stephenson. “No,” she replied. After Mrs. Margaret C. Allen of 3 E street southwest, a colored dress- maker to the Annadales, had testified that Edith was a “perfect child" while living with the Annadales, Rachel Johnson, colored, who did washing and ironing for the Rileys, was called to the stand. After preliminary question- ing Assistant United States Attorney Collins asked Laundress Never Saw Child. “While you were working for the Rileys did you ever see the child Edith, that is, before police took her from the closet?” “I never seen the child—no sir.” Testifying as to the police entrance in the Riley home November 6 to seize the child, Rachel said “They went right straight kitchen' and upstairs _through Riley’s room to the bath room. Then they unlocked the door. Edith was Jjust sitting right still, staring straight ahead and not batting an eye. There was a comfort in the room and she was sitting on it with a pint bottle and pan beside her.” “Was there any smell the closet?” Collins asked. “Yes, a little bit of an odor,” colored woman replied Collins Opens Trial, Assistant United States Attorney Collins, opening the trial of the father and stepmother of Edith, who is now at Gallinger Hospital under treatment from the effects of alleged confinement in the bath room closet of the Riley home at 1110 Rhode Island avenue, declared the Government would “present evidence to show that this child was subjected to cruel, harsh beatings with shoes, sticks and other instruments of torture during her in- carceration.” “The evidence will show.” he said, “that Edith was a perfectly normal child at the time she was delivered into | the custody of her father after he married a second time. It will show that in the last four years she has lived with her father and stepmother. the defendants in this case, she has} been kept in a state of incarceration allowed no contact with the outside ! world and denied the right of educa- tion. though,” to the Mrs. or odor in the { Incarcerated in Closet. “The evidence will show that she was incarcerated for a period in a bed room and following that was, for a period of time, incarcerated in a dark cellar closet. Then, later she was kept in a closed closet upstairs, incarcerated day and night. The cvidence will show that she was fed like an animal, her meals consisting of scrapings of food left over from the meais of others; that she was denied the privileges of toilet. “The Government will also show that during the 8 years of her life with her father and stepmother Mrs. Riley kept roomers in her home, some of them liv- ing there for & period of two and three years, and that during this entire period these roomers and boarders never knew of the existence of Edith Riley. The evidence will show also that the sister of Edith, Louise, over 8 period of three years only saw her little sister Edith once. Hands and Feet Tied. “The Government will show also that during this child’s incarceration in a closet she lay for long periods of time with her hands and feet tied.” Stephenson. who followed Collins, de- clared the child Edith “was given to certain vicious practices,” and that “to Telieve this condition, at the advice of physicians, an operation was performed “The evidence that the defense will introduce,” said Stephenson, “will show that it was impossible to take this child out because of these practices. It was also impossible because of this condi- tion to allow her to associate with other children in the house. We will show you that she was physically and mentally defective.” Incarceration Denied. Lower: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Riley, E {0 ROBBERS WRECK BANK TOGET$450 | | and Cut Telephone Cables in Indiana Town. | | By the Associated Press. ‘ ROACHDALE, Ind., December 16— Ten men armed with machine guns and | sawed-off shotguns blew open the safe of the Roachdale State Bank here early this morning and escaped with $4,500 | | in cash and bonds. The bandits severed | | telegraph and tel=phone cables and the town was cut off from communication with other places for some time. { Before entering the bank the men | kidnaped F. R. Jarvis, night telegraph | operator of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- | Toad, and locked him in the telephone | office above the bank with Pauline | Smith, 18, operator, and Pauline’s sister, aged 7, who was spending the night with her | Cut Telephone Cables. ! The robbers then broke into the power plant and threw the switch, cut- ting current off from all of Roachdale. | After cutting all telephone cables the Tobbers broke into the bank and blew | the vault and fixtures to pieces with three or four charges of nitroglycerin The entire front of the bank building was blown out | No one was able to give any informa- tion as to how the bandits left town. Jarvis said they walked about four | blocks and disappeared behind a filling station. That was the last seen of | them. | Two men approached Jarvis as he | was taking mail from a Monon train. | They covered him with a gun lnfl1 | escorted him to the town jail. The | telegrapher pleaded with them not to Stephenson said he would show also that Mrs. Riley was not mentally re- spor:sible. The attorney denied the child was in- carcerated in a dark cellar closet and told the court he expected to show that the “bed room™ where the child was kept “did have air, light and venti- lation.” “We will introduce evidence to show | that the child was not kept in a closet | for long periods of time. We will show that Mrs. Riley has been in a state of very bad health and there have heen times when the Rileys did not have means with which to feed, clothe or care for their family. But, despite their straitened circumstances, which at times have necessitated their calling upon charity organizations for food With which 'to feed their family, the Rileys have not abused their child | Edith.” | The first witness, Mrs. Anna A. An- | nadale. maternal grandmother of Edith, Who lives at 1414 V street, identified photographs of the child taken while she lived with her. before Riley ‘mar- Tied his prescnt wife. These plctures were introduced by Collins. “Prior to Edith’s leaving your home to go and live with her father and step- mother, will you state whether or not she showed “any evidences of being | other than a ncrmal child?” Collins asked “Nothing at all” the grandmother replied. FRANCE HELD SEEKING INDEPENDENT ARMENIA Turkish and Syrian Governments Alarmed Over Concentrations Along Frontiers. By the Ascociated Press ISTANBUL. Turkey, December 16.— ‘The semi-official Turkish newspaper Djemouriet published today a dis- patch from Beirut in which it said France is attempting to form an inde- pendent Armenia near the Turkish Irontier. | “France,” the dispatch said, “is gradually realizing its aim to use mi- noritles to prevent the formation of a national Syrian union to pave the way | for the creation of independent Arme- nian and Kurdish states along the Turco-Syrian and Turco-Irakian fron- tiers. These developments are greatly alarming Syrian nationalists.” Turkish alarm over the report was Indicated by the large headlines under which the dispatch was published. The Turkish government recently protested to France against concentrations in Ar- menia and Syria near the Turkish frontie: , 6 :gn office denied today that France had ade any move with the object of cxutclgg A:‘ lx:dependcnt Armenia, I: was charg Turkish newspapers af Istanbul, : oo ¢ [ Washington. lock him in and the men then took | him to the telephone office. Loss and Damage Insured. The three were kept under guard | while the safe blowers worked. One |of the robbers, authorities said, ev\-‘ | dently was an expert in the use of ex- plosives | The damage to the bank was e: - | ated at $1,000. Both robbery loss and damage are covered by insurance. | Because of the wreckeu condition of the institution it was impossible to | conduct business today. | BANDITS ESCAPE VIGILANTES ! Trio Gets $3,000 In Bank Hold-up and Get Away Through Shotgun Fire. HIGHLAND, Ind., December 16 (#)— Vigilantes, shotgun slugs and an auto- mobile chase were of no avail yesterday and three robbers escaped with $3.000 {in cash and bonds from the Highland | State Bank, between Chicago and Gary. The robbers lined up four officers, scooped up the currency and bonds and headed for the doorway. Outside, a group of vigilantes fired shotguns as e bandits scrambled into their auto- mobile and headed West into Illinois. An early alarm had been sounded and the pursuit was augmented by officers from Hammond, nearby. At Lansing, Il the chase was abandoned, all trace of the bandits being lost. SOLUTION OF FILIPINO LABOR PROBLEM SEEN Dwight F. Davis Says Island Legis- Jature May Restrict Emigration of Natives. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash, December 16— Dwight F. Davis, Governor General of | the Philippines, believes the Philippine Legislature will solve the questicn of Filipino labor in the Uniiei States by restricting emigration from the islands. Davis is on his way from Manila to He was accompanied by a daughter, Cynthia. He said the problem of race feeling in the islands over recent labor trouble on the Pacific Coast “is in a fair way of solving itself.” “The sentiment for restriction of emi- gration by their own legislative body,” he said, “is a large and growing one brought’ about largely by the desire to develop the rich natural resources of the islands.” Davis said that because of the poor health of his wife, who is in Paris, he| may not return to the islands next Queen Opens Refuge in Slums, LONDON, December 16 (#) —Queen Mary went into the slums of White- chapel today and opened the Salvation Army for homeless women, Principals in Riley Case | sional Record, l | Upper: Edith Riley, 12-year-old child about whom centers the trial which began today, in which her father and stepmother are charged with cruelty. dith's father and stepmother, BEEDY DENOUNCES IFADDEN CHHACE iKidnap Telegraph Operator'Pennsylvanian Rebuffed by | Own Delegation for Accusa- tion Against Hoover. ___(Continued From First Page) the Democratic leader. said he ex- pected the House to finish with the moratorium this week. He believed the Ways and Means Committee would complete it today. The Senate Finance Committee prefaced its moratorium hearing with the announcement it would open its inquiry next Friday into sales of foreign securities in this country. The date was set at the request of Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali- fornia, sponsor of the who is opposing ratification of the moratorium. Treadway Asks Ban. At the outset of the House Com- mittee’s session, Representative Tread- way of Massachusetts urged that it re- fuse to hear Representative McFadden “I protest this committee being made the means whereby the gentleman from Pennsylvania will continue this sort of attack on the President of the United States,” Treadway said. “It carries high condemnation The Massachusetts member almost immediately withdrew his motion, how- ever, when Representative Crisp, Georgia Democrat, said he thought it should be| Tejected by the committee. “I think this committee would make a grievous mistake if we refuse to permit one of our colleagues to appear before " Crisp said. Treadway, however, served notice that if McFadden repeated the charges before the committee he would ask that they be stricken from the record Treadway quoted from the Congre: on a statement by McFadden that the Presiderit had violated his oath of of- fice During the interchange, a secretary | of McFadden was taking shorthand | notes of the proceedings. Stimson Gives Background. The Pennsylvanian and Representa- tive Rankin, Mississippi, Democrat, are the only members who have asked to be heard in opposition. Mills told the Senate Committee tn- | day the original plan was for all pay- ments to be pushed forward one year. | but because of objections from France, | the arangement was made for repay- | ment over a period of 10 years. |~ Stimson told the House group every | | source available to the Government had been utilized to gain a clear pic- ture of the situation abroad and thas before the President acted he sought | | the advice of such experts as Owen D. Young, author of the plan for repara- | tions payments. | The Secretary submitted with his formal statement a copy of the letter written to President Hoover in June| by President Von Hindenburg of Ger- | many. This was published exclusively | by the Assoclated Press last July 21 | It detalled the plight of Germany, say- | | ing the country was in “urgent need of | relief.” i Payments Were in Danger. Stimson said the purpose and re- | sult of the moratorium were to persuade | those who had made loans that the | surest way to get the money back was | not to withdraw. | “If the conditions had been permit- | | ted to go on, the chances of ever again | getting pavments was infinitesimally | small,” he added. When the committee began its cross- examination Stimson suggested that some questions could best be answered behind closed doors and a few minutcs later it excluded spectators and re- | porters. | Meantime Mills was telling the Sen- ate Commiitee that on Saturcay, June | 20, it was apperent that on Monday | morning Germany would have to go off | the gold exchange standard, with “in- calculable legal and sodial conse- quences.” Stopped Run on Germany. But, he added, the moratorium stop- ped the run on Germany and the im- mediate gains were so marked that if they could have been held the loss of $260,000,000 would have seemed “in- finitesimal.” | He frequently raised his voice to a | high pitch and apologized at one point for becoming “oraterical.” “Right er wrong,” Mills sald, “the President's action was absolutely nec- essary to avert a major disaster.” Senator Watson, Republican leader, asked what would happen if Congress failed to ratify the moratorium. “It would do irretrievable damage to the reputation of our country,” Mills replish . e -~ investigation, | ng particular stress | (GRID PLAYERS PAY | DENIED BY LITTLE Columbia U. Salary Charge Held False—Dean Unable to Find Evidence. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 16.—Colum- bia University leaders, including Head Coach Lou Little, came forth quickly today with denials of the charges, pub- lished in the New York World-Tele- | gram, that evidence of secret payments to foot ball players had been uncov- ered by a secret investigating commit- tee. “It is an outrageous lie," Little de- clared, after reading the story, which went into details of allezed “inside” dealings to promote Columbia foot ball. College, declared he had been unable, after an investigation, to find basis for the charges, and then added: “I don't | want to be mixed up in anything so | rotten as this” Editor Denies Report. Reed Harris, editor of the Spectator, | undergraduate Paper, and a member of | the secret committee 'said by the World- Telegram to have undertaken the in- Yestigation, denied any knowledge of it. Spectator has been conducting a series ; of editorial attacks upon college foot | ball, based largely on the unusual num- | ber of deaths reported this year. | Nacoms, the secret society which al- | legedly made the report, met last night it was learned A report on the athletic situation was said fo have been drawn up at the | meeting for presentation to Dean Hawkes. but the dean today had not received it i Daniel McCarthy, editor of the Co- lumbia Alumni News, classed the charges as “obviously absurd,” Loans Given Poor Students, “Columbia loaned over $120,000 this year to needy students,” McCarthy said. “Doubtless some athletes were so aided as there is no discrimination against a student merely because he happens to be a foot ball player The New York World-Telegram said today that evidence of secret payments to Columbia foot ball players has been uncovered by a committee investigating the university's athletic administration, The committee, composed of mem- bers of the Nacoms Society, a secret organization of senfors and alumni also has discovered, the World-Tele- gram said. that some athletes engage in professional sports during the Sum- mer montbs with the knowledge of Columbia coaches. Among the discoveries reported was one that a foot ball star on head Coach Lou Little's eleven had been paid a $400 vearly scholarship by the Colum- bia University Club and was supplied with other money by “a friend of Co- lumbia.’ The same “friend.” the investigator: charged, had used his influence to ol tain a promotion for a member of the player's family and had made “loans" to the family with such frequency that | it was charged they were enabled to purchase an_ automobile The Nacoms Socle made up of C. Leroy chairman: Robert Watt. former gradu- | ate manager of athletics; Hugh | Gardner, varsity crew man in 1929 and | member of student council while in | college; Gavin MacBain, class of '32, | | Present secretary of the Student Bo | {and crew man, and Reed Harris, | editor of the Spectator, student pub | cation, whose r¢ nt charges against | | foot ball led to the investigation. | | The possibility of the investigation ! reaching outside Columbia circles came | through charges of the committee that | & Columbia athlete who played profe sional base ball during the Summer es- caped ‘“getting into trouble,” as the | committee quoted one of the coaches, ( when it was found that Yale, Harvard | and Princeton athletes were playing in the same league. The matter was hushed up. the World | Telegram said the committee was told with the common consent of the ath- | letic authorities of the four universities |ARMS CONFERENCE TO MEET FEB. 2 AS PLANNED AT START| Committee is Hendrickson, | (Continued From First Page) journment, the conference will convene, | it is said, as schoduled | A part of the Japanese delegation is reported to have already sailed for Geneva The arguments of th ponement are as follow: The Franco-Italian naval dispute is still unsclvec. No prospect of a Franco- German agreement is in sight. The Japa- nese occupation of Manuchuria creates a tension affecting th> Soviet Union, and hence also Russia’s neighbors. Poland and Rumania, and hence, in turn, the rest of Europe and possibly even the United States. The L-ague's immediate failure in the Manchurian crisis has unfortunately tended to prove the French thesis that | existing pacts give no real security, thus | putting France temporarily in hat | some others regard as an unfairly strong moral position favoring post- Present Good as Any Time. The government conference on war debts and reparations will be going on simultaneously with the disarma- ment_conference. Prance and the United States will be handicapped by the imminence of national elections All these factors make the real suc- cess of the conference dubious, yet its failure would in all respects be ex- tremely grave. Those 0pposing postponement mini- mize the foregoing assertions and add, first, that there will aiso be plenty of arguments for not holding the con- ference and, second, that the present s probably as good a time as any because the economic depression will appear to the peoples everywhere as an_overwhelmingly convincing argu- ment for arms reduction. (Copyright, 1931.) MAY REDU BATTLESHIPS. PARIS, December 16 (£).—A drive probably will be made at the World Disarmameng Conference at Geneva in February to secure a reduction in the size of battleships, according to reports current in international circles here today. Great Britain and France were said to advocate cutting battleship displace- ment from 35,000 tons to 30,000 or less, the cuts to become eflective when the time arrives for replacing existing craft. The greetesi interest was shown in whether the United States delegation will suppoit such a measure, which its backers emphasized, would effect econo- mies by reducing the cost of battle- ships.. There also was a rumor that an ef- fort will be made to reduce the total battleship tonnage of the five great haval powers, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and, Japan. League circles here predicted the Geneva conference will result at least in a decision to limit armaments to their present level. This, it was stated, should be considered a gratifying result for the first general conference, N Ex-Cashier Is Indicted. LUMBERTON, S. C., December 16 (A)—C. E. Cole, former assistant cashier of the Bank of Pembroke at Pembroke, was indicted yesterday on 72 counts in connection with a reported shortage of $16,000 in the bank's funds discovered by an audit more than two years ago, | Tivoli Theaters. Buy a new toy. turn it in Saturday morning as admission fee to see “Penrod"” All toys are to be distributed to Washington's little children w! barren and marked by heartbreak Y, DECEMBER 16 TOY PARADE STARTS AT MOVIE BENEFIT SHOWS SATURDAY | Help Santa or “Skippy” at the Metropolitan and hose Christmas might otherwise be Claus Smile - ___ (Continued From First Page) | | Almost Any One Can Brighten Season by *“Paying” nts—the Metropolitan and Tivoli aters, where benefit performances d by Warner Bros. and Evening Star. A toy will be the poir o jonly price of admission. but make it a bright some Claus The screen feature at either theater going on at 9 at the Metropolitan and 11 o'clock at the Tivoli, will be of especial interest to children. Details of management made it nec- essary to start the show 30 minutes earlier t the previously announced hour of 9:30 At the Metropolitan, Booth Tarking- ton’s narrative of the trials and tribula- tions of Penrod, “Penrod and Sam.” will be given a special pre-view showing Patrons at the Tivoli will see a re- vival of “Skippy.” a sincere and mov ing_interpretation of Percy Crosby's famous juvenile character by Jackie Cooper, one of filmdom’s most popular boy actors. In lobby “box offices” at the theaters will be huge Santa Claus sacks, ready and cpen to receive all volunteers for the toy parade. ‘The toys will be distributed by wel- fare agencies in contact with the need- iest families throughout the city. Every one will go to some boy or girl who new toy—a personal gift to child who still believes in Santa | might otherwise be overlooked. Short Films on Program. | The pi he Metropolitan, in addition to Fi nal's Penrod and Sam. will include two Vitaphone shorts. Rudy Weidoff in “Darn Tootin,” and “Week End Mystery” of the Van Dine series, supplemented by a current news reel At the Tivoli the bill will be rounded out by a Vitaphone cartoon, “B0sco’s Shipvreck,” and a news reel. “Skippy” s a paramount picture, and & box-office | hit Screen _trailers and lobby displays | will_advertise the benefit performance | at all Warner Bros. Theaters, while| the popular mistress of ceremonies at| the Earle. Maxine Doyle, will describe the progress of the performances. Buy a tov, go to a show and makc your contribution to the big parade— | the happiness parade! Christmas will seem all the merrier for it! HOOVER NOMINATES | TWO D. C. JUDGES | Names of F. Dickinson Letts and | Daniel W. 0'Donoghue Are Sent to Senate. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) President Hoover sent to the Scnate today the nominations of F. Dickinson Letts and Daniel W. O'Donoghue to be associate justices of the District Su- | preme Court. Both now are serving on the District bench, having received recess appoint- ments. The former succeeded Justice Stafford, who resigned, and ihe latter filled the vacancy caused by the death | of Justice Siddons. | At the same time th> President sent the nomination, of John Paul of Vir- gmia to be United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia, and | Morris A. Soper of Maryland to the | Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. LIEUT. IVE.S HONORED For experimental work on the “lung,” the submarine escape device, with U. S. S. S-4, Lieut. Norman 8. Ives, U. S. N, officer in charge of the diving school at the Washington Navy Yard, this after- noon received from Secretary Adams the award of a Navy Cross. The Secretary congratulated the of- ficer for his outstanding work in mak ing submarines safer and the brief cere mony was witnessed by a group of high- ranking naval officials. Lieut. Ives lives in Hyattsville, Md. — BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band this evening at the auditorium, Marine Barracks, at 8 o'clock. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, ond leader. g:nngmarch.“Queen of Sheba,” Gounod Overture, “The Force of Destin; Selections from “The Student | . Jarnefelt Grieg fromT the kSt(lng uartette, Opus 11"....Tschaikowsky "Pgllonll.«e," from “Scenes d: Ballet Opus 52, No. sAnd .‘glla:zunow nes from “Andrea Chenier," Grand scel o arines’ hymn— M “The Halls of Montesuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” “Praeludium” .... | added Dj | man a New Toy to See Good Movie Show Saturday Morning. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. HERE is only one Santa Claus, of course, as every- body knows, but here is a secret abcut him Every one may bring a smile to the face of tre dear old saint Almost any one can put a twinkle in_his eye. The way to do this is to give to those who have not And this Christmas. an unusual one. in the long line of holidays, Santa «Claus has_thought up 8 bright new plan for" shed- ding his radi- ance Every man, woman or child can be a smile, or a gleam, or a_ twinkle, re- spectively. by taking a bright new toy to the Warner Bros.’ Metropolitan or Tivoli Theater Saturday morning. A new toy is the “price of admis- sion” for a fine movie show EX-SENATOR'S WIFE. PRISON CONBEST DESCRIBES FIGHT Diggs Day Before Fatal Shooting. Mrs. Robert L. Owen, wife of former Senator Owen of Oklahoma, appeared as a defense witness today at the Dis- trict Supreme Court trial of Joseph H Diggs, colored doorman, charged with slaying William F. Norman, prominent | attorney, at the Wardman Park Hotel | last August. The Government rested its case short- ly after noon. Mrs. Owen, the first witness for the defense, testified she saw Norman strike Diggs in the face with his fist in the lobby of the hotel the day before the lawyer was shot to death. She said Nor- man muttered something in an angry | tone as he hit Diggs, but she did not | understand what he said. Mrs. Owen d Diggs' hat was knocked off, that he picked it up and walked away with- out defending himself. Diggs to Take Stand, Frank Kelly and Russel Kelly, defense attorneys, announced Diggs would be placed on the witness stand late today or tomorrow. Mrs. Owen’: 'S testls Vi > it stimony was in lin the defense contention trat Nor= o goaded Diggs into shooting him the two over whether Norman should be permitted to have his car parked in a restricted zone in front of the hotel. Sergt. James Springman, chief of the homicide squad, one of the last Government ~ witnesses, testified that Diggs gave several accounts to police of the purchase of the ‘weapon with which Norman was shot. He said Diggs first declared he had owned the Tevolver a year or more. Springmaiy sald Diggs’ “second story w: bought it four or five days before the shooting from a young man who ac- costed him while he was walking along the south side of U street near Four- teenth. The detective said Diggs later confessed that he had a young colored friend buy the pistol the day before the fatal fight. Pistol Is Identified. Morris Singer, a second-hand dealer, of 1840 Seventh street, said he sold the weapon to a colored youth, who gave the name of James Edwards the day before Norman was killed. The pur- chase price was $5. The second-hand dealer identified the weapon used in the slaying as the same pistol he sold to Edwards. . anndlnn Banker Dies. MONTREAL, December 16 (#).—C. E. Neill, vice president and managing director of the 1 Bank of ter a series of arguments between | as that he | “This s a new age” said Santa Claus, as he merrily planned all this with the local managers “Children want new toys, not old ones,” he said. “It is the modern spirit. The little boys and girls who need bright toys the most are just as modern as anybody else, aren't they? W v! You asp to smile or twir fresh, unused t it alone wiil adm to help Santa come with a hand, and theater. count, Santa_wants none of vour old used smiles, even if they once made glad the hearts of your own little ones. Used smiles are worn smiles. If you have r own, surely you would not bring old smiles, but only fresh ones, shining iike dreams Let these smiles become drums, or horns, or dolls. or fire engines. or wagons, or wrat not, be sure they will admit you to the show, without further price They will be enriched by the spirit of helpfulness. There is only one Santa Claus. Help him smile! JON IS TARGET OF DRIVE “toy parade” at all Says She Saw Norman Hit Federal Bureau Starts Move to House Short-Term Pris- [ oners Properly. By the Associated Press. A double-edged drive to conquer the meanest problem of Fed>ral crime cure, proper housing of short-term prisoners, is underway in the Federal Prison Bu- reau. Persuading State and county authori- ties to clean up their jails and ration- alize discipline is one angle of the at- tack: establishment of ceven new Fed- eral jails is the other. Short-termers may not be placed in penitentiarie: the Government has had as many as };.3000 “boarders” in local jails during g Bates Summarizes Situation. Sanford Bates. celebrated penologist directing the bureau, pointed out today that jails taken as a whoe have been generally condemned as “dirty, un- healthy and offering untold opportuni- ties for physical, mental #nd moral de- terioration.” “Here is a country with about 3,700 counties—each with a sevarately elected sheriff, with a hit-or- ss and care- lessly administered jail system, with lit- tle or no funds provided and with prac- tically no local public sentiment for improvement,” he added. *It's not to be wondered at that iax conditions de- velop.” El Paso Prison Ready Soon. With a $1,500,000 construction appro- priation Congress supplied the bureau | has bought the famous but dilapidated |old mint in New Orleans, spending |$110,000 to make it ready by January |1 for 225 prisoners. An institution for 600 at El Paso will be ready by March, at a cost of $315,000. Within a few months the bureau will ask for bids for the Miian, Mich., proj- | ect, which it hopes to build for $360,000. | Offers for the Billings, Mont., Jail were |all above the $80,000 earmarked for it, |so the project was readvertised. Kentucky and Southern California jails are still in blueprint stage. A Minnesota plan is for a Federal prison farm for 320 who will work at land reclamation and reforestation. FIVE SENTENCED TO DIE Seven Others Transported for Part in Burma Debellion. THAYETMYO, Burma, India, Decam- ber 16 (#).—Five persons were santenced to death today and scven others to transrorlatlon for life by a special tri- bunal which is sitting here to try offenses in connection with the recent Burma rebellion. The five condemned belonged to & the “Pankuga” gang. group known as K | IREUNITED CHINA APPEARS LIKELY Coalition Rule Seen After Shake-up—1Japanese Flag Flies Over Manchuria, ——(Continued Prom First Page.) of Soviet Russia, forming the emblem of the Chinese Eastern Railway. A new Manchurian federated state, under Japanese supervision, with Gen. Tsang Shih-yi, former civil governor of Liaoning province and until last Mon- day a virtual Japanese prisoner here, as its probable head, has emerged out of these changes. Tsang Quietly Installed. There were reports Monday Gen. Tsang had consented to assume the governorship and yesterday he was quietly installed as head of the Mukden provincial government in place of Yuan Chin-Kai, who went out of office, under | Japanese auspices, shortly after the oc- | €upation of Mukden, | How far a new Manchurian state | under Tsang, knitting several provinces together, will command the loyalty of | the 30.000,000 Chinese people was con- sidered today still a matter for future cvents to decide. Chinese leaders who hitherto have headed autonomous governments have sald they acted under Japanese duress and the Japanese themselves have scarcely taken the trouble to deny it, asserting the reluctance of Chinese lead.. €rs to participate in an autonamous movement was largely due to fear Mar- shal Chang Hsueh-Liang might return to power and wreak vengeance upon | them. | This reluctance, they believe, will now pbe overcome when the danger of Mare | shal Chang's return is lessened The promise of peace and quiet, an ! crderly government, lower taxes and a stable currency are being held out as inducements by the sponsors of the ‘new Manchuria.” They have also as- sured relief from what they calle | Chang's “largest arsenal in the wi his army of 250,000 men and his “vast war machine.” Military Expenditure Cut. A new budget in Fengtien province frankly stated to be the work of the Japancse advisers of Yuan Chin-Kai, reduced military _expenditur { $76.000,000 to $4.000 D'r%‘ o The next step in the program of {ederation s expected to take place, a5 ollows Gen. Tsang will invit i Chang Ching Hui, new Governors of Kirin and Heilungkiang provinces, to jcome to Mukden and amalgamate their go s with his. atus proposed under these ar- s, it was | .ned, would be not independence, a situa- that which prevailed under Lin's reign and which the Chinese called by a name which means keep the frontier inviolated and give the people peace. CHANG WITHDRAWAL SEEN. e Hsi Hsia and Tokio Drops Plan to Send Division and Half to Manchuria, TOKIO, December 16 (/P | posal to send division and a | half of Japanese troops into Manchur.a | has been dropped. it was learn=d today, owing to indications that Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang is prepari from Chinchow to a position with | Great Wall The cabinet. however, is sending a mixed brigade to j territory on the Liactun { where it would be available to provice | relief for the Manchurian fozces. 1 If the sending of t brigade is ap- { proved, it is believed one or two bat { talions will be ea ced to prec-ed to Tientsin, in the event of disturbarc-s which officials_believe mij North China following President Chiang ai Shek’s resignation Marshal Chang, officials believe, w need all his troops to maintain his ho'd on Peiping and Tientsin, and this is the reason for believing his forces will b> { entirely withdrawn within the Great | Wall Yesterday's operations at Chengchia- tun and Newchang are thought to have besn a camouflage on the part of Marshal Chang. officials said, and meant to hide his real intentions SOONG CONTINU The pro- DUTIES “ SHANGHAI December 16 & —T. V. Soong. finance minister of ths | Nanking government, was at his ofice here today carrying on his duties as usual He declined to comment on reports | he had resigned, but a numbcr of his | assistants and _advisors said th-y thought his resignation not yct tendered but that he was likely to hand it in, feeling it would be impossil for him to co-operate with the Canton group in any coalition government which might follow the resignation of President Chiang Kai-Shek Reports that Dr. Wellington Koo, forefgn minister, resignad brought the comment from officials at Nanking that Dr. Koo's resignation. submitted De- cember 5, still is pending. HEALTH AGENDA 0.K.'D Pan-American Committee Agrees to Broaden Scope. BUENOS AIRES, December 16 (/). — The Organization Committee of the Ninth Pan-American Health Confer- ence, which will be held at Buenos Aires in 1932, today approved the agenda suggested by the last meeting at_ Washington and decided to include other subjects such as vellow fever, smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis. Labor to Oppose Lower Tariff. EAST LIVERPOOL. Ohio, December 16 (1—Joseph M. Wells, chairman of the United States Potters’ Association Labor Committee, said vesterday the assoclation will oppose any attempt by Congress to reduce the present tariff on earthenware and china. “A reduc- tion from the present schedules would prove disastrous to the ceramic indus- try,” he declared Jane Addams “Doing Well.” BALTIMORE, December 16 (#).— Jane Addams, Chicago social settlement worker, was reported “doing very well” today at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she underwent an abdominal operation last Saturday. Dr. Thomas S. Cullen, who performed the operation, issued a bulletin to this effect. Shoppingdays ! till Christmas /i