Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bu Fair, slightly colde: row fair, not quite so noon and at night; ‘Temperatures—Highest, 50, 7:30 ‘winds. ireau Porecast.) T tonight; tomor- cold in the after- moderate north a.m. yesterday: lowest, 31, at 7:30 am. 4 _today. Full report on page 13. = New York Stock Market Closed Today he ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 32,015. Entered as second class matter post oftice, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, .0, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931—TW bening - Star. NTY PAGES. JAPAN T0 ANSWER CHINCHOW PROTEST NOTES TOMORROW Tokio Expected to Be Frank in Reply to Stimson on Manchurian Policy. NO CHANGE IN ATTITUDE WILL BE MADE BY INUKAI Importance of Maintaining Peace in Hostile Area to Be Cited in Diplomatic Letters. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 26.—Japan’s reply to the latest diplomatic communications concerning the city of Chinchow, ac-| companied by a lengthy statement of her position in Manchuria, will be de- livered tomorrow to the Ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain and France. In view of the fact that Secretary of Etate Stimson is understood frankly to have expressed apprehension regarding bandit hunting activities in that area, it was said authoritatively that the Japanese government also will be quite ank in its answi approved by Pre- Inukai and Minister of War Araki. was understood the statement stresscs the point that Japan is making | every effort to avoid hostilities at Chin- cilow and still has hopes that the law- less elements will be removed by some means other than force. It cmphasizes the importance of J2p2n maintaining peace and order in Manchuria, but tells the three powers in polite terms that Japan makes ro promises to alter her stand in Man- churia_as long as Japanese lives and | property continued to be menaced by outlaws, although appreciating the ety registered 1 war office communique said the at Chinchow had completed|a paternal exhortation to follow the | e lines west of the Taling River, the Tegion of Tahushan. and at| r places. Chang Hsueh-Liang's | in s )nll well supplied with ammunition, | the communique said. | Since Monday, it added, 8.000 Chinese | have been driven from Kaiyuan and Tiehling, but the Chinese are still ac- tive in the vicinity of Mukden and along the Mukden-Antung Railway It was said authoritatively that the Japanese consul at Peiping had resumed conversations with representatives of Marshal Chang With a view to accom- plishing withdrawal from Chinchow. No warming has been issued to Chang, | #t was said, but authorities here were | represented as losing patience with his | adamant attitude. Most of Military Units Believed With- drawn to Railway Zone. MUKDEN, Manchurla, December 26 | (P —The Japanese advance on Chin- | chow appeared today to have been | halted once more. ! Authoritative sources said that most ! detachments of the army of occupation @riving toward Chinchow in a campaign | against Chinese irregulars had been | withdrawn to the South Manchuria | Railway zone and that a major conflict | bad been averted for the present | The only troops remaining in the gerritory southwest of Mukden, it was gaid, were a battalion at Tienchuangtai and a force operating east of Liaochung. Gen. Shigeru Honjo's headquarters silent on this development. but informed circles construed it as an| indication that the conflict over posses- sion of the three Eastern provinces was | being waged around the world's council | tables. Dispatches from Tokio represented the Japanese foreign office as deploring the latest communcations of the United States, Great Britain and France on the grounds that they tended to foment the problem rather than settle it The Tokio press quoted Minister of War Sadao Araki as saying that “so as the military authoritics are con- cerned our attitude, as often announced | heretofore, remains unchanged and any | such interference will not affect our policy in the least.” PROTESTS TO LEAGUE. Nanking Asks for Pressure to Stop Japan’s Advance on Chinchow. NANKING, China, December 26 | (P —The Forcign Affairs Commission of the Chingse provisional government, again concerned over Japanese activ- ity in Manchuria, sent a telegram to | the League of Nations today urging that pressure be brought to bear on ' Japan to refrain from military oper- | ations against Chinchow. I SOCIETY WOMEN LOSE TWO $10,000 BRACELETS Ornaments Mysteriously Disappear; in Taxicabs—Links of One | Are Found. By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, December 26.— The mysterious loss of two $10,000 brace- lets by two society women resulted in a widespread police search today. Both bracelets were lost in taxicabs. Mrs, Katherine Kent Erhart, grand- daughter of the late Mayor William R. Grace and cousin of the Countess of Donoughmore, reported her bracelet disappeared while she was riding in a cab from a theater to her home. It was lost Christmas eve, but the fact was not made public until today. Three of the four links of the brace- let were recovered by police, who re- fused to give details. On December 23 Mrs. Leonora Haberle Warner lost her bracelet un- der similar circumstances. A man who said he was a cab driver made a tele- phone appointment to return it, but failed to appear. YOSHIZAWA GOING HOME ‘Will Return to Japan to Assume Post of Foreign Minister. PARIS, December 26 (#).—Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who served as Japan's spokesman during the League of Na- tions meeting on Manchuria, will leave for Tokio tomorrow by way of Siberis Blast Rips Engine Apart, Killing Two; Passengers Escape By the Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif., Decem- ber 26.—With a roar heard for miles, the locomotive on the Southern Pacific’'s West Coast Limited exploded near Richville, Butte County, yesterday, killing Joseph Strum, the engineer, and Walter T. Stone, fireman. None of the holiday passengers on the train was injured. Investigation to determine the cause of the explosion, which oc- curred as the train rolled at a speed of only 25 miles an hour, was under way by Southern Pa- cific officials. Passengers were frightened as the blast tore away the locomo- tive and sent its tender down the tracks a mile at a terrific speed, but the automatic air brakes brought the train to a stop. Both victims had apparently been killed instantly. They lived in Sacra- mento. PROTESTANT UNION WITH CATHOLICS IS INVITED BY PIUS X Encyclical Entitled “Lux Veritatis” Marks Anniversary of Council of Ephesus. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY. December 26—A call for the union of Protestants and Catholics the world over was issued by Pope Pius XI today in an encyclical entitled “Lux Veritatis.” The encyclical, meaning “the light of truth” and dated on Christmas, com- memorates the 1,500th anniversary of | the Council of Ephesus, which con- demned the doctrines of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople. The Pontiff addressed to Protestants example of Catholics in invoking the protection of the Virgin Mary as a said that if it was believed Jesus Christ was God, she who bore Him must be called the mother of God. Appeal to Eastern Churches. If Mary is the mother of God, he continued, she must fill every grace and be adorned with every privilege. Therefore, he said, those who venerate | her life must imitate her. The objec- tion which Protestants bring forth against the federation of men, he said, s thus very clearly answered. The Pope made a special appeal to the Eastern churches. venerated Mary as the Roman Catho- lics do and recalled that they main- tained themselves for many centuries in the unity of the apostolic see of Rome and that at the Council of Ephe- sus they saluted the Pope as the “cus- todian of the faith.” The Pontiff appealed to them to re- turn to what he described as their ancient common father who, 15 cen- turies ago, united with them in an ad- mirable harmony of mind and heart in proclaiming the divine maternity of the Virgin History Is Cited. In inviting diffident churches to re- turn to the fold of Rome, the Pope cited history to show that the Catholic Church always had been the central au- | He recalled that after the bit- | thority. ter controversy of Ephesus “in that most grave extremity” the entire Christian hierarchy recognized the supreme au- thority of the Bishop of Rome. On the question of the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ, he said that the proof and llustration of the dogma that the two natures were em- braced in one person had been taken from the sacred revelation of scripture and from tradition. Two persons in Christ were not spoken of, he said, but only one person —even as the Savior is called both man | and God: man, who is born, nourished, suffers and dies, and God, who works the greatest miracle by His own power. To Be Published Tonight. The full text of the encyclical in Latin, which will be published tonight, was described by his holiness as dealing mainly with religious doctrine and his- tory. It is the fifth encyclical issued this year in addition to a short en- cyclical letter. The pope also established for the church a new mass—the maternity of Mary—as a lasting commemoration of this year's celebration of the anni- versary of Ephesus. It embraces the principal ritual of the present mass with some variations in prayer. GRID INJU;!Y FATAL Kulpmont, Pa., Youth Was Hurt Thanksgiving Day. DANVILLE, Pa., December 26 (#).— Edward Obzud, 16, a member of the | Kulpmont High School foot ball team, | died in a hospital today as a result of injuries received in a Thanksgiving day game. Obzud suffered an injury to his right knee early in the game with Mount Carmel Township, but later returncd to his place in the line. Two days later he complained of pains in the leg and was brought here. Physicians said death was due to infections. He said they | PARK BOARD URGES GARAGES TO CARE FOR WORKERS' GARS Insists Government Provide Storage Space in Triangle Development. REPORT TO PRESIDENT ASSAILS STREET USE | Far-Sighted and Correlated Policy by All Federal Agencies Recommended. The vexing question of where to put | Washington's automobiles during work- | tng hours drew from the National Cap- | ital Park and Planning Commission, in annual report, sent to President | Hoover today, the refteration that “the best way to provide for the extensive | daytime storage of automobiles in a | business district appears to be in multi- story garages.” It insisted again that the Federal Government, should take the lead in | providing storage space for automobiles the Federal triangle development with a reasonable charge being made for this service to employes. The commission specifically recom- mended that “in Washington there | should be agreement upon, and per- sistent adhercnce to. a self-consistent and far-sighted policy, or group of | correlated policies, by the several | agencies of government responsible in | various ways for the handling of auto- mobile storage in the principal business | disttict, including the District Commis | sioners ‘and_the Office of Public Build- | ings and Public Parks as concerned with parking regulations. the Public | Buildings Commission, and, in the last analysis, Congress. Lists Primary Principles. 1t listed these primary principles to be borne in mind in the formulation of such a program “It is not a legitimate permanent number 84,000, including irregu- | mediator and intercessor with God and | function of public streets and parks to | provide storage for vehicles when not {in use for transportation | * “The policy of progressively and per- | sistently increasing the stringency of | restrictions upon the free storage of | vehicles in the streets and parks should be so clear and so firmly estal lished that fear of competitive free storage provided by public authorities at the expense of the general taxpayers will not deter investors from providing convenient and economical storage places on private property in the busi- ness district at charges commensurate with the cost of the services and with { the value of the service to those who use it. “The Government, in its capacity of | builder and operator of office buildings, | should, as a part of its office-building | program, provide a reasonable amount | of cubic feet of building space adapted | “This starage, except in the case of official cars, should be provided only on the basis of a reasonable charge suffi- cient to cover the cost of the serv- ice; so that those to whom the con- venience of such storage on valuable central land is not worth its real cost, may use public transportation systems. | Otherwise they parasitically obtain a luxury at the cost of others, which is | not worth to anybody what it costs. Ratio Is Problem. “Owing to the uncertainty as to what ratio of automobile storage space to | office space will prove economically | sound, it is expedient to make at least a part of such structures for automo- bile storage in connection with Govern- ment offices readily convertible to other use, as can readily be done with ordi- nary loft-building construction. “The principle of the self contained block, as advocated by Dr. McClintock and the Automobile Parking Commit- tee in the report of that committee, reinforces the opinion of the commis- sion in regard to the necessity of pro- viding parking space in connection with the triangle Government building de- velopment. “The commission has always advo- cated that the ‘triangle should be self- contained as to parking' and has re- peatedly brought the matter to the at- tention of the Treasury Board of Archi- tectual consultants and of the Public Building Commission. “In the opinion of the commission. parking facilities should be provided within the buildings and courts of the triangle for the use of employes and persons doing business with the Gov- ernment, at a reasonable charge.” PROBE TO BE RESUMED Oklahoma Seeks Cause of Further Gasoline Price Raise. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 26 (/). —An investigation of the price of retail gasoline in Oklahoma will be resumed by the attorney general’s office as a re- sult of an increase of 1 cent per gal- Ion, announced by several major com- panies yesterday. The price was increased from 16 to 17 cents a gallon for white gasoline | after State tax officials announced the gasoline tax would be reduced from 5 | to 4 cents a gallon January 1. W. C. Lewis, assistant attorney gen- eral, who has been inquiring into the various prices of motor fuel, said the steadily increasing levels are “entirely out of line.” Authority to make a complete inquiry of prices to determine if there is dis- crimination between communities and exorbitant profits was granted the at- {o{ney general’s office by the last Legis- ature, DAY-OFF PENALTY GIVES BRODIE LAST LAUGH—IF HE WANTS IT Enforced Vacation Ordered by Glassford: Taken at Expense of Police Department. The old adage, “He who laugh last, laughs best,” worked out in the case of Detective Sergt. H. E. Brodie, who was penalized a day's leave last week by Maj. Pelham D. Glassford, superin- tendent of police, for double parking. Brodie, however, for fear of the possible to assume his new post as the Japanese foreign minister. Radio Programs on Page B-8 consequences, isn't doing any laughing, certainly not out loud. . The day off Brodie was ordered to take was to have been checked against his annual leave in accordance with Maj. Glassford’s instructions. It now develops that the police superintendent directed the forced layoff without checking the records to find out whether the detective had any leave. Anyhow, Brodie took the day off without much of a protest, and person nel officers, going over the records yes- terday, discovered that the detective had used all of his annual leave, 5o his | one-day vacation was taken at the ex- pense of the Police Department. But | Maj. Glassford doesn't know that yet, to the daytime storage of automobiles | 'of the occupants of its office buildings. | LANSAKeS ! THIS ONE HAS M { < | = Z U0 13 GUESSINI=Y PRESIDENT WORKS AS OTHERS REST vef Attention After Gay White House Party. President Hoover did not take advan- tage today of the holiday he had declared for Government workers, but was absorb- ed in business at the executive office the greater part of the forenoon. There jare a number of vitally important mat- { ters, most relating to his economic program, which he felt required his im- mediate attention, and for that reason | he tore himself away from the happy Christmas atmosphere of his household. The White House last night was the scene of a Christmas party in honor of the members of the President’s cabi- net and their families. The next party at the White House will be on Monday night, when Allan Hoover, the Presi- dent’s youngest son, will be host to more than a hundred young men and women at a dinner dance Upon arriving at his office this morning, the President first gave his attention to newspapers of the last few days. Dur- ing all his Christmas fun the Presi- dent neglected his newspaper reading. and for nearly an hour he pored through | the papers. Then he became engaged in a stack of correspondence and an- other pile of papers which required his signature To Confer With Leaders. the President would confer again dur- ing the congressional recess with lead- lers of both parties upon this economic program. A member of the executive secretariat, Theodore Joslin, said Mr. Hoover was considering “methods of expediting action by Congress on the economic program he outlined re- cently.” The program referred to was one of 12 points. On December 11 the President drew together in one state- ment all of the steps recommended to Congress and others put into effect through executive action. Foremost was the $500.000,000 Emer- gency Reconstruction Corporation now awaiting congressional action and the $100,000,000 increase of capitalization for thé¢ Federal Land Banks already passed by the House. Other points, such as the release of deposits in closed banks, creation of a home loan dis- count bank system and enlargement of Federal Reserve Bank discount facili- ities, have yet to be taken up by com- mittees. DYNAMITE TRAP FATAL T0 AGENT RAIDING STILL Four Other Officers Injured—Three Held in Alleged Plot Against Deputies. By the Associated Press. WAYCROSS, Ga., r Berry Palmer, 43, a deputy sheriff, died yesterday from injuries received in a dynamite trap in which four other officers were injured while raiding a still near Pearson, Ga. One of Palmer’s legs was amputated.in an effort to save I his_life. Three men have been arrested in the alleged plot against the officers. The still exploded as officers vaised the lids of mash barrels. Electric switches con- nected with the barrel lids set off the | explosion. Sheriff Louis Hite and his ! deputies had been led to the spot by an | anonymously mailed map. d Paimer is survived by his widow and | five children, William O’Berry’s eyes were injured and he may lose the sight of one. The other three were only slightly hurt. Officers said they believed they had the ring leader of the plot in custody. The three men held gave the names of Mose Smith, Grover McKinnon and Ben Corbett. HUNTER TO LOSE FEET Stumbles for Days Through Cana- dian Snowstorm. ST. WALBURG, Saskatchewan, De- {cember 26 (#).—A moose hunt, on which he lost his way and stumbled for days through snowstorms, may prove fatal to Rudolph Baada, 28. With both feet frozen so badly they must be amputated, Baada staggered yesterday into a camp 40 miles north- east of here, where lumberjacks were cating Christmas dinner. He had used his last two matches and eaten the last of a porcupine he had caught. Crew Safe as Ship Is Floated. HN, New Brunswick, Decem- bef’%&’f}l’).——’l‘he steamer Ulva, which went aground at Seal Island yesterday, was floated during the night, a wireless message received from the New Bruns- wick agent for the Department of Ma- rh%‘sam tain and crew of 18 reached the lslang safely after the ship went aground, | It was said at the White House that | December 26.— | {Mercury Hits New | Low With Further DropForecast Here Temperature of 23 Seen Ball in Minnesota. i 7:30 o'clock this morning, the mercury is due to sink to a new low of 23 de- grees before tonight is over, Weather Bureau officials announced this morning. Thermometer readings of several de- grees below the official 31 were reported from outlying sections of the District today as the northwest winds continued to pour in seasonable chill The official forecast does not in- clude any snow or rain, but calls for “fair” weather tonight and tomorrow The night will be marked by continued moderate westerly winds, and after its drop through tonight and tomorrow morning, the temperature is expected to rise slowly scmetime late tomorrow afternoon. While the National Capital is climb- ing back into its coats other sections | are just shaking off the lethargy of an | off-color Christmas. Associated Press | dispatches from various localities sum- med up Christmas day with “base ,ball in Minnesota. lawn mowing in Chi- | cago: pansies, violets and even straw- | berries in the Middle West.” These dis- | patches showed that balmy breezes blew across the prairie provinces of Canada | At Fort William. Ontario, they couldn't | play hockey. The weather was too mild for ice making. At Ketchikan, Alaska, up in Santa | Claus' bailiwick, they used Southern cotton as a substitute for snow. They had to. the warm. In Mora, Min cold, they played base ball. The East was a bit chilly. but the wind's whistle | there was really worse than its bite. | Snow there was none. The prediction |for today was ““warmer” in other Ea: | ern ‘spots, and the Middle West, too, | looked for higher temperatures, 300 FLODD-B0UND - FARMERS RESCUED |Colored Workers Taken From Roofs of Cabins in Talla- hatchie River Valley. | By the Associated Press CLARKSDALE, Miss., December 26. —Rescue boats skirted the flooded low- lands of the Tallahatchie River Valley today to gather up the last of the flood-marooned colored tenant farmers, | numbering more than 300. | the roofs of their cabins. The-refugees were distributed among North Talla- of planters, where residents co-operated in providing food and shelter for them. Strained levees at Glendora and Sum- ner still were menaced today by the swollen Bayou Cassidy. Two hundred convicts worked in shifts Christmas day and saved the dikes there. J. W. Williamson, superintend- ent of the penitentiary, said he would return with convicts should the situa- tion demand and would mobilize an army of 2,000 trusties, if necessary. ‘Warm weather has prevailed in the area, and relief workers were concen- trating principally on getting food to refugees. The Red Cross estimated there were at least 1,000 refugees in Tallachatchie, Panola and Quitman Counties. TWO DROWN IN FLOOD. Colored Man and Son Fall in River Near Mimms, Miss. BATESVILLE, Miss, December 26 (#)—A colored man named Henderson and his 6-year-old son were reported drowned today in the flooded territory around Mimms. The reports, given by relatives, said the two slipped into the Tallahatchie River near Mimms as they attempted to_cross a levee. Rescuers continued their search for Mr. and Mrs. Pope Whitten and their four children who have been missing since fleeing their home near Stone earlier in the week. Dr. Melvil Dewey Dead. LAKE PLACID, Fla., December 26 (#).—Dr. Melvil Dewey, internation- ally known educator and inventor of the decimal classification system ised in libraries, died here today of a cere- bral hemorrhage. He celebrated his g:thlo irthday anniversary Decem- T 10, Following its descent to 31 degrees at Nature had left them out in | . where it should be | Many of the rescued were taken from | hatchie County towns and at the homes | FIVE DIE N FIRE | DESTROYING HOTEL | Pressing Duties Claim Hoo- During Night—Play Base 17 Others Missing Following E $100,000 Blaze in Spring- | field, Mass. | | created today to hold hearings on meas- | By the Associated Press SPRINGFIELD. Mass, December 26.—Five persons were killed early to- day in a fire that swept the five-story new Court Hotel. Only 31 of the 48 ' known occupants had been accounted for, however, and police expressed the belief that others also had lost their lives. Search for more bodies was slowed up by fear of collapse of floors and walls. Damage may reach $100,000. | The dead are Samuel Knight, janitor: his wife and two-week-old baby; Robert North, 60. an employe, and an unidentified roomer. Knight's body was found near a door, indicating he | was rushing for help when overcome, | while these of his wife and baby were | found in a bed. All deaths were due | to suffocation. The blaze had gained headway when | the fire was discovered and roomers on the upper floors were trapped by | fire and smoke. Some of the guests! managed to reach fire escapes. Others were assisted down ladders. Many of ‘he occupants had retired and were awakened by Ernest Mc- | Carthy, nephew of Mrs. Della Wilson manager of the hotel. McCarthy su fered burns. Practically all fire apparatus was called ou® and the firemen played | dozens of streams on the blaze. The | flames lighted the sky for a great dis- tance and more than 4,000 persons gathered to watch. A strong wind fanned the flames and it was only with great difficulty "that firemen confined the blaze to the hotel. Mrs. Wilson. the proprietor, reported the loss of 8600 and a diamond ring valued at $1.000. The roomers re- ported loss of all property except the scanty attire in which they fled. Charles Lemburz, a cripple, managed to leave the building despite the fact that he was forced to leave behind his wooden leg. The ground floor of the building is occupied by a number of stores. The cause of the fire has not been deter- mined. MAYFLOWER TO BE KEPT AS HISTORICAL RELIC Owner Proposes to Restore Float- ing White House for Fu- ture Generations. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 26.—The former presidential yacht Mayflower will be preserved as a national relic, Henry J. Gielow, Inc., naval architects, announced yesterday. The same source announced recently that the Mayflower would be rebuilt as a private yacht, but it now is stated that she will be rebuilt with the same trim lines boasted when she was the floating White House. The Mayflower was sold in October for $16,105 after having been discarded as too expensive by President Hoover. Her nominal purchaser was Leo P. Coe of Chicago, but he is said to have acted for Frank P. Parish of that city. Mr. Parish and Col. E. H. R. Green of Round Hills, Mass., will bear jointly the expense of reconditioning the craft, it was understood. % service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,590 = (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. Fate of Elephant In Balance After Holiday Rampage City Charge Smashes Wall of Quarters; Mad Beast Finally Shackled. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg.,, December 26.— Tusko, 10 tons of mad elephant, stood securely fastened in his damaged barn here today while the City Council pre- pared to debate his fate. ‘Tusko, choosing Christmas day to struggle for freedom, tossed off his front-leg shackles and with his move- ments restricted only by long chains fastened about his rear legs, began an assault on his quarters. He smashed down one wall of his barn and for 12 hours defied the efforts of his keepers and police. He made repeated lunges at those who sought to Testrain him and the sit- uation became so acute that 12 police- men with submachine guns were sent out with orders to kill the beast if necessary. Finally he was tricked into stepping inside a steel cable noose, one end of which was attached to a powerful truck. Several hours later his keepers, Jack O'Grady and “Sleepy” Gray, said they were positive they had him fasten- ed so securely there was no chance for him to break out again. Several vears ago he was given away by a circus after he had caused sev- eral thousand dollars’ worth of damage | at Sedro Woolley, Wash. SENATORS CHOSEN 10 AR WET BILLS Blaine He; committee of Five to Con- duct Hearings. By the Associated Press. A Senate judiciary subcommittee was ures for the repeal and modification of prohibition. Chairman Norris chose five members, | headed by Senator Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin, to hold hearings shortly after Christmas on the various prohibi- tion bills before his committee. Other members are: Senators Bora Republican, Idaho: Hebert, Republic: Rhode Island: Ashurst, Democrat, A~ zcna, and Waish, Democrat, Montana Among the measures the subcom- mittee will consider are a resolution by Senator Bingham. Republican. Connec- ticut. to repeal the eighteenth amend- ment; a bill by Bingham to allow phy siclans to prescribe malt liquors for medicinal purposes up to one-half pint of alcohol every 10 d. and a third to regulate the sale of wood alcohol Norris also appointed today a subcom- mittee. headed by Hebert, to consider Bingham's resolution to provide ma- chinery for national referenda, and a resolution which would require ing to give the Federal Government ad- ditional power over individuals must be ratified by State conventions rather than Legislatures Other members of Hebert's subcom- mittee are Senators Robinson. Repub- | lican, Indiana, and King, Democrat, | Utah. A subcommittee of the Senate Manu- | factures Committee, headed by Senator | Metcalf, Republican, Rhode Island. has ! been appointed to hold hearings after ito legalize 4 per cent beer. Blaine. an opponent of prohibition, | | said he would not open hearings until he has completed a bill to modify the | Volstead act 'MORATORIUM DANGER IS SEEN IN BALKANS Vienna Hears Reports Austria and Other Countries May Follow Hungary's Example. By the Associated Press VIENNA, December 26.—Declaration | rise to_reports that Austria and some | of the Balkan countries may follow suit, but this far Austrian officials have said nothing to support them. What amounts to a transfer morato- rium already is in effect here so far as foreign trade is concerned. Goods may be imported and paid for only | by “special permission of the National | Bank unless the seller is willing to take | payments in schillings, which must re- | main in Austria. | _ Whether the government will find it | necessary to declare a moratorium on interest amounting to about $42.000,000 on foreign obligations depends to a great extent on whether creditors, par- ticularly the Bank of England, will re- | new credits soon falling due. About $70,000,000 in short-term credits is frozen in Austria, but the | creditors have promised a two years' | extension if the credit anstalt reorgan- ization bills are passed. and these are practically through Parliament. The situation in Jugoslavia also is regarded as serious, but any question of a moratorium there involves the wx]l!ingness of France to continue sup- port. By the Associated Press. HILO, Hawali, December 26.—After a “breathing space” of several hours, the fires of Kilauea Volcano blazed last night with renewed brilliance, leading experts to hope for an eruption that would endure through the Winter tour- ist_season, just getting under way. Huge fountains spurting molten lava as high as 300 feet from the floor of Halemaumau fire pit—which inciden- tally is more than 1,000 feet deep— formed the central figure in the vol- canic show. The 48-acre floor of the it was a sloshing, seething mass, hav- Png been entirely covered since Wed- nesday by the liquid rock. The blue smoke from the crater gave evidence of the great heat set free by the eruption, The lava crust, in those few parts of the pool where the molten mass was not Iln eruption, was red Hawail's teme MOLTEN ROCK SPOUTS 300 FEET AS KILAUEA'’S FIRES BLAZE ANEW Red-Hot Lava Covers 48-Acre Pit of Hawaii’s Tame Volcano in Sloshing, Seething Mass. best of all tourist attractions. Although rangers of Hawaii National Park are keeping amateur volcanologists away from the rim of Halemaumau, there still is enough to see, hear and smell. The present eruption started Wed- nesday aftérnoon. By that night it was estimated every automobile on the ltsrlland was at the volcano or on the way ere. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, who has seen many eruptions at Kilauea and is an international authority on volcanos, de- scribed the volcanic effects last night as spectacular. While unwilling to make a definite prediction, he indicated 'ltmbellef the eruption might last some e. The cone built up by the eruption of 1930 has been entirely covered by the newly formed lava lake, but the cone formed 12 1929 still was a black island hot. volcano 1s one of the last night that | {amendments to the Constitution propos- | the .holidays on another bill by Bingham | | of a moratorium by Hungary has given | ads Judiciary Sub- ‘O PARIS AND LONDON MOVE FOR WORLD PARLEY ON DEBTS Official Announcement Waits Reacticn of Other Capitals to Proposal. CONFERENCE WOULD OPEN AT THE HAGUE JANUARY 18 Some Nations Have Been Sounding Out U. 8. on Likelihood of Accepting Cut. By the Associated Press PARIS, December 2 governments ung plan relative to repa; is a reaction from other count expected to be favorable—before m. an official announcement. A cab meeting scheduled for today t the Basel report and the prope ference was postponed until next week. aiting Would Precede Arms Parley. The n Europe w ha gan Le Temps, Dangerous Situation Seen. arding Germany have cr an absurd and dangerous situation.” U. S. CO-OPERATION UNLIKELY. Naming of Official Delegate to Debts Conference Scouted. Participatio German oday as rations and war debts are interlocked. There was a lack of official tion or comment on such a conference, s it was assumed might be asked observer, been _antic] les that the probably would f meet_in view of the B: capatity ments That such a c rations collect toward further ne intergover seem possibl ated in reparations d it report e as to G reparation nce of the repa- might lead to other uld also al view, Copy of Report Awaited. It was regarded as i ever, by most official observers that a direct motion for tal The Hague both the re debt questions was to be expected As the Washington Government is still limited to press cablegrams in its of the Basel Committee report, er. and is awaiting a full copy to complete its information, no official cared to speculate upon the course of the Hoover administration The rider attached to the resolution ratifying the Hoover one-year debt moratorium now in _effect flatly ex- pressed the sense of both houses of Ccngress against further debt reduc- tion European chancellories are fully ad- vised of that congressional attitude and it would cause surprise in Washington if they sought to renew debt reduction negotiations without careful preliminary conversations with American diplomatic representatives. Snell Cites Reservgtion. Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader, has been one of the last to put the congressional feeling into words. Only two days ago, he pointed out that the reservation at- tached to the moratorium resolution would prevent any ene who voted for it from supporting another suspension of payments. ““We have gone as far as we will go,” he said. “Our people, as far as T know, are opposed to any reduction or cancellation of these debts. “I think the temper of Congress will be to let the foreign nations default. Anybody who votes for an extension of the moratorium votes to saddle $11,- 000,000,000 of foreign debts on the American taxpaye! Congress cannot be a party to this. SEVILLE FLYERS LAND Haya and Rodriguez Reach Span- ish Guinea Christmas Day, MADRID, December 26 (#).—A radio message to the Spanish Transradio Co. today said the aviators Haya and Rod riguez arrived at Bata, Spanish Guinea, Christmas afternoon. They started from Seville Thursday. $100,000 Fire Razes Hotel. SWIFT CURRENT, Saskatchewan, how- here December 26 (#).—Firc of undetermined origin demolished the Empress Hotel here at at estimated less of $100,000 ‘yesterday. The flames raged for three hours _uncontrolled. All occupants escaped, /