Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1931, Page 3

GAPPER OPPOSES WAR DEBT CHANGE Kansas Senator Says U. S.| Played Santa Claus for Europe Long Enough. Presh opposition to revision of allied | war debts due the United States came | last night from Senator Capper, Repub- , lican, of Kansas, who said “Uncle Sam | bas plaved Santa Claus about long | enough.” ! In a radio speech, the Kansan said he was opposed to cancellation or any | further scaling down of the debts. He | said America had forgiven the loans miade during the war and only asked; for payment of those made after the | war. “Paid for Much of War.” ! “It seems to a lot of us ordinary folks that after we paid for a good part of the war we had done our share” Senator Capper declared. “We forgave | the actual war debts. But we ought not to be called upon to forgive the post- war loans to boot. “To pay for the war, pay for reha- bilitation ‘and pay for preparations for Europe's next big war—that seems too much of a load. But there seems to be an organized propaganda in Europe, | joined “in by certain interests in the | TUnited States, to force Uncle Sam to forgive all the post-war debts, I. for ore. am opposed to the cancell tion of these governmental debts: I am opposed to any further scaling down.” Referring to the one-year moratorium fust approved, Senator Capper said “We have already granted a year's moratorium. Now, all that means is we héave said to the debtor nations of Europe: ‘We realize you can't collect from Germany for this year without danger of a German collapse. That might destroy the credit structure of the world; it might destroy several gov- ernments. So we will postpone pay- ments due the current fiscal year, and allow you to pay those in 10 annual installments.” - Like Farm Tenant. “That is much the same thing, my friends, as if you had a tenant farmer who could not meet his rent this year. You give him time to pay, instead of | putting him off the farm. 'And this, 1| might say, is the theory on which Con- | gress approved the moratorium. “But now Europe is trying fo make the moratorium permanent. And the international bankers are seconding the lea.” EATierfocsoring \owforaion bonds | have been sold in this country, Senator Capper said: “If the debts of a number of Eu-| Topean governments are repudiated, if their credit standing is impaired, there | will be no further markets in America | for foreign securities. No more com-| missions, spreads. profits or what you may want to call it. So the interna- tional bankers back the cry for debt cancellation.” | JAPANESE DIET OPENS; | SHORT SESSION IS SEEN, —_— | General Election Expected Soon, as Premier Inukai's Party Is Without Majerity. By the Associated Press TOKIO, December 26.—The Japanese Diet was officially opened for its sixtieth session today with a short life in pros- pect The ncw government of Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai was represented by a minority as Emperor Hirohito in person opened the session. i The formalities will be completed to- | morrow. Then the Diet will adjourn | until January 20, when the premier and other cabinet ministers will their administrative addresses. The vernacular newspapers predict the dissolution of the Diet afterward will be unavoidable and already both | the Seivukai party of Premior Inukai| and the Minseito party, which has a majority in the present Diet, are pre- paring for a gemeral clection. oLD G Long Illness Fatal to Arthur Pew deliver | OLD MINER DEAD | in Georgia. | ATLANTA, Ga., December 26— | Arthur Pew, 77, Tetired civil engineer, | died at his home here today after an flire . of five years. M:. 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The bill as passed by the House calls for the Government to subscribe $100.- 000,000 to the capital of the land banks and would authorir~ the banks at their discretion to allow postponements of mortgage instellments due and their payment over a 5-year period. Act to Finance “Moratorium.” The Senate Subcornmittee, headed by Senator Carey, Republican, Wyoming. voted t5 edd the $25,000,000 in order to nee the so-called moratorium to farmer borrowers. The $25.000,000 is to be repaid to the Federal Treasury by the banks when their nced for the money has passed. Chairman Carey believes the amend- ment will permit a moratorium and at the same time avoid weakening the banks. Final Draft Up Tomorrow. A favorable report on the measure with the amendment was decided upon by the committee, which will approve the final language of the redraft at arother cxecuilve secsion tomorrow. Carey said it would be reported promptly to the full committce and probably would be laid before the Sen- ate shetly after Congress reconvenes He added that Senate action on it might be sought ahead of President Hoover's other big economic rehabilita- tion proposal—the $500,000.000 recon- struction finance corporation—on the ground that it probably would not re- quire neerly as much discussion and al- ready has passed the House. EUROPE’S OWN ACTS REGARDED KEY TO FURTHER U. S. HELP (C:ntinued From First Page.) garded here as distinctly European. The United States asked no reparations from Germany, and the policy here has been to look on reparations and wai debts as having no connection. Another European trouble ari failure to eflect monetary stability. American currency is stable. It is abroad, and particularly in Europe, that trade is upset and confidence under- mined by money_troubles, A _third complication arises from a tariff war among European nations, | based on retaliation and having no re- gard for the declared American policy of scientific adjustment on the basis of cost of production. ¥ | A fourth European worry is over | armaments. The poorest nations con- | tinue to arm heavily, draining their treasuries and burdening their peoples by preparations against one another. These all are matters about which | the American Government has felt it could do nothing directly. European | statesmen have been told repeatedly | they must themselves find a solution, because the basic troubles are Euro- | pean in their origin, though their effect | is world-wide. War Debts Individual. An unofficial American observer may attend the projected conference, but | with no power to take a hand in the proceedings. The direct American in- terest, aside from a restoration of con- fidence by European initiative, lies in the war debts, and these debts always | have been treated as transactions be-! tween individual governments, not sub- ject to discussion at a general confer- ence. For the moment there is mo ma- chinery even for individual debt dis- cussicns, Congress having refused to re- create the Debt Funding Commission. It is expected here that as overtures | are made for American participation in | the propcsed negotiations, Europe will find a stiffening attitude in Washing. ton. The American Government de- sires to be helpful, but the impression grows that unless Europe helps itself | by restoring confidence among its com- | ponent nations, it will find the United | States figuring out a course of its own, and buttressing itself as best it may against the shock cf default and gen- eral European recession. Every one here hopes Europe will see the light and no shock will come. A | convincing European accord for econ- omy and stability would be welcomed in Washington as no other event sinee the armistice, and probably would have | tangible returns in the d¥ection of war debts readjustments. EUROPE LOOKS TO U. S. Attitude of America May Be Final| Factor in Reparations Parley. PARIS, December 26 (#)—The at-! titude of the United States on the re- | duction of war debts will be the deter- | mining facter in the forthcoming Inter- national Reparations Conference, it | " TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. __HELP—WOMEN. YOUNG LADI with soda- luncheonette experience. Must be well recommended. Apply between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Miss | Henry Yates here. | Christmas holidays with his We have a large supply of our usuel ' 1)Orman, Whelan Drug Co., 18th high-grade appies and sweet cide: - : . e and Columbia road. ockville Fruit Farm SERVICE DAY OR NITE On Plumbing Tinning and Heating. 35 Years' Experience. Guaranteed Work- ‘manship. No Job Too Small. BUDGET PAYMENTS if desired. CHURCH NOTICE. BAPTIST. 9ih NEAR B 8.W. M. P. GERMAN. Minister C. D 0. t. N.W. Day, Dec. ¥700—Evening, Clev. 0619, % ( FARM DEBTS DELAY U. S. and European Trade Goes Below ADDEDTOBANKEAL o o veur ;lnujr(‘hangv of Goods | Drops 36 Pect. From 1930 Figures. By the Associated Press. Europe bought less from the United States ands sold less to us in the first | thre= quarters of 1931 than in any similar period for a long time, but pro- portionately speaking, it did more than its share at that. Analyzing trade figures for the first nine months of the year, the Chambe of Commerce of the United States said i a statement yesterday that ne rly 48 per cent of all American exports dur- ing the period were bought by Europsan | countries, the largest proportion for any similar time in recent ye:rs Asia was also a g custcmer. ship- ments to that continent, as compared to the first nine months of 1930, hold- ing up batter than those to any other continent Th> value of shipments to Asia de- clined only 20 per cent, the chamber sald, as compared with declines of 36 per ‘cent for Europe, 37 per cent for Africa, 41 per cent for North America 51 per cent for South Amc-rica and 63 per cent for Oceaniz. Individual customers maintsined their ranking, howsver, as compraed to |1930. Canada being first, the United | Kingdom second and Germany third. WETS CITE NUMBER 07,5, DRY AGENTS Anti-Dry Sentiment Proof Is Seen in 2,393 Sleuths by Crusaders. By the Assoclated Press he Crusaders. anti-prohibition or- ganization, said in a statement yester- day the comparatively large number ot ohibition agents among Government euths” was_proof the people did not believe in prohibition The statement said the Government employed only 5439 enforcement offi- cers for the apprehension of Federal law violators, but that 2393 of this number, or 44 per cent of the total, concentrate entirely on prohibition.” “It is significant that only 540 men are required to enforce the thousands of postal regulations, expose mail | frauds, run down mail robbers and in general make Uncle Sam’s mail almost sacred,” the statement said. “Probably no one has counted the number of laws enforced by the Federal Government—it certainly must run into the thousands—but Uncle Sam seems to manage pretty well in enforcing them all with the exception of prohibition.” ses from DEPUTY SHéRIFF SHOT | Policeman Rushed to Jail in Ex- citement at Honaker, Va. HONAKER, Va., December 26 (#).— McKinley Evans, town policeman, was arrested tonight after he is alleged to have seriously wounded Deputy Sheriff | Yates was taken to the Richlands Hospital with a bullet wound below the heart, Evans was rushed to the Russell County Jail at Lebanon. Extitement was high. The shooting occurred, it was said, when Yates approached | Evens on a street here about 8:30 p.m. to serve papers charging Evans with striking Smith Addison yesterday with a pistol when Evans was arresiing a man named Ford. Addison is alleged to_have_interfered. In shooting tonight Evans' brother, Ham Evans, was shot through the hand by McKinley, officers stated. was sald in international circles to- night. ‘The French cabinet meeting sched- uled for today was postponed in order that Premier Pierre Laval and his col- leagues might have more time to con- sider the position France will adopt at the confercnce. It was confidently be- lieved here that the meeting will ke held January 18 at The Hague { The cabinet will get togeiher next week, whgn the government is expected to lay afun ite instructions to. the French delegates. Borah Statement Quoted. The oustanding single development in the reparations discussion was a | statement by Senator William E. Borah, quotgd in the German press, that the treaty of Versailles should be revised and Germany's burdens lightened. The Nationalist press, as represented by L’Ami du Peuple, declared this state- | ment should be considered as an ex- | pression of the opinion of German- | American finance. | Premier Laval, who expects to attend the opening of the Geneva Disarma- ment Conference in February, spent family | studying_the report returned by the | Young Plan Advisory Committee in Basel. | Views Are Exchanged. The French government awaited the | reaction of other countries before | making official announcement of the | place and date of the Reparations Con- | ference. Some nations, it was learned authori- tatively, have been attempting unoffi- | cially to find out whether the United | States would be likely to accept a re- | duction in debts due her in proportion | to any cuts allowed in German repara- } tions. An exchange of views among the governments that signed the Young plan was going on in preparation for The Hague meeting. The story se otographer. ion was conducted by Star Staffl Photo. LINKS TARIFF CUTS WTH DEBYREEESS Rainey Says Relief Depends on Lowering of Cus- toms Walls. By the Associated Press Another demand that foreign slashes be conditioned on reciprocal tariff cuts was issued yesterday from a high Democratic source. Representative Rainey, leader and moratorium foe, said that under such an arrangement “there might be some reason for extending debt payments.” “But Mr. Hoover and Republican party leaders cannot do anything along this” line,” the Illinois Representative said. “They haven't done anything and won't do anything in the future.” “That will come from Democratic sources only. If the elections next Fall result in the election of a Democratic President then we may get somewhere That is the only relief T sce, and the only hope of relief to our agriculture and our industries It was the second consecutive day that tariff walls have been linked with international debts by Democratic spokesmen. Hull of Tennessee said European governments could seek debt adjustments only after proposing tariff reductions, and gave notice more liberal trade relations must precede re- vision negotiations Hull voted for President Hoover's one- year moratorium, while Rainey votpd against it. Both, however, are mem of the Joint Democratic’ Policy Com- mittee that will confer on party tardl views soon after the holidays, TAILORS’ PATRON SAINT | RESTORED BY ROMANS for Whom Church Is Named, Honored by Clothes ROME (N ANA) —Saint has come into his own Roman debt the He | Omobono, Ancient 1 | Makers. | | ‘Omobono caint eleventh century, and there is a church dedicated to his memory in one of the oldest quarters of the cit The new-old fraternity of Rome’s tailors has taken Vup again the old rule: “Brother tailors, be ever devoted to Saint Omobono, your lord and pa- tron, and when you cut a suit of clothes remember “him in fixing the price.” Whether the tailors and “Sartine” (the Italian midinettes) who have just banqueted in their patron’s honor and visited his church en masse. intend by the rule to make their charges more or less remains to be seen. After all, prices were very different in St. Omo- bono's day! (Copyright. 1931, by Newspaper COMMERCE TO SUPPORT BALTIMORE’S RATE FIGHT to Join City and Other Interests to Block 0ld Port Difierentials. All he North American Association By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 26—Com- mercial interests will join the city of Baltimore in petitioning the Interstate | Commerce Commission Monday to re- strain railroads from re-establishing on January 3 rate differentials on export end import shipments in efect prior to the Eastern class rate invesigation. Charles R. Seal. Balt'more Ass of Commerce official. said his zation would join the city and the Chamber of Commerce in~ filing the petition. Sweeping rate and differential changes went into effect December 3 on order of the commission, and Baltimore was favored over Philadelphia, New York and Boston by the new rates. Since that time, however, the rail- roads have filed tariff rates which would strip Baltimore of its advan- tages on overseas shipments. HELD AS COUNTERFEITER Man Taken in Log Cabin Is Brought to Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., December 26 (#).—Hiram Branham, Christmas day in a log cabin near New- berry on a charge of counterfeiting $10 bank motes, was brought here today for_arraignment. The offense, according to United | States Secret Service Operative Frank L. Holliday who made the arrest, is alleged to have been committed in Cincinnati. 5 TWb KILLED IN CAR Gretna, Va., Brothers Die as Auto Leaves Road and Upsets. GRETNA, Va. December 26 (P)— Two brothers of Gretna were killed und a third severely injured Christmas day when their automobile left the road and turned over near Sandy Level. The two killed were Abb Shelton, 45, and Henderson Shelton, 48. The in- jured brother is Chapley Shelton, jr., whose condition tonight was said to 3, arrested | HUGE DIXIE DEBIS ARE REVIVED AGAIN Discussion of European Re- pudiation Likened to Civil War Situation. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. With European countries now openly talking of defaulting on their huge debts to the United States when the Hoover moratorium year expires in July, 1932, discussion has been revived of the repudiation of their bonded indebted- ness by eight of our Southern States. | The Commonwealths in question are !P‘loridn, Mississippi, Alabama, Apkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carollna and South Carolina. Such portions of the | indebtedness as were contracted after the Civil War were saddled on these | States by their notorious carpet-bagger administrations. The gross amount of the repudiated principal is in the neighborhood of §75,000,000. Accumulated interest from 1831 to 1871 is calculated to total an- other $300,000,000. Every time the World War debt problem becomes a matter of international discussion, these unredeemed obligations of Dixie are re- called and trotted out for American dis- comfiture. An organization in Great Britain known as the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders ~ specializes annually in drawing attention to the subject Its forthcoming yearly report, in light of | current events, is sure to return to it with more caustic alluslons than ever. Legal Action Blocked. Although there is no legal obligation upon the part of the Federal Govern- ment of the United States to recognize these Southern State debts, it is claimed by authorities that it is the Government at Washington which prevents the holders of these bonds (who are mostly Europeans) from enforcing payment of them at law. This is said to be impos- sible under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution, reading “The judicial power of the United | States shall not be construed to extend | to any suit in law or ~quity, commenced | or prosec against one of the United | | | zens of another state, or | 5 or subjects of any foreign ppman. special writer on the New York Herald Tribune stafl, is now devoting considerable attention to the Southern debts which he describes as things which should induce people who live in glass houses not to throw stones | Mr. Lippman contends that, in respect | {5 the debts incurred in Dixie under car- pet-bagger Tule, “the moral obligation | rests not upon the Southern States but upon the Union.” He also holds to be | gum-nt of South- | crn smen that their States should not be held liable for corrupt and waste- | ful debts forced on them by Fede policy. “But, from the viewpoint of th bondholders, many of them British,” | adds Mr. Lippman, “the repudiation is | not excused by this fact.” Facts Summarized. g in Foreign Affairs three years les P. Howland, director_of rch of the Council of Foreign Re- ons in New York. summarized the ts and figures of the repudiated debt tion as_follows vil War Debts | ‘ Florida. Abbut $8,000,000 principal, | | of which $3:900.000 was to provide cap- ji'al for the Union Bank of Florida Th-se bonds were sold in Europe be- !tween 1834 and 1839, The other re-| | pudiated bonds were in aid of the rail- | roads. the date of issue being no longer discoverable. # Mississippi. $2.000.000 bond issue of 1831-1833 in aid of the Planters’ Bank. 185.00°.000 bond issue of 1838 in pay- | | ment for shares in the Union Bank. On tha first issue a proposal to pav in- | terest was defeated by popular referen dum in 1852 On the second s~ though the Mississippi Suprem~ Ccuw sustained the validity of the bonds and ! the Leeiclature wished to recognize them. the governor recommended re- | vudiation end was subport=d bv a popu- lar vot In 1875 the repudiagon of these bonds was made part of the Mis- | sissippi State Constitution | Other Debts Listed. ! Post-Civil War debts Alabama—$18.000.000 of railroad ald tonds were issued or indorsed after the war. Seme of the issues were taken up by the funding act of 1876. The repudiated portion is about $13.000.000. Arkansas—Some of the debt goes back to 1838, when the State chartered a real estate bank. Most of it was cre- ated by the issue of railroad aid or levee bonds after the Civil War. The Supreme Court declared some of the | railroad bonds unlawful Georgia—Bonds issued chiefly for railroad guarantees after the Civil Wer. rere Is said to have been corruption in some of the trancactions connected with these bonds. Estimates of the re- | pudiated bonds vary from $9.863.500 to $13,500.000. | Louisiana—The State's debt was in- creased about $20,000,000 in 1871 Bonds were issued to provide State funds, to aid railroads, banks and the city of New Orleans. In 1912 a ref- | erendum on repayment on some of | these bonds was rejected by popular | vote. North Carolina—The bonds were post-war_railrcad aid and special tax issues. In 1870 the annual interest | charges would have amounted to $2,-| 500,000. The technical objection to| payment was that the State agent ex- | ceeded his pow South Carolina—The repudiated s sues are post-war refundings of pre war issues and partly railroad = aid bonds. The total amount repudiated s not clear. Many Americans who know of these unredeemed Southern bond obligations think of them as indebtedness incurret by the Confederacy. This indebted- ness, having been made payable in Confederate currency and so under- stood when Amercan and foreign in- | vestors accepted the bonds, naturally | as lost when the collapse of the Con- | federacy destroyed the value of its | money “and securities. The Southern | debts which still rank as repudiated in | Eurcpe, because th& commonwealths | | Which incurred them are still in ex- | istence and solvent, are exclusively those of the eight States above enu- merated. w ago (Copyright, 1931.) FORMER PUBLISHER DIES Mrs. Effie McKinlay Kantor, 52, | Expires in Des Moines, Towa. DES MOINES. Towa, December 26 (®)—Mrs. Effie McKinlay Kantor, 52, former Iowa newspaper woman and | magazine publisher, died today at the home of her son, McKinlay Kantor, Death was caused by heart disease. Her son is the author of two novels and several short stories. —_— WATCH REPAIRING BY EXPERTS The repair of your watch does not complete the trans- action between us, but estab- | that {of them are hoping at least to | two of them dead and Chapley Sh:iton, be improved. He is at his home here. The' brothers had been visiting their father, Chapley S. Shelton, and were returning to Gretna when the tragedy occurred. The three brothers were pinned un- | der the car, where they lay until a lishes our obligation to fulfill our guarantee of service. All Parts Used in Our Repair Department Are Genuine Material BURNSTINE’S 1931—PART ONE. LIQUOR SHOWDOWN AIMED IN CONGRESS Forces in Both Houses Seek Action on Question Before 1932 Campaign. (Continued From First Page.) first of subcommittees to begin hear- ings will be the subcommittee of the Manufactures Committee, which has be- fore it the 4 per cent beer bill. It is extremely doubtful that any of these bills for the repeal or revision of the liquor laws can receive a favorable report from the Committee on Judiciary or the Committee on Manufactures. What the wets are hoping for, however, Is that they may be reported to the Senate, even if unfavorably; placed on the calendar and brought to a vote. Holds Time Not Right. In the House, Chairman Summers of the Judiciary Committee, who hails from Texas and is a dry, has declared that he does not believe it the part of wisdom to take up prohibition measures at a time when the country is in the throes of the depression, and legisla- tion to aid in the economic recovery is necded. However, the opponents of na- tional prohibition’ are urging repeal or revision of the liquor laws in the in- terest of economic recovery, asserting the sale of alcoholic beverages under license by the Government would bring in a large revenue, much needed by the Treasury, and that the farmers would find greater use for their grain crops. In the past, prohibition have insisted that the pros- perity of the country was due to the dry laws. But with prosperity a back number, the argument does not reg- ister so strongly. The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House. Representative Snell of New York and Representative Rainey of Illinols, both asserted recent- ly that the liquor issue must be faced in the House and indicated that they will do nothing to oppose a vote either on repeal or revision of the eighteenth amendment. The rules of the House have been revised so that a petition signed by 145 members can have the effect of bringing a vote in the House on any measure, even though the meas- ure is still before a standing committee. | The vote would be on a motion to dis- | charge the committee from further con- | ideration of the measure, but its effect ould be the same as thought the vote were taken directly on the measure it- self. In the Senate, the Republican ieader, Senator Watson, although a dry, has said that he would not oppose a showdown on the liquor issue at the préesent session. Like other drys, Sena- {tor Watson is confident that the wets would be overwhelmingly defeated. This is admitted by the wets them- selves, although the wet block in the House is perhaps twice as large as it was in the last Congress and there has been some increase in the wet vote in the Senate. However, the wets are cager to place all members of Con- gress on record, so that the issue in the various congressional districts and in those States which elect Senators next year, on the liquor question will be clearly drawn. Senator Bingham of Connecticut, be- cause of his activity in regard to anti- prohibition measures, has become a leader of the wets in the Senate. In the House, they have wet blocs on both the Democratic and Republican sides of the chamber with Representative Lin- thicum of Maryland heading the Demo- cratic wets and Representative Beck of Pennsylvania the Republican wets, Strengthened Enforcement. In the last Congress. House and Sen- ate Committees gave attention to meas- ures designed to strengthen prohibition enforcement, several of which were prepared on recommendation of the Wickersham Commission. ~Some of them were enacted into law. The House Judiciary Committee then had a wet at its head, the late Judge Graham of Penn- sylvania. The most recent extensive hearings on_prohibition before Senate committees were those conducted by a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee back in 1926. At that time Senator “Jim" Reed of Missouri, one of the few wets on the committee, con- ducted the hearings to a great extent and by his examination of witnesses centered attention on the failings of prohibition enforcement. A showdown on the liquor question in the Congress, too. may aid both the major political parties when it comes to drafiing their platform for the 1932 campaign. The wets in both the Re- publican and Democratic parties are urging that a liberal platform, so far as liquor is concerned, be drafted. Some have planks for a referendum on prohibition included in the platform, if they can go no further. Democrats and Republicans alike are afraid of the issue, however. And many of the Democrats, even thos | who oppase prohibition, are asking w y it is necessary to take a chance, by in- serting a wet plank in their platform, ©f losing the election when, if the cam- paign is fought out on_economic issues and hard times, the Democrats seem to have such a good chance to win, = . Bay State Bank Closed. BOSTON. December 26 (#).—The State Banking Department announced today the closure of the Haverhill Trust Co. of Haverhill. The in- stitution has total deposits of more than $2,000.000, of which approximately three-four are in the savings de- partment. e Supper NEW YEAR EVE only $5 per person —including everything—noise makers, favors, souvenirs, etc. Dancing from 11 PM. to 4 AM. Make reservations at once. Restaurant Madrillon Peter Borras, Host 15th & N. Y. Ave. District 4361 SPECIALTY SALESMEN THE TOLEDO SCALE COMPANY —will consider applications from two fed specially salesmen, for guarantee territories. “Must have suitable car. proven sales record and be able to finance them- selves until proficien| Phone District 7069 for Appointment for Interview WRECKING Kenilworth School Building Capitol Printing Co. 57 and 59 G St. N.W. Adjacent to the Gov’'t Printing Office uali- city 4 Money-saving Prices on building materials of all kinds. including $roh Stelra Lumper: & Tron_Staire, Lumber; Dimafied Quantity of BRICK. Win: it s Etc., i dows, Doors, Also Restaurant Equipment HARRIS WRECKING CO 361 Pa. Ave. N.W. Ph. Nat. 9196 ' passine motorist found them. He found 927 G St. N.W. ir., unconscious. Funeral services for DIAMONDS WATCHES the dead men were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Salesmen on Premises the supports of | / THE AVENUE AT SEVENTH mportant After-Christmas SALES “ Saks Values Are Never Exa ggerated FAR UNDER THE NEW LOW PRICE LEVELS OF TODAY! A Group of Regular Saks $37.50-$45.00 2-Trouser Suits, Topcoats, OCoats 59850 T IS no feat to sell you clothing at less than the values of former years. But when you can buy authentic Saks clothing at far less than the new revised values of the present season— that is a SALE! And that is an OPPOR. TUNITY! HERE are Saks 2-Trouser Suits, Topcoats and Overcoats from our finest makers and our newest stocks. Their value in the present low market is $37.50 and $45.00. Come and get them at $28.50! Saks—Third Floor NEW-ERA VALUES REDUCED FROM TODAY’S PRICES! Group: High-Grade _Suits, Topcoats and Overcoats (MANY SUITS WITH 2 TROUSERS) $1975 price is extraordinarily low—and that is because it gives you a real reduction even from today’s new lower values. In addition to the big saving, we offer you reai seiection— there’s a suit, topcoat and overcoat here for every type of man and ypung man. On Saks Specialized Fourth Floor Saks Values Are Never Exzggerated .“M