Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy ionight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate southwest and west winds. Temperatures—Highest, 43, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 31, Full report on page 9 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 at 5:30 a.m. today. @ ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny St “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes * as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday's Circulation, Circulation, Sunday’s 109,261 123,737 No. t office, D. 32.017. Entered as second class matter Oay S Washington, i WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 1931—THIRTY PAGES. FXF (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. * JAPANESE CRUSH CHINESE IN MARCH TOWARD CHINCHOW Planes Bomb Armored Train, Psrmitting Invaders to Capture Town of Tawa. OFFERED BY DEFENDERS Advance From Yingkow Kept Se- cret, but Is Expected to Result in Long-Heralded Offensive. By the Assoclated Press MUKDEN, M huria, December ese force movad ow along a branch of the | Peiping-Mul 1 Railway toward Kow- pangtze today to capture the town of Tawa after blasting a Chinese armored train out of the way with bombs from ! the air | They had to fight as they went, caval- | ry opening the way through scattered | f Chinese irregulars so the in- | could follow through. e was a skirmish at Sanchiatze | Jother at Tsaipaochan before the ! body got through to Tawa, where | 28. | up d preceded it { Resistance Is Stubborn. A cetachment wes separated from the | main body and directed against Niuchu- | where irregulars had moved in to | upy the town. The Chinese were | organized, but they provided | tubborn resistance at all points | Officially the movement westward | from Yingkow kept Teo lcosely war secret, but| there was a possibility it might develop | amounts the European countries can | into the long-cxpected drive against| Chinchow itself. The advance was to halt for the night at Tawa. but planes | swept on toward Kowpangtze, bombing the irregular strongholds and recon- hoitering. Tomorrow, it was reported, the Jap- anese column planned to move on to | Panshanhsien, the next station on the brench line to Kowpangtze A communique issued by Japanese headquarters here said the movement followed an attack by a mixed force of 2,000 Chinese regulars and irregu- | Jars on the Jananes» detachment at| Sanchiatze. » short distance north of Tienchuangtal Chinese Put to Rout. ! The fight lasted several hours and ended with the Chinese in flight. Pursuing the enemy to the west, the Japanese column reached - Shakan, Which they captured after a two-hour battle. The headquarters spokesman de- ed to disclose the probable Japan- se objective, but reiterated a previous declaration that the army is deter- mined to eliminate all “undesirable forces” from the entire district west of the Liao River “This may he ! said Reports from reconnoitering planes ghowed heavy Chinere concentration at | hangsien and two breaks in the y south of Tewa Further Advznce Likely. | Subsequent operations probably will | depend upon the extent to which the | Chinese regulars at Chinchow become | involved. Apparently the Japanese in- tended to crush any force obstructing their operations against _“bandits.” Chinchow is 40 miles from Kowpangize along the Peiping-Mukden Railway. In authoritative quarters here it was thought there would be a troop move- ment from Mukcen co-ordinating the | operations from Tienchuangtai. There was much martial activity here today as new troops arrived from Japan in goatskin jackets and steel helmets cov- ered with white cloth as a camouflage in the snow. Afrplanes were humming | and a number of scout planes flew into | the southwest In the operations Mukden both sides camoufiage” on bat temperature was around 20 below zero. Snow-covered hillocks and stacks of rice straw at times came to life and opened fire as soldiers broke from the deceptive white mounds include Chinchow,” to the south of are using ‘“‘snow tlefields, where the Ice Braces Trenches. The Japanese discovered also that Chinese irregulars had reinforced their | trenches by pouring water along the earthworks. It froze immediately and provided resistance against bullets. Yingkow reported by telephone that 5000 men under Gen. Amano were participating in the march Kowpangtze. The cavalry in the lead, followed by ermored trucks and the main body of infantry and artillery with the general's headquarters staff bringing up the rear The main column marched along the right side of the branch railway, con- necting Tienchuangtai with Kow- pangtze, and & regiment of infantry | deployed on the other side. The strength of the aviation arm could not be learned On the way to Kowpangtze the Jap- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PLANES STILL HONT FOR MISSING FLYER Report of Sighting of Body of Lieut. E. H. Bobbitt Proves Unfounded. By the Associated Press. MARLINTON, W. Va, December 28.—Army airplanes droned over the Blue Ridge today as the search for a missing pilot continued The search for Lieut. E. H. Bobbitt, 3r.. 24, was halted for a brief interval late Vesterday by a report that his body and plane had been located 2 miles north af Marlinton. Several hundred per- sons, however, were unable to find the body or trace of wreckage affer tramp- ing through the woods in that section for_hours. This morning the Army planes, under command of Capt. E. C. Whitehead, re- sumed their attempt to locate the miss- i get at the facts. toward | 15 Degrees Below Zero Recorded in Adirondack Town By the Assoclated Press. MALONE, N. Y., December 28. —Owls Head, that cold little vil- lage on a northern shoulder of the Adirondacks, reported a tem- perature of 15 degrees below zeto at sun-up today. Malone, to the north and at a lower altitude, had a 6-below reading, the coldest to date this Winter. BARUCH FEELS SURE EURDPE, WILL PA Renewed Debts Extension Unlikely, Democratic L<ader Believes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Bernard M. Baruch, one of the powers behind the Democratic party in Con- gress, today proclaimed his belief that Europe would not repudiate its war debts and that America would not grant another moratorium. Mr. Baruch, who has lately been called in by President Hoover to advise on economic questions, made it clear that he was expressing his own views He was chairman of the War Industries Board and head of the section at Paris which drafted the economic provisions of the Versailles treaty and since the war has followed the reparation prob- {lem closely. Reached over the telephone at his winter home in South Carolina, Mr Baruch defended the action Congres has taken in refusing to cancel war debts. He said: Belicves Extension Unlikely. “If the nations of Europe volun- tarily repudiate their debts, they will remain under that cloud until they lift it themselves. When the time comes, we shall not, in my opinion, grant an- other moratorium. We will ask what pay and what sincere effort they will have made to arrange for payment. We may be compelled to ask what their armament expense happens to be and how they can manage to maintain such large armament expense and yet not be able to make payment to us. “The time has come to stop camou- flaging about this war debt question and If Europe would really settle her political differences. we new atmosphere.” Asked for his views on the domestic situation, Mr. Baruch said America needed a survey of her economic and credit resources and a definite plan to meet not one, but all problems that are facing her today. Favors U. S. Budget Cut. “We must have a conspectus,” he con- tinued, “and a new plan. We must determine what we can and what we cannot do to aid world recovery, but we must first mobilize our own credit resources, But we must balance our duty.” Mr. Baruch indicated he would favor careful examination of the Federal budget before any tax program is con- sidered. He thought it was important to have every department head inter- and that an effort should be made to reduce expenses even below that which the Budget Bureau had approved. In other words, Mr. Baruch did not think it was practicabie to frame a tax program until the public had been as- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) 400 RADIO MUSICIANS T0 STRIKE AT CHICAGO Union Officials Order Walkout Next Thursday After Refusal of Six-Day Week. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—All union musicians employed by Chicago Radio Broadcasting stations were ordered to day, James C. Petrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians an- nounced. The order resulted from failure of negotiations on demands from the union for a six-day week, without reductions in pay from the present seven-day scale. The union also asked that technicians at control boards be replaced by musicians. KYW, WGN, WMAQ, WLS, WSBC, WAAF and WIBO are the stations at which the order was directed. Petrillo said about 400 musicians would be af- fected. TRIO DIE IN AUTO WRECK GREENWOOD, S. C., December 28 | (#)—Three men were killed and four other people, one a woman, were in- jured in an automobile wreck near here early today. Ben Frazier of Greenwood and Wil- and Earl Martin, Greenwood postal clerk, was one of the injured. J. A. and Boyd Strickland of Ninety- six, 8. C., and the woman, identified as Miss Irene Durst of Charleston, W. Va. sustained head injuries. All three re- mained unconscious this_afternoon. One man, dead, was still unidentified A coroner’s jury will investigate the crash could discuss the whole question in a | own budget first. That's our paramount | as the Democratic plan of procedure a | rogated as to the purpose of expenditure | go on strike at midnight next Thurs- | WENR, WWAE, WGES, WCHI, WJJD, | liam A. Atkins were among the dead, | l'an ideal.” FRENCHANDBRTS EADERS HAY SEE TALK WITH HOOVER MacDonald Letter to Laval Reported as Proposing Debt Conference. |MAY APPROACH U. S. ‘ JOINTLY ON POLICIES Paris Issues Guarded Denial, Brit- ish Premier Silent on Private Note's Contents. By the As. ociated Press LONDON, December 28.—A meeting between Prime Minister MacDonald and Premier Laval of France similar to that between M. Laval and President Hoover seemed a possibility today as a result of a letter from the prime minister to the premier in connection with the reparations issue. It was a private letter, written about | two weeks ago, and although it did not explicitly suggest & meeting, it was phrased in such a manner that a meet- ing easily might result if both parties desired it. | M. Laval has not yet replied, so far as |could be learned. It was understood | Mr. MacDonald did not confine him- | self to the reparations problem as such, | but also touched upon broader phases of the economic situation. | Meeting Date Advanced. Meantime, it appeared that the tenta- tive date for the International Repara- | tions Conference had been advanced to | January 15 from January 18 and that | The Hague is still the most likely place | for the meeting. Discussions about reparations have | been going on for some time between | the two governments and a meeting be- |tween Mr. MacDonald and M. Laval | might round off those conversations just | before the international conference be- ins | ¥'Mr. MacDonald, spending the holidays at Lossiemouth, declined to discuss the letter, but his views on personal con- tacts between government heads are| | well known. Statement Is Planned. Extended comment on the Young Plan Committee Teport has not been available thus far because there has been no time for study of the document A government white paper will be is- | sued later | Official opinion _indicated, however, | that the report contained nothing novel | and that the events of the next few | | days will determine how the problem | | will be attacked at the international | meeting. So far. London has not heard what | art the United States will play in| that conference, and the British gov- ernment has not indicated what its program will be. RUMOR DENIED IN PARIS. Meeting Held Not Opportune “Until Experts Complete Their Work.” PARIS, December 28 () —Reports |that Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- | Donald had invited Premier Laval to |London for a conference regarding reparations brought a guarded denial | from the premier today. | “Contrary to a story published today.” the premier's statement said, “no invi- tation has been addressed to M. Laval |to go to London for a conference with Mr. MacDonald. The English and| French experts are now discussing the subject of reparations and a meeting |between the two government heads {would not be opportune until the ex- perts have completed their work.” Parley Possibility Seen. | | There is great interest here in the pos- | | sibility of an att>mpt to achicve an| | agreement on rcparations between | France and England before the Inter | national D2bt Conference scheduled for | | some time next month, and i is believed | there is a strong likelihood of such an | agreement as a result of the visit of Sir | Prederick Leith-Ross, British financial | expert, and his discussions with Pierre Flandin, French finance minister. During the meeting of the Young Plan " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1, | CHOSEN BOYS’ IDEAL| Prohibition Bureau Editor Sets Of- ficers Up as Highest Type to Emulate. By the Associated Press. Over the signature of Walton Hood | Grant, editor, the Prohibition Bureau's | official weekly bulletin to the enforce- ment personnel says | “If T were a boy seeking an unselfish | American_official who' works courage- ously on in absolute duty, resisting all sinister influences and setting an ex- ample for all manly boys to follow, I believe my choice would fall upon an | efficient_prohibition agent. He typifies | DOCTOR “TREATS By the Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario, December 28.— Dr F. 8. Parley of Ottawa has one of the widest-flung and strangest medical | practices in the world. He never sees his patients. His patients never re- ceive bills, All his diagnosing and treatment is done by wireless. Seated behind a desk in an ordinary business office, Dr. Parley cares for his patients, scattered through the Far ing plane from the air. They are checking over the entire Blue Ridge Mountain district from the Pennsyl- vania line down to Hot Springs, Va. Bobbitt left sBelfridge Field, Mich Christmas eve to spend the holidays with his parents at Hot Springs. He refueled at Uniontown, Pa., and started on_southward. E. H. Bobbitt, sr., father of the miss- srg aviator, arrived from Kot Springs yestexday to aid in the search, North. His field, extending thousands of miles, from Aklavik to Cape Chid- ley, 15 limited only by the power of wireless. Dotted throughout the North at gov- ernment meteorological and radio sta- tions, Royal Canadian Mounted Police depots, fur-trading posts and mining camps, small groups of men and wom- en are isolated from civilization. When BY RADIO AND NEVER SENDS BILL| Practice of Canadian Physician Extends Thousands of | Miles in Far North. ” HIS PATIENTS toms are radioed to him at Ottawa A diagnosis is made, a schedule of treatments is flashed back. Reports continue while the sickness lasts A medical manual, a first-ald kit and a cabinet of staple drugs are standard e(}ulpmont of every govern- ment post in the North Dr. Parley, an official of the Depart. ment of Health, has on his desk a manual identical with those in the North. When he has diagnosed a case he radios back to turn to such-and- | such a page and follow its directions. | When special treatment is required, | the men in the North are told to use | a certain quantity of drug “number so-and-so on the list” so many times a day. Dr. Parley's medical practice runs from frostbites and impacted wisdom sickness adds to their Farley administers loneliness, Dr. @ % Bymp- Lrical care of v teeth to copsumption and the obstet- Womeny . STILL HANGING. SOCIAL SCIENTISTS OF T2 GROUPS MEET Associations Discuss Topics Ranging From Divorce to Gold Standard. Twelve groups of social scientists opened their annual meetings here to- | day with topics of discussion ranging from the gold standard to the divorce rate. The groups were the American So- ciological Society, the American Eco- nomic Association, the American Sta- tistical Association, the American Po- litical Science Association, the Amer- ican Farm Economic Mlallgfl, the Econometric Society, the American Marketing Society, the Association of University Instructors in Accounting, Teachers of Business Law and the Na- | tional Association of Teachers of | Marketing. A Federal labor board to plan for absorbing workers displaced by ma- chines was recommended before a sec- tion of the American Economic Asso- ciation by Sumner H. Slichter of Har- vard University. Opposes Shorter Working Week. A debate between the academic and | the labor viewpoints of the present de- pression featured the morning session | of the assoctation. | An attack on the shorter working day solution for unemployment was made by Prof. T. N. Carver of Harvard Uni- | versity. | “Four errors are found in the rea- soning of those who advocate the re- duction of working time as a remedy for unemployment,” declared Prof. | Carver. “The staggered week or the| staggered day does not reduce unem- ployment. It only smears it around.| More leisure does not necessarily in- crease the demand for goods. If men are to receive the same wages for a reduced product per worker, it will raise | the money cost per unit of product. It is a mistake to assume that the | ame results will follow when the short- ened working time is adopted in all| industries as when it is adopted in one or a few." Stresses Wage Aspect. These views were opposed by John P. | Frey, secretary of the Metal Trades De- | partment of the American Federation of | Labor, who contended a discussion of | shortened hours of labor without & con- | sideration of the economics of wages is futile. “It is not a question of what the worker | will do with his leisure which is impor- | tant,” Mr. Frey said. “The important | question is whether, with rapidly devel- | oping processes of production, ‘we will | divide the work among the wage earners or deliberately crystallize a permanent | army of unemployed “Back of the question of shorter work- | ing hours is that of wages—a sounder | economic division of the wealth created through manufactures. In 1928 the total volume of wages paid in the United States was $649,000,000 less than the previous year. The wage earners of the United States were that much less able to buy American products than they were in 1927, although the volume of wealth created through manufacture in 1928 was much larger than in 1927.” Scores Ford Policies. Samuel M. Levin of the College of the City of Detroit, severely censured the Ford employment policy. The failure of the five-day week to alleviate unem- ployment, abandonment of the historic $7-a-day wage, a negatives unemploy- ment policy, lack of co-operation with the community emergency organization and a “hit or miss” lay-off policy were some of the sins with which the Ford management was charged. “The Ford wage policy,” Prof. Levin said, “has offered no quarter to victims of industrial fluctuations. Hosts of Ford workers are denizens of the public soup kitchens and lodging houses, and thou- sands of others have been reduced to dependence on public and private char- ity.” Delinquency ‘In American cities de- creases almost in direct proportion to the distance from the central business district, according to a study of seven (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Read The First Chapter f Wife” o, ee £ Spite On Page A-6 10f Today’s Star Bloomers May Return To Chicago Beaches Due to Council Act By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 2 1932 is going to look lik 1910 on Chicago beaches this coming year unless the City Council does something zbout it. That would mean bloomers, quarter sleeves, black wool stock- ings and plenty of ruffles. Finding that it had repealed all laws governing bathing costumes, due to a parliamentary mix-up, the Council restored the ordi- nance of 1910 until it again finds time to take up the question. This will probably be done next Thursday. .S TAXREFNS T0TAL 40 —Miss Miss Added Assessments Balaflncev Amounts Returned in Last Year. By the Associated Press. Treasury reconsideration on taxes and the decision that it had been wrong in a good many instances put $69,476,930 in refunds back into tax- payers' pocketbooks in the 1931 fiscal year ending June 30. Secretary Mellon reported today to Congress that the sum included all taxes illegally collected and returned, but he did not list credits and abate- ments. The latter are deducted from taxes asSessed but not yet paid. Re- funds are actual cash payments. The year before, refunds totaled $126,836,333, abatements $176,398,377 and credits $36,535,245 Only two separate refunds were for more than $1,000,000, in which class there were 12 a year earlier. The Il- linois_Central Railroad got $1,158,675; the Prairie Pipe Line Co. of Inde- pendence, Kans., $1,784,494 Famous Names Listed. The Prairie group profited also by the Treasury's decision that there had been other overassessments and errors. To the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. at Parco, Wyo., went $31,924; to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. at Independence $531,740, making the total for the three con- cerns $2,348,158. Also. the United Verde Copper Co. offices at Clarkdale, Ariz., got $50,476 and the New York offices $996,822, for & total of $1,047,398 As usual hundreds of names familiar to the country were on the list of the thousands who received refunds of more than $500. John D. Rockefeller was there again with $31,324; his son, John jr., got $1,804. To Secretary Mellon himself there was a refund of $85,022; to his brother, R. B. Mellon, $14,728, and to Mrs. Jennie K. Mellon, $2,504. Movie Stars Benefit. Three well known movie stars con-| vinced the Treasury they were entitled to returns: Douglas Fairbanks, to the extent of $12,391, and Helene Costello Sherman and Dolores Costello Barry- more, $1,345 each Senator Kean of New Jersey drew back $806, Senator Robinson of Arkan- sas, $671; Secretary Lamont of the Commerce Department, $10,964. Thomas Hitchcock, poloist, got $4,780; Paulino_Uzcudun, Basque boxer, $645; Texas Guinan, $2,469; Tullio Serafin, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera | Co., $1,708; Bernard Baruch, $4535; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $3,719; ~ John Jacob Astor, $10,365, and Ailfred P. Sloan of General Motors, $15,112. Among the larger refundswvere: Metropolitan Life Insurance $867,926; New York Life Insurance Co. $843,926; American Hawallan Steamship 'Co., $824,093; Det Forende Dempskibs Selskab, Aktieselskab (Dan- ish Steamship Co.), $756,722; estate of Charles Deering, $751,102; estate of Payne Whitney, $678,449; F. W. Wool- worth Co., $637.961; Honolulu Consoli- dated Ol Co., $500,576: estate of Wil- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) CONFESSES ROBBERY Detroit Police Quiz Suspect on Other Offenses. DETROIT, December 28 (#).—Earl Johnson, alias James Moore, suspected of bank robbery at Finlayson, Minn., six years ago, was placed in the police show-up today in an effort to determine whether he is wanted for any offenses in Detroit. Johnson was arrested Saturday. The Co., | | police said he confessed participating in the Finlayson bank robbery. They said they nave no charges against him locally. Radio l_’mrm'pl Page A-12 COMRADES SEE BOY KILLED BY OWN GUN ;Bullet Pierces His Forehcad| | When He Accidentally Drops Weapon. | Charles Smith, 13 years old, of 1026 | Quincy street northeast, was shot and killed early this afternoon by the acci- dental discharge of a .22-caliber rifie which he had partly dismantled, pre- | paratory to putting it away. The bullet penetrated his forehead, and he died a few minutes after reach- | | ing Sibley Hospital. Young Smith, with some companions, | had been playing in the woods in the | | rear of his home. He had left the gun | cocked, and, according to the police re- port, was “breaking” it to put it in a *bmg Whenit skipped from his grasp-and fell to the ground, discharging. | Frightened comrades, among them | his brother Francis, 11, gave the alarm, and the boy was taken to Sibley Hos- pital. ONE DIES, THREE SHOT AS GANG GUNS FLASH, |Dead Man in Philadelphia Was Witness to Mickey Duffy Slaying Last Summer. By the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA, December 28.— | Gangster pistols flashed here today, with | the result that one man was shot dead | | and three others wounded. At least | | seven men took part in the fight, which | | started on the second floor of a build- | ing and was continued on the roof of | the place and adjoining buildings. | The dead man was Samuel E. Gross- | | man, who was under $5.000 bail as a | material witness in the killing of Mickey | Dufty, gangster, in an Atlantic City hotel last Summer. | "Albert Skale, a former lieutenant of | Duffy, was critically wounded. He was | found in a small office in the building | where the shooting occurred. Near him |lay the body of Grossman. Both men | had been shot several times. | | The others injured were friends of Grossman and Skale. Police believed the battle was a flareback of the Duffy killing last Summer. \RAILROADS PREPARING RATE BOOST NOTICES By the Assoclated Press. The railroads of the country today were preparing the formal notices to be given the public on December 30 that freight rates will be increased January 4. While this was being done, the Rail- road Credit Corporation completed plans for collecting the money derived | from the increases and loaning it to | roads needing cash to pay their bond | interest. The increases are in the form of surcharges and are to be ef- | | fective only for the period of the emer- gency. |~ They range from 6 cents per ton to 1 cent per 100 pounds. | |VATICAN DEB'élS COVERED VATICAN CITY, December 28 ().— Heavy rain has been beating down on | the ruins of the Vatican Library wing which collapsed last week, but it has done no damage to the rare books and manuscripts buried in the wreckage. On Saturday night workmen com- pleted a two-story scaffolding and | stretched a tarpaulin over the frame- | work. When the scaffolding is raised another story reconstruction will begin. HOOVER WELCOMES CONGRESS EFFORTS T0 SLASH BUDEET Vital Functions of Govern- ment Must Not Be Impaired, President Holds. APPROVAL OF PAY CUTS NOT INCLUDED IN VIEWS Message on Wickersham Report Not Expected to Touch Upon Prohibition. President Hoover will welcome any additional reduction in the budget that Congress may succeed in bringing about, provided that the vital functions of the Government are not impaired by this further pruning of the appropriations for the next fiscal year. This attitude of the President was disclosed today, but the intimate to whom he expressed himself was circum- spect about the question of including salary cuts for Federal employes in the President’s viewpoint. The inference was that the President’s views were of a general nature and he had nothing in mind that would give rise to the belief that he would sanction any sweeping cuts of emplofes’ salaries. Although Mr. Hoover has not ex- pressed himself publicly since the decla- rations were published by a few Sen- ators and Representatives in favor of reducing salaries as one of the ways to effect Government economy, he has indicated to those with whom he has discussed the subject that the proposal does not appeal to him. A study of the subject is understood to have convinced the President that the saving that would result from salary slashing would be trivial compared to the possibility of impaired efficiency in Government departments. Doesn’t Approve Pay Cuts. Therefore, President Hoover's readi- ness, disclosed today, to go along with any movement in Congress that would reduce expenses generally below the estimates o fthe Bureau of the Budget, is not to be taken as including his ap- proval of reducing the pay of employes. While this subject was being discussed today it was recalled that Congress last year cut $20,000,000 from the budget for this year's expenses of the Government, and = after accomplishing this feat of economy, granted appropriations amounting to $850,000,000, none of which was included in the budget esti- mates. The budget for the next fiscal year as submitted to Congress was pared down by the President until it showed a re- duction of $369,000,000 over the budget of the year before, and although the President used the pruning knife gen- erously, and made cuts wherever he thought was possible, he is willing to have more cutting done by Congress, if this is possible and if the functioning of the Government will not suffer, ‘Wickersham Report Due. The President has a number of spe- cial messages which will be transmitted to Congress soon, several of them ac- companying special reports made by commissions. Prominent among these 3§ a message on law enforcement, which will accompany the report of the find- ings of the Wickersham Law Enforce- ment Commission. The President’s message with this re- port. which is being looked forward to with widespread interest, is likely to be disappointing to many, inasmuch as he probably will not touch at all upon the prohibition subject, but will confine his remarks to the proposed reforms in en- forcement procedure with the view to stiffening the arm of the Government in dealing with law violators, especially so-called gangsters. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill there came an expression from Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader, of determination to co-operate with the Democrats in reducing ex- penditures. Ready to Go Along. Commenting on a statement of Rep- resentative Rainey of Illinois, the Dem- ocratic leader, that his party would reduce budget estimates, Snell said Rainey would find the Republicans willing to go as far as he does in cut- ting expenses. Snell said that in the Democrats’ program as outlined by Rainey he no- ticed “they favor placing the burden on the wealthy class that is able to pay.” “‘At the same time I notice,” he said, “they oppose making income and cor- poration tax retroactive. As a matter of fact, if the tax increases are made retroactive it is the wealthy class and those able to pay who will have to bear the burden. “I gshould think they would be in favor of making the increase retroactive for that reason.” THREE KILLED IN FIRE Two Others Seriously Injured as Restaurant Is Destroyed. COYTHESVILLE, N. J., December 28 | (P).—Three persons were burned to death and two others seriously injured today in a fire which destroyed the New Venice Restaurant. 'g:e three victims were men employed at Yhe restaurant. The owner said they | were asleep on the second floor and apparently were trapped as the flames en(\ileloped the building atop the Pali- sades. New By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—When Ed- | ward Thompson left the Joseph Beron | home, police say, the Christmas spirit | went with him. As an old friend he had been invited the Beron home for Christmas dinner, but as his shirt was somewhat soiled, Mrs. Beron gave him another—an old one that belonfi to her husband. The Berons and their guest enjoyed the dinner, and Mr. Thompson - de] b n 'FRIEND AT CHRISTMAS DINNER DEPARTS WITH HOST’S SAVINGS Takes $155 Hidden in Borrowed Shirt and Buys Himself Outfit. “And just to think,” he said to his wife, “we still have $155 saved up. It was pretty hard to lay aside $5 a weex. By the way, I kept the money in the pocket of the shirt you gave Ed Thomp- son. Guess you took it out, didn't you?” “No,” replied Mrs. Beron, “I didn't.” TITLE LAW TO BAR 12000 FROM GARS, VAN DUZER EXPECTS Many to Be Without Papers in Last-Minute Rush, Traffic Head Says. FAILURE TO ACT EARLY IS HELD INEXCUSABLE Motorists Will Have Until Feb- ruary 1 to Get Tags, but Must Carry Titles With Them. Approximately 12,000 District motora ists will be deprived of the use of their cars for a temporary period beginning January 1, because of failure to pro= cure a certificate of title, it was estie mated today by Willlam A. Van Duzer, director of traffic. ‘The new motor vehicle traffic act, Mr. Van Duzer pointed out, specifically forbids operation of an untitled car on January 1 or thereafter. Thousands of automobile owners, he said, have not yet applied for a certificate of title, and even if they do so now, it will be physically impossible for the Traffic Department to title the vehicles before the New Year. Nearly 500 Jam Office. Nearly 500 of the procrastinating car owners jammed the cramped offices of the Traffic Department this morning making application for title certificates, but it is feared that these, too, will be deprived the use of their cars for at least several days after the new year begins. Under ordinary conditions it takes from three to five days to title a vehicle, and the last-minute rush is expected to slow down the titling opera- tions. Mr. Van Duzer declared there is abso- lutely no excuse for the eleventh-hour rush for title certificates. Since July the Traffic Department has been titling vehicles, he said, and the public was warned repeatedly that a delay in ap- plying for a title would create the con- dition which now exists. 103,000 Vehicles Titled. ‘Thus far 103,000 vehicles have been titled of the 120,000 estimated as the total number to be registered. Mr. Van Duzer believes that another 1,000 will be titled before the new year, leav- ing about 12,000 vehicles untitled, and automatically prevented by law to oper- ate. Approximately 88,000 of the 103, 000 titled are pleasure vehicles, which indicates, according to the traffic di- Tector, that there will be an increase of 2,000 passenger cars over the num- ber registeres "1931. In January of this year, he tags had been issued for 86,000 p: r vehicles, or 2,000 }i)?z than the tration to date for Although only 60,000 tags for 1933 have been issued, Mr. Van Duzer ex- plained that the 43,000 titled vehicles without the new tags will not be de- nied the privilege of operating on and after January 1. Vehicles for which certificate of titles have been issued, he said, will be permitted to operate until February 1 with 1931 tags. Asked to Carry Titles. Drivers of the cars displaying 1931 tags after New Year, however, will be required to carry certificate of title, othewise they may be arrested. Of the 60,000 tags issued for 1932, aporoximately 27,000 were distributed by mail at the request of car owners who furnished the postage. The others were issued at the Traffic Department Tag Distribution Bureau in the Ford Building at John Marshall place and Pennsylvania avenue. HENDERSON EXPECTS T0 DIRECT ARMS TALK British Labor Leader Returning to London After Visit at Riviera. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 28.—Arthur Hen- derson, British Labor party leader and former forelgn secretary, said today he expects to preside over the World Dis= armament Conference at _Geneva, which is slated to be held in February. Henderson has been resting on the Riviera and convalescing from an ill- ness which struck him during the late election campaign in Great Britain which resulted in the defeat of his party and himself. He said he might have to undergo a slight operation when he returns to England. He is now on his way to London. Ignorant of Report. PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, December 28 (#)—Official circles here today said they knew nothing in connection with a report that Dr. Edvard Benes, Czechoslovakian foreign minister, might be substituted for Arthur Henderson of Great Britain as head of the World Arms Conference at Geneva in Feb- ruary. The foreign minister is on a holiday in the country, and spokes- men for the government would not venture to guess what his attitude to- ward such a move might be. SCHAFF TO HEAD N. Y. C. LINE WEST OF BUFFALO By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 28.—W. F. Schhaff of Cleveland wil succeed Dr. D. R. MacBain, retiring January 1, as general manager of the New Yora Central Railroad System west vf Buft= alo, it was announced yesterday by MacBain. Schaff, now assistant general mana- ger, will not be promoted to vice presi- dent, the office held by MacBain as general manager. Schaff was born in Columbus in 1874 and has been in continuous service with the New York Central since has was 18 years old, when he began as a clerk in the Springfield, Ohio, offices. His first executive position was as yardmaster at Louisille, Ky., and later he held the same post at Indianapolis. Fifteen years ago he was sent to Chi- cago as general superintendent of the When the police found Thompson he had a new shirt, a new hat, a new suit and $40 of the money left. “A merry, merry Christmas,” he said g line west of Buffalo, the same division of which he now becomes general manager. He then went to Buffalo as