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WEAT. (U. 8. Weather B: Cloudy. tomorrow; not much ture; fresh northeast Temperatures—Hig| yesterday: lowest, 37, Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 9, 10 & 11 followed by rain tonight and HER. ureau Forecast.) change in tempera- andeast winds. hest. 50, at 3 p.m at 7:30 a.m. today. ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,833 No: - 32,020. Wa Entered_as s < nd class matter shington, D. ( WASHINGTON, D. HURSDAY, DECEMBER aQ ol, 1931—TWENTY-TWO PAGES. (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. JAPANESE CAVALRY NEAR CHINCHOW AS CHEN PREPARES 10 RESIST TOKIO ARMY New Chinese Foreign Minis- | ter Says Marshal Chang Has Been Ordered to De- fend Manchurian City. EVACUATION DESCRIBED AS WHOLESALE RETREAT| Tamon and Kamura Commands En- ter Kowpangtze Without Re-| sistance and Camp for Night Advance Guard Goes on to River 15 Miles From Objective. By the Associated Press MUKDEN, Manchuria, Decem- per 31.—Japanese cavalry, advance guard of Gen. Tamon's column, reached the banks of the Taling | River tonight, and were within 15 miles of Chinchow. There were no indications of serious Chinese resistance and it was believed the Japanese forces would celebrate the New Year by the occupation of the city, which has blocked their mastery of the| whole of Manchuria for three| months. Japanese airmen reported there were strong indications of a wholesale evacuation of Chinchow | by Chinese troops. Seven trains left for the southwest between 10 and 12 o'clock this morning and five more trains were waiting in the yards. Japanese Take Kowpangtze. Five regiments of fur-clad Japanese Infantry marched into Kowpangtze, 40 miles from Chinchow, today: took the town without a struggle and camped there for the night. It was 11:30 in the morning when the stocky little warriors poured into| the town. Half an hour later came Gen: Jiro Tamon himself, a little five- foot conqueror, riding on ‘a black horse | at the head of his stafl. He is the| man who took Tsitsinar, Tawa and Panshan. Three regiments in the Japanese| force were part of Gen. Tamon's divi- sion. A few minutes after they ar- rived two more marched in from the | north, leading Gen. Kamura's brigade, which started only yesterday morning from Hsinmintun, 69 miles away Kamura's artillery and other units continued to Aarrive during the after-| noon. They had met no resistance on the way down 15,000 In Kowpangtze. The Taling River, reached by the ad- vanee guard, had been intended as the main line of defense for Gen. Yung Chien's army, but apparently the Chi-| nese deserted the trenches previously dug on the south side of that broad swift stream Authoritative | estimates place the | Japanese strength at Kowpangtze to- night at 15,000 men, including artillery and other auxiliaries which kept pace with the infantry's advance. These forces were deemed to be irresistible if the Chinese offer resistance in_tomor- | row's expected smash on Chinchow Confidence ran high in Mukden and Kowpangtze that the Emperor's war- riors will find the road open to Chin- chow tomorrow and will be able to cele- | brate New Year—which the Japanese call Oh Sho Gatsu—in the enemy's capital 100 Chinese Killed. A Japanese communique issued here said more than 100 inese were klll?d| in the fighting which preceded the oc- | cupation of Panshan Tuesday. while | the Japanese casualties were only three | wounded, Authoritative sources here | expressed the belief that this propor- tion indicated the comparative losses of the entire campaigr Protecting the r eolumn, a_Japanese in tt advanced from Haicheng and occupied Newchang, which a force of 2,500 Chi- | nese had occupied after the Japanese | evacuation of the place Christmas day. | Before the Japanese arrived the Chi- | nese fled west of the Liao and Taitze | Rivers, but part of the Japanese bat- | pursued them and encountered d of irregulars near Tapachiatze 71, miles northwest of Newchang, kill- ing many of them and dispersing the | others. The Japanese battalion, which suf- (Continued on Page 2. Column 5.) SOVIET PRESS SEES WAR DANGER IN 1932 Moscow Paper Holds Plot on Jap- | r of a b anese Envoy's Life Due to Imperialists By the Associated MOSCOW. December 31.—The gov-| ermment newspaper Izvestia today attributed the alleged plot against the life of the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow to “adventurous imperialistic circles” seeking to provoke a war be- tween the Soviet Republic and Japen. Summing up the international situ- ation at the end of 1931, the newspaper took the position that 1932 holds more potential danger of war foi the world than any year since 1914, adding that the European press ady has drawn an analogy between the Moscow inci- dent and the Sarajevo assassination Listing the military actions now under way, the newspaper sounded the warn- ing ‘none but the profe: pacifists from Geneva or such optim as Hoover deny on the eve of 1932 t the year begins under most ominous cir- cumstances.” The fight against imperialist insti- gators of war is the most important problem facing the world's laboring masses, the paper concluded. Radio Procn-; on Page A8 | is prepared to meet it. W. Cameron Forbes Wants to Resign in Two Months. HERE IN SEPTEMBER Ambassador Had Planned to Retire Just Before | Present Crisis Arose. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. William Cameron Forbes, American Ambassador to Japan since June, 1930 has informed the State Department of his intention of resigning from his pres- ent post as soon as the department can dispense with his services. Ambassador Forbes is willing to remain at his post until the acute phase of the Man- churian crisls is over, but he does not want to prolong his stay in Tokio for more than two months. He is expected to return to this country sometime in | March, [U.S. ENVOY TO JAPAN ASKS TO BE RELIEVED OF POST W The desire of the American Ambas- sador to retire from the diplomatic service is due merely to his wish to go back to private life There has_been no_divergence of (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) CAMERON FORBES. BRITISH WARNING 0 GANDHI STARTS WAR RUMBLINGS Viceroy Wires Him Govern-’ ment Is Prepared to Meet New Civil Disobedience. By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, India, December 31.— Viceroy Lord Willingdon uleg'l’nphed‘ Mahatma Gandhi today that if the | Indian Nationalists renew their civil disobedience campaign the government | | “This means war,” said one of Mr. Gandhi's closest advisers. The Mahatma took to his tent with a solemn expression to write an answer | to the viceroy. “In the one or two days more of freedom,” he said, “let us say our prayers in peace.” It was thought he meant he expected | to be arrested if the civil disobediencze campaign were renewed. President Patel of the Indian Na- tional Congress declared that the door of peace had been locked and that Gandhi would renew the struggle at any moment unless the viceroy recon- siders his stand. He said “we all ex- pect arrest.” i SUGGESTS GANDHI DROP FIGHT. Viceroy Says Authorities Determined (o End Resistence. | By the Associated Press. CALCUTTA. India, December 31— In an address before the European As- sociation Viceroy Lord Willingdon said British authorities would invoke every means within their power to resist a possible renewal of the civil disobedience campaign by the Indian Nationalis | Congress and expressed the hope that Gandhi would call off its activities “even at this eleventh hour.” “I want to make it perfectly clear” he said, “that we are determined to go ahead as rapidly as possible with the work of constitutional reform and | that non-co-operation will not be per- | mitted | “Every measure will be taken to| maintain order and to prevent any| party from paralyzing the administra- | tion, whether its activities take the form of no rent campaigns, or a boycott of | British goods as a political measure, or defiance of the laws of this country.” | Activites Are Revealed. | Outlining the efforts of the govern- | ment to develop constitutional reforms in India and pledging their continu- ance. he continued At the same time we find that de- termined efforts are being made by some leaders of the Nationalist Congress | party, the only active political organ- | ization in the country, to destroy by speech and action of the most seditious | character any possibility of creating a peaceful atmosphere and to renew the campaign of non-co-operation and civil disobedience, the disastrous results of which are so fresh in our minds.” | Appealing to the whole of India to put aside distrust and suspicion, he said, "I venture to hope that even at this eleventh hour Mr. Gandhi will call a halt to his activities and will agree to co-operate with us with his powerful influence. . The Congress Working Committee in Bombay was reported to have had a stormy session as the result of the pres- ence of the former mayor of Calcutta Subhas Chandra Bose, a militant Na- tionalist. He was understood to have | told the committee that with its co- operation or without he intended to launch & campaign in Bengal which would boycot British goods, banks, in- surance companies and other organiza- tions. MAN, 34, IS FREED By the Associated Press HOLDINGFORD, Minn., December After being locked in a cage in his parents’ home the greatcr part of nearly 10 years, a 34-year-old man was removed from his parents’ custody a welfare worker revealed to a State hospital for the insane by Judge J. 8. Himsl in Prodate Cou... No have been brought against tie , but the county attorney said he Mrs. Emma Moynihan, secretary of the Stearns County Welfare Board, found the man in a cage constructed of boards running from thegbasement floor to the ceiling. N U. 5. T0 CONSIDER BANKS SECURITIES ON INTRINSIC VALUE Bond Market Hereafter to Be Disregarded to Placing Worth on Holdings. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The Government of the United States in its relations with banks supervised by the controller of the currency has determined to ignore the quotations on the New York Bond Market and regard Intrinsic value as the true basis for judging the worth of the securities held by such banks. This policy, which represents a fur- ther development of rulings made sev-| eral weeks ago, has been conveyed in | informal instructions to national bank examiners during the past 10 days and is expected to strengthen materially the banking institutions of the country from | unwarranted attack. Solvency First Interest. The new step does not mean any bank can take advantage of the ruling. For if an institution is in an unsound condition and should be closed, the| bank examiners are instructed to do so| irrespective of what the valuations placed on its securities. What we are always interested in,” said Controller Pole today, “is the solvency of banks and not necessarily their liquidity. There are many fine companies which have issued bonds, and there is every reason to believe they will meet their interest charges and pay their principal at maturity “Why should we ignore those facts and take quotations from a blackboard in a market where there all sellers and no buyers? We wish to protect banks that have bought good bonds from any such situation, and while every case will have to stand on its own | merits, it is our plan to regard intrinsic value as the real basis for valuing the securities held by banks. Government _officials have been wrestling with this problem for many months, in fact ever since the depres- sion began. The first ruling was to permit intrinsic value to apply only in the case of rated bonds—that is, na- tionally known securities Lsted by four different statistical organizations—and to allow for a depreciation of 25 per cent But it was found this worked hard- ships on many banks which had bought securities issued locally and which were ‘n many respects even better investments than the rate d bonds. Also, with changing conditions from day to day, trying to rate bonds by statistical records of the years was found a difficult task Selling Affects All Bonds. To get at intrinsic value, it was thought better to apply the rules of common sense about the solvency an stability of companies that are go concerns. A company that has had a good record of earnings and is engaged in a business which is essentially sound would, as a rule, have had ough investigation when its bonds floated and usually banks have b only the bonds of companies that could | earn their interest charges from to four times over every year, But with distress selling one bond is affected by the price paid for another Thus railroad bonds, which normally are giit-edge investments, are depress because of the drop in current earn- ings. When railroad bonds go down | it affects bonds of other concerns trat really have not been injured in the present | two | | matter of earnings. ‘The controller’s office feels intrinsic value is the only real guide. and hence when banks make up their quarterly statements they can truly insert wit the authority of the Government the intrinsic value of the securities they | have bought (Copyright, FROM CAGE IN PARENTS’ HOME AFTER 10 YEARS| Prisoner, Rescued From Cellar by Welfare Worker, Committed to Hospital for Insane. It had no windows, she said, and light entered the inclosure only when members of the family brought meals 1 its occupant. At the Probate Court hearing at which the son was adjudged insane, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Litchy, the parents, raig ne was in the State Hospital at Fergus Falls three years before they locked him n the basement, They placed him in the inclosure be- cause they abjectad to paying the State $10 a month for keeping him in the hospital, | the package to them, advising them it | through (Hunt for Missing Pilot Left to | further for Lieut NEW BOMB FOUND IN K0 STIRS FEAR OF EXTENSIVE PLOT Death Package Addressed to Italian Consul Is Stopped. PENNSYLVANIA TRAGEDY SPURS POSTAL PROBE Explosion That Killed Two at Eas- ton Believed Planned in Gotham. Third Victim May Di By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, December 31 —Evi- dence of the existence of a widespread bomb plot was seen by police and Fed- eral officers here today when a power- ful bomb was received at the Italian consulate in this city. The bomb package, shipped by ex- press from New York, was addressed to Count Cesare Buzzi-Gradenigo, the Ital- ian consul in Cleveland. It was turned over to detectives who took it to a rifle range on the outskirts of the city and exploded it there harmlessly by rifle fire. Discovered by Secretary. This was the second bomb plot un- covered within 24 hours. The first one was at Easton, Pa., where three bombs exploded in the post office yesterday. causing the death of two clerks and the injury of other persons. In both instances the bombs were ad- dressed to prominent Italians. Al- though the addresses on the Easton bombs were misspelled, investigators be- lieved one package was intended for Generoso Pope. owner of an Italian newspaper and friend of Mayor Walker of New York; another for the editor of Pope's paper, and another was mark ed for Emanuele Frazzy, Italian consul general in New York One of the bombs which exploded was_addressed to the Italian consulate in Pittsburgh and another was to the Argentine consulate in Baltimore. The bomb plot here was discovered by Capt. Amelio Ardito, secretary to the count. Noticing that the package was unusually heavy, Capt. Ardito became suspicious of it. He telephoned William Trombetta, New York, publisher of a Fascist newspaper, who was given on the package as the sender Trombetta, a friend of Count Buzzi- | Gradenigo, told the captain he had sent no package to Cleveland Capt. Ardito called police and gave probably was a bomb. Package Explodes. Four detectives and David Cowles, police ballistic expert, took the package to a rifle range and from a distance of about 150 yards fired a rifle to_explode it The package bore the American Ex- press Service, No. H-56978, and was dated December 29 Inspector Cody said he believed the bomb contained nitrogylcerin and a clock-work timing device. He based his opinion on the appearance of the package and of the explosion, MORE BOMBS FEARED. Chiefs Issue Warnings Easton Tragedy. EASTON, Pa, December 31 () —In- vestigators had different theories today on the plot behind the bombs which ex- ploded in the Easton Post Office yes- terday, causing the death of two clerks and the injury of other persons Some of the investigators stuck to the theory that it was an anti-Fascisti movement against certain individuals One member of the bomb squad from (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) u.s. NOTIFIE.S BLACKMER OF ANSWER TO APPEAL Teapot Dome Witness, in Paris, to Make No Further Defense Pend- ing Final Step by Court. By the Associated Press PARIS, December 31.—The Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune said today that Harry S. Blackmer, sought as a witness during the Teapot Dome oil investigations, was notified his counsel that the United States Government has filed an an- swer to his appeal against a fine for contempt, of court Blackmer will make no further de- fense, the paper said, until the court! takes the case under consideration for final judgment. Postal After MICHIGAN ARMY FLYERS GIVE UP BOBBITT SEARCH Planes and Corps at Bolling Field. their efforts to search E. H. Bobbitt, jre lost Army pursuit pilot. by the con- tinued bad weather which is thought to have been responsible for his dis- appearance Christmas eve in the Alle- gheny Mountains, six fellow pursuit pilots from Selfridge Field, Mich., to- day reluctantly started home and left further searching to the observation and transport planes of Bolling Field GOTHAM GAMBLER SLAIN Pistol in Pocket Is Similar to One That Killed Rothstein. NEW YORK, December 31 (#)— Louis Levine, an East Side gambler, was shot five times in the head and killed today in the club room of the Pups, Inc., a social organization, in West Fifty-first street Police found no trace of the pistol with which the gambler was shot, but in the right hand pocket of his trousers there was a loaded revolver, of the same type with which Arnold Rothstein, Broadway gambler, was slain. About 50 persons were playing cards in the club when the shooting occurred, but when police broke into the place all of them had left . WOMAN FLIES BALLOON PARIS, December 31 (#).—Mme. I‘aufiue Weber, French woman flyer, took off alone in a balloon at 11:30 last Blocked in They declded to return him to his home, but found he was difficult to han- dle. He was removed early in 1922 from the Pergus Falls Hospital, to which the Judge vesterday cammitted him, shot | om the hills of St. Cloud in an ?;Ti)k:‘!: g establish a straight line balloon Tecord. ecord & now fixed by the Aero t 621 k¥ometers. The balloon Eal;d‘ol in & soutin direction. DEMOC( RATIC NEW YEAR'S EVE ORY REPEAL VOTE IN FINLAND'S POL ‘Wets Pile Up Huge Lead in Capital and 88 Rural Districts. By the Associated Press HELSINGFORS, Finland, December 31.—With 57 per cent of the local votes counted in the prohibition referendum, Helsingfors has gone so surprisingly and overwhelmingly wet that this after- noon's editions of anti-prohibition news- papers talked about a “national front” against the dry laws. At 4 pm. the returns showed that out of 132,730 votes, or 57 per cent of the entire city electorate, 82 per cent voted for repeal of the prohibition laws. A Reuter’s dispatch said that the vote in 88 rural constituencies showed 78,953 for repeal, 18,858 for maintenance of the present law, and 905 for modifica- tion, giving the wets a majority of 59, 190 in those districts. Women Favor Repeal. What surprised observers most Wwas the fact that 60 per cent of the repeal votes in Helsingfors were cast by women Continuance of the present laws was supported by 12,910 voters, or 17.2 per cent. Only 656 ballots were cast for modification to permit light wines and | beer. The vote in the capital does not de- termine the national outcome, but sup- porters of repeal were confident that their large vote here was an indication of how the rest of the Finnish cities would go, and their prediction was that the prohibition laws are doomed Government officials apparently thought so, for T. M. Kivimaki, minister of justice, began drafting a bili for gov- ernment_administration of trade in al- coholic beverages His plan, it was understood, provides that there shall be no private business in alcoholic potables, but that every department of the business shall be handled by the government. Each citizen would be entitled to a ration card fixing the amount he is permitted to purchase Check Helsingfors First. Whether a government-owned stock company would be established or whether concessions would be let (o private individuals for dispensation of liquor was still undetermined. Curious crowds watched the bulletins posted by the newspapers. Election offi- cials decided to check the vote here be- fore beginning the count in other sec- tions of the country. Political observers expressed the be- lief that should even only 40 per cent of the voters favor aboiition of the law the government would argue that pro- hibition is no longer enforceable. The question of balancing the coun- try’s budget played an important part in the minds of many voters, even though it was an outside issue. Ragnar Furuhjelm, chairman of the Parliament Finance Committee, declared the 1932 budget safely balanced, but said the problem for 1933 would become increas- ingly difficult. Revenue Anticipated. “Many, therefore, believe,” he said, “that the state shculd have the revenue, in an excise tax, that the smuggle: now get by purveying liquor illegally I estimate that some $7,500,000 a year could be realized in due time from a liquor excise. Many thinking Finns share my opinion that this source of revenue should not be overlooked.” Selma Anttila, noted settlement worker and ardent prohibitionist, de- clared, however, that the budget would be injured rather than benefited by the abolition of prohibition “The experience of Sweden,” she said, “shows that bootleggers underbid the state with cheaper smuggled liquor Hence a great part of the revénue would not be forthcoming.” Strauss Copyright On Famed Music Expires Tonight By the Associated Press. VIENNA, December 31.—The music of Johann Strauss, the famous Austrian waltz composer, will be anybody’s property after January 1, because the Austrian cabinet failed to extend the copy- right law from 30 to 50 years. In 1929 the Strauss copyright was extended for two years when it was expected that Austria would join other nations in adopt- ing the 50-year copyright pro- posal at an international confer- ence in Rome. At that time the widow of the man who composed the “Blue Danube” was still living and de- pendent on her husband's royal- ties. She has since died, and the government saw no reason for prolonging the protection. 'DAUGHERTY BOOK SAYS FALL GOT JOB BY FORGED TELEGRAM vCharges Hughes Tried to Slip League of | | | Nations Indorsement in Harding Message. but First Lady Saw It. By the Associated Press | prise. I think at the last moment NEW YORK, December 31.—The | President Harding began to feel the World-Telegram said today that ror-::;‘jfiglt‘eg Anifgnnisn bfl““;fl: Ja fgnc . sitated to make the appointmen mer Attorney General Harry M.\ “Tpgi®d MR CHOSPRIEENG ) Daugherty, in his book “The Inside | bull-headed fashion. He sent Hard- Story of the Harding Tragedy,” accuses | ing an urgent telegram asking his im- = | mediate appointment, and signed my Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the | ;e 44 it without phoning me, wiring | Interior, of securing his appointment | me or in any way hinting his purpose | through a forged telegram. 'ém;" fi\es@ase he boldly charged to A. | all. The following quotation from the B JWL o ana book, which will be published in tWo | the mine lald for an explosion about or three weeks, was printed | to_shake the Nation.” “A. B. Fall and T could never have | _Daugherty, who collaborated with been’ chums in any political enter- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CITY GONSEQUENCE, B ABBOTT'S WIEE With Mice. Is Hit in Court. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, December 31.—In a sensational court hearing which ended in an uproar when Mrs. Peter Abbott struck the prosecution’s star witness in the face and called her a liar, Abbott today was ordered extradited to Mary- land as the alleged “trigger man” in the Old Colonial Tea House shooting | The human race, especially in North America and Europe, may unconsciously be committing race suicide in its closed automobiles and the “palatial, artificial heated cages” of modern cities. Such was the implication of experi- ments described before the American Sociological Society today by Dr. Jerome | Davis of Yale University. He presented cor “Bladensburg, Md., November 23 evidence that lack of contact with|" Ag Judge Frank Kun announced his | ultra-violet radiation from the sun, due | decision to turn Abbott over to Mary- | to changed modes of living, may in|land authorities. Mrs. Abbott, enraged : B at testimony of Mrs. Verne Edwards some mysterious way be partly respon- | that Abbott was the first man to enter sible for the declining birth rate of | the tea house on the night of the | the past century. | shooting, leaned over and struck the v v g i witness in the mouth with her fist. Dr. Davis worked with hairless mice. | e o I e e | These have been reported occasionall }llke that,” shouted Mrs. Abbott, | as abnormal types of the ordinary 3 ; mouse. Their bodies are entirely de-| Led From Court Room. void of hair. Usually they soon die| A number of court attaches jumped and the females are sterile. The Yale | to the protection of Mrs. Edwards, while biologist found that if these mice were others led Mrs. Abbott, | subjected to a regulated amount of | crying, from the court room. It was ultra-violet lamp radiation they be- | fully five minutes before order was re- came approximately as fertile as ordi- stored in the crowded court. | nary mice and, since hairlessness was Judge Kun did not hold Mrs. Abbott & recessive hereditary factor, it was|in contempt of court possible to breed a race, all of whose Mrs. Edwards, principal witness in members had bare skins. Too much | the habeas corpus proceedings to obtain | radiation made them sterile again. extradition of Abbott. testified he was | Hairless females, kept at an optimum | the first of the alleged gunmen to enter | temperature and fed exactly thg same | the teahouse way, with plenty of cod liver ofl to| “He ordered me to go to the kitchen | supply the essential vitamin D which and stick up my hands,” Mrs. Edwards is supplied by sun radiation, but with- testified. out the ultra-violet light, had very few | She said she didn't know who fired | | young. the first shot because “everybody was | Much Like Human Beings. firing at once.” | Dr. Davis pointed out the mouse is Woman Given Guard, | very much like the human being, and | _After Judge Kun heard three of ten the hairless mouse is closer than the defense witnesses, he announced his | others because man also is one of the decision \ | few hairless varieties of mammals, Iy| “Whether this defendant is innocent was found that these mice shared with | or not,” he said, “is not a matter left to | man, and probably with no other ani- | my discretion. Under Pennsylvania law | mals, the faculty of tanning and re- it is a matter for the jury to decide and ceiving sunburns. It was this which|I will, therefore, have to turn him over originally attracted the attention of the | to the Maryland authorities.” biologists to them. It was then that Mrs. Abbott lunged | _Up to-a few generations ago, Dr.|at Mrs. Edwards. When order finally Davis pointed out, man largely was a | was restored, Abbott was taken from the creature of the open country. The |court room, accompanied by Sergt. W. majority of the population was agri-|C. Feehly of Baltimore, Deputy Sheriff cultural, laboring day after day in the| Thomas Garrison of Prince Georges fields with the sun beating upon it.|County and other offic He left for | The cities were not closely built and | Baltimore, where he will be finger- walking or riding in open carriages| printed and photographed before being was the accepted mode of transporta- | taken to the Marlboro Jail. tion. Now, he pointed out, few work | Police protection was afforded Mrs. in the fields, walking is the exceptjon, | Edwards when she left the court room men and women are shielded in closed | She was surrounded by detectives, who cars, and even on the city streets little | feared an attempt might be made on her sunlight gets through. There has been |life by racketeers and alleged white a coincidental decline in the birthrate. | slavers BICENTENNIAL STAMP SERIES GOES ON SALE HERE TOMORROW Collectors Prepare for Rush to Get Washington Issue One Day Before Rest of Nation. RACE SUICIDE SEEN WITNESS ATTACKED houting and | CAPITAL PREPARES. J0VOUS WELCOME - FOR INEANT 198 Churches Will Hold Special Services—Celebrations in Hotels and Clubs. BANKS AND BUSINESS HOUSES TO BE CLOSED President and Mrs. Hoover Will Receive at White House at 11 0'Clock. The pass midnight tonight welcomes 1932 with ful acclaim. For those who wish to fete the infant year with revelry the hotels, private and public clubs will be the scenes of br y hours of the morning. In a contrasting spirit the churches will hold special watchnight services for all those who prefer this means of invoking divine guidance during the year to come, Tonight's celebration of the New Year is not calculated to be marked with any differences from the observances of years past. The revelry will begin at an early hour and continue in the downtown section of the city past mid- night. Police will be on the alert, but will wink at any but grievous offenses at merrymaking. will make its exit at Washington and prayer- White House Reception. Special programs tonight and tomor- row, featured by the annual New Year reception at the White House, will find thousands of Washingtonians free to follow their various pursuits of leisure during the day. Tomorrow being a legal holiday, the banks and places of busines generally will close, b thou- sands of Government clerks must re- tun to their half day of duties in Federal and District establishments at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. President and Mrs. Hoover will re- ceive their guests, who numbered more than 5000 last year, at 11 o'clock at the White House. First in line will be the diplomatic c the members of the cabinet, judiciary and the Army and Navy. Then will follow the long lines of citizenry, the White House event for many of them being the one iglllll‘!'mg spot in their memo: | vear. Reservations Numerous. Compared with last year's prices, there seems to have been little or no reduction in the cost of New Year revelry at Washington's principal hotels jand exclusive night clubs. Despite talk |of “hard times,” reservations have been pouring in and crowded dining halls and ball rooms will be the scene of many gay festivities throughout the city to- night For $6 a plate at most hotels can revel to the hearts’ 10 o'clock to 3 a.m the Wardman Park Hotels, which fixed | that rate, expect as large crowds as ever before. At the Wardman Park, bre: fast will be served between 2 and 3 a.m. and dancing will continue until 5 o'cl for those who last that long. The Sho: ham Hotel and Club Montmartre will charge $8 a plate. Hotel managers say the prices this New Year are the same as for the last Although anticipat; no more than the usual excesses in the New Ycar eve celebration, Inspector L. I H. Ed- wards, acting superintendent of police in the absence of Maj. Gen. Pelham D. {Glassford, is taking precautions to |curb rowdyism in the downtown sec- tion. Only a small extra detail of po- lice, however, has been ordered out Orders previo had been given questing police captains to refuse to grant leave to men, so there might be no unexpected depletion in the regu- lar force on duty guests Churches Plan Services. Watch services will be held churches of every faith tonighi | of them combining socials with re meetings. At Presby- terian Church all the regations in the Bloomingdal will join at 11 o'clock to w r the new year. Similar meetings to be held in scores of other including the u irch, at 10:30 Memorial Church at 8 o'clock, the urch at 10 o'clock, ch at 8:30, Epworth M. | E. Church at 9:30 o'clock and Foundry M. E. Church at 10 o'c The mixed choir of St will give a p with low mass at 10 o'c There will also be the usual midnight service tonight at this church. In practically all the Catholic churches there will be midnight wat The Washington Hebrew Congrega- tion will observe the New Year tomor- Tow morning at 10:30 o'clock and In the evening at 8 o'clock, at which serv- ice Dr. Abram Simon, the rabbi, will speak on “The Year In and Year Out.” Oldest Inhabitants to Meet. on of Oldest Inhabit- ays makes a big event of New Year day, will conduct a busi- ness meeting at 10 < orrow " (Continued on Page are e G Presbyterian Fifth SEABURY’S REMOVAL AS COUNSEL ASKED Minority Member Charges He Act- ed as Citizen in Farley Case. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 31.—Removal of Samuel Seabury as counsel to the Legislative Committee investigating New York City affairs has been de- manded by one of his own committee. Assemblyman Louis Cuvillier, minority member of the _investigating body specifically charged Seabury last night with taking a lone hand in the case of Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, whose removal Seabury has demanded of Gov Roosevelt. Seabury's appeal to the Governor to Students of philately from all parts | a different likeness of George Wash- of the United States are converging on | ington. the National Capital for an outstanding | The Washington City Post Office, event in the lives of stamp collectors— | which will be the only office in the the first issue of the George Washing- | United States retailing the stamps on ton Bicentennial series of postage | New Year day, is prepared for an stamps, which will be made available | extraordinary rush of business from the for the first time in Washington tomor- | time it opens, at 7:30 am., until clos- row und¢f a special order from the — Postmastes Generah Each stamp bears | ¢Continued on Bage 2, Column &4 remove Farley from office because his bank accounts appeared far in excess of his apparent income did not have the authorization of the committee, Cuvillier declared Informed that Seabury had acted as a private citizen and not as a commit- tee member in the Farley case, Cuvillier labeled the move as a “subterfuge to evade his responsibililty to V copm- mitige.