Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon; generally fair to- night and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 41, at 12 am. yesterday; lowest, 36, at 2 p.m. today. Full report on page Summary, 1931, New York Stocks. 5. @h ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. The Star’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. system covers Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,725 Bonds, Curb, Pages 12, 13, 14, 15. No. Fntered as second ss matter office, Was C. on, D. ( WASHINGTON, D. (.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. (#) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. NEW YEAR THRONG BRAVES RAIN FOR HOOVER RECEPTION Long Line Forms Early at White House to Reccive President’s Greetings. 7! | | DIPLOMA‘TVIE"(EORPS LED BY ITALIAN AMBASSADOR Cabinet Members, Jurists, Armyi and Navy Officers Precede ! General Public. BY J. RUSSELL YOUN In accordance with a cu American t Republic President and Hoover today were extending their per- I3 greetings by cordial words and | handshakes to all who care to present | themselves within the White H?um,i i itself Mrs. | nal regardless of their station in life, their race or colol i In this spirit of true American | racy the President and First Lady flung wide doors of the stately White House, thus carrying on a cus- | d 1 the White House by John | Abigail Adams, and which long | become one of the tracitions | the Capital By in the new year at the | 1 this fashizn President | hospi- | m citizen. Standing at the s of the famous blue rcom, in | formal receptions have been | ite House since its be- | ed the hand of each | along the receiving line. | y bad a smile and a | rd of greeting and good | wishes. | Like O!d World Pageant. | Notwithstanding the heavy down- | pour, tre picture on this oscasicn is as | colorful as it is interesting. The affair | ption o distinguished the Pre:.dent and Mrs. y evidence of enjoying to exchange felicite- ushering Hoover gav this opportur tions. picture between 11 o'clock and when the cabinet, diplomats, high ranking cfficers of ths Marin> Corps, as well ing statesmen, officials and prom- inent citizens, were received, resembled what an Old World pageant. This sipce members of the ps, most of them wear- ing uniforms of their high t greetings from distant to this color was T poon, J { the ranking officers of the All of this provided a gold and silver braid, cockades, metals and fine feathers, such as perhaps no other event in the American Capital brings forth. The democracy of the occasion was picturized by the long line of just plain citizens, who are presenting themselves, not because of any official or social status, but simply because they desire | to pay thelr respects to the President | and First Lady and to wish them well | for the coming vear and in return re- | ceive a similar greeting By 11:30 the rain had ceased and the sun was breaking through the clouds. About 30 persons were in I at that time The publi began at 1 0 Presider e who section of the reception | sk this afterncon, aiter | d Mrs. Hoover and assisting them to receive concluded the reception for th aries and had enjoyed an hour's This picturesque line of citizens, of whem are richly clad while hers are T ) prosperous looking, atinue to file through the hos- til the last person in | | | | 1 Scene Highly Impressive. atmesphere of White House the n was_highly im- In the qui First in White House Line PRESIDENT ASKS FOUR “EARLY BIRDS” TO BREAKFAST. " he first four in line at the White recepi fon were invited in for breakfast. right, [M. J. Bredvold, Walter Barrows, Lowes | left: Louise Plummer, 14-y¢fr-old who were invited Lower right: at noon today, despite the weather. shelter to maintain his place. OUR early birds who braved a| pouring Tain to stand, long be- | fore daybreak, at the White | House gate, were rewarded to- | day with a breakfast invitetion from President Hoover, while two others | House today for the annual New Year In the top picture they appear, left to Otto C. Kafer and William L. Wilson. | schoolgir], and Miss Jane Bartleman of to the White House to get out of the rain. J. W. Hunefeld, first in line last year, who was standing first again | He declined offers of both breakfest and —Star Staff Photos. Northeast Washington who is a peren- nial participant in this “Derby,” de- clined with thanks the invitation. Two More Join Line. A couple of young fellows, Williai L. Wilson of 305 D street, who work: iand tied up with a handkerchi | Year eve. | who came later were asked into the | man, J. W. Hunefeld, the painter from PASSENCER PLANE FINLAND EXPECTS in the General Accounting Office, and | District government | street northeast, took | when a party Executive Mansion out of the rain to wait the hour of 1 o'clock, when the | Otto C. Kafer, President and Mrs. Hoover started re- | employe, of 122 ceiving the public in the annual New | up their vigil at 1 am., tion. ke up. : Yp.:rgr;:\fg of four, two of whom had | At 5 a.m. Morton J. Bredvold, middie- st he Pennsylvania avenue por- | aged Census Bureau worker, of 218 :a?:dslral‘cclnbouirliug iock, were \nvited | Fifth street southeast, dropped into into the White House about 7 o'clock | line and an hour later he was followed e the Chief Stive mad glimpsed | by Walter Barrows, 14, of 8 Manor ?lzntrm laf their Ey:;)éi;\ while. the Rfth | circle, Takoma Perk, who has_only (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) RASH KILLS FOUR 0 G0 WETIN132 | Advisory Referendum Vote, | in Early Returns, Shows 75 Per Cent for Repeal. Pilot Injured as Craft Loses‘ Wing and Plunges Into ‘ Ohio Cornfield. i By the Associatec Pre By the Associated Press HELSINGFORS, Finland, January 1.| 1— | | somebody stuffed 80, 15, S FOUND TED AND CAGGED NEER ARK DRV Student, Unconscious When Discovered in Rain, Unable | to Give Details. | WAS ON NINTH STREET | LAST HE REMEMBERS | TR | Says Some One Stuffed Tobacco in: His Mouth at 11 P.M., Seven | Hours Before Discovery. | A 15-year-old McKinley High School | boy wes found unconscious beside a| road in Rock Creek Park today, his hands and feet bound with tire tape and his mouth stuffea with tobacco £ The boy, Bromslow ‘“Barney” Gol- koski, 24 Todd place northeast, was dis- covered about 20 feet from Beech drive, between Pierce Mill road and Blagden avenue, shortly after 6 o'clock by Fred E. Altemus, 2041 Twenty-eighth street. | Altemus, accompanied by his wife, | was driving through the park when he heard a groan. He then saw the young- ster stretched out on the wet ground. 2 heavy downpour of rain beating on his body. | Takes Boy to Station. | Altemus stopped his automobile, backed up and ran to the prostrate boy. Removing the gag, Altemus attempted | to break the tire tape, but it proved too strong. With the ald cf his wife, he placed the boy in his car and drove to the tenth precinct police station. | There the bonds were cut and young Golkoski was rushed to Garfield Hos- | pital, where physicians treated him for | exposure and shock. | Meanwhile, Altemus took Policeman | J. H. Johnson to the spot where the| boy was found. From there Johnson went to the hospital where he found young Golkoski had regained conscious. ness long enough to tell his name and { address. During his few brief moments of con- sciousness the boy managed to mutter | his identity to Policeman W. W. Mac- Gregor, stationed at his bedside. Remembers Being Gagged. Johnson went to the boy's home and notified his mother, Mrs. Antonina Gol- koski, who returned with him to the hospital. By this time the boy had | regained consclousness but still was oo dazed to make a coherent statement. He rallied when he saw his mother, however, and said: | “The last thing I can remember is | standing in_front of a restaurant at Ninth and E streets about 11 o'clock | last night. I had gone out with a friend of the family to celebrate New I hed promised to be home at 11, however, and after we bad got- ten a bite to eat, we separate “I got on a street car, but had rid- den only & few blocks when I remem- bered I wanted to see somebody. 1 can’t recall now who it was. I do re- member, though, that I got off of the car, walked back to the restaurant and stood on the corner. All of a sudden, some tobacco into my mouth and I don't know what hap- pened after that.” Complains of Headache. Complaining of a terrific headache, the youngster declared he had no idea who had jammed the tobacco into his mouth, “After 1 feel better,” he said, “I _may be able to remember. Physicians said there were no marks of viface on the boy's head or body and taat there was no indication that he had been drugged. In response to a question by Johnson, he denied hav- ing had anything to drink The man with whom the youngster spent the evening, said to be a friend of the family, lives in the 800 block of Tenth street. Johnson questioned him, but he denied having seen the boy since they parted at the restaurant. Mother Lost Home. The boy, who is a first-year student at’ Tech, is the oldest of four chil- dren. The others range in age from eight to twelve. They and their wid- owed mother, according to Johnson, are FECHET WARNS .. [ v AS HE LTS POST Resigns as Head c;f Army Air‘ Corps to Battle for Preparedness. Warning the United States it is| likely to be rudely awakened from its “fool's paradise” unless immediate steps are teken to improve its aerfal | defenses, Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet | revealed today that he had accepted retirement from the Army Air Corps, which he has headed for four years, JAMES E. FECHET. because he feels he must make an ef- fort to arouse this country to its danger. Thotigh he could remain in the Air | Corps for probably 10 years more, he | said, he felt it his dufy to leave the | service so he could tell the American | Lariomsy people “plain facts” which he could not | reveal in his capacity as a ranking of- | ficer of the Air Corps. As a part of his new program of arousing the country to its deficiencies in aerial defense, Gn. Fechet today became chief of the Washintgon bureau - START WIDE HUNT |Italian Embassy Guarded as Infernal Machines Turn Up in Four Cities. By the Associated Press. The menace of an apparently wide- spread bomb plot directed against Ital- ian officials and public figures prompted | Federal and other officials today to be- trators following discovery of five or more infernal machines. The bombs were delivered by mail or | express yesterday in Chicago, Cleveland, | Detroit and Youngstown, Ohio, but none | of them caused any loss of life or prop- erty damage, because they were all in- tercepted in time. Their discovery fol- lowed closely upon the heels of the ex- plosion of two bombs in the Easton, | Pa., post office, which killed two men |last Wednesday. A third victim, Charles Weaver, died of injuries last night. Three Sent to Chicago. of one of the Nation's largest aeronau- tical publications and will take charg> of its national defense department. | Assails “Fool's Paradise” “I have come to the end of my mili- tary carer’ said Gen. Fechet, whose retirement from the Army be- | came cffective at midnight. “I go in sorrow at the state of our armed forces, in sadness at the attitude of | my country toward its defenders and | because of the false sense of security | my people seem to feel | “I want my farewell act to be this word of warning. We are the most hated nation in the world; we house more than our share of the world’s treasure. That treasure is now prac- tically unprotected. Unless we do a hasty about-face, unless there is imme- | dintely a national consclousness of im- pending trouble, with ample preparaticn to meet jt, our fool’s paradise will soon be lost.” The opportunity offered him to make his voice heard in national aviation af- | fairs, the retiring chief said, “made it necessary for me to make a very drastic | decision as to the remainder of my | Sad “Were I to remain in the Air Corps,” he said, “my rank and experience would insure me an important place and interesting work for the next 10 years and indirectly an opportunity to help aviation, but only in its governmental GAMBLING HOUSE | plosives, were received in Chicago. One |of them, which reached the office of Petitions Ready fOl‘ Commis- Oscar Durante, editor of L'Italia, a pro- - i Fascist publication, and a member of sioners as La Fontaine Goes ;Ih:‘ Chicago Board of Education, was | described by Chief of Detectives William to Jail Tomorrow. | Shoemaker as being powerful enough to | wreck a whole city block. It was taken | by police to an outlying stone quarry, where it was exploded by rifle bullets. With James La Fontaine, W ton gambler, scheduled to nine-month sentence for tax evasion in the Baltimore City Jail tcmorrow, o (‘Olhcr apparently intended victims were the future of the gaming establishment on Bladensburg road, which he is said to have operated, was the sub- ject of widespread speculation today here and in Prince Georges County The establishment has been closed since the opening of the Maryland racing season last September, but ru- mors have been widely circulated late- ly that it would reopen when La Fon- taine starts his jail term It is said those who worked at the establishment in the past have formed an organization of their own and will attempt to operate it La Fontaine, ‘Glusseppl_Castruccio, Italian consul, Chicago; “Tony Masilio,” to whom a package was sent in care of the Asso- ciated Press, Chicago; Count Ugo Berni Canani, Detroit, Italian vice consul; Count Cesare Buzzi Grandenigo, Italian consul at Cleveland, and Dr. A. Rasa- pepe, Italian consul agent at Youngs- town. One Received by A. P. The package addressed to “Masillo” at the Associated Press in Chicago and that directed to the Chicago Italian consul are to be fired at today to see if they too contain explosives. There is no such person as “Masillo” on the rolls of the Associated Press, whose offices are situated in the Ashland Building, which also houses the headquarters of | | 1 | EXILE OF GANDH POSSIBLE WEAPON 10 CURB UPRISING Boycott of Government De- clared as Viceroy Rushes by Air to Calcutta. PREPARE FOR ARREST Mahatma to Launch Campaign if Interview Is Not Given by Willingdan. By the Associated Press BOMBAY, January 1.—Aflairs in fn. dia rushed to a crisis today as the Na- tionalist Congress declared for a boy- cott on all government utilities, and Lord Willingdon, the viceroy, rushed by air from Calcutta to call a meeting of the executive council. There were unconfirmed reports that the government might deport Mahatma Gandhi to Aden if the civil disobedience fight is renewed and that other Na- tionalist leaders would be exiled to Burma. The government is prepared, if the opposition campaign is renewed, to in- sutute a whole series of new ordinances throughout the country, making civil disobedience, boycotting, picketing or the collection of salt all punishable of- fenses. Martial Law Considered. If the situation becomes acute the authorities may decide to declare mar- tial law, which, irdeed, already exists in modified form in some districts, in the shape of sweeping ordininces giv- ing the officials the power of life or death. Officials said the government forces were never before better prepared to squelch the Nationalists’ campaign. Besides the resolution deciaring for a ‘utllkues boycott on telegraphs, courts and railways which, it is agreed, would paralyze the country, the Congress Committes also authprized th: p.esi- dent of the National Congress and the presidents of all Provincial Congresses to nominate their successors in case Gandhi intends to order his follow- ers to begin the campaign unless hg viceroy recedes from his point of no# permitting the Mahatma to rzopen the question of the Bengal ordinances in an interview. His virtual ultimatum to f‘%x;\:hWél\_‘lllngidon ha?gsdon this peint, e viceroy alrea cannot concede, 4 ¥ emd e Arrests Anticipated. Most of the Congress leaders have their belongings all packed here, but they anticipate they will be arrested ° before they have time to return to their homes for farewells to their relatives. The “war plan” of the All-India Na- tional Congress, providing for ren-wal the _civil disobedience campa gn against British authority, was revealed today as Mahatma Gandhi served no- tic: on Viceroy Lord Willingdon that it would b put into effect unless conces- sions are made. Gandhi replied to a telegram from the viceroy, which contained notice the government is prepared to crush any civil disobedience movement, by asking for an interview to discuss the recent restrictive ordinances, which provide death penalties for acts against the government. “If you think it worth while to see me,” the mahatma said he Working Committee of the Congress will suspend operation of a resolution ren>winy civil disobedience, which, at my suggestion, it tentatively outlined.” But the resolution said that, in the absence of any satisfactory response from the government to the contrary, the committee would consider the gov- ernment has nullified the Delhi truce. Prepare for Resistance. In that case, it summoned the na- tion to resume not only civil disobed- ience, but also non-payment of taxes, boycott on foreign clothes and pick- eting of liquor shops, and to begin again the unlicensed manufacture and collec- tion of salt. |gin an extensive hunt for the perpe- | they are arrested. several Italian organizations, including | who “If processions and demonstrations are organized,” it warned followers of the Congress, “only those should join Il stand lathi charges and bul- SPRINGFIELP, Ohio, January ; | being cared for by the Welfare Board. | aspects. It would not enable me to | 20cOrding to reports, will have no con- |the Italian Chamber of Commerce and | lets, without moving from their places.” scarlet were | settia plants, | emlock and palms. | agerness with | thering at e on the ite | ¢ | investigation the wreck of the Cleveland-Cincinh iti passenger plane rose to four todag when W. D. Wieback of Cincinnati, & salesman, succumbed to injur Thres men were pulled fr here last nig critically inju Cause of t! The death toll'iy i were dead when th # the smashed ship near t. The pilot remained a a1 was sought in an 4 Capt. Frank McKee, | State direetor of acronautics, who in- i edal | 1 a_position of | immediately | y and | Band, wearing s on_either r received member. ndthe aen of their fami n the librar, floor of the White House, fore the set for the | y at 11 o'clock there | nfare xembers of the cabinet om the rear, the band ¢ Chief! across _the apt. C. Russe pbell B. Hodges, naval| aides, respectively, pre- | Page 3, Column 5.) way, with and their wives played “Hail to As Train | Continued on SUN BEAMS ON ROSE FETE| By the Assoclated Press ted the wreckage today. Craft The plane route from Clev g low wher ‘aucording Louisville, the | In addition to ¥ L. Wenner. Ci Louis E. Stone. sonnel director division of the A. C. Mayer, handising ma ctrie Co, ref adquarters at The four pas lying Low. otor craft, en d to Louisville, was it_went int> a barrel Lewis L. Bowen of who was injured the dead are A ti, an engineer Cincinnati, per- Embry-Riddle nerican Airways, and 33, Louisville, mer- of the General ation division, with leveland gors h2d boarded the plane at Clevel It had left Port | Columbus 8t 8:25 p.m. (Eastern stand- | ard time) and was due at Dayton at When the plane wes 10 miles out of (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) BORJES HOME GUARDED AFTER KIDNAP THREAT | Mysterichis Voice Over Phone Says Son of Orchestra Leader Will Be Tiken Away. at the 8-year-old son £ of Harry gor)u orchestra leader at | the Palace Theater, might be kid- naped resulted ‘oday in police keeping a special w over the Borjes home, | A _warn. —Finland stood today upon the thresh- old of 1932 and looked for a wet ‘year, | after 13 yzars of prohibition. Prohibitionists hbition- ists alike admitted the prospzct as re- turns from the country on the advisory referendum Tuesday and Wednesday | continued to be counted. | Early Vote Three-Fourths Wet. With about one-fifth of the vote counted, 75 per cant of the ballots were | registered for repeal of the dry law, | 24.2 per cent to retain it and 0.8 pcr‘ cent for modification to parmit the sale | of wis and bee Obs-rvers were most surprised be- cause 60 per cent of the repeal votes in| early returns in Helsingfors were cast | by women. The largest newspaper here estimated, on the basis of a poll of its own in various sections of the country, that! the final vote wculd show a majority { of 68 per cent for repeal. Drys Plan to Continue Fight. Prohibition headquarters ‘showed dis- appointment. over the trend, but leauers indicated the fight would be continued. “Tha Finnish home has been saved,” sald Prof. Luciia Hagman, who was one of the most ardent drys among the women when the law wes adopted 13| years ago. “Reason has conquered,” said T. O. Kivimaki, minister of justice. FATHER KILLS DAUGHTER WHO SHIELDS MOTHER Older Woman Also Shot When Bullet Passes Through Body of First Victim. By the Associated Press. NORPOLK, Va, January 1.—Mrs, | that she lived Mrs. Golkoski told Joh , he said, in the 3000 block of Eleventh street until about six years ago, when her husband, a tallor, died | After his death, she added, she lost her home EARLY WATERWAY PACT EXPECTED BY ALLEN Former Senater Hopes to Settle St. Lawrence Agreement Prob- lem in Near Future. By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, January 1.—Early completion of negotiations involving the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence water- ways project is expected by former Senator Henry J. Allen of Kansas, who |is acting as adviser to the State De- partment in the matter Here last night en route to Washing- ton, where he will resume work on a treaty with the Canadian government, Allen said: “I believe our efforts will be rewarded within three years. If the waterway becomes a reality we will be able to ship our wheat to Liverpool 8 to 10 cents cheaper. The project is of vital importance to this region.” Allen is president of the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Tidewater Association WASHINGTON’S MOTHER’S CLOC | SENDS ITS VOICE OUT OVER RADIO | today, “there is no recent change what- help the industry as a whole. This I feel I must do. | Fights for Progress. “I am not interested in the indus- try as a business, but it must succeed commercially if it is to be an asset of national defense, and without such an asset we shall have no national defense. 'Therefore, T am anxious that it_should be intensively developed and kept healthy, vigorous and profitable in_all its branches. “Henceforth I shall devote my en- tire time and experience to American aviation's general advancement. I wish to serve all of those interested in avia- | tion for in their development and success lie the very core of our na- tional defense and the cure for our present totally inadequate prepared- | ness.” Gen. Fechet's return to civil life | marks the close of a notable career | of 33 years in the Army, during which | he rose from the ranks to leadership | of the Army Air Corps. He has been | succeeded as chief of the corps by Maj. | Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, the Army's first pilot, who also rose from the ranks. | Mummers Delay Parade. PHILADELPHIA, January 1 ().— | The Mummers' parade, annual New | | Year day burlesque pageant, was post- Poned today until tomorrow because of rain. | K nection with the new management. Seven-Page Petition Ready. Meanwhile, citizens of the surround- ing communities, aroused at the no- toriety accorded their county by the Bladensburg tea house shooting, are de- manding steps be taken to close per- manently the gambling establishment A petition bearing seven pages of signatures of persons living in Mount | Rainier and Brentwood, calling upon | the county commissioners to take steps | to close the establishment and to re- fuse any license to the management, will be presented to the commissioners Tuesday The petition cites La Fontaine's con- fession before a Baltimore court that he was a gambler, and requests that no license for the “Maryland Athletic Club” or anything else on the prem- ises be granted. Practically all town official Rainier and Brentwood, Is of Mount as well as many outstanding residents, signed the | - petifion, which was circulated by the Mount, Rainier-Brentwood W. C. T. U. Officials of that organization sald to- | day that reports reaching them of the | proposed reopening of the establish- | ment led to drafting of the petition. | Coming as it does from the closest | | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) FORBES SCOUTS RUMOR | PSR S | Japanese Ambassador Denies He Asked to Be Relieved. TOKIO, January 1 () —Commenting on reports that he had informed Wash- ington he wanted to resign, American Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes said | ever in the situation and I have not Famous Fredericksburg Timepiece Joins London’s Big Ben and Heidelburg Chimes in New Year Program. A distinct contrast in sounds was| asked to be relieved in view of the un- settled conditions in Manchuria.” | Easton, said he had been informed that ' No Late Edition © The program was carried_out in the the Unione Sicilana. The belief was expressed by some ob- Like the bomb sent to Durante in|servers, however, that the “war” might | Chicago, those in Cleveland and | still be averted if Lord Willingdon per- Youngstown were exploded by the police | mits the Mahatma to see him. = i with rifle bullets, with resuits that in- dicated they were loaded with TNT and nitroglycerin. The Detroit package, also | believed to have contained an infernal machine, was intercepted shortly after it was delivered to the hotel residence of the vice consul All of the bombs, dressed to “Masillo” in Chicagg, were sent by express from New York, and Postal Inspector Harry E. Getchel, at except that ad- four other packages suspected of con- taining explosives, were expressed from New York to Cleveland, in addition to one found in the Ohio metropolis yes- terday. He was unable, however, to give the addresses to which they were dispatched. The “Masillo” package was mailed from Chicago The Durante bomb was labeled as " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) FOUR YOUTHS KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO Third Girl Victim Expected to Die. Two Dead Boys Were Taking Friends to Party. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January young men and two girls, all of Phila- delphia, were killed and one girl in- jured while on their way to & New Year eve party in Delaware when their automobile was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train at Glenolden, a suburb. Although the accident occurred before bells rang in the new year, positive identifications weré not made until to- day. . The dead were: Oscar L. Davis, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, who was driving. Charles Danenberg, & senior in the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary | School. | 1.—Two| | If it’s not too late,” Gandhl sald, ask to see you as a friend, without any conditions whatsoever being im- posed regarding the scope of subjects of our discussion.” This was in reply to the viceroy's telegram saying he couldn't allow Gandhi to raise the question of the restrictive ordinances. If Gandhi insists, however, that the Congress have a free scope, in any fu- ture negotiations, to prosecute National- * ists and to claim complete independ- ence as demanded by the resolution of the Working Committee, there can only at best be a temporary cessation of hostilities because it is generally con- ceded the viceroy will not agree to what Gandhi insists upon as “complete inde- pendence” for India. “Grieved,” Says Mahatma. “It grieved me,” the Mahatma sald in his reply, “that you rejected in a man- ner hardly befitting your high position a suggestion made in the most friendly spirit. In my opinion the constitutional issue dwindles into insignificance in the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) D TR BUDGET APPROVED Philadelphia to Spend $88,655,827 Under 1931 Tax Rate. PHILADELPHIA, January 1 (#)— The city launched the new year with an approved budget of $88,655,827, based on the tax rate of 1931. The figure was $13,000,000 short of the first estimpte prepared with a proposed tax rate increase of 35l cents. By a vote of 16 to 1, Councilman William Roper, former Princeton Uni- versity coach, opposing, City Council approved the budget yesterday. HEAT SWEEPS AUSTRALIA Thousands Forced Out of Doors. Gladys Virginia Fox, 29, was shot and | killed early this morning when she stepped between her mother and father as the latter, W. F. Barnes, prepared to fire & pistol shot into his wife's body. The bullet went through Mrs. Fox's body and struck her mother, who was unsuccessful at- | taken to ® local hospital, where the call traced, Mrs. | extent of her injuries had not been de- ! rleenth precinct | termined by attendants. icted the officer on the | ~r'no- who confessed to police, said , lal attention to the 4 ¢2en “living in hell” for 10 heard over the radio today from those bed Torms oé the Mery Washington | ¢ ves last| Douse, at Predericksburg, Va., the home that came over the ether waves 8% George Washington gave to his mother. |5 night, when the thunderous notes of| The historic timepiece, the property of | Big Ben and the pealing of the Heidel- | Betty Washington Lewis and permanent- burg chimes were broadcast from Lon- | ly located at Kenmore, was moved to don and Germany. the Mary Washington home, in the next At noon the tick-tock of Mary Ball block, for the broadcast. Washington's own clock, the same| Mayor J. M. H. Willis of Fredericks- grandfather clock which for many years burg, Va. presided at the ceremony. ushered in the New Year for George Representative Bloom of New York de- Washington, was heard throughout the | scribed the clock, its history, and gave Natlon in & special broa t of the Na- | a description of the room from which tional Broadcasting Coy’ 4 the broadcast 2850. Twenty-eighth street. The warn ot threat—was recelved over the telephone by Mrs. Bor] John Cardwell Bo, “If you want v . he & going PASADENA, Calif., January 1—The sun broke through an interference of clouds at sunrisc today and promised fair weather for the lournzment of roses parade and the foot bell game be- tween Tulane and Southern Californa | Universities in the Rose Bowl There was little indication of prob-|:aid a Velcds able showers as forecast by the weather | After n man | tempt 89 The Rose Bowl, however, was still | Borjes soggy from yesterday's rain and the ! police, W oot bell teams faced slow going re- beat to dless of the change in the weather, Borjes Grass Fires Kill Sheep. | A third young woman, Miss Rosa- ' Because there were three young women | of one of the worst heat waves in its in the party, police believe there may ' history At Adelaide the hot spell was have been a third man in the party.|the worst in 50 years, and the tempera- Hours after the crash, however, search- | ture remained at 80 degrees at mid- ers had failed to find an additional | night, sending thousands of people out victim. of doors to sleep. Devastating grass fires swept west- ern New South Wales, and it is estl- mated b least 20,000 sheep Miss Lincette Lacheen. Miss Regina Roof There will be no 5:30 of The Star on of ar little boy, watch ¥ be taken from you,” edition today account # NEW YEAR HOLIDAY Wlhfi“ l;"’x"m"' on Page. C-2 n TR yearmm l