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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Fair and slightly colder today; tomor- row fair. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 81, at 5 pm. lowest, 40, at Y. Full report on page 5. Porecast.) m. yes- § h C§ WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Y Star, The Star’s excl Natjonal 5000 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by usive carrier service. Phone to start immediate delivery. (#) Mea ns Associated Press. 023. Entered as second cl. ss matter post office, Washington, ‘ D. « WASHINGTON, D. (., BUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1932—-100 PAGES. - FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE S OFFICERS SLAN BY DESPERADOES N FARM HOUSE AT Posse of Nearly 1,000 Hunts | Murder Suspect and Two Brothers. BATTLE IN MISSOURI LASTS FOR TWO HOURS Killers Believed to Have Eluded Searchers and Fled Into Ozark Mountains. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo, January 2. Bix peace officers were slain and three others wounded at a farm house near here this afternoon when they at- tempted to arrest a band of despes does. The slayers, believed to be three in number, escaped to the hills after a two-hour battle with a posse. ‘The dead: Sheriff Marcell Hendrix, Chief of Detectives Tony Oliver, Detec- tive Ollie Crosswhite, Detective Sidney Meadows, Deputy Sheriff Wiley Mash- burn and Charles gouser, police patrol driver. | The wounded: Detective Virgil Johnson, Detective Oren Brown and Officer Frank Pike The fugitives are Harry Young, 25, ex-convict, wanted for the slaying of Marshal Mark Noe of Republic, Mo, more than two years ago, and his two brothers, Paul and Jennings Young. Attempt to Fire House. A posse including hastily deputized eitizens and members of the Spring- field unit of the Missouri National Guard—nearly 1,000 in all—was scour- ing tbe Ozark countryside in search of the killers. The shootings began when Sherift Hendrix, suspecting that Harry Young had returned to the community after two years in hiding, wen. to the Young farm, accompanied by other officers. As Deputy Mashburn kicked in the door, some one in the house opened fire and Mashburn fell, seriously wound- ed. Sheriff Hendrix and Detective Chief Oliver were also fatally shot be- fore Johnson, himself wounded, escaped in an automobile to summon reinforce- ments. The entire police force of Spring- fie!d was gushied to the seene, Citizens. and Guardsmen sugmented the attack- ing forces, which advanced under cover of nightfa'l to recover the bodies of the six officers, Attempt to Fire House. Members of the posse, enraged by the slayings, sttempied to set fire to the house, but were dissuaded by State patrolmen and other officers. A search of the house disclosed the Kkillers had escaped and a hunt through the sur-| rounding region began. { Debecuv:‘;ohmn. describing the en- counter at the farm house, said he was at Mashburn's side when the latter was fired upon with a sawed-off shotgun at i»mcblmk range. He also told of see- ng Hendrix and Oliver shot down in similar fashion by men firing from the building. | The first intimation to authorities | that Harry Young might have returned to his home came earlier in the day when deputies arrested his two attrac- tive young sisters, Vinita and Loretta Young, as they were trying to sell an | automoblile. They denied Harry was in | the vicinity, claiming the machine be- longed to another brother, Paul. But officers were not convinged. R. L. Bumgarner of Bowers Hill was arrested near the shooting scene and held as a suspect. He was brought to the county jail here, but authorities ad- mitted that they had no evidence against Bumgarner except that he was acting “suspiciously.” Search for Young has been going on since the slaying of Noe, 40-year- old marshal, at Republic, 16 miles southwest of here and not far from the scene of today's shooting Noe was killed the night of June 2. 1929, but his body was not found until | the next morning by the side of a little- used road. He had been shot three| times, twice in the head and once in the right arm near the elbow. Discov- ery of Noe's body was made by a| brother of Sheriff Hendrix, who was| killed today. Noe had accosted Young and Ovall LaFollette, who were creating a disturb- ance, and climbed into their car to take them to a justice of the peace for ar- raignment. The car had traveled about (Continuea on Page 2, Column 8.) CHURCH TO FIGHT | EDICT ON PRIESTS| Mexican Archbishop to Imstruct| Clergy on Legal Plan to Block Law. By the Assogiated Press MEXICO CITY, January 2.—Arch- bishop Pascual Diaz announced today Predicts $1,500,000 Profit for U. S. in Sale of Stamps Postal Official Estimates 4,000,000 Were Sold on First Da Stamp collectors purchasing George Washington comemmorative stamps in 1932 will more than pay for the Gov- ernment’s share of the George Wash- ington Bicentennjal celebration, ac- cording to M. L. Eidsness, head of the division of stamps of the Post Office Department. Pointing to the results of the first day's sale of the special issue, made available in Washington Friday in ad- vance of their Nation-wide release, Mr. Eidsness predicted last night that phila- telists would buy enough stamps this sear for their collection books to yield | Uncle Sam a clear profit of $1,500,000. More_than 50,000 pcople bought be- tween 3,500,000 and 4,000.000 stamps for collections purposes only on Janu* ary 1, the post office official said. He figures this type of sale ought to bring the Government $1,500,000 by the end of the Bicentennial year, during which time 14,000,000,000 of the stamps are to_be issued. Representative Sol Bloom of New York, assoclate director of the United States George Washington Bicenten- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SEVEN ARE NAMED INKIDWAPING PROBE |Six Men and Woman Taken Before Chicago Spotlight and Accused by Roche. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 2—In a dra- matic denauncement tonight, Pat Roche chief investigator for the State's attor- ney, marched a group of alleged extor- tionists across an improvised “show- stage at the Criminal Courts Building and branded them as members of “the worst gang of extortionists ever organ- ized.” p Identities of members the group accused of wholesale kidn#ipings that netted thousands of dollars, who were apprehended after months of effort by Roche and his aides, were anncunced as follows: John Pingeree, 43, alias John Portes, Chicago. William Thomas, 50, Chicago. Gus Sanger, 42, alias Frank Sher- man, owner of a bungalow at Palos Park, near Chicago, where police be- lieve most of the alleged victims were he eld. Louise Sanger, wife of Gus Sanger. Al Raussell, 33, alias Frank Montague, Chicago. Eddie Finman. 28, address unknown. Ward Swallwell, 32, a Chicago attor- ney and alleged go-between for the kidnapers. Torture by Fire Charged. Listed against the sullen suspects by Roche was a string of crimes ranging | from plain kidnaping to torture by fire. They included: Kidnaping of James Hackett, Blue Island, Ill, sportsman, released after paying $150,000 ransom Abduction and tcrture of Leo Wil- iams, Mundelein, Tli. Kidnaping W. C. Flannigan, Gary, nd. Extorting $5,000 from Leo Gans, Chi- cago druggist, whose feet were burned with red hot irons. Withhelds Names of Others. Abducting Jim King, Chicago road- house proprietor, who paid $7,500 Kidnaping Anton Berg, St. Louis fur dealer, who paid undetermined amount. | Abduction James “Fuzzy” Pearce, Rockford, IiL, gambler, ransom un- known, and John Lynch, wealthy turf- man, who paid $75,000. Scores of other similar crimes have been traced to the gang, according to Roche, who withheld the names of the additional victims pending apprehension of other members still at large. Woman Vhtim Traps Seven One of the victims of the extortion- ists, Mrs, Max Gecht nt about their arrest, Roche said Mrs. Gecht and her hust a phy- sician, were abducted and Geckt, was released to obtain his ransom. She communicated with the State’s attor- ney'’s office and a trap was laid that resulted in the seven being seized (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) D. HENRY MORDECAI, SPORTSMAN, SUCCUMBS b Maryland Man Started Racing Event That Became Grand National Steeplechase By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Januar Mordecai, Maryland here today after an months. He was 50. Several years ago he started a horse racing event which later became the Grand National Steeplechase of Maryland. In 1924 he was manager of Mrs. Charles Minot Armory’s racing stable and purchased Rock Man, which won the $10,000 Aberdeen stakes at | Havre de Grace as a juvenile in 1925 Later he associated himself with Vic- * CANADA ASKS U. S. GIVE GANDHI EXPECTING ARREST AS INDIAN - PEACE MOVE FAILS Government Will Meet Any Nationalist Activity, Says Lord Willingdon. |SPURNS OFFER TO HALT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE DRIVE Viceroy's Decisicn Follows Seizure of Calcutta Ex-Mayor for Threat of Bengal Campaign. By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, India, Sunday, January 3.—Negotiations for peace in India broke down today, and the arrest of Mahatma | Gandhi was momentarily expected. Viceroy Lord Wilingdon rejected the Mahatma's terms for settlement and informed the Nationalist leader that he |and the All-India National Congress | would be held responsible for any action | they might take. | The government will be ready, ths viceroy said in a telegram to M Gandhi, to meet any activity on the part of the Nationalists Expecting Arrest. The Mahatma smiled as he read the mossage. He expected, he remarked, to be arrested under a law of 1818 which empowered the government to arrest or deport any agitator without trial. | “The nation must respond to the government's challenge,” Gandhi said. | “It is to be hoped, however, that, while people of all classes and creeds will courageously and in all humility go | through the fiery ordeal, considering no | price too dear and no sufferings too great, they will observe the strictest non-violence in thought, word and deed. The Mahatma had told the viceroy he | would withhold plunging India into the | turmoil of another civil disobedience | campaign if the viceroy agreed to an | interview with him for the purpose of | discussing the recent restrictive ordi- nances put into effect by the govern- | ment. This offer was turned down by Lord Willingdon. Before word of the viceroy’s decision was received here, Subhas Chandra Bose, former mayor of Calcutta and a | member of the Extremist Nationalist | faction, was arrested for openly declar- | ing he would start a civil disobedience campaign in Bengal Province as soon as he arrived in Calcutta. He was made captive on a Calcutta-bound train and was taken to a destination that was not revealed by the authorities. Bengal Unrest Is Grave. | As grave unrest already exists in Ben- | gal, government offictals felt, it was ex- ‘plfilned they had no alternative except ‘ln intern the fiery former mayor who | was inciting the populace to revolt. | Just before he wept to bed in his ‘tent last night, Mr. Gandhi received a delegation from the powerful Bom- | bay Cotton Merchants' Association. His callers assured him the association | would not export a single bale of cotton from India if civil disobedience were renewed The Indian Gold Merchants’ Asso- ciation also gave a pledge to the Ma- hatma_that they would not export gold from India until the present struggle with the government has been setled, because to do so would be detrimental to_the best interests of the country. The telegram addressed to Gandhi by Lord Willingdon's private secretary at New Delhi read: “His excellency desires me to ac- knowledge receipt of your telegram of | January 2, which has been considered | | by, him and his government, “They much regret to observe that | under your advice the Working Com- mittee of the Congress has passed reso- lutions which involve a general revival of civi} disobedience unless certain con- ditions are satisfied, which are stated in your telegram and resolutions. Reform Is Intended. “They regard this attitude as more deplorable in view of the declared in- tention of his majesty's government and the government of India to expedite the policy of constitutional reform con- (Continued on Page 2 Column 4.) PRISONER DEPORTATION | New Evidence Said to Have Been Found in Case of Joseph B. Jones, Serving in Murder. By the Associated Press. Deportation of Joseph Byron Jones, a Canadian now serving a life sentence for murder, in the Colorado State Pen- itentlary, has been asked of the Amer- ican Government by Canada. Jones was imprisoned for the murder of George P. Fraley, March 14, 1924, at Bessemer, Colo. At his trial he sought | tewestablish an alibi supported by the evidence of three women with whom he claimed to have been talking at the time Praley was shot On' the basis of new evidence gath- |ered independently by the Canadian | government, the case was brought to the attcnuonfi | | the State Department and Canada’ quest that the sentence - CHINCHOW CITIZENS | the Japanese garrison at Shanhaikwan, | about_their business as usual and that | \NE N \ G W STUFF YEARKY DEMOCRATS BARE RECORDS, DENYING HIDDEN SMITHFUND iGerard Answers Wood Charge Over New York Outlay in 1928 Race. VIOLATION OF CORRUPT PRACTICES LAW ALLEGED Federal Prosecutor Opens Probe. G. 0. P. Lists Contributions Received During 1931. | By the Associated Press. Faced by an investigation of Demo- cratic expenditures in the 1928 Hoover- Smith campaign, James W. Gerard, treasurer of the National Committee, sald last night all records would be filed tomorrow in the House of Representa- tives. Jacob J. Rosenblum, an assistant dis- trict attorney of New York, began the CHEER INVADERS Triumphant Japanese March Into City Taken Without Shot Being Fired. - By the Associated Press. CHINCHOW, China, January 2.— | The triumphant soldiers of Japan | marched into Chinchow today and were greeted by crowds of Chinese | citizens, who lined the streets to cheer | for them The Chinese waved flags that looked | as though they had been hastily sewed | together during the night by towns- | people who wanted to recelve their | conquerors diplomatically. Chinchow fell without a shot being fired. The first column swung into town at 1 p.m. and found the evacu- | atlon of Chinese troops already com- | pleted. Several hours -earlier the last | trainload of Chinese soldiers had de- parted down the Peiping-Mukden Rail- | way, bound for stations inside the Great Wall of China. With the occupation of Chinchow Japan became master of the entire | province of Manchuria, | It was believed some troops would be | sent down the railway toward the Great Wall to establish liaison with the gateway to the province. The building housing the Chinese civil government in Chinchow was taken over by the Japanese, who issued | a proclamation in the name of Gen. | Honio, Japan’s Manchurian _com- mander, requesting that the people 89 | the Chinese civil officials retain their | positions. FURTHER ADVAN UNCERTAIN. Japanese Garrison at Shanhaikwan Believed Sufficient. MUKDEN, Manchuria, January 2 (). | —Japanese newspaper men looked down | on Chinchow from airplanes this after- nocn as the advance force of their na- tion's army, consisting of one armored train, two battalions of infantry and twenty armored motor cars entered the | city. A spokesman at Gen. Honjo's head- quarters here said there had been no air bombing cf Chinchow. It was uncertain whether the Japa- nese army, now in full control of the Kowpangtze-Chinchow district, would advance south to Shanhaikwan at the Great Wall. Garrison Recently Increased. The Japanese garrison at Shanhaik- wan recently was increased to 500 in- fantrymen, and it was believed that force was sufficient, as there has been no indication of any intenticn of the | Chinese to attempt to re-enter Man- churia. K 2 The Shanhaikwan garrison_received “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | TODAY'S STAR | PAGES. | National and | Foreign | Schools and Colleges—Page B-2. PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorials, Editorial Features and | Financial News. i Spanish War Veterans—Page 4. D. A. R. Activities—Page 10. PART THREE—20 PAGES. Society Section and Classified Adver- | tising. Women of Diplomacy—Page 14. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 3. Four Train Workers Sentenced to Death As Result of Wreck By the Associated Press. KHABAROVSK, Siberia, Janu- ary 2—A train dispatcher, a conductor, an engineer and brake- man were sentenced to death to- day by a Railway Transport Court on charges growing out of a collision between an express train and a freight train which caused some loss of life and con- siderable damage to the trains. The specific charge was “break- ing labor discipline.” CONGRESS T0 PUSH ECONOMIC BILLS Reconstruction Finance Com- | pany, Tariff and Taxes Are ! First on Calendar. Congress prepared yesterday prompt ccnsideration of America’s most important peace-time economic legisla- | tion upon the resumption of sessions Monday. The $500,000,000 reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation asked by President Hocver gets the call in the Senate next week, while the Democratic House gets | started on the vital tariff and tax in- crease measures, Almost every congressional commit- tee will go to work during the next six days with the whole gamut of Federal legislation possibilities up for discus- sicn, Navy and Dry Law Hearings. Hearings will be begun in the Senate on the controversial naval program and prohibition. Studies of foreign bond flotations will be resumed. House com- mittees will take up agriculture relief and rivers and harbors plans. The all-important Democratic poli- cies on the tariff and taxes will be formulated at meetings of the party leaders beginning tomorrow. The Democratic-controlled House is prepared to drive through the party's tariff pro- posals before the end of the week. It will then get to taxes. The Sgnate Banking Committee holds the burden of the more pressing eco- nomic problems and Chairman Norbeck has called it to get to work again Tuesday. Subcommittees have reached decisions on the reconstruction corporation and on\the measure to increase the capital- izagion of the Federal land banks by | $100,000,000. Norbeck to Make Reports. Prompt reports of these two gigantic | propositions for infusing new life into the Nation’s credit fabric were promised today by Senator Norbeck. Strong bi- partisan support for each is in prospect. Norbeck said he expected the Bank- ing Committee to give precedence to the reconstruction corporation, by which President Hoover hopes to aid the railroads and support the whole nation- al financial structure. The committee, however, is prepared to guard more closely than was at first proposed the availability of Federal Re- serve facilities for discounting paper of this corporation. Senate action before the end of the | week is believed certain for the recon- struction corporation. House leaders are ready to give it prompt considera- tion also. The House already has passed the Federal land bank recapitalization measure and new millions for this form of agriculture assistance will be flowing from the Treasury before the end of the month. Meanwhile the drive will be resumed in the House Appropriations Committee for drastic economy in the next year's Government expenses. The first of the regular appropriations | for | PLEAD FOR BOATS Relief Workers Ask Aid as Epidemic of Colds Breaks Out in Mississippi. | By the Associated Press GLENDORA, Miss, January 2—An inland sea of muddy water that surged over weakening levees crept higher |around homes on the Tallahatchie River Valley toniznt wherein are ma- rconed thousands of people, who are beginning to feel the pinch of hunger and illness. All available boats are hurrying hither and there on rescue missions, but their number is sorely inadequate to promise immediate help for all. Calls went out in the stricken valley today for more boats, but relief workers are wondering where they will secure a sufficlent number to rescue all of those stranded in time to prevent greater suffering. An epidemic of colds has broken out |in the valley, leading to apprehension | follow unless the sufferers are spared | from further exposure. | 25,000 Acres Threatened. Late today a levee protecting the | Jones Federic Plantation, near here, broke and all man power in the vi- cinity was rushed there. Twenty-five thousand acres were threatened with immediate inundation unless the break | can be mended. | The full force of the flood is now |being felt in Tallahatchie County, | bursting minor plantation levees and | threatening to blow out the whole Tal- lahatchie levee system in the Cas- sidys Bayou bend, which stretches from Glendora around Webb, Sumner and Swan Lake. Miss Eleanor Ellis, secretary to J. W. Williamson, superintendent of Parch- man Prison Farm, made a trip by boat through the section and said the flood was the greatest hazard the valley has ever known. She said practically no hope was held that the levee system would last (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) \FEAR FOR LONE SAILOR DUE TO HEAVY STORMS | Steamers Report Winds of Hurri- cane Force on Route Miles Plans to Follow. By the Associated Press. | LONG BEACH, Calif., January 2.— | Apprehension that Edward Miles -of | Memphis, Tenn., who is sailing around the world in a 31-foot boat, would be delayed in reaching here from San Francisco was expressed as the result |of recent heavy storms lashing the | Southern California Coast. | " Miles left the Bay City a week ago | for Southern California ports. Steam- |ers on the coastal routes reported | winds of hurricane force had whipped low. A craft resembling Miles’ schooner, Sturdy 2d, docked here early today and | was mistaken for his boat by Marine Exchange officials. INFLOODED AREA | the course which Miles planned to fol- | | inquiry following charges by Represen- | tative Wood of Indiana, chairman of the | Republican ~_ National Congressional Committce. Wood asserted the Demo- crats concealed some of their expendi- | tures through their New York head- | quarters and by so doing violated the | Federal corrupt practices act. “I hate to question even Mr. Wood's motives,” Gerard said in a statement through the party's national committee, “put it is extraordinary that this mat- ter should be brought up after this long | period of time. The act provides that all the bills, receipts and accounts shall be kept for a period of at least two years from the date of filing the statement. Filing Due Tomorrow. “Maybe they thought I had taken ad- vantage of this provision and destroyed them. Fortunately I have not, and | they will be on file with the clerk (of | the House) early on Monday morning.” Gerard previously had replied to | Wood’s charges with a declaration that the Democratic report was prepared by | the same firm of auditors who per- | formed a_ similar service for the Re- | publican National Committee in 1924. Wood accused Gerard of trying to “pass the buck” to the auditors, and | pointed out that he charged viclation of | the 1925 act, which was not in effect in 1924. He said Gerard’s actions gave | strength to the assumption the accounts | were withheld intentionally. | "In his statement the Democratic | treasurer quoted John W. Davis, attor- | ney and former Democratic presidential | nominee, as holding “the previous act, under which the Republicans acted in 1924, was merely different in language, | but_in effect the same.” | "t is always bad policy for a Demo- | crat to follow the Republicans, and in | doing so we seem to have got into the | bad graces of Mr. Wood,” Gerard said. Pay Roll Copies Sent. “To satisfy him I am sending photo- static copies of our pay roll, which I| find I have, to the clerk in Washington | * * * showing the names of all our em- | ployes and the amounts paid to each. I hpve also kept the returned checks. e said they had followed the law, and “if any criticisms had been made at the time of filing” we would have filed the names on our pay roll with the official disbursements.” | | tion at the direction of United States District Attorney Medalie in New York, said he would also scrutinize quarterly | reports of the Democratic Committee filed since the 1928 campaign. The re- ports show the contributions received | and the expenditures made by political | organizations. The corrupt practices law requires that they be filed with the clerk of the House. Nutt Files G. O. P. Figures. At the same time, James R. Nutt, | treasurer of the Republican National Committee, filed a report with the House clerk showing the contributions received and expenditures made during 1931. Expenditures amounted to $258,- 918, with contributions totaling $100,- 371, The ccmmittee began the year 1931 with a balance in excess of $100,- 000, but had a balance of $6,425 on De- cember 31 | Among some of the larger contribu- |tor were: Thomas J. Johnson, chair- |man of the Boston Republican Sub- | finance Committee, $25,000; the Repub- lican Ways and Means Committee of Eastern Pennsylvania, $7,500; Ogden L. Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury, $5,000; Mr. and Mrs. James E. David- son, Bay City, Mich., $5,000; George S. Mahana, New York, $2,500, and Col. E. W. Edwards of Cincinnati, $1,000. Robert V. Fleming, treasurer to the Republican National ~ Congressional Committee, filed a report for 1931 show- ing $31,569 had been expended. Con- tributions are received from Republic- an Congressmen and the National Committee by this organization. Snows Stop Hungarian Trains. | BUDAPEST, Hungary, January 2 () —Heavy snows have caused the sus- pension of traffic on 40 railway routes. | Express trains reached Budapest many | hours late today, and some trains were ! stalled. | MUMMER, DRESSED AS GANDHI, IS BARRED AT PHILADELPHIA that a siege of more serious illness wm‘ | Rosenblum, in opening his investiga- | 1S, PAY CUT FOES ALARMIED AS MOVE GAINS INCONGRESS Approval of Slashes in Sal- aries Over $3,000 Feared Despite Opposition. PROPOSED ECO‘NOMY CALLED DROP IN BUCKET Opponents Say Reduction Would Be Incentive for Curtailment by All Employers. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Members of Congress who oppose sal- lary cuts for highet-paid employes of the Federal Government, civil and mili~ tary, are becoming alarmed at the growing movement for these cuts. Since the Christmas recess of Con- gress began th> movement has gained impetus, notwithstanding the opposition of President Hoover and many congres- sicnal leaders. Those who are against these salary | cuts—and there are a great many mem- bers of Congress who believe they would b2 futile in halting the increasing deficit and a signal to all employers through- out the country to cut salaries and | wages—are laying their plans to oppose the cuts. Hearings Start Thursday. Chairman John J. Cochran of the House Committee on Expenditures in the eecutive departments, an oppo- nert of the proposed salary reductions, announced last night that his commit- tee would hold hearings on bills intro- duced by Representatives Rich of Penn- sylvania, Garber of Oklahoma and Shallenberger of Nebraska next Thurs- day. This will be the first airing of the question at an open hearing before & congressional committee. With the House prepared to begin work on appropriation bills this week, the question of isalary cuts may be thrown on to the floor of the House itself, however, if an amendment to one {of these bills proposing to reduce sal- | aries is offered. The legislative appro- priation bill, carrying the money to pay meémbers of Congress, is one of the first scheduled to come before the House. The great difficulty in dealing with the proposal for salary reductions for the higher-paid employes of the Gov- ernment, now proposed not only by sev- eral members of the House, but also by Senator Borah of Idaho and other members of the Upper House, les in the fact the question is like a live elec- tric wire—once taken hold of, it is dif- ficult to let go. As one leader expressed it, and he is | a Senator who is really opposed to a | salary cut for Government employes: | _ “If the matter ever comes to a vote {1 shall support it. I could not afford to be put in a position of voting to keep my own salary up when the Gov- ernment faces a huge deficit and when corporations and business concerns all over the country have in many in- :tances cut salaries in the last year or wo."” Proposal Is Limited. So far the salary cut proposal is being limited to those Government em- | ployes and officials who receive $2,000, | $2.500, $3,000 or even $5,000 or more. Proponents of the salary cuts deny desire to have the cuts apply to the great mass of lower-paid Government workers in the civil service or in the military. Furthermore, the proposal for salary cuts is, in most instances, for a period not to exceed two years. In other words, the proposal is put forward as an emergency measure, to help the Govern- ment meet the deficit, which promises to mount to $2,100,000,000 or there- abouts by the close of the fiscal year 1933 unless steps are taken to halt the growing discrepancy between Federal in- come and Federal expenditure. At the expiration of the two years, it is hoped that the Treasury will find itself in a better position and it will be possible to return to the present pay scale. There are plenty of arguments against the cut in salary of Govern- ment employes and officials, advanced by leading members of Congress, and by representatives of the Government employes. It would appear to be the time to put them forward"and to do everything to prevent a salary cut pro- posal actually coming up on the floor of the House or Senate. Among the arguments against the proposed salary cuts are the following: That the cuts would be a mere. drop in the bucket toward balancing the Government’s accounts in the Treasury. It has been estimated that the salary cuts would lop anywhere from $40,~ 000,000 to $150,000,000 from the expen- ditures of the Government. As com- pared to a $2.000,000,000 deficit, these | savings would be very small. Incentive to Other Cuts. That a cut in Government salaries would merely be an incentive to salary and wage cuts in private industry throughout the country. ‘That 2 much fairer way of meeting the deficit is to increase 'the income taxes so that all classes of people, whether they work for the Government or whether they are employed in pri- vate industry or in the professions, would help to meet the burden. That it is unfair to Government offi- cials and employes, whose salaries are he was preparing instructions for the |ory Emanuel, international sportsman, clergy and lay members of the Cathalic | of New York, 'who raced in this count:y church on how to proceed legally in |in the name of the Dorwood Stable a5 |sftort Ao biock ‘application bor/ the| o MI< MOTdeckY was e #om OLGHY, and be commuted on the grounds of Jones' innocence wes communicated to Gov. | Adams of Colorado. Gov. Adams’ oflice suggested that Jones | measures will be taken up by the House tomorrow—the first deficiency bill, sup- | plying emergency funds to meet added expenditures for this year Aviation—Page 4. . Serial Story, “Spite Wife"—Page 4. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 4. Fublic Library—Page 5 “But This Ain’t India,” Officer Tells Thinly Clad Man| (continued on Page 2, Column ) Taken From Fantastic Parade. ’ " SURRE (“OLD GUARD” SURRENDERS had previously requsst a new | | J. Randoiph Mordecai. He re- law limiting priests to 1 for every 50,000 communicants in the federal | district. i The archbishop emphasized that the church would not countenance any | force of distrubance. “The church as & church has no arms, cannons or airplanes,” he said “As a church it will not fight with arms, but with moral force in com- liance with its duty to guard faith- ?nuy everything that its Divine founder has charged it to do.” Three priests arrested on that they violated the new mained in Jail today. charges law re- but the arch- bishop said he expected them to be, released soon. They were detained, he explained, because they misunderstocd his previous instrustions The newspaper El Nacional declared the priests were held because they at tempted to take property from the churches. Most churches were under small guard, but no disturbances of any cently PILOT HOPS been living in New York T OFF By the Associated Press. PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan, Jenuery 2.—How Williem Jewett, flying geologist, and James For, mechanic, raced their plane over the brink of a 400-foot waterfall to get into the atr rather than remain on a small lake in Northern Saskatchewan was related in reports received here from the North toda nature were reported. Priests are stay! within their resi- dences, the archbi said, following don of the ‘:‘zrnmem order no unregistered cleric may officiate d at religious services. Y. Dispatches said the pair were forced down by a broken piston on the small lake near Copper Mine River more than a week ago, several hundred miles from the nearest base. Wit tive copper AS WEAKENED MOTOR FALTERS Balked by Broken Piston Patched With Native Copper, Flyer Speeds Over 400-Foot Drop. trial OVER FALLS | | found near the lake they patched the piston and attemptied to take off. _The weakened motor, while giving them pood speed, refured to lift the plan> from the water. Investigation then revealed the waterfall, with trees and a rock-studded ravine at its base. Jewett, piloting the plane, moved to the opposite end of the lake and raced at full speed toward the bottle-like neck. The plane plunged downward | | At Community Centers—Page 5. Page 5. s—Page 5. Wars—Page 5. Organized Reserves— Army and Navy New Veterans of Foreign Fraternities—Page 5. News of the Clubs—Page 6. W. C. A. News—Page 6 Naval Reserves—Page 6. District National Guard—Page 6. American Legion—Page 6 Marine Corps News—Page 6. Radio—Page 7. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. M ine Section. }::linsznlehn and Artists—Page 15. News of the Music Worid—Page 16. The Bridge Forum—FPage 17. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 18. The Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 19. | Those Were the Happy Days—Page 20. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. C 'TION—8 PAGES. COLOR SECTION—$ PAGE: sickeningly for a moment as it shot over ‘he brink, then righted itself and carried snd Fox to within a few miles 04 witw home base. Pending receipt of the reconstruc- tion finance measure later in the week, New Hampshire as President pro tem. No break in this contest is in sight. 1t is the order of business in the Sen- ate. Hearings will be resumed tomorrow by the La Follette Committce on_the (Continued on Page 2, ENGINELESS S-4 TO SAIL | Refitted Submarine Due to Start in Tow to Hawaii Today. NEW LONDON, Conn., January 2 (#).—The refitted submarine S-4 will 2, Column 5.) first port of call on a voyage of instruction and rescue work. It will stop in the Panama Canal zone, at West Coast naval stations and at Pearl Harbor, Honolul1. The submarine, which has no en- gine, will be towed by the salvage vessel | Falcon. the Senate will have a few more days | | to ballot on the deadlock over re-elec- | | tion of Senator Moses, Republican, of |ing dancing and prancing Mummers in | money, the Mummers' parade was de- Marshal and Deputies of Cleveland | By the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA, January 2.—March- fantastic and colorful array, today for- mally welcomed the new year with their annual pageant on Broad Street. Kept indoors yesterday by a heavy rain, Philadelphia’s new year “shooters” paraded in all their glory before tens of thousands of persons who stood for hours in the cold to see the fantastic show. It began to move in South Philadel- phiaat 1 p.m,, when rain clouds ceased to roll by and it was long after 5 p.m. before the last of the “shooters” reach- ed the finish line, It was the usual, colorful spectacle that annually draws many thousands of | leave tomorrow for Norfolk, Va., the|visitors to the city. The jam of peo- ple was so great that at least 20 per- sons received hospital treatment for minor injuries, fainting and hysteria. Most of them were women and chil- dren caught in swaying masses of hu- manity. All were residents here. Despite business conditions, which for |a time t,hr(’uned to prevent the annual | turnout because the city treasury could | | not spare the usual $30,000 in prize | clared to have been as big and showy | and artistic as any that have gone be- fore. Nearly 10,000 men and boys pa- raded. The censors had little to do except in one instance. A young man with spindly legs appeared at the starting | point as “Mahatma Gandhi.” his thin attire caused the censors to ponder and he was finally ordered out of the pa- rade. | “Hey, 'm Gandhi,” shouted the Mum- | mer. “You may be Gandhi,” one policeman answered, “but this ain't’ India. In the absence of any city prize money, public spirited citizens and business houses donated approximately 1810,000 for distribution as prizes. The Klein New Year Club won the first prize of $1,000 for the best fancy club. First prize of $800 went to the League Island Club as the most comic organi- zation, and in the string band division first prize of $750 was won by the Ferko | Club. ‘ CITY HALL ON INJUNCTION Hold Fort With Guns, Gas and Bat. By the Associated Press, CLEVELAND, January 2.—The “old guard” at Miles Heights, Cleveland suburb, “surrendered” today, but only after a court injunction against them was granted. Since New Year eve the village mar- shal, Tom Glassburner, and four depu- ties had occupied the city hall and re- fused to deliver the administration in the hands of Mayor-elect Alfred Bradley. Armed with a shot gun, four pistols, tear gas bombs and a base ball bat, the old guard held the fort» until the in- junction was issued, restraining them from fugther interference. County commissioners approved an- nexation of Miles Heights to Cleveland last Tuesday, but Bradley claimed the annexation would not be effective for 60 days.