Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1932, Page 2

A-2 CONGRESS SALARY CUTFOES ALARMED Approval of Plan to Cut Pay| Over $3,000 Feared Despite Opposition. (Continued From First Page.) to cut their pay in a time of when it is well understood | e given them when limited depr that no increases a times ar No from g ailable at present | rces to show just ernment BONBERS HONTED ATRITESFORDEAD Man-Hunters With Mourners at Easton, Pa. Congress Probe Urged. EASTON, Pa., January 2 (#)—Man-| hunters, searching for the perpetrators | of Easton’s bombing outrage, which | claimed three lives, mingled with the mourners today as the city turned out ! for the funerals of two of the innocent victims. No arrests were made and officials in THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 3, 53 Heroine WARNED AGAINST PACKAGE THAT CONTAINED BOMB. 1932—PART ONE. EARLY ACTION SEEN NTAXAND TARIFE Legislation Will Be Rushed Only Few Will Be Ready for Through House—Garner Informal Rites To- Calls Policy Group. morrow. ENPTY IN OPENING Although a fleet of more than 50 motor trucks and an army of men have been tackling the equipment in six of the bureaus of the Commerce Depart- ment in an effort to have everything in s for tomorrow’s scheduled in- Definite plans to expedite House action on troublesome tariff and tax-raising legislation were made yesterday by Democratic congressional leaders. the party's tariff bill is expected to|the base of the Federal Triangle, but flash through the House and to the|few offices will be ready for occupancy COMMERCE OFFICES y cut for mount to: e on the | how m on the t of Colu e of the Distr employ rine Corps were added the number ed b Governm ased by between 200,000 | the 11 service pay roll, including P r officials service employes, ps to $1,200.000,000. | service of the Govern- | saving to the } rere | 1930, placed Columbia on the pay roll of and District Governments This figure included mem- the Army, Navy and Marine The total annual pay roll of es in the classified service was income groups of Government employes was given as fololws: $10,000 $5,000 to $10,000, 1,638 9.043; $2,000 to $3,000 00, 46,660, nate of the total Federal for 1930, furnished by the bud- $1,494,000,000. This includes for the personnel in the and _judicial branches of the Government. to active and retired officers and_enlisted per- fonnel of th y, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guar detic Survey and Service $3,000 to $5,000. 051 Coast and Geo- Public Health Borah Finds Support. On the other hand, members of Con- gress proposing salary cuts contend that some steps are absolutely necessary to reduce governmental expenditures. They say that & reduction of the higher sal- aries would be a step in the right di- rection and good psychology. Some of m_believe, t00, that a move to reduce Government salaries would be extremely popular out in the country, where salaries and wages both have been cut during the depression. Senator Borah of Idaho, one of those who has been most outspoken in favor of salary cuts, has received upward of 1,000 letters from persons in private life commending him for the position he is taking. So far the movement has not actual- crystallized for the reduction of Gov- nment salaries. Senator Borah ap- ently is ready to go ahead with the matter unless it should be initiated in the House, As a matter of fact, the Senate is Jooking to the House to act first if there is to be salary curtaiiment.. Whether a legislative measure fixing a limit on salaries above & certain figure Will be introduced, or whether an effort will be made to put-& rider on the appro- priation bill fixing the salary cuts, re- mains to be seeny Under the rules of the House, amend- ments proposing to reduce appropria- tions are held to be an order as a gen- eral proposition. -Senate leaders insist that attempts to fix selary limits as proposed by Senator Borah and others d be legislation, and swbject to| s of order from the floor of the| However, & point of order can be overturned by a majority vote of the Senate if the Senate is in the mood. Or the Tules could be suspended by a rds vote to make an order an cuts. t Byrns Opposes Slash. n of the House Appro- e has declared him- t salary cuts as a_means of Government expenditures un- other avenue of Government been tried out, If there are cuts, he believes that they | ned to the higher sal- niembers of Congress Rainey of Illinois, leader of the House, ken the - position. On the hand, Represe W of Indiana, who was chairm: Appropriations Committee, Republicans controlled the Ho { the first members of sar n of the le the Juse, Was on Congress dment for salary | to be taken not mple, if the | all salaries cut 10 per cent hat, an n would 'receive had been made 3,020 cut all salaries paid would bring a hor- the nber of Government scattered about the coun- em with frie nd with Cipolla of New York City, remained in charge of the investigation of an al-| leged anti-Fascist plot, miscarriage of | sed the fatalities here, pre- for a long search. eparate funerals were accerded Ed- | i H. Werkheiser, 29, and John B postal clerks who were the | ctims of the bombs. Hundreds { persons lined the streets and stood | at the graves in a driving rain as a last | MISS THEODORA USSAIL, tribute to the two whose deaths re- | A clerk, who warned Count P, A. Buzzi- vealed the plot. Masonic services were | Dradenigo, Italian consul at Cleveland, conducted for House, while Werk-{Ohio, that & package he received on heiser’s funeral was private. December 21 might contain a bomb, In- rquis Agostini Ferrante, Italian | vestigation proved she was right and at Philadelphia, was among the | prevented a heavy loss of life and prop- throng at the services and joined in|erty destruction. Police destroyed the eulogizing the victims He drove from |bomb at a rifie range. —A. P. Photo. Philadelphia under strong police escort. | - - e Before returning to his home he visited | the family of Charles Weaver, explosive | killed when he attempted to one of the bombs. IN CONTENPT CASE which cau con, custody. They were arrested on sus- picion. CONGRESS PROBE ASKED. Fish Calls for Investigation of “Dia- bolical Plot.” By the Associated Press, The bomb menace that has taken three lives, threatened many more and put authorities on the alert all over the country may be followed by & congres- sional investigation of Fascist and anti- Fascist activities in America. The inquiry was proposed yesterday by Representative Fish, New York, Re- | publican, s Federal agents and local police in & dozen Eastern and Middle Western citles redoubled efforts to find the source of at least 12 dynamite packages directed by mail or express to Italian consuls or persons of Fascist sympathies At Easton, Pa., two of the three dead | were buried. Investigators admitted themselves still without clues leading directly to the perpetrators. Finger- prints and photographs of suspects were exchanged between authorities in Easton, New York, Philadelphia and Washington. Embassy Still Guarded. The Italian embassy continued under special police protection, while 14 places in_Chicago, including the Italian con- sulate, were under guagd. New precau- J. W. Mapoles Must Remain in Hopewell, Va., Jail, Judge Decides. By the Associated Press, HOPEWELL, Va. January 2—Two | requests for bail, and a motlon to amend the order imposing a 30-day sentence for alleged contempt, in quick succession today, were not enough te save J. W. Mapoles, editor of the Hope- well News, from a week end in jail. Judge Thomas B. Robertson, who sentenced Mapoles to jail when the editor failed to disclose the author of a letter published in his paper, refused one request for bail, and said he would consider the other, and the amendment until 10 a.m. Monday Judge Promptly Refuses. Counsel for Mapoles contended that Judge Robertson violated the State Con Stitution when he imposed a sentence of more than 10 days upon conviction on the contempt charge. Today the defense lawyers first sought to have Mapoles bailed indefinitely while they door of the Senate by the end of this week. Revenue-increasing legislation will be rushed with a view to passage by February 1 With the return yesterday of Senato Robinson of Arkansas, the Senate Dem ocratic leader, Speaker Garner sum- moned the Joint Policy Committee to meet with him tomorrow morning to give its approval to the tariff bill draft- ed during the Christmas holidays. Hearings on Tuesday. Chairman Collier announced yester- day hearings on the tariff measure would begin before the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday afternoon He expects it to be reported favorabl Wednesday, so that it may be submitted to the House for consideration Thurs- day. Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills of the Trea are to open hear- ings before the Way d Means Com- mittee on the tax bill Thursday, Collier said. After the Treasury officials have submitted the administration’s tax pro- gram, Collier plans to make public a calendar for witnesses opposing and ad- vocating certain taxes. The Mississip- plan made public a list of witnesses representing various industries, includ- ing Chester Gray of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Speaker Garner said the tariff bill would be introduced by Collier imme- diately after its approval by the Policy Committee. He expressed the opinion that extensive hearigns were unneces- sary. vised Bill Closely Guarded. Although the bill is being guarded closely, it is designed to bring about a means by which reciprocal tariff ar- rangements may be negotiated. It would permit international _conferences on tariffs and would authorize the Tariff Commission to report needed changes in duties t» ™ Chief Excc as at present. Returning yesterday after a visit in New York, Representative Snell, Republican leader, urged the Demo: ariff. The New Yorker said ountry and the business people want to know the tax policy so they can adjust their business to the new taxes and the revenue is needed by the Federal Government.” prepared a petition to the State Su- preme Court for & writ of error. \hen | Judge Robertson said he would take the | matter under advisement, they asked for bail over the week end. This Judg Robertson promptly refused. Mond: marks the end of & week's confinement for the editor. Although they refuse to admit that Mapoles is guilty of contempt, his| counsel in the session set today espe- cially for the bail hearing, moved that | the court change the order from charg: | of direct to indirect contempt. Decision Due Monday. This the judge took under advise-| ment, also. He said his decision on both matters would be rendered Monday The motion noted 18 exceptions. Principal among them was the state- ment that Mapoles had been deprived of his constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment to the Gonsti- tution of the United States as well as the Constitution of Virginia, guaran teeing every citizen due process of la\ Mapoles was denied release on & writ of habeas corpus early this week in the Petersburg, Va., Corporation Court. CHINCHOW IS TAKEN & BY JAPANESE TROOPS WITHOUT A FIGHT (Continued From First Page.) tions were taken inother localities where bombings or attempted bombings occurred. From Charles Fama of New York City, president of the Defenders of the Constitution, & leading anti-Fascist group, came the opinion in a telegram to Fish “that diabolical work was com- mitted either by terrorists or Fascist agents-provocateurs in order to make Fascists appear as martyrs to their cause.” Fama asked a congressional inquiry on both sides of the Fascist movement, Fish termed the request “a fair one” and immediately drafted a Tesolution for introduction in the House Monday. Also, he prepared legislation to put Congress on record against “the teach- ing of Pascism in the United States” and demanded that “tbe activities and propaganda of both the Fascists and anti-Fascists shall cease.” NAMED TO LEAD SEARCH. Quaker City Postal Inspector Directs Man Hunt. PHILADELPHIA, January 2 (@) —| Recalled from his vacation in the Middle West, John W. Johnson, chief of postal inspectors hers, today assumed active charge of the investigation into the bomb plot which claimed three lives at Easton, Pa He conferred with two inspectors who have been prosecuting the search for the plotters from Easton and dis- cussed with them measures to prevent further sending of bombs by mail. ERoGbombe by, el orders from Tokio not to interfere With Finger prints taken from the wrap- FiGgAoy hiebomb lopened by Chasies | the retirement of the Chirese army V. Weaver, explosive expert, later in-|S0uth of the Great Wall. jured fatally &s he continued his ex- |, The Japanese army's rapid advance amination of the packages, were | iled to eradicate entirely the guerilla Ehiboke By BErEionts coerietiire forces along the Peiping-Mukden Rall- e P oak i o S e orce, | WaY. several gangs still harassing the ;| Japanese from the rear. said the prints did not compare with Bhy on record here. Bolice satd. how. | ., Chinese irregulars likewise continued their activities along the South Man-| ever, those responsible for the bombing might have carried out their plans here without having had any criminal record. JERSEY CLUE FAILS. Probers Fall to Link Stolen Dynamite With Bombings. NEW YORK, January 2 (#).—Inves- tigators exploded at least one clue and pursued others without apparent suc- cess today in their quest for the mail 1d_express bombers whose terrorism ained nation-wide proportions A member of the police bomb squad dispatched to New Jersey returned with the statement that dynamite stolen from Cliffside Park, N. J. was not of the same brand as that used by the manufacturers of the bomb packages which fatally injured three persons in | Easton, Pa. 1 Poli t a photograph of a man | st and Anarchist affilia- tions to Easton, Pa., for possible iden- | ire of political influence cuts d the the sense ¢ 0,000,000 should be mates in n cut king appropria- looking dget estl ns, and ild be & most se Governme o e the it is b for the and red because thi such action corporation in the country would do Itkewise, holding they were justified by n of the Government. is leglslation in my opinion affect the people of the country who are oyed and not alone Government loyes. Favorable action on the would mean & general re- ¢ salaries throughout the country. One of the causes of th present_depression is underconsumption 1f this be so would it be wise to reduce the buying power of the consumers? I am mot so much concerned over & Yeduction of salaries of members of Congress, but I am greatly concerned about reducing salaries of men and women who are barely able to exist upon their present wage. What the should do, and I propose to ch a bill, is to provide for week for Government em- Il.m..lmu Police Commissioner Mul- | soney ordered the apprehension of the | man in quest MEMPHIS IS WARNED. City Marked for Bomb, Police Inspec-| __ tor Is Told. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 2 (#)—| | Police Inspector Will T. Griffin received | { @ telegram today warning that Memphis | arked for bomb outrages { not reveal the source of the . but he advised residents to be careful in handling parkages re- ceived through the mails and otherwise. —— | and set the example for the ss men of the country to follow already have a five-day week in | 1 the bullding trades and some of the large rairoad offices as well as cther corporations have been on a five-day week for the past two years. | This would create more jobs for the citizens out of employment who are willing and able to work. We must counteract the labor-saving machin i that have been installed and the on way that can be done is by either doing | away with the machines or reducing | | the hours of labor. | | “At the hearing Thursday only mem- bers who introduced the bills will be| | heard. 1%l courtesy must be extended | to a ber who requests it. The | committee will then either pass on the | | bills or decide to hold further hearings. : | “Of course, I cannot predict what ction will be taken but if the bills are | tabled that will not end the mnuer| | ploye: us W practically Under the rules of the House an amendment to an appropriation bill will be in order as it wil be held the adoption of such an amendment would reduce Government expenditures. While this might be true still the reduction would mean very little in comparison with the deficit.” A thorough reorgan- ization of Ggernment agencies would mean mote t%'the Treasury than a re- duction in salaries of the employes.” churian Railway. Aiter a short, flerce conflict_between & Japanese battalion and & band of 300 guerillas 14 miles northwest of Anshan, the Chinese fled, leaving 10 dead. Four Japanese were wounded. Word reached Mukden today cf the Japanese bombing of Kowpangtze last Wednesday, in which 17 bombs were dropped around the station in which two pasenger trains were standing Among the passengers, none of whom were injured, was an American woman, Mrs. Tina Stearns, an employe of the American Trade Ccmmissioner’s office in Mukden, who was on her way back to Mukden after spending Christmas with her husband at Tientsin. Her train was turned back and reached Tientsin safely Three Chinese soldiers and three Chinese railway employes were reported killed by the bombs. SEVEN ARE NAMED AS GANG MEMBERS IN KIDNAPING PROBE _(Centinued From First Page.) Sanger, after lengthy questioning, confessed, Roche said, implicating the others. Pingeree was named as leader of the band and was described by Roche &s its chief torturer. It was he, Roche de- clared, who applied hot iron and other instruments to the hapless victims who pleaded inability to meet the gang's demands. More than six victims have identified members of the ring, officials said, and an_ elaborate show-up is be- ing arranged for Monday, at which time it is planned to have several hun- dred victims on hand to look the sus- | These will include Frank | pects over. Blumer, Monroe, Wis., brewer; Frank Ricbey ‘of Evanston, and many persons who have been preyed upen, but whose names have been withheld thus far. One of those reported sought was “Buster” Brown, St. Louis police char- acter. Police at Peoria, where the hunt was reported in progress, however, dis- claimed knowledge of the man and said they had not been called upon to co- overate with the investigators from Chicago. Roche’s investigation of the ring has been in progress several months, he re- vealed. He was drawn into the inquiry when the extortionists extended their activities, which previously had been confined ‘to bootleggers, gamblers and others engaged in shady enterprises, to include reputable citizens. “It has been a tremendous job,” he said tonight, “fraught not only with peril, but with numerous obstacles. thus | Snell said the Democrats had attack- ed the Republican tariff on t form from coast to coast” and ti since they are in control of the House thgy should fulfill “their promise to evise the tariff.” ‘Would Hurt Foreign Trade. would like to know what rates, if any, they are going to lower 1 demanded. He added that regiprocal tariff proposals of senhtative Rainey of Illinois, the Demo- cratic leader, were adopted, * n doubtedly would disrupt our foreign trade and void a large number of com- mercial treaties.” Meanwhile, a group of West members, led by Representative Hawley of Oregon, ranking Republican on the ‘Ways and Means Committee, will meet with Commissioner Eble of the Cus Bureau Tuesday morning to discuss the new import conditions arising out of the depreciation of foreign currencies since several countries went off the gold standard. “It is not Russla that is involved sald the co-author of the y act, “nor any single im- ported commodity. We are considering new problems that foreign currency depreciation has brought.” GANDHI EXPECTING ARREST AS INDIAN PEACE MOVE FAILS __(Continued From First Page.) tained in minister’s state- ment “No government consistent with the discharge of their responsibilties can be subject to the conditions sought to be imposed under the menace of unlaw- ful action by any political organization, | the prime cept the position implied in your tele- gram that thelr policy should be de- pendent on the judgment of yourself as to the necessity of measures which the government have taken after most care ful and thorough consideration of the facts and after all other possible reme- | dies had been exhausted | “His excellency and his government | can _hardly believe that the | Working Committee contemp! that his excellency can invite you with the hope of any advantage to an interview ! held under the threat of resumption of civil disobedience | “They must hold you and the con- | gress responsible for all consequences that may ensue from the action which | the congress have announced their in-| tention of taking and to meet which | the government will take all necessary measures.” Sends U. S. Message. | After recelving the message the Ma- | hatma sat in his patriarchal tent on the roof of an Indian tenement house awaiting arrest. It was 2 o'clock this morning and all was still as he issued a “farewell message” for the United | States. “On the eve of embarking on v promises to be a deadly struggle,” sald, “I shall expect my numerous American friends to watch its career | and use the influence of a great nati 1| for the sake of oppressed human “This Indian struggle is more than national; it has international value and importance. I am convinced that if my countrymen and women retain up to the last the spirit of non-violence they will have inaugurated a new era upon | the earth.” Gandhi's disciples, including Gandhi and Miss Madeline Slade, wept | as the Mahatma spoke. Mrs. Gandhi, a | mere mite of a woman, squatted on the floor as if transfixed. | Arrest Is Near, As he spoke one of his lieutenants en- tered the tent and announced that the police commissioner was on his way to arrest the Mahatma. ; “Let him come,” said Gandhi. “He is perfectly welcome. I have been waiting for him.” Then he asked to be left alone to snatch s little sleep while he still was outside of prison walls He threw himself wearily on the floor with & few books as his pillow and gighed with fatigue, while the tearfy]| Miss Slade stood on guard outside the ! tent “Do not weep,” said Davi Das Gandhi, a son of the Mahatma, as the others withdrew. “Let us all be staunch and brave soldiers.” After an hour's nap, Mahatma Gandhi left his tent at 4 a.m. and went to the nearby gardens, followed by his t Mrs Even now there are still many threads of the investigation to be lowed. “I can say definitely, hofpever, that we now have enough evidence against these people to warrant trial” white-clad disciples. There he said g prayer. “1 worship the one that is devoid of sin, the one that defends the humble, the weak and the lowly,” he said, since the rates would not be n’-’ rress instead of to the | the | |n crats to bring up tax legislation before | the | un- | Coml‘ nor can the government of India ac- | | bi [1n th | reau { tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. | In view of this delay, which officials { blame on the failure of a contracting | firm to employ an adequate force of i moving men, all employes have been ! ordered to report to their old bureau | buildings tornorrow unless they have | been otherwise directed by their bureau chiefs during the last 48 hours. | At midnight last night only one-half of the equipment in the old executive office building, Nineteenth street and Penn- sylvania' avenue, had been moved into the new building, while vans were still moving back and forth between the new “Temple of Fact-Finding” and the other old bureau buildings. Officials expressed the belief yester- day that by tomorrow night the moving contractors will have the major part of | the equipment for tne administrative | offices, Aeronautics Branch | Fo and Domestic Commerce, Bu- reau of Fisheries and Bureau of Mines in place. \ly a small part of the vast amount of equipment and records of the Patent Office has been touched by the moving men, and the 1485 employes of this bureau will not be transferred to_the | new building until about January 20. By Tuesday the old executive office building is expected to be emptied, and one contractor will turn his force on the moving of part of the Census Bu- reau. The major portion of this bu- reau’s equipment will not be touched until the early part of Spring, when the last battallon of temporary workers, | employed to compile the 1930 census i1l be dismissed. Four to Move Wednesday. On Wednesday the moving men will concentrate their brawn upon the equipment of the Bureau of Light- houses, the Airways Division, the Bu- | reau of Navigation and the Steamboat | Inspection Service. It is estimated that employes in these divisions will noi be ordered to report to the new building before next Monday On Saturday, January 16, the big job | of moving the equipment of the Coast and Geodetic_Survey Bureau will get under way. Part of the heavy equip- nt of this branch is already in the building, including three printing ses used for publishing ocean and gation maps. January 25, the Radio equipment will be placed in | the hands of the moving men. By this | time the last of the Patent Office equip- | ment is expected to reach the new | building It is estimated that the department, not including the Census Bureau, will | not be functioning normally until about | the first week in February. |, Already observers have picked sev- eral flaws in the great temple of truth, ted to the enlarging the sclence as well as the practice of business. | " The principal criticism is that the rchitects devoted too much attention erior beauty and not enough to atural flow of light into the in- As the result many of the of- | fices will have to be jlluminated arti- | ficially at all times, especially the quar- | ters of the Accountant Division. Much Storage Space. It was also pointed out by observers that the architects, in an effort to pre- serve the beauty of the building from the outside created thousands of square | feet of space which can be used only | for storage purpose of the sixth floor of the seven-floor building. Two-thirds | of the space on the Fourteenth and | Fifteenth streets side on this floor of | the building cannot be put to any use- | ful purpose except for storage. Ample yoom for storage was also provided for | in other sections of the structure. This is particularly important in view of the numerous complaints registered by bu chiefs and minor officials who were assigned private offices in their old quarters. They will now have to occupy space in the large working rooms with other employes, or in rooms divided off into stalls by removable partitions. | The first department official to oc- | cupy an office in the new building was | Edward W. Libbey, chief clerk. He was |busy at work yesterday morning at his on the sixth floor. Across the y from his office, members of his were busily engaged with their routine Libbey is one of the oldest em- of this department. He is now twenty-seventh year. He service of the department a telephone operator. There were 26 telephones connected with his switch- board at that time. Three doors from office in the new building is one of the finest equipped telephone exchanges country. A total of 1,600 tele- phones have already been connected to the big switchboard, which is hooked up with the central office of the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. by 80 trunk lines. Other Government de- partments are connected by 40 tie lines. 500 Calls an Hour. Telephone users served by the de- partment switchboard yesterday made more than 500 calls an hour and in excess of 10,000 daily, according to Miss Anna M Hook, chief operator, who was the second young woman employed the department’s switchboard The department’s new telephone di- rectory is larger than those published for subscribers in small cities In as- signing numbers to_the new telephone Vstem, the various bureaus in so far as possible have been, grouped in 100 or 00 blocks of numbers ~For example, the telephones connected with the ex- change from 300 to 399 will serve the Bureau of Mines; from 400 to 499, Bu- of Fisherics, Navigation and Steamboat Inspection; the 500 block will take care of the administrative offices: 600, aeronautics, airways and light houses: 700, Coast and Geodetic Survey: 2100, 2200 and 2300, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: 2400 and 2500, the Patent Office, and 2600 and 2700, Bureau of Census CONGRESS TO PUSH ECONOMIC BILLS RESUMING SESSION | figus | ced o (Continued From First Page) proposals to contribute Treasury for unem- ployment ald. Gov. Pinchot of Penn- ployment 810 peen called by Senator La Follette as one of the witnesses. He opposes President Hoover and fa- vors direct Federal aid. The prohibition contest facing Con- gress is going to have to await disposi- tion of the urgent economic legislation. However, on Friday a Senate commit- tee, headed by Senator Metcalf, Re- publican, of Rhode Island, will open Rearings on measures to permit the manufacture of beer. On Wednesday building up Ameri controversial millions from the the dispute over ca’s Navy comes up for reconsideration by the Senate Naval Committee, Secretary Adams is the first witness to be heard on Chairman Hale's bill to authorize construction of Bureau of | Inspects Commerce Left to right: President Hoover, Mr: ERBERT HOOVER went back for & moment yesterday after- noon to the time when he was | Secretary of Commerce in- H stead of Chief Executive of the United States. | On a suddenly planned inspection | trip, he toured from top to bottom the huge new Department of Commerce Building, which he himself conceived as head of the department. He cov- ered on foot a goodly part of its 36 | acres of floor space and gazed out of | many of its 7,000 windows. Mrs. Hoover and Mr. and Mrs. Her- | bert Hoover, jr., and Secretaries Ritch- fe and Joslin, who accompanied him, showed fully as much interest as he; did. Secretary Lamont acted as guide, meeting the party at a back door after | a brisk walk from the White House “It’s nice to come to your house,” | | said Mrs. Hoover, smiling as they met. “Well, it's & bit chaotic,” replied La- mont, evidently referring to the activ- ity of moving men busy arranging the partly empty building for occupancy by a thousand or more workers tomorrow. Auditorium First Stop. | Upon entering the building the first | stop was made in the large auditorium on the first fipor, which has a seating capacity of 800 and a platform capable | of seating about 100 persons. From | there the party went to the main lobby | on the Fourteenth street side of the first floor and for more than a minute the President gazed admiringly upon the handsome marble and bronze work. He made no comment, but his expres- sion indicated clearly that he was well satisfled. Elevators were then taken to the fitth floor, which is to be known as the administration floor. There was a pause in the general waiting room while | the President looked about in admira- tion at the American walnut paneled | walls of the Secretary's and Assistant Secretaries’ offices. As the party was passing through the paneled doorway leading into the large, magnificent room of the Secretary, Mi Hoover paused as she spied William R. Burke, the Secretary’s colored chauf- feur, who served in a similar capacity for Mr. Hoover, while he was head of that department. Mrs. Hoover spoke graciously to him, as did the President. A step or two farther they paused to law; Mrs. Hoover and Secretary of Commerce Lamont. | been doorkeeper HOOVER IS GUIDED BY LAM s. Herbert Hoover, jr., his daughter-in- —Star Staff Photo. speak to Charles N. Johnson, who has to the Secretary of Commerce for more than eight years. Visit Lamont’s Offices. From Secretary Lamont's office the party moved into_ the next room, which is to serve as Mr. Lamont’s confer- ence room and which he is at present using as his private office until his own room has been finished. Then fol- lowed & tour of the other executive of- fices on that floor. The party then visited the basement cafeteria, which has a seating capacity of 2,400 persons, and into the Bureau of PFisheries aquarium. in_which they showed unusual interest. They seemed to be disappointed that the various glass tanks end pools did mot Vet contain fish. The President seemed to question | the lighting facilities of this depart- ment, asking the Secretary, “Will there not be more light down here?” Mr. Lamont's reply was lost The aquarium, as designed by the architects, will necessitate an annual appropriation of $10.000 for its upkeep In view of the administration economy | it was thought best not to transfer these fish for the time being from the old bureau building. Inspect Patent Office. Then followed a visit to the Patent Office file room and library. Evidently prompted by the size of the file room, Mrs. Hoover asked if the models of patents were to be kept there, to which Mr. Lamont replied it would take a room as big as the whole building to do that. Working models of patents no longer are required by law and the Patent Office has only a few of the early models in its possession. These will be used for exhibition purposes. The party then went outside the building on the Fourteenth street side and for several moments stood lookin; up at the exterior lines and beauties of the structure Mr. Hoover seemed es}:eclally im- pressed with the beauty of the bronze doors at the three principal entrances, the ornate work of which record the ac- tivities and purposes of the department. With the President and the Secretary of Commerce in the lead, the party walked north on Fourteenth street to the E street entrance, following which they visited several other offices and rooms before returning to the White House. PREDICTS $1,500,000 PROFIT FOR U. S. IN SALE OF STAMPS ___ (Continued From First Page) nial Commission, said last night he be- lieved such an estimate of the possible profit to the Government during the year was a most conservative one. “I believe the congressional appro- priation of $800,000 for the Bicenten- nial will be considerably overshadowed by the net profit the post office will realize from the sale of commemora- tive stamps,” Mr. Bloom said. The New Yorker admitted that he | purchased several dollars’ worth of the | special issue of stamps at the local post office New Year day. He sald | he placed & whole set of the stamps, | worth 57 cents, on each of several | envelopes which would ordjnarily have | cost but 2 cents to mail. Hundreds of the purchasers the first day were do- ing likewise, he declared, and in doing so were contributing many dollars in profit to the Government. Bloom said he believed almost as much value would be placed on George Washington stamps canceled for the first time in other cities of the country as were placed on the first day covers in Washington. He feels, too, that there will be a Nation-wide demand by | philatelists for cancellations of the | commemorative series on George Wash- | ington’s birthday and on other patri- | otic days of the Bicentennial year. | Meanwhile, Assistant Postmaster General F. A. Tilton declined to hazard a guess as to how much the stamp collectors would put into the credit column of the Bicentennial Commis- sion. He agreed that the Government prob- ably made considerable profit New Year day from the sale of “first day covers” at the local Post Office, where the commemorative stamps were placed | on sale in advance of country-wide re- lease. Postmaster Wililam M. Mooney yesterday estimated $100,000 worth of the stamps were sold here on January 1. “Of this amount,” Mr. Tilton said. “several thousand dollars was cl% profit, because collectors placed cents and $1 worth of stamps on sin- gle envelopes that Tequire only 2 cents postage, just for collection purposes. But the task of estimating, even on wildest terms, how much profit the | year will bring from these sales will | have to a better accountant YOUTH FOUND GAGGED REVEALS FAKE “ATTACK” | e | Says He Induced Friends to Tie| Him Up and Place Him in Rock Creek Park. Bromslow “Barney” Golkoski, 15, in- : duced two friends to bind his arms and legs with tire tape, gug him with a handkerchief and place him in Rock Creek Park during & heavy rain early Friday, he admitted to tenth precinct | Tallahatchie County, BOATS ARE NEEDED IN FLOODED AREA TO RELEASE VICTIMS —_(Continued From First Page.) until tomorrow noon, when the highest of the water s expected. “Most of the workers say the fight is hopeless,” said Miss Ellis. “Victory was in sight a few days ago, but heavy rains to the north changed all that. There are now 2,000 colored plantation hands, white citizens and convicts working in the flooded area of but in spite of vast numbers I see no chance of win- ning. Wholesale breaks by morning are not impossible.” After minor breaks today in the Cas- sidys Bayou levee, R. L. Ward, Red Cross director at Sumner, appealed to the Red Cross for immediate funds for relief of more than 10,000 persons he estimated had been made homeless in Tallahatchie, Quitman and Panola Counties. He asked that docters and nurses hold themselves in readiness in the un- affected cities in event of epidemics of disease breaking out in the refugee | camps. Appeal for Boats. Mayor Meyer Turner and the Tewn Council of Webb issued an urgent ap- peal for boats to remove the marooned plantation owners, tenants and small farmers from flooded dwellings, particu- larly several hundred in danger from Cassidys Bayou. “We must have outside relief,”” Mr. Turner declared. “Neither the Red Cross as it is now functioning nor civic agencies can successfully handle the situation. We cannot get the planters out in spite of the large number of boats being brought ntil the Nation comes to our assistance. Sandbags for continuous topping of the levees were running shurt and food for the stranded and hungry was ex- tremely low today even in the towns | which” for days have been furnished nothing but canned foods The Asa and Mimms levees protect- ing sections south of Batesville were straining toward the breaking point, While along the Cassidys Bayou stretch the water was pouring over the sacks. APPEALS TO WASHINGTON. Senator Stephens Wires Secretary to Ask War Department for Aid. NEW ALBANY, Miss., January 2 (). ha —United States Senator Hubert D, Stephens today telegraphed his secre- tary, George W. Neville, at Washington instructing him to call upon the War Department and National Red Cross of- ficlals for further aid for Mississippt flood refugees. “I told him to see if more funds can be allotted for relief work,” Senator Stephens said. “I understand that ad- ditional boats and supplies also are needed.” Representative W. M. Whittingdon at Greenwood left today for Washington, Where he sald he would make a per- sonal request for additional relief for the stricken zone. BILBO ORDERS INSPECTION. police last night. Golkoski, & first-year student, at Mc- Kinley High School, declared he con- ceived the idea of having himself found in a seemingly unconscious condition | in the park in the hope the fake “at- | tack” would enable him to rid himselt | of an undesirable friend. | Golkoski said he got two boys to bind | and him and leave him about 20 | feet from the road in Rock Creek Park the feet up to the limits allowed by the London treaty. This hearing has every indication of leading into an, airing of the sharp row between Président Hoover and the Navy League ovey the President’s naval policies. near Blagdon avenue and Beach drive. He was later found by Pred E. Altemus, | 2041 Twenty-eighth street who took him to the tenth precinct police sta- tion. He later was transferred to Gar- field Hospital, Sends Adjutant General and Four Officers to Flood Area. JACKSON, Miss, January 2 (P)— Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo late today ordered Adjt. Gen. J. M. Hairston of the Mississippi National Guard and four medical and staff officers to proceed to the Tallahatchie Basin region to in- spect flood and disease conditions. The officers left tonight, and are to make their reports fomorrow night if Ppossible, Troops will be sent to the stricken area, as in fhe 1927 flood, if the ad- jutant genersf thinks it necessary, Gov. Unite | Bilbo said, Exprei | SENATE TO RESUME SECURITIES PROBE Kahn Will Testify Again. Borah Studies Supervising Committee Plan. By the Associated Press. The Senate Finance Committee will resume its investigation of the flotation of foreign securities in this country to- morrow, with evidence already in hand indicating profits to American banking houses of millions of dollars Meanwhile, Senator Borah, Repub- lican, Idaho, sald yesterday he was making a study to determine whether a private committee could be organ- ized to supervise the sale of foreign bonds in this country. Borah has conferred several times with & group of business men from New York, not connected with the financial world, who have proposed to create a ‘Foreign Bond Committee” for that | purpose. Otto Kahn, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., will resume his testimony. He has submitted statistics showing his firm has had a gross profit of $4,224,395 from selling $1,158,180,000 of foreign securities since the war. In his previous testimony, Kahn said he believed private debts should be considered at least on a par with public debts if a question of priority of pay- ment arose. He also submitted a table to the com- mittee listing $815.467,000 of South American bonds which have been placed in_default during the last year Other witnesses tomorrow will be Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co,, and W. W. Aldrich, president of Chase National Bank. Borah said he was studying the activ- ities of a committee in England, similar to the one proposed for this country, which has been in operation for several years “‘Something must be done to protect the American people against excessiv and unwise issues of foreign securities, Borah said. “Why, there are some countries whose bonds have not been good investments since the war—countries, cities, states and corporations—but their securities were floated here in tremendous amounts.” y SIX OFFICERS SLAIN BY DESPERADOES IN FARM HOUSE FIGHT (Continued From Pirst Page) 200 feet down the main street cf Re- public when a shot was fired. LaFollette jumped from the car at that time and his story that he had nothing to do with the shooting cleared him when he was tried for participa- tion in Noe’s death. Several more shots were heard as the car sped away. Near Scene of Fleagle Capture. ‘The scene of today’s battle is but a few miles from the Ozark town of Branson, Mo, where a little more than a year ago Jake Fleagle, notorious bank bandit, was mortally wounded as he struggled with officers attempting to arrest him. Fleagle, the “Wolf of the West,” was taken to a Springfield hospital, where he died. Later it ‘was disclosed he had lved for nearly a year in a cottage at Hol- lister, Mo., close by. .Hollister, nestled in the hills of the famous White River country, is a popular Ozark Summer Tesort. The rugged, hilly nature of the region about Springfield, , with thick woods in many places, is well designed for fugitives' hideouts. Should the des~ peradoes reach the hills fear was ex- pressed that posses might have the ute most difficulty in locating them. To the west of Sdprin(neld are the cities of Carthage and Joplin, but should the fugitives head southward toward the Arkansas border they would en- counter sparsely-settled ‘territory, trav- ersed by few railroads. Detective Chief Olivér, one of the victims in the farm house battle, was known for his daring. Three years ago he was slightly wounded when he broke into a house from which “Dobbs™ Adams, known as a desperate character, was firing upon a force of officers, and captured him. One policeman was killed while attempting to capture Adams. After his conviction and sentence to death by hanging, Adams committed suicide in his cell. TULSA TAKES PRECAUTIONS. Detectives Surround Home of Relative of Harry Young. TULSA, Okla., January 2 (®).—A squad of detectives, armed with riot guns and tear gas, ambushed themselves around a North Side residence here tonight after receiving a report that Harry Young, Springfield, Mo.,, farmer, who escaped from his barricaded home after slaying six policemen, was en route to Tulsa. All available reserves were given descriptions of Young~and police and county detectives were ordered by Nelson J. Moore, chief of police here, to “shoot on sight.” The house is that of a relative of Young, whose name was not made public. BLAST VICTIM FOUND CLUTCHING SUICIDE NOTE Gas Explosion in Garage Takes Life of Brother-in-Law of Ford, Film Director. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,, January 2.—A gas explosion in the garage of John Ford, motion picture director, today led to the discovery of the body of his brother-in-law, John Willys Smith, 35, in an automobile in the building with a suicide note clutched in one hand. The explosion ripped off the doors of the garage, hurling them nearly 70 feet. Alpha Takagi, Japanese house boy, who was narrowly missed by the flying doors, discovered Smith's body after he had extinguished flames caused by the blast. Detective Lieut. J. L. Everson of the police explosive detail, sald Smith evi- dently had left the motor running and d been asphyxiated by carbon mon- oxide gas. The blast, he said, was caused by the gas, heat generated by the running motor and air which fil- tered in through cracks in the walls. Smith came here about a year ago and had been living at the Ford home while the director and his family made a European tour. CHILD HIT BY TRUCK Arm of Donald Ellis, 4, Is Broken ‘When He Is Knocked Down. Four-year-old Donald Ellis, 604 Tenth street southwest, received a frac- tured arm and scalp wounds yesterday when knocked down by a truck while playing at Eleventh ‘and F streets southwest. The child was treated at Emergency Hospital. Oliver P. Reed, 22, of 719 Four-and- a-half street southwest, was the driver of the vehicle, police reported. Cross-Continent Flying Time Cut. CHICAGO, January 2 (#)—Flying time between New York and Los Ange- les has been cut to 28 hours and 45 minutes, a reduction of 2 hours and 15 minutes, it was announced today by Alr Lines and Western Alr 58, »