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WEAT (U. 8. Weather B Fair; tomorrow in followed by rain beginning tomorrow afternoon or night; not much change in temperature tomorrow. Highest, 43, at noon today; H ureau Forecast.) creasing cloudiness Temperatures— Towest, 41, at ch ¢ Foening Star. “From Press The Star’s tion is delivered to S carrier < every city block and the regular edi- to Home Within the Hour” system covers Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Entered as seco nd class matter D C, 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. 2 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages11,12& 13 T o o ERITION e SRR WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1932—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. k% e A e T TG Wa. nost office shington, D. ( STIMSON PREPARES T0°ACT N ATTACK ON 1. . CONSUL Will Treat With Tokio Direct if Full Satisfaction Is Not Granted. MUKDEN INVESTIGATORS MAKE SEVERAL ARRESTS Chamberlain Beaten by Japanese Soldiers in Official Auto. Face Badly Cut. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Unless the Japanese governnient gives full and immediate satisfaction to lhe' American Government for the unwar- ranted assault on Consul Culver B. Chamberlain by a Japanese military pa- trol the incident may take a very serious turn. Should a satisfactory reply not be forthconing, the State Department is expected to take the matter up direct with Tokio through Ambassador Cam- eron Forbes. Secretary Stimson is studying the case at Woodley, where all the dispatches received this morning by the State Department were taken to him In the meantime Consul General Myrl Myers has taken the case up with the Japanese consul general at Mukden, while Nelson Johnson, the American Minister at Peiping, has lodged an offi- cial protest with the Japanese charge d'affaires in that city. Consul General Myers informed the State Departme today that on his own initiative he had demanded that “severe penalty” be meted out by the Japanese authorities for the “unjusti- fled” attack on Consul Chamberlain ‘The American consul general sent a fairly detailed report of the incident through the American Minister at Peip- ing. Flag Displayed on Car. According to Myers’ report, Chamber- lain was on his way to the station to go to his new assignment at Harbin. He intended to take the 6:30 a.m. train and had been driven to the station in the consul general's car, which dis- played prominently the American coat of arms and the American flag The car was stopped by three Japa- nese soldiers on patrol duty on the street leading to the railway station Chamberlain identified himself by card and passport. The soldiers looked at his papers, after which they attacked him, without justification, striking him | in the face “many times.” Chamber- lain's face was badly bruised, but he “otherwise was uninjured.” Minister Johnson has requested Myers to forward to him immediately the results of his representations to the Japanese authorities and to report the results of their investigation and pen- alty for the incident. 1t was reported at Mukden today that several arrests had been made there in conmection with the assault. Usual Excuse Cannot Apply. The Japanese government is conse- quently directly responsible for the ac-| tion of its representatives, which in this case were soldiers of a street patrol. The Japanese Army is known through- out the world as being a' well organized and splendidly disciplined body. Con- sequently the usual excuse of “some sol- dlers having gotten out of hand” cannot apply in the present case. The soldiers were on an official duty, and the Japa- nese government is directly responsible for their behavior. It is likely the investigation should be longer than it might be expected The reason is that the American con- sul general is not in a position to pro- test to the Japanese commander in irectly. Diplomatic routine re: the American representative to rotest to the Japanese diplomatic rep- Tesentative, since Mukden is still con- sidered as a Chinese city. The Japa- ic representative, in turn, | connection with er up with the Japanese ministry inister of war will have to in- | struct the chief of stafl to ask for a report of the case from the command- ing officer at Mukden and will forward the report to the foreign office to Toklo, An explanation will then be given to the American Government through the American Ambassador at Tokio. This explanation will, it is hoped. be fol- Jowed by apologies and punishment of prits | BEATING INVESTIGATED. T. S. Diplomat Assaulted by Japanese Soldiers in Mukden. i MUKDEN ry 4 (P). | —An in Culver n. young United States cons three Japanese sol- diers in the streets of Mukden main was cut to t reported im bone in two places, was diately to the Japanese Iv Consul Beaten l R B. CHAMBERLAIN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. CUL! E DIRECT MANCHURIA PARLEY SCHEDULED: ARMY PRESSES ON Japanese Troops Occupy Town of Lienshan, South of Chinchow. By the Associated Press NANKING, China, January®4 —For- eign Minister Eugene Chen and Japanese Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu are slated to confer shortly for direct settlement of the Manchurian conflict, published reports said today. The Central News Agency, official mouthpiece of the Chinese government, said, “This conference will occur within a few days and momentous results may be_expected.” It was also rumored as a result of these negotiations the respective lega- tions in Tokio and Nanking would be made embassies as soon as the dispute was settled. ARMY BEYOND CHINCHOW. DEFGENEY BLL T 10 PR GENT N HOLSEREPORT $100,250 Asked for District Is Allowed Without Being Reduced. FEDERAL ROAD AID PROJECTS DECREASED Money to Buy Furnishings for New Office Building Curtailed Be- | By the Associated Press The promised definite economy in Government expenditures was inaugurat- ed today in the first big money bill reported to the Democratic House by | 1ts Appropriations Committee. The committee, led by Chairman Byrns, lopped off $13,443,900 or nearly 10 per cent of the budget estimates recommended by President Hoover, in the first urgent deficiency bill. It al- lowed miscellaneous departments $125,- 886,262 of the $139,330,162 requested to tide them over until the end of the fiscal year, June 30. In no single in- stance were the estimates increased by the committee. District Fund Not Cut. The $100,250 total asked for the Dis- trict of Columbia was not reduced. In addition to this, the bill makes available for District use $464,000 from unexpended balances. In this latter | amount is $50,000 from the appropria- |tion for buildings and grounds and public schools, carried in the appropria- | tion bill for the current fiscal year, which is made available until June 30 next for payment of personal services employed on construction work under the supervision of the Municipal Arch- | itect’s Office. ‘The House planned to complete con- sideration of the measure tomorrow, so the Senate may act on it before the end of the week. Road Fund Reduced. Federal highway aid was given $50,- 000,000, or $10,§00,000 less than Thomas H. MacDonald,; chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, testified was needed. | | | { cause of Low Prices. i | TIENTSIN, China, January 4 (®).— | Byrns noted In his report that with the Reports here today said the Japanese | emergency appropriation made by the Army in Manchuria had pushed south- a5t Congress to furnish émployment on ward along the Peiping-Mukden Rail-|recommendation of the President, funds | staff ting of | hrough Shanhaikwan have brought | Chinese who died en route from way from Chinchow and occupied the town of Lienshan. It was not believed they had met any resistance, for the only Chinese troops north of Shanhaikwan are two battalions detached from the brigade formerly stationed at that point. Northbound. trains on the main line of the Peiping-Mukden Railway are turning back now at Shanhaikwan, but Lienshan. Large Force Shifted. Observers here now believe the major theater of developments lies between here and Shanhaikwan. Evacuation of Chinchow temporarily put a stop to military complications in Manchuria, but a considerable Japa- nese force, naval and military. has been shifted into the territory between Shanhaikwan and this city, south of the Giweat Wall It was estimated that the Japanese have more than 2,000 troops here in artillery section at Shanhaikwan. Eleven Japanese warships have been patrolling the shore line between Taku, the port of Tientsin, and Shanhaikwan Say Chang Ignored Orders. Things were quiet, however, both here and at Shanhaikwan, but the situation had the appearance of an armed truce with Chinese and Japanese troops glar- ing at each other from opposite sides of the streets in both cities Another complicating factor has ap- peared in the form of new political dif- ferences between Marshal Chang Hsueh- Liang and the new government at icer of the Japa- | Nanking ipation. He is com- | Today's newspapers printed charges protest of his Amer- | by Eugene Chen, the foreign minister the Tokio foreign |that Chang ignored orders to defend which un must take the | chinchow. The marshal, on the other hand, charged that Chen made secret agreement with Tokio to eliminate Chang from Manchuria It was impossible to hold Chinchow with Japapese troops in front and be- hind, said Chang. TROOPS BASE AT LAWNCHOW. PEIPING, January 4 (® —Chinese troops withdrawn from Manchuria be- hind the Great Wall of China are be- lieved to be largely concentrated at Lawnchow Headquarters have been estal there by Gen. Yung Chen, comr of the Chinchow garrison and chi to Chang Hsueh-Liang, depo: rchurian governor Trains _arriving M: from the ith 150 inds received in fighting before the evacua- hospitals here. Foreign military observers in Manchu- ria, including Col. Nelson E. M and Lieut. Harry S. Aldrich, Ameri reached Tientsin last night. Lieut drich, assistant military attache at United States legation here, was liber ated yesterday at Kowpangtze after hay- consul by American Consul General Myrl §. Myers here. Myers told the Japanese official the assault was “en- tirely unprovoked Chamberlain was for=erly of Kansas has been a_member of the ice for 10 years. He ar- den Saturday on his way he recently had been following a vacation trip to He was riding in the American con- sul's automobile, which American flag and coat of arms, on his way to the station to catch an early morning train for Harbin. The auto- mobile was halted at the border of the Japanese railway town by three Jap- anese soldiers apparently forming a patrol Chamberlain alighted from the car and showed his diplomatic passport, ex- plaining his status in Chinese, which he speaks fluently. One of the soldiers, he said, showed a knowledge of Chinese and Chamberlain does not speak Jap- anese. The three soldiers quickly began to beat him with their fists and he re- treated to the inside of the car. They | followed him and continued to beat him. The chauffeur finally got the car away and Chamberlain returned to the consulate, later continuing his Journey to Harbin. e Rl L $125,000 Fire Destroys Hotel. THREE RIVERS, Quebec., January OP)—Fire destroyed the Hotel Du- early today. All guests escaped. was estimated at approximately 25, ing been detained 48 hours by the Jap- | anese | 1 CANTON REGIME DISSOLVED. HONGKONG, China, January 4 (# The Canton government was dissolved | yesterday, in accordance with its peace )agreement with the Nanking authori Graves and his wife, Sopora, both col- ored, were held for grand jury action in Police Court today on charges of stealing the valuables from Mrs. Mary Elkins, wife of Stephen Elkins, former Senator from West Virginia. The peir pleaded not guilty and waived preliminary examination. Judge Gus A. Schuldt fixed their bail at $5.000 each. Graves, according F Detectives there is still local service as far as| addition to 600 infantrymen and an | tion and 260 others, who were placed in | TWO HELD IN THEFT AFTER SALE OF §13,500 JEWELRY FOR §5 Colored Man and Wife Accused of Stealing Gems From Wife of Former Senator Elkins. Abprehended after they are said to) have sold $13,500 worth of jewelry to a second-hand dealer for §5, Nathan were obtained which some States could not match. | Responding to the appeal of Veterans' Administrator Hines for more funds for military and naval compensation grant- ed by Congress in 1930, the Appropria- tions Committee approved $46,872,975 for that purpoge. Before the Christm: holidays Congress voted more thah | $200,000.000 for loans fo veterans on their bonus cectificates. To help expedite the Republican ad- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. . BORAH INTRODUGES BILLS T0 CUT PAY |Congress, Farm Board and Vice President Would Get Big Reductions. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator William E. Borah today took his first definite step toward bringing | about a reduction of Federal salaries | as a measure of ecopomy. ] The Idaho Senator introduced a bill to cut the salaries of members of the House and Senate from $10,000 to $8,000 per annum. In the same bill, he proposed to reduce salaries of the Vice President, Speaker of the House, and | the members of the cabinet, from | 15,000 to, $12.000 a year. If the Borah bill Were enacted into law, i’ would mean & 20 per cent reduc- tion in the pay of members of Con- gress and_members of the President's cabinet. It has been Senator Borah's contention that if Government salaries are cut, the cutting should start with the members of Congress. He was not in sympathy with the action of Con- gress which‘raised salaries of the mem- bers a few years ago from $7.500 to $10,000. For several years he declined to accept the increased compensation and he did not accept it until his term of office as Senator at the time the in- crease was voted had expired Bill Would Repeal Mileage Law. Senator Borah also probosed the re- peal of the law which provides mileage for members of Congress at the ra‘e of 20 cents a mile, for their traveling ex- | penses to and from the sessions of Con- gress in Washington. A third measure introduced by Sen- ator Borah proposes to amend the ag- ricultural marketing act creating the Federal Farm Board. This bill pro- poses that each member of the Farm Board shall be paid a salary of $9,600 a year, together with necessary traveling and subsistence expenses. The bill attacks high salaries which in some cases have been authorized | under the tefms of the marketing act, providing that no compensation or sal- (Continued on Page 2, Column : Richard Cox and John Wise, was em- ployed as janitor in the home of Mrs Elkins' mother, Mrs. Catherine Ragen, 2514 Cathedral avenue, while Mrs Elkins was living there on November 1 On that day, they said, Mrs. Elkins missed & diamond ring valied at $10,000 | taken into custody and a new series of | — AN OLD ,SITUATION, BUT ) ] ) [ EREES ARREST OF GANDKI AND HIS CHIEF AIDE LEAVES INDIA CALM Native -Leaders Await Devel- opments Before Renewing Fight for Liberty. By the Associated Press. Great Britain struck back at the In- dian civil disobedience campaign today, clapped Mahatma Gandhi back into jail, imprisoned Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, his second in command, sndi prepared to deal vigorously with any | further manifestations. “The country remained outwardly calm and ft probably will be some days before the Nationalists show their hand. The leaders were lying low, awaiting developments. From London came word that the itish government views the Na- tionalist campaign as a challenge to th® fundamentals of law and order and intends to deal with it as such. The developments at Bombay had repercussions elsewhere. There was a split in the all-India Moslem confer- ence at New Delhi, where the presi- dent and secretary resigned on the grounds that they wanted the confer- ence to give full discretion to Moslems who wanted to join the Congress party | movement. In far-off Panama, all the East In- dian stores were closed as a protest against Gandhi’s imprisonment. GANDHI BACK IN JAIL. Taken to Yerawda Prison After Arrest in Bombay. POONA, India, January 4 (#).—Ma- hatma Gandhi was walled up today in the British jail at Yerawda, a few miles | from here, for the third time in his| career as leader of the Indian Na-| tionalists. | The little Indian leader was brought | here this morning from Bombay, | where he was arrested dramatically in | the early morning hours for what the | warrant said were “good and sufficient reasons.” At the same time that Gandhi was arrested Vallabhai Patel, President of | the Indian National Congress, ulso was Tepressive aecress against poycotting | of British goods, “unlawful instiga- tion,” “unlawful association” and other acts assoclated with the civil diso- bedience type of “warfare” were pro- mulgated at new Delhi by Viceroy Lord ‘Willingdon. The Mahatma and Patel, the sturdy farmer President of the Congress, ar- | rived here under guard at 8:30 am. | both chilled through from the 120-mile | ride from Bombay. Smiles at Jailer. It was Gandhi's day of silence and this kept him from speaking, but he | gave his old jailer a broad smile of Tecognition, beaming upon him like an old friend. Once inside the jail, he ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 5. JUDGE FREES EDITOR FROM VIRGINIA JAIL Hopewell Jurist Declines to Grant Mapoles Bail Pending Appeal. | { By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, Va., January 4.—Judge Thomas B, Robertson today released J W. Mapoles, editor of the Hopewell News, from the jail cell where he had served seven days for alleged contempt of court. Judge Robertson said he had sen- tenced Mapoles for & term not exceeding 30 days and he considered the 7-day confinement ample punishment. Douglas Fry and Allen C. Adams, nsel for Mapoles, asked that the or- (cig‘l" of release be rescinded and the de- fendant granted beil pending.an appeal to the Supreme Court. The attorneys asserted the Supreme Court had not had an opportunity to pass upon a case similar in nature and that the de- ant desired to appeal ""’Sflu‘;e Robertson refused the request with the assertion that the case was closed. and & necklace worth $3,500, also studded with diamonds. The former janitor was suspected. Three weeks ago, the detectives said, Graves' wife, obviously misjudging the value of the jewelry, sold both pieces | to the operator of a small store for $5. Only the necklsee has been recovered. i Mapoles was sentenced for contempt for rffim to reveal the author of a communication published in the “For- um” column of "his A)AD!Y. which_the judge considered a reflection upon him. Radio '“'Pm on Page B-8 Baker Boy Keeps Plane Overtime, Army Men Upset Breeze-Tempted Youth Returns in Taxi After Dark. By the Associated Press. FORT THOMAS, Ky, January 4.— An Army “baker boy” who disappeared in an airplane after a take-off from Cincinnati yesterday was back on duty at his post here today. With only three hours’ solo flying to his credit, the student aviator, Charles Gilbert, 19, went aloft “just to prac- tice.” That was the last seen of him until after dark. While other airplanes hunted him, Gilbert had flown for seven hours, landed safely at a race track near here and re- turned in a taxk Gilbert said that after spending weeks before red-hot qvens in the Army post bakery, the cool breeze aloft was too much fun to be cut short. THREE GIVEN YEAR INBRUTALTY CASES Policemen Mostyn, Laflin and Barrett’ Sentenced— First Two Fined $500. Three police officers, James A. Mos- tyn, William R. Laflin and Robert J. Barrett, today were sentenced by Jus- tice James M. Proctor of District of Co- lumbia Supreme Court to a year's im- prisonment each for assaulting pris- oners. In addition, Moyn and Laflin were fined $500 each. No fine was imposed upon Barrett. In all three cases, how- ever, the judge imposed the maximum jail ‘sentence provided by law upon a | conviction for simple assault. The fines assessed against Mostyn and Laflin also were the most severe possible un- der the statute. Justice Proctor was vigorous in his criticism of the defendants. He said they had gone beyond their dut~ as police officers as well as violating the law. He said the evidence disclosed Mostyn and Laflin were guilty of “de- liberate torture of a prisoner to gain a confession.” The three defendants were permitted to remain at liberty under ;bond of $1,000 each until their attorneys pre- pare appeals. Landrum Motion Considered. Justice Proctor announced he still had under consideration a motion for a new trial in the case of a fourth po- liceman under conviction in a similar case, Vivian H. Landrum of the ninth precinct. Mostyn and Laflin, first precinct de- tectives, were convicted of assaulting James Henry Harker, a young baker. William C. Groomes and William Bur- roughs, first_precinct policemen, were (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SMITH RACE FIGURES FILED BY DEMOCRATS National Committee Forwards Data on New York Expenses to Refute Wood's Charges. By the Associated Press. The Democratic National Committee today filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives photostatic copies of pay rolls of the national headquarters in New York in the 1928 presidential campaign. They were filed by James W. Gerard, National Committee treasurer, along with an afidavit that they were “true copies of the pay rolls.” The names of those recéiving money also were given, together with the amounts. The reports were filed in answer to charges by Representative Wood of In- diana, chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, that the Democratic National Committee had concealed some of its expenditures in the Smith-Hoover campaign. ‘The report listed 662 employes to whom was paid a total of $358,000. In all of the report of expenditures there was none outstanding. While most were small, some reached $2,500. So far as could be ascertained, none of the employes listed was of prominence, | feat. GOV. PINCHOTHITS HOOVER VOLUNTARY JOBLESS AID PLAN Calls Program “Vicious™ in Testifying at Hearing of Senate Committee. By the Associated Press. The Governor of Pennsylvania and the chief of the United Mine Workers of America added emphatic pleas for Federal aid to the unemployed in testi- mony today to a senatorial committee. Gov. Gifford Pinchot decried the ad- ministration plan for relief by voluntary contributions. Terming it “vicious,” he insisted it is “an attempt to get by without increasing taxes and letting the big fellows come in to share the load.” John L. Lewis addressed himself especially to the needs of miners in both union and non-union class. Ad- vocating a Federal agency to combat “destitution,” he estimated 180,000 miners are in dire want in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and ‘West Virginia. Urges Direct Federal Aid. Pinchot urged direct Federal relief for unemployment, a plan_opposed by President Hoover. He called the na- tional voluntary relief program ‘the Hoover-Gifford plan.” “It is vicious” he said, raising his voice. “It takes money from the lit- tle fellow. It does not take it from the big fellow.” He sald his State has more than 1,000,000 unemployed Called by Chairman La Follette to give his views on measures for Federal appropriations to aid the unemployed, the Governor detailed conditions in Pennsylvania and efforts to meet them. Best_estimates, he said, list the jobless at 27 to 30 per cent of the employable. The witness related his unsuccessful effort to put through a $120,000,000 re- lief plan in his Legislature and blamed the “Republican machine” for the de- ‘The $19.000,000 relief bills before Congress he described as “totally in- adequate.” Chairman La Follette and Senator Costigan, Democrat, Colorado, both of whom are sponsoring Federal relief bills, were the only committee mem- bers' present to hear Pinchot. Sees Trouble. “Do you care to hazard an opinion,” asked La Follette, “as to what will happen in the congested centers if there is not help?” “I think there will be trouble,” was the reply. Pinchot, whose name has been linked with presidential speculation, told of his futile effort to get $1,000,000 loan for the State employment fund from Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon, and added “I can't conceive how a man in his po- sition could do what he did.” e spoke almost without interruption. “This talk of a dole,” he said, “is a cry to scare children.” Meanwhile, Representative LaGuardia today sponsored a relief program which he sald would enter fields where there was no question of the Government's power. One of the New Yorker's proposals would close post offices on Saturday as well as Sunday. Another would close Federal reserve and national banks and all Government departments on Satur- day and Sunday. A third would pro- vide that Government contracts for work and materials be let only %o con- cerns operating on a five-day basis. Urges Food for Miners. LaGuardia also would authorize $50,- 000,000 to provide Army-Navy rations for ' the surplus of 300,000 miners in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio_and Indiana for one year, also (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Proposals Designed President Hoover, in a surprise dent” than when it was first laid document was begun, spread around. posd by him. by confidence,” the President said. Emphasizing, Mr. Hoover said: I did not inform the Congress of | possible moment.” | PRESSAE I B0 SIES 5 REVEALED Kahn, at Senate Committee Probe, Admits Methods Have Gone Too Far. By the Associated Press. A banker whose firm helped sell more than a billion dollars of foreign se- curities in the last 10 years told a Senate committee today he believed there had been too much high-pressure salesmanship in the sale of bonds. He was Otto H. Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, which he already had informed that his company made $4,000,000 of gross profits from its for- eign bond transactions. | Kahn was asked if the present low | prices of bonds were not based on a belief that they were unloaded on the public at higher prices than they war- ranted. He replied that bond prices were not determined by bankers, but by the | law of supply and demand. Few Members Present. Only half a dozen members of the committee were present when Kahn re- sumed his description of the bond is- sues handled by his firm. Previously he had presented statistics showing his firm received a gross profit of $4,224,395 from its share in handling $1,158,180,000 of foreign bonds. Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali- fornia, sponsor of the inquiry, asked | Kahntoday for the current prices of | the various bonds, but the banker said he could not furnish them. “The present values as quoted,” Kahn said, “do not express the intrinsic value | of foreign bonds any more than the values of domestic bonds represent their intrinsic values.” Kahn added that the last issue of American Government bonds has de- | clined 15 per cent in the last three months. Kahn was asked if bond sales had not been pushed by “improper advertise- ments and high-pressure salesmanship.” “There may be two opinions,” Kahn replied, “but it is my personal opinion that it has been done. There has been | too much high-pressure salesmanship.” | Admits Competition. | Johnson asked if American banking houses had competed for the business | of floating South American bonds in| " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) | ARMY OFFICER, FOUND DEAD, CALLED SUICIDE By the Associated Press. GILROY, Calif, January 4.—Tke body of Lieut. William J. French, U. §. A., was found near his motor car in a field south of Gilroy yesterday by po- lice, directed to the scene by Mrs. Ger- trude McEnroe of Kansas City. Officers said they believed Lieut. French killed himself. He had been shot through the head. The pistol was found on the running board of his car. Mrs. McEnroc saic French had ap- parently become insane and sought to kill trem both. She said she fled after he drove his car into a tree. French was on leave from Fort Devon, Mass HOUSE COMMITTEE CUTS FUND v FOR BICENTENNIAL TO $250,000 Commission Asked for $427,000, But Only Money Needed for Printing Pamphlets Is Allowed. By the Associated Press. The George Washington Bicentennial Commission found today how sharp the congressional pruning knife can be. It asked the House Appropriations reported. “The amount allowed is ex- pected to be applied entirely to the | printing of pamphlets and other ma- | terial.” | _eRepresentative Sol Bloom of New | York, associate director of the commis- | SUDDEN HOOVER PLEA ASKS PROMPT ACTION ON RELIEF MEASURES Need Greater Than Apparent, He Asserts in Unexpected Message to Congress. IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF EIGHT EMERGENCY BILLS DEMANDED to Check Further Degeneration in Prices and Values and Aid Stability, He Declares. special message to Congress today, urged immediate action upon his emergency economic program. Mr. Hoover declared emphatically the need is “even more evi- before Congress. Soon after it reached the Senate and House, reading of the The chambers began to be filled when word The President pleaded that there be no partisan action, but that there be unity in swift adoption of eight measures previously pro- Uurges Confidence to Replace Fear. “We can and must replace the unjustifiable fear in the country Enumerating the measures “requiring immediate action,” he said they were ‘“designed to check further degeneration in prices and values, to fortify us against continued shocks from world instability and to unshackle the forces of recovery.” “I would be derelict in my duty it the need of action at the earliest Here are the measures he named: Strengthening of the Federal Land Bank System, already passed by the House. Creation of the $500,000,000 Recon- struction Finance Corporation. Creation. of a home loan discount bank system to revive employment and stimulate home building. Enlargement of the discount facilities of Federal Reserve Banks. Development of a plan to restore part of the money in closed banks to de- positors. Revision of laws relating to trans- portation, as recommended by the In- terstate Commerce Commission, to “re- «| store confidence in the bonds of our railways.” N Revision of banking laws in order better to safeguard depositors. Reduction of Federal expenditures, “adequate increase of taxes,” and ‘re- striction of issues of Federal securities.” Senate Listens in Silence. The Senate listened to the Presi- dent’s message in silence. It provoked no immediate debate. The text of the President’s message follows: “At the convening of the Congress, on December 7, I laid proposals before it designed to check the further de- eneration in prices and values, to ortify us against continued shocks from world instability and to un- shackle the forces of recovery. “The need is manifestly even more evident than at the date of my mes- sage a month ago. “I should be derelict in my duty if T did not at this time emphasize the par- amount importance to the Nation of constructive action upon these gques- tions at the earliest possible moment. “These recommendations have been largely developed in consultations with leading men of both parties, of agricul- ture, of labor, of banking and of industry. “They furnish the basis for full col- laboration to effect these purposes. They have no partisan character. We can and must replace the unjustifiable fear in the country by confidence. “The principal subjects requiring im- mediate action are: | 1. The strengthening of the Federal Land Bank system to aid the farmer and to maintain at the highest level | the credit of these institutions which furnish agriculture with much-needed capital. is measure has passed the | House of Representatives and is now before the Senate. Would Aid Confidence. “2. The creation of a Reconstruction Finance Corporation to furnish during the period of depression credits other- wise unobtainable under existing cir- cumstances in order to give confidence to agriculture, industry and labor against further paralyzing influences. “By such prompt assurance we cam reopen many credit channels and re- establish the normal working of our commercial organization and thus con- tribute greatly to re-establish the re- sumption of employment and stability in prices and values. “3. The creation of a system of home loan discount banks in order to revive employment by new construction and to mitigate the difficulties of many of our citizens in securing renewals of mortgages én their homes and farms. It has the further purpose of perma- nl:nt encouragement of home owner= ship. “To accomplish these purposes we must so liberate the resources of the country’s banks, the savings banks and (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Sl 200 HOTEL GUESTS ROUTED BY BLAZE 0dd Fellows’ Building in Boston Destroyed by Spectacnlar Fire, Several Injured. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 4.—Fire early toe day destroyed the Odd Felows' Build« ing, a large, five-story stone building in the South End, with loss gstimated by Fire Chief Henry Fox av $150,000, Sev- eral firemen were injured and 200 guests were driven from their rooms in the ad- joining Hotel Clarendon. Two women and two young men, oc- cupants of rooms on the third floor of the Odd Fellows' block, were taken to City Hospital suffering from exposure. Five alarms brought apparatus from all sections of the city. Before apparatus could respond to Committee $427,000 to spend the re-|sion asked, but did not get, $50,000 for | the second alarm huge tongues of flames mainder of the $250,000. “The committee recognizes the mag- nitude and the worth of the task un- dertaken by the commission, but be- lieves that, in view of the present finan- clal cendition of the country, there should be a curtailment in certain fea- tures of activities,” the committee N - fiscal year. It got j a celebration on Washington's Birth- | day, February 22; $10,000 for dedicat- | ing Wakefield, $15,000 for opening Ar- lington Bridge and Mount Vernon Highway, $10,000 for dedicating Arling- ton Mansion, $10,000 for Mother’s day celebration, $10,000 for dedicating the Masonic Memorial at Alexandria, Va., and $10,000 for a flag day celebration. were shooting through the roof, illumi~ nating the sky for miles around and showering the entire section with em- bers. ‘The block housed more than 60 lodges and social organizations, a number of Em(eulonll offices and, on the ‘ground oor, several small business establish- . »