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A2 wE¥ % THE EVENING 8 TAR, WASHINGTON, DG , THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1 932. FIVE BOMBS FOUND IN CALCUTTA TRAIN Unconfirmed Rumor Says At- tempt Was Made on Life of Lord Willingdon. ated Pre Five bambs were found in a train at ¥ Calcutta today, but they were discovered before they had done any damage, and £ police began a search for those who i here appeared to have the boycott government au- at they could t British good s felt confident deal with any emergenc Nationalists' lawyers announced today that they were going to apply for a writ of habeas corpus next Monday to got Mr. Gandhi out of jail London, there was a mpt had bee oy Lord W lways the first to ters, had had LIVE BOMBS DISCOVERED. Five Found On Train Compartment At Calcutta Today. CALCU 1 Five live bombs wer express when morn DISCOUNTS ATTACK RUMOR. January 7 (®) ound in a first- here this India Office Does Not Believe Life of Viceray Was Atiempted. LONDON, January 7 (4).—A report *wh could not be confirmed circulated 4n London today saying an attempt had been made on the life of Lord Willing- don, viceroy of India officc did not take the fumor seriously, saying that it had Te- ceived no information regarding an at- tack on the viceroy, and certainly would have been informed instantly if there had been any attack NEW DELHI, India, January 7 (#).— Reports from London today that an a tempt had been made here on the life of Viceroy Lord Willingdon were de- igcribed this afternoon as absolutely Wwithout foundation. NATIONALISTS TAKE COVER. iCountry Appears Quiet—Lawyers Plan ; to Ask Gandhl’s Release. BOMBAY, January 7.—India’s Na- tionalist forces, momentarily stunned by the severity of the sweeping restric- tive ordinances im d upon them by the government, appeared today to have 3'taken to cover, The country, thus far during the re- newal of the civil disobedience cam= ¥ paign, has been free from grage dis- or serious bloodshed “and" a ng reaction upon trade, espe- y upon British goods, as a result Zaf the Nationalists' boycott, has: beem 3 the chief reaction. § British leaders were confident of ¥ic4 tory today. They expressed the eon: 3 victlon that the government was “?" £ ble of dealing with any emergency. The % real feeling in the Indian mind, hows ever, was undeterminable. Leaders of the Nationalist Congress who are still outside of jail refrained from extréme I measures, but an ugly sullenness hung Z fu the air Fear Hindu-Moslem Strife, One of the dangers looming in the . background was the possibility of & re- newal of the strife between Hindu and Moslem millions ‘such as | caused the bloady Cawnpore riots last ‘'year during which members of the two factions cut each others throats until 1000 lay dead. The “hartal® (closing of shops and business houses) was still complete, after four days. Business in cotton, plece goods and bullion remained com- pletely shut down, and even private business, a large volume of which con- tinued during previous hartals, is now at a standstill The Stock Exchange opened today, r, and a meeting of the Bullion lated for this afternoon y to adopt. of the Nationalist normal appearance, ts in front of shops 1 goods. The populace, ted apprehensive. except. for the pi which sell Bri however, c Viceroy Calls Leaders. nt warned newspapers not publish anything y m to the program of, or prepara- disobedience cam- ! advertisements or penalties were of the order Willingdon called a 1 Indian leaders, in- Sapru, noted peace- w Delhi today to secure ying « round table co to vy _were delegates. These pleaded with Lord Willing- e Gand st, asking him to see the Mahatma, but the viceroy d the door to further number of cluding maker, 1 on for a writ of habeas 1 ve London d form a minja- o plans were 1ard these commissions close- ly while they are here. Whole Villages Fined. Jiages on the northw is India's gateway, under the repressive ordi- for holding meetings attended nalist volunteers provineg 1,000 so-called “Red members of & Mosler tion known as the ‘Tamatgars'--servants of themselves voluntarily nances God were threatened with heir “leader, Abdul Guffar ared the government would to imprison 100.000 of renounce camvalgn | he offer of ed to feed ends are deploring his fallure to visit the United States during the time he was in Europe. They say if he had accepted one of the hundreds of inv can him have saved and changed sald, chiefly advice John Haynes Holmes of New York, his close friend Dr. Holmes told the mahatma the visit would not be advisable because he would be misunderstood and perhaps misrepresented. WOMEN ARE ELEVATED. Two Named to High Posts to Succeed Imprisoned Leaders. POONA, India, T (P Women were places in the Indian Nationalist move- ment today to fll the places of men who have been imprisoned by the gov- ernment. An 18-year-old Brahmin January girl was ap- nted director of the Poona Youth |and railway official woman was | questions. Some estimates of the dead Academy, subject to qualification at the aharashtra Con- reach several hundred, but nothini and & Brahmin e director of the M gress. n » Darjeeling | e tas high as the mountat - | | lai Khil one of the loneliest and most sparsely ations he received from Ameri- ( !DISURDERS FEARED - AT MINE HEARINGS lUnion Said to Be Organizing Another Demonstration at Pineville, Ky. | By the Associated Press { PINEVILLE, Ky. January 7.—Re- | ports, that there would be another Na- tional Miners' Union demonstration to- day during the hearings of six women and three men charged with criminal syndicalism caused city and county offi- to prepare for any threatened dis- | I | i | | d An’ International Labor Defense at- torney, Alan Taub, who came here from ! New York to defend those accused, was jalled with them on & charge of obstrueting justice last night He was arrested when he entered the automo- | bile of Joc Weber, a National Miners Union representativ:, who escaped when the union’s headquarters Was raided Monday nty Co rmey Walter Smith said ¢ autcmobile was being watched in event of Weber returning for it,! that Weber could be arrested on a warrant charging criminal syndicalism Smith said he thought Weber had sent Taub to get the machine, —despite Taub's protests. He was held in jail to await preliminary hearing today The hearings for the nine union rep- | resentatives originally was set for Tues- day ut on that day approximtely 1,500 sympathizers paraded h the streets. County Attorney Smith said he had learned from rumors he strikers would attempt to forcibly | free the defendants if they were not | fgiven a hearing | The nine charged with criminal syn- | dicalism are Nan Barton, Norma M tin, Julia Parker, Margaret Fontaine, Dorothy R. Weber, Mrs. C. Michaelson, John Harvey, Verne Smith and Vin- cent Kemenovitch. They declined to say what towns they were from. 19 PRISONERS FLEE WEST VIRGINIA JAIL Force Steel Doors at Entrance of { 1 | Fayette County Institution. One Recaptured. By the Associated Press. FAYETTEVILE, W. Va., January 7— Nineteen prisoners escaped from the Fayette County Jail today. They broke down cell doors, forced the steel door at the jail entrance, and pri€d bars from windows. The prisoners were held on various charges, ranging from larceny to mur- der. One fugitive, Joseph Duncan, 186, is under indictment for stabbing a man at Mount Hope. One prisoner was recaptured shortly uper the break was reported. ADAMS WITHHOLDS 0. K. OF NAVAL BILL IN SENATE HEARING tContinued From First Page.) of the Navy Bureau of Construction, said plans for building up to treaty limits are “all ready now” and if the money were made available by July we could build up a treaty navy in four years” Hale and Adams agreed in estimat- ing thé mmount that would be re- quired to bring the Navy up to treaty strength by the end of 1936 at $765,- Hale asked the Navy Secretary whether the United States had done anything that would be to its advan- tage at the Geneva Disarmament Con- ference next month. Smiling, Adams Teplied that “we may have a great moral claim by being un-{ der the other fellow.” Meanwhile, Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Committee, conferred with President Hoover on the former’s bill | for constructing $616,250,000 of new | ships. | Vinson said the Navy bill had been discussed, but gave no details. He broke n the middle of a question as to whether he could, give the President’s attitude on the nteasure with an emphatic *no,” stepped onto the office steps and walked | swiftly away. | It was before his committee that Adams appeared yesterday. | | 5 p TWO WOMEN FLYERS INSTANTLY KILLED IN MOUNTAIN CRASH (Continued From First Page) | Mountains, about 40 miles west of this city, believes Mrs. Sewart barely hit the 'trees on top of the mountain and lost control of her machine. Moore flew over the mountainous region for three hours this morning, dipping down to within 50 feet of the ground before he could sight the crumpled wreckage and engine buried in the side of Bowers Mountain T was flying along the top of the ridge,” he said, “when I saw treetops mowed off like grass.” ‘Mrs. Stewart must have been just When she came over the top she barely hit the | trees, lost control of her ship and it { pancaked into the ground on the side She was flying in the fog when she | became separated from the plane ac- | companying her. She must have been { bewildered,” for she had turned clear around and was headed west again.” Sparsely Settled Spot. |~ Bowers Mountain, the rocky wooded | knoll upon which the plane crashed, lies in Toboyne and Jackson townships, | settled sections of Pennsylvania, just a few miles morth of the broad fertile | Cumberland Valley. | "1t is the second range in a long series of ridges north of the Cumberland Val- that constitute the foothills of the 1 v Mountains, terror of aviators. The nearest inhabited village is Cen- | tre Square, a cluster of houses along a lonely forest trail from Blain and New | Germantown, Most of the territory is owned by the Commonwealth as State forest land. It is a favorite section for turkey hunters, trout fishermen and other sportsmen. SCORES LOSE LIVIE-S AS 3 TRAINS CRASH ON RUSSIAN LINE (Continued From Pirst_Page.) track pending the arrival of medical crews from Moscow. While this work was going on a| freight train thundered into the stretch | without warning. Before the engineer | | could sense the situation and apply the ppointed to two high | brakes his locomotive and several box |tial nomination at that dinner. cars had slashed their way through the victims. ‘The government placed a censorship on the news in an effort to prevent in- formation reachi the outside world declined to answer L] definite is known. | Davis, Famed Painting Loses Its Place « By the Associated Press f EW YORK, January 7.—That familiar canvas, ““Washington Crossing the Delaware,” in which America’s first President stands with one foot upon the gunwale while his soldiers push blocks | a picture I take it they have good and | of ice aside, has been removed from the walls of the Metropolitan Museum to a | Col. Louis Annin Ames, head of the | SLOAN ADVOCATES CUT N ALL TARFFS Thinks, However, That Na-| tion’s Selfishness Would Defeat Prosperity Plan. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January Alfred P Sloan, ir. president of the General Motors Corporation, today advocated a gradual lowering of all tariff walls as a step toward bringing prosperity to all the people of the world. The “selfishness of nations,” how- ever, he believed would defeat such a | move. “Nations are and probably must necessarily be, selfish”’ he told thc members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce during a luncheon address Touches Debt Question. “Self - preservation is _undoubtedly | the first law of nature. Therefore, it | seems to me that irrespective of what | might be possible we may as well ac- cept the fact that at least until the various peoples constituting the vari- | ous nations, especially those of the United States, radically change their viewpoint and are willing to give as well as take for the benefit of the world at large the only thing we can do is to continue to capitalize to the fullest possible extent our home market. “It is extremely difficult to see how it is going to be possible for us to collect our debts abroad, to say noth- ing of a return on our commercial in- vestments, if we do not, through re- ciprocal arrangements and a reduction | of our tariffs, permit foreign products | to enter our country. Advocates Confidence. “There is just one way and only way that the world can pay and that is, in goods or services, or both. A full real- ization of that basic fact on the part of all will clarify our thinking and | enable us to act more constructively in | the future that we have at times in the | past.” Mr. Sloan also advocates a feeling of confidence in the solidity of our insti- tutions; in the soundness of the funda- mentals of our economic system and confidence in the maintenance of the standard of living. world,” he said, “are not going to ac- | cept a lower standsrd of living, but on the other hand, are going to demand a higher and higher standard of living.” CHICAGO MAY GET BOTH CONVENTIONS; DEMOCRATS GATHERi (Continued From First Page) | 1928, 1s in Washington for the Jackson day dinner, which s to be given at| the Mayflower Hotel tomorrow night. | He is saying notning for publication about politics or issued of candidates. | “I will do my talking tomorrow night | at the Jackson day dinner.” said the Governor. "I won't say anything until then 3 Gov. Smith i one of three speakers at the dinner, the others being former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio and Mr, the party presidential candidates 20 and 1924, respectively | Gov. Smith has been as silent as | the grave regarding his own personal | political plans. He has declined to say | whether he would or would not be & candidate. He has been equally reu-‘ cent when discussing the qualifica- tions of other possible candidates for the presidential nomination. Opinion has been divided as to.| whether Gev. Smith would permit his friends to put him forward for the party nomination again. Some Demo- | crats insist he will be a candidate and others, some of them clcse to Gov. Smith, say he has not the slightest in- tention of becoming a candidate. Seek Support of Leaders. Supvorters of Gov. Roosevelt and of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and others who have been prominently men- tioned, are doing their best today to line up the Democratic leaders for their candidates. Since the announcement of Chairman John J. Raskob that he would not ask the National Committee to pass upon | his “home rule* referendum plan, the agitation among committteemen over the prohibition issue has subsided con- siderably. Mr. Raskob merely wishes his report on the liquor question to be referred to the Platform Committee of the Democratic National Convention, and this course it is expected will be followed. The Jackson day dinner will be at- tended by Democrats from every section of the country. The demand for seats at the dinner has been enormous. In Baltimore tonight Gov. Ritchie of Maryland is to be the guest of honor at a Jackson day dinner given at the Con- cord Club. "It is expected that the Maryland Governor will formally an- nounce his candidacy for the presiden- in Named to West Point. John R. Ducat, Severna Park, Md, has been appointed by the President a cadet at large at the U. 8. Military entrance examination at West Point in March. o L “The people of the | . HINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE” MOVED TO BASE basement storeroom. Mrs. Willlam Adams Brown, president of the New York Chapter of the Colonial Dames, dismissed the action with the brief statement: “The museum directors know their business, and if they remove sufficient reasons.” Strain of Lifting Paralytic Husband 1 tal to Wife By the Associated Press. REDLANDS, Calif —Stricken by paraly maining conscious, Garrett 8. 75, last night saw his wife, clsie, 60, drop dead after she had lifted him from his chair and placed him on a bed several hours the body of Mrs. Giles lay across the helpless form of her husband, who was powerless to summon aid. A neighbor, seeing lights in the home still burning at an_early hour today, found the couple. A physician summoned for Giles said his condition was critical. STIMSON DECLARES NO FOREIGN LOANS APPROVED BY U. S. __(Continued From First Page) January 7 s, but re- ceived from the minister of finance of Matto Grosso. Senator King, Democrat, Utah, asked if the United States was overborrowed. Jones said he did not wish to ex- press an opinion King called attention to the Treasury deficit in this country. the American Revolution in said the plcture was not | commendable art and “possibly belongs |in the collection of the New York Historical Soclety, rather than in the | Metropolitan. Sons of | New York boat as he is represented,” he aded “The voyage across the Delaware was HITLER ACCEPTS BRUENING'S CALL Possible Healing of Breach Seen in Conference at Berlin. By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, January 7.—Chancellor | Bruening received Ad81f Hitler, militant | leader of the National Socialists, this evening in a conference to discuss this year's presidential elections and other pressing political matters. Gen. Wilhelm Groener, minister of men talked for an hour and a half. They sald nothing for publication about what conclusions they had | reached, but it was understood the chancellor sought Hitler’s support for & plan to prolong the term of President von Hindenburg, in return for certain political concessions to the National | Socialists. | Denial Brings Confusion. It was said that Gen. Groener had “Washington never stood up in the | | defense, also was present and the three | f Honor T ROOM. precarious and the general had enough common sense to sit down. The Amer- |ican flag, as shown, also is an | anachronism, since it was not adopted by the Colonies until six months after | the crossing of the Delaware.” Joseph Breck, acting director of the | Metropolitarl, said lack of room was | the principal reason for the removal. CABINET SHAKE P *LOONS N FRANCE Maginot Dies, Briand’s | Health Fails, With Impor- tant Conferences Near. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 7.—A French cabinet ake-up on the eve of two important international conferences may follow the death early today of Andre Maginot, 6-foot former army “top kick,” who held the post of war minister. The gquestion was complicated by the health of the veteran foreign minister, Aristide Briand, which, some Paris | morning papers said, is so poor as to make it impossible for him to stand the strain of conferences. Papers of such widely different politi- cal views as Le Matin, Le Journal and L'Oeuvre predicted another delegate would have to be chosen in M. Briand’s | Flacc for the coming disarmament par- | ley at Geneva, | M. Maginot died at 2 a.m., of typhoid fever, with complications, During the “At the moment,” Jones said, “OUr | conferred with Hitler vesterday and | day he had shown marked improvement budget is badly unbalanced.” “There is no other country like it, is there?” King asked. “At this moment,” Jones replied, “our budget is as badly unbalanced as any.” Joseph R. Swan, president of the Guarantee Co. of New York, told the any, an affiliate of 0., has participated in floating ~ $5,500,924,000 of foreign securities. It received $3,205,000 profit, he said, from originatii g $540,686,000 of foreign loans and $9,858,000 from participating in selling $4,960,238,000 others. These were profits to the Guarantee Co. only, and did not include gains to other companies which participated. Are “Proper Function.” Senator Couzens, Republican of Michigan, asked if trust companies or- ganized such affiliates to “enable them 10 live within the law.” “We organized the company to have offices all around the country,” Swan said “When the trust company could not e 0! = es. Swan added that such affiliates were a “proper function” of trust companies and that the trust Cnmpnny_losm to its affiliates on the same basis as any other compa Swan w ked for the profits of his company in 1931 “There were not &ny” Swan Te- plied. “We made operating profits only in 1930 and 1931.” Johnson then read the warning from former Secretary Kellogg to American bankers in 1926 to study carefully fur- ther German loavs. In it, after ex- plaining the provisions of the Versailles treaty relating to war debts, Kellogg “These risks, which obviously con- cern the investing public, should, in the opinion of the department, be cleared up by you before any action is taken “If they cannot be definitely elimi- nated, the department believes that you should consider whether you do not owe & duty to prospective clients fully to advise them of the circumstances.” Swan had previously denied he re- membered such a letter. He told of a $475,000 loan to East Prussia in 1927 and a $5,000,000 loan to a German steamship company in 1929, Cites Gilbert Statement. “Did you advise your clients of the statement by the Secretary of State?” Johnson asked, “I'm afraid I can’t answer that ques- ton,” Swan said. Johnson_also called attention to a report by S. Parker Gilbert, agent gen- eral of reparations, in 1927, saying Ger- many had overborrowed Swan sald Gilbert had always been informed of German loans and they were not made if he opposed. Johnson asked if the guarantee company had called the Kellogg and Gilbert warnings to the attention of its clients. “I don't think those warnings ap- plied to loans we made,” Swan replied. | \METHODIST CHARGES ON FINN VOTE DENIED Ministry Says Tardieu Did Not Boost Sale of French Wines. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 7.—The ministry of agriculture denied today that former Premier Andre Tardieu, who is out of the city, had caused the publication of an article in Finland of any sort. It was recalled that M. Tardieu, now minister of agriculture, had stated pub- licly that France was willing to ald 1its | winegrowers in exporting by granting loans to prospective purchasers if nec- essary. The Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals had charged in Washington that the “wet” results in Finland's recent referendum on prohibition were influenced ?‘fllllly fi' an article published in Finland by . Tardieu, boosting the sale of French | that they arranged for the meeting | with the” chancellor today. There was some confusion in con- nection with announcements of the | meeting. Two German news agencies disclosed that it had been scheduled, then an announcement, presumably from the chancellor's secretary, said Dr. Bruening had no intention of re- | ceiving Hitler | "It was believed that these contradic- tions were an effort by the staff at the chancellory to throw the photographers off the trail. | Unity Urged for Parleys. The possibility of a healing of the | breach_has been indicated recently in | some Nationalist papers, which have called upon both the National Soclalists |and the Nationalists to extend the olive branch to the government to enable the chancellor to present a united German | front to the world during the coming international conference on reparations and war debts. There was no indication in the an- nouncement as to when and where the meeting would be held. Political circles buzzed with speculation ovgr whether Hitler would be permitted to name a cabinet minister as part of the reported bargain in exchange for National So- | cialist support. Need for Harmony Seen. The Reichstag convenes again next month and political observers said they saw the necessity for the National So- | cialists and the Nationalists to make | some arrangement under which they might feel justified in participating again in the legislative deliberations | which they have totally ignored for | some time. THOUSANDS FACE J0B L0SS IN PHILADELPHIA $6,000,000 Cut in Expenses Forced by Loan Call—$625,000 Needed for Overdue Pay Roll. | By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, January 7.—Thou- sands of Philadelphia’s 26,000 city and county employes faced the loss of their | positions today as city council met to | readjust the 1932 budget and provide for immediate repayment of emergency loans amounting to $6,000,000. Controller Willb Hadley sald the banks that made the loans have re- fused to remew them, and that the fixed-debt obligation must be taken care | of “by lopping an additional $6,000,000 from personnel and maintenance costs Another condition of the city’s fi- nances that worried employes was where the treasurer's office was going to ob- [tain an additional $625.000 needed to meet the overdue $1,625,000 payroll of December 31, Director of Public Works Frank P. Craven late yesterday followed the lead of the city solicitor, David J. Smyth, and prepared to call for resig- nations of all employes. It is believed {hat other cabinet members will fol- low a like procedure. INJURED IN PLUNGE Harvard Student Declines to Give Details of Incident. ‘BOSTON, January 7 (#).—George P. Earling, 19, Harvard College junior, said to be the son of & wealthy Milwaukee, Wis., business man, was taken to Gity Hospital early today after police said he | fell 'or leaped from the roof of a one- | story building adjoining the Hotel Buck- | minster. At the hospital, where he was treated for injuries to his right leg, his condition was described as “fairly com- fortable.” Earling declined to say how he was injured. Hotel officials said he had reg- istered yesterday for a suite on the sec- ond fioor and later was joined by three other youths. Police sald they believed Earling opened s window early this TR e s ey 0 thelower rof 4 |and the end was unexpected, although | his condition had been considered seri- | ous for days. Built Up Frontier Defenses. He was 54 years old. His political ca- | reer developed since the war, during which he enlisted in the army as a pri- vate and became a top sergeant. He | was known as a somewhat “hard- | boiled” but popular and picturesque | minister, stressing the need of Prance’s | military frontier defenses, which he | built up. He was made minister of war for the first time by former Premier Poincare in 1922. He walked with & limp from a Ger- | man bullet which pierced his thigh at Verdun and his sentiments toward the former enemy were not exactly tender. i The names of Andre Tardieu and | Paul Painleve, both former premiers, | were put forward in political circles | today as possible successors of Maginot. Cabinet Holds Meeting. One of the first to pay his respects |to the dead war minister was Count | Quinones de Leon, who was Ambassador from Spain during the days when Al- fonso XIII still occupied the throne. | There were many others of renown during the day, for, in spite of Maginot's strong opinions and his way of ex- | pressing them, he was what the French called “very sympathetic.” The c*met at its meeting today de- | cided to%djourn its projected meeting of the superior council of national de- fense until tomorrow. It took no action on a change of membership and merely voted officially to hold a national fu- | neral for M. Maginot, probably Sunda Mr. Briand, who is under speci: treatment at his residence in the min- istry of foreign affairs, was not able to attend the cabinet session. Parliament is due to convene Jan- uary 12, | RADIO ADVERTISING PROBE REQUESTED Senator Couzens Introduces Resolu- tions Asking Commission to Re- port on Commercial Programs. By the Associated Press. A resolution calling for the survey by the Radio Commission of the extent of commercial advertising programs over the radio was introduced today by Senator Couzens, Republican, of Mich- igan, Six major points for the commission to report on to the Senate were pro- posed. They were: What information is available on the feasibility of Government ownership or operation of radio stations ties are used for commercial advertis- ing_purposes How the stations are divided by power. ‘What can be done to control, or per- haps eliminate, commercial radio ad- vertising. What is done by other countries, ‘Whether it would be possible to an- nounce only the names of sponsors of programs. MAY CANCEI: MANEUVERS Adams Gives Reason as Recent Disorders in Hawaii. Secretary of the Navy Adams said today the February maneuvers of the fleet in the vicinity of Hawali may be canceled in view of recent disorders on | the islands. The disorders resulted from | an attack by natives on white women. | A number of such cases have been reported by naval authorities in Hawaii and the Secretary feels further dis- orders would be prevented by keeping sailors from landing. Naval officials expressed the opinion the maneuvers would be held in an- other loc-ux and that if the fleet went to Hawall, shore leave there would not be granted. To what extent broadcasting facili- | IREPORTED ACCORD ON DEBTS DENIED Programs of Britain, France and Germany Declared Still U settled. (Continued From First Page) Forelgn Minister Aristide Briand threatened to provoke the French gov- ernment crisis, during which France will be unable to agree on anything | whatever. What is true is that an agreement of a bankers' committee with the Germans to prolong the stand- | still arrangement on short-term ad- vances to Germany for one year has | caused the French government to| abandon its efforts to obtain a post-| | ponemei# of the Lausanne conference. | Barring unforeseen delays due to the | Prench crisis it is now expected that this conference will meet some time s between January 20 and 25, with the| French, British and German premiers all in attendance. As far as it can be learned here the Germans still main- 1ain that the Young plan must be screpped and that Germany can hence- forth pay no reparations whatever, Neither France nor Great Britain entirely accepts this view, although it has some partisans in London banking circles. It is probable that France and | Great Britain will make every effort to reach a common policy prior to the ! a meeting of treasury experts and then | through a personal talk between French Premier Pierre Laval and Mr. Mac- Donald although a French cabinet crisis may upset this plan also. | No Change on Issue. Me=anwhile on the main Franco-Brit- ish issue there is still no change. The British still want a moratorium of four or five years for Germany, and France still thinks one or two years are suf- ficient. The assumption in press re- ports that a compromise on the basis of three years would be reached ap- Pears to be premature. The French consider the decision of the Bankers' Committee in Berlin not to turn short-term into long-term credits as the Germans wished, but merely to extend them by one year, greatly strengthens the French view | that a reparations moratorium should | also be limited to one year from the | date of the expiration of the Hoover moratorium. On the other hand, it should be said that some skilled observers, in view of the new conciliatory attitude toward Prance of the British foreign office, | consider a Franco-British reparations | agreement within the next couple of weeks as probable. (Copyright, 1932) WILL STRESS THREE POINTS, | British Will Press Reparations, War | Debts and Gold Issues. BY NELSON FARSON. LONDON, England, January 7.— Reparations, war debts and gold will be the target of the progressive British | attack from the Lausanne Conference on. If the United States wishes to itack on disarmament, so much the better, because Great Britain, to bal- ance her budget, will probably have to make drastic economies in her serv- ice anyway. The United States never accepted | the twinship of reparations and war | debts. Neither has the United States| accepted the Balfour declaration, which also emphasized such indivisibility when it said that Great Britain would take no more from her allies than Great Britain paid to the United States, but in justice it could not be asked to pay the United States more. Runs on Small Reserve. Great Britain could not continue to pay the United States her war debt if Germany and consequently the Allies defaulted. The simple reason is that out of £120,000,000 in gold which remains in the much attacked British treasury today, £115,000,000 are ear- marked to pay the Franco-American credits this company obtained in a futile effort to remain on the gold standard, so that Great Britain is really running on a gold reserve of SS,XO%‘BOO. nd if Great Britain tried to y her debt to America by buying 2;)- change or accumulating funds in New York, it would mean the raising of some £55,000,000 yearly, thereby turn- ing the exchanges further against g“b“ Brx‘ézm;dm increase in the sum ¢ paid and would probably wreck the pound. a Vit After 14 years Great Britain is not only calling but preparing and de- manding a showdown on realities, one of which—the gold standard—was ac- l\‘xally first officially recognized by the United States, when the Dawes plan instituted a provision for the alleviation or increase of Germany's money liabil- ity from time to time to correspond Wwith the gold price level. Owing to the fall of wholesale prices twice as much goods and human effgrt is required to {.7;12}'0 international de%u today as in That is a reality which plan failed to foresee. Eaade 28 Countries Off Gold. Another reality is the action of high American and French tariffs tsty"‘.a phoning gold out of Europe until France and America, between them, today pos- sess three-quarters of the world's gold reserve. Today 28 countries, headed by Great Britain, former world financial center, are off the gold standard. They are crystallizing info a ‘“sterling bloc,” whose ‘target ultimately must be 8 and the United States, Ainpee The French claim that Britis) propaganda is trying to undermine t faith of America and PFrance in the gold dollar and the franc. Here again the British say that it is realities— country after country must inevitably desert "the gold standard in order to lower the level of exchange prices to compete with the bulk of the world's trade. It can be taken for granted therefore that, while politically the United States might refuse to acknowledge a connec- tion between reparations and war debts and politically the French might prevent the interjection of the gold question into the Lausanne reparations confer- ence, Great Britain, through one avenue or another, is demanding a showdown on the reality of the unity of all three. MacDonald Eager to Attend. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | would like to attend the Lausanne Reparations Conference, according to a statement by Sir John Simon, Brit- ish foreign minister, at a foreign press luncheon yesterday. However, if .the conference wants to have the prime minister it must begin during the week of January 18, which is & hint to the French, who are still hanging back over the date. In any case, Sir John stated that he himself and Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, would attend. The London angle on the conference | is that it is primarily an affair of the British and French, between whom an | agreement is confidentially expected to | be_reached. Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, is always contending that nothing short of absolute cancel- lation could save Germany and the European situation, but the bankers’ influence is :omnwhl‘t’ 11: l{ dmnmgn England just now and the foreign office opinion is looksd upon to prevail. (Copyright, 1982.) ’ Young | opening of the conference, first, through | | time jattacked by | celebrated eastern TARIFF OPPOSITION OF HOOVER VOICED Mills Hits Democrats’ Plans for Revision Before House Committee. By the Assoclated Press. Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills told the House Ways and Means Com- mittee today the administration is strongly opposed the Democratic tariff bill Responding to the invitation of Chair- man Collier, Mills appeared at hearings on the tariff as representative of the Treasury, State and Commerce Depart- ments. At the outset of his remarks, when the hearings were resumed, he said “The Treasury does not approve of this measure and sees no occasion for it. Its intent is to deprive the Presi- dent of authority he now possesses.” Backs Flexible Provision. Mills referred to that provision which would take away the President's au- thority under the present flexible tariff provision. The bill would authorize the Tariff Commission to report to Con- gress on changes in duties instead of to the President. “The ‘effect of this,” he said, “would be tp remove the flexible provision in existing law and to freeze existing ariff rates.” He added Congress would hardly have to consider eac commendation that if it did prolonged debate d ensue in both Houses because of that would be made to end the entire, act Mills assailed the proposal for a con- sumer’s counsel to be connected with the Tariff Commission. He sald it would result only in added expense, and oted that information was gathered by the commission already in the interest of the consumers. Hits Economic Conference. The Democratic proposal for a per- manent international economic confer- ence to bring about better trade re- lations between the countries also was the Undersecretary. He asserted it conflicted with the first part of the bill which, he said, took away power from the President, while the lat- ter part “gives him almost unlimited power” to bring about a lowering of tariff walls. He contended a permanent organiza- tion is unnecessary because one already exists under the League of Nations. Mills declared the bill indicates the American tariff rates are too high, and said “if this be so, then this body and not an international conference should lower them.” to and POWERS WILL TAKE ACTION ON JAPANESE SITUATION AT ONCE (Continued From First Page.) que in Mukden today said four expedi- tions against Chinese irregulars are proceding in the areas around Mukden, Liaoyang, Hsinmin and Tiehling. About ene company is participating in each, the communique said. One Japanese and 40 Chinese were killed in a clash five miles north of Liaoyang, it said, when the Japanese scattered 300 bandits. It added that a strong irregular force attacked Tieh- ling, opened the prison, liberated all prisoners and set the prison buildings on fire before Japanese forces arrived. The city of Shanhaikwan, real gate- way from China to Manchuris, stands at the formal boundary line between China proper and Manchuria, about half way between Pellfln and Mukden. It divides with Ch ncgow the heavy railway and highway trafic along the narrow coastal plain between the moun- tains of Mongolia and the sea. At one time Shanhaikwan was the key to all Northern China, standing in the shadow of the Great Wall at its gate, sometimes called “the first gate of the world.” BRITISH PROTEST TO TOKIO. Japan Says Receipts of Railway Held to Protect Them. TOKIO, January 7 (#).—8ir Oswald Lindley, British Ambassador, called at the Japanese foreign office today to inquire about impairment of the Brit- ish interest in the Peiping-Mukden Ralilway in Manchuria by the action of the Japanese Army in retaining the railway’s receipts. It was understood, an undersscretary explained, the army has sequester>d the money temporarily in order to keep it from falling into the hands of Marchal Chang Hsueh-Liang, but now that Mar- shal Chang has withdrawn, it would be handed over. Visits Cause Stir. The French and American Ambassa- ders also visited the foreign office, but it was authoritatively stated the objects of their visits were not related in any way. In spite of reports to the contrary from the United States, there was evi- dent here no indication that the three countries were planning to approach Japan again with representations on the Manchurian question In view of the conferences in Wash- ington among Secretary of State Stim- son, French Ambassador Claudel and British Ambassador Lindsay, the visits of the three envoys caused a diplomatic stir, but it was stated authoritatively that none of them had mentioned Chinchow. Jehol Drive Denied. The French Ambassador’s call related to questions other than Manchuria, it was explained. The war office denied reports from Nanking that its Manchurian forces were advancing in the direction of Jehol. It was explained that some of Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang's detach- ments had withdrawn to that area, but not in sufficient numbers to menace the Japanese flank. ACTION DELAYED ON IMPEACHMENT House Committee to Consider Reso- lution for Mellon Ouster Next Week. By the Associated Press. Consideration of the Patman resolu- tion calling for impeachment of Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon was post- poned today by the House Judiciary Committee until next week. This action was agreed upon by com- mittee members because of the delay in having the resolution reach the com- mittee formally through parliamentary channels. The resolution, introduced yesterday by Representative Wright Patman, Texas Democrat, marked the first time a for- mal move to impeach the veteran Sec- retary had been made before a con- gressional body. Year after year one member or an- other has suggested that something of the sort be done, or demanded his resig- nation, questioning the right of so wealthy & man, stockholder in many corporations, to hold the purse strings of the Nation. Attempts have been made to force him out. But it awaited Democratie control of the House and the determination of Re) tative Patman to ImBeschment. St