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ASKSU. 5. TO CLEAN HOUSE'INHONOLULU Woman Head of Citizens’ Or- ! ganization Blames Politics for Conditions. BY MRS. HARRY KLEUGEL, From the woman's viewpoint, co in Honolulu, with womanhood r reveal that Christlan principl been outraged. American Government practices have been debased to the ¢ that Honolulu is now being ertised to the world as a disorderly com- munity. Huddling and shushing continues be- ocause of politics and great pressure was brought to bear from local political cir- cles to prevent the holding of @ mass meeting whose advertised purpose Wwas 1o unite the community efforts for good government and perfect plans for a citizens’ organization. Conditions, however, proved that Honolulu was a safe piace for holding such & meeting and for public discus- sion regarding the present situation and the ability of citizens in general to assume responsibility of planning for good government. 1,000 Attend Meeting. The result was a mass meeting in which 1,000 persons interested in good government and & solution of the present difficulties took part. 'The causes for the peculiar dilemma in which Honolulu finds itself today lle in the apathy of its citizens, irresponsi- bility toward assuming citizens' oblig: tions, selfishness turned in upon itself, and Jeaders who do not lead, but huddle and shush. At the moment one finds here the kind of government we deserve. But a new day dawns, new leaders are ap- pearing—leaders not bought with money, power or position, and basing their activities on carefully organized facts and an unwavering adherence to basic principles; leaders who will not compromise truth for expediency, and men and women, not_cowards, working together for the good of Honolulu. ‘What should be done to protect women here? Every governmental effort must be made to get ala moana criminals and all others and convict them, there- by restoring confidence in orderly pro- cess of law for which all citizens must stand, bearing in mind that women have sacrificed themselves in & tragic manner for the good of the community. Debasing governmental practices for political manipulation and material ain must be removed. This must be ,DHGWEG by abolition of & boasted feudal system transplanted to twen- tieth century American soil with many attendant practices and attitudes to- ward womanhood openly flaunted under the American flag. Higher Status Urged. As for the position of woman here— the crying need is to raise the status of women in Honolulu, now in & de- plorable condition. Women should be basls with men &s in the progressive mainiand States. This en- tails & recognition of woman’s position in the twentieth century world by gov- ernment departments, and in profes- sional, business, political and social life titude toward rape and sexual offenses instead of the present attitude, which has long been considered uncivilized. The same protection should be given all women in Honolulu which is now urged by the Navy Department and Admiral Pratt for Navy women. If the Senate committee comes to Honolulu to investigate, such an in- ves! should be all inclusive. It should investigate the background which precipitated the present situation —the community itself, business, pol- ftics, government, social life and the personnel and loyalty of American civil officials interpreting and administering the principles of American government. ‘We are faced with the necessity of & transfer of the dominant business in- terests from tourists' attractions te the human problems of Hawaii, making life here attractive and worthwhile for all citizens. If these reconstructions are impossible in this territory, publicly reaffirmed and legislated in Hawali as an integral part of the U d States, then let the United States admit defeat in its ability to govern such a territory as Hawail as now organized under its mandate and either create some other form to fit the conditions or modify the organic act. (Copyrignt, 132 North Ameriean ewsp: COMMISSION RULE OPPOSED IN HAWAII By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, January 13, ate- ments he sald were given him by Mrs. Granville Fortescue, mother-in-law of Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N, and Albert Orrin Jones, Navy enlisted man, shortly after their arrest and while they were still in custody of territorial officials, were made public today by City and County Attorney James Gilli- land Extracts from the statements had been announced previously by Griffith Wight, Gilliland’s deputy, Who prose- cuted the five youths charged assaulting Mrs. Massle last September and who probably wiil prosecute the alleged killers of Joseph Kahahawal, Mrs. Fortescue, in one statement given out by lliland, said she was in a parked automobile in front of the ‘The hawai was kidnaped last Friday. e statement ended with her words, don't think I'll talk any more.” Jones apparently could not remember detalls, pleading he was intoxicated two-thirds of the time. man made three statements Saturday between 11:25 am. and 5:29 p.m. Chats With Court Clerk. In her statement Mrs. Fortescue said she did not know what time last Friday she drove downtown, but said she went to mail some letters and, while sitting in the machine in front of the Judicial Building, talked with the clerk of the ccurt. She denied she had pointed out Kahahawai to men sitting in_anothed | machine, as the city attorney had been informed. Mrs. Fortescue said she did not know | if any one except herself had slept the previous night in the home she had been occupying with an unmarried daughter. She admitted driving Fri- her own home before going down town. She said she did not mail her letters. She said she did not know why. She said she did not see the blue sedan in which witnesses have saild Kahahawai was kidnaped. She sald =he did not see Kahahawai come out of the tuild- ing. She identified Jones as “the man who took me to the base ball game.” When asked “where was your daughter last night?” she replied: “I don't think Il talk any more!” Jones, in his first .two statements, said he often had played bridge at the Massie home, where he was posted as guard during a week in December, but he falled to remember where he had spent the nights or what he had done at other times. with | one of the five, “ Judicial. Building, from which Kaha-| The_enlisted | day to the Massie home, returning to| ITOO DRUNK TO REMEMBER, SAYS GUARD IN MASSIE CASE Seam:;m Held With Mrs. Fortescue in Slay- ing Asserts He Often Played Bridge in Naval Officer’s Home. Prior to Jones making the third icmlemcnl, Gilllland explained, Fdward Ulli, a cousin of Kahahawai, who was | with the Hawaiian youth when he was kidnaped, was brought into the room. | U, according to the statement re- | leased by Gilliland, identified the Navy man as the one who lured Kahahawai from the Judicial Building by ehowing | halt the holding out of tax tickets by him a faked summons. } “He is the one who grabbed Joe by the arm and showed him a piece of pa- | per that he had,” Ulli asserted, accord- ing to Gilliland Jones, on being shown the faked document, said the police had taken it | from him when he was arrested, but said he could not tell how he got it or when. He sald he did not know how long he had been at the Massie home Friday when the police arrived. He also sa2id he did not know where he had slept the night before, but be- lieved he had been at the Massie home | part of the evening. He said he did not know whether he had been at the Fortescue home Friday morning. Concerning the automatic pistol magazine clip taken from his pocket by police, he said he bought it for an automatic he kept in his civilian clothes in a locker here in the city. (Many Army and Navy men maintain sueh lockers so they may have a convenient place to change from the uniforms they are required to wear when leaving the various military posts) He said later, however, that the pistol was in a locker at the navy yard. Denies Seeing Massie. Jones declared, according to the state- ment as released, that he did not see Lieut. Massie Friday expect at the po- lice station. Later he said he was un- certain whether he had been at the Fortescue home when Massie was there Priday. ‘The enlisted man, the statement showed, parried questions of whether he had shot Kahahawai, once replying “no” and another time asking, “Did a | drunken man do it?” When the ques- ! tioner said, “I am asking you,” Jones | replied, “Neither do L” | Jones professed himself unable to re- member many things he was questioned about. He said he did not know he had been down town, or that he had driven the Fortescue automobile from the Fortescue home to the Massie home, | He said, however, that he came into | Honolulu from the navy yard in com- | pany with Lieut. Massie and Edward | Lord, another defendant, also of the | Navy. | . Jones said he and Lord came to Hawaii from New London, Conn. DIRECT U. S. APPEAL THREATENED OVER HAWAII TERRORISM (Continued From First Page.) hostelry, announced it had received cancellations of tourists’ reservations and numerous inquiries concerning pos- sible “race riots.” Charges before a House subcommit- tee in Washington that the territorial judge seemingly gave the jury a “thinly veiled instruction to acquit” the five men tried on charges of attacking Mrs. Massie were denied by the prosecutor. The jury disagreed, 6 to 6, and the defendants were reporting daily, await- ing retrial when Kahahawal was ab- ducted from the court room last Friday and shot to death. “The statement before the House Naval Subcommittee is absurd” said Griffith Wight, prosecutor of the case. “The instructions were fair to the prosecution—much better than I ex- pected. Circult Judge A. E. Steadman overruled the, defendants’ objections with one exception.” Steadman Is Silent. No comment was forthcoming from BSteadman, who resigned his judgeship recently to become head of a trust com- ny. mMyen.anXm Mrs. Fortescue was re- ported virtually confined to her bed aboard the recelving ship Alton at Pearl Harbor, where the defendants are held by naval suthorities. Defense attorneys said she was wor- rying over the condition of her hus- band, who is ill in New York, so much that she is almost continually in tears. One of the staff, Montgomery Winn, said it was for the society matron that he would seek the only delay the de- fense desires. He said he wants the case postponed until her husband may be with her. Lieut. Massie remains calm, Winn said. Enlisted men from Army and Navy posts near Honolulu were permitted to come into the city after thef” had been confined to quarters for three days as 2 result of tension between military and civil elements. Troop Need Gone. American Legion officials informed Former Justice Calls Pettengill “Hysterical” and Pratt “Supercilious.” HONOLULU, January 13 (#).—Pro- posals for commission rule for Hawali, suggested in some quarters as & result of the Kahahawal killing, was criti- cized in a statement issued by A. G. M. Robertson, twice chief justice of the Territorial Supreme Court and a mem- ber of the law firm of Robertson, Cas- tle & Olson (Alfred Castle of the firm is a brother of W. R, Castle, jr, Undersecretary of State.) Robertson took direct issue with those contending & commission gov- ernment—presumably made up of Tep- resentatives »" Army, Navy and r—was the “only Most gill and the Admiral tt afford a clear ind. of the k Maj. Gordon C. Ross, head of Terri- torial Police, that they believed emer- gency patrols of Legion members were no. longer nNecessary. The theory that the abduction of Kahahawai was premeditated, but that he was killed in a sudden outburst of anger, was advanced by a prominent Honolulu detective. He said if Kahahawal's slaying had been planned his abductors would have been prepared to dispose of his body without detection. No such plans were made, he said. He suggested that while his abductors were attempting to ob- tain a confession from the Hawalian, one of them became enraged and shot the suspect. MASSIE TALKS TO MOTHER., “Don’t Worry,” He Says In Phone Mes- sage to Winchester, Ky. WINCHESTER, Ky., January 13 () —A mother who had not seen her naval officer son for two years last night heard him assure her by long- distance telephone from Honolulu that everything was “all right.” “Mother, I think of you all the time. Pleage do not worry.” Tt was Lieut. Thomas Massle—Tom- under a ¢ ment with commission “The last & n ¥ whic thic communit A L e sand to Robert- tand for viol women, a statement islan ] terpreted se condoning the shooting of Joseph Kshahawal. Victor 8, K. Hous- ton, territorial Delegate to Congress, ‘was formerly a naval officer, CLOTHIER KILLS SELF Head of Chicago Tailoring Firm Had Feared Blindness. CHICAGO, January 13 () —William M. Cahn, 59, president of the Progress Tailoring Co., was found shot to death last night in a wash room at the com- ny offices, a pistol clutched in his nnd, Police learned he recently suf- fered financial reverses and also feared SRl e iR [ my to his mother—who was communi- | cating with her for the first time since | he was placed under arrest in Hono- 0 < W. S. Massie was talking over phone when the long-distance { Los Angeles cut in on the h the announcement: v jeut. Massle, is calling from Honolu Tommy is calling,” Mrs. Massie sald ide to her daughter and Miss Dorothy Massie. statement was to assure his mother all was well, and to an- nounce he had received her cablegram fondzy. It was in reply to the cable that Tommy called. All in the space of three minutes’ time, Tommy talked to his mother and sister, and Tommy's wife and mother- in-law, Mrs. Grace Bell that we didn't talk about the case at all” Mrs, Massle said, after the excit- ing three minutes were over, She said Mrs. Fortesque had sald “Tommy is well, and we all are all right, and as happy as could be ex- pected under the circumstances.” MAJ. FORTESQUE BETTER. | Spends Comfortable Night in New York Hospital. ] K YORK, January Il. Q—A‘& R. Fortesque, whose wife and son-in- law are held in Honolulu in connec- tion with the slaying of a native ac- aused of attacking the major's daugh- T, Maj. Fortesque is a patient at the Columbia Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital, suffering from pneumonia. His physician today said that the pa- tient was better after a comfortable night. His temperature was 100 and his pulse 98, and the physician said the major was in “good shape.” CABINET RIFT DENIED. Adams Refutes Report of Break With Wilbur Over Hawall. Three Federal depaitments were co- | operating in a study of the Hawailan imbroglio today as island authorities prepared for a grand jury investigation Friday of Honolulu's “revenge murder,” lilm;d which four Americans are being eld. While Attorney General Mitchell and his assistants pored over data submitted by the Navy and Interior Departments, Secretary of the Navy Adams denied re- ports of & rift between himself and In- terior Secretary Wilbur, whose depart- ment handles Hawalian affairs. Rumors of cabinet dissension ap- parently arose from the fact that Navy and Interior views on law enforcement in Hawali have not jibed. Secretary Adams has contended that crime con- ditions there are bad, whereas Secre- tary Wilbur, defending the insular ad- ministration of Gov. Gen. Judd, said today Honolulu's record is a good one. Adams Makes Denial. Adams issued his denial of a split with Dr. Wilbur in response to a ques- tion from a reporter. Published re- ports have represented him as differing radically from Dr. Wilbur’s opinion of island conditions. Wilbur received today from Hawall several messages which he promptly forwarded to the Department of Justice, which has been directed by the Senate, to proble conditions with respect to law enforcement. The Interior Secretary has instructed Gov. Gen. Judd to sub- mit a detailed report on crime, with particular reference to the case of Mrs. Granville Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas Massie and two enlisted men of the Nl.vy,nwho are chuadrxn; wét& murder of a native suspected of attacking Z Massie. - Secretary Wilbur said records of his department heretofore have been free from mention of crime in the territory. From available reports, he said, Hono- lulu’s slate is cleaner than that of any city in this country of comparable size. When the data now before Justice officials has been thoroughly studied, 1t is expected Attorney General Mitchell will assign one of his assistants to go to Honolulu and conduct a first-hand ix;’\{uzlnfllox;hol "iav: Werr;lvrcement ma- nery e terr . The inqui will be broad, under authority %sz Senate resolution. Surrender of Lieut. Massle, his mother-in-law and the two enlisted men to civil authorities of Honolulu to stand trial on the murder charges was authorized last night by Secretary Adams, In permitting the surrender of the prisoners, Adams acted upon a request of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling for ap- proval of an understanding he had reached with Circuit Court Judge Christy that the quartet would be (um;d over to island police upon de- mand. Early Surrender Due. Although nothing definite was known by the Navy Department as to when the four would be turned over to Hono- lulu authorities, it was anticipated they would be surrendered either tomorrow or Friday, when the case will be brought before the grand ur{ Adams’ approval of Admiral Stirling’s request came shortly after Secretary of Interior Wilbur had expressed opposi- | tion to a change of venue and Attorney General Mitchell had stated he “knew of no statute” under which the case could be brought to the mainland for trial. Wilbur sald he was opposed to trying the three Navy men by any other than the established civil procedure. Adams also approved the general Navy boycott of Honolulu during the forth- coming naval war games, regardless of reported improved conditions in the city. Roiterating orders that the fleet is not to be given shore liberty on the Island of Oahu during the war games to be held next month in the Hawalian Islands, Admiral Pratt today directed Admiral Frank H. Schofield, command er in chief of the United States Fleet, to call upon Gov. Judd with sll the dignity due his office. Should Gov. Judd desire to visit the fleet, & ship is to be placed at his dis- posal, “for the dignity and prestige of the executive office must be upheld as the first step toward a return to clean, sane, healthy, normal conditions,” Ad- miral Pratt asserted. Men of the fleet were warned by the Navy'’s highest commissioned officer that they must be upon ir good be- 1 IPOLLARD REQUESTS PRISONERS' CAMPS Message to Assembly Urges Establishment by Cities and Counties. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 13.—Es- tablishment of city and county prison camps, the passage of an act that will county treasurers, and an increase in | the number of bank examiners to pre- vent the unnecessary failure of the financial establishments coming under State control were among the recom- mendations made today by Gov. John Garland Qollard in his message at the opening @ the General Assembly. Because of the length of the mes- sage, Gov.’ Pollard decided to deliver only a rayc of it today and the re- mainder ¥ morrow. Regulation of busses and trucics and the county government situation will be made the subject of special messages to be delivered at a later date. The report of the commis- sion that was appointed to make & study of the bus and truck situation has not as yet been completed. The part of the message that was de- livered today dealt with the State's financial condition, the budget, which was submitted to the Assembly this morning; the suspension of officers handling public funds, the default of local bonds and other matters. Camp Plans Sensational. Many consider the proposed estab- lishment of convict camps to permit the employment of jail prisoners on roads, streets and other public works the most sensational of s&ll of the Governor’s recommendations. At the present time only the State operates convict camps. ‘The recommendation is based upon both the economic situation and the rapidity with which the jails in all of the cities and counties in the State are being filled, many being greatly over- crowded. In referring to the crowded condition of the jails, Gov. Pollard declared that jail commitments have increased from 26,506 in 1923 to 53,758 for the year ending June 30, 1931. For the same pe- riod commitments to the penitentiary increased from 684 to 1,540. Unless some new plan is adopted as an outlet for both the jail and peni- tentiary gpopulation, he declared, large expenditures must be made by the coun- ties and cities in enlarging and im- g:oving the jalls, and by the State in creasing the cell capacity in the penitentiary. The plan as worked out by the State Prison Board, in collaboration with the State department of public welfare and Btate department of highways, is that the capital outlay cost of the estab- lishment of the division of camps be borne equally by the State and counties out of gas tax revenues, the total cost of all the camps not to exceed $60,000. ‘The plan also provides that the aver- age per diem jail allowance of 65 cents for the care of prisoners in county and city jails be allowed the camps for those” prisoners transferred from the jalls of the State, the remainder of the cost of operating the camps (esti- mated at 10 cents per day for each prisoner) to be borne by the county in which a camp may be established. Bill Is Introduced. A bill putting the recommendation into effect was introduced. It was an- nounced that an experimental camp has been in successful operation in Washington County for the past 18 months. ‘When the new county treasurers went into office on January 1, Gov. Pollard declared, there was considerable diffi- culty in persuading the bonding com- panies to bond them, both because of what he described the “deplorable prac- tice” of holding out tax tickets, and be- cause under the present law the surety on the bond is responsible for money lost by the failure of banks in which the treasurer may have deposited pub- lic funds. Under the terms of the surety bonds, he declared, the surety company can cancel its bonds at any time in its dis- cretion and the auditor of public ac- counts has been informed that the companies will be unwilling to continue the bonds unless the General Assembly passes acts relieving them of respon- sibility for bank failures and putting & stop to the practice of treasurers report- ing as collected taxes that have not ac- tually been pald. The latter is done largely, he said, to save constituents the penalty imposed for failure to pay on_time. Stating that the Supreme Court of Appeals has declared as unconstitu- tional the act authorizing the Governor to suspend defaulting local officers handling public monies, Gov. Pollard asks the amendment of the act to cor- rect the defects. In one case, he de- clared, a county treasurer he had suspended was permitted to remain in office until the end of his term after he had been declared by the auditor of public accounts and private auditors employed by the county to be in de- fault to the extent of about $90,000. The financial condition of the State Gov. Pollard declared to be sound, de- spite the Nation-wide depression. The only way to maintain this condition, he sald, s by the most Tigid economy in the expenditure of public funds. Surplus Dwindles. He called attention to the fact that the surplus of $4,721,402 which existed on March 1, 1930, when the last Gen=- eral Assembly was in session, had dwin- dled to $1,382,135 at the end of the last fiscal year and declared that there weuld be only an approximate sum of $5,780 to be carried over from this bi- ennium to the next, Of the large sur- plus, $3,742,381 was unconditionally ap- propriated by the last Assembly in cap- ital outlays, the balance being ab- sorbed by the falling off of revenues. ‘The public debt of the State amounts to $22,983,078, he sald, of which amount $17,558.078 is an inheritance of a century ago and $5,428,000 repre- sents the amount yet unpald on account of advances made by cities and counties on State roads built & few years ago under the Robinson act. To offset the debt, the State owns stock in the Rich- mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail- road that is yielding an income equal to 4 per cent on $3,500,000 and has a bal- ance of $6,275,631 in the literary fund. A recent statement Issued by the United States Census Bureau shows, Gov. Pollard declared, that the average per capita debt of the 48 States in- creased from $3.75 to $15.02, or 305 per cent, while Virginia's debt has decreased 3 per cent. The average public debt for each $100 of wealth in the South At- lantic States is $5, while that of Vir- ginia s but $3.05, he said. The average per capita tax burden is 37.2 per cent less in Virginia than in the average for all the States, he further declared. Explains Budget. ‘The Governor explained the budget for the coming biennium in detail, de- claring that in basing the estimates of the revenues for the two years to come on the greatly fallen revenues of the fiscal year he is supported by the opin- ion of the fiscal officers of the State, by the Budget Advisory Committee and by “many of the wisest and most success- ful business men” that financial condi- tions can hardly be worse this year than Iast, but that, if s0, “it is reasonable to assume that the loss will be offset by & general revival of business in the sec- ond year of the biennium.” In recommending the puur of the bill setting forth optional forms of county government, to become effective when submitted to the qualified voters of any county, Gov. Pollard declared “the reorganization of government, in which my predecessor made such marked progress, cannot be considered complete, now that constitutional ob- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1932 earnest attention to the problems of local government.” The annual expenditures of the 100 counties of the State increased from $8,000,000 in 1913 to $29,498,000 in 1930, he said. Gov. Pollard recommended to the General Assembly that the question of amending section 170 of the constitu- tion so as to permit cities and towns to make special assessments of properties for abutting street improvements be submitted to the people to be decided by popular vote. GOV. POLLARD ASKS CUT IN STATE PAY 1932-34 Budget, Presented to Assembly, Urges 10 Per Cent Reductions. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 13.—A 10 per cent salary cut affecting all State officers and employes, with the excep- tion of the General Assembly and the judiciary, and a $25,000 appropriation toward purchase of the lands necessary for development of the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway are features of the budget bill for the coming bien- nium, which was submitted to the Gen- eral Assembly today by Gov. John Gar- land Pollard. The proposed parkway appropriation is contingent upon the raising of a like amount by the juris- dictions in which it would be located. The entire trend of the budget is to- ward economy, Gov. Pollard declaring in its presentation that he was guided by six yords, “Curtail expenses; no in- crease in taxes.” The entire budget for the coming two years amounts to $85,- 357,260, which is $25,858,334 less than had been requested. Recommended salary reductions are so far-reaching that they include the principals and teachers of all of the schools of the State. Even the institu- tions of higher learning were not over- looked. The salary reductions are to be effective for only one year of the bi- ennfum, the Governor being of the opinion that economic conditions will have changed for the better by the end of the fiscal year. School Savings $900,000. In case of the passage of the salary reduction clause of the budget bill, sav- ings to the State of $510,000 that was payable from the general fund and $525,000 from special funds would be effected. Savings in salaries paid to public school teachers and officials would amount to approximately $900,000, which would be paid into the treasury of each city and county according to the amount of the reductions for such localities. Commenting upon the fact that the salary reductions are to be effective for only one year, Gov. Pollard declared that many of the State’s most highly trained and specialized employes have left the State service during the past year to accept salaries offered by other agencies. “A permapent salary reduc- tion,” he said, “would necessarily in- crease this turnover and would dis- organize the personnel of our depart- ments and institutions to an extent that would be greatly to the State's disad- vantage. It seems reasonable to assume that material improvement in business will occur by 1933, which should be re- flected in an increase in State revenue.” No recommendation with respect to a salary reduction for the judiciary was made, because the constitution does not permit the Gieneral Assembly to reduce the salaries of the Governor or judges during their terms of office. Gov. Pol- lard, however, whose salary, exclusive of allowances for expenses, is $10,000 yearly, agrees tc the reduction of his own pay. The average rate of pay of all State officials and employes for the fiscal year 1931 was $1,400. Smith Asked Park Funds. Inclusion in the budget bill of an appropriation of $25,000 to match funds of the Federal Government for the de- velopment of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, on the Virginia side of the Potomac River from Mount Ver- non to Great Falls, was at the request of Representative Howard W. Smith of the eighth district. In commenting upon the small ap- propriation provided, Gov. Pollard de- clared that it seemed inadvisable under present conditions for the State to as- sume any greater commitment than is necessary to indicate its sympathetic in- terest in the project and its inclination to participate, as its means may per- mit, in promoting its development. ‘The budget bill provides “that this appropriation shall be expended only to the extent that an equivalent sum is provided for the same purpose by the political subdivisions adjacent to the parkway.” The subdivisions in this instance are the Counties of Arlington and Fairfax. An increase in the public school fund of $500,000 is provided for the second year of the biennium. No increase is provided for the first year, it being the belief of the Governor and Budget Com- mission that the salary reductions will care for the increased needs for the first year. This increase makes a total in- crease in State appropriations for pub- lic free schools over the budget for 1926-1928 of about $2,000,000, the 1928 and 1930 budgets having increased the fund $625,000 and $900,000, respectively. In addition to the added appropria- ticns for public free schools, the annual appropriation for the teachers’ retire- ment system is increased for the bien- nium $20,000 and the appropriation for vocational education is increased $10,- 000. Total expenditures for the State Board of Education for the biennium amount to $16,177,497. Of this total $13,527,255 is payable from the general fund, $1,700,000 from capitation taxes and interest on the literary fund and $950,242 from other special funds. The appropriations recommended for the institutions of higher learning, which include the State universities and four State teachers’ colleges, amount to $4277,120, including for capital outlays $191,500 and support $4,085,620. This is a decrease in the appropriation for support over the pre- ceding biennium of $90,046. In addi- tion $212,300 will be deducted from the ASSALS DOCTORS PROFIBITION VIEWS Witness Says Medical mXo0- ciation and Others Imposed on Congress in 1917. By the Assoclated Press. The opinion that Congress, in adopt- ing prohibition enforcement laws, was “imposed upon” by the American Med- ical Association, the United States Re- tail Druggists Association and the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food expert, was expressed to a Senate Committee today by Dr. J. C. Vorbeck of St. Louis. “The people were misled,” Dr. Vor- beck sald at hearings on the Bingham 4 per cent beer bill, in being told “that alcohol was without food or medical value and therefore was evil They were misled by eminent physicians and medical organizations.” Dr. Vorbeck pronounced ‘“unadulter- ated beers” as a food and a medicine “without substitute.” He held them “indispensable to the maintenance and preservation of human life.” ‘The St. Louis physician said a resolu- tion adopted in 1917 by the American Medical Association, holding alcohol had no food value for therapeutic pur- poses, served as the basis for con- gressional action. Serve Paid Advocates. “Those opinions” he added, “will continue to serve the purpose of paid advocates of prohibition unless some one places before Congress the scientific facts refuting them.” Repeal of the eighteenth amendment and passage of a law which permits “moderate drinking to replace the pres- ent unenforceable and intolerable measure” was urged by Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology at Cornell University. ‘Testifying before the Senate Manu- facturer’s Subcommittee, Dr. Lusk sald the “introduction of light wines and beer to legitimate sale in this country under the Canadian system will, in my judgment, provoke no injury whatever to the community.” “There is no drunkenness in France,” I he sald, “except that of visiting Amer- icans; there is greatly reduced intoxi- cation in England, and our neighbors in Canada are just as fine people, are just as prosperous and honest (they have not had a single bank failure) as we are, who have been made the victims of a false philosophy with regard to the regulation of human conduct. “We have been cursed by making a crime of something which, in the nature of things, is entirely honest and right.” Dr. Prancis E. Fronczak, health com- missioner of Buffalo, urged passage of the beer bill as an ald to digestion and | to turn people from “bad” liquor. Alcohol Deaths Decline. He sald alcohol deaths in Buffalo had dropped from about 80 to 40 a year since the opening of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and OCanada, per- mitting people to go across the border and get beer. “On Sundays and holidays, before the bridge was opened,” he said, “thou- sands of persons would go to the parks and drink bad whisky. There has been | a decided decrease since opening of the bridge. Now, from 40,000 to 100,000 persons go to Canada on Sundays and holidays and get a glass of beer.” Prof. Francis G. Benedict, director of the nutrition laboratory of the Car- negie Institute in Boston, told of ex- })erlmem.s to determine the psycho- ogical and food effects of alcohol. He said alcohol, in moderate quan- tities, certainly had food qualities from a scientific standpoint. His conclu- sions were based on 4 per cent alcohol by_volume. In the ordinary sense of the word, he told Senator Bingham, the beer taken by the German was not intoxicating. appropriations to these institutions on account of the salary deductions, mak- ing a total deduction of $302,346, or 7.3 per cent. As contrasted with an annual reduc- tion in general fund revenues of about $2,000,000 for the biennium, the esti- mates for special road funds indicate a substantial increase over the last bi- ennium, the Governor states in referring to funds available for the State High- way Commission. For the current fiscal year the State’s share of the fuel tax is estimated at $8,000,000, increasing to $8,400,000 in 1933 and $8,700,000 in 1934. The estimate for all special road taxes for 1932 is $14,460,000, with an increase in 1933 to $14,805,000 and in 1934 to $15,140,000. The State Highway Commission will have for expenditure during the bien- nium a total of $31,805,130. This in- cludes a general fund appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year 1932-33 and Federal ald allotments of $2,700,000. This is a reduction over the previous biennfum of 3V3 per cent, which, the governor claims, will be more than off- set by the increased purchasing power of the dollar. Budget recommendations for 1932-34 provide an annual appropriation out of the general fund for criminal charges of $950,000, an increase each year over the preceding biennium of $250,000. “It is estimated,” the Governor states, “that an additional sum of $200,000 will be available each year from pro- hibition fines for the payment of crimi- nal charges incurred in prohibition cases. This will make a total outlay for criminal charges for each year of the next biennium of $1,150,000, and compares with an actual expenditure for this purpose for the fiscal year 1930-31 of $1,252,130. In confining the annual appropriation out of the general fund for criminal charges for the next blennium to $950,000 it is expected that favorable action will be taken by the General Assembly on the measures recommended by the Govern- or's commission to reduce the State's outlay for criminal charges.” Appropriations of $2,794,420 are made for State hospitals, $175,000 for com- pletion of the carillon which is being erected by the War Memorial Commis- slon, $100,000 for the development, in conjunction with the Federal Govern- ment, of the Colonial National Monu- ment, and $15,000 for the entertain- ment of Confederate veterans who will attend the annual reunion in Richmond in June, 1932, The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank For each $120 bore rowed you agree to deposit $10 a month in an account, the pro- ceeds of which meybe used to cancel the note when due. Deposits may be madeona weekly, semi-monthly or monthly basis as you prefer: to borrow.’ Loans are passed on within a day or two after filing application ~withfew exceptions, MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year, though they may be for any period offrom 3 to 12 months. Morris Plan Bank Under Supervision U. S, Trsasury, 1408 H Street Northwest Boy Grasps Rocks To Save Self After Plunge Over Cliff Rescued From Ledge by Rope 10 Hours After Dangerous Fall. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 13— Harold Sender, 10, Pasadena, Calif., was rescued from a narrow ledge in Eaton Canyon yesterday 10 hours after he had toppled over a cliff and saved himself from a 150-foot plunge and probable death by clinging to rocks and bushes. Sheriff’s deputies, summoned to the canyon by companions, lowered & rope to the boy and pulled him to safety. ‘The boy and several others went hiking yesterday and in climbing the canyon Sender slipped and rolled off a cliff. Although he tore his hands, he managed to cling to rocks and finally worked his way to a narrow ledge. ————e HODVER IS ASSURED OF FINANCE AGTION House to Pass:Reconstruc- tion Bill by Tomorrow Night, Snell Says. B the Associated Press. An assurance that the House would act on his $2,000,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation measure by to- morrow night was carried to President Hoover today by Representative Snell of New York, the minority leader. Snell visited the White House just be- fore the House and Senate took up their various phases of the economic program. The Senate had before it a measure to increase by $125,000,000 the capital of Federal land banks. Snell told Mr. Hoover there was no organized opposition to the reconstruc- tion bill and that, under the limita- tions of debate agreed upon, the House would pass it within 36 hours. Differences between the House and Senate bilis, however, may delay final enactment of the measure, necessitating a conference between the two Houses to reconcile their views. Snell said the President had men- tioned to him no objections to the bill, saying he held for it in principle rather than detail. “After all,” the New Yorker said, “the success of this plan will rest in obtain- ing & group of honest and capable ad- ministrators. No matter what its opponents may say, this plan will help if it is ably administered.” Charles G. Dawes, who recently an- nounced he would resign as Ambassador to Great Britain, has been mentioned in some quarters as an administrator, as has been Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier. BRUNER RIDICULES PRESS “WET PLOT” Brookhart and Anti-Saloon League Harming Prohibition Cause, He Declares. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, January 13. —Senator Brookhart's charge that newspapers are featuring wet propa- ganda because the “drys” will not buy advertising space, brought forth a few remarks yesterday from Owen M. Bruner, defeated gubernatorial candi- date of the National Prohibition party. “What nonsense,” snorted Bruner. “I've worked hard in the prohibition party for 50 years for the disappoint- ment of hearing such stuff spouted to react against a great cause. “If the wets are getting favorable publicity it's because the drys are not working hard enough. The cause of prohibition is growing stagnant. Young blood must be enlisted. The old stuff won't go with the newspapers any more. “Let Brookhart and the Anti-Saloon League stop making us ridiculous and join in something constructive for the cause. I hereby invite him to quit the Republican party and join the pro- hibitioin party. If the newspapers g&n'}tugye him publicity then, I'll eat Miss Ishbel MacDonald has received nearly $20,000 in response to the appeal broadcast by her father, the prime min- ister of England, in behalf of a Lon- don baby clinic and hospital. LYON'S TALK C7NS SERIES ON ORIEN: llustrated Lecture Is Given by Editor at Columbia Heights Center. Gideon A. Lyon, associate editor of The Evening Star, gave the first of his series of talts cn “Shutter-Snapping in Strange Lands” last night at the Columbia Helghts Community Center, under the auspices of the Community Center Department. His lecture was interestingly illustrated by reproduc- tions of photographs which he took on his recent tour of the Orfent Mr. Lyon will continue his travel talks at the Columbia Heights Center on Tuesday evenings, January 19 and 26, and will likewiss be heard in a travel talk on China at Thomson Com- munity Center Monday evening, Jan- uary 25. Friday evening of this week Mr." Lyon will talk on “Manchuria” at the Chevy Chase Community Center at 8 o'clock as part of the city-wide pro- gram of evening events. Mrs. Elwood Street to Speak. ‘Today’s events at the various centers include Mrs. Elwood Street, wife of the director of the Community Chest, who will speak on “Family Recreation” at the Georgetown Center; Stephen Talkes at Langley Center, speaking on “Duties of Parents and Children.” and Dr. Wil- liams of the Department of Agricul- ture, assisted by Miss Jonas of the home economics department of Eastern High School, speaking on “Budgeting the Family Income” at the East Wash- ington Community Center. All pro- grams will be at 8 o'clock except that at the Gecrgetown Center, which is at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The series of group discussions on home economics at East Washington Community Center, which will take place each Wednesday evening at 8§ o'clock, for the first six weeks, have been arranged by Mrs. L. W. Hardy, su- pervisor at East Washington Center, with the co-operation of Miss Emma Jacobs, director of domestic science in the public schools, the object of the course being to enable householders to meet present emergencies of limited in- come. K Experts to Give Talks. Speakers in this course for future Wednesday evenings at this center will be Miss Jacobs herself, speakihg on “Nutrition,” January 20; Dr. Steibling of the Department of Agriculture, as- sisted by Miss Craig, on “Good Food for Little Money,” January 27; Miss Schuman of the American Red Cross, assisted by Miss Cowsill, on “Feeding Children,” February 3; Miss Enwright of the Washington Dairy Council, on “The Value of Milk,” February 10; Mrs. Rush of McKinley High School and Mrs. Anderson of Eastern High School, on “What to Wear,” February 17, and ;4!eagsr t& be gnnnunaed for February , when the subject will be “T! We Wish For.” ) ze Bome WISCONSIN 8-HOUR LAW SUBSTITUTED Subsidy for Farmers Stricken Out of Bill to Come Up for Final Action Soon. By the Assoclated Press. MADISON, Wis,, January 13.—With & subsidy for farmers stricken out, the Senate yesterday engrossed a substitute to the Nixon eight-hour-day bill of- fered by Senator Walter Polakowski, Milwaukee Socialist. Lieut. Gov. Henry A. Huber broke a 13-to-13 tie and cast his vote for en- grossment of the substitute, which pro- vides for a general eight-hour day with numerous exemptions tacked on in the Senate. The substitute will come up for final passage today or tomorrow, vigen an effort will be made to recon= sider. The subsidy as it came over from the Assembly allowed a farmer the equiva- lent of 30 cents an hour for eight hours’ work a day and 45 cents for overtime for the difference between the cost of production and the sale price of his Towa Society Plans Dance. The Iowa State Society of Washing- ton will hold an entertainment and dance Saturday night in the Willard Hotel. It will be the society's first party of the year. Mrs. Herbert D. Brown, author, is scheduled to speak. hTry Buzze’s for Colds Do &;\1 dread the approach of Winter and t cold? 1If so, try BUZZE'S and fortify yourself against more dan- ge‘:-o;:a 1&];] causted from colds. Ask for zze’s today at your neighborhood dru store. Meet the mer‘g ills with Blllg 2¢’s. There is relief in every capsule. ’ Burt S 1343 F Street Offers for Thursday, Friday and Saturday Two Special Groups of Men’s Oxforcls Black and Brown Calf and Grain Leather. Shoes that were $10 and $8.50 $4.85 Shoes that were $12 and $10 $5.85 Fitflngwmbem-fi; group or the both represent exceptional values. Special—Men’s Sox, 45¢—3 pairs for $1.25 Park your car in the Capital - Garage st our empense, $