Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Worecast.) Light rain this cloudy and colder ton and much colder. Temperatures—Hig] p.m. yesterday; lowest, 56, at 4 a.m. to- day. Full report on Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 afternoon; partly ight; tomorrow fair hest, 76, at 3:30 page B-13. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION ¢ Toening Star. “From Press The Star’s carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. to Home Within the Hour” system covers Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,584 No. 32,035. FEntered as second class mhtter WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. L (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. post office ington, D. PATMAN CHARGES DENIED BY MELLON AGENT IN HEARING Gregg Tells House Probers Secretary Had No Part in Loan to Colombia. STATEMENT DICTATED BY CABINET MEMBER Declares He Owns No Bank Stock and Does Not Control Any Cor- poration or Business. By the Associated Press An emphatic denial that Andrew W Mellon had any connection with & loan to Colombia was put before a House committee today in his behalf. It was voiced by Alexander H. Gregg in replying for the Treasury Secretary :0 the impeachment proceedings brought by Representative Patman of Texas. Gregg, former solicitor for the Internal Revenue Bureau, read to the Judiciary Committee a statement dictated by Mel- lon He defended the Treasury official against all Patman's charges. One of these had sought to link Mellon with influencing American bankers to make the loan Denies Connection With Loan. The loan went forward to Colombia 10 days after the government of that country had granted a valuable oil con- cession to the Mellon-controlled Gulf oil Corporation. The State Department has admitted that it helped influence the bankers to make the loan, but has denied there was any connection between the loan an | se BOMB" FOR DR. P KLEIN CAUSES FLURRY IN COMMERCE BUILDING olice Called and Strange Package Is Sent to Bureau of Standards for Examina- tion. May Be Bird Seed. Receipt at the office of Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce Julius Klein of & suspiclous package addressed to that official threw the new Department of Commerce Building into a turmoil this afternoon. Some one shouted"It's a bomb!" after a porter attached to Dr. Klein's office had poked the packege with a long stick Building guards rushed into the courtyard where the porter was attempt- ing to make his long-distance examina- tion. They agreed with him that the packege looked suspicious and notified police headquarters. Three detectives were sent to the scene, Behind the massive bronze gates of the building's courtyard, the police LSLEY SLAYERS * SOUGHT IN HILS Two Colored Men Believed Hiding in Mountains West of Leesburg. The slayers of Mrs. Agnes B. Ilsley, socially prominent Middleburg, Va., sportswoman, and her maid, Mrs. Mina Buckner, were believed to be hiding today in the mountains of Virginia. While police in every State on the Atlantic Coast were prepared to arrest any colored man answering the de- scription of George Crawford, dis- charged chauffeur for Mrs. isley and | f the concession & th;rmfi‘%h?(e, :.ssl;smm Secretary of |one of the suspected murderers, Detec ‘ State. again refused today to turn OVer | tive Sergt. Dennis J. Murphy of the| to the Senate Financ Committee let- Washington homicide squad was on his | ters exchanged between the department | "I naing west of Middle- | and its Colombian legation. pavha e : Business Connections Cited. Murphy left ogouclfuhude‘}::r;;?“t;;s | tand before the Judiciary | this morning following rec | @mfl&:h;-fncg had heard two days that Crawford and another colored man, | P imony by Patman, Gregg said he | believed to have been his accomp e8| would answer one by one the cnukzg in the killings, had ¢ in i’hfi?é impeachment resolution 8ERIREL {0 %o Teveal where the pair was sup- He began with the Secretary’s busi- | posed to have sought refuge. ness connections, after saying he had Other's Identity. 1o information as to whether the Sec- Seek retary owned stock in g%%ocggomcm rith resources of $3,000,000,000. 3 W T Mellon controls no corporation,” | pert, left for Rich Gregg said. “What his family and|to erse!‘;blis‘k:] business associates control I don't know. | cclored man. Mr. Mellon does not own more than 50 | Crawford has spent cons Sime | per cent of the siock in any corporation. |in the Virginia capital, it wes BOIHCC | “I do not regard his-femily as an | out, and some of his friends there m: yl issue.” know the name of his companion. He Patman had charged the Secretary and another colored man, thought to | had engaged in private business while heve been an ex-convict like dume(“ in office in violation of the laws. were seen just outside Richmond & few | Reads Mellon Statement. | ¢ays before the du"ll SAYDg. o iains On -his way to “the arding the Barco ofl concession in | Murphy planned to stop off at Middle mmbumGree\z read the following | purg and endeavor to have residents of | statement, which, he said, was dlctl!&d‘;m( section identify pbowxnph.; oé yesterday by Secretary M;‘lon + Preat. | Crowiord as u-fiz‘se a: o“etl:: txwycg!c;;e | “Mr. Melion says that he me - | men seen in the town dent Olaya at one of the usual social | the killings functions and, of course, conversed With |~ The pictures, according to Inspector him, but such conversation was general | prank Burke, chief of the Washington and respecting financial and other con- Detective Bureau, were forwarded here ditions in ?°‘°mi’,“d SRt by fichtr‘glond p:g]c:_ lg:wxf:rzh;t ‘7‘:5 “Mr, Mellon had no co explained, serve - \lb{']:drpresldent Olaya that had to do gu?n Penitentiary for larceny. with the so-called Barco concession nor the Gulf Oil Corporation, nor with any Crawford Was Armed. suggestion whatever, alleged or implied, | Commonwealth Attorney John Galle- s to any rupport or assistance upon | her of Loudoun County, Va', also was the part of this Government with re- | en route to Richmond. The purpose spect to Colombia obla\nm‘clg (d‘redfl | of his trip. it was uqdrr%mcd. was_to Mr. Mellon has never had any con- | ~(Conti on Page 2, Column 1. o n: pcials of Jour Btata | | (CorHRUN 08, S Department concerning the Colombian Joan nor has he had any rrmwmsanon; with banker with respect to this loan.” Loan Influence Charged. Patman charged yesterday that Mel- lon had a hand in influencing a loan to Colombta, made about the time the ey oil concession was given the Gulf Cor- | Family Association i d on Page 2, Column 8. ; Ferat $11,000,000 and Remainder TRIO HELD AS PLOTTERS Gust o Children. Austrian Heimwehr Lieut. John Fo ROSENWALD ESTATE SET AT $20,000,000 Bequeathed Members of By the Associated Press i ini r. CHICAGO, January 15—The will of peny Bl RIS Julius Rosenwald was filed in Probate A. January 15 (P).—Three | Court today, showing an estate of of the Heimwehr were arrest- | ¢20000,000. az, Styria, today on reports of | " The 'Rosenwlad Family Association, o assassinate Franz Winkler, | which was formed to carry cn the of the interior, who took a | philanthropies of the merchant, was be- strong stand against the Heimwehr | gueathed $11,000,000 and the remainder putsch last September of the estate was divided equally among The prisoners said there wasn't 2ny | the five children. lot, but that somebody might have eard them joking and taken their re- marks seriousls SPANISH PL'OT NIPPED s Ten Civilians and Soldier Seized in MAIL PROBE ORDERED enate Committee to Inquire Into Air and Ocean Contracts. The Senate today ordered an h:vfillis- & s ation of air and ocean mail contrac Alala s tiniet B Tesolution by Senator McKellar,| MADRID, January 15 (®) —Ten Democrat, of Tennessee, directing the| civilians and a soldier were arrested | Post Office Committee to inquire into Jast night at the nearby town of Alcala | the mail contracts and into the neces- | Henares, when police discovered what | sity for an increase in parcel post rates | they described as a Communist plot to | was adopted without debate. seize the cavalry barracks | ""The investigation would include the Authorities described the incident as policy of the Government in erecting “unimportant post offices in small tow i’OLICEMAN SLUGS PHOTOGRAPHER AT FUNERAL OF SLAIN WOMAN | | Knocks Cameraman to Pavement in Carrying Out Min-| ister’s Order Banning Pictures. awaited, however, to serve the warrant MIDDLEBURG, Va., January 15.— The m\nh;lfl": refusl-l to lllO“; yhoh:; § . | graphs at the funeral was contrary The funeral of Mrs. Spencer Iisley, \ e ow svanted by the dead woman's | prominent Middleburg woman, who Was | family. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | fourth precinct made a superficial investigation and decided to leave the rest to the Bureau of Standards. The contents of the package was being examined by officials of this bureau Meantime, Dr. Klein was notified and he immediately broke into a loud laugh, for he said he believed the package either contained bird seed or a new kind of mineral oil mixture, C. Grant Isaac, assistant to Dr. Klien, said numerous packages of this kind! Were received by his office daily from persons requesting Government analysis He said he was unable to under- stand why the porter’s suspicions were aroused. The package bore a Chicago postmark, The porter cxplained he took Sich precautious stcps after some one [ in the building said that he better be careful about opening packages since the recent bomb cases in Pennsylvania and other sections of the country BULLETIN The Wnshmz;on Mt;;mrs Savings Bank, Ninth and East Capitol Streets, was held up by several armed band- The men are be- its this afternoon lieved to have escaped in a waiting sedan. The amount of their loot was fixed tentatively at from $12,000 to $15,000. RUM CHASER SENDS | | | § 0§ AFTER CRASH Destroyer, With 93 Aboard,| Rammed by Freighter Off New England. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15 (#).—Slip ping through a dark fog on the watch | for rum runners, the Coast Guard de- secreted themselves | stroyer Herndon, carrying 85 men and | “the mountains.” The detective €~ g ;mcers, was smashed by a freighter | half way between Montauk Point and | Block Island today. After a period of confusion and dis Shortly before Murphy's departure | may, during which broadcasting was | wier, police ballistic ex- | suspended and mond, where he hoped | flashed through the fog, the freighter, the identity of the other | Lemuel Burrows, reported she was tow- | ing the crippled destroyer to New Lon t considerable time | don. conflicting messages But she was still sending out calls for help. ‘Whether the distress calls meant that the light, rakish destroyer, which has her base in Boston, was in danger Af, | of sinking or whether the Burrows | wanted assistance in the towing task was not clear. Boats Hurry to Scene. It was the Government boat, a craft 310 feet long, which sent out the first appeal for aid. It came about 12:40 and galvanized Navy and Coast Guard | headquarters here into action. Several Coast Guard and other craft were sent scurrying to the scene. First messages from the Lemuel Bur- rows said she was lowering boets, and although the succeeding flashes from the Burrows, relayed by Mackay Radio and Radio Marine Corporation, were not explicit, it was believed some of the crew of the destroyer might have been tossed into the sea by the crash. Serions Injuries Feared. She was rammed in the forward fire | Toom on the port side, the messages | £aid, and it was feared here that a blow hard enough to cripple her would also result in serfous injury to firemen or other members of the crew. The freighter, a 7,610-ton steamer owned by the Mystic Steamship Co. of Boston, 1s a coastwise vessel.. She wus en route from Boston to Norfolk with 2 cargo when the accident happened. She is the company's largest vessel and | carries a crew of 35. 88 ON BOARD HERNDON. | By the Assoclated Press Six officers and 82 enlisted men made up the crew of the Coast Guard de- stroyer Herndon, which was rammed off | Block Island today by the Lemuel Bur- rows. The Herndon was in charge of Comdr. C. G. Roemer, with Lieut. A. C. Rich- mond as executive officer. Other officers were Lieut, (Junior Grade) S. F. Gray, Lieut. (Junior Grade) H. A. Loughlin, Lieut. K. K Cowart e owart and Ensign H. T. POLICE PROMOTIONS RECEIVE APPROVAL J. E. Bobo Will Advance to Cap- tain and John Flaherty to Lieutenant. Promotion of Lieut. James E. Bobo to be a captain and Detective Sergt John Flaherty to be a lieutenant was approved today by the District Commis- sloners in connection with a reorgani- zation of the Police Department to be put into effect tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. Bobo, a night inspector, will be put in command of the special investigation squad at police headquarters over which Inspector James F. Beckett. has gen- eral supervision. Flaherty will be trans- ferred from the Detective Bureau to the to fill a lieutenancy which has been vacant there for severayl weeks, For 33 years Bobo has been con- nected with the Police Dspartment, serving in various precincts in his climb to & captaincy. Flaherty has been at- tached to the Detective Bureau for a murdered in her home last Wednesday, ended in an uproar shortly after noon today when a Virginia State policeman slugged a photographer after demanding that all newspaper photographers de- stroy plates of the funeral Joseph Roberts, a photographer for the Washington Herald, was knocked to the pavement by State Policeman T. F. Stafford of Warrenton, Va., when he rotested an order of Rev. Dr. D. Clmg; 1] Mayers that no pictures were to taken. Roberts later obtained a warrant for the policeman’s arrest from the magis- trate, The arrival of the sheriffl was. Roberts and Fred Cole, a photographer for the Daily News, were arrested by | Stafford as a result of their protest. The police officer also attempted to ar- rest the photographers of other news- papers, but they eluded him J. Abner Bealles, a Times photog- rapher, and Robert Clark, International News Reel man, were later, but all four were released when | Magistrat Roy Seaton announced he| could “think of no charges” under | which the men could be held. Acting with the permission of Paul | Boeing,” Mrs. Ilsley's brother, —the Jphomgruphem took pictures of the casket being taken from the Emmanual (Continued on Page 2, Column 14, \ rrested a little | number of years, and distinguished :qlumasslf g& scmemer of the homicide when Capt. Ed: y wi o v o P! ward J. Kelly was Bobo and Flaherty were the only members of the department promoted. | Other changes involve the transfer of a number of men, Roosevelt to See Son Married. NEW YORK, January 15 (#).—Gov. Franklin_ D. Roosevelt will motor to Philadelphia this afternoon to attend the wedding tomorrow of his son, Elliott Roosevelt, to Miss Elizabeth Browning Donner, at Bryn Mawr, Pa, NATIONAL RELIEF, NOTRE-ELECTION HOOVERSFIRST A Secretary Says President; | Subordinates Personal Poli- | tics to Economic Program. | |FRIENDS PUSH PLANS FOR STATE PRIMARIES Burke Confers With Leaders Fol- lowing Brown's Statement Executive Will Run. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. While the White House put the soft pedal on discussion of President Hoover as a candidate for renomination and re-election, friends of Mr. Hoover today announced their intention of going right ahead to gather in delegates to the Republican National Convention pledged to Mr. Hoover. Cognizance of Postmaster General Brown's statement to newspaper men yesterday that the President will stand for renomination was taken at the Executive Mansion today. The Post- master General had said also to the press that whatever was necessary to get convention delegates would be done in the interest of President Hoover’s re- nomination, which was interpreted as meaning that Mr. Hoover’s name would | be filed in presidential primary States. | | Burke Urges Hoover. James Francis Burke, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, conferred with Republican leaders on| methods of entering Mr. Hoover's name. | He said in Pennsylvania certain Repub-| lican leaders would enter the President’s | ! name, but declined to say who they! wers Despite the President’s assurances that personal politics are out of his! mind at present. Burke, speaking freely | with newspaper men sat the White House, said he was in Washington to| talk politics and to start laying the| groundwork for the next presidential campaign. | “Meanwhile Secretary Hurley an- | nounced the Oklahoma delegation to! | the Republican National Convention would be “picdged to President Hoover.” | The War Department head said | Oklahoma does not have a primary, but | selects its delegates through the’ con- vention system, and he is “altogether ! certain that they would be Hoover dele- gates.” He hopes to be able fo take some part | in the pre-convention campaign. 1 It was said apparently on behalf of the President by his secretary, Theo- dore G. Joslin, that the President is not thinking about presidential politics at this time and that he is giving his un- | divided thought and attention to the problems confronting the country and to his program for economic relief. Dawes at White House. Mr. Joslin was asked whether Post- | master General Brown's statement to |the press yesterday was authorized by | the President. Mr. Joslin represented {the President as thinking of nothing | | bordering on politics at this time. The | President, Mr. Joslin added, in his ef- fort to meet the problems before him, refuses to see any one regarding per-| sonal politics. Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, who is s00n to give up his post in London, was a White House guest agein today. Gen. Dawes recently in Chicago made a statement denying absolutely that he | would consider being a candidate for | the Republican presidential nomination this year and pledging his support of | | President Hoover for renomination and | re-election. It is understood the Presi- dent discussed today the disarmament | conference with Gen. Dawes, who is to | head the American delegation to Ge- | neva, and also the selection of a suc- cessor to Gen. Dawes as Ambassador to Great Britain. In informed Republican circles today it was said emphatically that the| friends and admirers of President Hoo- | ver were planning to send delegates to the G. O. P. National Convention ready to vote for his renomination. This | means, it was explained, that they would enter the President's name in presidential preferential primaries where 1t was necessary. | | Decision Awaited. Whether the President would himself , take formal action by authorizing his friends in Ohlo, where the law requires compliance by the candidate, to run as Hoover pledged delegates was a matter which would be determined later, it was sald. Uninstructed delegates, favorable ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) RAIL LABOR PARLEY DEFERS DISCUSSIONS Executives Await Receipt of Au- thority Committee Needs to Proceed. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 15—Consider- aticn of the employment problems of the Nation's railroads was deferred again today by lack of the proper au- thority from certain Western roads and one Eastern line and opening of the first joint session of brotherhood and railway presidents was scheduled for 2 pm. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railrcad and chair- man of the conference group of nine executives, asked the indulgence of Chairman David B. Robertson of the Union men. The meeting, originally intended to open yesterday, had been til 10 a.m. today. ‘Willard said he was communicating by telephone with the rallway leaders from whom the committee had not yet received the measure of authority it required. postponed uni | e Miss Durant Resumes Flight. NE, France, January 15 (®). —’gdAI::IGrzfi'gery Durant, daughter of W. C. Durant, automobile manufacturer, left in her own plane today for St. Tropez in resuming her projected tour through Europe, Radio Programs on vac-s 3 \F 'L HELP You ANY,HERE'S ACATALOGUE OF THOSE WE DONT WANT SEMTE HONDLULU PROBE WATS UL Confessed Slayer Of Own Son Awaits HARD FIGHT AHEAD, rmi oy At [ EADERHARNG | Father Tells of Chloro-| Pratt and Army and Navy forming Child After Keep- Dr. McBride Tells League | \ Heads Called to Hearing Tomorrow. ing Secret for Year. By the Associated Press. MILLERSBURG, Ohio. January 15.— | James Stenhouse, 39, waited in the | Directors Issue Will Play Big Role This Year. FINANCE PROGRAM PLANS PUSHED AS HOUSE VOTE NEARS |Passage of $2,000,000,000 Bill Before Nightfall As- sured by Congress. CONFER ON MEASURE Hoover Has No Objections to Pro- posal as It Stands—Must Go to Conference Next. By the Associated Press, Heartened by certainty that the House will pass the Reconstruction Corporation bill today, the forces that are bent on the administration pro- gram for helping business are preparing to get the gigantic credit agency func- tioning as soon as possible. At a morning conference Representa- tive Snell of New York told President Hoover opponents of the measure ap: peared to have “talked themselves out.” | The President expressed no objections to the legislation as it stands before the House. The House took up the measure again |today under agreement to vote on it before night. Its overwhelming ap- proval was confidently expected. Must Go to Conference. | A short interlude is ahead before | the corporation actually organizes for business, as the Senate. which already has approved it by tremendous ma- jority, passed the bill in somewhat dif- }fcrem form from that going through the House. But smoothing over of | these differences, redrafting of the bill |in a manner satisfactory to both | branches of Congress and to the Presi- | dent, was expected to be no great mat- Government | | With heads of several | county jail today for acticn by the| Anti- cel] | ter, despite numerous controversial ‘The Anti-Saloon League might as well pofats involved, | Senate investigations, reported on Sen- Africa and the Orlent. | today morrow to consider the question of | whether there should be an investiga- | tion of conditions in Hawaii by a Sen- | ate committee. This was announced in the Senate to- day by Chairman Bingham of the Ter- ritories Committee during a discussion of the McKellar resolution to provide for a Senate investigation. Action by the Senate will await a report from Senator Bingham's committee as a re- sult of the preliminary hearings sched- uled for tomorrow. The question arose in the Senate to- day when the Audit and Control Com- mittee, which passes on the cost of ator McKellar's proposal with a recom- mendation that the question go to the Territories Committee for report be- fore being voted on Senator Bingham announced that among those who had been asked to| attend the committee meeting tomor- “(Continued on Page 3, Columu 4.) AL SMITH’S SON Detained on Technical Charge After Automobile Kills Pedestrian. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15—Former | Gov. Alfred E. Smith’s youngest son, | Walter J., was arrested on a technical | charge of homicide today in connection | with a street accident which police said was entirely unavoidable. Harry Wallace, a 55-year-old resident | of the Bowery, was killed when, police said, he walked in front of an auto- nobile young Smith was driving. The technical charge was made as a matter of police routine, police announcing that no culpability attached to Smith. Hearing was set for a week from | today. Young Smith spent the night after the accident in the detectives’ room, but his identity was not realized for several hours by police reporters be- cause of an error in the original report to headquarters In this report the prisoner was de- scribed as “Walter Smith, 33, of 51 Pifth avenue.” Former Gov. Smith lives at 51 Fifth avenue, and when this address was at last noticed by reporters, investigation quickly revealed the iden- tity of the youth. Smith, accompanied by Frances B. Smith, formerly of Malden, Mass., and said to be a relative, was driving on Lexingtcn avenue about 2:40 a.m. when | the accident occurred. He told police | Wallace stepped in front of the car. He placed Wallace in the car and drove | with him to Harlem Hospital. Hospital | authorities notified police and Detective Michael Miniter arrested him. After spending the night in the po- lice station, Smith was taken to Homi- | cide Court, where he was placed in the | detention pen. His brother, Alfred E. Smith, jr., an attorney, was in court to | defend him. When the case was called before Mag- | Istrate H. Stanley Renaud, Smith was | represented by John J. Glynn of the | law firm of Curtin & Glynn. There | was no hearing and Smith was released | in $1,000 bail for examination next Friday, January 22. Smith appeared much shaken and shielded his face with his hat from | photographers. Before the case was | called Magistrate Renaud ordered all | photographers to leave and announced he would entertain a charge of disor- derly conduct against any who tried to take Smith’s picture in the court room. Glynn asked that the case be ad- journed, explaining that his client is attending college and expected to sit in examinations. The police said the accident was un- avoidable and that Smith told them he ‘was driving at about 20 miles an hour. BOMB QUIZ HOLDS FOUR Dynamite, Hand Grenades Fuses Found in Germany. HAGEN, Germany, January 15 (#).— Police discovered a hundred poupds of dynamite, a quantity of hand grtnades and fuses, and printed instructions on their use in a concrete-lined cellar and There also was & bundle of Communist propaganda, Four Communists were arresteds . .. Mioaloal g | departmerits in attendance, the Senate | grand jury on his confession that he | Committee on Territories will meet to- | slew his 2-year-old son because the | boy “could not get well.” As Stenhouse waited the grand jury was examining charges that Stenhouse chloroformed the 2-year-old boy be- cause he had a brain infection which at best would leave him mentally de- ficient. _ Stenhouse. who was able to keep his (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) JONES FIHTS TS NWORKERS RANS Arbitrary Reduction in Per- sonnel of U. S. Employes Unwise, He Tells Senate. Although he favors holding down | Government expenditures as much as possible at this session of Congress, Chairman Wesley L. Jones of the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee told the Senate this afternoon he doubts the wisdom of making any arbitrary reduc- tion in the number of Government em- ployes and thereby adding to the un- employment situation. Senator Jones made known his views during a discussion as to whether the number of employes in the Federal | service could be reduced as one means | of governmental economy. Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, had asked the chairman whether the Appropriations Committee has gone into the question of the num- ber of persons in the Government serv- ice. The Michigan Senator pointed out that municipalities have had to curtail some activities in order to keep within their budgets. Opposes Arbitrary Cut. Senator Jones said he thought it | would be found that there are too many | employes, but that he would dislike, in view of present conditions, to go through the appropriation bills and make an arbitrary reduction in the number of employes, in view of the :Anemploymenb situation already exist- ing. Senator Jones previously had de- clared he favored cutting appropriation estimates “to the bone.” The Senate was preparing to begin consideration of the first deficiency ap- propriation bill. Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, endeavored to have action taken first on a resolu- tion he introduced several weeks ago to have the Senate go on record as favoring a slash of $300,000,000 from the Federal budget as a whole. Senator Jones replied that the Appro- priations Committee would make every effort to hold down and reduce ex- penditures wherever it could be done and that he saw nothing to be accom: plished by passing the Harrison reso- lution. 5 Senator Couzens agreed with Senator Jones. Senator Couzens gave notice, | however, that as each appropriation bill is taken up he intends to ask for de- tailed information as to the need for items which are not outlined in detail in the bills. Borah Works on Pay Cuts. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, who already has offered a bill for a 20 per cent reduction in the salaries of members of the House, Senate and the cabinet, is working on another measure | for a graduated scale of salary cuts for other Government employes in the higher positions. The Idaho Senator said today the measure probably would be ready for introduction by Monday. He has not decided finally on the provisions of the bill, but said he is considering a tenta- tive schedule as follows: Salaries rang- ing from $5,000 to $7,000, & cut of 5 per cent; from $7,000 to $10,000, a 10 per cent cut, and on salaries over $10,000, & 20 per cent cut. Discussing his proposal, Senator Borah declared that the farmer last year obtained an average income of $600 and the laboring man an average of $1,200. The tentative plan of the new salary cut bill contempiates making the re- ductions temporary. g 982,000 Jobless in Italy. ROME, January 15 ()—Italy’s un- employed totaled 982,000 at the end of 1931. December brought an increase of 104,000, o ¢ “face the fact that there will be no landslide in 1932 in favor of prohibition | | as there was in 1928,” Dr. F. Scott Mc- | | Bride, general superintendent, told the | Board of Directors at a meeting in the | Mayflower Hotel this morning, which | precedes the opening session of the ‘wem.y-nuh biennial national conven- | | tion of the league there tonight. The drys must dig in for a ctern fight {in the presidential and congressional | | elections if they are to withstand the | onslaught of wet forces, Dr. McBride | warned. “The contest will be in territory where | of “the' preveiling ‘megative of businsas | | ituations > Dr. McBride said. “If the | enough to avoid staggering over a whis- ky bottle and will nominate an out- standing, high-class constitutionalist, they have a good chance to win.” Work for Dry Nominee Urged. | Indicating the probable tenor of the | declaration of policy which the board of directors are to formulate late toda: Dr. McBride said the league shoul work to the utmost for a_dry nominee in each of the major political parties and should not commit its support to | any candidate in the election until after both conventions have adjourned. He predicted the prohibition issue would | play & large part in the presidential campaign. “The economic situation will have much to do with the outcome,” he added. Counseling the league to take an| omni-partisan attitude as in the past, | Dr. McBride urged close co-operation | | of national and local dry forces to ob- | tain the election of a President favor- | able to prohibition. | “No previous result will make secure | rohibition in the election of 1932-| 4-36. The outcome of the national | election as to prohibition will be great- | ly influenced by the economic outcome for the next 10 months. Under present | conditions, there is a real fight on. It | is a good time to wake up and fight as | we have not since the coming of pro- | hibition. We have had it too easy down | to date. | “The issues will be drawn decisively | in Congress and as to re-election of | (Chntinued on Page 4, Column 1) | 4,000 MARCHERS PROTEST INCREASE IN TAX RATE Former Representative Brooks Leads Delegation Which Calls on York, Pa., Mayor. By the Associated Press. YORK, Pa, January 15—More than | 4,000 persons marched to City Hall to- day to protest against the recent in- crease of the city tax rate from 815 to | 9%, mills. The leaders included former Representative E. S. Brooks. Mayor Harry B. Anstine and the councilmen received the leaders and lis- | tened to their pleas for lower taxes. They then proceeded to regular busi- ness. For hours the crowd remained around City Hall and listened to addresses by their leaders, who denounced politicians who “fail to realize that the time has | come to reduce governmental expenses.” | | There was no disorder. b} Then there will be no time lost by the President in naming the directors, whose approval by the Senate also is expected to consume little time. The Treasury will turn over $500,- 000,000 of working capital and the organization will be ready to expand its resources to two billions, making loans to railroads, financial institu- tions, life insurance companies and other vital businesses which now pos- sess too little cash through a freezing of the values behind them. Other Bills Under Way. ‘The second of the Hoover reconstruc- tion bills, locsening capital tied up in farm loans, already is undergoing the conference process to bring Senate and House together. Other bills, one to set up & home-loan bank system, another to make possible return of deposits held in closed banks, were started in Senate and House Committee sessions, with early consideration and passage In sight. Numerous witnesses gave their approval yesterday and others were being heard today. A House amendment yesterday set aside $200,000,000 of the Reconstruction Corporation bill's funds to be used for farm loans. This is among the differ- ences between the two houses which will be settled in conference. Among the other amendments offered in the House, one to strike out the provision for Gov. Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board to be a member of the corporation’s board of directors caused the most emphatic debate. Amendment Is Defeated. It was defended 131 to 123 after Mey- er had been assailed by Repres=ntative La Guardia, Republican. of New York, and Representative McFadden, Repub- lican, of Pennsylvania. McFadden, whose attacks on President Hoover during consideration of the mor- atorium were unusually bitter, charged Meyer made money by the purchase and sale of bonds for the Government through his brokerage office in New York. ‘The Federal Reserve Board governor was staunchly defended. Representative Strong, Republican, Kansas, who with McFadden took part in an investigation of Meyer, said he found no evidence to support the charges. OIL LAKE RE;&TED Divining Rod Also Discloses Pot- ash Deposits in Bavaria. BERLIN, January 15 (#).—Dispatches from Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, to the Zwoelfuhrblatt today said rxperiments | with a divining rod have disclosed the | existence of a subterranean oil lake 9 square miles in area at Dittlofsroda, near Wuerzburg, and also 16 square miles of potash deposits extending toward the River Main. BANKER KILLS HIMSELF Affairs of Ohio Institution Found to Be in Order. AKRON, Ohio, January 15 (#).—Gil- bert R. Edgar, 40, until Tuesday a vice president of the First Central Trust Co., shot himself to death last night, Cor= oner M. B. Crafts announced today. Authorities said Edgar’s affairs were in good condition. By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, India, January 15.—Mrs. Mohandas K. Gandhi, who is almost as great an idol among India's unlettered multitude as the mahatma himself, was sentenced at Surat today to serve six weeks in prison for urging the villagers to adopt her husband’s principles of boycott and civil disobedience. | When her husband went to jail she asked the policemen who took him to let her go along. As they led Mrs. Gandhi away after sentence had been imposed she sud- denly broke her silence. “Why are you giving me only six weeks in prison?” she demanded. *“Do you want me free again so quickly to receive lathi blows with my country- men? I won't remain quiet even after |1 am released. Please give me the She was arrested several days ago. |GANDHI’S WIFE GREETS SIX;WEEK PRISON SENTENCE WITH SMILE Daughter of Jailed President of Nationalist Congress Gets Three Months at Hard Labor. same sentence you give my sister workers.” Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of the imprisoned president of the Nationalist Congress, was sentenced at the same time to three and a half months at hard labor plus a fine of 100 rupees for assisting in an unlawful assembly. Sentences of two years at hard labor were imposed on two other leaders of the Nationalist movement. Both are Pathans and one of them, Abdul Guffar Khan, sometimes called the “Frontier Gandhi,” told the magistrate who sen- tenced him that prison terms and criminal charges would get the govern- ment nowhere. Police in Madras dropped their rifles and sticks today and turned a fire hose on a crowd of Nationalist pickets. It had lgl!le e'gect,b(or the pickets cha: to raincoats or bathing suits and - stood the stre; Y e