Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Increasing cloudiness followed by rain tonight or tomorrow; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 42 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 77, at 2 pm. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 5. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 &15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Staf. The only evening paper in Washington with the. Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,713 = N Entered as seco o. post office, Wa 32,036. nd class matter e WASHINGTON, D, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. *% (®) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. shington, D. CHINK'S DISUNION DEFEATS AN OF PACT,JAPAN SYS Reply to U. S. Cites Change| in Conditions Following Nine-Power Treaty. TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS ARE DENIED IN NOTE Support of Open-Door Principle | Pledged in Document Handed Forbes. | By the Associated Press ! Japan has answered the American | eommunication invoking the nine- power pact with the assertion that conditions in the East have changed since that treaty was signed China is disunited, with no central ernment, the note says, and this ndition necessarily must modify ap- plication of the treaty. Japan reiter- & that she will not interfere with the open-door policy, and that she has en territorial ambitions in China. The premier and the foreign minister #lso disclosed that Russian represent- atives had made overtures in connec- tion with & pact of non-aggression such as Russia has signed with several European states, but the negotiations are making little progress. Seeks to Consolidate Gains. In Northern Manchuria Japan ap- pears to be working through Chinese agencies to consolidate her gains, but military operations are continuing and Russia was reported to feel some con- cern about her holdings in the Chinese Eastern Railway zone, There Was & battle in the vicinity of Tsitsihar re- cently while the temperature stood at 30 below zero and 50 Chinese were re- ported killed There was considerable surprise in Shanghai at reports of a plan to es- tablish Manchuria and Mongolia as independent states under the Japanese Aegis. The Chinese maintain that the | people in those areas do not want in- | dependence. ., Railway Taken Over. The Japanese were reported to have taken over the Peiping-Mukden Rail- way between Shanhaikwan and Muk- den, and the British minister at Peiping was said to have filed a protest, inas- much as the line is jointly owned by | Great Britain and China. From Chinchow a Japanese infantry brigade set out for Chinsi to avenge a small cavalry detachment which lost 20 men last week in a battle with the Chinese volunteer militia. STIMSON RECEIVES NOTE. Japansse Reply Is Forwarded by Am- bassador Forbes. Japan's Teply to Secretary Stimson's invocation of American rights in the Manchurian_dispute under the nine- power and Kellogg-Briand treaties was Tecelved today at the State Department from Ambassador Forbes in Tokio. TOKIO REPLY GIVEN FORBES. Note Cites Changes in Chinese Condi- tions Since Pact Signing. TOKIO, January 16 (#).—Conditions in China have changed since the nine- power treaty was signed, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, new Japanese foreign min- 4ster, said in the Japanese government's Teply to Secretary of State Stimson's yecent Manchurian note, which was handed to Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes to be transmitted to Washington today. It (the state of China) certainly was not satisfactory then,” the note said, “but it did not display that dis- union and those antagonisms which it does today. This cannot affect the binding character or the stipulations of the treaties, but it may in material re- spects modify their application, since they must necessarily be applied with reference to the state of facts as they exist.” Note Backs Open Door. The delivery of the note was the first official act of the new foreign minister, | who is a son-in-law of Premier Inukai and who had just returned to Tokio | from Paris, where he was Japan's Am- bassador and spokesman before the League of Nations Council : Japan has no intention of interfering with the principle of the Open Door, a] opportunity for all nationals, in China, the note declared. “As regards the question which your excellency specifically mentions of the policy of the so-called Open Door,” the note said, “the Japanese government. as has so often been stated, regards that policy as a cordial feature of the politics of the Far East and only re- grets that its effectiveness is so seriously diminished by the unsettled Cm\dulon;‘ which prevail throughout China | Disavows Territorial Aims. “It may be added that treaties | which relate to China must necessarily | pe applied with due regard to the state of affairs from time to time prevailing in that country and that the present distracted and unsettled state of China is not what was in the contemplation of the high contracting parties at the time of the treaty of Washington.” The last paragraphs of the note gave assurance that Japan has mno terri- torial aims or ambitions in China, th: 1y replacements in the governing per- “there since the occupation have cessary” acts “of the local letion,” but that “the welfare and of Manchuria and its accessibil- general trade are matters of interest and quite extraordi- mportance to the Japanese for na people.” Text of Japanese Note. The Japanese note, addressed to Mr. Forbes, follows “I have the honor to acknowledge yeceipt of your excellency’s note of January 8, which has had the most careful attention of this government. “The government of Japan is well aware that the Government of the United States could always be relied upon to do everything in their power to support Japan’s efforts to secure full and complete fulfillment in every de- tail of the treaties of Washington and the Kellogg Treaty for the outlawry of war “They are glad to receive this addi- tional assurance of the fact. “As regards the question which your excellency specifically mentions of the policy of the so-called open door, the Japanese government, &s has so often “~(Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) U. S. PAINTER DIES 16 VENICE, Italy, January ) — Arthur Callender, the American painter,' threatening citrus fruits, but in New died He was born in York, Spring apparel was in order. Even the oldest oldesters caf’t Tremember here last-night. Conductor’s Wife Sues After 49,920 Miles of Riding By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 16.—Mrs Tillie Herget says she has taken 49,920 miles of vacation on a street car line and she's tired of it Her husband, Conrad, is a street car conductor on one of the longest lines in the world. She married him in 1906. On his day off each week, she com- plained, the only recreation he gave her was when he took her for a ride on the street car line. She asked for a divorce Besides which she complained that he took the children with him on his street car rides. SEEK T0 PROTECT FAMILIES IN HAWAI Navy Men Ask Department to Shorten Maneuvers of Fleet. The Senate Territories Commit- tee today decided against a congres- sional investigation of Hawail pend- ing a report on the inquiry to be started soon by the Justice Depart- ment. By the Associated Press. A Senate Committee was informed today the Navy is considering a request from its men stationed in Hawaii to shorten fleet maneuvers to permit them to protect their families Admiral Willlam V. Pratt, chief of Naval operations, made the statement before the Territories Committee short- ly after two cabinet officers had said a congressional investigation into crime conditions in Honolulu was not neces- sary. Attorney General Mitchell said the only thing Congress could do would be to appropriate $15,000 for the inquiry his department is making. Says Situation is Covered. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur ex- pressed belief that the inquiry of the Attorney General, the newly called session of the Hawailan Legislature “and what we are trying to do,” com- pletely covered the situation. He did not go into details regarding the pros- pective action of his department, which handles island_affairs. partments on the situation. Reports by Gov. Lawrence Judd of Hawall describing the crime situation in Honolulu as less serious than recently pictured were put before tbe commit- tee by Wilbur. He said his department had no sympathy with lax police ad- ministration in Hawail. ‘Wilbur cited the failure of an Hawaiian jury to reach a verdict in the trial of five natives charged with an assault upon the wife of Lieut. Thomas Massle, which, he said, p the subse- quent murder of one of the defendants. Expects Police Changes. Wilbur said he expected a revamping of the police system as a result of the recent crime flare-up in the islands. He read a report received from Judd yesterday, in which the Governor said he had recommended to the island Leg- islature a law fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment at hard labor for persons found guilty of criminal attacks. . Wilbur was asked by Senator Harris, Democrat, of Georgia, if he approved Gov. Judd’s “pardon” of a native athlete who had been convicted of an assault, with other natives, on a Chinese girl. Wilbur said he had been informed there were extenuating circumstances in this case and that an island judge held it could not be regarded as similar to the Massie case. Replying to questions, Wilbur said Judd was a capable administrator and had a “splendid record” apart from the Massie case. He added Judd had further mformed him there had been only one acquittal for criminal assault in the last three years. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) STUDENT SHOT IN SPAIN VALLADOLID, Spain, January 16 (). —One student was wounded in the head by a bullet and one guard was in- jured by a stone during a clash between Catholic and non-Catholic university students here The non-Catholic students, among whom were some Communist workers, stoned the Catholic newspaper Diario Regional, after which the clash oc- curred The students fired guns into the air, after which the guards charged, shoot- ing and wounding the one student be- | fore they succeeded in restoring order. | Rabbit Skins Plentiful. OKLAHOMA CITY, January 16 (&) —Baby bunting needn’t worry, lives in Oklahoma. ing ahunting, the State Federation of Rabbit Breeders is producing 250,000 rabbit_skins this year, says J. W. Col- lins of Tulsa, its president. It takes 40 for one woman's coat. Favors U. S. and England. SANTIAGO, Chile, January 16 (#).— ‘The government today put into effect an arrangement with the United States and England giving those countries | most-favored-nation treatment pend- By the Associated Press. Bureau experts in all sections con- tinued to scratch heads in puzzlement today, and delve into yellowed records, seeking some precedent for the and drakes caperings of weather. the West Coast almost temperatures yesterdey up to 71. of snow and cold weather were recorded Secretaries Hurley and Adams gave | the views of the War and Navy De- | Attorney General Mitchell told of | ducks freakish | marooned Indians, A complete reversal of conditions gave freezing tem- peratures, while the Atlantic Seaboard was enjoying premature Spring with In some parts of California six inches | STIMSON EXPLAINS - COLOMBIAN LOAN - SECRECY AT PROBE Against Department’s Policy | to Publish Diplomatic Doc- ‘ uments, He Says. JOHNSON‘ IS BARRED, BUT ADMITTED LATER | Californian Cools His Heels in Ante-Room Until Committee Invites Him to Return, | By the Associated Press Secretary of State Stimson explained to the Senate Finance Committee today why his department is withholding from it correspondence exchanged with the American legation in Colombia while Joans and concessions were pend- ing a year ago. Immediately afterward the commit- tee postponed until next week a vote on a demand that the department turn the correspondence over. The letters sought relate to a'$4,000,- 000 loan to Colombia which State De- partment officials have testified they intervened to induce American bankers to make. Against Policy, He Says. | The loan went forward shortly after | & concession had been granted to the | Mellon-controlled Gulf Ofl Corporation and there have been efforts to connect the two. Stimson told the Finance Committee it was against the department’s policy | to publish diplomatic documents. Stimson apeared before the commit- tee's executive session at the request of Chairman Smoot. Senator Johnson, Re- publican, of California, who has spon- sored the investigation of foreign bond issues, did not sit with the committee at 'gl‘sl, but later was invited to partici- pate. Johnson, who originally asked for the documents, but who is not a member of the committee, sat outside in an ante- room while Stimson testified. Johnson said he was asked to leave the com- nxxm,ee room during the executive ses- sion. After a few minutes of waiting, Smoot emerged and invited Johnson to come in, which he did. Olaya Message Read. A message from President Olaya to the Colombian Congress in June, 1931, urging it to approve the Barco con- cession to make it possible for the country to obtain credit, was read yes- terday before the committee. ‘The message was submitted by Sena- tor Johnson in his attempt to find out whether there was connection be- tween the loan to Colombia and the granting of the valuable oil concession to the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Co. Assistant Secretary of State White on the witness stand yesterday after- noon pointed out the contract for the loan had been made a year previous and the National City Co. was obligated to extend it. He contended Olaya’s message was designed to clear the way for fu- ture credits. “The fact is,” Johnson replied, “the bankers held up the credit they were obliged to give. They wouldn't and didn’t give it until the Barco concession was granted.” “That is true,” White replied. Outside Capital Needed. Olaya in his message said Colombia needed outside capital and told the Con- gress when J. P. Morgan & Co. had been approached for a loan, its officals expressed the view that such difficul- ties as revolved about the Barco con- cession “‘created in banking circles an impression of definite resistance to the investment of capital in Colombia or loans to its government.” Johnson also read a Colombian news- paper interview with Olaya of August 7, 1931, in which he told of a con- versation with Secretary Mellon in Washington at a dinner given by Sec- retary Stimson. Olaya, according to 5::: newspaper, quoted Mellon as say- | “Bettle your pending questions on pe- troleum. cecide fairly and justly the difficulties which have been presented |in this respect and once you have | adopted a policy which gives stability to industral activities in this branch, there be opened for Colombia, no doubt, am ways for its economic lfmg_{csfi and for its financial restora- | tion | A statement from Secretary Mellon read before a House committee yester- |day said his conversation with Olaya | concerned general subjects only. HARRIS’ MOTHER ;“BUCKY” | DIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Detroit Manager and His Wife at Her Bedside When the | End Comes. if she | Without even go- | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., January 16 () —Mrs. Catherine Rosencrance, | mother of Stanley “Bucky” Harris, | manager of the Detroit Tigers, died to- day at the Pittston Hospital. She had been a patient since December 12, when she submitted to an operation for appendicitis. She was 64. | “Bucky” Harris ‘i | wite! 107 dars s Sppiea e MAEH I condition took a serious 0 E s turn. They | were at the bedside when death OC{ ing negotiation of commercial treaties. curred “WHIMSIES” OF THEV WiSA:THER_ STILL PUZZLE FORECASTERS Mercury in East Pops to 77 as Snows Maroon Indians . in Arizona. anything to compare with it. ords have gone by the board. In Arizona there was h |and Government planes dropsed foud to In the |swelled rivers and threaton’ o | ports. The Mississippi was on a ram- page near the delta, imperiling levees | Colder temperatures in the East were | predicted for later today, with the mer- | cury ‘scheduled to drop ‘as much as 30 degrees. In the West, it was expected 2 n s part of next week, o DY the esrly Weather men have been (Continued on Page | All rec- en shle to offer , Column IKLEIN “BOMB" SENT BY HUSTON. | FORMER REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN Telegram to Assistant Commerce Secretary Explains “Canned Heat” Was in Pack- age Causing Scare. “Whenever T send you a bomb, I'll deliver it in person.” Thus wired Claudius K. Huston, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, today to Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, apologizing for the fright given the employes of the Commerce Department when a package sent by Huston to Klein was suspected of being a bomb. Huston, who was Klein's predecessor as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, explained he was sending the ‘“canned heat” tablets to Dr. Klein for a young man in Chicago who wanted Dr. Klein's opinion as to their marketability. Huston did not give the young man’s name. ‘When the box arrived yesterday a at it with rolling eyes. He had been porter who opens the office mail looked | | reading in the papers lately about | packages containing infernal machines and he was taking no chances. He re- moved the package into a court yard and began to poke at it with a 6-foot stick. Detectives Are Summoned. “Its a bomb,” somebody shouted. That decided the porter. He motioned with an unsteady hand for one of the building guards. The guard sum- | moned Oscar W. Mansfield and Howard E. Ogle, headquarters detectives. | “one of the detectives telephoned a superior at headquarters and reported the box looked like it might contain & | bomb.* He asked if he should take it| to headquarters. i “We don't want the thing around here,” headquarters responded. “Take | it to the Bureau of Mines.” Handling the wooden “missive” with HOOVER 70 INSPECT MEMORIAL BRIDGE Tour Starting at 3 P.M. To- day Will Include Mount Vernon Highway. President Hoover set this afternoon feats at Washington's door, the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge and the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. With mem- bers of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission and the George Washing ton Bicentennial Commission the Presi- dent arranged to leave his office at 3 pm. on the tour. After 5 p.m. until dark the public was to be permitted to use the bridge and highway officially for the first time. This privilege will be extended to the public tomorTow and agaln during the next week end. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, said the bridge the public about February 1. There is still some construction work to be done and with favorable weather this should be accomplished by that time. Police to Accompany Party. The speed limit on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway will be 45 miles an hour, as the Federal Government de- sires to conform-to_the traffic regula- tions prevailing in Virginia. Over the Arlington Memorial Bridge and along the Memorial Boulevard on Columbia Island—both of which are within the District of Columbia—the speed limit will be 22 miles an hour. Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. S. A, superintendent of the United States Park Police, arranged for a detail of police to accompany the President and later today and tomorrow to police the highway. They will insist that mo- torists keep to the right-hand side of the highway. Under preliminary ar- rangements persons arrested for of- fenses committéd on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway will be brought be- fore the United States commissioner at Alexandria, Va. Bicentennial Group Meets. of the Bicentennial Commission and associates of that commisison who have been engaged in planning the 1932 cele- bration in his office at the White House. He devoted himself principally to the “(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ADDITIONAL .\]‘VITNESSES CALLED BY BANKHEAD Testimony From North Alabama Counties to Heflin's Charges of Election Irregularities. Answer By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 16— Counsel for Senator John H. Bankhead marshaled rebuttal witnesses from va- rious North Alabama counties today to reply to former Senator J. Thomas Hef- lin’s charges of irregularities in the 1930 election during the remaining two days of the hearing here. Yesterday's testimony was featured by counter charges by Bankhead wit- nesses that some State workers were vassessed” a part of their salary to further the Hugn-bocke campaign. aside to inspect two great engineering | probably will be opened permanently to | his party on the inspection tour and | Before making the inspection trip | President Hoover met with the members | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) | DUAL SLAYER HUNT ABANDONED HERE Police Convinced Suspect in lisley-Buckner Murders _ Has Left Vicinity. Virtually convinced that the slayers of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Iisley, 42, Middle- burg, Va., sportswoman, and her maid, Mina Buckner, 65, of Rockville, Md., have left Virginia, Washington police detectives and Virginia authorities vir- tually abandoned their search for the two colored men today, with requests that sharp lookouts be keot by police in the North and South. More than 2,000 circulars, asking police to look for George Crawford, 35- year-old former chauffeur for Mrs. Tisley, accused of the murders, were sent to police chiefs throughout the country | today from Washington police head- | quarters. The circulars offered a re-| | ward of $500, guaranteed by Loudoun County authorites, and bore photographs of Crawford taken when he was a pris- oner in the Virginia State Penitentiary, serving a larceny term. All Clues Fail. Commonwealth’s Attorney John Gal- leher of Loudoun County, in announc- ing his belief that Crawford and a | young colored man believed to have been his accomplice in the slaying had left the State, said, “We have no definite clues but must await developments.” He said the likenesses of Crawford being distributed on the circulars had been “positively identified by many people in Middleburg who know him.’ At the same time, Galleher said he would seek to have the reward “at least doubled, if not increased to $2,500.” The crimes, he said, were a blot not only on Loudoun County, but on the whole State of Virginia. He expressed the opinion that Gov. Pollard should be appealed to to offer a reward on behalf of the State. Feeling still ran high in Middleburg | over the murders. At a meeting late yesterday in the Middleburg National | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) FUNERAL CAR DRIVERS MODIFY “AUTO STAND” Chicago Union to Abide by Under- takers’ Decision as to Pri- vate Conveyance. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 16—Officials of the Funeral Car Chauffeurs’ Union have agreed to modify their attitude | toward the question of permitting pri- vately driven automobiles in funeral corteges. They agreed at a conference yesterday with State’s Attorney John A. Swanson to have the undertakers act as arbiters in such matters. ~Previously the union said no private cars would be permitted in funeral corteges. “Our drivers,” said Edward Rellly, president of the union, “have been in- structed to abide by the undertakers' decisions.” DRY FIGHT URGED ON STATE CONTROL ’Anti-Saloon League Session Hears Attack on Beck- Linthicum Measure. Urging the Anti-Saloon League to throw the full weight of its influence immediately against the Beck-Linthi- cum resolution introduced yesterday in the House of Representatives, which would change the eighteenth amend- ment, returning liquor control to the States, Edward B. Dunford, national attorney for the league, attacked the measure as a “policy of sectionalism, such as is not provided for in any other law under our Constitution.” The plea was made to the twenty- fifth biennial convention of the league, in session at the Mayflower Hotel. ‘The proposed amendment has the sup- port of Democratic and Republican anti- prohibition blocs in the House. “Legalization” Is Seen. This measure would permit the legalization of liquor,” Dunford declared, “and, therefore, is directly opposed to the policy of the Anti-Saloon League. It -would destroy the uniformity of legis- lation. It has no guarantee against the return of the saloon and no guarantee the Federal Government will co-operate g; enforcement in those States that are Y. “Here is & provision which would pro- vide that the prohibition policy might be one way in one State and a differ- ent way in another. I understand it is a measure carrying out policies recom- mended by a minority of the Wicker- sham Commission.” Charging that representation in Con- gress based on alien population holds the balance of power, Dr. Willlam H. Anderson, founder and general secre- tary of the American Protestant Al- liance, urged the league to support the Sparks-Capper stop-alien-representa- tion amendment on the basis of its effect on the liquor fight. Dr. Anderson charged the alien vote in the United States is controlled by the wet forces. Modification bills in Congress were hit this morning by Edward B. Dunford, national attorney of the league. Four per cent beer has been definitely proved to be intexicating, and every reason which prevailed against its legalization when the question was con- sidered by the Sixty-eighth Congress still exists today, Mr. Dunford declared. ““The courts have taken judicial notice that ordinary beer is intoxicating,” Mr. Dunford asserted, “and the evidence of eminent scientists is to the effect of even 2.75 per cent alcoholic content is intoxicating.” Mr. Dunford predicted that “the vital call in the presidential campaign we now face” will be whether the people are for the use of liquor or against it. John McSparran, State secretary of (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) STAR WINS CLAIM CUT Tax Expert Suing Mae Murray Awarded $825—Sought $2,250. LOS ANGELES, January 16 (#)—A judgment for $825 in favor of J. Mar- jorle Berger, Hollywood income-tax ex- pert, who sued Mae Murray, film actress, Tor '$2,250, was entered yesterday by Superior Judge C. A. Stuizman. Miss Berger claimed $2250 for computing Miss Murray’s income tax. “The amount sought was probably out of proportion to the service,” Judge Stutzman said. “Just because Miss Murray was a high-salaried motion- picture actress was no reason why she should have been charged more than some one else.” Miss Murray claimed the amount was exorbitant. ALLIES HOPE U. S, | WILL CONENT T0 DEBT CANGELLATN Realize Congress Blocks Plan1 Now, but Await Elections for Favorable Attitude. GERMANY WANTS ONLY' REPARATIONS CALLED OFF France Prefers to Keep Question Open, Fearing Polish Cor- ridor Agitation. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, January 16.—There are many signs that Great Britain, Italy, France and Belgium are getting ready to reopen, if possible, the ques- tion of European war debts to the United States. All four are saying that, if Germany fails to pay them, of course they can- not pay the United States, but they are saying it anxiously and with an ob- vious distaste for placing themselves in a position to default. They much pre- fer, therefore, to persuade the United States to enter some new arrangement for a drastic reduction, even cancella- | tion of war debts. of Congress precludes such an arrange- ment for the time being. Hope exists, however, that the elections next No- vember will so change the situation as to make the United States more amen- able thereafter. What to do in the | meantime as a whole is a problem for the Lausanne Conference. ‘Wants War Debts Uncancelled. Germany wants to concel the repara- tions. It would perhaps prefer to see the reparations cancelled and the war cebts uncancelled in order to spite France and create friction between France and the United States, but if the ohly way that it can get the rep- arations cancelled is by cancelling war debts also, then Germany seems to fa- vor that. Germany will resist a tem- porary compromise, but will perhaps accept it in the end if it has the im- pression that Great Britain, France and Italy are united on such a compro- mise. Great Britain, whose war debts and reparations receipts are equal to its war debt payments, would gain or lose nothing by cancellation, which it yet favors lest its receipts suddenly cease and it be left still owing to the United States. London also claims that continuous cash balances to France on reparations and to the United States on war debts are upsetting the normal gold circula- tion, though this is stoutly controverted in New York and Faris. +Italy Favors Cancellation. Ttaly, which owes more in war debts than its receipts are from reparations, naturally is strong in favor of all- around cancellation. Italy and Great Britain, perhaps mis- interpreting statements made in Wash- ington to the effect that Europe must first get together and set its own house in order, seem to desire to grant Ger- many a brief extension of the morato- rium and utilize the intervening time to draft some sort of a general cancel- lation plan, which would then be put up to the United States to accept on pain of “upsett! everything.” France, however, hesitates. The French viewpoint appears to be more complicated. France dislikes war debts as much as Great Britain and Italy. But, as it receives considerably more (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) LIVE WIRE AND FALL KILL BOY, 11, AT PLAY Robert Tass Dies on Way to Hos- pital From Brickyard Near D. C. Line in Virginia. Injuries received while at play in a brickyard across the District line in Virginia proved fatal shortly before noon today to Robert Tass, 11, of 417 Eleventh street southwest. The boy was rushed to Emergency Hospital, where physicians pronounced him dead on arrival. The Tass boy, in company with an older brother, John, had been playing about in the Old Virginia Brick Co.’s yard at South Washington, Va. The young- sters were on the roof of a building when Robert came in contact with a high tension electric wire. Hospital authorities declined to state, pending a coroner’s investigation, whether death was due to electrocution or to the fall from the roof. Which resulted when the boy touched the wire. CARL LAEMMLE IS 65 HOLLYWOOD, January 16 (#).—Carl Laemmle, pioneer motion-picture di- rector, celebrated his 65th birthday an- niversary today, and employes at his Universal Studio had reason to cele- brate with him. This reason is that Laemmle, presi- dent of the company, announced there will be no shutdown this year, as cus- tomary for the past several seasons. Laemmle produced his first picture | 'in 1909 in Minneapolis. By the Associated Pre MIAMI BEACH, Fla, January 16— Col. E. H R. Green, son of Hetty Green, who was once credited with being the world’s richest woman, now, after years spent in developing things ranging from flower gardens to rail- roads, wants to see the atom put to vork. He has donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the facilities of his great Round Hill, Mass., estate to carry on experiments toward cracking the atom. For Col. Green believes the atom— properly harnessed—can turn the world's industrial wheels and do its bit for the betterment of mankind. Radio l’ro[mn.: on Page B-12 Some time next June scientists at Round Hill will make their effort. The 'mfkmgmu.memmm FACILITIES FOR SPLITTING ATOM WILL BE DONATED BY COL. GREEN Son of Former Wealthiest Woman in World Offers Estate f to Massachusetts Institute. ! an interview here, but he plans to re- lux;n to Round Hill in time to be pres- ent. Experiments are to be conducted ln‘ a hangar that formerly housed the dirigible Mayflower, Its walls will be specially insulated to prevent powerful electric rays from interfering with resl-’ dents of surrounding areas. Generation of an_electric power of 25,000,000 volts is the principal effort in" advancing the experiments. Col. Green is financing the development of such a ray and Dr. Van de Graff heads the staff at work. Even if the experiments fail in smashing the atom, Col. Green says he is confident they will result in discovery of super X-ray equipment that will sur- pass by a great degree the limitations of the present X-ray. It is realized that the recent action HOOVERS 28100 FIANCEMEASURE PASSED BY HOLS Bill Goes to Conference After Approval Is Given by Vote of 355 to 55. DIFFERENCES EXPECTED TO BE EASILY ADJUSTED Only Four Out of More Than Fifty Amendments Adopted Before Final Action. By the Associated Press. The reconstruction finance corpora- tion project bore today a vigorous stamp of approval from the House of Repre- sentatives and sped on through the technicalities which remain to be set- tled before it can become law. This presidential plan to infuse $2,000,000,000 worth of new life into business was approved, 335 to 55, in the vote by which the House passed it last evening, a support which matched the overwhelming approval already given it by the Senate. For unexplained reasons, however, the House failed to act on the same bill the Senate passed. The Senate passed Senate bill No. 1; the House approved House bill number something else. The parliamentary requirement is that both branches shall approve one bill, even though amended to read quite differently. Normally the House would have taken up the Senate bill, amended it by cutting out everything under its title and inserting its own measure, Now the Senate apparently will have to go through that process before a con- ference can be held to adjust the dif- ferences. Little Difficulty Seen. After that Senate and House must approve the revised version and then the bill will be sent to the White House for President Hoover's signature, Because of the enormous support in both branches, credited to the general principles of the measure, they are not expected to haggle long over a settle- ment. Each side has expected all along to relinguish some of its ideas. Just ‘how many days it will take to get done with these details, however, was not exactly determined. Its big job done, the House recessed until Monday, The Senate gets the reconstfuction bill passed by the House in the midst of debate today on the first of the appropriation bills. Com- mittee work, meantime, is proceeding on other items of the Hoover program for economic recovery and on the tax increase plans. Just as a.matter of record, the Senate adopted a declaration for strict re- trenchment in ederal expenditures for the next fiscal year. It approved s resolution to that effect sponsored by Senators Harrison of Mississippi and Pittman of Nevada. Thirty Republic- ans and 20 Democrats voted for it, while Senator Borah of Idaho joined eight Democrats in opposition. The purpose of the Reconstruction Corporation bill is to infuse $2,000,000,~ 000 of credit into business channels by loans from its vast, Government-sup- ported funds, to banks and other finan- cial instituations, which, in turn, are to pass the money on to industry, agri- culture and commerce. Debate Is Prolonged. Forty-three Democrats and 12 Re- publicans voted against the measure in the House. During the prolonged debate this group assailed the proposal as one that would relieve big business corporations and impose additional burdens on the taxpayers. More than 50 amendments were of- fered, but only four of any importance were accepted. An amendment by Chairman Jones of the Agriculture Committee, alloting $200,000,000 of the total capitalization to agriculture through intermediate credit banks, ag- ricultural credit and live stock credit corporations and agricultural assocla- tions, was approved. Two amendments by Representative Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas were ac- cepted unanimously. One would pro- hibit the payment of any fee or com- mission by any applicant for a loan to any representative or attorney, and the other would impose heavy penalties for violations of that section. An amendment by Chairman Stea- gall of the House Banking Committee that drafted the bill, eliminating a provision that Speaker Garner and President Hoover each appoint two members to the board of directors of proved. As passed, the n Page 3, Column 3.) AWARD FOR AUTOGIRO DEVELOPMENT IS MADE John Scott Prize Is Presented to Juan de la Cierva and Harold F. Pitcairn. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 16.—The John Scott award, carrying with it a premium of $1,000, last night was pre- sented jointly to Juan de la Cierva and Harold F. Pitcairn for invention and glevielopmem of the autogiro, respect- ively. ) After presentation of the medal at a meeting of the Aero Club of Philadel- phia, Senor Cierva and Pitcairn spoke on the invention and future of the au- togiro. John Scott, a chemist of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1816 bequeathed the city of Philadelphia a fund the income of which was “to be distributed among ingenious men and women who make useful inventions.” The fund is admin- istered by the board of directors of city trusts. ROOSEVELT’S SECOND SON TAKES BRIDE TODAY Weds Elizabeth Browning Donner, Daughter of Steel Man, at Bryn Mawr. By the Associated Press BRYN MAWR, Pa, January 16.— Miss Elizabeth Browning Donner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Donner of Villanova, becomes the bride today of Eliott Roosevelt, second son of Gov. and Mrs, Franklin D. Roose- velt of New York. Many persons prominent in social circles of New York, Philadelphia and other cities were invited to the ding in the Church of the Redeemer. El&"tfioma velt 'h‘ 21 and Miss Don- ner . er father is widely known