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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional light rains, with slowly ris- ing temperature today, tomorrow mostly cloudy and warmer, probably showers. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 56, at 12 mid- night; lowest, 43, at 8 a.m. yesterday. ' Full report on’ page B-3. he e No. 1,400—No. 32,037. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. iy Star. (P) Mea ns_Asscciated Press. Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, NDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1 B 1932—102 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS‘, |TEN CENTS JOHNSON CLASHES WITH STIMSON ON BOND DEAL ‘LEAK Replies Sharply to Charge of Baring Secrets in Colom- bian Loan. SECRETARY IS OPPOSED | TO REVEALING DETAILS Asks Committee Not te Call Caf-| fery, Envoy to Colombia—Op- | ponents Silent After Encounter. An assertion by ,Secretary Stimson | that secret State Department informa- tion had “leaked” brought a sharp clash yesterday with Senator Johnson, Re- publican, of California, in an executive session of the Senate Finance Com- mittee. The flareup resulted from a remark by Stimson that questions asked by} Senator Johnson in the committee's | investigation of the flotation of foreign | bonds indicated information “from the ' department’s files.” It ended with a statement by Mr. Stimson that he intended no insult to Senator Johnson and did not insinuate that Johnson had obtained his knowl- edge first hand from department clerks. The Senator, in turn, dropped the sub- ject and would not comment on it! afterward. Opposes Baring Details. Stimson was called before the com- mittee to explain the department’s re- fusal to furnish correspondence from the department’s files on the Barco oil concession and loans to Colombia which | the group has been investigating. He reiterated his belief it would be bad policy to make the correspondence public, but finally offered to go through it and give the committee any that could be published without harm. Stimson also told the committee Jef- ferson Caffery, American Minister to Colombia, should not be called to the stand. Senator Johnson had indicated he would call Caflery in connection with the loan and concession investigation, but dropped the subject after Stimson's statement. Johnson asked for the correspondence in connection with testimony that the National City Co. made a loan of $4.-1| 000,000 to Colombia 10 days after that country had restored the valuable Barco ofl concession to the Mellon- controlled Gulf Oil Co. Deny Any Connection. State Department officials have in- sisted there was no connection between the two deals, and pointed out the loan was contracted the year before. Stimson issued a statement on his re- turn to his department, explaining it would be bad policy for the depart- ment to make public correspondence concerning foreign governments. The statement issued by Stimson fol- lows: “In response to a request from the Senate Pinance Committee I appeared before them this morning. I am pre- pared to make available to them ini executive session every document which | they may desire in the way of cor- respondence, cables, etc.. beiween the Department of State and its embassies and legaiions in Latin America re-| lating to the subject matter of the in-| vestigation “The submission of these papers to| this committee in executive session is in conformity with the position which the State Department has taken throug- out the course of this investigation. From the outset it has repeatedly af- firmed that it would willingly make these papers available in this way. There will be no deviation from the ~(Continued on Page 3, Column * Dies in Car's Plunge. | HINTON, W. Va. January 16 (P.— A plunge in an automobile over a 150- foot embankment killed a woman and injured two men critically today. The machine struck a coal car on the Ches- | apeake & Ohio railroad tracks at the bottom of the embankment. Mrs. Pearl Grimmett of Hinton was and Robert Martin and Davin k wmond, also of Hinton, were hurt. Ricr TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—22 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Naval Reserve—Page B-5. Bchools and Colleges—Page B-6. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Public Liorary—Page 4 Y. W. C. A. News—Page 4 Organized Reserves—Page 4 Marine Corps News—Page 4. American Legion—Page 5 Army and Navy News—TFage 5 Serial Story, “8) ife"—Page 5. W. C.T. U. Notes—Page 5 Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 6. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society Section— Women of Diplomacy—Page 10, PART FOUR—S PAGES. Amusement Section — Stage, Music and Radio. Music News—Page 3 In the Motor World—Page 4 Radio—Page 5 Aviation—Page 6. Fraternities—Page 6. i Spanish War Veterans—Page T PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports Section PART SIX—12 PAGES. Pinancial News and Classified Advertis- and Screen in Disthict National Guard—Page 11 Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 12 D. A R. Activities—Page 12 News of the Clubs—Page 12 At Community Centers—Page 12. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Magazine Section. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 14. Reviews of New Books—Page 15. Crossword Puzzle—Page 16. The Bridge Forum—Page 17. The Boys' and Girls' Pages—Page 18 Highlights of History—Page 19. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 20 GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Keeping Up With the Joneses; Mr. and and Mrs.; Moon Mullins; The Timid Boul: Reg'lar Fellers; Little Orphan Annie; Tarzan, and Mutt and Jefl, “Rebel Yell” of "64 Will Be Recorded By U. D. C. Group By the Associated Pre:s CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan- uary 16.—The “rebel yell,” the batile cry of the Confederacy, will be preserved for posterity. The “vell” will be recorded phonographically under the direc- tion of a committee of the United Daldghters of the Confed- eracy appointed by Mrs. W. E. R. Byrne of Charleston, president of the U. D. C Members of the committee, headed by Mrs. Benjamin F. Baird of Philadelphia, were di- rected to “secure a phonograph record of the ‘rebel yell' to be preserved for posterity.” Talk With U. S. Ambassador Edge Is Reported in Paris. By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY, Associated Press Stafl Correspondent. PARIS, January 16.—Premier Plerre Laval informed American Ambassador Walter E. Edge today of France's de- | sire to postpone the Lausanne repara- tions conference until the European views can be harmonized, it was learned in authentic quarters. In a conversation with the Ambassa- dor, the premier was understood to have said he thought a one-year ex tension of the Hoover moratorium would be advisable. The moratorium on Germany's reparations payments expires next July. The Lausanne con ference of interested nations is ten: tatively scheduled for January 25. Premier Laval deemed it to be his duty, he added, to put the United States in touch with the situation. He said he also thought it would be help- ful if the European nations could ob- tain some idea as to the eventual American attitude toward intergovern- mental debts in event the moratorium was extended. Needs Time for Harmony. Prance was inclined to believe, he told Ambassador Edge, that it might be best to postpone the reparations conference, as more time was needed to bring the views of the European na- tions into harmony. The premier also was believed to have said France was ready to heip Germany in the spirit of the joint statement issued after his talks witn President Hoover at Washington. That ! statement recognized that prior to the | views. expiration of the Hoover year of post- ponement some agreement regarding intergovernmental debts “may be nec- essary covering the period of business depression.” “The initiative in this matter should be taken at an early date by the Eu- ropean powers principally concerned.” the Hoover-Laval statement added. It wae understood Premier Laval ex- pressed to Ambassador Edge the opin- fon it might be better to hold the Reparations Conference after the elec-| tions to be held in various European countries in the Spring. | Sees More Definite Solution. | The premier expressed a hépe this would increase the likelihood of obtain- ing a more definite solution of the reparations problem by a conference of the great powers. French newspapers have been em- phatic 1hat nothing definite could be hoped for until the American attitude toward the question of continuing or stopping war debt payments had been determined Premier Laval previously had talked with the German and British Ambas- sadors, presumably on the reparations problem. Afterward he talked over with Andre h French minister of $200,000 GEM RAID’ DWINDLES T0 $10,325 New York Lawyer Corrects Police Estimate of Loot by Four Bandits. By the Associated Prese. NEW YORK, January 16.—Four bandits with pistols walked into an ex- clusive uptown apartment house today, tied up the elevator boy and three servants in the eighth-floor apartment | of Robert Le Roy, prominent lawyer, | DEB PARLEYDELAY 15 URGEDBY LAVAL (ONGRESS LEADERS 0PPOSE DEBTS CUT FOR ARMS SLASH U. S. Counts on Financial Adversity to Affect Geneva Result. | DEFICIT OF TWO BILLION FRANCS FACING FRANCE Defeat at Polls for Party Advocat- ing Reduction of Totals Seen by Senator Harrison. BY FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE. It can be stated on first-hand author- ity that the United States Government places its principal hope of disarma- ment success at Geneva next month on the grinding financial adversity which confronts every nation in Europe, prac- iMCally without exception. Budget defi- | cits exist everywhere. Economic life in | all directions is bending under crushing | taxation. Statesmen are at their wits' | ends to discover new sources of revenue. Even opulent France, which so far has | felt the effects of world-wide depres- sion less than any important country in the world, is face to face with a treas- ury shortage of 2,000,000,000 francs. It is because of that situation that the French are so reluctant to sur- render or postpone their reparation dues from Germany. France is Europe's principal military power. She largely holds the key to the disarmament sit- uation. The hope, though not the | very confident expectation, of President Hoover and his forthcoming spokesmen at Geneva is that financial necessities may induce the French to ponder care- fully before refusing to_consider arma- ment reduction except in exchange for political security guaranties. In other words, the Washington Government trusts’ that before the Geneva confer- ence ends money will talk, and talk in favor of substantial cuts in armament expenditure. Congress Leaders Sounded. Periodically during the past few weeks, as Geneva approached, the sug- | gestion has been put forward in this country that the United States might be inclined to consider war-debt r vision—either reduction or cancella- | tion, or possibly both—if Europe agreed |to sweeping reductions of armaments. This writer, on the eve of leaving for |the Geneva Conference, has sounded | | congressional leaders of both parties on | this” score. They have written their There is a_complete unanimity ¢ opinion among Republican and Dem- | ocratic Representatives and Senators |alike that even if European govern | ments consented to cut armament ex- | penditure, there is virtually no proba- bility whatever that the American Con- gress in return would consent to any further revision of the billions which are due the American Treasury and taxpeyers. J. C. GREW NAMED IName of Envoy to Turkey| \\ RERHTRHIREIRY . VAN \ \ \ \‘i\\ AN Q\T\‘\\ \ ’ ’, i il Pt \\ ;\\\\ [l | FORBES' SUCGESSOR Is Reported Submitted to Tokio. By Cable to The Star. | TOKIO, January 16.—The name of Joseph Clark Grew, American Ambas- | sador to Turkey, is understood to have been submitted to the Japanese for- | eign office today as successor to W. } Cameron Forbes, the present Ambassa- | dor to Japan. Mr. Forbes is reported | to be leaving shortly for the United States. | Joseph Clark Grew is a “career | man” who has heid a number of im- | portant posts in the American diplo- matic service. He first served as dep- uty consul general at Cairo, Egypt. in 1904, and successively held positions at Mexico City, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Berlin, Vienna and Paris. In 1920 he became Minister to Den- mark, in 1921 Minister to Switzerland. | He was the American representative | at the Lausanne Conference of 1922- | 23 and negotiated the treaty with Tur- key which grew out of that parley. From 1924 to 1927 Mr. Grew served as Undersecretary of State. He has been Ambassador to Turkey since May, 1927 He is 51 years old. “Th: following are characteristic re- plies. Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance: “The extreme liberality of the United States toward the nations which be- came its debtors as a result of the FORBES TO QUIT SOON. State Department Fails to Comment on Tokio Dispatch. President Hoover, it was learned authori- tatively yesterday, has selected Joseph | World Wer has, in my opinion, caused a good deal more criticism than ap- | proval. From the large number of communications I am now receiving, | the majority of them are opposed ab- | solutely to cancellation. I was a mem- ber of the commission which made the | settlement of the war debts and se- | cured favorable action on the same in | the Senate. although there was bitter | opposition by certain Senators on the ground that the setlements were alto- gether too liberal.” No Sentiment in Senate. Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi, ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Finance: “At this time I do not believe that this Government will consider the | question of reduction of European war debts. There is no sentiment for it |in_the Senate and in my opinion there (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) |WILBUR SEES SOUNDER NATION AFTER SLUMP Difficulties in Address to Young | l Urges Courageous Attitude Toward Jersey Republicans. By the Associated Press. C. Grew, American Ambassador to Turkey and former Undersecretary of | State, to be Ambassador to Japan. He will succeed W. Cameron Forbes, whose resignation will be tendered shortly in line with his recent announcement of his intention to retire. Although the State Department declined officially to- day to comment on the Tokio report that the acceptability of Ambassados Grew had been referred to the Tokio foreign office, it was learned that the former Undersecretary of State has been under consideration and there would be no delay in filling the im- portant Tokio post. The department’s failure to deny the dispatches from Tokio was regarded as tantamount to acknowledgement of its correctness. Ambassador Forbes, who came home from Japan in the Autumn, madé no secret of his reluctance to return, re- calling the understanding when he ac- cepted the appointment to stay only about a year. As the result of serious- | ness of the Manchurian situation at| that time and his knowledge of the| attitude of the Japanese government,| he was prevailed upon to go back. Then and more recently, when reports of his resignation were current, the| suggestion was made that his immedi- ate retirement would make it appear | that the situation in Tokio was dis- pleasing to the administration. He received his appointment from President Hoover. ATLANTIC CITY, January 16.—A | prediction that the United States would come through the business slump “sounder and clearer headed” was made WINCHESTER DEALER and escaped with three boxes of jewelry. Police at first set the loss at $200,000, but Mr. Le Roy corected the figure to $10,325. Police said they ~would question Mrs. Le Roy to determine | what jewelry she was _wearing, | It was found many valuable gems | were overlooked, and police said | Mrs. Le Roy probably was wearing | several additional pieces. The loss was | partly insured. The bandits escaped by running the elevator to the basement, removing the | fuses, walking upstalrs to the street | level and driving off in a car with a | fifth member of the gang. The servants and the elevator oper- ator were left, bound with picture wire, | with a warning to make no noise for 15 | minutes. here tonight by Secretary Wilbur of the Interior Department. i Urging a courageous attitude toward difficulties, he said, in an address be- fore the Young Republicans of New Jersey that he had been impressed with the difference in spirit between the present period and war times. Both were seasons of intense emo- tional stress, he added, but the ‘ecling now has turned into fear, suspicion, back-biting and selfishness. * * * Wash- ington has become the Wailing Wall of a whole Nation Calling for a constructive program, economic blind alleys calling their curc- alls: others with proposed short cuts that lead only to precipices and jungles, “KIND-HEARTED” WOMAN TRICKS CAFE OWNER TO FEED JOBLESS Twenty-five Hungry Central Park Dwellers Clamor for Food as He Waits in Vain for “Hostess.” BY the Associated Press. | elaborate repast, and said that she NEW YORK, January 16.—John J.|¥ould be on hand at 8 o'clock Friday night with the wid Kelly, restaurant concessionaire in Cen- ! ea% and to' pay Por ?:rt?n:enel "'11%11‘; B;:rl;:ntf tral Park, was the reluctant host last|an instructed Kelly to invite 35 home- night at a dinner to 25 of the unem- | less lfi‘d h“"ml'ly men ployed, who are making Central Park| K€Ly complied. Eight oclock came | and the hungry were seat their home. He told the story tonight.| banquet table, but the hgsffs“}’ffiia‘?f‘ Early yesterday afternoon a well| ?qfnrbe}l;ith;r did her representative. drassed elly gan Worry. The guests re- rk woman entered the resteurant, | oo de 3 him frequently matgmey nad asked for the proprietor, and told Kelly | come to €at. The minutes passed and that she represented a wealthy widow | Kelly begged for more time. Finally, at who had heard of the homeless men in | 8:35, he gave instructions for the meal the park and wished to treat them to| te be served. one adequate meal, With Kelly the woman planned an! Kelly. he criticized “barkers at the head of | The guests enjoyed it, but not so River. SLAIN ON OWN PORCH Bullet Fired by Unidentified As- sailant Pierces His Heart as He Returns Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va. January 17| (Sunday) —Will Keller, 55, prominent | Winchester hardware dealer, was shot | d killed here early today on the front porch of his home as he was returning from his place of business His slayer is believed by police to have been a young white man, about 25, who is said by Richard Brown, & neighbor, to have been following him and Keller on thelr way home from the | wntown section G or was shot as he stepped on his | front porch. He died about 10 minutes later at the Winchester Memorial Hos- pital. A .25-caliber bullet had entered his back and plerced his heart. | Witnesses told police the slayer fired | only one shot and then fled. A possible | Motive for the crime was furnished by | Brown, who said a box Keller had been | carrying under his arm on the way | home was missing after the crime. | A lookout for the murderer and a meager description of him was broad- ashington an Cast o Vs a jifelong resident of this city and had been in the hardware business here for about 20 years. He resided with two sisters and ‘a nephew. His body was found slumped on his front porch by the nephew. ‘ other cities. Baptism Held in River. TON, W. Va., January 16 (). —So“r‘thzm West Virginia’s mid-Janu- ary weather was warm enough today for baptismal services in the Tygart A Grafton church held (.hei services. Sundays in Jail Penalty for Boys Who Beat Another By the Associated Press. KINGWOOD, W. Va,, January 16.—Claude Menear, 17, and Jen- nings Ridgway, 18, will spend their week ends in jail until Judge A. G. Hughes decides they have been punished sufficiently for beating another boy. The youths, both high school students, will go to jail imme- diately after school Friday eve- ning and stay there until school begins Monday morning. Menear is captain of his high school basket ball team. Judge Hughes sentenced the boys today. They are alleged to have beaten Claude Arnold of Terra Alta last Sunday because Arnold courted Menear's sweet- heart. ARLINGTON BRIDGE OPENED TO PUBLIC Presidential Inspection Fol- lowed by Dropping of Ropes to Highway. For the first time the Arlington Me- morial Bridge and the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway were thrown open officially to the public late yesterday afternoon for a brief space. They will be open today during daylight hours. This action came after President and Mrs. Hoover and members of the George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission and the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission had inspected the two engineering projects that mark the first major link in the George Washington Memorial Parkway, that will stretch southward from Great Falls to Mount Vernon on the Virginia side and to Fort Washington, in Maryland. With the eye of an experienced en- gineer, the President surveyed the bridge project over which he had been many times before, and noted the spacious boulevard that keeps company with the Potomac River for many miles, until it terminates at the old home of George Washington. Two engineers of note accompanied the Chief Execu- tive and Mrs. Hoover—Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. executive officer of the Ar- lingion Memorial Bridge Commission, and Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture, under whose jurisdiction the highway has been built. Presidential Party Route. The presidential party, which con- tained a number of women in addition to Mrs. Hoover, left the White House at 3 o'clock in automobiles, preceded by a motor cycle escort of United States Park Police. Arriving at the bascule draw span, which was drawn apart, the party left the automobiles. A battery of cameramen took count- less photographs of the party and then, to the tune of shrieking sirens that are part of the bascule draw span equip- ment, the two great leaves of the mid- bridge were lowered. President Hoover and his party walked at a rapid rate for the rest of the length of the bridge, almost to Columbia Island, Col. Grant | pointing out the points of interest. The presidefitial party then took to | their automobiles again, after glancing at the quartet of giant eagles that sit atop the great pylons looking down upon the future Great Circle that is planned for Columbia Island. The file of automobiles then turned to the left and_moved on to the Mount Vernon (Continued on Page 2, Column BREAKING LEVEES * FLOODNEH REAS |National Relief Is Urged. | Editorial Says “Red Cross Must Act.” | B the Associated Press. | MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 16.—A |ery for far-reaching national relief in | the flood stricken areas of North- (nounced today as the | water over thousands of acres where |in thousands are homeless. for the National estimated 1500 families have driven from their homes in | Mississippi counties, but local | agencies placed the numbe: at 20,000 relief been nine in need of aid Some relief workers were outspoken in their criticism of the Red Cross, and the Memphis Evening Appecl, in a front-page editorial, demanded more action and termed the situation “a ma- jor catastrophe in Mississippi.” Says Red Cross Must Act. editorial =aid. “There is little time for | western Mississippi became more pro- | Tallahatchie | River broke additional levees and sent | Ernest P. Kirick, director of disaster | Red Cross, | relief | to 30,000 people who are nomelessand | “The Red Cross must act now,” the | Senate bill expressly prohibits this. L OAN CORPORATION BILLISDELAYED IN - SENATE BY BLAINE Objects to Substitution for House Measure to Speed Conference Study. 'EUGENE MEYER IS SEEN AS LIKELY RELIEF HEAD Hoover Expedites Selection of Board Despite Tangle—Leaders Confident. Parliamentary By the Associated Press. The emergency two-billion-dollar Re- constructicn Finance Corporation stum- bled over parliamentary obstacles in the Senate yesterday, but President Hoover is going ahead with plans to put it into operation next week. Mr. Hoover is selecting the board to direct this gigantic relief corporation and it seemed likely last night that Eugene Meyer, the governor of the Pederal Reserve Board and chairman of & similar post-war organization, the | War Finance Corporation, would be its head. Senator Blaine, Republican, Wiscon- sin, took advantage of the parlia- mentary tangle involving the legisla- tion to block a mcve in the Senate yes- terday to send the separate Senate and House biils ment of differences. Confident of Passage. Nevertheless, fongressional _leaders informed the Président of every confi- dence that the huge reconstruction corporation would receive final con- days. From the coroporation’s $2,000,000.- | 000 capitalization new credit wiil go {into the entire financial structure of the Nation and ultimately, in the opinion of its sponsors, into all arteries of trade and business. The insistence of the House in pas ing its own measure, rather than sul stituting the one previously approved by the Senate, opened the way for Blaine vesterday to block an immediate con- ference between the two branches for the adjustment of their differences. When the House bill was received in the Senate, Senator Walcott, Republi- can, Connecticut, asked that the Sen- ate’s bill be substituted by unanimous consent as a formality to get it to con- ferance. Blaine objected, complaining against haste. His objection forced the whole issue over until tomorrow when the Walcott motion can be voted upon under regular procedure. ‘ House and Senate Split. Two high points of difference be- | tween the Senate and House must be | reconciled. The House bill would make the paper of the corporation rediscount- able by the Federal Reserve system. The ‘The House bill would allow loans to to conference for adjust-| gressional approval within the next six ! ‘Investigation'.” y | “other bona fide financial institutions.” Krick telephoned to Washington from | The Senate eliminated this provision on Clarksdale, Miss., that Red Cross chap- | the grounds that it would enable the ters were feeding several hundred fam- | corporation to take over the private ilies and were prepared to deliver gro- |$500,000.000 National Credit Associa- ceries by boat to flood victims. tion formed last Fall by bankers. H. L Gary, a_commissicner in the | Also, there is a disagreement be- Matthews Bayou levee district, charged | tween House and Senate on loans to the Red Cross was refusing assistance to tenant farmers, but Krick said the tenant farmers would be aided. “Relief will be given them only after our committee make investigations into the financial conditions of the planters affected,” Kirick said. “We hope to have the relief work complete- ly organized by Monday. Jobless Would Invade Area. “The Red Cross can't rush in and furnish everyone who requests food and clothing,” he explained. “If we did that, hundreds of men in adjacent States, who are out of work, would come into the flood area to be taken care of during the Winter.” Gary said 98 per cent of the planters in the flooded territory are “on the verge of bankruptcy and cannot care lfor their suffering tenants.” SIX COUNTIES STRICKEN. | Levees Give Way and Residents Take to High Ground. GLENDORA, M anuary 16 (#).— Water from the swirling Tallahatchie Coldwater, Yalobusha and Yazoo Rivers spread out today in sb counties, marooning hundreds of peo- ple. vere strain and residents took to high ground to await rescue. six Mississippi | Levees crashed after a month of se-| farmers. The Senate bill carries a “rider” by Senator Smith, Democrat, | South Carolina, authorizing $50,000, 000 in loans to farmers for the 1932 crop. The House merely set aside 10 per cent of the funds of the corpora- tion to be available for agriculture | vhile, the second measure on | the emergency economic relief program | —recapitalization of the Federal land banks—was in conference and nearing final approval These first two items of the non- partisan relief plan submitted by Presi- dent Hoover will be at the White House next week. Bank Bill Opposed. However, some difficulties are con- fronting the other measures of this program The administration bill spon- sored by Senator Thomas, Republican, Idaho, to provide a $150,000,000 or- ganization for relief of the depositors of closed banks is disliked by Senator Glass of Virginia, the Democratic spokesman on banking legislation. He is preparing to advance, instead, a com- | prehensive measure, framed by his banking subcommittee, revamping the national banking act and putting a curb on 'se of Federal Reserve facili- ties in speculation, _Hearings sare proceeding on another of President Hoover's bills—to estab- lish a_home loan discount banking sys- Reaching out into Louisiana, rains| tem—but Senator Watson, Republican, kept_the Ouachita River, in the Mon- | Indiana, in charge of this, said the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | committee work probably could not be £ concluded next week. HUMAN ARM FOUND North Search for Body in Woods. THOMASVILLE, N. C., January 16 (#).—Discovery of a human arm, ap- Carolina Discovery Starts | | near here today set officers volunteer ~searchers countryside for the body. Officers expressed _ the a resident reported having heard a Woman's screams one night about four ‘weeks ago. The arm had been severed just below the shoulder. buried and then dug up. parently that of a women, in a wood | Mrs. Belle Stewart Reynolds of Coro- and | nado Beach, Calif. died at sea early to scouring the | vesterday, aboard the steamship City of remainder of the [ Baltimore of the Baltimore Mail Steam- opinion a | were murder may have been committed, and | Bright's disease, it was stated. It appeared to have been 'and was arranging to have the body e WOMAN DIES ON SHIP California Voyager Reaching Nor- folk Bright's Disease Victim. NORFOLK, Va. January 16 (®).— | ship Line, local officials of the company advised. Death was caused by Only meager information was con- tained in the message concerning Mrs. Reynolds and the nature of her death. It was stated her daughter was with her landed here for cremation. MRS. BIDDLE CROSSING ALASKA BY DOG TEAM Journey in Weather Far Below Zero Expected to Take From 5 Days to 5 Weeks. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash, January 16.—A special dispatch to the Times said Mrs. Edward Biddle, Philadelphia society woman, was mushing today over the frozen Alaska interior from Nenana to the Kantishna River country, north of Mount McKinley. She was reported riding behind the dog team driven by Mike Cooney, well known Irish driver. Mrs. Biddle made a trip alone to the Northland this Winter to gather ma- terial for a book on lives of Alaska women. Her journey to the Kantishna coun- try may take from five days to five weeks, depending on the condition of the trail. Temperatures far below zero prevail, | Fifteen firemen were so seriously nf-J fected by a peculiar quality in smoke from burning cotton in a Department of Agtculture building vesterday that they required medical treatment after the blaze had been brought under con- trok One fireman said every man at the | fire suffered from ‘“violent headlches‘ their quarters. said he treated 12 men. |15 FIREMEN BADLY AFFECTED | BY SMOKE FROM BURNING COTTON Suffer Violent Headaches and Nausea After Fighting Blaze at Agricultural Department. | southwest, but burned for 11 hours be- ing cotton should have such an unusual | effect on the men, but that the same thing occurred about 15 years ago when fire broke out among cotton bales in an Agriculture building. The fire was confined to the first floor of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Linworth place and C street fore it could be brought under control. ELSEWHERE | I OVESFORLIQUOR REFERENDUM GAIN IN BOTH PARTIES Aim Eliminaiion of Dry Issue From Campaign to Avoid Split in Strength. 'PROHIBITION SUPPORTERS | IN G. 0. P. SHIFT STAND Appearance df Question at Demo- cratic National Convention Is Held Certain. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. i The drive to have placed in the na- | tional platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties this year “refer- endum” planks on prohibition is grow= ing in intensity as the opening of these conventions draws nearer, it became | apparent here yesterday “Let the people decide” is the slogan adopted by the political leaders who are advocating this procedure. What these leaders have in the back of their heads is an impelling desire to get prohibition as far s possible out of the political equation. Their reason is- simple—the wet and dry issue cuts across both Republican and Democratic partles, threatening to bring not only intra-party dissension in primary and conventicn, but also to split party strength in the general election itself. Will Satisfy Many. If it is found to be possible to take prohibition out of the campaign, by this referendum plank route in both party platforms, wet Republicans will | rejoice’ and_even dry Democrats will heave a sigh of relief. And dry Re- publicans, who fear the defection of the et Republican vote and have little hope of gaining Democratic dry sup- port in the coming campaign, will be | satisfied. Those Republicans who be- I lieve—as some of them do—that | “there is another national victory in | the prohibition issue,” now look ask- jance at the referendum proposal. They feel that it would be better to have the Democrats take the wet side and jthe G. O. P. the dry and fight it out at the polls. | More and more dry Republicans are inclining to the referendum plank pro- posal, it is learned. This does not ’me?n that there are not still plenty of determined _opponents of the liquor traffic on the Republican side who will | decline to support a referendum plank. Senator Borah of Idaho, for example, | considers the proposal “absurd” and | merely designed to get the old parties past the coming national campaign with as little intra-party friction as possible. Senator Robinson of Indiana, Senator Capper of Kansas, and Senator Howell of Nebraska, are all adamant against the referendum idea, up to date. The Democrats realize quite clearly { that the question of a referendum plank is coming before their national con- vention Resolutions Committee, and in all probability before the convention itself. Chairman John J. Raskob, with his “home rule” referendum plank, has made this perfectly clear. And some dry Democratic leaders in Senate and House are playing with the referendum idea as “one way out” of the troubles | whichthe liquor question threatens to | (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) {FOUR MEN KILLED IN MOUNTAIN FEUD Shooting at Mission Church Ends With Two Others Wounded. One May Die. By the Associated Press. LONDON. Ky., January 16.—A moun- tain feud which flared in a churchyard while worshippers were leaving services claimed four lives today. The trouble resulted, witnesses said, from the ac- cusation of one family that a member of the other clan had wronged a 17- year-old girl. The dead are “Big Henry” Johnson, 35, and Earl Johnson, 25, brothers, and Homer Crook, 32, and Forrest Crook, 30, brothers. “Little Henry” Johnson, 21, a cousin of the dead men and said by witnesses to have take no part in the shooting, is in a hospital here critically wounded in the abdomen. An emergency opera- tion was performed tonight. Willie Johnson, 21, a brother, was wounded in the hand. The shooting occurred in front of a mountain mission church at New Salem, 17 miles east of here. Worshippers said the Crooks accosted the Johnsons, accusing Willie Johnson of wronging their 17-year-old sister, who name they would not give. Sheriff W. H. Steele said one of the Johnson boys replied, “Let us have peace,” only to be cursed in reply. The sheriff said one of the Crooks then remarked, “There’ll be no peace,” and a burst of fire followed. Homer and Forrest Crook were killed instantly. The 300 worshipers scattered as the firing continued and “Big Henry” and Earl Johnson were mortally wounded. “Big Henry” died on the way to the hospital and Earl died in the hospital here tonight. Sheriff Steele said he would investi- gate the shooting further before mak- ing any arrests. He said he was told the father of the Johnsons, William Johnson, was present but did not par- ticipate in the shooting. “Highlights of History 2 Which has been appearing in the Color Section of The Sunday Star, will here- after appear in the Magazine Section beginning today. Pvt. J. S. Shimp of No. 10 truck, and terrible nausea” after returning to | was overcome by smoke and fell from a window. He was badly bruised but Dr. John A. Reid, police physician, |is not believed to have suffered any Dr. Reed said | broken bones. he did not know why smoke from burn- ' received minor injuries. Several other firemen News of the music world will be found in Part 4