Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1932, Page 2

A2 ¥¥% THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1932 RUSSELL IS TIT AT POWER HEARING Man Whose Removal Started | Move to Oust Smith Ap- pears Before Board. Charles A. Russell, whose removal as solicitor of the Federal Power Commis- sion more than a year ago led to the | Senate move to oust Chairman George Otis Smith, came back before the com- #mission today as a special representative Lof Gov. Pranklih D. Roosevelt of New York, in a water power hearing. Russell's hppearance marked by a brief tilt with Chairnian Smith and Commission- er Marcel Garsaud. who also had drawn the fire of the Senate in the Russell | case, | The State of New York is protesting ‘ the proposed inclusion by the Niagara Falls Power Co. of $1500.000 in its : fixed capital account as the claimed ! cost of obtaining an additional diversion | 275 cubic feet of water per second at Niagara Falls. | Col. Charles G, Blakesley, represent- + ing the attorney general of New York ! was on his feet arguing, with Russell | at his elbow, when Chairman Smith, | presiding at the hearing, suggested “One witness at a time” added that Col. | Blakesley could put on any witnesses | that he had. I was just suggesting couple of | tons,” responded Russell, adding he was not there as a witness and ht he had that right >u have no right to disturb orderly Commissioner Garsaud in- qu ¥ processes terjected ‘] am not disturbing,” Mr. answered That ended the hearing proceeded ARMY PLANES SEEK SNOWBOUND INDIANS Six Bombers With Provisions }‘lyK to Aid 20.000—Five Tons of Food Already Dropped. Russell incident, and the | By the Associated Press 18.—8ix carrying WINSLOW, Ariz, January huge Army bombing planes, cargoes of provisions in place of ex-| $hlosives, today sought remote Zuni and | sNavajo villages in the canyons and on fthe mesas of Western New Mexico as Stargets for their “food bombardment. 3 Sixteen larger snowbound Indlan vil- $)ages already have been provisioned by the bombers. The planes, fiying at the dangerously low altitude of 50 feet Yesterday dropped more than five tons §of food in snow banks near the villages. { It had been estimated more than 20,000 Redmen, isolated by one of the fheaviest snows this section has ever $known, faced starvation. Indian De- partment officials in Washington or- dered relief sent the tribesmen by air. Carrying annotated maps, the bomb- ing planes, provisioned anew, took off today to seek the smaller settlements ¥ Holbrook was designated base of op- temtmns lcov. MURRAY sIPS H - i COFFEE AS HE TALKS BEFORE COMMITTEE| —and detailed discussion of “the Central and Scotch Bank systems in England” and the; Central or Federal ,;.glwne ‘Banking System in the United iy ates, About that time, Hurry, the colored fman, who has been janitor for the Ways and Means Committee for 41 years, * brought in two pots of coffee and one | {icup and placed them before the 4G Overnor. #iis Without interrupting his discourse, | WiMurray jerked forward and poured the dieup full to the brim with black coffee. a At the outset he stressed that the i Constitution empowers Ccigress “to coin money, not to issue money, &8 many seemed to think.” He added that since the coining of money had| been denied the States and that slntei “the Scotch banking system had been abolished in 1875, the existing central banking system had drained the agri- teultural | wn. Puffing and frequently lighting a fat{ «cigar, Murray said the British central ‘banking system was ‘bolstered by “the Scotch banking system” and that un- Jess the latter were revived in this \country the agricultural regions would dbe_drained dry He said that, while England had one tral bank, the United States had 2. referring to the 12 Federal Reserve He contended that for the part members of the Reservel Board are speculators who deal in «stocks and “never produce anything H Explains “Scotch System.” "\ The Federal Reserve Board should | fonsist of users of money and not spec- he testified, and one-fourth of | Shem shou be producers, one-fourth jmanufacturers, one-fourth representa- | !gives of transportation and one-fourth | lamarketers in the export and import | susiness {& Explaining the “Scotch s! ' said it decentralized !gangements and that it prior indebtedness on e notes. Under it State J%he past could issue currency on prod- ‘ulat em,” Mur- | anking ar- | does not Te- which to banks in OV. WILLIAM H. MURRAY of of-fact way claims he was responsible for the nomination of Woodrow Wilson at Balti- more in 1912, dropped into Washing- ton yesterday and devoted a portion of & busy program to expounding his views on personalities and planks for | the forthcoming campaign, in which he hopes to have an audible part, Stent on the question of his own candidacy for the White House, Mur- ray, in an interview, turned a pair of calloused thumbs down on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker aud Owen D. Young, as he discussed volubly the state of the Union. For the minute, so the Governor said, his chief interest in life is to get on the Platform Committee at the Democratic National Convention, and “get somebody to second my motions.” Then, this being accomplished, he promises to make it hot for “govern- ment by injunction.” Recalls Bridge Tilt. The Governor still recalls that in his toll bridge tilt with Te: a Federal Oklahoma, who in a matter- | judge in New Mexico, some distance re- | moved from the scene of the interstate | war, invoked the power of injunction | to restrain four filling station proptietors | from guilding tourists to any boundary | road except via the toll bridge, then the | subject of controversy, and the momory | rankles. | This and many other things the Oklahoma executive expanded on, lean- ing back in a chair in his room at George Washington Inn. orie leg swung over the side, as he pulled on a cigar | and occasionally tugged at & soft felt | well, “those other European nations bat are no different than Russia, and we The interview was between a sesslon | ywon't recognize Russia because she with the “talkies,” a pose for photog- | won't pay her debts. I believe in every raphers on the east front of the Capi- | nation paying its debts. tol and a visit to the National Wom- | “'Tne 'Governor conceded, however, en’s Democratic Club, where he spok~ | that if the Europeans cannot pay, as the guest of honor at a buffet Sup- | “they can't pay and we'e not going to per. Last night Gov. Murray addressed | go to war with them about it. Just an overflow congregation at Ingram | Jike a banker with a bad note.” Memotial Congregationaly Oburch. Murray turned his attention to the Gov. Murray was launched into the | Hoover administration field of political discussion while on | He blamed the influence of the Presi- his way to the Capitol to be photo- | dent and bad weather, which kept in graphed with Representative Tom Mc- | the vote, for the recent defeat of his Keown of Oklahoma when he el program for the State of Oklahoma, countered Representative Crowther. Re- | which included a budget plan and in- publican, of New York, who declared | come tax change his intention of “shaking hands” with | Willlam J. Skelly, the ofl man, who a candidate for the presidency. is Republican national committeeman “I'm not a candidate,” Murray said | for the State, had said President Hoover GOV. WILLIAM H. MURRAY. , —Star Staff Photo. never was delivered. but was carried in the Record under extension of remarks. His interrogatcr didn't go further. What about foreign debts? then, and as he retraced his steps to his hotel he explained that he was saying nothing until the Oklahoma Democrats hold their convention on February 20 to name delegates to the national con- vention, Describes 1912 Convention, This fed Murray to & recifal of his victory over opposing interests in get- ting the machinery in motion for selec- tion of the delegates to the forthcoming State meeting, and turned his thoughts to the Baltimore gathering in 1912, where, according to the story, Oklahoma stood for Champ Clark, while he was a Wilson men, and paved the way for the break to his candidate by coupling Clark with Tammany. The account was interrupted as Gov. Murray went to his room, but there the question of his candidacy immediately recurred as newspaper men began “4ring questions Emphasizing that he had but one in- terest for the present, the Governor told his auditors “to take this down.” “The Democratic party stands for written constitutional government dictated. to be interrupted by a question s to the relation of this to prohibition. As quick as & flash the Governor shot back: “Damn it, lets not get off on fool- ish questions—or are you one of those iiquor nuts that can't talk of anything else?” He continued: “We deplore the prac- sbuse of their equity powers by in- junction, or to destroy that palladium of liberty, the freedom of speech, and we condemn such practices as violative of the Constitution and dangerous to American liberty, and we pledge Demo- cratic members of the House and Sen- ate that they will impeach any Federal judge who abuses his power in the future. Will Amplify Dry Views. “Now, I guess that will stop govern- ment by injunction,” the Governor de- clared Later, however, Gov. Murray was brought back to the subject of prohi bition and expressed the belief that it was not a party matter, and that the same way to repeal was open that had been followed in adoption of the dry amendment. He promised, however, {fucts stored in warehouses or otherwise Theld as security against the currency bligations, as is used X d Reserve System | Murray pointed out that under the ’9‘ ral Reserve System currency is is- | {&sued on obligations and th iPvere e redit ricultu and § ry Deplores Situation. Murray d the Reserve S\:(r‘n\“ ad stopped about 10 years ago permit- ing bankers from being the judges of {Trommercial papers and had declined to V&3ssue currency on certain classes of frhapers. He added the opinion that »e¥this s the cause of the present diffi- ssgulties.” lored situation, e dep the existing said “until the lever of economics versed” relief cannot be expected Governor said it was only sound economics o bOrTow mon: $9tion purposes or to make a profit. but de- | 1 clared the Government certainiy could | S0t benefit the public by increasing the | {¥bublic debt or hiking taxes. He assailed | }42he “big city banks’ and Wall Street *‘Heclaring “their power and influence | {Gare felt at every cross roads” under to- i¥gay's banking system = Assailing speculators, Murray said .they caused the breakdown of the £ Bcotch system following the Civil War, «~when they went out West by the car- i=loads to buy scrip from discharged {+=oldiers at 10 cents on the dollar. Testifies Almost an Hour. Murray was before the committee the {Fgreater part of an hour. After con- \icluding his direct testimony, he was {Snot _questioned {E. Chairman Collier told him the com- iPmittoe appreciated his appearance and 1EMurray replied ' v Eyour permitting me to appear.” 1T He consented to pose for photographs Sgnd shook hands with a number of i{the committeemen he had known when | ed for produc- | I am the one who is obligated by | to amplify his views when he ad- dresses the Anti-Saloon League to- night Turning to the subject of candidates, he praised the abilities of former Sec- retary of War Baker, but added that “I | regard him as a baby in foreign affairs “And the security of a nation de- pends upon its foreign policy,” he con- tinued, “even if people living in the in- terior don't understand that.” sked about an attack he was report- to have made on Gov. Roosevelt, Gov. Murray denied this, but ampli- fied “The President next time, of all times in American history, must not blow with the wind. He can't say: ‘I wonder what this fellow is going to say—I wonder what that fellow is going to say—I wonder about labor, or the Kiwanis Club, or the Ku Klux Klan' No, he's got to say: ‘I wonder if this is right; T wonder if I have the power under the Constitution to do it If the answer fs es’. then go ahead and do it. I'm al- ways betting that if you're right, and have the power. under the Constitution, to do a thing, the people will back you “Frankn Roosevelt doesn't quite stand up to this test.” Young “Unthinkable.” The name of Owen Young was men- tioned. “The head of our greatest monopoly is not even thinkable as a candidate,” he shot back What about Gov. Ritchie? He hadn't “studied him."” Speaker Garner? No comment Some one suggested that the Governor had about “read out of the party” all the leading candidates. Murray wouldn’t commit himself. He wants the Democratic platform to ignore the League of Nations. The League, he said, “would only hasten the end of civilization.” “How,” he wes asked. The response was to dig up & red- covered book which carried the cap tion: “Speeches of William H. Murray, | 'he served in the House years ago. s e left the room, virtually all the tators went with him and for sev- eral minutes outside of the room he copy of his speech, “the first made in | Communists was introduced to many of them by Reoresentative McKeon. and in parenthesis. “Alfalfa Bill."” In this book, Murray said, was a (ixn‘reu against the League,” though tice of inferior Federal courts in the | opposed the program, he said. “But I'll bet it'll be law in 14 months,” he added. He blamed a speech attributed to | President Hoover on his Latin Ame: ican trip for revolutions in Bolivia and the Argentine, but declined to amplify “for the record.” Gov. Murray is opposed to loans to foreign governments on the ground that 'you get involved in their troubles,” but . he favors loans to individuals for de- velopment abroad. Wants Adequate Navy, | He favors an adequate Navy, small Army, Nicaraguan canal ahd fariff on all raw materials, especilly oil And his parting shot as the inter- viewers left “I know some of you are going to have satisfactory accounts, and some are going to misconstrue everything I sald,” but the prospect didn’t appear to worry him, Last night, at Ingram, Gov. Murr was the guest of the “Anonymous Club, and Rev. Frederick Vining Fisher, the pastor, in_introducing him, told the t” he | audience that the Governor had written | in the guest register “Willlam Henry Murray, sage of Tishomingo,” and had coupled with this an outline of h's career, and added this last line “What next?” Senators Thomas and Gore and other members of the Oklahoma delegation were present Gov. Murray directed his remarks principally to a criticism of modern | education, which, he said, instead of emphasizing the importance of learning. “makes the test the number games won.” He bespoke religious harmony, adding “the finite mind cannot fathom the infinite mind,” anyway. The governor is due before the House Ways and Means Committee today, in its discussion of taxation, and also is speaking over the WJZ—N. B. C. net- work this afternoon at 3 o'clock. AKRON TEARS AWAY FROM TANKER'S MAST to Lakehurst After Hock-up Experience Dirigible Returns { Off Virginia. By the Associated P; NORFOLK, Va., January 18.—The Akron, giant naval dirigible, tore loose | from the naval tanker Patoka yester- day morning three minutes after being tied to the vessel's mooring mast. Naval officers and men on duty on the mast fled down the steel structure to escape the flaying and of one of the! broken mooring lines. The maneuvers | took place off Plantation Flats, near | Cape Charles The Akron suffered no damage. The | Patoka's mast is being fitted up with | & new connecting pin at the Norfolk | Navy Yard today After breaking loose. the Akron cir- cled the Patoka a number of times and then headed for her home port, at Lake- harst, N. J The Patoka in serving as a dirigible tender completed a number of success- ful moorings with the dirigible Shenan doah. LAKEHURST, N. J, January 18 (@) —Lieut. Comdr. C. E. Rosendahl, com- mander of the Dirigible Akron, said to- day the breaking of a new locking lug in the mast cup of the Naval Tanker | Patoka caused the Akron to break loose yesterday morning off Plantation Flats near Cape Charles. “There wi nothing _ violent in the accident” Comdr. Rosendahl said. “The mooring operation as a matter of fact was one of { the most successful in my expcl'l-l ence.” Strike Forecast After Slaying. SEVILLE, Spain, January 18 (#).— | Jose Sanchez, president of the Shoe ‘Worken' Syndicate, was attacked and killed today by persons described as by authoritfes. Com- munist and Syndicalist circles predicted added “um the speech actually a strike would ensue. of ball | GREATER SECURITY HELD WORLD NEED ley Is Told Trust Is Neces- sary to End Depression. The need for greater trust among Wworld nations, and the establishment of feelings of political security, in order to bring about recovery from the international _depression, and to as- sure international peace, was stressed in the address of James G. McDonald of New York, chairman of the Foreign Policy Association, this afternoon, be- fore the delegates to the Seventh Con- ference on the Cause and Cure of War, meeting at the hall of nations, Hotel | Washington. t " After a survey of conditions in Man- churis, in China, in India, South America, in Russia and in Europe, Mr. McDonald satd: “The dislocation of the world's in- dustry, agriculture and trade, continues of course, not as result of a single cause, but of a combination of forces. A fundamental factor in preventing re- covery is the ever-present feeling of political insecurity, the dread possi- bility of war. “Why do natlons keep on piling up armaments, despite critically unbal- anced budgets? Not for the love of | such wasteful expenditures, which this vear will total about $5,000,000,000, but because not one of the nations is yet | willing to trust its security to the guar- antees of treatiss and the peace ma- chinery of the world. It is fear and mistrust that keep the world a gigantic powder mine, It is fear that breeds economic nationalism, with its demand for almost prohibitive tariffs and its false hope of sclf-sufficiency. It is fear that prevents the nations from adopt- ing rational measures for recovery. “The supreme task of statesmen this new year” concluded the speaker, “is to banish that fear, for unless there is built up among the nations a feeling of political security, there can be no economic security in our modern, inter- dependent world. No one can be sure that war can be eliminated. But I am confident that, if it is not, then the blind forces of nationalism, the fear of war, and eventually war itself, util- wing modern science, will destroy us.” Mrs. Catt Presides. A family round table, attended by members ¢f the 11 national women's organizations assembled for the con- ference, concluded the business of the |afternoon. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt | presided as_interlocutor, and Mrs. Ben Hooper of Wisconsin served as recorder. Special recognition was proposed for | the delegation of four women which is to sail Wednesday to take before the Geneva Disarmament Conference peti- | tions for peace signed by approximately 600,000 women. Included in this dele- | gation are Mrs. Ben Hooper, Oshkosh, | Wis., chairman; Mrs. Frank Day Tuttle, Mrs. Nathaniel Bilder, New York, and | Mrs. L. H. Fradkin, New Jersey. | Registration of delegates, who arrived | from every section of the country, con- | tinued throughout the morning ‘in_the | north end ot the lobby of the Hotel Washington. This evening Herbert Fels, economic adviser to the State Department, and Paul Kellogg, editor of the Survey, will | speak on "Want in the Midst of Plenty.” A special feature tonight will bs a “Pageant of Petitions,” when 97 young women will present a scene likely to| occur at the Geneva conference at the | time disarmament petitions are pre- | sented from 47 nations Two of the conference’s important committees,. resolutions and nomina- tions, were announced last night by Mrs | Catt. | 'Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle of Wash- | Ington is chairman of resolutions, as- | sisted by Dr. Susan L. Longh, Rich- mond, Va.; Mrs. J. W. Perry, Nashville, | Tenn.; Mrs. Fred S. Bennett, Englewood, N g Mrs. william _Sporborg, Port | Chester, N. Y.; Mrs. Frederick Beggs, | Wyckoff, N. J.; Mrs. Russell E. AdKings, | Indianepolis; Mrs. Maurice Weyl, Phila- | delphia; | Miss Marion McClench, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dr. Izora Scott, Wash- | ington: Mrs. Philip Kind, Jenkintown, Pa.; Mrs. Willlam Z. Ripley, Newton Center, Mass. Heads Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee is head- ed by Miss Lena M. Phillips, New York City: Miss Elizabeth Kirkbride, Al- bany; Miss Elinor L. Purves, Princeton, N. J.; Mrs. Joseph M. Towne, Holyoke, Mass ; Mrs. Leonard Schloss, Washing- ton, D. C.; Mrs herine W. Eddy, New York City; Mrs Waterbury, Conn.; Mrs. E. D. Prender- gast, New York; Mrs. Maud Swartz, New York. The 11 organizations in the confer- ence American Association of Univ Women, Council of Women for Home Missions, Federation of Wom- | an's Boards of Foreign Missions of | North America, General Federation of | Women's Clubs, National Board of | Y. W. C. A, National Councii of Jew- ish Women, National Federation of Business _and Professional Women's Clubs, National League of Women Voters, National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, National Women's Conference of American Ethical Union and National Women's Trade Union League. PATMAN RENEWS MELLON CHARGES | (Continued From First Page) a stockholders meeting of any corpora- tion since he has been Secretary. He has given his proxy.” Sumners asked Gregg whether the bank stock Mellon had disposed of when taking office was now held by any individual in one block “I can't answer that,” Gregg said. “I don’t know; but there are no strings on it.’ Patman bad called attention to this connection as giving Mellon an interest in Soviet Russia because of a business | arrangement between the Koppers Co. and Russia. Gregg named a Mr. Wallace, a vice | president of the Gulf Oil Co., with offices in New York, as the official who negotiated the Barco concessions in 4 Colombia. He further said Mellon was | the beneficiary of the sale of his stock in A. Overholt Co., a brewery, which was disposed of when the Secretary took office Representative Oliver, New York | Demograt, directed Gregg's attention to |a meeting in Mellon’s Washington | home between the Secretary and James B. Duke prior to a merger between the Aluminum Co. of America, and the Canada Development ing_Co. “I asked Mr. Mellon about that” Gregg said, “and he told me the nego- | tiations were not discussed at all. It was simply a contract between large stockholders.” tiations?” Oliver pressed. “I cannot imagine that it did,” Gregg replied. Gregg then indicated he had con- cluded and Patman was given permis- sion to Teply. Referring to Gregg's statement that Mellon owns “about 15 per cent” of the Aluminum company, Patman gaid: “Of course, he owns more than 15 per cent.” Mr. Gregg pointed out other secre- taries have been stockholders. Mr. Mc- Adoo held $10,000 worth of stock when Secretary. “Why that's insignificant. Mr, Mel- lon's net income amounts to as much in three hours as the total gross amount of stock held by all Secretaries of the Treasury before him.” Hda also repeated other charges he had made. Cause and Cure of War Par-| rederick Chase, | AS DEFENSE ENDS| & Manufactur- | “And it did not influence the nego- FINANCE MEASURE | IN FINAL STAGES Reconstruction Bill Passes Blocking Point on Way to Conference. By the Associated Press. Past the stage where objectors can | do much to block it, the Reconstruc- tien Finance Corporation blll is certain to be out of Congress this week. The Senate undertook today to get it | in the hands of & Conference Commit- tee for compromising the differences between itself and the House. Simul- taneously, to a separate conference went number two item in the emer- gency economic program, the bill for in- creasing the capital of the Federal land banks. Both plans should be working by the | week end, for President Hoover and the Treasury are awaiting the moment when they can turn loose the millions which will go to business and agricul- ture through their operation. A lone objector, Senator Blaine, Re- publican, Wisconsin, prevented Satur-| day the taking of necessary steps tc| start the conference. The Senate par- liamentary system, however, will not permit_one-man blocking of the meas- ure today. The rest of the emergency program is pressing close behind these two bills with committee hearings continuing in both brancies on the home loan bank- ing system proposed by Mr. Hoover and the establishment of another Govern- ment corporation to release, through loans, deposits in closed banks. DRYS CHEER HOOVER AS SINCERE LEADER AND ASSAIL BINGHAM (Continued From First Page) _ I don't want him in my church,” Dr. Abernethy declared. Assails Wet Attitude. Warning against the popular atti- tude which champlons law violation, Dr. Henry H. Crane, Scranton, Pa. said & continuance of this state of mind in America will result in the ultimate | breakdown of democracy. “The wets encourage violation of the prohibition laws and by this means seek to_bring about its repeal” he said “This is eating directly at the founda- tions of our Government.” “The farmers from the Atlantic to the Pacific will stand firm for prohi- bition,” Louls J. Taber of Columbus, | Ohio, ‘master of the National Grange, declared at a luncheon meeting. “Not that prohibition is perfect; not that it has achieved all that we have hoped | for, but because it is the most advanced step yet taken for handling a perplex- ing age-old problem” he continued “This is no time to take a backward step:in prohibition or law observance.” Speaking at the luncheon, Rev. Dr. | Frank Kingdon, East Orange, N. J., told the delegates that “the central question facing the people just now is how 7,000,000 people can be put to work and | not how & thirst may be satisfied.” Bishop Cannon Praised. A resolution strongly supporting and defending Bishop Canzon, Now under | indictment for violation of the Federal corrupt practices act, was unanimously | adopted by the board of directors of the | league. This action was taken Saturday evening but not made public until to- ay. In a formal statement Bishop Can-| non was called “a great champion of freedom of conscience and intellect— a protector of the independence of the franchise.” The resolution added that “only his resolution and sacrifice stand ! | between thousands of independent voters and social ostracism, financial | Tuin and_serious physical harm.” 0. S. Poland, Boston, secretary pro itcmpore of the convention, who intro- | duced the resolution, explained this sec- | tion referred to Bishop Cannon’s refusal to make known the names of his asso- ciates and supporters in the 1928 elec- | tion. It was not. Mr. Poland declared, to protect himself that Bishop Cannon | refused to divulge these names. Indebted to Bishop. The resolution states: “The Anti-Saloon League of Ameri- ca records its debt and notes ths debt of the whole American people to Bishop James Cannon, jr. His has been a life of self-sacrifice and denial—singly de- voted to the advancement of the cause of prohibition, “The friends of prohibition will never be able to repay him for what pro- hibition has cost him in money, or in health, or in assaults on spirit. “More than all this—is the fact that Bishop Cannon stands today and ought to go down in history as a great champlon of freedom of conscience and intellect, a protector of the indepen- | dence of the franchise. Only his reso- lution and sacrifice stand between thousands of independent voters and social ostracism. financial serious physical harm “As a sacrificing worl in the cause of prohibition—as a champion, to your own hurt, of the civic rights of free- dom—Bishop Cannon, we salute you.” Robinson Opposes Plan. At a youth rally yesterday afternoon Senator Arthur Robinson, Republican, Indiana, told the convention that if “the United States Government goes into the liquor business Uncle Sam will necessarily become the bartender of 120,000,000 people.” Senator Robinson expressed opposition | to State control, modification or repeal. | Representative C. E. Moore, Republican, | Ohio, also addressed the convention and expressed similar views. | *You would have to put the flag over every grog shop in the land,” Senator Robinson ~asserted, “and that would | desecrate it. Prohibition was written into the Constitution after 133 years of | liquor, there to remain for all time to | come.” If a State goes into the business and controls it, each and every bar- tender becomes a public official—and wouldn't that become a pretty mess? “Any central selling place would be & saloon, Tegardless of what it was called, and if the eighteenth amendment is re- | pealed, it will mean the return of the " saloon.” ruin and | | | i Fears Return of Saloon. Representative Moore said anti-pro- | hibition measures in Congress “wou'd eventually cause the saloon to return.” Former Representative Willlam D. Upshaw of Georgia told the convention that anti-prohibition House members { are “trampling the Constitution beneath ithelr feet in an effort to bring back John Barleycorn.” He said “any man who has the smell of liguor on his breath should not be elected to office.” “Conditions are growing steadily bet- ter and people who talk about referen- dum and perniclous modification are not going to win out in 1932, Dr. Joy | Elmer Morgan, editor of the Journal of the Natlonal Education Assoclation, de- clared. George Y. Hammon of Topeka, Kans superintendent of the Kansas Anti: Saloon League, sald “we would have less trouble with the young people today if they were set a better example by the old ones.” | Will Tax Bell-Ringing Churches. FERROL, Spain, January 18 (#)— The City Council has decided to tax churches that r bells and to restrict the hours of tHij bell ringing so that sleepers may nofibe disturbed. Old Tree House Put in Storage FAMOUS REDWOOD TEMPORARILY AT ARLINGTON FARM. ORCED from the Mall by regrading which made its removal necessary, one of the arboreai novelties of the California redwood tree, known al country, the 30-feet-high section of a 1so as Sequoia tree, which has stood for 38 years on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture, is being moved to Arlington Farm, where it can suitable location for it can be determin National Arboretum. It is a part of a section has a diameter of 26 feet and ci bition at the Government Building at t cago in 1893 and was moved after tha! was formerly used by the public, but several years BURNET SEES TAX be protected from the weather until a ed. It may be placed eventually in the | tree originally 300 feet high, and this rcumference of 85 feet. It was on exhi- he World Columbian Exposition at Chi- t to this city. A spiral stairway inside the old tree house has been closed for —Star Staff Photo. GREW T0 BE NEXT | River in Quitman County, {Would Show Substantial In-| GAIN FROM BEER TOKID AMBASSADOR Forbes’ Successor Chosen, but Transfer From Turkey May Be Delayeq. crease in Revenues, Com- mission Testifies. Joseph C. Grew of Hancock. N. H., | Ambassador. to Turkey since 1927. has | ‘been determined upon by President Hoover as the next Ambassador to | Tokio. | _Grew is to succeed W. Camercn | Forbes, who s expected 10 relinquish Hoat ; " e | his post in Japan before long, although show a “substantial incréase” in Teve- | Gmelule are amxious that he remaln for nues: |the present in view of the delicate Called before the' Senate Manufac- Manchurian situation. tures Subcommittee to testify on the | Native of Boston. Grew is a “career B e bees messtie, the |man"; has spent practically his entire revenue official was asked by Chalfman | sreats wine Sl fervics:, hogtiated | a rkey back in 1923: has Metcalf if passage of the bill would in- | attended various important conferences | gredse beer” consumption by and represented the United States in prohibition of hard | responsible posts. | liquor? As his successor at Angora, capital By the Assoclated Press David Burnet, Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue, today declined to pre- dict whether legalization of beer would increage consumption over preprohibi- tion days, but said beer taxes would “I have no crystal ball in which to gaze,” Burnet replied. Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, suthor of the beer bill, read from Prohibition Bureau figures showing 32,000,000 barrels of unlawful beer were made in 1930 and said only $100 in taxes was collected. This compares with 27,000,000 barrels of legal beer in 1919, when $117,000,000 in taxes was collected, he added. Sees Substantial Increase. Bingham said the tax on the 22,000,- 000 barrels at $6 & barrel would have produced $132,000,000, and asked if le- galization now would not bring an in- crease in revenues over pre-prohibition figures. “I believe there would a substantial increase,” Burnet replied. Representative Dyer, Republican, of Missouri, testified that States refused to enforce the dry law because the people regarded the definition of in- foxicants as unscientific and dishonest. Referring to the present limitation of one-half of 1 per cent alcoholic con- tent, the Missourian said “every man and woman knows it is neither scien- tific nor honest.” Testimony on prohibition legislation | during his many years on the House | Judiclary Committee, Dyer said, showed | the people would not regard 4 per cent | beer as intoxicating in fact. Puts Speakeasies at 220,000, of Turkey, is being mentioned Jefferson Caffery, now Minister to Colombia, also known as an able diplomat. For the still more important vacancy coming in the Spring, the London ambassador- ship, former Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado is being strongly advocated. He would succeed Charles G. Dawes, who has announced his in- tention of resigning before even the Geneva general conference on dis- armament is over. He is chairman of the American delegation at that parley. | The other outstanding appointment {to be made by President Hoover, the |one to fill a vacancy cn the Supreme | Court left by the resignation of Oliver Wendell Holmes, finds the Chief Executive still weighing a list some- | what reduced from its original 20 names, but still lengthy. | _This choice is represented as causing |the President the most concern at present. It has been indicated he will :f deliberate in study of the nomina- | tion. JAPANESE MAILED FIST RETALIATES AGAINST CHINESE _(Continued From First Page) | == Dyer estimated the number of speak- | hired to dispose of the bodies of the casies in the country at 220,000 and | dead. annual consumption of illicit liquors | The wounded were taken to Japanese | misrepresented” in dry publications. 2t 4,000,000,000 gallons. He said there were 50,000 “corn bootleggers” in the South. ¢ Charles A. Boston of New York, & former president of the American Ear‘ Association, said he regarded the beer | measure as only a “palliative, but a | palliative which has much merit,” hospitals. Those who recover will be turned over to the Chinese authorities for what probably will be certain exe- cution. The bodies of 90 Chinese dead were | left in a village 10 miles west of Tungliao. Reports were received that | 1,000 Chinese were looting the village | FLOOD IS SPREADING ANDHUNDREDSFLEE New Levee Break Occurs, 2,000 to 3,000 Marooned Without Boats. By the Associated Press. GLENDORA, Miss, January 18— The far-flung ficod in the Tallahatchie, Cold Water and Yazoo River Valleys spread through Mississippi counties to- day and threatened to invade two | others Property damage is roughly esti- | mated at $250,000, as the inland sea | extends itself from Lambert, in Quit- | man County, to Belzon! in Humphrey: | & distance of 125 miles, wherein lev are strained and broken. Even below Belzoni, Red Cross and other relief agencies are carrying aid to families forced out of lowlands by the Yazoo flood about Eden. Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Leflore, Hum- phreys and Yazoo Counties form the major flood zone, but backwaters are spreading into Northeastern Sunflower County, and a small area of Northwest Holmes County, and is threatening to invade Sharkey and Issaquena Counties. Hundreds Lack Boats to Flee. ‘The Western side of Tallahatchie | | | | County, the main flood area for nearly five weeks, is experiencing a fall in the water level, but on the Eastern side of the river four major breaks in the abandoned levees have endangered the lives of hundreds of residents, who are unable to leave the Tippo Basin be- cause of a scarcity of boats. Another main levee broke last night on the west bank of the Tallahatchie 12 miles southeast of Lambert, causing a hur- ried flight of residents for miles and sending 4 feet of water toward Lambert and Marks. Backwaters from Black Bayou and Quiver Rivers are spreading over North- eastern Sunflower County, flooding areas around Ruleville and Drew. Water has spread over virtually all of Parchman State Prison Farm of 24,000 acres. Many of the convict camps had to be moved. Crisis Expected in 48 Hours, Approximately 30,000 acres of land, which had previously escaped the flood in Eastern and Southeastern Quitman County, were inundated last night, add- ing to the 325,000 acres already under water Three hundred convicts are working on the levees in Quitman County, and flood-fighters say the crisis in the county is 48 hours away. Belzonl is threatened from a crevasse that occurred Saturday night in the Yazoo River levee, and more than a hundred persons have evacuated. A summary of flood conditions pre- ed by Red Cross officials, other re- lief agencies, planters and business men who met here Sunday showed the fol- lowing: 2,000 to 3,000 Marooned. From 2,000 to 3,000 people are “mak- ing the best of a bad situation in Tippi Basin. The inhabitants are virtually held prisoners in their homes by the water. Fleets of boats are insufficient to rescue those surrounded in Tippo Basin. | The flood has caused no direct, loss of Approximately 2,500 refugees are be- ing cared for in a dozen towns. Ap- E‘roximauly 150 paddle and motor boats ave been used in the past 48 hours to aid those marooned. The flood is stretching through six counties, especially, with an ever-in- creasing menace. 45,000 Affecfed by Flood. Approximately 45000 persons have been affected thus far, but not all to a serious degree. ‘The Red Cross{is rearganizing its | work to provide quick sustenance for | families reported o‘n the verge of star- vation. Sickness is at a minmimum, in" spite of great hardships. LAUSANNE TO OMH: WAR DEBTS ISSUE, LONDON PREDICTS (Continued From First Page.) Germany's creditors at Lausanne would lay the whole problem on Washington's dooruel.) by explaining to the German delegation that they are willing to ex- | tend a reparations moratorium if the | United States will approve a war debts | holiday. | TWO PROPOSALS EVOLVED. | Britain and Italy Back One Plan as France Advances Another. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. PARIS, FPrance, January 18.—The reparations tangle now appears to be complete. Whether the Lausanne con- Declaring he represented no interest, | 2hd an infantry company was sent|ference will even be held is an open Baston contradicted a statement at- ecclesiast” that only the liquor inter- ests favored the beer bill. The witness said he had no doubt legalization of beer would discourage | herd liquor drinking. He added he favored repeal of the eighteenth amendment, as it had “in- creased violence, spies and contempt for law and educated the youth of the next generation to intoxicants.” ‘The stand of the Bar Association on prohibition, he sald, had been ‘‘grossly NATIONAL LEADERS T0 SPEAK IN FORUM: Hurley, Watson, Robinson and | Rainey Will Be Heard in To- night's Broadcast. Addresses by Becretary of War Hurley and others and messages from Presi- dent Hoover, Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner will be featured in the first program of the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington | Star, to b2 broadcast by the National | Broadcasting Co, tonight from 10 to 10:30 o'clock. Brief addresses will be made by Sec- retary Hurley, Senator James E. Wat- son of Inclana, Republican leader of the Senate; Senator Joseph T. Robin- son of Arkansas, Democratic leader of | | ministry’s financial troubles. | power treaty to consider the Manchu- | from Tungliao. Twenty-two prisoners | tributed to an unnamed “distinguished Were taken in this battle. At Yingkow a part of a Japanese in- fantry regiment stationed there en- gaged several hundred Chinese. It was here the Japanese officer was killed and three Japanese soldiers wounded. The | Chinese dead was given as “a consid- | erable number.” A brigade sent to smash the irregu- lars in the Shinshi district Saturday returned to Chinchow and reported its mission completed. First of the Chinese war lords to ar- rive for the conference on the forma- tion of a new state was Chang Hai- Peng. who tried and failed to oust Gen. Ma Chan-Shan from the Tsitsihar be- fore Gen. Jiro Tamon undertook and accomplished the task. Chang Ching-Hui. governor at Har- bin, is exvected Wednesday, reliable sources said. (Copyright, 1932.) CHINA REJECTS MORATORIUM. | | NANKING, China, January 18 (#).— The National government announced today that it had decided not to de- clare a moratorium on interest on do- mestic loans as a means of easing the This decision was reached, it was said, as a result of the action of Chinese bankers in Shanghal in extending fur- ther assistance to the government, en- abling it to meet the most urgent of its financial demands. The reported Chinese proposal for a | conference of signatories of the nine- | rian situation continued to form one of the major topics of discussion in the Capital today. If such action is bejng considered by the Senate, and Representative Henry the Government, however, no decision T. Rainey of Illinois, Democratic leader | has yet been made. The Kuomin News of the House of Representatives. | Agency said the government is consid- This program and succeeding ones on | ering several proposals on the govern- Monday nights will be broadcast from the Washington studios of the National Broadcasting Co. A network of 54 sta- tions from coast to coast will broadcast the series. The program will open and close with the playing of the “Washington Star March," composed by Capt. Willlam J. tann: leader of the United States rmy Band. ZALESKI TO CONFER Polish Forelgn Minister to Go to Arms Conference. /WARSAW, Poland, January 18 (#).— reign Minister Zaleski will head the lish delegation to the disarmament onference next month, ment of Manchuria, “The proposals drafted by Foreign Minister Eugene Chen to deal with the Manchurlan sit- uation are now before the government,” it’ said. “But whether they will be adopted depends upon the decision of the Central Political Council, which has not acted yet.” The suggestion for convoking the treaty signatories is reported to be among the forelgn minister's sugges- | tlons. NEW STATE MAY BE SET UP. PEIPING, China, January 18 (®)— Chinese press reports today said an independent republic, including the rovinces of Fengtien, Kirin and Hei- le ang, is o be set up in Manchuria bruary P, the Chinese New Year on day. question. German Chancellor Heinrich Bruen- ing's declaration that Germany wiil never again be able to resume repara- tions payments has been formally con- veyed to Paris, London and Rome by the German Ambassadors in those capitals. French Premier Pierre Laval has in- formed American Ambassador Walter E. Edge that France will be unable to extend the German moratorium beyond June 30 unless the United States simul- taneously agrees to -extension of the moratorium on war debts. Italy proposes that the Europeans get together and form a common front to present to the United States a plan drastically cutting or even cancelling war debts and reparations. Two Proposals Evolved. Great Britain and Italy seemr to agree that nonpayment of reparations by Germany automatically entails non- payment of war debts to the United States. France doubts this, or pre- tends to, and professes itself as un- willing to take the risk. Great Britain and Italy have evolved one proposal and Prance has evolved another. Despite weeks of almost constant ef- fort and despite an increasing amount of good will on both sides, London and Paris are still at odds. The British- Italian proposal is to extend the Ger- man moratorium by one year from June 30 and trust to the United States to grant a similar moratorium on war debts and then, afier the German. French and American elections and at the end of the disarmament confer- ence, but before the expiration of the moratorium, to hold a new reparations and war debts conference to make & new “final” settlement. ‘The French plan is to extend the German moratorium by two years from June 1 on the conditional part of the Young annuity and at the same time to issue bonds on the German rallway system in an amount sufficient to pro- vide an annual interest payment equal to the unconditional Young annuity of 660,000,000 marks ($157,080,000), but postponing the first interest payment unttl June 1, 1934. Great Britain and Italy. the former holding & 22 per cent and the latter a 10 per cent share in reparations, do not like the French plan because, they say, it prolongs the uncertainty. (Copyright. 1932.) —e Toronto Plant Robbed. TORONTO, January 18 (#).—Three Bloyes of the Cana g nt yesterday and es- $5,000 from the offics