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A—2 e TN T ANUARY 19, 1932 v ORY SOUTH BLOCKS WETS, BARTONSAYS Voters Will Defy Party Lines if Necessary, Asserts League Leader. The South will not give its support | to a wet presidential candidate in 1932, | no matter what his political affiliation. | i Dr. A. J. B chairman of the Ex- | ecutive Committee of the Anti-Salcon | League, declated at the league’s con- | ventlon this afternoon at the May- | flower. This statement came on the heels of a much-criticized speech by | Gov. Willlam H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray | last night before the convention, in | which he suggested that the solution of the liquor problem might lie in a | system of ne”” control | While not mentioning Gov. Murray’s | name, Dr. Barton hit at his suggestion that “leagues” of States might be formed by the indivi tates, making | treaties with the Federal Governme and the liquor traffic regulated accord- ing to the wishes of each individual} “league” or “zone.” Hits States’ Rights Talk. “The South will not be misled by the | hue and cry about States’ rights” Dr Barton declared The South know that the wets who are now paying lip service to States' rights either do not understand what States’ rights mean or else are deliberately or maliciously mis- interpreting and perverting this thing which is sacred and fundamental in our | Government Dr. Barton said he wished to warn all political party leaders that “if they de- sire or expect the support of the South they must stand before the South with clean hands and pure hearts on the subject of prohibition and must not at- tempt to betray the convictions of South or destroy the highest intere of the South and the highest interests of the American people.” The speaker charged that “judge- ships have been bartered and sold like sheep in the shambles by such ma- chines as Tammany Hall. No candi- date for the presidency can or will re- ceive the support of the Southern peo- ple who comes forth with the badge and smell of Tammany Hall upon him,” Dr. Barton told the league. F League leaders said that no official statement would be issued, as had been predicted, repudiating the suggestion made by Gov. Murray. “In view of the treatment given Murray's address in the morning newspapers,” Dr. A. J. Barton declared, “no statement from the league seems necessary.” Dr. F. Scott McBride, general super- intendent of the league, said he con- * sidered the matter a closed incident and that the league's official stand on the liquor question would be made pub- lic in declaration of policy tonight. Interruption Averted. The Oklahoma Governor made his * suggestion in the packed hall of the Mayflower Hotel, where recently Demo- cratic speakers derided prohibition at the Jackson day dinner. Interruption of the speech of the pic- turesque Oklahoman from the floor by members of the league probably was averted only because Gov. Murray diverged from the advance copy of his “speech furnished newspaper men and Itoned down considerably several state- ments he had intended uttering. Last night Dr. Barton let it be known that he intended rising during Gov. Murray's speech and denying that the Views being expressed were those of the league. “But he didn't say what he was sup- posed to say,” Dr. Barton declared after- ward, “and 1 didn't know what to do. Gov. ray made it clear that he considered® the plan for liquor control he outlined only a “possible solution.” He said that he wished “it especially Toted that I am pointing out what could be done, and how, and not offer ing any plan for solution.” The scheme outlined calls for forma- tion of various “zones’ or groups cf States by treaty between the States and the Federal Government One group might have wine, anotner beer and a third might be bone dry. Interstate commerce in alcoholics between these groups or leagues would be prohibited The speaker said at the outset that he wanted to discuss “possible changes on the light of possible eventualities and of possible Tetreats He prefaced his advancement of the regional control plan by the statement that prohibition “possibly is mot the | final solution of the problem of control of the liquor traffic In the advance copy stated that is my judgment now that prohibition will' not prove the wisest legal solution of the control of | the liquor traffic 1 Leaves Out Criticism. In his prepared speech Gov. Murray also said that he thought a law pro- hibiting only the sale and transporta- tion of liquor, and which would h: allowed the home manufacture of win and beer, would have been more sa factory than the Volstead law He omitted this, however, in his address be- fore the Anti-Saloon League delegates. Word of the probable tenor of Gov Murray's speech reached the Mayflower Hotel, which is the convention’s head: quarters, less than an hour before the evening meeting was to begin League leaders hastily conferred, After talking at length with Dr. Barton, H. T Laughbaum, State superintendent of the league Oklahoma, who had extended the invitation to speak. took a seat be- side Gov. Murray and talked ecarnes with him until the Governor began his address. Explaining the divergence from prepared copy, Gov. Murray said “I got started on the wrong foot, and 1 never could get back to my text. But I'll stand back of every word I intended to “I was satisfied that a lot of people in the audience did not think as I do. 1 kept a close eye on the crowd and I knew they weren't in sympathy with my vie The mentality of the crowd wasn't what I expected “The Oklahoma superintendent of | the league, who introduced me, advised me I ought to make a straight prohibi- tion speech, and I felt, with the cold- ness of the audience, that I might embarrass the Executive Committee, so 1 did tone down my speech.” After the speech was completed Dr. Barton hastily gathered together a group of the league leaders and argued for the issuance of a statement immedi- | ately. v of his speech he his Deplores Murray Speech. Former Representative Wiliam D, Upshaw of Georgia, now president of the National Christian. = Citizenship Foundation, characterized Gov. Mur- ray’s address as “most unfortunate.” Mr. Upshaw said “It is most unfortunate that Gov Murray, after having declared himself for prohibition, made,a mental excur- sion, which I fear will be widely in- terpreted as a fundamental proposition “T heartily wish he had stuck to his original propusnion and not even con- sidered any sort of retreat from the eighteenth amendment which is basic censtitutional law.” Gov. Murray’s plan for regional liquor control was set forth in considerably more detall in his prepared speech than in the address he actually delivered. In his advance copy, he said “Some have suggested that it will be necessary to repeal the eighteenth amendment and leave to each State the settlement of the question. That will system, when ratified by Congress and | attempts to bring it into national poli- | Flying in bitter cold five miles high. on the wings of a 70-mile wind. Capt Reuben C. Moffat, Army Air Cory sterday afternoon flew from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, to Bolling Field in 86 minutes, at an average speed of 266 mil clipping 24 minutes off the best previous record hour Mofiat had to take oxygen from a flask throughout the flight Capt an which | was made to test the power plant of his new Curtiss P-6D Army pursuit plane Moffat required but 86 minutes to make the trip from the time ight Field until they touched Bolling, he took 20 minutes to The temperature Though Capt his wheels left W climb to the 25,000-foot level at which the flight was made. there average 28 degrees below zero Centigrade. Capt. Moffat was able to locate Washington while over the Blue Ridge Mountains and began dropping from his five-mile height while still 50 miles away. His plane, just adopted for Army pursuit work, is powered with a 660- horsepower fluid-cooled engine, driving a geared three-bladed propeller. The engine is highly supercharged for altitude fying. Capt. Moffat took off from Bolling Field this morning on the return trip. He expected to fly at normal altitude and at cruising speed and anticipated the return trip would require twice as long as the record flight here. -Star Staff Photo. BISHOP RICHARDSON FAVORS DRY VOTE New Anti-Saloon President Would Confine Referendum to Separate States. use of leagues of States and zone con- trol; in effect, a treaty between the States and the Federal Government— a power used but once or twice in the history of the Government—yet entirely within constitutional powers and limi- tations. | “I give this merely as an illustration | of what can be d 1t would be en- | tirely constituticnal, as in the settle- ment of the source of the waters of the Boulder Dam. for the United States Government, through Congress, to create a commission to make a treaty between the several States by groups or zones of States in league tor a common method. cach State, in turn, appoint- ing a commission to draft jointly a| treaty with the Federal commission. | “Suppose, then, they should agree | that a uniform law covering the entire | Republic could not be made satisfac- | Bishop Ernest G. Richardson, newly tory; that they found New York, Penn- | elected president of the Anti-Saloon sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and |League, said last night, he would have Wisconsin wanted beer and wine; Cali- | no cbjection to a prohibition refer- fornia and the other Pacific and grape- | endum if the vote were confined to the growing States wanted wines: certain | separate States and all States. other States wanted to handle liquor | = Confident of the result, he looks upon in a given way for medicinal purposes | pois of the voters by the various States only, and certain other States wanted a5 the best means of settling the issue the power of such a commission to draw | Richardson is head of the Philadelphia a statute, grouping these States accord- | areq of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ing to their desires and wishes, and have | * “When & majority of the people in that statute ratified by Congress and | tnree-fourths of the States,” he said by three-fourths cf all the States, at yesterday “favor repeal of the amend- the same time providing that interstate | men: then let it go. That's the only commerce between the beer States |conctitutional way to proceed.” should be had, but not between them ™4 "national referendum to Richard- and any other States; and likewise that | son’s pind, would be “meaningless,” no those having wine alone, prohibiting | natter what the popular result, be- interstate commerce with the bone-dry cause of the constitutional proviso re- States. Such & line drawn on the zone | quiring 36 States to vote for repeal be- | fore that could be accomplished. the Legislatures of three-fourths of the | " e said he did not believe & majority States, would undoubtedly be Within | of the people of the Nation would vote the Constitution &nd the law of the|for repeal. But if they did or not, he land, until amended or changed by & | added, it would not be fair to permit like method.’ the voters in a dozen States to write Urging uniform enforcement of prohi- | the law for the entire Nation. bition, Gov. Murray hit illegal methods | j 3 of search and seizure. Cites Colonial Union. In concluding he reaffirmed his sup- | “If it had not been for the combining port of prohibition at the present time, | of the Colonies on equal status we said its repeal within the next four would have no United States today.” years was not within the realm of pos- | he said, adding, “It’s just as important Sibility, pledged that he would enforce [to have equal representation of the it as Governor of Oklahoma and decried | States on the prohibition guestion as it is for them to have equal Tepresen- tics. | tation in the Senate.” “I should hate to have it said thnl‘ “That's the foundation of our Gov- I rode into either the governor's man- | ernment,” he added sion or the White House on a beer ke; Richardson said he belleves every he asserted. ‘ State “should settle its own problem At another point he said that “we | on national repeal through a referen- dum of its own citizens. have discussed prohibition now in a Christian world for some 1,200 years;| Saying he never before attended a meeting of the league, the new presi- to remain bone dry. It would be Within | of repeal of the eighteenth amendment. | we shall have 1,200 more, if our Nation may endure, to do so; but we cannot wait the settlement of economic errors, otherwise we shall have no government for such discussion. Preceding Gov. Murray's speech, Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, director of the league’s education department, predict- ed that “in the coming vears we will| face the necessity of going farther than the eighteenth amendment goes to de- stroy the liquor traffic. The fanaticism of today may become the common sense | of tomorrow.” He said that “no man can run for the presidency who has shown by his ac- tion that he is against enforcement of word of the Constitution.” The business of the league at its ses- sion this morning was confined to hear- ing reports by league State superintend- ents of activities in their various juris- dictions. Praises Enforcement Here. A E. Shoemaker, District of Colum- bia Anti-Saloon League superintendent, praised law enforcement agencies here, in his report for the last two years. He said Washington has a good police force and a good police chief, and that they are doing their best to enforce the prohibition laws. The passage of additional legislation similar to the Howell bill, however, he sald, is necessary to supplement their efforts. The statement yesterday by Bishop Ernest G. Richardson, newly elected endum by States, was attacked this morning by Dr. L. W. Sloan, State | superintendent for Louisiana, who said. | “If we adopt a policy of even favoring State referendum, it will hurt us, espe- clally in my State.” State Supt. G. W. Crabb of MaryA‘ land,” told the convention that Gov. Ritchie s trying to make himself a national figure so as to be sure he will be e ancther term. A. H. Briggs of California, another State superintendent, said that Cali- fornia would oppose “sending back to Congress any man who hooks up with the Hearst-Johnson combine against President Hoover. This afternoon Dr. Barton and Col. hibition, were to speak. The convention (Pussyfoot) Johnson, McDonough, Elizabeth Tilton, Cam- N. Y.; Mrs, hart, Iow Texas, Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, Wash- ington, and Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Chicago. Yesterday afternoon Bishop James Cannon, jr., warned that “any Raskob- ian attempt to muzzle Southern eccle- not permit a State to be dry, if it so desires, owing to the exercise of inter- #tate commerce by the Federal Govern- ment which would do more to destroy the law than the bootlegger. A State could not be dry if it wanted to, be- cause the Federal laws would interfere, “Itqould be done within the Consti- fetiong@nd under its limitatio) the siastics will meet the sarpe results as in 1928. Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of pro- | president of the league, that he would | tional Conservative party. not be oppcsed to a probibition refer- | day in a clinic where he was oper- cted Governor of Maryland for banquet is scheduled for tonight and | those to be heard include Dr. William | sence of several years, Gov. Willk dent asserted he was not acquainted with its activities and could make no promises as to future policies, other than to urge “harmony of effort” with other prohibition organizations. A stanch defend: of the dry | cause, he said he did not believe “too much” was being spent on enforcement and more funds should be used “if necessary.” AKRON TEST CALLED OFF Mooring Experiments Postponed and Steamer Returns to Port. NORFOLK, Va. January 19 (#.— Further mooring experiments between the dirigible Akron and the mooring ship Patoka planned for today have been postponed indefinitely. The Patoka, which steamed out of the Norfolk Navy Yard yesterday for Plan- tation Flats, near Cape Charles, was back in port today after plans for a second maneuver with the Akron were canceled. The first mooring attempt, made Sunday morning. was successfully completed, but the Akron pulled loose when a locking lug gave way. Cuban Political Leader Dies. HAVANA, Cuba, January 19 (#).—Dr. Juan M. Cabada, president of the Na- died Mon- ated on for appendicitis last week. He was 55 years old. Murray D'('(-lal:es Car Lines Merger Is Old D. C. Issue “Talking for 25 Years,” He Says, Blaming Lack of Vote. Returning to the Capital after an ab- m H. Murray of Oklahoma made a short au- | tomobile tour of the downtown section bridge, Mass.: Senator Smith W. Brook- | yesterday and looked over the new Gov- : Senator Morris Sheppard of ernment building development. “You know,” he said, “when I was in { Congress here 1 didn't get around much except on street cars. I'd just get on and ride and tell the conductor to come around and collect whenever he thought it was time.’ As an afterthought, he queried: “Did they ever merge the street car He charged that the former Gov. | lines?” Cox of Ohio insulted the ministers of | the South in his Jackson day dinner speech, when he said: spectfully ask that you call politica' ecclesiastics back to their pulpits that truth may go to your people.” Answered in the negative, he said: “Well, they had been talking about “May we re-|that for 25 years when I came to Con- gress and hadn't done anything about it 1 nuess when people Ve no vole they can't get anything doheX WS URGE BEER 10 BALT CRES Five House Members Back Bingham Bill in Senate and Score Dry Law. By the Associated Press | Another group of anti-prohibition Representatives went before a Senate comittee today to advocate the Bing- | ham 4 per cent beer bill. Representative Dickstein, Democrat, | of New York contended employment of | the whole Army “couldn’t stop this| thing going on today.” | sive us back beer,” he said, “and | stop this bootlegging and moonshining. | let us have law and order.” | Dickstein said “Before prohibition, if ' you asked a girl to take a drink she | would smack you in the face; now, x(; you haven't one to offer, she will kick you.” Cochran Cites Own Drinking. | Representative Cochran, Democrat, | replying to questions by | Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con- | necticut, sald war-time prohibition was voted to release men for the munitions plants and shipyards and to acquire the food going into beer In future wars, he said. he would vote to prohibit the manufacture of “ice cream and soft drinks if necessary to {win the war Cochran, who planned to address the House today on prohibition, said he never “drank whisky until after prohi- bition.” Representative Sweeney, Democrat Ohic, a former municipal Jud Cleveland. said the average age of persons who came before him in charged with intoxication was Says Youth Would Like Beer. “These were the boys and girls our | dry friends told us would never taste | alcohol under prohibition,” he said “And what are they drinking? They | are drinking canned heat. corn liquer, | raw alcohol and raisin jack.” Sweeney said youth would gradually develop a taste for beer if it were made lawful Representative Sabath, Democrat Tilinois, said Chicago was the most “law | abiding and sober city in the United | States before prohibition, notwithstand- | ing it had 7,000 saloons.” Now, he said, the city speakeasies Kansas Demand “Tremendous.” Chicago has “suffered.” he added, because the “large prohibition territory | of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Ne-| braska, depends upon Chicago for its liquor supply “You don't Bingham_said, “The demand from Kansas Is tre- mendous,” Sabath replied. “I henestly believe,” he said, “that; no city has suffered so much in the | last 12 years, due to prohibition, as the City of Chicago, for it has suffered | not only in reputation, but it has been ! subjected to scorn and ridicule of the | entire world. And why? Only because | of this crime and corruption-breeding | law." has 70,000 mean Kansas?” Senator Mrs. Norton Testifies. Representative Mary T. Norton Democrat, New Jersey, testified beer | would not remove the immoral aspects, but at least would provide a partial so- | ution of this vexing probem.” When asked by Senator Bingham how much barley and hops could have been used in the 22,000.000 barrels of illegal beer estimated to have been produced in 1930, Mrs. Norton said she had tasted some of that beer and it ap- parently “had neither barley nor hops in it She said women were “changing” on | the_prohibition question Those with children from 5 to 12 years of age, she said, were writing her expressing the “hope that something will be done before their children reach the flask-toting age. PROBE OF CHILEAN LOANS AND NITRATE CONCESSION ASKED (Coptinued From First Page.) retary had a hand in influencing Amer- ican bankers to make a loan to Colom- bia, which went forward shortly after | the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corpo- | ration received a concession from Co- lombia to valuable oil lands in the Barco concession | Gregg read a cable sent by Olaya in | answer " to Patman’s charees. Gregg said the cable was sent voluntarily on { January 16. It read: “In the negotiation of the bank credit to Colombia, neither the Barco conces- sion nor any point relative to petroleum legislation was taken into account in anv way. he policy of my government in these two questions has exclusively fol- lowed general consideration based on the advantage to the country to develop its petroleum wealth on basis which might harmonize the interests of the nation with those of all foreign capital whicn wished or may wish to invest in this in- dustry in Colombia, because I considered that confidence would thus be stimu- lated and prepared abroad for the fu- ture credit and resources of the country. Talk on Concession Denied. “I never discussed nor even spoke with Secretary Mellon regarding the Barco concession nor regarding any matters of the American Government in order that Colombia might obtain credit, and the conversation with Mr. Mellon referred to that in the report of El Tempo of Bogota of August 8 of last year was in the nature of general appreciations regarding economic con- ditions in Colombia, and the mention made in it by the Secretary regarding the possibilities that the petroleum riches of Colombia offer for its economic restoration were incidental, and I con- sidered it then and have considered it ever since as a mere general opinion in estimating the elements which consti- tute the riches available for the prog- ress of the country, but never as a hint or suggestion regarding a specific litigation. was the only time T talked with y Mellon regarding matters re- ferring to Colombia Soon after the presentation of the cable by Gregg. the committee went 1into executive session to consider the impeachment resolutions. U. S. OFFICIALS INJURED BY HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER Taken to Hospital in Serious Con- dition After Accident in French Village. By the Associated Press NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France, Janu- ary 19.—Earle Chandler Taylor, assist- ant trade commissioner for the United States, and George Berkalew, a member of the American embassy staff, were struck by a hit-and-run driver in the village of Villedieu Saturday night and are in the American Hospital in serious condition, Taylor, a resident of Pennsylvania, has an injured head, and Berkalew, who comes from New York, has injuries in the pelvic region, A French woman who was with them was injured, and a Frenchman suffered a fractured skull. The party was changing a tire when the accident occurred. | suppeort. ssen complications in_the work of the | ! Studied the Cures of Wa 'FIND NEW CLUES REDUCTION OF ALL ARMAMENT URGED Conference on Cause and Cure of War Discusses Aims for Geneva Parley. A resolution urging that the Am: can delegation attending the Geneva Disarmament Conference be instructed to insist upon a “bold reduction of eve category of armament indicated by t report of the Preparatory Commission was approved foday by delegates attend- ing the seventh annual Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, A discussion of the world's economic dilemma and its bearing upon interna- tional peace occupied the greater part of the morning session after passage of the resolutions A resolution will be considered this afternoon in which the conferen; places itself on record as opposed to the Senate’s failure to take action on the World Court. It is expected the resolution will be passed and pressure brought to bear upon the Senate to the World Court in order 1 pending Disarmament Conference. Compares Interests. Declaring the increasing building up of national trade and economic bar- rers in an age when world-wide de- pendence is greater than ever, Ern- est M. Patterson of the University of Pennsylvania said, referring to the na- tions of the world Each of us has two sets of economic interests, One calls for the indepen- dent action of his country, whose gov- ernment must protect its nationals against the numerous injuries which ht otherwise have a tragic effect The other interest is in a world-widc co-operation, a freedom of intercourse | that will permit all of us in all coun- | tiies to prosper more than we can in isolation.” | Supporting Prof. Patterson's conten- tion that the economic dilemma is the basis of world unrest, George Soule of the New Republic, New York, de- clared “International trafc is jammed be- cause every driver makes his own traf- fic regulations and tries to enforce his own right of way." Deplores Selfishness. “It will be difficult.” he concluded, {o learn how to plan our economy 1or the common good, and it will be an arduous task to defeat the many selfisa and short-sighted interests which will obstruct, the endeavor. The thing can- not be done in a day. But the develop- ment of modern industry resistibly in that direction. Speakers at the noon luncheon were Mrs. Helen Howell Moorhead, whose subject was “Why and How We Have udied the Causes of War"”; Mrs. Ben “Why and How We Have and Miss fork, “What Hooper, Marjorie Schuler of New Have We Achieved?" Last evening, Paul Kellogg, editor of the Survey, and Herbert Feis, economic advisor of the State Department, spoke on “Want in the Midst of Plenty,” and told how money, banks and financial undertakings are related to the present cconomic dilemma Mr. Kellogg indorsed the plan for Federal aid and unemployment insur- ance, pointing out the $20,000,000 paid by New York State for unemployment relief had already brought into the State four times that amount through a corresponding recovery in business and trade. Mr. Feis declared our monetary and | banking institutions, through acting | faultily, have played a large part in the present economic_depression. i The night session concluded with a “pageant of petitions,” designed to de- pict_the scenes scheduled to take place | at the Geneva conference, when women | from 47 nations present dlsaxmnmvm“ petitions. College students and girl re- | serves took part in the pageant. IN KELLER DEATH Police Discount Robbery Theory ag More Evidence Is Found. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., January 19.—A theory that a motive other than rob- bery prompted the assassination of Wil- liam F. Keller, 65, prominent hardware merchant, at midnight Saturday as he answered a doorbell summons at his residence a moment or two after re- turning from his store. was being in- vestigated today by police while Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden, pastor of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church, was hold- ing funeral rites for the slain merchant at the Keller home. Police were becoming convinced that an attempt had been made on Keller’s life just before he entered his home at the northeast corner of Loudoun and Clark streets, situated in a quiet resi- dential section and not brightly lighted. They had established to their satisfac- tion that he was shot with a 25-caliber automatic pistol. One such cartridge and bullet were found on the front porch, corresponding with the bullet | removed from his body by a surgeon. Since then, it has developed, police found another dented but unexploded cartridge immediately around the cor- ner on Clark street, where in the dark- ness the assassin had a favorable lurk- ing place from which to shoot. Police theorized that the Kkiller actually snapped the pistol at that point and| failing thus to accomplish the killing followed as Keller approached the house and entered. FEDERAL PAY CUT INCLUSION IN FUND MEASURE SOUGHT (Continued From First Page) priation bills so as to decide this ques- tion once and for all.” 3 Declaring that reasonable reduction of Government salaries would save tax- payers from $200,000,000 to $225.000,000. Senator Borah introduced today a bill to cut all salaries above $5.000 a year. The bill provided for cutting salaries between $5.000 and $7.500 by 6 per cent: salaries from $7.000 to $10,000, 10 per cent, and higher salaries, 20 per_cent. The cut would apply to all Govern- ment_employes except persons holding iudicial positions and the President of the United States. The Constitution prevents their salaries from being reduced 4 “Investigation discloses,” Borah said, } “that total salaries drawn by employes of Siate and Federal Governments in 1931 was about $6,000,000,000. and this amounts to about 40 per cent of the gross expenditures of these governments. “I am urging these salary cuts simply because we are in the midst of a na- tional crisis and every one must share its_burdens.” The Idaho Senator said he had found a “great willingness,” among members of Congress to cut their salaries “and all other Federal officials should be equally willing.” @ They cannot afford to stand in the to | | partment, HUGE TREE TRANSPLA NTED IN Magnifi('ent Magnolia Moved MALL DEVELOPMENT. NE of the most difficult jobs of transplanting tre the Mall improvement program was under way tod undertaken in in the changing ¢ of a fine old magnolia from its old location in the center of what will be the future treeless greensw ‘ Department r SENATEVOTE NEAR ON DEFICIENCY BILL {Passage Expected After $100,000 Item for Avia- tors Is Retained. The Senat» today may pass the $126.- 070,000 deficency appropriation bill, having disposed of a disputed Nationai defense item yesterday by voting 35 to 28 to leave in the bill $100,000 for train- ing aviation pilots in the Officers’” Re- serve Corps. Opponents of the appropriation, led by Senator Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa, argued that, in view of the pres- ont economic condition, this item could be saved, since it was not asked for by War Department, or estimated for by the Budget Bureau. Supporters of the amendment, head- ed by Senator Bingham, Republican, of nnecticut, backed it primarily on the factor of fety Without this addi- tional sum to complete the fiscal year, | Senator Bingham said, Reserve pilots would be restricted to 39 minutes in tie air each month. Experience has shown, Senator Bingham said, that pilots need about four hours a month flying time in order to fly safely. Regular train. ing, he said. is not only a measure of human safety for the pilots, but safety for Government property also. Senators Kendrick of Wyoming, Fletcher of Florida and Harris of Georgia, all Democats, and Reed, Re- publican, of Pennsylvania, joined Bing- ham in supporting Senators McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, and Glenn, Republican, of Illi- nois, were among those who argued for its elimination on the ground of conomy. Senator Jones of Washington, chair- man of the Appropriations Committee, praised the patriotism of the Rese:ve pilots, but said he felt that in view of present conditions the $100,000 item should not be allowed. After the Sen- ate voted to leave the item in the bill Jones said that in conference he would set aside his personal views and en- deavor to sustain the Senate’s action. GOTWALS OHDEREDi TO RETIRING BOARD FOR EXAMINATION > (Continued _From First Page.) chief engineer, 2d Army: assistant to section engineer, Advanced Section, S O S. and section engineer, base sec- tion, No. 2, Bordeaux. Headed Alaskan Road Board. Upon his return to the United States in December, 1919, he was assigned as department enginecr, the Eastern De- and acted in this capacity until March. 1920. A month later he was assigned to duty as president of the Board of Road ~ Commissioners of Alaska, where he also acted as sec- retary and disbursing officer of the board, engineer officer, assistant district engineer of the Juneau Alaska district and reported to the Secretary of the Interior for duty with the Government railroad and Territory of Alaska. Upon his relief from auty in Alaska Maj. Gotwals was assigned in 1924 as districi engineer of the St. Louis dis- trict, from which post he was assigned s Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- rict of Columbia, Was Awarded D. S. C. Maj. Gotwals' promotions are re- corded as follows: First lieutenant in February, 1914; captain in July, 1916, and major in July; 1920. During the war he was a temporary major from 1917 until 1918, when he was tempo- rarily given the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Medal for exception- ally meritorious and distinguished serv- ice in France, the citation reading as follows: “John C. Gotwals, major, then lieu- tenant_colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A, .for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service. = As chief search- light officer, A, E. F., he rendered con- spicuous service in a position of great responsibility and in a field which was practically new to our service. By his unlimited energy, marked inventive faculties and high technical skill, to- gether with his ever-present willingness to co-operate with our allies, he organ- ized and directed with great success an exceedingly advanced technical serv- ice for the night protection of troop concentrations, communications, supply and manufacture establishments in rear areas, thereby contributing materially to the success of the American Expedi- tionary Forces. Plan Leap Year Dance. _GLENMONT, Md. January 19 (Spe- cial) —A leap year dance, for the bene- fit of the Parent-Teachers' Association midst of a distressed situation and r fuse to share any part of the burden he_said. Under Borah's bill the salaries of members of Congresk&vould be cut from $10,000 & year to $8,000. of the Glenmont School, will be held at the school Friday night. Music will be furnished by the Marylanders. There will be refreshments and prizes. Mrs. Arthur L. Smith and Mrs. Grace Royall are in ehasge of agrangements. oots of any tree ever transplanted there. the amendment. | ard of the Mall to a location along the edge of the Mal!, where there will be grouped various types of trees. Th old magnolia, which is said to be one of the ecarly trees of the Agriculture unds, was dug up with one of the largest balls of earth about its | PUBLICITY CLAUSE Ask That Section Be Elimi- nated From Reconstruc- tion Bill. } BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | Bankers in various parts of the coun- t have telegraphed to Washington arging that the so-called publicity pro- vision of the Senate bill creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation be vliminated in conference, lest the cor- poration be handicapped at the very start of its cperations. It is argued that banks will not apply for loans if the amount and nature of these transactions are to be made pub- lic, the objection being that the very resort to the corporation may be inter- preted in local circles as a sign of weak- ness, and hence prcvide a loss of the very confidence the new legislation is designed to maintain. Report Called For. The Senate measure contains the fol- lowing provision, which was not in- cluded in the House bill: “The corporation shall submit quar- terly to the President and to the Senate and House of Representatives (or the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House, if those bodies are not in session) a full and detailed report of its activities and expenditures, together with a statement showing the condition of any funds administered by it, includ- | ing a statement of the volume of loans or other transactions entered into un- | der this act during the period covered by the report, the names of the persons, financial institutions or with whom contracts of loans or other transactions were entered into, and the amount involved in each case. Such reports shall, when submitted, be printed as public documents. Contrary to Practice. The amendment had considerable support in the Senate side of the Capi- tol, being spensored by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin. The protesting bankers say they have no objection to the listing of the information and its | to the controller of the currency or some other designated officer of the | | tegislative or executive branch of the | Government, but that the making pub- | lic of any private loans is contrary to | banking practice, and would_inevitably prevent the Reconstruction Corporation from functioning. The National Credit Corporation | came a cropper on a clause which was | | little considered at the time of its for- | | mation, namely, the provision which required local clearing houses to assume | | liability for loans. While this was a | stipulation made by the bankers them- | selves, 1t illustrates how a single barrier may block the smooth functioning of the’ whole financial structure. Run Actually Started. | The fact that banks had to submit | their requests to local clearing houses meant_ virtually making it public, be- cause the directors of many institutions | had to be consulted before liability could | be assumed. In some cases word would | | | | leak out that a bank was applying for | accommodations at the National Credit | Corporation, and this was locally con- | strued to mean the borrowing bank was |in difficulties. In one instance it is laimed a run actually was started. i | Unless the application for a loan is guarded better than in the case of the | National Credit Corporation, which had | | no publicity provision whatsoever, fears | are expressed that the great hopes pinned in the forthcoming operations | {of the Reconstruction Corporation will | | not_be realized | The expectation is that some ¢ in the publicity provision will be 1 when the bill is amended in confer | though the fate of the whole measi:. | Tests on the removal of such clauses as | would open up private loans to public | inspection. | (Copyright. 1932) | DAMASCUS cméefs* BODY SEEKS MEMBERS | Large Crowd Hears Speakers at Banquet of District Body at High School. Special Dispatch to The Star. DAMASCUS, Md., January 19.—For the purpose of promoting interest in the Citizens' Association of the Damas- |cus district, a banquet was held in the high school here last night, with 135 persons present. The first address of the evening was given by Rev. W. Clark Main, pestor of the Damascus Methodist Church, on aims of Damascus Citizens’ Association This was followed by a talk by Stephen James, recent president of the Mont- gomery County Clvic Federation. A short program of entertainment was also given. Josiah W. Jones, pres- ident of the Montgomery County Farm Bureau, gave an address on his im- pressions of the Chicago Live Stock | Exposition as well as the recent Balti- more Agricultural Convention. = The meeting waggbrought to a close with moving ros, corporations ! submission as a confidential document | | schairerite, | igan, IINER ORGANIZERS TELL OF BEATINGS Pair Charge Harlan County Officers With Assault After Arrest. By the Associated Pro: | KNOXVILLE, Tean, January 1 | Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, Natt { Miners' Union organizers, misst | last Friday, came to Knoxvil ppalachia, Va. today and related a story of being arrested at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. teken by Harlan Cou officers to Lynch, Ky.. and clubbed into insensib; Weber, a slender, light-haired man who said he had been organizer for the National Miners’ Union at Wilk Pa. displayed black and blue ! stripes across his back and a gash in his neck Arrested by Deputy. said he and Duncan. 44, Bell miner, were arrested by Deputy Hugh Ryder of Claiborne Tern., Friday night. r, he said, called Harlan, Ky, aid over the telephone “We've got your two men " Sheriff Frank Riley of Claiborne | County, Weber said, was called and he 1in turn’talked to Harlan Three men in an automobile, *eber related. came from Harlan and took him and Duncan, whom they belicved to be Frank Borich. sccretary of the National Miners’ Union, to Harlan and turned them over to four men dressed in “leather coats and carrying two pistols apie Beaten With He said these men declared “this is the end for you two," took them to Lynch, Ky., where they were joined by another group of men. ‘Then, he re- lated, they were taken up the moun- tain from Lynch and beaten with clubs and sandbags. Weber said this oc- curred about 2:30 Saturday morning. At daylight Saturday, according to Weber's story, they were picked up and taken to Appalachia, Va, where they stayed with a friend of Duncan until their wounds healed. Weber is secretary of the Central Strike Committee in the Kentucky-Ten= nessee coal fields. County R} Clubs. CONNER INAUGURATION ATTRACTS THOUSANDS Jackson, Miss.,, Streets Thronged as “Practical Politician™ Suc- ceeds Gov. Bilbo. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., January 19.—Thou- sands thronged the capital today for the induguration of Martin Sennett Conner, who has promised, with the aid of ‘a friendly Legislature, to find means of balancing the State budget, | prospectively shy $10,000,000. Conner succeeds Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo, for years the dictator of Missis- sippl’ politics. He campaigned as & “practical politician.” Conner’s home is Seminary, Miss., and he is known throughout the State as “Mike.” ISAVANTS DISCOVER | FOUR NEW MINERALS i IN SOUTH AND WEST (Continued From First Page.) ical analyses. One specimen was in & lot obtained from the North Carolina site several years ago and the other was in the Roebling collection of min- i erals in the custody of tie Smithsonian Institution. The new material, which has a spe- cific gravity of 6.39, ranges from dark brown to orange brown in color and has a slightly waxy. luster. Its principal constituent is an uranium oxide, about |82 per cent. Very small amounts of lead, rare earths, water and sodium enter into the composition of the mineral. . It has been named clarkeite, after the late Prof. Frank Wigglesworth Clarke of the United States Geological Survey. The discovery is credited joint= ly to Clarence S. Ross of the Geological Survey, E. P. Henderson of the Smith- sonian Institution and E. Posnjak of | the Geophysical Laboratory. | The second new mineral discovered in | the Smithsonian material is a_nearly | transparent substance, brownish to | yellow in color, which itself is non= radio-active, although it is found in close conjunction with uranium-bearing rocks. It occurs in Southwestern Colorado and Southeastern Utah and may later be found in considerable quantities. Insoluble in Water, It is apparently insoluble in water, and its principal constituents are the | | rare element, vanadium; iron and water. In the semi-arid region where it is found, it is explained by E. P. Hender- son of the Smithsonian staff, who is one of the co-discoverers, the vanadium and uranium minerals hase been de- posited by cool, meteoric water circulat- ing through the comparatively soft, porous sandstones. They all have been moved a greater or less distance from their original po- sition. The mineral, the discovery of which is credited to Henderson and nk L. Hess of the Bureau of Mines, has been named fervanite The third mineral hitherto unknown to science was discovered by William L. ag of the Smithsonian staff material from the Searles Lake regior of Californix. where there is & body of solid an_area ol inore than 12 s iriles and exceeding 100 feet thick material. named ed to have been recovered {rom near the bottom of this layer, Colorless in Pure State. It is described by F phate and fluoride of soda. but completely soluble in water and accur- ring enly in the form of crystals, which eldom exceed a millimeter in length, Sometimes tiny crystals of other sub- ctances are found inside It is a brittle mineral, colorless in purest state, but generally faintly milky or flecked with minute, cloudlike masses of inclosed mud The fourth of the new minerals is krausite, a sulphate from San Berna- dino County, Calif, and from the dumps of a Mexican mine. Krausite, named in honor of the professor of mineralogy at the University of Mich- is insoluble in water. Its prin. cipal constituents are sulphur, potas- sium and iron It is found in several forms. One form consists of rumraraln'e]y large, rough crystals, and oiten has a pale mauve color superimposed on the vel low of the purer mineral. A se form is that of lemon-vellow crystals, very small and often clear and with brilliant luster. This new mineral alsy was discovered by Mr. Feshag. g as “a sul- BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “The George Washington Bicentennial”. .. . Overture, “Prometheus”. .. ... Beethoven Paraphrase, “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginn: : ... Hosmer Melange, “Victor Herbert's Favorit Humorous, “Punch and Judy”. . Horbert Valse espagnole, “Estellita”. ... .Herheit Finale, “Valencia”_ ... . Padi: “The Star Spaugled Banner.”