Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1932, Page 2

HOOVER OPPOSES | CEVERALPAY U1 Would Welcome Individual Reductions in Interests of Government Economy. _(Continued From First Page) because of his long public service and study of governmental affairs, believes that while many of the Federal em- ployes are underpaid and others are not cverpaid, there are some individual em- ployes who are overpaid, and it would | be these latter that he would be satis- | fled to see reduced. ! Privately Mr. Hoover has expressed [ his opposition to proposals for general salary slashing with three definite rea- sons. FPirst, the efficiency and morale cf the Government would be lowered second, a bad example would be set by the Government for private business | throughout the country, and, third, the purchasing power would be necessarily reduced. Wood View Not Confirmed. | Nothing was said at the White House today regarding this subject that :aould be taken as & confirmation of the declaration mede in the House yester- day by Representative Wood, that President Hoover would approve a gen- eral reduction in Federal salaries. The President was represented fur ther as having repeatedly said that h would be glad to see Congress make reductions bevond the budget esti- mates if the proper and just function- ing of the Government could be pre- fu It was explained that Congress is en- gaged in examining budgel estimates and in studying the finances of the | Government and in the event this work will result in the enactment of legisl tion providing for further reduction, the President will pass on these individual measures as they come to him, and he will consider them upon their meril espects as to the particular groups that would be affected in the matter of reductions. T8 Just decision can be reached by {he President. it was said in his behalf BNL Rfter a careful study of each in-| dividual case. Furthermore, it was | pointed out at the White House today in the matter of reducing incomes, some | of the employes will have their incomes reduced by reason of having to pay in- e taxes O Bresident also will be guided in studying the subject by just how far it | will be necessary to go in the matter of #ctual economy to meet the Treasury Geficit. The President, however, was said to refer waiting until these salary reduc- jon proposals come to him in definite form before expressing himself publicly. : Denies Hoover Opposition. In-spite of the repeated authoritative statements that President Hoover is opposed to proposals for slashing into the galaries of Government employes, Representative Wood denied yesterday in the House that this is true. “The President of the United Btate: he insisted, “is not opposed to reduc- tion of salaries on the Government pay Toll.” This precipitated s general debate, with many members of the House in- terrupting Representative Wood with questions indicating their determina- tion against approval of any Federal pay cuts. These included Chairman Cochran of the House Expenditures Committee, which recently tabled four measures providing for salary reduc- tions; Representative Gibson, Repub- lican. of Vermont; Parsons, Democrat, of Iilinois; Rudd, Democrat, of New York, and others. Holds President's Wealth Cut. During this questioning Wood stated | that it was his understanding that President Hoover, reputed generally to be a multimillionaire, actually was worth now less than a million dollars. Asked by Representative Shannon, Democrat, of Missouri,. whether Presi- dent Hoover would approve a reduction of his salary, Wood said: “He has made a Jot of money, but has given it away. My information, from a reliable source, is that the Pres- ident today is not worth & million -dol- lars.” Turning on his questioner, Wood added #1 have faith enough to believe that ifithe salaries of the Federal employes arp reduced, President Hoover will re- duce his own salary. ¥Upder the Constitutfon, a Congress cannot reduce the salary of a President in: office, but can enact a law reducing the next President’s salary | He has more than reduced it 10| times since this depression has come by | danftions he has made. “He_has given more than $10,000 to the charitable institutions of this city alone* t Asks About Wealth. Bhannon then inquired: “Would the gentleman please give us some informa- tion on the reputed wealth of the President?” Wood said he did not know anything about “the reputed wealth of the Pres- ident “Is it not common rumcr that he is worth many, many millions?” Bhannon persisted. “Yes, and I say to the gentleman that I am_informed that that is a mistake. | Of coirse, that is & matter with which the gentleman and I have little con- | cern, but in answer to the gentleman's | question, and in orcer te set right the false impression tha'. has gone over the | country, I am inforraed that the Presi- | dent is not worth a million.” Representative Wood, who was speak- | ing on Government extravagance, said the hospitals are full of persons draw- ing pensions. He mentioned ci.* p-tient at Walter Reed who is drawing $150 disability pay, while his wife is getting $2500.pay from the Government. He | safd this man’s disability is not suffi- cient t keep him away from the race | track or poker tzble. | Sees Huge Saving | Mr. tem of the Army and Navy were aboi ished it would save the American people | it $2,000,000.000 & year Launching into his attack on the Ped eral pay roll, Representative Wood de clared: “I cannot understand why Gov- ernment clerks, paid out of the ury, are so insistent that their salaries shall not be reduced. This is incon- sistent with conditions throughout the world, when other nations, States and | cities are reducing the salaries of public employes.” Mr. Wood argued that salaries were increased since the war on account of the high cost of living, but that the cost | of 1y s been reduced 50 per cent, | and yet the Government employes ar opposing salary reductions. Representative Gibson of Vermont was unable to secure from Mr. Wood the aggregate amount of the pay roll in the Federal services, but when he asked Mr. Wood how much would be saved by a 10 per cent reduction in salaries Mr. Wood estimated that the saving would be upward of & hundred million_dollars. Mr. Wood said that when the Satur- | day haif-holiday bill was under con- sideration. Congress was assured that it wollld dost the Government nothing. However, he declared, it has cost the Post ‘OfMté Department alone $500.000 and the. Bureau of Engraving and Printing $250,000. Other Members Object. Other members of the House ob- Jected principally on the grounds that | in slashing salaries the Government would be making conditions worse by reducing the hundreds of thousands M | Dewey, Wood said if the transport sys- |0 | January 2 Returns to Native Land | Indore. comano, en route to Seattle, ShaefTer of that city formerly was Miss Nancy Miller { AHARANI SHARMISTHABIA HOLKAR, wife of the former Maharajah of as she arrived at New York yesterday on the S. S. Conte Bian- for a short visit with her grandfather, Louls ‘With her is her pet dog Carlos. The Maharani of Seattle. BARBOUR TESTIFIES LEAGUE WILL BACK IN FAVOR OF BEER ANY DRY CANDIDATE Held Aid to Enforcement. | Woll Backs Measure. | By the Associated Press. I Senator Barbour, new Republican member from New Jersey, today advo- cated the Bingham 4 per cent beer bill as & “step toward the return of reason and common sense.” One of the last witnesses to appear n favor of the measure before the op- ponents are heard next week, Senator | Barbour told the Manufactures Sub- committee: “There is, of course, the constitu- fonal question involved in increasing the alcoholic content of beer, inasmuch &s the eighteenth amendment forbids intoxicating beverages. Says Beer Would Aid Enforcement. “But there is a wide variance of opinion on the question of how much | campa alcoha! question I believe the Congress is quite | exact requirements of the corrupt prac- as qualified to judge as the Supreme Court, and I hope it will do ko is intoxicating, and on this “It seems strange to me that the dry fcrees have not seized upon the legali- zetion of real beer as a means of bring- ing about improved enforcement con- ditions if they are really interested in temperance. “1 feel, mioreover, that true enforce- | ment means eventual repeal. So, in ad- dition to the revenue to the Govern- ment that will accrue through the le- galization of beer, this bill is the logical first step and the one that should be taken at this time toward eventually re- lieving this whole intolerable situation, which, in my judgment at least, pro- hibition has brought about ‘Woll 8peaks for Labor. Matthew Woll. president of Labpr's National Committee for Modification of the Volstead act. pleaded for a change to permit manufacture of & 275 per cent malt beverage. Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, said he spoke for that organization, too. He declared there was growing a sentiment among organized labor and workers generally for repeal and uniess Congress enacted & “sane” enforcement act, labor would vote for repeal of the eighteenth amendment or modification Beer and light wines as articles of diet for expectant mothers were advo- cated by Dr. Martin Dewey of New York, president of the American Den- tal Association. Not oply is the small alcoholic content good for the mother, re contended, but it helps in the prop- er development of the unborn child's eeth. “It has long been known, sald “that one of the most impor- tant contributing factors to good teeth is the proper nutrition of the mother during pregnancy. The teeth of the child begin to form &t & very early period of inter-uterine life and the development depends upon the proper nutrition of the mother ! It has also long been known that in certain types of malnutrition as- sociated with pregnancy, the healtn of the mother can be greatly improved by adding a small quanitity of beer ht wines to the diet. The im- of beer s an article of diet not be over- estimated.” “In all cases of malnutrition” he ontinued, * the medical profession has long recognized the value of beer as an addition to the diet. It is a well established fact that all individuals who use small quanities of beer regular- | ly are better nourished than those who do not.” NEW MINE;?AL FOUND STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif, () Prof. A. F. Rogers of the mineralogy department of Stanford University has identified a new mineral, which he calls sanbornite, He said it is & barium silicate never before found The new mineral was named after Frank Sanborn of the California Bu- Teau of Mines. It is a lump of ore picked up in Mariposa County. wherever they saw & chance in draft- ing_the appropriation bills, and that he would support them When Mr. Wood said that common labor on the Eastern Shore of Mary- land would be glad to get work at a dollar & day, while the Government is paying for the same sort of labor $3 or 84 a day, he was sharply questioned by Representative Rudd of New York whether be believed that a dollar a day was a fair living wage and whether he thought $3 or $4 & day was an ex- cessive wage for labor Representative Parzons of Illinols was of Government employes below a living wage. | Representative Wood said that the ! esident told him and Chairman yrns of the House Ap:rovnltlom jttee not to be guided by the ’unl. but to cut to the bone one of Mr. Wood's most persistent ques- tioners and he emphasized that condi- tions surrounding labor on the Eastern Bingham Four Per Cent Bill Cannon Reads Declaration of Policy Flaying Wets at Closing Banquet. The Anti-Saloon League believes prohibition 1s not A partisan political issue, and stands ready to throw its full strength against any presidential candidate advocating repeal, modifica- | tion or resubmission. These two propositions stood out to- | day from the mass of statements, argu- ments and charges at the five-day con- vention of the league, which closed last night at the Mayflower Hotel. This morning State superintendents | and workers stayed over for another | day to discuss plans of organization and campaign. They were warned today by E. B. Dunford, national attorney of the: | league, fo observe strictly. all the e- quirements of the Federal anti~corrupt practices act in raising and distributing funds during the coming presidential ign. Mr. Dunford explained to them the tices act, and how to meet them. He offered the opinion that Bishop James Cannon, jr., now under indictment for his activities in the election of 1928, v as innocent of any offense against the Federal statute. Delegates Applaud Cangon. The position of the league on na- tional issues was expressed at & ban- quet last night in & declaration of policy adopted by the board of direc- tors and formulated and read by Bishop James Cannon, jr. At the conclusion the delegates shouted approval They also cheered when Bishop Can- non read: “We express our confidence in the President of the United States, the chief enforcement officer, and as- sure him of our support as to necessary appropriations and legisiation to make effect his program of enforcement.” The declaration of policy hit uhu}_[ was termed ‘Raskobian home le,’ which, it was stated, would mean * CAMERA MAN FACES ASSAILANT AT TRIAL | ell, former assistant chief of the Army | she was WASHINGTON, D. JANUARY 20, 1932, Capjtal Press Photographer and Officer Muster Witnesses. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | MIDDLEBURG, Va, January 20.—| | State Policeman T. F. Stafford, assigned | to Fauquier County, went on trial here | this afternoon before three justices of | | the peace on charges of assaulting Jo: | seph Roberts, Washington Herald pho- | tographer. ‘At the same time Roberts was expected | to go on trial on charges preferred by Stafford of =eslsting arrest and disturb ing_worship. The msgistates trying the State offi- cer are Roy Seaton, Middleburg; John Kincald, Leesburg, and Asa Stabler, Waterford. Seaton was presiding. Barred From Funeral. Stafford attacked Roberts last Pri-| day after the latter had taken photo- | graphs of the funeral of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, prominent Middleburg sportswoman, murdered in her home here a week ago today. The police om-‘ cer was called upon by E. C. Downs, | Middleburg town councilman, to carry | out an order of the Rev. D. Campbell Mayers, officlating minister, banning | photographs of the funeral. Roberts was struck behind the ear by Stafford and knocked to the ground as the policeman was attempting to round up all the photographers at the scene | !and drive them away from the Emman- | uel Episcopal Church, He struck Rob- | erts, who was wearing glasses, from be- | hind without warning. The photog rapher fell to the pavement and was | able to rise only with the assistance of | fellow cameramen. | Gen. Mitchell to Testify. Among the witnesses called upon to testify were Brig. Gen. William Mitch- Air Corps, and upon whose request Staf- (‘ ford was understood to have come to| Middleburg from Warrenton; D. C. | Sands, president of the Middleburg Na- | tional Bank; Rev. Mayers and Downs. All are believed prepared to testify on behalf of Stafford. | Roberts’ witnesses include Dunbar Hare of the Washington Times: Fred Cole, Washington Daily News; J. Abner Beales, Washington Times; Gus Chin, Robert B. Phillips, jr, and Willlam W. Chance, all of The Star. LIEUT. VAN WINKLE IS ORDERED BEFORE KETIREMENT BOARD ___(Continued From First Page.) on the recommendation of the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons, which yes- terday advised him of its desire to have Mrs. Van Winkle appear before the re- | tirement board. The board of surgeons gave no reason for its recommendation. Mrs. Van Winkle, however, has been ill for some time, and was unable to appear in the District Supreme Court | eek in connection with a suit for | ught against her by Mrs. | ns, who charged false en- ries were made on an arrest card when taken into custody several years ago. In Bad Health for Years An affidavit filed with the court by | Dr. John A. Reed, police surgeon, said | Mrs. Van ' Winkle is suffering from spinal arthritis and that she was| physically unable to appear. The af-| fidavit also declared that it would| materially retard her recovery to take a deposition from her at this time. Mrs. Van Winkle has not been in | good health for several years. In No- vember, 1930, she underwent & serious operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, from which she recovered and returned to her duties at the Woman's Burean. Later, however, she developed spinal arthritis, which again took her away from her work. HOUGHTON 1S HONORED Elected Member of Chapter Washington Cathedral. Alanson B. Houghton of Corning, N. Y., and Washington, former American Ambassador to Germany, has been | elected to membership in the Chap- | ter of Washingion Cathedral Lay members of the chapter include Gen. John J. Pershing, former Sen- | ator George Whorton Pepper of Penn- | sylvania, William R. Castle, jr., Under- secretary of State; Dr. William Holland | Wilmer, head of the Wilmer Institute Johns Hopkins University, of Where Rich Discoveries Were Made in Mexico - ARCHEOLOGISTS UNCOVER %l'on CONTAINING JEWELS AND RELICS. GENERAL view of the ancient ruins of Monte Alban, outside the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, where recent excavations have uncovered a tomb containing jewels and other relics of a civilization which flourished before the Spaniards came to America. to the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen in Egyptian archeology. 14 0F RUTH DD~ JURY PANEL INBOK. .. Archeologists believe the tomb would prove of equal significance in the archeology of Mexico - —Wide World Photo. \ARREST CONFRONTS FREE MANCHURIA MOVE SUPPORTERS d jrom Pirst Pag churian dispute and the Chinese boy- | cott against Japanese goods. | TESTIMONY ENDED IN FARM SLAYING | Gravitation and Electricity Held | Selection of 12 to Try Alleged; | Trunk Slayer Is Expected by Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press, PHOENIX, Ariz, January 20—With| | se Shanghal. Yesterday a mob of Chinese attacked five Japanese monks of the Nichiren ct in the Chinese territory north of All five were sent to the hospital and two were reported to be in critical condition. Chiang Kai-Shek, former head of the Nanking government, who is coming back to take a hand in politics, could not leave Hangchow today by airplane because it rained. If the weather im- JArguments Open Third Day at Trial of Colored Man | in Towson, Md. By the Associated Press. | TOWSON, Md., January 20.—Argu- the tentative jury panel almost half Proves tomorrow he expects to fly to| ments to the jury opened the third day filled, prosecution and defense attor- neys predicted that selection of the|of the present government, came up by | Nanking. Sun Fo, head of the Executive Yuan of the trial here of Euel Lee, colored, | charged with the murder of Green K. 12 men who will decide the fate of | train today to meet Chiang, but is going | Davis, Eastern Shore farmer of Tay- Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of her two former woman friends, would be completed by tomorrow afternson. Fourteen tentative jurors have been accepted. The Arizona law Tequired a panel of 29 must be seated before either prosecution or defense may exercise per- emptory challenges. The defense may | remove 10 and the prosecution 7 from the tentative panel by peremptory chal- Jenges. As selection of the panel progressed. county jail officials said Mrs. Judd 1 dicated that she would take the wit- | ness stand. | They said she declared she would | tell everything if a certain witne: doesn't tell a straight story about this. The present trial of Mrs. Judd eon- cerns itself only with the slaying of | Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Roi. A charge| of murder in connection with the kill- ing of Miss Hedvig Samuelson will be pressed in event Mrs. Judd escapes a death penalty on the Le Roi murder charge, the State announced. Mrs. Le Rol and Miss Samuelson were shot in Phoenix last October, and their bodies sent to Los Angeles in trunks. Arrested in Los Angeles, Mrs, Judd told a story of self-defense. | The defense; in queciioning prospec- | O tive jurors, indicated both insanity and | possibly self-defense under circum- | stances not. yet revealed, would form | | the basis of their fight. | Two veniremen were excused by Su- perior Judge Howard Speakman for | prejudice against cepital punishment, | and three on challenges for prejudicial opinions. Of the 14 tentative jurors accepted, several are fathers of daughters. EINSTEIN ANNOUNCES | UNIFIED FIELD PROOF | Theoretically One and Same by I ‘Bavant Visiting U. S, | | By the Associated Press. 4 PASADENA, Callf., January 20— Dr. Albert Einsteln has brought to- gether a union of gravity and electro- magnetism. Dr. Einstein, n addressing a group of | loon rule,” and reiterated opposition to | Charles C. Glover, Corcoran Thom and e resubmisson, modification, repeal, a referendum or beer. Four per cent beer is intoxicating and any law which autrorizes it under the eighteenth amendment would be a “legslative lie,” the statement asserted Among individual statements at the banquet last night. was that of Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, president of the National Women's Democratic Law Enforcemcnt League “If there is any doubt of our posi- tion let any party have a wet candi- date next Fall and the women will glve him such a licking as he never had.’ Sheppard Scores Wet Move. Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of Chicago said anti-prohibition tactics consisted of “anonymousness, indefiniteness, un- truthfulness and unlawfulness.” Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, co-author of the eighteenth amend- | ment, declared that “history lately has brought to light two enterprises, most | fanciful and hopeless of all, the move- ment for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment_and the movement for in- toxicating liquor while the eighteenth amendment i3 in operation “The so-called arguments the wets 'RUTH BARRON. AVIATRIX. WED TO U. S. VICE CONSUL IN JAPAN to prohibition are almost as c as the prospect of its overthrow. The wats would mulliply weste in order to tax wasle, N William E. “Pussyfoot” Johnson, Mc- Donough, N. Y., id the effect of pro- advance in oppositi hibition has been to reduce drunkness | and crime: The declaration of policy stated: “The country has today the best en- forcement of the national prohibition | law that it has ever had “Prohibition is not a partisan politi- cal fssue. It has never been so treated the national conventions of the major political parties, but has been supported and opposed by members of both political parties. Not political part but the people, regardless party in accordance with meihod provided in the Constitution itself, indicating their wishes to their represontatives in Congress and in the State Lezislatures, and acting through these representatives, wrote the eight= eenth amendment into the Constitu- tien. Any question of the repeal oc of the modification of the eighteenth amendment is not, therefore, a matter to be determined by party platforms or on party lines. Such action, if it is | conceivable that it ever be taken, should originate in exactly the same way as did the adoption of the amendment. Repeal Held Wets' Aim. “Among the shams which would de- ceive no one is the claim that the real purpose of those who have proposed recubmission of the eighteenth amend- ment, is something other than repea', Resubmission hclds out a fa'se hope of refuge for such tinid leglslators as are seeking a formula for the evasion of their sworn constitutional responsi- bilities, “We decry the unpatilotic attitude,of those who seek to profit by the preseht | Shore and in the National Capital as| extremity of the Amerj~en neon e to for cost of clothing, food, housing and | advance their own selfish ends, to se- all other essentials was entirely dif- ferent. s of the ‘poor.” cure the reduction of the ti rich by liquor taxes from ti of | the | | Dr. William C. Rives, all of Wash- ington. TREASURY LEADS CHEST The Treasury Department heads the list_of Government departments and | establishments in contributions to the | Community Chest with & total of $215,- 421.18, it was announced today after { final computations | Of this total, Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon contributed personally §5 4000, and there was a sum of $16,102.17 lllll;)chkd to adjacent agencies for re- 1 lie | The District of Columbia government was second, with a grand total of $138,- 274.86, of which $3.020.69 was allocated | to similar adjacent agencles. | Neals Sound Bridge PlAnWO.K.'d. Replacement by the Maryland State | Roads Commission of a bridge across | Neals Sound, cornecting Cobb Island | with the mainland, was approved yes- | terday by the War Department New York Woman, Hoped to Make Pacific Hop, Becomes Bride. {William Nason, Her Husband, | Attended Law School i Here in 1920-21. By the Associated Press KOBE, Japan, January 20.—Ruth Barron, New York woman aviator, was married here today to William Franklin Nason, the American vice consul. The ceremony was performed at the home of E. R. Dickover, the consul, The two became acquainted last Spring when Miss Barron came to Japan to participate in preparations for «a flight across the Pacific with Capt. Thomas Ash. Bad weather and other factors prevented the fiight, Nason was born in Brockton, Mass., studled law at George Washington Uni- versity and entered the consular serv- 1ce in 1921, Nason attended the George Washing- ton University Law School here during the school year 1920-21, it was sald nl the school today. (4 scientists at the Californ: Institute of Technology yesterday, sald he had worked jout new mathematical equa- | tlons by which gravitation and electro- | magnetism are logically unified. This | is considered an important link in his “unified fleld theory,” which seeks to prove that there is a similar background for all material activity in the universe, To complete the wholesale union of nature's forces, Dr. Einstein set out to show that gravitation and electricity are so closely welded that they may be considered theoretically as one and the same thing. | -| When he announced his unified field | theory lost year, the German sclentis back to Nanking tonight. Meenwhile scores of persons waited at the Nanking Airdrome in the mud to welcome the man who was turned out a month ago, but who now is generally &poken of as the only one who can put the government back on its feet. OUTLAWS LOSING HEART. Many Leaders Reported as Offering Terms of Surrender. By the Associated Press. MUKDEN, Manchuria, January 20.— Chinese irregular leaders, with their forces, have been offering terms of sur- render in increasing numbers during the last few days, a communique issued by Japanese headquarters said today, and the movement is looked upon as promising a decline in bloodshed and a more peaceful settlement of the so- called “bandit question.” 8an Shan, a notorious Chinese irregu- lar chieftain in Lisochung, offered terms of capitulation through an emis- | sary sent to the Japanese commander at the garrison at Anshan, the com- munique said. ‘This was only one of the mcst notable a series of incidents, it said, in which Chinese irregular groups have shown an intfeasing disposition to sur- render to the Japanese and to seek entollment in local militia corps under the new ‘“government of Fengtien Province. Lung Chia-Ching, vice commander of one of the largest irregular forces in South Manchuria, now operating south | of Hsinmin, also was reported to have: written Japanese headquarters with an offer of surrender. The communique added that a group of 93 irregulars appeared at the Japanese headquarters at Yingkow yesterday and asked to be enrolled in the militia. A headquarters spokesman said the | usual Frocedure has been to accept the irregulars for & grvh:nonlry period, after disarming them. and to enroll them in the militia after that if they prove their sincerity by good behavior. The drive against the irregulars is continuing, however, and over 50 Chinese were reported killed in clashes yesterday. Pu-Yi Slated as President. Henry Pu-Yi, former boy Emperor of China, who is in closely guarded re- tirement near Port Arthur, is slated to be the first president of the new separate government of Manchuria, lt‘ was reported i® some quarters. Skeptics asserted the report repre- sented only the ambitions of certain factions. But in the numerous press forecasts of the makeup of the new regime, there were significant blanks where the name of the president should have appeared. Those who doubted the selection o Pu-Yi, who was Hsuan Tung when h was China's child ruler, advanced the names of Chang Tso-Hslang, military commander in the old ragime, or cven Chang Hsiao-Liang, the governor who was deposed by the Japunese last Fall Compromise Forecast. Press reports of the negotiatoins being admitted certain problems remained tfl‘ronducled to establish the new gov- Who‘ His announcement yester- | ernment, forecast it will embody a com- promise between Republican forms and the Cumbersome Yuan (council) system . of lhehck:é.n&u m;:mment at N‘dnk'.llr;'t' iei i R Authoritative observers warned thal | Galician Workers Strike. many damages faced the delicate and | CORUNA, Spain, January 20 (#).—A | complicated negotiations, but reports general strike began throughout Galicia | persisted that the new state would be today in protest against a government |introduced to the world with flcurishes | order making maternity insurance obil- between the Chinese new year February gatory upon all woman workers. Guards (6 and February 11. patrolled the streets and newspapers | Forecasts of the government structure suspended publication. | asserted that directly under the Presi S dent there would be thres Yuans—i ministrative, alloted to Tsang Shi-Yi, Japanese-supported governor of Muk- den, who was educated in the law in Japan, and inspection, for Chang Ching-Hui, governor of Harbin, 2 e | DR. JOHN FREELAND | | COLLAPSES AND DIES Man for Whom Sportsman Named Horse Winning Preskness Is | be solved day revealed he successfully solved the problems. Stricken in Baltimore. By the Associated Press. | _ BALTIMORE, January 20.—Dr. John Freeland, connected with a New York | banking house and for whom the race |horse Dr. Freeland was named, died suddenly here yesterday at Johns Hop- | kins Hospital. "He had just entered for | treatment for heart trouble. [ Dr. Freeland arrived at the hospital late in the afternoon and collapsed as | : he entered the door. He was rushed to i & room, but never regained conscious- ness. He had been undergoing treat- ment at the institution at various times |in_the last 18 months. | He was born in Virginia 58 years ago |and lived in New York and White | { |Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he con- ducted a branch of the banking com- |peny. He entertained the Prince of | Wales at his home in 1924. It was through his friendship with | | Walter J. S8almon, New York sportsman |and owner of many race horses, that |the winner of the Preakness in 1929 ¢ ; 4 | was named in his honor. | P Although he held a medical degree, | 3 Dr. Freeland never practiced the pro- fession. RUTH 'ARBON. He was a bachelor, | lorsyille, Worcester County. Presentation of testimony was com- | pleted at a night session last night and, | after the arguments, the case will go diregtly to the jury, as under the law of Maryland, there will be no instruc- | tions by the court. Death Penalty Urged. The State seeks the death penalty, while the International Labor Defense League, conducting the case for the colored man, appeals fo release, insist- ing he is inrocent. Lee took the stand last night and de- | nied the murder, placing himself on the porch of his boarding house, miles from the home of the farmer, at the time Davis was slain in his bed. The prisoner has been indicted for the murder of Davis, Mrs. Davis and their two daughters, Elizabeth and | Mary. He is being tried, however, only for the murder of the farmer. Jurors Kept Confined. | Since the opening of the trial Mon- | day the jurors have been detained in the court house here, receiving their only exercise in marching to their meals. Sleeping quarters have been provided over the court room. During the -trial the State called 37 witnesses and the defense but three. Both sides had issued subpoenas for more than fifty. 'NAVY BILL MAY WAIT ON HOOVER REACTION Vinson Is Undecided on Asking Vote by House Committee on Measure Today. By the Associated Press. Further congressional action on the $612,250,000 naval construction bill may be delayed until President Hoover has passed on it. | Chairman Vinson was undecided | whether to ask the House Naval Com- | mittee to vote at the conclusion of | testimony today or await a report from the President and the Budget Buréau. Vinson has asked Secretary Adams, who approved the Georgia Democrat's idea of building the fleet up to treaty limits in 10 years, to get the reaction of the President and the Budget Bu- reau. That has not yet been transmit- ted to the committee. Vinson, however, has talked with Mr. | Hoover and has a good idea what the ecommendation will be. Representa- tive Britten of Illinois and other Re- publican committee members have said they are certain the bill authorizing 120 new ships would not be in har- | mony with the administration’s present financial policy. | Britten intends to try to substitute a more modest $60,000.0000 program when | the bill is brought to & vote, but Vinson is confident he has enough votes to obtain approval of the bigger authori- 2ation. ST INCREASE IN POSTAL RATES RECOMMENDED BEFORE COMMITTEE (Continued Prom PFirst Page.) opposition to the proposal to increase first-class rates to 3 cents was expressed in a statement by Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer of the National Fed- eration of Post Office Clerks. “We firmly believe,” he said, “that the higher postage rates will greatly diminish the volume of first-class mail | and deprive thousands of employes of | work opportunities.” Two Experts on Stand. The recommendation regarding a sales ’tnx was made by two experts, sent by the Treasury Department to Canada to study the tax there. The experts were Dr. Thomas 8. Adams, professor of political economy at | of Washington, formerly executive sec- | retary to Secretary Melion. | Adams sald the Canhadian sales tax | that & levy of four per cent on all goods manufactured or imported into the Do- minion was impcsed. “It is not a turn-over tax and does strictly was a “manufacturers’ tax” in| SEMATORS TABLE TARFFBL FRIDAY Finance COmmittee' Reaches - Agreement to T'zke\Up Democratic Measure. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senzte Pinance Committee is to tackle the tariff bill, passed by the House recently, at = meeting Friday morning. Agreement was reached at a meeting of the committee today to give con- sideration to the Democratic tariff bill, although there was no agreement that the measure should be reported to the Senate. Senator - Pat Harrison of Mississippl, ranking Democratic mem- ber of the Senate Finance Committee, x'.rongl! urged that the bill be taken up at the earliest possible date. The Dbill provides for no strategic changes in rates of tariff duty. It is re- garded as anti-administration, however, since it proposes to take away from the dPlrl:ldem.“ numong to modify tariff es after an investigati Tariff Commission. PO e Follows Simmons Plan, The bill provides, instead, for report by the Tariff Commission of the respu(;u of investigations to Congress, with the proviso that Congress shall act on in- dividual schedules and rates when so reported by the commission. This, in effect, is the old Simmons lmend}rlnenthf& the Smoot-Hawley tariff : aw when measure wi &;uu. e was before the t had the.support of the coalitio Democratic Senators and Republ?c:r: essives in the last Congress. With the number of Democrats in the Senate increased in the present session, it is ob:lo&)‘i thlht :\gfi: a coalition can easily pul oug| measur !e;}.u'h ‘ e again in the or t likely tHat the bill will be held in committee and allowed to sleep there for the rest of the session, it was said, despite the fact that the Republi- cans have 11 members and the Demo- crats only 9. Senators Couzens of Mich- igan and La Follette of Wisconsin, both, it is believed, would be willing to sub- mit the tariff bill to the Senate for !.J'ihgémmllleehe Bfi]moc‘nuc members of mittee will, of course, vote report the bill out. 2 Amendments Unlikely. _The . Senate committee may, if it Wwishes, amend the House bill and pro- vide “for reduction of rates of tariff duties. The Senate Democrats, how- ever, have agreed with the Democrats in the House on the character of tariff legislation to be undertaken at this sesslon of Congress. It seems doubtful, therefore, that any effort will be made by the Senate Democrats to amend the tarift schedules at this time. If the bill passes the Senate in prac- tically the same form as it passed the House, President Hoover is expected to veto it, and there does not appear to be any real chance of passing the measure over his veto. The tariff question came up in debate in the Senate today, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, yesterday succeeded in hnvlnhldnpud a resolution calling « on the Tariff Commission “to inquire into and report on what effect the depreciation of currency ‘in foreign countries was having on the cost of production of foreign goods and the competition of those foreign goods with American-made goods In the United States and how this depreciated cur- rency affected the tariff, Reed Urges Speed. Senator Reed. contended that if the foreign lender was P“' in depreciated currency the cost of proguction abroad would be materially less. that such goods entering the United States could more easily compete with American &m&um in spite of the protective I Benator Harrison of Mississippi asked that the vote by which the resolution was adopted in the’ Senate yesterday be reconsidered so that he could of- fer amendments if he desired. Senator Reed strongly urged that there be no delay in connection with his resolu- tion. He said that if the Senate Finance Committee is to consider the tariff the information which his resolution re- quests would be of greatest value. Reconsideration Voted. By a vote of 43 to 32, the Senate re- considered the vote by which the Reed resolution was adopted yesterday, and on further motion of Senator Harrison of Mississippl the resolution was re- ferred to the Finance Committee. On the vote several Republican Pro- gressives voted with the Democrats for reconsideration, including Senators La Follette, Borah, Blaine, Prazler and Coutens. Not all of the Progressives, however, supported réconsideration. Among those who opposed it were Nor- ris of Nebraska and Nye of North Da- kota. Shipstead, Farmer-Labor Sen- ator, voted for reconsideration. Before the vote was taken, Senator Harrison agreed with Senator Reed not to obstruct action on the resolution in the Finance Committee. Reed ed that the resolution be adopted, a cf a re?ort made by the Tariff Commission before action was taken on the Demo- cratic tariff bill now before the Finance Committee. To this, however, Senator Harrison demurred. The Miuus‘lflal Senator expressed the hope the tariff bill would be acted on promptly when 1t 18 teken up in the committee Priday. THREATS TO BURN TOWN STIR FEARS Four Armed Men Patrol Bradford, Vt., Streets and Special Lights Fixed After Warning Letters. By the Assoctated Press ! BRADFORT, Vt. January 20.—Four armed men patrolled the main street | of Bradford yesterday on the watch for persons who might be carrying out threats contained in three anonymous letters to burn the town. The; town is divided as to the serious- ness of the letters, but the village trustees decided to take no chances and have hired four men to patrol the main street. Members of the American Legion have also alded in the work and the electric light mm&uny has strung lights behind the bulldings named in !the letter to prevent the approach of | intruders in the dark. Yale University, and E. C. Alvord | The letters were mailed at Concord. |N. H,, and sent special delivery. Postal | inspectors have been assigned to investigate. All of the buildings mentioned in the letters are oftwooden construction and as they are close to other buildings it is feared that a serious fire would re- sult if the threats were carried out. not appear in a direct visible form in the actual sales,” he said. Duplication of taxes, he continued, was eliminated through a system of licenses and certificates indicating & manufacturers’ tax had been paid. The most important phase of the system, he said, was the exemption granted certain articles produced by | small manufacturers. | Adams said the tax was well admin- | istered and netted about $44,000,000 annually in Canada. | He declined to estimate how much | such a tax system would net in this country, but said it would bring & larg: revenue and was practical. Alvord agreed with committee mem- bers that pressure would be brought in | BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band Orchestra this evening, at 8 o’clock, at the auditorium, Marine Barracks. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader Overture, “I1 Seraglio”. Mozart Characteristic, ‘%flcnene” Friml Pastorale and caprice. .Bearlattl Excerpts from “Le C imsl lse de concert, “Spring, Spring’ sy va of the Greenwell Scharbau . Rachmaninoft yptian ballet, D ehanted Nile Oriental patrol. .. “Polichinelle” ....... Sulte, “L'Arlesienne No. this country to exempt many acticles. He added that if “you can hurdle the exemptions, and give wide latitude in administration, the sales tax will be practical in thjp country.” C ... Bizet Pastorale, Intermeszo, Minuette, Farandole. Marines' hymn, “The Halls of Monte- suma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.,”