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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, n. U, SATURDAY, JA LUSITANIA JEWELS AW OF EXPEDITION Capt. H. H. Railey. Bares | Plans to Recover $5,000,000 in Safes’ Contents. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 23 (NANA).| —Plans for the exploration of the wreck of the Lusitania, including the proposed raising of jewels, the taking | of still and motion pictures and the recovery of certain historical objects, were described last night by Capt. H. H. Railey, leader of the Lake-Railey Lusi- tania expedition, in _a radio address broadcast from the WABC studios of | the Columbia Broadcasting System. | Capt. Railey, who later sailed for Europe, denied a report that the expe- | ditder: was seeking $5,000,000 gold in | the_wreck i “It {s not true,” he declared. ‘“There 4s no gold in the wreck of the Lusi- tanis. It is true, however, that in an- other sense the Lusitania is a treasure ship. In coin and foreign exchange, in s cws!g‘nmcnt of jewels, and in other imperishable values, fairly well authen- ticated contemporary newspaper Te- ports and other accounts assessed the contents of the safes alone at more | than $5,000.000.” | Outines Expedition Plans. | “The plans, as outlined by Capt. Railey, | follow: To demonstrate the Lake submarine salvage tube, the invention of his asso- clate, Capt. Stmon Lake of Milford, Co; nn, To take submarine motion pictures and still pictures at depths and under circumstances never before attempted. To experiment in submarine lighting and to accumulate data of scientific interest. i To broadcast & description of the wreck as it appears after 16 years’ sub- | mersion. To recover miscellaneous articles of Wstoricai &nd _sentimental value, the ship's bell, the log, items from the chart room, etc, X Capt. Railey descrined the wreck's position as about 8 miles south by west of the old Head of Kinsale in 46 fathoms (276 feet), probably in an upright posi- tion. ‘Wlll Not 'I'ry General Salvage, Access to the wreck, he said, will be through the salvage tube. Through this tube, at the bottom of which is an ob- servation chamber, where photographs mey be taken the diver, Frank Crilley, _ will walk out into the open sea, wearing | @ rubber diving suit. | “It must be clearly understood,” said | Capt. Railey, “that we do not propose to | undertake a general salvaging operation | on the Lusitania, No attempt will be| made to penetrate the holds, in which | the cargo is relatively valueless and, contrary to & belief we frequently en- | eéunter—no sttempt will be made to raise the vessel.” right, 1932, by the North American (CopyriShy wepaber Alliance, Inc.) — Seven Twins in School. The Blackrod Village School, Lan- eashire, England, claims a record for the number of twins which attend it. There are seven in an enroliment of 150. —_— SPECIAL NOTICES. ANNUAL STOCKHOLDI MEETING _OF e International Medicine Co. will be held e YAnusry 26, 1932, at 4507 R. L ave. R, at b p.m. Signed, NELL M. WINCHES- TER. Secretary. ‘OFFICE_OF THE WASHINGTOM OFFICE SMPANY, JANUARY 13, 1952 In sccordance with section 3'of the char- the annual meeting of the sharenoiders ‘Washington Gas Light Company. for The election of direetors and for such other operly come before sald l\lflncn. ':u{“u w&\a‘lk the office of the lock noon. ‘The lock noon until ter, of ‘the Fepruary 1, 1932, lis will be open from 12 o'c] % 230 o "1 "BTAFFORD. SECRETARY. CE_ E_IN! THE MUTUAL FIRE INSUR- i OF THE DISTRICT (s)z” CUMBIA, Washington, Janusry 16. 1932 | She annusl meeting of the MUTUAL FIRE | GE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - will be held on the first Sonday in February (the first proximo) at fce of the company. 1301 H Street commencing at 12 o'clock noon. y the charter of the company, the elee: ven managers 1o C 5 100, %t hs company is required to be held ve meeting. ixth articie of the by-laws of the vided: “AL_the annual pany the first business be the sppointment of & 'who shall conduct the meeting in_nccordance with the act of between the hours of 12 o, chairman. and election, 5. Becuyrit Sae Turnjtire and fAxiares ce Bt 5 d and paid 2,57 dre. adiusted snd Da ANl o anmual staiement will be ready for @istribution. atthe office of the company SBQUt Y46 o7 the board of managers. of the board o 1 By orde} oL IERCE BOTELER. Secretary._ . THE PRESIDENT AND MAJORITY OF the trustees of the CLOSGARD WARDROBE COMPANY, INCORPORATED. P. O. Box 347, Pennsylvania Avenue Station, ‘Washington. .'C.. do hereby certify that the capital tock of said company is $100.000. of which $120.000 has been pald in, and that the to- 1) gutstanding labilities amounted to 19,766.42. THOMAS L. RUST, President. EVELYN 8. HAWLEY, Trustee. A. D. HAWLEY, Trustee Subscribed and sworn o before me this of January, #and day of JARYTETEWART BOLTON Notary Public, D.'C. NOTICE_OF BALE. hereby given under sections 4 13 of the Code of the District Notice 1s d 8, Title t to garage keepers 1032, at 10 o'clock a.m., Sherrier place n.w., ity of Washington, Mrs. M. E. Newgent Wil sell st public auction one Dodge sedan automobile. 1925 model, the property of Au- usta M. Gate, 1234 Massachusetis ave. n.w., yashington, D. C. and the proceeds thereof shall be applied first to the expense of such Sale and the discharge of said lien. and the Temainder, if &ny. shall be paid over to the ©owner of said automobile. Said sale is made Tor the purpose of satisfying a garage keep- er's lien in_the total sum of $5 per month from June 27, 1931, to the date of sald sale, less a credit of $2:50. Mrs. M. E. NEWGENT. 5747 Sherrier Place N.W. WE WILL SELL ON FEBRUARY 8, 1932, AT suction, at our place, one Buick roadster, motor number, 1088570; {rame number, 1098880, to settie a storage bill. Emerson & Orme. 17th_and » CHAIRS FOR _RENT, SUITABLE FOR BRIDGE PARTIES banauets, weddings and eetings, 10c up Der day each: new chairs. Also_invalid rolling_chairs for Tent or sale UNITED STATES STORAGE CO. 418 10th st n.w._Metropolitan 1844, FOR SALE _ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP TN CON- §igssional Country Club, $250. Address Box 302-J. Star_office. 23° i WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY bills contracted by any one other than my. self. SCOTT LOMAX. 1410 3rd st. n.w. 23 PAPERHANGING—ROOM PAPERED, 32 AND il you have the paper; new samples R el 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debt contracted by any one other than my- self. 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RICHMOND, Va., January 23—Pas- sage by the House of Delegates of a joint resolution declaring retrench- | ment to be the policy of the General | Assembly and providing for no increase either in taxes or fees, and the intro- | duction of a resolution that would, if | passed, prevent the consideration of any bills carrying appropriations until after the appropriations bill has been | disposed of, featured the week’s closing | session of the lower body of the As-| sembly. In the Senate the trend toward | wholesale salary cuts was brought to | a halt by the passage of a resolution | that would require a careful investiga-' tion of all salaries by a joint commit-, tee of the two houses. The resolution | was adopted and sent to the House. | Starts Heated Debate. Introduction in the House of the resolution that would prevent imme- diate consideration of bills carrying ap- | propriations precipitated the most | heated debate of the present session, Delegate E. C. Folkes of Richmond de- claring that the Appropriations Com- mittee was attempting to supplant the | authority of the General Assembly. “We ask our leadeys to show confidence in us until we have violated their trust,” be said. The opposition was jolned by Dele- gate Hugh Reid of Arlington County, who declared that past experience would indicate that the passage of such a resolution would tie the hands of the House until the end of the present session. Chairman Ashton C. Dovell of the| Appropriations Committee explained that the resolution was an attempt to so | simplify the task confronting his com- | mittee that the appropriations bill could | be reported early in February. When it became clear that the matter could not be settled yesterday he moved that it be passed by for the present. The Appro- priations Committee will start hearings | on Monday. Would Lower Exemptions. Income tax exemptions would be re- duced to the level that existed prior to | the 1930 session, under the terms of a | bill offered by Delegate Y. M. Hodges of | that exemptions for unmarried persons without dependents be reduced from $1,250 to $1,000; married persons from $2,800 to $2,000 and for each dependent | from $400 to $250. | Numerous bills were thrown into the | House hopper yesterday. Most of them | were for the purpose of clarifying pres- ent sections of the code with respect to court procedure. | The first bill of the present session to pass both houses ard go to the Gov- ernor for his signature was the Senate | bill reducing the tax on seed oysters shipped out of the State from 8 cents to 2 cents. The measure passed the House yesterday. In introducing the resolution in the| Senate that would call for a thorough investigation ~before complying with Gov. Pollard's_proposals to reduce all State salaries 10 per cent, Senator Au- brey G. Weaver of Pront Royal declared that he does not belleve that the cut- | ting of salarles of clerks making $60 anybody else.” Claiming that he is in the Senate to see that Virginia follows a policy of real economy, Senator Weaver stated cers who are receiving too much salary and some who are scarcely receiving a living wage. “I will be an ardent supporter of any measure that will re- duce some salaries as much as 75 per cent,” he declared, “because the com- pensation of some of these officers is out of all proportion to the service they render.” The Senate Courts of Justice Com- mittee, meeting immediately after ad- | the banking world, and there is real | original borrower, but the indorsement | interest rate and term are fixed the a month “will help the taxpayers or | that there are hundreds of State offi- | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The selection of Gen. Charles G. Dawes as administrative head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Eugene Meyer 8s chairman of the Board of Directors has a significance which will be more apparent as the operations of the new Government agency are unfolded. Ever since the plan was advanced to haveé an emergency corporation it has been assured that Mr. Meyer, because of his experience as head of the War Pinance Corporation,. would head up the new institution. While Mr, Meyer’s own ability was conceded, there has been some sentiment on Capitol Hill to the effect the governor of the Federal Reserve Board should not be in charge of the two credit agencies of the Gov- ernment, for fear the public might get the impression the Federal Reserve policies are intertwined in reconstruc- tion finance operations. i President Hoover felt there should be the closest co-operation, of course, be- tween the Federal Reserve Board and the new corporation, but he determined finally that with Gen. Dawes, a com- mercial banker, and Mr. Meyer, an in- vestment banker, the country would have the assurance of A team that would be able to cope with all problems of credit that might arise. Dawes to Be Administrator. By making Gen. Dawes the president of the corporation he becomes respon- sible for actual administration, while Mr. Meyer becomes an adviser, along with the Secretary of the Treasury and the farm loan commissioner. ~ The other three members of the new cor- poration’s directorate will be Democrats, and it is understood they, together with Gen. Dawes, will constitute the actual Working machinery of the corporation. Policies will be formulated at the meet- ings of the directorate of seven, over which Mr Meyer will preside. Mr. Meyer will be of inestimable help to Gen. Dawes, for while the latter was in France during the war Mr. Meyer wrestled with some of the very ques- tions that are bound to come up in the handling of the credits. Mr. Meyer has an uncanny knowledge of market con- ditions and interest rates, and in any financing done by the corporation or any \mder\\nimf of bonds he will doubtless play a leading part. Impressions from New York and else- where conveyed here indicate there is still much unfemiliarity with the way the Reconstruction Finance Corpor tion will operate. In the first place, it has been assumed that two billion dol- lars' worth of securities, guaranteed by the Treasury, would” floated all at once, and that this would depress exist- ing Government securities. The plan is to finance the $1,500,000,000 of deben- tures gradually over the next year, and it is really believed it will not be neces- sary to float them at all, any more than in ‘the past the existence of such a credit has resulted in its actual use. Principle Declared Sound. It is felt the $500,000,000 of capital, which are, of course, to be Government bonds, will be the equivalent of $5,000,- 000,000 of credit. Thus the corpora- tion will permit financial institutions that syndicate loans to say publicly that the loans have been examined by the corporation and are eligible for redis- count. Only loans of real worth will have that privilege, but it is tanta- mount to a guarantee by the Treasury of interest and principal on®the bonds to be floated by the railroads, utilities or industrials which may make appli- cation to their banks or investment in- stitutions in the regular way. ‘While the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is new in the sense that it is to be applied to new conditions, the principle has been declared sound by support for the plan in contrast with the doubts and skepticism which pri- vately were expressed by bankers when the National Credit Corporation was launched. It is believed this will be an important factor in contributing to the success of the corporation. Oversubscription Seen. Already there are evidences that Eu- ropean speculators are trying to distort the corporation’s plan into & form of inflation. Actually no new currency will be issued, as would be the case if an inflationary policy were adopted. Instead bonds and debentnres will be sold and paid for by the American people with cash derived from the sale of their own assets or from savings. These debentures will have back of them not only the collateral of the of a bank or investment house and then the assets of the Reconstruction Cor- poration and finally the resources of the United States Treasury itself. The general feeling here is that the debentures will be sold by a Nation- wide syndicate through the usual chan- nels of investment, and that when the investors of the country will oversub- scribe them, particularly as they are likely to be short-term debentures which will be liquidated as the loans made by the corporation are liquidated in the next two or three years. (Copyright, 1932.) MURPHY T0 Representative SPEAK Ohio on Central Unicn Mission Program. Representative Frank Murphy of Ohio will deliver an address at the chapel | service at the Central Jnion Mission, 613 C street, tomorrow night Chapel services during the coming week will be held under the auspices of: Monday night. the Christian En- deavor of the United Brethrea Church; | Tuesday night. the B. Y. P. U. of the | First Baptist Church; Wednesday night, the Epworth League of Epworth Meth- journment, took up the case of Judge Thomas B. Robertson of the Hopewell Corporation Court, and after hearing the petition asking his removal, re- ported out a House resolution calling for an investigation of the case by a joint committee of the two branches of the Assembly. | odist Episcopal Church South; Thurs- |day night, the Americin Home Bible | Institute; PFriday night, the Christian Endeavor of "Metropolitan Baptist | Church, and Saturday night, the Chris- | tian Endeavor of Metropolitan Presby- | terian Church SE Ex-Governor’s By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 23.—A jobless sea cook slrutted the sidewalks of New York's East Side yesterday wearing one of Al Smith's brown derbies. “Yes, sir, that’s what I call a break,” said George Stumpf, who used to cook beans on Army transports, but now | stirs stew in the Municipal Lodging House for his meals. “Here 1 walk into that free clothes place with a ticket callin’ for a suit and they gimme one of the Guv'nor's blue worsted's, made on Fifth ave- noo. Then, to top it off, they stick one of his hard hats on my head.” N.W._Phones North nofgj FREDERICK W. McREYNOLDS, BION AND B. LIBBY MEREDITH M. DAUBIN, ATTORN AT-LAW, EVANS BCIL,EIE{ e from National 03! Stumpf has his new outfit because I the former Governor heeded the plea of the clothing relief division of the Emergency Unemployment Committee. He called Clarence H. Low, chairman of the division, into office high up in the Empire State Mlding. A COOK STRUTS IN CLOTHES AL SMITH GAVE TO CHARITY Jobless Man Falls Heir to Fifth Avenue Suit and One of Brown Derbies. | “Here, Clarence” he said, “here’s a bundie of clothes I gathered to- gether up at the house. "I want you ‘ to take them down to your warehouse, \c}lflm them, give them to the unemployed so they'll | be comfortable and presen | to take employment. tabie enonl w_carried the bundie, several suits and coats, dwnc&n%m‘!)rég | street, where a clothes rehabilitation | factory, manned by men and women | formerly without jobs, went to work ! | on_it. | A few | bearing a ticket from on | Rgenciés “served by e sacions TOUCt “Of course,” Mr. Low said to re- , sew buttons on them and |« [ hours later in walked Stumpf, | NUARY 23, Olympic Arena Dedig:ated HOCKEY MATCH FIRST EVENT HELD IN LAKE PLACID HALL. il the Lake Placid Athletic Club. yin an attempted robbery. HE start of the hockey match which marked the opening of the rink built for the internauional matcnes at Lake Placid, N. Y.. The St. Nicholas Club of New York won in the closing minute of play with a score of 3 to 2 against jal —Wide World Photo. | EAGUE GATHERS ARMS PARLEY DATA Prepares for Conference Next Month—Long-Forgotten Questionnaire Found. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, January 23.—The massing B. Y. P. U. News ‘The life service banquet will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, January 29. The address will be by Dr. W. S. Abernethy. The stewardship clinic will be held 9:30 am. to 4:30 pm. Dr. Agar will conduct the session. For the next five Sundays the meet- ings at Anacostia will be mass meetings of all unions above the junior and these meetings will be addressed by officers of the Columbia Federation. At the end of this time a complete reorganization will occur. The schedule is as follows: January 24, William Rice, stewardship director; January 31, Frank Spencer, | service 'commission director and vice at the Raleigh Hotel January 31, from | REICH CUTS DEBTS -~ BILLION IN' YEAR |Builds Up Exports Surplus of $714,000,000 With Aid of U. S. Credits. " By Cable to The Star. | BERLIN, Germany, January 23— of documents for disarmament consid- | roqiqent: February 7, Mrs. Jeraldine Germany carried on its business as eration is going on apace in the League | Kirkland, devotional life director of the | usual during the past year, thanks to of Nations corridor as the convening of the February International Disarma- ment Conference draws near. After six preparatory conferences, ex- tending over as many years, some ex- ry statisticlan has discovered that “permissible armaments” have their status by reason of many things. More and more it is coming to be recognized that the forthcoming dis- armament conference is really a con- ference for the limitation of arma- ments, at most a reduction of arma- ments. Now comes into light out of the | obscurity of League pigeonholes, where it had long been forgotten or ignored, & questionnaire of seven parts. The first interrogation seeks the opinion of the nations of the world as to what is | actually meant by armaments and | what, apart from the dictionary defini- tions, are the connotations to be given to the various factors and elements which are included in the word “arma- ments.” ‘The most important of these factors is suggested as being that of ‘‘propor- tional representation.” Question V, recognizing that the mathematical factor is not alone to be considered, puts this precisely, and on the answers presented at the forthcoming confer- ence and their acceptance will depend the success or failure of disarmament! “On what principle shall a scale of ‘pemissible armaments’ be drawn up, taking into consideration: “1. Population. “2. Resources. “3. Geegraphical situation. “4 Length and nature of maritime communications. “5. Density and character of railways. “6. Vulnerability of frontiers and of important vital centers near thereto. “7, Time required, varying with dif- ferent states, to transform peace equip- ment into war equipment.” The general staff of the military establishments of Europe pretty much parently knows for certain how much the others know. Once again a League conference will be able to collate world. wide and presumably non-partisan ts and figures which will be of inestimable value regardless of the degree of dis- arming which may result. Of Europe, France has the longest sea frontier; Switzerland has none. Rallroad density is great in Belgium, but sparse in Jugoslavia. Resources (for war) are almost lacking in some countries, and none has a supply of everything. Belgium has little iron, but plenty of coal. No country of Western Europe has oil, hence mari- time communications, supported by adequate naval convoys, are or out- standing importance. Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Rumania have already given notice of certain conditions on which their ac- ceptance of a disarmament convention would depend. The most embarrassing question of all is that which asks: “To what extent is regional disarm- ament possible in return for regional security?” Here perhaps is the crux of the whole matter. How it will be solved and when is something nobody knows. Oceans of ink, tons of paper and myriad flights of oratory will be required at the dis- armament conference before delegates and public will really understand. (Copyright, 1932.) DOMINICAN TO PREACH Very Rev. Ignatius Smith to Speak on Radio at 5 O’'Clock. Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, Dominican preacher, whose last three ‘sermons on | the Washington Catholic radio hour broadcast from the Church of the Im- maculate Conception through Station WOL have drawn a city-wide congre- | gation, will preach again tomorrow at 5 o'clock at the broadcast service on “Christ and Wealth.” Father Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the church and director of these weekly broadgasts, will preside at the service and at the blessing of the sick and solemn Lourdes procession at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the church, Father Smith will conclude his series of sermons next Sunday with “Christ the Citizen.” Will Rogers Says: LONDON.—See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers’ mistakes and loan to new industries. You can al- ways count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the msn who had absolute- ly nofhing. Our | porters, “there’s a moral to this St f story. ' Just tell your readers there must be a lot of clothes in the closets | of this city and Nation that men like | Stumpt could use.” theory is to help those who can get along eyen they don't get it { Federation; February 14, | James Rollins, fellowship director of | the federation: February 21, reorgan- | jzation; Z. C. Hodges, president Colum- | bia Federation of the Senior Union: Mre. G. S. White, intermediate director of the Columbia Federation in charge | of the Intermediate Union. Parker Horner, stewardship director, will have charge of the program at ‘Temple. The first B. Y. is sponsoring the church services Sunday night. MetropolZan is taking & group Silver Spring Church to present a pro- gram. The Sunday evening program “Evils of the Liquor Traffic” will be under the leadership of the Service Commission at Centennial. “What God Teaches Through Nature” is the title of the program to be pre- sented by the Service Commission at the West Washington meeting. Hyattsville meets at 7 p.m. tomor- row to discuss the topic “Evils of the Liquor Traffic” with Willlam Franklin and his group. Miss Flora Lavisson and the Service Commission will have charge of the program at Bethany No. 1. The stewardship group, under the direction of Miss Marian Gaylord will conduct the program at the Chevy Chase B. Y. The stewardship group at National Baptist will lead the program. The fellowship supper at 6 o'clock will be in charge of Alan Turnbull The Service Commission, under Irvin Cooter, will direct Fifth’s program to- morrow night. The subject is “Building Missionary Churches for Tomorrow.” Columbia ! PLAN YOUNG PEOPLE’S DAY Special Program to Be Held at Metropolitan Presbyterian. The Metropolitan Presbyterian Church a program tomorrow evening. The plan has been set up by the Presby- terian Board of Christian Education to begin the program of Young People's week in all Presbyterian churches. There will be three short addresses given by young people. Miss Florence Huhn, “We Would Serve Qur Church”; Miss Lila Wallace, “We Would Serve Other People,” and Miss Jean Wertz, “We Would Serve Our Master.” Pro- grams will be furnished to the con- gregation. The anniversary of the organization of the first Christian Endeavor Society by Rev. Francis E. Clark at the Wil- liston Church in Portland, Me, in 1881 occurs February 3. The pastor, Rev. Freeley Rohrer, will speak tomor- row morning on “The Brand of Jesus.” BAKE SALE PLANNED Christ Commemoration of St. Paul. Christ Lutheran Church will com- memorate the conversion of Saint | Paul by a special service tomorrow morning. The pastor, Rev. J. Frederic Wenchel, will ‘speak’ on “The Out- standing Characteristics of the Great- est of All Apostles” In the evening there will be a fellowship meeting at 6:30 o'clock at which H. Kempf will reside. Plans for the coming year will be discussed. On January 31 the annual family day service will be held. The Mission Circle will hold a bake sale Saturday in the rooms of the Elite Laundry, Fourteenth and Mon- roe streets. TWO THEMES SELECTED | Pastor Picks “Therpeaking God” and “Our Greatest Hope.” The Highlands Baptist Church mem- | bers will listen to a sermon on ‘“The Speaking Good” tomorrow morning by Rev. N. M. Simmonds and in the eve- |ning the address will be on ‘“Our Greatest Hope.' The Woman’s Circle will meet with Mrs. Millington, 1734 P street, Wed- nesday morning and afternoon. In | the morning there will be sewing, fol- lowed by lunch, and in the afternoon a missionary program. The Muir Club will meet with the pastor at his home, 1324 Gallatin street, Wednesday evening. There will be an illustrated address on “Whose I Am, ‘Whom I Serve.” CONTRACT MAIL FOUGHT Opposes Rural Lutheran Service in Brown Delivery Service Proposal. | Postmaster General Brown yesterday expressed his opposition to a bill to | place rural delivery service on & con- tract basis. In a letter to Chairman Oddle of the | Senate Post Officc Committee, Brown said enactment of the measure would | lower the standard of a branch of the | postal service which “provides complete {and appreciated postal facilities to 16,890,000 families.” | Brown said its efficlency had been made possible only by having trained persons working under the direct super- vision of the department. to' know all these things, but no one ap- | Will observe Young People's day Wwith/ | old and new American credits, and | butlt up a surplus of exports over im- | ports of 3,000,000,000 marks ($714,000,- | 000) and reduced its indebtedness more than $1,000,000,000, besides paying repa- rations and increasing its balances | abroad. The balances are hard to esti- ;mflte or touch because they represent the flight of capital. The surprising fact is that American credits to Germany continued after back | credits were declared frozen. A stand- still or frozen credit agreement means that credits granted to Germany during a certain period were lifted out bodily and set aside as non-collectable and non-payable. ‘This amount is some- | thing over $1,000,000,000, received from | investors and from many Institutions in | many lands. Credit to Germany con- tinued after the previous back credits were frozen, and American bankers and concerns today are still loaning goods to Germany on short-term credit. These credits are being discounted still in the form of acceptances, and German firms are meeting their obligations. Not only are the Germans settling their new obligations, but old debts and even those undet the $rozen credit agreement are being paid where pos- sible under the conditions governing the agreements. Credit Agreement Renewal Advanced. Renewal of the frozen credit agree- ment is about completed, and American | bankers in Berlin are impatient to com- plete the negotiations and return home. Their passage already has been en- gaged, but had to be postponed. Now it is thought they will sign the agree- ment any day and leave lawyers to phrase the altered document. The agreement is supposed to be along al- ready known lines of a year’s renewal and on the basis of a 20-year comple- tion, but elastic so as to provide for better conditions which the future might bring. In principle the agreement provides for the leaving of from $800,000,000 to $900,000,000 in Germany. As individ- ual German debtors cannot find as many profitable uses for funds as for merly, they often prefer to settle‘a debt and naturally the Americans and others prefer to dispose of their funds as they see fit rather than transfer the credit to other German firms, hence the total amount is bound to fluctuate considerably. The crux of Germany’s debt situa- tion is the condition of the German currency cover. The Reichsbank gold and foreign exchange holdings have been slipping gradually despite efforts to fall back on foreign exchange from exports. Inflation Is Opposed. Importers are allowed 75 per cent of their requests for foreign exchange and also duties are being raised to dis- courage imports. Neither organized German industry nor people want in- flation and the Reichsbank would op- pose inflation. Germany has no inter- est in trying another inflation, as the internal “debt is low. However, all depends on the frozen credits agree- | ment renewal and the reparations ad- justment, Should bankers insist on immediate payment or even on large installments or high interest and if reparations should be removed, then the Reichs- bank could not supply forelgn ex- change. A complete moratorium would be the result. The German export business is good —indeed, it is the best in the world—but the internal business in on the rocks and is being barely kept alive by the Reich’s paternal aid. Deflation is in full swing. The withdrawal of sup- port from foreign business would prob- ably cause a collapse in Germany. In other words, American credit permit- ting Germany to purchase raw ma- terials is keeping Germany going. (Copyright, 1932.) At OFFICERS TO EXAMINE | NEW BOMB EVIDENCE Prince Georges Prosecutor and Baltimore Detectives to Renew Brady Investigation. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, January 23.—State's Attorney Alan Bowie is scheduled to visit Washington today to examine dynamite found a few days ago at_an automobile establishment where Leroy Brady formerly worked. The prosecutor also is expected to study other new evidence Washington police are said to have received with a view to possibly reopening the Brady bombing _case. Leroy Brady is now serving & 10-year sentence for second-degree murder in connection with the death of his sis- ter-in-law, who was killed by a bomb at Seat Pleasant on New Year day, 1930. Brady was also indicted for the death of two children who were also victims of the bombs, but has never been tried on those charges. | Prathers, the three colored men wWho 3 MORE ARRESTED §150 FINE INLIQUGR N STORE MURDER seven Now Held in Connec- tion With Old German- town Hold-up. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 23— Three additional colored persons, two men and a woman, were taken into custody early today by Montgomery county police and Baltimore detectives, making a 1 of seven persons, all colored, being held in the county jail here in connection with the fatal shoot- ing Wednesday night of Horace D. ‘Waters, 79-year-old storekeeper of Old Germantown, Md., and the wounding of his clerk, Richard A. Bennett, 68, Police Are Reticent. All of the three held are named Prather, it was learned, although police here were very reticent about discuss- ing the matter. They are said to be relatives of Bud Prather, taken into custody soon after the murder, and who is still in jail. All of the three arrested today live in the Germantown neighborhood, and police expect to ob- tain information of value from them, it was stated. In addition to the four were in the store when the hold-up and shooting took place sre still in il About 500 persons attended the fu- neral services of Mr. Waters at Ger- mantown yesterday. Mr. Waters was widely known throughout Montgom- ery County and was the member of & large family. The services were con- ducted by Canon Arthur B. Rudd of the Christ Episcopal Church of Rock- ville, while interment in the Neeles- ville Cemetery followed. Officials Attend Funeral. Most of the county officlals were present, as well as a number of Wash- ingtonians, including Judge John P. McMahon of the Washington Police Court apd several clerks from that court, where a daughter of Mr. Waters, Mrs. Ethel Spates, is secretary to the Judges. SECOND OF SERMON SERIES TOMORROW Rev. H. W. Burgan to Talk on “Apostles of Our Lord” at Hamline M. E. ‘The second of the series of special sermons on “The Apostles of Our Lord” will be given tomorrow night at Ham- line Methodist Episcopal Church. The theme this week will be “Andrew, the ‘Gossip’ of the Band.” The sermons are delivered by the minister, Rev. H. W. Burgan. Tomorrow morning the minister's subject will be “The Mind of Christ.” The Thursday night addresses on Protestantism in Colonial America” are continuing. The third of the series will be given next Thursday on “Re- ligious Customs Among the Colonis ‘The Church School will meet at 9:45 am. tomorrow. The Ladies’ Aid Society presented “Aunt Crete’s Emancipation,” drama- tized by Mrs. Orrel Moody, Friday night. | Next Friday night the Washington Dis- trict Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church will hold its annual banquet at the church. The Boy Scouts of the church will also meet the same night. BULLET WOUND FATAL T0 CHEVY CHASE BOY CASE IS APPEALED Man Tried in Prince Georges Court Holds Warrant Was Served Too Late. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. January 23.—A man who claimed a search war- rant was issued against his car after the liquor in it had been removed ap- pealed a $150 fine for transportation and possession of liquor in Police Court yesterday. o The man, Samuel Sullivan, 1300 block of Melford road, Washington, was arrested by Justice of Peace George N. Cox_of Oxon Hill on charges of having no license, improper markers and the liquor offenses. 3 “Admitted ‘Having Liquor.” Magistrate Cox told the court the man admitted having the liquor in his car. Defense Attorney J. Wilson Ryon, however, tried to bring out that the liquor had been removed from the machine and was on the ground when Constable William H. Hendley served the search warrant. Sullivan paid fine totaling $20 on the traffic charges. Maud H. Fascione of Washington, who told the court she was driving over the road with some liquor for a club to which she belongs, pleaded gullty to possession and was fined $50. Constable Willlam Kreitzer made the arrest. ‘When arrested on charges of drivin while drunk and reckless driving, Dani Beach, colored, of Silver Hill, was asked to stand with his feet together, extend his arms, close his eyes and touch his nose to determine his sobriety. State Policeman G. C. Gates and Justice of the Peace Thomas D. Grif- fith said the man failed in the test. Beach claimed he succeeded. The court imposed fines totaling $101 and the man noted an appeal through Attor- ney Ryon. Fined for Car Tags. A similar fine was imposed on Louis Lynch of Suitland, who was accused by State Trooper M. H. 8. Pearsaul of driving while drunk and reokless driving. Willlam E. Norton of Mount Ralnier, who, according to County Po~ liceman Elon Turner and G. William Gray, had two sets of District of Co- lumbia tags on his car, was fined a total of $11 on charges of improper markers and no registration cards. Clarence Brooks, colored, 819 Del ware avenue southwest, appealed a fin of $25 on reckless driving charges pre- ferred by Constable Hendley after ah acccident near Oxon Hill. State Sena- lBor !k:nsdl.le G. Sasscer appeared for rooks. ‘RESPONSIBILITY’ TAKEN AS PASTOR’S SUBJECT Rev. J. Turnbull Spicknall Will Give Sermon at Chevy Chase M. E. Tomorrow Morning. In Chevy Chase Methodist Church tomorrow morning the pastor, Rev. J. ‘Turnbull Spicknall, will have for his sermon, “The Responsibility of Hear- ing.” 'The church -school meets &t 9:30, with graded classes for all ages. ‘The hostesses at the supper, which precedes the Young People’s meeting, will be Miss Prances Stivers and Miss Martha Detmer. The pastor will con- tinue the lectures and will use as his subject “Prayer Makes Supermen.” At the midweek prayer meeting ’ga subject for discussion will be “The Emotion of Jesus,” the third in the series of character analysis of Jesus. Next Saturdasy evening there will be a straw ride for the young people, who will meet at the church at 7 o'clock.. CONTEST PROGRESSING * Rev. H. J. Smith to Preach at Pet- D. C. Coroner’s Assistant Says He Will Issue Suicide Certificate for E. G. Hollingsworth. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md. January 23— A verdict of suicide will be issued in the case of Edward G. Hollingsworth, 21, of 4621 Morgan driye, Chevy Chase, who was found lying across the bed in his room early today with a bullet hole in his temple and a .32-caliber revolver lying nearby, Dr. A. M. MacDonald, assistant District of Columbia coroner, stated today. Hollingsworth died in Georgetown University Hospital about two hours after he was found by his brother, James J. Hollingsworth. Relatives told them, Bethesda police say, that the young man had been act- ing as if depressed lately and that he had seemed obsessed with the idea that he was losing his mind. It was also suggested to them, police say, that he had been worrying over a love affair. Hollingsworth, who was employed as a gas station attendant at Fourteenth and V streets, Washington, had been alone in the house where he lived with his mother and brother. The brother and his wife, returning home shortly after midnight, found him lying fully clothed across the bed with the gun lying nearby, police were told. Drs. Bradley D. Hodgkins and E. D. Bauers- feld were summoned and ordered him taken to Georgetown University Hos- pital. Bethesda police stated today that they would make no further investiga- tion of the case as they were satisiled with the report of the Washington coroner. _ The body is at the under- taking establishment of W. W. Cham- bers in Washington. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Anne Hollingsworth, and his brother. He was born in Fayetteville, N. C., but had lived mn ‘Washington and vicinity for the last 15 years. BEAVERS’ SLAYING SUSPECT RELEASED Stains on Clothes of Man Held in Loudoun Case Not Human Blood. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va., January 23.—The second of Loudoun County's current murder mysteries remained unsolved today following the release last night of John H. Thomas, suspect held in connection with the shotgun slaying of Alfred Beavers, near Sterling, Va., last Christmas eve. Beavers' body was found in an abandoned well, where it had been thrown after his head was blown off with a shotgun. Arrest of & 16-year-old boy for ques- tioning was anticipated this afternoon. Thomas was freed after Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, Washington expert, reported stains found on the suspects’ clothing ‘were not human blood. As in the Ilsley case in Middleburg, authorities have been unable to estab- lish a sufficient motive for the slaying. ‘While more than $20 was removed from Beavers' pockethook at the time of the crime, circumstances indicated robbery was not the sole motive for the act. worth Church Tomorrow. The friendly contest between the Men’s Bible Classes of Petworth Baptist Church and Brookland Baptist Chi is progressing. The contest is for c! and church attendance and is enterifg the fourth week. Sunday at 10 o'clock the Men's Class of Petworth Baptist Church will have as its guest speaker Representative Gordon Browning of Tennessee. The members have invil the Philathea class and Berea class meAe:. :}v}uh them. e morning service the pastor Ht the Petworth Baptist Church, Rev. H. J. Smith, will speak on the question of “God’s Care for Men.” In the evening on “Man’s Worth; God’s Values.’ ‘The Ladies’ Aid will give a roast dinner in the church Wednesday. e joint annual dinner of the Philathéa Class and the Men's Class is being plan- ned to be held at the church at an early date. ‘ 5 s Yy Saledit Potato Weighs 21, Pounds. ' A potato grown on ‘the farm of James McKeown of Dungannon, Ire- land, weighed two and one-half pounds, Basement Office for Rent at 1719 Eye Street L. W. GROOMES Crepe e, 75¢ 2'4 feet bunchy 2 vears old 3 Roses for SLOO—2 MARYLAND NURSERY Edmonston (Fast_Hyattsville) - 67 1st Mtige. Notes for tended. ROOMES. 1719 Eye 8 sale; on detached all- ‘modern L W. G t. High-Grade 1st Morto. Notes Since- 1901 brick, new and homes near 16th St. ex- FOR SALE, $10,350. Just East of Colorado Ave. Extended DETACHED, _ ALL _FACE 08 ROOMS.- BUILT 1N BATH. ATTIC: L CELLAR. BUILT.IN GARAGE. PORCHES. SLATE ROOF. Lot 70x104. 36,000 1st Trust. Easy Terms. L. W. 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