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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, with slowly rising temperature today and tomorrow; occasional rain to- morrow; lowest temperature tonight about 40 degrees. Temperatures—High- est, 51, at 2:30 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 38, at 7:35 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14&15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfar. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 122,198 = No. « 32,048, “ Botered a Entered as second class matter Washington, ) D. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932—FOR Y-FOUR PAGES. #%% (#) Msans Associated TWO CENTS. Press. SHANGHAI IS OCCUPIED; FIGHTING BREAKS OUT; U. S. NEGOTIATES ANEW 2.000 .fil—panese Marines Land | in City. FORT IS SHELLED BY WARSHIPS Invasion Aftermath of New Demand on Chinese. SHANGHAI, Friday, January 29 ®). — Japanese warships opened a heavy bombardment of the Chinese fort at Woo- sung, 18 miles from the mouth of the Whangpo River, short- ly after Marines had occupied Shanghai tonight. | | By the Associated Press. iy Japan has occupied the Chi- nese quarter of Shanghai, send- ing in 1,000 marines under orders to drive Chinese troops out of the area largely inhabited by Japa- nese residents. | Assurances have come from Tokio that the movement is not| a threat to the international set- tlement, where the United States has interests and other nations control concessions. Nevertheless, United States Marines and other foreign military detachments prc—{ pared to defend the settlement should fighting in the Chinese er spread b rty Japanese warships were harbor of Shanghai, pre- sumably with men available for shore duty. It was estimated that 24000 badly disciplined Chinese troops were concentrated close to Shanghai 3 Japan has instructed its diplo- matic representatives abroad to explain to the foreign gove: ments that the action in Shang- hai was dictated by the necessily for protecting Japanese residents against increasing violence by anti-Japanese organizations Up in Manchuria, where there has been fighting among Chinese} factions for several days, the sit- | uation appeared to have quieted dowa when the Chinese Gen Mah C -Shan stepped in as mediat A shake-up in the Chinese govern- raised Wang Chen-Wei, an ad- of Chiang Kai-Shek, to the premier. recently vacated by Sun Fo becomes president ive yuan, and Lo Wen " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. _ HIGHER TAXES HELD Nation's Credit Cannot Be Main- tained Without Increases, Hawley | Says—Favors Reform Study. | ssociated Press SBURG, Pa., ive Willis January G. Hawley of co-author of the much-dis- | Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, be- he credit structure of the Gov- can only be maintained by taxation.” king at the closing session of the convention of the Pennsylvania e Chamber of Commerce, Hawl last night outlined what Congress is doing to avert a threatened Federal deficit of $3.544,000,000 estimated at the end of the fiscal year 1933 He suggested a Natipnwide inve tion of the “imposition of taxes a view to obtaining a more equal dis- | ution of assessments. “A scientific m of taxation,” he said, *could ubstituted for our present condi- tion of inequitable and duplicate tax- ation COMMITTEE IS NAMED IN MELLON CHARGES Judiciary Group to Sift Allegations Made by Patman. 28— n ieves th ernmer “increase House By the Associa Press. The impeachment charges brought again: cretary Mellon by Represent- Patman of Texas were referred to a House Judiciary Subcommittee today for detailed study Chairman Sumners announced this action after a clcsed session of the full committee. | T ubcommittee,” Sumner said, | “will study the arguments made before the committee, segregate them and di- rect the attention of the full committee to the pertinent sections for its consid- eration The Repres Carolina subcommittee named. included: | itative Weaver, Democrat, North chairman, and chuwnla-‘ tives Olive New York: Gregory, Ken- | tucky, both Democrats, and Moore, Ohio, and Sparks, Kansas, Republicans This group will anaiyze the state- ments made before the committee by Patman and Alexander Gregg, Mellon's Tepresentative, in five-day hearings The committee also was directed to study testimony taken by the Senate Finance Committee in its foreign securities investigation. The Secretary | has denied there was any relation be- tween a credit extension to Colombia and the Barco concession obtained by the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Co. | o7 i | Landslide Kills Eleven. BOGOTA, Colombia. January 28 () 1 —Eleven laborers were killed in their gleep and six more were injured in a lan fer | bars believe Dr. Senator Asks U. S. to ‘Admonish’ Japan; Arms Ban Is Urged By the Assoclated Press. A demand that shipments of of arms to China and Japan be barred was made today in the Senate. It came while the State De- partment was waiting in close- mouthed silence for replies to its latest overtures to Japan and Great Britain in the Sino-Japa- nese dispute. A little later, Senator King, Democrat, Utah, suggested that the United States “admonish” Japan against her military dem- onstrations in China. He did not discuss the observation and there was no debate on it. The arms proposal came from Senator Dill, Democrat, Wash- ington, who said, in introducing the measure, that if China and Japan came to open war they must import great quantities of arms. He said his resolution was to serve notice that the United States would not “furnish fuel for this flame.” CHINESE DEMANDS PUSHED AT GENEVA Will Proclaim State of War Exists Unless League Takes Action. BY WILLIAM BIRD. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, January 28 —The League of Nations Council today was wrestling with a virtual ultimatum from Dr. W | W Yen, the Chinese delegate, who de- clares that China's patience is at an end and that this is the last rhance| the League will have to assert its moral authority in the Far East crisis Dr. Yen stated thet unless China’s demands are met In at least two par- ticulars, China will proclaim that a state of war exists and thus compel the League to apply Article XV of the cov- enant providing economic and financial sanctions against an aggressor. Two Demands Made. China’s two demands are: First. that Japan_begin withdrawing her troops from China, either commencing evacua- tion at Chinchow or withdrawing her warships from Shanghai harbor; sec- ond, that the league take an unequivo- cal stand on the juridical aspect of the affair to the extent at least of indorse- ment of Secretary Stimson'’s recent note. League Council members are worTied by this uncompromising attitude. U-- til today it was thought that Dr. Yen would back down and be satisfied with a_simple declaration by the president of the council emphasizing respect for treaties and calling attention to the necessity of awaiting the report o$ the League’s Committee of Inquiry in Man- churia. Today only a few Council mem- Yen will eventually be satisfied with much less than he has asked for. League Pressed for Time. Two material facts weigh heavily in Dr. Yen's favor. In the first place, he is at present practically the Chinese ernment and he does not have to depend upon cabled instructions. in the position of Ambassadors a hun- dred years ago who were raised to the peerage if they succeeded, and beheaded if they failed. The other fact is that the League is pressed for time; it is anxious to wind up its own session and clear the deck for the Disarmament Con- ference, while Dr. Yen is in no hurry and would indeed welcome a chance to drag the discussion into next week, when high officials of all nations will | be in Geneva League leaders today were pleading with Dr. Yen to compromise, pointing out that an uncompromising stand may wreck the League, that the League deserves to bs wrecked if it cannot check Japan's aggression | against China. (Copyright, 1932.) BEING NAUGHTY HELD CAUSE OF ILLNESS | Health Officer Says Swearing and Lying Can Bring on At- tack of Tuberculosis. By the Associated Press MILWAUKEE, January 28.—Don't swear and don't lie, for, said Dr. John P. Koehler, Milwaukee health commis- sioner, if you did you were liable to get most anything from indigestion to tu- berculosis. Health and religion, he told the Luth- | eran Young People’s Club, were closely related and emotional stress incident to swearing and lying often led to se- rious diseases. ‘It is because religion teaches we should not lie and swear that destruc- tive disturbances for violation of the| code tems, re set up in our physical sys- he said. He is | Dr. Yen's reply was | British Reply on Joint Action © Awaited. OFFICIALS HERE FEEL ANXIETY Count on Exercise X X \\ \\\\\ R W N N SN N AR 2 NN N N N N\ N\ \ A\ R TR RN of Restraint by Tokio Heads. NSTANTINE BROWN. in Shanghai is growing rapidly menacing. The United States Government is gravely concerned about the lat- est happening in that interna- tional port, but is still of the opinion that the Japanese govern- ment, realizing the far-reaching consequences of defiant attitude may have, will act with the com- mon sense which has always char- acterized the Japanese people and avoid a showdown, not with the | Chinese so much as with some of | the leading western powers. E So far nobody seems able to | fathom the actual frame of mind |of the Japanese leaders. News | from Tokio and Shanghai seems | conflicting. | The only positive news received at a | late hour is that Japanese troops have been landed and have occupied a por- tion of the native City of Shanghai dangerously close to the international settlement. Colony Efficiently Policed. According to international law, any nation is entitled to land troops to pro- tect the life and property of its citizens ! when the local authorities are unwil- ling or unable to afford such a pro- tection. This seems to be the case with the portion of the native City of | Shanghai, which was occupied early this morning by the Japanese marines | Our interests in this whole matter is | that the Japanese should go no further into the international settlement. That | important part of Shanghai is being | effictently policed by British and Amer- ican troops and has an efficient con- stabulary formed of the civilian white clements who live in the settlement. Whether the Japanese will endeavor to gain control over that settlement is for the time being an open question. The presence of 24 men-of-war in the Shanghai Harbor is naturally caus- ing -a good deal of concern here. A blockade of Shanghai by the Japanese appears, however, unthinkable becausc this cannot be done without a declara- tion of war. But even if the Japanese decided to blockade the Chinese ports BY CO The situation without an official declaration of war, | such a measure could not affect Ameri- can and non-Chinese shipping. The right of search and confiscation—war prize— cannot_be enforced on any ships ex- cept those belonging to the nation whose ports are being officially bloc- kaded. Our position toward Japan is conse- quently very clear. The scene of ac tion has been shifted from Manchuria to Shanghai, and the only conceivable way in which we could coie into a | direct conflict with the Japanese would be in case they decide to go into the international settlement or begin to pre- vent our free trade with China Whether the Japanese intend to do that remains to be seen Interests Are Similar. In the meanwhile the British gov- ernment has been approached by the United States Government with the view of finding a basis for an eventual | common action in the Far East. The reason why the British and no other government has been approached by us is that the interests of the United States and those of the British empire are very similar in that section of the world. The British cabinet, presided over by Ramsay MacDonald. met last night, but there was no agreement between its various members regarding the sug- gested common action. It appears that (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) SENATOR LONG LEAVES HURRIEDLY FOR HOME Departs Without Notifying Office as Fight Over Governorship Rages in Louisiana. By the Associated Press. Senator Huey Long, who gave up the governorship of Louisiana this week, | left_here unexpectedly late last night | for his home State, where a battle is on | cver the right to the post he vacated. | Louisiana's new Senator left without | cven notifying his office. Just what caused his sudden return to Louisiana | was not known. ! "'He is expected back here next week. POSTMARK FOR MOUNT VER&TON TO BE TREAT FOR COLLECTORS Special Cachet Will Be Pr ovided by Department and Bicentennial Commission for February 22. The Bicentennial celebration is going to provide another “banner day™ for the philatelists, according to an announce- ment Washington Bicentennial today Arrangements are being made in co- operation with the Post Office Depart- ment to have a special cachet with which letters mailed at the Mount Ver- non Post Office will be canceled on February 22. The cachet will stamp on the envelopes posted at Mount Vernon a likeness of the Wakefield home, which was the birthplace of George Washing- ton, and will bear the inscription “1732- 1932.” To be issued for one day only, it will bear the date February 22, 1932. According to tRe commission’s an- Commission ide near the village of Neira yes- | nouncement, stamp collectors from all / parts of the country are manifesting | » at the United States George | intense interest in the plan, and it is expected that thousands will be on hand to_procure covers at Mount Vernon. It was explained that the decision to arrange for the postmark at Mount | Vernon was reached because there is |no pcst office at Wakefield, Westmore- |land County, the logical place at which | to issue the cancellation. Some stamp collectors have been se- curing cancellations from Wakefield, Sussex County, Va., and marketing them as emanating from Washington's birth- place, according to advices reaching the commissicn. The cachet to be arranged by the Post Office Department is not a can- cellation, it is explained, but is an ad- ditional stamp to be placed on covers for February 22. Other cachets may be moce available for other patriotic days during the Bicentennial, - e THE IRRECONCILABLE ARTIST. | SENATORS REJECT - DEMOCRAT TARIFF Finance Committee Unfavorable Report on House Measure. By the Associated Press | The Senate Finance Committee today voted an unfavorable report on a re- vised House Democratic tariff bill | There was no roll call on the motion | to send the bill to the Senate with an adverse report, but an earlier move to report it favorably resulted in a tie, 110 to 10, with Senator La Follette of Wisconsin joining the nine Democratic ! members in voting for it. | Before the bill can come up on the | floor, Chairman Smoot must make his | réport and the bill be sent to the i calendar to await its turn. ‘The measure contzins several amend- | ments proposed by;Senator Harrison of | Mississippl, ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. | As it now stands, the bill would re- store to Congress the power held by the | President to increase or decrease rates | after a Tariff Commission inquiry It also would provide for a non- partisan commission of seven members and would direct the President to call an international conference designed to | tear down trade barriers and to nego- | tiate reciprocal trade agreements with foreign nations. | | It strikes out the House provision for ja Tariff Commission rate proposal, to take effect unless Congress rejects it within 60 days. To equalize tariff duties by compen- | sating for depreciation in foreign cur- rencies and carrying an anti-dumping clause, a bill was introduced in the House today by Representative Beedv | of Maine, which carries the indorse- ment of the Customs Bureau as being a practical working proposition. | This proposes that there shall be | levied additional duties upon all articles imported into the United States if t depreciation in the currency of the country of origin is determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be 5 per cent or more below the standard valve of such currency as proclaimed by the | Secretary of the Treasury on October | 1, 1931. 'SALVADOREAN REVOLT DECLARED SUBDUED Retiring Mexican Minister Says Country Has Re-Established Communications I By the Associated Press. | VERA CRUZ, Mexico, January 28.— | Juan Ramon Uriarte, retiring Mexican | Minister to Salvador, who arrived here | from Salvador en route to Mexico City, said the Salvadorean government now | has obtained complete control over the | revolt there, and has re-established rail, air and telegraph communication in all sections He said the Communists, disorganized after their defeats, have fled into hiding in the hills and mountains. Their first successes, he said, were marked by as- sasinations and executions, which | aroused the country to arms, and quick | suppression of the movement followed. | American and British armed forces | in Salvador was unnnecessary now, he | id. safle said the uprising was caused by a demand of the people for social re- forms. The government of Salvador, and the | financial interests will co-operate in sponsoring the reforms now, he said. | NORTH DAKOTA G. 0. P.. SEEN FOR HOOVER State Convention Indorsement Forecast by Leaders—Dr. France “Only Candidate.” By the Associated Press. MINOT, N. Dak,, January 28.—North Dakota Republicans met in State con- vention here today, with indorsement of President Hoover forecast by party leaders. Numerous delegations from countles arrived with instructions to indorse the President. Dr J. 1. France, former Maryland Senator, is the only Republican can- Qidate who has so far’ filed for the preference primary. He was entered by the Progressive Republican party of North Dakota at its convention last week. The Democratic convention in- - dorsed ‘Franklin D. Rooseveit. » U. S. DELEGATES ARRIVE Senator Swanson and Dr. Woolley Reach. France En Route to Parley. | CHERBOURG, France, January 28 (#).—Senator Clauge A. Swanson and | Dr. Mary Emma Woolley. American | delegates to the Disarmament Confer- | the steamer President Harcding and started for Switzerland immediately by way of Paris. RAIL UNIONS VOTE PAY CUT AMITY Want Additional Guarantee From Railroads for Future Years, However. By the Associated Press CHICAGO; ~January . 28 —Agreement by railway labor upon a 10 per cent voluntary wage reduction was augured [today in a resolution adopted by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, last holdout of the 20 union groups to vote. The trainmen agreed to rejoin the brother organizations in seeking “the best settlement possible” but specified that the railroads must promise not to attempt another wage reduction for a full year after the termination of the contemplated year's reduction The resolution will be prescnted to the Labor Executives’ Committee at 3 pm When the union leaders have reached an accord, they will summon tne railway presidents to another joint conference A. F. Whitney, head of the organiza- tion, had presided over a separate meeting throughout the morning while presidents of the other groups awaited the trainmen’s vote before calling an- other joint conference with the rail- road presidents Withdrawal of the International Longshoremen's Association from the conference was announced at 1 o'clock by Chairman David B. Robertson of the Labor Executives' Committee. The Longshoremen, a small group of lighter pilots of New York harkor, decided to negotiate directly with the railroads. May Seek New Compromise. Most of the brotherhoods had al- ready voted on the wage proposition, although the trend of their decisions | remained a secret. Sentiment seemed top revail about the conference hotel | lobbies, however, that labor eventually | would come back to the railroad presi- | dents with another plea for further concessions to the labor program before agreeing to the wage reduction. That the stumbling block of dissz(is-[ faction at concessions made by the rails | to a job stabilization program loomed | as big as ever was indicated by Robert- son, whose first announcement earlier | yesterday said about three-fourths had | agreed. | Robertson also indicated that labor | might try for a new compromise agree- ment with a committee of rail execu- tives who are here awaiting the workers' | decision. | Closed Shop Discussed. | Three labor leaders made a surprise visit to the hotel headquarters of the agreements on certain roads be strength- | ened and extended. They were Alvaney | Johnston of the locomotive engineers, | S. N. Berry of the conductors and A. F. Whitney of the trainmen. Robertscn denied any knowledge of such a visit to the presidents’ quarters | and asserted that if the three men had gone on such an ertand it was in an | entirely unofficial capacity. President Daniel Willard of the Balti- more & Ohio, leader of the committee of nine rail heads, said the labor lead- ers called on him in reference to a “minor matter that had nothing to do | with the present negotiations.” SMOKE CAUSES DEATH OF FIREMAN AFTER BLAST 8ix Others Injured in Kansas City Explosion in Business Building. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 28.—A vio- lent explosion in a downtown business building resulted in the death of a city fireman and injuries to six other persons here early today. Lieut. Daniel S. McCarty was stricken fatally by smoke as he and members of his company sought to check the fire which followed the blast. The injured were either cut by flying glass or hurled down by the force of the explosion, which was believed by investigators to have been caused by an accumulation of gas. The building houses a meat market and restaurant. Firemen estimated damage to it and surrounding struc- tures at $75,000. £ -—— {Radio Programs on Page D-4’ PLANES SIGAT OIL NEAR N2 SINKING Votes ence at Geneva, arrived today aboard PiIOtS Believe DiSCOVEI‘y Ifl- dicates Presence of Miss- ing Submarine. PORTLAND, England, January 28 (). —Mysterious tappings under the water were detected today by the destroyer Thruster on her listening apparatus, and the rescue flotilla looking for the sunken submarine M-2 spurred its operations as night fell. By the Associated Press PORTLAND, England. January 28— Seaplanes flying over the English Chan- nel off Portland today discovered a large patch of oil on the water which, pilots believe, might indicate the pres- ence of the sunken submarine M-2 After circling the patch of oil several times one pilot was able to see that oil was constantly coming to the surface from below. In the center of the patch was something * whith looked like a fender, but could not immediately be identified. The patch covered an area of 4 or 5 square miles and was located about 3 miles south of Portland Bill. some dis- tance from where British ships have been searching. Meanwhile, for the first time since the search began a diver was able to reach the bottom of the channel at a point where one of several objects was being investigated. He has not been able yet, however, to locate the ob- struction to a- sweep which was being dragged over the bottom when the object was located. Cylinders Rushed to Scene. Four huge cylinders suitable for lift- ing a sunken submarine to the surface were ordered rushed from Portland to the spot where the oil patch was dis- covered, first by the Destroyer Sabre The Sabre had dropped anchor near the spot where an obstruction to the sweep had been encountered when a large quantity of oil began to come to the surface. It was believed that if the M-2 was beneath that spot the oil might have been deliberately released | in_order to show its position. The water is 18 fathoms deep at that spot. Diving operations were begun immediately but the first man to go down was unable to reach the bottom. He was hauled up and a second man prepared to descend. Another obstruction was found by the! Destroyer Thruster this morning at a spot about two miles from Abbotsbury. When the destroyer drag was brought | to the surface it was bent and marked with paint. These developments renewed hope that some of the submarine’s crew might be alive and could be rescued. Several naval officials expressed the be- " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN HELD AS CATTLE THIEF By the Associated Press UNIONTOWN, Pa, January 28— You hard men of the Jackson Hole | presidents, asking that “closed shop” | country, liften to this. A 22-year-old woman, formerly an office worker, is under arrest for cattle rustling. Miss Minnie Perine and three man companions, D. D. Stewart, 32, and his brothers, Robert, 24, and Edgar, 27, were arrested yesterday by State Police, who say the four have confessed to stealing and butchering cattle. been reported frequently in Greene and Fayette Counties in the past few months. Rustling has | COMMUNITY CHEST FUNDS FAR BELOW NECESSARY MARK |Donations Reported Today | Only $80,935 Instead of $150,000 Needed. WORKERS ARE SCOLDED FOR'DRIVE’S SLOWNESS ‘Must Get More Pledges if Cam- paign to Relieve Suffering Is Not to Be Failure. With daily contributions of $150,000 needed to assure success for the Com- munity Chest drive, gifts of only $80,- 935.49 were reported today at a lunch- eon in the Willard Hotel. The grand total was increased to $1,903,523.33. Arthur Hellen, acting campaign chairman, gently but firmly scolded the workers. He said they would have to do better or the drive would prove a failure. He said they should call on every conceivable prospect, returning again if they were unable to obtain a pledge on the first trip. Number of Gifts Small. | “We don't have to be discouraged over our failure to get big increases this | year over the individual donations last | year,” Mr. Hellen said, “but the number of contributions is _distressingly small. We need, and must have, more pledges.” Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the wartime President, and Mrs. Frederic A | Delano, wife of the first president of the Community Chest, were the guests of honor. Introduced by Mr. Helien | they | plause as the solicitors arose out of re- spest. The metropolita receipts of $42,521 nit today reported the group solici- | unit $8,300 and the schools unit $1,- 218.09 Mr. Hellen squelched the cheering which began when the grand total was announced with the comment that the metropolitan unit still has $300,000 to raise, the group solicitation unit needs $257,000 to complete its quota and the special gifts unit js Lehind $109,000 “Washington will have to awake to the seriousness of the situation,” warned Edward F. Coiladay, general campaign chairman. this morning. “We must realize that unless we reach this goal, our proud boast that ‘no person need go hungry in Wash- ington’ may become a mere group of idle words. We must awaken to the fact that unemployment has caused an increase of more than 40 per cent in the demands for aid and that every penny of the one-third more than was pledged last year and which is asked for this year’s budget, 1s needed to re- | lieve acute distress. Must Give More. “More Washingtonians must give more. Our average pledge must be in- | creased. The number of pledges must be increased. The eyes of the Nation are upon us and unless we get these in- creases the Nation will learn that persons are allowed to go hungry and unsheltered in the Nation's Capital “We are facing the greatest peace- time emergency in the history of Wash- ington. Our city, while better favored than most, is confronted with the greatest number of jobless breadwinners it has ever known. The time has come | when those of.us who have an income or a job must share with those who ha e nothing. I want to appeal to every Washingtonian to arise to this emer- gency. 1 want them to remember that these volunteer, unpa!d workers who come to give them the privilege of con: | tributing to the Chest are not only volunteer workers, but generous givers as well and then I want to appeal to every loyal resident of our city, the most beautiful in the land, to remember the . the ill, the aged and infirm, the helpless little children who are de- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) IRAK EMANCIPATION APPROVED AT GENEVA | Indorsement of British Proposal | Conditional on Economic and | Other Guarantees. By the Associated Press GENEVA, January 28.—With the ap- proval of the British government, the | Council of the League of Nations ap- proved in principle today the emanci- | pation of Irak, conditional upon guar- ‘antees of economic, judicial, religious and racial equality for her people. | In indorsing the British government’s proposal to graduate the British man- date to independent statehood, the Council provided also that freedom must be accompanied by the entrance of Irak into the League. Irak, formerly known as Mesopo- tamia, was wrested from Turkey during the World War and was recognized as an independent state under the man- | date of Great Britain. By virtue of a | treaty signed in 1927 between the two | states the British government under- took to recognize Irak's independence. The Permanent Mandates Commis- sicn of the League recommended the state’s formal emancipation several weeks ago. were accorded spontaneous ap- | tation unit $28,895.85, the special gifts | LOAN PLEAS SPEED SENATE ACTION ON NEW CREDI BODY Approval of Dawes and Other Directors Expected Be- fore Night. APPLICATIONS FOR AID PILE UP AT TREASURY Hoover Consults With Scnator Walcott and Mills on Plans for Rushing Project to Completion. The nomination of Charles G. Dawes to head the Reconstruction Corporation was confirmed today by the Senate. By the Associated Press Applications for loans from the Ree construction Finance Corporation ace cumulated today at the Treasury, and examination of their merits began While preparations to get credits to | work were under way, President Hoover again consulted with Undersecretary of |the Treasury Mills and Senator Wal- | cott, Republican, of Connecticut on financial legislation. The Senator later gave his view that the reconstruction agency actually is functioning, although the Senate has | yet to confirm Charles G. Dawes, Jesse | H. Jones and Harvey C. Couch as di- rectors. He predicted Senate action on one or more of the names by nightfall. | The name of Judge Wilson McCarthy | of Salt Lake City as the third Demo~ | cratic director for the corporation was | laid before President Hoover today by | Senator Thomas of Idaho. Thomas said McCarthy was known | throughout that section of the West as a banker, stockman and lawyer and that sentiment for his appointment was | not confined to Utah alone. Applications Are Secret. Applications to share in the $2.000.- 000,000 fund which will be advanced to encourage business are not to be made public. Nor will information be given out when loans are approved Walcott expects the corporati function on a decentralized basis branches in various sectior examiners available to evaluate s ties which cannot readily be brought to | Washington for examination as loan- making foundaticn The White House meeting. and con- ferences at the Treasury also, sought an understanding for speeding remain- | ing points of the emergency economic program on Capitol Hill Discussions revolved about means of creating a Government agency to hasten payments to depositors in closed banks. The complex Glass bill, providing for far-reaching revision of the national | banking laws, also makes provision for establishment of & liguidating corpora= ticn to relieve depositors in closed in~t tutions. Hoover Wants Action. President Hoover wants this relief item | incorporated in a separate emergen measure for prompt action. After see= | ing Mills and Walcott, he called Chair- {man Norbeck of the Senate Banking Committee and Senator Thomas, Re- publican, of Idaho, author of another | bill providing relief for depositors through a $750,000,000 corporation | At the same time Senator Glass, | Democrat, Virginia, went into confer- ence and Gov. Meyer of the Pederal | Reserve Board. While the Glass subcommittee has | approved his banking measure, it has gone back for considerable overhauling |of technical phases. Some members | fear there are provisions tending to- | ward further deflation in it | While opposed to inflation, the ad- | ministration is determined to counter- i act_deflation. | The Reconstruction Corporation law | provides that one of the directors shall | be the Secretary of the Treasury or the Undersecretary Secretary Mellon (Continued on Page FIRST DEFICIENCY BILL PASSES HOUSE Conference Report on $126,000,000 Total Now Goes to Senate With $1,000,000 Added. piled high _with 2, Column 2) | | By the Associated Press. The House today adopted the con- ference report on the $126,000,000 first urgent deficiency bill. It now goes to the Senate, $1,000,000 larger than it originally passed the House. The House agreed to a Senate amend- ment appropriating $135.152 for ac- quisition of land at Kelly Field, Tex. —— CHILD SLAYER HELD INSANE BY ALIENISTS Reach Decision in Bischoff Case After Ten Days—May Be Sent to Asylum. COLD WEATHER FACTORY DUMPING GOODS ON EASTERN HEMISPHERE “Blocked High” Along Atl antic Advanced by Weather Bureau for High Temperatures in U. S. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. What's happened to all the cold weather? The warmest Winter the Eastern United States has known for a gener- ation has everybody asking a question which meteorologists of the United States Weather Bureau only tentatively can answer. Back of it all, they say, is the proba- bility the world's cold weather factory is shipping out most of its goods over a rival road and dumping them on the Eastern Hemisphere. This appears to have been going on for some years now. Cold weather, it is explained by Prof. ‘William J. Humphreys, Weather Bureau meteorologist, is not a local product. Nearly all of it, in_the very nature of things, is manufactured = inside the Arctic Circle, and at other high lati- tudes. There is no reason to believe the production rate of this factory has been cut down. The depression doesn't reach that far north. There is just as much ice and just as little sunshine up there | this Winter as ever and there is just as much raw material coming in—warm air to be chilled into cold air. The storm machine never stops running and the accumulated product must be gotten out of the way. There is room in the factory for only so much air. The cold air escapes from the Arctic Basin along the paths of least resist- ance—the routes where there are the fewest obstructions in the form of moun- tains. Fortunately for meteorologists | who must keep track of moving cold | waves and warm waves, there are cer- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8 - der, By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 28— Charles Bischoff, eccentric cobbler and confessed kidnaper-slayer of 6-year-old Marian McLean, was declared insane today by three court-appointed alienists. Judge C. S. Bell previously announced he would send Bischoff to Lima State Hospital for Criminal Insane if alienists found him of unsound mind The alienists studied Bischoff's case for 10 days. Kidnaping of the McLean girl Decem- ber 19 and discovery of her mutilated body five days later by Bischoff in the basement of his tenement aroused this city to the greatest.man hunt in its history. Indicted for first-degree murder, Bischoff refused to enter a plea. His attorneys said he was mentally unbal- anced and asked Judge Bell to investi- gate his sanity. SOCIETY SLAYER INDICTED Allen to Answer Murder Charge at Norristown, Pa. NORRISTOWN, Pa., January 28 ().— Edward H. B. Allen, young society man, who last November shot to death Francis A. Donaldson, 3d., was today formally indicted on a charge of mur- ~x s