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A—2 4un CHEST DONATIONS TOTAL 5198982 Single Day’s Contributions of $91,743 Show Marked Improvement. (Continued From First Page.) _ to Newcastle. I have been much in- terested in his book, ‘Soc tr I commend it to all per- interested in social work adminis- on. One thing that pleased us in mak- Ing this survey was to find that unit zost of operating the Chest has grad- ually diminished. We people in the Government service feel we have con- tributed somewhat to the reduction in cost this year by having the collections in the various Government departments made through the key men, instead of requiring the Chest collections personally as former years is work but the additional ¢ with the saving thi ted to the Chest they ¥ did the Governn key has resu Hopes for Single Campaign. we hope the same ma- Il be used in the service that being If the depression v 2 NO_prescr ) 1 be fixed, but r: ery individual shall be ed to give according t o conscience and that the Governmer tations shall be made a part r cam al don: inciuded Princess Margaret $5.000, Mrs. Mary National Flectrical S S 1 H. Kauffmar Cab Co.: Ter “Next year nymous Southern Dairies, 1on Seminary; ban’s School for Boys Backus: $600, . L dral School for G Storer; $536.27 $500, Mrs, Mrs, Henry 900, Inc Mount V $7510 8582, Cathe- $550, Emily L. Sidwell Friends School Irwin Laughlin, Mr A. Berli Miss Louisa H. Storer, Mrs. S, B Ely, Liggett Co. nder B. Trowbridge. $400 F. A. Whiting, Campbeli Louis T $350, L. P Berkley L. Si ns, Dean $333.33, J. F. Bowie 3 Consumers Co. (ad Other Gifts Are Listed. $300, Frances S. Behrend. Charles G Treat, Howard Moran, George F. Ward Mrs. Flora B. Welch, Mr. and Mrs George M. M J.E., F. E. and H. J Mr. and Mrs, G. Bowdoin H. Given, Mr. and er, Fannie N Gurnee, Wil Fred B. Putman, Stockett-Fiske Co., In $280. Mr. and Mrs. William Sholes. £275, William F. Hitt $250, Cooley Bros., Willard M. Kiplin- ger, Clarence O'Brien, Frank J. Stryker. Flmer J. Mathe, Charlotte Campbell, Corcoran_Fire Insurance Co., G. Murphy Co. $225, Joseph I, Wheeler, Mrs. William $200, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Selby Miss Pauline Baum, Willlam King & Son, Mr. and Mrs. Sidwell, Wharton E. Lester, BSouthern Wholesalers, Inc David C. Butcher, Le Roy Tuttle, Mrs. Mark Reld Yates, Mrs. Miriam Kauff- mann, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Van De- vanter, Joseph Strauss, Persis C. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Devereux Green, George W. Manogue Beall Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Wolf, Rosslyn Steel & Cement Co., Miss Elizabeth P. Patterson, Stone’s Mercantile Agency, Mrs. Tracy Dows, Dr. Daniel B. Mor- fett, Mr. and Mrs. Fra tel aldson. R Elizabeth W. Stafford $150, Lee Spire, James L. Parsons, ir.; Oliver T. Closson. Willlam B. Wiliard, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Wilson, Mrs. A. H. Bowman, Mrs. Ezra B. McCagg, F. E. Mack, A Weyl, A. G. Bishop. Sisters of Charity Help. ers of Charity; '$135, Mrs. Richar rederic J. Has- Graeme; $130, Inc Raymond F. i Rob- Hitt McCrea, T Lee; $170, S. Turover, Wendell P. Garrity 2d; Roger erts, James Ber Mr. and A ke Charles F Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mrs. Francis G. Addi- Lockwood Dental Co. William L. Beale, Irving nd Mrs. Sothoron Key, Dr. Gallaudet College S Brooke & Harry, Inc 1 H. Boyd, P. G. Harman, av J. Flebeger, J. J. Pitzpat- Zonta Club of $110, Raphael . Lee B. Kemon, Mrs. George Morris Hacker and family room, Times and_Heral $100 n S. Barbour, R. Mar Stamp & Co., James E. Rosenthal, R ert M. Heth, Samuel Bensenger & Son New York Decorating Co.. Gibson Co. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Crilly, George H Elliott, anonymous, Paul F. Myers, nson, Thomas P. Healy, Dr. ry D. Langhorne, Arthur Miss Regina Loughran n, Dr. and Mrs. Universalist Na- 1 Church, T. A. Ca omas H. C. Reed, John r J. Shaw, Sol b Victor B. Deyber, S. Fred Hahn, M and Mrs. A. Gordon Jones, Henry W. 0 W, 4 f and W H. Etz, Willlam W. Georges Sons, Inc c Heldenheimer T Clyde Other Contributors, Michael E. Buckley, Dr. and Branson, Dr. and Mrs. Grant Mr. and Mrs. J. V. A. Brodesse, G. H. Mac- Mabel L. Pillsbury, Miss sby Mrs. Tiver M G Eleanor C A Dr. H S| Mr. and on, Joh eph 8. W Pler McLendon, y 1 and Mrs. Edward C] Dore, David Devereaux G Mrs. Annie George A. D 1, Jos ge day Cl Miss R x National Broadeasting Station, Inc., WRC: Mr. and Mrs. Cabot Stevens, 8. Dolan Dono- hoe, Bernard M. Kaufman, Huston Thompson, Isadore L. Goldheim, Gen A. Johnston, John W. Hamiiton Henry T. Allen, sr.; Mi J. Towneend Russell, Silas Strawn, Mrs. Warren Delano Robbi Mathilda Mellon, Solway-Annan Co., Miss Josephine T. Kelly, Frank Morri- son, Edgar M. Kitchin, St. Mary’s Church, Central Auto Works, C. Hospital, Anna L. Nelson, Miss Mary A. Johnson, W. N. Sturtevant, Comdr. J. W. Morse, Miss Alice E. Jchnson, Han- nah H. Meyers, M. H. Wilhoite, Elks’ Morning Star Lodge, No. 40; Mr. and Mrs. Granville Gude, Mrs. T. B. Hutch- inson, M. L. Langford, John E. Brown R. W. Benton, E. R. Seal Co., Mrs. Ruth K. Gessford, Washington Brick & Terra Cotta Co., Mr. and Mrs. Monte Appel, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burgess, Max Cchen, Israel Mazo, Arlington Candy Co., H. Berman, E. J. Febrey & Co. and ‘Thomas E. Burke. Qold production in Eastern Venezuela 45 increasing. \ al Work Ad- | officiais to make | in | Govern- and | M. P.| Mrs. E. Lester Jones, Otis | John B. Geler, | < Altemus, Wal- | Edward T. Clark, Dr. Richard | I*L‘ Mousic Brilliant Benefit Concert At Library of Congress. HERE has never been a more satisfying concert than the one given last night at the Library of Congress, under the auspices of the Friends Music as a benefit for the Musicians’ Emergency Ald, of which Walter Damrosch is chairman. For many, many, many reasons there was a luster to it, one might say a musical sheen, such has rarely been du- plicated in this now historic concert hall The combined artists, who gave s0 willing- ly, so graciously and so freely of their services, outdid them - selves, rot only as great artists, | but also as & &TOUp—a group which seemed to enjoy itself as much as the audience. These four famed artists, Nina Koshetz, Harold Bauer, Paul Kochanski and Hans Kindler (free for the moment from his duties as orchestral maestro), combined their talents and gave such a program as made those present “sing with joy.” Such an evening of continued lyric beauty has not been duplicated this or any other season. Added to this, and something which must be stressed, was the spirit of the per- formers, who ordinarily well able to round out an invigorating pro- gram all of their own, last night got together” and behaved them- selves in the supremely commendable fashion of four youngster adults who e having as much fun with each as they are at the realization that “fun” is being radiated. s was apparant to a splendid de- ce in the Russlan folksong Katinka's Husband” sung with great charm by Mme. Koshetz, after which Mr. Kindler was 1o be ob- served smiling and laughing and »plauding the artist by hitting the 10 with his bow, Mr. Kochanski, tto, tapping his violin with his bow, and Mr. Bauer smiling from o toe pirit of artistic se who “gave” as, in fac { the factors which raised this event to the heights. Musically, technically and from sudience’s viewpoint of just be- able to sit back and be mu- sically_relaxed, there was everything to be had and nothing denied. The program. consisting of the Cesar Franck “Sonata in A Major.” Rus- sian folk songs by Alexander Goe- dicke and the Brahms “Trio No. 3 in C Minor,” was ideal for the oc- Nina Koshetz. pi th THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 100 SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1932. and Mausicians Reviews and News of Capital’s Programs. caslon—ideal, as a matter of fact, for any occasion. Mr. Bauer and Mr. Kochanski put their all into Pranck’s standard sonata—Mr. Bauer perhaps eclipsing the violin virtuoso now and again in the matter of strength—Mme, Koshetz sang her Russian songs in her inimitable fashion—and the Brahms trio played by Bauer, Kochanski and Kindler was given a wealth of lyric expres- sion (has it ever sounded more lovely than in the “andante gra- 2zi0s0” movement?) While it would be impossible to say that “this was better than that” or that one item suffered by comparison with another — the “Prayer,” which Mme. Koshetz sang must be suggested as one of the peaks of the evening. There was something about it which warmed the audience as few vocal selections can. A beautiful song—given an exquisite Tendering by the soloist— it somehow struck the mellowest chord of the entire whole with its background of cello and violin ob- bligato and its rich and moving simplicity. This, however, was only one among the concert’s many perfec- tions. All the artists deserve great praise for their work as well as for having given their services for such an important cause—and it was especially pleasing to the local audi- ence to be able to see Mr. Kindler in joyous mood laboring over his first love, the cello. E. de 8. MELCHER. Parronchi in Local Debut As Soloist at Ciub. THE Friday Morning Music Club's program yesterday was ar- ranged by Mary Ixant Couch. It of- fered an interesting group of songs by Rimsky-Korsakoff, Marx, Saint- Baens and Adolfh Torovsky, all sung with intelligence and spirit by Lucy MacMorland in the light, flexible voice appropriate to them. It also presented Bernard Parronchi, first cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra, in his Washington debut #s_soloist Mr. Parronchi had an immediate and emphatic success with his audi- ence. He projected the mood of each composition powerfully and displayed a full, round legato as well as a con- fident mastery of all the technical demands of & program which ranged from Bach, Dittersdorf and Boc- cherini through Mary Howe, Albeniz, Ravel and Faure. His playing of the “Malaguena,” by Albeniz, and of abaner suggested a Spanish parentage, along with the Italian name, even before one learned that he actually has the two strains in_his blood. Mrs, 1zant Couch and Mrs. David Book provided skillful accompani- ments. It was pleasant to se Washington composers included on the program, as if as a matter of course, and they held their own with credit. M.C. s FACING OF ARNS Dr. Healy Holds Friends of Disarmament Are Endan- gering Nation. Dr. Thomas H. Healy, assistant dean and professor of international law at the Georgetown Foreign Service 8chool, in an address last night at the annual dinner of the National Rifle Association sounded a call to the American people “to get down to brass tacks and face the real facts on the problems of dis- armament.” Dr. Healy said a large proportion of sarmament advocates, by their ideals, are overlooking the fundamental facts of the world's politi- cal and economic situation and instead of serving the enlightened interests of | the United States are not only endan- gering the Nation but actually are re- tarding the cause of world peace. “Our splendid self-sacrificing example. which, supposedly, was to result in other ations of the world following suit, has resulted merely in decreasing our own naticnal defense below the minimum danger point while the other nations are becoming more and more armed,” Dr. Healy declared In Dr. Healy's opinion, the Geneva Disarmament Conference, scheduled to open next Tuesday, will produce noth- ing of value, “although some rather im- posing ‘paper’ arrangements will doubt- | less be produced and ‘ballyhooed’ around the world to lead the general public into believing that the practical things which cannot be done have been done.” Seth Gordon, president of the Ameri- can Game Assoclation, decried unrea- sonable anti-gun legislation. He de- clared love of the outdoors is inborn and stays with every normal boy and youth there is a “burning am- to be expert with firearms. “Inhibitions against possession and use of firearms by law-abiding citizens wlil never stop the thief and the mur- derer, neither will they serve as a sub- | stitute for the health-giving pleasures | derived by the devotees of the shotgun, the rifle and the pistol.” | Gen. C. A. Fraser, adjutant general of North Dakota and newly elected president of the Rifle Association, was | toastmaster at the dinner. DEVOTES LIFE TO PEACE NEW YORK, January 30 (#).—At 137, Francis 8. Harmon said yesterday {he would devote the rest of his life | toward building good will among men of all_nations. Succeeding Dr. John R. Mott, he has assumed duties as general secretary of | the International Committee of ~the Young Men's Christian Association. He !will give up his activities as lawyer and newspaper editor in Hattiesburg, Miss., to_make it a full time job. From his headquarters office he will | direct his campaign of world fellowship in 31 countries, and organize a move- Iment of “world citizenship education” 1in this country FACTS ADVOGATED _ carried away | 'SMITH CO. SUES FOR PITTS’ ASSETS: ALSO ASK DAMAGES _(Continue¢ From First Page.) | syme, Wiltam Warfleld Ross Richard 8. Doyle. The company says it was informed Thursday that officials of the bureau, although notified of the company's and | Pitts to accept a bond from him cove ing the amount of the income tax claims, and to return the assets which have been selzed. If the personal property is delivered to Pitts, the suit alleges, it will be concealed or disposed of 50 'as to make it difficult or im- possible for the company to trace and Tecover it. The company says it is not fully informed as to the nature and loca- tion of all the property seized, but that it belleves it includes $189.000 worth of | second trust notes secured on the In- vestment Building, coupons _clipped from bonds secured on the Riverside Apartments, the Al Roy Apartments, the Cedric Apartments, Corcoran Courts | and the Vermont Building: $145.000 | worth of Peruvian government bonds. and between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of jewelry. Also included among the things seized, it is said, are approximately 8,000 shares of preferred stock of the Smith Co., real estate in Palm Be: valued at $250,000, furniture and au- tomobiles worth $200,000 and a farm in Montgomery County, Md., valued in ' excess of $200,000 The petition alleges that all of this property was purchased by Pitts with money estimated to have been in ex cess of $2,000,000, which he is said to have embezzied from the Smith Co. while serving as its chief officer. Some of the property, it is charged, was transferred to his wife, the details of which transactions are unknown to the plaintiff, Pitts is charged in the petition with having concealed a large amount of personal property in addition to that described in the suit. The company says it has not been informed whether an® of this property has been seized by | th: bureau The court is also asked to require the defendants to disclose to the company the nature, description and location of all the property taken from Pitts or his wife. It is also requested that offi- clals of the bureau be restrained from’ delivering to Pitts any of this property pending & final determination of the | suit, and that they be held responsible | for any damages the company may suf- fer by reason of the alleged wrongful selzure of this property. It is also asked that Pitts and his wife be required to disclose the nature |of all money and other property be- |longing to the company and held by them, and that they also be made liable for money damages. | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHT DIES | William Hodge, 77, Succumbs at Home in Greenwich, Conn. | GREENWICH. Conn., January 30 ‘(m.--wunum Hodge, actor and play- wright, died at his home here today of pneumonia. He was in his seventy- seventh year. 'ROOSEVELT BIRTHDAY FETED BY VILLAGERS WHO REMEMBER ‘Hyde Park Scenes of Boyhood That Developed Governor and Presidential Candidate Recalled. | | By the Associated Press, HYDE PARK. N. Y, January 30.— This little Hudson River village was giving a birthday party for a home- town boy—Frankiin D. Roosevelt, Gov- | ernor and presidential candidate. Some of the old countryfolk who re- ceived “invites” for the birthday party in the Staatsburg School House to- inllzh!. remembered a January 30 fifty | years ago when James Roosevelt an- | nounced he had a son and had named him Franklin Delano. The boy, they recalled, roamed about the countryside, sailed skiffs on the Hudson River, went | away to school and then drifted into law practice and finally politics. His friends who gathered with him tonight for the party followed all the ups and downs of his political life, saw him nominated for the Democratic vice presidency—and _ defeated; drafted by Alfred E. Smith for the gubernatorial candidacy and elected—twice, The friends banded together when he ran for the governorship in 1928 | and formed a “Roosevelt Home Club.” The club-puts on the party tonight. The Governor spent the day at his farm here among the scenes of his boyhood. | They have fixed up a dance, the old | and the new steps, Broadway stuff and | the lancers and Virginia reel. They will eat afterward, and it won't be | dinner; the folks down here know the | meal as “supper”’ Those who don't want to dance can talk, seated on benches along the wall of the audi- torfum in the new school house at the fork in the road, a few miles north of Hyde Park. The neighbors who are coming are from the farms and the village. With them will mingle the Governor's family | and the friends who have worked with hg‘n through campaign and public office. claim to the property, negotiated with | RS, FORTESEES BOND S FXED Honolulu Officials Agree to Release Four After Navy Promises Co-operation. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, January 30.—The Navy { having agreed to co-operate in keeping | defendants in the Joseph Kahabawai| | slaying in this jurisdiction, civil officials announced today they would permit the release of Mrs. Granville Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, E. J. Lord and A. O. Jones under bond. Circuit Judge A. M. Cristy said Mrs. Fortescue’s_bail would be $5,000 and that for the three Navy men $2,500 each. Asks Navy to Co-operate. The four were arraigned yesterday for the second-degree murder of the young Hawallan, who was one of five youths charged with attacking Mrs. Fortescue's daughter, Mrs. Massic. Apparently stirred by the Navy's atti- tude In sending to Washington critical reports of court administration here, Judge Cristy asked co-operation of the Navy before fixing bonds. Lacking the co-operation, he said their bonds would be $50.000 each Secretary Adams of the Navy Depart- ment announced in Washington his ap- proval of plans for the Navy to co-oper- ate. The defendants must report daily to a probation officer. Judge Cristy denied a defense motion to quash the indictment. The motion charged the court had coerced the grand jury into bringing in the bill of accu- sation and it did not represent the true findings of the inquisitoral body Judge and Attorney Clash. Judge Christy and Defense Att Montgomery Winn_engaged in_ several sharp verbal tilts. The judge told Winn that he “was plainly {ncompetent’ be- cause he declined to give the sources of his information regarding grand jur deliberations three occaslons was ready to report a no bill, but the judge ordered further deliberations. “It was the subject of conve nd at every dinr n observed of the L rent for imprisonment newly formed citizens' or- good r which \adequate he measure now before Gov rence M. Judd the punishment fixed at death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment for “any number of A Senate amendment to delete limit the puni: | death or by the Law- was tie vote DEFENDS HAWAIIANS, NEW YORK, January 30 (P).—Law enforcement agencies of Hawali from the Governor down were defended by Dr. David L. Crawford, president of the University of Hawali, last night in the first radio broadcast from Honolulu to Unted States since the Massie case. C ford minimized what he termed “Ii 1 and grotesque st s concerning the slaying of Joseph Kah hawai and the bringing of murder charges against four Americans. The chief difficulty, he said, was that the islands always had been peaceful and were not accustomed to dealing with major crimes. The police system he said, “never has been geared up to | meet modern crime as you know it in | all our larger American cities." Dr. Crawford commended Gov. Judd for having taken action “promptly and vigorously when the crisls arose.” SUBMIT TO CONFINEMENT. Defendants in Massie Case Volunteer, Judd Informs Bingham. Judd of Hawaii today informed Chairman Bingham of the Senate Ter- ritories Committee that the four de- |fendants in the attack upon Mrs | Thomas Massie had submitted to vol- | untary confinement to jail again. | Senator Bingham had protested to | the Governor against the recent re- lease of the prisoners and Judd replied |that only in capital cases could bail |be_denied defendants However, he followed this report with |a message today that the prisoners, at the suggestion of their attorneys, had | again returned to jail | "I think it in the interest of public safety,” said Bingham, “that | prisoners be kept in jail.” | ADAMS CABLES APPROVAL. Gov Approval of the arrangement under | which the four defendants in the Mas- sfe case at Honolulu would be released on probation with the Navy co-operat- ing to keep them within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, was granted last | night by Secretary Adams Adams cabled his approval after re- celving_a report from Rear Admiral | Yates Stirling citing the conditions un- der which Judge A. M. Christy agreed to allow Mrs. Granville Fortescue, Lieut Thomas Massie and the two naval en- listed men freedom under moderate bail. He directed the admiral to take custody of the defendants and to co- operate within the court’s jurisdiction. Stirling advised that Mrs. Fortescue had agreed to the arrangement Under this agreement Mrs. Fostescue will be released under $5,000 bond and Lieut. Thomas H. Massie and two naval | enlisted men under $2,500 bond. {POLICE BUILDING HELD OVERLOADED; MAY BE CONDEMNED __(Continued From First Page) E. P. Brooke, superintendent of Munici- pal Building, to the report. He sug- gested that Mr. Brooke consult with Acting Engineer Commissioner D. A Davison and ask that the building in- spector be directed to make a more detailed examination, especially in_view of the fact that in one part of the report it was said that some of the wooden floors had sagged as much as two and onc-half inches. The floors on which the sagging occurred were not identified in the report. Mr. Brooke said that he would take the matter up today. He said he had already ordered file cases in the build- ing shifted over toward the walls to remove the strain from the center of the floors. The headquarters building is ap- proximately 44 vears old. The floors are of hollow tile construction, sup- ported by steel beams, and the sagging of the wooden floor covering might or might not indicate deterioration of the tile underneath the wooden cover, ac- cording to Col. Oehmann. Davison’s Decision Due Today. The condition of the building first was called to Col. Oehmann’s atten- tion by the Police Department, and he recommended that two heavy safes, weighing, respectively, six and two and a half tons, be removed from the fifth floor. This was done. Col. Oehmann has no jurisdiction over public buildings, his duties being confined to examination of plans and inspection of the construction of pri- vate structures. Recently, however, he has been called on to examine all plans for municipal structures drawn by the municipal architect, before the building contracts are let. A decision from Maj. pected some time today. Davison is ex- Wwinn said the jury on| ter clause failed of adoption by a | these | FURNACE MAN HELD INILSLEY MURDERS Alex Grayson, Colored Ex-} Convict, Tells Conflicting Stories, Say Police. Special Dispatch to The Star. MIDDLEBURG, Va., January 30— Th second arrest in the murder of | M Spencer Ilsley and her maid, Mrs. Mina Buckner, was made here today, when authorities took into custody Alex Grayson, 35, & colored ex-convict, on a warrant charging he was an accessory to the crimes. Grayson was employed as & furnace man at the Ilsley house at the time of the double slaying. He lives acrocs the street from the murder cottage, but insisted he heard no disturbance om the night of the double slaying. | Commonwealth Attorney John Galle- | her of Leesburg today expressed the opinion Grayson knows more about the murders than has been learned from him. Galleher will question the man Monday Statements in Conflict. Discrepancies in his account of his movements on January 13 were said to | be responsible for the suspect’s arrest He at first sald he went to the cottage at 7 o'clock on the morning the mur- ders were discovered, fired the furnace and left again to go to work at a motor car firm where he was employed. The bodies of the two women were not found until after 9 o'clock that day, when Paul Boeing. brother of Mrs. Iis- ley. went to the house to have break- fast Grayson said he mnoticed the furnace room window was broken and forced open and admitted he thought robbery d becn attempted. He said he was | aware the house had been broken into | before, on Christmas eve, but considered | it inadvisable to disturb Mrs. Iisley at that hour. | He said the last time he saw Mrs | Tisley was on Tuesday night. the eve- { ning she was killed, when he received iis weekly pay check from her Grayson said he retired at 8 or 9 o'clock that night. Later he changed this statement, saying it must have been 11 or 12 Changes Explanations. He also altered his explanation re- | garding the discovery of the broken | window, and said he believed Mrs. | Ilsley must have misplaced her key to | the garage and broken the pane in the adjoining furnace room in order to gain entrance. Later he admitted that Mrs. Lisley several times had come to him to get his garage key when she couid not find her own. The suspect has on his place & dog which is known to bark vociferously when any one pasees the house. Gray- | son says he heard no barking on the | night of the murder, though the slayer | gained entrance to the Ilsley cottage by breaking the glass in & rear door, sit- uated some 50 or 60 feet from the Grayson house. The colored man served four years in jail following conviction for assaulting another man with a razor, RULE TO BAN PAY INCREASES IN ALL BILLS IS APPROVED (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) all walks of life besieged the Capitol today with protests. ‘When this storm of objection was at its height, Chairman Byrns of the House Appropriations Committee and Chairman Collins of the subcommittee went into an executive conference. Chairman Byrns had previously held conferences with other members of his committee. | It was reliably stated that the Na- tional Guard will be satisfied with the bill when reported and that no fight | will be made by the National Guard or | the Militia Bureau for increased ap- | propriations. Byrns Unadvised of Slash. Chairman Collins of the subcommit- tee, while brushing away all questioners with the statement that there had been many wild guesses as to what his sub- committee will recommend, did admit positively that he would not counte- nance any cut for chemical warfare, for ordnance or for any item of experi- mentation. This, he emphasized, was consistent with his attitude on mili- tary preparedness. He also admitted that there might be | rather drastic curtailment of the citi- zens' training :amps because the War Department officials had testified in the hearings that the chief good derived from these camps was in establishing contacts with the citizans in those neighborhoods. i however, said that advised regarding any program of drastic cuts in appropria- tions for the War Department. Representative Willlam C. Wright of Georgia, ranking Democratic member on the subcommittee, stated that the principal saving in_appropriations in this bill would be through taking into consideration a reduction in commodity costs, but admitted that there will be many important reductions throughout the entire bill. Cavalry to be Hard Hit. The prediction that the bill wil show the Cavalry to be among the hardest hit branches of the military | service is borne out by an admission that there will be a very important reduction in the number of horses al- lowed. It was stated that the Army now has 1,147 horses above the num- ber War Department estimates as needed, and that altogether the de- partment owns 35,000 horses and mules. | The budget recommended the purchase | of 1,000° horses, but this will be re- duced below 700 in the bill. It is expected that the bill will be completed by the subcommittee on Wednesday. The reduction of $20,000,000 below the budget estimate applies to both mil- itary and non-military services. It calls for a considerable reduction in both military and non-military branches. D.C.PILOT’S PLANE FORCED DOWN IN RAINSTORM Comdr. Gordon Rowe Uninjured, but Companion Is Slightly Hurt at Columbia, Conn. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, Conn., January 30—R., S. Milne of 'Philadelphia, radio en- | gineer, was slightly hurt yesterday when a United States naval plane struck a stone wall as it was making a forced landing in a rainstorm. Lieut. Comdr. Gordon Rowe of Wash- ington, D. C,, the pilot, was not injured. The plane overturned, damaging the iandlng gear and breaking the propel- ler. Lieut. Comdr. Gordon Rowe, Who cracked up in a forced landing in the fog at Columbia, Conn., was on his way from Boston to Hartford, according to word received here by the Navy De- pertment. Neither he nor his passen- ger, R. 8. Milne of Philadelphia, was injured, according to the Navy report. Comdr. Rowe had planned to continue on to Washington after stopping at Hartford. . Fire Chief’s Son Pulls Alarm. WEST HAVEN, Conn.—John Cam- eron, son of Fire Chief Lloyd J. Cam- eron, pleaded guilty to pulling a false alarm. The youth couldn’t explain why he had sent in the alarm. [ Portrays Washington as Mason LOCAL ARTIST MAKES PICTURE FOR BIC) the Masonic order, said to be the of His Country in these robes, A Jocal artist Tefft Johnson, now connected with the commission, who played the role | of George Washington in a number of theatrical plays under David Belasco and other producers, posed for the portrait, wearing a Masonic apron actually worn by A chair in the picture. as well as a stand, were photographed at | ;”fl““»‘ | cincts Washington the Masonic Lodge in Alexandria, and are said to have been used by Washington. PORTRAIT of George Washington in the regalia of worshipful master of George Washington Bicentennial first authentically to portray the Father has been made for the United States Commission by Hattie E. Burdette, The commission plans to have 10,000 copies of the painting made for distri- | bution to every lodge room in the United States during the Bicentennial year. It | cannot afford, Sol Bloom, director of the commission, declared, to furnish copies | of the portraft to every Masonic lodge in the c Masonic lodge rooms in the National Cal try. ital will be furnished with the | posters direct from the commission headquarters here, while members of Con- gress are being asked to furnish the nam respective istricts so that copies may be mailed to them. es and addresses of lodge rooms in their RAIL UNIONS FIRM IN PAY CUT STANE Insist on Year’s Time Limit and Share of Saving for Jobless. By the Associated Press. ‘} CHICAGO, Ill, January 30.—Labor knocked again today on the doors of the Nation's railroads to learn whether they would accept a new offer of wage compromise that would divert about a third of the money toward relieving distress among 700,000 jobless The rails flatly turned down the offer | yesterday, insistent on the 10 per cent. or $215.000,000, slash for a year. but | after labor refused to yleld, promised to study its proposals and answer today. Finality Is Uneertain. Resumption of the joint session was delayed from 10 until 11 am. this| morning leaders g. Labor indicated last night they would stand firm on at least| two terms of their offer An_ assurance the rails Wwould make Do attempts to cut pay in 1933 after the one proposed expired. A guarantee 3!, per cent of the cut | would go toward relieving the jobless and 6!, per cent to the use of the rails. Whether the offer was labor's ulti- matum to the carriers and whether | another rejection would spell an end| to negotiations that started more than two weeks ago, leaders would not say. Workers’ Views Told. But the sentiments of the workers| after the first refusal were voiced by David Brown Robertson, their leader. “Labor's stand is unchanged. We| emrhasized (to the ralls) that some-| ti.u§ must be done to help our mem- be as well as theirs. We don't be- lieve a basis of 6, for them and 3!2 for us s unfair.” $1,315,690,467 PAID 1,023,373 WORKERS IN FEDERAL SERVICE (Continued From First Page.) | people Who are not included in the | listing. For instance, it was explained that no people nor their salaries in the leg- islative establishments are included. This means that members of Congress and their staffs are not listed. Neither are the judges, but the employes of | courts are listed. There are excluded also personnel of other legislative es- tablishments, such as the Government Printing Office, the office of the archi- tect of the Capitol, the Library of Congress and Botanic Gardens. Of special interest were the figures showing the number of employes and salaries receives above and below $5,000, because of the fact that one proposal was for cutting the pay of all persons recelving more than $5,000. The table shows that there are 1015928 people receiving less than $5,000, or a total of | $1,271,026,885.32, while those who re- ceive more than $5,000 a year total only 7,345 persons, receiving a total salary of $44,663,581.80. The military establishment figures include the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and officers in the Public Health Service and Geodetic Survey. ‘The costs of salary shown for civilian employes includes the value of quarters, subsistence and other facilities or serv- ices furnished, but the salary of the military personnel is the net salary of both active and retired men, and does not include such allowances as distin- guished from pay. In the com (yhtlon showing results from both civil and military pay, it is shown that the salaries of less than $1,000 go to the largest group, 345,351, who are paid $154,846,967.25, while the next largest pay group, 118,759 people, receive salaries between $2,100 and $2.- 200 a year, a total compensation of $247,086,923.94. By far the majority of Government workers fall into the lower pay scales, with the number lessening as the sal- aries rise higher. In the groups above $5.000, however, the largest group, 1.943, received between $6,000 and $6,- | ment.” | to difficulties the chief co-ordinator has 500 a year, or a total of $11,694,775. ARMY-NAVY UNION PLANHITBY ADAMS Means Throwing Away Ex- perience and Starting on Ad- venture, Says Secretary. By the Associated Press Secretary Adams today opposed Democratic-sponsored proposals to merge the War and Navy Departments as measures which would “throw over- board all past experience and start on an adventure.’ “No Nation I know of that is of any size has started on such a venture, Adams testified before the House Ex- penditures Committee. “There is the theoretical thought that it will achieve economy—that can be proved only by experience.’ England has studied the idea with infinite care twice recently, he said, and decided “to go as she was.” Ruining Organization. “You are creating a unit too big for any one person to know and you are ruining the present organization.” Referring to the proposed Secretary of National Defense, who would sup- plant_the present Secretaries for War and Navy, with the addition of assist- ant secretaries for the Army, the fleet and aviation, Adams asserted: “By this consolidation, you are doing something _fundamentally wrong in principle. Think of the political power that that man (the Secretary for Na- tional Defense) has. “You aré creating there a power against the good principles of Govern- Difficulties Encountered. Chairman Cochran called attention said he encountered in making the Army and Navy work together. “You are talking about trifles,” Adams replied. “You get better co-operation by just what we are doing than by this consolidation.” He added that the joint Army and Navy Board satisfactorily handles things, but it would be unfortunate to expect the chief co-ordinator “to run the Army and Navy.” Cochran remarked that Great Britain has a unified air service, and Adams replied “Yes, but she realizes it is & failure so far as her navy is concerned.” NEW CLUE SPEEDS SUBMARINE SEARCH Large Object Detected on Sea Flaor and British Call All Ships Engaged in Hunt. By the Assoclated Press. PORTLAND, England, January 30.— Navy sweepers today encountered a new large obstruction on the sea bottom 3 miles off Abbotsbury. The find was considered the most important since search began for the ill-fated British | submarine M-2. All ships of the searching flotilla be- gan concentrating near the spot. The Adamant returned to Portsmouth, where it picked up the rear admiral of submarines to take him to the scene. Divers worked all last night in shifts with the aid of powerful searchlights. Objects have been found on the floor of the Channel frequently, but in each case they have proved to be old and forgotten hulks of former tragedies. Instructions ‘received from the ad- miralty department said the M-2 must be located at all costs. e FINLAND’S LIQUOR 0. K.'D HELSINGFORS, Finland, January 30 (#).—The Diet today approved on third and final reading the new liquor con- trol bill introduced by the government as a result of the recent prohibition referendum. The vote in the Diet was 120 to 45. BANK'S MESSENGER ROBBED OF SATCHEL wo Men on Bus Strike Youth and Get $7,000 Non-Ne- gotiable Checks. A messenger for the Federal-Amer- ican National Bank & Trust Co. was attacked as he was about to alight from a bus today by two men seized a satchel containing Wi ton Clearing House checks for a total of approximately $7,000 and fled While the bus driver and a woman passenger looked on one of the ba stfuck the messenger, Paul Cla 0, over the head with the butt of a re- volver, the other snatching the bag containing the checks Clark, who lives at 2440 Monroe street northeast, was on his way from the clearing house to the bank’s branch at Twelfth and Newton streets north east. The bus, on which only one other person besides the robbers and the messenger was riding, was about to swing around the corner of Thirteenth and Lawrence streets n ast, when Clark prepared to get off A first-hand accour lowed was given by th Mrs. Anne Hofmann street northeast, who sai “As the boy arose, the men, one whom had been sitting behind m likewise. He hit cking him a boy staggered back, t had been sitting almost directly across from me, rushed forward and grabbed the satchel “Meanwhile, the bus was com stop and one of the men the door and jumped lowed by his n who was cut abc told police what fol- r passenger, 3600 Twelith of and of the car, Clark said as the other two running-board. Reports at Bank. Clark continued to the bank ported the robbery to J. I vice president, who immedia fied police. Meanwhile, the had noted the license num machine in which the ban this was turned over to mem hold-up squad who resy search was begun immediately man in whose name the automo isted At the same time, police de the men, furnished by of The checks, Mr. are not negotiabl cashed only by a duly ntative of the bank The checks, acco! wood, are of no v They were made plained, and after be where were being retu They had not been canceled, howeve: OFFICER BALKS QUIZ ON AKRON DEFECTS Settle, Mum on Kassay Case, and Rosendahl Declare Airship Is “‘Best Ever.” By the Associated Press Members of the House Naval Com- mittee failed today to obtair Navy officer detailed informa cerning a reported sabotage attempt on the airship Akron Thomas G W. inspector for the Navy in the construction, told the comn thought information obtaine Paul P. Kassay case shou confidential because the matter h been handled by the Justice Depart ment ‘Can you give the committee your opinion as to whe! sabotage?” asked Ref ruff, Republican, of Michigar “I would prefer not to answer that because that was a Ju: Department investigation. I am positive there were no successful acts of sabotage commit. ted on the ship Woodruff suggested amended to say that left her hangar on the tr were no results of sabotage Lieut. Settle agreed, addir “I am not sure there was a at sabotage, but I am sure that was an attempt it was not succe: Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rose; eommanding officer of the Akron he thought that ship the “best a ever constructed and operated Rosendahl, who was aboard Shenandoah when that vessel { added the “Akron is the strongest a <hip ever built.” He said the 17,000 to 19,000 pounds of overweight increased the strength of the ship ENVOY REPORTED CHOSEN It was reported in diplomatic circles today that President Hoover would select Charles H. Sherrill of New York, former Ambassador to Argentina, as Ambassador to Turkey The Angora post will be vacant when Ambassador Grew goes to Tokio to re- place W. Cameron Forbes, who is re- tiring as Ambassador to Japan. t CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Phi Lambda Kappa Medical Fraternity, Willard Hotel, 6 to 8 p.m. Dance at 10 p.m. Dance, New York State Society, Wil- lard Hotel. 9 p.m. Dance, Aero Club of Washington, Wil- lard Hotel, 9:30 p.m. Dance, Psi Omega Fraternity, Willard Hotel, 10 p.m. Banquet, High Priests’ Assoclation of 1931, Hamilton Hotel, 6:30 p.m. of American Country Club, Daughters Columbia Banquet, Colonists, 7 pm. Dance, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Mayflower Hotel, § p.m. Dance, Georgetown Freshman Medi- cal Class, Mayflower Hotel, 9 p.m. Dance and card party, Club of Thir- teen, Industrial Students’ League, Con- tinental Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting, League for the Larger Life, 1400 New Hampshire avenue, 8 p.m. Dinner, Order of Ruth, Raleigh Ho- tel, 6:30 p.m. FUTURE. Meeting, Columbia _Association of Baptist Churches, Raleigh Hotel, to- morTow morning and evening. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Marche Aux Flam- beaux” ..Scotson Clark Overture, “Roumanian Festival” . A tone journey, “Father of Waters," “Old Creole Days,” “Madri Gras." Grand scenes from the opera “I Pagliacci” ......Leoncavallo Serenade Espagnole, “La Paloma” . Finale, “Para “The Star ‘e . Yradier of Jack and Jill"..Lake Spangled Banner.