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A4 % GIBSON PROPOSED - BUDGETARY LIMIT American Spokesman Makes " Nine Points in Statement 7 of U. S. Policy. | (Continued From First Page.) valuable feature was an admission of the usefulness of the budgetary method for limiting armaments, Wwhich was flatly rejected by the United States delegation in the Preparatory Commis- sion. “This made the support of financial Ymitation unanimous and increased the possibility that the conference might achieve some reduction in world arma- ment burdens. It was remarked that the American, British and French governments were now agreed on the desirability of re- stricting offensive weapons, thus putting & check on aggression. Two Cbvious Omissions. Two obvious omissions were noted, however, by international observers. Mr. Gibson said nothing of extending the present armaments truce and he made no reference to the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The American’s curt assertion that “the problem of armaments is not of the Western Hemisphere,” naturally provoked some discouragement, but observers suggested that perhaps the problem of disarmament was something the United States took a vital inter- est in. At least, they observed, the Americans were in Geneva. The first interruptoin of the solem- nity of the proceedings came today. An elderly woman dressed in mourning, and apparently demented, tried to ad- dress the gathering about a “dream, but was removed by guards before she had got very far. Chancellor Bruening summed up Germany's program as_follows: “The German Reich, for whose policy I am responsible, is ready to co-oper- ate wholeheartedly in the task lying before us and to do, according to its strength, everything possible to bring this conference to conclusive results in accordance with the principles laid Gown in the League of Nations' pact “The government of the German Reich and the German people demand, after their own disarmament, general disarmament. Germany has in this respect a legal and moral claim that can be called into question by nobody. The German people expect of this con- ference the solution of the problem of general disarmament on a basis of equality and equal security for all peoples. Our delegates are instructed to aim at the realization of this goal with all their energy Rejects Preparatory Draft. “The German delegation can, how- ever, not accept the draft convention of the Preparatory Commission, in its pres- ent form, as a starting point for practi- cal work here. This draft does not cor- respond to the exigencies of the day. Tt is full of gaps and silent on essential poi The German delegation reserves the right, at a _given moment, to sub- mit to the conference proposals calcu- lated to remove these Shortcomings. The aim of these proposals will be to open practical ways for reducing generally, and effectively to cogni: > of the renunciation of n later sets of treaties, especially pact, by forbidding and de ing’ all weapons designed attack. Only such meas- strike at the core and essence of armaments can translate into reality the last aim of this conference, namely, cguard to all states their right to equal security.” The chancellor pledged Germany to objective examination of all pro- ssals and suggestions calculated to r the aim of disarmament with- elay. Of course,” he said, “proposals that might rather evade than realize the aim of this conference, as interpreted by the peoples, would have to encounter the objective criticism and -dutiful resist- ance of all who feel themselves responsi- ble before the world public and coming generations for a just and durable re- sult of these deliberations.” Herr Bruening told the delegates that in many countries, especially in Ger- many, grave doubts against Geneva have been uttered. Praises Saturday Session. “It is up to the positive work of this conference to allay these doubts,” he ! said. “Nowhere in the world will there be deeper satisfaction over such an event than in Germany, for the Ger- | man people carry in their hearts an honest will to peace. He paid a special tribute to the ex- traordinary plenary session of last Sa urday. called to receive the petitions and to listen to the unofficial repre- sentatives of the peoples of the world. “It wasn't merely an individual and personal representation,” said; “it wasn't groups of pacifistic dreamers, but it was the organized millions of the churches and labor, and especially and significantly the women, who here gave expression to their will—yes, their de- Speaking as a former service man of the World War himself, he warned that “if our generation, the generation of old combatants, fails to succeed in erecting a bulwark against the recur- rence of the catastrophe of the last war, how are our successors to succeed, wWho will feel the prevention of war as an ideal, but not in the same direct per- sonal manner as we who feel it to be an unequivocal necessity and duty?” He referred only by indirection. and without mentioning names, to Presi- dent Hoover, Andre Tardieu, French spokesman, and Premier Mussolini, but everybody understood the reference. After his introductory remarks on the historic importance of the disarmament conference he cited President Hoover's statement: “World history is the story of a series of unsuccessful attempts to secure peace by rivalry in armamen and in browbeating. Internaticnal con fidence. however, cannot be based on fear, but only on good will.” “Here,” he sald, “we have an oppor- tunity to completely re-establish con- fidence.” Welcomed Mussolini's Offer. He welcomed Premier Mussolini’s offer to reduce armaments to 10.000 guns, provided no other nation retainec more. Referring to M. Tardieu’s proposal, he said: “Let’s do away with the efforts by this or that interpretation of the rules to secure for ourselves the pos: sibility of military expansion of power and to take it away from others. That isn't the right way. That's the way to make the conference fail and to per- petuate the present unhappy condition of an armed peace resting on equal rights.” He made a brief reference to repara- tions: “The economic distress of the world the present moment,” he said, “arises primarily from political pay- ments and exaggerated and unequal armaments.” He adjured the delegates to remem- ber their obligation arising from the treaty of Versailles: “I remind you that the victors in the World War, in, presenting their peace terms, expressly 1aid down es their common and solemn confession of faith that general re- duction and limitation of armaments ‘was one of the best means for prevent- ing wars and must therefore be looked upon as one of the first tasks of the League of Nations. “Thereby they clearly expressed that general disarmament does not endan- ger, but advances, the security of states and that, therefore, disarmament 15 not incompatible with the responsi- Dbility of statesmen for the security of their own countries but, on the con- trary, conforms with it.” Chancellor Bruening made no refer- ence in his_address to the Sino- Japanese conflict in the Far East, + By the Associated Press. Gt GENEVA, February 9.—' of Hugh S. Gibson, acting chairman of the American delegation at the General Disarmament Conference, today outlin- ing America’s position follows in full et Xt “The United States enters the first World Conference on the limitation and reduction of armaments with the determination to leave nothing undone to achieve substantial progress. It as- sumes that the same will predominates among all the nations represented in this conference. Nothing is cantributed to our deliberations, indeed our efforts are only clouded with insincerity and pretense, if we fail to acknowledge the difficulties which just now surround the project before us. The part of state- craft is, however, neither to gloss over difficulties and thereby contribute to de- feat, nor to invite despair by over- emphasis on the difficulties in the fore- ground. “The situation demands calm consid- cration of the facts as they exist and courageous efforts to obtain a sub- stantial solution. The impediments are familiar to the most elementary ob- server of international affairs of this kind. Me meet with the necessity of co-ordinating motives and maturing agreement in a congress of nations larger than has ever before been assem- bled. We meet under the strain of economic _distresses, international un- certainties and popular emotions which might easily engulf anything smaller in stature than the cause presented here. Warns Against Technicalities, “Our conference must not be diverted from achieving success on the vital questions by minor differences of a technical nature. The task before the nations of the world is not to minimize these problems but, fully mindful of them, to gather strength and deter- mination from the conviction that the demand for a regime of international confidence. co-operation and peace will in the end have its way; that the men and nations of our own day who con- tribute to it will be counted in the end as enrolled in a victorious cause, and that in the long perspective of history those who are today reluctant and pre- occupied with smaller interests will stand only as temporary impediments to a world wide and inevitable move- ment. “The -people of the United States have during the past generation played a useful and leading part in the move- ment for the limitation and reduction of arms. The Washington Conference of 1922 made the first concrete contri- bution in voluntary limitation. It met fthe then existing problem of arma- ment at its most acute, its most threat- ening and its most conspicuous point, and by a restriction of naval arma- ment among the powers who found themselves setting an unhappy exam- ple, made a long and decisive stride in the direction demanded by world opin- jon. Our people at that conference crificed, if not a real predominance, at least a potential predominance in weight and strength of warfare. The American people have been proud of the contribution which they made to that pact of temperate conduct and common sense. “In the London naval conference of | 1930 the principle of limitation estab- lished for capital ships at the Wash- | ington meeting was enlarged to cover the whole field of equipment for war- fare at sea armed of the nations, and We enter the conference today with the practicability of the limitation upon arms established, with the demand for it augmented by general pride and sat- isfaction made, and with the United States again willing to play its appropriate part in further progress. Arms Threaten Civilization. “The American delegation is prepared to consider any form of military limita- tion and reduction which promises real progress toward the feeling of interna- tional security, protection against sur- prise and restraint on the use of arms | for purposes of aggression. “The burden and dangers of the gigantic machinery of warfare which are now being maintained in times of peace have reached a point where they threaten civilization itself. For twd years past the people of every race bave been confronted with an economic crisis from which no nation has been free. All the governments of the world have faced reduction of income, unset- tled budgets, and dangers to the very stability of government itself. “The United States, while seriously affected by these difficulties, has suf- fered somewhat less severely than many of the other, nations. It is today able to maintain the burden of armament as readily as any of the natlons, but it Views that burden as unnecessary and inexcusable. No one will doubt the political instability of the world of which these arms are not alone the effect but also the cause. No one will doubt that they not only contribute to the economic debacle but that they threaten the peace of the world. Our American people look upon the states- manship which permits the continu- ance of existing conditions as nothing less than failure. The time has gone by when the peoples of the world will long permit the continuance of this failure. Must Change Traditions. “There is a feeling sometimes ex- pressed that the convictions of the United States in this field, the faith of our people in an orderly and stable regime among the nations, and our conviction that the very existence of armaments unbalances the equilibrium, are a product of our geographical iso- lation and of our lack of experience of and exposure to the rivalries and strains of the European continent. In answer, the American people point to the fact that the system of competi- tive armament, of alliances and cross alliances which has existed for cen- turies in Europe has failed to maintain peace and seems indeed to have been provocative of war, the results of which are such that victors and van- quished are victims alike. “Furt) ore, the altered condi- tions of international relationships, the development of communication and transport within the last generation to a point where the whole world is knit together by strands of commerce, finance and intimate contact, have to- day produced new international rela- tionships sistent with the older methods and formulas. America is convinced that the world should not go on to new | movements and new tasks hampered by the garments of an older regime, and that the problem is only how promptly and smoothly mankind will cast aside the weapons and traditions of the old. “In the past every nation has justi- fied its level of armament, however high, by the claim such levels were necessary for its national defense. Let us not forget, however, that new inter- national commitments of binding force have introduced a mew conception of what is needed by & nation for the pur- pose of defense. Such treaties and commitments bear upon practically all the nations here represented. In view of this new situation, calling for new methods and new formulas, the lessons of the old strategy must be unlearned in order that we may advance. Reduced to Formula. “The new conception of national armaments has never been put into words in any of our commitments, but it is so implicit in thelr terms that it can be reduced almost to & formula. Every nation has not only the right but the obligation to its own people to maintain internal order. calls for'an adequate military force Tor y the three most heavily | some | progress was made toward including | the two other powers most concerned. | in the achievement already | which are utterly incon- | des THE EVENING STAR., WASH Text of Gibson Speech Chief of American Delegation at Geneva Makes Nine Concrete Proposals for Werld Arms Reduction. internal police work. Beyond and above this there is the obligation of each gov- ernment to its to maintain & sufficlent increment of military strength to defend the national territory against aggression and invasion. We, there- fore, have this formula dividing our military forces into two parts. Be- yond this reasonahle supplement to the police foroe we have taken an implicit obligation to restrict ourselves. “Our lem is, therefore, to estab- lish by t scrutiny and agreement the margin that now exists beyond what is essential for the maintenance of internal order and defense of our territories. Controlled by prudence, but not by fear, let us then proceed in a practical way to reduce armaments to the level to which we are all committed. “The American delegation has lis- tened with interest to the speeches of Sir John Simon and M. Tardieu and has been interested to note that each of them has begun this general dis- cussion by concrete proposals, setting forth at the very beginning of the con- ference the contributions which their governments can make to the cause for which we are assembled. These proposals and any others which may be put before the conference will be ex- amined with an open mind by my Gov- ernment and we tell that the best road to success lies in a similar statement from every delegation that has some- thing positive to lay before us so that we may set out upon our labors with the benefit of all the practical pro- posals which it is possible to bring for- ward at the outset. No Comprehensive Plan. “The American delegation has not attempted to formulate and submit any comprehensive plan for overcoming all of the obstacles that exist in the way of achieving a general limitation and reduction in armaments. In the first place, we do not desire to raise new questions which will increase the points of difference and thus delay taking the forward steps which could otherwise be taken. In the second place, we do not believe the human mind is capable of so projecting itself into the future as to devise a plan which will adequately provide for all future developments and contingencles, “Since practically all the nations of the world have now pledged themselves not to wage aggressive war, we believe this conference should and can suc- cessfully devote itself to the abolition of weapons which are devoted primarily to aggressive war and we are prepared to give earnest and sympathetic con- sideration to any plans or proposals which seem to furnish a practicable and sound basis upon which we may effect a general limitation and reduction of armaments and establish a more healthy and peaceful state of affairs. It is my purpose today to lay before you certain points which the American dele- gation advocates. Let me say that this list is not exclusive and contains merely some of the thoughts which we feel will carry on some of the purposes of the conference. “1. The American Government advo- cates consideration of the draft con- vention as containing the outlines for a convenient basis for discussion, while expressing its entire willingness to give full consideration to any supplementary proposals calculated to advance the end we all seek. “2. We suggest the possibility of pro- longing the existing naval agrecments concluded at Washington and London, and we advocate compieting the latter as soon as possible by the adherence of France and Italy. 3. We advocate proportional educa- tion from the figures laid down in the ‘Washington and London agreements on naval tonnage as soon as all parties to the Washington agreement have entered this frame work. Submarines and Gas. “4. We advocate, as we long have done, the total abolition of submarines. “5. We will join in formulating the most effective measures to protect ::x:vuh.n population against aerial bomb- . We advocate the total abolition of }i!hal gases and bacteriological war- “7. We advocate, as I have already stated, the computation of the number of armed forces on the basis of the effectives necessary for the maintenance of internal order plus some suitable | contingent for defense, and by bud-| getary limitation of expenditures for war supplies when their limitation has been secured. The former are cbviously impossible of reduction; the fatter is a question of relativity. “8. We agree in advocating special restrictions for tanks and heavy mobile guns, in other words, for those arms of | & peculiarly offensive character. “9. We are prepared to consider & limitation of expenditure on material as a complementary method to direct limitation, feeling that it may prove useful to prevent a qualitative race, if and when quantitative limitation has | been effected. | “I have already said these nine points | are in no sense exclusive, but I mention them merely in order to focus attention upon the methods in which we have e greatest hope of early practical realization. “The natfons of the Western Hemis- phere have long since prepared them- selves for an international life in which the solution of difficulties will be sought by pacific means only. The problem of armaments is not of the Western Hemisphere. Of the five principal navies of the world only one belongs to an American nation and to this navy the principle of proportionate limita- tion and reduction has been compre- hensively applied. Not a single Ameri- can nation possesses an army which brings fear to its neighbors. For half a century no international war has oc- curred between the nations of our hemisphere. There is no surer evidence that self-restraint from overarmament | safeguards peace. Urges Frank Discussion. “There is more security to be had in friendly co-operation between nations than in reliance on force. The best de- fense a nation can have is the good- will of its neighbors. Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that we ourselves have reduced the personnel of our land forces to a figure below the proportion reached by any great European power, we are here to co-operate to the utmost of our ability. We are prepared to discuss and to extend to other fields the principles of limitation and reduction of armaments already established and to examine and accept new principles if th;-xy esontnbute genuinely to the end ned. “We join our sister nations with the | July RING HELD CLUE IN CHILD SLAYING Initials May Help Police Find Girl’s Attacker 3t Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHALADELPHIA, February 9.—A signet ring gave police their first tan- gible clue today in their search for the slayer of 7-year-old Dorothy Lutz. The child disappeared Wednesday and her body was found yesterday in an untenanted house a few doors away from her home. Choked o Death. Police said she had been attacked before she was choked to death and that she probably had been killed Fri- day. Marks on the roof of the house that appeared to be footprints were investi- gated by the police, but led them no- ‘where. The marks were well defined and lead from the vacant house two doors away, over the two roof tops and to a skylight on_another house. The ring, inscribed with the initials “D, L. V.,” found under the girl's body, led to the belief the slayer lived in the North Philadelphia neighborhood and had an opportunity to observe Dorothy's habtts. Child Liked Rings. Her widowed mother, Mrs. Florence Lutz, said the child was exceptionally fond of rings, but both she and her aged father, Miles Hood, with whom she lives, said they had never seen the one found. Beveral suspects arrested yesterday were discharged after questioning. One colored man was taken in custody near a school in the neighborhood todsy for questioning. SIGNS WORLD FAIR BILL President Hoover today signed a bill providing for the participation of the United States in the Chicago World Fair Centennial celebration, to be held in Chijcago in 1933. The bill authorizes an appropriation of $1,000,000. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, recently appointed president of the Re- | construction Finance Corporation, has| been one of the leaders in planning the celebration and his brother, Rufus Dawes, is president general of the cen- tennial corporation. ‘Will Discuss Budget. A neighborhood discussion group will meet tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Gordon Junior High School under the direction of Mrs Street. The subject will be “The Fam- ily Budget.” The group is sponsored by the Community Center Department of the public schools. THE WEATHER Columbia—Cloudy to- night; minimum temperature tonight about 29 degrees; tomorrow clou with slowly rising temperature; mod- erate northeast winds. District of Maryland—Cloudy, not so cold in ex- | treme West portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy, with slowly rising temperature; fresh northeast shifting to east winds. Virginia—Partly cloudy, not quite so cold in extreme west portion tonight: tomorrow increasing cloudiness, witl slowly rising temperature, probably fol- | lowed by rain in extreme southwest portion; fresh northeast shifting to east winds. West Virginla—Cloudy, not so cold tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer, followed by rain in the afternon or night. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.81 30.04 30.25 30.34 3043 30.45 Highest, 64, 3:00 p.m., yesterday. Year ago. 38. Lowest, 30, 8:00 am. today. Year ago, 36. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. High .. 10:02am. Low .4 High Low 42am. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun, today.... 7:08 Sun, tomorrow 7:07 Moon, today.. 8:39a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- hall hour after sunset. . Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Capital (current month to date): . 1932. Average. Record. . 482 3.55 709 '82 February 1.80 March April .. May June August, September . October November December Weather in Various Cities. re £ 250807 3 Hrosured| sy ‘we g oy wvg Stations. ++anaworey 2 8 - -gupiarsak 3 2% *qustu aswg Abilene, Tex Albany, N. Y. Atlanta, Ga Atlantic City Baltimore, Md.. 3 Boston, Mas: Buffalo, N. Charlest © Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Cloudy 5 Pt.cloudy Galveston. Tex. © Ptcloudy Helena, Mont. deep conviction that the cause at issue must not be diverted by lack of frank discussion, by preoccupation with the difficulties in the foreground or by a weak surrender to the obvious impedi- ments to progress. of the United States is representing not only a Government, but a peo- ple, and the mandate from both is in the same unmistakable terms, that de- crease in arms is an essential not alone to economic recovery of the world, but alss the preservation of the whole fabric of peace.” —_— 2,728,411 BRITONS IDLE Number Represents Increase of 218,490 Since December 21. LONDON, February 9 (#).—The num- ber of unemployed in Great Britain on January 25 is listed by the ministry of labor at 2,728,411, which is 218,490 mare than on December 21, the date of tl vious Tt. Awntelumemmd that the increase was due “to some extent” to 8 reaction in employment after the holidays and that all important industrial areas were affected. | Huron. k. Indianapolis.In The delegation | N New York, N. Oklahoma_ City. Omaha. Nebr...29. Philadelphia . Phoenix. Ari; Pittsburgh, Portland, Me... 30.30 Portland, Oreg. 29.72 Raleigh.' N. C. 30.34 Salt Lake City. 20.62 San Antonio. ' 30.00 San Diego, Calif 20.74 San_ Francisco. 29.68 ‘Tampa, WASH., D. C. (7 am., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. London, England. 4 Cloudy zu Gibraltar, Spain... .. 49 Noon, Greenwich time. Horta (Fayal). Azores... 58 (Current_observations.) 68 Part cloudy Clear | than in 1914, Elwood | Tomorrow. | | the working man was | mother and child D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 193 INDUSTRIAL WRITER ASSAILS BEER BILL Whiting Williams Lauds Dry Law at Hearing of Senate Committee. By the Associated Press. Legislation to permit 4 per cent beer was opposed before a Senate commit- tee today by Whiting Williams, Cleve- land writer on industrial subjects. He said that “for a number of years” he had lived as a working man here and abroad to study labor conditions. Appearing at the request of Dr. F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, he said “there has been a very great shift in the expenditures of the working man away from beer and whisky and toward cars and radios and such things as that.” Hits Bingham Bill. Passage of the beer bill of Senator Bingham (Republican, Connecticut), ‘Willlams said, would “increase the diffi- culties of enforcement and at the same time lessen the amount of money avail- able for the more constructive pur- poses of industry.” “Closing of the saloons,” Williams said, “has taken the weight of the liquor traffic off the shoulders of the 100,000,000 laborers who are forced to choose between shoes and booze and put 1t on ¢ lhnhnmldeul; of the white- who can afford both shoes and booze.” He was questioned by Senator Bing- ham and by Serator Hatfield, R&’D\}gg- can, West Virginia, a prohibitionist. In answer to a query from Hatfield, Williams said the working men of the country are using ‘“encrmously less” liquor than before prohibition. His observations at Homestcad, Pa., in 1913, and again in 1930 and 1931, he sald, led him to the conviction that all the speakeasies in Homestead are not doing nr;e-‘;\ln!f as much business as any one of the saloons there di the” days before promibitien e 24 18 “Had to Shoe-Horn to Bar.” The witness described how in the role of a working man in Homestead in pre-prohibition days he had rushed with other working men from the fac- tory dbg the saloons, which were so crowded “a man had to shoe-] im- self up to the bar.” 5 er 2 Replying to Williams, Bingham cited figures that arrests for drunkenness in Pittsburgh were 8,000 more in 1925 Williams responded that there was “no justification for assuming we have had effective machinery for enforce- ment until civil service became effective in the enforcement units.” Continuing, Williams said that as a jobless worker in Detroit last Summer, he had seen not a single workingman gnder the influence of liquor in five ays. Little Headway in Canada. “In Canada,” he said, “the existence of 4 per cent beer has been making very little headway with respect to offering itself as a substitute for the high- powered stuff.” “You're not pleasing the American | workingman as much as you think by suggesting to him 4 per cent beer,” he said. Bingham replied that the American Federation of Labor had advocated per cent beer and felt the workingman would be satisfied with it Willlams contended mproved rela- tions between capital and labor have resuited indirectly from prohibition. He ;?:d the law had eliminated “Blue Mon- ay.” Testifying against the bill, E. S. Brad- ford, director of the Bureau of Business Research of the College of the City of New York. said “there would be no net gain in the total number of persons em- ployed in all industries” if beer were legalized. Cites Statistics. He cited statistics to show that “in- | creased employment and sales in the brewing industry would take away that much from the soft drink and allied in- dustrie Questioned by Senator Hatfield, Brad- ford said “most economists feel that the net gain from prohibition—badly as it is enforced—is very great.” “Most economists ~are on the dry | side,” he added. At this there was ap- plause from the prohibitionist specta- | tors, who included Bishop James Can- non, jr., and Dr. F. Scott McBride. Senator Bingham asked Bradford whether he “meant to say that the man who wants a glass of beer will take a plate of ice cream instead.” Bradford replied that the previous testimony by Williams had indicated “very largely drinking milk instead.’ B VIRGINIA ILLEGITMTE BIRTH BILL IS REPORTED Would Prevent Separation Mother and Child in Less Than Six Months. By a Stafl Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 9.—Fol- lowing a lengthy hearing, at which it was testified that Virginia has one of the highest illegitimate birth rates in | the United States as a result of the lack of proper legislation on the subject, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee yesterday afternoon reported out the Holt bill to prevent the separation of a in less than six months except by permission of health officers and judges of juvenile and do- mestic relations courts. The vote was 10 to 1 It was declared by the various au- thorities that thousands of unmarried women come to Virginia each year to avoid the disgrace of becoming mothers in their own States, and also because these other States have laws preventing the separation of a mother and child in lbess than six months after the baby is orn. The Legion’s Job Drive National Commander Expresses Confidence Cam- paign Will Go Far to End Depression. v In following srticle Henry L. Stevens, ir., national commander lon, Dresents the plans of i A et i outiines the procress sirecdy madsr” 10F ite campien BY HENRY L. STEVENS, JR. National Commander of the American Leglon. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 9 (N.AN.A)).—Assurance of employment is the only solid basis of public confidence on which normal buying will be resumed, and reports coming into the committee's headquarters here in our war against de- ot: country, iple Badiy One . < men, but H. L. STEVENS, JR. campaign. Mark T. McKee of Detroit, executive | director of the Legion Employment Committee, is executive director of the | campaign. ' J. Cheever Cowdin is treas- | urer. Carl Byoir, publisher of the Havana Post and wartime associate chairman of the Committee on Public Informa- tion, is director of organization. Mr. Byoir is applying to this task his unique experience as organizer of the world- wide information activities of the com- | mittee. Mr. Byoir as well as the other | executives has come to this work as a | volunteer. “He states that it has been important than to buy now that th side and know their own job is safe. ‘The confidence in this campaign felt by prominent American business men is attested by the fact that voluntary financial sponsorship of the movement | was 50 rapid end generous that the money phase of the organization work itself is 1o longer a problem. Representative national bodies are daily joining the pression campaign from all parts of the country show that our employment - = efforts are already bearing fruit. Assoclated with the Legion in this cam- paign are organizations such as the American Federation of Labor, Association of National Ad- vertisers, Legion Auxiliary and others. The mem- bers of these bodles are a cross-section of this banded together in a new war more the last, & war dedicated to the that Americans can help each other & crisis like the present if they are only shown the right way. tapped by proven by the fact that the fighters against de- pression couldn’t wait till this campaign is I the zero hour—Febru- n ary 15—but went out and got jobs for unem- fellow citizens when our organization was completed. dollar spent for normal necessities means at least seven dollars released for busi- ness activity, and consequently the employment of at least 1,000,000 men is a corner stone on which will be rebuilt a structure of national com- merce, through the spending not only of these of millions of others who will feel free ey see a new worker at their possible to bring together in this new war a greater force than it was possible t‘;':, assemble for action in the World ar. For two years we have talked. We have done with talking. We have mo- bilized an army as large as the Army that went to France. We believe this army can be as courageous, as re- sourceful and as successful as was that great Army in uniform, so many of ;!;ose members are in this army of ay. (Copyrisht. 1832. by the Newspaper Allience. Inc) ANERCAN BREAKS * BIRSLED RECOR Hubert Stevens Covers Olym- | | pics Course on Mountain 3 in 2:04:27. the Associated Press. | LAKE PLACID, N. Y., February 9.—| J. Hubert Stevens of Lake Placid, driver | of the first American team in the two- | man bobsled races of the Winter Olym- | pics, set a new record for the Mount Van | Hoevenberg bobsled run today when ne | covered the course in 2:04:27. Stevens bettercd the mark made | | earlier in the day by Reto Capadrutt, driver of the Switzerland second team, | ho broke Steven's previous record of | 2:09. made last year. | * Capadrutt's first run, which held the record momentarily, was made in 2:05.88. | The iargest crowd the third Winter | Olympics has thus far attracted lined the course and roared its approval as Stevens swept around the hairpin and zig-zag turns of the mile-and-one-half course at breakneck speed. The record was made on & course deemed “slow” when the trial runs were made Capadrutt, youngest driver ever to make an Olympic run, also was wildly acclaimed as he manipulated his white Swiss rope sled around the treacherous curves with little brake in the tes:ific speed on the straightaway. The {iming was done by an electri- cal device. The second American team, of which John R. Heaton was driver, was in third place when the total time for t two runs was tabulated. The first Ge! man team was fourth, the Rumanian fifth. The Austrian team made the | slowest total time of all, 4:45.65 for the two runs. 'BRIDGEWATER LEAGUE ASKS SCHOOL FUNDS $14,000 to Finance Nine-Month Term Asked of Supervisors of Rockingham. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG, Va., February 9. — Resolutions, calling for a nine-month school term, asking the Rockingham | Board of Supervisors to raise the neces- | sary $14,000 to finance it and urging | the members of the Rockingham dele- gation in the Legislature to support legislation for diversion of road funds to schools, were adopted here at a| meeting held under the auspices of the Bridgewater Community League. | ‘The purpose of the meeting was to sound out sentiment among educational interests on the proposal made by the Rockingham School Board to curtail the school term from nine to eight months. The number and amount of funds appropriated to State-aided insti- tutions of higher education were criticized by a number of speakers. WILL ROGERS RETURNS TO REAP IN HARVEST OF ANTI-HOARDING| “Glad to Meet You, Cancel the Debts,” Is Always a European’s Greeting, He Reports. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.— Will Rogers, who wise-cracked his way around the world, arrived today from Europe on the liner Europa “to get in on this dough everybody is going to dig out of their sock.” “I hear they are making a_ drive against hoarding,” he said, “and I don't want to be away under any circum- stances.” In Europe, he said, when you're in- troduced to somebody, they say, “Glad to meet you; cancel the debts.” He saw the opening of the Disarmament Conference, and it was “like the ‘Fol- lies’ only harder to get in; all the diplcmats were selling seats.” He said Andrew Mellon would be a very pop- ular Ambassador to Great Britain; “he’s got enough money to be popular any- where.” Rogers revealed he had offe to bet Ray Long, publisher, that \loover would Be re-elected, but Mrs. ers admitted the money wasn't in t at the crucial moment. The humorist, in fine fettle, insisted upon dragging all bystanders into the picture as ph raphers snapped him, and emitted & steady stream of questions. “How is my Jack Garner ¥ goin’? That's a soft job, because the Speaker don’t do nothing and don't get to say nothing. “Tell me about Alfalfa Bill Murray of Oklahoma. There's a boy for you who may be President. With this dead- lock and all, Bill may sneak in. He's 30-to-1 shot now, but hell come up. I'm sneaking in with Bill. “Everywhere I went a war broke out just after I left. Say, ain't these Chinese putting up a battle? I fiew hundreds of miles with a Chinese pilot, which is taking more chances than Lindbergh took. I flew over Jerusalem and though dn't stop I could hear the wailin’. at was amateur \wailin’, however, compared to what I heard as soon as the ship came within earshot of Nan- tucket Light. “I guess I'm the oply gent who went to Cairo without the Sphinx. I )mlt ?!nrauw unng:en Coolidge. The mos Tesf et on the 3 during which I flgyl;:nys steady — near Singapore to London, was a feller taking 500 cases of bees to China. I'd like to hear from that feller. I'm going back home to Hollywood to make e some ictures. Am T to write a short gbv.-ry of China: ‘es, very short.”. | positive classification was ARMED MAN HELD FOR POLICE QuiZ IN SHOOTING PROBE Riedel was slain. A young woman who drove past the bake shop while the murder was being committed also fur- nished a description of the man. Her identity is being withheld by police. “The description she gave me talliss | closely with that given by other wit- nesses,” Burke said, “and we feel suie we have a pretty definite idea of what the gunman looks like.” Two attempts to obtain fingerprints of the murderer ended unsuccessfully today. A partial print was discovered on a pair of goggles, believed to have been worn by the slayer, and which were found yesterday with a blood- | stained chamois bag near Chevy Chast Circle, but it was so badly smeared that impossible. The chamois bag was identified by Tievsky as the one in which the bandit forced him to place his money when| he was held up. Another print, found on a soft-drink container used by the gunman & few minutes before Riedel was shot, failed to show up clearly in photographs. Expected Last Night. Although maintaining a relentless search for the sniper-slayer, whom po- lice believe to be a homicidal maniac, authorities breathed somewhat easier today after the night had passed with- out & new outbreak of gun play. If the “mad gunman” had run true to his previous form, they pointed out, he should have appeared last night The first shootings occurred Thursday night, Backus and the two girls being the victims. Priday the sniper laid low, reappearing again on Saturday night to kill Riedel and throw virtually the entire Northwest section into a panic. Five men have been assigned to check the ownership and whereabouts of all automobiles bearing Maryland license plates beginning with the digits 209-3, part of the number taken down by wit- nesses to the various shootings. A police lookout for a recently polished blue Buick coach, which has been stolen, was broadcast today. This is the same make car as that used by the man who shet Backus and the two girls and mur- dered Riedel. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, in a notice “to the force,” carried in today’s “daily bulletin” of the Police Department, de- clares: “Every cally enjoined to keep this matter (that one man is believed responsib for the shootings) uppermost in mind, and seek information as to who may be responsi- ble for these shootings.” = The largest diamond yet found is the Cullinan, found in South Africa, and originally weighing 3,0253; carats, or | more than 20 ounces, but later cut into several pleces. North American | member of the force is specifi- | GIRL SLAYER HELD INSECOND KILLING |Helen Eaton, Who Avenged Father’s Death, Accused in Another Case. By the Associated Press. DEWITT, Ark., February 9.—A sec- ond murder accusation has been added to the turbulent life of Helen Spence Eaton, 19-year-old divorcee. The comely girl, who took the law in her own hands to avenge her fa- ther's death a year ago, was charged with first-degree murder yesterday by a coroner’s jury investigating the kill- ing of Jim Bohots, restaurant owner. She is awaiting a second trial for killing Jack Worls, 22, in the court room here as a jury retired to delib- erate his fate after his trial for the slaying of her father, Cicero Spence, a riverman. Soon after her father's death, Mrs. Eaton attempted suicide. She had been motherless since infancy and had spent most of her life with her father on a houseboat in a desolate section of the White River “back country.” At Worls' trial she occupied a seat close behind the defendant and as the | jury filed out arose and fired four shots into his back. Her only comment was lll'mt she was “afraid he would come clear.” She received a five-year sentence on a murder conviction, but the State Su- preme Court reversed the decision and | granted her a new trial. Bohots, considered wealthy, was shot and killed as he sat in his parked au- tomobile in a cleared spot near here known as a trysting place. Prosecuting Attorney C. E. Dondrey said witnesses, whose identity he declined to reveal, had implicated Mrs. Eaton by circum- | stantial evidence. She would make no | statement. 'TOBACCO WAREHOUSE PATRONAGE IS SOUGHT Use of State Institntion Is Urged on Prince Georges County Growers. . | —_— By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md, February | 9—Prince Georges County tobacco growers are urged to patronize the State | Tobacco Warehouse in one of 17 recom- mendations adopted by a county grow- ers’ committee at a_recent meeting |in the office cf W. B. Posey, county agent. The committee alsp recommended that non-members of the Maryland Tobacco Growers' Association “make a careful study of the tobacco market from all angles,” including the “successful record of the association,” pointing out that “more loyal members are needed.” Appointment of a committee of five to draft plans for the operation of local co-operative packing houses was also suggested by the committee. The other 13 recommendations, all dealing with production, contain tech- nical suggestions for the growing of higher-grade crops and a request that Mr. Posey prepare a short leaflet ex- plaining the best practices to follow in | order t> procuce a good crop. R. J. Nelson of Mitchellviile, chair- man of the Prince Georges County To- bacco Board, presided at the meeting, ‘Whi(‘h was attended by W. V. Morgan, G. A. Smith, W. S. Chichester, C. L. | Turner, J. Howe Rawlings, W. R. C. Connick, J. H. Blandford, G. H. Robin- son, F. H. Billingsiey, Albert Aist, E. R. Gable, G. H. Clagett, E. L. Allen, H. M. Ryon, C. M. Roberts and H. W. Town- shend. BETHESDA REPUBLICANS PLAN TO ORGANIZE CLUB By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALTA VISTA, Md, February 8— Republicans of the Bethesda district of Montgomery County will hold a public meeting at the clubhouse of the Wom- en’s Club of Bethesda here Saturday night at 8 o'clock for the purpose of organizing a permanent Republican Club to participate in National, State and county politics, it has been an- nounced. Each community is being asked to send representatives to the meeting so that the organization will cover every section of the district, it is stated. There will be speaking and entertain- ment following the transaction of busi- ness and the organization of the club. Those calling the meeting are Charles S. Moore, Fred W. Page and Henry Latterner. Millions Spent in Relief. OTTAWA, Ontario, February 9 (#).— Unemployment relief efforts of the Dominion, provinces and municipalities in the last two years, have resulted in | the expenditure of $138,000,000, it was | asserted in the House of Commons yes- | terday by J. H. Stitt of Kelkirk 18 DAYS of sunlit PARADISE on the best-beloved liner in the WEST INDIES SERVICE... FRANCE FARE $235 WIHLI the February 20 newspapers may wail through the sleet to the storm-bound north, you'll be scudding down the Gulf Stream in “the ship everyone loves,” rounding the smouldering cone of Mt. Pelee to St. Pierre and Fort de France, the Empress Josephine’s own home town. Next day you visit Port of Spain in Trinidad, where cardinal birds sing, and swizzle-sticks rotate. Then La Guayra and Puerto Cabello in Venezuela—then Curagao (where it does not come from)—then Colon and the Grandest Canal— then Kingston, Jamaica. 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