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The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight; minumum temperature about 26 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness with slowly rising tem) ure. Temperatures—Highest, 54, at 5:10 pm, yesterday, lowest, 36, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full repert on pag - The Foening Star, Yesterday’s Circulation, 124,094 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 32,069. post _office, Entered as second cla: ‘Washingts WASHINGTO. ’ D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932—FORTY-SIX PAGES. Ll L] Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. FORMAL ULTIMATUM IS SERVED ON CHINA REPORT T0 SENATE. PEACE TALK COLLAPSES; TOKIO SAYS U. S. HELPED DRAW UP LEAGUE NOTE Troops Given Two Days to Withdraw. CHAPEIPOUNDED AS PARLEY ENDS Demands Disman- tling of Forts and Arsenal. Copyright, 1932. by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, February 18.—Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda, commander of the Japanese forces in this area, served an ultimatum tonight on Gen. Tsai Ting-kai ordering the Chinese to withdraw 12!; miles from Shanghai by sundown Sat- urday. This was the result of the fail- ure of a peace parley earlier in the day, during which the Japa- nese submitted this identical de- mand and the Chinese represen- tatives rejected it. It was thought the ultimatum was a preliminary to the begin- ning of the long-awaited major offensive by Japan. In preparation for that drive the Japanese have concentrated an army of at least 25,000 men in this vicinity. The Chinese have twice that many soldiers, and in the comparative quiet of the past few days they have been prepar- ing a line of retreat in case they should be unable to withstand a mass attack. Demands Called Impossible. lanes have been brought up in e i by hoth sides and it was reported several days ago that the Japanese have a quantity of 500- pound aerial bombs. The ultimatum was delivered while guns were in action in the Chapei sec- tor in an artillery engagement which began immediately after the peace par- ley broke down. In addition to demanding withdrawal from the imriediate vicinity of Shang- hai, Japan made as a condition of peace permanent dismantling of the Chinese forts at Woosung and Paoshan. The Chinese withdrawal, they stipulated, must take them back 12! miles on both sides of the Whangpoo River and the same distance from the mouth of the Whangpoo. 1t was to be permitted that the with- drawal be observed by Japanese aviators as an assurance that it would be carried out properly. Conditions Called Intolerable. The Chinese arsenal on the southern outskirts of the city would be disman- tled under the terms of these demands and until the Chinese Army had reached the 12!;-mile limit Japanese troops would remain where they are. These conditions the Chinese de- scribed as “intolerable and absolutely ‘unacceptable.” The Chinese forces can withdraw, they said, only if the Japanese retire simultaneously. As for the other de- mands, the military leaders of the Chinese force said their discussion was entirely outside of the military juris- diction. There upon the parley ended abruptly and in a very brief time the cannon- ading was resumed in Chapel. Reserve Liberty to Act. Gen. Uyeda's ultimatum, in addition to demanding the Chinese withdrawal, stipulated that if the Chinese evacuated the Japanese would not advance from the region now occupied adjacent to Hongkew, nor would they fire upon, bombard or pursue the Chinese. In addition, all anti-Japanese activi- ties must cease, Japanese lives and (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) . MISS SLADE JAILED FOR THREE MONTHS Woman's Refusal to Leave Bombay | Cuts Gandhi Ranks to “Nearly None.” By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, February 18.—Miss Made- line Slade, daughter of a British ad- miral who deserted a high place in London society to become a disciple of Mahatme Gandhi, was arrested today and sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to comply with a govern- ment order to leave Bombay. The order was issued Tuesday and she promptly defied it. She was gentenced only a few hours after she was arrested today. Her arrest leaves practically none of the Mahatma’s chief lieutenants out of jail. The court proceedings were brief. Miss Slade was dressed in a spotless | white sarl made of khaddar and sat in an Indian style chair in the middle of the crowded court room. She refused to participate in the trial and when she was asked if she cared to question the witnesses for the prosecution, she re- plied smilingly: “No questions, please.” “I am happy to be going to one of the two places where any self-respect- ing Indian can wish to go—to prison or to death,” she told the Associated Press correspondent a few minutes before she was arrested. +“It is an honor to 0 to jail for the Indian cause, which is ot only the cause of the Indian people, but of all those who want justice in the world. “I appeal to freedom-loving Ameri- cans and those in England who love Justice to throw all their weight on the side of the great non-violent fight for the rights of mankind.” Tapping of Private Wires Draws Sharp Warning From Japan By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, February 18— Japanese authorities are saying it in writing these days as a re- sult of alleged tapping of their private wires which have been strung between consular and mili- tary centers. Wires also were strung between the flagship of the fleet in the river and the consulate and these also have been tampered with, they said. The Chinese were blamed and a stern warning was issued today that all eaves- droppers caught in the act will be dealt with severely. FREE MANCHURIAN STATE PROCLAIMED Decision Reached by Chinese Leaders Meeting With Japanese Advisers. | By the Associated Press. MUKDEN, Manchuria, February 18.— The newly formed Executive Committee of Northeastern Manchuria at noon today proclaimed the establishment of an independent Manchurian-Mongolian state. Chinese leaders, with Japanese ad- visers, have been conferring here for several days, outlining the ground plan of the new state. An_elaborate dinner was given at the Yamato Hotel last night, at which Gen. Shigeru Honjo, Japanese Man- churian commander, attended, together with Gen. Mah Chan-Shan, his one- time foe at Tsitsihar last November. Gen. Mah came to the dinner {n spite of the fact that he was lll. He left for Tsitsihar by train early this morning, declining another airplane journey into the frigid Manchurian North. At Tsitsihar _he planned to assume the governorship of Heflungiang province. There_were 108 persons at the ban- quet. Of these, 25 were Chinese and the rest Japanese, including Count Uchida, president of the South Man- churia Railway, and a number of mili- tary and naval officials of Japan who are acting as advisers of the new fed- erated government. The founder of the state announced they would serve as members of an Ex- ecutive Committee to frame a consti- tution and select the personnel of the new government. The state is to have the name of “Ankuoa,” which means “Land of Peace,” and its national emblem will be the discarded Chinese five-barred flag emblazoned with the rising sun of Japan. This decision was made yester- day by the Chinese officials, prompted by their Japanese advisers. Couched in Vague Language. The proclamation was couched in high-flown, often vague Chinese, sprin- kled with guotations from the Chinese classics and referring to the new state lical land of milk and honey. In translation the principal points were pheased thus: “Many months have elapsed since the outbreak of trouble in the northeasterm provinces and the desire of the people for peace is like a starving man’s hunger. “The assembled leaders, therefore, ment based solidly on the support of public opinion. They have organized the Northeastern Executive Committee, comprising the leaders of the four provinces-and the princes of Mongolia. Sever Relations With China. “We have decided to sever relations with the Chinese government and to proclaim complete independence. “The people have suffered long enough under maladministration of military overlords. That military clique must be banished forever to se- cure peace and good government. “We oppose anti-foreignism. ~We want friendship and peace with all na- tions. We are determined to maintain the policy of the open door, with equal opportunity for the commerce of all peoples, thereby promoting mutual prosperity.” RECOGNITION WITHHELD. Japan Will Wait Until New State Proves Independence. TOKIO, February 18 (#).—A foreign office spokesman said today Japan would not recognize the new Man- churian-Mongolian state, the formation of which was announced at Mukden | today, until it was proven that the new | state “has all the attributes of an in- | dependent nation.” |~ “We are in no hurry,” the spokesman | said, “and we are not going to build any canal.” This reference was to the recognition of Panama by the United States in_ 1903. Withholding recognition, however, he sald, “does not mean we won't deal with this state. We must deal with it.” He reiterated former statements saying the official Japanese position is that the state is being organized by the Chinese leaders and people and the Japanese | government is in no way responsible. | Members of the Executive Committec | of the new state, the Japanese general at Mukden reported, are Chang | Ching-Hui, chairman; Tsang Shih-Yi, Hsl Hsla, Gen Mah Chan-Shan and Tang Yu-Lin. The participation of the latter was taken to indicate that Mon- golia also adhered to the new project. ‘The proclamatior pronouncing the new state carried the signature of these four leaders and also those of the Mongolian Princess Lin Shen and Chai Wang. Lin Shen represented the Kolonbail, or Western Heilungkiang, and Chai Wang the vaguely bounded | district of Inner Mongolia embracing the region west of Tungliao and Tao- nan, usually shown on the maps as & portion of Fengtien Province. The new government, press dispatches said, would be “midway between a re- public and a monarchy” with & chief executive holding office for life. Radio Programs ogél'qe Cc2 in the Chinese equivalents for the bib- i have agreed to establish a new govern- | said. IStimson Denies Knowledge of Plea. JAPANESE CALL ACTION ILLEGAL Say Council Had No Right to Speak for Nations. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, February 18.—Foreign office circles said today official in- formation had reached Tokio that the first draft of the League of Nations Council’s note to Japan yesterday on the Sino-Japanese controversy had emanated from American sources. How Japan would reply to the note had not been decided late to- day, but official opirion favored a reply questioning the legality of the Council's procedure, together with publication of a statement to the world, issued simultaneously, answering all the accusations con- tained in the note. The note contained an appeal to “the supreme sense of honor of Japan,” asking her to cease hostilities in China and said the 12 neutral members of the Coun- cil earnestly trusted Japan would “admit her obligations and justify the confidence imposed in her by the rest of the world.” Action Declared Tilegal. “There are strong indications Amer- ica had a finger in this pie,” an offi- cial said. He declared, however, that the first draft of the note, which he asserted was of American origin, was much more mild in form than the note which finally evolved from the Coun- cil's Drafting Committee. In foreign office circles it was said the action of the 12 neutral members of the Council was irregular, illegal and “entirely inadmissable.” “Few members of the Council now are empowered to act in its name,” the spokesman said. “These 12 councillors are not diplomats accredited to Tokio, hence they have no right to address the Japanese government in the names of their respective states. We intend to stress these legal objections in our rep!;. “The document has created s most unpleasant_impression here, and it is unacceptable because it is addressed to Japan alone. “Those who sent it assume thereby that Japan is the aggressor, whereas the fact is that China 1s the aggressor. “Such a one-sided appeal is unpre- cedented in the League’s history. It prejudges Japan and intimates that the Chinese are in the right. We are unable to accept any such intimation.” Chinese “Advised” to Withdraw. Reports from Shanghai this after- noon said earlier dispatches declaring an ultimatum had been issued to the Chinese by Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda, Jaj anese commander. Were “‘premature.’ The Chinese merely had been “advised” to withdraw from a 12};-mile zone around the city, the later dispatches Maj. Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, Gen. Uyeda's chief of staff, met with Gen. Tsal Ting-Kai, Chinese commander, this morning, they said, and verbally “advised” him to withdraw his 19th Route Army from the Chinese area. At the same time, the reports said, Consul General Murai tendered & simi- Jar “advice” to Mayor Wu Teh-Chen of Shanghai. ‘Whether or not a formal ultimatum would be presented later, the dispatches said, depended upon the Chinese re- sponse to this advice. Maj. Gen. Tashiro's meeting with the Chinese was arranged, the reports said, by Sir Miles W. Lampson, British Min- ister to China, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Minister after Dr. ‘Wellington Koo, former Chinese foreign minister, had approached Mr. Lampson and (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) GRAIN DUST EXPLOSION KILLS ONE, INJURES TEN Body of Fireman Buried Under Tons of Debris—Another Falls Four Floors. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, February 18—One fireman was believed killed and 10 others were injured, 2 of them danger- ously, in a fire and series of dust ex- plosions that destroyed the central unit of the Kansas-Missouri Elevator here today. The body of William McDaniels, arrive, was believed buried beneath tons of debris. Frank Noon was burned, probably fatally, and Frank Stark, an- other fireman, received severe injuries when he leaped from a fourth-story window. Mounting eight_stories to the top of one of the huge bins which was afire, the firemewn were enveloped in flames by a terrific blast. They fought their way down three flights of blazing stairs. With the exception of McDaniels, all were out of the structure when another explosion occurred. Officials estimated the loss at $500,000. B. F. WOELPER, JR., DIES Postmaster of Baltimore for Last Ten Years. BALTIMORE, February 18 (P).— Benjamin F. Woelper, jr., postmaster of Baltimore for the last 10 years, died at his home here today after an ex- tended illness. He was 63. He was ap- pointed in 1922 by President Harding, and held the post under successive Presidents. member of the first fire company to, LITTLE BOY BLUE. Appropriations Committee Strikes Out Limitation Pro- hibiting Promotions. U. 5. WILL LAUNCH Knox Announces Campaign Patterned After First Lib- erty Loan Offerings. ’ g |FURTHER MODIFICATION {CONFERS WITH MILLS $95-A-WEEK CLERK CHARGES HE PAID EXTORTIONISTS $2.500 Two Suspects Trapped After Victim Lives Like Hermit, Saving Money to Kezp From Being A strange story of how & $25-a-week grocer clerk forced himself to live on the barest necessities of life to pay ex- tortionists $2,500 within the last 18 months, was being investigated today by detectives. The victim, James Slusher of 313 Eleventh street southwest, fer six years an employe of & chain store system, exhibited bank books and receipts from the extortionists to prove his story. The books showed withdrawals of from $50 to $500 at a time, covering a pe- riod of approximately a year and a half. Slusher told Detective Sergt. Howard | EOgle that for the last six years he has been living on $10 a week, saving Put on Spot.“ the balance of his salary. In that time, he said, he had saved more than $2,700. Today he has only $240 left. he told $137 a month to the extortionists under threats of physical violence. He said he had lived under constant fear of his life at the hands of the extortionists, who threatened to “put him on the spot.” Checking his story, Ogle found Slusher kept his money in two build- ing and loan associations and one bank. one building association from January 12 to February 15 of this year; $705 from the bank, between approximately the same dates, and $1.348 from the other building association prior to the ‘olher withdrawals. Withdrawals totaled $2.467. of which Slusher exhibited re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) HOOVER DESCRIBED AS EXTRAVAGANT Byrns Joins in Criticism of Reorganization Pro- posals. By the Associated Press. President Hoover was charged today propriations Committee with being the most extravagant Chief Executive the United States has had in peace time. This statement, made in the House, followed criticism of the recommenda- tions made by President Hoover yester- dav by Speaker Garner and Repre- sentative Rainey of Illinois, the Demo- cratic leader. They complained that the President had made no specific recommendations for saving money. Opening a fight to get his bill to con- solidate the War and Navy Depart- ments to the House floor for a vote, Byrns contended the only recommenda- tion President Hoover made ‘is for eight new high-salaried jobs." “Powerful Lobby” Fights Bill. Byrns said he was convinced the stave off a report by the Expenditures Committee on the Army and Navy con- solidation bill” It is opposed by Mr. e here nas beel “There never n such a pow- erful lobby before the House in opgd- tion to a bill” the Tennesseean said. “I can show you and the country that if this bill is passed it will save $100,- 000,000 annually in operation expenses, without interfering in the least with the efficiency of our fighting forces, * * * “If the President really favors con- solidation in the interest of economy, why did he not favor the consolidation of the Army and Navy?" Byrns asked. “We can save more money by the pas- sege of that bill than by consolidating all other bureaus and commissions.” Representative Mapes, Republican, of Michigan, read a statement from a newspaper saying the era of co-opera- tion between the House Democrats and &gpubuclns had ended and politics had un. Mapes Defends Message. Rising in defense of President Hoo- ver's message, Mapes said he concurred { with the newspaper, “judging from the developments of the last few days and the speech of Mr. Ryrns of Tennessee.” Mapes said: “President Hoover has a consistent record of 12 years on the proposed reorganization of the Gov- ernment througa consolidation of bu- reaus. ° * * He has been the leading ,;:‘ruponent of Government organiza- on.” Regarding the President's proposals, Speaker Garner declared: “I thought he was going to be helpful and recom- mend some curtailment, but instead he asked for new offices that will create expense instead of promoting economy.” Representative of Ilinois, the Democratic leader, 2 “The President, as ususl, made no 32, Column 1. (Continued by Chairman Byrns of the House Ap- | President’s message “was sent here to | SEEKS T0 SELL POWER T0 PEPCO Outside Concern Buying Maryland Land for Pro- posed Route of Wires. By a Staff Correspondent of The Sfar. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 18.— Hoping to secure the contract for sup- plying high voltage current to the Po- tomac Electric Power Co., a Pennsyl- vania power concern is endeavoring to buy options on land over which the power wires will be strung, it was learned today. The proposed route of the power lines runs about one mile east of the Mont- gomery-Prince Georges County line and lumbia south of Takoma Park. Pepco Admits Offer. Officials of the Potomac Electric Power Co. admitted an offer had been made to furnish power to Washington by a Pennsylvania concern, but insisted no definite action had been taken on the offer which is now being studied. Before the Washington company could obtain power from such a source, |it was pointed out, the permission of the Public Utilities Commussion of the District of Columbia and the Maryland Public Service Commission would have to be obtained. Residents of Prince Georges County whose property lies along the route of the proposed power line have been in- terviewed by R. L. Bortner, right-of- way engineer of the Pennsylvania Wa- Lexington Building, Baltimore. Op- tions are being signed in the name of the Susquehanna Transmission Co. of Maryland. Rights of way 250 feet wide are being sought. Property Owners Object. Objection to the proposed power line passing through Chillum_district has been voiced by some of those asked to sign options or sell their property. These citizens claim the erection of a line would retard development of a suburben community and interfere with radio reception. At the office of the Maryland-Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- B et e e erec es ug! ropolitan area had mever . been . Irving Root, chief engineer, expressed the opinion, however, that the erection of such a line would have to be approved by the commission if it was to pass through territory zoned residential. —— - SUCCEEDS BALLANTINE H. Douglas, Jr., of Chicago Gets Treasury Post. President Hoover today named James H. Douglas, jr., of Chicago to be As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, re- | placing Arthur A. Ballantine, {Janics police, having paid out an average of | A total of $414 had been drawn from | would connect with the District of Co- | ter & Power Co.. with offices at 1611 | ROBINSON URGES - BANKING MEASUR Democratic Leader Denies Credit Expansion Bill Is Hoover’s. By the Associated Press. Joining in the attack upon American bankers held by “fear.” Senator Robin- son of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, | today urged the Senate to pass the emergency credit expansion bill and | denied that it was a “Hoover bill.” Passage of the bill before nightfall was believed certain. “The principal purpcse of this measure,” Robinson said in opening the second day's debate, “is to overcome the fear that has gripped finance and paralyzed business. One of its features is designed to offset the hoarding of currency by providing for an emergency circulation of Federal Reserve notes based on Government bonds.” Credit Given Walcott. He gave credit to Senator Walcott, Republican, of Connecticut, who has worked with Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, in preparation of the bill known as the Glass-Steagall bill, but assailed claims that it was President Hoover's measure. “Democrats in both Houses of Con- gress,” Robinson said, “have co-oper- ated with the President and his party associates in the preparation and pas- sage of so-called emergency measures. But when enactments representing the best thought and the untiring efforts of members of both parties are claimed by Republican leaders as the achieve- ment of President Hoover alone, the Democrats in the Congress are not only justified, they are almost required, to call attention to the record of the two parties touching the particular subject matter of legislation being dealt with. “The Glass-Steagall bill is not an administration measure in the true sense. It was not suggested by the administration, and its principles were actually opposed by the governor of the Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury until quite recently. Efforts of 30 Years. “From time to time for more than |30 years Democrats in the Congress have proposed measures authorizing the issuance of emergency circulation based on United States bonds. “Three weeks ago Mr. Mellon, who was then Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Mills, the present Secretary, emphatically and unqualifiedly disap- proved these bills. “The principal provisions of the pending bill have been modeled from paragraphs embraced in the Glass bill introduced in the Senate January 21. The latter is a more general measure materially revising a large number of Funmp}u in our present banking aws. “Of course the important question is, will the measure tend to restore con- the initiation of the bill shall be fairly stated.” Robinson said “there are some banks (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) LEVINE IS DISCOVERED IN HOSPITAL HIDEAWAY Charge of Grand Larceny Faces First Transatlantic Air Passenger. By the Assoclated Press. NEW_ YORK, February 18.—harles A. Levine, the frsf passenger, knew double grief today— a broken left leg and a charge of grand larceny. him he has been since January 21, He had “C. Elliott Jaffee.” Authorities ' want to question him about $22,000 in stolen securities he was alleged to have pledged in May, 1930, in a $25.000 loan from the Manufac- turers’ Trust Co. two detectives succeeds impressions of his fingers. Levine said he did not expect he would be able to leave the hospital for assigned to stand guard over him. Levine declined to explain how leg wag fidence and expand credit, but it is also fair that the facts pertaining to t transatlantic air After a 14-months search police found late yesterday in a hospital where been admitted under the name | ported An anonymous telephone call led police to Levine's hospital hideaway. He objected to being fingerprinted, but jed in getting IN CONFERENCE SEEN Final Decision on Measure Is Ex- pected to Set Precedent on All Supply Bills. The Senate Appropriations Committee today struck out of the agriculture ap- propriation bill the House limitetion which would have prohibited salary promotions during the ensuing year and would have prevented the filling of vacancies except where the President declared new appointments to be abso- lutely essential. The promotion and vacancy filling program in the House bill would have applied to the balance of the present fiscal year as well as the new fiscal year. Although the Senate committee elimi- nated these restrictions entirely in | reporting the bill to the Senate, the | indications were that this step was taken to throw the whole question into | conference with the House for further discussion and modification. The com- mittee report stated: “These sections relating to compen- sation, filling of vacancies, promotions and so forth, were eliminated, without prejudice, from the bill where in con- ference more information would be at hand which would be necessary to per- fecting the same.” Precedent to Be Set. This being the first of the depart- mental supply bills, the final decision regarding promotions and new appoint- ments on this measure is_expected to become a precedent in all the other supply bills. The Senate, hearings on the agriculture bill, made public today, show that a liberalization of the House language ussed if Congress de- c ns. tations. It is likely, that if the House provisions are not entirely eli- minated in conference they will at least be made more elastic. bill as re- agricultural supply to the Senate calls for a total of $177,192,646, an increase of $1,783.- 832 over the House total. Even wif this increase, however, the bill is still $58,400,000 under current appropria- tions and $10,500,000 under the esti- mates as submitted for new fiscal year. The Weather Bureau was allowed an additional $38,500 for general wea service and airways weather service for Alaska. The remainder of the sum added by the Senate Committee is dis- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) {DE VALERA'S LEAD IN IRELAND GROWS Followers at First Worried by Close Count of Only 54 Out of 145 Precincts. DUBLIN, Irish Pree State, February 18.—Tabulation of returns from 54 of the 145 precincts in Tuesday’s general election late this afternoon showed Eamon De Valera's Fianna Fail Party still running ahead. The standing was: Government, 19. Independnts, 6. Even though he was running ahead, De Valera thus far in the count had not registered the heavy vote his fol- lowers had predicted and some com- mentators thought that even if he should win it would be by so narrow a margin as to create a stalemate in the Dail, possibly necessitating a new elec- tion in the Fall. ‘The Fianna Fail was strong along the border, but because of the slow count resulting from the method of propor- tional representation, it appeared that all the returns might not be known be- fore the end of the week, and that if the vote continued as close as in the early count the balance of power might not be decided until early next month at the postponed balloting in County Leitrim. Voting on seven seats there was put over until March 3 as the result of the shooting of a government candidate there last Sunday. ’ SEre o CONNERY DEMANDS WAGE CUT INQUIRY Charges Big Industries With Par- ing Pay Levels Below Reduced Living Costs. By the Associated Press. Charging that wages had been cut far below the reduced living costs, C Connery y House Rules Committee for authority for the Labor Committee to investi- gate wage cuts effected by big indus- THed the sesctition presemted by Rep- Tesolution @ Tesentative Condon, Democrat, of Rhode Island, asking authority for the Labor Committee to make the investigation, | particularly in those industries assisted directly and indirectly by the tariff and other Federal legislation. Connery charged wages had been cut 40 per cent since 1929 and that the Labor Department reported a reduction of only 35 per cent in living costs since 1925. Arguing for his resolution, Condon sald “propaganda is being spread by about & month. A patrolman was|industries in order to effect further wage cuts, although many of the in- d to grant divi- ON DETAILS OF ISSUE Difficulty in Getting Enough Securities to Satisfy the Demeand Is Feared. Plans for a Government bond-selling campaign to decrease hoarding—pat- terned after the first Liberty loan drives—were announced today by Col. Frank Knox, chairman of President Hoover’s Anti-Hoarding Commission. The securities to be issued by the Treasury, designed specifically to draw money out of teapots and safety deposit boxes, Knox said, will be in low denom- inations. Later, after a round of conferences among Government financial leaders it was decided details of the plan for the sale of the bonds would be an- nounced by the Treasury on March 7. Gen. J. G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, has been selected as chairman of the New York committee on the campaign. “I anticipate only one difficulty,” Knox said. It is in getting a sufficient quantity of securities from the Treasury to satisfy the demand for them.” Confers With President, Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, conferred with the President im- mediately before making his announce- ment. He detailed it to newspaper men in an office adjoining that of the Chief Executive. “In the past week or two,” he “I have been in touch with everggxm part of the country in connection with the movement to stop hoarding. “From every quarter comes an insist- ent demand that this committee pro- vide the people whose money is out of ;:lmulsuon a safe mdedmure substitute for money now cached in ts and safety deposit boxes. - “The demand can be met only by an issue of securities that has the whole power of the Government behind it. I have said as much to the President and Secretary Mills.” Reports Striking Response. Knox reported that from the mem- bers of his Executive Committee in Chicago—one for each Federal Reserve district—he had received reports that the response to the anti-hoarding move- ment had been ‘“more striking and spontaneous than that to the first Liverty loan drive during the World 2 ar. He reiterated that the campaign to return $1,500,000,000 to circulation would be “short and quick.” The real work of his committee, titled the Citi- zens' Reconstruction Organization, he said, might well be wound up during the first week in March. “We are having no difficulty in ob- taining the utmost co-operation toward making this campaign a community movement,” he said. “It must be buil® along community lines, designed to mes local needs and conditions and witho! the semblance of a fixed, rigid, gener plan.” “In advance of deciding upon the details,” Col. Knox continued, “I am convinced that the form of the Treas- ury security that is anticipated will be satisfactory. 1 feel confident in saying that the bond issue will be suf- ficiently low in denomination to meet the necessities of those people with small sums now in hiding. Local Committees Planned. “The response to the President's anti- hoarding movement has been tremen- dous. The eagerness on the part of the people everywhere throughout the land to join in this movement is more widespread and spontaneous than when. the first Liberty loans in the World ‘War were issued. “The disposal of these new issues in the various communities will be in the hands of local committees composed of men and women, who had experience in disposing of liberty loans. The movement in its entirety is a commu- nity movement because the problem of hidden money is a local problem. There- fore, in working out the details local communities will be given the widest latitude to meet local necessities.” It is generally understood the new issue of short-term bonds will be of denominations as low as $50, and that the rate of interest probably will be from 3 to 3!, per cent. President Hoover is known to be es- pecially gratified by the encouraging reports so far received abou the way in which his anti-hoarding campaign has been received. He has knowledge the campaign already has had a tell- ing effect. Two days ago he announced that $34,000,000 was brought back into circulation since February 4, when the campaign was begun. ROOSEVELT LEADS NEW HAMPSHIRE FIGHT 11 of 16 Delegateship Candidates Favor Governor Over Smith as Deadline Naars. By the associated Press. CONCORD, N. H., February 18— Pive o'clock today marks the deadline for filings or withdrawals in New Hampshire of candidates for delegate to the Republican and Democratic na- tional conventions. Intercst centered about the Demo- cratic esndidacies. The total number of candidates for the eight delegate at large places stood at 16 as the deadline drew near. Eleven were pledged to Gov. Roosevelt and four were pledged to Alfred E. Smith. One of the Demo- cratic candidates was unpledged. It was expected by Democratic lead- ers that four more Smith-pledged dele- gate at large candidates would file be- fore 5 o'clock this afternoon, making two complete slates opposing each other for the primary, March 8. On_the ublican side no have been made other than those ear! in the filing e‘im-wd. when a complete Hoover-pleds of delogaice. - ferod joe deid. © ¢