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ARMS PARLEY FINDS BASIS FOR ACCORD Draft Convention to Measure Future Negotiations—Rus- . sian Plan Voted Down. 87 the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, February 26.—The World Disarmament Conference unanimously sclected a ruler yesterday to measure Armaments in its future negotiations and turned down a Russian plan for general and total disarmament. The ruler is the draft convention of the preliminary disarmament commis- sion, but the inch, calibre, ton and manpower marks carved in it in 1930 by the pre-conference negotiators are | sather vague and dim. i The resolution to make the draft tion a basis of discussion was ed en the motion of Sir John Simon, 3ritish delegate, after Maxim Litvinoff, the Russian, had mad. a long but futile plea for his total disarma- ment scrapping plan. The day was not without a strategic ! yictory for Andre Tardieu, the new French premier, who gained approval of his proposal to appoint a special po- | liticel commission to deal with secur- ity cnd srming of the League of Na- | tions. Tardieu Plan Fought. Some observers held that the French | fnternational police force idea gained | ® dominant position in future deliber- etions through the appointment of the | commission There was a show of fight when Tar- dicu first broached his suggestion. He coupled with it a project to st up three commissions on effectives, material and expenditures, to take the place of the eague secretariat’s plan to organize the ‘conference into commissions on land, maval, aerial and expenditures questions. The American, Italian and German felegations objected. The matter was compromised and Tardieu got his po- itical commission, but the other dele- gates won on organizing the various commissions as proposed by the secre- tariat. The political commission will deal with all political questions before the cobference, but will return them to the general commission for final ratifica- tion Ambassador Hugh Gibson, the American delegate, gave his approval when Tardieu made it clear that all states participating in the conference would also take part in the political commission. Carries Off Vietory. Since Tardicu had no objection to the | draft convention and also won his se- curity point, critics appeared to agree that when he boarded a train for Paris Jast night for a brief stay, he carried in’ his satchel a -couple of documents that represented victory. ‘The Soviet total disarmament project went down to defeat almost unanimous- ¥y, only Turkey joining the authors in supporting it, a fate which Litvinoff obviously expected. . Fhe German and Soviet spokesmen displayed a spirit of moderation and conciliation, when they approved the formation of the political commission. Applause greeted the German remark that “Germany's good will can always counted on.” | beV‘l'hi!e the General Commission rested , today, the Conference Bureau defeated | an attempt of women's peace organiza- tions to obtain an official position in the work of the World Disarmament Conference. Their cause was championed by Senor Salvador de Madariaga, the Spanish delegate, Who presented a res- olution proposing the formation of a special commission of women from un- official organizations to be an advisory body to the conference. The British and American delegation took the ition that delegates are appointed %;" governments and that women may have seats in the confer- ence by the same procedure as men— that is, by appointments of their gov- ernments. In effect, the burcau reminded the women that the conference is & con- ference of governments and not of sexes or unofficial organizations. Agreement Indicated. ‘The preliminary draft convention ap- proved yesterday as a conference yard- stick represents the nearest approach to an agreement on disarmament in the | preparatory commission. It opens with an agreement on the | part of each nation to limit and as far as possible reduce armaments. It pro- vides limitation of peacetime effectives &nd conscript army period. It also provides indirect limitation of land material through limited expendi- ture and direct imitation of naval ma- terial by tonnage and gun caliber, Na- val expenditures are also limited, as well as the total number, horsepower, and volume of dirigibles, and the total number and horsepower of airplanes. Since there are substantial reserva- tions to these and other provisions of the draft convention, it is in effect merely a skeleton framework without any actual figures of limitation inserted. | 1,000,000-J0B DRIVE GAINING RESULTS Legion “War on Depression” Puts 100,000 Back to Work in Two Weeks. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 26.—The na- tional drive to obtain jobs for 1,000,000 unemployed continued today with al- most 10 per cent of the goal realized in liltle less than two weeks. Sponsored by the American Legion, the “war on depression” was launched February 15 ce then work has been found for 89.812 persons. Minnesota leags the States with 13,391. Yester- day’s campaigning netted 8,081 posi- tions. | The drive received the indorsement of ! president of the Amer- lcan Federation of Labor. “The Nation is being given an object lesson as to what can be done through a practical, ematic drive against ent,” said the national labor yesterday. “Finding wcrk for those who are idle is the real remedy for unemployment.” ROGERS VISITS CAPONE IN CHICAGO PRISON Humorist Gets in, While Bill Col- lectors Are Turned Away, but Talk Is Secret. By the Associated Press. OHICAGO, February 26.—What Will Rogers said to Al Capone and what Al Capone said to Will Rogers is not known, but the two got together the other day and did some talking. The humorist visited Chicago’s most notarious hoodlum in the county fail, where Capone is awaiting the outcome of his appeal from his 11-year sentence as an income tax dodger. Several bill collectors tried to get in to see Al the same day but failed. . Greeks Honor W;hingtan, A joint celebration in commemoration STAR. WASHINGTO D. C, FRIDAY ]UN]ONS FIGHT LOW WAGE SCALE FOR GOSPEL MISSION BUILDING Conferring With Anderson, Spokesmen Brand Precedent “Distinct Menace™ to Organized Labor in District. Organized labor today voiced vehe- ment prctest to the wage scale proposed to be paid to building trades workers on the new Gospel Mission, to be located at 810-16 Fifth street. In a conference with Col. Peter M. Anderson, architect and contractor, who will erect the building, labor represent- atives branded the scale as a “distinct mencce” to crganized labor in the Dis- trict. They declared that if the prece- dent set in the mission’s “relief scale” is followed in other construction jobs it would “make necessary the erection | human misery, instead of a humanitar- |1an effort to relleve suffering. It will represent the entering wedge to & gen- eral reduction of wages in all building | trades operations in the District, and | cperate to minimize the efforts that | organized labor has made to better conditions over a long period of years.” Mr. Colpoys referred to a question asked each applicant for employment— whether he would be willing to work on other buildings in the Dl.finu at the same scale paid by the Gospel Mission. | This scale was arrived at by averaging the pre-war union and non-union scales in the various trades and adding an | aproximate 40 per cent to meet the | increased costs of living. That any of 10 more such bulldings as you pro- pose to erect to care for conditions that | will be brought about.” | Union labor was represented by John | attempt to affect permanently the con- ditions labor faces in the District was contemplated was denied by Col. Ander- son. who. in addition to handling the | Locher, |to be considerably executive secretary of the Washington Building Trades Council; John B. Colpoys, editor of the Trade Unionist, and John Botts, representing the executive board of the Central Labor Union. The Gospel Mission wage scale ranges from 28, cents per hour for unskilled laborers, to 70 cents for skilled me- chanics. The union scale in the Dis- trict ranges roughly from 50 cents per hour for laborers to $1.70 per hour for ckilled mechanics. The prevailing scale paid non-union workers is said lower than this figure. It i= proposed by Col. Anderson that the difference between the amount ac- tually paid workers on the mission job and the prevailing scale represent labor's contribution toward the cost of the building. p In a two-hour conference that ended' in a deadlock, Mr. Colpoys, who acted as spokesman for the organized labor group, aid: “The building you propose to erect will stand as & monument to construction job, is one of the trustees of the Gospel Mission. “We are engaged in & humanitarian | project,” Col. Anderson said “We want | to give a living wage to the man now out of employment who would rather work at his trade than be an object of irh.\my. Prom the number of applica- tions received, and from the pitiable Jiving conditions they depict among Washington's Jaborers, there is no ques- | tion as to the popularity of the plant among Washington's unemploved " Almost 2,000 men have registered for work on the new building since regis- tration was thrown open Wednesday morning. Further conference between labor and the trustees of the Gospel Mission Will ibe held at a later date, according to tentative arrangements made today. | Col. Anderson made clear in his dis- | cussion with the labor representatives | that it appeared better policy to give relief to a greater number of unem- ployed than to pay a higher rate for a smaller number of men. 181N LIQUOR AING !Suspended. Terms Given to Three Woman—13 Men Sent to Prison. Three women and 15 men were called for sentence this afternoon before Justice F. D. Letts following their pleas of guilty to an indictment’ charging conspiracy to violate the national pro- hibition act through the manufacture, possession . of materials ifitended for manufacture of Intoxicants, possession of liquor, sale lnd‘wfllflm. A total of 1,500 violations are enumerated in the indictment in which 36 persons are named. Eighteen other defendants will be called for trial March 14 before Justice Letts in Crim- inal Division 2 by Assistant United States Attorneys Harold W. Orcutt and James R. Kirkland. The ‘alleged” ring *is sald to be the largest ever unearthed in this juris- diction. © It is expected it will take a month fo.try the other defendants. H imberg Louis Specter, re- gards the ringleaders, were each given & term of 18 months in the peni- tentiary; Abe Zimberg, Joseph Zimberg, Sol Zimberg and Samuel A. Specter each 15 months, and Charles E. Mills, Malcolm 8. McGehee, Gus Le Vigne, Wesley Williams and Joseph Andrews each one year and one day. Probation under suspended sentences of two years was extended by the court to the three women—Helen Zimberg, Bernice Zimberg and Louise Zimberg— and to Charles C. Maggio and Ellis L. Marsh. Maggio also was given a sus- pended sentence on a separate indict- ment for liquor violation, and Louis Specter and Samuel A, Specter were also sentenced on a separate indictment. Louis Specter was given 18 mon®hs and Samuel A. Spector, 15 months, to run concurrently with their sentences in the conspiracy case. BANDIT THREATENS TO.BLOW UP BANK; SEIZES $100 BILL part. “If you don't give me the money, we will all die itogether.” The teller, Whliam Sinclair, attempt- ed to stave off the hold-up man. Sens- ing that his demand would not be com- plied with, the man reached through the wincow and seized one of two $100 bills the teller held in his hand and ran from the bank Police were informed by the bank employe that the colored man held a bottle under his coat with the neck showing. Only one patron was in the bank at the time. He told police he did not realize what was happening until the hold-up man had departed. Vice President Thomas P. Hickman, who was in charge of the bank at the time, did not see although he was standing on the side- walk in front of the bank when the colored man left. John B. Cochran, president, was at the Connecticut avenue branch at the time. Police immediately broadcast a look- out for the hold- man. He was de- scribed as being 25 years old, having light brown skin, 5 feet 10 inches in height, weighing 145 pounds, and hav- ing long black hair, combed back. He was clai in a blue suit and dark tie and was extremely well dressed. He had to hat or overcoat. The matter was first reported to Policeman J. E. Yost of the first pre- cinet, who took Sinclair to headquar- ters, where he told his story to Inspec- tor Frank 8. W. Burke, Detectives Michael Dowd, H. E Brodie and Leo Murray were assigned to the case. All precincts were notified to conduct an intensive search, $200,000 Gold Recovered. CHERBOURG, France, February 26 000, which fell overboard while the: were being landed from the liner Beren- garia Tuesday, were recovered by divers yesterday. They were part of a $24. 000.000 shipment consigned to the Bank of France. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band Orchestra this afternoon, at the Marine Barracks Auditorium, at 3 o'clock. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader, con- ducting. 1. March, “27th Infantry” (Mindanao) .... Overture. “Egmont” . Excerpts from ““The ...Savoca Beethoven X .Romberg gt ngton Bicentennial” .. .Sousa Dance of the Hours" from “La e ... .Ponchielll La Pampita,” of the 200th anniversary year of the birth of George Washington was held Jast night by Miaoulis and Eudokia Chapters of the Greek American Pro- gressive Association, an organization composed of native-born Greeks. The s memorial.mesting was beld in the Odd “Fellows’ Temple, 418 Seventh stregh, a 2. 3 4 5. 6. % 8. RECEIVE SENTENCE Maurice Chipiwalt, Nick Macchiarella, | — |on the hold-up man, | (/2 —Four kegs of gold, valued at $200,- | ‘BEAR RAIDERS’ FACE QUIZ BY SENATORS ON SHORT SELLING _(Continued From First Page.) | its work in trying to regulate markets | is a principal cause of the present de- pressicn. The Farm Board dammed up the supply of wheat and made cther countries set up tariffs against us “If the price had not been held up our price would have reached the world’s level and we would have ex- | ported more wheat. The world would | bave taken care of the surplus wheat The action of foreijgn countries in plac- | ing tariffs was taken shortly after the | Farm Board started holding up our | price above the world's level.” Legislation Opposed. Fred J. Lingham, Lockport. N. Y. | spokesman for the Millers' National | Federaticn, said: “We, s millers, want to go on rec- ord as opposed to any legislation that | will interfere with free trading. The authority in this biil is too much power | to_give any one man. | _“Any restriction on free trading will | mean a larger margin between what | the grower gets and what the con- | sumer pay. “If we could not hedge our contracts on a moment’s notice we would have to operate on a wider margin." George H. Davis. a Kansas City grain trader, said the proposed legis- lation “would gradually eliminate free and open markets.” “This bill would eliminats 60 to 70 ‘E:ird cent of the grain trade today.” he capital could do business. “Before passing this bill destroying | the futures markets you should make ‘olher provisions for marketing wheat.” BEARS WOULD WELCOME PROBE. | Declared Anxious to Tell Senators Their Side of Story. NEW YORK, February 26 (#).—While most of the leading speculators who | have been identified with the bear side | of the stock market were away from | Wall Street today, thelr associates ex- ! pressed belief that some of them would welcome an opportunity to appear before the Senate investigating committee The function of short selling, it was contended, has not been fully appre- ciated, and advocates of short selling said a Washington inquiry would give bears a chance to present their side of the argument. They have insisted that abuses were more general In 1929 the bull side of the market than | they have ever been on the bear side. Bernard E. Smith, a member of the New York Stock Exha—> and popularly regarded as one of tie leading bears since the market crash of 1929, was on the floor of the Exchange today. In keeping with past practice he declined to be interviewed. Associates said, how- ever, that Mr. Smith had turned to the bull ‘side of the market some time ago, and has been actively interested in Alaska Juneau, among other stocks. He went to Alaska last year to visit the gold mines of that company in connection with his efforts to attract wider public interest to its shares. Willlam Danforth of Boston, another active speculator who played a promi- nent role on the short side with the crash of 1929, was reported to be in Miami, Fla. The Boston speculator, whose Tise to stock market prcm nence was a spectacular feature in the bear market, said several months ago that he had turned from the bear to the bull side. i | So far as could be learned, none of | the Street’s prominent bears have yet been invited to appear in Washington, SENATORS APPROVE FILIPINO FREEDOM Independence Within 19 Years Called for by Committee—Only Three Opposing Votes. The Senate Territories Committee to- day approved a bill providing for Phil- ippine independence within 19 years, | The measure carried the vote of Chairman Bingham, an administration | spokesman on the committee. He gave | his support with the inclusion of a pro- vision retaining for the United States | @il its military bases in the islands. Only three of the 15 members of the | committee anounced opposition to the measure in whole or in part. They | were Senators King, Utah: Broussard, louisiana, both Democrats, and Van- denberg, Republican, Michigan. The bill provides for a plebiscite by | the Philippine people between 15 and new government, to be ; | 17 vears after a known as the Commonwealth of the Philippines, is established, with the ap- | | proval of the President of the United States. Should the new government be set up, the islands would be put on a grad- uated tarifl schedule. | “The islands would be put under an | immigration ban as soon as the new government is established. Only 100 persons would be allowed to enter the United States annually. —_ Marionettes and puppets in Europe this Winter, » “No one with less than $1,000,000 | are popular tian GARNERDENDUNCES HODVER FOR PANE Hurley Hits Raskob as Po- litical War of Words Opens. (Continued From First Page.) President, the Secretary smiled slightly {and said: “No I'm not speaking for the Presi- dent.” SEES HOOVER BACKING WETS. Raskob Declares President Would Sup- port Referendum, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 26.—John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic | National Committce, hears “on good in- (formation” that President Hoover will run for re-election on a prohibition ref- erendum platform “if his party should adopt such a platform.” The statement was made by Raskob after a speech before the New York Young Democratic Club. The Democratic chairman offered the comment in answer to a question as to the advisability of the Democratic party’s pushing Raskob'’s home rule plan in a year when the party has | “unusual opportunities” for success, Says Drys Would Revolt. Raskob's reply was to state he had it “on good information” that Presi- dent Hoover has expressed his willing- ress to run on a platform that con- tained a “wet” plank. He pointed out that the President has been regarded by drys as their leader, and that if he should fun on a platform favoring a referendum on prohibition the drys would consider him “a Judas, and will vote for the devil before they vote for him." As far as his own home rule plan for solution of the prohibition problem is concerned, Raskob said he presented it to the ional Committee as a plan that would avold giving the Democratic South “a slap in the face,” and because he believed the Republicans might pro- pose such a plan themselves. Sees Effort to Split Party. Raskob charged Republicans hoped to split the Democratic party by ef- forts to create sectional feeling. The Republicans, he added, “will say any- thing to create friction in our ranks.” He took occasion to deny that he ever had discussed with former Gov. Alfred E. Smith the question of presi- dential possibilities. “A great many people feel that be- cause Smith nominated me for the office |1 hold and because we are bth of the same religious faith, that we are work- Ing hand-in-glove. I say sincerely that 1 never have discussed candidacies with him, nor he with me,” Raskob said. FLORIDAN WANTS GARNER. | Asks Speaker’s Permission to File Num in That State. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, February 26 (#)—Dr. E. O. Heath, pastor of the iFllsb Methodist Church here, yester- |day wrote John N. Garner, Speaker of the House, asking if he would object to having his name entered in the Florda presidential preferential pri- mary. The minister previousiy had an- nounced he intended to enter Garner's name in the Florida primary June 7. “Representative Rayburn (Democrat, Texas) says Garner will not file,” Dr. Heath sal “That may be Mr. Ray- | burn’s view. We want to hear from Speaker Garner himself.” Dr. Heath sald he had received let- ters from over the Staie pledging sup- port to Garner if he enters the primary. BACKING WILL ROGERS. Californians Advised How to Enter Him in State Primary. SACRAMENTO, Calif, February 26 (#).—The Secretary of State’s office wi | asked yesterday for information on how to get the name of Will Rogers, humor- ist, on the Democratic party’s May ballot as a presidential candidate. The request came from “The Com- mittee on Candidacy for Presidential Nomination in the Democratic Pri- maries for Will Rogers,” an organiza- | tion with headquarters m Los Angeles. Thz office informed the committee it will be necessary to file the names of 48 electors and 1,670 signatures of | voters between February 28 and March | 24 to qualify Rogers. HOOVER SILENCE SCORED ( ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 26 (#)—Claims that President Hoover | never has stated definitely he favors retention of the eighteenta amendment were made in the Southern convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America here yesterday and bedlam reigned for a moment. “Down! Down! Down!” shouted the audience in answer to the statement made by M. H. McCormick, a retired | business man of Coshoeton, Ohio. He also claimed “temperance people are not tisfled with the status of affairs” and accused league officials with dodging a question as to whether they would ask presidential candidates |to take a definite stand on the prohi- bition question. McCormick, a Winter resident here, 10se from his seat as J. N. Wilkinson of Toronto, Ontario, a retired minister, was cheerod. for his statement that 1+ President Hoover will be re-elected be- cause he is a prohibitionist. Others cefended the President as strongly favorable to the eightesnth amendment. sam Fickel of Westerville, Ohio, ieading the forum, said the Anti-saloor lLeague always determined the prohi- bition attitude of candidates, and would do =0 in the coming elaction Describing the eighteent amendment as “one of the cardinal foundations upon which American betterment rests,” Bishop William N. Ainsworth of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at he close of the sessions called upon all Christian people” to rise to the fight ]ngllmt attacks upon the prohibition aw. He said “there is drinking—far too much of it—but it is greatly over talked.” INCOME TAX INFORMER GETS $12,000 “REWARD” U. S. Recovered $479,920 in the Case, Evans Testifies at Hearing. A reward of $12,000 was paid last year to an informer who “tipped” the Government concerning irregularities in a big income tax case. This was disclosed by Frederick I. Evans, head of the administrative division, Bureau of Internal Revenue, in hearings on the Treasury appropria- tion bill. It was the biggest reward of the year. “In that one case” Evans testified, “we recovered $479,929.62” He did not disclose the identity of the case. Asked how the amount of the award was fixed, Evans explained it was “based largel.@h the amount of the recovery, but in no instance is it more than 10 per cent of such amount.” The smallest reward paid during the year was $7.13, in which case the Government re- covered §71.32. During the past fiscal year, the buresu rrnecovne',dh' as a result of informa- $977,695.37, e Gag Rule’s Arch Foe Stops Talk in House While Garner Rests ‘The arch enemy of the “g88 rule,” long-gray-haired Repre- sentative Edgar Howard of Nebraska, took the chair from Speaker Garner yesterday when t.het House boss sought a short rest. The members gave him a lot of applause and some loud cheers. Representative Parsons of Illinois inquired if Howard was going to give the House a liberal rule or maintain the “gag” on debate. “‘Order,” shouted the Nebraskan with a crash of the gavel. “Con- versation will cease!” HOOVER GETS BILL T0 EXPAND CREDIT | Passage of Glass-Steagall| Measure Completed in Congress. By the Associated Press. Congressional action on the Glass- Steagall credit expansion bill was gom- te approved the conference report adjusting differences over the legislation between the two branches of Congress within an hcur after the House had given its formal approval. This measure opening the way for new credit for the Nation's banks from the Federal Reserve System and freeing millions in gold for new currancy now goes to the White House. Expected to Sign Quickly. cover Wwas expected to Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, co-sponsor of the legislation, brought the conference report before the Senate as soon as it was received from the House. He made a brief explanation of the agreement, and without another word of discussion or roll call the Sen- ate approved the bill, President Reported Pleased. Senator Walcott (Republican of Con- necticut), who was active in formation of the measure, said after a conference at the White House he not only ex- pected the final draft of the bill to be approved by both the Senate and House today, but also that it would be signed by _the President almost immediately. Representatiye Ramseyer, Republican, of Towa, carried a similar report to the White House. He had been called to discuss various measures under which the Federal Reserve Board would use |its power to stabllize commodity prices. Walcott reported the President was “well pleased” with the bill as it emerged from conference with the capitalization Jimit of $2,000,000 imposed by the Sen- ate raised to $5,000,000. Stabilization Plan Urged, This change will allow all but a handful of banks in the Federal Reserve System to enjoy the new rediscount privileges. Ramseyer reported to the Chief Ex- ecutive that hearings would begin on March 16 for various measures designed to stabllize commodity price levels. He maintained that if some form of Fed- eral price control could bs worked out both farmers and manufacturers would be able to chart the course of their production with more certainty and make more effective such agencies as co-operatives. FLYPAPER LINKED T0 POISON DEATH Chicago Woman, Charged With Killing Nephew, Said to Have Bought Large Quantities. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 26.—An attempt has been made by the State to show that Mrs. Margaret Summers, 48-year- old widcw, killed her 17-year-old + nephew, Thomas Meyer, for insurance | money with poison she extracted from fly paper. ‘Two witnesses testified yesterday at Mrs. Summers’ trial that they bought large quantities of the flypaper for her and that on each of the sheets it came in was a warning that it contained from 1-50 to 1-300 of 1 per cent of the poi- son, solubl> in water. Physicians who examined the body of the nephew have declared he died ot chronic poisoning, with the same sort of poison the flypaper contained. ‘The flypaper witnesses, Charles Har- rington, 19, and Henry Christy, 32, said that in sending them for the pap°r, Mrs. Summers always specified she wanted the same brand. The paper was placed In evidence with its wrapping on which the manu- facturer had printed that tests showed it doubtful “if any ill effects would be felt if the water from the paper was teken by any purchaser.” The prosecution contended while this | might have been true of one dose, young | Meyer died-of continuous doses admin- istered over weeks. SOVIET LINKS TOKIO IN INVASION PLOT; DEMANDS EXPLANATION ol (Continued From First Page) explanation of the activities of “white"” Russians in Manchuria, informed the Ambassador these activities were being | carried out “under the protection and | direct support of the Japanese” and that these facts did not coincide with “previous declarations made to the Soviet government that ‘white’ Rus- sians would not be supported by the Japanese.” Fourthly, he asked information about the new Manchurian government which the Soviet press has charged is a mere puppet directed by Japan. Ambassa- dor Hirota promised to refer the in- quiries to Tokio. At the same time, Moscow newspa- pers made public & speech of Gen. Blukher, chief of the Far Eastern Soviet Army at Khadarvsk, on the oc- casion of the 14th anniversary of the Red Army. “The Far Eastern Army,” Gen. Blukber was quoted as saying, “Hav- ing grown stronger in later years, is ready at any time to defend the coun- try as it proceeds to build Socialism, “Under present conditions in the Far East, we must be especially vigilant. We will not allow a ‘white' guard im- perialistic canaille to smash our Social- ist ln:fl ?"io%'i: eoll(lrcuve filelds with their dirty % anybody tries to oatch his dirty paws for o coal, timber and oil wells, he may be sure that for each ton of coal, each cubic meter of timber, each tractor, and each pound of fish we will fight stronger -nfl“rzn;re obstinately than we fought in L “Let this be remembered by those who try to attack us” he concluded, adding the words of Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator: “We do not want an inch of foreign land, but we will not give up s single inch of ours.” Frederick L. Hutchinson Dies. GLEN RIDGE, N. J,, February 26 (®). ._nederlclubln:ndflmhmon. 65, na- ex tional secretary and 'Wt:";! FEBRUARY 26. 1932, BROADER POWERS SOUGHT BY POLLARD Governor Seeks Authority to Remove Officialé—Arlington Case Discussed. BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va, February 26—As arrangements were completed here last night for the temporary relief of Arlington County’s financial problems, Gov. John Garland Pollard moved to obtain legislation in the General As- sembly to permit him to remove county and city treasurers from office pending nvestigation of their accounts. Both the County Board and the School Board of Arlington County, expenses as a result of the alleged shortage in the funds of County Treas- urer E. Wade Ball, were provided yes- terday and last night with the means to obtain cufficient money to relieve them until the Arlington County finan- | cial situation can be arranged Gov. John Garland Pollard last night signed a bill giving the County Board of Arlington County the right to im- mediately borrow funds up to three- fourths of the year's anticipated revenue. Confer on State Aid. Yesterday afternoon Delegate Hugh Reid, Fletcher Kemp, superintendent of \schools, and Thomas N. De Lashmut Irhairm:‘.n of the Arlington Count: ! schocl Board, conferred at length with the attorney general and later with Dr. Sidney B. Hall, superintendent of pub- { lic instruction, as to the legal possibili- ties of State aid in the Arlington Coun- ty Emergency. This was followed by an executive session with the entire State Board of Education, at which the Arlington County representatives went into the minute detalls of the entire Arlington County emergency. At the close of the conference the Arlington County delegation expressed themselves as satified that a satisfac- tory solution of the bond problem had been arranged, but that, as the pros- pective settlement was conditioned upon the formal opinion of the attorney gen- eral, they did not feel it proper to discuss the details before the formula. tion of exact terms. They felt, how- ever, that the credit of the county was assured, that the bonds in default would be paid off shortly and that funds would be forthcoming to meet additional bonds maturing April 1 totaling $40,000. The problem of current expenses and the payment of interest on both the defaulted bonds and those maturing in April will apparently have to be met as a local problem. There seems to be no doubt, however, it was said by the dele- gation, that the School Board has ample authority to negotiate bank loans im- mediately without further legislation to meet both of these items. Should proper local loans be successfully nego- tiated and the outstanding bonded in- debtedness taken care of promptly, the danger of closing the schools would ap- pear to be at an end, although drastic economies may have to be "practiced, it was said, as all of the obligations will have to be met out of revenues for the current year and all loans retired prior to January 1, 1933. Optimistic on Situation. Kemp and De Lashmutt left Rich- mond in an optimistic mood, which in- dicated success, but were hesitant to announce the completion of their plans until after the matter had been passed upcn by the other county authorities whose co-operation s necessary. I was indicated by Delegate Hugh Reid, however, that there was no further cause for worry with respect to the school situation. By the signing by the Governoor of the bill which will permit the imme- diate borrowing of funds the Arlington County Board is given the right to ac- cept the offer of a loan of $100,000 by an Alexandria bank with which the | county has been transacting business for many years. One of the first items to be cared for by the friends of the Arlington County treasurer, it was said here today, is the $24,47264 which is dué the State treasury from the January collection of license and cepitation taxes in Arling- ton County. That this amount is due was re- vealed yesterday by State Controller E. R. Combs. At the same time he said that it will be impossible to determine the exact amount of the alleged short- age until after bhe audit hes been com- | pleted and the result transmitted to | the Governor. Ashton C. Dovell of Willlamsburg. floor leader; Wilbur C. Hall of Loudoun County and other delegates were patrons of an administration bill in- troduced yesterday to permit the Gov- ernor to suspend a treasurer and in- | stitute ouster proceedings when the | chief executive believes the treasurer hgs failed in his duties in the collection, disposition and accounting of public revenues. The bill would remedy the defect in the present law, under which the Supreme Court of Appeals held as un- constitutional the efforts of Gov. Pollard to remove the treasurer of Lee County last year The Supreme Court sald that the law was unconstitutional in that it did not provide for a hearing and that unconstitutionality existed give a hearing to the treasurer in question. Suspension Is Provided. Under the provisions of the bill of- fered yesterday, treasurers could be suspended and prevented from collect- ing State or local revenues pending the outcome of the ouster proceedings and the successor appointed to act would receive the compensation of the incum- bent during such time as the successor might act. ‘The ouster proceedings would consti- tute a civil action and provision is made fo- an appeal by both sides, which ap- peal would have to be taken within 30 days. While the Governor has had such a bill in mind, it is saild that the intro- duction of the measure was hastened by the Arlington County situation. Delegate Hall also introduced yester- day a bill amending the tax code to make the “holding out of tax tickets” by treasurers a misdemeanor, punish- able by a fine of from $100 to $500 for each case. The bill further provides that such action on the part of the treasurer shall constitute malfeasance in office in case of a conviction. Tickets are sometimes omitted by treasurers from the delinquent list to save their friends from the payment of the 5 per cent penalty charged for failure to pay taxes on time. Many of these “friends” fail to keep their promise and the treesurer is out the amount of money due. A peculiar situation developed yester- day with respect to the bill by which Arlington County was given the right t immediately borrow funds. The original bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Robinette for the sole benefit of Lee County and amended in the House to include Franklin and Arlington Countles. As finally passed and signed by the Governor, however, it was for the sole benefit of Arlington County, the Governor asserting that the provisions with respect to the other counties were unconstitutional, Hence, the patron of the bill found himself in the peculiar position of having fostered a measure that benefited another county but did his own no good. Confers on Audit. ‘T. Coleman Andrews, State auditor, who is directing the investig:tion of the Arlington County treasurer's office from a sick bed in a Richmond hospital, today conferred with Delegate Reid in regard to the feasibility of a private audit of school receipts and disburse- ments by a certified public accountant, which lon was made at the re- perintendent Kemp and the board to clear any doubt as to which are without funds for necessary | t Police Department and participation in despite the fact that the Governor did | o ! | Appointed { 1 CHARLES T. JESSE, | Former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, who was appointed Arling- ton County treasurer today by Judgé | Walter T. McCarthy. He succeeds E. | Wade Ball, who resigned following & reported shortage in county funds. —Star Staft Photo. TRIAL BOARD HEARS DYTORTION CHARGE Defense Succeeds in Partly Discrediting Complaint by Policemen’s Accuser. Hearing of testimony in the case of four suspended fourth precinct police- men on charges growing out of the alleged extortion of money from Frank Adams, colored, 720 Pirst street south- west, was resumed by the Police Trial Board today. According to the charges, the officers —E. W. Gore, 37; F. J. Hospido 5 F. R. Gue, 29, and O. L. Fish obtained the money from Adams last Summer after promising not to arrest him for alleged bootlegging. The police- men were called before the board last Friday, but the case was continued un- | til today. Defense Attorney James A. O'Shea, through intensive cross-questioning, suc- ceeded in partly discrediting the com- plaint, which was made in an affidavit signed by Adams’ wife, Annie. Most of this morning’s session was devoted to heesring of the woman's testimony, It was marked by frequent verbal tilts between Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel Robert E. Lynch and de- fense Attorneys O'Shea and Willlam Leahy. Gore and Hospidor were arrested last July by Lieut. Osear J. Letterman. At the time, they were charged with hav- ing received $10 in marked money from Adams. The money is said to have been recovered after it had been thrown into the street. All four officers are charged with conduct prejudicial to the good order and discipline of the recelving money from Adams. 'HENRY V. MILLER DIES AT AGE OF 67 Funeral of Former Maneger of American Grocers' Society Here Set for Tomorrow. Henry V. Miller, 67, former manager of the American Grocers' Society here, died yesterday at his home, 2008 First street. Funeral services will be held at the home at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, followed by mass at St. Mar- tin's Church. Burial will be in St. Mary's Ceme(er% Born in New York in 1864, Mr. Miller became connected with the B. T. Bab- bitt Scap Co. there as a young man and was retired, as general manager, after 33 years in the company. While there he was & member and director of the Produce Exchange. In 1916 he went to Pittsburgh and came to the Capital in 1919 as mana- ger of the grocers’ group. Later he went to New York, where he served as sec- retary of the United Shirt Shops of New York City for several years, but retired and returned to Washington in | 1924. * He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ida K. Miller; three daughters, Miss Valerie A. Miller, an employe of The Evening Star; Miss Maricn M. Miller and Mrs. Ida Miller Jeffries; a son, John V. Miller, and twin grandchildren, May Jane and Elizabeth Ann Jeffries, all of Washington. MISSING ARCTIC FLYERS RESCUED AFTER 11 DAYS Graham and Mrs. Christofferson | Are Found on Lake Shore and Taken to Safety. By the Assoclated Press. ATLIN, British Columbia, February 26.—An 11-day enforced stay in severe | weather on the shores of a small lake, | brought about when the fuel supply | of their plane gave out, ended today, | and Willlam Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, missing flyers, were safe here. Forced down on the afternoon of February 15 on the frozen surface of a lake 40 miles east of here, the two were found yesterday by Pilot S. E. McMillan_three hours after staiting a search. With a replenished gas supply Graham flew their plane to Atlin. The two were flying to Point Barrow, | Alaska, in search of an abandoned fur ship when forced down. Envoy Is Recovering. MIAMI BEACH. Fla., February 26/ () —Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hun- | garian Minister to the United States, was recovering here today from a slight iliness incurred as he was en route from | Washington to Nassau for a vacation trip. the regularity of the school administra- fon. Andrews expressed the opinion that such an audit would be an unnecessary expense, as his force would undertake to do it immediately as a part of their general audit. He indicated, however, that he would have no objection to an independent audit. Supt. Kemp and Chairman De Lashmutt sald that in view of the assurances of Andrews they would take no further action with re- spect to private aduit, as their only reason for making this suggestion was thelr belief that it would be impossible for the State authorities to have the work done at an early date. Andrews indicated that he expected to have six men en, continuously | - CHINESE SWEEP JAPANESE BACK Midnight Attack Captures Miaochangchen Sector Back From Enemy. (Continued From First Page) eral Chinese retreat toward the 12-mile limit set by Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda. Japanese naval aviators, equi] with heavy bombs, began a sweepl campaign yesterday to destroy all Chi- nese aviation flelds over a wide district around Shanghai, while on the short sector northwest of Kiangwan the Jap- anese delivered another flerce attack upon the Chinpse without gaining much ground. A Japanese naval spokesman said late in the afternoon that Japanese flyers bombed the Chinese airdrome at Hang- chow, destroying a number of Chinese planes, and that they continued their raids, bombing three additional flelds later in the day. Planes Still Out. Late yesterday, he said, they were still out hunting additional Chi- nese flelds in the vicinity of Hanchow. Upward of a dozen Chinese planes were destroyed by bombs, he said, before they had a chance to leave the ground and three were shot out of the air by machine guns. The Japanese lost one plane, which was forced down in Hangchow Bay, where it sunk, he said, but the pilot was picked up by a Jap- anese destroyer. In the vicinity of the Japanese head- quarters, where several officers were narrowly missed by Chinese bullets. the bamboo groves were leveled and the ruins of nearby homes were completely razed. Four Chinese shells dropped near Gen. Uyeda's headquarters last night and staff officers said they expected fresh counter attacks from Chinese po- sitions at night, pointing out the Chi~ nese attack only at night in order to avold Japanese artillery and air bom- bardment, against which they are de- fenseless, Military circles said Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, former Chinese President, is on the way here with reinforcements for the 19th Army and that he is ex- pected to arrive late today. Code messages from Japan fo ob- servers here sald the Japanese soon would have a full army xn under Gen. Yoshinori Shirakawa, that one or two divisions already were og the way and that three more divisi were being mobllized. Both Sides Digging In. In view of this information and other developments indicating that a decisive battle will be fought next week, both sides were making haste to reinforce their positions. The Chinese order prohibiting corre- spondents to visit areas in the rear was taken es an indication that Gen. Tsal is shifting his position, shoving in fresh troops who must march mahy miles be- cause the railway lines have been wrecked. The Chinese commander ap- peared to realize the urgent necessity of having all available troops in the Kiangwan district before the Japanese reinforcements arrive. Gen. Tsal told friends that he had less thin two weeks supply of ammu- nition on hand and this problem stems to bs worrying him. Reports thet the Japanese reinfores- ments wer2 likely to land at eny mo- ment denied aboard their flagship, the Idzumo. American Women A! American women are willirgly a'd' g in this emergency. wbich has fiiled Shanghai’s hosciials with wounced soldlers, many of them mere bay-. Mrs. O. J. Bryant of San Francisco and Mrs. Roscoe Hambleton of Long | Beach, Calif, are on_ active cuty at the Chinese General Red Cross Hoe- pital, where there also are four Amer- |ican physicians—Dr. Athria Mowreath, a Fort Worth, Tex., woman: Dr. J. R. B. Branch of Loudoun County, Va.; Dr. Love Ranking, Sweetwater, Tenn., and Dr. R. S. Lyman, Hartford, Conn. They are putting in long hours withe out complaint, for the wounded stream into the wards day and night. They see war at its worst, for only the most serious cases are brought to their hos- pital. The others are treated at fleld dressing stations. ‘The victims are appallingly young, some of them not more than 14 or 15— boys who never will see again, children who have lost legs and arms, others frightfully wounded about the face. Many cases are hopeless, but the nurses do what they can to make the last hours as comfortable as possible. Today 350 were brought in, nearly all of them victims of Japanese bomb- ing raids. Despite their wounds, many of them clung tenaciously to their precious rifles right up to the gates of the Settlement, where coldiers of the neutral forces confiscated the E‘:m' “It's a real satisfaction to help these poor fellows,” said Mrs. Hambleton. “Every foreigner on this staff is going to stay on the job until the emergency is over.” Frese The men behind the Japanese in this war of paradoxes are Ch! coolies. Forced to Carry Munitions. In addition to their own armed and khaki-clad legions, the Japanese are being assisted in their assaults upon the Chinese 19th Route Army by large groups of half-clad Chinese, who, under force, carry the ammunition to the big guns in the Japanese forward ition, ammunition which is to be used on the coolies’ own brothers and cousins across the lines. These coolies are taken forward each morning by the Japanese in trucks. They sre searched for arms and then carefully told off to make certain none of them have “gone sniper.” After this they are set to work mov- ing armaments and supplies to the front line divisions. They man a long line of heavily loaded wheel barrows and ickshaws which links up the supply depots at the front in an almost une broken stream. Not all of these coolles come back. Frequently they are exposed to the Chinese fire and suffer casualties. Some of them return, carried by their fellows and heayily bandaged. They wear white armbands with & bamboo sprig as identification. They are careful to maintain a studied atti- tude of unconcern toward the tremen- dous military _activity that seethes around them. Even thz gaudily painted tanks with scowling guns draw no more than a glance from them as they rum- ble by. ‘When the day is over, the coolies are again herded together at the point of th: bayonet, checked off and tak:n back to Shanghal. Another army of Chinese _coolies works at the Japanese air fleld at Yangtzepoo, leveling th. fleld for the Japanes: planes, building barbed wire entanglements, digging trenches and moving boxes of explosives from ond place to another. Several Shanghal Chinese have complained that they were waylaid by Japanese marines dnd lorced, at the gun's point, to help un- load boxes from Japanese military trucks. This was denied, however, by Japanese authorities. Miss Eleanor Hinder, American Young Women’s Christian Association secre- tary, reported that a Chinese servant of Miss Viola Smith, United States trade commissioner, was taken, with a group of 10 others, by six Japinese marines and required to work 24 hours unload- ing trucks, under threat of death if he refused. — British Conservative Wins. until the completion of the examination of all of the country's financial affairs, including every county department handling public coney, whether State for local. He estimated that the com- plete sudit would probably take five or six weeks. 4 HENLEY, England, February 26 (#). —The Conservative party retained a Parliamentary seat in the by-election here caused by the death of Capt. R, Henderson. Sir Gifford Fox, Conserva- tive, was elected over R. B. Matthews, Liberal, by a vote of 16,583, to 7,129,