Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. (. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. 1932 Offer to Fly for China 2[[] ARE H(]MH.ESS CHINESE FALL BACK; HOOVER TOLAUNCH Air View of Fire-Ravaged New Jersey Town PEACE HOPES DIM Japanese Call Retreat ‘Rout’ —+-but Defenders Claim It Is Tactical Move. their lines and beat the retreat, which, | they sald, was rapidly turning into a| IO ut. Chinese military officials, however. said it was a “tactical retreat” and that planned to establish new| , defense lines at Nanziang. 10 miles| ‘west, and renew the battle there. | They were falling back, they said.| to protect their communications, which | were endangered by the landing of &/ hmle force of Japanese troops at| Liuho, 20 miles up the Yangize River. ‘These troops immediately began a drive southward. Although it was impossible to de- termine the number of Chinese troops articipating in the retreat, observers ere estimated there were 50,000 of them. There were additional Chinese troops two miles west, but these were not_falling back, the Chinese said. The Japanese, freshened by the addi- tion of thousands of reinforcements during the last two or three days, fol- Jowed up their advantage closely. From Liuho, on the south bank of thej Yangtze, the Japanese line formed a pisat axo bulging westward and ending n the vicinity of Chapei. adjacent to the Shanghai International Scttlement. This long line, a polished, modern war machine, crept slowly westward tonight on_the heels of the Chinese. The Japanese airplanes continued to speed the retreating Chinese, as did the infantrymen and machine gunners, but the artillery remained behind. Chapei, which has been reduced to & mass of wreckage since the hostilities began, was deserted by the Chinese by 6 o'clock tonight. A number of huge fires roared in the battered city, de- molishing whatever was left. The Chinese rear guard kept up a running fire with the Japanese as the army withdrew. Soldiers and civilians alike jammed the borders of the International Set- tlement 2long Soochow Creek in the first crush of the retreat, but the mass of humanity soon dwindled and disap- peared westward. Danger Is Lessened. Following the departure of the Chinese, the hostilities which have threatened the very existence of Shanghai for five weeks died down considerably. Some observers predicted the retreat would bring an end to the fighting, but the Chinese insisted that the battle would be renewed. The im- mediate danger to the International Settlement from the huge forces sur- rounding it was at least temporarily lessened, ‘The Japanese said they captured a large Chinese field arsenal at Hsukiang, north of Tachang, and that their sol- diers were now proceeding along the Shanghai-Nanking Railway over a long front. They already had occupied J the former Chinese head- Reports that the Chinese troops were Jooting and burning as they retreated 5&:: regarded here as without founda- on. The soldiers seemed to be in very good spirits as they egpan the back- ward movement, traveltig on foot and motor trucks after they were a few les out of Shanghai. .The Chinese also began evacuating Nantao, at the southern extremity of inghal. As their westward retreat gan from there, thousands of them tried to enter the Prench concession, immediately adjoining Mantao, and the Prench were forced to increase their Aalready heavy border guards and armed trols. The withdrawal from Chapel lted in a terrific crush of Chinese shidiers along the borders of the In- ternational Settlement, and the settle- ment defense forces destroyed several bridges over Soochow Creek to stop the press of Chinese. Two Stations Demolished. Chinese military advices said Japa- nese airplanes continued late this aft- ernoon & bomb attack begun earlier in Ahe day on the Shanghai-Nanking Rail- way in the vicinity of Kunshan and also at Nanziang, 10 mites from Shang- , in an attempt to cut off communi- catlons between Shangnai and Nan- king. One of the chief targets for the bombs was a large steel railway bridge near Kunshan. The stations at Kun- shan and Nanzian were demolished. The Japanese clamped on the strict- est prohibiticn against observations slong the southern and eastern horders of Chapei within Hongkew, making it practically impossible to determine ac- curately what was going on-there. Ma- chine guns continued to rattle unce: ingly in Chapei, however, and this was taken as en indication that the Chi- nese were putting up a stiff fight. The Japanese rushed 18 truckloads of am- munition into the Chapet lines at 3:30 .m. The Japanese said tne Chinese lost 1,800 men killed, while their losses were only 6 On the northern end of the line the Chinese were pushed back toward Chenju. Twenty miles to the north another battle was on the way near Liuho, where Japanese flyers rained bombs on Chinese troops who were at- tempting to block the landing of thou- sands of Japanese reinto:cements. Artillery Shakes City. A Japanese spearhead tnrust resulted in the occupation of Tachang. The superiority of their war machines and men, they said, was felt mol With every blow they struck. They had crushed the Chinese defenses on the Kisngwan line, they said Chapel the Japanese lincs bent east- ward as the Chiness disputed e inch of ground they lost The assault on the Kiangwan line early today grew into a thundering | duel of artillery fire which jarred the | whole city. In midforencon a large number of bombing and pursuit plancs, | the former loaced with 250-pound bombs, were warmed up cn the border of the Internatonal Settlement and took Off westward. These planes ap- parently went to Kunshan and began the bomb onslaught on the there. Chapei was a blazing in the morning as flames dev oups of shattered buil mbardment the battered derwent during the night was 1t has experienced thus far. Observers said in the event the Jap- snese continued westward while the army near Liuho advanced to thy south, & great enveloping movement would re- sult. threatening the Chinese rear. The Japanese succeeded in landing a force of approximately 10,000 men in the vicinity of Liuho yesterday. Al- though communications with Liuho were poor, it was indicated the Japanese forces were landed on the south bank of the Yangtze and begen immediately to fight their way southward. Their object was believed to join with the 22nd Regiment of Japanese Infantry which is on the right flank of the Jap- anese lines north of Kiangwan TRUCE SEEN NO NEARER. ng But Japanese Accept Terms to End Hostilitles on Shanghai Front. ““POKIO, March 2 (P —Japan's ac- ce of the League of Nations pro- for an international conference ai to attempt to bring an end hostilities tl.ere was announced by 1 office today, but the spokes- at Sl AVIATORS WILL PILOT WAR PLANES IF ACCEPTED. spokesman for the pilots. WENTY-FIVE Detroit aviators will pilot war planes over the heads of the Japanese Army, they informed local Chinese patriots, if their services will be accepted by the Chinese government. Chinese Merchants’ Association headquarters in Detroit. are: C. C. Hung, director of Chinese activities; George Murphy. pilot and | brother of Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit; Henry Lim and Ralph Snoke, Here are the fiyers at the Left to right “-Wide World Photo. Emergency to Get Oxygen Room With| Capacity of Three| Complete Equipment, Gift of Mrs. Eleanor Patter- son, Soon to Be Installed. A complete oxygen room, with @ capacity of three patients, will be in- stalled at an early date at Emergency | Hospital, according to announcement | made by institution authorities. The | room and equipment will be the gift of Mrs. Eleanor M. Patterson, editor of the Washington Herald, and is sim- ilar to that now in use in treatment of | NG oung gorilla. at the Zoo. “Such a room will greatly increase | the efficiency of the hospital and the | public will be greatly benefited by the | most generous donation of Mrs. Patter- | son,” hospital authorities said in ac- | cepting the gift. “Dr. Barack of New York City will confer with the Hos- pital Committee and select a suitabl location and arrange for the imme- diate installation of the equipment.” An oxygen cabinet for treatment of pneumonia and certain heart diseases was given Casualty Hospital yesterday Robert Swope, president of the thern Oxygen Co. FIRE THREATENS TOWN LANCASTER, Pa, March 2 (A.— Fire threatened to destroy the town of Rawlinsville, 15 miles south of here, yesterday, when a high wind swept sparks from a blaze which started in | the home of Frank Wiggins. The greater portion of the population | of 500 formed bucket brigades to protect | the town’s 75 houses. | ¥ Sout unacceptable and presented s set of counter proposals. Dispatohes sald the Causcse had as surtd ~ Admiral Kelly that the terms| | proposed were acceptable to them, but | | they had net yet replisd to the Japanese co‘\&n{cr proposals, the foreign office said. The Japanese counter proposals were not disclosed, but it was said that Ja- pan's Fosmon remained unchanged since the ultimatum of Lieut. Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda on February 18, demanding that the Chinese withdraw 12!, miles from the Shanghai front. The official spokesman said that whenever Japan was convinced that the Chinese had evacuated the 12-mile zone it would be ready to place all troops on transports as quickly as possible and return them to Japan. He cmphasized that Japan was not insisting on keeping troops in Shanghai during negotiations toward a perma- nent solutien. The foreign office instructed Ambas- sador Koki Hirota at Moscow to inform L. M. Karakhan, Soviet acting foreign commissar, that reports of the Japanese ving assistance to “White” Russians Manchuria were “entirely untrue.” On the contrary, the Ambassador was instructed to say, Japanese are doing everything possible to curtail the political activities of the anti-Soviet groups. The Japanese consul general at Alex- | androvsk, in Russian Seghalien, re-| rted to the foreign office that Soviet | orces on the island were being in-| creased and that 600 fresh troops of | the Red army recently arrived from | the mainland. Admiral Kelly’s proposal for simul- taneous evacuation of Shanghai by the two armies provided for a step-by-step | plan. The Chinese were first to fall| back to Chenju and the Japanese to| retire into the International Settle-| ment. Then the Chinese were to retire | fo Nanziang and the Japanese to go aboard their transports. Japanese Are Adamant. A spokesman for the government again denied that Japan ever accepted any proposal for simultaneous with- drawzl of Japan's troops, as Sir John Simon intimated at Geneva. Japan ac- cepted the principle of mutual with-| drawal, but not simultaneous. The government, he said, was ada-| mant on its position that the Chinese | must_evacuate the 12';-mile zone be- fore hostilities could cease. He stressed the need for co-opera- tion by the powers with Japan and | China in the proposed round-table con- | lerence at Shanghai toward schieving a permanent arrangement which would obviate any further need for any power rm' end an army there to protect its nationals w. ut such an arrangement, he i Japan probably would be com- F d to send troops again and again. regardless of disapproval by other countries. Failure by the powers to pro- vide permanent guarantees at Shanghai would be considered equivalent to a gnition of Japan's right to send ditions there in the future, he He added that Japan was ready the question of the boycot: and Japanese agitation in China deration by the round-table e said Bond Issue Causes Crisis. e cabinet met in an ex- tradrdinary session today to deliberate over a difficult political problem which has risen out of the reluctance of the Privy Council to approve an imperial ordinance auborizing an emergency bond issue of 22,000,000 yen voted by | the cabinet February 26 to finance the Shanghgi expedition. ‘The council has not objected to the appropriation, but it insisted that an extraordinarv session of Parliament be called to approve the appropriation in- stead of further resort to imperial ordinances. The cabinet was understood to be loath to summon Parliament at the present time; in spite of the overwhelm- ing majority gained by the Seiyukai party in the Pebruary elections. Cabi- net members feared “unwelcome dis- cussions” if the question were to be de- to the mw:u rogress had been made in tions for a truce. for an armistice were present- to the Japanese negotiators sfi Efl ghfldly‘bfi Vice Admiral v mander, but tL Japanese found these o » [ bated, it was learned. Members of the cabinet began a series of conferences with members of the council in an attempt to win them over. If these fail the belief was expressed that Parliament would be conven sbout March 15, SENATE TO DEBATE. PAY INCREASE BAN Expected to Take Up Re- striction of Filling Va- cancies Today. The Senate may have an opportu- nity today or tomorrow to debate for the first time the question of whether Congress should prohibit salary pro- motions and restrict the filling of vie cancies in the Government servior 22l after July 1, 1933. The House has incorporiweti these limitations in each of t= appropria- tion bills thus far conshiered, but the Senat> Appropriations €ommittee has knocked them out of the two bills that | have been reported to the Senate, namely, the Agriculture and Interior supply measures. In taking this step, however, the Senate Committee has stated on both bills that it eliminated the promotion and vacancy restrictions “without prejudice,” in order that the whole question may be given further study in conference with the House. May Sustain Committee. With the anti-injunction bill disposed of last night, the Senate probably will begin work on the agricultural appro- priation bill this afternoon. It is be- lieved the Senate will sustain its com- mittee in cutting out the restrictions on promotions and filling vacancies, but the discussions which took place in committee and the wording of the re- port to the Senate are taken to indi- cate that, in conference with the House, some more flexible limitations may be worked out. Department officials took the posi- tion before the committee that they were in hearty accord with the aim of the House o economize, in view of present conditions, but regarded the House amendments as too rigid to en- able the departments to handle excep- tional problems arising in connection with maintaining efficient personnel. Wilbur Sees Handicap. During the Senate hearings on the Interior supply bill, which became available late yesterday, Senator Mc- | Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee asked Secretary of the Interlor Wilbur for | his position on the House limitations. Becretary Wilbur replied: “My opinfon is that to tie up the hapdling of personnel by decisions of that kind is to provide a distinct handi- cap in proper handling of the Govern- ment's work.” ‘The Secretary added that, as to much of its personnel, the Interior Depart- ment is in competition with those on the outside who will offer more to em- ployes with special training. As a matter of fact, Secretary Wilbur told the committee, “already, under in- structions of the President, we are mak- ing no promotions except in cases where it is absolutely vital.” Senator McKeliar suggested the pro- posed restrictions are only for the com- ing year. Mr, Wilbur said, “It is just 2 question of being completely tied up, making it impossible to deal with an occasional individual case of importance that will come along.” The Secretary also pointed out the department has had only two promotions in six months or_more. The vacancy clause advocated by the ‘House would prohibit filling of vacancies except when the President certifies that appointments are essential to the service BOTTLE CROSSES SEA IN SIX YEARS Launched Three Days Out of Ho- boken, It Is Picked Up Off Coast of Ireland. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March 2—A sealed bottle dropped into the Atlantic Ocean July 5, 1926, by Gustav J. Erck of Baltimore, while he was three days out of Hoboken, was picked up on the southwest coast of Ireland last February 6, according to information received here yesterday. Erck received a letter from Thomas 3. Jermyn at Skibbegeen, County Cork, Ireland, saying that the bottle was washed ashore in Crookhaven Harbor, Inside was Erck’s address. ‘The hydrographic office said the bot- tle probably floated northward in the Gulf Stream until striking the Labrador current, and after nearing the coast of England entered a southern current and | pessed 2long the coast of Africa. The main current, the officer sald, then turns westward at the narrowest point in the South Atlantic, and at the West Indfes turns northward to com- plete the circuit. Several of these circults were possible for the derelict bottle, the hydrographic office sald, before it drifted into the harbor at Skibbereen. MOVIE STAR ARRESTED Esther Muir Says Stolen—Unable to Return It. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, March 2 (#) —Esther Muir, film actress, was ar- rested here yesterdzy on & charge of Refrigerator erator after becoming delinquent payments. She claimed couldn't return the refrigerator because it had been stolen from her home. Although a_divorce suit 15 _pends between Miss Muir and Busby Berkeley, screen director, Berkeley arral her release under $1,000 bl('l. hearing was set for nest” - | AFTER JERSEY FIRE IFifty Houses, Church and Six Stores Destroyed in Pennsgrove. By the Assoclated Press. PENNSGROVE, N. J, March 2— Fifty to sixty small homes were burned or badly damaged and a church and six stores were destroyed by a fire which wept a large section of the western end of Pennsgrove Borough today. About 200 persons were rendered homeless and the damage was esti- | mated by authorities at close to a hall | pillion dollars. |* Fanned by a high westerly wind that swept across the Delaware River, it took four hours for 500 firemen to con- trol the flames, which at one time seemed about to sweep into the main business section of the town. Fire companies from 20 communities in South Jersey, with 2 from Wilming- ton, Del, across the river, and 3 from Camden fought the fire. So heavy was the drain on the water supply that it ran dangerously low. Firemen, carrylng chemicals, axes and iron bars, braved the heat and smoke to tear apart buildings and pre- vent the from racing along West Main street. More than 20 fire fight- ers and others were overcome in this | task, Church Destroyed. Among the buildings burned was Bethel Methodist Protestant Church, 2 frame structure seating about 400 per- sons. Another large building destroyed was that of the B. C. Turner Milk Co. The fire, so far as it can be deter- mined, started in a stable in the rear of 2 blacksmith shop. Hundreds of volunteers helped fight the fire and save furnishings from some of the homes. The du Pont Powder Cd, one of whose plants is several miles from Pennsgrove, sent 200 men to Families were separated and parents went about the smoke-filled streets looking for children. Mayor Robert Kidd arranged shelter for the homeless. Many fraternal buildings being offered for that purpose. School teachers led 1,000 the Harmony Public Scho y on as the flames swext d yards of the n Bucket Brigades Formed. | Families organized bucket brigades ! to drench their homes against the fly- ing_sparks. The Rey. J. T. Cody. pastor of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, and Charles Dickover and N. P. Shaw, members of the congregation, took their lives in their hands to remove | the pulpit from the blazing building. | Later the church burned to the ground | Firemen carried Earl Brooks, 14: Gladys, 11, and Hazel, 9, from their beds where they lay ill. Four-year-oid John Lamon was rescued from his home as flames began to engulf it. ACCUSED POLICEMAN DENIES EXTORTION Hospidor Answers Charge After William E. Leahy Hints of Frame-up. accused in connection with an alleged | extortion plot, denled all the accusa- tions as the hearing before the Police Trial Board reached its final stages to- day. Robert E. Lynch, assistant corpora- tion counse’, was unable to shake Hos- pidor's denial that he had accepted $10 from Frank Adams, colored, of 720 First street southwest, to refrain from making a liqucr raid. The defendants, including E. W. Gore, F. R. Gue and O. L. Fisher, as well as Hospidor, are the victims of a “frame- up,” Willlam E. Leahy cf defense counsel charged yesterday. He con- tended they had been “framed” by Adams. Fisher, one of the final defense wit- nesses, was questioned concerning earlier testimeny by Inspector O. T. Davis, that several neighbors of Adams saw th latter talking to Fisher twice last Ju! Fisher testified he had seen Adams, but their ccnversation had been of ne sig- nificence. LINEBERGER PLANS ' RETURN T0 CONGRESS California Republican Says He Is in Favor of Repeal of Liquor Law. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 2—Former | Representative Walter F. Lineberger imade public yesterday a letter to a friend in California in which he said he was considering running for Con- gress from the newly-created district embracing Long Beach, Calif. If he becomes a candidate, he said, he will “take a frank and open posi- tion” for a national prohibition refer- endum. “I am In favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment and for sub- stitution in its place by appropriate legislation of the remedy sponsored by the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow he wrote to Harvey Fremming of th Long Beach Labor Council. “The noble experiment has proved an ignoble fatlure and my conscience and good judgment will not admit of my taking any other stand than the one I have expressed.” “My status residentially is the same as that of Mr. Hoover,” he also wrote, during the various intervals when he was absent from Palo Alto in the course of his career as a mining engineer. “As a civil engineer I have had to be where my work was located, but I have kept my registration, legal and voting residence in the location and precinct in which I have lived for 15 years and from which I was elected and served in Congress from 1921 to 1927.” Line- | berger is a Republican. PRESIDENT TO ENTER | Positive Announcement Made by Postmaster General Brown After Conference. It was sald definitely at the White House today that President Hoover will enter the Ohio primary for delegates to the next Republican convention. Positive_announcement of this was made by Postmaster General Walter F. Brown at the White House following a conference with the President. Mr. Brown, who during the pest few wezks has become the President's political spekesman, and who is being promi- nently mentioned as the next chairman | refusing to return an electric refrig- | of the Republican National Committee, said thet the President will signify in writing within the next nine days his permission that his name be used in the Ohio primary. March 11 is the last day under the election laws of Ohio that the President may send his written permission. This letter will be afl:hmed to the Secretary of State of F. J. Hospldor, one of four policemen | PRIMARIES IN OHIO, DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT HALF MILLION, WITH 200 RENDERED HOMELESS. SPLENDID air view of the fire, taken during its heizht, as # swept through Pennsgrove, N. J, yesterday. Fifty to sixty homes were burned and a church and six stores were destroyed by the fire, which swept through About 200 persons were rendered homeless. Damage was estimated at close to a large section of the town. a half million dollars. IDAVID JAYNE HILL DIES AT AGE OF 81 {Former Ambassador Recalled for Blunder of Kaiser in Rejecting Him. Dr. David Jayne Hill, educator, hi: torian and former Ambassador to Ger- many, Switzerland and the Netherlands, died early today at his home, 1745 Rhode' Island avenue. He had lived in retirement here for many years, taking part in a limited social life, but main- taining close touch with governmental and international affairs. He had been ill for some time. He was 81 years old Dr. Hill's appointment as American Ambassador at Berlin was the occasion for an extraordinary incident in the diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany. He had served as Assistant Secretary of State for five ve: and was Acting Secretary of State for long intervals when Mr. Hay was ill. was socially popular in Washington and was respected for his learning when, in November, 1907, President Roosevelt announced his appointment as Ambas- sador to Germany. Surprise From Berlin. In conformity with custom, inquiry had been made of the Berlin foreign office as to whether Dr. Hill would be agreeable as American Ambassador and it was announced that both the Ger- man Emperor and the foreign office hed given immediate approval. Great- ly to the surprise of the President and diplomatic circles in Europe and Amer- ica, word came from Berlin in the fol- lowing March that Emperor William had declined to receive Dr. Hill and it was reported that the Emperor stated his objections in a personal letter to the President. This was afterward denied. For a considerable time none but those most intimately concerned knew upon what ground the Emperor’s | objection was based. Meantime it | evoked much criticism and it was re- ported that President Roosevelt was “mad clear through.” Emperor William quickly discovered that he had made a blunder and withdrew his objection, which apparently had been purely per- sonal and based on the Emperor’s desire that the American Ambassador should continue ta maintain as expensive an establishment and to entertain as lav- ishly as had Dr. Hill's predecessor. Dr Hill went to Berlin, leased a comfortable house, was cordially re- ceived by the Emperor and diplomats, and when he resigned in 1911, giving no reason, the German foreign office expressed the usual regret over his contributed to maintain friendly rela- tions between the two countries. Dr. Hill took an active part in the fight against the League of Nations. Career as Educator. A long and successful career s an educator preceded Dr. Hill's venture into diplomatic service. Born at Plain- ifleld, N. J. June 19, 1850, he studied at Bucknell University and at Berlin and Paris. Within five years after his graduation, in 1879, he was elected president of Bucknell and remained in_that position for nine years. In 1888 he was elected president of the University of Rochester, but resigned in 1896 to study law and diplomacy, | |and to further that object he then spent nearly three years in Europe. President McKinley recalled him from Europe 10 &ppoint him Minister t Switzerland in 1903. Two years la Dr. Hill was promoted to be Minister to the Netherlands, He was & member of the Permanent Administrative Council of The Hague Tribunal and one of the American delegates to the second Peace Conference at The Hague. While in Washington he oc- cupied for several years the chair of European diplomacy in the School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplo- macy. Probably Dr. Hill was most notable for his writings. He was the author of biographies of Washington Irving and Willlam Cullen Bryant, but the majority of his books dealt with questions of government or international relatior Among other works he wrote “The Pri; ciples and Fallacies of Socialism,” *“Th Soclal Influence of Christianity,” “Ele- ments of Psychology” and “A History of Diplomacy in the International De velopment of Europe.” He was a fellow of the American Association for Ad- vancement of Science and of other learned, scientific and literary clubs and societies. Dr. Hill married, in 1886, Juliette Lewis Packer of Williamsport, Pa. She died in January, 1923, Family funeral services will be held ! at the home, probably on Friday. The ! body will be taken to Willilamsport, Pa., his former home, for burial, e LIQUOR PERMITS SHOWN ,Cne Out of Four Aduits in Ontario Own Needed Papers. TORONTO, Ontario, March 2 (#)— | has a liquor permil, Dr. A. J. Irwin, secretary of the Ontario Prohibitioin Union, said in his annual report yes- terday. He added that a survey showed that 2870 unemployed men in Toronto “owned well-filled liquor permits.” He said the total value .of liquor legally purchased in the provinee in the year ended March 31, 1931, was $47.- 853,365, a decrease of 129 per cent from the preceding year, but $14,000,000 more than was spent for bread l;:kae.ry Rroducts in the “peak year” of . resignation, and declared that he had | After the Peace Conference of 1919 One out of every four adults in Ontario | d P, undertakes to make the campaign as | | morial Bridge project bas been reduced | unit, which is an additional span across | the purpose of providing a connection | with the Virginia DAVID JAYNE HILL. under the celebrated John Hay | 'REPUBLICAN WET PLANK PREDICTED BY PARTY CHIEFS _ (Continued From First Page) | | may well, ii is insisted, obtain a ma- | jority vote ot the convention itself. The Republican group favoring a re- submission plank in the party platform | takes the view that the Republican | | pariy cannot win in the coming nation- | |81 elections if it retains the same posi- | tion toward prohibition that it main- ' tamned in its platform in 1922 and 1924. | Its leaders, and they include many high |officials of the Federal Government | | ouiside of Congress, believe that the | | swing away from national prohibition | among the people has been so marked in recent years, and particularly since |the depression’ set in, that a party which proposes no change in existing conditions cannot win. Democratic Gains Cited. ‘They point, for example, to the re- ults in cengressional by-elections to fill ‘ S | House vacancies within the last year. | In Texas, in New Hampshire, in Michi- | gan, in New Jersey, Dexocrats succeed- ed in these by-eiections to seats held previously by Republicans. And in each instance the victor was a wet, and the | Republicans who held these seats had | been listed as drys, except in the case of Wurzbach of Texas. They point, too, to the fact that the | dry element of the Republican party in Ohio, which was the home of the Anti- Saloon Leesgue of America for years, is having great difficulty in finding an out- standing man to run for the Senate this | vear against the wet Senator Bulkley, Democrat, who triumphed over his dry Republican opponent in 1930, On the other hand, the Republicans, who_favor some change in prohibition in Ohio have a candidate in the pres- | ent attorney general of the State, Gil- bert Bettman. Bettman is expected to be nominated, although he has made no formal announcement of his can- didacy. He lives in Cincinnati, and | although he has not been so closely | identified with the wet cause as has Senator Bulkley, he will, it is predicted, run as a wet. Point to Hollister Victory. The Republican wets also point to the | only outstanding victory the party achieved in the by-elections to the House last Fall, that of Representative John BE. Hollister of the old Longworth | district in Ohio. Mr. Hollister ran as| a wringing wet and carried the distriet | by 18,000 votes, although the late/ Speaker Longworth only received a 3,500 majority in 1930. The Literary Digest poll on the| eighteenth amendment, showing a pre- | dominant sentiment in many States for | repeal of the prohibition amendment, | 155 given, too, as an indication of the | change of sentiment among the people. | | Literary Digest polls in the past have been singularly accurate in forecasting political election results. The Republicans firmly expect the| Democrats to nominate & wet candidate for President. | | With a wet candidate on the Demo- | | cratic national ticket and President Hoover running as the Republican | nominee on a platform that pledged | resubmission of the eighteenth amend- ment, what would Republican dry voters do? | That is the question which has been agitating many of the Republican lead- ers who have considered the advis- ability or non-advisability of placing a referendum plapk in the G. O. P, na- tional platform. | Tllogical, Wets Agree. The wets in the party insist that it would be illogical for the Republican drys, under the set of circumstances | indicated. to vote for a wet Democrat for President or for wet Democratic candidates for House, Senate and other offices. They might wind up with a | Congress and a President who would |give them far more drastic wet meas- | ures than would the Republicans. On the other hand, it is contended by the wet Republican leaders that if the Republicans sponsor the dry cause, [wuh no referendum plank in the plat- | form, wet Republican voters, Ieeling | strongly on the question, could, with considerable degree of logic, vote a wet | Democratic ticket. It is admitted that fanatically dry voters and their leaders might under- take to upset the Republican apple cart if a referendum plank is pl in the platform. But they are not believed sufficient in number to offset the Re- publican losses at the polls if the G. O. | the dry y of the Nation. ke are sttone dry lesders among | the development of the plaza on Colum- | the widening and carrying through of | authorization. | properties | not intervene, but will let the-conven- | | —A. P. Photo. APPROPRIATION CUT ON BRIDGE PROJECT $160,000 Sliced From Total as Virginia Delays High- way Link. The budget item of $1000,000 for continuaticn of the Arlington Me- $160,000 in the independent offices ap- propriation bill reported to the House today by Representative Woodrum qi Virginia. This reduction was made b eliminating the Lee Highway Bridge the boundary channel at the north end of Columbia Island and is an integral part of the original Memorial Bridge project, in which it was included for State highway system. Virginia Plans Delayed. Representative Woodrum in his re- port explains that since the submission ollhcgnfielnhuhunhumdmc the State of Virginia has no plans in- volving the construction of the high- way ion during the coming year and the item for the bridge has, there- fore been omitted from the bill pend- ing such time as some provision shall have been made for the highway. The original limit of cost of the project, which has mnot since been changed, is $14.750,000. The total amount appropriated to date, including the appropriation recommended in the accompanying bill, is $12,840,000. the entire amount of which, it is estimated, will have been expended by the end of the fiscal year 1933. ‘The main bridgespan isnow completed, but the paving of the roadway from the west end of the beundary channel to the cemetery entrance will not be com- pleted until some time during the Sum- mer of 1932. However, bids have been opened and a contract will soon be awarded for the placement of a tem- porary 30-foot pavement at one side of the right of way, which will be opened to public traffic on or about April 1. Work still remaining to be done on the Memorial Bridge project includes bia Island; the filling, grading and landscape Work on Columbia Island: Constitution avenue; the widening of Twenty-third street; the decorative statuary work on Columbia Island: the Memorial avenue into Arlington Ceme- tery, and the monumental entrance to the cemetery. Holds to Original Cost. Notwithstanding certain modifications of the original plan, such as the addi- tion of the Rock Creek and Potomac parkway underpass at the east end of the bridge, the commission expects to complete the project within the original This will be made pos- sible, partly because of the recent drop in building costs and partly because of the modification or elimination of some of the decorative features, such as the columns on Columbia Island, statuary on the bridge, etc. The committee has included language under which the entire cost of recon- structing and paving that portion of Constitution avenue between Virginia avenue and the bridge will be borne by the Bridge Commission. This provision was included because the portion of Constitution avenue referred to is an integral part of the Lincoln Memorial, which is purely a Federal project. The remainder of Constitution avenue will be improved out of regular District of Columbia appropriations, the same as other local streets, subject to the usual 40 per cent assessment against abutting Since all such abutting | property is, or will be, in Government ownership, it follows that the Bridge Commission will bear 40 per cent of the cost of Constitution avenue east of Virginia avenue, excepting street inter- | sections. Michigan Central Opens Shops. ST. THOMAS, Ontarlo, March 2 () —_Snops of the Michigan Central Rail- way here will be opened for a four- week period beginning tomorrow. The | order affects 200 mechanics. the Republicans who maintain that It would be & vital mistake for the party to take up with the referendum idea, and that President Hoover must run as dry through and through, especially as it is expected that the Democrats will nominate a wet and probably place a wet plank of some kind in their plat- form. Battle Royal Likely. A battle royal in the Republican national _convention over this ref- erendu of the eighteenth amendment is in the offing. The wet Republicans are hoping that President Hoover will tion make its own decision in this matter. They do not expect him to make any wet declaration. They point out that as Chief Executive and chief law en- forcement officer of the country it would be difficult for him to declare for the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment; that a wet declaration from the President would be interpreted as a signal to all the United States district attorneys, to all the prohibition agents and the Coast Guard and other en- forcement officials that it would be wise d | ANTHOARD DRIVE President’s ‘Address on Radio Sunday Might to Open NationaltCampaign. Aimed at the liguidation of business and to bring an end to the hoarding of cash that has taken more than §1,- 000,000,000 from cisculation, national leaders were shaping final plans today for their campaign. President Hoover willitake the lead in a radlo address over a Natin-wide hook-up of both the Columbia and National broadeasting syatems at 10:15 o'clock Sunday night, when he urges that hoarded money be turned into the channels of trade. Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, chair- man of the Citizens' Reconstruction Orgarrization, will open the campaign from Chicago and introduce President Hoover. The pi am Wwill then be switched to the Executive Mansion, where the President will speak from the cabinet room. Microphones at the Willard Hotel will then camy the Treasury's announcement through Og- den L. Mills, Secretary of the Treas- ury, while the patriotic features of the plan will be disoussed by Senator Rob- inson, Democratic ficor leader in the Senate. A message from former Presi- Coolidge, read by Charles Gates wes, president of the Reconstruc- n Pinance Corporation, will conclude the program. EXPLAINS PURPOSE OF DRIVE. — Chairman Noyes Urges Co-operation in Campaign in District, Getting the dollars hidden in “safety deposit boxes, bureau drawers, mat- tresses and the old sock” back into circulation where they will have 5§ to 10 times their actual value in available credit and In bringing about & normal economic state, is the task undertaken by the lo¢al committee of President Hoover's Citizens’ Reconstruction Or- ganization, aceording to & statement issued today by Newbold Noyes. chair« man of the District of Columbia area. In his statement, Mr. Noyes declared that while the plans of his commities still are in the formative stage, n'fi definitely established that there be no ‘house-to-house canvass. committee’s ends, he said, will be tained by bringing “the true acts the real need of the hour to the cf Washington.” To Bring Out Money. Mr. Noyes' statement follows in full: ‘The prime object of this Natione wide campaign, which is to be for- mally launched on the week March 7, is to get hidden mo; into circulation, estimated that, taking the country as a whole, in the neighborhood of a billion and a half of dollars has been withdrawn from circulation in normal channels. Timidity and the failure to appreciate the evil effects of such withdrawals on the part of a portion of the Nation's population have thus contracted available credit by at least seven and a half billions—for a dollar withdrawn from circulation is “esti- mated to contract from 5 to 10 times its value in available credit. “As closely as can be estimated, the District of Columbia has not becn gutlty of any great amount of hoarding Yet even so, the fact that there are many dollars here hiding in safety deposi: boxes, bureau drawers, mattresses and the old sock cannot be deuled. Circulation Imperative, “It is imperative to the early restors- tion of prosperity that these dollars brought forth ahd put back inta change. It is to this end that the local committee which I have been asked to form will work with enthusi- asm and confidence. “Our plans are still in formative stage, but must be swiltly pressed to completion. We shall have a ceatral committee of from 50 te 100 of the leading men and women of the city. There will be ne house-to-house can- vass. We hope to obtain the fullest co- operation from the newspapers, the broadcasting companies, the theaters and motion picture houses and the various trade and civic erganizations in bringing the true facts and the 1eal need of the hour to the public of Wash- ington, Once this has been accom plished there can be no doubt but tha the National Capital will splendidl: respond to this challenge to its patriot- ism and its common sense.” ROSZIKA DOLLY TO WED CANNES, France, March 2 (#).— Raszika Dolly, one of the widely known Dolly sisters, said today she would be married this month to Irvin 3 American business man, in New York and Mayor Walker would perform the ceremony. The wedding will take place as soon as ible after March 15, when Miss Dofly and her flance will reach New York on the steamer Olympic. She said the mayor had cabled her he would officiate. The wedding is to take place in New York to avoid the 300-day residence _required of di- vorced persons in Prance. - b2 BAND CONCERT. By the Ux;ll‘ted States Marine Band Orchestra, this evening at the - torium of the Marine Barracks, w‘dl o'clock. Capt. Taylor Branson, Jeader; Arthur S, Whitcomb, second leader, conductin Processional march, “The Queen of Sheba" . Overture, “Don Juan by Solo for trumpet. “Inflammatus,” “Stabat Mater” : Musician John P. White. Selection, “The Violet of Montmartre,” Kalmann “Old Folks st Home" for strings, arranged b “Turkey in the Straw. oo P concert transcription by Guion Quartet for trombones, “The Heavens Resound” Beethoven Musicians Robert E. Clark, Lee San- ford, Joe Fisk and Chester Lyons. Waltz, “Invitation to the Dance,” ‘Weber-Weingartner Two movements from the suite, “Scenes Alsaciennes™ . us “Domanche Soir."” Marines' Hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.™ LENTEN SERVICES NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Daily, Except Saturday and Sunday 12:20 to 1 O’Clock é Speaker Tomorrow— DR. W. 8. ABERNETHY to let up on the enforcement of the prohibition laws. On the other hand, they do not see that the President is called upon to make a dry declaration, but that he can well let the Repubiican party in national convention decide whether it wishes to adopt a resubimission plank for the party platform. Pl Pastor Calvary Baptist Church Auspices Federation of Churches