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SHANGHAI TRUCE | EFFORTS COLLAPSE Leggue Told New Japanese! ‘Demarnds Are “Absolutely .2 Unacoeptable.” (Continued From First Page) | Paul Hymans, Belglan forelgn minister, | as president, and eight other delegates s vice presidents. This afternoon, under the usual pro- cedure, all the delegates present would have an opportuniiy to speak for their | governments, large and small alike. It | is this feature which has caused many observers to belleve this meeting may have a very important influence upon the future of the League. i In the small countries there have| been expressions of dissatisfaction with the procedure of the great powers act- | ing through the League Council in the | Sino-Japanese negotiations. Some of them are represented as feeling that if the Council could not take a firm | hand in this situation, then the small powers cannot rely unon the League implicitly for the protection of their | own interests. It was expected the small States might demand application of the sanc- tions provided for in the covenant, but It seemed unlikely that the great powers would be inclined to participate in any- thing in the nature of an economic boycott v ‘The five members of the American delegation with their corps of advisers and experts, were all seated in the dip- lomatic gallery when the session was called to order Observers noticed with significance that the Chinese statement for the as- sembly contained a map of Manchuria while the Japanese statement included & map of Shanghai. TOKIO DIET I8 CALLED. S. Delegation Attends. Compromise Reached on Question of Funds for Shanghal Expeditions. Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 3.—Japanese official- dom today faced westward to look more | hopefully upon the procedure of the League of Nations at Geneva following an announcement that hostilities at Shanghal had ceased. ‘The announcement of the cessation of fighting was made only an hour or two before the Assembly at Geneva con- wvened to work out a permanent settle- ment of the Sino-Japanese trouble. ‘The privy council and the cabinet, which have been at loggerheads over calling & special parliamentary session to approve an appropriation for the ex- penses of the Shanghal expeditions, also patched their differences during the afternoon and the special session of Parliament was decided upon for March 18. At the same time the Emperor and Empress were hosts at luncheon at the to the members of the Manl ing ulxzq:ummmlor of the League of Nations ncil, which is now on its way-to China, ‘Way Paved for Parley. Regarding the League Assembly ses- sion offi tonight took the position that. the League asked to have the fighting at Shanghai and that since it is now stopped, the way should jved for authorizing a round table ce of all the interested powers = ghai to discuss the future status e In official circles- it was stated, how- ever;“that Ji does not expect the sto off Inférnational criticism of Japni’s position to subside immediately. The com between the cabinet and the Privy Council over the ex- g;' of the Shanghai campaign gave h'sides a portion of their original demf@inds. The cabinet yielded to the insisgence of the Council that the Par- IllHTt be summoned, while the Coun- cil @pproved an imperial emergency or ce authorizing a bond issue of 15,000,000 yen (about $5,000,000) to tide ‘over the expenses until the Diet convenes. cabinet had asked a bond issue of 22,000.000 yen, but it sgreed 10 sub- mit 7.000,000 yen of its original re- quest In the form of a supplementary estimate to Parliament The members of the Manchurian Commission have been kept busy with a {ull ‘schedule of luncheons, dinners and Teceptions, where individually or in in- formal groups they have met with Jap- anese leaders of vaidus factions. Commissioners Silent. They also have been flooded with pamphlets, books and other kinds of documents pleading Japan's case in Manchuria and Shanghal. The pro- cedure for their agtual investigations in Manchuria and elsewhere still re- mains to be worked ou The commissioners tinued to maintain their impres: neir plans. “We | are a receiving set, not a broadcasting | ,” the Earl of Lytton, chalrman of the commission, said | reports from Bhanghal to-| night showed tnat Japenese forces | there advanced shgntly beyond the 1215-mile zone, especially the 11th Di- vision, which was moving across coun- try from the Yangize shore, Officials here however, that all Ja) troops be withdrawn in- side the 12! ne as 500f a8 pos sible and a porary defensive positiens on this border. It was hoped, teey seid, this defensive line would need | to be maintained only a few days and | that whenever the Japanese command was satisfied the Clines= were not planning to return to attack all troops would be withdrawn eastward of & line connecting Shanghal and Woosung. Want Neutral Zone Marked Off. It- was reiterated that the withdrawal | of the expeditions at Bhanghal will be carried out regardless of when the round-table conference convenes there, | although officials said they hoped the | Tepresentatives of the forcign powers would assist the Chinese and Japanese | in marking off a neutral zone between | their armies and providing for policing the 3one until a permanent plan is out- lined. hemselves con- silence regarding | | Information reaching here indicated ofcials said, that the Chinese armies ' were not annihilated, although they| were badly shattered and their morale was low. They still comprised from 30,000 to 40,000 men, it was reported, | there was some conjecture here whether Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek would ® an opportunity to disarm the de- | ted Cantonese. “The Shanghai mess has ended” a government spokesman said. "It is now unnecessary to arrange a truce.” Jépanese Minister Mamoru Shige- mitsu, at Shanghai cabled to the Japa- nese delegation at Geneva today that jons were halted at Shanghai and, the safety of Jdpanese residents there assured. Officials here emphasized, however, that the proposed round table confer- ence at Shanghai under consideration by ‘the League must be confined to Jocal Shanghai problems and not at- t to embrace larger pending Sino- Japamese problems. U. S. TROOPS ON PATROL Hoover Closes Third Y Outlook for Re-election Improved by Enaclmlé:hl of Reconstruction Legislation—Victory Depends on Stabilized Business Situation, Writer Says. VID LAWRENCE. | against the party in power always at- i tends every business depression. Many Herbert Hoover will have completed | western Republicans have been telling 3 vears as President of the United | their Democratic brethren in the Sen- Btates this week. One vear hence the gy that there isn't a Temote chance country will be preparing for an In-| ¢ Mr. Hoover carrying Midwestern or auguration. Wil it be Mr. Hoover ONCe | evep, Far Western States. They base more or any one of the half-dozen|inis on reports of disaffection in busi- Democrats being mentioned? | bit! ‘The question is being asked both in- de and outside of Washington with mo:e than ordinary curiosity because the immediate economic future of the Nation is believed to be closely linked with political developments. Mr. Hoover has served continuously in the executive branch of the Govern- ment now for 12 years—9 of them as Secretary of Commerce. His service as food administrator brought him here in the Spring of 1917 and he remained r nearly 2 years as a dollar-a-vear man. His appointment as Secretary of Commerce in the Harding cabinet was itterly oppposed by regular Repub- leans with the argument that he did not have a Republican background, but had been closely affiliated with the Wilson administration. Today the regular Republicans constitute the backbone of the Hoover support and, while many of them have grown luke- warm and have criticized him severely since the depression began, they are beginning to concede that, as between some of the Democrats suggested and the retention of Mr. Hoover, they vastly prefer no change in the White House. Aided by Legislation. Until & few weeks ago it was ap- parent the Republican organization was having difficulty getting up a defensive fight. Since then the passage of re- construction legislation has led to bet- ter reports. Intensive organization pians are under way, and with the assurance that Mr. Hoover is going to be renominated, the whole effort is to- ward the perfection of local organiza- tions for campaign drives. The Hoo- ver regime has been strong on organiza- tion and has a half dozen different national groups in which may be found strong Hoover supporters, so that the making of Hoover-for President Clubs as auxiliaries to the regular Republican machinery will not be very cult, The campaign of 1932 will turn to a large extent, however, on what the dis- contented voters do. At present no material cut has been made in the number of unemployed. Resentment ness groups which are a reflection, | they believe, of wider dissent. Situation Improves. But the truth is that any reports on political conditions this year are sub- ject to change almost without notice. Thus in the last fortnight there has been a noticeable improvement in the attitude toward Mr. Hoover in the East- ern section of the country, Where critl- cism has been so pronounced. The fact the reconstruction measures are of non- partisan origin or that the Democrats participated in their making. is held to be secondary, for the primary in- terest is in the effect on the Hoover fortunes, and any improvement in the economic or credit situation tends to help Mr, Hoover just fs any unfavor- able developments diminish his caances. There may be no logic in this fluctua- tion of political sentiment, but it is significant that leaders of both politi- cal parties admit it is the index this time of the public attitude. Mr. Hoover was slow in gathering momentum as Secre! of Commerce, but in his last years had found himself. | He had developed a more efficlent or- ganization than was thought possible in his first two years and he showed .the effects of experience in grappling with vital problems. Many of his friends feel he has learned a great deal more about the presidency in the 90 days than in the preceding two and a half years. Mr. Hoover's political groundwork has been scanty, anyhow, but his relations with Copgress since January have been | viewed as far more fortunate than they | were a year ago. | Mr. Hoover now has the benefit of & slight acceleration in the momentum of his party's affairs, but whether the rate | of improvement in the economic situs- tion will be sufficient to enable him to win another term is a matter of con- | siderable doubt. If, three months ago, | his chances of re-election were rated at 1 out of 10, they are today closer to 4 | out of 10, with every indication that a stabilized business situation will give | him an even chance of victory. FIGHTING CONTINUES IN SHANGHAI AREA, CHINESE DECLARE __(Continued_Prom First: Page.) also reported they were also planning to occupy Nantao, a huge block of the native quarter, abutting on the French concession. Japanese Occupy Kating. A short time after the first statement that the fighting would be stopped issued by the Japanese legatlon, the Japanese military headquarters nounced its troops had occupled Kating, x‘;are than 15 miles northwest of 8hang- i. ‘The first statement that the Japanese intended to cease hostilities was issued by their legation here. Shortly after- ward another statement came from the Japanese flagship Idzumo saying Ad- miral Nomura had ordered forces to stop fighting at 3:30 p.m. before 4 p.m. another state- ment was issusd, over the names of Admiral Nomure and Gen., Shirakawa, which said: “Now that the Chinese troops have withdrawn outside the zones the Japa- nese demanded, we intend to cease hos- | mme:'un!en the Chinese begin hostile jons." In view of the evidence that the fighting was continuing, this was inter- preted by observers here as distinctly dlfle:nt from the two preceding state- ments, Chinese Issue Statement. Dispatches from Nanking which reached here shortly after the first Jap- anese statement that the hostilities would be ended, said Chinese govern- ment leaders there had called for sum- moning all energies to be “turned to- ward resisting Japanese a n.” “In view of the national crisis,” the Chinese statement said, “all energies should be turned toward resisting Japa- nese aggression and the improvement of news transmission facilities, so that the facts concerning the Japanese in- vasion may be exposed.” These Nanking advices sald Premier Wang Ching-Wel and Gen. Feng Yu- Hsiang urged the government to grant an amnesty to all prisoners, so that they might be organized for military service or used as laborers. Losses Estimated. Japanese military officials said their forces suffered 700 casualties during the last three days of fighting and they es- timated the Chinese losses at 10,000, saying they found 3,000 Chinese dead on the battlefield between Kiangwan and Tachang. During the battle at Woosung guns on nine Japanese war vessels in the river blazed continuously, pouring a steady rain of high explosive shells on the battered forts. At least two dozen fleld artillery guns and a squadron of bombing planes joined their thunderous fire to that of the warships. The Japanese field headquarters a mile south of Woosung village, which yesterday was empty of armament, bristled with guns of all sizes when I arrived there this morning. On the last line to the rear was a battery of eight 6-inch howitzers, their gun crews wait- ing tensely for the signal to fire few hundred yards farther ahead ;was a naval battery of light field guns an- | prevailed the Japapese army will be withdrawn from these areas.” 4—8hould either side violate the terms of this arrangement the other | would have freedom of action. Clvilians Swarm Settiement. Hundreds of Chinese civilians swarmed into the International Settlement from Chapei this morning. The e ap- At the Markham road entrance, which is guarded by American Marines. at least 2,000 Chinese women and chil- dren crushed against the barbed-wire barricades at the bridgehead when the ?ppe‘amce along the opposite water- ront. | One by one the refugees were ad- | mitted into the Settlement, but the | Jam of humanity became 80 serious it was necessary to summon & truck equipped with machine guns. The ap- pearance of this truck restored order. | , Thousands of Chinese familles re- fused to budge from their homes in Chapei, in spite of the Japanese occu- pation, and many storekeepers carried on business as usual in the ruined city. | When later it became evident to the refugees in the Settlement that their fellows who remained in Chapei were not molested by the bluejackets many of the refugees sought to return again across the creek. The Japanese sdvance into Chapel apparently was entirely unopposed. Not even & sniper's shot was heard. Shipping Disrupted. Shipping in and out of Shanghai was Japanese naval activity at the mouth of the Wangpoo. Passengers for for- eign ports were forced to postpone sailing when the olitgoing ships were held up. number of incoming steamers were forced to remain off the mouth of the river. The steamers were permitted to move as usual again this evening after the naval operations at Woosung ceased. Japanese naval authorities sald the total naval casualties since the outbreak of hostilities was 132 killed and 678 wounded. Observers said tonight that the new peace conditions presented by the Jap- anese were more severe than any here- tofore proposed. IMIENPO FOUND QUIET. Japanese Troops Reach Manchurian | Town on Way to Hallin. | HARBIN, Manchuria, March 3 (#) — Gen. Amano’s Japanese command ar- rived at Imienpo, in Northern Man- churia, about noon today and found the town peaceful, reports reaching here said. The command planned to remain there over night, the report sald, and to | continue on to Hailin tomorrow. The many Japanese residents of Imienpo ! who previously had fled here returned there behind the troops. ‘ BENEFACTOR. OF EHOOL | WILL GET P.-T. A. HONOR Woodside Group to Plant Tree for | B. F. Leighton on Arbor Day. and still farther on, close to Woosung ' Creek, there was a row of army trench mortars. . These artillery units went into action almost at the same time, while the guns of the warships moving along the river bank also opened fire. New Demands Are Made. For half an hour the earth trembled under the terrific concussions, and great puffs of smoke rose all along the Woo- sung bund from the village Lo the forts, marking the trail of the Japinese bar- rage. The airplanes swooped down with their tremendous bombs, and under it all was a continuous sputter of machine gunfire as the Japanese “nests” opened up on the Chinese troops ferreted out | by thé bombardment. The reverber- ations of the mighty conflict were plain- ly heard in Shanghsi, 11 miles away. In the confusion which prevailed late this afternoon around the arrangements for peace, and in the lack of official statements, observers here gathered the notion that the parleys seemed to hang at ent on the Chinese reply to a t of Japanese demands. These were believed to have been handed to the Chinese last night. In the version generally accepted here, they were l—Japan agrees to a cessation of hostilities for a certaln period, pro- vided China agrees to withdraw her troops from the Shanghal area, during which period the detalls of a final suspension of hostilities would be ar- ranged by Chinese and Japarcse mili- tary authorities. 2—During this cessation of hostilities there would be & round table confer- ence in which representatives of the Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. WOODSIDE, Md., March 3—In honor of the late Judge B. F. Leighton, who gave the land on which the school now stands, the Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation of the Woodside School decided to plant a tree on the school grounds proaches were crowded with refugees. | gr Japanese bluejackets made their first | disrupted throughout the day by the| WASHINGTON ART EXHIBIT INSTALLED Bicentennial Display to Be Opened at Smithsonian About March 26. A special exhibit of painting and sculpture, city planning, architecture nd landscaping. as a feature of the George Washington Bicentennial Cele- bration, will be officially opened in the New National Museum of the Smith- sonian Institution, at Tenth street and Constitution avenue, about March 26. This announcement was made today | by H. P. Caemmerer, executive secretary of the commission, who said that an impressive series of panels, depicting the life of the Father of His Country, has been executed during the past year under the direction of Ernest Peixotto, president of the Society of Mural Painters; J. Monroe Hewlett, chairman of the Committee of Artists for the Bicentennial Exhibition. and Alexander B._Trowbridge, vice chairman, Each panel is a canvas 15 feet in height and from 8 to 20 feet in width, Mr. Caemmerer said. This series, plan- ned as & unit, is now being installed on the upper walls of the Natlonal Gallery of Art space in the National Museum. Many Phases Shown. “Each artist was permitted to in- terpret in his own way a phase of the life of Washington,” sald Mr. Caem- merer. “‘Washington's Boyhood' is by Hildredth Melere; ‘Washington Taking Command of the Army' is by Arthur Covey. | painted by D. Putnam Brinley: ‘Wash- |ington and His Friends at Mount ( Vernon,' by J. Monroe Hewlett, and ‘Washington With Gen. Knox and Lincoln' and ‘Lafayeite With French Allfes.’ by Mr. Peixotto. “Other painters and their subjects are Austin Purves, jr. ‘The Bullding of Fort Necessity’; Deane Keller, ‘Valley | Forge’: Tom Loftin Johnson, ‘The Sur- render dt Yorktown'; Ezra Winter, ‘The Inauguration’; J. Mortimer Licht- enauer, ‘The Death of Washington'; James Daugherty, ‘Overture to 1776'; John Steuart Curry, ‘The Co-operation of Labor in the Revolution,’ and Gard- ner Hale, ‘The Triumph of Washing- fon L An exhibition of sculpture is being arranged by the National Sculpture Bociety in the Natlonal Gallery of Art space and also in the rotunda of the National Museum. The Gorham Co. is contributing a copy of the John Quincy Adams Ward statue of Wash- ington, which stands in front of the subtreasury building in New York. Sculptors in City. Henry Hering. James E. Fraser ana Ernest W. Keyser, sculptors, are Washington today, to arrange for t'e proper installation of the pieces of their oup. alumni of the American Academy in Rome also will have & place in the ex- hibition. Paintings of the gardens of | Mount Vernon, treated historically, will be contributed by the American Soclety of Landscape Architects. Co-operating with the Fine Arts Com- mission in arranging the special Bi- centennial exhibition are: The Ameri- |can Institute of Architects, the Amer- fcan Soclety of Landscape Architects, the National Sculpture Society, the Mural Painters Soclety, the American Academy in Rome, the American City | Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning. An elab- | orate exhibition of the plan of Wash- | ington, including plans of the great public bulldings program now under way here, will form part of the exhi- | bition, PRINCE GEORGES PUPILS T0 BE TAUGHT FIRST AID H. L. Leonard Will Instruct Two Classes at Upper Marlboro High School. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, March 3 —The first course in Red Cross treat- | ment of the injured to be given in a Prince Georges County school is being arranged for the local high school by H. L. Leonard, executive secretary for first aid of the chapter and president of the county fire rescue squad Mr. Leonard addressed the school as- sembiy at the request of Principal G. G. Shugart Tuesday. Two classes will be formed, Mr. Leon- ard said, one for the seniors and | juniors and one for the freshmen and | sophomores. Al will receive first-aid [mmumon. The girls will also be given a special course in home nursing by | County Nurse Jennie Hartman, while & course in accident prevention is being arranged for the boys, |1t is expected the classes will begin in about & week. HULL FEARS ILLNESS MAY PREVENT ACTIVITY By the Associated Press. Senator Hull of Tennessee is con- fined to his bed at a hctel with laryn- gitis and influenza. The Senator’s illness was ascribed by his associates partially to hard work in preparation for a forthcoming tariff | debate. Although he has had a cold for several days, he had been working far into the evening He is now wcrried that he may miss the arguments over the Democratic plan to deprive the President of power to fix {rates under the flexible tariff pro- vision Another Southern Senator—Harris of Georgia—is in Georgetown Hospital with a kidney ailment. He was de- scribed there today as progressing well. He is to be operated upon soon. | Your Income Tax t play entitled “His Japanese ‘Wife” was presented by pupils of the Marjorie Webster School. The room of Mrs. Carl Lines won fist place for | having the largest number of parents in attendance, it was announced. R FILES FOR SHERIFF Speciai Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., March 3.— John T. Wolford, former chief of police here, former city treasurer and for sev- eral terms a member of City County, filed yesterday for the Republican nomination for sheriff of this county. He is the only Republican to file so far. James S. Dafley, a member of the 11931 House of Delegates county, filed for the Republican nomi- nation for the House. He is the fourth Republican to file for the post. county has two delegates in the House. BRITISH ACTRESS DIES MANCHESTER, England, March 3 (#) —Lillian Davies, 37. British actress, died at a nursing home here today, from this, ’x‘he’ Forms for Making Returns. Forms for filing returns of income | for 1931 have been sent to persons who filed returns last year. Failure to re- ceive a form, however, does not relieve a taxpayer of his obligation to file his return and pay the tax on time, on or | before March 15 if the return is made on the calendar year basis, as is the case with most individuals. | Forms may be obtained upon request, written or personal, from the offices of collectors of internal revenue and deputy collectors. Persons whose net income for 1931 was derived chiefly from salary or wages and was not in excess of $5,000 should make their returns on Form 1040A, a single sheet. Persons whose net income was in excess of $5,000, or, regardless of amount, was derived from & business, profession, rents or sale of property, are required to use a larger form, 1040. Failure to use the proper form presents difficulties to both the taxpayer and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Therefore, it is emphasized that a taxpayer engaged in a business or profession from which he derived a ‘The Battle of Princeton’ was | in | An exhibition of the work of the | | where she underwent an operation three | net income of less than $5.000 is re- HOUSE QUIZ LOOMS FOR STAGE CRITICS Sirovich Threatens to Ask Probe After Hearing “Wisecacks.” | A subpoena summoning dramatic crities to appear before a House group and tell what they know—or don't ! know—about the legitimate theater ! | was in prospect today after an outburst | yesterday by Representative Sirovich, ; Democrat, New York. Representative Sirovich is & playwright, and he labels dramatic critics as “wisecracking smart Alecs,” who are to blame for the pres- ent financial condition of the legitimate stage. e left a Patents Committee hearing to talk with newspaper men about some of the “witty" answers criics had madc to an invitation to tell the committee what they think of the legitimate the- ater. Threatens to Make Speech. “They are wisecracking.” he said. “Well, If they don't appear March 14, I'm going to make a speech on thc floor of the House and ask the House | what to do about it." | Which means that he may ask the| House to give him suthority to subpoena | | the critics he wants to question. | Birovich jnsisted the “wisecracks’ { weren't hurting him because he has | “good sense of humor.” If the | refuse to come on invitation, they “will be defying Congress,” he said i He reiterated that personally he has no grudge against the critics even if | ! they did adversely write up a play of his called “Schemers” some time ago. | | "I just want to find out what's what.” he sald, “and they ought to be able to | tell what's wrong with the theater—they know so much it it Bares Erlanger's Letter. ! Birovich gave to the committee today & letter from M. Erlanger, who owns many theaters, referring to a group of | critics, whom he did not identify, as “an | incompetent and ruthless lot.” | “Most of them, I am told, are young men who could no more write a play than they could & book, and they are | only happy when they can ‘roast.’”| Erlanger sald. Then he told Sirovich: “If 1 could only get the managers to agree with me to take the advertising from the newspapers and exclude the critics from the theaters * * * we would | at least have a start and it would mean |a great loss to the newspapers in ad- vertising charges.” 41-2-CENT EGG LOWEST IN OHIO SINCE ’90’S | Tri-State );:eling T;ld Standard Will Be Raised by Closer Classification. By the Associated Press CINCINNATI, March 3.—Woes of the egg industry were discussed yester- | day at a joint meeting of the butter, egg and poultry associations of Ohio. Indiana and Ilinois. Meanwhile, top grade eggs, known to the trade as extra firsts, sold on the egg market here at 11', cents, the iowest price since the '90s. Answering complaints against new rules of the New York Egg Exchange, Charles F. Droste, president of the New York Mercantile Exchange, declared eggs now are being candled individuaily | in New York and not by sample from | each case as before, and that closer classification by shippers would raise standards of production. Prof. E. L. { Dekin, and Z. E. Zumbro of Ohio State | University told the producers the cost ! of feeding to the farmer should be about 6 to 8 cents a dozen. — | PRESSMEN ACCEPT CUT | Seven Per Cent Reduction Affects 6,500 in New York. NEW YORK, March 3 (#)—A 7 per | cent wage cut for pressmen and assist- ants in the job and commercial print- | ing fleld has been accepted by the two local unions. | | The reduction sffects more than 6,500 | members. It will go into effect this month. { | The agreement is expected to afford | work for approximately 1,200 member of both unions now unemployed, by dis- tributing work over a 32-hour week. Employing printers originally asked | for & 20 per cent cut for printers and a 30 per cent reduction for assistants. GETS CROP LOAN POST C. L. Cobb Named by Hyde as Regional Manager. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde yes- terday appointed C. L. Cobb of Rock Hill, S. C. as regional manager for the Washington district of the 1932 crop production loan office. The first loans are expected to be made within a week. Cobb will devote much of his at- tention to loans in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Wwhere the demand is heavy. The Washington district also includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- setts, Rhode Island, New York, all counties east of Lake Michigan in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. PARK BILL PASSED The bill authorizing acceptance of Analostan Island in the Potomac River as a gilt to the Government from the Roosevelt Memorial Association, to be preserved as a park in memory of the late President Roosevelt, is on its way to the House for action, having passed the Senate yesterday. The Senate at the same time &p- proved and sent to the House the bill authorizing the General Society, Sons of the Revolution, to erect a memorial to indicate the historical significance of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. The site is to be selected by the director of Public Buildings and Public Parks. . BRIAND BACK IN PARIS PARIS, March 3 () —Aristide Briand, | Who left Paris shortly after his re- | tirement from the cabinet, has returned to be closer to the heart specialists who are llmndlnz him, it was learned today. None of his three doctors would com- ment today on the condition of their distinguished patient. It was said that | M, Briand would remain in Paris for a few days, until it was decided whether it would be safe for him to go to the scuth of France. | BAND CONCERT, | _ By the United States Soldiers'’ Home | Band Orchestra, this evening, at Stan- ley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmermann, aster; Anton Pointner, assistant, conducting. March, “Kwang Hsu” (Chinese), Lincke Overture, “Opera Bouffe”.......Pinck Suite romantic, ‘Scenes from | TAMTLIABILITY BILL MOTOR LINES QUIZ | Washington, Gen. Patrick, commission German Candidates FUTURE OF NATION RESTS ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HE photograph shows four candidates for the presidency of Germany in the coming election which may, or may not, have a great deal to do with the future of the German nation. In the upper row, right, is Adolph Hitler, leader of the Nazis and one of those who has a tremendous fol- lowing; at the left is President Von Hindenberg, who became a candidate when a popular petition was issued and signed by more than 200.000 persons; at the bottom is Ernst Thaelmann, candidate of the Communist party, and Lieut. Col. Theodor Duesterberg, united candidate of Nationalists and the so-called Steel Helmets (right). —A. P. Photo. DELAYED IN STUDY N CLOSING STAGE Other Problems Share Time !earings Ended and Report| at Hearings—Changes Will Be Reveiwed by Proposzd. Commission. |received the Senate's | yesterday by a vote of 73 to 3. The day | Senate. “LAME DUCK" ACT 10 G0 T0 STATES Seven-Year Limit Withw Which to Ratify Amend- ment Is Fixed. The first constitutional amendment voted by Congress since 1924, embody- ing the Norris proposal to abolish the “lame duck” session of Congress, was dispatched to the State Department yesterday for submission to the States. It must be ratified by the required 36 | States, constituting & three-fourths vote, within seven years. The new constitutional amendment final approval before it had passed the Hous Senator Norris, the gray-haired inde- pendent Republican from Nebraska, who had led the fight for the reform during many a session, beamed his satisfaction over the completion of congressional action on his plan. Action on the amendment ended a nine-year struggle during which it passed the Senate six times previously, only to be blocked larly by the ri insistence of the House, then under Republican control, upon a definite adjournment date for Congress. Senate Little Excited. Although this was the first constitu- tional amendment adopted since the child labor proposal of eight years . there was little excitement in the Its approval had been a fore- gone conclusion since last Saturday when conferees of the two branches reached agreement. The record vote was taken at the re- quest of Senator Norris after he had explained briefly the changes made by the conferees. Outstanding among the measure's provisions is elimination of the “short session” of Congress extending from the first Monday in December until March 4, and the establishment of ses- sions of indeterminate length to begin each January 3. At present, “lame ducks"—members of Congres defeated for re-election in November—may continue to legislate members throughout the short n. Under the amendment their duties on January s after their election— would take uj 3—two mon instead of waiting 13 months until the following December. “Survival of Stage Days.” The present system has been re- ferred to in the past debates on the amendment as a survival from stage coach days, when it took months to find out the resultmof"lln é"cl‘lwln and et the legislators ie Capitol. % Terms o‘:‘the President and Vice President would begin on January 20 instead of March 4. The National League of Women Vot- «rs announced last night that State leagues “can be counted upon to begin plans to support State ratification of the amendment.” Mrs. Siegel W. Judd of Grand Raplds, Mich., chairman of the leagué's depart- ment of efficiency in Government, said in a statement through headquarters Action by the Senate District Com-| The Interst:te Commerce Commission mittee on a bill to require taxicab op- {oday embarked on the-final stage of its erators to satisfy the Public Utilities study of the bus-truck transportation Commission of their ability to mee! system of the country, out of which damage claims will await a later meet- will come recommendaticns for legis- ing, following a public hearing yester- lation that may be d-emed necessary day afternoon, at which that and all for regulation of the highway carriers. other phases of taxicab operation were Started Late in 1930. debated, | ) There was general sentiment among| AP inauiry, inaugurated late in 1930, the witnesses in favor of liability to protect the riding public, although sev- eral speakers suggested amendments to the pending biil. Rates Issue Raised. Branching away from the question of liability insurance, witnesses and members of the committee discussed at length the question of taxicab rates and, the conflicting views as between the present zone system and the me- tered service proposed some time ago by the Utilitles Commission. Questioned by William McK. Clayton of the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions as to whether the commission wants to reduce the number of cabs in rapidiy-growing motor systems of the ! country might be co-ordinated with! yesterday afternoon when arguments were concluded on a report to the com- mission by Attorney-Examiner Leo J. Flynn, which recommended that the rates and services of both busses and trucks be placed under the jurisdiction of the commission. ‘With the close of the hearing, the | record went for study before the com- mission, whose entire membership sat in on the closing arguments. ‘The commissicn previously has recom. mended regulation of the intersiate op- | eration of busses, and the motor inter- | ests themselves are in accord with this. Opposed By Truckmen. | El??l? an ébf:claflfg ::X;:-.mm e (Y operators, however, vigorously Albert W. Jacobson, attorney for the | oppose regulation of the propen;v car- Oity Cab Co. defended the zone sys- | riers, contending that but a smail per- tem of taxicab operation, as distin- centage of the total—the common car- guished from meter operation. He ex- | riers—would be affected, and conse- pressed himself as being in accord with | quently would be discriminated against providing lability. in favor of contract and private haulers. Railroads are contending for the Backs Liability Measure. regulation. ‘Willlam J. Brown of the Yellow Cab T Co. and Alfred D. Smith, representing the Independent Taxicab Owners' Asso- clation, were among others who testified in support of a liability measure, Mr. Smith suggesting an amendment. Rich- mond B. Keech, people’s counsel, in- dorsed the lability bill with certain suggested changes in phraseology, and Thomas J. Keefe said the American Motorists' Association would fille a brief approving it with the Keech amend- ments. Chairman Patrick of the commission and Assistant Corporation Counsel Roberts explained the liability bill When the discussion turned from the pending bill to the general taxicab situ- ation Gen. Patrick expressed the view that a zone system cannot be devised in Washington that would be fair. MRS. JUDD’S APPEAL WILL DELAY DEATH Notice Filed in Arizona Shows Lack of Funds for Review Be- fore State Supreme Court. | — |BRITAIN SEEKS PLAN TO PREVENT POUND FROM GAINING VALUE ___(Continued Froi the Scandinavian countries, virtually all of South America, India, the Irish Russia and several other all with a population of ,000,000. This sterling bloc, headed by Great Britain, will form an immense factor when the nations sit down at the con- ference table facing the United States and France and begin talking about a return to the gold standard. Many of them also supply Great Britain with the bulk of its essential foodstuffs and raw materials. Most of them are so closely pegging their currencies in relation to the pound sterling, as exemplified by the Scandinavian countries, that they follow Great Britain by decreasing or increasing the bank rate whenever this | country does. Interrelated prices have been stibilizing inside this bloc the re- lation of one country to another., And Great Britain does rot want to upset such crystallization. Exchange Mauipulated. Sterling has only been prevented from | rising appraciebly by special operations in dollar and franc credits. The Bank of England has been so skilltully, in and | out of the market, buying and selling these currencies to accumulate funds| to meet the Franco-American credits | that it is almost impossible to separate manipulation from private foreign trad- ing. By such adroitness the Bank of England has been able in five months to repay France and America £80,000,- 000 in gold—and only reduce its own holdings by £15,000,000. This process has been greatly facili- | tated, of course, by the receipt of £38,000,000 in gold from India. But re- paying this £38,000,000 nas already re- moved one of the weapcns by which sterling is being held down. The danger Britain fzces now is that in order to keep sterling down so as| to give export trade the maximum ad- | vantage of low exchange prices, more sterling is needed to buy foreign cur- rencies. Where is this sterling to come from? Britain still has an adverse bal- ance of trade. In order to decrease the influx of foreign funds it was thought the Bank of England would lower the bank rate today, This, however, remained un- changed. The principai reason, it is understood, is that the Bank of Eng- land does not want further to inflame | B the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, March 3.—Attorneys for Winnie Ruth Judd yesterday filed a formal notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court from her conviction for the murder of Mrs. Agnes Anne Lerol. Mrs. Judd, sentenced to die on the | gallows May 11, is in the death cell of | the Arizona State Penitentlary, at Flor- ence. The “trunk murderess” was taken there one week ago today imme- | diately after Superior Judge Howard C. Speakman pronounced sentence. The bodies of Mrs. Lerol and her roommate, Hedvig Samuelson, were found in two trunks and a suit case Mrs. Judd shipped to Los Angeles. The State alleged they were slain October 16 because of jealousy. Accompanying the appeal notice. which was flled with the clerk of the Supertor Court, was an afidavit signed by Mrs. Judd, stating she is without funds and unable to pay cost of the appeal record and transcript of the trial, which must be furnished the Su- preme Court. Certification_of the appeal motice ta the Supreme Court by the Lower Court automatically will stay the execution until the case has been reviewed. ‘ — rafl—and water—lines, was wound up | started in the latures are now OMINOUS TENSION CONTINUES DESPITE LULL AT SHANGHAI —_—— Prom First Page) while ry powers in Tokio and the com: of the Japanese army in the field operate in accordance with plan decided upon by the highest in the land, when the Manchurian cam- on September 19, 1931. Exactly wl that ,gl:n 15 nobody in Washingto can fathom. News from China, however, continues to be ominous. For the last five days it has been known in Washington that the Japanese are preparing for another spectacular. drive. A Japanese vessel landed at Tangku, near Tientsin, with hree batterics of artillery, some 2,000 rifles, mactine guns, hand grenades and other war paraphernalia. Since these were not landed in China for the benefit of the Chinese troops, the impli- cation is that the Japanese propose to start a drive on Tientsin, probably soon after the meeting of the League of Nations Assembly is ended. In the meantime news from Man- churia, Indicates that the Japanese government has alloted the sum of 20,000,000 yen (about $8.500,000) for the establishment of a nitrogene fixa- tion plant. The officlal objective for the building of such a plant is to pro- vide Manchuria with fertilizers, but in military quarters it is pointed out that such a plant could manufacture a large quantity of explosives for the Japanese army and navy. The situation is such that the utmost caution, both diplomatic and military, must be exercised by the Government of the United States. Handicapped as we are by our political isolation, Amer- ican diplomats abroad are doing their utmost to bring Japan to realize that she cannot continue to regard with cynicism the treaties to which she is & party. U. 8. Navy in Readiness. From the military point of view, every measure is taken to prevent a surprise move on the part of the Japanese. whole American Navy is now concen- trated in the Pacific. Every American man of war which has a combat value is now between Honojulu and San Francisco. The Navy Department ordered yes- terday nine vessels originally intended to participate in the fleet maneuvers off the Pacific coast to remain at their base at the Hawailan Islands. The interesting feature of this order is the type of vessels designated by this order. They are one large mine layer, four light mine layers and four ships of the minesweeping type. These ships are intended, although it is not so officially stated, to lay mines around Hawall if circumstances should de- velop in such a way as to force us to take these precautionary measures Sixteen submarines and two tenders have been ordered to return to Honolulu immediately after the war games of the United States fleet are over on March 23. The moves of the American warships are of & purely defensive character and are inevitable in a situation like the present one. are that reparations are already art faht States where legis- session. LENTEN SERVICES NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH * Daily, Except Saturday and Sunday +12:20 to 1 O'Clock Speaker Tomorrow— neutral powers would participate to de- cide upon the method of withdrawing both Chinese and Japanese troops, to- gether with a restoration of the status | weeks ago. quired to use the larger form. J— The return must be filed with the Miss Davies’ greatest success was as |eollector of internal revenue for the Polly in the revival of “The Beggar's district in which the taxpayer has his way” () “Vi (b) “Peasant’s Dancs () “The Sleigh Ride.’ bull trading in the London exchange | market. It is virtually certain, how- | r, that Great Britamn will lower the | bank rate next Thursday. DR. W. S. ABERNETHY Pastor Calvary Baptist Church FINDS OLD SPANISH COINS Money Bearing 1711 and 1780 evel SHANGHAI, March 3 () —Three hupdred United States Infantrymen of the 31st Regiment resumed their patrol over the defense lines of the Interna- tional Settlement next to Chapei this aftérnoon. They were relicved from patrol on this sector on February 29. necv;:.mdrswal ndx the (;:.ne‘:l!orc;: from Chapei caused no change in the along the border. quo in and around Shanghai. 3—The withdrawal would be com- menced by the Chinese troops, and Opera” in 1922. She also achieved | legal residence or principal place of great success as Katja Karina in “Katja business on or before midnight of the Dancer," in 1925, and went to New March 15, 1932. The tax may be paid when they have withdrawn a specificd | York to play the same part in October, in full at’the time of filing the return, distance the Japanese would withdraw “to tre Shanghai and Weosung ares; &5 s00n &8 Hormal co nditions shall have Wales, January -18, 1898, 1926, remaining in the United States or in four equa! installments, due on | until 1927. She was born in Cardiff, or before March 15, June 15, September ~ 15. and December 15. Excerpts from comic opera, | “BOCCACEIO™ .. ©1nrsrennn,. Suppe Characteristic, “Negro’s Birthday,” Lincke Waltz song, “Ukulele Moon"...Conrad Finale, “Reaching for the Moon’ “The Star.Spangled Banner." Berlin cient Spanish coins. They Dates Discovered by Miner, While placer mining at Dirty Buz- = zard Bar. on the Rogue River, Oreg. One hundred London justices have Rollie Alexander washed out two an- asked the home secretary to introduce | legislation for the abolition of juries at (Copyright. 1932.) were dated 1711 and 1780. 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