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T A2 ¥R - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 17. 1932, 100,000 GHINESE MARCH ON MUKDEN Destroy Manchurian Flags in Villages on Way, Reports Declare. Stricken Craft Loses Fight With Angi‘y Waves By the Associated Press ! SHANGHAI, Friday, March 18—Re- | ports from Manchuria to the Kuomin (Chinese) News Agency today said 100.- | 000 Chinese volunteers were marching on Mukden from three directions, de-| stroying the flag of the new Man-| churan state at all the villages along, the way and hoisting in its place the! Chinese national emblem The Japanese garrison at Mukden informed of this advance, mounted guns in the outskirts of the city stood by. INSURGENTS TAKE FU-YU. Chinese Force Occupies City of 80,000 | Southwest of Harbin. CHANGCHUN. Manchuria, Marct (#).—A powerful Chinese insurgent f under a Manchurian leader na Tsinghai and equipped with artillery at- tacked and captured Fu-Yu, a ¢ 1 80,000 people, 100 miles southwest of | Harbin, last night, it was reported here today Although nominally within Kirin Province, Fu-Yu, which is also called Petuna or Sincheng, is a commercial outlet for inner Mongolia. Prince Cha, inner Mongolia’s representative in the new Manchnrian regime here, main- | tains a citadel near Fu-Yu Because of an earlier revolt in domains on February 14, Prince Cha was reported to have sought to return home to Fu-Yu, but the I blocked him. after which he ret to Changchun NO PROGRESS AT SHANGHAL Armistice Negotiations at Standstill, Dr, Yen Tells League, GENEVA, Switzerland, March 17 () —Dr. W. W. Yen, representing China on the League of Nations Council, told | the Assembly’s Committee on the Far| East today that there had been no fur- ther progress in negotiations for armistice at Shanghai. | Naotake Sato, however, reported, as | the Japanese spokesman, that the ne- | gotiations were proceeding hopefully Dr. Yen disclosed that a tentative agreement had been reached at Shang- hai yesterday providing that the Chi-| nese troops would remein where they are and that the Japanese would with- draw to the position they occupied at the end of January One of the Japanese conditions, said | Dr. Yen, is inacceptable. It is that the| Chinese government undertake to end the boycott against Japanese goods. | This amounts to a political condition, | he contended, and, therefore. is con-| trary to the purpose of the League As- sembly. Moreover, he said, China cannot ac- cept the demand that a commission composed of Chinese, Japanese and neutrals supervise the establishment of | an evacuated zone between the two jes. He described the situation at ai as still “uncertain and dan- | an 200 CHINESE “ANNIHILATED.” | Attack on Japanese Garrison at Ninguta | Is Reported. | H HARBIN, Manchuria, March 17 (@) —Two hundred Chinese insurgents | who attacked the Japanese garrison at | Ninguta have been “annihilated,” the | Japanese commander reported today. PU-YI REGIME TOTTERING. Gen. Ma’s Cabinet Post Causes Trouble | for Manchurian Raler. ‘TOKIO, March 17 (#).—The brand: new dictatorial government of the dap- per young Henry Pu-Yi, heir of the ancient Manchu emperors, was reported tottering in Manchuria by Japanese press dispatches today over the question of Gen. Ma Chan-Shan, who has been named its war minister. i Revolts which have occurred at Ta- | heio and Manchuli, in Gen. Ma's Proy- | ince of Heilungkiang, have caused the former defende:r of Tsitsihar to rush home from the new dictatorial court at | Changchung, reports to the Rengo News Agency said, breaking away in the | midst of the triumphant ceremonies surrounding the Pu-Y{ inauguration Several groups of Chinese troops in Heilungkiang refused to celebrate the establishment of the Pu-Yi government and rose up against Gen. Ma himself, declining to transfer their allegiance Small Uprising at Payen. It also was regarded as noteworthy that the course of the inspection tour | of Gen. Shigeru Honjo, Japanese Man- | churian commander, included an air- plane trip to Tsitsihar yesterday in| company with Gen. Ma Only four months ago these two gen- | erals were fighting ea other on the same spot in the first impor of the Manchurian campaig Another small u v at Payen, 70 miles chief of Gen. M eral brigadier ger ing that their chief resign as war minister in the Pu They charged he sought only personal glor Other elements with Gen. W ernor of He of Marshal later ousted, Ma Even in the ca ernment at Ch between two of t Tsang Shih-Yi, Feng tentative premier of was reported objec governor of Kirin, anot unfit for the post of Chwangho Occupied. | A dispatch to the Rengo Antung said a group of Ck gents occupied Chwangho, coast y southwest of t surgents threw the I prison. i An official source has re the gist of a recent discussi Acting Foreign Commissar Kar Russia and Japar A Hirota at Moscow in sons were drawn between ences in outer Mongolia status in the new Mai ment. M. Karakhan summoned the Japa Ambascador early this week, acc % this information, and questioned & concerning the new ernment Changchun ) M. Hirota reminded the Soviet actini foreign commissar that the Russ consuls general at Mukden and F would be able to jghten him on t point. He then called attention to fact that no Japanese or other foreign officials are stationed at Urga and no Japanese subject is permitted to enter outer Mongolia. under Russia’s tutelage. Notwithstanding this fact, the Japa- nese Ambassador said, Japan has never ressed Moscow for information on &umn's relations with outer Mongolia. Karakhan answered that the cases were not parallel, that outer Mongolia has long been an independent state and that no Soviet troops are there now. while Japan maintains an army in the ‘pew Manchurian state M. Hirota countered by saying Japan lacked the means of verifying the ab- 1 | closely who W g.me Chang nd also 3 n g t ’ | for where |2 he | set up for the joint ope ITH her decks awash and angry waves sweeping over her, the collier H. F. De Bardeleben is shown just before the waters of the Atlantic closed over her 500 miles off Nantucket Lightship on March 10 ‘This exclusive picture was taken from the deck of the Coast Guard cutt sipee, skippered by Comdr anding by when the sea swallowed the d been removed to safel eviously. aboard the steamship Laganbank Noble G. Ricketts (lower), who was el. The crew of the stricken craft a few hours —A. P. Photo i ISSING 7 WEEKS |Police of Many Cities Fail to Find Clue to Two Wealthy Youths. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 17.—Nearly seven ago Floyd J. Stewart and Na- thaniel E. Jones, students in good stand- ing at the Harvard School of Business Administration, disappeared from their regular lodgings in Cambridge. Since 4:50 am, January 31, not a real clue has been discovered to account their disappearance or indicate they went. An intense police search has failed to give even a hint of their fate. Hope of finding them now hinges on the discovery of Jones’ light convertible coupe, but that vanished with the young men. The two young men are members of families of wealth and position. Stew- art’s father is James Josiah Stewart of Garden City, Kans. high official of a tilities holding company and promi- in banking circles. Jones' father | s Nathaniel R. Jon president of a widely known firm of Boston silk mer- chants | Considered Level-Headed. Stewart and Jones were both 23 years | old, considered reliable, level-headed and conservative by those who know them. Midyear examinations had just been concluded. The young men had passed them and were excused from the usual | study requirements during the succeed- ing week. They had been out with friends on the night before their dis- appearance, but apparently had gone to their separate rooms in the dormitories. Shortly before 5 am. Jones was re- ported to have called Stewart from bed, Stewart was said to have slipped | outer clothing over his pajamas and left | with his friend. That was the last| seen of them. It was believed the pair | had less than $40 between them. I Only One Clue Found. { The aid of police throughout the country and in Havana and Montreal | was enlisted. Everything that ap- peared to be a clue was run to earth without result. One report from Mon- treal appeared to be & possible explana- tion of some of the men's movements. A waiter in a Montreal cafe said he served two young men answering s’ and Stewart’s descriptions a few | after they disappeared. He said | toid him they were Harvard stu- dents, resting after passing examina- tions, and that they were returning to | the United States. They had a small coupe with United Staies plates. A pawnbroker said a main resembling Jones had pawned a raccoon coat in Montreal at about the same time. The waiter later identified a photograph of Jones as one of the men he had seen. | But nothing ever came of this clue. ‘ A half-hundred Boston society girls | who knew the men were questioned. An actress, 200 college mates and oth- | e who knew them, were helpless to aid. MANY NOTABLES ATTEND | FUNERAL FOR EASTMAN | Gen. g en Dawes Are Among 60 Honorary Pall- bearers Announced. weel Pershing and Gen By th ted Press ROCHESTER Rochester was read by to Geo inventor arch 17 ¥ to say good- s as an and even | aropist. vice for East- be held at an Epis- h he occasionally attended ¢ body will be cremated, in | th Eastman’s oft-expressed | n revealed drawn d's great and from » announced yesterday. famous men as Gen. 1g. Lord Irddell and Gen amc and wish, or bu Sixty I arers Eastman shot riting a th himself Monday after t his work was done. sence of Soviet troops from outer Mon- golia M. Rarakhan ther ador to explain f Japan's mili- use of the Ch astern Rail- disposition of the Japanese n border. The Am- he had nothing to add | wers to these ques- jed any military violation of the Ports- | between Japan and Rus- | ed the Ambas- | Willing to Co-operate. A dispatch to the newspaper Asahi in said the Russian vice pres- e Chin‘es Eastern Railwa iznetsov. announced he had in- oW to express a te with the new urian government with respeci to | operation of the ilway, in con- ormity with th> Mukden a ement of and the Khabatovsk protocol of ¥ Under these treaties, regulations were eration of the road by Russia and the Chinese Na- tional government at Nanking. The Manchurian stat: plans to replace Nanking government on the ratiroad directorate. { Although the foreign office lacked official confirmation of the press report. officials said it probably was correct and | that no other course was open to Mos- | cow As an alternative, they said, Russia | ght relinquish her interests in the, inese Ezstern or attzmpt to oust the Changchu nominees force, which| situation. would be “unthinkable” in the prescnll By chain ate $200,000.000. The corporation could IS GIVEN SENATE Measure to Speed Payments to Depositors Referred to Committee. the Assoctated Press, The modtfied Glass banking revision measure carrying provision for a liqui- dating corporation to speed payments to depositors in closed banks was intro- duced today with the approval of a Senate Banking Subcommittee. Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, sponsor of the legislation, introduced it on behalf of the subcommittee and it was promptly referred back to the whole Banking Committee for approval. Far-Reaching Provisions. The bill contains far-reaching pro- visions tightening up the national bank- ing tem against speculators, curbing banking and banking affiliate corporations, and removes the Secretary of the Treasury from the Federal Re- serve Board, of which he is now an ex- officio member. The liquidating corporation would have at its disposal $1,000.000.000 for getting payments to depositors of closed banking institutions. Of this sum, the Government would originally appropri- sue debentures up to four times the mount of this capital The measures specifically the use of Federal facilities by member banks “for the nurpose of making or carrying loans covering investments, or facilitating the carrying of, or trading in, stocks, bonds or other investment securities other than obligations of the Government of the United States.” Based on Earlier Bi Each Federal Reserve bank would be directed to keep itself informed of the loan and investment practices of its member banks. The Federal Reserve Board would be empowered to suspend for one year any member bank from the use of its facilities, upon violation of this law. A member bank would be prohibited from a voting privilege if a majority of its stock is held or owned by any af- filiate, The legislation is a modification of the original Glass bill introduced earlier in the session. It contains some of the language of the letter offered by Sen- ator Thomas (Republican), Idaho, for paying depositors in closed banks, The Reconstruction Corporation now haSkS'JUl\,OOO.UOO available for this same work. REALTY BOARDS 0. K. HOME LOAN BANK BILL Hoover Measure Will Stop Fore- Pittsburgh Man Tells House Group. closures, B the Associated Press President Hoover's home-loan bank bill was indorsed today by the National Associetion of Real Estate Boards as “the most constructive measure ever brought forward” to encourage home ownership. Lawrence T. Stevenson of Pittsburgh, president. told a House committee it would stop foreclousure and “if foreclos- ures can be checked the demoralization of the home market will be checked.” Nathan W. McChesney of Chicago, counsel for the association, said “we need a little moderate inflation under rigid_control.” Before another committee, monetary stabilization was urged by Charles E. | Hearst, president of the Towa Farm Bu- reau Federation “We see no logical reason why there should not be a sort of equilibrium be- tween prices of all our commodities and the price or prices of whatever com- modity consti the basls of our monetary system,” Hearst said. “We belicve in Towa that the process of deflation should be reversed so that general prices may be returned to that approximate level which existed at the time when the present long-time in- debtedness was incurred.” BANK HEADS CUT PAY Announce Voluntary Reduction of Own Salaries. SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 (P).— Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, with numerous banks in California, announced Tues- day jts chie! administrative officers have voluntarily accepted a 20 per cent salary reduction Coincident with the announcement, which followed action by the board of directors in curtailing their own fes and various advisory boards in abolish- ing theirs, it was stated tnere would be a general reduction throughout the bank and affiliated subsiaiary corpora- tions cf Transamerica Corporation, ranging down to 5 per cent. Employ receiving less than $100 a month ‘will be exempt Past Due Accounts of Grocer, 81, Would Stock Entire Town By the Associated Press. SHENANDOAH, Iowa, March 17—John Mentzer, 81, proprietor of a grocery store since 1861, was ill here today and his assets were assigned voluntarily to creditors. A check of his books showed that accounts in arrears, if paid, would provide sufficient money to stgck and equip every grocery stoPs, in_the city The 1930 censis gave Shenan- doah a population of 6519. prohibit | VESSEL GOES DOWN 500 MILES OFF NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP. SALES TAX FOES STORM GOVERNOR Citizens March Into Missis- sippi Capitol, Threatening State Executive’s Program. March 17 —Plai clothes men the Governor's mansion as the result of a demonstration against the adminis- tion's sales tax proposal that cul- minated in a mass march of citizens through the city and into the capitol Efforts of the crowd to gain sudicnce with Gov. Martin Sennett Conner terdny wWere unsuccessful. One man drew a pistol and threatened those that barred the door to the chief executiy office, bu. was pulled back into thie crowd Rebuffed, the crowd milled about the rotunda crying for the Governor to appear &nd an hour dispersed istributing ant the capitol grounds and the Scrate ber. The 3 1 sales tax approved by the House, consideration by the Senate Finance Committe After quiet was restored at the capi- tul, Gov. Conner which he said “int! solve Mississippi's problem: will not He lLas urged passage of the sales tax biil as | & necessity to balance the State budget The march on the State House fol- lowed a mass meeting of sales tax opponents gathered here from over all the State. The meeting appointed a cor to confer with the House Waye and Megus Committee and the Senate Finan Committee in an effort to evolve a substitute revenue measure for the sales tax bill, Speakers at the meeting attacked Gov. Conner, legislators and the sales tax proposal. A resolution which de- scribed the tax proposal as “dangerous and oppressive” and b that other means could be found for raising the necessary revenue was adopted. BRITISH WAR DEBT REVISION PROPOSAL IS DENIED BY REED (Continued From Firs ittee Page.) prove unwise and harmful from every standpoint in the interest of our own people,” said Senator Robinson. Senator Robinson said that Ambas- sador Mellon has been quoted as sa | that when the British debt settleme | had been made its present value was | 80 per cent of the tot amount due | prior to funding and that “it becomes | apparent from the standpoint of the | British taxpayer he is asked not only to | meet the obligation as established by |our debt commission, but an amount | constderably in excess of such obliga- n | “Ts it the policy of the administration ' payments of obligations due | | to accept | from foreig: s in depreciated curren- cies while requiring payment of obliga- | tions from our own citizens in gold or currency which is constantly appreci- ating in purchasing power Senator Robinson. Why not look at the subject from | the standpoint of P rather than British taxpaver.” Senator Robinson said that with the deficit in the Treasury approximating $2.250,000,000. and with Congress fac- ing great difficulty in its effoit Lo bal- ance tbe budget, this Government fs going out of its to reduce | amount which n recefyed | foreign debtor governments., This, he | said with sarcasm. was to relieve their taxpayers from hardship and finan-ial | strain, Foreign Advantage Shown. abandoning the gold standard and depreciating their currencies,” Senator Robinson, “governments which are in debt to the United States have obtained a great advantage over us as competitors in foreign commerce. One of the penalties of the policy referred to is found in meeting gold payments. Is an effort to be made to commit the United States to the absurd and impos- | sible undertaking of paying the losses h foreign government will incur, by reason of changes in their financial policies. policies which on the whole seem fruitful of gain to them and of disadvantage to us? | ““Any reduction of debt settlements, especially when proposed by Mr. Mellon, | will require very careful consideration | by the Congress in order to safeguard the best interests of the Government hich Mr. Mellon is presumed to rep- BE" enator Connally of Texas, Demo- | crat, also attacked the reported attitude | of Ambassador Melion in regard to the payment of the war debts to the United | States | " "Senator Smoot of Utah, replying to questions put him by Senator Connally, said he did not know what the attitude of Ambassador Mellon was, but that he | himself was opposed to any cancellation 'nr reduction in these war debts owed the United States. Senator Smoot is | chairman ot the Senate Finance Com- | mittee and was a member of the Debi Commission which fixed the payments due the United States by the forefgn Qebtors. the American from that tax- of the from were placed on guard at| is under | " demanded | the | said | PASSES T8H DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE Dr. Wolters Has Eaten One Peanut Since He Began Fast February 28. One peanut in 18 days is all the food that has passed the lips of Dr. Fred F. Wolters, 57 vears old, since he imposed a hunger strike upon himself February 28 to protest unemployment in general and his own inability to find “suitable work™ in particular. Dr. Wolters, having essayed hunger strikes on several previous both here and abroad. submitted him- self to alienists for examination before { declaring this one lest it be said he is insane Doctors Find Him Sane. Himself 2 graduate of the University of New Zealand and holder of post- graduate degrees, Dr. Wolters was able although they found him abnormal in certain_respects. The hunger-striker. interrupted while taking his daily walk in today's chill although he was firm he felt no hunger. growing weaker daily He was in his determination, however, tarve himself to death unless given iitable” employment The single peanut Dr. Wolters picked up while strolling through a 5-and-10- icent store, he said, but that was last Saturday. Dr. Wolters is a_former emplove of the Library of Congress who resigned in 1926 to protest promotion of other employes over head, and since has failed in se attempts to be reinstated his Ekes Out Meager Living. For the past five months he has b living at ths Salvation Army’s Reli Hotel, 119 Pennsylvania avenue, while eping and clerical work on an odd-job sis h the small amount of money earned in this way, he has been able to eke out a modest existence, but his life savings are exhausted Since beginning his hunger strike, Dr. Wolters has gradually lost weight with the result that his clothes are now considerably too large for him Dr. Welters was born I'but is a naturalized citizen | country |SALES TAX PARLEY SET FOR TOMORROW BY G. 0. P. IN HOUSE (Continued From First Page.) | ke b | due to the condition of the c dustry in the Western State At its meeting today the Way: Means Committee also discuss tending the exemption from taxation of leased newspaper wires to leased radio wires, but no decision was reached Whisky Tax Considered. It also took up an amendment pro- |posed by Representative Dickinson, Democrat, of Missouri to put an addi- | tional tax of $5 a gallon on medicinal | whisky. for anoth and d ex- her meeting intended to introduce a bill to allow tributions from turns, Such action by former Secretary | Mellon last December The present law permits individuals to deduct contributions to charity, but | does not extend this right to corpora- | tions. | Belief that a manufactures sales tax | soon would be absorbed largely by in- | dustry because of competitive condi- tions was expre:sed today by Crisp Most of the protests I am receiving against the 225 per cent manufactur- ers’ tax is from the | themselves, who claim that the be compelled to absorb the taxes,” Georgia Democrat told newspaper men “I believe that virtually all of the will be absorbed, and I hope " the sponsor oOf the new 96,000,000 reveriue bill added. “Sel- dom will ‘it be reflected in the price to the consumer.” Cooper Sees Jobs. Meanwhile Representative Cooper. Republiean, Ohio, in a statement said the 1 cent a gallon on imported foreign | cil carried in the bill woula return more than 300,000 railrozd employes to_work if it were approved ‘No foreign trade will do th he | said. “The only cure for decreased | freight shipments that will have posi- | tive and permanent value is the in. , creased consumption of American goos in American markets “‘Proper protection of the American | petroleum industry would revive em- | ployment in the great oil States west of the Mississipi and would enable the | 22,000,000 residents again to become customers for the Nation's manu- | factured goods, stfinulating a flow of traffic which would save the railroads | of the Nation.” EMPLOYMENT INCREASES " linoi —Show Slight Improvement. CHICAGO. March 17 (#)—Employ- ment in 1,373 Illinois industrial estab- lishments 'increased two-tenths of 1 per cent during the month ending Feb- ruary 15, the State department of la- ald today. their income tax re- was recommended of the Treasury will the | Figures in Illinois ever, among the 296.746 wage earners, due to wage cuts and curtailment of operating schedules jemployed 6.3 per cent more workers | and increasel its pay roll 124 per cent, offering the brightest picture in the State. Wood products, textiles and clothing and millinery industries also reported expansion in operations. _TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, March 17 (#)—The foreign office has sent a new protest to Guatemala, alleging that article XVI of the Washington abitra- tion treaty of 1930 has been violated malan authorities and citizens are again performing official acts on Honduran Territory of Manguito and Chacha- hualia. University to Start Building. RICHMOND, Va, March 17 (Spe- cial) —Work is to start immediately on Maryland Hall, the new biology build- ing of the University of Richmond, Dr. F. W. Boatwright, president of the uni- versity, has announced. The building is to cost $125,000, and will contain 24 rooms and a large lecture hall. It is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy by the first of next year. Nursing Class Meets. HERNDON, Va., March 17 (Special). Nine members of the Red Cross home nursing class met at the home of Mrs. R. 8. Crippen Tuesday. The class, which is an outgrowth of the Red Cross nursing class condueted here last Sum- mer by Mrs. Fannje Lou Seamans, coun- ty nurse, has been supplying articles of clothing to the nurse for use in Falrfax County. - occasions, | to convince the scientists of his sanity, | drizzle, paused long enough to say that | to | the | {eking out a meager living doing book- | 3 | in Germany. of lh)w‘ This likewise was passed over | Acting Chairman Crisp also said he ! | corporations to deduct charitable con- | manufacturers | Pay rolls decreased 2.8 per cent, how- | The fur and leather goods industry Honduras' complaint is that Guate- | —And Right in Washington | i H Finland's Mir | of the last two to eng: ter to the United St: | one of the sports of g. although S| VOTE RECORD SET IN NORTH DAKOTA ring M- | S 57.104 Democratic Ballots Most G. 0. P. Delegates to} Cast to Give Roosevelt Easy Margin. FARGO, N. Dak., March 17 lican North Dakota ma breaking demand for Democratic lots in T y's primary ele expressed preference for Gov lin D. Roosevelt of New York as the Democratic presidential choice. How the voters by the thousands urged into the Democratic primary to vote in the contest b Roosevelt and Gov. William H. Mur- ray of Oklahoma was told as returns were compiled from more than half the State early today. Figures from 1456 of the 2235 precincts showed that Democratic ballots had been c Repub- State’s 57,104 with bring the total to arcund 70,000. G. 0. P. Inferest F The previous high vote of the Dem- ocrats in a presidential preference pri- mary was in 1924. when 13.113 wel registered. The high Democratic vote his year was believed by some poli- | tictans to be due in part to a general | lack of interest in the Republican con- test, where only Dr. J. I France of Maryland end Jacob S. Coxey, O competed for the preference vote President Hoover was not entered on the preference ballot. Dr. France won out over Coxey With the preference vote near com- pletion, tabulation of returns on dele- gates to the national conventions was begun today. The delegates are not | bound by the preference vote Both Gov. Roosevelt and Gov. Mur- ay are contesting for control of North Dakota’s 10 national Democratic dele- h a slate of his own, but since the delegates are listed on | the ballot 2lphabetically and not ac- cording to their preference for Presi- dent, a split group is possible. This also complicates the tabulation of the returns Eleven Delegates for On the Republican side 11 national delegates favorable to dent Hoover and another in- if elected, to vote for a “Pro- ' Neither France nor Coxey had ¢ pledged delegates. turns from 1456 precincts gave | for Democratic presidential preference, 7.270 23.035. For preference. pre precincts gave France, 24,914 | gat Hoover. is a group KING CAROL I'S REPORTED SEEKING RECONCILIATION Rumanian General in Italy to Ar- range Money Allowance for | Former Queen Helen. By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, Italy, ol of Rumani 2 day to be trying to effect a reconcil tion’ with his divorced former wi : Princess Helen, through a secret emis- | sary, Gen. Candesco The general left last spending two days here. His missior | was understood to have been ostensib | to arrange a money allowance for ti | former Queen. who recently arranged to buy a $60,000 villa but was obliged to cancel the arrangement when th snian Parliament rejected an ap- riation proposed by King Caro From Paris Gen. Candesco rec was reported as trying to effect a rec- iliation between Carol and his younger brother, Prince Nicholas SERVANTS CLEARED IN ABDUCTION OF LINDBERGH BABY (Continued From First Page) March }7.—King Ci reported he night after | president of the New Jersey Association | of Police Chiefs Belief that the undercover agents of Col. Lindbergh had made little head- way in their attempt to get the child back was expressed by the same high | official, who said he believed the infant was_alive he New York Daily News said the colonel had hired a private detective agency to augment the searching forces and had given it full power to act for him in negotiating with the kidnapers “AD” BELIEVED KIDNAPERS' e Probed as Bearing on Mystery. NEW YORK, March 17 (#).—Another advertisement of the *Jafsic” series, which some newspapers have speculated might have some connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnaping and arrange- ments for the child’s return for ran- som, appeared in a morning paper today. T accept,” the advertisement, cluded in the classification of “Public | Notices.” read: “Money is ready. You know they won't let r without getting the pac et's make it some sort of C. O. D. transaction Come. You know you can trust Jafsie. | “Jatsie” Messag, in- s more than most of us, for it al Count FINNISH MINISTER SKIIS AT COUNTRY CLUB weather ed 0ppC yeste ates, L. Astrom, has enjoyed th Torded him a bela his homeland. The photo, take Club, shows the i P GOV, WHITE OF OHO FOR DRY LAW VOTE Convention Will Be Wet, Leader Discloses. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, March prising anti-prohibition in Ohlo, with possi 17.—Two sur: developments far-reaching reverberations, entered thé forefront of | national politics today. In Cleveland, Maurice Maschke, na- tional Republican committeeman, dis- closed that for the first time since prohibition, a majority 6f Ohio’s deleza- | can National Con- | tion to the Repub! vention will be known to be wet. At Columbus, the Democratic Gov- ernor. George White, who was listed by the Saloon League as a friend of prohibition when elected two years ago. was on record today favoring a referendum on the eighteenth amend- ment Gov. White, the State’s “favorite son” for the Demc c presidential nomina- n. 1 e ation for the e, at a regional con- the Women's Christian Union at Columbus last first of ting his belief that prohibition had erred in opposing a r vote, the Governor startied the » assemblage with the statement that | he favored resubmission if for no other reason than to refute claims that the liquor laws were forced through during | the World War, when citizens were overseas. uppressed “nays” greeted the of the gray-haired chief execu- tive who started his carcer as a gold- er in_the Klondyke, but he con- tinued: “It is the right of my record at least to make these suggestions for your careful consideration claring that the W. C. T. U. and joon League were “making in their battle against a the Governor told the women_that prohibition had failed to meet the expectations of its suppo; nd that the wisdom of continuing uld be submitted to the people for a final decision. He predicted the Na- tion would remain dry ur sub- s st e for pr on is thousands of Dilemma Ts Likely. tatus of Ohio's delegates to the lican National Conventic . was interpret of ‘that p: tional imeptus for endum plan s seen as a possibly rassing situation for the Ohio del ion, which under ordinary circum- tances would be expected to name Senator Simeon D. Fess as the State’s one member of the Convention Reso- lutions Committee, Fess, chairman of National Committee, is dry, however, and if prehibi made a big issue at the convention several Ohio leaders of the party said the Buckeye delegation propably wonld pass him up for some one with more i views. Republican nding 1 tha an BARBOUR SEES WET CONGRESS WITHIN YEAR Strength Shown in House Vote Is velous Achievement,” He Says in Jersey. March 17— ator ren Barbour, Republi New Jersey, predicted last nigh Congress would be “wet within a eaking before the Passaic Republi- County Committee, he called the 1t House vote on prohibition a velous achievement.” adding ertain the people of the United States oming sick and tired that would follow amendment, ng to taxe of the eighteenth one can be so ulind as not to that prohibition is standing defiantly in way of the times, when we can balance our bud- gets by a change.’ ALLIGATOR IN COURT TO PROVE DEBT CLAIM e how any By the Assoclated Press LOS ANGELES, March 17.—The big alligator, which waddled around the foot ball field as mascot for the Florida Uriversity team in the Thanksgiving game here with the University of Cali- fornia at Los Angeles made ance in Small Claims Court Tuesday. He was cxhibited by his owner, Carl who testified W. E. Jones, Florida Alumni representative, rented the alli- gator for the game, but falled to pay the agreed price of $15 Link sald he wished to prove the alli- ator was a_good mescot, even though Florida lost the contest The $15 was paid and the suit was | dismidsed. ’ Photo | it | appear- LEWIS PROPOSES FEDERAL MERGERS Would Combine Interior and Agriculture Departments, Abolish Commissions. of the Departments of Agri- culture and Interior, abolition of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and the consolidation of several other govern- mental agencles were advocated toda: by Senator Lewis, Democrat, Illinois, as a definite program toward reorgan- izat the interest of economy Ser Lewis said that, in discuss- ing the subject of reorganization last week harged Republican leaders were advocating consolidations without naming any particular agencies that they expected to repeal. He said that subsequently a member of the cabinet replies Lewis himself also had failed nat_agencies he would abolish r Lewis sald he | specifying he should be challenges. In cc cultural it the I rtment, and declared | such con: ation would save $15000,- | 000 and “strike off 15.000 employes." In suggesting abolition of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, he advo- cated returning railroad control to the respective States He said the Shipping Board should become a bureau of the Commerce De- partment, and also recommended that | the Office of Education be put in the Commerce Department. It is now in jInterior. He said the courts could be given jurisdiction to handle matters oo dealt with by the Federal Trade 0 ssion answer \FIGURES DRAFTED BY U. S. TO LIMIT ARMIES OF WORLD __(Continued From First Page.) | decided in the unofficial studies to | take the French colonial army as the basis. The ratio of the troops sta- tioned there to the population in the French colonies was 5.51 Present Status of Armies. Naturally, before the disarmament treaty is finally concluded, other fac- tors than population, namely, area, length of frontiers and the politicel sit~ uation, might have to be considered, | but taking population alone and ap- | plying the two foregoing ratios to the | principal countries, the following in- | teresting results appear: Germany’s army and navy are en- tirely for internal order, with no sup- plementary force for defense against external aggression. | France needs 384,000 men for internal | crder at home and in the colonies, and |has now an additional 387.000, pre- sumably for defense against aggres- sion. Italy needs 86.000 for internal use | and has 581,000 additional egainst ag- gression. Great Britain needs 390,000 at home and in the colonies, and is short 117.- | 000 of this need, with nothing over against aggression | "Russia needs 284.000 internal and | has an additional 335.000 against ag- | gression. | _Japan needs 256,000 internal and has 197.000 additional against aggres:zion | The United States needs 286.000 in- ternal, but is 37,000 short of this num- ber. rength Needed. internal needs respective ermies the great powers wowld be as follows Germany—115.000. PFrance—334,000. 1taly—=86,000. Great Britain—390,000. Russia—284.000. Japan—256,000 The United States—286,000. These, toughly speaking, according to the American plan, would be ab- solute needs. Reductions could there- fore be theoretically made right down to this figure. provided other factors, particularly the political factors, per- mitted. It is apparently an interesting corollary of the American plan that in equity. if the other powers feel obliged to keep some supplement against ex- ternal aggression beyond their needs | for internal order, Germany also might reasonably ask for a similar supple- ment, which, under the treaty of is now denied it. y is accordingly understood to rable to the American plan. Italy is believed to be theoretically favorable, though it may contest the figures in_the unofficial studies. Great Britain, France, Japan and others want more details before expressing them- selves. Armed Thus, if only | considered, the Position of United States. On the main question now formally laid before the conference and discus- sion of which is scheduled to begin April 11, the position of the -United States is said 10 be as follows America beli2ves that reduction will have to be gradual in a series of treaties. | It is ready to see certain weapons izbnll(hrd and others limited, both | directly and by the budgetary method. | It Dbelieves in regional agreements, assuming, however, that they will ex- clude the United States because of its relatively isolated geographical position. It thinks that tation should be extended to trained reserves, though it feels that each country should be free to choose its own military system It has no objection to the interna- tionalization of civil aviation regionally, but it sees no reason why it should apply 4o the United States It favors the protection of civilian populations against bombing and assing, and to this end America sug- that the use of bombs and gas ould be restricted wholly against an invader only in the territory which the invader has wrongfully occupied America is opposed to any supervision over disarmament. except by the exchange of information through the Permanent Disarmament Com- mittee i (Copy Card Party at Braddock. GROVETON, Va., March 17 (Spe-| 1) —The Groveton Community Club giving a card party for charity to- morrow night at the home of Mrs, Ray. mond Crupper in Braddock | LENTEN | SERVICES NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH \ , I Daily, Except Saturday and Sunday 12:20 to 1 O'Clock Speaker Tomorrow— DR. J. R. $1Z00 New York Avenue Pres- byterian Church Auspices Federation of Churches