Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1932, Page 2

A—2 »¥» WOMEN SUPPORT DRYS AT HEARING Vigorous Opposition Voiced to Any Modification of Present Laws. ‘Vigorous tion to the modifica- tion of the prohibition laws was ex- pressed before a Senate Judiciary Sub- committee today by spokesmen for more than 150 prohibitionists, mostly women, who crowded the big commit- tee room. Miss Vida Milholland, New York, member of the Woman's Committee for Law Enforcement, advocated withdraw- ing from the medical profession the vilege of prescribing liquor. “The medical profession,” she said. “s one of the most honoreble in ihe world, but facts prove that some of its members are no more capable of withstanding the bootlegger's bribe than individuals of other professions. “To exempt doctors any further from obedience to the eighteenth amendment is to give a dangerous loophole to the outlawed liquor traffic.” Improved Conditions. Mrs. A. Haines Lippincott, Camden, N. J., chairman of the New Jersey Com- mittee of the Women's National Com- mittee for Law Enforcement, said: “New Jer: has an unsavory reputa- tion in to the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. * * * “As a lifelong resident of New Jersey, I can testify that conditions, as far as liquor is concerned, ere infinitely bet- ter than before prohibition. * * * “‘We citizens have just been too in- | FRED B. PERKINS, address the Woman's National Commit- tee for Law Enforcement at a meeting tonight in the Washington Auditorium. WOMEN DRYS HIT WET PLATFORMS Mrs. Colvin Tells Session different in the elections of officials and too disinterested in the appoint- nt of others who have enforcement . Lippincott said “a Police Court w in Camden, N. J, in Apri], 1982, warrants issued for the arrest of the officers of our prohibition admin- They Will Set Up Third Party if Needed. Wet planks in both major party plat- forms would cause the drys to get to- Providence, R. I, attorney, who is to| istrator, Comdr. John D. Pennington, | gether and support their own nominee when they raided a so-called ‘soft|for President, Mrs. Leigh Colvin of New drink parjor’ which was generally| york warned delegates to the three-day known to dispense unlawful liguor, and | session here of the Woman's National from which evidence was taken to|Committee for Law Enforcement yes- prove this belief. ““This lack of co-operation to enforce lquor regulation would have been evi- denced in this Police Court juc ‘whether there were prohibition or not.” Blames Liquor for Divorce. Mrs. Richard Aldrich, New York, said “drinking brings divorce.” She said she had “never known of a divorce between two drys.” There was applause as Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, president of the National 'oman’s Democratic Law Enforcement , asserted: \“This country is dry. Make no mis- fake about that. And if there is any doubt about it, let one of the political es again name a wet candidate for dent in 1932, and the constitu- tional men and women of this country will give them such a licking as they never dreamed of, and 1928 won't be & circumstance. “The time has come in America." Mrs. Nicholson said, “for democracy to choose between America and the Con- stitution on the one side and of nulli- fication and the wets on the other. Let us give prohibition a chance; the wets have had their day and failed.” Mrs. Nicholson said she was “glad to see” Rufus Lusk of the Crusaders, anti- prohibition organization, present. Says Wets Are Young. Lusk, standing in a corner at the front of the crowded room, smiled as Mrs. Nicholson said: “The head of the Crusaders said here last week that all of the members of their organization were very young men. That is our con- tention, those that are joining these wet organizations were in most cases too young to know the evils of the saloon era. “If these officers and workers in these wet organizations were relieved of their large salaries—all this high-pressure campaign they are conducting would fall flat “These selfish millionaires,” she con- tinued, “with their rich women allles, Who are demanding resubmission, re- m} or a referendum, know full well it if they should get what they are demanding it would bring chaos in our country, especially at a time when it is staggering under the greatest depres. sion in our history. “They say if we bring back liquor we Backed by Distillers. “It was indeed amusing,” she said, “to_hear the head of the Woman's Prohibition Reform Organization tell of the rapid growth of their misnamed organization before this committee last week. She did not tell how her or- !nnlnuun had paid workers to go from | tate to State making house-to-house | canvasses getting innocent and unsus- yecz signers that they were working or reform, when as a matter of fact they were working for repeal. ““These rich ‘wet’ soclety women, who | are determined to have their booze, have the help of their allies, the Asso- clation Against the Prohibition Amend- TS In their efforts t back liquor.” i Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin of New York, ;rmldenr. of the Women's Christian emperance Union of New York State, said prohibition “has been a decided success. But politicians have failed. Wealthy men who have made money in the manufacture of liquor and those ‘Who expect to turn industrial alcohol plants into the manufacture cf bever- ! age alcohol by the repeal of pronibition | —these have failed “Those who put appetite above loyal- ty % laws, the ones who finance boot- leggers and criminals, Government of- ficlals who wink at violations of law and share in the profits of illegal sales, men who preach violation of laws the; do not approve—these have failed. Cites Other Failures. * “The city administrations which pro- tect law violators and the politiclans who become immensely wealthy through connivance with the underworld, State governments which have repealed laws against bootleggers and criminals and | prohibit the State courts from punish- ing violators of the Constitution—these have falled.” Pleads for Present Law. Continued agitation of the liquor uestion leads to lawlessness, Mrs. | lushmore Patterson, chalrman of the Allied Women, told ‘the subcommitiee. | “We earnestly ask you to vote to retain the eighteenth amendment,” she “and 0 use your great power toward its maintenance and enforce- mcnt by quieting this agitation that has liquor as its end and lawlessness as its means.” | She sald the dry women of the ! country ask this not only for the pres- ervation of the prohibition law, but for the preservation of all law and order. “We also ask it that you may find time to concentrate upon a worthier subject than alcohol,” she cuncluded. Answering the <et argument that al- cohol is still used as a beverage despite | rohibition, she admitted prohib'tion not cut off the supply of liquar, but said, “We cannot visualize less alcohol consumption with any suggestion so far offered.” Miss Margaret Hamilton of the New, York State Woman's Committee for | drinking has increased among high #chool and college students is refuted by the testimx of prominent educa- Association: Alfred E. Stearns terday. President Hoover is conceded, even by the wets, to be a firm and unchangeable dge | supporter cf prohibition, Mrs. Colvin declared, but should the Republicans adopt a wet plank it means sure defeat for them. Cail at White House. Headed by Mrs. H. W. Peabody. presi- dent of the committee, a delegation of the dry women cailed at the White sented to President Hoover a bound col- lection of his own speeches and utter- ances on the prohibition subject since 1925 &nd also a set of resclutions adepted by the committee, in which it declared that the committee cannot accept any recommendation of either political party to support any dry candi- date on & wet platfcrm. “We could not trust the sincerity of any candidate willing to lend himself to such a plan,” the resolutions set forth. The dry women turned to Congress this morning to lay their opposition to modification or repeal before Senator Blaine's subcommittee of the Judiclary Committee. Will Form Third Party, “The drys mean business,” Mrs. Col- vin said yeste) , “and will stand by the Constitution. If thrown out of the two great parties, they will form, not a third party, but a dominant party.” Mrs. Lon O. Hocker of - Missour, president of the Daughters of the American Constitution, said “Gov. Byrd certainly shocked the dry women of America when he came out for resub- mission.” - The women hold the balance of polit- ical power, she declared, and do mnot intend to be “tricked into voting for a wet candidate on a dry platform or for a dry candidate gn a wet platform.” She contended there was no need for a resubmission plank in either party plat- form because the Constitution sets out the only legal means of changing the law, and change brought about by any other method would be illegal and con- sequently not binding. Hit “Wet Propaganda.” Last night four women speakers at- tacked what they characterized as “Wet propaganda.” Mrs. Clayton Eulette of Chicago de- scribed the wet movement throughout the country 85 “the most tremendous propaganda campaign the world Has ever known.” She said it is being con- ducted by “those determined to rein- state the liquor : business because it would be profitable to themselves, It is foolish' to blame the depression ou the eighteenth amendment since the depression is world-wide, she asserted. ‘Mrs. Jessa Nicholson, president of the Woman’s National Democratic League for Law Enforcement. told of the dry mission of & megazine, the Woman Voter, which lhtnpubumm. Sne ap- for sul 3 pe:‘l:: ml:gfi Aldrich, president of the Woman's Law Enforcement Com= mittee of New York, said the physical effects of liquor on the nervous systems of the wets is one of the principal rea- sons for “their warped moral view of ‘prohibition. Statistics Are Quoted. Statistics indicating that prohibition has been of enormous economic benefit to the country were quoted by Mrs. Helen Patten Hanson of Kansas City, Mo. At the afternoon mecting Mrs, Han- son had appzaled to the women to com- bat wet propagenda with prohibition fects. She said the arguments of the opponents of the eightecnth amend- ment were the cause of much of the present-day lawlessness. Speaking on the history of the eight- eenth amendment, Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Iowa, former vice president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Tnion, declared that “prohibition was h> most unenimcus expression of pub- lic opinion in the Nation's history.” Play Is Presented. Hcuse shortly after noon today and pre- | THE EVENING VETERAN OPPOSES BONUS PAYMENT Col. Benjamin Castle Blames “Self-Appointed” Lead- ers for Demand. By the Associated Press. Demands for payment of the two bil- lion dollars outstanding on ‘eterans' bonus certificates were blamed today by Col. Benjamin Castie of New York upon “a lot of self-appointed political leaders.” He made the statement in & brief hearing by the House Ways and Means Committee, saying he represented the Veterans' Committee for Reducing the Cost of Peace. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines will tell the committee tomorrow of the possible effects to be expected from the pay- ment, and Charles G. Dawes, head of the Reconstruction Corporation, Wwill testify Priday in opposition to the pay- ment. Hines, who has had more experience in dealing with veterans' affairs than any other high official in the Govern- ment service, was ready today to go be- fore the committee to present the ad- ministration's opposition. However, he gave way at the suggestion of the com- mittee to out-of-town witnesses. “I want to state my o??mluon to the Patman cash payment bill,” Castle said. “I resent any one coming before this | committee and saying they speak for 4,000,000 veterans, They don't repre- sent me; I don’t want it. “There are a great number of veter- ans in the United States who are not organized, and if they could be heard they would say they don't favor the bonus.” Castle sald World War veterans are “badly led by a lot of self-appointed political leaders” in seeking a bonus payment. He added he r led war service as the inherent obligalion of every able-bodied citizen. Fears Specil Class. “Y¥et we are tending to the veterans & special c tinued. “I think aV Government can afford for veterans should be spent on disabled veterans. g lpgelr also as a taxpayer. When I ses 26 per cent of the national bud- get going to veterans' relief, I want to know why it is necessary. just after the “Why was it that American Legion Convention voted { down the bonus, a member of Congress announced immediately he would in- troduce a bill for cash payment of the bonus? “I think the American pesple are willing to pay for the care of disabled veterans, but If history is any criterion, payment of the bonus now is only the beginning of a juggernaut that will { lead to hysteria.” Capt. Knowlton Durham, another in- dependent veteran who accompanied Castle, said, “If Congress had intended making a cash payment before i945, it would have written the law differently.” Castle favored eliminating interest on veterans' certificate loans. Durham suggested the interest might be reduced to what the loan money cost the Gov- ernment. Sees Mellon's Hand. Both Castle and Durham formerly were identified with the Ex-Service Men's Anti-Bonus League. Durham said the league had been disbanded no longer necessary. After the hearing Representative Patman, léading bonus sponsor, issued a statement in wi he sald this ague had been s principally by donations from 'w W. Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury. Patman added: “The Mellon connection has made the name offensive. The name has been changed to Veterans' Committee to Re- duce the cost of Peace. Patriotic hands, but Mellon's volce. “Col. Castle admitted the interest payments should be eliminated on Vet- erans’ loans. This can cnly be defended on the ground that the maturity value of a certificate is due now. Otherwise, interest payments should continue. He admits full payment is due, but is against making the pn'ymentv" DEBATE BONUS BILL. ndemns :: Patman Defends Over Radio. ‘Terming the sed $2,000,000,000 soldiers’ bonus bill & 1 heresy” that would bring aboufi the “collapse of American credit and fake the present panic look like a ne babe,” Rep- resentative Hamilton ish, jr. Repub- Jican, of New York, attacked the meas- ure in & radio debaté last night with Representative Wright Patman, Demo- crat, of Texas, author of the measure. The debate was broadcast over the Co- lumbia System. The bill, now before the House Ways and Means Committee, was defended as s sound financial measure by Repre- sentative Patman, who declared “the gold standard can be maintained as long as we have 40 per cent in gold for every dolar in currency outstanding, and we can issue $2,500,000,000 and still have that percentage in gald reserve to back it up.” T?] bill as written by Patman pro- poses that currency be issued to pay in full the balance due World War vet- erans on their adjusted compensation certificates, and, according to its spon- sor, would mean the immediate distribu- tion of $18 per capita in tbe United States, as well as bolstering of credit in the ratio of $10 to every $1 of currency issued. Patman predicted passage of the leg. islation. while Fish was equally certain there is “no chance whatever of the | adjusted service certificate bill becom- ing law over the President's veto.” APARTMENT IS RAIDED Carence P. Bowers to Face Charge Fish Co after the Detrolt Legion convention s | Other speakers at the\:]flemmn ses;l slon were Mrs. George Wupperman of New York end Mrs. William Alexander St Eermtiting Gaming. of Coumbus, Ohio. Mrs. Alexander | Clarence P. Sowers, 35, of the 3000 sald that the reason for attempts to block of Fourteenth street, was to be recure the repeal or modification of arraignin, {he dry law is because it is being en- chargs of permitting gaming following Lights All Night in Streets. RIVERDALE. Md., April 20 (Special). —Mayor Max Voliberg has been advised by the Potomac El-ctric Power Co. that all night street lighting will commence iomonpy_evening. i oreed. a raid on his apartment by the police Befor> the regular session last evening, vie: squad yesterday afternoon. a p'ay entitled “The Long, Long Trail" The raiding party, headed by Sergt. wr.tten by Mis, Rushmcre Patierson, R, A Johnson, declarsd they obtained chalrman_ of Allied Wcmen, was pre- money, cards and dice as evidence. Six sented. It depistec the story of. illicit men foun in the apartment with Sow- liquor from the time it is ordered until ers wers bocked as witnesses. Sowers it reached the dinn:r tabl cbtained his liberty on $500 bond. C}'hfi, E\!‘;‘A g blano'.(l:l’ ll)n'l»l(x.l pl:)‘. —- “Challenge y Caroline water Mason, will be pres:nted under the di- CORRECTION rection of Mrs. Blanche Morgan Foote _ The principal speaker at the closing session of the convention this evening Sergt. York Erroneously Reported DUl be Fred B.Perkins, an attorney of | 54 «Anti-Prohibition” Meeting. 2 LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 20 (P).— Sergt. Alvin York, World War hero, | was the principal speaker at the closing session of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon League's annual convention here last weck. O. G. Christgau of Washington, also spoke. ., The meeting was erroneously referred — .tl; in ‘&g,?p}:x':gl at the time as that of yilis ity achiboix, and Savier B Yiee) i i L e nall, principal of Germanwown Friends' correction Schocl, Philadelphia. 2 hmrsrz%“m o Smith, &nfl}n l SsIN % of the s oul tate organ! lon of the National Woman's Democratic MISSING BOY FDUND Law Enfcrcement League, said “the geoplz of Missourl approved of the pro- | DALLAS, Tex. April 20 (#).—Robert ibition of the legal! liquor traffic | Marshall Hurt, 10, for whom an ex- both as a State and as s national | tended search was made In the belief policy.’ | he might have been kidnaped, was found “Experience has shown that there is today at White Rock Lake, near Dallas. no such thing as Stare rights where He had gone fishing at the lake. He tht traffic 8 concerned,” she was o &‘M— parents, in Police Court today on a | glad to make this| STAR. Arts Club Do SHAKESPEARE SCENES GIVE! es “Macbeth” N TODAY AND TOMORROW. sleep-walking scene from “Macbeth,” one of a number to be given tonight and tomorrow night at the Arts Club, 2017 I street. ‘The players, left to right, ave: Anne Ives, Elizabeth Sypher and Murray Sheehan. —Star Staff Photo. TACASSESSMENT MINIMUM OF ARMS RULING REVERSED Cook County Levies Not Held Invalid by State Supreme Court. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, IIl, April 20.—Coun- ty Judge ‘Edmund K. Jarecki’s dr‘cl}lon‘ bolding the 1928 and 1929 Cook County tax assessments invalid was reversed by the Illinois State Supreme Court in an _oral order today. | The Jarecki decision held that the | tax rolls of 1928 and 1929 were grossly fraudulent, particularly because of Lhe omission of personal property from the rolls, contrary to Illinois law, which provides for equal taxation of real and personal property. Case Bitterly Fought, The case was fought bitterly in the county court, with the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers seeking to have the tax assessments declared Invaila ing to prevent such a decision. Mayor Anton Cermak sald before Judge Jarecki handed down his deci- sion, “If that case is decided against us, we might as well close the city.” Its| great importance was due to the fact that because of & “taxpayers’ strike,” there was more than $130,000,000 in taxes still owed for the years 1928 and 1929. The Jareckl decision made it practically impossible to collect these back taxes. Added to this was the fact that the 1930 levy was based on the 1928 assess- ment, and thus of questionable validity if the 1928 taxes were thrown out. Appeal Is Made. ‘The Citv Hall was not closed, how- ever, and the case was carried to the Supreme Court. In the meanwhile the tax machinery of Chicago and Cook County was revised with a single asses- sor placed in complete charge in place of the old board of five assessors and J. L. Jacobs, efficlency expert, appointed to that highly responsible post. Disregarding the shadow cast over the | 1930 assessment because of the Jarecki | decision, the county officials sent out the tax bills for that year and now are collecting those taxes in sufficient amounts to pay up some of the back | salaries of school teachers and other | county and municipal employes. The | State Legislature is now pondering over | the question of a penalty date for the | 1930 taxes. EX-POLICEMAN FACES | LIQUOR TRIAL TODAY; Clande Phillip Cool, Former Radio Repair Man, Accused of Using Police Car for Delivery. Former Policeman Claude Phillip | Cool. 34, went on trial in Police Court toaay on a charge of illegal possession of liguor resulting from his arrest March 15 while allegedly in the act of delivering « gallon of whisky in & Po- lice Department automobile. Cool, who was a radio repairman at- | tached to headquarters, was seized by | members of the vice squad in command of Sergl. N. O. Holmes when he drove up to & house in the 1400 block of Nirth strect, allegedly to deliver two half-gallon jars of whisky. Cool was sus- pended at the time and later a recom mendation for his dismissal was ap- vroved by police officials. Cool is being tried before Judge Isaac R. Hitt. He Is said to have used a de- parimental automobile employed in |rodio repair work for the alleged de- ivery. WORKERS FORCED _ TO REFUND PAY, COUNCIL CHARGES| (Continued From First Page.) | Executive secretary of the Building Trades Council, in connection with the | work on Paul School. | In each instance the tile setters said they raceived $150 an hour for an 8- hour day, which is the prevailing scale, and were required to turn back 50 cents an hour to the foreman, acting as col- lector, the undertsinding being that | this money was to go to the general contractors. The laborers, who, it is explained, do not come under the prevailing scale law, received, according to their afidavits. 40 cents an hour, and returned 10, with the same undertsanding. ' CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COAL FIELD TO RESUME Companies Announce They Have More Orders for Fuel Than at Any Time in 12 Years. By the Associated Press PUNXSUTAWNEY ., April 20— | The Central Pennsyivania bituminous coal flelds heard good news today. B. M. Clark, general manager of the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co., and | A" J. Musser, supc-intendent of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co., an- nounced that a five to six day schedule will be maintained for their mines dur- 1932. Both said they have more or enxnreonthn-tmyumodunn‘" the past 12 years. ‘The companies are two fl operations in the of the largest four counties. - and city and county attorneys attempt- | 1S GOAL OF PARLEY Nations Agree That Strength Should be Lowest Consist- ent With National Safety. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, April 20.—The Werld Dis- armament Conference approved today the principle of reduction of armaments “to the lowest point consistent with na- tional safety and the enforcement by common action of internaticnal obliga- tions.™ Approval of the principle was cpposed |only by Maxim Litvinoff, head of the | Soviet delegation. Litvinoff said the tion was nct related to any effort to cure disarmainent. Following up the American apd Nalian proposals last week, Sir John Simon, British for>gn minister, pro- | posed a resolution indorsing the prinei- ple of “qualitative” disarmament; that is, the | types of weapons. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson |received W. W. Yen, Chinese spokes- | man, today and entertained Sir John | Stmon at lunch. Sir John's ment of “gualitative disarmament” was | supperted by Ambassador Nadolny for Germany and Foreign Minister Dino Grandi for Italy. This left the Americans, the British, the Italians and the Germans present- certain essive weapons which is op- posed by France. The discussion was adjourned unul tomorrow. ECONOMY GROUP AGREES TO HOOVER now prevails in Congress will come a constructive measure providing for the establishment of the five day work week and for the preservation of wage standards and working conditions for Government employes.” Green said the federation would wel- come the inauguration cof the five-day work week for Government employes were it not coupled with an enforced month's furlough each year without pay, the loss of annual sick leave and other reductions. Brown Sees Hobver. Postmaster General Brown, with a- brief case containing m‘ upon the cost of operating his depart- ment, held a protracted conference to- day with President Hoover, Brown and Secretary of the Treasury Mills were to have appeared today be- | fore the Senate Appopriations Commit- tee to testify upon the appropriation necessary for their departments The hearing was postponed because of the death of Senator Harris of Georgia. The Postmaster General said he had gune over with the President various gures and that some recuctions could be made in the cost of operating the huge Federal postal service While the determined slashing of ex- | penditures proceeded apace in Con- gress, there were expressions of disap- proval from Individual members and some administration officials. Representative La Guardia, Repub- lican, of New York, called the prcyent activity an “epidemic of econom: nd charged it was being sponsored by stock market operators to cover up dishon- | | esty, impair the machinery of govern- | ment and go back to “the methods of 1890.” | Johnson Complains, Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cal-' ifornia, complained bitterly at the fiat' 10 per’ cent cuts ordered in all appro- | priation bills by the Senate, and so far approved in the House. He sald they Were arbitrarily made. { Secretary Wilbur yesterday sorrow- fully went over the Interior Depart- ment appropriation bill with President Hoover. The Budget Bureau cut the | department requests plenty, then the | House knocked off millions, and the | Senate took off 10 per cent more. Wil bur spoke of “the odds and ends that | are left,” and called the enormous re- | duction in Boulder Canyon Dam funds “hocus-pocus.” But on both sides of the Capitol the “epidemic” continued its work, so Con- gressmen soon will have a chance to te themselves a 10 per cent pay cut long with reduciions for other Gov- Tnment workers. TWO DEAD, TWO HELD IN GAMBLING SCANDAL | e | Doctor and Wife Kill Themselves, Viennese Barons Arrested for Fleecing Club Members. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, April 20.—Two Viennese barons were arrested and a physician who had been associated with them committed suicide with his wife yes- terday as a result of a gambling scan- dal in two fashionable clubs here. The prisoners are Baron Otto Gut- | mann-Gelse and Baron Henri Menasse. | The physician was Dr. Hermann Loewy. | His body wis found beside that of his wife in their apartment. Police said they had shot themselves. The authorities are still looking for d man who, they said, acted in concert with the others to fleece their fellow members in ‘the clubs over & period of a year with the assistance of a-chub Wl ‘crooked ohibition of certain classes and | proposal for an indorse- | ing a solid front in favor of abolishing | REVAMPING PLAN (Continued From First Page) - | WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. 1932 IDEBT CANCELING ASSALEDBYBORA Britain’s Failure to Provide Payment Leads to Storm of Protest. By the Associated Press. A new storm of protest against revision or cancellation of the war debts owed this country by European nations has been unleashed in Congress, echoing the declarations of unalterable opposi- tion which rang forth when the one- year moratorium was ratified Jast Winter. Senator Borah, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, from the Senate floor yesterday turned a smash- ing attack on the cancellation idea, speaking unexpectedly after it became known that Great Britain had made no budget provision for payment of the debt installment due the United States next Winter. May Heed Warning. The current moratorium expires in June and, despite President Hoover's message to Congress last December 10, asking provision for “temporary adjust- ments” in the war debts, it has been clear the administration had every in- tention of heeding tie sharp retort of Congress, that the existing moratorium was the limit to which Americen public sentiment would go. Borah warned the European nations not to come to the United States for debt relief until they have disarmed, settled reparations and revised the Ver- sailles trcaty. In his powerful oratorical voice, he told the Senate the World ‘War still goes on, “remorselessly and to some extent more destructively” than on the battlefield. He turned upon the plan of Alfred E. Smith for a 20-year “forgetting” of the debts in exchange for increased foreign trade. “If we forget them for 20 years they will be regarded as canceled. Whatever the good faith in which the pr 1 was put forward, it is & pmw-i for cancellation.” Puts Burden on Taxpayer. ‘The burden, he said, would rest upon the American taxpayer, the benefit on the private investor. Senator Lewis of Illinols, his home State's choice for the Democratic presi- dential nomination, joined in by term- ing the Smith plan “part of an insidi- ous conspiracy” to convince the United States it cannot recover until Europe does. Both followed Senator Reed, Repub- lican, Pennsylvamia, who told the Sen- ate it was his convinetion London would make the payments, providing for them after the June Lausanne conference, and that no move was being made by this administration to extend the mora- cause of his close relation not only with President Hoover but with Andrew W. Mellon, who has just become Ambassa- lor to London. This appointment led | | di | peatedly denied in Washington, that | Mellon” would seek a new understand- ing on the debts. In th: House organized anti-prohibi- tionists seized upon what they termed England’s intention to repudiate war debt payments as another reason why the United States should raise $500,- 1 000,000 from a tax on 2.75 per cent beer. Representative O'Connor of New York, secretary of the Democratic wet | bloc, said repudiation by other nations | simply would mean the American Treasury would have to bear the addi- tional burden. “We've been kidding ourselves for years,” O'Connor said. “Now, it's up to s to face the actualities, for, in spite of everything we can do these other countries are golng to try to cancel their obligations to us. “There is & great doudt in the minds of all concerned whether the tax bill we are now passing will yield the reve- | nue estimated as n to balance the budget. In the event it doesn't— and the expected surplus of $5,000.000 easily may be turned into & $200,000,- 000 deficit—we'll be worse off than we are now. Favor Half Billion Margin. “We shouldn't be doing business on such a narrow margin. If I were bal- arcing the budget, I would figure on half a billion margin to meet the for- cign debt situation and the possibilities of other things we do not now expect. “Then if at the end of the first year | we had a surplus, we could begin to re- | duce these other excise taxes.” O'Connor recalled that 118 signatures ready had been put on the petition pending in the House to take away from |the Ways and Means Committee the O’Connor-Hull bill to_legalize and tax 2.75 per cent beer. He predicted the additional 27 names would be added | shortly. | BUDGET HELD HOPEFUL. | S Chamberlain Schedules Not Fully Satls- fying to All British Parties. LONDON, April 20 (®).— Majorky opinfon on the national government's budget, introduced in the House of Commons yesterday by Neville Cham- | berlain, chancellor of the exchequer, today appeared summed up in the words of one prominent conservative industrialist who described it as “deep- ly disappointing, but mnot dishearten- ing—inconclusive, but in some respects P eral opini ral opinion, on the whol the budget favorably, .luwu'it:'“ m Gwylim Lloyd George, son of the for- | | mer leader of the party, described | as one of the worst budgets in recent | years. Other free-trade Liberals expressed themselves as “thankful for small mer- cies,” and commended the impartiality of the chancellor in granting no one relief because he could not ameliorats the condition of the unemployed and other chief sufferers from the govern- ment economy program. Laborites to Meet, Comment from the Labor group was tax on tea, which James 1 Left Wing member, descn‘::;‘:sn‘w?fr" than the continued extra tax on beer. The Laborites will hold a meeting to- morrow to discuss the budget, George Lansbury, Laborite leader, speaking apparently for himself rather than for his party, said the budget marked the failure of the nztionel gov- ernment and was of hopelessness to the L destitute and hard preseed > DT Brewers, beer drinkers and income tax pavers expressed some indignation that their lot was not made easier. The brewers said continuation of the | extra tax on their product was bad, not only for business, but for revenue as well, in that it reduced consumption to & point where revenue from the added tax fell below that obtained be- fore the levy was boosted. Industries Want Relief, . Om;l;lr?g g;;;l::germon of British n vigorously against what they described as the nbysence of real relief for industty and demanded drastic reductions in the national ex- penditure which they held essential to the recovery of trade. Sugar interests said new calonial preferences proposed in the budget would not affect the price in Great Britain, but one wholesale tea company said & duty on that product would mean an immediate jump in the price. The Stock Exchange indicated today it looked on the new budget favorably and prices were littls affected, except brewery shares, which were weak be- cause of the promise of continuing the beer tax. Tea shares rose slightly as a result of the proposal for s duty on tea. torium. His words carried weight be- | to world-wide speculation, flatly and re- | “a terrible message P BRITAIN MAY SEEK REVISION OF DEBTS AFTER CONFERENCE (Continméd Props First Page.) world. Such a request has been fore- scen by President Hoover, who stated last year that whenever a nation feels that the burden of her debts to the United States is too great, she can pre- sent the facts to the Congress, will decide on the merits of each case. o believed In certain quarters hers t yesterday’s move - berlain, the 'l:'lli.hh chancelior of the exchequer, was made to a great extent with idea in mind. In other quarters, however, a more pessimistic view is taken in connection with the dramatic move of Chamber- {iain, It is believed the failure to in- | clude rcrrlnon and debt payments in the British budget is a part of a plan ior common action of all the European debtor powers which have decided not Ito resume pavment of debts after the |end of the Hoover intergovernmenta! | debt holiday. Stracture Might Collapse. Buch a move is consfdered very likely in spite of the extremely serious con- sequences it would have on the world's political and economic affairs. In well informed querters it ls be- ault t! obligation, other na- tions, big and small, will do the same, Furthermore, it is not unlikely that private debts would share the fate of governmental debts, and the whoie structure of the capitalistic credit sys- tem may face a complete collapse. International treaties and pacts do not seem to be at a premium at present; if international commercial and fina: cial engagements go the same way in- ternational treaties seem to be going the world is facing lean years. There are indications that the Euro- pean nations realize the significance of debt repudiation, although they do not take the same gloomy view of its gen- eral aspects as certain American circles are taking. All the same, it is believed every endeavor is being made now so the Lausanne Conference, which in the opinion of many political observers is more important than the Geneva Arms Conference, should give such results that the nations should not be compelled to repudiate debts, but merely their payments until better times. THOUSANDS ARE DUE FOR LAYOFF OR LOSS OF JOB UNDER PLAN imen's would remain within its appro- priations under the furlough system. 3,72 6,000 There will be a slight reduction in th> number of employes est:mated to be furloughed by the Commerce De- Treasury Secretary Mills today had virtually whipped into shape a program for absorbing a 10 per cent ;cut In the appropriations for the Treas- | ury Department next year, and plans to | present it to the Senate Appropriations Committee next Priday. Calling into conference a large gath- ering of his staff, inc! the Assist- ant Secretary and bureau chiefs, the Becretary received and considered vari- ous proposals for accomplishing the 10 per cent cut. Uniformity Planned. Beete” 11! appropeintiony Ter patacisl a) for services in %;vemw departments as a part of its program of cutting the sunply bills by 10 per cent are finally enacted into law, it aj It also was pointed out by officials who have been keeping in touch with the progress of the economy discussion that the standardized plan of furloughs inco: in President Hoover's rec- ommendations to the House would not be in addition to any furioughs that would become necessary under the Sen- ate’s reduction in appropriations. In- stead, jt would have the effect of in- suring a uniform and equitable appli- cation of such furloughs to the Gov- ernment service instead of leaving each department to adopt its own system of keeping within the curtailed allotments | for_salaries. | The strongest reason, however, for {the belief that furloughs rather than | dismissals would be used to meet re- | duced appropriations is the presence in the appropriation bills thus far - ered of a clause to prevent the filling of vacancies during the coming fiscal year, except in emergency cases, and provid. ing that the money thus saved be im- pounded in the Treasury. It was pointed out today that, with this restriction in existence, a depart- ment would not help ftself any toward keeping within a reduced appropriation by dismissals, since the funds resulting from not filling vacancies would have to be impounded. Modification Made. Senate and House conferees made & slight modification in this restriction by providing that such impounding could be dispensed with only upon writ- ten order of the President in such cases as the public interest might require. The Senate began several weeks ago | cutting appropriation bills for the De- partments of Interior, State, Justice, Commerce and Labor to the amount of |10 per cent telow the House figures, 'and it has ordered the Appropriations Committee to take a similar amount from the Treasury-Post Office bill as passed by the House. In arriving at this reduction of 10 per cent in the total of each bill, the Senate reduced the lump sum allow- | ances scattered through the bill for the | confined to disapproval of the proposed | payment of salaries. These reductions | cannot_have the effect of lowering the salary rates, which are definitely fixed by I'w. They mean these bureaus would have less money in & lump sum for the | employment of personal services next year. off. | 3,206 | SPORTS GOODS TAX “BLOW AT YOUTH" Opponents Tel Senate Com- mittee It Amounts to Double Levy for Games. BY the Aszoctated Press. The levy on sporting goods carried in the new revenue bill was called & tax on youth by witnesses whd brought to the Senate Finance Committes today their opposition to various taxes car. ried in the measure. Opposing the sporting goods tax, Jullan W. Curtiss of New York City, representing the A. G. Spalding Co., said “most of the goods we manufacture go {rgely to the youth of the country,” and the tax would barm their physical ! development. He said that about 25 colleges have large foot ball receipts, “but in no case do they supply more than enough for athletic needs.~ T Seen as Double Taxation. Since the bill pi to tax also gate receipts, Curtiss said, “it seems to me to be a case of double taxation.” Curtiss sald 95 per cent of sport goods goes to young people, except ma- terial for golf, which he added was & game for old and young. “Mostly for old fellows like the chair- observed Senator Harrison, Dem- . Mississippi, indicating Chairman Smoot, Republican. Utah Later a new tariff drive opened be- fore the Finance Committee with tne appearance of a group of Westerners to lay down their arguments in behzlf of import taxes on himber and puipwoods, Like the copper tariff advocates who appeared yesterday, they said their ine dustry was hard hit, and the duties were needed to hold back foreign com- petition and retain jobs for American workmen. Arguments for Levy. Arguments for the levy were sented by several 15-minute who appeared in the stream of wit- nesses that came to o] various taxes written into the Dbillion-dollar revenue bill. H. B. Van Duszer, Portland, Oreg, opened the lumber tariff drive, telling the :nmmnm the industry was “des- perate.” “Consider that 100,000 out of 140,« 000 men in our industry are idle,” Van Duzer. “We look ahead to the Fall and Winter. An import tax wn‘imaly be a me;:‘un of reliet.” V_B. Greeley of Seattle, represent= ing the West Coast Lumber Men's As- | sociation, presented a program calling numerous - import “taxes on lumber. He estimated the schedule ke proposed would yield $20,500,000 reve enue annually. “What has | demand for protection?” asked | Couzens, of |~ Terrinic *a Riaec: Mamerer, hat 43, e sent. 51 ox, b 45, per~cent of wmmm-anmn'efis and beyond the jurisdiction of ths Tarift Conmmission. . “The lumber of -G2nada ankly decleres,” said Greely; "It the entire British Empire is is do.ae - tic market. * American lumber will be roducts. ‘To the extent the American producer sells in such markets, it ean only b® at the ruinous established -by Canada’s Jower cost of production and transportation. Ossian Anderson of Everett, Wach,, speaking for' the woodpulp manufae- turers, said the proposed tax would hel to offset the advantage gained by Brll;nln and Sweden in going ‘off the gold s E Ralph Shaffer and E. W. Demarest of Tacoma, joined in the appeal. Dema- rest cited log importations from Canada in appesling for a log tariff and esti- mated 25,000 loggers in his Stat: were out of work. YACHT ADRIFT RESCUED Crew of Nahma Reported Visiting Ashore at Charleston. CHARLESTON, 8. C., April 20 (#).— Richard du Pont's yacht Nahma, res- cued last month off the North Caro- lina coast in & storm, dragged anchor in the Charleston Harbor for 2 miles vesterday and was rescued after two hours of work by Coast Guardsmen. None of the crew, Richard and Vietor du Pont and Scott Townsend,.all of ington, Del., and Benjamin §. Mc- Farland, Philadelphia, could be Jocated. They were visiting ashore after putting in bn:m yesterday on & West Indian cruise. HOBOES LOSE FORTUNE CINCINNATI, April 20 (#).—The hoboes of America will not share in the estate of their once reputed million- aire leader, James Eads Howe, it was disclosed Monday. When Howe died, two years ago, he bequeathed the bulk of his estate, estimated at about $47.- 000, to the hoboes’ organization. The money was to go for charity. However, | & State law voids l:fi‘bequm to char- ity contained in a drawn within a year of death, it was said yesterday by Gordon Cutting, attorney for a bank which Is administrator of Howe's egtate. Cutting said the bulk of the estate William H. McReynolds, director of | would go to Holger Howe, adopted son, classificztion, sald department heads unquestitnably have the authority at rescnt to ed:pt furloughs instead of making dismissals in order to stay within a reduced appropriation. He explained that the purpose and advan- tage of establishing a furicugh plan such as the one recommended in the President’s omnibus economy prcgram is that it would apply the furloughs equitably and enable the departments to operate on the reduced appropriations without disanding forces of trained | employes. | One Cut Agreed On. Although the 10 per cent reductions, which led to curtailing the funds recommended for rsonal services, originated in the te after the House had already made some reduc- tions frcm the budget figures, the House has already sgreed to the Senate's 10 gr cent _cut on one bill—that for the terior Department. The unliorm furlough plan recom- menued by the administration would, as explain:d in a White House state- ment several days ago, apply toe five-| | day week directly to per diem employes by eliminating the equivalent of Satur- day half-day employment, that is 26 days fur] The and the widow. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band, this evening at 8 o'clock at the audi- torfum, Marine Barracks. Taylor Bran- son, leade: Overturt “Reverie’ “In the Silence of the Night,” “La Mariposa”. Pucclal ~Waldteufel “Hungarian Romance™ . “The Atonement of Pan’ Dance of the Nympbs Intermezsm Mo R “The Star Spangled Banner.” furlough mandal with pay elizina If the ieduced and all holidays