Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1932, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1 DAWES OPPOSES BONUS PAYMENT Condemns Demagoguery at Session of House Ways and Means Group. (Continued From First Page.) people, the safe expansion of credit and the return of prosperity au depend upon maintenance of confidence in the soundness of our currency and in the credit of our banks and of our Gov- ernment. “In my judgment, the devastating effects of a consequent loss of general confidence through the inflation of our currency would negative the possibility of real relief by any experiment with flat_ money. “One need but recall what happened to Germany through the inflation of the German mark currency in the few years ending in 1924. “All the arguments which are now made for this proposed issue of fiat money were made by those who at first advocated the increase in German mark currency which finally prostrated the credit and business of that country by 1924 with untold suffering, privation and want on the part of all classes of the German people. “Always, in such experiments, the idea at first is that we can go safely a little way in defiance of right economic principle and avoid disasterous penal- ties by stopping in time. This was proved a delusion. Infiation of a cur- rency once started in a countiy seldom stops short of its complete economic Tuin. “Confidence in the credit structure of cur country and in the banks of the United States has now returned. In eneral, bank deposits have ceased to all and bank failures have been reduced to the minimum. “The effect of a lack of public con- fidence upon the money resources of the people, however, is illustrated by the fact that on December 31, 1929, there ‘were 24,630 banks in the United States with aggregate deposits of $55,289,000,- 000, while on December 31, 1931, two years later, there were only 19,968 banks ‘with $46.261,000,000 of deposits. “In other words, the then existing lack of confidence has resulted in a de- crease in the purchasing power of the people of the United States in these two years of over $9,000,000,000; and it is significant that in these two years when deposits shrunk over $9,000,000,- 000 ther> had been an addition to the amount of money in circulation in the country of over $900,000,000. Confidence Lacking. “It has been confidence and not cur- rency which we have lacked in this country. The inflation of our currency will destroy, in my judgment, the gen- eral confidence in the country which has now been re-established. We al- ready know what the consequences are of the destruction of confidence.” Dawes repeatedly during examination by committee members emphasized that the important thing to business re- covery is a change in “mass attitude.” He assailed overemphasis on New York Stock Exchange operations. ‘fThe mass attitude has changed from a condition of pessimism to a condition of cheerfulness in the mass of the peo- ple,” Dawes said. Then he thrust his pipe into his mouth and leaned forward with a hand pointed toward the committee members, saying: “Look out when you tamper with the foundation of your currency. It will shake the confidence of the world in American credit. “Why, people talk about these pica- yunish operations on'the New York Ex- change. Just compare them with the aggregate business activities of this country and they are nothing. “They are magnified out of all re- lations to the business of the country. It is nothing but & peanut stand. Yet they talk about it more than all the rest of the business in the country.”, “I'm not blaming anybody,” he added. Explains Public Attitude. He said the mass attitude of the people was much like a man picking up the paper st breakfast and saying to his wife; “My God, the country's gone to hell” “He didn't say that, but that's what he meant,” Dawes added with a smile. “Then two months later he picks up the paper and says: ‘My dear, condi- tions are better, only 135 banks failed yesterday.” " Dawes, striking the table before him, eontinued i ‘It isn't what Wall Street thinks down there at that peanut stand; it's what the great mass of the people feel, and they're feeling better, take it from me. “Excuse me if I seem overcompli- mentary to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Great credit is due the corporation, but I don’t think it did anything but help.” Dawes assailed what he termed “damned demagoguery.” “We could have political bunk and political smut committees down there at the corporation,” he shouted, “but we're doing a business job and, damn it. we're going to continue. Refers to Patman Bill. In reply to questions, Dawes said his bonus testimony referred to the Pat- man bill for cashing the certificates in treasury notes and not to the Owen plan for issuing bonds as the basis for Federal Reserve motes. “We didn't have time for any but our own work,” he said “Icame up here because I was invited and not because I wanted to." Dawes was questioned particularly about the Missouri Pacific loan. He said the portion going to New Yurk banks “was only part of the picture, but did release securities to give us adequate collateral for the loan.” Dawes said he considered most of the congressional comment on the corpora- tion’s activities was “just.” “We have to make big loans; these are big corporations,” he said 90 Minutes on Stand. “well, are you through now?” he asked as questions ceased Rainey said there were no more ques- tions, and Dawes left after one and one-half hours on the stand. The next witness was Prof. E. W. Kemmerer of Princeton University, who served as an expert on the Dawes Reparations Commission. “I feel this legislation involves the | welfare of the country for years to come,” he said. “It would probably do great harm to the American people and be detrimental to the great bulk of ex- service men.” ALIENS LEAVING U. S. EXCEED THOSE ARRIVING £,112 Deported, 6,200 Departed Voluntarily, Doak Says in March Report. For the first time in the history of $he immigration service, deportation of aliens in March exceeded the immi- gration entries for that month, Secre- tary of Labor Doak announced today. Puring March there were 2,000 immi- grants Idmfllud and 2,112 aliens deport- ed, he said. In addition, the records show, 750 warrants were canceled after apprehen- sion and aliens permitted to depart wvoluntarily. There were 289 indigent aliens removed at Government expense and 6,200 immigrant aliens departed voluntarily during the month. In other words, Secretary Doak said, *there were 2,000 who came to us legal- 1y and 9,361 who departed.” i HARLES G | | C | and committee member. Dawes Opposes Bonus Paymen DAWES, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, testified today before the House Ways and Means Committee against payment of the $2,000.000,000 soldiers’ bonus certificates. talking with Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader He is shown —A. P. Photo. NULLIFICATION HIT AT RY MEETING Rhode Island Bar Official| Says Doctrine Is Most Dan- gerous in Nation Today. “There is no middle ground between revolution and obedience,” Fred B. Per- kins, secretary of the Rhode Island Bar Association, declared last night at the concluding session of the three-day meeting in the Washington Auditorium of the Woman's National Committee | for Law Enforcement. | Attacking present day “nullification- | ists,” the speaker expressed the hope | that “the “former Governor of New York, once he gets hic coat off in order to carry on his warfare with the | present Governor of New York, may | continue thus ready for action and| devote his talents to attacking this| doctrine of nullification for there is| much more harm in it to our American | institutions than in any platitudes which | the present Governor of New York may have uttered in an offhand way.” | Upon conclusion of his address, the | dry women plt to support Mr. | Perkins as a can te for the Senate | from Rhode Island. | Declared Dangerous. Nullification was characterized by Mr. Perkins as “the most insidious and | dangerous doctrine in this country to- day.’ “It is insidious because it is a doc- trine of half-truths,” he continued. “It is in fact a doctrine of revolution and if so named would be harmless, but masquerading in different guise sounds plausible, It is dangerous because it has the backing of men of standing in this country. It is dangerous because‘ it goes to the root of successful demo- cratic government in attacking the necessity of observance of law.” | At another point he said: “This doc- trine of nullification far transcends the | issue of prohibition. It is not a ques- tion of prohibition at all. Any man 1s free to advocate repeal of the eight- | TWO DEAD AS TRAIN S DERALED N OHO Removal of Bolts Blamed in Norfolk and Western Wreck. By the Associated Press, PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, April 21.—A passenger train on the Norfolk & W ern Railroad was wrecked 20 miles east of here early today and two of its crew were killed. Railroad investigators said the wreck was caused by the malicious removal of four bolts from a switch. An 18-year- old boy was arrested for questioning. The train, No. 4, bound from Cincin- nati to Norfolk, Va., was traveling 65 miles an hour when it struck the switch ‘Two express cars and the locomotive were overturned, and an express car and a combination passenger and bag- gage car were derafled but remained upright. A Pullman and dining car remained on the rails. Killed and Injured. Engineer J. H. Myers and Fireman J. J. Kemp, both of Portsmouth, died in the wreckage. Two mail clerks and an express messenger were injured, but will recover. The three injured were taken to an Ironton hospital. They are, Carl ‘Wright, 43, of Columbus, Ohio, a mail clerk; J. H. Van Hemmert. 50, of Sar dinia’ Ohio, a mail messenger and D. A Cole of Hinton Va.. an express messen- ger. Wright suffered a dislocated shoul- der and the other two had sprained backs. Most of the occupants of the Pull- mans were asleep when the accident occurred, at 1:37 am While badly shaken nore of them reported serious injuries. Double tracks were torn ud and the railroads telegraph lines were destroyed for many yards by the im- pact of the heavy locomotive and coaches. The two express cars and the engine were badly damaged. Bolts Found Removed. Railroad detectives said track in- eenth amendment or change in the Volstead act. With that amendment and that enforcement act in effect no man is free to disregard them. The spectors found the bolts removed two days ago and had them replaced, and that another inspection found the track all r)l(ghl only a few hours before the wrec doctrine of nullification is wrong as a matter of history, law, political science, logic and morality.” Nullification died intellectually in Webster's reply in the Senate to Sen- ator Hayne of South Carolina, Mr. Perkins declared, and practically it was the basis of the Civil War and was buried at Appomattox. Names Supporters. | | Recently, however, he said, the doc- trine has undergone a renaissance un- der the leadership of Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania. Among its supporters, the speaker listed Dr.| Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; George W. ]\15(-‘ tin, Jerome D. Greene and Judge Floyd | E. Thompson and the Illinois Supreme Court. The modern theory of nullification, Mr. Perkins deciared, calls for indi- vidual disregard of law as a matter of | patriotic duty. There is no analogy be- tween it and the old situation in regard | to States' rights, he said, adding that | “references to reported nullifications of | the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments, give no comfort to any intellec- | tual attempt to justify the present doc- trine. Such disregard as there may have been for these amendments has never formulated itself into a theory sufficient to maintain itself in the realm of political science. The violation of the provisions of those amendments is wrong and reference of one Wrong as justification for another has never been good doctrine.” He said law observance is at the heart of a successful democracy and its im- portance far transcends that of law en- fcrcement. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, head of the committee, presided last night. Before Mr. Perkins' address, there was pre- | sented a one-act play entitled “Chal- | lenged,” by Caroline Atwater Mason. | | Insist on Dry Candidate. | During the three-day meeting of the | Law Enforcement Committee here, the women have presented to Congress and President Hoover resolutions advocat- ing rigid enforcement of the prohibi- tion law and opposing modification or repeal Throughout the sessions speakers have emphatically stated that the dry women of the country will fight either a wet candidate on a dry platform or a dry candidate on a wet platform n the coming presidential election. Thcy have indicated that in event they are displeased with either the candidates or platforms of both major political parties | they will nominate their own candidate to run on a dry ticket. The convention, attended by delegates from 43 States, has been held in con- junction with the prohibition fair being staged at the Washington Audi- | tortum, which the Woman's Law En- forcement Committee is sponsoring. ,,,,, S e THREE BOYS SOUGHT From Industrial Home School at Night. Police today were asked to look for three boys who escaped from the Indus- trial Home School early lgst night. The boys are Herman C: : William | ‘Thomas, 16, and wick, 16, Escape After the accident, however, the bolts, nuts and cotter pins were found at the switch, The boy was discovered in a ield nearby Questioned by trainmen, the youth, | James Leland, 15, of Chillicothe, Obio, said he had been thrown off the train | in the accident. He said he had been riding on the coal car, but the investi- gators considered him a suspect. Change of Time Effective April 24th EASTBOUND T';';sx. 2, arrive 8:30 a.m., instead :35 a.m. Train No. 4, arrive 2:30 p.m., instead 2:35 p.m. Train No. 6, arrive 3:15 a.m., instead 0 a.m. WESTBOUND Train No. 5, leave 2:15 p.m., instead 2:45 p.m. CHESAPEAKE & OHI0 IN DOUBLE MURDER Salesman of Multiple Ro- mances and Woman Found Victims on Long Island. i _ MINEOLA, N. ¥ April ring. missing, puzzled police today as they sought to solve a double " Ishnd's serfes of curiously killing, latest in Lot | mys deaths m"n‘\? ring, a band with a single dia- mond, was torn from the finger of Ed- ward B, Brinker, electric light sales- man of multiple Tomances, by persons who hammered him and a young woman | friend on the heads and left them dying lon a Iy at Williston Park yesterday Brinker's money was not taken. Po- | lice wondered why the ring was re- moved. It bore the letters I L. Y. (I Jove you) and was given to the sales- man, detectives learned, by Mrs. Jose- | phina Tillitson, black-eyed matron who | called herself Brinker's second wife | “*Mrs. Tillitson and four relatives were questioned all _night. Edwards said | they would not be held, however. Regarded as Fiance. The girl who died with Brinker was Rose Welk, 30-year-old private v. Her family had looked on him ance. He had been divorced from a Brooklyn woman, to | whom he was paying $10 a week for | the support of an 11-vear-old daughter. though Mrs. Tillitson had called her- el his second wife, detectives said they were not married inker was the son of a hardware magnate. Mrs. Tillitson said he drove her to the Flushing shopping district Monday, and that was the last she saw of him. A truck driver came upon the bodies. Both had been gagged. Brinker with an old blue shirt and the girl with ad- hesive tape by repeated blows, their throats slashed and dirt was ground into the wounds as though they had rolled on the earth, struggling. Former Wife’'s Remark. | Brinker's former wife, now a Brook- lyn telephone operator, gave a bit of information which intrigued detectives. She said she met him recently and that he remarked: ‘Ah, well, you won't have to think of me much longer. A girl friend fired a couple of shots at me the other night." The identity of this girl friend was one of the things the police were trying to find out Another puzzling phase lay in the fact that Brinker's automobile was found abandoned in Bayside, miles away, at least three hours before the attack was believed to have been made This led detectives to a theory that the killers were persons Brinker and Miss | Welk considered friendly, that the vic- tims left their own car and went with the unknown persons to the place where | the bodies were found. 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The club also indorsed resolutions urging that the director of public wel- fare in the county be a trained worker, that better police protection be given the rural sections, that footpaths for pedestrians be established along the highways and that trash receptacles be placed along the highways. The reso- lutions came to the club from the Montgomery Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Karl Fenning was nominated for re-election as president of the club by the Nominating Committee, headed by Mrs. Jesse Swigart, chairman. Mrs. Hutson Russel was nominated for vice president, Mrs. Charles D. Curtiss, sec- ond vice president; Mrs. Fred O. Coe, Entered in Oratory Finals SHAHAN DEBATING SOCIETY COMPETITION TONIGHT. 3 ROB DRUG STORE; LEAVEMAN GAGGED 18400 Is Taken From Safe of Frederickshurg Pharmacy at Point of Gun. | Special Dispatch to The Star FREDERICKSBURG, Va. April 21. —Forcing H. H. Shriner, 33, assistant | manager of the Peoples Drug Store here, at the point of a gun to unlock his store after he had closed it shortly before midnight last night and to ad- mit them to the safe of the store, three men succeeded in getting away with $400 in cash, the day's receipts. Skriner was left bound and gagged. He succeeded in cutting some of his bonds with a key from his keyring and was able to telephone local police about 10 minutes after the robbery. Police suspicion three men who were seen in a car bearing District of Columbia license shortly after the hold-up. According to Shriner, he was walk- ing to his place of residence after closing the store for the night, when the three men in a car ordered him at the point of a gun to ride with them. After circling the town to as- certain the position of police, the men forced him to unlock the store and its safe, he said, tying him to a post in the store when they left Prom conversaton of the men Shrin- | er said he gathered that they had been | planning the robbery for several weeks. Their skulls were smashed | recording secretary’ Mrs. William Orem, jr.. corresponding secretary; Mrs. Roger | Socety for the Rector's Medals to be held tonight in McMahon Hall | cut of town at the time. J. Whiteford, ireasurer, and Mrs. Pred- Auditorium, Catholic Universty, at 8:30 olock. ~Right Rev. Mer. James | e ericl . Kerby, assistant treasurer. H. Ryan, rector of the university, donates two medals annually to be 3 There' were nio nominations {rom the awarded (o the winner and runner-up of the contest, and he will make| Ambassador Sails for Europe. floor following the reading of the bal-| the presentations at the close of the contest tonight. Sitting, left to right: Alfred | LIMA, Peru, April 21 (P).—American ot, and. while the election will not be | Ellerby. Daniel Guinan, Nicholas J. Chissclone. ~Standing, léft to right: Clement | Ambassador Fred Morris Dearing left completed until the May meeting. the | A. Duey, William J. Barron, Jack H. McDonaid and Ansel Luxford | for Europe yesterday by way of New nomination is tantamount to election Star Staff Photo. ' York nboard the Santa Barbara. FTNALXSTS in the annual oratorical competition of the Shahan Debating | Dr. James, manager of the store, was BEDDING DRAPERIES CARPETS RADIOS [FURNITUng KARPEN LIVING ROOM WEEK (April 16-23) A Time When You Can Buy Karpen Guaranteed Upholstered Furniture AT SPECIALLY LOWERED PRICES This week, at Mayer & Co., the family that seeks dependable quality may purchase Karpen upholstered furniture, with all its fineness and out- standing characteristics, at specially lowered prices. 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