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T A-Z = INDIA COMPROMISE WAITS BRITISHO.K. MacDonald May Delay Deci- sion, Gandhi, Meanwhile, Growing Worse. By the Associated Press. POONA, India, September 24.—Physi- cians attending the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, who is fasting for the princi- ple of citizenship equality in India, to- night announced their patient’s blood pressure had increased, and that con- | tinued abstention from food 48 hours longer might endanger the life of the 62-year-old Nationalist. Earller the mahatma had assented to a compromise electoral plan designed to put an end to his death fast. The compromise had been effected by leaders of the caste Hindus and the untouchables, who had been striving for three days to reach an agreement | acceptable to the mahatma. When he signified his approval he put the next move up to the British government. The compromise was im- mediately cabled to Prime Minister MacDonald and on his decision depends whether the wasted little Nationalist leader will end his fast. Mr. Gandhi has taken no food since | Tuesday noon. His hunger strike was & protest against the separate electo- rates set up for untouchables under the Indian electoral plan drawn up by the British cabinet 2 The new agreement provides that 148 seats in provincial Legislatures be al- Iotted to the depressed classes, for Whom & percentage of the seats in the central Legislature to be decided by general electorates, also would be re- served. DECISION DELAYED. MacDonald Must Hold Negotiations First, LONDON, September 24 (P).—Ma- hatma Gandhi's “fast unto death” has become a race between the Nationalist Jeader's rapidly wasting strength and the siow-moving machinery of govern- mex’r“'mr. Gandhi holds his decision not to break his fast until Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald approves the peace agreement reached at Poona today, sev- eral days may elapse before the prime minister can act, for his decision is understood to necessitate negotiations and an agreement involving the British government and the government of India. It was said there was no pos- sibility that Mr. MacDonald would an- swer appeals from India tonight. GANDHI ENVOY IN U. §. Appeals for Indian Freedom in Radio Address. NEW YORK, September 24 (P).— Vithalbhai J. Patel, envoy of Mshatma Gandhi's Nationalists, ~appealed to America tonight to place India's free- «dom in the forefront of future economic discussions, and especially of the forth- coming economic conference. The President of the Indian Legis- lative Assembly and former lord mayar of Bombay based his radio appeal #h the claim that “indirectly the whifle world suffers” from “the curses of fm- perialism.” Patel pointed to the Ottaws comger- ..ence, ch he said was “really the meeting of a war councll, plar@ing ruthless economic war. “First, it aimed at tightening the grip ‘of exploitation on India. It was to strangle the anti-British trade move- ment there. And, secondly, it was aimed against the United States more than against any other non-British country.” « Patel said that an independent India would increase by ten times its present trade with this country, which he placed at more than $55,000,000 for 1929. CHILE WILL KEEP DAVILA SOCIALISM UNDER NEW RULE (Continued From First Page.) “strong man” of his cabinet, Col. Pedro Lagos. ‘Chese are: Establishment of the commisariat of subsistence and prices, to control pro- duction and sales of food, clothing and other necessities. Relief Plan Included. Plan, of emergency, entailing an_ex- penditire of 360,000,000 pesos (about $21,600,000, in aiding agriculture, indus- try and mining, and containing a pro- gram for the elimination of unemploy- ment. Postponement of the time set for unemployment elimination makes September 30 the new goal. Creation of the institute of foreign trade, to boom exports. Authorization for a bank of amortiza- tion to take steps for the ultimate pay- ment of the Nation's foreign debts. Centralization of public credit in the hands of the state. Reformation of the income tax and inheritance tax. “House-cleaning” in the national uni- versity and school.system to eliminate communism and extremist teachings. New laws for the welfare of the armed forces, including creation of new officer grades to benefit the enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. Efforts of the foreign office for con- tinental peace, with particular refer- ence to the work of Foreign Minister Luis Barriga in striving to settle the Chaco controversy between Bolivia and Paraguay. Steps for the signing of commercial agreements with Argentina, France and other countries. Shortly before his retirement, Davila £aid socjalism “is not even an experi- ment now; it is an acknowledged, stable fact. We have given the new world 2 real government of the people, under which each person will share in the happiness and benefits of the Nation through full and unified co-operative effort.” MILK-SKIN ESKIMOS CALLES DESCENDANTS OF WHIN'E EXPLORERS (Continued From First Page.) skins, except where their faces and hands have become tanned and weath- er-beaten,” he said. T, myself, am almost sure they are sons or grandsons of members of the Franklin expedition. “They told me, too, they had found skulls and bones of white men washed up along the coast from Prince of Wales Island right down to Boothe Peninsula. “It 15 easy to tell the skull of a white man. The jaw is not proagna- thous as are Eskimo jaws, “I am eager to get an oh;ofl.\mny to track down these reports from the Es- kimos. I have spent almost all my own money in my last ]:rép. and I hope the Government will ip me to get into the country again.” He indicated advice from the Amer- ican Government had shown they were interested in his proposal to return. Mrs. Tom Mix Better. 1OS ANGELES, September 24 (#).— Mrs. Tom Mix, wife of the film cow- boy, was reported improved today in a hospita] where she underwent an oper- ation ‘whursday for lgge'ndlcm;.' rs. Mix 1s%he former Mabel Hubbel Wt circus aerialist. 4 Woman Flyers to Exhibit Skill AERIAL BOUDOIR TO REFUEL OVER THE CAPITAL. % «: * . | LYING in the blue and yellow | monoplane, Flying Boudoir, in which they recently established | a world airplane r¥fueling endur- | ance record for women, of 196 hours, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis| and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden will make a_demonstration refueling flight over Washington-Hoover Airport | at 2 o'clock this afternoon as the climax | of their four-day visit to the National | Capital. | They will receive a load of fuel in flight from the “nurse plane” which re- fueled their plane during its eight-day | grind over Long Island. Today's fueling | contact will be the first seen in the Na- | tional Capital since the trials of the Army’'s Question Mark several years ago, in preparation for the first of the long The Flying Boudoir in a test refueling contact above the Capital yester- day. The same demonstration will be given at Washington Airport today. —Underwood Photo. series of refueling flights which has pushed the women's record to more than eight days and the men's record to a full month. It will be the first re- fueling flight ever attempted here by non-military aircraft, This afternoon’s refueling contact will be made at low altitude, above the air- port, so that spectators at the field and nearby may witness all details. Mrs. Marsalis prebably will be at the controls of the Boudoir during the con- tact period this aftcrnoon, with Mrs. Thaden handling the hose. The women alternated their duties during the rec- ord flight. The refueling plane will be flown by Steuart A. Reiss and the hose will be handled by John Runger, the team which made the scores of refueling and food supply contacts necessary to the success of the endurance flight. EDUCATION CHIEF TOTELLU. 5. NEEDS Dr. W. J. Cooper, Commis-| sioner, Will Deliver Forum Talk Tomorrow. ‘With millions of children through- out the country beginning their Fall | school term, Dr. William John Cooper, | United States Commissioner of Edu- cation, will discuss the Nation's edu- cational needs tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the National Radio Forum, | arranged by The Washington Star and | broadcast over the coast-to-coast net- work of the National Broadcasting Co. Dr. Cooper’s subject will be “The Es- sential Needs of Our Educational Sys- | tem.” He expects to point out the | existing defects and make recommen- | dations for improvement, especially in | the secondary schools. This outstanding educator returned | last week from Europe, where he rep- | resented the United States during the | last two months at two international conferences on education, and in- quired into educational progress in eight countries. 3 Part of his address will deal with his observations abroad and will com- pare the school system of this country with those of foreign countries. Dr. Cooper was in charge of & sec- tion of the conference of the New Edu- | cation Fellowship at Nice, and he ad- | dressed the Fourteenth International Congress of Secondary Education in London. At the latter meeting he described the results of the three-year survey of secondary education in this country, which has just been com- pleted by members of his bureau. g MAN SHOT TO DEATH IN LOTTERY GANG WAR| Forum Speaker DR. WILLIAM J. COOPER. JAPAN LOSES FIGHT * TODELAY LEAGUE Manchurian Hearing Called Nov. 14, Despite Strong Objections. By the Associated Press. GENEYVA, Switzerland, September 24. —Over the vehement objections of Ja- pan, the Council of the League of Na- tions today set November 14 for con- sideration of the repert of the Lytton ard, trict of Columbia, ited Bodyguard Seriously Wounded by | Pair Who Invade Home and Fire Without Warning. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, September 24— Arthur “Daddy” Black, 50, known to police as a large-scale lottery operator, was slain in his home here tonight. His bodyguard, Larney Williams, 35, was serfously wounded. Williams told pelice that he and Black were sitting at a table in Black’s home | when two men entered and began firing without warning. Each had a pistol. Black was shot through the heart snd | ated a short time afterward in Rhode Island Hospital. Willlams was wounded in his left arm and his chest. The murderers are believed by police to be members of a gang which has been reported attempting to “muscle in” cn the lottery racket in this city for several months. Early in July, Fred M. Farley, 33, of Chicago, said by police to a “muscle man” employed by those seeking control of the lottery racket, was arrested on a charge cf ascault. He allegedly beat Alfred Prates of New Bedford, Mass., on the head with a revolver, in a local hotel. Frates, police said, was a runner for the “lottery pool.” Farley still is out, on bond. Black was arrested recently with two other men cn charges of possessing lot- tery tickets. They were releaced after paying fines. FEDERAL JOB AID TOPIC AT RICHMOND SESSION By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, September 24.— Federal aid for relief of unemployed Wi at length by State and Ni fare workers before the inter- G di tional wel city conference of social worker: tives and supervisors, meeting day in executive session. The speakers were James W. Phillips, director of the Bureau of County and City Organization of the State Depart- ment of Public Welfare, and Miss Mary Lucas of Welfare Association. Relief leaders from Maryland, Commission on the Sino-Japanese con- flict in Manchuria. Haruichi Nagaoka, the Japanese dele- gate. did his utmost to obtain further delry. He argued that “floods, poor steamship servicé and the necessity for transleting the report into Japanese would make more time necessary. His remarks provoked general laughter in the Council session and he was over- ruled. The report, gathered in the field after an exhaustive investigation in which Gen. Frank R. McCoy of the United States Army participated, will be published October 1. = Both here and in Tokio it has been reported that if the findings are un- faverable to Japan, and if the Council takes a position considered by Tokio to be too firm, the Japanese government may withdraw from the League, Atter ousting Chinese troops from Manchuria i a ‘military campaign which started just about a year ago, the Japanese set up a new government, christening the young state Manchukuo. Recently they concluded a treaty of mutual defense with Manchukuo and formally recognized the new govern- ment. This course of action was criti- cized at today’s council meeting by President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State, who presided. Mr. de Valera expressed the regret of the council that Japan had recog- nized Manchukuo. For 12 months, he said, the League Council had abstained from any action likely to prejudice the final agreement settling the Sino-Jap- anese dispute, and for this reason To- kio’s act of recognition was the more regrettable. The President’s sentiments were echoed by Salvador de Madariaca, Spain's representative, who asserted that Japan’s recognition of the new state was “a matter of grave concern” to the international community of na- tions. M. Nagaoka declined to be drawn into a discussion of the recognition ques- tion, confining his activity to an tempt to obtain further delay in the consideration of the Lytton report, so named because the commission was headed by the Earl of Lytton of Great Britain. et delay, saying It tended to angra: against delay, say’ nded to aggra- vate the situation. He declared he.md received mtnz;‘mltzxonnt.hzt z%‘:xr Jmue ‘were prepar! exten : occupation into the Pro of nfi which lies between Virginia and West Virginia in the discussion. China propes. | American concern over the Manchurian | | [ S.INNEWLINE-UP OF WORLD POWERS stand on Manchukuo and Arms Equality Plea Rated Factor in Re-grouping. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Immersed in the day-by-day develop- ments of their own presidential cam- paign, the American people generally are unaware of momentous moves now tnk]r:lz place on the international chess- What is unmistakably in progress is & new grouping of world powers, the direct consequences of the two situa- tions provoked by Japan and" Germany —respectively, the creation of the State of Manchukuo out of the former Chinese Province of Manchuria, and Ge: 's insistent demand for equality in arma- ments, The United States has taken a defl- nite position on both issues. This Gov- ernment will refuse recognition of Man- chukuo on the ground that it has come into being in violation of in‘ernational treaties. President Hoover has notified Germany that her attitude throws a de- plorable barrier across the path to dis- armament, and he inferentially rejects the German claim. Reed'’s Tour Significant. In Washington diplomatic quarters the prolonged presence in Eure of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania is linked with certain concrete develop- ments in both the Manchukuo and Ger- man arms affairs. Reed is chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee and an influential Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee. He is a staunch Hoover administration sup- porter and was one of America’s dele- gates at the London Naval Conference of 1930. Ostensibly in Europe this Summer and Fall with Mrs. Reed on a pleasure trip. the Senator has devoted practically all his time to conferences with the lead- ers of the British and French govern- ments, including Premier MacDonald and PForeijgn Minister Sir John Simon in London and Premier Herriot and other French government officials in Paris. These conversations between Senator Reed and European statesmen continued up to the end of the week just_closed. While they were in progress, the fol- lowing events occurred, In the order named: 1. Germany officially submitted to France the Reich's demand for equality in arms and abrogation of part 5 of the Versailles treaty imposing military and naval restrictions upon the Germans. Manchukuo Is Recognized. 2. Japan ceremoniously proclaimed a treaty of alliance with the “inde- pendent” state of Manchukuo and for- mally acknowledged its status as a| sovereign nation. 3. France sternly rejected Germany's claim for arms equality and referred | the Reich to the League of Nations. 4. Great Britain, in consonance with the Lausanne pact restoring the old Anglo-French entente cordiale, joined France in rejecting the German de- mand on arms. 5. President Hoover in a White House statement appealed to Germany not to boycott the Geneva Disarmament Con- ference, and pilloried her proposed ac- tion as a blow to the cause of disarma- ment at a moment progress seems assured. Russia Plans Recognition. 6. Russia announces that the Soviet | government has agreed to recognize the | independence of Manchukuo, thereby easing the long-existing tension be- tween Japan and Russia and creating | a semi-entente between the traditional | rivals in the Far East. 7. Russia _simultaneously, through Foreign Affairs Commissar Litvinofl at Gevena, identifies itself with the Ger- man_viewpoint on arms equality, and, | like the Reich, threatens to boycott fur- ther disarmament negotiations unless the strongly armed powers proceed forthwith to practical cisarmament steps. 8. Japan lets it be gnown at Geneva that if the League of Nations' Investi- gating Commission reports adversely to Japan on the Manchurian business, and any League attempt to punish the Japanese is undertaken, the Tokio government will quit the League. France Shares U. S. View. 9. France announces that it fully shares the American position rexardlng Manchukuo and also will withhold | Tecognition from the new state. The net of all these closely inter- locking developments is that the United States. Great Britein and Frafice stand shoulder to shoulder against Germany's demand for arms equality in defiance of the Versailles treaty, and that the United States and France have adopted an identical position toward the recog- nition of Manchukuo. The circumstance that promulgation of America's attitude toward German arms was followed within a few days by proclamation of France's attitude toward Manchukuo causes international observers at Washington to conclude that they are co-related developments. Opinion on this score is strengthened by the additional circumstance that Washington and Paris acted while Sen- ator Reed. in co-operation with Am- bassador Edge, was in intimate con- sultation with Premier Herriot and the French foreign office at Paris. Grouping on Equality. On the, German arms proposition, the American-Franco-British _grouping is opposed by the German-Russian com- bination, with Italian official sentiment less officially siding with the German and Russian viewpoints. On the Man- chukuo issue, the American-French alignment, confined thus far to those two countries, but believed to have the sympathetic support of Great Britain, ’5!1 confronted by the Japanese-Russian oc. Germany and Italy are not yet on record about the Manchukuo question, but their predilections are accounted more pro-Japanese than anti-Japanese. Japan, on her part, has not yet mixed in on the German arms equality situ- tion, but prcbably would trade support of the Reich's claims for German rec- ognition of Manchukuo. There are unconfirmed reports that Senator Reed went the length of tell- ing the British and the French that situation is such that the United States would co-operate in whatever _the League of Nations decides to do after hearing its commission’s report. The first punitive weapon at the League’s command would ‘be economic sanctions—in other words, a trade boy- cott of Jn&n, When this was pro- jected at Geneva last Winter, during the height of the Manchuria and Shanghal excitement, the impression which League officlals gave was that economic sanctions might have been decreed then, except for the belief that the United States would not join in them. Britain and France were hardly less lukewarm. The British tion about Manchukuo remains to dis- closed. But the non-recognition state- ment of the French fore! office on September 22 indicates that France, at le“:fih by no means so pro-Japanese as she was at Geneva seven months ago. (Copyright, 1932.) ENVOY DELAYS U. S. TRIP Mexican Axouucament Follows Talk AVith President. MEXICO CITY, September 24 (P).— Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc, Ambassa- dor to Wi , today told that he would not return to post for the time being but would remain here pending instructions. He made this statement after con- ferring with President Abelardo Rod- riguez. . Only mildew THE SUNDAY STAR,. WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 25, 1932—PART .ONE. OR HALL ASSALS COMMERCE REPORT Letter to Chapin Charges Suppression and Bistor- tion of Facts. Suppression and distortion of facts in an important economic publication of the Commercé Department was charged yesterday for a second time by Dr. Ray O. Hall, an economist, whose discharge by the department a year ago caused a tempest in statistical circles. Dr. Hall made public a letter written by him to Secretary Chapin, and an accompanying critique of “The Bal- ance of International Payments of the United States for 1931,” the latest edition of the publication which figured in his dismissal and an ensuing investi- gation by the American Economic Asso- clation. “The critique adduces evidence of the suppressing or distorting of fact in the interest of political expediency—for which your department became 350 notorious under ex-Secretary Hoover and Dr. Julius Klein,” he wrote the Secretary. Besides this, he charged errors of arithmetic running into hundreds of millions and “an amazing heterogeny of blunders in fact, theory and meth- odology.” Discharged After Row. Hall was assistant chief of the Com- merce Department’s division of finance and investment, when in June, 1931, a row with Dr. Grosvenor M. Jones over preparation of the balance led to his discharge. A month after his dismissal he wrote to Becretary Lamont charging the de- partment with suppression of facts and falsification of figures. Deletion of his references to the effect of the American tariffs and prohibition upon trade fig- ured in the accusatiow- Lamont asked tre economic assocti- ation to make an investigation. A com- mittee of economists in December re- ported Hall's charges were not justified. They declined, however, to pass on the “propriety” of Hall's dismissal, and criticized “a disposition for the depart- ment to show undue timidity in giving full publicity to factual material that will shed light on some of our national policies, such as the protective tariff.” The report Dr. Hall criticized yester- day was compiled by Dr. Amos E. Tay- lor, who succeeded Dr. Hall as assistant chief of the department’s finance and investment division. | In the foreword of the Taylor report, which Dr. Hall charged was “fairly pregnant with Republican propaganda,” | it was stated that the compiler received | the aid and co-operation of Mr. Jones, | his diviston chief, and Dr. Klein. The | report was made public last July. Chapin Withhelds Comment, Dr. Hall recommended to Secretary Chapin that the publication be with- drawn from circulation erroneous to be | worthless” and that measures be taken | “to prevent a recurrence of any such | debacle in official statistics issued by | your department.” It was said at the | department yesterday that Mr. Chapin | had received the letter and critique, | but that there would be no comment at this time In his critique Dr. Hall devoted con- | siderable space to the alleged errors in arithmetic. Dr Taylor's report, it was recalled, was circulated by the depa ment one weck before its release date of July 7. Two days befdre this date, numercus errors were discovered in the report, causing the department to issue a sheet of errata. This sheet is said to have reached some of the newspapers in time for cor- rections to be made, while it was re- ported the correcticns were not re- ceived in time by others. It was also said that .he department in sending the repert out into the fhencial field at- tached the sheet of errata. The department’s explanation as to the errors was that because of econ- omy reasons it did not request rfl'lsed‘ proofs from the Government Printing Office and the errors were not caught until after the complete report had been printed. Dr. Hall acknowledged that Jhe re- ceived the sheet of errata, but that | | This oil painting of Benjamin Franklin was discovered in the home of a prominent Washingtcn family. It was done by J. F. L'Hospital, a French artist. RELATIVELY _unknown por- trait in ofls of Benjamin Frank- lin has been discovered by Charles Lee Frank, Washington art connoisseur, who discovered, after nine months’ searching, the art- ist and other data concerning the pic- ture. Mr. Prank’s knowledge of the picture was finally obtained this week, only a few days before the laying of the cor- ner stone of the new Post Office De- partment Building, which is to house the Pranklin postal station. Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster in the United States, serving in Philadel- phia in 1737. In 1753 he was Deputy Postmaster General for the continent. The portrait, painted in France, was done by:J. F. L'Hospital, French por- trait painter. It is life size, 44 by 33 inches, and is in its original frame, an ornate, gold, period affair. The picture was found in the home of one of Washington’s prominent fam- RAIL BONDS SAFETY OBIECT OF PROBE Coolidge Commission to Seek Ways of Restoring Lines to Prosperity. (Continued From First Page) informaticn affecting valuations as it deems necessary.” In attacking the regulation to which the carriers are subjected, and declar- ing authority should be handed back to the railrcads to manage their proper- ties except as to matters essential to assaure fair rates or public safety. the committee said the total cost of regula- tion “has reached such proportions as to be cause for alarm.” “While for the 46 sears of its exist- ence up to June 30. 1932, the ccst of the Interstate Commerce Commission totaled $125,000,000,” the report con- tinued, “that for the past 10 years it has amounted to $69,000,000, average of approximately $7.000.000 a year. The total cost of all State com- missions regulating public utility com- panies as well as railroads averaged none of the arithmetical errors cor-$§6000,000 during the years 1923 to rected by the department appears among the 50 listed i the critique. MACDONALD FACES CRISIS IN CABINET Several Ministers May Resign in Tariff Dispute This Week. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 24.—The Brit- ish cabinet next week faces its most critical session since the national crisis involving the gold standard in 1931, and there is a possibility several min- isters might resign in a tariff dispute. Prime Minister Ramsay MacBonald, none the less. was expected to remain at the helm, although there was a pos- sibility that his prestige might be af- fected, and the charge of his former Laborite colleagues that he is a “pris- oner of the Tories” may be reiterated. Mr. MacDonald in all probability will seek to hold ‘the Liberals, that is, free traders, led by Sir Herbert Samuel, the home secretary, “in his national cabinet, also Philip Snowden, Viscount of Ickornshaw, now lord privy seal but former chancellor of the exchequer. The Liberals will go into the discus- sion of the Ottawa tariff agreements on Wednesday with the official protest of their party behind them. The Liberals object to the relative permanence of five years of the pro- posed arrangements They also re- fused to accede in the plan to force the British government under the Ot- tawa pact to keep intact certain exist- ing duties unless the dominions agreed to a reduction. The strength of the government in Parliament, however, even on the tar- iff question, is overwhelming, so the crisis will be limited to a cabint re- alignment, unless, of course, the Liber- als can be persuaded to remain, ! SMUGGLING LAID TO PILOT R B Beaver Skins Taken From British Columbia, Seattle Charge. SEATTLE, Wash., September 24 (#). —Charges of smugg! 450 beaver skins from British Columbia to the San Juan Islands last July were filed here today against Frank Dorbandt, well{president Cli known Alaska aviator. seized. Dorbandt was pilot for Father Ber, nard Hubbard, the “glacier priest,” dur- ing his scientific activities in Alaska. Dorbandt said he had not e ed in | any smuggling at any time, and he was His plane was 1930.” Growth of Regulation. “The original purposes of railroad regulation,” the committee added. “‘were to see that railroad rates should be rea- sonable and that railroad service as well as rates should be non-discrim- inatory. To the original simple regula- tion has gradually been added a multi- plicity of requirements, partly by law and partly by regulation. Some of these are desirable and should be re- tained in the public interest. however, were added on account of a former monopoly character of the rail- or an| lmu, Mr. Prank said. Tradition sur- | rounding it indicated it had been paint- ed from life, but no one knew who was |its artist. ‘The frame shows early French manufacture, After acquiring the picture Mr. Frank set out to discover the painter. Searching through leading libraries | and art collections of the country, the | Washington art authority found that | the picture had never been published, he sald. In a Philadelphia historical | soclety collection a smaller picture, also of Franklin, was found —from the brush of De L'Hospital—and by com- | parison of technique and craftsman- | ship Mr. Frank determined his | trait, too. had been done by | French artist. | It shows the first postmaster, a faint smile on his face, complacently polish- ing his eyeglasses. He is dressed in a formal coat, the lace of his cuffs only slightly showing below his coat sleeves. Mr. Frank hes copyrighted the portrait. por. that MOVE THREATENS VETERANS EXPENSE U. S. Chamber Stand Seen as| New Evidence of Com- ing Fight. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The action of the Chamber of Com- merce ¢f the United States in going cn record for a repeal of non-service disability allowances and other pa: ments to veterans which are not con- nected with war, is part of a national movement aimed at an economy of more than $450.000,000 in the Federal budget. For a long time the argument here against economies in Government gen- erally has been that the veterans took one-fourth of the whole budget. namely, about a billicn dollars, and that politi- cally the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and other groups of ex-service men were powerful enough 1o prevent Congress from repealing any of the existing legislaticn. In fact, the immediate payment of the bonus. amounting to about two and a half bil- lion dollars. has been agitated for the last year on the theory that Congress ultimately would not dare to refuse | this plea. Business Men Rally. Now it appears that the business men of the cougtry who have been talk- ing about excessive expenditures by the Federal Government and the general rise in the cost of Government are get- | ting behind various movements which look to the reduction of nearly & half | billion in veterans' expenditures. Up to now business men's organiza- tions have not been politically power- | votes they command. | having Now, however, taken an interest in the prohi- roads, which has since disappeared due | bition controversy and discovered how to competition from other forms of political power can be wielded, they transportation. Other features of the are beginning to believe that if the added regulation are believed to have ponus issue can be carried into every been unnecessary in the first ‘gllce and | congressional _district they can defeat not to have contributed to the public members of Congress Who vote for cash well-being.’ payment or whe refuse to vote for a Under_existing conditions, the com- | repeal of some of the present legislation mittee held. taxpayers are burdened | Organizations like the National T MLK SHORTAGE Farmers Threaten to Stop Shipments Unless “Living Minimum” Is Paid. (Continued From Pirst Page) ton s0on to organize an association for the solution 6f dairymen's distribution difficulties. He sald the object of the conference is primarily to “prevent distributors f“rom using unfair methods of competi~ “I have no fault to find with the at- titude of the milk consumers in this locality or elsewhere in the country,” the Senator said. “The difficulty in this whole matter lies between scattered or regionally organized farmers and those great milk distributing organiza- tions backed by millions of dollars’ capital. ““The situation can best be handled nationally—not locally, for these huge nationai chains of distributors can bring milk from distant points and so thwart any attempt of a small group of farm- ers to get a fair price for their product or to operate their own distributing plants.” Meanwhile Senator Smith, who has been active in the locsl fight for better prices in the Richmond market, called a mass meeting of milk producers in this area to meet here Tuesday morn- ing. He said he would place before : them a plan for establishing a farm-to- consumer distribution system under & farmers’ dairies corporation. GEORGIA. Move to Stop Supply for Atlanta Is Undertaken. ATLANTA, Ga. September 24 (#).— Farmers barricaded a highway with logs near Conyers, Ga., today and dumped 600 gallons of milk en route to Atlanta as agitation for a better wholesale price for dairy products increased. Officials of the Georgia Milk Pro=- ducers Federation, Inc., which has de- clared a holiday on milk shipments to Atlanta from 20 counties, said they had no connection with the dumping and re- iterated the federation is opposed to vio- lence. Meanwhile, municipal laboratory offi- cials sald 900 galions of milk shipped to an Atlanta plant from Virginia has been barred from the city beczuss it measure up to sanitary req Eugene Talmadge, Democ nee for governor, and at pr> State Commissioner of Agriculii sued a :tatement saying he wculd do everything he could “to help dairymen of Georgia in this movement to get simple justice from the big distributors.” H. H. Hardin, vice president of the Producers Federaticn, said the holiday was “working like a charm and as fast {as we can get in touch with the farmers, jtheir shipmeénts to Atlanta are being jcut off.” “The producers realize they | cannot survive if the milk plants do not pay, them s better price for milk,” he said. MARYLAND IN AGREEMEXNT | Milk Prices Continued During Month | October. PHILADELPHIA, September 24 (#). —Milk producers and dealers in the Philadelphia area, at odds over prices for several weeks, agreed today to con- »\u;)us present milk prices during Oc- tcber. Dr. Clyde L. King, State secretary of revenue, who acted as arbitrator, was instructed, an announcement said, to complete a survey of the Philadels phia milk market by November 1, and at that time cffer a scale of prices for the ensuing year. About 20.000 producers from Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland were represented at today | meeting through officials of the Inter- | state Milk Producers’ Association. Milk prices to the farmers thus re- | mained “for October, at least. at 515 cents a quart, fob. Philadelphia, for what Henry D. Allebach, president of the Interstate group, described as “basic quality milk.” The price to consumers will continue at 10 cents a quart or 6 cents a pint for regular milk, the arnouncement said. and 13 cents a quart for “A” milk. FARM CONGRESS CALLED. Policy for U. S. to be Formulated at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 24 () —Announcement was made here of a forthcoming nationel farm- ers’ congress for the purpose of evolv- ing a new agricultural policy in the United States and of finding a way to increase farm production prices The announcement was made by C. Many, | ful because of the small number of | H. Rodgers, whose address was given as Enid, Okla. Rodgers opened netional headquarters in Cleveland todsy nnd took an option on a public auditorium for the period of November 29 to De- cember 5, the announced date of the congress. At Rodgers' headquarters it was said that the congress was sponsored and partially underwritten by Harvey L. Holsinger, Maryland Poultry Asso- | ciation, Ridgely, Md.: L. B. Booth, Ar- and the railroads handicapped. | Economy League, headed by veterans |cadia Citrus Growers’ Association, Ar- On the subject of consolidation, which is now in the fore by reason of the four-system agreement in the East, the committee said such mergers doubtless would be of assistance in promoting financial stability, “but the fact remains that some of thé larger systems, already well advanced on their consolidation programs, have had to have recourse to the Government for funds to meet their obligations in the present emergency.” Other Suggestions Made. Additional recommendations made by the committee were: ‘That railroads should be permitted to engage in transportation on the water- | ways and highways on an equal basis with other carriers in similar trans- portation service. That Government policies affecting transportation should give each com- peting form of transportation equality | of opportunity to perform the service it | can render most efficiently and eco- nomically. That Federal and State authorities should allow prompt establishment by railroads of new rates to meet competi- tion of other forms of transportation. Amendment of Clause. That the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce act should :;;1 llmended so as to place upon the termining whether proposed rates are reasonably compensatory. ‘The committee which drafted the re- port was headed by Judge F. C. Dil- lard, Sherman, Tex., banker, and in- cluded the following: C. E. Bockus, ‘hfield Coal Co., New ork City; E. George Butler, secretary- freasurer John G. Butler Co., Savan- nah, Ga.; J. S. Crutchfield, president American Fruit Growers, Pittsburgh; Pilerpont V. Davis, vice president the National City Co., New York City; Carl P. Dennett, president General Capital tion, ; Thomas H. Han- “mystified” by the seizure of his plane. McCormick Boy Hurt. COLORADO SPRINGS, September 24 (#).—Henry Deasborn, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dearborn, New_ York City, was injured fatally and Medill McCormick, 9, son of Mrs. Ruth Mc- Cormick Simms of Albuquerque, N. Mex., suffered a broken leg in & motor car accident tonight. wflummn , Boston; rahan, president Buffalo Freight Term- inal Warehouse Co., Buffalo; Dr. Emory R. Johnson, dean Wharton School of PFinance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; E. B. Ober, president Motor Power Equipment Co., St. Paul; W. L. Petrikin, chairman of the board the Great Western Sugar Co., Denver; H. A. Scandrett, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Chicago; Harry A. Wheeler, president Railway Business Association, Chicago, and R. B. White, president Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, New York City. like Admiral Sims and Admiral Byrd, | are active in enrolling members for the | purpose of fighting what they believe to be excessive demands by veterans. The | Economy League has indicated the | veterans’ expenditures can be cut ma- | terially. | At the moment, the veterans have the greater political power—at least | there is no way of telling the extent of it until it is challenged. Several Members of Congress who voted against the bonus at the last session have been renominated by their respective parties, and this is being pointed to as a reason for believing that with adequate edu- cation on the subject, public opinion will swing toward the economy side of the argument, especially as the bur- den of taxation begins to pinch. Swing Already Felt. It already has swung to the extent of routing out some existing office holders. The tax question is believed to be one of the principal reasons why the La Follette dynasty in Wisconsin ‘was overthrown. Both President Hoover and his op- ponent, Gov. Roosevelt, are pledged to economy. ‘The Democratic platform comes out for a billion-dollar cut in Federal expenses and against allow- ances for disabilities not connected with the war. Before the end of this cam- cadia, Fla.; Milo Reno, National Farme- ers’ Holiday Association, Des Moines, ITowa: Senator C. F. Eglar, Wheat Grow- ers’ Association, Sioux Falls, S. D.. and Frank A. Selisbury, Cabbage Growers’ Association, Pheips, N. Y. It was Indicated by publicity represent- | atives of Rodgers that the National Congress was a!so sponsored, in part, by the various associations with which the guarantors are affiliated. “Guest speakers” schefiuled for ap- pearance before the congress, include Gov. George White of Ohio, Gov. Philip Lafollette of Wisconsin, Gov. William H. Murray of Oklahoma. United States | Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa, | Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and. Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho. [SCHOONER BELIEVED LOST AS WRECKAGE IS FOUND ‘Was Largest Vessel of Type Sail- ing Under Canvas Alone Out of Gloucester, Mass. 1By the Associated Press. | GLOUCESTER, Mass., September 24. —Hope waned today for the safety of carriers the responsibility of de-| paign, it is unlizely that the bonus will the schooner Patara, largest and one be defended by any of the principals of the last three vessels sailing out of on the political stage, and once the K Gloucester under canvas alone, as 12- presidential election is over, the effort rts of wreckage sighted reached her to organize sentiment against members home port. She carried a crew of of Congress who vote for further grants seven, commanded by Capt. Matt to_veterans will begin in earnest. | Critchell.. It will be a conspicuous test in politi- | _ Informed that the British steamer cal strength. For generations the Civil | Hazelwood had the wooden ‘War veterans held the balance of power | Superstructure of a schooner off South- at the polls. Since then other organized | &R _Laborador, Capt. Ben Pine, noted minorities have learned how to sway |racing skipper and part owner of the elections. The bonus fight will not be Puun.‘ said that would have been the T D e s o Tn o ;| P M o o next four years, e the ' ¢ fish and 100 barrels of cod liver ofl (Copyright, 1882.) at Domino Run, Laborador, about three Yesterday one of the ed dories ACTRESS 30 YEARS DIES was found at Drum Head, Nova Scotia, and today Mrs. Mary Diehl Dean Appeared With Maude Adams. Capt. Pine was advised two barrels of oil and a barrel gf water had been found in the same vicinity. If the Patara has gone the way of the famous Columbia and oth~r Ginv-ester schooners that have veni-h~d with all BUTLER, September 24 (#).—| hands, she vill leave bvt twn of the Mrs. Mary Dean, known to the|once t Gloucester flcei that de- B pend upon billowing canvas alone. They are ‘Thomas and the Elsle, the latter once a candidate for international safling honors. Pa., Diehl