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A—2 28 ENVOYS FACING L0SS OF POSITIONS Eight U. S. Ambassadors, In- cluding Melion, Likely to Retire.by March 4. Possibly 8 out of 15 Ambassadors and a score of Ministers are destined to end their diplomatic careers in the | first real shake-up of the diplomatic| gervice in 12 years after President-elect | Franklin D. Roosevelt assumes office on March 4. | Topping the list of these 28 political appointees who hold coveted foreign sts are Ambassador Andrew W. Mel- on, at London, Ambsssador Waiter E. Edge, at Paris, and_Ambassador Fred- eric M. Sackett, at Berlin. Safely entrenched in their berths, | however, are 30 “cireer men,” so-called | because they were promoted through the ranks of the protected foreign serv- jce of the State Department. So m1 any shake-up that occurs after March 4, at least one-half of the heads of| American missions abroad are likely to| be_unaffected. ‘While Gov. Roosevelt is known as & | precedent smasher, it_is hardly con- ceivable at the State Department that he would make any changes in these 30 posts now held by the non-political career men. Among them are Ambas- sador Joseph C. Grew, at Tokio; Am- bassador Hugh S. Gibson, at Brussels, and Ambassador John W. Garrett, at| Rome, all veterans, yet holding offices which any inccming administration would covet. Due to the economy act, which great- ly reduced the me:ger allowances of foreign service officers and made reduc- tions also in their salaries, it will be even more difficult than before to find | available men of suitable financial means to fill the 28 political berths wait- ing to be plucked. More than ever now the stigma of “rich man’s job” attaches to the political diplomats, and few out- side the State Department realize the personal sacrifices being made by the regular career Ambassadors and Minis- ters, most of whom are men of moder- ate means and dependent on their Gov- ernment salaries. A glance at the register reveals that the 15 embassy posts are not only equally divided between these two dis- tinct classes, but also are pretty well equalized in their relative importance. In addition to the posts at _ondon, Paris and Berlin, political appointees now head the missions in Cuba, Mexico, ‘Turkey, Chile and Poland | Recent Polish Appeintment. The Polish post was filled scarcely a week ago, the appointee being F. Lamot Belin, a foreign service officer until a year ago. He Is not regarded strictly as a political appointee by State Department officials, yet it would not be difficult to characterize him as such, due to the previous severance of his connections. His predecessor was John N. Willys, wealthy Toledo auto- mobile manufacturer, and Ambassador Belin himself is a scion of the Du Pont family. er Secretary of the Treasury the wealthiest man to hold public office, has held the post at the Court of St. James only since February 5 of this year. Mr. Edge has about three years of service to his credit and Mr. Sackett two years. Both were Jame-duck Senators when they were made Ambassadors. There is no ques- tion but that all hegd the three of retiring envoys. In contract with the political Am- bassadors are the eight career men who hold similar posts. Aside from the berths Y |side of the river, where the Govern- in the flung forelgn service of the United States will tender his resignation to the new President on March 4. Until their resignations are accepted, however, they will remain on duty at their berths. The *“career men” likewise are affected, for they have been promoted out of the service, literally speaking. It is gener- lw'ev:'hxz;e lthn all career ever, for a new President to shift them from post to post, but that is considered unlikely unless a vacancy appears. Ministers to Face Recalls, Amonzmamumm:me of the Ministers being pol 1 appointees, are a number of important posts which undoubtedly will be given new Ministers after March 4. While a great majority of the Latin American tfi.u are held by career men, the Ber at Salvador, Bolivia, and Panama become the “spoils™ of the new administration if desired. Other important legation posts waiting to be filled are those in Austria, Bul- garia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Hun- gary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Persia. Still others include Greece, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Liberia, Al- bania, Canada and Yugoslavia. In a few of these, Canada, Czecho- slovakia and Greece, there are vacancies which may or may not be filled by carcer men before March 4. With the ever irritating and delicate Manchurian and other Far Eastern poli- cies involved at Geneva, it appears that the two important posts at Tokio and Peiping are filled by career men, who, under usual circumstances, would con- tinue. The Minister to China is another veteran of the foreign service, Nelton T. Johnson, who was designated on De- cember 16, 1929, FARM BUREAU BACKS HIGH TARIFFS POLICY | | Maintenance of Present Duties and | Raises Where Needed Will Be | Demanded, Leader Promises. ust| HURLEY BAN ASKED HURRICANE DANGER 1S BELIEVED OVER Whirls Out t» $ea 500 Miles 0ff U. S. Goast—Toll May Reach 2,000. (Continued From First Page) tion facilities and inoculating thousands against disease. Thelr greatest fear at the moment is of a measles epidemic. A few cases were discovered and the patients quickly isolated. There is not enough water to go around, and the doctors said this misfortune, with the consequent un- sanitary conditions, might contribute to an epidemic. This evening another trainload of injured came up from Santa Cruz Del Sur. When they arrived four who had started the trip were dead. Among the others some whose injuries were not especially serious had developed infec- tions which made their cases urgent. Santa Cruz Del Sur itself wes a de- serted wreck of a city. Where 3,500 persons lived last week there were only soldiers, sanitary workers and a few city officials salvaging what they could. Survivors in Despair. Here and there a spiral of smoke hung over the ruins. It has been im- possible to bury all the dead. Despair is in the hearts of the sur- vivors. This morning Francisco Callo, 60, & prominent business man of Santa Cruz Del Sur, hanged himself. Aside from the loss of buildings, small craft and similar property, the greatest damage was to the sugar crop. Cane fields were leveled and sugar in storage Tuined. No estimate of the loss has been made yet, but a member of the sugar institute, who arrived from Havana today, sald the 1933 crop from Camaguey province would be at least 400,000 bags under what it should be. To make matters worse, be said, ex- perience has shown that hurricane damage reduces the productivity of sugar cane by August 2% per cent. ON DUCK SHOOTING BY ARMY OFFICERS (Continued From First Page.) dering on the river cannot themselves have this privilege. So this effectively bars shooting by any citizen on this ment owns the land. But officers at Fort Washington have erected a num- ber of blinds along the front of this territory and propose to shoot m effectively destroys this part of the river as & duck refuge and makes it an exclu- stve shooting ground for Army officers— they being able to get to their blinds with their equipment for shooting pur- poses by working from Fort Washing- ton. This makes a shooting preserve for Army officers to the exclusion of all other citizens at the taxpayers' ex- pense. “This could be stopped by an order from you, not permitting anyone to use Fort Washington for the purpose —which Col. Grant has done in front of Government property on this side of the river. Col. Grant is in favor of this territory a bird sanctu- ary and so is Mr. Redington (Paul Redington) of the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agri- culture. The matter will be taken up with the President when he returns from California, but in the meantime the duck hunting season will open and a_few days’ shooting by the Army officers from the many blinds they have along the river will, as you know, drive the ducks out of that territory for this season. Thousands of Ducks Seen. “The ducks at present are right along the highway by the thousands and furnish a very attractive sight. An orden from you can prevent this copdition. “I have just been informed that a club of Army officers has been formed and has taken up all available shoot- ing grounds along the territory men- tioned, so that it absolutely makes this Government property a private club for the benefit of the Army of- ficers.” A search of the records of Prince Georges County shows duck blind licenses have been issued to Lieut. H. B. Kunzig, Fort Washington, for two sites, one 250 yards south of Fort Hunt wharf and the other 500 yards south of Fort Hunt wherf; to Lieut. James| Regan, jr., at Little Hunting Creek and Potomac River; to Louls Nothey, Government propert off the Fort Hunt shore; to W. E. Evans, at Sheri- | By the Assoclated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, November 12.—The American Farm Bureau Fed- eration will demand the maintenance of present farm tariffs and increases in rates which it considers inadequate, M. S. Winder, secretary of the federa-| tion. said, in a newspaper interview here today. o He stopped here en route from his Chicago office to Marysvale, Calif., to attend the convention of the California Farm Bureau. “We are going to insist that ade- quate tariffs are placed on the numer- ous foreign agricultural products which compete with home-grown products,” he said. “We are also going to urge speedy independence for the Philip- pines in order to stop the competition that country gives the American sugar beet growers.” BEEli PLAN.PRDPOSED. New York Job Official Writes Gar- ner for Early Legislation. NEW YORK, November 12 (#)—Ed- C. Rybicki, director of the New! York City Free Employment Agency, today made public a letter he has writ- ten to B John N. Garner, the Vice President-elect, advocating the legalization of alcoholic beer by the next Congress. “The hope for early unemployment relief,” the letter said, “lies in favorable action by ess in the legalization of beer con dan Point, below Fort Hunt, and to Lieut. R. B. Carhard, Fort Washing- | ton, at a point midway between Little | Hunting Creek and Fort Hunt, WO0ODCOCK ASKS FORCE | TO EXCEED LOYALTY Election Stepping Stone to Greater Opportunity, Says Prohibi- tion Director. By the Associated Press. Anent the election, personnel of lh91 Prohibition Bureau has been asked b)’l Director Woodcock to exceed the “Joyalty, devotion and skill you have | shown in the t.” In the Bureau Bulletin, issued week- 1y to bureau employes, he said: “You have fought a good fight dur- ing the last 28 months. I am proud of you. You face now & seemingly, but not actually, harder task. The real test of this organization will be its ability to go forward in the same de- gree of loyalty, devotion and skill you have shown in the past. I ask you even to exceed it. This is all the elec- tion must mean to any of us—a step- ping stone to a greater opportunity to do our duty.” Woman Weighing 600 Dies. HUTCHINSON, Kans, November 12 (#)—Mrs. May Lehman, 40, whose g an alcoholic content oln!lswtg:e-n vxthth‘f%ploymmnl estimated an million men, and women and to this would be added speed to our &‘ o ‘which tions been made.” r t, and with it a | wel and allied trades L was ted at 600 pounds, here THE SUNDAY of lives. by the storm. STAR, WASHINGTON. In Path of Cuban Hurricane g Upper: View in business section of Santa Cruz Del Sur, Cuba, after the town had been swept by a Caribbean hurricane and tidal wave, which took hundreds Lower: A close-up of one of the buildings in Santa Oruz Del Sur wrecked —A. P. Photos. Engineering By the Associated Press. HOOVER DAM, Nev, November 12. —The full text of President Hoover's address here tonight follows: This is not the first time I have visited the site of this great dam, and it is giving me extraordinary pleasure to sec the great dream I have long held taking form in actual reality of stone and cement. It is now 10 years since I became chairman of the Colorado River Com- mission. That commission solved in a unique way the legal conflicts as to water rights amongst six of the States which had long held up any possibility of the realization of these works. This was accomplished after three years of nego- tiations, finally closing with the Santa Fe compact. It was the first time that a provision in the Constitution of the United States for treaties among the several states was utilized on so great a scale that compact was ratified by six of the states and is held open to the seveath to join at any time it may desire. It cleared out the legal underbrush in a way that enabled the next step to be taken. Part in Undertaking. And I again had the satisfaction of presenting, both as engineer and as head of the commission, to President Coolidge and to the Congress, the great importance of these works, and I had a further part in the drafting of the final legislation which ultimately brought them into being. This legislation required the making of an extremely intricate arrangement by which the Federal Government should advance the money but the by- product of power arising from this dam should be sold in such fashion as to return to the Federal Government its entire costs with interest. That con- tract for the sale of power was suc- cessfully negotiated by the preseat Secretary of the Interior with my ap- proval and contracts were let for ac- tual construction which was begun during my administration The work has been carried forward with such rapidity that it is already more than a year ahead of schedule in its progress toward the specified period for its completion. Within a few days the river will be diverted through massive tunnels in order that the foundations of the dam may be laid. ‘This dam is the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted is nearly 700 feet, making it more than 100 feet higher than the Washington Monument, and far higher than any other such construction ever undertaken. Swift Flowing Streams. To understand its purpose our people must realize that the Colorado River, in its freshets from the snows of the Rocky Mountains, flows at_a rate as great as that of Niagara. In the dry season it diminishes to less than 5 per cent of its maximum flow. The pur- pose of the dam, therefore, is to store the freshet. And the amount of water is so gigantic in its proportions that the lake created behind it is over €0 miles long and will require the cntire flow of the river for more than two years to fill it, The primary purpose of this great construction was not the production of power as a by-product to its major pur- pose it will produce over a million horsepower which will, as I have said, pay the cost of the dam and interest back to the Federal Treasury. . Its major purposes were four in num- er. Its first purpose was to stabilize the flow of the river from these gigantic annual floods thus preventing destruc- tion of the great Imperial Valley and the agriculture which has grown up in the neighboring States and in Mexico. Most Americans will remember how President Theodore Roosevelt many years ago had to intervene to stop the break in the levees on the river through which the whole of this river was pour- ing in torrents into the arena of the Imperial Valley which, being below sea level, would Bave been turned in an irredeemable sea. This danger is for- ever removed by the construction of this dam. ‘Water for Large Area. Second, to provide a supply of domes- tic water accessible to Southern Call~ fornia and parts of Arizona. Southern California has a population grown al- most to the point where its entire water supply is absorbed, as evidenced by the periodic necessity to ration water in that quarter. With these new supplies of water its growth can go on for gen- erations. And in this connection, I may men- tion that through loans from the Re- construction Corporation, work starts at once on the great acqueduct to carry this water into Los Angeles and the surrounding towns. ‘The third p was to provide an adequate supply of irrigation water to the large areas of Arizona, the Imperial special | Valley and other valleys of Southern fl:rn':‘ur\h 15 to American rights in the v of the river, by the hand of man. Its height alone | Pe; Hoover Speech at Dam Negotiations Solving Conflict Among Six States Re- viewed and Project Called Greatest From Standpoint. But the whole of this translates itself into something infinitely more import- ant. It translates itself into millions of happy homes for Americans out under the blue sky of the West. It will in fact in its various ramifications assure livelihood to a new population nearly as great as that of the State of Maryland. Appreciation of People. I know that I express the apprecia- tion of the people of the Southwest to the members of the Colorado River Commission who played so large a part in removing obstacles and in effectively establishing these great works, and to those many others who devoted them- selves to securing legislation, not only in the Federal Congress, but in the Legislatures of the different States, and to all those now engaged in direction and work upon this magnificent con- struction. It will be a source of pride to every man and woman to have had associa- tion with so fireal a work. I hope to | be present at its final completion as a bystander. Even so, I shall feel & spe- cial personal satisfaction. The waters of this great river, instead of being wasted in the sea, will now be brought into use by man. Civilization advances with the practical application of knowledge in such structures as the one being bullt here in the pathway of one of the great rivers of the continent. The spread of its values in human hap- piness is beyond computation. COLOMBIAN ISELEGATION IS URGED BY PERUVIAN Memorandum in Leticia Dispute Reported Delivered to Con- ciliation Commission. By the Assoclated Press. LIMA, Peru, November 12.—Informed quarters understood today that Dr. Victor Maurtua, Peruvian commissioner in Washington, had delivered a memo- randum to the permanent commission on conciliation in which he argued the necessity for Colombia to appoint delegates with the view of settling the dispute between Peru and Colombia over the port of Leticia. The note also stated, it was said, that Colombia had forgotten to fulfill the clause of the boundary treay be- tween the two countries which relates to the delivery of territory between the Rivers San Miguel and Putumayo to TU. It was learned here today that For- eign Minister Zulueta of Spain had in- formed Juan de Osma, Peruvian Minis- ter at Madrid, that Spain had definite- ly suspended the sale of the gunboat Dato until after the Leticia contro- versy has been solved. MIDWEST EDITOR DIES Paul E. Spink of St. Paul Worked in Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn., November 12 (#).— Paul Edson Spink, 78, who had pub- lished weekly newspapers three States, died last night. He was publisher in Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota at various times before com- ing here to live eight years ago. Funeral services will be conducted here Monday. Spink was born in Hanover, Mich. Easy In Time of 4.000 Children in Long hours of rest. Medical supervision. PRESIDENT LAUDS HOOVER DAM WORK Greatest by Man, He Says, on Brief Inspection—Re- sumes Trip. By the Asgociated Press. ON BOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE- CIAL, en route to Washington, Novem- ber 12.—President Hoover turned back toward California tonight on a round- about route to the National Capital, after inspecting the huge Hoover Dam project under a full desert moon and floodlights and deseribing the con- struction in & brief speech as “the greatest engineering work of its char- 1"::“” ever attempted at the hand of The Chief Executive left his train after 7:30 p.m. Pacific standard time, for a full ins ion of the big irriga- tion project after traveling much of the day to reach it. During the morning he was the center of & serles of ovations and at Glendale, Calif., he pledged again his co-operation with the Democratic President-elect, while asserting that the Republican party will “return to power.” Hopes to See Completion, ‘Tonight in his address at the Hoover Dam site, where men have been working at night under floodlights to speed the project, the President said he hoped “to be present at its final completion as a bystander.” “It 1s now 10 years,” he said, “since River Commission. That commission solved in a unique way the legal con- flicts as to water rights amongst six of the States which had long held up any possibility of #he realization of these works. * “This was accomplished,” he con- tinued, “after three years of negoia- tion finally closing with the Santa Fe compact. It was the first time that & provision in the Constitution of the United States for treaties among the several States was utilized on so great a scale. \ “This work has been carried forward with such rapidity,” the President con- tinued, “that it is already more than a year ahead of schedule in its program toward the specified period for its com- pletion. “Within a few days,” he said, “the river will be diverted through massive tunnels in order that the foundations may be laid. This dam is the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted at the hand of man. Its height alone is nearly 700 feet, making it more than 100 feet higher than the ‘Washington Monument, and far higher than any other such construction ever undertaken. First Inspection of Project. ‘The President’s first inspectic of this $165,000,000 project, whfif h?wus instrumental in bringing into existence while Seoretary of Commerce and act- ing as mediator between the seven Western States involved, came tonight on the eve of the accomplishment of the first major step in the big program. The Chief Executive was welcomed to this Federal city, a model construc- tion town, by Chief Engineer R. F. | Walter of the Reclamation Service, | Walker R. Young, Reclammation Serv- ice, construction engineer of the proj- ect, and engineers and officers of the six companies, general contractors of t.heA tpro:ect. ter the greetings and inspection of quarters, the phesidential p‘rrcty Was :?“the river bed, 8 miles from the town From his train at Glendale, President ' delivered ‘his firss - addm since the victory of his Democratic successor, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, advising Republicans not to “be dis- couraged by defeat” and asserting that mwpubucm party “will return to Before & crowd at the station, the President urged Republicans to imme- g::;ely u:‘x;n:xmen 1;‘Ihe'lr State, county precinct organizations to be for militant action.” Feuy “Need Continued Unity.” “If we are to continue the recove: 50 evidently in progress during the plz few months by overcoming the many difficulties which still confront us,” he said, “we must have continued unity in constructive action all along the eco- nomic front. “I shall work for that unity during the remaining four months of this ad- ministration. ~ Furthermore, it is our duty after the 4th of March to co- operate with our opponents in every sound measure for the restoration of prg;pemy. o am making an early return to Washington in special toncern that the measures and instrumentalities which we have in motion on an entirely non- partisan basis shall continue to func- Uon vigorously and contribute their e t and his party lef train at Glendale for h‘:\‘ -{mgom: trip through Pasadena to Sierra Madre to see the home of Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert Hoover, jr. Relatives Are Present. More than 30 minutes was spent in the low, white brick-stucco house nes- tled near the foothills and almost com- pletely surrounded by orchards. Sev- eral of the President’s relatives were Ppresent. At Pasadena the President left his car to tell a crowd in the City Hall Plaza he felt a “double appreciation of this reception because of its spon- taneity.” From Sierra Madre the party drove through San Gabriel, thence to El Monte, and there re-entered the train, an_hour off schedule. ‘The trip will mean that his arrival in Washington will not be until Wed- nesday morning, instead of Tuesday. Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De- partment, who with Mark Requa and Milton Esberg, friends of the.President, is making the trip across the continent with him, influenced him to visit the “Tuberculous Children Are Victims Economic Stress Washington Have Tuberculous Infection These Children Need: To avoid becoming overtired. To avoid contact with tuberculous persons. To have nourishing food, including fresh frujts, green vegetables and one quart of safe milk daily. Sunshine and clean, fresh air. The free Children’s Tuberculosis Clinic is located at 512 Eye Street N.W. Open every Monday and Friday, 9 to 11 AM. This and Other Tuberculosis Work Financed by Christmas Seals Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1022 11th Street N.W. Telephone District 8311 D. C., NOVEMBER 13, 1932—PART ONT DRYS IN SENATE PLAN FILIBUSTER Lines Are Shaping for Bitter Fight Over Beer in Next Congress. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) tention that President Hoover would sign & bill legalizing beer. This oc- curred in a statement by the Federal Dispensary Tax Reduction League, an gfl!lx:l‘?uun seeking prohibition change. t said: “We are informed by three officials very close to President Hoover that he m sign the beer bill if it comes before | The statement has had no confirma- | tion as yet in any other quarter. Deny Victory for Wets. Dry leaders are trying to impress Con- gress with the idea that the election of | | Gov. Rosevelt wag not a wet victory. ‘The Methodist Board of Temperanc | Prohibition and Public Morals yesterday | discussed the election in its clipsheet, | declaring the acceptance speech of Mr. Hoover eliminated prohibition from the campal as a clear-cut issue. It is- sued what amounted to a warning to members of Congress and the new ad- ministration not to disregard the strength of the prohibitian vote. | Another prohibition development yes- terday was the statement by Senator I became chairman of the Colorado | motored down ‘the step canyon roads | | Walsh, Democrat, of. Montana to news- paper men that he would support the party’s platform on repeal of the eight- eenth amendment and meodification of | the Volstead act. | .. Questioned as to whether he thought there was sufficient wet strength in the | present Congress to modify tbe Vol- stead act at the short sessior, he an-| swered: “That is problematical.” ‘Walsh at the same time expressed the opinion that iegaiization of beer within constitutional limits could be effected at the short session and said he would be for it. He added, however, that he had not fixed in his mind the limit of alcoholic percentage that could be allowed in beer under the Coustitution, although he remarked, “I believe it can be in- creased.” Asked if he thought dry Democrats from the Sonth would vote to carry out the party’s plaiform on prohibition re- peal, the Montanan sai t “Demo- crats who ran on the platform are morally bound to carry it out, if elected.” Sees Democrats’ Duty. On this point Representative Oliver, Democrat, of Alabama touched yester- day with an assertion to newspaper men that he felt it the- “duty of every Democrat to carry out the party's plat- form and pledges.” Oliver is chairman of the subcom- mittee of the House Appropriations Committee which is in charge of the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor bill, and will have much to say on whether enforcement appropriations shall be cut, as urged by Beck. Oliver yesterday declined to express his views on such a reduction. He did say, how- ever, he would co-operate fully with the President and Vice President-elect in carrying out the pledges of the party platform. Oliver's recommendations on ap- propriations for the prohibition unit under the Justice Department will be watched closely. It is possible, how- ever, this and other appropriation bills will not be rushed and that some of them will go over until the extra session. | said: “The result of the presidential elec- tion is a clear mandate to Congress to end, as soon as possible, the tragic folly of Federal prohibition. “This question should be eliminated from American politics, and it can only be by restoring to the States local self- government. The mistaken experiment of prohibition has confused the ordi- nary processes of government and has made any solution of our economic problems very difficult. If the next Congress is to be, as now seems certain, largely composed of inexperienced men, at a time when this Nation is in great- est need of experienced men, it is due toltma confusing element in our politi- cal life, Should Submit Amendment. “For this reason, Congress should promptly submit a repealing amend- ment at the coming session, and will probably do so. If, however, it appedrs, when Congress reconvenes, that the necessary two-thirds vote cannot be secured, then it would be better to de- fer the matter until the new Congress convenes on March 4, for the cause of repeal will not be served by a pro- longed debate, if it spems probable that session, are disposed to ignore the man- date of the people and vote against re- submission. “This postpunement of the issue for a few months need not prevent a modification of the Volstead law, which requires only a majority vote in both Housts. This can be done by raising the alcoholic content to a more reason- able amount. If Congress had the power to prescribe one-half of 1 per eent as the deadline, it has equally the power to prescribe a larger precentage, acd I believe that the Supreme Court will sustain a declaration of Congress as to such percentage, unless there was @ clear abuse of the political discretion of Congress. This would enable the manufacture and sale of a good quality of beer, which would be non-intoxicating in fact, and, as its use is more helpful to the cause of true temperance than hard liquors, it may be well that the return to individual liberty should be gradual. “The ‘wets’ at this session should also consider whether, in view of the demonstrated failure of prohibition and the ever-growing deficit in the Treasury, they should not refuse $0 appropriate any further funds to continue the tragic farce of so-called enforcement. ‘Thi. is wholly in the discretion of Con- gress. The judiclary cannot compel Congress to appropriate.” Discusses Revenue. 3 The Crusaders, militant wet organiza- tion, in a statement issued by Rufus 8. Lusk, national legislative officer, dis- cussed the revenue possibilities of legal- ization of beer and & tax on beer. “One cent a-glass tax on beer will start an immediate golden flow of revenue into the United States Treasury at the annual rate of over $600,000 a day or well over $200,000,000 a year,” he sald. “Tax it two cents a glass, and the revenue will be almost half e billion annually.” His estimate was based on the fact that in 15 States and the District of Columbia, beer may be sold the instant the Volstead act is modified. Those States are Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New York, Nevada, Wiscon- sin, Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisi- ana, Michigan, New Jersey, North Da- kota, Oregon and Washington, all of which have repealed their State prohi- bition laws. In 1916, beer was taxed at the rate of $1.50 per barrel, but the present tax is $6 a barrel, which figures out about one cent a glass, Mr. Lusk pointed out, holding it “not unreasonable to believe that people would gladly pay a tax of two cents a glass, which is less than beer is taxed in England.” 15¢0] “In the various States, where besr | Arizo: may be sold as soon as the Volstead act is modified,” he explained, “we have arrived at the probable amount of tax Uncle Sam will collect by taking the number of glasses of beer actually consumed per inhabitant, as shown by the report of the commissioner of in- ternal revenue for 1916. To this num- ber—and it's in the bilions—we added the increase in umption, based on the growth of these various States during last It so happens that many &Dr‘!untluvz Beck in his uc-mem‘ more than a third, in the lame duck | Hurt in Crash SENATOR GERALD P. NYE. NYE'S RIB BROKEN - INAUTO ACCIDENT North Dakota Senator Was En Route to Capital When Car Overturns. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn, November 12— | Washington bound after his re-election | Tuesday, Gerald P. Nye, Senator from | North Dakota, suffered a rib fracture, cut and bruises today when his car skidded and overturned on a slippery | highway. A companion was injured | slightly. - The mishap occurred on a curve near Hudson, Wis., 20 miles from here. The | 38-year-old junior Senator, just chosen | for his second full Senate term, was | taken to Dr. A. W. Livingstone’s office | at Hudson and then to a hospital here. Dr. Livingstone attending Nye de- | scribed his injuries as a fractured tenth | Tib on the left side, a shallow gash behind the right ear, a small cut on the left hand, and many scratches and bruises. “The Senator’s condition generally | is good,” he said. “There was no in- | jury to the chest cavity. The injuries | beyond the broken rib are minor. | “He apparently suffered very little | from exposure since he was picked up immediately and there was virtually no loss of blood. Barring complichtions he should recover quickly.” Riding with Senator Nye, who was | en route from his Cooperstown, N. Dak., | home to join Mrs. Nye in Chicago and | planned to go on to Washingotn from | there, was David P. Horlick of Fargo, | N. Dak., who was cut and bruised. | Nye, a Progressive Republican, first plete the unexpired term of the late Senator Ladd. 'DENIES WET MANDATE FOR NEXT CONGRESS ‘Virginia Anti-Saloon League Head Says “Lame Ducks” Not Bound by Vote. By the Associsted Press. RICHMOND, Va., November 12— | Rev. Ed J. Richardson, superintendent | of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, in a statement issued today said the election was not & mandate upon the lame duck session of Congress. gress received their mandate against beer and other intoxicants when they were elected some years ago,” he said. “The mandate of 1932 is for the Con- gress convening next March, and it is both puerile and undemocratic to claim that the present Congress is bound by the election just held.” Supt. Richardson quoted Lady Astor as saying the American economic prob- lem will never be solved if “we permit our country to be flooded with wines and whiskies of Europe.” DEAN HEADS ECONOMISTS Atlanta Session Hears Maryland U. Man Hit Corporation Holding. ATLANTA, November 12 (/).—Dean |J. B. Trant of Louisiana State Uni- | versity today was elected president of the Southeastern Economic Association. In the same business session the name of the organization was changed from Southeastern Economic Conference, The business session followed a meet- ing at which Prof. William H. Brown of the University of Maryland told the economists that capital hoarding by corporations offers a more serious threat to the economic and social structure than the hoarding of cash by indi- viduals about which financiers recently have been concerned. now ready and waiting for legal beer have had population increases of 30 per cent or more; they Lave grown faster than most of the drier Common- wealths, Tilinois Law PDoomed. “In addition to the States where beer could be sold today, Illinois is getting ready to throw out its enforcement act, which was repealed two years ago by the Legislature, but vetoed by the Gov- ernor. There is also agitation to re- peal the State prohibiticn law of Penn~ sylvania. These two States would add | millions to the income of the Federal | Government, as soon as they are able | to join the 15 that are already in a posi- tion to sell legal beer “As soon as the eighteenth amend- ment Is repealed, & tax of 1 cent a glass means a Federal income of $418,000,000, even though the 13 States which were dry in 1916 continue to bar the sale of malt beverages. Should this tax be 2 cents a glass, Uncle Sam may reason- ably count on an income of almost $837,000,000 per annum. This would equal more than half of the deficit| which the Government is now piling up and would be at least three times the tax the Government will receive, based on collections for July, August and Sep- tember, on all the nuisance taxes re- cently imposed.” Appended to the statement iwas the fol list of States where becr may be sold when the Volstead act is modi- fled and estimated amount of tax that would be collected: | Amount of revenue it ed at 1 cent dass.” 088, 96,405,854 102,592 33,840,480 04 1:164,804 | went 'to Washington in 1925 to com- | “Dry members of the present Con-| FUNGS ARE LACKING FOR LABOR PROBE Inquiry of Mississippi River Work Conditions May Suffer. President Hoover's newest comynise sion, appointed to investigate labor cone ditions along the Mississippi River on work_being done under supervision of the Corps of Army Engineers, may find itself seriously hampered for lack of funds. So far no warrant in law has been found to finance the work of the com-= mission, appointed by the Chief Execu= tive the end of last month, to investie gate charges that colored labor on the levees was being maltreated. War De- partment sources said yesterday that there are no funds available out of rivers and harbors appropriations with which to pay the commission’s expenses. May Pay Own Expenses, Faced with this prospect, it begins to look as if the members of the cagmmxs- sion would have to pay their railway fare and other expenses out of their own pockets and later put in a claim with the Government for reimburse- ment. War Department authorities said that funds carried in the rivers and harbors section are appropriated spe- cifically by Congress for definite items and funds may not be transferred for other purposes. The commission, the War Department officials contend, is not by law connected with any particu- lar project from which funds could be taken for its expenses. So clear are the War Department authorities in this belief that they have not asked for any formal ruling on the problem. The Mississippi River Com- mission, which is under the Corps of Engineers of the Army, may be able to take care of the members of the,new commission when they reach the “field, glving them meals at the camps, it was said, but further than this will be able to do little, officials explained. President Hoover named the new group only a couple of weeks ago and Congress has not been in session to appropriate funds for its expenses, Members of the new organization wers hopeful that the Mississippi River Come mission would be able to foot the bill for the work, but this does not now seem Ppossible. On October 27 the White House any nounced that President Hoover had apw pointed to serve on the commission Dr. Robert R. Moton, head of Tuskegee Ine stitute; Judge James A. Cobb of the District Municipal Court; Eugene Kinc= kle Jones of New York, executive sece retary of the Urban League of New York City; all representing the colored race. In addition, the Chief Executive placed Lieut. Col. U. §. Grant, 3d, di- rector of Public Buildings and Publis Parks, as a member. Goes First to Vicksburg. Col. Grant said yesterday that he hopes the group can assemble for action the week of November 21. It will go first to Vicksburg, Miss., the headquar- ters of the Mississippi River Commis- :!&I}‘.’ulnqulry '(vul Lthm be made at camps of contractors along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Tt is expected that at least a couple of weeks will be needed to inquire into the problem, first hand. Originally it was proposed that the commission would set to work at the beginning of the past week, but some of its members found themselves with conflicting engagements. Appointments of the commission by President Hoover grew out of complaints against the contract system of the War Department and treatment accorded colored workers in the various contrac- tors’ labor camps. The National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Coldred People took a hand in the situation and the White House acted. HEADLESS BODY OF MAN FOUND ON RIVER BANK Believed to Have Been There for Month or More—No Marks of Violence Noted. By the Associated Press. MORRISON, Ill, November 12.—A gruesome mystery today was presented Sherift P. A. Whitney with the finding of the headless body of a man on the bank of the Rock River near Erie, ‘Whiteside County. Bert Dempster of Hillsdale, a_hunter, found the body when he climbed the river bank. It lay in a heap of drift- wood and dead leaves not far from a highway. Whitney said the body apparently had lain where it was found for a month or more. The body bore. no wounds or other marks of violence, nor could any mark of possible identification be discovered. INVENTORY OF ITALY’S NECESSITIES ORDERED Mussolini Calls for Inquiry With View to Future Trade Pacts He Hopes to Make. By the Associated Press. ROME, November 12.—Premier Mus- solini today ordered an inventory of Italy’s supplies and prime necessities in all flelds with a view to future trade agreements which he hopes to make. A committee of experts was chosen for this purpose and Prof. Giar Alberta Blanc of the University of Rome named as chairman. The committee was instructed to make exhaustive inquiry into the country’s needs and into the things which could be sold abroed and then to recommend importation only in cases where domestic articles cannot be substituted for those lacking " October Circulation. Daily ...1 15,082 Sunday, 123,683 District of Col B. H. KAUFFMANN. Assistant Busiresy Manager of THE EVENING AND SUNDA' STAR, does solemnly swear that the actual number of copies of the paper named sold and distributed during the month of Octos ber. AD. 1032, was as follows: lumsbia, ss.: Less adfustments..........see o0 Total net dally circulation.. .., Average daily Daily " average n for serv t Daily average net circulation. SUNDAY. Coy e l;’i‘:’ s::fl:fl.wu , ex ashing. ton, which was for 1915, and North kota, l:f is estimated, that te having v dry since 1889,