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WEATHER. Rain tonight and 38 ; colder WMW'-M 47, at 4:00 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 3:00 am. Full report on page 5. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14,15&16 ure e Entered_as sec No. 32,343. post office, Washington, ona ciass matter D. C - @he «',7 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, i Foening Star, NOVEMBER 18, 1932—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##%* HOOVER CONSULTS FULL CABINET ON DEBT QUESTION Conference Is Preliminary to Discussions With Roose- velt Tuesday. LEGISLATORS CALLED FOR FOLLOWING DAY Members of Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Com- mittees Summoned. By the Associated Press. Gathering his full cabinet around him for the first time in months, President Hoover today gave consideration to war debt and domestic problems as a prelude to his conferences next week with Presi- dent-clect Roosevelt and congressional feaders. One or more members of the official family have been absent from cabinet Bessions since Midsummer for campaign ©or other reasons, but all answered the | pen call today in the face of what Mr. Hoover has termed a pending “world problem of major importance fo this Nation ™ Requests of foreign . debtors for a fmoratorium extension and & review of the debt field received cabinet attention mlong with the gigantic task of paring Federal expenditures down to the level of receipts. As they arrived at the White House, members were informed that the Presi- dent in an historic telephone conversa- tion with his successor-elect yesterday had arranged to meet him shortly after 3:30 p.m. next Tuesday in the executive offices to discuss debt and allied prob- Legislators Summoned. They were informed, also, that the Chief Executive has summoned three Republican and three Democratic mem- bers each of the Senate Finance Com- mittee and the House Ways and Means Committee to sit with him the following day to discuss debt matters. Meanwhile, at Albany, Gov. Roose- velt called in one of his ad- visers, Prof. Raymond Moley of Colum- bia University, who will be with him at the White House Before the Tuesday meeting, Presi- dent Hoover will talk the situation over snew with Secretary of the Treasury part In J arran . g enly ones at the ‘The next day e(e%:'y‘um the tele- phone conversation between Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt, and during a series of conferences in budget matters be- tween the President snd such aides as Bécretary of War Hurley, Postmaster momn\ Brown and Budget “The summoning of congressional lead- g into a White Hmpléu debt p.l'lz‘g dl‘d come a5 & com| mrgue of- gfll ‘Washington. It was known that . Hoover recognized that debt action fn the final analysis would rest on Cap- ol Hill, and he had so informed. the President-elect, pointing out the influ- ence he might have with Democratic bers looking to him as leader. Mr. the Chief Executive call in leading Democrats of the House and Senate. Those summoned to the White House fre Senators Smoot, Utah; Watson, In- diana; Reed, Pennsylvania, Republic- ans, and Harrison, Mississippl; King, Utah, and George, Georgia, Democrats. From the House Ways and Means Committee those called are Representa- tives Hawley, Oregon; Treadway, Mas- sachusetts, and Bacharach, New Jersey, Republicans, and Collier, Mississippi; Rainey, Illinois, and Doughton, North Carolina, Democrats. The White House announcement of the Wednesday morning meeting fol- ws “The President has requested the three ranking Republican and Demo- cratic members of the Finance Commit- tee of the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee of the House, to meet With him on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, to discuss questions of for- eign debt.” Announcement on Tuesday Session. The almost equally brief announce- fment concerning the Hoover-Roosevelt conference on the preceding day, as handed out at the same time, read: “The President and Gov. Roosevelt falked over the telephone this morning in respect to the meeting over the questions raised in the President’s tele- *gram of November 12. “Gov. Roosevelt is arriving in Wash- fngton at 3:30 o'clock on Tuesday and will come directly to the White House office. The conversations will be formal. “The President will be accompanied by Sccretary Mills. Gov. Roosevelt will be accompanied by some one interested in the subject.” Available for the President’s fiscal studics were latest Treasury figures ghowing @ deficit exceeding $709,000,000 | Also_at hand were on _November n 're Column 4.) “(Continued on Page e PLANES COLLIDE IN AIR 15. . Only One of Four Men Aloft In-) jured in Mishap. BAN 0, November 18 (). —One -mm“c?& fiyer was injured and thre: escapeq unscatched yesterday in 8 cellision between two fighting planes at_an elevation of 7,000 feet. Plloted by Pirst Lieut. Albert D. Cooley and Second Lieut. E. C. Dyer, witk Second Lieut, J, 8. Holmberg and Btafl Sergt. Edwin O, Billings as gun- REVISION IS IMPERATIVE, SNOWDEN VIEW OF DEBTS | Former Chancellor of Exchequer Says British Will Not Default, but Hopes for Ultimate Great Britain’s ide in the war debt controversy is presented here by Viscount Snowden, chancellor of the erchequer in 1929-31, who states it as “the British case for debt re- BY VISCOUNT PHILIP SNOWDEN, Former Chancellor of the British Exchequer. LONDON, November 17 (N.AN.A).— The Hoover moratorjum for the sus- pencion of payment of all reparations and war debts for a year expired last June and resumption of the debt pay- ments must be begun next month unless an extension of the moratcrium is granted by the United States. Great Britain is a debtor only to the United States. Prance, Italy and’some of the smaller European countries are debtors to both Great Britain and America. All European debtor ccuntries have relied hitherto on the receipt of German reparations to meet their half yearly debt payments. No reparations are forthcoming from Germany, so European countries with debt payments to make next month have a choice among three courses—pay their creditors out of their budgets, default or appeal to the United States for t of payments due her g the revision of debt agreements. This, thén, is the present position. Failing some concession from America, Britain must pay the half-yearly in- stallment due December 15. This amounts to $96,000,000, gold value. To meet this there will be nothing from Germany and nothing from Brit- ain’s continental debtors. It will be | | | Cancellation. a charge on the budget for which no provision has been made. The sum is equal to a yield of a shilling income tax. Theres the choice of defaultihg; to tell America we cannot pay. However rightly we may feel that the debt settle- ment made by Mr. Baldwin is onerous and unjust, I believe there is hardly a man in this country who would not make further sacrifices rather than see Great Britain put on the list of de- faulting states. The British government has chosen the third of the three courses I men- tioned above, and has appealed to the United States to enter upon conversa- tions for revision of the debt agreement. Cites Hoover's Position. There is ample justification for the | prcposal President Hoover, in a state- ment last year on the moratorium, while emphatically ruling out cancellation of vision in view of the abnormal situation xisting e 2. “T am e,” he said, “that the American le have no desire to ex- tract any sum beyond the capacity of the debtor to pay.” The European debtors to America have often been told, in effect, that if they would make a reasonable settle- ment of reparations and then approach America on the debt question, she would be found not unreasonable. Lausannes tentative agreement was based on the expectation America would play her part. The British and French notes give America the op- portunity. There is an unanswerable case for (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) ROOSEVELT INVITES ADVISER TO PARLEY Prof. Raymond Moley to Come Here for Hoover Conference Tuesday. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., November 18.—His plans complete for visiting President Hoover Pranklin D. Roosevelt has summoned mnflm.whzrehen!flmadmm!lr.l Roosevelt today. Between now and 4 o'clock Tuesday when the President-elect will meet Mr. Hoover for an informal conference on “the whole situation,” close associates of the Governor’s be- he and Prof. Moley will go over thoroughly the matters they expect to come up at the meeting. Speaks to President. Mr. Roosevelt’s choice of Moley, Co- lumbia University’s soft-spoken pro- fessor of public law, was announced shortly after the telephone call yester- day, in which the President-elect in- formed President 1 d that velt, in turn, had suggeste o W, tion in Georgia. Since Roosevelt was elected Governor in 1928 Prof. Moley has been one of his frequent advisers, and dus the presi- dential campaign he was at the candidate’s side. He helped Roosevelt prepare his ac- ceptance speech and other important utterances in the campaign in which he dealt with governmental problems, eco- nomic questions and other similar mat- ters on which the professor is consid- ered an authority. Frequently called upon by individuals and governmental agencies for advice and research, he was one of Alfred E. Smith’s counsellors in his presidential campaign of 1928. He is a vice presi- dent of the American Political Seience Association, a writer and a former Ohio school teacher. Today the plans of the President- elect, who is fully recovered from the mild attack of influenza, which con- fined him to the executive mansion since last Friday, took him to the State capitol for one of the few remaining occasions in which he expects to sit in the executive chair. Leaving tomorrow for Hyde Park, he will go on to New York Monday eve- ning, and the following morning will (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) ] MISSOURI LION HUNTER TAKES TO FIELDS AGAIN Louis Manufacturer Carries Two Cubs as He Leaves for Secret Destination. By the Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., November 18. —Denver M. Wright, St. Louis manu- facturer, who headed the unsuccessful “home-made” lion hunt in Mississippi St. last night, supposedly on a quail hunt. He left early today with two small lion In his previous attempt to stage the 'hunt, Wright carted two nearly full- ! grown lions about South Missouri look- {ing for & place to release them without interference. Ldesti.mmm was unannounced. the mainland to eat lunch. returned he found the lions had been mers, the planes were e in wlated aerial combat when the col- n occurred. The men ju with heir parachutes and Ia safely. Lieut. Holmberg suffered a leg cub. Broker Convicted of Theft. LOS ANGELES, November 18 (#).— B M. Hartman, San Francisco broker, ‘was convicted yesterday on two counts of grand theft for steiling funds.from Helen Kearns, sister of the sports pro- moter, Jack Kearns. He will be sen- ftenced Monday. The prosecution charged Hutman taudulently obteined $500 in from Miss Kearns and tonverted 0 his own use. 4 County. ‘Wright said recen v had not & for a lion hunt and that again. The first been his game den. Kentucky Mine Cases Appealed. FRANKFORT, Ky., November 18 (#). i it Court —Appea) u '5mhbwuunhlflln ty coal fields last year ha County several weeks ago, came here cubs, which he brought with him. His He finally let them out on an island in the Mississippl River and went to| When he killed by a deputy sheriff of Mississippi his unfortunate his eagerness he would try % of lions have mounted and occupy s place in HARRISON OPPOSES DEBT REDUCTION Senator Disapproves Sug- gestion to Revive World War Commission. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Opposition to cancellation or reduc- tigp of the foreign debts owed this country and to the revival of the World War Debt Commission was expressed by Senator Pat Harrison of Finance Committee, which deals with the forelgn debt matter. It is expected he will be chairman of that committee when the new Congress meets after March 4. The Mississippl Senator is one of those asked to confer with the Presi- dent on the debt question next Wednes- day. He has accepted the invitation. Senator Harrison took the position America should put on record the debtor nations in Europe and there would be no further curtailment of the debts owed this country. Conditions Changed. “A dffferent condition today is found from that which existed in 1931 when President Hoover called into conference many of us and suggested the mora- torium of the intergovernmental debts,” he said. “It will be recalled that at that time a constant drain had been operating for several weeks on the bank- ing resources of Germany; that $25,- 000,000 a day was being withdrawn from the Reichsbank and that Austria was in a state of financial collapse. “It was so presented to us that if a | collapse, as seemed inevitable, happened | in these countries, it would affect great- ly the economic condition in other countries of Europe and would be in- | Jurious to the United States. “We felt that something had to be done to stop the run on those central banks and to retard growing unrest in those countries. We commended the move of President Hoover for a mora- torium and championed it on the floor of the Senate. We granted the one- year moratorium in the hope that it would be a stabilizing factor in the economic confusion that existed and might work as an encouraging factor in Europe and in this country. S same conditions do not prevail now and some of our foreign debtors have been able during the last 12 months to put themselves on a better (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) OFFER OLD MASTER FOR $2, GET IT BACK Art Dealer Returns 17th Century Painting When He Finds It to Be Genuine. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y, November 18.— The days of fairy godmothers and Santa Claus are not over after all. Yesterday afternoon two Ossining youths, whose identities are concealed, walked into the art store of C. J. Drejer. They had with them a dis- colored canvas which, they thought hesitantly, might be worth a couple of dollars. Dreler’s interest was aroused. ~He cleaned the painting and took it to art critics in New York City. There it was discovered to be the work of a famous Dutch painter, Kuype, who lived from 1625 to 1700. The critics put an estimate on the painting of $15000 and Dreier re- turned it to the youths until a pur- chaser can be found. The painting is a pastoral scene, meadows in the foreground, with mountains in the dis- tance, and the sun setting behind them. Dreler sald the painting had been in the attic of the boys’ home for many years and was taken down when a search was made for second-hand ar- ticles with possible resale value. Deportees Reach Portugal. LISBON, Portugal, November 18 aingos sarived today with 18 Campos a lay Wi aboard, all sent out of Brazil recent abortive revolution against the regime of Provisional Vargas. (). Siqueira debts, suggested there might be a re- St the Getulio HITLER IN BERLIN 10 SEE PRESIDENT Nazi Chieftain to Meet Von Hindenburg Tomorrow and Give His Views. OTHER PARTY LEADERS ALREADY CONSULTED Coalition Regime Believed to Be Aim for Reich Government. Schnee Believed Choice. By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, November 18.—Adolf Hitler | came to Berlin today prepared to meet President von Hindenburg in a private audience tomorrow and to lay before him the program of the powerful Na- tional Socialist party for dealing with the stalemate in the Reichstag. ‘The Hitlerite organ, the Voelkischer Beobachter of Munich, remarked in con- nection with the Nazi chieftain’s trip to Berlin that it was not asking too much to expect the powers of the nation “to harken to the masses” and entrust Hitler with the formation of the new cabinet. Commenting on the resignation yes- terday of Chancellor Franz von Papen, the Nazi Organ said that “his chancel- lorship has proved that the time of experiments and halfway measures is over.” President Seeks Solution. Herr Hitler, whose party is the most powerfil in a Reichstag in which no party or group is able to swing a majority, arrived in Berlin after Presi- dent von "Hindenburg had personally taken over the task of negotiating with party leaders in an attempt to resolve the Reichstag deadlock. The President discussed the situation separately with the leaders of the Na- tionalist, Centrist and German People’s party, but the result of those confer- ences was not made public, each leader being sworn to secrecy. The full weight of Germany's domes- tic crisis fell upon the aged President Von Hindenburg today as he set out grimly to attain his cherished ideal of a national concentration government rgljbr;.ud, at least, by the deadlocked The President started alone on the difficult road he has charted for him- self as a result of the resignation of the cabinet of Franz von Papen. t government stepped aside yester- :‘n after two elections had failed to ve On] it & working hold on the Reichstag. ly the President's secretary was called to accompany the President at conferences with various party leaders —each in private. Confers With Leaders. Selected for these talks today were Alfred Hugenburg, the Nationalist party leader; Eduard Dingledey, the German People's (Populist) party chief, and Dr. Ludwig Kaas, acting for the Catholic Centrist party. Tomorrow the Chief Executive will see Hitler and Dr. Schaeffer of the Bavarian People’s party. The Socialists were not invited be- cause of their brusque refusal to meet the resigning Chancellor von Papen Tuesday. Nothing was said, either, of the Communists. An attempt on the life of Von Papen on Tuesday was disclosed today when Mrs. Paula Budde was sentenced by a special court to three months’ imprison- ment for carrying a dagger. Arrested in Chancellory. She was arrested in the chancellory on Tuesday, when she sought an inter- view with Von Papen. The chancel- ler's secretary became suspicious and telephoned the police, who said they found a dagger a foot long concealed in her dress. The woman's husband testified that she had told him she wanted to Column 5. Continued on Page 2, PRINCE CANTACUZENE BADLY HURT IN FALL Great-Grandson of U. 8. Grant In- jured When Horse Fails to Hurdle Fence. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 18.—Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great-grandson of former President U. S. Grant, was se- riously injured vesterday during a hunt near suburban Milburn, when his horse failed to hurdle a fence. The prince, a resident of Chicago, was taken to a hospital unconscious. Phy- sicians, while saying he was seriously injured, declared he was not in grave danger. X-rays were to be taken today to determine the extent of his injuries. Prince Michael, 34, is the son of Julia Dent Grant, the granddaughter of Pres- ident Grant and wife of the Russian prince, Michael Cantacuzene. The accident happened during the regular Thursday afternoon hunt at the Onwentsia Country Club. Prince Michael is the husband of the former Clarissa P. Curtis of Boston. The prince, who learned to ride in Russia, was considered one of the best horsemen at the club. ON NEW MINISTRY “From Press to Home Within an Hour” ‘The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. P Means Associated DAY OUR DAILY BREAD Y ) W D RN R\ W X N RO = N KR (ONaN AMY JORNSON SETS CAPE TOWN RECORD Clips 10 Hours 24 Minutes From Mollison’s Mark in African Solo Hop. | By the Assoctated Press. CAPE TOWN, Union of South Africa, November 18.—Amy Johnson, flying |alone from England, landed here at| 11:30 pm, Greenwich time (8:30 am.| | Eastern standard time) today, clipping nearly 11 hours off the speed record| held by her husband, J. A. Mollison. Last March Capt. Mollison made the trip in 4 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes. His wife’s time was 4 days, 6 hours and 55 minutes, or 10 hours and 24 min- utes faster than his, She brought her small monoplane, Desert Cloud, down to & skiliful land- ing to the accompaniment of shrieking motor horns and the cheers of 2,000 persons waiting to greet her. The crowd gave the police some trouble as it rushed to surround her. Made Four Stops. Miss Johnson covered the 6,250 miles from England with only four stops. She was very tired. When Mollison made the flight the strain was so great that he cracked up at the finish. He ex- plained later that he had had so little | sleep during the flight that in the last landing he misjudged his distance. He was not hurt and the Wi b S d plane was not ‘When he came down Miss Johnson was one of those who welcomed him. “I think you're wonderful,” she told him then, and four months later they were married. Two months after that (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) STALIN ACKNOWLEDGES CONDOLENCE MESSAGES Soviet Leader Makes First Public | Comment on Death of Wife. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, November 18.—Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviets, made his first public comment on the death of his wife today in a letter to the Communist party newspaper Pravda. The message said: “I am earnestly grateful to all or- ganizations, establishments and individ- uals who have expressed their con- dolences with the death of my dear friend and comrade Nadejda Sergfivna Allilieuva-Stalina. (Signed) “J. STALIN.” Mrs. Stalin died last week in her thirty-first year after ax iliness, the exact nature of which was not an- nounced. e e PEACE PLAN RECEIVED League Gets Argentina’s Propo- sal for Non-Aggression. GENEVA, November :8 (#).—League of Nations headquarters received with great interest news of Argentina’s pro- posal for & pact of conciliation and non- aggression which would embrace all the nations of South America. On the basis of reports received here all the provisions of the projected agree- ment appear to be entirely in harmony wn: the purposes of the League, it was said. Koester Presents Credentials. PARIS, November 18 (#)—The new German Ambassador, Roland Koester, presented his credentials today to Pre- mier Herriot. He succeeds Leopold von Hoesch. Government employes forced to take administrative furlough in addition to the legisiative furlough involving loss of a month’s pay, will save some money under a decision by Controller General McCarl, made public today. In this, McCarl held that the legis- sative furlough deduction, amounting to 8% per cent, is applicable only to the status rather than to his basic salary. M’CARL RULING FAVORS CLERKS ON ADMINISTRATIVE FURLOUGH Legislative Deduction Held Applicable Only to Time Worker Is on Duty Status. time on which a worker is on duty class. to For example, if an is placed administrati a month, | ing to $16.67 his salary for 11 months instead of on the amount he should have received on a8 12-month basis. Other ded are_made accordingly. The ruling was obtained by the Civil Service Commission, whose funds were Year May Have Been Lost in Prediction Of Leonid Display By the Assoclated Press. BERKELEY, Calif., November 18. —Astroncmers who pride them- selves on split-second predictions of eclipses and such may have slipped up in the matter of the Leonid meteor shower, in the opinion of Dr. W. P. Meyer. Not just a small slip, either. Dr. Meyer, an astronomer at the University of California, thinks a whole year may have been lost somewhere. The last time the Leonid shower appeared was in 1899. On schedule, as computed by mathe- matical experts cf astronomy, the next display of fireworks was due in 33 years, or 1932, But Dr. Meyer recalled that last year a really big shower came and California scientists spent hours counting many hundreds of streaks of fire. There is just a possibility, he says, the Leonids may have gained & year. GOVERNMENT ENDS F. H. SMITH CASES Asks Quashing of All Pending Indictments—Zihiman Main Beneficiary. ‘The F. H. Smith Co. case—a story of one man’s rise from obscurity to great wealth and power by “high finance” which subsequently sent him to the penitentiary—came to an end today when the Government asked the District Supreme Court to quash all indictments pending against the vari- ous officials of the company. The mortgage pyramids erected by G. Bryan Pitts and his associates came tumbling down shortly after the stock market crash in 1829 at an estimated cost of $30,000,000 to American in- vestors who had been lulled into a false sense of security by the Smith Co.s boast—"57 years without a loss to a single investor.” Pitts, whose speedy climb from a minor clerkship in the company to ab- solute control was one of the sensations of local financial circles, was convicted of conspiring to embe: $5,000,000 from his company and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Later he was given an additional year for contempt of court. Two of his associates also are serving prison terms. Zihlman Will Benefit. The principal beneficiary of today's nolle prosses, filed by Special Assistant Attorney General Neil Burkinshaw, is Frederick N. Zihlman, who was serving as chairman of the House District Com- mittee in 1929 when the grand -jury indicted him on a charge of mail fraud in connection with the sale of Smith Co. securities. Another cleared of charges is Samuel J. Henry, & former president of the Smith Co. C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Ed- wards, jr., former vice presidents of the company; Miss Helen Schneider, at cne time confidential secretary to Pitts, and Henry O. Hart, an accountant, are among the others cleared. Anadale and Edwards were convicted with Pitts and are serving, respectively, nine and three year sentences. Perjury Charge Dropped. The indictments against Pitts which were quashed include one for perjury growing out of the Hamilton Hotel bankruptcy, the mail fraud charge, one alleging the embezzlement of more than $1,000,000 and another accusing him of conspiring to commit perjury. The contempt-of-court charge which resulted in the one-year sentence was based on the alleged commission of perjury by Pitts in the conspiracy trial. He refused to testify before Justice F. Dickinson Letts on the ground that to do so might result in self-incrim- ination. The trial of Pitts and his two asso- ciates on the conspiracy charge lasted (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) BRI, ADMITS POISONING FOUR Michigan Woman Says She Was Ridiculed—Victims Recovering.. CARO, Mich., November 18 (#)— Miss Grace Hossler, 34, admitted toda) sheriff’s officials said, ed her brother, sister, brof n-law and & hired man on the broth- er's farm home, near here, use they ridiculed her.” brother, Oscar Hossler, and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Hatch, brother-in-law became violent he and sister, VANDENBERG GIVES BEER BILL IMPETUS }Michigan Senator Declares Wet Vote Is “an Undeniable Mandate.” The drive for a change in Federal liquor laws gained impetus today from an announcement by Senator Vanden- berg, Michigan Republican, that he favors immediate submission of a pro- hibition repeal amendment and liberali- zation of the Volstead law. At the same time, Chairman Pou of the House Rules Committee expressed to newspaper men the “hope that we can get modification of the Volstead act behind us at the short session.” As head of the powerful committee which has so much to say as to what lina Democrat is in a strategic position in the House. The two statements came after lead- ing wets in the House were seeking to have the Ways and Means Com- mittee draft a beer bill in time for presentation when Congress convenes. Chairman Collier agreed to refer to committee members a suggestion from Representative O'Connor of New York, leader of the Democratic wet bloc, that the group meet before Congress con- venes to draft a beer measure. “An Undeniable Mandate.” “immediate resubmission of the eight- eenth amendment” because “a just re- gard for the rights of majorities and the validity of law enforcement de- mands it.” The Michigan Senator voted last ses- sion against the proposals for legalizing and taxing beer, but on the last day of the session, after the party conven- tions, he voted with the Senate ma- Jority to consider the resolution offered by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, to repeal the eighteenth amend- ment and substitute a ban against the saloon. The vote in Michigan repealing the State prohibition act, Vandenberg said, demonstrates that two out of three voters “demand a change.” He char- acterized the result as “an undeniable mandate.” “For two reasons,” he continued, “it should be validated at once. First, citizens who have spoken so convincing- Iy are entitled as a right of popular government to the earliest opportunity to complete their conception of ordered temperance. Would Avoid Chaos. “Second, pending this canclusive action there is an interlude of chaos which injects new infirmity into all law enforcement, precipitates new disputes over Federal and State co-operation, shatters morale, and encourages lawless and untaxed liquor latitudes.” Vandenberg said the repeal 1 should “preserve Federal co-operation in protecting self-elected dry territory from (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) NEW JERSEY DRY LAW NULL AFTER DECEMBER 6 Attorney General Notifies Btate Vandenberg said he was in favor of H Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,985 — ] TWO CENTS. Press. §1039572 PLEDGED 0 CHEST AGENCIES AS GIFTS INCREASE Government Unit Takes Lead for Day With Total of $69,895.63. ONLY 209 DAYS REMAIN ON ‘DISTRESS CALENDAR’ President-elect Roosevelt Adds Plea to Capital to Meet Its Charity Budget. There were just 209 days left on the drab calendar of poverty and distress for 1933 when the army of more than 5,000 workers for the Community Chest completed their reports at today’s meet- ing in the Willard Hotel. Thirty-three more days had been wiped out with the total of $219,418.93 reportéd today from 15,362 subscribers. This brought the grand total of sub- scriptions for the campaign to $1,039,« 572.75, pushing the total past the mil- lion mark for the first time. The Governmént Unit, led by Gov. Thomas E, Campbell of the Civil Service Commission, pushed its total subscrip- tions for the day into the lead for the first time, reporting $69,895.63, from 8,964 subscribers. Added to thé pre- viously reported $106,650.47 from 9,918 givers, this brought the unit's grand total to date to $176,546.10 from 18,880 subscribers. This represented 24.28 per cent of the unit’s quota, and today’s re- port wiped out 10 days of the Chest’s black calendar, with $6,629 needed for every one of the 365 days of 1933 if the Chest’s work is to be done properly. ‘the House shall act on. the North Caro- | quota. made s grand total for the unit of $166,998.31 from 7873 sube scribers. The other unit , the schools unit, had a total its grand total to date to $5,600.62, which was 2.4 per cent of this unit's quota. 22 Per Cent of Quota. The first report on the District Gov~ tained subscriptions from 2,577, with & total collected to date of $24,792.58, which is 22 per cent of the quota of Newbold Noyes at meeting. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt today sent the following message to the workers for the Chest: “I deem it a privilege to add my ap- peal to the citizens of the Nation's Cap- ital to make generous response to your Community Chest drive. The need is great, and if want, misery and suffering are to be minimized in your great city, which should set an example for the rest of the land, there must be a loosen~ ing of purse strings and a warm-hearted response from all those who are able to give at all. All of the resources of in- dividuals and of the civic, State and National Governments must be mob- ilized that none may be without at least the bare necessities of life. I congrat- ulate the 2,200 governmental key men who are taking an active part in this great drive, “(Signed) D. ROOSEVELT.” Message From Pershing. The was addressed to Chaire man Noyes and was read at the meet Gen. John J. Pershing, first chairman of the Governmeni group of the Com- munity Chest, sent Noyes the following message from a ship on the Atlantic: “Government employes: This Win- ter's unparalleled unemployment crisis demands unprecedented generosity. We cannot maintain the morale of unem- ployed nor our own unless we share their sacrifices.” The largest single contribution re- ported today was one of $10,000 from an anonymous subscriber. Next came the $7,000 gift of John Hays Ham- mond. There was also reported a $5,000 gift of Mrs. C. C. Glover, sr, and & $4,000 contribution by Mrs. Marshall and Municipal Police Agen- cies of Repeal Change. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., November 18— Nev Jersey State and municipal police agencies were advised yesterday by At- torney General William A. Stevens that the Hobart State pronibition enforce- ment act would become inoperative De- cember 6. Co-operation with Federal enforce- ment officers was optional the attorney intendent of State police. The State enforcement act was re- pealed at a popular referendum No- vember 8, but the act will remain in force until the State Board of Canvas- sers certifies the vote December 6. EXECUTES DEATH PLAN Man Pays for Cremation, Then Shoots Himself. Fleld. Among the establishments re- ported today as having employes sube (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) NEW DELAWARE AID BILL PROVIDES $1,000,000 Democrats Think Half of Sum Asked by Governor Sufficient for Present. By the Assoclated Press. DOVER, Del, November 18.—A cutting the 000 NEW YORK, November !‘l: (#)—Harry | had an