Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1932, Page 5

INQURYMAYFX | COURSE ONBEER Report on What Constitutes Intoxicant Ordered Late in Last Congress. Weds Hindu AMERICAN WRITER MARRIES IN CALCUTTA. By the Assoclated Press. | What Congress does this Winter about beer may depend to a large extent upon the outcome of an inquiry ordered by | the Senate into the question of what | constitutes an intoxicaiing beverage. | In the closing hours of the last ses- | slon the Senate turned this perplexing problem over to its Judiciary Comn tee, composed entirely of lawyers, investigation and a report. | Nothing yet h»s been done by the committee, but this is likely to be the| first move in the December session on the beer guestion. With the Democrats elected over-| whelmingly on a platform calling for | immediate_modification of the Volstead act, as well as repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the committee’s inquiry may become of much greater impor- | tance than was supposed when it w2s first ordered by the Senate. Democrats Deny Contention. At that time proponents of beer con- tended that the move was made 50| Democrats could dodge a vote on the beer issue. This was denied ome cof whom, for | by the Democrats, cluding Robinson, cre willing to ey were willing to ame, up_when Senator Bingham (Republican, of Connecticut), pressed for action on’ his bill to allow 2.75 per cent beer. The motion to re- | fer the measure to the Judic Com- mittee for inquiry into what constitutes an_intoxicating beverage was made by Robinson and_carried, 50 to 25. [ Ever since Congress wrote one-half of | 1 per cent into the Volstead law the argument over what constitutes an in- toxicating beverage has excited discus- sion from one end of the country to the other. | Senator Sheppard, Texas Democrat | and co-author of the eighteenth amend- | ment, gave one side of the mntrove!syi in that last Senate debate, when he| said that figure had been selected be- | cause it was formerly used by the liquor | interests and had been fixed by several States before prohibition as the intoxi- cating border line. Definition Not Attempted. The prohibition amendment, Shep- g:rd said, was chiefly aimed at beer | cause that was the big pre-prohibi- tion drink. | The eighteenth amendment merely | rovides that the manufacture, sale and | ransportation of “intoxicating liquor” | shall be prohibited, without attempting | & definition of that flexible term. | The Judiciary Committee’s inquiry will be made’ under Chairman Norris | (Republican, of Nebraska), long one of | rohibition’s leading supporters, who | as now announced for modification. Norris takes the position that modifi- cation now may avert eventual repeal, and thus save the prohibition amend- ment itself. The Judiciary Committee itself is composed of members who in the past have been supporters of the liquor laws. One of its most prominent members is Senator Borah (Republicen, of | Idaho), long a dry spokesman, who has predicted that nothing will be done at the short session to legalizs beer. HULL ASKS TRADE BARRIER REMOVAL TO BOLSTER WORLD ___(Continued From First Page.) understood to take the position that the | world needs such a_conference without delay, while others heve suggested that the conference could not possibly be beld until next Spring. Senator Hull described graphically the situation which now confronts the people of America and the peoples of other nations. Text of Statement. “Numerous_economic problems and conditions,” he said, “equally pressing and differing only in degree as to their intimate relation with business recov- ery, imperatively call for basic treat- ment either by the United States alone or by it and other countries under its | y leadership. “Our 30 millions impoverished farm population are demanding relief from their mortgage indebt>dness of $9,260.- | . 000,000; the allied governments are de- | manding relief from their indebtedness | of $11,000,000,000; international trade is bound hand and foot by every rort of arbitrary restricticns; cur Federal, State and local budgets, hopelessly out of balance, present gaping deficits cal- culated to affect public credit; the financial distress of the railroads could scarcely be more threatening; the pani ridden American tax groaning under an overload of taxes; most or- | ganized minorities making almost im- pessible demands on public treasuries everywhere; unprecedented tariffs and exchange restrictions, rendering it im- possible for debtor countries to pay.debts without complete extinction of ~their goid reserves: breakdown of the proc- esces of distribution and exchange; vast unemployment, with collapse of high wages and high living standards; ‘m- possible surpluses piling higher and higher in this and cert: other coun- tries, with accompany’ modity prices; mali-distr frightful conditions cf moneta in many parts of the w ion under American leader- foolishly and futilely striving i Opinion on Debts. face of these monu- be sur- mounted i allied nati 5 request us first to single out their item f indebtcdness ossible_time grant their All creditors, pub; be conside Ia and i under ously tr immediate vision, res 1ty to undertake mental 50 1 of ditions. Debts Not Majo “Without the est the merits of the foreign debts due our government, however important they may be, they were not a major ‘cause of tI panic, nor are they a major remedy. This country loaned Europe ample monles with which to make the pay- ments received by us prior to 1930, while the annual payments due at pre: ent amount to only 2 per cent or 3 per cent, or less, of the budgets of the debtor countries. “The strangulation of international trade from a normal level of near $5; 000,000,000 down to $12,000,000,000, by extreme tariffs, quotes, embargces and nge restrictions, constituted the cause of the panic, while is an indispensable pre- these slig € =t i restoration | suit for an accounting. MISS GERTRUDE EMERSON, Co-editor of Asia Magazine and well | known American writer and lecturer, married in Calcutta recently is the daughter of Dr. and Mrg. Emerson of New York and the niece of 1 Emerson, the writer. ULTYISSUED | BY STOCKHOLDER Ex-D. C. Attorney Charges Mismanagement of Funds of Company. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 19.—Charg- ing mismanagement of the funds of the Assoclated Gas & Electric Co., Philip Newbold, a stockholder and former Washington, D. C. attorney, filed a motion in Supreme Court today | asking that a temporary receiver be appointed pending determination of his Newbold, now a felt manufacturer here, owns 100 shares of the class A preferred stock of Assoclated Gas & Electric. His attorney said he bought it two years ago at $60 a share and that it is now quoted on the Curb Ex- change at about $2. Charges Mismanagement. Newbold charged that the company has been grossly mismanaged by How- ard C Hopson, vice president, treas- urer and director of the company, who is one of the defendants. He asserted Hopson deminated the company and managed it through “dummy” di- rectors,, The alleged mismanagement lies in six contracts Hopson is said in the motion to have made with six other organizations, in which Newbold said Hopson has influence, to manage and otherwise taks care of the company’s business. Newbold charged that these six companies drew excessive and il- legal fees. He asserted that the alleged misman- sgement had seriously affected the credit of the company, making it diffi- cult to carry on refinancing. He said the company now needs $18,000,000 to take up some short term notes. ‘The six companies with which Hopson is alleged to have made contracts are the six mentioned as co-defendants with Associated Gas & Electric. Scored by Commissions. Newbold asserted that the Associated Gas & Electric Co. has been criticized for activities complained of in his mo- on by the New Yeork State Public Service Commission, the New Hamp- shire Pub! Service Commission and | the Federal Trade Commission. Associated Gas & Electric is a hold- ing company for the following organi- zations, which are not named defend- ants: The Associated Electric Co., oper- ating in Western Pennsylvania, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Ohio, In- diana, Illinois, South Dakota and the Philippine Islands; the Mchawk Vfllleyl Co., operating. in half of New ‘York| State; the Metropolitan Edison Co., | ing in Eastern Pennsylvania, | tern New Jersey and Staten Island, and the General Gas & Electric Corporation, operating in South Caro- lina and Florida. Newbold asserted that the assets of all the subsidiaries have a book value of $940,200,000. The moticn for a temporary receiver is scheduled to be argued on Monday. requisite to the redistribution of gold, monetary stabilization everywhere, and | the payment of external indebtedness, | both public and private, by all coun- tries ‘Of what avail would it be to side- track the war debts upon the theory of increasing _international trade, while | leaving intact the insurmountable tariff and other trade and finance obstruc- tions that bristle on every national frontier and render trade virtually as | impossible without war debts as with | them? Suspending war debts does not lower one inch these sky-scraping bar- riers, which under American leadership have been carried to the wildest ex- tremes in every part of the world. Nor could such suspension but temporarily | strengthen the financial structures of the debtor countries unless and until somewhat of a normal flow of interna- | tional finance and commerce is first restored. “The business of all nations is on an artificial b The world is in a state of bitter economic war. In pro- ceeding with the herculean and pre- requisite task of economic disarmament and military disarmament, the first big question for determination is whether nations singly 2nd jointly shall devise credit and trade policies calculated to raise the prices of primary commodities to a higher and healthier level, thereby correspondingly relieving debtors, and restoring our normal economic life, or whether there shall be a scaling of both vublic and private indebtednese, either | by reduction of interest or principal, or th. In the second place, and in any at, the liberalization of exchange and other trade restrictions, including | the lowering of excessive tariffs by im- ant countries simultaneously, offers and single major remedy LT BEERIS SLOP, for Strong Brew in Loyalty to Constitution. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, November 19— United States Senator James E. Wat- son, while packing today to return to Washington for the forthcoming ses- slon of Congress, said his vote on the beer bills that may come up will depend on the form in which they reach the Senate. “If a bill for high alcoholic content beer comes up I'll vote aganst it,” said the Senator, “because I couldn't vote to legalize and tax such beer without violating my oath of oifice to uphold the Constitution of the United States.” The Senator added, however, that legalizing beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content. “But it doesn’t mean any- thing,” the Senator said. “It’s only slop anyhow.” Last Regular Session. Senator Watson is returning for his last regular session of Congress. He was defeated for re-election by Fred- SAYS JIM WATSON Indiana Senator Not to Vote, he was of a mind to vote for a bill | erick Van Nuys, Indianapolis attorney, | PART OVER THERE' President-elect Visited Ma- rines at Chateau Thiery, Says Autobiography. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Nearly everything about his past life, | private and public, has been published to the world during the pact year, but |it has remained for President-elect Franklin Delany Roosevelt himself to | tell the story of his World War record. ! Most Americans know of his connec- |tion with the administration of the | Navy Department during the years be- |tween 1913 and 1921. But few are aware that the President-elect saw the | wind-up of the gallant action which | began at Chatean Thierry in 1918—the beginning of the end “over there.” | Gov. Rcosevelt’s narrative of those days is contained in a brief auto- | biographical sketch prepared for the | year book of his Harvard class (1904). | It reads as follows: | “The Vera Cruz episode and the out- break of the European War kept me much occupied with naval affairs during 1914. In March, 1915, I was |sFpointed Naticnal Commissioner to the Panama-Pacific International Ex- who declared his allegiance to the |position, and visited San Francisco and Democratic_platform’s plank pledging | the San Diego Exposition in company repeal of the eighteenth amendment |with the Vice President, and on the and modification of the Volstead act. Senator Watson said he had been called to Washington for a conference with President Hcover on the European debt situation. He said he foresees four major avenues in that tangle. One, he said, is the granting by the United States of a three-year mora- torium on the theory that by that time Europe can regain its financial feet. Another is a revival of the Debt Com- mission, a proposal once voted down on the ground that it might open the way for reducing the debts. Repudiation and cancellation also have been dis- cussed in Europe, Senator Watson con-~ tinued, but he expressed the view the United States will not agree to such ef- forts by the debtor countries. Opposition to Cancellation. “The American people are emphat- ically opposed to cancellation of the debt, and both parties are on record as opposed,” Senator Watson said. “It United States. “Repudiation, too, has been discussed in European circles. I doubt, however, that they will go that far. France could pay if she weuld, for she has the world’s largest gold reserve. She has leagued the other smaller nations into the pres- ent policy of delay. England wishes to pay and gill pay if she can.” GRANDMOTHER SLAIN, RICH YOUTH SOUGHT Woman, 60, Beaten to Death and Her Body Dropped Into Cistern. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 19.—A youth | of high school age—the son of wealthy | parents and a “model student”—was sought tonight for questioning about the killing of his grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Saxe, 60. Mrs. Saxe was beaten to death and her body dropped into a cistern. Police theorized young Arnold might possibly have been the victim of kidnapers who killed the elderly woman. They said, however, that evidence indicated Mrs. Saxe was killed by some one familiar with. the Arnold home. Bert Arnold wes the only member of the families whose activities were not accounted for at the time of the killing. PROPOSAL OF G. 0. P. SENATORS RAISES ____(Continued From First Page.) Democratic platform on prohibition, in- cluding - Senators Harrison of Missis- sippi, Ashurst of Arizona, Byrnes of South Carolina and George of Georgia all supporters of the dry laws in the past. “It the Treasury deficit continues to mount,” Harrison said, “I see no reason why beer should not be legalized.” Ashurst asserted it would be “embez- zlement of power” for the Democrats to fail to carry out their platform pledges, jand George said he would “vote for a sensible definition of an intoxicating beverage.” “The question of modification of the Volstead act will be out of the way by Christmas,” Byrnes said The Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, also has said he saw “no rea- son” why the short session should not consider prohibition legislation. Similar statements have come from Democratic leaders of the House, including Speaker Garner. Returning Republicans also have given added impetus to the drive for changing the liquor laws. Vandenberg for Submission. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan said he favored immediate submission of a repeal amendment and liberalization of the Volstead law. From Senator Fess of Ohio, long a supporter of prohibition laws, came a statement that there was “no real reason” why the question should not be submitted to the people dicted modification would be postponed until the new Congress. side was that no controversial question cen be disposed of in a short session of Congress. Meanwhile, many of those advocating it is achieved enforcement funds must by Representative Oliver, Alzbama Democrat, in charge of the appropri- ation bill carrying funds for prohibtion enforcement. “I am in favor enforcing the law as long as it stands, * Oliver said, “lend- ing particular protection to States which have no prohibition laws. We certainly should appropriate _enough money to prevent nulification.” no other course by which | this country can permanently restore [ employmert and rehabilitate agriculture. remedy in_each instance is to sell | surplus. Ruthless economy must also be practiced. | Let other governments first be asked | to define their attitude on these critical Pk to the end that both individual nd concerted action of the nations in \pport of a comprehensive relief pro- | am including all debts may be had.” | ©s <%0 o% <%0 <% %% 2oo% o% % o adeedsfoedsefe-eoafeedeeleafosde. Specializing in Perfect DIAMONDS Also complete line of stand-e% ard and all-American made § watches. 0.0 Shop at the friendly store— g vou're always greeted with a%® Sosmile—with to no obligation K2 ' Charge Accounts Invited O % o XX The following item Radio, $14.50,” adver should have read, Radio, $44.50,” the nat The Seventh & M. Wurtzburger Co. 901 G St. N.W. 3 o 2> therefore cannot be considered by the| LEGAL BEER HOPES | at the coming session, though he pre- | Borah's lone statement on the other | a change in the laws, insist that until| be maintained. This view was laken‘ A Correction! nouncement in today’s Star is an error. inspected various naval | property ¢nd ships on the Pacific cast. The year 1916 was wholly oc- cupled in doing what was possible | under existing law in getting the Navy | Department prepared for the threat- ened - hostilitic Trip in January, 1917, “Early in January, 1917, I went to | Cuba, Haitl, and Santo Domingo to in- ?spect the work of the Navy and Ma- | rine Corps. After a ride on horseback | across Haiti, and while in the center of Santo Domingo, I was recalled by radio to Washington, owing to the sev- ering of diplomatic relations with Ger- many. “From that day on, every moment was spent in putting the Navy into the | war and keeping it there. First, the planning, then the actual mobilization, then the active operations. From a $150,000,000-a-year concern the Navy Jumped to a $2,000,000,000 basis; from a personnel of 70,000'to one of 504.000; from a few navy yards to hundreds | of industrial establishments at home and dozens of operating stations on foreign shores. “In early July, 1918, I crossed the ocean on the U. 8. 8. Dyer, one of | the new destroyers, escorting a huge troop convoy part way across, then stopping at the Azores to inspect the American Naval Base, and landing fin- ally at Portsmouth, Englend. The next month and a half was taken up with inspection trips to all United States Navy activities in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, and Italy, including the Grand Fleet, the destroyer and | subchaser forces, and the aviation and bombing stations. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Marine Brigade on the French front, to follow up the advance during the end of July north of Chateau-Thierry, and to visit sectors of the British and Belgian fronts during the active operations at the beginning of the great advance. I returned to the department in October, and was about to return to France as | an officer attached to ine 14-inch Naval | Railway Battery under Admiral Plunk- | ett when the Armistice put an end to | my hopes for active service. Another European Mission. “On January 1, 1919, I sailed for | Europe again, charged with demobiliz- |ing the United States Navy stations, material and personnel in European | waters. It was a purely business trip, except for a delightful Tun of four days through Belgium to Cologne, and up the Rhine to the headquarters of | the Marines at Neu Wied, returning to Paris by the Moselle Valley, Luxem- | bourg, and the Champagne battle fields |1 returned with the President on the U. 8. 8. George Washington the end of February. “Since then T have been occupied with the difficult and uncongenial task of putting the Navy back on a peace ; | footing and getting rid of contracts | and surplus meterial. These have cer- | tainly been five years of extraordinary | interest.” In a subsequent edition of the Har- vard '04 year book, Governor Roosevelt, under date of June, 1929, writes intro- spectively of his post-college ceree | “The first six years after graduation he says, “ were devoted in part to law, but T am afraid I then formed the habit of trying my hand at the avoca- tions of life which have always in- terested me more than specialization | in a profession. Philanthropic work | and a great interest in public questions | led me to run for office, with the re- sult that three years in the State Sen- ate proved to my satisfaction that I am not intended for a legislator “Since then I have been practicing law, and also am actively in the surety | business. With Mr. Hoover in 1923 I helped to organize the American Con- struction Council and have been its; president ever since. On the side I have ! served as an overseer of Harvard, and am now a trustee of Vassar; also as | head of the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York since 1922 I have | had interesting work in helping to build | up this very large organization. Warm Springs Foundation, “During the past three years I have devoted much time to the establishment | of the Georgia Warm Springs Founda- | tion for the treatment cf infantile paralysis, arthritis, etc., and the results | obtained seem to be increasingly satis- | factory. | “In"‘home affairs’ I have been very | happily married since 1905, and the | circle includes a daughter. four strap- | ping sons and one granddaughter, who must be very nearly, if not quité, the | eldest grandchild of the class, I find | time at home to practice forestry, as 1 would rather plant trees than cut them down; also to collect books, manuscripts | and prints. and to delve into naval his- tory and the local records of my home county. Outside of two slim volumes and varlous magazine articles I have deferred serious writing until after the class of 1904 has had its fiftieth re- union. I may have more leisure time | then.” President-elect Roosevelt will find a | | considerable sprinkling of his Harvard | | classmates in Washington, several of | | them in the Government service. Amon, | same " trip , “Seven-Tube Majestic tised in our radio an- It “Seven-Tube Majestic ionally advertised price. HUB D Sts. N.W. BEER LEGISLATION | OUT, SAYS UPSHAW | Shows Wire Declaring Vol-| stead Law’s Constitutional- | ity Has Been Sustained. By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., November 19. William D. Upshaw, Prohibition cand! date for President in the recent elec- | tion, passing through Knoxville today | for speaking engagements in Ohio, ex- pressed himself as “sitting on top of‘ the world,” with all “beer kegs under my dry feet.” | He said he had just received a tele-| gram from Washington “establishing the impregnable constitutional status of | the Volstead law and the consecuent | impossibility of enacting the proposed beer legislation at the short session of Congress.” The telégram, he said, was received | from Edward B. Dunford, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League of America, and read: “Constitutionality Volstead law sustained June 7, 1920, Rhode Island versus Palmer, 253, United States Re- ports, 250.” | “Now this wire should hold their| ‘damp’ feet to the fire for a spell,” he said in a statentent. | “As the titular head of the Prohibi tion party,” he continued, mind these fanatical wets wko are try- ing to give bar and booze, instead of bread, to America’s hungry millions that the Volstesd law, which is the eighteenth amendment in action, is| just as constitutional as the l\m?nd-} ment itself, and every member of Con- | gress who votes for a beer bill legal- | izing more than one-half of 1 per cent | alcoholic content will make himself the unconstitutional laughing stock of th Nation. | “We drys will fight them every inch of the way until the Supreme Court | throws their illegal beer overboard. Verily, whether a man drinks liquor or thinks liquor, it makes him act the fool.” Mrs. Hudson Drops Suit. LOS ANGELES, November 19 (P)—| Attorneys for Mrs. Minnie Kennedy- | Hudson, mother of Evangelist Aimee McPherson-Hutton, withdrew today & 100,000 slander suit and an _acticn for divorce against Guy Edward Hudson. | Mrs, Hudson recently filed a petition for divorce in Mexico. Her attorney said the action here was dropped “be- cause Mr. Hudson is not in Los Ange- les’ jurisdiction.” Harvard men who were graduated whh! him 28 years ago. now resident in the | National Capital, are Harry S. Bernton. | M. D.; former Assistant Sccretary of the Treasury Herry H. Bond of the law firm of which Col. Willlam J. Donovan is a member: Undersecretary cf the Treasury Arthur A. Ballantine, Col.| Ralph Hubbard Hallett of the United | States Shipping Board. Henry G. Fer-| guson of the United States Geological Survey, Walter P. Harmen of the Bu- teau of Light Houses, Department of Commerce; Gordon David Houston, principal Armstrong High Schcol: Dr. James Payton Leake of States Public Health Service, Henry Murray of Armstrong Technical High School, F. Jerome Starek and Lieut. Col. Francis B. Wilby of the War Department. | A member of the Roosevelt clan, T.| Douglas Robinson, a double ccusin of the President-elect, succeeded him in 1924 as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Robinson and Gov. Roosevelt were | Harvard classmates. Another Crimson *04 man is Richard T. Crane, 3d, former American Minister to Czechoslovakia. Two kinsmen of the President-clect now resident in Washington are his uncle, Col. Frederic A. Delano, the brother of the President-elect’s mother, | and the Governor’s cousin, Warren De- lano Robbins, ceremonial officer of the State Department and social arbiter of | the White House. | (Copyright, 1932.) ' A—5 DRY LAK FAILURE, - SAYS WICKERSHAM zRegu!ation Must Take Its | Place, Chairman of Com- 1 mission Asserts. [ | By the Associatod Press. | ROCHESTER, N. Y., November 19— The Rochester Times-Union in a copy- | rignted w with George W. Wick= | ersham today quoted the former Attor- ney General of the United States and chairman of the Naticnal Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, as viewing prohibition “an obvious fail- ure.” Mr. Wickersham arrived here today | to address the City Club on “Law and Order.” “No law can be enforced unless it is backed by strong public sent:ment,” he | was quoted. “The object of prohibi- | tion 15 to create temperance habits. This obviously has failed and if it has, regu- lation must take its place.” “Matter of Experiment. Tha charactar of the regulation must matter of experiment, said GARNERTO ATTEND ng tide of | Gordon David Houston. Press Club Arranging to Han-: dle Unusual Numbei of | Guests. ‘ Top row, left to right: Lieut. Col.| Francis Wilby, Fred Atarek, President- | el Roosevelt, Dr. Harry S. Bernton and Arthur A. Ballantine. Second row: Henry Herrick Bond, Dr. James Payton Leake, Col. Henry Hubbard Hallett, Henry G. Ferguson and Walter P, Har- man. Lower: George Henry Murray and DEE——— | ‘Speaker John N. Garner will attend the dinner which the National Press Club is giving Tuesday night in honor | of President-elect Franklin D. Roose- | velt. The acceptance of the Vice President- | elect was received yesterday by Bascom N. Timmons, president of the club. The only other guests announced thus far | are James A. Farley, chairman, and Frank C. Walker, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; Col. Louis McHenry Howe and Prof. Ray- | mond Morley of Columbia University, | close associates of Gov. Roosevelt, and | Edward Dowling, who was active in the recent campaign. ‘With both Roosevelt and Garner as dinner guests, arrangements arc being | made at the Press Club to handle an unusually large number of diners. Gov. Roosevelt is coming here for his White | clect Franklin D. Roosevelt will have | House conference with President Hoover. | | "Among entertainers at the banquet turkey for Thanksgiving, a turkey|meeting are to be John Charles Thomas, grown in one of the Northwestern States | paritone; Doc Rockwell. the comedian; | that helped swell his victory majority | the Pickins Sisters, radio trio, and the | in the election last weel Revellers Quartet, with James Melton, And, thanks to Rooseveit, the patients | tenor. in the hospital at Warm Springs, Ga., | The holiday, it aiso enoy turkey. - |RECEPTION FOR MRS. REA TO BE HELD DECEMBER 9 L. Kilbourne, chairman of the | | Plans to Honor Sponsor Are Made Roosevelt to Share | Gift Turkey With | Hospital Patients| “Corn Belt” Admirers to Send Present for Thanksgiving. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 19.—President- | Executive Committee of the Institute of American_Poultry Industries, wired to the New York Governor and told him | his “host of admirers in the corn belt” | wished to present him with a fine turkey | ROOSEVELT DINNER : 25 explained m as due to three rea- the Times-Union said. They ing forbidden anted to do. acter of prohibi- tion legislation—the Volstead act—and the great intclerance of its promoters and the abandonment of all efforts to “Resentment against | persuade people to aid in the movement to premote abstinence, and the pumn, of entire reliance on enforcement o the law. “The highly organized and strongly financed move against prohibition.” “Anybody’s Guess.” As to “what Congress might do.” Mr. Wickersham was silent, the Times- Union said. “If Congress should declare that, let us say, 20 per cent of alcohol didn't make intoxicating liquor,” Mr. Wicker- sham was quoted, “probably the Supreme Court would say that was an abuse of legislative discretion. Some- where between the extremes of one-half of 1 per cent and 20 per cent, & COUrt would find a point where action by Congress would bz held a permissable cxercice of discretion. What that point is, 15 anybody’s guess.” Mr. Wickersham was quoted as voic- ing his view for the first time that pro- hibition was “an obvious failure.” In doing so, the Times-Union said, he in no way repudiated his stand relative to the saloon cr other points in the report of his commission. His cnly comment, the Times-Union S2id, was that “some time has passed since that report was made and I base my revised views on conditions which have persisted in the intervening | months.” AIRLINE SCHEDULE for Thanksgi" | Northwest. g, one grown in the| Gov. Roosevelt wired back: “Many thanks for your telegram. A turkey | sent to me at Warm Springs wiil be en- | by Members of D. A. V. Chap- ter at Meeting. | TG BE INAUGURATED A reception in honor of Mrs. Henry | Dr. Reichelderfer, Federal Official joyed not only by my family and me, but by many cf the children who are patients at the foundation. It is good of you to do this. “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.” | will be held December 9, it was decided | Friday night at a meeting of ths or- | ganization at the Soldiers, Sailors and | Marines’ Hall, 1015 L street. | Guests who have accepted invitetions | — —o—— to attend the event include Senator Star Colors Dependent on Heat, | Black of Alabama. Representative Sol | | Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gans and The colors of the stars, ranging from others, it was reported, | red, through orange, yellow and white | Following adjcurnment of the se: to a brilliant bluish-white or blue, are | | represent: Rea, sponsor of Rea Chapter, Disable American Veterans of the World War.| anqd Others Fly to Norfolk Tomorrow. Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce for Aeronautics; Dr. Luther Reichelderfer, president of the Board of District Commissicners, and tives of leading civic organi- zations are expecied to fly to Norfolk, the United | George | sion, officers of the chapter proceeded dependent on their temperatures. The red stars are red-hot, the white | stars white-hot. Va., tomorrow on the inaugural flight of a new Winter airlins schedule. The party, which will take off from Washington-Hoover Airport at 11:15 to Villa Roma to attend the t dinner given by the District the Rainbo stimonial hapter of v Division Veterans. WON'T BE FIRST JOINT EFFORT Worked Together Few Years Ago to Stabilize Building | and Fight Rising Prices. When President-elect Roosevelt sits down with President Hoover during the deb: conference Tuesday, it will not be the first time they have put their heads togecher on a public problem The two men, it was recalled here | erday, worked hand-in-hand some years ago in a joint effort to stabilize | the bullding industry, which at the | time was suffering from abnormelly high costs of lebor and materials. | Then Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover joined in 1923 with Mr. Roose- | velt in ‘organizing the American Con- | struction Council, composed of leaders of the building industry interested in combatting _overproduction and rising prices. Mr. Roosevelt was elected presi- cent of the council and in that capacity he was in frequent communication with Secretary Hoover in furtherance of the stabilization plans. Gomplete harmony prevailed in that undertaking and its task was com- pleted successfully. Secretary Mills, who will be Presi- dent Hoover's adviser at the White House conference, 2lso is well acquaint- MUTUAL your busine: To your bank, which busine “The Bank That Seirvice Built” cond . DEPENDENCE OUR pends on YOUR coop- eration. . . . YOU ployment . .. for your savings, in the part in keeping economic portint one. . . . Aid your community yourself. FRANK W. LEE, President Mount VERNON Savines Bank 9th Street and Massachusetts Ave. N.W. community de- look to community for em- and favorable ss conditions. keep prosperity in community — SAVE are part of funds upon local enterprises and ss firms depend. Your ions normal is an im- aid and you am. also will include Dorsey Hyde, secretary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; Robert J. Cottrell, sec- retary of the Washington Board of Trade, and J. Allen Riordon, general | manager of the Norfolk-Washington | Steamboat Co. | . The new service, to be inaugurated | by the Ludington Airlines, replaces the ntly abandoned schedules. It in- ves a change of airports at Norfolk, reduction of rates, change of schedule | and a round-trip tie-up with the Nor- | folk-Washington Steamboat Co. Under the new setup a Washingtonian In fact, to|may fly to Norfolk on the morning E plane, spend an afternoon there, and return by steamer that night or by air | the next afternoon. Special arrange- | ments are being made to accommodate | local hunters desiring to make a quick trip to the coastal duck shooting grounds. ed with Gov. Roosevelt. use the Treasury head's own words, he has known Mr. Roosevelt since ihey were “knee high” They were not only boyhood friends, but both attended Har- vard University. When asked yesterday if there would be preparatory meetings for the White House parley, Secretary Mills replie ‘We will be all prepped up for it.” An underground tunnel under an- “I hope the profescor (Raymond |cient Lilleshall Abbey, near Newport, Moley of Columbia University, Gov. 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