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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1932, o ing alternative would be payment in gold. Such a method would involve a sacrifice of a considerable part of the gold reserves of the Bank of England, which are widely regarded as no more FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. EW YORK PAPERS CUT PRINTERS' PAY 10 Per Cent Reduction Or-| dered by Arbitration Board, Effective Sunday. [ hieve maintatned for o long a period the | 1929 wage levels.” | He then said he could not be a party | | to maintaining the 1929 levels “when | the factors which advanced wages to | | that level are proven to have fallen a| far greater percentage” then the wage reduction which he was ordering. Saulter said living costs in New Yor! had declined 174 per cent since 1929, | while advertising volume had dropped 355 per cent during the first nine months of this year as compared with 200 Chinese Known Dead in | south is Shedyn Pass, equidistant from the same period in 1929. Fights in Northwest | Tsitsihar and Manchuli, on the Soviet MONARCH CLUB OFFICERS | : ELECTED IN ARLINGTON Manchuria. e R T e | & rebel general, Su Ping-Wen, is sta- By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. tioned with several thousand troop: CLARENDON, Va., December 2. —The | and 183 Japanese hostages. Twenty {)ull;ll\':u’;? lnffi(;eh é\eie elected yesterday two of these are women and children y the Arlington County Monarch Club: Objective Not Anno Dr. Ernest R. Hagan, president: O. G Skt i MO Snyder, first vice president; Maynard he Japanese offensivc Chalantun, | Tsitsihar. 200 Chinese Killed. The battles were fought in the streets and just outside that raflway town. The Japanese sald they counted 200 IN THREE BATTLES : 75 ralles n: lDebts Must Be Paid, DEBT NOTES MEET | omeevete Dectares LAUSANNE ISSL QUK OPISTIN =i At EEDBY T Congress Leaders Protest; Practicability Nor Honor!British Reveal That United : Pleas for Stay—Cabinet in Cancellation. States Approved Weighs Paris Appeal. Parley. than sufficient for the responsibilities of London as a financial center.” The British note, which is described in some quarters as “a correspondence course in world economics,” and is con- sidered in responsible quarters in the State Department as a friendly. con- ciliatory expression of opinion of the British government as to how the world might circumvent the present economic and financial difficulties, has met with criticism in such congressional quarters as have had time to read it. Criticized as World Spokesman. The main criticism which is being made is that Great Britain, instead of putting her case squarely to the Amer- ican people, takes it upon herself to be, | by the tone of her note, the spokesman |of the other debtor countries: “The Chinese corpses on the frozen snow- red plain after the engagements. here was no mention of Japanese cas- ualties. | When the Japanese took Chalantun. they had advanced half way to_the Khingan Mountain _ country from Tsitsihar. The first pass the raflway reac in these mountains from the NEW YORK, December 2.—President- ' elect Roosevelt the course of an article entitled “Your New National Leadership,” zppearing in the January issue of the Cosmopolitan Magazin says “debts owed the United States b; ! foreign governments must be paid.” “It is sound common sense to assist e Associated NEW YORK, December 2—The wage | | scale paid to members of Typographicel ! { Union No. 6, wko are employed in New ress the Associated Press. TSITSIHAR, Manchuria. Decembe: —Japanese forces and Chinese irreg lars have fought three stifi batt (Continued From First Page) (Continued From First Page) the United States would again deny the Tequests for leniency at this time. “If Great Britain desires to carry out made with the 2 Althc the sub: the plan suggested,” said Smoot, “she has a perfect right to do it, but in my opinion she will be the sufferer jnstead of the United States. “Plea of a Special Pleader.” Senator Harrison said the British note “is the plea of a special pleader that presents every conceivable possibility of disaster and naturally exaggerctes those possibilities. “Every suggestion and alleged fact or prediction made in the note,” the Mis- siesippian added, “has been repeatedly made to us in other forms and through other channels. “It is inconceivable that the states- manship of Great Britain would permit those things to be done if in their pow- ler to prevent it. Such measures would jgive greater thock to their economic and financial structures and carry the depression to a fuller point than ever they have heretofore experienced. “In this controversy at this time, threats of stringent regulations of ex change or increased liatory meas- ures will not affect the sober judgment and convictions of the American pe against cancellation or postpencment € e Brilish statement t trad> between the two countries has dwindled greatly already, since adoption of the 1930 American tariff, Senator Smoot said: “When importation into the United States compared with the trade of the ‘world is taken into consideration it is just as great in quantity as it was be- i:re the passage of the American tarift W ' Hawley Demands Payment. Representative Hawley of Oregon, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, said: “So far as the British note is con- cerned, T am still of the opinion that all the nations ought to pay us on the day the payment is due.” “I see no reason for reduction or eancellation or a moratorium,” said Representative McReynolds, Democrat, of Tennessee, scheduled to be chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. “The debtor nations shculd go on and pay what they owe. The case of each individual nation should be taken up separately through regular diplo- matic channels and we might be able to work out a solution that would in- wolve trade benefits for us all.” Representative Cochran of Missouri, chairman of the House Expenditures Committee, said: “I sm till in favcr of collection by this country of the debts legitimately Gue us.” Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader, said: “The British note amounts to this: “Let us have some more discussion lead- ing tcward a further reduction and exten:ion of payments.’ “It is impossible. Only Congress can grant such an_extension and Con- gress won't do it. There in’t a member who isn't pledged to his constituents against a further reduction. “There is nothing for Europe to do but pay or default, and I think every cone will pay.” Collier’s View. Chairman Collier of the House Ways and Means Committee: “I haven't against reduction. The more you put it off, the harder it will be to collect. In 1ts final analysis it is still a question of paying or defaulting. “I can’t conceive of a great country like Great Britain not paying.” Other comment was: Representative McFadden of Penn- zylvania, ranking Republican on the House Banking Committee: “There is nothing in the note that was not known heretofore. The note does not change the situation.” Representative Bankhead of Alabama, one of the House Democratic leaders: “I am not in favor of a suspension of the December 15 payments. “However, I do not wish to go on record as irrevocably opposed to any adjustment which might be to ourad- vantage, and to that of other nations as well, in the future. I also want to learn more definitely the attitude of Gov. Roosevelt and to support his dcbt views, if they do not go against my convictions.” Ambessador Claudel followed the same procedure employed by Sir Ronald ‘Lindsay, the British Ambassador, yes- terday, in taking his government’s note to the American Secretary of State at his residence. Its delivery was not made known until this morning. Next Move Up to Hoover. Mr. Hoover, who now must make the next move in the debt situation, conferred with Secretaries Stimson and Mills on the British note yesterday, but he gave no sign of changing the Amer- ican advice that Europe pay up. When the first London rote was re- ceived a fortnight ago the President called in congressional chieftains, but there was no word today that he would do so in this instance. ‘The American answer to that first communication—as well as similar notes from France, Belgium and sev- eral smaller countries—said the meet- ing of the December installment of $95,500,000 would create a better atmos- phere for reconsideration and that President Hoover would propose to Con- gress the establishment of an agency to make such a study. A discussion of the entire debt prob- lem was urged in the latest appeal as likely “to bear fruitful issue for revival of world prosperity,” that the British government was onvinced that the prospects of success would be materially improved by postponement of the De- cember installments” and that it is “prepared to consider with the Govern- ment of the United States any man- ner in which that postponement might be_most conveniently arranged.” Despite the outward adamant atti- tude of congressional leaders to either s poemenior creation of a new ebt Commission, some chieftains on Capitol Hill have shown an interest to hear the British reasons for relief, and there is a feeling that the British case, 1f not that of all other debtor nations, might still be considered. The British message did not say Great Britain would default. It did Tecite in lengthy detail the argument against resumption of payments after the conclusion of the one-yeir mora- torfum and rejected Mr. Hoover's sug- gestions for payments in sterling. “Payment in Gold.” “The only remaining lternative would be payment in gold,” said the note. “Such a method of payment ‘would involve the sacrifice of a consid- erable part of the gold reserves of the Bank of England which are widely re- garded as no more than sufficient for the responsibilities of London as a fi- nancial center.” The British note was taken by some | ments of the world and particularly of as an argument against any further |the United States and of the United Kingdom as the two greatest creditor tended this would be in the spirit of the | nations, if they unite in co-operating, payments by debtor nations. It con- Lausanne agreement of last Summer ‘whereby the European debtors reached & settlement of German reparations. ““Without a readjustment of the war debi obligations,” the note said, Lausanne agreement could not be rati- Temain unsettled; the improvement in confidence which followed the Lausanne | in world trade and would lead to fur- sgreements would be undone, and fatal resuits might well be found to have ; @ccrued to the solution of many grave your debtors in every way, but there is | neither practicability nor honor in can- cellation,” he continues. “The stabili- zation of world finance can best be j achieved | just obligations. ! A policy unduly ing foreign private loans bas re: in more great sums being owed us, has failed to achieve any real international favor 1t confirmed foreign hopes for a repudi- ation of debts. “The new national leadership will deal fairly, honestly and sancly with this situation. It will remember, how- ever, that as society is now organ- ized we are divided into nations and it is the duty of your national administ: tion first to consider the welfare of its own people.” HERRIOT TRIUNPHS IN DEBT SIRMISH Premier Postpones, However, a Vote of Confidence Pend- ing U. S. Action. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 2—France fol- lowed Great Britain today and sent to Washington a summary of the French position on war debts to the effect that postponement is necessary in the best interests of all concerned. The new note was approved and finally drafted at yesterday's ccbinet meeting. Meanwhile, Premier Edouard Her- riot’s government won two skirmishes in the Chamber of Deputies during the day, one of which directly concerned war debts. The Chamber agreed to stpone debate on that issue until other matters have been cleared away. Bigger Hurdle Ahead. A vote of confidence was given on the domestic issue involving conversion of public loans, but there might yet a bigger war debt hurdle ahead, since a large group of Deputies op- poses payment. The ire of this group has been raised apparently by reports that the premier is willing to stake the fate of his gov- ernment on “payment if necessary.” The premier wishes, however, it was said, to go the limit in the direction of postponement before he makes the point a matter of confidence in the chamber. During the debate on the conversions, the government was accused of having paid high commissions to banks to facilitate the scheme. The government agreed to publish details of all such operations of previous governments. Deputy Louis Marin, Nationalist leader, immediately took the floor when the conversion question had been dis- posed of and demanded debate on the war debt issue. M. Marin contended that the Cham- ber of Deputies should take a clear cut stand against payment as an instruc- changed my position | tive measure to the American Congress | which meets on Monday. Deputies Back Premier. The Chamber stood behind the pre- mier, however, and debt discussion was again ed. The vote was 425 to 166. Deputy Marin's resolution asking for flat refusal to pay and another one milder n_tone will be debated Decem- ber 9. The latter resolution proposes deferrment of payment this month and seeks new negotiations with the United States based on the “corelation between claims of the United States on France and claims of France on Germany.” HEARINGS ON ZONING CHANGES ANNOUNCED Prince Georges Commissioners Will Consider Three Applications on January 3. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., December 2.—ThHree applications for changes in zoning will be given public hearings by the county commissioners at 11:30 a.m. January 3, it was announced today by James S. Heal, county clerk. All asked that the property involved be changed from residential to commercial The applicants are George Howser, J. A. and George N. Foerster and Oriole Lodge, No. 47, of the Odd Fellows. Howser asks reclassification of lots 13, 14, 15 and 16, block 22, Holloday sub- division, Brentwood. The Foersters re- quest that lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 for block 4, Columbia Park, be rezoned, while the Odd Pellows petitioned for the reclassi- fication of lot 31, Johnson & Wine subdivision, Hyattsville. Favors Free Text Books. VIENNA, Va., December 2 (Special). —The Parent-Teacher Association of the Vienna Public School last night went on record in favor of a law pro- viding for free text books in the State of Virginia. Miss Nancy Jones, secre- tary of the association, was requested to communicate with the State Parent- Teacher Association, asking their co- operation toward this end and to the various P.-T. A. and School Leagues political as well as financial problems now under discussion.” Great Britain also bluntly stated that should payments be resumed she would have to strengthen her exchange posi- tion and “this could only be done by adopting measures which would further restrict British purchases of American goods.” English taxpayers, she argued, would suffer as much as American taxpay- ers by wiping out all war debt agree- ments because England would be longer collecting the debts and reparations due her. The note asserted that Eng- land during the war did trade with i America reaching a_volume of $4,000,- 000,000 in 1919. Of the $12,000,000.- 000 British war expenditure in this country, the note said, only about one- third was financed by borrowing from the United States Government. “A settlement, however generous it may seem,” it continued, “which re- world by clearing up these inter- governmental payments, would be re- paid again and again by the contribu- tion which it would make to a world Tevival. ¢ ¢ “It is in the power of the govern- to make the first and essential st towards averting di economic and political. “His majesty’s government has * * * the | & profound conviction that a resump- tion of the war debt payments as they fled; the question of reparations would | existed before the Hoover moratorium would inevitably deepen the depression ther fall in commodity prices, with dis- astrous consequences from nation would be exempt.” a clear understanding of |3 | unity, economic or otherwise, and has lieves the economic machinery of the financial, which no the Americal crnment: 2, that to continue with the payment Of debts to the United s would be disastrous to the whole including this country, and 3, ecember installment, if paid, would ompletely the incipient world eco- | nomi y, which has given timid | Signs of revival in the last few months. Stress Laid on Lausanne. ss is laid upon the Lau- sanne agreement by both the French and the British governments. It was stated in official quarters this morning ! that one very important point is being | overlooked in the examination of the { plea for a revision of debts and the suspension of the December payments. And this is that at Lausanne, it was not only Germany who was released from the payment of the rations, but all the intergovernmental European debts have been suspended at the same time. And such an agreement would have never Leen possible had the prin- | cipal Eurcpean creditor nations—Great ! Britain and France—not been influ- | | enced by the Hoover moratorium and | the Laval-Hoover conversations of | r, 1931, whereby they gained | that their own debts ly scaled down. {and Much would be con: Interlinking Theory Not Accepted. countries of the world,” the British government tells the American people, “cannot even begin to consider how to | resture this mechanism (of currencies) until the causes which undermined confidence have been removed. One of the most important of these is the sys- tem of intergovernmental debts.” R.F.C RICHMOND JOBLESS Work on Three Bridges and Via-| duct Will Provide Work | for 2,000. | a change in working hours that had Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, December Through a $1,700,000 loan granted by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the construction of three new bridges here and the enlargment of a viaduct, employment will be provided for 2,000 of Richmond’s idle men, many | of whom will be put to work on these | projects before Christmas. The British government states for the first time in plain words that the American theory that debts and repara- tions are not interlinked never has been accepted by the other countries: “The United States Government has fre- quently reiterated that it does not ad- mit any connection between reparations and war debts; but this differentiation in the matter of inter-governmental ob- ligations arising out of the war is not accepted by other countries which have creditor claims on the German govern= |ment * =+ The British then add that “there is a de facto connection between these two sets of inter-governmental cbli- gations and this was by implication ad- mitted by the United States Govern- ment when it proposed a moratorium on all inter-governmental - obligations last yvear.” Whether these statemen( of the British government are based on a misconception and a misinterpreta- tion of different acts and expressions of the American Government through its representatives here or abroad re- mains to be seen. The members of both houses, it is understood, will have ample | cpportunity to discuss this matter when | President Hoover sometimes next week | refers the note to Congress. 1 Regarded Clear Note. | In the whole history of America’s relations with forei@ countrics there inever has been received a note con- | ceived more clearly and written more brilliantly than the document received yesterday from the British foreign office. Sir John Simon, the British foreign secretary, had the reputation, before accepting his present office, of being one of the foremost lawyers in the world. He has applied undoubtedly all his legal talent and his clear vision, which earned him enormous fees while he was a lawyer and not a diplomat, to put before the people of this coun- try, not only Great Britain’s tragedy, should she be forced to continue her debt payments, but the disaster which | would visit America as well. He cid not resort to the usual diplo- matic veiled threats. Bluntly he tells the American people that “* * * under the stress of the present crisis, his majesty’'s government have had to modify their system (of free trade) and to adopt tariffs. But the United | Kingdom still imports from abroad | goods to the value of several hundreds of million pouncs in excess of what it exports and it would b necessary to consider what action could be taken to secure that the sterling proceeds of these imports were used more largely for the benefit of the British market. If war debt payments had to be re- sumed, it is apparent that the exchange position of this country would need to be strengthened by a reduction of the very heavy adverse balancé of the v ible trade of the United Kingdom and the United States, which amounted to 78,000,000 pounds in 1931. * * * This could be done by adopting measures which - would further restrict British purchases of American goods. * * * The result of such restrictions would inevitably be to recuce specially the market in the United Kingdom for American farm products. To the ex- tent, therefore, that payments were re- sumed to the United States Treasury a definite and unfavorable reaction must follow to the United States pro- | ducer.” { Commercial Loans Separated. The British government refuses to admit that there can be any similarity between the war debts and the com- mercial loans. The latter are raised by foreign governments for productive purposes and serve to ultimately in- crease the economic prosperity of the world. “Such loans directly afford means whereby the borrower can repay them with interest and at the same time become more prosperous.” But the war loans are an entirely different propo- sition. “Pertile fields becorie barren and populous cities shattered ruins. Such expenditure instead of producing wealth destroys in a few hours stored up riches of the past. Like the shells on which they were largely spent, these loans were blown to pieces. They have produced nothing to repay them and they have left behind nothing but fresh complications and perplexities.” The immediate deduction is that they should not be paid, especially when the creditor is the United States. which has bene- fited immensely during the initial stages of the World War. “For example,” states the British note, “before 1915 the United States export surplus varied from $200,000,000 to $600,000,000. In 1917 and 1918 it exceeded $3.000,000,000 and in 1919 it was about $4,000,000,000.” The payment of war debts, the British maintain would be equally disastrous to the citizens of the United States as to those living in every country in the world. “The loss which both the United States and the United Kingdom tax- payers would suffer from the reconsid- eration of the war debts cannot be measured in the same scales as the un- told loss of wealth and human misery caused by the present economic crisis. | The value of international trade has; already six months ago decreased by One bridge will span the James River above the falls and the other two will | replace structures now connecting Rich- | mond proper with the Northside, while the viaduct spans the ravine between Church Hill and the midsection of the city. ENJOYS MUSIC PROGRAM Wednesday Club of Sandy Spring | Plans Benefit Card Party. Special Dispatch to The Star. | SANDY SPRING, Md., December 2— | With Mrs, Carvel Hall, a Washington | pianist, gnd Mrs. Franklin Steele, a soprano soloist of Philadelphia, the Wednesday Club at Tanglewood. with | Mrs. Frederick L. Thomas as hostess, enjoyed a classical program of music, with Mrs. Milton Bancroft as chairman | of the Musical Committee. A card| party at_the home of Mrs. Lionel C.| Probert during the Cbristmas holidays | for the benefit of social activities was | anounced, with Mrs. Mahlon Kirk IV and assistants in charge. Mrs. A. Douglas Farquhar gave a re- port of the semi-annual federation meeting at Chevy Chase, at which she gave a report of the club's work for the past_year. A Budget Committee will arrange the | club finances to include a Christmas opportunity es well as the $150 toward social service this club has pledged. Mrs. Ervin Kemp will entertain the York newspaper plants, was ordered re- | Cuced 10 per cent yesterday as a result of extended arbitration proceedings. John T. Saulter of Indianapolis, chairman of the International arbitra- | tion Board, ordered the cut, asserting he | could not “conscientiously be a party to | the inconsistency of maintaining wage | rates at 1929 levsl.” The cut was cM-red effective for one year, beginning at 7 a.m. Sunday. The two union representatives on the board of arbitration refused to sign the agreement because it also provided for boen proposed by the publishers. Object to New Hours. Under the new wage sca represents one-half of the asked by the publishers, printers on the day shift would be paid $58.50 for a six- day week, thosz on the night shift $61.50, and those on the “lobster,” or | early morning shift. $64.50. Under the present scale they are paid $65 for day work, $68 for night | work, and $71 for early morning work. | In refusing to sign the agreement, the union representatives based their ob- fon on Saulter's inclusion of the publishers’ proposal that the day men be available for a T!:-hour shift be- tween 7 am. and 7 p.m., that night} men be available between 4 p.m. and 4 am. and that the “lobster” shift extend from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. At present the shift hours are from 8 am. to 6 pm, from 6 pm. to 3 am. and from 2 am. to 10 am. Union Asked Increase. In submitting the matter to arbitra- tion, the union men had asked for shorter hours and increased pay. Announcement of Saulter’s decision followed a meeting of the board of ar- bitration, which consisted, besides Saul- ter, of Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York Times. and Hopewell L. Rogers of the Hearst organizations, Tepresenting the publishers, and Sig- | mund Oppenheim and W. N. P. Reed, representing the union. In his opinion Saulter said: “The evidence in the record is con- clusive to the effect that since 1929, when the last contrac{ between thes parties expired. and the current month there has been a seriolisly crippling loss of revenue suffered by newspapers party to these proceedings. Despite this condition and_despite the fact that the last contract between these parties ex- pired June 30, 1929, there has been no default in payment of wages at the 1929 levels. Cites Lower Living Costs. “In addition to maintenance of 1929 wage levels, the record reveals unselfish and beneficial relief, insurance and pen- sion activities carried on by certain New York newspapers at heavy expense to themselves and at no expense to the members of the union. “Few, if any, industries in the country America’s Finest Home-Made Candies Fannie May Candy Shops 1010 E St. N.W. 3305 14th St. N.W. 1354 F St. N.W. 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Famous doctors say this condition is the cause 50 per cent or by the equivalent of $5,- 000,000 for every hour night and day. | * * * It will not profit a creditor coun- | try to collect a few million pounds or | dollars if it therety perpetuates a world | disorder which reacting on itself in-| volves losses of revenue many time: greater.” This situation could be easil; solved and “it is in the power of the! governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom as the two| greatest creditor nations, if they unite | in co-operating, to make the first and | essential step toward averting disaster, | financial, economic and political.” Sterling Payment Question. “The British government does not { believe that the suggestion of a pay- ment in sterling by the means of a blocked account is practicable, because this would mean the end of London as the great financial center of the world. 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You'll agree Carlisle, second vice president: Howard Sharpe, secretary; Joseph C. Anderson, treasurer, and F. E. Dove, sergeant-at- | arms. The club voted to withdraw the regular luncheon meetings on the sec- ond Thursday in each month and to meet at dinner with the newly-organized Ladies’ Auxiliary instead. The other luncheons wiil be continued Several members accepted an invitation to attend the district meeting in Fredericksburg on December 15. ro weather of Northwest Man- churia within the last 48 hours. and at least 200 scldiers were slain in the en- counters. This was revealed today in ters commuriques from advancing Japanese troops to their hearquarters here Despite apparently stiff opposition, the Japanese have advanced northwest- ward along the Chinese Eastern Raile way toward the Soviet border. Today their mam force of several thousand | troops was consolidating its position at I’Tfl]’:;q FURNITURE was expected to be a cam paign to wipe ou! Gen. 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