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WEATHER. Forecast. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 Entered as seco! post office, No. 32,363. Washington, nd class matt D. er o ¢ ¢ Fpening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTO , D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1932 HERRIOT 70 PLEAD WITH HOOVER FOR NEW MORATORIUM Will Ask President to Make Last Effort to Stave Off December 15 Payment. PREMIER SEES M’DONALD; EXPECTS ENGLAND TO PAY | May Recommend Remittance to Parliament—French People in Opposition. Bs the Associaied Press. PARIS, December 8—A report in the lobbfes of the Chamber of Depu- tles this everfing was that Premier Her- riot, in agreement with Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain, had ad- dressed a message to President Hoover asking him to make a last effort to ar- range a moratorium on the debt pay- ments due December 15. Premier Herriot, in conference with Prime Minister MacDonald received the impression that England will pay the $95,550,000 due the United States on December 15. The report was that the premier left the conference disposed to recommend to the French Parliament that this country pay the $20,000,000 interest due America on the same date, but with the stipulation that this will be the last payment pending negotiations. It was understood that M. Herriot told Mr. MacDonald that he would have to consult Parliament before tak- ing a definite stand. Communique Issued. An official communique issued after the meeting said France and Britain will continue the policy of independent action, but also will continue efforts to obtain by international co-operation measures calculated to promote eco- | nomic restoration of the world. | “The two governments have explained to cne another the stats of pub'ic feel- ing in Great Britain and in PFrance,’ sald the communique. “In a very ex- haustive exchangz of views they have considered their position in regard to the Lausanne agreements, and they have examined the difficulties arising atfilhwmmfimmm- “While reaffirming their independ- ente of action in dealing with this mat- ter, they have affirmed their common determination to continue to act in order. to obtain internal operation the. < u!cubudc; measures ! o ote the economic restoration of | i érence in the of public feeling” in both countries. Fear Lausanne Menace. Information from official quarters was that when Mr. MacDonald ex- plained the nature of the British opin- jon concerning the American refusal to adjourned payment he insisted par- ticularly that apprehensions are felt in Englcnd that the American attitude might constitute a menace to the Loau- sannz accords. M. Horriot emphasized that there is general c{poslunn in' France to pay- ment of the December installment on the part of both Parliament and the public. He explained that this hostility is based especially on the moratorium initiative taken by President Hoover and on the communique issued at Washington after the President had conferred with Premicr Laval. Concerning the Lausanne accord and its future, however, Mr. MacDonald was said to have promised that Great Brit- ain wili act in complete co-operation | with th> signatcries to the Lausanne | agrecments. A notc iscuzd by the semi-official Havas news agency said the solidarity of views between France and Engiand | “has been affirmed recently by Great | Britain, which refused to accept a | favored and separate treatment offered her by the United States for the pay- ment due in December.” The French government chief went to his guest for the talk, the meeting being held in the British embassy in- stead of the Quai D'Orsay. Mr. Mac- Donald requested this change in plans ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) BALTIMORE PRISON STRIKERS QUELLED Threat of Tear Gas Quiets 140 Convicts, Booing and Refus- | i i ing to Work. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 8.—A threat of tear gas quicted 140 prisoners in| the Maryland Penitentiary today when they began cer and boo after re- fusing to W n the prison overall of the 600 men who| ike since last Friday! st reduced Woges Te- | today after the an- nouncement by prison officials yesterday st work or be. subjected to solitary confinement When the jeering broke out, six picked guards, wearing gas masks and. carry- ing pistols, gas cartridges 4nd gas grenades; ‘marched through .the section of the prison where the disorder was in progress. There was immediate quiet. League Names Italian. GENEVA. December 8 (/7).—Massimo Pilotti, an Italian delegate, today was named deputy secretary general of the League of Nations to succeed Joseph Avenol, 2 member of the French dele- gation. Signor Pilotti is an expert in legal matiers, ¢ e Coolidge Knows His Dates, But Isn’t So . Sure About Names By he Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 8.—Al- though he acted as chairman in charge of proceedings at yester- day’s hearing held by th» Na- tional Trensportation Committee, forrer President Calvin Coolidae held true to the trafition for economy in words which has grown up about him. Once Coolidge challenged the accuracy of & statement by a speaker. The witness referred to the Hoch-Smith bill which he said had been before the Senate in 1921, “It was before 1921," said Coolidge. “Must have been.” The witness assured him the year he named was right. “But Hoke Smith wasn't in the Senate then,” said Coolidge. The witness explained that the Hoch he referred to was not the colorful Southern Scpator to whom Coolicge alluded. RAILROADS PLEAD FOR EQUAL RIGHTS Seven-Point Program Given Coolidge Group to Bal- ance Burdens. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK; December 8.—The rail- roads, tooting for a clear track to pros- perity, delivered 2 bulky document to Calvin Ccolidge and associates today. It contained the story of the rail- roads’ plight, a plea for “equality of opportunity” and a seven-point pre- gram intended to rescue the Nation's gigantic network of steel and rolling stock from a situation called grave. Alfred P. Thom, general counsel for the Association of Railway Executives, spoke for the railroads in presenting the statement to the National Tra: pgrtatlon Committee, headed by C idge. Recommendations Summarized. Summarized, the reccmmendations were: 1. Amend the Reccnstruction Finance Corporation ect s as to permit loans to railroads upen certificate of the Interstate Commerce Commission that o propesed loan is; in its judgment, adequately secured or that the past reccrd of earnings of that carrier and its prospect for future earnings fur- nish reesonable assurence of the ap- merce act, which a rajlroad to give the Covernment one-half of its carnirgs ebove 6 per cent. 3. Federal and State regulation of -vehicles operating over the 5. Railroads should be relieved from oppressive taxation, and Government subsidies to various other agencies of transportation in competition with the rafl carriers should be discontinued. 6 Enactment of Federal legiclation es to railway consolidations or unifi- cations, to encourage voluntary con- solidation under proper supervision. 7. Relaxation of existing regulations of the railroads in order to enable them more nearly to meet the competition application of similar regulations so far as applicable to these new forms of transportation so as to bring about equality of appcmm‘m ‘Wage Adjustment Urged. The seven pcints did not cover the clsewhere in the statement, Thom said: “The railroads wish to emphasize the and their investors and the public, in what they believe is the serious regard the present level of railrcad injurious to the public interest.” The Coolidge committee was formed panies to investigate the troubles of the railroads and survey all forms of trans- port. It is expected to suggest legisla- tion at the conclusion of its labors. Other members of the committee are Alfred E. Smith, Clark Howell, editor and general manager of the Atlanta Constitution; Alexander Legge, presi- dent of the International Harvester Co., and Bernard M. Baruch, financier. Traffic Decline Shown. Thom said that as a result primarily of the depression, but al'o beczuse of highway, air, water end pipe line com- ition, trafic and carnings of rail- rceds have declined steadily since 1929 Ho said freight traffic in the first eight montks of 1932 wa: 49 per cent under 1920. He added that net operating income for the first nine months cf 1932 " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Leticia Outbreaks Denied. PARA, Brazil, December 8 (#).—Dis- patches to the Peruvian consul from & colleague at Fort Tabatinga today de- nied reports of serious outbreaks near Leticia, a city on the upper Amazon, for the possession of which Colombia and Peru are now disputing. The dispatches declared there had been no heavy fight- ing in the vicinity. of other agencies of transportation, and | gravity of the problem confronting them | maladjustment cf railroad wages. They . wages as unjustified and profoundly | by savings banks and insurance com- | ALL: JAPAN BACKS MILITARY LEADERS, LFAGUE INFORMED |Prepared to Confront Most Severe Penalties to Defend Manchurian Policy. HOPE OF AID TO CHINA CALLED BAR TO PEACE | Assembly Warned of “Unforessen Conszquences” if Cencure Reso- luticn Is Voted. y the Associated Press. GENEVA, December 8.—The Jap- anese nation, united as one man, Is prepared to confront the most severe penalties provided in the League of Na- tions covenant in defense of its policy in Manchuria, Yosuke Matsuoka told the League assembly this evening. “The whole nation is solidly behind the military leaders, who have acted as they should,” he declared. “There are sixty-five million of them. Do you think all of them have gone mad?” Consequences Threatened. So long as the league holds out to China the hope that outsiders will come to her assistance, there never can be peace in the Far East, he sald. Matsuoka threatened “unforeseen con- sequences” if the Assembly of the League adopted a proposed resolution condemning Japan’s policy. Matsucka demanded that the authors of the resolution withdraw it or that the Assembly vote on it immediately. Some observers present recalled that authoritative sources in Tokio said Japan may b2 forced to withdraw from the League if her Manchurian policy was endangered. Resolution Held Hostile. Matsuoka said the Ascembly’s pur- pose should be to seek a conciliatory settlement and that the resolution, sub- mitted by Spain, the Irish Free State, hostile to this purpose. “If it is adopted it will have conse- qu‘:dncu unforeseen by the authors,” he said. Paul Hymans of Belgium, president of the special assembly meeting con- sidering the Manchurian issue, said the Japanese counsel's demand, which was a point of order, would be discussed at the aftérnoon session. TOKIO PRESS SEES GAIN. Newspapers Report League Views Have Shifted to Japan's Side. | TOKIO, December 8 (#).—Newspaper | special editions hailed with big hcad- lines speeches in Geneva on the Man- churian affair by Sir John Simon, British foreign minister, and Joseph Paul-Boncour, French minister of war, 2s Japanese victorics. The Nichi Nichi said “the Leaguy of Nations' atmosphere has suddenly shifted in favor of Japan,” while the Asahi said, “Britair and France have broken silence in support of Japan.” Report Received Coolly, The Simon proposal for the inclusion of Soviet Russia and the United States in the League of Nations Conciliation Committee was received coolly by Gov- | ernment spokesmen. | One representative of the Govern- | ment said such a move would be equiv- | alent to taking the Manchurian debate | out of the hands of the League, and if | the League should contend that the | Committee of Conciliation constitutes question of wages, now a moot one, but | merely an extension of the League or- | | ganization, Japan would have good legal grounds for opposition, as she opposed the presence cf American observers at Lesgue meetings in the Fall of 1931. Japen is not yet ready to say, how- ever. whether the Simon propbsal is acceptable until tke attitude of a ma- fority of the League members is made | clear and until it is established whether Moscow and Washington are willing to participate, and until the powers which such a committee ‘would have are de- fined. The spokesman said Japan must de- | clare in advance its refusal to be bound |by any decisions of such a body, | whether inside or outside the League, | concerning the status of Manchukuo. | "It was said informally in official quarters that the creation of such a committee is about what Japan expect- ed as the outcome of the debate at Geneva. FILIPINOS END SESSION Then Ad- | journs Till January. | MANILA, December 8 (#).—The Phil- | ippine Legislature met briefly today and | then obtained the authority of Gov. | Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, who convened | it yesterday in a speclal 10-day ses- |-slon, to adjourn until January. | The Governor decided to sign the | tariff revision mezsure increasing duties | on chief imports rather than return it | to the Legislature, which adopted it at its recent regular session. Outspoken | opposition to_further increases caused | his change of attitude. Legislature Convenes, Stopped By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 8.—Dr. Albert S. Hyman, director of the Witkin Foundation for the Study and Pre- vention of Heart Disease, has announced an_electro-surgical device which, it is claimed, will in some cases restore seem ngly dead patients to life. Th: device is being manufactured on a commercial ccale in Germany and Prince Undergoes Operation. LONDON, December 8 (#).—Prince George today underwent a slight op- eration on the little finger of his right hand at 8 London nursing home to ove a tendency to muscle contrac- ‘The operation was successful. The finger was hurt 18 months 2go. The prince is gn accomplished pianist. ‘Fecause of the ailment he suffered hile playing. f a shipment for general distribution in this country 1s expected within a fort- night. . The instrument is to be known as the “artificial ker.” Its use includes the inj into the muscle of the heart of a needle within 5 to 10 min- utes after the heart has stopped beating. Report of experiments in cases where tient with normal heart has met - accidents, on - G with shock, as in street DEVICE WHICH RESTORES LIFE IN CERTAIN CASES ANNOUNCED | Successful Injections Reported 14 Minutes After Heart Beating. the battlefield, on the operating table or in-childbirth, was that the apparatus restored life 59.6 per cent of the times . The longest time between the cessation of heart beats and successful injection of the electrified needle has been 14 minutes. Dr. Hyman published the result of his experiments in two articles appearing in “Thz Archives of Internal Medicine.” He described the device as a substitute for the natural pacemaker, a structure located in the right zuricle of the heart which supplies the pumping necessary for the circulation cf the blood. It may be used effectively in cases of drowning, it is claimed, providing too much water has not been taken into the lungs, and in cases of electro- cution proy the high-! wire has not come into contact with victim's head. Sweden and Czechoslovakia, would bei | =2\ s b)) U 7 Theonlyeven‘v paper in Washington Associated service. * th the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 120,269 ¥H¥ ) Means A ed TWO CENTS. Press. GLASS T0 CALL UP BANK REFORM BILL Disposal of Philippine In- dependence Bill. | ] | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Senate will be asked to tackle the subject of reform cf the banking system in this country within a few days. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia plans to call up for consideration his banking bill, now on the enate calen- dar, as soon as the Philippine Islands independence bill has been disposed of, either the end of this week or the be- ginning of next. The Democrats of the Senate have given the Glass bill a place in their legislative’ program, adopted yesterdey, immediately after the Philippine bill. While President Hoover in his an- nual message stressed the vital need of bank reform and Ogden Mills of the Treasury went much more into detail rmrfln&:ht need of reform, there has so far n no move on the part of the Republicans to put forward a strictly a istration bank- ing bill. Their to go along with the Glass bill, with perhaps some minor amendments. Walcott G. O. P. Spokesman. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, member of the Senate Banking Col mittee, was inclined to_take this vi of the situationstoday. He has been re- garded as an administration spokesman on matters before the Senate Banking Committee. “The principal objection raised to the §lass bill in the Senate at the last session,” said Senator Walcott today, “ran to the section which extends the privileges of branch banking. that in recent months there has been a considerable change in sentiment on this subject of branch banking which may he of aid in getting a bill through Congress.” Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, chairman of the Banking Comnttee, wrote a minority report on the Xass i | because of the branch banking section. So far he has not indicated that he has changed his position. In a short ses- sion of Congress, the Soutn Dakota Senator, aided by a few other Senatass, | might block the Glass bill if he sees fit. President Hocver in his annual mes- | sage to Congress called attention to the | fact that 4,665 banks have failed in the | United States since January 1, 1930, with deposits estimated at $2,300,- 000,000. He said, too, that in Eng: land, harder hit by the depression than the United States, there have been no bank failures. Cites Great Britain. Senator Walcott and other advocates of increased branch banking as a remedy for many of the ills that beset branch banking, call attention to the fact that in Great Britain there arc only five main banks, with about 6,000 branches to do the banking business for the British. The responsibility is great and the efficiency and stability resuiting are correspondingly great. The same | | | ! i | | | | | which has been free of bank failures, { banking, such as prevails in the United States, is irresponsible, with the hold- ing companies free of liability. Whether any banking legislation can be put through at the present session of Congress is decidedly questionable, no matter how much it may be needed. In the House Representative Steagall of Alabama, chairman of the Banking pammmec, is inclined to the view that there is no time for constructive bank- ing legislation. before March 4. He does say that if the Senate pesses the Gless bill end sends it to the House, he will seek to have it considered in that body. But he has so far no plans for a bank refo:m bill now. The Hous> last session possed the Steagell bill for the guarantee of bank deposits and that bill is now before a Senate Sub- committee, headed by Senator Fletcher of Florida. Some of the bankers themselves were in part responsible last session for the failure to get action in the the Glass bill, opposing vario (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) S s el POLICE RAID DRILL Most of Irish Republican Recruits Escape, 6 Are Arrested. BELFAST, Northern Ircland. Decem- ber & (#).—A large body of pol'ce con- verged last night cn a field at Finaghy, near Belfast, where Republicans were conducting military drills. Upon the arrival of the officers most | of the assembled recruits dashed away in the darkness, but six of their num- ber were and taken in an armored car to police headquarters. Throughout the night flying squads patrolled the area. "¢ Radio Programs on Page D-3 4 Virginia Senator Is Awaiting | clination seems to be | I think | bill, attacking the measure, particulatly | kind of a system prevails in Canada,| too. Senator Walcott said that group | Ex-Mayor Walker Spikes Rumor He May Become Envoy By the Assoclated Press. NICE, France, December 8.— Former Mayor Walker of New York told the newspapers here today. in commenting on sugges- tions by his friends that he be made Ambassador to France, that international diplomacy is not in his line. He has high blood pressure, he said, and will have to take a long rest, after which he probably will become the representative in France of the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer motloa picture interests. “The suggestion that I might become an Arbassador is flatter- ing.” he said, “but running an embassy is an expensive business. | Only the wealthy can pretend to such a post.” HALF BILLION FARM ~ RELIEF DEMANDED Fedéral Price Bocy and U.S. Purchases for Needy Asked at Parley. | | Formal “demands” for a half-billion- dollar appropriation for immediate re- | liet of destitute farmers, for a Federal | price-fixing body and for purchase by | the Government direct from the farmer |of food supplies needed by city unem- | | ployed were- formulated today by the Farmers' National Relief Conference | for presentation to Congress. Other reforms designed to aid dis- tressed farmers were to be drafted to- | day. The demand will be incorporated in'a petition which the -delegates hope they will be permitted tomorrow to present themselves from the floor of Congress, through a committee. Represents 26 States. A request that Congress suspend its rules so that represencatives of the con- | ference may read the resolutions and | demand before both houses was con- | tained in a statement unanimously | adopted at a lively session of the con- | ference this morning in Typographical | Temple, on G street. The delegates, | | many of them denim-clad, represented |26 States, they said. “We declared,” the statement said, | “that this country is in the throes of a | permanent farm crisis, which threatens | us with degradation and poverty unless | | we enforce abrupt changes in our eco- | ncmic set-ups. We declare that such | an emergency can be met only by put- | ting into effort our demands, which | must be considered as a whole . . . We |ask that Congress shall immediately proceed to the enactment of emer- gency legislation on this basis of these | demands.” Four Demands Proposed. The first four demands recommend- | ed by the Committec of Resolutions follow: *“1. To raise all rural families | to a minimum healthy and decent | standard of living, a minimum fund of $500,000,000 must immediately be ap- propriated for the relief of that sec- tion of the distressed farm population in need of immediate relief. “2. Food products and supplies need- ed for relief of city unemployed should purch the Federal Govern- ment directly from the farmers at a | price which will insure the cost of pro- duction plus a decent standard of liv- | ing. The processing and transportation | of these food products and other relief supplies shall be regulated by the Fed- eral Government so as to prevent profits | to the food trusts and transportation | companies during the period of the eco- nemic_crisis, “3. Federal cash relief and relief in kind to be administered by local com- mittees of farmers in each. township, selected by a mass meeting of all farm- ers needing relief. Price Regulation Needed. “4. A price regulating mechanism, controlled by actual consumers and pro- ducers, must be immediately set up whose function shall be to reduce prices to consumers and raise prices for all (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) OHIO MINERS STRIKE Unfairness to Coal Loaders Charged by 300 Employes. ATHENS, Ohio, December 8 (#).— Three hundred employes of the Hock- | ing mine cf the Hocking. Mining Co. quit work today. ‘The miners claimed the company has been throwing out much good coal and not giving the loaders credit for it. They also contended the Te- fused to receive a wlum - they Company officials reason {ar. the strike. knew 1o, SEAATORS WANED ONDSTRET GROUP Davis and Grammer Succeed Jones and Shipstead on Committee. ‘The Republican Committee on Com- mittees today filled two vacancies on the Senate District Committee, named new chairmen of four other Senate necessitated and made other assign- ments necessitated by the deaths of Senators Jones of Wi ton and Waterman of Colorado. The new Republican members of the District Committee are: Senator E. 8. Grammer of Washington, who was ap- pointed by the Governor of his State to finish the term of Senator Jones, and Senator James J. Davis of Pennsyl- cxisted on the committee since Senator Shipstead of Minnesota asked to be re- leved from service at the last session. Hale Gets Important Post. Elec - Senator Vandenberg, Repul , Mic] was appointed chairman the mittee on Enrolled Bills. Senator Keyes Named. Senator Keyes, Republican, of New Hampshire was appointed to the va- cancy on the special Senate Economy Committee resulting from the death of Senator Jones. The latter 'was chair- man of the economy group and due to his death Senator Bingham, Repub- lican, of Connecticut, the ranking member, has become presiding officer. Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, was assigned to the Pinance Committee. Senator Karl Schuyler, Republican, elected to serve during the present ses- sion as successor to the late Senator ‘Waterman, was made a member of Ju- diciary, Naval Affairs, Patents and Privileges and Election and Military Affairs. In addition to a place on the District Committee, Senator Grammer was ap- pointed to Commerce, Irrigation and Reclamations and Appropriations. The latter will serve in the Senate until March 4. PREFERENCE WITHHELD LONDON, December 8 (#).—Custom officials continued todsy to withhold granting a 6-cents-a-bushel preference on Canadian wheat shipped here on the steamer Laconia via the United States, although the wheat was con- signed direct to Great Britain. ‘The Laconia, out of New York, docked at Liverpool Monday. Negotiations are continuing in an ef- fort to determine whether or not the shipment is entitled to the preference. The customs officials have withheld granting a preference on the ground that evidence furnished at present fails to fulfill the conditions laid down by the government in allowing the exemp- tion on Empire wheat. The wheat was shipped in bond by the International Export Association vania ‘to fill the vacancy which has || from Fort William, Ontario, to ascer- tain whether this type of shipment will | be entitled to the preference. LEVY OF NEW TAX WOULD OBVIATE PAY! CUT, SAYS BRITTEN Declares Beer and Sales! Charges Would Make Reduction Unneeded. SENATOR ODDIE PLEDGES FIGHT AGAINST SLASH Blngham Sees Virtue in Furlough in Providing Jobs for Many Unemployed. Declaring that the cutting of Fed- eral salaries will have a tendency to encourage continuation of the depres- sion, Senztor Oddie, Republican, of Nevada, made known today that he will continue to oppose Government pay reductions. Senator Oddie is chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and handles the Treasury- Post Office appropriation bill in the Senate. Into this bill will be embodied the policy on pay reductions that will lpFly to other measures. [t was during the consideration of that appropriation bill at the last ses- sion of Congress that he led the fight against the program on which the Sen- ate originally embarked of making a BEER L HEARING RUSHED I HOPE OF FARLY HOUSE VOIS Per Cent Beverage as Nan-Intoxicating. COLLIER WILL INTRODUCE MEASURE WITHOUT DELAY Witnesses Allowed but 10 Minutes Each to Hasten Necessary Action of Committee. By the Associated Press. Anti-prohibitionist members of the House lauded 3.2 per cent beer as a non-intoxicating and healthful bever- age in testimony today before the House Ways and Means Committee. Efforts were made to speed the hear- ings, so the committee can get to work by Tuesday on a bill to submit for passage by the end of next week. This is in line with the Democratic program for action by Christmas, if possible, Representatives Stafford of Wiscon- sin and Dyer of Missouri, Republicans, and Boland, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, led off in favor of Volstead modifica~ flat 10 per cent reduction in the total of each appropriation bill coming over from the House. Senator Oddie said today he is still pposed to salary cuts because he be- lieves “it strikes at the foundation of the structure” and would tend to pro- long the present situation. Says Beer Tax Would Balk Cut. “I am against any economy that re- quires the cutting of salaries of the em- ployes of the Government,” he said. “Such action is an immediate invitation and excuse for factories and the em- ployers of labor throughout the country to follow suit. If this is done, it ham- pers and impedes the return of pros- perity. Every one knows, and none better than the business leaders, that with the decrease in purchasing power through reduction of salaries all busi- ness suffers and the return to good times is further delayed. “I expect to vote against every at- tempt to cut Government salaries.” Representative Fred A. Britten, Re- publican, Illinois, said today that the President’s recommendation for further salary cutting did not take into consid- eration the prospective revenues from a beer tax and a sales tax, which would amount to over $800,000,000 .the first year. “If the present Congress proceeds with its undertaking to put a tax on beer, which will provide $400,000,! per annum in revenue,” Britten said, Fede: ‘Treasury bankruptey. ‘This is no time to cut salaries.” Bingham Defends Furlough. Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con- necticut, who has succeeded the late Senator Jones as presiding officer of the special Senate Economy Committee, (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) POU, RAINEY AND SNELL TO ARRANGE INAUGURAL Blanton Reminds House That Roosevelt Has Called for Modest Ceremony. Chairman Pou of the House Rules Committee, House Leader Rainey and Minority Leader Snell were appointed today to represent the House on a joint committee with the Senate to arrange for the inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol on March 4. Representative Bianton, Democrat, Texas, reminded the House that Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt had declared for a modest inaugural ceremony and ex- pressed his thought that the wishes of the inccming President should be re- spected in that regard. SEEK “CRAZE.D" MARCHER Police Search for Man Reported Strapped With Dynamite. Somewhere in Washington, according to reports reaching police, there is a hunger marcher so fatalistic that he has determined to sacrifice himself to his Communist political faith by strap- ping dynamite to his body and setting off the explosive “wherever it'll do the most damage.” Although he considers the reported scheme a hoax, Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, broadcast a description of the radical and ordered police of all precincts to be on the alert for him, particularly in the vicin- ity of the White House, the Capitol and other Government buildings. Several persons reported they over- heard the man, described as being about 40 and of Slavic appearance, telling others of his “plan.” Police were given the man’s nickname. MACHINE TESTED By the Assoclated Press. MADISON, Wis., December 8.—A ma- chine to impart the health-giving quali- ties of vitamin D to fluid milk at the rate of more than 3,000 quarts an hour was given fmal tests at the University with vitamin D _commercially feasible, the machine will be made available to all dairies licensed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. “It utilizes the qualities of ultra-vio- let rays.in such a practical econ- omical way that the irradiation of milk is now only a matter of snappirg an electric switch,” Dr. Harry L. Russell, directed of the foundation, said. He said the machine was developed in co-operation with two commercial concerns, representatives of which wit- nessed a demonstration of it at the university dairy laboratories, where in 1890 the late Prof. Stephen Babcock perfected his celebrated butter fat test. cylinder contgining & ,000- _watt carbon arc lamps. A of milk | VITAMIN D IN MILK CHEAPLY University of Wisconsin Develops Steenbock Process at | Commercially Feasible Cost. FOR PUTTING is shot down the inner walls of the drum in the glare of the lamps, which impart the vitamin. The milk is col- lected by a pipe at the base of the cylinder and conducted away for bottling. Each quart of irradiated milk, Dr. Russell said, is equivalent in anti- rachitic value to a teaspoonful of cod- tion. They were followed by Yan- dell Henderson, professor of applied physiology at Yale University. Expert on Poisons. The tall gray-haired professor said he wanted it understood “that I am an expert on poisons that include al- cohol.” = With that, he declared, “beer of about 4 per cent is not appreciably more intoxicating than an equal vol- ume of coffee.” By committee consent, 20 minutes was allowed Henderson, although the committee earlier had stipulated that witnesses would be limited to 10 min utes apiece in the interest of speed. Chairman Collier, before today’s meet- ing, announced the plan for getting some form of bill before the House proper without delay. One after an- other, the witnesses for and against the legislation are to be paraded before the committee, so that early next week it can go into executive session to de- cide on the alcoholic content and tax of At the outset of the second day's hearing, Representative Stafford, the first witness, said the people had proved the Democratic platform modification of the Volstead act, clare such brew intoxicating.” “In other words, States which are strongly dry would not have beer forced upon them,” he declared. Ales and Porter Intoxicating. Pacing up and down before the com- mittee, he said a decision by Justice Brandeis of the Supreme Court had de- fxllartd “all ales and porter” intoxicat- g. “Ales and porters are heavy beers” he said. “Some of them contain 10 and 12 per cent of alcohol. In my opinion, beer of 6 per cent is intoxicating. “But nowhere do we find any decisicn that beer of more than one-half of 1 per cent is intoxicating, as beer, say, with a content as high as 2.75." He held the opinion that the average beer sold in Milwaukee before prohibi- | tion was not ‘ntoxicating. Representative O’Connor, Democrat of New York, has a bill calling for beer with a 3.2 alcoholic content by weight, a percentage described as non-intoxi- cating hy Stafford. The bill by Chair- man Collier fixes the alcoholic content at 2.75. Questioned by Representative Tread- way, Republican of Massachusetts, about the revenue phase of the bill, Stafford said: “You don’t want to put a premium on alley brewers. People in my State want cheap beer. I believe that with the $5-a-barrel tax as provided in this (Collier) bill,, it will permit them to sell beer at 10 cents a bottle and 5 cents a glass.” A He said that at $5 a barrel of 31 gallons, the tax would be 1'; cents & bottle of 12 ounces Representative Dy = Eopmes F alsd Mrged apetily (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) COLD WEATHER TO MAKE EXTENDED STAY HERE Bureau Officials Predict.Drop to 25 Degrees Tonight or Early Tomorrow. The cold weather which “moved in* overnight probably will make an ex- tended stay in Washington, Weather Bureau officials said today, predicting that the thermometer will probably get down as low as 25 degrecs tonight or_early tomorrow. ‘The mereury dropped 19 degrees here overnight—from 57 at 8 p.m. to 38 at 8 this morning—after having touched g{ degrees shortly before noon yester- ay. Prior to the coming of last night's cold, however, December, 1932, stood out from the Decembers of previous years in that every day in the month, Including yesterday, hg‘ seen the mer- liver ofl. The flavor of the milk is not altered by the process. Previous to the perfection of the “irradiator,” as the machine is called, efforts to impart vitamin D to milk had token the form of feeding cattle with irradiated yeast. This plan was cue- cessful in increasing the ricket-prevent- ing quality of the milk, but the animals absorbed so large a part of the anti- rachitic element that general use of the milk was prohibited by the cost. Prof. Harry Steenbock of versity’s agricultural school the of irradiation. Boncitoss, and. postibly Tain con . After the disturbanes of end, the blanket of cold which almost the entire continent is