Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1932, Page 2

A2 #Ew SENATE TAKES 1P ISLAND AUTONOMY Passage of Bill by Next Week i Expected by Leaders of ; Both Partfes. Independence for the Philippines, pledged by the Democratic party, was taken up today as the immediate chief concern of the Senate. Leaders of both parties looked for passage of a bill by next week. The measure before them, considered today under an agreement made before ad- Journment of the last session, was the Hawes-Cutting bill, granting freedom to the islands 18 years after passage. But changes were forecast, largely because it conflicts sharply with the Hare bill— passed by an overwhelming majority by the House last session—which provides for full freedom in eight years. Both measures are opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation on the grounds that they fail to provide the strict limitation desired on free im- ports from the islands during the tran- sition period pending full economic and political freedom. * Both bills restrict free impe:tations, but continue those same restrictions through the transition years. The farm leaders want free entries lessened after each year. They also object to the island plebiscite in the Hawes-Cutting bill at the end of 18 years, pending which full freedom would be withheld. Independence for the islands was ledged in the Democratic platform. hile the Republicans did not mention | the subject in their campaign, their leaders at the Capitol believe a bill will be passed and many of them are inclined to vote for it, since it has been separated from the general ques- tion of tariff. e RAILROADS PLEAD FOR EQUALITY IN TRANSPORTATION WAR (Continued From First Page.) ;Vu 79 per cent under three years be- ore. “It- is submitted,” he said, “that if the restrictions imposed on the rail- roads are wise and in the public interest, their competitors should be similarly Teguiated.” Parts of the program will be pressed at the short session of Congress, Thom indicated. The committee yesterday was told by A. J. Brousseau, vice president of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, that were making a concerted drive to increase the cost.of using the highways. “I am much concerned with what is apparently a drive to increase highway traffic costs,” he said. “Much of its support comes from railroad sources. It must be costly. More and ‘more Tailroad employes are devoting their time to this drive instead of running trains, We have not the facilities to mchnE this drive. - We can’t afford the The National Association of Mutual Ba Banks and the Security Owners’ e forms of e ted under the jurisdiction of a newe::ve.m- ment agency. Willard Objects to Plan. Daniel Willard, president of the Balti- more & Ohio, said he did not subscribe to the plan which the carriers” had adopted of placing the wage question before the commission, but explained that he believed there was no doubt that the temporary 10 per cent reduction due to expire in February would be extend- :‘;IC“HE :u ngt &uxexshal further re- on beyond the T cent was needed. 9 “I wish to take sharp exception to gm statement dox :(r.’ v&.flud,“ said W. . Cole, presiden e Louts Nashville.” 5 g He said that just an extension of the 10 per cent reduetion would not be sufficient and declared that the wage question was most important in restoring national prosperity, Cole asserted that the wage question was within the jurisdiction of the com- mittee, while Willard thought it was 2 matter to be settled between the rail- Toad managements and the brother- hoods. Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania, added, “I wish to echo every word Mr. Cole has said. ‘The railroad wage rate is the basis for wages throughout all industry.” WHITNEY ASSAILS THOM. Denounces Taking of Wage Issue Before Coolidge Committee. CHICAGO, December 8 (#).—On the eve of a wage conference here with railroad officials the spokesman for rail- Toad-lahqr expressed astonishment and resentment at action of the carriers in taking the question of wages before the National Transportation Committee, headed by Calvin Coolidge, in New York today. A. F. Whitney, chairman of 22 unions of rail employes, who will meet with managers of the roads Monday to discuss extension of the recent one-year 10 per cent deduction in pay, de- nounced Alfred P. Thom, general coun- sel for the Asscciation of Rallway Executives, for his statement to the committee and also current scales of y. Thom told the committee that the railroads “regard the present level of wages as unjustified and profoundly in- Jurious to the public interest.” Holds Wages Too Low. Whitney replied that the level “is not sufficient to enable railway employes to maintain themselves and their families in_ordinary decency. “Seven hundred thousand of them are in the breadlines,” he said. “The railway brotherhoods are astonished to learn that Mr, Thom would undertake to plice the question of wages and working ccnditions before the Coolidge Committee, especially at a time when the rail labor organizations are handling the matter with a national committee of railroad executives authorized to speak for the carriers. “We certainly resent any effort on the part of the carriers to place labor in the | wrong light before the public by sug- gesting or permitting an unauthorized tribunai to butt in on the wage ques- | tion.” Whitney saxd his group was “per- fectly willing” to have “authoritative| governmental bodies authorized by Con- gress investigate wages and financial structures of the roads.” . Sees Grave Misunderstanding. “Any effort on the part of the Cool- | idge Committee or any other uneu- thorized bodies to interfere in the | question of rail wages is bound to re-/ sult in grave misunderstanding of in- terests involved and will doubtless be embarrassing to the railroads as well as groups which undertake to usurp such authority.” ‘Whitney szid 500,000 members of brotherhoods were working on ‘“part time,” and 800,000 at “greatly reduced incomes.” “Wage cutting and dismissal of em- ployes must be stopped,” he said. “Too many homes already have been wrecked. Rail labor organizations will oppose vigorously any further attempt on the part of industry to destroy pur- chasing power. If it is permitted to continue it will destroy our social ding | estranged wife. | that she and Hendricks had no children, | said the last time the riding master re- clothing for some destitute child will be WONAN SUASHES HODDYARD CHEF Estranged Wife Refuses. to Give Reasons for Razor Blade Attack. Prederick Herman Hendricks, 40 years old, superintendent of the Municipal ‘Woodyard, was called outside the office of the woodyard this morning, near Fifth and B streets and slashed about the face with a safety razor blade by a woman who told police she was his Hendricks, bleeding from several wounds, was taken to Emergency Hos- pital, where he was treated. The woman was detained at the office until police arrived. She was being held for investigation at No. 1 precinct while police sought to learn if Hendricks ‘would prefer charges against her. ‘The woman gave her name as Mrs. Ruth Hendricks, 35 years old. She said they had been separated five years and came here last night from New York City to see him. ‘While admitting she cut Hendricks after an argument in front of the office, Mrs. Hendricks refused to divulge her reasons for ‘the attack, but said they were “plenty.” She _re; ed last night at a hotel near Union Station an: woodyard this morning. Mrs. Hendricks said she had no permanent address in New York and — HOMEWOOD GUILTY OF GIRL’S CHARGES Riding Master Is Convicted as| Jury Deliberates Less Than Hour on Evidence. By the Associated Press. NEW CITY, N. Y., December 8.—Sid- ney Homewood, 24-year-old riding in-| structor, was convicted by a Supreme| Court jury yesterday of the charge of | seducing Miss Charlotte Gibson, one’| of his former students, under promise of marriage. Taken to jail to await sentence De- cember 13, Homewood faces a possible maximum punishment of five years’ im- prisonment and $1,000 fine. His attor- neys indicated they would seek to have the verdict set aside, and failing that would appeal. The jury of married men deliberated less than an hour. The girl said Homewood was the father of the child she expects in a few weeks. Her father, Robert Gibson, sald Homewood had promised several times to marry his daughter, but had | always gone back on his word. Gibson | | fused to marry her, he said he would support their child. Homewood denied ever having prom- ised to marry Miss Gibson and he said he never told her that he loved her. Homewood's face grew red when the jury’s verdict was announced. His mother, Mrs. Bertha Homewood, merely | f?:’o%\ LIt wasn't justice. It was a $300,000 SUIT IS HELD BASED ON ILLEGAL DEAL By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 8—The $300,- 000 suit for breach of contract brought by James 8. Clark of Mount Kisco, Ky., against Norman W. Harris, Chicago banker, was dismissed today as con- trary to public policy and based upon a corrupt, illegal and immoral trans- acticn. Counsel for the young vice president of the Harris Trust & Savings Bank objected that Clark had tried to capi- tal on his wife's alleged intimacy with Herris. The judge upheld the argument and threw the suit out of court, In his ruling Judge John R. Caver- ley said Clark and his divorced wife, the former Dorothy Funk of Des Moines, had operated a “badger game” against Harris. The sult was based on an alleged contract made by Harris to pay Clark $500 a month for life, lfi!&d upon when Clark returned to his Madison, Wis., home after a trip and found the Chicago banker with his wife. Clark divorced her and obtained custody of their two children. Fingerprinting Goes Begging. BERKELEY, Calif., December 8 (). —Berkeley citizens can have their fin- structure.” General chajrmen representing the 22 unions held separate meetings to- day to canvass ballots on whether they had authorty to deal with the roads Monday. . J. Manion of the Order ! of Rallroad Telegraphers reported he hed authority to negotiate for the ambership, A gerprints added to police records free of charge, but no line is forming. A. J. Greening, police chief, wishes there were. Inviting citizens to be finger- printed at the newly created Bureau of Personal Identification, he said: “If went to the| P! THE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1932 CANADA PROTESTS [BEER BILL HEARING Juvenile Star in “Toy Matinee” Mitzi Green, shown here with an armload of toys, is only one of a glittering group of juvenile stars, including Jackie (:oopse to appear on the screens at the 12 Warner Bros. theaters the morning of Dece ances arranged by Warner Bros. in co-operation with The Star. 'mber 17 in benefit perform- A toy or bit of the only price of admission. TOYS ARE TICKETS FOR 17 THEATERS Warner Bros.” Houses to Co- operate in Helping to Cheer Needy Children. Twelve theater parties rolled into one huge “toy matinee,” with momentum enough to sweep laughter and presents and a merry Christmas into the lives of 18,000 destitute children. That is, the goal of the 1932 toy matinees, arranged by Warner Bros. in co-operation with The Star—not a for- gotten child in Washington on Christ- mas morning! Every community has a Warner neighborhood house, 10 in all. Coupled with the big downtown theaters, the Earle and Metropolitan, their shows will be thrown open Saturday morn- ing, December 17, to a city-wide audi- ence. Gifts Are Only Tickets. Gifts, new gifts, Christmas reminders for poor children—these will be the only cost of admission. Toys or cloth- ing will be acceptable—anything in these lines to convey a personal message of good cheer. The second annual toy matinces are bigger, wider in scope than last year's, They will offer feature entertainment bills, fraught with Christmas atmos- Te. Although fewer, last year's matinees rolled up a_huge’ contribution to child happiness—2,500 new toys, from the counters and gay shops of the city, straight to the most deserving children in the District. Small and eager hands were lifted to receive them, from sick beds and hos- pital cots. Childish’ faces already re- signed to disappointment were bright- ened in hospitals, correctional institu- tions and impoverished homes. Distributed by Agency. Every toy collected was new, bright and shining. It found just the child who most wanted it, through the care- ful distribution of the Council of Social Agencies, always close to the needs of the poor. The council will make the distribu- tion again this year, but it must cover & wider territory. For every deserving family listed with the council’s Christ- mas Bureau of 1931, there are three this year. Some 6,000 homes, averaging three children each, look to charity for their Christmas cheer. There is little money for the bright, frivolous things, the Christmas gifts which are more to chil- dren than even the barest necessities— food and shelter. Every Needy Child Listed. Hundreds of other children are charity patients in institutions or sepa- rated from their poverty-broken homes to live with foster parents. But every child is listed, all are known to the charity agencies, which can locate them on Christmas morning. Given the gifts, the agencies will convey them to the children who need them most, but who would be forgotten otherwise. Huge Santa Claus hampers will be ready in each theater lobby, waiting to receive a glad outpouring. The shops and stores offer gay as- sortments, convenient to every theater- goer, but far beyond the reach of the destitute. Buy a Christmas gift for some poor child, trade it in as the price of ad- mission and see a good Warner Bros. show. Then sit back and enjoy the picture, warmed by the knowledge that you have made a vital contribution to the Christmas celebration of the poorest child in Washington. = Shows at the Earle and Metropolitan open at 9:30-.am, and 10 am. at the following Warner Bros. neighborhood houses: _ Ambassador, Apollo, Avalon, Avenue Grand, Central, Colony, Home, Savoy, Tivoli and York. TWO M_EN ARE INJURED IN CONDUIT ROAD FIRE One Burned, Other Hurt in Leap From Window During Blaze in Barbecue Stand. Two men were injured, one when burned, at 5:30 o'clock this morning when fire burned a three-story frame dwelling and barbecue stand at 5840 Conduit road. Irvin C. Cox, 39, sustained a sprained ankle when he jumped from the sec- ond floor of the structure to escape the flames after being Rayford, 1 ploye of the stand, received burns on the right hand and knee before he was able to escape. Both were treated at | Georgetown Hospital. The fire, of unknown origin, caused damage estimated at $5,000. — 0il Man Found Dead. BASIN, Wyo., December 8 (#).—C. C. Vogel, 57, president of the Torch- light Ofl Corporation, was found dead amnesia attacks or get bowled over in trafiic_accidents, we shall be able to identify them.” in his room 8 hotel here yesterday. Physiclans said he apparently died in SEIZURE OF BOAT Declares U. S. Exceeded Rights in Boarding Mazel Toy, 11 1-2 Miles Out. By the Associated Press. A warning that anti-smuggling co- operation with the United States would become virtually impossible if the lat- ter continues 12-mile-limit seizure of rum runners has been served upon this country by Canada. The Canadian government, through Minister Herridge, told the State De- partment that Canada refuses to recog- nize the right of the United States to make seizures of suspected rum run- ners outside the three-mile limit except under the treaty between the two coun- tries permitting seizure within one hour’s sailing of shore, Unless the United States accepts this position, Herridge said, “any other course * * * would tend to frustrate the co-operation rendered by his majes- ty's government in Canada * * * which has provided effective assistance to your Government in curtailing, and, in so far as Canadign vessels are con- cerned, almost eliminating the contra- band traffic on the coasts of the United States.” ‘The note was delivered to Secretary of State Stimson last Monday, but did not become public until today when it was sent to the Supreme Court for consideration in a pending case. Herridge protested seizure of the Mazel Toy 111, miles off the Massa- chusetts coast. The first Circuit Court of Appeals sustained the seizure, hold- ing it valid under the tariff act of 1930, which authorizes the boarding of ves- sels by the Coast Guard within 12 miles of shore. ‘The Canadian minister in his note stated his government was unwilling to recognize that the tariff act had any binding force outside the three-mile jurisdiction of the United States. The note said it seemed clear that seizure of British vessels on the high seas under the tariff act was not justi- fied by international law. —— NAVY OFFICER’S WIFE INJURED IN COLLISION Mrs. Margaret R. Armstrong in Critical Condition After Cars Crash. Mrs. Margaret R. Armstrong, 25, wife of a naval officer, stationed at the Naval Academy, was seriously injured in a head-on collision between two au- tomobiles on the Bladensburg road, near Twenty-fourth place, today. Mrs. Armstrong, who was riding with her husband, Lieut. J. N. Armstrong, 28, was removed to Casualty Hospital, ‘where her condition was said to be seri- ous. She is an expectant mother. Licut. Armstrong was cut about the legs and face. His car and a machine operated by William A. Mulligan, 42, of the 4500 block of New Hampshire ave- nue collided as they were going in op- posite directions along the highway. Mulligan was only slightly injured and a passenger in his car, Norman Kogok, 28, a Washington automobile salesman, was slightly hurt. A car operated by Willlam S. Melter, 1900 block of Kearney street northeast, made a left turn in front of him just told police. The naval officer’s car was bound for Washington from the Acad- emy and Mulligan and Melter were go- ing north, it was said. Melter's car was not struck and after giving his name he left the scene. Police said both Mulligan and Lieut. Armstrong would be taken to No. 5 pre- cinct pending investigation. SIMONE, TEA HOUSE Not Afraid as Result of Turning State's Witness, but Will Be Careful. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. 1 UPPER MARLBORO, Md., December 8—Thomas Simone, who appeared as & State witness against John Wallace and James Zalenski, who were convicted of second-degree murder in the Old Colo- nial Tea House shooting, was released from the Prince Géorges County Jail here today. Simone became a prosecution wit- ness on State’s Attorney Alan Bowie's promise that a murder indictment against him would be nolle prossed. After the charge against him was formally dropped he left for Washing- ton with Deputy Sheriff Tom Garrison. He said he would go to Union Station and entrain for New York. “I'm not afraid of anything happen- ing to me because I turned State's evi- dence,” he declared, “but I'm going to be pretty careful for a while; just the same.” At the trial of Wallace and Zalenski in La Plata, Md, last week, Simone named the pair as members of the gang that staged the hold-up in which Gro- ver Amick, Washington filling station attendant was slain. The convicted men were sentenced to 18 years in the Maryland penitentiary. TELEPHONE CONTROL TRANSFERS ARGUED Transfer of jurisdiction over ac- counting for depreciation of telephone company properties from the Interstate Commerce Commission to State Utility Commissions was discussed today at a conference headed by Riley Elgen, vice chairman of the District Public Utilities Commission. The conference was attended by rep- resentatives of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Utilities Commissions and the Interstate Commercé Commission. Rep- resentatives from West Virginia and Virginia were invited but did not attend. No action was taken at the session, but a second meeting will be held in about 30 days. In the litigation now pending between the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and the District Public Utilities Commission, the telephone company claims the .commission has no jurisdic- tion over its depreciation accounts. —— BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “The Emperors’ Bodyguard,” Meinicke Overture, “William Tell” Rossini Transcription, “The Voice of Love,” Schumann Excerpts from comic opera, “The Fortune Teller” Oddity, “Dance Russe 'rreg, . \ 'schaikowsky Waltz suite, “Es War Einmal (Onceg‘?nlo"mne). Finale, “Echoes ville”. -Moret ]berore the accident occurred, Mulligan | WITNESS, RELEASED SPEEDED BY GROUP Committee Limits Testimony in Order to Offer Meas- ure Soon. (Continued From First Page.) action, testifying, “I think we are agreed that the American people have icsued a mandate to Congress to modify the Volstead act.” . As a member of the Judiciary Com- mittee, he invited the Ways and Means Committee to read his grcup’s record of testimony on prohibition. “I am_ convinced that you will be convinced that 3.2 per cent beer is non- intoxicating,” he said. Dyer said 3.2 per cent beer was about the smallest alcoholic content that brewers could make & “beer that was really worthwhile and would hold its own in competiticn with home brew,” ‘The alcoholic content put in the Vol- stead act was “dishonest,” he contended, and was put in simply becauss “a number of States felt it would help enforcement.” Representative Rag Arkansas, W) would happen “where the Supreme Court is concerned,” if Congress de- clares 3.2 beer legal. Slaps Repeal Defeat. “Nothing. in my opinion,” promptly answered Dyer. “Of course, if we legal- ize a beverage palpably intoxicating it might be deciared illegal, but even then thege would be the question of getting it before the Supreme Court. Dyer took occasion to slap the House for its failure to adopt the prohibi- tion repeal resolution. “In view of this action,” he said, “T sometimes doubt whether it is as dis- tinguished and able as it has been in the past.” Representative Boland urged the i committee to approve the O'Connor bill. He said medical testimony had convinced him beer “was a medicine and a food.” In some Pennsylvania coal mines, he said, water acted as a “poisan” to th2 workers “fresh from the depth,” but it had been shown that beer served the ordinary purposes of water and had no bad effect. Prof. Henderson told the committes dilution of alcohol enormously de- creases the effect. He produced a liter measure and a small bottle of water to illustrate the decreasing effect of spirits as they are diluted. Defines Cocktail. “If a man pours 4 per cent beer into his body,” he said, “its effect would not begin until he had swallowed a relatively enormous quantity. “Beer and wine are generally taken with and after meals. On the other hand, cocktails and highballs are usually taken before meals. The ab- sorption is rapid and the effect great.” Representative Treadway wanted to know what “is a cocktail and what is the cocktail habit?” . “Well, & cocktail is ordinarily a mixture of spirits, gin generally, with orange juice and other substances. A lot of people, young and old, are in the habit of drinking these before dinner.” “Now isn’t the number small?” que: tioned Treadway, “that is, as compared to the general population. You see a good bit of it about Yale.” In Private Capacity. “Perhaps s0,” replied the professor, “but I am not referring to Yale Uni- versity. I am here in a private capacity.” “But you said that wine drinking would be better for gatherings of young men and women than the llquor';len- erally drunk? You have seen those gatherings at Yale?” “I see little of Yale students outside of class hours,” Henderson answered. Treadway asked Henderson if he favored the wine provision in the Col- ler bill “I do, because I believe it would pro- mote temperance,” the professor said. “How would you define a cocktail?” Treadway asked. “It’s a drink composed of 30 per cent alcohol in spirits of some kind, either or rum and some other ingredients to make it taste good,” Henderson re- lied. l 30 per cent alcohol for a “You need kick, do you?” Treadway pursued. Are Used Differently. “Well, 30 per cent alcohol in & cook- tail will give you a kick,” the professor answered. “Four per cent beer and 10 per cent wine is an apparent contradiction,” Henderson sald in reply to Treadway’s question as to the percentage of light wines, “but it is not real because they are used differently. Wine is drunk in smaller quantities and at meals.” In a statement made public in ad- vance of his appearance before the committee, Prof. Henderson said the alcohol problem can best be solved by legaiizing beer and wine, and placing distilled spirits under as strict Federal control as the Government now main- tains over narcotics. “The cocktail habit,” he said, “is a form of drug addiction.” On the other hand, he said, “4 per cent beer is so dilute as to be virtually non-intoxicating. “It would require a considerable effort to drink enough to get drunk on it. “If no alcoholic beverage other than 4 per cent beer were known, the al- cohol problem would be no more seri- ous than the problem of tobacco. “Those who wish to keep the eight- eenth amendment in the Constitution and the Volstead act in its present form claim and fear that the legaliza- tion of light beer will bring back the saloon. There is good grounds for this fear. In my opi opinion, the saloon will tertainiy come back in an agsravated form unless we make a distinction be- tween spirits and beer and unless the Federal Government controls spirits along somewhat the same lines that it now controls narcotics. * * * Would Make Addicts. “Spirits are as intoxicating as mor- hine. On the other hand, a glass of r is less intoxicating than a cigar. But suppose that the same law applied to narcotic drugs as to tobacco, and that every tobacco shop offered its cus- tomers the choice of tobacco or opium; a cigar or a grain of morphine. The certain result would be thousands of morphine addicts. “The point is that, if non-intoxicat- ing beer and natural wines are to be legalized safely, the highly intoxicating distilled spirits must be subjected to a totally diiTerent type of control from anything that we have had in the past. The failure of the eighteenth amend- ment, as interpreted in the Volstead act, is due mainly to the failure to make this distinction. * * * “Wine is drunk so little in this coun- try that it is not very important how it is treated by law. Although a man could get intoxicated on wine of 10 per cent alcohol by volume or 8 per cent by weight, wine of this strength is so much less intoxicating than cock- wise public policy after "E:“ of the eigh- teenth amendment class natural wines with beer as virtually non-intox- icating. If we could lead our yo men and vmcn 73‘ m:rutuz wine f cocktails, g m) ce ‘would be enormous. The cor.ku?}qh‘:hlt is a form of drug addiction. Hopes to Avoid Failure. “Beer of 4 per cent and wine of 10 r cent sh be sold in restaurants icensed under State laws. But the sale of spirits in restaurants should be pro- hibited by Federal law. “Unless the alcohol problem is .in the future to be handled along some such lines as these based on realities, the third experiment that we are about to make will almost certainly great a failure as our ments with fpe g be as{of Open New Dry WOMEN RENEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROHIBITION REPEAL. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman ‘Woman’s Democratic Law Enforcement display some of the ited sl drys, opened yester ROTEST against what was called the subordinate role aliotted to women under existing political setsups was voiced by Vida Milholland of New Yor tea | yesterday in the Washington Hotel | which preceded the formal opening of the new Washington headquarters of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement in the Kellogg Build- ing. Miss Milholland was presented by Mrs, Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the committee. “Women of all political parties who believe in the eighteenth amendment,” sald Miss Milholland, “have organized the United Dry Women in New York State as a means of direct political action to prevent another situation such as we faced in the recent election, when Law Enforcement,” and Mrs. Jesse W. Headquarters of the Woman's National Committee for Nicholson, president of the National League and editor of the Woman Voter, logans at the Washington headquarters of the wamen ay in the Kellogg Building. —Star Staff Photo. we virtually were disfranchised so far as prohibition was concerned by both ajor parties with wet platforms. “If women had been given, or had exercised, the influence te which they, as half the electorate, are entitled, they could have demanded platforms ac- ceptable to the electorate rather than to political machines dominated by men.” Other speakers at the tea ineluded, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin and Miss Mar- garet Hamilton. Willis Abbott of the Christian Science Monitor, and Canon Sheafe Chase were guests of honor. The hostesses were, Mrs. Peabody, Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, Mrs. William L. Darby, Mrs. Richard Yates, Mrs. Frank Berrien, Mrs. Harvey Wiley and Mrs. James Shera Montgomery. Percheron’s Ghost Stalks in Shadow of Reviving Breweries Milwaukee Plants Hum With Preparation for Legal Beer. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis, December 8.— In the old Milwaukee the broad-backed Percheron was a mainstay of the city's great beer industry. Some of the hillside streets still are paved with cobblestones that have wide crevices between them. There is a tra- dition that the City Council, when its proceedings still were in the German language, fixed the width of the crevices by ordinance so that the strong horses would have sure footing as beer was hauled to depot and dock. The city now is hopefully preparing to swing into its old stride as a leader in_the brewing industry. In the towering gray stone buildings where activity has languished durin prohibition, there is & new surge o activity. Machinery is being recon- ditioned. Cobwebs are coming down in the huge grain elevators and ';‘ork- men arfi. hwhl.‘sltling{ “HappymDnY as the; miles of copper - ouths with ® yearning to become brewmasters are taking books home for night study and giving studious atten- tion to the behavior of yeast plants. Milwaukee had nine large plants in the heyday of brewing. The four largest have kept their in condition, gambling millions that brew would return. Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz and Miller— names that have hung over hundreds of thousands of swinging doors—are ready once more to send their product to depot and dock. But the - back Percheron will be a ghost in front of a gasoline engine. —_— BEER RUSH IN EUROPE DESCRIBED BY HULL House Member Says He Drank Four Pints of 3.2 Per Cent Without Getting Kick. Representative William E. Hull of Illinois brought up before the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday the all-absorbing question: Do Con- gressmen like beer? If so, why? Here is how Mr. Hull summed up the situation: First of all, he said, on a recent visit to Sweden he “drank four pints of 3.2 per cent beer and was in no way in- toxicated.” “The reason I did not drink six pints was because I could not hold any more,” he avowed. “You can laugh all you want to,” Hull broke in as the committeemen smiled, “but I know of no better test than to test' it yourself.” “If this beer is not intoxicating, what do they want to drink it for?” inquired Representative Doughton of North Carolina, “I don't know whether you were on the same party I was last Summer,” Hull said without naming the occasion, “but about 2,000 people were there. “Beer of 3 or 4 per cent was served at about 25 cents a glass and every Congressman there rushed up to the bar to drink it. “That's about the best reason I know why people like to drink beer. “It looks to me as though people want to drink it.” licensed system and the bootlegger un- der prohibition.” Levi Cooke of Washington and R. A. Huber of St. Louis, representatives of the United States Brewers' Associa- tion,- gave the House Committee yes- terday estimates that on a 40,000,000~ barrel consumption basis a $5 tax would net the Federal Treasury $200,000,000 an- nually; $360,000,000 would be spent to build up the breweries and that 360,~ 000 men would find employment. Yeast Bugs and Danderlions. The “chortling of yeast bugs” and the “pursuit of the festive dandelion™ were described to the committee yes- terday by Nathan B. Willlams. an at- torney with offices at 806 Fifteenth street. “Whom do you represent?” Williams, who lives at 3917 McKinley street, was asked by Chairman Collier. “Only myself,” Was the reply. Then, SET NEXT TUESDAY Chairman Jones to Introduce New Relief Bill in House on Monday. By the Associated Press. Determined to speed relief legislation, the House Agriculture Committee today | agreed to open hearings on the Demo- | crat farm-ald program next Tuesday with the intention of concluding them | the same week. | The bill toward which testimony is to be directed will be introduced by | Chairman Jones of Texas, probably | Monday, after a moming conference with leaders of the three major farm organizations—the Farm Bureau Fed- eration, National Grange and Farmers’ National Union. This meeting will be held in the office of Representative Rainey, the Democratic Jeader. The decision to ex, earliest possible date was reached at a committee meeting called by Jones to discuss procedure. Democrats and Re- publicans alike concurred in favoring action. Unless plans are changed, the Demo- cratic bill is expected to embody a form of the domestic allotment plan to_be administered by the Agriculture De- partment, not the Farm Board, The plan would be made effective for two or three years, taking the nature of emergency relief rather than a perma- nent program. President-elect Roosevelt's close ad- visers have been in conference with Jones during the framing of the bill. It is not expected to contain, however, the reforestation plans discussed by the Governor during the campaign ‘as a supplement to more direct relief measures. TEMPERANCE BOARD TO OPEN CAMPAIGN Seventh-Day Adventist Group Com- bats “Wet Propaganda” With Education Drive, Launching an attack on “wet props- ganda,” the American Temoenncemc::m- mission of the Seventh-Day Adventist denomination has decided on an ag- gressive educational campaign through- out the country in favor of “temperance and prohibition.” At a meeting in the Admmutnzlle Building of the General Conference bf the church in Takoma Park, the whole situation was reviewed yesterday and a committee of five members was appoint- ed to submit resolutions and recom- mendations in which every branch of the church will be enlisted. Rev. I H. Evans, vice president of the General Conference and chairman of the session, declared “we must make it as difficult as possible for advocates of aleoholic beve to secure to repeal of the eighteenth amendment.” Several speakers deplored the idea of the Government going into the whisky business, and sanctioning a traffic that can do nothing less than destroy hu- Otherwise’ Deacehu sndJaw-sbiding an Wl citizens.” . The committee appointed to submit ghm for further action that will even- ually call every member of the faith to co-operate was named as follows: Rev. Mr. Evans, Rev. H. T. Elliott, Rev. C. 8. Longacre, Rev. L. A. Hansen and Rev. F. D, Nichol. a brief pause, ed : "Y:& un‘;t stop nnure‘:l J.nl' of ;rt menf lon congression: aw. gentlemen hzve seen the festive dande- Hon t&l:l‘l\lfi on the Capitol grounds for purpose. “When Congress enacted prohibition, every yeast bug in the land chortled with glee and if you haven’t heard a yeast chortle, put your head next to a keg of working wine.” Scnatechenicruts, ystacday fibed xe. peal of the eighteenth amendment and odification high on their tive this seseion, started to Comniiee will previous »T nder e i STation . TP MR FARM AID HEARINGS i YRR A Federal Price Body and U. S. Purchases for Needy Asked at Parley. (Continued From Pirst Page.) farm products sold. This adjustment to be made by deduction from the swollen profits of the profiteers who stand between flelds and families.” Other planks in th> farmers’ platform call for a moratorium on farm debts and defeat of any legislaticn designed to curtail farm production as a means of eliminating surpluses. In their statement to Congr:ss the farmers announced their determination “to stop a ruthless pressurc from creditors who threaten to sweep us from our land and homes.” Protests Farm Eviction. The conference voted to send tele- graphic protests to Gov. La Follette and Senator La Follette of Wisconsin re- garding the reported eviction yesterday by machine-gun armed officers of a farm family in Wisconsin. One of the slogans of the convention is “No more farm evictions.” Reports were received concerning the plight of farmers in Washington, Illi- nols and Western Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania delegate advocated cut- ting in half of the number of govern mental employes in this country, to- s(z}e;‘k}cr vith a 30 Der, cent slash in ‘ernment salaries for ¥t the higher brackets. g Moratorium on Debts. To the accompaniment of thunderous applause, delegates to tife conference yesterday shouted demands for a mora- torium on agricultural debts as one way of easing their financial burdens. A long procession of speakers raised :{:eh' voicut;;l? undad their fists as hey urged ngress ac thel, e, act to relieve They faced a responsive audience. The various suggestions advanced by State leaders precipitated tumultuous cheering mingled with hand-clapping and stamping of feet. The focal point of ‘the addresses yes- terday was the farm debt moratorium, ther suggestions advanced called for higher prices for farm crops to pay at leu‘tmt:u ";o:qt, ;t ?roduction and a ban agal eviction of e farmers from A gloomy picture of the condition of agriculture was painted by speaker ;mn:n:ég wr‘:?d shouted that the st could n without ruin. Freve Sutimd Bread Line Looms. Keynoting _the addresses that fol- lowed, Fred Strong of Torrington, Wyo. declaimed that farmers in® his S¢ats were unable to pay their taxes, interest and mortgages and were being “closed down and turned out of their homes.” He added: “Farmers in ‘Wyoming do ot take kindly to bread lines, but une less something is done, we will find our~ selves going down the road looking for 8 soup line. This is true all over the country. Saying that it costs $1.25 to wheat in his State, he ldded.pr“;% can’t get the quarter, let alone the dol- Ia Discussing the condition of milk pro- ducers, Stephen Negoescu of Hunterdon for T prodacs it e S s Wl cos duce it. ey “If you could pay your taxes and meet your obligations, you would not be here today,” he decls 3 - Clad in a green sweater and a collar- less shirt and with his unruly hair tumbling down over his eyes, Edward C. Baumann of y, Minn., demanded a stop to evictions and a ‘right tolive in_our own homes." In the smal' convention hall, three banners faced the delegates which Jead- ers said the consensus of the gathering. They read: “No evicitions—no foreclosures.” “Moratorium on taxes and interest.” “City workers—We farmers want your goods. You want our food. Support our demands.” Nebraskan Made Chairman. At a night session Tony Rosenl of Newmans Grove, Nebr., was e! permanent chairman. The following were named vice chairmen: o Bentaley, Bevrvym “:-mhnd ong, n, 0., S Stafford, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., colored. A Resolutions Committee was elected, composed of Bentzley, Fred Chase, Washington, N. H.; James Flower, Wa~ dena, Minn.; Andy Oja, Geyser, Mont Paul Dale, Astoria, Oreg., and Jess T. Green, Tilden, Nebr. Describing herself as a “busted farm- er's mother and a busted farmer's wife,” Mrs, Myrtle Erewer of Ward County, N. Dak., pleaded for unity in romoting a relief program. Mrs, rewer was a leader in the farmers’ demonstations in her State and be- ilme known as the farmers’ “Joan of e “We have been sending our mis- leaders to Washington to lobby,” the gray-haired woman told a cheering audience, “but now we have come here to attend to our own business and we're golng to attend to it right.” Another woman, Mrs. Ella Chase of Sullivan County, N. H.. was applauded when she declared: “If the farmers don’t fight for themselves no one else is going to do it.” Grounded Freighter Abandoned. PORTLAND, Ore., December 8 (#).— Owners of the 410-foot East Coast freighter Sea Thrush announced yes- terday they had abandoned the steamer, aground south of the Columbia River entrance, and had turned over their interest to the Columbia River Salvage Co. The freighter went aground in & dense fog:Sunday. All persons aboard were removed calfely. November Circulation. Daily... 115,692 Sunday, 125,338 Disttict of Columbia. ss.: ING NEWBGLD. Business Marsssr of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY ST does solmenly swear that the actual number of coples of the paper named sold and dig~ tributed during the month of November. A.D, 1932, was as follows: s———- BRBES veras daily net paid circulation. L8607 Dafly “average number of copies Dot ‘service, eto.- e 1,085 Daily average net circulation.s, e 115,603 adjustments.. . ..., -