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WEATHER. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 No. 32,365. post _office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, ] D, . The WASHINGTON, D. C, - L3 bening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. #» Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 120,501 (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FRANCE T0 SET [P RESERVATIONS FOR FUTURE PAYMENTS England Also Considers De- mand for Better Terms on War Debts. INTERNATIONAL PARLEY TO BE SOUGHT BY PARIS Final Decision on Course of Action Will Not Be Made Until Monday. Boy, Bullet Victim, Hides Wound From Mother Three Days Cumberland Youth, 9, Is Shot by Brother in Accident. CUMBERLAND, Md, Decamber 10. —The Spartan youths of anc’®at Greece had nothing on 9-year-old John Fletcher, who carried a bullet imbedded in his chest near his heart for three days before telling his mother. The defense of a rat led to his wound as he step‘ped in front of the .32-caliber revolver of his 13-year-old brother Mar- shall, when the latter attempted to shoot the rodent Wednesday at the Fletcher farm on Polish Mountain, 13 miles east of here. The bullet entered John's chest and ricocheted off a rib away from the heart. An older brother, Walter, 20, was present, but none of them would say a word about it to their mother, who was working in Cumberland. John stood the burning pain in his GERMANY SEVERS " EQUALITY DEMAND . FROM PARIS PLEA Berlin Declares Reich Arms Having Nothing to Do With French Security. | VERSAILLES REVISION | IS PURPOSE OF POLICY Destruction of War Settlement Treaty Is Real Aim of Reich Arms Policy. BH,NO ! ALL SENATORS DONT WALK LIKE THAT- THEY'VE JUST BEEN MENTIONED IN CABINET SPECULATION! = | ”ml'fl'(mlll”‘m-t llfim GARNER FORECASTS BLOCK TRANSFERS Speaker Says Congress Is Against Taking Rivers and Harbors From Army. TWO GROUPS TO STUDY PLAN EARLY NEXT WEEK Expenditures and Economy Com- mittees to Meet on Hoover Proposals. | HOUSE ACTON T0 NEW WAGE SLASH LEFT OUT OF FUND BILL GIVEN HOUSE Treasury-P. 0. Measure Con- tains Furlough Provision of 1933 Act. REGARDED AS FIRST TEST OF HOOVER'S PROPOSAL Appropriation Committee Takes Stand Against Plan for 14.8 Per Cent Reduction. chest until last night when his brothers finally broke their silence and notified | BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. their mother. She asked assistance of | gy cable to The Star Speaker Garner told newspaper men | FPresident Hoover's recommendations today that opponents in Congress of | for & further cut of 11 per cent in Fed= By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 10.—A resolution i Making payment of the December in- stallment on the American debt condi- Allegany County officials, who brought the boy to Memorial Hospital here. The bullet was removed from his | BERLIN, Germany, December 10.— | Germany’s right to an equal armament $ional upon an assurance that the debt | chest. Although the boy’s condition was | status is an autonomous right and has structure will be reconsidered before the fext payment is due was drafted today considered serious, hn?ml physicians said they believe he will recover. Walter was afraid to notify their nothing to do with French security ex- cept in so far as equal disarmament a joint subcommittee of the Finance | mother, Mrs. Lillian Fletcher, until last | itself creates that security. So long as d Foreign Affairs Committee of the amber of Deputies. . It emphasizes the French contention t an international conference to set- -3 the entire debt Erobl&nt is gtcmcon unt importance if catastrop! - gueneu are to be avoided, particularly m the standpoint of money exchange. The resolution reaffirms the deter- nination of France to respect her obll- tions and the general adherence of sh country to the doctrine of arbitra- tion in all disputes. Want Conference. night, when the little brother’s condi- tion became alarming. Then she was telephoned. ‘The wounded lad goes to Flintstone itural High School, his home be- ing on Polish Mountain, on the Na- tional Highway, near that place. He said he wanted to go to school, but he had no way to get word to his teacher. ‘The mother notified Sheriff Hugh A. Hotchkiss and County Investigator Ter- rence A. Boyle, who brought the child to the hospital, where Dr. Grover C. Blake and Dr. Herbert V. Deming op- erated. ‘The boy said the revolver belonged to a man named “Lang,” who left it at the house and it had been used before in shooting at rats. ‘FRAMEUP ON 0. S ON DEBTS CHARGED icns French and English Agree- that - ment on Common Terms s Seen as Defeat for America. BY NEGLEY FARSON. 0 Tefrain from pass- -bed.fl.&m resolution nnm& have voted unanimously for yeservation. A majority of the Prench cabinet dmwmmmmm Persistent in French Kl gt egr =L gt e ‘Walter E. Edge, has been instructed to Inl’ormhh:neu The Chamber Forelgn Aflairs Com- |} fmittee voted overwhelmingly yesterday for a reservation that payment be made on the condition the United States agree to an international conference to liquidate the entire debt problem. The imber Finance Committee similarly against unconditional payment, but did not decide what reservation to . A common resolution was the of the joint meeting of the two ttees today. Note Received Yesterday. ‘The second ul:merienn xl\otde re&smz Buspension of the payment due Thurs- day was received yesterday. In official quarters it was said that the note con- tained constructive suggestions which | would be studied by the government | and by Parliament. “The American reply contains the possibilities of an agreement,” one offi- cial said. The Chamber Finanece and Foreign Aflairs Committees also heard a discus- sion of the debt question by the pre- mier and the finance minister yester- day. Subsequently they issued a joint ‘communique. “M. K;’“Hol recalled the conditions tnder which President Hoover was led # July, 1931, to ask for a moratorium ©of one year for the interallied debts, and he also referred to the communique ssued on the occasion of the trip made by M. Laval to Washington,” the state- t said. “M. Herriot also referred to the note Yrance sent to Washington in Novem- Per with the view of proposing a new examination of the debts, and Amer- By Cable to The Star. LONDON, December 10— ‘The United States has been presented with a European “frame-up” in Paris. That is, if PFrench Premier Edouard Herriot’s statement Thursday is true— that the British had promised not to any more favorable terms in the settlement than are offered to fhe French. ‘That it is true and that this arrogant stand a) certain _ reservations ||y The insisted that the pay the United States on December 15, on the ground that they did not want separate attitudes to upset the finan- cial and political equilibrium of Europe. Plan Common Front. In return, the British to take a common front with the French and refuse to accept better terms of debt settlement than the United States should offer France. and both should try to force the United States into holding a World Conference on War Debts, probably in Washington, after the new year opens. Moreover, both the British and French will send to the United States a new note, probably Monday, stipulating that the payments of their December install- ments must not be regarded as install- ments, but merely as advance payments on account of a new settlement, which must be found later on. That is the “lowdown” on the worst diplomatic defeat the United States has by_American observers here. It means nothing less, according to observers here, than that the United States is dramatically robbed of its power to make separate debt settle- ments with its debtors on the basis it itself decides is best. The United States is robbed, it is further pointed out. of any bargaining power for trading debt revision for tariff or trade agreements. The United States loses entirely the weapon of debt revision in its attempt to secure European disarmament. ica’s reply to this note, which was fol- ed by a second French note. M. rriot gave & brief summary of Wash- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) e WATCHMAN FOILS ROBBERY ATTEMPT Bank Employe Chloroformed and Pushed in Elevator Shaft. Bandits Flee. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 10.—An at- tempt to loot the vaults of the Central United National Bank’s West Twenty- fifth street branch was foiled early to- day when a watchman resisted two men carrying revolvers and who partly chloroformed him and then pushed him down an elevator shaft. ‘The watchman, Edward Clasen, 44, fell about 15 feet and suffered & broken wrist and possibly several fractured bs. Leaving him in the shaft, the Loses Diplomatic Face. ‘Worst of all, it is said, the United States loses diplomatic face and, there- fore, real prestige, with all it means, at the council tables throughout the world. An example of this is that the United States in the Far East will be damaged in its attempt to cope with the Japanese, and Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson’s Manchurian policy is now believed sunk without a trace. In the battle for world trade, the United States now realizes that it faces a solid bloc of European nations conference. The British and French foreign (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) suffered since the World War, it is said | at the forthcoming world economic | the French couple & new security plan with acceptance of the German equality claims, the German representatives will not be able to participate in the Dis- armament Conference. This is approximately the official German standpoint. To all who live here it is obvious that the Germans would not accept equality in armaments 1at the cost of the stabiiization of the European situation. Aimed Against Treaty. The chief aim of the German equal- ity claim is not merely the possession of an equally strong military force. It has little to do with the satisfaction of any moral claims of the German people. Equal armament is desired by the present German rulers primarily as a step to what is often called “total re- vision” of the treaty of Versailles. Any attempt to make it appear otherwise is camouflage. Already military circles state that the time has come for the Germans them- selves to admit this fact and thereby provoke world crystallization around the revision question, for or against. Program Well Defined. One of the three editors of the mili- tary weekly, Deutsche Wehr, the for- mer Rear Admiral Reinhart Gatow, writes in yesterday’s number: “European reconstruction must not prove possible under the Versailles e. For, should it succeed, then the peace treaty is justified, the new order has proved its worth and revision would be excluded and no one would second Germany's demand for it. “A preliminary condition for total treaty revision is that the Germans understand who are their enemies and what arc the weapons ““hereby they are being kept down .ud that they mnflestd th!lil' 'E‘E for revision and a new order in TOE. a8 Tt of clearly defined program.” % » (Copyright. 1932.) GENEVA TALKS RESUMED. Prime Minister Mac Donald Seeks German-French Compromise, GENEVA, Switzerland, December 10 in | ().—The five-power conversations on disarmament were resumed this after- noon with Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain trying to find a com- promise satisfactory to France and ‘Germany. The American delegation described the situation as “hazy” and declined to predict the outcome. IMMEDIATE FREEING OF PHILIPPINES URGED Senate Head Seeks Prompt Action or No Independence Legis- lation Whatever. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, December 10.—Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine | Senate, in a cable today to the inde- | pendence mission at Washington, in- | structed the mission to press for “im- mediate independence” or oppose any independence legislation whatever. | “Press for approval of immediate the message read. | dependence,” :!hls is impossible, let there be no bill.’ S RNy \INTERNATIONAL PARLEY AT MADRID ADJOURNS ‘Number of New Pacts for Regula- tion of Telegraph and Tele- phone Signed. By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 10.—The Inter- | national Telephone and Telegraphic | Communications Conference closed to- day with the signing of a number of new pacts for the regulation of the telegraph and telephone. The delegates expressed satisfaction | with the work accomplished. President Alcala Zamora, speaking for the Span- ish Republic, thanked the delegates. | ARE ANSWERED ! By the Associated Press. bbers fled. Clasen was heard groaning and try- NEW YORK, December 10.—Twenty- four billlon six hundred million labor . | questions are answered by one 400-page , | sclence book written by Theodore Hein- s their guns against him and “Show us to the vaults.” " He protested it was impossible to the vaults and added, “If you wmk‘g week you couldn't get them opened.” ‘The robbers grew , the watch- said, and, holding him in their , thrust a. bottle of chloroform his pose until he became semi- then pushed him down the Police searched the building and the mborhood. but found no other trace men. Badio Programs on Page A4 zerling, New York engineer. In addi- tlon it contains 24,000,000 facts. But guess again if you suspect this is & compendium of the world’s informa- tion. It's just some facts about a very small part of the world, the things that electriclans make. They happen, fur- thermore, to be union electricians. The book will tell how many hours work it will take an electrician to do any kind of an electrical job, from wir- ing & push button to installing & great motor. There are 24,000,000,000 of these Sebs—that is, of pleces of ] electrical work | International 24,600,000,000 LABOR QUESTIONS IN 400-PAGE BOOK And Compendium, Representing 12 Years’ Work, Deals With Electricians Only. differing from each other—not forget- ting the 600,000,000 additional. The book is for use of electrical con- tractors, bank presidents and college professors. It enables the contractors and bankers to figure accurately how many hours’ work any kind of an elec- trical job will require, information which hitherto has been guesswork and the cause of a lot of grief to those who had to estimate or to guarantee the costs of electrical work. The col- lege professors want it to teach young engineers how to figure the costs of a Job, Heinzerling worked 12 years to write this book. To obtain the magic fig- ures, he got the time charts of elec- trical work in_ 15,000 buildings under the mine, Co. LEGAL WINE ASKED FOR USE AT MEALS Appeal Made at Hearing by Spokesman of 25,000 Grape Growers. By the Associated Press. Legalization of naturally fermented wines, but only for use at meals, was advocated before the House Ways and Means Committee today by the Grape Growers League of California. The witness, Marion Devries of this city, insisted Congress has power to hold such wines non-intoxicating, and said “wine for use at meals will be sus- tained by the Supreme Court.” “Wine is not a saloon drink,” he de- clared. Representative Lea, California, Dem- ocrat, contending for wines slong with beer in the Collier bill, counseled the committee that, unless Congress repeals the eighteenth ainendment and modi- fles the Volstead act, “the storm that swept this country on November 8 will have been a mere zephyr.” “Are 25 per cent of the people going to defy the will of 75 per cent?” he asked, after advocating approval for naturally fermented wines. Consumption of wine before prohi- bition was 30,000,000 gallons a year, he said, which incre immediately to “more than 100,000,000 He called it a “stupid system” which “permits the making of wine in the home and denies it being made in a tific way at ries.” Other spokesmen for grape growers of New York, New Jersey and Ohio as well as California added their indorse- | ment to the Collier bill, which in its present form would legalize 2.75 beer and naturally fermented wines. On Monday and Tuesday representa- tives of dry organizations are to give testimony in opposition to the bill, Mills’ Appearance Delayed. Chairman Collier said “the Treasury is investigating the subject and will not be able to complete its investigation until Wednesday,” by way of explana- tion that Secretary Mills would not ap- pear today, as had been planned. Once the testimony is all in, the committee will go into executive session to decide whether to agree on a bill to recom- mend for early House action. De Vries began his testimony by say- ing he represented 25000 grape pro- ducers. Representative Treadway, ublican, of Massachusetts then asked if he was “ready to contend that naturally fer- mented wine is not intoxicating?” “I am ready to say that when wine is used with meals it is not intoxica- tion,” De Vries replied. “Wine is not a saloon drink. We are going to propose an amendment to the Collier bill to provide that consumption of wine be limited to use at meals.” He said the grape growers were not seeking to legalize all wines, but only those that are fermented naturally. Port and sherry and other fortified wines would not be included, he said. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 23 BODIES RECOVERED AFTER MINE BLAST Last of Victims of Kentucky Ex- plosion Believed Found in Work- ings Filled With Monoxide Gas. By the Associated Press. HARLAN, Ky, December 10.—Four more bodies were recovered from the depths of the Zero Mine at Yancey this morning, making a total of 23 known to have been killed yesterday as the result of an explosion. Rescue crew leaders sald they believed all the victims had been brought out. Ten of the dead had been recovered by midnight, and rescuers, with masks protecting them from the deadly carbon monoxide gas, continued their work during the early hours today. Investi- gation will continue today to determine the cause of the blast. All apparently died from the effects of the monoxide gas. J. S. Bryson, Safety Director of the Harlan Operators’ tion, said the expla'- sion probably followed & “windy blast, mine parlance for a charge of explosive which backfires instead of blasting the coal for which it is intended. When such a charge backfires, it sends a sheet of flame into the entry, igniting coal dust and causing a terrific exp! . ‘This is followed by Foot Ball Broadcast Ban Lifted by New South Conference By the Associated Press. GAINESVILLE, Fla., December 10.—Announcement was made at the University of Florida today that the newly formed South- eastern Conference had decided to lift a ban on radio broadcast- ing of foot ball games. Members will be permitted to l'undflle the broadcasting as they see fit. WOMAN IDENTIFIES LAYING SUSPECT Declares James Guy Is Man She Saw Before Wan- derwell Murder. By the Associated Press. LONG EEACH, Calif., December 10. —Detectives announced today a new link had been forged in the chain of circumstantial evidence by which they hope to connect William James (Cur- ley) Guy, 24-year-old Britisher, with the slaying of Capt. Walter Wanderwell. In the presence of police, Miss Marion Smith of Rockmart, Ga., positively identified Guy as “the mysterious | stranger in gray,” who had boarded the yacht Carma last Monday night and inquired for Wanderwell a few minutes before the body of Wanderwell was| found in one of the darkened cabins | of the ship. | “I'm positive—he's the man!” ex-| claimed Miss Smith as Guy faced her. She then collapsed. Seek Murder Complaint. Detectives said Miss Smith's identi- fication led them today to seek a mur- der complaint from the district attor- ney’s office. Such a complaint was re- fused yesterday by Deputy Clarence Hunt, who said there was insufficient evidence to bring Guy td trial. In explaining her identification, Miss Smith said she had two chances to ob- serve the man who came aboard the Carma as the craft was on the eve of its departure on a contemplated world cruise. Miss Smith was one of the adventurers recruited by Wanderwell to make the voyage. “When the stranger came aboard the boat I saw him the first time as he halted momentarily at the doorway,” she said. “He was going by on his way to the porthole, from where he inquired for Wanderwell. I had a good look at him at that time. A moment later I had another look at him when his face appeared at the porthole to the dining room. I am positive the man I saw is the man here.” Further Identified. Cuthbert Wills, chief engineer of the 110-foot yacht, also said he was cer- tain Guy was the man who had visited the Carma Monday night. Three other members of the crew said they were “almost positive” Guy was the man they saw aboard the ship. A coroner’s jury yesterday decided ‘Wanderwell had been slain by “gun- shot wounds inflicted by an unknown person on the ship, Carma, docked at Long Beach.” The verdict added that “From the evidence produced we find the killing to have been with homi- | cidal intent and we recommend further | investigation.” Guy reiterated he was at the home of (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. WADSWORTH HOME BURNS Century-Old Estate of Represent- | ative-Elect Destroyed by Fire. GENESEO, N. Y., December 10 (#).— Hampton, the century-old home of Representative-elect James W. Wads- worth, was destroyed by fire of unde- termined origin at 4:30 o'clock this morning. The loss was estimated at ormer United States Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth were not at home and only servants were in the place. ENVOY TO U. S. NAMED Poland Transfers Stanislas Patek From Moscow Post. WARSAW, Poland. December 10 (#). —Stanislas Patek, Polish minister at Moscow, has been appointed Ambas- n white men and ten colored men were believed in the entry at the time. The explosion occurred a mile and & half from the entrance of the , an operation of the Harlan Fuel spread of “black damp.” ‘Thirtee at Yancey, sador to the United States, it was an- nounced today. He will be succeeded present o o A e : was rumored that Tytus Filipowicz, Am- bassador to the United States, would become Ambassador to Japan. [ ANTH-SALOON OPENS NEW NATIONAL WAR Widespread Campaign of Education Mapped Out by Leaders Here. With the battle cry, “We have just begun to fight,” the Anti-Saloon League of America, in special conven- | tion here, has launched a “new war” | against the “poisonous - intoxicating liquor traffic.” Detailed plans are being worked out behind closed doors of executive con- ferences of leaders at the Raleigh Ho- tel, from which the whole program soon will be announced. Preliminary indications point to a Nation-wide edu- cational program for organizing youth, a campaign reaching into every voting precinct, to report back to constituen- cles the action of every member of Congress, and the probable use, not only of the huge printing plant of the league at Westerville, Ohic, with its capacity of 10 tons of literature a day, but such new agencies as the radio and the talking pictures. Religion and prayer are to role. Plans for the “battle” were further considered at a morning conference of leaders at the hotel. Weather ting, a ‘“constitutional caravan” was coln Memorial, Arlington House, the former home of Robert E. Lee; the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the statue of John Paul Jones. Tonight at Calvary Baptist Church, H and Eighth streets, at 7:30 o'clock a patriotic rally is scheduled, with the | speakers including Dr. Ernest H. Char- rington, director of the department of education, publicity and research of the league; Sergt. Alvin C. York, World War hero, of Jamestown, Tenn, and Whiting Williams of Cleveland. Representatives of the league will oc- cupy pulpits of 22 churches of the city tomorrow morning and evening, while the outstanding feature of the day is a rally at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets, at 2:30 o’clock. Speakers include Representative C. Ellis Moore of Ohio, Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and Dr. Howard Hyde Russell of Westerville, Ohlo, founder of the league. Sounds Battle Cry. ‘The conventon will run through Mon- dt!y‘vl closing with a banquet Monday night. The new battle cry of the league was sounded last night by Dr. F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the league, at a rally at the First Con- gregational Church, where he attacked the wets with fervor and shouted to the audience, “This is no time to beat a retreat. This is no time to temperize with the liquor trafic. ‘This is the time to stand up and fight.” Pulling from his lapel the new campaign but- | ton, he called out the new slogan as he read it to the assemblage, “We have just begun to fight!” Dr. McBride declared flatly: “We hol. In defense of this position we will fight the battlé out if it takes a whole century.” “No workable substitute has yet been proposed. What the wets want is re- peal. That will give them a liquor traffic and the saloon.” Ridiculing dry members of Congress who voted for the repeal resolution re- cently, Dr. McBride declared that they thereby “vote to make re] ble. some of President Hoover’s regrouping of Government agencies “probably will get through some action” to stop re- organizations they object to. Garner said “the sentiment of Con- gress is against” transfer of rivers and harbors work from the War Depart- ment to the Interior Department, as proposed yesterday by the President. For 10 years, he said, Congress has Tefused to let this work be taken away from the Army Engineers, but, he ob- served: “Of course, every time before the transfer has required congressional ac- tion. This time the situation is differ- ent—if Congress does nothing, the transfer becomes effective. It must act to stop it.” Either House May Act. House parliamentarians have held that any phase of the regrouping ordered by President Hoover can be stopped by a simple resolution agreed to by a majority of either House or Senate, and that joint action is not needed. ‘With action on the President’s plan due early next week before the House Committee on Expenditures and the Senate Economy Committee, there was arising on Capitol Hill, par- ticularly on the House side, considerable opposition to some of the proposals. Chairman Cochran of the House Expenditures Committee, which will meet Tuesday, announced that his group would begin study of the President’s message immediately. He said his committee would insist upon knowing how much savings in the cost of Government could be effected by carying out the reorganization posals. B Bureau Heads Summoned. The heads of all of the Government bureaus affected by the President's re- organization plan will be called before the Special Senate Economy Committee to give their views, it was announced by not been fixed, but Senator Bingham called & meeting for Monday to confer with Treasury officials on one phase of reorganization which has been proposed by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, to combine the disbursing agencies of the Government. The Utah Senator has planned for this afternoon to the Lin- | yived director of veterans’ affairs, to the consolidation of Senator Bingham said the confer- ences dealing with the President’s plan will not start until the Economy Com- mittee has of the proposed ¢l in the economy law affecting working conditions throughout the Gov- ernment service, on W hea: were held earlier in the week. These questions include the future of the fur- lough plan and the proposed additional percentage cut, bans on promotions and filling vacancies as well as other pro- visions of the law regarded by em- ployes as inequitable. Will Require Study. Commenting individually on the Pres- ident’s reorganization plan, Senator Bingham described it as the “most revo- lutionary reorganization scheme that could be imagined” and one that will require months of careful study because it "affects countless acts of Congress establishing various agencies. Senator Bingham said that in general he favors reorganization where the sav- ing might not diminish efficiency, “but & casual examination of some of the recommendations leads me to doubt ‘whether the gain wflldegull the losses.” Commenting on roposal to abolish the Board of 'Prufwes of the National Training School for Boys with a transfer of its duties to the District of Columbia Board of Public Welfare, Senator Bingham said this would tend to place the expense of this institution on the District. Some House members were reported preparing to organize powerful blocs to prevent the shifting of 58 Federal agencies and the elimination of 15 TS, are for no surrender to a traffic in alco- | the Senate Less Critical. In the Senate there was less criti- cism, and both Democratic and Repub- lican leaders thought the changes would become automatically effective within 60 days—as the law provides—without opposition from that branch of Congress There was particular objection in the House to the proposal that the rivers | and harbors and flood control work be " (Continued on Page 2, (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) Over ‘The story of the recent purchase by the Post Office Department of two ex- pensive automobiles because Postmaster General Brown could not wear his top hat in the first one was disclosed today when the department’s 1933 appropria- tlon bill was reported to Congress. The reasons leading to the purchase of the two cars, which had been the subject of some criticism, were set forth by Mr. Brown at & hearing last month before the House Subcommittee on Ap- propriations. The criticism was di- rected toward the purchase of an ex- pensive carfor general utility purposes in the department. Mr. Brown first pointed out that he been using for offical purposes & purchased in 1928, which had worn with constant driving. Eight old COSTLY CAR DIDN’T FIT TOP HAT, SO BROWN PURCHASES ANOTHER Hearing on Appropriation Bill Discloses Controversy | Size. cars, which had been used for many years by minor departmental officials and $1,700 of the 1932 appropriations were available for the replacement of this machine. A dealer was found who agreed to accept the old cars and the $1,700 as payment for a new car. “When I looked at this car, however, I found it was too small for practicable use on formal occasions,” Mr. Brown explained to the subcommittee. “I found that a man of my height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car. The occupant would have to keep his hat in his hand because there was not clearance enough. We were greatly dis- | turbed about that. Furthermore, the car was too small in other require- ments for formal use; so that, in a situation like that, we did not know Jjust what to do.” The 1 tion bill, he (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.), | eral salaries above and exemption of $1,000 which would bring the total sal- ary reduction to 148 per cent is not contained in the Treasury-Post Office bill reported to the House today. The committee continues the furlough sec- tion of the economy act of 1933. The bill recommends appropriations for the fiscal year 1934 of $244,388,219 for the Treasury Department, which is a decrease of $105,924,989 on the cur- rent and a decrease of $25,817,521 under the budget estimate, and for the Post Office Department, $717,033,378, a de- crease of $88906,297, and a decrease of $7,094,789 under the budget estimate. This makes a total for the two depart- ments in the bill reported of $961,416,- 597, a decrease of $194,831,236 under current appropriations and & decrease of $32912304 under budget estimates !orhg:u:eplnmenu. C! Byrns had previously stated the policy to be followed in all of the appropriation bills providing aries for Government employes would follow the pnncl%l:e in the Treasury: today to whether the President’s rec tion for further slashing would be fol- lowed, and the decision of the Appro= priation Committee is against Mr. Hoover’s recommendation. $98,813,328 Aggregate Saving. ‘The report of Chairman Byrns to the House shows that operation of sec- tions of the economy act, passed by the last l:wlon. on which the salary posa! ing of continuance of ‘vision. decrease for public lowance for mittee’s report showed ,000. This $149,000,000 slash, the commite tee said, was made possible by non-re- such as the curring - appr 3 $100,000,000 in the construction act. For struction urmnm the committee $50,000,000 instead iaw, pri ing public debt. The allowance for sinking fund against the debt rises fr $426,489,000 this year to $439,658, for the next year. Interest on the lic debt increases from $640.000, 1p: rings | the 1933 fiscal year to $725,000, 1934. Money for Other Projects. ects not included in either the relief or regular programs — namely, $1,300,000 for continued construction of nar- cotic farm at Lexington, Ky.; $600,000 for continuation of the extension of the Washington, D. C., Post Office, $400,000 for the National Institute of Health Building, also in the Capital. The Federal Farm Loan Bureau also would be reduced from the $950,000 it got this year and the $935,000 the get Bureau asked to an even $900,000. Some of the other allowances recom= | mended: Customs Service, $19,900,000, against | 822,000,000 this year; Internal Revenue (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) GERMAN FINANCES SEEM ON UPGRADE Nervousness Vanishing, but Ru- mored Talk of New Loans Is Discounted. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, December 10.— The comparative stabilization of Ger- man finances is unquestionably causing | abatement of the world-wide nervous- ness that prevailed from the time of the bank crash in the Summer of 1931 to the reparation agreement in the Summer. of 1932. But temporarily there can be no talk of fresh loans to Germany, as has been rumored. ‘The maximum wnllc’:: = be said u’: that foreigners are showing a wfllmgnes‘s8 to leave their funds fiu'.hll country—which they have already lent, especially as, on the German side, there is a growing feeling that the clause in the stand-still agreement allowing creditors to receive marks for loans made in foreign exchange and invest them in Germany may be further ex- tended to the creditor’s benefit. A real surprise to mere bookki is, however, the fact that the posif of the Reichsbank’s gold and exchange reserve has remained virtually con- stant for some months to a degree which the sharp shrinkage in export surplus cannot account for. b33 l!l.!hn‘o!.lble that two great which have been preoccus are still undecided. whether state capitalism will be further extended to the detriment of vate business, or whether the state dis- gorge some. of its many holdings and, by curbing , restore some- thing of capitalistic flexibility. The second problem is whether the manufacturing or “';mnm a‘;' Germany are paramoun ‘This means W] the country is going to try to sustain its export trade or increase its economic self-sufficiency. Unfil a solution to these problems becomes cleni. no Inuem:t of the German credit position can be anything but an error in