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he WASHINGTON, D. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Snow or rain today; tomorrow, cloudy, followed by rain or snow; not much cha in rature; moderate and northeast winds. ¢ Highest, 36, at 3 a.m. yes 26, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 9. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star's exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. wnd iy Stae, NG, DECEMBER 11, (#) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS | TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Entered as second class matte; post office, Washington, D. C. C., SUNDAY MOR 1932.—102 PAGES. No. 1,447—No. 32,366, 4 NAVAL REDUCTIONS PLAN GIVEN ARMS PARLEY BY JAPAN Not Yet a Menace, Home- less Youth Is Still So- cial-Minded. Revision of Tonnage Ratios in Respect to U. S. and England Asked. [TOKIO WOULD IMPROVE ITS RELATIVE POSITION 10—10—8.7 Scale Is Proposed. Formula to Balance Germany's Equality Demand Accepted. By the Associated Press. *-GENEVA, December 10.—Naval re- @uction proposals which provide for re- vision of the existing tonnage ratios in respect to the United States and Great "Sritain and would improve the relative position of Japan, were submitted to the Disarmament Conference today by $he Japanese government. Asserting that any new limitation eement should mean greater sacri- fices for larger navies than for smaller ones, the Japanese presented concretz reduction suggestions which woul make the ratio 10—10—8.7 in total t 1 nage instead of the existing 5—5—3. The number of units would be on a basis of 11—11—8. German Demands Met. . 'The United States, France and Great Britain tonight accepted Premier Her- riot's formula which balances Germany's demand for equality in arms with the French demand for security, as a basis for Germany's return to the Disarma- ment Conference. The formula opens with a declaration by France, Britain, Germany and Italy not to resort to force. The United States as a non- member of the League of ‘Naticns does | mot subscribe to this declaration, but the American delegation said it approves of it. The Americans said they believed the formula reprecented a genuine determi- nation to patch up the situation created when Germany withdrew from the con- ference over the equality of arms ques- tion. _ The formula wiil be put in definite form at a meeting tomorrow. Restrictions Proposed. The Japanese concrete reduction pro- apply to all classes of vessels. it tonnages would be restricted as fol- Jows: Capital ships to 25,000 tons, class cruisers 000, class B cruisers to 3 to 1,500, and sub- marines to 1,800. Gun caliber in each respective class would be 14 inches, 8 inches, 6.1 inches, and 5.1 inches for and submarines. Jolfnnue plan, the capital the United States and would be limited to 275,000. 's corresponding limit would be France and Italy would have a maxi- mum tonunage of 150,000, with the num- ber of units not determined. In class A cruisers, the United States and Britain each would have 96,000 tons and 12 units; Japan, 80,000 tons and 10 units, and France and Italy, $6,000 tons and 7 units. The maximum tonnages for class B feruisers, destroyers and submarines for all five powers would be applied uni- formly, the cruisers 150,000 tons, the yers 150,000 and submarines 95,000 ( Defensive Arms Stand Approved. " The Tokio scheme approved the prin- of increasing the relative strength defensive arms, which the Disarma- ent Conference has accepted. It em- led both quantitative and qualitative Risarmament ideas. ‘The Japanese memorandum implied that the general conference was too large and unwieldy to bring about !he’ desired agreements and therefore prior | negotiations by the large naval powers | Were necessary. Questions of general interest should be covered by general sgreements, the Japanese bid, and special problems should be embodied in special agree- ments. “For the purpose of these special mgreements,” the plan said, “the world shall be divided broadly into Pacific, Atlantic, European and South Ameri- can groups, and the limitation and re- duction of tonnages to be actually re- tained by a country shall be agreed upon between that country and other countries of the same group on the basis of provisions embodied in the general agreements,” National Security Considered. Asking larger sacrifices from the| Jarger naval powers, the proposals went on to say: i “To apply the same percentage of re- | duction to l2rge and small navies alike | would naturally impair the sense of na- tional security of countries with lesser navies, and this sense of security will diminish as the measure of reduction is dncreased. “It is absolutely necessary, therefore, that in effecting reduction in the ton- nage of vessels possessing a higher de- gree of relativity as between the powers, such as capital ships and class A cruisers, the above co! ation of na- n Page mn 4) BILL ASKS CANCELING | i Slow, Cumbersome and Easy Tar- gets for Airplanes, Declares McClintic. .!cl::Auoehthr s. ling them “float: raveyards.,” Represcitative MoChntic, of OFTahoma yesterday introduced a bill to decom- mission all of the 15 battleships in the United States Fleet. McClintic is the ranking Democrat on the House Naval Committee and a proponent of the flying deck cruiser Previously authorized by his group. “No fleet can travel any faster than its slowest ship,” McClintic said. “Our battleships are slow, cumbersome and easy targets for airplanes. If we want to economize on Federal expenditures we should decommission the battleships and build fast flying deck cruisers,” McClintic said the battleship was %“an obsolete” arm of war and added that “during the war we put most of them in the James River so they would not. hurt.” By decommissioning the , he said 16,000 officers and men ‘would be released for other duty. prnmh.e: Xw po!“t ‘upeflll oo has appoint a s, com- mittee to consider my bill,” McClintic FEW ARE ILLITERATE Association With Young Travelers Shows Most Are of Fine Type. Thousands of boys, homeless. atmless, unable to get work, a product and prob- lem of back and forth across the continent. traveling and living in any nondescripi wey thet offers. An observant writer was sssigned 0 share the life of these BY DANIEL ROBERT MAUE. From coast to coast I have gone ob- | serving and listening to the transient | American youth in his unceasing, aim- less roving, from town to town, from State to State, from ocean to ocean and back again, living off the land, from charity infrequently, by begging. For he can get no work. In his steadily increasing numbers, mounting alarmingly high into the thousands, homeless, purposeless, he is a product of these times which have | upset a whole world. He is perplexedly new to the Nation. His significance is only now becoming apparent. This migratory youth has been much WANDERING AMERICAN BOY PRESENTS NEW PROBLEM I | these crucial times, are shuttling | DANIEL ROBERT MAUE, | Graduate of Columbia and holder of the Pulitzer Travel Fellowship in 1925- 26, who wrote this series of articles after crossing and recrossing the conti- nent by flivver, by freight, and various other forms of transportation, living with homeless, wandering American boys. discussed, in the mass, as one of the chief problems of the present period of universal economic stress, but he has not been understood as an individual. He has been seen only from the out- side. Traveling for the greater part of the " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) OFFCALOFRF.C. COMMT SUEDE Philip W. White, Absent From| Post Here a Month, Is Found in Denver. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, December 10.— Missing since Thursday, Philip W. White, 31, an official of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, was found slain in a room in a downtown hotel tonight. Authorities sald the Denver and ‘Washington attorney apparently had killed himself some time Friday night. A note explaining his identity and ask- ing that H. N. Cring of Denver be no- tified, was found on a table near the body. A fountain pen, penknife, glasses, business cards and $32.25 were arranged neatly on the table. ‘White had been missing since 2 p.m. Thursday. Investigating officers were told he carried no luggage to the hotel, but paid two days’ rent in advance. He left shortly after registering and did not spend Thursday night at the hotel. He was not seen there again until Friday. ‘White was appointed counsel for the Self-Liquidation Loan Department of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation last June. Prior to that he was asso- ciated with a New York law firm. He was graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1924. R. F. C. OFFICIALS SHOCKED. SNOW, SLEET, RAIN T0 CONTINUE TODAY Winter Weather Sends Home- less to Missions and Im- pedes Traffic. Sleet, snow and rain continued to beat down upon Washington last night as the first storm of Winter sent the thermometer below freezing, packed the city's refuge missions with homeless men, tied up trafic and caused a series of automobile accidents result- ing in injury to about a score of per- sons. Sheathed in a blanket of ice-en- crusted snow, the Capital was prom- ised little relief from the severe weather today. Weather Bureau officials pre- dicted the temperature would hover about the 27 degree mark which seemed to be its favorite level Saturday, and forecast snow or rain from the over- cast skies. Charities Taxed. The Salvation Army reported last night it had housed the greatest num- ber of emergency weather refugees ever recorded in its local history—250 col- ored and 350 white, and every charitable facility of the city was similarly taxed. Ice and snow freezing on automo- bile windshields accounted directly for one traffic mishap.last night, and in general slowed up transportation and caused noticeably light Saturday night traffic on the streets and highways. At the offices of the American Auto- mobile Association here, it was stated at midnight that there had been a total of 385 calls for aid received during that 16 hours beginning at 8 am. Philip W. White Had Been on Sick | Leave a Month. { Officials of the R. F. C. were shocked last night to learn of the death of Philip W. White, an attorney in the | self-liquidating project division. Harvey C. Couch, member of the board of directors, under whose super- | vision White was employed, said the at- | torney had been on sick leave for about | a month, owing to a nervous breakdown | attributed to overwork. Mr. Couch said | Mr. White informed associates he in- | tended to rest up at his mother's home in Denver. Mr. Couch said several letters had been received from the attorney since his departure, but there was nothing in them to indicate any intention of end- ing his life. Mr. White had been employed by the | corporation since last September and | had proved an efficient worker, Mr. Couch said. The pressure of business involved in checking legal phases of the flood of applications for self-liqui- dating loans had kept Mr. White and other employes et their dcsks day and I night for weeks, it was explained. The strain proved too great for the attorney, and he was granted indefinite leave in | which to recover his healith. | He was unmarried and lived at Ward- | man Park Hotel. | yesterday. Four persons were injured in a col- lision in Alexandria, Va., which occurred when Lyle O. Williams, 21, of 2026 P street, Washington, stopped his car to clean the windshield and the automo- bile of James W. Keetin, 22, of Rich- mond, Va. crashed into the rear of the parked car, according to a police report. Williams and his wife, who was riding in the car with him, were | cut and bruised, as were Keeton and Miss L. M. Burruss of Richmond, a passenger in his machine. All were treated at Alexandria Hospital. Two Women Injured. Two young women were slightly hurt early last evening when automobiles operated by Willlam E. Jarvis, 100 block G street southeast, and Isabel M. Allen, of the 1500 block East Capitol street, crashed at Sixth street and North Carolina avenue southeast. The injured were Miss Virginia Woodyard, 19, of 605 North Carolina avenue southeast, who was treated at Casualty Hospital for contusions and a possible fractured vertebra, and Miss Lillian Woodyard, 23, of the same address, who refused hospital treatment. Both girls were passengers in Jarvis' car. In Bethesda, Md, Charles L. Glover, 29, of 221 Del Ray avenue, escaped serious injury when the automobile he (Continued on Page 2, Column 6. FISH IS FROZEN STIFF 40 MINUTES AT 15 BELOW ZERO AND IS REVIVED Russian Biologist Achieves State of Suspended Anima- 15U.8S. BATTLESH"’S, tion With Alaskan Species—Practical Value Seen. — [ By the Assoclated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, December 10.— Dr. N. A. Borodin, eminent Russian biologist now experimenting at Harvard University, today took an Alaskan blackfish, frozen as stiff as shoe leather, out of a specially constructed electric refrigerator and dropped it into a jar of water. Within less than two minutes the fish twitched and, in a few more minutes, was threshing briskly about. The fish had been, to all appearances, dead—frozen into rigidity for 40 min- utes in a temperature of 15 degrees below zero, centigrade. a slight paleness around thz gills as a mark of its experience. The biologist explaincd that this state of suspended animation, was known as anabiosis. Dr. Borodin was somewhat reluctant the discuss the eventual significance of his experiments, but conceded that some day tB:y might have some “practical” use, such as freezing live sturgeon at the Volga and revivifying them for sale alive in the inland cities of America. “But what is death?” replied the a question. “My experi- ments with fish and insects in anablotic state have I?u‘:ed meh.w be the more puzzled. , perhaps, & question for the physiologists, but my L) Yet there it |t was now very much alive with only | the | versity of Petrograd, | experiments open numerous fields for investigation.” The lower the temperature the less time the fish can remain in the freezing plant and come back to life. And the temperature and time vary greatly with the species. The carp, for example, is tougher than the goldfish, but the horn- pout, popularly known as bullhead, is more robust, from the point of view of Dr. Borodin's experiments, than either. However, the Alaskan blackfish is the | most hardy of all. The experiments do | not succeed with warm-blooded crea- ures. | The blackfish with which Dr. Borodin | conducted his experiment today was | taken from a tenk, wrapped, squirming, {in gauze and placed in the cold, dry air of an electric refrigerator. The | needles of a potentiometer, the instru- | ments by which the actual temperatures of the creature's body can be observed outside the refrigerator, were placed in the tissues of the back and the freezing process began. ‘The blackfish is used extensively by the Indians of Alaska as food for them- selves and their d“?" Dr. Borodin was formerly of the Uni- in imperial Rus- sia, and is now curator of fishes at the Muszeum of cnmg-nme Zoology at Harvard, founded by Louis Agassiz. THREE COMMITTEES IN'HOUSE TO FIGHT " REDREANNG L Rivers and Harbors Work Transfer to Be Point of Attack. SPEAKER GARNER BACKS OPPOSITION TO PROGRAM Resolution in Either Upper or Low- er Chamber Is Sufficient to Halt Threatened Changes. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Supported by Speaker Garner, three House committees prepared yesterday to block the President’s plan to reor- ganize Government activities by attack- ing his proposal to transfer rivers and harbors improvements from the Army Engineering Department to the new division of public works in the Interior Department. These were the Commit- tee on Expenditures, the Rivers and Harbors Committee and the Flood Con- trol Committee. The Speaker is sup- porting this opposition. In order to get an O. K. from the House Committee on Expenditures, which meets Tuesday to consider the reorganization proposals, the President must show some important economy, in the opinion of Chariman Cochran. On the other hand, there was con- siderable support shown yesterday for the proposal of Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations Committee to con- solidate the War and Navy Depart- ments. This was not a part of the President's proposals. Many House members are preparing to introduce resolutions to prevent the shifting of some of the agencies in- cluded in the President’s plan of re- grouping. “Sentiment Is Opposed.” “The sentiment of Congress,” Mr. Garner said, “is against transferring rivers and harbors work and flood con- trol work from the War Department to the Interior Department, as President Hoover proposes.” He pointed out that for more than 10 years Congress has stubbornly re- pulsed every effort to take the rivers and harbors work away from the War Department. Heretofore Copgress would have had to act to make change, while now Congress must say “It shall not be done” to Pprevent sucn action. Chairman Mansfield (Democrat, of Texas) of the Rivers and Harbors Committee expressed his conviction that his committee would “do some- thing about rivers and harbors and to prevent it becoming a foot ball for cabinet members.” Representative Wilson, Democrat, of Louisiana, chair- man of the Flood Control Committee, also said he was ready to call his com- :nm,ee into conference to act as “shock .TOoOops.” Single Resolution Needed. Speaker Garner, speak enerall; of the President’s pmgra’;r: sgnld Lhn{ opponents of some of the major pro- posals “probably will get together” and take some prohibitive action. He ex- muned that adoption of a resolution either House or Senate will be suffi- clent to frustrate the President's reorganizations. Chairman Cochran of the Expendi- ture Committee, who has called his committee to meet Tuesday, says: ‘The President’s message finally brings to the Congress his definite ideas on reorganization of Government agen- cles. Heretofore his recommendations have been general, not specific. “Individual groups, interested in the administration of certain laws, will im- mediately protest. “Had such a message been sent to the Congress two years ago it would Dot have received the support of the President’s cabinet and other appoint- ees. As they will leave office beginning March 4, they will now commend the President’s suggestions. They opposed (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—26 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page C-3. PART TWO—S8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 4. News of the Clubs—Page 4. District National Guard—Page 4. Stamps—Page 5. American Legion—Page 5. American Legion Auxiliary—Page 5. Jewish Veterans—Page 5. Gold Star Mothers—Page 5. Disabled American Veterans—Page 5. D. A. R. Activities—Page 5. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 7. Army and Navy News—Page 7. W. C. T. U. News—Page 8. Y. M. C. A. News—Page 8. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 8. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Soclety. PART FOUR—6 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music. In the Motor World—Page 4. Spanish War Veterans—Page 4. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 4. Public Library News—Page 4. Aviation—Page 4. Radio News—Page 5. Community Centers—Page 6. Organized Reserves—Page 6. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. and Sports. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Financial and Classified Advertising. Fraternities—Page 12. Serial Story, “A Path to Paradise”— Page 12. PART SEVEN—I16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 13. Boys’ and Girls’ Page—Page 14. Highlights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—S8 PAGES. Holly of Hollywood; Keeping Up With tg'a Joneses; Mutt and Jeff; m Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; The Soul: Little Annie; Moon Mullins; Tu'-n.g Two DISTINGUISHED | CLUB GUESTS YaH Yau, Yan'! You BoYs ARE HORSEMEN. T OF THE AVALANCHE. )‘ THEY NEED ME T BALANCE THER BUpGET DRY MOBILIZATION PARLEY 15 CALLED Leaders to Gather Here in February to Defeat Re- peal and Beer. ‘To mobilize the dry strength of the country for “defeat” of the wet move- ments on repeal and modification, the Anti-Saloon League of America late yesterday decided to initiate the call for a “great Nation-wide conference” of dry organizations to meet here in Washington February 14 to 16. ‘The league will ask the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, church |and temperance and social service boards and commissions to join with the league in this call. On account of the interlocking directorates of many of the dry organizations, with most of them represented in some way on the league, it was predicted, therefore, that a joint call in the name of the princi- pal dry organizations would go forward within a few days. Proposed by Dr. Barton. The resolution to initiate the invi- tation for the conference was presented by Dr. A. J. Barton of Wilmington, N. C,, chairman of the executive com- mittee of the league and president of the National Conference of Organiza- tions Supporting the Eighteenth Amendment. The resolution adopted sald the Peburary meeting would be de- signed to “call out and mobilize the | dry sentiment of America, and to de- feat the movement for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the modifi- cation of the Volstead law, and other- | Wise to promote the cause of prohibi- tion. Invitations to participate will be sent to churches, church and temperance bodies, social service and civic clubs, and other mas mlsympathy with the urposes of the conference. e Executive Committee of the league has been charged with respon- sibility of perfecting all plans and de- tails for calling the February con- ference. Today Is “Field Day.” Today is designed as “Field day” by the lengue‘ for‘xonfflclsls and leaders of the organization attending the confer- ence to appear in 22 churches, some at the morning service, others during the evening, at the regular church service hours. A union_citizens’ rally is scheduled for this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets, which is planned to be one of the largest attended gather- ings of the conference. Representative C. Ellis Moore of Ohio, and Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, will deliver the addresses, while the convention sermon will be given by Dr. Howard Hyde Russell of Wester- ville, Ohio, founder of the league, from the subject, “Sobriety’s Second War.” Dr. R. A. Hutchison of Pittsburgh will preside and Dr. A. A. Stockdale, pastor of First Congregational Church, will offer the invocation. There will be music by the Washington White Rib- bon Quartet. End Convention Tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the closing day of the convention, with an executive ses- sion of the superintendents’ and work- ers’ conference during the morning at the Raleigh Hotel, a mass meeting at the First Congregational Church at 2:30 pm., and the convention ban- quet tomorrow night at the hotel, be- ginning at 6:30. Speakers tomorrow afternoon will in- clude Fred B. Perkins of Rhode Island; Dr. Clarence True Wilson, executive secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals; Edward B. Dunford, attorney, Anti-Saloon League, and Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. | Deer Cost Hunters $89.80 Per Animal In Minnesota Woods i By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn, December 10.—Deer came rather high for Minnesota hunters during the re- cent season; in fact, to about $89.80 per animal. That was an estimate today as W. D. Stewart, State game and fish commissioner, announced 71- 840 persons went into the North woods and 40,000 came back with deer. The average srent by the hunters during the 11-day period “was placed at $50. TROANS TRUNPY | *OVERNOTREDANE {Score in Second and Third| Periods in 13-to-0 Tilt. 100,000 See Game. BY BRIAN BELL, Associated Press Staff Writer. MEMORIAL COLISEUM, LOS AN- GELES, December 10.—Southern Cali- fornia outplayed Notre Dame fo threz periods and outsmarted the visitors all the way today to win the annual foot ball battle between the Trojans and Ramblers, 13 to 0. A record crowd of | 100,000 saw the home team win its ninetheenth straight game and move a step closer to a second national | championship in two years. ‘The crowd set a new attendance mark for foot ball games this season in the Nation, and was the biggest assembly ever to witness a game in Los Angeles. The record crowd saw a record per- | formance. The Trojans made history for their 7-year foot ball war with Notre Dame, for this was the first time the Howard Jones team has won twice in successive seasons from its rival. Notre Dame, however, continued to hold a one-game margin for the series, four to three. Southern California rode to victory on the flying feet of Irvine (Cotton) Warburton, a pint-sized quarterback, a sensational catch of a forward pass by Bob McNeish and a series of well- placed quick kicks. ‘Warburton, little but fast, started his | team on the road to the first score ir | the second period by returning a Notre Dame punt 39 yards to the visitors’ 44- yard line. The little fellow dashed to the 30-yard line on the next play. Notre Dame called a halt through the line then, but Homer Griffith, on fourth down, with the ball on the 31- yard line, tossed a pass to McNeish, who made a sensational catch over his head 2 yards from the goal line and stepped over. A quick kick in the third period was fumbled by Chuck Hackwhich, Bob Erskine recovering for the Trojans on Notre Dgme’s 26-yard line. Southern | California moved on to a second touch- down by successive running plays. The home team used the quick kick | to_advantage _throughout the game. ELECTION SATIRIZE IN GRIDIRON ACTS Sketch on “New Deal” Set to Music Is High Spot of: Annual Dinner. HOUSE APPROVAL OF FURLOUGH PLAN CONTINUANCE SEEN Treasury-Post Office Bill, Carrying Pro\_/ision, Is Re- ported Out. CONSIDERATION IS DUE FOR MEASURE TOMORROW Byrns Confident Salary Section to Be Undisturbed—Senate Group Studies Economy Law. The House is expected to approve the continuation of the furlough plan of pay cut for Government employes as carried in the Treasury-Post Office ap= propriation bill reported to the House yesterday. ‘The bill comes up for con- sideration in the House tomorrow. It does not include the additional flat 11 per cent salary cut recommended by the President. Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations Committee is confident that the salary part of the bill will not be disturbed. It is based on the economy act of the last session, as substantive law and on the budget estimates under the mandate of that law. Chairman Byrns and other House leaders said that to impose the 11 per cent additional cut would require special legislation. In order to offer the heavier slash as an amendment a special rule would have to be inivoked, and it is un- likely that this would be granted, except on request of the Appropriations Com= mittee. That committee thrashed the question out in a heated session yes- terday before the bill was reported, and the full committee sustained and sup- ported the subcommittee for following the substantive law. House Support Ready. There are a number of the ablest debaters and parliamentarians in the House ready to support the Appropria- tions Committee in opposition to any further pay cuts. Chairman Byrns said last night he mmebfl'l?bemcwthesemu present form regarding salary schedules, and that tbr:'&nlk might see fit to make changes. There has been some discussion of making a flat cut in salaries in substitution for the furiough plan. Such a change, how- ever, would cause a complete overhaul= ing ogt&mmzm‘ .blul':;bey ?m all now on fur! scale. Chairman Bidding farewell to the G. O. P, the | ham Gridiron Club at the same time laid down a barrage of jibes and satire be- fore the approaching Democratic hosts at its annual December dinner last night in the New Willard Hotel. With the recent election as its text, the club gave its version of the inci- dents of the political battle, sparing neither side. It dealt, too, for the benefit of its distinguished guests, with important issues pressing for attention, including the foreign debts, economy and prohibition. No vehicle was too sublime, none too fantastic for the mummers of the evening, bent on de- starching the bosoms or tightening the hatbands of men now or soon to be prominent in public life. President Hoover was the guest of honor of the club, and its chief speaker of the evening. The only other speaker was the veteran, Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Senate. Under the invariable rule of the club that ‘“reporters are never present,” their remarks are not of record. The President’s address, ac- cording to custom, came at the end of the dinner. To Mr. Hoover were pre- sented a large bronze copy of the Gridiron pin and a permanent invita- tion to all Gridiron dinners. It was recalled that President Hoo- ver attended his first Gridiron dinner 20 years ago this week. Senator Wat- son, as a young Representative from Indiana, attended his first Gridiron dinner exactly 28 years ago, to the very night. Hughes Among Guests. Besides the President and Senator Watson, who were introduced by Wal- ter S. Buel, correspondent of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer, president of the club, official guests at the speakers’ table included Chief Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court, every member of the Cabinet, the Ambassa- dors of France, Germany, Great Brit- ain, Belgium and Cuba and the Min- ister from Bulgaria. Democratic promises in the cam- paign were satirized in an act with music, entitled “The New Deal in New Amsterdam.” depicting the bargaining, (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Forhmi iy Zasu Pitts Slightly Improved. LOS ANGELES, December 10 (4).— A “slight improvement” was noted to- | Utah, h day in the condition of Zasu Pitts, motion picture comedienne, who un- derwent an intestinal operation last Wednesday at the office of her physi- cian, Dr. Edwin Larson. It was stated Miss Pitts was in no immediate danger, hut the crisis of her admittedly serious illness would not be reached for two " (Continued on First Sport Page.) reported. Senator Oddie, vada, chairman of the ions sub-committee, which will handle the bill in the Senate, expressed satisface tion when he learned that the bill was reported without a flat pay cut in ade dition to the furlough. Reiterates Opposition, The Nevadian reiterated his intention of vigorously opposing any effort to re- duce Government salaries beyond the point to which they have been cut this year by the furlough plan, amounting to 8 1-3 per cent. Meanwhile, the Senate has its Special Economy subcommittee, com- Pposed of six members of the Appropria- tions Committee, studying the economy law as a whole, to determine whether it should be modified in any respect and whether any further econo- mies should be recommended. This sub- committee has been gathering testi- mony as to how the furlough plan and other phases of the economy law have worked during the current year, but has not yet begun conferences to decide what course it will recommend for the ingham _expressed _doubt last night whether it will be possible for the Senate Committee to bring up econ- omy changes through the medium of the Treasury-Post Office bill, the first of the regular annual appropriation measures, in view of the form in which it has been presented in the other gn?c? of . It was indicated at further economy proposals might be out of order as Senate amendments to this bill. In that event new economy proposals would have to be nted to the Senate as separate legislation. Consider Quitting Furloughy. Some members of the Senate Economy Committee, while not favoring a flat pay cut on top of the existing furlough reduction, have indicated they would consider abandoning the furlough method of saving on salaries and substi- tute some percentage of flat reduction. Until the Senate economy group com- pletes its work, however, its course of action will not take definite shape. Senator Bingham has called the econ- omy group to confer tomorrow morning with Secretary of the Tseasury Mills, Budget Director Roop, Controller Gen- eral McCarl and Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans’' Administration, This conference, however, is to go over & bill which Senator King, Democrat, of as drafted to consolidate and reduce the number of Federal disbursing offices scattered throughout the country. COMMISSION NAMED days. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, December 10.—The play instinct of Leah Pride, 4 years old, | Leah to DOLL, REVIVING PLAY INSTINCT OF STARVING GIRL, MAY SAVE LIFE Child Responds to Nourishment When All Other Temptings Fail. whimpered. She sipped a glass of milk, but refused more. “Try again, Leah,” said Joe from his neighboring bed. He is thinner than Leah, being 26 pounds underweight, but food is bringing a |loe: m' h':! eyes. al encour- mgtmfi?m too ill and weak eal Then a nurse the t of approaching SDOw, e‘ndlelm"k ,Blunh Claus, IN'PHONE DISPUTE New Turn Taken in Fight Over Spain’s Right to Abrogate Concessions, By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 10.—The te between the Spanish government and American telephone interests over the question of the Spanish Republic’s right to abrogate the concession awarded to the Spanish Telephone Co. by the Primo de Rivera dmwuh.\r. reached a new s today with the formation of a commission to study the question. The International Telephone & Tel- e‘ngh CK: %New Y‘:hrk has heavy e Spani communica- The commission, which n, ) will - = : be com- fi accordance with legislation

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