Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1932, Page 2

T A2 «s CRIME TOLL EIGHT IN DAY IN CHICAGD THE. EVENING Three . Policemen Among Those Slain in Wave of Lawlessness. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 13.—Metropol- tan Chicago counted eight deaths by | violence today—six by guns cracking | and reverberating in near zero temper- | atures, one by suffocation when rob- | bers left & woman victim to die after | binding and gagging her and another | by stabbing | Of the six, three were policemen, cne & bandit, another an alleged automobile thief and a boxer. The killin! s of an anti-crime ultimatum de- livered by Mayer Anton J. Cermzk to s police captains. List ef Dead. The dezd other a former lightweight | occurred within a few Detectives Frank Svec, 44, and Edgar | Chatterton, 33, of Suburban Berwyn's Pclice Department. Solice Albert G. Magoon, 35. A robber identified by police as Al- bert White, 24, died while being taken to the Bridewell Hospital alter engaging | in a pistol fi and an em ht with a drug store cwner ve he atd a confederate Jeseph Seidel, 20, sh:t and instantly killed by pol~~” <uring a 4-mile chase in_a stolen cr Frankie Scha®Yer, 30, former boxer. ; found in a ‘tailr shop which police said was a beer flat, Miss Gertrude Frish, 49, suffocated while her year-old father, also bound and gegged, look>d on unable to help her. Mrs. Miguel Ramires 28. A boarder in her home, Vincent_:3ranades, was hunted by police after Yor husband re- ported finding her stabbet! to death. Slain Serving Watcant. Detectives Svec and ZmTlerton were shot down at the back door of Arthur Lavac’s house in Berwyn wien they knocked to serve a warrant upon Lavac, 40, charging him with failure to send his 10-year-old daughter and T7-year- old son to school. vac, arrested soon after, confessed, police said. but pleaded he_thought the officers were robbers. Mageon was killed in a reputed beer flat by iwo bullets fired from a weapon coneenled 1n the overcoat pocket of one of threr men when he joined an argu- I were having with the ownel Mass, Lalice were told. The cfficer dad just ordered one of rio. who represented themselves as “alcohol syndicate,” to remove his from his (oat pocket and was oward hMm when the pistol The trio Spectacular « Y0oting. The drug stere bandit fell mortally wounded in the most spectacuiar shoot- ing c¢f 2il. He and a companion had entercd Walter Krop's pharmacy and ordered the six pers in the place. including three customers, ‘o “stick ‘em up All complied except Krop and Steve Kirincie, a watchman, who smmediately d fire. In the exchange of shots struck the robber. Kirincie was and Krop in the The other robber fled. body of the form®r boxer, haefTer, 30, was found in ilor shop which police said was known s a beer flat. Fred Rowan, col- ored, the owner, was sought. The Kkill- ing recalled the gangland ex‘cution a year ago of Schacffer’s former manager, Martin (Babe) Mullaney. Miss Frish was left to di= by two ung hoodlums who spent tkree hours 'nml twice in each leg The lcoting a small candy store operated by | her and her father, Frederick Frish. Forcing their way into the place after closing hours, they tied the father and aughter to two chairs and gagged them with rags, old ropes and pieces of clothing. daughter suffering the agonies of cation but was unable to help her. The robbers got $3. 329,000 BALES OF COTTON | APPROVED FOR RED CROSS He Agriculture Committee 0. K.’s Resolution to Donate Stabilization Holdings. Associated Press. 2isl2tion allotting to the Red Cross lief distribution the remaining 00 bales of stabilization cotton was today by the House Agricul- mitte>. mous action was taken imme- after John Barton Payne, chair- of the Red Cross, told the com- mittce that “the needy could use 2,- 000.000 bale Chairman Jones explained the bill ded all remalning spot cotton own- ed by the Stabilization Ccrporation. o) o said a survey by the Red Cross showod 4,238,000 families noeded cloth- ing and that out of last session’s allot- ment of 500.000 bales only 33.000 re- mained. The bill did not include addi- at because stabilization hold- h wheat have been exhausted. BILLINGS ASKS PAROLE TO VISIT HIS MOTHER Buggests 90-Day “Release” to Gov. Rolph Because He Hasn't Szen Parent for 20 Years. By the Associated Press. FOLSOM PRISON, Calif.. December 13—Wairen K. Billing ving a life term here for the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness day parade bombing, has suggested that Gov. James Rclph, jr.. grant_him a 90-day “release” so he can visit his 76-year-old mother in Brook- lyn, N. Y. Billings was convicted with Thomas J. Mooney. San Quentin prisones, for the bombing that killed 10 persons and injured 40 others. He said he had not seen his mother, Mrs. Anna G. Billings, for 20 years. Billings said he would return voluntarily after his visit. When Gov. Rolph heard of this un- usual suggestion he was non-commit- tal beyond saying he would refer the matter to the prison board. Billings maintained the stand he has always taken with regard to an ordi- nary parole. He again seid he would not ask for a parole or accept one un- less he could name the conditions, which were interpreted as amounting to an _unconditional pardon. Mooney and Billings always have maintained innocence of the crime for which they were convicted. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “For the Freedom of the World,” Zamocnik Bigg2 = ture C: Unani diate! m Overture, “Frolic of the Fair: Intermezzo, “On the Rivier: Baron Scenes from the comic opera, “The .Sullivan (Tango™ of .Milton ewman r Frish told police later he saw | STAR. WASHINGTON, Greetings From the Albany Mansion CHRISTMAS CARD OF PRESIDENT-ELECT AND M ROOSEVELT. Merry Christmas " and a New Year from The Governor and Mrs.Roosevelt e D. C, TUESDAY. IFTTS CLAIMS AL IN SLAYING BROKEN Murder Complaint to Be Filed Against Briton in Wan- derwell Case. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 13.—Im- portant “new evidence” was claimed by District Attorney Buron Fitts today in the Capt. Walter Wanderwell slaying. Fitts sald he would issue at dnce a murder complaint against Willlam James Guy, 24-year-old Britisher. He commented this would prevent attor- neys seeking the release of Edward De Larm, Indian aviator,and his mechanic, Ralph Dunlap, both of whom have been held as material witnesses in connec- tion with the death of the adventurer. Fitts sald he was not convinced the slaying of Wanderwell the night of De- cember 5 aboard his around-the-world yacht Carma was a “one-man job” and called all witnesses to his office today for & new questioning. Identified by Conductor. De Larm has been identified by W. C. | Hinton, Long Beach street car con- ductor, as a man who attempted to ERRY Christmas and a happy New Year from the Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt.” This greeting has been | hoard his car on the Long Beach Sev- 1 the cards. tnscribed on the President-elect’s Christmas and New Year card, as reproduced from photograph of one of | —Wide World Photo. 0. C. RELIEF FUND - ACTION EXPECTED 'House Appropriations Body | | Is Studying Appeal ! for $1,250,000. | (Continued From First Page.) ordered emer- hi; funds through the first two wecks of Janu: The relief organization has on hand $54.000, bal- lance of an approoriation of $350.000. and $100,000 dcnated by the Community Chest, a total of $154.000. For the six weeks remaining between now and the end of the second week in January, this sum will allow expenditures of approxi- mately $25.800 per week. Deducting 10 per cent for administration, the amount of reli>f available would be approxi- mately $22,500 per week. For the past three weeks the ex- penditures have been $26,000. $28.000 and $25.000, respectively. With these expenditures. Mr. Halbe 2 scale of relief is below i ards. The additional reduction will put them still further belew such stand- ards, he said. but the compnittee felt it was better to afford a smail amount of relief rather than run the chance of getting out of funds altcgether before any appropriation is enacted. Outlock “Much Brighter.” Should the approvriation be enacted at any time between now and the end of the second weck in January, Mr. Taliaferro said, it would be possible to | increase the scale. If the appropriation ! does not come until mid-January, how- | ever, the reduc:d scale must remain in | effect. He said the fact that the ap- | propriation slready had been recom- mended and is now under study by the House Committee made the cutlook “very much brighter.” | 'Meantime, the number of | handled by the relief administraiion is Increasing, Mr. Halbort said. He said | | there were, roughly, 50 new applica- | | tions for relief each day. Today there | are 6,000 “cases” on the relief admin- | istration’s list. Most of the *cases” are farailics. _Some of them are single women. The committee will not under- | | take to help single men, owing to its | shortage of funds. | | Approximately two-thirds of fits “cases,” Mr. Halbert said, represent per- | | sons or families who have never before | |applicd to eny charitable or social | agency in the District for any sort of | | relief. | Terms Estimate Inadequate. | District Leroy gency so that Relief Committee, A. Halbert, tor of relief, to | “cases” | Speaking briefly before the luncheon | | meeting of the Council of Sccial | | Agencies yesterday Mr. Halbert char- | acterized he Board of Public Welfare | estimate of $1.500,000 as inadequate. | but re-emphasized the necessity for Congress appropriating at least thnt‘ | much, He said it would not bz enough | |to take over support of 500 families | | which his office originally had agreed | | to care for in order to relieve agencies supported by the Community Chest, whose budget fell a half million dol- | In support of his estimate of 45.000 unemployed, Halbort pointed out that the reason that only 22.000 are reg- istered is because the balance regards it useless to apply to the Committee on Employment fer relief. 'BANKERS WILL DISCUSS | % GERMAN 'LOAN REVISION% Plan to Revise Standstill Agree-| ment Covering $1,000,000.000 l in Debts. 5 the Associated Press NEW YORK, Drcember 13—A new | meeting of interrational bankers will be held in Berlin next January 30 to dis- | | cuss propozals for revising the present | | German “stancstill” agreement, which will expire on February 28. | “In accordance with the German| |credit agreement of 1932, a mceting | will be held in January for the revision | |of the present agreement, which ex-! | pires at the_end of February, 1933 | said A. H. Wiggin, chairman of the | | governing board of the Chase National | Bank. who also is chairman of the Ger- | man Credit Comi ee. Informal mecings have bzen hold here end in London in the past few | | weeks to discuss the terms for a new | agreemen: which wiil supplant the one | now in effect. The ‘man_standstill | agreement covers approximately $1,000, 1 000,050 of short-term German debts to | banks in other countries. | i e et 8 | WOMAN TO BE COLONEL Widow of Croker, Tammany Chief, to Join Governor’s Staff. PALM BEACH, Fla, December 13 (#).—Mrs. Bula E. Croker, widow of the Tammany chieftein, will be Col. Croker as soon as Dave Sholtz goes into the Governor's office. Announcement from Mrs. Croker's home last night confirmed a report | that she would be appointed on the staff of Gov.-elect Sholtz, with the ranking of a lleutenant colonel. The announcement said she was be- lieved to be the first woman in the United States to be named to & colonelcy on & Goyernor's stafl, | on March 4. | of the Democratic committee, | the Philadelphia Public Ledger, has | | National Committee is out of the city | to learn from his office whether he WATSON IS BOCMED | FOR CHAIRMANSHIP | OF G. 0. P. COMMITTEE | ___(Continued From First Page) ’ since its deteat November 8. There is | the ¢ld guard group, some of ~vhom | have been hostile to President Hoover since the days before he was nominated in 1928 and who now would like to | make it sure that Mr. Hoover is not | to be a candidate for the nomination | in 1936. This group would be satisfied | entirely with the election of Mr. Hilles o probably Senator Watson or the Vice President. There is sull another group which | wants a new deal and does not desire | particularly to select an outstanding | figure in the Old Guard for chairman of the national crganizaticn. This group would be glad to see Col. Knox elected chairman. Col. Knox started hic career es a newspaper m:n In Grand Rapids, Michh He weni into politics in Michigan and proved a dy- namic force there. Later he moved to New Hampshire, where he published a Manhcester newspaper, and took a large | pert in the political set-up in that State. More recently he became a kind of executive director for the Hearst newspapers, an_office which he gave up to become’ publisher of the Chicago Daily News, President Hoover appoint- ed him chairman of the committee which conducted the anti-hoarding drive. Tt is understood that the Presi- dent at cn2 time strongly wished Col. Knox to take the chairmansbip of the Republican National Committee, but that he was unable to do so because of | his work in Chicago. During the cam- paign, however, Col. Knox was active in support of the Hoover candidacy. | Sanders Backed. A third group of Republicans would prefer to let Evereit Sanders continue as chairman of the National Commit- tee, believing that in this way it would be possible to avoid a controversy over reorganization” matters. There is a feeling among some of the Republican Senators that agitation for reorganization of the Republican Na- tional Committee at this time is likely to postpone a change in the chairman- ship. The theory is that the more | noise made about the matter the more strongly Mr. Sanders and his support- | ers will oppose a change. { Quite naturally Mr. Sanders and the | Republicans who made him chairmzn weuld resent any effort to railroad him out of office. It will be recalled that four years ago, after the disastrous de- | feat of Alfred E. Smith, the Demo- | cratic candidate for President, there were loud demands trom many Demo- crats for the political scalp of John J. | Raskob, whom Mr. Smith had selected as national chairman to run his cam- paign. Al the efforts of these Demo- | crats, however, were unavailing and Mr. Raskob remained as chairman until after the Democratic national conven- tion in Chicago this year. It is true, of course, that the Roosevelt Democrats in the national convention rode over Mr. Raskob and the supporters of other candidates. But the point is there was |no reorganization of the Democratic | | National Committee, except that made sized that the right to raise a point of by Mr. Raskob himself, until another | national convention had been held. l Stand of Progressives in Doubt. | ‘What the Progressive Republicans will do ‘about the suggested reorganization | plan has not yet been disclosed. How- | ever, it seems quite clear that they will | seriously oppose the selection of any | lars short of its gosl. | Old Guard Republican or any Hoover | conferer.ce Republican a5 chairman, Senator Hiram_ Johnsen of Cali-| ported Franklin Roosevelt for President | during the recent campaign. today de- clined to discuss personalitles in con-| nection with the reorganization of the ccmmittee. He did cay, however, that | he believes the Republican party must | change in philosophy and stand for the great mass of voters, instead of lor‘ the interests of the wealthy, if it is cver to come back. Publicity Director Discussion. Along with the talk about a new national chairman of the Republican committee there has been discussion of the new publicity director for the | G. 0. P. In this connection, Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, | has been mentioned as & possibility, | provided he would take the job. Sen- | ator Moses also retires from the Senat= | It is suggested that if h= became the director of Republican pub- | licity, he might prove as setious a| thorn in the side of the Roosevelt | administration as did Charles Michel- | | son, director of the publicity bureau in the 1 side of the Hoover administration. | There has been talk also of the em- | ployment of an active newspaperman | | for the publicity job with the Repub- | lican National Committee. ~Wazren | Wheaton of the Washington bureau of | been mentioned in this connection. Chairman Sanders of the Republican for several days and it was impossible contemplates calling a_meeting of the Republican National Committee or of the Executive Committee during the Winter months. Only at such a meet- ing could reorganization of their na- tional committee be -brought about. In some quarters doubt was expressed that any such meeting would be held until after March 4. However, the Re- publican National Committee faces a deficit growing out of the last cam- paign and it is possible that a meeting of the Executive Committee and not of the full comiittee may be necessary to deal with the finances. Anti-Hoover Move. Much of the agitation for reorgani- zation of the National Committee is due to the oppositibn of some of the Republicans to President Hoover and bility that he might again be :muumm WM the mflk four DAN GARRETT DIES; MENBER OF HOUSE Represented Houston Dis- trict 20 Years—IlIl for Many Months. Representative Dan Garrett ol"rexas. who has represented the Houston dis- trict for more than 20 years, died to- day at his residence in the Northum- b avenue after a serious illness of many months. Representative Garrett had been suf- fering from heart trouble, and was for a long time in the Naval Hospital here. He was a native of Tennessee and a lawyer by profesgion and practice. He was married in 1893 to Miss Ida Jones, a sister of Jesse Jones, member of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Representative Garrett served in the House of Representatives of Tennessee for two terms begining in 1892, and was elected to the State Senate in 1902, where he served four years. He removed to Texas in 1895 and practiced law at Houston. where he was elected to the Sixty-third Cengress as a member at large in 1912. He had been successive- 1y re-clected each two years since, Flees From Cold J;il. GILLETTE. Wyo.. December 13 (#). —Jack Luckcuck told county authori- ties of many undesirable features of their new jail here and stresesd the in- adequacy of heat. Sub-zero twwmpera- tures Luckeuck couldn't be found. Authori- ties believed he headed for the warmth of his fireside in the Big Horn Moun- tain country. tence for bootlegging. FURLOUGH SYSTEM APPROVED IN HOUSE ROLL CALL, 220-145 ___ (Continued From First Page.) jority was wrong. &s in the present instance. Repeating his _statements made previously, Representative La Guardia insited that it was the duty of Congress to ccnsider the welfare of hundreds of thousands of families scat- tered throughout the United States who will be affected by this reduction of salaries throygh the enforced furlough without pay. Representative Bankhead, Democrat, Alabama. the ranking Democratic mem- ber of the Rules Committee which Te- rted out the special rule, spoke in avor of it with reservations. He de- clared that ordinarily he was not in favor of such a resolution. He empha- order against legislation is a_great pro- tection, but that under the present circumstances he thought should be adopted. Civil Service Head Invited. The Senate Economy Committee has invited Thomas E. Campbell, president of the Civil Service Commission. to a scheduled for tomorrow morning to obtain his views on the economy law as it now stands and pro- | fornia, one of the Progressives who sup- | posed changes. The Civil Service Commission several weeks ago submitted to the committee a detailed report in which various mod- ifications in the existing economy law were suggested. Meanwhile, members of the Senate Committee are waiting for the House to act on the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill before mee.ing to de- cide what course they will recommend regarding Government salaries for the next fiscal year. Will Go to Oddie Committee. ‘When this appropriation bill reaches the Senate it is expected the sections | Haver had befriended. Totosian killed | makes the subject even more confused, containing the detailed it:ms for these two departments Will go to the regular Treasury - Post _ Office _subcommittee, headed by Senator Oddie of Nevada, while the sections decaling with the economy law, including the question of payless furlough, will be considered by Senator Bingham's economy group. Senator Bingham said today he has not made up his own mind yet how the pay cut question should be disposzd of this year. He said he is seriously con- sidering, however, the fact that while continuation of the furlough plan would not save the Government as much money as if a straight pay cut was substituted, the furlough plan would spread work through the em- ployment of substitutes and to some extent help the unemployment problem. o Policemen Saved by Victim. Two Birmingham, England, police- men who arrested the wrong man were sued by John A. Tryon and had to pay him $500. years from now. These anti-Hoover Republicans would like to take steps if they could to eliminate from party con- trol the Hoover supporters. However, it seems clear that if circumstances arise which would bring a popular de- mand for President Hoover's renomi- nation, the politicians are not going to be able to halt it. The President him- self has made no definite statement about his political future. There has been a suggestion that President Hoover would like to have Lawrence Richey, one of his secretaries, | bond holders would have a say in re- | terly magazine, died suddenly at become a directing power in the Repub- lican organization, with the idea that everything might be in readiness for a Hoover nomination in 1936. But there has been and Apartment on New Hampshire | swept Wyoming this week :md! He was serving a sen- ! enth Street Bridge, about 2 mile from the P, & O. docks, scene of the slay- ing, the night of the shooting. De Larm told authorities Guy spent all of the night of December 5 at his home in Glendale, almost 30 miles from Long Beach, and that he himself was in the house. John Seastrom and Tom Bridgeford. friends of De Larm’'s daughters, told Long Beach police Guy was not at the Glendale home. The boys were there attending a party. Capt. William™ Bright, head of the Los Angeles County sheriff's office homicide squad, said he had plans for taking all of the alibi witnesses for Guy before the county grand jury. Buried at Sea. “Putting these witnesses under oath before the grapd jury may clear up one of the mysteries surrounding Guy's movements and whercabouts at the time of the shooting last Monday night,” said Bright. Capt. Wanderwell was buried at sea yesterday from the deck of his yacht aboard which he had planned a world cruise with a group of men and women he had recruited by advertising in news- papers. The adventurers, who includ- ed Lord Edward Montagu, son of the Duke of Manchester, ail attended the funeral. Col. Arthur Goebel, aviator and a friend of Wanderwell, also was abcard the yacht at the final rites. . HOUSE PREDICTS END OF WAR DEBT PUZZLE Says Roosevelt Will Succeed in Ef- fort to “Liquidate War” After G. 0. P. Failure. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. December 13.—Declar- ing three Republican administrations “have failed to do so0.” Col. Edward M. House, in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. says the aim of the Roosevelt administraticn will be to_“liquidate the war—so that world confidence will be restored. world trade freed of its shackles and the minds and energies of statesmen everywhere turned to new and constructive purposes.” The confidant of Woodrow Wilson and one of President-elect Roosevelt's close advisers says the next administration “should make the greatest possible ef- fort to put the war debts once and for ali on such a basis that they are no longer a political question.” Col. House expressed the “hope” that. “without default or postponement of present instaliments. the individual debtor governments will, in the Spring. request conferences with the United States Government.” “At Lausanne.” Col. House continues in his article, “the allied governments made a sincere effort to forget war hatreds and took a long step toward disposing of the reparations question once and for all. They were able to do this because their peoples had come to reslize that the black reparations cloud hanging over Europe carried less prom- ise of fruitful rains than the threat of catastrophic new storms. In the same manner, for similar reasons, the Amer- ican people must be ready. as practical business men, for reasons of cold com- mon sense, to do what is necessary in order to dispose finally of the war debts | as a political question.” In this discussion Col. together war debts, tariffs and disarma- ments and says the President-elect’s at- the rule!titude will be a “realistic sipirt of in- | ternational co-operation,” while that of the Republican administration was “pa- rochial.” BENEFACTOR IS SLAIN BY FORMER EMPLOYE Man Is Believed to Have Lost Mind on Visit—Kills Self After Shooting. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 13.—The good samaritan roie Samuel C. Haver sought to play led to his death, police concluded today. Haver, personnel manager of South- ern California Edison Co.. was shot in his offices yesterday by Earl Totosian, former employe of the company, whom himself after shooting his benefactor. Tolosian was injured on a construc- tion project for the power company in September, 1924. After he had been paid in full for his injuries by the com- pany, Haver continued to make him personal loans and aided him obtaining other jobs. Grateful, Totosian regular- 1y sent Christmas present to the official. Police decided the former employe called on Haver to pay a friendly visit and perhaps seek further aid, when he suddenly lost his mind. TOWN PASSES UP TAXES FOR THIRD YEAR IN ROW All Current Bills Paid for Year, ‘Gainesville, Ala., Gave Citizens Free Ice Last Summer. By the Associated Press. ‘GAINESVILLE, Ala., December 13— Cash in the bank and no debits on the books, the Town Council for the third consecutive year has voted to suspend collections of ad valorem taxes. P. N. Norwood, mayor, announced to- day the municipal ad valorem levy would not becollected. The action was taken, he said, “due to the fact we had a substantial cash balance on hand and almost every one is in financi>] distress.” “It would be impossible for us to do this if we had a large bonded indebted- ness,” Mayor Norwood said, “Ior.the gard to it. But we have no bonded in- debtedness and all our current bills for | the year are paid.” During the past Summer the Town no confirmation of this report Council distributed free ice to the citi- so far and many of the Republican zens. Gainesville’s population was given leaders put no credence in it, a8 320 by the 1930 census, L DI House links | ~ AT 632 DER 13 1 TRIAL PERIOD LEFT IN PHILIPPINE BILL |Senate Committee Rejects Reduction in Time to Eight Years. By the Assoclated Press. The Senate Territories Committee to- day decided to stick by the pending Hawes-Cutting bill's provision for a| trial period of 18 years before granting | full freedom to the Philippines and to| | oppose the amendment proposing to re- | duce this to eight years. Chairman Bingham announced after a special meeting of the committee that all members_except Senator Broussard, | Democrat, of Louisiana, author of the | eight-year proposal, felt that to adopt | this provision would “strike the heart | out of the committee bill.” | Bingham pointed out the Hawes-Cut- | ting measure allowed a longer period of | transition because it was thought the islands needed it to get used gradually to economic and political freedom, and that the pending bill also protected American_holders of Philippine bonds by permitting the islands to collect ex- port taxes at the end of a 10-year pe- Egd d-I!or application to payment of these n The Broussard amendment, expected to be voted on in the Senate later in | the day, would strike out the export tax | provision. Bingham said the United States had a “moral responsibility in connection with these bonds, since they werc sold in America under advertisement of the War Department.” | FREEDOM ASKED AT ONCE. | it | MANILA, Philippine Islands, Decem-" ber 13 ()—A demand for immediate independence of Filipinos without trade | or immigration concessions was cabled to Washington today by Vincente Sotto, chairman of the extremist Phil- ippine Civic Union. | 1n the cable to Charles Edward Rus- | sell and other Representatives in the | United States Capitol, he said: | “Inform Congress the Filipino people | the Secretary of Agriculture shall esti- P, do not need free trade nor immigration | of laborers to the United States. trade and immigration can be stopped | right now, but independence likewise | should be conceded right now with all | {5 an adjustment certificate “covering 318000 for the company’s | of its consequences.” $16,000,000 ST. PAUL | PROJECTS FINISHED City, “Out of Red,” to Celebrate Municipal Building and Mall Completion. Boy, Hurt in Fight, l Dies After Refusing l To-Name Opponehnt plaitinding 3 | By the AssociatOgress. | BALTIMORE, ember 13.— ‘ Refusing to reveal name of his opponent in a fight, 'ward Bailey, jr., 14-year-old sciidqlboy, died today in Baltimore City - pital of a fractured skull and con* ‘ cussion of the brain. | Douglas Ballantine, 15, later | | was taken intg custody by the po- | | lice and held for action of the coroner. Police Capt. Charles A. Kahler said Ballantine had admitted fighting with Bailey in the base- ment of the public school they at- tended after an argument in a class room. FARM ALLOTMENT DRAFT PRESENTED Tentative Relief Probram Disclosed by House : Committee. | By the Assoclated Press. A tentative draft of a domestic allot- ment farm relief plan covering wheat, cotion, tobacco and hogs and repealing the stabilizaticn provisions of the Farm Board act was made public today as tiie basis of farm relief hearings by the House Agriculture Committee. After an cutive session of nearly one hour, Chairman Jones distributed the draft of the emergency bill he had prepared to members of the committee. It meets tomorrow to proceéd with con- sideration. Regarded as Tentative. “This is simply a tentative bill to be used wholly as the basis of the com- mittee’s work,” Jones explained. The firs, section of the measure di- rects that within 30 days of enactment mate and proclaim the probable domes- Free | tic consumption of the 1933 production }'fb’“" of wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs. Each producer then wouid b> entitled the domestic consumption percentage of each lot of the commodity of Lis own production which is marketed by or for him during the year.” The face amount of the adjustmen: certificates were to be fixed at 42 cent a bushel for whea 1t cottcn, 4 cents a 2 cents a pound for hogs, less trative expenses. Farm Leaders Meet. ‘The committee session followed = meeting of farm leaders last night that lasted into the early morning hours. President-elect Roosevelt, who has | shown a leaning to the allotment prin- By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, December 13.—Some large cities may plead at the banker's door and trim budgets that have caused tax strikes, but St. Paul is about to cele- Lrat> completion of two major projects of a $16,000,000 civic improvement pro- gram. | One is the new $4.000.000 City Hall! |and court house, towering 289 feet above the banks of the Mississippi River. The other is the new Third street mall. which is to be renamed Kellogg Boulevard. in honor of Frank B. Kellogg. former Secretary of State. Both will be dedicated the night of | December 19. when United States At- torney General William J. Mitchell de- livers the dedicatory address opening the new court house. The structure, modern in design, has a 4-story base, from which rises a 16-stery tower. It has 350.000 square feet of floor space, or about 7 acres. | Kellogg Boulevard also overiooks the | Mississippi. It was widened and land- scaped at a cost of $4.000.000. Mr. Kel- logg, for whom it is being renamed, is now a member of the World Court He was author of the Kellogg peace pact z;nd has been a lifelong resident of St. aul. Other items on the $16.000.000 pro- gram inciude completed addition to the municipal auditorium and general pub- lic works improvements. LUSITANIA SALVAGE i OPERATIONS TO BEGIN $10,000,000 Estimated Value of Gold on Ship Whose Sinking Put U. S. in War. | By the Ascociated Press. | NEW YORK, December 13 —The lure of sunken treasure has brcught about a renewed attempt t) salvage gold and | valuables from the Lusitania. | Since a German submarine sent the | giant liner to the bottom off Ki 3 h Free State. with a loss of 1.198 s 17 years ago, and brought the | United States inte the Wcrld War, | several plans to salvage her treasure | | have been prejected | The latest was put forward last year, ! al work was done. It be- | vesterday that the sunken liner finally bas been located definitely and a decision reached to begin actual salvage operaticns early in 1933, | Charles Courtney, president of the American Association of Master Lock- | smiths, who directed the opening of | treacure chests on the sunken liner | | Egypt last year, has been engaged to | aid in the Lusitania venture. | The start of work will depend in part | on how early in the Spring favorable | weather comes to the Irish Coes | The amount of gold aboard the Lusitania has been variously estimated, some figures placing it as high as $10.- 000,000. Others have scaled this amcunt | down at various times to $7.000,000 |and $5.000,0c0. And the ship’s mani- fest, published shortly after she sank. | as it contained no reference to gold in | the cargo. EDNA FERBER FORBIDDEN | TO VISIT MEXICO AGAIN | | By the Associated Press. | MEXICO CITY, December 13.—The | department of immigration announced | yesterday that orders have been tele- graphed to the frontier not to permit | Edna Ferber, American writer, ever to| | re-enter Mexico because of statements | she made in a magazine article. | “Miss Ferber was given every class| | of facilities when she came to Mexico | last Spring,” said Rafael Perez Taylor, chief adminfjtration officia] of the de- partment of \nterior. “Despite the fact | that she was) treated courteously and | well, she wrote that Mexico was a dirty | country of dogs and fleas, without good | hotels or restaurants.” Miss Ferber visited Mexico last Feb- ruary. She was recéived by former President Ortiz Rubio. MEDICAL LEADER DIES Editor of Phi Chi Magazine Served Also as Officer. NICHOLASVILLE, Ky., December 13 | ().—Dr. Thomas B. Pearson, secretary- | treasurer of the Phi Chi Medical Fra- | ternity and editor-in-chief of its qulhx; | bome here today. He was 50 old | and & native of Jeffersonville, He is survived by a son, James Pear- son of w:.hmm. and s daughter, years Ind. | to open the court Y | marriage license. about 7 o'clock Sun- Miss Roberta Pearson, & student at the of Kentucky. His wife died last May. ciples. was Tepresented at the meotin by Henry Morganthau. jr.. freguently advanced as a possible choice for Secre- tary of Agricuiture in the new admin- istration With the apparent agreement on this farm-aid plan. the Agriculture Com tec made plans to insert any change: necessary in the Jones bill, which wes outlined to the conference last nigl and prepare it for speedy House pas- sage. TREASURY OFFICIAL SUCCUMBS AT HOME A. M. Peeples, Whose Widow Di- rects Community Centers, Was Active in Capital Lodges. Alexander McBride Peeples, 54. as- sistant_chief of the Division of Gen- eral Accounts in the Treasury Depart- ment, died at his home, 1333 Harvard . yesterday. after suffering from is “fever for six weeks. He had ctically recovered from the original infection, physicians said, when he suf- | | fered the fatal relapse. An investigation. launched by Dr. G. Cumming, chief of preventive diseases of the District Health Depart- ment. failed to determine the origin of the disease. Mr. Peeples. whose widow, Mrs. Eliza- les. is director of the | Community Center Department. came here from Scuth Carolina 30 years ago. | He was a Mason and a member of the | Tall Cedars of Lebanon. | ~ Besides his widow he is survived by a | datghter. Elizabeth. _Funeral services will be held at S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street, at 10:30 | am. tomorrow, followed by burial in Oak Hill Cemetery ADMIRAL'S DAUGHTER | WEDS NEWSPAPER MAN Miss Anne Elizabeth Wood Be- comes Bride of Joseph C. Harsch at Ellicott City, Md. Special Dispatch to The Star, ELLICOTT CITY, Md.. December 13. —Miss Anne Elizabeth Wood, daughter of Rear Admiral Spencer Shepard Wood, U. S. N., retired. and Mrs. Wood of Washington, D. C.. was married to Joseph C. Harsch of the Washington Lureau of the Christian Science Moni- tor. I The wedding was performed by Rev. | ‘W. R. Dye of St. John's Protestant Epis- copal Church in the parsonage at Ellicctt City. Mr. Harsch is 28 and the bride gave her age as 26. Mr. Harsch telephoned here from New Jersey yesterday morning and made an appointment with William N. Mahon. deputy clerk of the Circuit Court for | Howard County. and arranged for him ouse_and issue_the | day. Mr. Harsch was met here by Admiral and Mrs. Wood and his fiancee, who ha motored to Ellicott City from their home in the Capital. The engagement was announced last month. Mr. Harsch recently returned from Warm Springs, Ga.. where he represented his newspaper during the sojourn there of President-elect Roosevelt. He a native of Toledo, Ohio. The party re- turned to Washington after the wed- ding. MINISTER WANTS MORE “HE-MAN” LITERATURE President of Lord's Day Alliancs Says Present Fiction Is Evidence | of “Crumbling Foundations.” By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 13—A plea for more “he-man” literature of the type of “Dick Turpin” or “Ivanhoe,” with heroes who fight for the right, was voiced by Rev. Dr. Jobn H. Willey, president of the Lord’s Day Alliance of | the United States yesterday at the or-| ganization's annual meeting. Modern fiction, said Dr. Willey, is| one evidence of the “crumbling founda- tions” which the alliance has striven to_prevent. | The alliance went on record in favor of the five-day work week as a potential protection against the desecration of the Sababth. Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, general sec- T 0 the “Sunday etary golfer” is wn{”l regular church attendant | because now has more time to play £olf oo Satumey, U.S. TOTURN DOWN WATER DIVERSION State Department to Prevent Right to Aluminum Company on St. Lawrence. ‘The State Department agreed today to a reservation on the St. Lawrence waterway treaty, if necessary to prevent granting a permanent right to the Aluminum Co. of America for diversion of water for power. Assistant Secretary James G. Rogers told the Senate Foreign Relations Sub- committee considering the treaty he had no objections to a reservation demanded by Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York Power Authority, to prevent the aluminum company from obtaining a permanent grant of the right to divert water for its power project at Massena. Rights Not Affected. Rogers contended. however, that there was nothing in the treaty which af- fected the Aluminum Co.’s right to the water, s testified earlier in the day by Walch. The Assistant Secretary agreed with Walsh that the treaty should not afirm the compeny ht to the water. had testified that under pres- ent terms of the treaty the Govern= ent would spend more than a million rs for the construction of works in n of water plant part of the money r a canal which was s t Law- renc wing down the Aluminum Co.'s power canal He contended the treaty did not commit the United States or New York State to the conversion of water for the Aluminum Co. Has No Objection. * he said, “if there is any very well be a reserva- tion to cov e point and I have no ection to anyth { that kind.” Valsh testified that the St. Lawe would perpetuate a for the Aluminum Co. ; the expenditure of $1,- v-er project ald g of America at_Masse: ineers, conf ty would provide diversion of water the aluminum company. Favered Position. " he said. altminum _ccmpany <ion of 25,000 een the A and the Power Authc of New York or otk velop the power. “The commitice disadvantag be place alum vides tive, making it en an agreement w “The aluminur cupy a_fav ries wit project.” sh st expe give Lawre dite promy the power end fixing divided by New ¥ He propos:d that tr agrec 10 make availab! for power development the int 1 and above navigation tion of the trust t y by sayir for ; ; s of the power re- that developed without delay agency for the benefit of the people under_ conditions that will permit the sale of electricity at the lowest possible rates. GERMANS ATTEND ARMS CONFERENGE Return, After Absence Since July 23, Features Meeting of Bureau. By the Associated Press GENEVA, Decembar return to the Wor sarmament Con- ference, after an assence since July 23, featured a meeting of the Conference Bureau today. It is believed now that the work of the conference can proceed construce tively after the holidays The bureau received formal notifica= tion of the agreement reached on Sun- day at the informal five-power arms conference. and will forward to the general bedy a resolution expressing satisfaction at Germany's return. The burcau will meet again on Jan- uary 23 and the general commission on January 31 to resume the work With Germany participating. 13.—Germany's = S B “Spite Bride” Asks Divorce. OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec-mber 13 (). —Because, she says, her husband wed her only “for spite.” Maurine Martyn Shidler wi annulment of her mare riage to W. C. Shidler. young flower shop clerk. Mr=. C. C. Shidler, mother of the bridegroom, said it wouldn't be contested. HYATTSVILLE, (Special) —Mrs. Angela been appointed a teacher in ville Elementary Schoo! un Hontas M. Sturgis, supervis pal. She instructs in music. health in the departmental English and spelling in one section of the seventh grade. 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