Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER, (U B Weather Bureau Porecast.) Heavy snow this afternoon and tonight; tomorrow cloudy, minimum temperature tonight about 18 yesterday; lowest, 18, hmrutum-—nuhut. 22, at 2 pm. at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 3. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 e he #n Entered as seco post office, Wa 2y No. 32,372, nd class matte shington, D. C, FRENCHDEBT VO | DECLARED BINDING ON NEW GABINET Paul-Boncour Holds Future Payments Depend on Conference. WANT AMBASSADOR EDGE TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS Herriot Refuses to Participate in Formation of New Government Despite Plea. The United States has informed France, and given similar indication to other debtor nations, that the administration is willing to continue debt discussions, but is opposed to any genecral conference and can make no offer of revision. By the Associated Pre: PARIS, December 17.— Premier- designate Joseph Paul-Boncour told Socialist leaders today that he consid- ered that any future French cabinet must be bound by the vote of the Chamber of Deputies December 14 to defer payment of war debts pending &n international conference. Negotiations Held Essential. He added, however, that he believed 1t necessary to pursue debt negotiations with the United States. It was the December 14 vote of the Chamber which resulted in the over- throw of the ministry of Edouard Her- riot, who pleaded that the December j 15 installment cf war debt interest owed by France to the United States be paid with reservations as to future payments. Immediately after his talk with the Socialists M. Paul-Boncour went to the Elysee Palace to report to President Lebrun on his progress in forming a cabinet. Await Washington $ord. Indications were today that France | still was cefinite from Washington on debt re- vision if the Chamber were to be in- duced to reverse its decision and pay the December interest. Such was the official view expressed this forenoon. WASHINGTON, D. “Toy Matinees” Thronged 4,000 Children Bear Gifts for Needy Boys and Girls at Star -Warner Bros.’ Theater Parties. Almost 4,000 children braved the heaviest snow storm of recent years this morning to contribute a Christmas glft for some destitute boy or girl through the medium of the “toy mati- nees.” ‘While snow plows labored through the streets, piling drifts into the gutters, and the air was white with snow, the youthful patrons fared forth to the matinees, where a Christmas gift for some poor child was the price of ad- mission. ‘The Tivoli Theater drew the largest attendance. Almost 1,200 children, large sprinkling of adults, heaped gifts into baskets in the lobby. The children, large and small, trouped into the Tivoli this morning, their cheeks red from the cold and their eyes sparkling with excitement. Shak- ing the snow from their heavy wraps they deposited new toys and gift cloth- ing on the rapidly growing heap in the lobby. Thousands Kept Indoors. ‘The snow continued steadily through- out the morning, and kept thousands of | youngsters indoors who had planned to attend the matinees. These telephoned to the theaters asking permission to the Santa Claus | bring toys they already had purchased when the weather was more favorable. There was at least one grown-up for every 10 children in this morning’s au- dience. Grandmothers and elderly gen- tlemen leaning on canes accompanied their grandchildren in many instances. Distribution Arranged. rranged by Warner 33.3‘,'3,3 fla}.}&e‘e\:h:n itk e Star, Showed pictures of special appeal o children, aithough hundreds of adults attended. . The toys collected from the city-wide audience will be distributed by the Council of Social Agencies. There is three times the meed for toys this year, since charity and emer- gency relief barely covers the necessi- ties, and every effort will be made by the council to give the gifts the fairest possible distribution. Children whoce families are under care of the Emergency Relief Commit- ]tee. others in hospitals, correctional in- stitutions and foster homes are on the “toy matinee” list. The toys will be | collected this afternoon from the theaters and carried to a warehouse by the trucks of a stcrage company which volunteered the service. There they will be sorted and put in readiness for delivery to the darkest | homes in Washington in ample time to | convey a big “merry Christmas” to the | destitute and the forgotten. ADAMS ADVOCATE FLAT U N NAY DAY FURLOUGHS *ORDERED BY DOAK Payless Vacations Are An- nounced as Green Joins Fight Against Added Pay Cuts. Scores Present Economy [ Program for Many “In- | equities.” A flat salary reduction for naval offi- | Simultaneously with a notice to all cers, instead of the present economy Labor Department employes that 30-day schedule, is recommended by Secretary | administrative furloughs would b2 en- | Adams in a letter to Senator Bingham, forced after January 1, President Wil- expecting scmething more | Republican, Connecticut, chairman of | the special Senate Economy Committee. The cabinet officer suggests that an additional proviso be inserted in the |act of June 30, 1032, making appro- A high official was asked what, from | priations for the legislative branch of liam Green of the American Federation of Labor said today “the full moral and political power of labor” would be t: vovn behind Government employes to . proposed salary cuts and ex-| coz tension of legislative furloughs. Labor Department bureau chiefs have the French view, was necessary to ex- | tract the debt problem from its present | deadlock. He replied that if the United | States, in some form or other, could clearly give to the French nation a| promise that debts would be revised he believes the French Chamber might alter its decision to postpone payment. ‘Want Edge to Act. The_opinion was growing here that | the Franco-American difference had | bezan allowed to develop out of all pro-i portions and could edsily be cleared | away. | Cne means-heard mehtioned was that ‘Weshington authorize Ambasador Wal- t> E. Edge virtually to cpen debt nego- tiations by making preliminary inquiries concerning - the French attitude on debis. This suggestion was founded on the | beiief that two men at a table could do something practical to give some justi- | fication to the Deputies to change their view and enable them to tell constitu- encies they changed because they re- ceived assurances the negotiations men- tioned in their Chamber resolution were started or were about to be undertaken. Paul-Boncour, after visiting resigning the Government and embodying econ- been in-tructed by Secretary Doak to omy features. as follows: “Provided, that after March 1, 1933, the provisions of this section shall not apply to officcrs on the active list of the Navy and Marine Corps; but, in order to effect the savings to the Government that would otherwise be made if the provisions of this scction remained ap- plicable to cfficers of the Navy and Marine Corps, the pay of all such offi- cers on the active lisc shall be reduiced by 1.3 per cent from March 1, 1933, to and including June 30, 1933, afeer which date the pay of all such officers shall be reduced by 3.9 per cent until June 30, 1934." Points to Unfairness. The Secretary cited examples under the economy act designed to illustrate that the present system is inequitable. At present officers who are promoted do noi benefit by the increased pay of their new grade. Mr. Adams" leiter estimated that the saving effected by the economy act between March 1 and July 1. 1933, would be distributed as follows: Saving due to suspension of increased pay upon Premier Herriot at the foreign min- istry. announced Herriot refused to | perticipate in the formation of a Paul-| Boncour cabinet. | The premier designate said: “Never- theless Herriot still is the best qualified | man to_settle the debt question.” | Paul-Boncour was asked to form a | 1o government after Camille Chau- | mps failed flutter d at I was caused when Herriot | President Lebrun’s resi-| e last night with telegrams from | > ador Claudel in Washington. | © official circles intimated these mes- | ges hardly more than confirmed press spatches. The dispatches said the United States | sgreed to pursue negotiations for set- tloment of the piyment France failed| 10 meke last Thursday. But the Ameri- | can Government. they said, would not| maze any engagement concerning the | convoking of a conference to revise the debts. Pertinax, the eminent political writer. | summed up the situation in these; It is eacily cgmprehensible that, with the prospect of French ‘default’ finding imitators, the Washington Gov- ernment strove vesterday to cajole us with more conciliatory formulae, with- out lding anything on essential point It was too late last night for Paul- Boncour to begin his task. He began this forencor by summoning Chau- temps. The newspapers generally believed he | t had a good chance of succeeding. They ! indicated he would epproach the So-! cialists, who deserted Herriot on the debt issue, with a vicw of some of them taking ministerial portfolios. If this failed, it was belicved he would ask| their promise of support Le Petit Journal said Paul-Boncour's | “international prestige. his gifts as aj speaker and his ability to sway as- semblies seem a certain guarantee of his success.” 1 Paul-Boncour fails, former Premier Theodore Steez and Edouard Daladier, | minister of public w under Herriot, were most mentioned as possibilities for the premiership. After informing the President of his failure. Choutemps said “He who will (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 18 RACE HORSES PERISH i IN INSULL ESTATE FIRE, Thoroughbreds Valued at slso.mo‘ Destroyed Hawthorne Farm Barn Burns. as By the Associated Press. . LIBERTYVILLE, Iil, December 17.— Eighteen race horses, valued at more than $150,000, perished early todey in a fire that razed a huge barn on the Hawthorne farms of the Samuel Insull estate near Libertyville. The fire started amd 20 tons of hay in the 1oft and was not discovered until 1 am, with the mercury 11 below zero. ‘Among the best known thoroughbreds Jost were Big Star, a 3-year-old, which established a track record for the mile at Sportsman Park last season; Lieut. Russell, Sibcria, Price Tag, Dewey Fly, Black Ligitning, Gallery, Profession and Toney Star. Four race owners suffered in the loss. They were Ralph Gallet, Michael Mann, H. Swenke, and R. Williams. Profession was a brother the famous Top Flight. s | longev lof the same promotion, $40,267; saving by suspen- on of advancement to higher pay grade (officers not promoted in rank). 650, and savings by suspension of vi.y pay incrcascs, $48735, total- ing $116,652. Illustrating similar sav- ings in the Marine Corps, Secretary Adams estim~ted that a total saving of 27.697 would b2 effected. The Secretary estimated that the sav- ings in the fiscal year 1934 by continu- once and re-enactment of section 201 of the economy act would aggregate for the Navy $1,133,905, while for the Ma- | rine Corps the total would be $166,933. Cites Definite Cases. Secretary Adams invites Chairman Bingham's attention to the fact that the Treasury-Pest Office supply bill continues section 201 of the economy act in ef- fect and if unchanged this would apply t> the Navy throughout the fiscal year 1034, He anticipates that “inequitable and especially objectionable features of the economy act, if a change be ap- proved, would probably become effective about March 1 next. For this reason the Secretary propcses that after March 1 the flat pay cut shall apply to Navy and _Mnflne Corps officers. He points out that there are a number of cases in which “due merely to a difference of a few days in the date of entry into the service or in the date of promotion, one officer is.now losing from 25 to 35 per cent of the compensation which he would otherwise be receiving, whereas other officers ability, rank and length of service, are losing 83 per cent due to the operation of this act.” This and other instances convince the Secretary that the flat pay cut for the officers is desirable. MOTHER AND 2 SAVED AS BOYS DIE IN FIRE Brothers, 16 and 7, Victims of New York Blaze—Others Are In- jured Before Rescue. By the Assoctated Press. ) NEW YORK, December 17.—Two boys were burned to death in their beds today in their hcme. in Jamaica, ueens. QFn‘cmen carried a widow and her daughters down ladders to safety in the biting cold of early morning. The dead are Herbert Davis, 16, and iz brother George, 7. Mrs. Lora Davis, 45, mother of the two boys, and her two daughters, 16 and 12, were rescued. Mrs. Davis was severe! the hands. face and body. The girls were treated for minor burns of the face and hands. WMAL ON NETWORK Place in N. B. C. Chain Planned Monday for “Five Star” Program. Station WMAL will temporarily join the National Broadcasting Co.’s “blue” netwerk Monday to handle the “Five Star Theater” programs, which WRC has been unable to broadcast because of a conflict in program service. These programs, originating in New York, will be broadeast on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. J ly burned about | infcrm emp'oves that administrative furloughs would be ne-essary becaus> of curtailed appropriations, with no chance likely for congressional approval of a proposed deficiency bill. The employes. who number approxi- matelv 700 in Washington and 7.000 in the field, were reported to have been | given the opt'on of either taking ad- | ministrative _furloughs or wholesale dismssals. The department is now on | a five-day week for this fiscal year, | the plan being inaugurated by Secre- tary Doak to meet the legislative fur- lough requirements under the eccnomy act. | Offices May Be Closed. Departfnent officials are said to be doubtful as to whether the administra- at least 155 jobs and prevent the clos- ing of 59 district offices of the United States Employment Service. Following a conference of department | executives, it was revealed that the | Budget Bureau has instructed all Gov- ernment departments they must present | no bills for deficiency appropriations. the rescue of its employment offices as a special case representing a vitzl need |in the economic emergency has result- {ed in renewed recommendations being placed before Budget Director Roop. |the House late yesterday for a de- ficiency_appropriation of $200,000 for the employment service. Should this be rejected, it was figured by Dgpartment cfficials that 155 emplores will be drop- | ped and the remaining 500 placed on 45 days’ administrative furloughs. Of the 59 offices likely to be clcsed, 24 are directly operated by the Government. | The rest are joint Federal-State offices, which would have to be shut down or their activities curtailedg Some Already Closed. According to John R. Alpine, super- vising general of the service, failure to | approve this estimate would mean “the | dismantling of what we have done.” | At its maximum effectiveness the em- | ployment service had 152 district of- | fices, but some of the agencies more directly serving seasonal occupations have been closed already. Records of the service reveal that the district offices have placed an average of 102,336 unemployed in jobs every | ized, in April, 1931. A total of 187,699 | has been placed monthly by the Fed- eral bureaus, plus the joint Federal- | State employment offices, according to | Alpine. The appropriation for the employ- | ment service in the current fiscal year | 15 $765,000 as against $938,780 last year. | For the present year, the service re- | quested $1,200,000, but the Budget Bu- reau and Congress shared in reducing | this estimate. Most Harmful Effect. President Green asserted that the | federation was unalterably opposed to | Government pay cuts or continuance | of the existing payless furloughs. The | threat of such cuts, he said, “is having a most harmful effect upon the gen- | eral urnemployment _situation through- out th2 couniry.” He added: “Any salary-cutting plan forced upon | Government employes is bound to create a bad psychological condition, paralysis n buy'ng power, a decline in the volume b | of business and increased unemploy- ment. Its net result is to add to the | Nation’s distress and the sum total of | human misery. |, “Its evil effect was reflected in the | failure of the recent Community Chest | campaigns and in the decline in volume ["of the sale of goods by merchants throughout the Nation. In the District of Columbia this depressed condition is especially keen.” FRENCH BOYCOTT ASKED Retaliatory Debt Measure Intro- duced in Chicago Council. CHICAGO, December 17 (#).—The French default of their war debt pay- ment to the United States led to in- troduction in the Chicago City Council of a_ retaliatory measure to hboycott French products and to prevent Amer- icans from touring in France. The measure was introduced by Al- derman Thomas J. O'Grady and was addressed to Congress, In the matter of the boycott it also would include wl.ll:,u if proiibition is repealed, O'Grady sal Judiciary, | Arkansas, tive furloughs would be able to save Appeals by the Labor Department for | | This led President Hoover to request | , violation of the Constitution.” | menth since the service was reorgan- | referred to the Committee on \ . . . ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., BEER BILL BATTLE 10 OPEN TUESDAY ON HOUSE REPORT Elimination of Wine Clause Dashes Hopes of Cali- fornia Interests. MiNORITY STATEMENTS FILED BY 7 MEMBERS Three Southern Democrats Believe Brew Would Be Intoxicating and Unconstitutional. With a vote before Christmas ap- parently assured in the House, cham- plons and opponents of Volstead act modification were preparing today for a bitter battle next weck over the re- vised Collier pill to legalize 3.2 per cent beer. Democratic leaders have decided to give the House ample time to discuss the bill when it is brought up Tuesday. Indications are that general debate will occupy two days. “The House will get as much time as it wants to consider the beer bill as far as I am concerned,” Speaker Garner told newspaper men today. The drive for the brew gained con- siderable momentum yesterday after- noon when the House Ways and Means Committee filed its majority report ad- vocating ayoption of the measure. Earlier in the day, however, the hopes of California_vineyardists for an early restoration of the wine business had been crushed by the same com- mittee, which rejected the Lea bill, 14 to 9. A Senate Judiciary subcommittee also had reached an agreement on the phrasing of a provision in the bill to repeal the eighteenth amendment, giv- ing protection for dry States. Estimates $300,000,000 in Tax. Reporting the beer bill, the commit- tee estimated it would give the Treas- ury $300.000,000 annually, increase em- ployment and help industry and agri- culture. The revenue prediction was based upon an estimated annual con- sumption of 60,000,000 barrels, taxed $5_each. Minority views filed by three mem- bers, headed by Representative Hawley, of Oregon, ranking Republican. ques- tioned the constitutionality of the beer proposal. A separate report was filed by Repre- sentative Treadway, Republican, of Massachusetts. Later the minority views of three Demccrats—Representatives Ragon of Cooper of Tennessee and Sanders of Texas—were filed. They said they could not support the measure be- cause they believed the beer would be inloxicating and in violation of the Coenstitution. Chairman Blaine said the - Senate subcommittee would resume next week its study of a provision to bar the re- turn of the saloon and means of sub- mitting the proposition to the States for ratification. Expects Bill to Pass. In announcing the Democrats would | seek quick House action on the beer bill Tuesday, Representative Rainey of lincis, the floor leader, said: “I don't know whether it will pass or not, but I think it will. It only re- quires a majority vote.” The minority report signed by the three Democrats, Sanders, said: “We are cf the opinion the proposed bill is violative of the Constitution.” ‘They cited provisions of the eighteenth amendment and quoted the cath they took to support the Constitution. “Therefore, we cannot under our oaths support this legislation,” they said. ‘We further submit,” the Democratic minority said, “that the proposed bill is not only folation of the Constitu- tion of the United States but of the Democratic platform which calls for the sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the Constitution.” “The above quotation from the plat- form shows that it was not the intent of those framing the platform to de- clare for legislation which would be in The lengthy Republican minority re- port was written by Hawley, with Rep- resentative Timterlake of Colorado and Crowther of New York CONCUTTing. Beer Held Intoxicating. Hawley said at the beginning of the session that he “stood on the floor of , the House and took the oath to support the Constitution.” He quoted from that oath and then from the eghteenth amendm:nt as a preamble to the asser- tion that he was convinced that “beer and other liquors” in the bill were in- toxicating. “A legislative declaration to the con- trary,” Hawley said, “does not overcome that fact, and if I were to support this legislation it would require a ‘mental reservation’ on my part and a ‘purpose of evasion,’” of the eighteenth amend- ment. Hawley said the brewing intcrests, “realizing the influence of the great (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Points in Beer Bill As Reported by House Democrats Legalizes Four 3.2 Pet. Weight Beverages 30 Days After Passage. The high points of the Democratic beer bill, as formally reported to the B aife: baar. s, porter and lager . ale, r an beer of 3.2 per cent ‘alcohol by welght, or 4 per cent by volume, Becomes effective 30 days after en- actment. Provides a tax of $5 on eacn 31-gal- lon barrel, as compered with the exist- ing $6-a-barrel levy. ovides PFederal protection to dry States on the basis of the Webb-Kenyon and the Reed “bone-dry” laws. Inzreases the existing occupational or license tax on brewers from $100 to $ P Ohibits the issuance of licenses o brewers in dry States. Requires wholesalers to pay an an- nual $50 license fee and retailers an annual $20 fee. distribution of beer in bottles, Permits casks, barrels, kegs or other containers sealed and labeled. . Allows sale in place where such llllz. ‘: with any Mcensed not in conflict SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, Ragon, Cooper and | beg ening S, 1932 —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,946 *% (®) Means Associated Press. —_—— TWO CENTS. AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS OF WATCHFUL HUNDREDS SEIZED IN ARGENTINA PLOT State of Siege Asked After Coup to Overthrow Justo Is Exposed. By the Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, December 17.—Two tormer Presidents and hundreds of | other political leaders were prisoncrs yes- terday as Argentina’s 10-month-old con- stitutional government asked Congress to declare a state of siege for 30 days Such action was sought in order that r'gorous measures might be taken to avert the overthrow of President Augus- tin P. Justo by the party ousted in the 1930 revolution. Hipolito Yrigoyen, President from 1916 to 1922 and from 1928 to 1930, was imprisoned again on Martin Garcia island, in the mouth of the Uruguay River. Marcelo T. de Alvear, Presi- dent from 1922 to 1928: Honorio Puer- redon, former Ambassador to the United States, and. obber radical chieftains were detained on the warship Veinti-| cinco de Mayo in the outer barbor. i Radicals Imprisoned. A succession of bomb seizures last night was climaxed by the arrest of the retired Lieut. Col. Atilio Cattaneo and his confession of leadership in a na- tion-wice subversive plot. With light- ning speed the government imprisoned every outstanding radical. An accidental explosion revealed a store of 1,000 bombs in Flores. a suburb Ocupants of the house fled, but a list of names were found and the arrests an. | The vessel Golondrina, bearing Dr. Yrigoyen, departed for Martin Garcia and the Vienticinco de Mayo, which was scheduled to make a two-month cruise, left the inner harbor with its hostages at 2 am. The government, after summcening troops, confidently awaited reactions, and declared the revoit stifled. The state of siege was established virtually iast night with army detachments as- sisting police patrols. Killings Declared Planned. Police said instructions were found at Lieut. Col. Cattaneo’s home provid- ing that three groups should overpower police headquarters and capture its arms. Then they were to take over the war arsenal and seize water, light | and power plants. Finaily, they were to occupy the government house and | other public buildings in a minutely planned coup, averting open fighting it possible An attempted demonstration by rad- icals in the Avenida de Mayo was dis- persed last night by mounted and foot police. A government declaration said the | conspiracy included plans to kill high The government said the movement was scheduled to break out today. sald it was forced to take emergen: steps to “avoid one of the most bai barous plots in Argentine political his- tory.” Gen. Delepiane, war minister under Yrigoyen, and Jose Kamborini were | prisoners with ex-Ambassador Puerre- | don and ex-President de Alvear on the | battleship. Three of them—the general | excepted—were banished from Argen- | tina for a short time in 1931. DANIEL J. TOBIN WINS BACKING FOR CABINET| Green and Woll Expelcted to Rec-| ommend . Campaign Officer for Labor Post. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 17.—There were indications today that the name of Daniel J. Tobin will be recommended to President-elect Franklin D. Roose- velt for Secretary of Labor in the new cabinet. ‘The Times said the Governor expects a visit soon from President William Green and Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor. It is expected, the newspaper said, that they will urge the appoint- ment of Tobin, who was in charge of the labor division of the Democratic National Committee during the cam- ign. p‘Duflnc a trip from Albany to his town house here yesterday the Gover- nor discussed war debt developments and other economic problems. He was Jolned at Poughkeepsie by Profs. Ray- mand Moley and R. G. Tugwell of Co- lumbia University, two of his_advisers. Last night Gov. and Mrs. Roosevelt attended a dinner for Miss Mary W. Dewson, director of ‘the women's divi- sion of the National Committee. The President-elect expected to go to Hyde Park for the week end, then back to FOURTH “OPPORTUNITY" IS TAKEN IN FULL, BUT 16 P OTHERS REMAIN rospect of White Christmas, a Joy to Many, Adds to Suffering for Unfortunate Families. Moved to compassion by the blizzard-like weather which has brought added suffering for needy families, citizens of Washington in ever-increasing numbers are taking advantage of the Christmas opportunities for reliet extended through the columns of The Star. Three of the opportunities to aid those in distress were snapped up, 100 per cent, yvesterday, the first day of the announcement, and another has been pledged in full by the wife of a naval officer 11 in the list of 20 opportunities 'and the case which the naval officer's wife | She telephoned The Star to advise that her check | wishes to care for is No. 13. is in the mails. But there will remain 16 cases of marked destitution for the considera- tion of kind-hearted Washingtonians. Donations, some large and many small, are being received by The Star toward ! the relief of these cases of impoverish- ment. No contribution is too small. and, of course, none too large for this worthy Yuletide charity. ‘To many fortunate children the pros- 500 Families .Endangered in’ Pearl River Area—Militia Is Called. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss.. December 17.—Be- The cases closed are Nos. 2, 6 and pect of a white Christmas inspires| within their youthful hearts all the traditsonal thrills that are identified with the season of good will and earthly peace. Visions of St. Nicholas lashing his reindeer through the falling snow, of bright new Sleds beneath a dazzling tree on Christmas morning, of a roaring fireplace and laden dinner table—all " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) MRS. LEWIS'LOSS IN SOUTHERN FLOOD OF GEMS UNSOLVED Contents of Bag Valued at Thousands by Wife of Senator. A mystery with all the elements of a} detective “thriller"—the loss of thou- tween 400 and 500 families were ma- s:nds of doliars of jewelry yesterday by rooned in the Pearl River flood zone | Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis after she todey, their Jives threatened by rapidly | tepped from a cab in front of the May- | Miss'ssippi | an emergency cail for volunteer boat- | | officials 1‘ rag.ng torrent were concentrated at the municipal | were cared for at the administration | grounds and m colored churches within | rising waters of the raging stream. Sub- freezing weatker prevailed. Gov. Mike S. Conner called out the National Guard. which joined Jackson police in rescue work. No cesualties had been reported this morning, but the situation was de. scribed “as extremely grave,” by Adit. | Gen. Thomas Grayson, in charge of | the rescue forces. 100 Are Rescued. More than 100 men, women and chil- dren were removed from the inundated area within an hour after the rescue crews started work. 1 | Every available boat and truck was | pressed into service and officials issued | men to assist in the work. White yefugees from the scene of the | auditorium, while colored | building on the Mississippi State fair the city. Doctors Assembled. A corps of physicians was hurriedly assembled to treat the refugees, many | of whom suffered from exposure. A sharp wind coupled with the subfreez- ing temperatures added to their misery. | Fear was expressed for some 50 per- sons in the fiood zone suffering from | influenza end steps were being taken to remove them first. Marilyn Miller Sails for U. S. LONDON, December 17 (). —Marilyn | Miller, sage and screen actress, and Don Alvarado, the actor, sailed on the | Europa from Southampton today for | New York. Miss Miller announced her engage- ment to Don Alvarado eight days ago. | flower Hctel and before she reached her apartment there — remained unsolved today despite the b:st efforts of the Police Department. The wife of the Illinois Senator, who was returning to Washington from her home in Chicago, said the jewels were ibnsgl case in a dark leather shopping “I opened the bag to pay the cab driver when we reached the hotel,” Mrs. Lewis said, “and for that reason I know I had the jewels then. When 1 reached my room the bag was gone, 50 I must have left it in the cab or at the desk while I was registering.” Bag Not Snatched. She said she was positive no one snatched the bag from her. Distraught from a sleepless night. Mrs. Lewis told reporters she could not place any definite valuation on the Jjewels, but that they were worth “thou- sands of dollars.” The missing gems, however, include family heirlooms, and pieces belonging to her husband and sister. They were not insured. Diameond Necklace Included. Some idea of the extent of the loss can be gleaned from a partially com- pleted police report, which shows that among the missing gems were a diamond necklace two and a half feet long and set in platinum, a diamond pendant set with a large ycllow center sapphire, a diamond brooch set with a large diamond and a number of small ones, & platinum and blue sapphire ring, a square diamond ring surrounded by small diamonds, a large sapphire ring surrounded by small sapphires and diamonds, an emerald and diamond ring, an emerald solitaire ring, a snake (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) FREEZING ATOMS MAY REVEAL NEW SECRETS OF MICROSCOPY Effect Similar to That of Providing Background by Dye for Studies, Claimed by California Scientists. By ~lhl Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif, December 17— Preezing of atoms in crystal structure has permitted X-ray magnification a hundred million times, and provides a system more sensitive than any inter- ferometer ever devised, members of the American Physical Society were told here today. These studies may reveal new secrets xtent, Dr. Alexander Goetz and Prof. Fritz Zwicky of the N dge Laboratory of Physics revealed. The {reezng has the atoms that dyes do for providing a background A type of effects, so far apparent Tox & Rald of svady 7y hess ne el or & of sl lese new mgth- ods, Zwicky revealed. i These phenomena not only play an important part in the study of astro- physics, the quest of secrets of the universe, but also in the physics of solids and liquids, and they may be es- sential for a study of the physical characteristics of living organisms. Goetz has found that atoms in their RECORD SNOWFAL FORECAST HERE AS SEVEN INCHES ARE REGORDED BY NOON Weather Bureau Expects Storm to Continue All Day and Well Into Night—Gity Traffic Is Slowed Down. MERCURY DROP HALTS AT 7:30 AT 18 DEGREES Emergency Crews Kept Busy Clear- ing Streets as Drifts Pile Up. Missions and Relief Agencies Taxed to Maximum by Demands of Needy. Plenty of Jobs Open For Unemployed to Help Remove Snow There are plenty of jobs for unemployed men in the District today The District of Columbia gov- ernment, wants men to help clear snow from the streets. The ap- peal, made today to the mu- nicipal woodyard and other agen- cles in contact with large groups of unemployed, asked such work- men to report to the municipal garege. on Fourteenth street southeast, between E and G streets, or to the city refuse plant, in the block between Ninth and Tenth streets and N and O streets in the Northwest section. Private citizens who want men to remove the snow from their sidewalks can get the help they need from the District of Colum- bia Public Employment Service, at 480 Indiana avenue. Telephone National 6000 and ask for Branch 480. The office will remain open until late tonight and will be open tomorzow if snow conditions war- rant, | Washington was threatened to- ,day with the heaviest snow since the record-breaking 28-inch fall in January, 1922, when the roof of the old Knickerbocker Theater collapsed. Swirling rapidly up the Atlantic Coast, the storm struck the Dis- trict at 3:50 o'clock this morning, and by noon, it had laid a blanket 7 inches deep. The Weather Bureau said the snow would con- tinue unabated throughout the day and far into the night. Mercury Drop Halted. A predicted drop in temperature to a new low of 10 degrees for the Winter was halted by the storm. The min- imum for the last 24 hours was 18 at 7:30 o'clock this morning, or 4 degrees higher than the season’s low of 14. A dry snow, it drifted in the suburban areas, and hampered all forms of traffic. Roads in the outlying sections also became treacherous from a thin coating of ice that formed from the pressure of vehicles on the snow. Street cars and motor busses were delayed, but no serious tie-ups were reported. Cars on most lines were run- | ning 15 to 30 minutes behind schedule. | Busses maintained a slightly better | schedule. except those on routes run- | ning over dangerous ice-coated hills. Storm Is Widespread. ‘The emergency snow-removal force of the District Refuse Department swung into action vigorously about 6 o'clock and before the morning rush hour 17 main arteries of travel in the business section had been opened to traffic. Some of the prescribed snow removai Toutes, especially those with street car tracks, snowplows had covered twice by 8 o'clock. The entire Atlantic Coast was blast- ed by snow and rain laden gales. Ship- ping was threatened from the Carolinas to Boston, while inshore a white blanket vas spread from Atlanta to Baltimore. Weather Bureau. reports showed the heaviest fall this morning was in Vir- ginia and the highest winds off Norfolk. The storm is sweeping Northeastward and is expected to extend to New Eng- land and the Eastern Canadian coast. It blew out of the Gulf of Mexico yes- terday and the wide divergence between 1 high pressure in New England and low | pressure in the Carolinas was expected by the Weather Bureau to increase |its intensity. Property-Owners Warned. With no sign of a let-up in the fall, John W. Oehmann, District building inspector, issued a warning to property- jowners to prevent an excessive amount . of snow to collect on building tops, espe= | cially those with flat roofs. __At_the same time Col. Oehmann (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) FRUIT LOSS $800,000 California Growers Reported Cold ‘Weather Victims. SACRAMENTO, Calif., December 17 ()—E. L. Stanley, Sacramento County farm adviser, said last night reports showed growers of oranges and other crops of the Sacramento Valley from Lodi to Oroville had lost an invest- ment of some $800,000 during the in- tense cold weather of the last 10 days. Stanley said the complete loss could not be computed until next Spring, but that he believed the damage event- ually would reach $1,500,000. MRS. CARAWAY ILL Senator Remains at Home Under Care for Light Cold. Suffering from a slight cold, Senator Hattle W. Carraway of Arkansas re- mained at her home todey under doc- tor’s orders. It was said at the hcme of the Demo- in | cratic woman Senator that she would and other alloys hundreds of times , tough and efficlent as present return to her Senate desk Monday. Radio Programs on Page B-12 S