Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly clnudJ and colder ; tomor- row partly cloudy, slowly tem- perature; northwest winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 61 at 7:30 yesterday; lowest 35 at 10 p.m. yes- Full report on page 8. am. terday. i “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban hcmes by The Star's exclusive carrier serv- ijce. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION (#) Means Associated Press. J e View of the difficulties they have en- Py No. 1,450—No. 32,387. . Yo Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ROOSEVELT PARLEY MAY AVERT EXTRA CONGRESS SESSION President-Elect to Discuss Fails to Halt Ga A furtive-eyed little fellow, the New Program With Party Leaders Thursday. CONFERENCE TO WEIGH REVENUE PROBLEMS Democrats Hope Through Taxes| and Economy to Balance Budget in First Year. By the Associated Press, ussion of an extra assembly of the new Congress and of the legislative program for the remainder of this ses- slon form a large part of the agenda for the conference to which President- elect Roosevelt has called Democratic congressional leaders next Thursday night in New York. Freed of his duties 2t midnight last night as Governor of New York, the incoming Executive wasted no time in turning to natjonal problems involving balaniging thef Federal budget and plans for carrying out the party’s pledges. His dfecting influence obviously is| awajtefl by his party leaders, especially countered in enacting the program out- | lined at his conference with them here | in November. | Hope to Avoid Extra Session. | By Roosevelt's stepping into the na- tlonsl picture at this time, it is be- lieved by his followers on Capitol Hill that a more united front will result and that it still may be possible to avert or Ppostpons, an extra session. The date and place of the conference | ‘were made public yesterday by Repre; sentative Rainey of Illinols, the Demo- cratic floor leader, who said that “in all probability the question of an exttl’ session will be discussed,” along with questions of taxes ang prohibition. “If we have to have a special session,” the Illinois Democrat said, “we should | have it as early as possible after March 4. The conference has been planned for several weeks and was originally to be held in Albany. Roosevelt, however, decided to hold it in New York to ac- commodate the members of Congress. The group will leave Thursday after- noon at 4 0'clock andwill meet Roosevelt probably at the Biltmore Hotel about 8 .m. They J;lum to leave for Washing- on a midnight train, The Congress Conferees. Among those who are to participate are Speaker Garner, the Vice Presi- dent-elect; Senator . Robinson of Ar- kansas, the Democratic floor leader, Rainey; Senators Harrison of Mis-| sissippl and Byrnes of South Carolina, | Chairman Byrns of the House Appro- inamm Committee, Representative cDuffie of Alabama, the Democratic ‘whip; Chairman Collier of the House ‘Ways and Means Committee and sev- eral additional Senators. The group will lay before Mr. Roose- velt information as to the needs of the ‘Treasury and plans to push the do- mestic allotment farm relief bill through this session. The conference comes a day after Chairman Collier is to confer with his group on the problem of find- ing additional sources of revenue and almost simultanecusly with plans for House consideration of farm relief. With Mr. Roosevelt reported as frowning on the general manufacturers’ sales tax, much of the discussion in New York is exp: d by leaders here to Tevolve around revenue questions, Al- s pave launched a President ate Economy Com- | mittee next weck | Expect Beer Bill Veto. | made known tonight that he intends to | Year 1933 crept into the Capital at midnight last night and was greeted noisily and with little indication that there - was any apprehension mingled with the gayet$. Although there was eleventh-hour action by police officials in deciding to “enforce” the Sunday closing ordi- | nance with respect to theatrical per-| formances and “floor shows” at !he‘ various hotels and night clubs, nobody paid much attention to the enforce- ment. Somewhere there must have been a twinkle in the official eye behind the order which required ®roprietors or managers of these establishments to post $25 collateral, for the shows went on after midnight with capacity crowds in attendance. Few of the many pa- trons even knew of the police action. ‘The depression’s effect was hardly noticeable as far as the number of celebrators were concerned. This was partially due, it was believed, to the fact that the cost of greeting the New Year in the accepted manner was consider- * WASHINGTON, D.*C, SUNDAY REVELERS GREETING 1933-, JAM HOTELS AND SHOWS |Police Decision to Enforce Sunday Laws iety Here—Cost Lower This Year. ably below ears. /) In addition to the gatherings at the hotels, theaters and clubs, there were many private parties, church gather- ings and the intimate New Year eve family watches in the city’s homes. These all were projected against the age-old background of the night's din of whistles, bells, gun shots and shouts. But one “sure trick” was missing this morning. The White House recep- tion, which on other New Year days drew thousands of Americans, will not be held, and the procession of service officers, diplomats, cabinet members and citizens will be missing while President Hoover spends a quiet day under the warmth of Florida sunshine. For the privilege of attending the hotel and night club parties New Year greeters paid varying sums and in vir- tually every case taxed the capacities of the dance floors. In one of the more prominent hotels, which imported a nationally famous ‘“crooner,” the guests paid $7.75 a plate and there were approximately 1200 dancers present. This sum, as in the case of most other hotels and clubs, included dinner, danc- ing and a breakfast in the early hours. From this “top” price, the party-goers paid a scale ranging down to $3 per ihat of more prosperous (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) LEHMAN 15 GIVEN DATH AS GOVERNOR Ceremony Held in New York Home Is Simple, Due to Death of Sister. By the Associated Press. NEW , YORK, December 31.—Before an open fireplace in the paneled living room of his tenth-floor Park avenue apartment, Herbert H. Lehman tonight took the oath of office as Governor of New York. Because of the death of his sister, Mrs. Clara Limburg, yesterday, the cere- mony was a simple one, with only rela- tives present. Not even the new Gov- ernor's close friend, former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, was there. Bray Also Sworn In. During the same ceremony, M. William Bray of Utica took the oath of office as Lieutenant Governor. Both oaths were administered by the new Governor's brother, Judge Irving Lehman of the Court of Appeals, who twice swore Smith into office, adminis- tered the oath to Franklin D. Roose- velt twice, and who swore his brother in twice as Lieutenant Governor. The double ceremony took only five minutes. Lehman signed his oath with 2 pen which both Smith and Roosevelt had used on similar occasions. Social Functions Canceled. Although the law is that the new Governor assumes his duties at the first minute of the new year, the formal in- auguration ceremony ¥ -~ 1ot take place until Monday. Some of the social functions attendant upon the inaugura- tion have been canceled. Three of the most impressed witness- es were the new Governor's children— Peter, 15; John, 12, and Hilda, 11—who stood close ‘to their mother ~watching the ceremony that made their father Governor of the most populous State in the country. “CABINET' TO BE RETAINED. Lehman Will Reappoint Roosevelt's Department Heads. ALBANY, N. Y., December 31 (#).— Governor-elect Herbert H. Lehman | | take President-elect Rocsevelt's “cabi- | It is through these two channels— | pet” as his own. taxes and economy—the Democrats | "On the last day of Mr. Roosevelt's hope to balance the budget during the | term as Governor of New York, Col. first year of the Roosevelt administra- | ehman announced that as Mr. Roose- tion, which will go a long way toward | vep's successor he will ask the State removing the necessity for an early | — o Eenia) sion of the new Congress. (Contifiued on P on the beer bill, already x5 e House, and pending in the | HEVELERS, PANTS SAFE 1iinued on Page 2, Column 2.) | ENDS LIFE ON LINER |Plan to Take Them From Liquor| | Law Viclators Denied. French Physician Hangs Himself | gaN PRANCISCO, December 31 (P). | { With Curtain Cord. < 31 (®).—The tch, French ped away from the n estivities aboard the liner Albert Belir hanged himself with a curtain cord, was discloed to- day when the ship docked Dr. Delitch, who was 44, left a note saying his wife had left him, that he was alone and had nothing to live for, and therefore was ending his life. He was buried at sea December’ 20. His | —Federal dry agents, reports to the | contrary, do not contemplate confiscat- | ing the pants of New Year celebrants | found toting liquor. The report, as first | circulated, said enforcement officers had | decided to classify the pants as vehicles | carrying contraband. A news reel organization in New York heard the report anc ordered a local cameraman to prepare to film | some rare scenes. Then Col. George | Seaver, deputy Federal prohibition ad- | ministrator, said he might have men- | tioned the idea to a reporter, but it was effects are to be sent to Paris. ,;580,000,000 APPROPRIATIONS CUT just a joke. NORBECK ASSAILED ON RURAL CREDIT Attorney General of State Blames Him and McMaster in System’s Failure. By the Assoclated Press. PIERRE, 8. Dak, December 31.— Failure of the rural credit system in South Dakota now being liquidated at an estimated $38,000,000 loss t> tax- payers was attributed primarily by At- torney Gen. M. Q. Sharpe today to the administrations of Gov. Peter Nor- beck and W. H. McMaster. In a report of an investigation of the credit system he charged they were the “most politically-infected and generally mishandled administrations cf public trust in the entire history of the State.” The investigation delved into the af- fairs of the rural credit department from its organization in 1917. Sharpe's report on it criticized Norbeck and McMaster for “hoodwinking the general public” frem 1917 to 1925. Norbeck Re-elected Senator. Norbeck, now completing his second term as United States Senator, was re- elected in November to a third term McMaster served one terni as Senator but was defeated for re-election by Gov. W. J. Bulow in 1930. Sharpe sald “in fairness to the Nor- beck and McMaster administrations” that no rural credit enterprise could have been started at a more inoppor- tune time than the years 1917, 1918 and 1919, when land values and agricultural prices reached their peak, only to retro- grade later to the lowest prices in the State's history. “Those things contributed to the faflure,” the attcrney general said, “but the principal causes were political infec- tion, catering too much to vote-getting policies and cheap, shallow, :uperficial statemanship.” Absolves Three Governors. The attorney’ general’s report dwelled at length on the conduct of rural credit affairs under Governors Norbeck, Mc- Master, Gunderson, Bulow and Green, but found no serious fault with the ad- minictrations of the latter three. Giving detailed figures, he predicted that only about $19,700,000 will be real- ized frcm resources with a cost value of $36,000,000. Bonds and interest to be paid total $58,000,000. ‘The audit and investigation conducted by Sharpe disclosed, he taid, that the failure 1s not due to any criminal larceny nor embezzlement by any one connected- with the department. The report listed, five instances where Norbeck borrowed large sums cf money from banks after rural credit money had been deposited in the banks. “REHASH,” SAYS NORBECK. Charges Used in Previous Campaigns, Asserts Senator. Senator Norbeck, replying last night to charges by Attorney General M. Q. Sharpe of South Dakota that Norbeck, as former Governor of the State, had been guilty of “hoodwinking the gen- erg public,” termed the charges “a long refash of material used in previous Ppolitical campaigns.” A statement by the South Dakota Senator said: “I have only seen the newspaper synopsis of Mr. Sharpe’s report, but this is a long rehash of material used in previous political campaigns. Much dates back 12 or 15 years. There is not a new thing, and South Dakota people are familiar with it and have ex- pressed themselves on this matter both in the primaries and the general elec- Chairman Byrns Tells of Efforts of Party Leaders in House to Carry Qut Roosevelt Pledge. By the Associated Press. Striving hard to help carry out the campsign pledge of their President- | elect for a 25 per cent Teduction in Federal expenses, House Democratic leaders claim already to have achieved 2 half & billion-dollar cut in appropri- stions for the next year. They hope, said Cheairman Byrns of the Appropriations Committes yester- day, to :.crease that cut to $800,000, 000 before the present session of Con. gress ends. “In the two or three telephone con- wersations I've hsd with Mr. Roose- velt he has sald that he wants every- “That's just what we're trying to do. "The difficulty is that the closer you get to the bone the less tiere is to cut from. “The four bills that the Appropri- | ations Committee so far has reported o the House propose to appropriate $517,000,000 less than the same bills carried last session. And that cut was | made out of bills that carried only $1,- | 654,000,000 last session. That's a 30 | per cent cut. “Since we still have seven regular | annual appropriations bills to work on, I hope that when we get through we {ean show that the House Committee proposed to spend $800,000,000 less. “The reduction could be bigger than that, but we've about reached the point where we've either got to elimi | consolidate or stop cutting. The Ap- propriations Committee can't very well refuse to appropriate money for things ' Congress has established by law. Con- | next session we will be able to cut more, lbecluse laws.’ Congress will change Byrns said he thought there was room (Continued on Page 2, ‘1, +* gress will have to change some of the thing cut to the bone,” Byrns said. laws. | | ere is no doubt in my mind that tion. “The report of Mr. Sharpe is simply | his ‘opinfon of land values. Some will | say he is too low and others that he |is"too high. Much will depend on | the future 0 one can say today what | his farm w sell for. Farmers are | losing their farms at an alarming rate, | 1 whether they borrowed money from the | State of South Dakota, from the Fed- | eral Government or private agencies. | 1t farm ings can be brought | back to former levels and money made | as cheap 2s when mortgages were made we will have profits instead of losses, otherwise losses will continue.” 20 Below Zero in Wisconsin. ST. PAUL, Minn., December 31 (#).— The old year went out with a final sul zero blast today. Rice 20 degress below ze: 17, and Devils Lake | was 8 below here. MISSISSIPPI RISING WITH NEW THREAT FOR FLOODED SOUTH Levees Expected to Keep éig River From Damaging Very Wide Area. RELIEF BELIEVED NEAR IN FREEZING WEATHER Hundreds of' Families Flee From Streams in Tennessee, Souih Caro- lina, Georgia and Other States. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., December 31.—The mutinous Mississippi, goaded to rebel- lion by its swollen tributaries, entered the South's flood picture today with a threat to overflow and insure Dixie a very wet New Year. The big river already has passed the 20-foot stage at Memphis and observers say it will reach flood stage there next week. That means lowlands along the Mississippi will be inundated, but it does not mean a flood of any magni- tude, as most valuable lands along the river are protected by levees. Memphis, itself, is in no danger, as the city is on a 'high bluff. Heavy rains in the watershed of the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers gave the Mississippi the impetus needed to make it overflow. Upland rivers had stopped rising and freezing weather was fore- cast to help put an end to rises near the headwaters. 400 Families Escape. The Tennessee was more than 7 fect above flood stage at Chattanooga and 400 families were forced to leave their Jowland homes near there, Over- flows from the Tennessee have closed about a dozen West Tennessee high- ways and inundated much acreage, but damage was slight. Over in Arkansas streams in the castern counties were flooding. but Win- ter overflows are annual affairs in that section. The crest of the rise of the Chat- tahoochee River in Georgia has passed West Point and the river was falling fast at Atlanta. South Carolina’s flood troubles were bunched in an area south of Columbia, where the Santee was cutting up. Many residents of the sparsely settled low- lands were warned to leave their homes and damage was believed confined to occasional loss of live stock. Tennessee River Rising. The Tennessee, which sweeps from East Tennessee into Alabama and then north through West Tennessee, had passed flood stage at Florence, Ala., and was still going up. Lowland residents have been warned. The Alabama at Montgomery was believed to have crested at 49.5 feet, 5 feet over flood stage. About 50 fami- lies have been evacuated from North Montgomery. ‘The Coosa was falling at Rome, Ga., where 140 refugees were under care of relief agencies. The same river, how- ever, was rising at Gadsden, Ala. The Georgia State Highway Depart- ment says damage to Georgia highways by weather conditions has been enor- mous. Hundreds of miles of graded and top-soiled roads are impassable. D. C. COUPLES ESCAPE BURNING AUTO WRECK Charles McLean and Wife Con- tinue Trip to Richmond After Accident in Passing Car. | By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, December 31— | Charles McLean of the Washington bu- erau of the New York Times and Mrs, McLean escaped without serious injury today when their car overturned and burned on the highway between Freder- icksburg and Richmond. Continuing their trip in the automo- bile of a passing motorist, they arrived of friends here. McLean said an unidentifisd driver, who did not stop after the accident, forced him from the road. He said when he attempted to get back on the highway the car overturned and in- stantly caught fire. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—12 PAGES. General News—Local, Natonal, and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B-2. Disabled American Veterans—Page B-4. Public Library—Page B-4. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial and Financial. District National Guard—Page 8 . Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 8. Community Centers—Page 8. American War Mothers—Page 8. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 8. Y. W' C. A. News—Page 8. PART THREE—8 PAGES. Soclety and Clnsifled Advertising. PART FOUR—6 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music. D. A. R. Activities—Page 3 District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Poge 3. the Motor World—Page 4 Serial Story, “Paris Love'—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 4. Organized Reserves—Page 4. Aviation—Page 4. Marine Corps News—Page 4. Fraternities—Page 5. News of the Clubs—Page 5. Y. M. C. A. News—Page 5. Spanish War Veterans—Page 5. American Legion—Page 5. Radio News—Page 6. PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports. PART SEVEN—16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Reviews of New Books—Page 10. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Cross-word Puzzle—Fage 13. Boys and Girls' Page—Page 14. High Lights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. GRAPHIC SECTION—6 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. . The Timid Soul; Little Orphan Annie; Moon Mullins; in Richmond to be the week end guests’ MORNING, JANUJ;RY 1, 1933—SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES. | Star. FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS |TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE WELL, YOU COULDN'T BE ANY WoRs:E- JANUARY 1, 1933. CONFUSION ON OLD AUTO TAGS CLEARED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT Order Making 8 AM. Deadline Tisucd O AKERSHIP RACE Following Conflicting Advice From Various Precincts. | Until shortly before 11 o'clock last night it appeared motorists driving home could escape arrest only by being lucky | after midnight with 1932 license plates or taking “the right route.” RANKIN ENLIVENS “I'm in Tight to Win,” Says Mississippian, With Cau- cus Date Topic. | B the Associated Press. Then Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, came through with | nders an order giving motorists until 8 o'clock this morning either to put 1933 tags Torge JCHE. o on their automobiles or else stop driving them. ‘The legality ef 1932 tags at one second after midnight threatened to become a matter of geography as a result of Maj. Brown's delay in issuing the extension order. With almost 5,000 motorists without 1933 markers, the various precincts were deluged with telephone calls from persons who wanted to know exactly how long they could continue driving on their old plates. And the answers they got depended entirely on what precincty they called —and, in some instances, on who hap- pened to answer the 'phone. Here's the result of a recincts made by numerous inquiries from readers: First precinct—"The latest advice we SALESMAN RURNED 10 DEATH N ROOM Employe of Real Estate Firm Believed to Have Gone to Sleep Smoking. Guy Birckhead, 42, real estate sales- man for the Srm of J. Dallas Grady, 1010 Vermont avenue, was burned to death in his room at 2124 North Capi- tol street late yesterday. Birckhead's body was found by his landlady, Mrs. Mayme Griffith, and her son Roy after neighbors had seen smoke pouring from the window of his room on the second floor of the dwelling. The room was in flames. . Police and fire officials, called by Mrs. Griffith, believed the man had gone to sleep smoking & cigarette, and, awaking in flames, rushed confusedly for what he thought was the outer door and was overcome on reaching the closet door. His body was found lying across the sill of the closet door in his room. Mrs. Griffith said he had been on the first floor less than an hour before, talking with her, then went upstairs to his room, closing the door. Birckhead had lived at the Griffith home for about a year. to have but two relatives, a Mrs. Pigeon, who is his sister, and a niece, both living in New York City. He had worked for Mr. Grady at in- tervals for the las. 15 years, the real estate agent said. The body was taken to the Distri x‘t:lr[x!. but no certificate of deith was e CHILDREN WITNESS SLAYING IN HOME Three See Father Shoot Lodger Here and Then Turn Gun on Self. While bis three children looked on, Eddie Fagilo, 49, shot and killed Loule Fagnani, 57, in their home at 115 D street early today, then turned the gun upon himself, firing a shot into his neck. At Casualty Hospital it was said his condition was undetermined. Fagilo's 13-year-old daughter Mar- garet, who described the shooting to police, said “Papa and Louie had ng and spent most of the eve- ning fighting. “I don’t know what it was about. All of a sudden papa ran upstairs, He is belleved | all et | WA ) is that '32 tags can be used until tomorrow this have o'clock HOOVER CONTINUES LUCK AT FISHING President Enjoys Two More Large Catches as Trip Nears End. By the Associated Press. THE SAIL FISH CLUB, PALM | Hoover’s angling luck held good today, with two more hard fighting sail fish falling early prey as he continued his search for more finny prizes in the | open Atlantic off Palm Beach. Setting out a half hour after day- break aboard the small auxiliary s.oop Orca, the President had his first irike before 9 a.m., and landed his sail fish after a 45-minute’ struggle. Later he hooked another and - succeeded in bringing it aboard ship. Fishing conditions were more favor- able today than yesterday, when the Chief Executive caught three sail fish and a small dolphin. During much of the day the sea was as calm as the Lake Worth anchorage harboring the U. 8. 8. Sequoia and other boats of the presidential fleet. Yesterday members of the Hoover party were tossed about by rolling waves. With his enthusiasm at a high pitch after his morning's luck, Mr. Hoover canceled ts to come in- shore for luncheéon and continued his fishing into the afternoon. Tonight probably will see the end of his angling while holding the presidency, for he has made no plans for fishing tomor- row and may return northward before again wetting a line. ‘The ladies of the presidential party did, not accompany their husbands morning as they did yesterday. Mrs. Hoover, however, accepted an invitation to use a privately owned motor boat during the afternoon. Justice Stone of the Supreme Court changed places with Senator Austin of Vermont this morning aboard the Orca, which also carried Lawrence Richey, ‘White House secretary. —————— DYING MAN DECLARES | HE KILLED MARY BAKER Police Place Little Credence in Story of Hospital Patient, Shot by Officer. In a dying condition, Howard Simms, 24, colored, who was shot by an elev- enth precinct policeman in a fight last Saturday at, last night confessed that he murllered Mies Mary Baker, | BEACH, Fia., December 31.—President | Hcuse speakership had a blast aimed at |them by another candidate yesterday | while they talked sbout the time for | the party caucus which will decide the issue. The date for that meeting seemed in- definite, with Representatives McDuf- fie of Alabama, Rainey of Illinois and Tennessee eeing that the wishes of newly el members who live some distance away should be re- mflneiaumun Rankin <f opinion, Messrs. Rainey agreed with em ments by Speaker John Nance Garmer that neither the er,. nor Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt, would have any- thing to do with the contest to choose the chieftain of the next House. The majority of House members have assumed that the caucus would be held around March 1, since it was felt that most of the newly elected resenta- tives would bz here to attend the in- auguration of Roosevelt. Byms sald, however, that “in times like the: of those who lived in state- the trip and return unless a | were to follow scon . The Tennesseean said he felt “all the mem- bers of the new House” should have a voice in the selection. McDuffié said he thought the Speaker should be chosen as soon as possible “to get the matter out of the way,” but that he, like Byrns, felt the new members who live far away should be consulted on the time, ‘That was the opinion also of Rainey. He and Representative Arnold of Illi- | nois, the caucus leader, are privileged to call the gathering. Rainey said he would get in touch with the new men}- bers aft some decision had been :‘nched on the time for a special ses- on. “In Fight to Win.” “All the political bosses and sub- | servient agents in the country cannot el ite me from this con- test,” Rankin sald. “I am in this fight to stay—and to win. * * * “It is to be a fight—a battle between essive Democrats in Congress. 2 *Iam a essive Damocrat. ‘The next administration must be pro- gressive, if it is to succeed. I have no personal quarrel with the three gen- tlemen who are opposing me. Some of them ‘are super-conservative; others are ultra-reacticnary.” in g statement. 3o . X themselves | Hith e forces of reaction and the | Rainey said claims that a sufficlent | BEER BILL DOOMED IN SHORT SESSION, NORRIS BELIEVES Nebraskan Doubts Probabjl- ity of Bringing Measure to Vote in Senate. COMMITTEE CONSIDERS HOUSE FLAN TOMORROW Dill Will Press Proposal to Have Senate “Jury” Test Brew by Drinking It. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The American people will have to wait until the newly elected Congress and President-elect Franklin D. Roose- velt take control of tMe governmental machinery before they have beer, in the opinion of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, chalrman of the Judiclary Committee. This is not because Senator Norris is opposed to the beer bill now pending before his committee. Nor does it mean Senator Norris will not do all in his power to expedite the passage of the measure. It means Senator Norris has his doubts as to the probability of bringing the beer bill finally to a vote in the Senate, and that he has even graver doubts that it would receive the ap- proval of President Hoover and so be- come a law. Despite the delays which the resolu- tion proposing repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the beer bill are run~ ning into in the present “lame duck” session of Congress, it is the of many members of Congress m these measures will pass the Congress during 1933, probably early in a special session of the Seventy-third Congress, which appears to be overwhr'mingly committed to both repeal and 0 pas- sage of the beer legislation. cent alcoholic content by weight, t 4 per cent alcoholic content by Senator Clarence C. Dill of 32 or volume, duct such a test of the beer. The- Washington Senator, however, takes the position that the country, s well as the committee, is entitled to know whether the beer is intoxicating in fact or not, and that if the commit- tee does not make the test before the law is enacted, the whole country will make it after the law is written on the statute books. Chides Unwilling Drys. Sepator Dill, who will support the beer bill, is inclined to chide -the drys who are unwilling to accept such a test on the beer. However, there are earnest opponents of the beer bill, like Senator Borah of Idaho, who insist that no test, to them, is necessary; that they know 3.2 per cent beer is intoxi- cating, without making any test. The obvious reply to such & position is that if the beer is in fact intoxicating, then opponents of the bill should be ail the more ready to have a test made. To this they reply that it would make no difference how the test came out; the committee and the Senate mean to put through the beer bill willy-nilly. Chairman Norris, who favors beer legislation, but is against re, of the eighteenth amendment, believes that the House becr bill could be rewritten with advantage, particularly when it comes to making it stand up and not be in danger of death at the hands of the Supreme Court. However, he is willing to have the bill reported imme- diately to the Senate by his committee and let it taks its chances. tinues to be.firm in his opposition to the heerings which the drys have de- manded, holdlnf all testimony regard- ing the beer bill that can be given has already been had, before the House Ways and Means Committee, and be- fore other committees, including the " (Continued on Page 3, Columz 3) | (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) CROSS-EYED CAT How Mouser Knocked Out . By the Associated Press. BURLINGTON, Wis., December 31.— The biggest liar in the United States is Phil McCarthy of Denver, Colo., it | was decided tonight by judges of the Burlington Liars’ Club. McCarthy, who is a heating con- tractor, if there is any truth in his let- terhead, submitted the tallest tale to officials of the club, which on the last day of "each year scttles the national fibbing championship. The champions! was conferred “stove in the police station to pass i 25 lies, 5 t on n McCarthy as club officiels sat about the | tpe YARN WINS 1932 CHAMPION, LIAR PRIZE His Prey and Learned Pass Signal in Flour Mill Told by Denver Man. mice. He caught them at the rate of four an hour, and finally I watched his method. = He crouched behind a post, o0k (bt g Jes, Invaviabiy geiting thess o t peg lez, inv getting them back of the ear. Pretty soon I noticed that the dead mice he was bringing me had their hair brushed the wrong way. And the explanation was this: “There was a knot hole in behind which the cat sat, and it, the cat became Bef o' -3