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A—2 x» WAR PREPRRATIONS NUSHED N ORENT Chinese Are Intrenching to| Meet Japanese Threat—Mu- nitions Plants Hum. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. News received during the week end| n ‘Washington indicated a recrudescence | of military activities throughout the | Far East. ‘The Japanese military leaders are en- gaged in preparing a new campaign to | exterminate the rest of the Chinese “bandits” who have been harassing the | eommunieations of the Japanese armies | in Manchuria as well as those districts | of the new state which were only feebly | ‘protected by the Japanese army. | The weather conditions are reported to be favorable for such an enterprice, which will bring the Japanese army | into the province of Jehol—the prin- | cipal oplum producing region of China | and as such, an important asset to China's revenue. Whether these opera- | tions, which according to reliable re- | ports, will be met with a serious op- position on the part of the Chinese generals, will lead to further operations | as far as Tientsin and Peip- | ing, is for the time being unknown here, but it is assumed that the large num- ber of troops required by the Japanese high command to be stationed in Man- | churia—some 220,000 men—will have more to do than to clean up more or | less disorganized bands of guerillas. Chinese Entrenching. | The Chinese themselves, having lost hope for a fair deal from the League of | Nations, or within the next few months, some active support from the United States, are preparing to oppose, th: best they can, the 1.ew Japanese threat. In recent months they have been pur- chasing comsi ble war materials from various arms manufacturing countries and under the leadership of some of their best officers they are entrenching | themselves in their strong natural fortifications. Their power of resistance has been considerably increased since the renewal of diplomatic and otherwise cordial re- lations with Soviet Russia. While both ountries are individually unable to meet the Japanese menace, together they can become very troublesome to the Jap- | &nese army. | ‘The Russian government, which had | been hitherto slackening its military | wctivities in Siberia, is reported to have | new war preparations. | Supplies Rushed. An unusual activity is reported along | the Trans-Siberian railway, efforts | being made to speed up the doubling of the single track railway into Siberia | proper. le the Siberian garrison is | not being increased, supplies of all kinds | are being rushed as quickly as Russians | can rush matters for the hundred-odd thousand men forming the present garTison of the Asiatic possession of | the republic. The aviation is reported to be increased and improved by up-to- date machines. Like in Japan the Rus- sian ammunition factories are working overtime, producingunut only the usual war spimunition but also all that is| necessary for an intensive chemical gas | warfare campaign. ‘While most factories throughout the ‘world are reducing their production and dismissing men, war material estab- lishments in Europe and Japan, and to a certain degree in the United States, are working full time to provide for the many requests from various countries for war supplies. While in the United States these activities are less notice- able, the r from France, Great Britain and Czechoslovakia indicate that their arms factories, .Creuzot, Viekers.. and Skoda, are hav- ing the busiest known since the wer days,. BUTLER URGES PEACE. Asks Nations o Help Solve Far Problem. NI Columbia University, cxpressed a hope that “through consultation and through the disinterested co-operation of all na- tions” agreement may be reached which will solve the Far Eastern prob- lem “through other means than the | futile and disastrous arbitrament of war." Ax’ president of the Carnegie Endow-' ment for International Peace, Dr. But- ler has written a preface to the Janu- East | YORK, December 31 (#).—Dr. |Senate Progressive to Give |ington Star and broadcast over the Murray Butler, president of |P© Forum Speaker SENATOR DILL. DILL WILL SPEAK FOR RADIO FORUN Program for New Year Tomorrow Night. “Looking into 1933 From the Progres- sive Point of View” will be the subject of an address delivered by Senator Clar- ence Dill of Washington in the National Radio Forum at 10:30 p.m. The Na- | tional Forum is arranged by The Wash- network of the National Broadcast- ing Co. Senator Dill is one of the prominent | figures in the progressive wing of the | Democratic party. From the outset| of the campaign to nominate Franklin | D. Roosevelt for President, Senator Dill was & staunch Roosevelt man, being convinced that the New York Governor was g progressive at heart. During the pre-convention campaign and during | the national campaign, Senator Dill| played his part to bring about a Roose- velt victory. What a progressive Demo- crat regards as an essential program | will be touched upon by the Weshing- | ton Senator in his address Monday | night. Prior to his election to the Senate in 1922, Senator Dill had served a couple | of terms in the House. He was re- elected to the Senate in 1928 by a sub- stantial majority, although President Hoover carried the State by an over- whelming vote over Alfred E. Smith. ROOSEVELT F;ARLEY MAY AVERT EXTRA CONGRESS SESSION (Continued From First Page.) Senate, is to be reported by the group. Some of them privately say that Presi- dent Hoover will not sign it, if it reaches the White House. They have expressed the same doubt about whether Hoover will approve the Democratic farm relief measure if it reaches him. Because Roosevelt is anxious that this session act on the Democratic outright prohibition repeal proposal, there is a possibility that another effort will be made to obtain House approval, al- though it was defeated on the first day of Congress by six votes. Much de- nds, however, on whether the Senate approves a repeal proposal its Judiciary Committee has under consideration. Meanwhile, the Senate will begin consideration of the Glass banking Lill next week, pending House action on farm relief. ROOSEVELT ISSUES BID, President-Elect Explains Purpise ol} Conference. issue of the “International Concili- ation” document published by the En- dowment, and in it says: | “The pact of Paris is the only docu- | ment in existence to which practically &l nati of the world have subscribed. The problem now confronting the | Lesgu: of Nations is therefore in no sense a regional one. “The covenant of the League and the nine-power treaty are reenforced by the pact of Paris which calls for no | sanchion other then that of public opin- jon. It seems not too much to hope that through censultation and mutual | concersions on the part of those imme- diately concerned, and through the di interested co-operation of ail natl some agreement may be reached which wil munme settlement of this (the Far ) problem the fut arbitrament of w He also expressed a hope that Amer- ican and Russian representatives would sit with the “so-called Committee of | Conciliation” when it meets next month at Geneva to consider the Lytton Com- mission's report on the Far Eastern | situation. through other and disastrous | $500,000,000 REDUCTION IN APPROPRIATIONS MADE, HOUSE DEMOCRATS GLAIM (Continued From First Page.) for “considerable reduction” in the War, Navy, State, Justice, Commerce and La- | bor Departments and independent of- fices appropriation bills. He added, how- ever, that the outlay for veterans could not be substantially cut until after the special joint congressional’ Eommittee | completes its study of the subject and makes recommendations to Congress ‘When Byrns goes-to New York next week with other leaders, he sald he would talk with Mr. Roosevelt about the Army and Nl\?’ appropriations for next year, which will be brought up for House action this session. “They present a question of policy that . Roosevelt’ ought to deci Byms said. “If he has any specific recommendations, we'll do our best to carry them out. Personally, I'm a sort of a strong defense man” Byrns was not sure whether the re- maining appropriations could be cut enough to avoid the necessity for new taxes to balance the budget. He empha- sized that e budget recommendations | themselves on the Treasury-Post Office. Agriculture, Interfog and first deficiency | bills were more than $400,000,000 under last year, and added that “the commit- | tee fortunately was able to increase, that Teduction.” NINE BUILDINGS BURNED | Two Firemen Hurt in $200,000 Philadelphia Blaze. PHILADELPHIA, December 31 (%) — Fire tonight swepi nine buildings be- 1 to Jacob Stern & Sons, manu- facturers of tallow and leather goods, in the Brigeshurg section of Philadel- phia along the Delaware River. Due , tp : exploding chemicals, the spresd rapidly and police said the loss would total $200,000 ‘Two firemen were in- they ALBANY, N. Y., December 31 (#)— President-elect Roosevelt announced tonight that he had invited Democratic congressional leaders to meet with him in New York next Thursday to “discuss legislative matters” and to ‘“get their| views on the general political situaiion. In a brief statement, entitled “for information of the press,”” Mr. Roose- velt sald “Gov. Roosevelt announced today that he had asked a number of Senators and members of the House to meet with him next Thursday evening at his home in New York City. As the Governor has only a little over two weeks befors leaving for Warm Springs, Ga., and desires to talk with as many of the members of Congress as possible, this meeting was arranged. “The party coming up from Wash- ington will include from the Senate, Robinson, Pittman, Hull. Harrison and Byrnes, and from the House, Speaker Garner, McDuffie, Rainey, Rayburn, Collier and Byrns “The Governor wants to discuss gen- eral legislative matters, and is asking party leaders up in order to get their views on the general political situation. “Quite a number of party leaders will see the Governor individually during | the next couple of weeks.” While reports from Washington said the Governor would meet leaders at the Biltmore Hotel, his an- nouncement named the scene of the meeting as his home at 49 East Sixty- | fifth street The personnel of the conferees indi- cates the chief subjects will be economy, | taxes and appropriations. Sam Ray- burn, Texas House member, is chair- man of the House Interstate Commerce Committee. His presence indicates, it was pointed out, that railroad legisla- | | tion may be discussed. ANNA CASE KIN DIES Pneumonia Fatal to Sister-in-Law of Binger. CLEVELAND, December 31 Mrs. Lois A. Case, 35, sister-in-law Qf the former Anna Case, Metropolitan Opera star, died at her home in Lake- wood today of pneumonia. The body will be taken to South Branch, N. J. the home of the Case family, for burial next Wednesday. The' former Anna Case is the wife of Clarence Mackay of the Postal Tele- graph Co. ®)— Shoplifter Returns Stolen Goods and Demands Refund By the Associated Press. GREEN BAY, Wis, December 31.—1It's bad enough to “shoplift” a sweater from a store, but then to bring it back and demand a refund because it's the wrong size proved too much for the patience of a local merchant. As the result, Peul Clark, who : his home is in Grand Rapids, . Mich., will spend the next 30 days in the Brown Coun- ty Work House, He pleaded guilty in Municipal today to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Congress | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ROOSEVELT RAPS WALKER DEFENSE Governor, Retiring, Fires Parting Shot at Critics of Ouster Hearing. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, December 31.— President-elect Roosevelt, retiring to- day as Governor of New York, fired a parting shot at thcse who adversely hearing which preceded the resignation of former Mayor Walker of New York City. Mr. Roosevelt's reply to defense coun- sel and to Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley, a Republican jurist, was writ- ten into a memorandum filed with At- torney General John J. Bennett, jr. Roosevelt used 44 pages to answer John J. Curtin, Walker attorney, and Jus- tice Staley, whom Walker's counsel had petitioned to halt the gubernatorial proceedings. ‘The Walker hesring, which began early in August and ended in Septem- ber with the mayor's resignation, be- came an issue of the presidential cam- paign, particularly in sections fave able and unfavorable to Tammany Hi Mr. Roosevelt expressed the hope that | | his commentary on the Walker hearing would establish a precedent for future executives should they be called upon to hear charges against public officials. Answering Walker's contention that the State’s chief executive could not judge acts of a prior term, Mr. Roose- velt declared the claim “not only wrong in principle but based upon an assump- tion too violent to atford it any sup- port.” “It is unthinkable that a community may be compelled to accept the con- | sequences of the re-election of an offi- cer who has been guilty of gross acts | of malfeasance in a prior term,” he said, “where the electorate did not have full and detailed knowledge of the acts at the time of re-election.” Bids Good-by to Workers. Mr. Roosevelt spent a short time of his last day in office at the capitol, approving a minor appointment, re- turning citizenship rights to 50 paroled prisoners, commuting seven sentences and bidding good-by to State workers. “I'm leaving Herbert (Governor- elect Lehman) a few pencils, a pen and half a box of safety matches,” Mr. Roosevelt remarked at the last press conference in the executive office. Then smiling and whispering behind his hand, he added “Don’t mention some of the other things.” The Gov- erner referred to State problems which go over until the Lehman administra- tion. | _Tonight the Governor and Mrs. | Roosevelt gave a dinner for the mem- | bers of the Roosevelt State cabinet, | several of whom have been mentioned as possible Federal appointees when Roosevelt becomes President. Mr. Leh- man, because of the death of his sister in New York, could not attend and the original list of 50 guests was re- duced by illness to 36. A visit to the inaugural ball preceded the Governor's departure by motor for his Hyde Park home. Leaving as he intended about 11 p.m. Mr. Roosevelt likely would be south of the Hudson, perhgps at Redhook, as the new year enterel. Midnight marked the end of his %:vernorlmp. “I'll probably asleep in one corner of the car and won't see the old year out,” he remarked today. In his Walker metnh:)?ndlum,m ‘Mr. Roosevelt ted from legal opinions of lomet@%avn. Samuel T. Tilden, Grover Cleveland and Charles Evans Hughes, to uphold the removal powers of the chief executive. The three Gov- ernors, like himself, were presidential | candidates. Criticizes Justice Staley. | Of Justice Staley, who declined to | halt the Walker hearing but commented | unfaverably on Roosevelt’s conduct of | it, the President-elect said: | “It was unfortunate that the learned | justice should have regarded the adven- titious circumstances of the Walker case as an opportunity to express his persorial views on the conduct of the hearing, especially since the language of his opinions was not subject to ju- dicial or other authoritative review.” Justice Staley's utterances, Roose- velt continued, “could have no effect except the possible one of iufluencing public opinion adversely to the executive in the discharge of the latter's duty and so bring implications of blame upon | & co-ordinate branch of the government. It is incumbent upon public officials, under our system, to respect the consti- tutional division and to remain within the limits prestribed for their own action.” Mr. Roosevelt said granting Walker's demand that his accusers face him would have been productive of “nothing except an utterly unjustifiable waste of time.” He said he had ever been ready to summon witnesses when there s | a conflict of testimony and cited the ap- | pearance before the Governor of Paul lock, publisher. o :‘RANKIrENLIVENS SPEAKERSHIP RACE; CAUCUS DISCUSSED (Continued_From First Page) | number of votes were pledged to any lcandldalc to elect him were ‘“ridicu- ous.” If a deadlock at the party caucus develops, the choice might be Repre- | sentative Crosser of Ohio or Representa- | tive O'Connor of. New York, both of whom have been placed in the running. The names of Representative Warren | of North Carolina and Representative | Bankhesd of Alabama have also been mentioned as possible compromises. THINKS ROOSEVELT NEUTRAL. | National Committee Secretary, How- | ever, Denies Statement. BOSTON, December 31 (#).—Robert | Jackson, secretary of the Democratic National Committee, today said he had not made any attempt to state the | positiog of President-elect Roosevelt toward the selection of a Bpeaker in the next House of Representatives. At the same time, Jackson said he had never heard of Mr. Roosevelt tak- ing a position for or against any candi- date for the speakership, Jackson's statement was the resuit | of reports that Representative Rainey of Illinois, majority leader of the House and a candidate for the speakership, | had received a letter from James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to the effect that the secretary had “no authority what- ever” to say that Mr. Roosevelt fav- ored the candidacy of Representative McDuffie of Alabama. “I have never been 5o presumptuous | as to attempt to state Gov. Roosevelt's | position,” Jackson said. “He has a | habit of speaking for himself. In this | particular instance, I have never heard | of his taking a position for or against | any candidate. I am sorry that my good friend Henry Rainey should have | paid any attention to such a rumor.” O e =5 Explorer's Ex-Wife Poisoned. SEATTLE, Wash,, December 31 (#).— Mrs. Dorothy de Staffany, divorced wife |of Lyman de Staffany, arctic explorer and fur trader, was in the City Hospital here today in a serious condition. Police criticized his handling of the ouster | drank poison last night at & ends reported had been cmumxnmy Colonel, Age 1 BABY GETS “COMMISSION" AS BIRTHDAY PRESENT. As & birthday present, his first, James | Fenwick Whitehurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Whitehurst of Brooks- ville, Fla., was made a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Gov. Doyle E. Carlton of Florida. —A. P. Photo. POLICE CONFUSED BY MCON CLUES Blood on Glove, Indicating Murder, and Man Reported Seen Alive. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 31.— A myriad of conflicting developments baffied police tonight as they sought to learn whether R. S. McCoin, missing Henderson, N. C. attorney, was dead or alive. Columbus police were presented with two storifes today, and each upset the theory advanced by the other. The first was the report of Dr. James Beer that stains, found on a glove and in the automobile of the former North Carolina State Senator, were made by human blood. This seemed to strengthen the report received by of- ficials of the Southern State that the missing man was slain in Virginia De- | cember 23 by robbers and his body buried in Maryland. Reported Seen Alive. The second story told by two Obioans was they had*seen McCoin several days after he was reported to have been slain—strengthening the report that McCoin had been in this region as late as Christmas eve. Announcement of the developments in Ohio came from Assistant Chief of Detectives Thomas Scully of Columbus, after Roancke, Va., police declared a man giving the name -of “Dr. M. E. Yergin” had been questioned thére “be- cause he had been talking.” He was not arrested. Body Detecting Machine. “Yergin,” the police of the Virginia city said, told them he had a machine that would detect the spot where the body was buried. He said his instru- ment showed McCoin was murdered 99 miles north of Roanoke. “Yergin,” aout 60, said ho was from Missouri, and that he became inicrested in the strange case of McCoin while traveling through Virginia. He said he would wait around to show his body detecting machine to North Carolina officials. A youth *ho gave the name of A. L. Holden, was grilled for several hours at Henderson, but he denied any con- nection with McCoin's disappearance, Authorities said his fingerprints would be checked with those found on the McCoin automobile in Columbus. LEHMAN 1S GIVEN OATH AS GOVERNOR IN NEW YORK HOME (Continued Prom First Page.) Senate to approve 10 reappointments of department heads who served during| the Roosevelt regime. Four persons in the pro:pective Leh- man cabinet have been mentioned in ccnnection with Mr. Roosevelt's presi- dential plans and will serve only until March 4 in the event they are given Federal posts. Legislature Meets Wednesday. The new Governor will send ali 10| names to the Senate when the Legisla- | ture convenes next Wednesday. The new State Senate will be Democratic- controlled. The reappointments include: Edward J. Flynn, New York City, Secretary of State. Flynn, one of Mr. Roosevelt's strongest supporters in the metropolis, has been mentioned in con- nection with the Federal appointment of the collector of the port of New York after Mr. Roosevelt takes office as President on March 4. Thomas M. Lynch of Poughkeepsie, commissioner of taxation and finance, he, a friend and neighbor of Mr. Roose- velt, also has been mentioned in con- nection with the port of New York job. Greene Publc Works Chief. Frederick Stuart Greene, superin- tendent of public works, a close friend of both Mr. Roosevelt and former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, political pressure is known to have been brought several times for removal of the playwright engineer, who has run the largest of all the Btate departments for years. Greene's home is in Rensselaerville, not many miles from the State capital. Frances Perkins of New York City, industrial _commissioner. Many _of President-elect Roosevelt’s friends be- lieve he will make her United States Secretary of Labor and the first woman member of a presidential Cabinet. Henry Morgenthau, jr, New York City, conservation commissioner. Mor- genthau may be gven a diplomatic post, such as was held by his father, former Ambassador to Turkey, after Mr. Roosevelt becomes President. $4,800,000 Gold Arrives. NEW YORK, December 31 ()—A shipment of $4,800,000 in gold con- signed from France to New York bank- Ing houses arrived today on the liner Albert Ballin. There were unconfirmed reports aboard the ship that a quantity of gold had been shipped from Ger- many by parcel post. Influenza Kills Tire Maker. Ax!!l;fl Ohio, l:e'eember 81 m,-; Frank E. , former presiden of the Kelly- Tire Co. died o s Rome toaay ot infuenza, ‘| New Year celebration, "however. FIRST OF PUZZLE - SERIES PUBLISHED Auto Show Contest Opened. Others to Appear Daily in The Star. ‘The automobile show prize puzzle contest begins today. The first puzele will be found in the automobile section of this paper. ed by the Washington Automotive | Trade Assoclation, with tbe co-opera- show, to be held at the Washington Auditorium, January 28 to February 5, inclusive. Each day a puzzle will be printed. the woman's page in The Star. be concealed. It is it. ‘The makes described in the puzzic will correspond to the makes of cars that will be exhibited at the show. ‘Twenty-four cars will be described. When all the puzzles have eppeared and have been correctly solved mail the answers in to the Washington Au- tomotive Trade Assoclation, room 1002, 1427 I street. With the answer write Jject, “Why the automobile show should be held here every year.” Copies of The Sitar may be exa gr!‘x the files in the business office ar. ‘The contest will be run on similar lines as the one last year. One hun- dred dollars in prizes will be awarded, with 100 free tickets to the show. First prize will be $50 and four tickets, sec- ond prize will be $25 and four tickets, third prize will be $10 and four tickets and fourth prize will be $5 and four tickets. In addition there will be 10 prizes of $1 each and four tickets. For honorable mention, 25 prizes will be awarded of two tickets each. In the case of a tie cuplicate awards will be made. Members of the Auto- motive Trade Associai‘on will be the Jjudges, s REVELERS GREETING 1933 CROWD HOTELS AND MOVIE HOUSES (Continued From Pirst Page.) | person at the smaller dinner clubs and | restaurants. The other leading hotels | charged $4 and $5 a person. | Special Shows Presented. . |, The parties ran until nearly dawn, the crowds thinning out at 3:30 and |4 am. Several of the downtown thea- |ters presented special shows that | started at 11:30 o'clock and later. | .. To handle these crowds to and from | their gafety, hundreds of taxicabs Which ordinarily are taker: out of serv- |ice at night ran until daylight. Be- | sides these, hundreds of private auto- | mobiles scurried about the streets at all hours, some carrying the 1932 | license tags which were mot given a stay of execution until 10:30 o'clock | last night. | _The police were ready for the emer- gencies that frequently accompany the advent of a new year. = Although, strict- ly speaking, no extra policemen were put on duty. the city had the of a double force for the two hou | embracing midnight. | midnight shift was kept on duty until 1 am, and ‘the dnight-to-8-a.m. | shift went to work at 11 o’clock. | _‘The crucial morzent of the stroke of 12 was not the limit of the Clnlt;l'q ot | Federal and District employes the holi- day began at the end of the day's work Friday, for President Hoover declared | yesterday a_holiday. For other work- | ers, the holiday n at the end of yesterday's labors. And for all, the holiday will continue through tomor- row—the legal New Year day. 'POLICEMAN’S SONS LAND ESCAPED MAN | Suspicions Aroused When Fugitive Asks Way and Telephone Father. rs The 4-p.m.-to- By ihe Associated Press. | BALTIMORE, December 31.—Henry Cross, 26-year-old murderer and life- | | termer, who escaped early in the day| from the Spring Grove Hospital, was captured tonight because two sons of a Halethorpe policeman thought “any one | ought to know the way to Washington.” Patrolman Wade, who made the cap- ture, doubted the statement of the man found on the Washington Boulevard and took him to the Halethrope police station, where he was identified by two ho;&lul officials as Cross. e two sons of the officer, Earl, 14 and Jack, 16, were alone at their home | when a man rapped at the door and asked the direction of Washington. The | boys became suspicious and one of them | telephoned his father. Cross escaped from a barred room at the hospital by cutting the bars with bits of hack saws. He had used soap to | cover traces of his work. This was his | third escape from. the institution. Sentenced to the penitentiary in May, 1924, for killing James E. Miles, a| Charles County farmer, he was being transferred to the hospital in 1925 | when he got away, but was recaptu shortly. SEARCH FOR VIRGINIA YOUTHS IS FUTILE Two on Canoe Trip Missing Since Wednesday—Badly Battered Craft Discovered. By the Associated Press. PETERSBURG, Va., December 31— One rescue party returned tonight to report that it had found no trace of two Petersburg_youths who have been missing since Wednesday on a canoe trip down the Appomattox River. The two youths, George Harrison, | jr., 18, and Holmes Bolsseau, jr, 19, were last seen Wednesday afternoon as they paddled their cence down the| river. Near Jones Lake, where (he boys had planned to camp that night, the canoe was found by members of the search- ing parties. The small craft had been badly battered on the rocks and broke when an effort was made to remove it from the water. Discovery of the battered canoe con- vinced the searchers the youths had Dbeen thrown into the river. Watermen, holding out slim hope for their safety, said there was a bare possibility they had been marooned on & high rock in the river. The hunt almost cost the lives of three members of the searching party who were thrown into the water last night when their boat overturned. The thrée youths—Carter Myers, ir.; Thom- as Cooper and Clarence A. Thompson, | jr—spent 12 hours clinging to a tree| limb in the rushing river. They were | found at a farm house this mo: ! Their escape lent new hope at This contest is sponsor- | tlon of The Evening and Sunday Star, | to stimulate interest in the ;utomubile; | Each | day the make of one automobile will| up to you to find| a slogan of 20 words or less on the sub- | mined | ways. A small addition of silver to the of The | “stock of money” will obviously not af- Except on Sundays it will be found tmt ! on pork.” Boisse: d Harrison might still be many - ing parties. g JANUARY 1,. 1933—PART ONE. (Reprinted bys Permission From the Wall treet Journal.) BY THOMAS F. WOODLOCK. T would at least be a little helpful if those who want to see “some- thing done for silver” would seg- regate their arguments into nat- ural classes. If those Senators, representing States interested in producing silver, who want somebody—if possible the United States —to buy their constitutents' product at higher prices, would be satisfied to say so with frankness, and leave to others the merits of bimetallism and the inter- ests of the silver-using East, cause of silver would not suffer. If those who are interested in “East- ern trade” would note the fact that of all the countries in the world these silver-using countries alone in this dis- tressful year seem to have done a larger volume of “foreign trade” than they did in pre-war years, and tell us how and why that requires us to raise the | price of silver we might better under- | stand their arguments. And if advocates of bimetallism who tell us on the one hand that it is nec- essary to remonetize silver in order to raise prices of commodities, and that on the other hand the quantity of available sflver is so small that there is no danger of Gresham's law operat- ing, would elect one or other of these stools to sit upon, we should be less confused. They cannot have it both | fect commodity prices much; addition of enough to put prices up would in all | | probability set Gresham's law working, | and drive out good money with bad. “Management” in Nature's Hands. One thing at least can be said for | silver as against all other methods of i!inkerln( with the “money unit” in order to put up prices of commodities: the “management” of silver currency will be in nature’s hands. She will de- termine how much “money” is to issue. With all her remarkable capacity for supplying things when they are badly needed (and there is profit in their production) she still cannot match the printing press. If we must have cur- rency inflation, by all means let it be “silver inflation” and not paper. But let us measure the probable results, the good against the bad. We are told that an advance in the price of silver to 40 cents an ounce “would increase the consumptive power of the majority of the population of the agricultural world 50 per cent actually, and an added per cent psy- chologically,” and we are told that “sil- ver is used by 75 per cent of the world’s agricultural population.” We are also told that “it would stimulate trade be- so-called industrial countries.” and India are supposed to contain some 800 millions of people and the silver hoards in the two countries are esti- mated at some five billion ounces. At 40 cents an ounce, the total “wealth” represented by these hoards would be two billions of dollars, which would be two and one-half dollars per capita. To raise the present price of silver tc 40 cents would increase the per capita “wealth” of these countries by about tween the so-called agricultural and the | China | Silver’s Destiny Writer Points Out Dangers as Well as Contradictory Motives Involved in Various Propositions of Currency Inflation. one dollar. How much effect would such an increase have upon their “con- sumptive power?” What effect would the increase luce upon their internal price-debt uation? Changes Make Exchange Rates Potent. ‘When the country’s “money unit” is rising in terms of the “money units” of the outside world, there is a temporary stimulus to imports of commodities and services, and a temporary check to ex- ports, but when the relation of the re- lgectlve units stabilizes, stimulus and chey ck cease to operate. Trade then | tends to settle back to a normal ex- change of goods and services against goods and services, whatever may be the rate at which the exchange stabil- lzes. It is changes in exchange rates and not the rates themselves which affect trade. A rise in silver to 40 cents would at once cause a fall in internal prices of the commodities which China and, India export to the outside world where the world price is measured in gold. The effact upon all debtors would be precisely that which the rest of the world is bewailing. Manufacturing prof- its would swiftly disappear, unemploy- ment assert itself and all the phenom- ena with which we are sadly familiar would present themselves in so.far as the circumstances permitted. In what would the “agricultural” population of these countries benefit beyond the in- crease in the value of the “hoards” that they might possess? We are told tnat all the mined gold in the world, visible and invisible, could be put in a room 31x31x31 feet, and that all the gilver mined in the world could be put in & room 31x31x440 feet. Well, in the name of William Graham Sumner— What of it?” We are told that silver at 40 cents an ounce “would increase the 37 billions estimated in- come of the American people in 1932 to 65 billions in 1934.” How in the name of Trismegistus could this happen? Where are the 28 billions to come from? How did this March hare get in among the season’s “white rabbits?” Like Talking Religion. There is something about silver that invests all talk about it with that curi- ous tendency toward intense feeling that characterizes discussions in relig- ion, party politics and single tax. Most people seem to believe that there is a mysterious link between the price of silver and commodity prices in general, and that to put up the price of silver is to put up all commodity prices. Not a few, it seems, believe that it is the fall in silver that has pulled all prices down. Whence the atmosphere of sup- erstition that surrounds the white metal? It is this writer's ible opinion that it would be a good thing if silver could again be “‘monetized” in some way, if only to dissipate the curious hopes and fears that prevail concerning its des- tiny. But he fervently hopes that pend- ing such “monetization” wholly or in part, no nation—least of all our own— will attempt any preliminary ‘“valoriza- tion” a la Bland act of 187% or Sher- man act of 1890. That, it seems to him, u‘ ;nn our “silver Senators” are really after. HURLEY DENIAL HIT INTROOP TRANSFER Connally Insists Secretary Expressed Fears of “Red’ Outbreaks. By tne Associated Press. An assertion that Secretary Hurley explained the transfer of troops from the Texas border to Kentucky as neces- sary to protect populous centers from possible “Red” outbreaks was repeated by Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas, yesterday in the face of a denial from the War Department head. Hurley’s denial, issued in a statement Friday night, said he had never told the Texan “that this country or any part of it was in any danger from Communism or Bolshevism,” but that he thought it was suffering from “pork- barrel politicians.” In a statement to the press yester- day, Connally replied that “Mr. Hurley knows that I correctly quoted him.” “Those who were present also know what he said,” the Texan added. “Of course, he will deny it. Newspapermen nl;:ldll the public understand such de- As for the “pork-barrel” retort, Con- nally said the “Secretary is a. expert “High Army officers,” he added, were on the point of moving the Army School of Fire from Fort Sill, Okla,, to a point elsewhere. Mr. Hurley is from Oklahoma. pork prompted him ,as Secretary of War to use the tremendous power of his office to stop the removal and keep the troops in his beloved Okiahoma. He knows that to be true, although he may possibly make another denial. “For pork-barrel purposes Secretary Hurley is willing to keep tzoops in Okla- homa’ where their presence is not needed for defense purposes. In order to keep troops in Oklahoma and satisfy the military autocrats who control him he is willing to leave the people of Texas undefended from border raids and open to danger of loss of life and cestruction of property.” ‘The War Department order, effective today, will move the 1st Cavalry com- pany of about 500 men from Fort D. A. Russel! at Marfa, Tex., to Camp Knox, near Louisville, Ky, where it is to be motorized. Connally first protested the removal | in the Senate Friday and was joined by Senator Hayden, Democrat, Arizona, who objected on the same grounds to the removal of troops from camps Stephen T. Little, at Nogales, and Harry J. Jones, at Douglas, both in Arizona, to other points in that State further away from the Mexican border. | Both claimed the moves left strategic | points on the border unprotected and | involved “false economy.” | New Year Greeter Steals Taxi After Two-Hour Cruise A drunken New Year eve cele- brater, whom a patient taxicab driver had ridden around for nearly two hours, demonstrated his gratitude by stealing the cab, according to a report made to police. At that, though, the culprit was only a jump or two ahead of the hacker, who had driven him to the second precinct with the intention of turning him over to police. e taxi driver—Charles W. Soper, 1531 L street—said the man hired him at Columbia road and Mintwood place about 11 pm, but couldn't make up his midd where he wanted to go. After driving him around until shortly before 1 a.m. Soper went to the second precinct. When he came out with an officer he His inordinate appetite for | POSt squad. | " “The officers found the L ABOR HEAD SHIES AT CABINET POST A. F. Whitney Says He Would Not Consider Offer From Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 31,—Taking cognizance of reports that he might be~ come Secretary of Labor in the Roose- velt cabinet, A. F. Whitney in a state- ment tonight said: “I could not, at this time, think of going away from the post where I belong in keeping with my duties and obligations.” As chairman of the Railway Labor Executives’ Association, Whitney, who campaigned actively for President-elect Roosevelt, is spokesman for approxi- mately 2,000,000 organized railroad workers. He also is president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and said he felt railroad workers “are look- ing to me and their other officers for leadership during these troublous times.” Explains Roosevelt Support. “I suported the Democratic ticket for fundamental reasons,” his statement said, “believing that Gov. Roosevelt was for the best interests of our country.” * * ¢ & man who has come to know Gov. Roosevelt at all, and who appreciates his sterling qualities and high ideals, would feel grateful to his friends for even men- HO!“EI his name for so important a He explained his position by saying: “We have been in the throes of an unprecedented crisis for more than three years and nearly every family of rail- road workers has felt the fargs of the depression. More than half of the railroad employes of the country—num- bering approximately 1,000,000 — have been crowded out and crushed under | the cruel juggernaut of our industrial civilization. 35 Years in Brotherhood. “Thirty-five years ago I became ac- tive in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. I have assisted in molding its policy ,and have been connected, di- rectly or undirectly, with every wage movement in which trainmen and yard- men h.lVe. Eeul involved in these Therefore, having in mind the hor- rors about us, and the sufferings of men of my own organization and those with which I am associated, this time, think of post where I belong 1 duties and obligations. |Octopus liep]aces Pink Elephants And Snake Visions| Spokane Police Busy With Temporary Mystery of Sea Monster. By the Associated Press. reported, was squirm in 8 kane River, hundreds of mu’:-‘ from 'p‘tfi water. 8o the sergeant sent out a Just only found as reported, but its tentacles were | eight feet long and it was dead. It was a mystery until they the election of |t YEAR OF PROGRESS BY TRADE BODIES Winning of Merger Fight One' of Many Achievements of Organizations, A prominent part in the city's affairs continued to be taken during 1832 by the Capital’s major trade organizations as they aligned themselves with civid groups to form the mouthpiece of the voteless community. Y First In importance among their achievements was the bringig about through concerted effort of congres~ sional action on the street railway merger. This legislation, which passed the House several months ago, was re-' vised and approved by the Senate and sent to conference, after a number of' trade and civic organizations, led by the Washington Chamber of Commerce, the Washington Board of Trade and the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, and including a host of other influential groups, united in & move~ ment to hasten its passage. ‘The merger was but one of the phases of a comprehensive program for improvement of the entire transporta- tion system hereabouts which the com- bined organizations, acting as the Citi~ zens' Joint_Transportation Committee, adopted. Thomas P, Littlepage, presi- dent of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, acted as chairman of the group. Undesirable Legisiation Fought. ‘The Washington Board of Trade, act- ing under the guidance of President Ben T. Webster, took an influential part in preventing enactment of unde- sirable legislation during 1932, and cen- tered much attention on the task of’ saving the people of the Distriet from” increased taxation. This trade group’ successfully led the fight the Mapes fiscal legislation which would have imposed severe tax burdens on the citizens and business concerns of the CIX}:I. T a score of years of active work and campaigning, the Public Order. Seciring the adoption of repuiationg 10 secu e A ion ol control the sale of firearms in m trict. The board through its represente atives worked quietly and without pube licity for several weeks with the Coms« missioners and the chief of police gln- ning the handling of the recent “hun= ger march” on Washington. The trade group also was highly instrumental in clect of an ol-Tashione. inauguras and elect of an old- inaugural ball here March 4. Many Conventions. ward of $16,000,000 was it seeing visitors to Wum:wnb’ 1932, not including money pla :‘kcul:m zg:n by delegates ore tions held here (.h%hiz-m}t:n‘th ;::‘l‘:in o ough its four information booths, established at strategic points on the main routes to Washi , the com- mittee made 8,401 hotel reservations, an average of approximately 700 a meonth, in addition to supplying information to' nearly 60,000 tourists the yuar. The group Las. 98 mational conventions for the Capital in 1933 and a Xolr : itions + ; . nal convent are to brought here in the nw!y’:ere."d >~ Higher Insurance Opposed. The Washington Chamber of Com- merce, which looks 1932 as & year Tekding Phe Rghtfor Srhction marver lopg jor islation, also vigorously Wp::?‘:’m per cent increase in employes’ compen«~ sation insurance rates, and the trade group believes its efforts resulted in estimated nvlnfi of $300,000 to 000 50-390,000 ving o 11 pn;':a ,000 &8 lgi!lh'. rate reduction on an- C te by the chamber, in find the mmerce One of the ouf ments of the chamber the National Capital Nation-wide licity on a scale never before in this manner. On Capitol Hill, chamber representa- tives urged enactment of lation to provide a Federal appropriation for un~ employment - reliéf, to be disbursed hrough the 'd of Public Welfare. Another successful effort of the cham ber was in connection with passage of the bill establ a parole the District, which it helped draft, and the enactment of leislation providing for & parole law. Active Year. The year just ended is considered by ‘hants & Manufacturers’ the most actite in its president. While the association pri- marily is a federation of local trade as- sociations and devotes a major of its time to the problems of its 50 trade groups, it has devoted much time to co-operating with other local civic and trade organizations in endeavoring to promote projects that would aid in the civic improvement of the District and the betterment of local business conditions. Outstanding among the association’s activities were its co-operation with the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal mittee; support of the Gil rovide the District with a new license w, which passed the last session of Congress; advocacy of establishment of. a regulation barring street sale of gas- oline by hucksters, indorsement of & plan to have a congressional committee B S 4 ween the c I, St B B o e en fhe Disteict on ine stte of the present Hoover Pield. Better Business Activities. In the fuce of adverse business con- ditions the Better Business Bureau was successful during 1932 in carrying forward its pi of truth in ad- vertising and integrity in business, Weakening and lack of business ethics, usually brought on by unfavorable busi- minimized in large- ly through the co-operative efforts of the newspapers and advertisers. % 1,705, answered ing the year the bureau handled Cuba Pays $8,106,250 on Debt. HAVANA, December 31 (#).—The treasury yesterday Chase National Bank the $8,106,250 due today on the government's public works debt. Publie works ertificates mat De-~ found that his fare drove off in _ the cab. octopus, he ¥ 1 here 1o show B ‘Then he threw | S