Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 2

Az E¥® N THE FEVI ING STAR, WASHLINGTON, D. C, m'A M STATE TAX RATE Ritchie, in Opening Assembly, Also Asks 10 Per Cent Pay Cut. BY GEORGE PORTER, 8taff Correspondent of The Star. . ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 4—A ] duction of the State tax rate from 25 to 22 cents and a salary. “contribution” | of 10 per cent by all State employes, including teachers, so that the excel- ! lent credit standing which Maryland enjoys may be maintained by keeping the State budget balanced was recom- mended by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie today | in his message before a joint session of the House and Senate at the open- ing of the 1933 General Assembly. The Governor also called for a bal-, anced budget for 1934 and 1935 on (he; basis of current income and resources | and without increases or new sources | of revenue 3 | He recommended, however, if the | Legislature felt that additional reduc- tlons should be made in the property | tax, that a “luxury” tax on soft drinks| and tobacco be levied. Surplus Ts Asked. The total appropriation recommended for 1934 is $17.589,455, as compared with $20,137,735 for the year 1933, but the Governor esked that a surplus be provided for the next two years of not less than $1,800,000 to continue sound financial condition” of the State. Other recommendations which 1 flected trend toward economy in go' ernment, as refognized by the Gov- ernor, called for a reduction of the minimum county levies for school pur- poses for the equalization fund from 67 to 60 cents, a State loan to relieve Baltimore City, increase of the eity's share of the 2-cent gasoline tax for maintenance and reconstruction from 20 to 30 per cent, and use of the por- tion of the gasoline tax now allotted for county road construction for both construction and maintenance work. He suggested the Legislature make provision for a State convention “to| obviate the possible necessity of a special session of the Legislature” if the question of r:geul of the eighteenth | amendment is submitted to the States by Congress. Loan is Recommended. | Reciting figures from his budget | which will not be submitted until later | in the session, Gov. Ritchie recom- mended a State loan og $2,533,000 for | necessary State construction and for | funding the teachers' retirement ac- | crued liability fund in 1934 and 1985. | Of this fund, $200,000 would be for | & new arts and science building lnd‘ $150,000 for a new woman's dormitory at the University of Maryland, Collegc | Park; $128,000 to cover a deficit on the | land for the new field house there, and | $75,000 for “certain major repairs” in ! the military department of the College Park institutions. Other State institutions and depart- | ments to benefit from this loan would be the Springfield Hospital, Crownsville | Hospital, Rosewood Training School, State Penitentiary and Penal Farm, | Children's Tuberculosis Sanatorium at RRYBAND Ifl EUI ] Irish Candidate WILLIAM T. COSGRAVE . Launches candidacy for President with pledge to stand up for rights. COSGRAVEOPEN PRESDENCY FGHT “Stand Up for Irish Rights” Pledged at First Cam- paign Meeting. By the Assoclated Press. DUBLIN, Irish free State, January 4—Undaunted by the sudden decision of his opponents in setting elections for less than three weeks away, Willlam T. | Cosgrave launched his campaign today | to regain the presidency with a pledge | “to stand up for Irish rights.” ‘The former President held his first campaigr meeting last night, within a day after President Eamon De Vaier: announced a v Dail Eirann would Dbe elected January 24. The announcement was believed to | have caught the opposition unawares, | as there were indications they were confident the present Deil Eirann could serthrow the De Valera government when it was scheduled to have met again in February. Opponents “On Run.” “The Fianna Fail are on the run, C ve said, referring to the party of De Valera, with whom he has not been on “speaking terms.” Former com- manders in the Irish revolt, they pass each other now without a sign of rec- ognition. It was just s year ago thal rave lost the presidency to his rival. Irish rights as we have always done with the courage of the men of Easter week (the Irish revolt),” Cosgrave said in summoning his party, the Cumann Na n'Gaedheal, to the fight. “We will strive to end econcmic war and to make a financial settlement with | ‘We shall continue to stand up for Henryton, the tobacco warehouse and | Great Britaln to the honor and ad- | the conmissioner of motor vehicles de- | vancement of Ireland. We will assure partment, while $800,000 would €0 |the farmers, by the reduction of their toward funding of the accrued liability | annuities, the fullest possible advan- of the teachers’ retirement fund. | tages of that settlement and we will Note of Optimism. Striking a_note of optimism, in th first his speech, Gov. Ritchi said, “there is no room in this country for In due time we will sur- vive and emerge from this crisis.” He however, that “we cannot budget & returning prosperity which has not yet begun” and, accordingly, an- nounced he.would submit budgets for 1934 and 1935 which assume that busi- ness conditions will not improve nor tax receipts increase over what they were in 1932, Explaining that the budgets for the next blennium provide for a 10 per cent contribution to the State treasu from the salgries of State officers and employes, the executlve declared it was “with genuine regret that I find this contribution to be necessary,” but under existing conditions “it is right that the State employes should share a reason- e e able part of the burden of balancing | the State budget and maintaining be- ybnd question the credit of the Gov- efiment from which they earn their 1i¥elihood.” N | =1t is hoped that when the budget is plepared for the 1935 legislature condi- tions will have improved sufficiently to Juktify the discontinuance of the “salary cantributions,” Mr. Ritchie said. Begin in April. The contributions will begin in April. Although his salary, as well as those secure a trade agreement which will | assure * * * better prices for his cattle, | | ples, sheep, poultry, checse and butter,” | % | De Valera’s party, at an Executive | Committee, meeting last night. decided | | to name 98 candidates for the 153 seats | |in the Dail. He will announce the | s program at & meeting tom: lg-“r‘t‘{mm ting tomorrow e SENATE COMMITTEE WEIGHS U. S. PAY CUT | 'The Senate Economy Committee held | another 2-hour executive session this morning without finishing its work and | will meet again this afternoon in an effort to reach final conclusions, The forthcoming report will contain recommendations as to what extent Government salaries should be reduced during the next fiscal year, along with other proposals for retrenchment. The House has voted not to go be- yond the 8'5 per cent payless furlough already in effect, but there have been reports dufln&lhe past few that the Senate mmittee is considerin a small additional reduction. Unti final report is ready. the Senate group is refraining from discussion of what it has in mind. FARM BILL GIVEN PRIVILEGED STATUS | House Rules Committee Votes to Give Right of Way to Relief Plan. By the Associated Press. The Hquse Rules Committee today | approved a resolution giving a privi leged legislative status to the emer |gency farm relief bill designed to set | minimum prices on major sgricultural | commodities. The bill, reported yesterday by & 14- will be brought up for consideration to- | morrow, The rule will provide eight | hours of general debate before reading | the bill for amendments. | ‘The Rules Committee acted after brief statements by Chairman Jones of the Agricultural Committee, sponsor of | the domeatic allotment bill, and Repre- centative Heugen, Republican, of Towa, The length of time for debate is ex-: | ranking minority member of the com- pected to prevent final action this week. Hold Bill Workable. mittee. | Haugen said he believed “the bill in | general is workable and would be of benefit.” “It may not do everything everybody claims for it, but we believe it is worth | trying out,” said Haugen, who was long an advocate of the equalization fee plan. “The main thought was to re- dcem the platform pledges of both | part'es ng agriculture on a | e dqus.ry," | North Carolina Democrats, appeared in | bekalf of including peanuts in the bill's | protisions. Jones said it was felt the bill would not work well on peanuts because it is not an export crop. Members of the Rules Committee made it clear that it would be in order to propcse the addition or elimination of any commodities when the amend- ment stag> is reached during House | concideration of the bill. | Jones Explains Terms. The bill closely approximates the do- mestic allotment plan drafted by farm leaders at & pre-holidey meeting at- tended by Henry Morgenthau, jr., ad- | visor of Gov. Roosevelt. Its sponsors | believe it to embody the ideas of the President-elect Chairman Jones of the Agriculture Committee explained that under its terms, “any time wheat, cotton and tobacco are below the pre-war basis an | adjustment charge is to be levied on | the processing of the commodity suffi- | clent to bring the price up to pre-war !levels on that portion of the eommunity which goes into domestic consumption.” “The premiums will be paid to pro- ducers who comply with the require- ments,” Jones said. “The plan is put |into eftect graduaily as to hogs. It | provides that only those producers who | voluntarily reduce their acreage or pro- | duction shall be beneficiaries of the | premiums. Only two Democrats—Nelson of Mis- sourl and Beam of Illinois—voted | against the bill in committee. Three Republicans—Haugen of Iowa, Ket-/ cham of Michigan and Hope of Kan-| sas — supported it Representative Clarke, Republican, of New York, will| file a minority report against the bill. Attacked by Schafer. Already it has been sttacked on the floor by Representative Schafer, Re- | publican, Wisconsin, as a “monstrous | supersales tax,” and it was evident this | | would continue as & major argument | l{llé]:t its passage. Roosevelt was represented as |being horrified at the suggestion of a manufacturers’ sales tax,” the House. “This is will 81,00 Peg) hafer told sales tax that ut an additional tax burden of 000,000 & year on the American Agriculture Committee sgreed to |recommend an amendment to the bill |adding rice to the four commodities | now included. | Inate the F It agreed also to elim- the proposed provision to abolish arm Board's stabilization powers. “It was thought best not to compli- ate this biil by the Farm Board ques tion, but to handls that in a separate bill "after we have hearings,” Jones Measure Is Experiment. In a statement, Jones stressed the experimental nature of the measure, “It intended as an emergency measure,” he sald. “In this way the plan can be tested. Temporarily, at least, it will tend to give a better price to the principal products of the farm, “The measure is to be eflective for to-8 vote of the Agricultural Committee, | ONHIGHWAY FUNDS Cutting Opposes Reductions, While Rainey Favors Proposal. Reduction of Federal-aid highway funds in the next fiscal year was vigo:r- ously oppcsed by Senztor Cutting, Re- publican, of New Mexico, and just as vigorously defended by ‘presentative Rainey, of Ilincls, Democratic leader of the House, in radio interviews over the Naticnal Broadcasting Co. system last night. Both men supported Roosevelt for President. B In giving their views on bu bal- ancing, the general legislative situation and other natlonal questions, Rainey upheld the slash in road money, while Cutting said he felt the “present pro- gram of road building must not be abandoned,” and urged an expansion, $430,000,000 Saving. Observing that bills already passed by the House had reduced expenditures some $430,000.000 under the current fiscal year, Reiney explained they were in the main “non-recurring items such as $128,000,000 for roads,” and contin- ued “It is not easy to do this, A propa- ganda is being carried on by the Gov- ernors of the States against it. Possibly 14 Governors of States have wired me, protesting. I have wrtten a form letter 1o every one of them, asking them where | we are going to get the money. None of | them has answered. It 15 the first | propaganda ever cartied on by Gover- nors cgeinsi the Federal Treasury.” coms from every ecmmunity in the | country,” Cutting remarked, “When they lose their jol they are going to | become a burden on their neighbors. |* * * Xcan not believe in any such that the present pro- gram of road building must not be | abandoned, but that a huge bond issue should immediately be floated to pro- vide not only for highways, including farm-to-market roads and the abolition of grade crossings, but for such addi- | t'onal objects as parks and recreational | tactlities, necessary - public buildings, | the elimination of slums, reforestation, drainage projects and the bullding o rural schools.” Reduction Cempulsory. Rainey remarked “we are compelled” | to reduce saleries, although he deplored | the necessity of such a step, and said that “the budget musi be balanced in| 1933.” He added, “It is safe to say that | not later than 1934 the budget may | be balanced without resorting to addi- | tional taxes.” On these points, Cutting said: “I doubt whether the budget will be | policy. “ feel not on RADIO TALKS VARY | “The pecple employed on rcad work | A churia, tured by Japanese coldiers in what appea the point where the Peiping-Mukden Railway cut through the Great Wall BOVE photo shows Chinese troops manning the Wall of China near Shanhaikwan, which has been re; rs to be a threat to invede the Provinoe of Jehol. ported cap- | Lower photo shows | separating China proper from Man- —A. P. Photos. JAPANESE MOVE TOLIIT FIGHTING balanced in 1033, even on paper, unless | | permanent _improvements are segre- | gated. ~ * * However, 1 do not attach !a primary importance to the balancing of the budget in a time of emergency. “There remains the question of| further reductions in the salaries of | Government employes. This policy is, | to my mind, thoroughiy unsound.” DRYS OF DISTRICT | PLAN TO FIGHT BEER Mass Meeting Called for January 22 as Result of Session of | Ministers and Laymen. |ing for another battle south of Shan-| | haikwan, whence they retreated yester- Marshal Chang Refuses to| Hear Terms Offered by Tokio. (Continued From First Page) requested that any further communi- cations be addressed to the Nationalist government at Nanking. Chinese forces were believed prepar- day with a reported death toll of 500 troops. That city, dominating northern Dry forces of the District have started | to marshal their forces to combat | legalization of beer for the District, as| provided by the Black bill, now pending, | A mass meeting of drys will be called | | for Jenuary 22 as an outgrowth of a | | meeting _held yesterday at Calvary | Baptist Church, attended by ministers and laymen, who plan to fight beer | here. The meeting yesterday was pre- | sided over by Dr. Evereit Ellison. Plaee | for the mass meeting January 22 will | be decided later. A Tesolution against the Black bill | was _unanimously adopted last night | by Eagle Tent, No. 2, Independent| | Order of Rechabltes, which installed its | | cflicers for the vear, headed by George | B. Jackson as shepherd. A committee | | from the order was appointed to ap-!| | pear before congressional committees | \ln. opposition to the beer measure. The ccmmittee consists of John B. Ham- | mond, W. F. Mahoney and Mrs. Lil-| | Uan Kabisch, Plans are being nfade for the 84th land and sea gateways of China, was reported in ru.ns. Julpinm finally wen complete control after bitter street | hting, In which many citizens were killed or wounded. In a letter to Gen. Kotaro Nakamura, Japanese commander in North China, Marshal Chang refused to accept re- sponsibility for the first clash between Japanese and Chinese troops ai Shan- haikwan on January 1. He laid blame for the incident at the door of the Japanese, Ready to Negotiate. It was considered here that this re- | moved the possibility of settling the Shanhaikwan affair locally. Japanese legation spokesman, how- e aid the Japanese were ready lo negotiate a compromise settlement with Marshal Chang if the Chinese com- mander also was willing. “Change was warned of the possible | consequences as soon as the incident was reported here, but turned a deaf | ear to that warning, possibly because of Non-Co-operative Stork Disappoints City Merchants By (he As-ociated Procs. PITTSBURG, Kans, January 4—The New Year i3 three days old and thus far the stork has mede no efforts to co-operate with merchants who have gifis ready for the first child born in the city in 1933. A claimant wes believed t3 have arrived last night when Mr. and Mrs. James Manion announsed th? birth of a son, but a check showed that the {‘lnnly lived just outzide the city imits. DEBUCH! ORDERED TOEXPLANTOU.S. Ambassador Told to Inform, Stimson of Effort to Localize Clash. ___ (Continued From Pirst Page) | i Province of Inner Mongolia, it was| said, nor the opcupation of Pelping and Tientsin in North China. At the same time the Japanese war ministry has requested the American embassy to inform Washington that the Chinese had provoked the flare-up and that the Japanese are merely act- | ing In a defensive sense, as always, and | that any explanations pralerred by th2 Chinese authorities, no matter what | ‘ih;y may be, are to be accepted as alse. a00.000 FAMILIES DECLARED IN NEED Senate Commitiee Hears Plea for La Follette- Costigan Measure. By the Assoclated Press. | A Senate committee was told told by | | Harry L. Hopkins, chairman of relief | administration for New York State, that “There are 500,000 families in the United States today which should be getting unemployment relief and aren’t getiing it.” Hopkins, testifying at the nd hearing by the Manulacturers’ Commit- tee on the La Foliette-Costigan §500,- 000,000 unemployment relief bill, said ugghuluuy that “There is a nesd for Federal funds for unemployment relief in the State of New York.” “There will be tens of thousands this Winter without edequate relief, if Fed- eral funds are not svailable,” he as- serted. Urges Passage of Bill. Hopkin; urged enaciment of the La Pollette~-Cost.g: bill. Ii provides Talsing the half billion by & bond issue and distributing it in outrght grants to the several States new Federal board. R “In my judgméent” he seid, “this should be done soon. Peopl: are going to be just as hungry after March & as they are between now and March -4, and action should not be delayed for any opportunistic reasons.” A witness yesterday—Linton B. Swift of the Family Welfare /gsociation of America, New YVork—had advocated postponing enaciment until the | cbservers, is put out by Toklo, the of several other State officials, is fixed The economy program 1s to be in- by the constitution and not by statute COrporated in the Treasury-Post Office or budget, Mr, Ritchie sald he would | 8PPropriation bill, and s soon as the make his contribution of 10 per cent tCOnOMY group is ready to report, the from the annual Governor's salary of Subcommittee in charge of items for $4500 as well as a contribution of those two departments will complete 10 per cent from the appropriation for mansion maintenance. Inasmuch as there is little prospect of the railroads m: ching the State funds for grade-crossing elimination, tae Governor recommended that the | receipts from the !,-cent gasoline tax Jevied for this purpose be applied to | the redemption of State road bonds. | dn recommending that the proceeds | of the 1':-cent lateral road gas tax, be used. for both construction and main- tenance of all roads, the executive said this money should be expended by the State Roads Commission. “I can understand the desire of the county commissioners to have these al- lofments turned over to them, but I cannot bring myself to recommend it." the Governor said. “The money is State money and should be expended by the State Roads Commission. Adequate provision should, of course, be made for caq-operation between the county com- missioners and the State Roads Com- mission with respect to the selection of roads to be built or maintained. “It is not my idea that any county roads maintained under this plan should be taken over as part of the State highway system. The State would simply afford aid to the counties in their maintenance work. But any county roads constructed by the State would be taken over as lateral roads.” Willingness on the part of the teach- ers of the State to make a 10 per cent contribution from their saiaries makes possible the reduction of the equaliza- tion fee rate from 67 to 60 cents, the Governor explained. _Although several its work, so the entire bill can be taken up by the Senate Appropriation Com- mittee. D $625,000 EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND VOTED BY HOUSE FOR D. C. (Continued From First Page.) which drafted sought to h $25.000. Representative Blanton, Democrat o Texas, a member of the subcommit on District appropriations, sought to have the amount reduced to $20.000. All of these proposals were voted down. Allgood Move Beaten. Representative Allgood, Democerat, of Alabama, sought to strike out the en- tire section carrying the appropriation fof District rellef. Later he asked unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment, saying he had offered it only so he might make a speech em- phasizing that $625.000 was asked for the people of the National Capital. while nothing was proposed for the rest of the country. "Angered because the Alabama mem- ber had made such & contention when he knew the appropriation was entirely from District revenues and that the District is entirely dependent upon Con- | gress for its ordinances such as are| the dedciency e the amount reduced to| one vear and may by proclamation be continued for an additional year. “It s recognized as vitally necessary for the permanent program that there be 8 refinancing of farm mortgages so as to save the farm homes in America; that there be a readjustment of trade values in the interest of a market for our products; a readjustment of the proportion of taxes, especially of the State and local nature that are now burdening the farmer and the rancher; a readjustment of our currency on sound besis in such a way that it will be a true measure of values; and that there be a very real reduction in the ex- pense of Government—national, State |and local “As a long range program we must have a return to simple time-honored principles which have proved them- selves worthy. But this will take time | and until the general program is work- out a temporary act that will be im- | mediately effective if necessary in the interests of the entire country, Would Increase Tariffs. “There can be no National recovery cent cotton and 30-cent wheat.” Tae bill increases all tarifis by the !amount of the procesing tax and levies 5 cents a pound on imports of shori-siaple coiton and jute. The bill establishe; a “fair exchange value” for wheai, cotion and tobacco. defining it as th> price which shall bear the same ratio to other commodity prices as the price received for these farm crops did frcm 1909 to 1914. By deducting the actual market price from the value, the Se-retary of Agri- culture would arrive at a “fair exchange allowance.” This allowance would b the rate of the tax jevied on processing and after administrative costs wer~ de- ducted. wou'd be the 'mount of the premium paid to the producer. Jones estimated the present “fair ex- change value” of wheat at 90 cents a bushel and of cotton at 12 cents & yote would be reached tomorrow. paund vary for the different types. anniversary celebration by Eagle Tent, | & strong attitude adopted by his sub- | |to be held Sundsy, January 15, in the ordinate generals wit whom he cort- | Pirst Congregational Church, | ferred the evening of January 2,” the | Other officers installed for the year | spokesman rald. | include: Past chief ruler, Ollle Butler; _ Marshal Chang was werned by Gen. | chief ruler, Mrs. Lilllan Kabiach: depu- | Nakamura and Japanese officials here | | ty ruler. Charles Bohrer; recording sec- | that he would be held responsible for | Tetary, Mrs, Minnie E, Kissinger; finan- | developments arising from the Shan- | velt administration takes ofice, ;wwu‘nd‘llt would then be more sympa- Japanese troops, admitted AV | Senators La Follette, . Hepublican, of headquarters to be at Shanhalkwan,| wisconsin, and Costigan, Democrat, of are being reinforced, though by WhAt | Colorado, whether his State nad re- ;&:mgmu strength not gflclau‘i | ceived or asked for relief loams from the 0 destroyers are being rushed Irom | Reconstruction Pinance Corporation, Reinforce Troops, { [clal secretary, Mrs. Sadie E. Mahoney: { levite, Eugene Hamilton: guard, Mrs. !\émy Hawkins; outer guard, Charles H. ean. 'HEARINGS SLATED | IN SUBCOMMITTEE ON D. C. BEER BILL ___ (Continued From First Page.) | written an opinion in 1929 that the | Shephard law for the District, which antedated the Volstead act, had been| repealed by the Volstead law. He advised the committee, however. bill, |80 leng as we have 10-cent corn, 5-|that it was much safer to repeal the | serious opposition. It is the Shephard | than by w by direct action rather | inference bzcause there is much dissention among lawyers, and unless this special act is sed there | would be no license law for the Dis- trict and therefore no revenue on the sale of beer, which could then be sold as milk is now sold. | along the railway leading to th hatkwan incident and that “further action” against the Japanese would re. | sult in grave situation in all North | Chins. Nexi immediate movements by the Japanese troops were expected to de- termine whether they would start their long predicted drive to annex Jehol to | Manchukuo, the Japanese-sponsored | Manchurian state, or Whether they would push further into China proper an- clent capital, Fear Southward Drive. By holding Chinese troops off from | the south at Shanhaikwan and the nearby eastern gate of the Great Wall of China, a march northwestward into Jehol could proceed without expected logical way | o enter Jehol, also, by skirting the mountain barrier between that province | and Manchuria. Chinese were apprehensive, however, of a further southward drive, with iso- lated clashes already reported at Chin- wa , the great northern seaport a few miles southwest of Shanhaikwan, | | | be increased. | esacuation of the 2d Division from |and also of the Mukden-Peiping Rail- REPEAL ACTI DELAYED, organizations have asked that this rate | passed in local communities by munic- be cut to 40 cents, with the State bearing 50 per cent of the cost of the | Republican, of Wisconsin, demanded & minimum school program. ‘“existing rising vote on the Aligood proposel, State revemmies do not admit of any- which showed Allgocd himself the only thing like this, nor do they admit of one standing up for it ipal government, Representative Schafer, | any increase in the equalization fund &t all” the legisiators were told Admitting still further tax relief is being called for. the Governor deelared the only way to obtain it is through new sources of revenue. Need Here Emphasized, Vigorous speeches emphasizng {h need for emergency relief in the D :- trict and showing that proper admin- istration and investigation by trained “I do not believe that the people of | workers is real economy because it con- | Maryland want either a State income asserted. There is nothing unsound, he sald. about special commodity lux- ury taxes, already adopted in several Btates. The proposed 10 per cent tax on pari-mutual betting is, in his opinion, 0o large, with the existing 6 per cent tax on racing. the Governor said, but added “the question deserves most care- | ful consideration.” 200-Pound Safe Yields $12. Burglars who entered a Syracuse, N. Y., grocery got only $!2 for “removing & 200-pound safe. Police found the safe near a cveek several blocks sway. serves the funds for the real needy | tax or a general sales tax,” Gov. Ritchie | cases and weeds out the crooks and | panhandlers, were made by Representa- tives Connery, Democrat. of Massachu- setts, chairman of the House Commit- tee on Labor; Holiday, Republican. of Illinois, a membe; of the Appropriations Committee: La Guardia, Republican, of New York; Patcerson, Democrat, Alabama, and others. | earnest protest against the use of the | emphasized that it is the duty of the | community to care for the unfortunate in time of financial crisis. said, “in times of ' the lives of the cf CASHIER OF BANK ADMITS SHORTAGE OF $130,233.11 (Continued From First Page.) by J. Edgar Hoover, bank officials. ‘Warrant Expected. Blaine Predicts Vote by { Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. Final action on prohibition repeal wes postpencd today by the Senate | Judiclary Subcommittee considering the | legislation until tomorrow because of the absence of two members. Chairman Blaine predicted a final - | Subcommittee | absence from the city of Senators Walsh (Democrat of Montans) and Hebert (Republican of Rhode Island). The subcommittee has tentatively agreed upon a resolution to repeal the | amendment. protect dry States from liquor imvorts and authorize Congress to_legislate against the saloon. | “Each of these propositions will be He | The value of tobacco would | postponed today's meeting because of | distance beyond Shanhaikwan. Part of | road. | " Chinese forces were reported victori- ous in a brie! engagement at the sea- | port in driving back Japanese marines | who attempted to . A Japanes: | warship earlier was said to he a Chinese regiment, forcing the troops | to turn back. City's Wall Leveled. Japanese military leaders said their troops “did not intend to proceed far" after pursuing Chinese soldiers a short the wall of that city was leveled after yesterday's battle. Japanese tanks were reported used during street fighting which continued after the Japanese claimed complete oc- cupation of the city. Latet Japanese advices said all was quiet there. Chinese press dispatches told a stir- ring tale of the fight staged by the their base in Korea while the air squad- ron that has been guuclpmns in th: hostilities around Shanhaikwan is Also, Jipanese officials insist that! Manchuria {s cortinuing and siy thit this would be impossible if a big of- | fensive had in any way been planned. | Unofficial reports, on the other hand, | allege that the trouble started like pre- | vious “incidents” that have ocourred since Japan decided to occupy Man- churia, with firing emanating from a | mysterious origin and directed at the | Japanese gendarmerie post at Shan- haikwan, Attack Is Charged. A Japanese force, it is further re- | poried, was sent to capture the Nan- te of the city, using scaling and according to the same in- | verted verbiage, the Chinese “attacked” | the Japanese attempting to get over | the walls, killing a lleutenant and sev- | eral privates. 1 Further Chinese moves represented as howing that the Japanese have been acting entirely on the.defensive have been the actions of Marshal Chang | Helno-Liang, Peiping warlord ar4 ruler of Manchuria until he was ous °d by the Japanese in September. 193 . in moving his troops into Jehol, in hold- ing military maneuvers near Peiping | of the Chinese Army. (Copyright. 1933.) USE OF INDIAN OFFICE | FOR POLITICS CHARGED | Pawnee Agency Head Accuses W. Carson Ryan, Education Official, on Tour. By the Assoclated Press. PONCA OITY, Okla, January 4.—A. | He answeres both questio: s in the neg- ative, 1,750,000 Unemployed. _“We find ourzeives now with 1,750~ 00 unemployed persens in the State, Whici gqre included in ebout a million | {amilies totally without income derived from employment. | “Of these million familles, 250,000 | are now recolv% public relief. and at | least 100,000 additional families will need public aid before Winter is over.” He added that an average expendi- ture of $10,000,000 a month in New York State in 1933 will be necusl?. The families needms ublic aid in | New York State in 1033, he said, com- prised a tenth of the total Kopuhmm, Hopkins estimated that this percent- ags would apply to the country as a whole and that 3,000,000 families in the ‘Nation will require assistance from pub- lic funds in 1933. | Testimony which Senator Comglm‘ sald indleated New York City is not | meeting unemployment relief needs as | well as Chicago was given the com- | mittee William Hodson, executive | director of the Welfare Council of New | York City, and Samuel A. Goldsmith, | executive director of the Jewish Chari- | ties. Chicago. “I should say that at the present time there are no: less than 30,000 ve rhalled | and in otherwise enccuraging the morale | families (in New Yotk City) who are in urgent need who are not being cared for,” Hodson said. nator Costigan asked Goldsmith wh there are families in his city in need of relief which are not re- ceiving it. | *“There are no such familles in Chi- | cago if they are willing to apply for relief.” he enswered. “Apparently,” aaid Costigan, administration of rellef in ;l‘!nw the | York City is not as efficlent as in Chicago |, in meeting relief needs.” KAPLA N JURY CHOSEN director of the | bureau, following a conference with | party platforms proposed submission to | have been wiped out while hundreds of | vot=d upon separately, together with|Shanhsalkwan garrisin before :uperior | the question of how the resolution | numbsrs and equipment drove them | sheuld be submitted to the States. | frem their stronghold in the walled city. Both Republican and Democratic | One whole battelion was reported to | State conventions, but reveral members | civilian» were said to have been killed R. 8nyder, superintendent of the Pawnee lndé:n u.lltmy' yuug’:‘;‘l:-‘nepused Movie Operators’ Union | rted W, rson Ryan of ng- ” D, G, head of Indian educatios| Czar Is Tried in New York. in the United States under the Depart- | npw v ased ment of Indian Affairs, is using his | ORK, -"““l'fyv;”mm A M'Z |of the committee are known to favor the course which has been followed in A warrant for the arrest of Boyer handling previous constitutional amend- was to be sought late today, it was said | ments—submission to Legisla Decision to_ask | in official quarters. itures. No action is planned by the subcom- for the warrant is said to have been |mittee on the House 3.2 per cent beer reached at a conference today between | bill, which also is before it, until after Federal investigators and representa- | hearings Saturday on eonstitutionality. tives of the United States attorney's | of | office. Blaine hopes to dispose of the repeal | question before the committee turns its Seen this afternoon at his home, on | attention to the beer bill. Representative La Guardia made an | Glcbe road. near the Lee Highway in Va., Boyer declined | word charity in this connection and | to discuss the matter and suggested that any definite information be ob- tained from Mr. Poole. He said that “It is the ' he was forced to leave the bank yes- " highest function of government,” he | terday because of iliness and that he emergency to preserve | expected to €0 to bed this afternoon itizens.” and Arlington County, remain there until his.yecovery. Girl, 5, Routs Burglar. OKLAHOMA CITY, January 4 (#).— Five-year-old Betty Jane Hill routed a burglar Monday night. Betty Jane, in bed, saw a thief, laden with clothing, the to her room, Team- fl M%fl and the f !.:l. \ \ 1 | when the city was subjected to an in- tense bombardment by the Japanese land, sea and air forces. The Chinese clung to their wrecked defenses, and when Japanese Infantry surged into the city flerce hand-to-hand fighting occurred in the streets. Chinese Reform Ferces. Chinese officials here estimate the Chinese militcry casualties at 1,700, Civilian casualties were described as ex- tremely heavy. Admiral Sir Howard Kely, com- mander-in-chief of the British' China | statien, today ordered the British sloops 'water and !(:m:‘wne n-‘: p.r:m: to wangtao safegu rif interests in the Shanhalkwen area. Eleven Japanese warships are now lying | office and Government expense maoney | for political es, | Snyder all that Ryan is touring | Oklahoma other parts of the country in behalf of Dr. Louis Merriam, whom Snyder described as an avowed candidate for the sioner of Indian affairs in the Roose- velt_administration. Merriam is con- | nected with the Rockefeller Institute. off Chinwangtao and more are expected from T ingtao. { It was officially stated that Chinese | tro:ps had withdrawn from Shanhaik- | wan by train and were reforming under the protection of an armored train near Chinwangtao. Japanese armored trains direction -mh:uomnsmmhm of Chinwangtao. tion of commis- | * was gelected in Judg General Sessions Court yesterday to try Samuel Kaplan, deposed czar of the Motion Picture Operators” Union, on an indictment charging him with cials and members N expelled had instituted a civil action for an accounting of the union’s funds —which ultimately - led to ouster. Bartenders Maintain Union, Though its membershi) wind] “om 154 to 22, the !-‘l,olhy:‘ked. ln: SERIOUS CONFLICT - FEARED IN OFFING International Interests at Peiping and Tientsin Men- ace Situation. __(Continued Prom Pirst Page) rights of seniority, while in Peiping the senjor commanding officer is an Ameris can colonel. It is easily realized that in case the Japanese forces attack {rom outside- these Chinese cities, the Japanese troops garrisoned there will not remain neu-, tral, but will join in the fight by taking the Chinese from the rear. It is hardly conceivable that the Japanese troops in ME::‘ would obey the orders the sen. officer, the American colonel, & meutral attitude. On the other hand, in towns such as Peiping and Tientsin it will be more easy to have the internaiiomal force drawn into a confiict, bec: in Tien- tsin_especially, the avea is 123 cleatly divided than was the case in Shanghal Protected from Sea. The Chinese forces in the whole area are also much more important than they were in Shanghal and they have much more freedom of movement than had in that . Neither can movements be as easily controlled msequen! fight in that area will be more bitter than it was last Winter and the Jap- anese will have to use their air force freely. What may happen if the Jap- anese begin dropping mobs in those two popucus cities where there ere some 3,000 foreign trocps is difficuli to say, but the situation contains elements of extreme gravity, which is a matter of serious concern not only to the State mfiment. but to all the other for of the nations having interest gover ited that the occupation of Shanhal- kwan was a mere incident of practd= cally no importance and that the Japas neee army will be careful to avoid such “incidents” in the future. Tokio sends g a nrug‘vyoked by the agressive attitude the Chinese and that the government hopes to localize the incident, if the Chinese Dot continue with their provocative attitude. While this smoke- screen, thin 85 it may see to u'l,any ap=- army is proceeding according to u&:ofl plan of action. Troops Still Geing In. Troops are being rushed into China from Manzhuria snd, accoerding to re- lisble reports from Jepan, transports ° are being held in readiness to land more t{roops on Chinese territory should the situation warrant such action, and the cituation depends bn what kind of re- sictance the Chinese can offer to the invading armies. Tokio has informed Marshal Chang that he will bo made directly respon- sible for the military operations the Japenese general staff may find neces- sary to undertake in case the Chinese “peaceful penetration” of peness trcops into China. In this manner the Tokio government is pre- perinz the ground to throw the res tmlnl;l’uty for the fighting on the Chi~ nese perienced diplom: Chinese marshal has referred the Japanese Nanking, thus meking it only the orders of the central aut ‘i’ of China and that he per- ® sonally is doing else but obey orders from his central government. The Chinese are’ d at presen| their utmost to end the farce of “in= cidents” and ‘“‘provocations” and give - the present conflict its proper name— a Slno-Japanese war. TSR {HARRISON PROPOSES ECONOMIC INQUIRY By the Assoclated Press. A broad inquiry by the Senate Pinance | Committee into the economic problems | facing the Nation was propoced today in a resolution by Senator Harrison, ranking Democratic member of the committee. The resolution was introduced by the anese a well oppose the the Ja) | Mississipplan in accordance with his announcement last week, that he would seek the views of the Nation's “lsading minds.” He indicated at that time that among the subjects he believed should be studied was the currency question, ‘The measure was referred, at his re- quest, to the Finance Committee for a 3 «+ Senator R v Repub- study of effect o ted encies and i n and the adequacy “I think i would suthorize s study of every question that might help to 1ift us out of this depression,” Harrison replied. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zjmmerman, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant: March, “The Pighting Yanks”...Cros! Overture, “The Hunt for Fortuns,” uppe Entracte, “Sing, Smile, Slumber” (Lullabye) . “By the Wi Scenes from musical comedy, Rose of Algeria” Oddity. Dol Waltz 3 the Waves" Pinale. “Flufly Ruffies “The Siar Spangled By the United State; Merine Band this evening at the rudifoviury, Msrine Barracks, at 8 o'clock. Taylor Braneon, leader; Arthur S. Whitcomb, second leader. Overture, “Carneval,” Opus 92..Dvorak Characteristic, “Swedish” Wedding March”. . . . Sode: hone solo, % el netonka,” Lieurance “The Saxop Thi by the United States Navy Band chestra, at the band auditorium at navy yard, 8 p.m., Lieut. (:hlrlzst Benter, leader, Morris, Overture, “Figardo’s Hochzelt,” lozart (Marriage of Pigaro.) " Fantasis, “Eastern Chimes in w (Love and Life in thm ‘)N Noetur:gg. “Les Chants de la lt tagne”...... Nt e Justin Sym- (Ancient Mount Menuetto from the phony” ..... Pirse ang fourth o "irst movements ballet suite, “Coppellia”. . . Musi Valse. e and Zartenders’ Union has maintained it charter and ory vent of mmfisn.l- e Yok Ay w5