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WEAT (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and much col morrow; lowest about 32 degrees ‘Temperatures—Hig] today; lowest, 44, ot Full report on page 12. New York Markets Closed Toda: temperature tonight HER. der tonight and to- hest, 59, at moon 12:30 a.m. today. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star, Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 122,750 5 o Entered as seco 2 3 Entered a No. 32,393. nd class matter i WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, LL‘I'AR}L! 7, 1933—TWEN -TWO PAGES. P Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. post office, Wa shington, D 30 BEERATTACKED AS INTOXICATIG AND ACANST LAY Friends and Foes of Measure Present Arguments to Sepate Body. APPEAL FOR PROTECTION OF CHILDREN IS MADE Drys Stress Violation of Eighteenth- Amendment and Present Statis- ties on Alcohol. By the Associated Press. Friends and foes of prohibition pre-! sented their most effective arguments | today before a Senate judiciary sub- | committee on whether 3.2 per cent beer | is constitutional Chalrman Blaine gave each side | three hours to present testimony, limit- ing the hearing exclusively to the con- stitutional phases of the bill which was passed by the House last month. Six witnesses were designated by the prohibitionists—Edward B. Dunford, Andrew Wilson and Robert H. Mc- Neill of Washington, representing the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the Eighteenth Amend- ment; Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, ch: man of the Woman's National Com- mittee for Law Enforcement; Mrs. Wil- | liam T. Bannerman, chairman of the | Legislative Committee of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, chairman of | the Women's National Democratic Law ! Enforcement League. Headed by Law Authority. Representative James M. Beck of | Pennsylvania, noted as an autQority on | constitutional law, headed those who | contended the House measure would | not violate the eighteenth amendment. | A number of others were present, ready | 1o be called. Prohibition supporters spoke first Dunford, attorney for the National | Conference of Organizations Suppor ing the Eignteenth Amendment. said | the beer proposed in the House biil was | intoxicating. ‘The big room in the Senate Office | Building was less than half filled. Most of the spectators were women. Chairman Blaine was the only one | of five committee members present as the hearing was called to order and Dunford began to read his brief. Sen- | ator Dill came in a few minutes later. Declared Unconstitutional, Dunford, in a statement prepared for | the committee, asserted the bill “is| squarely in conflict with the spirit and purpose of the eighteenth amendment,” since it undertakes to legalize and license an_“intoxicating beer.” “It 1s,” he said, “both an attempt to! sanction what the first section of the amendment prohibits, and also an at- tempt to defeat or thwart the purpose of the amendment which the Supreme | Court declared Congress could not do and discharge its constitutional obli- gation.” He said the bill originated before the ‘Ways and Means Committee, whose cb- Ject is to raise revenue, and added: “The record shows that the legisla- tion is proceeding upon the false prem- | 4se of seeking to define the maximum amount of alcohol not actually intoxi- eating, which is something physically, scientifically and practically impossible of enactment since no two individuals are affected alike.” The bill, Dunford contended, violates Geophysicist Finds Coldest Weather in Region of Equator By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif, January 7. —The coldest place known about this little planet, says Dr. Beno Gutenberg, geophysicist, is just about 10 miles above the Equator. At that point the temperatwie has been measured at 150 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. Colder ures have been :=-duced atories, but Dr. . iten- berg was speaking of natural temperatures. He reported to a group of fel- low scientists that at the rame altitude above the polar regions the temperature is not so low. Another strange thing, he said, was that the higher one went above the 10-mile altitude the higher temperature he would find, until at 200 miles or s> it would be well over 1,000 degress. TROGP MOVENENS PRESIGE SPREAD OF JHOL CONFL Chinese War Lords Ask Nan- king for Authority to Op- pose Japanese. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, January 7.— Spread of an unofficial war between Japan and China in Northern China was regarded in foreign circles today as an imminent possibility. Japznese troops now were concentrated 2t Shanhaikwan, China's northern rail- } way termincl which the Japanese cap- tured early this week, were reported rushing reinforcements to Chinwangtao, the port on the Yellow Sea, 10 miles westward. Nationalist government at from various war lords China asking for orders to march sgainst the Japanese. Among these were Tsai Ting-Kai, who commanded the 19th Route army which defended Shanghai against the Japanese last February. Can’t Restrain People. Chinese lcaders here declared they were determined to defend the province of Jehol against the anticipated Japa- nes2 drive to bring that territory with- in the Manchukuo boundary. They said a further Japanese advance either northwestward in that direction frcm Shanhaikwan or further southward toward Tientsin and Peiping would bz resisted. It has become impossible to Nanking they said, “in the face cf the increasing provocation of the Japanese.” All hope that the League of Nations would be able to take effective action in behalf of China apparently has been practically abandoned. The Chinese newspaper in Nanking this morning printed a report from Geneva, allegedly emanating from an American source, that Great Britain and France undertook not to interfere with Japan in its Manchurian plans when the Japahese troops were with- drawn from Shanghai last May. Chang Dispatches Troops. The report produced much indigna- tion, symptomatic of the growing na- tional excitement, A Pieping report said Marshal Chang It was estimated that at least 6,000 | and Chinese | Telegrams were pouring in on the | throughout, | restrain the Chinese people further, | SPEAKER GARNER DENIES BREAK WITH iTexan Declafes He Would | Like to See Income Tax Base Broadened. \MANY ALTERNATIVES, HOUSE LEADER DECLARES Opposition Develops to Higher Levy on Earnings as Planned at New York. By the Associated Pr Speaker Garner today told newspaper men in vigorous terms that he had not | broken with President-elect Roosevelt | over the proposed tax-raising plans ard would like to see income levy base broadened to bring in reven “I would be mighty glad to see it | reported and passed by the House,” the | Vice President-elect said in discussing | the plan agreed upon at New York \ He added, however, that if “this plan | does not meet with the approval of the committee and the House, there are 49 other ways of raising the revenues.” Knows Other Means. Discussing his remarks about alterna- tive tax plans yeslerday, Garner said: , “What T said was this: ‘I might suggest | taxes that would be less painful.” “It wes suggested up there at the conference,” Garner said, “that to broaden the base of the inceme tax and to raise rates was the best way of meet- | ing the deficit. Some one said we could get $203,000,000 that way and there was no_objection.” The Speaker added: “You must re- member that this is a practicable propasition” of raising revenue. “It's not going to dislocate the economic structure of the country rais- phasized. Garner reiterated that, with the passage of the gasoline tax, expected to return $137.000.000; the beer bill, to produce $125,000.000, and $100,000,000 in_economies, there would be only £130,000,000 remaining to meet the deficit of $492,000.000 estimated by | Precident Hoover for the coming fiscal | yea:. Plan May Be Dropped. Garner szid if the income tax was | not satisfactory to Congress, there were | many other methods that could be re- sorted to, which he declined to make public, The Democratic plan to hike up the income tax rates created such a di- vision in the party ranks that there | were indications today that the idea | might be dropped altogether. As ominous. hints of discord and op- position appeared among the Democrats, |'there came from Republican quarters | signs that if any new budget-balancing | taxes are to be proposed, a drive would | be made for a sales tax to which Presi- | dent-elect Roosevelt is opposed. | Democratic leaders themselves were | quick to say that higher income levies | would be pushed only as a last-ditch effort to bring the Nation's income in line with expenditures. Stands by Program. But from Hyde Park came word that | Mr. Roosevelt is standing by the pro- | gram cutlined, at Thursday's New York | conference with congressional leaders. | It was added, however, that the details | were to be left to Washington party chieftains. ing $130,000,000 in revenue,” he em-| PRESIENTALEET W\ THE CAPITOL. HILL I 1., AID APPROVED BY SENATE GROLP Action of Entire Committee Expected Monday to Meet Emergency. 1 SEE L The Senate Appropriations Sub- committee today approved the $625,- 000 item in the deficiency bill to en- able the District to keep its emer- gency relief work going for the rest of the current fiscal year. The de- ficiency bill will go before the full Appropriations Committee Monday. | | Less than 24 hours after an an- nouncement that unemployment relief {in the District has come to a standstill ciency appropriation measure, a Senate appropriations subcommittee today be- | gan work on the deficiency bill which carrfes an item of $625,000 for six months' rellef work here. | Under the procedure planned by | Chairman Hale of the Senate Appro- | priations Committee, the deficiency bill probably would be given the right of | way over the general economy measure | because of its urgency. The announcement that, with the ex- ception of paying those on the relfef | rolls for werk already done, it will be | impossible t> do anything further until | funds are provided was made yesterday | by Leroy A. Halbert, director of un- | employment relief. A similar state- ment was made by Mrs. Charles Gold- FROM THE BIG: CITY. SORROWING THRONGS, LED BY HOOVER, BID | special train left Northampton vin Coolidge. The President w By the Assoclated Press imighty and the dwellings of the Funeral services were held at COOLIDGE FAREWELL ‘Mourners Unite, Distinguished and Humble, at Northampton Rites in Final Tribute. [FAMILY AND CLOSE FRIENDS START JOURNEY TO PLYMOUTH Burial Will Be Held This Afternoon in Family Plot at Ancestral Home in Vermont. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 7 (#.—President Hoover's at 11:45 am. today after the President and his party had attended funeral services for Cal- ill return to Washington. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 7.—From the seats of the poor, American folk came today to bid a plain farewell to a plain man. 10:30 am,, in the Edwards Con- | pending enactment of the urgent defi- | | ol Evidence That Fire Was Started Deliberately. | ! With several investigations under | way as to the origin of a spectacular fire, which swept of the new Interstate Commerce Com- mission Building early last evening, Fire Marshal Calvin Lauber reported today he had found no evidence to sup- port the theory of ‘“sabotage,” ad- vanced by some construction officials. An inquiry also was under way into | carly today, but the possibility of in- cendiarism there was discounted by FO,MEP. SENATOR GOIN¥F. cfficials. A man found loitering in | SABOTAGE CHAREE BTEDINBLAZE Marshal Lauber Fails to Find | through the top floor | 2 $25000 fire at Catholic University | gregational Church, for Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth President of the United States. President Hcover and other Government leaders, as well as distinguished persons from many cities, and the more humble of Mr. Coolidge’s friends, attended. A young man of 30, Rev. Albert J. Penner, who finished his final schooling less than a year ago, recited the final rites. After the services, the sorrowing throng departed, leaving only members of the family and close friends to escort the body by motor to the ancestral home of the Coolidges in Plymouth, Vt., 100 miles away, where, at 3 p.m., the burial is scheduled to take place. Mrs. Coolidge, still bearing up bravely under the shock, was a member | of this procession. President Hoover sat with head bowed down through the solemn procession of the service. Next to him, was Mrs. Hoover, her eyes on the preacher, then Mrs. John Coolidge, and Mrs. Coolidge and her son John, all closely following the minister. No others sat in that front row. The church was silent except for the voice from the pulpit, but in through the doors there filtered now and then sounds—coughs | or the cries of babies—from the huge mass of humanity that pressed | against the church outside. The organ started to play, marking the end of the service at | 11:05 am. Mrs. Coolidge grose immediately and walked with firm step by the side of John. She emerged from a side door. President Hoover and his party followed, driving directly to the Beeches. Hundreds of men and women, some | accompanied by children, had filed | through the .church to look for the | last time at the face of the thirtieth drew himself stiffly erect before the bier of the former President, saluted, and | then moved on. smith, a member of the Board of Public Welfare, in an address before the| Washington Adverticing Club. $18,500 Pay Roll Met. A pay roll of abcut $18,500 is being GUYD. GOFF DIES; FORMER SENATOR West Virginian to Be Buried in Arlington—Private Funeral Planned. being held for investigation, but police said they did not believe he had any | connection with the fire. Cigarette Is Blamed. Discussing the fire at the new Fed- | eral building at Twelfth street and Constitution avenue, Fire Marshal Lauber said he thought it likely the ;blaze started from a cigarette. Lauber | conferred today with R. C. Roberts, one | of his inspectors, who spent considerable time in the structure this morning. Estimates of the damage varied from $50,000 to $100,000, all of which was | McMahon Hell, scene of this blaze, was | | covered by insurance, officials said. The By the Associated Press. | most damage was done to the steel THOMASVILLE, Ga. January 7.— | framewcrk, which will have to.be cut Pormer United States Senator Guy D. | out by torches and replaced. President. 2 The body lay in state amid a pro- fusion of flowers. Out of a massed throng that dhoked the wide streetand pressed tightly against the front of the chureh, a steady stream of people from all walks of life—young and old—fil- tered in through the church doorway. They came out solemn-faced. Now and then a woman dabbed her eyes. Two little boys sobbed. Some of the women were visibly grief-stricken. The President Arrives. President and Mrs. Hoover snd a special train bearing a Washington | delegation arrived at 10 a.m., one-half hour before the services were scheduled | to begin. They left the train under escort. |~ The delegation included members of the cabinet, department heads, mem- | bers of Congress and other national | figures who were friends and associates |of the former President during his The church door closed at 9:30, leav- ing hundreds disappointed in the street outside. The doors of the gallery then were opened for the funeral services and the seats promptly were filled. | . The body was moved from the home |at 8:10 am. and taken to the church | to lie in state for an hour befqre the funeral. Children Follow Procession. The hearse was preceded by a single motor cycle officer and the undertaker's car as it drove away from the home. | A small group of people, mostly chil- | dren, was gathered at the gate of the Beeches. Some followed the procession on foot. A crowd of several hundred persons, apparently townspeople who had come for the most part afoot to gaze for the {last time on the face of their distin- | guished neighbor, stood in silence as the | casket was borne into the church. | “Before the flower-banked altar the Hsiao-Liang was sending 3,000 troops | ,Many Democrats here commended | met today. There will be another pay | Goff of West Virginia died at his Win- | The reports of “sabotage” apparently | terms in office. all precedents and runs contrary to ex- perience. He said that provinces in Canada under liquor control laws with two exceptions classify as intoxicating beer with less alcoholic content than the measure proposes. He cited tests conducted by Dr. Wal- ter R. Miles of Yale University, to pro\'u; that 3.2 per cent beer by weight is in- toxicating and said: “The Constitution of the -United States was not adopted simply to pro- tect the average healthy aduit who has established a tolerance for' alcohol, but to protect all classes, including the young, immature and those susceptible | to the narcotic, habit-forming nature of the commodity which is the subject of the prohibition in the Constitution.” Dunford was allowed to proceed with- | out interruption by members of the| committee for a large part of his! testimony. { As he went on Senator Hawes, Demo- crat, of Missouri, sat down at the com- mittee table, although he is not a| member of the subcemmittee. Chairman Blaine admonished the wit ness that he was not confining - his testimony to the constitutionality of the bill. “I am giving points which the com- | mittee may consider in determining the | from Tientsin to the Lwan River, lead- ing from Jehol and about midway be- tween Tientsin and Shanhaikwan. Chinese foreign office officials indi- cated that the Nationalist government has asked American and British lega- tions to send military observers to Shanhaikwan and Chinwangtao “in order to obtain the facts.” The Nation- ish charge d'aflaires requested both Japan and China to guard against any activities on that battlefront that would jeopardize British interests in Chin- ‘wangtao. DEPENDS ON CHINESE. Japanese to Act in Late February Un- less Native Troops Open Drive Earlier. CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, January 7 () —Activities of Chinese troops will determine how soon Jazpanese occupa- tion of the Mongolian province of Jehol will begin, it was disclosed here today at the Japanese Army headquarters. Military leaders indicated that it was (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) reasonableness of the law,” Dunford replied. 1 Questioned by Senators. ! “Are you conceding that Congress may reasonaply define an intoxicating liquor?” Blaine asked “It is the duty of Congress to enact appropriate legislation. But it must be reasonable,” the witness replied. “Then you agree Congress has the right to decide what is intoxi “I have never heard any one disp that.” Dunford said Blaine said the witness was not “giv- ing the committee much aid in dster- Senator Dill would think of drafting a law limiting | the Volstead law to percentag. the penalties o beverages above a cerigin instead of arbitrarily declaring beer of | 3.2 per cent non-mntoxicating. If the percentage is sufficiently low to carry out the spirit of the amend- ment we would say that was all right,” Dunford replied. Asked About Repeal. { “Suppose we repeal the entire Vol- | stead act?” Di)l asked “Then you are seeking to defeat or uw'a‘n the purpose of the amend- o Blaine sajd the point involved was not. Whether 3.2 per cent beer is in- toxicating. “If Col he added, stitutiona “There is ess passes no legislation,” has done nothing uncon- an obligation to enact Jegislation to carry out the purpose of lh]eu l:m;ndg&m," Dunford replied - Peabody, in the statement pre- pared by her. said 5 ‘e submit that 4 per cent beer is hl\&xatllfinx snd, therefore, is uncon- st! s onal under the eighteenth amend- Mxi 1 you declare it to be non- Antoxicating for any purpose, including that of ‘evasion,’ then it may be sold anywhere and ‘no Congress and no Btate can contro] it, “The vote of the House of Repre- sentatives and the assertions o {Continued an Page PREMIER IN HOSPITAL HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, January 7 () —Premier Gordon S. Harrington of Nova Scotia was taken to Victoria Gen- eral Hospital today on arrival of a spe- cial train from Truro. It was reported he was suffering from appendicitis and |that an operation would be necessary | at once, Eoe [ Appointed Consul General. | SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re- | public, Janua: (#)—Jose Maria | Bonetti Burgos, a member of President Trujillo’s sccretarial staff, today was ed consul general at New York YOUTH, 3 YEARS By the Associated Press. strange case of a 22-year-old youth, rescued from a “voluntary ment” ties today. Though suffering from exposure and his hair matted and prematurely gray- ing, the youth, Arthur Doebrich, jr. astonished doctors with evidences of seemingly unusual mentality. He had been working on a television set, he said; had built numerous radio sets, with money given him by rela- tives, and had studied books on astron- omy and horticulture. He even played & piano. After the ycuth's imprisopment was laint of to the discovered by police upon neighbors, two afficers alist government revealed that the Brit- | imprison- for three years in the celler of his home, was investigated by authori- |k the tax boost proposal, but Senator King | of Utah asserted such a step now would | Gemonstrate “lack of statesmanship and | courage” on the part of his party. He called for a $1,000,000,000 cut in Federal expenditures. “I am afraid the Democrats haven't the courage to carry out their campaign pledge,” he said. Until more sentiment is developed | and the need for additional revenue | more definitely established in actual | figures, the leaders will concentrate on | the res | farm relief and economy. | "In spite of the varying views evoked | by the income tax suggestion, there " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 'COMMUNISTS BEGIN OUSTING PROCESS | “Cleansing” of Party Brings Ex- i pulsion Already of 396 Russians. By Cable to The Star MOSCOW, January 7.—The “chistka,” or cleansing of the Communist party, scheduled for this year, has begun in the Kuban district of the north Cau- casus, with the expulsion from the party ranks of more than 30 members. So far 396 out of 1,276 members and gricultural districts. 000,000 members or candidates for ip are lying awake these nights awaiting examination, (Copyright. 1933.) IN BASEMENT, “VOLUNTARY PRISONER,” RESCUED Cincinnati Police Summon Father to Explain Condition, but Find Lad of Unusual Mentality. | cellar late yesterday and removed him He told the police his father had refused to buy him clothing and that | he never left the cellar for the three- | year period because he was ashamed of his tattered overcoat, trousers and sole- less shoes. It was the only clothing | he possessed, he said. The father, Arthur Doebrich, sr., 60, { an employe of & type foundry, was ar- rested last night, charged with abuse | of family, and was summoned to court teday to explain concerning his son. Doebrich, sr., told police he gave all his money to his wife and that he fre- quently had tried to persuade his son to leave the cellar. The police were unable to locate Mrs. Doebrich. Rep- resentatives of the Ohio Human Society. participating in the investigation, said | there are htlwn other CINCINNATI, Chio. January 7.—The | to a hospital of their program of repeal, beer, | sons and two day next Saturday of about $7.000 for | work already done or to be done Mon- | day. There is encugh money t> meet the pay roll of the workers who make up the relief administraticn January 15 and zbout $1,500 for relief paid to per- | sons not required to work in the way of grocery orders and the like. All this | will have disappeared by the close of | next week, according to Mr. Halbert. The next hope of the dependent un- employed will be the Senate's action. Chairman Hale has promised that the deficiency bill will be reported “carly | | next week.” If the Senate passes the | { bill and it is signed during the week, | then with the available money grocery | orders will be issued to those in need until the “made-work” program can be started up again. All projects on the “made-work” pro- £am will be stopped after the close | of business Monday. No more work cards will be issued to anybody until the deficiency bill has become law. There would be no money to meet the pay rolls should the cards be issue and the District is prohibited by law from deliberately incurring a deficit. $450,000 Total Spent. It will have cost $450,000 to carry the unemployment relief program from August 1 to January 15, a period of five and a half months. During that time, the number of cases on the rolls | has risen to 6,300, most of the “cases” Tepresenting a family of four persons. The average relief now being paid is $3.70 per week per case. The $625,000 in the deficiency bill is supposed to‘last | for the first six months of 1933, and a | further $625,000 is supposed to be in- cluded in the next District appropria- tion bill for the remaining six months. Mr. Halbert said yesterday that only | the most decperate” cases of need are! ! being taken care of by his adminis- | tration, and {-. relief afforded to those ons is not nearly enough. He said on the rolls would | on the money re- | n today's pay day through | and after that it is up to HERRIOT IS AFRAID FOR BRITISH AMITY Holds Anglo-French Friendship, | Essential to Peace, Endangered by Isolation Policy. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 7.—Former Premier Edouard Herriot, in an article in Le Democrate, expressed fear today for Franco-British friendship, which he sald he had tried so hard to foster be- fore his overthrow last month. He declared this friendship was an 2szential condition to peace. Ag: the right and center are pushing us toward isolation,” said the :;;rmer leader of the parliamentary left loc. Radio Prograims+en Page B-2'a ter residence here at 2 am. today. He was in his sixty-fourth year. The Senator, who retired from na- tional life at the end of his term in 1931 because of ill health, was living here with his daughter, the wife of Repre- sentative Carroll Reece of Tennessce, and her daughter. They had renied a house in which they had been living for about a month. Mr. Goff had been ill some time but his condition had become acute only a short time ago. While funeral arrangements have not been completed, it terment would be in Arlington National Cemetery. Wanted to Retire in 1920. In December of 1920 Mr. Goff wanted to return to private life. He had served as a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States under ‘Woodrow Wilson, was_ colonel in the judge advocate general's office during the World War and had just rounded |out a term of service as general counsel and member of the United States Ship- ping Board. Fond of travel and study, he had planned an extended trip abroad. Mr. Goff was ready to sail when President Harding summoned him to the White House. “I want you to be assistant to the Attorpey General of (he United States,” said Mr. Harding. “Thank you, Mr. President,” replied Mr. Goff, “but, no.” Mr. Harding would not take *“no” for answer, and after he saw that his hrguments were of no avail, he callefl in Irvine L. Lenroot, then Sen- ator ‘from Wisconsn. The two finally persuaded Mr. Goff to accept. He erved fof 14 months, then resigned. T Senate Seat in 1925, But befpre he reclized it he was in politics kgain, this time as a candi- date for he Republican nomination for his {ut%r':: old seat In the United (Continuell on Page 2, Column 8.) HOLDS FARM MORTGAGE SHOULD BE REDUCED Farmer, Facing Foreclosure, De- clares Trust Should Be Cut Be- ney Values Are Higher. By the Assgblated Press. SIOU)%ECKT\', Towa, January 7.—If cause the valuefof money goes up the amount of a morjgage should go down, was the argumenf Edward Ellison made in re- sisting aj foreclosure action. He dethanded that the $20,000 mort- gage on his farm be reduced in propor- tion to increased value of money now as’compared with the time the lcan wap obtained. Mrs. Edith Miller of Clinton is the other party to the action, 3 : . U. S. Planes Reach Havana HAVANA, January 7 (#)—Five Ma- rine airplanes, on the wey homa r_ll;hom_N w.fi:' hnd;dwhie“:lodl_ ey planne procec i this ternoon., hinged around the pending labor con-| A large crowd was gathered at the was announced serv- | ices would be privite and that im- | troversy involving the hoisting engi- | neers’ union on two other Government buildings. Framework Twisted. Investigators found the steel frame- | work of the building, which had been ccmpleted several weeks ago, blackened by the flames and in places twisted from the heat of the blaze. Charred remnants of the wooden forms used in fireproofing the steel by con- | crete were mingled with remains of the | | insulation which had been burned from | its position directly beneath the roof. Breaking out on the eighth or attic floor about 5:45 o'clock, the fire gained rapid headway and blazed flercely while | firemen struggled to reach it with water. | The flames spread to the floor below | end burning timbers fell into the court, setting fire to scaffolding many stories below, used for sctting stone. Scme of | the stonework wes found to have been | damaged by falling beams. Flames shcoting high into the air presented a spectacle which could be | sten many blocks away and brought | large crowds into the area. | Breaks Out Second Time. | _After having been brought under con- | trol the flames broke out a second time about 2:30 am. today, and No. 14 En- gine and No. 3 Truck Companies checked the blaze in about an hour. _J. C. Stewart, president of the James (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) . | Sentenced for Fraud. | PaRIS, January 7 @ —2z. J. Duni- kowski, a Polish engineer whose “gold- chine has been under in- | vestigation for a year, today wes sen- | tenced to two years' imprisonment for |frzud. Restitution of funds to various | ccapanies amounting to $100,000 was | ordered By the Associated Press., PLYMOUTH, Vt, January 7—A fa- vorite son wag coming home tod: home to rest in eternal sleep with his ancestors in a grave by the side of the road. Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth President of the United States, having left this pastoral hamlet to make his mark, had | accomplished his mission. The man | who in his boyhood days r¢ to town in his father’s wagon, was refurning to Plymouth. 4 He died Thursday at h# home in N Along the route the funeral n was to”pass, farm- ers prepared to leave thefr chores and line the Stat county ana ' Jocal made, ady 1o guide [VERMONT TO PAY §ILENT TRIBUTE| ON RETURN OF FAVORITE SON Farmers Will Leave Chores to Line Road as Coolidge Funeral Procession Passes. casket was placed, and two National railroad station to greet the Chief Ex- ecutive as he came to pay his last | respects to his predecessor. | | Paul Claudel, Prench Ambassador, arrived by another train. | In the President’s immediate party | were Mrs. Hoover, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justice Stone, Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary | of the Navy Adams and Secretary of Commerce Chapin. Mourners Move Quickly Through. | | The 1ine of mourners in entering the | | church moved down an aisle on the| right. Double file and scmetimes three | | abreast, it thinned down to single file| | as it passed the gray bronze casket.| | The muted organ sounded solemn | music. | | " Allowed to linger at first, the peo-| | ple were asked to move more and more | quickly as it became apparent that the | i ever growing crowd in front of lhc} church would not be able to file through | |1n the brief period allotted—less than | |an hour. The line moved out reluct- | | antly, casting back last glances at the | casket and its banked flowers. ‘The waiting crowd outside remained orderly and quiet. The skies above were gray, the atmosphere chill. | " Over the large front door was draped | black crepe. Steadily, from all sides, | the crowd pressed toward it. There |was a narrow break in the throng | where the police maintained a lane for traffic. Beyond the lane the crowd was dénsely packed, overflowing curbs, side- walks and lawns—waiting anxiously for an opportunity to join those nearer the red brick church. The time for the closing of the church doors drew near and hundreds still stood in the street, hoping to enter. | The Line was passing the bier at a rate | of about 20 a minute. | Within the church an lerly man ) the procession as it passed through | Guilford, at the State line; Brattleboro, | | | Putney, Bellows Falls, Chester, Ludlow | | and then to the Plymouth Cemetery | | where six generations of Coolidges are | | buried. | 'The earth that he loved had been opened to embrace him. On a terrace | of the cemetery, between the graves of | his _son, Calvin. jr, and_his step- | mother, ‘of both of whom he was in- | tensely 'fond, his last resting place had | been made ready. The townsfolk, those who communed with him on his many trips to the old homestead, prepared to walk the quarter of a mile that sepa- rates the little group of houses that is known as Plymouth, and the graveyard that slants up from the roed. ‘The ground was bare of snow, an un- common condition in these mountains (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.), Guardsmen—Sergt. John I. Manning and Corpl. Prancis Lord of Company C, the Northampton company of the 104th Infantry—took their positions at its head and foot as guard of honor. The morning was_cloudy, and the distant hills were darkly etched against a gray sky. Shortly before the body of the for- mer President was taken to the church Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James Roosevelt, wife and son of the Presi- dent-elect, arrived in Northampton from New York. They went to a hotel for breakfast. The distance from “The Beeches” to the church is about a mile, through quiet streets bordered by huge old shade trees. Here and there groups silently watched as the cars drove by. Inside the church the quiet was broken only by the muffled tread of feet, as the casket was borne up the aisle, and whispered instructions as final preparations were eompleted before the crowd was admitted. White ribbons had been tied across the entrances to the Coolidge pew. Sev- eral pews in the front of the church, at the right of the pulpit, had been reserved for President Hoover and the other notables from Washington. Order of Funeral Service. Following is the order of the funeral service: Organ—=Selection from “New World ymprony,” by Dvorak. Invocation by the Rev. Albert J. Pen- ner, pastor—"Almighty God, who art our refuge and strengtn, a very present help in time of trouble, grant us Thy light to shine through the shadows of this hour. Comfort the hearts that are heavy with sorrow and have compassion upon our weakness. Give us the vision of the eternal reality and solace us with the hope of larger life beyond, through Jesus Christ, cur Lord, Amen.” Quartet—“Lead Kindly Light."” Scripture—Forty-sixth Psalm; One Hundred and Twenty-first Psalm; Ro- ii; II Corinthians, v; John, xiv. Imighty God, our Heavenly Father, at this moment a whole nation stricken with grief bows before Thee. ‘We are made to realize again the frailty and transitoriness of our life here upon earth and our constant need of Thee, who art the eternal Rock of Ages. We thank Thee, O God, that we can cling to Thee and that amid all.the change " (Continued on Page 3, Column B.) FILM STAR CONCILIATED Marlene Dietrich to Accept Role and Suit Is Dropped. NEW YORK, January 7 (#).—Suit against Marlene Dietrich, film actress, to compel her to finish a contract, will be dropped and Miss Dietrich will re- port for work immediately, it was an- nounced today at the New York offices of the Paramount Publix Corporation. The suit was filed by Paramount on Monday in the United States District Court at Los Angeles after Miss Dietrich was alleged to have refused to work in a new piclure. Today's an- nouncement that at a conference between Miss Dietrich and Emmanuel Cohen, vice president, the film star had her role and had decided picture,