Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1933, Page 2

DEBT RELIF BILL CETS WIDE SUPPORT Senate and House Virtually Unanimous on Pending Leaislation. “FIFI" WIDENER WEDS IN RENO: A. C. P. WICHFELD THIRD HUSBAND Former Attache of Danish Legation Here Won Divorce Few Hours Earlier. Judge Who Granted Decree| Performs Ceremony at BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Virtual unanimity of opinion prevails | in the Senate and House with respect to the pending bill for the relief of | debtors, whose passage has been ac- celerated by the special message of President Hoover. There are some details to be ironed out, but the measures introduced in the | House by Representative La Guardia of | New York and McKeown of Oklahoma | will be consolidated, while the bill to be | introduced in the Senate by Senator Hastings of Dolaware. follows substan- tially the same lines as both House bills so that for all practical purposes the new legislation is not likely to en- counter any legislative snags and may become lawbefore the end of the present month. The original draft of the bill under consideration by a joint committee of the Senate and House has been split into thre sections. La Guardia's section deals with railroads and the principal change is that the Interstate Commerce Commission is to participate in the | approval of reorganization plans relat- ing to railroads. McKeown's sections deal with general corporations and with individus Deals With Individualsg It is not generally realized that the| nev: legislation deals with individuals | and their creditors as well as with cor- porations. Thus an individual who is unable to pay his debts at maturity files such an affidavit with the Federal Court and, after & meeting with his| creditors, he discusses a possible ex- tengion of payments. Should he obtain | the consent of the majority of all his creditors in number and amount of dollar indebtedness. including general and secured creditors, he appears thrfln’h counsel in court once more and, if the court approves, then the| extension becomes effective. | It may provide, if deemed desirable by the parties at interest, that the| secured creditors may have a priority over the unsecured or general creditors. But the agreement when approved by the court fs made binding upon both se- cured and unsecured creditors, lhou%h only after the court decides that the settlement or extension is fair and| equitable. The agreement may provide that liens shall not be affected in their basic re- lationship to the property of the debtor, but that the payment date shall be merely postponed. Thus the entire pro- ceeding may revolve around postpone- ment alone or it may cover other points at issue on which a majority of cre/i- tors” have agreed. ‘The main value of the extensior Is that an individual facing foreclosires or attachments may avold the stigma of bnnkrugu: by filing a petition which becomes the basis of an ultimate agree- ment with the majority of his creditors and in effect prevents the minority from holding him up or compelling what is commonly known as “buying off” claims. Bankruptcy May Be Declared, Failure on the part of an individual to comply with the extension or reor- ganization plan puts him in peril of being adjudicated & bankrupt by order of the court, for it there is bad faith or interests of creditors have been dis- pareged by fraud in executihg the agreement originally approved, then the judge dealing with the case will be able instantly to order an adjudication in hnkru&u:y with the usual liguidation of assets. ‘The provisions relating to general corporations have not been materially amended since the original draft was laid before the Joint Committee of the Senate.and House. ‘The-consent of two-thirds of the secured and two-thirds of the unse- cured or general creditors is necessary beforé there can be court approval of the petition for reorganization. The interests of the minority are to be pro- tected either through the opportunity given to protest to the court or by pre- serving lien or by selling the lien after a fair appraisal by the court, The lation follows the lines of British and Canadian law with refer- ence to debtor and creditor relations and repressnts an advance which con- | forms to existing conditions, but still is within the general bankruptcy powers of the Constitution. (Copyright, 1933.) CONGRESS EXPECTED TO SPEED REVISION OF BANKRUPTCY LAWS —(Ceatinued From First Page) | suffered by thousands without sub- stantial gain to their creditors, who in- sist upon liquidation and foreclosure in the vain hope of collecting their claims. Present Process Destructive, “In the great majority of cases, such liquidation under present conditions is so futile and destructive that voluntary readjustments through the extension or composition of individual debts and the reorganization of corporations must be desirable to a large majority of the creditors. “Under existing laws, even where ma- Jorities of the creditors desire to ar- range fair and equitable readjustments with their debtors, their plans may not be eonsummated without prohibitive de- | lay and expense, usually attended by the obstruction of minority creditors, who oppose such settlements in the hope that fear of ruinous liquidation | will induce the immediate settlement of | their claims. | “The proposals to amend the bank- | ruptey act by providing for the relief | of debtars who seek the protection of | the court for the purpose of readjust- ing their affairs with their creditors | carry no stigma of an adjudication in bankuptcy and are designed to extend | the protection of the court to the debtor and his property, while an opportunity | is afforded the debtor and a majority | of his creditors to arrange an equitable | settlement of his affairs, which upon approval of the court will become bind- | ing upon minority creditors. Right to Reorganize. | “Under such process it should be pos- | sible to avoid destructive liquidation | through the composition and extension | of individual indebtedness and the re- | organzation of corporations, with the| full protection of the court extended to | the rights and interests of creditors and | debtors altke. ‘The law should encour- | age and facilitate such readjustments in proceedings which do not consume | the ¢ 1 long and wasteful Teceiver- ships. | “in the case of individual and corpo- rate debtors all creditors should be stayed from the enforcement of their debts pending the judicial process of readjustment, The provisions dealing with corporate reorganizations should b2 applicable to railroads, and in such cases the plan of reorganization should not become effective until it has been approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. “1 wish again to emphasize that the :A.ll of legislation for this relief of dividual and corporate debtors at this session of Congress is a_matter of the most vital importance. It has & major bearing uj the whote economig situ- ation &:‘ldhutmcnz of the relation of deblors and creditors. I therefore Tecommend its Immedia ration s an emergency action. ‘vice between Bata- ? been in- | paring favorably with the interpreta- | that great master, Home of Attorney . ra 1 NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 RENO, Nev., January 12.—Josephine (Fifi) Widener, Philadelphia heiress, | whose elopement at the age of 17| launched her first matrimonial venture, was a bride today for the third time. Her new husband is Askel C. P. Wich- | feld, former Washington, D. C., Danish | legation attache. The marriage last night at the home of Williem Woodburn, Reno aitorney followed by & few hours Wichfeld's di- vorce from the former Mabelle Swift on the ground of cruelty. The ceremony wes performed by District Judge Clark J. Guild, who granted the divorce. ‘The former legation attache was here several months ago while Miss Widener | was establishing residence to divorce her | second husband, Milton W. Holden of Philadelphia. Both denied, however, until the hour of the ceremony they | planned marriage. Miss Widener's first husband was Carter Randolph Leidy. They were divorced. She is the daughter of Joseph E. Widener, wealthy Philadelphia sportsman. Mr. and Mrs, Wichfeld said they' BACH MUSIC FETE HEAD SUCCUMBS Dr. J. Fred Wolle Brought Fame to Bethlehem, Pa., Vith Festivals By the Assoclated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa., January 12—Dr. J. Fred Wolle, whose organisation of | Bach Music Festivals made him nation- | ally known in music circles, died today | after a long illness. He was 69 years old, Through his organization of the Bach Choir Festivals, Dr. John Prederick Wolle brought national fame to Beth- lehem, Pa. The prestige of the little Pennsyl- vania town, gained through these festi- vals, was similar to the enjoyed in Eu- rope by Bayreuth because of its Wag- | nerian festivals and of Oberammergau | with its world renowed Passion Play. Choir Is Conceded First Rank. Musicians have conceded that the work of the Bethlehem choir has been the most faithful interpretation of Bach to be heard in this country, com- tions of the great cholrs of the world. | After completing his musical educa- tion, Dr. Wolle won recognition as a composer of hymns and anthems and as a sympathetic interpreter of Bach's devotional compositions, He concelved the idea of the Bach Choir for more ambiticus presentations of the work of The cholr was launched in 1898 | and two years later, in the auditorium of the Moravian Church, where Dr. Wolle was organist, Bach's “Mass in B Minor” was sung. With announcement that the Bach festivals would be pre- sented annually, Bethlehem became the Mecca of music lovers on those occa- sions. The festivals continued each year until 1905, when al] that had been done previously was surpassed with a | Bach cycle, which was given in three parts, each taking three days. Goes to California. | In the Summer of that year, Dr. | Wolle was chosen professor of music at | the University of California, where he | remained until 1911. In California he | conducted symphony concerts in the great outdoor Greek Theater and also organized the California Bach Choir. turning to Bethlehem he re-estab- lished the Bach festivals, which have been continued many years with an in- terruption in 1924 because of the seri- ous illness of Dr. Wolle. His choir numbered 300 voices. Born at Bethlehem, Pa., April 4, 1863, Dr, Wolle was the son of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth Weiss Wolle, Descended from a family in which there were mu- sicians for several generations, he showed natural talent and began his | organ studies shortly after he was| graduated from the Moravian parochial school, Studied in Munich. In 1881 he became organist of Trinity Episcopal Church at thlehem and later organized the Bethlehem Choral Union and the Easton Choral Society. He went to Europe for further study | under Rheinberger at Munich. On his | return in 1885, he was appointed or- | ganist of the Moravian Church and | later was given the organ of the Packer Memorial Church at Lehigh University. | He filled both posts until 1805, when he went to California. | Dr. Wolle in recent years conducted | choral and oratorio soceties at Harris- | burg, Lancaster and York, Pa. and conducted several performances of the Bach choir at New York and Philadel- hia. The Moravian College at Bethle- | em and the University of Pennsylvania | honored him with the degree of doctor | of music. He was one of the founders | of the American Guild of Organists and was & member of various musical organizations. In July, 1 Dr. Wolle married Miss Jennie Creveling Stryker of Hacketts- town, N. J. COAL OUTPUT DROPS PHILADELPHIA, January 12 (#).—| The Anthracite Institute, in a statement | yesterday, said that hard coal produc-| tion in 1932 is estimated at 49,350,000 | net tons by the United States Bureau of Mines. This, the statement said, is a decrease of 10,296,000 tons compared | with tonnage actually produced in lfll.; Preliminary figures indicated that | December production of anthracite | amounted to 5,089,000 net tons, against 4,271,000 in the preceding month and | 4,679,000 in December, 1931 e BAND CONCERT By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimme: | bandmaster: Anton Pointne “The G Star: Foxtrot novelty, “Too Lat : Scenes from the grand opera, ‘Tannhauser’ Valse Petite, “Valse Elain Pinale, “I Love You in the Same “FIFI” WIDENER. planned to spend & honeymoon in Southern California. With Legation Two Years. Wichfeld was attached to the Danish legation here for two years, serving frcm 1916 to 1918. been engaged in private business, living in New York and Europe. DR. J. FRED ‘WOLLE. MOVE TO REDUGE PENSIONS FOUGHT Means Presents Appeal of Spanish War Veterans at Hearing. By the Astoclated Press. ‘The appeal of Spanish-American War veterans against proposed reductions in their pensions was put before the Joint Congressional Committee on_ Veterans’ Legislation today by Rice W. Means, chairmen of the National Legislative Committee of the United Spanish War Veterans. Several organizations which have rec- ommended reductions in the annual billion-dollar bill for veterans' benefits have advocated a decrease of $100,000,- 000 ‘in' amounts paid veterans of the war with Spain. He told the committee no elective offi- cer or member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Spanish War Veterans' or- ganization received any salary, the or- ganization never solicited funds and sick and distressed.” He gave a lengthy review of the pen- slon system as established in 1861, 1862 and 1890, discussed the Spanish- American War and said that war “was the only campaign in which there was never an act passed as an inducement to_enlistment.” nopanish War veterans, be continued, a Congress for themselves, but have “wil- lingly accepted the policy already estab- lished by Congress." Judge McCord Is Heard. Judge Leon McCord of Montgomery, Ala., also Kresenud to the committec the Spanish war soldier's appeal that their pension structure “be left alone.” He told the committee that two years ago he began drawing & pension of $50 & month, and added: “We're getting older. We can't prom- ise to save you money, except that we'll romise you we will die at the rate of ,000 men = year." He contended a 10 per cent reduc- tion in the “small amount” pald the veterans would “mean more to our sol- diers than to anybody else,” remarking: “There's only about 11 years left to us if we live our lives out.” ARLINGTON BURIAL GIVEN E. H. KELLOGG ploye Served in France in Chemical Section. Edward H. Kellogg; 40, formerly connected with the Agriculture Depart- ment and Bureau of Standards here, who died Monday night at his Pitts- burgh home, was buried today in Arling- ton National Cemetery will full military rites. Mr, Kellogg served with the Chemical Warfare Service in France, and this branch of the service had charge of the burial. A native of Kansas, Mr. Kellogg was educated at Kansas State College and came to Washington with the Gover: ment services as a chemist after grad- uation. He served as a captain over- and on his return moved to Pitts- burgh. He had been with the Mine Safety Appliances Co. there since 1919, and had been general sales manager aince 1927, At the time of his death he held the Corps. He was a member of the Amer- Mrs. Isabelle Little Kell of this city: a son, Edward a brother, R. 8. Kellogg, New and & sister, Ruth 3 l(ormfil Yokl M. Kellogg. o Diesel ofl-driven coach ha ity of 28 cing| Vatiey Rai oriered way in another. Since that time he has| “we carry our own load in caring for | ever sought a special act from | Former Bureau of Standards Em- | rank of major in the Officers’ Reserve can Legion, American Chemical Society '|and American Soclety of Safety En- eers. Mr. Kell 1s survived by his widow, y ¥, Because of the success of the first !:elnla.hn ALLEGED PLOTTER |U. S. Agents.Rig Up Electrical | Device to Frustrate Threats Againt Reynolds Child. BY REX COLLIER. Bureau of Investigation, con- | fronted with a series of notes and news- | paper advertisements strikingly remi- | niscent of the Lindbergh kidnaping, | frustrated the threatened kidnaping and mutilation of a 2-year-old daughter of the late Smith Reynolds and captured the alleged extortionists in an intricate electrical trap, was revealed here today. The trap, rigged up under cover of night in a vacant house near Atlanta, Ga., resulted in the arrest Tuesday eve- ning of Odell Boyles, parachute stunt man, barnstormer and ex-convict, and his wife, both of whom are being held, pending charges, under the new Federal kidnaping act. Just before the trap—an electrical alarm device—was sprung, Joseph F. Cannon, wealthy textile manufacturer of Concord, N. C., had received a new demand for $20,000 with a threat that unless payment was made at once the sum would be raised to $50,000, Can- non’s own son as well as the Reynolds child would be kidnaped and that a foot or arm of each would be sent back as a warning, Cannon's daughter, Mrs. Ann Reynolds Smith, is the mother of | the Reynolds child, Ann. having been |the first wife of Smith Reynolds. Made Full Confession, Boyles, it was sald at the Bureau of Investigation, has made & complete confession, in which he attempted to exonerate his wife. A fingerprint found on one of the threatening lctters matches that of the right index finger of Boyles, the bureau said. The apparatus secretly arranged by the Federal agents to ensnare the would-be kidnapers included a hidden spring on a china closet, which set off ‘an alarm in a nearby house when a package, presumably containing the $20.000, was lifted; & dictaphone in the same room and floodlights with which the grounds could be illuminated sud- denly at night. Two houses nearby contained speci-! agents and police, and for two da. s prior to the capture other Federal op- eratives watched the vacant house irom an automobile secreted in a garage. The paraphernalia was instalied in a house designated by the extortionists after Mr. Cannon had appealed to the Bureau of Investigation on December 9. | He turned over letters trom a g calling itself “The Four Musketes and which contained threats to kidnap Joseph Cannon, jr., and the Reynolds daughter, and to blow up the Cannon home. A letter received just before Christ- mas informed Cannon the negotiations | had fallen through, but would be re- sumed after Christmas. Resumed Negotiations. “We are celebrating the holidays, so do not let this mar your Christmas,” the letter said. “We wish you a merry Christmas_and many happy returns of the New Year. It was signed, “Four Musketeers.” The letter also directed Cannon to insert a certain ad in the | Atlanta papers after the holidays. The ad was placed, and on Thursday a week ago a letter acknowledged the ad and instructed Cannon to place a package containing the money, in bills of small denomination, on & china closet in the dinning room of a vacant house on Virginia avenue, Hapeville, Ga. A white cloth was to be attached to the front screen door to indicate the | money had been deposited. Working with such secrecy at night that the negotiators did not suspect the trap being set for them, Federal nienu under E. E. Conroy, who gained fame for his capture of the deAutremont brothers, train dynamiters, some years ago, wired the house with the alarm mechanism. A vigil was kept for several days, during which several persons entered and left the house without setting off the alarm fixed under the package in the dining room. At 4:30 pm. last Tuesday a woman, later identified as Mrs. Boyles, entered the house, lifted the package and started the alarm ringing. The house was surrounded immediately by Federal men who ap- peared from all directions, some of them armed with sawed-off shotguns. Mrs. Boyles at first declared her inno- cence. Three hours later her husband was arrested as he walked into his home, not far from the vacant house. Officials said he signed a detailed con- fession when he learned his wife was being held. DOG’S TEETH SAFE, PICCARD ASSURES GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ___ (Continued Prom First Page.) to Piccard’s lecture agents in New York | from American dog lovers who threat- ened not to attend the lectures if the dog story was true. One telegram from Franklin L. Fisher of the Natlonal Geographic So- clety, Washington, where Piccard de- livers his first lecture, said two mem- bers of the society had threatened to resign provided the dog story was true and Piccard was permitted to lecture as scheduled on the Geographic So- ciety platform. Piceard explained that he had merely bent or pulled thorns off some rose- bushes in his garden to protect his children from being scratched. He said this was probably the origin of the dog story. His blographer, Sylvester Dorian, said that Piccard had been wor- ried some time ago by fears that his children might be attacked by a viclous dog_belonging to a nelghbor. There were exclamations of wonder aboard ship when Piccard's identical twin brother, Jean, scientist and chem- ist of Wilmington, Del. came aboard. They were so nearly alike in appear- ance that onlookers seemed unable to tell which was which when they were separated in the crowds. Even the lines on their faces had formed with the years in about the same places and same contours. Piccard explained he had come to lecture to paid audiences and also to visit sclentific laboratories and scien- tists, and particularly to discuss his plans for having some one make & bal- loon ascension to 10 miles _altitude | in Northern Canada near the Magnetic Pole, to further the study of the mys- tery of the origin of cosmic rays. His spokesman, Dorian, said that Pic- | card has evolved some theories that after man has used up all his coal, oil, and cther power producing fuels, he | may be able to use the cosmic rays as a source of energy. ‘The energy from three drops of water, for example, according to this Piccard theory, would be sufficient to light New York City for about 24 hours, | Plecard also talked about rocket planes flying through the stratosphere and | estimated that six hours would be a | reasonable length of time for a trip from Europe to America. He said that |30 years ago people who talked about |flying In airplanes were considered “nuts.” “Today,” he said, “the same plies to the rocket plane advocates, but they are not ‘nuts’ any more than were the airplane advocates of & previous generat! Explain| his aversion to Prof. Plecard said it made him ill official spokesman, Dorian, explained to the newspapermen further, saying: “He considers smoking &s not worthy of a hygiene loving people. Long ago Prof. Piccard said that, if he were head of the American Government, he woul have prohibited tobacco instead | 4 of aleohol.” 1., IS RANKED 17TH TRAPPED BY WIRES IN MILITARY FORCE IGen. Douglas MacArthur Warns House Group of Troubled Times. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, ranks the United States seven- teenth in military strength of land forces among the nations of the world. ‘Warning a House appropriations sub- committee that “we are living in trou- blesome times,” the Army leader said “practically all other hations are in- United States has reduced its forces. “World conditions are unsettled and rovocative,” MacArthur said in testi- ying before the committee which drafted the War Department supply bill for the next fiscal year. “Many nations are passing through economic crises. The tense situation in the Far East, which for some weeks during the past Winter flamed into open hostili- ties, emphasized again the untrust- worthiness of treaties as complete safe- guards to International peace. Parley Results Negligible. “The Geneva Conference for nearly a year has been studying formulae for effecting universal reductions in land armaments. The results to date have been practically negligible.” MacArthur said the United States “has accomplished a degree of reduc- tion in its land forces that stands a unique example among world powers,” and added: “These reductions leave the United States now the seventeenth ranking na- tion in military strength in the world As practically all other nations are creasing Lheir strengths, it is quite | sible that in the near future the United | States will drop even further in the relative list.” Opposes Sacrifices of Men. “It is apparent,” he said, “that the larger nations are increasing their out- lays for military prepiredness.” He added he was “unalterably opposed” to | sacrificing “trained man power” and declared: “The Army can suffer in all other things and still carry out its main mis- sion. Cut into its trainéd man power and you destroy the military framework which supports our system of national defense.” Demands of the budget for economy, he said, through limitations proposed on training of the National Guard and other reserve components of the army, “strike at the very principle on which our system of national defense is based.” “At no time in history,” he declared, “has the United States had greater need than now for the security of an adequate national defense.” Ranks Russia First. Questioned by Representative Collins of Mississippl, chairman of the sub-com- mittee, the General ranked Russia at the top of the list in organized active and_trained reserves with a total of 18.873,000. France was second with 6,975,000; Italy, 6,498,000; Spain, 2,324 000; Japan 2,177,000 while the British Empire was ranged eleventh with 1,163,- 000, or below Poland, China, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. MacArthur said the United States had 132,069 men in the active service and 307.120 reserves, a total of 439,189. or ! P 1933: creasing - their strengths” while the | adviser; James J. Parley, chair mittee. and Prank C. Wal PAYNE DESCRIBES WIDESPREAD NEED Victory Trophies Presented DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GET GIFTS AT DINNER. RESIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT, er, national treasurer, holding trcphies pre- sented to them at a dinner in New York at the Hotel Biltmore | with Col. Louis M. Howe, his political | man of the Democratic National Com- | ‘Wide World Photo. Coroner Dies || Head of Red Cross Deélines to Commit Self on New Relief Bill. By the Associated Press. John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, told a Senate com- mittee today that cotton voted by Con- gress last session to provide clothing for the needy is meeting only about 20 per cent of the demand. p Testifying at hearings on the La Fol- lette-Costigan bill, under which $500,- 000,000 would be raised by a Federal bond issue and given outright to the | States for unemployment relief, Payne said the requests for clothing are con- tinuing and that more cotton is needed. He did not commit himself on the La | Follette-Costigan bill, but described to the committee the work of the Red Cross in distributing flour and clothing made from Government wheat and cot- ton. below Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, Belgium and Greece. WHEELER INTENDS TO BLOCK SENATE T0 GET INFLATION —(Continued From First Page) the branch banking provisions by hold- ing a night session in an effort to wear down the opposition. As he continued his filibuster against the bill, Long turned his fire on Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Re- serve Board. He asserted that Meyer as chairman of the War Finance Cor- paration “handled $90,000,000 of Gov- ernment bonds through the Eugene Meyer bond house in New York in the teeth of the law.” Lambasts Meyer. “He confessed under oath—this man Eugene Meyer, head of the Federal Re- serve Board, that we are about to turn the country over to lock, stock and bar- rel—that he sold thro the Eugene Meyer bond house $90,000,000 worth of bonds of the United States Government owned by the War Finance Corpora- tion.” Long said. “Yet we have been out here hunting ulxe boys with & pint of whisky on their p. “It reminds me of an advertisement I saw in the paper: ‘The First National Bank has been robbed, this time by out- side parties.’” Blaine Discusses Relief. ‘There was a brief discussion of the District relief item yesterday, when Green Favors Bill. President Willlam Green of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, who followed him on the stand, urged immediate en- actment of the half-billion relief meas- r population is living below | the level needed to maintain health and efficiency.” Payne told the committee that the| need for free clothing “is very gen- eral.” Congress last July ordered that 500,- 000 bales of cotton and 5,000,000 bush- els of wheat from the Farm Board | stocks be turned over to the Red Cross for free clothing and flour. | As to flour, Payne said, “so far as we | know, no request has failed to receive the amount asked.” ‘Wide Flour Distribution. He testified that 4,750,400 families have been aided by Government flour and that it has been requested and re- ceived in 2,959 of the 3,075 counties in the country. He sald that 20,000.000 bushels still remain to be distributed. Green, in urging prompt action on the bill, said he felt that if men in public life fully realized the gravity of the situation Congress would pelled to pass a measure of this kind quickly. “Unemployment has increased and is mcreaslng" he said. “The limited re- sources of more and more pec lo are Dec: exhausted. More @ (n;oilfi‘ehsw are nl:c}mm the stage where they must be helped.” He added that private relief agencies have almost broken down, partly be- cause persons who are in a position % contribute have become accustomed to the distress around them. . Senator Blaine sought to show that since the Federal Government pays part of the general expenses of the District. it is sharing either directly or indirectly in taking care of em- ployment relief in Washington, He said he had no objection to the pend- ing rellef fund and was making the argument merely to contrast what is done here with the failure of Congress to make direct propriations for re- lief in other cities. Senator Bingham, replying to Blaine, said the actual effect of the pending bill is that the $625,000 reliet item would come out of District revenues, because the United States now pays a flat sum annually toward the National Capital, and there is no provision in this bill for any additional payment from the Federal Treasury for the District, Bingham said he understood this particular relief item would be met at this time out of the cash working fund which Congress requires the District to maintain. Blaine then argued that there is some mixture of Federal and District money in this cash working surplus, on the theory that this fund would not exist if the Federal Gov- ernment took no part in maintenance of the District. Stresses Lump Sum Plan, The Connecticut Senator laid stress on the fact, however, that the Federal Government does not at present share on & percentage basis in all District penses, as it formerly did, but has propriated & lump sum which will re main the same whether this pending relief item is appropriated. During the discussion, Senator King. Democrat, of Utah inquired if the com- mittee had considered the question of whether the District government should apply, & the States have, to the Re- construction Finance Corporr¢ion for relief loans. Senator Bingham sald he had not |heard the suggestion before. Senator Cousens, Republican, of Michigan said he wanted to suggest “that the District of Columbia has no security of its own to pledge as municipalities have.” WEDS COMMANDER Mrs. Dayton of Media, Pa., Bride of Canadian Naval Officer. PHILADELPHIA, January 12 (#).— Mrs. Samuel Grey Dayton of Media, .. was married here yesterday to Comdr. George Sydney Godolphin Cavendish, R. N, retired, of Montreal, Quebec. Comdr. and Mrs. Cavendish, accom- % lthc latter's son and grnhd by daugh- FARM RELIEF VOTE IN HOUSE DELAYED BY MANY ADDITIONS (Continued Fron use faced votes on sections to %cgocommnue amendments will be offered to establish an initial market- ing period for wheat, cotton and hogs, during which their values shall be 75 cents a bushel, 9 cents and 5 cents & pound, respectively. Opposes Peanut Provision. Changes also must be made at this point t: take care of dairy products, Tice and peanuts. The dairy interests want 5 cents a pound on butterfat up to July 1, when the bounty would be calculated in & pre-war parity ratio. Rice sponsors want the same bounty as Wheat and those backing peanuts seek & full parity bounty, Jml::a p}imned to ask another vote on peanuts in an effort to strike this addi- tional commodity from the bill “T don’t believe we'll ask another vote on dairy products,” he said. “There is no use striking your head against a brick wall.” 3 Over in the Senate, meanwhile, Sen- ator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic Jeader, offered a bill to unify the Fed- eral land and joint stock land banks and refinance existing mortgages at not more than 41¢ per cent interest. “The plan will result in material re- | duction in payments to be made by bor- rowers, depending on the age of the loans refinanced and the rates of in- terest that they now bear,” Robinson explained. “To {llustrate, payments on & loan of $10,000 five years old bearing @ per cent interest payable in 33 years will be re- duced 27.1 per cent, while as to 15-year- old loans on the same terms the pay- ments will be reduced 41.1 per cent.” Meanwhile Congress was urged to enact legisiation declaring all farm foreclosures, seizures and evictions il- legal, in & letter to the House Agricul- ture Committee, by Lem Harrls, execu- tive secretary of the “National Com- mittee for Action” set up last Decem- ber at the “Farmers' National Relief Canference” here. He attacked the pending farm relief plan, it “would work & burden not only on the city consumers but on the t majority of farmers as well.” V,hr?l‘e Congressmen are dilly-dally- ing over a complicated consumers' sales taX, the domestic allotment plan, the farmers of Pernsylvatuas, Wisconsin and Iowa are beginning to put into effect the emergency program fted farmers at the conference,” Harris sald. asserted He Congress has authority to declare that a national emergency exists and follow this with legislation farm debts. be com- | J. providing & moratorium on DR. JOSEPH D. ROGERS. DR. JOSEPH ROGERS, D. C. CORONER, DIES Head of Casualty Hospital, | Il for Year, Active Until Several Days Ago. Dr. Joseph Decatur Rogers, District | coroner and head of Casualty Hospital, | died early today at his home, 1400 M | | street. | | _ Although he had been ill for a year, Dr. Rogers insisted on carrying on his duties as coroner until a few days ago. Then his condition suddenly grew worse, and he was obliged to discon- tinue active investigation of the cases referred to the coroner’s office, leaving these duties to his deputies, Dr. A, Ma- gruder MacDonald and Dr, Christopher MurPhy. . Despite the seriousness of his condi- tion, however, he continued his office work until yesterday. He died shortly before 6 o'clock this morning. Born in Hamilton, Va. Dr. Rogers, who was prominent as a | physician and surgeon long before his appointment as coroner, was born No- vember 23, 1880, in Hamilton, Va., the §on of Sazpuel E. and Elizabetti Cochran ng to Wi when_about 15 years old, he entered George Wash- ington University Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1903. He began practice as a physician and sur- geon immediately after his graduation, In 1925 he became president and su- gerlntendc.nn of Casualty, closing the tanton Park Accident and Receiving Hospital, of which he had been presi- dent and medical director. His ap- pointment as a deputy coroner came about the same time, although he had been an acting deputy for some time previously. He was appointed coroner ovember 1, 1931, following the retire- ment of Coroner J. y Nevitt. Until Dr. Rogers' successor is named | by the Commissioners, the work of the coroner’s office will be carried on by Dr. MacDonald and Dr. Murphy. Dr. MacDonald is the senior deputy and, in | the event he succeeds . R | another deputy probably would pointed by the Commissioners. Member of Numerous Groups. Dr. Rogers was a member of nu- merous _organizations, including the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Dis- trict Medical Soclety, the Medical So-| clety of Maryland, Virginia and the District, the Washington Medical and Surgical Soclety, the Racquet Club, the University Club, the Beaver Dam Coun- try Club and_the Loudoun Country | Ciub. He also was a Mason, & Shriner and an Elk and was active in the af-| fairs of both the Board of Trade and the Washington Chamber of - Com- merce. Dr. Rogers is survived by his 86-| year-old mother, who lived with him at the M street address; two brothers, Samuel Hamilton Rogers and Howard Cochran Rogers, the latter of Hamilton, and two sisters, Miss Lula Thomas | Rogers and Miss Elizabeth Megeath | Rogers. Funeral arrangements have not been | completed, but tentative plans call for | burial in the family burial plot at Leesburg, Vi ok b RUSSELL TAKES OATH | AS MEMBER OF SENATEE be ap- Term Following Death of William J. Harris, By the Assoclated Press. Richard B. Russell, jr, was sworn in today as a Senator from Georgia. ‘The erect, youthful-appearing former Qovernor of Georgia walked to the ros- trum nilficump;nhd by Senator George, his o 3 ‘ was administered tg Vice | The oal President Curtis. The new Senator | atulations T then smilingly accepted ussell was elect llowing the muunngxrwlmmamw | Georgian Elected to Fill Unexpired | V' SOVET STEANER SEADSCALL FORAID {Ship With 254 Aboard Re- ported in Distress in Sea of Okhotsk. By the Associated Press. TOKIJO, January 12.—A Rengo (Jap anese) News Agency dispatch said the Ochiishi wireless station today received distress calls from the Soviet steamer Sakhalin, 3,649 tons, and with 254 Rus- sians aboard. It gave its position as 53 degrees north, 146 degrees east. (In the sea of Okhotsk and east of the Island of Sakhalin, on the Northeast Siberian Coast.) The Japanese government station at Ochiishi later tried to contact the Sakhalin but failed. Thre were 200 Passengers reported aboard, the rest being the crew. Messages Are Confused. SAN FRANCISCO, January 12 (#).— A confusion of radio messages early today told of the distress of the Rus- sian steamship Sakhalin in the North Pacific. No details beyond the location of the vessel, in the sea of Okhotsk, off the Is- land of Sakhalin, were carried in the messages. The San Francisco Coast Guard sta- ton reported the N. Y. K. (Japanese) tanker Manju Maru, and the State’s Line steamship General Pershing were standing by. The government radio station at Victoria, British Columbia, named these two craft as rushing to the assistance of the disabled vessel. Mackay’s Los Angeles radio station, however, reported the steamship Golden Dragon, 25 miles from Dairen, said there was no marine trouble in the vicinity aside from the Japanese freighter Shimuzi Maru, being refloated from Taku Bar. PEAC E TALKS OPEN IN NORTH CHINA AS INVASION GOES ON (Continued From Pirst Page.) reported to have dropped to about 40 degrees below zero. “Both Chinese and Japanese were principally engaged in trying to preserve life against the. elements,” Chinese dis- patches said. This lessened military activities, a Chinese report said, but added: “Nevertheless, the Japanese are now within a few miles of the Chinese defenses east of Lingyuan, where the Chinese have dug in and will resist if the Japanese attempt to pass.” Peace Held Remote. Sino-Japanese negotiations to set- tle the dispute over Shanhaikwan, the northern railway terminal of China, which was occupied by Japanese last week, appeared more remote today when Chinwangtao dispatches said both Chinese and Japanese declined to meet on the British gunboat Folkestone in the harbor. The gunboat, the report sald, was suggested as a scene for & peace parley. Mayor Wu Teh-Chen of Shanghal returned here after a conference with Chiang Kai-Shek, military chief of the Chinese Nationalist Government at Nanking. The mayor said “China will never negotiate the Shanhaikwan inci= dent as a local affair.” Japanese authorities previously an- nounced they would seek to “localize” | the Shanhaikwan incident. ACT TO FORESTALL FORAYS. | Troops at Chinchow Move Against Chi- nese in Jehol Provines. CHINCHOW, Manchuria, January 12 () —Japanese military forces of un~ stated size commenced movements in the eastern section of the ancient Chi- nese Province of Jehol today to fore- stall what was described as “anticipated Chinese iregulars’ forays. Japanese movements in the state, which their leaders predict will be ulti~ mately annexed to Manchukuo, were reported in the region of Kailu, in the north, and headed in the direction of Tungliao. Information reaching Japanese Army headquarters here said several thou- sand loosely organized Chinese “volun- teers” were recently concentrating in the Kailu district, in Jehol, preparing to raid and destroy the ‘Tungliao- Heishan, Tungliao-Liaoyuan and Liao- yuan-Taonan railways and overwhelm if possible, small Japanese garrisons al~ ready at Tungliao and Toanan. the Chinese appar- iion in the situation % Japanese absorption e situation Shanhaikwan and Southeastern Jehol, which today was apprently quiet. . The Japanese, assert that Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, the com- mander in North China, ordered the raids, which the former were confident would be easily repulsed. Japanese military intelligence esti- mated the Chinese forces in Jehol as totaling 130,000, including four of Marshal Chang’s infantry brigades in the lout:re‘ut, ro’:r ui;.\lam:"y;‘u nndduu-u ea les @ cen! and west nm un‘d“e} Tang Yu-Lin, the Gov- ernor of Jehol, and 40,000 volunteers in the east and north. o ! SRR S C.M.T.CIS CUT OUT OF HOUSE REPORT ON ARMY FUND BILL (Continued From First Page.) other nations. This country stands far and away first, as far as naval air strength is concerned. “When we combined the Armr and the Navy together we stand third in the world today, whereas Jast year we stood Lo i hien we take simply the Army air strength alone, as compared with the land air strength of other powers alone, we stand fourth this year as against fifth last year.” Army Has 1,196 Plane Pilots. Maj. Gen. B. D. Foulois. chief of the Air Corps, told the committee the Army had 1,196 pilots for heavier-than-air planes and 74 airship pilots. He said there was a direct ratio between flying hours and fatalities. “In the fiscal year 1932,” he testified, “the total flying hours of the Regular Army and organized Reserves were 6l per cent less than the fiseal year 1931, and there was & 57 per cent increase in the total number of fatal aceidents.” “Statistical data of the Army and Navy show a decreasing rate of total aecidents per flying hour with an increase in the hours per pilot per The plane procurement amn pre- P & %" Sen. sented to the committee Foulois was intended to reach a total of SEEKS TO DIRECT ESTATE airplane program. ‘WORCESTER, Mass., January 12 (#) —Cal. John F. J, Herbert left no known will, terday his & that she be apointed administratrix of his estate.