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- SEVEN INDITED - INBALLOT FRAUDS New York Election Officials Named by Federal Grand Juries. By the Ascocinted Prese, NEW YOFK, January 14.— Seven Manhattan clection officials were in- dicted yesterdey by Federal grand juries tnvestigeting cherges of elsciion frauds At the sem> time, Federal inv gators rcported an cxemination of vot- ing machines in seven election districts in the fourth assembly district showed the reported vote for Democratic candi- dates was bcosted as much as 100 eplece by adding to their actual totals wvotes cast for minor party candidates. The January grand jury indicted Nathan Silver, Democratic chairman of the board of clections in the fifth dis- triet of the fourth assembly district. When Federal investigators reported had been unable to find him, a h warrant for his arrest was is- Mrs. Roosevelt’s Secretary susd. Of the other six men indicted, three | were Republican election officers and | three Democratic election officials. | All are charged with conspiracy t falsify clection returns, a charge carry ing a penalty of not more than 10 years impritonment, nor more than $5,000 in fines, or both. i The indictment against Silver charges he and two others surrounded voting machines 5o that no other members of the Board of Inspectors or watchers| were able to note the correct election figures. WILLIAM G. MORSE DIES IN CALIFORNIA Only Surviving Son of §. F. B. ;' Morse Succumbs as 80th Birth- day Anniversary Nears. By the Associated Press SAN DIEGO, Calif, January 14.— ‘Williem Goodrich Morse, only surviving son of S. F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, died at his home here Thurs- | day after a short illness. He would have cclebrated his 80th birthday anni- | versary January 31. He was still a boy when his father died and he had few personal recollec- | tions of the inventor. In his ’teens, William Goodrich Morse set out to be- | come a cowboy. He gained much fame as an all-around sportsman, being | widely known as one of the greatest hunters and fishermen of the pioneer West. He counted Buffalo Bill, Richard Mansfield, John Drew and other famed personalities of half a century ago his close friends. Morse at one time was a governor of the Lambs Club in New York. As a member of the New York Athletic Club, he was well known in a variety of sports. Morse is survived by a daughter, Mis3 Leila Livingston Morse of Massachu- setts, who was with him when he died, and by a sister, Mrs. Leila Morse Rum- mel of Paris, France, who is now the only surviving child of the inventor. KING'S MERGER PLAN " OPPOSED BY MILLS| TUrges Thorough Study of Proposal to Consolidate Disbursing Func- tions of Government. ‘The King bill to consolidate all dis- bursing functions of the Government under the reasurer of the United States is vigorously opposed by Secre- tary of the Treasury Mills. In a letter to the Senate Appropria- tlons Committee Mr. Mills warned of dangers unless such'a step were un- dertaken gradually. He recommended & thorough study of the question. “Because of the many ramifications of this proposal and. the highly tech- nical nature of the questions involved,” he said, “it is my opinion it would be dangerous to prescribe by law a system without first making an exhaustive in- v‘ee:tlguflon of all phases of the mat- “While it is believed that a con- solidating of the disbursing functions of the Government may serve the in- terests of economy and efficiency, I feel that to secure these benefits and to| avold disruption of the Government services such consolidation must be | worked out gradually step by step.” U. S. CATHOLICS PROTEST ‘PERSECUTION’ IN MEXICO Wational Welfare Conference Plea, Signed Ly Archbishop Hanna, De- plores Anti-Church Drive. By the Associated Press. 1 The religious situation in Mexico ves- | terday caused the National Catholic | Welfare Conference to issue an “em- phatic protest” against the sustained ‘persecution of the church in Mexico.” | The protest was signed by Rev. Ed- | ward J. Hanna, archbishop of San | Franclsco, and Wwas drawn at the re- quests of the Catholic bishops of the i United States at their recent meeting | the church situation in Mex- | detriment to the amicable un- | derstanding and friendship that should exist betwesn our own country and all the nations of both American conti- nents,” it added" “The right of religious liberty, of| freedom of worship, is native to the thought of our own country. We feel, | therefore, we are justified in asking all| our fellow citizens actively to interest| themselves in the restoration in Mexico of religious freedom for its citizens. FORMER GRANDEE DIES Count of Spain Was | Breeder of Fighting Bulls. MADRID, January 14 (#).—Count| Santa Coloma, breeder of fighting bulls | and a former grandee of Spain, died yesterday. He was 66 Count Santa Coloma was until re- cently president of the Fighting Bull | Breeders' Association. Under the mon- archy he held over a dozen titles. Death was attributed to age coupled with a heart attack. Coloma SPECIAL NOTICES. BRICKLAYING _GUARANTEED WORK, §: @ay. Write MILO. Gi4 10th st “.",‘."““ e ILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ‘Gebts ‘uniess contracted h SECRNHARN. 310 B ot mer 2o WM, E I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE F¢ Gebla contracted for oUber than. by myseiy RALPH H. KNAPP. 715 N. Capitol st 14 WANTED—LOAD _OF HOUSEHOLD PURNI- ture from or to Pittsburgh, Pa. A'-J o %7, IromJNl‘J' Yfl:ll Cll!Yi‘.Yln fl”!l'fim Tren- o1 an ITH SFE} ASTORAGE €0.. 1013 You st. nw. o CHAIRS ~_POR M Mansion March 4. DEPRESSE Japan and NorWay Underscuing U. Spite of Ta The following article is one of a series showing how industrial conditions in foreign countries afect American work- men. Merwin H. Browne. the writer, is @ member of the Washington Bureau of the Buffalo Evening News. BY MERWIN H. BROWNE. American fishing boats bob aimlessly at anchor, and brine-hardened fishing nets dry idly in the sun, their owners jobless, because foreign fish, canned and frozen, have usurped the domestic va- rieties on dinner and luncheon tables all over the United States. The idle boats and nets mean idle cannerics, they mean idle fish oil and {meal factories and they mean idle can | factories. As the United States Fish Industry of America, capitalized at about $103.000,000 and normally em- ploying 88,000 workers, placed it before the Federal Government: “Our industry is just like a boy play- ing with his tin soldiers. When one soldier falls down, all the rest of them are krocked down.” ‘Testimony lodged in the Government files rhows that almost the entire American fish industry is at the mercy of concerns in such debased currency countries as Norway and Japan, and that all along the line, from salmon to tuna and from sardines to scallops, the foreign fisherman is getting employ- ment at the expense of the American: who go down to the sea in ships. Laughed at Tariff. The American fishing industry was fully protected by the tariff act of 1930 until nearly 30 countries went off the gold standard of exchange. And as soon 2s this happened, the songs of the foreign fizhermen, pulling in their hauls of gleaming fich, became laughs of de- rision at the American tariff barrier. It was practically leveled overnight. As a resuli of this condition the United States commissioner of fisheries, Henry O'Malley, testified before Com- missioner of Customs Frank X. A. Eble: “American manufacturers of fishery products are in a precarious condition and many companies are already broke. Among the industies most severely af- fected are packers of salmon, sardines, tura and producers of fish meals and oil, fish netting and twine. The out- look for these groups is most dismal.” ‘What does this mean, this pouring into America of foreign fish products? Let us start in the retail store, where the American housewife selects her stocks for the family larder. Forced to Cut Price. Perhaps the shopper is seeking sar- dines. She is cffered an American brand, packed in cotton seed ofl in Maine, entirely American produced, at 5 cents a tin. Or perhaps she is of- fered a Norwegian sardine, packed in olive ofl, at the same price, or perhaps at six for 25 cents. The Maine manu- facturer has been forced to bring his price to a parity to compete with the producer overseas. He is selling his sardines at from the Norwegian price of $3.10 for this rade of sardine. Sworn statements filed with the Treasury Deperiment in- dicate that it costs the American packer $3.45 to produce a case of sardines. He is losing on the deal from 20 to 45 cents. v Before the tariff was negatived by the Norwegian depreciated currency it cost the Norwegian company $4.85 to land his case of sardines here, duty paid. At the American produetion cost of $3.45 the American manufacturer could com- pete easily. tion, production of sardines in Maine has dropped 72 per cent in three years, while in the same three vears imports from Norway increasec nearly 300 per cent. Japan Has Advantage. In 1930 the imports from Norway totaled 387,672 cases, compared with the Maine pack of 1542.000 cases. In 1931 the imports from Norway had in- creased to 777,972 cases. while the Maine pack had dropped to 833,468 cases, and during the first nine months of 1932 the imports from Norway had in- creased to 906,348 cases, ~while the Maine pack had decreased to 383,300 cases. Commissioner O'Malley has pointed out to the Treasury Department that so far as salmon is concerned, Japan has a twofold advanage. The whole- sale price index for fish in Japan de- creased 17 per cent between June, 1931, and the same month in 1932. During the same period the exchange rate of the yen decreased 38,7 per cent. This, he caid, permits fancy, red Japanese salmon, in cases of 96 cans. to be landed in this country at $3.57 a case, compared to the American zell- ing price of $8 a case. One Japanese concern offered an American firm in San Francisco, he said, 60,000 cases of Siberian pink salmon at $1.80 a case, compared with the same American grade which sells at from $3 to $3.40 a se. “Commlssfioner O’'Malley further re- vealed that to finance the merger of several Japanese fishing companies, ob- viously to compete with United States firms, two loans of L:ls,:oo,ooo each, and guaranteed by the Japanese gov- l‘rnmgn!. were floated in the United States. These bonds, he said, appear daily in New York bond quotations. No Difference in Salmon. There is practically no difference be- tween the Japanese and American salmon, Commissioner O'Malley de- clared, 'and cited an instance wherein AR’ an each: new chairi for pent jor sale. n.w__Metropolitan 1844 - APPLES, SWEET CIDER Rockville Fruit Farm. Weive to Rockville. Md.. Then One Mile Out Potomac Rd. bR e oneo(humlommfilmhm Southeast Ah&k‘:. only to have it picked up later by Soviet authorities in Siberia. The Alaskan salmon industry, which r‘)’l 72 per cent of the total taxes col- lected there, has been so hard hit by the Japanese competition that it has operated at a loss for the last vears, and American pmdw ’ $3 to $3.25 a case wholesale to meet | As a result, of this unhealthy situa- | three | their wives and families foi WILL COME TO WHITE HOUSE WITH NEXT FIRST LADY. ALVINA THOMPSON of New York was selected by Mrs. Rboscvelt to be her official White Houte secretary when she moves to the Executive —A. P. Photo. D CURRENCY NATIONS | RUIN FISHING INDUSTRY HERE Have No Trouble S. Product§ in rl& Barrxer. that one more year of operation under ‘slmflar conditions will put them out of | business. | “The salmon industry in Alaska is in such a state,” these producers officially have informed the Treasury Depart- | ment, “that unless relief is obtained | the United States might as well scll | Alaska back to the Russians, not for | the $7,000,000 we paid for it, but for | 75_cents.” It is estimated that, whereas only a negligible amount of Japanese salmon was imported to this country in 1931, during_the first 10 months of 1932 more { than 5,500,000 pounds of the canned | product were brought in. Experts de- clare that the rush of the Japanese product to the American market was caused by quota restrictions enacted by France, which formerly tcok much of | the Japanese fish. { Driven to New Line. | Japanese swordfish, frozen and | wrapped in burlep, are b:ing landed in | the United States at 8 cents a pound, | to the confusion of an American mar- | ket price of 22 cents a pound. The | Japanese imports, which jumped from 88,209 pounds during the first seven | months of 1931 to 137,057 pounds dur- ing the same period in 1932, so de- pressed the American swordfish market hat the American sword fishcrmen turned to the mackerel business, caus- ing oversupply and depression in that | lin® of the fishing industry. | Fishermen on the Atlantic Coast had a profitable business in scallops on the West Coast at $2.20 a_ gallon. The | Japanese stcpped in, however, and, quoting a price to West Coast con- | sumers of $1.25 a gallon, ruined Easterners’ business. The same situation is true regarding | fish oil and meal plants. Prior to the Japanese competition there were 300 |of these plants thriving in the United | States. Today there are less than 50, which are described as “barely oper- ating.” | Official import figures show that | during the first seven months of 1931 | Norway sent to this country 12,931,990 pounds of canned sardines in oil, at {an average value of $.129 a pound. | During the same period in 1932 the Norwegian imports jumped to 19,686, 029 pounds, at an average value of $.08 |a pound. Other Norwegian fish imports in airtight containers totaled 3,127,963 pourds in the 1931 period, at an aver- | age value of $.07 a pound and 4,952,593 pounds in the 1932 period, at an aver- age value of $.048 a poumd. Japanese tuna fish imports to the | United States between January and August, 1931, aggregated 433,949 pounds, at an average value of $.205 a pound. | These imports jumped to 2.859.334 | pounds during the same period in 1932, { with a value of $.13 a pound. |"(Cobyright. 1932, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) FORMER CONCERT PIANIST SUCCUMBS IN NEW YORK Waldemar Kaempffert Ex- pires After Illness ‘That Lasted Two Years. | Mrs. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 14.—Mrs. Waldemar Kaempffert, former concert pianist and wife of the science editor | of the New York Times, dled yesterday after an iliness that lasted two years. Mrs Kaempflert was the former Caroline Yeaton. She was born in Belgrade, Me., and was the daughter | of Edward Yeaton. She was an accom- plished musician, a singer as well as| pianist. She studied with Moskowskl in Berlin for thres years and on a re- cent trip to Paris he invited her to play in concert for the first time a concerto he had written. She was forced to decline the invitation as she had already booked passage back to the United States. She and Mr. Kaempffert were mar- ried 22 years ago.. He was for a time the director of the Rosenwald Museum in_Chicago. They had no children. Funeral services will be held in New York Sunday afternoon and the body will then be taken to Maine for burial. U. S. ATTORNEY PROJECTS | PEONAGE INVESTIGATION 200 Complaints Reach Memphis of | Conditions in Arkansas | and Mississippi. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn,, January 14.—Some | 200 complaints have led United States | District Attorney Swayne D. Maddox to project an investigation of charges of peonage on plantations in Mis- sissippi and Arkansas. | _ The district attorney said he had no | jurisdiction in those States, but would | ask co-operation of the district attor- | neys who have on grounds “many of the Negroes say they were lured away from Memphis and West Tennessee.” More than 200 colored persons, he added, have complained they were promised prosperity on the Mississippi and Arkansas plantations and were furnished transportation by agents for farmers. “The Negroes say all of their crop is taken in payment for alleged debts and a debt balance is usually left” Maddox continued. “They say that after the crop was made they were chased away by the land owners and reed to re- main and work for nothing the | IGAPT. ELMENDORF DIES INPLANE TEST Washington Fiyer Killed and Capt. Frank 0’D. Hunte.r Injured in Ohio. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio. January 14.—An Army plane described as the latest type for aerial warfare crashed in a test late yesterday, killing one officer and seri- ously injuring another. to the office of the chief of the Army Corps in Washington, died instantly Wwhen he was thrown from the craft as it fell and burned near Byron, Ohio. Capt. Frank O'D. Hunter of March Field, Riverside, Calif., was brought to mey live. Several ribs and pessibly both legs were broken, attendants said. The officers left Wright .Field, Day- ton, and had been in the air an hour when the plane went into a spin, Hunter said. They stayed with the ship, trying to right it, but when they dropped to 100 feet above the ground, Hunter said he leaped out with his parachute. Why { Elmendorf, who was piloting the plane, idid not also “bale out,” Hunter could not say. The scene of the accident is about 15 miles northeast of here, in Greene County. Elmendorf and Hunter had been at Wright Field a week, trying out the plane which Air Corps officials had decided to place iato production. The craft was a P-25 consolidated, & biplane combination of the pursuit and combat types. A board of Air Corps officers at a meeting Sunday said the plane was equal to that of any nation Brig. Gen. H. C. Pratt, commandant of the material division at Wright Field, said a board of inquiry would be called teday to investigate the accident. LEADERS IN ARMY AVIATION. Elmendorf Holds Altitude Record. Hunter's Jump Is His Third. Capt. Hugh M. Elmendorf. who was killed, and Capt. Frank O'D. (Monk) Hunter, seriously injured, in the crash of an experimental two-seater pursuit plane at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, late yeserday, are regarded as two of the Nation's foremost authorities on pursuit aviation and as among the most colorful figures in the Army Air Corps. Both men are well known in Wash- ington, both having served as pursuit members of the Air Corps training and operations division. Capt. Elmendcrf held this post when he died. having succeeded Capt. Hunter in the office. Holds Altitude Record. By his parachute jump from only 100 feet yesterday Capt. Hunter becomes the only “third degree” member of the Caterpillar Club and stands second only |to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh among the aviators of the world in the num- ber of times he has been forced to take to his parachute to save his life. Lindbergh has jumped four times. Capt. Elmendorf's pioneering work ! of the past few years in high altitude pursuit operations have made world history and his own record of 33,000 feet in a fully' armed and equipped | standard pursuit plane stands as a world record. Capt. Hunter is the | ranking World War ace still remaining in the active service and is regarded !as one of the finest acrobatic flyers in | the military services. | Capt. Elmendorf, a native of Ithaca, {N. Y., and a graduate of Corneil Uni- | versity, started his Army career as a | member of the first officers’ training | camp and as an Infantry officer in the World War, Commissioned in 1817. “Monk” Hunter was born December 8, 1894, at Savannah, Ga., and was educated in Connect'cut and at Lau- sanne, Switzerland. He enlisted in the aviation section of the Signal Corps at the beginning of the wer, went through flying schcol and was commissionsd a first lieutenant in September, 1917. He made his first jump for life from a disabled pursuit plane at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohilo, in 1925. A year later he made his second jump at an altitude of only 800 feet from a blazing pursuit plane at Selfridge Field. Capt. Elmendorf will be buried in Arlinglon Naticnal Cemetery with full military honors at 10:15 a.m. Monday. He is survived by his widow, who lives at 4816 Middlesex lane, Edg=moor, Md. NUTE ) YSTE §an You, - cr Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at a famous university. s advice is often sought by the police of many citles when confronted with particularly bafing caces. This problem has been taken from his case- Ef-lr’\,knncso\'eflnl hundreds of criminal investi- Try your wits on it! It takes but one minute to read!. Every fact and every clue necessary to its solution are in the story itself—and there is only one answer. How good a detective are you? An International Crook. BY H. A. RIPLEY. [4 -’I [ ELLO, Joe!” Hamilton, as the two met in the lounge of the Stuyvessant Club. “T want you to meet ; Mr. Stonleigh. = Won't you Join us for lunch?” “Delighted,” smiled the sheking hands with the tall, handsome young man. “Well,” responded Stonleigh to Ham- ilton’s suggestion he tell the profes- much to it but an amazing bit of luck for me. a bit of a soldier of fortune for years. The usual thing you: know ... minor wars, trad- ing, prospecting: sort of interna- ‘tional opportunist. about a year ago, Hugh McInnes in a bar room in To- kio. A Jap was about to slip a knife between his ribs when I jumped in, and we man- aged to fight our way out. Hugh al- ways insisted I had saved his life. “Being a wealthy young cub, with- out family or relations, he decided to join me in my rovings. We had been living for two months in_the city of much time, when he contracted fever. to die and insisted on making the will I have turned over to Attorney Hamilton leaving me his fortune. He Capt. Hugh M. Elmendorf, attached | 8 hospital here, where it was said he | cricd Howard | I bumped into|R! Hongkong, China, where I had spent | ¥; CAPT. FRANK O'D. HUNTER. !WORLD'S OLDEST FLYER GOING HOME AS ORIENTAL MYSTERY Charles Dickinson of Chicago, “Aviator No. 74,” Leaves Japanese Police With Headaches Trying to Figure Him. By Radio to The Star. TOKIO, Japan, January 14.—After flylnthmwhm possible in China and Manehuria—and some places usually considered impossible—Charles Dickin- son, world’s. oldest licensed pilot, is again returning to chlc!%o, his home. Since Marco Polo first blazed the way China has seen many strange tourists, but none pravided it with more sur- prises than did this tall, white-bearded aviator who put three nations on pins and needles, if Manchukuo counts as one. When Dickinson atrived on a steamer several weeks ago the Japanecse police already had such a headache trying to solve what was back of his frequent trips to the Orient that they made him continue on the same steamer to Shang- hai. One of his trips has been for the ostensible purpose of cornering the nchurian soya bean crop, but he re- urned without any beans, and the per- | turbed police have no clue as to the whys and wherefores of his other jour- neys. Takes Regular Plane. However, Dickinson fooled them at the end. When a regular passenger plane from Korea landed at the Haneda Airport outside of Tokio a few days ago he popped out of the cabin. He and his two guides, one a Russian and the other a Chinese, plus innumerable pieces of baggage, occupied all the accommo- fif,f‘“" of the plane when it left Har- Though claiming to have a bank de- posit in every city in China, to have traveled in either airplanes of pri- vate cars of railroads, and to have cabled and telegraphed instead of using the mails during his wanderings, Dick- inson thriftily requested steerage ac-| commodations on the steamer for home. He finally compromised on the cabin | class aboard the liner President Cool- | idge. due at Honolulu on January 18 and in San Francisco on January 24. While in the Orient, the gentleman- | aviator wore a uniform of his own de- signing, whether in the air or hotel lobbies or on the streets. It consisted of a fur-padded aviator's cap with ear muffs, a leather zipper breeches, fur-lined Russian boots and | over all a $10 gray cotton padded Chi- nese mandarin robe. Calls Self “No. 74.” His guides weet also uniformed in aviators’ leather caps and coats. All his dispatches, which in a single day from Changchun, capital of Man- chukuo, amounted to 150 yen ($30), were signed “Aviator No. 74”—which number this year also to be his age. That was also the title by which Dickinson usually introduced himself. at the same time pulling a miniature aluminum propeller from his pocket and spinning it in front of the nose of the surprised stranger who might not understand English or the significance of, “I'm Aviator No. 74.” The most spectacular introduction | from which the vencrable aviatcr emerged alive, greatly to the surprise of numerous spectators, occurred at Har- bin“in Manchuria. Coming to the rail- road station one morning, he spied a squad of Japanese soldiers on the plat- form, standing stifly at attention as a guard of honor for a departing high ranking officer. The sergeant commanding the squad wore a neck-warmer beard, which, though black, was equally as luxuriant as that of the tall foreigner. A bearded soldier isa novelty any- where and the Chicagoan strode over, | spun his tiny propeller blade in the faces of the amazed soldiers and intro- duced himself as “Aviator No. 74.” He added a few remarks about the folly of militarism, which, being in English, was unintelligible to them and con- cluded by reaching out and giving the | sergeant’s whiskers a decisive yank. Friends hustled Dickinson away, while the squad was still frozen in attention. (Copyright. 1933.) THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy, with lowest temperature about 30 d grees tonight; tomorrow fair and warm- er; gentle northerly winds becoming southerly tomorrow. Maryland—Mostly cloudy, _slightly warmer in extreme west portion to- night; tomorrow fair and warmer. Virginia—Mostly cloudy, slightly warmer in extrer.2 west portion tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer. West Virginia—Fair and warmer to- { night and tomorrow; much colder Mon- day. Outlook for January 16 to 21. \ _North and Middle Atlantic States— | Rain Monday and probably Monday night, changing to snow in interior of North Atlentic States and in mountains of Middle Atlantic States, then gen- eraliy fair until Priday or Saturday, when rain is indicated, possibly begin- | ning as snow in North Atlantic States. | Colder Monday or Monday night, be- | coming much colder Tuesday and Tues- | day night. Rising temperature Thurs- | day and Friday and colder about Satur- day night. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temporature. Barometer. Degress. . 33 32 28 | Yesterday— 4 pm. . 8 pm. . Midnight Today— 4 am. 8 am. . Noon Highest, 34, today. 280, 6. Lowest, 28, at 4 am. today. Year ago, 45. . 3 at noon Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. 9:18a.m. 4:20am. 10:00 p.m. _ 10:41pm. 4:22pm. + ©.5:02p.m. The Sun and Moon. Tomorrow. 10:30 a.m. 4:54 a.m. Sun, today Eun, -tomo! Moon, today 4 Automobile lights . must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in tke Capital (current month to date): Montn 1933. Average. Record. 0.75 3.55 7.00 ’82 ‘91 '89 ‘00 ‘28 16 '85 89 Augus| Scptember. October. November. Temperature. 2 samo “mejup w90y Wy Stations. Wezther. - 4wpiagsos say3] ~quata gswp Clear . Pt.cloudy Clear professor, | poson. Masgs sor of his good fortune, “there isn't|Denve T've been | Helen Omaha. Nebi Philadelphia “One night,| phoens “He seemed to know he was going | Br S8 ich time, today. es.. 58 ' Part cloudy even demanded it be witnessed by two Americans, one of who the States with me. Prof. Fordney closed the big book he had removed from his library shelf. -IAAi:hlis thought,” he fiuzd. ‘Eht:n; le; an ter. I'd better n Hamilton.” o Why did the professor think 50? (See Page A-7 for solution.) Bagworms, commonly found in ever- in in reens i Amezicr,.-yill_be. utilized tn hom returned to| St t observations.) Bermuda.. 68 ly FAIRFAX, Va, January 14 - cial).—Thomas P.. Chapman, (‘3: new. . | reports on claimed acomplishments and RUSSANESS OPENED BY 31 Scene at Kremlin Palace Marked by Contrasts of Women and Men. | | By the Associated Press. ‘ MOSCOW, January 14.—In the gor- | geous white gold throne room of former | | czars in St. Andrew's Hall of the Krem- | { lin Palace, Soviet Russia’s parliamentary | season was ushered in last night. It | was the opening of the regular session of the Central Executive Committee of | the Russian Socialist Federation of So- | viet Republics to approve the conduct | of the republics' affairs since the last | meeting and to ratify plans for 1933. | Approximately 300 delegates, many of | whom included men and women in'the native costume of distant provinces, sat stolidly in straight rows of wooden desks while speakers droned out voluminous | their intentions for the future. Strange Contrast in Garb. ‘The workers, peasants and a few uni- fermed soldiers comprising the member- =hip of the Central Executive Commit- tee furnished a strange contrast to their sul in the plain and often coarse dress, relieved now and then by the spots of color of the native costumes and uniforms. | Large white marble columns, the vaulted ceilings and large candelabra, all of which were richly decorated in gold leaf, attested to the splendors. of the former regime. High above the wooden dais which fiow has taken the piace of the throne | bangs a framed lithograph of Lenin surmounted by . a larg> seal of the Workers and Peasants’ Republic. These, with desks now. covermg the polished floor.and loudspeakers attached to each column, are the only changes that have r‘en made in the rcom. Even the 1s of the Czar's ments still line the walls on three si Opening of Proceedings. Last night's proceedings werg opened by Micheel Kalinin, who is president of the Central Executive Committee .of | the Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics, as well as of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. “In a brief address, he introduced the main speaker, Daniel Sulimov, president of | the Council of People'’s Commissars of the Russian Soclalist Federation of Soviet Republics. - The main speaker delivered a report on the results of the five-year plan and plans for 1933 and national economy. On the speakers’ platform with | Kalinin sat Vyacheslaff, M. Molotoff, president of the Union Council of the People’s Commissars, and highest offi- cials of the Russian Socialist Federation | of Soviet Republics. Joseph Stalin, leader of tn.:e Communist party, was not pres- cnt. The sesslon will last several days, followed by the annual meeting of the All-Union Central Executive Commit- tee beginning January 22. AGRICULTURé BUILDING Two Different Types Are Suggested to Connect Structures Over B Street. The question of what kind of bridges to build over B stree, southwest, to connect buildings of the Department of Agriculture on opposites sides of that street s being studied by fl‘lej Treasury Department. Two different types of bridges have been suggested to carry the connect- ing corridors across the street, above traffic. One of these types would con- sist of a bridge with a single arch, reaching entirely across the street. The other would have two arches with a pedestal in the center of the street di- viding trafic, and supporting the arches above. A report on the question has been received from the Fine Arts Commis- sion. but its contents were not made public. —e INSPECTOR CONVICTED Immigration Official Found Guilty of Importing Girl. EL PASO, Tex. January 14 (®)- Artbur H. C. Starr, 32, United States tion was _convicted | $50.0 51 BRIDGES ARE STUDIED L, 3800000000 SLASH ASKED FOR BUDGET U. S. Chamber of Commerce Recommends Increased Cut in Expenses. By the Associated Press. A plan for reducing Government ex- penditures by $800,000,000 and thus avolding tax increases was presented to |the Chamber of Commerce of the | ‘Umted States today by its Committee | on Federal Expenditures. Matthew S. Sloan, chairman of the committee, proposed these slashes: $250,000,000 in construction ‘and public Works, $400,000,000 in veterans' benefits, 00,000 in non-recurring items, 70,000,000 in departments and inde- pendent bureaus. The totzl, Sloan said, minus o $66,- 000,000 increase in public debt charges, wuu:}%ogive & net reduction of $8 Commends Hoover Cuts. Sloan commended tne contemplates reductions of $478,000,000, but added he did not believe-they: sufficient. He pointed out that the President’s suggested cut would still leave a deficit of $307,000,000 in 1934. The chief difference, Sloan Sloan also- criticized deficiency ap- propriations for - Government depart- ments, _say the should be required to keep allotted emounts and not appear for additional grants.” Asks Tax Change Delay. The committee, reporting = through former Gov. Redfield Prostor of Ver- mont, expressed the opinion that. tax adjustments should be avoided until after the March 15 income tax period and “until after it is seen to what ex- t:lnt Congress is ready to cut expendi- ires.” “Increases in'the rate of income taxes or other taxes now being levied or the | addition of a manufacturers’ sales tax |or other new forms of new levies, with the possible exception of a beer tax, in the present short session of Congress are unwarranted,” the report said. HEADS MASONIC LEADERS George Feidt Elected by Associa- tion of Worshipful Masters. The newly-organized Association of Worshipful Masters for 1933 elected George W. Feidt of Harding Lodge president at a meeting last night at the Masonic Temple. Other officers elected are Gilbert C. Clark, National Lodge, vice president, and Paul J. Bergh, St. John's Lodge, secretary-treasurer. ‘The _Executive Committee comprises the officers and Joseph C. Bruce, Columbia Lodge, No. 3, and Harold Martin, Mount Pleasant e. Representative Butler Buried. ‘THE DALES, Oreg., January 14 (#).— Representative Robert R. Butler, who died in Washington, D. C., last week, was buried here yesterday. Relatives and a congressional guard of honor ac- companied the body from the East. Whe Bocing Sier coat and | #x A3 U.N. BETHELL DIES; TELEPHONE LEADER Former . Vice President of A.T. & T. Was Admitted to Bar Here. | By the Associated Press. MONTCLAIR, N J, January 14— Union Noblc Bethell, banker, lawyer and prominent figure in the telephone in- dustry since 1889, died in Mountainside Hospital yesterday after a lingering li- ness. He was 75 years old. Mr. Bethell was formerly vice presi- |dent of the American Telephone & }'nlemph Co. and an officer or director |in other Bell companies throughout the | United States. | During the war he was chairman of | the United States Telegraph and Tele- | phone Administration. In 1909 the | Emperor of Japan decorated him with | the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun in recognition of his adapting the tele phone to conditions in Japan. He also was president of the Pirst National Bank & Trust Co. of Montclair until a year ago, when he became chair- man of the board. Mr. Bethell was graduated from Han- over college in 1879. He became a clerk in Washington, D. C., at the same time attending Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Washington in 138§, in Indiana two years later, and gained the right to appear before the Buopzreme Court of the United States in 1902. Funeral services will be held tomor- . DRY LEADERS TO MAP CAMPAIGN IN MARCH | Joint Session of Prohibition Organ- izations to Plan Fight Against Repeal. | Abandoning plans for two separate prohibition conferences in Washington, dry organizations have united on the dates of March 7 and 8 for a big con- ference in the National Capital to map dry strategw for the forthcoming battle over propaosed repeal of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League previously had initiated a call for a conicrence here February 14 and 16, while another group of dry leaders, including promi- nent churchmen, had fixed another date. Now they have gotten tozether, changed their original plans, and will unite in the general conference on March 7 and 8, shortly after inaugura- tion of President Roosevelt. Representatives from 60 to 75 dif- ferent dry organizations probably will appear at the conferencs, accorcing to Anti-Saloon Leagle. Among those prominent in formu- lating early plans are F. Scott Mc- | Brige, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, ri bichop of the Methodist Ep Church. U S P e MURDER CHARGED Two Cclored Men Held for Grand Jury Action. Wilbur Briscoe, 39, colored, and Wil- liam Johnson, 24, colored, were held for grand jury action on murder cl yesterday'by a coroner's jury that investigated the slaying of Jesse 29, colored. '00d, “it was testified at the inquest, was shot to death by Briscoe, who also shot and seriously wounded Jcseph were |-Moore, 19, colored, 2300 block of Nine- teenth: street. The shooting occurred mwmhommmxmmccxu Johnson, who lives in the 1600 block of PFifth street, was said to have ac- companied Briscoe to the Sixth street house. Briscoe’s home is in the 800 block of Thirteenth street. Grid Stars Aid Assembly. ST. PAUL, January 14 (P).—There's a good foot ball team in the making among employes of the Minnesota House of Representatives. 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