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’ WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star's exclusive carrier serv- 37, at 4 pm. ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. ; lowest, Full report on -Highest, 28, at 4 a.m. yesterday. page 5. No. 1,452—No. 32,401 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. iy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1933 —NINETY-SIX PAGES. PHILIPPINE VOTE BLOCKED BY FILIBUSTER THROWING SENATE F inalfion on Island Bill Due by Tuesday BATTLE MAY END BY 2 OR 3 VOTES| Bingham in Lengthy Debate Describes Veto as Unfair.. By the Associated Press. A vote so close that two or three ballots may decide whether the Philippines are to be given their . freedom was predicted last night by Senate leaders after hours of vehement oratory for and against overriding President Hoover’s veto. The decision, which now rests| solely with the Senate, since the House already has passed the pending measure over the Chief Executive's veto, is expected by Tuesday at the latest and possibly may come tomorrow. A single Republican—Vandenberg— of Michigan—arcse in yesterday’s de- bate to defend President Hoover's action in disapproving the bill, while two oth- ers cf the Pres'dent’s party and three Democrats ripped into Mr. Hoover's arguments with gusto. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, led the move to override the President. He was joined by Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, chairman of the Terri- tories Committee, who described some parts of the President’s veto message &s “misleading” and “unfair.” “He ht to have been a little more P said, “and not at- of the spoke agai the veto Others who inst Senat Dem galleries ‘were almost filled dur- ing the all-day debate, with many Fili- pinos among the spectators. On the floor, the Philippine commissioners, Pedro Guevara and Camilo Osias, also watched -the proceedings with rapt at- tention. Eenator Robinson of Arkansas assail- ed particularly the President’s state- ment that freedom for the islands now + would invite external attack and war, end gaid the time was “never more op- portune” than now for granting inde- Ppendence. Denies Danger of Attack. He pointed out that the bill provides perpetual neufralization - of the {elands threugh treaties and that Amer- ica may maintain her military apd naval reservations there even after o6m- plete_independence is achieved at the | end of the transition period of 10 years provided by the bill. / “The danger of external attack,” he said, “does not exist now, nor can I conceive of the possibility, much less the probability, of an enemy fleet at- tempting to take the Territory of the Philippines.” Like Hawes, Robinson said the Presi- dent's view was influenced by his Sec- retary of War and that “every argu- ment in this message has already been considered by this body.” Vandenberg, one of the leading ad- ministration orators, asserted while he did not agree in every detail with the President’s argument, he found him- self “in complete and emphatic con- | currence with his fundamental objec- tions.” He urged rejection of the bill and de- termination later between two plans—a | 20-year transition period with adoption of a constitution after instead of before the beginning of that period or com- | plete independence in two or three years | with & post-economic readjustment. “A Hybrid Theory.” “The theory embraced in the pending bill,” he said, “is a coalition or hybrid | of these two viewpoints. The method | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) HERRIOT HITS DEBT | DEFAULT OF FRANCE Takes Issue With Linking of Rep-| arations With War Ob- ligations. By the A< 1 Press. PARIS, January 14.—Formter Premier Herriot today took sharp issue mlh“ asserticns made here that the Hoover | morator{um established a ligk bgtween | interallied war debts and German Tep- | arations. An article in his Lyons newspaper, Democrat, ‘éxptéssed astonishment at the light' manner in which foreign af- fairs are treated in some quarters. “It appears,” said the article, “that to fepudiate the December payment on the debb to Americ tion of the signature of France. ‘The Hoover moratorium has been invoked. 1 have shown—and it is t it contains-a formal dis- avowal of all corelation between debts and reparations.” " Respect for sighatures is imperative, said the article, warning that internal tics t0o often affect judgment in the 1d of foreign affairs. Former Premier Laval issued a for- o6l ence, war € ica was not a repudia- | young INTO STALE SENATOR CARTER GLASS. —Harris-Ewing Photo. FOREIGN PROBLEMS EARLY INNEW DEAL President-Elect Ready for Prompt Action in Compli- cated Field. By the Assoclated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y, January 14— President-elect Roosevelt is veady to take prompt action in the complicated field of foreign relations as one of the first steps in giving America its “new deal.” International problems predcminated the week of intensive study just con- cluded by Mr. Rocsevelt. He threw an unpierced veil of secrecy sbout the parleys with Secretary Stimson, Senator Swanson of Virginia and Democrats of the diplematic corps of other days, but there is no doubt he moved for early action. It is only & question here whether ts on the economic confer- Gebts and disarmament may be before or immediately after March 4, when the new Democratic ad- ministration takes command. In absolute seclusion today at the family estate, Mr. Roosevelt applied himself to a stack of mail, and to the sorting out of books he will take with him to Washington. He noted carefully newspaper ac- counts of the owift-moving develop- ments in Congress, particularly relating to the Democratic measure of farm re- lief and a tax on beer. It is understood the President-elect stands by the 3.2 per cent beer bill passed the House, but there was no comment on reduction to 3.05 per cent voted by the Senate Judi- ciary Subcommittee. ‘The tangled legiclative situation will be gone -6ver with the Democratic leaders Thursday night in Washington, whena stop will be made en route to Warm Springs, Ga. This conference in the Capital was arranged two wecks ago " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) \BRAZIL TO EXTEND STATE OF SIEGE INDEFINITELY mer Ambassador to U. §., Into Exile. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, January 14.—A de- cree extending for an, indefinite period the state of siege authorized by Con- gress December 17 as a result of the discovery of a subversive plot will be issued Monday, a governmental spokes- man said today. The measure invoking the state of siege provided that it could be extended at the volition of the government if the Legislature were not in session. A national transport ship, the Pampa, sailed today carrying to the southernmost Bay of San Julian sev- eral alleged leaders of last December's radical plot. Among them were Hon- orio Pueyrredon, former Ambassador to Buenos Aires. Hippolito Yrigoyen, alleged leader of the insurgeny movement, is in Buenos Aires awaitiffg trial for complicity in the abortive revolution. Transport Takes Pueyrredon, For-| Washington, and former Mayor Noel of r MATE All Fund Bills Tied Up, With 7 Weeks to Go. |NO COMPROMISE, |GLASS DECLARES Blockade Set Up by Long May Yield to Cloture Rule. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. With only seven weeks remain- ing before the present session ex- pires, the Senate today finds itself in the grip of a filibuster and ap- parently unable to legislate. The filibuster is conducted by Democratic Senators against a bank reform bill sponsored by one of the most distinguished | Democrats in the Senate, Senator | Carter Glass of Virginia. Senator quey Long of Louisiana has pro- ;jected himself into the picture as |the head and forefront of the filibuster, with Senators Thomas of Oklahoma and Wheeler of Mon- tana standing at his right and left hand. ’ When the Senate recessed late yester- day, until noon tomorrow, both sides |in "the row over the banking bill ex- | pressed their determination to carry on. “No Compromise,” Says Glass. “No compromise,” was the statement | which came from Senator Glass and from Senator Bulkley of Ohio, who also |is backing the banking bill. | “The Senate will have to determine { for itself whether it wishes to legislate | or not,” said the Virginia Senator. He | had reference to a proposal to impose the cloture rule of the Senate, which would bring an end to debate after | Senators had been limited to one hour each to discuss the bill and all amend- ments. The Glass forces have such a move in mind snd sre prepared oo spring it W they believe Test of the Benate has become so| thoroughly disgusted with the tactics of Long and his supporters that they will ldfgt it. The Glass forces prefer to force the cloture resolution to a showdown, they say, rather than to yield to any way. The President’s veto of the Philip- | pine independence bill and the proposal to override that veto yesterday became entangled in the meshes of the fili- buster. For nearly five hours the mo- tion to pass the bill notwithstanding the President’s disapproval was debated. | Long Blocks a Vote. Even so, the motion might have been voted upon hefore recess was taken had | not Senator Long let it b> known that he intended to use the Philippine bill as {a vehicle for his flljbuster against the | banking bill and that no vote could be had. The Louisiana Senator m:xde it clear that he would not psrmit a vote | before tomorrow night or Tuesday. So | the Philippine bill, alcng with the bank- iing bill, has been he'd up. After the Senate recessed, told newspaper men: “Well, the banking bill is now behind another bill (referring to | the Philippine independence bill) and I am in front of that pill.” ‘When the Treasury-Post Office bill | comes up for action, Long indicated be also would seek to tie it up as part of his drive against the Glass bill. Part of his procedure, he explained, would be to let the Treasury-Post Office bill come up, and then at periodic in- | tervals insist on the regular order of | Senate business, which automatically would bring the Glass bill up for | further debate. Cites Regrouping Plan. He pointed out that attached to the Treasury-Post Office bill were the econ- omy recommendations of the Senate Special Economy Committee, including their suggestion for giving President- elect Roosevelt broader powers of re- organizing the Government than now held by President Hoover. | _This, he said he thought, would be the subject of further discussion on | the floor and would delay a vote on the Glass bill still more. By permitting the Treasury-Post | Office bill to come up from time to | time. but preventing a final decision | on that matter, Long and his cohorts in the filibuster could consume several | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) | | By the Assgeiated Press. TechnoerdB¥ ‘was;said in the House by Represen “Bltek, Demiocrat, of New York, to#lggest “the dream of an ostrich after a formal dinner in a scrap iron heaj . “Technocracy,” said the New York- er, “Is a word of terrific mule power, covering a multitude of miscalculations. “It does a scientific snake dance right under the hard-boiled brow of Nicholas Murray Butler, It is the great Colum- by giving the world the jitters. machine some Mussolini rantings, bologna. ed in their thinking the intellectual ac- :ompll;h&:n&:};t Congress in the balmy s, d“"”}‘lgdr scheme comprehends a Vast American_robotage with a great engi- neering Jehovah sitting the White ‘we shall drink, be or ) PR in House pressing push-buttons to set in motion the rest of us as the Jehovah decides eat, merry ; BLACK LABELS TECHNOCRACY “GREAT COLUMBIA RACKETY-RAX” “Flock of Dithery Young Scientists Has Given the World the Jitters,” He Tells House. bla rackety-rax. A flock of dithery scient wondered what this great world was all about and finished “The; red into a sausage-making A Marxian philosophy, single taxidermy, | Volstead gin and it all came out| "'ljhuE mechano-messiahs have equal- |, “The scientists have struck a snag | because they can mot estimate the | horsepower used up in gum-chewing | congressicnal speeches, ~ marathon |dances and research work. It is fig- |ured it will take another thousand | years to get a fair base for the do- | mestic allotment of energy certificates. “However, in spite of the hysteria of the technocrats, they have served to give & warning to capitalism that out of itself it must derive co tory measures for technological unemploy- ment. Congress, under the Constitu- tion, with the co-operation of industrial leaders, can bring about a program of such relief comprising unemployment insutance, old-age pensions, shorter hours of work and a more equitable distribution of wealth. By law, ma- chinery should be encoursged for its blessings and texed for its consequen- tial damage. “No more important task confronts the new administration than the stir- ring of sclence to new inventions and of protecting humanity from Tav- ages of the machine. The technocrats preach desolation under the gilt of }n-unued leisure. Capitalism is merel altering, but it has a record of achievement which m MAKING oUT INCOME TAX RETURN WAS NEYER 2% iy We wanT A DIRT | s =5 (N~ AN AN A o S000000C.M.T.C. FUND T0 BE ASKED Training of 30,000 Idle Youths Object of Amendment Planned by Barbour. By the Assoclated Press. Summer military training for “30,000 unemployed youths now roaming the: land” was proposed in the House yes- terday and foretold another bitter struggle over the Army's annual ap- propriations. Barbour of California, ranking Re- publican on the War Department Ap- propriations Subcommittee, served no- tice he would offer an amendment for a $2,000000 allotment for citizens' military training camps. ‘The bill reported by the committee carries ncting for these camps. The Budget Bureau recommended $1,000,000 for training 13,000 youths, but it was eliminated by Representative Collins of Mississippi, Democrat, in charge and in|foe of the citizen training. Overridden Last Session. Collins, who indicated his attitude toward the C. M. T. C., by suggesting they be established for “girls and old folks,” sought last session to make a large slice in these appropriations, but was overridden after a fight on the floor. Cellins contended in a speech advo- cating mechanization just preceding Barbour, that “material not personnel” was the measure of modern military strength. Barbour retorted that this is no time to econcmize in National insurance.” “I think that this $2,000.000 will be very well invested,” said the Californian. “It has been suggested that we gather these thousands of youths now floating about the country into these camps and give them something to do. I think this is a good chance to try it out.” Senator Couzens of Michigan has in- dicated he will introduce similar legisla- tion to care for unemployed youths. Barbour also will ask funds sufficient to train 18,000 men in the organized Reserves instead of the 16,000 provided for in the bill. Collins contended that “the only way to give adequate military preparedness without putting an overwhelming tax | burden on the people is to cut down on “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) TODAY'’S STAR._ PART ONE—20 PAGES. ‘General News—Local, National Foreign. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. - Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 4. News of the Clubs—Page 5. D. A. R. Activities—Page 5. Serial Story, “Paris Love"—Page 6, American War Mothers—Page 6. District National Guard—Page 7. Organized Reserves—Page 7. W. C. T. U. News—Page 8. Y. M. C. A. News—Page 8. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 8. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Society. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music. In the Motor World—Page 4. D. C. Naval Reserve—Page 4. Disabled American Veterans—Page 4. Public Library News—Page 4. Aviation—Page 4. Fraternities—Page 6. American Legion—Page 6. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 6. American Legion Auxiliary—Page 6. Radlo News—Page 7. Spanish War Veterans—Page 8. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Financial and Classified Advertising. Stamps—Page 12. Schools and Colleges—Page 12. PART SEVEN—16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Reviews of New Books—Page 11. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Crossword Puzzle—Page 13. S o z Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. GRAPHIC SECTION—é6 PAGES. Worid Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES ly | Holly of Hollywood: Keeping Up With the Joneses; mnm:nfl;m Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; The Soul: Little Orphan Annie; Moon £ and | Sterling Declines Part in Induction Of Mrs. Ferguson By the Assoclated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., January 14— Gov. R. 5. Steriing, in a brief formal statement issued late to- day, said he did “not care to take part” in the inauguration of his successor, Mrs. Miriam A. Fergu- son, set for next Tuesday. Mrs., Ferguson, the wife of James Ferguson, who was im- peached and removed from the office of chief executive, and her- self a former Governor, defeated Sterling in the November elec- tion. He lost a contest in which he charged fraud in the voting. He said Mrs. Ferguson's hus- band would be “the Governor in fact.” WARN EMPLOYERS ON 40-HOUR WEEK Workers” Delegates to World Job Parley See Crisis in Industrial System. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 14.—Fighting for the 40-hour week as a partial reme- | dy for unemployment, workers' dele- | gates to the International Unemploy- ment Conference warned employers to- day that the industrial system faces imminent catastrophe unless something | is done toward relief. | Conceding that the reduction of | hours, even with the maintenance of wage levels which they demand, will not cure existing economic evils, spokesmen for a large part of the world’s organ- ized labor insisted that the spread of work would be a contribution valuable to industry as a whole and would de- | crease the army of jobless. They demanded that capital give to workers a larger share of the profits | produced by machine efficiency. Corneille Mertens, Belgian labor leader and influential in international workers’ activities, summarized his colleagues’ sentiments in denouncing employers who object to reducing hours. “The employers tell us the 40-hour week will kill industry, and they say that is a warning,” the Belgian leader asserted. “I also give a warning. If you can do anything useful, do it now. | Otherwise it may be too late. “Tomorrow you may find the storm has broken over your heads and there will be no opportunity of discussing with us the possibility of shortening the hours of work.” Emphasizing the role of the machine in eliminating workmen, M. Mertens said that in the manufacture of in- candescent lamps one worker can do in one hour what formerly required 9,000 workmen. In the United States, he added, a hundred workers can pro- duce all the brick required by the whole country. The Monday. ROME SILENT ON REPORT OF ARREST OF SAVANT Officials Decline Comment on Paris Story Edyoux Is Being Held as Spy. By the Associated Press. ROME, January 14.—The govern- ment declined tonight to comment on a Paris report that Denies Eydeux, di- Tector of studies in the Polytechnic School of Paris, was being detained in Rome on charges of espionage. Officials in the foreign office, asked for denial or confirmation of the re- ports, printed today in the Paris news- aper Le Matin, that the savant has detained for four months here, said they preferred not to comment. The French embassy declared it had no knowledge of the case. Le Matin said that M. Eydoux and his secretary were arrested during an excursion in the Italian Alps. The French government, the newspaper re- ported, has approached the Italian government on the subject. PROTECTION IS ASKED FOR 4 CUBAN PLANES general discussion continues By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla,, January 14.—Miami lice officials tonight announced had received a request from the State Department at Washington to provide mrd‘ at the airport when four Cu- Cuban gover A Star, (#) Means Associated Press. * GATHER FOR RAID Tokio Reports Soldiers Ready for Drive on Manchu- rian City. By the Assoclated Press. Tokio reported yesterday that 33,000 Chinese soldiers, known as the “Red Spears” and “Big Swords,” had con- centrated in northeastern:Jehol for the purpose of making a raid across the border on the important Manchurian city of Tungliao. Meanwhile all battlefronts on which the Chinese and Japanese have been in actual contact remained quiet. In Shanghai the Chamber of Com- merce, representin® the bulk of Chinese business interests, called for intensifi- cation of the boycott on Japanese goods. This boycott was cited by the Japanese as one of their reasons for attacking Shanghai a year ago. In Geneva China informed the League of Nations that she reserved the right to offer armed resistance to Chinese city seized January 3 by the Japanese. PREPARE FOR ATTACK. | Japanese Ready to Meet Reported | Manchurian Drive. TOKIO, January 14 (#).—Chinese | troops, numbering 33,000 and known as | the “Red Spears” and “Big Swords,” | have been concentrated in the region | of Kailu, in Northeastern Jehol, the | Rengo (Japanese) News Agency report- | ed_today. The Rengo correspondent at Tung- | liao, across the Manchurian border | from Jehol, said these troops included | a motley array of volunteer bands and | the remnants of the army of Gen. Su Ping-Wen, which was dispersed in | North Manchuria last month by the | Japanese. The dispatch said the vol- unteey general, Chu Ching-Lun, was in command. | Japanese asserted this Chinese force | was preparing to attack Tungliao, which, | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) STEAMER IN DISTRESS Steering Gear Broken as Storm Rages Off South Iceland. | REYKJAVIK, Iceland, January 14 | ). —The steamer Flora, from Bilboa, was threatened with disaster off Port- land, South Iceland, tonight, her steer- ing gear broken. A hurricfne, which wept her off her | course, was pounding the vessel tonight. The mail boat Lyra, from Bergen, Nor- way, arrived to assist the ship, and preparations were made to rescue the Flora’s crew as soon as possible, WOMEN BUR.N TO DEATH Two Die as Auto Turns Over and Catches Afire. PORTLAND, Mich., January 14 (#).— | Two women were burned to death near | here today in an overturned automobile. The women, Mrs. Walter Kurze, 48, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Karl Kurze-Schultz, 76, were passengers in the car, driven by Mrs. Kurze's hus- band, a Grand Rapids confectioner. Kurze, who was severely burned in at- tempting to rescue the women, said the automobile overturned and caught fire after skidding on the highway. PR Cuban Envoy to Return. HAVANA, Cuba, January 14 (P — Oscar Cintas, Cuban Ambassatior in | Washington, who has been here since mid-December, will leave for the United States Monday, he said today. 00 CANESE | Japan in the area of Shanhaikwan, ' TYDINGS PROPOSES DRASTIC FUND CUT 10 ESCAPE DEFICIT Plan Would Limit Total of Ap- propriations to Estimated Revenues. ASKS DEBT RETIREMENT ITEM DROPPED FOR YEAR Maryland Senator Will Elaborate on Budget Balancing Proposal in Speech This Week. A sweeping proposal to balance the budget for the fiscal year 1934 by di- recting the Appropriations Committee to hold the total of the appropriation bills down to $2,949,100,000—the esti- mated revenues for that year—was laid before the Senate late yesterday by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary- land. The Tydings resolution, which he will call up for consideration at the first opportunity, also directs the com- mittee not to make any appropriation for retirement of the national debt during the coming fiscal year. This plan would require a cut of | approximately $492,000,000 below the budget estimates of expenditures for next year, not counting the national debt, according to the figures given by the Maryland Senator in explaining his objective. $1,025,700,000 Probable Deficit, Senator Tydings said the budget esti- mates for expenditures in the fiscal year 1934 total $3,974,800,000, and that the estimated revenues for that year are placed at $2,949,100,000. This leaves a probable deficit, he said, of $1,025,- 700,000. He said the law provides for a curtail- ment of the debt by $534,000,000 for that year. g rom the | estimated deficit of $1,025,700,000, there | would remain a defieit of nearly $492,000,000, which, under the resolu- tion, the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee would have to eliminate from the | various supply bills. The House, however, already has been making some reductions below the | original estimates in the supply bills considered thus far, and whatever total the House eliminates should be deducted from the $492,000,000 estimate of what the Senate Committee would have to cut out to comply with the Tydings resolution. the gave rise to a brief debate in Senators Lewis, Democrat of Illinois, and Logan, Democrat of Kentucky, ad- vocated abolition of Government bu- Teaus and commissions as the way to reduce Government expenses. Meanwhile, members of the Appro- priations Committee are awaiting an opportunity to get before the Senate for debate the Tréasury~Post Office supply bill, to which is attached the general economy program, including the proposal for an additional pay cut on Government salaries of 124 per cent u’: tfip of the present 813 per cent fur- ugh. The additional pay cut and various other amendments the committee is seeking to make in the existing econ- omy law are estimated to save in the neighborhood of $35,000,000 next year, in addition to whatever is being saved from a continuance of the provisions of the present law. Pay Cut Proposal Fought. The new pay cut and other general economies proposed in the Treasury- Post Office bill have aroused the op- position of organized groups of Gov- ernment workers and mmzed labor also is fighting the pay proposal. If the Tydings resolution should be | adopted, it "probably would overshadow | the pending economy program because | of its far-reaching effects of cutting " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) . FORGIVES HUSBAND HELD | IN PLOT TO KILL HER i ———== Mrs. Craig Says She Will Do All She Can to Help fprmet Foot Ball Player. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 14.—Mrs. Ethel Craig, wife of Gerald A. Craig, former University of Southern Cali- fornia foot ball player, who was arrested on a charge of attempted murder grow- ing out of an alleged plot to have his \:illf; slain, said today she had forgiven Mrs. Craig said she would do all in her power to help him. “We have talked the whole thing over,” she said, “and I am gof forgive Jerry and forget what has hap- pened.” Police said Craig had offered to pay a detective iieutenant, introduced to | him as a gangster, $300 to club Mrs. Craig to death. They asserted he de- sired to gain possession of community property. Magistrate Finds Solution By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 14—For the momient, things looked pretty compli- | cated for Magistrate John A. Meyer. James S. Harris had been brought before him for parking a truck in a | ProT M Be 45,45, sald the magistrate “But 1 haven't got $245 said “Then youll have to go to jall, I'm “But 1 am in Jall” came the Teply, _ 1 | Harris. P EFFORT TO FINE CONVICT PROVES COMPLICATED JOB AT BALTIMORE Offers to Pay $2.45. When Maryland Warden | developed that Harris was serving It Itwo years in the Maryland State Peni- FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS tentiary for turgary and even then | hol was in T e R e e e, pa f the problem mfinu settle e flnfilndfllrz \llel'mw “If he won't pay it,” he “TU try. to raise it myself,” l TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE GARNER PROMISES BANKRUPTCY LAWS AGTION THIS” WEEK Assurance to Speed Reform Regarded as Move to Curb Inflationists. BI-PARTISAN BLOC SEEN IN PLANS OF SPEAKER Members of House Judiciary Com- mittee Discuss Precarious Situa- tion of Railway Finances. The urgency of immediate bank- Tuptcy reform was emphasized by Speaker John N. Garner yesterday as members of the House Judiciary Com- mittee in executive session discussed the precarious situation in railroad finances with two members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Charles A. Miller, president of the Re- construction Finance Corporation. The Speaker, viewing the legislative problem as “a bi-partisan proposition,” gave virtual assurance that the pro- gram to revise the bankruptcy laws to relieve or scale down the load of debt, individual and corporate, along the lines recommended by President Hoover, would get action in the House prob- ably this week. He suggested also that there was no reason why the combina- tion plan now being considered by the Judiciary Committee should be mere emergency legislation, but thought it should envision permanent reform of the bankruptcy statutes and ree ceivership procedure. ‘The attitude of the Speaker was taken to mean that the Democratic leadership in the House hopes to ally itself with the Republicans in a bi« partisan bloc to head-off the group ad- vocating legislation to inflate the cur- rency along the lines of the bonus bill but without the feature of the bonus measure which, despite its inflationary proce..ure, did propose to pay off the adjusted compensation certificates which are definite obligations of the Government due in the future. Speaks of Suspending Rules, ‘The inflationists are rallying behind the Busby bill to issue $3,000,000,000 in ‘Government bonds as backing for a new currency issue on an equal amount over X Garner spoke o Tules of the House for legigiation. He even sug~ gested ~ consideration by unanimous Muth:‘ . was g0 ahead on of ‘Phestaent Hoover's. Tecommendation the Judiciary could agree on the details of a bill on the McKeown bill, individ- ual?eh‘m,udtheu - moas- ure for corporate adjustments carry -wwmlwtmnflmunfi requiring approval by the Interstate ‘Commissi Commerce on. ' nfl: apparent that House leaders are mfldm‘ it is believed, while a definite in~ flation of the currency to provide tem= gonary relief might easily get out of and, Judiciary Committee Meets. ‘The Judiciary Committee mef yes- terday with the hope of reporting a bill, but the all-day sesslon found its members still discussing detalls. The presence of President Miller, of the Pinance Corporation, several experts from the corporation’s railroad loan division, and Commissioners Charles D, McHaffie and James B. Eastman of the finance division of the Commerce Com= mission, indicated that railroad finances and the plight of several large com- panies, confronted with possible re= ceiverships, were foremost in the dis~ cussions, Representative Andrew J. Montague, Democrat, of Virginia, who presided in the absence of Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, Democrat, of Texas, said the committee had sought information from the officials “in an informal con- ference.” Representatives L. C. Dyer, Republican, of Missouri, and Earl C. Michener, Republican, of Michigan, as members of the committee, indicated the draft of the bill was far from com- plete, but expressed hope that it would be_agreed upon next week. In outlining his position on the pro- posed legislation, Speaker Garner said: “I do not see why we should not pass the bill, either under suspension of the rules, by unanimous consent, or (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) CUBA LIFTS CURB ON PUBLICATIONS Censorship of U. S. Magazines and Papers Pictured as Mis- take. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, Cuba, January 14.—Cene sorship on United States publications circulating fn Cuba has been removed, Secretary of State Ferrara said to- night. Dr. Ferrara, when informed that mil- itary censors were inspecting American publications before their sale or dise tribution here, said he wrote Presi- :-nt‘be :uuludn immediately about the of ary Of, State said tonight, Col. Guerrero, auditor of the um and head of the board of censors, issue an ‘order tamorrow that United & - States newspapers not to_be interfered Dr. Ramiro Guerra, President Ma« chado’s secretary, also described as & ‘mistake” the ~censor'’s practice of American papers. He said not been intended.” He re- stion Netther Guerra mos s | knew, they said, whether censorship had been o Sibaen e = S T S and were, in not be-