Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 2

Woman’s Reform Organiza- tion Will Launch Nation-wide Education Campaign. What is described as a nltionwide‘ political education campaign among| women voters to facilitate repeal of the dry law, was Jaunched today by thbe ‘Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. The movement was outlined In a statement which said it was recognized that this will be a “crucial year in de- ciding the issue of prohibition reform The District division will devote it- | self to & special study of constitutional and legislative procedure and liquor | control systems, Mrs. Wiliiam Beverley Mason, the chairman, said. This will include talks by constitutional and political experts. Similar programs will be conducted in the 40 State civisions, according to pians outlined by M Charles- H. Sabin, the national chaii-| man. “Our educational campaign on the failure of national prohibition during the past three years contributed in awakening the American people to the necessity for repeal,”’ Mrs. Sabin said. “But our work is not finished. Repeal is by no means an accomplished fact. There are many steps still to be taken before the liquor traffic can be brought under State control, and it is of vilal mportance that the American people understand the mechanics and ma- chinery ne v to accomplish this desperately needed reform. We plan to educate our memoers for effective political action.” U. S. SENDING CHINA MONEY AND ARMS, TOKIO PAPERS SAY (Continued FProm First Page.) | mostiy delivered in Shanghai, and the | Germans_delivering guns and machine | guns to Tientsin.” It was learned the principal basis for the reference to Americans was t. air- planes were sold the Hangchow Avia- tion School and Shanghai was sup- plied with mail planes. Allegations that Americans were aiding China emanated mostly from Japanese cor- respondents in China, who frequently cabled that American loans were im minent for either Gens. Chiang Kai- Shek, the Chinese commander-in-chief, or Chang. A foreign office spokesman said: “We have reliable information th: 40 American aviators, mostly non-com- missioned officers on the active list, instructing Chinese in South China. He declined to give the source of this| nformation or to amplify further, be- yond saying the recently acquired abil-| ity of the Chinese to fly in formations Al was evidence of foreign instruction. ®| Confronted with a statement that | none of the Chinese Hanchow school in- | structors were in active American mili- | tary service, the spokesman stuck to his story. The spokesman said Americans and other foreigners were fully within their rights in selling arms and instructing the Chinese, therefore the Japanese per reports that Japan was con- templating a protest to Washington | Wi “ridiculous.” eanwhile, Hachiro Arita, vice min- ister of foreign affairs, and other Jap- | anese dignitaries, foreign ambassadors and other diplomats attended the Amer- ican community’s memorial services for the late President Calvin Coolidge in Trinity Church. Ambassador Grew vered a eulogy. RELATIONS STRAINED. Iialian Government Expected to De- mand Satisfaction From China. BHANGHAI KWAN, China, January 16 (#).—Italian relations with the Chi- nese Nationalist government were stfained today because of the slaying | of an Italian messenger by Chinese | troope. | The Italian was shot down by the | Chinese as he was passing the Sino- Japanese battle front scuthwest of here. | Italian authorities posted in this treaty area insisted he had been assured safe passage through the battle lines between | Chinwangtao and Shanhaikwan. | The Italian government was expected | todemand satisfaction from the Chinese | goyernment at Nanking. Japanese military authorities, mean- while, feared they may have acted too late in attempting to block the passes of the Great Wall of China and thus facilitate the annexation of Jehol Prov- ince to Manuchukuo. About 130,000 Chinese troops were estimated already in the province. Japanese airplanes bombed and heav- Cites Pact WOULD ABIDE BY KELLOGG TREATY IF MADE U. 8. CITIZEN. % | Speaking under auspices of the Amer- wEV. T. F. RUTLEDGE BEALE Of St. Paul. a British subject seeking naturalization, cited the Kellcgg-Briand pact in vowing he would bear arms only in accordance with its terms. He will get another hearing. —A. P. Photo. PHILIPPINE VETD CALLED DOOMED Tydings Tells Long Pol Shows Passage of Bill Is Assured. (Continued From First Page.) arguments of the President 3 his veto message—that independence now is eco- unsound and Hyely to pro- voke war. The House already has voted over- whelmingly to override the veto. and the Senate gave a day to its debate Saturday. Informal comment of Sen- ators has indicated that the issue in that branch would be decided by two or three votes. The " four cabinet officers who at-| tacked the Philippine bill were Secre- tarles Stimson, Hurley, Chapin and Hyde. They upheld Mr. Hoover in his veto from an economic, social and prac- tical standpoint. Stimson, a former governor general | of the Philippines. said: “It needs no imagination to grasp the effect which it would have upon the moral prestige and material influ- ence of the United States in the Far | East. To every foreign eye it would be a demonstration of selfish cowardice and futility on our part, The charge that we had tricked those whom we have undertaken to protect would be accepted. In the Orient, far more than in the Occident, prestige is the meas- uring rod of success. “Such a situation might be an irre- | parable blow to American influence at | & time when the state of affairs in the Far East is chaotic, when every element of stability is threatened, and when out of the Orient may again come one of those historic movements which might disturb the whole earth.” Trade Considerations Listed. Secretary Chapin listed one after another tne present products of the islands in relation to world trade and asserted there would be a setback in every case should present free trade agreement be annuled. Philippine sugar, representing an in- vestment of approximately $200,000,000 and 48 per cent of the total returns from island exports in 1931, Chapin sald, “could not be sold in the Ameri- can markets, even if admitted under the reduced rates of Cuban sugar and, considering the present. overproduction, no other market is available.” Although the hemp and copra in-| dustries would not be materially af- fected by a change in the free trade status. he said, the coconut trade “would probably be lost entirely to the Philip- pines.” Chapin said that the desiccated co- conut industry probably would “revert to Ceylon, where labor is cheaper and freight rates to the United States lower.” The United States, he added., now | takes nearly 80 per cent of the Philip-| ily damaged a Chinese military head- | pine cigar output and loss of the Amer- quarters at Kailu, in northeast Jehol.|ican market “would probably endanger Japanese reports said today. Japanese the life of that industry.” The Secre- continued a troop movement into the |tary of Commerce stated his belief also province from that Tegion which ap- | that it would be impossible to balance peared to be aiming to converge with|the budget of the islands should the other troops in this section in a drive | free trade relationship be changed. agatst Jehol City, the provincial | capifal. Chinese “fronts” on Jehol were re- ported as vastly outnumbering the Jap- anese. The Japane:-. however, have every adventage in discipline, equip- | ment and in scores of airplanes. Military leaders Snsisted the Jehol | offensive will not be launched until late next month or early March, before thaws make the roads too SOgEY. CONCILIATION GROUP MEETS Yen Protests Changes In Settlement Plan Without Notifying Chinese. GENEVA, January 16 (#).—The League of Nations Concillation Com- mittee of Nineteen convened today to resume its search for a solution of the dispute between China and Japan. The representatives of Spain, Swe- den snd Czechoslovakia were not pres- ent for the opening session. Sir John Simon. the British foreign secretary, | attended Dr. W. W. Yen, chief of the Chinese delegation, protested that leaders of the e assembly have amended the| draft resolutions for settlement of the | dispute between China and Japan| without notifying the Chinese repre-| segpatives. e asked that he be informed imme- diately of the exact situation. It ap- peared that his protest was directed against changes which Sir Eric Drum- | miond, retiring secretary general of the | League, presented to the Japanese dele- | ates who sent them on to Tokio for nstructions. “As these modifications are report- | ed,” said Dr. Yen, “they would, in view of their manifest unfairness, make con- ciliation unacceptable to China” He added that he had been told the pro- posed changes include the elimination | of any comment on Japan's recog-| mition of Manchukuo. 8ir Eric at today’s meeting said he He asserted that land values would be affected materially and pointed ouf that 64 per cent of the local loans of the Philippine National Bank are se- cured by real estate. The bank has 55 per cent of its total investments de- pendent upon the sugar industry for liquidation. he added. and disruption of this industry “would seriously affect at least two-thirds of the value of those loans.” Hurley Backed Veto. The statement by Secretary Hurley, | by far the longest of those made public at the White House, was in the form of a formal report recommending & veto | of the independence measure. Hurley Inspected Philippine conditions person- | ally in 1931 and since that time has| insisted that the granting of independ- | | ence should be delayed for a consider- | able number of years. “The question by which we are fronted today is this,” Hurley said, the Philippines now prepared for inde- pendence? The facts answer that ques- tion in the negative. The operation of the bill would destroy the progress made toward self-government by the Filipino people. “We are told that a large majority of Filipino leaders want immediate in- dependence, even at the cost of the eco. nomic chaos and soclal disorder that this measure will entail may be true. But let us not lose sight of the fact that among existing respon- sibilities of the United States is in- cluded a special obligation to consider | the welfare of the Filipino people.” ‘The Secretary of War maintained that the projected measure gould sub- stitute for what has proved & “success- ful government” a period of continued American soverelgnty ‘“under a loose, destructive, dangerous plan which does not discharge the United States from responsibility, but does in large measure deprive it of its means to discharge had made no propositions which would /that responsibility.” modify the original conciliation draft Informal negotiations, he explained had given rise to suggestions by Japa- ese delegates here regarding modifica- tions and these suggestions were trans- mitted to Tokio by the Japanese spokesmen. ACTION DELAYED BY ROME. Advices From Italian Minister China Are Awaited. ROME, January 16 (#) —The gov- emment was awaiting advices from the Italian ister in China today be- fore d action to be taken as the result of the killing of an Italian courier by Chinese troops in the Shan- haikwan battle area. Sees Internal Disorder. Hurley said that the transition from free trade status to one in which present customs duties would be charged, probably would precipitate such financial chaos as to cause great internal disorder, even the pi t of such a situation, he said, might provoke a crisis. ‘The Secretary asserted that an inde- pendent Philippine government under resent conditions would be without ancial ability to maintain an armed force sufficient to protect the islands. In addition, the Secretary of War raised the point of the possible uncon- stitutionality of the independence bill. He submitted a statement from the judge advocate general of the Army to the effect “the proposal to with- draw that eignty and destroy those rights by sin acts of Congress is, In All of that| THE EVENING CANNON ATTACKS ‘Lawless Lawmakers’ Fram- ing Legislation, Bishop Tells Vigilance Meeting. By the Associated Piess. BEER BILL GROUP W STAR, WASHINGTON, D. HEN - the Subcommittee on Judiciary of the House Dis- trict Committee meets to- morrow morning to take up BUFFALO. N. Y. January 16— | ican Vigilance League to observe the! thirteenth anniversary of the adoption | | of the eighteenth amendment, Bishop | James Cannon, jr. of the Methodist, Episcopal Church, South, asserted here yesterday that the “prohibition law was | hamstrung almost beyond recovery | under the Mellon regime,” and that the : legislators now framing a bzer bill in Washington were “lawless lawmakers.” | After the House of Representatives | had passed the Collier bill, notwith-| standing evidence, he said that it was | unconstitutional. The bishop asserted | | the Senate had done worse in endeavor- | |ing to shape a bill that attempted to | nullify the Constitution by subterfuge. “They are willing to_undermine the' Constitution to pass a beer bill,” he de- clared. Bishop Cannon said he believed that| Jobn D. Rockefeller, ir., had “New York inferiority complex concerning prohibi- | on” and that Dr. Nicholas Murr: Butler was “the apostle of infallibilit; Rockefeller Called Ignoramus. | Mr. Rockefeller's statement last July | that drinking has increased. especially | was the target of the bishop. “Testi- | | mony given before the committee hear- ! Ing on beer shows that Mr. Rockefeller is an ignoramus on the subject and doesn't know what he is talking about,” Bishop Cannon said | “I don't know whether they will pass 2 beer bill or not.” the bishop continuied, “but I know we cannot prevent the return of the saloon. cannot protect the | dry States unless the prohibition law is retained unchanged.” | | on another part of his address, Bishop | | Cannon said: “Why, now after 13 years, | {is the country faced with the question of the repeal or modification of the | | elghteenth” amendment? First.. and | foremost, because of lack of efficient | | Federal 'enforcement. It is true, as President Hoover has declared, that the eighteenth amendment smashed the sa- | | loon regime as by a stroke of lightning. | | “The open saloon disappeared. Liquor Advertising was seen no more. The | | slimy hands of the brewers, distillers | | and liquor dealers no longer manipulate | city, State or national politics. There | Was a gencral expectation that would | Federal and State governments would | eMciently co-operate to enforce the | prohibition law. | Secretary Is Blamed. “But, sad to relate, the history has | been otherwise. During the greater ' Ppari of the time since 1920, Federal | enforcement has been under the Secre- tary of the Treasury, who manifested | | little interest in that part of his official duties, with resultant grave abuses and | | flagrant unchecked violations. fo employes were not under civil | | service and appointments were de- manded by Congressmen and Senators | a8 a rewsrd for political services, with- out regard to the abilities of men or | their attitude toward prohibition | “A large number of these appointed to enforce the prohibition law had no sympathy with it. indeed were opposed | to it and made no serious efforts to | check violations. Very many of them | connived with bootleggers and accepted | bribes. | “It cannot be emphasized too strongly | that the prohibition law was hamstrung almost beyond recovery under the Mel- lon regime. Bootleggers and speak- easies flourished, and it was openly de- clared that the law cannot and will not be enforced. Certainly, under the Mel- lon administration there never was any | fair opportunity to demonstrate the | practicability or the value of the law.” |OVERTURES TO JAPAN FOR AGREEMENT ON PHILIPPINES DENIED __ (Continued From First Page) | | | Tespect of the treaties and agreements it had signed, began to develop. On the one hand there was this spirit of inde- cision on the part of the League and on the other hand there was the deter- mined attitude of the Japanese peope | to carry on what they had begun in China despite world opinion. | Theory Is Discarded. Last year the general opinion in the State Department and in the principal | foreign offices in Europe was that the | Japanese army had run amuck, but that the Japanese people and the Japanese | government were not in sympathy with | the actions of the army. They had to bow, however, before & powerfully organized minority, but when the peo- ple of Japan realized that the economic and financial sacrifices required for the | military adventure in China wcre great the military clique would be defeated and Japan would again act in accord- ance with the international obligation she had voluntarily accepted. This theory has been dispelied. The Japanese people are 100 per cent with their military leaders and the League of Nations realizes that nothing short of an actual physical constraint can stop the Japanese from their ideas of conquest. Under these circumstances, the League, | anxious a8 it is not to show that her | adopt a policy of procrastination. The | idea that Japan will in the ead not be | able to carry out her gradiose plans on account of economic and financial diffi- culties is still in the mind ¢f many of the members of the League. They admit it may take a good many years before Japan will feel the pinch and in order to let developments follow their course these powers favor delaying any offensive action against Japan. Idea Gets Cool Response. Some of the minor nations, those | which have only a platonic interest in the Far Eastern situation and would not be involved in the consequences of 4 boycott have advanced the idea that Japan should be expelled from the League until such time as she decides to return to the respect of treaty obli- gations. This idea was put before the major governments and has met so far with only a cool respcnse. If any odds were given as to which | side is going to prevail the betting | would be heavily in favo: of the major | powers. ~ The entire Japanese nation, iw"h all the resources it has behind her, is backing the policy of conquest The war office and the general staff have a complete free hand from ~the people of Japen to go as far as they like towards the carving of a new | Japanese empire on the Asiatic main- |land, and it is said in responsible quarters that the League of Nations, in which the American Government has put all its trust to settle the Far | Eastern situation, will not be able to stop the Japanese any longer. Jail Device Searches Visitors. | Visitors to the St. Louls Jail will be | “searched” mechanically when installa- | tion of an electric detectograph is com- | pleted. my opinion. repugnant to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.” The same opinion maintained that a w‘:ur&hcr w-nb::ndment to t':e Constitu- tion” woul necessary grant the acts projected by the independence measure. “This bill,” Hurley asserted, “puts the Mm in an economic straight- % it, after voting for in- and the constitution, the to prestige is bankrupt, has decided to | ft le Lave no alternative but; bia not Emuflvu economically.” any of the Black bill to tax and ! regulate sale of beer in this city it will | license, have before it a m close examination. easure, which upon is shown to be far liquor traffic in effect before this city went dry with the Sheppard act. e bill would be $100 for an ‘“on sale” license fee allowing drinking on the premises and an “off sale” licence fee of iaken away from the premises. This compares with the higher license fees of $800 for wholesalers and $1.500 per year for retailers, in effect before the Sheppard act. In the Black bill, how- ever, there is provided a tax of $2.50 & barrel, apparently to be :uperimposed on the Federal beer tax. This local tax was not applied here before prohibition. Proposed Law Lenient. One of the big differences between the old regulations before prohibition here, and the proposed Black bill lies in the regulations concerning saloons. | In the old days there were sirict re: strictions as to the location of saloons, whereas the Black bill contains no au- thority restricting the number or lo- cation of places where beer shall be sold. The Biack bill does provide, however, that no -brewer or wholesale liquor dealer shall have any financiel inter- est in places where beer is to be re- | tailed. Text of Proposed Bill. The text of the new proposed Dis- trict of Columbia bill 15 as follows: “A bill to provide revenue for the District of Columbia by the tax ation of certain non-intoxicating liquor, and for other purposes. “1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, that there shall be levied and coliected by the District of Columbia on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other similar fer- mented liquor, containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume, and not more than 32 per centum of alcohol by weight, sold within the said District of Co- lumbia by whatever name such liquors may be called. a tax of $2.50 for every barrel containing not more than 31 gallons, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional parts of a barrel author- ized and defined by law. “2. When used in this act the term ‘beer’ shall be deemed to in- clude lager beer, ale, porter and other similar fermented liquor. “2. Sections 319 to 330, 332 to 339, and 341 to 344, inclusive, of the Coae of the District of Columbia are hercby repealed. “4. The superintendent of licenses shall issue licenses for the sale of beer. These licenses shall be of two kinds: “(1) ‘On Sale' licenses shall per- mit the licensee or sel'er of beer to seil beer for consumption on the premises_only; “(2) ‘Off Sale’ licenses shall per- mit the seller or licensee to sell beer in original packages for consump- tion off the premises only. ‘On Sale' licenses shell be granted only to bona fide restaurants, clubs, eat- ing places or hotels “5. ‘On Sale’ license fees shall be $100 per annum; ‘Oft Sale’ license fees shall be $25 per annum, “6. No brewer or wholesale liquor dealer shall have any direct or in- direct financial interest in the busi- ness of any licensee or the premises licensed, ¥ “7. ‘On Sale’ licensed premises beer shall be sold and consumed at tables only. The hours of sale shall be limited to from 12 noon to 1 a.m. No beer shall be served to persons under 18 years of age. #8. Each licensee shall pay to the collector of taxes of the Dis- trict of Columbia on the 10th day of each month $2.50 per barrel cn all barrels or fractions of barrels s0ld by him during the preceding month. “Wholesalers of beer shall fur- nish a statement to the collector of taxes on the 10th of each month for the preceding month, showing the number of barrels of beer sold during the preceding month to each and every customer in the District. “10. Penalty for violation of this act shall not exceed a fine of $1,000 or one year in jail or both, and forfeiture of license for one year." Old Regulations Recalled. At the time the Sheppard act became & law in the District its saloons were regulated by a board of excise; created by Section 9 of the appropriation act for the District of Columbia for the | fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, ap- proved March 3, 1913, Public No. 435, third session, Sixty-second Congress. | This act defined intoxicating liquor | as that containing “more than 2 per | centum by weight of alcohol” and pro- | hibited, under appropriate penalties, its | sale, manufacture, etc., except by per- | *ons or corporations, etc., licensed under the act. There were two classes of | licenses, those to wholesalers and those to retailers. The fees were $800 and $1,500 per annum, respectively. These ielded the District revenue, as fol- lows: 1914....$512400 1916 $480,700 1915. 527,600 1917. 474,700 As for the retail licenses, they could be granted to saloons or bars, and to hotels and clubs. No hotel with less than 50 bed rooms for guests could get a saloon lieense. Restrictions As to Locations. No saloon could be located within 300 feet of “places commonly called slums” except by unanimous vote of the excise board. Nor could any saloon be licensed under any circumstances within 400 feet of any public school house, or col- lege, or university, or any house of religious worship. No saloon licenses could be issued at the depots of steam or electric trains, nor could any license be granted for a bar room in “any residence portion of the District” except for such establishments as sold the liquor in packages not to be consumed upon the premises. It was left to the board to decide in the case of each application whether it was proposed to set up a saloon in a business or resi- dence section of the town. Not more than three bar room licenses (excepting those for hotels or clubs) could be is- sued in any one block for any one side of the street, and not more than four in any one block, taking in both sides of the street. No saloon was permitted within & mile of Soldiers’ Home. ‘The act set a limit of 300 barrooms for the District, but the superintendent of licenses says that he remembers that there never were as many as 300 under this law. The number had been gradually diminished from year to year. At the time the Sheppard act became effective there were 267 saloons and 86 wholesale places including four brew- eries, in operation. The excise board was given discre- tion to grant or refuse licenses as it saw fit, and was authorized to use the police force to investigate all appli- cants for licenses. It was also given an inspector to make inspections from to see that its regulations were be! observed. e Qualifications of Licenses. ‘Those npplylx:f for licenses were re- uired to be citizens of the United tates at least 21 years of . bona fide residents of the District of Colum- 1ty of previous violationg laws relating to the sale of time to time as required by the board, bu C., 1 liquors in the District of Columbia. ‘The board was compelled to give pub- lic notice of the receipt of each appli- cation, Where anybody cared to pro. test against the issuance of ! then the protestant must | given an opportunity at a public hear- {ing to state his case in full, and the | le's strict than the regulations cn the board must take this into considera- | tion in deciding whether or not to is- | sue the license. The act authorized the license fees proposed in the Black | board to swear witnesses, to pay wit- | | ness fees, and provides a penaity for | false swearing. Under the regulations of the board, $25, allowing sale of liquer to be | or as a result of other previous acts of | | Congress, no ba: d open for fbunneu on Sunday. No liquor could be sold to minor persons; the hours of doing business were limited from 7 | o'clock a.m. until 1 o'clock am. Clubs could only sell to bona fide members and hotels to bona fide guests. The Exclse Board superseded & pre- vious board consisting of the assessor |and the assistant assessors, created by |act of Congress of March'3, | amended from time to time. Under the old act there was no limit to the num- ber of bar room licenses issuable, the hours were 5 o'clock a.m. until mid- |night, and the clear zone around churches, etc., 300 instead of 400 feet. \ Insular Chamber Practically Unan- imous for Rejection in Caucus. | By the Associated Press | MANILA, P. I, January 16—Mem- | bers of the Insular House decided in tcaucus today they would not accept [ |if it passed over President Hoover's veto by the United States Senate. The Insular Senate is expected to take simi- | lar action. | A cable sent to the Independence | Mission in Washington, D. C., said the “Representatives agreed by practically | unanimous vote the Hawes-Cutting bill | as repassed by Congress will not be | accepted by the present membership of the House even after the return of the mission. “The membership of the mission is informed if no other legisiation can be secured, the present law should continue until receiving from the Democratic administration legislation giving im- mediate independence in the sense it | should not be postponed except for the time necessary to effect a transfer of sovereignty The caucus was held prior to the opening late today of a special 10-day scssion of the Legislature which Gov. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt called to consider a score of bills and a number of appointments. | _Manuel Quezon, President of the | Senate and outspoken foe of the Hawes- | Cutting bill, attended the meeting. previously had said he did not favor | commiting the Legislature until Con- gress had completed action. About half of the House's member- | ship of 96 attended the caucus. Several |of those present refrained from voting iand two actively opposed committing |the Legislature at this stage. 'HOOVER SIGNS BILL FOR TRANSIT MERGER | Consolidation of Two Companies Is Subject to Approval of Stockholders. 1 } | bill suthorizing the merger of the | Washington street railway companies. | companies to merge but, before doing 80, the stockholders of the respective companies will be allowed to vote their approval or opposition, after which the approval of the Public Util: ities Commission must be obtained. The consolidation plan must be brought by the two companies to the attention ‘of the stockholders within | six months. The law also stipulates that the consolidation must be com- pleted within the next two years. 'PEPCO HEADS CONFER WITH UTILITIES BOARD |Seeks Agreement on Proposals of Both Sides on Electric Rate Cuts This Week. ‘The Public Utilities Commission and representatives from the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. conferred for two hours this morning in an effort to agree on proposals made by both sides for reduc- tion in electric rates this year. When the conference broke up after noon Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the commission announced no resuts had yet been reached, but that the confer- ence would be resumed this afternoon and tomorrow morning if necessary. Rates wese reduced February 1, 1932, to their present level by agreement, pending settlement on litigation be- tween the commission and the corpora- tion over the commission’s abrogation of the consent decree by which they had previously been governed. The lit- ’E‘mn has not yet been settled, but the commission is trying to secure an- other reduction effective the first of next month. The company has offered & reduction if the commission will in- Wmu it in another consent decree. ident William F. Ham, vice pres- ident S. Russell Bowen and Controller the conference. “JAFSIE” TO \.IIEW FIVE IN NEW YORK KIDNAPING Effort to Link Two Policemen and Others With Lindbergh Case Btarted With Probe of Records. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 16.—Examina- tion of the activities of two policemen and three others accused in a kidnaping gave rise today of a report that Dr. John P. Condon, the “Jafsie” of the Lindbergh case, would view the men to determine if any of them were mem- bers of the gang to which he paid money for Lindbergh. District Attorney Willlam F. Geoghan of Brooklyn revealed he was examining police rolls back as far as February 1 to determine when the two policemen had been absent from duty. The Lind- baby was kidnaped in March. have my own reason,” Geoghan said. ‘The two policemen, John Nevins and Arthur Graef, and three alleged accom- plices, are accused of kidnaping Ernest faking an arrest as he leral last cember. of uhcmg was 1 insom, but | released before .E was paid e N MONDAY, JANUARY . The District Beer Bill Measure, on Which Hearings Will Begin Tomorrow, Shown Far Less Severe in Restrictions Than Pre-Prohibition Regulationsy With Less Protection Against Saloon Dangers. any | be | 1883, as| He | President Hoover today signed the| The law permits the street railway |in 16, 1933. DRY LAW BOOSTED - ON ANNIVERSARY ‘Fight Just Begun,” Says Mc- |Bride, Declaring Need Great- er Now Than in 1919. | By the Associated Press. The anniversary of prohibition was |marked today by a statement from F. Scott McBride, general superiniendent | of the Anti-Saloon League, that “Na- tion-wide constitutional prohibition is even more valuable and more important now than 13 years ago when the eight- eenth amendment was adopted.” At the same time from Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the Woman' | National Committee for Law Enforce- | | ment, came word that women prohibi- | | tionists will open a campaiga thiy week in behalf of the eighteenth amendment at various State capitols. ] “The march of forgotten women™”| Mrs. Peabody termed It will open at St. was what the campaign. Paul, Minn.,, Wednesday and Thursday. with Mrs. Oce Curtis leading the march upon i the State Legislature there. McBride said in his statement: “The effort to replace prohibition with vari- ous measures, deliberately designed to | increase the strength and quantity of | | alcoholic beverages, will awaken the | public to the real purpose of the wet attack. The drys have just begun to ht. “The attacks against the eighteenth Founder of Women’s Bureau| amendment, expected to come during its fourteenth year, will help reveal the | superiority of constitutional prohibition over any proposed system of legalized | | liquor and eventually fix the prohibi- | tion policy more firmly than ever as the best method of dealing with the liquor evil.” “MONEYED EAST” ASSAILED Woman Leader Cites Political Effect on Prohibition Cause. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 16 (@) —Mrs. William Tilton, chairman of the | Woman's National Committee for Edu- | | cation Against Aleohol, said yesterday| a speech that “the South is meekly | treet drive.” |~ The address was delivered at a meet- |ing sponsored by the Men's Allied Forces | 'and the Women's Christian Temperance | 8 ed that prohibition | repeal is being u by the “moneyed | East” to “help regain waning political supremacy.” “The West and .South.” she said, “are | thoroughly fooled about this wet drive | against what was to be the South's| great contribution to our history, pro- | hibition. | “They imagine,” she continued, “this wet drive is a moral drive when really it is a money drive.” “I call on that South, the idealistic | South,” she said, “to find the still | small volce—regain its conscience and moral indignation and say ‘no’ to this wet drive of Wall Street and Tammany combined, a drive whose main object is to get political control back East.” WELFARE LEADER PLEADS FOR NEEDY Two-Thirds to Four-Fifths of Job- less Always Self-Supporting Before, Senate Group Told. By the Assoclated Press. Miss Margaret Rich of the Family Welfare Association, New York, told a Senate committee today that from two- thirds to four-fifths of those now re- ceiving unemployment relief in the Na- tion have heretofore always been self- supporting. Testifying on the La Follette-Costi- gan bill for a $500,000,000 bond issue, the proceeds to be granted outright to the States to aid the jobless, Miss Rich said she has noted “a sense of rebellion” among the unemployed. “It is not open rebellion that ex- presses itself in marching and waving of flags,” she said, “but what might be called & demanding attitude, the feel- that ‘we can't get along with this.’ " e reaction described, she said, “is not Communistic,” but just natural eagerness to be self-supporting. 'D. C. BEER BILL AID | OFFERED BY 2 GROUPS | Crusaders and Association Against Amendment Would Give House Testimony. The Crusaders and the Association | Against the Eighteenth Amendment are the two principal organizations which have notified the House District Com- mittee that they desire to be heard in support of the District beer bill when hearings start tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock before the judiciary sub- | | MRS. MINA C. VAN WINKLE. MRS. VAN WINKLE, LONG ILL, EXPIRES in Police Department Retired Year Ago. Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, inter- | nationally known police woman and the founder of the Woman's Bureau, Metropolitan Police Department, died 1At 11:20 o'clock this morning at her | home. 1425 Thirty-fourth street. She had been ill for more than a y Less than a year ago, Mrs. Winkle was retired from the Police Department as _the result of a pro- in the Philippine independence bill even|giving in to & very dangerous Wall longed illness. In the meantime, how- ever, she had made encouraging p: | ress” toward recovery until last week, when she suffered a relapse. She was 52 years old. Fought Abolition Attempts. lice Department, which began October 7. 1918 Mrs. Van Winkle was forced to fight persistent efforts to have the Women's Bureau abolished. Nearly every year attempts were made in Con- gress to have appropriations for the bureau cut off, but she fought back persisiently to have il permanently es- tablished by law. The bureau is a creation of the District Commissioners and can be wiped out by their order. Several months before her retirement on Jswwary 31, 1929, Mrs. Van Winkle became seriously ill and underwent an | operation at Johns Hopkins University | in Baltimore. Her condition improved | slightly, but ever since she had been confined to her home. When it became apparent that she would not recover sufficiently for her police duties, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, for- i mer superintendent of police, appointed | Sergt. Rhoda Milliken to succeed her as head of the Women's Bureau. Long regarded as one of the Nation’s | foremost social workers, Lieut. Van | Winkle came to Washington in 1 rganize and direct the Woman’ Bureau of the Police Department, cre: ated during the administration of the late Raymond W. Pullman, then major and superintendent of police. through her 14 years of service with the Police Department and through civic and philanthropic work in other she gained wide recognition as a in social reforms. Previous to coming to Wuhl%um Mrs. Van Winkle lived in Newark, N. J., a girls' home, financial secretary to the Bureau of Associated Charities, chair- man of the Infant Hygiene Women's Political Union of New Jersey, campaigning for suffrage while it was still an_unpopular cause. g the World War she served as director of the Speakers’ Bureau of the Federal Food | Administration, in which she gave im- | measurable aid to the Government in its all-important program for food con- servation. Supervises Training Course. In addition to her duties with the Police Department, Lieut. Van Winkle supervised a training course at George Washington University for active and | prospective social workers, police offi- |cers, both men and women; students of sociology and psychology and others interested in social welfare work. Some idea of the importance of the work done by Mrs. Van Winkle as di- rector of the Woman's Bureau is indi- cated by the fact that the department more than 3,000 different cases—this in addition to the numerous untabulated calls from persons seeking assistance or |advice in connection with children or domestic relations. One of iie chief functions of the bureau is the main- tenance and operation of the House of Detention, an institution where women und children detained by the police are housed. One of the most important contribu- | tions by Mrs. Van Winkle to the work |of the bureau was her careful de- lineation of the work properly to be un- Throughout her career on the Po-| tion | o and for eight years president of the every year is called upon to deal with | dertaken by policewomen. These as well | | as a_general outline of the activities of | the Women's Bureau, inspired by her, |and set forth in the police manuel, in- committee, of which Representative Palmisano of Maryland is chairman. Organizations which have notified OLD GUARD SEEKS NEW G.0.P. LEADER Move Is Started to Take Con- trol From Hoover After March 4. By the Associated Press. Rumblings among Republican forces forecast a stirring contest soon between the Old Guard and followers of Presi- dent Hoover for control of the party organization. Already a move has been started to resist any effort by Mr. Hoover's {riends to have him retain the titular chieftainship of the party after he re- tues from the Presitency. Indications are that the struggle, now bem{ waged behind the scenes, will break into the open after March 4. :i;fl;lootvelr"l fl;findh: however, appear lent he wi ve little in holding the reins. b That Mr. Hoover desires to continue as the dominating factor in the or- ganization with a view either of seek= ing the presidential nomination in | 1936, or dictating the nominee, is the | beltef “generally eld on Capitol Hill, T Talk About New Set-up. But members of the Old Guard, who considered themselves slighted during the Hoover administration, are talking about having the present party set-up “cleaned out fzem top to bottom’ and A new organization created, with a con- servative basis but a slant satisf to the liberal element of the party. They want to take over party con- trol early in the Spring to prepare for the congressional compaign in 1934, | with the hope of recapturing the House | and electing a Speaker, and thus to pave the way, by a legislative record i‘g;ée, to seize the administration i While much preliminary maneuver- | ing is going on, the battle lines are | not yet definitely drawn. They are, | however, to center about the chairman- n| ship of the Republican National Com- | mittee, now held by Everett Sanders, | secretary to the late Calvin Coolidge, when he was President. Talk among the Republicans is that Sanders desires to relinquish the post within & few months at the latest, al- though he has said he has no present intention of g. Sanders was se- lected to head the committee last June in Chicago following the Republican National Convention when it appeared doubtful that supporters of Mr. goolldu would fall in e behind Hoover's candidacy. Successor to Sanders Sought. ‘The recent death of Mr. Coolidge set the anti-Hooverites back in their pians. Although Mr. Coolidge had plainly in- dicated he would not re-enter politics, they felt that he was a potential candi- date to thwart possible further political ambitions of Mr. Hoover. Now this group is scouting about for | 8 logical successor to Sanders, should | he retire. No less active, however, are | the Hoover supporters, who also are | ible successors. Charles D. Hillis of New York, Re- | publican national committeeman; J. | Henry Roraback of Hartford, Conn., vice chairman of the National Commit~ | tee Henry P. Fletcher of Greencastle, Pa., Frank Knox, Chicago newspaper pub- Jisher, and Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, are being discussed as sibilities by old guard en. On the Hoover side, the names Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treas- | ury; Lawrence Richey, secretary to Mr. | Hoover, and Walter P. Brown, the Post- | master General, have been heard. Buggestions have been made among congressional Republicans that the na- tional committee meet either in the | ©8 | Spring or not later than September with & view to re-aligning the organization. Gibson Issues Statement, One evidence of the troubled situa- where she was successively the head of | 4jon members of the House of the Seventy- Third (incoming) Congress in prepara- tion for a vigorous offensive. “The party must be into & fighting unit to represent the common people of the country. It has been an effective criticism that it failed in this rpose during the last few years and Tor ‘that reason the votes have turned to the leader of another party who promises to accomplish what they be- lieve to be for. their good. X “The next presidential candidate of the party must come from the ranks of the average citizen and have the best traditions of the founders of the Nation back of him. He must be of the Cool- idge type and able to understand the common needs of the people. “The Republican party must hence- | forth give direction to the hopes and aspirations of the common folk. It must serve them if it is to get away from the blight of the reputation of serving big business only.” Criticizes House Organization. Gibson also directed his criticism at |the Republican House organization | headed by Representative Snell of New | York, party floor leader. “It is a well k;;rn u;z lch::‘,m“ Republican party icy and stra the House has been shaped and directed by & few members joined into & close corporation,” the Vermonter said. “Many able men have been left in the background and given no opportunity A. G. Neal represented the company at | the committee that they will oppose the bill include the Ministerial Association of the District of Columbia, the Anti- Saloon League, the Order of Rechabites and the Methodist Board of Temper- ance and Public Morals. ‘The women's dry organizations. in- cluding the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union, today notified Chairman Norton of the District Committee that they will be unable to present their op- position at the hearing tomorrow, but would be ready to present their case at the hearing Thursday. UNEMPLOYMENT HELD DISARMAMENT CRUX International Conference Is Told Peace Depends on Getting People Jobs. | By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 16.—The disarma- ment problem cannot be solved until the unemployment question has been solved, the International Conference on Unemployment, which is considering a 40-hour week, was told today by Ernst Lemmer, the German workers' delegate. “So long as the youth of Europe is without work and ready to join any militarist organization which can pro- vide occupation, the question of dis- armament will not be solved,” he said. The delegate of the Polish govern- | ment announced that Poland was ready to support the move for & 40-hour agreement, but that wages must not be mentioned, as he believed it impossible | to secure an international agreement on | this point. Shorter hours will increase unemploy- ment instead of reduce it, Cort derlinden, & Dutch employer said, add- ing that it is imj to maintain wages if hours are reduced. PRI Hot Water Struck 4,000 Feet. The State of Washington’s deepest oil well so far has failed to produce oil, t instead has buf yielded hot water, struck at about 4,000 feet. The well is located at Aberdeen, Wash. | clude that it is the duty of the bureau to deal socially and legally with all de- linquent children under 17 years of age, be necessary to eradicate conditions | tending to cause or contribute to any | such delinquency: to deal with all mat- ters relating to lost children and fugi- tives from parents, guardians, institu- tions, etc., to make special investiga- tions of neighborhood conditions, res- taurants, hotel, rooming houses, public dance halls and other places of amuse- ment, and assist the various police pre- cincts in the prevention and detection of crime. Met Considerable Opposition. Mrs. Van Winkle's task in develop- ing the Woman’s Bureau was not any easy one—she met with considerable opposition, especially in the early days of the bureau, which threatened to partment. Through all her trials and tribula- tions, however, Lieut. Van Winkle suc- ceeded in establishing the bureau as a necessary and important adjunct to the Police Department. The bureau grew rapidly and its activities have won much favorable opinion. Mrs. Van Winkle was a member of the League of Women Voters, the National Conference of Social Work, the Art and Archeology Association, the Women's City Club, the Monday Evening Club, the Soroptimists, Arts Club, Riding and Hunt Club, the Penguin Club, the New York Women's City Club, the Con- temporary Club of Newark, N. J., and numerous other organizations. She was also past president of the In- ternational Association of Policewomen. DR. ABRAM SIMON ILL Member of Education Board Vie- tim of Nervous Strain. Dr. Abram Simon, president of the | Board of Education and rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, is seriously ill at his residence at 3722 Harrison street, & victim of nervous attending physiclans re- showed imj strain. Although ported he to adopt any legal measure that may | bring about the abolition of the de- | to develop in leadership. Few have been able to break this charmed circle. That is the real reason for the lack of lead- | ers on the Republican side about which we hear so much criticism. “The Democrats “have followed the opposite policy since taking control and every, man has been given his oppor- tunity. The result is plainly apparent. That party is united as never before. Strong leaders have been developed. The Republicans must follow the same | course if they stand any show of get- jing back to power in & generation. | | TECHNOCRACY HELD PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC HOAX ON WORKMEN (Continued From First Page) | of intense economic intemperance that | is imposing a slow recovery. Unfortu= | nately, there is no panacea for the re sults of bad judgment. There can be devised no guarantee of individual suc- cess. And there is no way of legislat- ing prosperity. Technocracy is a misconception of the object of living. Its deification of the technical is a fanatic fixation that makes the term ‘techn far more applicable to its magnii fetish of machine domination: and ma- terialism. “The promotors behind this techno- crazy hallucination have made a pur- ported dream into a nightmare of con- clusions. Using routine engineering principles for the plotting Toutine performance curves, they have promul- gated unsupported predictions based on the projection into the future of nor- mal processes carried to fantastic ex- “This is 'fldutfin‘( of h:dmce ina