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WEALTHER. U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional rain to- nxhb and tomorrow, slightly warmer Jowest temperature about 42 degrees tonight; colder tomorrow. est, 52, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 36, at 7:20 a.m. today. Full report on page B-6. - Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 er c The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. ch WASHINGTON, D. Yesterday’s Ciculation, 120,784 TWO CENTS. Entersd as second class matt JANUARY 1933—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ®%#%% (®) Means Ascociated Pre post office. Washington. D. SENATE OVERRIDES PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE BL S Rz, FAREAST POLIDES | FINALY ENACTED No. 32403. C., TUESDAY, 17, VETO 66-26 MILLS DEMANDS FIGHTS ROOSEVELT DRASTICSAVINGS STAND TORESTRICT o e s, ( HOVERBACKED Vote on Debate Limitation | > < INTO LAW DESPITE HOOVER OPPOSITION Indorsemént by Legislature of Islands Now Necessary to Accomplish Aims of the| Hawes-Cutting Act. CONFLICT DEVELOPS AS TO SENTIMENT THERE Complete Autonomy for Pacific Possessions, With Intermediate Period of Political and Economic Training for Residents, Is Pre- scribed. By a vote of 66 to 26 the Senate today overrode President Hoover’s veto of the Philippine independ- ence bill. The vote was five more than the necessary two-thirds. This puts the final seal of ap- proval of Congress on the inde- pendence of the Philippine Is- lands. The House last week by an overwhelming vote passed the bill notwithstanding the disap- proval of the President. It becomes now the duty of the Philippine Legislature to provide for the election of delegates to a| constitutional convention to draft | a constithition for the government of the islands. Just before the vote was taken in the Senate, Senator Bingham of Connecti- cut, chairman of the Committee on “Territories and Insular Pcssessions, told the Senate that a report from the Philippines to the effect a caucus of the Lower Houss had gone on record in opposition to this bill being wrongly interpreted hcre. He said that the cau- cus probably contained less than one- half of the members of the Lower House and also that its opposmobryx a:: c¢ue not to the reasons en President in his veto, hum the et that the independence bill does not | grant immediate independence fo the | islands. | The Roll Cali. | The roll call showed one Democrat | and 25 Republicans voting to sustain the President’s veto. Voting to override the veto were 45 Democrats, one Farm- er-labor and 20 Republicans. | Those Senators voting to sustain the | veto were: Austin, Vermont; Barbour, | New Jersey; Dale, Venm!mt, D;wi:s Pennsylvania; Dickinson, Iowa: Fess, Ol’uc:yGltnn. Tlinois; Goldsborough, Maryland; Grammer, Washington; Hale, Maine; Hastings, Delaware; Hebert, Rhode Island; Kean, New Jersey, Keyes, New Hampshire; Moses, New Hampshire: Patterson, Missouri; m“l Pennsylvania; Schall, Minnesota; | Schuyler, Colorado; Smoot, Utah; | ‘Townsend, Delaware; ‘Vanderberg, Michigan; Walcott, Connecticut; Wat- son, Indiana, end White, Maine, Re-| pubiicans; Copeland, New York, Demo- crat. Total, 26 : These Senators voting to override the veto were: Ashurst, Arizona; Bailey, | North_Carclina; Bankhead, Alabama; arkleyB, Kentucky: Black, Alabama; Bratton, New Mexico; Broussard, Louis- | jana; Bulkley, Ohio; Bulow, South Da- | kota: Bymes, South Carolina; Mrs. | Caraway, Arkansas; Connolly, Texas; | Coolidge, Massachusetts; Costigan, Col- | crado; Hill, Washington; Fletcher, Flor- ida; George, Georgia; Glass Virginia; Gore, Oklahoma: Harrison, Mississippi; Hawes, Missouri; Hayden, Arizona; Hull, , Tennessee; Hendrick, Wyoming; Lewis Tllinois; Logan, Kentucky; Long, | Louisiana; McGill, Kansas; McKellar, . Neely, West Virginia; Pitt- | teynolds, North Caro- | Arkansas; Russell, Georgla; Sheppard, Texas; Smith, | Scuth CGarolina; Stephens, Mississippi; Swanson, Virginia; Thomas, Oklahoma; Trammell, Florida; Tydings, Maryland; Wagner, New York; Walsh, Massachu- | setts; Walsh, Montana: Wheeler, Mon- | tana, Democrats: Shipstead, Minnesota; ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) MOTHE_R AND GIRL FOUND DEAD IN ATLANTA HOME | the Associated Press ATLANTA, January 17.—Mrs. ginia Fraser Pratt, prominent . matron and her 10-vear-old| ter, Virginia, were found dead to- | ay and her son, Nathaniel PrattA‘ 12, | is in a hospital seriously ill of what hospital authorities s3id was poison. The bodies of the mother and daugh- ter were discovered by a nurse Who Te-| sided in the home. The young son was taken to a hospital unconscious. During Jucid moments at the hospital the boy said fruit he ate for breakfast this morning had a peculiar taste. Robinson, B Vir- | young | | the filibuster that has held the Senate | think | were informed that both the outgoing Is Set by Curtis for 1 P.M. Thursday. The Senate was asked today to apply the drastic cloture rule limiting debate on the Glass benking reform bill. Almost simultaneous to the presenta- tion of the proposal designed to break immovable for five days, Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, took up the fight to wedge his measure through. Cloture Petition Read. The cloture petition, signed by more than the necessary 16 Senators. was read and immediately Vice President Curiis informed the Senate that a vote would be had on the debate limitation at 1 o'clock Thursday. The cloture petition, aimed primarily at Senator Huey Long, Democrat, of Louisiana was submitted by Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas just after the Senate overrode President Hoover's veto of the Philippine independence bill and took up again the banking measure. 1t requires the approval of two-thirds of the Senators voting to limit debate. After the petition was presented Glass began an answer to what he termed "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) LEAGUE EXPECTED 10 JUDGE DISPUTE End of Conciliatory Attitude Toward Japan Attributed to U. S. Influence. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, January 17.—The Far Eastern discussion before the League of Nations in Geneva has sud- denly taken a sensational turn. 1t looks now as if the League is oing to have to abandon the procedure gf l:nocunus and futile conciliation it has been following during the last 18 months and take the responsibility of formulating a judgment and recom- mendations by.a majority or unani- mous vote exclusive of the two parties, China and Japan. Even this procedure does not mean sanctions. It means merely the push- ing of the dispute out of th> League through the so-called “hole in the cove- nant,” wi the members all recover the right to individually what they is necessary in the cause of “nght and justice. ut already Japan is threatening again to quit the League. Attributed to U. S. The responsibility for this fluttering in the Geneva dovecote is everywhere attributed to the United States. The rest of the world had thought that Amer- ijcan foreign policy was paralyzed by the alleged Hoover-Roosevelt disagree- ments. France, Great Britain and Japan apparently had the stage all set for some new conciliation formula which would have gained for the League a few more weeks or months without serioysly hampering Japan's latest mili- tary movements in China. ‘Then suddenly the American em- bassles in London and Paris got busy The French and Britich foreign offices | and incoming American Presidents were fully agreed regarding American policy in the Far East and that the United States approves the Lytton report, is standing firmly on its nonrecognition doctrine and js walting with interest to see what action the League is going to_take, Thus at one blow were swept away rumors that the Japanese and others had been carefully spreading during the last two months in an effort to create the impression that President- elect Roosevelt intended to reverse the Far Eastern policies of Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson and President Hoover. Committee Loses Patience. As a result, when the Japanese, pur- suing their usual tactics, announced sterday that they were still awaiting instructions from Tokio and asked for a further deiay of 48 hours, the Com- mittee of Nineteen on Manchuria lost patience. 2 Sir John Simon, British foreign min- ister, who has heretofore been Japan’s (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) STATE TAKES HOLDINGS OF MEXICAN LANDOWNER By the Associated Press. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, January 17.— The first dispessession of a large land- owner by the Vera Cruz state govern- ment was effected here yesterday. The action was taken under a law which provided that a landowner, if he owned more than a certain number of acres, would face eviction and that the land would be divided among the poor classes. The owner of the hacienda, Alberto Campero, pleaded in vain in a district | court _here that a ruling by the Mexi- can Supreme Court recently rendered unconstitutional the Vera Cruz law. INABILITY TO MAKE BOND KEEPS ROM ASSUMING OFFICE 20 F County Treasurers, Elected and Certified, Demand That Be Done About It. Something By the Associated Press. 'DENVER, Colo, January 17.—Twenty | county treasurers, duly elected and cer- tified but still on the outside looking in, gathered around State Treasurer- elect Hamer F. Bedford today and de- manded that something be done. The 20, with Bedford, have failed to make bond as required by law and are barred from taking the offices to which they v lected. ‘(g'el:‘f e;iswnsohu 20 dominated the ¢+~ of the annual State conven- . bion of the Association of County Treas- urers. ‘The association quickly de- clared itself in favor of a pending bill BY H SURCESSR Roosevelt Declares Interna- tional Treaties Must Be Upheld. STATEMENT SUPPORTS STIMSON DECLARATION President-Elect Discusses Foreign Affairs With Col. E. M. House and Frank Polk. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 17.—A united front by President-elect Roosevelt and President Hoover on the American policy in the Far East was indicated here today by the Democratic leader. Asked to comment on reports from ‘Washington that Secretary Stimson has reaffirmed the policy that this Nation will not recognize territorial gains made in violation of treaty agreements, Mr. Roosevelt sald: “Any statement relating to any par- ticular foreign situation must, of course, come from the Secretary of State of the United States. “I am, however, wholly willing to make it clear that American foreign policies must uphold the sanctity of internaticnal treaties. “That is a corner stone on which ail relations between nations must rest.” Supports Stimson. Mr. Roosevelt wrote out his state- ment for newspaper men, and it was ac- cepted here as showing complete under- standing between the outgoing and in- coming administrations on the Far Eastern policies. It is understood Mr. Stimson in his recent conversation with the President- elect took up this subject in detail. Mr. Roosevelt turned again today to international relations in his confer- ences at his home here. Col. E. M. House, adviser on foreign affairs to ‘Woodrow Wilson, was a luncheon guest. Frank Polk of New York, a former Democratic Undersecretary of State, was also on the calling list. Will Meet Davis. Norman Davis, member of the Amer- ican delegation to the Geneva Arms|ber 9, when he fled from France and | Conference, will consult with the Presi- dent-Elect when he travels to Wash- ington on Thursday. Both Davis and{ U: Polk ere prominently mentioned for Secretary of State in the Roosevelt cabinet. It is taken for granted here that the American position for some time to come on the Far Eastern crisis is definitely settled; that is, it is to be a continuation of the present stand So it is assumed the conferences with Col. House, Polk and Davis will deal principally with new policies to be pur- sued on the economic and arms con- ferences. Other callers on the Roosevelt list today included Archie McNeil, national committeeman from Connecticut. LIEUT. E. F. CONWAY KILLED IN AIR CRASH Naval Pilot Loses Life and Com- panion Badly Injured at Floyd Bennett Field. By the Associated Press. NEW YORE, January 17.—Lieut. Ed- win PFrancis Conway of Seattle, Wash., GREEK CITIZENSHIP ASKED BY INSULL Residence of Three Years Usually Required for Naturalization. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, January 17.—Samusl Insull, whose American passport recently was annulled by the United States Govern- ment, has applied for Greek citizenship. This slow process, however, usually requires three years' residence to ccm- plete. Incull has been here since Octo- Italy just before attempts to errest him in those countries at the request of the inited States. A Greek court refused o December 28 to order his extradition to face larceny and embezzlement charges in Chicago in ccnnection with the failure of his huge utility interests. Meanwhile, authorities have given no indication of intention to interfere with | his continued stay here A report that they were planning to expel Insull was called to the attention of the Athens chief of police, who said he knew nothing of any such move. On the contrary, Insull's residence permit, which recently expired, has been renewed. It was generally understood his con- tinued residence here was contingent on his acceptance of Greek naturalization, which appeared to be just what he was ready for. It was rumored here that a new accu- sation will be presented in an American efiort to obtain his extradition, but neither Insull nor Attorney Ladas, his Greek counsel, have heard of any such move. At the American legation it was stated that the Greek government was informed of the cancellaticn cf Inwull’s pessport, but that no suggestion was made that he be expelled. Continue Insull Probe. The Senate Banking Committee moved today to gather more evidence for its prospective investigation of the | commander of the United States Naval | Insull Utilities collapse, sending James Aviation Reserve Base at Floyd Bennett Field, was killed today in an airplane crash Lieut. Conway, who was 35 years old. was piloting a Navy amphibian bi- plane when it plunged to the ground near Point Lookout, Long Beach, N. Y. Howard F. Klein, 22, a seccnd-class reserve seaman, who was riding in the plane, was serifously injured. He was taken to the Long Beach Hospital, where an cperation was immediately performed in an effort to save his life. Witnesses said Conway had had trouvle with the plane a few minutes before the crash. Headed toward the ccean, witnesses said, the plane was flying a few hundred feet above the ground when it suddenly went into a nose dive. Conway succeeded in level- ing it and began to climb to a higher altitude when again the plane shot downward, plunging into the sand. Formerly Served Here. Lieut. Edwin Francis Conway, com- manding the Naval Reserve aviation base, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y., killed today in a plane crash, served | at’ the Washington Navy Yard, under instruction in ordnance from August 1, 1926, to June 1, 1927. Lieut. Conway was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1919. His home is in Seattle, Wash., in which State he was born, and he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances Ruth Conway, and one daughter. BABY DAUGHTER BORN TO CONVICTED WOMAN By the Assoclated Press COLUMBIA, S. C, January 17—A daughter was born today to Mrs. Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, whose death sentence for slaying a York County officer was commuted last week by Gov. Blackwood to life imprisonment. After commutation of her sentence, Mrs. Snipes, already mother of a 6- year-old son, was transferred from the State Penitentiary to the State Hos- pital here for her accouchment. which would establish a State fund for the bonding of State and county offi- cers and another bill creating a State depository for State, county, municipal | and school district funds. The treasurers have been unable to obtain commercial bond because, under Colorado law, they are liable for county funds in failed ‘The bonding companies, with no reflection on the I:l"‘umrers-ekct, have declined to take e risk. Pending settlement of the difficulty, ]F‘.’ed:cenors of Bedford and the others have held over, Dr. Pred Williams, superintendent of the hospital, said .“Both. mother and daughter are getting along fine.”. Mrs. Snipes was convicted of shoot- ing to death Elliott Harris when the rural officer stopped an automobile to search it for whisky. Mrs. Snipes said she shot the officer after he had struck her. Protests against her death sentence were received by Gov. Blackwood from many sections. Radio Prognm. on Page A-12 E. Stewart, committee investigator, to Chicago. Officials said Stewart might be gone two weeks, after which there would be further delay in preparation of the case for public hearings. MRS. JUDD’S TRUE STORY OF SLAYINGS DUE TODAY Woman Doomed to Die February 17 Is Scheduled to Attend Halloran's Hearing. By the Assoclated Press PHOENIX, Ariz, January 17.—Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd’s “true story” of the slaying of her two women friends, Agnes Ann Lerol and Miss Hedvig Samuelson, may be related in open court today. Mrs. Judd, sentence to hang February 17 for the slaying of Mrs. Leroi, was to be brought from the State's prison for the preliminary hearing of John J. | Halloran, charged with being an acces- sory to the crime of murder. The Phoenix sportsman and lumberman is accused of having concealed from au- thorities alleged knowledge of the slayings. ‘The superior court terday ordered a copy of Mrs. Judd's testimony before the grand jury turned over to Halloran. “Night Club Daughter” A Thrilling New Scrial By Katharine Haviland-Taylor, || Author of “The 900 Block” and “The Youngest One,” Begins in Today's Star On Page A-16 1 Bankrupt Factory | Operates 4 Years ! And Pays in Full Would Get 10 Cents on the Dollar. By the Associated Press. GREENSBORO, N. C., January 17— Four years ago the Roaring River Fur- { niture Co., in Wilkes County, was placed in bankruptcy, owing more than $200,- €00, and creditors thought they would be lucky to get 10 cents on the dollar. | " Today, however, creditors have been paid 100 cents on the dollar, stockhold- |ers are receiving back property worth {more than $85000, with open accounts |tctaling $25,000, and they have put up just $16,000 to square the deal. Federal Judge Johnson J. Hayes said this ‘was the first instance in his court of a bankrupt firm paying in full. The business comeback was accomplished while the plant continued operations, paying out more than $1,000,000 for labor and material. Now the factory continues in full profit, in effect, of around $200,000 in four years. ARMS “LIONS” CITED BY NISS WOOLLEY Far East “Menace” and Debt | “Debacle” Called Threats | | to Conference. By the Associated Press The Far East “menace” and the “debt debacle” were named today by | Miss Mary E. Woolley, only Americn woman delegate to the Geneva Arms Conference, as among the “many and | dangerous lions” threatening the suc- cess of that conference. Speaking before the eighth aunual conference on “Cause and Cure of War,"” Miss Woolley frankly discussed disarma- ment difficulties, claimed some progress and predicted more. | “The most significant achievement, | and & really significant one, is the re- | turn of Germany to the conference, and |the attitude of the great powers made it possible,” she said. “The vhole conference might, as one delegate put it, have blown up in our faces. Now it is in a position where 1t | can finally begin to work without hin- | drance, and rapid progress should be | made in January, when the bureau and | general commission reconvene.” Far East “Menace.’ Miss Woolley said the “lions” were | “charging up and down the highwa: | the very day the conference convened, February 2, 1932, Shanghai then being {gndle'r bombardment of the Japanese | fleet.” |in the Far East has been a menace to the conference,” she said. | . As to the “debt debacle,” she said, | “reports from Geneva indicate that the spirit of conciliation which made the German agreement possible, might have | 7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) ARREST IS FORECAST IN $41,500 ROBBERY |“Contact Man" Ring Suspected in Theft of Betty Compson’s Jewels. for Organized | By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 17.— The arrest of a Hollywood “man about town” in the mysterious $41,500 jewel robbery reported by Betty Compson and the, equally mysterious return of the Jjewels to the screen actress, was fore- cast today by Chief of Detectives Jo- seph F. Taylor. Chief Taylor said the suspect is a “contact” man for an organized gang of jewel robbers who have been prey- ing on film notables during the last year. Taylor said the man has ar- ranged for the return of stolen jewels to owners for payment of a “fee.” Taylor said he believed the return of Miss Compson’s jewelry without a demand for money was due to fear on the part of the ring responsible for the robbery, as well as of the con- tact” man. Creditors Figured They| operation—a_ plant that operated at a | | ~“Prom that day to this, the situation | - <,~,u L&+ MORE REGULATION T N BEER B |Amendments Give Commis- sioners Powers and Re- duce Local Tax. Two important amendments to the Black beer bill for the District—one re- $1.20, and the other conferring reg- ulatory powers upon the District Com- missioners—were accepted today as hearings on the measure were started before the subcommittee of Judiciary of the House District Committee. Rufus Lusk of the local branch of the Crusaders, who wmided in preparation of the original bill, and were accepted by the subcommittee as a part of the measure under consideration. The amended bill also contains cer- tain other changes which Mr, Lusk said were suggested by the corporation counsel to make the law administra- tively correct. Adjourns to Thursday. Three persons favoring the bill and | one opponent were heard by the com- | mittee before it adjourned until Thurs- | day. In response to a question by Rep- | resentative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, | Mr. Lusk said he did not favor jail sentences for violators of the bill. He pointed out, however, that a maximum penalty of $1,000 fine, and one year imprisonment, in addition to loss of license, is provided for violation of the national prohibition act. Mr. Patman inquired whether the witness favored regulation of “treating” in salocns. Mr. Lusk said he did not think such regulation was practical, and that he believed the majority of people in the District would be opposed to it in any event. He said he did not know whether beer of 3.2 alcoholic con- | tent by weight was intoxicating. | _“I really don't think qualified to | pass upon that question,” Mr. Lusk said. | “I don’t think the beverage would in- | toxicate me, but it might others.” Would Protect Minors. The witness said questions of regulat- ing the sale of the proposed beer to minors would be left to the District Commissioners. “The Commissioners have the authority to prescribe to whom the new beer could be sold, and I am not in favor of writing an age limit into the law,” he said. “Pemsonally, I wouldn't object to my boys, who are 8 |and 10 years old, taking an occasional sip of beer. I drank it when I was 5.” The only opposition to the bill came today from Mrs. H. Wellen Ficher, presi- dent of the Women's Council of the Washington Federaticn of Churches. Additional testimony of the bill will be taken Thursday, how- ever. Address| the Mrs. Fisher sai “My premise is this, that alcohol, judged by its hictoric effect on the | mentality and outer conduct cf man, | produces an injury to the individual | using it and renders him a menace to the public. This constitutes a wrong of the first order of magnitude. Some men have always chosen to do wrong, but by no means does it follow that the (Continued on Pa; MOSELEY TRANSFERRED Deputy Chief of Staff to Command Fifth Corps Area. Maj.«Gen. George Van Horn Moseley is relieved from duty as deputy chief of staff of the Army, effective February 22, under Army orders issued today. Gen. Moseley is detailed as commander of the 5th Corps Area at Fort Hayes, Ohio. Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, who now commands the 5th Corps Area, is ap- pointed new deputy chief of staff. It was announced that Gen. Moseley will remain on temporary duty in the office of the chief of staff for about a month after his relief from his duty as deputy chief. DEATH FOR KIDNAPERS Extreme Penalty Proposed in Ten- nessee Legislature. NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 17 (). —Kidnaping for ransom, now punish- able by a 10-year ison sentence, would bring chair a Ity of death in the electric under a bill prepared for intro- foday By Representative Walter Shite ay ive T e. “T'm taking this drastic step,” wmtem‘ pi e, Pl e of i Tins committee, mn 1.) from opponents | | ANDNEEDED TAXES Hopes Stabilized Credit Will Furnish Impulse for Recovery. [PRESIDENT MAPS NEEDS; MESSAGE DUE SHORTLY Treasury Secretary, Speaking in Radio Forum, Says Budget Must Be Balanced—Asks Sales Tax. e — The full text of Secretary Mills’ address on Page A-13. Taking the first important step in a new move by the administration to bring the Federal budget into balance, Secretary of the Treasury Mills in the National Radio Forum last night sounded a sharp warning of the “dan- ger” of continually spending more than is currently available, and held out the hope that action to put the gov- ernment’s finances in order and the Government credit on an unassailable basis might lend the “initial impulse toward recovery.” There were "indications from the White House that President Hoover has prepared a special message on the Fed- eral finances for submission to Con- gress, and may send it forward shortly. Secretary Mills has been in conference with the Chief Executive {requently during the last few days, and spent considerable time yesterday at the White House, prior to his address last night. Calls for Drastic Economies. Speaking over the forum,. arranged by The Washington Star, and bmgd- cast over the Nationwide network of the Naticnal Broadcasting Co., Secre- tary Mills called for a balanced budget by sharp Economléls in expenditures, as recommended in the budget now before Congress, and by the raising of new money through additional taxation. He issued a new and clear cut plea for the ducing the tax per barrel from $2.50 to | Manufacturers’ sales tax as principal means of obtaining additional revenue. The deficit now is more than §1,200,- 000,000. “The situation may be summarized, said Secretary Mills, “by saying that, exclusive of public debt items, our Fed- eral budget may be brought into bal- ance in the next fiscal year by reduc- The amendments were proposed by 1‘-;:l Eb);penmmm half a billion dollars half a billion dollars. of new money. But this does not af- ford provision for sinking fund obli- gations, and it presupposes that no new obligations of any kind will be in- curred.” Refunding of outstanding bonds at a lower interest rate, the Secretary held desirable both from the point of view af the Treasury and of general condi- ons. “From the standpoint of the Treas- ury,” he said, “a balanced budget should permit large saving in interest charges, not only through the preven- tion of a further increase in the public debt, but because it would enable the refunding on favorable terms of bonds bearing a high rate of Interest, and which by October, 1933, will be callable in an amount not far from $7,000,- 000.000. A lower interest charge on such a large volume of Government se- curities would affect long-time interest rates. Lower rates and increased bond " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. . EX-ENVOY MENTIONED FOR CABINET POST William Phillips, Former Ambas- sador to Belgium, Regarded as Possible Stimson Successor. By the Associated Press. Into the speculation as to appoint- ments in the next administration have been thrust rumors naming Willlam | Phillips, North Beverly, Mass., as likely to get a State Department or diplo- matic post. A former Undersecretary of State, he also has served as Am- bassador to Belgium and as Minister to Canada and to the Netherlands. Some gossip has had him in line to be Secretary of State. Phillips is 55 years old and was in the American foreign service for 26 years when he resigned from the min- istry to Canada in 1929. He supported Mr. Roosevelt in the presidential campaign and was a con- tributor to the Democratic campaign fund. He had previously been a Re- Ppublican. STOMACHS TELL TIME San Francisco City Employes Dis- cover Clocks on Strike. SAN FRANCISCO, January 17 (#).— City employes, getting hungry, glanced et clocks and sighed. It was only 9:15 am Then. somebody discovered all clocks in the City Hall, some three- score and ten of them, regulated by a master mechanism, were on a strike. ALLOTMENT PLAN |Senator Dickinson of lowa | Vows Battle to Obtain Same Protection. PRESIDENT-ELECT URGES WHEAT AND COTTON AID | Senator Smith Reveals Position on Return Here From Parley in New York. By the Associated Press. Word from Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, that President-elect Roosevelt wantg the domestic allotment farm relief bill limited to two products —wheat and cotton—today stirred & torrent of discussion on Capitol Hill, Senator Dickinson, Republican, of Towa, told newspapermen he . would make every effort “to see that the same protection is given the great State of Towa and her products as is given other States and their products.” Mr. Rbosevelt's position was described by Senator Smith, the ranking Demo- cratic member of the Agriculture Com= mittee, as he returned from a confer- ence with the next President in New York and went into an executive ses- sion of his committee on the measure. To carry out the plan would elim- inate hogs, dairy products, tobacco, rice and peanuts from the bill as passed by the House. g Towa “Greatest Farm State.” Dickinson said Towa was the “greatest agricultural State in the Union” and was not interested in wheat or cotten. “Limiting the domestic allotment plan to two commodities simply means this— :l}:zt hthere t\'JSVIH b; no farm reiief for e hog raiser, the corn producer or the dairy man,” he said. ‘The five major products of Iowa are corn, hogs, cattle, dairy products and poultry products. Now to have our people pay more for bread as con- sumers and yet have nothing in the bill that would help any of the products that we are, producing is simply an injustice to the State.” Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, told reporters the bill “is now a price-fixing measure,” » ~““If you are going into that feld fald, “I don’t see how you can 5 nate any of them.” On his return from New York Sena- Smith told newspaper men the Presi~ dent-elect “was not familiar with the details of the bill as it passed the House, but he did insist that dairy products, peanuts, etc, be elimipated from the bill, in short, all but wheat and cotton.” Smith added that Mr. Roosevelt told him he would approve any modifi- cation of the plan to cover cotton that the “cotton people” might agree upon. Outlined Own Plan. Smith said he had outlined to Mr. Roosevelt a plan of his own under which the regional agricultural credit corporations, when asked by cotton pro- ducers for loans to finance this year's crop, wounld loan them instead the money to plant food crops and would buy off the market for the farmer the :mount of ceiton he intended to pro- uce. Thus, he contended, the present sur- plus would be reduced and result in an increased price of cotton so the farmer a year later could repay the loan and make a profit. “I went over the plan in detail with the Governor,” said Smith, “and he (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) GERGUSON ADMITS GUILT ON TWO INDICTMENTS Federal Judge Declines to Adopt Recommendation to Suspend Sentence. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 17.—Harry F. Gerguson, known as ‘“Prince Michael | Romanoff” as a result of his clashes with immigration officials, today plead- ed guilty to two Federal indictments | charging perjury and illegal entry into the United States. Federal Judge John C. Knox, after | hearing a recommendation of the Sec- |retary of Labor, presented through | Assistant United States Attorney W. B. | Herlands, that sentence be suspended, | declined to adopt the recommendation while Gerguson remains in vaudeville. Gerguson was ordered excluded by & special board at Ellis Island, and was released under bail pending an appeal to the Department of Labor. A the- atrical company supplied bail so Ger- guson could appear on the stage. Meanwhile, Federal authorities con- ducted an investigation of the case, and yesterday Herlands and Murray W. Garsson, designated by the Depart- ment of Labor to conduct the inquiry, appeared before a Federal grand jury. Thirty-eight minutes after their evi dence was presented the grand jury returned the indictments. EXAGGERATION |KIOSK ON AVENUE DISMANTLED; CAUSED ITS FALL !Weather Bureau Finds Mute Sentinel Unfair and Un- scientific, and Sentences It to Go. The kiosk is no more! ' ‘The mute sentinel at Pennsylvania avenue and E street, which always could be depended upon to show up the tem- perature in its most unfavorable light, is being dismantled, sharing the same fate as its brethren scattered over the land. It was this weakness for exaggeration that really doomed the kiosks.. Pride- ire | ful citizens who were wont to point to home towns as ideal Summer resorts— for instance—didn’t like the idea of an instrument the authoritative label of the States Weather Bu- reau, telling the world that it was quite a few degrees hotter than the offi- cial recording would show. That was the most serious count. Then, there was the question of economy. So—Finis. Like lots of other good ideas that 80 wrong, the installation of the kiosks Was ivated only by the kindliest sentiments. People like to know how hot it is, how cold it is, the ambunt of rainfall and any other weather data that can be collected, and that’s why the kiosks were born. Along about 1912 or 1913 they seem to have been all the rage, and presum: ably it was somewhere about that time " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2)