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" NORE REGULATIN . PUTINBERR BIL Amendments Give Commis- soniers Powers and Re- duce Local Tax. J | (Continued From First Page.) District of Columbia should legalize a| wrong and make it a means of filling with revenue, as is claimed, the District coffers. Questions Moral Right. “We have no right to put cus con- stitutional seal on wrongdoing. Wrong | has been done in the past and can be done in the future. It can ‘get by'| with individuals, with groups, with lcg- islative groups, and. how great is the| ity, that it can ‘get supreme legis- tive groups. But from the first man to the last, it never c'd, it never will, and ¢ never can ‘get by’ Almighty God. irn of en of rible alcchol will b the men and wo! erously and so curse down upor children’s heads. siasm of the ‘wets the sins of thei their children in the third and fourth generation,” It is their children who will pay, and pay in full, and thousands of them will pay in blood “Anything which makes it impossible for a human being to use iven him | facuities a liabili imsclf and a danger to| his fellow man. Such a person ceas to be a human being. He definitel x Any man who has iquor to men’ acr | perfectly well in of irts, riminal cases on record, there ean be found thousands of irrdfutable proofs on the age-long power of alcohol to poison the human brain and reduce | the human being to mental idiocy and | mpral irresponsibility. ‘Those respon- sible for the attempt to return legalized alcohol to the District of Columbia had best think long and deeply.” i Quotes Mine Leader. ‘ Mrs. Fisher quoted John Mitchell | while he was president of the Mine | Workers of America as saying: “I be- | lieve liquor has contributed more to the moral, intellectual and material.deteri- | oration of the people and has brought more misery to defenseless women and | children than any other agency in the history of mankind.” | She also told the commitiee that Dr. | Howard A. Kelly of the Johns Hopkins | Medical Schocl, in discussing the re- turn of alcohol, once said: “Poverty today so deplorable will increase, in- efficiency will be notable. beginning | with the blue Mondays. Then, if we are to shorten work hours and increase | the holidays, men will spend far larger | sums in treating; our courts will be busier, as will the accident and re- | eelving wards in our hospitals. We shall Have to go on enlarging our hospitals, | 80 I say do not let us hasten the day | of fulfillment of these forebodings, but | | Tather restrain our pecplo.” | “How lovely, how very lovely,” Mrs. | Fisher concluded. “How idealistic and elevating. How beautiful an example to the youth of our Nation. How won- | derful an exhibition to the other na- | tions of the world, that the heart of | this great Nation, the District of Co- lumbia, should aspire to lead the Nation back to sottishness, and to the incident yulgarity which liquor always brings with it.” Answers Palmisane. Representative Palmisano. Democrat of Maryland, told Mrs. Fisher he be. lleved there were drinking evils in ex- | istence today which did not exist before | prohibition. | : “You speak of the drnking group ng people,” Mrs. Fisher said. hundreds who don't drink, and yéon't believe in it.” s ‘visited upo When Mr. Lusk was on the stand, |’ Representative Paimisano asked him if | he did not think an additional tax per barrel on beer could not be employed | satisfactorily as a substitute for the license fee. He pointed out the license fee, which has been proposed as $100 | for sale on the premises, and .$25 for | sale of beer to be consumed elsewhere.\ might work an inequity on the retailer Who sold a comparatively small quan- | .rety. He said this might lead to peer ing sold for 10 cents a glass instead @f 5 cents in the high license district. . Mr. Lusk said he thought some such #ystem might be worked out. Mr. Lusk told the committee he did | Bot believe beer should be advertised here sold, but that he did favor proper @dvertising in the newspapers and er the radio. Speaks for Employes. i Charles E. Sands, representing the Jocal Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ | Perhaps, the kiosks did have a more |final conclusion was: * ance, sald his organization was | \mportant piace, irregular though they | the only hope for the fi Al Beartily in favor of the lower tax pro- osed by Mr. Lusk. “This bill," he said, | Fprovides badly needed relief to thou- 8ands of our members who have been thrown out of work and are in great | Seminated so cfficiently and expedi- | gistress as a result of the prohibition | . He said speakeasies are now paying Flyers Rescued BRITISH SOCIETY GIRLS HURT IN CRASH. MISS JOAN PAGE. N itish society gurls, who crash- irplane in the jungle 40 miles airobi, were both injured, but ught here safely today. . ge, daughter of Sir Arthur Page, chicf justice of Burma, suffered a broken leg. Miss Sale-Baker sus- tained head injuries A rescue plane managed to land near the stranded girls, who became lost Saturday on a return flight from Cape Town to London: Miss Page was brought here in the plane, while a motor car | expedition rescued the other girl? GEN. ANSELL NAMIED COUNSEL IN INQURY Retired Army Officer to Probe Senate and Presidential Election. Samuel Tilden Ansell, retired briga- dier general and acting judge advocate general during the Warld War, has been appointed special counsel for the Spe- cial Committee on Investigation of Pres- idential and Senatorial Campaign Ex- penditures, it was learned today at the Capitol. Employment of the attorney was regarded as significant, since the com- mittee is known to have been conduct- ing an intensive inquiry into the recent election to the Senate of John H. Over- ton of Louisiana. Defeated Broussard. Senator-elect Overton defeated Sen- ator Edwin E. Broussard, veteran leg- islator from Louisiana, by an over- whelming vote in the State elections last Fall. Overton received the active support of Senator Huey Long and his organization. Investigators of the Senate Commit- tee, of which Senator Howell of Ne. braska is chairman, have been conduct. ing a prelimidary investigation of charges that theré were irregularities in the election. Had Distinguished Career. Ansell had a distinguished career in the Army before he retired to become a civilian lawyer in this city. He for- merly was an instructor of law at West Point, and prosecuting attorney in the Philippines and Puerto Rico. He be- came acting judge advocate general of | the Army in' 1917 when Gen. Enoch Crowder was assigned to special duties in charge of the draft, and served in that post throughout the war. Gen. Ansell inaugurated a reform in court martial procedure and led in movement to liberalize the articles of war. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his war service. In 1919 he received widespread notice as_counsel for Grover Cleveland Berg- doll, draft evader. KIOSK ON AVENUE DISMANTLED BECAUSE OF ITS EXAGGERATION _(Continued Prom First Page.) that the one in Washington was put in place, although there is no record im- mediately at hand to show this at the Weather Bureau. At any rate, the kiosk came into being and at that time, might have been, than they have today. There was no radio; data gathered by the Weather Bureau was not so easily compiled—and by no means was it dis- tiously as at present, through bulletins, wire services and the daily newspapers, With the passing of a couple of | said, HE FVENIN( HOUSE APPROVES DEFGENCY REPORT cept McKellar Tax Refund | | i | Amendment. House today approved .he conference report on the deficiency appropriation | us | |bill. This means the entire bill, | agreed upon between the House and | Senate con’erees vesterday, has been | approved by the House, except ihe 7o~ | called McKcllar amendment, covering | refunds of in | tax. Entire Bill Agreed Upon Ex-| | By a roll call vote of 291 to 61 the The item of $625.000 for emergency | unemployment relief in the District {0 | STAR. WASHINGTON, Death Probed ! | | | Fraz e profits, estate o1 Bift | | cover the period until July 1 nas never | been in disagreement. The only item in the conference re- port that was objected to is the $150,000 appropr.ation proposed by the Senate for expenses of the general Disarma- ment Conference at Geneva. This was modified to provide that per diem al- | lowances in connection with travelitig expenses shall be in accordance with the provisions of the subsistence ex- pense tax of 1926 as amended. Object to Taking Part. A half dozen prominent House mem- bers objectsd strenuously to any ap- propriation for United States particfpa- tion in the conference, but Chairman Byms of the subcommittee in charge of the bill emphasized this participation had been agreed upon in distinctive legislation previously passed. Representative McFadden, Repub- lican, Pennsylvania, brought up a ques- | tion "of constitutional privilege, but withheld the motion until the House had completed the conference report. Debate Limited on Clause. The House agreed to an hour and a half for discussion of the McKellar amendment. This provides as follows | “That no refund or credit of any income profits, estate or gift tax, in | excess of $5.000, shall be made after | enactment of this act until a report | thereof giving the name of the person, corporation of partnership to whom the refund or credit is to be made, the amount of such refund or credit and all the facts and papers in connection therewith are submitted by the Com- missioner of Internal Revenue to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation and action thereon taken by said committee. “The said committee, or its duly authorized :taff, shall have full access to all the papers and shall examine | into and pass upen all the cases de nove, | and no refund cr credit shall be made | until the Joint Committce on Internal Revenue Taxation, or its duly authorized | staff, shall have so passed on such re- | fund. fixed the amount thereof and | made its report to the Commisicner of Internal Revenue; and no refund shall be made without the approval of said committee or its duly authorized staff.” Chairman Byms, in opening the de- bate on this amendment, said it “would set up a second Internal Revenue Bureau cn Capitol Hill.” PROGRESS ATTAINED AT ARMS CONFERENCE CHEERS MISS WOOLLEY (Continued From First Page.) resulted in c important _interna- | tional agreemen.-. had it not been for the ‘sudden flair up of anti-American feeling in_the French capital’ following the war debt notes.” Miss Woolley said that she “as the daughter of & clergyman” drew from this situation two “morals”"—that “the United States of America must have a | permanent seat at that conference | table”; and that “altogether too popu- |1ar a pastime of the American people is ‘sitting on the bleachers’ 50 far as our international policy is concerned.” | " Puture success of the conference de- | pends, she said, upon a vigorous ex- ‘disarmament, tranquility and peace” | when the conference resumes its work. “Bring that pressure to bear upon Congress, upon your own Senators and Representatives, that they may not let an_inflated nationalism obscure their vision of the world crisis.” she urged. The vear 1932 pictured as “tragic and disappointing” on the peace front by James G. McDonald, chairman of the Foreign Policy Association of the conference. He lamented the failure of the great | powers to “boldly declare” either Japan or China the aggressor in the Far East- ern crisis. He deplored “tariffs quotas and exchange restrictions” which, he “reduced world trade by more | than one-third as compared with 1931.” | “In the world-wide storm” he also in- | cluded intergovernmental debts. These events, he said, had “cruelly | tested men’s belief in the possibility of |achieving a warless world,” but his Tt still appears uture lies in de- veloping and perfecting the struggling and imperfect peace machinery.” Praises League System. Speaking of the Far Eastern crisis, MacDonald said in the absence of the | League system, the situation in the Far | East would have been much graver than | £40 a barrel for good beer and selling | decades, the kiosks began to show their |it is. it profitably at 20 cents a glass. He #aid this indicated that 5 or 10 cent beer could be sold at a profit by hotels age. replacements and repairs. past experience, it didn't Money was going to be needed for Mindful_of take Dr. “Had China not been able to appeal t> the Council and the Assembly of the League,” he said, “the Nanking govern- and restaurants, even though they paid | Charles F. Marvin, chief of the Weather | ment would almost certainly have de- $10 a,barrel for it. [ t Mr' Palmisano, however, had pre- Bureau, long to decide what to do. Even the most ardent pro-kioskers | clared war. The difference between such a situation and the condition of actual wiously indicated a barrel of beer, with | Would not cavil at his decision after | warfare that has existed between China taxes, would cost the retailer about $15 Dr. F. W. Buck, representing the Ped- | eral Dispensary Tax Reduction League urged that ample consideration be given this bill 5o it might be used as a model | by the States. He pointed out that Congress, having held numerous hear- ings on the subject was better qualified to draft such a bill than any State Legislature. LADY BAILEY UNREPORTED SINCE TAKE-OFF SUNDAY Anxiety Is Felt for Aviatrix on Flight From England to South Africa. the Associated Press ALGIERS, Alger] January 17.— Nothing has been heard here concern ing Lady Mary Bailey, who left Oran, Algeria, Sunday afternoon, on another Jeg of a projected England-South Africa flight and authorities here ex- pressed anxiety today concerning her ate. g Lady Bailey was attempting to beat the record of 4 d hours, 55 minutes I n Amy Johnson wes forced back to Oran the Sahara Des- Lady Eail After setting out acros ert because of iliness. She had a slight h of influenza when she started again. Her next stop was scheduled oe at Niamey or Gao, on the upper Niger. touck BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home | strument listening to the indictment of the kiosks from Dr. B. C. Kadel, chief of the in- division of the Weather Bureau. “Unreliable for scientific purposes,” says Chief Kadel, and after this gen. lization he got down counts. On a still warm day the cast iron frame work would induce the temper- ature what it actually was, and this was the ource of some “pretty severe” protests, he amplified | and Japan without a formal declaration is one of magnitude. In the event of | an open declaration of war, Soviet Rus- !sia might have been drawn into the conflict and the battieground extended beyond the borders of Eastern Asia. to specifio| Certainly the League, by giving support |to the Ameri¢can doctrine of non-rec- | ognition of gains made by force in | China, lessened the danger of serious eading six or seven degrees above | tension between the United States and Except through the League, | | there probably would have been no im- | Japan. partial investigation of the Shanghai Furthermore, kiosks are supposed to &nd Manchurian conflicts and no Lyt- record rainfall, but in the case of the|ton report, local specimen, nearby trees and build- ings interfere with this function. Then there was the burden of main- the publication of which | made a profound impression upon world | opinion.” Japan is not resting easy in Manchuria. Tokio, because of China’s | pression of public opinion in behalf of | | tenance upon the bureau, Dr. Kadel dogged resistance and because of the | continued. One man, R. O. Lazenby, [force of public opinion expressed | had to visit the kiosk daily to see how |through the League, may vet adopt a | it was getting along. | more concilatory attitude. ‘Whether or | | And then, as has been said, the eccnomy wave began to be felt, some- | thing the Government was not worried | with” when it started distributing these evidences of its beneficences over th country. o & few days ago the thermograph. and a couple of thermometers which have united to raice the question of temperatures, and a tipping bucket which should have told the truth about the rainfall, but didn’t, were taken to Weatner Bureau, leaving only the hell on the corner. There it wait the action of the disposal whatever that may be. not the recommendations of the Lytton | cummission are eventuaily adopted, the educational effect of the commission's Uuibo:s is bound to be extensive and sal- ary.” |UNEMPLOYED TO CLEAN ALLEYS TO THANK CITY | 50 Men to Undertake Work With- | out Pay to Show Appreciation | for Aid. | By the Associated Press. | ENSIGN ROBERT B. FOSTER. OF ENSIGN DEATH | | ) | | Baltimorean Found Dead on| Ship on West Coast. Inquest Called. _ | | | | By the Associated Press | LONG BEACH. Calif, January 17 —Ensign Robert B. Foster, 24, of the | U. . 8. Oklahoma, died Sunday night | | on board ship under mysterious circum- stances. | Authorities here said they learned the | | young officer hanged himself. A San| iPero undertaker said Foster died nl" strangulation. No official statement was |given out as to the cause of death | Foster was a graduate of the I | Academy, alass of 1930. His home w: |in Baltimore, Md. /QUEST BOARD NAMED. Official Report on Cause of Death Lack- ing Here. The Navy Depggtment today was in | possession of a dispatch from the U. S. | klahoma, advising that Ensign Rob- ert Boyd Foster. U. S. N., died on b that vessel about 6 p.m. on Sunday. The dispatch asserted that the cause | of death has not yet been determined. It is understood here a board of in- | quest has been named, but no report has been received. Naval authorities said it is customary to mail such re- | ports through official channels. The dispatch says the ensign’s father is James B. Foster of 4110 Boardman | avenue, Baltimore, and he has been | notified. ~The body is aboard the U. S.| S._Relief, naval hospital ship. z Records show Ensign Foster was born July 17, 1908, in Butler, Pa. He was appointed a midshipman’ from the sec- {ond Maryland congressional district, | | June 28, 1926. He was commissioned an ensign on June 5, 1930, and sent to the Naval Air Station at the Naval Op- erating Base. Hampton Roads, Va., for a course in flight training. He report- |ed to the U.'S. S. Oklahoma August 123, 1930. ol BONUS BLOC WAITS INFLATION ACTION |Patman Declares Effort to Pay| Ex-Soldiers Will Be Deferred for Present. More than 40 members of the House | who are desirous of paying the soldier | | bonus with $2,400,000,000 in new cur- | | rency, met yesterday and decided to | hold up action until they can see what happens to other inflation proposals. Representative Patman, Democrat, of | Texas, designated as spokesman, told | newspaper men after the meeting “It was agreed unanimously to do everything possible to enact the bonus legislation at the earliest date possible.” The members did not, however, authorize any one to file a petition to force House action. If such a petition | were filed and signed by 145 members | by February 3, a vote on whether the | House wanted to consider paying the bonus could be had February 13 Patman said the petition method was discussed, and said he was sure the 145 signatures could be had. Sentiment for inflation, Patman said, | is increasing. He asserted the opinion | of members who addressed the meeting | was that if some method of inflation | better than that of paying the bonus‘ | | | By the Associated Press. | could be found, that should be enacted. “We're going to wait, though, be- | fore we take further action on the bonus, to see what happens to the other currency inflation bills,” Patman said. Among these, he mentioned speci- | fically the Busby bill for the issuance of $3,000,000,000 in new currency on | which Chairman Steagall of the House | Banking Committee has promised hear- | ings. | “If there is no action on carrency | expansion soon, then I'm authorized to call another meeting of this bonus | group,” Patman said. His call for the meeting was ad-| dressed to the 211 members of the | House who voted June 15, 1932, to pass | the bonus payment bill that was tabled | in the Senate while bonus marchers | waited outside the Capitol, ASKS M'CRORY RECEIVER Attorney Files Application Follow- ing Bankruptcy Petition. CLEVELAND, January 17 (#).—Ap- plication for an ancillary receiver for | the McCrory Stores Corporation was on} file in Federal Court today. The ap- plication made by Attorney Sidney Weitz, follows a bankruptey petition filed against the company in New York last week. McCrory stores in Ohio are located in Cleveland, Alliance, Youngstown, | ‘Warren, Canton, Kent, Mansfield and East Liverpool. A DAILY |Hawes-Cutting Independence | vada: | steiwer, | supported the Democratic | conditions might in his judgment jus- JA D. C., TUESDAY, SENATE OVERRIDES ' Free in 12 ¥ears PHILIPPINE VETO Measure Is Enacted Into Law. (Continued From Pirst Page.) | Farmer Labor, end Borah, Idaho; Cou- zens. Michigan: Cutting, New Mexico: . North Dakota; Hatfield, West Virginia, Howell, Nebraska: Johnson, California: La Follette, Wisconsin: Me- Nary, Oregon; Metcalf, Rhode Island; Norbeck, South Dakota: Norris, Ne-| braska; Nye, North Dakota; Oddie, Ne- Shortridge, ~ California, = and Oregon. Republicans. Total, 66: 45 Democrats, 1 Farmer- Labor and 20 Republicans Cheers and handclapping greeted the announcement of the vote by Vice President Curtis. who rapped vigorously with the gavel to stop the demonstra- tion in_ the galleries. | Just before the vote. Bingham, who| previously had termed some of M tements as “unfair’ told the Senate that the Manila caucus of approximately half the members of the Insular Leg- islature which opposed the pending bill, now the law, was on the grounds they wanted immed‘ate independence. Senator Cutiing of New Mexico, who | ic presidential | candidate curing the recent campaign, was the first to speak. Borah Asks Enactment. | Immediately after-he finished his ap- peal for pasage of the measure, Sen- ator Borah of Idaho called for enact- ment and said the bill was the best | possible measure that could have been | passed in view of the conflicting in- ferests. Borah was the fifth Republican oppose the veto of the President When the Senate met. an earlier than usual, leaders predicted. the vote on the motion to override the veto would carrg. Tie House already by an overwhelming vote has passed the bill, notwithstanding the disaproval of the President. Under the unanimous consent agree- ment entered into late yesterday, debate in the Senate, after the conciusion of Senator Cutting’s speech, was limited to a half-hour for each Senator who de- sires to speak. This limitation, it was expected, would bring a vote during the afternoon. 1f reports from the Philippines that the island legislators are opposed to the independence bill in its present form are true, the action teken by the Con- gress may be ineflective. The way was cleared for the Philip- pines bill when Senator Long dropped | the bars on his five-day-old filibuster against the Glass banking bill. | to hour | & NUARY 17, 1933. inos Must Approve ‘ Hawes-Cutting Act Them- selves, However, will be proximately of the new act, pass the Senate the islands | Complete independence granted the Philippines a 12 yearsshence, if provision: Philippine independerce he President’s veto b; are approved by ves. ‘The next step, now that the bill h: | secome Jaw, is the calling by the Philip- | pine Legislature of a special consiitu- | tonal conventicn at Manila within the | This convention within at year must formulate a constituticn providing ‘for a new gov- ernment Vithin another four months the constitution must be voted on the people. If they approve it, the new government will begin to function, with diminished American interference. Ten years from the date of the rati- fication of the new constitution the islands automatically vill become free of American sovereignty. During the first half of this period free trade with the United States will continue, by during the second half tariffs gradualiy will be imposed until trade is on a par with that of foreign nations An American “high comm will replace the present govern eral during the period of t on. The United States will reserve rights to certain military and naval sites even after independ 1 which promise to get us into a war in the Far East. He said that the passage of the independence bill would mean “the beginnin: of the preservation of | the United States Another Republican voice for over- riding the veto came from Senator Hat- field of West Virginia, who said he fe “impelled to vote for the bill as the principle of self-determination is a principle to which this Nation has g ways adhered.” ' Senator La Republican, of sca g the Senate to pass the e veto, saying the committee had given unbiased and im- partial consideration to all questions. Senator Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, who also opposed the ' veto, contended those against Philippine i dependence were “imperialists” and said they “constitute a very smal] minority in the Senate and the House, and yet by reason of a divergence of opinion seek to stimulate disagreement.” | Filibuster to Be Rerlewed. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, planed to invoke the cloture rule to end Senator Huey Long’s filibuster unless some definite break in the situation comes soon. Robinson and Long have been foes ever since Long came to the Senate last year. Robinson tried late yesterday to get & unanimous consent agreement to vote on the Philippine question shortly after convening today, but it was announced Cutting said the Senate Territories ¥that Senators Cutting, Borah and Nor- | Committee gave careful and mature consideration to the bill. He attacked the veto message and the letters of four cabinet members opposing the bill. Hits Cabinet Statements. “If the letters of the four cabinet | officers (Stimson, Hurley, Hyde and Chapin) had been printed before the President’s message came here, there | would have been less talk about the statesmanlike character of the veto,” he said. He added that “Hyde desired greater curtailment of imports from the | islands and Chapin desired practically no curtailment.” “Hyde,” he continued, “demanded, in effect, immediate independence because no other independence would benefit | agriculture. Stimson, in eflect, de- | manded no independence now or at| | any future time. Hurley suggested in- | dependence at an indefinite date when if; %‘“'o-th\rds of the veto message, he asserted, comprised “almost verbatim’ | quotations from the four cabinet offi-| cers' statements given out by the White | House last Sunday. | “The conclusions drawn by the | President,” he said, “were inconsistent | with the cabinet letters and inconsistent | with what the Prerident said in his | veto message.” { Senator Borah, who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the “logic of the President’s veto mes- | sage” and of Secretary Stimson's let- ter was “no independence.” The Idaho Senator originally had | been expected to vote to sustain the veto. “I feel” said Senator Borah, “that we are voting today on the question | whether the Philippine Islands should | have independence at all. The over- | powering conclusion from the Presi- dent’s veto message is that the Filipi- nos should not have independence at any time.” | Borah said the Filipino people, if| they are granted independence at any time, will have to stand alone in the Orient, “where the teeming millions will ehange conditions beyond recogni- tion.” He said the spirit of imperialism | | prevalls today as it did 2,000 years ago | and that it prevails in the Orient. “The same argument against the free- | dom of the Philippine I:lands which is made today,” continued Senator Borah, | “will apply & century from now. defeat this bill today, we say to these | people that they must remain forever | a part of the United State: | “Never an Ideal Time.” At the outset of his address, Senator Borah said: “There never will be an ideal time | to grant independence to the Philip | pine Islands. If we are waiting for & time of complete peace in the Orient | in which to grant this independence, we never will find that time. Neither will we ever have an ideal independence bill. There will always be conditions | that make for a divergence of opinions | and bills. Any bill for independence must be a compromise.” ] Senator Borah objected, he said, to the length of time in the present bill | for etention of naval bases in the | Philippines. and also to the committ- ment of this Government to the go- called “treaty of amity,” by which it | |is proposed to neutralize the island. | “But in my judgment.” said the Sen- ator, “the bill as it passed the Senate was the best bill that could be passed, and it fulfills the primary object of restoring to the Philippine Islands their independence and their government. The longer we delay independence of | these people, the more difficult it will | tional convention. ris, Nebraska, wanted to speak and | more time would be required. Robinson sat down when Cutting and Norris suggested that the debate con- tinue until a vote was reached last night. “We have the votes to override this veto now,” Robinson asserted. “We have had them ever since the veto arrived.” However, the Philippine Legislature could start the controversy all over again by rejecting the bill, and word from Manila’ yesterday was that pros- pects were anything but bright for ac- ceptance of the measure there. After a caucus the Insular House sent a cablegram to the Independence Mission in Washington declaring the measure would not be acceptable. This information did not coincide with developments at the Capitol. Let- | ters were received by all Senators say- ing the presen’ hill was acceptable to the mission, wh..a represents the Leg- islature Sergio Osmena, acting president of the Insular Senafe and joint leader of the mission, said the cablegram had | | not been received. | Terms of Measure. | ‘The Philippines bill provides that the island legisleture is authorized to call an election of delegates to a constitu- | This convention, in turn, must adopt a constitution in re- publican form for the island govern- ment. This constitution will be sub- | mitted to the President of the United States to determine whether it com- plies with the terms of the indepen- | dence act, and also must be submitted to a vote of the Phillippine people. The independence bill provides that the island Legislature arrange for the electicn of delegates within one year after the passage by Congress of the independence bill. Tt is clear that should the Phillippine Legislature take no such step the independence bill would be ineffective. The measure provides for ab:olute | independence for the islands and the withdrawal of American sovereignty on the 4th day of July immediately follow- ing the expiraticn of a period of 10 years. In the bill is a provision that the Constitution of the proposed common- | wealth of the islands must be accepted | by a vote of the Philippine people. This | in effect will provide a plebiscite on the | subject of Philippine independence. | The bill now provides for a gradual | withdrawal of the free trade relations between the islands and the United States. It also provides that the United States shall have a right to maintain military and naval bases in the Philip- pines. COLOMBIA WILL SEND | BOATS TO DISPUTED AREA| | President Olaya Declares Flotilla Is for “Police Purposes,” but Wants Peace. | | By the Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia, January 17.— President Olaya said yesterday that a Colombian River flotilla would proceed soon up the Amazon River into Co- lombian waters “for police purposes.” | He added that the Colombian govern- | ment desires to make possible a peace- ful and friendly solution of the dispute | between Peru and Colombia regarding | boundaries and the upper Amazon city of Leticia. “A complete and quick restoration to | be to restore it.” | Columbian authorities of sovereignty” | Senator Borah also criticized some |in the disputed area is desired, the | of the agricultural provisions in the in- | President said in a telegram to the press | VIEWS ON AIRPORT CHANGES SOUGHT Strong Sentiment Reported for Development of Gravelly Point. Views of Army and Navy aviation leaders on the C airport prob- lems were soug y the" Senate Dis- trict Committee as it resumed & 5 today on two bills by Senato providing alternative plans trict airport Among the witnesses listed are Trubee Davison. Assistant Secretar; War for_Avia liam A. Moffett. reau of Aeronautics: Capt. A. C. Read assistant chief of the bureau, and Clar- ence A. Miller, chairman of the Sub- committee on Airports of the Aviation Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. Although the Bingham bil e the basis for the yesterday. did not men am r Bing for a Dis- e Navy Bu- .. which n airport site other than that pied by Washington-Hoove witnesses were not so reticent, and sore the committee adjourned it dev oped a strong sentiment in favor of the of the Gravelly Point site, below Washington-Hoover the area for the permanent rport. any local oW occu- Airport, the District Suggests Development. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, in charge of buildings and parks, closed yesterday's hearing by Suggesting to the committee that. Washingion-Hoover Airport be de- veloped to meei the present needs of the Capital, but the! authorization be granted foi the filling of the Gravelly Point area. If this filling is carried on at a normal rate, he said, it probably could be done at a profit to the Gov- ernment. He pointed out the fill now in progress at Washington-Hoover Air- port has yielded a profit to the airport owners, who charge for dumping rights, and intimated the same plan might be xtended to Gravelly Point. “This plan not only would give the | Capital a splendid airport in the future, at relatively low cost, but also would provide a very good one in the mean- time,” he said. Would Delay Decision, He declared the question of the ulti- mate utilization of the Washington- Hoover area need not be determined at present, but that decision be delayed until the Gravelly Point area is avail- able and there is some more certain indication of aviation trends. He gested it might be found ad- | visable within a few years to use the | Washington-Hoover Airport, for sched- uled air transport operations exclusively, because of its proximity to the city and that the Gravelly Point area be utilized for miscellaneous fiying operations, such as private flying, avaition meets, stu dent instruction, repair and servicing, seaplane operations and miscellaneous commercial and private operations. Washington Hoover Airport, now too small for safe transport operations as heavy as it is forced to handle, could be made relatively safe at almost no expense, the committee was told by | A. Pendleton Taliaferro, chief of the airports section, Department of Com- merce. Although complete development of the area would cost $3,556,000, ac- | cording to Government estimates, Mr. Taliaferro expressed the belief that by nothing more than closing and grad- ing of Military road, it would be possi- ble “to improve very greatly the safety of the field.” FAVORS GRAVELLY POINT. Alexandria Chamber of Enters Controversy. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 17— Warning against hasty action in the proposed leasing or purchasing by the Government of the Washington-Hoo- ver Airport, the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce has sent & communica- tion to Senator Swanson and Repre- sentative Smith of Virginia, asking that consideration first be given the location of the proposed Government airport at Gravelly Point, Dan S. Hol- lenga, business manager, said today. The location of the airport at Gravelly Point would have the advan- tage of providing a base for hydro- planes, which the Washington-Hoover Airport cannot offer, Mr. Hollenga said. Gravelly Point is across the Po- tomac River from the Speedway and Hains Point. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR MRS. J. T. WINTER Widow of Well-Known Physician Sang at White House on Several Occasions. Funeral services were held yesterday at the S. H. Hines funeral home for Mrs. Alphonsa R. Winter, 82, who died Friday at Emergency Hospital. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Winter, who had lived at the Kenesaw Apartments, was the widow of Dr. John T. Winter, formerly a well known physician of this city, who died about 30 years ago. She was the daugh- ter of Rev. William Hirst, pastor of Foundry Methodist Chureh’ during the Civil War. Her father died while pas- tor of the church, which often was at- tended by Abraham Lincoln. As & young woman, Mrs. Winter was known as a vocalist and had sung at| the White House on several occasions. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Chester E. \McGowan of Memphis, Tenn., and Miss Helen Winter of this of this city. SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK SEEM KINDER TO AUTHOR | Al Smith and Welfare Chief Rush | Aid When Writer of Famous Song Is Found Destitute. By the Associated Press. rings begun | Commerce | dependence bill, and declared they would not bring immediate benefit to the American farmers. | Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, | followed Borah and also declared his | intention of voting to override the veto. | He said it would be folly for the United | States to cling to the Philippine Islands | | 36 men, including four alleged members | ran out and Saturday he was found to | LESSON By | side of authorities. o R Eae 40 100 | 'NEW YORK, January 17—New York, T | sidewalks and all, which looked pretty | harsh just a couple of days ago, was | | “the same kind old city under a new CHICAGO POLICE SEIZE 36 ‘ coat of paint” today as James W. Blake Four Alleged Members of “42"|contemplated what had been done for him. Gang Are Included. Blake wrote “The Sidewalks of New | & York,” which in 1928 resounded over | CHICAGO, January 17 UP.—Chicago | ™ hefore the banner of Alfred police went on & hoodum-hunting expe- dition last night and took nto custody E. Smith. A year ago he lost his job, his money of the “42” gang, West Side organiza- | be destitute, with an aged sister and a | tion that has long been a thorn in the | blind brother on his hands. | Former Gov. Smith reached for a telephcne when he read about it. Wil- |liam H. Mathews, welfare official, | Police also seized a complete arsenal, including eight sholguns, several revol- Pipe Organ Causes Fire. ST. LOUIS, January 17—Fifty un- PITTSBURGH, January 17 (P)—A | employed men, organized as the Recon- crossed wire in an electrical pipe organ |struction Institute, yesterday an- caused a fire yesterday which for a time | nounced they would clean alleys in the threatened the imposing Dormont Pres- | southern section of the city, without | Phil Hal SIMS | vers, three bullet-proof vests and am- munition. Officials said many of those seized | confessed to belonging to a closely knil | organization which has directed numer- | assured him everything pcssible would be done. The needs of the family were pro- | vided for the next two weeks and Blake | earned that he and his sister were HELD FOR ROBBERY 0FCAPTAL BA |Four Facing New York Trial Linked With Hold-ups in Many Cities. ! | i’ | | | | | Special Dispatch to The § | NEW YORK. January 17.—Sam: Rubin, alias Joseph Samuels, 39, and | Barney Neufeld, alias Barney Niefeld, 36, charged with participation in the hold-up of the Georgia avenue branch of the Washington Mechanics’ Savings | Bank on June 10, last, were arrested by Detective Sergts. Frank O. Brass and F. A. Truscott of the Washington | police in general sessfons court here | yesterday when Judge Otto Rosalsky postponed until tomorrow commence- | ment of the trial of the two men on charges of holding up the Seward Na- tional Bank in this city on December 20, 1930. Rubin and Neufeld were ar- rested on the latter charges with thres other men May 8, 1931, and released under bail of $37,500. The Washington detectiyes charge that the two prisoners and two other men awaiting trial with them held up | the Washington bank after their re- lease on hail here. Federal Warrants Issued. Detective Sergt. Brass and Truscott, accompanied by two United States marshals and a representative of the | Federal Bureau of Investigation made | the arrests on warrants issued to them | in Federal Court here on a complaint igned by Needham C. Turnage, United States commissioner for the District of | Columbia, in which it was alleged that {Rubin and Neufeld and two of the other defendants in the New York ac- tion had robbed the Washington bank of $9,030. Joseph Flynn, 27, a third member of | the alleged bandit gang, had been re- | manded to Tombs Prison by Judge Ro- salsky yesterday because of the failure of the bonding house which had writ- ten his $37,500 bail bond. A fourth man, James Foley, 40, also released un- der bail, had been unable to attend court yesterday because of ilness. It is likely that he also will be placed unider arrest by the Washington detectives when he appears at the trial. A war- rant for Flynn's arrest has been lodged at_Tombs Prison. Ruben and Neufeld, who were kept overnight in the Federal House of De- | tention, were turned over to the juris- kdm(lan of General Sessions Court by | Federal Judge John C. Knox and were emanded to Tombs Prison by Judge Rosalsky today under bail of $50,000 each. Flynn's bail also was sef $50,000. Extradition Expected. | Detective Sergts. Brass and Truscott | will seek the removal of the prisoners | to Washington, pending the outcome of | the trial here. | . Robert Maples, 42, a salesman of New lYork, was arrested with Neufeld, Rubin, | Flynn and Foley by New York de- tectives on May 8, 1931, but was not identified as a member of the gang which held up the Seward National | Bank. He was recognized, however, as | a party to the hold-up of the Elmwood branch of the City National ‘Bank & Trust Co. in Southwest Philadelphia, on March 20, 1931. He was extradited there and sentenced to 20 years for his part in the $37,000 robbery. I, All the other defendants also were | identified as the band which on De- | cember 16, 1920, took approximately $50,000 from the Merchants’ Bank in | Pittsburgh, police said, and extradition papers have been filed here seeking their removal to Pennsylvania to stand trial on that charge. Individually, the prisoners were at that time linked with | bank robberies in Newark, Paterson and | Hawthorne, N. J.. and that State also | is seeking their removal. HINKLER HUNT DELAYED BASEL, Switzerland, January 17 (#). | —Capt. W. L. Hope was waiting today | for a break in the weather to permit |a search by air for his friend, Bert Hinkler, who left England January T on & speed flight to Australia. Hinkler, who formerly held the record, | was attempting to beat the new mark | of 8 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes set | last year by C. W. A. Scott. Hinkler | was expected to make a first stop on | the 13,000-mile journey at Brindisi, Ttaly, but it was feared he never got | across the Swiss Alps. 'SENATE REQUESTED TO APPLY CLOTURE T0 GLASS MEASURE (Continued From First Page.) | “oratorical rubbish and elucutionary | misrepresentations” of opponents, “It has been so bespattered with | that those members of the Senate who have not had the time or the inclina- | tion to follow the technique of the b%# |may bave become confused,” Glass | continued. “Galleries Enjoying Circus.” “The galleries have been enjoylngha circus performance rather than a - cussion of a problem that @ffects the | whole Nation.” Most of the Senators were in thelr seats to hear Glass, their chairs turned | city. and two sons, Dr. T. Hirst Winter | toward him 2s they followed what he | of ‘Newcastle, Pa., and Horace Winter |said. As the Virginian began, Senator | Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, told him ‘that if the compromise amend- ment allowing branch banks only in States where they are permitted by | State law were adopted, he would sup- | port the bill, | A change in Senate rules to prevent filibusters was proposed in a resolution introduced today by Senator Hastings, Delaware, Republican. 'WEST VIRGINIA NEED FOR RELIEF REVEALE \ Welfare Workers Testify Before Committee Studying $500,- 000,000 Aid Bill. By the Associated Press. A growing need for relief in Wes: * Virginia was pictured today by State welfare workers before the Senate Manufactures Commits La Follette-Costigan $50,000,000 relief bill. Calvert L. Estill, direct welfare, and Miss Elbzbeutfr Bn?l’m?lllbbolég of Charles Town, told the committee of tee studying the Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at | byterian Church in suburban Dormont. |pay to show their appreciation for aid ous robberies in the city during the | eligible for old age pensions of $75 a IN THE EVENING STAR 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, | Volunteer firemen fought the flames for bandmaster: Anton Pointner, assistant.| an hour before gaining com&d . March, “The George Washington |U. PF. Smiley, pastor. estl tl Bicentennial” A3 ......Sousa | damage at about $15,000. Overture, “Prometheus” Beethoven | —— Paraphrase, “Carry Me Back to | Mother Causes Son's Arrest. Ole Virgl Potpourri, “Victer Hes | _TULSA. Okla. January 17 (#).—Mrs. : Favorites' Lake | Willie. Carter had her son John ar- umor b: rested and charged with larceny be- Valse Espagnale, ert | cause, she said, she loves him. She 1 dilla| sajd he stole her sewing machine and . ¥.oale, “Valencia”. “The Star Spa a lavder of grocefies. Ed ‘Bunch and Judy” Estellita”. . . .H . Pay Rev. | they had received from the city. Rev. C. W. Davis, president, said the Jlnstllule was established for education {of the unemployed in good eitizenship and is opposed to radical doctrines. Mermoz Continues Flight. PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, (#) —Jean Mermoz, who reached Natal yesterday after a flight six 'passéngers, e on the way to Bul ~ January 17 | from Paris with over here today | Aifes. championships and was the contract bridge player. Mr. Sims has been the winner of 24 national bridge recent bridge experts poll to choose America’s greatest Begins Monday, January 23d Il | | 1 | overwhelming victor in the | { | past year. month each. He hadn’t known that. Czech Taxis on Strike. Ask Loan of Mozart Mass. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, January 17| BADEN, Australia, January 17 (#).— (#)—More than 5,000 taxis and trucks | A request has been received from Cen- have arrived here from all parts of the | tury of Progress officials in Chicago country to participate in & demonstra- | asking this municipality to lend a re- tion against a new automobile law | cently found Mozart manuscript for ex- g S b e public chnrl:y,wyuut they are being o it e i the “work relief” method of caring for transients and that it had been serving satisfactorily. which taxes motor vehicles in favor of | hibition at the fair. The manuscript is railroads. At a protest meeting yester- | that of a hitherto unknown mass in C dayeit was decided to hold a general | major, discovere:. in 1931 in a church tazi today. here. X% Estill said that “all except the hobo type” had performed the duties asksd of thém before receiving aid, and that the “pure hobo” had moved on.