Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1933, Page 2

TOA—2 kxE CITIZENS T0 FIGHT DISTRICT BEER BILL Mass Meeting to Be Held in Masonic Auditorium at 3 P.M. Sunday. | | A protst against enactment of the Rlack beer bill for the District will be | made at a mass meeting of Washington residents Sunday at 3 pm. in the Ma- | IieaVy Aantic seas today In a storm | scnic Auditorium, Dr. Everett M. Elli- son, chairman of the meeting, an- nounced today. Speakers will include Maurice Otter- back, Representative Ellis Moore, Dr.| George Otis Smith, Dr. Carl C. Ras»i‘ mussen, Mr-. Jesse W. Nicholson, Mrs. | H. W. Fisb - and R. W. McNeil. Dr. | Derrell Craii will represent the young | people. Measure Assziled. the Black beer bill, which d the Black saloon | bill,” said Ellison, “practically any- body will be eligible to sell intoxicating liquors. They can be sold in hotels, restaurants, soda fountains, night flats. They can be sold in part of the city of Washington the proposed law, including resi- areas. Saloons can be opened in proximity to churches and schools. Liquors can be bought by minors for consumption off the pre only twg provisions of the act which will be preserved will those penalizing drivi while drunk and drinking publicly. - The whole bill is an example of careless, sloppy con- struction and it is incredible that it should become law in any civilized com- munity. All experience in dealing with the sale of liquors before prohibition is | ignored. The sale of liquors can be promoted by every device. There is nothing in the bill which will prevent advertising by wspapers, or any other form of advertising, or which will tend to minimize ihe evil or x the trade. The communit s hardly protected at all by the law as drafted. being dependent almost entire- 1y upon regulations drafted by the Cemmissioners. The whole population will be opened wide to exploitation. “Novel Viewpoint.” “Under might better be c; [ ation should take rosal of & men who viewpoint that the consumption of alco- holic liquors by boys 8 and 10 years old is not undesirable. and yet t. ment was made to the com on gxlx;sday by the reputed author of this ill.” The meeting Sunday is being pro- moted by a Committee of One Hundred, the Executive Committee consisting_of 5 on, Dr. ene L. Crawferd. Dr. m Sheaf Chase, Mrs. N. M. Pol- Dr. William S. Aberneth Will HOUSE ASKED TO ALLOW’ SALE F OLD SCHOOL SITE | Norton Bill Secking ; | Mrs. Autksrity to Dispose of Po- «omac Property. CAPTAIN AND 3 MEN LOST IN SHIPWRECK Sea Hero, in American Liner, Battles Storm in Effort to Save Britisher. January 20.—The treighter Exeter City battled By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, British that cost the lives of- her master, third officers and two members of the crew; damaged her - considerab'v and caused her to flash an S O S in the early dawn. The 1oss of life was reported in a radiogram to his owners by Capt. Giles C. Stedman, master of the liner Amer- ican Merchant, which reached the stricken freighter after g dash of 15 miles that, because of the weather, required three hours. Describes Ship’s Plight. Capt. Stedman, reporting his ship miles east of Ambrose Lightship, gave the following description of the plight of Exeter City: “Bridge, chartroom, forepart bridge deck and saloon accommodations carried away. Masicr, third officer, appren- tice and seaman lost. No. 2 hatch stove in. Water also believed in No. 3 hatch. Rigged up emergency steer- ing gear.” __Apparently Capt. Stedman found it impossible to lower lifeboats, as he re- ported the weather “considerably un- lfavorable, strong westerly gale, high seas, rain and hai Capt. Stedman has a silver medal from the Italian ministry of marine | for his part in the rescue of 28 men from the Italian freighter Iganzio | Floria in Midatlantic October 21, 1925. Decorated by Treasury. At the time Stedman was chief offi- | cer of the liner President Harding of the United States Lines. Capt. Paul Grening brought the President Harding alongside the disabled freighter late on the night of October 20, but rough seas prevented the lowering of life- boats until early the following morn- ing. During a lull in the wind of about two hours, the lifeboats of the President Harding were lowered and the captain and crew of the Italian treighter taken off just before she sank. A gold medal of awarded to Stadman by the Treasury Stedman, who is Lynn, Mass., was officer of the liner Leviathan to com- mand the American Merchant in March, 1931, B BROWN INHERITANCE ESTIMATED AT $2,000 for this rescue cpartment. Capt 35 and was born in Postmaster General to Receive Residue of Estate of Joseph H. Bagley. Although bequeathed the residue of the estate of the late Joseph H. Bag- ley, vice president of the American Bank Note Co. Postmaster General Brown will not receive more than $2,000, it was said toda; Mr. Bagley, who died last November THE EVENING IMONTAGU NORMAN; | BRITISH BANK HEAD, TO MARRY-WIDOW ____(Continued From First Page.) of Mr. Norman's family. She has been active in public affairs and,is at pres- ent a member of the London County Council. Mystery Man of Finance. The unexepected announcement of Montagu Norman's approaching mar- riage is in character with this “mystery man” of world finance. He has been governor of the Bank of England for 13 years, but although the bank itself is one of the most con- servative institutions in the world, Mr. Norman is like a figure out of a mystery novel. He looks like a retired sea cap- tain, and there are those who describe his sppearance as that of a romantic poet or a dashing gun runner. His trim, pointed beard, his dark plercing eyes, his long nervous fingers which tap on the table when he is im- patient are familiar financial places of the world. He wears an old-fashioned tie threaded through a golden ring and he never fits in with the accepted conservciive correctness of the London business man. * Time after time he has gone c7 in intriguing secrecy, dressed in his black coat and his black sombrero hat, to Paris or Berlin or Nev'vs"‘lm‘k. bu'i.) the mshi] assenger 1 never bear: e name, He is f\ir. M. Collet.” Col let is his middle name. When an important banker come: over to talk with him, Mr. Norman would rather conduct the col in secret anywhere but at his office in the Bank of England. More than once he has stopped an Atlantic liner in the middle of the Eng- lish Channel, clambered down a ladder to a motor boat and dashed bfl(‘k(\u England, his conference with a foreign financial giant completed on the ship. more of it than Lawrence of ‘The directors of the Bank of think they could never get n. gets Arabia. England along without h SAM BEARD CITED IN D. C. TAX CAS Pookmaker Seeking Retrial of Fed- eral Charges at Baltimore to Face Court Action Here. honor also was promoted from chief Norton of the House Dis-|21. once was regarded as a mllionaire. | introduced. at trict Commis- s 2 bill authorizing the sale of the old Potomac School property on the | cast side of Twelfth L between D-and E stre that this legisia; the present sossion of Con The Commissioners to! that this property has square feet and is as ate, the that it has a market $50.000 to $70.000. It is t of the southwest area and in the ion had > Commissioners that t roperty is no longer ne; ol use and the Comm ay there is no other municipal can be made of the property. EASTERBROOK RITES ‘ Former Chief of Army Chaplains | to Be Buried Tomorrow. | Col. Edmund P. Easterbrook, retired, former chief of Army chaplains. who died suddenly at Old Point Comfort, Va., Wednesday. will be given a mili- tary burial tomorrow at 10 am. in Arlington National Cemetery. The present chief of chaplains, Col. Julian E. Yates, will officiate, and the honorary pallbearers, all members of the chaplains’ corp, will b2 Maj. John R. Wright, Maj. Benjamin J. Tarskey, Maj. Edmund J. Griffin, Capt. Frank B. Bonner, Capt. Frank L. Miller, Capt. R C. Deipert. Capt Edwin Burling ph R. Koch. DEMOCRATS BLOCK ALL PROPOSALS TO ACT ON TAXES NOW (Continued From First Page.) levies as income and death duties, nu- merous excise taxes on specific com- moditics and license taxes. “The fact that ncarly 65 per cent of our total tax burden in 1913 was col- Jected from the sale of liquors and only but his fortune is said to have dwindled after the stock market crash. On August 3, 1931, when he made the last of his four wills, he was able to make only two specific bequests. totaling $15,000. One of the bequests. $5,000, was to Grace A. Knox of Grand Rapids, Mich.. jescribed as the daughter of a former member of Congress who brought Mr. 7. Bagley to Washington years ago. pro- curing for him a clerkship in the Cen- sus Bureau. Mr. Bagley. a native of Grand Rapids, never forgot his benefactor, it was said The other $10,000 was left to Dolores J. Main of Mexico Ci Postmaster General Brown was an old friend ef Mr. Bagley. YOUTH RETURNED HERE ON ROBBERY CHARGE Donald R. Tavenner, 19, Reported to Have Confessed Part in Drug Store Hold-up. Donald Rust Tavenner, 3500 block ot Fourteenth street, 19, of the said !to have confessed to taking part in the hold-up of the Schulte cigar store. Fifteenth and G streets, on November was returned here yesterday from i i i | Fredericksburg, Va. following his ar-| rest there. Tavenner. according to police, ad- mitted to Detective J. J. Tolson, who returned him. that he tied Arthur B. Snyder. night manager of the store, while Robert Swayze Paull, 21, of the 2900 block of Ontario road, held a gun to keep the manager ql‘ol. Paull, who was out on $ong efter having been indicted in the case, was | killed several days ago in a freight train | accident near New Orleans, La. and |a man with him at the time was held | for some time in the beliet he was | Tavenrer. | “Guy A. Ortt, 27. of the 300 block of ! Seaton place northeast, also under in- dictment_in the case, awaits trial with Tavenner. He is a_hacker, and, it is charged. had the alleged hold-up men as passengers the night of the robbery, when $225 was taken {rom the store. , S 'SENATOR OFFERS PLAN | FOR CHEAPER DOLLAR about 10 per cent from incomes,” the | report said. “in comparison with the fact_that over 76 per cent of our total tax burden in 1931 was collected on in- comes and only about one-half of 1 per cent from the sale of liquors shows how greatly our Feceral tax system has been revolutionized. “It is obvious that an eniirely dif- ferent class of the population now bears principal byrden of the Federal “Theper capita tax burden does not reveal the whole story of tax distribu- 1 Connally Would Reduce Gold Con- tent Feeling Certain Change Would Not Affect Silver. | Details of a plan for cheapening the | dollar by reducing its gold base content are being worked out by Senitor Con- nally, Democrat, of Texas, and will be outlined to the Senate within the next few days. E Briefly describing his scheme to news- paper men yesterday, Connally said he tion for the reason that different sec- haq not determined to what extent the tions of the country are in different | poid ‘ontent of the doll’T-—the amount situations in regard-to the arcumulaled‘nf gold held on deposit against each wealth of the inhabitants. * * The| dollar—should be reduced. He w:s sure, total taxable wealth of the United| powever, that the plan would not affect States amounts to $239,731911,778 on | ilver. the basis of information for the years|® "By reducing the amount of gold in 1930 and 1931. Using these estimates|each dollar,” he explained, “you can get in connection with the tax collections | more dollars for the same amount of it is found that the proportion of taxes | gold. The dollar’s value thus will go to total taxable wealth in the United | down and the price of commodities will States is $3.98 per £100. increase.” City Taxes Largest. e “The Federal taxes alone amount to, E. F. JEWELL HONORED $1.01 per $100 of taxable \;Ei\{th ar‘n’m he taxes of the States and the sub-| O S aa :il\'isions thereof amount to $2.97 per General Manager of Local Hearst 100 of taxable wealth. | ¥ The report said city governments are | Papers Luncheon Guest. “the largest tax collectors,” getting 31| Edmund F. Jewell, general manager per cent cf all texes, with the Federal| of the Washington Times and Herald, Government second with 25 per cent| who will leave Washington soon to as- and State governments third with 20 | sume a post with a New England new: per_cent. paper, was honored by the directors of The general property tax was termed | the Washington Chamber of Commerce “the principal source of all taxes, ac-|at a luncheon in the Willard Hotel counting for not less than 53.5 per cent | today. of the total collections” The income| Mr. Jewell, who was elected a director tax was ranked second With 21.2 per|of the trade bolly in 1931, was named rent and special sales taxes third with general manager of the local Hearst 41.3 per cent. newspapers in the early part of 1931 The repcrt sai of $4,220,000,000 in 1931 represented 482 | manager. per cent more than in 1913 and 11 -per Aent more than in 1922. the Manchester Union and Leader. On the heels of his conviction | Federal court in Baltimore for inceme |tax evasion, Sam Beard. Washington | bookmaker; was cited today by District | Supreme Court Justice Joseph W. Cox | to show cause why he should not be compelled to file a personal tax return here for the fiscal year 1933 Yesterday Beard, through his attor- | neys, asked for a new trial on the in- come tax evasion conviction. His coun- sel contended the verdict was against the evidence and that there were errors of law in the court ruling. The citation today is based on an ap- plication of the District Commissioners seeking a mandamus against Beard on the complaint of William P. Richards. District assessor, that the gambler neg- lected to file a return and that he did not have sufficient information on which to base an assessment against Beard. Justice Cox set February 1 as the last court to answer the citation. Corpora- tion Counsel William W. Bride and his assistant, F. H. Stephens, appeared be- fore Justice Cox for the Commissioners. ROOSEVELT URGES SENATE FARM BILL IN TALK TO M'NARY (Continued From First Page.) campaign he favored the inclusion of wheat. cotton. hogs and tobacco and was still of the same opinion. but that he would rather have fower commodi- ties than no bill at all and would sub- mit to the will of the Congress.” McNary said he gathered the impres- sion that special ses called about ihe middl The Senator added that they hzd dis- cussed some phases of reforesta ihat he (McNary) had been advc ing for developing forests in an effort to relieve unemployment They alro discussed the extension of credit to farmers, but McNary said this as a matter to be handled by the banking committees. Earlier today the President-elect ex- pressed to Senator Robinson of Arkan- sas, the Democratic leader, his emphatic desire for the enactment of farm relief before March 4. May Not Have Hearings. The Senate Agriculture Committee today consicered the Eil in executive session, but fziled to get to the point of action on provisions of the measure. A possibility that public hearings pméght be dispensed with in the interest of speed was indicated by McNary who said earlier in the week that the demand for testimony was too strong to resist and that hearings would be held. Another caller at the suite of the President-clect — Edward _A. O'Neal, president of the American Faim Bureau pression that Mr. Roosevelt did not desire to confine the operations of the domestic allotment plan to wheat and cotton. O'Neal said the President-elect had told him he “would stand by the princi- pals of my Topeka speech made in the ampaign last Fall.” O'Neal said in that address Mr. Rodsevelt advocated a plan of farm aid incorporating the principals of the allotment plan and that he spe- cifically mentioned wheat, cotion, to- bacco, hogs and corn as commodities or which surplus control should be sought. _ The bill, awaiting Senate action, as passed by the House, ingluded wheat, cotton, rice, dairy products, hogs, to- bacco and peanuts in its provisions. Regarded Vital Elements. It provided for a processing tax on the commodities to raise funds for the payment of premiums to farmers who reduce their acreage or output—and in the case of hogs. the premium would nversations | day on which Beard may appear in| Federation—came away with the im-| STAR, WASHINGTON PHILIPPINES BILL POLL UNFAVORABLE Overwhelming Opposition_ in Island Legislature Is Rep’orted. ) | By the Associated Press. | MANILA, January 20.—The Ameri- can-owned Manili Bulletin, daily news- paper, today published the results of a | survey which showed both branches of the Philippine Legislature definitely op~ posed to the independence me:sure | passed over President Hoover's veto. The survey showed, the paper said. | in the highest | only three of 24 Senators and two of 96 the matter. “ Representatives openly favorable to the | | measure, although a number of the | | legislators were non-committal. | | . The,paper’s poll of the Senate showed | 3 Senators for acceptance, 15 for re- | | Jection, 3 non-committal and 3 absent, | but favorable ta the bill. ! The House poll showed 2 for accept- ance, 60 for rejection, 9 wishing action | delayed until the Independence Mission | | returns from Washington, 19 non-com- | mittal, 3 absent, whose stand was un- | | known, 3 more absznt who are members | of the mission. | | Supporters of the mission expressed | confidence the opposition to the bill| | would eventually be softened. i | NEW PROBLEM PRESENTED. | | January 20—The | | By Cable to The Star. TOKIO, Japan, armed forces and naval bases in the Philippines after they become inde- pendent may be added to the list of | Pacific problems, in the opinion of the Japanese foreign office expressed at a press conference here today. “The right of a country to station military forces in another country which | is absolutely independent is subject to international law,” a spokesman de- | | clared. “However, the independence of | | the Philippines will bring no change in | Japan's policy as far as can be fore- | seen now. In spite of the foreign office’s denial | that the United States has suggested a ew treaty between the two countries afeguarding the Philippines, domestic | newspapers persist in claiming that Washington has’ made such overtures. (Copyright. 1 1 SLAiN. i WOiUNDED IN $2,000 PAY ROLL HOLD-UP ATTEMPT l (Continued From First Page.) and the other witnesses gave police de- | tailed descriptions of the hold-up men and a citywide search was begun im- mediately, with all precincts ordered to be on the lookout for both the com- mAndeered taxicab and its two colored oreupants, i The painting company employes, lice were told. had just finished pre- | ng the pay roll in their room, pre- | paratory to_ distributing the money to employes. They were on their way to the House Office Building for this pur- | poce when the gunmen approached them. Police at first thought the attempted hold-up had been successful, but a check-up at the hospital disclesed the men still had the money. Both men lived in New York, and, ac- | cording to other occupants of the New | Jersey avenue rooming house, had been here about five months. Shot in Chest. Ecklund, according to J. P. Alor. | proprietor of the New Jersey avenue | lodging house, has & wife and daughter | living in Brooklyn. Stumm also has a wife there, Aylor said. Examination of Ecklund’s body at the hospital revealed he had been shot in the chest, directly below the heart Stumm’ was shct in the 2bdomen emergency aticn_performed by D: Charles S. White failed to disclose the bullet, but the surgeon said none of the vounded man’s vital organs had been pierced. Stumm’s chances for recovery were termed “gcod.” The money wes turned over to Samuel Rosenberg, president of the painting by hospital authorities. Rosen- them, they said, to spare no in treating Stumm The painting company’s headquarters is in Brooklyn. N. Y. Police broadeast a lookout for the two colored men, describing them as about 35 or 30 years old, brown-skinned and dressed in khaki overalls. The men wore light caps and no coats, according to the police broadcast. Starting immediately after the shoot- ing. the lcokout was broadcast every 10 minutes. Police in Maryland and Virginia 2lso were asked to be on the alert for the fugitives. | Possibility the cab driver may have | been slain by the hold-up men was con- sidered by poiice, who asked authorities | in nearby Maryland and Virginia to | pay particular attention to side roads | in wooded sections of their terri!oncs.i Resigned Job Today. | Ecklund, it was learned. had resigned | Lis job, effective today, and planned to | return to New York to accept another | position. Stumm, who had succeeded | him, took over the pay roll duties to- | day, working with Ecklund in prepar- ing_the money for distribution. The painting concern is a subcon- | tractor under the general contractor, An st - | D 1. FIBUSTER WRON TYDNESASSERTS Unjustified While Nation in Grip of Depression, Senator Believes. FRIDAY, Editor's mote: Senator Tydings. who recently announced he was seriously con- sidering resioning {rom the Sengte as a protest against flibustering. in the fol- lowing crticle gives Ris views on this form of delaying needed legisiation, BY MILLARD E. TYDINGS, United States Senator from Maryland. To answer the question now so often asked, “Is a filibuster justified?” it is | necessary to consider two aspects of First, the merit r?-—:'— or importance of , % | the legislation in {itself under con-| deration, and sec- | ‘“‘ondly. the state of 4 ' ® [the Nation at the| z"ume the filibuster | ¥ |takes place — that is, whether we are at peace or war,| or whether we are in a state of na- tional distress. | In the filibuster | which has just | been ended by an agreement to limit debate the ques- tion before the Senate for more| than a week was whether we were to extend to banks & limited branch Senator Trdings. He professes to dislike publicity, but hes right of the United States to m;ummn: banking privilege. While the matter is one of importance, it can be asserted that there are other matters demanding attention of greater import than a lim- ited extension to banks of the branch- banking privilege. And what is the state of the Nation? Twelve million unemployed, 5,000 bank | failures, 1,000,000 farms sold under the auctioneers’ hammers, & year's supply of cotton carried over to next year, world trade gone, communities breaking down through loss of revenue and un- rest and chaos increasing. More, the ! Nation demanding that Government— particutarly the National Government | —move quickly to enact measures, first ' for relief and secondly for cures of our economic and social ills. Relief at Standstill. While the filibuster goes on nothing is done. The unemployed are delayed the cpportunity of a job, the bank de- positor of his mopey, the farmer is de- prived of his farm, the surplus is with- out measure or effort to move it so the | farmer may get & price for it and, with the price® purchase the products of in- dustry. While the filibuster goes on the Nation—yes, the world—just in its own mise If there was a war on, would a fili- buster on branch banking be intelligent while men were being %killed, national welfare threatened and possible national ruin ahead? Of course, not. Then, we are in a state now compar- able to war, The Nation is anxious, is cxpectant, is fearful. The people have anxiety now equal to the days of the World War. Consequently, the filibuster is unjustified s the country of relief. eprives the country of solutions. It prolongs suffering and misery. It permits injustices to continue. It disgusts rather than encourages the citizen when encouragement is essential. Destroys People’s Faith. And lastly, it destroys the faith, hope ' and charity of the people in the in- strument they must employ if orderly procedure rather than chaotic convul- sion is to be used in accomplishing a better day. The surest way to break a filibuster is by an aroused public opinion. Law- makers are servants of the Nation, end I. for one, think the Nation wants ac- tion and not day after day of talk, talk. talk. There are things which the Govern- ment can co to relieve its people of the burdens they now endure. The Nation has the right. therefore, to expect Congress to do these things. 2l of which must wait until the fili buster is over. And each day’s delay makes the task more difficult. and on occasion makes the remedy of toda valueless. Time is the essence of vic tory to conquer depressions no less than it decides the fate of Nations in actual war. «Copyright. 1 by North American News- paper A TWO D. C. lUDGE; FIGHT SALARY CUTS | UNDER M’CARL RULING' | th __ (Continued From First Page) status of the courts determined. they based their suits upon petitions for re- covery of the salary cuts as the proper procedure for bringing the question before the United States Suprem: Court. Neither acked for interegt on the de- ducted amounts. Justice O'Doncghue, whoe salary of $10,000 a year was ordered reduced 10 per cent, said in his petition that he “gave up the greater emoluments of private practice with the understanding he would receive as a justice a salary which could not be diminished during | his_continuance in office” and that in | retirement after the age of 70 years he | would receive the same compensation | he was receiving while on the bench. After the economy bill was passed, | Havoc Wrought by Train AUTO CRUSHED AT CROSSING IN LONG ISLAN [E mangled remains of an automobile. part of it afire, beneath the wheels of a Long Isiand Railroad train at Mascapequa, Long Isiand, from which the driver, Stan Garrzhan of Massapequa, and his daughter Jean. escaped alive. When the engine stalled picked up his child and leaped on them in the middle of the tracks, Garrahan to safety just as the train bore down P. Photo. ANOTHER ACCUSED BANKRUPTCY BILL AS ILSLEY SLAYER Crawford Now Denies He House Committee to Meet| Killed Virginia Sports- woman and Maid. By the Associated Press | BOSTON, January 20. — Virginia officers were en route here today to get George Crawford, 26. colored, who made a partial confession to being an acces- sory to the slaying of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, Virginia sportswoman, and her maid, Mrs. Nina Buckner. The actual slayings he laid to another colored man, whom he said he knew only as Charlie Jackson. John Galleher, commonwealth attor- ney of Loudoun County, Va., questioned Crawford three hours yesterday before obtaining the partial confession. Denies Murder. Galleher said_the prisoner admitted entering Mrs. Iisley's cottage on her 200-acre Virginia estate and stealing some money and a watch, but denied beating either of the two women to death. The slayings occurred January 13, 1932 Galleher made public but a part of the proceedings during the questioning, withholding the text of Crawford's con- fession for prosecution purposes. The colored man had been picked up here for a small store robbery and had been identified as the wanted man by his fingerprints. The Virginia attorney said Crawford at first denied any knowledge of the crime, but finally admitted “we had the goods on him” and said he wanted to be “right with his Ged.” Galleher planned to return to Vir- ginia today. He said officers would come to Boston for Crawford tomorrow. Meanwhile. arrangements were under- way to nolle prosse the robbery charge here against Crawford so that he could be extradited. Crawford said he would not fight the extradition. Quoting from the colored man’s con- fession, Galleher said Crawford claims he doesn't know who Jackson is and that he never saw nim before or since the slaving. Puts Blame On Jackson. Crawford. according to Galleher, claimed Jackson suggested they go into the Iisley cottege. but that he didn't want to go beqause he once worked e. % rawford claims.” Galleher said. “that he watched outside while Jackson went in the house. Jackson. Crawford said, went into a kilchen and down a corridor toward a bed room. Crawford said he heard a scream and that Jack- son came running out to the kitchen as he stood in the doorway. “The two men then went back to- ward the bed room and Crawiord said he saw Mrs. Iisley there on the foor near her bed and thought she was dead. | “Crawford said he took a wrist watch | and $5 from a pocketbook and that | both returncd to the kitchen. Jackson, he said, returned to the bed room for | more loot.” Stole Automobile. Galleher said Crawford told him they | then left in Mrs. Iisley's car, drove to- ward Washington and deserted the | machine on the Virginia side of the Potomac. ROOSEVELT WEETS WALSHANDELASS Cabinet Posts Discussed, but No Information of Choices Revealed. By the Assoclaied Press Appointments to the cabinet were discussed by President-elect Roosevelt today with Senators Walsh of Montana and Glass of Virginia, both regarded in some quarters as likely to be given place, but none of the conferees wouls give an inkling of what was what. ‘The conferences took place just bee fore Mr. Roosevelt left his hotel to en= train for Muscle Shoals. Walsh, questioned by newspaper miel, said the cabinet selections had heen d!s- cussed as well as the war debt situa= tion, Information Refused. Asked if he had been offered thy past of Secretary of State, Walsh replied 0.” but when asked if Mr. Roosevelt d(’d him the attorney generalship he |, “Of course, I can't discuss such mat= | ters.” Senator Glass would not answer ques- tions. He was Secretary of the Treas- ury under Woodrow Wilson and is bee lieved by some to be de ed for an- other term in the same post. Davis Mentioned. Speculation as to the membership of Roosevelt’s cabinet continued in many circles with circumstances pointing to FFORTS CONTAUE Second Time Today in Tor- tuous Undertaking. By the Associated Press House Judiciary Committee members wrestling with the tortu of emergency bankrup but planned another gathering day in an effort to report ik as one measure. Chairman Sumners said there was vir: tual agreement on all majc versial points, by g later proposal. s t that the” technica character of the proposed legisl | Norman H. Davis as the nex y of State | Ohio and Nebrs pointments to | the Presicent-elect Mr. Roosevelt had Mr. Davi him yesterday when he conferred w Secretary of State Stimson, and w the latter departed for his hc | Davis went along to renew 1k This, however, may 1 lained by the fact | a member of President Hoover tion to the World Arms Conference & | therefore in close contact with new and | old administrations. Davey Is Recommended. | The Ohio Democratic House delega- tion recommended to Mr. Roosevelt tr appointment of Martin Davey of Kent, Ohio, as Secretary of Agriculture. Da ey is a former member The delegation, hea e with him on slation he des necessitated careful study in order that | it might not be held unconstitutional The individual debtor and ions would be affected. It w able a scgling down of debts or an ex- tension of time to pay in the case of the farmer. Corporate down indebtedness, | provide for recapitalizatio vided. A determined effort is being made to get the reform bill through at this session. as it is depended upon to give relief to hard pressed debtors without the delay and expense that acccmpany nkruptcy proceedings present laws. Indorsed by Roosevelt. to scale Roosevelt in earlier conferences with | House leaders nad givew his indorse- | ment to the plan already asked by President Hoover in a special message to Congress and promised speedy con- sideration by Speaker Garner. Sumners predicted two pending bills. | one affecting individuals and corpora- | tions in general, the other dealing with railroads. would be combined by the committee and reported shortly for House action. The relation of the Interstate Com- merce Commission and the Federal Courts in an allied bill for railroad re- organization prepared by Representative La Guardic., Republican, of New York, has been the cause of a sharply worded contioversy. Bui La Guardia and Chairman Sum- | ners of the committee got together | yesterday and drafted a compromise | which they believe will be accepted by | the majority of the committee members. Senator Hastings. Republican, of Dela- | ware, who has been wrestling with the intricacies of bankruptcy legislation for months, is expected o give his support to the measure, since he has a bill of his own along the same general lines. He may, though, differ with the House proposls in some respeets. Broadly speaking, the legislation as it now stands would enable the indi- vidual or the corporation to get an extension of time to pay debts. or to scale them down to ther capacty to pay. Other features of the proposal, sponsored by Representatve McKeowr Democcrat, of Oklahoma, affect botl individuals and the ordinary corpora- tion, including levee, sewer. drainage and irrigation districts. The indtvidual might apply to the courts for relief and an arrangement worked out | to give him more time to take care of his bills and mortgages, provided a majority of his creditors agree. Corporate Reorganization. Corpcrate reorganization, whether railroad or otherwise, could b> cet in motion _voluntarily or under | paving, | involuntary. | the Consolidated Engineering Co. of | the petition points out, Gontroller Gen- Baltimore. | eral McCarl ruled the District Supreme News of the shooting v.as whispered | Court and the Court of Appeals were | about the Senate and House chambers ] not constitutional courts, but legisla- in the Capital, just across the street, | tive courts. and that the justices thereof | and many of the members of Congress | did not come under the constitutional'! hurried to the balcony off the Speaker'’s’ | prohibition against reduction in sala- | | lobby on the House side to view the scene of the murder. By that time, however. police had departed. 'HARNA LAUDS SAFETY | OF CAPITAL BANKS Traction President Says There Is Marked Improvement in Situa- tion Over Country. be paid to farmers reducing their corn | acreage O’Neal said he regarded hogs and to- bacco as vital elements in the plan and that his conference with Mr. Roose- velt sat'sfied him that “the President- elect believes as I do.” The farm leader said the President- elect expressed hope that the allotment plan as well as farm mortgage relief legislition might be .enacted at the present session of Congress. “I explained the serious plight of | farmers and the need of immediate ac- tion to provide relief and the President- clect was in complete agreement and said he would continue his close co- available for our conferences whenever we desire,” O'Neal said. Meets Again Tomorrow. ‘The Senate Agriculture Committee will meet again tomorrow and at that time McNary said he hopes it will de- termine whether there shall be hearings on the allotment bill and what com- modities shall be included in the bill. In its discussion the committee to- day Yuestioned at length Eric Englund, assistant chief of the Bureau of Agri- cultural Economics, particularly as to the size of the force that would be necessary in the Agriculture Depart- ment to check up on whether farmers have curtailed production 20 per cent id Federal expenditures | Prior to that time he had been business | as a prerequisite to receiving & bounty. ¥nglund and Frederic Lee, attorney He will assume the management of for the farm organizations, will testify further’ tomorrow behind closegd doors, cperation by having representatives | One of the most encouraging phases of the current business outlook is the “particularly favorable condition of Washington banks,” John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co., told 2 radiq audience last night in the “Prosperity Hour” series arranged by Station WOL Referring to the country at large, Mr. Hanna said there is a marked improvement in the banking situation. “The foundation of all business must rest on bank stability,” he continued, “and much of the suffering and dis- | comfort_of the past year has been di- | rectly due to bank failures. These have been comparatively few in recent months. Washington banks are in a particularly favorable condition. as shown by controller’s reports and by | ries. | The plaintiff told the Court of Claims that despite his protests the redaction was made effective during the last six months of 1932 and that he is in- formed similar reductions will continue to be made. His petition also stated that 10 per cent reductions have been made in the compensation of Associate Justices Walter 1. McCoy and Wendell P. Stafford. retired. “The District Supreme Court is a con- stitutional court,” the petiticn avers, | “and the constitutional rights of the plaintiff have been violated by this re- duction in salary. Congress has con- | ferred the powers of constitutional | courts upon the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and“the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which were organized by virtue of article 111 of the Constitution.” Attention was called to the fact that States, held the District Supreme Court was one of the inferior courts of the United States, permanently established under Section 1, Article III, of the Constitution, and that the justices were entitled to the constitutional guarantee of judicial independence arising from tenure in office and permanence in selary. This decision, it was contended, dividends recently declared waG paid by the local banks MURDERER HANGED ST. LOUIS, January 20 (#).—James W. Kellar, 30, confessed murderer of Mrs. Etta Sauer, wife of his employer, at Maplewood, St. Louis suburb, was hanged in the St. Louis County Jail at Clayton at 6:07 am. loday. Gov. Guy B. Park yesterday refused to grant executive clemency to Kellar, as he had to David A, Miller, who was to have been executed at St. Charles this morn- ing for the murder of Miss Pauline Deubbert. on her farm near Femme Osage, Mo, in 1929, held that the District Supreme Court was “not merely a legislative creation established wholly under the exclygive power of legislation over the District of Columbia conferred upon Congress.” ‘The United States Supreme Court af- firmed the decision in the James case, but did not pass directly on the status of the District Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. ‘The petition filed by Justice Hitz was almost identical with that of Justice O’Donoghue. Both justices were represented by At- torneys John W. Davis, former Demo~ cratic candidate for President; George E. Hamilton and John S. Flannery. Justice O’Donoghue. was also repre- sented by his son, Daniel W.. O'Dono- ghue, Jjr. . , FEA Twenty-five per cent of the creditors Jackaon 1n Weahington,” Galleher said, | Lo/din€ 10 per cent of the gross amount “and that he hopped a freight to reorganizaticn. If two-thirds of the Philadelphia. He (Crawford) then | creditors and the courts approve, the made his way to Boston. | company might find itself on an en- The Virginla attorney said the stone | tirely new basis both as to the amount Crawford claimed Jackson had in his it owes and as to its capital structure possession during the murders had not | "In the case of railroads, the plan been found, but that the colored man , would be worked out by the Interstate said he “could teke him right where | Commerce Commission for the approval it is if I took him there.” Galleher | of the Federal Court. said ;‘blogtli-s(a!ilrsl‘edvbooflafl had been |~ “The relation,” Sumners said, “is, found in Mrs. Iisley’s room.. | roughly speaking. this: The I. C. C. is Crawford is being held without bail | tpe master in chancery, The ‘court. of p;ndinx a hearing on the fugitive | course, is the court. If the first plan charge. “Crawford said he had a fuss wh..h’ RECOMMENDATIONS DUE IN SENATE RENT PROBE| | characterized many bankiuptey cases in . 2 | the pest. For one thing, provisi Subcommittee May Decide Upon Re- | pio P*3 prevent a il gr%’llxsp‘:)? | sults of Six-Month Investigation | minority creditors from ktlocking agree- at Session This Afternoon. clear for another plan to be worked cut.” A Everybody concerned with the leg'sla- tion believes it will eliminate much of carefully preserved during tke reorgan- izatio is rejected by the judge, the way is left | the delay and the waste which has| ment. For another, the asseis would be The Senate District subcommittee | which conducted an inquiry into rental | and hbusing problems of Washington in the last six months may decide at| n. McKeown said that if funds for re- financing farm mo:tgage indebtedness | were given the Reconstruction Corpora- tion, or some other agency, the bill in May, 1903, the Court of Claims in | the case of Harriet T. James vs. United | an executive session this afternoon | what recommendations it will make to the Senate. 3 One of the suggestions that has been made to the subcommittee relates to the possibility of regulating apartment | houses through the provisions of the general licensing law passed by Con- gress at the last session. What form the conclusions of the subcommittee will_take, however, will not be known | until after today’s meeting. When the subcommittee meets this afternoon it will have before it information pre- pared by Assistant Corporation Counse! ‘W. A. Roberts at the request of the subcommittee after the last meeting. SLAYER GETS LIFE TERM | Reduction in Charges to Second De- . gree Held Lenient Enough. * Declaring that the jury had extended | all_possible clemency when it reduced a charge of first degree murder to that of second degree, District Supreme Court Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue today sent Butler Settles, colored, to the penitentiary for life. Settles had been chaged with slash- ing the throat of his sweetheart, Eva might provide the vehicle for a vast lions owned by insolvent farm:rs. BOUTWELL TO DISCUSS FIELD OF JOURNALISM Found Will Be Subject for Y. M. C. A. Forum Tonight. Vocational opportunities in the field of journalism will be discussed by Wil- liam D. Boutwell, chief of the editorial division, United States Office of Edu- cation, in the weekly “occupational 2d- Jistment” forum at the Y. M. C. A. to- night, at 8 o'clock, in the Central Y. M. C. A. Auditorium, 1736 G street. The lecture is one of a series on the professions under auspices of the Voca- tional Guidance Committee of the Y. M. C. A, in co-operation with the ‘Washington Kiwanis Club. Dr. J. Orin Powers, associate prcfessor of education chairman-of the commiitee, will preside. Young men interested in taking up newspaper or other journalistic work, students, educator and others are vited to attend. b |and necessary scaling cown ot the bil- | Vocational Opportunities to Be| of George Washington University, and | ¥ Dem committeeman from t| torney General. T headed by Represer Davis is a D:moy Undersecretary cf St istration of Woodrow been at vear on the forthcem ference as well as on the Well Equipped. As Secretary of State in the Ro velt cabinet he would go into of ceptionally well informed cn th plicated international situat | He is expected to return t this Spring for the World Ec Conference at London. However known that his departure from country at this period would not be ban in the eyes of Mr. Roosevelt aga his_serving also as Secretary of St Nevertheless, there is not the est inkling from the President-clect ba who his Secretary of State will b2 or who will serve in the other cabined offices. TWO CHOICES and Baruch llenticned as Secretary of Treasury. PHILADELPHIA, January 20 (&) — | The Evening Public Ledger. in a ccpy= righted story from Washington. said yesterday that President-elect Roose- velt has narrowed his choice for Sec- retary of the Treasury to one of men, Jeremiah Smith, ir. of | and Bernard M. Baruch of Ne The attorney generalship. patch continued. will be offered ator Thomas J. Walsh, with the bility that he will decline. So far as can be learned. t sai¢, Mr. Rposevelt has | offered appolntment to a | men Baruch is a banker and lawyer with extensive financial exy ence. ATTACK IS LAUNCHED | ON FRANCE AND OTHER , DEFAULTERS IN SENATE _(Continued From First Page.) NAMED. ith o S posci he p2par |— returned his award to the French gove | ernment because of her default Howell :aid the French defaut was “almcst unbelievable, when this country has been as generous &s it has.” Part of the French debt, he said, was | $400.000,000 which France agreed to pay for surplus war cupplies valued at $2,000.000,000 | Tance began to sell those supplies, and accounted publicly what she re- ceived until it reached $236.000,000, and |then no longer made public the re- | turns.” he said “All France has paid to us is not equivalent to what she has received from the sale of those supplies.” Robinson is chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee considering the bill of | Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali- | fornia, which would prohibit flotation {in this country of defaulting nations’ securities. “The Republic of France,” he said, “is entitled to no consideration from us. * * * If she would think more of peace, less of war, cut down her enormous armaments and exhibit the strength of character nations are ex- pected to possess, she could pay her honest obligations to the American | people and never miss the money in- volved. “Furthermore, throughout thz past | year she has continuousiy done ever: thing possible to embarrass this coun= try economically. In fact, her with- drawals of gold from America at one time were so barefaced 25 to be posi- tively unfriendly. “It is a tragic thing to see France, who has received so much from the United States and the American people, turn into the thorough ingrate sne .as come to be. Her policy is undoubtedly ruinous and if she continues along the route she is now pursuing she will find at no dictant future date that she is | without friends when she needs them most.” CALLED TO D. C. CHURCH Rev. Walter C. Hook, pastor of the Shiloh Congregational Church of Frest- burg, Md., has accevted a call w ige pastorate of the Ingram Memorial Coz:- | gregational Church, Tenth strect ard Massachusetts svenue northeast. e will_assume his duties here Februr.y 1. Rev. Mr. Hook succeeds Rev. F. V. Fisher, who resigned early this month. Rev. Mr. Hook went to the Frostburm church from Winchester, Va., in &= tember, 1931, and previously had a charge at Holland, Va. He is a grad- uate of Elon College, in Ncrth Carolina. H: o attended the Union Theological Seminary, in New York. Four thousand Jews are resident i the Irish Free State.