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T, & ', came | eral months ago for his health. 4 WEATHER. gentle shifting yeste: Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 32,407. PN SFAVORIBLE RANSHY NDONAD MAY COME T L., Expectation General in Lon- don That Government Will Entered as second class matter vost office, Washington, 3 D. C Head Mission Accept Invitation to Send| Delegation to Washington. | STIMSON TO CARRY OUT INITIAL NEGOTIATIONS Roosevelt Regards Failure of France to Pay Installment as Deferment Rather Than Default. Paris Waits on Outcome of Con- ference With England. | By the Associated Press. Diplomatic machinery was set in full motion on both sides of the Atlantic today to bring the United States.and Great Britain together early in March for a new exami- nation of war debts. Powered by a joint agreement - between President Hoover and " his successor-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the turning wheels opened the way for the appoint- ment of a British mission to meet American representatives here soon after March 4 for a prompt attack on the stumbling block of international obligations. Within a few hours after the incoming and outgoing Chief Executives had decided upon dip- lomatic channels—advocated by Mr. Roosevelt—as the avenue for an approach to the problem, Sec- retary of State Stimson sum- moned the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, and informed him of the agreement reached esterday afternoon by the two Kaaders in an extraordinary White House conference. 2 Europe Enthusiastic. ‘That was the first step in the new negotiations which may lead to a gen- eral review of debts owi ml oteign nations which have mel regular installments. News that America and Great Britain ‘would sit down and talk it over was re- ceived enthusiastically in European capitals. There was little immediate comment from leaders of Congress, but there were some private expressions against cancellation or reduction. In London the expectation was gen- eral that that government would ac- cept the invitation to name envoys. And as soon as they are named and arrive in Washington the new Democratic ad- ministration will tackle its first major international problem. Possibility that Prime Minister Ram- say MacDonald will come to the United States for a discussion of the debt prob- lem was advanced in London circles. ‘There was no official announcement of Britain’s plans, however. Meanwhile Czechoslovakia sought in- formation today of the manner in which it should go about gaining recon- sideration of its war debt. Minister Veverka of Szechoslovakia called at the State Department for a talk with As- sistant Secretary Harvey H. Bun Veverka said upon leaving thaf he feit satisfied negotiations could also be opened by other countries in the near future. Economic Problems Included. To Mr. Roosevelt the arrangements mean the saving of a month in seeking a path to improved world economic con- ditions. The Hoover-Rocsevelt agree- ment also provides for a discussion of economic problems, and there was speculation that the 'new President might make the talks with Great Brit- ain the basis for tariff concessions as a means of opening up markets for Amer- jcan products. Mr. Roosevelt was in the South today, but he left Secretary Stimson to carry out the preliminary negotiations. From the South came word that the Demo- cratic leader does not regard France’s failure to pay on December 15 as a default, but rather as a deferment. Should that nation, or any other which RAMSAY MACDONALD. POLICE CLAIM FIVE MEN ADMIT PARTS IN FATAL HOLD-UP Five Others Detained in Probe of Death of One Man and Wounding of Another. ‘The police announced today that they had obtained signed confessions from five of the six men they say plot- ted and executed the attempted $2,000 pay roll hold-up yesterday in which one man was killed and another seriously wounded at the new House Office Build- ing under construction at New Jersey avenue and C streets southeast. The actual shooting, in which Ed- ward Ecklund, 50, was slain, and Harry Stumm, 48, was wounded, was admitted, according to Capt. Bernard W. Thomp- son, assistant chief of detectives, by Claude Myers, 28, colored, and Fewell Workman, 23, also colored. An autopsy performed on Eklund's body today revealed he was killed by & .32-caliber bullet. This, it was pointed out by police, indicated he was shot by , who is said to have admitted g the .32-caliber revolver. Jury Sworn In. ‘The other gun, a .25-caliber auto- matic, was used by Workman, according "l?h the cmtmhn: aguned b%hrcu‘tw ompeon.. Deputy Coroner 0- pher J. Mwphy, who performed the autopsy, reported the slug, which plerced Ecklund’s heart and liver, was found in his backbone. The bullet was turnéd over to Lieut. John H. Fowler, police ballistics expert, for examination. A jury was sworn in over Ecklund’s body this morning by Dr. Murphy, who said an inquest would be held either Monday or Tuesday. The other confessions, Capt. Thomp- son said, were obtained from Albert E. Cash, 20, driver of the taxicab in which the gunman escaped; Everett Black- well, 22, who, the police say, acted as signal man for the attempted hold-up, and Clyde E. Templeton, 30, who, the police charge, heiped dispose of the guns used by the slayers. Fourteen Arrested. ‘The cab driver's brother, Oscar M. Cash, 21, also aided in disposition of the weapons, Capt. Thompson declared, but refused to make any statement. A third brother, Howard Cash, was taken into custody, but released this morning. ‘The six men were arrested in rapid succession after Albert Cash, who lives in the 4500 block of Ninth street, went to the sixth precinct station late yester- day to report he had been robbed by two (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) MINERS’ DEATH NOTES " STIR POSTAL ACTIVITY Kincaid, Ill, Office, in Heart of Strife Section, Reports Almost Dozen Threats. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, .January 21.— Postal authorities today took an active interest in the troubles of the Illinois coal miners after Gov. Horner had announced that peace negotiations started by him between opposing fac- tions had been called off until next failed to pay, meet its payment, it, 100, | Tuesday. might be accorded a separate oppor- tunity to present petitions for re- examination. By settling promptly on December 15 Great Britain, the largest debtor, cre-[haq ated generally a sympathetic atmos- phere in this country. If some agree- ment is reached between the two coun- tries, they may find themselves much ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SENATE ROBINSONS CLASH OVER DEBTS Democratic Leader Calls Indiana Senator’s Charges “Cheap Politics.” By the Associated Press. A statement by Senator Robinson (Republican, Indiana) that the Hoo- ver-Roosevelt agreement to have debt discussions with Great Britain was & “usurpation of authority” was chal- lenged in the Senate today by Demo- cratic Leader Robinson, who called the Republican member’s speech ‘“cheap politics.” KILLED BY BUS Declared to Have Thrown Himself in Front of Machine. PHOENIX, Ariz, January 21 (#). Harry Frischer, 36, of New York City was injured fatally by a transit com- pany bus here yesterday. Deputy sheriffs said he deliberately threw him- self in front of the machine. 3 His told authorities he had been ‘The Post Office Department’s interest was aroused after Postmistress Arvelia Hull at Kincaid, in the heart of the strife torn area in Christian County, reported the receipt of death threat letters by almost a dozen work- ing miners at Tovey, nearby. She said the letters apparently had been written by the same person and that in each instance the recipient was advised “to kiss his wife good-by” and that death awaited him. Carl Ray, she said, was the first to report as having received one of the letters, while she refused to divulge the pames of all the others, she said Fred Eddie and Henry Honore also received them. All were employed at the Pea- body No. 7 mine at Kincaid, she said, and each was & member of the United Mine Workers’ Urnion. d warm probably asional i = N ‘el tures—Highest, /58, at 4 pm. ; lowest, 38, at 1 a.m. today. Full report 14. — e _— WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening St WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933_TWENTY-SIX PAGES. SIPLY BILS I S50 INDE BUDEE FIURE Measure Presented in Midst of Dispute Between Hoover and Democrats. PROHIBITION BUREAU INCLUDED IN SLASHES Justice, State, Labor and Commerce Departments Receive Total of $108,566,781. By the Associated Press. A new money bill, said to appropriate $5,284,742 less than the budget asked, was presented to the House today at | the same time as a dispute was in full swing between President Hoover and the Democratic leadership over reduc- tions in Federal expenditures. ‘The President said House Democrats had not cut expenditures $57,000,000 on the first five appropriation bills, as Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations Committee claims, but actually had in- creased them $35,000,000. Department Figures Set. Byrns’ committee, using budget figures of the same class as those the chairman quoted in offering his side, then brought in a measure allowing $12,177.464 to run | the Department of State; $413834,052 for the Department of Commerce; $36,588,465 for Justice, and $12,682,060 for the Department of Labor in the next fiscal year—a total of $103,282,039. In the report on this bill, Oliver, Demo- crat, of Alabama, chairman of the sub- committee that handled it, said the budget asked $108,566,781. The reductions, he said, extended even to the Prohibition Bureau, which was allowed $9,120,000, against the $9,599,- 948 recommended. The slashes for the departments, as reported by Oliver, were: State Depart- ment, $800,162, leaving a total appro- priation of $12,177,000; Justice, $2,448,- 000, leaving $41,834,050; Commerce, $1 328,000, leaving $36,588,000; Labor $707,~ 285, leaving $12,682,000. Mitchell Report Quoted. ‘The committee report quoted this statement made to it by Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell on the subject of prohibi- tion: “I have not the slightest doubt in my own mind, regardless of what the future has in store for the national prohibition system, that we ought to maintain our efforts unrelaxed, and that such changes as are to be made ought to be made in the substantive law, before they are made by scuttling or nullifying the laws and leaving them on_the statute books.” The rl:gm added: “In t] expression the majority of the committee concurs. Change comes by _directicn, not by indirection.” Because of this belief the prohibition allocation was cut only 5 cent. about the average of reductions applied to other agencies in the Justice Depart- ment. Secretary’s Fund Cut. Among other things, the committee reduced from $200,000 to $130,000 the personal fund of the Secretary of State, saying it understood some of the money ;wd been spent “in violation of the aw.” Secretary Stimson, on his trip to Europe last year, rode the Italian steamer Conti Grande. It was said then that American ships were ‘avail- able, and if they were the law requires that they be used. Cognizance was taken by the com- mittee of the general belief that “it is reasonably certain that the Presi- dent will be vested before the 1934 fiscal year with very plenary powers of reorganization.” “The committee feels that very sub- stantial savings under the amount car- ried in this bill will follow,” the repor® continued. It added that if the recommenda- tions carried in the present bill were approved the appropriation for the four departments would be $37,496,000 un- der what it was in the 1932 bill, the last handled by the House when Re- publicans were in control. The committee reduced the appro- priation for the Bureau of Investigation $10,119 to $2,589,000; for the Supreme Court, $13,000 to $279,173; it disal- lowed any funds for hire by the Com- merce Department of Lamplighters on the Missouri River; increased the Labor Department’s Bureau of Immigration allowance $640,000 above the expendi- ture this year to $9,444,000; cut that for the Bureau of Naturalization $9,595 to $890,000. It did, however, allow uncut the budget estimate of $734,800 for the Em- ployment Service, although the reggn said “many of the committee members doubt the wisdom of continuing this policy longer.” Allocations for Prisons. The allocations under the Justice De- partment for specific penal institutions were: Leavenworth, $1468,000, or $90,148 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) — MERMOZ TAKES OFF RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, January 21 (®).—Jean Mermoz, whose trans- atlantic airplane, Rainbow, was bogged down for three days in the mud of the flying fleld near here, took off this morning with his six passengers for Buenos Alres. TURN UP THEIR NOSES AT BEAUTY TO SEARCH FOR BRAINIEST GIRLS Boys Who Boss Cincinnati U. Yearbook Abolish Usual Tribute to Feminine Pulchritude. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, January 21.—The boys who boss the University of Cincinnati year book turned up their noses at beauty today and announced they would pick the brainest—not the niftiest— girls for the publication’s positions of honor this year. “Beauty sections in college annuals,” sniffed Robert Galbraith, personally and editorially, “are passe and a mark of utmost provincialism.” ith is the year book's editor- in-chief. “Instead,” he announced, “of glori- college o ke the ot e e e Eooabing 0 say, W] BC the most for her alma mater and her fellow students.” Crushed but still hopeful, the college boys promptly turned their efforts toward unearthing nmld.lu:hhund- ful but not dumb, to take place of the traditional “Varsity Venuses,” and perhaps confound the year-book bunch with a beauty section of & sort “fim‘n“; in that, the boys who glee 3 W = fully brag about how well they ‘em, will -have to concentrate on ;fi; fying the American r} through a ‘beauty’ section, the luflz‘en book | costar 5 RODSEVELTVISTS MUSELE SHOMLS Declares Alabama Project Will Be Treated From “Na- tional Standpoint.” By the Associated Press. SHEFFIELD, Ala, January 21.—Be- ginning an inspection of the gigantic Muscle Shoals, Ala., power and nitrate project, President-elect Roosevelt told a crowd here today that “I am confident | Congress will work with me and we can get something practical done,” to put “Muscle Shoals back on the map.” Significance was attached to his state- ment that “we are going to treat Muscle Shoals from a National standpoint.” Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, whom Mr. Roosevelt intro- duced to the crowd at the station here a8 “the father of Muscle Shoals,” is pre- iring to push his bill next session for Ewemml ‘The Senator Dill of Washington, power -ex pert; Prank P. Walsh, New Y adviser, and E. A. Scattergood, s leader in the power field in the Southwest. Gov. Miller of Alabama introduced Mr. Roosevelt from the rear platform of his special train, Gov. M. Allister of Ten- nessee was on the Reception Committee. ‘With hopes in the Tennessee Valley again raised high for development of the huge hydro-electric plant, citizens from e “Fus Actay airoses cacoried e route. Four y e special into this city, circling the train. Ready for Debt “Barter.” The President-elect meantime is be- lieved to be to employ war debt payments from foreign nations as a bargaining tool to restore world trade when the forthcoming Economic Con- ference meets. Some of his most intimate advisers on this subject are discussing a ponement of payments by Great Brit- ain, the first country invited to discuss the debts question, for the period of the depression as a means of obtaining quick action on the Roosevelt trade policies. The President-elect himself, however, has given no public expression to his ideas of handling the problems. In return for debts relief, it is under- stood that Mr. Roosevelt wants to ob- tain from the Economic Conference stabilization of world money exchanges and reciprocal tariff agreements which he believes would go a long way in again opening the avenues of trade. Fully confident of his ability to deal with European debtors, the incoming Chief Executive has no idea of aj it- ing a commission. He will rely entirely on himself and his Secretary of State (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) e PARIS PAPERS PLAY UP CONFERENCE HERE Importance of Roosevelt-Hoover Meeting Indicated, but No Comment Is Given. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 21.—The importance attached to the Roosevelt-Hoover con- ference in Washington was indicated today by the prominence of space de- voted to that event in Paris newspapers. Generally, however, papers reserved comment. “Pertinax” (Andre Geraud), fuelg editor of the Echo de Paris, saw in t invitation to Great Britian for a debts parley a move to get back on the gold MM» mHmurn for cone e pe? the debts. He was apparently unper- turbed because there was no mention of France in the statement issued at Wi , de “England and America sooner or later will-be forced to solict her presence.” Little space and no comment was given to criticisms of France voiced in the United States Senate. SEARCH RENEWED TODAY FOR MISSING MAIL PILOT Ray Fuller Lost in Texas—Para- chute Flare Is Only Clue Found. By the Associated Press. Woodcock Defends Expense to U. S. in Search for Robins Wife Complained of Kid- naping, He Tells House Subcommittee. By the Associated Press. The explanation by Amos W. W. ‘Woodcock, director of prohibition, of the search by his men for Raymond Robins, the prohibitionist, was that Robins' family had complained “that he had been kidnaped by bootleggers and was being held by bootleggers.” Robins disappeared last September after making an appointment to see President Hoover at the White House. He was found many weeks later living in the North Carolina mountains, ap- parently suffering from loss of memory. | Woodcock told a House appropriations | sub-committee holding hearings on the | Justice Department appropriation bill (Continued on Page AGREEMENT FALS ON FARM RELIF Senate Committee Weighs Allotment Plan Hoping for Compromise. 4) By the Associated Press. The Senate Agriculture Committee today considered but failed to agree on limiting the “domestic allotment” farm relief bill to cotton and wheat, and striking out all acreage reduction pro- visions. Committee members said the trend was toward confining the bill to wheat and cotton. “This would add also to the adminis- trative simplification of the act,” said Chairman McNary, Republican, of Ore- gon. On elimination of the bill's provisions for requiring 20 per cent curtailment of production before a farmer would be- come eligible to receive a bounty, the committee was divided. Chairman McNary said he thought the committee also would eliminate “parity” provisions of the present bill which sets forth a_complicated method of bringing agricultural products to their pre-war ratio with commercial commodities. Average Price Urged. Instead, he said, it now has been pro- posed to simply take the average price of the farm Emduct between 1909 and 1914 and make the bounty an amount mm":‘i::n to bring the present price up to figure. McNary himself = suggested this change, pointing out that five pages of the present bill are devoted to complex directions for finding the parity value. Meanwhile congressional approval of & bold Democratic plan for easing the burden on debt-laden farmers was pre- dicted in some quarters despite a stir of opposition to its sweeping character. Companion to the allotment meas- ure, the mortgage plan calls for a Nation-wide system of “conciliation commissioners” to scale down by agree- ments between creditor and debtor the billions of dollars which the farmers owe. The proposal, sprung on Congress yesterday by the Democratic leader of the Senate, Robinson of Arkansas, is the second major phase of the farm re- llef program advanced by the big ag- Ticultural organizations and backed by President-elect Roosevelt. mnytvm m&:: to nyhfi.m debt nd’-l justment legislation would have a mucl better chance for enactment this ses- which, = it reports hat i!:lt‘mlill, 3 enf ve it, .mm:nmmunma pass. Mr. Hoover himself in a special mes- sage to Congress asked for emergency legisiation to liberalize the bankruptcy laws so that individuals, ons Trailroads and could the better work out their difficulties and continue in business. Opposition ' Expected. HOUSE GROUPHITS - LASS BANK BILL Steagall Committee Sees Lit- tle Chiance to Get Approval of Measure. By the Associated Press. | Branch banking provisions of the | Glass bill before the Senate were as- | sailed at a meeting today of the House Banking Committee, whose chairman, Steagall of Alabama, said branch bank- ing “is a means of further centralizing control of currency.” Others joining in criticism of branch banking were Representatives Golds- borough, Democrat, of Maryland, and McFadden, Republican. of Pennsylvania. “There is not the slight that this bill will go anywhere except to this committee if it passes the Senate,” M eproschtaitve Breedy, Republican, of e e o Maine, said the Glass bill “is very com- plicated and this committee could not .c;::‘lgsler all its provisions at this ses- “I think it might better be for more ems legislation, and then we could start on the Gilass bill next session,” Beedy said. Night Semsion Suggested. Meanwhile the Senate saw little prospect of obtaining action on the Glass measure until next week, when night sessions might be resorted to in an effort to wear down the opposition. ‘The unanimous consent agreement entered into voluntarily after cloture was rejected has been termed meaning- less, in view of the opposition taking advantage of its provision allowing half an hour debate on each of the tens of amendments in the offing. The chances seem to be in favor of the opposition determined to go ahead with filibuster tactics, with Senators Long of Louisiana and Thomas of Oklahoma. It was Senator Thomas who came to the front yesterday with a declaration that he would use his every power to prevent a vote and defled the Senate to invoke the cloture rule. Untamed by Thursday night's talk with President-elect Roosevelt, Long yesterday renewed his fight against the bill and his continued revolt against his party’s leadership in the Senate, but denied he was filibustering. He tried to gain time at the close of the day by asking that the Senate recess until Monday, omitting today's session. He appealed for the week end holiday on the ground that “seven or eight Senators have gone to Muscle Shoals” with Mr. Roosevelt and that he thought they should be in the Senate for the debate. - Agreement Meaningless. “I don’t think they’ll miss A Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, author of the bill in dispute, grimly re- torted. He announced he would insist (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) MRS. ROOSEVELT CHANGES Plans to Leave Plane for Railway Because of Storm. CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 21 (#).— Alrport officials announced today that the plane carrying Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt from Newark to Chicago was speeding up its schedule to reach Cleve- land by 12:35 p.m., Eastern standard time. The wife of the President-elect will be rushed to the Linndale suburban station of the New York Central to board N. Y. C. train No. 151 at 12:5¢ pm. The exchange was made Muu of bad weather west m service. The only evening peper in Washington with the Auoc' iated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 120,445 L2 (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. LEAGUE COMPROMISE REJECTED BY JAPAN; JEHOL AGAIN BOMBED Manchukuo Premier Reported Killed and' Muto Wounded at Changchun. CHINESE GOVERNMENT SENDS 250,000 MEN TO “WAR ZONE” Tuan Rejects Move for Monarchy. Uchida Warns Nanking to Stay Out of Province. GENEVA, January 21 (/.—The League of Nations committee of nineteen today rejected as unacceptable Japan’s reply to its proposal for conciliation of the Sino-Japanese dispute and agreed to proceed immediately with a report and recommenda- tions regardless of Japan’s views. SHANGHALI, January 21 (?.—There were persistent reports here today that Chang Hsia-Hsu, premier of Manchukuo, had been killed in a bombing at the Changchun railway station and that Gen. Muto, supreme representative of apan in Man- chukuo, had been seriously injured. It was impossible to verify the reports immediately because of the Japanese censorship on press dispatches. By the Associated Press. For the third time this week Japanese military planes bombed Chinese troops today in the Kailu district in Northeast Jehol Province in an attempt to break up concentrations of a reported army of 33,000. Heavy punishment was inflicted. Authoritative sources in Geneva said the Japanese government rejected all essential points of the League of Nations Committee of Nineteen's compromise proposal for conciliation of the Manchurian dispute. A rupture between the League and Japan was considered imminent. A Tokio dispatch said the Japanese government failed to instruct its delegates to give a definite “yes” or “no,” League proposals. as requested, to the It offered acce{)tance providing invitations to the United States and Russia to part: icipate were omitted. The Chinese Nationalist government was reported strengthening military garrisons on the coast and in the great Yangtze Valley. Thousands of troops—some reports said a querter of a million—were reported being sent into the North China war zone. Japanese efforts to induce former President Tuan Chi-Jul to set up an op were reporte; ciations with ition government in Peiping and split China in half to have failed. Tuan, long credited with close asso- the Japanese, was reported to have gone to Nanking to offer his services to the Chinese Nationalist government. Foreign Minister Ul eventualities” if it he described as “an CAPITAL TOPS LIST INDRY INFORMERS $18,000 Spent Here as Com- pared With $49,500 for Nation at Large. More money is spent by the Federal Government for “stool pigeons” at $5 a day on prohibition cases in Washing- ton than anywhere else in the country, but this expense, in the opinion of Pro- hibition Director Woodeock, should be transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department. This was made public today in testi- | mony that developed during hearings an prohibition before the subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropria- tions during consideration of the De- partment of Justice appropriation bill. Repeated and lively clashes took place between Representative George W. Tinkham, militant Republican wet, of Massachusetts, on the one side, and Attorney General Mitchell and Director of Prohibition Woodcock on the other, with Hzplr’iu;mhnve Thomas L. Bhn‘t;m occasionally coming to a vigorous de- fense of prohibition. Sharp differences developed over the alleged number of speakeasies in Wash- ington and whether liquor could be ob- | tained on five minutes’ notice at the leaing local hotels. Police Paid 69 Informers. pestedly SraEred o 1 heasing by Tepea y Representative Tinkham. It was finally developed that this type of “informer™ is used more generally here than any other part of the country. In response to questions by Tinkham, Col. Woodcock submitted the informa- tion that the Metropolitan Police De- partment here employed a total of 69 “stool pi " during the fiscal year 1982, paying them $18,000, which even- tually was paid out of Federal funds. The total sum spent for “stool 3 throughout the country, including spe- cial agents, was only $49,500. “Those are special employes,” ex- plained Col. Woodcock, “who are given temporary contracts because they have some special information or knowledge which they wish to sell to the Govern- ment. They are the group which you (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) By the Associated Press. ‘OMAHA, Nebr., January 21.—A funny GEN. HAGOOD MAKES GRAND SLAM, BUT DUMMY TAKES ALL 13 TRICKS Gen. Hines Leads Into Two-Suiter and Bidder Discards Seven Honor Cards. Gen. Hagood, khowing no such word as retreat, promptly shouted, “Seven no trump.” £ political ambition by | achievements of the Independence Mis- ‘ashington, - chld:h w;med China aglams‘t ""uxlllfortunate le Japanese campaign in Jehol, which tegral part” of Manchukuo. LEAGUE BREAK LOOMS. GENEVA, January 21 (#).—1It was learned from an authoritative source to- day that the Japanese Government’s re- sponse to the League of Nations Com- mittee of Ninetcen's compromise pro- Pposal on conciliation of the Manchurian dispute was received and that it rejects all enefn.hl points of the committee's proposal. The rupture between the League and .hp:n, therefore, was considered immi- nent. The committee asked Japan to with- draw other objections Eh! plan for setlement if the League agreed with Japan that the United States and Rus- sia should not be invited to participate in a conciliation. Japan also objected to the resolutions declaring its activity in | Manchuria was not legitimate self-de- fense and that the inhabitants of that territory did not support the Manchu- kuo Government. UCHIDA WARNS CHINA. ‘TOKIO, January 21 (#).—The Jap- anese government instructed its Geneva delegates today to offer acceptance of the latest League formula for settle- ment of the Sino-Japanese dispute, omitting invitations to the United States and Russia to join the concilia- '.lo;lh efforts. e government wms hopeful that the relinquishment of several Japanese demands would bridge the gap between Japan and the committee. (Japan also objected to inclusion of the Lytton Commission’s conclusions in the League resolution, stating Japan's military ac- tion in Manchuria was not in “seif-de- fense” lndt that Manchukuo was not a government supported by the majorit; of Manchurians.) bl While an army order was summon- ing recruits for Manchurian service— authorities said it would increase the military strength in that territory by 50 per cent to about 60,000 troops—For- eign Minister Uchida warned China against “invading Jehol.” (Jehol is regarded by the Japanese as part of Manchuria and they have announced intentions of annexing it to the Manchukuo state. Jehol was an ancient Chinese province and Jehol City was Summer capital of the dragon throne Emperors. It was created a special administrative state in 1928 un- der a governor, Gen. Tang Yu-Lin, ad- hering to Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, Manchurian ruler. Marshal Chang was driven out of Manchuria a year ago and (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) INDEPENDENCE BILL FLAYED BY QUEZON “Detrimental to Every Possible Interest,” He Says—Commis- sion Called Home. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, January 21.—Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and powerful itical in the islands, todaj wrmp:(: the in et ence bill recent! Asserting that he was actuated en- t‘trely by principle, Quezon termed “groundless and unfair” what he said ‘were hints his opposition was caused by snd jealousy of in Wi , D. C, which fa- vored The would the bill Senator said rejection of the act not be construed as inconsistency Q!m;nhlimmudhom to return to Manila with- Wlflc{‘wmm‘mmmm tting independence Mission at sion or the Wi mmmm » to 005 for the United Biates Marcn 13, PR e i e Radio 'r§evams on Page B-l‘