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A—2 sux JAPAN' REJECTS L FAGUE PROPOSAL Jehol Again Bombed—Pre- mier of Manchukuo Reported Killed, Muto Hurt. (Continued From First Page) now is military ruler of North China. Jenol is generally considered part of Inner Mongolia, under Chinese sov- ereignty.) MONARCHY MOVE FAILS. Tuan Won't Attempt to Set Up Buffer Government. TIENTSIN, China, January 21 (P).— Chinese reports said today desperate efforts by Japanese military leaders to induce Marshal Tuan Chi-Jui, former President of China, to set up an opposi- tion government and pave the way for the return of the Emperor had failed. Marshal Tuan and other prominent opponents of the present Nanking regime were reported to have gone to the capital to assist the government in its present crisis. | They were accompanied, the report said, by a representative of Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, military chief of the Na- tionalist government. Gen. Chiang was said to have invited them to Nanking. Wu Kwang-Hsin, former minister of war and Governor of Honan, and other prominent An-Fuites, opponents of the Nationalists, were reported accompany- Tuan. mgChineSE considered the developments of the utmost importance because of the alleged efforts of Japanese military leaders to induce him to set up a buflerl government at Peiping, the ancient capital. PLANES BOMB CHINESE. Japanese Flyers Raid Kailu District of Jehol. TUNGLIAO, Manchuria, January 21 | (®)—For the third time this week, Japanese airplanes raided and ‘bombed Chinese troop concentrations early today in the Kailu distr'lltit'-:g :::l:y\ v . The planes infiic g{l:‘l;?‘li:en(.l it ?\‘axreported at this ry . J‘}’;'fiis?“d’ei‘?-m their air raids into the Chinese administrative state were %o forestall raids upon three railroads centering at this point and to forestall an attack on this city. 250,000 CHINESE MASSED. Rushes Troops Into “War Area.” SHANGHAI, January 21 (#)—China, as represented by the Nationalist party government leaders at Nanking, ap- peared becoming increasingly appre- Thensive today regarding possible future | developments in the Sino-Japanese dis- | Pl v “defense Is launched various mg-ems.' such as the alleged strengthen- ing of military garrisons on the Yellow | Sea Coast and the Yangtse Valley—the | Tiver is traversed 150 miles by 0ceel | Jessels to such large cities as Nanking Hankow. .n'(!i‘huusands of troops were rcpxzrvzed being sent into the North China “wat | srea Reports said the Nationalist| government was moving northward| from Honan, South Chihli and Shan- tung Provinces huge numbers of troops, estimated at 250,000 men. 250,000 Men Rushed. movements continued, but con- sezx?:iive opinion considered the re-| ported quarter million to be an exag- ion. ge-rrak:e Tecent weeks witnessed a stress- | ing of .aviation development in chu;:‘ and great enthusiasm swept the public | as a movement began, under official | direction, for the purchase of airplanes. | Gifts of planes also have been offered | for the national air force. | The Nationalist government an-| nounced that next week, I:.).eglnnlngi Monday, will be national ‘aviation week,” during which the government | will seek to “further stir public interest | in the necessity of strengthening the nation’s air forces.” U. S. CONSULATE PERILED. Government 150 Alleged Leaders of Singer smn‘ Arrested. YOKOHAMA, January -21 un.-zn} order to prevent demonstration which police said Singer Sewing Machine Co. strikers and other members of the All- - | Japan Federation of Labor planned to ntapl:t against the American consulate and the hotel in which Singer officials are living, the Yokohama police arrest- ed for temporary detention 150 alleged leaders. The police said they also persuaded 300 other would-be demonstrators who gathered in Yokohama public park to sperse. dlvvednuda_v a mob of disgruntled em- ployes of the Singer company in ‘Yoko- hama wrecked the branch office build- | ing there, destroying equipment and fur- | niture as well as valuable records. Amer- jcan Ambassador Joseph C. Grew re- quested the Japanese government to make an immediate investigation and to provide adequate police protection for American life and property. HOUSE GROUP HITS GLASS BANK BILL’S BRANCH PROVISIONS (Continued From First Page.) on night mmn;fl nelxt :/zek in an ef- fort to hasten a final vote. Thus the Senate slid back into the | rut_of inaction in which the filibuster had trapped it for eight days, and found the voluntary agreement for lim- jtation of debate, reached Thursday, after a move for cloture had failed, was virtually meaningless. Under this arrangement debate has been restricted to one hour for each Senator on the bill itself and & half- hour on each amendment. A check-up | revealed that 63 amendments were pend- ing. Thus with only four Senators par- ticipating in the filibuster the Senate could be tied up for weeks, even if no additional amendments are proposed, and the possible number of these is | almost without limit. Although denying his filibuster was in full swing again, Long initiated no less than six quorum calls during the day and made an attempt, which was blocked by Senator Barbour, Republi- can, ¢~ -w Jersey, to have read a huge T]ne oi telegrams in opposition to the bill. Glass entered no objection because he said the debate-limiting agreement “isn't worth the paper it is written on.” After the Senate adjourned, Glass said he would not be surprized if an- other cloture motion were presented. “quuld vote for it in 15 minutes,” he sald. THREE STATES REMAIN Final Ratifications for “Lame Duck” Amendment Due Soon. Final ratification of the “lame duck” amendment to the Constitution today was expected shortly, the approval of but three more States being necessary. Two States, South Dakota and Ten- - Japanese Commanders LEADING FORCES IN TROUBLED A“.A OF CHINA. includes North Chins M figured in the battle at Shanhaikwan. AJ. GEN. YOSHIMICHI SUZUKI (left) and Lieut. Gen. Kotaro Naka- mura are in the Japanese high command in the troubled area which ind the Province of Jehol. of the 4th Infantry Brigade and Nakamura is commander of the Japa- nese garrison in North China, with headquarters at Tientsin. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Suzuki is commander Both P. Photos. PATRIOTIC PARLEY RIFT STIRS WOMEN Withdrawal of D. A. R. Brings Clash With American Le- gion Auxiliary. By the Associated Press. Withdrawal of the Daughters of the American Revolution from the Women's Patriotic Conference on National De- fense, to be held here January 30, has thrown into & turmoil of talk the whole forefront of women's ‘“peace” and “defense” causes. It brought into sharp clash with the Daughters thei® former co-workers, the American Legion Auxiliary. It started a buzz about inner D. A. R. workings. It won applause from yesterday's clos- ing session on the cause and cure of war conference. On motion of Mrs. William Louise | Dunne, historian general and publicity chairman, the Daughters voted last Oc- tober to withdraw for the year 1933 from the conference, in which hitherto they had been the leaders. Economy Declared Cause. Economy was the reason given in the resolution. Mrs. William Russell Magna, the president. said she had re- ceived hundreds of letters from women saying that, with their own Congress to attend here in April, they could not afford to come to Washington in Janu- ary to talk National defense, a policy w0 which the Daughters are definitely committed anybow. Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn. president of the American Legion Auxiliary, call- ed Mrs. Magna's action a “double cross” and that her group would hold the con- ference whether or mot. - ° In this stand, Mrs. Blackburn was backed by two. past presidents general of the D. A. Ry; who have been aggres- sive in the national defense cause, Mrs. Grace Brosseau apd Mrs. Lowell Fletch- er Hobart. Mrs. Brosseau, who headed the D. A. R. at the time of. the “hiacklist” flare, has accepted ‘the chatrminship of the defense group's Resolution Committee, and Mrs. Hobart will head its Banquet Committee. Declared Further Step. ‘This open split between Mrs. Magna and her predecessors is regarded by those who are acquainted with the D. A. R. as a further step in the course upon which Mrs. Magna firmly set her feet when she falled to reappoint mili- tary-minded Mrs. William Sherman Walker as -national defense chairman. Mrs. Magna's supporters applaud her | for “returning to the original educa- tional and historical objectives.” They say the D. A. R., with its 165,000 mem- bers, is strong enough to “speak for erpanisations:: and® hesides. its fon 5. an e: con- stitution forbids “affliations.” Some frankly feared “injection of the bonus issue” into the coming conference, The Ohio on News said the rea- son the D. A. R. was withdrawing was that it was the American Legion Aux- iliary’s turn to preside, and the D. A. R. “disliked to see another organization presiding in their building.” The conference this year will meet at the Mayflower Hotel. Predictions are freely made that the auxiliary will arrive here in no friendly mood to Mrs. | Magna, and that repercussions of the whole situation will be among the “po- litical undercurrents” of the April Con- tinental Congress of the D. A. R. SMALL HAT HINTS OF BROWN MURDER Headgear That Didn’t Fit Victim Indicates Man Was Present at Shooting. By the Assoclated Prei PALMYRA, N. J, Janusry 21— Failure of servants to identify a hat found in Bradway Brown's garage soon after his body was discovered in the living room of his home indicated, police said today, the presence of at least one other man at the scene the night the young Philadelphia business man was fatally shot. ‘The hat, three sizes smaller than that usually worn by Brown, lay only a few feet from the victim's. At first, the smaller hat was identified by Ellis Parker, chief of Burlington County de- tectives, as having been purchased by Brown by mistake. His wife and two servants, however, said they had never seen it before. Brown. socially prominent treasurer of a printing company, bore two_bullet wounds when Chief of Police Marris Beck of Palmyra found him last Mon- day. Beck insists Brown was killed by “hired assassins,” but Parker has clung to the suicide theory. DEATH TO BE PROBED Autopsy to Be Held on Man Found Liteless in Bath._ An autopsy was to be performed today on the body of E. Warren Wall, Richmond, Va., attorney, who was found dead in a bathtub of hot water yesterday in his room at the Parkside Hotel. One side of the man's body was ne , ratified yesterday. For the last k or 50, ratifications hafe been com- in at the rate of two or scalded, although the hot water was turned off and & small stream of cold water trickled into the tub. HOPES T0 ASSIST HOMELESS YOUTHS Former Judge Lindsey Plans Forest and Mining Camp System. By the Associated Press. A “sort of a glorified Boy BScout movement” is being promoted here by Ben B. Lindsey of Los Angeles, former Denver Juvenile Court judge, as & way to aid idle and homeless youths. Lindsey, who has been talking the matter over with Senators Cutting, Re- publican, of New Mexico; Costigan, Democrat, of Coloradc; La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, and others, has a plan in mind of getting the boys into the Placer Mining Camp areas of old gold rush days, there to earn a few dollars in producing what he smilingly terms a ‘“non-competitive” procuct. = Or they could be put into the forests or somewhere else where they could work, he said. Seeks Federal Aid. “The Government could grubstake these boys, or the States could do it with Pederal aid” Lindsey explained. | “They could be kept in concentration camps, with Army equipment fur- nished, along with discipline—but I don't think much of the latter would be_ needed.” Lindsey, whose 28 years of work in the Juvenile Court won him fame, smil- ingly conceded ‘“there are lots of de- talls to b> ‘orked out.” Whether it would be piactical he has not deter- mined definitely. But it's an idea that he feels merits | consideration. Lindsey said he talked it | over some days ago with President-elect Roosevelt, adding he felt the incoming | Chief Executive was “most sympathetic” toward anything that could aid the | youth of the country. “He suggested I come to Washington | and discuss it with Senator Cutting and some of the other Senators here who are interested in relief movements,” | Lindsey continued, “so here I am.” Saddened by Sight. “There is no sadder thing now con- nected with the economic depression | than the wastage of the Nation's youth. | On a drive through the West you will see things along the road that tug at your heart. | “What I have in mind is & sort of | glorified Boy Scout movement. It would | mean stopping the development of crim- | inals and possibly help answer the prob- | lem of conserving the young manhood | of the Nation.” | Lindsey saild he expected to attend the hearings Monday before the Sen- ate Manufactures Committee on Cut- ting’s bill for a $15,000,000 grant to the States to aid needy transients. EXHIBIT PAINTINGS REPLACED AT CORCORAN Galleries Reopened to Public Fol- lowing Contemporary American Biennial Display. Items of the American section of the permanent collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art have replaced the pic- tures composing the Thirteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American | Ofl Paintings, which came to an end last Sunday. ‘Within four days after the closing of this display all the more than 300 pic- tures shown, with the exception of those purchased by the gallery to add to its permanent collection, had been shipped back to their entrants and the galleries until recently occupled by them ‘were reopened to the public yesterday. SUPPLY BILLS CUT $5,284,742 UNDER BUDGET FIGURES (Continued From First Page.) under the budget; Atlanta, $920,000, or $54,833 under the budget; McNeil Is- land, Wash. $406400, or $15,037 less than the budget: Northwestern Peni- tentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., $40,277 less than budget, or $493,000; the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson. W. Va. $285,700, or $2,684 under the budget: the Industrial Re- formatory at Chiilicothe, Ohio, $543,- 000, YAI“. a reappropriation of $150,000, in place of the budget requests for $752,528; the Southwestern Penitentiary at El Reno, $24,835 less than the budget, or $263,000; the Defective Delinquents Hospital at Springfleld, Mo., $311,500, plus a reappropriation of $145,000, against the budget request of $616,530; Federal Correctional Camp at Eustis, Va. $10,251 less than the budget, or $236,000; Reformatory Camp, Peters- burg, Va. $10,601 under the budget, or $232,000. There was allowed $600,000 for Fed- eral jails, the reduction of $209,201 under budget estimates representing the amount the committee disallowed for the proposed jail at Sandstone, Minn. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmermann, dmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant: March, “Old Comrades”..........Teike Hungarian overture, “Lustspiel,” Keler-Bela Entr'acte, “In & Chinese Temple Gar- S et o lbey .Kocian aday.' He was found by & maid st the hotel. ‘ POLICE CLAIM FIVE CONFESS HOLD-UP Five Others Detained in Probe of Death of One Man and Wounding of Another. (Continued From Pirst Page.) colored men, who seized his taxi after forcing him to drive them to Rockville. Earlier in the day, however, a look- out for him had been broadcast to all precincts after it was learned he for- merly was employed as a laborer at the new House Office Building, where the pay roll was to have been distrib- uted among employes of the Browning Painting Co. ‘of Brooklyn, N. Y., sub- contractors on the construction job. Moving swiftly to clean up the case, headquarters detectives, working under the direction of Capt. Thompson and Detective Sergt. H. ‘Wilson, head of the homicide squad, rounded up 14 persons, including the 5 reported have admitted participation in the rob- bery scheme. Four of those arrested, all colored men, were released after questioning. Those held, tbulw" the half dozen named as actual nts in the plot, included: pegvine Mrs. Odessor Workman, 18, colored, wife of one of the alleged gunmen, and Thomas R. Cash, 31, a fourth brother. A 32-year-old woman, found with Blackwell in an apartment in the 100 block of Fourth street southeast, also was taken into custody, but Capt. Thompson sald she probably would be released. Pending the coroner's inquest, Capt. Thompson declared all six of the al- leged plotters probably would be charg- ed vli(lithbemlllxrldder 'Cli?e l:%hcn. he added, woul eld until the two guns used in the shooting are recovered. Templeton, according to Capt. Thompson, said a .32 caliber revolver, used by one of the colored men, was turned over to him and he, in turn, passed it on to Oscar Cash. othe gun, a .25 caliber automatic, previ- ously had been given to Cash, who, Capt. Thompson said, disposed of both weapons. Weapons Not Found. Capt. Thompson was told, hie repo:.- ed, that Cash threw the guns in an alley near Buchanan street and G- orgia avenue. A search of the alley failed to disclose any trace of the weapons, how- ever. The hold-up, according to the con- fessions, as outlnied by Capt. Thomp- son, originally was planned for last week. At that time, Capt. Thompson said, Al- bert Cash, Workman, Blackwell’ and Myers drove to the vicinity of the new House Office Building, prepared to stage the hold-up, but abandoned the scheme when they found two policemen in the neighborhood. They returned yesterday, howevcr, Capt. Thompson related, Myers and Workman stationing themselves at the corner of New Jersey avenue and C street southeast to await the coming of Ecklund and Stumm. Albert Cash, according to Capt. Thompson, drove to New Jersey avenue and D street southeast, wWhere he let Blackwell out of his cab. With Black- well standing on the corner, ready to signal completion of the hold-up, Cash | parked his taxi on D street. As Ecklund and Stumm, both resi- dents of Brooklyn, N. Y. walked up New Jersey avenue from their rooming house at 309, Mvers and Workman, ac- cording to the statements outlined by Capt. Thompsof, stood in readiness. When Ecklund and Stumm, who were carrying the }ny roll in their kets and heading for the new Housé Office Building, reached the corner, Myers |and Workman ordered them to “Stick ‘em up!” Instead of complying, Ecklund and Stumm continued walking, the latter laughing at what he apparently thought was a joke. Without another word, the | two gunmen opened fire almost simul- chest, directly below the heart, and the other entering Stumm’'s abdomen. The wounded men were rushed to Providence Hospital where Ecklund was pronounced dead and Stumm under- went an emergency operation. Stumm still was in a critical condition today. Both Myers and Workman, according to Capt. Thompson, admitted shooting the painting company employes, but each insisted he did not know which man he had shot. They did not know one of their victims was dead, Capt. Thompson said, until informed by the assistant detective chief this morning. Following the shooting. according to the confession outlined by Capt. Thompson, Blackwell signalled Albert Cash, who drove his taxicab into New Jersey avenue as Myers and Workman fled south on that thoroughfare. At the corner of D street Myers and Work- b, meanwhile, had fled on foot. ‘Wil Measure Bullet. Albert Cash, according to Capt. Thompson, admitted having originated the hold-up plot, after he had been laid off at the new House Office Building and accepted a job as a taxi driver. He and Blackwell, Capt. Thompson de- clared, planned the hold-up in detail, | arranging with Myers and Workman, who wore overalls in an effort to make identification difficult, to perpetrate the actual robbery. Ecklund and Stumm, at the time of the shooting, had just finished pre- paring the pay roll and were on their way to the new House Office Building to distribute the money to the em- ployes of the painting company. Eck- lund, according to J. P. Aylor, pro- prietor of the rooming house where the two painting company employes lived, had a wife and daughter in Brooklyn. Stumm also & wife there, Aylor said. ‘Those arrested gave the following ad- dresses: Albert, Howard, Oscar_and Thomas Cash, 4500 block of Ninth street; Workman, 100 block of D street south- east; Templeton, 4500 block of Ninth street; Myers, 1900 block of Fourteenth street, and Blackwell, 100 block of Fourth street southeast. Arrests were made by Thompson, Wilson and Lieut. John H. Fowler, and Detective Sergts. John C. Dalglish, Jerry Plaherty, George Darnall, Elmer Lewis, Walter 8. Beck and Dennis J. Murphy, assisted by other headquarters men. |WOODCOCK DEFENDS EXPENSE TO U. S. IN SEARCH FOR ROBINS (Continued From First Page.) that the complaint apparently gave authority to find “those bootleggers. “Suppose Bishop Cannon should dis- appear,” questioned Representative Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts, long an ent of the prohibition you feel that you could spend public funds to find him?” “Oh, no, not at all,” Woodcock re- “I believe you missed the point that this was s complaint by a citizen g:nmmy stating that her husband had the ” ‘violal of the might become, instead Prohibition, s Bureau for the of Missing Prohibitionists,” rejoined. The prohibition director answered that itly was some basis for the Bl v ot vy much money” i we very mi T |Picturesque British Banker ¢l it might be reported out within a week. the shot that killed the paymaster. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933, Six Men Held in Pay Roll Murder Round-Up Pive of the six men above have confessed, the police announced today, to a part in the attempted hold-up and mur- der of Edward Ecklund, a paymaster employed on the new House Office Building. Left to right: Albert E. Cash, driver | of the taxicab which sped away with the murderers; Clyde E. Templeton, who admitted that he helped dispose of the gun used in the murder; Oscar Cash, brother of Albert, who denies he aided in hiding the gun; Everett Blackwell, who, the police say, acted as lookout for the hold-up men, and Claude Myers and Fewell Workman, who confessed that they fired —Star Staff Photo. MONTAGU NORMAN WEDS AND VANISHES Springs Surprise After En- gagement News. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, January 21.—Great Brit-| ain’s chancellor of mystery, picturesque' | Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, sprang the latest suxpr\sei this morning when his marriage w‘ Miss Priscilla Worsthorne followed within a few hours the announcement of their engagement. | Just 17 minutes after the marriage could legally occur today he arrived at the dingy Chelsea district registry office for the ceremony. While Mr. Norman rolled up quite openly in & salon car, | his flance's arrival was more secret. | So was the disappearance of the bride | and bridegroom after they were mar- | ried. They slipped quietly out of a back door and vanished. Speculation on Date. The newspapers of London were still | resounding with news of the engage- | | ment of the 61-year-old banker to his | 33-year-old flance, and speculation as | | to the probable date of their marriage | | was still being indulged in at London | breakfast tables when the ceremony was | performed. With Mr. Norman, when he | entered the side door of the register's | office, was an_elderly woman, believed | | to be his mother, another woman rel- ative, and Sir Mark Collett, uncle of the bridegroom. | A few persons in ‘the register's office | 'got & hurried glimpse of the Bank of | | England’s governor as he dashed into| | the office pulling the collar of his heavy fur coat about his ears. How the bride | reached the office is still a mystery Shortly after she arrived, Sir Mark and tored away to & destination which was not divulged. Day Away From Business. Mr. Norman did not go to any busi- ness yesterday, remaining in the coun- | try where it was stated he was “slightly | unwell.” Mrs. Norman, who is a daugh- | ter of Lady Alice Reyntiens, with whom she lived in Cadogan square, spent yes- terday at the county hall—she being a | member of the London County Council | —and visiting welfare clinics in which she takes great interest. Mr. Norman's proverbial delight in playing the game of “metaphysical hide and seek,” caused him to neglect to tell | even his housekeeper of the proposed ‘wedding, not to mention his colleagues at the bank. AGREEMENT F.AILS AS SENATORS STUDY FARM ALLOTMENTS (Continued From First Page.) his creditors with a view to preserving the best interests of both either by ad- justing downward the farmers’ inbedt- edness or extending it over a period of years. Local men familiar with the farmers of their section, their reputations and individual troubles, as well as those of their creditors, would be employed as conciliation commissioners. ‘They would function in all of the Nation’s 2,911 agricultural counties. One commissioner in each judicial dis- trict would be paid a salary, but others would serve without compensation ex- cept for an allowance of $7 a ex- penses and 5 cents a mile for traveling. The farmer seeking an adjustment through the conciliation commission would be protected against mortgage foreclosure during the pendency of the proceedings. An emergency measure, th:'gdeflllltlm would cover a five-year period. In presenting his plan to the Senate, Robertson said the number of farmers who would seek this relief from their debts would be beyond the power of the pres:{n bankruptcy referee system to handle. In reply to critics, proponents of the legislation already have pointed out the plan involves use of many existing facilities in order to save expense and that the advice of the conciliation commissioner would be available free of charge to the farmer, thus saving him the legal expegses involved in bankruptey. P! That the presence of President-elect Roosevelt in the city Thursday and Friday gave new impetus to the farm vellef campaign became more evident today. In a talk with Senator McNary, Re- publican of chairman of the Senate Roosevelt made it clear that he wants the domestic allotment bill passed at the present session even though Presi- dent Hoover kills it with & veto. The committee took it up again today. Sen- Democratic member, told reporters that CUBA AND CHILE AGREE HAVANA, Cuba, Jani 21 (P)—A modus vivendi between Cuba and Chile whereby 10,000 tons of Cuban sugar will enter South American country of duty in exchange for tariff conces. sions of 50 per cent on certain Chilean products, was announced by the Department of State. ‘The agreement, v:‘t:lch expire May 31, opens the s formal com- mercial mum two nations, Secretary of 4 said, lender. '~ | the two ladies emerged and departed, | taneously, one bullet piercing Ecklund's |y ¢ the newly weds had already mo_‘sco Oregon, Agricultural Committee, M. | 17 ator Smith of South Carolina, ranking | o free | in relief activities. ADMIRERS ACCLAIM SCOTTI AS HE ENDS OPERA CAREER Metropolitan Star for 33| Years Deluged With Flow- ers and Kisses. Tibbett, Sitting in Box, Gets| Up and Sings “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” BY DALE HARRISON, Associated Press Staff Writer, NEW YORK, January 21.—“Too many kisses. . . . Too many flowers. I am an old fool. I laugh ...and I tonio Scotti. Flowers? They bloomed everywhere about his dressing room late yesterday , with the singing of Chim-Pen, in ‘L'Oracolo,” he sald adieu to his pub- lic—a public of 33 Metropolitan Opera seasons. Kisses? They rained upon his cheeks | still yellow with the grease of his hatch- et-man role. “May I kiss you?" cried | the women, some young, many old.| “Dear Scotti!” they murmured, crush- | ing forward. “Sweet Scotti! May you live forever!™ | Scotti laughed and cried. It is not easy to have so many friends. | There was Geraldine PFarrar. ' They embraced happily, for they were pals: Scotti, Farrar and Caruso—t! had been three great friends. Greeted by Marcells Sembrich. | ‘There was Marcella Sembrich, she who had sung with Scotii that long | 2go night of 1899. whcu Scotui made | his debut at th- Metropoiitan in “Don | Giovanni.” Sne came in on the arm | of Morris Gest. She kissed hii: on the | cheek, her arms about his shoulders. | “Ah, Scottl, you are an ist always,” she said. “You couldn't have been better than today. anytime.” | Great tribute from a star to a star.| 'Ve never sung as well‘ Through the throngs came a younger man. Scotti saw him, and through | the make-up of the sinister Chim-Fen | he smiled happily and shouted: “Ah, Larry, you o' son of a gun!” | And Lawrence Tibbett, now at the | zenith of his own operatic career, re- | plied: “You old son of & gun. I started my, career, with you. You can't.” Tibbett Sings From Box. Not long before, as the final curtain had fallen on “L'Oracolo” and as the | crowd was holding Scotti for 30 minutes of curtain calls, Lawrence Tibbett, sit-| ting in a box, had risen and in the deep baritone which only the night be- fore had sung the role of “Emperor Jones” from the same stage, he sang: “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow.” And soon many other voices in the | audience joined with that of Tibbett's| in singing: o “For He's & Jolly Good Fellow. The famous theater was so packed with people that during the per- formance of “L'Oracolo” the doors to the auditorium could not be closed. Genlus and wealth and music apprecia- tion were represented. Spirit of Caruso Present. Present, too, was the spirit of Scot- ti's dearest friend, Enrico Caruso, and the memortes of Nellie Melba, Lillian Nordica, Edouard De Reszke and that other notable company of golden voiced men and women who had sung with Scotti there. Finally Scott!, his h’:udkr!-u removed, was ready to leave ing room— leave it I%rever. It had been a day of such happiness as comes only to him who has done well his life’s work. “For 33 years I have dressed here,” he said. “Thirty-three years. Sad? Yes. Like a last kiss....like a first prayer for the dead.” 30 REPORTED DEAD IN MEXICAN BLAST Twenty Houses Destroyed as Auto Blaze Spreads to Dynamite Storehouse at Morelia. You mustn't go away. | By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 21.—Latest advices received here today were that at least 30 persons were killed yesterday in an explosion and fire in Morelia, about 125 miles nortiwest of Mexico At. least 20 houses were L, The disaster was caused > chauffeur lighted s lamp while filling the gasoline tank of his car. The nloa Staining 40 ynamite. The building and all machinery housed in it were de- e Fire rpret‘d to ne:rr:by houses o Ay SR T VR, o —— Nazi Leader Is Slain. DUESSELDORF, .. January 21 (#)—Communists, -w of Nazis, last night shot and - Nelm Wetekamp, & Naxl storm troop ANTONIO_SCOTTIL REACTION T DEBT PLAN IS FAVORABLE Britain Expected to Accept. Bid—Prime Minister Mac- Donald May Come to U. S. (Continued Prom First Page) closer on many questions of vital for- eign relations. However, any new agreements or al- terations of existing obligations must be approved by Congress. In that con- nection it was observed that Mr. Roose- velt has considered the calling of a special session about mid-April. This circumstance conceivably could result in congressional approval of a new debts basis before June 15, the next payment date, when $144,000,000 is due from the debtor countries. Lump Payfnent Suggested. One plan for British settlement that has been advanced in many quarters | suggests a lump payment of about a billion dollars. Whether such a prop- asition might be put forward by British envoys remains to be seen. In her two notes prior to December 15, in which she asked for debt revi- sion, Great Britain sald future pay- ments under existing agreements would be impossible and at the same time closely linked world economic subjects. However, it has been forecast that the prospective debts discussion would be kept physically separate from the con- versations on means of improving the world economic situation. An entirely separate group probably will deal with t‘:e British delegation on economic mat- TS, +M’'DONALD MAY COME TO U. 8. LONDON, January 21 (#).—A trip by] Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to discuss the war debt was seen as a possibility today as a Tesult of the inyitation emanating from the Roosevelt-Hoover conference in Washington. The announcement that Mr. Roose- velt would welcome a British delegation early in March or as soon as ible after he takes office brought forth spec- ulation by political observers that the prime minister might go himself. There was no officlal announcement of the British plans. ‘When the Britsh government made its December payment to the United States, with the unilateral refervations that the $95,500,000 should be credited to a future settlement, political ob- servers immediately considered an Anglo-American debt parley would be scheduled early this year. FRANCE WILL MARK TIME. PARIS, January 21 (#).—The policy of Prance with regard to negotiations on the American debt will await the results of negotiations between the United 8 cial at the foreign office sal “It is natural,” he said, Roosevelt should deal with' the British first, for they are the largest debtors. Under the present conditions the open- ing of negotiations with France will be & délicate matter, but more of a political than an economic nature. “At_present the Government does not intend to take any steps and the opin- fon of Parliament remains against the payment of the installment due last De- cember 15, situation between our two countries is like that between two friends who have had sharp words— :;‘%n’:w"‘““' for ‘the other to come ROME HAILS DECISION. ROME, January 21 (#).—Washing- ton's decision to resume discussion of the debts with Great Britain has pro- voked great interest here. The news- papecs printed the story of the Hoover. Roosevelt meeting, but there was no editorial comment. In official circles it was sald the government will follow these negotia- tions closely in view_of the bearing may l;n’vne upon mg'n pmeeduret. teresting to governmen was the fact that the deci- 'ashington was interget i Sifnent of & it of last Decem- LA A ) and England, a high offi-" o of | oslooked ‘The SINGER OFFICIAL HITS U.S. EMBASSY Critic, Believed British, Says Diplomatic Agency Has Been “Too Tolerant.” BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Radio to The Star. ‘TOKIO, Japan, January 21.—A news- paper article quoting an official of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in Japan as criticizing the American embassy here for being “too tolerant” in con- nection with organized assaults against the firm's premises by strikers, espe- clally the Yokchama incident this week, further increased the acrimony in the company’s controversaries today. While the article designates the speaker as an “official of the company,” it 18 no secret here that the critic of the conduct of the American Govern- ment is one of the Britishers who di- rect the company’s affairs here as well as in the rest of the world. His chief complaint is that, though the embassy made frequent representa- tions to the Japanese government since the trouble started, the embassy should have reported with greater frequency to & company of such importance as the Singer. Manager Is Canadian. Richard McCleary, general man: for the Orient here :m“ the Shilgill: Co.’s troubles started, is a Canadian, while E. F. Walker, general manager for Japan, is an Englishman, A. K. Aurell, Yokohama manager, is an American and the heads of the branches in other Japanese and Korean cities are divided be_tgleenA m:‘ two mx:cnamm, e American embassy has repeated- ly asked the lelng«u lut;fn.'iflts through the foreign office to protect the company's property and its employes’ lives. However, it had refused the re- quest of the company to act as mediator with the employes as not being a func- tion of the embassy. It took the same stand toward the request of a_delega- tion of employes asking the embassy to pressure on the company. American authorities also explain that the company did not ask police protection through the American con- sulate general in Yokohama until after the riot started on Wednesday. “There is no reason to expect foreign concerns to have different protection from that afforded the Japanese,” said a spokesman of the foreign office today regarding American Ambassador Joseph C. Grew's latest request to Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida. Developments Expected. As the Japanese Federation of Labor has taken up the strikers’ cause against the company with its $5,000,000 invest- ment in Japan, further lively develop- ments are expected. While the strikers’ demands are pos- | sibly excessive, a compromise is pos- | sible, but the company’s refusal to fol- low this Japanese custom has lost ft considerable popular sympathy. | In the meantime, both sides have | . waging e Jepanese style. SR (Copyright, 1933.) FORD MAY TESTIFY IN AUTOMOBILE SUIT Subpoenaed by Son of W. C. Leland in Case Echoing Receiver Sale Controversy. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 21.—Echoes of | the long-drawn-out controversy bétween | Henry Ford and the family of his for- mer close friend, the late Henry M. Le- land, growing out of the purchase of the Lincoln Motor Co. at & receiver's sale, are to be heard, probably next week, with testimony of Ford himself | & possibility. | Wilfred C. Leland, son of the “grand old man” of the automobile industry | who founded the Lincoln company, dis- closed that a subpoena had been served upon Ford at an old-fashioned dancing party at which Ford was a guest. The summons, Mr. Leland said. was handed to Mr. Ford by his son, Wilfred C. Leland, jr., and not by himself as | previously stated. The subpoena calls upon Ford to appear before a notary to glve testimony in a suit involving the Sweeten Automobile Co. of Philadeiphia, and Ford as purchaser of the Lincoln Motor Co. If Ford does appear to testify it will be the first time in many years he has done so. Ford purchased the Lincoln Motors Co. assets in 1922 for $6,000,000. Some time afterward Henry M. Leland and his son. Wilfrid, started suit against Ford, charging he had falled to carry |out an oral agreement to reimburse | stockholders who were not provided for the recelver's sale. The case dragged through the courts for years, the last decision of the State Supreme Court favoring Ford. Henry M. Leland died last year nearing his 90th birthday anniversary. The esti ent between him and | Ford never Leen healed. NICARAGUA PLACED IN STATE OF SIEGE Only Four Provinces Exempted by Decree—U. S. Marines With- drawn Week. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, January 21.— The entire republic, with the exception of the four Southwestern Provinces of Rivas, Granada, Masays and Carazo, was placed under a state of slege today by decree of the Senate. TUnited States Marines, who had been | stationed in Nicaragua for maintenance of order for several years, were with- drawn only last week, after an orderly election in which Juan B. Sacasa be- came President. ‘There have been reports recently of breaches of discipline in the Nicaraguan National Guard. Two weeks ago a num- ber of officers of the guard were placed under arrest. Approval by the Nicaraguan Chamber tion at Managua. The message said the action had been taken yesterday, A previous message said that on January 18 the Nicaraguan msauu had unanimously approved the Tee. No further details were given. prib i Reon s, ICELOCKED FOR WEEKS KETCHIKAN. Alaska, January 21 (P). o yesterday that their harbor had been for several weeks and - that food suj