Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1933, Page 2

CUTTING MAY WIN CABINET PROFFER Mentioned for Interior Post. Roosevelt Decides to Name a Progressive. By the Associated Press. Recognizing the support of Republi- can independents in the recent cam- paign, President-elect Roosevelt has virtually decided to place one of that group in his cabinet A source close to the incoming Chief Executive let this be known last night and intimated simultancously that Sen- ator Bronson B. Cutting of New Mexico may be offered the portfolio of Secre- tary of the Interior. It was learned also that the Repub- lican insurgent group has been express- | ing to Mr. Roosevelt streng opposition | to proposals that Owen D. Young be named Secretary of State. i Suggest Walsh for Post. They have suggested this post go to &cnator Thomas Walsh of Montana, a Democrat, who has frequently sided with them in the Senate. *oile in Washington last week, | Roosever, ialked cabinet appointments | with Walsh and also with Senator Glass ©of Virginia. The latter was Secretary of the Treas- wry under Woodrow Wilson and in the | Senate has been closely associated with Jegislation pertaining to financial mat-" TS, Walsh, noted as the Senate’s prose- cutor in the investigation of the Hard- ing administration oil scandals, has also been proposed for the Attorney Gen- eralship. The question has been re- peatedly raised in cabinet speculation whether Walsh and Glass would be willing to relinquish their Senate seats. Cutting was one of the first of the Independent. Republican group to an- nounce himself in favor of Roosevelt. When Mr. Roosevelt reacheq New Mexico on his swing to the Far West Cutting appeared on the speaking plat- form with him. The New Mexico Sen- ator declined to comment last night on the possibility of his being offered the cabinet position. In eddition to Glass, another Vir- ginian—Senatcr Swanson—is_ being 1reely discussed as a possibility for Sec- retary of the Navy. Norman Davis Mentioned. Swanson was war-time chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee and is its present ranking Democratic member. He has conferred with the President- elect twice recently and some of those in the confidence of Mr. Roosevelt have pointed out that it would not be un- ‘usual for two cabinet posts to go to the same State. Norman Davis, who has represented the present administration in many foreign discussions and who accom- panied Mr. Roosevelt here for his con- ference with President Hoover, has been among those mentioned as Secre- tary of State. Many believe, however, that if the President-elect is consider- ing him for a major appointment he Wwill be sent abroad, where his contacts would be valuable, possibly to London &s Ambassador. BRITISH CABINET TO TAKE UP DEBT ISSUE TOMORROW (Continued From First Page.) and other international problems at the forthcoming World Economic Confer- ence. The Hoover-Roosevelt communique of Friday announcing the incoming ad- ministration would receive British debt Tepresentations stirred up & torrid Sen- ate debate during the day in which Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, branded as “cheap politics” a charge by Robinson, Indiana Republic- :n. that it was “usurpation of author- ty.” Czech Minister Acts. ‘The Republican contended Congress, with full power on the subject, had “closed the door” to further debt discus- slons, but the Democratic leader re- plied it would “be an act of gross dis- courtesy” for this country to refuse to discuss the question with Great Britain. A parade of other debtor nations to the discussion counter was forecast earlier in the day by a visit of the Czechoslovakian Minister, Ferdinand ‘Veverka, to the Stite Department to find out how his defaulting government could open up the subject. Later he said it was his impression that the door is open to other nations seeking revision a5 well as England. However, Assistant Secretary Bundy, with whom he talked, said Veverka had been given no basis for such an impres- sion and that the State Department would not attempt to interpret the Hoover-Roosevelt statement. Borah, who has long held that the debts should be considered only in con- nection with a program for solution of other world problems, said that Roose- velt's proposal to consider these inter- Dational difficulties “will have a favor- able effect everywhere.” Little Support for Proposal. ‘The Idaho Senator has found little support in the present administration for his proposal to throw the debt ques- tion into a world conference with other international problems, and Roosevelt himself has said in the past that he considered the debtor nations should be handled separately. One of his closest friends on Capitol Hill said yesterday, however, that he felt the negotiations for which the way has now been opened would be purely preliminary to the world economic con- ference and expressed confidence that the President-elect would permit the | debt question to be considered at that | gathering along with other international | €conomic problems. The Indiana Robinson was the first Senator to mention the new debt de- Velopment on the Senate floor. With husky voice, he asserted the Newspaper headlines today indicating | the debt question was to be reopened | were “disturbing to some who believed | Congress had declared its policy on| debts.” He added: “8Since Congress has full authority to declare its policy, it seems scarcely ‘within the powers of the President and the President-elect to alter that policy.” Thought Door Was Closed. Reading a headline that said “Door is opened wide to debt adjustments,” Robinson commented: “We had supposed the door had been definitely closed.” Asserting that the joint Hoover- Roosevelt statement would “give en- couragement to those who owe debts to the United States to default,” Robinson added: “I wish either Mr. Hoover or Mr. Roosevelt would walk out on the street and talk to any 10 Americans, and they would find that 10 out of 10 are op- to transferring these debts to the ks of the American taxpayers.” “I wish the President-elect would concentrate his intellect on how to remedy the situation for the American people and forget about Europe for a moment,” Robinson continued. “Congress has spoken on this ques- tion and there should not be any effort to put its decision aside.” Robinson added that the joint state- ment constituted an “usurpation of authority.” ‘This drew a quick retort from Robin- son, the Democratic leader, who said he agreed with much the Indianan had said, but took exception to his “charge of usurpation of authority.” “I have never known an incident ‘when a courteous application from one Wetion to another for & discussion of ! Cabinet Prospect SENATOR CUTTIN( GEORGE CRAWFORD FIGHTS EXTRADITION Suspect in lisley Murder to Oppose Return to Virginia. Hearing Set Tuesday. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 21.—Plans for the early return to Virginia of George Crawford, 26-year-old colored man, charged there With the slaying of two women, today were upset with the re- fusal of the prisoner to sign extradition papers. Since his identification here several days ago as the man wanted for the killing of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Iisley, Vir- ginia sportswoman, and her maid, Mrs. Nina Buckner, Crawford had indicated a willingness to return to Vi trial. He refused today, how % sign papers presented to him by John Galleher, Commonwealth attorney for Loudoun County, Va., who came here to negotiate his return. ‘When informed of Crawford's stand, Massachusetts officials set da the date of a hearing on Vir- gin request for his return. Craw- ford has denied killing the women, say- ing they were beaten to death by an accomplice known to him only as Charlie Jackson, ¢while they ransacked the Ils- ley cottage near Middleburg, Va., Janu- ary 13, 1932. Gov. Joseph B. Ely was asked by the National Equal Rights League to grant extradition only after a fair trial was guaranteed Crawford. Denial that there was any reason to believe Crawford wouldn't be given a fair trial was made by E. S. Adrian, sheriff of Loudoun County, who came here today with two deputies expecting to take Crawford back immediately. VIRGINIA JUSTICE DEFENDED. Criticism Declared Prompted by Ignor- ance, Prejudice, or Both. RICHMOND, Va. January 21 (#).— Criticism of Virginia as a State “where colored men have for years been vic- tims of lynchings” brought a reply to- night from L. R. Reynolds, director of the Virginia Commission on Inter- racial Co-operation. Commenting on efforts to induce Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts to wanted in Virginia on a murder charge only upon assurance that he would be granted a fair trial, Mr. Reynolds said: “Out of 1,886 lynchings in the United States_from 1900 to 1931, the Negro Year Book, compiled at Tuskegee In- ;(Gltute. shows that Virginia's record is record, but it is hardly fair to single Virginia out as a place where justice is such a stranger as to require a bond that even her worst criminals will be given a fair trial. “Virginia's anti-lynching law, enacted during Gov. Byrd's administration, is classed as the most constructive legisla- tion in recent years and has served as a model for some other States.” _His statement was prompted by criti- cism of Virginia justice voiced by Wil- liam Moore Taylor, secretary of the National Equal Rights League, who is aiding in fighting the extradition of George Crawford, who is wanted in Vir- ginia on a charge of slaying two women near Middleburg in Loudour County. Lieut. Gov. James H. Price in com- menting on Taylor's statement said: “The statement is an unwarranted re- flection upon Virginia and Virghnia jus- tice. It is prompted either by ig-srance or prejudice, perhaps both. The zympa- thetic attitude of Virginia toward her colored people is too well known to re- quire any special comment from me.” —_——— international matters has been denied,” the Democratic Senator said. “It is an erroneous statement of fact, not to say a misrepresentation, to as- sert that it is an usurpation of power.” The Indiana Robinson replied that the negotiations should be conducted through regular diplomatic channels, and the Democratic leader said he was “inclined to believe myself that the diplomatic_agencies are adequate.” Leader Robinson pointed out, how- ever, that any arrangements made by the Executive must be ratified by Con- ess. “The Senator from Indiana,” he said, with rising voice, “is playing cheap politics.” “He is attempting to arouse prejudice against the present President and the incoming President who are co-operat- ing. in a measure, on this subject. “That’s_not the exalted -course to pursue. In the conduct of interna- tional relations it has been the policy of most public men to abstain from partisan action.” The Democratic Senator said Great Britain was contending it could not meet the payments. Entitled to Hearing. “The Senator from Indiana would refuse the courtesy of a hearing,” he added. “It would be time enough for the Senator to impose criticism when the executive authority presents Con- gress with its treaty or its recommen- dation. “It will be entirely too late” the Indiana Senator retorted. “Reduction and cancellation will all be done.” “It would be an act of gross dis- courtesy to refuse such a request from the British government,” Robinson of Arkancas replied. “I think the British government is entitled to a hearing. I recall they got the worst of the bargain when these debt settlements were being made.” Robinson added that a nation in de- fault and able to pay “stands on an en- tirely different basis.” Later the Democratic leader ex- plained that in saying Great Britain “got the worst of the bargain” he | meant in comparison with the French |and Italian settlements. Gets 2 Years for 60 Cents. BUCKHANNON, W. Va., January 21 | P).—Ernie Reed, 25, was sentenced to two years in the State Penitentiary to- day for a 60-cent robbery. Reed con- fessed he filched a dress valued at 50 cents and a glass of jelly valued at 10 cents from a vacant house, where they had been temporarily - stored. next Tues- | grant extradition of a colored man No reasonable citizen, of course, | could or would defend even this low | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 22, 1933 PART ONE SUPPLY BILLS MAY BE LOST CITIZENS OPPOSE BOUTS IN'SCHOOLS Federation Backs Education Board’s Stand by Vote of 44 to 24. ‘The Board of Education’s action in declining to permit the use of high school gymnasiums for amateur box- ing contests was su] last night by the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations. By a vote of 44 to 24, the federation adopted a minority report of its Com- mittee on Education, which declared the public schools were erected pri- marily for educational purposes and should not be used by “outside” or- ganizations for activities denied to puplls. Approval of the minority report was preceded by a protracted debate dur- ing which the delegates alternately of the School Board. Several Women for Bouts. “We recommend,” the report said, “that .l;‘tl:ol npplk:autluu lxor W oo:‘ h sc gymnasiums for - ?e“l'.l be denied by the Board of Edu- cation.” committee’s chairman, Harry N. Stull, and Harvey O. Craver. During the de- bate, which followed its presentation, several of the women delegates sup- ported the stand taken by the three women on the Board of Education, who favored boxing. A resolution from the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association, supporting the Board of Education, formed the basis of the report. Federation’s Committee on Education had considered the boxing matter, it was brought out, the others being absent. By a vote of 27 to 39, the federation | defeated an attempt to recommit the | whole matter to the Committee on Edu- cation. Other Resolutions Adopted. The majority report, signed by A. H. Gregory, L. S. Trundle and C. D. | Franks, said: “Your Committee on Education has considered the accompanying resolu«v tion of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association and a majority of said committee recommends that the reso- lution be disapproved and that the Board of Education be requested to per- mit the use of the gymnasium facilities of the school system for boxing bouts by recognized educational institutions, located in the District of Columbia, pro- vided all contests are governed by the intercollegiate rules.” The federation adopted a number of resolutions from various citizens’ asso- ciations, including: § A proposal to set up a registration basis for professional engineers in the District, as contemplated in pending legislation; that preferential rights be | given to local mechanics and laborers |in work for the District and this be | embodied in future contracts for mu- | nicipal work; that the period of re- | demption of real estate from tax sales | should be extended from two to three | years on all future tax sales as being | | “imperatively nececsary.” It voted down a proposal to set up a commission of five members to maxi- mum selling prices on household com- modities in the District. The high cost of graduation in the high schools of the city also was the subject of extended debate. The fed- eration decided to ask the co-operation of the Education Board in reducing these costs to a minimum. It asked that the board recommend some simple dress for all functions of graduation, in order to save expenses for parents. Airport Resolution Adopted. A resolution introduced by Edwin 8. Hege, protesting against assumption by the District of any financial responsi- bility in the purchase or lease of air- ports at this time, was adopted unani- mously. The resolution was aimed at bills pending in Congress providing for the acquisition of the Washington and Hoover Airports, at a cost of $2,000,000, or by lease at a cost of $100,000 a year. It declared the District at this time “does not_feel the need of either pur- chase or leasing an airport,” and that the proposed purchase price of $2.000.- 000 would be more than double the fair value and nearly six times the assessed value of the airport property as re- corded in Arlington County, Va. Mr. Hege was appointed chairman of a committee to present the federation’s resolution of protest at a hearing on | the various airport bills before a con- gressional committee Wednesday. ROOSEVELT BACKS FEDERAL CONTROL OF SHOALS PLANT (Continued From First Page.) to stand in this sacred spot where a great American took the oath of Presi- | dency of the Confederacy. “I'am thinking how littie the younger generation of today knows of the feel- ings between the North and South. I can remember—and I am only a half century old—how a relative who served in the Confederate Navy came to visit us in New York, and some of the Roosevelts regarded him as a pirate. “I am certain my own daughter here with me would laugh heartily at hear- ing the brave officers of the South re- ferred to as pirates.” Mrs. Anna Dall, daughter of Mr. Roosevelt, was with him. Gov. Miller of Alabama introduced the President- elect as “the man who hunted for and found ‘the forgotten man’ last No- vember.” At Florence Mr. Roosevelt told the cheering cmr%nsnl:llg, "1 ufmpe t?pco;n: back again an all the great powe! possxmfies of this valley used to the utmost.” ‘The party stopped on the bluff oppo- site the dam, and there Senator Norris stood by the President-elect. “This ought to be a great day for you, George,” said Roosevelt. “I¢ is,” replied the Republican inde- pendent leader. “I see my dreams com- ing true.” NORRIS TO RENEW FIGHT. Senator Will Offer Shoals Measure in Special Session. SHEFFIELD, Ala., January 21 (A).— Senator Norris of Nebraska, whom President-elect Roosevelt introduced here today as “the father of Muscle Shoals legislation,” said tonight he would reintroduce his bill in Congress for Government operation of the $150,000,000 power and nitrate project. The veteran Nebraskan and Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York State Power Commission, accompanied Mr. Roosevelt on an inspection of the properties, but left tke President-elect’s special train to remain here for & further study of the perplexing shoals question. “I am going to reintroduce my bill at the special session of Congress and talent at my command to take the huge project out of controversy on account of selfish interests,” Norris said. He indicated some changes would be made in the bill, probably involving an experimental operation of tke nitrate rlant for the purpose of finding cheaper ferti - “The full and complete development of the entire Muscle Shca’s project has greater poss bilities than any project I know of in the country today,” said Walsh. After making a close study of the Wilson Dam power house, Walsh said he believed the plant to be one of the ~country. most modern in the A commended and criticized the action | grg ‘The minority report was signed by the | the Only five of the 22 members on the | | taken up for consideration by the Sen- GRESS' INDIFFERENCE Lackadaisx;cal Attitude of Leaders Expected to More Doom Appropriations Until Special Session Convenes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The clably ment, poses’ Glass banking bill moved appre- n a final vote in the Senate y, when the Bratton amend- which to all intents and pur- kills the branch banking feature of the measure, was adopted by a vote of 52 to 17. Republican and Demo- cratic leaders said last night they be- lieved the Glass bill could be disposed of by Tuesday night, notwithstanding 8 threat by Senator Thomas of Okla- homa to continue with a filibuster against the measure unless an infla- tionary amendment were adopted. While the solution of some of the troubles over the bank reform bill ap- peared in sight, the Roosevelt plan for dealing with the British, and pre- sumably other debtor nations, in regard to their debts wn into the Senate debate yester- day, with the possibility it may lead to eo;ndmb!y more talk before the over, Victory for Filibuster Group. The adoption of the Bratton amend- a distinct for bill, headed by Senator Huey Long of Louislana and Senator Thomas. The amendment bars State-wide branch banking, or branch banking outside of a city, except where the State laws t' such branch banking for State Only nine States today permit State- wide branch banking — Arizona, Cali- fornia, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Caro- lina, Vermont and Virginia. In the opinion of Senator Glass, au- thor of the bill, the Bratton amendment will write finis to the hopes of many small banking institutions, now in danger of going under, which hoped under the proposed law to be taken over by strong banking concerns. If these smaller banks fail, with disaster for many of the depositors, it will be because of the refusal to carry the branch banking feature in the bill, he contends. The Bratton amendment not only bars branch banking where it is not permitted by the State, but it also pro- vides that no banking assoclation shall establish branches outside of the city in which it is located which does not have a paid-in capital of $500,000. An amendment offered by Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, making the amount $250,000 in States which have less than a million population, was accepted. Beer Bill Action Sought. The beer bill—which has been broad- ened in the Senate Judiciary Subcom- mittee to include light wines—is clam- oring for right of way in the Senate. Eenator Blaine, chairman of the sub- committee, hopes to have the bill re- ported favorably by the full cominittee tomorrow. Then it must go to the Finance Committee to be considered from the revenue angle before it is ate. Mr. Blaine is insisting that the bill be given a hearing in the Senate as soon as the Glass bill is out of the way. Other Senators are demanding that the Treasury and Post-Office ap- propriation bill, which carries the econ- omy clause, be copsidered immediately | atter the banking bill has heen passed. | There is a growing belief on Capitol | Hill that not all the annual appropria- tion bills are to be finally passed March 4. There is reported an indif- ference on the part of some of the Dem- ocrats, as well as Republicans, to the prompt passage of these supply bills. It is beginning to look more and more | cline such a discussion when requested as though several of them would not be completed, but would have to go over | for consideration and action at the spe- | cial session of the new Congress, which | President-elect Roosevelt is expected to call early in April. The Democrats in- | tend to put through economy legisla- | tion, as well as farm legislation and | other measures which would touch in- | timately the appropriation during the special session, which would require changes in the appropriation bills for the next fiscal year. The new Congress would have until July 1 to get the ap- | propriation bills through. However, the | present program is to drive ahead with | these supply bills, none of which, ex- | copt a deficiency bill, has yet passed | the Senate, although only six weeks of the short session remain. | Pressure to get action on the farm | bill, known as the domestic allotment bill, which has passed the House and 1s now before the Senate Committee on this legislation at the present session, since if the bill lapsed until’ the special session, it would be too late to affect any way the crop acreage for this Belief that President Hoover is likely veto both the farm bill and the beer bill, and that neither could be passed over his veu& even if bc!b"l;o!um coug be brought to agree upon terms these bills before March 4, is not mak- ing for haste on these measures. In- deed, there seems no real drive in Con- gress to get legislation through, but rather a lackadaisical attitude by the great majority of the members, who feel that the important legislation will have to wait for action in the special session anyway. The plan of the President-elect for dealing with the debtor nations, partic- ularly Britain, which are for a hearing on proposed debt revision, in which President Hoover concurred at the White House conference Friday, bobbed up for debate in the Senate when that body met at noon. The first round over the agreement to receive representatives of Great Britain to dis- cuss the debts and the general eco- nomic_situation was fought with Sen- ators Robinson of Indiana, Republican, and Robinson of Arkansas, the Demo- cratic leader, playing the leading roles. Robinson of Indiana attacked the Roosevelt plan, charging that it ignored the flat declaration by Congress a year ago that there should be no cancella- tion or further reduction of the debts. The American people, he said, would never consent to having the burden of the foreign debts owed this country transferred to the shoulders of the peo- ple of this country. Charges “Cheap Politics.” Senator Robinson of Arkansas re- plied with heat the Indiana Senator was “playing cheap politics,” seeking to stir up the people against the President- elect. He claimed it was only the merest, decency to grant to any friendly nation the privilege of discussing ques- tions with this Government. Senator Watson of Indiana, Republic- an leader, after the row in the Senate chamber was over, said he believed that President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt had been correct in reaching an agreement looking to the reception of British delegates to talk over the debts and the economic situation. He said this Government should not de- by the debtor nations. “But that does not mean,” continued Senator Watson, “that Congress should accept any proposal to reduce or cancel the debts.” Borah Backs Roosevelt. ‘The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Borah of Idaho, was outspoken in his approval of the determination of the President- elect to discuss with the British the question of debts in connection with the world economic problems. He has contended for months that if anything in the way of revision or reduction of the debts is brought about it must be through concessions of the foreign nations looking to relief of the eco- nomic situation. “The expressed willingness of the | Presfdent-elect to discuss with the rep- | resentatives of Great Britain the ques- tion of debts in connection with the world econcmic problems is a matter of very great and heartening signifi- cance,” said Senator Borah in a state- ment issued late yesterday. “The rigid and rather strained situation with reference to these economic problems, without the settlement of which the world cannot start to recover, has been greatly changed for the better, and it is of the utmost importance. I take it that the President-elect is not simply performing an act of courtesy toward a friendly nation, but that it is his pur- pose to take up these problems and make a start, if possible, toward their solution. This fact alone will have a favorable reaction everywhere. Neces- sarily before we get far in dealing with these economic problems, the presence | of other mnations will be required. and it may be that something considerable can be accomplished.” HORACE P. DE HART IS FATALLY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT nued From First Page.) Fields' machine, according to police | records. Fields and a passenger in his car, C. E. Sinclair, New York, were released pending an inquest at Spottsyl- vania court house Tuesday. Very little could be learned either in Fredericksburg or here concerning Sestenburg. Mrs. A. Kershenbaum, his landlady here, said he had lived in her rooming house about two months. She did not know whether he had a job.| Several pawnshop tickets, naturalization | papers and other articles of identifica- | tion were found in his pockets, along | with the address of a New York woman, believed to be his sister. Two Children Injured. | A number of other persons, includ- ing two children and one hit-and-run| victim, were injured in traffic acci- | dents yesterday and last night. Miss Carmen Klauch, 37, of the 2400 | bjock of Pennsylvania avenue, suffered possible internal injuries when the auto- | mobile in which she was riding collided | at Thirty-fourth and N streets with a | machine dirven by Harry A. Seay, 1700 block of Euclid street, police reported. She was treated at Georgetown Hospital. Richard L. Upright, 7, of 1923 Penn- sylvania avenue, was treated at Emer- gency Hospital for head and arm in- juries after being struck by an auto- mobile Twentieth street and Penn- sylvania avenue. Police said John B. Lathrop, 22, of the 1800 block of I street, was the driver of the car. Paul Dickey, 6, of the 2400 block of Minnesota avenue southeast, was the other child injured. He was struck on Canal road near Chain Bridge by an automobile operated by Paul D. Drain, 2400 block of Calvert street, police said. The boy was treated at Georgetown Hospital for cuts and bruises. Woman’s Wrist Broken. Anna Melius, 45, of 2535 Thirteenth street, received a broken wrist ‘when the automobile in which she was riding collided at Fourteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue with a car, said by police, to have been driven by Myron | E. Gustafson, 1900 block of Seventeenth renew my fight with all the energy and | street coupe cense plates that struck an injured Jones M. Summers, 21, colored, in the 4500 block of Thirteenth stre Summers, who lives in the 2100 bloc] of Delaware avenue southwest, was said at Garfield Hospital to have concussion and a possible skull fracture. s Police at the tenth precinct ques- tioned and released a “E student ‘who reported the theft of bile bearing Ohio plates. ) Killed by Auto HORACE P. DE HART, Private secretary to Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edwards, who was fatal- 1y injured last night when struck by an_automobile. BURIED IN CABIN BY SNOW Man Is Believed Victim of Ava- lanche in California. LOS ANGELES, January 21 (®).—At the point of exhaustion after & 36-hour struggle through the snows in the region of Camp Baldy, S. Geyer, em- gloye of & mining outfit in Coldwater ‘anyon. ' reached the Camp Bonita Forest ranger station today and re- ported an avalanche early yesterday in Wwhich one man was believed killed. Geyer said a wall of snow crushed the mining cabin of Charles E. Smith, | North 62, of Azusa, and that Smith apparently was buried under the debris. i A rescue party estimated it would take two days on horseback and by enowshoes to reach the cabin. Geyer said he was in the cabin with Smith and heard the roar of the avalanche, barely escaping to safety.|vem! es and He was clad started the station e after clof VETERAN REPORTER DEAD | qusiity SEATTLE, Wash, January 21 ().— Willlam H. Curry, 57, veteran political reporter of the Seattle Times, died of pneumonia here today. He came to Seattle 26 years ago, bringing a back- ground of newspaper experience In Baltimore and Kansas City. Ten yeanan#mn:mmt to w#- ington, D. O, newspaper’'s Capitol ’BNI’I.. but returned to SENATE SANCTIONS FURTHER INFLATION Vote to Extend Currency Ex- pansion of Glass-Steagall Law for Year. By the Associated Press. Extension of the currency expansion of the Glass-5f law for another year was approved by the Senate yester- day, and ts of House sanction were de ibed as favorable. wnh::ft and in_the notice midst of his banking reform bill, Senator Glass (Democrat, Virginia), co-author of the currency measure with Representative Steagall (Democrat, Alabama), called up the latter and put it through. l measure continues until March 3, | 1934, the authority to expand the free | gold supply by permitting Federal Reserve banks to pledge Government securities as collateral for additional reserve notes. It is intended to maintain a larger supply of gold in the hands of the | reserve banks for whatever purpose the | demand requires. To date, the act has inflated the currency to the extent of about $400,000,000. Meyer Called Tomorrow. Meanwhile, the House Banking Com- mittee discussed inflationary moves and heard several of its members urge cur- rency expansion and an overhauling of the administration of the Federal Re- serve Board. Eugene Meyer, governor of the Reserve Board, was summoned to testify tomorrow. Although the Senate action was ex- pected to diminish for the time being efforts among Democratic liberals to inflate the money supply to huge figures, Senator Thomas (Republican, Okla- homa) served notice he would continue his efforts to this end. ‘Thomas did not object to the bill's, passage, but recalled when the bill was | up last session he preferred to make it permanent. “I am going to take advantage of the Glass banking reform bill,” he said off the floor, “to support my demand for expansion of the currency.” Only lukewarm for the proposition, Glass said: “I stated a year that it was bad policy, that it was taking us {the Foreign Relations Committee of the | orum Speaker SENATOR J. HAMILTON LEWIS, I HAMILTON LEWIS TOSPEAK INFORUM lllinois Senator to Discuss| Evils of World Inflation Tomorrow Night. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois will discuss international re- lations and the evils of world inflation in the National Radjo Forum tomorrow at 10:30 p.m. The National Radio Forum is arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to- coast network of the National Broad- | casting Co. | Senator Lewis, who is a member of | Senate, and who has personally looked HAWES GIVES UP SEAT 0 CLARK Missouri Senator Resigns Ef- fective Feb. 3 to Aid His Successor., By the Associated Press. To permit his successor to have a briet period of senatorial training before tak- ing over his dutles in his own right, Senator Harry B. Hawes, Democrat, of Missouri, will step out of the Senate February 3. His action, which will place in his seat Bennett C. Clark, son of the late wartime Speaker of the House, Champ Clark, carries out a plan announced by Hawes nearly two years ago, and subse- quently reiterated several times. Vice President Curtis and his col- leagues in the Senate will be officially notified of his action in the following letter which Hawes will send to the Vice President’s desk tomorrow: “Inclosed herewith find copy of my resignation as a Senator of the United ?l;t:s 1rgm the f‘;nte of Missouri, which ve forwarded to the Governor of Missouri. o “May I request that this be read to the Senate and made a part of the official records?” Letter to Governor. In his letter to Gov. Park of Mis- souri, Hawes said: “Please accept my resignation as a United States Senator from the State of Missouri, to take effect on February 3, 1933 My term of office expires March 3, 1933. “It pleases me, and T am sure will meet with the approval of Missouri Democrats, to know that you will ap- point to this vacancy that verv able young statesman, Col. Bennett C. Clark, who has been selected as my successor. “Some two years ago I decided to retire but have awaited the election of a Democratic Governor to fill the va- | cancy by appointment.” In’ closing at 64 a congressional ca- reer of 12 consecutive years, half of it in the House of Representatives, Hawes Into the situation abroad, is strongly will turn to serving here as national back to bond-secured currency instead | o to the ment of the debts |Tepresentative for three or four game pposed pay) of credits based on commercial trans- | owed this country by foreign nations in | 2nd actions.” | He added his judgment changed since then. | An administration of Federal Reserve | banking that would expand the sys- tem's currency was urged today by a ' number of House Banking Committee members. | Their views were expressed around a committee table in a general discus- sion of the banking situation. | “Mildly Inflationary.” | Explaining the measure approved by the Senate, Chairman Steagall said: = “This legislation is mildly inflation- | ary, but it depends chiefly upon how it | is administered.” One of its principal provisions would permit the substitution of Government bonds for commercial collateral secur- ! ing reserve notes, over and above the law's minimum requirement for a 40 per_cent gold backing. “I am advised about 2 billion dollars in bonds have been 50 used under this act,” remarked Representative Golds- borough. Maryland Democrat. “But they are still using 77 per cent of gold,” interrupted Representative | Busby (Democrat, Mississippi). who has proposed legislation for a $3,000,000,000 currency expansion. | “Yes.” Goldsborough said, “but we need this legislation as a basis for real expansion legislation later on.” Hancock, North Carolina Democrat, said he wanted to be sure, if the act 15 extended, “that they won't come down + here and tell us it makes an expancion bill unrecessary.” Reilly, Wicconsin Democrat, said ex- perience had shown that for every dol- lar of new national bank currency is- sued under the home loan act, an equal amount of some other currency had been withdrawn. “That's because of administrative reserve system policies,” Goldsborough insisted. “It's the administration that must be changed.” McFad<cn, Pennsylvania Republican, who twice has sought to impeach Presi. dent Hoover, said all the banking of the coun! was under the dominati vof the head of the Federal Re: Board.” He added: "Ntoth.in; r‘ll! dohnn}‘ gool for the country until you change your Federal Reserve ldminislra!ian."'; 2 Steagall agreed that “a big part of our problem lies in the administration of the Federal Reserve and Federal Land Banks.” “LAME DUCK” BAN NEAR RATIFICATION; 35 STATES APPROVE (Continued From First Page.) | 15 the pfesent session is the last for the lame ducks. It took 10 long years for Senator George Norris of Nebraska, the inde- pendent leader, to fight the amendment | through Congress. It is taking the | States of the Union, a full three-quar- ters of them, less than a year to dem- onstrate that the couniry is through with legislation by men who have been told by their constituents that they are no_longer wanted. Norris, a quiet-spoken, benevolent looking man of 71, was not in Wash- ington last night, but off on that other cause he has championed as long— cheap water power for the country through ~ Government operation of hydro-electric _ plants. At Muscle Shoals with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt he looked forward hope- fully to the enactment of his bill g0 put that great enterprise in operation once again, under Government direc- tion. Twice Congress has passed it, but the vetoes of Republican Presidents, Coolidge and Hoover, killed it. Two Acted Yesterday. The “lame duck” amendment was brought to the verge of passage by the Legislatures of Idaho and New Mexico, both of which acted yesterday. The ratifications had been pouring in at the rate of two or three a day recently. ' Seventeen States ratified last year be- fore the Legislatures adjourned for t! Summer political campaigns. All the rest of the 35 on record have acted since the assemblies resumed their sessions the first week of January. Virginia has the distinction of "being the first State to ratify. It acted two days after Congress agreed on the reso- lution proposing the amendment. Carolina and California were the first to act this year, both ratifying i on January 4. Had it been possible for all the States to ratify last year, bafore Octo- ber 15, Franklin D. Roosevelt would now be in the White House and the Congress elected with him last No- would be functioning. Provides for Succession. Besides moving up the dates of presi- dential and cony mh is [ceed to Wilmin governmental since in 1813 election of Senators was taken from tures and given di- rectly into the hands of the people the States of | have on board about 80 ca<es of as- inflated or depreci2ted currency. For | tion of currency in this country. believ- | ing that it would do a great injustic to millions of Americans and that i would be economically unsound. H Is expected to deal with the debt prob- lem from an angle which has not gen- erally been discussed. RUSSIA TO GET RID OF ALL UNDESIRED | AND UNEMPLOYED | (Continued From First Page.) H cities—which in many cases because of age disabilities will be impossible— | they have no assurance that the same | fate will not befall them again when | the passport £ystem becomes epplicable to the entire country, although officials claim the majority will be absorbed into qualified citizenship by that time. | When that occurs, those st'll unable to | qualify for passports face exile to Si- beria or the Far North. The intensity of preparations for the | introduction of the passport system was revealed in recent orders prohibiting all marieges and divorcos in Moscow and the “swapping” of living quarters, so prevalent in crowded Moscow. | Won't Estimate Number. Both crle:s were do: r abus2 of t souls, but the dec: riages and divorces was countermanded today after being in effect since Janu- | ary 16. | Declaring that the passport system | had been adopted so as to “bind the | population to their place of dweliing” snd thus create more space and food for bona fide worker: Lepse, vice cirector of the Moscow ic2 and chief of the capital's newly created pass- port depaitment, refused to estimate for the Associated Press number of persons afiected in Mosco™, but he denied that it wouid re: 1,000,600 or even 500,000 as currently rumored. Deprecating use of the word “exile,” he declared: “There is no question of people being exiled from Moscow because we won't exile anybody. Of course there will b2 categories of people who will not ge: passports and will leave Moscow, but their number still is unknov The decree, however, makes those without pesspcrts subject to arrest, but the punichment thus far has not bcen announcel. Commenting on the num- ber of people alrexdy leaving Moscow, Director Lepse said: ‘There are people certain of being deprived of passports who prefer to leave Moscow before the passport %ys- tem enters into force. 'y are leav- ing in number of possibly 1 to 10 daily, but rumors of a mass exodus from here are falce.” | Whole Villages Routed. | Pointing out that Moscow’s popula- ticn, now numbering more than 3500.- 000, has increased 50 per cent in the last four years, one publiz official said that the passport system was n--e to “get rid’ 'of strange elements com- ing from other places Who overburdened living space. The drive against remaining anti- Soviet elements in the provinces, which already has resulted in the exile of most of the population of four Kuban vil- lages, undoubtedly will be accentuated with the inauguration of the “political section” of State farms and tractor | stations recently authorized. \Virtually the entire populations of | three villages, numbering several thou- sands, and a considerable part of a fourth in the rich Kuban district of the North Caucasus, inhabited mostly by Cossacks from whose ranks have been drawn some of the most implacable ene- mies of the Soviet regime. have been exiled to the north for sabotage becauce of failure to fulfill the government's grain collection quotas. —_— | | COAST GUARD CAPTURES | %/ BRITISH SHIP WITH RUM Soneres” Schooner, Seized Southeast of Cape Hatteras, to Be Towed to Wilmington. By the Associated Press. | NORFOLK, Va. January 21.—Coast | Guard headquarters today 1eported that | the cutter Mendota had seized the Brit- ish schooner Tanner, reported to be loaded with intoxicatirg liquors, 115 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras and l!;ml.ld tow the craft into Wilmington, . C. The Mendota first brought the cap- tured craft into Hampton Roads, ar- this morning, and was ordered e the boat in tow again and pro- gton, Coast Guard of- ficals said. The custom authorities would handle the case. ‘The Tanner is uxiliary craft, but Is not listed in available maritime pub- lications. Her home port is raid to be Halifax. The vessel is supposed to sorted liquors. She was sy zed last night, It was said at Coast Guard heacquarters, while the Mendota was cruising in the is to- | swi fish conservaton organizations, a subject on which he has specialized for hasn't similar reasons he is against an infla- | Years. Victorious in Last Fight. During his coneressional se: ushed through the legi: ery several mezsures fo: tion and restorstion of was author of the Upper i River game and fish refuge law, several bills for conservation of black bass and water fowl. His last and most severe fight i legislative halls was crowned wi tory almost on the eve of hi tion—putting through over the President Hoover the bill for i ence fcr the Philippine Island ‘With Senator Cutting, R New Mexico. and Representati Democrat, of South C2 thors with him of the rt the successful campaign for o the Chief Executive's disapproval Among Hawes' other ccngressional successes is the Hawes-Cooper 1aw, pro= hibiting the interstate shipment of con= vict-made goods into States where State laws prohibit sale of such articles. and aiding in the establishment of a national policy of flood control in the Mississippi t eserva- ld life, , he led iding | basin. His resignation at this time, Hawes <aid, “is a kindly gesture of friendship"” for his successor and to enable him to have a month in the Senate before coming into office formally on March 4 ‘PARITY PLAN’ FACES SENATE REDUCTIC T0 ONLY 2 PRODUC... (Continued From First Page.) of the bounty be simply the difference between the prezent price of his prod- and its average level during the 1914 period. veek, McNary said, the com- e plans to hear in executive ses- cien Henry 1. Harriman, president of tie Chamber Commerce cf the pro- Senators, but his testimon; pened. The sassion wa hear'ng Eric Englund. assista: the Bureau of Agricultural and Frederic Lee, attorney fo: s. and to talking o Borah States Vi Senator Borah, Republ: who is no' a member o ccmmenied to newspa hogs are covered in the b epply also to cther me that the boun of pork and consumer cther meat to t! preducers. Ancther development was int nto the Congressional Rezor lawyer bitterly f the Spokane jecl i rice culd turn to detriment of the hog Bank 1 vestigation. In pres nting the letter, Leonard De Ka'b, Le comp'ainis of the same kind the Fcd-ral land b2nks and s2id viously this merits the attention of the Congress.” Members of Congress studied with in- terest the proposal put forward in the Scnate Friday by Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas, after a talk with President-elect Rcosevelt, for a Nation- wide system of “conciliation commis- sione! to adjust the farmer: mortgage foreclosures to bz h: the meantime. In conection with the dome:tic allot- ment plan bill and the poss. ccnflning it to wheat and cot was recalled that Mr. Roost sajd he favored having it wheat, coiton, tobacco and hogs, but would prefer fewer products to no bill at a'l and would leave thcse details to in YOUTH ADMITS CAUSING WRECK FATAL TO TWO |High School Student Arrested in Derailment of Passenger Train Last Month. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Ill, January 21.— Wabash Railroad police and Pike County officers said tonight Charles ‘Willis, 16, confessed causing the wreck of the road’s Kansas City-Detroit pas- senger train, in which two trainmen were killed the night of December 28. ‘Willis, brought here in custody of ofi- cers investigating the wreck, is a stu- dent at Pittsfleld, Ill, High School. Engineer John Catts of Springfield and Fireman H. L. Meyer of Dezatur were killed when the train, No. route to Detroit, 1:ft the main line track end struck an ofl car on a siding. Sev- cral others were injured and the oil car canght fire Investigators found the blade end frame of a hacksaw at the scene cf the wreck. near the west city limits of Jack- sonville, and learned the lock on the itch had cut and the switch vicinity of H;flm“ The Mendota expected to arrive af morning with ‘Wilmington morTow her captured charge. thrown before the train arrived at the idins. :