Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1933, Page 2

FARM BILL HEARING BEGINS WEDNESDAY MeNary Says Inquiry Into Domestic Allotment May Last a Week. By the Assoclated Press. Public hearings beginning Wednesday on the domestic allotment farm relief bill were decided upon today by the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman McNary said it was hoped to conclude the hearings in “six or| seven days.” Open sessions are planned for 10 to 12 am, each day. Representatives of producers, proces- sors and manufacturers have asked to testify. McNary planned to go over the | list and determine definitely v\'hichl’ ones should first be heard. Tax on Processors. Under the bill a tax would be levied on millers, packers and other “proces- sors” of the seven products in the measure as passed by the House, the proceeds going to the farmer in an &mount sufficient to bring up to the pre-war level the price he receives for that portion of his output that goes into domestic consumption, The commodities now in the bill are wheat, cotton, tobacco, hogs, rice, pea- nuts and dairy products. Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Jowa, said as he left the meeting that the bill as now written would entail & total of two billions on processors. “To levy that on the poor processor before he knows whether he is going to get it back or not is some problem,” he said, adding. however, that he favors any bill which will help the farmer. Except for further study of the meas~ wre and the decision as to open hear- ings, the committee took no action today. “Drastic Legislation” Heard. A belief that the plight of the farmer | calls for “war emergency” measures was voiced before the committee meet- ing by Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Towa. He expressed himself to re- porters as favoring legislation *‘more drastic” than the domestic allotment method and declared for a plan which he said had been discussed by Sena- tor-elect Willlam G. McAdoo of Cali- fornia in a recent visit here. ‘While explaining he had no au- thorization to speak for McAdoo, | Brookhart said the McAdoo plan pro- vides for Government control of agri- cultural surpluses and for Federal laws | guaranteeing, at least, cost of pro- duction on domestically consumed | produce. Brookhart added that it was planned | to bring forward this proposal at the next Congress, which is expected to be | called into extra session this Spring.| He, himself, will not be a member, | having been defeated for renomina- | tion. The farm relief legislation outlined by Brookhart would declare the exist- ence of an emergency comparable to war. He said he believed that in view of conditions in the agricultural sec- ticns it would be upheld by the courts. Asserting that Mr. Hoover would veto any “substanttal” farm relief bill, the Jowa Senator described as “academic” the discussion of the domestic allot- ment bill or similar measures during the | present session. At the same time he conceded that the allotment plan might *“do some good” if it ever became a law. Price-fixing Measure. As outlined by Brookhart, the plan xould have the Government fix by law he price to be paid the farmer, setting it at a figure which would provide at | least cost of production. This price would apply on only that part of the production which enters into domestic consumption. The entire surplus would be ‘“commandeered” by the Government, which would issue warehouse receipts to the owners. The ‘Government then would seek to dispose ©f the surplus on the world market. Proponents of the idea feel that the Government would be able to get a better price for it than now is possible On selling the surplus the Government ‘would cash the warehouse receipts on the basis of the price received. “If the courts held it constitutional it would be the easiest and quickest way to get relief,” Brookhart said. “In view of the emergency, I think, the eourts would hold it constitutional.” Brookhart said that any farm-relief lan to be satisfactory must protect all products alike, as he said would be done ‘under this method. —_—— BRITAIN PUTS OFF DEBTS DISCUSSION; PLAN CLOSE STUDY (Continued From First Page.) Imake some inquiries to clear up this int. The Ambassador also will convey Great Britain’s reply to Secretary of State Stimson. Meantime, Govern- ‘ment officials discouraged discussion of the personnel of the mission to Wash- ington, explaining there are still some intricate problems to be solved before 8t can be decided which ministers shall go. FRENCH SEEN DISTURBED. Feel No Important Decision Can Be Made Without Their Aid. $y Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, January 23.—The| French government appears to be un- disturbed the American invitation to | Great Britain to come to Washington | to discuss the war debts and other| Ruestions. It is felt here that no important de-| kisions, whether on the war debts, cur- yency, tariffs or world prices, can be taken without first consulting France gnd obtaining its co-operation. Far from hastening now to pay the ¥deferred” December installment on the | war debt to the United States, the present policy in Paris appears to be more tkan ever to “wait and see.” Pierre Cot, undersecretary for foreign &ffairs, went to Geneva last night. This was contrary to the previous an- nouncement and appears to indicate the evolution of French policy in the Far Eastern and League of Nations af- fairs generally. Cot is known to desire to make the League effective, even at the cost of causiiig some heartburn to Japan. It iz thought also that Prance is in- terested in forcing the League to deal with the recent big illicit shipment of rms through Austria, allegedly from ;tlly and destined for Hungary. (Copyright, 19 EIGHT KILLED BY STORM LARGE LOSS IN SYDNEY By the Assoclated Press. SYDNEY, New South Wales, Janu- ary 23.—Eight persons were killed and widespread damages was caused today by a violent storm striking Sydney ®nd the surrounding country. A dam burst at Stanwell Park and caused a deluge to descend on week end campers, including one family—a Jather, mother and three children— and two other boys. The father lashed members of the family together to a tree stump and then plunged into the torrent with & baby in an attempt to reach higher land, but all were washed away except one girl. Near Bulga Beach hundreds of tons of rock crashed on a cott and killed & boy. The eighth death was of & man struck by lightning. » |zens Protesting Againct Possible Re- | George Otis Smith, 1,400 FIGHT BEER THE EVENING FOR DISTRICT; , 11-POINT RESOLUTION ADOPTED Mass Meeting Overflows Masonic Audi- torium and Fills Lecture Room of New York Avenue Church. Emphatic protest against the Black bill to legalize beer in the District of Columbia, was registered yesterday at & mass meeting of prohibition support- ers which overflowed the Masonic Au- ditorjum and also filled the lecture room of the nearby New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. It was estimated later by the dry leaders that a total ef about 1,400 persons attended. Following a serles of speeches deliv- ered at both places, an 11-point resolu- tion, vigorously opposing the bill, was unanimously adopted by the two groups. It will be submitted soon to Congress. The services, which were held under auspices of the Ccmmittee of 100 Citi- turn of the Saloon to Washington, were presided over by Dr. Everett M. Ellison, at the Masonic Auditorium, and by Col. William O. Tufts, at the church lecture room. The same speakers appeared at both places, and identical resolutions were adopted. The resolutions were presented by Dr. William S. Abernethy, pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church, who is chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. Future to Be Mapped. A meeting of the executive commit- tee of the Committee of 100 will be held Wednesday morning at Calvary Baptist Church, Dr. Ellison announced after the meeting. The committee plans to go over the results of yesterday's meetings and map a course of future action Dr. Ellison also announced that rep- resentatives of various religious and social welfare organizations of the city would appear before the Judiciary Sub- committee of the House District Com- mittee tomorrow at 10 a.m. to testify against the Black bill. Petitions addressed to Congress were circulated among those attending the meetings opposing any modification in the present prohibition situation. They read as follows: “We, the undersigned citizens of the District of Columbia, are opposed to the return of beer. We are opposed to the repeal of the Eight- eenth Amendment. We are opposed to the return of -the liquor traffic in the District of Columbia in any form what- ever.” Speakers at both meetings vigorously defended prohibition and denounced the beer bill, which several said would bring back saloons to this city. The speakers included: | Representative C. Ellis Moore of | Ohio. Representative Arthur H. Green- | wood of Indiana, Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, president of the National | Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement | League; Dr. Carl C. Rasmussen, pastor | of Luther Place Memorial Church: Dr. chairman of the Federal Power Commission; Maurice Otterback, president of the Anacostia Bank; Robert H. McNeill, attorney; | Miss Louise Hayward, student of of American University, who appeared to present a message from her aunt, Mrs. H. Wellen Fisher of the Washing- | ton Federation of Churches, and Robert Lyons of the Commercial National Bank, a past president of the Christian Endeavor Union. A message to the meeting from | Representative Rankin of Mississippi, | a candidate for the House speakership was read by Chairman Ellison, as follows: “If you never get a saloon in Wash- | ington until I help bring you one, you'll never have another one.” | Sentiment Is Contrasted. Chairman Ellison contrasted this senti- | ment with what he characterized lslhu‘ wet speech delivered by Represenuti\'i‘ Rainey, majority leader of the House, | before the Board of Trade here | recently. Dr. Ellison declared the | Rainey speech was wetter than any | Al Smith could make. ‘The resolution adopted by the mass | meetings was read by Dr. Abernethy, | listing 11 reasons for “our protest,” as follows: “1. Sale of beer by the glass in hotels and bona fide eating places as specified | in the bill will most certainly restore | the saloon. Not mahogany bars and sawdust-covered floors and swinging doors, but the character or the commodity sold, makes the saloon. Every drug store in the city, every delicatessen and soft drink parlor is & | potential saloon under the terms of this bill. We can scarcely belleve that | any one, familiar with this iniquitous | institution _would countenance its return. We therefore call upon | members of Congress and citizens of | Washington to view the situation | calmly and with sane judgment. We | do not believe the majority of the| people of this city desire the return of | the saloon or anything approaching it. | “2_ We are firmly of the opinion that | the alcoholic content of the beer that | is proposed will make the beverage | intoxicating. It is a fact that even a small smount of alcohol unsteadies nerves and renders one incapable of exercising calm judgment in an emergency. Washington's streets carry more than 100,000 cars, locally vegis- | tered, besides thousands of addi.ional | cars from surrounding States. We | submit that to allow drivers under the influence of liquor to operate cars through such crowded traffic conditions as exist here. would be dangerous ln5 the extreme. Even a slight degree of intoxication results in lack of co-ordi- nation between mind and muscle, thus rendering such a person even a greater menace in crowded traffic than the man completely overcome. Hang-out of Criminals. “3. Just as in the days of the recog- nized saloon, every such place was a breeding ground for crime and prosti- tution and the hang-out of the criminal, so now with the legalization | of places for the sale of liquor, we shall inevitably see the return of these conditions. Does Washington want to give its indorsement to such an insti- tution? We do not believe it. “4. We believe that the proposed tax on beer itself, plus the license fee for operating, would greatly increase the illegal trafic in liquor. TInstead of doing away with the speakeasies now operating, we are of the opinion that we would have not only the saloons, but an increased number of speakeasles, and the city would face conditions far | worse than exist at the present time. Dealers in intoxicants have invariably shown themselves utterly regardless of law, and we have good reasons to be- lieve they will operate with the least possible expense to themselves. ‘There- fore the income from legalized beer we believe will be far less than is antici- ated. e “5. This bill offers no protection whatever to churches, schools, and resi- dential sections against the sale of in- toxicants. In the old days of the sa- loon_no such place could operate with- in 400 feet of a church or school house or in a residential section. The very fact that a definite distance was speci- fled is sufficlent indication that its presence was held to be detrimental to community life. We submit that if the presence of a saloon within 400 feet was harmful to & church or a achool conditions are in no wise changed to- day, but rather intensified and not only within a distance of 400 feet, but anywhere within the bounds of the Dis- trict would be harmful to the morals of our boys and girls in week-day school and Sunday school. “6. With the legalization of the sale of beer, every effort will be made by the brewers to advertise their product over the radio and in the pages of news- papers and magazines. We protest most vigorously against such a possi- bility. . Do we want our children who are perhaps our most constant radio listeners, to be urged day by day to cultivate a taste for beer? “7. We regard the attempts to legal- ize beer as the opening wedge to be followed later by attempts to bring back the sale of hard liquor. We know the habits of the wets too well to remain in innocent ignorance at this point. They will not be satisfled with 3.2 per cent beer. The lawless society element will not desert their illegal cocktails and hard H%lol‘s. “8. The bill proposed is designed, as certain of its sponsors have said, to be a model bill, to guide State legislation in their regulation of the liquor traffic. We believe the Ca ital City should be a model to the Na- tion in every respect, but we cannot believe that this city is ready to take the lead in indorsing a movement that will inevitably debauch and degrade the entire social and moral life of the country. “9. We protest against the encour- agement in any way of the traffic in liquor on moral grounds. Only misery, sorrow, poverty and disgrace have fol- lowed in its wake. Those who are call- ing for the legalized sale of liquor we believe are doing it either for private gamn or that they may satisfy their own sensual appetites. They do not con- template the inevitable ills that will accrue to the general public. “10. We protest against this bill on behalf of our children. The spectacle of drunken men reeling through the streets, so common in the old saloon days, is one that decent people do not care to see re-enacted. Our children have not seen this since the Eighteenth Amendment became law. We cannot believe that it would be right to sub- ject them to it again. “11. We regard the attempt to put through a bill of this character as wholly premature when the Eighteenth Amendment is still a part of the Con- stitution. “For the sake of our children now living and children yet unborn, for the sake of the weak-willed individuals who cannot resist the appetite, for the sake of those now in dire economic straits who will be infinitely worse off with free-flowing liquor, for the sake of our Nation and the future years, we make today this emphatic protest against this or any other bill which would X galize the sale of beer, wine, or hal liquor within the borders of the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Members of the Resolutions Com- mittee included Dr. Frederick Brown | Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, and Col. Tufts. Conditions Improved. Representative Moore, in his address, declared conditions were much improved under prohibition. “The eighteenth amendment got rid | of the saloon,” he said. “You don’t see as many drunken people as you used to. Prohibition is the best system ever developed and we are going to support it until something better is offered.” The Ohioan said the system in this country was superior to the methods of liquor control in Canada or Sweden. He charged that the wets were trying to draft a bill in such language that it would be impossible to test its con- stitutionality. Representative Greenwood, while ad- mitting “there is a great deal of honest doubt” concerning the enforcement of prohibition, called on the District to resist the effort to “foist a beer bill upon you.” This city, he pointed out, has a different status from the States which had the right to make laws of their own, for the District has no laws except those enacted by Congress. Dr. Rasmussen said he was en- couraged because the Black bill “is so desperately bad.” If enacted into law. he predicted there would be such a storm of protest as would make the public uprising against liquor before the eighteenth amendment seem like a pass- ing breeze.” He also attacked the argu- ment that the law should be repealed because it was not obeyed. Revoluticn by Women. Mrs. Nicholson said women who had no voice in the National political con- ventions “have alreadv started a revolu- tion in 35 States of the Union.” Dis- trict residents, she said, “are right in opposing the beer bill, for we all re- member the beer gardens, the cheap pool rooms, the dance halls and the red light district which flourished in the | old days and which would reappear 1!\’ beer is legalized in the Capital of the Nation.” George Otis Smith roundly scored the | salocn, which, he said, “never was law abiding. He characterized it as ti “insidious enemy of home and industry,” and the “recognized enemy of school and church.” Declaring there never was a “model saloon,” the speaker said he knew three kinds, “bad, worse and worst.” Mr. Otterback predicted the return of the saloon would increase, rather than decrease, the problem of crime. Referring to an investigation he =ald had taken place in 1904, the speaker said there had been found in the five blocks between the White House and the Post Office 102 unlicensed liquor- selling establishments, including nine speakeasies in the same block as No. 1 Police Precinct. He referred to the borus army in Anacostia, declaring that had there been saloons in the city during .that time “it wouldn't have been possible for a human being to be on the streets.” Mr. McNeill contrasted conditions be- fore and after prohibition, declaring t “made it worth while liv- He scored the Black bill as ‘‘unconstitutional” and declared mem- bers of Congress who vote for it would violate their oath, with the eighteenth amendment still in the Constitution. Miss Hayward read as a message from her aunt, Mrs. PFisher, testimony which Mrs. Fisher recently presented to the House committee during hear- ings on the beer bill. Stormy Protest Forecast. Mr. Lyons, representing the Chris- tian Endeavor, said “thousands of young Washingtonians would rise to protest” the Black bill. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., was given an ovation by the audience when he was introduced on the platform by Chairman Ellison as the ‘“noblest Roman of them all.” Others who were introduced but did not speak included Representative J. Howard Swick of Pennsylvania; Dr. Henry S. Jacoby of Corneil University, Andrew Wilson, former president of the District of Columbia Anti-Saloon League; Gordon Barnes, secretary of the Committee of One Hundred; Canon William Sheafe Chase, president of the International Reform Bureau; Dr. Eu- gene L. Crawford, secretary of the Board of Temperance of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Mrs. N. M. Pollock, former president of the Dis- | trict of Columbia Women's Christian A'seat. in the gall seat in gallery was chosen b Dr. F. Scott McBride, general super{ intendent of the Anti-Saloon League | of America, a member of the Commit- | teese of Cfl:e Hundred. 'veral songs and hymns were s during the service, led by William B Braithwaite of the National City Chris- tian Church and William R. Schmucker. The Executive Committe in charge of the meeting included Dr. Ellison, Mr. Barnes, Dr. Abernethy, - Canon Chase, Dr. Crawford, Dr. Frecerick Brown Harris, Mrs. Pollock, Dr. Harvey Baker Smith and Col. Tufts. Pianists were Rev. Philip G. Murray and Mrs, Page McK. Etchison and the chief usher was louis B. Nichols. Petitions were presented for signa- ture to. all attending the services. Envoy Dies in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, January 23 (P)— Julio Corredor Latorre, Colombian Min. ister to Mexico, died here last evening. Senor Latorre, who had resided in Mexico for 25 years, o here as Colombian consul, * eame | taining STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933.° SENATE JUDICIARY REPORTS BEER BILL Collier-Blaine Brew and Wine Measure Now Goes to Finance Committee. (Continued Prom First Page.) Robinson, Indiana; Hastings, Dela- ware; Austin, Vermont; Bratton, New Mexico, and Neely, West Virginta, The vote by which the committee rejected the proposal to reduce the al- coholic content to 2 per cent was exactly the same. There were three absentees at the meeting today. Senators Schall, Min- nesota; Stephens, Mississippi, and Black, Alabama. The Borah amendment to prohibit the sale of beer and wine to minors was adopted without a roll call, al- though some of the committee mem- bers, including Senator Blaine, voted against the proposal. Under the amendment, not only is it prohibited to sell beer and wine to minors, but it is also prohibited to give any of these liquors to minors. The theory on which the bill is drafted is that 3.05 per cent beer is not intoxicating and therefore does not violate the eighteenth amendment. The adoption of the Borah amendment pro- hibiting the sale of beer and wine of this alcoholic content to children ap- parently was adopted on the theory that it might be intoxicating to them. The bill was reported to the Senate | today by Senator Blaine, chairman of the subcommittee which has had charge of the measure since it came from the House. The bill as reported strikes out the entire House bill and substitutes the Senate committee measure. The prohibition against advertising the beer or wine in States which do not permit their manufacture or sale applies to radios as well as to newspaper and other forms of advertising. Blaine Statement. In his report to the Senate on the bill, Senator Blaine sald: “No consideration was given by the committee to the revenue features of the bill, except in so far as formal amendments were necessary to make the administrative features conform to the theory adopted in the bill, as the subject of revenues is exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Finance Committee. The committee, therefore, makes no recommendation respecting the amount of tax which should be im- = “The essence of the proposal is set forth in section 3 (a), ‘prhiggs reads as follows: ‘Nothing in the national pro- hibition act, as amended and supple- mented, shall apply to any of the fol- lowing, or to any act or failure to act in respect of any of the following. containing not more than 3.05 per centum of alcohol by weight: Beer, ale, porter, wine, similar fermented mali or vinus liquor or fruit juice.’ “It will be observed from a reading of the proposed substitute that there is no attempt made to define ‘intoxicat- ing liquor.’ “Beer, ale, porter, wine, similar fer- mented malt or vinus liquor or fruit juice, containing not more than 3.05 per cent of alcohol by weight, are lifted out of the national prohibition act and no penalties are prescribed for the manufacture, transportation, sale or so forth of that type of beverages.” “Constitutionality” Fixed. “The essential features of the na- tional prohibition act respecting all other beverages containing alcohol are left in force and effect. The details for administration need not be set forth as the substitute amendment is designed to let the national prohibition act stand as it is, modified only as to the permissable beverages under sec- tion three (a). “The committee believes that it was the intent of the Senate that the com- mittee should report primarily upon the constitutionality of the bill as it came to the Senate and that the committee make such modifications of the bill as would bring it within the provisions of the eighteenth amendment. That duty the committee has performed. “From an investigation of the sev- eral opinions rendered by the courts and from scientific data contained in the hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Committee on Manufactures of the Sen- ate and the report of the Central Con- trol Board of Great Britain and the British Medical Research Committee, together with an analysis thereof made by Dr. Yandell Henderson, professor of applied physiology of Yale University, at the request of the committee, the lcommltlee concludes generally as fol- lows: “1. That the Congress has no power to enlarge or diminish the provisions When Roosevelt Inspected Muscle Shoals PRESIDENT-ELECT VISITS PLANT WHILE EN ROUTE TO WARM SPRINGS. in the background. tressed, not upon the proposition that such liquors are intoxicating in fact, but that Congress had been granted the power to legislate on the subject of intoxicating liquors as a mecessary means of the payment of the end with- in the grant of power, that is the pro- hibition of intoxicating liquors.” The committee in its report contends that “any amendment to the Volstead act that attempts to define intoxicating liquor would be held inoperative to the extent that the liquor is in fact intoxi- cating.” X | “All danger on that score is avoided by section three (a) of the proposed substitute. It is submitted that Con- gress might have originally enacted enforcement legislation not expressly | reaching all intoxicating liquor for | everage purposes. Congress therefore can smend or modify the Volstead act in such a fashion, always having in mind, however, the distinction be- | tween failure to provide statutory, | punishment for an “act and positive | declaration by definition of the act by | statutes.” Sees No Objection to Bill | The committee contencs that no ob- jection “would lie against the proposed | substitute, the beer-wine bill, even should it be contended that 3.05 beer | by weight is intoxicating.” It continues: “Legal action, both criminal and civil, | will still be avaflable to the enforce- | ment of the eighteenth amendment re- specting liquors if in fact such liquors are found to be intoxicating.” It is pointed out that actions could be brought in State courts in those | | States where places in which legal | liquor is sold are declared to be public | nuisances. The report points out that while Congress may by legislation make findings a fact as well as to declare an act of law, “in our opinion there has been no judicial determination that the Congress can enlarge or diminish | by definition its grant of power.” | "“Of course, it is a well known rule that the Congress may, by legislation, determine a fact, and as a matter of fact, Congress respecting nearly all legislation determines certain facts, | that certain evils exist, that certain facts make it essential that legislation | be enacted to project the general wel- |fare. In case of such findings of fact, | | the courts will give great weight to findings of fact by the Congress. The | cases supporting such contention, how- | ever, do not justify the Congress in ex- tending or diminishing an absolute pro- | hibition such as is contained in the | eighteenth amendment, the thirteenth | amendment or certain absolute guaran- | ties under the Constitution and in | the amendments thereto. | | " “Pinally the committee, in order to | satisfy the conscience and scruples of | members of the Congress, points out | that there is much testimony offered | before the House Committee on Ways jand Means and the Senate Committee on manufactures, and before this com- | | mittee that 32 percentum of alcohol by weight in the beverages permissable under the substitute is not in fact in-| toxicating. ‘The committee, however, | has turned its attention to other data | | and especially to the report of the | Central Control Board of Great Britain | |and has had such report printed as a HARVARD LECTURER 1S HELD AS FUGITIVE Dr. Joao F. Normano Identi- fied as Dr. Isaac Lewin, Hunted German Banker. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 23.—Dr. Joao F. Normano, visiting Harvard lecturer on economics, was identified today by Dr. Fritz Driesen, a Berlin merchant and former associate, as Dr. Isaac Lewin, fugitive former German banker. The identification was made in the presence of Baron Kurt von Tippel- ckirch, German consul general at Bos- ton, and Haven Parker, assistant United States attorney. Indicted in Germany. According to Baron Von Tippel- skirch, Dr. Lewin is under indictment in Germany for a $750,000 swindle in connection with issuance of forged bills of exchange which were sold to for-| eign banks at a discount. Dr. Lewin, he faid. fled from Germany with an accomplice. He went to Brazil and was arrested there, but was discharged when extradition papers did not arrive in time. Parker sald Lewin, after Brazil, visited England, where his wife met him, and that they were there remarried under the name of Normano | Hearing Likely Tomorrow. A hearing on the German govern- gwnv,'s request for extradition will be eld probably tcmorrow. Dr. Normano was arrested in Cambridge. January 6, by a United States marshal after painstaking investigation by the Ge man Intelligence Department. Since his arrest he hes been held without bail pending arrival of German wit- nesses. Dr. Normano was identified last week | as Dr. Lewin by Fred Wiehl, a Brooklyn. N. Y. lawyer, who formerly engaged in banking in Germany. He said he knew Dr. Lewin well and that “his office was next to mine” in Berlin. e M’FADDEN ASSAILS NEWSPAPER COMMENT Declares Attacks on His Motion to Impeach President Are “False and Defamatory.” of the eighteenth amendment by defini- | part of this report, together with the By the Associated Press. tion and that the Congress and the sev- eral State Legislatures and all public authority are bound by the provisions of the eighteenth amendment. Definition Up to Courts. “2. That the definition of ‘intoxi- cating liquor’ for beverage purposes must ultimately rest with the judicial department of the Government. “3 That as a basis for the deter- mination of the questions involved, the committee has accepted the follow- ing definition of ‘intoxicating liquor’ and ‘intoxication’ and ‘drunkenness’: ““Intoxicatirg liquors are those liquors intended for use as or capable of being used as a beverage and which contain alcohol in such proportion or r centum that when consumed in he ordinary quantity which may prac- tically be drunk by an ordinary man, or in any quantity which the human stomach will ordinarily hold, will pro- duce a condition commonly known as intoxication or drunkenness. Drunken- ness or intoxication is a material, ab- rormal mental or physical condition, manifesting itself in the loss of ordi- nary control of the mental facilities or bodily functions, to an appreciable or material extent. “4. That the eighteenth amendment is self-executing, in that in the ab- sence of the Volstead act or some other appropriate legislation for the enforce- ment of the eighteenth amendment, the amendment can be enforced. “5. That the Congress has the legal power to repeal the national prohibi- tion act in its entirety. “6. That the Congress has the power to tax intoxicating liquors whether per- mitted or prohibited by the eighteenth amendment. “7. That while the members of Con- gress are bound under their oath to support the Constitution and every ar- ticle thereof and smendment thereto, the presumption must be that the mem- bers of the Congress will not conscious- ly or unscrupulously violate that oath. “The committee therefore desires to poist out what in its opinion it believes is the ample authority in justification of the foregoing conclusions. Section 1 of the eighteenth amendment is a prohibition and restriction. Section 2 is & grant of power. The prohibition and the grant of power are limited to intoxicating liquors for beverage pur- roaes. The power to determine whether legislation is within the scope of the grant thus- rests with the juriciary and a0t with the Congress.” Court Cages Cited. Here the report cites several cases in the courts to support this contention and culla".l.nues: et “While some ave legislative] included certain malt liquors as no;’ intoxicating or intoxicating, tive of their alcoholic content, the gress has no. power to define intoxica ing liquor except in definition is ‘in aid in prohibif cases, is clear that the right of the Congress to define intoxicating liquors as those con- of 1 per cent centum | analysis report of Dr. Henderson of Yale University, all of which are re- spectfully submitted as the most com- plete and scientific consideration and | examination of the question of intoxi- cating liquors, and what percentage of | alcohol in such liquors produces in- | toxication. | “Examination of such report has led the committee to recommend that the alcoholic content in the liquors to be | taxed should not exceed 3.05 per cent by weight and that such alcoholic con- tent satisfies the provision of the| eighteenth amendment.” $150,000 IN LIQUOR SEIZED ON DOCKS| Carload of “Bone” Brought From Havana Captured at Hoboken Pier. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 23.—Liquor valued by Pederal agents at $150,000 was_seized by customs officials today on the dock of the Seatrain Lines, Ho- boken, N. J., where it was said to have been shipped from Havana, Cuba. ‘The liquor, consisting of whisky and rum, was concealed in a freight car ostensibly carrying bone to be ground up for fertilizer. The car, shipped with its contents from Havana, was consigned “To order, New York,” and the agents were un- able to learn immediately to whom' it was_sent. ‘The seizure was made by John H.| McGill, deputy surveyor in cherge of | customs enforcement, and a group of | his men disguised as dock workers. The seizure was made after agents had waited in vain through the morning to see what disposition was to be made of the car and its contents. The Seatrain Lines is a new service operating between Hoboken and Ha- vana with a number of boats capable of carrying 100 freight cars each. Recently, it was sald at the custom house, Deputy Surveyor John Anderson noted an unexplained discrepancy in the weight of various cars all supposedly filled with bone. The watch began and when Seatrain Lines boat Havana docked at Hoboken Thursday it was found that one of the cars labeled bone | was ~considerably heavier than the of ntaf be quieter, whether its ar not. Workmen have installed it fiber tile at strategic to eliminate Peru has canceled its match mo- nopoly, which was held by a Swedish eompany. . Carrying his criticism of President Hoover to the House floor cgain tcday, Representative McFadden, Republican, Pennsylvania, said newspapers had questioned his “integrity” because of his attacks on the Chief Executive. The way in_which Mr. Hoover has “violated the Constitution is cpen and notorious,” McFadden told the House. He quoted the New York Herald- Tribune as having called his recent at- tempt to impeach the President a “con- temptible gesture.” That paper added. McFadden continued, that he appeared to be & “common scold or a benevolent busybody."” The New York Evening Post, the Pennsylvanian said, referred to his charge against the President as “an in- decency.’ ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer called him “just a national nuisance” and said there was a question of wheth- er McFadden “belongs not in the House of Representatives but in some other institution.” The substance of these articles is “false and defamatory,” McFadden said. LUKE LEA AND SON ORDERED ARRESTED Capiases Are Issued When Two Fail to Surrender in Court at Asheville, N. C. By the Assoclated Press. AS| . N. C, January 23.— Luke Lea, Nashville publisher, and his son, Luke Lea, jr., were called to surren- der in Buncombe County Superior Court today at 11:15 am. but they were not present and capiases were ordered is- sued for their arrest. 5 The Leas were called to surrender under two cha: ne for conspiracy and another for misapplication of funds in connection with the closing of the Central Bank & Trust Co. of Ashe- ville. The elder Lea, former Tennessee Sen- ator, is under sentence of 6 to 10 years in prison and his son under a two-to- four-year sentence, with the option of paying $25,000 in fines and costs. ‘When they failed to appear, Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles said efforts to extradite them from would be made. DEAD MAN DISCOVERED Unidentified Body Found by Police in Capital Apartment. The body of an unidentified white man, about 30 years old, was found in rtment in the 700 block of Sixth pouuwmmmhe:uum-mr-‘ n0gp to learn the identity of the man. leaving | RESIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT, shown as he and his party inspected Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals. The inspec- tion was made just before the President-elect went to Warm Springs, Ga., for a vacation. Wilson Dam is shown —A. P. Photo. | FAVORABLE REPORT MADE ON PROPOSED TRADE AID INQUIRY (Continued From First Page.) were able through open market opera- | tions to arrest the process of deflation. | That process has been arrested. “To stop, at this tme would bring about a contraction.” Representative Goldsborough, Mary- land, Democrat, said the House in pass- ing his price stabilization bill last session had the intention of setting a definite policy of expansion and stabil- ization which the board must follow. “If 1 may give my in dual v,” Mills sald, “no matter what may be the inclination of the central bank to keep money easy through the pur- /| chase of Government securities, you first must have a corner stone of a bal- anced budget to operate successfully. Would Stabilize Exchange. “Otherwise, all you would be doing is mopping up a Treasury deficit year after year. | astrous to continue that way. “You have got to break the vicious arcle at some point—if you could bal- ance the budget; then through the Fed- eral Reserve System pursue a vigorous | course; then aid in stabilizing foreign exchange by removing some of the oo- stacles which interfere with a free movement of trade; then attack the various categories of debts individually rather than attempt to cure all at once— “If you do this, then I think there | would be such a lift in tne world that it would be bound to raise prices. “This is the right way ratner than the manipulation of currency.” Mills said that “we are so close to a balanced budget that it can be had by a vigorous cut in expenses and a small increase in taxes.” Representative Busby, Mississippi Democrat, asked if Milis thought sua- bility of foreign exchanges would not require a gold standard for ail coun- tries. “I think it best for the principal in- dustrial and commercial countries,” he replied. Fears Credit Contraction, Mills said failure to re-enact the pro- vision permiting the use of Govern- ment bonds as collateral for reserve notes would “almost certainly” force Federal Reserve Banks to sell Govern- | ment securities, “resulting in a con- traction of credit which would be in- terpreted as a deflationary operation of ihe first magnitude.” Representative Busby, Democrat, of Mississippi, insisted that more currency was needed. He is author of a bill to issue $3,000,000,000 of Federal Reserve notes on Government securities. | “You can't keep currency in circula- jtion if there is no demand for it,” Mills replied, “it comes right back on |you, if anyone visualizes the problem i’“ simply one of pumping out currency, | he has too elementary a view of the | whole problem. Currency is bound to return if there is no demand. It is credit we do business with.” Senator Harrison’s proposal author- izes the Finance Committee to con- duct a far-reaching study of” the whole economic situation during which the views of economists, financiers, and other experts will be obtained. Costigan’s resolution calls upon the Tariff Commissicn and other Foderal agencies to investigate and report to the Senate not later than March 1, data which may assist the incoming administration in “tariff bargaining” with foreign powers. | " The Costigan proposal asks the com- | mission “generally to advise such ways | and means for tariff bargaining as may | | appear relevant for most advantageously | | promoting expanded trade between the United States and foreign countries, | with the purpose of increasing employ- | ment in the United States and markets | abroad for products of farms and fac- | tories of the United States.” | It requests information on tariff rates, foreign trade statistics, produc- | tion figures and other pertinent facts. including the extent of the export of capital from this country to build or buy factories and employ labor abroad. ‘The number of employes in Amer- ican-owned foreign factories also is re- quested. It has always proved dis- JURY S SELECTED FOR CLARK'S TRAL Panel of Farmers Is Chosen at Rockville for Second Prosecution, By a Btaff Correspondent of The Btar, ROCKVILLE, Md, January 23.—A Jury composed largely of fatmers was chosen in Circuit Court here today to sit in the second trial of Berry E. Clark, former clerk to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, charged with embezzlement of county funds. More than three-score citizens of the county were questioned in the jury box before 12 jurors satisfactory to the court, prosecution and defense were sworn. The jurors are Albert M. Dorsey, Stauzy L. King, Basil E. Moxley, Walter Davis, Walter Buxton, William G. Mc- Crossin, James W. Carlin, Joshua T. Austin, Clayton W. Ricketts, Willlam L. Myers, James A. Moxley and Clyde C. Lawson, List Is Disregarded. Considerable difficulty was encount- ered in finding prospects for jury serve ice, owing to an objection by the de- fense, subsequently sustained by the court, to the calling of men who had been notified previously by Sheriff Rich- | ard H. Lansdale to “stand by” for pos- sible jury duty. After a long confer- ence before the bench, the sheriff was instructed to choose candidates for the Jury “at large,” disregarding his pre- pared list. The court room was crowded beyond its capacity as the trial opened, many ?::som standing along the wall in the r. The State used eight of its alloted peremptory challenges in examining the Jurors, while the defense used all but one of the 20 challenges to which it was entitled. The court voluntarily ex- cused several prospective veniremen. With the completion of the jury the trial was adjourned for lunch. Hung Jury Last Spring. Clark’s first trial last Spring resulted in a hung jury, the reported deadlock vote being 11 to 1 for acquittal. Fol- lowing the dismissal of the first jury | State’s Attorney Stedman A. Prescott | sought a change of venue on the ground that Clark could not receive a “fair and | impartial” trial in Montgomery County, | but the petition was denied. | Clark is being represented by At- |torneys F. Barnard Welh, Bouic, Thomas Dawson and E. Barrett Prettyman | Clark went to trial this morning evi- | dencing no concern. and expressing con- ]fideqce that he will be acquitted. The ‘speclfic charge against him in this case is embezzlement of $426 of county funds —tie same count on which he was tried previously. Clark was indicted last March on 97 separate charges, following an audit which revealed alleged shortages in his accounts aggregating $50,000. The Stat> is expected to call nearly 100 witnesses, while the defense will surgmon about half that number, it is said. Chief Justice Hammond Urner and Associate Justice Arthur D. Willard are presiding at the trial. Judge Charles W. Woodward, the third member of the court for this circuit. will not sit be- cause of his previous service in the case as police justice when Clark was arraigned. | ITALY AND BELGIUM SEEK INFORMATION ON DEBT PARLEYS (Continued From First Page.) it was stated that this Government has not intimated to the British govern- | ment any desire of seeing Great Britain back on the gold standard. This question has come up naturally during the conversations at Geneva be- tween the experts who are preparing the agenda for the coming International Economic Conference, as has the ques- tion of the settlement of the war debts. It has been discussed in a purely in- formal way and the British representa- tives made it clear that Great Britain could not afford to return to the gold standard until it knew positively what her labilities toward the United States were. This point of view of the British Who were representing the government in London has been communicated to Washington and from Washington to Albany and was one of the principal reasons why the President-elect decided to re-open the whole question of war debts which appeared to have been shelved a few wecks ago. Mr. Roosevell made this decision afier consulting his experts on fore.gn and economic afiairs, in spite of a good deal of opposition from his frisnds in Congress, ~ especially from Speaker Garner. That Great Britain has been selected as the only nation with whom the President-elect wanted to renew negoti- ations is not due to any sentimental reason. Great Britain besides being the most important debtor nation has gone off the, gold standard and every nation still on the gold basis has been anxious to see her revert to the gold standard. When the British informed the Geneva experts that Great Britain could not consider changing her pres- ent status until the debi question was definitely out of the way. Mr. Roosevelt became convinced any delay in settling the war debts with Britain, at least, would retard considerably the process of economic recovery, both in this country and abroad. Asks Divorce After 51 Years. SEATTLE, Wash,, January 23 (®).— Fifty-one years ago John P. Brown was married. In 1905, he says, his wife, Mrs. | Amy Brown, left him. Now he's suing | for a divorce on the grounds of separa- | tion. MoTO NEWS ™ IN THE NEXT In next Sunday’s Star touring aids—safety notes. new models. compiled and supervised [ Sunilay Shar AUTOMOBILE SHOW SECTION will be found all there is to know about the 1933 automobiles—industry pre- dictions for the year—hints for the care of cars— Besides the special automobile section, two pages of Rotogravure will be given over to pictures of the Whether you are a motorist or a pedestrian, The Star of January 29 will interest you. News of the Motor World has been carefully by G. Adams Howard, Automobile Editor of The Star.