Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, with lowest temperature about 38 -degrees tonight; occasional rain be- ginning Tempera yesterday; 3 Full report on Page No. 32,410. post _office, tomorrow afternoon or night. tures—Highest, 3 lowest, 38, 62, at 3:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. today. Entered as second class matter Washington, C, D. C NON-DEFAULTERS| ON WAR DEBTS ARE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY 10 ASK NEW TERMS Roosevelt Authorizes Stimson to Invite All Nations Which Met Dec. 15 Payments. Italy Already Sent Bid. CZECHOSLOVAKIA SEEN NEXT NATION TO BENEFIT Attitude of Democratic Administra- tion Toward Other Debtors Not Yet Revealed, but Door Has Not Been Closed to France, Poland and Others in Arrears. ‘WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Jan- uary 24 (®.—President-elect Roosevelt has given authority to Secretary Stimson to ar- range separate conferences ' with European debtor nations which have met their obliga- | tions and are now requesting opportunity to talk over relief. By the Associated Press. With Great Britain and Italy leading the way, separate hear- ings will be granted all debtor na- tions that have met their pay- ments to this country and wish to discuss their obligations. Italy already has joined Great ! Britain in asking for a hearing | and, utilizing the authority grant- ed him by President-elect Roose- velt, Secretary Stimson has made the preliminary arrangements for them to send representatives. The Minister from Czechoslo- vakia, which also made its De- cember 15 payment, has visited Secretary Stimson twice to discuss the matter, but no announcement yet has come of plans for that country to send a representative. It was indicated the door has not been closed to negotiations with nations that have defaulted. Payers to Come First. While there have been intimations that France, Belgium, nd and Esthonia eventually will be given hear- ings the impression prevails that the prompt payers will have first con- sideration. Czechoslovakia was the first of the; debtor powers to make inquiries about | the invitation extended to Great Britain. Ferdinand Veverka, the Czechoslovakian Minister, sought information at the State Department last Saturday, con-| cerning the invitation extended the day before to Great Britain, and there is! reason to believe Czechoslovakia will be | asked to a conference very shortly. | Several of the countries that paia| their December 15 installments attached | with the payment a note asking for| reconsideration of the debt terms. Italy was among these. ‘While no word came today from the State Department regarding the pro- cedure that would be fcllowed in deal- ing with these countries, the joint statement of President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt after their re- cent conference prescribed a course of procedure. Stimson Declines to Talk. ‘This called for dealing with not only the war debt problem, but a considera- tion of ways and means of improving the world economic situation. Secretary Stimson, entering the White House this morning to attend the semi-weekly cabinet meeting, walked swiftly through the lobby and declined to answer all questions, When news- Blper men sought to speak to him he urried on, saying: “No, No, I can't stop to talk now.” Ambassador Rosso of Italy called at the State Department yesterday for a talk with Secretary Stimson, thus af- fording the Secretary an opportunity to extend the invitation personally. Rosso said when he left the depart- ment that he had received no instruc- tions from his country to take up debts, | but had called on his own initiative to inform himself of the attitude of this Government toward debts recon- sideration, in view of the recent Hoover- Roosevelt statement. Ambassador May of Belgium called | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) YOUNG MAN FOUND DEAD FROM GAS Victim Took Own Life With Pic- ture of Beautiful Woman Before Him. e T [} With the photograph of a beautiful young woman before him, Dennis B Irvin, 28, today committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in’ the dinette of his apartment at 815 Eigh- teenth street. Irvin, clad only in pafamas and a bathrobe, was found dead about 1 o'clock this afternoon. Fire rescue squad members, ‘Who responded to an emergency csll, said the young man had been dead nv'er:}. hours. SIR RONALD LINDSAY. BRITISH WANT ALL DEBTORS INPARLEY Understanding With FrenchE Regarding Settlement Is Chief Worry. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. WASHINGTO!. WORLD ECONOMS WITH RODSBELT Tariff Adjustments and Money Stabilization to Be Made Part of Debt Talks. .|NEW YORKER FENDS OFF INQUIRIES ABOUT CABINET Selection of Secretary of State May Result in Compromise, Omiiting Young, Walsh and Davis. By the Associated Press. | WARM SPRINGS, Ga., January 24— Detcrmined to put a new intcrnational program into prompt motion, President- elect Roosevelt today began a series of ccnferences on domestic and foreign economics with Bernard M. Baruch, financial authority of New York. Mr. Roosevelt is ready to meet and talk over separately with the foreign powers their pleas for relief on war debts, but he is going to exact in return for aid in this direction a measure of <co-operation on his plans to restore prosperity by tariff adjustments and stabflization of currencies. Baruch, a stanch Democrat and also | & man who has intimate knowledge of | the world economic situation, is ex- | pected to give a helpful hand in the | preparation of the Roosgvelt program. Great Britain, while pleased at the invitation of the State Department to | send a delegate to Washington to dis- cuss the question of an eventual re- vision of debts, is endeavoring to in- these conversations. The defaulting na- tions are France, Belgium, Poland and Esthonia. Sir Renald Lindsey, the British Am- bassador, called yesterdey afternoon at the State Department, throwing certain diplomatic hints as to the advisability of having a general debt conference. ; | Tonlle the British Ambassador had | ent-clect last night told newspaper | called on onc of the assistant secre- taries, Ambassador Rosso of Italy called on Secretary Stimscn to discuss in- formally the debt situation. Signor Rosso indicated he had no “official in- structions” to approach the Secretary in regard to Italy’s position in the new developments, but when he left Mr. Stimson’s cffice, he had an informal in- vitation to ask his government to send a representative to Washington to dis- cuss the Italian debt question. The British have been uneasy since the State Department extended the in- vitalion to send a represeniative to Washington last weck. Additional Information Sought. Officials of the B:itish embassy have | been endeavoring to get additional in- formation to elucidate to their govern- ment. The British catinet does not know what the President-elect would ! want them to do in order to obtain a settlement. They dont know whether the American Goverrment would in- sist on their throwing overboard the Ottawa agreement, or whsther it would insist on an immediate return to the gold standard. They also maintain the links between debt revision and the economic conference are so clorely in- terwoven it would be impossible to come to any final agrecment unless all the other interested nations were included | in the discussions which are to take place soon after Mr. Roosevelt comes | into office. ‘The main worry of the British, how- ever, is their committments to France. Last Summer, the Lausanne agree- | ment, whereby Germany was relleved | " (Continued on 2, Column 7.) UPHELD IN REFUSING | MILITARY TRAINING' University of Maryland Student Sustained by Baltimore Judge. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, January 24—A Mary- | land judge today upheld a unlverslty; student in his refusal to take’ military training. Circuit Judge Joseph N. Ulman de- | cided that to force Ennis Coale, Uni- versity of Maryland student, to take the militery course despite religlous ob- | jections, was an imposition of a reli- glous test in violation of the State con- stitution. _Coale was one of two siudents dropped from college becouse of his stand. Wayne L. Lees,of Washington, the oth- er, also seeks reinstatement in the university through court action. “The petitioner,” Judge Ulman held, “fs sincere 1 objection. Certainly he is one of a small m! of the youth of America.” Coale, whose home is neaj/Church- ville, Md., declered in the' trial his Methodist Eplscop:;(!xmm' caused him to oppose pulsory ~military training. He tesiffied he had” conscien- tious scruples.egainst warfare or prep- aration for/fer. Assistant Attorney General Willis R. Jones #Aid an appeal would be taken to the Maryland Court of Appeals. Perhaps he is hmm.%’ chafiges n his religious conscientious ,4ariff plan calls for no specific rates, Young Still Considered. Meanwhile, after a long talk with the Senate Republican and Democratic lib- | erals over some of his cabinet ideas, there was a belief here that Mr. Roose- velt was again looking about for the! i clude the defeulting debtor nations in | Secretary of State who he is going to | use as his right-hand man in the for- | eign negotiations. | Owen D. Young, New York financier |and an eauthority on the Eurovean | financial situation, which he once helped | to adjust in the settlement of German reparaticns, is believed still in the run- | ning. but with a new cloud of doubt. The liberals strongly oppose him. Because of the fact that the Presi- | | men no man “prominently considered” for the cabinet had been opposed by the party independents, there is some £peculation that he may be looking else- where than Young and Norman H. Davis, present American expert in the European problem. Roossvelt Not Committed. Senator Walsh of Montana is known | to have been suggested for the all-im- portant post of Secretary of State by some of those who have opposed Young. | | | the President-elect has made no pro- posal of Young for Secretary of State, :wl: has he indicated whom he would ake. Nevertheless, those clcse to Mr. Roosevelt have indicated very definite feelings that it is & “tug-of-war” be- tween advocates of Young and Senator Walsh and it is logical that a com- promise might be the answer. With the foreign problem—debts and economics—to be m:t at the very outset of the new administration in March, It is expected the Democratic leader will want by his side an authority on this subject. Persistently questioned by newspaper men_about his plans for international rehabilitation and his choices for the "Mh‘l:’inm smilingly fenc- ing oft Befcre sailing froms-Jgeksonville, Fla., February 4 for-a I0-day fishing cruise, the President-elect will go over his cabi- net situation and politics in general with his two aides, James A. Farley, chairman of the National Committee, and Louis M. Howe, personal friend. ‘Tomorrow, Walker Hines, former head of the Federal Railway Administration, will be here. Other economic experts, perhaps including some of those in the State Department mest closely acquaint- ed with the world situation, will be among them. Just how far the new administration is willing to go in extending relief on the war debts is unknown. Mr. Roose- velt, who will do his own negotiating, has given not the slightest hint of his lons. P an be said, however, that some of those in his intimate council on this question have discussed a postponement of payments for the period of the de- | pression. There will be no cancellation. That is certain and final. Lump Sum Payments. Talk of lump sum payments to wipe out the whole vexing prcblem has been heard in the Roosevelt councils also. However, this has almost been discard- ed for two reasons. FPirst, it is not be- he:led that the debw{s(;ret :I::lel utio bremke a lump sum payment that we garded adequate; second, it Is r,urfi; debts are just obligations and-thust be kept on the books and ji~“ever wiped out this country must get something in return. -~ His economigc-gfogram definitely in- ~reciprocity. Above all, t of the economic confer- ‘eements for stabilization of ex- and treaties on tarifft. The rather general agreement for lowering of national tariff walls. It was said at the Little White House “that several subjects would be talked over with Mr. Baruch,” who is acting chairman of the Emergency Committee. Baruch said today committee, headed by the late Calvin Coolidge, would hold meetings in Wash- ington on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week with Government officers and experts on rallroads and then would prepare a report. “i}OISTEROUS YALE MEN EJECTED FROM BURLESQUE PERFORMANCE Police Called by Management After Students in Box “Steal” Show By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 24.—A % | demonstrative group of Yale under- . | graduates at a revival of burlesque at From Actors. a box and “stole” the show from the company. The audience from orchestra to gallery was largely of students. There was a constant “patter” be- tween box and audience for some time and a bass quartet in the gallery sang. When the specialty acts were-resumed students interpolated at .times. an actor sang “I Only Have a Nickel” the students showered him with Of _course, it must be understood that | the mu! WITH ‘SUND, Y MORNING EDITION g , D. C, TU SDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933—THIRTY PAGES. BARUCH DISCUSSES |CHINA'S WAR FEVER ALARMS HPANESE, WHO SUSPECT TRAP iGeneva and: ‘Ngnking Stir Fear in Tokio—Major Offensive Looms. KAILU, IN JEHOL, BOMBED FIVE TIMES IN 2 WEEKS Former Rebel Leader Tuan Joins in United Frout With Nation- alists Against Invaders. | BY the Aszociated Press: Japanes: military planes bombarded i the city of Kailu, Northeastern Jehol | center, for the fifth time in less than | two weeks, it was reported today. The raids indicated the long-awaited Japa- | ncse offensive into that province might follow over that routé. | The Nationalist government foreign ioffice at Nanking dispatched a new note to Japan reiterating Chinese conten- {tions that the Japhnlese were respon- isible for the Shanhaikwan clash and reneving demands that the Japanese withdraw from the city, Chinese leaders held ‘military confer- ences at Nanking.® Marshal Tuan Chi- jui, former rebel leadér and former President, counteredreports he was still friendly with the Japanese by joining in a united front. M ' 0. Marshal Chang +Hsiao-Liang, North China commander, returned to Pelping from the Nanktng’ parley; More of his troops were reported heading toward | Shanhaikwan. er b Japanese reports disclosed a Japanese | garrison has been éstablishéd ‘at Chao- yang, second largest city in Jehol, and last night repelled ;n attack by an un- identified Chinese force after an hour’s JAPANESE FEAR TRAP. S0 hard fighting. 'Amy Bewildered Over; China's Next Moye.* .o BY REGINALD SWEETLAND. By Cable to The Star. ', ' TIENTSIN, China/ January. 24.—Be- wilderment over next move, | added to a certain amount of alarm, | best describes the Japhnese reaction to- ward the recent turn of events in North ; China. 3 It is evident to .observers. here that the Japanese are not as sure of them- selves as formerly. ‘change of mind is a result of the sf ing of the atti- tude of the conferences going on at Nanking, China’s capital, between: Nationalist . e hen the Japanese capflited, the poft town of slunm findrrn:d down through the all early this meonth, Japan had- expected the politi- | cal repercussion to be sufficient to oust { Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang from power in North China.. (Masshal Ohang was forced out of Mukden* e than a year ago. )mnkln. his headqudrters. at Pei- War Fever Spreads in China. This result, however,'so far has not been achieved. Instead it provoked mobilization of Chinese troops slong the | Great Wall and jnto Jehol ‘Province, | object of the laf Jhpanese drive, as | well as spreading the war fever against Japan throughout country. Neither of these eventualities has Jipan count- ed upon. 4% * Japan now fears that a trap has been set in North China. - - } “If we now come; info North China,” E would be startling.- aligning the Japan, which is thej very nese have set for ps.” Chinese, on the ot in the feeling that’the Shanhaikwan incident, with its "threat upont Peiping and Tientsin, had-the amazing effect of consolidating China and of sending both former Presidénts Tuan Chi-Jui and Marshal Ch! + Hsino-Liang to Nanking to confer with the central gov- ernment -5 ‘ The Japanese are speculating on the newest developmen¥ as showls unity with Nanking of “the di northern political * fdttions, Japan had hoped jo ‘mak ogram. ‘political star has t in the person 250 'i-g’i‘;m"zmvg;]fl“m , W u Y d program Gen. Chll#g"xul hek, China's tical and military gene 0. This is to achiej first, immediate consolidation of th§ Kuomihtang (rul- ing party) in an rt to gaim popular support; second, ! ratibn among the military kzd:g proving that the present national flict " is scompelling (WWucd?fi‘giiefiT&pmn 2) LEAGUE PUFS'LETICIA QUESTIONpN AQEN DA & 0t 5 Action Taken Following ' Peru's it “which Measure: quoe. £l By the Assoclated GENEVA, January ‘24—The Council (90,000,000 of R. F. C. Funds of the League of ,Nations, Jesponding to Peru’s request th League order » suspension of all'feasures*df force, placed the Leticianquestion .on its agenda today. S The committee ol the Chaco situd- and g‘mml g to mem!| , r prepare a report mm&-- mgul:dm o mmrmt, gave , rel an account of the Qi-rugfidmce which had ,pnudu betwecn: Lima, 'Bdgota and n Pompeo Abisi of.Italy is pre- siding at the -Couhéil cn;m | l | | A fini Japanese officials ‘today -informed this'ch::: and hotels, is an attempt to ! orrespondent, “though e may defeat| escape the charge of relegalizing the | he Chinese Army, the)consequences|oid-time saloons. There is no essantial | il If’&w:g:”.;m difference, h: asserted, so far as ":ie & beer aspect of the question is concerned, trap the Chi-|petween the old-time saloon and the r hand, are united ?h ng thef{when those two men look like four {men. then you are drunk.” Request for supsnsion of a1 | HOUSE APPROVES BILL ' ! 5.325 before pronibit The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated service. Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,057 FHP () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. DRYS ASKBREA NSTAD OF BEER Conclude Vigorous Attack on Black Bill Before House Subcommittee. Congress was urged not to put the | stamp of governmental approval on competition between bread and beer as some 300 representatives of dry organ- izations contluded a vigorous attack on the Black beer bill at a hearing today | before the House Judiciary Subcom- mittee. Chairman Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland, announced the hearings would be closed Thursday, when propo- | nents of the measure will testify. Prancis D. Nichol, representirg the Seventh-day Adventists, charged that the Black beer bill will remedy none of the alleged evils of prohibition. “There is no reason to believe,” declared, “that it would aid in restoring | prosperity, but rather the,, Jeyerse, and the révéride received woiid“be' a | fictitious gain for the District govern- | ment. One thing only would be as- | sured by the passage of this bill—no one, old or young, would ever lack for | beer, no matter how great his appetite. | “In these days when so many fathers must make their dollars stretch to the limit to provide their families with the bare necessities of life. why legalize s product which, unless all past history | is wrong, will present an irrestible | temptation to too many fathers to r & part of their meager earn- ings. I ask your committee not to put the stamp upon a program of competi- tion between bread and beer.” ‘The witness said the beer bill would | restore 90 per cept of the old legal | liquor business, as it is a matter of record that 90 per cent of the liquor drunk in pre-Volstead days was beer. He sald the section of the bill con- | the sale of besr to restaurants, | oo l:llllpenllnc agencies permitted in is 3 In declaring that 3.2 per cent beeris intoxicating, Mr. Nichol told the €om- mittee the story of a conversatfon be- tween a father and.son in-a German beer garden. ' “Daddy,”_jnquired 4fie son, “when is a man P~ “Son” the parent replied, “you see two men over at the next table? “But,” returned the little boy, “there aren't two men there, there's only one.” Just what might happen to the motorist who thought he saw two cars approaching abreast when he thought tgere was only one, I leave to my hear- ers,” he said. Cites Alcohol Deaths. Mr. Nichol cited figures to show that from 1919 to 1917, inclusive, the deaths from alcoholism in the District of Co- lumbia per 100,000 were 6.737. From 1920 to 1930, he said, they were 3.| Throughout the entire ‘country during | the wet era, he said, the figures were | ion and 3.136 after- ward. | He contended these figures refuted arguments of the wets that there is more drinking now than in pre-prohibi- "o"l.;l ‘lE:flu that legalized beer 1d | woul be injurious rather than beneficial to (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) TO MAKE CROP LOANS Would Be Available Under New Provision. them 1o | tate” of Sir Francis Drake, which the officials ~declare is tadio Programs on Page B-14 Bank Rug WovenLike $5 Federal Reserve Note 0. K.’d by U.S. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 24. —The Government figures & rug woven to resemble a $5 Federal Reserve note hardly constitutes counterfeiting. i Somebody presented the Union Planters’ National Bank & Trust Co. with the rug last Summer. It was patterned after a bank note and Secret Service agents, called to inspect it and rule whether it violated the counterfeiting laws, were reluctent to express an opinion. So the rug was sent to Wash- ington and now it has been re- turned with the Government's permission to use it. ARMY OFFICERS PAY GUT PASSED ne House Adopts Amendment ;!m Expected to Affect-Half of Personnel. By the Associated Press. The Houte today adopted an amend- ment to the War Dcpartment bill ex- pected to reduce the pay of nearly half the Army officers and save $3,500,000 a year. Proposed by Representative Tabor, Republican, of New York, and adopted by a 60-to-44 vote. it would change the basis for computatiocn of longevity pay ailowed Army officers. At present, a man who became-fin active officer before July 1. 1822, is entitled to count all his scrvice before | DIty for manipulation on the part of ! | that time in computing_longevity pay. A man who became an active officer after that time couwld count only the time after he enplisted. West-Point Graduates. Graduatés from West Point before 1922 are silowed to count their four years of/Service in the Military Acad- emy; tHose who finished after 1922 may count only the service after they were cafamissioned =s second lieutenants. The Taber amendment would require ;L]slf.y to be computed on the same Taber told the House it would reduce expenditures by the War Departnfent $3,500,000 a year. He said 5064 Army officers out of the 12,000 would be af- fected; that a similar amendment to the Navy Department appropriation bill would affect the pay of 4,243 Navy offi- cers out of 8,781 and of 481 Marine offi- cers out of 1,042. The House reduced from $14.817 to $4,817 an appropriation in the bill for continuing the establishment of a na- tional military park at the battlefields of the siege of Petesburg, Va. Training Camps Upheld. Disregarding proposed economies sup- ported by Democratic leaders the House yesterday voted to continue the Citizens’ Military Training Camps next year, and added $2,500,000 to the War Depart- ment appropriation bill. It likewise followed the lead of Re- publicans and agreed to spend $572,000 | more on Organized Reserves than the Appropriations Committee had_recom- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Robber Kills Policeman. KANSAS CITY, Januaty 24 (@).— Patrolman LeRoy Van Meter, 34, was shot to death in a downtown shoe store yesterday by a robber he surprised in the act of rifiing the cash register. The robber, who obtained $30, escaped. AR HANY LNES FAGE RECEVERSHP :Report on Bankruptcy Bill | Says Carriers Have Reached Borrowing Limit. By the Associated Press. A warning that many railroads face | reorganization or receivership was con- | tained in the report on the McKeown- La Guardia bankruptcy bill placed be- fore the House today by its Judiclary | Committee. The bill is looked upon by | its_sponsors as bound to help the sit- | uation of such carriers. | _The measure i backed by bcth the Democratic and Republican lezdership !'and is in line with President Hoover's recent message to Congress urging re- | vision of the bankruptcy law to facili- tate reorganization of corporations and | fcr the benefit of hard-pressed indi-| viduals. In his report Chairman Sumners said | ‘railroads are at this time excluded | m the o aw” an added. “The necessity for the | enactment of this section grows out of | the present expensive, protracted, con- | fusing and inefficient administration of affairs of railroad companies engaged in Alficrsuu commerce in equity receiver- | thips.” “Tte necessity for its immediate en- actment results,” the report said, “from the fact that at the present time many of the railroad organizations of the country confront the necessity of re- organization. They have’ reached the limit of their ability to borrow from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “They must either reorganize under some ayrangemvent such as is provided | for by this section, or be administered | in “equity receiverships. The protracted | period of such administration, the dupli- | cation of expense incident to ancillary | receiverships, the waste, the opportu- | special groups. are too well-known to | require comment.” ! Provisions of Measure. | The report explained the railrcads | section “provides that a railroad cor- peration cngaged in interstate com- merce may file a petition in the Fed- | eral Court, stating that the railrcad is | either insolvent of unable to meet its | debts as they mature, and that it de- | sires to effect a plan of reorganization.” | "It is required,” the report continued, “that the judge shall ascertain that the petition is filed in good faith and com- plies with the provisicns of this sec- | tion. and upon such approval the judge | procures jurisdiction of the debtor's | property wherever located. | Hearings for Creditors. | _“There is also provision made, in the event the railroad company does not | file such petition, for the filing of a pe- | tition by 25 per cent in amount of any class of creditors and not less than ' 10 per cent of all creditors of such | crporation, upon procuring the ap- roval of the Interstate Commerce Commission.” | . Provisions also are made for the fil- ing and consideration of practically any (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PROVINCE SUSPENDS DEBT Buenos Aires Unable to Meet Pay- ments on $140,000,000. | _BUENOS AIRES, January 24 (#).— | The Chamber of Deputies of Buenos | Aires Province today approved an in- definite suspension of provincial foreign debt payments. The Senate already has approved the measure, which is sponsored by the provincial government. The debts of the province abroad are the largest of any Argentine govern- mental unit except those of the nation. They approximate $140,000,000, of g{l“lch one-half is owed to the United tes. e POST (;FFICE REVENUE SWELLS AS DRAKE ESTATE BAN IS FOUGHT | Protests to Justice Department and Members of Con- gress Flood Mails. The Post Office Department has tapped a new ‘soufce of revenue. A scattered barrsge of protests that recently barred the mails to the backers of the “Drake estate™ proposition has letters coming in from the Middle West and Bouthwest from those who feel that the department’s action has deprived of & chance to share in the “es- ke ‘Not only 1 the Poet Office Depart- oo e Depariseat of Jusies a54 started about the time the department | tenor, members of Con, . Approximately S % appearance _this of the same seek become a steady ‘bombardment, With| Post Office peration of the bankruptcy | WHEELER REVIVES (16-T0-1 SILVER PLAN IN BANKING DEBATE Remonetization Amendment to Bill, Offered by Montan- an, Opposed by Glass. VIRGINIAN SAYS CURRENCY IHAS NO PLACE IN REFORM 'Sponsar of Bryan Issue Asserts His Proposal Would Double World's Primary Money. By the Associated Press. The cry for remonetization of silver at 16-to-1 ratio with gold—heard far and wide in the nineties from the lips of the late William J. Bryan—rang out in the Senate today as efforts were made by Democratic liberals to attach such an amendment to the Glass bank- ing reform bill. Over the protest of the veteran con- servative, Carter Glass of Virginia, Sen- ator Wheeler of Montana revived the historic issue with a declaration that the boosting of silver prices would cure most of the world's troubles. Before Wheeler spoke, Senator Glass, author of the bank bill, which the Sen- ate hopes to pass at a night session to- ! night, if not soonér, declared the sil- ver question was not german: to the bank measure and that any further moves of similar nature would be met with a demand from him that the pro- posals be tabled. Not a Currency Bill. “Of course, I shall ask rejection of this amendment,” Glass asserted, add- ing the “bank bill is to insure in some measure good banking and it has nothing to do with currency.” Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisi- ana, another Liberal, interrupted to say “that has not always been the position of the Senator from Virginia.” “The Senator,” Long continued, “of- ferred his inflation amendment last !session to the Home Loan Bank bill. {1 can't conceive how he makes fish out | of one and fowl out of the other.” “Well,” Glass replied, “that's my position now and that is the important point.” | " "Wheeler said he challenged any one last year to disprove his claim that | remonetization of silver at 16 to 1 would | double the value of the world’s primary money and more than double the prjce of wheat and cotton and the pir- chasing power of silver nations. Sees Aid to Tariff. “Since that time.,” he added. “no- body on either side of this chamber has disputed that. Not only that, but since then we have seen an Increasing fiam- ber of foreclosures of mortgages and increased bank failures, and country after counrty has gone off the gold standard until now nearly 40 nations are using other standards.” | Wheeler referred to statements by | President Hoover and others that de- | preciated foreign currencies were low- | ering American tariff protection, and | said: do | e Gaimas e tncimeciiont i Gen !nny other piece of legislation before i Congress.” . Senator Davis, Republican of Pennsyl- vania, asked if Wheeler would not favor placing embargoes on the cheap foreign goods flowing into this country. Not Bryan's Idea, “What we need to do is to raise the purchasing power of the other nations as well as our own,” Wheeler replied. “I have never favored embargoes be- cause they would cut off our exports.” Davis said 95 per cent of American products were consumed domestically. “Yes,” Wheeler replied, “but the cther per cent, fixes the price of the product omestically.” ‘Wheeler asserted that Bryan did not | originate the 16 to 1 theory. ‘I am asking Congress to adopt the | money system of our forefathers,” he |said. “It was the money of Alexander Hamilton and of Thomas Jefferson. 'FORD SOUGHT TO HEAD UNIFIED DRY GROUP i Invitation, Sponsored by Dr. Wil- | 1 } “Remonetization of silver will 1 son, Supported by President of Enforcement Committee. By the Associated Press A movement is under way among leaders of dry organiZitions to invite Henry Ford to head a unified group of all prohibition proponents. Dr. Clerence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals made the suggestion at a recent meeting of the | Council of Organizations Supporting | the Eighteenth Amendment—embracing i virtually every group in the United | States opposed to change in the prohi- bition laws. The plan would be to send a com- mittee to Detroit and ask Ford to be- come general chairman of either the Council of Organizations or the Na- tional Temperance Council, another similar organization. The plan has received support from Clinton N. Howard, president of the National United Committee for Law En- forcement. Ford would be asked to take charge and organize along the lines of his business. He will likely be invited to a meeting in March of church leaders summoned by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of the Methodist Church to unify the prohibi- tion movement. POPE TO SE.ND MESSAGE Annual Blessing to U. 8. to Be Transmitted by Radio. VATICAN CITY, January 24 (&.— Cardinal Pacelli, the papal secretary of state, will transmit to the United States this afternoon a message blessing of Pope Pius to the clergy and Jaity of America. The message will te a commercial radio service Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic ‘Washington, who will relay it to all bishops.