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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Burcau Forecast.) Fair today; tomorrow, cloudy and somewhat warmer, followed by rain in the afternoon; moderate to fresh north- west winds diminishing today. Tfll;gfl'- atures—Highest, 42, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 1 a.m. yesterday. Full' report on page 11. he Swndiy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1454—No. 32415, Jntered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. ) LINDSHY ARRIVES AT WARMY SPRNGS FOR PARLEY TODAY Ambassador Welcomes Debt| Conference Arranged by President-Elect. DECLARES DISCUSSIONS MAY POINT TO RECOVERY Roosevelt Believed Determined to| Link Economic Problem With Five Foreclosures On Minnesota Farms| Thwarted by 3,000 Bank Robbery Adds loi Excitement Amid Com- plications of Law. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Minn, January 28— Three thousand farmers, protesting eviction from land for non-payment of debts prevented foreclosure sales of five farms in three contiguous Western Minnesota counties yesterday. Gathering as have agrari=ns of several | States in recent weeks, they brought | about indefinite postponement of all | the proceedings. One, involving a lumber company's lien of slightly more than $100, for fencing an 80-acre tract, was delayed indefinitely _after a. temporary halt failed to effect a settlement. March Negotiations. By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., January 23.— Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Am- be dor, arrived here at 1 tonight by omcbile from Atlanta to confer with President-elect Rooseveit on war dcbts, economics and disarmament Awakening in the froni seat of his automobile upon =arrival Sir Ronald said he would have rothing to say until after tomorrow's meeting with Mr. Roosevelt. Because of the late ar- rival, no attempt was made for a con- ference tonight ‘The Ambassador was accompanied from Atlanta by Mrs. Roosevelt; Elliott, on; Louis McHenry Howe, the Presi elect’s political secretary; Mrs. Morgenthau, jr., wife of one of Mr. Roosevelt's advisers, and Gene Vi- dal, former Army foot ball star and a friend of the Roosevelt family. All had flown from Washington. Welcomes Conference. Ambassador Lindsay said in Atlanta that the information Mr. Roosevelt pro- posed to reopen the discussion of war debts was “the best news that England and the world have had for a long time.” He declared that “the debt difficulties ©of Great Britain and other nations are a paramount cause of the world-wide business inactivity. Neediess to say, I hopeful of the outcome. ."'1’1 l\kp(‘ the way President-elect Roose- velt deces things. It was late Friday before I knew he wanted to see me, and of course I readily accepted his jnvitation. Mr. Stimson arranged for the plene, and here I am. Twenty-four hours ago I had not the slightest idea I would be anywhere cther than in ‘Washington.” In this unprecedented bridging of the gap between administrations on foreign affairs. President-elect Roosevelt took the initiative with the full co-operation of the outgoing Sccretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Invited Lindsay to Call. With the international situation now obvicusly in his control, Mr. Roosevelt asked Ambassador Lindsay to call at the “Little White House” on Pine Mountain to go over in a most general way the var debts, world economic and dis- armament problems now facing the two governments. 3 A more complete understanding on the fact that the Democratic President- elect intends to link the economic problem very definitely with the March | discussions on war debts relief is prob- ®bly the basis for the invitation. : Word from Washington that Sir Ronald was to leave for London on “Tuesday was said by Mr. Roosevelt to have prompted the meeting. It gives opportunity to convey in general outline the ideas he has for restoration of world currency stabilization and trade in return for the war debt relief asked by Great Britain. Most certainly, the Roosevelt word today that economics and disarmament were among the subjects for discus- sion links these topics Wwith the im- pending debt relief talks. Plays a Lone Hand. Also, the meeting shows Mr. Roose- wvelt playing the lone hand he intends to continue in the forthcoming debt negotiations. Because he will ceal per- sonally with the European debtors there persists speculation that Ramsay MacDonald, the British prime minister, may be the one to come to Washington = (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CUBAN CENSORS DESTROY 140 COPIES OF MAGAZINE Recent Edition of American Peri- odical Is Seized by Military Authorities. By the Assoclated Press, HAVANA, Cuba, January 28.—Acting on orders from military censors, police | today seized 140 copies of a recent edi- tion of an American magazine from the Havana distributor. Two weeks ago copies of the same publication were scized, but almost simultaneously —Secretary of State Forrara told newspaper men that cen- ip on United States publications w an error,” that the seizure oc- curred because orders were misunder- stood, and that no further interference vould be permitted. he magazines were destroyed today, bui censors removed the covers and| returacd them to the distributor, pre- sumably so that he could be credited with the confiscated copies. The sheriff, told a settlement had {not been reached, then announced the { indefinite postponement and said pres- ence of 400 farmers, who remained at | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ! CABINETCOLLAPSE TROUBLES LEAGUE ‘:Consideration of Sino-Japa- | nese, Chaco and Leticia Disputes Faces Delay. | | By the Associated Press. ) GENEVA, January 28 —The fall of: |the French and German governments | today further embarrassed the League ' of Nations in its efforts to pacify three | warlike conflicts and to reanimate the | Disarmament Conference. | In view of the uncertainty in Paris | | and Berlin, resumption of the sessions | | of the general commission of the con-| | ference, which already has been post- ! WASHINGTON, ECONOMY PROGRAM CONSIDERATION DUE EARLY THIS WEEK Senate to Push Treasury- Post Office Bill to Spzedy Action. AMENDMENTS TO URGE SAVINGS OF $42,020,000 Eight Other Regular Appropria- tion Measures Must Be Acted on in Next 30 Working Days. With only 30 working days left for Congrzss this session and all of the annual appropriation bills still remain- ing to be acted on by the Senate. that; body will make an effort to get the firit of these supply measures—the Treasury-Post Office bill—out of the way early this week. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessce, will call up several amendments tomorrow designed to chop about $42,- 000,000 from the Treasury-Post Office total, and one or two other Senators, including King, Democrat, of Utah, also have restrictive amendments to offer 1t thece changes can be disposed of tomsrrow the Senate will be ready Tuesday to tackle the general economy program which is attached to the end of this supply bill. It contains recom- mendations vitally affecting Govern- ment. employes, including the additional pay cut of 125 per cent and the grant- ing of broader powers to the incoming President to rcorganize the Govern-| ment esteblishment. There is no_certainty, how . that the Treasury-Post Office money items can be finished tomorrow, and if not, the economy debate would not start; until Wednesday. Senator Bingham, | Republican. of Connecticut. will have charge of the economy sections. i | | ! D. C, =S N Ashore With Galebound Crews With Their “Devil Divers” Await- ing Calm to Go Back to Oyster Beds—Legally or Otherwise. BY CHARLES B. DEGGES. Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLES POINT. Va. January 28.— “Pirates” and their “devil divers” are galebound here tonight in this barren cover of the lower Machodoc River, PARK OFFICER DIES INCRASH WITH CAR Motor Cycle Policeman J. F. Grove, Father of 8, Struck Near Rock Creek. the “Pirates” | sizes and shapes: some Chesapeake Bay | canoes that were built of heavy logs | many years ago. and some the more | recently developed bateau. They are moored by the head to a narrow planked | pier that leads ashore to Capn G. W. Godmin's store, whete the men buy | their grub. It is bitter cold here to- Park Policeman James F. Grove, 46, father of eight children, was fatally in- “From Press to Home ; Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serve Star, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1933—110 PAGES. ## | poned from Tuesday until Th““dfly-‘ Other Controversial Features. 1 may be adjourned for a week or more.} pige from the pay cut and reorgani- Discussion of the French disarma- | zaiion, the economy portion of the ment plan is the first task before the|bill contains other controversial fea- | general body of the conference, and|tures which may easily provoke sev- this scheme, with its comprehensive | eral days of discussion, in which event | and radical proposals, requires close |the Treasury-Post Office measure would attention from fully responsible gov-inot leave the Senate stage until the | ernments of the big powers. The end of this week. French would eliminate professional ; One other bill, for the Interior De- armies for conscript troops and would ! partment, is ready for Senate consid- guarantee security by a series of pacts. | eration, and after that must come seven | Japanese Activities Reported. deficiency bill. = Of course, if all of While the committee drafting a re- |these supply bills should not get Iport on the Sino-Japanese conflict|through by March 4, they could be | rested for the week end, Dr. W. W. Yen, ! considered in the special session of the | Chinese delegate, filed with the League | new Congress, expected to be called | secretariat a note announcing that the | soon after the inauguration. But, as | Japanese military was active on the:Crairman Hale of the Senaté Appro- | boruer of the province of Jehol. priations Committee points out, the Six bombing planes, Dr. Yen charged, | special session will have other impor- tant matters to consider, and he is | attacked Kailu, 2 city near the north- | eastern_border ‘of Jehol, killing 11 sol- | urging both parties in the Senate to act | diers, two camp followers and more |on these measures now. | than' 100 civiliars. A delegation from the United States |~ The Drafting Committee will submit | Chamber of Commerce called yesterday on Senator Hale and Representative to the Assembly's Committee of 19 on | | Byrns, chairman of the House Appro- | | Monday or Tuesday the text of their draft to date, which gives an historical | other regular supply bills and a second | account of the dispute both in the East and at Geneva and makes some Ob- servations regarding responsibility. “So far as could be learned, the draft, in careful terms, absolves China from blame for the events after September 18, 1931, the date of the “Mukden in- cident” which ushered in the conflict. Thus it negatively placed responsibility on Japanese soldiers. Leticia Dispute Less Hopeful. | Peru's telegram, declaring that that | nation proposed to defend Peruvians in |the border city of Leticia against a | Colombian expedition, did not encour- | age hopes for a friendly adjustment of |the Amazon controversy, but members | ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. 'PERU ACCEPTS OFFER | OF BRAZIL ON LETICI | Reiterates Approval of Flan to Set- tle Controversy With Colombia. A | By the Associated Press. | LIMA, Peru, January 28.—It was of- | ficially reiterated tonight that Peru has | accepted Brazilian offers to help settle the controversy between Peru and | Colombia over the port of Leticia on | the upper Amazon. Brazil, however, has not yet replied to the Peruvian proposal regarding | Peru’s counter-suggestion that Leticia | be taken over by Brazil pending negotia- | tions between the disputants. | Meanwhile, conferences were con- | ducted throughout the day by cabinet | members and other high officials re- | garding Leticia, which Peruvian nation- als seized a few months ago from Colombia. Earlier today the Peruvian government, replying to a note from | Secretary of State Stimson, said it has | not violated the Kellogg peace pact. The reply asserted that, while Peru Cesires peaceful solution of the trouble, | Colombia “preferred to establish its authority by violent means.” “*SURELY, KEEP YOUR JOB,” SAYS MRS. ROOSEVELT TO MRS. GARNER Next First Lady Advises Ne: xt Second Lady to Continue Husband’s Secretarial Work. By the Associated Press. A school teacher and a secretary, both fond of their jobs, got together here yesterday and talked over the problem of what to do about those jobs after March 4. ‘The teacher, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- wvelt, who earlier called alone and on foot at the White House, which is to be her home for the next four years, will have to give up her job March 1. - But she told Mrs. John N. Garner she saw no reason why the latter should not go right on being her husband's secretary even after he is Vice President. They met at the Mayflower Hotel shortly before Mrs. Roosevelt walked to e White Hcuse to look over, at Mrs. ioover's invitation, the second floor rooms that the President and his family use as living quarters. After a swift and uneventful walk, during_which no one recognized her, Mrs. Roosevelt dodged through the traffic across Pennsylvania avenue and swung briskly up the long curved driveway to the executive mansion. She stayed an hour, chatting with Mrs. Hoover, conferring with members of the White House staff, and inspect- ing the second floor, which she had not seen since she visited the place as a girl, while her uncle, Theodore Roose- velt, was President. She left on foot, but picked up a taxicab at the corner, after glancing at her watch and discovering she was late for an appointment with Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, head of the governmental department that has charge of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. | priations Committee, to urge that Fed- i eral appropriations be reduced to ths | " (Continued on Page 5, Column 5) 'ENGLAND CAUTIOUS ON RETURN TO GOLD {Must Be Sure It Will Work and Favor World Agreement, Says Chamberlain. By the Associated Press. BIRMINCHAM, England, January 28. | —Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of ithe exchequer. in a speech here last I night made clear the conditions under | which Great Britain will return to the |gold standard. | “We are not going to trust ourselves again to the gold standard,” he said, “unless and until we are assured it will work. In order to be sure it will work, there has to be an international agreement as to the conditions under which it shall be worked.” TODAY’S STAR | PART ONE—20 PAGES. | General News—Local, National Foreign. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial and Editorial Features. Schools and Colleges—Page 4. District Naticnal Guard—Page 5. Stamps—Page 5. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 5. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 6. American Legion Auxiliary—Page 6. D. C. Naval Reserve—Page 8. Spanish War Veterans—Page 8. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Society. PART FOUR—6 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music. Aviation Activities—Page 4. American legion—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 4. Fraternities—Page 4. { Public Library News—Page 4. Radio News—Page 5. D. A. R. Activities—Page 6. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. and PART SIX—I2 PAGES. Financial and Classified Advertising. News of the Clubs—Page 12. Serial Story, “Night Club Daughter”— Page 12. PART SEVEN—I16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Reviews of New Books—Page 11. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 13. Boys’ and Girls’ Page—Page 14. High Lights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. PART EIGHT—16 PAGES. Auto Show Seotion. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Holly of Hollywood; Keeping Up With the Joneses; Mutt and Jefl; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr, and Mrs.; The Timid Soul; Little Orphan Annie; Moon Mullins; Tarzan, “ waiting for a calm that will send them {cut on the Potomac after oysters—legal- ly or otherwise. They sit in the cuddy cabins of their little boats, itiny wood-burning stoves. Kerosene lanterns light their bearded faces. Some of the crews play checkers and some of them sit quietly and smoke. Some talk—and it's about oysters and the law that says they shan't scrape for them whole situation is desperate. The boats—some 15 of them—are all hugging the heat from | night and the new moon has just set. | This is the “pirate nest” which this reporter for The Star visited here to- day against the advice of Maryland State Conservation Commission officers. his trouble of traveling miles to talk with the “pirates” would be.a “slug in the head.” But these are sociable v about the word “pirate.” It They warned him that all he'd get for | jured yesterday afternoon when his motorcycle was struck by an automobile on a curve near the entrance to Rock Creek Park, hurling him down an em- bankment off Blagden avenue. | Grove died at Walter Reed Hospital shortly after the crash, death being due | |to a fractured skull and internal in- juries. in the Potomac that they talk. And it's | serious talk, for with these men the has been and still is applied by the | Three youths, said by police to have ion officers to oystermen who use struck the motorcycle officer, were ar- INQUIRY ON FORD'S Sponsor of Move for Probe of Banks. | By the Associated Press. The word of Henry Ford as to causes yesterday by Senator Black cf Alabama Ito launch a drive for investigating the charge that a few banks have a stranglehold on American through interlocking directorates. Ford was quoted in an interview ob- | phone as saying that some competitors and bankers were responsible for the strikes. His assqciates said this was substantially correct. Cites Coincidence. saying it was quite a coincidence that this should be disclosed when a Senate committee had just been told by a labor bank control. Afterward, Black told newspaper men a thorough inquiry should be held. He thought Senator should handle it or else that the House Banking Committee should get after the subject in connection with the Glass banking bill now before it. His own Judiciary Subcommittee, which heard the charge in hearings on Black’s six-hour-day, five-day-week bill, is going to hear more next Tuesday. Not to “Produce Evidence.” Black, thoroughly aroused, at the same time said that any one thinking the hearings on his bill were “only to " (Continued on Page 2. Column 3.) DE VALERA MAJORITY IN DAIL IS ONE SEAT Counting of Ballots in Vote Tues- day Gives Fianna Fail Party 76. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, January 28 —President Eamon de Valera will have a majority of one seat in the new Dail Eireann which meets two w from today. The counting of the final ballots in Tuesday’s general election, comj ‘wnlght with the last returns from Gal- way, assured the tall, gaunt Spanish- Irish President a total number of seats in the lower house of the Legislature, which will make uniecessary his reli- ance on Labor members, usually stead- fast but occasionally doubtful allies. Having won a total of 76 seats in the new Dail, the President’s party, the Fianna Fail, will be able to tie the com- bined strength of all other parties then, if another vote is needed to break a deadlock, Will have that of the er. For all working purposes, however, the Flanna Fail and the Labor party er will mustér a majority of 17. With completion of the tabulations, the of the parties is: Pianna Fail, 177 (counting the speaker): Cumann Na Ngaedheal (the party of former President William T. Cocgrave), 48; Independents, 8: Labor, 8; Center party, 11; Independent Labor, CHARGES PROPOSED morrow. They are: Edward Madison | Hall, jr., 23, of the 1400 block Har- SEURES HUMELESS | William Alexander, 20, of 1424 Var- | num street. 1 INNORTHEAST GALF =55 st 1 at $1,000, while the other two occu- hand scrapes” in violation of the 'aws | rested and released for appearance at | vard street, who operated the car; | William Allison, jr., 21, of the 1700 block Charges of manslaughter were filed | pants of the car were released on bond of $500 each. ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. | & coroner’s inquest at 11:30 am. to- | Nineteenth street, owner of the car, and against each of the three at the tenth Proceeding Out of Park. Maryland State Conservation Commis- been the occupants of the car which ' Senator Black of Alabama Is | of the strike in another plant which is | tying up his operations was seized upon | industry | tained in London by transatlantic tele- | Black read the story to the Senate, | representative about the New York | Norbeck’s Stock Exchange investigation | Property Damage Hundreds of Thousands of | Dollars on Coast. Runs Into! By the Associated Press, BOSTON, January 28 —New England's rific beating from a roaring surf that ‘caused damage estimated at hundreds | of thousands of dollars and made scores of persons temporarily homeless. Whipped to a frenzy by two days of continuous northeast winds of gale force, the sea rushed in over seawalls and other protective barriers at high | tide about noon and then receded leav- ing damage and disorder in its wake. Summer cottages toppled into the sea’ and many buildings and piers that years fell before the terrific onslaught. miles as the tide rose 3 feet above nor- mal at Boston, to 14.11 feet. Shipping Tied Up. Shipping was tied up as their crews awaited a predicted drop in wind velocity and calmer seas during the night. Thirty-five miles to sea from its usual base, the Nantucket lightship fought feebly against the elements to return to its post from which it was driven yesterday. Other craft on the fishing banks and approaching the coast likewise fought the winds and waves. Some Coast Guard vessels were thwarted in their attempts to put out for patrol duty. Railroads, and in some places, trolley lines wefe inundated by the maddened rugged coastline today toock another ter- | had withstood the battering waves for | Coastal lowlands were inundated for | The tragedy happened about 1 p.m. | 25 the cfficer was proceeding northeast | out of the park. Park Police said they | were informed Grove had been running his motorcycle slowly along the right side of the road, when the automobile bore down on him. National Cemetery or in the family plot at Ligonier, Pa. Grove had taken his wife, Mrs. Rachael T. Grove, and _their four- month-cld_son, Richard Earl, to the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Thompson, at Harriman, N. Y., early this year, on account of his wife's | health. She was notified of his death, and, if sufficiently recovered, is expected to come to Washington for the funeral. Daughters Get News of Death. At the Grove home, at 3309 Date | street, Mount Rainier, two of the younger daughters, Edith May, 14, and | Mary Alice, 12, yesterday afternoon | stoically met reports of their father's death. They were the only ones still | living in the home. The older ones who have residences in Washington are: Mrs. Thomas Seger, Wilfred Grove, Mrs. Carl Small, James Grove and Miss Frances Virginia Grove. Other sur- viving relatives are two brothers, Harry C. Grove of Pittsburgh, Dr. William W. Grove of Johnstown, Pa., and one sister, Mrs. Mary Brenizer of Ligonier, Pa. Grove was born in Ligonier Septem- | ber 21, 1886. Enlisting in the Cavalry April 25, 1904, he served with this branch of the Army until April 24, 1907. Coming to Washington he worked for a while as a motorman for the Capital Traction Co.. and joined the force of tlge ll;;l;ted States Park Police January FLORIDA WITHOUT TRACE Funeral arrangements had not been | completed last night, but it was thought | burial would be either in Arlington | OF MISSING PUBLISHER William H. Taylor, 74, of Mont- clair, N. J., Believed to Be Suffering from Amnesia. water. Long stretches of railroad tracks close by the sea were buried under tons of boulders and sand. The Red Cross moved into Revere, on the Massachusetts north shore, and set up headquarters to supplement the efforts of police and firemen, who, for pleted | ham mum velocity at and | P les, Highland the past 24 hours, have given assistance to _storm-harassed residents. Many roads in the path of the in- rushing water were closed to travel by order of the State and local authori- ties when the tide receded, leaving them either broken or strewn with debris. Some were impassable. Water Surrounds Hull Cottages tumbled into the sea after being undermined at Kennebunkport, Me., in the Beachmont section of Re- vere.and other places al the Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire Coast. ‘The town of Hull, on the tip of the arm of land that partly incloses Hing- Bay, became an island for two hours at high tide as the waters from Stony poured across the narrow strip of land into the bay. The United States Weather Bureau reported that the wind forces would abate during the next 12 hours, and in addition would shift from the north to the northwest, a factor that would greatly reduce the landward drive of the sea. Although the maxi- Boston was only 22 Light, on Cape Cod, iles, reported 50 miles at one time. Police Chief Threatened. HAVANA, Cuba, January 28 (#).—A ’eommumf:tfim‘;i‘m in whwh‘ohz = fi?hgwmbewwuunmma‘" was reeg'vemday by Chief of Police Pedro iart. Three machine g:.n; were mounted today By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., January 28. —No trace has been found of William H. Taylor, 74, Montclair, N. J., pub- lisher and banker, who disappeared here late Thursday and has not since been seen, Capt. E. E. Lipphard, detective chief, said late yesterday. The publisher is believed to be suf- fering amnesia, Mrs. Taylor and friends said Capt. Lipphard asserted everything was being done in an effort to locate the mh:n' Hotdum‘ Pt‘mn bee: . ocd}:tnkfll.sls ve room 0uses ant . Bus line station and railroad aut.ln‘: em- ployes have been interviewed, but the whereabouts of the missing New Jersey publisher remained a mystery. Mr. Taylor was last seen late Thurs- day afternoon as he left a street car in the downtown section, apparently on his way to & movie theater. Police said his chauffeur, who was the afternoon off, rode into the city on the same car and saw him alight. lwhe;n?e (l\:‘ed to :mm ut)ha:e eve- ning, was given lice. tOn m& the lu‘.:.ly mldep:_‘: urgent appeal to police to attempt locate him. Friends had been making & search in the meantime. Galsworthy Unchanged. LONDON, :;:mry 28 ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. FIVE CENTS | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS IREPUBLICANS FORE DEMOCRATS T0 ACT ON HIGHER TARIFF Leaders Resort to Discharge Petition Assuring Vote February 13. SUPPORT IS PROMISED FOR EXCHANGE STABILITY Plan, Bottled Up in Committee, Will Be Placed Before House for Consideration, By the Associated Press. ‘Tossed forcibly into the closing weeks of the lame duck Congress yesterday was a tariff issue that administration Republicans plucked from the embers of the 1932 campaign in an effort to turn foreign nations toward exchange stability. Resorting to the drastic discharge pe- tition after Democrats had bottled up the plan in committee, House Repub- {licans vesterday insured a vote Febru- jary 13 on legislation to increase import j duties against nations with depreciated | currencies. Information Asked. Meanwhile the Senate adopted a | resolution by Costigan, Colorado Demo- crat, calling upon the Tariff Commis- sion and other governmental agencies to supply all the tariff information that might be helpful to the incoming ad- ministration in bargaining with other nations for reciprocal import duties. A eign trade. Both were adopted without debate or roll-call votes, but Senator Reed, Re- publican, of Pennsylvania, announced he was opposed to them, although he gave no reasons. the plan to increase import duties against nations with depreciated cur- rencies a powerful whip in the hands conference. Sponsors declare it will return to a gold standard. Though intended to deal only with tariff problems born of cheapened money, the legislation embraces indi- | rectly the issue of the Hawley-Smoot tarifft which raged between President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt. It is constructed on the principle this Government should maintain the pro- tection intended when the 1930 act was written, a tariff wall Democrats have a @s too high. Acting accord- ingly, they had refused to let such a| bill out of the Democratically-con- trolled Ways and Means Committee. Petition Filed. But Representative Schafer, Repub- | lican, of Wisconsin, filed a discharge | | petition. The White House indicated such action may be necessary if for-| eign exchange was not stabilized. House Republicans conferred and unanimously voted to support the movement. tures were obtained and a vote on dis- A majority vote then will place the bill before the House for consideration. The measure petitioned is by Repre- sentative Crowther. Republican. of New (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) MAN SHOT TO DEATH “Catterton™ Victim of Bullet at Party in Maryland and Wil- liam Chaney Is Wounded. A man whose name was given only as “Catterton” was shot to death and William Chaney, 49, was seriously | wounded early teday at the latter's home near Mitchellville, Md. Prince Georges County Policeman R. A. Naylor took Chaney to Casualty Hospital, where he was found to have a wound in his abdomen. His condi- tion was termed serious. Search was begun immediately for a Croome, Md., coiored man. Chaney said the shooting occurred during & party in his home. FLEET TO ASSEMBLE Ships to Participate in Golden Gate Bridge Ceremonies. SAN FRANCISCO, January 28 (#)— Mayor Angelo J. Rossi was informed to- day in a telegram from Washington | that the United States Fleet would as- | semble in San Francisco Bay February 118 to 27 to participate in the official | ground-breaking ceremonies for the | Golden Gate Bridge and the formal | dedication on Washington's birthday of the San Francisco War Memorial | Buildings. | The bridge ceremonies will be held | February 26. The telegram to the mayor was signed by Ernest L. Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of the Nav: second measure, also approved, asked | the commission for an analysis of for- | Administration spokesmen have labeled | of this government Guring coming debt | discussions and the world economic | induce leading commercial nations to| | Texas, a Yesterday the necessary 145 signa-| charging the Ways and Means Commit- | | tee will be taken Monday, February 13.| NEAR MITCHELLVILLE HOUSE: KILLS FUND FORDRY INFORMERS AND RUM PURCHASE Prohibition Dealt Blow as Enforcement Appropriation Is Cut $680,000. DRYS FAIL TO GET VOTE {TO UPHOLD ‘WIRE TAPPING’ Senators, With Differing Views, Prepare for Action—Repeal May Be Considered Next. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Prohibition enforcement took a blow on the chin when the House yesterday |passed the State, Justice, Commerce ‘lnd Labor appropriation bill with the item for enforcement cut by $680,000, | or approximately 8'. per cent. Furthermore, the House by record vote of 174 to 165, with 88 not voting, | declined to reverse the action of the Committee of the Whole which banned the use of any of this money for the employment of “under cover men” and for the purchase of liquor to be used as evidence, Fail on “Wire Tapping” Vote. ‘The suporters of the enforcement of prohibition could not even get a suffi- cient number of members to demand a | record vote on the amendment prohibit- | ing the practice of “wire tapping.” No effort was made to obtain a roll call on the amendment reducing the total enforcement appropriation from $9,120,000 to $8,440,000 which had been accomplished in Committee of the | Whole by a teller vote of 129 to 118. The House Appropriations Committee | cut the budget estimate for prohibition enforcement from $9.599,000 to $9,120.- | 000. The appropriation for the present fiscal year was $10,250,000. Senators Voice Opinions. Hardly had the House defeated the dry drive to remove the restrictions on the enforcement fund, when Senate leaders voiced their differing intentions. Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of leading prohibitionist, was quoted by the “Associated Press as de- claring he would appeal to the Senate Appropriations Committee to eliminate the provision prohibiting wire tapping, buying of liquor for evidence and the hiring of informers. He added if the committee fails to heed his request hLe ‘would take the fight to the Senate floo. On the other hand, Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, said the re- duction from $9,120,000 to $8,440,000 for prohibition enforcement in the $102,- 602,000 supply bill for the State, Jus- tice, Commerce and Labor Departments was “not enough.” ' Another pronibitionist, Senator Cap- per, Republican, of Kansas, said the amount left was 00 low and would | eripple the work™ of enforcement. Sign of Immediate Action. Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, said the House action was “another evidence” confirming the con- tentions of Attorney General Mitchell and various bar associations that what- ever is to be done about prohibition re- | peal and modification “ought to be done at once.” Mitchell has advocated quick action on repeal to avert nullification of the eighteenth amendment through lack of enforcement. Bingham added, however, he would support the cut in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Meanwhile Senate leaders were con- sidering whether to give the resolution for the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment the right of way after the pend- ing appropriation bill, the Treasury and Post Office bill, has been disposed of. If that course should be followed—and it is a cowse which Senator Blaine, chairman of the subcommittee of the | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) |CALM SEA SPEEDS AID | TO CRIPPLED FREIGHTER | Rescue Ships Expected to Reach Vessel and Crew of 35 Far Out on Pacific Soon. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., January 28— Aided by calm waters and a gentle wind, the Coast Guard cutter Chelan today was expected by steamship offi- cials soon to reach the freighter Everett, crippled by engine trouble far out in the Pacific Oce2n. Since late Thursday the freighter has been creeping toward Puget Sound at a speed of 6 knots, while the Chelan and two sister ships of the Everett | rushed to her assistance. Strong winds and heavy seis delayed relief ships yesterday. No word had been received by radio from the vessels today, but officials of the Tacoma-Oriental Steamship Co., owners of the Everett, accepted the silence as indicating no immediate dan- ger threatened. The ship left here for the Orient | January 14. She is carrying a crew of | 35 men, with Capt. A. W. Nygran in command. The restrictions which the House voted yesterday on funds for prohibi- tion enforcement would kill enforce- ment as far as Washington is con- cerned, in the opinion of David A. Hart, assistant United States attorpey, in charge of prosecution of liquor cases here. Nine out of ten arrests in the city are made because of the activity of informers and the subsequent police raids, Mr. Hart estimated. Yesterday the House voted to cut 10 per cent from the current amount used for en- forcement and stipulated that the re- maining money should not be used for At buying evidence, to pay informers or atop police | there for wire tapping. ° While there has been no wire tapping 'BAN ON INFORMERS WOULD KILL DRY ENFORCEMENT, HART SAYS Assistant U. S. Attorney Declares They Are Responsible for Nine Out of Ten Arrests Here. here to speak of, the squad of police and prohibition agents, headed by Lieut. George Little and Deputy Administra- tor Wilhlam R. Blandford, employ 10 informers. “At least 10 is the quota for the District and Lieut. Little said it is nearly always filled. They cost the Government $50 a day for salary alone, and much more in making purchases, as not all of this money is recovered in the raids. Formerly the informer was paid $2 for each case, but so many cases were lost in court, due to “fram- formes ‘was placed on a requlr salary lormer was on a Ty of $5 a day to keep him from temptation. leut. Little concurred with Mr. Hart in the belief that use of informer and liquor g‘\:mhl.dn( are vital to enforce- ment, but added that his road of about six cars, which tries to halt the flow of liquor into the city, would (Continued on Page 2, Columa 3.)