Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1933, Page 2

A2 axs THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, BEER HEARINGS END ASBILL IS SPEEDED Senate Finance Committee Votes, 12 to 5, to Report Measure Favorably. (Continued From First Page) $5 to $6 a barrel was similarly defeated. Members of the committee emerging rar: 4he executive session said Mills did ot revise his estimates because of the inclusion of wine by the Senate Judi- ciary Committee. ‘The bill as approved by the Judiciary Committee would permit wine of 3.05 per cent, but many wine preducers have contended it would be impossible to make wine of such a low alcoholic con- tent. Several prohibition leaders were wait- ing outside the committee room to testi- fy when the committee reached its decision not 1o hear them. Smoot had announced that any “new testimony” would be received, but the committee took the view the question of policy and of constitutionality had been considered by the Judiciary Committee and required no further hearings. When th» dry groups learned of the committee’s action they announced & mass meeting of protest to be held at the Washington Hotel Friday night. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the Woman's Natiotial Committee for Law Enforcement, issued the following statement: “In view of the fact that the Judi- ciary Committee of the Senate has sup- pressed all testimony of the experts presented by the dry groups and has accepted only one statcment as au- thoritative, that of Prof. Yandell Hen- derson of Yale University, who testi- fied with the brewers, and a British statement on beer, a meeting for a public hearing of protest has been called in the Hotel Washington Friday evening at 7:45 o'clock. New Testimony Planned. “New testimony will be presented and former testimony emphasized. The Finance Committee of the Senate de- clines to listen to any organizations which have presented testimony before other groups, while it does listen to further testimony on the part of Secre- tary Mills. The public has a right to the facts, which evidently the Judiciary Committee and Finance Committee are afraid to have presented, since the in- formation indicates that the bill is un- constitutional. and is a nullificatibn of the Constitution of the United States, which every Senator is sworn to sup- port and defend. ; “The following organizations will take part in the meeting: The National Sentinels, United Committee for Law Enforcement, Woman’s National Com- mittee for Law Enforcement, Women's Council, Woman's National Committee for Education against Alcohol. Interna- tional Reform Federation, and the Na- tional Woman's Democratic Law En- forcement League.” Connally Explains Vote. Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, some time after the committee’s action issued a statement explaining his vote against the bill. “Three and two-tenths per cent beer by weight is equal to 4 per cent beer by volume,” it said. “This is substantially the same per- centage as ordinary beer sold before the adoption of the eighteenth amend- ment, which I regard as intoxicating. “So long as the eighteenth amend- ment is the law of the land it ought to be respected and enforced and I shall not vote for any measure either nullifying or evading it. “The Democratic platform of 1932 does_not sanction the sale of beverages of an intoxicating alcoholic content. It Provides only for such a ccntent “as is permissable under the Constitution.’” g PACKERS AT SENAT! HEARING DISCLOSE FARM BILL FIGHT (Continued From First Page.) refinance a very large part of the ex- isting farm mortgage indebtedness un- der the terms of the bill bringing into the Federal Land Bank system an enor- mous volume of loans without adequate margin of security required and no means provided for absorbing operat- ing enses and losses incurred by the banks. “The bonds (to be issued to supply the funds for the refinancing) weuld bear interest at the rate of only 1'% per cent per annum. In the past it has never heen found feasible to mar- ket Federal Land Bank bonds bearing a rate of interest lower than 4 per cent per annum.” Taking Over of Bonds. Mills said that in view of this it would be necessary for the bonds to be taken over by the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve notes issued against them, adding: “If Federal Reserve Banks were re- quired to issue Federal Reserve notes in exchange for the farm loan bonds provided for in this act, which might be as much as $9,000,000,000, a much Jarger sum of gold than is now in this country would be required to provide the necessary reserves against these notes. “Furthermore the assets of the Re- serve Banks which are the custodians of the reserves of our entire banking and currency system, would be largely tied up in inadequately secured long time paper.” W. R. Ronald, editor of the Evening Republican, Mitchell, S. D., and one of the pioneers in development of the voluntary domestic allotment plan, took thhe stand in vigorous support of the ill. “This bill,” he said. “takes notice not merely of the present general depression, but of the agricultural depressicn which began in 1921 and has continued since that time. “In the years 1921 to 1930 on just a few of the farm commodities the farmer was deprived of over $10,000.000.000 purchasing power as measured by pre- ‘war_conditions. “So this is not an emergency problem, ?;1; cne that has been in éXistence since 1 Purchasing Power Measure. “This is not a seles tax. It is merely restoration to the farmer of the pur- chasing power that has been taken away from him in the last 10 years.” Replying to questicns before the Banking Committee, Bestor sald the Farm Loan Board last year extended | 93,000 lcans out of 402,000, and added that the farm loan banks had about 12 per cent of the farm mortgages and the Joint-stock land banks about 6 per cent more, making & total of 18 per cent. Fraeier told the committee that he felt that loans up to 80 per cent of the value cof the property at 11, per cent| interest “will be safer than 50 per cent | loans at 52 per cent interest,” as at present. RUDDERLESS.BOAT DRIFTS Cutter Goes to Aid of Tank Steam- er Off South Carolina. NORFOLK, Va., January 30 (P).— The Coast Guard cutter Modoc was steaming southward from Wilmington, N. C,, early last night to give assistance to the American tank steamer Eugene V. R. Thayer, which reported that it had lost its rudder and wes drifting helplessly before a strong northwest wind. The Thayer's position was given as about 100 miles off Cape Romain and 20 to 30 miles north of Charleston, 8. C, at the time of the accident, RIENDS and aviation officials ga: New York, Saturday for Prof. birthday anniversary. Here the his birthday cake, on which has F loon in which he made his record-breaking ascents. ve a luncheon in the Hotel St. Moritz, Auguste Piccard in honor of his 49th noted stratosphere flyer is shown cutting been built in pastry a model of the bal- —A. P. Photo. SEES IBERALNEE N SUPREME COLRT La Guardia Hopes Roosevelt to Name Men Like Stone, Holmes and Brandeis. By the Associated Press. Representative LaGuardia believes that if “more men of the caliber of Stone, Holmes and Brandeis are ap- pointed to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt, we may be able to get out of this crisis without repeating some of the horrible mistakes of the past.” | The New Yorker said so today at a | House committee hearing in answer- ing a question by Representative Lov- ette of Tennessee, on whether the Su- ‘preme Court would declare a six-hour day and five-day week bill unconstitu- t'onal, if it became law. Cites Rail Workers Law. The court would follow its decision In holding the eight-hour day for rail- | road workers constitutional, in La- but he added that in from growing ol | “As they grow old they retire” he | said, “and may be replaced. The times are changing. All this bill does is to bring legislation in tune with the day in which we are living.” Feared Volding by Court. Some members of the House Labor | Committee, considering the shorter work-week bill, have expressed the view during the hearings that it might be declared unconstitutional, in view of the decision holding a law prohibiting the use of child labor void. LeGuardia said the Dred Scott de- | cision was_“supposed to be the last ! word on slavery, but that the Dred | Scott decision was changed. The child ! labor decision has taken the place of | the Dred Scott case in our day.” 'LOWER PAY MOVE ASSAILED BY SHAW | “Nothing Short of Wilful Neglect of Duty,” Says Employes’ Federation Head. Any move to lower Government sal- aries was characterized as short of wilful neglect of duty on the part of our national leaders,” by John Arthur Shaw, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Government Em- ployes, in a statement yesterday. “Any further gesture toward €cono- mizing at the expense of Federal per- sonnel must be interpreted as lack of confidence in our country’s ability to enjoy prosperity after burying the spec- ters of economic failure,” he said. In- tensifying the hysteria of wage cutting that has gripped our national life is not the wholesome influence that the Federal Government should exert at this trying time. | “It is difficult to understand how our statesmen can accept any other posi- tion. Each time business has reduced salaries, more persons were added to the ranks of the unemployed, and when the United States Government approved this wage-cutting policy by its so-called economy legislation, the num- | ber of unemployed workers in the coun- | try attalned an appalling figure.” SENATE MAY TAKE UP GOVERNMENT PAY CUT QUESTION TOMORROW (Continued contract and had paid toward- this $257,615,729, leaving outstanding obli- gations of $126,867,462. It had an un- expended balance from previous appro- pristions of $77,169,371, leaving $49.- 698,091 of the $50,000.000 Iflpronrlntlon asked needed to met the obligations al- ready incurred. $60,000,000 Sought Originally. The original program called for an appropriation of $60,000,000, but the House trimmed $10,000,000 from that amount. The Treasury expects the $126,867,462 of obligations that are outstanding to come due at the rate of $7,500,000 or $8,000,000 a month over the next 17 months. Because of this it will need $35,000,000 for jobs now actually under contract and $10,000,000 to construct buildings for which the foundations are being laid and bids already invited for the superstructure. Of the public building program, the ‘Treasury has completed 281 structures at a cost of $98,238,069, has under con- tract 419 projects to cost $384,483,192, has spent $28,059.942 for sites in the District of Columbia and has selected sites for 72 projects for which plans are being prepared” and which will cost $20,919,359, R e U T More than 20,000,000 square feet of sheep and lamb leather was produced in Spain in the last n not keep 1usucs‘ “nothing | — |off two trees and overturning. Grove, HOOVER PREPARES 0 REMOVE PAPERS President Makes No Engage- ments in Order to Clear Up Routine Matters. engage- | his un- | disposal | President Hoover made no ments today, in order to give interrupted attention to the of an accumulation of routine matters, and to the task of going over a quan- | tity of his private papers before having | | them placed in file cases for shipment to_his Palo Alto home. With Mrs. Hoover, the President yes- | terday attended services at the Meet- | ing House at Florida avenue and S| | street. On the return journey to the White House they motored along Penn- sylvania avenue as far as the Capitol, | pausing several times to afford the President an_ opportunity to view the progress of the public buildings under construction, Drive to Hurley's Home, After dinner at the White House, the President and Mrs. Hoover motored to the country home of Secretary of War Hurley near Leesburg, Va., where they | stayed for late afternoon tea, returning to the White House at nightfall. | The President and Mrs. Hoover to- | | night will attend the memorial serv- | ice of the Ohio State Society in honar of the birthday anniversary of the late | President William McKinley, which | will be held in the main ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel _During the forenoon the President signed two bills, one extending the ' time for commencing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River near | Cannelton, Ind., and the other extend- ing the time for construction of a | bridge across the Missouri River, here St. Charles, Mo. | Holds Brief Conferences. The President conferred briefly with | | Postmaster General Brown, Director of the Budget Roop and Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the Tariff Com- {smission. It was said at the White House that the crop loan bill, providing for a $75, 600,000 loan to farmers, principally for crop seeds, had not yet been returned to the White House from the budget | director’s office, where it was referred for comment. At noon today, the first deficiency bill, remodeled after the President's | veto because of his objection to the | tax refund section, had not yet reach- ed the President. This bill carries an appropriation of $625,000 for unem- ployment relief in the District and, according to White House advices, it will be approved by the President, since the objectionable features have been | 'BLUECOAT’S DEATH INQUIRY CONTINUED Coroner's Jury to Visit Scene of Motor Cycle Crash Fatal to Grove. The inquest into the death of Park Policeman James Francis Grove, 46, killed when his motor cycle collided with an automobile Saturday, was continued today until 11:30 a.m. Wednesday to give the coroner’s jury an opportunity to view the scene of the accident today. Acting Coroners A. Magruder Mac- | Donald and Christopher J. Murphy. ac- companied by Detective Sergts. Harry K. Wilson and John C. Dalgish, es- corted the jurors to the scene upon completion of testimony of all the witnesses in the case. The crash occurred on Blagden ave- nue on a curve near the entrance to Rock Creek Park. Grove, father of eight children, was thrown down an embankment beside the roadway, and the car, occupied by three young men careened about 85 feet before snapping who lived in Mount Rainier, died about t‘i\":‘o‘houxs later in Walter Reed Hos- pital. The machine, according to police, was driven by E. Matterson Hall, jr., 23, of 1455 Harvard street. With him were William C. Allison, jr., 21, of 1722 Nine- teenth street, owner of the automobile, and Willlam L. Alexander, 20, of 1422 Varnum street. All escaped injury, but were arrested by Policeman Joe John- son, tenth precinct, on manslaughter charges. They are at liberty on bord. Officer Grove will be buried in Ar- lington National Cemetery, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Funeral serv- ices will be held at the Hysong funeral parlors at 2 p.m. The active pallbearers will comprise a dlu‘ztall of Thee d‘e!cneilsed officer’s co- workers on ited States police force, o o Van Zandt Approves V. F. W. Date. The national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States will be held here beginning August 27, it was announced after a conference of Washington, D. C., vice commander, ettended the meeting and-approved ar- rangements of the Milwaukee Conven- tion Committee. An invitation to ad- dress the veterans will be extended to { President-elect Franklin-D. Rocsevelt." 84 | Papen, to achieve the required backing. | MILWAUKEE, Wis., January 30 (#).— t officials yesterday. James V. Van Zandt, | 5188 Piccard Honored on Birthday H"I.ER APPUINIEI] MODEL OF STRATOSPHERE BALLOON ON CAKE. REICH CHANCELLOR Compromise Cabinet Chosen By Von Hindenburg in Naming Nazi. (Continued From First Page) of the government. Then Hitler was taken to the President. One of those who was there described the meeting. The venerable field marghal was kind- liness itself, he said, when Col. von Papen, in the presence of Alfred Hugen- berg and several others proposed Hitler for chancellor, indeed,” the President “Yes; yes, nodded. Then he rose, towering above the others, grasped Hitler's hand and form- ally made the appointment. The word went about quickly and when Hitler got back to his hotel the streets were jammed. His own friends waited to shake his hand, and there were hundreds of others, cheering as they lifted their hands in the Nazi salute. Hitler grinned and waved. He went into the hotel for luncheon with Herr Frick and his other associates. Political observers generally agreed that the new cabinet will encounter opposition from organized labor, but that is to be expected. The Centrist Reichstag members went into confer- ence to consider their position, ‘The Reichstag Council of Elders, meeting this afterncon, adopted a motion by the National Soclalist mem- bers to reconvene the Reichstag on or before February 7. The Cabinet Personnel. The cabinet personnel includes: Chancellor—Hitler. Vice chancellor and Prussian com- misar—Franz von Papen. Foreijgn minister — Konstantin von Neurath. Finance—Lutz Schwerin von Krosick. Interior—William Frick. Defense—Gen. Werner von Blomberg. Economics and agriculture — Alfred Hugenberg. Labor—Franz Seldte. Posts and transportation—Eltz von Ruebenach. Minister without portfolio—Hermann Goering. Justice— (unfilled). Employment ~commissioner — Guen- ther Gereke. Goering, who has been speaker of the Reichstag, will be charged with the commissionership for aviation and the commissionership for the Prussian| ministry of interior. Goering and Frick | are National Socialists. Hitler's first cabinet session was called for 5 pm. today. The cabinet, as composed, is one of determined men | who_have behind them, in addition to the Reichswehr (army), “Hitler’s Storm | Troops” and Seldte’s “Steel Helmeters." Should the Catholic Center and Ba- | varian parties, which are allies, decline | to support the Hitler cabinet, new elections will be held with the slogan | “For Hindenburg and Hitler.” Reichstag Support Unlikely. That the cabinet would have the sup- | port of a majority of the Reichstag seemed unlikely because the Centrists | and Bavarians insisted upon constitu- tional guarantees from Hitler which virtually would make him innocuous. Hitler insisted on important posts for his Nazis and also desired to have the storm troops become an official body along the lines of the Italian Fascist militia. Of the new cabinet members, the | only hitherto relatively unknown was | Gen. von Blomberg. All others figure prominently in recent German history. Gen. von Blomberg was born on September 2. 1878, at Stargard, Prussia, and has had a regular military career which landed him on the general staff in 1911. During the war he was gen- eral staff officer with the 7th Army. After the revolution he remained with the Reichswehr, rising to the rank of lieutenant geneial, in charge of the 1st Division at Koenigsberg. Hitler's National failed to win & majority of seats in two | Reichstag elections last year and he ran a formidible second to Von Hin- denburg for the presidency. but he still had the largest following in the Par- liament. He needed the backing of Dr. Ludwig | Kaas's Centrist party and its ally. the | Bavarian people’s party. as well as the small Nationalist following of Von He had a good chance of adding the 51 Nationalist votes to_his Nazi's 196, but | the Centrists and Bavarians, with 89, | were wary of him because of his threat to discard constitutional government. Socialist meetings in Mannheim and | Berlin and a Communist gathering in | Dresden heard warnings against a Te- vival of Von Papen's former policies. Karl Hoeltermann, Socialist ~leader, | 600,000 men. A MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1938. “Northeaster” Blamed for This GALE CAUSES FLOOD AT REVERE, MASS. SCENE at Jones road and Henry street, Revere, Mass., after a northeast gale had forced the tide over break- waters, flooding the streets and marooning residents in their homes. Similar scenes were common in other parts of Greater Boston, and in Winthrop, Mass, 500 school children were marooned temporarily in their school. 1 | | —A. P. Photo. HITLER MAY KEEP FOREIGN POLICIES Only Serious Consequences of Nazi Victory May Be in Polish Corridor Fight. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The coming into office of Adolph Hitler as chancellor of Germany had been discounted for such a long time that it did not cause any flurry in the State Department today. The fact that Herr Konstantin von Neurath 1s main- tained as foreign secretary is consid- ered as an indication that, for the time being at least, the new German govern- ment does not intend to change its for- eign policies. Of course, the appointment of Hitler may have serious repercussions later when the Disarmament Conference meets again. Hitler and the rest of the members of the new German cabinet are known to oppose openly the Versail- les treaty, and Germany having ob- tained already a reduction equivalent to canczllation of her reparations, the new cabinet may take further steps toward the cancellation of the whole treaty by forcing the hand of the Disarmament Conference to grant Germany the right to equal armaments. Plans Nazi Militia. Hitler has already made it known that he intends to incorporate his Nazis as a national militia. The number of the Hitler adherents who form the storm troops is believed to be over Should he decide to change their status from a private into a national organifation, trouble with France might be expected. ‘The only really serious consequence of Hitler's coming into office may be the reaction on Poland. Hitler and his confederates have been saying openly that Germany cannot tol- | erate much longer the situation created Socialist party | by the existence of the Danzig Corridor. | His troops have been causing incidents | in several instances on the border of | the Corridor, and the Poles are worrled | lest the coming to power of the chief of | the Nazis might precipitate a renewal of such incidents of a much more se- rious character. Secret Parleys Rumored. For the last 12 months, according to reliable reports. there have been secret discussions between German and Polish unofficial representatives about the pos- sibility of settling the corridor dispute in some amicable manner. It is said that the Germans have suggested to | the Poles a solution whereby in ex-| change for the corridor Germany would support the Polish claims on Memel, | which would give as adequate an out- | let to the Poles to the sea as the cor- | ridor is giving them now. blamed the President's son, Oscar, for the fall of the Bruening and Von| Schleicher regimes. At least 100,000 persons assembled in | front of the former imperial place here | in a demonstration against Hitler and Von Papen. The Republican news- paper Montag Morgen said today the Nationalists sought by prolonged bicker- ing to force Von Hindenburg to resign and open the way for a return of the monarchy. Thirty-five persons were arrested dur- ing disorders in various parts of Berlin. The Republican demonstration against the Nazis and junkerism was described by some as the “swan song” of the former group, but speakers asserted the working class was ready to fight for its “constitutional rights.” However, mention of Von Papen as the “man who took away the dole * * ¢ for former royal chamberlains and even for Hermine Hohenzollerin™ brought & chorus of boos. Princess Hermine is the Kaiser's second wife, to whom he was married since his exile in Holland. Demonstrations of thousands of Relchsbanner troops added to the threats against the Hitler forces. Berlin Press Divided. Newspaper comment on Hitler's ap- pointment varied from the enthusiasm of the Right to the rage of the So- cialist press. “This historic day marks the birth of a new Germany,” said Der Tag, and the Nachtausgabe rejoiced that the President at last had taken the action he refused to take last year. The Boersenzeitung praised the President for awaiting an appropriate moment. The Industrialist Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, less enthusiastic, described the appointment as a leap in the dark, “a bold and hazardous de- cision.” ‘The Democratic tempo predicted that Hitler would El‘:y for time before put- ting any of more radical policies into effect. Achtuhr Blatt fore- saw “grave developments, possibly the beginning of pure party dictatorship.” The Vossische Zeitung called the ap- pointment a' dangerous experiment, but the Boersen Courier said Chancellor Hitler “will be a different man agitator Hitler.” “In appointing this cabinet,” said the Socialist Vorwaerts, “the de assumed a fright is the guarantor that this % not depart from a constitutional be | servers as vernment in power, a situa- created which will call the wgrnmmuuwmeirmtmdutmm effort.” The Communist party in the Reich- already has presented a motion of no confidence in the Hitler cabinet. ITALY'S FASCISTS PLEASED. ROME. January 30 ((#)) It ‘has erttasticany AEcIaiTIea the Adsesion ¢ | something These negotiations have been denied | repeatedly by the Polish Government and the denials are correct inasmuch as that the government, as such, ciaims | not to be interested in revising the| | treaty which gave the corridor. How- ever, a number of leading Polish states- | men’ and military men are of the opin- | ion that it might be preferable to come to a friendly agreement with Germany, instead of running the risk of an armed conflict, which seems inevitable to oc- cur as soon as Germany has an army strong enough to support her claims. Hitler faces a difficult internal situ- ation. He is pledged to certain re- forms which he may find impossible to accomplish. The question of the solution of the corridor problem is one of the outstanding portions of his political platform. It is possible that when Hitler discovers that he cannot fulfill the promises he has made to the German people in connection with the solution of the internal crisis he may be compelled to.turn the attention of his people toward the corridor. And this is cnsidered about the only serious troubling element th the coming into office of the German Nazis, E. N. Lancaster Dies. SYRACUSE, N. Y., January 30 (#).— Ernest N. Lancaster, 62, retired treas- urer._of the Solvay Process Co. and its subsidiaries, died here yesterday. He was formerly treasurer of the Kansas ‘?‘hemicfil‘ Mlnuf;ct\;ring Co. of Hutch- son, Kans, and of the Utah Salduro Co. of Salt Lake City. to power of the Fascist party in Ger- many. Today’s newspapers announced Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chan- cellor under big headlines on the front ges. The new development in German politics the newspapers described as a vindication of the Fascist system and an indication that Fascism is spreading through the world. WASHINGTON SURPRISED. But Officialdom Is Not Alarmed at Hitler’s Rise. By the Associated Press. Adolfih Hitler's elevation to the chancellorship Germany, Wwhile of a surprise to official ‘Washington, apparen! created little apprehension as-to its effect on inter- national relations. He is regarded by Washington being swrrounded by a con- servative cabinet which insures that his threats of past years to scrap treaties will not be carried out. Purthermore, it has now been arranged in Germany so that the chief justice of the Supreme Court and not the chancellor is in line to_succeed the President. Responsibility which is now imposed on Hitler is looked upon by many American officials to be so great that it will make him far more conservative m-nnmmdnn when he was & free agent . - ob- DALADIER EXPECTS TO FORM CABINET, HE TELLS LEBRUN (Continued From First Page.) taxpayers. A mass meeting was sched- uled to protest against an increase in taxes. Demonstrations were held yes- terday in Lyons, Nice and Quimper similar to_ those held here Saturday. Police battled with the crowds in Lyons and Nice and Republican guards charged the Paris meeting, at which many were arrested. Reports that Daladier was seeking al- most dictatorial powers through ti right of decree, as was granted former | Premier Raymond Poincare when his | government stabilized the franc, had the | Soclalists worried. This militated | against the possibility of them giving | | Daladier their support. Daladier’s position on the debts ques- tion was believed sufficiently vague to | enable him to bridge the gap between | default and resumption of payments. He voted for Premier Herriot's ill-fated | resolution which demanded that the December payment be made, but in party councils he expressed reservations. | Daladier’s immediate problem was to | find backing for a plan to bring a halt to the daily deficits of $1.250,000 while | the budget was unbalanced an he could | delay action on the prcblem of the debt owed the United States as had Paul-| Boncour. Failed to Form 1929 Cabinet. Daladier, who is 48 years old, was commissioned to form a cabinet in October, 1929, but after five days’ negotiations he was forced to give up the attempl. He was minister of | colonies in Herrlot's cabinet in 1924 | and held war, interior, public works and | education posts in many cabinets in the years since then. | | " "He was elected leader of the radical | | Socialist party at the 1929 convention. Daladier was mayor of his native town, Carpentras, in Provence, before ! being sent to the Chamber of Deputies |in 1919. Orphaned at an early age, he | was educated at state expense and be- came a brilliant scholar. Herrfot was | | one of his teachers in a normal school. | He was cited several times for bravery | during the World War. | As 8 soldier he was “adopted” by | Mile. Laffont, daughter of a noted scientist, who later became his wife. | She died last November 13. Daladler carried on his occupation as | | school teacher in the Sorbonne in Paris | and it was while there that Herriot | persuaded him to enter politics. He was kidnaped in 1929 by two Fascists, who tried to prevent him | making a speech at Strasbourg. but he | managed to reach the meeting late. NO DEBT CHANGE SEEN. | e Daladier Was War Minister in Paul- Boncour Cabinet. By the Associated Press. Diplomatic observers noted with in- terest today the selection of Edouard Daladier to form the new French cabinet, but were inclined to the opinion there would be no marked change in war debts policy if he were successful. ‘They based their view on the fact that Daladier was minister of war in the government which fell Saturday after a 40-day reign and that Daladier belongs to the same Left group of parties as the defeated premier, Joseph Paul- Boncour. Herriot Fell in December. In mid-December the Herriot govern- ment went down because of Premier Herriot's advocacy of the payment of the nearly $20,000,000 in interest which was due the United States December 15. Since then Herriot has been active against this non-payment policy of France. France now owes the United States $3,921,000,000, according to Treasury figures. and another payment of more than $40,000.000 will fall due June 15. Whether France will make further overtures to the United States for & | reconsideration of debts before Great Britain has its debts_discussion with President-elect Rcosevelt early in March is uncertain. France made its war debt settlement with this country April 29, 1926, nearly three years after Great Britain. The | total debt of France at the time of the funding, including the accrued in- terest, was $4,230,000,000. Loans were made at 5 per cent. Average Is 1.6 Per Cent. Under the French refunding agree- ment the average rate of interest over the 62-year period of payment is 1.6 per cent, equivalent to a reduction of 60.3 per cent in the total amount paid to maturity as compared with what would have been paid at 5 per cent interest. The French agreement was more lib- eral than the British, in which the average interest rate was fixed at 3.3 per cent. COLLIER WITH 26 MEN ON BOARD IS MISSING By the Assoclated Press. NORFOLK, Va., January 30.—The collier T. A. D. Jones, which left New- port News Tuesday and was due in Boston Saturday, was still to- day, according to the Coast Guard. It was thought she may have taken refuge from the recent storms in Vineyard Sound. The Jones carried a crew of 26 men. The tanker Eugene V. R. Thayer, rted to have lost her rudder 100 les off Cape Romain, was picked lir by a ship of the same line, the Farrell, according to a radio received from the Coast Guard cutter, Modoc, sent to the aid of the Thayer. The two tankers were on their way to the Delaware Cl_Ee‘l when picked up by the Modoc. e Collier Berwindvale, reported disabled off Sll;flhs Island, made her own repairs and was reported passing in through the capes, bound for New- post News. 3 |an island of a four-mile tip COAST GUARD AIDS DISABLED TRAWLER Cutter Mojave Fights Way to | Ship as Heavy Seas Pound Fishing Banks. By the Associated Prens. BOSTON, January 30.—The Coast: Guard cutter’ Mojave fought her way to the side of the disabled fishing | trawler P. J. O'Hara today as heavy seas ccntinued a wild race across the | fishing banks. | The O’'Hara, witH a crew of 15 aboard, radiced for immediate assistance early today. She said her engines were dis- abled, her pumps were out of order and she was taking water badly. i The Coast Guard :aid she was wal- lowing helpless on Brown's Bank, about 250 miles east of Boston, and the cutter | Mojave, nearest of seven Coast Guard ! vessels, was ordered to her aid. Damage About $2,000,000." Communities that have suffere the extent df approximately $2,00 went to work on battered sea walls line a much-changed cza<t line and the | Coast Guerd sought to reclaim several nearly-washed-cut stations. | Monomoy Point, eight miles down a | narrow peninsuia from Chatham, was| cut off from the mainland by a 600-foct- | wide channel. The new waterway made | of the peninsula and the Monomoy Point sta- | tion of the Coast Guard had become an | d to 0,000 that | island post. Immeciate reclamation wirk was| needed at the Pamet River station, near | Truro, where tide; and pounding :urf | had undermined the building and top- | pled over the lookout and signal towers. | Red Cross Lends Aid. | The American Red Cross and the | Revere Nurses' Association carried cn | relief work in Revere and Winthrop, near Boston, where 200 men, women | and children suffered in their marooned | homes from lack of heat. | Several communities planned to seek Stete aid in reclamation werk and plans were under way to put several hundred unemployed to work reinfore- | ing broken sea walls and mending undermined and ruined highways. VAN WINKLE WILL FILED FOR PROBATE Two Sisters and Mother Are Main Beneficiaries of Late Policewoman. ‘The will of Mina C. Van Winkle, naming her mother as the principal beneficiary of her estate, was filod for probate today in District Supreme urt. Mrs. Van Winkle, former head of the ‘Woman's Bureau of the Police Depart- ment, died January 16 at her home, 1425 Thirty-fourth street. That residence is bequeathed to her sisters, Mrs. Louise Lesser and Frances Ginger. The balance of the estate, with the exception of several bequests of silverware, jewelry and clothing, is left to her mother, Mrs, Hilda Ginger of | Maplewood, N. J. Several pieces of jewelry and silve ware, in addition to the home, were left to the sisters. Van Winkle Todd. Guerin Todd, Nelson Todd and Rodwell ‘Todd, identified as “friends,” were be- queathed small gifts. Others left sil- verware and jewelry are Gretchen Todd Starck, Edmund Todd, jr.; Lieut. Rhoda Milliken, present head of the ‘Woman's Bureau; Mary Radford of the Associated Charities; Helen Findlay, Veronica Devlin and Mary Gainey of the Women's Bureau, and Edna Todd. Bessie Poe and Vylla Wilson, both of 1731 Twenty-first street, and Mrs. Elizabeth Poe Fitzhugh each get specially named pieces of silver. Cash bequests of $1,000 to Mrs. Annie Gin- ger, $2,000 to Willilam Ginger and $200 [ Helen Findlay and Rhoda Mil- liken also were provided. Waldron Ward and Arthur Lesser, both of New- ark, N. re named executors. The will was le Qctober 2, 1932. STORMS CUT CORN CROP Reduction in Northern Mexico Es- timated at 25 Per Cent. MEXICO CITY, January 30 (&) — Severe starms and unusually severe Winter will reduce the corn crops in Northern Mexico by 25 per cent, ac- cording to an official statement of the Department of Agriculture, the States of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila being the hardest However, the department asserted that returns indicated bumper crops in other parts of the country | 5™ which will more than offset the loss sustained in tbe northern section. B VIENNA JUSTICE QUITS Special Dispatch to The Star. the operation of the Court under Judge Paul Brown there is no longer a need for the nurhber of : ) 88 tion of a correct justices which the'law authorizes. It is understood that the existing vacancy HUEY LONG ASSALS NEWSPAPER REPORT Article in D. C. Morning Paper Is Described as “Damn- able Falsehood.” By the Associated Press. Saying “no more damnable falsehood has ever been uttered in a newspaper,” Senator Huey Long of Louisiana under- tock in the Senate today to answer what he termed the “propeganda, ly- ing and vituperation” that has been circulated against him. His specific comment was directed at a report printed in a Washington morning newspaper that “the organiza- tion with which I am connected ar- rested Broussard election officials” in the last Democratic senatorial primary in his State Senator Edwin Broussard was de- feated for renomination by Represent- ative John Overton, who was supported by Long. Clerk Reads Article. Long had the Senate clerk read the newspaper article about the Senate Spécial Campaign Funds Commitice making its plan to go to Louisiana this week. A number of the charges in the article were read hastily by the cls and Long stopped him. announcing “I want these charges read a little bit more slowly and distinctly, so the Senators can hear and understand them.” The clerk complied. The charges in substance were that State highway pay roll funds had gone into the anti- Broussard campaign fund, that there were irregularities in selecting election officials, and that four newspaper men unfriendly to Long had been imprisoned | just before the election. “Only Sample of Publicity.” “That's only a sample of the publicity that's been going on.” Long resumed after the clerk concluded Broussard sat listening intently just a few feet away. Long then read from a dispatch to a New York newspaper, quo ing “interest (in the cont: heightened by Long's opposition to the Democratic leadership (in the Scnate),” and that Long was expected to oppose the Senate's committee. The committee, headed by Senator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, will leave for New Orleans within the next day or two for hearings, based on in- formation from Gen. S. T. Ansell. re- tired, an investigator, that evidence disclosed there justified further inquiry by the committee, “Never Assailed Losers.” “It is stated by these reports,” Long said, “that I have been very silent under these sundry charges. I've never assailed a defeated opponent—nor have I been a craven in defeat. “Here is this charge that the organi- zation which I am connected with ar- rested Broussard election officials. There is no more damnable falsehood that has ever been uttered in a newspaper.” His opponents in Louisiana, he sald, “didn't expect to win the election, but | wanted to build up a case before the United States Senate.” JAPAN'S DECISION ON QUITTING LEAGUE HINGES ON REPORT ___ (Continued From First Page) of Gen. Ho Chu-Kuo, ousted Chinese commander at Shanhaikwan. After the fall of Shanhaikwan om January 3, a Japanese contingent was left in control there while a cavalry brigade, following bombing planes, pushed northward. Chiumenkow, which is about 12 miles north of Shanhaikwan, was captured and a garrison left in control while the cavalry and plane escort continued northward along the Jehol-Manchurian border. ‘The Great Wall, forming the southern border of Jehol. swings westward from Chiumenkow. The pass was used by Chinese troops dispatched northward to defend the Province of Jehol against the long-heralded Japanese invasion. HUNDREDS REPORTED SLAIN. Chinese Declare Both Sides Have Lost Heavily in Jehol Fights. SHANGHAI, China, January 30 (#). — Chinese verslons of Sino-Japae nese battles in the disputed Province of Jehol today listed hundreds of slain on both sides. A report that Chinese had recaptured Chaoyang. second largest city in Jehol, was considered by Chinese as unfound- ed because they understocd Japanese had not yet occupied the city. (A Japanese report from their Chinchow, Manchuria, military base, said a_Chi= nese force had been repelled at Chao- yang last week and that the Japanese had held the city, about 120 miles n:rth of Shanhaikwan, since last July 18.). First Chinese reports on the series of air raids by the Japanese on Kailu, in Northeastern Jehol, said 100 houses were destroyed and many persons killed. They further stated the Japa< nese infantry attacked Fowshin, in Eastern Jehol, and had been repulsed by the Chinese with a loss of 250 men. This report was believed exaggerated. STABBED AT PARTY, DIES WARRENTON, Va, January 30 (Special) —Wade Bumbrey, 40, died last night from a wound received early Sunday morning in a fight at a party at the house of Aaron Brown, near Bristersburg. Bumbrey was stabbed in the back. Early Bumbrey, 23, is held in jail here. Your Income Tax No. 1 How to Avoid Common Errors ‘The period for the filing of incomee tax returns covering the m(‘im“;s yen.: 1932 began January 1 and en af midnight of March 15. Within this period are filed annually millions of individual income-tax returns, a large proportion of which report income subs ject to the tax. The latter contain & considerable percentage of errors, which if uncorrected by the audit would result to the disadvantage of the taxe payer. Many are errors of computas tion easily discovered on the face of the return, which usually is nccnm‘ panied by a payment of more than th amount of tax due. In other returns it is readily discernible that the taxs payer has failed to take advantage of the personal exemption, credit allow for dependents,” or deductions {rol oss income to which he is entitled. To avoid these and other errors, the Bureau of Internal Revenue urges caree ful reading of the instructions on the forms for filing the returns. Addle tional information, if needed, may be obtained at the office of a collector internal revenue, deputy collector, an internal-revenue agent in charge. further aid in the preparas income-tax return for the year 1932, the bureau has a series of short newspaper articles, of which this is the first, advising the salaried man, wage earner, professional and business man—in fact, every class of individual taxpayer—of his require= ments and privileges as interpreted under the latest regulations, rulings, and decisions relating to the incomee tax law,