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(A2 ws DRYS WILL DISCUSS BLAINE BEER BILL Public Hearing to Be Held in Hall of Nations Next Friday Night. * A group of outstanding dry leaders will discuss the Blaine-Collier 3.05 per cent beer and wine bill at a public hearing in the Hall of the Nations of the Washington Hotel, Friday night, at 7:45 o'clock. The speakers will include Edward Dunford, lawyer, who will describe the “inconsistencies” of the bill; James B. Pritchard, research director; Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, chairman of the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League and president of the National Sentinels: Mrs. Wellen Fisher, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs. Wil- liam Tilton and John B.' Hammond, law enforcement director of the Nation- al Civic League, Inc. Ten national dry organizations will co-operate in the hearing, which is designed to Teveal information the ‘Woman’s National Committee for Law Enforcement charges was suppressed by the Senate Judiciary Committee during hearings on the bill. A committee of prominent women and lawyers will be appointed to consider the testimony. Boxes are to be reserved for members ©of Congress. The witnessess are to be limited to brief statements and will be allowed time for questions by members of the Hearings Committee. CARPENTERS SEEK ROOSEVELT AID IN GRANDSTAND ROW (Continued From First Page.) or induce any local union affillated with it to go on a strike. Our function is to adjust grievances between employers | and local unions.” He added that union labor had “absolutely no griev- ance with the Inaugural Committee” as a result of the labor dispute that has arisen to embarrass the committee. “The Inaugural Committee have done their share by orderjng union labor employed on the jobs in accordance with the understanding we had with them.” he added. is against the contractors, who are vio- Jating this agreement by hiring at weges Jower than the union scale for such work, and in doing so are embarrass- ing the Inaugural Committee.” The Carpenters’ Union, clared, has taken steps to withdraw the membership card of each union carpenter who has worked on the jobs at $8 a day. Under the constitution of the union it was said that these men dropped cut of the union automatically when they refused to strike and when #ney accepted the lower wage scale after | it was all over, a fraction of a second | the committee had ruled they should work for $11. Defends Davis-Bacon Law. ‘The Central Labor Union, Mr. Dick- son declared, is interested primarily in upholding the Davis-Bacon wage scale Jaw. Officials of the central body fear that if they are beaten on this issue now the lower wage scale will prevall in all the building trades. Many idle union men hovered about the grandstands today. Five more men ‘were engaged on the stand directly in front of the White House, about 30 carpenters being employed in all at $8 a day. It was sald they are all union men as they have to show their cards to get work. More men will be taken - on_tomorrow. ° _ This stand is being erected by Skinker & Garrett, contractors, who have the work also at the Capitol. Across the street, the foreman of the workmen engaged in erecting the big stand with & seating capacity of 10,000 satd that union men were being employed at $11 a day and that R. P. ‘Whitty, the contractor, was® in full agreement with George Myers, business agent of the Carpenters’ Union. Work- men also verified the $11 scale. This was in contradiction, nhowever, to a statement issued today by Frank J. Sheehan, executive secretary of the Master Builders’ Association, in connec- tion with work being done on the . grandstands. “All of the stand work at the Capitol and on the- Avenue is being done by members of the Master Builders’ Asso- clation,” he said. “Bahen & Wright, R. P. Whitty Co. and Skinker & Garrett are the contractors.” ‘The Master Bullders’ Association in July, 1932, decided that $8 per day would be the scale of the wages to car- penters by its members. This decision came after negotiations which had been | carried on with Local 132 for over six months had failed and the agreement with them had expired. “The Master Builders claim.that this pay has been in effect for months, that members of Local 132 have been work- ing for that scale, and that the offi- clals of Local 132 are now trying to take advantage of the prominence of # the work in trying to force the con- ‘tirnctors to pay the old scale of $11 a . day. * _ “All of the contractors based their bids on $8 per day, which has been defined as a basls for union carpenters on all private work in Washington since | = July 1, 1932, Union labor has no further intention, it was said, of trying to get Secretary of Labor Doak to arbitiate. The meet- ing which was sought today by Chair- man Wood of the Committee on Grand- stands, was called off on the latter's assurances that he had specified in the contracts that only union men be en- | gaged in the work. The labor dispute | *is a matter, he said, which does not | concern his committee, CONGRESSIONAL SALARY SLASH IS PROPOSED Whittington Wants Pay Cut to $7,500 While Mitchell Thinks $5,000 Would Be Enough. By the Associated Press. Salary slashes for members of Con- gress were proposed to the House EX- | penditures Committee yesterday by two Democratic Representatives. Representative Whittington of Mis- sissippi wanted a slash to $7.500. Mit- chell of Tennessee suggested a $5,000 salary. The present rate is $10,000, but under the economy act they re- ceive only $9,000. i} Chairman Cochran said further hear- ings will be held on the question. CHIDED FOR LATE HOURS, GIRL LEAPS 4 STORIES Student, 15 Years Old, Taken to Hospital With Possible Frac- ture of Skull. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 2—After being admonished for keeping late , hours, Mary Thomas, 15-year-old schoolgirl, leaped from a window of her aunt’s fourth floor apartment in ‘Third avenue today. She was taken to City Hospital suf- fering from & broken leg and possible ‘ fracture of the skull and internal in- Jjurles from which it was feared she } might not recover. + Margaret Lennon, the aunt, told po- ! lice she had frequently spoken to the girl about late hours without result and last night the niece came home late again. This morning the aunt sald she rebuked her severely, “Our only grievance | it was de-| | creased during the last One glimpse of his shadow sent this In reality, the photographer had to corne | TIMID GROUND HOG RUNS FOR BURROW CHASED BY SHADOW (Continued From First Page.) ashamed of his long Winter retrench- ment, An ancient tradition, this prophecy | of the groundhog, this forecast by the ( meekest creature that ever scurried, or crawled. or ran for cover. He's 5o easily {rightened, as a matter of fact, that he usually has to be stuffed by a taxidermist before he'll stand for a picture on groundhog day. Focled by Photographer. ‘The groundhog's interviewers—who can draw from less substantial sources— don't have such a valid complaint against his timidity as the photog- raphers. “What? Another groundhog picture?” | they groan annually. “Say, last year This year, or today, rather, the groundhog stood for a plcture, but it wasn't voluntary. The photographer was out early, before the sun appeared, and got between the timid creature and his hole in the ground. Trapped at Wall. | The groundhog ran this way and that, trying to get in his hole. But | finally the photographer, out of wind and out of patience, backed him up | against a concrete wall, and, “click!” | before the subject dived into his den. | “The only groundhog I like to photo- graph,” panted the cameraman, * under glass at the National Museum. He'll pose for us; he’s so full of saw- dust he can’t help it!” Meanwhile, the live groundhog was burrowing deeper, and it looks like six | more weeks of Winter weather, with no Spring in sight. “That fellow,” scoffed the photo- grapher, “will shiver in his fur coat, no matter how the wind blows.” CRISES ARE DECLARED MEASURE OF WEALTH Representative Free Relates His- tory of Nine Major Panics in United States. Outlining the nine major financial panics through which the United States has passed, Representative Arthur M. Free of California, in an address at the weekly luncheon meeting of the | history shows “the riches of nations can be measured by the violence of the crises they endure.” As the population of the country has increased, Representative Free pointed out, the panics have expanded in force and volume. The first of the major panics, in 1837, resulted from land and cotton’ ventures and directly from the | failure of the Josephs brothers banking house, Mr. Free sald. The secend. in | 1857, was due to unsettlements caused by an unheard-of influx of gold, result- ing in the closing of the Ohio Life In- surance & Trust Co. The panic of 1873 resulted from “the schemes of men who succumbed to the hypnosis of railway | projection.” culminating in the downfall of Jay Cooke. In 1884, a panic resulted from the exposure of the firm of Grant & Ward the speaker said. Subsequent panic: sald: In 1893, the collapse of the Cordage Trust; in 1901, the corner in Northern Pacific; in 1907, the frustra- tion of Heinze's United Copper pool. “The nose dive of values in 1929 came without any Lig failure,” he commented. The country has recovered from every panic in the past, Mr. Free said, point- ing out that panics occur more often as years go by and that they become intensified as population increases. 'FRENCH ARMS PLAN DEBATED AT GENEVA World Conference ‘With Gibson Representing United States. Reconvenes, By the Associated Press. Disarmament Conference reconvened to- day, launching a general debate on the French disarmament plan. Rene Massigli, the French representa- | tive, explained again his country’s de- | sire to obtain reduction of armaments | simultaneously with a series of security | pacts. Hugh Gibson represented the | United States and Maxim Litvinoff at- tended for Russia. 1 The present program is to wind up discussion of the French plan this week | and then take up the British proposals. = HURLEY FLIES SOUTH Secretary and Party on Way to Shreveport Via Memphis. GREENSBORO, N. C., February 2 () —Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and his party, flying in sa Army plane from Washington to Shreveport, La., left here today at 10:30 a.m., with Memphis, Tenn., as the next scheduled stop. The Secretary's plane was forced | down here yesterday because of bad flying weather, and he and his party remained in Greensboro overnight. Seth Richardson, Assistant United States At- torney General; Lieut. C. W. Causland | and two aviators are accompanying the Secretary. Kreuger Assets Increase. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 2 | (P).—Tt was stated today that assets of | the bankrupt Kreuger & Toll Co. in- three months of 1932 from $915,477 to $1,269,831, that groundhog out at the Zoo started | for China when we got out a camera!" | resulted from the following causes, he | GENEVA, February 2—The World |’ prophet back for six weeks’ more slum- ber and bad weather today—if the Zoo's groundhog is true to the old tradition. er his subject to get this picture. —StarBiak Photo. ARMED PROWLER ANNOYS SENATOR McGill Reports Seeing Shot- gun Pointed at Window. Police Find Tracks. Metropolitan police are investigating a complaint received from the home of United States Senator George McGill, | Democrat, of Kansas to the effect that | an armed marauder was seen sbout the | premises last night. The family was at dinner in the residence, 3009 Thirty-fourth street, near the Cathedral, when a noise outside attracted the Senator's at- tention. Going to the window, he saw through the glass a double-barreled shotgun, but was unable to distinguish | the features of the holder of the weapon. He phoned police headquarters and offi- | cers responding in a scout car found footprints on the ground near the house, but no other indication of a trespasser. Senator McGill said he knew of no reason why a prowler should annoy | him, since he was unaware of enemies. dent impressed him as involving an insanc person.” “I have had no diffi- | culty with any one here or anywhere else,” he said. McGill said the first rap on the door was heard while he and his wife and daughter werc eating dinner, with the radio on. Going to the door, he said, he found | no one there and went back to the table. | Another rap came and he went to the door. looked outside, and saw no one. Shortly after returning to the table the second time, the Senator said the family heard a noise outside the dining room window on the ground floor, di- | rectly back of where he was seated. The Segator and Mrs. McGill both | jumped up and, without raising the | window, pulled the lace curtains aside |and saw to their amazement a double- barrelled shotgun pointed toward the | window. They immediately drew the curtains together, switched out the lights and called police. Tracks found on the rain-sodden lawn by officers were clear, going both toward and away from the window. 'HEART ATTACK FATAL 61—Formerly Headed Balti- more Traction. | By the Associated Press. | De Moss Emmons, 61, president of the :Hud-wn-MlnhInln Railway Co., died today of a heart attack in his apart- |ment in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. | Emmons became president of the underground railway, which runs be- | tween New York Cily and Jersey City, N. J, in 1930. From 1919 to 1929 he was_president of the United Railways ¢ Electric Co. of Baltimore. While there he was president of the Hale- thrope & Elkridge Railway Co. of Mary- |land and the Maryland Electric Rail- ‘way Co. He was also vice president of the Catonsville Short Line Railway Co. 1 and a member of the board of trustees | of the Savings Bank of Baltimore. Electric Railway Association, having :fi;‘;d as its president from 1922 to Emmons is survived by his widow and six children, Samuel Ewart Em- mons of Rio de Janeiro, Charles De Moss Emmons, jr., and Charles Cad- well Emmons of Baltimore; Mrs. John W. Cooke and Mrs. Willard E. Hicks of Newton Center, Mass, and Mrs. | Edith E. Pennoyer of Pittsburgh. CITIZENSHIP RESTORED TO THOMAS W. MILLER President . Bigns Certificate for Former Alien Property Custo- dian After Prison Term. | By the Assoclated Press, President Hodver today signed a cer- tificate restoring citizenship to Thomas W. Miller of Wilmington, Del., former | allen property custodian, who'served a sentence in the Atlanta Penitentiary for frauds arising out of his handling of some of the pi i Miller was convicte of .defrauding the Government in a case "based on the payment to Richard Merton, a Ger- man subject, of $6,453,979 connec- tion with the sale of the American Metals Co. assets seized by the Govern- ment during the war. Application for restoration of Miller's citizenship rights was signed both by the district attorney and the judge who presided at his trial. A former secretary of state of Dela- ware and later a member of Congress from that State, Miller has been active recently in the affairs of the American Legion and last Summer was awarded the Purple Heart decoration. CONVICTED OF MURDER Alleged Wife Slayer Found Guilty in Two Minutes. After deliberating only two minutes, & jury in District mreme Colrt gl- terday returned a verdict of .um‘m & first-degree murder'case against est H. Bolden, colored, 1200 block of Thirty- seventh street. The man was charged yl:h ;ksmotlnu his wite on the night of uly 16. Assistant United States Attorney Irving Goldstein prosecuted the case before Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, The Kansas Senator said the inci-| | TO C. DE M. EMMONS| Rotary Club yesterday. declared that | | President of Hudson Tube Dies at | | NEW YORK, February 2.—Charles| | _He was a member of the American | JOBS FOR 200000 INROOSEVELT PLAN| Tennessee Watershed Chosen to Launch Gigan- tic Experiment. (Continued From First Page.) conditions, life and climate. The area involves 640,000 square miles. He believes the proposition of re- forestation can be started immediately and with it work provided for 50,000 to 70,000 men in planting new trees, cut- fl:xd‘-nd rehabilitating the vast forest ‘Through the development of huge flood control basins, beginning at Cove Creek Dam, he estimates the power to be produced at Muscle Shoals can be increased to between two and three mil- lion_horsepower. ‘With this power is to be improved every farm home and barn and the great city industrial units and homes within the valley, all under protection of the Government. As a result of the flood control de- velopment, Mr. Roosevelt expects great stretches of rich bottomlands to be re- stored to the use of farmers—land to replace the eliminated and non-profit- able marginal acres. “Attacked from angies,” he said, “this whole proposal would ' give work to eventuaily about 200,000 men. We have been going at these various factors in af plecemeal way ever since the days of T. R. (Theodore Roosevelt) and Gifford Pinchot. Now is the time, I feel, to tie up all the various developments into one &reat comprehensive plan within a given area.” He preferred not to involve the power issue in the first exposition of the project. Nor did he go into details about the future use of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals. He is looking now at vast, broad visionary scheme and he wants to carry it into effect as soon as possible. Held Safe Investment. Government purchase of some of the | forest lands and of those marginal areas which would be retired from agricul- tural pursuits is contemplated in the Roosevelt program. “I regard it as a safe investment,” he said, “to borrow money to buy and take care of land of this character. The money would come back through the sale of crops. It is necessary that we act, for we are now consuming between three and four times as much timber as_we are producing.” Preparing to depart tomorrow night on a fighing cruise of 10 days in South- ern waters, Mr. Roosevelt has about completed the complex discussions necessary to get his policies and Gov- ernment leaders in action on March 4. It is believed he has his cabinet very definitely in mind, although no formal | announcements are expected before he |returns from the fishing cruise about the middle of the month. Arrival today of Robert Dunham, Chi- |cago banker and industrialist, revived | speculation that he would be Ambas- sador to Germany. PROPOSAL HAILED HERE. Organizations Approve Plan. | By the Associated Press. ‘The proposal of President - elect Roosevelt for giant development of the Tennessee River Valley won enthusiastic | | indorsement today from many in Wash- | |ington who for many years have | dreamed and hoped for such a trans- formation of that basin. Tennesseeans in Congress were the | first and the national farm organiza- | | tions were close behind in pointing out that it is in line with their views. The | | 1atter are particularly interested in the | | fertilizer ‘production possibilities at | Muscle Shoals, however. which aspect | Mr. Roosevelt s0 far has over | | for presentation of his much larger | project. 1 Surveys of the basin have Dolnudi out that Muscle Shoals is just one bit | of its tremendous power, navigation and development possibilities, 40,000 Jobs by Fall Members of Congress who have dis- cussed the question with the President- elect say his plan contemplates opera- tion by the Government of the Muscle Shoals power plant under terms of the bill sponsored by Senator Norris. They say, however, he wishes that. because of differences over the manufacture of fertilizer, this particular question be left to him to be settled ‘as best it can. The members from the Tennessee Valley were assured in the conference with Mr. Roosevelt that if the develop- ment were approved by Congress in special session this Spring, 40,000 men could be put to work on it by Fall, The President-elect did not, however, commit himself with them to any spe- cific plan for development already ad- vanced. holding that should be reserved until the proposed survey is completed. McReynolds Comments. Representative McReynolds of Chat- tanooga, which is in the center of the| pronosed development, today said: “The announcement by Mr. Roose- velt is cause for more than elation. We who have been working for this project for years always have been pleased When members in the House referred to the Tennessee Valley as the future Ruhr of ‘America. This plan will make that prediction a reality.” Many surveys have been made by | Army engineers and other agencies of flood-control work and of the power plants at Muscle Shoals. The Power Commission has much data on water power development. Reclamation stud- les have been made by the Interior and Agriculture Departments and the Army engineers. The forestry service is well up on projects of that kind. A year ago committees appointed b; Secretary Hyde of the Agriculture De- partment undertook an exhaustive sur- vey of the Nation's agricultural prob- lem and the need for long-time plan- ning. One phase of it dealt with the back-to-the-farm movement and held that an undirected, loosely-planned migration would work a hardship on both the city unemployed and on the farmers. Mr. Roosevelt long has been an advo- cate of reforestation and last Summer suggested that a million men could be put to work. That, however, was dis- puted by Becretary Hyde, who held that & few thausand would be able to plant all the trees, g PARISIAN HOTEL SUING M’LEAN ON TWO NOTES Former Publisher Is Accused of Giving Promises for Debts of $7,360. Edward B. McLean, former publisher of the Washington Post, was sued in District Supreme Court today on two promissory notes for $7,360, executed in favor of the Hotel George V., in Paris. McLean has been in the French capi- tal for some time, and recently was re- Egmd ill in the American Hospital iere, According to the suit, he gave the hotel & 90-day note last April 1 for $4,000. This note, it is alleged, was presented to the American Security & Trust Co., but payment was ref On last May 18, the declaration says, & second note for $3,360, payable on October 1, was given the hotel. Under the terms of doc cuted, despite numerous m’i‘h“ hot:i ‘was _represented At- e - mq Rudolph B. Behrend this Raging Blizzard Traps 500 Cars CALI F'o_ RNIA MOTORISTS MAROONED BY DRIFTS. BOUT 2,000 Californians who went into the San Bernardino Mountains for a taste of Winter were trapped by a raging blizzard for about 24 hours. Some of the 500 automobiles which were nearly covered with snow are shown in above picture, which was taken out of the mountains by a man on skis. For a time scores of persons were in danger of death or injurious exposure, but quickly organized rescue parties saved them.—A. P. Photo. BULLITT ASSAILED IN SENATE DEBATE ON FOREIGN DEBTS SNOW BLOCKS FOOD | Tennesseeans in Congress and Farm | Passabl OF 200 IN CANYON Park Employes Rush Aid to Indians in Remote Sec- tion of Gorge. By the Associated Press. GRAND CANYON, Ariz,, February 2.| —Their food supply cut off by deep drifts | of snow, 200 Indians and Indian Service | officials at the Havasupal Reservation, in a remote section of the Grand Canyon, 2,200 feet below the rim, have appealed for aid. In response to the request, M. R. Tillotson, superintendent of the Grand Canyon National Park, has started heavy snow removal equipment on the | long trip over 38 miles of secondary | road, now blocked to Hilltop, where a 14-mile trail from the bottom of Havasu Canyon meets the isolated artery. Records at park headquarters show | snow fall during the last 12 days of | January totaled 25 inches, with huge | drifts making the road to Hilltop im- e. Joe Garrehy and Jake Sturgill, Na- | tional Park employes, left here yester- | day driving a tractor equipped with a plow. They expected to reach Hilltop | late today. The rough, isolated road. | seldom used by visitors, and the heavy | snow drifts limit their progress to ap- proximately 3 miles an hour. The Indian village in Havasu Canyon | is about 8 miles from the Colorado River, into which Havasu Creek empties. The valley is about a quarter of a mile wide and is confined between red rock walls which rise 1,000 feet or more above the valley floor. The Indians’ account | of the origin of their settlement has been described as follows: | “When_several families, or bands of people, who afterward became the great tribes of the Southwest left their sacred canyon (Mat-a-we-dit-ta) by direction | of their Moses (Ka-that-ka-na-ve) to find new homes the Havasupai family | journeyed eastward on the trail taken by the Navajo and the Hopl. One night | they camped in Cataract Creek Canyon | and early on the morrow took up their | burdens to proceed on their journey. | but just as they were starting & little | child of the party began to cry, and the | kohot of the family, knowing this to be | s warning from the Great Spirit, d cided to remain and live in the canyon. They found s fertile valley of some five hundred acres of level land which | was easily irrigated from the creek that bursts clear and sparkling from a thou- sand springs at the base of the great | cliffs, and rushes on, over successive cataracts, to join the Rio Colorado in its vast canyon. They called the place Ha-va-sus, meaning blue water. And by and by they themselves were known | as Ha-va-sua-pi, dwellers by the blue | water, which rather pretty sounding| name’ has in some unaccountable way been corrupted into “Hava Supai” “Supai” and “Suppai” by the whites who have attempted to use the Ipdl:n‘ name.—From “Canyon Country,” by Julius F. Stone. EXTRADITION HEARING IN LEA CASE TODAY Defendants’ Counsel Prepares to Ask Habeas Corpus Writ if Request Is Granted. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. February 2.—The prolonged battle of Col. Luke Lea and Luke Lea, jr., to sidestep penalties in North Carolina on bank law charges shifted today to the office of Gov. Hill McAlister of Tennessee for an extra- dition hearing. Should they meet defeat there, the Leas’ attorneys were prepared to open habeas corpus proceedings immediately. The defendants remained in seclusion. ‘There was a possibility that in event of an unfavorable decision at the ex- tradition hearing they might surrender at some place other than Nashville and seek writ there. Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles of Asheville, N. C., who prosecuted the Leas there in 1931 and obtained convictions for conspiracy to violate the State bank- ing laws, spent all yesterday looking up Tennessee statutes relating to re- ?nuultlm and habeas corpus proceed- E, had an sppointment with Gov. McAlister this morning present North Carolina’s formal demand for the former United States Senator and his 24-year-old son. Col. Lea faces & 6 to 10 year sentence and Luke Lea, jr., fines and costs totaling $25,000 as an alternative to a prison term of two to six years. Henry E. Colton, one of the Leas’ nn:rnen, :tked meueonmo‘l;! to grant & het fore acting on t! requisi- hu:: u:: was advised he would be BAND CONCERTS. By the U. 8. Soldiers' Home Band is evening l&sshl‘l}!y Hall at 5:30 __(Continued From First Page) _ at the State Department to ask that his country be given the privilege al- ready extended to Great Britain and other powers which are not in default Rumania has made all its debt pay- ments. ‘This is the first request Rumania has made for a hearing, as by having no payments due last December 15, it had no occasion then to ask reconsideration of the debt settlements and an exten- sion of the moratorium. as did the na- tions having to pay at that time. Davila said Undersecretary Castle was not able to promise him the hear- ing, but will advise him later. Chamberlain Stand Scored. ‘The disposition in many quarters today was to regard Chamberlain’s “no swapping” war debts statements ' as the views of one cabinet mem- ber and not definitely indicative of the final position the British government | will assume in the forthcoming dis- cussions. ‘This opinion was backed by a general calling of attention to the stand taken by President-elect Roosevelt in express- | ing a willingness to hear the pleas of | debtor nations and the recent confer- Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambas- sador. Sir Ronald now is en route to Lon- | don with a full outline of the incoming | President’s thoughts on the subject and | he will place them before the MacDon- ald cabinet early next week. Unques- ticnably what Sir Ronald has to say | will carry the greatest of weight in formulating Great Britain's policy. Not “British Conception.” Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex- | chequer, told American correspondents in London yesterday that Britain does not regard the debts talks in March | as “a great swapping deal” He said the “conception of concessions by Great Britain in return for the scaling down of war debts is not a British con- ception.” Not long afterward Senate leaders here issued a plain warning that the British cannot expect debt adjustments without giving compensations. In s formal statement, Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that if Britain will not consider other world promlems in con- nection with debts “we have no al- ternative, but to stand by the debt set- tlement heretofore made.” “If the British come to the confer- ence in that frame of mind,” Senator Reed, Pennsylvania Republican and Hoover administration spokesman, said “I see no bility of any conclusion being reached that is acceptable to both nations.” Senator Watson, Republican leader, said that without concessions there could be “neither cancellation, revision, nor postponement.” And from Senator Walsh, Montana Democrat and prob- able member of Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet, came the opinion “we are quite compe- tent” to decide whether it would be in the American interest to cancel or re- gluce debts. ‘Throughout the whole debts discus- slon since last November 10, when Great Britaln first asked for reconsideration, there has been little, if any, indication of a yielding in the congressional oppo- sition to cancellation or reduction. Congress stated its opposition in ap- proving the Hoover moratorium. How- ever, some leaders have expressed a willingness to hear what debtor nations might propose in response to Mr. Roose- velt's plan of bargaining for trade con- cessions. Congressional Opposition, This attitude, reflected again in the statements of Senate leaders who com- mented on Chamberlain’s expressions, ‘was pointed to today by observers as basis for their belief that the chancel- lor was speaking solely as one member of the British cabinet. The observers were inclined to be positive that Mr. Roosevelt had made the congressional opposition very plain to Sir Ronald. In the House yesterday Representa- tive May, Republican, of Kentucky as- serted it was the duty of Congress to let Mr. Roosevelt “know where it stands on the debt question.” And about the same time President Hoover and Sec- retary Mills heard a report from Ed- mund E. Day and John H. Williams, State Department economic experts, on their negotiations abroad in connection with planning for the world economic confererce. ‘When Great Britain made a formal decision to send debt representatives here, she zaid that no binding decisions could be reached on economic subjects to be discussed at the World Conference prior to & me: of all nations to be represented ;. 0 afterwards Sir Ronald went south to Warm Springs to .talk things over with the incoming President, who has said all nations that paid up on December 15 would be given a hearing on debts and economic subjects Borah's statement was issued shortly after the declaration by Neville Cham- berlain. Any nation, the Idaho Sena- tor said, that supposes it can exem; itself from the world’s economic condi- tions will find “jt is taking a very nar- now, selfish and ruinous position.” Other Problems Vital ‘The text of the Borah statement fol- ws: “If Mr. Chamberlain means that his to consider CHAMBERLAIN DEBT EFFORTS PRAISED (Chancellor Did Well Setting Forth Policy Toward U. S., Says Mail. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 2—The Dally Mail said editorially today that Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex- chequer did well to set worth plainly for American correspondents yesterday, the British Government’s policy in the coming debt negetiations at Wash- ington. “He stated emphatically,” said the Mail, “that our representatives do not contemplate embarking on a swapping deal. He deprecated any idea of bar- gaining in the questions which will be discussed. Our case is, after all, simple. It is that any prolonged continuance |of the ‘huge one-way payments in- ence between Mr, Roosevelt and Sir volved in these intergovernmental war debts is impossible.” Any response which Mr. Chamberlain may make to American reaction to his remarks may be expected in his next public speech, but there is no desire in cfficial quarters here to initiate a public controversy over the issue. Emphatic Against Swapping. His statements yesterday were in re- sponse to questions. He was emphatic that there should be no “great swap- ping deal” at Washington, but he also said that “both rrtle! are interested in questions which will come up simul- taneously with discussion of the war debts, and an agreement might be | reached to their mutual advantage.” He said he welcomed discussion of the tariff and other economic problems, but the view of the British government is (that no decisions on these issues are likely to be reached at Washington. He indicated one other loophole for nego- tiations when he expressed the hope of trade agreements which will help to break down tariff walls between the nations. These can be negotiated, he said, without violating the Ottawa agreements. His statements did not attract wide attention here because they were not avallable generally to London newspa- pers. Reports of another debt mora- torjum were given more consideration in the local papers. Congress’ Responsibility. Informed quarters realize that final responsibility for any further suspen- sion of debt payments rests with the American Congress. The basis for re- newed talk of & moratorium was that the Washington negotiations are being compared to the Lausanne conference which brought about the settlement of reparations, and the initial move at Lausanne was to suspend all payments during the progress of the negotiations. As the British government has said that final decisions on economic ques- tions could not be reached at Washing- ton, the belief in some responsible quar- ters here is that some form of suspend- ed debts payments to carry over through the projected world economic conference, and to include England’s next installment, due June 15, will be the only solution. e Three States Get Loans. Emergency relief loans totaling over | Jan, a million dollars were authorized to- day by the Reconstruction Corporation, Indiana receiving $338,600, Tenn $689,380 and West Virginia $25,000 the debts. I am of the opinion that it is as muoch in the interest of one nation as another to adjust all these economic problems which stand in the way of the economic world recovery, and to reopen markets, to revive trade and commerce and to rebuild the purchasing power of the masses. A “If any nation supposes that it can, by reason of its cheap currency system, exempt itself from the world's economic conditions and threaten collapse, it will find, in my opinion, that it is taking & :‘ezn narrow, selfish and ruinous po- HULL TALKS WITH ROOSEVELT. Debt Parley Significient of Secretary of State Choice. WARM BPRINGS, Ga., February 2 T MLLER DEFENDS DAWES AN EOAN Disputes Brookhart Predic- tion of $25,000,000 Loss on Insull Collateral. By the Associated Press. A vigorous defense cf the $90,000,000 loan by the Reconstruction Fiance Cor- poration to Charles G. Dawes’ Chicago bank weas made before the Senate Banking subcommittee today by Charles A. Miller, president of the corporation. He sald in answer to questions of Senator Brockhart, Republican, of Towa: “I regret I wasn't here to vote fo: it and share in that courageous and brave action. It was one of the bravest things ever done in this country. If that loan had not been made the re- sults would have been disastrous to the Nation.” Brookhart said that Insull securities had been put up by the bank as col- lateral and that he was informed the corporation would lose $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 on the advance. “I don't know whether there will be any loss,” Miller replied, “but certainly not such a staggering loss as that.” Asks Probe of Fallures. Meanwhile, before the House Bank- ing Committee, Representative Fish, Re- publican, of New York, urged adoption of his resolution to have the Attorney General investigate the failure cf cor- porations that have secured, loans from the Reconstruction Corporation. Fish told the committee that “there is some crookedness g-ing on.” He said the Iilinois Life Insurance Co. of Chi- | cago and the Union Indemnity Co. and the Unlon Title Guarantee Co., both of New Orleans, had failed within a chort time after getting big lcans from the Reconstruction Corporation. Fish was asked by Representative Hancock, Democrat, of North Carolina | whether R. 8. Hecht of New Orleans, a director of the Union Indemnity Co., president of the Hibernia Bank and Trust Co. and chairman of the Recon- struction Corporation Advisory Com- mittee there, was not ‘“closely asso- ciated with Senator Huey Long.” “1 didn't want to bring up Senator Long's name, but now that it has been brought up,” Fish said, “I want to say I have had hundreds of letters on this subject.” Fish sald the Illinois Life Insurance Co., headed by J. W. Stevens and other members of the Stevens family, had se- cured loans totaling $1,125,000 frcm the Reconstruction Corporation. Adequate Security Required. ‘The last loan was advanced on Octo- ber 22, 1932, he said, and the insurance company failed on November 28. The Unifon Indemnity Co. and the Union Title Guarantee Co. Fish said, had received “more than $4,000,000 al- together.” He added that a portion of the loans to the Union Indemnity Co., which failed on January 6 after receiv. ing a Government loan on December 28, had been used “to pay a loan it had received from Hibernia Bank & Trust Go. of New Orleans.” Chairman Steagall of the Banking iCommlttee, who is being boomed by Senator Long as Secretary of the Treas- ury in the incoming administration, said with regard to the Sen~ ator's reported association with Hecht, that “any member of Congress might get into the same situation by referring some one to the Reconstruction Finance Oor{)o‘x;nmon h’:r nedloan.” “I have referred many myself,” added. He added that reflmy‘lul 2 :l‘}ézvahe‘rh s bo.r;ower failed the law proe at uate security” be provided. ! 2 te = PAPAL BULLS SUSPEND HOLY YEAR INDULGENCES Vatican Newspaper Publishes Sup- plementary Edict Governing Catholics. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, February 2.—Os- servatore Romano, official Vatican City newspaper, today publishes the sum- mary of three papel bulls supplement- ary to the bull announcing the Holy year which begins in April, The first suspends all indulgences except those of Lourdes and Palestine, The second permits confessors to com- len-l:wn or reduc; v':”:t! to Rome basili- ecessary for aining indulgence and the third regards as plous s:)rh prayers by prisoners, the sick, aged and workmen who are unable to come to Rome, CAMPBELL IN DAYTONA " TO SEEK SPEED MARK Briton Plans Assault on Record in Bluebird Racer on February 10 or Later. By the Associated Press. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb: — Sir Malcolm Campbell has come paek to :mu:n lg: Wh‘l,teb:lndl of the ocean peedway here ( s mmfl:flft can) a new world ‘The sportsman night from New-York, stilh Vl‘:’kvm lessee | recent attack of influenza. He sald he expected to take his Bluebird racer the beach for test runs in m":nm o days, but would not make the assault until February 10 or later, Your Income Tax No. 4 Personal Exemptions In addition to the of $1,000 for single bersens ereraption and $2,500 or each de- pendent, defined by income tax law and regulations as & person under 18 years of age or incapable of self-support be- /%) —Senator Hull of Tennessee, regarded | those now as the most probable choice for Secretary of State, went into a joint conference here today with President- elect Roosevelt and Prof. Raymond Moley on war debts. After the meeting he departed for Washington, still maintaining silence on .whether he had formally accepted an offer to be the next Secretary of State. His non-committal attitudé was as reospiive mood and the gray-haired | & unofficial Senator was put down in the agmfitlkt. ull, an authority on tariff, it night here with Mr. Roue'e.llt,.en (:: of the first moves of the new Demo- cratic administration will be hegotia- tion of war debt rellef asked by the wers. aged. In order to be entitled to the $400 credit, the taxpayer must furnish the dependent his or her chief port. The credit is based upon mlll:“gnln- cial dependency and not mere legal dependency. For example, a father Whose children receive half or more of their support from a trust fund or at:u te source is not entitled to Neither relationship nor residence are factors in the allowance of the $400 credit for a dependent. The tax- payer and the ndent mll{ be resi- diff cities. husband