Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1933, Page 2

AS MERCURY RISES) 80 Deaths Are Reported in Other Sections of U. S. "~ 17 Low Last Night. ‘Washington and many other sections of the country today were shaking loose the grip of the worst cold snap of the Winter, but this city’s outlook for complete relief was far from bright ‘with the Weather Bureau predicting increasing cloudiness this afternoon, Tollowed by snow late tonight or tomor- Tow morning. In other sections of the country a m-total of 80 deaths due to the weather was reported. The Weather Bureau reported the lowest temperature here last night was & fraction below 17, which, although the wind of the preceding night was abated, afforded slight relief. Today's = forecast was for slowly mrising tempera- tures until nightfall. Toright’s mini- mum was expected to be around 24. The extent of the snow to be ex- pected in this section was not forecast, t with it temperatures are expected take another tumble. Sub-Zero in Mountains. In the mountains nearby there was ill sub-zero weather, with the lowest ported this morning being recorded t Thomas, W. Va., where the mercury at 4 below. At Frostburg, Md., e mercury stood at 2 above this jorning and at Cumberland at 8 above, ith higher temperatures recorded arther east. ‘The freezing temperatures that came out of the north and west invaded both California and Florida, the Weather " Bureau reported, with untold damagi to early fruit and vegetables. = The freezing temperatures did not extend beyond Gainesville, Fla., but the Im- perial Valley of California was re- ?:md hard hit by the bitterest cold 21 years. No casualties from the cold were re- ported in Washington, not. even a case of injury from exposure being treated at_the hospitals, Missfons, however, again were filled to capacity with men driven off the streets for sheiter. Meanwhile many other parts ¢ the country and Canada were still ‘m the grip of the coldest weather of th# Win- ter, and in some instances the eoldest ‘weather on record. 22 Dead in Chicago. Chicago counted a total of 22 dead as the city surveyed the effects of the coldest weather in 34 years. Ohio counted 9 deld‘,w with lthermofile;ir readings dipping down as low as - low zero; lowa, 5; Michigan, 6, with a temperature rwmz ‘?‘(m 52 below ulrxi fl:e u) ‘penins Teé| 5 Missol 3 v?heendmw T 2Ne‘\v Jersey, Kentucky and 5 SEHIITTS TN, sg ‘uggg'fia A ] known to have perished since the storm began early this week. Five of these ‘were_in O} , two in Texas, two in Oregon and one each in Kansas, Montana, Idaho and California. Despite a slow but steady moderation in the icy blast, zero and subzero read- ings held good in many sections, with fires adding to the physical handicaps the weather. burned to death in their homes in ‘Wheeling, W. Va., and firemen in Chi- cago were called out to fight numerous fires; Including a million-dollar grain eley: blazs in the Goose Island dis- ‘The zero and subzero belt continued | the to extend all the way from points in the East to the mountainous areas of the West. Pittsburgh dispatches told of zero weather in Western Pennsylvania, Eat More Carrots, Get Complexion a Grapefruit! That’s What One Doctor Thinks of Them for Beauty, Anyway. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 10— Carrots for beauty? A doctor visiting i this city for a lecture prescribed them iand now the medicos are crossing swords. “A student at the University of Michigan ate large quantitles of car- rots for six months,” said Dr. Thomas Kelly, diabetes specialist on the staff of two hospitals, “and he acquired & complexion like a grapefruit.” Dr. J. Howard Crum, New York, started the discussion by prescribing lettuce, carrots or spinach, and a quart of milk daily for the woman who would be beautiful. “Who wants carotinemia,” retorted Dr. Kelly. “We have patients coming in here every day who are the victims of diet fads. The milk part is all right, although it is incorrect to say it will put on or take off weight.” Dr. B. B. Vincent Lyon, chief of the jan emphatic “No” to a League of Na- i tions’ request for a statement of Japan’s | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, JAPAN WONTT DROP | Opera Sing MANCHUKUO POLICY Emphatic “No” to Be Tokio’s Answer to League’s Proposal. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, February 10.—An official statement that Japan will reply with attitude toward discontinuance of the present Manchukuo government was partially qualified later today. “Our negative reply is almost a fore- gone conclusion, but we must proceed with the utmost prudence,” said a gov- ernment spokesman. Forelgn Minister Yasyua Uchida to- day instructed Yosuke Matsuoka, the| special Japanese counsel at Geneva, to| submit the draft of his reply to the League Committee of Nineteen to Tokio before handing it to the League offi- clals. Hence Japan's answer is likely to be her return to the concert stage division of gastra-enterology at another hospital, was equally caustic about car- rot complexions. He declared: “I don't know of any fad diet that is worth anything scientifically.” CONFEREES GIVE P 0, SUPPLY BILL Reorganization Scheme Sponsored by Garner Pro- vokes Bitter Debate. { (Continued From First Page.) Tllinois, then asked that the Treasury- Post Office bill be sent to conference. Patman, Texas Democrat, and Schafer, Wisconsin Republican, objected, and Pou immediately forced a roll call on a rule to send the bill to a conference committee. ¥ Snell Takes Up Issue. As soon as the House met today Snell took the issue to the floor, telling Demo- cratic members that either they had reversed themselves “for political rea- sons” on the reorganization question or were convinced they could not run the House. , “Bunk!” shouted Representative Blan- ton in reply. Earlier Speaker Gafner announced at his press conference: that he was in faver of “going the lmit” in giving President-elect Roosevelt power to re- organize the Government. “The limit is the Constitution,” he said. “I want to- give the President un- limited po the cost of the power we cannot the Dem- ocratic platform pledge for a 25 per cent cut in Government costs. "Goz::nor Roose‘ ve:z is B to take responsibility, -an ngress ought to be willing to give it to him. I am for anything to cut down expenses of this Government. I really am in carnest about this.” Garner conferred this morning with Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina. ~ The Vice President-elect would not discuss the exact terms of plan, but Byrnes told newspaj men it was along the lines of a resolu- tion introduced by Representative Hud- dleston, Democrat, of Alabama. This provides that upon finding revenues for j cently returned from Europe, “let it be postponed two or three days while the | need of money. er Returns to Stage MARION TALLEY SIGNS CONTRACT FOR CONCERT ENGAGEMENT. ARION TALLEY, former Metropolitan Opera star, with her manager, George Engles, after signing a contract with him to sing on the concert stage this coming season. Only two weeks ago she obtained annulment of her marriage to Michael Raucheisen, a German pianist. She said D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933. I was inspired neither by ambition nor a —A. P. Photo. | cabinet studies the matter.” None of League’s Business. Japan stands irrevocably for main- taining that Japanese-sponsored govern- ment in Manchuria, a government spokesman said today. He declared further that Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria is ended forever, notwith- standing reports that the League pro- poses to insist on Chinese rights to exercise this sovereignty. A League request as to whether Japan would promise not to extend its military operations into Jehol Province brought a forceful comment in the Japanese war office that “it’s none of the League's usiness.” RAILROAD LOANS EXCEED SECURITY Chairman Couzens Presents Figures on Sums Advanced by R. F. C. b . Japan has made no secret of its plans to annex the Chinese-administered Province of Jehol to Manchukuo before Summer. The driving of 1,000 Chinese troops from Jehol into Fengtien Prov- ince, Manchuria, was described by the war office as a “police function.” The | Japanese Army was thereby acting as the agent for the Manchukuo govern- ment, the spokesman said. (The League Committee of Nineteen asked a written reply to its query re- garding continuance of the Manchukuo regime. It asked the Jupanese delegate informally to learn if Japan would stay out of Jehol. The committee took the view any conciliatory settlement of the Manchurian issue must be prefaced by Japanese acknowledgment of Chinese soverelgnty and agreement to change the government in Manchuria.) A-foreign office spokesman said the League’s inquiry was tantamount to re- Jection of Japan's latest conciliation | llateral has a market value Offer. This meant the Tesone ouol | that its collatera proceed in making its own feport and | of only $898,000. Miles C. Kernedy, | chief of the railrcad division of the concerning the Manchurian issue. The | relief corporation, testified, however, nature of this report will decide whet ther | that it was “adequate security,” in his Japan withdraws from the League. | opmion. 4 ., opinion. Meanwhile the foreign office deciared| The market value of collateral held today it learned China and Russia have by the R. F. C. on loans of $5,000.000 signed a defensive and offensive alli- | to the St. Louis and Sen Prencisco is ance. China and Russia resumed diplo- only $829,000, the report also disclosed. matic relations recently. and that action | Testimony that railroads have appli- | Wwas deplored in official statements in | cations pending for about $70,000,000 | Japan. from the corporation was also pre- | Eugene Chen, Chinese envoy, who re- | sented to the committee. | Charles D. Mahdffie of the Interstate Commerce Commission tastified that | applications totaling about $55,000,000 | were pending before it. Kennedy sald applications for more | than $15,000,000 are awaiting action by that organization. Already Advanced $67,000,000. By the Assoclated Press. A report showing that loans by the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation to some railroads exceed the present value | of the coilateral held by the Govern- ment was placed before a Senate com- | mittee today. Half a dozen rallroads now owe the | corporation more than the market value of the collateral they advanced for the loans, the report said. Part of the doc- | ument was read into the record by| Chairman Couzens of the committee that is investigating carrier loans. Testimony also was presented that applications are pending for further ad- vances of about $70,000,000. The R. F. C. report showed that the | Central of Georgia owes $2,903,000, but known” that he helped negotiate a de- fensive-offensive alliance 51°1th Russia, | the foreign office stated. | This treaty will be kept secret until | the resumption of “American and Rus- | sian diplomatic relations,” a foreign | office bureau report said. | Chen Denies Alliance. Kennedy said these applications in- SHANGHAI, Clg%rebmary 10 (7). | cluded $11,127,000 from the Chicago & fore —Eugene Chen, ign thinister | Northwestern and $5,000,000 from the in the Nationalist today | Baltimore & Ohio. denied a report from Tokfo that he had , Chairman Couzans pointed out that | negotlated a defensive alliance between | the B. & O. already has been advanced | this country and Russia when he was | $67,000,000 on collateral valued at in Europe recently. | $76,000,000 on January 28. “The Japanese foreign office has been |, “Is this additional $5,000,000 to be seeing ghosts again,” he caid. loaned on the same collateral?” he LINDSAY EXPECTED | 10 SALL TUESDAY Members of British Mission Probably Will Be Picked Before He Leaves. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 10.—Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador to the United | States, wili sail for New York on tha| steamship Majestic Tuesdey if lhe“(he money system in this country. As | cabinet “big five's” plans for the debt conference in Washington are com- pleted in time. Another conference between Presi- dent-elect Rocseveit and Sir Ronald | | | was expected to take place as soon as | the Ambassador arrives in Washington, | The tentative personnel of the Brit- | ish mission which will go to the United | States was expected to be decided by | the cabinet Monday, before Sir Ronald’s | departure. Cabinet Meeting Short. This morning’s cabinet ccnference lested for two hours, As usual there | wes no ccmmunique. It was under- stcod, however, that no plans have been made to send advisory delegates with the Ambacsador when he returns to ‘Washington, leaving him in full charge of negotiaticns with Mr. Roosevelt. The cabinet subcommittee on the war gebts, headed by Premier Ramsay MacDonald, resumed its conference this morning with Sir Ronald. Silent Regarding Plans. The meeting was held at the treas- ury, to suit the convenience of Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Neville Cham- berlain. The other ministers present were Sir John Simon, Stanley Baldwin and Walter Runciman. . Members of the “big five” have con- tinued to maintain silence cn the plans for the debt parley with the Roosevelt administration at Washington. Thexe was speculaticn in parliamentary cir- ~les as to whether Sir Ronald has com- municated again with President-elect Roosevelt. BULLITT SAILS FOR U. S. LASS UNDEGIDED ON CABINET POST Acceptance Probably Will Depend on Opinion of His Physician. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The decision of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia to accept or decline the office of Secreiary of the Treasury still hangs in the balance, and upon it rests in no small degree the ultimate make-up of the Roosevelt cabinet. Senator Glass has strong ideas re- garding public service and duty to serve | That he would acecpt the invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury if convinced his duty lay in that direc- tion, his close personal friends are confident. ‘With the inauguration of President- elect Roosevelt only three weeks dis- tant, and his necessity for announcing the personnel of his cabf by March 4, or soen thereafter, is expected that the Virginia Senator will make his decision in the matter known to Mr. Roosevelt as soon as the latter returns from his present sea trip, if he does not communicate with him before. Will Take Physician’s Verdict. In the meantime, it is reported, Sena- tor Glass will give serious considera- tion to the Persoml as well as the public side of the question. The two are co-mingled in this case, for if Sena- tor Glass is convinced that, notwith- standing his 75 years of age, he is cap- able of standing the strain of the ardu- cus duties of the Secretary of the Treas. ury in the coming administration, it believed he will accept. It is his plan, It is said, to take the verdict of- his physician in this respect. Indeed, it is believed he will undergo a thorough ex- amination before he makes known his decision to the President-elect: The acceptance of the Treasury post by Senator Glass would be widely satis- factory to the Democrats—and also to the Republicans and the business and financial interests of the country. While a strong advccate of reform in banking and financial matters in this country, the Virginia Senator is just as strongly opposed to destroying the soundness ol chairman of the House Commitiee on | Banking in the Wi'son administration, Mr. Glass was largely responsible for the legislaticn which brought about the establishment of the Federal Rescrve System, and later he served as Secre- [tary of the Tieasury under President ‘Wilson, resigning to enter the Senate. Senator Glass has been reported as having accepted end also as having re- jected the tender of the cabinet post. In both instances he has insisted there was nothing to the reports. If he finally decides his best service can b2 rendered by remaining in the Senate, Mr. Roose- velt will necessarily pick another Sacre- tary of the Treasury. Many names have been mentioned in connection with this post, including Bernard M. Baruch of New York. Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, who now is- reported to be slated for Secretary of State; Howard | Bruce of Maryland, former Representa- tive Swagar Sherley of Kentucky, and more recently, Representative Stesgall of Alabsham, chairman of the House Banking Committee. Other Virzinians Talked. A declination by Senator Glass to enter the' Roosevelt cabinet may bring the selection of Senator Swanson of Virginia to be Secretary of the Navy. | It is obvious the President-elect would not place two Senators from the same Stat> In his cabinet. However, Senator | Swanson has leng been intensely in- terested in the affairs and at present he is ra nking Democratic member of | the Senate Naval Affairs Committee as well as the ranking Democratic member of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Furthermore, there hes been great pres- | | sure to find an cpening in the Senate for former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who-was a ‘strong supporter of Roosevelt for President last year. If Mrs. Roosevelt’s Daughter Available| For Radio Contract But Mrs, Dall Will Be Judge of Suitability of Programs. By the Associated Press. NEW _YORK, February 10.— Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of Frapklin D. Rocsevelt, has permitted herself to be offered to advertisers as a | speaker on commercial radio programs | which meet with her approval. | Mrs. Dall's mother, who contracted to give a series of talks on a commer- cial program which is still running, nounced last week that she would ! make no more such contracts after her | (husband becomes President. Proceeds . | from the one contract she did make she | | gave to charity. | A company which. supplies talent for |commercial radio progr: has sent | to four e advertising agencies a list of speakers including Mrs. availabl Dall | Mrs. Dall said today she had signed |an agreement making herself available, but stipulated that any program on | | which an advertiser wis her to speak must be submitted to her first for her approval. “It is to.be left entirely to me,” she said, “whether I want to do it or not. I shall be the judge as to the suita- bility of the P “As yet I have entered into no con- tracts with any advertisers. I may or I may not. It would all depend on the sort of ‘program on which they wanted me to speak.” The list sent to the aavertising agencies also included the names Will Rogers, Dr. Rockwell, comedian, and Helen Wills Moody. The circular listed Mrs. Dall follows: “Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, the deughter of the President-elect. Mrs. | Dall has a charming voice and most engaging personality. She is willing| to appear on any commercial program sponsoring a product consistent with her public position.” The official of the company whose name was signed to the circular indi- cated that Mrs. Dall's radio speeches, | if she makes any, will probably be in connection with her work as associate editor of Babies—Just Babies. U. S. TAKES HAND IN LINDBERGH. PLOT; TRIO as IS HELD —(Continued From First Page.) prisonment, or a $5000 fine, or both, are possible upon ccnviction. Police told of .the extortion attemp! which was carried on through a series of lettcrs addressed Col. Lindbergn |and to Chief of Dgfectives Robert C. Johnson of Roanpke. ‘The latter masqueraded as a presentative of Col. Lindbergh. 3 The stump post office ignated for the purpose in the first of the letters sent Col. Lindbergh. This and a subse- quent letter, both of which were placed in the hands of Col H. Norman Schwarzkopf of New Jersey police, were forwarded to Roanoke authorities. Schwarzkopf, who compared the let- ters with the ransom note left by the kidnapers and slayers of th: first Lind- bergh baby, said the handwriting ap- | parently was not the same. The letters, which were poorly writ- | ten, demanded $50,000—“or I will get | your baby.” TWO LETTERS RECEIVED. First Leads to Roanoke, Va., Arrests; Other Being Investigated., | TRENTON, N. J., February 10 (#).— | Two letters, one of which resulted in the arrest yesterday of two men in Roanoke, Va., have been received by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, each de- manding $50,000 under threat of kid- { CABINET POSITION FOR BAKER SPIKED Daughter _Tells Reporters Ohioan Will Take No Part in Regime. By the Assoclated Press. HONOLULU, February 10.—While newspaper men vainiy sought political information from Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, on his ar- rival here, his daughter, Miss gy Baker, emphatically announced that her father would not take any part in the new administration. The former cabinet member dismissed political questions by saying. “I know nothing whatever about politics.” “After all,” he added, “it's Mr. Roose- velt's cabinet, not mine.” Miss Baker answered newspaper men who sought to learn whether her father would be a member of Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet by saying: “I know he won't “How do you know?” she was asked. “I won't tell you that” she replied. Mrs. Baker, while less emphatic than her daughter, let it be known she also frowns on the idea of her husband re- entering politics. “He gave 22 years to public work. We think that is enough,” she said. The Bakers, who plan to remain here two weeks, came into port on the bridge of the liner Malolo, an honor rarely bestowed on passengers. ROOSEVELT WORKING ON HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH DURING CRUISE __ (Continued Prom Pirst Page) crossed his path at the Hialeah Park race track. While the pot continues to boll over the lerser appointments of the new government, speculation persists about the cabinet. Reports from Washington that Senator Glass of Virginia has defi- nitely declined to enter the cabinet as Secretary of Treasury were discredited here. It is believed Mr. Roosevelt will not make up his cabinet until he has talked again with Semator Glass and others he has in mind. Should Glass not enter the cabinet, there is reason to believe Senator Hull of Tenn<ssee would be the next Secretary of Treasury and perhaps Senater Swanson of Vir- ginia the next Secretary of State. INDIANS HONOR FARLEY. lemocratic Chairman Elected Member of Seminole Tribe, FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.. February 10 (#).—The chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committec now is a full-fledged Seminole Indian. James A. (Big Jim) Farley was elected a member of ° the Seminole tribc by a delegation of five braves frem the reservation at Okeechobee. Interpreters told Farley the Indians felt representation for their race could best be gained at Washington by hav- ing an Indian princess marry a cal member. But ditcussion along this line got no further. The Seminole tribe | never has signed a peace treaty with the United States. The Indians were guests at a din- ner given in honor of Farley and other Democratic leaders by Robert H. Gere, Florida and Chicago publisher, who is a member of the Nationel Campaign Committee. It was called a “jungle dinner,” and various gifts wera presented. These included a 5-foot evergiades smake in a glass cese, young alligators, baby raccoons. and- land crabs, WHITE HOUSE GUESTS WILL EAT BUFFET STYLE ON MARCH 4 (Continued Prom First Page.) i ball” she sald, “because Franklin's aunt, Mrs. D. D. Forbes, gave me the material. She brought it from China, where she lived for many years. The material is very old and rare.” Her daughter, Mrs. Curtis Dall, will wear to the inaugural ball a gown of the same material, Mrs. Roosevelt said “Only she will wear a colored scorf | naping his 5-month-old son John. A third note received by the fiyer either threatened or warned him to “watich out for your second son.” Receipt of the letters and the note | asked. —— MATSUOKA COMING HERE. | “Yes" Kennedy replied. | E: Was Made Entirel | iyt the 85000000 is granted, they | Bays x4t : EUS e ' Japenese Delegate to Geneva Expected | Will have $72,000,000 with an estimate 5 collateral ai only $76,000,000,” Couzens| CHERBOURG, France, February 10 to Cenfer With, Rooscvelt. | remarked. | P —william C. Bullitt, who has fre- BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. | Couzens is author of a resolution to| quently denied reports that he was Yosuke Matsuoka, the leader of the SUSPend corporation loans to railroads.|in Europe as the emissary of President- Japanese delegation et Geneva, will | re The Chicago & Northwestern, Couzens | eject Roosevelt, embarked for the United visit the United States cn his way back | on collateral now valued at $16,356,000. ad further, has borrowed $18193,000 states today ‘on the North German to Japan in order to have a talk with | D¢ Chicago, North Shore & Wil-| “zr Bullitt said he had made his|Senators from Virginia into the cabinet. | ¢hild, Charles Augustus, jr., the letters | | Lloyd liner Europa. waukee, he added, citing it as an Insull | to Eur entirely as a private | were turned over to the New Jersey President Roosevelt, it was learned in | company, hes borrowed $1,150,000 and | vishor ang that he had celied on riends | g iyolved in the discussion of the next with numerous trafic accidents on mnw-swcrt highways. One of Nevada's main arteries of travel—the Lincoln Highway—was blocked, - hampering transportation of food o districts believed to be badly in need"of rations. It was 20 below at Ely, Nev. The prolonged cold placed livestock on the Western ranges in a precarious position. = Up in the rockies the temperatures were moderating and the weather man said a further rise might be expected. next year insufficient to cover ex- penditures authorized, the President shall reduce any or all expenditures by, not more than 10 per cent, provided that except for contractual obligations of the United States, the reduction shall proportionately cut all payments, salary, or compensation coming under | the reduced jtom. Would Mean “Dictator.” ‘The whole proposition, Byrnes said, would have to ge adjusted in conference either Senator Glass or Senator Swan- | son steps from the Senate into the | cabinet, Mr. Byrd is expacted to move | into the Eehate, frst by appolntment | and then by election. The selection of | s | Mr. Byrd for the Senate would give | W3 made known vesterday by Col. H. | the President-elect a strong ndvocltra"r"rg;‘:;‘e ::;;;;‘"“”va superintendent | for many of his policies in the upper | E | Houte: and_ woud offset in a meacuse | APparently written in different hand- | the loss to the Senate growing out of | WFiting from the ransom notes received | the entrance of one of the veteran | i the abduction of the first Lindbergh Alaska, however, wes reported to be having unseaconably warm weather, with the temperatures bstween 30 and 40 above all along the coa:t. Alaskans were reported irked by the condition, - which resulted in the premature thaw- | ing of trails and highways and making travel uncomfcrtable and in many cases New York today reported the record Jow of the year, with the mercury at 10, ‘Wwith the previous low of 11 reccrded yesterday morning. H The maritime provinces of Canada reported gales, reaching at times a velocity of 80 miles an hour, rcaring through the country, leaving tempera- tures as low as 52 below. The high winds were accompanied by 2 tidal wave at Sandy Point, Newfcundland, which inundated the ground floors of resi- dences and sent 450 inhabitants to| attics and roofs. Many coastal villages were cut off from communication with the outside as trees were blown across wires and trains were delayed by bliz- gards. ‘The first ice bridge of the season formed at Niagara Falls and the frozen spray covered trees and buildings. ‘GIRL IS UNCONSCIOUS - FOLLOWING BEATING Brother Also Ill—Mother and £ Boarder Accuse Each Other. By the Associated Press KALAMAZOO, Mich, February 10 —Kathleen Britton, 8, was unconscious at a hospital here last night in a seri- ous condition as a result, police said, of being beaten last Monday. Phy cians held little hope for her recovery. Her 11-year-old brother is recovering ’Irtm the less serious effects of a beat- ing ir mother, Mrs. Margaret Britton, . and Coady Calloway, 38, who lives at the Britton home, are held Prosecutor Paul Tedrow said the charges to be placed against them would depend upon the outcome of the girl's injuries. Accorcing to the police commissioner, Mrs. Britton raid that Calloway beat the children and “punched Kathleen in the oved her against the h her for misbehavior, Calloway maintains that it was the mother who best the children, the commissioner said. Physicians said the girl was suffering from internal hemorrhags. An opera- tion was performed today in an effort to save her life Two other children of Mrs. Britton have been taken to the juvenile home. WEARS STRAW ON BET . CHICAGO, February 10 (#) —When an otherwise well dressed man walks down Michigan avenue wearing a straw hat, while the temperature is 19 below gero, he must have a reason. Charles Riddle did it yesterday. He made the mistake of wagering with a fellow em-' that the mercury would not sink more than 10 below. k ;&lfl! between House and Senate. President Hoover only two days ago let it be known- that he was pleased with the Senate’s move toward giving his successor the reorganizing power. Snell said yesterday the new pro- posal would make Mr. Roosevelt a “dictator.” “It would give him more power than diplomatic querters today. The visit of Mr. Matsuoka to the United States is being sponsored by the Japanese societies in the United States, who are worrled about the American- Japanese relations and hope that Mr. Roosevelt may look upon the Far East- eny exacutive in the world except Mus- | | solini,” he asserted. Even before the ! new proposal was announced, ‘he had objected to the wide powers conferred on the President by the Senate under the new econcmy program. Senator McNary, the assistant Re- publican leader on the other side, said: & “I don't think the Senate will go that ar.” ern situation from a different angle than the present administration. There are indications that the Jap- | anese government will not oppose this visit; s a matter of fadt it is reported that' the foreign office is in favor of Matsuoka having a heart to heart talk with the new President of the United States, but is not quite certain yet whether such a rtep will meet with the | approval of the war office. Japanese Worried. What the Japanese diplomat could | say to change present policies of the | United States in the Far East is natu- | rally unknown. | Mr. Roosevelt has already expressed | his tull endorsement of the Hoover doc- | trine of non-recognition of aryterri- | torial acquisitions by the force of arms, ard it is highly doubtful that he will reverse a national policy which he has already fully approved. In spite of their intransigent and de- | flant attitude, the Japanese government | is worried about the turn events may | take after they leave the League of Nations. ‘There are obvious indications that the Chinese and the Russians have | finally concluded en offensive-defensive | aliance; furthermore, the Japanese be- lieve that the question of recognition of the Soviet government by the United States will be 2 matter of months after the tnauguraticn of President Roosevelt Foresee Difficulty. Asked for Authority. | But House leaders disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt had asked for such author- ity, being willing to take the respcn- ibility for balancing the budget by | eeping reducticns even if it costs him re-election four years hente. Two years are to be given the new President to carry out his econcmy | | program, which many Democrats view | | @s an opportunity to bring the Nation's | financial books into line without re- | | sorting to increased taxes. Congress could veto Mr. Roasevelt’s pians only by a two-thirds majority of both houses. Speaking of the plan, Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic lead- er, said: “It {s autocratic power, but | conditions are unprecedented and re- Quire drastic remedies.” The power thet the Democrats pro- pose is the greatest ever suggested for a President cf the United States in peace time. Garner was given credit by his col- {leagues for initiating the propssal fol- lowing conferences recen y_long-dis- tance telephore with Roosevelt. His proposzl was submitted to Repre- | sentative Buchanan of Texas and ofher Democratic members of the Appropria- | tions Committee” at a conference be- hind closed doors. The propcsal had Ibeen held up by Garner in the hope | that Chairman Byms would return. | Bvrns has been i1l for ceveral Aays. Snell blocked the Demcerat's effort |in the Houze to swnd the measure to | conference yesterday on the ground | “this bill contains scme of the most | far-reaching lcgislation ever to reach this House.™ Seeking further economy, the House Democrats plan to retsin’ the Bratton amendment calling for a 5 per cent re- , duction in all appropriation bills and | to _climinate the Costigan amendment, | approved by the Scnate, cxempting Fad- | eral .salaries from this cut. SEEK NAVAL BASE Virgin Islands Want Navy Admin- istration Again. ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islancs, Febru- ary 10 (#).—The Colonial Council yes- terday adopted a resolution embodying a petition bearing hundreds of signa- ?tures asking that Congress place the city under naval administration sgain. Discantinuance of th: naval base here, the petition stated, aggravated an ‘econamic condition already bad, ! United States would teke title to this and since the island depends almost|land within a few months, and the sum entirely upon its maritime importance was needed for protection and ad- its only hope is re-establishment of the ministration purposes by the National naval cdmfimnuu\. Park Service. 3 ily by Mi difficult for Japan in the Far East, be- cause Russiz’s credit in the United States would be gcod agin and the Soviet government will be in a pesition to purchase here all the necessary war material she had to purchase hitherto in Europe and trancport by the Trans- Siberian roflway to Siberia. It is true that by that time the bill authorizing the President to place an embargo on arms will be in effect, but it is improbable that the President wouhli use his autherity in the case of Russia ! , Whether Mr Matsuoks intends merely to sound out Mr. Roosevelt and obtain his view on the American-Japanese relstions or whether hs has some more copcrete ideas in his mind is a matter of speculation. HOOVER ASKS $80,000 FOR PARK IN VIRGINIA \ (Prom the 5:50 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) President Hoover today asked Con- gress for an emergency appropriation of $80,000 for the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, to b2 expended by the Interior Department in taking over ebout 160,000 acres of land. Budget Director Roop explained the Such a yecognition would make things | | the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is uncble to “even estimate the present value” of the collateral. | “You can probably count that off as profit and loss,” he commented. |, Kennedy said the collateral had “some Value.” Couzens said the report showed the Gulf, Mobile & Northern had a loan of $260,000 which was not covered by the | market value of the collateral, |~ The Miscouri-Pacific, which recently received an additional loan of $3,000,- 000, Couzens said, already had bor- rowed $17,100,000 on collateral with a present estimated value of only $7,- 392,000. Kennedy said the Missouri-Pacific put up additional collateral for the $3,- 000,000 loan, but did not estimate its value, This ncluded, he said, $10,000,- 000 in bonds now selling at 24 or 25; $12,000,000 in obligations owed the line by subsidiaries and some stock which ke did not name Oppose Reducing Loans. Arthur A. Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury, yesterday told the committez it wouid be a tragic mistake to withdraw Federal aid npow from the railroads, “a key structure in the Na- tion’s financial system.” Similar evidence was presented by Alfred P, Thom, general counsel for the Association of Railway Executives, in opposition to the Couzens plan. Thom said the Government should liberalize its loens to the roads, instead of stop- ping them. Widespread receiverships for the rail- | rcads would mean “wreck and ruin” fcr the country’s financial structure, Thom said, and further Government loans chould be given to carry them until reorganization could be effected. Ballantine said “preservation of the railrcads and upholding them is ap in- dispensable part of any program for re- covery.” Co\i’zen.s sald he had come to the conclusion the Government should “get back of all the debt structure” or else stop trying to upheld part of it. | AIRPORT BILL HEARING TO BE HELD ON MONDAY Chairman Smith Calls Subcommit- | tee on Proposal to Have Dis- | trict Operate Field. | The new McMillan bill providing for leasing or purchase and operation by | the District of Columbia of Washing- ton-Hoover Airport will be taken u for consideration by the newly appoint- ed special subccmmittee of the House District Committee at 10:30 a.m. Mon- day, it was announced today by the subcommittee’s chairman, Representa- tive Smith of Virginia. No extensive hearings will be held unless requested by members of the subcommittee, Chairman Smith said, since the ground has been covered within the last two weeks by the House Committee on Public Buildiny and Grounds. Representative McMillan of South Carolina, author of the bill, will be_heard. Members of the cirport subcommittee are, in addition to Chairman Smith. Representatives Allerd H. Gasque of South Carolina, Vincent L. Palmisanc oorm)uryh.nd and C. B. McClintock of 0. ; | P | partments and | just as he had done in previous years. | “I did not come on any official mis- sion whatever,” he asserted, adding that |he was returning home ‘“entirely | | tranquil.” | | He was much amused because news- | | paper men missed him in Paris, where | he took the second section of the Cherbourg boat train instead of occu- | pying a compartment which had beem | reserved for him. IDLE SURPLUS MAY BE FORCED ON CITY BY CUTS IN BILL (Continued From First Page.) using local revenues to diminish the | Federal contribution. Altogether, the budget reductions, ac- cording to calculations of District offi- cials, will turn back into the Treasury to the credit of the District a sum estimated in excess of $6,000,000. The exact amount, it was said, cannot be definitely determined until the appro- priation bill is passed and the size of the Federal contribution fixed. Althcugh the House is likely to agree to the $6,500,000 contribution, the Sen- ate is expected to continue its fight for $9,500,000. The Senate clashed with the House last year over the amount of the contribution and finally receded to a comprcmise of $7,775,000, | but pointing out that the reduction was a temperary concession only. | In the face of the anticipated surplus | the House Subcomrittee on Appro- | priaticns is reported to have been con- | sidered a proposal to increace the tax | on intangibles by 1 per cent to raise | revenues for unemployment relief, | although local revenues would be avail- able for that purpose withcut any tax | Increcse. This prospective . surplus, District cfficials explained, wi'l include about $1,400,000 of water revenues and gaco- line tax funds. The Water D:part-| ment is self-supporting and fts surplus | | cannot be used for any other District activity, The gas tax fund alio must be used exclusively for ctreet 1mprove-‘ ments, with the result that projects recommended by both the Highway and | Water Departments in 193¢ must be | postponed while the funds for the work lay idle in the Treasury. Bratton View on District. The provision in the general economy bill, now awaiting action by Senate and House conferees, calling upon .all de- independent . establish- ments to save 5 per cent.of next year's appropriations, would not apply to the District bill, in the opinion of Senator Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico, author of the proj 1. < “It is my belief,” Senator Bratton said, “that the reductjon does not apply to the District of Columbia. It is con- fined to the heads of executive depart- ments and the several independent uw&mhmml ents. - 5 ly a very small percentage of District approprietions comes out n'l! the Federal Treasury, and the rest is sup- plied from local revenues, I see no rea- son why the Disirict should be included unless the District desires it.” reodnt varchoupraid tn osten ™ * | | \ of the silver bills which have been intro- | | standard, but to increase the use of Secrétary of the Treasury is the atti- tude of President-elect toward the proposals for currency in- flation that have sprung up rapidly on Capitol Hill. Senator Glass, as he had made clear in the debate on the Glass banking bill, would oppose bitterly pro- posals which he considered unsound and likely to debase the American dol- lar. :How far the Virginia Senator would be willlng to go on the path toward inflation is still to be de- termined. _ Senators who conversed with the President-elect on his two visits to Washington before he went on his present trip Bouth, say that they are convinced Mr. Roosevelt stands ready to try some measure of inflation in an effort to better conditions eco- nomically. But they are unable to say what his plan will be or how far it will go. Dill Spensors Inflation Bill. | Among the bills introduced pmpnslng: various measures of inflation is that of | Senator Dill of Washington, Democrat, | one of the original Roosevelt-for-Pres- ident leaders. It is believed Senator Dill discussed with the President-elect the provisions of this measure when the latter was in Washingion, although it is not understood that Mr. Roosevelt definitely committed himself to it. The Dill bill authorizes the Secretary of the | Treasury to purchase silver bullion, for which he would issue to the sellers sil- ver certificates in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, up to the amount of $250,000,000. The Dill bill differs from a number | duced in that it proposes the amount of | silver bullion back of each silver cer-| tificate chall be the amount of silver a gold dollar would purchase at the time | the silver certificate is issued. In other | words, the Dill measure does not seek | to take the United States off the gold silver as a basis for currency in this country. He does not pr any arbi- trary 16-to-1 or any other ratio be- tween gold and silver, except the actual market value of the silver when paid for in gold. | Senator Dill's contention is that by‘ the adopticn of his plan the market price of silver can be greatly ircreased, | thereby making it possible for the silver | using countries of the world to purchase | far ‘more products from the United States than they are now able to do| with silver selling at its present low level. Says U. S. Cannot Lose. Senator Dill regards the plan as of great value in bringing order out of the present eccnomic chaos, and in re- storing the purchasing power of the millions of people who rely upon sil- ver for their currency. Silver, he points eut, is not perishable and can be held by the Treasury as a basis for currency as long as desirable, His con- tention is that the United States Gov- rnment cannct lose by this plan, and tl(ttwerk.uhehm,nesruz deal of good may be accomplished. ‘With the near approach of the In- ternational Economic ce, for which plans already have been made, the settlement by the nations of the currency and silver problem is regarded with more and more hcpe. Norman H. Davis, Undersecretary of State in the Wilson admlnutxllgt'l‘o?. who m' one cfi the American del es named to worl up this conference and who has been mentioned ip-connection with the“office Roosevelt | aara wgane v | State police and pcstal authorities. | Investigation of the first letter, re- | | ceived in December, State police said, | led to the arrest yesterday in Roanoke, Va, of two youths, N. T. Harvey and Joe Bryant. They were apprehented | after ole of them atemptea to cash a | 17,000 check taken from a tree stump | | where it had keen placed by police in response to demands. Postal authorities will continue their investigation of the second letter, past- marked Scranton, Pa, which told Col. Lindbergh to place $50,000 in a suit case at 2 hideout not revealed by State police. The money, in bills of $20 de- ncmination, was to be ready for de- livery February 1. MONEY SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD FORESEEN Scarcity Forcing World to Turn to Silver, Says Smelting Company Official. By the Associated Press. The belief that the world scon will need scmething besides gold as a money basis was exoreszed today before the House Ccinags Commiit>e by Fran- cis H. Brownell of New York, chairman of the American Smelting & Refining Co. Advocating the Pittman bill to let th> Treasury purchase silver produced in American mincs and issue currency 2gainst it, he termed himself a “gold standard man,” 2id: “In spite of my advocacy of silver, I think nothing s 'd be done to im- peril gold. Trere I am against any fixed ratio. “I belfeve the world is going to need silver as a prime monetery metal. “The go'd produciion is bound to decreas>, and i the world pcpulation continues its normal increase and the business transactions grow, the gold vi'l not be sufficient to meet the world’s monetary necds. “During the next three or four years, while the rest of the wor'd is stabilizing ! its currency, the United States sh’mldl lend its aid to the stabilization of siiver in this crucial period. “I think it would be followed at th2 end of that period by a general re- monetization of silver by the rest of the world.” EPIDEMIC HITS ALASKA ore, PAIRBANKS, Alaska, February 10 (). —Receiving reports of an infiuenza epidemic in Stevens Village, 100 miles northeast of here, Dr. . Sutherland left here yesterday to combat the disease. Two persons were dead and three more dangerously ill. About half the population of 50 was reported ill, Word of the epidemic was Rhrought by J. B. Drolette, trader, on his trip to Fairbanks since 1905. of Secretafy of State in Recsevell administration, brought ard ircm | Eurcpe that the nations there werc to reach some - t in re- with hers,” she added. Mrs. Dall als> will wear bluc on ineuguration day, her mother sa’d—a dark-blue cloth coat over a silk dress of lighter biue. Mrs. Rocsavelt said she orcerad for herself, in addition to naugura- tion gown, a black afternccn gown end two evening gowns. “The evening gowns arz both bl the said, “becau‘e I like bly2 and b cause I think it is econcmicel always to wear the same ccler, although in different shades. “I chose cne model beczuse it had detachab’'e slceves and can bs worn either in the aftzrnocn cr in the eve- ning.” Mrs. Rcosevelt said that probably only two of her four grandchildren would be taken t> Wachington for the inauguration. “Anna’s children, Buzzy and Sictie, are prebably old enough so they’ll re- member it,” she said, “althcugh I don't think Buzzy will remember very much. But, cf course, Jimes' and Eliott's babies wouldn't. Anna Eleanor Dall is her brother is g-ing cn 3. nearly 6 and Paris Trams Doomed to Go, By the end of this year Paris will be a tramless city. The Municipal Council has decided that th> change of service to motor busses must b2 speeded up at once. Nearly $2,500,000 will be spent in buying the busses. Your Income Tax No. 12 Deduction for Business Expen Deductions for busin‘ss expenses form a large item in the return of many taxpayers end must have certain qualities to be allowed. Such deduc- tion must bz for cn expenditure in connection with the meaintznance and tion of the taxpayer's business or 2 perties; it must be an ordl- nary expense and it must be a neces- sary expense. In insisting upon the latter qualifications, th2 Bureau of In- ternal Revenue is upheld by the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts. -Ordi- nary and necessary expenses are only those which are usual and essential in the case of similar taxpayers, “and do not include extraordinary non- essential expenses. Typical business expenses of a mer- canille establishment are amounts paid for advertising, hire of clerks and other employes. rent, light, heat, water, sta- tionery, stamps, telephone, property in- surance and delivery expenses. The expenses of a manufs business include labor, supplies, re- pairs, light and heat, power, selling cost, edministration and other similar ey deduct all amounts e farmer may peid in the production, harvesting, and marketing of crops, including labor, cost of seed and fertilizer used, cost of minor repairs to farm buildings (other en his dwelling), and small tools sed up in the cours> of a year or two. A taxpayer may conduct more than one business and the business deductions of each.