Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1933, Page 2

| DEARTH OF MONEY DENED BY. MILLS Manipulation” Opposed by Treasury Head in Speech Read in Kansas City. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, February 11.—Secre- fary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, in & speech read here tonight before the ‘Young Republicans of Missouri, declared there is no actual dearth of money, op- posed inflation of the- currency and at- tributed current economic stress to “‘un- certainty and lack of confidence.” The Secretary's speech was read by John Jay Hopkins, special assistant to Mr. Mills, who was unable to leave ‘Washington. Summary of Views. In a summary of his views, g ex- gund in the nieplred address, tcre ry Mills said: “I believe that a balanced budget at home, reduced costs of government, the orderly adjustment of debts, the stabili- zation of currencies and exchanges, an easy money policy on the part of the central banks, the gradual removal of exchange. restrictions restoring the free flow of internationsl credit and the elimination of arbitrary and abnormal trade barriers would, if combined into a general economic program, so free latent and powerful forces as at once to stimu- late on a world-wide scale business re- vival and price recovery, and that this time the forward movement would not be temporary and short lived, but per- manent and progressive.” Discusses Inflation. Discussing & cure he said ‘was widely advocated, “‘Government manipulation of our currency and monetary system to bring about what is commonly known #s inflation,” Secretary Mills- wrote: “They start with the unwarranted as- sumption that the supply of gold and money both in the world and in the United States is te to support & satisfactory price level. As far as the world is concerned, since 1913, the world monetary gold reserves have in- oreased from nearly 5 billion to about 12 billion, or nearly 150 per cent, while g: uc:lon of h.(.“i ’nummndmu Aat point of 20 was nearly one-third larger than in 1913.” ] 'As far as this country is concerned.” he continued, “as compared with 1929, our gold stock his increased, our bank Teserves have increased and currenc thus increased. The present difficulty arises from inability to put to work our ample monetary reserves. Brute Foree Useless, “Credit cannot be brought into active use by brute force. The in: em- John H. Mills sleeping religious services in which he is alleged a “sacrifice” to “divine command.” SACRIFICE SLAYING SUSPECT 15 HELD Kentucky Cult Leader Faces| Grand lury in Strangling of Mother, 72. _ By the Associated Préss. INEZ, Ky., February 11.—Judge T. J. Hardin today ordered John H. Mills, 36- year-old cult leader, bound over for grand jury action for the strange rifice” slaying of his aged mother at the height of & fantastic cult ceremony. Mills lay prone upon & cot in the small, crowded court room, muttering Y |now and then meaningless gutterals, during the proceedings. Held with him were six other mem- bers of the mountain cuit, charged with being accessories to murder in connec- tion with the strangling last Tuesday 21| o Mrs, Lucinda Mills, 72, in & cabin at employment of labor and the accelera- tion of all thémanifold economic ac- tivities that form part of the modern economic mechanism. What is holding :mu back is uncertainty and lack of con- Explaining the workings of infiation, Mr. Mills described What he said would if the gold content of the dollar was cut in two, &8 has been advocated e e sald, “s that t 5 . “I that th y verpool for al it shillings, three he now converts 50 ely determines * domestic wheat, the of wheat at home would rise to $1 Theory ‘arid Fact Part. “T¢ is Sth‘tflu world price There theary and fact < L act part company, next Monday morning the American farmer found. that he could get $1 for | po! his wheat in Liverpool, you can rest as- that every vessel leaving the u: States would be loaded with agy “The price at Liverpool would break. is 30 certain that it would have before even an extra bushel from the United States reached that market. It is impossibje~to say Where the price of wheat w ultimately settle, but certainly far under a dollar and prob- ably not far above present prices.” Declaring that British prices have shown no marked increase since Great Britain was forced off the gold standard in Beptember, 1931, Secretary Mills said “the fact that the United States, Prance and a few other countries have Temained on the gold standard is the z‘ element of stability in the world . - e b SUSPECT IS CAPTURED IN KIDNAPING SCHEME Sharon, Pa., Authorities Hold Man, 21, With Decoy Package After Demands for $5,000. By the Associated Press. SHARON, Pa, Pebruary 11.—Police arrested Harold Brest, 21, of Sharon tonight, e kage D) ersville in cempliance with orders of letter containing threats of kid- hief of Police Charles- B. Steger snnounced that Brest confessed to writing the note received yesterday by Mrs. Julis Buhl of Sharon. It threat- ened to kidnap her “grandchildren” unless she left $5000 in a' package at & deserted barn, % “1 just wanted some money and’this easy,” Chief Steger quoted the #s saying in explanation of the He i3 expected to be turned over to Federal authorities for prosecution. January Circulation Daily... 117,647 Sunday, 125,282 District L el & OLD. Business Mansger THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR, oes solemnly swear that the actual number s of the nuper named sold and dis- ing the month of January, A.D. s foliows Tomahawk, Brought to Court on Cot. ‘The accused slayer presented & prob- lem to oficers who removed hint from the Martin County jail to court. They brought him on & cot. but throughout the hearing had to hold the struggling, squirming man. County Attorney Jasper Preece called on Mills for a coherent explanation of his mother’s death. In answer the pris- oner waved his arms wildly about his head and shouted gutterals. Preece said the sounds were similar to thoee described by members of the cult as the “unknown tongué,” in which they pray, Blaine McGinnis, L& gaunt aged Victim, was -in- 1aw of ‘the .ot the sont fitat fy. fod ‘Poat togy, had ciypoled " the ce” ‘of thelr *Aut Tueinda. - e aierpreed. 8 b s tor Geimonstrate ‘the death of sin.’” McGinnis said that some unknown wer had “struck him powerless”' as the leader began to choke Mrs, Mills. “I couldn’t move,” McGinnis told the court. “I stood and heard Aunt Lu- cinda say she gladly would offer her- sef as a sacrifice if her death would in any way help her son Leonard. He began choking her and still I was pow- erless to intervene.” 3 Was Patlent in Asylum. Mrs. Mills' son was idenjified as § nt in the State Asylum at Lex- on. Rzur woman members of the cult, trembling as they talked, also declared they had opposed the strangling. “John could have shown the death of sin in some other way,” one of them, Mrs. Ora Moore, sald. ‘Those held as accessories to the slay- ing were Mrs. John Mills, wife of the man accused of murder; Blaine McGin~ nis and ' his wife, “Fred Mills, Ballard Mills and Mrs, Moore. Tom Boyd, an+ other ‘member’ of the family, was heid | 25 & material witness, ° The next grand' jury is scheduled to 1 for Mills has | ineet in April. Counse Fokalea "Bk “pica Wil be temporary | insanity. An order that Boyd and Mrs. John Mills might be released in $10,000 each was entered later by Judge Hardin, with roviso as {o the woman that it be 5083 if her father would come for her and her four small chitdren, 'Bail was denied.the others. ' : CLASHES : DISRUPT SENATE - PROBE" OF OVERTON ELECTION ;_{Continued From First Page.) been unjust, false, malicious and un- scrupulous insinuations against me. I have a right to answer them.” | Senator Long jumped up and re- quested the committee to explain the rule of perjury to Williams. “I want this witness put in the peni- tentiary if he lies” said Long. as he and Williams glared at each other. “He can escape sentence to the penitentiary by saying he is testifying on what some- body told him." “I have affidavits. off exhaustion caused Wy days of fasting and frantic to have choked his mother to death as Photo. TFARLEY DEMANDS ABILITY FOR JOBS Party. Loyalty Is Also. Needed by Applicants, He Tells Florida Democrats. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fia, February 11—Party night by James-A. Parley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as two necessary essentials for the men and women to be chosen to' help' run the new Roosevelt administration. As the man whose word will go a long way in the determination of ap-, pointments by President-elect Roose- velt, Mr. Farley told a° gathering of Democratic leaders here tonight that he would rely upon the State Jeaders for recommendations. » “Must Investigate Fully.” “I insist,” he said, “that before they refer their recommendations ta me they investigate every condition thoroughly, I cannot be too emphatic in saying that unless they accompany their recom- mendations with full evideénce of hon- ideals, I shall refuse to adyise favor- ably, no matter how many or how in- fluentinl are the ind erits, pre sented.” ‘This enunciation of the """’fi" pa ‘ideal was given by the likely mext Postmaster General—at a dinner in I.lmho;wt Dy the Roosevelt- b, - Distinguished leaders of” democricy were at the speaker’s table,-including James M: Cox, the presidential nominee 0119207 "Gov. Sholtz ‘of Florida, James Hodges, Florida State chairman: legislation. ! "gm;u. the g-cronua situation, Farley po:'nt.&uhrly eld out promise for the youths and for the women .of the party. atw “Need Ypung Blod:' 2 “Tt will please the inc tration. guuy." he m Staté ful rmlnlflbnhmhflu younger psople. Np one in tica has | greater respect than myself Yor those older men who for years have carried the burden’ of J:"’ duties, ghtting in return_very little pf a substantial na- ture, We owe them a debt of gratitude, and this we want to repay, but ih doing 30 we must remember that the‘upbuild- ing of our organization requires the continual infusioni of new blood. . “What I say concerning youth may also be said of the women. We look to them for their support at the 5:1-. Let us be consistent and sccept it help in our party activities and welcome thefr, opinjons in our part; our y lérences, especially on question which relate to their own welfare.” CONGRESS BALKS - -:- “DICTATOR” GRANT FOR THIS SESSION (Continued From First Page.) will into the President-elect’s hands. The reports brought here are to the ef- fect that Mr. Roosevelt is entirely willing to exercise such powers, and-to exercise them drastically, if they -are | given him. P . Veterans’ Cut Looms. It is reported that the Presidert-elect | will not hesitate to use the pruning " | knife on the veterans’ payments. This s a phase of the economy proj 1 that the members of both houses of ‘Congress have shied awsy from, fearing reprisals in their States and distiicts from’ the former service men, i ‘The basis of the Garner pmgoul fot | incressing the power of ‘the President to deal with Government expegaitures, it was said yesterday, was the Hud- | dleston resolution introduced by the, | Representative from Alabama in the House, suthorizing the Executive to cut Do you want| by 10 per cent any and all appropria- them?” said Willlams. “No,” answered Long. know what you know of your own knowledge. Mr. Chairman, if you hold him responsible for what he knows he can be sent to the penitentiary on the testimony he has given.” “Senator Long is criticizing the first witness I have called and wants me to charge him with perjury, while wit- o | nesses favorable to Long have poured Ram adiustments ... ly circulation 49,135 058 R1R 116,567 Paily average net circulation. ... SUNDAY. Co Boes adsustments Wotal Sunday net circulation, Average net Avbrage rumb ver ice. ete. Average Bunday net circulation.. 135, PLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Man l Vfinsd'm’du.nmfio me this - a stream of perjury through this record Iready,” said Ansell “If commitiee counsel said on the outside half he has said in this commit- tee room, he also could be sent %o the penitentiary,” Long said. Both Ready to Go. “I will walk out of the court room with you any time,” said Ansell. “All right, T'll walk out," said Long. “Will vou walk out alone or with armed guards?” asked Anscll. “I will send somebody with you if anywhere,” said Long. Long then drew from Willlams state- ments that he had not seen any persons arrested at the polls and had not seen any money passed to influence election commissioners, but Willlams said his testimony was supported by affidavits which he held. ARMY TROUBLES [;ENIED Peruvian Officials Declare Reports Entirely Without Basis. LIMA, , February 11 (#).—Re- ports of trouble with the Peruvian army w: described today as whelly “I want to| you want, but you don't want to go | tions This would go to the extent of cutting by 10 per cent the payments. existing laws. | Democrats admitted I rflflh! that it was almost futile to talk about au- thorizing the cut of the vetdrans' com- pensation at the present Congress, where every suggestion of that kind has been turned down. They admit that it is in | these payments to veterans that the real big saving in Government expendi- tures seems possible. But they see no possibility of doing snything about it | n 1 | to the veterans under ow. 1f the proposal, «as now suggested, is made in the next Congress to give the President the power to cut the com- pensation of veterans, it is bound to meet stout resistance, The veteran or-. | ganizations will fight it to a finish, it is said, and will seek to }ine up members | of House and Senate against any such | proposal. Should President Hoover veto the | Treasury ‘and Fost Officé appropriation bill—and, it s said that he may yet do 5o because of several providions that | have been placed in it—the whole mat- ter of grant of power to the Executive to cut expepditures and to- reorganize | the Government” will go ‘over to the | next Congress. -Re) eaders in the House have indicated that they | believe the President will hold the Congreas has gone too far.in this bill, thout, the Garper proposal 1 powers to the Executive. R 4 Somersault Ts Fatal, LOWVILLE, N. Y., 11 ). —Joseph Norris, 01-yum hand, who had turned somerisults for years to keep himself ‘in physical trim, died today of .i?::fl“'rrh’ ofa in-his neck, rece ursday one of them, even | addit; | U S.LEADERS FIRM 0., PUSHES PROBE FOR DEBT BARGAIN; OF LINDBERGH PLT! 11 Rainey andTrio’s Statements Conflict- ing, Say Agents—Keith Returns Here. Lewis, Mills, Strawn Demand Conces- sions From Europe. ‘The American reaction to European | By the Associated Press. w:gonh for settling the war debt| ROANOKE, Va., February 11.—Vigor- problem is & clear-cut crystallization of | ous grilling of two men and & woman demands that Europe be prepared t0|held in connection with a plot to extort make concessions in return for any |$50,000 from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh modification_of the debt agreements. | was resumed tonight by Federal investi- This was reflecied yesterday in expres- |gators who announced statements so jons from both sides of the political | far obtamed from the trio were “con- 1933—PART ONE. loyalty and qualification were- listed to-| esty, ability and devotion, to Dempcratie | gen Rob- M~Gore~nl(‘°hlc.v and George Hills of | mm‘m system at the Capital, as well as from | organized American business. “Senator ‘Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, in a speech in the Senate, called for the cancellation of plans for the Brit- ish debt review at the beginning of the Roosevelt -administration if it should be confirmed officially that the British have instructed Sir Ronald Lindsay. their Ambassador, to serve notice Eng~ land centemplateés no quid pro quo. Secretary of the Treasury Mills, in & speech in Kansas City, Mo, declared “the American people are entitied to compensatory advantages for sacrifices they may be called upon to make.” In the face of British official intimations of unwillingess to bargain for debt re- duction, President Hoover's chief fiscal officer insisted that “the debtor nations can falrly be asked to make definite contributions to s common program | intended to remove the barriers which now stand in the way of returning Pprosperity.” Lump-sum Plan Assailed. Representative Rainey, Democratic leader of the House, speaking at the banquet of the Washington College of Law at the Mayflower Hotel, assailed as unacceptable the European suggestions for lump-sum séttlement of the entire European obligation of about $11,000,- 000,000 on & 10 per cent basis. In view of dispatches that Europe will ask the United States to take t or riothing, Mr. Rainey warned that re- pudiation would be “an unfriendly act,” sure to be followed by “adequate meas- ures of retaliation.” ‘The belief of organized business that any fair settlement should assure ac- cess of erican to Europesn markets “on fair competitive terms” was voiced by Silas H. Strawn, former president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, in & radio address broad- cast from Chicage Rainey, in his address, pointed out that -the United States held French bonds to & value of more than $3,000,~ 000,000 as & result of financial arrange- ments made during the World War. He sald there was nothing to prevent the United States selling these bonds on the French market, or anywhere else, at any time, provided they were sold for the purchase price. Since the same arrangement extended to other allied countries, the Democratic leaders said it would be difficult for any debtor nation “to escape permanently its obligation to us.” Reflect Sentiment. on behalf of both President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt to make it clear to the Brii also to the % vernments adamant. stand against making concessions. would result in s breakdown of the renewed debt tions. Wh‘l::i ;::Ither lul\:wr ;:: nor Rep- oy does Eepresent & considerable. modifica- tion of his previous stand against. having any further debt dealings whatever with carried the irreconciiables in mzw s struggle, which is skeptical " i ey skep t:llxl dotuthe forth.- them upon slight provoca- In the Senate yesterday, he interpre- ted the reported attitude of lulu!dmlnl France as “confronting us with the au- dacious proposition rarely paralleled in the history of a debtor to his creditor that ‘we come to you with a proposition framed and shaped, to our advantage, and ‘to let you know in the beginning voice. of & militant extreme bloc in|the League of Nations | Campl that there "be ‘neither concession nor qualification, and to let you know that the conference, 80 far as it is called to be such, i3 to be on our part the tation of that which we have alréady decided, ooncluded, fixed .and estab- lished, Would Avert New Hatred. “Whatever may be its effect upon you or your commerce is not in our consideration, Mr. United States. What- ever effect it may have upon your. peo- Ple, and the way they will react to their representative, we do not know Tor pause we to consider, We merely announce to the world that we are mov- ing toward you with the assumption that We, as debtors, will dictate to the credi- tor and afe confident that in our dic- tation we bear the means by which we gn mzn‘rom our visit upoln the United ates in some commercial aspects—the punishment—if it is declined.” 5 Senator Lewis proposed that it “be ascertained now whether these decla- rations on the part. of these eminent Tepreseptatives .have been made; sec- ond, as having been made, Af it is their object. to- adhere to.them, and if such |is true, let us not multiply these preju- dices by another assemblage which bresks out in some frame of hatred.” In his radio address, Mr. Strawn said & poll of the chamber’s membership showed an upnanimous bellef that ne- gotiations should be based on proposals Including: , Authorization of further temporary postponement of payments where debt- or countries cannot pay now, requiring that any modification be. conditioned on definite provisions assuring American goods access to markets on fair com- petitive - terms: that any modification should be conditioned on reduction in expenditures for armaments, and rejec- tion of proposals that the United States cancel war debts. SUICIDE IS DECISION IN DEATH OF WOMAN Certificate Is Issued in Case of Poison Fatality Two Weeks Ago. A suicide, certificate was lssued yes- terday in the case of Mrs. Minnle Sud- darth, 33, who died under mysteriows circumstances nearly two weeks ago. Mrs. Suddarth, who lived at 903 C street northeast, was treated January 30 by Dr. Vernon Atkinson, 516 A street northeast,.for a sever headache. About eight hours later, the physician again was asked treat Mrs. Sud- darth. but she was dead when he reached her home, Acting Corongr A. Magruder Mac- Donald ordered [the body removed to | the morgue for lan autopsy and traces of poison were [found in the internal uddarth’s organs. A box ef the sa found in Mrs. the woman’s viscera was turned over to the District chemist for analysis. The suicide certificate was issued fol- lowing receipt of the chemist's repart. Hasty Marriages Curbed. SALEM, Oreg. February 11 (#). Brakes were applied to hasty marriages in Oregon today when the State Legis- flicting” and contained some informa- tion they wanted to “keep confidential for the present.” Joe Bryant, 19-year-old boy who at- tempted to cash the $17,000 “planted” check that led to his arrest that of Norman Harvey and Harvey's wife, Elsie, was the first to be recalled by Assistant District Attorney T. X. Par- sons and United States Agent T. N. Stapleton. Meanwhile, Special Agent. John M. Keith returned to Washington with samples of Bryant’s handwriting and other evidence to be examined by ex- ! perts. He left word he hoped to be back for & United States commissioner’s hearing Monday. A 5,000-word statement was obtained from Harvey. Parsons and Stapleton said there was nothing in it resembling & confession. | Stapleton said the major conflict be- ;l'.:m the mu?:n:: of Bryant and 'VEYy WAS a5 e alleged ee~ ment for division of the lmouy.wr REPORTS PROBE COMPLETE. —_— Keith Tells Chief Roanoke Has Made Therough Inquiry. John M. Keith, chief of the Wash- ington division of the Pederal Bureau of Investigation, reported’to headquar- ters last night that but little work re- mained to done for the prosecution at Roanoke, Va., of the two men who allegedly attempted to extort money from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh under threat of kidnaping his second son. Keith was sent to Roanoke by J. Ed- gar Hoover, chief of the bureau, at the of the Roanoke police after the arrest of the iwo, He to the director upon his return, er, that so thorough an inquiry had already been made by the local police that there was little further for the Fed- eral agency to do. He brought back with him some hapdwriting specimens’ to be examined by the bureau’s scien- tific division, FORMER TENNESSEE OFFICIAL IS JAILED HE big gas tank of the Neunkirchen, Germany, Tron Works, which sudden- Priday, wrecking the industrial section of that city, caused I fatalities set at 68 and first blast, which was followed by three or four lesser ones, was heard as far as Basel, Switzerland, 250 miles away. from Neunkirchen thought there had been an was & Jeading industrialist, Dr. Pupp. WIDESPREAD LOSS OFU.5.JOBS FEARED Dismissal of Thousands Held Sure Under Bratton-Cos- tigan Plans. (Continued From First Page.) which the 5 per cent cut would be ap- plied, leaves $89,001,013 of non-personal Itenu“ . Included in the 34, 001,013 Wi plied againat appropriations for personal services. The Secretary said it is “ob- vious so0 large s decrease could not be applied in full IN THEFT OF $100,000 | 5o ever: (Continued From First Page.) authorities. He gave his occupation as “salesman.” One of Reece’s lawyers, Dugder, who came here from Elisabeth. ton to confer with him sbout 7 am, y:‘temy. expressed surprise at his ar- rest. “I talked with Mr. Reece soon after my arrival here” said Dugder, “but I had no idea the warrants had been issued. Oonsequently his arrest came as & surprise to me.” Came Here With Attorney. Dugder _said he came here with another Elizabethton attorney, Ray- mond C. Campbell, who continued to New York after the confe ference with , tele- McGugin, Aust & Evans, immediately after his arrest. “He was advised to waive extradition,” Dugder said. Gov. Hill McAlister si uisition last night at Nashville, Dugder pianned, he said, to await bell’s return from New York be- fore interviewing Reece. , he added, left New York by about 10 pm, Ag m:utul 'hflleéem prmfln‘.:; torney 's office was s representative here to take Reece back to Nashville. An exten- sive search also was being made for Lem Reece, who, in a separate war- charged with receiving stolen ge! for Tennessee, as having declared $90,- 000 of the bonds were sold to a New York bank on February 3. Gardenhire, the dispatches stated, de~ clined to comment on the issuance of the warrants, except to say: “The facts and circumstances dev. by our in- :“m_\num amply justify the action en.” Replaced Last Month, Reece was replaced as head of Tennessee State Insurance Department last month, when the State adminis- tration changed. Shortly ereafter, his successor. Joseph 8. Tobin, ried to Gov. Hill McAlister that a $100,000 discrepancy had been discovered in the Blue Sky Division of the Insurance Department. An audit was ordered iately by the Governor, ‘The missing securities, Gardenhire sald, were Arkansas Light & Power and other negotiable utility worth about $75,000 at the present market price, The bonds, he explained, had! been deposited with the Blue Division as bailee by the Pidelity vestment Asgociation of Wheeling, W, Va, REQUISITION 1S SIGNED, Governor Asks Return of Reece i $100,000 Theft. NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 11 (#). Gov. Hill McAlister tonight signed s requisition for the return from Wash- | ington, D. C., of Joseph I. Reece, until recently Tenneasee commissioner of in- surance and banking, who is charged with larceny of $100,000 in bonds and fraudulent breach of trust. Joe Dixon, of the vision of the Nashville detective ment, was designated as the return Reece to Tennessee. Dixon planned to leave Nashville tonight for Washington. ! Counsellor General J. M. Gardenhire of the State legal department said the attorney general's office was told by Washington officers that Reece did not plan to resist extradition. WILL TALK ON PERU Member of Carnegie Staff Will Lec- ture at Washington Grove. Special Dispatch to The Star. WASHINGTON GROVE, Md. Feb- ruary 11.—Stusrt L. Seaton will give & talk on the natives of the Peruvian Andes here Friday cvening. Mr. Sea- ton was in Peru over a year as a mem- ber of the Carnegie Institution staff, His talk will be illustrated by lantern slides showing the life and activities of the descendants of the Incas of South American fame. While Mr. Seaton explored the country in vicinity of the newly dicovered mys- terious wall which was found by the Johnson-Shipee expedition. Death Kidnaping Penalty. OKLAHOMA CITY, February 11 (#), —The death penalty for conviction on kidnaj charges, where ransom is in- . was provided in a bill passed unanimously today by the Oklahoma Senate. The minimum sentence, how- z:r. would be reduced from 10 years b Itfe im; it as the T o e a- depart- 0 4 — ‘there | Groed George J.{ 108 ing plan. These three agencies repre- sent 60 per oent of the department’s total for personnel. The State Department letter. from o estimates i+ Secretary 3 that, on the basis of average salaries in the department, the Bratton-Costigan amendments would necessitate dismissal of 67 employes in the State ment, 6V foreign service officers and 157 clerks in foreign service—a total of 291, aggregating in money $665,000. State Department points out that the dismissal of those in the foreign service, would require the Goverament to make an outlay of $145,800 ;ar the of fiei. em- of treaty obligations. ¢ Wilbur Foresees Cuts. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur wrote that his department probably could cut. out.such items as $460,000 for new construction at Howard Uni- versity, and other construction items totaling $1,000,000 in all. He added, however, that it would be necessary to discharge employes in practically all up & remainder of &1.; Becr Becretary of of the efforts his d Tercnnet or'-l’n%daumg the personnel The House has allowed $36,588, the department for next year, of which 70 per cent is for personnel. The Sec- retary pointed out that if the cent saving was taken from the 30 cent of the total appropriation is outside of personnel, it would mean a cut of 16 2-3 per cent on those cellsneous items. He wrote that he nunmmnwmlmmtum et Soses. s employes. In the Labor Department, Secretary Doak reported, salary requirements rep- resent 77.5 per cent of the total ap- Stating that other items deeply bill can be carried out except by dis- missals or additional administrative furloughs, these in addition to the ad- ministrative and legislative furloughs now n Senator Bingham, Republican, of cmnedhuti’o:ho mm luu‘l: Econmy Subcommittee, placed o h“’w mm letters ;mn a y of the independent agencies in to & Tequest for data as to the the 5 per cent saving proposal. Hines’ Letter Given. These included one from Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of veterans affairs, showing that of the $066838,634 car- number Tesponse effect of ried in the pending bill for the Veter-| ans’ Administration, $851,150,120 s made up of funds not susceptible of re- ductions. The 5 per cent reduction from the total would be $48,341,931.70. The items outside of those listed as not B susceptible of reduction amount to 115,688,514 :um, which would be reduced to $67,- 346.682.30 by the 5 per cent cut, is 726,834 for burial costs, which may not cut. This would leave only $62,619,748.30 available for hospitalsa- tion, domiciliary care, examination and rating of veterans. Gen. Hines recom- mended that if the 5 per cent amend- ment is retained, authority be given for a 5 per cent reduction in all benefits to veterans and other ben es. If ngress does not desire to do this, he thltt.btlr!rmt:uthlp— lied .only to the item of $110,538,514 }’md adminisirative, Cont General McCarl out that 95 per cent of the ation of the General Accounting is for el and that the § per cent amendment would necessitate dismissal of about 100 employes. He said this would seriously slow up work and affect the beneficial results so dependent upon 3 prompt and accurate audit of public | that appropri- moneys. He atlons for personnel be exempted in ’:;mgmt. - 'i—alm’d“dh mis- | Bratton. Included in this latter | been mhgnlmhl injured 460. The reverberation of the GAS BLAST DEATHS NOW SET AT 68 No Americans Among Victims of German Disaster—460 Injured. By the Assoclated Press. NEUNKIRCHEN, , Saar Territory, Ger- many, February 11.—The number of dead from yesterday's explosion of a gas tank at the Neunkirchen Iron Works greatly exceeded. 8o far as the authorities were able IPANASSED INLEACLUE REPORT UM Committee of 19 to Take Up Far East Formula To- morrow. —_— By the Associated Press. < GENEVA, February 11.—A draft re- port, constituting s strong indictment of Japan for its Manchurian policy, was completed by a subcommittee today and ‘will be considered Monday by the Com- mittee of Nineteen of the League of Nations Assembly, ‘The historieal section of the report accepts the first eight chapters of the report of the Lytton investigating com- mission as & basis for the period eov- ered. These chapters generally recited the events which resulted in the Far Eastern hostilities. The econcluding section of the subcommittee’s report embodies the 10 points set forth in the Lytton document. . The subcommittee recommended that the disputing parties enter into nego- tiations for settlement under tije aus- pices of a special commission of the powers in which the United Btates and Russia would be invited to participate, Non-Recognition Urged. Another recommendstion was that all members of the League of Nations continue to refuse to recognize the gov- crnment of Manehukuo, which was sef up with Japanese assistance to rule Manchuria, ? ‘The subcommittee insisted that Mans churia remain under Chinese sover- eignty, and declared that JIDIB': -Ifl-lm after 18, ™ e of e est. conflct b &mun—m not * Jegitimate self+ ense. signatories of the Briand-] o A ihe. ainepewer tresty will b8 mfid to subscribe to League As- 's sembly’ A 3. Conformity with the League cove- nant, the Briand-Kellogg pact and the nine-power treaty. . o 4. R:ewnmm of Japan's interests in Manchuris. q o i S T 8 5 ing 15,000, marks ($9,600,000) cannot now h#zmw' of the blast cause il - discovered, one theory . tane quantity of gasoline nited tar packinhg st the base ‘of * of were from President von Hindenburg, Chaneellor Adolf Hitler and other prominent persons, The President and the Prussian government each contributed 100,000 marks ($24,~ 000) to & nation-wide relief fund. A OPENS ZAPOTECAN TOMB Mexican Expedition Makes Impor- tant Find of Relics. skulls, & stone and owl and a quanity unearthed. would not be possible to make the 5 per cent saving from the expenditures outside of personnel. If the amend- ‘The Tariff Commission said it would lled to dism! its staff to accomplish the 5 per cent saving, and added: “We feel that in- stead of & diminution of work there coming sdministration—an the amount of work the Tariff Com- mission will be expected to do.” Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, explained what the effect of the amendment W e iss members of | apan. 10. International co-operation in Chi~ Teconstruction. HUGENBERG HINTS - DETERMINED STAND —_—a German Nationalist Leader Indi- ocates Cabinet Has Dyaided to Stay By the Associated Press. Hugenberg, Notlonalit obder snd i ister of economics ln#in in government's campalgn for the election got under way in earnest, with Chancellor Hitler at ice, Civil Service Commission, wrote that it | Labor Your Income Tax Ne. 14 — y When to Report Income From Salaries, Wages, Ete. b ”?f I:il:“l::llml of income tax urns filed annually, the vast majority are from salaried persons and wage earners whose income is derived from personal services, & of public buildings, in the nm& bill, and fg the maintenance of the system, which is carried in the t bill, Senator Bratton has expressed the view, however, that his amendment would not apply to the District bill. If & 5 per cent saving should be ap- | plied to the park system funds, the maintenance work would present a real | problem, Col. Grant stated, calling at- tention to reductions that have been 1 rk maintenance in the Natlon's He sald & study shows a re- Power Commission ex the view that it would be & to make the § Del, and Craphasiecd ‘that (his commis sion may be classed as a “self-sustain xleh lr:’“ into the ‘The Smi In general, compensal mumflmmfihnwm!flt taxation purposes in the vear it is re- cefved or uslifiedly to demand. Eompen.mm credited b the sccount or set apart for a tax- payer, without any substantial Hon or restriction, and which may be drawn upon by him ‘at any time, is sub- or set apart, althol E then actually Mueer to - the services were rendered year 1931, or even prior thereto,. the compensation was not: received, of made unqualifiedly subject to ds by the taxpayer until tbe year 1! the entire amount is taxable in the Eg’ i Bl : o _Efigig o