Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1933, Page 2

JEHOL OFFENSIVE LIELY TOMORRO Japanese Troops Mass at Border—50,000 Ready to Open Drive. (Continued From First Page.) A Chinese force has been ordered to levacuate the border city of Kailu, about | 800 miles northeast of Jehol City.) L An ultimatum has been served on Warshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, North China war lord, to withdraw his forces Jrom the province, | Japanese war machines. including the | Dewest types of destructive mechanisms, Mwvere massed at concentration points. lanes scouted the routes ahead for | he 50,000 troops who will be poured fnto the province. | These included ‘native Manchukuan froops, sandwiched between the stur- | dier Japanese veterans of the Man- | ehurian warfare and the fresh vouth- | ful detachments brought fram Japan. * Estimates of Chinese troop strength in the province ranged from 100.000 %0 226.000. Regular troops directed by | Marshal Chaug and his governor, Tang Yu-Lin, were estimated at 55,000 Others were - local volunteers forces and stragglers who crossed into Jehol _after defeat in the Japanese Man- “thurian campaigns. Short Campaign Forecast. ‘Whole trainloads of American motor trucks and motor cycles and other | equipment have passed through here. Predictions have been made by the Japanese that “the drive will reach a successful conclusion within one to three months. Lieut. Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, reputed directing genius of the expedition, thought it actually would take two or three years to suppress all ““banditry” and “bring real peace” to the province. ' He expected the efforts of 80,000 Japanese troops would be required be- fore the task was completed. When, and if, the Japanese reach Jehol City, they will be only about 100 miles north of Peiping, seat of North China’s government and Marshal Chang's headquarters since he was driven out of Manchuria. { The Japanese are expected to drive right through to the Great Wall of China, bringing them even closer to the ancient city of Peiping. On the eastern extremity of the wall, which forms the soutfern boundary of Jehol, they now hold the Chinese city of Shanhaikwan and thus effectively shut off any chance of Chinese reinforce- ments reaching Jehol through {Fc sea level passages in the great wall. I-)ICISION ON LEAGUE REACHED. Emperor-and Privy Council Expected to ' Approve Withdrawal. 20 (#).—Japan take two far-reach- | EM ay. -withdraw. from the League | of m:ma’amd its military forces | ‘Chinese Province of Jehol. cabinet reached definite deciion the League unless the Len%;; Teport—a report demanding that Ji withdraw from military and po- n?fl'u“ control in that territory. It was indicated that the Japanese military ~ offensive in the Chinese- administered Province of Jehol might be started tomorrow simultaneous with the meeting in Geneva of the. League Assembly to act on the Manchuria re- | . Only a few days ago the League | asked Japan informally to | stay out of Jehol. ‘Japan declined to Promise, | A’ foreign office said it | would not be surpriing if the cam- | paign to annex Jehol to the Japanese- sponsored government of Manchukus in Manchuria would begin tomorrow. WIIl Recall Arms Delegates. In quitting the League, Japan with- draws the Western world's entire sfiee dchinery, buit up by long and leult ~war negotiations. Also it | quits the'body which gave it rank with | the strongest powers of the Western | world for the first time:in history, chucking overboard its influential posi- tion as one of the five permanent mem- | of the League Council. The others ;re Great Britain, France, Germany and | Vice Admiral Osami Nagano and Lieut. Gen. Yoshiji Tatekawa, delegates | to thé Disarmament Conference, will be recalled when the empire secedes from | the League. navy and war office spokes- | men told the Associated Press. | Although the non-League members, | the United States and Soviet Russia, gre participants in the conference, Japan’s position would be different, it ‘was held. : “It is futile to continue to discuss | irmament in that hostile atmos- ere,” said the war office spokesman. navy office stated that Japan re- mained a loyal signatory of the Wash- ington and London naval treaties and | Boped to participate in a conference With those other signatories in 1935. | Matsuoka Notified. Yosuke Matsuoka, who has been Japan’s delegate to the League of Na- | tlons during the long drawn-out debate | on its controversy with Chira over n of Manchuria, was notified immediately of the cabinet’s action.| As soon as the League vote is taken. e is expected to leave Geneva. He may move immediately to Paris or London or come directly home by way of Siberia, When and how Japan will quit the gue were the problems still to be decided. The Japanese (Rengo) News Agency said formal notice would be sent to the League about the middle of March, when Matsuoka reaches Tokio. He originally planned to return by way of the United States, but therc was only slight possibility now that he would take that route. Viscount Yasyua Uchida, the foreign | minister, will go before the Diet, | Japan's House of Representatives, to- | morrow to explain the cabinet decision The dominant war minister, Gen. Sadao Araki, was reported to have converted | Viscount Uchida to favoring withdrawal | and they were said to have fought to- gether for it in the cabinet sessions Premier Makoto Saito consulted with the venerable Prince Saionji, last sur- vivor of the Council of the Genro, which until 10 years ago was the supreme seat | of power in Japan, concerning the with- | awal proposal. They met vestercay | it the retreat of the aged prince, where He is sought on only matters of the &reatest importance The premier said afterward that se- | cession from the League would be a | lpng process. | ‘NANKING ORDERS RESISTANCE. Feiping Hears Japanese Hope to Reach | Jehol City By March. ! LPEIPING, China, February 20 (#) — Reliable reports said today Japanese tfoops concentrated on the eastern %fler of Jehol were hoping to reach 0l City by March 1. Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, military commander of North China, returned here yesterday from an inspection ox\ tBe Chinese defense preparations in Jehol Province which is outside the t wall of China, He informed the nese delegation at the League of 8 of orders from the Nationalist { Soong. acting premier and ce minister af Nanking, accom- the -marshal on his trip in 'J! has made the s it invaded Manck: rights but she bus claim 1lehle family is said gvemmt at Nanking to resist the | panese attack. i LEWIS OLIVER Of Fairfax, who is alleged to have| wounded his wife and Wilmer Holbrook. | HUSBAND IS HELD IN WIFE SHOOTING IN FAIRFAX HOME (Continued From First Page.) Miss Virginia Ritchie, McCauley of Falls Church. { Mrs. Oliver and Holbrook were said | to have been alone at the time, the other two having gone to a nearby store for sandwiches. Holbrook said that when Oliver entered the room holding the shotgun in his hands and | raised it to fire, he grabbed him and during the struggle the gun went off, | feveml of the shot entering Holbrook’s og. During the struggle that followed, Holbrook said that he stumbled, tem- porarily losing his grip on Oliver and that the latter then raised the gun and shot his wife. Holbrook then again started strug- gling with Oliver and neither of them noticed that Mrs. Oliver had left the room until after Oliver had been sub- dued. Runs for Help, The young woman ran screaming from the house toward the Fairfax County Jail. Her screams were heardi by Sheriff E. P. Kirby and: State Po- | liceman C. B. Bullock, who rushed | from their living quarters in the jail and found Mrs. Oliver lying on the pavement outside. They carried her | into the jail and placed her on a couch and then went in search of her assail- ant while Mrs. Kirby bathed the wounds and attempted to bring some relief to the injured woman. After circling the block, the sheriff and John | |and State policeman found Oliver sit- |ting on the terrace in front of the house, where he was being held by Holbrook and Carlton Sims. They started to take him to the jail, but he fainted en route from alleged injuries received in the affray. It was neces- sary to get a car to transport him. Today, however, he was apparently suffering only from superficial injuries. Details of Shooting. The story as finally assembled by the authorities was to the effect that Oliver entered the living room of the Ritchie home through the front door and is declared to have announced that he was going to kill both his wife and Holbrook. At the time Judge Ritchie and his son, Lewis, were both absent from the house. During the fight with Oliver, Holbrook is said to have beaten him on the head with two silver can- dlesticks that were on the mantel. The fight continued to the front door, | where Holbrook says that he succeed- | ed in subduing Oliver. At this point Judge Ritchie returned home and went | in to call the sheriff. Judge Ritchie | then started in search of his daughter, learning in a short time that she was | at the jail. The other two members of the card party did not return to the house until the affair was all over. Mrs. Oliver was sent to the hospitai | by Sheriff Kirby in company with | McCauley and a physician. Refuses to Make Statement. Sherifl Kirby stated that Oliver had apparently been drinking. He refused to make a statement of any kind. When asked for a statement by the sheriff Oliver is alleged to have replied: “I | have nothing to say. I want you to| call my lawyer, Frank L. Ball of Ar- lington County, and when he comes| TUl discuss the matter with him.” The trouble between the Ritchie and | Oliver families dates back to the mar- | riage of Judge Ritchie's daughter with young Oliver about three years 2go. The to havi to the union. i Bertod Several months ago the couple sepa- rated. A daughter was bm'np in lfla- vember. A short time before the birth of the child young Oliver was arrested in Baltimore when he is claimed to | have made an attack upon his wife in | the home of some of her relatives where she was staying. He was to have appeared in court in Baltimore on Thursday to answer this charge. Fatal Clash, The same difference between the families is said to have resulted in the recent death of former Senator Oliver, when he went to the Ritchie home and | became engaged in no altercation with | Lewls Ritchie, who is said to have | pushed Senator Oliver and the latter fell, receiving injuries that resulted in | his death. When the case was presented to the grand jury that body ignored it. There is a divorce case pending be- tween Oliver and his wife, and there is said to have been considerable differ- | ences over the custody of the baby. | Oliver had been married before, his wife having died several years ago. At | the time of his arrest his 10-year-old | daughter by the former union was aslecp in her father's home, the only | other person there being the cook Sheriff Kirby sent one of his men to look after the girl. KIDNAP BILL SIGNED Amends District Code to Provide Life Imprisonment. | President Hoover today signed a bill amending the District of Columbia Code | 50 as to provide life imprisonment for kidnapers. | The legislation was introduced in Congress last year following the kid- naping of the infant son of Col. Charles A Lindbergh. District officials, | in recommending it, pointed out the laws here were not sufficient to impose life sentence on kidnapers. — pretext for invadirg Jehol, as there are no treaties in connection with that province,” the marshal said. Neutral observers here believe the Jehol campaign may plunge the Far East into the most serious international crisis since the Russo-Japanese War. The Chinese commander has been ordered to evacuate Kailu, the north- | eastern key city, which is on a direct \{cmmumraunn line to Jehol City, bout 300 miles southwestward. Japa- nese forces were massed at Tungliao, Manchurian railway center, about 20 | miles east of Kailu, There have already ih(‘:‘n half a dozen Jzpanese air raids on Kailu, much damage being caused | by bombing. bout 33,000 Chinese troops were “digging in" in the Kailu vicinity, | ready to meet the Japanese onslaught. | The” Japanese force there was esti- mated at 20,000 Influenza, which raged in India in lives. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1938 READIIT DETS SEMATE IS URGED IL.P. Ayres, Cleveland Finan- 1 cier, Offers Several Points for Better Times. | By the Associated Press. | Readjustment of private and war | debts, balancing the budgbt and restora- tion of confidence were advocated today before the Senate Finance Committee | by Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland finan- | cler, as among the steps necessary to | bring back better times. Ajyres’ views were contained in a tele- gram asking that he be excused from appearing before the committee in its study of economic conditions and pos- sible remedial steps. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, urged restoration of agriculture an | currency inflation, while Dr. L. F. Barker of Baltimote called for sharp reductions in Federal expenditures and deep slashes in veterans' benefits, Veteran Pay Proposal. Barker, a former vice president of the Amerjcan Medical Association, urged | eliminrtion of payments to veterans for injuries or diseases not traceable to service duty. “To continue these special favors to veterans of non-service connected :;1‘;“5' is a great injustice,” Barker “An injustice of over $400,000,000 a year.” observed Chairman Smoot, Re- publican, of Utah, author of a pending bill to give benefits to veterans only for allments or injuries directly at- tributable to war duty. Expense Gains Feared. Barker, who explained to the com- mittee he was for years a Veterans' Bureau diagnostician, asserted that un- less expenditures for former soldiers were checked, they would increase steadlly, adding that as a result all the people might demand free Government hospitalization. Barker suggested refunding the pub- lc debt at lower interest rates, “re- distribution of taxation more equitably,” and “the elimination of extraordinary expenditures for futile stabilization action.” “We dare not expect too much in the way of increased revenues, although a | beer tax, and a small sales tax will help some,” he added. “There is much clamor for inflation, but inflation is like alcoholism or drug addiction,” he contended, cautioning that if any inflation is attempted it must be rigidly controlled. ROMA GLUE FALS INKIDNAPING CASE Communications Convince Father Boettcher Is Alive and Well. By the Associated Press. DENVER, February 20.—A definite split between the Boettcher family and police and indications that the killing of Joseph P. Roma, Denver's under- world king, had no connection with the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher, 2d, shunted the combined investigation into separate channels today. The announcement of Claude K. Boettcher, Colorado multimillionaire and father of the missing broker, that he had received communications which convinced him his son was alive and well preceded a few hours Chief of Police A. T. Clark’s disclosure that he | had been unable to link the Roma kill- | ing with the abduction. Pursuing his independent investiga- | tion, the elder Boettcher conferred again with Rev. B. D. Dagwell, rector | of fashionable St. John's Episcopal Church, whose mail was ordered scru- tinized closely by postal authorities. Mail collectors were instructed to de- liver, by special messenger, all mail found addressed to the dean. Dean Dagwell was believed to be acting as intermediary for the Boettcher family. Will Act Independently. Contents of notes, which the multi- millionaire said convinced him he fin- ally had contacted the kidnapers, were withheld from authorities. “I feel I must and will act independently if the opportunity is presented.” Boettcher said. He revealed that his letter to the kidnapers had geked them to es- ! tablish contact with” some go-between. Meanwhile, police continued their in- vestigation of the abduction by running down several clues which Clark insisted “looked right.” Other authorities sought the killers of Roma and turned toward the underworld for a solution. Clark said he first believed Roma may have been slain because of a conference he held with Roma in reference to the Boettcher case. “The Roma killing apparently was | the result of another liquor gang feud,” Clark said. . Two Men Jailed. Two men, F. H. Rotitto and Prank Mortellaro, & brother of Vincent Mor- tellaro, whose assassination Roma was once accused of plotting, are in jail | in connection with the Roma slaying. They were arrested Saturday near Roma's home, where the gangster was found shot to death. The strain of a strenuous week be- gan telling on Mrs. Anna Lou Boett- cher, wife of the missing man. Her | mother, Mrs. H. H. Pigott of Helena, Mont., arrived over the week end to be with her daughter, who is an ex- | pectant mother. MARK HOWE, PULITIZER PRIZE WINNER, STRICKEN Biographer and Historian Operated Appendicitis at Boston. on for By the Associated Press. BOSTON, February 20.—Mark An- thcny De Wolfe Howe, 69, noted author, |in effect in this country so that offi- | 'GUARD MILK PLANTS biographer and Pulitzer prize winner, is in a critical condition at Massachusetts | General Hospital after an appendicitis | operation. Howe was operated on Priday and “a very weakened condition.” the Pulitzer prize in biography in 1 with his “Letters of Barrett Wendell. He wes for a time essociate editor of | both the Youth’s Companion and At- | lantic Monthly and has written several | biographies and historical sketches. Rt Lumber Steamer Sinks. GIJON. Spain, February 20 (P).—The coastwise steamer Pena Castillo, loaded with lumber, sank yesterday near the Spanish port of Laurca, with the Joss of 12 lives. Only one of the crew was saved. It was believed the vessel sank during 19 sust:in [ 1918-19, took a toll there of 6,000,000 !storms which have been sweeping the coaste Y General Dies BRIG. GEN. JAMES ALLEN, VETERAN OF ARMY SIGNAL CORPS DIES Brig. Gen. Allen Superin- tended Plane Tests by Wright Brothers. Brig. Gen. James Allen, retired, the Army Signal Corps officer who superin- tended the first official tests of neavier- than-air craft by the Wright Brothers at Fort Myer in 1908, died early yester- day at Walter Reed Hospital after a stroke. Gen. Allen, who had been con- fined to the hospital since December 9, was 84 years old. The veteran-Signal Corps officer was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during 1925 for gallantry in action in Santiago harbor June 2, 1898. At that time Gen. Allen directed operations | aboard an unarmed transport, which resulted in severing two submarine cables in use by the enemy. In 1905 Gen. Allen superintended the | laying of a military cable from the | State of Washington to Alaska. He was chief of the Army Signal Corps at the time of his retirement in 1913. For some time prior to his death, Gen. Allen had made his home at the Army and Navy Club. Gen. Allen, a native of La Porte, Ind., was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1872. During | long career he saw service in the If- | dian campaigns and in the Philippine Islands, besides Cuba. Funeral services will be held at 2 'b.m. tomorrcw from the chapel at Fort | Myer, and burial will follow in Ariing- ton National Cemetery, with full mili- tary honors, ROOSEVELT FAMILY AT ROBINSON RITES President-elect and Wife Among Relatives at Funeral in New York. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 20—A fu- | neral service attended by President- elect and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, by her niece, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt | Longworth, and by other members of | the family was conducted today for | Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister | of the late Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Robinson, an aunt of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, died Friday night of pneumonia, The scrvice took place in St. Bar- tholomew’s Church, on Park avenue, burial to follow at Herkimer, N. Y, | near the Robinson estate. | A heavy rain was falling as the Pres- ident-elect, with a large escort of mo- tor cycle police, rode down Park avenue | from his home a few blocks away. | After the brief service, the President- elect, his mother and his brother-in- | law, G. Hall Roosevelt of Detroit, re- turned to his home in Sixty-fifth street. His wife, in another car, went to her | office on Madison avenue. Mrs. Longworth, her sister, Mrs. | Richard Derby, and her brothers, Archi- | bald and Kermit Roosevelt, sat in a pew | near that in which their cousins, the President-elect and his wife, were seated. STOCK TRADER SEES BETTER TIMES AHEAD Chicagoan Scores Congress in Urg- ing 4-Point Program to End Depression. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 20.—Arthur W. Cutten, stock and grain trader, said| today better times are ahead and the | worst of the depression is over and that Congress could do much to alle- viate the situation by adoption of a four-point program. | He said Congress should (1) balance the budget, (2) reduce Government ex- penses drastically, (3) refrain from in- terfering with business, and (4) levy no | more additional taxes. He assailed Congress and said that it was a pity the European system was not clals could be ousted by denial of a| vote of confidence. “Taxes today,” he said, “are taking | billions of dollars out of the channels of trade and preventing profits. “When profits cannot be made there | can be no business.” | Cutten declared present economic | conditions were the worst the Nation | had ever experienced, but said he was optimistic for the future. | IN WISCONSIN STRIKE Farmers Extend Blockade in Cam-: paign to Force Higher Prices for Dairy Produce. By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Wis., February 20.— militant dairy farmers extended their blockade in & campaign to force higher | prices for dairy produce. | ‘The guards were assigned to posts in | New London, Greenville and Black | Creek and were equipped with guns | kept here for vigilantes, Plant owners | took the step after a crowd had threat- ened to storm the Borden Condensary here. Pickets again were stationed on all | main highways leading to milk plants | in Outagamie and Waupaca Counties. | The strikers also carried their campaign, to Shawano County for the first time on an extensive scale, Several truck loeds of milk were dumped in the three counties yesterday. GARNER AND SNELL ASSALED BY DRYS Democratic Caucus and G.| 0. P. “Coercion” Denounced by Dr. lzora Scott. By the Associated Press. The Legislative Committee of the national conference of organizations | supporting the eighteenth amendment at a meeting yesterday denounced “the action of Speaker Garner in caucussing the Democratic members of the House, and the attempt of Republican Floor Leader Snell to coerce the Re- publican members to vote upon the moral issue involved in the resolution for, prohibition repeal” A statement of th¥ action from Dr. Izora Scott, secretary, said: “The Democratic caucus was claimed to be contrary to the provision of the Constitution whjch provices that mem- bers of Congress shall not vote for a change in the Constitution unless they as individuals deem it necessary. 'The action of Mr. Snell was held to be compromise with Democrats in viola- tion of the Republican national plat- form, which provides that there must be some Federal guarantee against the return of the saloon.” Just Begun Fight. Saying the drys “have just begun | to fight,” Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, | president of the National Woman's | Democratic Law Enforcement League, | asked in a statement last night “why the great rush to repeal the eighteenth amendment?” “If Congress permits the return of the saloon before they remedy the financial panic they will go out of| power in 1934, she said, “for the women are not stampeded by all this hysteria of the wet millionaires.” Hits Immediate Action. Mrs. Nicholson asked if the American form of government had become “a city- political-boss-packed - stampeded - mob- controlled-convention-platform sort of government,” and added: “When the eighteenth amendment was passed Con- gress provided seven years before it finally became a law, but now political | leaders are asking immediate repeal so it can be rushed through the States at all costs.” She said the Constitution provides for conventions in States for ratification, | but “assumes that these conventicns <hall be held at the will of the Legisla- tures,” and Congress “is entirely with- out power to make this mixture of con- stitutional methods.” NEW FRENCH DEBT PARLEYS FORECAST Paul-Boncour Says He Ex- pects Negotiations to Re- sume After March 4, By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 20.—Foreign Min- ister Joseph Paul-Boncour said today he expects debt negotiations with the United States will be resumed after March 4. Discussing this issue with the press, he refrained from indicating what form the new negotiations might take,-but he made it plain that the matter will be taken up with the Roosevelt admin- istration. The indications were that the approach would be made through the normal diplomatic channels. Will Stand by League. Digressing from the debts to speak of the Manchurian problem, M. Paul | Boncour said Prance will stand by the decisions of the League . of | Nations and will act in full accord with the United States and Great Britain. The League Covenant and several peace pacts are the basis of the French posi- tion, he said. He expressed pleasure that England | had acted with this country last week in questioning Austria about a shipment of arms from Italy, possibly in violation of the treaty of St .Germain, which forbids concentration of arms by na- tions defeated in the World War. Answer Due This Week. An answer from Vienna is expected this week. If it is not satisfactory, the foreign minister said, probably the little entente will take the matter up with the League of Nations, for it is chiefly their affair, although they would re- ceive French support. Prance defaulted on an installment of $19,261432 last December 15 after Edouard Herriot, who advocated pay- ment, had been overthrown as premier. When Great Britain paid its Decem- ber installment and requested recon- sideration of the debt structure, Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt, in granting the re- quest, placed no obstacle in the way of negotiations with those who defaulted as_weil as those who paid. The next installment due from France amounts to $40,738,568, payable June 15, HEARING IS FORESEEN HERE. Payment of $20,000,000 Due May Be Required, However. By the Associated Press. | Belief is evident here that France| prcbably will be granted a hearing on war debts by the Roosevelt administra- tion, but that payment of the $20,000,- 000 defaulted last December will be | required before any agreement can be effected. Today’s announcement in Paris by | Foreign Minister Joreph Paul-Boncour that he expects debt negotiations with the United States to be resumed after | March 4 recalled that President-elect | Roosevelt has let it be known he re- | garded the French default as deferment,of the National Broadcasting Co. only. That way of stating that the pay- ment is expected to be made has been | Interpreted here as an inyiting gesture toward the defaulting nations. None | of these has asked or been offered a | hearing such as has been prcmised | Great Britain and the other nations which kept up their payments. The general expectation has been that they would awaft the outcome of the nego- tiations with Britain to approach this Government. TANKER IS OVERTURNED VENICE, Italy, February 20 (#).— last night physicians said he was in | Armed guards were siationed around |The tanker Inea, 2,600-ton boat of He won milk plants in this vicinity today ms General Italian Petroleum Co., was 0% r- turned today as it was entering port during a blizzard which covered the city with a foot of snow. The crew leaped into the water and was picked up. No one was lost. The tanker re- mained afloat and was towed to a dock. Coast Guardsmen were answering dis- tress signals from several smaller vessels. S res Snow Grips England. LONDON, February 20 (#).—A sharp | cold spell with intermittent snow flur- | ries has gripped the whole of England, Many roads in the north were blocked by snowdrifts today and alon; life boats aided small a heavy fog. the coast | through | Milk Haulers Lose Out PRODUCTS POURED INTO ROAD BY STRIKING DAIRY FARMERS. UTGAMIE COUNTY, Wis., center of the State's co-operative milk pool's strike zone, had milk poured over its roads as the striking farmers sought to tighten their embargo in an effort to raise the price of fluid milk to $1.40 a hundredweight plus cartage charges. stopped on highways, the milk cans emptied into ditches and the truck drivers warned to stop hauling. The above photo was taken near Applelt,an. Milk trucks were Wis, Photo. $1,788,666,009 PAID AND $347.237.1 (Continued Prom First Page) | institutions and railroads, $1,502,786,- 54 Self-liquidating projects, $18,407,000. Emergency relief loans to tes, | $144,744,098. Reglonal agricultural credit corpora- tions loans, $54,441,588. Orderly marketing loans, $1,472,276. Aberdeen & Rockfish R. R. Co...... Alabama, Tennessee & Northern R. R. Alton R. R. Co. Ann Arbor R. R. (receivers) Ashley, Drew & Nor. Rwy. Co. Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co. | Birmingham & Southeastern R. R. Co. Boston & Maine R. R. Co. ....... Buffalo, Union Caro. R. R. Co. Carlton & Coast R. R. Co. . Central of Georgia R. R. Co. Central R. R. Co. of New Jersey. Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. C¢ Chicago Northwestern R. R. C Chicago Great Western R. R. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & 3 Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee R. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rw: Cincinnati Union Terminal Co. Columbus & Greenville R. R. Copper -Range R. R. Co. ..... Denver & Rio Grande Western R. R. Erie R. R. Co. .. . Eureka Nevada Rwy. Co. . Florida East Coast Rwy. (receivers) Fori Smith & Eastern Rwy. (receivers) | Predericksburg & Northern Rwy. Co. Gainesville Midland Rwy. (recejvers).. Georgia & Florida R. R. (receivers). | Greene County R. R. Co. | Gulf Mobile & Northern R. R. Co, Illinois Central R. R. Co. Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. . Maine Central R. R Co. Maryland & Pennsylvep!a R. R. Co. . Mississippi Export R. R. Co. . Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. . Missouri Southern R. R. Co. . Mobile & Ohio R. R. Co. Mobile & Ohio R. R. Co. (receivers)... Murfreesboro-Nashville R. R. Co. New York Central R. R. Co. New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Pere Marquette Rwy. Co. . Pittsburgh & West Virginia Rwy. Puget Sound & Cascade Rwy. Co. St. Louis-San Prancisco R. R. St. Louis Southwestern Rwy. Col | Salt Lake & Utah R. R. (receivers) | Sand Springs Rwy. Co. . Southern Rwy. Co. ... 4 | Tennessee Central Rwy. Co. . Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern R. R. Co. Texas South Eastern R. R. Co. Tuckerton R. R. Co. .. Wabash Rwy. (receivers) Western Pacific R. R. Co. Wichita Falls Southern R. R. Co. Wrightsville & Tenaille R. R. Co. . R. Co.. Co. New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. G BY R. F. C. 11 IS RETURNED 105 Loans Are Made to Railways, With B. & O. Most Extensive Borrower. States Are Given $144.744 098. ‘The corporation did not go into de- tails on banks' loans, this being left to Congress. Repayments were listed as follows: Crop loans, $18,161,634. Banks, insurance companies, $327,805,692. Marketing lcans, $257,806. Regional cgricultural credit tions, $1,011,979. ete., corpora- Loans Authorized for Railroads, Railroad loans authorized by the corwrafloAn included: "Disbursed. $127,000 275,000 2,500,000 634,757 400,000 39,126,244 41,300 7,569,437 uthorized, Corp.. 3,124,319 188,801 5,916,500 19,104,433 1,289,000 7,993,000 1,150,000 10,000,000 8,300,000 220,691 76,500 2,064,500 Co. 500 2.605.500 13,403,000 627,075 227434 354,721 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Ste. Marie Rwy Co. 785,000 1,070,599 25,000 15,600,000 117,507,280 217,500,000 3,000,000 3,975,207 300,000 7,995,175 17,684,450 200.000 162,000 14,751,.00 1 2,805,175 90 27,504 107,740* 30,000 14,825,000 4,266,069 400,000 22,525 6,000 1,303,000 *Denotes cancelled or withdrawn, instead of repayment. MITCHELL SPEAKS INFORUM TONIGHT Menace of Rackets Will Be Timely Subject of At- torney General. In the midst of momentous develop- ments in the prohibition situation, At-| torney General Mitchell today was finishing his address to be delivered to- night in the National Radio Forum on the menace and development of or- ganized rackets throughout the country. Following the vote of the House to- day on repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment, the address of the Attorney Gen- eral comes with special timeliness to- night, when he goes on the air at 10:30 p.m. in the National Radio Forum, ar- ranged by The Washington Star, and broadcast over the Nation-wide network It was Attorney General Mitchell, who has been most outspoken of any member of the present administration, in urging early action on the proposed changes in prohibition. As the chief law officer of the Government, charged with the administration of prohibition, he has repeatedly urged that Congress take action as soon as possible to get the prohibition question settled into its new status, for the benefit of good ad- ministration of law. ‘The Attorney ‘genml is known hold pronounced Views on the question of rackets and their connection with the prohibition situation. He has re- ceived, as Attorney General, a mass of information concerning the operation of rackets in leading cities. He has a clear conception of the relative powers of the Federal Government and of the State governments in dealing with crime. He plans to discuss the ques- tion under the subject “The Problem | g(m()rmmmd Crime In Our Large| es.” to LETICIA PARLEY PUT OFF GENEVA, February 20 (#).—A League of Nations Council session for considera- tion of the dispute over Leticia, between Peru and Colombla, was postponed today until tomorrow at the request of Fran- cisco Calderon, Peru's representative. Calderon sent word that he would not 'FRANK PAR be able to arrive from Paris earlier. \ Navy Heads Likely To Buy Own China And Silverware Appropl;iations Bill Also May Force Admirals to Pay Servants. By the Associated Press. The admirals who run .the Navy likely will have to buy their own silver- ware and china and hire their own household servants in the next fiscal year. At present, the Navy furnishes silver and chinaware to all men above the rank of captain and lets some enlisted men act as butlers, stewards, cooks, and other household workers at naval es- tablishments. But the House Appropriations Com- mittee, in the naval supply bill pre- sented to the House today, recommended a tinuance of both practices, Reaf\ admirals commanding navy yards o naval districts still are allowed 18 silver-plated finger bowls, 36 dessert forks and 48 linen napkins, but in the future if any of these disappear they have to be replaced by the admiral. ‘The highest ranking naval officer, the chief of naval operations, has a finger bowl allowance of 36 and 210 spoons. —— ISH FLEES BEFORE TRIAL OPENS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Pebruary 20.—Assistant Federal District Attorney Joseph A. Struett today said he would ask for- feiture of the $5,000 bond provided by Frank P. Parish, facing trial in an al- leged $35,000,000 stock fraud after a two-year investigation of operations of the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. by the Government. The move, Struett said, was based on llfi.krwfittenbymwmflcg become a “voluntary exile” and had left Chicago before the open- ing of his trial. Warrick said he had notified Capt Thomas Callaghan, local chief of the secret service, in an attempt to locate Parish, who at 15 was sel marine wares in Chicago and at 18 was a millionaire and at 35 owner of the for- mer presidential yacht, the Mayflower, Parish was indicted last March.with three others.. ) REPORTED FILLED . Prof. Moley of Columbia Ex- pected to Succeed Assis- tant Secretary Rogers. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Prof. Raymond Moley, professor public law at the Columbia University, has been selected by the President-elect to be Assistant Secretary of State, it was declared In authoritative sources today. Prof. Moley is expected to replacs James Grafton Rogers, the present Assistant Secretary of State, who will leave March 4 to return to his chair as professor of international law at the University of Colorado and to law practice in Denver. Although Prof. Moley will be only the third ranking officer in the State De- partment, it is said that his position will be of utmost importance view of the fact that he been one the most intimate advisors of Mr,! Roosevelt on iniernational affairs. He has already played & very prominent part in all the debt negotiations be- tween President Hoover and the Presie dent-elect and has been present at the | two conferences between the outgoing and the incoming President. While Senator Cordell Hull, who is prominently mentioned as the future Secretary of State is an expert on tarifts, Mr. Moley is supposed to have an intimate knowledge of the debt question. knowledge which he has gathered mainly since the election: of Mr. Roosevelt., NAVAL BILL KEEPS MARINE CORPS AT PRESENT STRENGTH (Continued From First Page) . the current year, $51,063,000 was avafle able for construction. One eighth-inch| gun, 10,000-ton_cruiser, however,, can ot be laid down until January 1, 1935, In hearings before it completed its recommendation, the committee heard' this from Secretary Adams: “While believing in every reasonable effort to secure the blessings of peace by treaty agreements. I believe such 'ments will be facilitated and Amer-| ica’s voice have weight largely in proe portion to her strepgth on the sea.” Fleets Are Compared. Adams also reviewed for th ecommit: tee the condition of the American Na as compared with Great Britain | Japan. Of the 15 United States battleships, he said, only 11 are in full commission, while Great Britain has 14 in that class. All of Japan's 10 capital ships, he said, are fully manned. Here are some other comparisons in hi= testimony: ‘The United States has three aircraft carriers in commission, Great Britain three in full and three in reserve com= mission and Japan four in full. Nine United States heavy cruicers are In full commission; Great Britain has 17 cuch and Japan 12. The United States has 10 light cruise ers; Great Britain 25 and Japan 20. Japan hes 24 destroyer leaders fully manned: Grest Britain 10 in full and & in reserve commirsion, and the United States has none. Of Great Britain's 121 destrcyers, 18 are in full commission: Japan has 80 fully manned and the United States 73 in full commission. Of America’s 54 submarines, 42 are ; of Great Britain's commit President Hoover's recommendation for a_des crease in Corps ind sonnel to 13,600 and provided for 15,343, The committee said the ritating plan certain shij < operate, be during the fiscal year 1934 to g 'fldr:;“um"nm enlisted ew vescel . men to man them, the report said, willl necessitate the expansion. These new vessels include four new 8-inch. it for officers was at 81,420 a yéar, whereas up until year it was 50 per cent of the base pay,| permitting rear of the upper| grade to receive $4,000 additional & year. The committee said that on July ¥ | the Navy would have 960 useful planes, still 40 short of the five-year e: plan that ended last year, but new dirigible Macon would be placed in commissi Recommendation was made for legis- lation to provide for the retention of Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, at the grade of rear admiral on active status after he retires March 1 because of age and 47 years of service. “It seems to the committee that be- cause of our present financial plight, if for no other reason, the country and | the Navy will continue to need the counsel of Admiral Pratt,” the commit- tee said. “Whether or not he can be prevailed upon to remain in active serve ice, the committee is not advised.” It added “he has worked and co- operated in every way consistent and practicable to reduce Navy costs to the utmost without seriously impairing the effectiveness of the forces afloat.” Your I& come Tax o. 22, Deduction for Interest. Amounts paid or accrued within the taxable year 1932 as interest on In- debtedness are deductible, with certain | exceptions, from gross income in deter- mining net income. Such items include interest on borrowed money .to defray personal expenses, and on money bor- Towed for the purchase of real or per= sonal property. If a person owes money on a lien or mortgage note on his home, the amount of the interest may be deducted. Indebtedness, however, need not be evidenced by lien, judg- ment or mortgage to make the interest on it deductible. Prequently indebted- ness is evidenced only by a note. Interest paid on ing:md:e? in= curred in the purchase of tions or securities (ommn obligations of the United States issued after September 24, 1917, and originally subscribed for by the taxpayer) the interest upon which is wholly exempt from Federal | income tax, curred in connection Wwith the purs chase or ca g of an annuity, is not deductible. terest paid on loans on life insurance policies is deductible pro- vided the amount of the loan is not used for Interest paid on or relative where there is no legal obli- gation on the part.of the payor is not deductible. In such cases the amount is the same as & gift. terest received is g amounts, including interest received o bank and savings deposits, must be in- cluded in the taxpayer’s return of gross income. population of the Cotomics 300 52are 245 was \ or on indebtedness ine - STATE DEPT. POST ~« ansion it the o “