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SMOOT TO PROPOSE
FOR FOREIGN DEBTS
White House Conference Re
sults in Bill Expected to
Ease Money Situation.
KING OPPOSES PLAN
AS INVITING DUMPING
Undersecretary Mills Meets Oppo
sition in Seeking Support
for Hoover Plan.
Jlr the Associated Press.
Rebuffed by congressional leaders on
the proposal to revise war debts. Presi
dent Hoover last night received a coun
ter proposal of relief few the Interna
tional debt problem.
Chairman Smoot of the Senate
Finance Committee, after a lengthy
conference at the White House, an
nounced he would offer a bill tomor
row to permit foreign nations to pay
their debts in silver rather than gold
as is now required.
His visit followed an earlier confer
ence of congressional leaders with Un
dersecretary of the Treasury Mills, at
which they emphasized their opposition
to the President’s proposal for revival
of the War Debt Commission to study
additional European relief. It was
forcefully suggested that this be not
pressed lest it endanger the mora
torium.
Help for Silver Situation.
Smoot's proposal was advanced as a
measure to help the world silver situa
tion as well as to aid the foreign na
tions in meeting their obligations be
coming due after the intergovernmental
debt holiday expires next July 1.
Sliver would go up a little in price,
he said, and by accepting it, ’’we would
recognize a value to it and show that
we are willing to accept it in payment
of obligations.”
Senator King, his Democratic col
league from Utah, held, however, it
was not an "effective way to deal with
this problem” and ‘‘would dump on
the United States a large quantity of ;
silver without giving it monetary
status.”
The congressional chieftains made it
plain through the day that the ad
ministration must act on its own re
sponsibility regarding debt payments
due America Tuesday. These would be ,
suspended under the moratorium. The j
letter cannot possibly be ratified by
the time the debts are due.
Would Inform Nations.
Mills said that If the question of
these debt payments arose. Secretary
of State Stimson was prepared to In
form the foreign nations they could
not be held In criticism for the fail
ure of Congress to ratify the agree
ment.
Previously House leaders had refused
to sign any letter to this effect. In
addition they told Mills they would!
accept no responsibility for any state
ment respecting the $125,000,000 in
debt payments due the Unit^i States
on Tuesday.
Lster, Chairman Borah of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, who is
supporting the moratorium and who
attended the Mills conference, took the
administration to task for not having
called a special session of Congress to
ratify the moratorium
"I am opposed to this conniving at
evasion of the law,” he said. "We
ought to have been here and trans
acted this business. We can't suspend
the law by conferences and if the for
eign nations fall to pay on Tuesday
they are technically in default so far
as I am concerned.”
However, despite tl»e confusion over
the Tuesday payments, no one on Cap
itol Hill expected them to be made,
nor was It ♦ nought that the "technical
default” would have any effect on the
credit of the foreign powers nor on
ratification of the moratorium.
Reports to President.
Late In the day Mills reported to
President Hoover his discussions with
the congressional leaders. Upon leav
ing. he said the administration would
make no formal statement on the
Tuesday payments.
Senator Johnson of California, who
1* fighting the moratorium, took no ex
ception yesterday to whatever course
may be pursued by the foreign gov
ernments on their Tuesday payments,
but he did say:
"If the Constitution had been fol
lowed. if Congress had been called In
session, as it could have been in four
days, the whole matter would have
been disposed of in a reasonable time
and our people informed There would
now be no occasion for the representa
tive* of the administration frantically
running around the Capitol, to obtain
some ‘leaders’ ’ consent to a new declara
tion, carefully concealed from all the
representatives of the American people.’’
Over in the House, Representative
Ayres, Democrat, Kansas, proposed
that consideration of the moratorium
be deferred until assurances have been
received from Europe on arms limita
tions.
To Oppose Revision of Debts.
Representative Rankin, Democrat,
Mississippi, said he would offer an
amendment to the moratorium resolu
tion declaring against reduction, re
vision of cancellation of the debts in
th* future.
The Hcuse Ways and Means Com
mittee. where the legislation is to be
handled will hold an organization
meeting tomorrow, and on Tuesday is
expected to begin hearings on the
moratorium. Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon, who was in Europe to help
engineer the debt agreement last Sum
mer wdll be one of its principal wit
nesses. Representative Collier of Missis
sippi, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, has expressed an
opinion that his committee would be
ready to report to the House before
the close of the week and that con
sideration of the moratorium resolution
would be begun.
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SENATE MAY GO ON AIR
Dill to Introduce Bill for Installa
tion of Microphones.
A definite move to put the Senate on
the air will be made tomorr w.
Senator Dill of Washington said yes
terday he would propose installation of
inconspicuous microphones In the walls
or ceiling, so important debates might
be broadcast
Experiments conducted in the cham
ber Friday by radio engineers "worked
out amazingly well,” he said, and im
pressed a number of Senators with the
feasibility of the plan.
Culbertsons Cain
810 Points on Lenz
At Fifth Session
_
33 Rubbers End With
“Official” System
4,840 Ahead.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 12.—Dou
bles and redoubles were to the advan
tage of Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson
tonight and they gained 810 points, al
though losing three of five rubbers to
Sidney S. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby,
their opponents in a 150-rubber test of
rival systems of contract bridge.
After 33 rubbers of the series had
been finished. Lenz and Jacoby were
4,840 points ahead of their rivals in
contrast to 5,650 after four sessions.
Tonight's was the fifth session
At one time during the night’s p’ay
the Culbertsons' deficit was only 2,100
rs they mad? a gayi of 1,670 during
the second rubber of the night clone
It was during that rubber, the thirtieth
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Sim IS HERO
Paves Way for 17-7 Defeat
of Navy by Brilliant
Work.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK.
December 12.—Striking with the swift
effectiveness of thrusting bayonets,
Army slashed through the air today to
pierce a raging Navy defense and con
quer the Midshipmen, 17 to 7, in a
drama as spectacular and stirring as all
the pomp and splendor of one of sports’
greatest pageants.
Outplayed through the first quarter,
facing the greatest upset of the foot ball
season, the Cadets rallied under the j
dazzling leadership of Ray Stecker to j
score a field goal and a touchdown In j
the second quarter and come back In !
the final period to cross the goal line j
again after Navy’s desperate bid In the
third quarter had revived the Sailors’ I
hopes.
It was a thrilling struggle, matching j
in suspense and smashing play all the
traditions of a bitter rivalry that goes
back to 1890 for its Inception. A crowd
of 77,000 that all but overflowed the
big ball park gasped at the swift I
changes of fortune, roared first with
the regiment, then with the corps, on I
a day that was as warm as early Au- [
tumn.
Charity and the cause of the unem
ployed that brought the two service
elevens together last year for the first
time aftei* a break of four years, profited
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MAN IN STOLEN CAB
IN HOLD-UP SERIES
Pseudo Hacker Captured on Four
teenth Street After Number
of Holdups.
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A series of holdups, believed to have
been staged by the armed bandit who
shortly after midnight stole a taxicab
from L. H. Smith, Capitol Heights, Md.,
kept headquarters detectives on the
run early today.
Their quest ended at 2 o'clock when
the man was captured on Fourteenth
street by Headquarters Detective
Charles Mansfield, after a block's foot
race.
A revolver was found on the man,
who later was identified by several of
his victims. In none of the three hold
ups he staged did he take any money,
and in each Instance he scorned small
amounts.
About half an hour after Smith’s ma
chine was taken from him at the point
of a gun at Fourteenth and Webster
streets by a passenger, the pseudo
hacker picked up two "fares" at the
Aster Restaurant, Fourteenth and H
streets, took them to Sixteenth and R
streets and then held them up.
The license tags on the taxicab were
the same as Smith’s, according to po
lice.
A short time later, police said, the
same car was reported involved in a
third holdup at Fourteenth and V
streets.
Smith had described the bandit as
a well dressed man. about 30 years old,
who had accosted him near the Wash
ington Auditorium. The robber made
no demand for cash, he said.
Berlin Reds Seized.
BERLIN, December 12 (/P).—Thirty
Communists were arrested tonight in
groups of two and three in different
parts of Berlin for attempting street
demonstrations contrary to the holiday
political truce decreed by the govern
ment. No one was hurt.
1932 POLITICS PUT
UNDER SPOTLIGHT
AT GRIDIRON DINNER
Skits Show How Both Sides
Could Lose Next Election.
Hoover’s Future Aired.
JEFFERSON’S GHOST
STALKS DEMOCRATS
Advice to Presidential Aspirants
and Curtis' Soliloquy Heard.
Notables in Attendance.
Presidential candidates and presi
dential "possibilities’'—not always one
and the same—attending the dinner of
the Gridiron Club at the Willard Hotel
last night received advice, encourage
ment and discouragement at the hands
of their newspaper hosts. The members
of the club successfully demonstrated
to the Republicans and the Democrats
how both sides could lose next year's
election through a combination of Re
publican misfortunes and Democratic
blunders.
With typical Gridiron candor, the
political future of President Hoover, the
guest of honor, was discussed. But Mr.
Hoover was by no means the only guest
whose presidential possibilities came
under the spotlight. For there were
present some of the President's strong
est political enemies, all of them ready,
If opportunity arrives, to contest with
Mr. Hoover for possession of the White
House. Among them were Gov. Albert
C. Ritchie of Maryland, Gov. Gifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Senator Joseph
T Robinson of Arkansas. Melvin A.
Traylor of Chicago and Texas, Gov.
George White of Ohio, Speaker John
N Garner and Senator J. Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois.
While 1932 politics held the spotlight,
other subjects of public interest were
not neglected. Economic conditions,
prohibition, the Manchurian situation,
naval disarmament. Democratic control
of the House, Republican insurgency,
attempted censorship In Washington
and many related questions w4re di
vested of their more serious aspects and |
satirized in the Gridiron fashion. Back i
and forth across the stage paraded a !
weird procession of the world’s notables |
—Mahatma Gandhi, Senator Borah,
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. Bishop Can
non, Senator Simeon D. Fess, John J. I
Raskob, Seth Parker, Speaker John j
Garner, Secretary of the Treasury Mel- I
Ion, along with a colorful array of ad- I
mirals, doctors, diplomats, soothsayers,
detectives and ordinary run-of-the-mine
politicians.
Hoover and Blythe Speak.
The spirit of the occasion was set
forth by the president of the club, Jay
G. Hajden of the Detroit News, in his
speech opening the dinner.
"We ask of you,” he said, "that for
this one night you live in a land of
illusion. We propose that you deliver
over to us all of the cares of state, and j
we promise on our side to settle every
thing. We will show the way to peace I
and prosperity in the world. We will I
guide the hand of a beleaguered Con- I
gress and still the voice of all of its boll j
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DAVIS IS REPORTED
IN FAVOR OF BEER
Pennsylvania Senator Declared
for Modification of Dry
Laws.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December 12.—In
reporting an announcement today by
State Senator George Woodward that
he may run against United States Sen
ator James J Davis in the next Repub
lican primary the Record says Davis
will seek the renomination as a wet.
Davis is preparing a public state
ment, the newspaper says, declaring
for modification of the Volstead law
to permit beer. The statement will
be issued after the first of the year,
the paper continues.
Davis became Senator after serving
as Secretary of Labor in President
Hoover's Cabinet. He previously has
been counted as a supporter of prohi
bition.
Woodward’s announcement was con
tained in an issue of the Penns\l
vania Legislator, a small folder "in
which he presents his views on public
questions “every so often.''
“I shall be a wet and not foggy ” he i
wrote, adding that he had decided’ ten
tatively to oppose Davis because" of his ;
"sloppy letter” to Gov. Gifford Pinchot :
in their recent falling out over unem- 1
ployment relief.
Woodward said he would not run 1
however, if George Wharton Pepper’
William 8 Vare or Gen. Smedlev D
Butler enter the race
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MINISTER GETS LIFE IN SON’S
SLAYING FOR INSURANCE MONEY
Rev. J. M. Williams, Former Rochelle, Ga., Pastor,
Weeping, Protests Innocence—Will Seek New Trial.
By the Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga . December 12.—Rev.
J. M. Williams, former Rochelle, Ga„
minister was sentenced to life im
prisonment today after a jury had
found him guilty of murdering his
sailor son for $2,500 Insurance.
Sitting with his weeping family, he
repeated his protestations of innocence.
His attorneys announced a motion
for new trial would be filed Monday.!
The sentence was mandatory under
the verdict, which recommended mercy, j
The Insurance money, which officers
said Williams needed to cover cotton
nL8r*t5f l:a*es, was the only motive for
the killing advanced by the prosecu
tion.
The son. Raiford Grady Williams,
was found shot to death in a lumber
mill yard near here late In August.
He was killed as he was about to re
turn to his poet in York as a
Navy pharmacist's mate after a fur-'
lough at his father’s home.
The elder Williams was arrested
September 6, at Rochelle, as he made
preparations for services at his church
He resigned from the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
shortly afterward.
The father had obtained a special
furlough for his 19-year-old son *o
visit a sister reported ill in Rochelle
Evidence of the State was largely
circumstantial. Prosecutors produced
testimony that the tires on Williams’
automobile corresponded with tracks
found near the body. Maurice O’Neii
New Orleans, ballistics expert testi
fied the bullets that killed young Wil
liams bore markings similar to those
made by a pistol which other State
witnesses said Williams had borrowed
This was his second trial. Mother
Jury disagreed last August and a mis
trial was declared. a mis
Kitt^S0M*y°m^f widow’ a resident of
Kittery, Me., was a spectator at the
I CorroK Pickers
'^Jb'lee «
FEATURES OF THE DECEMBER DINNER OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB.
LABOR RULES DELAY COMMERCE
BUILDING AND COST U. S. $200,000
Department Forced to Hold Up Transfer
to New Quarters for a Year Be
cause of Union Regulations.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
Now that the Department of Com
merce is about to take possession of the
completed portion of its mammoth $17,
300,000, 8-acre Indiana limestone palace,
the inside story can be told of why the
suilding is going to be occupied only on
January 1, 1932, instead of. as contem
plated. on January 1, 1931. The story
in a nutshell is a tragi-comic tale of
Uncle Sam’s reluctant submission to
ironclad rules of the building trades
anions. The submission cost the De
partment of Commerce a year's delay
n moving into its new headquarters and
cost the Federal Treasury $200,000 in
extra rentals of outside offices required
’or various departmental activities.
The rules which the unions succeeded
in enforcing are the ones which debar
unionized labor from working on a job
with which non-unionized labor is con
nected in any way whatsoever. The
United States Government's employes
for the most part are not affiliated with
trades unions. The Department of
Commerce staff includes some 125 or
150 men, who constitute its so-called
maintenance crew. It consists of engi
neers, firemen, boilermen, electricians,
masons, carpenters, elevator operators
and mechanics of various grades. It
was planned that these maintenance
men should move over into the first
completed section of the department's
new structure, the great central wing,
as soon as Secretary Lamont was ready
to occupy it. As originally arranged,
this was to have been around January
1, 1931. The south and north wings
were to be finished later, but while they
were undergoing completion the central
section was to be a fully functioning
branch of the Department of Com
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KANE IS ACQUITTED
Accused Professor Takes
Verdict Calmly—Jury Out
Nearly Four Hours.
By the Associated Press.
HAMPTON, Va„ December 12.—
Elisha Kent Kane, University of Ten
nessee professor, was acquitted by a
jury tonight of a charge of murdering
j his wife by drow’ning her in Chesapeake
Bay last September.
The verdict came after the jury had
I been out three hours and 45 minutes,
j Prof. Kane took the verdict calmly,
| standing with his father on one side of
| him and his brother, Dr. Thomas L.
Kane, on the other.
Hands Twitch Nervously.
The accused stood as the jury filed
into the crowded court room, his hands
i twitched nervously, but otherwise he
showed little effect of the grueling
strain.
The jury foreman, when questioned
by Judge Bpratley, said that a verdict
had been reached, but ad ted that it had
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$11,172 FOR CHARITY
FROM ALABAMA TILTS
Crimson Tide Beats C. TJ. by 7-0;
and Holds G. U. and G. W. U.
Scoreless.
Charity benefited $11,172 or more
from yesterday’s foot ball extravaganza
at Griffith Staditim, in which the Ala
bama Crimson Tide, last year’s Rose
Bowl champions, defeated Catholic
University, 7 to 0, and held George
Washington and Georgetown to score
less ties in three 20-minute games.
A gross gate receipt of $14,672.50 was
received from the 10,148 persons who
attended. It is expected expenses of
the game will total less than the $3,000
which was fixed as a maximum cost of
the affair. The latter sum has been
underwritten with the personal check
of Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president
of George Washington University.
Details of the game will be found In
the Sports Sec
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Demotion of Four Sergeants
and Transfer of 18 Men
Recommended.
The long contemplated plan of In
spector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of de
tectives, for increasing the efficiency of
effectiveness of the Detective Bureau,
was submitted yesterday to Brig. Gen.
Pelham D. Glassford, major and super
intendent of police.
The reorganization contemplates the
demotion of four detective sergeants
and the transfer of 18 men to the vari
ous police precincts where they would
contin,, to work on Detective Bureau
cases without losing their identity with !
the bureau
The four officers recommended for
demotion are C. E. Mansfield, Howard
?' W- Mansfield and C. P. stepp.
All of them, with the exception of I
Stepp, have been on general assiga
Stepp has been attached
to the clothing squad.
Slated for Promotion.
Officers recommended for promotion
to succeed the four Inspector Burke
listed for demotion are A. M. Tolson
of the seventh precinct, E. F- Lewis
of the thirteenth precinct, H. G. Wana
maker of the special investigation
squad, and E. P. Hartman, now on
special assignment in the office of the
United States attorney for the District.
Detectives slated for transfer to the I
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ZAMORA CABINET QUITS
Bift Between Conservatives and
Socialists Blamed.
MADRID, December 12 (JP)_The
cabinet of President Alcala Zamora
headed by Premier Manuel Azana re
signed today.
Formation of a new cabinet was post
poned until tomorrow, Scnor Azana said,
when the President and congressional
leaders will confer in an effort to select
a new ministry.
An effort among certain Conserva
tive Republicans to eliminate Socialists
from the government was understood to
be a principal issue, with the Socialists
threatening to oppose the government
if they wer# eliminated from (he
cabinet, ... D
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Warden’s Wife Says Hus
band Ordered Gate Opened
After Threat.
By the Associated Press,
LEAVENWORTH, Kans,, December
11.—As guards at Leavenworth Federal
Prison were criticized for withholding
gun-fire while seven convicts scurried
to freedom, the wife of Warden T. B.
White tonight said the prison head had
ordered the main gate opened in an
effort to save the building from de- '
struction by dynamite.
Tlte statement was issued by Mrs.
While for her husband, who is re
ceiving hospital treatment for severe
wounds received at the hands of the
convicts, who kidnaped the warden in
making their escape. Three of the
fugitives were killed, three others cap
tured.
While Mrs. White talked prison
guards were being rushed to Winchester.
Kans., where Earl Thayer, 65, the only
one of the desperate convicts who par
ticipated in yesterday's break still at
large, was reported located. Fred
Zerbst, acting prison warden, said he
considered the report reliable, but offi
cers at Winchester professed to know
nothing of the matter.
Threatened to Blow Up Prison.
In her story of the dramatic mo
ments of the Leavenworth break, Mrs.
White said the warden ordered the
big main gate opened only when one of
his kidnapers held a lighted match
near a stick of dynamite and threat
ened to “blow up the prison” if his
demands were refused.
The dynamite was found later in the
warden’s automobile, which the con
victs vainly sought to use in the es
cape. Mrs. White said.
While Zerbst. who is also warden of
the penitentiary annex, directed criti
cism at the several guards on duty dur
ing the escape, no action had been
taken against them.
• The guards expressed the belief they
would be exonerated when the inquiry '
is completed and that it would be
shown they had not displayed any lack
of courage.
Tower Guard Criticized.
Humbert Gray, the guard who was in
a tower commanding the prison steps
was taken to task by Zerbst for not ,
shooting when the escaping convicts
marched out the main gate.
Deputy Warden Fred Morrison took ,
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HIT-RUN CAR KILLS MAIL FOREMAN;
POLICE LOCATE FATAL MACHINE
Herbert Almond Birch, 60, Hurled to Instant Death.
Driver Traced to Filling Station.
Herbert Almond Birch, 60, of 1211
Emerson street, a foreman in the Post
Office Department, was struck and
killed almost instantly last night by
a hit-and-run automobile occupied by
two white men. The tragedy occurred
less than half a block from his home.
Birch, returning from his office at
the Union Station Post Office, had just
alighted from a street car at Georgia
avenue and Emerson street and started
toward his home when he turned and
talked back toward a comer store. A
oadster speeding northward on Georgia
ivenue struck and carried him 40 feet
before coming to a stop.
Two white men riding in the ma
rine jumped to the street and re
noved Birch's body from between the
eft front fender and headlights, placed
aim in a passing car driven by James
J. Nutwell of 4425 New Hampshire ave
ue and instructed Nutwedl to ca«jr
the man to Walter Reed Hospital. They
then fled in their machine, witnesses
told police.
MaJ. E. C. Pratt and Capt. D. S.
Kellogg, physicians at the hospital, pro
nounced Birch dead upon his arrival
there. A skull fracture and internal
injuries were suffered by the man, they
said. J
Three witnesses to the accident, John
Lambert, 2525 Minnesota avenue south
east; James Kline, 4801 Seventh street
and John Mose, 4503 Eighth street
furnished thirteenth precinct police
with the license number of the hit-and
run machine and it was found parked
in the 1200 block of K street less than
an hour later.
Detective Sergts. Denis J. Murphy
and Floyd A. Truscott traced the own
ership of the car to a man living in
the 1200 block of K street They ar
rested a brother-in-law of the alleged
owner and a woman for investigation
when they went to the K street ad
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MEANS TO COMBAT
POLITICS IS SOUGHT
BY CIVIL SERVICE
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Commission Asks Right to:
Inflict Penalties for Vio
lation of Rules.
HOLD RECOMMENDATIONS
ARE NOT CARRIED OUT
"Court of Appeals'' Among 14
Changes Suggested in An
nual Report.
The Civil Service Commission is
seeking a more effective weapon to break
up political activity by Government em
ployes.
In its annual report, made public last
night, the commission asks the right to
fix penalties for violation of the regula
tion on politics, and that the depart
ments be required to administer such
punishment as the commission sets.
At present the commission can only
make recommendations in these cases,
and it is up to the departments to fol
low them or not, as they see fit.
The report says that in the last fiscal
year only 119 employes out of the total
of 468,050 in classified service were in
volved in charges of political activity,
which was 28 more than in the previous
year.
List of Charges.
The charges were: Serving on elec
tion boards, 2; taking an active part in
political conventions, campaigns and
elections, 28; electioneering, 1; influ
encing voters by use of money, 1; be
coming candidate for elective office, 4;
soliciting support for political candi
dates, 5; holding office in political or
ganization, 6; activity in school con
troversy, 8; miscellaneous (minor of
fenses and two or more charges), 64.
In 69 cases the charges were sustain
ed; in 50, they failed, these including
the single complaint of electioneering
and of influencing voters by use of
money.
In 38 cases the commission rec
ommended cautions, warnings or repri
mands; in 17, suspensions or reductions
in salary; in 5, removal or resignation,
quired to desist.
Milder Penalty Inflicted.
“Sometimes,” the report says, “th<
departmental officials accepted th<
commission’s recommendations and tool
disciplinary action accordingly, but ir
a number of flagrant violations, foi
which the recommendation was remova
from the service or suspension froir
duty and pay for periods varying ac
cording to the gravity of the offense
the departments Inflicted a much mildei
penalty, often merely reprimanding the
employe and cautioning against furthei
political activity.” .
The report points out that in some
places, notably in Arlington County and
Cheverly, Md., resident employes are
allowed to take part in municipal gov
ernment.
The result is. according to the com -
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DEMOCRATS BEGIN
FUND DRIVE IAN. 14
Party's “Victory Campaign’’ to
Seek to Raise Total of
$1,500,000.
By the Associated Press.
The Democratic party will launch its
Nation-»wide “victory campaign” to
raise $1,500,000 on January 14.
Pinal plans for a concentrated drive
for funds to pay off old debts and re
plenish the party war chest for the
1932 campaign were made yesterday
it a meeting of State chairmen.
John H. Fahey of Boston, presiding,
announced that pre-campaign contribu
tions were pleasing. He hoped at least
1500,000 would be contributed before
ihe general public is invited to par
ticipate.
“Victory dinners” will be held in
various cities on the fourteenth. A
speech by John W. Davis, the party's
1924 nominee, will be broadcast. He
will speak at a dinner in New York
it which John J. Raskob, Jouett Shouse
md other party leaders will make ad
iresses.
Shouse, who is chairman of the
larty’s Executive Committee, saiif the
tampaign would be the “opening gun”
)f the 1932 campaign.
■
Cermak on Way Here to Speak.
CHICAGO, December 12 (JF).—Chi
ago’s Democratic mayor, Anton J. Cer
nak, left tonight for Washington, D.
-..to speak tomorrow before a meeting
if the Republican National Committee,
dayor Cermak will urge the Republi
ans to bring their National Convention
o Chicago in 1932.
_
Representative Cannon of
Missouri Heads Group on
Appropriations.
NAME MRS. MARY NORTON
LEGISLATIVE CHAIRMAN
Senator Vandenberg Leaves Senate
Body, Deploring Commission
ers' Lack of Authority.
The personnel of both the House
! Subcommittee on District Appropria
tions and of the House District Legisla
tive Committee was decided late yes
terday. Chairman Byrns of the Appro
priations Committee announced that
the Appropriations Subcommittee will
consist of Representative Clarence Can
non of Missouri, chairman; Representa
tives William J. Granfield of Massa
chusetts and Thomas L. Blanton of
Texas, Democrats, and Representative
Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska and
Representative William P. Holaday of
Illinois, Republicans. The two new
men are Granfield and Blanton, the
latter having served formerly on the
District Legislative Committee.
The roster of the District Legislative
Committee was decided on after lengthy
conferences of the Democratic mem
bers of the Ways and Means Commit
tee acting as a Committee on Commit
tees and the Republican Committee on
Committees meeting with the new Re
publican leader, Representative Ber
trand H. Snell of New York.
With Representative Christopher D.
Sullivan of New York elected to the
House Ways and Means Committee,
Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey
becomes the chairman of the District
Committee—the first time in the his
tory of Congress that a woman has
been chairman of a committee. The
hold-over Democratic members, who
are reappointed are Representatives
Vincent L. Palmisano. Maryland; Rob
ert S. Hall, Mississippi, and Wright
Patman, Texas. Representative Mal
colm C. Tarver of Georgia was in line
for chairman of either revision of the
laws or elections No. 2, but instead
chose appointment on the Judiciary
Committee.
Democratic Assignments.
The eight new Democratic assign
ments to the District Committee are
i Representatives Howard W. Smith. Vir
ginia; Lynn S. Homor. West Virginia:
Loring D. Black, New York; J. Bayard
Clark, North Carolina; Ralph Gilbert,
Kentucky; Robert Ramspeck, Georgia;
Byron B. Harlan, Ohio, and Allard H.
Gasque, South Carolina. Representa
tives Gilbert and Gasque were formerly
members of this committee.
The holdover Republican members of
the District Committee who have been
reappointed are Representatives Clar
ence J. McLeod of Michigan. Edward M.
Beers, Pennsylvania; Gale H. Stalker,
New York; Frank L. Bowman, West Vir
ginia; Patrick J. Sullivan, Pennsylvania;
James L. Whitley, New York, and C. B.
McClintock, Ohio. Representative
Frank R. Reid of Illinois and Repre
sentative Frederick C. Loofbourow of
Utah were relieved of further service on
the District Committee.
The two new Republican members
appointed to the District Committee are
Representatives Frederick M. Davenport
of New York and Pehr G. Holmes of
Massachusetts. The former has already
served eight years in the House, and the
latter was selected because he was for
merly mayor of his home city, Worces
ter, Mass.
Vandenberg Quits.
Meanwhile in the Senate Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan
made known yesterday that he has
asked to be relieved of his assignment
on the District Committee, and in doing
so he urged passage of legislation that
would permit the Commissioners to
handle some of the local problems that
now claim the attention of the con
gressional committees.
The complete schedule of changes in
Senate committees will not be an
nounced until tomorrow, but it was
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TODAY’S STAR
PART ONE—36 PAGES.
General, News—Local, National and
Foreign.
Schools and Colleges—Page B-5.
At Community Centers—Page C-2.
Spanish War Veterans—Page C-2.
Army and Navy News—Page C-3.
Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page C-3.
News of the Clubs—Page C-7.
PART TWO—8 PAGES.
Editorials and Editorial Features.
D. A. R. Activities—Page 4.
Y. W. C. A. News—Page 4.
Public Library—Page 4. ,
Parent-Teacher Acitivies—Page 5.
Serial Story, “City Girl’’—Page 5.
PART THREE—16 PAGES.
Society Section.
Kathleen Norris’ Article—Page 11.
Women of Diplomacy—Page 12.
W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 13.
PART FOUR—8 PAGES.
Amusement Section—Theater, Screen
and Radio.
In the Motor World—Page 3.
Aviation—Page 4.
American Legion—Page 4.
Organized Reserves—Page 4.
Marine Corps News—Page 4.
District National Guard—Page 5.
Disabled American Veterans—Page 5.
Fraternities—Page 5.
Radio—Pages 6 and 7.
PART FIVE—4 PAGES.
Sports Section.
PART SIX—12 PAGES.
Financial News and Classified Adver
tising.
Naval Reserves—Page 11.
PART SEVEN—20 PAGES.
Magazine Section.
Notes of Art and Artists—Page 14.
Reviews of New Books—Page 15.
News of the Music World—Page 16
The Bridge Forum—Page 17.
Cross-word Puzzle—Page 18.
The Boys’ and Girls’ Page—Page 19.
Those Were the Happy Days—Page 20.
GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES.
Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.; The
Timid Soul; Iieg'lar Fellers; Littl*
Orphan Annie; Highlights of His