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BEER BILL DOOMED; SENATE LEADERS IGNORE IT
HOOVER POCKET
VETO LIKELY
IF PASSED
Many Wets Believe Action
Now Would Prove Obstacle
to Repeal Ratification
The hope of wets for “beer
by March 4” waned today
when they found Senate lead
ers reluctant to order action
on the revised House bill
legalizing beer and light wines.
With but seven legislative days
remaining of the Seventy-Second
Congress, a survey disclosed that
neither Republican nor Demo
cratic leaders would predict pas
sage of the bIU.
The legislative path to its enact
ment was cleared in the Senate
but both party leaders regarded
its consideration as unlikely.
Three Objections
The objections raised to action
on the beer bill were:
1. President Hoover will kill
it by a pocket veto, since less
than ten days remain to the
adjournment of Congress.
2. Its passage might retard
the present swift-moving cam
paign for repeal of the Eight
eenth Amendment.
3. A dry filibuster might kill
all other legislation.
The attitude of President Hoover
toward legalized beer was re
ported to have swung the pendu
lum against action on the bill.
The time limit in which the
President would have to send
his veto reasons to Congress ex-
Sired yesterday. Now, if the bill
i enacted, Mr. Hoover merely
can pocket it, and it would die
March 4. In the meantime. Con
gress could do nothing whatever
about over-riding his objections.
For Repeal Action First
Some wets were opposed now
to legalizing beer until a ma
jority of the States have acted
on the repeal of prohibition.
They feared a “let-down” in re
peal sentiment throughout the
nation if beer and light wines
were legalized.
D. C. Bill SUU On Calendar
The Senate meanwhile cleared
up its program of appropriation
bills. Only the District of Co
lumbia and Navy bills must be
passed next week.
Five bills, however, are in con
ference and there will be a row
over the Treasury-Postoffice con
ference report, with its economy
bill rider. The conferees elimi
nated the Bratton 5 per cent
slash of Federal expenditures and
restored a 119,000,000 appropria
tion for air mails in opposition to
votes in the Senate.
The legislative program was
topped by the Robinson bank
ruptcy reform bill, which liberal
izes the treatment of individual
debtors and prevents foreclosure
of farm mortgages. A Senate
group will seek to extend its
benefits, against considerable op
position, to railroads and corpora
tions.
DELIHING
Oil LINDY TRID
• ROANOKE, Va., Feb. 25.—Hear
ing in the case of the three
suspects arrested following an
alleged attempt to extort $17,000
from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
through threats of kidnaping his
second son, Jon, was continued
until July 3 by United States
Commissioner Charles Fox, jr.,
here today.
The long continuance was
agreed upon at a conference be
tween defense attorneys and the
United States district attorney.
Bail for the three was reduced
to SI,OOO each and they were all
freed. One of the suspects, Mrs.
Ethel Harvey, had been free on
$5,000 bond.
Her husband, Norman Harvey,
and Joe Bryant were released
shortly after the lower bond had
been set.
Government officials asked the
continuance to give them further
time to work on the case.
Dr. Wilson, Wrestler,
Has Brain Concussion
MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 24 (1.N.8.).
Dr. Ralph Wilson, Evansville,
Ind., wrestler and 1929 Indiana
University’s Western Conference
175-pound champion, was report
ed improved at the Ball Memo
rial Hospital here today after
being taken there suffering from
brain concussion and intracranial
hemorrhage received in a bout
with “Wee Willie” Davis, of Vir
ginia, here last night.
“How will I get there?" "Where will
we go over the week-end?” These are
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Jap Delegation Quits League Assembly
In Protest as China Sees “Victory”
(Continued from Page J)
must give formal notice of resig
nation, which becomes effective
only after two years.
Virtual Withdrawal
In effect, however, the action
was virtually tantamount to Jap
anese withdrawal from the League.
It means that the Assembly, the
supreme tribunal of the League,
henceforth will be obliged to func
tion without the cooperation and
collaboration of Japan.
Several small nations have drop
ped out from time to time. But
never before has a large and pow
erful country, pledged under the
terms of the League covenant to
submit all controversies end dis
putes to international arbitration,
elected to follow a course of iso
lation.
China’s “Moral Victory”
The Sino-Japanese committee
report called upon all the na
tions of the world to. blacklist
Manchukuo, demanded that Japan
return Manchuria to Chinese sov
ereignty, and ordered that the
Japanese armies promptly cease
their attempts to "pacify” the
Province of Jehol with machine
juns and cannon.
China has won a “moral victory
over the lust for power of Japan’s
military chieftains,” Dr. W. W.
Yen, of China, told the assembly.
Yen welcomed the presence of
American and Soviet Russian rep
resentatives on the negotiations
commission provided in the re
port to direct further attempts
at settlement.
Then, on behalf of China, he
accepted the report and its recom
mendations, which include restor
ation of Chinese sovereignty in
Manchuria, reserving only China’s
right to act under Paragraph 6
of Article XV owing to Japan’s
refusal to accept the report.
Matsuoka followed Dr. Yen,
speaking for an hour.
Reading from a prepared text,
Matsuoka emphatically refused to
accept the recommendations of
the report and declared Japan’s
only course in order to maintain
peace in the Far East was to sup
port the state of Manchukuo.
Calls League Blind
The League of Nations, he said,
is blind to the realities of the
East, and by its actions is largely
responsible for the “present dan
gerous situation.”
International control of Man
churia is not possible, Matsuoka
said, adding:
“Would Americans agree to
international control of the
Panama Canal? Or would the
British permit such conrtol over
Egypt?”
He ended his speech with an
appeal to the League Assembly
not to adopt the report. Couch
ing his plea in more conciliatory
terms than his last statement to
the League, he said:
"Japan is putting Manchuko
on its feet in away to establish
peace in the Far East.
“I beg the Assembly to real
ise the facts and see our vision
of the future. I earnestly beg
you to deal with us at our
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Win nah!
terms and to give us your confi
dence.
"To deny this appeal will be
a mistake. 1 ask you not to
adopt the report.”
It was agreed the assembly
would establish a “consultative
committee” of 21 league members
and the United States and Rus
sia, if they are willing.
Its purpose will be to watch
and direct efforts at settlement
with the League Assembly and
remain at call in event of an
emergency.
Jap Troops Sweep on
Toward Jehol City
TOKYO, Feb. 24 (1.N.5.).—
Aroused to fury by China’s rejec
tion of Japan’s ultimatum, 30,-
000 Japanese troops have swept
nearer and nearer to Jehol City.
Hoisting the flag of Manchukuo
over each captured town and vil
lage, Japanese troops were in the
midst of a drive along five dif
ferent routes.
One detachment, under the
Manchukuo general, Wang Yung-
Chin, moved southward from
Shihtouchengtou, mopping up
Chinese detachments stationed
along the railway tracks.
Brave Blizzard, Snow Drifts
Another, under Gen. Chang
Hal-Peng, chief aide-de-camp. to
President-Dictator Pu-Yl, of Man
chukuo, resumed its drive south-
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MRS. FITZGERALD ON WAY TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS
MRS JEAN FITZGERALD, wife of John Francis Fitzgerald, mysteriously strangled
in his home, first block of Third St. N. E., as she was being taken to police headquar
ters for examination. Mrs. Fitzgerald is 21 years old. Times Staff Photo.
westward from Tungllao, braving
a driving blizzard and deep snow.
A third contingent was com
manded by Gen. So Ching-Chin,
while two other Japanese and
Manchukuo columns pressed to
ward the goal.
Complete control of the Peipaio
railway district was signalized
when the Manchukuo emblem
was flown from the railway sta
tion.
The Japanese forces hotly pur
sued the Chinese 107th brigade,
driven from Chaoyang by a Japa
nese aerial and infantry attack.
The assault on Chaoyang sig
nalized the first major Japanese
triumph after announcement by
General Muto, Japanese com
mander in Changchum, Manchu
kuo. that the major drive against
Johol Province was under way.
%ailu Occupied
Japanese troops today occupied
the city of Kailu, headquarters
of the Northern Chinese army.
The Chinese were reported to
have withdrawn without resist
ance. The war office pronounced
this the first important victory
of the Jehol campaign.
The Japanese troops occupied
villages to the southwest of Chao
yang, while Chinese forces fran
tically attempted to form a de
fense line for protection of Jehol
City, capital of the province.
The ultimatum had demanded
withdrawal of Chinese regular
troops from Jehol Province.
The National Daily
TIMES WRITER I
ON HIS WIT TO
JEHOL FRONT
Correspondent Sends First
Story En Route in Motor
Truck; 3 in Expedition
Maj. Gen. Frank M. Sutton, bril
liant British writer and soldier of
fortune, is en route to the Sino-
Japanese battlefront in Jehol
Province to report on the Far
Eastern war for International
News Service.
Major General Sutton, who
earned his nickname of “One-
Arm” when he lost an arm at Gal
lipoli during the World War, is
one of the best-informed militaiy
men in the Far East. He held a
commission as major general in
the Manchurian army of the late
Marshal Chang Tso-Lin.
By MAJ. GEN. F. M. SUTTON
(Copyright. 1933, bv International
News Service)
EN ROUTE TO THE JEHOL
BATTLEFRONT, Feb. 24 (1.N.5.).
Bearing impressive documenta
from Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang
ordering all Chinese commanders
at the front to “tremble and
obey,” I got out of Peiping at
midnight and started for the
Jehol battlefront aboard a huge
American motor truck.
Marshal Chang signed and
sealed the documents with his im
pressive curley-cue.
“Snap Out of It”
Roughly translated into Amer
ican, his order to “tremble and
obey” means “snap out of it.” He
admonished his commanders to
cooperate and pass my expedition
through the battle lines.
We had to buy the motor truck.
No Peiping garage would rent us
one. The owners were afraid a
misdirected shell might blow it
up.
In addition to 150 gallons of
gasoline, plenty of food, fur
clothing, and blankets to cope
with the sub-zero gales in the
Jehol mountain passes, the expe
dition consists of Owen Latti
more, a Central Asian traveler
and authority on the Mongol
race; a Chinese boy nick-named
“Moses,” who already has jour
neyed from Peiping to India
across the Himalayas, and my
self.
With Flag Flying
"Moses” promises to be a valu
able adjunct. We are relying
on him to prevent anyone from
confiscating the caravan.
But in case of emergency, we
are all armed with service auto
matics and have a large flag
nailed to the top of the roof.
We are shoving out for Cheng
teh, the capital, which is known
in English as Jehol City. But
on the way, there probably will
be a stop at Chaoyang, at pres
ent the center of the hottest
fighting.
White Slave Probe
Witness Found Slain
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (1.N.5.).
A parallel with the gang slaying
of Vivian Gordon was seen today
by police investigating the mur
der of Alice Mason, 23, star wit
ness in a white slave investiga
tion three years ago, was taken
for a one-way “ride” last nighP.
The girl’s body, a wound at the
base of the skull, was hurled
from a speeding car on the
lower East Eide.
Police Commissioner Mulrooney
said:
"It looks like another Vivian
Gordon case. In each, it looks
like the woman knew too much
about white slavers and under
world persons.”
FRIDAY—FEBRUARY 24—1933
| Knife Victim
■
JOHN R. FELL
DIRECTOR OF a Paris bank
who was found stabbed to death
in Solo. Java, yesterday. Fell’s
wife told investigators that he
killed himself. Photo by Inter
national News Photographic
Service.
BANK ACCUSED
BY PECORA
(Continued from Page /)
credit to brokers” since the Civil
war.
He said every bank in New
York did this. It was a common
practice' and the loans were
called "day loans,” he said. He
added they were not secured but
were extended under contracts.
He said it meant in effect that
the broker had extra calls and
advised the bank that he would
have to have additional accomo
dation.
Reached Half Billion
On busy days the total day
loans of all the banks was run
up to the astounding total of be
tween four and five hundred mil
lions of dollars, Mitchell said.
Senator Couzens observed:
"It all contributes to taking
away capital from industry
then?”
“I wouldn’t say that.”
Couzens veered into a discus
sion of governmental securities.
He asked Mitchell how many
bonds he thought the Govern
ment could sell. Mitchell re
plied that the Government could
sell all the bonds that its credit
would stand.
"You mean you think the
Government could sell 35 or
40 billion dollars in securities?”
“Well, that’s a pretty big
order, but the Government
could sell as many securities as
it could back with good credit.”
INIFETSGBIILED
INSTRANGLING
(Continued from Page 7)
necktie tied around his neck when
she entered the kitchen and that
she cut it off.
Besides this mark. Dr. Murphy
found a bruise on the left fore
head and a cut on the right side
of the head. How these injuries
were received has not been
learned by police.
Intoxicated, Says Wife
According to Mrs. Fitzgerald,
her husband returned home last
night intoxicated and went in the
kitchen, closing the door so that
their baby, Jean 2, might not
see him take a drink.
Twice the baby knocked on the
door, the wife said; then, after
about five minutes, she entered
the kitchen to find Fitzgerald un
conscious on the floor.
Mrs. Fitzgerald then called a
neighbor child, Helen Roberts, 14,
who summoned help and the res
cue squad was called. Mrs, Fitz
gerald said nothing about the
necktie until Dr. Murphy discov
ered the mark on the dead man’s
neck, detectives said.
Child Disputes Statement
Another statement of hers they
are puzzled at is that she dis
covered blood on the kitchen floor
and that a neighbor’s child mop
ped it up. The child denies this.
Mrs. Fitzgerald is being held
without bond pending the inquest,
which will probably be held to
morrow.
“Outlaw” Firemen
Fight Two Blazes
The Hyattsville volunteer fire
department, which has been "out
lawed” by the mayor and town
council, answered two alarms of
fire yesterday, the busiest day in
months.
Both fires were small, however.
One was a brush fire in Oak
wood Road and the other a chim
ney fire in a house at Bailey
Street and Wine Avenue,
LOUDERBAGK’S
IMPEACHMENT
IS VOTED
House Adopts Minority Report
Assailing U. S. Judge for
Alleged Misconduct
Federal Judge Harold Louder
back, of San Francisco, was im
peached by the House this
afternoon.
The action came as a surprise,
the Judiciary Committee hav
ing voted 13 to 5 against im
peachment.
However, the committee voted
unanimously to censure the judge
for many of his official actions
in connection with receivership
cases.
Shortly after the House met
today Representative McKeown
(D.) of Oklahoma, was recognized
by Speaker Garner to present the
majority report of the Judiciary
Committee exonerating, but at
the same time censuring. Federal
Judge Harold Louderback. of the
northern district of California.
The judge will learn his fate
before 3 p. m. Representative
LaGuardia (R.) of New York,
backed by four other members
of the Judiciary Committee, will
fight the exoneration and offer
an impeachment resolution as a
substitute. An agreement has
been reached to limit debate to
two hours.
Put In the Record
The LaGuardia impeachment
resolution was put in the record
as a substitute for the report
clearing the judge. It will be
voted upon first when debate
ends.
LaGuardia cited the Russell-
Colvin Company case, charging
that Louderback discharged Ad
dison G. Strong as receiver
“after having attempted to force
and coerce Strong to appoint
one John Douglass Short as at
torney for the receiver.”
Louderback was charged also
wih “improper and unlawful con
duct as a judge” in granting
"excessive, exorbitant and un
reasonable allowances” to Marshal
Woodward and Samuel Shoot
ridge, jr„ son of the Senator, re
ceiver and attorney, respectively,
in the matter of the Lumbermen’s
Reciprocal Association.
It was charged that Guy H.
Gilbert, named receiver in the
Fageol Motor Company case, was
incompetent and inexperienced,
and that the rights of litigants
were disregarded.
The fifth article of impeach
ment was a general charge of
impeachment in receivership case,
indifference to the rights of liti
gants, and decision of cases “with
partiality and prejudice and fa
voritism to certain individuals.”
LEGISMIDS
RUTH JUDD
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 24 (I.N.
S.).—New developments in the
battle for life of Winnie Ruth
Judd today included plans by
Representative L. G. Christian to
speak in her behalf on the floor
of the Arizona legislature.
Mrs. Judd is under sentence to
be hanged April 14 for the
murder of Agnes Anne Leroi. The
dismembered bodies of Mrs.
Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson
were shipped in trunks to Los
Angeles.
Legislators seeking leniency
from the State pardon board for
Mrs. Judd said they might intro
duce a resolution asking the
legislature to take action.
The State pardon boar<l was to
meet today to set a date for a
hearing on Mrs. Judd’s petition
for a pardon or commutation.
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Stanwyck-Fay Romance
On Rocks With Show
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Husky-
Voiced Barbara Stanwyck, de
i termined lady of the films, is
sec re 11 y in
the East to
recu p e r a t e
from the col
lapse of her
show, “Tattle
Tales,” and
her marriage
to Frank Kay,
friends say.
Both the
show and the
m a r r i a g e
ended at the
same time (if
Broad way
can be be
lieved) and
f
Barbara Stanwyck
and Fay has retired to a West
Coast retreat, “indisposed”
again.
“Tattle Tales” was Fay's
dream of what musical comedy
should be and he produced it
with high hopes. But he fre
quently walked out on the
show, suffering from “indispo
sitions,” members of the staff
report, and things began to go
blooey, q
who is one of
the screen’s biggest drawing
cards, stepped in and tried to
save the production. She failed.
Dispute With Coldwyn
Expensive for Colman
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24.
Rather than make any more
motion pictures for Sam Gold
wyn, Ronald Colman is going
SAM GOLDWYN
for the actor will be losing in
salary the better part of half a
million dollars. Goldwyn, of
course, will lose too; for all
Colman’s films have been
money makers.
The actor’s grievance origi
nated in a bit of publicity copy
that came out of the Goldwyn
offices, indicating that Colman
steeled himself by drinking to
play love scenes.
Colman said it wasn’t so, be
cause he didn’t get stewed to
make love, and he sued the
Goldwyn Corporation for $2,-
000,000. The litigation is still
pending.
Odd Fellows to Be
Guests at Service
Marley Encompment, I. O. O. F.,
of Alexandria, will attend services
in the First Baptist Church, Alex
andria, tomorrow morning on in
vitation of the Rev. Pierce S.
Ellis, pastor. They will be joined
by members of the subordinate
and Rebekah Lodges in the vicin
ity of the Virginia city.
The delegation will form at
10:30 a. m. in the hall of Potomac
Lodge No. 38, 200 block North
Columbus St., under direction of
Chief Patriarch Frederick L.
Flynn. They will then march in
a body to the church. The serv
ices will be broadcast over Sta
tion WJSV.
COND TTION OF TREASURY
Treasury balance: $288,710,699.-
84; expenditures. $8,661,084.94;
customs receipts, $12,489,649.47.
CLEARINGS
Charlotte $845,794.29
to stay off
the scene for
the next two
years. This,
a t least, i s
the last word
from Colman
reported a t
the Goldwyn
headquarters.
If Colman
per sis ts, it
will be one
of the most
expensive
grudges ever
aired in
Holl y w o od,