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FRANCE READY TO REDUCE LAND ARMS ONE-THIRD
GERMANY GETS
‘ EOUALITY BY
NEW PACT
Paris Conference Insists That
, 4-Power Combine Remain
Within League Limits
PARIS, March 22 (1.N.5.).—
France has offered to reduce her
present European army to about
one-third its present size and
grant Germany equality upon the
continent if the Mussolini-Mac-
Donald proposal for a four-power
entente. Including Germany, be
comes a reality.
International News Service
learned today that Premier Da
ladier informed Premier MacDon
ald, France was willing to make
this concession in the course of
the important conversations held
here yesterday.
Linked With League
Daladier insisted that the pro
posed four-power entente be re
corded in the ordinary way with
the League of Nations, as are
other treaties.
He also demanded it be set up
within the framework of the
League, and that the peace treaty
revisions Mussolini so strongly
urged be carried out in 'xcnrd
ance with the provisions of the
League Covenant.
In return for these exactions
he informed the British Prime
Minister he was ready to accept
the disarmament scheme Mac-
Donald laid down at Geneva, in
sofar as it affected land forces.
Additional 200,000 Men
The MacDonald plan provided
for equal armies for Germany
and France of 200,000 men on
the European continent, but
granted France an additional
200,000 soldiers for her colonial
possessions.
Daladier agreed with MacDon
ald’s argument that acceptance
of the four-power entente by Ger
many and Italy removed most of
France’s reasons for demanding
security, a demand that has
threatened to wreck the disarma
ment conference at Geneva.
Germany has been kept in
close touch with the conversa
tions between Mussolini and Mac-
Donald and between MacDonald
and Daladier.
Invitation to Come
Once Paris and Rome have
agreed upon the preliminaries,
MacDonald will issue an invita
tion to representatives of these
two powers and of Germany to
meet in London and whip the
four-power entente into shape.
France, it is understood, is also
ready to accept MacDonald’s pro
posal that the term of army serv
ice under conscription be re
duced to eight months for all
European countries.
MacDonald Flies Home i
To Meet With Cabinet
LONDON, March 22 (1.N.5.).
Rushing to London from Croydon
Airport by automobile, Prime
Minister MacDonald went into im
mediate action today to inform ;
the British Government of the re
suits of his conferences with
Premier Mussolini of Italy and ,
Premier Daladier of France in the ]
cause of European peace.
The British statesman, accom- i
panied by Foreign Minister Sir ;
John Simon, reached his official
residence at 10 Downing St. ;
shortly before noon to find his
cabinet already in session.
MacDonald Hopeful
In a brief statement to news- ;
papermen while he was hurrying :
to the cabinet meeting, Mac Do- :
old declared:
“When the negotiations are
complete, we shall have been
successful.”
This statement was interpreted
as an indication MacDonald be- ,
lieves France eventually will be
persuaded to give whole-hearted 1
support to the peace plan. i
Acting with lightning speed, :
MacDonald immediately settled to 1
the task of making a preliminary :
report on his activities with Sir <
John at Geneva, Rome and Paris.
He told the members of his cabi
net of the proposal for reduction
of armaments he had made at
Geneva, and how these proposals
had led to his hurried flight ro
Rome to confer with Premier Mus
solini.
MIMBT
BYIRON BAR
Dewey Klotz, a worker em
ployed on the new Labor Depart
ment Building, was seriously in
jured today when a heavy piece
of iron falling two stories struck
him on the head and shoulders
and knocked him unconscious.
At Emergency Hospital it was
said that Klotz is suffering from
possible fractures of the skull
and shoulders.
RETIRED CONSUL HURT
NEW YORK, March 22 (1.N.5.).
Albert Halstead, 65, retired
American consul-general at Lon
don, is in Roosevelt Hospital to
day in a critical condition from
Injuries suffered last night when
he stepped in front of a taxicab.
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Against Hitler’s War on Jews
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interested in treatment accorded
Jews in that country.
Again, he said, in 1902, Secre
tary of State John Hay sent to
Rumania a note in which he pro
tested against treatment of_Jews.
In this note. Hay said:
‘The United States cannot be
a tacit party to such an inter
national wrong. It is constrained
to protest against the treatment
of which the Jews of Rumania
are subjected, not alone because
it has unimpeachable ground to
remonstrate against the re
sultant injury to itself, but in
the name of humanity.”
In each case Celler said, diplo
matic interference brought the re
quired relief.
Jews Flock Across
Border Into Poland
LONDON, March 22 (1.N.5.).
Reports from Warsaw state that
the Polish government is seriously
concerned about the disposal of
Jews who are flocking across the
border from Germany. In the last
few days, 212 have been arrested
on suspicion of being Communist
sympathizers when they admitted
they planned to cross Poland into
Soviet Russia.
• The majority of Jews in Ger
many originally came from Po
land and other eastern countries,
and those taking flight are for the
most part returning to their
native lands.
Einstein Calls Raid
Act of “Raw” Militia
ABOARD S. S. BELGENLAND,
March 22 (1.N.5.). — Overnight
transfer of police competence “to
a raw and incited crowd of Nazi
militia” was responsible for the
raid on his home at Kaputh, Ger
many, Professor Albert Einstein
declared today. He said:
“The raid on our house by an
armed crowd is only a single ex
ample of the arbitrary acts of
violence happening nowadays in
the whole country.”
Christians Join Jews
In Condemning Persecution
NEW YORK, March 22 (1.N.5.)
Nationally prominent Christians,
including Alfred E. Smith. New
ton D. Baker, and John W. Davis,
joined the Jews of America to
day in condemning the persecu
tion of Jews by the German gov
ernment.
Smith, Baker, Davis, and other
national figures indorsed a state
ment drawn up by the Greater
New York interfaith committee
condemning the “present acts of
aggression, injustice, and violence
toward Jews in Germany” and
appealed to the present rulers of
that country to prevent future
attacks “against all that civiliza
tion has gained for tolerance and
understanding since the dark
ages."
The statement expressed “pro
found dismay at the recurring
instances of ominous reversion to
intolerance and persecution in a
land which has been a home of
culture, justice, and process.”
The statement was released for
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
publication at the approximate
hour that the State Department
at Washington was calling upon
the American Ambassador and
, consular officials in Germany to
send a complete report of al
leged German excesses against
Jews,
Bodies of Slain Jews
Delivered at Cemetery
(Copyright, 1933, by International News
Service)
LONDON, March 22 (1.N.5.).
Vivid details of the Anti-Semitic
activities in Germany, including
the revelation that for three
nights the body of a murdered
Jewish citizen has been deposited
at the entrance of the Weissemsee
Cemetery in Berlin, were received
here from unimpeachable sources
today.
The Weissemsee Cemetery is
the largest Jewish burial ground
in the German capital.
On the first night of the appar-
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fornia Senator, snapped at Palm Springs, Cal., with
her daughter, Mary-Faith McAdoo, and her grand
daughters, Mimi and Cynthia, children of W. G. Me-
ently systematic campaign, the
keeper at the caretaker’s lodge
of the cemetery was awakened
by the honking of an automobile
horn. He stepped out of the
housfe and stumbled over a corpse
lying in the glare of an auto
mobile’s headlights. ___
Body Was Mutilated
In the car, he said, were men
in the uniform of Nazi storm
troopers who commanded:
“Bury him. We’ve given him
a free funeral so far.”
The body was mutilated beyond
recognition.
Hindenburg Frees Nazis
Who Attacked Americans
BERLIN, March 22 (1.N.5.).
Attempts of the United States
Government to obtain punish
ment cf the alleged Nazi storm
troopers who assaulted 10 Ameri
can citizens were thwarted by
President von Hindenburg today.
TA« National Daily
COMMON SENSE
WILL GOVERN
FOREST TOIL
President Explains Method of
Recruiting 250,000 in
Scattered Camps
The Roosevelt plan of recruit
ing an army of 250,000 men to
work in reforestration projects
will be carried out on “a com
mon sense basis,” it was stated
at the White House today in re
sponse to criticism that has been
forthcoming from some quarters.
Rules and regulations for the
conduct of the camps will be
promulgated on that basis, it
was explained. While the men
will be nominally enlisted for a
period of one year, the enlist
ments would be allowed to term
inate for cause, such as the
ability of the individual to obtain
a better job, family illness, etc.
Only Semi-Military
The camps will be only semi
military in character, and the
type of labor recruited will not
be of competitive nature.
In Mr. Roosevelt’s opinion, the
plan will help solve the problem
of what to do with thousands of
homeless youths now roaming the
country and unable to secure
work.
Really $2 a Day
Answering criticism of the wage
rate of $1 a day, the President ,
pointed out today that it will ,
really amount to about $2 a day
as the Government will have to
feed and house the “army.” In
his opinion this is about as much
as this type of labor could com
mand in similar work at this
time.
Army recruiting stations will be
employed in the work, although
the plans are under the general
supervision of the Labor Depart
ment.
BEEFirSET
IN 23 STATES
Twenty-three States can em
bark upon tht sale of beer within '
15 days after President Roosevelt
signs the 3.2 bill, according to a :
survey made today by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor’s com
mittee for modification of the
Volstead act.
They are: Arizona, California,
Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, 1
Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massa
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New ;
Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Washington, Wisconsin
and Louisiana.
Twelve other States have statu
tory limitations that can be re
moved by legislation, and in the
remainder there are constitu
tional provisions that must be
changed.
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dent Wilson, is spending part of the winter season at j:
Palm Springs at her son’s winter home. Photo by
International News Photographic Service. <
WEDNESDAY—-MARCH
Yoar Choice
Os 14 Kinds of
Pretzels
CHICAGO, March 22 (1.N.5.).
A new boom in the pretzel
industry was predicted today
by J. C. Eichman, an official
of a local pretzel company.
With beer assured by early
April, the pretzel bakeries
throughout the nation are
working at top speed to in
crease production and meet
the expected heavy increase in
demand. For, as Eichman de
clares:
“What would a glass of beer
be without a crisp pretzel?”
Pretzels by the ton—verily,
by the . carload—are being
turned out in the company’s
bakeries at the rate of 3,500,-
000 a day. And if you never
knew it, some 14 different
kinds are made, covering a
wide range from little ones to
big ones, hand made ones, and
the plain kind to the more
aesthetic type designed to ap
peal to the housewife.
3.28E101LL
BECOMES LAW
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a radical wet measure, gained
support when Sabath insisted it
would save the Government mil
lions of dollars by reducing the
cost of operating the prisons. He
said:
PRESIDENT HAS POWER
“I am hopeful President
Roosevelt will free these pris
oners, convicted of violating a
law that Congress now has re
pealed. I do not believe it is
fair to keep men in prison for
an act now legal. The Presi
dent has the power to parole or
pardon them. If he doesn’t
wish to act, I shall push my
resolution.
“There are thousands of
these prisoners in jail. If we
free them, we will save the
Government millions of dol
lars.”
The Government meanwhile
was preparing to license manu
facturers and brewers of the bev
erages to be legalized. Thou
sands of licenses were being
printed, as were revenue stamps.
Brewers will have to pay SI,OOO
for the license, the Federal tax
will be $5 per barrel of 31 gallons.
It will apply to beer, porter, ale,
wine, other fermented malt or
vinous liquors or fruit juices with
not over 3.2 per cent alcohol.
Chicago to Outlaw
Beer Racketeering
CHICAGO, March 22 (1.N.5.).
Bent on preventing the powerful
liquor gangs from gaining control
of the legal beer industry, Acting
Mayor Frank Corr today called
a conference for Friday with his 1
cabinet heads and police depart
ment officials. The purpose of
the conference, the mayor said,
is to draft laws which will safe- <
guard the legitimate beer indus
try from gangsters and racketeers.
LABOR FIGHTS
PLAN FOR
JOBLESS
Federation Head to Demand
Living Wage; Miss Perkins
to Appear at Hearing
Organized labor today mapped
out a vigorous fight to rewrite
the Roosevelt reforestationunem
ployment bill to provide a “living
wage” for the 250,000 men the
President expects to put to work.
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor,
notified the House committee that
he will appear as witness in op
position to the bill.
With sentiment in Congress di
vided over the first phase of the
three-point unemployment relief
program of the President, Chair
man Connery (D.) of Massachu
setts called the House Labor Com
mittee into session to chart its
course.
Miss Perkins to Appear
Secretary of Labor Frances Per
kins is slated to appear as the
first witness in behalf of the
measure.
The bill brings to the front
again a cleavage which began
when President Roosevelt ap
pointed Miss Perkins Secretary of
Labor despite the demand of
Green that a representative of
organized labor be named to the
post.
Although Connery refused to
introduce the bill on the ground
that he could not “vote to put
American labor on a dollar a day
wage,” he said he would preside
at hearings and give the bill a
fair chance. The measure was
introduced by Representative
Byms of Tennessee, majority
leader.
Wants Standard Wage
Connery said he not only ob
jected to the contemplated $1 a
day wage, with food and a place
to live, but he opposed a clause
providing that the prevailing
wage for artisans shall be paid
in constructing the barracks to
house the men.
Since the barracks presumably
will be constructed in out of the
way places, Connery said the pre
vailing wage for carpenters and
other skilled artisans in those
localities might be but 10 cents
an hour.
MITGHELL“CASE
IDGRAND JURY
(Continued From Page 1)
as that for which Al Capone,
Chicago gang leader, was sent to
Atlanta penitentiary for a long
term of years.
The warrant was the outgrowth
of testimony by Mitchell that in
1929 he sold 18,300 shares of Na
tional City Bank stock to his
wife, and later repurchased it, at
a loss of $2,800,000. He admitted
to the Senate committee that this
sale was “frankly for the pur
pose” of reducing his income tax
for that year.
Gross Income 3 Millions
The affidavit sworn to by Dewey
charged Mitchell had a gross in
come for the year 1929 of $3,006,-
705.16, of which $1,206,195.02 was
salary; $140,105.47 interest on
bank deposits and bonds; $1,338,-
237.97 profits of sales on stocks
and bonds; $262,874.40 dividends:
$4,789.22 interest on Liberty
bonds; and $4,503.78, dividends
and directors’ fees. The lawful
deductions were set at $183,299.91.
The return filed by Mitchell
for 1929 showed a purported net
loss of $48,000, which resulted in
his paying no tax for that year.
Mitchell revealed these stock
transactions in his testimony be
fore the Senate investigating com
mittee on February 21. On Febru
ary 26 he submitted his resigna
tion as chairman of the board of
the National City Bank.
Shortly after Mitchell’s arrest
Attorney General Cummings, who
ordered the action, issued the fol
lowing statement from Washing
ton:
"President Roosevelt has been
kept advised of these develop
ments, and they have his ap
proval. Federal Attorney Me
dalie of New York will proceed
forthwith to present the case to
a grand jury with a view to
pressing for an early trial.”
OSSINING, N. Y„ March 22
(I.N.S.).—Bernard K. Marcus,
president, and Saul Singer, vice
president, respectively of the de
funct Bank of United States, shed
their identities today and became
merely numbers in Sing Sing
prison’s scheme of things.
They are under sentence to
serve from three to six years
each for misapplication of the
funds of the bank.
CONDITION OF TREASURY
Treasury balance, $453,542.
965.16; expenditures, $24,153,094.-
34; customs receipts, $10,435.
667.45.
Clearings
Charlotte .$1,360,998.79 ;
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Emma Goldman Hailed
•As Wonder Cook
LONDON, March 22.—Emma
Goldman, the anarchist, was in
troduced at the Foyle’s literary
EMMA GOLDMAN
declared that she had been
present at a gathering of dis
tinguished epicures and gour
ments and they had reached
that verdict.
Andover Educator to Be
Coolidge Biographer
ANDOVER, Mass., March 22
(1.N.5.). — Prof. Claude M.
Fuess, of Andover Academy,
author and
educator, will
be the official
biographer of
Calvin Cool
idge.
Mrrs. Grace
Coolidge, wid
ow of the
late Presi
dent. will
turn over to
Prof. Fuess
all the state
pa p ers pos
sessed by her
late husband
for his exclu-
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MRS. COOLIDGE
sive use in preparing the biog
raphy.
Among Prof. Fuess’ works are
biographies on Daniel Webster,
Rufus Choate, and Caleb Cush
ing.
Dutch Schultz Advised
To Get Out of France
NEW YORK, March 22.—Ar
thur (Dutch Schultz) Flegen
heimer is on the spot in Paris,
France—and a hpt spot, Indeed.
The millionaire racketeer and
beer baron, fugitive from Fed-
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BullMs
do whatever is the French
equivalent of “scram.’,’
“But where will I go?”
"Ah, a peek at the passport.
Voila! M. Schultz has the visa
for Germany, is it not? Well,
then Germany.”
Paris is, as has been noted
before, a hot spot for American
criminals. They don’t like
“gangsters.”
United States authorities can
“put the finger” on Dutch just
about any minute they take the
notion to. The French Surete
will have him under its eye for
every minute that he remains
in France, and when he crosses
any border the operatives of
the neighbor nation will take
up the job.
Monaco Pretender
Presses Claims
MONTE CARLO, March 22.—
The Monacan dynastic succes
sion rights of the 101-year-old
Prince Rain
ier ap p ear
s e r i ou s 1 y
threatened by
claims now
being ad
vanced with
renewed vigor
by the pre
tender, Count
Ay n ard de
Chabrillan, a
cousin of the
r e i g n i ng
Prince Louis
of Monaco.
Joseph Paul-
B o n c o u r ,
vs v
PRINCE LOl IS
French foreign minister, who
recently was engaged as legal
counsel for Count de Chabril
lan, has just announced the
conclusion that his client's
claims “appear well founded in
law.”
The pretender energetically
revived his claims after Prin
cess Charlotte, the daughter of
Prince Louis, recently divorced
her husband, Prince Pierre de
Polignac. Charlotte subsequent
ly announced her intention of
remarrying and going to live as
a private citizen in Italy.
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luncheon held
here in her
honor by the
novelist. Re
becca West,
who hailed
her as one of
the two best
women cooks
in the world.
The other.
Miss West
added, was
also an Amer
ican, the nov
elist, Willa
Gather.
Miss West
eral justice
for income
tax evasions
of more than
SIOO,OOO and
wanted local
ly to answer
to other
things, is
under the
thumb of the
French secret
police and
has been told,
with well
known Gallic
courtesy and
firmness, to