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Evening star., 1932-01-02
DEATH Of YOUTH
AT PARTY PR0BED
Guest Is Reported by Police
to Have Confessed Pushing
"Crasher" Down Steps.

A coroner's jury today began an in
quest into the death of Edward B.
Mccarthy, Is, who was killed shortly
after midnight, when he and four other
boys are said to have attempted to
crash" New Year party at 635 Fifth
street northeast.
The inquiry got under way after
headquarters detectives announced a
youth attending the celebration had
signed a confession that he pushed
Mccarthy down the front steps Of the
Fifth street house, causing him to
strike his head on the sidewalk. Nc
Carthy, who lived at It's Allison street.
received a fractured skull and was
dead when he was taken to Sibley
Hospital short time later.
Police Report Confession.
Members of the Gonzaga High
School Glee Club held the party at the
home of Mrs Margaret Kane, whose
two sons, George and Vincent, are said
to be members of the organization.
Edward M Benjamin, 19, of l104
Trinidad avenue northeast, was re-
ported by the police as having con-
fessed that he pushed Mccarthy down
the steps.
The police called as witnesses 9 other
boys and II girls who attended the
party.
The party, according to Detective
Sergts. John Flaherty, Dennis J. Muir
ply and John Dalglish, who investi-
gated the case, was at its height when
Mccarthy arrived. With him were
Thomas M Walker, 18, of 4217 Fourth
street; Francis j. Slattery, IT, of 3173
Eighteenth street; Joseph Cullinane, 18,
of 46l6 Massachusetts, avenue, and
Gerald F. Kush, 10, of POI S street
southeast.
Enter Front and Rear Door.
Cullinane and Slattery entered the
house via the rear door, going into the
kitchen, the police were told. The
others went to the front door.
One of the Kane youths opened the
door. their mother told the detectives,
and the "crashers" demanded admit
tance. One of the interlopers struck
Mrs. Kane's son, she said, and the
fight started.
Within a few moments the inyesti-
gators were told, the battle became gen
eral. Then Benjamin, according to his
signed statement, pushed Mccarthy
down the steps.
A passing motorist-Samuel Hover,
1920 Wisconsin avenue-took Mccarthy
to the hospital, where he was pro
nounced dead by Dr. A. Cordona. His
body was removed to the Morgue, and
the homicide squad Immediately began
an investigation.
All the guests were taken to head
quarters and questioned extensively by
Flaherty, Murphy and Dalglish. The
girls were released, but the boys re-
manned at the Detective Bureau until
the time of the inquest.
McCarthy's widowed mother, Mrs.
Susan H. Mccarthy, was Frustrated
when informed Of her sons death.
Until few months ago, members OF
the family said, the youth was stu
dent at st. Johns College. III health
forced him to abandon his studies, how
ever.
He was the youngest Of five children.
No date has been set for the funeral
but the services will be held in st.
GabriepS Catholic Church, followed by
burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mccarthy, according to his sister was
acquainted with the Kanes, having
called at their home several times.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
PRESS
TARIFF PACTS BILL
Measure to Permit ACCords
With Foreign Countries Due
for Fast Action.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The program for action on the Dem
ocratic tariff bill may take that meas
ure through the House and to the door
of the Senate next week.
Speaker Garner said today the draft
of the measure would be submitted to
the Joint Senste-House Policy Commit
tee at a meeting Monday and that it
would be introduced Immediately after
approval by that group.
Provides for Tariff Pacts.
Hearings probably will get under way
before the House Ways and Means
Committee Tuesday. Garner did not
believe the proposal would require ex-
tensive hearings and said the bill might
be passed and laid before the Senate by
next Saturday.
Garner would not discuss the meas
ure further than saying that 1t would
not affect the rate structure OF the
present tariff act The bill Is designed
to provide a method to make possible
reciprocal tariff arrangements with for
eign countries. 1t would call upon the
Tariff Commission to make reports to
Congress on proposed changes in duties.
Smell Protests Tax Bill Delay.
Meanwhile, plans Of House Demo-
cratic leaders to take up the tariff ques-
ton before action on the tax increase
bill were assailed by Representative
Smell of New York, the Republican floor
leader.
Smell said: IF there is going to be
any delay at all on the tariff, and I
can't imagine that there will not be, 1t
ought to be showed aside to permit early
action on the tax program" He added
that If the tax bill were delayed, bust
ness would be disturbed.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
j. s. NOT to OFFER
ARMS INITIATIVE
Detailed Policy Drafted, but
Provides No Opening
0vertures.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States will make no OPEN
ng overtures at next months general dis
armament conference at Geneva, but a
detailed policy has been laid down to
guide the American delegation.
A draft plan Of the attitude to be
taken by the Americans on points ex-
pected to arise in the conference will
undergo final polishing in conferences
between Secretary of State Stimson and
Ambassador Dawes, chairman of the
delegation, who is to arrive next week.
Favor Combined Plan.
One point provides for assent to a
combination of direct and budgetry
limitation in reducing land forces. Di-
rect limitation gives each nation so
many guns, SO many soldiers, so much
ammunition. Budgetry limitation al
lows each nation to spend defined
amounts Of money on arms and troops.
The United States has stood pat for
the former until now as its labor costs,
pay and subsistence allowances are
much higher than those Of any other
nation. Just how the combination
would be worked out has not been dis
closed by the officials.
Another policy item is opposition to
suggestions that size of battleships be
reduced from the Washington treatys
limit of $4,000 tons. The question has
to come up again in 1885 under the
naval treaty terms, and the United
States feels no country is ready to
build these highly expensive ships now.
State Department Draft.
There is less defniteness in regard
to aerial arms limitations. A sugges-
ton has been advanced that fighting
planes be limited as category of fight
ing material, just like heavy artillery,
field guns and tanks.
The draft is the work of State De-
partment disarmament experts. 1t car
ries out the latest discussions held by
President Hoover and Stimson with
Hugh R. Wilson, Minister to SWitzer-
land, who is alternate delegate to the
conference
Evening star., 1932-01-02
ADMIRAL W|NSLOW,
HERO Of 80, DIES
Promoted for Daring Exploit
at Cienfuegos-SucCumbs
in Boston.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January Rear Admiral
Cameron McRae Winslow, U. S. N,
retired, of Newport, r. l., and Boston,
died today at his Back Bay home. He
was 76 years of age and a native of
washington, D. C.
Admiral Winslow was retired from
active service in the Navy in 1916, at
which time he was commander in
chief of the Pacific feet. He returned
to duty again during the World War,
however, serving as inspector of the
naval districts of the Atlantic Coast.
During the Spanish War Admiral
WinSloW, then a lieutenant on the gun
boat Nashville, participated in daring
task OF cable cutting at Cienfuegos the
purpose of which was to Isolate Havana
and prevent communication with
SPAN.
The work was performed by boat
crews, within easy rife range of the
shore, and under heavy fire from the
Spaniards. Lieut.. Winslow was wound
ed in the hand. He was rewarded
motion of five numbers in rank for
extraordinary heroism."
Admiral WinsloW was the sor of
Comdr Francis WinsloW who died in
the Navy service. He was graduated from
the Naval Academy with high honors.
He married Theodore Havemeyer, daugh-
ter of Henry o. HaVemeyer, railway and
industrial executive, and they had six
children.
Rear Admiral Cameron McRae
WinsloW was born in Washington on
July %, 1854, and was appointed
cadet midshipman in September, 1870.
During his naval career, he served
aboard such famous ships as the
U. S. S. Constitution, Kearsarge and
Tennessee. He was one of the pioneer
officers to receive instruction In torpedo
and had extensive work in that branch
of the service.
He was assigned in January, 1914, to
duty in the Naval War College at New
port, R. l., and following this com
manded a special service squadron,
hosting his flag aboard the U. 8. .;
New York. In 1915 Rear Admiral
Winslow became commander in chief
of the Pacific Fleet and hoisted his nag
of an admiral in the Navy upon aSsum-
ing command, having as his flagship the
U. S. S. San Diego.
Prior to the United States entry into
the World War Rear Admiral Winslow
was slated for transfer to the, retired
list from July 30, 1916. During the
war, however, beginning in September,
1917, he was ordered to New York as
inspector of naval districts on the At
lantic coast. His flagship was the
u. S. S. Aloha. On october 16, 1919,
he was relieved from all active duty and
permitted to return home. He has since
then been on q retired status.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
JAPANESE OCCUPY
CH|NCHOW WITHOUT
FIGHT FROM CHINA
Planes Assure PopuIace No
Harm viii Be Done by
Kamura'S Brigade.
BATTALION is ORDERED
TO AVENGE TWO DEATHS
Toxic Expands Asiatic Strength
Beyond Manchuria by Putting
Troops at Shanhaikwan.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, January 2.-Gen. Kamura' S
Japanese brigade entered Chinchow,
Manchuria, early this afternoon.
A battalion was ordered to stay be-
hind at Haicheng to punish bandits
whom, the japanese charge, are respon-
sible for the Staying Of two correspond
ents Of the Toxic Asahi Shimbun.
A dispatch to the Asahi today said
Japanese airplsnes scattered handbills
over Chinchow before the occupation
assuring the inhabitants no harm
would come to them.
A dispatch from Mukden said they
took over the town without firing a
shot, for all the Chinese soldiers had
fed southwark before the Japanese
marched in.
Gen. Kamuras scout planes yeSter-
day reported eight long troop trains
moving toward Shanhaikwan from
Chinchow and another long one wait
ing at the Chinchow station. This
morning all those trains were gone.
The Japanese infantry moved down
leisurely from the falling River, giving
the Chinese time to complete the
evacuation.
A dispatch from Chinchow said that,
as the Japanese swung into the main
street of this city, the Chinese Citi-
zenry-men, women and children
lined the Curbs cheering and waving
japanese flags, many of which looked
as though they had been made in a
hurry overnight.
The captors took over the headquar-
ters building of the Chinese provincial
government and issued a proclamation
in the name Of Gen. HOMO requesting
the Chinese civil officials to remain in
office and the civilian population to go
on with normal business as usual.
JAPAN EXTENDS INFLUENCE.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
Investigator Refuses to Give
Names of Suspects Taken
in Three Cities.
CONFESSIONS CLAIMED
FROM FIVE PRISONERS
Official Declares Evidence in Series
of Cases Sufficient for Trial.
Probe Goes On.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January Pat Roche
chief investigator of the States attor-
neys office, said today that 80 members
Of kidnapping gang which has spread
its activities all over the Middle West
during the last two years are in the
custody of the States attorneys in
vestigators.
From the suspects, 1t was said, five
confessions have been obtained which
involve II kidnapings and demands for
ransom.
Roche refused to give the names OF
those held or Of the persons who had
been held for ransom. He said, however
that IL of the captives were women
and that the whole number were
gathered in raids in Chicago, Peoria
and St. Louis.
I'VE have enough evidence against
these people now to warrant trial,
Roche was quoted as saying, but we
are not going to announce their names
and have a flock of habeas corpus
writs filed in their behalf. There are
still many threads of the investigation
to be followed"
kidnapping Victims.
Among those who have been seized
by kidnapping gangs recently were
John j. Lynch, head of the General
News Bureau, which furnished racing
news by wire, and James Hackett, Blue
Island gambler. Others were Fred j.
Blumer, wealthy Monroe, Wis,
brewer; Frank Richley of Evanston, and
w. c. Flanagan of Gary, Ind, known
as a handbook operator.
Hackett has already identified some
Of the suspects by their voices, it is re-
ported, and the other kidnapping victims
were to be called to view the men.
The prisoners are being held in a
Loop hotel.
Evening star., 1932-01-02

Only one window was open today at
the City Post ONCE for sale of the
new George Washington Bicentennial
stamps, in drastic contrast to the IA
counters over which 100000 of the
special issue was sold yesterday to be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 men, women
and children.
And only handful of persons were
In the spacious post Office lobby, which
yesterday was packed to capacity by
philatelists and curiosity seekers, anx-
ious to obtain the valuable flrst-day
cancellations of the new stamps.
To accommodate those who could not
be waited upon last night, Postmaster
william M. Mooney ordered clerks to
cancel the Bicentennial stamps today
as Of January l. Such cancellations
cannot go through the mails, however,
as postal regulation prohibits post
msrkinGtof mail at any other hour but
Evening star., 1932-01-02
PRIEST PLANS JOBLESS MARCH
OF ANTLREDS TO CAPITAL
Police Permit Withheld Pending Word From Rev. James
R. Cox as to Feeding and Housing.

been held up pending receipt of word
from Father Cox as to what arrange
ments he intends making for feeding
and housing the "marchers."
Escorted by motor cycle police, the
column is to stop at Jonhstown, Pa,
and at Harrisburg, where 1t is to be
received by Gov. Pinchot.
During the stay here, the marchers
will go to Arlington National Gene
terry to visit the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. Permission of request has
been given by Gov. Pollard of Virginia,
for police protection for the march in
that State.
Cox, saying he will be in personal
command of the marchers, has guar
anteed maintenance of order. He has
promised not to visit the White House
The march will also be sponsored by
the Independent Merchants of Ale
gkeny County who have been conduct
ing an anti-chain store campaign in
Pittsburgh and vicinity.
Representative Kelly OF Edgewood
Pa, is assisting In the arrangements.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
GAME
IS HELD ASSURED
Officials Agree to Renew Re-
Iations-PaCt Not Signed,
However.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 2.-Oficials
OF the Military and Naval Academies
have reached a satisfactory agreement
on questions which resulted in break
in athletic relations in 1927 and will
resume their annual foot ball game
next Fall on a regular basis.
All matters were threshed out at
meetings in New York this week be-
tween athletic heads of the two serV-
ice schools and although the naval
delegation did not have authority to
sign contracts that matter is expected
to be attended to shortly.
Navy Abandons Position.
Exact details were net learned, but
it was understood Navy abandoned It's
position that Army must abide by col
legiate rules limiting foot ball player
to only three years of college COM
petition. The original break come
over Nays demand that this rule be
put in effect at West Point. Army
authorities always have held that so
long as a player is cadet in good
standing at the Military Academy he
is eligible for intercollegiate athletic
competition even if he had played
three years of college foot ball before
entering the academy.
The two Service Schools have met at
foot ball the last two years for charity,
Army winning in 1880 by 60 and in
n n hoe fTn nlfy
dicted for some time that the good
feelings engendered by these two meet
ingS would lead to a resumption of
relations.
Straw Vote Shows Feeling.
Recent straw votes among graduates
of the two schools have shown which
way the wind was blowing. The Navy
Graduates Association of New York
voted overwhelmingly for a resumption
of foot ball relations under any terms.
In the 1880 foot ball game there
were evidences that some feellng still
existed between the two schools, several
of the traditions Of Army-NaVy meet
ings being lacking but the game last
month was true to all the OLD STANDARDS,
At the conclusion OF the game tle
Cadet Corps sWarmed across the field
anu llullGu JlUtS anu N"E'S Nv N-@~ ~'NN'''4
Regiment as of old.
New York to Get Game.
The game is slated to be played at the
Yankee Stadium, New York, December
3, a date held open by both schools in
anticipation of an agreement. The Navy
also held November 26 open as posi-
BILE date for the classic, but Army has
scheduled Notre Dame for that date
Mai. Philip B. Fleming, graduate man
ager of West Point athletics, VINO has
had much to do with healing the
breach with Navy. has had his assign.
ment extended to cover the period of
reconciliation.
His present first assistant, Capt;
Lawrence (Bif) Jones, who D., was .; head
coach of Army foot ball at the time OF
the break. in 1927, is understood TO be
considering an offer to become head
foot ball coach at Louisiana State Uni
versity. .,,
capt. Jones conferred recently Gently with tn
officials of L. S. U. He dechned TO
comment today on whether ne would
leave West Point, but his friends under
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-01-02
STILL PROMISES FIGHT.
Chen to Insist Marshal Chang Defend
Chinchow at All Odds.

NANKING, China, January 2 CP).-
Eugene Chen, installed yesterday as
Chinas foreign minister, today issued
a statement regarding the situation in
Manchuria.
I'm defiance Of the will of the civil
lied world, as expressed by the decisions
of the League Of Nations" he said, the
Japanese have created a situation which
is not to be distinguished from state
of war.
1T will be the task Of the new Chi
nese government to end this state Of
war. Pending this the government will
insist on orders which already have
been dispatched to Marshal Chang to
defend Chinchow at all costs, even
though defeat may be inevitable.
Defeat may renew the strength and
power of our people, even as brutal
Victory might debase the nation and
lower its character and moral stature
in the judgment of the world"
Evening star., 1932-01-02
LA FONTAINE BEGINS
JAIL TERM TODAY
Gamblers surrenders to U. S. Of
fcials in Baltimore After Holi-
day With Family

Special Dispatch to The star
BALTIMORE, January 2.-His Christ
mas respite concluded, James La Fon-
tame washington gambler, surrendered
to United States deputy marshals here
today to begin service of nins-month
jail sentence for income tax evasion. w. On.
La Fontaine, having spent the holi-
days with his family IN orVtaa washington, n on
presented himself this morning morning soae az tae
W w Collier He He viii be taken later in
the day to the Eliicott City JAIL where
he will serve sentence. ...,
bV',t Wtes siv a Taots o4 200 Federal Judge w.
be s'9oS allowed eSsps to spend Christmas with his
two small nieces before going mt to tnnd laii
He had been at liberty OIL SIo'o00 ooiio
A fine OF $1,000, IN addition to the
jail sentence, already has oeen paio'
Evening star., 1932-01-02
Hines Turns Down
Proposal to Serve
In Manchuria Quiz
Saws Private Affairs Pre-
vent Acceptance of Invita-
ton to Aid League Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Walker D. Hines Of New York has
declined to participate as American
member of the League Of Nations Com
mission of Inquiry in Manchuria.
Secretary Stimson said today Hines
had asked him to advise the League
that his private affairs would prevent
his accepting an invitation to serve on
the commission.
The Secretary said no other name
had been submitted by the League as
a prospective American member IN
Hines place.
Discussing the impending resignation
of Ambassador Forbes in Toxic, the
Secretary said that when the AmoaS-
sador took the post he could stay only
a comparatively short time. He en-
phasized that there was not the slight
est difference of viewpoint between
himself and the Ambassador.
He added the Ambassadors resigna-
ton had not yet been received and that
he did not know exactly when Mr.
Forbes would resign.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
MOUNTAINS STILL HOLD
FATE OF ARMY FLYER
Reports of Finding of Lieut.. Bob
bits Body in West Virginia
Are Being Traced.

BY the Associated Press.
ELKINS, w. Va, January 3.-Ths
mountains still veiled the fate of Lieut..
E. H. Bobbitt, jr., missing Army flyer,
today, eight days after his disappear
ance.
Reports that the 24-year-old pilots
body and wrecked plane were found In
Southern or Central West Virginia are
being traced. Their source was not re-
Vealed
If the flyer was found in an isolated
district hours would be required for the
news to travel from the mountain will
dernesS. Much of the country Is with
out communication facilities.
Lieut.. Bobbitt disappeared while fiy-
ing from Selfridge Field. Mich, to his
home in Hot Springs, Va, Christmas
day.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
NEW STAMPS STILL CANCELLED
"IAN. u TO BENEFIT COLLECTORS
Few in Post Office Lobby in Contrast to 10000 Who
Bought 100000 Worth Yesterday.

that at which it is received at post
Offices.
I'VE are making this special ruling
simply to accommodate those who
waited long hours yesterday without
getting first-day cancellations, said
Assistant Postmaster w. H. Haycock.
Those who desire the stamps for col
lection purposes only may hand in their
letters, have them cancelled and re-
turned. They will not go through the
mails and, therefore, the regulations
will not be violated"
1t may be several days before any
definite figure on total sales and cancel
lations can be reached by the post
Office, Haycock said, due to the tremen-
dous volume of business handled yes
terday.
Postmaster Mooney, after a hasty
Continued on Page 3, Column -
Evening star., 1932-01-02
AMERICAN OFFICER
FREED BY JAPANESE
Lieut.. Harry S. Aldrich Held As
Hours Until Identity
Is Established.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MUKDEN, Manchuria, January a.
Lieut.. Harry S. Aldrich of Kalamazoo,
Mich, assistant military attache at tie
United States legation in Peiping, was
liberated today after having been de-
tained 4s hours by the japanese at
Kowpangtze.
Travellers reaching here from that
city said Lieut.. Aldrich, who had been
at ChinchoW with other foreign OBJ
servers since November "a, came into
Kowpangtze on a locomotive of the
Peiping- -Mukden Railway on December
81, few hours after the Japanese had
captured the town.
He had no Identification papers and
was detained at Gen. lannon's head
quarters until his identity was estsb
hshed. The American consul here was
informed Of his liberation this evening.
Evening star., 1932-01-02
BH the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A second jobless march-this time
by Communists expected to
descend on the National Capital next
week.
Headed by Roman Catholic priest,
Rev. James r. Cox, the marchers are
seeking a permit from the Police De-
partment to parade in the city and
permission from Vice President Curtis
to gather on the Capitol steps. Father
Cox intends TO address them there.
Motor trucks and other conveyances
carrying the demonstrators are to leave
Pittsburgh Tuesday
The procession, arranged as a de-
mand for 1.-The divine and human right
to work" will number 5000, accord
ing to advice of Father Cox to police
authorities. 1t will have no connection
with the recent unemployed march on
the Capital and is being planned as
an Communist demonstration for
work.
The sought-for pars6e permit has
Evening star., 1932-01-02
ELSIE JANIS MARRIAGE
REPORT MEETS DENIAL
Actress and Film Writer Not to
Be Bride of Gilbert Wilson, Chi
cago, Says Employe.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, January a.
A report that Elsie Janis, actress and
writer for the films, who won an hon
orary captaincy in the Army for her
war work, is to marry Gilbert Wilson,
youthful Chicagoan, was denied at
the Janis estate today.
Before departing this morning for a
week end in New Jersey, Miss Janis
made fiat denial of the report, one of
her employees here announced.
Wilson was described as a recent COL
lege graduate and friend of Miss Janis
but they are not engaged, the employe
said.