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Evening star., 1932-01-22
MACDONALD SAVES
CABINET ON TARIFF
Failure of Ministry to Resign
in Split Unprecedented
in British History.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January %. - Great
Britain's cabinet split on the tariff is
sue today, but contrary to precedent,
the government will not resign.
The break was precipitated by the
report of the committee on the balance
of trade, but it really was caused by
differences between the basic political
theories of the free traders and the
protectionists.
1t was understood that the commit
tee, backed by cabinet majority, pro-
posed fiat rate tariff Of 10 to Is per
cent on manufactured and partially
manufactured imports. The Liberals In
the cabinet We're believed to have held
out for free trade and the Conserv-
atives for protection tariff.
Communique Issued.
An official communique issued at the
close of the cabinet meeting this aft
ernoon said:
The cabinet has considered the re-
port of its committee on the balance
of trade, but after prolonged discussion
it has been found impossible to reach
a unanimous conclusion on the COM
mittee's recommendations.
However, the cabinet is deeply i'm
pressed with the paramount Importance
of maintaining national unity in the
presence of the grave problems which
confront this country and the whole
world
Accordingly, it has determined that
some modification of the usual minis
terial practice Is required, and has de-
cided that the ministers who find them
selves unable to support the conclusion,
reached by a majority of their COL
leagues on the subject of import duties
and cognate matters, are to be at lib
erty to express their views by speech
and vote.
The cabinet, being essentially united
on all other matters of policy, believes
that by this special provision it is best
interpreting the will of the nation and
the needs of the time"
Action Unprecedented.
The cabinet action Is unprecedented
in British constitutional procedure and
means that the tariff will be thrown
into the House of Commons for free
vote. With the preponderant Conserv-
ative majority, the indications are en-
actment of tariff is now only mat
ter of time.
Mr.. Macdonald appears to have
saved his national government from
the crisis which developed so suddenly
and for the moment can turn his at
tention to pressing international prob
lens.
Strong protests came quickly from
the opposition
George Lansbury, leader of the La
Dor party in the Commons, described
the cabinets communique as "the most
amazing statement ever issued by a
British ministry" and declared that
thinking people would marvel at the
impudence of men who take such
step in the name of national unity"
Evening star., 1932-01-22
SLASH DECISION DENIED.
Union Official Refutes Story Of 10 Per
Cent Cut Acceptance.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 22.-Still unde-
cided about whether to accept a III
per cent wage reduction, 800 brother
hood and union leaders today studied
the arguments of railway presidents
that the industry was threatened with
further bankruptcies and The loss OF
credit.
The arrangements made what was
apparently their final offer when they
promised to do whatever may be prac-
ticable" to stabilize employment, reius-
ing most of the other labor proposals,
including appointment of a commission
to study a siX-hour day.
1t appeared to be labor'S next move,
but the union spokesman, David b.
Robertson denied that the move had
already been decided upon and that 1t
would be acceptance of the reduction.
Published reports had said 1t was only
a matter of a few hours.
There is absolutely no basis for the
report in today'S press that an agree
nent to accept the 10 per cent wage
deduction has been reached, Robertson
said as his followers gathered to listen
to the presentation of the presidents
case by Daniel Willard, head Of the
Baltimore & Ohio.
1t is obviously case OF guess WITH
out any foundation" Robertson con-
tinued We have not accepted the
wage deduction to date"
Evening star., 1932-01-22
NAL L. ROBB TRANSFERRED
TO OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER
Relief of Assistant D. c..
Commissioner Comes
as Surprise.
Army Officer Has Been in
Charge of Building Here
Since July 5, 1880.

Maj. Holland L. Robb, Assistant Engi-
neer Commissioner for the District, to-
day was ordered relieved from all duties
at the District Building and assigned to
the Office of the Chief Engineer of the
Army IN the Munitions Building The
War Department order is effective i'm
mediately.
The transfer Of Maj. Robb came as
distinct surprise at the District Build
ing. Maj. Robb himself knew nothing
about it until informed early this morn
ing by his secretary, following inquiries
by newspaper men.
Mai. Robb has been Assistant Engi
neer Commissioner since July 5, 1880.
He will be assigned to duty in the
operations and training section of the
office of the chief Of Engineers, it was
said at the afficee Of Maj. Gen. Lytle
Brown, chief OF Engineers.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
"AUNT EMMA" TELEGRAM, BARREL
OF GREASE CLUES IN PRISON BREAK
Justice Agents Find Four Guns Were Concealed in
Shoe Grease.

solved by special agents of the Bureau
of Investigation, operating under Direc-
tor J. Edgar Hoover, MI Bates said.
Full details of the conspiracy cannot
be disclosed prior to further questioning
of Harold Fontaine, under arrest in
Windsor, and until other arrests are
made, he announced.
Fontaine is thought to have been the
sender Of telegram which reached a
participant in the plot shortly before a
barrel of grease arrived at the shoe
factory of the prison. The message re-
ceiyed by one Of the prisoners who later
took flight, Is understood to have had
to do with the health status of one
Aunt Emma"
Aunt Emma" it now appears, was
none other than the hogshead of shoe
grease, which had been shipped in sur
reptitiously.
Packed in the grease were four guns
which later were used in the outbreak
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
POSTAL RATE INCREASE
HOPES ABANDONED
Tilton Says Higher Scale Plan Is
Dead Issue as Far as De-
partment Is Concerned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Post Office Department has
given up hope for obtaining postal rate
increases as part of the administra-
tons method of reducing the Treasury
deficit.
F. A. Tilton, assistant postmaster
general in charge of fiscal affairs, said
today the matter was "a dead issue"
SO far as the Post Office Department
was concerned.
Postmaster General Brown has
recommended to Congress that rates
on non-local first class mail be in
creased from 2 to 3 cents and that
the 1921 war measure rates be resumed
on bulk second class matter.
Opposition has arisen on Capitol
Hill to the proposed increases and ap-
proval of the legislation was considered
unlikely.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
HONOLULU POLICE
STAGE MAN HUNT
Searchers Ordered to Fire
if Woman'S AssaiIant
Resists Arrest.
BY the Associated Press.


HONOLULU, January 22.- With
Honolulu aroused by another assault
upon woman, the grand jury studied
evidence today against the four persons
accused of lynching the suspected as
sailant of a Navy officers wife and the
Legislature added to it's pile of legal
reforms to curb the city's crime wave
Police combed the city for Daniel
Lyman, escaped murderer whom Mrs
Toka Okazaki, 29-year- old japanese,
identified as the man who attacked her
Wednesday night after binding her
escort to a railroad track
Officers were ordered to shoot rather
than take chances If Lyman, sought
since his escape from prison December
81, offered resistance. The motor car
he stole from Mrs. Okazakis escort was
found in residential section of the city.
DR.. Thomas M. Mossman of the
Emergency Hospital said tests showed
Mrs Okazaki had been criminally as
Saulted. This announcement followed
his report that preliminary eXamina-
ton did not disclose signs of an assault.
Jury to Hear 16 More.
Sixteen witnesses remained to appear
before the grand jury, which heard a
like number yesterday in its inquiry
into the Staying of Joseph Kahahawai,
for which Mrs. Granville Fortescue, her
son-in-laW, Lieut.. Thomas H Massie,
and two Navy enlisted men are held.
Members of the Navy shore patrol,
the Japanese maids of Mrs. Fortescue
and Mrs. Massie and Edward Ulii,
cousin of the slain man, who said he
saw his abduction, were among those
summoned.
James F. Gilliland, city and county
attorney, who is presenting the case
to the grand jury, revealed he had re-
ceived three threatening letters from
pesonS in the continental United states.
Judd Measure Advanced.
bill which would relieve Gilliland
of prosecution of the FOrtescue case and
the four surviving men accused of as
Saulting Mrs. MasSie, encountered some
opposition in the Legislature. Repre-
sentatives disagreed over the manner in
which a special prosecutor should be
appointed. Gilliland is an elective Of
fetal.
The Senate passed, on second read
ing, Gov. Lawrence M. Judd's measure
to reorganize the city's police DEPART
ment.
1t also confirmed the appointment
of Col. Gordon c. Ross of the National
Guard as territorial high sheriff to sue
ceed John c. Lane, resigned.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
MOVE TO SHIFT TRIAL
OF MASSIE DELAYED
Congressional Action on Transfer
to California Waits on
Grand Jury.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congressional action to obtain a
California trial for Lieut.. Thomas H.
Massie and three other Americans
charged with murder in Honolulu will
be delayed until the grand jury acts in
the case.
Representative Chapman, Democrat,
Kentucky, today received a cablegram
from Frank Thompson, one of the at
torneys for the Americans, in answer
to his question whether action should
be sought to assure a change of venue.
Chapman declined to make the re-
The grand jury hasn't done any
thing yet" he said.
I'VE don't intend to endanger the
accused Americans, but I am ready to
act when conditions demand action" !"
Evening star., 1932-01-22
TAM MANY LEADER
INDICTED ON FEES
Deputy Clerk of New York Is
Charged With Receiving
s135,ooo Illegally.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, January 22.-Two in
dictments against Deputy City Clerk
James j. Mccormick, Tammany leader
Of the twenty-second Assembly district,
were fled with Judge George L. Don
nellan in General Sessions Court today
by a grand jury.
The indictments were the outgrowth
of McCormicks testimony before the
Hofstadter Legislative Committee that
he received about s135,O0O in fees from
couples he married in the municipal
chapel
Each indictment charges he asked for
and received gratuity for performing
an official act, which Is felony under
section 1872 of the penal law, and
with violating a section of the penal
law which makes it a misdemeanor
and defines as extortion an act of
a public official in accepting such an
Illegal fee.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
JOHNS HOPKINS HONOR SYSTEM
HELD ENDANGERED BY CHEATS
Student Paper Says Undergraduates Know of Violations,
but Are Unwilling Report to Faculty.

Under the honor system, responsibility
for honesty in written examina tions
and general discipline is left to the in
dividual Examinations are taken
without supervision, and may even be
worked out in dormitories.
Thomas F. hubbard associate in civil
engineering at the school, is quoted as
asserting that he knew of one definite
infraction of the code.
But since that man was good foot
ball player, the whole thing was white
washed" he said in the publication
THAT brought some doubts to my mind,
but am for the system"
In theory the honor system is all
right" said DR.. David Moore Robinson,
But in practice it breaks down. We
know that it is abused here and that
cheating goes on. Yet 1t probably Is
better than the old system"
Evening star., 1932-01-22
BY REX COLLIER.

A barrel of innnocent-looking shoe
grease and a telegram about Aunt
Emma" are among curious clues that
have led Federal investigators TO Vir-
tual solution of the recent LeaVenWorth
prison break. The grease, 1t was
learned, hid small arsenal.
One of the alleged outside accom-
plices is under arrest in Windsor, On
tario, and another is being sought in
this country.
Sanford Bates, Federal superintend-
ent of prisons. indicated today admin
istrative changes may be made at Leav-
enworth as a result Of the prison plot,
a highlight of which was the kidnapping
of Warden Tom White by armed con-
victs, all of whom subsequently were
killed or recaptured.
The mystery Of how the prisoners
obtained the guns with which they held
up the warden in his Office and forced
him to accompany them as shield was
Evening star., 1932-01-22
Haiti Proposes U. 5.
Loan Refund to End
Bank Dictatorship
Note Sent to State Depart
ment, ,MinisterAnnounces.
Text Is Withheld.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Minister Bellegarde of Haiti said to-
day his government had proposed re-
funding its American loan to end con-
troll by the United States Government
over Haitian finances.
The Minister said note on the sub
ject had been sent to the State De-
partment, but that he could not make
public its text.
Reports here said the chief conten-
ton of the note was that financial
dictatorship" was being maintained in
the interest of New York bankers and
American holders of Haitian bonds,
and that Haiti proposed to set up a
fiscal agency without American super
vision or else to refund its loan before
it was due.
Bellegarde said the note had been
sent to the State Department in answer
to references made to Haitian treaty
obligations by President Hoover in his
recent message to Congress.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
TWO DIE IN COLLISION

BEAUMONT, Tex. January % (P.-
A member of the Winnie, Tex, High
School basket ball team, and the school
principal were killed last night, and
nine men were injured, one seriously, in
a collision between an automobile car
rying students and construction COM
pany truck.
Francis Mcbride, Is, of Bancroft,
Tex, and L. G. Rogers, 20, the princi-
pal, were killed. c. e. Teer, 35, con-
struction worker, Is in a critical condi..
ton.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
SUBMARINE AGROUND
British Craft Is Believed Safe and
May Float at High Tide.

VENTNOR, Isle of Wight, January
% (R-The British submarine Rain
bow ran aground this afternoon in a
dense fog off Dunnofe Point near here.
II was expected that she would be re-
floated at high tide.
Admiralty officials said the Rainbow
was in no danger and was not damaged,
having GROUNDED on a sandy bottom.
A life-saving brigade was called out but
its services were believed TO be un-
necessary. for the sea was quite calm.
The submarine has full complement
of men aboard. She is one Of the latest
type of undersea craft. She left Ports
mouth this morning with the sister
ships Regulus and the L-22 to carry out
maneuYers in the channel.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
MRS. HOOVER HAS COLD
First Lady Confined to Room, but
Is Not Seriously Ill.

Mrs Hoover today is confined to her
room at the White House because OF
cold contracted during the past few
days.
In making this known at the White
House. it was stated that Ms. HooVers S
condition is not at all serious, but that
upon the advice of her physician, capt
joel 7. Boone, she will not leave the
White House for the next two or three
DAYS. This will necessitate her cancel
ing all social engagements in the mean
time
Evening star., 1932-01-22
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, January %. The
News Letter student publication at
Johns Hopkins University, said today
that instructors in the undergraduate
department were of the opinion that
unless students reported cheating at
examinations, the honor system would
be greatly endangered.
Though a great number of faculty
members are convinced of the system S
success" the publication says, many
students disagree. Violations are more
numerous than believed.
Undergraduates who believe the syS-
tenn has been unsuccessful at Hopkins,
declare they are not willing to report
those whom they observe cheating dur
ing the examinations, it is that attitude
the faculty wants changed" it said of
the poll.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
ABYSSINIAN OFFICIALS
APOLOGIZE TO SOUTHARD

BY the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, Abyssinia, January
22.-The foreign minister, the mayor
and three other cabinet members called
TODAY ON Addison E. Southard, the
American Minister, and apologized for
an assault on the American by traffic
policeman last Sunday.
The policeman and several civilians
are in prison as a result OF the hcloent'
Sentence will be passed later
Evening star., 1932-01-22
TrotzkY Leases Villa.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, January % (P).
Leon Trotzky, whom the Soviet Rus
slams call Judas" Trotzky, has taken a
two-year lease on a villa on the Island
of Prinkipo move which appears to
discredit published reports that he in
Evening star., 1932-01-22
Banker Kills Himself.

PRINCETON, N. j., January % up.
John w. Leigh, Al, vice president OF
the Princeton Bank &; Trust Co., COM
nlitted suicide yesterday by shooting
himself with a .32-caliber revolver. Of
fcials could ascribe no reason for his
act.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
CHILEAN LOANS REVEALED.
Total Over 10-Year Period Put in Ex-
cess of SSH, ,O00, ,080.

SANTIAGO, Chile, January % (P0.-
A total of more than S571 100000 has
been borrowed in the United States in
the last 10 years by the government of
Chile, the Cosach Nitrate Monopoly,
Chilean cities and the Mortgage
Bank. an official statement said today.
The statement was Chile's reply to
Continued on Page 2, Column %
Evening star., 1932-01-22
Florida Bank Robbed.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, January %
P).-Overpowering five employees as
they came to work today, two bandits
robbed the Springfield Atlantic Bank
here Of between $4,000 and $4,000 and
escaped.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
Student Pilot Killed,

CHAMPAIGN, Ill, January % (P).-
Robert Showers, %, was killed yester-
day in his final flight preparatory to
taking his examination for a private
pilots license today.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
MISSING FLYER FOUND

Otto Graft of New York Did Not
Know He Was "Lost" in Texas.
DALLAS, Tex. January % (P).-Otto
Graft, New York business man aviator,
for whom a search was conducted by
flyers between Dallas and El PaSo for
nearly two days, was located today at
the Curtiss-W Wright Field, between Dali
las and Fort Worth. He landed there
at Sis pm. Wednesday. He did not
know he was lost
Evening star., 1932-01-22
House Completes Action on
Measure and Sends It
to Senate.
HALF-BILLION-DOLLAR
FUND STUDY BEGINS
Dawes Starts Work of Getting
Quarters and Preparing for
Long Stay in Capital.

Senate approval of the revised
$20O0.O00,00O Reconstruction Cor
poration. completed congressional
action today and the bill now goes
to President Hoover.
Evening star., 1932-01-22
WEATHER.

CO. S. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy, probably rain tonight and to-
morrow, colder tomorrow; lowest tenn
perature tonight about 46 degrees
Temperatures-H Highest, So, at noon
today: lowest. Al at am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1932-01-22

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Evening star., 1932-01-22

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as last as the papers are printed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-04

Desert De-lite, February 10Th.
Ito
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-04
Die In
Eastern Blast
CONTINUED From Page II

hospital at Chester, Pa Three are
in Grocer hospital here.
Unconfirmed reports said six
bodies had been found in the smoul-
dering ruins of the tanker, but
could not be removed because Of
the heat.
The tanker was tied up at the
dock at Trainer after unloading her
cargo of crude oil, brought from
Mexico. A few members of the
crew and steyedoreS were cleaning
out the tanks. Some members of
the crew were asleep.
Suddenly there came the first
blast. Confusion followed. Three
more blasts came quickly Mem
bers of the crew and stevedores
screamed, and fought for safety.
! Several leaped into the water, one
swimming quarter of a mile in
water so cold he almost was par
! alyzed.
Many were injured, their bodies
scared by the flames. These were
taken to hospitals where four died
today Others were in such SER
ious condition their lives were des-
paired of. Not until midmorning
were rescue crews able to 60 onto
the craft. Then they discovered
first the body of Captain Joseph
Rivers, Jamaica, NJ Y, in his cabin
Subsequently they came upon the
bodies of the seven who thus far
are unidentified. Their bodies were
so badly burned that Identification
appeared impossible.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-04
Continued From Page IL

Threatening the janitor with his
stolen revolver. the burglar ordered
him to put up your hands. or I'll
kill you" Perkins complied.
Self marched the Negro to the
safe, and ordered him to turn and
face it. placing his hands behind
him. Again Perkins did so. Sell
started to tie Perkins hands be-
hind him, using one hand to hold
the gun and one to tie the cords
and at the same time asking what
time other employees came to
work.
Perkins. partially turning. said
the workers came at 6 O'Clock
Raising his hand to point, he added
the additional information they
come through that door"
Then Perkins moved swiftly
sinking his teeth in Self's nose
and grabbing the hand which held
the gun The two men fell to the
floor. Self. still in possession OF
the revolver, fired, but the bullet
passed between Perkins legs.
Perkins finally succeeded in get
ing the gun, and fired three times
One bullet went in Self's right
side. passing entirely through his
body and coming out the left side
Another entered his cheek and
came out through the skull on the
right side, while another bullet
passed through Self's arm.
Melvin Perkins had entered the
lobby of the post office tC help
his father clean up. He arrived
lust in time to hear the beginning
of the struggle, and fled in search
of police. Dupont and Callahan
were located, and hurried to the
post office.
They found Perkins in the lobby
and Self lying on the floor of the
package room, groaning that he
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-04
Mellon Named To
English Court
CONTINUED From Page IL

and never have become public, al
though a few years ago a novel
appeared purporting to deal with
the Mellon family.
Despite his apparent aversion to
social functions. Mellon apparently
loved being a high public official.
He liked being an oracle, having
his least word weighed and con-
sidered as that of an authority. No
doubt he liked being called 1.-The
greatest secretary of the treasury
since Alexandr Hamilton"
/ Since the depression began that
phrase has lost some of its magic,
but Melons words nevertheless still
carry the old weight. Abroad, he
is expected to be looked upon as an
outstanding authority on that
which now most concerns the west
ern world-finance.
His appointment will quash the
attempt of Representative Patman
/ (Dem) Texas, to have him ousted
from the cabinet. Patman some
weeks ago rose in the house and
impeached Mellon because of his
vast industrial connections which
Patman charged, violated an old
law. No one expected these pro-
ceedeings to get far. but they will
be dropped now, as the law applies
only to secretaries of the treasury.
Washington will miss the famil-
lar, bent little figure, with sunken
eyes and gray hair and moustache,
walking briskly to and from the
massive treasury building, diSre-
garding traffic signals, jaywalking
across busy streets in the middle of
block, smoking long slim cigars,
cigars to which Secretary of State
Stimson once jokingly attributed
Melons knowledge of finance.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. UP
Undersecretary of the Treasury
Ogden l.. Mills, a wealthy member
of one of Americas leading fam
lilies, will be promoted to the treIs-
ury cabinet post when Andrew w.
Mellon becomes ambassador to
Great Britain.
Announcement to that effect was
made informally at the White
House today. At the same time
Mellon confirmed the previous an
nouncement that he would accept
! the London ambassadorship
Treasury officials said that Ar
! thur A. Ballantine, now assistant
! secretary OF the treasury, would be
recommended to replace Mills as
undersecretary.