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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
BROKERS' LOANS RISE
SUBSTANTIALLY IN WEEK

NEW YORK, December 3 R.-
Brokers loans rose $4,000, 900 net last
week, due to an increase Of $4,000. 900
in advances by local banks for their
own account and q drop Of $4,000. 900
in loans made for non-bsnk lenders
Total security loans Of New York
banks, however, rose by $31 ZOO, 900. in
ddcating additional advances of S26.-
600, 900 to non-broker borrowers. Ordi-
narily such expansion in this particular
type Of collateral borrowing has been
accepted a. evidence Of buying Of
strong character IN securities. but there
Is some hesitation about interpreting
the current rise, some feeling that per-
haps the expansion reflects borrowing
by individuals on Government securi-
ties - collateral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
STAGNATI0N SEEN
- 80. BY BRADSTREETS
ANsTn
Pessimistic Report Holds to View
THAT There Are Few Signs
~ Of Early Upturn.

NEW YORK, December 3.-The cur
rents issue of Bradstreet's will say:
.nReports to Bradstreet,s Weekly from
s. key centers throughout the country
indicate that business Is at . standstill
and SHOWS little definite promise Of
early improvement. Confidence has been
Undermined by the failure Of the buSt-
ne5S indices to maintain their extra
seasonal gains. by the unsettled war
debt problem and by the coming SEES
sion of Congress The weakness In
sterling exchange has injured COM
modify prices and It's effects upon our
export trade are disturbing. Freight
loedipgs and rail earnings constitute
tfe-brightest spot in the picture.
Reports more specifically indicate
unsatisfactory or declining volume in
number of important lines Of business.
KANSAS City and Minneapolis, great
-four centers, report mills operating at
so to so per cent Of capacity. Apparel
industries are booking little future
business and at present are suffering
from between-season lull, with only
business provided by fill-in orders.
Lumber, building materials and hard
waysssre below year ago and still de-
cnning. Inquiries in the wool market
LANE I'LL ChSCQ LAC ldct 6CEAb
but few have resulted in orders The
MINIS have larger stocks Of wool on
hand than at any time last year and
prices are firm chiefly because more
than 80 per cent of these wool stocks
are jn strong hands.
Wholesale trade volume is slightly
bei6xc last year. with prices substan-
tally lower. Orders are small, buying
extremely cautious. Cigarette factories
coflstitute the only line reporting salts
factory operations. Collections are
slow. Outstanding accounts Of leading
department stores are equal to from
three and four months volume Of sales.
Chicago ard Los Angeles report encour-
aging items. Wholesale dry goods in
Chcsgo is moving at volume Is to
20 per cent in excess of last year. Los
Angeles reports activity in tires, oil and
motion pictures near normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
Expects More Jobs.

DULUTH, December Wv. p.
Keiiney.. president Of the Great North-
ern Railroad, predicts that thousands
OF men win be given employment next
Spring In Minnesota and Michigan ors
the Great Lakes. Kenney bases his
prediction On the 5,7o0, 900 ton reduction
Of iron ore stocks IN Eastern cities in,
October. He said the reduction will re-
quire the resumption Of iron ore Ship
ping next Spring >
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
Cotton Market
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 3.-Weakness
developed today in all cotton markets.
foreign and domestic, which brought
lowest levels Of the movement, and De-
cember contracts in New York sold
within 8 points Of 51z cents.
Prices showed a loss of over cents
a pound from the August peak, with all
old crop months below 6 cents and
october Of the 1888 crop within s points
Of the Scent figure. Closing selling
IL points lower than yesterday. Spots
were reduced points to SITS.
A sharp break in cotton prices in
Alexandria, amounting to AZ to IS
points, had a disturbing effect in Liver
pool, where prices Of both contracts and
spots declined to low levels OF the week,
with . loss Of IL to Is points in the
future market and 16 points In Amer
lean middling. Weakness abroad had q
disturbing effect on both the New York
and New Orleans Exchanges.
Trading proved the heaviest Of the
week and the market met stop loss
orders, which helped weaken the list.
There has been more than the usual
amount Of cotton sold on sellers call
this season and action Of the market
t0AAy Akl0AIAtC0 bAldb StOP 4OcS AhOAtc
have been fixed on q receding scale In
order to avoid too heavy losses. Scale
buying orders for trade account alb
sorbed contracts, but the market was
under pressure and felt the unsettling
influence OF uncertainty over debt pay
ments and the weakness prevailing in
outside markets.
For the first time since the week OF
September ~ the into-sight movement
ran ahead Of last year. The total for
the season Is now 7,710,0 900 bales, com.
pared with 8,7l3,000 last year. Accord
ing to the Cotton Exchange service,
the amount on plantations on Noven~
Der left to come into sight was $685.
900, compared with $3.50, 900 the pre-
vious year. Though the crop Is esti-
mated about 5000, 900 less than last
year, the amount carried over in the
interior was over 100000 bales, or
twice As much as ut the beginning Of
the previous season
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
Baltimore Markets

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Md, December s.
White potatoes. per 100 pounds, sosl .o5;
barrel. 1.25al.5o; sweet potatoes, bushel,
35as0; barrel, 5oaf. 90: beans, bushel,
2.ooa3.oo; beets, 100, i.ooa2 90; brussei
sprouts, quart, saIs; cabbase' basfet
25a3o; carrots, 100, 1.50a2.00; cauli.
mower, crate, 1.0oa1.75: celery, crate,
!.00al.6o cucurnbefs, hamper, 2.50si
100; eggplants, 1.5oa2. so; lettuce, crate,
l.b0a3 90: onions, 100 pounds, 75a90:
peaA, bushel, 2.75a3.00; peppers, bushel.
2.o0a2.2 rs; pumpkins, 100, l0.0oaI is, 90 :
spinach. hamper, bustel, 50aS5; SQUASH.
oushel, 1.26a1.6o; tomatoes, lu.S, I.00s
l.7o; apples, bushel, 1.25a1 so: cram
berries. box, 1.5oa2.75; grapefruit, box,
Z.oOa3.25; honeydews, crate. l.25al.75:
oranges, box, 2.5oa3.25; tanEerines. uer
half strap, 1.5oa225.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Turkeys, hens. pound
l8a2o; COOLERS, l5a16; old hens and
toms, Is; crooked breasts, llal2: yoi,nr
chickens, 9a12; Leghorns, sai0: old
hens, 9a13; old roosters, 7a8: ducks.
loal2; geese. 1oa14; guinea fowls, each
zoaSu: pigeons. pair, loa15.
Eggs-Eeceipts 74S cases: hennery
WINES dozen, 36a38; nearby, firsts,
3sa34; Western firsts, Sass; Southern
nrsts, 30a32; current receipts. soas2.
6utter-Good to fancy creamery,
pound, 22a27: ladies, l6al7; store
PACKED l2Als: process butter, 1sals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
Rail Profit Shown,

CHICAGO, December 3 N1.-The In
terstate Commerce Commission an
nounced that l05 class l railroads had
combined net income Of t6,3ol,0ll in
September, the first pront indiested In
almost 4 year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
CHICAGO POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, December GP) (u. 9.
Department Of Agriculture) Potatoes
Receipts, IS cars; on track, 206; total
U. 3. shipments, 4oz: market dull, trad
ing slow: Wisconsin round white, s7laa
20: few hne quality, 72Ka: Idaho Rus
sets. medium TO large. 1.loal.lS; small
= medium. 1021sAl.M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03

Wa!ter Easter, aged 10, who cele-
DRAFTED his golden wedding anniversary
rev years ago, was married again re-
CentV 70 MRS. Harriet King, aged 70,
In Beauehamp Rocking, England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
U.NTREAsURY CERTIFICATES
CReported by Chas. D. Barney 4
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, December tP).-Follow-
ing is the complete official list Of trans
actions in stocks on the Chicago Stock
Excfi3npe fnday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
BAR SILVER.

NEW YORK, December 3 Cp.-Bar
silver weak, u lower, at 24N.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03

CHICAGO, December 3 R.-Grain
values went lower early today, follow
ing fresh breaks in rates Of British ex--
change. These breaks tended to check
new buying power in grains and re-
strict trading generally to q material
degree. Opening unchanged to " cent
lower, wheat afterward sagged all
around. Corn started 14a3s on and
held near the initial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03

Drastic reductions in imports ere
eenefiting domestic industries Of Dem
mark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03

(Copyright, 1892
Evening star., 1932-01-04
PRESSURE IN BOND
SALES IS REVEALED
Kahn, at Senate Committee
Probe, Admits Methods
Have Gone Too Far.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A banker whose firm helped sell more
than a billion dollars of foreign Sc
curities in the last 10 years told q
Senate committee today he believed
there had been too much high-pressure
salesmanship in the sale of bonds.
He was Otto H Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb
g. Co., testifying before the Senate
Finance Committee, which he already
had informed that his company made
$4,OOO,00o of gross profits from its for
eign bond transactions.
Kahn was asked if the present low
prices of bonds were not based on a
belief that they were unloaded on the
public at higher prices than they war
ranted.
He replied that bond prices were not
determined by bankers, but by the
law of supply and demand.
Few Members Present.
Only half a dozen members of the
committee were present when Kahn re-
sumed his description OF the bond is
sues handled by his firm. Previously
he had presented statistics showing his
firm received a gross profit of $4,224, 1895
from its share in handling $1,l58, 1900
of foreign bonds.
Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali
fornia, sponsor of the inquiry asked
Kahn today for the current prices OF
the various bonds. but the banker said
he could not furnish them.
The present values as quoted" Kahn
said, do not express the intrinsic value
of foreign bonds any more than the
values of domestic bonds represent their
intrinsic values"
Kahn added that the last issue of
American Government bonds has de-
clined Is per cent in the last three
months.
Kahn was asked if bond sales had not
been pushed by improper advertise
ments and high-pressure Salesmanship."
There may be two opinions" Kahn
replied, "but it is my personal opinion
that it has been done. There has been
too much high-pressure salesmanship
Admits Competition.
Johnson asked if American banking
houses had competed for the business
of floating South American bonds in
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-01-04
BEATING INVESTIGATED.
L. S. Diplomat Assaulted by japanese
Soldiers in Mukden.

MUKDEN, Manchuria, January LPj.
An investigation into the beating of
Culver B. Chamberlain. young United
States consul, by three japanese SOL
diers in one Of the main streets of
Mukden yesterday was begun today
by S. Morishima, japanese consul.
The assault upon the young Ameri-
can, who was so badly beaten his face
was cut to the bone in two places, was
reported Immediately TO the Japanese
consul by American Consul General
Myrl S. Myers here. Myers told the
japanese official the assault was EN-
tirely unprovoked"
Chamberlain was for%-erly of Kansas
City and has been a member of the
consular service for 10 years. He ar
rived in Mukden Saturday on his way
TO HaTbin. where ne recently had beer
assigned following a vacation trip tC
the United States.
He was riding in the American con-
sul's automobile, which displayed ar
American flag and coat Of arms, on his
way to the station TO catch an early
morning train for Harbin. The auto.
mobile was halted at the border of the
Japanese railway town by three jap
aneSe soldiers apparently forming 6
patrol
Chamberlain alighted from the cal
and showed his diplomatic passport, ex.
planning his status in Chinese, which hi
speaks fluently. One of the soldiers
he said, showed knowledge Of Chinese
and Chamberlain does not speak Jap.
anese.
The three soldiers quickly began tt
beat him with their fists and he re.
treated to the inside Of the car. They
followed him and continued to beat
him. The chauffeur finally got the
car away and Chamberlain returned
TO the consulate, later continuing his
Journey to Harbin.
Evening star., 1932-01-04
THREE GIVEN YEAR
IN BRUTALITY CASES
Policemen Mostyn, LafIin and
Barrett Sentenced First
Two Fined $500.

Three police officers, James A. Mos
tyn, William r. Latin and Robert j
Barrett, today were sentenced by JUS
tice James M. Proctor Of District of Co.
lumbia Supreme Court TO a years i'm
prisonment each for assaulting pris-
onerS.
In addition, MoSyn and Latin were
fined $500 each No fine was imposed
upon Barrett. In all three cases, how
ever, the Judge imposed the maximum
jail sentence provided by law upon a
conviction for simple assault The fines
assessed against Mostyn and Latin
also were the most severe possible un-
der the statute.
Justice Proctor was vigorous in his
criticism of the defendants. He said
they had gone beyond their dut" as
police officers as well as violating the
law. He said the evidence disclosed
Mostyn and Latin were guilty of de
liberate torture Of prisoner to gain
confession"
The three defendants were permitted
to remain at liberty under bond of
81 900 each until their attorneys pre-
pare appeals.
Landrum Motion Considered.
Justice Proctor announced he still
had under consideration motion for
a new trial in TIE case of fourth po-
liceman under conviction in similar
case, Vivian H. Landrum of the ninth
precinct
Mostyn and Latin, first precinct de-
tectives, were convicted of aSsaulting
James Henry Harker, a young baker.
William C. Groomes and William Bur-
roughs, first precinct policemen, were
1Continued on Page 2, Column IL
Evening star., 1932-01-04
ARREST Of GANDH|
AND HIS CHIEF AIDE
LEAVES INDIA CALM
Native Leaders Await DeveI-
opments Before Renewing
Fight for Liberty.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Great Britain struck back at the In
dian civil disobedience campaign today
clapped Mahatma Gandhi back into
Jail, imprisoned Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru, his second in command. and
prepared to deal vigorously with any
further manifestations.
The country remained outwardly
calm and 1t probably will be some days
before the Nationalists show their hand.
The leaders were lying low, awaiting
developments.
From London came word that the
British government views the Ma
tionalist campaign as challenge to
the fundamentals Of law and order and
intends to deal with it as such.
The developments at Bombay had
repercussions elsewhere. There was a
split in the all-India Moslem confer
ence at New Delhi, where the presi-
dent and secretary resigned on the
grounds that they wanted the confer
ence to give full discretion to Moslems
who wanted to join the Congress party
movement.
In far-off Panama, all the East IN
dian stores were closed as protest
against Gandhi's imprisonment.
GANDHI BACK IN JAIL.
Evening star., 1932-01-04
SMITH RACE FIGURES
FILED BY DEMOCRATS
National Committee Forwards Data
on New York Expenses to
Refute Woods Charges.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Democratic National Committee
today filed with the clerk Of the House
Of Representatives photostatic copies OF
pay rolls of the national headquarters
in New York in the 1928 presidential
campaign.
They were filed by James w. Gerard
National Committee treasurer, along
with an affidavit that they were true
copies of the pay rolls" The names OF
those receiving money also were given
together with the amounts.
The reports were filed in answer to
charges by Representative Wood of In
diana, chairman of the Republican
National Congressional Committee, that
the Democratic National Committee
had concealed some of its expenditures
in the Smith-H Hoover campaign.
The report listed 662 employees to
whom was paid a total of $3.50, 600. In
all Of the report of expenditures there
was none outstanding. While most
were small, some reached S2,500. So
far as could be ascertained, none OF
the employees listed was OF prominence
Evening star., 1932-01-04
IlIDGE FREES EDITOR
FROM VIRGINIA JAIL
HONEYWELL Jurist Declines to Grant
Mapoles Bail Pending
Appeal.

BY the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL, Va, January 4'-Juoge
Thomas B. Robertson today released D.
W. Mapoles, editor OF the Hopeweil
News. from the Jail cell where ne mad
served seven days for alleged contempt
of court.
Judge Robertson said he had SEN
fenced Mapoles for term not exceeding
80 days and he considered the 7-day
confinement ample punishment.
Douglas Fry and Allen G. Adams
counsel for Mapoles, asked that the or
der of release be rescinded ana tne oe-
fendant granted bail pending an appeal
to the Supreme Court. The attorneys
asserted the Supreme Court had not
had an opportunity to pass upon a
case similar in nature and that the oe-
fendant desired to appeal,
Judge Robertson refused the request
with the assertion that the case was
closed ,,+,x,+
for failure to reveal the author OF
communication published in the For
uu" column of his paper, Whlcn the
Judge considered reflection upon him
Evening star., 1932-01-04
TROOPS BASE AT LAwNCHow.

PEIPING, January (P).-Chinese
troops withdrawn from Manchuria be-
hind the Great Wall Of China are be-
lieved to be largely concentrated at
LawnchoW.
Headquarters have been established
there by Gen. Yung Chen, commander
of the Chinchow garrison and chief of
staff to Chang Hsueh-Liang, deposed
Manchurian governor.
Trains arriving from the south
through Shanhaikwan have brought $50
Chinese who died en- route from wounds
received in fighting before the evacua-
ton and 260 others, who were placed in
hospitals here.
Foreign military observers in Manchu-
ria, including Col. Nelson E. Margetts
and Lieut. Harry S. Aldrich, Americans,
reached Tientsin last night. Lieut.. Al
drich, assistant military attache at the
United States legation here, was liber-
ated yesterday at Kowpangtze after hav-
ing been detained 48 hours by the Jap
aneSe.
Evening star., 1932-01-04
S1OO,25O Asked for District
Is Allowed Without
Being Reduced.
FEDERAL ROAD AID
PROJECTS DECREASED
Money to Buy Furnishings for New
Office Building Curtailed Be-
cause of Low Prices.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The promised definite economy in
Government expenditures was inaugural
ed today in the first big money bill
reported to the Democratic House by
its Appropriations Committee.
The committee, led by Chairman
Byrns, Topped off $13,443,s0O or nearly
10 per cent of the budget estimates
recommended by President Hoover, in
the first urgent deficiency bill. 1t al
lowed miscellaneous departments $125,-
886, ,262 of the s139, ,330,162 requested to
tide them over until the end of the
fiscal year, June 30. In no single in
stance were the estimates increased by
the committee.
District Fund Not Cut.
The S10O,25O total asked for the Dis
trict of Columbia was not reduced
In addition to this, the bill makes
available for District use $464,000 from
unexpended balances. In this latter
amount is $4,000 from the appropria-
ton for buildings and grounds and
public schools, carried in the appropria-
OlOll JILL IOl bllC OuLiSAA lioSoA JCoI '
which is made available until June 80
next for payment of personal services
employed on construction work under
the supervision of the Municipal Arch
itect's Office.
The House planned to complete con-
sideration of the measure tomorrow, so
the Senate may act on it before the end
of the week.
Road Fund Reduced.
Federal highway aid was given $780,
900, 900, or $10,e00,00O less than Thomas
H. Macdonald, chief of the Bureau of
Public Roads, testified was needed.
Byrns noted in his report that with the
emergency appropriation, made by the
last Congress to furnish employment on
Of the President, funds
were obtained which some States could
not match
Responding to the appeal Of Veterans
Administrator Hines for more funds for
and naval compensation grant
ed by Congress in 1880, the Appropria
tions Committee approved S46,872 ,975
for that purpose. Before the Christmas
holidays Congress voted more than
5000, 100000 for loans to veterans on
their bonus certificates.
To help expedite the Republican ad-
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1932-01-04
200 HOTEL GUESTS
ROUTED BY BLAZE
Odd Fellows Building in Boston
Destroyed by Spectacular Fire.
Several Injured.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 4-Fire early to-
day destroyed the Odd Fellows Build
ing, large, fve-story stone building in
the South End, with loss estimated by
Fire Chief Henry Fox az $3.50, ,O0O. Sew
eral firemen were injured and 200 guests
were driven from their rooms in the ad-
joining Hotel Clarendon.
Two women and two young men, oc-
cupants of rooms on the third floor of
the Odd Fellows block, were taken to
City Hospital suffering from exposure.
Five alarms brought apparatus from
all sections Of the city.
Before apparatus could respond to
the second alarm huge tongues of flames
were shooting through the roof, illumi-
mating the sky for miles around and
showering the entire section with en-
berS
The block housed more than so lodges
and social organizations, a number of
professional offices and on the ground
floor, several small business establish
YnefYts
Evening star., 1932-01-04
ARMY BEYOND CHINCHOW.

TIENTSIN, China, January (P).-
Reports here today said the japanese
Army in Manchuria had pushed south
ward along the Peiping- -Mukden Rail-
way from Chinchow and occupied the
town of LienShan.
It was not believed they had met
any resistance, for the only Chinese
troops north of Shanhaikwan are two
hattalionS detached from the brigade
formerly stationed at that point.
Northbound trains on the main line
of the Peiping- -Mukden Railway are
turning back now at Shanhaikwan, but
there is still local service as far as
Lienshan.
Large Force Shifted.
Observers here now believe the major
theater of developments lies between
here and Shanhaikwan.
Evacuation of Chinchow temporarily
put stop to military complications in
Manchuria, but considerable Japa-
nese force, naval and military, has
Shanhaikwan and this city, south of
the Great Wall.
1t was estimated that the japanese
have more than 1000 troops here in
addition to 900 infantrymen and an
artillery section at Shanhaikwan. Eleven
japanese warships have been patrolling
the shore line between Taku, the port
Of Tientsin, and Shanhaikwan.
Say Chang Ignored Orders.
Things were quiet, however, both here
and at Shanhaikwan, but the situation
had the appearance of an armed truce
with Chinese and japanese troops glar-
ing at each other from opposite sides
of the streets in both cities
Another complcating factor has ap-
peared in the form of new political diff
ferences between Marshal Chang HSueh-
Liang and the new government at
Nanking.
Todays newspapers printed charges
by Eugene Chen, the foreign minister.
that Chang ignored orders to defend
Chinchow. The marshal, on the other
hand, charged that Chen made secret
agreement with Toxic to eliminate
Chang from Manchuria.
1t was impossible to hold Chinchow
with Japanese troops in front and be-
hind, said Chang.