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Evening star., 1932-12-31
GARNER WILL AVOID
FIGHT
Neither He Nor Roosevelt Is
Backing Any Candidate,
He Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The definite statement that neither
Pres.dent-elect Roosevelt nor he would
have anything to DO" with selection of
the Speaker in the next House was
made with emphasis today by Speaker
Garner.
There is nothing to this talk about
Gov. Roosevelt packing any one candi-
date" the Vice President-elect said.
Months before the November elections
we agreed at conference to have abso-
lutely nothing to do with it. We agreed
it was a matter for the Democratic
majority in the new House to decide
and We adopted hands of policy,
which we are maintaining.
Gamers statement was prompted by
confusing rumors and reports involving
various candidates and whether any
was favored by the incoming Executive.
These rumors have been flying about
the House the last two days and have
created excitement among followers of
the various candidates. Some rumors
inferred that Garner also had his
favorite
Regardless of what personal convic-
tions we might have" the Texan said,
Gov. Roosevelt and I are not going to
have anything to do with the matter,
and I say that with full authority"
Garner leaves the House March 4 to
become Vice President and presiding
officer in the Senate. II won't be in the
House in the next Congress and will
not have a vote in the selection of my
successor he emphasized.
The discussion developed around re-
ports that James A. Farley, chairman
of the Democratic National Committee,
had written representative Rainey Of
Illinois, majority leader and a speaker
ship candidate, that Robert jackson.
secretary of the National Committee,
had no authority whatever to say
that Mr.. Roosevelt favored" the candi-
dacv Of Representative McDufie Of
Alabama. the Democratic whip
When questioned. Rainey said he had
received such a letter and that Far
lev had said he would do what he could
to correct the impression that Mr..
(Toptip,od M, Dopa o Nol,,y,r ~
Evening star., 1932-12-31
City Trucks Are Used to Res
cue Many Marooned
in Chattanooga.
ALABAMA RIVER RISES
IS FEET OVER HIGH MARK
Thousands of Acres of Farmland
Are Submerged-Southern Illi-
nois Also Inundated.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, December 31.-Mis-
creant rivers, whooping it up in a final
1882 fling at the southern lowlands to-
day, drove 400 families from their
homes at Chattanooga, Tenn. and con-
tinued to give trouble at other points
as slackening rain gave promise of
slight relief.
City trucks were pressed into service
to move the marooned of Chattanooga
to school houses and empty buildings
last night out of reach of the swollen
Tennessee, and there was hope that the
river would start to recede today.
Headwaters Begin to Calm.
The headwaters of many of the flood
ing streams from the Carollnas to the
lower Mississippi Valley began to calm
but the down-river counties watched
against trouble from passing crests.
Much of the affected territory expert
enced rain yesterday.
Up above Rome in Northwest Georgia
where l40 were forced to seek aid OF
relief agencies as the city's three rivers
drove them from home, the Etowah and
Costanaula we're falling.
Twenty-Five families were ousted
from their homes near Sumner in the
Mississippi Delta as the Cassidy Bayou
gave more trouble and other delta
waterways continued swollen. The
Chattahoochee fell at Atlanta last
night and its threat at West Point, Ga,
was reported diminished.
Is Feet Above Flood Stage
The Alabama feet over flood stage,
drove 80 colored persons from home
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1932-12-31
ROOSEVELT FILES
WALKER OPINION
UphO|dS Governors Power
of Removal on Last
Day in Office.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y. December 3l-On
his last day as Governor of New York,
President ELECT Roosevelt today wrote
into State records a 44-page COM
mentary on last Summers memorable
hearing for the removal OF James j.
Walker as mayor of New York, explain
for future executive action in custer
proceedings.
Walker resigned during the trial.
which was on conclusions regarding
his alleged malfeasance in office,
reached by Samuel Seabury as counsel
for legislative committee investigating
New York City's affairs.
Quoting from legal opinions written
by former Cows. Samuel J. T1lden
Hughes, Gov. Roosevelt upheld the re-
moval powers vested in the Governor
under State law and commented tartly
on the claim of Walkers lawyers that
charges based on acts committed dur
ing a prior term were not grounds for
removal.
STltiCIZcS JuStlCC StdiCys
He devoted five pages Of his bulky
written by Supreme Court justice Ellis
J. Staley of Albany. who heard several
defense motions, one Of which was To
restrain the Governor from acting. JUS
tice Staley upheld the Governors power
of removal, but commented unfavorably
on Mr.. Roosevelt's conduct of the trial
Gov. Roosevelt was the Democratic
presidential candidate at that time and
Justice Staley is Republican.
His utterances could have no ef-
feet" the Governor wrote, except the
possible one Of influencing public opin-
ion adversely to the executive in dis
charge of the latter's duty and so bring
implication of blame upon a co-ordi-
nate branch of the government"
He referred to Justice Staley's opin-
ion as whole as ''gratituous advice or
instruction in the manner in which an
executive function should be dis
charged"
THE very fact that they (the quota
tions from Justice Staley's opinion)
were uttered b. justice OF the Supreme
Court Of this State" Mr. Roosevelt said,
"and are now perpetuated in the law
reports requires that they should not
pass unnoticed in this memorandum"
Reelection Not Enough.
Mr.. Roosevelt said Walkers claim
that the Governor could not pass upon
the cast of the mayor in term prior
to the one he was serving was mot only
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1932-12-31
R0THERMERE REVEALED
WILLING TO BE KING
Secretary of Late Eugene Rakosi
Makes Blind Hungarian's
Memoirs in Public.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST. Hungary, December 81.
Joseph Schiller, private secretary of
the late Eugene Rakosi, blind Hunga-
rian publisher, has made public the
latter's memoirs, in which It was re-
lated that overtures were made to Lord
Rothermere. British publisher, in early
postwar years, urging that he become
king of Hungary.
The memoirs said Lord Rothermere
was willing candidate and decidedly
approved Of Rakosi's efforts to get him
the crown.
The postwar dispute over the crown
of Hungary resulted in Lord Rother-
mere issuing q Christmas message in
1928 in which he urged the Hungarian
people to elect some foreign prince as
their king, instead of scion of the
house of Hapsburg which ruled Aus
tria- Hungary before the division Of the
empire.
Lord Rothermere contended selection
Of a Hapsburg would nullify Hunga-
rian efforts to revise the 1918 peace
treaty.
,Rakosi, one of the oldest active jour-
nalists in Europe when he died at the
age of 81 on February 8, 1928, was
founder of the Budapest Chronicle and
its editor for SO years. He was handi-
capped by blindness for, many years.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
SUSPECT BALkS QUIZ
IN BEATING OF WOMAN
Duffy Refuses to Answer Questions
at Miami in Stork
Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, December 31-James
Duffy, accused of implication in the
beating Of Mrs. Adelaide Doing Stork Of
Baltimore and Miami, declined to answer
questions State Investigator John B
Rowland asked him last night.
Duffy had been freed by Justice of
the Peace Henry L. Oppenborn. who
ruled identification of Duffy as one of
the persons who attempted to enter
Mrs. Storks estate was insufficient.
Mrs. Stork. estranged wife of Clinton
w. Stork, retired realty operator, was
severely beaten December %. She
signed affldavits charging Mrs. Bart A.
Riley and Mrs. Riley's 20-year-old son,
Bernard, with attacking her after break
ing into her home.
Justice Oppenborn held in allegiance
ruling on trespass case against
Bernard, pending a hearing on charges
of breaking and entering with intent to
kill against Bernard, his mother and
Duffy.
Bart Riley Is attorney for Mrs Stork
in a divorce action. He was with her at
her home and also was beaten. He has
asked a divorce from his wife, whom
he remarked in 1929, after divorce.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
DR.. CLARK RESIGNS
ASA. U. CHANCELLOR
Becomes Dean Of Graduate
Schoo!-Bishop Hughes
Takes Duties.

Dr. lucius c. Clark today resigned
to become dean Of the Graduate School
and director Of the School of the Politi-
headquarters at 1901 street.
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes. resident
Bishop Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. was named acting chancel-
lor'' Of the university until a successor
to DR.. Clark can be chosen.
In taking charge of the two schools
of the university on F street. DR. Clark
succeeds DR.. Walter NJ W. Splawn,
who resigned some time ago to give his
full time to special work for the House
Committee On Interstate snd Foreign
Commerce. Since the resignation of
Dr. Splawn, DR.. George B. Woods. dean
of the College of Liberal Arts. has been
acting dean Of the F street schools.
Approved by Trustees.
The changes taking place today were
made effective by the board of trustees
of the university when it unanimously
adopted a report of its special commit
tee on reorganization of the university
The committee. in addition to recon-
mending that DR.. Clark be made dean
of the Graduate School and director
of the School Of the Political Sciences, re-
affirmed the purpose of the university
to make graduate research work ma jor
interest. The two graduate schools will
be continued at their present location,
1901 to 1907 F street Among the pro-
posals considered. but rejected by the
Reorganization Committee and the
beard, was one to move the two schools
from their location on F street to the
campus at Nebraska and Massachu-
setts avenues, where the College of
Liberal Arts Is located. The College
of Liberal Arts will continue in its
present status under the direction of
DR.. Woods, dean. who has been its head
Evening star., 1932-12-31
DE VALERA THREATENED
WITH LOSS OF MAJORITY
Seven Labor Members Who Have
Given Him Narrow Margin,
Desert on Pay Cut Issue.

By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, December
31.-President Eamon de Valera's plan
for bonus reductions in civil servants
pay threatened today to wipe out the
narrow majority which has kept him
in office since March.
The seven Labor members of the Dali
Eireann, who have given the President
the balance of power over the opposi-
ton party Of former President William
T. CoSgrave, turned against the govern
ment on the issue.
The Free State Executive Council at
tempted to patch up matters last night
by voting to suspend operation of the
reductions "as to so per cent on the
base remuneration, not exceeding 40
shillings a week" pending a report by
a committee studying the cost of living
William Norton, Labor leader said
the proposal did not meet the demands
Of his party, and other spokesmen for
the group said the arrangement was
unsatisfactory
Evening star., 1932-12-31
NORbECK PROBE
FACES OPPOSITION
Senate Banking Committee
Members Would Drop Stock
Market Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Strong demands have been made
within the Banking Committee that the
Senate's investigation of the stock mar
ket and allied subjects be dropped
This became known today as the
group prepared to determine the course
Of the inquiry soon after the Senate re-
turns to work next week.
Chairman Norbeck Of the committee
said the investigation wou get under
way soon, but he was faced with oppo-
sition on the part of some who raised a
number of objections. Since last ses-
sion the committees agents have been
working on two subjects-tax evasion
practices and the collapse of the insult
utility empire.
Some committee members feel the
first subject is outside the committee
jurisdiction, and others believe it would
be unwise to open Senate inquiry into
the insult case when 1t Is before the
courts
A mass of material has been collected
BY agents On both subjects. Evidence
of widespread evasionS or avoidance of
Federal taxes is understood to have been
gathered, but if it is considered by the
committee, 1t will be in executive ses-
sion.
Much Of the information is Of con-
fidential nature and could not be used
in open session Of the committee, 1t is
said
In obtaining an additional appropria-
tion for the inquiry from the Senate
last Summer Norbeck mentioned his in
tention of studying the tax evasion
question and feels the Senate's ap-
proval of the funds on that basis IS
sufficient authority for the committee
to proceed.
The committee chairman insists the
inquiry be resumed and will call a
meeting of the Steering Committee"
within few days to plan procedure.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
CITY CELEBRATES
OLD YEAR PASSING
Police Order to Close at II
Puts Damper on Gay
Parties in Public.

With weather in keeping with the
prepared to bid farewell to a dismal,
dying old year, hoping for better things
in the u months to come.
Tonight will be cloudy and colder, but
without rain Tomorrow will be fair.
The lowest temperature will be about
rs degrees.
With the last stroke Of midnight to-
night the year 1882 becomes history
and 1888, with new deal all around,
comes INTO being.
The Capitals celebration really start
ed last night, as the thousands Of Fed
eral workers, given a three-day hon-
day over the week end, started into the
swing Of the new years gayety. All
Federal Offices were closed today and
will remain so until Tuesday morning
Business houses and banks, however. re-
manned open today but will be closed
Monday
Ready TO Celebrate Tonight
Today night clubs, hotels, restaurants
ard private homes were being fur
nished up and gayly decorated for the
New Year parties that will extend far
into tomorrow morning while churches
throughout the city we're preparing for
midnight watch services following gay
social gatherings earlier in the evening
There appeared one discordant note
however, in the order of Inspector L. /.
H. Edwards, assistant superintendent OF
police. that the city's laws forbiddlng
public entertainment after midnight on
Sunday mornings, will be enforced. In
spector Edwards today said no effort
would be made to haul pleasure-seekers
of to jail, but that managers of estab-
ishments holding entertainments in
violation of the law would be served
with summons to appear in court.
Operators of gay places which are
planning late parties tonight, with
breakfasts in the wee. small hours as
part of the general charge, were pre-
pared to receive the summons and
appear in court to take the conse-
quences, rather than end their parties
Just as soon as the tumult of whistles,
horns and gayety, which will welcome
the new year. dies out.
Inspector Edwards pointed out that
there is no violation of the law in the
patrons of such establishments making
merry after the midnight hour-that
the violation lies in proprietors hold
ing open and attending to the wants
of patrons after the hour set by law
for closing
Evening star., 1932-12-31
JUDGES BEGIN TASK OF PICKING
BIGGEST LIAR IN UNITED STATES
ZOO Send in Their Contributions in Effort Win Title
From Michigan Man.

over America. Anything that bordered
on the truth would eliminate the con-
testsnt, they said.
The contest began in 1929, when
Capt. Anton Delano told such a big
fish story that his listeners had made
silver medal bearing his name and the
following inscription:
Champion Liar. U S."
In 1890 none other than BurGng-
tons chief Of police, Frank Beller, put
other liars to shame with an ingenious
tale
The judges are H D. Schenning.
Burlington policeman; Manuel Hahn,
cIicogo, and o. G. Hulett. Burlington.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
COUZENS PROPOSES ARMY CARE
OF AMERICAS TRANSIENT BOYS
Sees Hoover About Sending
Wandering Youths to Posts
for Training.
Will Press for Early Action
in Behalf of 100000
Homeless.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Open the Army posts and facilities
to Americas jobless youths so they
can be cared for by trained officers.
That is the proposal of Senator Cou-
zens, wealthy Michigan Republican,
who has become deeply concerned with
the host Of unfortunate young boys
who wander from city to city seeking
work.
In saying today he will introduce
legislation to have them cared for and
fed by the Army. Couzens disclosed
he had discussed his plan with Presi-
dent Hoover and Red Cross officials
and would press for early action in
Congress-
He characterized the transient boy"
problem as one of the most important
Evening star., 1932-12-31
18 BEL LOW ZERO GALE ON PEAK
AWAITS NEW YEAR FROLIC GROUP
Coloradoans to Let Go With Fireworks and Flare Balloon
in Annual Celebration.
Camp at 5 o'clock tonight" the message

Camp at 5 o'clock tonight" ." the message
said
The advance men also said the tenn
perature in the Summit House was 10
below zero and it was necessary to dig
through three feet Of snow to get inside.
Rohrer said 1t was the most strenuous
trip in four years. Many deer and tracks
Of huge mountain lion were seen dur
ing the ascent.
Francis M. Froelicher, school
teacher is the new member of the club
for this year. One is added annually.
At midnight tonight the club will
welcome the New Year with a pyro-
technic display. At 8 pm. a 20-foot
silk balloon carrying a 100000 candle
power flare will be released as a me-
mortal tribute to Roald Amundsen. Arc
tic explorer and honorary member Of
the club.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
Suburbs Free Of Restriction.

These regulations do not apply. how
ever to the country clubs on the out
skirts and in the suburbs of the city,
and, as in former years, gay parties
are planned at practically all these
places.
Inspector Edwards also said that the
usual special detail of rs additional
policemen will be detailed at the first
precinct station to take care of any un
usual rowdyism and the large number of
minor law-breakers who have been en-
countered in the crowded downtown
section on New Year eve during past
years. In other precincts the usual
details will be stationed.
For the third time within IL years
there will be no pubic reception at the
White House on New Year day. This
popular White House affair, which has
become one of the traditions of the Ma
tional Capital, was abandoned this year
because of President and Mrs. Hoover'S
absence from the city.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
POLICE WITH RADIO GET
SIX ROBBERS IN ACTION

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 31.-The po-
lice radio system won two more VIC
tories over outlawry today soon after
Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney
had called it 1925 deadliest blow to
crime.
Four robbers we're taking $1,000 In
money and Jewels from SO men and
Tomsn in the gT91klyn hs9 Ciy,e VIC Gnr Club
ray E. Levin jumped out a rear win
dow, Skinned a fence and telephoned
In a few seconds a equipped
car sped to the club. Police dashed in
and captured four men, who said they
were John Rubino, Thomas Romaine.
John Olivieri and John Siciliano. They
were charged with robbery!
The crash of glass III the Office Of
DR. Nicholas Apply led a suspicious ele-
Vator operator to telephone police. De-
tectives in a radio car arrived in time
70 capture two alleged burglars.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
MYSTERY DEEPENS.
Conflicting Evidence Adds to Theories
of Both Dead and Flight.

HENDERSON, N. c.. December 81 LP1.
"A body reported seen in an automo-
bile in Richmond, Va. and a stained
glove found in his abandoned automo-
bile in Columbus. Ohio. held the spot
light today in the nine-day-old search
for R. S. McCoin, missing Henderson
attorney.
Authorities awaited chemical analy-
sis of the glove before they could
hazard a guess whether McCoin was
alive or dead.
Claim They Saw Body.
Robert NJ. Rogers of Brentwood. Md,
and Carl Hansen of Washington,
truck drivers, told police they saw
body in Richmond which. they said.
they were sure, after seeing pictures.
was that of McCoin.
They said three youths with the body
told them it was that of a man killed
in an automobile accident.
Richmond police and T. Mccall
Frazier, dire Il" Of the Virginia State
motor vehicle division, said they did
not see how such an accident could
have gone unreported. 1t was said to
have occurred December %, the morn
ing after McCoin disappeared after Wis
iting Richmond and his 1,6Oo-acre farm
at Dewitt, Va.
But on the other side Of the picture
was a series of reports that a man
fitting McCoin's description had made
his appearance at various points along
the route from here to Columbus. These
reports fitted the same route an anony-
nous letter writer said was taken by
four youths, who killed McCoin. when
he refused their demand for money after
a faxed accident near Petersburg, Va.
No Trace of Grave.
The letter said the mans body was
carried through Hagerstown, Md, and
buried between there and Uniontown,
Pa.
Virginia State police, Hagerstown OH
cials, J. H. Langston, Henderson police
chief, and Carvin Linthicum of Raleigh,
the missing mans nephew, reported
early today no such burying place
could be found.
But A. B. Webster, business associate
of McCoin. clinging to the Staying
theory. offered $500 reward for location
and Identification of the body.
Evening star., 1932-12-31
PANAMA LAW CLOSES
ALL STORES AT 6 Pm,
Business Leaders Protest Act That
Requires New License and
Separate Employees.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA CITY, Panama, December
31.-The government published q lay
today ordering all business houses closed
daily after pm, unless granted spe-
cial permission to remain open.
An extra tax must be paid for the
permit and a new staff Of workers, In
Guiding none Of the day employees. must
be provided by stores remaining open
for evening trade. Commerce associa-
tionS protested against the law, which
was enacted by Congress and approved
by President Harmodio Arias.
The Panama City Corporation sent
the President resolution today asking
that the closing law and tax provision
be suspended. declaring = would work
an urOeara bic bll-de., on business men
III view Of the bad economic Stuatjon.