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Evening star., 1933-02-20
NEW FRENCH DEBT
PARLEYS FORECAST
PauI-Boncour Says He Ex-
poets Negotiations to Re-
sumo After March 4.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 20.-Foreign Min
lister Joseph Paul-Boncour said today
he expects debt negotiations with the
United States will be resumed after
March 4.
Discussing this issue with the press
he refrained from indicating what form
the new negotiations might take, but
he made it plain that the matter will
be taken up with the Roosevelt admin
istration. The indications were that
the approach would be made through
the normal diplomatic channels.
Will Stand by League.
DEPRESSING from the debts to speak
of the Manchurian problem, NJ Paul
Boncour said France will stand by
the decisions of the League of
Nations and will act in full accord with
the United States and Great Britain.
The League Covenant and several peace
pacts are the basis of the French posi-
ton. he said
He expressed pleasure that England
had acted with this country last week
in questioning Austria about shipment
of arms from Italy, possibly in violation
of the treaty of st German, which
forbids concentration of arms by ma
tions defeated in the World War.
Answer Due This Week.
An answer from Vienna is expected
this week. If it is not satisfactory, the
foreign minister said, probably the little
entente will take the matter up with the
League of Nations, for it is chiefly
their affair, although they would re-
ceive French support.
France defaulted on an installment
of $19,26l ,432 last December Is after
Edouard Herriot, who advocated pay
menr, had been overthrown as premier.
When Great Britain paid its Decem-
Der installment and requested recon-
sideration Of the debt structure, PreSi-
dent-elect Roosevelt, in granting the re-
quest. placed no obstacle in the way of
negotiations with those who defaulted
as we'll as those who paid.
The next installment due from
France amounts to $40, ,738, ,568, payable
June Is.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
READJUST DEBTS,
SENATE IS URGED
L. P. Ayres, Cleveland Finan-
cier, Offers Several Points
for Better Times.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Readjustment of private and war
debts, balancing the budget and restora-
ton of confidence were advocated today
before the Senate Finance Committee
by Leonard P Ayres, Cleveland f1nan-
cier, as among the steps necessary to
bring back better times
Ayres' views were contained in tele-
gram asking that he be excused from
appearing before the committee in its
study of economic conditions and pos
sible remedial steps.
Edward A. O'Neal, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
urged restoration of agriculture and
currency imitation, while DR.. L. F.
Barker Of Baltimore called for sharp
reductions in Federal expenditures and
deep slashes in veterans benefits.
Veteran Pay Proposal.
Barker, former vice president of the
American Medical Association. urged
eliminetion of payments to veterans for
injuries or diseases not traceable to
service duty.
ITO continue these special favors to
veterans OF non-serWce connected
classes, is a great injustice" Barker
said.
AN injustice of over s4Oo 900 900 a
year." observed Chairman Smoot, Re-
publican of Utah, author of a pending
bill to give benefits to veterans only
for ailments or injuries directly at
tributable to war duty.
Expense Gains Feared.
Barker, who explained to the COM
mittee he was for years a Veterans
Bureau diagnostician, asserted that un-
less expenditures for former soldiers
were checked, they would increase
steadily, adding that as a result all the
people might demand free Government
disqualification.
Barker suggested refunding the pub
lie debt at lower interest rates, re
distribution of taxation more eQuitably,"
and "the elimination of extraordinary
expenditures for futile stabilization
action"
I'VE dare not expect too much in the
way of increased revenues, although a
beer tax, and small sales tax will help
some" he added.
There is much clamor for imitation,
but imitation is like alcoholism or drug
addiction" he contended, cautioning
that If any imitation is attempted it
must be rigidly controlled.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
ROMA CLUE FAILS
IN KIDNAPPING CASE
Communications Convince
Father Boettcher Is
Alive and Well.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DENVER, February 2O.-A definite
split between the Boettcher family and
police and indications that the killing
of Joseph P. Roma, Denver's under
world king, had no connection with the
kidnapping of Charles Boettcher, I'd,
shunted the combined investigation into
channels today.
The announcement of Claude K.
Boettcher, Colorado multimillionaire
and father of the missing broker, that
he had received communications which
convinced him his son was alive and
well preceded few hours Chief of
Police A. r. Clark's disclosure that he
had been unable to link the Roma kill
ing with the abduction.
Pursuing his independent investiga-
ton, the elder Boettcher conferred
again with Rev. B. D. Dagwell, rector
of fashionable St. Johns Episcopal
Church, whose mail was ordered scru-
tinized closely by postal authorities.
Mail collectors we're instructed to de-
liver, by special messenger, all mail
found addressed to the dean. Dean
Dagwell was believed to be acting as
intermediary for the Boettcher family.
Will Act Independently.
Contents of notes, which the multi
millionaire said convinced him he fin
ally had contacted the kidnapers, were
withheld from authorities. Il feel I
must and will act independently If the
Nv ic fph
said He revealed that his letter to
the kidnapers had asked them to es-
ia blish contact with some go-between.
Meanwhile, police continued their in
vestigation of the abduction by running
down several clues which Clark insisted
looked right" Other authorities
sought the killers of Roma and turned
toward the underworld for a solution
Clark said he first believed Roma may
have been slain because of a conference
he held with Roma in reference to the
Boettcher case.
The Roma killing apparently was
the result of another liquor gang
feud," Clark said.
=. Two Men Jailed.
Two men, F. H. Rotitto and Frank
Mortellaro, a brother of Vincent Nor
tellaro, whose assassination Roma was
once accused of plotting, are in Jail
in connection with the Roma Staying
They we're arrested Saturday near
Romas home, where the gangster was
found shot to death.
The strain of strenuous week be-
gan telling on Mrs Anna Lou Boett-
cher, wife of the missing man. Her
mother, Mrs H. H. Pigott of Helena,
Mont, arrived over the week end to
be with her daughter, who is an ex-
pectant mother.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
VETERAN Of ARMY
SIGNAL CORPS DIES
Brig. Gen. Allen Superin-
tended Plane Tests by
Wright Brothers.

Brig. Gen. James Allen, retired, the
Army Signal Corps officer who superin-
tended the first official tests of heavier
than-air craft by the Wright Brothers
at Fort Myer in 1908, died early yester-
day at Walter Reed Hospital after a
stroke. Gen Allen, vino had been con-
fined to the hospital since December
9, was "a years old.
The veteran~Signal Corps officer was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
during 1925 for gallantry in action in
Santiago harbor June 2, 1893 At that
time Gen. Allen directed operations
aboard an unarmed transport, which
resulted in severing two submarine
cables In use by the enemy.
In 1905 Gen. Allen superintended the
laying of military cable from the
State of Washington to Alaska. He
was chief Of the Army Signal Corps
at the time of his retirement in 1913.
For some time prior to his death,
Gen. Allen had made his home at the
Army and Navy Club
Gen. Allen, native of La Porte, Ind.
was graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1872. During his
long career he saw service in the IN
dian campaigns and in the Philippine
Islands, besides Cuba.
4, Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow from the chapel at Fort
Myer, and burial will follow In Airing
ton National Cemetery, with full mill
tary honors.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
GARNER AND SMELL
ASSA|LED BY DRyS
Democratic Caucus and G.
O. P. Coercion" Denounced
by Dr.. Izora Scott.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Legislative Committee Of the
national conference of organizations
supporting the eighteenth amendment
at a meeting yesterday denounced "the
action of Speaker Garner in caucussing
the Democratic members of the
House, and the attempt of Republican
Floor Leader Smell to coerce the Re
publican members to vote upon the
moral issue involved in the resolution
for prohibition repeal"
A statement of the action from DR..
Izora Scott, secretary said:
THE Democratic caucus was claimed
to be contrary to the provision of the
Constitution which provides that men,
bers of Congress shall not vote for a
change in the Constitution unless they
as individuals deem it necessary. The
action of Mr.. Smell was held to be 4
compromise with Democrats in viola
ton of the Republican national plat
form, which provides that there must
be some Federal guarantee against the
return Of the saloon"
Just Begun Fight.
Saying the dryS nave just begun
to fight" Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson,
president of the National Woman's
Democratic Law Enforcement League,
asked in statement last night why
the great rush to repeal the eighteenth
amendment"
"If Congress permits the return Of
the saloon before they remedy the
financial panic they will go out of
power in 1884, she said. "for the
women are not stampeded by all this
hysteria of the wet millionaires."
Hits Immediate Action.
Mrs. Nicholson asked if the American
form of government had become "a CITY,
political-bcss-packed stampeded mob
controlled-convention- platform sort of
government" and added: When the
eighteenth amendment was passed Con-
greSs provided seven years before it
finally became a law, but now political
leaders are asking immediate repeal SO
it can be rushed through the States at
all COSTS"
She said the Constitution provides for
conventions in States for ratification,
but assumes that these conventions
shall be held at the will of the Legisla-
lures" and Congress is entirely with
out power to make this mixture of con-
stitutional methods"
Evening star., 1933-02-20
Your Income Tax
No aa.
Deduction for Interest.

Amounts paid or accrued within the
taxable year 1882 as interest on In
debtedness are deductible, with certain
exceptions, from gross income in deter
mining net income. Such items include
interest on borrowed money to defray
personal expenses and on money bor-
rowed for the purchase of real or per-
sonal property. If a person owes money
on a lien or mortgage note on his
home, the amount of the interest may
be deducted. Indebtedness, however,
need not be. evidenced by lien. judg-
ment or mortgage to make the interest
on it deductible. Frequently indebted
ness is evidenced only by a note.
Interest paid on Indebtedness in.
CURED in the purchase of obligations or
securities (other than obligations of the
United States issued after September
"a, 1917, and originally subscribed for
by the taxpayeD the interest upon
which Is wholly exempt from Federal
income tax. or on Indebtedness in
CURED in connection with the pur-
chase or carrying of an annuity, Is not
deductible. Interest paid on loans on
life insurance policies is deductible pro-
vided the amount of the loan is not
used for the purposes previously re-
ferred to in this paragraph.
Interest paid on behalf of friend
or relative where there is no legal obli-
cation on the part of the payor Is not
deductible. In such cases the amount
is the same as gift.
As interest paid is deductible. so In
terest received is taxable. All such
amounts. including interest received os
bank and savings deposits. must be In
cluded in the taxpayers return OF gross
income.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
FRANK PARISH FLEES
BEFORE TRIAL OPENS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, February 20.-Assistant
Federal District Attorney Joseph A.
Struett today said he would ask for
feiture of the $4,000 bond provided by
Frank p. Parish, facing trial in an al
legged $35,000,000 stock fraud after a
two-year investigation of operations Of
the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. by
the Government.
The move, Struett said, was based on
letter written by Parish to his at
torney, D. G. Warrick Of Kansas City,
that he had become voluntary exile"
and had left Chicago before the OPEN
ing of his trial.
Warrick said he had notified Capt.
Thomas Callaghan, local chief OF the
secret service, in an attempt to locate
Parish, who at Is was selling marine
wares in Chicago and at 18 was a
millionaire and at 35 owner of the for
mer presidential yacht, the Mayfiower.
Parish was indicted last March with
three others.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
Navy Heads Likely
To Buy Own China
And Silverware
Bill Also
May Force Admirals
to Pay Servants.
BY the Associated Press.

by LIle Associated FIeSS.
The admirals who run the Navy
likely will have to buy their own silver
ware and china and hire their own
household servants in the next fiscal
year.
At present, the Navy furnishes silver
and chinaware to all men above the
rank of captain and lets some enlisted
men act as buffers, stewards, cooks, and
other household workers at naval es-
adjustments.
But the House Appropriations Com
mittee, in the naval supply bill pre-
sented to the House today, recommended
discontinuance of both practices.
Rear admiralS commanding navy
yards or naval districts still are allowed
Is silver-plated finger bowls, 36 dessert
forks and 48 linen napkins, but in the
future if any of these disappear they
have to be replaced by the admiral.
The highest ranking naval officer.
the chief of naval operations, has
finger bowl allowance of SO and 21O
spoons.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
ROOSEVELT FAMILY
AT ROBINSON RITES
President-elect and Wife Among
Relatives at Funeral
in New York.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February 20.-A fu-
neral service attended by President
elect and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
by her niece, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, and by other members of
the family was conducted today for
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister
OF the late Theodore Roosevelt.
Mrs. Robinson, an aunt of Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, died Friday
night of pneumonia.
The service took place in st. Bar
tholomew's Church, on Park avenue,
burial to follow at HerkimeH N. Y,
near the Robinson estate.
A heavy rain was falling as the Pres
ident-elect, with large escort of mo-
tor cycle police, rode down Park avenue
from his home few blocks away
After the brief service, the President
elect, his mother and his brother-in-
law. G.. Hall Roosevelt of Detroit, re-
turned to his home in Sixty-fifth street.
His wife, in another car, went to her
Office on Madison avenue.
Mrs. Longworth, her sister, Mrs
Richard Derby, and her brothers. Archi-
bald and Kermit Roosevelt, sat in a pew
near that in which their cousins. the
President-elect and his wife, were seated.
Evening star., 1933-02-20

pretext for invading Jehol, as there are
no treaties in connection with that
province" the marshal said.
Neutral observers here believe the
Jehol campaign may plunge the Far
East into the most serious interna tional
crisis since the Russo japanese War.
The Chinese commander has been
ordered to evacuate Kailu, the north
eastern key city, which is on a direct
communication line to Jehol City,
about 800 miles southwestward. Japa-
nese forces were massed at Tungliao,
Manchurian railway center about 20
miles east of Kailu There have already
been half a dozen japanese air raids
on Kailu much damage being caused
hy bombing
About $4,000 Chinese troops we're
digging in in the Kailu vicinity,
ready to meet the Japanese onslaught.
The Japanese force there was esti-
mated at 10000
Evening star., 1933-02-20
HEARING is FORESEEN HERE.
Payment of S2o,OOO,00o Due May B.
Required, However.

By the Associated Press.
Belief is evident here that France
probably will be granted a hearing on
war debts by the Roosevelt administra-
ton, but that payment of the $40 0000,-
900 defaulted last December will be
required before any agreement can be
effected.
Todays announcement in Paris by
Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour
that he expects debt negotiations with
the United States to be resumed after
March 4 recalled that President-elect
Roosevelt has let it be known he re-
garded the French default as deferment
only.
That way of stating that the pay
ment is expected to be made has been
interpreted here as an inviting gesture
toward the defaulting nations. None
Of these has asked or been offered a
hearing such as has been promised
Great Britain and the other nations
which kept up their payments The
general expectation has been that they
would await the outcome of the nego-
tiations with Britain to approach this
Government.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
GUARD MILK PLANTS
IN WISCONSIN STRIKE
Farmers Extend Blockade in Cam.
paign to Force Higher Prices
for Dairy Produce.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Wis, February 90
Armed guards were stationed around
milk plants in this vicinity today as
militant dairy farmers extended their
blockade in campaign to force higher
prices for dairy produce.
The guards were assigned to posts in
New London, Greenville and Black
Creek and were equipped with guns
kept here for vigilantes. Plant owners
took the step after a crowd had threat
ened to storm the Borden Condensary
here.
Pickets again were stationed on all
main highways leading to milk plants
in Outagamie and Waupaca Counties.
The strikers also carried their campaign
to Shawano County for the first time
on an extensive scale. Several truck
loads of milk were dumped in the three
counties yesterday.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
.NANKING ORDERS RESISTANCE.
Peiping Hears japanese Hope to Reach
:, Jehol City By March.

tPEIPING, China, February 20 OP).-
Reliable reports said today Japanese
troops concentrated on the eastern
bprder of Jehol were hoping to reach
Jehol City by March l.
Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang. military
commander of North China, returned
here yesterday from an inspection of
the Chinese defense preparations in
Jehol Province which is outside the
great wall of China. He informed the
Chinese delegation at the League of
Nations OF orders from the Nationalist
government at Nanking to resist the
japanese attack.
II. ". Soong. acting premier and
Gnance minister at Nsnking, accom-
panied the marshal on his trip in
Jehol
sJapan has made the specious claim
that she invaded MsncEugia to sustain
tety rights but she .acs5 sc1sn that
Evening star., 1933-02-20
STOCK TRADER SEES
BETTER TIMES AHEAD
Chioagoan Scores Congress in Urg-
ing 4-Point Program to
End Depression.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. February 20.-Arthur w.
Cutten, stock and grain trader, said
today better times are ahead and the
worst of the depression is over and
that Congress could do much to alle-
viate the situation by adoption of
four-point program.
He said Congress should % balance
the budget, 90 reduce Government ex-
penses drastically, (3) refrain from in
terfering with business, and (4) levy no
more additional taxes.
He assailed Congress and said that 1t
was a pity the European system was not
in effect in this country so that Off
cials could be ousted by denial of a
vote of confidence.
Taxes today" he said, "are taking
billions of dollars out of the channels
of trade and preventing profits.
When profits cannot be made there
can be no business"
Cutten declared present economic
conditions were the worst the Nation
had ever experienced, but said he was
optimistic for the future.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
TANKER is OVERTURNED

VENICE, Italy, February 20 CP).-
The tanker Inca, 2,600-ton boat of the
General italian Petroleum Co., was over
turned today as it was entering port
during blizzard which covered the
city with a foot of snow. The crew
leaped into the water and was picked
up. No one was lost. The tanker re-
mained af1oat and was towed to a dock
Coast Guardsmen were answering dis
tress signals from several smaller vessels.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
JEHOL OFFENSIVE
LIKELY TOMORROW
Japanese Troops Mass at
Border-50,00O Ready to
Open Drive.
tcontinued From First Page.)

tCOnllnueo from First Page.D
"a Chinese force has been ordered to
evacuate the border city of Kailu. about
800 miles northeast of Jehol City)
An ultimatum has been served on
Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, North
China war lord, to withdraw his forces
from the province.
japanese war machines including the
newest types of destructive mechanisrns.
were massed at concentration points
Airplanes secuted the routes ahead for
the $4,000 troops who will be poured
into the province.
These included native Manchukuan
troops, sandwiched between the stur-
dier Japanese veterans of the Man
ehurian warfare and the fresh youth
ful detachments brought from Japan.
Estimates of Chinese troop strength
IN the province ranged from 100000
TO 10000. Regular troops directed by
Marshal Chang and his governor. Tang
Yu-Lin, were estimated at $4,000.
Others were local volunteers forces
and stragglers who crossed into Jehol
after defeat in the Japanese Man
Achurian campaigns.
Short Campaign Forecast.
4 Whole trainloads of American motor
trucks and motor cycles and other
equipment have passed through here.
Predictions have been made by the
Japanese that the drive will reach a
successful conclusion within one to
three months. Lieut.. Gen. Kuniaki
Koiso, reputed directing genius of the
expedition, thought it actually would
take two or three years to suppress all
"banditry' and bring real peace" to
the province.
He expected the efforts of 10000
Japanese troops would be required be-
fore the task was completed
When, and if, the japanese reach
Jehol City, they will be only about 100
miles north of Peiping, seat of North
China's government and Marshal
Chang's headquarters since he was
driven out of Manchuria
The japanese are expected to drive
right through to the Great Wall of
China, bringing them even closer to
the ancient city of Peiping. On the
eastern extremity of the wall, which
forms the southern boundary of Jehol.
they now hold the Chinese city of
Shanhaikwan and thus effectively shut
of any chance of Chinese reinforce
ments reaching Jehol through the sea
level passages in the great WALL
DECISION ON LEAGUE REACHED.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
LETICIA PARLEY PUT OFF

GENEVA, February 90 L9.-A League
of Nations Council session for considera-
tion of the dispute over Leticia. between
Peru and Colombia, was postponed today
until tomorrow at the request of Fran
cisco Calderon, Peru's representative.
Calderon sent word that he would not
be able to arrive from Paris earlier.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
MARK HOWE, PULITZER
PRIZE WINNER, STRICKEN
Biographer and Historian Operated
on for Appendicitis at
Boston,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, February 20.-Mark An
thcny De Wolfe Howe. SO, noted author,
biographer and Pulitzer prize winner, is
in a critical condition at Massachusetts,
General Hospital after an appendicitis
operation.
Howe was operated on Friday and
last night physicians said he was in
"a very weakened condition" He won
the Pulitzer prize in biography in 1924
with his Letters of Barrett Wendell" !"
He was for a time associate editor of
both the Youths Companion and At
lantic Monthly and has written several
biographies and historical sketches.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
Lumber Steamer Sinks.

GIJON. Spain. February 20 L4D.-The
coastwise steamer Pena Castillo, loaded
with lumber, sank yesterday near the
Spanish port of Laurca, with the Joss of
saved.
1t was believed the vessel sank during
storms which have been sweeping the
coast. "a
Evening star., 1933-02-20
Snow Grips England.

LONDON, February 20 (Pl.-A sharp
cold spell with intermittent snow fur
ries has gripped the whole of England.
Many roads in the north were blocked
by snowdrifts today and along the coast
life boats aided small vessels through
a heavy fog.
Evening star., 1933-02-20
KIDNAP BILL SIGNED
Amends District Code to Provide
Life Imprisonment.

President Hoover today signed bill
amending the District of Columbia Code
so as to provide life imprisonment for
kidnapers
The legislation was introduced in
Congress last year following the kid
naping of the infant son of Col.
Charles A Lindbergh. District officials.
in recommending it, pointed out the
laws here were not sufficient to impose
life sentence on kidnapers.