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Evening star., 1933-01-24
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Report on Bankruptcy Bill
Says Carriers Have Reached
Borrowing Limit.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tie ASsocia ted Press
A warning that many railroads face
reorganization or receivership was con-
tanned in the report on the McKeown-
La Guardia bankruptcy bill placed be-
fore the House today by its Judiciary
Committee. The bill is looked upon by
its sponsors as bound to help the sit
uation Of such carriers.
The measure is backed by beth the
Democratic and Republican leadership
and Is in line with President Hoovers
recent message to Congress urging re-
vision Of the bankruptcy law to faci,i-
tate reorganization of corporations and
fer the benefit Of hard-pressed indi-
viduals
In his report Chairman Summers said
railroads are at this time excluded
from the operation of the bankruptcy
law" and added. The necessity for the
enactment of this section grows out of
the present expensive, protracted, con-
fusing and inefficient administration of
affairs Of railroad companies engaged IN
interstate commerce in equity receiver
ships"
TIE necessity for its immediate en-
actment results" the report said, from
the fact that at the present time many
Of the railroad organizations of the
country confront the necessity of re-
Orga ganization. They have reached the
limit of their ability to borrow from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
They must either reorganize under
some arrangement such as is provided
for by this section, or be administered
in equity receiverships. The protracted
period of such administration, the dupli-
cation of expense incident to ancillary
receiverships, the waste. the opportu-
nifty for manipulation on the part of
special groups, are too well-known to
require comment"
Provisions of Measure.
The report explained the railroads
section provides that a railroad cor
pcration engaged in interstate COM
merce may file petition in the Fed
eral Court, stating that the railroad is
either insolvent of unable to meet its
debts as they mature. and that it de-
sires to effect plan of reorganization" :"
1T is required" the report continued,
that the Judge shall ascertain that the
petition is filed in good faith and COM
plies with the provisions of this sec
tion. and upon such approval the judge
procures jurisdiction of the debtors
property Wherever located.
Hearings for Creditors
There is also provision made, in the
event the railroad company does not
file such petition. for the filing of a Pc
tition by 25 per cent in amount of any
class OF creditors and not less than
10 per cent of all creditors of such
corporation, upon procuring the ap-
proval of the Interstate Commerce
Commission"
Provisions also are made for the fl
ing and consideration of practically any
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Evening star., 1933-01-24
YOUNG MAN FOUND
DEAD FROM GAS
Victim Took Own Life With Pic
ture of Beautiful Woman
Before Him.

With the photograph Of a beautiful
young woman before him, Dennis n
Irwin, 28, today committed suicide by
inhaIing Illuminating gas in the
dinette Of his apartment at 8l5 Egh-
teenth street.
Irwin, clad only in pajamas and
bathrobe, was found dead about l
O'Clock this afternoon. Fire rescue
squad members, who responded to an
emergency call, said the young man
had been dead several hours.
Apparently Irwin had turned on the
jets on the kitchen gas stove shortly
after his two roommates had left the
apartment this morning to 60 to work.
Homicide squad detectives were at
tempting to identity the young woman
whose picture Irwin had placed on a
table In front Of him when he sat down
to die.
Young Irwin was a machine book
keeper employed in the treasurer's Of
dlce Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. He came here last March
from Temple, Tex, where his widowed
uother. Mrs. Lora Irwin. resides.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
Geneva and: Marking Stir
Fear in Tokio-Major
Offensive Looms.
KAILU, IN JEH0L, BOMBED
FIVE TIMES IN z WEEKS
Former Rebel Leader Tuan Joins
in United Front With Nation
alists Against Invaders.
BY the Associated PreSx

BY the Associated Press
japanese military planes .bombarded
the city of Kailu.' Northeastern Jehol
center. for the fifth time in less than
two weeks, it was reported today. The
raids indicated the long-awaited Japa-
nose offensive into that province might
follow over that route.
The Nationalist government foreign
office at Marking dispatched new note
to Japan reiterating Chinese conten-
tions that the Japanese were respon-
sible for the Shanhaikwan clash and
renewing demands that the japanese
withdraw from the city.
Chinese leaders held military confer
ences at Nanking. Marshal Tuan Chi
Jul. former rebel leader and former
President. countered ireports he was still
friendly with the Japanese by joining in
a united front. n -.
Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang. North
China commander, returned to Peiping
from the Nanking parley, More Of his
troops were reported hsading toward
Shanhaikwan.
japanese reports disclosed Japanese
garrison has been established, at Chao-
yang, second largest city in ,Jehol and
last night repelled an attack by an un-
identified Chinese force after an hours
hard fighting.
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Evening star., 1933-01-24
POST OFFICE REVENUE SWELLS
AS DRAKE ESTATE BAN IS FOUGHT
Protests to Justice Department and Members of Con.
~ gress Flood Mails.

The Post Once Department has
tapped new source OF revenue.
A scattered barrage of protests that
started about the time the department
recently barred the mails to the hackers
of the Drake estate" proposition has
become q steady bombardment, with
letters coming in from the Middle West
and Southwest from those who feel that
the departments action has deprived
them of . chance to share In the "es-
tate" Of Sir Francis Drake, which the
department omcials declare Is non
existent.
Not only Is the Post Once Depart
ment getting kicks, but they are also
flooding the Department Of Justice and
Evening star., 1933-01-24
DRY!S ASK BREAD
INSTEAD Of BEER
Conclude Vigorous Attack on
Black Bill Before House
Subcommittee.

Congress was urged not to put the
stamp of governmental approval on
competition between bread and beer as
some 800 representatives Of dry organ
izations concluded a vigorous attack on
the Black beer bill at hearing today
before the House Judiciary Subcom-
mittee.
Chairman Palmisano, Democrat. of
Maryland, announced the hearings
would be closed Thursday, when propo-
nents Of the measure will testify
Francis D. Nichol. representing the
Seventh-day Adventists. charged that
the Black beer bill will remedy none Of
the alleged evils of prohibition.
There Is no reason to believe" he
declared, that 1t would aid in restoring
prosperity, but rather tn, reverse.
and the revenue received xOklld be a
fictitious gain for the District govern
ment. One thing only would be as
sured by the passage of this bill-no
one, old or young, would ever lack for
beer. no matter how great his appetite.
In these days when so many fathers
must make their dollars stretch to the
limit to provide their families with
the bare necessities of life, why legalize
q product which, unless all past history
Is wrong, will present an irrestible
temptation to too many fathers to
squarider a part of their meager earn
ings ask your committee not to put
the stamp upon a program of competi-
ton between bread and beer"
The witness said the beer bill would
restore 90 per cent Of the old legal
liquor business, as it is a matter Of
record that 80 per cent of the liquor
drunk in pre-Volstead days was beer.
He said the section Of the bill con-
fining the sale Of beer to restaurants,
clubs and hotels, is an attempt to
escape the charge Of relegaliztng the
saloons. There is no essential
difference, he asserted, so far as the
beer aspect of the question is concerned,
between the old-time saloon and the
liquor dispensing agencies permitted in
this bill. =
In declaring that 80 per cent beer IS
Mr.. Nichol told the COM
mittee the story of q conversation be-
tween father and son IN German
Daddy" ineuired~the son, when is
a man druhk?"
SON. tho parent replied. you see
those two men over at the next table?
When those two men look like four
men. then you are drunk"
But" returned the little boy, there
aren't two men there, there's only one"
Just what might happen to the
motorist who thought he saw two cars
approaching abreast when he thought
there was only one, leave to my hear
ers," he said.
Cites Alcohol Deaths.
Mr.. Nichol cited figures to show that
from 1919 to 1917, inclusive, the deaths
from alcoholism in the District Of Co.
lumbia per 100000 were 6.737. From
1920 to 1890, he said, they were 3.
Throughout the entire country during
the wet era. he said, the figures were
5.325 before prohibition and 3.136 after
ward.
He contended these figures refuted
arguments of the vets that there is
more drinking now than in pre-prohibi-
ton times.
In asserting that legalized beer would
be injurious rather than beneficial to
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Evening star., 1933-01-24
FORD SOUGHT TO HEAD
UNIFIED DRY GROUP
Invitation, Sponsored by DR.. Will
son, Supported by President of
Enforcement Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A movement is under way among
leaders of dry organizations to invite
Henry Ford to head a unified group Of
all prohibition proponents.
DR.. Clarence True Wilson of the
Methodist Board of Temperance. Pro-
hibition and Public Morals made the
suggestion at a recent meeting of the
Council of Organizations Supporting
the Eighteenth Amendment-embraci
virtually every group in the United
States opposed to change in the prohi-
bition laws.
The plan would be to send a COM
mittee to Detroit and ask Ford to be-
come general chairman of either the
Council of Organizations or the Ma
tional Temperance Council, another
similar organization.
The plan has received support from
Clinton N. Howard. president Of the
National United Committee for Law En-
forcement.
Ford would be asked to take charge
and organize along the lines Of his
business.
He will likely be invited to meeting
in March of church leaders summoned
by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of the
Methodist Church to unity the prohibi-
ton movement.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
BRITISH WANT ALL
DEBTORS IN PARLEY
Understanding With French
Regarding Settlement Is
Chief Worry.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Great Britain, while pleased at the
invitation of the State Department to
send a delegate to Washington to dis
cuss the question of an eventual re-
vision of debts, is endeavoring to in
clude the defaulting debtor nations in
these conversations. The defaulting ma
tions are France, Belgium, Poland and
Esthonia
Sir Ronald Lindsey, the British Am
baSsador, called yesterday afternoon at
the State Department, throwing certain
diplomatic hints as to the advisability
of having general debt conference
While the British Ambassador had
called on one of the assistant secre-
taries, Ambassador Rosso of Italy called
on Secretary Stimson to discuss in
formally the deb: situation Signor
Rosso indicated he had no official in
structions" to approach the Secretary in
regard to Italy's position in the new
developments, but when he left Mr..
Stimson's Office, he had an informal in
vitation to ask his government to send
a representative to Washington to dis
cuss the Italian debt question.
The British have been uneasy since
the state Department extended the in
vitation to send a representative to
Washington last week.
Additional Information Sought.
officials of the British embassy have
been endeavoring to get additional in
formation to elucidate to their govern-
ment. The British cabinet does not
know what the President-elect would
want them to do in order to obtain a
settlement. They don't know whether
the American Government would in
sist on their throwing overheard the
Ottawa agreement. or whether it would
insist on an immediate return to the
gold standard. They also maintain the
links between debt revision and the
economic conference are so closely In
terwoven it would be impossible to come
to any final agreement unless all the
other interested nations were included
in the discussions which are to take
place soon after M. Roosevelt comes
into ONCE.
The main worry of the British, how
ever, Is their commitments to France.
Last Summer, the Lausanne agree
merlt, whereby Germany was relieved
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Evening star., 1933-01-24
ARMY OFFICERS
PAY CUT PASSED
House Adopts Amendment
Expected to Affect Half
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of Personnel.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House today adopted an amend
ment to the War Department bill ex-
pected to reduce the pay of nearly half
the Army officers and save $500. 900
year
Proposed by Representative Tabar.
Republican, of New York. and adopted
by 60-to-44 vote. it would change the
basis for computation of longevity pay
allowed Army officers.
At present, man who became>~an
active officer before July /. 1922 is
entitled to count all his service before
that time in computing longevity pay
A man who became an active officer
after that time could count only the
time after he enlisted.
West Point Graduates.
Graduates from West Point before
1922 are allowed to count their four
years of/service in the Military Acad-
emy; those who finished after 1922 may
count only the service after they were
commissioned as second lieutenants.
= The Taber amendment would require
all pay to be computed on the same
basis.
Taber told the House it would reduce
expenditures by the War Department
s3,500, 900 a year. He said 5,064 Army
officers out of the 10000 would be af-
fected: that a similar amendment to
the Navy Department appropriation bill
would affect the pay of 4,243 Navy OFF,
GERS out of 8,781 and of 481 Marine Off
GERS out of l,042
The House reduced from s14.817 to
$4,817 an appropriation in the bill for
continuing the establishment Of ma
tional military park at the battlefields
of the siege of Petersburg, Va.
Training Camps Upheld.
Disregarding proposed economies sup
ported by Democratic leaders. the House
yesterday voted to continue the Citizens
Military Training Camps next year. and
added s2,500,0oO to the War Depart
ment appropriation bill
1t likewise followed the lead of Re-
publicans and agreed to spend $572 900
more on Organized Reserves than the
Appropriations Committee had recon-
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Evening star., 1933-01-24
Bank Rug gWovenLike
S. Federal Reserve
Note o. KID by US.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fTeSS.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, January "a.
The Government figures rug
woven to resemble a IS Federal
Reserve note hardly constitutes
counterfeiting.
Somebody presented the Union
Planters National Bank & Trust
Co. with the rug last Summer. 1t
was patterned after a bank note
and Secret Service agents, called
to inspect it and rule whether it
violated the counterfeiting laws,
were reluctant to express an
opinion.
So the rug was sent to Wash
inston and now it has been re-
turned with the Governments
permission to use it.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
HOUSE APPROVES BILL
TO MAKE CROP LOANS
soc, ,0O0, 900 of R. F. c. Funds
Would Be Available Under
New Provision.

The House today approved the crop
production loan bill making $50 900 900
of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
funds available for advances to farm
ers In 1888.
The action was in agreeing to re-
port from q committee which adjusted
differences between the House and Sen
ate, the latter body having yet to act
before 1t goes to the White House.
The House had placed q SIS, ,000. 900
limit on the fund and 1t was Boosted
to $lo0, ,000, 900 by the Senate.
Chairman Jones Of the House Agri-
culture Committee, author Of. the
measure; pointed out that 500, 900 900
was . compromise.
It includes $1,000, 900 for loans to
farmers In storm or drought stricken
areas for live stock feed.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
YALE MEN ELECTED
FROM BURLESQUE PERFORMANCE
Police Called by Management After Students in Box
''Steal" Show From Actors.

a box and "stole" the show from the
company, The audience from orchestra
to gallery was largely Of students.
There was a constant "patter" be-
tween box and audience for some time
and a bass quartet In the gallery sang.
When the speciality acts were resumed
the students interpolated at times.
When an actor sang Il Only Have q
Nickel" the students showered him with
coin.
While 1t was understood about 30 stu
dents were escorted outside during the
evening, no complaint was entered q
arrest made. =. ~
Evening star., 1933-01-24

members Of Congress. approximately
500 addressed to Attorney General
Mitchell made their appearance this
morning. They are all of the same
tenor, threatening to seek redress
through the courts.
All come by registered mail, and at
18 cents each business is good for the
Post Once Department.
Before the department stopped mail
to agents Of the Drake estate" Post
Once Department officials estimated
that approximately $2,500 week was
being sent from this country to Eng
land to q man there who says he is
an heir Of Drake and who has been
collecting this fund reputedly to press
the claim Of ''heirs" in this country to
their share. These contributions have
been made for about 10 years.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
LEAGUE PuFslE:1llc[IA i
QUEsTIoNpN AGENDA
Action Taken ,Sls! following {. peru''
Request for Suspension Of All
Measures Of Force.

By the Associated PreSS 'f
GENEVA, January l24.-The Council
of the League Of Nations, responding
to Peru's request that the League order
q suspension of alllmeasuress Of force.
placed the Ieticia question on its
agenda today. ~, -.
The committee Oh the chaco situs-
ton. consisting Of irish, Guatemalan
and Spanish members, was asked to
prepare a report oh THE Letieia situa-
ton and present itato the Council.
Sean Lester, retixing president, gave
an account of the correspondence which
had passed between Lima, 'Bdsota and
himself -. -
Baron Pompeo Aloisi ofeItaly is pre-
siding at the Council session.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, January "A
demcnstrative group Of Yale under
graduates at q revival of burlesque at
s1sabert's Theater last night made so
much uproar that the company man
aeement asked for police protection. A
squad Of 1S oficers was sent.
The theater has been given over en-
tirely to drama, comedy and opera TOR
five years and the showing In burlesque
was the first here In that period.
The merriment started when five stu
dents Tn evening clothes appeared tn
Evening star., 1933-01-24
JAPANESE FEAR TRAP.
Army Bewildered Over, China. Next
Move. -


Move ~
BY REGINALD swEETLAND.
By Cable to The Star. :,
TIENTsIN, China, January, 24.-Be-
wilderment over Chtnas, next move,
added to a certain amount Of alarm,
best describes the japanese reaction to-
ward the recent turn Of events in North
China. -.
1t is evident to observers. here that
the Japanese are not as sure of them
selves as formerly. TITS change of mind
is a result of the stiffening Of the atti-
tude of the powers at Geneva and of
the conferences going ON at Nanking.
China's capital betweenr Nationalist
leaders .'ts -
when the japanese captGfed, the sea-
port town of ShanhaikWan and passed
down through the Cheat Wall early this
month, Japan had. expected the politi-
cal repercussion to be sufhcient to oust
Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang from power
in North China. (Marshal Chang was
forced out of Mukden' nfote than a year
ago. making his headquarters, at Pei
ping) - - ~
War Fever Spreads. in China
This result, however, $50 far has not
been achieved. Instead 1t has provoked
mobilization of Chinese troops along the
Great Wall and into Jehol Province,
object of the latest, Japanese drive. as
well as spreading the war fever against
Japan throughout the. country. Neither
of these eventualities has Japan count
ed upon. ~ ~ j.
Japan now fears that a trap, has been
set in North China. =
If we now comes into North China, I"
Japanese officials today informed this
correspondent, though I'VE may defeat
the Chinese Army, the consequences
would be startling. It. would mean
aligning the world powers against
Japan, which is the; very trap the Chi
nese have set for u.s."
Chinese, on the other hand, are united
in the feeling that! the Shanhaikwan
and Tientsin, hadsHh amazing effect
of consolidating China and of sending
both former Presdents Tuari Chi-Jui
and Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang to
Marking to confer With the central gov
The Japanese are speculating on the
newest development as showing the
unity with Nankfng of the different
northern political factions. OF which
Japan had hoped to make >rdn use.
Chang oner, frosram.
A new influepsfal political star has
swung into the armament in the person
of v. K Ting. former mayor of Shang-
hal who is urging a threefold program
from Gen. Chang -Kai-Shek, China's
political and military .generalissimo.
This Is to achieyes first. immediate
consolidation of th{ Kuomihtang (rul-
ing party) in an effort to gain popular
support; second Corporation among
present national conflict is compelling
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Evening star., 1933-01-24
POPE TO SEND MESSAGE
Annual Blessing to U. s. to Be
Transmitted by Radio.

VATICAN CITY. January "a R.-
Cardinal Pacelli, the papal secretary Of
state, will transmit to the United States
this afternoon a message conveying the
blessing Of Pope Plus to the clergy and
laity of America. The message will
tnaugurate a commercial radio service
between Vatican City and the United
States. 1t will be directed to Msgr.
Fumasoni- -Biondi, apostolic delegate at
washington, who will relay it to all
bishops.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
PROVINCE SUSPENDS DEBT
Buenos Aires Unable to Meet Pay.
ments on $14o, ,OOO, 900.

BUENOS AIRES. January "a GP.-
The Chamber of Deputies of Buenos
Aires Province today approved an in
definite suspension of provincial foreign
debt payments. The Senate already
has approved the measure. which is
sponsored by the provincial government.
The debts of the province abroad are
the largest of any Argentine govern
mental unit except those of the nation
They approximate $l40000,000, of
which one-half Is owed to the United
States
Evening star., 1933-01-24
Blizzard Hits Istanbul.

IsTANBUI. turkey, January "a Up.
"A blizzard sweeping down from the
Black Sea has coyered Istanbul with
the frst snow of Ne Winter. The un-
employed squat shtvering inside the
mosques, their onlyeshelter.
Shipping was paralyzed and the II
girls was frozen for the tirst time IN
many years. - -" 80.
Evening star., 1933-01-24
Robber Kills Policeman.

KANSAS CITY, January "a R.-
Patrolman Leroy Van Meter, "a, was
shot to death in downtown shoe store
yesterday by robber he surprised in
the act of rifiing the cash register. The
robber. who obtained $50. escaped.
Evening star., 1933-01-24

Radio Programs on Page B-l4
Evening star., 1933-01-24
WEATHER.

%. D. weather Bureau Forecast,
Fair, with lowest temperature about
SO degrees tonight; occasional rain be-
ginning tomorrow afternoon or night.
Temperatures-Highes 81. at 800 pm
yesterday; lowest, 50, at 500 am. today
Full report on Page A-9.
Evening star., 1933-01-24

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