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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
TREASURY SILENT
ON HEWES RUMOR
Morgenthau Admits Changes
but Fails to Comment
on Resignation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Acting Secretary Morgenthau said
today at q press conference that both
the Internal Revenue Bureau and the
Secret Service have been taken from
the authority Of Assistant Secretary
Thomas Hewes, but declined to COM
ment on Treasury rumors of Hewes'
resignation.
Il have no comment" Morgenthau
replied to questions about the resigna-
ton Of Hewes. "I,l have to let it 60
at that"
Asked what his purpose was in
bringing the Internal Revenue Bureau
and Secret Service under his own d.
rect supervision, the Acting Secretary
OF the Treasury said he wanted to
fam1liar1ze myself with the work and
felt 1t best to have direct contact with
the men in charge"
Both Reported to Hewes.
Until Morgenthau issued his orders
this week both Guy T. Helvering, COM
missioner Of Internal Revenue, and
William Moran, chief of the Secret
Service, reported to Hewes, the Assist
ant Secretary nominally in charge Of
fiscal affairs.
Since becoming Acting Secretary,
Morgenthau has put in a number of his
own men as special assistants who are
drawing pay out of funds appropriated
Tor the emergency banking act.
Hewes also declined to discuss reports
OF his resignation. Since he is an ap-
pointee OF President Roosevelt, any
resignation would be made to the
President and not to Morgenthau.
Experienced officials at the Treasury,
however, consider 1t unlikely that he
Will remain In the Treasury except upon
Mr.. Roosevelt's personal request.
They said this situation was empha-
sized by the fact that during his half
year of service, Hewes had specialized
IN tax matters, heading the Treasury
Committee working on income tax re-
vision and assisting the House Way and
Means Committee. Dean Acheson, FORM
er Undersecretary, designated him for
this work.
Dissatisfaction Not Seen.
Oficials at the Treasury expressed
the opinion il Hewes should resign it
would not indicate dissatisfaction with
the Presidents program, including his
gold-purchase plan, they represented
Hewes as heartily in accord with Mr..
Roosevelt's ideas.
Hewes was appointed by President
Roosevelt last May. Connesticut Is his
home State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
$5OO,OOO IN BOGUS
MONEY IS SEIZED
Counterfeiting Plant Also Is
Taken in Chicago's North
west Side Cottage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December IA half mil
lion dollars in counterfeit money and
complete counterfeiting plant were
seized last night in a raid by United
States secret service men on q cottage
on Chicago's Northwest Side.
The raid resulted from the arrest two
weeks ago Of two men on the South
Side. One of them had $4,000 in
counterfeit bills In his possession. The
arrests had been kept secret.
The men in custody were william E.
Davis. SO, reputed Capone henchman,
in whose automobile the $4,000 in
bogus money was found, and Henry
Harris.
Neither Davis nor Harris was believed
by Government agents to be a ring
leader in the counterfeiting gang. The
money found In Davis car was all in
bogus IS bills.
Details of the raid, which was con-
Quoted by agents under the direction
Of Capt. Thomas j. Callaghan, chief of
the secret service bureau, were closely
guarded by Government agents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07


There is an exception to the cabinet
Hull. He has asked for very little.
The first request he made for job
was months after he took Office, He
wanted the Finland Post for a news
paper friend. It SO happened that Gen
Farley'S right-hand man, Emil Hurja
also wanted that job.
ModeSty Is such an unusual virtue
in politics that the President did not
have the heart to turn down Hull. Sc
Hurja remained here where he is OF
more assistance to Farley than he would
be in Finland.
The politicians also gnawed real meat
out of the 1900 bank examiners ap-
pointed under the deposit insurance
set-up. Farley Is supposed to have OBJ
tanned less than 20 per cent Of the -
pointments. His associates say he shou.
have had more.
State Department insiders say
Hull t0ill take the responsibility
for the expected failure OF the
current Pan-American Confer
ence, gust as he did at London.
That is ioliat State Secretary is
for.
Certain private individuals are trying
to organize movement to keep the
clergy out Of politics, of which more
may be heard later.
Mr.. Roosevelt has already started
work on his message to Congress and Is
guarding its contents with secrecy. II
is expected to be the most important
State paper in q decade.
Copyright, 1887
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
new OCEAN SHIPPING
RATES AGREED UPON
North Atlantic Lines Announce
Adjustments to Be Effective
January /.
BY the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCIATED freSS.
LONDON, December THE North
Atlantic Shipping Conference, which
has been seeking means to avert q
threatened rate war in ocean shipping,
announced today that new rates will
become effective after January l.
"A complete agreement regarding
classification Of ships and consequential
rate adjustments" was reached, said q
statement following the meeting.
Details Of the rates We're not given
but will be announced in Europe and
America on December %.
The meeting closed the conference,
attended by representatives of the prin-
cipal lines of the United States, Great
Britain, Holland, France, Germany and
Italy.
The official statement follows:
The adjourned meeting of the North
Atlantic Shipping Conference under the
Craftsmanship Of A. B. Cauty of the
White Star line resumed their delibera-
tons today and succeeded in reaching
q complete agreement regarding classi-
fication Of ships and consequential rate
adjustments that have occupied atten-
ton of the lines for several months
past" ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07

needs Of several relief agencies have
not yet been definitely determined.
Some idea of how great this years
needs will be can be obtained from the
fact that last years TOY matinees" re-
suited in distribution of $4,000 gifts.
There are no ironclad rules as to the
nature Of the gifts-anything that Is
suitable to q child's needs will do, Just
so it's new. That's the one strict rule
everything must be brand-new!
List Of Theaters.
A complete list of the theaters par
ticipating in this years TOY matinees''
the third presented by The Star and
Warner Bros.-follows:
Ambassador, Eighteenth street and
Columbia road, Harold Lloyd in Movie
Crazy"
Apollo, ga H street northeast
Wheeler and Woolsey in "Hold EN-
Jail"
Avalon, 56I2 Connecticut avenue. Mitzi
Green in Little Orphan Annie"
Avenue Grand, GAS Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Little Orphan Annie"
Central, Ninth street between D ant
E streets, Laurel and Hardy in PACK
Up Your Troubles"
Colony, Georgia avenue and Farragu'
street, Movie Crazy"
Earle, Thirteenth and E streets
Jackie Cooper in Divorce in the
Family"
Home, 1880 c street northeast, Joe
E. Brown in Elmer the Great"
Metropolitan. Tenth and F streets
Esther Ralston in BLACK Beauty"
Savoy, $3.50 Fourteenth street, George
O'Brien in Golden West"
Tivoli. Fourteenth street and Parl
road, Elmer the Great"
York, Georgia avenue and Quebet
place, Pack Up Your Troubles
All the programs will include up-to.
the-minute short subjects Of variou!
kinds. In all the theaters except thu
Earle, the Metropolitan and the Cen.
trail, the shows win begin at 10 am.
and in those three, things are scheduled
to start happening half an hour earlier
Here's an opportunity to do gooe
turn all around-good for the poor DO.
or girl who receives your gift. and gooe
for you because there's always pleasur,
in making others happyl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
MONETARY POLICIES.
IASSA|LED BY MILLS.
Former Secretary of Treas
! ury Warns of Uncontrolled
Imitation Threat.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December Ogden
Mills declared last night the monetary
policies of President Roosevelt involve
the threat of uncontrolled imitation"
Assailing the administration program
at a dinner in his honor given by the
women's National Republican Club,
Mis- said that in steps taken to raise
the price structure the implication IS
always present that when moderate
measures fail, extreme ones may be at
tempted"
The former Secretary OF the Treasury,
frequently mentioned as a possible Re
publican presidential choice in 1886, de-
clared lit can fairly be said that the
unequal rise in prices in the domestic
market is no greater than would
normally have been expected to &C
company a gradual emergence from
the extreme bottom Of major depres-
sion"
Stressing the Importance of bank
credit in our financial life, Mills said:
ANY attempt to affect the price level
through monetary action which creates
distrust and uncertainty will be restrict
ed and may be nullifled by limiting the
normal creation of commercial credit
the handspring of which is confidence.
Monetary manipulation engenders a
lack of confidence. And the very meas
ures intended to promote credit ex-
pansion and rise in prices contain at
the moment of birth the seeds of their
destruction"
Much of the failure" of the admin
istration's price-raising program, Mills
said, rests on fear of the ultimate
value of the dollar"
Declaring that he would at once put
in motion an orderly program looking
to a return of. the gold standard" Mills
said he would remove this fear" by
restoring the dollar to IN unassailable
position"
A return to the gold standard, he
said, would bring into circulation "a
flow of the all-important bank credits
and would remove with finality the
unquestioned threat of ultimate devas-
tating and ruinous imitation which the
present forces carry"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
GRAN CHACO PEACE
EFFORTS PRAISED
Bolivia and Paraguay Notify
Farley of Willingness to
! Discuss Dispute.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MONTEVIDEO, December Dele
gates Of Bolivia and Paraguay, the two
nations at war over the Gran Chaco,
thanked the Peace Committee of the
Seventh Pan-American Congress today
for its efforts to promote peace between
them.
The delegates Of other nations ap-
plauded as spokesman for both the bel
hgerents said they were interested in
any means to obtain just and reason
able conclusion Of the war.
The Mexican financial project, includ-
ing the discussion of Latin American
debts. was sidetracked, for the time be-
ing, at least, by consent Of DR.. Jose M.
PUG Casauranc, the Mexican foreign
minister. after the United States specif-
debts by the conference.
Referred to Commission.
The Mexican project, which proposed
the formation Of an inter-American
banking system and establishment of an
inter- American currency. as well as debt
moratoria, is to be referred to the inter-
American high commission, which long
has been inactive, but may be revived
to consider the Mexican plan.
The high commission was formed in
1915 in Washington by finance ministers
Of the various American republics dur
ing the first Pan-American financial
conference. 1t was regarded as possible
that the commission might call q special
session to deal with the Mexican sug-
gestions.
Elimination of this project from the
financial agenda was regarded as
likely to shorten the general confer.
ence session considerably.
Study European Issue.
The conference was expected to de-
eide today whether a committee shall
be named to study the requests of the
League Of Nations and Spain and
Portugal to send official observers to
the conference.
Such a committee to "re-examine
purposes" Of the requests was suggested
to the Steering Committee by Secre-
tary of State Cordeu Hull of the
United States.
The proposed committee, 1t was said,
might be instructed to review all three
bids. An earlier committee approved
admission of observers from Spain and
Portugal, but the full committee has
not ratified the action.
Argentina urged Spanish observer.
Brazil asked that Portugal have like
representation. Some wondered then
whether Haiti would propose a French
observer.
Fear was expressed that receiving
| such observers might lead to the in
PRODUCTION of European influences into
pan-American affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07

continued From First Page.)
fall into the Rio Grande during the
fight and are looking for the bodies.
They may have been the two men who
are dead at Liberty Hospital, Juarez,
across the border
The battle started when Melton and
five other inspectors challenged l6 men
who had waded the river with $50
gallons of liquor.
When the smugglers reached the
American side, the officers leaped out
of hiding with drawn guns A blaze of
gunfire met their command to sur
render. Melton fell at the first volley.
The other inspectors returned the fire
as the smugglers dropped their loads
and backed into the river, firing as they
retreated. The firing lasted from three
to five minutes.
During the firing sniper on the
American side shot at the officers from
behind. The patrolmen believe he was
. lookout awaiting the smugglers.
This was the second rum battle in
which border patrolnan was slain
recently. Rollin c. Nochols was killed
in East FL Paso several days ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
LIQUOR RUNNER ROUTED.

LAREDO, Tex, December z R.-
-Four Mexican liquor smugglers were
routed in gun fight with deputy
sheriffs here last night.
AS the smugglers crossed the Rio
Grande the deputies called on them to
halt. They opened fire instead and
the officers returned it.
The men then dropped their sacks
and ran back into the river, escaping
in the darkness. Four sacks of liquor
and alcohol were recovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07

NON0iSA4uCQ fIOul tuSG fdRe.l
Wild enthusiasm was noticeably lack
ing. Arrests for drunkenness reported
from wet centers were said to average
about the same as in prohibition DAYS.
Confusion existed in some States and
sections over the new liquor laws and
regulations. Some States that ratified
the twenty-flrst amendment still were
dry, particularly Utah, the 36th State.
which failed to repeal its own constitu-
uonal prohibition.
Maine Stays Arid.
Maine yesterday became the 37th
State to ratify, but the foot of the
repeal calliope already had died in the
distance. Maine, the first State in the
union to go dry. remains arid under
its own constitution.
North Carolina, which defeated ratifi-
cation by the greatest majority, stuck
to its 81 gallon corn liquor, but South
Carolina, which also voted against re-
peal, had its "quart-a-month' law re-
vived
At Peoria, NJ, and other big distilling
points, smoke from scores of stacks indi-
Gated whisky plants were again in full
blast. Many men were reported to have
been given employment. The Internal
Revenue Bureau increased its field force
at these places to collect taxes on liquor
Withdrawn for sale.
Dry Foes To Disband.
In New York. the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment decided
that since its repeal objective had been
attained 1t would disband. However,
1t will continue a small Office under
another name In Washington to op-
pose too much Federal regulation Of the
liquor traffic and to help States In for
mulatfng liquor control legislation.
Mexican and Canadian border points
that thrived on thirsty Americans dur
ing prohibition were virtually deserted.
Only half dozen vessels were reported
in the rum fleet of the North Atlantic
Coast.
Two projected so-called cocktail
cruises Of vessels that catered to Ameri-
cans were called of at New York by
steamship companies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
Fight Over State Rights.

Morgan and Harcourt Morgan are I'M
able to see eye-to-eye.
Fight Over State Rights.
The associates Of Arthur Morgan
say he favors a strong Federal ap-
proach to the problem. For in
stance, he wants the soil erosion pro-
tective measures taken by the Fedora
Government. That is logical, in ar
interstate project.
Harcourt Morgan is pictured by his
friends as a State rights man. The!
want to turn as much soil protection
as possible over to the States.
The third director, David Lilienthal
sits in the middle twiddling his thumbs
He votes first with one Morgan an6
then with the other. His prime In.
tereSt in life is to shoot bent pin.
been perfect SO far.
Patronage Hard to Solve.
The matter of patronage is more
serious. The Norris law says politica
recommendations should be disregardec
in making appointments.
Arthur Morgan has tried to fol-
lou that rule strictly, but he has
mot been entirely successful.
One engineer who passed a civi
service examination was amazed to fine
those with lower marks getting job:
ahead of him. He inquired about il
among friends and was told if he want
ed job he had better get a recon.
mendation from his Democratic coun-
ty chairman. He could not do that
because he was registered as q Repub-
To t,n 20 AI,s
on the relief roll.
certain Southern Senator has hi!
ire up because Arthur Morgan will moi
appoint his men.
Privately Disowned.
Director Lilienthal was supposed tx
have been privately disowned by tn,
administration when he made that frs
speech offering a sharply lower rat,
scale to the power companies.
The whisper was officially passec
around that he spoke for himself alon,
on that proposition. The power com
panieS said he was absurd.
A teD iueeks later he tDent to
Atlanta and made stronger
speech. He said that T. v. A.
meant the beginning OF new
national poaUer policy and ma
tiondl pOiDer program. He
stressed t,0o objectipes: faJ Rad
ically reduced rates. (b) EUen-
tual control Of poper by the
people"
What the power boys murmuree
about that might just as well be LEFT
unsaid.
The fact seems to be that Lilientha
represents the Roosevelt view to q fal
greater degree than the power peopl,
suspect.
Playing Game Squarely.
Those who have made an impartia
inside study Of the general patronag,
situation say the administration Is gen.
orally playing the game squarely.
They insist Morgenthau, Iskes, Wal.
lace and Perkins, among the cabinet
members, are sticklers for Civil Service
requirements on lower class jobs. They
are giving their friends and politica
allies the cream. which is to be ex.
pected.
Some of the other cabinet OIL
cials accepted CiuiI Service rules
generally, but stretch them con-
siderably to take in political
friends. That is not hard to do.
Where the political gravy flows freely
Is in the emergency relief agencies anc
new commissions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
GOV. R0LPH SILENT

LOS ANGELES, December 7 R.-
Gov. James Rolph, jr, who voiced APP
prevail of the recent San Jose lynchings,
declined to comment last night ON
President Roosevelt's Washington speech
to q church convention, excoriating
lynching and inferentially rebuking the
Governor, but not by name.
The Governor indicated he possibly
might have some comment later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07

a person who never had been in Mexico,
of course, indicates a forged document
Of some sort was presented. Just what
did happen Miss Pearl Mccall, assistant
district attorney, to whom the woman
took the unsought divorce papers in her
concern over the stigma of nlegitimacy
thus thrust upon her child, intends to
find out.
that such divorces, obtained without
Mexican residence, are invalid, they
serve the purpose. In most cases both
parties have agreed upon the procedure,
which leaves them free to marry again.
after previous settlement of their prop
erty division. If they do remarry no.
body is likely to challenge them. And
even If either was arrested on q charge
of bigamy the possession Of such a court
document probably would absolve them
from criminal intent.
Curiously enough, before the local sit
uation was known, tricky question in
volving the legality of such divorce
formed part of the last District Of Co.
lumbia bar examination. A hypothetical
situation was presented In which Mary
Smith obtained such divorce from
John Smith, who died a few years later,
demanded her dover rights on the
grounds that, since such Mexican di-
vorce was fraudulent and hence invalid,
she was the legal widow.
The question, Of course, involved not
only the invalidity of the divorce itself,
OF which there could be little question,
but the action of the woman in coming
into court with 'unclean hands" 1t
called for a nice bit of reasoning on the
part of the prospective lawyers.
Distribute Advertisements.
But the flood of Mexican divorces
now coming into the United States
since other cities presumably have their
Mexican agents as well as Washing
TONS expected to give rise to many
such issues in q few years when the
recipients begin to pass away and their
estates come up for settlement. Even
If the divorced person actually lived
the required period In Chihuahua pure
ly for the purpose Of obtaining d.
vorce and came back to the United
States. Immediately afterward, the
validity is questionable. When there
was no residence, and the divorce OBJ
viously was obtained by q forged docu-
ment, 1t would have no standing what
soever before an American court.
The local agencies. it is asserted,
actually distribute advertising literature
asserting that their divorces are "as
good as Reno divorces" Recently
pamphlets have come into the city adj
yertising Cuban divorces" at cheaper
rate even than the Chihuahua brand,
and worth just about as much before
any court
The situation has been investigated
by the Better Business Bureau and the
evidence placed In the hands of the
Bar Association Committee.
The recent decision of the Mexican
Supreme Court declaring invalid any
Chihuahua divorce secured without the
property residence does not materially
alter the situation, It Is claimed, since
fakeY, serina1slv ANYWAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-07
SUIT TIES UP OIL SHIP

COLON, Panama, December R.-
The tanker Wilhelm A. Riedemann,
carrying oil from Venezuela for Eng
the owners of the tanker Willamette
Valley, en- route from Vancouver to
London.
The suit followed upon q collision
in the harbor at Balboa Tuesday. Efforts
to settle claims tonight were unsuccess-
full, although the loc0 agents of the
West India Oil Co. accepted RESPONSE
hility for the crash.
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CONTINUED From First Page.)
Cape Breton Coast. It was assumed the
four guardsmen were still prisoners.
The ships had not proceeded far
cutter heard sounds of struggle on
the rum runner. A sailor on the latter
ran to the bow and hacked at the tow
ing cable with an ak.
1t parted and the 125-foot rum ship
swung about and headed for the open
sea. The Stumble Inn fired warning
shots, but was outdistanced. After re-
porting at North Sydney, she put back
TO sea to continue the search.