Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - December 5, 1932, Waterloo, Iowa ALL THE NEWS FOK ALL THE FAMILY ESTABLISHED 1858 FIRST WITH THE NEWS THE WEATHER Rain turning to snow Tuesday and la northwest tonight colder Tuesday and In west tonight sunrise Tuesday Shippers Northern half 24 southern half 30 WATERLOO IOWA MONDAY DECEMBER 5 1932 TWELVE PAGES THREE CENTS HOUSE REJECTS REPEAL PROHIBITION LAW Police Block March of Hunger Army Marchers Threaten to Kill U S Investigator Chase Priest Camp SPEND UNCOMFORTABLE NIGHT IN COLD TRUCKS Lawyers Seek Injunction to Permit Planned March to Capitol Want of Real Necessities Stressed in Appeals Made to Good Fellows Heads Woodmen Washington D President Curtis said Monday he would receive a delegation of not to exceed three members from the demonstrators gathered here Washington D engaged in the first dis- orders of their invasion of ton Monday as extra police gated around the White House and the capital to stem a possible rush of the tattered delegation of 3.000 The marchers priest from their boulevard camp and then ened to kill a portly man they claimed was a department of justice agent Police rescued the latter after the raged crew began to beat him He refused to say who he was but looked almost like a thousand and one other men who drove into Washington from all ends of the nation Sunday Rev Kiro Greek ortho- dox priest previously had entered the camp on the boulevard in the hope of getting some of the marchers to pray They jeered and told him to beat it He away slowly tears in his Guard Capitol The marchers cold uncomfortable hours waiting for breakfast after they had risen from their pillows of shoes on the ment A truck finally arrived with apples bread A Hoover shouted one demonstrator as he munched an ple Police meantime locked the entrances to the capital building and subjected every visitor closest scrutiny Officers also redoubled their guard around the White officers stood at every entrance other police were hidden nearby and -all callers had to run the gauntlet The cold and road-weary hosts of the hunger marchers tumbled out of their trucks determined to try to overcome by legal writ or force the cordons of police who barred them from their halls of con- gress Feel Pressure of Police Everywhere around them they felt the pressure of the forces law and order Lines of policemen reinforced by 400 firemen sworn in as special officers confined them in a roped off section of boulevard on the edge of the city army posts troops stood by for a tion in event District of Columbia of- are unable to put down any disorders Attorneys representing the ers planned to seek an injunction in District of Columbia supreme court Monday against the district commissioners police They argue that the heavy guard deprives the marchers of their con- privilege of petitioning congress The attorneys were re- after a group ers headed by Mary Heaton Verse Malcolm Cowley Michael Gold and Continued on column three E was chosen national commander of the Woodmen of the World in their Omaha con- vention Associated Press Look on Page 1 House Rejects Repeal Marchers Start Trouble Tax Sale Postponed War Debts Discussion 2 C F W C Annual Party Murder at Perry la Repeal Vote Roll Call Memorial 4 Editorial 5 The Push Bank News of Society 7 Magazine Features 8 Pop Warner Resigns Minor Baseball Meet 9 H S Contest Radio Programs 10 Classified Ads 11 Market Quotations 12 Comics Cross Word Jacobsen Only Iowa Representative Who Voted for Repeal Washington D B M Jacobsen of Iowa's Second con- gressional district was the only member of Iowa's congressional dis- who voted for the repeal Monday Voting against the resolution Dowell Gilchrist Campbell Thurston Ramseyer inson Swanson and Kopp Colorado Senator Flies to Opening Washington D WP Walter Walker ended an auto-air dash from Grand tion Colo to Washington Monday to take the oath and give the of the senate a plurality of one Walker made the trip of miles in 36 hours While some senators hoped er's presence would give the crats an opportunity to organize the senate it appeared doubtful this would be attempted Your Gift Means Difference Between Tragedy and Joy on Christmas Day Will Rogers Points Way fo Lame Duck Congress Santa Monica Cal Everybody is knocking this Lame Duck con- gress But do yon know those fellows have a chance to make a real name for themselves and make us ashamed thai we fired They know exactly how the people voted on every question that they will be asked to decide on They know the majority didn't want they know he majority don't want the debts cancelled they know everybody wants ex- pense cut in halt So when any question comes up all they have to do is read the election returns Course if they want to still be on the minority side of all these things we will know exactly why they was defeated Yours WILL ci 1033 Syndicate Inc Senator Davis on Way to Sanitarium Washington D James Davis R is en route o Battle Creek Mich sanitarium for a slight nasal operation Mrs Davis said Monday It's nothing she said He should have I had it done years ago THE TODAY Previously reported First floor Courier em- ployes Requests for clothing are common this year in the letters of children written to Santa Claus in care of The Goodfellows club showing that they feel the want of necessities One boy 12 years old asks for a pair of high top boots some stockings and mittens and an erector set and nothing else letter from a little girl who lives with her grandmother hopes Santa Claus won't forget trie and my Billy who is sick She wants a doll and some ABC blocks and asks that Santa bring her baby brother a rattler a Teddy bear and a ball Can't Write to Santa Investigation by members of the Unemployed Relief club in its systematic search by precincts of needy families revealed one family so destitute that there was no paper on which to even write a letter to Santa There are three ages 5 3 and 1 The oldest chap asked the investigator to tell Santa to please him and his brothers on Christmas The boys were ised that Santa visit them Cash for Happiness Money for the Good Fellows fund is solicited by the Courier Every penny will be spent in making some little boy or girl happier on Christmas All donations received by the Courier will be credited to the donor specified That extra or piece of silver you have in your pocket the difference between Christmas and tragedy for some youngster Student Automobile Crash Allen ter 16 high school student was killed and six persons were injured when automobiles en by Allen of port and Herman Hergert of rard collided on highway No at a turn near the airport Sunday night was arrested on a state warrant reckless driving and was released on bonds An inquest was to be held Monday night May Draft Smith as Mayor Candidate New drive to draft former Gov Alfred E Smith as a nonpartisan candidate for mayor at election next fall was in full swing Monday led by s group of business and al men On the committee are ward G manufacturer Balch publisher and financier Only under the group stated can government be properly Upholds Law Giving Trial Rights Washington D North Dakota law of 1919 giving the chaser the right to try out certain farm implements and to cancel the contract if the articles were found unsatisfactory was sustained day by the supreme court The case was brought by the ly Thresher Company Inc against A M Jackson of Hettinger county Youthful Slayer Gets Years DELINQUENT TUX Crowd in Courtroom Cheers When Silence Greets Call for Bids SALE NOW SET FOR MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 Harris Madigan Speak No Tax Strike but Property Will Not Bear Burden Bertrano Arnold 16 hammer slayer of his was sentenced to one to 14 years in the tory Monday by Chief Justice John stalski of criminal court FIFTY MISSING IN WRECK Japanese destroyer Sawaradi went down in a storm off Foochow with more than 50 missing it was announced day Fourteen were rescued NOTED WRITER ILL Hollywood Halliburton noted adventurer and writer was ill Monday in a hospital with influenza Martin Machine Made a Good Cigar 3 for 5 for Box Congress Asked for to Make i Mississippi Navigable to Black Hawk county's 1932 quent tax sale was postponed until Monday Feb 6 by Treasurer Ed Madigan Monday when no bids were made at the regular sale called for 10 a m in the courthouse The large courtroom was filled to capacity by taxpayers spectators members of the Taxpayers league of Black Hawk tives of banks building and loan and mortgage companies There was no demonstration No Tax Strike D Harris secretary of the league addressed the gathering and pointed there is no tax strike in Black Hawk county we are law-abiding But we must show the ing bodies that property will no longer bear the heavy burden which has been imposed upon it sive taxes Two Kinds of Bidders Harris pointed out that there are two kinds of those who bid to protect their interests in erty and those who bid to gain the enormous profit possible because of- your distress Madigan then gave a short talk in which he concurred in ments made Harris and pointed out the dire distress in which the county now finds itself because of heavy expense for General Fund The wholesale companies refused to continue selling groceries for dis- thru the county store un- less they were Madigan said So the board found it could pay them from the general fund Now that flat Madigan said he did not care to hold against the will of the people but to do so if there were any bids I don't care to pass the buck to my Madigan explained He then called Miss Anna er newly elected treasurer to front of the where he introduced her to the gathering She was ly applauded Holds Up List Madigan then held up a copy of the published delinquent list and if there was anyone in the room who cared to bid on a single piece of property There was a of silence in the crowded room Then a burst of applause came when no bidders came forward Madigan had previously warned that he did not want anyone to come to his office afterward and complain that did not have a chance to bid If anyone wants to bid I will have to entire gan said Propose Changes in Federal Council of Christian Churches Indianapolis in organization designed to make the Federal Council of Christ Churches in America more responsible to its constituents were recommended Monday in a report submitted to the organization's quadrennial meeting The report was prepared by the committee on function and ture headed by Dr George W Richards president of the ical seminary of the Reformed Church of the United States It includes proposals that the council shall be a smaller unit and shall meet every two instead of four that the executive tee be combined with the committee and meet ly instead of annually and that the various departments while being corded initiative and liberty of tion in its methods and ing shall be responsible to the ex- committee The council's first meeting was called to order Monday by Bishop Francis J McConnell of the dist Episcopal church president of the council Three Senators Leave Sickbeds at First Session Washington D senators left sick beds to attend Monday's opening session Senator Brookhart Iowa Re- publican left Walter Reed pital where he is recuperating pneumonia just long enough to answer the call Senator Nye North Dakota Republican from an automobile accident and tor Sheppard Texas Democrat who has been ill for the past day or two both left their homes for the occasion but hurried back Nye learned Monday from an x-ray examination that he broke four instead of two ribs in his accident several weeks ago Gandhi Loses Six Pounds in Fast Maj Gen Lytle Brown Seeks Appropriations to Take Out Obstructions Washington D Gen Lytle Brown chief of the army en- who administer work for rivers and harbors Monday asked congress for to carry on work along the Mississippi river from the Ohio river to Minneapolis The estimates asked for the fiscal year of Mississippi river from Ohio to Illinois rivers for ment and for nance Mississippi from Illinois to apolis and Mill crook and South slough at Milan 111 and St Croix river Wisconsin and Minnesota 000 for maintenance This includes the Rock Island 111 district which as described by the engineers report comprises the watershed of the Mississippi river from the mouth of the Wisconsin to the mouth of the Illinois river a distance of 423 miles and includes locks at Keokuk Moline and at the canal and also tlw Illinois and Mississippi canal The project for the most part would bring about the removal of snags and other obstructions from the river's brd making it navigable fts far as Minneapolis j Poona Mahatma Gandhi was six pounds lighter in weight and so weak he had to be carried on a stretcher Monday as the a 24-hour hunger strike on behalf of an untouchable prisoner Gandhi suspended his fast until Wednesday while on officials considered case WATERLOO AUTO TOLL SINCE JANUARY 1 1932 SOVIET LI Japanese Charge at Moscow Tells Russia Troops Must Use Railroad Japanese army pushed to a point within 75 miles of the soviet border in Manchuria Monday in its campaign against in- surgent Chinese a situation which gave the government pause as to the attitude of Moscow Tokio officialdom concentrated on Russo-Japanese relations especially in of the fact that the nese troops might push on to chuli the Manchurian border city Explains to Moscow The foreign office disclosed that Eiji the Japanese charge fairs at Moscow had approached the foreign commissar of Russia L M Karakhan as to the circumstances of The charge told Karakhan that it was necessary for Japanese army to attack Chinese gent who has been of western Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese and has been keeping more than 100 Japanese as hostages The Japanese charge also advised Russia it would be necessary to use the western division of the Chinese eastern railway over which Russia has partial authority To Repair All Damage The Russian commissar was also advised the Japanese policy was as previously outlined i e not to in- jure the Chinese Eastern if ble and repair all damage resulting from Japanese operation Dispatches from Tsitsihar the base of Japanese tions in the northwest said the Japanese expedition had taken pass and was ing thru the Kinghan mountains toward Hailar the Chinese forces having fled at the of the Japanese Insull Extradition Papers at papers for the return of Samuel Insull for- mer utilities magnate to Chicago to answer embezzlement charges ar- rived at the United States legation Monday The papers were sent to the for- eign ministry for transmission to the ministry of justice and the court of appeals the date for hearing Insull and American officials are ready with evidence to fight the case Christmas Customs FOREIGN LANDS Any Fiscal Action Is Purely Precautionary Baldwin Tells Mellon LONDON URGES BARTEX TO AID WORLD TRADE 01 Movie Slayer Suggest Medium of Ex- change That Requires No Gold Transfers Prime ter Stanley Baldwin was understood Monday have told Ambassador Andrew W Mellon that Great Brit- ain does not plan a punitive tariff policy against American products if postponement of the December war debt payment is refused Mellon's visit to Baldwin day was understood to have followed a request from Washington for of the reference to tariffs in the British debt note The dor was understood to have outlined the gist of President Hoover's mes- sage to congress and the general at- of the American tion on British note It was reported Baldwin said any fiscal action by Britain would be purely precautionary to the making of the December payment of British Ambassador Sir ald Lindsay was expected to clarify the point to officials of the state department Hoover Seeks Details The American reply to the British request for postponement was ex- to arrive here Thursday or Friday and to be brief The Brit- ish government it was understood proposes to a request for a general reconsideration of war debts regardless of whether the ed States insisted on the December payment Tlie political correspondent of the Daily Mail President Hoover wanted details rn the note references to payment in gold and restriction of United States im- ports Meanwhile the London Chamber of Commerce pushed its scheme to solve the problem of by creating bartex an artificial of value The new unit based on goods rather than gold or silver would be a modern symbol of ple bartering The Chamber of Commerce plans to ask the government to introduce the bartex within the next few weeks Scheme Is Drastic We admit that our scheme is drastic and far said Sir Stanley Machin senior vice president of the Chamber but the trade tion is so critically serious under the present system that something must be done x The bartex system involves of clearing houses in various countries to handle ing The central bank of each country would fix the local value of bartex A transaction could be made as An exporter in Denmark could draw on his English customer for the value of his shipment -in bartex The English customer would pay the required amount of bartex to his London bank The bank would forward it to a Danish bank where the bartex could be exchanged for Danish krona without gold or currency leaving either country CRESTON GIRL WINS HOLLYWOOD CONTRACT Authorities planned to file a first degree murder charge against Jule Rachman Omaha theatre manager after he shot and killed Harry Goldberg a former business associate Press Russell Sherwood on Way to Europe Ex-Mayor Walker's Missing Secretary Says He Was Held T Sherwood missing witness in the Seabury investigation into fairs of New York alive and well and has taken steps to fight for his rights Cardis Walker an accountant said here Sherwood one-time secretary to and close associate of i J Walker former mayor York spent days here last week Was Held Prisoner Walker said been employed to make an investigation concerning assessments penalties and liens filed against him by the collector of in- ternal revenue in New York Missing for months Sherwood was quoted by Walker as saying he had been held a prisoner on a ranch in northern New Mexico owned by powerful New York commercial and political interests On Way to Europe Walker further quoted Sherwood as saying he kept ranch until October when he escaped with the help of a Mexican wpman Walker said Sherwood is on his way to Canada and will sail from there for Europe Armed Swith Sherwood's power of Walker went to ton and conferred with officials of the revenue department Congress Today Hollywood beauty race was in progress Monday among a new group of young actresses from 10 states to determine who first would attain stardom following the award of 15 film contracts by one studio The fortunate i Lorena Layson Miami Ha Ge- j raine Greer Alice Jans Creston la Pat and Toby Richmond Va Jane Shadduck land Ore Barbara Rogers Ga Maxine Cantway and Renee Whitney Chicago Lynn Browning Kansas City Loretta Andrews St Louis Ann Hovey na Callaghan San Donna Roberts Los Angeles and Margaret LaMarr Redondo Beach Cal Press The program for the opening day of the short session of the Seventy-second SENATE Call to order at noon by Vice President Curtis Swear in new senators Appoint committee to notify President Hoover that senate Is in session Adjourn out of respect for de- ceased members HOUSE Call to order at noon by Speaker Garner Swear in new representatives Roll call Appoint committee to notify President Hoover that house is in session Vote on repeal of the amendment Action Probably Ends Chance of Congressional Repeal at This Session GALLERIES SILENT AS RESULT ANNOUNCED Number of accidents Number injured 163 Number killed 2 la YOUR Are YOU In before the family sets out for church on Christmas Eve children place their shoes in rows on the balcony with straw and grain in them for the horses of the Three Kings so j the steeds may not so hungry while the Magi are worshiping at the manger Re- turning from church the dren find tho Throe Kings have left toys candy and coins in the little shoes Every Six Days School Child Killed or Injured on Black Hawk Highways nf ranked fifth in accidents Bounty 01 tni for the period the Population Rank to Linn's 40 Every six days a school boy or school girl is killed or injured in a street or highway accident in Black Hawk county it was shown Monday by a report of John L Mansfield of the accident record division of Iowa secretary of state's office Mansfield's report stated 48 school j children hart met death or on tho street nnd roads of this j county in the first 10 months of 1932 Black Hawk ranking sixth in of report shows Linn county with greater i only 40 such I dents Safety Education deeded i Ralph W Travis commander of post American gion Monday declared that the re- port shows the highway safety the Legion is conducting out the state while it has doubtless done much good must be pressed vigorously post has sent speakers to various schools erected signs the highways uiRing drivers to exercise caution in the of schools and distributed Continued on two column Leaders Believe Failure to Kill Dry Law May Force Extra Session Washington D official party division of the re- peal roll-call was announced as Those voting lor 168 Republicans 102 Fanner Labor 1 Total 271 Those voting licans 101 Democrats 43 total 144 Washington D house Monday defeated the ner resolution for outright re- peal of the eighteenth The house's action be- to have definitely ended the possibility of congressional approval of prohibition repeal at the present short Speaker Garner announced the vote which was only seven votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to have ried the resolution The vote on repeal was 271 to 144 The clerk of the house ruled that 278 votes were necessary to obtain a two-thirds majority Sixty-two defeated members or those serving only for the the speaker his face flushed but with steady voice made his a brief cheer came from the membership However the great majority of the body which had voted for re- peal sat silent in their seats Their confident hopes for immediate to the states May Session The galleries jammed with tators who had come in tion of seeing the house write the beginning of the end of prohibition made no demonstration whatever when the vote was an- Congressional leaders were of opinion that the house's failure act favorably on outright repeal might be the deciding factor in forcing an extra session of congress after March 4 Speaker Garner has announced that he would oppose any further repeal votes in the house this sion In answer to a question by Eep Michigan assistant Republican leader regarding the status now of the prohibition tion Garner declined to make at definite answer I will question when the time Gamer replied Beaten By Southern Members A number of Democratic from south voted in of their party platform's promise immediate and ied repeal These joining with prohibitionist Republicans formed a coalition sent Speaker Cameras lution down to defeat The house adjourned a few utes after the repeal defeat was an- It was a crushing personal defeat to the new who almost single-handed forced the re- peal issue on a sullen and reluctant house He had however never pre- definite victory altho his party leaders had been unanimous in claiming passage for the tion by a narrow margin Tire resolution had weathered its first test of house sentiment when by 245 to 121 the house decided to consider the repeal resolution This came on a technical parliamentary move which had it been defeated would have automatically killed ther consideration Wet Republicans Help The repeal resolution was called up by white-haired Majority Leader Rainey after the first roll call the last or short session of the congress The opening roll call showed 407 of the 436 members present An- other member appeared later and the inclusion of the six new bers would bring the total present to 414 The thus faced the necessity of getting 276 votes to quire the necessary two-thirds for passage of the resolution The Democratic leadership had been confident that the repeal i lution would be passed promptly Repeal forces were heartened by I of the house Republican anti- i prohibition bloc to swing behind the j proposal j A total of 63 bloc members voted unanimously before the house con- i to support the resolution This Indicated according to Bloc Leader LaGuardia that more than 130 Re- publicans would back the move Democratic leaders had predicted passage if assured of 125 from th minority Many Washington D met Monday to begin consideration of problems which challenge tho very of the Curtis and er nt noon an pase two column
