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BLACK CLOUDS GATHER ABOUT ARMS PARLEY Outlook Is Discouraging as Nations Prepare to Talk Peace at Geneva. WORLD FATE AT STAKE Danger Spots Dot Globe to Menace Efforts for Disarmament. BY WILLIAM PHILII* SIMMS Scrippt-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Today —exactly seven weeks from the scheduled opening of the vital Geneva arms parley—finds President Hoover about to name the American delegation, tentatively with Secretary Stimson as its head. Probably no international conference of similar import ever faced so black an outlook or had so forbidding a background. It yet may be postponed on this account. But once under way, it will be the test of whither the world is bound. From it, diplomats here and in European capitals agree, the nations will emerge headed toward renewed confidence, disarmament and prosperity, else back toward 1914, anew armaments race and eventually war. Danger spots dot the world like smallpox. Here are some of the most outstanding: Orient Strife-Torn 1. Possible war between China and Japan, over Manchuria. Or between Russia and Japan. Or between Japan and Russia and China together. 2. Possible dismemberment of China with the great powers, omitting the United States, scrambling for the pieces. 3. The growing possibility of a new European balance of power with France, Poland, Czecho-Slova-kia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Belgium on one side against England, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary on the other. 4. A defaulting, bankrupt Germany about to turn Fascist, headed by a Hitler with a program calculated either to plunge Germany into civil war or into a war with France. France Proud of Power 5. Anew France, mightier than at any time since Napoleon rode his white horse from Rome to Moscow —a France which has superseded Britain as cock of the walk in Europe, militarily, financally, economically, and in prestige—a France which has no intention of disarming. 6. A slipping England—an England without an empire, without a market, without gold and without much hope of a comeback unless, perhaps, by means of a hookup with some European balance of power. 7. Poland, at daggers drawn with Germany on one side and afraid of Russia on the other. 8. A ring of steel about Germany, a ring formed by Fiance and her allies —Poland, Czecho - Slovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Belgium. There is slight chance of these countries laying down their arms. Russia Growing Threat 9. A Russia, suspicious of Europe on the west and Japan on the east —a Russia which now is creating the biggest standing army in the world, with an industrial and agricultural organization behind it to make it self-sustaining in time of war. 10. An Italy that insists upon military and naval parity with France and whose aspirations run counter to French desires. 11. An India that is expected to go berserk any time in an effort to detach herself from British rule. 12. An entire world, more than half of which is in. or bordering on, revolution or war, the rest being in a state of nervous uncertainty over what may happen. Lack of Money Factor On the other side of the ledger, however, there is at least one powerful argument in favor of success at Geneva. That is the lack of money with which to support powerful military establishments. There is not a single first-class power on earth with a balanced budget. All are hopelessly in the red now and for several years to come. Proportionately reduced expenditures on arms throughout the world would help restore the situation. “But the trouble there,” a pessimistic official here declared, “is that most nations in the world today are like pioneers used to be in our western mining towns. When hard up and money had to be raised somehow. they would rather pawn their pants than their pistols.” DENY SHEARER CHARGE Toor Basket Under Fire Not From Kaston Cos., Says Attorney. Walter Clarke, attorney for the Center township trustee, today announced that the food delivered in a poor relief basket to Earl DeNoon, 2160 Bosart avenue, did not come from the Thomas Kaston Grocery Company, Twenty-second and Olney street, as charged by County Commissioner John Shearer. “The basket was delivered by another grocery and the Center township trustee. Miss Hannah Noone, is investigating the situation. “Recommendations regarding discharge of the grocer responsible will be made as soon as the probe is complete, If the charges of ‘rancid boiling beef’ and decayed vegetables are found to be true.” Clarke said. Young Mother Punished By Timet Sper,al BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Dec. 16.Goldie Russell. 19-year-old mother, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Herbert Rundell to sixty days in the correctional department of the Indiana woman’s prison and fined $5 for’ contributing to the neglect of her child. It was charged that the mother attended dances and became intoxicated.

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BALTIMORE. Dec. 16.—Waving a tiny American flag and crooning "Boop-Boop-a-Doop,” Harry K. Thaw strolled down the gangplank of the City of Baltimore a few minutes after it docked this morning. Thaw has only “best wishes” for his former wife, Evelyn Nesbitt, hostess at the

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As he descended the gangplank, those who passed him heard Thaw singing softly: “Boop-Boop-Pah-Doop.” a a an it h Now We Can Go on With Christmas liH liniled Press CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Just in time for the Christmas rush, a home delivery “set up” service providing every accessory but the liquor has been established here. Advertisements for the service, guaranteed “from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m.,” have been issued in a pamphlet of receipts telling how to mix drinks. tt n tt nn'tt Bandit Gets Bullet for Generosity Itii United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Somewhere in Chicago today a gunman with a fondness for children was nursing a bullet wound received when he displayed his generosity ill advisedly. The robber, about 30 years old, entered a drug store. Pointing a pistol at Abraham Anscher, the clerk, he forced him into the prescription department. The bandit then rang up “no sale” on the cash register and was emptying the till when a small boy entered. “Gimmie a dime’s worth of gumdrops, mister,” said the boy. Certainly, sonny,” said the robber, opening a glass candy show case, “here, take all you want.” Meanwhile, Anscher found a revolver hidden for such emergencies and opened fire on the gunman. Twelve shots were exchanged before the robber fled wounded. He escaped with less than $25. tt tt tt a tt tt Flat Tire and a Puncture * By United Prtst CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Morton Tully, 20, is something of a practical joker. He decided to let the air out of tires on a car of a friend who was attending a party. Inadvertently he picked the wrong car and was shot in the leg by the owner, A. M. Doolittle. tt tt tt tt It tt Nine Words Give Clew in Suicide By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 16—In lonely 14-year-old Justina Uherek’s life there was one fascination—the East river, which flowed by the tenement in which she lived. Last night she spread out her meager finery, a wrist watch, her first pair of high-heeled slippers, a string of blue beads, and an artificial flower. Then she sealed the windows, turned on all the gas jets, and lay down on a pillow on the kitchen floor. As consciousness waned, she drew undulating lines on a sheet of paper and wrote nine words that police believe may hold the reason for her death. They were: “The waves in the ocean are full of love.”

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BY BEN STERN INDIANA will have but thirty-oAe votes in the next Republican national convention, according to the recommendations for apportionment of delegates. This means a reduction of two votes and is a result of the cut in number of congressmen from thirteen to twelve, ma*te under the congressional reapportionment as a result of the 1930 census. Despite attempts of M. Bert Thurman, Republican national committeeman, to retain the thirty-three votes for this state, the other members of the committee were firm for the slash. Indiana loomed fairly large in the

NAB CHANEY ll’ Cops Charge ‘Cripple’ Just a Good Actor. Ruse of a “cripple,” who for weeks solicited alms in city street cars, was discovered today by police with the arrest of. Harry McCormick, 42, of 338 North Pine street, on a charge of vagrancy. The “cripple,” his body twisted awry at the joints, was arrested on Tuesday night aboard a trolley in West Indianapolis while passing cards on which he asked for money "to support a wife and two children and pay doctor bills.” Members of a police squad in charge of Lieutenant Frank Reilly ordered McCormick from the street car. McCormick floundered across the pavement to the police car. and was lifted into the seat and taken to headquarters. After being placed in a cell, McCormick straightened the wrenched joints and strode actively about the cell, police said. Like Lon Chaney of film fame he is believed to be able to throw' arms and hips out of joint at will.

HOOVERS’ UPKEEP, PLUS SALARY, COSTS UNITED STATES JUST $504,380 A YEAR

By United Press TT7ASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The 7* annual budget of the United States government is a book about the size of a New York city telephone directory. It contains 1.000 closely printed pages, formidable wtth tables, figures, estimates and statements of expense. In those tables, however, are contained much gossip. For instance, that book tells what Mrs. Hoover pays her cook. She pays the chief cook $1,920 a year and his three assistants $1,300, $1,200 and SI,OOO. The Hoover butlers—there are two of them—get $1,440 and $1,200, re- \ /

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Jungle Night Club here. “I want Evelyn to be happy,” he 1 explained. “If she’s in the show business. she has nothing but my best wishes.” “Do you intend to see her during your Baltimore visit?” Thaw was asked. “No,” he replied. “I intend to go straight to my home in Winchester. This is the first time I’ve ever been in Baltimore and I don’t intend to stay here very long—just as long as it takes to get a train.” Thaw drew out the tiny cambric flag after reporters surrounded him on the deck of the liner. ’’Look,” he said, “here I am, happy to be back in the land of the free and the home of the brave.” He waved the flag back and forth. “The most arpazing thing about Europe is the spread of Communism i in Germany and the big meals people I in Europe tuck away. We had a 1 stormy voyage. What this ship needs | is ballast—it bobbed like a cork in those big waves.” “Are you thinking of turning Communist?” he was asked. “Well, no, no.”

convention picture under the old reapportionment, but now it is passed by California, which had twentynine and now is given forty-seven; Texas, w'hich jumped from twentysix to forty-nine; New Jersey, which went from thirty-one to thirty-five, and several others. It ranked in the first seven states in size of vote and power in the old lineup, but now goes into eleventh place uncier the new schedule. tt tt Thurman evidently stuck to his promise to vote for Chicago as the 1932 convention host, thus running counter to administration wishes. Hoover group leaders, according to dispatches attempted to obtain the selection of either Cleveland or Detroit, because of a feeling in presidential circle that Illinois is unfriendly to Hoover’s candidacy and that there is a possibility that the crowds in the auditorium might stampede the convention against Hoover. Cleveland was Thurman’s second choice, he told friends before leaving for Washington. Plan to bring the convention to Indianapolis, fostered by Frederick E. Schortemeier, former secretary of state and a possible candidate for Governor, fell through w'hen it was found impossible to raise the desired sum. Chicago laid $150,000 on the barrelhead to get the meeting, and the best figure possible here was one-third that amount. u a Miss Dorothy Cunningham, national committeewoman, also voted for Chicago, according to the tabulation. Chicago, of course, is more accessible to Hoosiers and a large size delegation should attend from Indianapolis if the proper optisism is worked up. But so far there seems to be no great love for Hoover, despite reports to the contrary by Indiana editors Saturday, when they visited the President.

spectively. Mr. Hoover pays his valet SI,BOO a year. Incidentally, the valet, Boris, has been with him since the days of the Polish rellief administration immediately following the war. It also reveals that people have a habit of sending things to Mr. Hoover charges collect. An item of's6o a year is in the budget to pay for collect telegrams and postage due letters. It’s under the strange heading of "transportation of things, $60.” it tt IT will cost the American people $429,383 to maintain the President and his establishment during

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931

DEBT HOLIDAY FIGHT STARTS IN CONGRESS Mills and Stimson Speak in Support of Hoover Plan for Moratorium. MTADDEN IS ASSAILED Pennsylvanian Made Target of Bitter Onslaught for Attack on Hoover. (Continued from Page One) to look at McFadden. He sat, pokerfaced, in the seat on the Democratic side. He made no move and shortly afterward left the house chamber. congress met ni McFadden’s office during the morning and voted to support the moratorium, McFadden alone dissenting. It' was known that McFadden’s speech was discussed in the meeting, but none of those who attended would reveal what was said. McFadden remained silent also. Treadway moved that McFadden be refused permission to appear at subsequent committee meetings, but withdrew the motion after intercession by Representative Crisp (Dem., Ga.) though warning against any repetition of McFadden’s charges. McFadden is scheduled to testify before the committee later. McFadden Is Assailed “Yesterday Mr. McFadden made a speech in which he impugned the motive of the President of the United States, accuser him of bad faith, and charged him with violating his oath of office,” Treadway said. “I protest this committee being made a means for publicity for a man who impugns the motive of the President.” Crisp, opposing the Treadway motion. said: “This committee is supposed to be willing to hear all evidence on this subject. Whatever Mr. McFadden said, I am sure members of this committee are capable of giving it whatever weight is due.” Treadway, speaking more calmly, then said he probably had spoken hastily and with more feeling than he intended to show. Stimson Supports Bill Stimson reviewed the developments which led up to the moratorium an dsaid that the debt holiday represented “only what a wise creditor would have done.” He presented to the committee the letter President Von Hindenburg of Germany wrote to Mr. Hoover June 20, appealing for American aid in Germany’s crisis. “All possibilities of improving the situation by domestic measures without relief from abroad are exhausted,” Von Hindenburg had told Mr. Hoover. “You Mr, President, as representative of the great American people, are in a position to take the steps by which an immediate change in the situation threatening Germany and the rest of the world could be brought about.” Calls “Run” Nonsense “As early as June 12, men like Owen D. Young, S. Parker Gilbert, and Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve bank had become convinced that something should be done,” he said. “It was not until June 20 that the President made up his mind.” Mills described talk of “a run on th edollar” as “sheer nonsense.” Stimson took occasion to deny two charges that he said had been brought against the moratorium. “Many people say that we were the only nation which made any sacrifice in this moratorium,” Stimson asid. He cited figures of population and per capita debt liability of the United States, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, to refute this. “The other statement,” he said, “is that the purpose of this whole ararngement is to withdraw from Germany improvident loans.” Purpose Is Explained The purpose of the moratorium and the subsequent conference in London in July, he explained, was to stop withdrawal of funds from Germany. “The purpose was just the opposite of that with which the government has been accused,” Stimson said. The senate finance committee expected today to organize for the international banking investigation asked for by Senator Johnson (Rep... Cal.) The committee decided to begin the Johnson investigation at 10 a. m. Friday. Witnesses to be subpenaed will be announced later. The senate foreign relations committee decided today to report to the senate for action the world court proposal when the condition of domestic legislation provides opportunity. The committee also voted unanimously to report favorably to the senate the Johnson resolution requesting Secretary of State Stimson to transmit to the senate notes and other papers relating to American efforts to avert war in Manchuria.

the next fiscal year. Add to that, Mr. Hoover’s salary of $75,000 a year and that of vice-president Curtis of $15,000 annually, and the whole bill for maintaining the chief executive and his second in command is $519,380 a year—more thkn a half million dollars. But the cost is going down. Mr. Hoover quietly has applied economy to his own official budget. For the last fiscal year, J 472.380 was appropriated to maintain the executive establishment in all its branches. Mr.. Hoover saved $38J)00 of that and this year, he is planning to save $5,000 more. The $38,000 saving was made largely by the President fore-

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This photograph, taken from atop an adjacent five-story building, shows the blaze at its height, that damaged the Acme-Evans elevator today. While many fire lines were turned on the blaze,

MORE VEHLING EVIDENCE AIRED Further Complaints Heard by Grand Jurors. BY DICK MILLER Deciding to obtain more evidence in the invetigation into alleged illegal activities of Coroner Fred W. Vehling, county grand jurors today heard testimony of five additional witnesses. Those who testified were Doctors Harry Rabb and Donald White of the City hospital staff; Rudolph Steinberger, 803 West low'a street; William Blasengym, undertaker, and Mrs. Ida Myers, 636 Marion avenue. Steinberger is the plaintiff in a $5,000 damage suit now pending m county courts ageinst Vehling for the alleged “theft” of the body of his wife, Mrs. Paula Steinberger. from their home. Mrs. Steinberger, according to charges, died from natural causes. Vehling is alleged to have taken her body to his undertaking establishment at 702 Virginia avenue and demanded SB7 for embalming, which regularly costs sls to $25. Steinberger has charged Vehling refused to surrender the body unless he was paid in cash. Mrs. Steinberger’s body remained at the undertaking establishment over night, while her husband obtained the money. Mrs. Myers was to testify about circumstances surrounding the alleged unwarranted autopsy performed by Vehling on the body of her husband, Edward Myers, who was killed Oct. 13 when he fell from a downtown building. Mrs. Myers did not know of the autopsy until several weeks after the burial. PLAN S(M DINNER Troop 60 to Celebrate Fifth . Anniversary Thursday. Boy Scout troop. No. 60, will celebrate its fifth anniversary Thursday night at the monthly congregational dinner of the Carrollton Avenue Reformed church. Reservations have been made for more than 200 persons, including Scouts and their relatives and friends, according to Hubert T. Vitz, scoutmaster of the troop. Guests will be O. F. Belzer, chief executive of the Indianapolis Boy Scout council; the Rev. E. G. Homrighausen, pastor of the Carrollton Avenue church; .the Rev. E. N. Evans, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, and Frederick Carson, first scoutmaster of the troop. Three charter members of the troop, Ralph Marsh, Ralph Simpson and Edw'ard Sorenson, will receive veteran certificates. A program of music and short addresses has been arranged. Reservations may be made at the church office until tonight, it w'as announced. Annapolis Candidate Chosen By Times Special NORTH LIBERTY, Ind., Dec. 16. —Lawrence Hostetler, 19-year-old son of the town clerk here, has been chosen by Representative Samuel B. Pettengill, to take the entrance examination for matriculation at the United States acaI demy, Annapolis, Md.

going the installation of improvements in the ventilating system which would have added considerably to his own comfort. The additional $5,000 saving this year is contemplated in the equipment fund. Mr. Hoover will make the old desks and typewriters last another year. The only item in the President’s own budget which is increased, is for repairs of the White House. It was $10,809 last year. A tligusand dollars is added this year. it u IT takes thirty-seven people to operate Mr. Hoover’s office. There are three secretaries at SIO,OOO a year apiece; an execu-

flames rose higher and higher, until one roof toppled and the streams fell directly into the blaze. Lives of several firemen were endangered as the gabled roof on the near side of the structure in this picture fell, but no one was injured seriously.

Charges Child Given Scraps Dog Refused By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—A 15-year-old boy testified today that his 12-year-old sister had been fed scraps of food which the family dog had refused to eat. The boy, Francis Riley, said his step-mother had beaten and abused the girl, Edith. Mrs. Elsie Riley, the step-mother, is being tried on a charge of cruelty. Edith allegedly was confined to a small closet most of the time for the last four years. The trial, before Justice F. D. Lett, attracted a large crowd and was conducted without a jury. The defense announced it would plead that Mrs. Riley is mentally irresponsible. Francis testified that Edith was fed scraps of food from the plates of Mrs. Riley's boarders, if any was left. “One time,’’ he said, “my stepmother put some rice on the floor for the dog, and the dog wouldn’t eat it. She put the rice in my sister’s food.”

Put X-Ray on Mummy in John Wilkes Booth Hunt By United I’ress CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The sixty-six-year-old controversy over the exact fate of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln, may be solved at last through investigation under way toda# by a group of Chicago scientists. Seven surgeons bent over a slab in the loop office of a physician Tuesday night and under powerful floodlights scrutinized the gaunt features of the mummified body of a man who committed suicide nearly twenty-nine years ago. They worked today in an effort to determine definitely whether this was the body of the man who leaped from a box in Ford’s theater in Washington in April, 1865, shouting, according to legend, “Sic semper tyrannis,” and leaving President Lincoln mortally wounded. Although secret service agents raided a barn at Bowling Green, Va., on April 26, 1865, and killed a man identified as Booth, many have insisted this was not the assassin. In 1872 on a Texas ranch, a man called John St. Helen, believing he was dying, confessed to Finis L. Bates that he was Booth. St. Helen recovered, but killed himself in Emid, Okla., in 1903. He repeated his confession there and Bates ordered the body embalmed. Bates, then attorney-general of Tennessee, wrote a book in an effort to prove St. Helen was actually Booth. After Bates died the hiummy became a sideshow exhibit. It was purchased recently by Mrs. Agnes Black of Chicago. Tuesday night’s investigation was arranged by the Chicago Press Club. Booth was said to have had four surgical operations. X-ray plates of the mummy were reported today to have showed traces of the treatments.

HALF-PINT ARRESTS BARRED BY JUDGE

By United Press COVINGTON, Ky., Dec. 16.—Federal dry officers virtually were prohibited from arresting petty liquor offenders of the half-pint kind by United States Judge A. M. J. Cochran today. In a sweeping order, the federal jurist, an avowed friend of prohibition, whose court extends over the entire eastern half of Kentucky, instructed federal commissioners to issue no liquor warrants in the following designated cases unless the district attorney specifically approves: 1. No warrant to be sworn out

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chief administrative officer at $5,600; two senior administrative officers at $4,000; an administrative officer at $3,333, and administrative assistant at $3,100; a junior administrative assistant at $2,817, and so on down to a laborer at $1,170. The salary roll amounts to $126,180 a year; there are contingent expenses of $43,500; printing costs $2,700 and travel and entertainment, $25,000, the President's personal fund. . Over in the mansion where the Hoover’s livq, and in the grounds, sixty more '•people are employed permanently And extra help is

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FOILS ATTEMPT TO BREAK WILL Half-Brother Nullifies Suit by 11 Cousins. A half-brother who had not seen his sister for many years, since childhood, today foiled an effort by her eleven cousins to break a will which gave the woman's $12,000 estate to her foster daughter. Charles A. Strain appeared in probate court to testify that he did not wish to share in the estate of Rachael Ann Strain Whitson, who died at West Newton, Jan. 6, 1930. Strain, being the closest kin o< the woman, by appearing to testify, automatically quashed the claim of the cousins who wanted a part of $12,000 worth of property that was bequeathed to Jennie Moore, a foster daughter. The law provides that the nearest kinsman must file suit within a year after the death, if a will is to be contested. The time for Strain to contest the will has passed; therefore, the cousins legally can not continue their fight.

for persons charged with the unlawful sale of liquor not exceeding one gallon, unless two sales to separate persons afe reported. 2. No warrant for the unlawful transportation df liquor not exceeding one gallon. 3. No warrant for the unlawful possession of not more than one gallon of liquor by person not having been convicted within the last two years of a prohibition violation. The order of Judge Cochrane comes as an aftermath of complaints made by him that “too many half-pint cases were being brought in by the officers while the larger offenders presumably were unmolested.”

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800 a year. A “manager” at $3,000 and an assistant director of gardens at $2,600 are the highest paid. There are five mechanics, a chief cook and three assistants, valet, clerk, painter, two gardeners, a plumber, who gets only $1,680 a year; twelve laborers, two butlers, three footmen, seven house cleaners, a doorman, five pantrymen, a kitchen maid, a chambermaid, five laundresses, a maid, and others. And this does not cover the cost of personal employes whom Mr. and Mrs. Hoover pay from their own funds.

HURLEY PAINTS PRESIDENT AS GREAT LEADER Urges G. 0. P. Committee to Sing Praises of Hoover Loudly. JUNE 14 DATE RATIFIED Chief Executive Determined to Keep Treasury Firm, Says His Ally. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—President Hoover is determined to maintain the strength of the United States treasury, regardless of its effect on his political future. Secretary cf War Patrick J. Hurley said in a speech today to the Republican national committee. “On a recent visit to New York I was advised that if the President proposed an increase in taxes, it would mean his defeat for re-elec-tion.” Hurley said. “My answer was that the President is far more concerned with the welfare of this republic and its 120.000.000 inhabitants than with his own political future. He will maintain the strength of the United State treasury, regardless of the effect his effort may have on his own political future." The national committee unanimously ratified the choice of June 14 as the date for the national convention, as well as the report reapportioning delegates. Provides ft,’’ Increase of 65 The joint report was presented by Chairman Roy O. West of. the committee on call and was adopted without discussion or objection. It provides for an increase of sixtyfive in the number of delegates and reapportions the allotments of many states. Hurley retorted aggressively to critics of the Hoover debt program. “All these people who now are shouting about cancellation should remember that the only reason we haven't cancelled the debt long ago is because a Republican administration wouldn’t let the Democrats do it,” Hurley said. “We became entangled in this situation through lobbies and to a great extent unnecessary loans made by a Democratic administration to everybody in Europe who wanted money. “Hoover Settled It” “Every Republican administration since then has been trying to disentangle us from Europe. The first thing we did was to defeat the Democrat League of Nations. Furthermore, so sure were they in Europe that we were giving them the money that had been loaned that the French debt was a subject of acrimonious debate for ten years until Herbert Hoover settled it.” Hurley said that though he was reluctant to admit it, Mr. Hoover’s efforts in the moratorium and in providing credit for Europe was for the selfish interests of the United States. “We have to sustain our customers as far as we can without becoming politically entangled,” he said. Brings In Raskob Issue Hurley brought laughter when, in referring to Democratic party deficits, he said the Democratic party owed much to Jefferson and Jackson, but “never owed as much to any man as it owes now to John J. Raskob.” On the basis of the congressional reapportionment and the bonuses representation of these states would be increased: State. 1?32 192* Alabama J® l‘ California 47 Connecticut Florida IS 10 Michigan 41 33 New Jersey *5 31 North Carolina 28 20 New York 97 90 Ohio 85 51 Oklahoma ' 25 20 Tennessee 21 1!) Texas 49 20 Virginia 24 15 Washington 19 17 Wisconsin 27 20 Totals 510 430 In these states the number of convention votes would be reduced: State. 1932 1928 Indiana 31 33 lowa 25 29 Kansas 21 23 Kentucky 25 29 Maine 31 15 Massachusetts 31 39 Minnesota 25 27 Mississippi 11 12 Missouri 33 39 Nebraska 17 19 North Dakota 11 13 Pennsylvania 75 7# Rhode Island 8 13 South Carolina 9 It South Dakota 11 13 Vermont - 9 11 Totals 358 405 Gain or State. 1928. 1929. loss. Arizona 9 9 .... Colorado 15 15 .... Delaware 9 S .... Georgia 16 16 .... Idaho 11 11 .... niinois 61 61 .... Louisiana 12 12 .... Maryland 19 19 .... Montana 11 11 .... Nevada 11 ll .... New Hampshire 11 11 .... New Mexico 9 9 .... Oregon 13 13 .... Utah 11 11 .... West Virginia 19 19 .... Wyoming 9 9 .... Alaska 2 2 .... District of Columbia 2 2 .... Hawaii 2 2 .... Philippine Island 2 2 .... Porto Rico 2 2 Alabama 19 15 + 4 Arkansas 15 11 + * California 47 29 f 18 Connecticut 19 17 t 2 Florida 16 10 t s Michigan 41 33 t 8 New Jersey 35 31 t 4 New York 97 90 t 7 North Carolina 28 20 t 8 Ohio 51 51 t 4 Oklahoma 25 20 t 5 Tennessee 24 19 t 5 Texas . 49 26 t 23 Virginia 25 15 tio Washington 19 17 t 2 Wisconsin 27 26 t 1 Indiana 31 33 * 2 lowa 25 29 • 4 Kansas 21 23 *2 Kentucky 25 29 * 4 Maine 13 15 *2 Massachusetts 34 39 • 5 Minnesota 25 27 *2 Mississippi 11 12 • 1 Missouri 33 39 • 8 Nebraska 17 19 t 2 North Dakota 11 13 • 2 Pennsylvania 75 79 *4 Rhode Island 8 13 *5 South Carolina 10 11 * 1 South Dakota 11 13 *2 Vermont 9 11 • J Totals 1.154 1,0*9 ~t6S ♦Denotes gain. •Dtaus ion.