Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1932 — Page 2

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SENATE DODGES, WRIGGLES US WAY OUT OF VOTE ON MODIFICATION OF DRY LAW Bingham Withdraws Befer Rider to Loan Bill When Joe Robinson and Borah Conspire to Block Ballot. WETS’ GOOD FAITH IS QUESTIONED Connecticut Legislator Strikes Back With Charge Democrats Have No Desire to Support Platform. # BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July.9.—The senate has wiggled out of a vote on “immediate” modification of the Volstead act. It successfully has postponed, probably until after the November election, any affirmative actiQn, either on the forthright platform of the Democratic national convention, or on the straddle plank of the Republican convention. Democratic senators scorned the opportunity to prove to voters that use of the word “immediate” in their platform meant “right now,” while Republicans dodged and evaded, even as they did in Chicago. Neither party showed courage to face the issue.

Leaders in both parties succeeded in so confusing the question that a straight-out vote not only was made impossible, but was made to appear as disastrous politically. Bingham Forced to Retreat Democratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson conspired with Republican Senator William E. Borah, vigorous champion of prohibition, to complicate so the immediate modification amendment of Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.) that Bingham withdrew his proposal. He may resubmit it—he says he will—but if he does, its prompt reference to the judiciary committee is assured by sheer number of Republican and Democratic opposition votes. It will remain on file in the judiciary committee along with other proposed changes in the eighteenth amendment, until congress reconvenes next winter. But before Bingham was forced to retreat, his good faith and the good faith of another wet, Senator W. Warren Barbour (Rep., N. J.> was attacked. When Barbour’s motion to discharge the judiciary committee from further consideration of his proposed constitutional amendment repealing the eighteenth amendment was reached, Senator George W. Norris, judiciary chairman, expressed willingness to have the senate vote, but Bingham and Barbour merely talked. Vitrollc Attack Launched They did not force the question to a roll call when they had the opportunity, although Norris • urged them to do so, and the parliamentary way was open. Subsequently, Robinson launched . a vitrolic attack on Bingham whom he accused of killing time while “more important issues" awaited action. He charged Bingham with seeking to embarrass the Democrats politically. ‘I for one grow very suspicious of the effort by the senator from Connecticut to require me to conform to my platform,” Robinson said “This question has been made an issue in the national campaign. The effort now is to defeat the issue before it can be contested or determined. Borah Enters in Game “There is not anybody, I do not care how wet or how dry he may be, who expects to authorize the manufacture and sale of beer in connection with a measure (the home loan bill) which is designed to bring relief and assistance to millions of ’citizens, who are having their homes sold over them, who are threatened with the danger of seeing the strife 11 savings of a lifetime of sacrifice and hard labor dissipated, and finding themselves set adrift without help or resources." After Robinson’s tirade, Borah introduced the Glass bill to expand the currency by $991,000,000 as a substitute for the Bingham bill. The two questions were not related. but under senate rules one was as germane to the pending measure as the other. The senate spent several hours debating currency inflation when Bingham appealed u> Borah to withdraw his substitute. The parliamentarian had ruled .that Bingham could not offer his -plan again, if it once was voted down. . Borah refused, although he realized that if his plan prevailed—thereby enabling the senate to dodge the beer issue without a direct vote ;—that senators later would strike "his inflation proposal from the bill. * Amendment Is W ithdrawn Subsequently, .Bingham withdrew his amendment entirely. Borah refused to withdraw his. This was the situation when the senate reconvened today. ‘ There is the possibility, however, that beer, and Borah’s inflation, and t*e entire home bill will be laid ..ride, If the senate goes ahead with the conference report on the Wagner-Garner relief bill. Bingham did not take his licking .without striking back. Borah and Robinson drew a red herrng across the train, he charged. “It is quite evident there is no desire on the part of Democrats to vote in accordance with their party platform." he said. "They think they are going to fool the people. An amazing spectacle has been presented herp. The cards were stacked against me."

Driven Batty By United Brest WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ July 9 Bats went on a $3,448 bat in the local jail. They kept prisoners awake. Prisoners complained after they killed one with an 18-inch wing spread. The board of supervisors decided to install screens. And the low bid was $3 448.

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Famous Actress Plans to Wed George Brent, Says Hollywood Gossip. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 9.—Though neither of the principals would comment, rumors were current today-in the motion picture colony that George Brent, film star, and Ruth Chatterton, with whom he has played in several films, plan to be married. Brent leaves here today for the east. Miss Chatterton is in Paris. Her present husband, Ralph Forbes, is in Reno for the purpose, it is believed, of establishing residence for divorce. SUE ON TRUCK LAW Injunction Is Sought by Michigan Company. Fight against act of the 1931 legislature regulating truck and trailer operation was begun Friday when the Michigan Inter-State Motor Freight, Inc., filed suit in federal court asking a restraining order and injunction prohibiting state police from enforcing provisions of the law relative to weight and length of trucks and trailer. Defendants named are Governor Harry G. Leslie, Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state; Attorney-General James M. Ogden, and highway com- | missioners. Judge Robert C. Baltzeli said a j hearing on the suit will be held ' July 21. The petition, filed by Clinton H. Givan. local attorney, attacks the ! law as “unconstitutional.” in that property is confiscated without due process of law. State police have , arrested drivers for the company, forcing them to leave the vehicles by the roadside, the petition says. SEEK TO HALT WILD DRIVING BY CITY AIDS Works Board Adopts Plan of Penalties for Employes. ! In an attempt to check careless | operation of automobiles and trucks ! owned by the city, the works board today adopted a plan of penalties for city employes involved in accidents. The driver of a city vehicle involved in an accident will be forced to lay off from his work for at least a length of time equal to the period j required for repairing the car, according to the plan, at discretion ! of the board. Where more than one man is assigned to the vehicle, the entire | crew will receive the punishment. [ It is the opinion of the board this j method will result, in the entire crew | assuming responsibility for the dis- ! couragement of careless operation. GIVES HOSPITAL FUNDS Kahn Underwriter* Headquarters at Scout Reservation. Funds to erect and equip a modern hospital headquarters at the > Bov Scout reservation are to be given by Edward A. Xahn, Indianapolis and Central Indiana scout | council president, it w as announced today. r Members of the. Marion County Medical Society will have charge of j the hospital. Swimming pool and : drinking water at the camp has' been examined by the state health ] board and reported in excelent condition. I

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Left to Right—Bobby White, 3. of 1511 Olive street; Loranne Helm. 4. of 1543 Cottage avenue; Emma May Mullery, 4. of 1153 Olive, street; Marian Mullenbrook, 4, of 1027 Dawson street, and Benny Parsley, 4, of 1520 Draper street.

‘DAVY’ GETS GUARD AFTER TRIAL ENDS

Aimee’s Mate Threatened as Judge Prepares to Instruct Jury. By t nited Press LOS ANGELES, July 9.—A police guard was placed about the homes of David L. Hutton, husband of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, and Willard Andrews, his chief legal counsel, early today following receipt of telephone, threats by both, and discovery of prowlers near their residences. As the latest sensation came, only the instructions of Judge Lester W. Roth remained to be given today before a jury of seven men and five women, all middle aged, will begin deliberation upon Myrtle H. St. Pierre’s $200,000 breach of promise suit kgainst David L. Hutton. The pretty brunet nurse’s attorneys. took turns in oratorically blasting “Big Dave,’’ husband of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, the evangelist, in final arguments. Called Him “Fast Worker.” Hutton was a “fast worker" with women, a Casanova, they claimed. He ’/as likened to David, king of Israel, by Attorney Lorrin Andrews, Hutton’s defense was: First, he didn’t do it; second, if he did she was of poor character, and, third, she told him to go to blazes anyway. The jury shouldn’t be fooled by the false pretenses of Mrs. St. t'ierre. Hutton is no Casanova, but a big, generous boy. It was a tragic day lor David when he first met that designing woman. These were some of Hutton's attorneys* statements. Attorney James Gardner Sanderson painted a word picture of Mrs. St. Pierre, “sick and broken, starting up from her bed in shocked amazement at a radio broadcast announcing the elopement of Dave Hutton and Aimee Semple McPherson." Ends Sensational Evidence The arguments brought to a close two weeks of trial, replete with sensational tstimony and startling courtroom developments. Mrs. St. Pierre based her claim for $200,000 damages on the alegation that Hutton made love to her, finally asking her to marry him, and stating that she accepted. The next night, the plaintiff claimed, Hutton told her they were already married “in the sight of God,” and demanded that she “prove her love.” She claimed that she was betrayed, and that instead of marrying her, Hutton eloped with the head of Angelus temple.

Big Mis —Steak Butcher Can’t Pound Wife Like He Can Steak, Judge Says.

A BUTCHER may pound beefsteaks, and cut the squeals out of pigs, but when he quarrels with his wife and she sustains a few scratches on the arm they’re in for a lecture from Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Howard Krumrine, 1348 Burdsal parkway, butcher, and his wife, Sabina, were in the judge's court Friday afternoon trying to settle their matrimonial difficulties. According to testimony the Krumrine household became as overheated as an A-No-1 sunstroke. Sabina charged Howard struck her and that her arm was scratched in the melee. “He only works a few days a week. I run a beauty parlor. He's mad because I don’t give him more money,” the wife testified. "She didn't look like a hog to you, did she?” asked the judge. "You can’t pound her or cut her like you would steak. “It looks like you’re both to blame, however. I'm not laying grounds for divorce in this court. “The charge of assault and battery is continued until -Oct. 1,” Cameron ordered. pesthouse is target City Health Board to Back BUI for Abolition. A bill to be presented to the legislature abolishing the city pesthouse will have support of the city heath board, it was*decided Friday. Dr. Charles E. Myers, city hospital superintendent, pointed out to the board that the pesthouse, an old dwelling main hospital, costs $2,000 annually to maintain and is not needed, as the hospital contagious wards are equipped to care for cases of smallpox. Law requiring the city to maintain the pesthouse was passed following the last serious smallpox epidemic in 1903, it was explained by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer.

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Beware Heat Prostration May Come in Wake of Stomach Disorders.

(This Is the second story of a series on summer ailments.) “GORRY, boss, I can’t get the books balanced.. You see, it’s time for my afternoon siesta.” The millennium may come to city offices if they’ll but follow in the footsteps of dwellers in the southwest, and countries of Spanish extraction, and take the advice of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. “Siesta” is Spanish toy “loungelizarding” on a hot day. It has the approval of Dr. Morgan as a means of preventing heat prostration during the summer months in Indianapolis. “Heat prostration occurs during the summer months and varies in severity according to the type, physical resistance, and age of the person,” he said. “Advanced years, perhaps, are the most positive factors in heat prostration. It Ls during the later years of life that the heart, arterial system, and eliminating organs are likely not to function along normal lines. * # * THE history of most heat prostrations is one of stomach or intestinal disorders, accompanied by poorly functioning skin, kidneys and intestinal tracts. “Avoid the heat of the day. Remain in the shade. At the first signs of oncoming weakness and a cessation of perspiration, immediately seek a cool place and remain quiet. "Cold applications to head and neck, with the use of ice packs and the sponging of the body surfaces, are beneficial in case of prostration. But don’t take a chance. Call a doctor first and then apply home remerdes until he arrives.” Next: Outdoor Health Commandments.

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State to Call Neighbor of Accused to Deny He Was in Kansas. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., July 9.—As the trial of Louis E. Hamilton, charged with murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store head, recessed today, Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson announced the state will complete evidence Monday, closing with testimony of Miss Sue Sawyer, Hamilton's invalid neighbor in lola, Kan. Testimony of eye witnesses of the shooting, coupled with that of Milo Stockberger at whose home Hamilton and his companion. Charles Vernon Witt, roomed while in Indianapolis, was turned upon the defense alibi Friday. Hamilton contends he was in lola, Kan., when the shooting occurred. kiss Sawder, will testify Monc’iy that Hamilton arrived at his home, across the street from her residence in lola, two days after the shooting. Helped Convict Witt Her testimony, last January, helped to convict Witt, who is sentenced to die in the electric chair, Aug. 1. The defense will seek to prove that Hamilton was in lola. and not in Indianapolis, May 2, when bandits killed Jackson. Stockberger told how Witt brought Hamilton to his home to room in March, 1931. Both men were armed heavily, even at the dinner table, he declared. “They left, returning May 8, and laughed when I told them my wife Naomi had deserted me,” he testified. Stockberger's former wife now is the wife of Witt. Started Downtown “On morning of May 27 I started downtown, and Witt and Hamilton told me I could ride with them. We rode in an Oldsmobile coach. “This was the same car used in the Jackson holdup.” He related that Hamilton and Witt returned to his home about 2 p. m. and told him about, an unsuccessful holdup they had attempted, Withh showed him a gunshot wound in the hip an<| said Hamilton was wounded. “Afterward, they left and I never saw either until their arrest,” Stockberger declared. Questioned by Ira M. Holmes, de-

They’re graduates today. The five children shown above possibly are the world's youngest graduates. With the closing exercises at 7 tonight, they will complete the course of the four-week Bible school at St. Mark's English Lutheran church, Prospect and Linden streets. The school, which opened this summer June 13, is finishing its tenth annual summer Bible school. Attendance at the school was as high as 165. Thirty-three pupils tonight will receive certificates for perfect attendance. Nine teachers gave instruction to the pupils.

HATFIELD HEAD OF STATE BAR Evansville Man Is Selected as Convention Closes. By United Press , SOUTH BEND. Ind.. July 9. Frank H. Hatfield, Evansville, was named president of the Indiana Bar Association at the close of its convention here Friday night. He succeeds Frank N. Richman, Columbus. Eli F. Seebirt, South Bend, was named vice-president. Members of the board of managers named were: First district, Louden L. Bomberger, Hammond; Second district, John Randolph, Lafayette; Third district, Ira H. Church, Elkhart; Fourth district, Samuel D. Jackson, Ft. Wayne; Fifth district, Robert M. Van Atta, Marion; Sixth district, Franklin D. Davidson, Crawfordsville; Seventh district, T. Morton McDonald. Princeton; Eighth district, Carl M. Gray, Petersburg; Ninth district; Estal G. Bielby, Lawrenceburg; Tenth district, Denver C. Harlan, Richmond; Eleventh district, Samuel J. Offutt, Greenfield, and Twelfth district, Charles F. Remy, Indianapolis. Proposed legislation, to be placed before the 1933 session of the general assembly, making membership in the state bar association compulsory for all lawyers practicing in the state, was indorsed by the association Friday afternoon. Walter Arnols, South Bend, sponsor of the bill, said it would be advantageous in keeping the state free of unscrupulous lawyers and would permit disciplinary action against unethical practice.

sense attorney, the witness admitted using several names and in rum running. Holmes shouted: “Then you are a bigamist,” wheh Stockberger admitted marrying Naomi before divorcing a former wife, Hazel Scott. “No, sir, I didn’t marry them under the same name,” the witness explained. Edgar Deeter, Indianapolis policeman, who arrived at the Jackson store after the shooting, and Harry Clark, who pursued the bandits, also gave direct testimony against Hamilton, as state withesses. Policeman Charles Bauer, who engaged in a gun duel with Witt who brandished a sawed-off shotgun, said he still carries twenty small shot in his head, received from Witt's gun. BILL ASKS JOBS BOARD Galloway Seeks Creation of State Stabilization Commission. Creation of a state employment stabilization board 4s proposed in a bill introduced in the house Friday by Representative Fred S. Galloway (Dem.), Indianapolis. The board would be composed of three members, to be appointed by the Governor, and who would serve without pay. One would represent employers, one employes and the third the public. Power to recommend emergency appropriations to pay for. public works to relieve unemployment is given the board. GENERAL TO VISIT CAMP Commander of Fifth Corps Area Will Inspect C. M. T. C. Regiment. Major-General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the Fifth corps area, will visit the citizens’ military training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison Monday. He will review the citizen cadets in a regimental parade at 4:30 Monday afternoon.

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URGE BILL FOR U. S. LOANS TO FAMILY HEADS Costigan Measure Backers Seek Substitution for 7 Relief Report. BY RI’TH FINNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 9.—With the senate Democratic ranks badly divided as to approval of the relief conference report, including the Garner plan for unlimited government loans, an attempt may be made at a caucus today to enlist support for the Costigan relief bill as a substitute. Immediate study of this measure will be urged as a solution of the vexing problems still standing between congress and adjournment, including the various forms of relief proposed and the bonus issue. While the bill has been pending before the senate only a short time, and its provisior s are not widely known, its sponsors believe consideration of it now will expedite rather than delay adjournment. They may suggest a short recess of congress, to enable committees to scrutinize the bill for action later in the summer, rather than protracted debate on the conference report, supported by Speaker John N. Garner and so objectionable to part of the senate and to President Hoover. Loans Direct UrNeedy Such a course is being strongly urged by the railroad labor organizations which originated the bill. The Costigan plan proposes government loans direct to needy heads of families, rather than to corporations and individuals employing workers. However, it provides for credit in the form of food or clothing rather than cash, to be secured by individual notes, and assignment of 10 per cent of future salaries. Donald Richberg. attorney for the railway labor executives asscciation. explains the proposal, now before the senate manufacturers committee, as follows: “We have seen the difficulty of financing new employment to create purchasing power. This bill before you reverses the process. It proposes to finance anew purchasing power, and thereby to create new employment. Credit Up to SSOO “It creates a United States Exchange Corporation designed to put credit behind purchasing power instead of behind production. The secretaries of commerce and labor will be members of the board of directors with six other directors appointed by the President, and an advisory council representing the different economic interests of the country. “The corporation will give credit to unemployed persons, not exceeding SSOO to a family, with which to purchase the necessities of life for the next six months- “ Persons getting this credit sign notes promising to pay it on or before ten years, and assigned 10 per cent of their wages when employed to apply on the loan“No ioans are made for anything but necessities and these can be bought only from agencies which will accept the credit certificates of the corporation at value. How It Would Work “Suppose the bill becomes law. the machinery is set up, and John Smith, with a wife and three children but no job, wishes to get his SSOO credit. “First, he goes to the local agency and establishes himself as a married man with three children entitled to credit. Then he fills out the budget forms showing what he needs for the next six months. “Next, he is given credit certificates for the required amount and blank notes. The note authorizes John's employer, if he gets a job, to pfey 10 per cent of his wages to the United States Exchange Corporation. “Armed with credit certificates, budget form and notes, John goes to the grocery store and buys his supplies. He fills in a note for the amount needed, and pays his bill with this and credit certificates to the same amount. Risk Taken Is Small “The retail grocer who has filled John's order pays his own bill to the wholesaler with the same cer- ; tificates and notes. The wholesaler, ! when he has accumulated enough ! of these, turns them in to the local branch of the exchange corporation, and receives in return the same value in bonds of that corporation which, of course, practically are government bonds. “To put it in a nutshell. Uncle Sam indorses John Smith’s note. The dealer risks nothing. The risk Uncle Bam takes Is small, and well worth taking. “Payment in full by 800,000 railroad workers waiting call is practically certain, and also by the unpaid teachers of Chicago and other cities. “Then there are the veterans with their adjusted compensation certificates due at a future date. With them it is practically a matter of cashing these certificates. “Defaults can not possibly reach the amount we will have to pay in direct relief if something like this j is not done. “My firm conviction Is that we shall lose less under this plan than on Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans.” Bible in 655 Languages STOCKHOLM, July 9.—The Bible is now translated into 655 different languages or dialects, it was 1 announced here by the returning Swedish, delegate to the annual ; meeting in London of the Foreign I Bible Association;

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BEGIN LAST LEG OF SKY JAUNT Weary State Pilots to End Tour on Sunday. BY CARLOS LANE Times Staff Corresoondent FT. WAYNE. Ind., July 9. Blessed with clear skies, Indiana's air tour with forty planes left here today on the last leg of an exhausting trip around the state. The entourage was to lunch at Marion, stay overnight at Muncie, pay Connersville a visit Sunday and return to municipal airport in Indianapolis. Early Friday the tour left Michigan City and its sand dunes to halt at South Bend for,lunch. Hard tail winds helped the aircade on its way to Ft. Wayne, where a dinner in the Chamber of Commerce feted pilots and passengers. The tourists are weaby. Forced landings by the dozen, due to severe storms over Indiana during the last four days, accidents to five planes, apd flying schedules disrupted by weather have worn nerves to thin lines. The Indianapolis Exchange Club will provide the welcoming reception on the home field Sunday. JOBLESS TO MARCH City to Be Goal on Second 'Hunger’ Parade. Indianapolis and the state capitol will be the goal of the second state “hunger march,” organized by the Unemployed Council of Indiana. Six groups, dubbed “columns" by James Freeman, council secretary in his announcement, will converge on this city July 17. starting from Hammond, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, Rushville, Evansville and Jeffersonville and seeking to enlist recruits from cities en route. Permission for the use of Tomlinson hall for a mass meeting July 17 was obtained from city officials several weeks ago. A demonstration, directed at the legislature, will be held on the east steps of the capitol building the day after the mass meeting. Demands to be made at the demonstration as set forth in the call issued by Freeman, include unemployment insurance, appropriation of $25,000,000 for relief of needy, cash wages for charity jobs, release of Theodore Luesse, jailed unemployed leader; free utilities and prohibition of evictions, and immediate payment of bonus to ex-service men. REACH MINE WAGE PACT Illinois Pay Scale Agreement May Mean Work for 30,000. By United Press CHICAGO, July 9.—The prospect I that Illinois mine whistles will soon call some 30.000 idle miners back to work was bright today, following ratification of a wage scale agree- \ ment by representatives of mine op- I erators and the Illinois district of ! the United Mine Workers of America. The new’ scale, to prevail until next March 31, lists a basic wage of $5 for an eight-hour day. It awaits ratification of miners through an immediate referendum and approval is expected. A GOOD IBUSINESS SCHOOL StronK biißines*, gtenoKrspblc. necretanal and a/vnuntlnsf courses; Individ ual instruction in major subjects | Sr2# faculty of specialists in their respective Pree Employment Service, Fred W Case. Principal CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North V. W. O. A. Indianapolis, ind.

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U. S. CAN GIVE FAREWELL KISS TO WARJ.OANS Hopes of Collection Fade Almost to Nothing, With * European Accord. BY WILLIAM THILIP SIMMS Srrlsos-Howird Forelrn Editor WASHINGTON, July 9.—The agreement between Germany and the former allies knocks Into a cocked hat all hope of ever collecting the $11,000,000,000 in war debt* which the allies owe the United States. Radical scaling down or cancellation now will have to be considered by this country. The alternative is either default or repudiation. Readjustment hardly can be delayed longer than next fall or winter. The very situation which this country ardently wished to avoid appears to have been engineered at Lausanne. Despite Secreary of State Stimon's plain warning that the formation of anything like a "united front” by the debtor nations would be regarded with displeasure on this side of the water, the whole reparations and war debts problem appears to have been dumped on Uncle Sam's doorstep by a unanimous Europe. Ratification Up to U. S. A sweeping agreement between Germany and the allies has been reached with regard to war debts, reparations and war guilt. Bu£ final ratification depends upon the United States. That is to say, the United States either must reduce vastly, or cancel outright, the remaining war debts or else bear the blame before a watching world for blocking the long awaited and vitally important European accord and recovery. While Washington hails the re* ported removal of the war guilt issue from Franco-German relations particularly as a big step forward, it distinctly does not relish being thrust into the limelight as the nation upon which the whole Eure* pean settlement depends. Its position is this: 1. There is no connection between war debts and reparations. 2. Capacity to pay must remain the American fomula for war debt adjustments. 3. Having been concluded separately, the existing debt agreements can be revised only by individual negotiations with the several nations. i Congress Opposes Reduction The present congress repeatedly has shown Itself distinctly hostile to reduction, and both big parties have expressed themselves against cancellation. Proponents of cancellation point out that when President Hoover announced the moratorium last year, values on the New York Stock Exchange jumped $10,000,000,000 in two weeks. The paper value jf American wearih. it is observed* rose thirty to forty billion dollars. Cancellation, therefore, would pay for itself by helping to prosperity. The Hoover administration has dropped more than one hint that something might be done about cut*, ting down the debts, provided Europe showed some inclination to do the same with armaments. Keep On Buying Arms The American people can not be asked to forgive the war debts, it is argued, if Europe continues to spend several times that-amount on increasing weapons of war. If Europeans can buy arms wholesale for anew war, they can pay what they owe on the last. President Hoover’s record proposal for a world-wide, one-third reduction of armaments fell on pretty deaf ears, so far as the great powers were concerned. The fact that these were the very nations which now owe this country most on war debts hardly can fail to influence his attitude.

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