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Journal CIRCULATION Friday, January 20, 1933 41,340 Ner Paid FINAL EDITION WEATHER Cloudy and warnvr, with probably rc rain tonight and Sunday. Every Evemin and Kverr Evmlne Founded 1STV Evening Journal n1 Evening Journal Founded 1SSS. Consolidated Jan. Everv Evenlr. 2.

1J13. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. 1933 22 PACES PRICE TVO CENTS COR HOQVER-RO0 The Evenio.

DEBT PLAN SEV LX DRAMATIC SHIP RESCUE DETAIN AN WOULD CUT TEACHER PAY JAP PLANES AGAIN BR DEBT ACTION ATTACKED IN U. S. SENATE SINO TROOPS Dies After Fire GF.OKGE HAIGH FIRE PRES. DIES FIGHTING BLAZE ZH if pv i 1 Si I WraawuiMaHak 1 'tf liT 'i a rati Ir i To the rescue of the British freighter Exeter City went the American Merchant above) when th littl" British vessel signaled she was in distress aftT la -bed by an Atlantic storm. F''ir mmbrs tf the Kx'-ter City's crcv.

including Captain E. D. Lake, were killed. The AniTienn Merchant life JinrS across the sinking vessel and rescued 22 members of the erew. Captain Giles C.

Stedman. Or.set) commander of the AmTlean Merchant. Is hailed a.s the new hero of the sea today. He is bringing thf rescued nrm into York. TORQUAY ASKS AT BROOK AND HaiCll.O.

buCCUlllbs AS SUSPECT IN SLAYING Everett Smith Caught at Delmar With Ixaded Revolver and $1 13 SAY DESCRIPTION FITS MURDERER f.r.dir.g of $145 in cr.vh and Iv.cli 1 revolver on tlir man. together with the fact that, his description corresponds with that given to ohce. has resulted the holder Everett Smith. 29 years old. and miecticm with th.e murder yestor-dn of li.u.k Mosley.

26-ycar-old Moor, cf Chcsweld. on the Slate k.ihway Porter's Station. Pc State police this meru it. fxnr.u"' Smith who was ar rt il Delmar last ntght. and the Salisbury ar.d fol-the Questioning, linked tint be i urt h.er est ica ion.

Mosley dit-d yesterday mornir.e as a result cf a blow on the head, which h- said, was suffered by a roan he had c.i deseruvion cf Smith, it is said. jrsponc.5 with that given by Mosley i in the Delauaie Hospital before lie cd. Mo.mcv said that he robbed of 5170 by the man who struck hum. Smith was arrested at 11.30 last rufcht in Delmar by Off.cer George lien of and by Maryland State Police Rogers and Kulms. When lie was captured he had a .33 caliber revolver, fully loaded, $145 cash.

Hea: said Smith had left his auto-tust cutsice of Delmar and tie ilked through Delmar. headri for When why he left his auto- ir.cMle and startec to Off-eer Hc-am that the gasoline! tan was crr.p- r.d he was going to get ass. An examination of the tank, however, disclosed that it was full of gas. hut Lieutenant Purr.ell and Corporal Knox cf the Delaware State Police and State Detective Ottie Dona ay. of Georgetown, arrived at Salisbury Co on 1" ATTACKS SQUIRE WITH CHAIR IN HIS DWNOFFICE Sussex Man Accused of Assault, Thinks Arrest Was Injustice THREATENED TO KILL MAGISTRATE I GEOR-GETOrt N.

Jan. Zl. Thomas A. Bradley, a young n.a:i cf Greer. believes the law in his c-wn hands when he thinks any arm cf the him an injustice.

This is what he did las: rughi wh-en arrested on :r.e rtree'. of that town by County Constable Ecgar B. Betts. and was arraigned before Magistrate Homer H. Cchee on a charge of disorderly cencu-rt.

and cemmitting an assault rnd battery on Grover C. Bradley. Th Vu'ved he was in the right w.th fracas with Grover. a proceeded to tell Magistrate wlii-t he thought about it. words.

is passed be- ly in Magistrate Cchee's ofSce that The mas is alleged to have picked up a chair and struck Magistrate Cel.oe over the head with it. injuring him vsevereiy. TiTir ended the charts agair.st in Magistrate CeheV office: but less than ar. hour he wa in trouble wht Con-table Betts ru'-hed rum to the of v.i:;?ms H. Dimes at Bridgeville.

charges were lodged aaainst h.rr Tne first was for assault and bat- Contlr.uetJ or. Pfcgc Tr.re?. Tides, Davs Length thij- i- rSf. (i-w M'---ii ri-" ir of day. 4 7 4 V.

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4 Tfi 6.4n and i i BY Reduction Up to 20 Per Cent in Proposed State Hoard Hill IS ACTION ON GOVERNOR'S PLAN The State Hoard of Education Is I'lannina; to have presented in the Legislature within the next few weeks its own appropriation bill for itd-ministration during the coming two cars, containing salary slashes ranging from five to 20 per cent and affecting a saving of approximately between $173,000 and $200,000 for Delaware. George S. Williams, president of the State Board of Education, said today that fi tires are being worked on in the office of tlie lxard. and ii is impossible to determine exactly hew much will bo saved or what appropriations will be soiuht. Representative Van Sciver.

of this lily, introduced a bill for the P.udttet commission, containing ari appropriation of $3,270,800 for each of the coming two vears for the State Hoard cf Education. Mr. Williams was unable to state today now tins figure win compare with that to be asked bv the State lioard of Education. Mr. Williams said that the board will oiler another bill to the Legis lature, containing iho suggestion that $300,000 be appropriated for the next fiscal year and $325,000 for the follow ing fiscal yeaV for transportation However, the Legislature will deter mine whether tins appropriation lor transportation should be coi tinued.

Decision to reduce the salaries in the Department of Education, was conformity with a suggestion maae by Governor Duck in his Inaugural message last Tuesday. Discussing economy tn his message. Governor Ruck said: "Wherefore as it relates to all who receive salaries from the State of Delaware. I offer the suggestion that some such reduction as the following be made in the State payroll; salaries in excess of $3,00020 per cent reduction: between $3,500 and $5,00015 per cent; between $1,500 and $3,50010 per cent; between Cor.unued on Page T3. CENTENNIAL AT DELAWARE TO BENEXT YEAR Trustees Name Committee to Make Plans for Celebration GREAT PROGRESS IN PAST TEN YEARS Except for journalistic mention and probably informal discussion and remim-Ttences; on the campus and cla rooms, the centennial of the University cf Delaware's first charter will go by unnoticed on February 3.

Current economic conditions not conducive to a celebration worthy of the anniversary. Instead, a celebration will be held in May next year, the hundredth anniversary of the first opening of the college as a State institution. President Walter Hullihen said today that it is too early to tell what the celebration in May. 1S34. will be like, but it is likely there will be an academic convention, a special commemorative program on the college campus and the Issuance of a brochure telling the story of the university.

The board of trustees of the university has appointed a celebration commitiee and it will be enlarged later this year. The committee will Continued oa Page Three. MRS. ROOSEVELT HAS TO LEAVE PLANE CLEVELAND, Jan. 21 AP).

In the face of a warning from her pilot that the weather might be too bad to push on to Cleveland today, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the orders to go ahead, it was disclosed when she arrived here at 12.45 p. in an air liner. She boarded a train here at 1.18 p.

Eastern. Standard Time, 'for Chicago. BOY HURTS THUMB Five-year-old Bryee Townsend. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Everett Townsend, of 106 West Twentieth street, this city, received a laceration of the thumb when it was caught in the coorjam of his father's car, Thursday. The Townsends were visiting in i 1 FOR PORT AFTER Hail Capt. Stcdman as New Sea Hero in North Atlantic Tragedy RESCUED SAILORS FROM FREIGHTER NEW YOWK. Jan. 2i AP The American Merchant knifed through evil, green seas today, bearing toward this port a hero and 22 sailors he saved from one of the North Atlantic's maddest fits.

Captain Giles Steiman. rugged sea-dog from Quincy, Mass, expected to get his ship here by Tuesday with the survivors of the crew of the tiny British freighter Exeter City, crushed to a sinking mass of wreckage in a terrifying storm yesterday. The skipper of the Exeter City, believed to be Capt. E. D.

Le-gg. was swept to death with his third officer and two men. New glory for the United States Merchant Marine redouniied frcm the feat of Capt. Stedman. who in 1925 saved 23 men from the Italian steamship Ignazio Fiorio.

Then he was chief officer of the liner President Harding. The Exeter City, out of Fowey, England, carrying china clay for Portland. was about 60O miles east cf Cape Race, Nfld at dawn yesterday when her crew suw she was losing her death struggle with the elements. About 15 miles away the American Merchant, plowing westbound with passengers and freight, caught the spine-chilling O. It was no small task even to turn a ship in those gigantic waves, but turn her Stedman did.

and wallowed towaid the scene. Three hours later tne helpless Exeter City was Continued oa Page Three. REPOW30lHTED IN MEXICAN BLAST MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21 (AP) Latest advices received here todav were that at least thirty persons were killed yesterday in an and fire in Morclla, about 125 miles northwest of Mexico City. At least twenty houses were destroy ed.

The disaster was caused when a chauffeur lighted a lamp while filling the. gasoline taken of his car. Tho gasoline ignited and the fire quickly spread to a nearby storehouse containing 60 boxes of dynamite. The building and all machinery housed in it were destroyed. Fire spread to nearby houses, and many occupants were trapped.

Military and civil authorities were attempting to control a situation unparalleled in the history of the city. The governor of the state, high officials and residents In the foreign colony witnessed the tragedy. They participated in relief activities. FIRE DESTROYS BASKET FACTORY DOVER, Jan. 21 (Special.

A building at Leipsio used as a basket factory some years ago and owned by Wilbert Raw ley was destroyed by fire about 2.30 o'clock this morning. About five tons of hay stored in the structure was burned. It is suspected the place was set on fire but there id no definite evidence. The police are making an investigation. The loss was about $1,000.

Fire companies from Dover and Smyrna were called. II AD 1 SAVING 22 MEN a la ALA. TO INSPECT MUSCLE SHOALS Feels Confident He Can Get Something Done With Project NORRIS TO PUSH BILL FOR GOVT. OPERATION SHEFFIELD. Ala.

Jan. 21 'API. Beginning an inspection of the gigantic, Muscle Shoals Alabama, powr hnd nitrate project, President-elect Roosevelt told a crowd here today, "I confident Congress will work witT me ana we can get iometnmg prac-i tical done." to put "Muscle Shoalas on the Significance was attached to his) statement "that we are win? to treat! M.tscle Shoals frcm a national standpoint." Senator Norris, of Nebraska, whom Mr. Roosevelt introduced to the crowd at the station here as "the father of Muscle ShoaLs," is prepar.n? to push his bill for government operation next session. The President-elect also introduced Senator Dill, of Washington, power expert; Frank P.

Walsh. New York power adviser, and E. A. Scattergood, a leader in the power field in the southwest. Governor Miller introduced Mr.

Roosevelt from the rear platform of his special tram. After the speech Coatinul on Page Two. COMMUNITY FOR STUDENT COUNCIL An educational mass meeting which is to be in the nature of a community meeting, will be held at the? Samuel G. Elbert School. and Townsend streets, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.

The meeting is under the auspices of the Student Advisory Council of the Elbert and Howard Public School Adult Centers, of which Lewis R. Gaskins is president Jefferson S. Coage, recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, will be the guest speaker. Music is to be furnished by a combined chorus of the two schools. The public is invited.

Other prominent guests will be members of the local school board. TERMS PHILIPPINE BILL DETRIMENTAL MANILA. P. I. Jan.

21 (AP) Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and powerful political figure in the islands, today termed the independence bill recently passed by Congress "detrimental to every possible interest of the Filipino people." Asserting he was actuated entirely by principle, Quezon termed "groundless and unfair" what he said were hints Jds opposition as caused by political ambition and jealousy of achievements of the independence mission in Washington, D. which favored the bill. The senator said rejection of the act would not be construed as inconsistency or insincerity. CORONER'S CASES. Coroner Pedrick's jury last night found that the death C.

Harrison Leib, 12. years old, of Baldton, New Castle, was due to the fact that the boy fell in front of the machine driven by Joseph C. McAndrews. The verdict exonerates the driver of the car. In the case of Benjamin Wakeland, of Rase 11c, the jury returned an open verdict.

Wakeland died of Injuries received when struck by an automo bile operated by John M. Yeatman, 819 street. ROOSEVELT Heavy Damage Done to' Chinese in Latest Jehol Air Attack JAPAN NEAR "BREAK WITH NATION'S LEAGUE By Th Associated Press For th third time this wrk Japanese military plants bombed Chinese troops today in the Kal'u district in northeast Jehol provinrp in an attempt, to break up eoncent ration- of a reported army of 33.000. Heavy pun ishment wn inflieterj Authoritative sowreec jn Geneva! S3 id the Japanese government rejert- cd all essential points of the Iearrue I of Nations committer of nine'een'r. compromise nrnrvxnl fnr roneiliatinn Of th Manehurian rii-nnte A rsritii-pl.

between the Iarrue and was i considered imminent. A Tokyo dipteh said the eoverriment failed to instruct ps ('-Kates to give a definite yes" no." requested to the Leaepje proposals. It offered aereptanee providine invitations to the L'ni'ed States and Russia to participate were The Chinese nationalist government was reported strenethenin? military KarrUons on the coast and the (Treat Yangtze valley. Thousands of troops some reports said a quartprj of a million were reported ryin srnt into the nortn China zone, Japanese efforts to induce former! President Tuan Chi-Jui to set up an opposition government in Peipif'g and split China in half were reyjorted to have failed. Tuan.

iong credited with! the clrise associations with the Japa-; nese, was reported to have gone to Nanking to offer his services to the Chinese Nationalist Government. Foreign Minister Uchida warned Cor.t:r.'iefi on Pace Two. BUDGET FIGURES FOR FOUR DOTS. CUT Money Bill for State, Treasury, Commerce, Labor Goes to House $479,000 SLASH FOR DRY BUREAU WASHINGTON. Jan.

21 AP1 A new money bill sail to appreprniie. $5,284. GOO lesd than the budget asked was presented to the House today at the same time as a dispute was in full swing between President Hoo- ver and the Democratic leadership over reductions in Federal expendi tures. The President said that Hou Democrats had net cut expenditures S57.OCO.000 on the first five appropriations committee claims, but actually had increased them S35 .000.000. Syrns" committee, using tudgec fig- ures of same class as those chairman quoted in offering his side, then brought in a measure allowing $103,232,000 to run the departments of State, Commerce, Justice ar.d Labor in the next fiscal year.

In the report on this bill. Oliver, chairman of the sub-committee that handled it. said the budget aked $108,566,000. The reductions, he sa.d, extended even to the prohibition bureau, which was allowed $3,120,000 against the S3.539.S43 recommended. The slashes for the departments, as reported by Oliver were: State Department.

$300,162. leaving a total appropriation of Justice, $2,443,000. leaving Com merce, si.J-tf.ouo, leaving SJb.aod.JUu; Labor $707,285. leaving $12,682,000. The committee report quoted ths statement made to it by Attorney General Mitchell cn the subject of prohibition: I have not the slightest doubt my own mind, regardless of what the future has in store for the national prohibition system, that we ought to Continued oa Page Tij.

TWO-MONTHS BABY HAS BROKEN LEGS Victim of his first serious accident when he was only a few days old. a Minquadale lad has spent more than half of his brief existence in the St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington with both of his legs in plaster casts. He is Wilson ciorrls, two-momhs-olj son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Morris, of Wil-Dcl avenue. On December 12, while he was being given his bath, both the infant's legs were fractured due to some deficiency in the composition of the bone. Since then Wilson has been in the Wilmington hospital where physicians are trying to overcome the special diets. bone deficiency with i i I Democratic Leader Corner to Defense of Hoover-Roosevelt Plan G. 0.

P. MEMBER SAYS IT USURPS POWER VAFHINGTON, Jan. 21 A A by Robin v.n Ir.d. that. the If-ver- Roorve'i agreement to have lieusstor.

with Great Britain was a. "usurpa'ton of was th Sena today by Derr'ra''; a Robinson who rld 'rp Republican member's peerv, rv.e'p polities Th Indiana sen a or 'v r. at the out'e r.f today's session ani a.srrterj Cor.jrre.si- bv -cr h.e door' to irmer etioo. de' rb rO-oneTHtive se It ooi stTl of Arkansas. that r.t wa in svmpathv Ai'h (tonyress' v-l sr Congress.

cnf fore tiose the nghi of a President to dis evss international or a President. om nesotiatmsr. "Coneress spoken on cues-on and 'h- ould no, an- cftert. to pi, asiv Arkansas raid. "I have never known an incident when a courteous from on nation to another for a discission r' international matters r.as been nied "the Democratic leader rtoiv.n-son said.

"It is an erroneous statement fact, not to sav a misrppre.vr.-aUon. to assert it is a usurpation cf he added. Robinson, of Indiana. rfhd that the negotiations should tie earned on through regular diplomatic channels, but considered it a usurpation power to agree to re-opening the deist question. "I'm inclined to believe myself that the diplomatic agencies are the Democratic leader said.

Opening his attack. Robinson. HDUSE WILL GET sntLL nmm TO BOOST TARIFF, vcuid Raise Rates in Proportion to Deflated Currencies BELIEVES HOOVER IN FAVOR OF MOVE WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 AP AS a conference today with.

Presiden; Hoover. Representative Snell. the P.e-! leader, said he had prepcoo-i a resolution to empower the Secre-! trv cf the Treasurv raise tarn's in proportion to depreciation cf tha currency of the exporting country. Snell "old newspapermen the question would be placed before a caucus cf Hcuse Republicans next Wednesday. "I have had more letters cn thii subject than any Sneii sa.d, "tverycr.e wants to know wny Congress refuses to act to make tariff cn the bocks already, effective.

Seme countries, with currency depreciated by 0 per cent, are flooding 'nil country with goods despite the The New Yorker said he "lievi Mr. Hoo.er was enure sympath with the ni jt. Snell pro pus a rtac-lut-on gtv.n authority to the Secretary of the Treasury, collecting customs, to tnto eor.s.ec ration tne a.ua of the currency of the country frcm wh.cii the Import comes And mcreao the duty in proportion the differ, nee between that currtr. and the Sr.eil conceded ih-s p-opoud wculi a great deal of authority to the Secretary of the Treasury, and -d he would not insist upon this method if other could be found to obtain the effect. COIIISE IN BLLL KINGING.

CAMBRIDGE. Jan. 21 -Russian bell r. ngeng it's a tc curse at Harvard. A New York expert.

AixironciT. x- lieved the only authority on Russian chimes in the countrv, is to tutor the bell In Totlav' Paper ni uc roe nts Vui'tioit a ii 1 4 ta is-i: li-l-t il 1i-i! 1 I 1 mlrict lnitiit i ii l-ath I-in Ualhi society six-rts Wuijra's iiiltxtjl RE-OPENING OF RCA LITIGATION Company Wants Fairness of Stock Distribution Reviewed JUDGE I ELDS AT HEARING The Radio Corporation of Amer- tea tnist case, which was thought to have been settled in the U. S. District Court here last November, by Judge Nields, was revived in the same court before the same judge this morning when counsel for the Torquay Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a stockholder of Radio Corporation of America argued for reopening of the case and a modification of the consent, decree that had dissolved the alleged radio trust. A group of lawyers prominent before the American bar.

attended the hearing. John Lord OBrian of Buffalo. N. appeared as a special assistant to Attorney General Mitchell. Nathan Birken and Loins D.

Froelich of New York ap)earcd for the Torquay firm. Charles Neaves of New York argued for RCA and Colonel Joseph M. Hartfield of New York, appeared for General Electric. William G. MahuMy and Charles F.

Curley of Wilmington appeared as local counsel for RCA Judge Nields was asked to permit inquiry to be made regarding the adequacy and fairness of the consideration alleged to have been given to RCA by General Electric Company and Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Corporation for shares of RCA stock. VWO CHILDREN DIE IN CHESTER FIRE CHESTER. Jan. 21. After two small Negro boys were burned to death in a fire here, last night, John Stewart, 54.

also colored, was arrested, charged with suspicion of arson. Ernest Ward, three, and his 4-months-old brother, Arnold, died when fire destroyed the home of their parents on Pancoast street. Stewart was hiding in a garage several blocks away when arrested. Police said he was seen leaving the house shortly before the blaze started. A passerby discovered the flames while the parent, were visiting friends.

Enoch Carr, a fireman, was burned on the neck attempting to rescue the children, whose bodies, burned beyond recogntion, were found in a bedroom. DEL. AUTO REVENUE $1,018,405 IN 1932 DOVER. Jan. 21.

(Special). The revenue of the State Automobile De-prrtment for 1932. from all sources, totalled $1,018,405.07 according to the tc-bulation just completed. The largest part of the total came from automobile license tags -id operators Lcenses. This fund Is available for road improvement in the State.

LATE FIRST TIME IN 45 YEARS POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Jan. 21 AP). Ellsworth E.

(Alt Rhodes, oldest motorman in point of service with the Poughkeepsie and Wapping-ers Falls Railway Company, whose punctuality has been a subject for consideration among fellow employes for years, was late for work the other day the first time in 45 years. His, alarm clock went on a vacation be fore the time set to rouse Rhodes from his slumbers, to Smoke: Head of Cranston Heights Co. TO HOSPITAL BY COUNTY OFFICER George Uaigh. aged 67. president cf the Cranston Heights Fire Com-jwny.

died a victim of smoke, as he was being carried into the Wilming- ton Genera! Hospital last nicht. Mr- ins ic.iow iircmen. bat a fire at tlc home of Eugene Fetts. at Brookland Terrace, near tTice corner, sr.oruy oeiorc ii o'clock. As the firemen arrived, dense clouds cf smoke poured from the hcuse, a frame bungalow.

Mr. Haigh was one of the first firemen to enter the building. As his fellow firemen started in. he reeled to the doorway ar.d collapsed. Count oruecr Charles L.

Jones. chief of the Elsmere Fire Company, picked him up and started for the hospital. While tlv stricken fireman wa.s answering hs last call, his fellow -firemen, were combatting the f.ames that threatened the destruction cf the Petts' bungalow. The fire, caused by overheated stove, was brought under conttrol as word was received from the hospital of the death cf Haigh He had served for the past five years as president of the Cranston Heights Fire Company, and was reelected at the annual meeting las: month. Mr.

Haigh was one of the first members of the Cranston Heights Company, which was organized 1919. The company, since organization, has had two fatal accidents, in which four men were killed and en Pg ff'ty. BRAINS, NOT BEAUTY COLLEGE LADS INSIST CINCINNATI. Jan. 21 fAP.

Tne beys who boss the University of Cincinnati yearbook turned up their noses at beauty today and announced they would pick the brainiest not the niftiest girls for the publication's postiens of honor this year. "Beauty sections in college annuals." sniffed Robert Galbraith, personally and editorially, "are passe end a mark of utmost provincialism." Galbraith is the year book's editor-in-chief. 'Instead," he announced, "of glorifying the American college girl through a 'beauty' section, the 1933 year book will feature the activities girl that is to say. the co-ed who is accomplishing" the mast for her alma mater and her fellow students. Crushed but still hopeful, the college boys promptly turned their efforts toward unearthing candidates, beautiful but not dumb, to take the place of the traditional "varsity Venuscs," and perhaps confound the year-book bunch with a beauty section of a sort after ail.

CHICKEN THIEF OUT OF GUN SHOT RANGE Victor Dorr ell, 2419 West Second street, finding a Negro in his cluck-en coop late last night, ordered the man to drop the chickens, but when he refused Mr. Dorrell opened fire on the thief who escaped, although followed by Mr. Dorrell as far as Fifth and Rodman streets. The Negro took from the coop five Wyandotte chickens valued at $10. This morning Harden Johnson, 20, was arrested by Detectives Hynson and Cook on suspicion of being the thief.

Early this morning the police received calls from several homes in the vicinity of Tenth and Lombard streets, stating that a man had to biuJi houe..