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Intimidation Rumors Cause Prompt-Action-on-Part of Senate Committee. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr, November 18.— Warnings of steps to counter any ef- forts to block its inquiry into Nebras- ka's recent senatorfal 2ampaign greeted witnesses called .today-before the Sena ate investigatirig comimittee. Agreement was rTeached between Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota, chairman, and Senator Porter H. Dale, member, that witnesses who evaded subpoenas would be brought to Wash- ington to testify at the convenience of the committee. Their decision came when several witnesses summoned yes- terday failed to appear. —_— Chairman N promised any amm;v.s yb: intimidate witnesses would be dealt with vigorously. His declaration came during questioning of Miner S. Bacon, Lincoln attorney. Bacon ld.mlAtlwd he had trl!dp)::; '.e: ton, & stenographer, uhm m.m that she was mistaken in vious testimony given the com- W. F. Adams, Adams County farmer and president of the Neb: Tax- ' League, told the committee he been into signing af- davits repudiating his organization's power initiative petitions by threats he ‘would I?:xe:llm Q’:fnre the Senate com- mittee. The progz-ll was successful t the election. E. E. 5 ;l’ of the State Legislature, testified that he had advised the affidavits. NEW JERSEY WOMAN ACCUSED BY NURSE Qharged With Obtaining Auto and $1,500 in Cash Under False Pretenses. Mrs. Dora Emma Howe, 63 years old, dummmlk,N.J..wu-rmhdm g2 et g eBsif 38 MRS. AmilE FINDLEY DIES SUDDENLY ON WAY HOME - Empléye-of Peper MIN Stricken on ‘Btreet With Attack of Heart Disease. Stricken with a heart attack yester- town University Hospital a few moments later. Mrs. Findley, an emploge of the Dis kit 2ot vk it periasion 1 g0 ‘was given e ek e 1ol tothe vement in front of 3528 M street and taken to the hospital in a passing . J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coro- , dssued a certificate of déath due to trouble. Seventh precinct police sald that Mrs. e Tt and her blind husband, M. Pindley, for the past 1( years. SEES U. S. CONSTITUTION " - PROMOTING DEMOCRACY Australian Commissioner-General, in Address, Classes It Among Factoys Influencing Civilization. Fun¢amental principles of democracy have been made popular throughout orld by the United States Consti- He 4 Brookes, commissioner of Australia, declared in an ad- luc‘t‘ :Ilhl at a meeting of the ub. speaker said the three outstand- 4ng political factors influencing modern ition are the American Constitu- tion, the evolution of the British com- menwealth and the League of Nations. reviewed the development of the colonies . Brookes expressed the bellef that Gireat Britain's coloniés had been in- in development of their own fon by that of the United ites. He added the chdrters of Great were considered in the framing ©f the United States Constitution. JEAN DAVIS’ FEVER | "HAS CONSEQUENCES b OF MUCH MOMENT s (Continued Prom First Page) ¢hat “Daddy Jim" and the y ters ld the Davis end of the Nal 'oman's Press Club party, while Mrs. VETERAN POLICEMAN HONORED ok ” WASHINGTON, LIBRARY POSITIONS ARE GOING BEGEING Personnel- -in . Demand _ for Posts Paying From $720 10$10,000 Annually, BY REX COLLIER. Jobs may ‘be searce in most lines of endesvdr, but Uncle Sam has found one fleld of service in which good positions are going begging for lack of appli- cants: This ambiguous eondition in the face of ‘widespread unemployment has been found to exist in the field of librarian- ship, according to & survey by Walter J. Qreenleaf,’ associate -specialist in higher ‘educaiion of the Department of | the Interior. , Due % rmapidly expanding library facilities, especially in “the schools of the Nation, the demand for trained li- brary workers is in excess of the supply of qualified applicants—and the de- mand is on'the increase. Discussing librarianship as & career, Mr. Greenleal points out & wide fleld for service confronts the trained M- brary - worker, with salaries ranging from $720 for assistants in small U- | braries to $10,000 & year for librarians Here’s Capt. Jeremiah A. Sullivan with his son Tom among the flowers sent 1o him by his many admirers as he assumes his duties as commander of the fourth precinct. POINCARE ATTACKED BY SOVIET PRESS Accused of Planning Inter- vention in Russia and as In- stigator of World War. By tife Associated Press, MOBCOW, November 18—The gov- ernment-inspired Soviet press today launched & bitter double-barreled at- tack on Raymond Poincare, former French President and premier, and “French imperialism.” The attack apparently is an after- —Harris-Ewing Photo. Farms for Jobless Idea Is Studied by Cabinet in Britain By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 18.—The it is consideris government ng a “back-to-the-farm” solution for the nation's unemployment prob- jem. WORK ON NAVIGATION MAY AID UNEMPLOYED | Bt s $100,000 Appropriation Considered for Washington Area by War Depariment Engineer. —_— Congress may be asked to appropriate $100,000 for projects in this area as alds to navigation in order to relieve unemployment in nearby Maryland and Virginia. This was made known today by Maj. Joseph D. Arthur, jr. district engineer for the War Department for of | the Washington. Ages, . who. has. just the U. 8. 8. R.” mnp-pe:ue!er to Poincare as shadow of the past great massacre, ut he is also the bloody events of the future.” REV. Z. B. PHILLIPS T0 ADDRESS PATRIOTS Will S8peak at Autumn Meeting of Sons of Revolution Tomor- row Night. Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Phillips, rector of the Church .of the Epiphany and chap- lain of the Senate, will be the principal speaker at the Autumn meeting of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia at the Willard Hotel tomor- row night. He will speak on “Signals of Danger.” . Miss Helen Howison, soprano, will be heard in a song recital end a number of new members will be formally ad- mitted to the society. A buffet supper will follow the program. ‘Thomas Edward.Green, president of the society, has appointed & special re- ception committee for the occasion, con- sisting _of the following: Charles F. Diggs, Douglas Griesemer. Lawrence G. Hoes, George 8. Marshall, Benjamin A, Harlan, and Edwin 8. Hege, — ALBERT C. BRIDGES DIES Spanish-American War Veteran ‘Was Employe of Navy Yard. Albert C. 48 years old, of 206 E street, & Spa American War vet- ran, died last night at his home after & brief illness. Mr. Bridges had been mph{efl at the Navy Yard as a ma- chinist for a number of years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lu- ella Bridges; a son, Robert; a daughter, Ellen, and a sister, Mrs. Catherine Digges, all of this city. ineral services will be held at the bome Thursday afternoon, 1 o'clock. Interment will be in Arlington Ceme- declined that invitation to be | tery. to Mrs. Hoover, the Secretary ,I!‘Wlbltl?‘lhedl‘:tbem ‘appearing as a lone male among a coupie of hundred women, not to men- the casual policing of the lttle - ®J%.” It was to have been a public vin- dietation of the Secretary of Labor and Benator-elect as a family man, Jean Doing Nicely. But Mrs. Hoover, with the prospect of the children of Herbert Hoover, Jr., goming East for Christmas at the White House, could not take chances with ent had quaran- children s0 they thus DEER HUNTER SOUGHT Woodsman Missing Since Sunday in Michigan River District. NEWBERRY, Mich., November 18 (#). —An extensive search was under way completed an - inyestigation _of . these projects, which Qongress has already authorized, but for which no funds are avallable. Improvements are scheduled to be made, under this program, at Monroe Bay, Va. near Colonial Beach; at Creek, Md. mnear the mouth of the, Potomac River; Cockrell's Creek, Va., &' tributary of the Great Wicomico River | near Reedville, Va.; Carters Creek, Va,, and Horn Harbor, Va. For the Monroe Bay ent, $15,200 is needed for the improvement of the harbor there, which is used by small oyster craft, and pleasure boats. This was emllb'd today by E. J. Mer- nék. Jr., civil engineer in Maj. Arthur's office. At Smith Creek, the S-shaped chan- nel will be dredged and straightened to releive steamboats In that vicinity, and $7,500 will be necessary for this job. At Cockrells Creek, improvements are because of the large fishing ich come into that point, to deposit cargoes there at the factories which turn fish into fertilizer. Consid- erable dredging will be done here. The menhaden, & small fish that is unsuita- ble for eating, is reduced to fertilizer at & number of plants operating in the vicinity of Reedville. Some 1,200 to 1,500 tons of this fish is secured in a cateh, Mr. Merrick said. EX-CHILEAN CONSUL MISSING FROM BOAT Papers Found in Stateroom After Vessel Reaches Baltimore From Norfolk.: By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., November 18.— Oscar L. de la Barra, former Chilean consul at Baltimore and recently con- nected with a New York financial con- cern was believed today to have been between Baltimore and ,When the steamer City of Norfolk docked here today, Capt. Edward James reported that for the trip to Norfolk, ending there yesterday morning, passenger registered as M. Barra pur- ingle ticket, Four hours after the vessel salled a top coat with & card case bearing cards of Oscar de la Barra and newspaper clippings referring to him was found on deck. Al Norfolk officers entered the state rcom with a pass key and found a note reading: “In case of accident, pleas: notify at once my attorney, Julius P. , Baltimore, Mr. De ia Barra, who held the Bal- timore post from 1927 to last April, had served as Chilean consul in Aliea, Spain, and Newcastie-on-Tyne. ith g ¥ of large institutions. Attractive to Women, The fleld is particularly attractive to women, it was stated. The census of 1900 listed 4,184 librarians, of whom 75 per cent were women. In 1910 there were 10,722 librarians, of whom 80 per cent were women, In 1920 the number of librarians had increased to 15,297, with 88 per cent of them women, “The turnover among" women Ii- brarians, howeyer, is large,” Mr, Green- leaf- said.« “Many girls who enter li- brary ‘employment resign a few years later to marry, although marriage does Mot bar them from continuing in their chosen occupation. ‘The turnover smong male employes Js 1ow. = Their in- are often administrative, and feresta the positions with the t salaries most often fall to men, ugh women have an equal . for promo= tion when qualified.” ‘The Government specialist learned that the demand for school libraries is “insistent, particularly in the Southern . thé 25,000 ppublic schools ut: the. try, . the survey showed, only & percentage maintain libraries, and néw schools are’} adding librarians to their staffs need more trained Mr, Greenleaf reported. of library schools institutional vision' of the American Library glhm many graduates of secredited schools.” - Library workers are classified as ad- thinistrators, _circulation libr: reference librarians, “order librarians, cataloguers, children's librarians, college librarians and school librarians, it was explained. H Work Ts Specialized. “There are 6,000 libraries . in the United Stajes,” Mr. Greenleal said, “the of which is the Library of o im, over 3,000,000 volumes and 595 trained personnel. Because there are so many types and systems, the duties of library workers have be- P succesti o = hours per week, with an average of 41 hours on duty. They generally are flvmnu month’s vacation with pay each ’l?-t maximum salaries in H- of more than 100,000 volumes $2,620 to 810,000 » year, the salaries for grad ‘of 'library schools range from $1,800 0 $2.200. 5 There -g 30 schools offering courses in library science of one year or more. Re average annual tuition is $160. e anly lbcal school listed is at George ‘Washington University, PROPOSE 30-HOUR WEEK TO-AID DETROIT JOBLESS Mayor Murphy’s Committee Makes Recommendation, Which Will Be Laid Before Industries. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 18— Mayor Frank - Murphy's Unemployment Com- mittee Jast night recommended that all industries put their workmen on a 30- hour-a-week is as an emergency measure to provide employment for more men. ‘The proposal is to be laid before in- dustrial eoncerns in this area. The 30-hour wéek suggestion was in- corporated in an amendment after a subcommitiee en research had proposed s “staggered” employment schedule for factories practical. where cal. Undef thié amended recommendation industries whose men are working more than 30 hours a week will be asked to cut them to that number and take on additional men to fill the jobs thus made available. vary BAPTIST PARLEY OPENS Columbia Association Assembles in 53d Annual Session. ‘The fifty-third-annual conclave of the Columbia Associationi of Baptist s | Churches opened today with & meeting in the Grace Baptist Church, Ninth street and Sovt! “.irolina avenue south- east, at 10 o'clock. The sessions will be held daily until Thursday, concluding with an address Thursday evening by Rev. Henry Alford Porter, gflltflr of the 5‘11‘!1 Baptist Church of Charlottesville, A, The order of exercises of the annual conference covers committee reports and 8 serles of addresses. Nominations also will be made for A new executive board. Rev. Samuel Judson Porter, D. D,, is Bl B e e e . Johnson of the Grace tist Chureh. w NEW YORK POLICE FIND HERO ONLY DOUBLE FOR MOVIE STAR Pseudo Richard Dix Tells Posing—Real Dix high broad, liberal viewpoin Just the | With the newly wed of Skill With Guns While Is in Hollywood. i G S D. C., TUESDAY, {DEBATE RELIGION The four speakers who will present his Plerce, the Protestant. They PHILOSOPHIC FOES IN FRIENDLY CHAT Darrow Disagrees Funda- mentally With Rabbi Simon, Dr. Pierce and Quin 0’Brien. At a socratical breakfast under the sparkling chandeliers of & Wi hm;l dining m‘:m “X;:ur keen hfl%‘ph m and_engaged x combat this morn: ,mi’x%ey represented four major viewpoints on the nature and destiny of 3nn.w o There were two Washington men—Rabbi Abram Stmon and Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, men who have clung fast to & fairly well theo- wha will debate religion tonight at the W mu-m:mm-fl‘flm ‘were photographed at the ard H Darrow Finds Photo Of Himself Hanging On Methodigt Wall Is Shown Through Build. ing by His Friend, Dr. Clarence True Wilson. Clarence Darrow's two. pet hates, he says, “are Methodism and prohibition.” But when he visited the office of Rev. Dr. Clarence True Wilson at the head- quarters of the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance snd Public Morals, he found the wall decorated with his-own picture. Wilson think s great despite point of view in the face of the |, = le. of mechanism sweeping over the intellectual world fromi the laboratories of physicists, biologists and psycholo~ gists, ‘A third mah was Quin O'Brien, Chicago lawyer and staunch Catholic, who delves into Greek, Latin and Differing somewhat in their individ« ual inf T all these three hold faith that has come down the ages—that there is an absolute right and wrong in the world, that, creaf are | Must have had a first cause, that normal man has an inherent capacity to dis- between the absolute m that man is more tum‘:ogu:l: blind, unconscious machine, reacting automatically to the forces brought to m"mtw tha it in his heart, when ail the tangle of words has been torn away, the fourth man at the breakfast table also agrees with them in this, for, tben.n , he is fun- damentally an evangelist for a cleaner, kinder, and miore tolerant world. And they canriot believe that such an evan- gel can premise anything else, after all is said and done, than s teleological gnm:h :J“ un*nu—k for they ask why —_——— Toads to 8 nulm\ But the fourth man could not see it that way. agnosticism, he dined g I :::ln‘ latfc Y:‘L. g 0 Building on com}“‘fi“m k-8 "E‘&"‘fi , whic! dubbed “the Methodist Vatican," fellow- list for 8 facts divested of faith. his way to of the materil unt- verse as men see it with their eyes, and the destructive inroads of paleopsy- chol into the processes by which men have arrived at anth e veteran defender of the has built for himself a-uni~ ‘verse roads upward, where he finds 1o place for moral idéas, or pur- posiveness, or a First Cause, or for . Over and over again at the breakfast table this morning he reiterated his belief that man is & machine—just a nervous system inclosed in an enve! of and bones and irrigated by blood. Something impinges on this nervous system and starts an impulse, roughly like & current of electricity, which goes to some central point, where 1t is switc onto another wire and of the mouths, hands, etc., as behavior. The nervous system itself has nothing to do about it. It depends on where the current starts, what wires it follows and to what wires it is switched whether the resulting behavior is good, bad or indifferent, according to anthropomorphic concepts. And this nervous system has been built up— from the nerve net of the sponge to the cortex of man—by the mechanistie | Evelyn processes of evolution. There is no place for God or_consciance in such a system, says Mr. Darrow—that is, unless one says that conscience is an inherent pat- tern of nerve fibers, He holds that present-day psychology = has proved rather conclusively that there is no such inherent pattern in the cortex— that all arrangements of the wires by which nerve currents travel are the re- of en ent. Right there Rabbi Simon puts his foot down. He believes in the influence of environment and heredity, but he thinks there is something in the ma- chine itdelf—gomething inherent and God-given—that directs these currents. Says Mr. Darrow: ‘There is no such thing as right or wrong, anyway.” It is all, he hoids, matter of ad vantage or disadvantage to the organ- ism itself, and to the larger organism, soclety, as it is in any particular time and place. What is wrong todsy may be right tomorrow. What is wrong in Washington may be right in Timbuctu, he asserts. Rabbi Simon, Rev. Dr. Plerce and Mr. O'Brien all shake their heads. They hold insistently that there is a certain fundamental nucleus of right and wrong which retains its identity, re- gardiess of time or place, which comes from something outside the ecircum- scribed world of the human senses. There are some kinds of behavior, they say, which were right or wrong in the beginning and will be right or wrong for all the endless tomorrows. Darrow Would Turn Tables. Mr. Darrow believes his antagonists are really sounder in philosophy than they indicate by their words—that they may be fellow agnostics at heart and hence following with him the great ht that shines upon the day when men will love one another, which, he holds, is not the main path of re- But_ they declare—rabbl, minister and Catholic layman—that it is Dar- ZYIMDII.Y 0;2: it heart he hh’d.!e ) g at ply w, an tle of the better world the kindlier heart, which they in- sist is the underlying nucleus of re- Auditorium. Left to right: Rabbl Abram Simon, O'Brien, the “where they met at breakfast today. —Star Catholic, and Rev. Jason Noble Yourg Gullion, now & dent st Western, was Staff Photo. | Star’ W.C.T.U REFLECTS B8t MRS, ELLA BOOLE &2 Both G. 0. P. and Demooratic Members Warn Parties on Dry Issue, By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., November 18.—Mrs. perance Union, in I‘l:;y-clxth annual convention here. to- Both Metho- | ally, that the leaders of the party Board. e JURY HOLDS YOUTH DIED ACCIDENTALLY Coroner Reversed at In- quest Into Death of William Schnabel, 14. Reversing Dr, J. Ramsay Nevitt, Dis- trict coroner, & coroner’s jury today de- cided Willlam Schnabel, 14 years old, had met death in an accident Novem- ber 11 in his home at 4316 Fifteenth street. Dr; Nevitt issued & certificate of sui- activities as a Boy Scout. father nearly collapsed while tell- circumstances and found “Billy” dangling in midalr, his feet and the lower portion of his legs touching the floor. A tiny rope was tied about his neck. The hemp was shown to the jury. Mr. Schnabel testified he sent his wife downstairs for a knife with which to cut his son loose. He said he then artificial respiration while he waited arrival of the fire rescue squad and a physician called by Mr. Schnabel. Life was extinct when the doctor arrived. Had Been Reading. Mrs. Schnabel said “Billy,” her step- son, had been reading “A.Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away” by Irvin G. Cobb, on the afternoon of his death. She said she did not think he had Life: found by police i & Tehious pube fe,” foun, pol A rel b~ licatfon lying on a stand. o Among the other witnesses were Miss ] Y, & teacher at the Macfar- land Junior High School; Dr. Charles Enders, pastor of the Concordia Luth- eran Church; Ralph Bartley, a scout- master, and Alvin Schwab, a young friend of the Schnabel boy. UNEMPLOYMENT LISTED AS CONFERENCE TOPIC Gov. Roosevelt of New York Spon- sors Effort to Prevent Recur- rence of Present Conditions. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 18.—Plans for & conference with the Governors of a number of neighboring States on the problems of unemployment were an- nounced last night by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. ‘The conference, to be held late in January, :‘m seek “to lmmt :‘ “:: currence an mployment P tion similar to n‘:“ present one,” the Governor said. Announcement of the forthceming conference was made just before liov. Roosevelt left his home to board a train prings, Ga., where he in- mm-mmn‘rn Plerce will emplify their loyalty to the Constitu- tion by writing a dry platform and by ‘momination of dry tes ™ Though minus that provision, the Republican women'’s statement not only announced refusal to support any wet nominee, but any wet party as well, Resolution Drafted. “On _the basis of the two declarations the Resolutions Committee drafted for presentation to the whaole convention the fe resolution: “We our position taken in the last lential in favor of dry pl in party platforms. We il oppose any and all w Q'gopl g & Tepeal or mi xnc-mmphnx. e our determination sup- candidates who personal ex- mu. R“m acts, m:' public utter- ances themselves the undoubted tional eommerc v Charges False Impression Abroad. Miss Aldrich felt the need for such a law, the resolution said, America derstanding and g good will t.h-(?ulhd the world " ‘Woodcock Letier Read. 's lights was the underminin States in ition hope” for the “direct - cu‘f prohibition enforcement against private violations, “The private violation,” the director's soughit to revive the boy by means of | yiol propcsal—the cial violators, education for non-com- mercial violators." promises to stop putting an! tion and anti-respect for nda on the screen have been ollowed by continued production of films cont this very propaganda.” Another dr-’eron today was that of Pearl Ken Hess, medical temper- ance director, which decried the belief that alcohol is good medicinally and sald, “A lingering belief in the potency of aleoholic as health builders has been capi by —_— WILL EXPLAIN K. C. WORK Told at Lodge Meeting. ‘The work of the Knll)lu. of Columbus for welfare among boys will be ex- plained tonight to the members of Car- roll Council in the Knights of Columbus Hall, Tenth and X streets, by Col. M. J. O'Leary, representing the Supreme Council of the order. A special Thanks- giving party for this meeting has been ln‘l.ngd by the couneil’s grand knight, John . Dunn. Insurance features of the order also will be lald before the me by Col. O'Leary. John H. Pellen is to speak and final plans for the orphans’ Christ- mas party are to be made tonight. John K. Kiley, the organization's lecturer, has arranged an entertain- ment program with turkeys, chickens and baskets for luocky members. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Orchestra, this Band e at Stan- ley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, assistan March, “The American Legion,” ‘Vandersloo Irish overture, “The Beauties of Erin,"” Sulte romantic, “Norwegian Sketches' (On the m‘: Ristic Dance) .. Wick Gems from the musical comedy “The t litical parties | officers | Fess Welfare Program for Boys to Be|dry it of high school COMMY DENIES FESS WILL RESIGN AS G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN (Continued Prom First Page) to the President as y Chairman was fully advised as to all of the mate ters under consideration, and the sults met with his entire ” ‘Those the left m":.g“&mun of the 'ommotmwuaz : A wet party has hurry chairman: pected to sional cam| pouw':i'nhlln- * | tention exclusively to his duties as Sen- because ator. The attacks on Mr. Fess of his statement that the would have to suj the dry of prohibition fight in 1933, how- ever, have if anything, & effect of keeping longer on the Treasurer Nut, it is had, him thess | atraid that it would be; view of the statement made G. O. P. that o of 1932, since dry in* the cam) 3 many of the substantial contributors to issue and G. O. P. should play t. the rumpus over this issue in publican party was sure tc come sooner or later. Mr. Fess insists he was lmt for himself alone and not as el an of the National Committee when he made his dry statement, but it is difficult for a national chairman to disassociate himself from his aoffice of chairman. A. C. CLARK TO SPEAK Historical Society Head to Discuss “Washington Then and Now.”’ Allen C. Clark, president of the Columbia Historical Society, will speak on “The City of Wi ; Then and Now,"” at the meeting of the in the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club tonight. Mr. Clark possesses a wealth of his- torical data on the Olrlhl since he % city's history for many years. i oo Sttt WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH Hartford Resident Plunges Twelve Floors in New York. November )18 woman_Mentiied e K Pt | to her .lmg_fl%fi* to dow of the Hotel Commodore titis morn=