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‘rate their work. He ~ A2 s ILLINOIS SESSION GALLED ON TAKE Gov. Emmerson Wires As- semblymen as Climax of Committee Work. By the Associated Prese . SPRINGFIELD, Il #pecial session of the Illinois General Assembly meeting next Thursday to consider tax reform was called in tele- sent Assemblymen today by Gov. L. Emmerson. The Governor's action came as a cli- max to months of study and investiga- tion by an Executive Committee of his tax conference, which has been seeking remedies for the revenue ills of the Btate and Cook County. October 31.—A These proposals face the legisiators: ! An income tax graduated from 1 per cent or less to 6 per cent on all incomes over $25.000 A retail tobacco tax of 20 per cent. A special levy on heavy trucks and busses. Reduction of the tax on real estate Deferred payment of the 1930 taxes in five annual installments Bubstitution of a board of three mem- i bers appointed by county judges for Cook County's present board of review and_assessors “The call was issued close on the heels of a Chicago meeting at which the Executive Committee’s recommenda- woss were adopted by the tax confer- | despite vigorous objeétions princi- m by the Chicago Real E: s, Governor said he would fssue e Meting all | formal call Monday. %fif items to be considered by the extraordinary session. He has objected in recent weeks to the inclusion of mat- fers he claimed were not pertinent and ve no indication today what would : submitted beside tax reform. HOOVER'S $2,500 GIFT SAVES SEVEN RELIEF COMMITTEE JOBS rom Pirst Page.) t benefit shows, it was indicated. ln"l::- also are being formulated for & benefit foot ball game, Mr. Graham said. (Continued ! Work on Job Division. the committee's cmployes were fil‘lnmlue(hc day off without pay, its ex- ecutives, Mr. Graham and George .v Adams, executive secretary, Who serve without pay, continued work as um::{. advancing a plan for shorter W¢ ks as & means of providing jobs for nter. 4 Mr. Graham said b - ington's unempl&yed &x]mld bew:?jg pm. employers & ot ek flm contractors o’n ction proj- Federal and private constru ) aterial aid by emplov e n(‘:( day iaporers. Under bers of bflflfl’l ‘:,Oeu&s given work three days a week. ¥R bel'll'we be cautious,” Mr. Gra- “not to discriminate against 3 e should give ‘(’"{‘e"i“g: unfortunate heads of fam - mo:hm ‘who have dependents. The have shown a desire to h‘eln e able to agree on some way us !ubmrgllledlid.bec"ru!:: vitally affected. “nmmym o(‘“the\r members are out of work. Would Ald Married. “ erally would be im- o mployers would take the vacancies o tsations . during the ‘Winter. ould be made to prevent any e jan from mfixnulww:? owe first duty to our fellow - m% of t'ga floaters. Of course, we don't want any one to g0 hungry. ‘Mr. Grabam said a great deal would depend on the public reception of the theatrical and sports benefits to held within the next few weeks. He said if sufficient funds could be ob- tained from these and other sources work could be provided for many. “It would be much better,” Mr. Gra- ham said, “to make work for these men on public improvements and play- grounds than to give them money out- Tight. We want to guard against squandering any of the funds made available for us, It will be much more practical to place these men on the playgrounds and pay them to improve such properties.” Expects Further Aid. The chairman revealed a plan is on foot under which financial aid would be obtained from the Community Chest after that organization completes its sannual drive for funds in Janual The District Commissioners 50 moved yesterday to alleviate to some extent the expected harshness of the Winter to unemployed persons. They announced a plan for putting certain per diem workers on part-time work—three days a week—and thereby awid the necessity of laying men off in the de- partments involved and at the same time make it possible to secure 400 new part-time_jobs The scheme will be put into effect November 16 in order to have it start immediately after a pay day to avoid pay roll confusion. to laborers. In selecting the 400, the Commi sioners announced, only bona fide resi- dents of the District in need of jobs!| will be taken on. Those who apply will have to submit their credentials to the District Committee on Employment for District checking to make sure that workers will not be sacrificing them- selves for the benefit other parts of the country 2,000 Per Diem Workers. There are about 2,000 per diem way ers in the various engin ments of the District 400-of whom normally would be off by the end of the open working season, November 15, This year none of off. Instead 800 other worker: would normally work f reduced to half time. them will be laid Of the 809 half- tate Hoard | and the Association of Real Estate Tax- THE SUNDAY N TAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1931—PART ONE! Prayer Indispensable to Simple Faith From BY M. K. (MAH Prayer has saved my life. Without I have had my share w me into temporary despair. | was because of prayer Prayer has not been part of my lf of sheer necessity. I found myself in a plight where prayer, had the bitterest public ar If 1 was able to get rid of tha The more my faith in God increased. earning for prayer. nt without it in South Africa. but th Christian friends supplicated God, but I could not do so. 3 I started with a disbelief in God and prayer. | And until at a late stage in life I did not feel piritual and Political Leader of India Advises Return to Find Freedom Misery. Assoctate ATMA) GANDHL it T should have been a lunatic long ago fe as truth has been. Prayers came ou Prayer Indispensable for Soul. I could not possibly be happy with e more irresistible became the Life seemed to be dull and s sttended the Christian religicus services My 7 falled to grip me. I fatled vously. anything like & void in life. At tha t stage I felt that as food was indispens- | | | able to the body, so was prayer indispensable for 1 A the soul. In fac as prayer for the soul necessary in order to keep the body in health, but there is no such thing as prayer. t, food for the body Is not so necessary Por starvation is often starvation. You cannot possibly have a surfeit of prayer. ‘Three Buddha, peachabl through without B you vote people. I will say that this “lying” has & ying” that has given me that mainsta not dare o live for a moment of the greatest teachers of the world, Jesus and Mohammed, have left unim- e testimony that they found {llumination prayer and could not possibly live it. Has Never Lost His Peace. Millions of Christfans, Hindus and Mussulmans find their only solace in life in prayer. Either them down as liars, or as self-deluded charm for me, a truth-seeker, if it is y or staff of life, without which I couid In spite of despair staring me in the face on the political horizon. I have never lost my peace. In fact peace comes from prayer. 1 have found people who envy my peace. ‘That | have already I am not a man of learning, but I humbly claim to be a man of prayer. I! am indifferent as to the form. Every one is a law unto itself in that respect But there are some well marked roads, and it is safe to walk along the beaten tracks trod by the ancient teachers. It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self-proved and certain things which are not proved at all. The existence of God is like a geometrical axiom. It may be beyond our heart grasp. Begin With Childlike Faith. T shall not talk of an intellectual grasp. Intellectual attempts are more or ess fallacious, as a rational explanation cannot give you the faith in a living God. For it is a thing beyond the grasp of reason. It transcends reason. ‘There are various phenomena from which you can reason out the existence of God, but I shall not insult you intelligence by offering you a rational explana- tion of that type. I would have you brush aside all rational explanations and begin with a simple childike faith in God. If I exist, God exists. With me it is necessity of my being, as it is with millions. They may not be able to talk about it, but from their life you can see that it is part of their life. It will only apply of those from | ARKANSAS, REAPING BIG HARVEST, VEILED BLESSING s who time will be and throws you off your feet. Start with the faith which is also It.h‘t ‘we know nothing, that we are less Even men who were all the time to God. M every day. I am only asking you to restore the belief that has been undermined. order to do so, you have to unlearn a lot of literature that dazzles your intelligence In a token of humility, and an admission than atoms in this universe. Means Freedom From Misery. I say we are less than atoms because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we, in the insolence of our ignorance, deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith. Once you aceept the presence of God, the necessity for prayer is inescapable. Let us not make the astounding claim that our whole life is a prayer, and that therefore we need not sit down at any particular hour to pra) y. in tune with the infinite did not make such a claim. Their lives were a continuous prayer, and yet for our sake, let us | say, they offered prayer at sct hours and renewed each day th oath of loyalty God, of course, never insists upon the qath, but we must renew our pledge I assure you we shall then be free from every imaginable misery in life. ACTON EXPECED ONLAVALSRETURN Premier to Give Account of U. S. Trip and Decide Course on Big Problems. two great victories in America—assur- ance that the United States would treat kindly the traditional Prench claim that security must precede disarmament, and recognition for the French financial cautionness in treating with Germany. But these victories, L'Information points out, bring heavy responsibilities. M. Laval is certain to encounter op- position in Parliament. The Socialists declared his trip to Washington was useless, and the Extreme Right aver that he left PFrench gold in America | while taking on ungrateful tasks. The strength of this opposition has not been determined. Le Petit Journal's correspondent aboard the Ile de Prance says President Hoover has placed upon France the burden of initiative and responsibility in seeking a solution of the economic By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 31.—The return of talks with President Hoover is ex- pected to start action in the field of international credit and reparations. The premier will find two big jobs waiting for him. He must give an {account of his Washington conversa- | tions to the country and he must de- | cide what course France will pursue in 'dealing with domestic and foreign | financial problems. | Disembarking at Havre Monday, M. "IA\'l] will arrive in Paris in midafter- noon. Early Tuesday he will report to President Doumer and to the cabinet on his American trip. Later his ex- planation will be repeated in Parlia- ment, which probably will demand in- formation about November 12. | Interest in German Trip. Great interest is being manifested in the return from Berlin of Leopold von Hoesch, German Ambassador, who is spending the week end getting instruc- tions from Chancellor Bruening. New papers anticipate that Germany m: take the initiative in achieving action on credit and reparations and that the Ambassador may be the agent of this initiative. In line with this belief, Le Temps says Dr. Bruening has learned that the logical conclusion of M. Laval's visit to America is the necessity of treating di- rectly with Paris—that the only solu tion is a Franco-German understand- | The press declares the premier w and financial problems. He expressed | belief that Premier Laval is determineq to make a bold effort 0 solve the ques- Premier Plerre Laval Monday from his | 5 o If the effort fails the United States | will turn to other nations, the corre- | spondent warns his countrymen, and | will try to impose solutions very differ- ent from those envisaged by France. 'REPORT ON EDUCATOR'S . | IMPRISONMENT SOUGHT Fear for Health of Havana Uni- versity Dean Held Cuba Jail. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—New York | scientists have appealed to the State | Department at Washington for infor- | mation concerning the imprisonment in Cuba of Dr. Carlos de la Torre, 76- vear-old dean of science at Havana University, it was learned heré to- night. It was said at in the hotel suite of Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote, former | vice president of Cuba and leader of the opposition delegates in the United States, that Dr. de la Torre had been placed in a dungeon and it was feared the incarceration might prove fatal to The Washington activities are being directed by Dr. Fernando Ortiz, Havana journalist, | Cosme de' 1a Torriente. former presi- dent of the Council of the League of Nations. SEES DROUGHT 1931 Crops Are Largest and Most Diversified in Recent History—Business time jobs thus created. 400 will go to those workers who wo been laid off altogether bona fide residents of The ihe jobs affected are, those of pick-and-shovel men for the ' and Highway, Sewer. Water and Trees Parkings Departmen! ni handlers at the rious buildings, freight handlers at the supply yard of the Electrical Department and wage for charwomen. The minimum unskilled workers is $3.60 per day. SON NAMED AS SLAYER Wesley Campbell Convicted of Killing 86-Year-Old Father. BARRIE, Ontario, October 31 ‘Wesley Campbell was convicted today of the murder of his 85-year-old father, ‘William Campbell, whose body was touna‘ in the cellar of their home last ‘The son, for whom the death sen- during an alterca- Campbell fell downstairs fatally. d normally have and the other 400 will go to new men who must be rs and coal municipal By the Assoctated Press LITTLE ROCK Looking back upon last year's drought as_a blessing disguise, Arkansas far are fast paying their visualizing better times as they harvest the largest and most diversi- fied crp in recent history. And prosperous agriculture usually means prosperous Arkansas, for is the State’s chief industry and re- proved condition of agricul- has just begun to show its ef- fects upon the business life of the State. Wholesale and retail merchants Teport a decided increase in business in the past three weeks, much of which is seasonal. but they say the | outlook for the Winter and for next r especially is encouraging. he record-breaking crop has com- bined with a number of other factors to overcome to some extent the low pricg of cotton, so that farmers gen erally, for the first time in years, can | see a profit from their labors. | For instance, the amount of canned and other foodstuffs put away this year is estimated to an addi- tional 5 cents a pound for cotton. The farmers now are paying their debts at a rate which fl:l au- spend by Christmas. has taken the lead among Arkansas drought-stricken States in repayment | of Government seed and feed drought | ably loans. which amounted te about $1¢.- Ark, October 31.—-' debts | that | Life Is Stimulated. their loans from the | mediate Credit Federal Bank at St Inter- More than a third already has been paid and at the present rate bank offi- cials say virtually all should be wiped off the book by the first of the year The value of all agricultural com- moditi | mated at $110.000.000, as compared Wit $85.000.000 last year. |~ Diversification has been practiced as never before, due largely to the drouth which taught the farmers they could not live on cotton alone. Less financing is expected to be needed for next years crop than in any vears. Thg University of Ar- kansas extension service recently made & survey of financing needs in 63 coun- ties, which borrowed around $20,000.- 000 on this year's crop. The resuit showed only ‘an estimated $1,500,000 | would be needed for next year. | Instead of an unemployment prob- {lem, the rural sections now are suffer- ing from a labor shortage. Many co: |ton pickers are being brought in from | neighboring States to barvest the | erop. them | Because of its size—1,700,000 bales, | or about double that of last year—State | Labor Department officials expect cot- ton pickers to be kept in the fields prob- until Pebruary 1, which would mean only & month of idleness for farm in_co-operation with Dr. | | aftes Yet Arkansas farmers are paying nfl' Louis at| ° in the State this year is esti- | RHEEH PROPERTY | SAL 15 SOUGHT | Trustees of Bankrupt Con-| cern Ask Court Permission for Auction. one pieces the ba: and Hensey il be sol tion in the near future if ict Supreme Court acts favor- a Tequest for permission to sell he trustees for the bankrupt The properties are to be sold for cash | over and above existing encumbrances to the highest bidder. The sale will be one of the largest of its kind ever | held in Washington The decision of the trustees to ukl the court for permission to sell at this time came as a surprise in view of the | unfavorable real estate market. There is a possibility—which will be discussed at a meeting of creditors on November 11—that some of the properties may be held in the hope of selling later under more favorable circumstances The other pieces of property in the bankrupt estate, it was understood been contracted for by | private interests List of Properties. If the request of the trustees is granted the following properties will be auctioned: Business properties: 1343 Connecticut avenue, trust dated July 5, 1928, for $75,000, payable three rs after date at 6 per cent; 1345 Connecticut avenue, trust dated June 2, 1930, for $55.000, payable three years after date at 6 per cent; 1347 Connecticut avenue, trust dated June 2, 1930, for $55,000, payable three years after date at 6 per cent; 727 Fifteenth street. trust partly due April 1, 1932, and April 1, 1933, balance over- due $98,000 at 6 per cent: 729 Fifteenth street, first trust November 7, 1928, for $325,000, payable three vears after date at 6 per cent, second trust December 2, 1927 for $100.000, payable one year after date at 6 per cent: 1631 Four- teenth street, first trust June 21, 1927, for $155,000, payable three years after date at 6 per cent, second trust June 21, 1928, for $75,000, payable two years after date at 6 per cent; 1512 L street, trust for $20,000 due February 17, 1931, at 6 per cent; 1525-27 M street, trust for $36,500 due March 6, 1932, at 6 per cent; Hurley-Wright Building, Eighteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, first trust of $260,000 due July 24, 1934, at 5'2 per cent; second trust, Sep- tember 11, 1930, for $102,000, payable $10,000 in six months, $10,000 in nine months and $82,000 in one year after date at 6 per cent, Residences Listed. Residences: 7316 Alaska avenue, two-story brick, trust, October - 24, 1928, for $15000, payable three years after date at 5', per cent; 1644 Argonne place, two-story bricks, trust, March 17, 1930, for §7,- 750, ‘payable three years after date at 6 per cent, extended to March 17, 1932; 1720 Newton street northeast, two-story brick, first trust due April 20, 1931, at 6 per cent for $6,500, and a second trust, note rayable $70 per month at 6 per cent, balance due Janu- ary 20, 1931, $1,926.59; 2650 Nicholas avenue southeast, two-story frame, area of two lots, 4,000 square feet and 17,172 feet, trust due November 23, 1931, for $3500 at 6 per cent; 720 Sheridan street, two-story brick, first trust due December 3, 1931, for $3.- 400 at 6 per cent, second trust, Octo- ber 15, 1928, for $3,225.67, payable $47.50 per month at 6 per cent. 5001 Sixteenth street, two-story brick and stucco, trust, September 27, 1929, for $40,000, payable three years after date at 6 per cent; 6227 Twelfth street, two-story brick, trust, $7,250 due June 8, 1932, at 6 per cent; 2840 Twenty- eighth street, two-story brick, trust, November 12, 1929, for $8,500, payable three years after date at 6 per cent. Apartment Houses. Apartments: 1830 California _street, two story, trust, December 19, 1929, for $20,000, payable three years after date at 615 per cent; 1320 Fairmont street, four story, first trust, September 24, 1929, for $47,500, payable three years after date at 6 per cent, second trust, October 16, 1929, for $21,018.13, payable $350 per month, interest from March 16, 1931, at 6 per cent; 705 Fourth street, four story, trust, October 15, 1926, for $60,000, payable three years after date at 6'; per cent, extended at 6 per cent to October 16, 1933; 1665 Lamont street, three story, first trust, April 1, 1927, extended at 6 per cent with semi-annual curtails of $1,250, bal- ance due April 1, 1931, $47,500, second ‘trust. March 26, 1927, payable $300 per month at 6 per cent, balance December 29, 1930, $17,894.44: 3701-9 Thirteenth street, two story, trust, May 24, 1927 for $65.000, payable three years after date, extended to May 24, 1933, with quarterly curtails of $450, balance due $58,200 at 6 per cent. Uninmproved property: Southwest corner of Connecticut avenue and Ap- pleton street, area 27,012 square feet, trust, July 6, 1927, for $33.913.08, pay- able four years after date at 6 per cent; northeast corner of Massachusetts ave- |nue and Murdock Mill road, area 2,018.2171> square feet, first trust, May 22, 1930, for $225.000 payable on or be- fore two years at 6 per cent, second trust, April 18, 1929, for $65,000, pay- able on or before two years at 6 per cent; 61,327 square feet bounded by Rhode Island avenue, Eastern avenue. Newton and Monroe streets. northeast. trust, September 19, 1928, for original $63,500, now reduced to $12.500, pay- eble three years after date at 6': per cent; lot No. 1,130 Tenth street, area 2,709 square feet, trust, ber 9, payable three years er date, 0 at & per cent: southwest cor- ner of Twenty-fifth and E streets. area June 8, 1926, for $23,000, payable on or before 18 months at 6 per cent. Nearby Properties. Maryland properties: Three unim- proved lots in Capitol View Park. no encumbrance; improved property at 125 Leland street, Chevy Chase Park, trust. $6.500, due October 9, 1931, at 6 per cent Virginia__properties: Unimproved, Rosslyn Farm, Arlington County, Eddy’s Subdivision, trust. December 18, 1929, for $15.000, payable two years date at 6 per cent: Frank Lyon Farm, near Langley, Pairfax County, trust, May 8., 1924, extended to $35,000 at 6 per cent, second, 18, 1930, $30,000, payable one r after date at 6 per cent | The trustees reported to the court they have already received offers as follows for the following properties For 1§34 Argonne Terrace, $9,250, as- sessed value, $6,200; for 212 Florida venue. $3,300, assessed value at $2.579; 3475 Holmead place, assessed value, $8,858: lots two and three in Square 32, Capitol View Park, Md. $800, assessad value, $564: 33 acres in Huntington Terrace, North Petworth, $200,000, assessed value. $139,775; 714 Rittenhouse street, $7.000, assessed value, $6,783. first 1934, EXTRATERRITORIAL PACT | WITH CHINA IS DENIED London Report From Tokio of Completed Treaty Is Without Basis. By the Associated Press. LO! N, October 3 from NDO! 1.1 Tokio that China and Great Britain had completed a treaty abolishing ex- Declares > Twenty Grand Poses for Sculptress FAMOUS RACE HORSE READY FOR EQUINE HALL OF FAME. Kathleen Wheel sketching Twenty Grand at Laurel. BY GRETCHEN SMITH N spacious box-stalls of the Laurel stables, two of this year’s cham- pions are being “trained down™ Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun Beau, greatest money winner of all time, and Mrs. Payne Whitney’s Twenty Grand, | three-year-old champion and winner of make a bronze figure of the horse. for the approaching Winter of in- activity. the Kentucky Derby, may be seen daily early in the morning, running off some of the keyed-up tension in which the ' culmination of the racing season finds them | Profiting by the nearness of the famous equine aristocrats, Washing- ton's well-known sculptress, Kathleen Wheeler, has been visiting the Laurel stables each day to sketch the cham- pions before they are turned into their Winter farms. Twenty Grand in New Jersey and Sun Beau in Virginia, Sketches Gallant Fox. With the completion of pastels of the thoroughbreds, Miss Wheeler adds two more famous names to & long list of equine champions already executed in pastels, as well as sculptored in charac- teristic poses and reproduced in bronze. Last month the artist returned from Lexington, Ky., where she sketched and modeled Gallant Fox. During the past native England, where she sculptored several English champions, including Lord Derby's famous Phalaris. “Many of the horses I have modeled,” she said, “were sketched pfter they had retired from the track. It is always | Kentucky Derby winner in 1928. Miss Wheeler will —Star Staff Photo. | comparatively simple to do them then, | but it is more difficult when they are racing, as one can only get them for | fleeting moments during their exerc\se,l grooming or rubbing-down periods.” i Prefers Twenty Grand. Although the artist finds the six: vear-old Sun Beau a “showier” model than Twenty Grand, she says she pre- | fers doing the latter. “He is such a lovable horse,” she ex- | plained,” mild and gentle and not at | ,all fussy.” g | Miss Wheeler has found it necessary o motor to Laurel very early in order jto get in her work while the animals | are having their morning exercise and | grooming. A few years ago the sculptress avas commissioned to make a bronze each | vear of the winner of the Kentucky Derby. In order to execute the com- mission she made a tour of the coun- | try’s most famous racing stables, where | many of the old favorties were enjoy- | ing retired lives of comfort. Models Famous Horses. Among the famous race horses which ishe has modeled are included Admiral | Cary T. Grayson’s My Own, Samuel | D. Riddle's Man of War, Carl Weider- L | man’s In Memoriam, Benjamin Block's | { Morvich, Desha Breckenridge’s Harry F. Sinclair's Zev, the famous French Epinard, Willis Sharpe Kil- | mer's Exterminator, winner of the Sar- atoga Cup for four years running, and | Mrs. John_D. Hertz's Reigh Count, The artist was asked if, after the many famous animals she has sketched and modeled, she finds that horses pos- sess~individuality. “Most decidedly,” she replied. “Ttorses have as much individuality and char- acter as human beings, and that is what makes them interesting. Most of this distinction of character is revealed in the head. They show definiie char- acteristics by the shape of the head and the expression of the eyes.” Sun Beau Has Long Jaw. Attention was drawn to the two pas- tels of her latest models, Twenty Grand and Sun Beau. The latter's head is extraordinarily long-jawed, with an ex- tremely sensitive and delicately moulded nose. p Miss Wheeler is an Englishwoman by birth and was educated in London. From her earliest childhood she has delighted in modeling, using red clay Summer Miss Wheeler Teturned to her | Madeap, Hay Price Headley's. Ohsoalet, | cabpage o U &nd pet poriles A% her subjects. o In addition to her achievements as a modeler of horses, she has reproduced many bronzes of animal subjects and numbers among her portraits and bronzes some of the most famous mem-~ bers of the canine world. TENNESSEE UNABLE 10 MEET SALARIES Governor and High Officials | Among Hundreds Left Without Pay. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 31.— Hundreds of State employes, the Gov- ernor and Supteme Court justices in- cluded, failed te receive their October saldries today because Tennessee's treasury balance was at a low ebb. Controller- Roy Wallace said revemie receipts the first week or two in No- vember might be sufficient to meet the $250,000 pay roll for the last month, but he emphasized this was only a hope and could not be regarded as a cer- tainty. $400,000 Left in Fund. He disclosed there was $400,000 in the State’s general fund toda: Half of this amount was held in reserve to pay interest on State bonds, and the sum of $120,000 was set aside to pay monthly pensions to Confederate vet- erans. ‘The controller has not de- cided what will be done with the re- maining $80,000 in the treasury. Teachers in the six State normal schools have fared far worse than other State employes as Tegards salaries. They have taught without pay for the entire semester because a State fund usually set aside for meeting their salaries was wholly depleted. Con- troller Wallace said there was no im- mediate prospect of paying them. At present he is holding unpaid war- rants amounting to $3.000,000 for schools and other incidentals and there is no money with which they can be converted into cash. | Many Schools Closed. Failure to receive State aid, due last July, has resulted in the closing of schools in several counties and other counties are contemplating school terms of less than the usual eight months. Various civic organizations, including the State Parent-Teacher Association, have asked Gov. Henry H. Horton to call a special session of the Legis- lature to deal with financial problems, but he has not indicated he will heed | their requests. TEN PER CENT CUT ORDERED BY B. & 0. FOR ALL OFFICERS (Continued From First Page.) such as trainmen, conductors, engineers and shopmen A month ago Mr. Willard advised re- ducing wages of railroad workers. At the time he said reductions could mot | be made in time to be of assistance “in the present emergency.” Like other leading railroads of the country, the Baltimore & Ohio has re- duced its force in the last six months |and placed many units on a part-time schedule. The salary reduction today, however, is the first general cut the road has made. In an_ interview yesterday Mr. Wil- lard declined to commit the Baltimore & Ohio on a wage reduction program, however, he approved the New York Central Railroad plan of attexpting to reach wage cut agreement between em- ployers angd brotherhoods. | He likewise said the “layoff” of ap- | proximately 5,000 shopmen of the Bal- | timore & Ohio was effected a month ago in order to allow their re-employ- ment during the Winter, when needs were more acute. These shopmen, he made plain, were merely furloughed and | not discharged. Their jobs were there for them when the need for their serv- ices arose | | Not to Quickly Sue | Republican member of the House Ap- __ | tion of its president, Willlam Howard Wife Ain’t Willing Her “Cruel” Spouse By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 31.— Cruelty to the King's English and the rules of etiquette con- stitute cruelty to Mrs. Helen William Morse, she said today in a suit for divorce. Mrs, Morse charged her hus- band, John, was cruel because he split infinitives, used the double negative and said “ain’t” to an- noy her. He also, she added, re- fused to abide by the recognized rules of etiquette,*much to her chagrin. lH()‘O\[E_R GAINS AID " OF ANTI-WAR GROUP IN FIGHT ON NAVY (Continued . From First Page.) Register, its rival in the service field, the Army and Navy Journal, said edi- torlally in its issue of yesterday: “It is President Hoover and President | Gardiner of the Navy League who are engaging in controversy, not the Com- mander in Chief and the Navy. We trust the country will not neglect to make this important distinction. The | Navy is loyal, as aiways, and will faith- | fully obey orders as 1t has in all the | years of its existence. Mr. Gardiner and some of his assoclates, fired by zeal for a Navy able to defend not only the homeland, but our overseas posses- | sions, the Panama Canal and our in- | valuable foreign trade, are demanding a Navy at least cqual to that of any | other nation. The President, faced by a mounting deficit, and probably in- creased taxation, is determined to keep down expenditures, anticipating that | the forthcoming Disarmament Confer- | ence will produce the parity which was provided for under the London treaty. Statement of Journal. | On President Hoover's Navy day | pronouncement, sre Journal says: “President Hcover has made the amende honoracle to the officers of the | In his Navy day statement he | said the service ‘possesses a personnel | | of officers and men who have never been excelled in our whole history.’ In | 50 expressing a conviction entertained by the people, he deliberately rebuked | Congressman Wood of Indiana, ranking | | Navy. | propriations Committee, who intimated that the Commander in Chief agreed with him as to ‘cowardly naval offi- bl The Navy Lesgue has lost an un- identified member in protest of the ac- Gardiner, in attacking President Hoover and his naval rolicy, but the organi- zation is known to have received a | number of telegrams from members and | non-members who approved of the | league's caustic criticism of the ad- ministration. Several persons desire to | join the organization. WRITERS T0 PROBE HARLAN MINE RULE Dreiser Committee to Leave for Kentucky Tuesday on Inquiry in Strike. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—Details of plans for investigation of nmv:mu.ler- rorism and gunman rule” among Ha: lan, Ky., miners by a writers' committee have been completed, Theodore Dreiser said tonight in announcing the party would leave for Pineville, Ky., Tuesday. _The writers will proceed to Harlan November 6. Members of the commit- 8: are Dreiser, John Dos , Bruce awford of Norton, Va.; Charles Rum- gggg W:llée‘r‘ J?!tp(l)'ll.n! Herbst, Lester n, muel i Anna Rochester. s They will be met at Pineville Novem- ber 5 at a mass meeting by committees of the National Mine Workers and the International Labor Defense. s Dreiser sald an open inquiry will held on the miners’ charges that armed deguues have broken up their meetings. ‘Sheriff Blair has announced since the formation of this committee that gl:ex;e is him t;rn;%r‘lsm in Harlan,” iser said, “‘ant t he wi oy ‘glve;teltlfion." il welcome ““We hear from authentic sour Harlan, however, that the cou::; i)‘s‘ & month ago. We are informed that the miners, despite Sheriff Blair's denial, lmre llfl!lhn:t allowed to hold union meet- g, at as the strike spreads in Straight Creek there are more arrests for ‘criminal syndicalism’ almost daily. Dreiser said interest in the investig; tion movement had been expressed by Senator Couzens of Michigan and Sen- ator Norris of Nebraska, and Arthur Baden, president of Transylvania Col- lege, Lexington, Ky., had telegraphed Dreiser he was “convinced a terrible situation exists in Harlan.” BLAST IN TANKER'S HOLD INJURES THREE Spark From Breaking Electric Light Bulb Believed to Have Caused Explosion. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 31.—An explo- sion in the hold of the oil tanker A. J. Patmore injured three men, one of them probably fatally, while the vessel was docked in the Chicago Drainage Canal today. Earl Gannaway, 24, of Lemont and Kenneth Wendorff, 24, of Lakewood, President Hoover’s callers yesterday included Secretary Adams, who has| maintained a discreet silence through | the storm, and Admiral Hugh Rodman, | U. S. Navy, retired. Both declined to | comment on the object of their visits or to say if the Navy League contro- versy had been discussed. Secretary | Stimson had been the only cabinet of- ficer to comment publicly against Mr. | Gardiner, ridiculing particularly the claim that an unrevealed agreement between President Hoover and Prime | Minister MacDonald exists. | ASKS SUPPORT FOR NAVY ! Admiral R. E. Coontz Makes Plea o+ Congress in Article. | KANSAS CITY, October 31 (#).— Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. 8. N., re- tired, has asked Congress to “stand by Ohio, were cleaning a tank in the hold. ‘They asked Walter Persurst of Lemont to lower an electric light globe from the deck. The globe crashed against the ship's side and a spark is believed to have ignited fumes. Wendorff was blown 20 feet out of the tank. Persurst was thrown to the deck and suffered a fractured leg, but he dragged Gannaway to safety. Wendorft and Gannaway were taken to a Joliet hospital, where it was said Wendorfl's chances for recovery were meager. The A. J. Patmore was the scene of an explosion six years ago, seamen said, in which eight persons were killed, TWO-DAY REBELLION ENDED AT PERNAMBUCO still as much an armed camp as it was | the Navy” and support the Navy League Mr. Willard’s office tonight explained | in its differences with President Hoover, that the road would have to go before | growing out of the organization's op- the Interstate Commerce Commission | position to Naval economies. to effect a wage reduction in the sal-| The league has charged the Presi- aries of many of the employes, should | dent with “abysmal ignorance of why such action be deemed advisable. | Navies are maintained and of how they Officials of the read said that many engineers, trainmen and other regular | daily employes who made more than | $300 per month were not affected by | the salary cut, and could not be with- out I. C. C. permission. Mr. Willard's office made plain_that | the cut affected primarily the officers | and “white collar” workers of the road. | Dogs Raiding Sheep Killed. traterritorial privileges were declared here today to be without foundation. It was pointed out- that extraterri- torialty negotiations* had been going on for several years without any re- cent developments: BERRYVILLE, Va., October 31 (Spe- cial). —Two dogs d a flock of sheep at Soldiers’ Rest, the home of Clifton Price, Monday night, resulting in the | loss of 25 sheep. Both dogs were caught and killed. are used to accomplish mission.” Mr. Hoover asserted the or- ganization has disseminated “untruths and distortions of fact.” In an article on “A Navy Second to None,” in the November issue of For- eign Service, official publication of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, off the Do thas” Gon i Sade: 0pe S T - ment will stand by .1e Navy and not countenance attempts to reduce it be- low the call of national safety.” Admiral Coontz wrote that he would favor reductions in all lines of arma- ment if other nations would do like- wise, “and those agreeing come down ship for ship and man for man.” | Mutinous Troops, Cornered by State | Police, and Cut Wires Are Repaired. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, October 31— Quiet was restored at Pernambuco to- | day n:’m :m:cm dei;t.‘-bllshmenu re- | ope: aj en of a two-da; | rebellion there. i | ., The rebellious troops, members of the 21st Scout Regiment, surrendered | yesterday to loyal forces from the States |of iyba and practically t Surrender, ANATIONSACCEPT | ARMS TRUCE PLAN League Counsel Feels Some Kind of Holiday Can Be I ‘Effected. | | By the Associated Press GENEVA, Switzerland, October 31— | Thirteen nations, including the United | States, have sinified their willingness to participate i a one-year armament | building truce proposed by the Council | of the League of Nations, and although there was no official statement from the League secrotar'at. today there was a disposition to belleve that some sqrt of arms truce can ve put into effect. The building holiday, the League proposed, wouid begin tomorrow and continue 12 months. France accepted, conditionally, asserting that she was willing to partisipate if the nations which border that country also agreed. So far, in addition to the United States and France, affirmative replies have been received from Japan, Russia, Hungary. Holland. Australia, New Zea- land, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Albania, Latvia and Lux:mbourg. Great Britain has not replied nor has Switzerland, and there has been no word yet from Italy or Germany. The secretariat vublished the response from the United States without com- ment, and it was not possible to obtain any further official information this evening for all the officials of the dis- armament section had left town for the week end. Italy’s willingness is taken for granted, as that country proposed the armaments truce. i Acceptance of Holiday Proposal For- warded to League at Geneva. BERLIN, October 31 (#).—Germany has accepted the League of Nations proposal for a one-year holiday in armaments. it was learned today. ‘Written assent dispatched to Geneva was accompanied by a statement ex- plaining the nation’s peculiar position as a_consequence of the restrictions of | the Versailles treaty. The government will not make public the text of the communication until Monday. ECONOMIES SEEN AN ISSUE. French Senator Declares Arms Parley Depends Upon Prosperity’s Return. CHAMBERY, France, October 31 (#). —Senator Henri de Jouvenel, expert on disarmament, sald in a public address today that if next February’s disarma- ment. conference was to be uccess a solution must be found to the economic and financial problems now facing the world. “Return to prosperity and mainte~ nance of murrly are dependent upon putting into practice international soli- darity,” he told an audience assembled for the opening meeting of the newly= formed Society of Peace in the Cham< bery district. CASTLE DENIES U. S. IS TAKING SIDES IN CHINA'S DISPUTE (Continued From First Page.) among the military element, as undue interference and that It was made clear, however, the United St stands by its pre- f whole-hearted sym- League vious expression g-'.hy with the efforts of the 0 bfln{ the Manchurian troublé to a Pele:::e 3 participant in steps to ger of war in the East. Forl #HTammthe;wn?yorlm.hfla been away from Jaj on since the outbreak of the trouble. o WILL NOT SEND TROOPS, pusbid i oo Tokio and Moscow Agree on Northern Manchurian Policy. ‘TOKIO, October 31 (#).—Ja] an- Sin Which 1s Sxpecied 1o Keep.tEoops oF | sia_whic expect ee) both nations out of Nonher: mmmhu- ria where they have larg terests. There was no change, however, in the Japanese control of South Manchu- the !‘.fi‘e Coun ment defending the nation’s Manchu- rian policy. Failure to protect Japanese nationals and their properties was charged against the Chinese rulers of Manchuria when Japanese uog: seized strategic cmtetm "lln “s‘i wuwm".hlrfl of the country, ‘ptember, disrupting the O isia" fears that In 1t pian ussia fears that Japan it to extend this control to Nfll Man- churia prompted the conversations this week in Moscow between Koki Hi the Japanese Ambassador, and L. M. Karakhan, former Ambassador to China and no wacting commissar of foreign affairs. The two officials, it was announced here today, agreed that Russia would send no troops into Manchuria guard the line of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which Russia and China own jointly, unless unexpected developments oceur. Japan, on the other hand, agreed not to send troops with the repair gang dis- patched northward on the Taonan- Anganchi Railroad, upon which three bridges were damaged in recent civil warfare. Ambassador Hirota made clear that should Russia find it necessary to send troops into Northern Manchufia, Japan might do likewise. Meanwhile the | northern limits of Japanese oceupation remain Taonan, Changchun and Kirin. The Le: as prepart the complicated circumétances to the Manchurian outbreak, and clared the recent resolution of the League Council calling for ywal of Japanese troops from the occupled non-treaty areas had been based upon insufficient knowledge of actual condie | tions. ——— 'INDIANA LAW CHANGE BLOCKS BILL MURRAY, Partial Repeal of Primary Statutes Forces Oklahoman to Depend on Convention Delegates. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, October 31.—Re- peal of the State-wide features of the Indiana primary law will prevent Gov. William (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Okla= homa from entering a general contest in this State for the presidential nomi- day to M M '5:&35 ¥ urray ’!J.Otrtg , clerk of the State Print- ing them until regular i - ments arrived, it was -n.mmm’e:iu::d when the cruiser Rio Grande do Sul reached Pernambuco today it found the Y eiegraph times. cut by the es cul rebels, ‘who had planned t northward, were l, Teixeira, wl'hl' chiet of the naf mmmwh‘n‘ihmndhu. mmmwgmmmu his candidacy it vould be necessary for cratic convention, 5