Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1931, Page 1

WEAT (U. 8 Westher Buress Porecast) Pair and warmer tonight and tomor- row; lowest tempera grees day: lowest, 38, at § Puil report on page ses; cooler tomorrow night ‘Temperatures—Highest, 57, at noon to- HER. ture about 44 de- 45 am. todsy. 9 Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Sfar. |2 CONTRDL OF HOUS HANES Y BALANCE OF TODAY'S VOTING INFVE DISTRICTS Several State-wide Elections Also Being Held in Addition to Filling Congressional! Vacancies. NORMAL RESULTS WILL “WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, | g b jPresudent Managed Squad at Stanford—Walter Camp Was Coach. Millionaires and Surgeons Included on Roll of Famous Eleven, BY DAVID LAWRENCE. There’ll be a huddle at tie White House on the evening of November 12— a huddle of the foot ba!l team which 37 years a won for Leland Stanford University the champlonship of the West, with Herbert Hoover a3 financial manager, Comprising one of the most remark- GIVE REPUBLICANS TIE| First Ohio and Eighth Michigan Seen as Doubtful, With Hoover| Administration as Issue—New| York Interest Centers on Roose- velt-Smith Disagreement. By the Assoclated Press Riding to the sway of balloting today in five congressional dis- tricts is the 13-year-old domina- tion of the House of Representa- tives. From the results of these and other elections in a number of States, observers will seek to read political foreshadowings of events during the 1932 presidential cam- paign. Of the five special elections called to fill vacancles in the House, the outcome in two usually Republican districts is considered doubtful. They are the first Ohio and the eighth Michigan. The Democrats, who have formed the House minority since 1918, have assalled the Hoover administration. Whatever the election results, they will be gen- erally interpreted as the political sentiment toward the Chief Exec- utive. G. P. 0. Best Is Tie. Should the Rejublicans return Rep- Tesentatives from the three seats tra- ditionally theirs, the most they could do would be o tie the Democrats at 216, as the Democrats have virtualy been conceded victory in the other two dt’trlcu, which ere normally in their column. The present Lne-up gives the Deto erats 214, Republicans, 213; Farmer Laber, 1; vacancies, 7. iney in the fifth New Jersey district, usually will be filled 1 December It may be the decisive district, should today’s elections go as in the . ‘The seventh vacancy, in first New Hampshire, will not be until January 5, too lute for the 1t ative to partieivate in House organi- mation when Cougress convenes, De- cember 7. 2 The_ di: in New York between Gov. Pranklin itcosevelt and Alfred E. Smith, the 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, over a forestation amend-| ment to the Swte constitution has bothered Democrats. Roosevelt looms as presidential timber and Smith con- tinues the titular party leader. Belittles Disagreement. Anton J. Cermak, Democratic mayor of Chicago, however, last night in New York belittled “this talk about & Smith-Roosevelt disagreement.” He aela the issue was merely a State mat- T In New York the Democrats also hogz to capture control of the Assembly. wn in Kentucky both Republicans and Democrats are claiming victory in the gubernatorial contest that centored around Ben Johnson, highway commis- sioner. He was indorsed by Judge Ruby Laffoon, Democratic candidate, and de- . nounced by Mayor William B. Harrisoa of Louisville, Republican candidate. Virginia is electing its General As sembly, and Mississippi will ratify i Democratic slate of State officers. The New Jersey gubernatorial race, Jed for a time by two anti-prohibition- ists, Harry Moore, Democrat, and David Baird, Republican, had the wet-and-dry issue injected by a third candidate. Edmund R. Halsey has Anti-Saloon League support Ohio has a $7,500,000 State welfare bond issue to vote on | Pennsylvania is elecung a Supreme | Court justice, and a hot sectional scrap | among Republicans in the Pittsburgh- Allegheny Counties dispute over a com- | missioner is reaching its climax. Down in the first Ohlo district, rep- | resented 26 years by the late Speaker | (Continued on Page 5, Column 1. MASKED MEN STEAL | 110 VIRGINIA BALLOTS Votes in Advance Taken | From Home of Registrar | Honaker Mailed at November 3-—One | 10 ballots, mailed in ad- vance of today's election here, were | taken from Norman Yates, registrar for | Honaker precf last night by two masked me: | Yates t ° two men en- | tered his nted pistols at | ) hand over all | 50 and the men | Mcers found 14 of ths | along a road. Russall ch Honaker is located, | oted for county oficers and the ia Assembly WIFE, FEARING CRASH, KILLS MAN AND SELF Horror of Possible Auto Accident | and Lifelong Suffering Re- vealed in Death Note. By the Associated Press. ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., November | 3.—Fear of an automobile wreck which would cause them suffering chused Mrs. | Edna Moyer to kill her husband, James E. Moyer, railroad blacksmith, with a hatchet and end her own life by taking “We are both to be mangled in an sutomobile wreck, to live forever just suffering” said a note left by Mrs Moyer, who wrote that “God revealed the & able athletic teams of American record not only in scholastic status but in adult achizvement, members of the group will come from London, Honolulu, San Fran- cisco, Illinols, Texas, Idaho and New York. Every one of the 16 now living is prominent. One is President of th~ United States, another is an Ilinois State Senator, two of them are judges three are physiclans and surgeons, five are engineers, three are bankers asso- ciated with the leading financial institu- tions of America and one is a rancher The late Walter Camp was coach, and of the 18 men in the varsity squad every one received a degree. At least six, including Hoover, never used to- bacco or drank & glass of beer during their four undergraduate years at Stanford. Jackson Reynolds, now president of the First National Bank of New York and recently chairman of the Organi- zation Committee cf the Bank of In- ternational ~Settlements in Switzer- land, played halfback and ran through the whole Chicago team, coached by Alonzo Stagg, for a 12-to-0 victory in the first big East-West game of mod- ern foot ball, That was in 1894, be- fore & crowd of about 3,000 persons in Los Angeles—then a record crowd. Paul Downing, the captein, 15 now vice president and general manager of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. He was on the varsity team four years when the halves were 45 minutes and he ge 2, Column 8) OOVER PLANS GRID "HUDDLE" WITH TEAM THAT WON 1894 TITLE 1931—-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. The only evening t:.p‘; in Washington wi Associated service. Press news | Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,142, *¥ UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. | l 11 HERBERT HOOVER, (From a photograph made in 1898, just after he left college.) | JACKSON REYNOLDS | (Who played halfback on the 189 1 | Leland Stanford Foot Ball Team.) SMITH-ROOSEVELT SPLIT DRAWS POLL Interest in New York Election Centers on Disagreement of Democratic Leaders. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., November 3.—Public interest in the balloting tod:y in New York State was centered upon a c:n- | stitutional amendment, not because of its own importence, but bscause Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, potential Demo- | cratic presidential nominee, and his predecessor, Alfred E. Smith, were ar- rayed sgainst each other cn the issue. The amendment, which provides for the purchase and reforestation of aban- doned farm lands, is sponsired by Gov. Roosevelt. party organization, Tammany Hall and the Republican leaders of the Assembly. Assembly Contest On. Former Gov. Smith has condemned the plen a: something that would benefit large lumber interests. Second to the Smith-Roosevelt con- troversy, in which the vofers will be the referee today, is the contest for the capture cf the next Assembly, now con- trolled by the Republicans. The bit- terness with which this conest has been wag>d is reflect>d in the large regis- tration, with 120,000, more voters quali- fied than were listed for the guberna- torial election last year In New York City Tammany had 'made extraordinary efforts to bring out a large vote in an effort to offset the effects of the Hofstadter investigation of city affairs by an impressive showing at the polls 56 Mayors on Baliots. Charges of a political deal gflrce!ing of 12 new justices among 5 epublicans and 7 Democrats has edded interest t> the judicial election, in which 20 justices to the State Supreme Court are being chosen A Representative to Congress is being chosen in th» seventh congressional dis- trict in Brooklyn, 56 mayors are on the ballot in up-State cities and there are four constitutional amendments, in ad- dition to the questi-n of reforestation, on the bellot CURTIS TO MAKE SPEECH to Address A. N. P. A at Los Angeles Nov. 11. LOS ANGELES, November 3 (P).— in the Vice President | Vice President Curtis has accspicd an {ovitation to speak at a banquet to b> tendered members of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce November 11. Will Rogers, the hum: ist, and Gov. James Rolph, jr., also will be on the program The Vice President has accepted an invitation also to address leaders of the motion picture industry Novemb:r 10, when awards will be made for out- standing work in the various phases of the industry. He has with him his own | TREASURY DEFICT CONTIRUES 0 GAN {Administration Ends First | Four Months $661,120,850 | in Red. | By the Associated Press. | A new set of figures on the deficit today thrust the question of increasing taxes farther to the front of adminis- | tration problems. i Word that the Treasury ended the | first four months of this fiscal year with $661,120,850 in red on its books | went immediately to the White House. | | President Hoover does mot expect to | | state his position on new taxes in the | immediate future, however. | The budget is in preparation with | Mr. Hoover and his advisers attempt- ing to keep it down. All Government | departments are under orders to reduce | | where possible. | Tax Proposals Grow. Curtailed spending on the part of the | | Government would put brakes on the | deficit—now threatening to go far be- | yond the one billion mark before July | | 1—but it would not raise money to| meet the arrears which have already | accumulated. Proposals foi increased taxation are growing as the time for the next Con- gress @pproaches. Not long ago it be- known the administration is ing the feasibility of special sales s on a selected list of luxury articles. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, whose views have coincided oftentimes in the past with those pf Secretary Mellon, urged a sales levy. Many other Senators and House mem- bers of both pariies have said, how- | ever, they favored an increase in the levics on large incomes and strengthen- | ing inheritance tax laws in preference to the sales tax idea. | $171,514,528 Last Year. { Among them are most of the West- | ern. independent group of the Senate, | the Democratic House leader, Garner | (Continued on Pi 2 | WIFE OF JOBLESS MAN KILLS 3 CHILDREN, SELF | Philadelphia Shoots Youngsters While Husband Secks Work. ‘Woman By the Asscciated Press PHILADELPHIA, November 3.—MTrs. | Anoa Nathan, 21, shot and killed her | three small children and then com- mitted suicide in the kitchen of her home today. Police said she was de- | spondent over inability of her husband to_find employment. | The children were Charles, jr., 5; Herbert, 4, and Eva, 2. Their father bad left home two hours before the | ting to continue his search for ‘ASPHYXIATION FEAR GRIPS CITY | WHEN IRKED WORKER STOPS GAS! Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md, November 3.— About 6,000 consumers of gas in this town were unable to use their stoves, r lights this morning, when a §uwmc- o employe of the Ha- gerstown Light & Heat Co., believed ac- tusted by revenge, turned off the mains in the plant of the company. Fearing many persons would be iated through open pilot attachments on stoves and furnaces, the gas com- pany refused to turn on the gas until notice could be sent every user. All em- bodies * were discovered last Moyer is believed to have been last Wedneaday night and 4 . Jater at their home. loyes of the com] were drafted to Botlfy every customer of the situation and the town's morning newspaper printed a first-page warning, which was delivered to every house 6,000 Without Heat and Light—Warnings Broadcast to Prevent Casualties. { { Many business places were unable to operate because of the lack of gas. It | was beileved all persons would be noti- | fied and the service resumed before noon Bgnjsmxlnuf Gift, 30 years old. an employe of the gas company for nearly 22 years, was blamed by police for the city’s unusual plight. | ._According to the officers, Gift walked into the plant about 1 o'clock this morn- ing without other employes seeing him and turned off the gas. He then noti- | fled workers in the plant of what he ! had done end calmly awaiied the ar- rival of police. He taken into cus- tody. but no charge had been preferred | against him this morning. l Police said he refused to make & state- ment his act. | Arkansas Legislature at its recent spe- 55,600,000 MAIL | CONTRACTS PROBE ORDERED BY WOOD Administration of Air and Ocean Funds to Be Inves- tigated in House. METHODS OF AWARDING WORK ARE UNDER FIRE Postmaster General, Shipping Board and Ship Operators to Be Called. By the Assoclated Press An investigation into the administra- tion of $56,600,000 ocean and air mail funds and contracts will be instituted by the House Appropriations Committee in December. Representative Wood, chairman of the last House appropriations group, tocay | announced plans had been completed for the inquiry. Numerous complaints, the Indiana Republican said, had been received from air and steamship line operators over existing contracts and the methods un- der which they were awarded. Postmaster General Brown is charged with the administration of the funds, but W. Irving Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster General, supervises their ex- | penditures directly. The ocean mail funds last year amounted to $36,600,000, of which $7.- | 000,000 is for foreign ocean airmail. The | domestic airmail subvention, under the recently enacted Watres act, is $20,- | 000,000 annually. | ‘The ocean airmail contracts are awarded to steamship lines which have been certified by the Shipping Board Wood said Postmaster General Brown, Shipping Board commissioners, atreraft and ship operators holding contracts and those complaining against the con- trr‘ctu would be called before the com- mittee. Independent Airline Operators Dislike | Methods of Awarding Contracts. Many complaints, made by independ- | ent airline operators, against the methods of awarding contracts for carrying of airmail are expected to come before the investigators, headed by Representative Wood of Indiana. It is anticipated that the committee will go into the question of contracts for service between the National Capi- tal and Atlantic City and the anticipat- ed abandonment by the Post Office De- partment of the Department of Com- merce lighted airway from Washington to Norfolk, Va., as a part of its inquiry. Payments by the Fost Office Depart- ment for airmail service on several lines also are scheduled for investiga- tion, it is understood. On one of these lines payments of $17.30 per pound were made for carrying the mails, ac- cording to the latest official postal res. Contract for mail service on this route, between Albuquerque and El Paso, was awarded without competition or bidding. Complaints against alleged framing of specifications so as to exclude com- petitive b.dding on several important mail routes, chiefly the midtranscon- tinental and southern transcontinental lines, have been laid before members of Congress and probably will come with- in the scope of the committee's inquiry. Charges that virtually all contracts awarded under the terms of the Watres airmail act have been distributed by the Post Office Department to four giant air transport combinations, with- out bidding or competition, as “exten- slons” of existing lines, have been made and may be taken up by the com- mittee. PARNELL AND BILBO SET COTTON PARLEY Jackson, Miss., Chesen as Scene of Conference on Plans to Re- duce Acreage. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. November 3.— Gov. Harvey Parn:cll announced that he and Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo cf Mis- sissippi today would issue an invitation to Governors of all cotton-producing States to meet with commiitees of their Legislatures at a conference in Jack- son, Miss, to agree on uniform cotton acreage reduction legislation. Gov. Parnell and Gov. Bilbo conferred by telephone and agreed upon Jack- son as the place of meeting. A definite | date will be announced today. The conference was proposed by the clal session and a committee of five members was named to represent this State. The chairman, Senator W. H. Abing- | ton, said practically all cotton-grow- | ing’ States have agreed to send legis- lative delogations except Georgia, | Florida and North Carolina. The meeting was proposed in an effort | to obtain agreements among the States over some plan of reducing cotton acreage in years when such action is needed to prevent overproduction. “PEKING MAN” PICTURED AS RATHER INTELLIGENT Study Convinces Research Chief He Was Handy With Tools and Was Not Cannibal. PEIPING, China, November 3.—Study | of the remains of the “Peking Man” in- dicates he was a rather intelligent fel- low. & step up life's ladder from man's first_ancestor, Abel Henry Breuil. di- rector of resgarch at the Institute of Hyman Palacontology in Paris, ay He was handy with stone tools and could carve a pretty good dagger out| of a deer’s antler, Dr. Breuil said. He! used a deer skull for a drinking cup and | he wasn't a cannibal or there would be more bones in the limestone deposits | where his skull- was found. | Dr. Breuil told the Chinese Geological | Society he based his deductions on| examination of more than 2,000 worked quartz fragments found in association with the human remains and fossilized animal bones. Visit to U. S. Postponed. ATHENS, November 3 (#).——Foreign Minister Andrew Michalakopoulos said today that he was forced to postpone scheduled visit to America until Spring, owing to pressing domestic ms. The government closed the stock ex- change until December - BUSINESS PICKS LP N SEVEN NATIONS Reports to U. S. Show Gains in South America Areas, Europe and Canada. | By the Associated Press. Improved business conditions in many sections of the world today brightened reports to the Commerce Department. The weekly review of cables and radiograms recorded stronger general tone of markets and sentiment in Great Britain since the abandonment of the gold stundard; better export conditions in Egypt during August and the untsual situation of a favorable trade balance for Italy during Sep- tember. South Ameriea Improves. g Some sections of South Americd showed improvement. Higher cereal prices and better exchange conditions caused improved feeling in the in- terior of Argentina. Fundamental conditions in Chile ' were strengthened by the continued | favorable trade balance, e2lthough in- dustrial activity was slow, retail trade inactive and the credit position strained. Canada Notes Seasonal Gain. Better movement of merchandise was found in Mexico, but the industrial position remained weak. There was further seasonal improve- ment in Quebec, British Columbia and | the prairie provinces of Canada, where | the steady rise in grain prices | created a more optimistic tone. AKRON CARRIES 207 | PERSONS ON FLIGHT, Number Is Announced by Navy, Officials as Record Taken Up by Single Ship. By the Assoctated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J. November 3.— The airships Akron and Los Angeles both were in flight again today. | The Akron, which yesterday flew up | and down the Middle Atlantic Coast with 107 persons, took off again at 9:40 am. today for a lccal training flight. She carried 207 passengers, which is believed a new record. The Los Angeles, which accompanied the larger ship on yesterday's cruise, remained in the air during the night, 10 am. today was reported at the al air station to be in the vi- cinity of Cape May. She was expected to return to the hangar at sunset. The naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J., informed the Navy Department today that the Akron had taken off st 9:54 a.m. with 207 persons aboard. Naval officials said this set a world record for the number of persons taken aloft in a single ship. ) VESSEL British Registry Rescued Off Maine Coast. By the Assoctated Press BOSTON, November 3.—The Coast Guard patrol boat Harriet Lane rammed and sunk an unidentified power boat of British registry off the Maine coast dur- ing the night. The power boat's crew of nine men were taken aboard Harriet Lane and brought into this ort. 5 Coast Guard officials said the sunken d | craft was an 80-fool boat and was run- ning withcut lights when the collision occurred. They declined to divulge the specific location of the crash or the identity of the vessel. The yr&cued crew is being held here to await action by the immigration au- thorities, to whom their status was re- ferred by the Coast Guard. GN MINISTER | MADE FOREI Dr. Adolfo Bioy Succeeds in Argentina Cabinet. BUENOS AIRES, November 3.—Dr. Adolfo Bioy, assistant secretary of for- eign affairs, was promoted to the post of foreign minister of Argentina yester- day to succeed Dr. Ernesto Bosch, who resigned. Radio Programs on Page A12 ‘Woman Tries Suicide; Had to Get Washing Out First, She Says By the Associated Press. DENVER, November 3.—Mrs. Lilllan Monroe, 38, shot and wounded herself, perhaps fatally, after rd:otnl\a eavy washing “T'v %een wanting to do this for a time,” she told police, “but I just had to get that wash- ing done first.” Despondency over financial af- fairs was advanced by relatives as a possible motive for the at- tempted suicide. [OKG TAKES YR FGHT T0 COURT Seeks to Block Ouster Suit on Grounds of Failure to Show Cause. 2 By the Assoclated Press. SHREVEPO] ‘What Gov. Huey P. Long calls Loulsi- ana’s ‘“political comedy” moved from the dress rehearsal stage to the court room today. A District Court hearing on Gov. N. Cyr's claim to the Governoris chair gave the dispute a serious turn away from the earlier scramble for the ex- ecutive offices in controversy. The Governor seeks to block Oyr's presecution of an ouster suit on gfounds that the bill of complaint fails to set forth a cause or right of action. October 14 Cyr took the oath of Governor of Louisiana and charged Long had vacated the office through his election to the United States Senate. Long scoffed at the claim and posted a guard about the capitol to prevent an official entry of Cyr. After Cyr took the Governor's oath, Alvin L. King, president pro tempore of the State Senate, over the lieutenant governorship, contending Cyr's action had vacated that office. The gubernatorial revolution pre- cipitated a general clamor for the jobs. imants in this State and others took the oath of Governor, lieutenant gov- ernor and United States Senator—some serjously and some facetiously. seriously until he was forced to call off a proposed bond sile because bidders were uncertain about who could sign documents officially. Today’s hearing on the Governor's exceptions to Cyr’s claims was the first s and all the State’s ‘lieu ernors.” MUST GO TO CHURCH Detroiter Must Attend Regularly to Keep Out of Prison. LANSING, Mich., November 3 (#).— | Ernest Ramsey, 23-year-old Defroiter, | must go to church if he wants fo stay tenant gov- | out of prison. A parole was granted Monday, with the provision that Ramsey must at- tend services regularly. The stipulation was requested by his father, it was said. Ramsey was sentenced in 1927 to 15 | years in Jackson Prison for armed He has served his minimum good time. rol 3 term, less ‘Woman Flyer in Africa. NAIROBI, Kenya ' East Africa. No- vember 3 (#)—Peggy Salaman, British aviatrix, who s flying from England to Cape Town, arrived at Entebbe, Ugan- | da, today. Long's exceptions to Lieut. Gov. Paul Gov. Long failed to regard the matter | | | | | tentiol RAIL UNIONS SEEK WAGE CONFERENCE Way Opened to Roads for Discussions Involving Fi- nancial Difficulties. ' ‘The way was open today for the railroads to take up the questifon of wage cuts with their organized employes a measure of assistance in their financial difficulties, but at a price the carriers have previously rejected—a general conference, at which the work- ers could discuss also their particular problems, chief of which is growing the railroads were looking reductions for rellef, in of the Interstate RT, La, November 3.—| €8 in the gathering s tion for the conference, immediately dispatched to R. ton, chairman of the Railway Executives. Aishton at Conference. Aishton was on his way Ohla‘gz to attend the meeting 'rhun?‘y of American Railway Association when the letter from the brotherhoods was de- livered to his office, and he consequent- ly could not be advised of its contents u l:l today. et uld be forthcoming today from Chi- 2g0. The membership of the American Railway Association and of the Asso- ciation of Railway utives is identi- cal, and for that reason s decision as to the conference would be possible at Thursday’s meeting, it is believed. If not then, the Association of Railway Executives is due to meet here within a week to discuss the freight surcharge pool plan and the matter of the con- ference might then be handled. An answer was asked by tomorrow at the latest, when the union chiefs plan to wind up their conference, which was begun yesterday morning in the office of the publication Labor. Conference Is Sought. The text of the resolution follows: “Whereas the economic conditions affecting the operations of and employ. ment on the railroads have c! materially in the current year and the railroad employes and the earnt Failicad, empi e (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) i el g COAST GUARDS RESCUE 2 MEN 60 MILES AT SEA By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 3.—A Coast Guard cutter 60 miles at sea reported by wireless today that it had two men who had tossed for nine days in a disabled motor boat, starving and depending only on occasional raindrops for drink. On October 25 David Warshauer and Irving Puchyner, brothers-in-law, left their Brooklyn homes to tinker with their 17-foot outboard motor boat, the engine of which had not been function- ing properly. They failed to return and after days of search by Coast Guard and marine police their families gave them up for dead. ‘The cutter Cuyahoga reported today e that it had taken the men aboard miles off Fire Island Light, exhausted and in need of immediate medical at- n. By the Associated Press. Bosch | P! Asotin, for l’l-yfifi‘l—‘flu Russel Williams Rockford, “No 17-year-cld boy should be tenced to death nor should anys year-old be sent to prison for life,™ sal Miss Lenroot. g She described the Niccolls “cont to juvenile court sf ‘which, Children’s B | as | case, the penitentiary is not the them. DEATH PENALTY FOR 17-YEAR-OLD BOY DEPLORED BY U. S. OFFICIAL Contrary to Juvenile Court Standards, Says Miss Lenroot of Children’s Bureau. sentimentalists, but b{. persons of ex- uc i or indicate mental y of kind,” Miss Lerroot said. “In either for They should be where public is PROBERS IN NAVAL DISPUTE PLAN T0 MEET ON THURSDAY Admiral Rodman Seen ag Chairman, With Hammond as Alternative Possibility. MAY DECIDE NOT TO CALL WITNESSES IN INQUIRY Secretary Adams Resents What He Charges Is Personal Attack on President. By the Associated Press The committee of five named by President Hoover to investigate criti- cisms of his naval policy probably will meet for the first time here ‘Thursday. It will then decide on the course to take in disproving the accusations made by William Howard Gardiner, head of the Navy League, against the Presi- dent's naval policy. Present indications point to Admiral Hugh Rodman, rettred, as the choice for chairman, with John Hays Ham- mond an alternative possibility. The latter could not be found today, but the rest of the committee believed they could get him here by Thursday. 1f this plan is carried out the Hoover between its president Chief Executive of the Nation, — noxd. nfll Navy. reply would then be formulated and published. This f | i éfiz E i i E 2. I £ 3 SPURIOUS COIN PLANT AND ARSENAL SEIZED Five Men, Rum and ;Explosives Taken in Raid on Place Be- lieved Capone Owned. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 3.—An alleged counterfeiting plant and arsenal, be- lieved by police to have been connected with the headquarters of “Scarface Al” Capone's gang, was raided late yester- day. Police said they found 63 pistols, many of them with the numbers filed off; fuses, detonation , dies for coins, silver and & qunu!y of liquor, Five men were arrested. The prisoners are Louls Scarami the owner of the lpo%m gn nm‘g‘ Sylvia Bel , who said was gunsmith; , 80~ other employe; Sam Troila, brother-in- law of Scaramuzzo, and Louis Grossi. ‘The first three were turned over to Federal authorities for about the counterfe material. The latter two, who walked into the place while the raid was going on, were held for_investigation. Police said they believed the was used by the Caj gang to the numbers filed their weapons, to 60 ku&nw pistols ofled and ready for action. DOAK SAYS WAGE LAW HAS BROUGHT CLOSER TOUCH Tells Quartermaster Corps Associa- tion®f Contacts With Other Federal Agencies. ings from place both sater Tocaiity o