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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness and warmer, fol- lowed by rain at night Temperature—Highest, 48 at noon to- day; lowest, 33 at 2 am. today. Full report on page 9. ) Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 @ ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 115,533 * -— No. * Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. ( 018. WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931——'IIHIRTY—T\\'() .PAGES. (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. JAPANESE 0CCUPY HANG'S POSITIONS Ridiculous. GETS POST |[BLACK [People Looking for Jobs. Not Jags, Declares Ari- enator. Former Manchurian War Lord Reported Ready to Quit Chinchow —Enemy Planes Appear Over City. zona By the Associated Press Describing attempts to change the prohibition laws es “a_ridiculous waste of effort,” Senator Ashurst, Democrat Arizona, today withdrew from a Sc Judiciary subcommittce named to hearings on the subject GEN. TAMON COMPLETES ADVANCE FROM TAWA! & 3 et iieentn. am | ment, for the Volstead law, fo | anti-beer bill and for all the i priations necescary to enforce tr Attacking Column Meets Stubborn Pria 8 ey e Resistance From Two Forces of t& ke in so voting. Chinese Troops—Weather Is 4 | those who are attempting to wea “I have no time to waste in | relax that amendment or those It is a ridiculous waste of effort attempt to relax or modify the prohibi- tion laws. “The people are looking for jobs, not jags.” Another friend of prohibition. Sen- | ator Black, Democrat, Alabama, was | appointed to fill Senator Ashurst’s place by Chairman Norris of the Judiciary | Committee. Chairman Norris pointed out Degrees Below Zero in Zone of Campaign. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, December 20.—Reports from Tientsin today sald it was widely believed there that Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang had decided to evacuate Chin- chow. The Chinese general, these re- ports said, had decided to with- draw to a point south of the Great Wall. This would take the last considerable Chinese force out of Manchuria, and would be in com- pliance with the Japanese de- O SUNISTRATD S O SIARDSASTE cember 20 (m.—Japanese air- Earth and Its Neighbors planes flew back and forth over 3 this city tonight, and although| Formed From Debris of Ca- | | they dropped no bombs, the| ‘ | that ORIGIN OF PLANETS frightened people expected an at- tastrophe, Says Dr. Gunn. tack any moment. et PANSHANHSIEN CAPTURED. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A radically new theory of the origin of the sun, with its nine circling plan- ets, was presented before the American Astroncmical Society, meeting here to- day, by Dr. Ross Gunn, physicist of the Naval Research Laboratory. For years it has been generally ac- cepted by astronomers that the planets, including the earth, were torn away Japanese Encounter Hard Fighting in Advance From Tawa. YINGKOW, Manchuria, December 29 (A).—The town of Panshanhsien, on the Chinese branch line connecting Yingkow and Kowpangtze, fell today to the Japanese force which yesterday cap- tured Tawa. This drive is pushing in the direction of Kowpangtee, more than half way from Mukden to Chinchow, and there were indications that it might develop | into s movement against Chinchow | taelf. Gen. Jiro Tamon's column overcame stubborn resistance in severe conflicts with two large Chinese forces before from the sun and started revolving in ASHURST QUITS DRY QUIZ; WASTED EFFORT, HE SAYS BAACHRAZH _SENATOR ASHURST. the change-in personnel did not dis- turb the wet and dry line-up of the subcommittee. “I named a wet chairman and put a majority of drys on the committee,” he said He listed Chairman Blaine, Republi- can, Wisconsin, and Hebert, Republi- can, Rhode Island, as the wets. and Senators Borah, Republican, Idabo; Walsh, Democrat, Montana, and Black. as the drys. Norris said taking evidence was to some extent foolish,” but neither side will be satisfled without it.” PARIS ANDLONDON SEEK COMPROMISE ON'WAR DEBT PLAN One to Three Year Morato-| rium on Reparations May Result From U. S. Stand. By the Associated Press PARIS, December 29.—France and England are secking a compromise policy concerning reparations as a re- sult of America’s refusal to revise or cancel war debts, it was reported today | in informed quarters. The basis of discussions between rep- resentatives of both countries, it was understood, is a suggestion for a one to three year moratorium on Germany's conditional reparations payments in- stead of the five-year postponement | proposed by England or the two-year holiday suggested by France. | Safety Clause Planned. ‘ their orbits by the tidal attraction of another star which, sweeping through the heavens, passed close to the sun. Dr. Gunn claimed that this hypothe- sis was so unlikely as to be extremely The would contain PRESENT PLAN TOGROUPBUREALS 45 ECONONY AD Single Head for All Public Works Indicated at Press Conference. END OF 07VERLAPPING IS BASIS OF PROPOSAL Creation of Administrator Figures in Project Called Direct Way to Cut Expenses. The administration plans a new drive for consolidation of Government depart- ments and bureaus as g means of re-| | ducing Federal expenditures. | | The President made the plan public | | today at a press conference. Within a month or two after Con- gress has acted upon his emergency | economic program he will transmit a special message urging various con- solidations. Ot major importance in his plan he considers the grouping of all the pub- lic works #nd construction activities of the Government under one head and also the transfer of all merchant ma- rine activitieS to the Department of Commerce. In consolidating all public work and construction _activities, the President has in mind the creation of an ad- ministrator of public works, similar to | the administrator of veterans' aflairs. | { The President would not, however, make | this office of cabinet importance Advantages Pointed Out. His plans also would include the con- | solidation of all the governmental con- | servation activities and all the activities having to do with public health and education matters, besides other activi- ties of general and major importance | which are now carried on by the various independent agencies and bureaus of | the Government | In discussing his plan today, Mr. Hoover stated that advantages to be | derived would not only be the removal | {of overlapping governmental authority | and a duplication of effort, but would promote efficiency by bringing these | activities, which™ are now scattered ! throughout the various departments, { under one single administrative head. | But, most ot all, the President s con- | vinced that his plan would result in a | rigid and definite reduction of govern- ! mental expense. | In the opinion of the President, this | step is the most direct in the interest | of ‘economy. He believes also that if | 1 | his plan is adopted it will discourage | new appropriations not provided for in the administration’s budget. Economy, | according to the way he has figured it | out, seems sure in the consolidation of the Government bureaus and a general | reorganization. He recalled that he has recommended | such a reorganization in public ad- | dresses in the past 10 years and in re- ports and messages to Congress since he DISCUSSING THE MENU IN THAT OL Guy s GETTIN/ THE DEMOC = NS = == RATIC KITCHEN. GARNER DISCLOSES PARTYS TAX PLAN Would Amend Existing Laws | to Stop Loopholes for Evasion of Levies. By the Assoclated Press. 8peaker Garner said today the Demo- | crats expect to raise $200,000,000 in | revenue without additicnal levies of | taxes ss one method of meeting the Treasury deficit | Increased revenue, as outlined by | him, would be obtained by the enact- ment of amendments to existing laws {to stop loopholes through which taxes are evaded. | ‘This is one of the phases of the study | the Texas Representative conducted last Summer into present revenue legisla- tion with a view to perfecting the reve- nue law, At a conference with newspaper men, Garner said some of the holes in the law were left intentionally, while others had not been what they were, but it is known that he has made an exhaustive study of FISH FACE LOSS THROUGH GOVERNMENT THRIFT| Pisc OF HOMES atorial Beauties Mayv Find Selves Squabbling With Potomac Riff- raff for Necessities. Rather than to allow the fish, in- cluding the famous 35-year-old sturgeon “Spencer,” in the aquarium to face starvation, Bureau of Pisheries cfficials today said they were preparing t> throw hundreds of rare specimens into the Potomac River unless an appropriation | is obtained for the aquarium upkeep of $10,000. Recommendations submitted by bu- reau officials for this amount to be procured out of the Commerce De- partment’s budget have been turned down by department omcials, it was sald at the department today, and the only hope for the fish is that an ng:uprlllflon be included in the first det fish from the present aquarium in the old bureau building to the costly Ter- razzo marble floored and walled 40-tank | | exhibition room in the $17,500,000 new department building, which is to be occupied Monday. . Receive Furniture. Meantime, the furniture, bought out of an appropriation of $200,000, ap- 'proved by Congress was being received at the new building today. The fur- nishings will grace the offices of Secre- tary Lamont and other officials. | Among the first noxes to be uncrated was that containing two mahogany | -| waste paper baskets costing $31.20, | which will flank the Secretary’s plain mahogany desk. The furnishings were bought, officiais | He declined to divulge | iency bill. No effort will be made to move the RAIL LABOR HEADS " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) . C. AIRMEN JON HOOVER'S SENATE G. 0. P. FOES HINT THIRD-PARTY BOLT New Ticket Threatened if Conventions Fail to Name Satisfactory Candidate. FOUR MEN CONSIDERED TO LEAD MOVEMENT Norris Approached, but Turns Down Proposal—Borah, Pinchot and Johnson Mentioned. By the Associated Press Republican independents are seriously considering a third party movement in 1932 n the event the Republican and Democratic conventions fail to nomi- nate a man to their liking. The group comprises the Senate in- dependents. It is opposed to renomi- nation of President Hoover. Conferences have been going on among the members looking to a con- test against Hoover's renomination, but not single candidate has been agreed upon. The veteran Senator Norris of Ne- braska has been asked to make the contest against Hoover's renomination, but he has declined to enter the nomi- nation race. Ready to Give Support. Norris, however, is definitely under- stood to be ready to support any of four candidates under consideration. If a third party is organized, he’ is looked upon, together with Senator Borah of Idaho, as a likely head of the ticket. Possible candidates under considera- tion for an anti-Hoover race in the Republican primaries are Senators { Borah, Johnson of California and Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania. None of the Republican independents, including Representatives from the Northwestern States, is willing to talk publicly of the plans of the group. Situation Sized Up. It is known, however, that the mem- bers have been meeting and sizing up thw situation. Privately, they intimate very broadly that none of the poten- tial Damocratic presidential candidates, ‘with the possible exception of Gov. Roosevelt of New York, is acceptable. Also, there is a conviction that Presi- dent Hoover has the power to renom- inate himself. Consequently, the talk of a third party was frowned upon in public statements a year ago by both Norris and Borah. Senator Borah has s stood by the Republican party. did so in the split of 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt heagded the “Bull Moose™ ticket. owever, Borah has been In frequent conflict with the Hoover policies, prin- jclpally the tariff and farm relief. His Iname is linked in the falk of a third | party movement. noon, both résulting In Chinese retreats | improbable and advanced the contrary e c:fil:;nfiew l‘rctémenry w.?upplolrrt":he!theory, supported by extensive mathe- infantry. | matica! analysis, that the solar system | resulted from the sun splitting in_two. Four Degrees Below. | " While under the older theory it would The advance traversed snowy, frozen | be very improbable that the same event Idins in & temperature of four degrees | could have happened more than two or low zero Fahrenheit, but the Japa- | three times in the whole history of nese, profiting from their experiences | creation, and hence the possibility of in the Tsitsihar campaign, were better | other worlds capable of supporting life clad and shod and -suffered less than |is very limited. Under the Washington agreement a|has been President many court decisions on tax appeal safety s r whi y | safety clause under which German Ganed Would be asked to continue payment of | pecial Message Due. | annuities if the United States ahould\g“":'g l;llz l(n‘cfigset;l&nfi:% p(r:s:gt Conag efuse to grant an _equivalent mora- | BIess 2 2 ! e nee ; | e 0 Brant sabte. In cace there |for reorganization and consolidation, rr:;k“f}add"rffr&yu]:ti’j"fieh‘hia?e;';g_ Should be no. further debt holiday Ger- |and in that message he advised Con- | : O e o BT il pay i leact | Bress that later he would send a special | 872y %1rn:;ereg;:fi;g ahaut hakor | the amount which England and France ‘ :fl(;;?g&vdcfllms With the subject more | canizafion, we have not. Some differ- | owe to the United States. 2 i Ve il iThe foreign office &aid Loday that the| 1. particularly emphasized consolida- | ;’:;;,’;‘l,‘,i‘“;‘:é‘ s nyégmg%:ehe; b Debts Conference seems | tion of Government bureaus and general | PEORT RS R0 FVER BT ot LEGION FINDS J0BS FOR 200,000 MEN National Chief Says Drive Extend- ed to Aid All 6,000,000 Job- e ESUME PAY TALK. SEARCH FOR FLYER |Eight Army Planes Leave Here to Seek Pilot Lost Meet in Cleveland to Fix Date for New Parley International | previously. | physicist's theory worlds with highly Gen. Tamon was on horseback with | the division headquarters following in | the column’s rear The heaviest fighting occurred in the highlands near Chengchiatu, 10 miles | south of Panshanhsien, where the Jap- | anese column clashed with 1,500 Chi- | nese irregulars and regulars, who were | forced to retire northward. An hour | later 3,000 Chinese were encountered | near Tatienchiawan and routed after a ! fight of 40 minutes. | Marched From Tawa. The expedition passed the night in | Tawa and surrounding villages which were occupled yesterday. The cavalry resumed the advance before daylight and the infantry followed at 8 am After two hours of steady progress slong the railway the infantry en- countered and dispersed 1,000 Chinese guerriliss at the village of Palitze. It then continued to Tatienchiawen, where the conflict was severe, although brief. The Japanese artillery entered the action, completing the rout of the Chi- nese The Japanese air scouts returned io | their base at Tashihchiao and reported | a heavy concentration of Chinese reg- ulars at Panshanhsien. They said they saw a troop train of 22 cars arrive at the place and that Panshanhsien and nearby villages were crowded with Chi- | nese troops 1 CHINESE FORM CABINET. Eugene Chen Made Foreign Minister; Cantonese Hold Majority NANKING, China, December 29 (@) —Eugene Chen, former foreign min- ister of the Hankow government, prom- inent journalist and Cantonese leader, was appointed foreign minister of the new Chinese government today by the Central Executive Committee of the| Kuomintang (Nationalist party) Other members of the new cabinct which shows a distinct leftist tendency. | are, finance, Huang Han Liang; com- munications, Gen. Chen Ming Shu railways, Yeh Kung Cho; war, Ho Ying Ching; navy, Chen Shao Kuan education, Chu Chia Hua: justice, Lo | Wen Kan; home affairs, Li Wen Fan; | industry, Chen Kung Po. | Seven members are of the Canton faction and three of the Nanking fac- tion Three Cantonese generals also were | given high military advisory appoint- ments. BRIGADE ENTERS HSINMIN, Command Expécted to Co - ordinate With Gen. Tamon’s Forces. MUKDEN, Manchuria, December 29 | (®)—A Japanese brigade, in command of Maj. Gen, Kamura, moved early this afternoon from Mukden to Hsin- min, foremost Japanese position on the ing-Mukden Railway. he brigade included two regiments of infantry and some detachments of srtillery. Its mission was not revealed, but in" authoritative quarters the be- lief was expressed that the movement means an early advance down the railway, co-ordinating with Gen. Jiro Tamon's drive at Kowpangtze. Reports to the Japanese intelligence office said strong Chinese forces are located at Paichipu, 14 miles southwest of Hsinmin, and that these include the | The expertments lasted 30 hours, developed life might be commonplace throughout the universe. Dr. Gunn explained his theory thus “A’ star more than twice as big as our sun was caused to spin on its a: faster and faster as the result of - tric and magnetic forces until it finally broke into two pieces, One piece lit- erally sky-rocketed its way toward an unkown destination and was lost, while the other became our sun. The process of break-up also produced smaller pieces, which cooled and formed the earth and the planets, together with their ‘moons.’ “The older theory, which assumes that another star came so close to our present sun that it extracted the planecs from it by tidal action, is known to be a highly improbable one, and therefore the existence of our earth was purely accidental. The new rotational evolu- tion theory, on the other hand, sees in the solar system the natural conse- quence of a perfectly definite evolu- tionary plan, and planetary systems are undoubtedly quite common in the uni- verse. “Observation shows that a little over a fourth of all the stars in the heavens are doubles, and there can be little doubt these double stars resulted from the break-up of single, more massive stars Considerable study has been devoted to the mechanisms acting in such a star and it has been possible to show that (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) likely to go to Lausanne some time after January 20 instead of to The Hague on January 15 Two important newspapers, Le Temps a Liberte day expressed inderstanding b d the French i ates Congress to consider any new war debts program Pact Seen Necesslty. were dele- Certain economists who at con Committee ame away Basel, it was ced of the standing opinion also was ex- that, wita the turns events are the economic confercr supplant the World Arms C in importance “French opinicn has never ceased to consider,” Le Temps said, “that in all serious international circumstances a concerted olic between rance and England is the surest guaranty for the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Advisory learned \ference Knoxville Company Will Furnish Supreme Court Building Stone. KNOXVILLE, T December 29 (#).—The Knoxville News-Sentinel said day the Gray Knox Marble Co. of Knoxville has been awarded a contract to furnish approximately 500,000 worth of marble for the new United »s Supreme Court Building at ington The marble, of cream color, will be used in the interior, the newspaper said. Get 40 Per Cent Gas From Coffee. NICHTEROY, Brazil December 29 (). —Scientists "ann today they had obtained 40 per cent combustive gas from low-grade coffee stocks as compared with 30 per cent from coal YOUTH TO TAKE SMALLER ROLE IN FUTURE U. S., SAVANT SAYS Older People, Enabled to Live Longer, Will Dominate Nation, Miami Man Declares. will double their numbers and those of reorganization of the Government de- | | » refusal of the | gates to the meeting of the Young Plan | under- | e might | CAPITAL MAR.BLE BOUGHT| A topsy-turvy world, with perambula- tors giving way to wheel chairs and kindergartens to asylums for the aged during the next century, was pictured before a section of the American Statis- tical Association today by Dr. P. K. Whelpton of Miami University. Di. Whelpton deduced far-reaching changes in American ways of life as a result of the growing increment of elderly persons in the population. Hitherto. he pointed out, America has been a land of youth, eble to command attention because of its numerical su- periority in the population and pro- foundly affecting the Nation's institu- tions. The declining birth rate and the increasing ability of medical science to keep alive the majority of those born are changing all this, Dr. Whelpton said By 1950. his tables showed, the total population may be expected to increase 20 per cent, while persons over 75 will double in number, thase from 65 to 74 vears old will increase 70 per cent. and those from 45 to 64 will increase 50 4th and 5th Infantry Brigades of Marshall Chang Hsueh-Liang. ‘These forces include 4,000 regulars and 10,000 guerrillas, the report said. per cent. From 1950 to 1975 the total population can be expected to gain only 12 per cent, while person‘ over 75 again the other two groups will make corre- sponding_increases, But, Mr. Whelpton pointed out, Amer- jcan industry has been regulated for | the employment of younger age groups | In the coming era of old ‘age there will | be fewer chilren to be supported. but more older people, and because of small- | er families there will be fewer brothers and sisters to take up the burden The present trend of the population balance is toward less dependency, but | this will change unless means are found of keeping persons between 50 and 70 from becoming dependents. Unless this can be done it will mean heavier bur- | dens on the young adults, who now | bear most of the load of rearing chil- dren. The result, he said, is likely to be 2 still greater decline in the birth rate than is forecast by present statis- tics. with a consequent greater increase |in the old-2ge element of the popula- tion. Old age is conservative, he said, so it can be assumed that the Nation will grow more conservative as this element in its population increases. There will b~ more old men controlling industry, partments,” Mr. Hoover said today the basis of constructive economy in | my message to the second session of the Seventy-First Congress. 1 again re- ferred to it in the message to the third session of that Congress, and in my message to the present Congress I again | traversed the subject “Some of my recommendations have | been carried out, the most motable one | being the consolidation of all veterans’ | activities into the veterans' adminis- | tration. As a result, Gen. Hines reports | that we are saving somewhere from | $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 a year in this service alone “Outstanding among these reorgani- | zations would be consolidation of ail | construction activities of the Govern- ment under an administrator of public works. Other cases are the consolidation of all merchant marine activities into the Department of Commerce, the con- solidation of all the conservation activi- ties of the Government, of the Public Health Services, of education activities | and numerous other groups on the | ame major purpose under single-headed responsibility Would End Overlapping. Such action would result in the | elimination of many expensive agencies and overlap, resulting in very great economies. These economies could run into many millions. “In addition to the actual economy by concentrated administration and elimi- nation of overlapping, further great | economies would ~ be ’ brought about through the curtailment of the self- ! expanding capacity of scattered bureaus, | which could be much better controlle if they were grouped together. It would enable policies in connection with { (&ontinued on Page 2, Column 8.) NINE BELIEVED LOST 'AS U. S. SHIP HITS TUG| Vessel Sent to Bottom of River Thames—70-Mile Gale Whips British Coast. | By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 20.—A 70-mile | gale whipped up high tides in the | Thames today and left dwellers along its shores fearful of a repetition of the disastrous floods of 1928. The storm was also charged with partial responsibility for the loss of several seamen’s lives in a collision be- tween the steamer American Trader tuy and o tEen were belleved to have drowned as a Tesult of the collision, Which occurred in the lower river, in which is known as “Galleon’s Reach.” The tug sank immediately. The gale and the spring tides raised furious seas along the coasts. Snow 2and hail accompanied the wind, which plew hardest in the North. A northwest gale lashed Mersey Estuary, rolling up tremendous waves, | which~ prevented a number of ships from leaving their docks. Heavy snow- storms occurred in Scotland, North Ire- nd Wales. Jand A atchers were posted along the Thames to Warn the inhabitants to quit their houses if it became necessary, That danger is now believed to be past, 4 however. [ \ | gram has been drafted by the Demo- | February 1. | Mills of the Treasury are to be called | | appointment of Norman Davis, former there is no agreement.” “No one can tell what the 25 men on the Ways and Means Committee will report to the House a month away,| because no one knows,” he said. Reminded that Chairman Collier of the Ways and Means Committee and Representative Rainey of Illinois, the | party leader, had differed on several proposals to increase Federal revenue, | | the Texan reiterated that they were | voicing their own opinions. | The Senate House Democratic Policy | Committee, Garner stressed, has not | decided yet on a tax increase program. It will take that matter up along with | tariffs at a meeting to be called next week. Collier Opposes Rainey. Collier opposed the retroactive tax | plan suggested by Rainey. In addi- | tion, Collier said that while the capi- | tal gains and loss act needs revision, | he is against outright repeal as pro- | posed by Rainey. Collier declared that “no_tax pro- | crats, or at least, I have seen none.” He added the program would not be arrived at until the gWays and Means | Committee, of which Rainey is also a | member, has completed hearings about Secrefary Mellon and Undersecretary | probably next week by Collier to pre- | sent the Hoover-Mellon tax plan to the | committee. Attacks Snell's Plan. | Attacking retroactive tax proposals, as sponsored by Representative Snell of | New York, the Republican leader, as | well as some Democrats, Collier said, | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. NORMAN DAVIS GOING TO PARLEY| Former Undersecretary of State Named to Arms Dele- gation, By the Assoclated Press. President Hoover today announced Undersecretary of State, as a member of America’s delegation to the Geneva Arms Conference. Th's brought the delegation which leaves early next month to four, and more might be named. Ambassador Dawes will be chairman. Other mem- bers are Mary Emma Woolley, presi- dent of Mount Holyoke College, and Senator Swanson, Democrat, Virginia. Hugh S. Gibson, Ambassador to Bel- gium, will be a delegate, but his ap- pointment has not been formally an- nounced. Fire Wrecks Buildings. METROPOLIS, Ill, December 29| (#).—Four buildings on the main busi- ness street here were destroyed by fire today with estimated loss of $75,000. Six persons asleep in one building escapad unhurt. Radio Programs orn"lr’:[e B-13 With Executives. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 29.—The 21 representatives of 1,250,000 railroed employes were called together today to determine a date for negotiations on unemployment and the railroads’ plan for a 15 per cent wage cut The negotiations will be held in Chi- cago, with the Railway Labor Execu- tives' Association representing the workers and nine presidents present- ing the railroads’ side of the question. Labor executives expect the confer- ence to start the week of January 10. D. B. Robertson, chairman of the Executives’ Association and president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, said the date will de- pend upon progress made in canvass- ing the membership of labor organiza- tions for authority to negotiate with the railroads. Today's meeting was another step in the program started at Chicago early this month when the association asked | the railroads to appoint a committee | with power to negotiate the wage ques- tion and unemployment problem. Rail- road presidents met in New York:De- cember 18 and appointed nine of their members on a committee to mect with the workers' representatives as soon as a conference could be arranged. French Record Flyers Cresh. ORAN, Algeria, December 29 (#)— An attempt by the noted French, flyers, Jean Mermoz and Capt. Rene Mail loux, to establish a new distance record for a closed circuit flight, failed today when their plane was wrecked in take ing off. Neither was injured. in Mountains. Intensifying the search for Lieut. E. H. Bobbitt, jra Army flyer, who has been missing since Christmas eve, on a flight from Selfridge Field, Mich., to Hot Springs, Va., eight observation and | transport ships left Bolling Field today |to join planes from Selfridge, which have been looking for the pilot since his disappearance became known. The planes from Bolling, held aground here yesterday due to fog and clouds which covered the mountains between Uniontown, Pa., and Hot Springs, took off about 11 o'clock, -seven of them scheduled to fly direct to Hot Springs and the other to Uniontown. All had been warmed up and ready to leave since 7 o'clock, but continuation of the | bad weather In the mountains, where Lieut. Bobbitt is thought to have crashed, prevented their leaving. | Hot Springs to Be Base. | The planes, under command of Capt. | Ira C. Eaker, will make their base at | Hot Springs, where Capt. Ennis C. | Whitehead of Selfridge Field, Bobbitt's station, is directing a searching force of six pursuit planes. E. H. Bobbitt, sr, father of the missing fiyer, is con- ducting a ground search from Hot Springs and bas offered a $500 reward | for the discovery of his son’s body. He ntertains little hope that his son is| | alive. Lieut. Louis M. Merrick, operations officer at Bolling Field, flew direct to Uniontown, from where he will fly over (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) CORTIN, MODERN “ELIXIR” OFiLIFE,I ‘BANISHES GLOOM AND FATIGUE Better Memory and Resistance to Heat and Cold Revealed' in New Discovery. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, worth would make an annual supply for Assoclated Press Science Editor. | & very sick person. | NEW ORLEANS, December 20.— L= e tag Ab;;r: Imoaiivicantnadie r | treatment ol son’s disease, but in Something akin to the magical elixir | (fe{ment of ACHBCOE dtease, ot o of life sought by the old alchemists has | gathered enough to discover other been discovered by modern scientists in ‘ things cortin can do. . “In certain illnesses” he said, “due : iuo upy Narrene; conb: to overwork or the effect of an infec Discoverias of the remarkable DOWers | tion, this extract has been demon- of this rarest of substances were re- |strated to increase the resistance to ported to the American Association for | fatigue, or to cause it to disappear. : | "“It has brought about restful sieep the Advancement of Science today bY | i¢ there was cifficulty in this Tespect, Prank A. Hartman, Ph. D,, of the Uni- and has developed a sense of well versity of Buffalo. being. % “Even in perfectly normal persons, An overdose of cortin produces N0t yiih" 1o debility, cortin injected daily only happiness but increased strength, | causes some increase in the resistance better memory, more resistance to heat | to fatigue, beginning at the second or and cold and relief from fatigue and | third day 'and lasting thereafter during from jaded nerves. | the injoctions and for a day or more Cortin is a hormone, or secretion. | following. less Over Nation. | By the Assoclated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., December 29.—The American Legion has already found jobs for 200,000 of the Naton's 750,- 000 unemployed ex-service men, and is now determined to fight against the whole problem, said Henry L. Stevens, jr. national commander, on a visit here. He predicted that far-reaching re- sults would be obtained from the meet- ing of the Legion’s Unemployment Commission in New York January 5 and 6. He is chairman of the com- mission. “What we are engaged in now is at- | tempting to find relief for the entire army of six millions unemployed and we will not confine our activities to ex- service men,” he declared. | " The Legion is definitely committed | toestablishment of the six-hour day, | five-day week, the commander said. The Legion’s Unemployment Com- | mittee roster includes Gen. W. W. At- | terbury, president of the Pennsylvania | Railroad; Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President and vice president of the International Mercantile Marine Co.j Chester Colby, vice president of Stand- ard Oil; George Berry, president of the International Pressmen's Union, and George ,Long, vice president of the Wisehauser Timber Co. of Tacoma, Wash. Others are to be added, the commander said. | GETS DEATH SENTENCE Bandit Who Shot Man, Discovered Dead Next Day, Pleads Guilty. NEWKIRK. Okla, December 29 (). | —Upon his plea of guilty to robbery with firearms, Ignacio Gomez, Amer- | ican-born Mexican youth, was sentenced today by District Judge Claude Duval |to die in the electric chair on March 111, 1932, Gomez confessed he held up J. A. | Armstrong, Ponca City merchant, as the latter drove out of that city, the night of December 18, shot him and stole a watch, $2.50 and the merchant's auto- mobile. He was arrested the next day. Armstrong’s body was found near Fairfax, Osage County. In view of the death sentence, possible murder charges in Osage County will be dropped, attor- neys said. ACTRESS HURT IN CRASH HOLLYWOOD, December 29 (#).—A fractured nose and other injuries were suffered by Judith Wood, featured film actress, in a motor car collision last night. She was taken to a hospital. Her physician said it would be some time before she could resume motion picture work. Gold Panning Goes On. CALGARY, Alberta, December 9 (#).—Small gold finds in this province during the past few weeks have caused hundreds to brave the North’s deep cold, and squat by. icy streams panning for nuggets. No big strikes have been made since 1897, but hard working from the covering of the adrenal| “These increase the range of resist- glands, organs common to men and|ance to fatigue of normal persons as| animals alike. At present it is obtained high as 50 to 125 per cent. in minute quantities from the glands of | _"In a case of muscular atrophy its cattle. ‘h 5o rare that about $12,000 | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) washers have found a steady, though small, supply—enough to tid* them through the Winter. The hardest workers sometimes net as much as $1.70 & day.