Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1932, Page 14

" B—2 %% NEW HOPES SPUR U. . ARMS ACTION Delegation Speeded Across Atlantic for Geneva Conference. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Because of renewed hope among high officials of the State Department that the reduction of arms conference might yleld results, the American delegation at the meeting of the Steering Com- mittee at Geneva was hustled across the Atlantic in & German liner instead of waiting for an American boat. Controller General McCarl, who in- formed Secretary of State Stimson that the American delegate, Norman Davis. and his assistants, Allan W. Dulles and Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, must travel on an American ship, or else he would ot approve the expenditure for crossing the Atlantic, had to reverse his decision Friday afternoon. Secretary Stimson explained to him | the Steering Committee of the disarmament conference met during the Week beginning October 8. If the American delegates left by an Ameri- can liner they would not reach Geneva before October 6, and the meeting of the Steering Committee adjourned on October 9. Thus the American delega- tion, which is called to play an im- portant sole in the debates of the Steering Committee, would participate only for two days in the deliberations of that committee. Date Set Last Week. ‘The date for the meeting of the com- mittee was set only last week. There was so much co-ordination work to be done between the State Department, Which fixes the policies of the delega- | tion, and the Navy Department, which | 35 directly interested in the technical | details of the naval problem which will | have to come up in the course of the | debates, that had the delegation left on the Leviathan, as it had been orig- inally decided, the President and the Secretary of State would not have had * sufficient time to give their final in- structions to the delegates. , The general depression which con- tinues to preveil in European countries, and in France particularly, is corsid- % ered one of the principal reasons why | - the arms conference may have some chances of success. To this must be . added the fact that Europe is at pres- *ent in a panicky frame of mind. Since the German ultimatum for in arms, groups Of pOWers more definitely formed. Hungary andthB\gglfla form one powerful group Wi ussia looming inplhe background and ready to throw her weight in the balance in favor of this combination. In the other camp is Great Britain, France nd her allies. 5 So long as these groups of powers were not clearly defined, the fears of an armed conflict in Europe were re- mote. They existed in the minds of ! the statesmen and the diplomats, but | the general public was not aware o{' them. Now, the possibility of a new + conflict is clear in the minds of the * European people, and their representa- tives are urged to do all they can to , avert a new calamity. Catastrophe Feared. Neither the French, the Germans nor the Italians are anxious to see a new | catastrophe in Europe. Britain is less anxious than the rest. The repre- | sentatives of these nations realize fully their tremendous responsibilities and it is believed in American diplomatic Circles that when they get together they are bound to examine the situation in confidence and try to devise some means - to_avert a crisis. In spite of the appare! attitude of the German go is believed that if the issue | forced by the other powers now the von Papen administration, which is, gaining strength in Germany, might be | in a different mood after the German elections which are scheduled to be held in November. Until then Germany * is bound to mnmt?'m her present atti- ude, in public at least. s : Whethepr Germany can be induced to * agree to rejoin the disarmament con- ference later is A matter which depends | entirely on tne diplomatic qualities of : Premier Herriot, Sir John Simon, Baron von Neurath and the American dele- ! gates, who maintaining an attitude of impartiality, might become a very im- . portant asset as go-between between the two groups of powers. The general impression is that while Germany will not attend the discussions of the Steering Committee, It is possible that | . after the clections Germany may find a way out to participate at the dis- cussions of the general arms conference. For this purpose, the Steering Com- * mittee will endeaver to leave in abey- “ance many of the important matters which it intended to discuss, and will . reduce its public_discussions merely to %the fixing of a date when the confer- ence should resume its debates. In private, many other questions, especially those pertaining to naval armaments < on which the British are very keen @gain, will have to be discussed. Reversal Is Expected. 1t also is probably that the Germans will be told that if they agree to par- ticipate in the gencral conversations next year, the question of arms e_qun\n.y ! “will be taken under copsideration by the conference. By that time, with the elections over, the position of the pres- ent German government will be con- * siderably strengthened. The opinion of the State Department is that the Germans, who are practical politicians, ¥ will see that they can derive import- ant benefits by rejoining the concert of powers and will in the end agree to . return to Geneva next year. Accord- ing to reports from Berlin, the Ger- ‘man diplomats realize that they have one too far in their claim for abso- Yuce parity, but because of internal poli- . tics, it is too late for their government “to change its attitude at the present moment. The opinion of political ob- servers is that they will welcome a chance to reverse their position later, provided, of course, that some of their claims are satisfied. PILLSBURY STATEMENT ON “PEONAGE” ASSAILED Terms that & equality » have been Germany, Italy. ntly ‘adamant overnment, it is not i Colored Society Official ! Quotation of Testimony in Hearing Untrue. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 24 —Walter White, secretary of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, charged in a siatement today that Brig. Gen. George B. Pillsbury mis- quoted, in a statement to the press, testimony given in the ciosed War De- partment hearing on alleged peonage and slavery on the Mississippi flood control project. ‘White, who said he .attended the hesring in Washington Thursday when Miss Helen Boardman gave testimony, cited as untrue the quotation from Gen. Pillsbury that “I interrogated Miss Boardman the entire morning, but I was unable to secure from her afy specific evidence of mistreatment of Negroes by contractors other than the general statement that camps and food ‘were unsanitary.” “Miss Boardman stated explicitly,” said White, “that Negroes, men and 5 5 Soldiers Killed in Crash FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION MEMBERS VICTIMS. killing they tracks to give way. W RECKAGE of the traln, carnying 508 members of {he famous French P08, reign Legion, which plunge a ravine near Tlemcen, Algeria, g 55 soldiers and injuring 242. French ministry officials said atels quiLhe! wuihortHos £4 L YA lieved heavy rains had washed out the roadbed, causin the -A. P. Photo. Canadian Plods 150 STRUGGLE IN ARCTIC BLIZZARD TOLD AS MAN REACHES SAFETY After Cutting Off Three Toes and Miles on Frozen Feet INSULL COLLAPSE HITS THOUSANDS Investors and Former Em- ployes of Utilities Magnates Take Heavy Losses. Speolal Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, September 24 (N.AN.A) — Reports of auditors of the ill-fated Insull utflity "and securities companies have furnished Chicagoans topics for conver- sation of late. Amazing disclosures regarding com- plete collapse of several of these con- cerns, the immense losses involved and the revealing light thrown on certain methods pursued n promotin them Tave Intercated not mery the puplic but officers of the law. The possibility that criminal proceed- Inubsem-y be justified in scme instances is being investigated by State's Astorney- Swanson, and the Federal district attor- Dwight H. Green, has been dis- g significant angles of the Insull ington. Thousands Suffered. Thousands of persons with faith in the genius of the Insull brotherz:— 8amuel and Martin J—have suffered severely. Thousands of others who were cn the Insull pay rolls, and more or less involuntarily subscribed to stock in their ventures, face hardships today because of vanished investments that Tepresented lifetime savings. Often they borrowed in order to make the required payments. Many stories are told of the strenu- ous methods employed when danger faced the Insull ventures and financing became difficult. Pressure, it is said, was brcught to bear on officials of Insull Going Without Food. Special Dispatch to The Star. | the Eskimos use them. We lived in EDMONTON, Alberta, September 24 those houses from the time we started (N.AN.A) —After struggling 150 miles 0‘:' until we got back to Prince Alfred on frozen feet through an Arctic bliz-| ““FRi} (1 t004 had been used before zard, after cutting three of his toes off | we reached Cape Gifford, and from with a razor by the flickering light of a | ;fiemp [ wehweze living from what our avi caught rought down. We hadn't any "1‘“;"“ ‘;’“g- ;n"f; hAr ‘:‘K b""x‘“ m?\es'tm much coal ofl, so we'd only cook with no food, e Arctic night, | one meal a day. At other times we'd out at sea on shifting ice floes—Na- | eat ‘quok’—that's what the Eskimos poleon “Nap” Verville, 32-year-old Ed- fa}}nflo‘rf’g ";:ffi > i jummer’ on Banl montonian, is back in this city. Land, and we had a good chance to look Apart from Verville's grim struggle | over the country. There's grass there, for life, the trip resulted in gaining | and flowers that look like little daisies, of valuable scientific data. He found |SoMe Yelow and some white. There are that Eskimos are on Melville Island, | s their Teal neme, bue s con rons, that disproving the government theory that|derground willows. They only grow Banks Land was the edge of settiement | about an inch high, and then they turn of the Nomads of the North. He found |back underground and run along for the musk-ox where they have retreated | several feet and come up again. companies to sell stock. One is quoted as saying he had to busy himself at night to dispose of a fixed minimum of shares in order to save his job. Another story'is told by a man who at a transaction in which a salesman for an Insull concerned succeeded in unloading several shares of stock at a £ays he was present in a relative’s hcme' NEUTRALS PRI ON CHAGDPEACE Notes Exchanged With Com- mission by Bolivia and Paraguay. By the Associated Press. The Neutral Commission, composed of representatives of five American na- tions endeavoring to bring about a set- tlement of the difficulties between Bo- livia and Paraguay, stood firm yester- day for total cessation of hostilities by the two countries in the disputed Chaco region where fighting has been going on more than a fortnight. A quick exchange of notes between Bolivia and the commission, which took place Friday night, was announced by Chairman Francis White of the neu- trals and further developments were expected momentarily. Truce Favored. Bolivia, the notes disclosed, agreed to the truce, as Erapcaed by the Neutral Commission, but stipulated that it should be effective at noon yesterday, apply to the Boqueron sector and that it should be accepted by Paraguay by 9 o'clock Friday night. The Bolivian pr tion was re- ceived by Chairman White shortly after 5 p.n. Friday. A hurried conference between the neutrals by telephone re- | sulted in a note being dispatched to Bolivia which said that the neutral proposition was to be regarded as a whole and that the neutrals would ex- pect an answer from Bolivia to their complete communication. The truce must go for the whole of the Chaco, the neutrals’ note said, and must be accompanied by the initiation of negotiations for a settlement of differences by arbitration without reservation. No Comment on Geneva Action. State Department officials would make no comment on reports from Geneva that the League of Nations had named a committee to study the Chaco Stamps to POST OFFICE EVENT TAMP collectors will have a field day here tomorrow in connection with the corner stone laying for the new Post Office Department ‘Building. An 8-cent air-mail stamp and air- mail envelope of the same denomina- tion will go on sale in the morning at all stations. At 5 p.m., when the corner stone lay- ing has been completed, a special cor- ner stone cachet will be available, along with the new postmark that signalizes the change in the de: tion of the Pennsylvania avenue station to the Ben- jamin Pranklin station. B&ecm windows have been arranged at the Pennsylvania avenue station and the main office at Massachusetts avenue and North Capitol street to affix the Benjamin Franklin postmark and the cachet, and they will remain open until midnight Monday for the benefit of those sending the prized first-day covers. These are being accepted now. George L.°Tait, superintendent at the Pennsylvania avenue station, has the distinction of being in charge as the designation is changed to com-| memorate Benjamin Pranklin. Col. Talt has been in the postal serv- ice 34 years. He started out as a tem- porary clerk in the City Post Office and recelved a_permanent appointment & year later. Later he became a spe- cial clerk, and in 1919 was promoted to station superintendent &t the Eleventh street station, which, on July 1, 1921, was transferred to the Depart- Mark Rites DRAWS COLLECTORS. GEORGE L. TAIT. ment building and became the Penn- | sylvania avenue station. Col. Tait saw long military service with the District National Guard, in which he enlisted in 1900. He was with the Guard on the Mexican border and in the American Expeditionary Force in the World War. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in France. SIXTEEN POLICE JOBS SOON WILL BE FILLED Vacancies Due to Deaths, Retire- ments, Promotions and Sepa- rations from Service. Sixteen vacancies in the personnel of the Metropolitan Police Department |U. S. AND CANADA SEEK COMMERCIAL AMITY ;Bfl!lnefl Men Appointed by Amer- {can Chamber President as Conferees. | By the Associated Press. ! Committees of business men appointed will be filled about October 1, it was by the Chambers of Commerce of the announced yesterday by Inspector L. I | United States and Canada soon are to H. Edwards, assistant superintendent | seek a way out of trade difficulties be- and perzcnnel officer. | tween the two countries. The vacancies have accumulated over | Henry I. Harriman, president of the a period of several months as a result | American chamber, was said yesterday of deaths, retirements, promotions and | at his office to be appointing this coun- separations from the service. | try's conferees as authorized by the San Men appointed to the positions, In- | Francisco convention of the organiza- | price 10 per cent in advance of the cur- | problem. They said no official notice rent market quotation. The sale was|of such an action had been received by made on the reputation of Samuel Insull | them. as a utility wizard. | The impression is ‘gaining ground Bitter things are Yeing said about the | among observers here that if the pend- Insulls, and some of them, probably, are | ing proposal of the Neutral Commission deserved. But, even in the shadow of | for immediate cessation of hostilities and their 'gglnuc failure, justice will recog- | unreserved arbitration fails, they will nize that their utility companies gave have nearly exhausted their practical good service and did much to develop | hopes of bringing the two countries to Chicago and other communities in which | a peaceful settlement at Washington. they operated. Ambition, overstimu- | These observers cited the opinion ex- lated by success, persuaded them to pressed at the League Council at venture on dangerous courses. While Geneva that the covenant of the the prosperity psychology was rife in | League of Natlons is the only docu- the country it was no difficult matter ment binding both parties to a peace- to rationalize and justify policies that|ful solution. Reports here have indi- back from the ravages of the wolves. He found five new islands. For more than a year Verville saw no white face but that of his 21-year- old companion, Alex “Sandy” Austin, and for weeks on end both ate noth- 1ng but raw meat of seals and caribou. First white man to touch Melville Island since Stefansson’s 1915 expedi- tion of exploration, Verville also was the only white man ever to see the lit- tle Summer Arctic flowers blooming on the north coast of Banks Land. But it was wolves that was his chief discovery. For nearly five months he and his companion were never out of sight of packs of the huge Arctic wolves, and twice they attacked him. “There are hundreds of wolves,” he said, as he lay on a cot in University Hospital, where he is having surgical attention to the bones left bare by his emergency operation. “They’'d wait just 0;115 of bullet range—they were always there.” Brothers Are Heroes. “I guess we are the first men to see that country in Summer. We found an | old primus stove there that Stefansson | had left in 1915. It still had coal ofl |in it. and we were glad to get it. | “From the time we struck Cape Gif- |ford we never were out of sight of | wolves. “October 16 we set out on sleighs. It | wasn't very cold then. We had about | eight hours of daylight,and it didn't | drop much under 10 below. We saw Jvu] of Polar bear on the ice trying for | seal. | “We could have shot everything but caribou. The wolves had made them | timid, and while we had got carbiou father south, they were too wary to be | caught here. | _ “There was plenty of Arctic rabbits, seal, ptarmigan and oogiuk—a sort of sea lion. | “When we hit Mercy Bay there was | some open water offshore, so we worked | around until we found good ice and | had a fine crossing over the McClure | Strait to Melville Island. later depression developments proved unsound. An Uncrowned King. Samuel Insull, the older brother, whose shrewd mind and impericus spirit domi- nated his associates, seemed almost to believe himself superior to those eco- nomic laws by which lesser persons must be governed. He was a sort of God in the machine of Chicago’s social, political and economic life. He saved grand opera when it was languishing. He built the magnificient civic opera palace on the river bank, made the floors above its spacious auditorium his offices, and sat as an uncrowned king in a box on opening night. That building is now a splendidly tragic mausoleum for the memories of a brilliant, but blighted career. Opera is dead; the offices are empty; the halls and corridors give forth only mourn- r?slx :chm to the footsteps of the casual visitor. Insull gave generously to charity: he contributed to party campaign funds cated also, for a long while, that vari- ous South American leaders feel that the neighboring countries should have a more important role in bringing the controversy to an_end. | Bolivia's note Friday night referred | to the Bogueron sector truce favored by that country as Bolivia's “last effort” to check the course of events. Dr. Juan Jose Soler, Paraguayan | delegate, yesterday received Paraguay's | answer to the neutral proposal for an | unconditional true and arbitration of | the Chaco dispute. The reply was not made public, but Dr. Soler informed Chairman Francis White the reply had arrived. It was understood at the Paraguayan legation that White would receive the reply tomorrow and that the neutrals would meet to consider it at that time. The reply was said to be brief. | Chairman White left the city for the | week end and members of the commis- | sion said they did not know what Para- guay had replied. Verville is the brother of the two .= wwm | en we got there, we saw Eskimo trappers, Joe and Noel Verville, Who ' t.aoke and ngnew I was right. The played herolc parts in the long-drawn | yrack was a sled track, and I_think Dunt efor Albert Johnson, mad Arctic|ihere must have been 16 or 18 dogs with an impartial liberality designed to | make friends on both sides of the po- litical fence. He was accustomed to giving orders, | MIRROR HALTS TRAIN Safety Device Shown at German And yet, T. The story of his trip of exploration follows: “I had been up at Aklavik in 1929, and in the Fall of that year in my 45- foot motor-schooner Dora went to Langton Bay and then to Boothe Island. I had been planning the trip for some time. The Government men said there were no Eskimos on Mel- ville Island—I thought there were, and I wanted to prove it for myself, and I wanted to explore Banks Land and Melville Island. Spring of 1931 I ran over there in the Dora. On July 15, 1931, we set out on our trip. We ran first to Baillie Island, reaching there August 2. On the schooner we had a 16-foot canoe, 4 tents, 1 toboggan. 2 sleds, 18 dogs, 78 gallons of gasoline, 8 gallons of coal oil. “As we went along we intended to check harbors and game and find out how correct the maps were. For food we took 25 pounds of flour, 25 pounds was 380 rounds of 30-30 ammunition. “The going wasn't bad until we got up around Norway Island. There was fioe-ice all around the west coast of Banks Land, of course, but it wasn't heavy and we could hold a straight course. We kept on going night and day for eight days while the light was good.. ‘Then, at Norway Island, we struck heavy going. The ice was com- ing in and it was a struggle all the way. Find Unmapped Islands. “We found several unmapped islands along the shore, and it was on one of these that we lost the boat. ‘It was a little horseshoe-shaped island, and there was a big floe touch- ing it cornerways. We thought there might be a channel through, and headed in. As we got in between the floe and the island, the floe started to swing in and to crowd us over. It just scooped under us and picked the boat up and carried us right over the island. Sandy was going to jump, but I yelled to him to hang on.” When we were pushed over the island, the boat slid off, but the cabin was crushed and the bot- tom sprung. “The motor was still running, and when we hit the water I just let in the clutch and pulled her up on the shore. “We took all our stuff out and pulled our boat up as far as we could. The boat's still there. We called that har- bor Dora Harbor after that. “We stayed on the island until the 1st of October. We ripped boards out of the Dora for framework for a tent. The dogs swam over. “It hadn't frozen hard enough for sleds yet, so we moved up about 10 miles south of Prince Alfred Cape. We stayed there until October 16, but we'd go out on Prince Alfred Cape once ina while to see how the ice was. It was while I was up there that the Arctic ice pack came in. “The ice never leaves the north and west coast of Banks Land. The old ice was about 3 feet thick, I guess. when the Arctic pack came. It just sheared through it like a knife through butter. must be enormous. You'll be wntchln‘ a level field when suddenly it will buckle up and throw chunks of ice 25 or 30 feet thick up in the air like Ppebbles. Lived in Snow Houses. “When the ice was solid enough to travel on, we set out. We threw our tent away off Cape Gifford—it was too much trouble getting it loaded. After that we lived in snow houses every women, had been beaten, that the com- missary store system amounted to vir- tual robbery of the Negro workers and she cited figures in support of her statement.” White said the association has tele- graphed “to President Hoover as commander in chief of the United States ‘frmed forces, askmng - thafhe order a full and searching invesf into the shameful conditions which the ‘War Department is trying to conceal.” night. “T'd never had to build them before, and it took me three days to get the hang of it. Then I learned to build them spirally right up to where I drop- in the keystone block. We could uild an 8-foot house 6 feet 6 inches high in half an hour. Sandy would cut w} blocks with the snowknife and I'd d. “The snowknife has about a 14-irch Blade and is about 4 inches wid:- ali “Austin was on Selwood Bay. In the | of beans, 1) pounds of sugar and 10 | pounds of tea—and the main thing | “It's a terrible sight—the pressure | | hitched to one sled, with six or_eight people. Since the track around Bruett | Mountain was headed northwest, I am sure that Eskimos Winter between there and Prince Patrick Island. | | Musk-Ox Very Tame. | “We worked around the east shore of Melville Island and crossed the point from Winter Harbor into Bushman Cove. It was there we saw musk-ox. | We saw three herds. They were very | tame. “In Bushmen Cove we ran across an | old Eskimo settlement. We couldn't| | tell how large a settlement it had been because of the snow. “We started back over McClure Strait. It took us three days and sev- eral times we were out of meat. At one time we had only one cogiuk skin for But the main trouble was water. we hadn't let our beards grow we would have been dead men. “That is the way we got water—just sucked the_icicles we broke off ‘our beards. I learned that trick from an Eskimo on Banks Land. ) “The dogs were having a hard time, too. The ice was breaking and split- ting into long cracks—leads we call them. Some of them we'd have to follow for miles before we could cross. “We had only two hours of light then. We reached Banks Land and were heading back the way we came. Fcod was very short. The wolves were getting bolder. On November 13 was out looking for meat while Sandy cut snow blocks. I put down my rifle to tie my muckluck. Then I felt some- thing behind me—I can’t describe it— and when I wheeled around I saw two wolves heading for me on a dead run, “I jumped for my rifle and the dog wolf stopped. I shot him, about 30 feet from me, but the she wolf kept coming. She was just about six feet from me when she stopped rolling after I killed her. “We lived on that she wolf for two days and then we hit a snow house where Jim Wilkie, a halfbreed Eskimo, lives. I can speak three Eskimo lan- guages, Seglig, Nullitimee and Cogma- 1ik, helping them out with a few ges- tures and nods. “It had béen pitch dark all the way from Prince Alfred Cape right down to near Storkerson Bay where we found Wilkie. z “We worked our way down then’to where Alex Stefansson lives, south of Storkerson Bay. Alex is Vilhjalmur's son. Set Out for Mainland. “On the Tth of February we set out from Stefansson’s to get back to the mainland. We had some hardtack, & gallon of cooked split peas and about 20 pounds of rolled oats. We ‘worked our way down, using the snow houses along the Eskimo trap lines. “In two days we reached Masik Pass. It was still dark. We had last seen the sun on November 17, and we weren't | to see it again until February 18. From | Cape Lambton we started :tnlg:n across the ice. After the second day | out, the southwest wind broke the ice | away from the shore. It started to ourselves and the dogs for two duy?(.i Iiveloped for light, and having them obeyed. when poifcy made it wise, he could ad- just himself to unpleasant situations. Years ago the City Club of Chicago black-balled him on the ground that its devotion to civic affairs might be com- promised by admitting so powerful a utility magnate to its membership. He cherished a bitter resentment over that slight, but when he needed the support of public opinion for some feature of his program that required legislative action, he accepted an invitation to ad- dress the club and was smilingly amia- ble in presenting his case. Dreams New Nightmares. Martin J. Insull, who was president of the Middle West Utilitles Co., and who exiled himself to the little town of Orillia, In Ontario, When Samuel went is a less aggressive man. son many thought him the more likable of the two. Subordinates say he could drive hard, but away from {his desk he looked more the dilettant than the man of intricate business af- fairs. He is tall, white haired, with slow, drawling speech in ordinary con- versation, in contrast to the stock and incisive older member of this wrecked fraternal partnership. The Insulls are gone from Chicago. The structure of speculative values which they reared has been disastrously deflated; the golden dreams of many who believed in them have turned to nightmare: but _the utilities they de- heat, power and transportation still serve the people. (Copyright. 1932 hv North American News- paper Alliance. Inc.) 46 HIGH OFFICIALS IN SPANISH SHAKE-UP By the Associated Press. MADRID, September 24.—A shake- up affecting 46 high-ranking officials and designed to make the diplomatic service truly republican was effected today by Foreign Minister Luis de S f the reorgan. ne o purposes of e T - ization, the foreign minister said, is to carry the ideal of the Spanish Repub- lic throughout the world, especially to the sister republics of South America. Senor de Zuluetta is drawing up lans for a new training school for re- publican diplomats, in which English will be required in addition to the usual French. Of the 46 high-ranking officials who were retired, with customary retirement pay, many held South American posts. making your home here. or Unfurpished, with electric large, ai | drift out to sea and big leads opened up. We were trying hard to get back to Banks Land, but when we saw that was impossible we tried to hit Victoria Land. But the leads forced us north- west. “Por the last two days we had no food at all—so I killed & dog and we ate that. It was aark. We had to make for Kellett, where I knew there was wood—that's north or the 3 But about 50 miles from Masik Pass Austin played out. “That was when we set out on the, trail back to Stefansson’s again. There I warmed up some seal ofl and thawed my feet until I could see how far they had been frozen. I took Stefansson’s razor and cut off the dead flesh. They told me lmrwl:;d that that was all that saved my life. o “I stayed there until . ‘Then Stefansson took me out ) boat Nanuk.” (Coprright, 1933, z !-rfl'l fifl'm News- either without pay or Exposition. Among the devices exhibited at the | exposition for the protection of life and | property, Cologne, Germany, was an automatic train stop operated by the reflection of a beam of light from a mirror connected with the signal arm. . - STAR BUILDING THE AVENUE AT ELEVENTH {IThere are available a few suites and single offices in this modern .building located on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue in the center of the new Government building group. {When Government building program is completed the de- mand for offices in this location will exceed the supply. f Locate now where quarters are available at reasonable rentals to desirable tenants. Apply Superintendent’s Office, 610 Star Building, or Telephone NAtional 5000, Ext. 203. . TODAY IS THE DAY TO SELECT YOUR APARTMENT An inspection will convince you of the desirability of Apartments are either Furnished refrigeration, spacious closets, v rooms, at a superb location, immediately conven- ient to downtown transportation. The rentals have been readjusted to meet the present conditions. 1 room and bath; 1 room, kitchenette, dinette and bath; 2 rooms, kitchenette, dinette and bath apartments available for immediate occupancy, at rentsls that will prove a pleasant Full Hotel Service at Apartment House Rentals - The Cavalier Hotel surprise to you. 3500 14th Street N.W. Columbia 3600 George A. Scharf, Manager spector Edwards said, will be drawn from the latest eligible list of the Civil Service Commission. These men will be assigned to take a course in the Police School of Instruction immediate- 1y after appointment. Arrangements are now being made to begin the new term of the Police School early in October. Lieut. Harvey Callahan will be in chawge. SRRERie SEEK SUPPOSED SLAYER BOISE, Idaho, September 24 (#).— Search for a man belleved by officers to be the slayer of Haroid O'Cennor, wholesale drug salesman of New York, whose body was found on the Columbia River Highway near Coopey, Oreg., Sep- tember 11, was pressed here today by Boise police. Officers said O’'Connor’s motor car was sold to a Boise used car dealer September 15, and two travelers’ checks issued to O'Connor were cashed here. ‘The man sought was described as about 25 veers of age. tion. Recently the Canadian chamber ap- proved the plan, and the two groups, composed of three or five members each, ‘an to tackle the problem. CUBAN FLYERS TAKE-OFF Leave St. Louis for Dayton, Ohio, on Good Will Tour. ST. LOUIS, September 24 (&) —S8ix Cuban flyers on & good-will flight of the United States, Mexico and Guate- mala, left St. Louis shortly before noon today for Dayton, Ohio. The flyers arrived here late yester- day from Tulsa, Okla. Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth, Kans. b The fiyers are: Capt. Mario Torres Menier, commander of the group: Lieut. Rodolfo Herrera Rodriguez, Lieut. Peblo Alonso Echevarria, Sergt. Arm- 2do Martinez Perez, radio operator. and Eergt. Thomas Alvarez and Corpl Flerencio Ceballos Reyez, mechanics. L0 0 CHOHOOHOHIHOHO OO O OO GO GHOHOHO G GO DHOHOHOHOHOHOHG CHOHUHOHOHGE: ...THAT'S MY MASTER ee 81-ACOUSTIC” 12-tube Superbeterods vanced Automasic Dual Autumaric Volume Contol, Note me Control, Noise HOOVER 10 PEAK ATPOSTAL ITE President Will Use Historic Trowel in Corner Stone Laying Tomorrow. With President Hoover offic'ating, the corner stone of the new Post Office Building, now rising at Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street, will be laid tomorrow afternoon. The President also will speak. A huge crowd is expected for the ex- ercises, which start at 3:30 o'clock, and seating arrangements have ben made for 1,200 speclal guests, including the representation from official life. Marine Band Will Play. While the spectators are gathering there will be music by the Marine Band and after invocation by Rev. Allen A. Stockdale, pastor of First Congregation- el Church, Postmaster General Walker F. Brown will make the introductory speech. Next will com» an_address by Sen- ator Reed Smcot of Utah, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission; then a selection by the band. President Hoover then will give his address. and place the stone with the trowel used by George Washington in Thz band will play the national an- them in conc'usion. and benediction will be said by Right Rev. Msgr. Ed- ward L. Buckey. pastor of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, Project to Cost $10,000,000. Following the corner stone ceremonies there will be a concert by the Army Band in the court of the Post Office Building. The new structure is to be ready for occupancy in the Spring of 1934. and will cost approximately $10,000.000. The date chosen for the corner stone laying is the 143d anniversary of the establishment of postal service under the Constituticn. WIFE HELD IN MURDER Missouri Ju;(;éllazees Retired Navy Man Was Shot. GREENVILLE. Mo.. September 24 (#). —Mrs. EGna Williamson, 34 years old, was ordered held for trial at the Feb- ruary term of Circuit Court today by Justice of the Peace M. C. Matheson, at 2 preliminary trial cn a cherge of mur- dering her husband. Earl D. William- son, 54, retired naval petty officer. He was fatally shot at his home near here September 22. The State introduced three witnesses, all county officers, who declared that, in their minds, Williagson could not have committed suicide. The defense presented four witnesses, the last being the defendant herself, who repeated previous statements that Williamson ended his own life. She sobbed hysterically during the testi- mony. laying the corner stone of the Capitol. | Boat racing originated among the Anglo-Saxons. 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