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“From Press to Home Within an Hour” ‘The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and slightly colder tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; moderate north winds. Temperatures—Highest, 74, at 1:00 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 62, at 7:30 am. today. Full report on page 9. L & The Foening Star. Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,424 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 ——— No. 32,313. Toierehds =% Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. KANSAS TIDE TURNS TOWARD HOOVER AS ROOSEVELT TRAILS Fight for Great Dry State Will Be Close, But Repub- lican Hopes Rise. PRESIDENT’S DES MOINES ADDRESS CHEERS G. 0. P. Party Believed to Have Improved Its Positicn S'nc2 Democrats Won in 1950 Contest. BY G. GOULD LINCOL Staff Correspondent of The Ster. ‘TOPEKA, Kans., October 19.—Demo- eratic high tide in Kansas was reached just before and after cancidate Frank- lin D. Roosevelt came to this State. It has been ebbing ever since, and the prospects today are for a Hoover vic- tory here on November 8. This does not mean that the battle is all over, not by a great deal. The Democrats are still counting on the great resentment of the farmers to carry their national ticket to victory here, and they hope that the national ticket will aid their State and con- gressional tickets. However, since President Hoover Jeaped into the campaign at Des Moines a couple of weeks ago, the Republicans in Kansas have taken off their coats and gone to work. They believe that they will win, now, which they sacly | doubted a month ago. Kansas Always Republican. Kansas, although it is the home of cyclones, Carry Nation and political phenomena, is, in the last analysis, strongly Republican, or has been. The Democrats themselves will tell you that the task of upsetting a 220.000 Re- publican lead, which Hoover had over Al Smith in 1928, is looking bigger and bigger as the cays pass. They admit, too, that the swing has been to Hoover and away from Roosevelt in recent weeks, but they continue to insist that the swing is not encugh to carry the | State for Hoover and that “Old Man Donald Richberg Says Senator’s Version of Judgeship Offer Is True. i e SECRETARY DENIES IT | | ! Cabinet Member Declares Statements Are “Utter- ly False.” | By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, October 19.—Donald Rich- berg, attorney for labor interests, said an interview here today that remarks | »2de lest night by Senator Norris, in | wihich the Nebras:an asscrted Secretary | D ad suggested he “mizht be al t> exert a great doal of influence” to | |obtain Richberg a Federal judgeship, | were “absolutely accurate.” “As & matter of fact,” Richberg said | | during a brief train stop here, “I told | | Senator Norris the facts at the time | they occurred and since then have | confirmed them in a memorandum to him. T felt at the time I might be | placed in a false position.” Richberg, en route to Phoenix, Ariz., said he had not received a telegram from Doak in which the latter branded Norris' assertion as “uterly false” and said he could not “believe that you | made any such representations to Sen- | ator Norris.” Denied by Secretary Doak. | Secretary of Labor Doak today de- | scribed as “utterly false” the assertion | in Cleveland last night by Senator Nor- ris that the Secretary had suggested | “he might be able to exert a great deal of influence” to obtain a Federal judge- ship for Donald Richberg, attorney for labor interests. _ The Nebraska Senator, during a cam- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) | ILAWYER REPUDIATES DOAK DENIAL OF NORRIS CHARGE SECRETARY DOAK. LAFOLLETTE BAGKS | |Wisconsin Senator Declares Democrat Offers Only POLITICAL CHARGES ROSEVELTSRAE, RESUL N PROBE Gov. White to Investigate Ac- | cusations of Careless Han- *X¥ UP) Means Associated Press. ———————— TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT SCORES HOOVER REGORD AS MISMANAGEMENT Admits “Things Might Have Been Worse”—Says “They Should Have Been Better.” DEMOCRAT DENOUNCES TACTICS OF CRYING PANIC Wheeling Address Challenges G. 0. P. Assertions—Will Speak at Pittsburgh Tonight. By the Associated Press. WHEELING, Wa. Va., October 19.— Gov. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate | for the presidency, in a speech here lo~l day challenged the claimed Republican contention that “things will be worse HI I am elected” and declared that “what is wrong with the Nation” is “misman- agement.” Speaking after a motor drive from Pittsburgh, Mr. Roosevelt said: “You have had placed before you the spectre of fear by the Republican can- didate and the Republican leaders. You have been told that things might have been worse, and will be worse if I am elected to office. But I say to you, ‘Yes, things might have been worse; indeed we might all of us have been destroyed. But on the other hand remember that | things might have been better, should have been better, and will begin to get | better with a change of administration | on the 4th of March'.” Scores “Panic” Tactics. If this Nation wants to know “what is wrong with its National Government, I will give them the answer in one word,” said Mr. Roosevelt. “That word | is ‘mismanagement.’ " “I refuse to beliove that the people of the Nation can be made to fear false bogies,” said the Democratic nominee. He asserted: “To attempt to instill panic into the electorate at a time when we must all have courage and a firm belief that the American charcteristic i of finding answers to problems will bring | Lambeth Court, where crowds of un- EORGE, IF1 DIDNT KNOW You WERE A TRAGEDIAN I'D LAUGH MYSELF To DEATH! 54 JBLESS FINED FORLONDON RITS Four Women Among Those in| Court—Communists. Are Blamed in Commons. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 19.—Fifty men and four women arraigned in police courts today for participation in yes- terday’s unemployment riots were sen- tenced to pay fines of 40 shMlings each or to spend two weeks to one month in prison. Thirty of them were sentenced to AN L IR o N \ \\\ \\\\ \\\\ Herriot Honored By Germany on Goethe Centenary By the Associated Press PARIS, October 19.—In behalf of President von Hindenburg and the Germszn government, Leopold von Hoesch, German Ambassador to Prance, today pinned a Ger- man decoration on Premier Her- riot. It was the commemorative medal of the Goethe centenary, bestowed in recognition of M. Herriot's admiration for the works of the German poet. After this ceremony the premier was host at a luncheon for Herr von Hoesch, who has been transfer- red to Londen. NEW YORK BUDGET REVNOLDS WO MY DEMAND TRAL |Former Libby Holman Quoted as Saying She Wants “Cloud” Lifted. By the Associated Press. "WINSTON-SALEN 19.—Libby Holman Reynolds was quoted | today by Benet Polikoff, her attorney, | as saying she wanted the cloud hang- ing over her as the result of her in- | dictment for the slaying of her hus- | band, Smith Reynolds, “lifted perma- nently.” N. C. chber} DRASTC ARV AT BELEVED ERRIOT NEW DEFENSEPLA French Premier Reported Ready to Propose or Accept Big Reduction. POLICY REGARDED AS BID TO BRITAIN AND AMERICA Paris Also Is Studying Proposed Five-Treaty Suggestion Offered at London Parley. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cabie to The Star PARIS, October 19.—France is ap- parently getting ready to propose or accept drastic disarmament in the near future. Edouard Heriot, French premier, is known to favor it. Feeling that France will be menaced by the present German situation and having to choose between trusting wholly in the strength of its own arma- ments or wining at least the moral sup- port of Great Britain and the United States by accepting a reduction in armaments, Herriot, after what can only be discribed as deep trepidation and searching of the scul, has personally chosen reduction. He has still ta win the consent of the French general staff and certain members of his own government, but he seems confident that he will succeed. Study Treaty Plan. The so-called five-treaty French plan, which Herriot took with him to London and the principal author of which was really the Czech foreign minister, Dr. Eduard Benes, 1s now being remodeled here. The new draft is considerably simplified, probably on good American | advice, so that public opinion can more easily grasp it. It is being studied today | by the Council of National Defense. Herriot explained the situation to a private meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon and is holding a gov- ernment council on the subject this evening. His general feeling appears to be that the United States is today per- haps France's best friend, that Britain Pnl}kofl said she indicated she might | Depression” in the end will weigh the reject a nolle prosse, if one was taken. us back on the upward trail, is a method | persistently misunderstands France scales down in favor of the Demo- crats. The Republicans in Kansas have an advantage which they lacked in 1930 when a Democratic Senator and a Democratic Governor were elected. This | year there are no factional differences. | The candidate for Governor, Landon, is a former campaign manager for Clydei Reed, of the Progressive group, and has i been accepted by the Conservatives. | Paullen, the Republican nominee for Senator, has been twice Governor and is widely popular. The picture pre- sented in the Republican camp, there- fore, is very different from that of two years ago, when factions tore the pcrty limb from limb. State Strongly Dry. Then, too, Kansas is and has been a dry State. Probably 75 per cent of | the voters are dry in the estimation of | Senator Capper, who knows a lot about Kansas voters and who has been the biggest vote-getter the State has seen in years. Whatever any polls may show | about the lack of Kansas dryness, the | Gryness leaders on both sides here are perfectly willing to admit that the State | ic overwhelmingly dry. That is the| Teason that the party platforms of the Republicans and the Democrats in the State continue to be dry this year, not- withstanding the repeal and revision planks of their national platforms. In the opinion of the Republicans and also of some of the Democrats, the wet and dry issues as between Hoover and Roosevelt is going to aid the President. “The Booze Fighter,’” a_publication tssued in Butler, Ind. has been sent in Jarge numbers to clergymen in this State and through the churches has reached the hands of a lot of the voters. This four-page publication urges all the drys to vote for Hoover and sgainst Roosevelt. Undoubtedly, it is said, the churches are likely to throw their in-| fluence in behind Mr. Hoover in this | contest. The President is popular with the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) DEMOCRATS CHARGE G. 0. P. USES POSTMEN Compiling Industries Pre- election “Prosperity” Drive Is Plea at Chicago. for By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, October 19.—A statement issued today by the county headquarters of the Democratic party charged that mail carriers were used “to obtain in- formation apparently to be utilized by the Republican National Committee and a whispering campaign aimed to drive important industries into line for the Republican national ticket.” The statement quoted Patrick A. Nash, chairman of the Democratic County Committee, as saying. “We have learned that in the last few days all mail carriers have received in- structions to turn in lists of business houses in the districts where they travel The mail carriers are not told what the lists they are compiling are to be used for, but in view of the attitude of Post- master General Brown and his assistants upon using the postmasters as part of the Republican machinery the answer is easy. The lists are to be utilized to send special pleas to special interests during the Jast few days of the campaign.” SEES “FIGHTING ADDRESS” Mills Confers With Hoover on De- troit Speech. By the Associated Press. After a lengthy conference with President Hoover on the Detroit speech to be made by the President Saturday, Secretary Mills today told newspaper men it would be “safe to say it will bz a fighting, thumping address.” Mills declined to discuss the details or issues to be taken up, but indicated the speech would follow somewhat along the lines of those at Des Moines and Cleveland. He sald economic issues would con- tinue to be the factors Republican lesders would stress. | Eastern authorities announced it would Progressive Hope. j By the Assoclated Press. MADISON, Wis., October 19.—Sen- ator Robert M. La Follette, jr., Progres- | sive Republican, issued a statement to- day advocating tHE“ETERTION“Of the Democratic presidential nominee, Frank- lin D. Roosevelt. He also advocated the election of Democratic State candidates. Senator La Follette said that while he had “no illusions about either of the two old political parties,” he felt that progressives of both parties could expect | some co-operation from Roosevelt, but none at all from President Hoover. Taboo on Regulars. The Republican candidates for Gov- ernor and Senator, he charged, attained victory through a “slush fund” and by | employing “tactics taken from the book of Samuel Insull.” | The La Follette statement placed an official progressive “taboo” on President Hoover, former Gov. Walter J. Kohler, who defeated the Senator’s brother, | Gov. Philip La Follette, for renomina- | tion, and John B. Chapple, the young| Ashland editor, who nosed out Blaine. It was evident, Senator La Follette ! said, that Hoover would block progres- | sive measures in Congress, while Roose- velt “indicates a willingness to co-op- erate with progressives on legislative action to meet the extraordinary (eco- | nomic) crisis. Shall Vote for Roosevelt. | “I shall, therefore, vote for Gov. | Roosevelt because I believe he offers the | only immediate hope for the relief of | 10,000,060 unemployed men, women and | children, and 6,000,000 farmers, who with their families, are threatened with the loss of their entire stake in our| economic order,” the Senator said. | “If he is elected I shell feel free o oppose any of his policies which | are not in accord with my own con- | victions.” EASTERN-TECH GRID TILT ABANDONED FOR PRESENT Meeting Expected Soon in Effort | | to Arrange High School Title Contest. The public high school championship foot ball geme, tentatively scheduled today between Eastern and Tech. was abandoned. No new date has been set. Tech voted to play the game, but not be played even if Eastern had to forfeit. It is expected the matter will be considered at an early meeting of the principals. dling of Investors’ Money. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, October 19.—A cam- paign speech charge by Lieut. Gov. William G. Pickrel last night that “careless handling of millions -of dollars of Ohio investors’ money” led to the drastic reorganization of the Con- tinental Shares, Inc., today resulted in an announcement by Gov. George White that he would direct’ the At- torney General to investigate the mat- ter. “If stock transactions paralleling methods revealed in the Insull collapse have cost Ohio investors millions of dollars, punishment must be invoked,” the Governor said in a statement. Probe After Election. He said he would direct the Attorney General to conduct the investigation “after the election when no political consideration can enter into the mat- L Pickrel, speaking in behalf of Gov. ‘White, said the record of David S. In- galls, Republican nominee for Governor, as a cirector in Continental Shares, a holding corporation, “proves his unfit- ness for public offic Pickrel emphasized, however, that he meant no reflection on Ingalls’ per- sonal integrity. “The failure of that corporation staggers the mind,” Pickrel said. “The careless handling of millions of dollars of Ohio investors brought terrific losses. Similar losses in State finances would be a blow to the credit oi Ohio. * * * The record clearly shows the inability of this man (Ingalls) either to with- stand solicitation of personal friends or to handle large sums of money with economy and prudence.” Founded in 1926. Continental Shares, a $156,000,000 in- vestment concern, was founded in 1926 by Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland financier. Its holdings include large public utility, steel and rubber interests. In April of 1931 Eaton resigned as chairman of the board and George T. Bishop. another Cleveland financier, be- came its president. At that time, Theodore L. Bailey, then spokesman for Continental Shares, said the move was mace to inspire confidence in the company *should it nave been threatened by the filing of six stockholders’ suits, amounting to about $9,000,000, which asked an ac- counting and inspection of the records. Che suits are still pending. Peruvian Troops at Para. RIO PE JANEIRO, October 19 (P).— Two shiploads of Peruvian troops, bound for the Putumayo River section, where "trouble recently brewed between Colom- bia and Peru, arrived at Para today. {BARREL STAVE WIELDED IN SICILY 9 YEARS AGO LEADS TO SLAYING New York Police Link Murdered Man to Killing on Pier in 1923—Revenge Is Termed Motive. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 19.—The homicide squad says it was really a barrel stave, wielded in sudden anger on & pier in distant Sicily one day in 1923, that killed Joseph Spoto in Brooklyn today. Spoto, 62 years old and a longshore- man, was sitting alone in his two-room flat last night, eating spaghetti cooked by his own hand, and drinking wine. Scme one cpened the door, fired two shets into his body and departed quietly. Spoto died at a hospital with- out regaining consciousness. But bullets were only the immediate cause of death, say the detectives. It was that blow with a barrel stave, in- flicted 4,000 miles away and nine years ago, which was the primary cause. The answer to the riddle, they said, is revenge. Thumbing Spoto’s effects, they found an Ttalian legal paper which they said told this story: In Sicily, Spoto was an overseer of coopers in a factory near a wharf in the port of Milazzo. One day he and one Prank Foti fell into an argument, which ended abruptly when Spoto picked by a stave and brought it down on Foti’s head, killing him. Twelve years in penal servitude was the sentence passed on Spoto. The document showed that the Court of Assizes at Messina urheld the sentence th2 record stopped. filling it in with their own deductions, believe that Spoto es- caped and fled to this country. He went into hicing, cooking his own meals in the little flat, rarely ventunn; out. Some friend or relative of Foti’s, they say, trailed Spoto 4,000 miles to New York, found his hiding place among the giet.y;.mm millions, and did him to of campaigning which does little credit to leaders still at this time entrusted with the welfare of the United States.” Mr. Roosevelt said “things might have been worse” if it were not for two things—the Federal Reserve System and ‘3‘; Reconstruction Finance Corpera- The Federal Reserve System, he con. tinued, “was the product of a Democrat, | Carter Glass,” and the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation “is as much a Democratic measure as a Republican measure, for it was passed In a spirit of bi-partisan co-operation in Congress.” Not Republican Leadership. “But,” he added, “this measure not due to the creative genius of ;:f | publican leadership, for it was during the period of the Democratic adminis- tration that there was established the War Finance Corporation, and it is es- sentially the principles of the War Fi- nance Corporation which his been re- established at this new period of crisis.” The Wheeling speaking engagement ! was the first of the second day’s journey | of the Democratic_presidential aspirant. | He will speak at Pittsburgh tonight. It is belleved Mr. Roosevelt will discuss the :cnu:‘dat Pittsburgh. Of that speech, e sald: “Tonight at Pittsburgh I shall outline another cause which under Republican leadership has had a major effect upon our present condition, and I shall cnce | more explain a workable program to remedy the situation.” i Mr. Roosevelt left Albany yesterday on an eight-day trip into Pennsylvania, the border States and Dixie. Little Help for Worker. Asserting the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had performed “many ex- cellent services,” Mr. Roosevelt added “but it is a fact, which I established | last Spring, and which the record of subsequent months disclosed that I was right in saying that only a small por- tion of the actual credits has seeped through to the worker, the farmer and the man without a job, or for that mat- ter, to the small business man.” Mr. Roosevelt szid he had “suggested a program for the rehabilitation of ag- riculture”; “ & program for putting the great transportation systems of railroads on their feet”; plan “to curve the finan- cial excesses and exploitations which in the last 12 years have thrown to waste so much of the hard earned savings of our citizens”; a “definite program for! the fair control of public utilities”; and | “a lowering of tariffs by negotiations | witi foreign countries.” “But,” he continued, “I have not ad- vocated, and I will never advocate a tariff policy which will withdraw pro- tection from American workers against those outside countries which employ cheap labor or who operate under a standard of living which is lower than that of our great laboring groups. Exists for Individuals. “The lesson of inter-dependence, the simple fact that no part of the country is safe while any part is in want,” Roosevelt said, “the Hoover administra- tion forgot. It “encouraged speculators,” he elab- orated, “strangled foreign markets by . (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) GUELL COMING HERE New Cuban Embassy Secretary Leaves for Post—Cintas Due Soon. HAVANA, October 19 (#).—Gonzzalo Guell will leave for Washington today to become first secretary of the Cuban | embassy there, and Dr. Oscar Cintas, new Cuban Ambassador to the United States, is expected to reach Washington next week from Europe. Senor Cintas succeeds Dr. Orestes Ferrara, now Cuban secretary of state. STIMSON N6T TO QUIT Sccretary Jokingly Dismisses Ru- mors From Orient. Secretary Stimson today jokingly dis- missed rumors from the Orient about his possible resignation. th a press u:nlfi , he said: ive no thought resigning. may be about to get the bounce, bu 1 do not know about it” employed gathered this morning. Po- lice pressed them back from the court house and there was no disorder. Yesterday's disturbances came up in the House of Commons when Home Secretary Sir John Gllmour, answering | a questioner, seid the demonstrations were orginized by ¥ Communist Wl known as the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. It was estimated that 10,000 persons participated. Sir | John said the police, despite great pro- vocation, acted with admirable restraint. Police Court Guarded. approach to Lambeth Police Court. Scores of policemen and rioters were injured in the bloody seven-hour clash which ended last night in the historic Lambeth sections, just across the| Thames from the Houses of Parlia- ment. Hour after hour stcnes and other missiles were heaved at police by the crcwd, which was striving to cross the river to hold a demonstration in Par- | liament Square. The police charged and recharged, wielding their clubs vig- orously. | Windows Crashed by Youths. | Towerd the end grcups of youths looted shops in the neighborhood, crash- ing in windows and making off with! clothing and other goods on display. Police said the crowd showed evi- dences of some miitary organization. The bobbles cleared the strects time | after time, only to discover the mob making headway by deploying in other directions. Beginning in late afternoon, several | thousand of the unemployed began | their march toward the builcings through the devious thor-| oughferes on the south side of the| ‘Thames. The demonstrators were | permitted to mass in front of the new | London County Council Hall, just across | Westminster Bridge, but all approaches | to Parliament Square were carefully | blocked. | The beginning of the demonstration | was quiet enough. Banners waved. bands blared and the crowds moved along under police escort. Then came a rush for the Westminster bridgehead. The police hurriedly called for motor reinforcements and for the first time used automobiles to block the streets dgainst a crowd. Bloody Battle Waged. The battle was then on. In a short| time blood was flowing from many heads. In Boniface street, where for seven centuries the archbishops of Canter- bury have lived, three bobbies were trapped by the throng. Whistles brought rescuers, but not before one of the officers dropped under a bar- rage of rocks and bottles. By 11 pm. most of the troubled area was quiet, most of the crowd was on its way home, and police were clearing the last of the rioters out of the streets. All approaches to Parlia- ment Square were heavily guarded throughout the night, however. A check showed 20 policemen were severely injured and many others suf- fered minor injuries. Eight of the riot- ers were seriously hurt and probably scores of others less so. Thirty men were arrested. | | ILLINOIS MINE STRIKERS | RECALL THEIR PICKETS Christian County Free of Threats Against Working Colleries for First Time in Weeks. By the Associated Press. strife of coal miners, today A for the time belng;‘ ot' t‘l&e tlfi::t of attempts at picketing at colleries. The recently organized Progressive Miners of America, whose members have sought to dissuade members of the United Mine Workers of America from entering the pits, yesterday re- called its pickets “until further notice.” Attempts at picketing have resulted 1 clashes with Illinois National Guardsmen, who have been stationed here for more than a month. _Radio Programs oa Page B-8 PUTAT 556621 0 City’s Expenses Cut $74,- 744,997, With Further Reduction Proposed. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 19 —Paul | Loeser, assistant to the budget director, | Strong forces of police guarded the announced today that the 1933 budget. | as proposed, which will be presented to the Board of Estimate tomorrow, $74.744.997 57 from the 1932 budget There still remain proposed reduc- tions of approximately $12,500.000, which were held over by the Board of Estimate for further study before adopt- ing the final budget. but to which the board has committed itself. Although there has been no announce- ment as to whether the budget-cut- ting would satisfy bankers from whom the city is seeking $35.000,000 loans, Controller Charles W. Berry expressed confidence ,the city will obtain money for its November 1 payroll and future needs. . Charles E. Mitchell, chairman of the National City Bank, warned the Board | of Estimate Monday that the market for | Status of the case city securities had gone and economy was needed to restore confidence. A n sisting largely of Tammany men and ailies, then cut the budget. There was no indication as to whether the bankers would insist on further cuts, but an announcement was ex- pected soon. Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee, non- Tammany Democrat who favors an economy program which would include | voluntary pay cuts by civil service em- ployes, said yesterday the bloc's method of cutting $49,750.000 of the total slash would mean a ooost of the nickel subway fare to 10 or 15 cents. Tammany men denied this. McKee said the majority group’s ac- tion in changing a four-year bond plan of financing subways to 50-year issues would run up such a high interest bill that the nickel fare would be impossible. Morris Hillquit, Socialist candidate for mayor, said Tammary and its allies had jeopardized the five-cent fare rather than’ permit economies which would cut civil service salaries or eliminate pat- ronage jobs. Samuel Untermyer, former special counsel to the Transit Commission, voiced a belief that the change to 50- year bonds, although not as wise as an eight-year bond plan proposed by Mc- Kee, would not imperil the fare for at least eight years. “I want this cioud hanging over me lifted permanently, not temporarily, and my earnest desire is for complete exoneration,” Polikoff quoted the: 26- | year-old widow and former Broadway blues singer, as saying. Wants Complete Exoneration. Polikoff said Mrs. Reynolds, indicted -with - Albert for the of slaying of her nml-ulmund at his home here July 6, asked him if a nolle prosse would mean complete exoneration in | the case. | “I told her,” the attorney said, “that it would not and that if one were taken the prosecutor could reopen the case at any time.” Polikoff said Mrs. Reynolds then said her only desire was for “complete ex- oneraticn.” [totals $566,621,30040, a reduction of | A letter written by W. N, Reynolds, uncle of Smith Reynolds, to Solicitor | Carlisle Higgins and saying the members of the Reynolds family would be “happy” if the cases against Mrs. | Reynolds and Walker were dropped was made public last night. Explains Case to Her. | Polikoff said he talked with Mrs. | Reynolds by telephone after the letter was made public. in referring to the leter. “T told her,” Polikoff said, “ii means no more than a similar request from any person would mean, except that it comes from parties very much con- cerned in the affair.” Polikoff explained he still was doubt as to what position the solicitor would take in the “remains the same.” “We are going ahead with plans and preparations for the trial” he said Parliament | majority bloc of board members, con- | “The evidence fails to prove conclu- | sively that Smith was murdered,” W. | N. Reynolds, Smitk, seid in the letter. | your decision to drop the cases.” | Twenty-year-old Smith was fatally | wounded by a pistol at the family 6 after a party. Several weeks later Mrs. Reynolds, his bride of a few months, and Walker, 19, his lifelong chum, were indicted for his murder. Both are at liberty under $25,000 bond. Trial Date Not Set. No date for their trial has been set, partially because the young widow, who gained fame on Broadway as a blues singer, is an expectant mother. Solicitor Higgins emphasized he would make his own decision on the matter, “regardless of who wants this or that dcne. That's my responsibility and I intend to follow it.” he said. The letter of the elder Reynolds was written after attorneys of the family advised them not to join in prosecution of the case. “We have been unable to discover evidence which, in our cpinion, would justify us in advising the family to join in the prosecution of the indictment and we have so informed members of the family,” the firm’s statement said. MISSION SUBSIDIES DENOUNCED ASINTRODUCING COMMERCIALISM I Pickets undmivm Clash. Commission, Back From Far East, Says Finances Have Weakened Church Morale. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 19.—The ap- praisal commission sent to the Far East by seven Protestant denominations which donate $15,000,000 annually -to mission work reported today that its survey showed subsidy of mission churches by home churches had intro- duced “an element of commercialism into the very inner courts of the church.” Today’s report was one of a series be- ing issued by the commission on its findings concerning mission conditions in China, Japan, India and Burma. “It is doubtful whether any single brought weakness lonary commercialism into the very inner courts of the church. “It has tended to produce parasites, it has cut the nerve of forward-moving adventure on the part of those who should have been the leaders of the indigenous church, and it has often given an undue influence to the mis- sionaries who dispensed it.” The commission acknowledged that in “solitary cases” subsidies have been “a blessing,” but it added the opinion that no church in any land will be rcbust and virile until it supports itself out of its own resources through its own endeavors. “The new Christian groups will, of course, need an early period of nurture by leaders from nearby churches,” the report continued, “and they must have visits from the officials or laymen who he o A en community groups life to stand on their own foeh” expect The attorney quoted | | her as asking, “What does this mean?” ! o in matter and said the | uncle and guardian of | “All of us| would be quite happy if it should be | | estate here early the morning of July | as ' any interference, and then safely con through the basri: and that Germany under Chancellor Franz von Papen is an actual menace. In a speech before the Provincial Newspapers' Association last night he made the following significant state- ments: “We are at a strangely critical mo- ment. France needs the utmost vigi- lance to preserve not only its own tran- quility, but also that of the others. We are at the precise moment when hith- erto dormant pretensions, evidently gravely menacing, are to awaken. France Misunderstood. “I say this in all calmness, but also with the certainty acquired by a care- ful study of events. Our country is be- ing directly attacked in some quarters and misunderstood in others. I am | continually meeting both this hostility and this redoubtable incomprehension | which misinterprets even our most gen- erous acts. “Our country, so cruelly tested only a few years ago, is now obliged to put | the same energy into the struggle for | peace which it exerted then on the bat- | tlefields.” | _The natural impulse, Herriot ex- plained, in the face of a menace is to increase, not decrease armaments. Buc | France, he said, is not alone in the world. It must consider others. It must keep all its engagements strictly and “do evervthing necessary to make sure that right remains on its side.” Will Accept Compromise. ‘The British Ambassador, Lord Tyr- rell, saw Herriot yesterday and asked | him if France weuld be willing to hold a four-power conference on the German equal-arms claim at Lausanne as a compromise. e is reported to have said ves, if Belgium, Poland and Czecho- slovakia are also invited. 1t is believed Great Britain, as an alternative to holding the conference, which France believes and Britain sus- | pects Germany wishes to avoid alto- | gether, now proposes a joint British- French - Italian declaration assuring Germany of equal juridical rights within a new disarmament treaty. (Copyright, 1932.) CLOSER CO-OPERATION URGED. London Times Wants Common Action by Britain and U. S. LONDON, October 19 (#).—A plea for closer co-operation between Great | Britain and the United States in ar- ranging to agree on a plan for dis- armament was made by the London | Times editorially today. | The paper said: “There has been | some tendency during the four-power | negotiations to forget, not merely the | vital interest. but the actual participa- | tion of the United States in the Dis- | armament Conference. Yet the case i for common action is overwhelming." 'GAS WAR THREATENED IN FARMERS’ STRIKE Drastic Action Is Promised by Authorities. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, October 19.—The farm strike in the Twin Cities area grew more tense today following clashes be- tween pickets and truck drivers and threats by authorities to resort to gas bombs. A group of a hundred men in trucks raided picket lines at Daytonsport, 25 miles northwest of here, last night, captured 13 pickets and took them to Elk River, where they were held until released by the arrival of Sheriff Oscar Olson of Anoka County. Later in the night, when nearly 150 pickets had massed near Daytonsport, Sheriff N. Newman of Sherburne Coun- ty led a convoy of four trucks up to the picket lines, accompanied by three deputies. Armed with guns and tear gas bombs, Sheriff Newman warned the pickets the gas bombs would be used to break up ducted the trucks - adod, : » )