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GUAYAN ARMY ES OFFENSIVE Claims Victories in Two Chaco Battles—500 to 800 Are Reported Slain. By the Assoclated Press, ASUNCION, Paraguay, November 14. —The Paraguayan Army was in the midst of its long-heralded final drive in the Chaco today, after fighting two| battles near strategic Fort Munoz in which 500 to 800 were reported slain. The Paraguayans claimed two vic- tories after the fighting over the week end. They said both battles were fought in the vicinity of the Bolivian l{lfl‘ headquarters, at Fort Munoz, and the 590 were slain near Fort Saavedra. Macheteers Slay 300. It was claimed unofficially that the Paraguayan “Macheteers of Death” had annihilated a detachment of 300 Bo- livian troops and captured many others near Cuatrovientos. These new movements toward Munoz follow the capture of Fort Bogueron, in | the center of the Chaco, recently. Bo- queron and nearby forts are known as the Northern sector, and Munoz and | ‘nearby defense works the Southern| ‘sector. | The Southern sector lies along the | Pilcomayo River that separates the Chaco from Argentina. The Northern 45 midway between the Pilcomayo and | the Paraguay River, separating the | Chaco from Paraguay. | The Paraguayan Army feels that if the Munoz area is captured the Bolivians would be expelled from ter- Titory tributary to Central Paraguay. Supply Line Severed. . ‘The battles of the week end were | fought after the Paraguayans had con- solidated their forces in the wake of the Boqueron campaign, and the first objectives were laid out as Forts Saavedra, Aguarica and Murgui. ington Auditorium, undertook to sterday and this morning Grocery Stores, Inc., will centiny Shown here are, left to right, Lu Roche, who did their bit this morning the show. Tonight's session of the show will AFood Show Continues Open” WEEK END SEES PREPARATION FOR FINAL WEEK. TER it had closed its doors Saturday night the Food Show, in the Wash- | prepare for reopening this afternoon and Fresh stocks of groceries were taken into the ex d the hibition, sponsored by the District ue through Saturda! cille Terrell, Dorothy Ka in tidying up the “miniature store” tes and Mary at be marked by a comic make-up contest for girls, in which the girl achieving the funniest éffect with rouge, powder and lipstick in a given time will win a prize. The Munoz general headquarters of the Bolivians embraces an airport, & yadio station and ample well water. Northward the Paraguayans have al- Teady severed the only supply line to Munoz from that direction. The Bo- fivien road to Munoz along the Pil- comayo has been inundated with the ®advent of the rainy season. (Dispatches from La Paz have repeat- edly denied any Paraguayan advances in the Munoz sector, but agreed heavy attacks had been launched.) HOOVER PREPARES 70 ACT ON DEBTS *AMERICAN DUTY, SHIPSTEAD THEME Minnesota Senator to Speak in Radio Forum Broad- cast Wednesday. . UPON ARRIVAL HERE (Continued From First Page.) members who recognize you as their leader and who will properly desire your counsel and advice.” Summarizing the entire debt situa- tion as_he has seen it unfold, the President quoted to the Democratic standard bearer a note from the British ernment stating ‘“the regime of nter-governmental financial obligations as now existing must be reviewed.” The British statement, he sald, called slso for a suspension of payments during the negotiations and related di- rectly to the $95,000,000 payment due December 15. The President also recalled the con- gressional resolution declaring it against. American poliey that “any of the indebtedness of foreign es to the United States should be in any manner cancelled or reduced.” ments which may have made between themselves could not be based upon any assurances of the United. [Btates. Moreover, the tenor of negotiations asked for by the debtor governments goes beyond the terms of the congressional resolution yeferred to." As his train swung across part of New Mexico and Texas today, the Pres- Jdent looked shead, not only to pressing «ebt questions, but also to other mat- ters he intends to place before Con- gress, In addition to his annual message to Congress and his budget message, Mr. Hoover hopes to send to Capitol Hill detailed plans for the reorganization of government. President Hoover's return to Wash- ington from his Palo Alto, Calif., home was delayed by a side trip Saturday night to Boulder City, Nev., where he inspected the preliminary work of the| $165,000,000 Colorado River Dam tha is to bear his name. Under the illumination of floodlights and & full desert moon he saw Work- men rushing finsl preparations for di- version of the stream yesterday through BO-foot tunnels in rock walls near the dam site to clear the river bed for evacuation to bedrock Praises Dam Project. Speaking in the administration build- ing at Boulder City. President Hoover said the dam was “the greatest engi- neering work of its character ever at- tempted at the hand of man” and ex- pressed. the hope he would be present at its completion “as a bystander.” “Even so.” he said, "I shall feel a special personal satisfaction.” He said the dam would serve four purposes, stabilizing the stream in flood season, pr domestic water for Southern California and parts of Ari- gona, supplying irrigation water for Ari- zona and valleys of Southern California and preserving “American rights in the flow of the river. Hoover served as chairman of Commission, which settled the legal conflicts as to water rights among six of the States after three years of negotiations FOUR MEN FACE CHARGES OF FALSE ADVERTISING Defendants Pil‘RdVNol Guilty to Publishing Fake Figures as Trial Begins. Circulation the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, November 14. —Trisl of four men charged with fraudulent advertising by publishing a faise circula statement of the Youngstown Telegram began here to- day before of three judges without & j Pleas of not guilty were entered by Thomas Dowling. New York, circulation adviser of Scripps-Howard newspapers. and by Joseph. Pinster, Dallas, former circulation manager of the Telegram. Two - other defendants, John ‘Watters, Telegram and James Morrisey, circulation man- sger, had previously pleaded not guilty By & court - MANCHUKUO HOPEFUL Experiments at San Quentin With Seven Convicts Show | Foreign Minister Congratulates Roosevelt on Election. CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, Novem- ber 14 (P)—Foreign Minister Hsieh Chieh-Hsih today telegraphed congrat- ulations to President-elect Roosevelt in which he hoped that the new American administration would “understand the real situation in Manchuris.” The foreign minister added that Manchukuo offered renewed pledges that an open-door policy will be ob- served and pledges of weicome to Amer- | d investment, in return for | ican trade Amefican sympathy. business manager, | “Our Duty as Americans” will be the | subject of an address by Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota in the National Radio Forum next Wednesday night. The National Forum is ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast network of National Broadcastihg Co. stations and will be heard Jocally through WRC at 9:30 p.m. Senator Shipstead will not only dis- cuss the desirability but the necessity of all American citizens co-operating in an endeavor to readjust financial, social and business conditions in this country and the vital necessity of every indi- vidual, regardles of politics, to lend oenstructive aid and su) Senator Shipstead M which tngues- of tionably will reflect the ans Western States as to ways for solition - 15 MEN ARRESTED IN LAUSANNE BLAST | Bomb at City Hall, Believed Aimed at Firemen, Injures Seven Persons. By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, November 14—Fifteen men were arrested today | in connection with the explosion of & | bomb last night in front of the City | Hall | Seven persons, one of them & woman, | were injurea in the explosion. Police | said the bombing apparently was direct- | ed against firemen in the City Hall | fire station. In an unemployment dem- | onstration last week the firemen turned the hose on a disorderly crowd. | Troops Withdrawn. | GENEVA, Switzerland, November 14 (#)—Troops were withdrawn today | from an old ladies' home, across the street from the League of Nations build- | ings, where they had been quartered | since last week's political disorders, in | which 12 persons were killed. | Machine guns were removed from be- hind the garden wall, wheré they had been trained on the buildings in which the Disarmament Conference is in prog- ress, [Easy chairs were brought out, the old ladies took their accustomed places and all was quiet. NEW DEAL IN PROSPECT, EAGLE PRESIDENT SAYS 0Old Age Pension and Employment Stabilization Predcted at Reading. By the Associated Press READING, Pa, November 14.—Ex- | pressing confidence that a “new deal” |1 in store for the American worker, Henry J. Berrodin, Akron, Ohio, grand worthy president of the Fraternal Order |of Eagles, told fellow members here | yesterday the next Congress would be | the most progressive and liberal minded of any since the Civili War. Berrodin sald he was assured the next Congress would pass an old age pension bill, and an employment stabil- jzation act—both sponsored by the ust have laws to fit men and ds,” he said. “Call it Socialism it you will—I prefer to call it Amer- ifcanism. One thing is certain, we'll either give the American worker a new deal or else we'll have redism.” BEotee will, dis-]| Forum Speaker X SENATOR SHIPSTEAD. DELAWARE BALLOT PROBE ON TOMORROW | Ragon Committee to Hear Mem- bers of Better Government League Here. | By the Associated Press. Representative Hartsill Ragon’ of Ar- kansas, chairman of the Hous¢ Cam- paign Funds Committee, today said of- ficials of the Better Government League of Delaware had been summoned to appear as the first witnesses tomorrow in the investigations of elections in that State. “The committee will meet tomorrow | nd determine upon its course of action and will question the officials of the Better Government League of Dela- | ware” Ragon said. “The committee also will decice upon when it will con- duct its investigation into the Pennsyl- vania elections.” The Arkansas Democrat said that Representative Black, Democrat, New York, who had headed a group of in- vestigators in the Delaware and Penn- sylvania elections, would present to the committee tomorrow the names of other witnesses to be summoned. Meanwhile, it was divuiged that Ken- neth Romney, sergeant at arms of the House. had fssued subpoenas for number of witnesses, but was with- holding their names until the sub- poenas had been served The investigation was caused by com- plaints of Democratic leaders in both Delaware and Pennsylvania that there were {rregularities in the elections of House members. |RAINS FLOOD WASHINGTON of | One Drowned in Downpour Cloudburst Proportions. Heavy weex end rains over Western Washington, described as of cloudburst proportions and the heaviest rainfall in 20 years in the Centralia district, today filled rivers, flooded lowlands and were blamad for at least one death Near Fairfax, when Bert Beck, ir. 19, of Auburn drove a truck loaded with wood over the Evans Creek Bridge yes- terday morning the structure collapsed. He was drowned. WIN CHURCH ELECTIONS German National Socialists Chosen to 1,335 Parish Board Seats. BERLIN, November 14 (4 —Entering church politics for the first time, the National Socialists today captured 1,335 parish board seats in 67 Berlin parishes Non-political Christians were elected to 1209 seats, Fundamentalists, 1111; | Liberals, 298; Evangelical Federa- | tionists, 87, and Religious Socialists, 36, STOMACH, NOT MIND, DISTURBS SLEEP, PRISON PHYSICIAN FINDS Food Causes Most Restlessness. By the Associated Press S8AN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif., No- vember 14.—It's the weight on the stomach—not on the mind—that causes troubled sleep, Dr. Leo L. Stanley, San Quentin physician, said here toda: Dr. Stanley declared his contention | was ‘supported by scientific tests on seven convicts, including & murderer, & kidnaper and a robber. Dr. Stanley said, were fed either a stenk, |a half pound of cake or a liboral plat- {ter of ice cream before being “put to | bed” for the night. | A kymograph, or “sleepometer,” which the physician said registered each | movement, wes attached to the seven | . These records, Dr. Stanley added, showed that each convict tossed and kicked most of the night. |~ Por 10 nights they went to sleep with- out any before-bed snack. The kymo=- For 10 days these selected subjects, | graphs registered hardly & kick, Dr. Stanley said. | tional campaign. TACOMA, Wash., November 14 (#).— | b. 0.P. HEADS MAY MEET IN CAPITAL Chairman Sanders Returns to Washington, but Says No Plans Have Been Made. A meeting of the Republican Na- tional Committee in Washingion to make plans for carrying on work of the national party organization soon may be considered by Chairman Everett Sanders of the National Committee. Mr. Sanders, who has returned to Washington from Chicago, said today formulated. He made it ciear that he would consult with other Republican leaders befcre issuing any call for a committee meeting. No probable date for a committee meeting has been fixed. Have Offices Here. However, Mr. Sanders explained that it will be necessary to bring about an adjustment from the campaign organi- zation to an organization to carry on during the period before the next na- ‘The Republican Na- tional Committee for years has main- tained such an organization. The headquarters have been in Washington and for several years in the Barr Build- ing Chairman Sanders today expressed David J. Mulvane, who for many years was Republican natibnal committeeman for Kansas and & vice chairman of the natfonal committee. Mr. Mulvane died shortly after the election last Tuesday. Address Wins Praise. In a radio address in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Star, Chairman Sanders the night after elec- | tion declared that the work of the Re- | publican party would go forward. He | pointed out that the Republicans, as the minority party. would have impor- | tant duties to perform in the next Con- gress. He has recelved many letters from Republicans all over the country praising the message which he gave them over the radio. It is expected that Mr. Sanders will ‘con(er with President Hoover following | the return of the latter to Washington tomorrow and will at that time discuss with the President future plans for the Republican organization. CAPT. TURNER PASSES KANSAS CITY ON DASH Takes 5 Hours and 54 Minutes in Hop From New York City. By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, November 14.—Col Roscoe Turner landed for fuel here to- day at 12:40 pm., Central standard time, 5 hours and 54 minutes after leaving New York in an attempt to establish a new East-West transcon- tinental fiight record. Turner's plane was refueled in 10 minutes and he streaked west at 12:50 p.m., expecting to stop at Albuguerque, N. Mex. He covered the 1,144 miles from the Atlantic Seabcard in 5 hours and 37 minutes actual fying time, having stop- | | They were Mrs. L. J. Kosters, her 19- | ped 17 minutes at Columbus, Ohio. Before him the route stretched ap- | proximately 1,450 miles to Los Angeles, | the gosl of his effort to lower the transcontinental mark of 14 hours and | 50 minutes set by Capt. Frank M. wks. He averaged about 204 miles an hour on the flight to Kansas City. LIBERALS REVOLT IN NORTH HONDURAS | Federal Troops and Nationaliste ; Attempt to Recapture City of San Pedro From Rebels, By the Assoctated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Novem- ber 14.—Revolution has broken out in Honduras. Heavy fighting was report- | ed today along the north coast. | Pederal troops, assisted By National- | ists, were storming the city of San Pedro, captured during the night by | Liberals, who also were reportsd to be | holding Trujillo, La Ceiba and La Es- peranza. After long and severe fighting the | Pederals were in the outskirts of San Pedro this morning and hoped to have the town before nightfall. Fighting was | still going on this afternoon. It was reported that rebel groups have risen in the southern district also, and federal troops were hurried to Comaya- gua, in anticipation of an attack. Gen. Justo Umana, a rebel leader, was reported to have taken the town of | Intibuca. Tt was sald that the insur- | gent movement had started at San P {dro and that one of the leaders was | William Coleman President Mefia Colindres is still at ‘lhe head of the government in Hon- duras. Gen. Tiburcio Carias Andino, | the Nationalist candidate, was_elected | to succeed him last month. auguration has not vet taken place The President-elect and the President are political allies. Amy Johnson Starts Hop. LYMPNE, England, November 14 (#)—Amy Johnson, England's premier woman flyer and in_private life Mrs. J. A. Mollison, took off today for a long flight to South Africa 1n an attempt to | beat her husband’s record of 4 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes for the same trip. |Campaign Launched By Soviet Against Gold Teeth Fillings | Precious Metal Held Need- | ed by Russians for Pur- chases Abroad. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, November 14—A cam- paign against gold fillings in teeth was Jaunched last night by the newspaper Evening Moscow, which exhorted the Soviet masses not to “hide gold in your mouth, for by so doing you reduce our ability to import necessary machinery.” The newspaper estimated that five | teeth and pointed out that this gold | was precious metal needed for chases abroad. The paper called attention to a non- rusting steel alloy filling for teeth which Soviet scientists recently developed. Before the revolution, gold teeth were considered necessities by most Russians, but since then gold has been a great luxury. Dentists do not carry gold and those who can afford such fillings must supply them. who proffered an old czarist gold coin as & gift to his sweetheart with the ex- planation that she could use it some day in her teeth. no plen for such a meeting yet has been | deep regret for the death of the late | MILITIA IS ASKED IN MILK STRIKE Serious Outbreak Feared as Armed Guards Are Placed on Trucks in Ohio. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, November 14.—Clashes between striking union milk wagon drivers and their non-union substitutes went on today as the head of Ohlo | National Guard considered a request by milk dealers that troops be sent here to protect their wagons. | Meanwhile, police arrested three men | as a result of the attacks, chiefly in | outlying sections of the city. | The men refused to accept a pro- posal for arbitration of & 20 per cent | cut in their wages. They struck when | their counter-offer to accept a 10 per | cent cut was refected by most milk dealers. | | Milk dealers were arming guards to | accompany interstate trucks after re- | porting drivers had been halted, threat- | ened with violence and fired upon. Au- | thorities expressed fear of violent | | clashes. | Pay Cut Is Refused, | | The appeal for troops was made to| Adjt. Gen. Frank D. Henderson of the |Ohio National Guard yesterday by a | committee from the Cincinnati Milk | | Exchange. He was asked to carry the | request to Gov. George White, and left for Camp Perry after saying he would take the matter under consideration. The strike, called three days ago, when the union drivers refused to agree cof the stitution the vessel. Constitution Gets Old Tools BIIDADAX AND ADE USED IN SHAPING HISTORIC SHIP. OMDR. LOUIS J. GULLIVER, U. S. N, and Lieut. Comdr. Henry Hartley, U. 8. N., are shown holding an old broadax end adz used by the builders The tools were presented to Old Ironsides by T. Lemar Jackson. Sandy Spring. Md., who obtained them from Reuben | worm Sibley of Freedom, Me., great grandson of Jacob Sibley, who worked on —Star Staff Photo. to a 20 per cent reduction in wages, was marked by several outbreaks of violence yesterday. Police reported more than a dozen non-union drivers and a police lieutenant were attacked and at least five drivers beaten by men in auto- mobiles who sought to prevent them from making deliveries. Milk plants are being picketed. Several dealers said they made no attempt to make deliveries yesterday in | Newport and Covington, Ky., across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, and which also are affected by the strike | Producers Meet Tonight. | Directors of the Co-operative Pure | Milk Association and the Kentucky-In- | diana-Ohio_Association, both organiza- tions of dairy farmers, were understood |t0 have called a mass meeting for to- night to consider a strike in protest against the union drivers’ action. Deal- RULINGS REFUSED Supreme Court, in Brief Ses- sion, Consents to Take Up Several Others. IPUZZLNG CSES U. S. URGED TO BUY WATERWAY LANDS TO INSURE BENEFITS (Continued From First Page.) 000,000, and that “it is apparent that it is more logical to subsidize the farmers and producers of the West than to ven- ture into a hazardous, untried and ex- perimental joint waterway development of this magnitude.” “In any event,” Ten Eyck said, “be- HODKWORMSFOE RETURNS TOFRAY Disprove Rockefelier Foun- dation’s Report. —(Continued From First Pui engaged in more routine, although fundamental, parasitological researches for the National Institute of Health. These engaged his attention while the hookworm fight passed to younger and stronger hands. But the Government doctor never lost his interest either in the hookworm itself or the children it was killing and he was not altogether comfortable over the turn events were taking. The major battle against ho- k- worm was waged by the Rockefeller Foundation, with whose workers Dr. Stiles had been closely associated. Three years ago came a statement in the annual report of this foundaticn which made the veteran disease fighter see red, because, he says, he knew it was false. The statement was that “hool worm disease” had been conqueres that there was no longer any occasion for worry. Largely because of this statement, he found, vigilance was re- laxed. The school and health boards of the counties in the hookworm coun- try were stopping their preventive and educaticnal work. Southern colleges tarning out young health workers were neglecting to equip them for the hook- worm battle, assured by the Rockefeller Foundation that hookworm was no longer & problem. Falled to Get Answer. Dr. Stiles had been associated with both the Rockefellers—senior and junior—in the days of the great hook- battle. He wrote a personal letter to John D. Rockefeller, jr, calling his attention to the erronous statement and asking that it be corrected. Finally he received a letter from Mr. Rocke- feller's personal secretary, saying the matter had been referred to his technical advisers. Dr. Stiles has been unable to get & retraction or a reply of any kind from the Rockefeller Institu- tion scientists. “Tonight,” he told the Biological Society, “I start on an uncompromising campaign to prove the Rockefeller Foundation wrong. When Mr. Rocke- feller referred this matter to his technical advisers I felt it was fair to start the battle. Nobody has done | more for these Southern eople. 1 know | his generosity. He has very kindly |lowed this to become an issue between ) fore the United States should invest United States money in the canalization of the St. Lawrence River, it should first place itself in & position to be 50 ‘The in- | tons of gold are required to fill Russia’s | pur- | A story is related of a young man | ers were trying to discourage them from this. Fred Keightly, conciliator of the De- partment of Labor, conferred yesterda: with representatives of the drivers’ union, the Milk Exchange and the farm- ers_organizations and expressed hope | for bringing about arbitration. FIREMEN REVIVE FOUR Monoxide Gas Blamed for Condi- tion of Four in Home. Four persons were overcome today by mecnexide gas, apparently escaping from an unvented hot-water heater, and were revived by members of the fire gescue squad and an Emergency Hospital phy- sician | year-old daughter Mary, her sister, Mrs. | F. C. Kelley, and a maid, all of 4502 Thirteenth street. Mrs: Kelley's 11- <ld baby Edith narrowly escaped | collapse, becoming violently ill. A gas company inspector was quoted by police as saying monoxide fumes apparently came from a gas hot-water heater in the basement. they had been told the heater was re- paired yesterday and epparently the vents had become stzpped up, aliowing monoxide to accumulate. Zuloaga to Paint Mellon. LONDON, NovenBer 14 (#).—Friends | of Tgnacio Zuloaga, one of Spain’s fore- most painters, said today that he had been commissioned to do & portrait of United States Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon. He is coming here to stay at the Spanish embassy, they said, and Mr. Mellon will sit for him each day. Should the Ambassador change plans Senor Zuloaga would finish his work in the United States. |Gangs Make B‘i}l To Control Legal Beer Distribution Chicago Hoodlums Re- ported Already Plan- ning to Force Sales. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, November 14—Reports were current today that members of the gang of Al Capone are planning | to attempt to control the legal beer business in Chicago, i{f and when beer is legalized. The Chicago Herald and Examiner options on two breweries, and that they were negotiating for more plants. | ‘The newspaper said its information | was that the gang’s “muscle men” | have been intimidating speakeasy pro- | prietors, forming a bartenders’ union, and warning all concerned that they | must stand by the hoodlums or take | the consequences. | Mayor Anton J. Cermak, at French | Lick, Ind, was quoted as saying he had heard simflar reports and bad in- dicated officials were preparing 1o deal | with the situation. | " Capone is serving a prison term in | the Government Penitentiary at At- |lanta, Ga., as an income tax law vio- lator. SEES END OF RACKETS. Gov. White of Ohio Expects Legal Beer to Shut Off Gang Methods. NEW YORK, November 14 (#).— Gov. George White of Ohio, believes legalization of beer will end racketeering. Here on_a vacation after his re- election, White said in a statement to- day he is convinced the problem of racketeering and the problem of prohi- bition must be approached “in the light of reasoning.” “T believe a change in the prohibition law is inevitable,” he said, “and I am prepared to ask the Ohlo Legislature to repeal, or modify, the State enforce- ment act as soon as a Federal change Jjustifies. |* “I am convinced of one thing. That is the legal manufacture and sale of | beer will end racketeering. Most of the racketeering is in the distribution of beer. That is because of its bulk. The moment we allow beer to be trans- ported for sale, that racket will cease to exist. The same situation does not obtain in bootlegging hard ligquor be- t be transported more earliest advocates of control of the liquor traffic in his State. “I have been convinced from the first,” he said, “that the eighteenth amendment is impractical.” In a brief session today, the Supreme | per cent beneficiary by purchasing all | Court refused to answer several puzzling | 1and east and south of the center line questions of law asked by Circuit Courts of the St. Lawrence River from the Police said | his | sald it had heard that gangsters hold | | of Appeal One concerned a suit from Missouri, where Minnie J. Yount was awarded & | after she charged the | had | The lower court wanted = great additional cost to taxpayers * * * to know whether it had authority to by crediting England with the purchase ‘m(dilv the award given in the Federal | e - ‘gue T e $5.000 verdict Kroger Grocery slandered her. & Baking Co. | District Court for Eastern Missouri. | Bank of Wichita, Kans., to have the MOTORIST IS ARR |Stranger Promises to Get Out of ‘The other case, also originating in the | Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by treaty. Without Extra Cost. “This could readily be done without price on her war debt Of the various reports of the Inter- eastern district of Missouri, was over | national Joint Comissions which in- the conviction of Rocco Catagrone on | vestigated the waterway proposal, Ten charges of violating the prohibition Eyck said: laws. the He appealed. contending that earch warrant was invalid The ' upon many “It appears they have not reported important features that Circuit Court asiked the highest court |should b= known and to which serious about it, but got no answer. Several Cases Taken Up. The court today consented to take up a number of cases for a probable decision. Among them were: The appeal of the United States ask- ing enforcement of Interstate Com- merce .Commission order prescribing rates om : petroleum products from Southwestern points to North Dakota l;ld Northwestern Minnesota destina- tions. A three-judge Federal court in Min- nesota beld that the commission should have heard the plea of the railrcads for a wehearing before issuing the order A suit involving whether capitalized expenditures for drilling costs in con- nection with ofl wells are to be re- turned to the taxpayer through de- pletion or depreciation allowances. The Dakota-Montana Oil and the Pe- troleum ' Exploration Cos. brought the suits originally. The decisions of lower courts differed. Reviewals Are Refused. The court refused to review or recon- sider several cases. The effort of the National Surety Co. to set aside a decision of the Kansas Supreme Court awarding a_judgment against it for approximately $13.000. The award followed the failure of the Industrial Gas Co. to_construct a nat- ural gas line to Topeka, Kans. as re- quired by & bond on which the National Co. was surety. The attempt by the First National court reconsider its recent action de- clining to review the bank's claim for a refund of $79.478 in Federal taxes paid from 1922 to 1927. The bank lost in the lower Federal court. “HONE;’Y:' PLEA FAILS MAN 1,585 DAYS JAILED William Caldwell Gets Additional 860 in Theft of $18 Goods From Store. The plea of “an honest man” arrested for petty larceny was shattered in Po- lice Court today when Judge Isaac R. Hitt discovered the defendant had served 1,585 days in jail in recent years for similar offenses. ‘The man, William Caldwell, 33, col- ored, 400 block of R street, was arrested Saturday for stealing $18 worth of goods | from a downtown department store. “Judge, vour honor.” began Caldwell, “I am an honest man. I didn't ‘mean to take that stuff.” The next 10 minutes of the court’s time was occupied by Assistant United States Attorney Milford Schwartz in reading Caldwell's police record. At the end of that time Judge Hitt ordered a sentence of 360 day: ESTED ON PANHANDLING CHARGE | City if He Can Buy Gasoline. A new type of panhandling was dis- covered in Police Court today when Policeman J. R. Burch, plain clothes officer, told Judge Ralph Given about & man in & large sedan who pulled up to the curb in front of him Saturday and requested “a dime for a cup of coffee. Policeman Burch arrested him on a charge of soliciting alms and told the story when he was arraigned today un- der the name of Albert Seastron, 27, of New York. Judge Given took his personal bond on the condition that he would leave town immediately. “T'll leave,” sald Seastron, “just soon as I arrange for the cash to buy gas for my car.” Blast Kills Two Miners. DURHAM, England, November 14 (#)—Two men were killed today by an explosion in a colliery at Ushaw | Moor near here. It was the second fatal accident of | the kind ir two days. On Saturday 26 men were killed in the Edgefield col- Among them were: | | | Kni consideration should be given He said there has been no mention of maintenance, cost and major repairs, no estimate of the price to be charged for electricity, and no reference “to the hazards of navigating the St. Lawrence which has involved increased insurance rates.” Senator Borah, Republican. of Tdaho, | head of the subcommittee, {nvited wit- nesses fg testify on the treaty which was negotieted under the direction of President Hoover and signed by Secre- tary Stimson and Canadian Minister Herridge on July 18. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the House Committee investigating Government competition with business resumes its study today under the direction. of Representative Shannon, Democrat, Missouri. Election Probe Tomorrow, An_investigation into the Delaware and Eastern Pernsylvania elections by the House Campaign Fund Committee will be launched here tomorrow by Representative Ragon, Democrat, Ark- ansas, chairman, Those invited before Borah's commit- tee include Mr. Ten Eyck, Alfred P. ‘Thom, Washington representative of the Association of Railway Executives, and C. H. Tregenza, representative of the Great Lakes Seaboard Association. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York State power authority, is to be heard later. Stimson to Be Questionad. President-elect Roosevelt's opinion on the treaty is expected by Democratic lerders to be influential in determining whether the present Senate will ratify the pact. The New York Governor op- posed the action of the Federal Gov- | ernment negotiating the treaty without first obtaining the consent of the New York power authority. Senators Wagner of New York, Swan- son of Virginia and Walsh of Montana, all Democratic members of the group, will participate in questioning the wit- nesses. At w later date they expect to have an opportunity to interrogate Secretary of State Stimson and probably Hanford MacNider, former American Minister to Canada, who was credited by President Hoover with expediting the negotiations for the pact. FORMER PRESIDENT OF MEXICO EXPIRES Francisco Lugas Chazaro Served About Four Months During Car- ranza-Villa Fight of 1915, By the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, November 14— Francisco Lagos Chazaro, former provi- sional President of Mexico, died yester- day. He was 70 years old. Senor Lagos Chazaro was named provisional President by & convention on June 10, 1915, to succeed President Garza. He held the presidential post for about four months. Just before his appointment, Presi- dent Wilson had intimated that inter- | vention in Mexico might become neces- sary unless warring revolutionary fac- tions settled their differences. The fight was between the Carranza army and that of Francisco Villa. ALLEGED ROBBER HELD Harry Beverino Said to Have Con- fessed to 26 Thefts. NEW YORK, November 14 (#).—A man said by police to be Harry Sever- ino, wanted by authorities in Chicago to answer an indictment in connection with the killing of a patrolman, was held here today. Severino was arrested. last Saturday night by Detective Frank Murray on a tip that he planned to stage a series of ;obberlu of Broadway stores this week. Murray sald the prisoner confessed to participating in 26 robberies in Chi- cago between November, 1931, and February of this year, but that he de- nied any knowledge of the robbery in which the Chicago patroiman, Martin utson, was killed. Arraigned in Jefferson Market Court, Severino was held without bail on a charge of suspicion of robbery in con- liery at Ashton-in-Makerfield. Today's blast was deep inside the mine, nection with a hold- in which $2,800 was taken last Ap‘:fl. technicians where personalities need | not be considered.” | _In view of the evidence in his hands, | Dr. Stiles said, the statement of the | Rockefeller PFoundation that hook | worm was no longer a problem” con- stitutes one of the most far-reaching | misstatements in the history of science |So he is leaving Washington in a few | days to motor alone through the dpso- late hook-worm country, stopping at ‘lonely country schools in the Southern sand lands and mountains, to test the | children for hook worm. He plans to tate and local authorities ' will be | forced to resume their preventative and curative work in the face of the Rocke- feller Foundation. Attacks Complacency. Now, he says, when he calls on a county superintendent and asks for per- | mission to go into the scheols, he is | looked upon at first as an “old fogie”™ | and assured that for years there has been no hook worm: in that locality. | But permission hardly can be denied a | man of Dr. Stiles' eminence who has done so much for the people in the past.. And. once among the children in the hook-worm countyy, he says, he: almost invariably finds plenty.-of cases of the dreaded parasite, $o the astonish~ ment 6f the complacent local au- thorities, His investigations to date have shown per cent &tmthe children . This, he that about 3| still are hookworm vici , believes, is sufficient to constitute still a major problem instead of “no fur- ther a problem,” 2s the Rockefeller Foundation scientists reported. Dr. Stiles admits the very serious, obvicus cases of hookworm infectiof— the so-called “dirt eaters”—Jargely have disappeared. The present vast number o:ucne: are llesfn::verely infected and often are expla a I - trition.” P ok o “I tried hard,” he said, “to settle this matter without openly challenging the Rockefeller scientists. But there | seems no other way than to come out in the open with it. I have been retired from the Government service for physical disability. I am no longer associated with any organization. I am a free agent at last and I have de- cided to devote a part of my remain- l):lg kye-fl !431 ?ulm:ls[ soxmnhmg for the ookworm _vict . t is purel personal affair.” o Describes Its Ravages. | Dr. Stiles described for the biologists | some of the ravages of hookworm. It is an internal parasite that literally saps the life from its victim. It stunts growth and development so that adult men and women are almost indistin- guishable from children. It robs the brain so that the victims are usually dull in school and sometimes sink to the level of feeble-mindedness. It gets into the lungs, and the victims are likely to die early of tuberculosis. The “white plague” is especially rampant in the hookworm country. Some of the cures are almost miraculous. Once rid of the hookworm, the victims can be restored to normal physical and mental condition in a short time. While the hookworm is in their bodies they are languid, feeble and disinterested in life. With the most intensive effort, Dr. Stiles believes, it will require at least three generations to eliminate the pest. ‘The daily habits of millions of people must be changed by education and sani- tary regulation. If the fight is dropped now because of the false sense of se- | curity due to the Rockefeller statement, the pest will blight the child life of the South for many generations to come, he believes. Traced to Civil War. Among the facts ascertained by Dr. Stiles is that the terrible death rate of the military prisoners in the notori- | ous Andersonville stockade during the Civil War was due largely to hook- worm. If the unfortunate soldiers did not die in the stockade they only re- turned home to die of tuberculosis. There have been other sensational | effects in American history because of | this little worm which develops in the loose soll, enters the body with the well known “dew poison” of children as jts manifest sign, and secures itself with a tooth-like organ which Dr. Stiles compares to the fang of a polsonous serpent. et GOLD STANDARD URGED European Banking Leaders Hold Sound Money Basis of Recovery. BASEL, Switzerland, November 14 (#). —Governors of Europe’s central banks, who met yesterday at the Bank for International Settlements expressed the unanimous opinion that the gold stand- ard is the only basis on which the world economic situation can be financial prob- lems to come up at the world economic conference, which will probably be held next year. Richmonder Dead in China. TSINGTAO, Chins, November 14 (#)—Iva Nelson Blackwell of Rich- c]mnd.&-g;n employe of the Hritish igare! ., died yesterday of spinal meningitis. “