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q WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) and warmer tonight, followed by rain tomorrow; tonight about 42 row afternoon. 53, at 3 pm. am. today. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 degrees; ‘Tem yesterday; lowest, 37, at 7 Full report on page 9. lowest temperature colder_tomor- peratures: Highest, ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 32,340. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, C. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1932—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ny Star. Associated service. FE¥ () Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Circulation, 118,947 TWO CENTS. 1S, HELD WILLING 10 DISCUSS DEBTS AFTER PAYMENTS America to Insist Upon De- cember Installments Before Reopening Question. ROOSEVELT IS EXPECTED HERE EARLY NEXT WEEK Default on Present Obligations Re- garded Preferable to Granting New Moratorium, BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The Government of the United States will agree to an early discussion of the question of debts with every individual nation which may wish to have this question reopened, but will insist that the installments due on December 15 should be paid by the debtor nations, even if conversations for a revision of debts were in progress. This was stated today in well informed diplomatic and congressional quarters. The notes of the governments which have already approached the American Government with the view to beginning negotiations for the reduction of debts will be answered only after President Hoover has had the opportunity of con- sulting his advisers and a number of prominent members of Congress. It is possible that the reply of the President will be delayed until after his conver- sations with Gov. Roosevelt, who is ex- pected to come to Washington probably next Monday or Tuesday. Beigian Note Received. Meanwhile European countries which have spoken to the United States on war depts grew to three today, with seceipt by the State Department of a Belgian note. The text was not divulged immediate- ly at the State Department. Officials indicated it might be similar in tone to the French and British notes, which urged an extension of the moratorium, and suggested a review of the entire subject looking to further slashes in the blllions due America. Meantime, formulation of plans to meet the situation awaited the return of President Hoover to Washington and his conference with Fresiuent-elect Roosevelt. The Chief Executive was d from the West tomorrow. Belgium’s total debt to the United Btates arranged funcing agree- ments was $400, 3 $52,191,273 have Payments _totaling beeni made. The payment due to the United States from Belgium on December 15 is $2,125,000. This sum is interest and t is not postponable under ex- mebt agreements. Each a Separate Problem. Neither President Hoover nor the President-elect nor Congress are in favor ¢f postponing the payment of the December installment. The arguments brought forth by the British and the Prench governments are not sutficiently convincing that such a measure is necessary. The American Government, it is stated, cannot admit any parailel between the Lausanne Conierence, which dealt with the reparations due by Germany to the allied countries, and the debts of the allies to the United Btates. The American Government has al- ways emphatically refused to r the existence of any link between repa- rations and debts. If Germany’s credi- tor nations have found it expedient to permit the postponement of Germany’s payments last Summer this is a matter which concerns the European nations alone, and has nothing to do with the payment of the installments due to the American Government. But, on the other hand, the leaders of both parties do admit that there can be no objection in reviving the entire debt question, by each country present- ing its individual case to the American people. with Congress, will examine each case in particular and will be able to form en opinion as to the merits of the re- quests of the debtor nations. Hinges on Compensation. The point of view regarding reduc- tions or an eventual cancellation is al- most similar in the camps of both litical parties, with the only difference (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) CHICAGO TAKES STEPS TO END TAX STRlKE1 Auction Sales to Start Flow of Payments as Taxpayers Lose on 1930 Assessment. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 15—The auc- tloneer's hammer was poised today to break the Chicago tax strike and start the flow of delinquent taxes into Cook County’s and the city’s depleted coffers. County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki yesterday overruled objections of mem- bers of the Association of Real Es- tate Taxpayers that the 1930 real es- t:te tax was assessed illegally and or- dered 56,300 parcels of real estate valued at about $50,000,000 to be sold to satisfy delinquent taxes. Attorneys for the association were given 45 days to perfect an appeal. At the same time officers of the associa- tion said they would recommend that members pay 35 per cent of their taxes to show good faith. City and county officials said about $8,000,000 likely would be paid in soon as'a result of the order and added that the amount would tide over several de- partments that are practically without The administration, together | Than $7 Daily in E nhandlers obtain amoun that professional hearted Washingtonians—an the coming year. Is that estimate racket”? $1,400,000 estimate. He found that His_article, which The Star presen tion, follows: careful in that they wanted to be sure Dressed as a bum, I wandered the | the Community Chest. to panhandling. The right place and time are as important to the man “on him a good sob story—and if all to make the $7 a day average they more than most of their contributors. are able to make more than I. degenerates into a “mission stiff,” instead of a weil-fed bum. He can’ masters of the art. And, in addition to those who beg the nearest second-hand store). REPORTER FINDS BEGGING | PROFITABLE IN CAPITAL Amateur Panhandler Averages Better ffort to Learn How Much City Gives to Mendicants. Note: Elwood Street of the Community Chest estimated recently at least $1,400,000 a year from kind- t equal to about two-thirds of the sum now asked by the Community Chest fo support its 63 agencies during high? Is panhandling a “depression The Star, to find out, assigned one of its reporters to the job of panhandling jor three days. He picked up something more than $7 a day. Hence, less than 650 beggars in the course of a year could collect the his co-laborers “on the stem” prefer begging to working for a meal, and iaugh up their sleeves at the gul- libility of the kind-hearted men and women who give them something. ts to its readers for their informa- BY TED KELLOGG. There's more money in panhandling than in working for a living. In three days “on the stem”—the three days immediately before Government pay day—I gathered almost $22 from kind-hearted, if gullible, Washingtonians. Besides, I was fed several times by generous, but more careful citizens— heir money went for “somp'n to eat.” streets, as | those individuals who make panhandling a busi- | ness, and, after three days, turned over $21.85 to | In my short experience I learned, from talking to other members of the “profession,” and my own observation, that there is a technique even the right the stem” as are his approach, his “story” and other details. Make More Than Contributions. Those who can least afford it are the heaviest contributors. The Government clerk, whose own overcoat shows threadbare in spots, will “split” his lunch money with the panhandler who tells bums are able are making Of course, some of the professionals probably ‘The man without skill and training soon falls behind and generally ’t hope to compete with the Ted Kellogs. At $7 a day, however, the annual wage for & panhandler working only six days a week would amount to $2,191. money, there are those who go to stores and homes asking for something to eat or for old clothes (which they sell at (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) HOOVER PREPARES FOR DEBT PARLEY President Silent After Receipt of Roosevelt’s Acceptance of Invitation. ROBERT BRODKINGS, ECONOMIST, DIES 82-Year-0ld Founder of In- stitute Formerly Headed Washington University. By the Assoctated Press. ON BOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE-| CIAL EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON, | November 15—President Hoover today | formulated plans for his now-assured war-debt talk with Franklin D. Roose- | velt, but as his train headed into the| final lap of its transcontinental swing| he kept silent as to the policies upon | which he will seek the President-elect’s | co-operation. One of the Chief Executive's aides| said today that unless word of some new development was placed aboard the train he expected Mr. Hoover would have nothing to say publicly on debt matters during the day. He is sched uled to reach Washington at 8:30 am. | tomorrow. Before 9 am. this morning at St.| Louis a delegation of about two score political and personal friends of the President boarded the train and were | received by him in the parlor car of the train during a brief stop. Pleased by Acceptance. Included in the group were Mayor Victor J. Miller, E. B. Clements, Re- publican committeeman from Missouri, and Henry Kiel, defeated Republican candidate for the Senate from Missouri. ‘They reported Mr. Hoover confined his talk to them principally to personal affairs. By coincidence, the presidential party ran into rain when nearing the Missouri city for the first time since leaving there when campaigning to- ward the West Coast and those who came to see the Chief Executive were bundled in coats and carrying um- | brellas. One of Mr. Hoover's secretaries said today that the President was pleased at _Roosevelt’s acceptance of his in- (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED Native Soldier Kills Executive of Spanish Guinea. Robert Somers Brookings, 82, who as | an orphaned youth of 17 went West to begin a career which le ¢him to a po- sition of international eminence as a business man, philanthropist, economist and educator, died shortly before noon today at his home, 2700 Upton street, after an {liness of two weeks. The life of Mr. Brookings, who was | born in Cecil County, Md., divides itself | into three periods—his active business career in St. Louis from 1866 to 1897, his educational activities as president of Washington Urniversity in St. Louls and his war work and subsequent edu- | cational and research activities in the Capital. His only formal educction was received at West Nottingham Academy. Mr. Brookings’ chief possession when | he went to St. Louis as a youth of 17 was a letter of introduction to Samuel | Cupples, head of a woodenware firm | there. Before he was 22 he was a part- ner in the firm and for the next 18 years devoted himself to business in such a manner that he amassed a for- tune. His activities extended to bank- ing, transportation and real estate, as well as manufacturing. He was the founder of the Brookings Institution and the Brookings School of Economics and Government. His honorary degrees included LL. D, A. M., M. D, and others, from such in- | stitutions as Yale, Harvard, University of Missouri and Washington University. | In 1927, when he was 77 years old, he married Isabel Valle January of San Remo, Italy. As president of the university he suceeded in interesting many citizens to contribute funds with which the institution was practically re-founded on & new 160-acre site, with new build- ings and modern equipment. He also reorganized the university’s medical school, and was instrumental in placing it in the front rank of American Medi- cal Colleges. Founded Institution in 1922. Mr. Brookings, who was & trustee of the Carnegie Institution, Washing- MADRID, November. 15 () —The foreign office announced today that | Gustavo Sastoa, Governor of Spanish | Guinea, was assassinated recently by a | native sergeant of Colonial troops while the Governor was _visiting the | He had gone to Annobon for a na- | tive festival and was attending a tribal dance when the sergeant screamed a | curse and fired twice. One bullet hit | the Governor in the face and another | in the chest. The slayer fled into the jungle and has not been caught. ton, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, founded the Brook- ings Institution here in 1922, for re- search into governmental administra- tion and international economics. He conceived the idea for the in- Island of Annobon, near Fernando Po. | stitution as a result of his experience during the World War as chairman | of the Price Pixing Committee, com- | posed of the chairman of the War In- dustries Board, Fuel Administration, Tariffl Commission, Federal Trade Commission and representatives of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) {HIGH OFFICIALS T jInfcrmal Welcome Planned at Union High officialdom and plain citizenry (| will join in tendering President and ! Mrs. Hoover a rousing, informal wel- | come when they return to Washington tomorrow morning. While no organized demonstration funds. —_—— IN HOSPITAL FOR REST Harold Fowler McCormick, Har- vester Head, at Johns Hopkins. BALTIMORE, November 15 (#).— Harold Fowler McCormick, head of the International Harvester Co. and former husband of Edith Rockefeller and later of Ganna Walska, was in Johns Hop- kins Hospital here today, “just to rest up for a few days.” The Chicagoan is under care of Dr. Hugh H. Young and said he “came here alone yesterday from New York” and that “there is nothing wrong.” has been arranged, plans of various groups indicate that a widely repre- sentative gathering of friends and ad- mirers of the President will be on hand at Union Sfation when the presidential train pully’in around 8:30 o'clock. Members of the cabinet, undersecre- taries anid other officials are planning to meet the train—some of them ac- companied by. their wives as a per- sonal tribute to Mrs. Hoover. The of- ficlals will await the presidential party in the presidential reception room, it is understood. It is customary for cabinet members to welcome the President on his return from a long Jjourney, but it is expected the meeting ml:mumg ."n‘v‘gu be mnm senti- ment icance not mani- fest on such occasions, F GREETING PRESIDENT O JOIN CROWDS for Mr. and Mrs. Hoover Station. Members of Republican organizations |in and near the District of Columbia will turn out in large numbers. Edward | P. Colladay, Republican national com- mitteeman for the District, has advised | many inquirers to watch newspapers in |order to keep posted as to the exact |hour the President’s train is due. | Numerous delays already have put the |train far behind its original schedule. |If no further serious delays are en- | countered, the train should arrive here | “between 8:30 and 9 o'clock,” it was |said at the White House today. | Arrangements for a special police de- tall at the station were completed at a | conference today between Msj. E. W. | Brown, chief of police; Inspector L. I |H. Edwards and Capt. W. E. Holmes. Orders were issued assigning units of the Detective Bureau, Traffic Bureau and first precinct to the detail. Presidential Secretaries Joslin and Newton will welcome the President back to the White House, where large stacks of friendly messages await his L Secretary Lawrence Richey is aboard the presidential train. TOMORROW | COMMUNITY CHEST WORKERS ERASE 53 MORE BLACK DAYS Total of $384,819 Contribu- tions Reported at Second Conference. OFFICIALS OF CAMPAIGN ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED Special. Gifts Unit Leads With $125,632, Raised Under C. A. Aspinwall. army of workers in the Commu- nity Chest campaign had provided re- lief for exactly 59 days of the black calendar of poverty and distress for 1933 when the second day of reporting subscriptions was completed at the meeting of workers at the Willard Ho- tel this afternoon. . A total of $384819.48 was reported today, somewhat behind last year's total at this date, but highly encour- aging to campaign officials. Newbold Noyes, campaign chairman, reported this total was reached with 6,318 subscriptions. Trere remain 306 black days, for which the daily quota of $6,629, the amount determined upon for the cam- paign to give Wachington’s unfortunate their caily bread, has not been raised. One Unit Raises $125,632. The largest single amount reported by any group was $125,632.94, raised by the special gifts unit of which Clarence A. Aspinwall is chairman. Added to the $156,947.75 reported yesterday. this group had raised a total of $282,580.69 from 190 subscribers. The Government unit, under leader- ship of Gov. Thomas Campbell, which reported only $2,500.70 yesterday, added $15155.89 for a total of $18,256.59, which represents 1.8 per cent of its quota. Gov. Campbell promised better things of the Government unit in re- ports to be made later in the week. The metropolitan unit of which H. L. Rust, jr, is chairman, added $34- 239.11 to its previously reported $11,.- 819.10 for a total of $46,058.21 from 1737 subscribers. The group solicitation unit, which yesterday reported $19319, teday added $18,604.99, for a total of $37.923.99 from 3.178 subscribers. e group. Companies Contribute. TiHe largest individual was from Miss Mary Adams, who | gave $15,000. The next on the list-was | the Banitary Grocery Co., with a con-| tribution of $10,000. E. G. Yonker,| president of Sanitary Co., | added 8 Eem)n:l contribution of $2,000. | On “he list was a contribution of $5,550 from the American Security & Trust| Co., another for $5200 from Donald Woodward, $5,000 from S. Kann Sons Co.,, $4,000 from Palais Royal, $4,500 from the Acacia Life Insurance Co.; $2,700, B. F. Saul & Co.; $3,000, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Corby; $2,000 from | Charles Evans Hughes, $2,000 from the | A. & P. Stores, $1,600 from the Kiwanis | Club, $1,300 from Joseph P. Tumulty, | $1,500 from Dr. Dan Hazzard, $1,500 from the Washington Railway & Elec- tric Co., and several other contributions above the thousand-dollar class. In connection with the S. Kann & Sons contribution it was noted in a letter to the Chest that $90,000 left to charity by the late Simon Kann will be turned over to the Chest early in the year. This money will be in trust, and the earnings, approximately $4,500 annually, will go to Chest organizations. The principal speaker at today’s meet- ing was Bishop James E. Freeman, who told the workers that their duty in this Community Chest campaign is " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) R. C. A. TRUST SUIT POSTPONED BY COURT Deferred Until Monday Because of Negotiations to Effect a Settlement. By the Associated Press. ‘WILMINGTON, Del,, November 15.— Because negotiations are under way to bring about a settlement, the trial of the Government anti-trust suit against Radio Corporation and others today was postponed until next Monday by the United States District Court for Delaware. In asking Judge John P. Nields to let the case go over, John Lord O'Brian, Assistant United States Attorney Gen- eral, gave no intimation as to the na- ture of the proposals received from the defendants looking to a settlement out of court. Charles F. Curley of Wilmington, local attorney for the defendants, said his clients were agreeable to the postpone- ment. The suit has been pending more than two years. The Government charges that the defendants have con- spired to monopolize through pools and other methods more than 90 per cent (syl the radio industry in the United tates. TWO0 BURNED TO DEATH WHEN PLANE CRASHES! John A. Montgomery, Jr., of Wil- mington, Del., and Pilot Killed. By the Associated Press. DOVER, Del.,, November 15.—John A. Montgomery, jr. president of J. A. Montgomery, Inc., of Wilmington, and James Leslie McAllister, a pilot, were| burned to death today as their plane; crashed in a fleld about a mile south; of here. The accident occurred as Montgom- ery's plane, piloted by McAllister, an employe of the Air Service, Inc., oper- ators of Bellanca Field, near Wilming- . | ton, was attempting to make a landing. Asunthe plkme }lx;; e;he ground, the gasoline tank exp! , showering the debris and the two trapped men. Persons living nearby attempted to drag the men to safety, but were forced back by the heat. Montgomery e 1 identified by State police contents of a half-burned wal i Radio an-ngu Page C-4 | This is 14.4 per cent of this group's| uota. Lloyd B. Wilson is chairman of, judge A. M. Stack in Forsyth County donation | court, be entered in the case charging =) E D » &@‘nfi DE'ND EMOCRATS- I'VECOME To BURY HIM. NOT TO PRAISE Hm! CAN NO! I MORE M“KES RE|Z Ex-Secretary of the Navy Daniels Starts Movement to Substitute the Rooster Donkey as Party Emblem. MAYEE You CAN DO IT JOSEPHUS. | MADE AN AWFUL MESS OF IT LAST WEEK'! for the STATE DROPS CASE OF LIBBY HOLMAN Ab Walker Also Cleared of Murder Charges in Killing Smith Reynolds. By the Assoclated Press. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., November 15.—Murder charges, which have been hanging over the head of Libby Hol- man Reynolds, one-time toast of Broad- way, were dropped today by the State of North Carolina. Solicitor Carlisle Higgins went before Superior Court and asked that a nol pros, subject to the approvsl of the Libby and Ab Walker of Winstan-Salem with slaying young Smith Reynolds, her millionaire husband, last July. Higgins based his request on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Ju Stack concurred and directed that the motion be formerly recorded. Solicitor Higgins' action in dropping | the charges followed the ressed de- sires of young Reynold’s blood rela- tives. W. N. Reynolds, well-known horseman and uncle and co-guardian of Smith, wrote the prosecuting officer & month ago saying the family would be “quite happy” to see the cases dropped. Solicitor’s Statement. Higgins statment follows: “After a careful investigation in this case, in which the defendants are un- der indictment for murder, I am thor- oughly satisfied that we have not suf- | ficient evidence to justify the case going to trial. I am authorized to say that Sheriff Transou Scott and Assist- | ant Solicitor Erle McMichael, both of | whom have made careful investiga- tions, concur in this opinion. “It, therefore, becomes my duty to determine what course the State shall pursue, and likewise any cther question of human judgment. There might be an error of judgment. If I proceed to trial without sufficient testimony any discoveries of additional evidence here- after would be of no avail. “If T pursue the coure I have decided in this case, if there should be addi- ticnal evidence hereafter the State | could proceed to trial. In determining the course that I should pursue I have decided that if I make a mistake it will be the one that leaves a way open for its correction hereafter. Case Can Be Re-opened. “If the defendants are not guilty, the least the State can do now is to stop the prosecution. If they are guilty, then the door should not be closed to a prose- cution should sufficient evidence to jx;aéuy it be available at any time here- after. “It will be recalled that practically all of the evidence, which is now avail- able was presented to the coroner’s jury, which heard the testimony and so far as I know, all of the witnesses who at- tended the party. Likewise the evidence of all persons who were in the house at the time of the killing as well as (Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) - ESTATE OF $2,000,000 LEFT BY ELIE SHEETZ Late Be- queaths Entire Fortune to Only Candy Manufacturer Son, of Lancaster, Pa. An estate estimated in excess of | $2,000,000 is disposed of by the will of Elie Sheetz, dated March 7, 1929, and filed today for probate by Attorneys John Lewis Smith and Alfred L. Ben- nett. No schedule of the component parts of the estate has been filed. Jet D. Sheetz, Lancaster, Pa, the only son of the proprietor of the Martha | Washington Candy Stores, is named as sole beneficiary of the estate. Mr. Shefl in | o er, 8-.2 Mrs. D. house to file the document. Shesiias aise RS CANNED GOODS RATE CUT I C. C. Authorizes Railroads to Reduce Charges. The Interstate Commerce Commis. today authorized transcontinenta iroacs to reduce rates on canned in carloads from California, Ore- ritory SHIVERING OBSERVERS WATCH EARTH MISS CELESTIAL SHOALS Shower of Leonid Meteors Fails to Reward Group at Gcorgetown Universi_ty Observatory. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Blanket-wrapped sentries kept lone- ly vigll on moon-washed hilltops around Washington last night as the earth with its sleeping millions plunged into the edge of treacherous shoals in the celestial sea. cast as the bells 11 the Georgetown midnight and the sickle-shaped con- stellation of Leo pursued by the red plai Mars crept at snail's pace out of the blacknes. below the horizon to start its ma- jestic southeast- Sl the heavens on Father McNally trall of Orion. W Hopes were high that it would be a night long remembered in astrcnomical i story. The planet in its annual journey around the sun was due to enter the ruins of a wrecked comet which circles in a very elongated ellipsoid around the parent star of the sol system—a great belt of rocks probably ranging in size from paving stones to mountains. Every November the earth must pl\m{: itely every 33 years a section is encountered where the sky shoals are especially thick with these 1833. any ‘That | have been able to make. Possibly there twist has been some in celestial me- chanics so they will not appear until (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. It was due again last nigh time during the next two night astronoms its. is the best calculation ers DAVIS' RE-ELECTION MAY BE CONTESTED | Intimidation, Excessive Out- lay and Vote Buying May Be Charged. By the Associated Press. A Senate election contest was pre- dicted today as the House Campaign Funds Committee met to look into com- plaints involving the choosing of Repre- ‘\ sentatives in three States. S. Davis Wilson, Philadelphia attor- ney, told newspaper men that Lawrence Rupp, Democratic senatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, would officially pro- test the count which showed the re- election of Senator Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia lawyer said Rupp had not specifically authorized a con- test as yet, but had wired him to “look out for his interests.” Wilson added that he expected the protest would be filed with the Senate within 30 days and that intimidation of voters, excessive expenditures and vote buying would be charged. Wilson is counsel for a subcommittee of the House Campa! Funds Commit- tee and was in Wi ix;‘fwn attending the opening session which considered plans to inuire into balloting in Dela- ware, Pennsylvania and in the first Tennessee district. Executive Session Held. The committee met in executive ses- slon, but before the doors were clcsed Representative Ragon, Democrat of Arkansas, committee chairman, an- nounced the group would discuss the Pennsylvania situation affecting House members with Wilson and Joseph Sharfsin, Philadelphia attcrney, who was also employed by Representative Black, Democrat, of New York, as counsel for his subcommittee. Four investigators sent into Delaware NEW WATER ROUTE CALLED " WASTEFUL 'St. Lawrence Plan Endan- gers Railway Investments, Hearing Is Told. By the Associated Press. Representatives of railroad interests today re-emphasized before a Senate | subcommittee opposition to the St. Law- rence waterways treaty between the United States and Canada. Fred N. Oliver, general counsel of the Securty Owners’ Assoclation, com- | posed of owners of railroad securities, | sald the project would further endanger | investments in American railroads, “al- ready threatened by adverse condi- | tions.” | A foreign relations subcommittee, headed by Senator Borah, Republican, |of Idaho, began hearings on the St. | Lawrence pact yesterday. Oliver testified after Alfred P. Thom, general counsel of the Railway Execu- tives' Association, who presented the ob- jections of the railroads themselves against the treaty. Added Facilities “Wasteful.” Following arguments used by Thom, Oliver said: “The added facilities pro- posed are wholly unnecessary and even wasteful from a public point of view, and no public good 1 be derived therefrom.” Outlining financial difficulties of the railroad, Oliver said: “The problem now facing the Ameri- can people is whether or not the exist- ing abundance of transportation facili- ties will be able profitably to survive rather than new facilities should be created. fication whatsoever for vast expendi- tures by the Government for the pur- pose of developing competition for our id to alding three competing types of trans- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) NEW RACKETEERI LURES CHICAGO’S PRIZE DOGS, NG PIED PIPER Canines Declared to Fall for I:;resistible Bait and Never Return to Owners. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 15.—Chicago has a new kind of Pied Piper, and he is a racketeer. Everywhere he goes blue-blooded dogs are sure to follow, and that is because he has perfected some kind of dog food that proves irristible. has left a trail do not return. Police believe he sells them at good prices at & kennel which, 0 far, they have been unable to locate. ‘The police say they have evidence that Chicago’s Pled Piper of dogdwm carries food One whiff of the corpus dmlnfln'hlmhhhluto—'m mobile. So far only the finest bred dogs have been reported missing. “It seems to us that there is no justi- | b tence. tic | Capone is seeking, IBRITISH PROPOSAL 10 ASK ABOLITION OF AERIAL WARFARE Reduction to Level Below England’s Present Fleet Is First Step in Plan. POWERS REGARD FRENCH SUGGESTION AS COMPLEX Receives Favorable Reception Otherwise—Agreement on German Equality Issue to Be Sought. BY NEGLEY FARSON. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, November 15.—The British are proposing in Geneva tomorrow the complete abolition of the airplane as a weapon of war. Realizing that they will not get immediate acceptance, the British are suggesting air disarmament In two stages: First, reduction of the world’s air fleets to a level below that now pos- sessed by the British, which is 1,434 war planes. This reduction aims to cecure general equality among the air forces. France has 2,375 planes, the United States 1,752, Japan 1,639, Italy 1,705, and Germany none. Germany is to have no war planes by the British propcsal, as it calls for total abolition. Whether this will be achieved by gradualism or in two further stages is not revealed. The British, of course, are proposing the complete abolition of aerial bombard- ment. The British are also proposing, under Foreign Minister Sir John Simen's re- :!;‘.‘:l statement, that all the nations disarmam: ready, if only on the American side it means the scrapping of blueprints. But the French so-called disarmament Y plan, which is reslly & “security” popped in Geneva yesterday, m: plain that any Prench naval reduction is dependent. upon a Mediterranean pact, a pact that was absolutely re- fused by both Italy and Britain at the London Naval Conference. Naval Controversy Remains. The Pranco-Italian naval squabble, therefore, has not advanced one s over its status in 1930. The British not reduce their fleet until that settled. And what about the American fleet and the Manchurian question? The British are also in vital conflict with the French proposal on the man- ner of air disarmament, the automatic determination of the aggresscr, the use of the British-Navy thereby for blockade under the command of the League of Nations, and on the fact that the French plan makes no reference to the German | demand for arms equality, which both the British and Germans consider the fundamental first point to be settled be- fore the Disarmament Conference can | proceed. If the complicated Prench plan, with | ts hage of reservations, were to be con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) — SPORTSMAN FOUND SLAIN AT HOME IN BALTIMORE ;Xnvestignton Attempt to Link Robbery With Death of William R. Midgely. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 15.—William R. Midgley, 55, suspended trainer of thoroughbreds and owner of a small | racing stable, was found shot to death in his home here today. His wife told police she heard the re- | port of a gun and she ran to the bath room, where her husband had been bathing a short time before, and discov- ered with a bullet through his eart. Just before the report of the shooting reached police, two men were a on charges of robbing him, and inves- ! tigators were attempting to link the loss ‘with his death. He is known to have lost a stop watch, valued at $175. Midgley formerly managed the stable of Dr. J. Fred Adams of Catonsville, Md., and last Summer was at the New York tracks training for C. J. Eisen- hardt of Baltimore. His license was revoked after a race n whicth':orgam an Eisenhardt entry, was sen the post at City in ¥hat i s o be an \unt racing Son- YOUNGQU!ST LEAVES Will Direct Government’s Case Against Capone. Assistant Attorney General C. Aaron Youngquist left today for Atlanta to- direct the Government's case against Al Capone's latest attempt to win free- dom from his 10-year penitentiary sen- habeas to escape his Youngquist, who is Federa stiorbere ot A% unt;lu. will direct the lanta,