Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1932, Page 1

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Entered as second class matter No. 1,444 No. Entered as second class matter C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, P HALF BILLION SLASH INBUDGET PLANNED AT SPECIAL SESSION OF HOOVER CABINET Appropriations to Be Cut‘ $700,000,000, but Increase in Uncontrollable ltems Is Placed at $150,000,000. | | | CONGRESS REDUCTIONS TO BE MADE DIFFICULT President Is Reported to Favor| ofmcers said he has msisted several | Ville, Fla, her home. She had received| p Rigid Attitude on Debts and Opposes New Moratorium as Hostility of Capitol Hill Grows| to Recreating Commission. : With the full co-operation of | the various department heads | President Hoover is preparing a& Budget for thefiscal year beginning | next July which is expected to| show a net saving of 3550,000,000} compared with the appropriations | for the present year. ‘ To make this possible, and to| Insure the necessary co-operation | the President summoned his cab-! inet to an extraordinary cabinet | session at the White House yes- | terday. For nearly two hours the President went over the budget subject with his cabinet associ- ates, and it was learned after- wards that he is not only de- termined to present a balanced budget when Congress meets next month, but is hopeful that this will be accomplished. White House Issues Statement. ‘Regarding this special cabinet discus- Bion of the budge: the White House Jater in the day issued this formal Statement: “At the meeting of the cabinet this morning, the budget situation was re- | raised against international trade. This | editorials voiced a widespread expecta- viewed and the reductions in appro- pristions for the fiscal year, beginning wuly 1 next, were settled at abouv $700,- | 000,000. This will, however, be offset by certain increases in uncontrollable | items, such as interest and amortization | on the public debt and tax refunds to | ghe extent of about $150,000,000. “The increase in fixed charges is ROBINS DISCLAIMS WIFE GREETING HIM IN HOSPITAL “I Don’t Know the Lady,” He Says—Dry Leader Built Mountain Altar, Says U. S. Officer. By the Associated Press. | disappearance was attributed by rela- ASHEVILLE, N. C., November 19.— | tives, Col. Robins was placed in Nor- Col. Raymond Robins, militant dry |burn Hospital under a physician's care leader and social worker, saw his wife | immediately upon his arrival here this in a hospital where he is receiving | morning. medical treatment late today for the A crude wooden altar surmounted by first time since his mysterious disap- |a cross was built by Col. Robins in the pearance September 3, but he turned | mountains near Whittter, a Federal e 3 “1 | officer said tonight away from her With the statement, "1 | " Resients of Whittter, the officer sald, | reported that Robins frequently visited Mrs. Robins saw her husband alone, the altar and said they did not intrude but he showed no sign of recognition, | Upon him while he was there, pre- she sald, adding that his mind appeared | SUTaPIY worshiping. to be “blank” Wife Confirms Identity. so far as she was) roameal | Mrs. Robins arrived by automobile . . | during_ th artan- The patient has firmly denied since | burg. s, C, :vf}:gigcgr?e g?:“a Sl?airnagn his identification that he is Col. Robins. | which she had traveled—from Brcoks- word there last night that her husband had been located in the mountain vil- lage of Whittier, 60 miles from here, partial loss of m to which his | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HULL ASKS TRADE | BRITISH LOSE HOPE BARRIER REMOVAL OF DEBT REVISION Time Here for “Economic Dis- armament,” Tennessee Senator Declares. times his name is “Rogers.” Still apparently suffering from & Uniikelihood of Moratorium Extension Is Indicated in Newspapers. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The time has come for ‘“economic | By the Associated Press. ¢LONDON, November 19.—Traversing disarmament,” as well as military, if | the present ills of the United States and those of foreig nations are to be cured, Senator Cordell Hull of Tennes- | see, widely recognized as an authority §on tariffs, tax legislation and interna- | tional trade, said in a statement issued last night. | Senator Hull, who may be expected to | play an important part in the framing | of the economic program of the coming iDsmo:mflc administration, wants the | United States to take the lead in a | movement to break down the barriers | trade, he points out, has shrunk from $55,000,000,000 annually to something | like $12,000,000,000. An appalling shrinkage, carrying in its wake dis- aster and ruin, financial collapse and vast unemployment and poverty. To the Tennesse> Senator the inter- i he long road which leads from hope to disappcintment in one short week, lead- ing British newspapers tomorrow will carry Washington and New York dis- patches in which their correspondents indicate Congress is unlikely to extend | the moratorium on war debts and that | public sentiment in the United States | demands their collection on the due date, December 15. A week ago these same papers were ! filled with optimistic predictions ccn- cerning the effect of the British note to. Washington concerning the $95.- | 550,000 debt due from this country and tion that a prolongation of the mora- | torium wculd be granted and a revision | of the debt schedules be inaugurated. Tip by Hoover Reported. A front-page article tomorrow in the Sunday Express, by its diplomatic co: respondent, will say: “Let us melt down our irinkets, our sovereigns snd our due to tHe Government invest- | Sovernmental deots problem is, after all, | Wedding rings and ship them across to PROPOSAL OF G.0.P. SENATORS RAISES Suggest Giving Democrats Control During Short Session of Congress. INDEPENDENTS READY TO BOW TO VOTERS’ WILL Desire to Carry Out Spirit of “Lame Duck” Amendment Is Real Object of Move. | | By the Associated Press. | Discussion by Republican independent | Senators of a move to turn control of ILhe Senate over to the Democrats im- Imediat&‘ly gave added hope yesterday to those who want the coming short session of Congress to change the pro- hibition laws. in power at the short session, without waiting for the new Congress to come in, was seriously considered by a group of Western Republicans, including some who supported Franklin D. Roose- velt, the Democratic prestdential nomi- nee, and others who did not. Such a move would place the Demo- crats, with their platform calling for ! immediate submission of a repeal | amendment and modification of the Volstead act, in charge of the organiza- tion on both sides of Capitol Hill. Overshadows Other Issues. Even before discussion of this pro- posal was revealed yesterday, however, the possibility of a change in the pro- hibition Jaws at this session had over- shadowed other issues in statements from members gathering for the open- ing of Congress. Wet and dry leaders were watohing these pronouncements closely for a Jine {on what effect the recent electfons { would have on the hold-over Congress in connection with the prohibltion question. Many of the returning members, in- cluding some who have been support- lers of the dry laws in the past, have| | predicted or advocated efther legalizing | crushed Harvard 19 to 0 in their fifty- | beer or submitting a repeal resolution | gret war, at_the short session. ‘The prediction that nothing will be done has come from one man_only, though many of the former dry leaders have not yet returned to have their say. Prohibition, however, was not behind the move discussed by the independ- ents. Rather, it was the desire to carry out the spirit of the “lame-duck” | amendment now awaiting ratification | [EGAL BEEROPES The proposal to put the Democrats | 1 ‘RT ENCE. YALE VANQUISHES 40,000 Spectators Brave Driving Rain to See Vic- tory in Mud. * BY GRANTLAND RICE. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 19.— Through the sweep of a driving rain that slashed and soaked 40,000 bedrag- gled spectators all afternoon, Yale The sweeping rain, careening along in slanting aisles of misery, turned | the battlefield into a quagire. It also | Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, | turned 40,000 amazed spectators into ! lumpy huddles of soaked fur and liquid | suffering, outside as well as in. Yale, defying the slippery mud un- derneath and the rain overhead, ripped e O n defense into shreds with HARVARD, 19100 Two State Jobs Overlooked in Election Bustle By the Associated Pres CARSON CITY, Nev.. Novem- ber 19.—In the excitement cf pre- paring for the November 8 elec- tion Nevada overlooked two places cn the State Board of Education. “Somebody forgot to do some- thing or other until it was too late to get the names on the bal- lot,” F. M. Fletcher, president of the board, said today. He expressed the opinicn the Legislature could authorize the Governor to fill the vacancies by appointment. POLCEMAN ADWTS H CARHT oA W. T. Schlosser Say.{He Was Dazed Aiter assachu- TOKIO O REFUSE IANCAURARETUR ‘Lytton Commyssion Proposal of Restored Sovereignty Opposed in Reply. | | By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 19.—Japan's reply to tye Lytton Commission’s report on the Manchurian problem, which is to Ke made public Monday in Geneva, | cmphatically rejects the commission’s proposal that Chinese sovereignty be restored in Manchuria with a provision for some form of international co- cperation for the solution of the entire Far Eastern question. From an official source it was learned !today thet Japan considers this pro- posal incompatible with the independ- | ence of the State of Manchukuo, which CHEST GIFTS SHORT $1.20223 N FINAL DRIVE OF CAMPAIGN Workers Determined to Reaf Goal by Wednesday 8 Churches Aid Toda/ {178 DAYS IN 1933 IEFT WITHOUT RELEZF FUNDS Noyes, Graham ant Tumulty Em- phasize Dire Need—Honor Bannés Awarded. “Forgive W not our trespass, Lord, if these shoulv ask in vain.” These wrds, the last lines of a poem read to wmpaign workers at yesterday's Commmiity Chest meeting, sent the armyJT 5,000 campaigners out over the weeb end with a grim determination to tust on harder the faltering flow of finds that is coming into the coffers of the Chest. Lagging more than $450,000 behind the pace expected at the outset of the campaign, workers were being asked today to quicken their drive .to the highest possible pitch, to make this second Community Chest Sunday a day of labor*for the distressed of the city. Not Haif Way to Goal. With three-fifths of campaign over, and Chest officiais determined n to extend the time of the campaigf, there was slightly less than half of the money needed to gi he unfortunates of the city thair daily bread at the rate of $6,629 for every day of 1933. There remained on the black calendar just 178 days cf the coming year for which, as yet, there has not been pro- vided by Washington even a crumb of bread or a sip of milk for the appealing little figure of the Commun'ty Chest poster, like whom there are hundreds in Washington askin| “Give us this day our daily bread.” ‘The gifts that are coming in, it is noted in an analysis by the Chest, show that thoze who are giving, in the main, ere increasing their contributi cpite straitened cirsumstances. 21 ¢ $1,179,564, or nearly asked for this year, subscribed by 50,062 the Chest total was approzimately 120,000 givers. Last y $2,419,787 from givers. Mary Realize Dire Ncod. 213 pointed cut, in- 2 e vo £r: giving are realizing the gsiual nced for this year if there 15 t5 be no ctarvation and if poverty and disiress are to be minimizad. It alss indi This, dicates ! tes, it was pointed out, was established with the assistance of | that ther: sre largs numbers of peo- ts in the Reconstruction Corpora- | MiNor matters as compared 1o the need | the United States.” He will say the |2V the States. a fast, versatile aitack led by Lassiter, | | the- Tokio government to rule ever|Ie In Washizgton o whom the dire o, the land banks, and elsewhere, of | {0 Teleasing international trade. pver $1,000,000,000, which will ulti- ‘ately return to the Treasury. | ! *“The administration is determined to fresent a balanced budget. . “The detailed figures of the budget ‘@re never given out until the President’s ‘budget message is communicated to the origress.” - .\ At this special cabinet meeting, the * first of its kind Mr. Hoover has called ce becoming President, the President at his elbow Col. J. Clawson Roop, director of the budget. Mr. Hoover minced no words in making it plain that when he presents ihe next budget to Congress when it meets again in December he wants the total estimated cost of running the country for the next fiscal year considerably below the $4,- 135,000,000 provided for in the budget submitted last December. British government was given a_“tip” | from America_that President Hoover Simu'taneous Action Desired. He insisted that the withdrawal of | trade rescrictions by this and other na- | tions simultaneously, so as to make it | pessible for the workers and farmers in | every land to move their surpluses, is ihe answer to the problem. “This and otner countries,” said Sen- ator Hull, “unless they would run the Tisk or Iurther unceriain and unsound business conditions, must, without fur- ther suicidal delay, choose between moderate tariffs ana liberal trade poli cles, which would contemplate full em: ployment of labor with tne nighest liv- ng standards and the restoration of agriculture, or they must choose the present poliey of virfual embargo tariff and trage obstructions, with output of production limited to domestic con- sumption, and with pools, valorization, “Will Slash to Bone.” Secretary of the Treasury Mills, who acted as spokesman for the President the meeting was over, said that the new budget would show a con- siderable reduction. He added: “We will submit budget estimates “(Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) pegging of prices, subsidies, bounties and subventions daily clamored for at portant groups and industries.” tion are living,” he said, “below the poverty line.” Asks Freer Trade. Senator Huil is not clamoring for “free trade” but for freer trade. He was for a long period a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and CITY JOBLESS UNITS since entering the Senate has become | ber of the Senate Finance Com- In 1913 he was the author of ome tax law and in 1916 when v was revised. He also wrote the Federal estate tax law in the latter jear. ¥ The Tennessee Senator has kept in e touch with the preliminary steps ¢ taken in Geneva for the projected rnaticnal monetary and economic conference. America’s representatives on the steering or organizing commit- tee for the conference are Ambassador ket and Norman Davis. The United States will participate in this confer- . but it has been forcefully inti- mated that the United States will not agree to confer regarding the inter- overnmental debts or tariff rates. Sen- ator Hull does not believe in shackling the conference if there is to be any good come of it 0 date has yet been set for the economic _conference. Ramsay Mac- Donald, the British prime minister, is (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) SLAYING AROUSES TOWN Tension Is Heightened in Mexican Community on Eve of Vote. LAREDO. Tex., November 19 (@).— iderable tension existed in Nuevo Mexico, on the eve of tomcr- e as a result of the slay- rdo ‘Escarcega, newspaper Chicago Delegates Warned Against Allowing Agencies to Place Emphasis on Self-Help. By the Associated P CHICAGO, November 19.—Represen- tatives of unemployed organization from a score of cities in nine Midwe began mapping out at Chicago’s a program of le sures for the needy. ¢alled primarily clearing bureau de for a gene ng relief. for ideas and plans for ank Wail NS League shed delegates ployed _organizati g nto charitable iations with self belp as their first purpose.” “If the unemployed are to their own_pro " he should confine their charitable activities carrying out and private should in no cases their members in than prevailing r by Wall. Representatives of the Detroit Un ployed Council told of 1pts cbtain land, to facto the suppor to enable jobless to themselves. Leaders of the co: they planned to draw up mum demands” of the the Midwest. list party is sponsoring the 1 t> designate an official candi- ate for mayor of the City Candidates are Dr. Enrique Conzales Trevino and Paul Resendez. nounced a list of “mil unemployed VANCEVSV "l;O KEEP KERENSKY U.S. AD State Department Discloses Efforts to Stabilize Currency and Continue Trade With Soviets. By the Associated Press (on the books of the United States How the United States advanced| Treasury as & charge against a Rus- hundreds of millions of dollars in try- | sian government which no longer exists| the seat of Government by most im- “Three-fourths of the world’s popula- | al d other disturbances in the| | would support its application for rel:cm-l sideration of the debts, but that Mr. | Hoover now has had to reconsider his | plans, The newspaper will comment that an | | emergency budget seems inevitable for | | Britain and that, if America insists | | upon December payments, the Lausanne | Conference is likely to be reconvened. The Lausanne Conference agreed to a reduction in reparations due the Some Democrats Oppose Plan. ‘The chief purpcse of this proposed constitutional change is to give imme- diate expression to the will of the elec- as under the present system. Those talking now of giving the Democrats immediate control of the Senate con- tended their move would carry out the will of the voters as expressed No- vember 8. . Some of the Democratic leaders were | allies from Germany, but the plan de- pended on stmilar action being taken | In regara to the debts due the United States | | The New York correspondent of the | | Observer will revive the “Uncle Sh | lock” expression in his Sunday article, | explaining thet France hopes to win, with a revived wine trade in the United States, as much from “sad old Unrlei Shylock” as she would have paid in mesting the debts. Snowden Repeats Charge. Viscount Snowden, who resigned as| lord privy seal in the MacDonald cabi- | net several weeks 2go, will reiterate, in | a published article, a contention often heard here that “for 15 months these | sums were A a's contribution to | the war and meanwhile the allies were | | spending their money and doing the | | Aghting.” \ Another commentator that unless debt payments are post- | poned, Britons ca: i look forward to| a decrease in the income tax rate next | year. | Most papers link the pound sterling's | erratic movement during the week with | the debts discussion and indicate a| | further fall is probable if the debt in- | stallment is paid from dollars in the | equalization fund, leaving the fund too small for ster.ing stabilization pur- | poses. TWO GIVEN LIFE TERMS IN SLAYING OF RANCHER Third Cfll\:lc[i!‘ll Oklahoma Murder—Youth Is Acquitted in Indian’s Death. will remark | | in i B the Associated Press | TISHOMINGO, Okla., November 19.— | | Roy Denmark "and Ralph Kirkland, | charged jointly with Wilbur Spears of | murder in the slaying of Jim Woods, | wealthy Indian Johnston County ranch- er, were convicted by a District Court jury here late today and sentenced tol life imprisonment. Spears, 19 years old, | s acquitted. It was the third conviction in the slaying. Walter Brannon received a life sentence early this week after a | jury convicted him Wocds was kilied last Spring when a group of men called him from his home at night and shot h'm to death, pre- sumably, officers said, because he re- fused to deliver to them some nego- tiable bond GARNER'S PECANS WIN op on His Farm Takes First Prize at Fair. RISING STAR, Tex., November 19 #P).—Stuart pecans exhibited by John N. Garner, Vice President-elect, won first place at the West Texas Pecan Fair here today. They were grown on | his farm near Uvalde. Cr Sunk;n Gold Aids Italians. ROME, November 19 (#).—Capt. | Quaklia of the salvage vessel Artiglio, which took more than $600,000 in gold out of the sunken steamer Egypt, to- ing to bolster Kerensky's government | and _keep Russia in the World War was told yesterday in official dispatches puslished by the State Department. More than $300,000,000 still stands —a charge which may figure promi-|day presented 1,000 gold sovereigns of not anxious to assume res onsibilit; for conduct of the Senate up n nder such { conditions without an actual working ! the | majority of Democratic votes and they | rain, Harvard broke wide apart. planned to discourage the proposal. Republican leaders were going for- | ward with plans for the session on the | assumption they would retain c Discussing suggestions for turni; Senate over to the Democrats, McNary, — assist said: “I assume the Republican organiza- tion of the Senate will not resign its responsibility to the party and the country &nd that it will go forward with the program of rehabilitation in har- mony with the Democratic House as far as it can. I expect no move of that nature.” ng the Senator Back Pariy Platform. Virtually all of the Democratic Sen- ators who have returned to Washing- ton have declared their support of the “(Continued on Page 5, Column 3. ~ TODAY'S STAR PART ONE—20 PAGES. General News—Local, National Fnrelgn, Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. { PART TWO—$ PAGES. | Editorials and Editorial Features. | News of the Clubs—Page 4. D!SLMC[ National Guard—Page 4. Disabled American Veterans—Page 5. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Soclety. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. | Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music. Distri and ct of Columbia Naval Reserve— 'age 4. In the Motor World—Page 4. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 4. + | Army News—Page 4. : Marire Corps News—Page 4. Aviation Activities—Page 4. Fraternities—Page 5. Gold Star Mothers—Page 5. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 5. Radio News—Pages 6 and 1. American War Mothers—Page 7. American Legion—Page 7. | Spanish War Veterans—Page 8 . { Organized Reserves—Page 8. Y. M. C. A. News—Page 8. PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports Section. | PART SIX—14 PAGES. | Pinancial and Classified Advertising. | Serial Story, “A Path to Paradise’— Page 13. D. A. R. Activities—Page 13. W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 13. | At Community Centers—Page 13. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 13. American Legion Auxiliary—Page 13. PART SEVEN—16 PAGES. | Magazine Section. | Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 13. Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 14. High Lights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. GRAPHIC SECTION—6 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. nently in any negotiations which might be conducted looking to recognition of Soviet Russia. The documents published by the Column 4) " (Continued on Page 2, that money to the secretary of the Fascist party for use in relief work among Italy’s needy. The secretary commended him “for reflecting honor upon Italy.” . Holly of Hollywood; Keeping Up With the Joneses, The Timid Soul; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Tarzan; Lit- tle Orphan Annie; Moon Mullins; .Mutt and Jefl. ~ Crowley, Levering and Parker, who were t etts Avepde Fatality. four poisoned thorns in John Harvard’s | flesh. Lassiter, especially with his run- ning and passing, might have been working witn a dry ball on a sun-baked torate, insfead of waiting four months|field. But the Carolina star was ably | that he wg | supported by a stout cast where two (brll]lflnt pass catches by Dud Parker | and O'Connell started toe first Harvard | retreat. | “Through the first two periods Har- vard, though trailing 7 to 0, put up a | terrific fight, with Jack Crickard run- | ning amuck more than once. But the game moved deeper and deeper i blacker shadows and the he er ere | were times when the Harvard baéks, in trying to handle the ball, lookéd as if they were grappling with a sed pig | coated ball slithered and +6lipped from | their grips as alert stags in blue fell tant Republican leader, | upon it and took full possession of the | | New Haven swamp. | Ball Source of Comedy. This slippery, skidding ball, with its | eel-like actions, was the one source of a comedy to a crowd that teok far more | punishment. than any of the players. | This crowd took a terrible beating from | late Autumn skies that opened up one | deluge after another. But there was |dittle comedy left for wearers of bedrag- | gled crimson feathers as they saw Yale | pile up 19 points and threaten to score a great many more. It was the Yale attack that got the jump. After some eight minutes of play Bob Lassiter shot a long forward down ine line, and Dud Parker, run- ning at top speed, pulled the wet ball out of Harvard upstretched hands_for one of the big plays of the day. Tris Speaker never made a finer catch This remarkable exhibition of passing and receiving with a wet ball drove Harvard back to her own 18-yard line as the Yale contingent forgot all about the punishing storm. Plunges by big Crowley kept driving Harvard back, and then Levering slipped through for the first touchdown. It was in the second period that Harvard made her big stand of the day. It was Jack Crickard who started the trouble by taking Parker's kick on the dead run to gallop back to Yale’s 17- vard line in a magnificent counter charge. Harvard now had forgotten the rain as Crickard drove three blows at the Blue line to make a first down on Yale's 5-yard line. But this was Har- ~ (Continued on Page 8, Column 1.) PLAN TO DENOUNCE 1923 PEACE PACTS Five Central American Nations to Open Negotiations to End Treaties Jointly. By the Associated Press. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, November 19. —The minister of foreign relations left | for Guatemala today to o tions for joint action by five Central American republics to under which they agreed not to recog- nize any government coming into power by revolution. The Central American _treaties were signed February 7 in_Washington by Guatemala. Salvador, Honcuras, Nica- ragua and Costa Rica. They were the cutgrowth of a conference called at the invitation of President Harding. $5 Notes Forged Abroad. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, November 19 (#)—Four persons were arrested to- day when police raiced a secret print- ing shop where they said American $9 notes of a “Lincoln” series were being forged. A quantity of fake notes were confiscated and described as perfect by experts of the Czech National Bank. pen negotia- | denounce the | Central American peace treaties of 1923, | ! Policeman William Thomas Schlosser, ninth precjfict, admitted la: night the hit-and-run driver who . Matilca King, 60-year-old 0 was found dead in the 2900 f Massachusetts avenue Friday struck cook. | block night! hlosser. who drove the ninth pre- ct patrel for approximately five years vithout an accident, was arrested after he telephoned Lieut. D. J. Cullinane, acting commander of the precinct, and admitted responsibility for Mrs. King's death. The telephone call was made, accord- ing to Lieut. Cullinane, shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afterncon, n ontrol. | or ‘an eel ‘dipped in ofl. #The mud- | noyr after Schlosser had completed his eight-hour trick of duty. Taken to Heagquarters. Licut. Cullinane went to Schiosser's | home, 1231 Staples street northeast, | where the officer made a detailed state- ment regarding the accident. He said he had decided to make the confession, accordin ; to Lieut. Cullinane, because “my conscience hurt me so much I wasn't able to think of anything else all day.” After suspending Schlosser, Lieut. Culinzne notified Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, Who ordered the policeman placed under ar- rest immediately. Detective Sergt. Wal- ter S. Beck went to Schlosser's home and tock him to headquarters, Where he was questioned extensively before being booked for investigation Schlosser, on the advice of his attor- ney, James A. O'Shea. declined to sign a written confession, but made a brief oral statement, in which he said his mother, Mrs. Margaret Schloscer, and a sister, Mrs. Grace Adams, were With him when his automobile struck Mrs. King. Dazed After Accident. He said Mrs. King suddenly ap- peared in front of his car, near the middle of the rain-drenthed ‘street, and " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) WINTER WEATHER DUE TO STRIKE D. C. TODAY iThermcmeter Is Scheduled Touch 28 for New Low for Season. to Washington was confronted with the prospect of its first real spell of wintry weather today with the thermometer scheduled to drop to 28 degrees—pos- | =ibly to 26—for a new low mark for the | season, according to Weather Bureau | predictions. The Capital probably will escape snowfall for the time being, however, the skies being due to clear with the drop in temperature. The mercury, ac- cording to the forecast, will remain in the vicinity of the freezing point for a few days, although there is*a possibility of warmer weather the first part of the week., ‘The American Automobile Associa- ticn has broadcast a warning to motor- ists to prepare their cars against frozen radiators. Due to the heavy rains of the past few days, the waters of the Northwest | Branch of the Anacostia River in Prince Georges County have risen until at 10 o'clock last night they covered the Defense Highway just east of Peace Cross to a depth of about four inches. Houses on the east side of the Balti- more Boulevard at Bladensburg were surrounded by water, as is usual after very heavy rains. It may become necessary. it was said, e Toat ‘of overnead. pridge st Hyats: over] a ville, utmghmm Edmonston and back to the ense Highway over the Edmonston road. | Manchuria. Japan stands immovable | cn the poliey of Manchukuo's independ- ence, it was said. The Tokio government. will' remind the council of the League of Nations, which is to consider the report of the | Lytton Commission—a League investi- gating body—at its session next week, that Manchukuo is not the first state | scparated from -its parent nation and accorded independence through the action of another power. “I cannot affirm,” said an official spokesman, “the* assertions in vernacu- lar newspapers that our reply to the | Lytton report will cite Panama and | | Estonia_in this connection, but cer-| tainly Panama is one of the incidents we had in mind. I can assure you, however, this portion of the document | is in nowise construable as dercgatory | to the United States.” } The Japanese answer, entitled “Ob- | servations,” makes a 76-page pamphlet in its English form. DAVIS MEETS TOKIO ENVOY. Manchurian Problem Discussed by American at Geneva. | GENEVA, November 19 (4).—Norman | H. Davis, American delegate to the | World Disarmament Conference, had a | long discussion of the Manchurian | problem today with Vosuke Matsuoka, special Japanese envoy, who will repre- | sent his government when the Far| Eastern question is taken up next week | by the Council of the League of Na-| tions. Mr. Matsuoka called on the American delegate. Mr. Davis also had a discus- sion with Frederic M. Sackett, Ameri- can Ambassader to Germany, who stopped off here on his way to Berlin. Their conversation concerned the im- pending World Economic Conference. Mr. Sackett is a member of the com- mittee arranging the program for that | | parley. President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State, who will preside over the League Council session, arrived in Geneva today, as did numerous other Council members. The present Council schedule calls for consideration first of lesser matters, with discussion of the Lytton report on the Manchurian question beginning prcbably on Wednesda; |FLOODS TAKE HEAVY TOLL Six Reported Dead in Bogata—50 | Houses Destroyed. | BOGOTA, Colombia, November 19 (#)—Six persons were reported Kkilled or drowned and more than a score in- jured t:day when floods followed a ter- rific rainfall and hailstorm. More than 50 houses in Bogota were | destroyed and hundreds of persons were homeless. | It was feared more deaths would be| revealed in excavations of ruins. Traf- fic was paralyzed in the city for moré than an hcur and police were unable to answer calls for asistance. Three | children were among the persons re- | ported to have lost their lives. | | | need which Washingtcn faces this year has not been brcugh! hcme sufficiently. Speaking to the workers as | started out on their week end of solicit- ting, Campaign Chairmen Newbold | Noyes said: “Don’t let discouragement get into | your hearts. We are turning into the | home stretch and the man or wcman who slows down in the home stretch | is a quitter. I know there are no quit- ters =mong you. But you must not only not slow down. You must put on a fina]_ut;u\;jl: cf energy and win this | race wil e grim specter of pove and despair.” o g Churches Asked to Aid. All churches in Washington hav been asked to again cbsel’g\'e "Ccms munity Chest Sunday” today. In a letter to the pastors of all churches, E. C. Graham, president of the Chest, asked permission for speakers from the Chest’s Speaker’s Unit to ad- dress their congregations again today on the needs of the Chest this year. It his letter Mr. Graham stressed the fact that the Chest faces the clos- ing of its campaign half a million dol- lars short of its goal unless the people of the Capital awake to the emergency that is upon them and provide the Chest with funds to carry on its work. He asked that pastors emphasize the need for contributions from housewives and children, under the “cenis-a-day” plan. Joseph P. Tumulty, who was secre- to President Wilson, made (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) LOYAL HONDl.J AN TROOPS |RETAKE SANTA BARBARA Rebels Retreat From City Without Fighting—Federal Commander of Town Is Slain. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Novem- ber 19.—Loyal troops operating under Gen. Manuel Trejo have recaptured the city of Santa Barbara from the rebels, it was officially reported today. The city was taken yesterday after- ncon without any fighting, ths govern- ment reported, and the rebels, consist- ing of Liberals defeated in the recent presidential election, retreated toward Gracuas. Gen. Eduardo Rosales was nearin Santa Barbara with his column of loyal troops when the town was taken by Gen. Trejo, who arrived there just a shert time ahead of him. Another official report was that a rebel group had occupied Danli, which the local commandant, Gen. Alejandro Plata, with a few loyal troops, evacu- ated as the rebels approached. Other rebel groups entered the small towns of Cantarranas and Villa San Franc#®:>, and there was some looting. ‘When_the rebels took the town of Santa Barbara, now again in loyal hangs, they killed the local loyal com= mander, Gen. Pedro Cortez. It was reported that wherever rebels took a town they burned reccrds and documents of the courts. Outbreak of By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, November 19.—Two hun- dred business men are geing to buckle on guns and patrol the streets as aides to Atlanta in a civic drive to stop bendits who shoot citizens and rob cffices within the shadow ef police headquarters. j |ATLANTA MERCHANTS AID POLICE IN CRUSADE AGAINST BANDITS |200 Business Men Are Armed for Drive to Curb Hold-Ups.