Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1932, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. ‘Weather Bureau Porecast.) and cdider tonight and tomorrow; tonight. Temperatures—Highest, n;fir today; lowest, 37, ¢ 5 a.m. report on page B-5. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 Entered as seto! post office, Was No. 32.346. nd class matte: shington, D. C. ch ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNI WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOV NG EDITION EMBER ¢ Foening Star. 21, 1932—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. Sunday's FRB ns Associated Saturday’s Circulation, 115208 Circulation, 127,789 TWO CENTS. Press. CONDITIONS MADE | ASHITLER IS ASKED T0 FORM GABINET Support of Aimost a Majority of Reichstag Demanded by Hindenburg. REPLY PROMISED TODAY BY LEADER OF NAZIS Close Associate Predicts Concilia- tory Answer, Leaving Open Doors to Negotiations. By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, November 21.—Adclf Hitler, | who has been campaigning nine years | to head the German government, final- 1y received a mandate to form a cabinet today. But President Von Hindenburg at- Sached to the request certain political #onditions which some observers thought Would make Hitler's acceptance im- probable. The President insisted that the Hitler cabinet be backed by “a majority or al- most a majority” of the Reichstag. Hitler retired to confer with his ad- visers, promising to answer before the end of the day. One of his closest associates said this afterncon that “it is obviously impos- sible for Hitler, who has spent his whole political life in a bitter fight against parliamentary haggling to try to resurrect a system which already is dead. It is most likely that he will teil the President that he is still ready to head an authoritary cabinet, but his reply will be 8o conciliatory as to leave open all doors to negotiations. Interview Is Short. The interview between the President and the Nazi leader this morning lasted only 15 minutes and afterward there was the bare announcement that Hitler had received the conditional mandate, as leader of the strongest party in the Reichstag. Subsequently Hitler issued a state- ment that he must consider all the con- ditions_before replying. - It developed then that there were other strings in addition to that stipulating support by Reichstag. 'mOne of them, it w:hsg un}g:]rsmod.b;:s stipulation that er cabinet :m.st,pnot interfere with the federal commission government of Prussia. This and other conditions, observers thought, will make it impossible for Hitler to negotiate. 1t was pointed out the pivotal parties—the Nationalists, the Centrists | and the Bavarians—are possibly willing to have the Nasis govern but unwilling to bave the Na: dominate the situation. Communigue Issued. A government communique said Hitler would notify the President of his course immediately, and edded: “Herr I;m!err vlvusd oogx‘mlt;s:oxfir !.x: the capacity of leader Tges! perty in the Reichstag after he had declared most . emphatically to the president of the Reich that his party could co-opefilw only in a government led by himself.” A spokesman for the Fascist leader told the Associated Prees that this was the Nezi viewpoint: ! “Herr Hitler does not feel that he, as leader of the largest party in Germany, should run around begging the smaller parties for support. We are quite will- ing to have men like Konstantin von Neurats, Count Lutz von Krosigk Schwerin and Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, continue to serve.” Crowds Gather. Von Neurath was Chancellor Franz von Papen's foreign minister, Count von Krosigk, his finance minister, and | Gen. von Schieicher, the minister of | defense. Just as on Saturday, crowds gathered in front of the President’s office and | the Xaiserhof Hote] to watch Hitler ar- | rive and depart. His followers sent up | Joud cheers, and the police were forced to keep a lane clear for the Nazi motor car STEP TO MONARCHY SEEN. Paris Newspaper Forecasts Action if Hitler Gains Power. PARIS, November 21 (#)—The ar-| rival to power of Adolf Hitler in Ger- many, either as chancellor or ininister, was declared by the newspaper Ere Novelle today to mean the preparation of the way for the return of the Hohen- | gollerns i ‘The paper, which reflects the views of Premier Edouard Herriot’s Radical | Bocialist party, said: “Let's not be more dupes than the Germans themselves | and reflect seriously on the monarchist | Testeration.” INSURGENT CHINESE PERIL MANCHUKUO Hold Fourth of Area—Japanese Prepare to Attack 30,000 Irregulars. { | By the Associated Press. MUKDEN, Manchuria, November 21. ~—The Japanese position in Northwest Manchuria was becoming increasingly difficult today with roughly one-fourth of the whole of the new State of Man- chukuo in the hands of insurgent Chi- nese. Gen. Su Ping-Wen, who formerly was a member of the new Manchukuo regime, revolted recently and with the help of some 30,000 other Chinese ir- yegulars took a vast area that lies against the Soviet border. Two hundred and forty-five Japanese ‘Germany, zi leader | finished ‘Chmn. and Tu: {SEVERE-QUAK Fisherman Catches 110-Pound Drum in Hour-and-Half Fight Prize Is 4 Feet 10 Inches Long -and Sets New World Record. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, November 21.— ‘When Thomas H. Jenkins yanked hard on his line he didn’t pull in a flapping fish—his boat began acting like some- thing possessed. It was an Hour and a half later that Mr. Jenkins gainei an introduc- tion to his fish, a black drum weigh- ing 110 pounds, or 20 pounds heavier than the world’s record for a fish of that species caught with a hook and line. It was 4 feet 10 inches long. Mr. Jenkins landed the fish in the lower Machadoo Creek, near where it empties into the Potomac River in Westmoreland County. He was using a hand line with a crab for bait. The lucky fisherman today submit- ted a picture of his catch to a local paper along with the signatures of cix persons who attested the size end welght. JAPAN AND CHINA CLASH AT GENEVA OVER MANCHURIA Matsuoka Rejects Lytton Re- port, but Sounds Note of Conciliation. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, November 21.— Japan and China, meeting again at the bar of the League of Nations, resumed | their contest over Manchuria today where they left off at the last session of the League Council. Yosuke Matsuoka defended Japan's course and rejected the findings of the Lytton Commission, which investigated the Manchurian situation for the League and recommended creation of a special international regime in Man- churia until the issue bstween Japan e aington. oo, repiying . Wel 00, e, for China, asserted that if .up:n‘s inter- pretation of the Kellogg pact is cor- Tect the peoples of the world 'might well wonder what is the use of up- s e . Japanese version is to be believed,” he said, “their country is a meek lamb in the teeth of a feroclous Matsuoka’s address was similar in all Tespects to the official “observations™ published yesterday as Japan’s answer to the Lytton Commission’s report, but with a conciliatory appeal which is not to be found in previous Japanese utterances upon the conflict with China. Cites Mexican Expedition. He cited the American punitive ex- pedition of 1916 in Mexico as a fair precedent for Japan's attack “in legiti- mate self-defense” upon Mukden in September, 1931. “We have violated meither the cove- nant of the League, nor the nine-power treaty, nor the pact of Paris,” he said. “I ask of the Council a little patience. If the Western World will bestow upon us a fraction of the tolerance it has so generously bestowed upon China it will be %:teruuy received. “The policy, the hope, the determi- nation of my country is the mainte- nance of peace. We want no war, we want no more territory, we are not ag- gressors. Deeply and exrnestly we de- sire the welfare of our great neighbor.” He spoke in English to a distinguished audience, including the five members of the Lytton Commission, among them (s;t:nz Frank R. McCoy of the United es. Koo Speaks This Afternoon. M. Matsuoka thanked the commission for its arduous labors. tions in China had changed greatly since the Washington Conference over 10 years ago. “Outer Morgolia has become Soviet- he said; “Thibet is at war with stan, almost culirely cut off from contact, is nominally a sovereign state. “The national government controls by military force alone only several provinces about the mouth of the Yanktze. Canton is independent and hostile, and as the commissio: orts, " (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) KE IN EUROPE Parts of Germany, Belgium and Holland Affected. DUESSELDORF, Germany, Novem- 21 (#)—Parts of Germany, Bel- glum and Holland were sharply jarred early today by short earth-shocks de- scribed as the severest in many years in this area. People through the lower Rhinc region of Germany and Holland and throughout Belgium rushed to the street in great alarm, but nowhere was there reported any casualties. The Ruhr Valley was affected and minor damage was done, but there were no reports of major destruction. He said condi- | CZEHS 0N MOVE SEENG REVSN OF DEBTSTO LS. Envoy Presents Note Asking Suspension of Payment Due December 15. POLAND IS EXPECTED TO TAKE SAME ACTION President Concentrates on Confer- ence With Roosevelt Tomor- row Afternoon. While President Hoover concentrated his energies upon his momentous war debts conference tomorrow with Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt, a new development today in the move of European nations for revision found Czechoslovakia align- ing itself beside Great Britain, France and Belgium. Similar action is expected of Poland soon. Ferdinand Veverka, the Czechoslova- kian minister, presented to Secretary of State Stimson this morning a note asking suspension of the $1,500,000 pay- ment it has due to this country on De- cember 15. The amount due next month is all on account of principal. ‘There will be no publication until to- morrow of this latest communication. Has Paid $18,304,178. The total obligation of Czechoslovakia to the United States stands at $167,071,- 023. Payments already have been made which aggregate $18,304,178. A similar note from Poland, although received at the Polish embassy the end | cf last week, has not been presented to | the State Department yet, Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz considering it wiser to | | await the results of the Roosevelt-Hoo- ver conference. Poland’s payment due December 15 is $3,300,000 in interest; the payment of $1,125,000 on the principal already having been postponed at the special request of the Polish government on September 14. Italy has so far given no indication whether it will join the other European powers in a request for a debt revision and a postponement of the $1,200,000 she owes on December 15. Britain Led Movement. ‘The British government was the first | to ask an extension of the moratorium and general reconsideration of inter- governmental ~debt settlements. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambas- sador, presented this request to Secre- tary St November 10. PFrance fol- | lowed with a similar memorandum the | nest day and Belgium did the same November 15. Great Britain owes $95,550,000, due December 15. The French payment due on that date is $19,261,438 and the Belgian payment is $2,125,000. Along with debt matters, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt are expected to dis- cuss the probable date of the world monetary and economic conference at tomorrow's meeting, which will be in the Lincoln study. 3 Date Decision Not Made. Norman H. Davis and the other ex- perts who compose the committee em- powered to make preparatory arrange- ments for the world conference have not reached any conclusion as to a likely date. American official opinion on the question is being awaited. | Fremier Ramsay MacDonald recently urged in a public address that the con- ference open in December, but this | seems unlfkely. January and February have been mentioned frequently at Geneva and in various European capitals as the month in which the conference might be held. European suggestions that the confer- | ence be held 1n the United States have found no official support in this coun- try, and it now scems certain that Lon- don will be designated. Two in Geneva Now. Although Mr. Davis is in Geneva now as a delegate to the World Disarma- | ment Conference, it was said today by Secretary Stimson. that he is in no sense an_American official representa- | tive at the League of Nations Council meeting, which is considering the Ly ton report on the Manchurian situa- | tion. | Gen. Frank R. McCoy, who is also | at Geneva, is there as a member of the | Lvtton Commission. He was invited by i the League to act on the commission, and the State Department reiterated t | day that Gen. McCoy is not attend- |ing the Lytton hearing as a_repre- sentative of the United States Govern- ment. | _In the two or three hours that Mr. | Hoover and Mr. Rocsevelt sit together in the Lincoln study may be shaped | America’s immediate answer to these | foreign requests for a new moratorium end review of international obligations. | | Its principal purpose is to insure, if | possible, a continuity from now on into | the next administration of American policy on the whole question. Most vital is the manner in which | the debt difficulties are to be laid be- ' i fore Congress—a Congress whose mem- | | bers in swelling numbers are recording opposition to any moratorium extension, revision or recreation of the War Debt Commission. ! _Because the House, where fiscal leg- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) | | By the Associated Press. LAKE DESOLATION, N. Y., Novem- ber 21.—A twinkling point of light on the horizon, scarcely distinguishatle from the stars, will send a message to a group of scientists on a lonely Ad- captives still held hostage by Gen. Su ‘were declared in danger of their lives, but nevertheless the Japanese army uring reinforcements into the bleak jorthern area, preparing to attack Gen. Su. Meanwhile, Chinese irregulars con- tinued to menace other areas, resorting of late to incendiarism. It is estimated the Japanese have Jost at least a mil- Jlon dollars’ worth of airplanes in Muk- | arson. den and elsewhere irondack mountainside tomorrow night if a scheduled attempt to conduct a[ long-distance telephone ~conversation over a searchlight beam is successful. In a remote region of upstate New ‘York, where people live who have never spoken over an ordinary household tel- | ephone, the scientists hope to hear the voices of men gathered about the twinkling light—in reality, & powerful searchlight 25 miles away. last | never- LONG-ISISTANCE PHONE MESSAGE | OVER LIGHT BEAM TO BE TRIED | Scientists in Schenectady Hope to Hear Voices of Group Around Searchlight 25 Miles Away. Spring from a rooftop in Schenectady to the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, 2 miles away. | The fiickering light beam will be | focused from Schenectady upon a 30- inch concave mirror, which is in place on the mountain today. Under the direction of John Bellamy Taylor, who has developed the new method of “light-casting,” the engineers at the receiving end reached their sta- tion near Lake Desolation only after a | strenuous trip last week. When their motor truck became hope- lessly mired in the foothills, a portable short-wave radio set wes employed to send out a call for assistance. More men and trucks were dispatched to Lr*s‘i;m ld He Marcel: ho ty-year-ol lenry Mar as, wi lives nearby and witnessed the pLrepara- ‘women folks,” talked on-a "t.g” i'l‘:o.heluhn telephone, JPLEASE DO YOUR BI \\ === T FOR THE COMMUNITY CHEST AND IT'LL HELP US! VETERANS' BUREAU CONSIDERS PLAN FOR PRE-PAYING BONUS Cutting Down Yearly Ex- penses and Setting Aside of | Money Thus Saved Studied. Idea Thought Out by Hines Not to Involve Extra Expenditures. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The Veterans' Administration has un- | der consideraticn a plan which, under certain conditins, may make possible the prepayment of the soldiers’ bonus.} Reccgnizing that the bonus issus will | come up to plague every session of Con- | gress between now and 1945, when it is | due, and noting that the American | " (Continuea on Page 7, Columu 1.) GEN. FRANK T. HINES. GOVERNMENT WINS R.C. A TRUST FIGHT Consent Decree Signed by| General Electric and Westinghouse Co. By the Assoctated Press WILMINGTON, Del,, November 21.— Complete divorcement of the General | Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. from | Radio Corporation of America was or- dered today by the Federal Court of Delaware in a consent decrec filed by | the Government in . its anti-trust suit against the radio equipment companies. At the same time the court ended | the long drawn out suit by enjoining the defendants from attempting to re- | strain trade by means of patent licenses or similar devices in violation of the | anti-trust law. The Government suit, filed in the| | Spring of 1930, was to have gone to| trial last week, but was postponed when | it was anounced to Judge John P.| Niclds that peace proposals had been | presented by the defendants on No- | vernber 11. | General Electric and Westinghouse, | which own a controling interest in R | dio Corporation of America, are ordered | to divest themselves of their stock hold- | ings, and while this is being brought | about the defendants are forbidden to | chased her from one first-floor room | exercise the voting rights of their stock. | to another until ske finally eluded him. | The defendants also are enjoined from further exercising or enforcing the exclusive provision of their patent cross-licensing agreements, which the government complained eliminated com- petition and hampered the rights of cther concerns in the radio business. The defendant corporations are given | 30 months to secure modifications of | their contracts with foreign govern- | ments or corporations to conform with | the court's decree. | A statement issued by the Depart- ment of Justice, giving the details of the settlement, stated the defendants " (Continued on JAPANESE TO DELAY PLAN FOR ARMS CUT Leaves Publication Up to Delega- tion to World Parley at Geneva. | | By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 21.—A foreign of- fice spokesman today said publication of Japan's recently announced naval limitation program had been left up | to the Japanese delegation to the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva. Early presentation of the Japanese idea had been considered, it was said, on the basis of reports that the United States and Great Britain were near a compromise on their respective dis- armament plans. The spokesman said it was learned later, however, that the Anglo-Ameri can compromise, if reached, would con- cern only minor matters, and as a re- sult Tokio felt no reason for haste. ‘The plan was ready re- cently, but none of its vealed. It was t the B T ‘separate ¥ BLAZE LS W HUSGANDISHELD Police Say Man Admits He Set Fire to Attic Where Body Was Found. Lyle C. Rolland, 43, confessed early today, according to Maryland authori- ties, that he started the fire in which | Margaret | his common-law wife, Mrs. Hurley Rolland, 35, lost her life in their Seat Pleasant home last night. The woman's body was found jammed between the eaves of the semi-bunga- low and a plaster-board partition by firemen, who were making a final check of the attic after the blaze had been extinguished. Rolland, arrested when he allegedly attempted to prevent firemen entering the burning dwelling, admitted starting the fire in a confession signed about 4 o'clock this morning, after he had been grilled for more than two hours | by Earle Blackwell, Capitol ~ Heights constable. Tells of Quarrel. In the confession, signed in the Capi- tol Heights office of Justic2 of the Peace Oscar 1. Poore, Rolland, police report, said he ignited a pile of rags and paper at the head of the attic stairs following a quarrel with his wife. REPORT TO A F. L ASKS GOMPULSORY JOBLESS INSURANCE |Federal Law to Supplement State Legislation Urged by Committee. By the Associated Press. universal adoption of the five-day week and six-hour day were proclaimed as| labor’s objectives today as the American Federation of Labor opened its fifty- second annual convention. “We will go out and-call on the Legislatures of the various States to enact proposed unemployment insurance into law,” declared - Willlam - Green, president. . “One great reform,” he said, “needed | to put men and women back to work is to establish in a universal way the five- | day week and the six-hour day. This reform, which must ultimately be effect- ed, would, if applied immediately, electrify economic ecenditions.” While 322 delegates and hundreds of visitors heard Green outline labor’s objectives, the federation's Executive Committee precented its own plan for | a system cf unemployment insurance in every State, administered by State com- missions and supported financially wholly by the employers of labor, Executive Council Reports. The convention, Green announced, “must and will grafiple with unemploy- ment, relief and all factors of the de- | pressicn.” |~ The benefits under the insurance plan would not be demied to those out of work because of a trade dispute, or if non-membership in a labor union was a | condition of employment. | 1t was contained in the report of the | Executive Council to the convention. The report, covering a wide range of subjects, | also expressed opposition to a sales tax; | | urged a seven-point economic program | by the Government to secure a more equitable distribution of income; advo- cated a fight for restoration of former wage scales of Government employes; | asked modification of the Volstead act | and advocated action against extended use of convict labor and a strong stand to secure enactment of the child labor amendment. Early Beer Action Forecast. | on modification the report said in- dications are that action to legalize | real beer will be taken at the short | session of Congress convening Decem- ber 5. - _The report says there “is no general (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) ENT’S BODY FOUND During the quarrel, he declared, he | He searched the house, he said, but found no trace of her. Then, he added, | he tossed a lighted match into the pile | | of rubbish, went out into the back yard | and fell asleep beneath a tree. Although Rolland’s confession made no reference to liquor, Constable Black- well reported the man, a painter and former Marine, showed unmistakable signs of having been drinking when firemen reached the blazing dwelling. Tried to Bar Way. Rolland still was asleep beneath the tree when Seat Pleasant firemen, sum- moned by Mrs. Bertha B. Grimes, his nearest neighbor, arrived. Awakened by the apparatus, he ran to the front of the house, Blackwell asserted, and told the firemen: “Don’t go in there. - It's my place, and the furniture is paid for.” The firemen brushed him aside, how- " (Continued on Fage 2, Column 6. |FRENCH HUSTLE TROTSKY | ON COPENHAGEN TRIP Russian Exile Not Permitted to Linger Between Marseille and Lyons Sailing Docks. By tho Associated Press. MARSEILLE, France, November 21. —Leon Trotsky, Russidn exile, who is on the way from Turkey to Copenhagen, was taken off his ship outside the har- bor here today and put ashore In a speed boat. pe: left imediately by automobile for Lyons, where he will resume his voyage to Den- mark, “Police were under orders to permit no one to get anywhere near him while he remains on French soil. uskian Hevolution i Copenbagen UL at = versity. and then return .\ 13 Is- mhmk&y,mphceo(hhafle. STUDENT’S P).— CLEVELAND, November 21 The body of Herbert Ulrichson, 18- year-old high school studeat, who police believed had been snot by au early morning hunter, was found on a vacant lot on the West Side today. Police said two companions of the youth reported that a hunter dis- charged a shotgun at them, apparently in the mistaken belief they were prowl- ing about the neighborhood. A search for the hunter, who evi- dently did not know he had hit any one, was started. | CINCINNATI, November 21.—Unem- | | ployment insurance in every State and | HOOVER WON'T VETO BEER LEGISLATION, BRITTEN DECLARES House Member, After Call at White House, Predicts Action by New Year. |$35,000,000-A-MONTH REVENUE ESTIMATED | Wet ‘Bloc to Draft Bill Protecting Dry States and Placing Ban on Saloon. . President Hoover will not veto a bill} | authorizing ©.75 per cent beer and: which effords the proper protection to ! those States desiring to remain dry, if such legislation does not bring back to life the saloon, according to Represent- ative Britten, Republican, of Illinois. The Illinois Representative, leader of the so-called wet bloc in the House, re- vealed this attitude of the President re- garding beer legishtion - following a long conference with the President in his office today. Representative Britten not only felt confident as to the attitude of the Executive, but he predicted that New Year eve will be celebrated with real beer rather than poor wine and syn- thetic beverages. He said he expects quick action on his legislation in the House, and he is confident the revenue ;to be produced from this source alone | will amount to $35,000,000 a month. He | said this would allow the retailing of beer at 10 cents a bottle. “Aside from the mandate of the peo- ple expressed in the elections of No- vember 8 last,” Mr. Britten said, “the economic features of modifying the Vol- stead law so as to permit 2.75 beer is sufficient to warrant its immediate en- actment into law.” ‘Wet Bloe Will Meet. Representative Britten said the mem- bers of the wet bloc of the House will hold a meeting in advance of the open- ing of Congress in December to agree on a plan of action. At tjis meeting also will be perfected the 2.75 beer bill to be introduced, which will insure pro- tection to the States desiring to remain dry and which will prevent the re- establishment of the saloon. He stated the latter protection could easily be afforded by prohibiting the drinking of beer on premises where sold and by permitting it to be drunk outside of private hcmes only in hotels, restaurants and clubs. His confidence of receiving speedy action in the House on such a bill was based, he said, upon obtaining a spe- fal rule suspending the rules of the House and limiting debate. By this procedure he felt confident the bill would pass within two or “three days after its introduction. He added that both parties are bound by their plat- forms and promises made by their cam- paign orators during the campaign and bly;cgne mandate of the people in the | election. Special Rule Declared Possible. The Illinois Representative said, “We | will soon find oui whether or not the | Democrats really want a modification | of the Volstead law and if they really \want to live up to their platform. ‘Spelker Garner has both the power and authority to make a special rule | possible and I feel confident he will be_consistent.” Following his talk with the Presi- | dent. Mr. Britten said the beer question | was ‘discussed and that he felt confi- |dent Mr. Hoover would not veto such | a beer bill as he has in mind, but he (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) \HELPER SAVES LIFE OF SCAFFOLD WORKER |Seizes Rope to Break Fall of Mascn Tumbling 85 Feet to Ground. Quick actlon by his colored helper | pre bably saved the life of Peter Pronxl, 42, when the scaffold on which he was | werking 85 feet from the ground at the | Westchester Apartments slipped shortly after ncon today. Police were told that Pronxl], a mason, was pointing up brickwork on the north side of the main building in the West- chester group when the rope holding | his_scaffold slipped and he and the ‘scnflold came hurtling to the ground. His helper, James Mack, cclored, of 13510 Garfield street, caught hold of the rope and broke the man’s fall before he | reached the ground, according to offi- | cers. Nearly all the skin was burned | from Mack’s hand by friction from the slipping rope. At Georgetown Hospital, to which Pronxl was taken following his fall, it was believed his only injury was a scalp wound. No bones were believed to have | been broken. X-rays were being made to determine this positively. ISTREAMLINED RE PTILES “SWIM” | IN DESERT SANDS OF CALIFORNIA Wedge-Shaped Head, With a Sharp “Keel,” Aids | | By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 21.— | Snakes that “swim” in the desert sands | are being studied by Dr. Walter Mo- sauer, Zoologist, at the University of California. These California snakes live beneath the surface of the desert, but in their | subterranean wanderings stay rather close to the surface. For swimming pur- poses the loose texture of the sand is mechanically comparable to the wa- ters of the ocean. “The snakes are streamlined head and body.” Dr. Mosauer explained. “The head is wedge-shaped, with a sharp keel or edge and a countersunk lower jaw.” These animals, known to science as the Sonora Occipitalis, ac- tually live in the sand, differing mark- edly from which live or travel wimming _ reptiles -m h’fll- on r‘l‘ c_s.m'ficmwmmma- Propulsion of Subterranean Snake. Sand-swimmers can disappear from sight in an incredibly short time. Similar types are found in the Sahara Desert, but they are skinks, members | of the lizard family. The lower side of | the body of the skink is concave, form- ilnz sharp parallel keels. By drawing |in the ventral scales through contrac- | tion of its strong abdominal muscles, the California sand-swimmer can ac- complish the same thing. Eyes of some sand-swimmers are pro- tected by very thick lids with fringe- like scales. The lids close with a dou- ble surface. Dr. Mosauer has also found similarities between snakes living on the surface of Dese: They have independen £ ey & COMMUNITY CHEST RAISES §1,374,828 AS DRIVENEARS END Two and One-Half Days Re- main in Which to Collect $1,044,958. GOVERNMENT UNIT AGAIN LEADS DONORS Special @ifts Group Reports 93 Subscriptions, Which Bring Total to $643,499. The Community Chest's welfare and relief program for 1933 was pushed well past the halfway mark with today's re- ports made at the meeting at the Wil- lard Hotel this afternoon. There still remains, however, the Herculean task of raising more than a million dollars, with only two and a half days of the campaign left. The grim specters of misery and dis- tress now have been banished from Washington for just 207 days on the black calendar, but there remained 158 days for which Washington has done nothing for the.relief of its poverty- stricken men, women and children. $1,374,828 Subscribed. ‘The army of workers had added $187,557.25, subscribed by 13,682 givers with' today's report, bringing the total subscribed to date to $1,374,828.35. This leaves $1,044,958.65 still to be raised if the Chest's goal of $2,419,787 is to be reached. The Government Unit, led by Gov. Thomas E. Campbell of the Civil Service Commission, reported 9,356 sub- scriptions, totaling $86,312.82, and led all units today. Th:se subscriptions, added to the previously reported total of $231,709.71 from 24,599 subscribers, brought the unit's grand total to $318,022.53 from 33,955 subscribers. This is 32.96 per cent of the unit’s quota. The Special Gifts Unit, headed by Clarence A. Aspinwall, reported 93 sub- scriptions, totaling $50,465.08, which, added to the previously reported 461 subscriptions for $593,034.08, brought the unit’s grand total to $643,493.16 from 554 givers. Chairman H. L. Rust, jr's, Metro- politan Unit reported 1,667 subscripticns today for $32,859.97, bringing the pre- viously reported total of $190,729.75 frcm 9,222 givers to a grand total of $223- 589.72 from 10,889 givers. The Group Solicitation Unit, led by Lloyd B. Wilson, added $17,693.06 from 2,559 givers to the previously reported Sfuad tota) of $16060250 1rom 10068 ota} of ,502.59 from 19, givers. '?!‘1’}: represented 67.7 per cent of the unit’s quota. Schosl Unit Adds Gifts. ‘The Schools Unit reported additions. gifts of $226.22, bringing its total-to date to $7,214.35 from 36 schools. This was 42 per cent of the unit’s quota, Among the larger lsius reported to- day was a $3,000 contribution from Mrs. Duncan Phillips, another from Secre- tary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, a $4,500 gift from Mrs. Daniel Devere, and a gift totalling $4,000 from Mr:. James Parmalee. Mrs. Beale R. How- ard, it was announced, added $1.000 to a previously reported subscription of $2.000, bringing her tolal to $3,000. Campaign Chairman N:wbold Norc again exhorted the workers (o put © pressure if the campaign is to be a suc cess, saying: “We have crossed off 207 days on Washington's black calendar of 1933, Nothing I can cay can bring the situa- tion more clearly home to you. There are iwo days left in which to get 158 days off that calendar. If you don't work from the time that you leave this room until we meet the day after to- morrow night at Wardman Park Hotel, the campaign will fail. If you do work, with every nerve strained, and with the special assistance of publicity that we are going to give, you can, and will, do it. Don’t leave it to any one else to do this job. You have undertaken it and you owe it to Washington to do it yourself. Get this money in and put us over.” Among firms 100 per cent of whose employes have subscribed, reported to- day, were the Washington Coca-Cola Co., the B. F. Saul Co., Armour & Co., Demonet’s, Mahoney Concrete Co., Lansburgh & Bro., the Institute of Musical Art, National Capital Press, George A. Simmonds & Co. and the Washington Tobacco Co. Mrs. Herbert Hoover w " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) HERRIOT IS SAFE AFTER TRAIN PLOT Blames Breton Automomists for Dynamiting of Tracks Ahead of Special. / By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, November 21.—Premier Edouard Herriot and a large official party arrived in Paris safe and sound today despite an apparent attempt to blow up their special train in Briwany during the night. The railroad track was blown up at Ingrandes, 15 miles from Nantes, early yesterday just before the special train reached the spot, and in time for sec- tion men to flag down the train. The premier for several hours was unaware of the violence that might have caused his death. When he reached the capital todsy he said “Breton autonomists” were to blame “hm m‘?’ t has persisted movemen in Brittany ever since it was joined with Prance in 1532, and has main- tained early Celtic tradition for five It is still . and area um::uch like wuupumwamt g?um) Unruffled ‘by the = ent, the pl'em‘fi\' went ahead a address at Nantes, celebral anniversary of and France. When he arrived the head of the in characteristic