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A2 %% LITVINOFF DINES WiTH BAPHALISTS‘ Good Wishes of Captains of Finance Ring in His Ears as He Sails. By the Ascociated Press. NEW YORK, November 25—Maxim | Litvinofl, Soviet Russia’s direct action | diplomat, took passage home today, his missicn of Russian-United States recog- nition accomplished, and the good wiches and congratulations of American capitalists ringing in his prols:aliany €ears. He sat la:t night at a banquet table} in the grand ball room of ths Waldorf- | Astoria, a vice president of the Chase ! Naticnal Bank on his left and promi- nent industrialists and bankers neaiby. | and spoke his farewell. The establishment of diplomatic rela- tions between the United States and the Union oi Soviet Republics, he & wes a move calculated to “weigh the gcales in fa of peace.” Nations Prepare. He said preparations for new wars| are going on openly in some parts of t1 - world, and he reiterated his previous statement that the only practical and effective disarmament is “complete dis- armament.” This, he said, Russia will continue tourge at every cpportunity. “Not cnly has the race for arma- ments been renewed and intensified, but, what may bs far more serious, in certain cases open propaganda of mili- taristic ideas is being carried on, the growing generation is being trained in the idea of glorification for war * * *. “Is it then surprising when such’ moods exist in certain countries that the Disarmament Conference is breath- ing its last? I may go even further and assert that the Geneva Confer- ence is a corpse which no efforts can bring back to life, and if no death certificate has been issued, that is onlv because the doctors are afraid to listen to the heart that has ceased to beat. Swap Propaganda. Litvinoff reviewed his discussions with President Roosevelt, saying: “They were throughout of the most pleasant nature; so pleasant, indeed, that we both seemed to be in no hurry to finish them. I believe that we both, feeling the approach of our mutual pledges, tried to avail ourselves of the short period of freedom left to us to make some propaganda be- tween us. “The President submitted me to a kind of religious propaganda. and I in my turn tried to persuade him of the soundness of certaid principles ex- pressed in the will of a famous Amer- ican, Stephen Girard, who thought it} best to exclude all ecclesiastical activ-| ities from the college which he founded | in Philadelphia. i “Although we hardly succeeded in | convineing one another. I fully enjoyed | the President's way of discussing things &nd I still feel myself under the spell of his charm. Not for a moment had I any doubts as to the results ‘of our discussicns Pays Tribute to Borah. Litvinoff paid tribute to Senator Borah, whose work for rapprochment and peace he said, “will remain in the memory of the people of my country.” He also lauded the work of Col. Hugh Cooper, engineer, and of Col. Raymond Robbins, whom he termed *“probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America.” M. Litvinoff, who lives humbly over & Moscow garage while sitting in the councils of Stalin, Kalinin and other Eoviet leaders as people’s commissar of foreign affairs, has been in America since November 7. ERISCO’ PLIGHT LAID TO FINANCIAL BURDEN Top-Heavy Structure Blamed by R. F. C. Experts for Bankruptey. By the Associated Press. The bankruptcy of the St. Louis & San Prancisco Railroad is blamed by Reconstruction Finance Corporation ex- perts on its top-heavy financial struc- ture. In a report yesterday on a study by Hilton M. Moore, an examiner, which was approved by J. W. Barriger, 3d, chief examiner, it was suggested that if a consolidation with some other road is sought it would be best for the Frisco to merge with the Missouri- Kansas-Texas Railrcad, its chief com- petitor in the Southwest. The study considered the possibility of a consolidation with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Katy, and disclosed that the Reconstruction Corporation’s loan of $5,190,000 to the Frisco is now worth only $1.010,000, the $7,500,000 of collateral taken by the corporation as security having shrunk until today it has a market value of less than one-fifth of the amount lent. The Railroad Credit Corporation’s loan of $3,805,175 to the company is a sec- ond lien cn the collateral held by the corporation. In the same category are a total of $5,136,864 of loans made by six banks, for which they took $8246,000 of col- lateral, which now has a market value of $1,150,000. Bondholders to Attend. ST. LOUIS, November 25 (#).—Federal Judge C. B. Faris_yesterday gave three groups of St Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway bondholders leave to intervene in the road’s Federal bank- Tuptey litigation. Judge Faris said the bondholders would thus be enabled to sit in at a hearing of creditors of the road in Washington before John G. Lonsdale. one of the road's trustees, to discuss pending plans for reorganization. The bondholders claimed the right to intervene was given them in the Federal bankruptcy law, but Judge Faris said his interpretation of the statute gave them only two rights, to be heard in the matter of appointments of trustees and to be heard in exami- nation and approval of plans for re- organization. The statutes, he said, gave bondholders no “general right” to intervene. OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDING CODE SOUGHT Fair Practices in Operation De- clared Necessary to Avert Gen- eral Bankruptcy. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 25.— Establishment of a code of fair prac- tices jn the operation of large office and apartment buildings is necessary to| avert general bankruptcy for such properties, said Frank S. Slosson of Chicago, president of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers, here Thursday. He spoke at a two-day conference of the Midwest and Northern division of the association. A “vicious circle of rent cutting.” he said. makes a code necessary. He said 30 per cent of the cffice buildings in the country are in distress. Free rent incucements and landlord absorption of moving costs should not be permitted, he said. i then, What’s What Behind News In Capital Republicans to Drop Long Silence With Coming of 1934. | BY PAUL MALLON. ‘The Republicans have hardly been able to speak above a whisper since the last election, but they are going to set up a national megaphone here arcund January 1, About thet time a ctronger national headquarters steff will be whipped up. The work of Executive Secretary Veu- able of the Congressional Committee also will be amplified. Scouts are now out trying to sur up some money. That much has been decided in re- cent conferences at committee head- quarters. How far the reorganization will go will be determined by the as- szmbling Congressmen. Agitation to dectpitate Chair- man Sanders has J 'mant for some months. Thc Congress- men will determine among them- selves whether the reorganization should include him. The headquarters has been running on a dime basis. Publicity Is Informal. Those three recent statements criti- cizing administration policy were de- vised, not by a publicity man, but by J. Bennett Gordon. research director. There is no publicity man. Gordon sent out 2,000 copies of the first one in confidence. He did not ex- pect it to be printed, but his optimism was not warranted. No one can send out 2,000 copies of anything in Wash- ington and expect to keep it quiet. The reaction was so good that cur- rent releases are being spread around for_publication The official handling of the Govern- ment bond market was completely bungled on the inside during the change in Treasury leadership. Mr. Roosevelt had fized things up with Treasury Secretary Woo- din to issue a statement erpress- ing confidence in governments before he went off sick. Prices went up for several days, so Woo- din failed to make the statement. Later, when lack of confidence was expressed by Prof. Sprague and others, Woodin had to make the statement from New York. It lost its full force Morgenthau Move Hurt. Similarly newcomer Morgenthau tried to hasten into print with his confidence, but along came the announcement that the Federal Reserve was curtailing its usual weekly purchases. That hurt Morgenthau's effort. The truth seems to be that Govern- ment officials are not worried about anything being fundamentally wrong with the Government market. They are worried about the creation of & bad national psychology. They cannct prove it but they really believe there has been some sabotaging of the Government market by persons interested in embarrassing the gold price policy. Their suspiclons are directed against certain New York interests. and not, of course. against Prof. Sprague. The administration tacticians have been confident Budget Director Douglas (the last of the conservatives) will not follow the exit of Dean Acheson and Prof. Sprague. They have heard he recently submitted his resignation to the President and Mr. Roosevelt de- clined to accept it. They do mot qguarantee that information, but they do say Douglas will remain at least until he finishes his budget. His position is different from the others. He is doing the specific budget job, which has nothing to do with money policies. Silver Group Impatient. Those bolder promises of early silver action sre being made by the silverites with a purpose. H The administration has been toying ! with the tubject off stage for many| months. It is not part of the Warren scheme. It does not fit into the gold price or commodity dollar picture. Nevertheless Mr. Roosevelt 1s sup- posed to have told Prof. Warren re- cently to work something out on the subject in accordance with the demands of silver-producing States. The idea 1s that they have as much right to expect relief as the corn or cotton areas. But publication of the plan has been s0 long delayed that the silver boys are getting impatient. These publiz predicticns of early ac- tion may emoke the administration out. Information Inadequate. Very little authentic information has been available on that subject. A lot of bad information has been widely circulated. The best information indicated the administration would come out at the proper time with a plan for silver purchases. Silver certificates would be issued against these purchases. The amount expected varies from fifty million dollars to two hundred millions. Such a program would be mildly in- flationary and largely for relief in the silver areas. The theme song written in the Treasury press room for Morgenthau is entitled: “I'm Heading for the Last Write-up.” An irreverent cartoon on the the wall pictures Messrs. Morgen- | thau and Jones on their hands and| knees casting dice to decide what the! daily gold price should be. Morgenthau knew the newsmen well | at Albany and at the White House here, but did not recognize a familiar face in his first Treasury press conference when he proposed the news restriction order. One reason the order was modi- fied was that newsmen tested its effi- clency by deluging it with inquiries. | The fact that Mrs. Gann is getting her picture in the papers again is suf- !:511"“ proof of renewed Republican ac- tivity. | The problem of code violations in certain industries is causing plenty cof trouble inside the N. R. A. now. The technical complicated that some conscientious men are ready to give up in despair, (Copyright, 1933.) THE EVENING STAR, WAS COERCION CHARGED IN OVERTON QUIZ Witness Says Republican Form of Government Vir- tually Destroyed. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, November 25.—A charge that coercion has “very nearly” destroyed the republican form of gov- ernment in Loulsiana has been placed in the rccords of the Senate Committee investigating the election of Senator John H. Overten, Democrat, of Louis- fana Ry Burt W. Henry, chalrman of the Hon- est Electicn League, made the charge last night as the ccmmittee wound up two weeks of hearing a recitation of al- leged polling f-suds, intimidation of workers for .ormer Senator Edwin Broussard, defeated by. Overton, and testimony of cxpenditure cf campaign funds. Starting today, witnesses for Overton, who had the support of Senator Huey P. Long, the Louicina “Kingfish,” had a week in which to present rebuttal testimony. Overton defeated Brouszard in the September, 1932, campaign. Tells of Fear. On the stand last night, Henry said he knew of persons who would come here to testify if they were summoned by the committee or if the committee | should go into the country and hold hearings, but that they were afraid to offer affidavits without subpoena be- cause of fear that they or some of thelr connections would loge their jobs. “Do you feel, Mr. Henry, that the 100 witnesses who have appeared before this committee felt something of fear?” asked Senator Elvert Thomas, Demo- crat, of Utah, who is presiding over the hearing “You have no idea of the fear that cxists,” replied Henry. “There are many men, heads of busi- ness firms, who have asked their names be taken from the lists of the Honest Election League because of fear of re- prisals.” Mrs. Hammond Answers. “Has coercion gone so far that it has destroyed the republican form of gov- ernment?” Senator Thomas asked. “Very nearly so0,” Henry replied. “If you believe suci conditions ex- ist, don't you think the Honest Elec- tion League can go one step further and introduce in the State Legislature a resolution petitioning _Congress to cssure the State a republican form of government?” Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, leader | of the woman’s organization seeking to unseat both Senators Long and Over- ton, jumped up to say that it would be almost impossible to get such a reso- lution through the State Legislature | because that body was in the “vicious grip of Longism.” e PINCHOT’S LIQUOR PLAN ASSAILED AS MENACE Carnegie Institute Official Says It ‘Will Perpetuate All Evils of Prohibition Era. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, November 25 (A).— Dr. Samuel Harden Church, president of the $50,00,000 Carnegie Institute, last | night attacked the State liquor store plan of Gov. Gifford Pinchot as one that will “preserve all the worst evils of the prohibition law In a formal statement he termed Pennsylvania’s Chief Executive as “one of the most uncompromising and intol- erant dry leaders in America.” The Pinchot-sponsored liquor-control plan which has passed the State House of Representatives, will require “armed guards who will stop automobiles on the public highways” and ‘continue the shootings, which have already killed more than 1,600, said Church. Dr. Church said he favors a license system under direction of judges in eacn county. COMMISSIONERS TO GET LIQUOR MEASURE TODAY The completed draft of the liquor control bill drawn up by the corpora- tion counsel's office will be submitted to the Commissioners some time today. The measure was drafted by Corpora- ticn Counsel Bride and Assistant Corpo- | P ration Counsel West after careful study of ‘he general subject and of the laws of a number of States. Within the past | week the escentisl features of the p'an nave been gone over with Representa tive Norton and Senator King, chair-| men, respectively, of the House ani Senate District Commiltees. The corpo- ration counsel also has conferred witl: committees representing & number of | local organizations interested in the subject. Although the highlights of the bill rsve been made public in the past few day the complete contents of the measure have not been revealed in °d- vance of submission to the Cominis- sioners. — HUGE LOANS TO FARMERS Farm Credit Administration Has Put Out $100,000,000. Upward of $100,000,000 has been loaned farmers by the Farm Credit Administraticn since March to help alleviate mortgage troubles of agricul- turists. v . The figure was made public by the new farm credit governor, William I Myers, who recently took over the post | vacated by Henry Morgenthau, present | Acting Secretary of the Treasury. Since early May, applicaticns for aid numbered 400,000, representing request- ed loans aggregating more than $1,500,- 000,000. &he number of loans have doubled each month since July. DISTILLERS SPLIT AS FIGHT AGAINST u. SflOL FAILS (Continued From Firsé Fage.) a fiemlum to bring corn and 'other grains purchased to pre-war parity prices. Dr. Mordecal Ezekiel, eco- nomic adviser to Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace, suggested: That molasses alcohol distillers pay the same tax and premium on a unit of molasses equal to a bushel of corn that the grain distillers are to pay. T Or_ that molasses distillers not only ay the processing levy and premium, ut an additional impost to wipe out the cost differential. Charges that the Farm Administra- tion was giving grain distillers a _mo- hopoly were “resented” by former Repe resentative Willlam E. Hull of Peoria, Il who said: ake good whisky out of ou can‘t m: anything but grain.” Compromise Offered. Previously Louis Levy of New York had offered as a compromise on the Government proposed code, an amend- ment to create a code authority of 10 members with a director to supervise the Industry. The Federal Control Ad- ministration would be set up as a re- viewing body to pass on the authority’s decisions, while the code authority | would have the right of appeal to the courts. Levy attacked the price-fixing sec- tion, saying that in no other industry brought under either the N. R. A. or the Farm Administration, had the Gov- ernment taken such a position. He sald members of the industry could not sign the code unless the price fixing and production control sections were modified, ‘The production control section Lmits output to the capacity of distilleries in operation on December 5—the date of repeal. It was strongly assailed as tanta- mount to confiscation of property and an amendment was offered to permit distilleries under construction and con- tracted for before December 5 to go into producticn. Limitation Aftacked. The attack on the production limita- tion section had been started by A. G. Correll, representative of the Frankfort | Distilleries, Inc., Frankfort, Ky, after the President’s committee had produced | witnesses to substantiate their conten- | tion that both production and prices should be supervised ty the proposed Alocohol Control Administration. It resuited In the hearings on the liquor sections being suspended while the Interdepartmental Committee met behind closed doors with the Distillers’ Code Committee. This development came after denial of a plea by Owsley Brown of Louisville. chairman of the Code Committee. for adjournment of | hearings to permit the distillers to study the Government code. NEW ALIEN LIQUOR D. C., SATURDAY POLICE MAY PROBE WYNEKOOP DEATHS Four Other Recent Tragedies in House Hold Interest of Authorities. 4 By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, November 25—Capt. Thomas Duffy of the Fillmore police sald lash night there was & possibility of investigations into four other recent deaths in the gloomy house where Dr. Alice Wynekoop, 62, says she shot her daughter-in-law, ‘Rheta, through the cf chloroform administered to ease the pains of which she complained. Dr. Alice's husband, Frank, died in 1930, supposedly from a heart atfack; their adopted daughter died last March; Miss Enid Hennessey's aged father died scme time ago in the home and the Porter, a ratient. with whom, police al- leged, DY. Wynekoop maintained a joh.: checking account. The body of Mrs. Porter was cremated. Meanwhile the calm reserve of the usual family throughout the investiga- tion into the death of Earle Wynekoop's young wife was evidenced when his sister, Dr. Katherine Wynekoop, said at the Fillmore station: “Gee, it's mo- potenous here! I wish I'd brought a Holds to Accident Story. The remark was made casually to Earle while in an adjoining room the gray-haired mother was parrying words with police—that although " she fired the bullet into her daughter-in-law's back she had not done so until after the death had occurred accidently from chloroform. Somewhat later Dr. Alice met re- porters. She was her usual self, cool and_collected. “Rheta was a quiet little mouse of a thing,” she said. “I loved her as my own daughter, and I am sure she loved me as her own mother. I'm confident of that.” Of her present position, she said it was a matter she was unable to discuss at the moment. “I did the only thing there was to do—the logical thing,” she said. “I have taken the only step I can take, and you will understand it is difficult for me to say anything further.” Emotions Firmly in Hand. No show of emotion, no hysteria or tears on her part. Only once, when she said food had been offered her, but she had been unable to “swallow a bite” since noon on Thursday, did she give even the slightest intimation of the bat- PAGT IS PROPOSED |President’s Committee Sug- gests Quota Permit System Governing Imports. By the Associated Press The President’s special Committee on Liquor Control filed with the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration today a proposed substitute for the alcoholic beverages importing agreement, sug- gesting among other things a quota permit system for importation. The proposed quota system, filed in | anticipation of the liquor import code hearing set for Wednesday, applies only | to liquor and not to beer. | Permits would be issued by a special | committee, composed of representatives | | of the Secretary of Agriculture and the | Secretary of the Treasury for importa- tions prior to February 1, 1934. After that, the Federal Alcohol Control Ad- ministration, which the committee al- ready has propesed. would take over the | issuance of the permits. Quotas Based on Averages. ‘The Agriculture and Treasury Secre- . taries would jointly determine the kinds and amounts of liquor to be imported from eath covntry. No quota for any country for any period would be less| than the average amount imported for the same time in the period during July 1, 1910. and June 30, 1914. Provisions | would be made for countries whose im- | ports were negligible during the pre-war ericd. The President’s Committee said it} would expect the marketing agreement to ®e helpful in stimulating exports of | our domestic egricultural and other, products while at the same time permit- | ting entry of foreign alcoholic bevengesl in adequate amounts to meet the de- mand for foreign liquors in this coun- try. The provisions of the substitute pro- | posed by the President’s Ccmmittee for | the importers’ code would b> adminis- tered in co-operaticn with the indus- try’s code authority by the Federal Al- | cchol Control Administration. Unfair Methods Covered. The provisicns of the proposed code | cover unfair methods of competition, | including false advertising, misbrand- | ing, commercial bribery. sales to illegal vendors and also include provisions to protect prohibition States from impor- | tations. The administration would be | authorized to require a system of post- | ing of prices. approved by the administration after investigation by it or by the code au- thority. Hunting Accident Fatal ISHPEMING, Mich., November 25 (). ~—Harold Keller, 28, of Burr Oak, Mich., died at a hospital yesterday of bullet wounds received in a deer-hunting acci- dent Wednesday near Sidnaw. Keller was wounded when his own gun, carried by Chamber Merriman, a member of the party, was discharged accidentally, Present Portrait to Chairman COMMUNITY CHEST OFFICIAL T™ank J. Hcgan, general chairman of the Community Chest, is shown questions involved are solabove receiving a_portrait drawn by James Triantafillos, from Billy Bra The presentation took place at a luncheon held at the W! demonstration hich Mrs. Ickes was present. Left to right, Mrs. Ickes, -authorities and sc! ‘man Hogan and Billy Bray. m&m the the Boys’ Club. afternoon. at Ty e & GIVEN SKETCH AT LUNCHEON. of rd +—Star Siaff Photn. Prices in any schedule could be dis- | tle she might be fighting with herself. She was perched on a desk and her feet swung. She wore her green velour coat and her hands were folded in her lap. While Dr. Alice admitted that pos- sibly “toward the last” her son and his wife had grown apart and Had seen less and less of each other, she would not give in to the suggestion that there had been an estrangement. “You know.’ she said, “the World's Fair (Earle worked at the fair), we are all just beginning to understand, was a fast whirligig. It whirled us arourd and about and before we knew it, many of our yourg people had lost their bearings somewhat. I think we can ses that more and more clearly, Met Two Girls at Fair. Both of the young women drawn into the case as friends of the son told police they met Earle while working at the fair, Suddenly, the mother saw her daughter, Dr. Katherine, on the other side of a glass partition and expressed a desire to talk to her. But at the moment, the other turned and com- menced a conversation with Earle and the scene was shifted. Earle was busy clipping newspaper accounts of the case. Occasionally he made comments on an article cr a photograph. “Ma looks like a hyena in this pic- ture” he said as he over a photograph to his sister. “And isn't this a lousy picture of me?” The brother and sister were taken to different restaurants for dinner. Upon returning Dr. Katherine said to Earle: Compare Notes on Food. “I had lamb chops. What did you have?” Somewhat later she became absorbed in accounts of an airplane crash and expressed concern over the possibility that another brother, Walker, might have been involved. But Earle said his name wasn't listed among the vic- tims. Earle persisted, despite his mother's confession, that he wanted “to con- fess all” Police scoffed at the idea that he had anything to confess. They added, however, that he would be | questioned further, particularly why he recently purchased bullets for the death weapon and why he assertedly taught | his mother to use the revolver. Curiosity seekers crowded about the home last night to such an extent that police asked that another squad be sent to help keep the crowds in order. | Funeral Set for Today. | INDIANAPOLIS, November 25 (®).— | Arrangements have been made to hold funeral services here at 2 p.m. today for Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, Chicago murder victim. The services will be held at a | North side motuary and will be fol- lowed by burial in Crown Hill Ceme- tery. SIX MEN ARE HELD IN COLORED MAN KILLING Face Charges in Connection With Assassination by Masked and Robed Band. By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, S. C., November 25.— Seven Greenville County men face charges in connection with the assassi- nation of George Green, 73-year-old colored man, who was shot to death by a masked and robed band at his home near Taylors. W. Fred Nn;g:rn. a State investiga- tor, swore out ants upon which six men were arrested. The seventh, C. F. James, owner of the house in which Green’ lived, was being sought. Newman said he had signed confes- sions from five men, all under arrest: G. L. Smith, H. J. Duncan, W. B, Harter, J. D. Dailey and Andrew Monk. In his warrant, the investigator set forth that he learned James approached Monk and requested that the Ku Klux Klan do “whatever was necessary” to force Green to move out of his house. The officer further set forth that Monk brought the requet before the Green- ville unit of the Klan. Green was shot when he resisted an attempt by a group of disguised men to enter his home. Woman Teachers Freed. GUADALAJARA, Mexico, November 25 (#)—Eight woman teachers of the Normal School, arrested for their activ- ities during recent student disorders, against them were The women were taken into custody with 60 students when police broke ul s public t pul l sludents were back as she lay dead from the effects| fourth death was that of Mrs. Kate! e released today when charges ital. wer Hospl NOVEMBER 25, 1083, | which led to the confession. CIVIG FEDERATION REELECTS LEADER More Street Playgrounds for Children Are Favored by Group. George W. Beasley was re-elected president of the Federation of Civic Associations at a meeting last night at the District Building. Mr. Beasley has been active in the effairs of the or- ganization for a number of yeers. Other cfficers elected were: William H. Lewis, first vice president; Mrs. Jaqueline A. Cuney, second vice presi- dent; Woolsey W. Hall, corresponding secretary; John E. Hall, recording sec- retary; Howard D. Queen, treasurer, and Rev. Arthur Chichester, chaplain. The federation went on record as| favoring the designation of additicnal | hours to provide skating and play places for children in sections not hav- ing adequate playground provisions. A special committee was named to prepare a list of at least 10 sites as skating places. This will be forwarded to the District Commissioners soon. At _the request of representatives of the Northeast Boundary Citizens Civic Association a committee was appointed to request the District Commissioners to make available necessary funds for improving the drainege system in the Deanwod section where, it was report- | ed, flooding had occurred during re- | cent storms. The federation also heard reports of | police activities in connection with the | arrest of two women at their residence | in Anacostia. A special committee was | named to inquire into the facts of the | case. BANKS IN SCHOOLS CREATE PROBLEN Kramer Says Loss of Con- fidence Hampers Resumption of Former Program. Public school officials today sought to draw a distinction between the two types of barking service enjoyed by public school pupils in the scheol build- ings, following the reply yesterday of Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent, to the American Bank- ers’ Association’s advocacy of school banking. Dr. Kramer, in a letter to W. Espey Albig, deputy manager of the associa- tion, with offices in New York, ex- pressed a feeling of pessimism toward any efforts to re-establish the confi- dence of school children in banking institutions which had cost them a| large percentage of the nearly $24.000 they had deposited in automatic tellers placed in school buildings by the Mount Vernon Savings Bank. Dr. Kramer said further that the school authori- ties “find it very difficult indeed to resume our prcgram with anything like the former enthusiasm and confidence.” It was pointed out at the Franklin Administration Building today that the aulomatic tellers are, in effect, slot vending machines in which children deposit their coins in exchange for stamps which they paste in their own “bank books.” On the other hand. the “school banks,” which are maintained in and operated by the high schools themselves as practice institutions for. the stu- dents, never have been closed. They have received deposits snd have made payments throughout the banking emer- gency. Some of these banks, however, had placed their funds in regular banks which did not open following the na- tional banking holiday. The division of funds was such, how- ever, school authorities have disclosed, that no pupil depositor lost a single penny in any of the school banks. The school banks whose funds were jeopard- ized and, in some instances, reduced by real bank mergers, saddled whatever losses they sustained on school activi- ties, such as cafeterias, athletic funds and drama funds. Pupil deposits were pajd 100 cents on the dollar. WOMAN HURT IN CRASH Hyattsville Resident’s Car Hits Railroad Viaduct. Mrs. Edith G. Crostwalt, 27, clerk in the Department of Agriculture, of. 212 Wine avenue, Hyattsville, Md., was seriously injured early this m her automobile struck one of the supports at the railroad viaduct, Rhode Island avenue and Seventh street northeast. Mrs. Crostwait was alone in her car when the accident happened. Samuel Hall, 144 North Carolina avenue south- east. took the injured woman to Sibley Hoespital surgeons . Crost- wait suffering from fractures of her jaw and a possible fracture of the skull. She also was suffering from concussion of the brain and theck. Her condition was reported criticel l Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, wno confessed to chloroforming and shooting her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, is shown as she trudged up the steps of the PFillmore police station in Chicago yesterday for questioning —A. P. Photo. 42 DISSRICT HOMES SAVED BY U. 5. AID $228,169 in Bonds, $1,631 in Cash Used, and 780 Other Loans Approved. Forty-two loans have been completed to residents of the District by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation to save homes from foreclosure, and 780 have been tentatively approved. Loans already made amount to $228,169 in | bonds and $1,631 in cash. Tabulation of the figures was com- pleted yesterday by the corporation and were based upon statistics at the close of business on November 17. Maryland cn the same day had received 308 loans, totaling $885,911 in bonds and $13,847 in cash. Virginia received 249 bond loans, to- taling $988,320, and 14 in cash, amount- ing to $18.823. In Washington the loans tentatively approved amount to $5.146435. Of these, 480, totaling $3.355,099, were ap- | streets to be roped off during congested | proved at a figure below the face value | cents or less, subject to general transfer of the mortgages. and 300. worth $1.- 791,336, were approved without any reduction. A total of 2.188 applications, amount- ing to $12,948.048, were rejected with- out an appraisal of the property in- volved because, merely from facts pre- sented in the application, they were manifestly ineligible under the home owners’ loan act. In addition to these, 123, totaling | $747.961, were turned down after an| appraisal had been made. Applicaticns were withdrawn by 273 individuals and firms, amounting to $1,629,625. Requests for lcans tentatively ap- proved in Maryland number 1,862, with a value of $4.907487. end in Virginia number 3,828, with a value of $8262.77 The average bond loan in the District amounted to $5,565 SOCIAL REFORMS FLAYED BY MOSES Former Senator Sees Prop- erty and Personal Rights Vanishing in Nation. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., November 25. —George H. Moses, former Republican United States Senator, addressing the | Psi Upsilon Centennial Convention yes- | terday, said “the rights of property, without regard to any moral context are being assailed” and the “problem of | agrarian domination and labor union supremacy confront us.” | The New Hampshire editor and one of his party's leaders spoke at the cb- | servance of the Greek letter fraternity | founding at Union College here Novem- | ber 24, 1833. | . He compared the present with this day a century ago. “Then there was much talk about | ‘the doilar of our daddy,’ now the ‘com- | modity dollar’ | though neither phrase is susceptible of simple explanation,” Mr. Moses asserted. | “Then the current proposal was to establish subtreasuries in which to house the Government's money: now the problem is to find one treasury suffi- clently plethoric to disburse the Govern- ment’s funds in every direction, Plans for Freedom. “Then the life of the individual was free: now it is hampered by laws regula- tory of even the most sacred of private relations. Then the President was openly receiving resignations from his cabinet by wholesale; now exits from | public life are made largely by stealth. “Then the national debt was in proc- ess of being completely paid off and an accumulated Treasury surplus was disbursed among the States, now the national debt is increas despite a misleading system of leral book- keeping. and such_public money as is disbursed to the States is by way of complicated advances or even direct doles. Then every man ‘fought shy of a known record of receiving public aid, today a place on the dole has become a point of honor. * * ¢ Sees Constitution Attack. “Then there was at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue an unchallenged fealty to the Constitution. now the Constitution is freely described as ob- solete by men who have sworn to up- hold it. Then Webster’s voice was fre- quently heard, now the echoes of his great doctrines are swallowed up in re- verberations from the internationalists “Then the blem of slavery was casting its prolonged shadow over the land, now the problem of agrarian domination and labor-union supremacy confront us.” RSN LINDBERGH DELAYS TRIP Aviator and Wife Remain in Las Palmas Until Monday. LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, November 25 (#).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who, with his wife, flew their big hydroplane here yesterday Ponta Del from 2 Azores, said today would remain until Monday. ‘The was the guest of honor ot & m in the Town Hall He thanke: orities for their hospitality. HULL HINTS TRADE PAGT WITH BRAZIL Secretary Indicates Agree- ment Would Soive Surplus Problem~of Two Nations. By the Assoclated Press. SAO PAULO. Brazil. November 25— Secretary of State Cordell Hull, here with the American delegation tp the Pan-American Conference, indieated today that commercial trade arrange- ments may be worked out between the Thitea States and Brazil. “Suitable trade arfangements by which my country can exchange sur- plus flour, automobiles and machinery for most of the surplus commodities of Brazil can_and should be worked out,” sald Mr. Hull. “I am sure that by bringing to bear mutually sincere pur- poses and intelligent co-operation. we will be able to build a sturdy trade structure in the future. “What is more important, by ime proving our everyday commercial rela- tions we can exert an even stronger joint influence in the cause of world peace.” Charles R. Cameron, American con- sul-general, greeted the Secretary of State and his party here on their ar- rival from Rio de Janeiro. ‘The group visited the famous Butane tan Snake Farm, called on Dr. De Salles Oliveira, Brazilian federal inter- ventor, lunched with the consul-general, and then went sight-seeing. PRESENT TRACTION TRANSFER SYSTEM WILL BE CONTINUED (Continued From data have been gathered covering operations under the unified system The order today by the commission, generally speaking, is approval of the street car-bus transfer plan as proposed by officials of the Transit Co. While there are several instances where free transfers now are given on. payment of a token fare, between streeet cars and busses, in most cases a 2-cent charge is made for such transfer This general system is continued for the two-month period. Provisions of Order.. ! The transfer order reads, in part “On payment of a 7!z-cent token fare on any street car line or any feeder b: irst Page.) has popular favor— ! line upon which a 7';-cent token fare [1s accepted and on which the trans- | fer privilege to street cars is now free, passengers will be issued a token fare {transfer which will be accepted for a continuation of the ride on any street car line, or on such feeder bus lines sub- |ject to general transfer regulations as i given herein. “On payment of the 10-cent cash fare for a ride on any street car line or bus line upon which the fare is not more | than 10 cents, passengers will be issued a cash fare transfer which will be ac- | cepted for a continuation of the ride {on any stret car line or bus line of the company on which the rate of fare is 10 | regulation as given herein. Two Cents on Transfers, “Passengers paying a 7!;-cent token | fare on those bus lines where a 2-cent | charge is now made for a transfer be- tween the bus line and connecting street car lines will be issued a token fare transfer upon the payment of 2 cents at the time the token fare is paid. A token fare transfer, when ac- companied by the payment of 2 cents, will be accepted on such feeder bus | lines for continuation of the ride, sub- | ject to general transfer regulations as given herein. “On those bus lines where the exist- ing rate of fare is 10 cents cash, or six tickets for 50 cents, passengers paying the ticket fare who now have the privi- lege of obtaining a tran<fer good at certain transfer points upon the pay- ment of a transfer charge of 2 cents. will have this privilege continued and extended to all established transfer points with connecting or intersecting stree: car or bus lines on which the fare is_not more than 10 cents. To accomplish this, a cash fare transfer will be issued to passengers paying the ticket fare and 2 cents, which transfer will be accepted for the continuation of the ride. subject to general transfer regulations * Return Passage Barred. The transfers will be good continuing rides but regulations are set up to pre- vent their use for return passag". Transfers will be good for between ore hour and one hour and a half from tre time they are issued. Transfers will be good for passage only if presented at a1 established transfer point or within one stop on either side of the established point. One reason for postponing any en- largement of the transfer privileges be- tween street cars and busses of the transit company was the question cf what effect will come from the use cf the two types of weekly fare passe, which has been approved by the com - mission. Use of these passes begins December 3. Expect Cut in Tranfers. Transit officials expect popular use cf the passes will cut the number cf transfers, which normally would be called for, at least in half. One of the passes will sell for $1 and will entitle their owners, during one week, to an unlimited number of rides on street cars and on bus lines where transfers between busses and street cars are free upon the payment of a token fare, and upon payment of 2 cents per ride, on bus lines where a 71;-cent token fare is charged and where transfers between busses and street cars are given on payment of 2 cents. The other pass will sell for $1.25 and will entitle the bearer to unlimited rides on either street cars or busses. except bus_lines having fares above 10 cents. ere- fore, the pasees will not be accepted on the Chevy Chase de luxe line. Bingham Gets Decree. LONDON, November 25 (#)—Amer- jcan Ambassador Robert W. Bingham received the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the University of London during a celebration last night of the institution’s foundation day. This was the first time the university has thus honored a foreigner. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band, this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Thundering Cannons”..Wacek Overture, 'Vludfl'\fi!". oo 0000 JKoppitz Entr'acte, “By the Waters of Min- netonka” ............. mtemezzo——”whlrpoorwi ..Ki Scenes from musical 'ly comedy, “Wood seresseaaa. .. Luders Chinese Patrol, “Tsao-Ming-Tu,” Mouto: Waltz Suite, “Woodland Dmmlgu i Finale, “There’s a Typical e “The Star Spangled Banner.” il . v