Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U S Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, slightly colder tonight, minimum 42 degrees; tomor- moderate west winds. Temperatures—Highest, 60, lowest, 51, at 6 am. today. temperature about row fair; yesterday; I report on page A-7. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages10,11&12 at 2 pm. b No. 32724 past office, Entered as second class matter Washington, 3 D. C. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. REPEAL BY 3 P [OMORROW DUE AS THREE STATES ACT Utah to Speed Ratification to Deliver Prohibition Death Blow. PENNSYLVANIA OR OHIO MAY BE THIRTY-SIXTH Honor of Ending Reign of Dry Law. By the Associated Press. Repeal of the eighteenth amendment may become an accomplished fact by 3 pm. (Eastern standard time) to- | morrow. Fear expressed in Utah—the thirty- sixth State to vote for repeal—that ©Ohio or Pennsylvania might attempt to claim the distinction of being the | thirty-sixth to ratify is quieted and; speedy action by the conventions of all three States was forecast. The Pennsylvania convention will meet at noon. The Ohioans are to get together at 1 p.m. One hour later (at noon, Mountain time) Utah's 21 delegates will con- vene in Salt Lake City. They expected formalities to require only an hour. The result will be rushed to Washing- ton, where President Roosevelt will proclaim the end of national prohibi- tion. “Must Be 36th.” Franklin Riter, Utah delegate, had advanced a plan for holding up the Utah vote in case any other State con- vention delaved action to become the conclusive 36th, “We are Cflsfl' to end national pro- hibition.” said Riter. “but not unti! we| are cerfain that Utah will be the 36th st Wul'e take omeial action Salt Lake City Delegate Demands | 'Beer Sales Curb and $1.10 Excise Threaten Maryland Law Accord Controversy Clouds Determination to| Enact Control Bill Today—Ritchie Firm on Tax as Budget Aid. BY GEORGE R. PORTER, Staff Correspondent of The Star | ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 4 —With | the controversial features of the State| liquor bill still to be debated in the| House, the General Assembly met this| afternoon determined that Maryland, the pioneer wet State, shall have a| liquor law before repeal. The principal points of controversy are: Shall sale of beer in Baltimore be | restricted to taverns or saloons? Shall the proposed $1.10 State excise tax be | retained in the bill? Insisting that beer continue to be sold as freely as under the present system, Gov. Ritchie served notice on a com- | mittee from the city's delegation last night that the weight of the adminis- ! tration’s influence will be thrown against any effort to restrict the. sale of beer. Yesterday the House passed the liquor bill to third reading, after adopting about 150 minor local amendments sub- mitted by the Ways and Means Com- mittee. Being a Senate bill, the meas- ure will remain open to amendment on third reading n the House. ‘The only proposal that aroused con- troversy on the floor of the House yes- terday was an effort by Miss Lavinia Engle, Montgomery County delegate, to strike' from “the bill a provision that liquor, beer and wine could be sold to minors if accompanied by their parents. After considerable debate, a compromise was reached whereby sale of beer and (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) DR DORAN RESIGNS ALCCHOL POSITION Federal Commissioner Will Head Code Authority for Distillers. By the Associated Press. | Dr. James M. Doran resigned today | as Federal commissioner of industrial alcohol to head the code authority for the domestic distillers. Effective tonight, the resignation will | be announced later by Joseph Choate. | jr. the new director of the Federal | Alcohol Control Administration. | Doran, former prohibition commis- | sioner, has been in the Government | service for 26 years. He entered it as | a chemist, Meanwhile, decision in the court action to prevent the issuance by Acting | Secretary William Phillips of the State Department of a proclamation announc- Richard J. Beamish, sectetary of th Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. said last night Utah was “welcome” to the honor. g | Gov. White of Ohio urged speedy rati- fication. Observers pointed out that, should any one of the three delay unduly,| Maine, recording its official vote Wed- | nesday, would be the 36th to ratify. Meantime, Associated Press dispatches from Waterloo, Ontario, said the first whisky shipment—a large one—to the United States from Canada under the new United States liquor laws, was sent | to New York by a distillery here. PENNSYLVANIA READY. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 4 (). | —1In 1919 they shouted “King Barley- corn is dead!” Tomorrow they'll inter prohibition, legally dead after 14 event- ful vears. And the rhythmic crash of the cock- tall shaker and the tinkle of highball glasses will proclaim that Pennsylvania again may take a drink without break- | ing the law. The Keystone State. home of rye| whisky famed the world over, plays an | important part in repeal day cere- monies. 3 | At noon the State's Repea] Conven- tion meets in the ornate Senate cham- ber for the formality of casting its vote for repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment. % Ohio and Utah, thirty-fifth and thir- ty-sixth States to go wet, hold their conventions at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. (East- | ern standard time), respectively—and | by 23 o'clock officials expect liquor to | flow. Dies With Vote. Washington has ruled that prohibi- | tion is dead the moment the thirty-sixth State casts its ballot. Lieutenant Governor Edward C. Shan- non presides at the Pennsylvania con-| vention, assisted by Boyd Hamilton, sec- |. Tetary of the Senate. Two copies of the vote certificate are | to be dispatched to Washington—one by airplane or swift motocycle and one by | registered mail. However, the result will be telegraphed to the State Depart- | ment immediately. Indications are that as early as Tues- day_afternoon, hotels. restaurants and | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) | COURT APPROVES FACTOR'S RETURN Supreme Body Upholds Lower Tri- bunal on Extradition to Britain. By the Associated Press. Extradition to England of John (Jake | the Barber) Factor of Chicago for trial on a charge of participating in an $8,000,000 swindle was approved today by the Supreme Court. The court upheld action of the Sev- | enth Circuit Court of Appeals directing | extradition. N . Fhctor fought extradition on the ground that the offense charged against him of having received money, knowing it was fraudulently obtained, was not a crime under the laws of Illinois and therefore not extraditable under the | who asked that Acting Secretary Wil: | ratified | Token on Debt Due December 15 treaty with Great Britain. | Since the extradition proceedings were | begun Factor and his son claimed to | have been kidnaped and held for ran- | % the request of the British govern- mant ‘Factor was taken into custody Chicago and held for extradition on ;ho charge he was a fugitive from jus- ice, He was charged with having . eceived | from the Broad Street Press, Lt £458,500, knowing it had been fraud lently obtained. | The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals declared the evidence disclosed Factor, under various aliases, was the central figure in operating a scheme under which approximately ~$8,000,000 had been fraudulently obtained from the Britich public, and that Factor had received much of it before coming to Illinois Several alleged accomplices Were ap- | r-regended. tried and convicted in Eng- nd. Justice Stone delivered the decision of the court which asserted the crime with which Factor was charged was “an extraditable offense.” Justice Butler dissented, protesting that under the ruling of the majority a citizen of this country could be sent to & foreign country for trial for an act which did not transgress any law of this | country, Pederal or State. I d., u- §.BY the Associated Press. Ing pepeal will be given tomtostou by Justice F. Dickinson Letts in the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court. Argument Heard Today. Argument of the case, brought by Canon William Sheafe Chase of Brook- lyn, N. Y., and George S. Duncan of this city. both of the International Reform | Federation, to prevent Acting Secretary Phillips from issuing the proclamation, was heard today by Justice Letts. District Attorney Leo A. Rover argued the petitioners had not suffi- cient legal interest to bring the action, that they had another and complete remedy at law, that the Secretary of State was not exceeding his jurisdic- tion, but was about to perform a man- datory act, and that the proclamation does not affect the validity of the amendment. Counsel for the reform leaders con- tended that unless the writ were is- sued, suits instituted in Vermont and | Pennsylvania contesting the validity of | the States’ action would be ended by the proclamation. The ratification in various States was attacked as unconstitutional by | counsel for Canon Chase, who said the | smendment could not be ratified by | pcpular referendum and instructed | delegates. Doran Slated to Be “Czar.” Under the distillers’ code, an author- ity is to be established by the distillers with a director. and members of the group insisted today that Doran would De their “czar.”. The court suit was brought by Wil- liam Sheafe Chase, superintendent of the International Reform Federation liam Phillips of the State Department be prevented from issuing the repeal proclamation. In many instances, Chase said, State conventions which the repealing amendment were not deliberative as the Consti- tution prevides. Phillips, summoned to make oral answer today, filed a brief in which he said the suit should have been | brought against the States. He added that repeal becomes effective, without his proclamation, when the thirty- sixth State convention ratifies the twenty-first amendment. The Federal regulatory machinery, which will operate until Congress en- acts necessary permanent legislation, meanwhile was being finished. Codes for distillers and importers were in effect, one for brewers went to the President for his approval and it is ex- pected to be signed tonight, hearings were ordered for today on another for " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) $1,000,000 MAY BE PAID UNITED STATES BY ITALY May Be Acceptable, View After Conference Here. By the Associated Press. After a conference between the Act- ing Secretary of State, William Phillips, and Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso | at the State Department today, it was generally credited in diplomatic circles that the Italian offer of a token of $1,000,000 in payment of debts due De- cember 15 would be acceptable to the United States. Phillips, however, declined to tell re- porters whether this Government had promised to accept the token. The Gebt payment due on December 19 15 $2,133,905. |{GOVERNMENT ASKED TO CREATE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC NEW YORK, December 4.—Uncle Sam was called upon today to take up the baton and eliminate the sour notes in American music. Creation of a Federal Department of Fine Arts to ald musical interests &s other divisions have assisted industry, agriculture and commerce, was sug- gested by Pierre V. R. Key, editor of the Musical Digest. Music in the United States is at the frequently mentioned crossroads, Key declared, one direction leading “to & consolidation of forces that guarantees a vast increase in the spreading of enjoyment and in music's civic use- fulness.” “Forced in the other direction,” he said, “music can be thrust into a corner from which, in this genera- tion, it may not easily emerge. Throughout the country musical en- i | according to its monthly report made | chase of home loan bank stock, | 545,700 | eredit corporations, $2,747,874. i cideration as the bricklayer.” RF.CDAWESBANK [OMISHELD ED0D Central Republic’s $90,000,- | 000 Papers Unrenewed. Considered Demand Notes. By the Assoclated Press. The $90.000,000 loan by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to the Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, headed by former Vice Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes, has never been Tenewed by the corporation. |Republics Forestall Deroga- {ANTI-INTERVENTION PLAN | United States | States in the Cuban response to be made Simuitaneous with this disclosure, it | was learned today, however, that cor-| poration officials now regard the loan as having the status of a demand note. | Although Chairman Jones and other | officials today declined to discuss the matter publicly. the understanding wa| given on the highest authority that the Bote is not considered in default Yhilg sonsidered as a noie i couig be called at any time, it was pointed | out that the corporation has never The loan made in December, 1932, was originally for six months and has been reduced to $62.157,596 85 through payment of $27.842403 on the prin- cipal and $2,283,958.95 in interest. Corporation officials also consider favorable the fact that the R. F. C. has | more complete control over the col- | callea any overdue loans. | lateral than if the note had been re- newed. In a letter to the Senate Banking Committee, after receiving a request | from it fom information on the loan, | Jones recently stated that the face value | of the collateral held for the loan on | November 21 was $91,633,679.96. There was no statement as to the present market value, since the collateral con- sist of about 7.000 items and is on deposit at the Faderal Reserve Bank of Chicago. | Subject of Comment. | | | The loan to the Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. has been the sub- ject of much comment in Congress. Dawes was president of the Reconstruc- tion Corporation until shortly before the | loan was made. Later the bank dis- continued its deposit bustness, but re- | mained as a trust company. | ‘The clerical force of the corporation has been working overtime on the cor- poration’s emergency loan program and Jones indicated today that unless the Senate committee is insistene, the clerks could not be spared from their regular | work to make up the collateral list. The committee is understood to be in- terested in learning how much Insull securities are included in the collateral for the loan. Meanwhile. Jones today announced that_applications from banks for sale to the corporation of preferred stock now number 1,500. Jones also announced that approved loans to irrigation. drainage and levee districts now total $13,424,667. These loans, he said, will discharge a total defaulted bond indebtedness, including past-due interest aggregating $36,- 610,660. | The Reconstruction Corporation, | which was organized February 2, 1932, has loaned a total of $3,453913,394, public today. Total loans and advances, excluding mandatory loans to Government agen- cies for relief and other purposes, authorized by the corporation since its | inception amount to $4,254,453348 of which $314,469,467 was withdrawn or canceled, with $1.014.652.068 remain- ing at the disposal of the borrowers. Repayments have totaled $986,844,212. The report, although setting forth in detail the advances made to banks, railroads, and the various Government agencies, did not give the amount of gold the corporation had purchased in its gold buying program. but it was known that up to last Friday $10,500.- 000 worth of domestic gold had been purchased. The following cash advances shown: Secretary of _Agriculture for loans $135,000,000. Secretary of the Treasury for were crop pur- $68,- Secretary of the Treasury for pur- chase of home owners' loan corpora- tion stock, $14,000,000. Loans on Farm Mortgages. Capital of rezional agricultural credit | corporations, $44,500.000. Expenses of ~regional agricultural Land bank commissioner for loans (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) terprises—symphony orchestras, operas —were rendering “financial blues” be- cause there was not the one-time obbli- ga‘o of coins clinking in box offices, Key said. “Can it be,” he asked, “that Con- gress is unmindful of the incalculable contribution these major symphony or- chestras, and the smaller orchestras, are making to the civic and cultural stability and progress of our people?” “Patriotism and a sense of justice” demanded, he asserted, should be set up a Government partment of Fine Arts as soon as prac- ticable. “Such' a departmen he added, “could be the means of bringing about employment opportunities for many. “It would seem that these Ameri- cans (musicians), most of them and women of superior talents and edu- cation, surely deserve as much con- | bruises or wounds of any kind on her ATTACKS UPON L. 3. ACTIVITIES N GUBA BARRED AT PARLEY tory Remarks Planned by Havana Delegation. NOT TO BE CONSIDERED President Terra of Uruguay Urges Lower Tariffs and Praises Roosevelt. By the Assoclated Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, December 4.—Representatives of a group of Amer- ican republics, which did not include the United States, designated the Co- lombian delegation today to inform the Cuban delegation that attacks on the in the Pan-American | Conference were not permissible. | The action was taken to forestall de- rogatory remarks against the United later in the day to the salutations of | Dr. Alberto Mane, foreign minister of | Uruguay. Dr. Mane's remarks were to be a more or less routine welcome to the repre- sentatives of the 21 American nations, and Cuba was chosen to respond to this salutation because of the custom that the last host to the conference make the reply. The last conference, that of 1928, was held in Havana. Cuba Prepares Response. The Cuban delegation prepared its re- sponse and submitted it in writing to| the conference secretariat. The action by the group desirous of preserving the amenities of the occasion followed. The Gubans Were Informed (hat at- tacks on the United States on this oc- 'Spend Morning Overhauling casion were not permissible, on the grounds of taste, regardless of other factors, and the Colomblans informed the Cubans that another nation would | be chosen to respond to Mane's greet- | ing uniess references to which the sec- | retariat_objected were tempered. | The Cubans have been projecting an | anti-intervention resolution, without | thus far, however, assurance of a suffi- cient majority of the delegates to favor its_consideration by the conference. The secretariat later decided Cuba would be allowed to make the response to Dr. Mane. | This action indicated the Cubans had | agreed to couch the address in terms | which would not be objectionable to| the conference or to the United States. Asks Long Moratorium, | Dr. Jose M. Puig Casauranc, foreign | minister of Mexico, revealed his na-| tion's intention to sponsor a 6-to-10- | ear pan-American moratorfum on pub- ic and private debts when he proposed (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) IRL IS FOUND DEAD AT PRINCESS ANNE Doctor Doubts Slaying, but| Sheriff Disputes Him, Or- ders Poison Search. By the Associated Press PRINCESS ANNE, Md., December-4. —The body of a 20-year-old white gLrl,, Miss Edna Morris. who had been miss- | ing since last Friday, was found by | two colored men in a wood 5 miles from Princess Anne today. Despite the statement of Dr. Harry Langford, who conducted an autopsy, | that there was no evidence the girl had been murdered, Sheriff Luther | Daugherty expressed the belief that such was the case. She was lying, face down in a pool of blood when found, and apparently had been dead for some time, Dr. Langford said the girl had not been attacked and there were no | body. After the autopsy. parts of the girl's stomach were sent away for a chemi- cal analysis to determine if she had been poisoned. Her relatives said they knew of no reason why she should commit suicide. The colored men who found the body lived in a house approximately 100 | vards from the place where it was | found. They were brought to Princess Anne immediately and one was released. What was done with the other could not immediately be learned. The place where the girl's body was found is on what is known as the Revels Neck road. Her father, Edward Morris, a farmer, said she did not return to the home Friday night, but the family was not unduly worried, believing she might have gone to visit relatives. The aisappearance, however, was re- ported to Princess’ Anne, but no search was made. Princess Anne was the scene of a lynching on October 18. A Negro. George Armwood, accused of attacking a white farm woman, was taken from the jail. hauled through the streets be- hind an automobile, strung up on a tree and then burned. indictments against the mob members were brought and last — ay Gov. Albert C. Ritchie sent troops to Salisbury, in an adjoining county, to arrest persons said by witnesses to have participated. A riot resulted and the troops were withdrawn. ~ Later the four persons under arrest were released on habeas corpus proceedings. THREE ARE FOUND SLAIN Husband Kills Estranged Wife, Mother-in-law and Self. CHARLESTON, W. Va, December 4 () —A husband, his estranged wife and mother-in-law were found mortally wounded by State troopers today in the ;ll?nm of Mrs. Isabell Smith at Snow Coroner W.“P. m'zork uk’lnd Arthus , 26, man, shot ?::‘m flledmhu wife, her mother, Mrs. Smith, and himself. Neighbors said Mrs. Quesenberry had returned to her mother’s nome a month fgnknnq had refused io ieturn to her | following their | attempts of the Lindberghs to take off | at_the colonial town. | the night and the transmission lines THANKS To UNCLE GEORGE NogRig OUR CODE CALLS FOR. ANOTHER. MONTH BEFORE THE BOSS CRACKS DOWN THE GAVEL ! LINDBERGHS PLAN HOP BEFORE NIGHT Plane for South Ameri- oan Take-0ff, B (0 AU P | BATHURST, Gambia. December 4 — Col. Charles A.. Lindbergh indicated early this afternoon that he intended to take off before night, presumably | on a transatlantic flight to South America. Mrs. Lindbergh assisted her husband as the flying colonel spent the morn- ing overhauling their big monoplane failure to leave the water last night. They made several futile attempts to take off bv moonlight and twice | under a broiling sun yesterday the American flvers were balked in efforts to hop westward because of unfavor- | :blr wipds and a too heavy load of | uel. | During the night they tried again, | to no avail. Then they decided to that conditions would be more to their liking. Night falls in Gambia shortly after sunset at 6 p.m. local time. Gambia is 45 minutes behind Greenwich time. Consequently, when it is 6 pm. at Bathurst, it will be 1:45 pm, E. 8. T. ADDED SECRECY GIVEN. Difficulty In Communicating Clouds Lindbergh’s Flying Plans. NEW YORK, December 4 (#)—For the second time in as many days the difficulties of communicating with the smallest and most northerly of the British West African dependencies gave | an added touch of secrecy to the fly- | ing plans of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. | Lindbergh early today. Yesterday word of two unsuccessful across the South Atlantic for Brazil from Bathurst, Gambia, was delayed in 1eaching the outside world because of | the operating hours of the cable office When it became known that the colonel planned a third attempt at dawn today (about Sunday midnight Eastern Standard Time) arrangements Were | made tc maintain contact throughout were reported up early today. | ‘The explanation of the lack of word from the West African village generally accepted here was that virtually all of the English population was assisting the colonel until he would lift his plane. If the necessary fresh winds had failed to develop it was thought that a motor launch or power boat might be used to roughen the waters of the Gambia River from which the Lind- berghs hoped to rise, This would be of assistance in a type of ship used by the | Lindberghs, but the operation would require some time. SPAIN IS PREPARED TO MEET REBELLION | State of Prevention, Akin to Mar- tial Law, Prevails as Troops Are Held in Readiness. By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 4—A state of | prevention, akin to martial law, pre- vailed throughout Spain today as a pre- caution against rebellious threats and disorders, Troops were in readiness at their bar- racks, assault guards were on the alert, and authorities considered an even more severe measure, a state of war. for Catalonia, as reports of an incipient revolutionary movement grew apace fol- lowing a Rightist landslide in Sunday’s Tepeat elections in 16 provinces. ‘The declaration of a state of preven- tion by the cabinet was in answer to re- of a syndicalist plot aimed at Spanish fl:hllc utilities. The congres- sional ng yesterday was in pro- vinces where nal elections earlier did not give the required 40 per cent vote to a single party. —_— LETICIA TALKS ADVANCE Colombia and Peru Discuss Terms of Border Settlement. Japan Aroused For Internat Fear Floating Islands Eventually Will “From Press to Home Within an Hour” 'The Star’s Carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are p! rinted. Saturday’s Circulation, 115,365 Sunday’s Circulation, 126,489 P Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. RODSEVELT 1S BACK FACING MONETARY TANGLE UNMOVED Mass of Statistics Awaits Him on Foreign and Do- mestic Conditions. {GOLD PRICE MAINTAINED AT PEAK, $34 AN OUNCE Morgenthau to Announce Figures on Recent Purchases of Federal Bonds. By the Associated Press. Taxes and Federal financing needs held the Treasury's attention today with President Roosevelt returning to the White Fouse apparently unpere turbed by public controversy over hig monetary policy. The President reached Washington at 11 am. after two weeks' vacation at Warm Springs, Ga With Mrs. Roosevelt he stopped for a moment on the rear platform to pose for photographers before departe ing for the White House. The President spent a quiet morne Ing reading on his special train. by Scheme ional Seadromes Menace Her in Pacific; Also Alarmed by Increase i BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The possibility cf constructing sea- | dromes in the Atlantic and Secretary laude Swanson’s report that America must build up within the existing naval agreements, a Navy second to none, has again roused a flurry in official Japa- nese circles. The floating seadromes, intended to facilitate commercial aviation between the United States and Europe, are be- ing carefully studied by the four in- terested departments, the State, War, Navy and Commerce. The type presented appears so far perfected that the realizations of hav- ing huge steel islands in the Atlantic for the purpose of permitting airplanes to land and refuel seems close at hand. To avoid international controversies, n U. S. Navy. | the idea has been put forth that these I ad A capua] o el g should be provided by all the nations intending to have a regular air service between Europe and the American Con- tinents. This plan would bring in be- sides the United States, Great Britain, France. Germany, Italy, Sweden, Nor- way and probably Spain. In this man- ner each of these nations would be directly interested in the steel islands and would have a direct interest and | probably an equal control of the ad- ministration of the seadromes, which could not be used for any military pur- poses. In theory, this would be an ideal so- lution and would avert political fric- | tion. As far as it can be ascertained. | the reaction of the foreign governments | T (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 000,000 J0BS HELD | await nightfall once more. in the hope | ANSWER T0 SMITh Ickes Holds P. W. A. Employ- ment Figures Speak for Themselves. By the Associated Press. Secretary Ickes thinks his announce- | the, Community Chest campaign army | ment that 2,993,360 men were employed | a stirring new slogan to spur them | under works allotments November 25| on in their drive for $1,945,000—"At-| should be sufficient answer to Alfred E. mith’s charge that the P. W. A. is a ailure.” Without mentioning the former New | York Governor by name, the P. W. A. chief announced that job-total figure and added: “The facts speak for themselves. No- | them to keep in the thick of the battle | |body can intelligently appraise the 4 » public works program without studying these figures.” First Reply Last Week. In his first reply to Smith’s criticism last week, Ickes remarked that the critic apparently felt the “coining of sarcastic phrases” would be “misunder- stood by sober-minded citizens for sound reasoning based upon a careful study of the fact.” Yesterday Ickes explained that of the 2,993,360 men at work, 347,623 were in the Civilian Conservation Corps and 1,183,267 employed under the Civil Works Administration’s $400,000,000 al- | lotn.ent. Furthermore, he said, all but $438.- | 118,960 of the P. W. A.'s $3.300,000,000 fund_had been ‘allotted. He did not (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) COUPLE SOUGHT IN VAIN Bloody Clothing May Be Clue to Fate of Missing Kansans. WICHITA, Kans., December 4 (#).— A far-flung searching party police esti- mated at 5,000 persons searched unsuc- cessfully in four border counties of Kansas and Oklahoma Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pritchard of Wichita, who have been missing since Novem- ber 23. 5 LI bloody dlothing, which may pro- vide a clue to their fate, was found 14 miles north of Blackwell, Okla. Previously the Pritchard motor car was found near Bristow, Okla. Police continued a search for Jack Wisdom, & farm hand, whe was re- ported seen with the Pritchards the day they disappeared. PERSHING APPEALS FOR CHEST DRIVE Gives Workers Stirring New Slogan in Effort to Spur Civic Drive. Gen. John J. Pershing today gave | tack Again.” Addressing the campaigners at a | luncheon in the Willard Hotel, Gen. Pershing spoke of the solicitors as | “comrades of the army of mercy” and, citing some of his war experiences to | illustrate the point, he called upon | until victory is achieved. The general of the armies was ac- | corded a tremendous ovation when he was introduced by Campaign Chairman | Frank J. Hogan. Hogan declared Gen. | Pershing. who headed the governmental ‘unit in a previous Chest drive, had been “drafted” by Robert V. Fleming to lend his aid in this year's extended | campaign. | Calls for Courage. | Pershing said he was grateful for the | opportunity to participate in the cur- | rent crusade and he stressed that this campaign calls for greater courage than any of the others. Tabulation of returns today showed that $34,794 has been subscribed since last Wednesday, bringing the grand total to $1429,571. This leaves a deficit of $415,665 to be wiped out by the end g{ the extended campaign next Thurs- ay. “We all know,” Gen. Pershing said, “that the necessity for achieving the campaign goal is greater this year than ever before. We must not fail. “I am sure all of us are carrying in our minds a picture of some of the destitute individuals—old and young— who will suffer misery unless the full sum is contributed. “To my mind there is no such word as fail. I hope all of you will blot out that word from your minds and your vocabulary.” Gen. Pershing told of an incident during the Russo-Japanese War, when the Japanese Army was facing a criti- cal situation. An aide advised the Japanese commander that his army had been repulsed. The general's only reply Was “Attack again,” Three or four times the aide returned with advice (Continued on Page 2, Column 7 MIDSHIPMAN CONFINED TO BRIG FOR ARDENT KISSING IN PUBLIC One of the eight midshipmen Bow in the brig at Annapolis as a result of too much exuberance at the Army-Navy game is still wondering whether the kiss which he bestowed on a girl in Philadelphia Saturday a week ago was worth the price. The d the midshipman is still paying it—consists of 40 demerits and a 's!auro!d\ltylb?ndmz or “un- fellow prisoners harged with the more serious offense of possessing whisky. The whisky was said to have been taken from them as they ey about to Pive other middies are in the brig Ready for the Chief Executive werq | new figures on domestic and internas tional economic conditions, portrayed from the viewpoint of the Governe ment's gold purchases. Lacking, howe ever, were official indications of any shift in the gold plan. Gold Kept at $34.01 Price. ‘Government gold buying entered thg | sixth full week today with its pealg price of $34.01 an ounce maintained for the third successive day es the dollag showed new strength on foreign exe changes. The Reconstruction Corporation toe day reported purchases of $10,400,000 of domestic gold mentioned for new The Iast three da The foreion gold situation was kest secret. Chairman Jones of the cor- poration has _consiste: disclose the amount p: Jones today declined comment upon reports that the price might be stabilized at $34 Asked how soon the gold board planned to bring the price to $41.34, which would be exactly twice the Treas= ury's buying price of $20.67 fixed by law, Jones merely laughed Last week the R. F. C. offer for newly-mined gold was boosted 25 cents. During that time the dollar showed une usual strength abroad, a trend that cone tinued today. It opened in London at $5.191% to tk pound. At this ievel bar gold wes bringe ing $32.38 an ounce. From its opening, however, the dollar strengthened rapidly to $5.14. Before the day is out, Morgenthan |promised to announce last week's | Treasury purchases of Governmeng bonds, a policy begun when the Fede eral Reserve System halted open mare ket buying. In the preceding week, Treasury bond purchases amounted to $8.748,000. |~ Just ahead was the Treasury problem | ot borrowing more than $700,000,000 ] to meet December 15 maturities., Receives Statistics. Statistics dealing with all phases of the gold-buying program, purchases abroad and at home, prices and, it is understood, some confidential informae tion on the gold stocks of other m: tions were delivered to the Chief E | ecutive at Warm Springs by Eugens Black, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, last Wednesday. Otherwise, it was said, the Chief Executive has been kept appraised only of major develope ments | The Government's newest financial system—the Federal Home Loan Banks —developed rapidly in the last twa | weeks with the granting of 13 new charters to give the system a total of 33 members in 13 States. These banks, known as Federal save ings and loan associations, are being developed for the purpose of financing | new home building. They are organized | with the joint use of local and Federal | funds and are conducted by local busie ness men or other interested loca} groups. |~ Indicating an even more rapid future growth, John H. Fahey. chairman of the board, announced 49 applications to form associations had been approved in the last two weeks to bring the total of applications to 135 in 29 States, | Fahey also sald hundreds of business men from all over the country were inquiring as to procedurc and purpose, No payments were mined metal in | KING WILL PRESS FOR FEDERAL FUNDS | Plans to Confer With Public Works Officials on Municipal Cen- ter Grant. Chairman King of the Senate Distric§ Committee plans to call on officials the Public Works Administration tomer: Tow to see if there is any chance fof the District government to obtain grant of Federal funds asked for to go forward with the bullding of the firs§' unit of the Municipal Center project. ‘The Utah Senator has been activelyl supporting the application of the Co missioners for this project and I week issued a formal statement empha= sizing his belief that the Federal Gove ernment should aid the District to-tl the District has been put to in planning the Municipal Center on a scale that would harmonize with the bullding activities of the Federal Government ony the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, He also pointed out in that statement that the Federal Government eventually will include the present District Build= ing in the Federa’ building group in triangle and that the taking over of that building would offset the grant of funds asked for the District at this time, Guide for Readers Amusements ., Comics .....