Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1934, Page 1

WEATHER WO Weather Buises oty bably o and tomorrow Porecast ) onal Tain tonight not much change In tem Ature, lowest tonight about 80 degrees aL3% pm emperatures Highest, 71 yosterday lowest 47, at Pull report on pabe A-11 Gt No. Entercd 33,076. PROBE OF BUTLER'S “FASCIST" CHARGES| Congressional Body Recalls Bond Salesman, Said to Have Made Offer. GENERAL’S ACCUSATION N. Y. Markets,Pages 17,18&19 second cl post office, Washing SECRECY SHROUDS b am. today he Fn matter . D C. Monarch of Rumania esents Slight by British Rulers. HELEN IS INVITED Sister Also Ignored, but Ex-King George Is Asked. HELD PUBL‘C'TY STUNT By the Associated Press. Committee Also Studies Commu- nistic Activities Among Fur Industry Workers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 21.~Behind a thick veil of secrecy, the Congres- BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 21.—King Carol, it was learned today, resents a royal slight offered him by the King and Queen of Great Britain through their failure to invite him to the wedding of Princess Marina and Prince George. Carol was said by friends to feel that since the British rulers invited Princess Helen, his estranged wife, to attend the wedding, royal etiquette required them to ask him also. Although Carol is Marina’s uncle, he sional Committee on Un-American | i not sending her a wedding present. Activities called Gerald C. MacGuire, a Wall Street bond salesman, to testify further today in connection with Gen. Smedley D. Butler's purported charge of a “Fascist plot” to create a United States dictatorship. Gen. Butler's story given to the com- mittee yesterday was dubbed “a pub- licity stunt,” “silly.” “perfect moon- shine” and ‘“amazing” by various prominent men whose names have been drawn into the story. Prior to calling MacGuire, to resume his testimony begun before the com- mittee yesterday, the committee studied briefly “certain aspects” of alleged Communist activities among workers of the fur trade industry. Chairman John W. McCormack of the committee did not divulge details but it was understood the committee planned to look into the organization of fur workers and past worker activities. Left Ranks of A. F. of L. Recently an organization of fur workers left the American Federation of Labor to affiliate with the Needle Trade Workers' Industrial Union, of which Ben Gold is national secretary. The move was understood to be a left wing shift. It was also learned today that the committee’s investigation of the C. C. C. camp at Elkridge, Md., had some connection with-the hearing of Gen. Butler's reported “Fascist plot.” Capt. Samuel Glazier, camp commandant, testified before the committee yester- day in what was understood to be “collaboration” with the committee’s study. The committee had previously investigated the camp. ‘While the atmosphere surrounding the hearing has been thick with con- Jjecture, the most popular conception of the camp connection with the dic- tatorship “plot” has been to regard the camp as the “concentration point” for the supposed “Fascist” army be- fore moving on Washington. Committee Is Silent. Members of the committee refused to divulge the nature of any of the testimony and met the majority of inquiries with lifted eyebrow or invi- tation to “draw your own conclusions.” MacGuire labeled Gen. Butler's story a “publicity stunt,” devoid of truth. Chairman McCormack and Repre- sentative Samuel Dickstein, vice chairman, heard Gen. Butler for more than two hours yesterday and said later that Butler had repeated most of the statements attributed to him in a newspaper story in which details of the “plot” were given. Both mem- bers said Gen. Butler made it clear he had flatly rejected all proposals made by the “Fascist” group. MacGuire was named by the former Marine Corps officer as the man who urged him to head the Fascist army. MacGuire testified before the commit- tee after Gen. Butler and on leaving the committee hearing denied the truth of Butler's charges. “Our attitude is that it's all a joke, & publicity stunt by Butler,” said Mac- Guire. “His statements are untrue. There never was such a plot. Any- thing he says must have been made up out of whole cloth, out of his own mind.” Johnson Never Approached. Col. Grayson M.-P. Murphy, head of the brokerage house employing Mac- Guire, characterized the charges as “silly.” ®Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former N. R. A. administrator, commenting on a report that Butler had told friends in Philadelphia that Johnson was scheduled to be dictator, said: “He had better be pretty careful Nobody said a word to me about any thing of the kind, and if they did I'd (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) A.T. &T. WILL PAY REGULAR DIVIDEND More Than $42,000,000 to Be Distributed to 680,000 Shareholders. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 21:—Amer- fcan Telephone & Telegraph Co. di- rectors today ordered the usual quar- terly dividend of $2.25 on capital stock. The dividend calls for the distribution of more than $42,000,000 to the com- pany’s 680,000 shareholders. The dividend declared today is pay- able January 15 to stock of record De- cember 15. To pay the dividend the company will have to draw upon its reserves, &5 it has been doing at regular quarterly intervals since 1931. Earnings of the company itself for the first nine months this year amounted to $4.83 & share, against $543 for the similar period last year, and for the Septem- ber quarter the profit was equal to $1.51 a share, compared with $1.88 & share in the comparable 1933 period. Not since 1931 have the earnings for the year been sufficient to cover the $9 dividend. The company has paid dividends of $9 annually since 1922. -— Ttalian Aviation Studied. ROME, November 21 (#).—Rex Martin, assistant chief of the Bureaus of Air in the Department of Com- merce at Washington, arrived today to study Italian civil aviation. He had an apoointment this afternoon with Undersecretary of Air Gen. Valle, | 1 The Rumanian King, friends as- serted, feels doubly piqued because the "WVASHINGTON, CAROL IS SNUBBED IN BIDS TO MARINA-GEORGE RITES KING CAROL OF RUMA; | British royal family also ignored his | sister, Princess Elizabeth, whose hus- band, the former King George of Greece has been invited to the Lon- don nuptials. This attitude of indifference toward “(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) WOMAN ACCUSED AS TRUNK YIELDS 3 BABIES' BODIES {Homicide Charged to For- mer Teacher, Who Stored Luggage in 1932, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 21.—Dis- | covery of the bodies of three infants in a trunk which had been checked‘w in a Brooklyn warehouse on July | 15, 1932, was disclosed today in the line-up at police headquarters. The discovery led to the arrest of a woman who identified herself | as Ruby Clarke, 36, of Rocky road, Upper Nyack, N. Y. Questioned in | the line-up, she said the trunk be- | longed to her, but denied she had known what it contained. | Since the Summer of 1932 the trunk had gathered dust in the ware- house, located at 25 Lexington ave- nue, Brooklyn. Suspicious workmen finally opened it and made the find yesterday. Police speedily traced ownership of the luggage. % Suspect Is Widow. Miss Clarke said that she was mar- ried 16 years ago to & man named Mahod and that on his death six years later she resumed her maiden | name of Clarke. At the time she sent the trunk to | the warehouse she lived at 1000 Pres- ident street, Brooklyn. Miss Clarke said she was a graduate of Vermont Teachers’ College and that she taught school in Vermont prior to 1924. After that and until three years ago, she said, she was employed as a bookkeeper by various Long Island | banks. | Upon learning Miss Clarke's present | address, police communicated with her parents and learned she was on a hunting trip near Lake George, N. Y./ Detectives got in touch with her and | she returned voluntarily last night. Calm During Grilling. The condition of the three bodies prevented immediate determination of their age or sex. Miss Clarke appeared composed | during quizzing by Inspector Joseph Donovan. Miss Clarke is under arrest on a charge of homicide, brought against her by the district attorney's office | last night. | When she sent the trunk to the warehouse, Miss Clarke said, it con- tained an accumulation of miscel- lany—some pictures, books and a few articles of clothing. She had been paying $4 a month storage on the trunk, she said, and also on som® furniture there. | Police reported that the woman had | pointed out to them that the lock | on the trunk was defective, and that it was bound only by a-strap. The prisoner. a woman of medium | height, was well groomed and taste- fully dressed. REICH MARKS “BUSSTAG” Day of Repentance Set Aside as National Holiday by Hitler. BERLIN, November 21 (#).—"Buss- | tag,” or the day of repentance, was set aside as a legal holiday today as a result of an order by Chancellor Hitler. All stores and businesses were closed, and no papers were printed. The day was given up to devotional exercises, and visits to cemeteries in honor of the dead. Organ recitals | nine-power and four-power treaties, "IN RAILWAY ATTACKS furnished serious music, but dancing was forbidden. Plateau Found by Byrd’s Pilot Believed Andes-Antarctic Link By the Associated Press. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, November 21 (via Macky Radio).—A vast new plateau, “flat as the plains of Kansas,” was added today to the maps of the Byrd Expedition. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd said he believed the area was the long- sought link between the Andes ranges of South America and the mountains of West Antarctica. The discovery was made by an aerial survey crew under Harold June, chief pilot. Members of the expe- dition said the flight broadens Amer- ican claims in the area, east and south of the Edsel :"1: l:-:nle and adjoining Marie Byre nd. An airplane piloted by June trav- eled for some 270 miles over the plateau two days ago, on an eight- hour hop. He did not fly completely across it, ) P BRITAIN PRESSES FOR COMPROMISE Discussions With Envoys of Tokio Probable to Evolve New Plan. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 21.—“Outside” questions dominated tri-power naval| negotiations today, negotiations whlch“ naval and diplomatic circles said are | on their deathbed. A British-Japanese meeting was | probable for a further discussion of | questions outside the main naval prob- lems on which the two and the United States might be able to agree, It was considered unlikely the Brit- ish would make any move toward sug- gesting a new compromise plan for a naval treaty until after discussions with the Japanese. Both Washington | and Tokio rejected the previous Eng- | lish compromise plan. Building Notice Asked. Great Britain is trying to get the powers to approve a separate agree- ment stating each would notify the others of all building plans in case they are unable to agree upon a treaty. In addition. the Britons are taking | up additional questions with the| Japanese. Japan has rejected one— a separate agreement guaranteeing; peace in the Pacific and the integrity ! of China if there is no new naval| treaty—on the grounds it would com- plicate discussions of the main issue. Would Save Principles. The English move was regarded as| an effort to save the principles of the which are a part of a general col- lateral treaty arrangement entered into at Washington. London felt these pacts might be junked by Japan if no new naval accord is signed replacing the Washington and London treaties. Should the talks, preliminary to the 1935 naval conference, break dow: REBELS ARE HUNTED Mexican Insurgents Are Believed | to Be Followers of Gen. A. J. Villarreal. By the Associated Press. MEXICO, D. F. November 21.— Federal troops pursued two groups of rebels today, believed to be followers of Gen. Antono I. Villarreal, and charged with widely separated revo- lutionary atacks on railways. Villarreal. who has been in hiding since his defeat in the July presiden- tial elections, was reported to be some- where in the state of Mexico, prepar- ing definite plans for a revolution an- nounced in a manifesto issued some weeks ~go and signed with his name. Followers here have denied the gen- eral planned a subversive movement. A well-armed group of insurgents, it was learned, tore up tracks near Maltrata, on the Vera Cruze-Puebla state boundary, wrecking a freight train in a tunnel yesterday. ‘The other attack took place near Lampazos, Nuevo Leon state. Two bridges were burned down shortly be- fore the international train from La- redo, Tex., reached that point. The attackers also destroyed telephone lines. “As flat as the plains of Kansas” was the way June began a descrip- tion of the area in a radio message to the base. But most of the glisten- ing land was at an elevation of 4,300 ‘The flight added to geographical in- formation gained by Byrd on a flight November 15 and extended and con- solidated discoveries of two previous Byrd expeditions. In Admiral Byrd’s opinion the dis- covery indicated the Andean Moun- tain system, which swings eastward in the vicinity of Tierra del Fuego and runs in a sweeping curve under the Southern Ocean to Graham Land, goes westward across the rim of West Antarctica to join the Edsel Ford Range. A theory is held it may pass again under the sea and reappear in New Zealand. L D. C, ON JAPAN'S NAVY' { made public today, is in the form of | & memorandum to the people’s counsel WEDNESDAY, TELEPHONE RATES PARLEY MAY FREE §1,000000BY YULE Conference Called Tomor- row on Settlement of 10% Reduction Order. NEW SCHEDULE GIVEN UTILITIES COMMISSION Regulatory Body Refuses to Com- promise Court Victory in Fixing of Future Charges. ‘The outcome of the 10 per cent reduction in telephone bills ordered by the Public Utilities Commission two years ago probably will be set- tled at a conference between the | commission and officials of the Ches- apeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to- morrow morning. The commission announced today it had completed its study of the offer made by the telephone company of a new set of rates designed to absorb a 10 per cent reduction in bills in the future. The rates offered by the company, however, were not made public. Meanwhile, the commission and People's Counsel William A. Roberts {both made public statements indi- Iratmg the stand they would take in their negotiations. Commission Is Firm. ‘The commission’s position is that | it does not propose to compromise in jany way the victory it won in Dis- trict Supreme Court when the court sustained its 10 per cent reduction order. The new rates, if they are to be acceptable, must “lie within the bounds of reason of the 10 per cent.” Roberts’ position is that the com- pany must dismiss its appeal from the lower court now pending in the | United States Court of Appeals for the District before he will agree to any set of rates for the future. He also insists the rates must accomplish a horizontal 10 per cent reduction. If a settlement is reached tomorrow, | it will mean that before Christmas $1,000,000 in cash or credit will be on | its way back to present and past telephone subscribers in the way of | reductions dating back to October, 1932, and also reductions of 10 per cent either as discounts or by the substitution of a new set of rates for the future. The statement of the commission, dated October 22 last, at the time when the telephone company first made overtures to the commission about withdrawing their appeal. | Roberts’ statement was dated October 23 and was the reply to the commis- sion’s statement. Commission’s Reaction. The commission's memorandum, signed by its chairman, Riley E. Eigen, said: *“Last Tuesday I asked you (Roberts) to come down to my office to discuss the status of the Chesapeake & Poto- mac Telephone Co. case now pending in the Court of Appeals. You were informed that, in our judgment, the officials of the telephone company were in the mood to drop this suit. “You were also informed that they came to us to discuss the terms on which this suit might be dropped and that the company had been told that in view of the fact that we were forced into a court action by them, and the further fact that the court had sustained our order in all its particulars, so far as the commission was concerned, it did not propose to compromise in any way, shape or form the victory which had been won through the sustaining of its order * * *, and that the only terms which we would consider would be the refunding of the money due to the people which had been impounded pending the conclusion of this case and the reduction of rates in accord- ance with our order, which had been sustained by the court. “They stated that they would like to file a system of rates which would effectuate the desired results of our order. We informed them that such a rate schedule might be submitted, but that it must lie within the bounds of reason of the 10 per cent with re- spect to any particular rates.” Roberts’ Statement. The text of Roberts’ statement fol- lows: “In response to your communica- tion of this date in which you suggest that the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. contemplates dismissing its appeal, it would appear to me that the only basis for such dismissal would be an unqualified abandonment of the appeal and the compliance with the decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. “Paragraph 2 of that decree affirms Order No. 1072 as amended. The amendment in Order No. 1077 was merely as to date. - “Order No. 1072, as amended, pro- vided: “‘That on all bills rendered for telephone exchange service to be fur- nished after the 10th day of October, TR POLICE IN DETROIT ERR IN PORNOGRAPHIC RAID “Life Begins at Forty” and ‘“Capt. Nicholas” Are Seized by Officers’ Squad. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 21.—An as- sistant prosecuting attorney, Howard Bowman, was somewhat puzzled today when he found that a police raiding squad, in search of pornographic mat- ter, had seized, among others, such books as “Life Begins at Forty” and “Captain Nicholas.” The raid was on a downtown circu- lating library. Bowman said that while “a lot of the books aren’t obscene at all and confiscating them was just an error resulting from ignorance, the police did get material on which it may be possible to make a case.” Police have been camj vig- orously against pornography beca of a series of sex crimes, climaxed by the slaying of 11-year-old Lillian Gal- laher last September, apparently by .8 degenerate, ) 7 enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION {on Federal relief rolls, 21, 1934—FORTY PAGES. o Star NOVEMBER Lt The only evening paper In Washingt Associated service, mowith I'ress the News Yesterday's Circulation, 125,602 Rome Retuins Not Yot Recei: od —— P Means Associnted P TWO CENTS, | | | | ! i | ! | | | | U.5. TOBANDIRECT RELIEF IN GEORGIA Federal Director Says All Must Work for Funds After November. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA. Ga., November 21.—Miss Gay B. Shepperson, relief adminis- trator for Georgia, announced toda,\" that, effective December 1, there will be no direct relief in the State. | It means that 22.000 able-bodied bread-winners now receiving direct relief from the Federal Government | will have to work for their share of relief funds, she explained. | Pointing out classed as employables are now on | work relief rolls in Georgia, Miss Shep- | person said the new policy of the administration would increase this number to 72.000 in December. Work Projects Urged. In a letter to county relief adminis- trators and district engineers she asked that “socially sound and con- | structive projects” be submitted im- | mediately to insure opportunities for work for all clients. | “This will not involve additional funds to your county, as workers will | receive necessary budgetary needs | which they have previously received,” she wrote them. | Miss Shepperson explained that the | money now received by the 22,000 em- | ployables on direct relief will be paid out on work relief projects, adding “but they will have to work for it.” She said Federal relief to approxi- | mately 13,000 others classed as un- | employables—people unable mentally and physically to work—will be dis- continued on January 1, but that dur- ing December direct relief may be continued to these people who are| already on relief rolls “in such coun- | ties where an agreement has been made with the county commissioners for their support.” $13 Per Family. Based on the approximately 85.000 employables and unemployables now the average relief is $13 per family per month in Georgia for both direct relief and work projects, she said. “As far as Georgia is concerned.” Miss Shepperson added, “we are not in a hole on unemployables.” About 50 per cent of the direct re- lief, she stated, is being derived from counties and cities, with the various receipts from these sources amounting to about $100.000 per month. The administrator said that be- tween 400,000 and 500.000 people in Georgia are now on the relief rolls. COMMISSARY DEMOTED French Government Acts for Fail- ure to Report Rumors. PARIS, November 21 (#).—A wave of alarmist rumors that caused ex- treme nervousness on the Bourse yesterday resuited in the demotion today of a special police commissary whose duty it was to keep the gov- ernment informed of such events. He is charged with failure to report any failure to halt rumors of dissen- sion in the cabinet and the govern- men's supposed decision to mobilize suddenly two classes of reserves for military duty to face German re- armament. Most of the stocks on the Bourse sank. e DUTCH FLYERS CHEERED Aviators Who Won Race to Aus- tralia in Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM, November 21 (#).— K. D. Parmentier and J. J. Moll, the Dutch aviators who won the recent handicap air race from London to Melbourne, landed their American (Douglas) transport plane here today to the cheers of 50,000 persons. After a reception by the premier and other cabinet ministers, the two flyers drove in state through Amster- dam, the main streets of which were renamed “Univer street” and “Univer place, for the day in their honor. They had christened their plane Univer. Boris Expelled by Spain. IRUN, Spain, November 21 (#)— Boris I, self-styled pretender to the throne of Andorra, was expelled from Spain today. A policeman, who ac- companied him to the border was the “royal escort.” Boris had been sentenced to jail as an undesirable alien, who had viplated an expulsion order, following his announcement of plans for the reorganization of the world's tiniest republic. ) J.P.MorganSays Less Excitement Better for U. S. Limits Observations on Return From Four Months in England. By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, November 21.—J. P.| Morgan, back home today from a long vacation in England. had this to say of conditions in the United States: “We could do with less excitement.” That was the extent of his com- ment on domestic affairs “I am out of touch with things here,” the .nternational banker ex- plained to ship news reporters. He had more to say about Eng- land, where he spent four months “There has been a steady, quiet, he said. “They have done best with internal economy. They were ful how their money was spent. spent carefully, you know.” He nad “a great ume’ he said,| shooting grouse in England. The weather was good, the wind right and the birds were plentiful. ALLEN RIDICOLES NUMBERS DUPES Silly to Play Sucker Game, He Says, in Lauding Star’s | Campaign. | their care- They “It’s silly to be a sucker™ So states Commissioner George E. HOPKINS ASSALLS HOUSING DECISION | Sees Flaws in McCarl Ruling Blocking Low-Cost | Project Here. While. Commissioner Allen was | studying means of obtaining approval for his plan to build low-cost housing | for District relief families, Federal | Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins made a vigorous defense today of the plan to use relief funds for acquiring real estate and constructing low-cost | houses. Hopkins evidenced no intention of | abandoning the project despite an that 50,000 people | economic imvrovement in England,” | opinion by Controller General McCarl | cess of the drive as a whole. | that such use of relief funds is il- legal. “Unnecessary.” Says Hopkins. McCarl's ruling was handed down CHEST SOLICITORS PRESS CAMPAIGN AS SUCCESS NEARS $1,675,000 Goal Expected to Be Reached Tonight at Final Meeting. $269,844 SEPARATES WORKERS FROM QUOTA Number of Subscribers Totals 124,310, Largest in History of Organization. HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED? If you have not already been solicited and wish to contribute to the Community Chest Phone Metropolitan 2284, Community Chest headquarters, and a volunteer solicitor will call immediately for your contribution The most successful Community Chest campaign here since the begin- ning of the depression secmed as- sured today as an army of nearly 6.000 volunteer Chest workers ene tered the home stretch of a race against time, with a qucta of $1.6 000 as their goal. To make the campaign a complete success. the workers must raise $269.- 844.09 betore the opening of the final report meeting of the drive at 7:45 o'clock tonight in the ball room of the Willard Hotel. This is a greater amount than has been raised in a single day since the close of the first Chest drive six years ago. It was pointed out, however. that last Friday the volunteers turned in $255.620 and | Chest leaders were hopeful that the | drive would close tonight with most, if not all. of the quota in hand. Gen. Pershing Gives $1,000. Campaign Chairman Rust today received a cablegram from Gen. John J. Pershing, now in Paris, pledging | $1.000. } It was announced that the Army Band will play tonight at the final report meeting, assisting in the cele- bration of the victory of the govern= mental unit and of the unusual suce The Navy Band Orchestra helped celes brate at vesterday's final noonday re- port meeting. Even should the last-minute returns fail to show the full quota raised, in the case of an outright grant of | Chest workers were confident they $383,484 to the District by the F. E.| R. A. A specific order to spend money for housing is not necessary, Hopkins contended, in view of section 4 of the relief act, which gives the ad- ministrator authority to determine the purpose for which available ex- | penditures may be made. “The acquiring of a site and the construction of a house is justified, | if not specifically authorized,” Hop- | kins said, ‘since it is within the classification of relief, work relief, or relieving hardship and suffering | caused by unemployment, which are| the purposes for which grants are! authorized. Defends Housing as Relief. “It is submitted that the grant of the funis in guestion comes within the classificatio. mentioned. The construction of the building itself will furnish employment for those who would otherwise be unemployed, and furnish work relief. It would, further- | would be within $100,000 of the quota. They are hopeful that the “backwash" of late returns which comes in every year will carry the 1934 campaign over the top if the goal is not reached tonight. There will be no extension of the drive Campaign Chairman H. L. Rust, jr.,-has ruled. When the final midday report meeting of the campaign closed yes- terday afternoon it was found that $1.405,155.91 had been raised. or 83.89 per cent of the quota. This total represented the gifts of 124310 in- dividuals or organizations, the largest number in Chest history. A Success, Says Rust. “No organization which enlists the interest and gifts of that many peo- ple in Washington can be anything but an outstanding success,” Chair- man Rust said. Yesterday's report meeting was the last of eight similar midday sessions Allen who, after reading the expose more, in supplying decent living quar-, Which have served to mark the day- made by The Star. believes that many | ters at low rentals constitute relief | to-day progress of the drive. plavers of the numbers game are hav- | ing their eves opened and are coming to the needy. “The inability of the needy and un- The total of nearly 84 per cent of the | quota which was in hand at the close to the belief that “it's silly to be a employed to obtain a decent place to | Of yesterday’s meeting compares with sucker.” ; “At first.” Allen said, “I was in- clined to be slightly skeptical about a campaiagn aimed at the breaking up of a human frailty. but after fol- lowing The Star and seeing what has been done, especially with the co- operation of other newspapers and vinced that a great deal of good has been accomplished. “The numbers game is a racket. Persons who play it have little or no chance of winning. They are just " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) LESTER GIVEN POST Named Secretary by Board of Car- negie Corporation. i NEW YORK, November 21 (#)— The Carnegie Corp. of New York, cre- ated by Andrew Carnegie for the pro- motion of education, announced today the election of Robert M. Lester as | secretary to fill the vacancy caused by | the death of James Bertram. | The board of trustees, in addition | to naming Lester. re-elected Elihu Root as chairman and Robert A.| Franks as vice chairman. Aid to Farm Problem Solution Is Seen in Two New Molecules By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, November 21.—Two | new molecules, which give scierice a | new clue to the process on which all | life depends—conversion of the sun's energy into chemicals—were described | today before the National Academy of Sciences. They seemingly play a leading role in converting sunlight into the energy of life. These molecules are believed to be “transformers” in the process of life, turning the energy of the sun’s light into food that keeps all life going, from humans down to the smallest insects. There is good evidence that they include chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of plants, combined with earbon dioxide and a protein- like substance. They were Teported to the academy by Dr. O. L. Inman of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. These new molecules also represent another step toward the time when the “farm problem” will be solved by abolishing the raising of crops and substituting synthetic foods and other plant products, grown under “artificial suns” far more efficiently than Nature can do it. Such a development in the future is conceivable though still re- mote, said Dr. Inman. A - live is one of the most serious conse- quences of the present emergency. It seems clearly within the power of the administrator to relieve the situation by providing for low-cost and hence low-rental apartments. Rents are paid as a method of direct relief, and the prapriety of such payments could HULL MAY RECEIVE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE {Many American Organizations Have Recommended Him for Award on December 10. By the Associated Press | STOCKHOLM, November 21 —The possibility that Cordell Hull. American | Secretary of State, would be awarded the Nobel peace prize, was seen here today. Many American organizations have recommended him for the prize which is to be awarded December 10 by the Norwegian Parliament. John R. Mott, New York ¢.M.C.A official, also has been mer..ioned as a possibility for the d, One of the greatest mysteries of science and of life is how sunlight combined with carbondioxide and water is transformed into the chem- icals that make up starches, sugars and cellulose, the products that supply energy for all life. The process is known as “photosynthesis.” It is now known, said Dr. Inman. that plants act like highly sensitive short-wave radio receiving sets, re- ceiving waves of radiation from the sun one two hundred fiftieth the length of the shortest radio waves and converting them into energy. The new-found molecules, it is be- lieved, absorb these very short waves from the sun in the form of what scientists call “quanta” of light, or “packets” of radiation. This energy of light activates the molecules, excit- ing them to a state of high energy | the 61.5 per cent which had been re- ceived up to the close of the eighth | report meeting in last year's cam- paign. Last year, at the end of the eighth meeting. a total of $1,195,~ 576.66 had been received. The closing night of last year's drive found only 71.78 per cent of the | the radio stations. T am firmly con- | ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) | uota received—13 per cent less than was already in hand yesterday—while an extension of the campaign for nearly a week served to raise the total to only 77.6 per cent of the quota. Government Unit Near Quota. ‘The governmental unit. which has led the 1934 campaign since the first day, was believed to be already over the top as its workers began their final drive in all branches of the Federal and District governments to- day. At the close of yesterday's meet- ing this unit had only $8311.21 more to raise to meet its quota of $570,500 and unit leaders were confident of making up that amount, less than 3 per cent of the quota. early yesterday afternoon. leaving today free for ex- ceeding the unit quota _Specgl Gifts Unit workers also were (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) PR RAIN DUE TONIGHT; COLDER BY FRIDAY Temperature Here Has Been Over 70 Degrees for Three Suc- cessive Days. Some of the rain that for the past few days has been covering about three-fourths of the country will move into Washington and the surrounding area either late tonight or tomorrow. The “warm spell” will break Friday. Since the first part of the week, it has been raining almost incessantly } along the Pacific Coast, in the Central Valley and New England and in some parts of the South, the Weather Bu- reau said. Yesterday, for the third successive day. the temperature passed the 70- degree mark. It was 71 Sunday, 74 Monday and 71 yesterday. Guide for Readers Amusements Comics They then are believed to go through a chemical reaction that releases formaldehyde, which condenses into sugars or carbohydrates, the building stones of many foods. Scientists believe that if they can discover how plants convert light into energy they can do it better, for plants are only 1 per cent efficient in “per- forming the task. ) Features Finance Lost and Radio ..... 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