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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and tomorrow, slowly rising temperature tomorrow; gentle to moder- ate north, shifting to southeast winds. Temperatures—Highest, 47, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 37, at 10 p.m. yester- day. Full report on page A-5. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone NAtional 5000 to start delivery. Sundly - Star TH DAILY EVENING EDITION () Means Associated Press. No. 1,549—No. 33,080. Entered econd class matter post cffice, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C DEATHS OF 3 GIRLS FOUND COVERED BY BLANKET IN W0ODS BAFFLES PROBERS Identities ~ Still Mystery. Bodies Believed Placed Last Night—Monoxide Poisoning Suspected. LINK WITH SLAYING MILES AWAY SOUGHT Man and Woman Discovered Shot | to Death at Duncansville, Pa. Autopsy Discloses Child of 10 Had Been Attacked—Suspicious | Autos Are Traced. | By the Associated Press CARLISLE. Pa, November The bodies of three little girls were found cuddled in death today be- | tween warm blanketes on a bier of wet | leaves in the lonely deer country near Huntsdale. The oldest was about 16 and the youngest about 8 years old. There was no clue to the manner or reason for the tragedy save that one of them apparently had been at- tacked. Autopsies disclosed no marks of violence. In the absence of any other clue, coroner’s physicians believe the children may have died from carbon | monoxide _poisoning. | Dr. A. E. Haegele, county coroner, | and Dr. W. Baird Stuart, agreed that one child—about 10 or 11 years old— apparently had been attacked. but their views differed on whether the assault was criminal and when it occurred. The children had not been identified late tonight. Woman Views Bodies. An attractive blond woman. about 25 years old, twice viewed the bodies, once accompanied by a young man. Both were well dressed A few minutes later, obviously un- der great strain and close to tears, she was led again into the mortuary Toom. A short time earlier, police an- nounced a mountain farmer told them he was bringing in his sister-in-law, who is estranged from her husband, to view the bodies. | The coroner said the blond woman | told him she “thought” the oldest girl might be her sister’s child. Officers immediately went out with | her to locate the sister. The identi- tles of the women were not disclosed. Edward Sparr, Carlisle policeman, said earlier in the day he had seen a car bearing a Connecticut license and carrying “three rough, suspicious-look- ing men"” in the vicinity yesterday morning. Check Plate Numbers. He was not certain of the license numbers. He gave authorities two numbers, of which he said he believed one was on the car. These are being checked with Connecticut authorities. John Sparr, a State gamekeeper, no relation to the policeman, told po- lice he saw a gray sedan with what appeared to be “red trimmings” parked by the roadside near the point where the bodies were found “for a long time” last night Overlooking no leads, however rlight, investigators were checking cir- cumstances leading to the death of a shabbily-dressed man and woman near Duncansville earlier today. They had been shot to death with a rifle, which | lay nearby. Their bodies were found in a shack. | Duncansville is more than 100 miles | west over the mountains from Carlisle. 24— Saw Car on Road. In describing the movements of the car he saw, Edward Sparr said it was moving slowly near the Pire Grove Furnace road where the bodies were found. The section is in the beginning of a | wild and mountainous region which separates Eastern Pennsylvania from " (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) COUPLE FOUND DEAD WITH RIFLE NEARBY Placing of Body After Slaying Suspected in Duncansville, Pa., Mystery. By the Associated Press. DUNCANSVILLE, Pa., November | 24—With bullet wounds in their heads, a man and woman were found dead in a lonely flag station along the Pennsylvania Railroad right of | way today. | Efforts to identify them were not | successful. The man was about 30 years old, and his companion was about 20. Trade marks had been cut from their clothing. Police expressed belief the man murdered the young woman and then shot himself with a rifle which was lying beside the bodies. They had been dead about 12 hours when a resident of the County Home discovered them in the station, about two miles west of this town. Coroner’s investigators took the bodies to the morgue at Altoona. The young woman had been shot twice—once in the heart and again in the temple. The man had been | shot only once. Both were roughly! dressed. It was found that the bullet that entered the woman’s heart did not penetrate her clothing, leading to the | theory that she might have been slain elsewhere and her body brought to | where it was found. State police said they did not believe there was any connection between this case and the finding of the bodies of three girls near Carlisle, Pa., about 100 miles away. The only article found near the bodies in addition to the rifle was 2 pair of eyeglasses, believed the prop- | | treatment™ | medium and long term obligations, in- | Three times previously formal protests | By the Associated Press U. S. Sends Hitler Fourth Protest On Bonds Policy Continued Discrimina-| tion and Unsatisfactory Treatment Charged. By the Associated Press. The United States revealed a fourth formal protest to the Hitler govern- ment yesterday charging “discrimina- tion” and continued ‘“‘unsatisfactory | of American holders of German bonds. The note, delivered to the German foreign office Friday by Ambassador William E. Dodd. asserted the Reich was attempting to “establish a new principle” in regard to debts. This government’ labeled it “inacceptable and dangerous.” An extended controversy with Berlin | has centered upon the treatment ac- corded American holders of German cluding Dawes and Young bonds, (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) RODSEVELT ACTS T0END MOFFETT NPT WITH TGKES Disputants Confer at White House—Leave With De- nial of Trouble. Hurried. long-distance intervention by President Roosevelt yestercsy was found necessary to smooth some of | the outer rough edges off a bitter internal dispute between his Housing and Public Works Administrations. | but the intra-administration storm | clouds last night had not been com- | pletely dispelled. James A. Moffett, housing chief, and Secretary Ickes. public works ad- ministrator, who had differed over a Government-financed housing plan, were closeted at the White House for two hours. They emerged with a formal disclaimer that there was any trouble between them Neither of the conferees, one of whom was noticeably pale as he de- | parted, would speak beyond the joint statement that “no conflict or ove lapping exists” between their two agencies. It was added “we decline | to furnish material for a Roman holi- | day for those who are trying to create this impression,” that a difference of opinion existed between them. | Housing Act Damage Seen. { Moffett Friday asserted publicly | that a portion of the Ickes program, | if carried into effect, would wreck the | national housing act. He said that for the Government to begin build- ing small houses and selling them | would mean competition with private business and consequent flight of capital and a reduction of property values overnight. Ickes, the day be- fore, had suggested that private capi- tal should take over the housing jobs. but that since it appeared unwilling, | the Government should build low-cost | homes and sell them to the public at | 3 per cent interest Wide publicity attended Moffett's criticism of this idea. The former Standard Oil official is ranked as a conservative. Ickes is labeled as one of the administration’s liberals. Mof- fett's job has been to bring private ROOSEVELT GIVEN CITIZENS' PLEA FOR LARGER LUMP SUM Petition of Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Makes Strong Appeal. BRIEF SKETCHES EFFECT OF U. S. SUPPORT LOSS President Already Familiar With Subject on Which His Aid Is Asked. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. WARM SPRINGS, Ga. November 24 —An earnest appeal from the peo- ple of Washington for a return to a more equitable basis of sharing the expenses of the National Capital be- tween the Federal and District Gov- ernments, and specific request for a larger lump sum, has been presented | to President Roosevelt for his con- sideration in connection with the preparation of the next budget The petition was transmitted to the President by the Citizens’ Joint Com- mittee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Cclumbia. It bore the signatures of officers of the various organized groups of Washingtonians comprising the joint committee Attached to the petition was a brief reviewing the trend in Congress in recent years, which has caused the District’s outlay for maintaining and developing the Capital City to mount | steadily, with a corresponding with- drawal of Federal support. Statement Expected. Thus far the President has made no comment on the question, but there is reason to feel that. after he has studied the matter, he may something to say publicly. Mr. Roosevelt is by no means un- familiar with the subject of fiscal re- lationship between the Federal Gov- ernment and the District of Colum- bia. As a matter of fact, he has given considerable thought to this question since he has been President. It is known, too, that a few days be- fore leaving Washington to come here he discussed the subject with friends. While the President has not com- mitted himself publicly, there are those who have listened to his views on the subject who believe that the ~(Continued on Page 6, Column 7) PRESS AID SOUGHT IN NUMBERS WAR Caywood Says Co-operation of Newspapers and Radio Vital to Kill Racket. C. Chester Caywood, secretary and treasurer of the Citizens’ Committee on Crime in the District of Colum- bia. claims that only the voluntary co- operation of all agencies in the city, | | especially the newspapers and radio | stations, in refusing to publish win-| capital back into the housing field, | NIDg race totals, will get rid of the and he has beer stern in defending | the necessity for this. The first thing yesterday morning, Ickes, Michael Straus, P. W. A. pub- licity director, and MofTett rushed to the White House. Their statement afterward said each had requested a conference with the other. There | ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) HELD FOR DEATH NOTE Former B. & 0. Worker Faces Probe of Willard Threat. BALTIMORE. November 24 (P)— United States Ccmmissioner Louis J | Burger today ordered Walter E. Henry held for grand jury action in connection with a death threat | mailed to Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Henry, former employe, waived | preliminary hearing on a charge of | violating the Lindbergh law. He is alleged to have written a letter threatening death to Willard and | less 1,500 furloughed men were re- employed. F.E.R.A. Canned Meat Condemned; Score Made 111 Poor Condition of Cattle From Drought Area Believed Cause. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, November 24.—Six cans of meat, selected at random from 2,000 cases sent here by the Federal Government for relief distribution, were found dangerously contaminated, Dr. Basil B. Brim, Toledo health com- missioner, reported today. Dr. Brim said the poor condition of the animals which were brought to Ohio from the drought regions and | slaughtered was probably the cause. Analysis of the meat was made after more than a score of persons on re- lief rolls to whom the meat was is- sued were made ill. Informed of the finding, J. S. Thompson, F. E. R. A. administrator | for Lucas County, announced that the | entire supply on hand here will be | returned to the State Relief Adminis- tration. Germs existing in the meat did not cause ptomaine poisoning but were similar to ptomaine bacteria, Dr. Brim said. The infection caused by con- suming the meat, he said, was ente- ritis, which produces an inflammation | three other officials of the road un- | numbers game. “The Star,” Mr. Caywood said, 'with the co-operation of the Wash- ington Post, Herald and Times, and the four local radio stations, has shown a mighty gcod way of Fandling the situation. The numbers game de | pends on the dissemination of figur added up and piinted, or broadcast Action by all the newspapers could cut this off at the source. “There is no question in my mind, and I am speaking now not as a mem- ber of the committee, but as an indi- vidual, that the numbers game should be stopped. The community should have the 100 per cent support of all organizations, especially the newspa- | pers and radio stations.” | Large Number of Victims. It is the belief of Mr. Caywood that a tremendous number of Washing- tonians, white and colored, play the numbers game — without knowing, many of them. that they have only | the ‘barest chance of winning any- | thing. [its ramifications in racketeering, Mr. Caywood recommends a complete shutting off of information necessary to furtherance of the game. “If they can't find the winning numbers in the newspapers, or hear the winning number announced over the radio, where are they going to get the infor- mation?” Mr. Caywood asks. He further states: “There is no question in my mind that the num- bers game is being promoted by the ‘higher-ups,’ men with money, and that the runners are merely their dupes—chaps who do this work be- cause they must live.” Ne Recourse Open. One of the dangerous features of the numbers game, Mr. Caywood points out, is the absolute irrespon- sibility of those who conduct the racket. “They can move out at any time, refuse to pay when luck goes against them,” he says, “and nobody has any recourse to any legal action.” Tomorrow The Star will inaugurate a series of radio talks over Station WOL, the facilities of which were offered by Le Roy Mark, owner and operator. In these talks, the first one schduled at 6:55 tomorrow. listeners will be given additional information on the numbers game. o WOMAN KILLED BY CAR BALTIMORE, November 24 &) — Va., was struck and killed by an more tonight. She was walking with two friends, Miss Alice Beasley and Miss Evelyn Shivoder, both of Carney, Baltimore County. They were going to see other erty of the man. of the stomach and bowels, {riends ‘ have To cut down this gambling, with | Mrs. Addie Noumoks, 20. of Norfolk, | automobile on the outskirts of Balti- | SUNDAY MORNING, &) | | NOVEMBER 25, 1934—102 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE IF YOU CHILDREN DONT BEHAVE I'M GOING To TELL YOUR. PAPA! HULL GETS READY TOEND NAVY PACT Expects Saito Formally to File Notice of Intent to Abrogate Pact. | By the Associated Press Japan's blunt announcement of its intention to denounce the Washing- ton Naval Treaty yesterday prompted the State Department to be prepared to carry out its treaty-ordained duty to officially end the agreement Japanese spokesmen have said re- | peatedly that Japan would abrogate the treaty this year and Hirosi Saito, the Japanese Ambassador, gave addi- | tional unofficial warning in his Phila- delphia speech last night that he would service notice of the treaty’s death before December 31 ‘The treaty itself provides that any | of the contracting after December 31, | intention to terminate the treaty two | | years from that date by formally noti- | | fying the United States, custodian of | the original document. There have been unconfirmed re- ports that Ambassador Saito will call on Secretary Hull between December | 10 and December 20 to deposit Japan's written notification Lewis Warns on Retaliation. Meanwhile, even as new signs ap- | peared of a joining of British and { American hands, Senator Lewis of Illinols, the Democratic whip, in a | statement today warned the United | States against entering into any al- | liance which would cause any Euro- | pean or Asiatic nation to retaliate | against this country. The United States, in the disarm- ament discussions now in progress Lewis declared. “is put at the world's crossrcads, with danger signals at every post,” and must choose which path to follow. | By advancing alone, Lewis asserted. | the United States would have no ally in any conflict arising in Europe or | Asia, and this Nation could count on | no other nation’s support or co-opera- | tion in the enforcement of any American policy. powers may, on or | give notice of an Avoids Discussion. Secretary Hull today steered clear | of any discussion of the extremely critical moments now before the tri- party naval delegates in London. He declined any comment on any of the| official and unofficial statements and opinions showered from all points of the compass At a State Department press con- ference Hull gave no comment signals one after another to questions con- cerning London reports that the dis- couraged American delegates would return to Washington by Christmas; Saito's speech discussing naval af- airs: manchoukuo; Japanese gration and trade; Stanley Baldwin's comments on the League of Nations’ need of American participation, or the future possibilities of British-Ameri- can co-operation in naval affairs if | the London talks end in failure. BRITISH KEEP ALOOF. Will Heed Two-Power Parley Only If | U. S. Suggests It. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 24—The pos- sibility of a British-American infor- mal accord on general naval policies in the event there is to be no new treaty offset somewhat today, from | the American viewpoint, the reeling]‘ | ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) immi- | Sweeping N. R. 4. Change Is Urged On Enforcement New Program of Action Framed as Arnold, Takes New Post. By the Associated Press A semi-official report urging sweep- ing revision of the National Recovery Administration enforcement _policies was issued vesterday just as G. Stan- leigh Arnold, of San Francisco, stepped into the driver's seat of a Justice Department campaign for bet- ter Blue Eagle compliance Arnold, a Connecticut Yankee, who went West, took his oath of office as special assistant to Attorney General Cummings. He plans to divide his time between the Justice Department and N. R. A. The recommendations for change in present N. R. A. attempts to obtain better code compliance were made by Willilam H. Davis, former director of " (Continued on Page 9, Column 4) ROOSEVELT HOST TOYOUNGER FORD President Given Optimistic Report on Prospects of Motor Industry. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 24 —President Roosevelt tonight brought to a close a day given over for the greater part to recreation by receiving at the “Little White House™ on the slopes of Pine Mountain, Edsel Ford, son of the automobile magnate, and Eugene Black, former governor of the Federal Reserve Board. and now governor of the Federal Reserve System in Georgia. The visit of Ford was more of a social nature. He and his wife were dinner guests, and afterwards, sitting before a log fire in the cozy living room of the President’s modest little cottage, he and Roosevelt about a variety of subjects for more than an hour. Ford spoke mostly about business from the .viewpoint of | his own industry. | Mr. Roosevelt found his guest optimistic over the general business outlook. The latter spoke cheerfully ‘ol what he described to newspaper men before going to the President’s | house as improved business con- | ditions. N. R. A. Harmony Denied. | However, this quiet-spoken, nattily | dressed young industrialist took pains | to impress upon the newspaper men | that the Ford company has not signed the N. R. A. compliance cer- tificate and that the company has no intention of doing so. He added, though, that his company is comply- ing 100 per cent and more with the (Continued on Pagé 7, Column 3. . Post Given Harriman. W. Averell Harriman, railroad mag- nate, who is serving as N. R. A’s administrative officer, yesterday be- came the acting director of public relations for the Recovery Adminis- tration. For Schultz, N BY REX COLLIER. Under the personal direction of Secretary Morgenthau, the Treasury Department has launched an unpre- cedented manhunt for a gangster who has succeeded Al Capone and Murray Humphries as_holder of the title of “Income Tax Evader No. 1.” He is the elusive “Dutch Schultz” notorious New York “beer baron.” Elmer L. Irey, chief of the intel- ligence unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau, has been named to supervise the Nation-wide search. He has or- ganized a secret “roving squad” of special agents whose sole duty will be to find the long-sought Federal fugi- tive and bring him to trial on a 22- month-pld indictment charging in- come tax law violations. Irey disclosed last night that in “cracking down” on Schultz and sev- eral other members of his gang, who also have been indicted, tl‘ Internal ¥ Morgenthau Heads U. S. Hunt 0. 1 Tax Evader Revenue Bureau is keenly incensed by a series of overtures for a “com- promise” submitted by certain attor- neys for the fugitive. “I have been approached no less than 15 or 20 times by lawyers and others claiming to represent Schultz,” Irey declared. “Each time I have told them the Government does not compromise _with gangsters. The emissaries of Schultz always have claimed they do not know where Schultz is hiding out—but apparently he manages to get word to them when he wishes to.” Irey said that Schultz is the last of the “big four,” whose names once stood at the top of the Treasury's list of underworld tax evaders. The others who have been crossed off the list, he said, were Capone, who is in Alcatraz Island Prison; Humphries, who surrendered recently and has talked | LIBERALSING. 0. FIGHT 0L GUARD Adoption of New Name and Policy Urged by One Faction. | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The builders and rebuilders of the Republican party are not getting along at all well or together. The builders are those Republicans who wish to go right ahead building up the G. O. P. on its present foun- dations. That means with many of the old guard leaders still in com- manding places. The rebuilders are those who desire to throw out all the old guardsmen— at least all those whom rebuilders re- gard as representatives of wealth and the “interests.” They are those who | wish & reorganization of the Repub- | iican national organization. They cemand a major operation. The hue and cry has gone up from a lot of Republican throats that the | party must be “liberalized” as well as | rebuilt. The proposals range ail the | way from a complete change in the personnel of the Republican National Committee to the adoption of a new name for the party. Whether the Republicans will ever be able to get together on a party program in view of the wide and diverse opinions as to what should be dene it is difficult to prophesy. i Leaders Back Here. | | A number of outstanding Rnpub-! licans have filtered back to Washing- | ton since the recent elections, so disastrous to the Republican forces. | Among them are Senator Borah of | Idaho, Senator Fess of Ohio, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, Senator Dickinson of Iowa and Senator Norris of Nebraska. The last, who has grown more and more non-partisan with the passing years, is not so much inter- | ested in whether the Republican party | lives or not as he is in the advance- | ment of progressive legislation and government. Senator Borah has demanded a complete reorganization of the party. This necessarily would mean the elim- ination of Henry P. Fletcher of Penn- sylvania as national chairman. While the Idaho Senator has gone into no | details yet of his reorganization plans, | a complete reorganization would | necessarily eliminate from leadership of the party in New York. for exam- | ple, of Ogden Mills and Charles D. IDEFENDAT | prosecutor. INSULL AND 16 FREED - IN MAIL FRAUD CASE; . TWO COUNTS REMAIN “Start of My Vindication,” Says ex-Utility Czar of Decision _Reached in Two Hours. TS ARE JUBILANT; CELEBRATE THEIR ACQUITTAL Taken in Smashin 'Three Ballots Reported to Have Been g U. S. Case Built Up Over Two-Year Period. By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, November 24.—In 2 hours and 2 minutes’ delibera- tion today, 12 Federal Court jurors shattered the Government’s, charges of a $100,000,000 mail fraud against Samuel Insull and his 16 business associates with a verdict of acquittal Between lunchtime and the dinner hour, the voluminous case, against the ruler of a one-time was put into the hands of a jury two-billion-dollar utility syster and decided in his favor. Jubilant at the near breath-taking speed of the verdict, Insull exclaimed: “This is the start of my vindication.” The jury’s decision, read in a John D. Lent, came with a rapidity and prosecutors alike. hushed court room by Foreman artling to defense attorneys Send Out For Only Three Letters. The case was developed from nearly five tons of business rec- ords, but when the jurymen retired to their room they sent out only for three letters. United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green worked for nearly two years to attain a different result verdict without rancor. “The Government presented “We gave everything who had took the its case fully.” id the young that we had to it The case, in which the Chicago utilities builder and his aides were charged with bilking hundreds of investors of the huge sum, | went to the jury at 2:21 o'clock (Central standard time), fol- lowing a two-hour charge by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. Trial Participanis Left. At 4:23 o'clock. the jurors sent out word they had agreed. Prosecutors, defendants and the judge had left the building. ex- pecting no such speed. Bailiffs hurriedly set out to bring them back to court The court room quickly filled. firs lingered in the corridor. then with rela Insull came in. puffing a cigar. his cane over his The jury's speed had hinted acquittal. YALE CONQUERS HARVARD BY 144 Rules Big Three for First Time Since 1924 in Comeback. FOOT BALL SCORES Maryland. 6: Georgetown. 0 Duquesne, 14; Catholic U.. 0 Gallaudet. 7; Shenandoah. 6 Notre Dame. 12: Army. 6 Minnescta, 24: Wisconsin, 0 Princeton. 38: Dartmouth. 13 - Stanford, 9: California. Indiana, 17; Purdue. 6. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. November 24.—Yale's lusty foot ball infant. born in defeat, raised and hardened in suf- fering and adversity, reached its mag- nificent majority today, conqueror of Harvard, 14-0, on top of last week's triumph over Princeton—winner of the historic Big Three championship for the first time since 1924. In the sun-lit but frost-bitten air Hilles; in Connecticut, of J. Henry of the Yale Bowl, with 50.000 rattling Roraback; in Oregon of Ralph Wil- |a little in the mammoth inclosure, “';'[‘51 i’l‘hC“l"?r;‘“ °§ ngrl;:u[;r R;;‘:; the team that every one scorned in is le opinion of e | that the people will mever rally to |September reached its goal and its | Republican leadership until all those |destiny in heady triumph. offsetting leaders whose names have come in |defeats by Columbia, Army and the past to be.considered synonymous | Georgia. ruling the “sacred triangle” with the old guard and, back of the |in the first year the three have been old guard, big business and the inter- | together since Harvard and Princeton ests so-called, have been dropped. broke relations in 1926. This does not mean elimination of all | Favored through the stunning upset conservative Republicans. The people, [Of the Tigers, Yale carved out two however, visualize a party through its | touchdowns in the first half. and then leaders. It would be idle to adopt a | Settled back to snuff out in the second liberal program and to dub the G. O. half every surge of a luckless Crimson P. a more liberal party while men eleven that gained 14 first downs to : sidered t] the Bulldqg's 10, almost equaled the who have come to be considered the Blue rushing yardage, but could get personification of conservatism and 5 - (Continued on page B-9, column 7.) standpatism remain in leading posi- tions in the party. Question of Salvage. The question whether the Republi- can party can be salvaged as a vigor- ous, going concern, standing in opposi- tion to the New Deal Democrats, as long as it continues to. bear its old name, has been raised by some Repub- licans who have held important public office in the past. Frankly, their idea is to keep the party as a conservative bulwark against the radicalism of the New Deal. Their hope is to persuade conservative Democrats to abandon the New Deal and to join with them. The Republican party would, under their guidance, become the ‘“Liberal party,” perhaps, in an effort to stand forth not as an old-guard, stand-pat political party, but as a more middle- of-the-road organization, combatting the Democratic party in its new guise. The abandonment of the name “Republican” and the inclusion of conservative and anti-New Deal Democrats would virtually mean, not | a rebuilding of the Republican party, but actually a new party. Such a suggestion—the abandon- ment of the Republican name—makes no hit with Senator Borah. Nor, on the other hand, does it make a favor- able impression on Senator Fess or Senator Dickinson, both of whom have been tied in closely with the present Republican national organiza- tion, Senator Borah frankly declares that to give up the Republican name would be a great mistake. Senator Fess, one of those who went down to defeat in the recent elections fighting vigorously against the New (Continued on Page 4, Column 8.). "~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 6 Many Democrats” Changed Career Lists Sweep of 1932 as Réason for Taking Up New Occupation. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 24.—“Too | many Democrats!” | That was the reason assigned by ex-Senator James E. Watson of In- diana for his change of occupation. in a statement he filed with the securi- ties commissioner of Illinois, as re-| quired of directors of corporations | wishing to sell stock in this State. Watson, defeated by Senator Fred- erick Van Nuys in the 1932 election. filed out his questionnaire as follows Full name, date, and place of birth— James E. Watson, Winchester, Ind. November 2, 1865. | Business address—Indianapolis and | ‘Washington, D. C. | Residence address—Indianapolis and | Washington, D. C. | Present occupation or profession— Lawyer. | Detailed statement of occupation for last 10 years—United States Sena- tor, etc. | Reason for change of occupauon——!‘ ‘Too many Demo‘n 3 | the with spectators who had ves of the 17 defendants. arm they had decided upon blanket B nervous tensio There was a pause, electric with sus- 75 years old. a few day: seat beneath the judge' bench in the front row of the defend ants. Def counsel filed in, fol- lowed by prosecutors. Insull's ordina- rily ruddy face was almost as w his drooping mustache. s Talks to Ex-Secretary. He looked nervously about the ¢ ing to converse shortly wi the others beliind him One of these was John F. O'Keefe " of the defense. formerly I private sec He sat the edge of his Insull's son defended his stand under on jr. who had father from the witness prosecutors, court Mrs. Insull was not in defendan wives of the o behind the cou W. Waite, wife of an officer in the Utility Securities Co., held a handker- chief to h Judge W his place, in black robes. His clerk stopped the excited whispering with three raps on the desk. “Bring in the jury,” said the judge. ‘The court room fell silent. The ju- rors filed in. led by Foreman Lent “Have you reached a verdict?"” asked the judge. “Defendants Not Guilty.” The response was inaudible A bailiff took the paper Lent handed him. He read “We find the defendants not guilty.” It was a blanket acquittal. A cheer went up from the crowd of spectators. only faintly quieted by the banging of the clerk’s gavel. Some of the defendants broke out with “hurrahs.” Some of the crowd rushed to congratulate the defend- ants. Papers were thrown into the air. The turmoil pervaded the sedate trial room, But the senior Insull heard the words acquitting him with no change of expression. It had been feared that the verdict. guilty or innocent, would be too great a strain for a heart ailment he suffers. Still unsmiling. he arose and pushed through the jubilant defend- ants and attorneys to the rail of the jury box. He shook hands with each of the jurors as. released after 54 days of imprisonment, they marched out | of the box. {Watson S(.IF{TOO | Won't Discuss Verdict. Lent, the foreman. along with the rest of the jurors. retused to discuss verdict. Apparently by pre- arangement, they greeted all questions with a shake of the head. Strong rumor, however. was that they had taken three ballots in the two hours they were inside the jury room. The first was 9 to 3, the second 7 to 1 and the third 12 for | acquittal. Another charge involving the same company—Insull's ill-fated Corpora- tion Securities Co.—is pending against him. United States District Attorney Green declired to say what plans the Government had for pressing that. Before they retired to the Chicago Club for a celebration, the defend- ants made brief comments on the verdict. Said H. L. Stuart, head of the in- vestment banking house of Halsey, Stuart & Co., close associate of Insull, reaffirms my faith in 1 Page 3, Column 1.) v Guide for Readers | General News. Editorial Society . Amusements Finance . ....Part Five Lost and Found....Page A-9 Radio . ...Page 6, Part 4 BooKS ..... Page 4, Part 2 Sports ... ;nges B-9 to B-13 Part One ...Part Two ....Part Three ..Part Four