Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1934, Page 1

“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 printed. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising tem- perature tomorrow, lowest tonight about 46 degrees. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 47, at noon today; lowest, 41, at 3 am. to- day. Full report on page A-3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 @h Entered as seco offi W JAPANESE. INVITE FRANCE AND ITALY 0 DESERT TREATY Similar Suggestion Was Given Cold Shoulder by U. S. and Britain. FRENCH ACCEPTANCE OF PROPOSAL DOUBTED MacDonald Not to Offer U. §. Pact of Mutual Assistance in Pacific. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 27.—Japan has proposed to France and Italy that] they join her in abrogating the Wash- ington naval treaty, it was learned | today from an authoritative source. Tokio has decided to denounce the | treaty before December 31. Koki Hirota, foreign minister, in- vited Giacinto Aurita. the Italian Am- | bassador, and Albert de Lens, the French charge d'affaires, to visit him today. The Rengo (Japanese) News Agency said Hirota explained Japan's deci- sion {o terminate the naval pact and suggosted that France and Italy do Likewise. U. S. and Britain Cold, The cnvoys replied that they would communicate the proposal to [heu‘l governments. ; A similar proposal, it was said, also was made to Great Britain and the United States at the current tri-power nesotiations in London, but was received coidly by those two countries. It was officially stated that re- BPONSES [TOM OUNEr powers cannot shake Japan's determination to de- | posit in Washington at the earliest | permissible date notification of abro- gation. PROPOSAL REJECTION SEEN. Leaders Doubt Italy and France Will Denounce Treaty. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Neither France nor Italy will join Japan in denouncing the Washington naval treaty, it was stated in respons- | ible quarters today. The attempt of the Tokio govern- ment to have these two naval powers join Japan in junking the naval limi- tation treaties is described as a clumsy maneuver which will not even nd class ma h D. tter ingt RCE ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C Transient Bureau Raiders Jail 54 In Drive on Crime)| Fingerprints of Asheville Center Men Forwarded to Washington. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C., November 27.— Every man in the transient center here—54 of them—was taken into custody by the combined forces of the police and sheriff’s departments today and lodged in the county jail. Chief of Police W. J. Everett said their fingerprints were taken and would be sent to the Department of Justice at Washington with a request that any information about them on file there be telegraphed here. The police chief said that for sev- cral weeks he had been receiving com- plaints from citizens living in the vicinity of the transient center. He said there had been a number of cases of highway robbery, accosting of women and a general situation calcu- lated to terrorize the entire neigbor- hood The sweeping arrests drew an im- mediate protest from Miss Pearl | Weaver, State director of transient relief, who demanded the men be re- | leased. Later Miss Weaver telegraphed City | Manager George L. Hackney. asking | that the City Council order the chief | of police to release the prisoners. ! . MAY PROTEST T0 JAPAN ON OIL May State Dissatisfaction With Policy of ““Hands Cff” | in Manchoukuo. By the Associated Press. TOKIO. November 27—Formal ex- pression of American dissatisfaction with Japan’s “hands-off” policy in the Manchukuo oil monopoly dispute was strongly indicated today, follow~ ing Great Britain's example. The American Embassy is keeping | in close touch with Great Britain, | which set forth its views in a note | handed Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. London’s action reopened the diplo- matic controversy around the “inde- pendent” state of Manchukuo which involved three nations. The Nether- lands protested the oil plan, as did Washington and London. Japan told the protesting nations that the matter was a domestic one FRANCE MAY YIELD SAAR 10 HITLER IF Reported Agreement Would Assure Nazis of Victory in Coming Plebiscite. CHANGE OF ATTITUDE IS CREDITED TO LAVAL Barthou Hope of Continuing League Jurisdiction Dear to Many in Cabinet. By the Assoclated Press. SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Territory, November 27.—An agreement between Chancellor Hitler and the French foreign office, whereby France virtu- ally yields the Saar to Germany, was | reported today by informed quarters. France would not press for a victory in the Saar plebiscite and would drop talk of sending troops into the rich region, these sources said, and in re- turn would be paid by Germany as soon as possible for the Saar mines. The reported agreement, which has not been confirmed, would practically assure a Nazi victory in the January 13 plebiscite, & source of increasing tension in Europe. League Jurisdiction Abandoned. Pierre Laval, French foreign min- ister, was represented as having aban- doned the campaign of his predecessor, the late Louis Barthou, for the Saar to remain under the League of Na- tions' jurisdiction. Barthou, it was said, hoped through this method to prevent a Hitler landslide in the plebiscite. Anti-Nazis in the Saar have asked the League of Nations Council to grant the right to hold a second plebiscite “after Hitler is gone” should the Saar vote in January to continue | under Geneva's jurisdiction. But| Laval is not expected to work for this procedure. | French Cabinet Stirred. Rumors here said Laval's attitude has created a controversy in the| French cabinet, and that Edouard | Herriot, leader of the powerful Rad-| ical Socialists, is urging a continua-, tion of Barthou’s firm policy ! Members of the Socialist, Commun- ist and Dissident Catholic groups, all of them strongly anti-Nazi, pri- vately admit there has been a change | in the French attitude. Settlement of financial problems of | the Saar is now being discussed at| Rome, and Laval was said to be pri- | TUESDAY, OVEMBER 27, 1934_FORTY PAGES SANTA CLAUS HAS NOTHING ON o Slar Yesterday's Circulation, 125,805. Some Returns Not Yet Received 3% (P) Means Associated P ress. TWO CENTS. CALIFORNIA CLUE | v - News Note—Admiral Byrd has taken over two hundred million acres at the South Pole for Uncle Sam. HOUSING INCIDENT “GLOSEC" TOICKES Public Works Agency Going| Ahead at Full Speed on Programs. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Ickes said today the con- flict -within ths administration over housing is “a closed incident so far as I'm concerned.” At the same time Ickes declared at his press conference that the Pub- lic Works Administration was going ahead at full speed on its slum clear- ance and low-cost housing program. The Secretary announced the wreck- ing of a slum area in Cleveland to prepare the way for a $3,000,000 low- cost housing development would start tomorrow. Declining to comment in any man- ner on the difierence in views be- King Boris Pushes | Baby in Carriage ‘ On Sofia Streets| Subjects Delighted by Paternal Qualities of Monarch. By the Associated Press. | SOFIA. Bulgaria, November 27— | King Boris, who likes nothing better | than to pilot a locomotive around the curves of Bulgarian Mountains, startled the populace today by wheeling a baby carriage through the streets of the capital. | In the carriage proudly rode his 2- year-old daughter, Princess Marie | Louise. The popular sovereign made | his way through the crowded streets | skillfully. stopping only occasionally to | bend over the carriage and chuck the | little princess under the chin. | The delighted onlookers smiled broadly and made lively comments on the excellent paternal quality of their | King. NEW JOBS HELD UP IN ALCOHOL UNIT Congress “May Be Given | Geraldine, about 15; Dorothy, about Chance to Reconsider Previous Action. The Treasury Department plans to defer making 700 appointments to| the alconol tax unit until after the first of the year, to give Congress a | chance, if it desires, to take care of | the bulk of the emvloyes there who are being dropped from service Fri- day night by reason of the “patronage rider.” 1 This was made known today as plans went forward to make thej changes necessitated by the legisla- tion which required all of those shift- ed into the tax unit from the former prohibition set-up in the Justice De- | PROBED IN DEATHS OF THREE GIRLS| Philadelphian Says He Saw Slain Man Recently—Vic- tims’ Ages Tally. CONNECTS MYSTERY WITH DOUBLE SHOOTING TREASURY STUDIES TAX CASES LINKED 10 FRAUD CHARGE Morgenthau Airs Reported Conspiracy “to Sell Out the Government.” TOTAL TAXES SINCE 1920 MAY REACH $1,000,000 Partial Identification by One Bus Driver Withdrawn—Mysteri. ous Scar Puzzles Police. By the Associated Press. CARLISLE, Pa, November 27— With two other new and promising clues shattered, investigation of the deaths of three young girls found mys- teriously dead near here Saturday turned again to a vague “sign of the cross” on the forehead of one of the little victims and the story told Phila- delphia police that the children might be those of Horace Hughes, formerly of San Francisco. The information came from Larry Carney of Philadelphia. Carney said he was discharged from the Army six years ago at San Fran- cisco and decided to remain in that city where he stayed with the Hughes family, Hughes was at that time an officer with_the Salvation Army. Hughes told him. Carney said, that he had hitch-hiked to Philadelphia from the Pacific Coast with his “in- tended wife,” about 21 years old, and his three daughters by'a former mar- riage. The children, he said, were 12, and a third, about 8, whose name Carney does not know. g All of Hughes children, Garriey said, had pug noses. “The night of November 19 I saw my old friend at Thirteenth and Mar- ket streets, Philadelphia,” Carney said. Didn’t See Children. “He said if he didn't get a job in Philadelphia he was going to Pitts- burgh, where he said he had a brother or a brother-in-law. “When I heard about the three lit- tle girls whose bodies were found I thought maybe they might be his. I didn't see his children.” After a quick and secret investi- gation, State police today announced (that a home-made “house on wheels,” found in a local garage and bearing California license plates, belonged to a traveling evangelist and had no con- Group of Four Internal Revenue Bureau Employes Involved in Grand Jury Data. BY REX COLLIER. ! Scores of tax cases settled by | important Internal Revenue Bureau official accused by Secretary of the | Treasury Morgenthau of “selling out ‘lhe Government.” are being investi- | gated in connection with forthcoming grand jury proceedings |~ Every tax case compromised by | this official—recently dismissed—since | his appointment in 1920 will be studied | by special agents of the bureaus in- telligence unit, who already are said to have uncovered evidence of a ,sensauonal conspiracy to defraud the Government. ‘Three other employes of the bureau have been involved in one case to be | presented to the District grand jur | shortly. Two so-called “tax consult- ants” in New York City also are said to be implicated. Probe Proceeds Quietly. | The investigation has been proceed- | ing quietly for several weeks under di- | rection of Elmer L. Irey, chief of the intelligence unit, and with the per- | sonal sanction of Revenue Commis- sioner Guy Helvering and Secretary Morgenthau. The inquiry will con- | tinue until all cases handled during | the past 14 years by any of the sus- I pected emploves have been examined " The first case to be given to the grand jury involved a tax of more than $100.000 that was “compro- ‘ mised” for what Secretary Morgen- thau declared was a 20 per cent com- mission demanded by the tax consult- |ants. Officials believe the amount of | taxes involved in other cases may to- | tal hundreds of thousands of dollars— possibly more than a million. Indictment to Be Asked. Treasury officials will ask for in- dictment on conspiracy charges of the | former responsible official, an auditor. two revenue agents attached to the New York office of the bureau and two members of the firm of tax con- sultants in New York. The tax con- be considered by P d Rome. of Manchukuo and suggested that the | i el . sidered by Paris and Rome. Be | marily interested in this. tween himself and James A. Moffett, | Boris is regarded as the only King partment to qualify anew for their |nection with the mystery. | sultants have been barred from prac- Italy, it is stated, is quite satisfied with the present agreements. Since | Premier Mussolini has ordered con- struction of two new 35,000-ton bat- tleships, in accordance with the pro- visions of the Washington treaty, Italy has the navy it needs. Since 1930 the Italian government has proceeded to build its navy ac- cording to its needs, and is no longer worrying about what France is con- structing now. Furthermore, Mussolini is irked by the Japanese economic competition and was the first European statesman to sound the alarm of the new “yellow peril.” He is the last man to do any- thing which would give the appear- ance of a Japanese-Italian co-opera- tion. France Less Satisfied. France is less satisfied with the pro- visions of the Washington treaty be- cause in framing its naval program it has to take into consideration the German and the Italian sea power. In order to match the Germans, the French government has put on the slips two battleships of 26,000 tons each. This leaves her only 38,000 tons, in accordance with the Washington treaty to be used for battleships to match Italy’s new constructions. Hence, the French government wants 34,000 tons more of line ship tonnage. Had the Japanese not made known their intention of junking the Washington treaty, it is likely that the French would have brought up the question of additional tonnage at the naval conference and this request roight have raised once more the old question of theoretical parity between France and Italy. No Necessity to Join. But since the Japanese have an- nounced officially that the Washing- ton treaty will be abrogated by them at the end of this year, there is no necessity, it was authoritatively stated, for France to join in sharing the responsibility of denouncing the naval agreements. Each of the five signatories of the naval limitation agreements will again have a free hand to build whatever they please without raising the ques- | Stamps Reproduced, but Moran Is tion of naval parity between nations. Under provisions of the treaty any one of the five contracting powers can bring it to an end within two years by serving formal written noti- fication of abrogation on next Decem- ber 1. Japan's declared intention to abro- gate the treaty on December 31 is largely based on the fact the existing 5—5—3 ratios, provided in the treaty, reflect on the island empire's status #s a nation of the first rank. State Department officials had no comment to make today on the press dispatches from Tokio disclosing Japan’s latest move. NEW YORK DRAFTS BILL FOR 2 PCT. SALES TAX Municipal Measure to Yield $61,- 000,000 for Relief Is Fought by Merchants. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 27.—A bill for a 2 per cent municipal sales tax was rushed into form today as the principal measure of an emergency tax program designed to produce reve- nues totaling mord¥than $61,000.000, the estimated cost of New York City’s unemployment relief program through 1935. Mayor La Guarda, foe of the sales tax while he was a member of Con- gress, has agreed to the proposed levy. Merchants are organizing to oppose the bill at a hearing tomorrow, Presi- dents of 16 large department stores ulxo'pwd & resolution denouncing the Western powers take the question up with the government at Hsinking—but they do not recognize Manchukuo. It was learned oil companies who face loss of their business in Man- chukuo because of the monopoly have reached an agreement on a joint plan of action. American, British and Dutch interests are involved. U. S. VIOLATES LAW Powerless to Act. The United States has broken its own law with regard to the reproduc- tion of postage stamps. In the final report of the George ‘Washington Bicentennial Commission, released today, many half-tone illus- trations appear in which stamps are shown. No effort has been :nade to obscure or cover any portion of the; designs. ‘W. H. Moran, chief of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury, when the violation was called to his atten- tion this morning said: “I know about | it, but I am powerless to do anything. So long as the law stands unchanged it ought to be enforced.” 14 VILLAGES DESTROYED 100 Dead and Injured in Old i Kurdistan Quake. ISTANBUL, Turkey, November 27 (®).—A severe earthquake today de- stroyed 14 villages in the Mouche Diarbeki section of Old Kurdistan. There were more than 100 dead and injured. The shock continued this after- noon, causing fears of further casu- alities. | CIRCULATION The average net paid circu- lation of The Evening Star for the week ending Novem- ber 23, less all returns, etc., was 121,313, an average daily increase of 5,853 over the cor- responding week a year ago and an average daily increase of more than 12,000 over five years ago, during the peak period of prosperity. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) Lines. The Evening Star. 33,778 2nd Newspaper. . . 3rd Newspaper. ... 4th Newspaper. .. 5th Newspaper . ... 8,544 8,377 3,719 2,818 4 Other Newspapers Total ) 23,458 The quality of The Star’s circulation is even more im- portant than its size and growth. It seems that the great majority of new people who have come to town ap- preciate The Star as a news- paper and are developing into its regular readers. SUICIDE TAKES LEAP AS FRIENDS ARRIVE| Man Slashes Threat Before Jump From Hotel Room as Door Is Forced. By the Associated Press Federal housing administrator, over the course Government housing activi- ties should follow, the Secretary said he did not care to speculate on any possible reorganization of the hous- ing program. He said he knew nothing about any plan under consideration by the Emer- gency Council for co-ordinating Fed- eral housing activities. With reference to a suggestion he advanced last Thursday for a reduc- tion in union wage rates as & means | of stimulating housing, Ickes said: “I still think it's a very interesting suggestion. Certainly there is no rea- CHICAGO, November 27.—As three | son why it should not be discussed friends broke into his room on the twentieth floor of the Palmer House Hotel in an effort to prevent him from ending his life, a man believed to be Roy G. Harris, 60, of Chicago leaped to his death in the court below. ‘The three friends dashed into the hotel shortly before 10 a.m., carrying letters each had received in the first mail this morning. The letters, they said, were from Harris and informed them he intended to leap from his hotel window. ‘They showed the letters to the hotel treasurer and were supplied with a pass key. Hurrying to the room they admitted themselves, only to see the | man slide from the window. A razor and bloodstains on the floor indicated that the man had cut his throat before leaping. DIVORCE PETITION LOST BY FORMER COUNTESS Sir Rowland Hodge Found Not Guilty on Misconduct Charge Brought by Wife. By the Associated Press LONDON, November 27.—The peti- tion of Lady Vera Hodge, the former Countess of Cathcart, for a divorce from Sir Rowland Hodge, Tyneside shipowner, on charges of alleged mis- conduct, was dismissed today by & court. After Sir Rowland had denied the charges, the jury intimated to Sir Boyd Merriman, the president of the divorce court, that it had heard enough evidence. The jurors said they found no misconduct. Lady Hodge had two previous hus- bands; the first, De Grey Warter, died; she was divorced in 1922 from her second, the Earl of Cathcart. In 1926 she was detained at Ellis Island by immigration authorities who re- fused her admittance to the United States on grounds of “moral turpi- tude.” BOMBING DENIED Reported Attempt on Life of Em- peror Kang Teh Declared Absurd. HSINKING, Manchoukuo, Novem- ber 27 (#)—Officials of Manchou- kuo and Japan said today reports published abroad (not carried by the Associated Press) of a bomb attempt on the life of Emperor Kang Teh were groundless and “absurb.” Guide for Readers — Amusements .. Comics .. Features Finance ...... Lost and Found . Radio Serial Story . Service Orders Short Story . Society B 14-15- b 16 and thought over.” Would Provide Lower Pay. The suggestion, as outlined by the Secretary, would provide for lower | wage schedules in return for an as- sured higher annual income for workers. The Secretary said his discussion of housing last Thursday, which gave rise to considerable furor in official circles, was merely philosophizing. Asked for comment on & joint statement issued by himself and Mof- fett at the White House Saturday denying that any conflict existed be- tween the housing operations each handles, Ickes said “I'm too old to bite at that. Would it not be lovely if I would take hook, line and sinker. I'm a speckled trout.” The Secretary said the Cuyahoga Wrecking Co. would begin operations in Cleveland tomorrow to clear the way for sthe Cedar-Central housing project. Cleveland will be the third city in which demoliticn of long-standing slums has been started under the P. W. A. $150,000,000 low-cost housing plan. Further Repercussions Indicated. Despite Ickes' statement, further repercussions of the difference be- tween him and Moffett were indicated as a Thanksgiving day conference was arranged for the latter with President Roosevelt. While the Capital specu- lated on what might or might not happen, these points were added to the discussion: Definite word that President Roose- velt had expressed his displeasure to both Ickes and MofTett over the pub- lic discussion of Federal as against private housing; An indication that the National Emergency Council shortly may make some recommendation as to the merging, or at least co—ordination.‘o( the 54¢ agencies now dealing with housing; Speculation that should the P. W. A. proposal to federally finance the builging of low cost homes be carried out, Moffett might resign. {in the world who pushes & baby car- riage. BUSINESS TO TALK WAR ON NUMBERS {A. C. Smith, Federation’s President, to Lead at Meeting Tonight. | Arthur Clarendon Smith. president of the Federation of Business Men's | Associations, will address the Geéorgia | Avenue Business Men's Association to- | night and have its members discuss | the numbers racket, seeking indorse- ! ment of the move to suppress this | gambling game. Fighting the spread | of the numbers game, by preventing | | dissemination of totaled numbers | from race tracks in newspapers and | | over the radio. is the object of this | public discussion. | The Star, the Washington Post, the | Times and the Herald. together with all local radio stations, have com- | bined to suppress what Wuhlngmnl | authorities and citizens in general ! | brand “an evil influenc These | public purveyors of news have pledged | their support to United States At-| | torney Garnett, who has asked that they refuse to print, publish or broad- | cast pari-mutuel numbers, totaled for | the convenience of the numbers gam- | blers. | “We indorse this program 100 per | cent,” Mr. Smith said today, recalling | | that three members of his organization | already have gone on record to this | end. They are the Central Business Men's Association, the Northeast Busi- ness Men's Association and the South- east Business Men's Association. “Tonight we hope to put the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association on record as being 100 per cent in favor of the campaign against the numbers game.” Mr. Smith, who is active in club and fraternal work in Washington, plans to carry the campaign into the Lions' Club meeting tomorrow when that organization meets at luncheon in the Mayflower at 12:30. “It is my bellef,” Mr. Smith stated, “that every organization in Washing- ton should get behind The Star and the three other local newspapers and radio stations that have agreed to stop disseminating the numbers informa- tion.” M ysterious Folsom Man Seen Real After Discovery in West BY THOMAS R. HENRY. An apparent Folsom habitation site has just been located by Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, jr., archeologist of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. The significance of the discovery, which promises to be one of the most notable in American archeology in recent years, hardly can be over- estimated. From it the mysterious “Folsom man,” whose curious arrow points have been found associated with the bones of long extinct ani- mals, emerges as & tangible being rather than s Wwraithlike creature flitting over North America at about the time of the retreat of the last glaciers. The habitation site rests upon a hard, chalklike formation somewhere in the foothills of the Rocky Moun- tains. Above it, indicating great an- tiquity, are about 20 feet of soil de- posits which, from the nature of the surrounding country, must have been laid down very slowly. About five years ago some curiously and characteristically fashioned bits of chipped flint—believed at the time to be arrowheads of a pattern not hitherto encountered—were found in connection with the bones of an ex- tinct variety of bison near the vil- lage of Folsom, N. Mex. The bison was a creature believed by paleontol- ogists to have lived not far from the edges of the great ice caps, congre- gating in great herds in the lush (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.), ’ | holding off the rest. it was amplified, | Congress will have a chance to rem- | shift, it was said today also that it | half of what would have been if | affiliations and in the majority of | posts. Already about 700 appointments have been made, to be eflective Sat- urday, and it was said that probably 50 more would be made now. By edy its previous action in requiring the tests which many members have informed the Civil Service Commis- sion were ordered under the mistaken impression that those to be hit had been blanketed under civil service. The new appointments effective Saturday cover men who were in-| volved in the transfer, and then passed the examination, as well as appointees | just entering service. How many there are in each class was not known. Much Money Expended. In connection with the personnel i already has cost the Government mil- lions of dollars by reason of demor- alization of the force involved. At the same time it was emphasized that even though the employes have been upset because of their uncertain status, their work has not suffered as much as might have been expected. “Very excellent results have been obtained under the circumstances,” & Treasury spokesman said, “but not things had been different.” Parodoxically enough, it was dis- closed, there has been a distinct kick- back by reason of the tests which were ordered because of charges from Dem- ocratic Senators that the employes brought over from Justice were “hand- picked Republicans.” Hundreds of po- litically inspired requests have been made on the Bureau of Internal Rev- nue to take care of certain employes | because of their reputed Democratic instances where the most pressure | was brought those in whose interests it was applied failed to pass the ex- amination which stopped about 900 | incumbents. | At the same time is was emphasized | that these emissaries were being in- formed that the tests were ordered to be under strict Civil Service pro- cedure and that consequently appoint- ments would be made exactly in the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) BRAZILIAN VESSEL ATTACKED BY PLANES — Bolivian Flyers Blamed in Re- port—Squadron Sent to Guard Neutrality. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, November 27.— Brazil ordered & squadron of 11 naval planes to the Chaco frontier today after a Braziian steamer was fired upon on the Paraguay River An official communique of the min- istry of fo.eign :elations said Bo- livian airplanes ottacked the vessel. None of the 27 passengers was struck, a commuidsatirn from the ship dis- closed. The steamers captain said the ship was fiying the Brazilian flag. The Brazlian planes will go to Ladeiro to “safeguard Brazil's neu- trality.” Brazilian warships were crdered to convoy all steamers of the country which are on the Paraguay River. (Argentina acred similariy recently, sending reinforcements to the fron- tier on cepo:t: that soidiers of the warring nations. Bolivia and Para- guay, had been crossing into Argen- tina for asylum) The Bolizian Minister here stated he did not beiieve the planes were Bolivian, btu‘ added he would ask |La Paz for information. ! About the same time Glenn Wil- liams, Harrisburg-Pittsburgh bus driv- er, who let a woman and three chil- dren off his bu: at Cresson Wednes- day night, said the bodies of the three girls were much bigger chlldrenT than those witl the woman on his | bus. | But Paul White. another bus driver, | held to his identification of the bodies as those of a trio he took from New York to Harrisburg Wednesday. Blamed on Wound. Lieut. A. J. Hudock of the State police advarced the opinion that the mark on the girl's head was not a “brand,” but a stitch used by a doctor in closing a wound “There is an indentation on the| forehead, a ridge running straight down from the hairline.” Hudock said. “It is crossed about the center of the | forehead with a horizontal mark. In my opinion. this is a stitch used by a doctor in closing a wound, probably at | birth. It is not a brand.” | It was during a second post-mortem that the scar was found 1 Because the little bodies must be buried soon, State police made death | masks for their records. Officers in- | vestigated today to find some secret society whose symbol might have been | marked on the child Coroner E. A. Haegele, Cumberland | County, and Coroner L. U. Zech, York | County, said that while the mark | might have been caused by a fall or | blow it was more likely the result of | “branding.” No Poison Found. The second post-mortem last night failed to disclose evidence of poison- ing and the brains were normal, phy- sicians said. another blind alley in the case which has been traced from New England to the Alleghenies. At the same time Maj. C. M. Wil- helm, deputy superintendent of State police, told a news conference in Har- risburg that he believes there is no connection between the unsolved Car- lisle tragedy and the finding of a slain man and woman in a Duncansville shack near Altoona. In the Duncansville case, he said, it appeared to be murder and suicide, while at Carlisle available evidence seemed to indicate death by exposure. Here again theories clashed. Other State police investigators clung tc the belief the slain couple might have been parents of the children laid away (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) CLERIC GARB BANNED Turkey to Punish Street Display of Religious Dress. ISTANBUL, Turkey, November 27 (#)—The wearing of religious garb except in services was banned to all creeds by the government today. A severe punishment was provided for any one appearing on the streets in clerical cloth. The order affects Catholic Orthodox Armenian priests, Mohammedans and Rabbis. The Star Expedition Plane Is Flying Over Canada Read Capt. Kleinschmidt's wire- lessed story describing the party’s homeward flight over Canada with the movies of Santa Claus to be shown here Thursday. ON PAGE 2 Today's Star tice before the Treasury Department. The auditor has been dismissed and the two agents also are due to be dropped from the service. The alleged plot was discovered. Secretary Morgenthau said, as a re- sult of co-operation by a “patriotic citizen” in New York, who was ap- proached by one of the tax consuit- ants with a proposition to “fix” a | large income tax case for a 20 p-r | cent “rake-off.” The guaranteed “results.” tax adviser Informant's ldentity Guarded. The “patriotic citizen"—a busines: man whose identity was not revealed —told Morgenthau about the proposal “I was terrifically shocked at the in- formation,” the Treasury head told newspapermen, “and asked for bis co- operation. He went through with the proposal and we found out who was selling us out. “From my standpoint, that man was a good citizen. I invite any other business man in the country to co-operate Wwith us if approached in such a way “I don't think there is anything worse than a Government employe willing to sell out his own Govern- ment. No penalty is too bad for him.” Morgenthau said the men involved learned of the investigation before the deal was consummated. 40 PATIENTS SAVED IN HOSPITAL FIRE Flames Sweep Two Floors, but A'l Inmates Are Moved to Safety. By the Associated Press. ST. MARYS, Pa, November 27.— Forty patients were safely removed to- day after fire broke out in the Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital and swept the third and fourth floors of the in- stitution. The fire, starting from an unde- termined cause about 9:45 a.m., spread rapidly. Attaches, firemen and passersby aided in taking all the patients from the building to the nearby St. Joseph's Convent. No one was injured or overcome. The hospital is a four-story stone structure, formerly a monastery and is about 60 years old. Much of the equipment in the build- ing was saved. CAVE-IN TRAPS MINER; COMPANION IS KILLED Desperate Struggle Being Made to Save Man Caught Be- tween Timbers. By the Associated Press. PLACERVILLE, Calif, November 27.—A desperate struggle to save a trapped miner was carried on today after the crushed body of a fellow worker was recovered from a cave-in. In the black tunnel where the miner, O. W. Terry, 30, was wedged among broken timber and rocks, the rescuers worked cautiously to guard against another earth slide. The body of William Stonerook, 28, who was caught with Terry by the cave-in yesterday at the Harmon Mine, was recovered last night. A third miner, Frank Emmons, escaped. Terry told the rescuers he was lying on his back between two large tim- bers which were holding back a rock “as big as an ice box" that was touching his stomach. } \