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A—2 = MURDER S HINTED IN JARNEGIN NOTE Los Angeles Grand Jury Has Letter Indicating Actor Was Shot. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, November 29—A| letter hinting of murder brought the death of Jerry Jarnegin, actor and song writer, before the Los Angeles grand jury today. A coroner's jury decided the actor| had committed suicide when he was| found shot to death in his home four months ago, but members of the Criminal Complaints Committee of the | grand jury disclosed they had received new evidence indicating Jarnegin did; not take his own life. Committeemen declined to disclose the name of the writer or to discuss this unexpected development Died During Gay Party. Jarnegin died in his home last August 19 amid the laughter of a gay little dinner party given by his wife, Irene Franklin, musical comedy actress. He was alone in the living room, his wife and three guests said, when their laughter was broken by a revolver shot. Jarnegin was found dead, his body slumped over an overstuffed chair. A bullet had torn a hole in his right temple. Strangely, police found the gun in another chair about 6 feet away. In the dining room awaiting Jarne- gin when the shot was heard were Miss Franklin, her niece, Dorothy Watson, Lake Charles, La.: William Green, Miss Watson's fiance, also of Lake Charles, and Mrs. Wally Kleinjn, @ friend of the Jarnegins. Thomas Recently Convicted. The actor's death came a few weeks after he and his wife accused Law- rence Thomas of beating Miss Frank- lin with a table leg because he had been discharged as house boy. Thomas was free on bail at the time. Last| week he was convicted of assault and sentenced to 40 days in jail Without commenting on the nature of the new clues contained in the letter, jurymen said that information tended to support the theory that the actor did not take his own life, as| Miss Franklin insisted from the time her husband's body was found. Five days after his death, Jarnegin's ashes were scattered over the hills surrounding his Lake Hollywood home. D. C. RELIEF FUNDS MAY BEAR BRUNT OF BUDGET CUTS (Continued From First Page.) Capital. We appreciate highly the personal interests the President is giv- ing this subject. “President Roosevelt is most fair in his judgments in all things and we can count on fair treatment at his hands.” Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, and Ascessor Richards also both praised the decision of the Presi- dent. Donovan described the study as an indication of a “new deal” for the National Capital. Richards recalled that last year he had made a similar study, in which he found that the tax burden borne by the District is comparable to that of numerous cities. when allowance was made for bonded indebtedness carried by these cities and not in existence here The campaign for an increase in the Federal payment was brought to an issue when the Commissioners pro- posed in the 1936 budget estimates for a payment of $8317.000, this amounting to the average of the Fed- eral payments over the past 10 vears. Such a sum would have balanced the 1936 budget as proposed by the Commissioners. Should the sum be reduced to the level of $5.700.000, the gross figure used for the current fiscal vear, the budget would have had to be slashed to a point allowing only for vare maintenance, officials have said. A boost in taxes would have been the only alternative. Estimates to Go to Committee. The estimates will be forwarded to the House Appropriations Committee early next week. so the subcommittee on the District of Columbia may begin hearings when it is ready. These are only the tentative and preliminary estimates, to be followed later by the formal report to be made by President Roosevelt when he sends the annual budget for the whole Gov- ernment to the new Congress early in January. The Budggt Bureau has made sub- stantial progress on the Government budget so far, and hopes to have eight groups of estimates in the hands of the Appropriations Committee by early | next week The Budget Bureau has held a geries of hearings on all the estimates, and has developed four to the point where, by order of the President, they are ready to go forward to Congress this week. These include the inde- pendent offices bill, the Post Office, State and Justice Departments. Early next week it is planned also to send forward estimates for the Treasury, Commerce and Labor De- partments. ONCE CHILD OF PLENTY, WOMAN IS FOUND DYING IN POVERTY (Continued From First Page.) adjacent lot, hoping that she might eventually sell to the railroad. It was while the lots were under con- sideration as a part of the Govern- ment housing program that the police found her unconscious in the dining room of her home and took her to Casualty Hospital, where she died early this morning. That Miss Harding had been seek- ing employment up to the time of her fatal attack was revealed today by J. H. McVay, a disabled veteran living at the Lindbergh Apartments. McVay said today that he advertised last Friday for a stenographer to aid him in his fight for the Americaniza- tion of the merchant marine. Miss Harding, he said, was one of 40 per- sons who answered the advertisement, and she offered to work for 30 cents an hour, the smallest salary asked by any of the applicants. Casualty Hospital authorities said they believed she had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. James Stewart, her family physician, said, however, it appeared to have been paralysis. At any rate, she died with- I'to it on patronage. It could and may What’s What Behind News In Capital Turkey Gets Khnifing Many Would Give Secretary Ickes. The grinning Interior Secre- tary’s set-to with Houser Moffett seems to have inspired a general in- | side clamor for his wishbone. Of course, Mr. Ickes is a tough bird. He has proved that in previous encounters | with those who would devour him. | Nevertheless he will have to be tougher | than usual this time to withstand the powerful knives now out against him. BY PAUL MALLON. LOT of New Dealers, carving turkey today, will mutter un- der their breaths that they wish it were Mr. Ickes. | For one thing, the Farley clan has | suddenly recalled what Mr. Ickes did eat Mr. Ickes raw or otherwise. Much less evident is the rela- tionship between the influential co- ordinator Mr. Richberg and Mr, Ickes. That is a secret which has been kept for years. The whole story is even now not in printable form. Nevertheless it may safely be related that while Messrs. Rich= berg and Ickes once were law part- mers, they mow speak only when necessary. With Messrs. Farley, Richberg, Mof- fett and a dozen less sharp New Deal- ers after him, Mr. Ickes is in for an | interesting holiday season. Much Behind Trouble. There was more behind the Moffett | trouble than housing. much more than | the mere question whether Mr. Moffett | should encourage private housing or ! Mr. Ickes encourage public housing. Those high in the Interior Depart- ment know that Mr. Moffett's first | experience in government under Mr. | Ickes is not now a pleasant recollec- | tion for either of them. Mr. Moffett | left his $100,000-a-year job with ! Standard Oil to be Government repre- | sentative on the Oil Code Authority. | But Mr. Ickes was oil administrator, which made Mr. Moffett rather su- perfluous. At least Mr. Moffett thought so. They had many tussles about price fixing. with Mr. Moffett insist- ing price fixing was necessary. Once things got so bad that Mr. Moffett went to the White House. Mr. Roose- velt sided with Mr. Ickes. It is mot gemerally known, but since that time Mr. Moflett has never attended a meeting of the ‘ Oi Committee, although he never formally resigned. eH just walked | out siently and forgot to come | back. | There is proof that Mr. Moffett re- | members that. The White House did not give out the fact, but when Mof- | fett and Ickes were summoned on the | carpet there the other day, Moffett informed Ickes, with feeling: | “You put me on the spot once. but ' you're not going to get away with it again.” 0dds 2 to 1 on Split. That remains to be seen from the results of Mr. Moffett's dinner today with Mr. Roosevelt. At any rate,! the betting is now 2 to 1 that the New Deal will not proive to be big enough to hold both Mr. Ickes and ! Mr. Moffett. However, Mr. Roosevelt has calmed some earlier scraps al- most as bad Government lawyers played their ace in the Insull trial and are busy explaining the Chicago verdict. Loss of the case is attributed by them primarily to one little six-letter word —intent. Just as in the Doheny case | they were unable to convince a jury of the defendant’s intent to do wrong. | The verdict is not regarded as okeying Insull's financing methods. but only as a finding that he did not intend to swindle any one. The factor of time is seen as in- fluencing the verdict. too. It is felt that if the trial had been held a year ago. Insull would have been found guilty. That he himself expected this end was indicated by his flight to Europe. Government men com- ment bitterly that the jury thought Insull more innocent than he con- sidered himself. Foreign Situation Worry. The big brother act being staged by | Italy and France is worrying our | State Department. Officials see in it | a return to the pre-war status, when | the little nations all had alliances | with major powers. That system started the World War~ Right now the tiff between Yugo- slavia (France) and Hungary (Italy) is causing worry. Both have troops | on their closed border. What our offi- cials fear is some little border incident that might start a fight. Then Italy's bluff as big brother of Hungary might be called and Il Duce mnght send up a few regi- ments as he did with Austria, We fear that Yugoslavia would not back-track, as did Hitler, at sight of the Italian soldiers. Thinking France behind her, she might take a few potshots at the Italian sol- diers. The Justice Department had to dig down deep for an adage to adorn the | wainscoting in the provate lobby leading to Attorney General Cum- mings’ office. It reads: “The United States always wins its point when justice is done any of its ! citizens in the courts.” That text was taken from none other than the Coolidge Attorney General, John Garibaldi Sargeant, | whose wit was conspicuously obscure. What it seems to mean is that even when the Government loses a case against a citizen, it has won its point. (Copyright. 1934.) _ CRASH VICTIM DIES SALINA, Kans., November 29 (#).— Jack L. Burton, Louisville, Ky.,, who was injured when his car crashed into a culvert near Bavaria, Kans, Mon- day, died in the hospital here yester- day without regaining consciouness. Mrs. Rose Brown, Baltimore, Md.; out regaining consciousness. Neither her physician, who former- 1y attended the grandmother, nor the police have been able to discover any | ported improving. They were injured| .\;y GIRL SAYS SHE WAS GONNA SEND US A FRIED C: THANKSGIVING . . . BUT IT 007 BETTER relatives. The tonrer ordered an Peter Giesselman and Francis Stone, both of Asbury Park. N. J., were re- in the accident 11:11 cost Burton's THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, $13,000000 SOUGHT FOR COTTON PLAN Secretary Wallace Will Ask Sum to Administer Bank- head Act. By the Asscciated Press. The A. A. A. will seek to increase next year the payments it makes to share-croppers and tenant farmers for curbing the production of cotton. To this end, it will ask Congress for $13,000,000 to cover the cost of ad- ministering—this year and next—the Bankhead act, under which the*Gov- ednment seeks to control cotton pro- duction. “Social Justice” Move. If this amount can be obtained, offi- cials said, more receipts from pro- cessing taxes can be used for direct “parity” payments to cotton producers. | At present some of these taxes are | spent on the job of administration. Sccretary Wallace expressed his de- sire to do this as a “social justice” | move yesterday when he announced details of the 1935 program, which | calls for a cut of 25 per cent under the 1928-32 base acreage instead of the 40 per cent required this year. Receiving rental payments at the rate of 3', cents per pound and parity payments of 1', cents, cotton growers will garner an estimated total of $94.- 230000 from the Government during 1935, May Make Added Cuts. Producers who wish to make an additional 5 per cent reduction in acreage will be permitted to do so | and will receive added payments. One- year contracts will also be offered to producers who did not participate in the 1934 program. The A. A. A. forecasts the reduction would result in planting of about 34.- 400,000 acres of cotton, compared to 28,000,000 this year. It estimated a | production of 12,000,000 bales, but | acknowledged that more intensive | cultivation might boost that figure It was freely admitted that if the administration was not limited to a 25 per cent maximum cut it would un- doubtedly have continued the 40 per cent reduction. Secretary Wallace in- dicated concern over lessening con- e PRESIDENT VOTED PHILATELIC HONOR Society Membership Follows Ac- ceptance of Part in Work. President Roosevelt, “the Nation's most eminent stamp collector.” last night became an honorary member of the Washington Philatelic Society. His acceptance of an invitation to participate in the work of the organ- | ization was announced by Charles H. Vaughan, secretary, at a meeting held at the Hotel Carlton. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes also was admitted to member- ship. His application as an active member was read by Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman of the National Park Serv- ice and immediately accepted by the Governing Board Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing edi- tor, The Star, was a third applicant. He was introduced by James Waldo Fawcett, who spoke of him as “the founder and first patron of philatelic | journalism” in the Nation's Capital. The meeting was addressed by E. Taylor Papson, C. D. Gorman and Frederick J. Roy. William C. Bond superintendent. Library of Congress, presided, and Philip Simms Warren. ! treasurer of the society, reported the new memberships. JEALOUS HUSBAND KILLS WIFE, SELF‘ Slayer Enters Neighbor's Room‘ . and Starts Shooting—Hosts Wounded. i By the Associated Press CHESTER. Pa, November 29.—A man, said by police to have been | crazed by jealousy, shot and killed | his wife, seriously wounded another man and woman and then committed suicide with a sawed-off shotgun. | The slayer, Grover Evans, 38, de- scribed by Chester police as a small- time racketeer, rushed into a rooming | house last night, pulled the shotgun from a trouser leg and opened fire on a party being held in & room ad- joining that of his wife. | Clad in pigeon-blue pajamas, the | body of Mrs. Evans was found in her room. Nearby lay that of Evans, his shotgun roped to his body with the muzzle pointed under the chin. Life’s Like That BY FRED NEHER. Mount Rainier in Winter Garb Beautiful Mount Rainier has just come out with her new Winter gown of white Seattle the atmosphere has been cleared to the extent one can see the 11,000 peak looming 75 miles away. D. C, THURSDAY, N OVEMBER 29, 1934, After the heavy rain around —Wide World Photo. FUSIONISTS REPLY 10 RECOUNT PLEA i Demurrers Score Petition of Defeated County Democrats. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE., Md.,, November 29 — Demurrers attacking the election re- count petitions of John B. Diamond and Raleigh S. Chinn were filed in Circuit Court late yesterday by attor- neys representing Charles E. King and Frank H. Karn, Fusion party nominees who defeated the two Democratic candidates for places on the Board of County Commissioners. Both demurrers claim tHe petitions. which charge poll officials with per- mituing and taking part in irregulari- ties during the November 6 election, and each and every count which they contain are “bad in substance, and therefore are insufficient in law.” Demurrers Answer Rule. The demurrers were filed in an- swer to a rule issued by Judge Ham- mond Urner, chief justice of the cir- cuit embracing Montgomery County, requiring Karn and King to show cause tomorrow why the pleas of Dia- mond and Chinn for recounts should not be granted. | It is expected that a date for the hearing of arguments on the demur- rer will be set by Judge Urner tomor- row. He was notified late yesterday that the demurrers had been sub- mitted to court attaches here. Miss Vivian V. Simpson, one of the attorneys representing King. declared that she and her associate counsellors, Edward Peter and Albert Bouic, felt that the petitioners should be forced to set out their case more sp(‘cmc!lly‘ and decided to demur. Karn Heads County Board. Karn, who has been made president of the county board, which took office | Tuesday, is represented by F. Bernard Welsh. Thomas L. Dawson and Thomas M. Anderson James H. Pugh. Democratic candi- date, whose election as State’s attor- | ney is contested in a recount petition | filed by Walter W. Dawson, Fusion nominee, has been in conference dur- ing the past few days with Isaac Loeb Straus, Baltimore attorney. | Straus will represent Pugh in his| fight to retain the State's attorney- | ship. which he won by a majority of 46 votes on the face of official re- turns. Pugh has until Saturday to answer Dawson’s petition. WOMAN HANGS SELF | Body Found in Bed Room Closet Service and professor of international of Apartment. ‘ LINCOLN, Nebr., November 29 (/ —The body of a woman who ap-| parently committed suicide five days} ago was found hanging in a bed room closet of her apartment here yes- terday. Police said the woman was Mrs. | Ralph Clawson, 40. wife of a claim agent of the Hagenback-Wallace Cir- cus, now Wintering in Peru, Ind. “My dears” was written at the top of a note found on a table in the room, but no message was inscribed. | Friends said Mrs. Clawson was {ll | this Summer and poor health might | have caused the act. 1"H-29 'HICKEN FOR |in | Spain, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Cuba. | At the recent national convention of | one of the principal speakers and | | made a strong plea for national pre- | paredness. A year ago he attracted Girl, 10, Testifies | Against Mother | In Court Battle Says She Does Not Love Parent, but Does Love QOrder Issued Here Restrains | Grandparents. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. November 29 —Constance Brock, 10. testified against her mother and for her grand- parents yesterday in the Supreme Court fight being waged over her custody. Talking quietly to Joseph Mor- schauser, official referee, she said her mother, Mrs. Helen Starr Brock Josephson, of New York City, “treated me ike & ioy “She ted me like a doll.” asserted the ittle girl I just don't like Josephson (Robert Josephson, her stepfather). I don't like my mother I didn't like it in Paris. I wanted to go to the beach and mother liked the city.” ‘Do vou love your mcther?” she was asked. No. “Dont you think your mother loves you?" “No, 1 don't think she has any great iove for me. but I don't love her. so I don't care.” Of her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Starr, of Mamaroneck, who have temporary custody by order of Justice Graham Witschief. she said: has been like a She called her grand- “Grandmother mother to me.” father “Papa.” “If T have to live with mv mother and Josephson, I'll run away,” &n- nounced the youngster. 6. . PROFESSOR GETS LECION POST Dr. Healy National Chair- man of National Defense Committee. From the ranks of college professors, the American Legion has selected Dr. Thomas H. Healy of Georgetown Uni- versity as national chairman of its important National Defense Commit- tee. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, retired The new national chairman was chosen at the annual meeting of the Legion's Executive Committee, just concluded at Indianapolis. He is assistant dean of the School of Foreign law at Georgetown Only 40 years of age, Dr. Healy served as an Artillery officer in France during the World War. Dr. Healy is one of the most vigor- ous proponents of national defense to be found among rollege professors in the country and a man experienced international affairs. The American Legion has made na- tional defense a major issue this year, and under the direction of Dr. Healy wili conduct an ag- gressive campaign in behalf of pre- paredness and against Communism. The Georgetown educator is & Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. He has also been decorated by the governments f Rumania, | Dr. Healy the Legion in Florida, Dr. Healy was wide attention by urging a mora- | torium on all international confer- ences. Dr. Healy was born in Washington and educated at Georgetown Univer- sity and law school. U. S. MONOPOLY CHARGED IN PRODUCTION OF OIL Congressional Subcommittee Told Move Is Similar to Early Con- trol by Rockefeller. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 29— Willlam J. Kemnitzer, geologist and economist, told a congressional sub- committee yesterday the Federal Gov- ernment is seeking to control the production of ofl by monopoly in the same manner that John D. Rockefeller, sr, did privately prior to the 1911 trust dissolution. “Unless this move is nipped in the bud, we will soon see the pubdlic the victims of monopoly to & greater degree than in the days of Rocke- feller's prime,” Kemnitzer said. Edwin T. Pauley, president of Petrol Corp., told the committee he could not, exist “under governmental regula- tions.” The committee is surveying the | firm of Brashears, Townsend, O'Brien | | & Beasley, | By the Associated Press. COTONNENBLOG NR AN CORT . Government Move Against | 31 Firms, Chief Justice Alfred A, Wheat signed an order in District Supreme Court yesterday temporarily restrain- ing N. R. A. authorities from in- stituting criminal or civil proceedings again 31 cotton garment manufac- turers, who earlier in the day ha filed suit seeking this protection. The order, which will continue in effact until December 7, was issued after the plaintiffs had declared there was “danger of irreparable injury” | to them if the proceedings should be | instituted. The court’s order also for- | bids the defendants to remove or| threaten to remove Blue Eagles from | the plaintiffs. Hearing on the ap- plication for a preliminary injunction was set for December 7. Thirty-One Act Jointly. The 31 plaintiffs, whose plants are located in 11 States. filed their joint action against Attorney General Cum- mings. the National Industrial Recov- ery Board, L. J. Martin, chief of the N. R. A. Compliance Division and the Cotton Garment Code Authority. The suit attacks the validity of Pres- ident Roosevelt's order cutting work- ing hours in the industry from 40 to 37 per week, and raising piecework wages 10 per cent. It is contended the President had no authority under the | national industrial recovery act to is- | sue this order. It also was asserted the order was issued in the face of | opposition by the majority of the in- dustry and that the entire cotton gar- ment code was drafted by a minority of the trade and adhered to by the majority because of their desire to promote re-employment and recovery. The campaign launched by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson in the Summer of | 1933 to popularize the Blue Eagle was | described by the petition as a second- ' ary boycott. U. S. Procedure Cited. “By the great pressure of the Gov- | ernment, by the use of vast funds for publicity, by appealing to the spirit of patriotism, by refusal of the Govern- | ment to purchase from persons not displaying the Blue Eagle, by inducing others in industry and consumers to deal only with persons under the Blue Eagle, the National Recovery Admin- | istration instituted and has since con- ducted a secondary boycott,” the pe- tition declares. The N. R. A. also was charged with discrimination against employers of free labor by permitting the use of a Blue Eagle insignia on prison-made garments. It was asserted this threat- ens destruction to the plaintiffs' prop- | erty, representing an investment of | more than $2,000.000. The suit charges prison-made goods were given N. R. A. recognition despite assurances from the President and the N. R. A. head that the Blue Eagle would be per- mitted only to employers of free labor. | Shortly before the suit was filed the | National Industrial Recovery Board released a report from a special N. R. A. investigating committee which said | | competition of prison-made garments | “actually endangers the life of the cotton garment code.” This report urged the removal of prison products from ordinary channels of commerce | and suggested these garments be pur- chased by the F. E. R. A. The suit was filed through the law | | NAVAL CONVERSATIONS HALTED FOR MARRIAGE Davis and Standley Join British in Cheering Newlywed George and Marina. LONDON, November 29.—Vital na- val conversations between three powers were halted today for the wedding of a former naval officer and Princess Marina of Greece. Norman H. Davis and Admiral Wil- liam H. Standley, United States dele- gates to the naval talks, in common with thousands of Americans here, joined their English cousins in cheer- ing the Duke of Kent and Marina to and from the ceremony. They could do no more than to see the procession and cheer. for Am- bassador Robert W. Bingham =and | Mrs. Bingham were the sole Americans outside of newspaper men fortunate enough to see the royal couple wed. Santa Claus Editor of The Star. best letter. and maybe little brother other awards. Don’t forget, you must not be your letter. third prize is $5. their letters, will be made one week Please write on one side of t! _pem_aleu‘ industry with s view to in Exl! | disease. | sign in the Navy. Transferred to the | colonel in (0L COTTS FANED MARINE, EXPRES Was Organizer of the Do- minican Army and Holder of Five Medals. Col. Richard Malcolm Cutts, U. 8. M. C., organizer of the Dominican Republic National Army, and co- inventor of the Cutts compensator, died last Friday in San Diego, Calif., it was learned here today. The hold- er of five medals for distinguished service, he had received letters of commendation from the Secre- taries of both War and Navy. He died of heart 1 Born in Cal- ifornia. he was the son of Lieut. R. M. Cutts. Comdr. Richard M. Cutts, U. S. N, and in the Span- ish-American War fought as an en- i Marine Corps in 1899, he was made' 1922. 1In 1923 and 1924 he was commandant of the Dominican | Republic National Army, umrh: remains at the present time just as he organized iL. With his son, Lieut Cutts, U. §. M. C.. Col. vented the Cutts compensator, ordnance shock absorber which used by the Government - Besides his son, Col. Cutts is sur- | vived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. John T. Wainright, and a sister, Mrs. John T. Meyers, wife of Maj. Gen. Meyers, U. S. M. C. Funeral gervices will be held in Arlington tomorrow at | 2 pm. with full military honors The honorary pallbearers will be: | | Briz. Gen. Hugh Matthews, Cols. | | Calvin B. Matthews, Thomas Hol- | comb, W. P. Upshur, Lieut. Cols Pedro Del Valle, M. B. Humphrey, J. | C. Fegan and P. A. Capron. i Richard M.| | Cutts in- | an' is TEACHERS TO MEET HERE THIS WEEK Prominent Speakers Scheduled to | Address Instructors in English. I | Preparing to consider everything | even remotely relating to reading, | writing and talking, groups of authors. | editors, professors and teachers began arriving at the Mayflower Hotel today in preparation for a three-day con- | vention of the National Council of | Teachers of English Brain trusters in the administra- tion and others who have remained in the more cloistered confines of | their colleges will share the speaking | spotlight with magazine editors and | poets. Prominent among the first | group will be Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, | economist of the A. A. A. and Secre- | tary of Agriculture Wallace. Prof. Robert E. (Marry-your-boss's-daugh- ter) Rogers of M. I. T. is scheduled to appear on Saturday. Magazine Editors Atwood of the Saturday Eve- | ning Post, Dashiell of Scribner's and | Chenery of Collier’s are on the Fri- | day afternoon program. Robert Frost, poet of gray New England hills and stone walls, will speak on Saturday. At the only meeting today, a special committee which has been studying high school curricula discussed its findings and prepared to submit a re- port tomorrow. Dr. Edgar C. Higbie, president of Wilson Teachers’ College and presi- dent of the District Education Asso- | ciation, will welcome the delegates to- | night. Addresses are scheduled by Dr. Ezekiel, Dr. Frederick J. Kelly, chief of the division of higher educa- tion of the Federal Office of Education, and Prof. Oscar J. Campbell, president of the council, of the University of Michigan. WIDOW OF CUSTER GIVES U. S. TROPHIES | Estate Worth $130,884.43 Pro- bated in New York—Piece of Truce Flag Included. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Custer, widow of Gen. George A. Custer, left an estate which today showed a balance of $130,884.43 in an accounting filed in Surrogate Court by City Bank Farm- ers' Trust Co., administrator. Mrs. Custer died April 4, 1933, at the age of 91, The accounting covered the period from her death to April 30, this year. Mr8. Custer bequeathed to the Gov- ernment various commissions of her usband to ranks in the United States Army. Some of these were signed by Abraham Lincoln and Andrew John- son. Among these bequests was a piece of toweling used as a flag of truce by the Confederate forces when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Portraits and photographs of Gen. Custer, his arms, accoutrements, uni- forms, souvenirs of war and the frontier, books and trophes of the chase were left by the will to a public museum which is to be erected on the battlefield of the Little Big Horn, Mont. PLANS TRANSIT SESSION People’s Counsel William A. Rob- erts yesterday issued an invitation to officers of citizens’ associations to meet with him next Wednesday at 8 pm. at the Commerce Building auditorium to discuss street car and bus transportation problems. Roberts also expressed the hope that citizens would extend their com- | munity activites and hold mass meetings for the discussion of their views on the transportation needs of their respective neighborhoods. $30 IN PRIZES FOR WASHINGTON BOYS AND GIRLS. Now is the time, boys and girls, to write your letter, “Why I know there is a Santa Claus and why every poor child in Washington should receive gifts this Christmas.” DON'T DELAY, send it in NOW to the It will be fine to win uut'pr!u of $15 offered by The Star for the or little sister will win one of the more than 12 years old if you write The best letter will win a prize of $15, second prize is $10 and the Your letter must be at the office of The Star not later than mid- night of Saturday, December 15. Announcements of the winners, with later. he paper only, and get your letter ANGLO-U. 5. NAVAL ACCORD HELD SURE Japanese Objection to 5-5-3 Ratio Seen as Lever to Merge Policies. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Despite official denials from Wash- ington and London that no Anglo- American understanding regarding future policies in the Pacific is con- templated, in well-informed quarters {in Washington it is believed that such an understanding will materialize in . the future. Neither the United States nor the British government had any idea of coming to any political agreement when the preliminary naval confer- ence began in London early in No- vember. The Japanese, by trying to play the British against the United States, managed to get these two countries closer than they have been since the end of the world war. Many Angles Bring Accord. The coming into office of the Lyons cabinet in Australia—a cabinet with nationalistic tendencies—the reluc- tance of the Japanese to make any concessions in the economic field to the British exporters, the danger to the British treasury of having to spend more than the British tax- payers can afford in case of an Ameri- can-Japanese naval race, all these facts have brought home forcefu! to the British government the necs sity of coming to some working agree- ment with the United States whereby the danger to Great Britain in the Far East might be lessened. In diplomatic circles it is pointed out that relations between nations are never dictated by sympathy or an- tipathy. There has been a coolness between America and Great Britain ever since the end of the World War. America’s foreign trade had replaced, in many countries. Britain's, with the result that the British people and the British government were looking upon this country as an impertinent upstart. Depression Great Leveler. The economic depression, which hit Great Britain as severely as the United States, softened this natural jealousy: the slump in the foreign trade of both countries made any rivalry immaterial. But on the other hand, the dumping policy of the Japanese in all the markets where American and British trade reigned supreme made it clear to the Ameri- can and the British business men |and their governments that unless some means of meeting this danger were devised their factories would find it difficult to place their goods in many sections of the world. The British people now are used to the idea that Britannia no longer rules the waves alone and have ac- cepted with more or less good grace a naval parity with the United States. They realize that such a parity can- not harm the British Empire. The question of the payment of the war debts is still irksome. but for all prac- tical purposes it is considered as & closed chapter in the British-Ameri- can relations, Commercial Rivalry Less Acute. The commercial rivalry is much less acute than it was & few years ago and conversations are proceed- ing between the heads of certain business interests in England and here to get together in order to avoid unnecessary competition. Under the pressure of the domin- ions. especially Australia and New Zealand. the British government is gradually veering toward a better understanding with the United States. Interests Run Parallel Such an understanding, diplomatic observers say, will not be caused by the fact that the two countries speak the same language or by the fact that there is a certain racial affilia- tion between the people of this coun- try and those of the British Empire. It will come about merely because political and economic interests run parallel and each country comple- ments the other. It may take some time, it is stated, before the slow-thinking British for- eign office comes to realize fully this change in relationship. Equally, it may take some time before the Amer- ican Government can be convinced that the British are playing fair and that a closer co-operation between London and Washington will not draw this country into some interna- tional entangiements because of Brit- ain's commitments in Europe. But. those observers who have been following closely the most recent de- velopments agree that in case of an international emergency the policies of the two powers are bound to meet. SANTA CLAUS FILM BRINGS DELIGHT TO D. C. CHILDREN (Continued From First Page) life of Santa Claus. what he does in his home and how he spends his time between Christmases. Journey Through Shops. A film journey was made through his great workshops, toy factories and testing rooms, where many new me- chanical toys were shown being run and operated by Santa’s gnome work- men. An interesting scene was the one showing Santa’s observatory where he watches good and bad children all over the world through a giant tele- scope. ‘Toward the end of the picture Santa delivered a Christmas message to his children friends, end the film wound up with an appeal to all to aid The Star and Warner Bros. in their effort to make sure that no needy child in Washington will be forgotten or over- looked this Christmas, by calling at- tention to the fourth annual Christ- mas toy matinees to be held on Sat- urday, December 15, at 1! Warner Bros.' theaters under the sponsorship of The Star Toy, Price of Admission. At these matinees, during which splendid programs will be presented, a new toy or any new article of wear- ing apparel will be the price of ad- mission. These will be collected and distributed to needy Washington chil- dren et Christmastime by the Council of Social Agencies. Last year 30,000 new toys and gifts for Washington's poor children were brought to The Star-Warner Bros.’ matinees. And it is hoped this year that the number of new toy contribu- tions will be greatly increased and that every child in the District of Co- lumbia will be made happy in the knowledge that Santa Claus will not pass him by. The matinees will be held at the following theaters, with full programs to be announced later: Earle, Metro- politan, Ambassador. Apollo, Savoy, valon, Avenue Grand, Colony, Home,