Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, colder tonight, minimum temper- tomorrow fair; ature about 34 degrees; moderate west winds. Temperatures—Highest. 49, at noon to- day; lowest, 41, at 7 am. today. Full repert on page A-9 Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 15,16 & 17 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star “From Press to Home Within an 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 Hour” printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 125,823 Some Returns Not Yet Received. Entered as second class matter post oflice, hingt = No. 33,089. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ¥ %Kk ‘P Means Assuciated Press. TWO CENTS. ULM PLANE FORCED DOWN AT SEA PLANES ANDBOATS [ e i RUSH 0 D UL 45 L0ST AVATOR SENDS A PLEA | Message From Craft, Flying From U. S. to Honolulu, Tells of Gasoline Supply. Running Low. ‘ | ! Trio Aboard Star of Australia ‘ Last Reported Sighted by Lineri Several Hundred Miles From\ Hawaii—Signals of Flyers Re-| ported Weak. ' VESSEL IS ORDERED TO LEND ASSISTANCE SENATOR COUZENS. U5 AIDTOBRITAN Senate Committee Hears Navy Diverted Its Arms BULLETIN. HONOLULU, December 4 (P.— Gasoline exhausted and the course to Honolulu lying toward the north, the Hawaii-Australia plane carry- Deliveries. The Michigan Senator’s entry into | ing C. T. P. Ulm and two com- the party controversy came shortly panions alighted on the Pacific ! By the Associated Press. | after Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of Ocean near here today. | Evidence that arms manufacturers | the Republican National Committee, - iknew as early as 1908 that “a tre- |Pad flatly declined to resign at HONOLULU. December 4 (®)— |mendous conflict was brewing” in | Borah's request. The trans-Pacific plane of Lieut. |Europe was presented today to the| TO step out at this time. Fletcher Charles T. P. Ulm radioed today it was landing on the water in its projected flight to Honolulu. fsrnale Munitions Committee. The | World War broke out six years later | The committee also received evi- N 194 EVEALED CHALLENGE GIVEN BORAH 10 DIRECT REFORM OF 6.0.P Couzens Asks Rebellious Senator to Suggest New Platform. {FLETCHER DECLINES TO QUIT CHAIRMANSHIP Michigan Leader Says Concrete Policies Must Be Presented by Opponents of New Deal. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah, who demandeg a re- organization of the Republican party, received a challenge today from Sen- suggest a new platform. He said Borah, like Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, campaigned against aspects of the New Deal, but “neither one was successful because they of- fered no substitutes for the programs they criticized.” said, “would plunge the party organi- ! zation into confusion.” He pointed | out the machinery by which, he said, ator Couzens, Republican, of Michi-| gan to take the chairmanship and | REOPENING OF WAR LOBBYING INQUIRY BY JURY FORESEEN U. S. Attorney’s Aides Hear Secret Testimony of Frank Speicher. 'HOUSE GROUP CALLS “MYSTERY WITNESS” | “Key"” Figure, Missing in Early Probe, Tells Story of Nego- tiations With U. S. BY REX COLLIER. Reopening of the grand jury in- | vestigation of lobbying activities at | the War Department was seen as a | possibility today as a result of evidence presented to a House subcommittee by Frank E. Speicher, long-sought “mys- | tery witness.” Granting a request by United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, Chairman John J. McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee admitted two as- sistant United States attorneys as SON,YOU AND | ARE GONNA BE GREAT BUDDIES SOME DAY'{ official “observers” in a closed hearing | today in the new House Office Build- ing. The representatives of the United States attorney are Assistants David | A. Pine and Alvin Krause. Pine con- | ducted a previous grand jury inquiry that ended without indictments but with a special report to President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Dern castigating lobbying conditions at the War Department Missed at Probe. | Speicher was to have been a key witness before the grand jury, but he | U..S. CIVIL PAY ROL HITS $100,000.000 I Monthly Total Goes to 680,- HONOLULU, December 4 (P).— Off his course and virtually out of gasoline, on a flight from Oak- land to Honolulu, Flight Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm today sent out a general emergency call as a Coast Guard cutter and three Navy planes dashed to his aid. By the Associated SAN FRANCISCO, December 4— The Ulm plane bound for Hawaii is lost and running short of gasoline, said advices received by Globe Wireless | here at 10 a.m. today. The information came through the Globe Wireless station at Honolulu. In messages picked up there, Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm, pilot of the plane, was begging for “the beacon,” pre- sumably the radio beacon, that he might be guided safely to his Hono- lulu destination. “We do not want to have to give the S O S,” said one message. “Last from the plane said he was lost.” commented the Honolulu Globe wireless station. “He keeps asking for beacon. NRUI (not identified, but presumably the radio beac tation) said the beacon had been on since | midnight " Other messages from the plane, re- layed by the wireless station, said it was fiying at 12,000 feet altitude and that the weather was "not very good.” “Asking for Honolulu wea! report continued. “We gave him that | Gence that the United States Govern- | the party could obtain new leader- | could not be located, despite a wide search by Department of Justice 181 Workers, With 93,322 * the | | ment assigned delivery on some of | its munition contracts to the British Navy from 1914 to 1916 War Anticipation Shown. A brief filed by the Colt Patent Fire- arms Co. with the Government in a tax case indicated the company's an- ticipation of the war, the commitiee We knew a tremendous conflict was brewing and spent the money necessary to organize a sales force | throughout Europe,” the brief said. S. M. Stone, president of the com- | pany, who was testifying, said he did not have any more “definite knowl- | edge” of the impending war than the | average citizen. | The deliveries on munitions con- | tracts were made through Canada 10" : Great Britain, a brief read to the committee said. The author was | Benedict W Holden, attorney for the | Colt_Co. “The contracts with the United States Government,” he wrote. “with deliveries assigned to the British | Navy was an eloquent testimonial as | to the knowledge on the part of the officials of our Government that fire- arms would be in demand or required by European nations. Investigation Resumed. “Delivery in Canada for Great ! Britain was made on purchase orders | and contracts beginning as early as | 1914 and continued until interrupted lin 1916.” now. He did not listen for us for : . some time. but now in contact with [ The investigation into activities of him again.” | the munitions industry was picked up Ship Stands By. today where it left off some time ago. - . j At that time, the testimony echoed dlately ordersd its fre <’xl§lfr(a \sz around the world. including the names at that hour about 275 miles out of i %tgu:(;?gs and i ctherwarld -t mous e o e, “27¢ | Virtually the entire membership of « 2 5 i the committee was present at the The last previous report from the plane itself had been received from the President Coolidge at 6:25 a.m., the Dollar liner relaying word that the plane “Star of Australia” was about 500 miles from Honolulu shortly before that hour. The cruising speed of the Ulm plane had been given before the takeoff as 120 miles an hour. “We have very little gasoline left,” said a massage from the plane to the Honolulu Globe station, relaved hcre a little after 10 am. Pacific time “Need the beacon urgently. We do not want to have to give the S O S Please tell shake them on the beacon.” Indicates He's Far Away. KYG. the Honolulu station, said he was trying to tell the plane that the beacon had been in continuous opera- tion since midnight. Navigators pointed out that the radio beacon sends signals on a direc- tionai beam and that Ulm, if badly off his course, would therefore be un- able to receive them. Ulm at the take-off carried 605 gallons of gasoline, which at the con- sumption rate of 28 gallons an hour for his two 240-horsepower motors should last him slightly more than 21 hours. The take-off from Oakland was at ! 8:41 p.m,, yesterday. This gave him fuel to last, theoretically, until after noon today The liner President Coolidge, which at 8 o'clock last night was 651 miles from Honolulu, its immediate destina- tion on a voyage from here, radioed at 10:30 a.m. today that the wireless signals from the plane were so weak they could not be used as a basis for 'BELIEVED By the Associated Press. MARIANNA, Fla, December 4.— Sheriff W. F. Chambliss today said a man answering the description of ‘Thomas H. Robinson, jr., charged with kidnaping Mrs. Alice Stoll, wealthy Louisville society woman, was being held here until his fingerprints could be checked with Kentucky au- thorities. ‘The man. booked as Rufus Clarke, was arrested by deputy sheriffs when he attempted to run at their command to halt. Clarke told the sheriff he was on his way t Bristol, Tenn, | hearing today. Irenee, Felix and Lammot Du Pont, officers of the big powder manufactur- ing company which bears their name, were among the first to arrive. Back of the World War document {in the committee's mass of evidence | (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) | NOTED PHYSICIST DIES ! Sir Horace Lamb Passes Away in England. CAMBRIDGE, England, December () —Sir Horace Lamb, 85, noted ist, died today. 4 | mathematical phy: sir Horace was born November 7, 1849. He was graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1872, and con- j tinued his scholastic career thereafter as a fellow and assistant tutor, becom- ing a full professor of mathematics in | 1875 at the University of Adelaide. His incursions into the realms of higher mathematics brought him in- creasing scientific honors and in 1925 he was made president of the British association. In 1931 he was knighted. | were other letters and files which | ship if it wanted. Fish Takes Issue. Representative Fish, Republican, of New York also took issue with Borah, | saying that while the party should | “liberalize and humanize” its policies. | Fletcher should not be called upon to resign “provided he is willing to go zlong in favor of liberal policies.” | ‘ Couzens' statement, coming from | | one who has frequently voted with the party's Western independent wing, | | where demands for reorganization are | now arising, caused some surprise. | "I supgest” he said, “that those | who are supporting Mr. Borah’s pro- | posal that Mr. Fletcher resign offer | Mr. Borah the chairmanship of the | Republican National Committee. “I am just as anxious as Mr. Roose- | velt is to have the country recover, | but I do not intend to assume a de- | structive attitude, whether I be a Borah Republican or a Fletcher Re- | publican or neither of these things “Certain prominent Republican Senators have been carrying on dev- | astating campaigns, or at least they have been trying to make them de- vastating, against certain agencies of the New Deal. Borah did it in Idaho and Senator Reed in Pennsylvania and | |1 can't see much difference between the two. “Offered No Substitute.” “Although these campaigns were made by two outstanding Senators whom the public regards as repre- senting different factions in the Re- publican party, neither one was suc- cessful because they offered no substi- tutes for the programs they criticized. “We all admit that some of Mr. Roosevelt's experiments have not worked. Mr. Rosevelt, himself, per- haps would admit that. I do not think even Borah and Reed would | take the position that nothing should | be done by the Government. And so | I invite them, and especially Senator Borah, to suggest a platform for what he believes would be an ideal Republi- can party. “I am not at all interested in the ambitions of any political leaders or political office holders. I am inter- ested in policies and then the selection of men to carry them out. “Neither the Republican party nor any other party can draft a platform that will in any sense meet the situa- tion as it exists today without knowing whether it is in harmony with, or in opposition to, Mr. Roosevelt's legisla- tive program for the Seventy-fourth Congress. “The idea of formulating an oppo- sition party without knowing what it is to oppose is preposterous.” Fletcher’s Suggestion. Fletcher served notice on Borah and others who demanded a “complete re- organization” of the party that they could achieve their goal by presenting a concrete legislative program in Con- gress and by obtaining signatures of 16 national committeemen from as ‘Long Cursed L. Student Charges in Affidavit y the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., December 4.— An assertion that he had heard Sen- ator Huey P. Long violently curse Jesse |H. Cutter, resigned editor of the | Reveille, Louisiana State University |campus paper, and threaten to “fire” any university student who “dared to ‘say a word against Huey Long” was | sworn to today by David R. McGuire, | one of several students dismissed in & dispute over “Reveille censorship.” | The statement by McGuire was is- sued about the time Dr. Guy E. | Snavely of Birmingham, secretary of | the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, meeting in Atlanta, announced that the Execu- tive Committee of the association would investigate charges filed by Baton Rouge citizens that Long “is running Louisiana State University.” McGuire said he was seated near Senator Long in the State Senate chamber November 15 when another | B; S. U. Editor, journalism student brought a sheet from the Reveille, which Long read. His affidavit declared Long said: “As for that little — —— — that wrote this, why he’s not going to be in school. That's my univer- sity, and I'm not going to stand for any criticism. * * * I'll fire any stu- dent that dares to say a word against Huey Long. TIll fire a thousand. ‘We've got 10,000 to take their places. That's my university. I built it, and I'm not going to stand for any stu- dents criticizing Huey Long.” After a lapse of two issues, the Reveille appeared on the campus to- day under the editorship of Miss Grace Williamson of New Orleans and a new staff. Miss Williamson, a member of the original staff that resigned because of asserted censorship of articles criti- cizing Long, made peace with the fac- ulty on the grounds that the students | were not fighting censorship, but fac- | ulty supervisioms | launched, officials indicated. | agents. A few weeks ago he was found in New York City and he re- turned here voluntarily to give De- partment of Justice and congressional investigators a sensational story of | on Duty Here. The monthly pay roll for the exec- alleged improper dealings between | utive branch of the Government, in- contract seekers and Army representa- | cluding the old line and the New tives. | Deal agencies, has passed the $100,- An Army officer of high rank and | an executive of a large automobile corporation are said to be named in a statement given officials by Speicher, who is agent for a leakproof auto tube concern in New York City. i Speicher was being interrogated at length today by members of the House | Military Subcommittee, who thumbed sheets of a fifty-page typewritten statement obtained from Speicher by | Department of Justice agents. If certain allegations contained in | the statement are substantiated by documentary evidence which Speicher is said to have promised to produce. a new grand jury inquiry will be 000,000 mark. ‘The October report, released by the Civil Service Commission today, put expenditures at $101,888.575, for €80, 181 employes—93.322 in Washington and 586,859 in the field." This compared with $98.604611 in September, when the personnel to- taled €78,237. The Federal force showed an in- crease of 777 here for the month, which was the smallest gain in some time. The permanent - emergency force showed a net increase of 972, but there was a decline of 195 in the temporary staff. These staffs here now total, respectively, 84891 and 8431. 88,000 Hired Since January 1. In the field there were 308 addi- tions to the permanent-emergency Charges Are Heard. The new witness was questioned for | several hours yesterday afternoon by | committee members and was asked to | return today. Because of the ramifica- tions of the charges made in Speicher’s | statement it may take several days to | complete this phase of the inquiry. Speicher, a stocky, well dressed man in his forties refused to talk with reporters. explaining that he would do his talking in the committee room. He also declined to pose for photo- graphs. While the contents of Speicher’s statement are heing closely guarded, there are reports that it refers to a | variety of business negotiations with the War Department by representa- | tives of motor-car companies and by dealers 1n surplus Army goods. A number of person: whose names were mentioned in the prior inquiries are ceported to be referred to in the Speicher testimony. PSR FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE BROOKLYN, N. Y., December 4 (#). Two trainmen were killed and eight track workers injured today in a head- on collision of two Long Island rail- road freight trains in a cut under Brooklyn avenue. The dead were the engineer and oiler of the first of four electric locomo- tives pulling a westbound 16-car train, which collided with a steam locomo- tive pulling an eastbound train. The impact drove the first electric engine back into the second, pushing it up on end, and tore away part of the concrete retaining wall. Only 1 8 Shopping Days Until Christmas The smart person is the one who does his Christmas shop- ping now. Stocks are com- plete and selections unlim- ited. Do your shopping now and get better gifts and better service. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) Lines. The Evening Star. 48,869 2d Newspaper. . ... 14,553 3d Newspaper. ..., 9,674 4th Newspaper..... 6,261 5th Newspaper.... 5,037 Total (nxéeSisin) 35,525 The Star’s circulation yes- terday of 125823 was 7,266 greater than the correspond- ing day last year. ’ | force and 859 to the temporary. These | respective totals now are 502,157 and 84.702. Since the first of the year the Gov- ! ernment has employed more than | 88,000. Nearly 18,000 of these—all permanent—have been added locally. Temporary employment actually has | shown a decrease of 125. In the field, | the 170,000 have been nearly evenly divided between temporary and per- manent, though the balance is in favor of the former by slightly more than 6,000 | This employment has long since | passed that for July 1, 1920, which is usually used for comparison, be: cause that date marked the heigh of the war-time demobilization. It is still more than 225000 below the war-time peak, for the country as a war-time employment here. Table of Changes. Locally, changes in the principal agencies for October included the fol- | lowing: Permanent Emergency. Temporary. Treasury ..... 297 —224 Interior . 120 —291 AALA... 33 353 H.O.L.C. . =111 33 S.E.C... 106 10 Veterans’ Adm.. 64 —306 Emerg. Relief 81 Gov't Printing . 65 -7 N. R. A. 28 50 There were many smaller shifts. was in the Railroad Retirement Board, whose authority is challenged in the courts. 189 employes being dropped Agriculture cut off 455. virtually ail of whom were on a permanent basis, and the Home Owners’ Loan Corpora- tion 142. The Tennessee Valley Authority had an increase of 452 permanents, but dropped 171 temporaries. As usual, the field establishments showed wide fluctuation in the ranks of temporary employment. WOMAN ARRESTED AS NELSON’S WIDOW Toledo Police Declare Prisoner Answers Description of Mrs. Helen Gillis. By the Assocjated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, December 4.—A woman answering the description of Mrs. Helen Gillis, widow of the slain gangster, George (Baby Face) Nelson, was arrested here today. The arrest was made after police had received word that the woman had been seen earlier today in La- grange, Ind, apparently headed for Toledo. A whole, and about 20,000 off from the i In the field, one noticeable decrease | 'Roosevelt Chose | Design for China Of White House | First Lady’s One Aid W as Suggesting Roses In- stead of Scrolls. By the Associated Press It was President Roosevelt and not Mrs. Roosevelt—as most people sus- pected—who picked out the design for the 1.000-piece new set of china for the White House. The presidential choice was a blue band with gold edge and gold stars and the President’s seal on top. Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed this at her press conference today as she told of | the $9,000 purchase. She said she ! had suggested that merely to make it more interesting historically the three | small roses of the ancient Dutch Roose- | velt coat-of-arms be used around the inner border instead of scrolls. The President’s wife said the china was purchased because sets were 0 in- complete she had to send out several | times and buy cheap cups and saucers. BISNESS BACKS WARON'NUNBERS Electric Institute Leaders Call Meeting Tuesday at Harrington. Acting on the belief spread gambling on the numbers is diverting money from legitimate trade, leaders of the Electric Insti- tute are arranging a meeting to be held at 12:30 p.m. next Tuesday, in the ball room at Hotel, to discuss remedial measures. | Norman H. Barnes of the Potomac | Electric Power Co., a prominent of- i ficial of the institute, who is spon- | soring the meeting, said today: “For some time we have watched the columns of The Star, following | its campaign against the numbers game, and we are convinced that the three newspapers allied with The Star and the radio stations, by sup- pressing the totaling of pari-mutuel race results, are on the right track. It has come to our attention that the numbers runners are making an actual inroad on the business of ‘Washington, and this by the simple me_tl-_nod of shunting small cash from legitimate lanes into gambling de- vices. “When you consider that the num- bers racketeers of Washington are making more money than most of the small business men, when you think that these gamblers do not have the taxed, that they pay no licenses, you | see the great injustice being worked.” | | | | BALANCED BUDGET ROOSEVELTS HOPE President Holds Confer- ences at Warm Springs | Before Returning Here. | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, i | Staff Correspondent of The Star. | RM SPRINGS, Ga., December 4 ! —The small living room of President Roosevelt's frame cottage on the slopes of Pine Mountain, is again to- day the scene of one of the most | vitally important conferences of this administration, as Mr. Roosevelt con- tinued with his plans for a major national policy. With him in this cozy. but small, room, which is not a great deal larger than the usher’s room back at the White House in Washington, as he struggles with the completion of this task, are three cabinet officers, three recovery chieftains. besides several Jesser lights of the New Deal admin- | istration. Officials in Conference. In the group assisting the President to put the finishing touches on the budget and his national policy pro- gram are Secretary of the Treasur Morgenthau, Postmaster General Far- ley, Secretary of Interior Ickes, who is administrator of Public Works: | HOUSING SUBSIDY SCHEME STUDIED BYHIGH OFFICIAL |Plan Would Make Direct Gift of 20 Per Cent of Building Cost. U. S. WOULD SET uP $1,000,000,000 FUND Proposal Designed to Spur Re- covery by Putting Capital Back to Work. By the Associated Press A direct subsidy plan for stimulating housing through which $1,000.000,000 of Federal funds would be used in an attempt to put $4,000,000,000 of pri- vate capital to work is receiving con- sideration in high administration quarters, The scheme now being studied would have the Government make a direct gift of 20 per cent of a housing proj- ect. The person receiving the sub- sidy then could obtain an 80 per cent loan cn the remainder of the cost through the insurance guarantee method of the Housing Administra- tion, An example of operation of the plan would be as follows A man with a $500 lot wants to build a $5.000 house on his property. The Government, after investigation through Housing Administragon ma- chinery, would advance 20 per cent of the $5,000, or $1,000. With the insur- ance guarantee of the Housing Ad- ministration behind him. the borrower then could obtain from a bank or other lending agency a loan of 80 per cent. This would mean a loan of $3.600, put- ting the housing cost and the value of the lot together for a total of $4,500 This arrangement would require the borrower to put up only $400 in cash in addition to his lot Supporters of the plan say this op- eration would not interfere with pri- vate fields of finance or real estate and | would get away from the 100 per cent direction out of Washington, which di- rect Federal building would entail. The 20 per cent subsidy was said to | be enough to make up the difference between present rental levels and con- | struction costs. Those considering the subsidy method also would include two other | fields for Government spending to help | recovery which they say would not | compete with private enterprise. One would be that of 100 per cent Federal spending on such work relief activities as flood control, roads. Citizens' Con- servation Corps and possibly railroad crossing construction Farm Power Plan Scanned. The second field would be that of | partial Federal spending through ad- vances to cities, counties and States, \of which a portion would be return- {able. These funds would go to such construction as schools, hospitals, water and sewer systems and develop- ments to which private capital would not normally be diverted Harry L. Hopkins, administrator of | Electrification of farms through relief; Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, Un- |Government subisdy also was receiv- dersecretary of Agriculture and one |ing some attention. The system pro- of the President’s principal planning |posed here would involve a Federal aides, and Frank Walker, former chief subsidy to make up the difference be- co-ordinator of the emergency set-up | tween actual cost and what the farm- that wide-. the Harrington | ‘overhead expenses,’ that they are not | | | and former treasurer of the Demo- cratic National Committee. Other than to intimate that he is working on such a national policy program and that he hopes to ha\-ei | it virtually completed when his train | pulls cut of here tomorrow afternoon | for Washington President Roosevelt has oeen non-commital about these conferences of the past few days. His answer to inquiring newspaper men is that they will know all about | |it when they read the annual mes- |sage he will transmit to Congress | | when 1t opens for business January | 3. Despite the fact that he insists| | upon saving tc the correspondents | | here that any of their guesses in the | meantime will be wrong, the guessing and speculation continues. However, the speculation is by no means out {of thin air, because the President’s | conference group is interviewed in- | | dividually at various intervals and | | hints .hey have dropped have given | | some basis for the speculation. Issues Discussed. Therefore, without further attempts at speculation upon details it is safe to set down the following as occupy- ing ihe principal attention of the | President and his little group of as- | sistants as the program of national | policy is being rushed toward comple- | tion: | (1) A budget which will come as close as possible—perhaps attain— the President's goal of “balance by | -1935.” (2) A plan for converting dole-re- lief into work-relief of a self-liquidat- | ing nature. (3) Co-ordination, as a consequence, of the Public Works Administration (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. The public is in a better mood to spend, Government experts say. And so they expect Christmas trade to be the best in four years. ‘To their predictions that cash reg- isters will jingle as they haven't done since 1930, John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, added this note of cheer: “The prospects for a big Christmas trade show very clearly the state of mind—a satisfied and optimistic state of mind. “All of the evidence indicates the people are in a greater spending mood. But not for reckless spending such as we saw some years ago. This mood to buy can be directly attribut- able to more employment and more money in the people's pockets. Better Buying Mood May Lift Yule Sales to Level of 1930 The Government statisticians said: Estimates indicate farm income this year will be nearly a billion dollars greater than last year. Business generally is running ahead of last year, according to trade re- ports. October department store sales in- creased 7 per cent over a year ago, rural general merchandise sales are up 12 per cent, variety store sales 5 per cent, and new motor car sales 9 per cent. Labor reports indicate such heavy goods industries as locomotive equip- ment, machine tools and cement im- proved, and industrial production im- proving better than seasonally. The experts also pointed to in- creases in Government emergency ex- penditures, er could afford to contribute to building electric lines to farm areas. The lines likely would be built by power companies. It was said in some quarters that 75 per cent of the farm population was not served with elec- tricity. ADMR. HUSSEY DIES OF HEART ATTACK Succumbs in Connecticut Shortly After Leaving Washington for Litchfield. By the Assoclated Press NEW MILFORD, Conn., December 4 —Rear Admiral C. L. Hussey, U.S.N., retired, of Washington, D. C, and Litchfield, died of a heart attack today after alighting from a train. The 64-year-old retired officer, hold- er of the United States Navy Cross, was stricken as he was about to enter his automobile to be driven to his Litchfield home. Rear Admiral Hussey, who retired October 1, 1927, had come here from Washington, where he resided at 2029 Connecticut avenue. Born in Rochester, N. H., August 18, 1870, he was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1892 and from the Naval War College in 1920. He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral June 4, 1926. During the Spanish-American War he served on the Oregon and in 1903 commanded an expedition to Abyssinia. He commanded the Birmingham during the World War and from 1922 to 1924 he was the naval attache to the American Embassy at London. e Atlanta Bandits Active. ATLANTA, December 4 (#).—The descent of armed bandits on three stores and the fashionable Cox-Carlton Hotel here netted them a haul of $260 in cash and a basket of groceries. Guide for Readers Page. Amusements . B-20 Comics .... 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