Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1934, Page 1

\WEATHER. (U § Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional light snow today and tomorrow; continued cold; gen- tle to moderate west winds, Tempera- tures—Highest, 31, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 24, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-6. 3 5 Only |3 Shopping ‘ Days Unul Christmas WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,551—No. 33,094 Entered as second class ma tter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, iy Star SUNDAY NATION-WIDE OFFENSIVE RO0SEVELT SEEKS ON DOPE RINGS JAILS 574 NEWBANKAGENCY, EIGHT HELD IN CAPITAL OUSTING CCONNOR .. &% & $100,000 Stock Is Seized in Seattle. SCHOOL TRADE BANDS CAUGHT Anslinger Leads| First Raid in ‘ Baltimore. Would Supersede Deposit Insurance Set-Up and Controller. FOUR ALREADY CHOSEN FOR BOARD, IS REPORT Move Designed to Ease Worry Over Examinations and to Loosen Credit. Copyright. 1934, by the Associated Press. Creation of a new Federal bank- handling agency in an effort to ease worry about Federal bank examina- tions and thus loose millions in credit MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1934—122 e - xR CONGRESSIONAL MATERNITY WARD PAGES. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE ] SANTA Claus~\ Jms PARADE. ; & TREATY REVISION DRIVE: INTENSIFIES CRISIS AS POWERS UNITE FOR PEACE France Sides With Little Entente, However, for Status Quo — Italy Air's Hungary for Changes. BOTH JOIN IN URGING DISPUTANTS BE CALM Terrorism Is Condemned in Ses- sion of League Council, Chilean Proposing International Pact. was disclosed yesterday to have been proposed to members of Congress by the administration. The new agency would comprise Drugs valued on the illicit market | at $100.000 were seized at Seattle, | Wash., last night in the climax to a ! British Leaders Assail Abuse of Nation-wide drive against the dope traffic which netted some 574 prisoners in a series of swift raids on dens and dealers in every major city. tack started early yesterday morning and the reports were still straggling into the Federal narcotics headquarters | at 2 o'clock this morning In Washington the raids got under way late in the afterncon and con- tinued until 2 o'clock this morning. Although police said only eight were being held. the narcotics agents said “a great many’ had been arrested The names of only three were given out. The raids were directed from the Federal headquarters in the Tower Building. Fourteenth and K streets 397 Ounces Taken From Liner. The Seattle seizure was reported by Agent Melvin Hanks, who telegraphed that 397 ounces of morphine had been taken from the Dollar liner President Jackson just before it was scheduled to sail for the Orient. Details were not available immedi- ately, but it was reported that customs men, working in co-operation with the narcotics squad. raided the liner be- fore plans for taking the drugs ashore could be consummated. The results of what shaped up as the Government's greatest offensive against the evil in the various cen- ters, as reported by the Associated Press, were Baltimore—Eight arrested and a, store of narcotics described as the | largest ever found in the city seized when Federal operatives de- | The at- | Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics Louis J. Ruppel (left) and Joseph J. Biggins. chief of special agents of the Narcotic Bureau, who kept an all-night vigil in the Tower Building | greatest drive on dope headquarters, directing the Nation's —Star Staff Photo. OFFICER IS FACING GRAND JURY PROBE |Army Man Alleged to Have | Taken Fees From Pri- vate Firms. BY REX COLLIER. | Evidence purporting to involve an Army officer on duty at the War Department in connection with pay- ment of fees from private firms doing business with the department will be presented to the grand jury here within a week or two. | The case against the officer has ' months by Department of Justice | SUTTONS PAOLE ORDERED REVOAED Board Severely Criticizes Officials Who Pressed for His Release. Revocation of the parole of Albert S. Sutton, who was sentenced to 20 | vears for attempted robbery and as- sault, was ordered last night by the Parole Board which incorporated in its record severe criticism of District prison officials who in 1932 “made de- termined efforts” to gain his release was | been under investigation for several | from prison Sutton has served 11 years of his scended upon the headquarters of a | agents and members of a House mill- | sentence and will go back to prison combine doing a mail order business | in the illegal stuff. | Cleveland—Answering the tearful | pleas of parents to “save our children,” | a force of agents exposed an organiza- | tion selling narcotics to high school students and corralled seven men and | three women. | Chicago—Federal and city officers swooped down on Ghinatown and picked up 11 Chinese in continuation of a week-long campaign against the evil that has netted more than 260 and documents received behind closed | riot. prisoners in Illinois, Indiana and Wis- | consin. Six other persons, alleged | members of a syndicate enjoying a ‘ $3,600,000 annual trade. whose leaders were run down Friday. were also taken | into custody. The squads hurried out again to carry their “war to a finish.” 75 Taken in 1 States. | Kansas City—Federal Division Su- pervisor Wood announced that 75 al- leged narcotics distributors had bes-n‘ taken in sudden sorties in Missouri, | Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. San Francisco—Forty-five men and | five women were seized in the first step of a State-wide drive. Omaha—A quick drive sent 24 per- sons to jail. Atlanta—Fifteen arrests were made by Federal men Des Moines—Fourteen persons were held for investigation in connection with drug thefts from pharmacies and physicians’ offices. Pittsburgh—<Eight Chinese taken and a tong president held. Oklahoma City—Eleven persons ap- prehended. St. Louis—Twenty persons rounded were up. Little Rock—Eighteen arrests made. | It was indicated also the drive had spread to Detroit and Cincinnati. 11 Taken in Boston. Boston—Eleven suspected addicts | were taken in the start of a drive to | clean up New England Denver—Twelve suspected and salespersons were taken custody. Detroit—Eleven persons appre- | hended as drive opened, with goal‘ set as 100 per cent clean-up by De- | cember 10. Milwaukee~A Chinese pleaded guilty to illegal sales here and three persons sentenced to a State hospital from Superior, Wis. Mrs. Elizabeth Bass, Federal narcotics chief for Illi- nois, Indiana and Wisconsin, con- ferred with police officials and pointed to Superior as a distributing point for drugs smuggled in from Canada. The names of three of those ar- rested in Washington, as given out by the narcotics agents are: | Jimmy Barker, 411 G street north- west; Jack Callphan, Twelfth and New York avenue, and Bill Young, 631 E street. The raiders here were so busy, how- ever, that the police and special agents did not bother with the usual proceduce of booking those taken into custody on formal charges, but simply arrested them, slapped them in cells and continued their raiding. Relaxed after a strenuous day, in which he personally supervised the Baltimore hotel raid. Harry J. Anslinger, narcotics commissioner, surveyed the results of the campaign “It was a good day’'s work,” he said. “But we hope to do even better next time. Of course, it is too much to say that we have broken down the drug| industry, but we've certainly put a| crimp ir it Raids Quietly Planined. Louis J. Ruppel. deputy commis- | sloner, sat with Anslinger receiving telegraphic reports on the progress of the campaign. Ruppel had spent 24 hours without sleep. ‘The raids were quietly planned over & period of several days. With Anslinger directing activities in the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) ) { users into | | = | turn indictments but was moved to tary affairs subcommittee. The grand jury proceedings in this case are said to be the forerunner of a broad inquiry into War Departmem‘ business dealings to be made by the completes its own investigation. | grand jurors when the House groupi | to serve the remaining 9 years unless | 2 new parole should be granted in the future. A. C. Tawse, former sufrintendent of the District Reformatory at Lor- ton, Va., was the principal object of censure by the Parole Board for aid- five members, who would perform all functions now handled by the Fed- eral Deposit Insurance Corp. and the controller of the currency. An interlocking directorate would insure co-operation among the new crganization, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and the Federal Re- serve Board. Board Reported Named. The plan has advanced far enough that members of Congress were told four of the five new board members had been decided upon. Leo T. Crowley, present F. D. I. C. chairman, is to be head and the other members are Jesse Jones, chairman of the R. F. C.: Marriner Eccles, gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Board, ard Representative Charles West of Ohio, who campaigned on a New Deal platform for the Democratic sena- torial nomination in his State but was defeated in the primaries by Vic Donahey, the Ohio Senator-elect. Administration officials had intend- ed to work out the new set-up with- out legislation. But when they broached such a plan on Capitol Hill the Congressmen objected In one quarter. also, it was said the fact that J. F. T. O'Connor, now controller of the currency, had not resigned to accept an offered appoint- ment as Federal Reserve representa- tive on the Pacific Coast had speeded the decision to abolish his present job by legislation. Further Conferences Slated. Final details of the plan have not been worked out. President Roose- velt, Crowley, Jonés and Eccles are to hold further conferences and out- line their proposal to newly-lmvmu! members of Congress who handle banking legislation. In its broader phases, the program would put under the new agency— which may be called the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.—all the bank examining activities now performed A second Army officer is known to | ing Sutton’s campaign for release.|by the controller general, the F. D. Tawse resigned more than a year ago, | I. C., the Bank Reorganization Com- be involved in allegations made w‘ the House committee during the past | week. The committee has intensified its inquiry as a result of usmnony‘ doors from a “mystery witness,” Frank E. Speicher. Dozen Others Called. Speicher’s testimony, supplemented by what Chairman John J. McSwain describes as “a little black satchel” full of documentary evidence, prompt- ed the committee to summon hastily more than a dozen other witnesses whose names are well known in mili- tary and industrial circles. Some of these witnesses had been qustioned previously by the com- | mittee and by a grand jury which, | several months ago. refused to re-| condemn lobbying conditions at the ‘War Department. Assistant United States Attorney Allen J. Krouse has been sitting with the committee in its executive ses- sions as a representative of United | States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett.| This unusual action was taken be- | cause of the serious nature of charges | made by Speicher to Department of | Justice agents, who located him in| New York City after a Nation-wide | search. | The committee has summoned a number of additional witnesses for the coming week. The hearings will | continue in executive session for sev- eral days, but may be opened to the | public later. Ralph T. O'Neil, former national commander of the American Legion, was interrogated by the committee yesterday. O'Neil had been questioned by the committee during earlier phases of the inquiry, and he was a witness before the grand jury which criticized lobbying at the War De- partment. CUTTER SAVES BOAT Two Aboard Helpless Craft Res-| cued in Gale. NORFOLK. Va.. December 8 (#)— Helpless in a freezing gale, the fishing smack Fay G of New York was picked up off False Cape late this afternoon by the Coast Guard cutter Mendota and is being towed to Hampton. The cutter, which picked up the boat just outside the breakers, report- | ed there were only two men on the little boat and a disabled engine had rendered her helpless. “Adam’ Dead, Frau Dore Waits Chance to Quit Pacific “Eden” By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 8.—The Adamless Eve ot Galapagos is going back home. There were no snakes in her Garden of Eden, on the loneliest inhabited island in the world. Some of the world’s largest lizards shared her Utopia, but they didn't bring the | downfall of her earthly paradise. It first was the turmoil in the fan- tastic rise and fall of a bizarre empire, ruled by a self-styled empress, whose court robe was a pair of abbreviated silk panties and whose scepter was a pistol dangling from her waist by a silken cord. after a dispute with Capt. M. M. mittee, the R. F. C. and possibly the Barnard. general prison head, as a | Federal Reserve. result of handling of a prisoners’ | Adviser Criticized. Others named in the critical state- ment were Louis M. Hurwitz, Sutton’s parole adviser, a night club proprie- | tor, who was accused of having cer- | tified the latter’s parole reports, which | the board said Sutton has admitted | were false. Wilbur La Roe. jr.. and Dr. Emmett J. Scott, parole members, also recom- mended that “care be exercised” in the selection of the place of confine- ment for Sutton. The inference was that he be sent to e Federal peni- tentiary and not Lorton. The hoard found that Sutton had violated his parole pledge by associ- ating with gamblers and an ev- convict, and that he had falsely stated his employment. The board also cited reports of Sutton's arrest in connection with investigation of an alleged attempted kidnaping of a gambler at Charlotte, N. C. Sutton and others were released in that case. Publicity Decided On. La Roe also announced last night the Parole Board had decided to give more publicity to parole matters. “We will make public any information about any case when we are con- vinced it would be in the public in- terest,” he said. The names of pris- oners coming up for parole consider- ation will be published, he said. He said Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, had agreed to give speedy notice to the Parole Board of the arrest of any parolee, no matter how minor the charge. The Parole Board will meet Wed- nesday with Commissioner George E. Allen, Maj. Brown and Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman to con- (Continued on Page 8, Column 8) FLEET AT GOLDEN GATE | U. S. Armada Sweeps Into San Francisco Bay With Flourish. SAN FRANCISCO, December 8 (#).— The United States Fleet swept through | the Golden Gate today for a nine-day sojourn in San Francisco. The ships dropped anchor with | massed planes roaring overhead and | the dirigible Macon in the skies. In the armada were 87 ships of the Battle and Scouting Forces and 33,000 offi- cers and men. But she vanished. Then death struck. The Galapagos Adam, Dr. Frederich Ritter, died from a stroke November 21. And so this Eve, Frau Dore Strauch Koerwin, wearing a one-piece dress| that typifies the end of her nude life and abandonment of her Garden of Eden, told Capt G. Allan Hancock, Los Angeles patron of science, that she will board his exploration cruiser, Velero III, and start back to Berlin, from whence she fled 6 years ago. This was the news radioed by Capt. In the past, a national bank might have peen subjected to examination by at least three Federal agencies. Each agency might direct its exami- ners to apply a different yardstick of values. The result, advocates of the new proposal say, was that bankers never could teil which of their loans might be questioned. Consequently, they were charv of making loans that they might class as slow but good. 0'Connor, Crowley in Rows, The difficulties led Secretary Mor- genthau recently to call a meeting of all bank examiners. Upon them he urged liberality, and also sought co- ordination of their activities. The new plan is an outgrowth of that meeting and subsequent developments. The controller of the currency has supervision of all national banks. Conflicts between O’Connor, who now holds that post, and Crowley over classification of assets have resylted. O’Connor’s men often were too strict in their requirements to suit Crowley. The controller's work of reopen- ing the closed banks meanwhile has continued at full speed Last month, the Treasury announced today, 9 na- tional banks with frozen deposits of | $6,687,000 were licensed and opened | or absorbed by going banks. By the end of November there were only 8 closed national banks, com- pared with 1417 on March 16, 1933, the first day after the end of last year’s general panking holiday. LLOYD GEOR.GE VOTED “GREATEST POLITICIAN” Sir Oswald Mosley, Fascist Lead- Third in Poll With MacDonald Eleventh. er, By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 9 (Sunday) — Former Premier David Lloyd George for the second time in a month today won a newspaper poll designed to dis- cover “Britain’s greatest politician.” The Sunday Dispatch announced the war-time premier the winner of its competition with 220,930 votes; Winston Churchill, 209,376; Sir Os- wald Mosley, British Fascist leader, 190,731. The readers’ choice was limited to 15, of which Premier J. Ramsay Mac- Donald took eleventh place. In a similar competition conducted by a Dispatch columnist, Randolph Churchill, recently, Lloyd George took first place with 229,126 votes. COUPLE FOUND DEAD New York Man and Wife For- merly Lived Here. NEW YORK, December 8 (#)—Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. MacNaughton were found dead today in their Hemp- stead, Long Island, home. They died, police said, from asphyxiation. Officers said they found four jets of the gas range in the kitchen open. Mrs. MacNaughton was on the kitchen floor, MacNaughton was in bed. The couple came to Hempstead from Washington, D. C., several years ago. MacNaughton operated a the- ater in Hempstead. No notes to indicate the cause of the tragedy were found, but friends Hancock from his cruiser, bearing a|gsajd Mrs. MacNaughton had suffered Smithsonian Institution party, which | for several years from a spinal injury, (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) A incurred in an automobile accident. A V) [/'//'g' [SECTA| 1] 2\ EEATURES OF THE ANNUAL DINNER OF TI E GRIDIRON CLUB. GRIRON SHTIE BROLSNEW DEA 0ld Guard Comes in for Its Share of Fun—No- tables Attend. Santa Claus—with a strange pack on his back—was revealed as the patron saint of the Democratic party at the annual Winter dinner of the QGridiron Club last night at the Willard Hotel. “St. Pranklin,” however, was sub- stituted for St. mas,” and Christmas day became elec- tion day, 1934. Before its 400 guests, President Roosevelt, Garner, foreign diplomats, Chief Jus- tice Hughes and many more men of | distinguished careers. the famous newspaper club satirized both the New Deal and its opponents, both the Democrats and the Republicans. In- deed, the grand old party was pic- tured in such sad case that Chair- man Henry P. Fletcher of the Re- publican National Committee, appear- ing as Faust, was ready to sell his soul for votes. Roosevelt “Off Record.” ‘The introduction of the President. who by tradition makes an unreported speech which closes all Gridiron din- ners, was preceded by an encounter in a narrow mountain pass between ragged Peer Gynt and the “Droll King,” to whom “life is just one good laugh after another.” In the pres- ence of the stranger the King's ad- visers reported on the course of events, { unrolled the blueprints for a “simple 32-room farm house with a collapsible mortgage,” received placidly the news that the engineers had dammed the Mississippi_in the wrong place and persuaded Peer Gynt on the promise of an 18-room bungalow and a pen- sion at 50 to join the kingdom and “vote the straight ticket while the racket lasts.” H. L. Mencken, a critic of the ad- ministration, was the only other speaker. His speech followed a scene in the lobby of the New Deal Hotel on election night, as Miss Frances Perkins, the telephone operator, was receiving the returns, in which nearly all opponents of the New Deal were snowed under. As Pennsylva was (Continued on Page 12, Column 1) MAN OF 70 IS FOUND DEAD WITH GUN IN HAND Hunters Discover Body Near Fredericksburg—Victim Unidentified. By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Decem- ber 8—A party of hunters today found the body of an unidentified, 70- year-old man on the George Wash- ington farm, a half mile west of here. A .32 caliber pistol was in the man’s right hand and he had a bullet wound in his head. Dr. J. C. Gordon, Staf- ford County coroner, said he would issue a suicide verdict. The man was dressed in a blue suit and brown overcoat. He carried a small amount of change and a gold watch. In his hatband were the in- itials W. C. B. General News Editorial . Lost and Found Radio . ....Page 6, Part 4 Sports . .Pages B-15 to 19 ’ Nick in the club's| parody of the “Night Before Chnst-‘ including | Vice President | “Dionne Sisters” Get. First Prize at First Lady’s Party Women Writers Have Best Costumes at Masquerade Affair. A group of Washington newspaper women, dressed to represent the famous Dionne quintuplets, won the | given last evening by Mrs. Roosevelt in the White House to the “Gridiron (Picture of the group on . The second prize went to | the G. O. P. elephant. impersonated | by two of the woman writers, and the third prize was awarded to the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf impersonated by women employed in the executive offices Mrs. Roosevelt's party was private— | as far as reporters were concerned. (For pictures of the cabinet ladies in their costumes and description of other interesting costumes at the masquerade. see today's Society Section LITIGATIONNOT BAR T0 BANK DIVIDEND iAdditional Petition in Park Savings Proceedings Filed in U. S. Court of Claims. Additional litigation revolving | around the liability of directors of the interfere with the payment, beginning | a week from tomorrow, of a 20 per cent dividend, amounting to about tors. This was assured yesterday when all concerned in the complex litiga- tion agreed to clear the way for pay- ment of the dividend, the first funds emanating from the bank since it was closed in March, 1933. Meanwhile, John F. Moran, re- ceiver for the institution, expected to map out detailed-plegs early this week for distribution o#fthe money. He indicated he would prepare a state- ment as soon as the method of pay- ment has been decided. Special Appeal Sought. The latest litigation concerning the bank was filed in the United States Court of Claims yesterday by Moran through his counsel, G. B. Springston. It came a few hours after Moran had announced the dividend, exnlaining it was made possible by a $400,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The latest legal step was an out- growth of the joint battle of the Depositors’ Committee and the re- ceiver to force the bank's directors " (Continued on Page 8, Column 2.) By the Associated Press. A candidate for the Speakership, Representative John E. Rankin. Dem- ocrat of Mississippi, yesterday charged that the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate were so reaction- ary that “they are at least 50 years behind the President of the United States.” Rankin said the Democratic party “should be the liberal party—the pi1o- gressive party,” and called upon them to reform and put their “own house in order.” This, he said In a statement, was necessary to avoid in the Democratic ’ EDUCATION URGED TOKILL NUMBERS ‘Mrs. Henry Grattan DoyleI Would Guard Youth From Gambling. first prize at the masquerade party | | defunct Park Savings Bank will not | $600,000, to more than 14,000 deposi- | Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, member of the Board of Education, believes that a campaign of education is need- €ed to help break up the numbers game | in Washington. | (Copyright. 1934, by the Associat Right of Asylum. BUDAPEST, December 8 (P — Great relief was felt here tonig as the mass deportation of Hun- garians from Yugoslavia ceased although it was thought suspen- sion of the evictions was only temporary. The cessation was ascribed by Hungarian officials to fear by the Belgrade government that further expulsion would intensify world opinion and would Yugoslavia's case against F before the League Nations. Pres GENEVA, December 8 —Revision of post-war treaties today as the broad, danger-fraught question facing Europe's statesmen, and France took her place squarely beside the Lit- tle Entente for preservation of the territorial status quo. Italy, meanwhile, aligned herself with her friend and ally. Hungary. in emerged | advocating equitable revision of the peace treaty as the best means of con- | serving the peace of Europe. As four of Europe's big powers— England, France. Italy an joined to urge that the Yugoslav-Hun garian friction growing out of the as- sassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille October 9 be not allowed to disturb peace, the prob- lem of the peace treaties lifted its threatening head behind that Central European crisis Laval Voices Pledge. Foreign inister Pierre Laval, speaking for France. said dramatically, “France stands beside Yugoslavia” in this “grave conflict,” and repeated his recent assertion before the French Chamber of Deputies: “Whoever seeks to remove the fron- tier stone troubles the peace of Eu- rope.” “The Star, the Washington Post, the Herald and the Times, by sup- pressing the numbers total from va- rious iace tracks,” Mrs. Dcyle said vesterday, “are doing a good job— but there is still more to be done. “My chief interest. of course, is in the younger pecple who get started in i these gambling games. In the first place, they are lured by the thought | they are going to win. They seldom. if ever, win—but if they do win, they come to the belief that winning in a gambling game is better than winning at work. That, of course, is a false philosophy. I believe that by learning the pit- falls that lie before those wno gamble in the numbers game, people even- | | tually will come to realize the futility of putting their money on such a | flimsy—if not a flim-flam—game. As | T understand it. the chances to win are | only one in a thousand. Persons may play all their lives and not win any- thing. | I understand that Mr. Prettyman, | | the corporation counsei, has drafted a | bill that will be presented to the next | Congress. It would seem to be the | | duty of the people of the District to get back of that legislation and urge | Congress to pass it as soon as possible after convening in January." | (Note: In response to a request | from United States Attorney Gar- nett, The Star, the Times, the Post, the Herald and the city’s radio sta- tions are not printing or broadcast- | ing the totals of mutuel betting at the race tracks, numbers of interest only to the gamblers.) MINISTER'S BODY FOUND! WHERE LETTER DIRECTED Retired Unitarian Indicated Sui- cide to Friend—Discovered in ey Pond. By the Associated Press. WALTHAM. Mass,, December 8— The body of W. Hanson Pulsford. 75, a retired Unitarian minister, was | found tonight beneath the ice of Lyman's Pond, just as he had indi- cated in a letter to a friend. Pulsford yesterday wrote to Percy | H. Middleton of Wellesley, that when the letter was received his body would be in Lyman's Pond. Police recovered the body weighted with 20 pounds of lead. Medical Ex- aminer T. M. Gallagher, who said Pulsford was a suicide, reported he apparently had shot himself before wading into the water. Congressional Chiefs 50 Years Behind President, Rankin Says Iplrty “the present predicament of the Ichublicun party. 5 “The Republicans are in the same position we Democrats were in 1928, and the Democrats are in the same positions the Republicans were in that time, except that we do have a progressive leader in the White House,” he added. “Practically all the progressive leg- islation that we were able to put through at the last session of Con- gress had to have the pressure of the White House behind 1t before we could even get a vote on it.” Baron Pompeo Aloisi, the Italian representative, whose government pre- viously supported Hungary's defense against Yugoslavia's charges she har- bored Alexander’s assassins, declared “revision is not terrorism.” “My country was the first to afirm that the principle of the treaties must be adapted to modern conditions as the best means of conserving peace,” Aloisi said. “but has always insisted that adaptation must follow legal channels.” Aloisi in his address took no side in the dispute, admitting it might menace peace and declaring the League must strive to pacify the dis- putants. Aside from the French support of the Little Entente's thesis. Yugoslavia today secured little backing for her contention that Hungary shared re- sponsibility for the assassination of her King. Although Capt. Anthony Eden for Britain. Baron Aloisi and Maxim Lit- vinoff for Russia, all agreed terror- ism must be curbed, they passed no judgment on the Yugoslav-Hungarian issue. Laval, too, although maintain- ing stoutly France's support of her Balkan-ally, urged that the Leagu- Council act to preserve peace Assassins who slew Alexander Laval declared, sought to strike peace. Saar Force Is Voted. The Council earlier had approve in secret session. Britain's suggestion that an international force be dic- patched to keep order in the Saar prior to the plebiscite, and had learned that Benito Mussolini dispatched his personally chosen representative, Maj Gen. Sebastian Visconti Prasca, to help organize the Saar army. ‘The British Lord Privy Council. in condemning terrorism. referred to the abuse of the so-called “right of asy- lum,” and said: “Britain does not tolerate the abuse of personal freedom, which consists of employing or advocating the employ= ment of illegal action against consti- tutional authority, whether at home or abroad * * * “The points raised are in the League custody for the time being, but the League's efforts cannot be expected to come to fruition unless there is determined effort on the part of all states toward moderation in word and deed.” Earlier Baron Aloisi, whose gove ernment previously had announced its support of Hungary in her defense against the Yugoslav charges, praised Hungary's honor and “loyalty” and declared the League must strive to pacify the disputants, admitting the conflight might disturb peace. Litvinoff, Soviet commissar for for- eign affairs, announced he must with- hold opinion concerning the merits of the question, but sharply scored what he termed post-war terrorism. Manuel Rivas Vicuna, the Chilean delegate, moved that the League pre- pare draft of an international conven- tion, with suitable penalties, for re- pression of terrorism to be submitted to the January session and adopted at the next assembly of the League. Council Sessions Adjourned. Afterward sessions of the Council were adjourned until Monday, when, League officials expected, Nicolas Titu- lescu, Rumanian foreign minister, would protest vigorously on behalf of the Little Entente, the lack of decided support of Yugoslavia’s plea. A 13-page Hungarian memorandum, answering Yugoslavia's charge that Alexander’s assassins came from Hun- gary, was formally filed with the League Council today. ¢