Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1934, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, slightly colder today, followed by rain in late afternoon or at night; tomorrow fair; moderate north and north- east winds. Temperatures—Highest, 59 at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43 at 10 p.m. yéterday. Full report on page A-9. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone NAtional 5000 to start delivery. () Means Associated Press. No. 1,554—No. 33,115. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he HULL REJECTS JAPAN’S NAVAL PARITY DEMAND | AND 13 EXECUTED AS TREATY IS SCRAPPED) B FIRING SQUAD Threat of Anglo-U. S. Accord May Alter Attitude of Japan < Fears of Race in Building Manifest. SAITO RETAINS HOPE FOR PACT Envoy’s Denial of Contest Is Given Tokio Support. By the Assoclated Press. A quiet but definite refusal of Japa- nese demands for naval equality was the United States’ answer last night to Japan’s formal denunciation of the ‘Washington naval limitations treaty of 1922. Secretary Hull, accepting from Hirosi Saito, suave Ambassador from Japan, the official signal of the death of the 5—5—3 pact on December 31, 1936, declared he did so with “genuine regret.” Pledging, simultaneously, continued efforts to “promote peace through dis- armament” by co-operating toward new naval limitation, Hull, neverthe- less, declared experience had shown“ that “equality of armanents” was not | the path to peace. +Talk of Contest Scouted. ‘While a ferment of naval talk was stirred around the world, leaving a question mark after the possibility of an ensuing arms race, Saito scouted | talk of such a contest. In handing in his country’s denun- | ciation of the Washington pact, he expressed hope for a new treaty that would provide equality for Japan, but a “radical reduction” in offensive armaments for all of the great powers. After formally flashing word of the Japanese action to other great naval nations, Hull late yesterday made public his own answer. He was sorry to see the pact die, he said, because of a belief that “existing treaties have safeguarded the rights and promoted the collective interests of all the signatories.” “We, of course, realizs,” he said, “that any nation has the right not to renew a treaty; also that any move- ment toward disarmament to be suc- cessful must rest on agreements volun- tarily entered into. * * * “Each nation naturally desires— and we stand unalterably for that view—to be on a basis of absolute equality with other nations in the maiter of national security, Experi- ence teaches that conditions of peace or measures of disarmament cannot be promoted by the doctrine that all nations, regardless of their varying and different defensive needs, shall have equality of armaments.” U. S. Ready for Negotiations. Hull then said that in the remain- ing two-year period before the treaty expires “the American Government is ready to enter upon negotiations whenever it appears that there is pros- pect of arrival at a mutually satisfac- tory conclusion.” The quietly executed final action by Japan, anticipated for months, nevertheless caused some stir both in ‘Washington and other capitals as well. From Tokio there was reiteration that the denouncement did not mean a naval race and a renewed call for naval slashes. From Paris came expressions of pleasure that the end of the pact was assured two years from today. Simultaneously, but with officials disclaiming any connection, Navy chiefs disclosed plans for a gigantic war game in the Pacific, covering a 6,000,000 square mile area embracing America’s most Western outposts. Within a matter of hours after Am- bassador Saito had formally delivered the decision of his government, Secre- tary Hull officially notified Great Brit- ain, France and Italy of the denuncia- tion. No certified copies of the Jap- anese notification will be mailed to the capitals of the three powers next week. Although Saito’s action—in the opinion of some officials—ushered in an era of possible grave international (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) INCREASE IN STEEL IS AIM OF STALIN Raussia Is Driving Into New Year to Take Place Next to U. 8. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, December 29.—Not con- tent with having surpassed all na- tions but the United States in pig iron production for.1934, Soviet Russia is driving into the new year under Stalin’s leadership with the deter- mination to attain the same leading position in steel. Joseph Stalin’s warning to execu- tives of the metallurgical industries that they must not get “swell headed” about exceeding the year's pig iron production plan with an estimated 10,500,000 tons—50 per cent above 1933—was the text for editorials in il leading Soviet papers today. Higher pay for efficient technical men was one of the means Stalin sug- gested to directors for improvement of their technique. This policy of pay according to services rendered no longer creates any comment in the Soviet Union where there was much murmuring about any inequality of wages before the first five-year plan launched by Stalin was finished in four years and the second five-year plan started a year ago. During 1934 seven new blast fur- naces and 18 open hearth furnaces ‘were put in operation. Steel produc- tion was 40 per cent above 1933, with an output of 9,400,000 tons. Rolled metal production was about 6,700,000 tons, an increase of one-third over 9 [l Rapprochement of Britain and Amer- ica on Navy Matters Seen as U. S. Conferees Sail for Home. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 29.—An Amer- ican spokesman said tonight the pos- sibility of an Anglo-American naval accord if there is no naval treaty after 1936 may force Japan to drop her de- mands for naval parity. As Norman H. Davis and Admiral William H. Standley, America’s dele- gates to fruitless tri-power conversa- tions here, sailed for home coinci- dentally with Japan's formal denunci- ation of the Washington treaty at ‘Washington, the spokesman reiterated hiy assertion that Japan's action may draw Britain and the United States together on naval matters. 80,000 MEN CLASH IN' CHACO BATTLE Paraguay Launches Major Offensive to Gain Bolivian Oil. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, December 29.— Paraguay’s and Bolivia's biggest armies tonight were slowly coming to grips in their battle for possession of Bolivian oil fields. The engagement, in which an es- timated 80,000 troops evenly divided will take part, was expected to be decisive in the three-year-old Chaco ‘war. With developments lacking to con- firm reports from La Paz yesterday that Gen. Jose Estigarribig’s Para- guayans had luanched their long-ex- pected general offensive, scattered fighting and skirmishes in several sectors gave evidence that the rival tacticians were sparring for an opening. Paraguayans Want Oil. Villa Montes, principal Bolivian Army base, and the oil fields lying behind it on undisputed Bolivian ter- ritory, were the apparent objectives of the Paraguayans. Their fate seemed likely to depend on the movements of Paraguay’s second and fourth army corps, commanded by Cols. Franco and Brizuela, which are operating in the northern sectors of Carandayty and Huirapitindy. Both the Paraguayan leaders are experts at the swift enveloping move- ments which brought most of Para- guay's recent successes. A Paraguayan raid from the north in an effort to outflank the stoutly entrenched Bolivians, who were certain the “sec- ond Hindenburg line” they had pre- pared was impregnable, appeared likely. Once before Bolivians dug them- selves in—in the Fort Ballivian sector. It cost Paraguay seven months of re- peated attacks, together with tremen- dous expenditures of men and mate- rial, to batter down those defenses. Bolivia Marshals Strength. Operating in the elaborately fortified Pilcomayo and Capirenda sectors were Paraguay’s first and third corps, com- manded by Cols. Delgado and Fernandez, and they were expected to face withering fire from the Bolivian defenders when the major drive gets under way. Each of the army corps numbered an estimated 10,000 men, while Bolivia, by virtue of her recent general mobilization, apparently had as many men in the fleld. Bolivia yesterday claimed Para- guayan attacks in the Carandayty, Capirenda and Pilcomayo sectors had been repulsed, La Paz apparently tak- ing the thrusts to mean Estigarribia had started his offensive. Asuncion advices, however, labeled the en- counters mere preliminary skirmishes. HOOVERS WILL SPEND NEW YEAR AT HOME Plan No Particular Observance of 1934’s Departure—Will Dine With Friends. By the Assoclated Press. PALO ALTO, Calif., December 29.— Former President Hoover and Mrs, Hoover will spend New Year quietly at home, Paul Sexson, secretary to Mr. Hoover, said today. The Hoovers are just back from their Christmas at the Sierra Madre home of their elder son and his family. Sexson said the Hoovers were planning “no particular observance” of the departure of the old year, but probably would have dinner New Year day with friends. B “TIP” ON ROBINSON HELD MISTAKE BY U. S. AGENTS Man Sought as Kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll Reported Seen in Indianapolis. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, December 29.— Department of Justice agents today received another “tip” that Thomas H. Robinson, jr. sought as the kid- naper of Mrs. Alice Stoll of Louisville, had been seen in Indianapolis, but officials of the department said they “believed it was all a mistake.” The “tip” was said by the Depart- ment of Justice to be similar to scores of others which have been received since the hunt was started weeks ago. ‘The Americans appeared confident such an accord will be made unless Japan proves willing to enter some agreement continuing the existing 5—5—3 ratios of the navies—some- thing Tokio has insisted she will never do. ‘The Japanese abrogation of the treaty, the Americans were represent- ed as feeling, threatens the political stability of the Pacific and may lead to unrestricted ship building. Delegations from Tokio and Wash- ington came to London October 16 and spent over two months with the British in conversations seeking bases (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) NELSON'S PAL HELD AS AGENTS' KILLER {Most-Wanted Public Enemy, John Chase, Seized in West. BY REX COLLIER. A secret dragnet laid down a month ago by the Justice Department’s Di- vision of Investigation has caught the Government’s most-wanted “public enemy,” an obscure California boot- legger identified by justice agents as the machine-gunning companion of Mr. and Mrs. “Baby Face” Nelson in the slaying of Federal Officers Samuel P. Cowley and Herman E. Hollis. The captive is John Paul Chase, youthful San Francisco liquor runner, who has been the objective of a Nation-wide manhunt since the fatal shooting of Cowley and Hollis No- vember 27 at Barrington, Ill. Nelson was mortally wounded by the agents and his wife was arrested in Chicago two days after the battle. Chase was taken into custody at Mount Shasta, Calif, last Thursday as a result of a confidential “lookout” arranged by the Federal investigators. He is being removed to Chicago for arraignment on charges of murdering Cowley and Hollis. Search Kept Secret. Although Nelson’s accomplice was identified as Chase immediately after the Barrington battle, Government officers have kept the identification a deep secret, in the hope of catching Chase off his guard. Public conjec- ture had centered on John Hamilton, Dillinger lieutenant, and Alvin Kar- pis, kidnaper, as possible suspects. Apparently Chase had no idea he was being hunted as the co-murderer of Inspector Cowley and Agent Hollis, for he ventured back into old haunts in California recently. Hoover’s men had warned a number of citizens whom they could trust and several police officials to keep a sharp watch for the bootlegger-turned-gangster. Learning that Chase at one time had been employed at the California State fish hatcheries, at Mount Shasta, Federal men asked officials there to notify the chief of police of Mount Shasta if Chase appeared. Seen in West. Thursday E. V. Cassell, superin- tendent, and Preston Bills and Wil- liam Bay, employes of the hatcheries, saw Chase in Mount Shasta. They notified Police Chief A. L. Roberts, who placed Chase under arrest and held him for the Government officers. Chase steadfastly denied identity, asserting his name was “Elmer Rock- wood.” Special agents from the San Francisco office of the Division of In- vestigation took Chief of Police Manuel Menotti of Sausalito, Calif., to Mount Shasta and the latter posi- tively. identified the prisoner as Chase, whom he knew well. The Department of Justice did not announce the arrest of Chase until last night. In the meantime agents had been questioning him in San (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) FOES MAY ABANDON MOODIE CHALLENGE Attack on Citizenship May Be Dropped in Fight on Governor-Elect. By the Assoclated Press. BISMARCK, N. Dak., December 29. —From sources usually considered re- liable, it was learned today the attor- ney general’s office was contemplating dismissal of its challenge to Gov.- elect Thomas H. Moodie’s citizenship. No verification could be obtained from any official source, but it was definitely learned dismissal of the citizenship issue had been a matter of discussion in the attorney general’s office. PFrom those close to the situation it was learned that careful investiga- tion had been made by Moodie’s at- torneys of the citizenship angle. Moodie and his, attorneys have ex- pressed confidence that they would prove conclusively that Gov.-elect Moodie is & citizen of the United States. It was charged before the State Supreme Court this week that Moodie, born in Canada, never was naturalized. If the citizenship issue is dropped issue Sundiny WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION KIROFF ASSASSIN 117 Have Paid Penalty for Plot to Overthrow Soviet Dictatorship. STALIN AMONG THOSE MARKED. FOR DEATH Dictator Orders Moscow New Year Eve Party to Be of Joyful Abandon. Copyright, 1934, by the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, December 29.—A Len- ingrad firing squad today ended the lives of 14 asserted anti-Stalin ter- rorists convicted of plotting and car- rying out the assassination of Sergei Kiroff, powerful Communist, De- cember 1. Leonid Nicolaieff, who the Soviet said had confessed firing the shot, and 13 associates were shot in the city where the murder was committed. The execution took place immediately after the military collegium of the Supreme Court found them guilty. The court, sitting secretly, needed only two days to hear the evidence against the men charged with head- ing the Leningrad counter-revolu- tionary group that assertedly plotted to overthrow Joseph Stalin’s dictator- ship by terrorism. Stalin Marked for Death. Stalin himself, secretary of the Communist party’s all-powerful Cen- tral Executive Committee, was marked for death, the confessions of the men as_published by the Soviet said. ‘The purpose of the group, the gov- ernment charged, was the overturn of the proletariat dictatorship set up by Stalin’s group and the adoption of the Zinovieff - Trotsky platform, which advocates the world Communist revolution. The foreign office today scornfully denied reports that Gregory Zinovieff and Leo Kamenefl, one-time potent figures in Communist ranks, had been executed., ‘They were arrested in connection with the Kiroff conspiracy and their fate is still unknown. The Soviet has indicated they may be deported to | Siberia. Executions Brought to 117. Death of Nicolaieff and his asso- ciates brought to 117 the grim toll ex- acted by swift-striking Soviet justice as the Moscow government, stirred to bitter outbursts of fury by Kiroff’s murder, made good its threats to wreak vengeance on his assessins. Hitherto 103 alleged White Guards, contra-revolutionists and terror sus- pects had been executed. So far as was revealed, however, none was di- rectly implicated in the Leningrad crime, ‘The immediate execution of the 14 at Leningrad was in line with the recently promulgated new laws for speedy punishment of terrorists. STALIN PLANS PARTY. Soviet Dictator to Distribute Free Vodka to Dancers. LONDON, December 29 (#).—The London Sunday Express said tonight that Stalin had given orders to make New Year eve in Moscow, the capital, one of joyful abandon. The dictator will encourage danc- ing in the streets, distribute free vodka and even provide governemnt jazz bands, the dispatch said. Stalin's plans for an extraordinary New Year celebration were said to include a huge New Year bell in the Kremlin, the first time it has been the scene of such revelry since it be- came the seat of the government. Invitations issued to distinguished Russians and all foreign dignitaries bore the request, “Please wear evening dress,” the Warsaw dispatch said. Not in many years has evening dress been requgested. N. E. A. Official to Marry. SPOKANE, Wash., December 29.— Orville C. Pratt, vice president of the National Education Association, and Miss Laura Smith, his secretary, ob- tained a license to wed today. Pratt has been superintendent of Spokane public schools since 1916. ROOSEVELT PLANS U.3. J0B AGENCY Expansion of Public Works, Work Relief and C. C. C. Also Held Certain. By the Associated Press. A central employment agency to correlate the work giving of greatly expanded job supplying units was said yesterday by officials to be high up on the list of plans to which Presi- dent Roosevelt is giving serious thought. This word came along with a series of developments that helped to shove Mr. Roosevelt’s program for the Winter toward completion. These included: Mr. Roosevelt went over the legis- lative program with Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader who will handle the measures in the Senate. Neither would talk after the conference. The President sent a letter to the 48 State heads offering the aid of the Public Works Administration in working out State legislation to enable the cities and rural districts to obtain public works funds for slum clearance, low-cost housing, rural electrification and for municipal improvements, Programs to Be Broadened. The letter was taken as a certain indication that the Winter's program would provide funds for those types of work. A broad expansion of present work agencies—public works, work re- lief and Civilian Conservation Corps— has been regarded as certain. ‘Through the central employment agency would pass the men who will plant trees and build dams for the Civilian Conservation Corps, help on new projects for the Public Works Ad- ministration and do a multitude of work relief tasks. Whether the agencies will stand alone with the employment office co- ordination of their activities, or whether the organization wili be brought closer together was said today to be one of the factors of the new (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) MAN, 68, FATHER OF 24 Baby’s Oldest Brother Is Older Than Its Mother. SCOTTSBLUFF. Nebr., December 29 (£)—William Platz, 68, today be- came the father of his twenty-fourth child. Sixteen of the children are living. The -oldest is 43—three years older than Platz’ second wife, who pre- sented him a 10-pound boy today. Army Airmen Reported Uneasy Over Amelia Earhart’s Hop Honolulu Newspaper Says Solo to Mainland Should Be Stopped. Experts Making Plane Ready for Long Test Flights. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, December 29.—De- claring that Army airmen are uneasy over the prospect that Amelia Earhart may attempt to fly to California, the Star-Bulletin said today: “If Amelia intends to fly solo from Hawali to plane ready for long test flights. They are adjusting the motor, altering the two-way voice radio apparatus and installing extra fuel tanks. “When the plane is ready it will be so chockfull of equipment that Miss Earhart will have to climb into the cockpit through the roof,” the paper continued. “Extra fuel tanks in the cabin will bar her from access to the radio gear, which is set in the moll. She operates it by remote con- tro “There is nothing intelligent about to the main- AMELIA EARHART. beyond what is known would be proved. If she fails, the ghastly Ulm search would be repeated, probably with more enthusiasm, which in the air means greater risks and probable loss of life.” George P. Putnam, husband of the famous aviatrix, told interviewers: “Go ahead and say what you liks Sthae WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1934—-EIGHTY-EIGHT PAGES. DOCTORS, DONT FORGET Ancient Gun Kills Man, 70, on Way to Have It Registered By the Associated Press. BRANTFORD, Ontario, Decem- ber 29 —Seventy-year-old Mal- colm McGregor read that all fire- arms, no matter how old, must be taken to authorities for registra- tion. He took down a revolver which had lain unused for years. It was dusty and he prepared to clean it before presenting it at the police station. It discharged an ancient pellet lodged in the man’s hip. He died at a hospital. PLANS TO ‘KIDNAP PRESIDENT AIRED Two Schemes to Seize Reins of Government Related. Fascist Plot Told. A reputed Communist plot to kid- nap the President and an alleged Fascist scheme to set up a dictator- ship were made public yesterday by the House Committee which has been investigating un-American activities. Walter S. Steele of Washington, appearing for the American coalition of patriotic, civili and paternal so- cieties, said a Red plan was being widely circulated in Communist cir- cles to create civil war during a gen- |eral strike; invade the White House; kidnap the President, his cabinet too; take over the Government and super- sede it with a Soviet state. (Steele, who lives at 2916 Twenty-ninth street, is general manager of the Na- tional Republic Magazine.) An Army captain, Samuel Glazier of Baltimore, in charge of a civilian conservation camp at Eldridge, Me., gave the committee .the testimony concerning the dictatorship plan. $700,000,000 Backing Reported. Glazler sald that Jackson Martin- dell, New York attorney, had dis- cussed with him formation of the “American Vigilantes,” half a mil- lon strong, and backed with $700,- 000,000 to turn out the administra- tion and set up Martindell as dicta- tor. Glazier testified in New York recently. His testimony was made public before Steele appeared before the committee. Martindell, Glazier said, told him “he knew with the present policies of the President, eventually the country was coming to a revolution and when that time came he wanted to be ready with his organization to take over the reins of tfe Government. “He said that there-ought to be one man who would run the country, and he would be the head of the organi- zation.” ‘The hearing yesterday concluded the (Continued on Page 6, Column 4.), T.V. A. PARALLELS SURE TO BE ASKED Congress Expects President to Urge Similar Projects at Coming Session. By the Assoclated Press. Both Senate and House members indicated yesterday they expected other authorities similar to that for the Tennessee Valley to be established by the new Congress. Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska, whose fight for Federal con- trol of Muscle Shoals was primarily responsible for T. V. A., said he ex- pected presidential recommendations to Congress on the development of other river valleys through a sys- tematic plan for the use of the Na- tion's streams. If such a program is not presented, Norris added, he would reintroduce his bill to create a Missouri Valley Authority, Other Representatives are not wait- ing Mr. Roosevelt’s proposals to draft measures for other authorities. Representative Disney, Democrat, of Oklahoma said he had drafted a bill for a $100,000,000 Arkansas Valley Authority to embrace portions of Col- CONCERNING CONSULTATIONS. DAWSONS 10 GET MARYLAND J0BS {Nice Will Name One State Secretary, Other to Park Board. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BALTIMORE, December 29.—The Ppost of Secretary of State of Maryland will be filled by either Walter W. Dawson or his cousin, Thomas L. Dawson, both prominent Mongomery County attorneys, under Maryland's new Republican administration, Gov.- elect Harry W. Nice told The Star tonight. Nice further stated the appointment of counsel to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion will go to the one not selected for the State position. The commis- sion serves as the administrative body on zoning and park development in Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties. Dawsons to Decide. Adding further interest to the al- ready unusual situation, Nice sug- gested that the two Dawsons would be left to settle for themselves which man would take each post. ‘The appointments, Nice said, will be made immediately after he assumes office as Maryland's chief executive January 9. David C. Winebrenner, 3d, is serving as Secretary of State under Gov. Albert C. Ritchie at present, while J. Bond Smith of Takoma Park is counsel to the park and planning body. Particular importance is attached to the latter office because of the close proximity of the public parks of Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties to the District of Columbia and the interlocking functions of the National Capital and Maryland-Na- tional Capital Commissions, G. O. P. Committee Chairman. ‘Walter Dawson, the younger of the two, is chairman of the Republican State Centra) Committee for Mont- gomery County. He served in the Maryland General Assembly from 1930 to 1934. His cousin is a former member of the Republican State Central Commit- tee for the county and also a former State’s Attorney, holding the Mont- gomery post from 1920 to 1924. He ran against Frederick N. Zihlman in the Republican congressional primary in 1924, but was defeated after a close race, . —_— CITY TRAFFIC TOLL 134 AFTER FATAL ACCIDENT Driver Held After Car Strikes Pedestrian at Benning Road Intersection. The District’s list of traffic fa- talities for 193¢ mounted to 134 late last night when Randolph Chiseter, 65, colored, of 569 Twenty-third street died at Casualty Hospital of injuries received a few hours before. The traf- fic death toll now is 11 more than in any other year, the previous record of 123 having been set in 1932. Chiseter had suffered head injuries and a broken leg when struck at Twenty-fourth street and Benning road northeast by an automobile FIVE GENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE FLARES SPUR HUNT FOR PLANE LOST IN SNOWBOUND HILLS Capital Man and Trio Ma- rooned in Storm—Radio Battery Low. RESCUERS FAIL TO FIND FOUR IN NIGHT FLIGHT State Troopers and Citizens Comb Mountains in Deep Snow to Hunt for Party. BULLETIN, ALBANY, N. Y, December 30 (Sunday) (#).—State police early today reported a large fire on th north side of Fish Mountain, lower Hamilton County, which the; believed to be a signal of four men missing since Friday night when an airliner was forced down in the mountains. A detalil of troopers said it might take them several hours to make their way to the spot. The occupants of the disabled plane had been instructed by radio to send up flares and keep a fire burning to aid searchers in locat- ing them. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., December 29.—A report that two flares had been seen 80 up from a heavily wooded section 20 miles west of Gloversville tonight sent a searching party into the sparsely settled area looking for four men lost since last night, when an airliner was forced down. The report came from John Leek, storekeeper in the Village of Lassels- ville, who said he and four other men saw the flares from a hilltop, where they had gone to stand watch. ‘The flares, he said, shot up in quick succession shortly after 9 pm. the time the occupants of the disabled plane were instructed by radio to send up their signals. A party of volunteers and State troopers immediately set out across five miles of broken country on foot toward the spot from which the flares came, Flares Give Hope. ‘The report of the flares gave new hopes to the weary searchers who had been combing the foothills of the Adirondacks for more than 12 hours for the missing men. It came only a few minutes after a sister ship of the 15-passenger Curtis Condor had returned from a daring trip over the Adirondacks looking for the disabled plane. After fiying more than an hour in a blinding snow- storm, the searching ship reported it had seen no signs of the men. They were known to be safe, how- ever, for they established radio con- tact long enough during the day to say they were unhurt, Later their radio failed. The last heard from them was at twilight. “It is very cold up here and we would like to have help soon,” they radioed. Then: “Our battery is about dead now.” D. C. Man Aboard, ‘Three of the four men in the plane are pilots. Ernest Dryer of Cleve- land was in command of the liner, His brother, Dale Dryer, copilot; Jack H. Brown of Boston, also a copilot, and R. W. Hambrook of Washington, an attache of the Federal Bureau of Education, were the others, Until the report came from Lassels- ville, the search had been concentrated in & 20-mile area around Caroga Lake in lower Hamilton County, a heavily wooded section, mostly State forests. Lasselsville is about 40 or 50 miles south of this section. Meanwhile, the search continued in the northern area where snow was more than six feet deep. Observation posts were established on all points of vantage in the hope that signals from the missing men might be seen. The American Airlines, owner of the lost ship, sent out radio messages at intervals of 15 minutes, informing the men of the search’s progress. Earl Ward, vice president of the air- Lines, said he doubted the lights were flares, but will investigate carefully. The American Airlines radioed them to burn flares. At the same time by radio, telephone, courier and word of mouth, residents and searchers of the 20 square miles between Gloversville and Speculator were requested to watch for the flares. Carl Day, the blind flying instruc- tor, was pilot of the searching plane. Shortly after nightfall a group of State troopers set out from Speculator to the little hamlet of Hoffmeister to search the area where a farmer said he heard “a crash” last night. A searching party also was working around Kane Mountain, about 15 miles north of Rockwood. With the exception of the Amer ican Alr Lines plane, all other ships were kept to the ground. driven by Alfred T. Norris, 53, of Seat Pleasant, Md. Norris was charged with reckless driving at No. 9 police precinct. RE T LOAN NEGOTIATED Nanking Approves $10,000,000 From U. 8. for Steel Plant. CANTON, China (#).— Reports reaching here today said the Nanking government had approved a plan of the Kwantung Provincial Administra- tion to secure an American loan of $10,000,000 gold for the erection of an iron and steel plant designed by the Arthur McKee Corp. of Cleve- land, Ohio, which arranged the loan with American bankers, Suffragist Leader Dies. DUNKIRK, N. Y., December 29 (). —Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, prominent in the early days of the woman’s suffrage movement, organizer of the first political club in Chautauqua Fall Reported Seen. Varying and contradictory reports said dozens of persons saw the ship streaking through the snow storm last night. By nightfall officlals of Airline, Department of Commerce and airports agreed with the troop- ers that the liner was down northwest of the Sacandaga Reservoir, directly north of the twin glove-making cities of Johnstown and Gloversville. Mount Hamilton, a stubby peak of 2,200 feet of that region was the latest of seve eral mountains looked over today. Darkness brought colder weather to the mountains and increased the (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) es B-7 to B-11 Radio . e 8, Part 4 Lost and Fflmd ....Page A-9