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" A2 ¥ COAL PAY TERMS DEMANDEDBY .. Hours Given Workers and Producers Before Public Airing. By the Associated Press ‘The Government again stepped into | the prolonged soft coal wage dispute | today with a strong plea for an agree- | ment, | Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec- retary of Labor. told the negotiating committee of United Mine Workers and Appalachian producers that the Gov- ernment wanted an agreement within 48 hours, in order to avert the strike | threatened for Sunday midnight. 48 Both es Warned. Unless the dispute was settled within that time. McGrady said, e would in- gist that both miners and operators lay their case before the public The negotiations are deadlocked. The miners ask higher pay and 3 ma- Jority of the operators are unwilling to give it. Since McGrady averted a strike set for last Sunday midnight by obtain- ing a one-week extension cf the old wage scale, the Negotiating Commit- tee of two miners and two operators has met daily without making any substantial progress toward an accord Full Wage Conference. McGrady said he would demand that the full wage conference assem- ble before any new strike call went out and that the spokesmen of the miners and operators state why they believed no agreement could be reached He also told the committee he was teady to assist with the negotiations at any time the committee felt he | could help. | The present extension of the old scale is the fifth the Government has gbtained in the last six monthsy SETTLEMENT DUE | ON PHONE RATES Conference Is Called Off Pending Verdict by Supreme Court. | The symposium which the Mont- | gomery County Civic Federation had | called for Monday night to discuss a renewed appeal for reductions in the base rates and tolls which the Ches- apeake & Potomac Telephone Co. anceled to- day with indications pc ng toward an early settlement of the rate mattef. Plans for the meeting were aban- @oned when it was learncd that no changes can be made in the charges until the United States Supreme Court rules on the Maryland ratc case now pending in that tribunal. A decision in the case probably will be handed down in October, it was said. When the Supreme Court dispose: of the Maryland case, telephone of- ficials are expected to meet any rea- gonable demands for reductions in base rates and will confer with re- &ponsible civic groups in working out new schedules. It was learned today that the tele- | Pphone company has been working for several months on a schedule of vol- | untary reductions in mileage ' rates charged outside the base rate areas throughout Maryland and will place it in effect on October 1. WORLD WAR SEEN BY LLOYD GEORGE To Be Fight of Aggression, He Warns in Attacking League Delay. By the Assaciated Press. BRADFORD. England, September 20—David Lioyd George, Great Britain's World War prime minister, declared yesterday, “We are within a week or a fortnight of war—a war of aggression.” The aggressive Welshman. address- ing a regional conference of the Coun- cil for Action for Peace and Recon- struction, continued: “It will be as great a war of aggres- sion as the attack of Germany upon Belgium. Quite frankly, I am alarmed. It seems to me the world is heading for a very great catastrophe.” Over the week end Lloyd George @ttacked the international peace- makers for hanging back while Italy | went ahead with preparations for war. | ‘Today he renewed his demand to know why there had been. “incomprehensible and quite inexcusable” delays. “You cannot propitiate or appcase a hungry tiger with saited boulders,” | Lioyd George declared, discussing the | offers of two land concessions to Italy, | which, he said, was in each case | mainly a desert area. | Irvin S. Cobb || Says: Somebody Should Tell Johnson N.R. A. Is Gone Forever SANTA BARBARA, September 30.— Now that the Government's fixing to prosecute people who persist in adver- | tising under the late lamented symbol | of a certain high- | 1y defunct code, which, as you 4 g | | may recall was . i crushed to death last May at ‘Washington as a result of being 4 2 rolled on by nine % i \ elderly gentlemen wearing silk robes, it's high ¢ time a sad but R | necessary duty were performed. Some sympa- thetic soul should take Gen. Hugh Johnson aside and break to him the crushing news that the N. R. A. is, | alas, gone, and gone forever. You'd think this gallant, but diffident and taciturn, gentleman might have had an intimation of the impending blow last Fall, when the Navajo Indians wanted to take him into their tribe under the title of “Chief Sick Blue Eagle.” But, seemingly, no. It’s bound to be a terrible shock to the general when he hears about the Lusitania (Copyright, 1988. North American i ‘H ewspaper Amlnu Inc.) Sculptors in New York puiting figures. which are to flank the steps here. “Execution of Ju"'lre The upper one is called “Contemplation of Justice" THE EVENING Will Adorn Supreme Court the finishing touches on of the new Supreme Cflurl Building and the lower ~A. P Phwmn CHIGAGD TRADER FACES U3, CHARGE | Simon Wexler Accused by Wallace of Violating Grain Futures Act. By the Associated Press, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to- day filed charges of violation of the grain futures act against Simon Wex- ler, Chicago grain trader. He was accused of manipulating accounts to | conceal transactions on the Chicago | Board of Trade. Wexler, described as trading in rye, corn and wheat, was charged with handling his accounts to show losses which did not occur. Hearing October 10. A hearing has been set for October 10 at Chicago when the Agriculture Department said Wexler will appear. If he is found guilty, the department | said. he may be barred from trading privileges for such time as the Grain Futures Commission determines. The commission recently issued an order barring Thomas M. Howell from trading for two years. However, Howell, wealthy Chicago grain trader, appealed to the courts and a stay of execution has been issued pending the court’s ruling. A similar appeal from the commis- sion’s ruling is pending in the case of Arthur W. Cutten, another Chicago | grain trader found guilty by the com- mis¢ion several months ago. Fictitious Trading Alleged. | Wexler was alleged. through fie- ! titious trading, to have shown total losses in the market for 1933 of $148.966. He also was charged with setting | up an account in the name of his wife and with handling fictitious | trades through it. | The Grain Futures Commission, be- | fore which the charges will be heard, is composed of the Secretary of Agri- | culture, the Secrefary of Commerce | and the Attorney Genera It is charged with enforceme; of the grain futures act, which provides for | supervlskm and regulation of all con- markets in the United States du ing in grain futures. WEXLER IGNORANT OF CHARGES. | CHICAGO, September 20 (#).— Simon Wexler, Chicago Board of Trade member against whom Secre- | tary Wallace today filed charges of violating the grain futures act, orc- fessed complete ignorance of the Gov- ernment’s charges at his office here today. “I don’t know what it is all about.” he said. “I haven't even received a copy of the Government citation. As | |so0n as I do I'll take the necessarv | steps .to protect my position on the exchanges.” The Chicago trader said he had been active in a number of grains during the latter part of 1933, but that he couid not recall ofthand the details of the trades. SR “MURDER,” CRIES LAD DALLAS, Tex. (®).—“The dead woman,” reported the excited lad to police, “is lying in a ditch near the Airline road. Her face is all bashed in and she hasn't got on many clothes.” Police and deputies sped to the scene and viewed the gruesome sight. It was a wax clothing model, long tresses hanging in almost studied dis- array, face melted and remnaats of & dress on dheolund‘bhmunen, {to me. I thank you very much. DOCTOR AND WIFE SAVED BY JANITOR Couple Found in Gas-Filled Room—Several Notes Written by Woman. Dr. Baxter John, 40. and his wife, Helen, 36, are in Gallinger Hospital today where they were taken for treatment late yesterday after their lives had been saved in their gas- filled apartment in the 2500 block of Fourteenth street by the timely ar- rival of & colored janitor. Robert Jefferson, the janitor. had gone to the apartment to inquire about some work Mrs. John wanted done. He smelled gas and went inside, where, he reported, he found Mrs. John unconscious in the kitchen with three jets on a gas stove open and Dr. John asleep on a couch in the room adjoining. The janitor assisted Mrs. John to a chair, turned off the gas and called police. The latter found several notes, scribbled on prescription blanks. One was written to Mrs. John's mother, in Baltimore, and another to a case worker of the Family Service Associa- tion. Pleads for Children. The notes indicated despondency and pleaded that two children, Milton, 11, Mrs. John's mother for care. “My last regret is that I can't see ‘Jr. and Milton and my mother,” note read. “I hope my boys grow up to be fine.” Elsewhere the note, referring to her | husband, Dr. John, said: “He just fell off the divan. What is the use. The future is hopeless.” Then. “Bax is asleep. It is better we both go. He will never make a comeback. Just love and take care of ‘Jr.’ Mother, I love you so much. Take care of my boys and love them as only you can do. Kiss them good-by for me. I love them and you.” Thanks Case Worker. To the case worker, Mrs. wrote: “You have been so kind and sweet I John can‘t go on.” The two boys, it is said, are stay- ing with friends of the couple in Rock- ville, Md. Dr. John at one time op- erated a sanitarium here, it was said. The family had been known to mem- bers of the Family Social Service As- sociation since last Winter and work- ers have tried to aid them in solving their difficulties, it is said. Mrs. John was under mental obser- vation today in Gallinger. . Each Person Uses 300 Trees. From the wood in his cradle to the wood in his coffin, the average indi- vidual consumption is equivalent to at least 300 trees. Vote for Selassie Discovered Among New York Ballots By the Associated Press. ALBION, N. Y., September 20. —Halile Selassie, Ethiopia’s Em- peror, received one vote as a Democratic nominee for member of the New York State Assembly in Tuesday’s primary. The vote for Selassie was not discovered until inspection of -the paper Dballots. His name was written in. one | STAR, WASHINGTON POLITICIANS SEAN COMING BALLOTS Auguries for 1936 Sought in Few Elections Due for November. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The few elections to be held in va- rious parts of the country in November will be closely scanned by political wiseacres and by Democratic and Re- publican leaders for auguries for 1936. Every test will be regarded as an in- | dication of what the Nation may do | at the polls when the New Deal comes up for trial. Only one State-wide contest scheduled so far—in Kentucky— | where a Governor is to be chosen. \ However, there will be municipal elec- tions of considerable interest, as for example, in Philadelphia. The Demo- is Davey, backed away from a State-wide | election there, much to the joy, it is | reported, of the National Democratic organization at large Truax, a Democrat. He did not do it. Cleveland holds municipal elections Ohio, and these may give some indi- cation how the political wind is/| blowing. Poli I Career Meteoric. ‘The primaries in Pennsylvania, held Tuesday, nominated in Philadelphia for mayor on the Democratic ticket John B. Kelly and on the Republican ticket City Controller S. Davis Wilson Kelly has had a somewhat meteoric political career, for prior to 1932 he was practically unknown even in Phil- adelphia politics. He has become a dominating factor in the city Demo- cratic politics. He is young, a former Olympic oarsman. He is making a bid for a big stake—control of the city | hall in Philadelphia. | The national effect of a Democratic | mayoralty victory in that city, which | has been traditionally Republican, | would be great. So the Republicans city hall and also because they wish to demonstrate that Pennsylvania will be found in the Republican column in the national election in 1936, will bend i every effort to win the coming contest. In Kentucky, the gubernatorial elec- | tion has particular significance be- cause at the instance of President Roosevelt, the Democratic State Com- mittee, which had provided for col vention nomination of the party candidate for Governor, was notified that a primary election should be held Through a series of rather ludicruous circumstances, the primary was even- tually held and a candidate nominated for Governor oppased by Gov. Ruby Laffoon. though satisfactory to the | Roosevelt administration. Special Session Called. For Gov. Laffoon slipped out of the | State to bring his prospective candi- | date for Governor to Washington to show what a fine fellow he was. While | Laffoon was out of the State, the | lieutenant governor, “Happy” Chand- | ler, conceived the happy idea of calling | the State Legislature into special ses- |sion for the purpose of passing a mandatory primary law. When Laffoon and his candidate. Thomas S. Rhea. got back to the State, the fat was in the fire. primary law. The Governor and his friends in- sisted on wrilng into the new law a provision for a “runoff” primary, in | the event no candidate in the field should have a clear majority of the “\'OLCS cast. There they stubbed their toes again. For Rhea, in the primary, had the lead over Chandler, but did not have & majority of the total vote casf So a runoff was held and Chandler beat Rhea. ‘The Republican nominee for Gov- ernor of Kentucky is former Repre- sentative King Swope and now a State circuit judge. He is a war veteran and active. He received the Republican nomination practically without opposition and does not suffer from the factional differences which may handicap Chandler in his can- didacy. Kentucky Usually Democratic. Kentucky is a border State. Its record, however, is more Democratic | than Republican in past elections. Almost always it has had two Demo- cratic . Senators and a Democratic | Governor, aithough in 1924 and 1928 the Republicans carried the State for Coolidge and Hoover for President, respectively. Cox, in 1920, despite the | Harding landslide of that year, car- |ned the State by a narrow margin. | |and Wilson carried it in both 1916 lnd 1912. Roosevelt in 1932 snowed Hoover under in Kentucky, with a and Baxter, jr. 15, be given to | vote of 580,000 to 394. The Democrats | | did well there in the 1934 elections, too. Clearly if the Republicans should elect a Governor in Kentuc this | year, it would be held a black eye for | the Roosevelt administration, more I'particularly as “Happy” Chandler is considered a kind of protege of the White House. Efforts were made to have the President stop on his coming ‘Western trip to deliver a speech or say something nice about Chandler. So far. however, nothing has materialized. There is, of course, always the danger that if the President indorses person- ally a candidate and then he suffers defeat, the blow to the administration prestige is the more severe. Tough Goeing in South, In the South all is not yet beer and skittles for the Roosevelt Democrat:, notwithstanding the recent death of Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiara. regarded as one of the bitterest foes of the President and the New Deal Gov. Talmadge of Georgia is ouf. shouting against the New Deal in the Middle West, and will keep it up in his home State and bend every effort to choose an anti-Roosevelt delegation to the next Democratic National Con- vention. And now Gov. J. Marisa Futrell of Arkansas has come out with an attack on the Roosevelt New Deal, pointing out that the Supreme Court already has declared the N. R. A. unconstitutional and that it is likely to turn down other New Deal ‘laws when they come up for decision. Futrell also declared Huey Long to be one of the great men of the times. There have been signs of Democratic revolt in Texas also, where the new Constitutional Democrats Committee had its inception and is continuing its plans to send snti-Roosevelt delega- tions to the National Convention next year. Up in Massachusetts the Democrats are not in harmony. Mayor Mansfield of Boston is out to get the political head of Gov. Curley if he can. In a vitriolic declaration a few days ago Mansfield said be would do his utmost to prevent the of Curley ever again to any office in the State. What he said about the Governor was most uncomplimentary. There has been hagd feeling between them in the past. But now it has come to a head, - & | and so do some of the other cities in | | both because they wish to control the | The Legislature passed the « lthA\' “ ",.- British Gun | cratic Governor of Ohio, Martin L. | Davey could have called | a special election to fill the vacancy | | caused by the death of Representative | Hl“f"l l‘ \HH n 20, 1935. in th;', Shadow of Gibraltar | Harry L. Hopkins, Works 5 H. M. 8. Nelson, flagship of the British home fleet and headquarters for the home fleet commander, Ad- miral Roger Backhouse, shows her triple turret of 16-inch guns in the shadow of the Rock of Gibraltar. She is expected to take her position, together with the battle cruisers Hood and Renown, at Gibraltar, as an added pre- ’ caution in the event of a clash with Italy. guns. I= REEDSHILLE IEUP - IS HELD UNLIKELY |Resettlement Hopes to | Reach Agreement Soon 1 With McCarl. ] In the face of a decision by Con- troller General McCarl that a factory building has been constructed on the Reedsville resettlement project in | West Virginia in contravention of law, Resettlement Administration offi- cials today were of the belief that the matter could be adjusted satisfactorily. The building is to house an indus- | try to furnish employmept for Reeds- ville residents. It is about 80 per cent complete, and the Truscon Steel Co.. the builder, has received $29.700 on a contract calling for $32,000. Stew- ard Wagner of New York, the archi- tect, who was to get $1,000 fot drawing plans, has been paid $600 The net result of McCarl's ruling consequently. is to hold up both bal- ances, totalling $2.700, and, theoret- ically, to make liable for the money expended, sureties of the disbursing officer. The work. however, was said to have been undertaken on the basis of an opinion by the Attorney General that it was legal. and consequently the possibility of any move to recover seems remote. So far as the balances are concerned. the creditors would have to go to the Court of Claims un- less reimbursed otherwise. Solution Is Seen. The Resettlement has pending before the Allocations Board a request for $10000.000 to complete work on Reedsville and four similar projects, and if this money is obtained., it was said. the problem would be solved. Under any circum- stances. it was added, an effort will be made to reach an agreement with McCarl ‘The Reedsville resettlement. which has Mrs. Roosevelt as its principal sponsor. has had stormy going. When resettiement was under the Interior Department, McCarl refused to permit the transfer of $525,000 from recovery act funds to build a factory there for manufacturing post office equipment. He said that the money could be used only for aid in the “purchase of sub- sistence homesteads.” That was in February, 1934. Then an effort was made to get through specific legislation. but it was defeated in the House, private manufacturers getting support for their contention that the factory would bring unfair competition. Eventually the present plan was hit upon—to erect a factory building, and lease it to the Electric Vacuum Cleaner Co.. of Cieveland, for an assembly plant. This time, the con- tracts were made without submission to McCarl as to their legality. the question reputedly being put up to the Attorney General. No Veuchers Cleared. Apparently, none of the vouchers on which payments were made to the contractor and architect has been reached for audit at the General Ac- counting Office, for in the decision made public yesterday, it was shown that when McCarl was asked to ap- prove final payment to Wagner he held the entire expenditure illegal. Reedsville is one of the so-called “stranded community” projects—that is, a settlement where some industry such as mining or lumbering formerly was conducted, and then, being dis- continued, left the residents without any specific means of support. There (are fowr others of this type—Tygart Valley and Red House, W. Va.; West- moreland, Pa., and Crossville, Tenn. All are to be rehabilitated under the | proposed $10,000,000 program, with ‘ each to be settled by 500 families. The factory building at Reedsville is the first activity of this sort under- ; | taken. It is estimated to furnish em- | | ployment for 65 persons. The settle- | ment now has about 90 families. Noted Doctor Dies. MOSCOW, September 20 (#).—Dr. Mikhail P. Tushnoff, 56, interna- tionally known medical research worker, died today. L) . In Vision in 1 By the Associated Press. BRITTSVILLE, Tenn., September 20.—John Burdett reached his seventy- eighth birth anniversary today, but kept right on living despite his €0- | year-old “vision” of death this Sep- tember. Family and friends gathered in from the countryside, not to watch him die, but to tongratulate him on bqlnnln;.u'mdnlr.nmrhe Administration | Man Awaiting Death Decreed Ethiopia (Continued From Pirst Page) the League, in addition to discussing the Italo-Ethiopian situation, should also discuss the British naval activi- ties. An Italian government spokesman said today there still was a possi- bility that the League compromise proposal might serve as a basis for the discussion of the Italo-Ethiopian situation, provided the proposal was | considerably modified. He said the spirit in which the proposal was formulated must also be modified, characterizing it as “unfriendly.” Premier Mussolini became the sole interpreter of Italy’s international war code today, assuming the position legally to answer any attacks on his Ethiopian campaign. A decree, signed by King Victor Emanuel and issued in the official gazeite, set up & commission of the nation’s highest commanding officers for “revision of the agreements which have disciplined the conduct of war among belligerents and neutrals.” Duce to Be Sole Arbiter. It provided that Il Duce, as chief of the government, would be the sole arbiter of such necessities. The decree was interpreted in in- formed circles as placing Mussolini | in a position to strike immediately— and with the full weight of Italian law—agaipst any nation which at- tempted to judge Italy under “ante- dated” rules of war procedure. With this advance answer to appli- cation of sanctions, Italy drove ahead with vast war-like preparations in her East African colonies. Ten steamers took troops at Naples for immediate sailings to Bast Africa Three of them werc set to sail imme- diately and all to clear port before | Monday. | When Will War Start? The question asked most frequently in political and diplomatic circles was, When will an Italo-Ethiopian war start? Various dates were suggested. but most diplomatic circles picked Octo- ber 10 as the most probable. Reports that the war might break out today—the anniversary of united Italy—were ridiculed by spokesmen for informed Rome quarters, who pointed out that Italy does not even celebrate this anniversary any more in deference to the Vatican. This was the anniversary of the day in 1870 when Victor Emanuel’s | troops broke through the Gates of Rome and made Pope Pius IX a pris- oner. But since the lateran treaty of 1929 Mussolini has ordered that the day not be celebrated. He created a new holiday, February 11, the accord was signed. That the cabinet would declare war tomorrow was generally held most im- { probable. The ministers were ex- pected to take some additional meas- ures of an economic nature for fur- ther financing of the East African campaign. Rains Still Continue. ‘The fact that the tropicel rainy season still persists in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia also was consid- | ered generally to preclude an imme- diate beginning of hostilities. An announcement that the liner Oceanie, on the South American run, would be ready to depart for Buenos Aires with passengers tomorrow, aroused comment. This ship sailed ostensibly for East Africa with 3,500 | troops September 11. Despite official | announcements regarding her sailng ! orders at that time, observers believed i she could not have mede a trip to| East Africa so quickly. The company announcement of her | sailing for Buenos Aires tomorrow in- dicated that she merely dropped off troops in Libya, Italy's North African | possession. This development strength- ened a general belief that extraordi- nary troop concentrations were taking place in Libya against a possible war | with Great Britain. | This feeling increased despite decla- rations by Italian government spokes- men that Italy was merely making normal troop replacements in its North African colonies. Further | strengthening of such a belief in ex- traordinary troop movements in Libya came from the sailing of the steamer | Beppe. a cargo ship, with 4,000 tons | of materials from Naples for Bast | | Africa early today. She last left for . Mulqueeney. | intoxication, | appear.” the dAle' | finance and communications The Nelson's displacement is 33,500 tons and she carries nine 16-inch »Wldt Wnr]d Pho\o > PILOTS ABSOLVED INKOENECKE CASE Manslaughter Charge Dis- missed—Coroner Upholds Self-Defense Plea. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, September 20 —Charges of manslaughter against William Jo- seph Mulqueeney and Irwin Davis in the death of Len Koenecke. ball player, in an airplane above the Long Branch Race Track here Tuesday. were dis- missed today by Magistrate Douglas Keith. A coroner’s jury last night found that Mulqueeney and Irwin. Detroit airmen. killed the Brooklyn outfielder in self-defense after Koenecke had started a fight in a plane piloted by Magistrate Keith said he agreed with the verdict. “Through all the evidence I can find no indication of criminal intent,” he said. “They may have struck more and harder blows than were necessary, but in that regard I cannot judge. In view of this. I am acquitting these men and they are to receive their im- mediate freedom.” Prof. Joslyn Rogers. chemical an- alyst of the University of Toronto testified traces of alcohol in Koen- ecke’s organs indicated the Brooklyn outfielder was “in a second class of when violence might Both pilots, granted immunity by the court. told again the details of Koenecke's attack, their effort to keep the plane from crashing. and of the | fight in which the baseball plaver was struck down with a fire extinguisher Ground witnesses of the flight also testified. recalling that the one-way vovage to Eritrea takes at least 10 days for fast steamers, considered the quick reap- pearance of these ships as an indica- tion they had not gone to East Africa. The commission to undertake re- vision of Italian law with regard to the international war code will in- clude 12 high cabiret and national defense officials, augmented by four jurists and headed by Mussolini. It will be composed of one repre- sentative each of the council of min- isters, supreme committee for na- tional defense, high commands of the army, navy, air force and voluntary militia, and of the ministries of for- eigni affairs, colonies, interior, justice, Il Duce retains the portfolios for the ministries of arms, foreign affairs. navy, air, colonies and interior and is chairman of the Supreme Defense Commission. The funds for the new commission already have been obtained by a spe- cial levy on the ministry of finance, the decree indicated. BRITISH ARE SURPRISED. v Duce Has Never Intimated Dislike of Cencentration, London Says. LONDON, September 20 (P —Offi- cial sources expressed surprise today at a report that Premier Mussolini had ordered a protest to the League of Nations against the British _dispatch of warships to the Mediterranean. These sources said they had not been officially informed of such a ppotest and that there had not been | the slightest official or unofficial in- dication that the British naval activi- ties were regarded as suspiciously pro- vocative. This same authority said there was absolutely no quarrel between Great Britain and Italy, that the whole question of the Italo-Ethiopian dis- | pute was in the hands of the League, and that it was entirely erroneous to assume that the British fleet move- | ments had anything to do with pos- sible future League action. In informed quarters it was said to be regarded as significant that practically all the first lige ships had been shifted from the home fleet to Gibraltar and the Mediterrenean while the Asiatic and East Indian East Africa September 13, government ' Sea. | announcements said. Informed sotirces, 895 Reaches 78 live 15 years longer, but the previous | “vision” holds his greater fsith. | “I don't know the day,” he said. Here at the home of his son, Sam, | | the birthday celebration got underway | with a big country dinner as a climax | and John Burdett, ruddy with health, | as one of the biggest eaters of them all. Yet his tombstone stands in & céme- | tery near Birchwood, seven milés from | here, and the order for his coffin has been placed. All the loose ends of a lifetime have been gathered up. He no 1«'& owns land, having deeded all his acres to | his chilidren, = | One source said these: movements were absolutely necessary if Great Britain was not to be caught nap- ping, adding, however, that it was entirely erroneous for the Italians to assume these movements involved any threat of war. This_source said it was equally er- | roneous to assume that the naval ac- tivity heralded any preparation for a single-handed British effort to thwart Premier Mussolini's venture in East Africa. . Food Supplied Through Tubes. Food is shot through tubes to ten- ants of a new apartment building in Berlin, Germany. Pnuematic tubes | lead from the central kitchen to each | apartment. ‘The prospective diner chooses his menu and telephones his order. The food is then dished into standard thermos bottles and sent through the tube, / | trol over wages by | hours of ships drew in closer toward the Red | I ! | HOPKING LIFTS BAN ON UNION" WAGES Relinquishes Control of Pay to W. P. A. Heads in States. Compromising with union labor in the controversy over relief wages, Progress ad- ministrator, has taken steps which he says may result in the payment of union wages to relief workers in many instances Hopkins relinquished personal con- issuing an order permitting State executives of W.P. A. to fix the hours of work, though curity wage” scales ranging from $19 se- | to $94 a month still remain the same Union labor leaders at a conference with the administrator yesterday sought again to obtain a de ing on prevailing wages, bu stood firm on the security dered by President new order was issued time that executives o trades of the A. F. of 1 ference with Hopki Denies Direct Link Hopkins denied, however question of union wages ente the decision to issue the o said the order merely gave ate ad- ministrators authority to bring hour in line with local condition The only restriction now placed on work is that they must L not more than eight hours per da and 40 per week. No minimum fixed In some cases, Hopkins order might result in mak sec ; wage the equivale if the hours are brough t'\nuLh 8 In announcing the new wage order Hopkins also disclosed 931.703 persor were at work under the new works-re- lief program awmd reiterated his pro nouncement that 3.500,000 will be put to work by November 1. Under this schedule he has to provide job for 2.458.297 in the next 42 days. “Our schedule,” Hopl empha sized, “provides for our putting the people to work on the assumption tha we will end direct relief November 1 Relief Door Left Open. But he added immediately hould the work quotas 1 some lities, W. P. A obligated continue the for those was re at least donm another the $4.000000.000 work the Federal dole should en tober. Secretary I & litt earlier i the afternoon. announce k would have ready for President Roosc velt upon his return to Wash next week a list of public works pro ects aggregating $200.000.000 to t brought wit the required work relief program. He said a meeting the Allotment Board may be calie within a few d Of the 931.703 now at wo n prc ided by relief funds. more tha half the number. or 502,000, were em- ployed in C. C. C. eamps. Only 343 - 504 have been provided regular work: - relief jobs since the huge made available. wa Roosevelt at said low |2 dole pro- Such by sof & partial aba isions develop observe: 2 SEX MANIAC HUNTED IN BRIDE ATTACK “Shoot to Kill” Ordered in Ch cago as Police Squads Scour City. By the Associated CHICAGO. Se of detectives, wemen and combed the A search of a g terday lashed bride. Throughout the night the West Side district remained under heavy police guard. Policewomen, their pistols ready, patroled the streets ¥ the role of lures to ‘rap the sex mariac. Both the man and woman officers were under orders to “shoot to k As police pressed the moron’s fourth victim, Mrs. Heler James was reported in a state of hysteria resulting from the brutal as- sault. The attack took place in the James’ apartment, where the woman's husbard. Orlando, was bound and gag- ged. Attacked three times, Mrs James was brutally lashed 20 —Squad by police- vigilantes today in 1 who yes nteer distriet search the PARENTS KILLED, BABY ‘FOUND NEAR CAR WRECK 14-Month-01d After Five Days of Suffering in Cold Beside Highway. By the Associated Press MacLEOD. Alberta, September —Exposed for four davs and f nights to the raw cold of Septeml: 14-month-old William Long was cr the way to recovery today. He was found yesterday in a roa‘ side gully besides the bodies of par ents, Mr. apd Mrs. T. M. Long, Wi were killed in & motor car accident The three had been sought since las Sunday The child. uninjured in the ac dent, slept soundly in a hospital h today and physicians said he woild recover. RENO DIVORCE SOUGHT Cruelty Charged by Woman Ask- ing Child's Custody and Alimony. Mrs. Marguerite J. Peters. West- chester Apartments, filed suit yester- day in Reno, Nev. for divorce from her husband, Albert R. Peters, presi dent of the Mutual Insurance Agencs Inc.. who lives at 4420 Klingle road Mrs. Peters charged cruelty anrd asked custody of their child. $300 a month alimony and a division of their property in Washington. M. and Mrs. Peters were married in Elkton Md, in 1919. 0ZIE WRAY REMARRIED Former G. W. U. Grid Star and Secret Bride Wed Again. Ozie A. Wray, former George Wash- ington University foot ball star, and Miss Cora Frauces Goodricn, queen of the university's fiesta in 1933, were remarried yesterday, District Supremc Court records disclosed. They were married secretly in March, 1934. No reason was g:ven ‘cr the second ceremony. The bride gave her address as Brooklyn, N. Y., while Wray said Lis home is in Linoen, A - Boy Recovering