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, the only things| ‘ firm stand against| ' and side whiskers.| . And even the side| .few devoted| ; friends left. . bating any of his| . policies, I feel ! that all of us can join in deploring a , by Herr Hitler. ! cide whether that trick mustache of . his is going to keep on clinging where | on lesser issues than a mustache giv- : ing such universal dissatisfaction. ; The Berlin dispatches tempt a fellow * World production of beer in the last TRNSON OFER NN DEAL” LA Pledges Continued Loyalty to Roosevelt in Effort to End “Mistakes.” By the Associated Press A five-point program which he said would eliminate “mistakes” of the New Deal is proposed by Hugh S. Johnson. Preparing to make some speeches #s a friendly, but vigorous critic of the administration, the former Recovery Administrator, who is now director of the Federal Works program in New York City, emphasized there was no break between him and the White House. Pledging “unswerving loyalty” to | President Roosevelt and declaring his aim was to be of service, he made these suggestions in an interview yes- terday: “1. The Government ought to do no work that isn't essential, useful and properly planned. In a time of | ‘erisisewe might keep 1.000,000 people | emploved on such projects at a cost of around $3.000.000.000 a year. But the present W. P. A- P. W. A. pro- gram is wholly impracticable. If vou try to start a lot of work to em- ploy 3.000,000 people on engineering projects, many of them will require over a year to complete and take billions more than the sum now available. 1f they arent completed. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (". SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935. Italian . Strategic Point et s Shown in the above map is the location of the small island of Pantel- leria (designated by arrow), where by concentrating her forces in event of war with England Italy could cut the Mediterranean Sea route, the mairtenance of which is necessary to Great Britain, k3 FRENCH CABINET IN'PEACE SESSION every city in the country will be scarred with useless, unfinished struc- tures. Necessity of Relief. “2. Relief—call it the dole if you like—should be provided where cities | and States aren’t able to bear the burden alone. 3. “A new N. R. A. certainly shou)d' be enacted. Shortening hours of labor | is the only real remedy for the pool | of more than 10,000,000 unemployed | which still exists. the problem. The new N. R. A. ought 10 contain compulsory provisions for | shortening hours and fixing minimum | wages in consultation with industry. It ought to make provision also for | purely voluntary trade practice agree- | ments | 4, '‘Customs receipts which Congress has made available for the purpose should be used to subsidize exports of | goods manufactured from farm prod- uc! Secretary Wallace has gotten in | a funk about his processing taxes and | is using some of this (customs receipts) | money to make benefit payments to cotton growers. The legislation is| being prostituted so that it will in- tensify the very condition it was in-| ed to remedy. . “At least some feeble attempt #hould be made to co-ordinate ad- | ministration agencies. They are run- | ning all over the lot.” | To Retire October 15. | Concluding the list, the general roared: ! “Why, damn it. if the administra-! tion would do these things, nothing on earth could stop it!” Johnson is planning to retire Oc- fober 15 as works progress adminis- | trator for New York. He said he was going to discuss his suggestions pub- licly “because I think it may do some Zona “As between Hooverism — which | means special privilege — and the | fundamental principles of President Roosevelt. there is no choice,” he said. He will speak October 2 at the San Diego (Calif.) Exposition. Other speaking engagements will take him to the Northwest, the Pacific Coast, the | Southwest and the Southeast. | In his interview yesterday Johnson pooh-poohed talk of amending the | Constitution so as to guarantee the permanence of New Deal laws. He asserted no amendment was necessary for the purpose. “If the N. R. A. case had been pre- sented properly to the Supreme Court in the first place,” he said, “that maladroit decision never would have been rendered. “Instead of presenting the facts and demanding that the case be decided in the light of the emergency con- fronting us rather than on the basis of precedent, we learn that the Gov- ernment has no power to regulate the killing of a chicken in Brooklyn. “Properly presented, that case would have shown that such things asN. R. A, are amply justified under the Constitu- | tion. The court should be given a | chance to render an opinion on the facts under the commerce clause of the Constitution.” Criticizing the American Liberty League for its recent statement assert- ing that certain laws passed at the re- cent Congress were unconstitutional, Johnson made a gesture of contempt &s he said: “It's simply a test between those 58 lawyers who've prostitated them- selves and the principles for which the New Deal stands. The Liberty League is just an excuse for Democrats to vote for a Republican.” Itvin S. Cobb Says: Trick Mustache May Cost Herr Hitler His Position CARMEL, Calif.. September 20.— to go into Nazi in its various branches, but, after four weeks of doing this job, T've already found out that, to avoid§ causing bitterness in one quarter or another, about| you can take a are boll weevils| ‘whiskers have a Yet, without de- other outstanding| certain attitude of uncertainty taken € The strain would be greatly relieved if only he could de- it is now or climb back up his nose again, Before now, governments have fallen (Copyright. 1935. by the North American New: er Alliance, Inc.) 30 Billion Pints Beer Made. year was 30,000,000,000 pints, a Ministers Gather to Discuss Final Means to Avert War. By the Associated Press RAMBOUILLET, France. September | 21—Premier Pierre Laval charted | France's cautious course to keep out Rigid legislation | of the Ethiopian war entanglement at | like the Black 30-hour bill won't s0lve | a full meeting of the French cabinet | today. The danger of sanctions was ex- plained to the ministers, presided over by President Lebfun, while Premier Mussolini of Italy was holding his own cabinet session at Rome—presumably to decide on war or peace. New Maneuvers. On their way to Rambouillet, site of the President’s Summer home, the view of their own righty army. Their motor cars were held up out- side Versailles by hundreds of tanks, armored cars and trucks loaded with steel-helmeted infantrymen partici- pating in maneuvers. The premier and his associates inti- | | | cabinet members were given a realistic | | | mated they were awaiting Great Brit- | ain’s reply on a pledge to continue to police Europe with the same vigor pro- posed for Italy before Laval is willing to ask the government to decide ex- actly what to do. Congratulated by President. Laval won the President’s “congrai- ulations and thanks for his courageous and tenacious action for France at Geneva in favor of peace.” The premier, after & 2!5-hour ses- sion of the cabinet, wen', to the coun- try for & rest, leaving the other min- | isvers to thrash out momentarily minor problems. Rome (Continued Prom First Page. \7 spoke of “a minimum basis sufficient for conclusive realization”—which was taken to mean that Italy might agree to discuss modified proposals contain- ing such a minimum basis. This bore out reecnt statements by government spokesmen to the effect that the government would agree to accept as a basis for dascussions the proposals of the committee of five, provided they were considerably modi- fied. Today's communique also was re- garded as more conciliatory than that of last Saturday, inasmuch as it re- ferred to the cabinet’s “‘appreciation” of the efforts at conciliation made in Geneva. The five-power committee’s plan was designed to give Italy certain economic and financial advantages in Ethiopia while maintaining the in- dependence of that empire. It was described by League officials as “the framework of a plan” for technical assistance to Ethiopia administrative, economic, and social reform. It was understood Italy would be allotted the privilege of developing Ethiopia economically and financially, but Ethiopia’s independence would be maintained. Several foreign advisers would be appointed and a force of gendarmerie would be instituted with foreign offi- cers. The Emperor, however, could exercise veto power over the appoint- ments. It was understood the plan said France and Great Britain were pre- pared to make certain territorial con- cessions to Ethiopia in the itnerests of a settlement. “NO” SHAKES LEAGUE. GENEVA, September 21 (#)—Prem- jer Mussolini’s “no” to its peace plan dropped on the League of Nations to- day like a bomb. The League was out for luncheon. Delegates of the nations assembled here were scattered over Geneva in their respective hotels. Nevertheless, the first impression was one of dismay. League officials, however, called at- tention to the fact that today’s rejec- tion of the five-power committee’s sug- gestions does not necessarily preclude Italy’s later acceptance of different proposals. Council Has Two Courses. It was pointed out the next step will be for the League Council to receive the committee’s reports and either make that rport its own or, proceeding under article 15 of the League Covenant, declare the concili- ation phase ended and draw up a new series of recommendations. This might include provision for sanctions. It would be submitted to both Italy and Ethiopia, giving them & last chance to accept or reject it. If Italy then rejects the new rec- ommendations and starts & war against Ethiopia she will be considered, under article 16 of the covenant, to have “committed an act of war against all members of the League” and the sanctions would automatically become effective. Departure Fear Dispelled. Any expectation that Mussolini's refusal of the committee's proposals might be accompanied by Italy’s im- mediate departure from the League was dispelled by a spokesman for the Italian delegation, who said: “Every- body is staying here for the present.” Before the Italian cabinet’s action War (Contirned From PFirst Page) whole creaky and untested machinery of sanctions to punish the unprovoked aggression against one of its members. Questions Would Arise. Immediately these questions would arise: 1. Would the League fail in its at- tempt to bring the hostilities to a swift end? 2. Would Italy withdraw from the League? 3. If Italy did withdraw, would the League's prestige survive such a blow? 4. How far would Great Britain go in advocating sanctions to restrain Ttaly? 5. How far would France and other nations follow the British lead? 6. What would Britain do if France failed to fall in step for action to pun- ish Italy? 7. Would Itaiy threaten British in- terests in the Mediterranean and Africa in reply tc sanctjons, and what is Britain prepared to acting alone, to protect those interests? Possibility of Naval Fight. 8. Would the Italian and the Brit- ish armadas, drawn up in dangerous proximity in the Mediterranean, be launched at each others' throats by an incident such as the sinking of the Maine? 9. What effect would the sanctions have on Italy? 10. What would Germany do in the event of an Italo-British war? Military circles in Rome asserted | that Italy’s opening move in Ethiopia | would be to attack Aduwa—perhaps without a declaration of war If Aduwa is captured, Mussolini must decide whether to order his 250,000 troops massed in East Africa onward to Addis Ababa or to withdraw | and draw up terms for peace. Some military experts believed the Roman legions. harassed by the com- bined forces of nature and the guer- rilla attacks of the wild Ethiopians, would have a perilous time advancing w0 the plateau, but are bound to triumph ultimately. Two Navies Stand Ready. ‘The British insist the movements in the Mediterranean—previously describ- ed as “precautionary”—have nothing to do with the application of sanctions. | But the British navy is on hand and the French navy is nearby should the League agree to resort to the stern measures of military force to restrain Mussolini. Few observers in London doubt the final outcome of an Italo-British con- flict; British resources and finances are reckoned as overwhelmingly pre- ponderant. France appears determined to avoid war with Italy. Officials in Paris say Laval will proceed with the utmost caution to avold antagonizing Mus- solini at the expense of the recently cemented Franco-Italian friendship— and will also watch with a worried eye Germany's intentions toward Austria. SUES PRESIDENT'S SON | Boston Man Claims Injuries in in | financial | Collision Last April. MALDEN, Mass., September 21 (#). —The first step in a suit against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, jr., son of the President and a Harvard student, for damages growing out of an auto- mobile collision In Boston, was taken in District Court today. Hyman Barlow of Malden started proceedings by filing a writ claiming he was injured and his car damaged in a collision with young Roosevelt's car April 27. The writ is returnable September 25. . PUBLISHER DIES Harry C. Whitehill Was Appoint- ed Collector by Harding. WATERBURY, Vt, September 21 (#)—Harry C. Whitehill, 60, editor and publisher of the Waterbury Rec- ord and former collector of customs at St. Albans, died today at his home after a brief iliness. He became associated with the old Montpelier Sentinel and later came to Waterbury to found the Record. He established his entire plant in a single room and his drum-cylinder press in an abandoned ice house. The plant grew and prosperad. He was appointed collector of cus- toms in 1923 by President. Harding, holding the post for nine years, His widow survives, Baby Scalded to Death. CHICAGO, September 21 (#).— Susan Joy Petry, 13 months old, was scalded to death in her home yester- day when she jarred a stove on which rested & pan of biling water. Mussolini’s reply to the peace plan ‘would not be & 100 per cent “no.” It was reported that Ethiopia’s re- ply to the League proj had been received and that on the whole it was favorable. Tecle Hawariate, Ethiopian dele- gate, declined to confirm this but admitted he had received instructions to ask for the exact meaning of the certain features of the five-power 1. Will Emperor Haile Selassie def- initely have the right to veto the appointment of foreign advisors? 2. In the event that certain eco- nomic advantages go to Italy, will . be able to maintain unre- servedly the open door policy with was known, the French delegation felt respect to commerce? Bl ROOSEVELT SEEKS 0 SEE BALL GAME Works to Clear Desk, Have Afternoon “ree, Come to Capital Monday. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y, September 21. ~—Presideat Roosevelt was applying himself with extra energy this morn- ing in an effort to clear his desk pre- paratory to returning to Washington early Monday, but chiefly, for the moment, to free himself from the Na- tion's business this afternoce long enough to attend the ball game be- tween the Washington correspondents and the Pawling, N. Y, team cap- | tained by Lowell Thomas, the radio talker. | This contest was to be held cn the golf course at Pawling, about forty miles from here, and from all indica- tions there were to be many specta- | tors. The game is played with a soft base ball and, inasmuch as most of the players, particularly the corre- spondents, are somewhat soft, it was decided in advance to let six inniogs | serve as a full game. | The President was to be on hand, not only to cheer and criticize. but to see two members of his family circle in the line-up of the Washington cca- tingent. John Roosevelt, the 6-foot- 4, 19-year-old son of the President, was assigned to a position in the field by the correspondents, aad John Boet- tiger, the President's son-in-law, a former White House correspondent himself, was put at firsi base. | Dempsey Is Umpire. | | | The presence of Jack Dempsey, for- mer heavyweight champion, as umpire | | | | behind the bat naturally added inter- | est. James “Two-Gun” Stringfellow of the White House secret service, was | | base umpire. 1 | Edward Roddan, of Universal Serv- | | ice, captain and manager of the cor- | respondents’ team, who was at sec- ond base, selected Charles W. B. Hurd | of the Washington bureau of the New | York Times to do the hurling for his team, at least for an inning or two. Among the other correspondents 1 | the line-up were F. M. Stephenson, | the Associated Press, at third; George E. Durno, International News Service, |center field; F. A. Storm, United | | Press, right field; and John O'Don- | nell, New York News; Coleman B. | | Jones, New York Herald Tribune; | Willard Edwards, Chicago Tribune, | and Phelps Adams, New York Sun, | utility substitutes. Carroll Linkins of | |the Western Union was chosen to do | |the catching, with C. A. Penkert of | Postal Telegraph as a substitute. | | Col. Marvin H. MecIntyre of the | White House secretariat, and J. Rus- sell Young of The Washington Star were deputized as cheer leaders. | Thomas To Be Host. After the game Lowell Thomas was Ito be host to the President and all | the others in the Washington party | |at a picnic lunch on the lawn of his home a short distance from the soft | bail battleground. It was raining during the morning. but the local forecasters predicted | | clear skies during the afternoon. During the three weeks the Presi- dent has been at Hyde Park he has| | received at least a half hundred callers | | trom various sections of the country. | He has listened attentively to the re- ports they have brought him dealing | with economic and political condi- | | tions. Mr. Roosevell has made no definite comment upon them, al- though it is known that they have | been generally of an optimistic and hopeful nature. Indiana Held Democratic. Gov. Paul McNutt of Imdiana, who spent several hours with the President yesterday afternoon, gave him a rosy picture of the Democratic prospects in the Hoosier State. This Demo- cratic Governor told newspaper men afterwards that there was not the slightest doubt about Roosevelt’s car- rying Indiana in the next national election. He explained that the Pres- ident is popular there and that, be- sides, the Democratic organization is united and in good shape to enter the campaign. | Gov. McNutt received from the President a promise to participate in ceremonies incident to the formal ded- ication, during the middle of Novem- | ber, of the memorial to George Rogers | Clark at Vincennes, Ind. It is likely also that while participating in this memorial celebration the President will motor to the Nancy Hanks Lin- coln Shrine, about 40 miles from Vincennes. The President will attend the Vin- cennes exercises on his way to Warm Springs, Ga., about November 17. division will concentrate all of the questions under his direction. At present, embargoes on munitions shipments are in force with respect to China, Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras, Paraguay and Bolivia, and the new division will supervise the continuance of regulations concerning these countries. The embargo against shipments to {China has been in effect since March 4, 1922, Embargoes against arms shipmenis to Latin American countries, unde: laws which permit an embargo against arms shipments to any na- tions on this hemisphere where civi strife prevails have been in effect as follows: Nicaragua, since September 15, 1926; Cuba, since June 25, 1934; Honduras, since March 22, 1924, and to Paragua and Bolivia since last year, when efforts were made to halt the Chaco war. ‘The new division will also supervise provisions of the espionage act of June 15, 1917, under which the export of arms and munitions may be prohibited if they are designated by the Secre- taries of War or Navy as military secrets. State Department officials empha- sized in making the announcement that it had no direct bearjng on the threatening European situation, since it would have been necessary in order to carry out provisions of the neutral- | were between ity law and the National Munitions Control Board, set up under that act. The act specified that administra- tion would be vested in the State De- partment. Nazis Sentence Priest. BRESLAU, Germany, September 21 (#)—A Franciscan Father, Franz Zimolong, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment &nd fined 3,000 marks (about $1,200) yesterday for smug- gling 30,000 marks out of Germany in violation of Naz laws. . Chamber Directors at Lunch GRADE-CROSSING CRASH KILLS FIVE Six Others Injured and 14 Race Horses Perish Near Hillsboro, 11l By the Associated Press HILLSBORO, Ill., September 21.— | Five persons and 14 race horses died | near here in the collision of the Cen- tury of Progress, speedy Chicago and Eastern Illinols Railway train, and an sutomobile driven by a farm woman. Wrecking crews worked through the night clearing the overturned loco- motive, baggage car and a car which carried the horses, from a tangled mass of track where the west-bound train and the car crashed late yester- day. | Passengers Escape. Directors of the United States Chamber of Com merce, meeting here yesterday, are shown as they took time out for luncheon. Chicago, and Redfield Proctor, Proctor, Vt. Verbal Fireworks Flare as Candidates Seek Party Backing. ¥ the Associated Pregs NEW ORLEANS, September 21— Selection of candidates for the Demo- cratic primary in January was planned at & caucus today in an attempt to B: LONG'S MACHINE close the breach in the political or- | ganlzation left by Senator Huey P. Long Until early this morning the battle over the choice of candidate for Gov- ernor raged in the Roosevelt Hotel where Gov. O. K. Allen set up head- quarters in the Long impertal suite. Heated arguments were held be- hind bolted doors. The verbal- tilts supporters and oppo- nents of Lieut. Gov. James A. Noe, who announced his candidacy for Governor before the caucus and offended some of the leaders. Ellender Presses Claim. Further confusion was added to the situation when Allen J. Ellender, Speaker of the House, rose from his sick bed at Houma and walked into the New Orleans conference. He was angry over the Noe announcement and pressed his claim for selection as candidate for Governor on the ad- ministration ticket. Noe appeared glum when he left the Allen suite. Later he issued a statement in which he said he had | been favored by Long through a proc- ess of elimination. Some of the country leaders argued | By the Associated Press. against Noe's candidacy, however, on | the ground he had been investigated by Government agents on his income tax and that he was associated with Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, “share-the- wealth” organizer, whose position in the faction has puzzled them. Noe Backs Sharing. Smith has told Gov. Allen that he would take his following to another camp if the “share-the-wealth” principles were not adopted. Noe has accepted them en toto and at last re- ports Smith was supporting him. ‘While the storm was raging in the Allen camp, the opposition organiza- tion was expected to announce the candidacy for Governor of Representa- tive Cleveland Dear, perhaps today. MOUNTAINS SCOURED FOR MISSING BOY, 2| C. C. C. Workers Join Hunt for Child Who Walked Away From Bedford, Pa. By the Assoclated Press. BEDFORD, Pa., Sepiember 21.— Hundreds of searchers tramped far into the mountains today, peering be- hind every bush and into every crevice for 2-year-old Paul Gouchener. The boy toddled away from his home yesterday morning. His padents, Mr. and Mrs. George Gouchener, said they were unalarmed until he failed to come home at night. More than 700 citizens joined with State and county officers in a hunt over the desolate mountainside. A squad of C. C. C. workers carried on the search through the night with- out result. WOMAN FOUND BEATEN IN HUNT FOR SADIST Chicago Police Probe Attack of Hospital Employe and Check Degenerates’ Records. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 21.—While police patrolled the Austin district hunting Chicago's whip-swinging sadist today, a 45-year-old woman was found unconscious in a vacant lot, severely beaten. ‘Taken to the Danish-American Hos- pital, she roused only long enough to identify herself as Mrs. Anna Swen- son, and say that she was an employe of the hospital. Then she lapsed into & coma. A thorough check was under way, Capt. Willard Malone, said, of the ac- tivities of all degenerates known to the police in an effort to run down the psychopathic who beat Mrs. Helen James, 21-year-old Bride, with a lead- studded knout, and attacked her after ordering “call me master.” D. C. WOMAN INJURED MIAMI, Fla., September 21 ().— Miss Eugenie Klinefelder, 50, assistant to the director of Red Cross nurses in Wi , D. C, was slightly hurt yesterday when an automobile in which she was riding collided with s truck. é W. W. ATTERBURY. RUTHLESS CHANGE LAD TOPRESIENT Roosevelt Accused by Head of Anti-New Deal Forces | in South. { A leader of forces organizing to combat the New Deal in the South | accused President Roosevelt today of | trying to “ruthlessly change beyond | recognition the supreme law of the land.” The assertion was made by John Henry Kirby of Houston, Tex., chair- man of the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. In a radio address he urged his listeners to “turn from the poison gas of socialism now affecting the country's leadership in ‘Washington.” “It was not enough that a sub- | servient Congress abdicated its consti- | tutional powers by delegating to the executive functions exclusively re- served to the legislative branch” he said. “Even this apparently did not satisfy the President, for in his press conference following the historic Su- preme Court decision outlawing the plied that the Constitution, in his opinion, is outmoded and obsolete, | and that it is chaining us to horse and buggy days. * * * “That is why there was organized in my part of the country the South- ern Committee to Uphold the Consti- tution, and that is why men and women down there below the Mason Dixon ‘line have rallied with heart- ening enthusiasm to a call to arms. “Those of us who are wholehearted- ly American still cherish the ideals and recognize the rights imbedded in that instrument which put into force the faith of the Declaration of In- dependence. We will not yield tamely those measures of freedom and justice and opportunity won for humanity by hard fighting on many battlefields. We refuse to be regimented, and have all of our private activities controlled by boards and bureaus at Washington unaccountable to the people for their actions and frequently not familiar with' local conditions and problems.” FARMERS PLEAD GUILTY /14 Admit Contempt in Mortgage Sale Interference. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., September 21 (#)—Fourteen farmers today pleaded guilty in Federal Court here to charges of contempt of court and in- terference with Federal officers in halting & farm foreclosure sale at Plattsburg, Mo, August 15. The pleas came after the Government had virtually completed its case on the contempt charges. e TEACHERS TO STAY New York Local to Remain in Federation Despite Green. CLEVELAND, September 21 (#).— George Davis, secretary and treasurer of the American Federation of Teach- ers, announced last night that the New York local, No. 5, would retain its charter despite a campaign in the recent national convention to oust it from the federation. He asserted there was no danger of a split in the na- tional organization. During the convention here last month dissension arose , as = William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, urged in a telegram that the New York local's charter be revoked as & means of “purging Com- munism” from the federation’s ranks. N. R. A, Mr. Roosevelt plainly im- | They are (left to right): Henry I. Harriman, Bosicn, former president; W. R. Dawes, A. P. Photo. ATTERBURY DIES; FUNERALMONOAY Former Pennsylvania Rail- road President Expires Suddenly From Apoplexy. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA. September Gen. William Wallace Atterbury who rose from a 5-cents-an-hour ap- prentice to president of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, died suddenly yester- day of apoplexy. He was conversing with his wife and two of his four children in a hospital chair at Bryn Mawr when he col- lapsed. 69. Known nationally as the man Per- | shing got when he asked for “the best railroad man in the United States” to direct the transportation of American troops to the World War front. Atter- bury's entire career was tied to rail- roads. Retires Because of Health. He withdrew from the affairs of the Pennsylvania, which he helped to build, in April, after ae failed to re- cover completely from a severe attack of gallstones suffered more than a year ago. Five days ago he was ordered to the hospital for observation. Although retired as president and eligible for pension next January. At- terbury retained a directorship in the | company and was creditea with hav- Clement. Atterbury started in the Altoona at Yale's scientific school. He became utive positions. to be vice president and. in 1925, president His company gave hiin leave of ab- sence in the war years a. the Govern- ment’s request Co-ordinated Troop Movements. As director general of :rlmpflru-‘ tion of the American Expeditionary Forces, he had to co-ordinatg troop movements with those of Allied na- | tions—most of which recognized his | services with military honors. The | United States gave him the distin- | guished service medal. | He was active in Pennsylvania Re- | publican politics in the Harding-Cool- | | idge-Hoover era, but retired as na- | tional committeeman in 1930 after Gifford Pinchot was nominated for | | Governor. Funeral services are planned for ! Monday at Bryn Mawr with private interment at Radnor. Born in Indiana. | | Atterbury was born at New Albany, | Ind., January 31, 1866, the son of John | | G. and Catherine (Larned) Atterbury. | He spent his boyhood in Detroit and after his preliminary education studied | at the Sheffield Scientific School of | Yale University, where he was grad- | uated in 1886. The university awarded | | him an honorary master's de- | gree in 1911 and the University of | Pennsylvania made him an honorary doctor of laws in 1919. On June 10, 1915, Atterbury mar- | ried Mrs. Arminia Rosengarten Mac- Leod of Philadelphia. A few months after his graduation at Yale, Atterbury began learning the railroad business in the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he started as an apprentice. He was promoted to foreman in 1889 and for three years served in that capacity on various lines of the company. During the next 11 years he went through different operating positions, being made general maanger in 1903. Entering the executive department in 1909, he was made fifth vice presi- dent in charge of transportation and in May, 1912, became vice president in charge of operations. He was in | that position when called upon in 1917 | to aid the United States Government | in its military operations. | Aided in Mexican Controversy. Before his service in the World War, | Atterbury gave valuable aid to the Government in another emergency, the controversy with Mexico in 1916. That year he was elected president of the American Railway Association, com- posed of common carriers whose sys- tems extend at least 100 miles. The purpose of the association is to dis- | cuss and recommend methods of op- | eration and management of railroads. In his capacity as president, Atter- | bury played an important part in or- ganizing the railroads to transport troops and supplies to the Mexican border. It was the success he achieved on that occasion that was responsible for his selection for the larger job and responsibilities in France. Atterbury was a member of the American Soclety of Mechanical Engi- neers, the American Soclety of Civil Engineers and the American Philo- sophical Society. He belonged to the Union League Club of Philadelphia, as well as other clubs in that city, New York, Baltimore and Washington. + $90,500 G Six men riding in the car with the | horses were seriously injured, but not | & passenger was hurt. Two waiters in | the dining ere slightly injured left the rails but | did not One ot -4, »88 A Man extr | cated after mg y nours from beneath |the car in which the horses rode headed from Detroit to Texas. Hc | was not identified and apparently wa | riding the rods. The other dead: Edward Edlemesser, engineer, abou | 55; Dan McDougal. fireman, about 55; Henry Smitha, 45, road forema:n | of engines for the railway, all of Vil Grove, 11, and Mrs. Edward Dam- mann, driver of the motorcar. Sh lived near Hillsboro. List of Injured. The seriously injured were jockeys or attendants. E. Santiago, 28. Havana, Cuba, had a fractured skull and Harold Crain, Detroit, received severe head Injuries and was hurt internally. The others: Charles E. Baker, 29, Independence, Kans.; Joe Maloney, 25, Guthrie, Okla.; M. E Tucker and William Lauscher, both of Louisville, Ky. Thirteen of the horses were the property of the Motor City Stabies, owned by Lu Lepper, Detroit. One horse was owned by Walter Freeman | of Detroit. A pony in the car with the racing sitock also was Kkilled | Horses not killed outright were maimed so badly they were destroycc EM LOOT TAKEN IN CHICAGL City Is Stricken by Wave of S Robberies in Past Two Months. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 21.—Ti “G-men,” relentless trackers of lav breakers, swung into the investiga tion of a recent wave of Chicago jewel | robberies yesterday. They were spurred by the snatch- ing of $17,500 worth of gems in & daylight foray yesterday morning. It was the fourth hold-up of jewelry salesmen here in the last two weeks and the sixth in the last two months. The total loot was officially estimated at $90,500. Jack Hoffman, New York diamond merchant, and his assistant, William ing picked his successor, Martin W. | Verbeck, were the latest victims. Three | gunmen accosted them on busy Con- | gress street, seized two briefcases con- | Railroad shops soon afier he finished | taining the valuables, leaped into a waiting car and sped off through | foreman and advanced through exec- heavy Loop traffic Daniel M. Ladd. chief of the Fed- | eral Bureau of Investigation at Chi- cago, promptly gathered all informa- | tion pertaining to the affaii. He de- ‘cuned specific comment on his agents’ activities, but pointed out that his office was immediately concerned in apprehending law breakers who trans- port stolen gems across State lines An official of the Chicago Jewelers’ Association laid the series of robberies to “a new mob.” He asserted the brazen band had used the same tac- tics in all their operations. He sketched this outline The salesmen were “spotted” at their hotels. A “fingerman” spied on their daily routine. His confeder- ates followed along the trail. The “fingerman” signaled them when the opportune moment was reached. The gunners then cornered their victims— twice in Loop buildings, four times on crowded streets—gathered up the loot and raced away. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Showers late this afternoon, followed by generally fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle north- west winds, becoming variable to- morrow. Maryland—Showers this afternoon followed by generally fair tonight and tomorrow. except probably showers in extreme southeast portion tonight cooler in extreme west portion tonight Virginia—Mostly cloudy with light showers in extreme north portion this afternoon and in south and central portions tonight; tomorrow generally fair; slightly cooler tonight in north- west portion. West Virginia—Showers this after- noon or early tonight; cooler in north portion tonignt; tomorrow fair. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. L Report for Last 21 Hours. Yesierday— Today— Temp. Baro. Temp. Baro. Deg. Ins De; 5 80 4 pm. 5 pm 70 Midnight_. 63 - Record fbr Last 21 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 83. at noon todey. Year 59, today. at 6 am. Year t ago, G4. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 98, on July 20, Lowest, on January 28 Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 91 per cent, at 3:45 a.m. today. Lowest, 37 per cent. at 4 .m. yesterday. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Geodetic Survey.) Coast and row. High T e Lo . 3:02 p.m. ~ Automoblle lights must be turned om one-half hour afterssunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Esperanto at Liverpool U. Esperanto is to be taught at Liver- N pool University in England. L]