Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow; cooler to- night, much cooler tomorrow; gentie winds, becoming northerly tonight. Temperatures—Highest, 82, at 3:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 63, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 No. 33,386. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ITALY DELAYS TWO WEEKS, WAITING FOR LEAGUE REPORT - TruceDeclared U. S. Requests Britain’s Views ch WASHINGTON, D MARCH as Hostilities Impend. NEUTRAL BODY PLEA ACCEPTED Council Agrees to Commission of Observers. The Ethiopian Situation. ROME — Possibilities of immediate commencement of hostilities be- tween Italy and Ethiopia were lessened today by announcement Ttaly would wait 10 days to 2 weeks before acting. GENEVA—Italy protested the League of Nations plan to merely adjourn the Assembly after the Council had decided, in - principle, for a commission of neutral observ- ers to watch over Ethiopia’s frontiers. VATICAN CITY—Vatican prelates in- terpreted Pope Pius’ address to the Eucharistic Congress in Cleveland as a plea for peace specifically to | Ttaly and Ethiopia. ADDIS ABABA—The end of the rainy season saw Ethiopians celebrating their Festival of Maskal with ancient ceremonies, tinged this year with military preparations. LONDON—Some British quarters dis- cussed the possibility of another cabinet meeting shortly to consider | the new phase brought about by the | present stage of the Italian- Ethiopian dispute. PARIS—French officials in Paris said Great Britain and France were negotiating for a mutual assistance agreement to cope with any Euro- ! The suggested | pean war threat. pact was described as an outgrowth of the dispute between Italy and Ethiopia, and one official said: “Premier Laval now has no fear of going ahead with Great Britain.” ETHIOPIAN GROUND DRYING. Patience Can’t Last Forever, Spokes- man Warns. ROME, September 27 (P).—An Ital- fan government spokesman said today that Italy was willing to observe a two-weeks' “unofficial truce” with Ethiopia, “unless something happens. On Holding Formal Inquiry Made as Building Program Is | Rumored. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 27.—The United States today asked formally for a clarification of British views on holding an international naval con- ference before the end of this year, as required under the Washington naval treaty of 1922 A conference between American diplomats and foreign office officials on the subject of such a parley fol- lowed close on the heels of British press reports that the British govern- ment soon would advise the United | States it was terminating the Wash- | ington treaty. | This report, however, was emphat- ‘lcnlly denied in official quarters. Ray Atherton, counselor of the | United States Embassy, accompanied | by Capt. Walter Anderson, the United e "0 States naval attache, called on R. L.! accept Emperor Haile Selassie’s PIea | crgigie, the head of the American | | section of the foreign office and an | expert on naval matters. They asked of him what the Britis] government view might be on the | form which must be taken by the | mandatory conference. Must Meet During 1935. Under the provisions of the Wash- ington treaty, following the Japanese notice to terminate the agreement at Naval Conference <> the end of 1936, the signatory powers ' 7 L RAY ATHERTON. —Underwood & Underwood. { must meet before the end of 1935 to 1 | discuss a new treaty or an extension | jr 14, was said to have vanished | . of the present limitations. It was understood that the pur- | pose of Atherton's visit to the foreign ' office was to determine whether the British government wants to hold a serious conference or a mere formality of a meeting which would enable all | = “(See NAVAL, Page 6.) CUBS FIGHT CARDS FOR FLAG IN MUD 6,000 Fans Shiver as Dean and Lee Toil on Mound. BULLETIN. ST. LOUIS, September 27— The Cubs won the National League pennant today when they defeated the Cardinals, 6 to 2, in the first game of a double-header. By the Associated Press. | SPORTSMAN'S PARK, St. Louis, | September 27.—Face to face with | “sudden death” on ihe diamond, the The spokesman observed that the|once-mighty St. Louis Cardinals sent| rains had ceased in Ethiopia and the | thet> No. 1 burden bearer, Jerome | ground would soon be dry enough for | Herman Dean, to the mound today troop movement. !in the first game of a desperate dou- He said that “unless something | ple-header attempted to keep Chi- happens” Italy will wait for the League | cago's Cubs from the National League of Nations Council to bring in its re- | pennant. port 10 days or two weeks hence, add- | * Bill Lee, the ex-Cardinal farm hand ing: t our patience cannot 1ast| who has won 19 and lost but 6 for forever.” | the leading winning percentage of the Collaboration Continues. i league’s moundsmen this season, was The Italian government assured world through its spokesmen that|ager Charlie Grimm, who professed to collaborate | certainty of clinching the flag with 3,‘,?2 &’3“&;32‘”‘?&?1 ever;l reason- | the twentieth Cub triumph in succes- able effort to adjust the Italo-Ethio- | sion, the most spectacular winning pian problem had been exhausted. streak in 19 years. Informed sources explained quickly, | Conditions not only were bad for however, that this statement in no | base ball, but very treacherous for a sense presupposed a willingness by | team that was about ready to go into Premier Mussolini to enter into a|the world series against Detroit. The the | handed the honor assignment by Man- | formal truce with Emperor Haile Sel- assie of Ethioipa. A government spokesman said Italy would not commit itself with regard to a truce, the government holding stubbornly to its belief that only Italy could be a competent judge of what should be done to Ethiopia. “Victims of Aggression.” “We have considerec ourselves vic- tims of aggression and menace from Ethiopia for some time,” the spokes- man asserted. Therefore, he explained, Italy could not be bound by any temporary meas- ure such as a truce engineered by the League. The Italian government view was represented by him as meaning that such an arrangement could be binding between Italy and Ethiopia only if ar- ranged between Mussolini and Haile Selassie themselves. Equally clear-cut was the feeling in sources close to the government that the League Council embarked on a fruitless excursion into treacherous juridical waters with its invocation of Article XV of the League Covenant to bring out & report on the Italo-Ethio- pian crisis. Report Is Authorized. This article authorizes the Council to report on disputes and recommend measures in the event that concilia- tion between two members of the League fails. Government sources insisted that Article XV, or Article XVI, which provides for sanctions against any nation resorting to war, cannot apply in the present case, contending that Italy and Ethiopia were not on equal (See ETHIOPIA, Page 6.) Readers’ Guide Pages. Cross-word Puzzle _ Editorials - Finance - Lost and Found - Melcher in Filmland National Radio Forum. infield was muddy in spots and slip- | pery after a 30-hour rainfall. The area | around the side lines was almost a | complete quagmire, with pools of water dotting the landscape. Manager Grimm sent the same line- up that has won 19 straight, including | a brilliant 1-to-0 victory over the Car- dinals Wednesday, into the first game | would work the veteran Charlie Root in the second. Frisch waited the re- sult of the first game before announc- ing his second hurler. A defeat in the opener would clinch the pennant for the sensational Cubs, who were 4 up and 4 to go. | FIRST INNING. CUBS—The sun was attempting to break through the clouds without suc- cess, making it just dark enough for the speed balls of Dizzy and Lee Galan hit the second ball to King for an easy catch. Herman drove the (See GAME, Page 2.) { and announced that, win or lose, he | 53 1APANESE DI NFLEET PRACTICE 'Maneuvers Continue in Face | | of Typhoon Which Sweeps | Sailors Overboard. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, September 27.—The Japa- | nese Navy's grand maneuvers in the | Northwest Pacific went ahead today in defiance of a typhoon which claimed the lives of 53 officers and men. A navy office communique said 27 men were swept overboard from the destroyer Yugiri, 24 from the destroyer Hatsuyuki and 1 from the aircraft carrier Hosho. One officer was killed aboard the destroyer Mutsuki. Eight Officers Injured. Eight officers and two enlisted men were injured seriously when the de- | stroyer flotilla of the fourth fleet con- tinued to plough through raging seas east of the main island of Honshu Thursday. The destroyers were not caught un- awares by the sudden rise of the seas, but carried out the program for the | annual war games in the face of a 78-mile gale. The storm was the same that rav- aged the northeastern prefectures of Japan proper this week, killing 350 persons. The destroyers Hatsuyuki and Yu- giri were damaged badly by the moun- | tainous seas. The destroyer Mutsuki | suffered less serious damage, as did the | Kitkutsuki. Emperor Informed of Disaster. Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of the navy, went to the palace to inform Emperor Hirohito of the disaster. The Yugiri and the Hatsuyuki are new 1,700-ton vessels, and the Kikut- suki and the Mutsuki older destroyers of 1,315 tons. Except for the four damaged de- stroyers and the few ships searching the scene of the disaster, all the combined fleets continued their ma- neuvers. i | Scientist-Explorer Dies. LENINGRAD, U. S. 8. R, Septem- ber 27 (#)—Peter Koeloff, 52, ex- plorer and scientist, died today. Kos- loff was noted for his explorations in Central Asia. He wes the discoverer of the remains of the ancient city of Khara-Khoto under the sands of the Worthern Mongolian Desert. By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, September 27.— Heavy rain today interrupted t ceremonies of the festival of Maskal— which celebrates the end of the rainy season in Ethiopia. ‘The scores of richly-robed priests leading the festivities hurriedly sought shelter from the rain, which became 50 heavy that it was feared the re- mainder of the Maskal ceremonies might have to be abandoned. However, the downpour turned to a drizzle and the festivities continued, to be climaxed with a great tribal review. 5 The populace, however, evidenced a grim realization that the world criais might momentarily force Empercr Haile Selassie to sound the tocsin for a nation-wide mobilization. This feeling tempered the customary exuberance of the Ethiopians, who re- gard their festival, also commemorat- ing the discovery of what they believe to be the true cross, as one of peacc With implicit faith in their Em- peror, many of the people expressed a resolve to face Italy’s Black Shirts unflinchingly if the League of Na- Sports - ‘Washington Wayside Women'’s Features....B-14-15 » he tions failed to preserve peace. Knowing that the Ethiopian dele- gation at Geneva believes war in- evitable, the King of Kings—central figure in today’s ceremonies—awaited only a signal from his delegation to boom the drums of mobilization. Ethiopian Fete to Dry Season Is Interrupted by‘ Heavy Rain Proclamation posters already were in print. The sovereign told his friends during the festival that his army would be able to hold out against the Fascists for at least three months through guerilla tactics. Some associates of the Emperior even foresaw that he might allow the Italians, in the first flush of victory, to advance 60 to 70 miles into Ethiopia before the first defenses were encountered. While the Emperor sat solemnly on his golden, outdoor throne, tribesmen, taking a pole-like cross as their target, filled the air with eerie cries and thousands of wooden arrows. Surrounding this cross, or maskal, were scores of richly robed bishops and priests, carrying crucifixes and tinkling bells which filled the air with silvery music. ‘Tonight, the mountain of wooden arrows will be converted into a gi- gantic bonfire, reminiscent of the fires on the hills of Calvary to signalize | the finding of the true cross by St. Helena. ‘When the embers have died down, devout natives will rush forward to snatch handfuls of ashes with which to consecrate their foreheads to “keep ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WHALEN'S SON, 14, FEARED KIDNAPED; GMEN' N SEARCH Boy Vanishes After He Goes to Bid Family Gardener Good-by. BLOODHOUNDS ARE PUT ON TRACK IN WOODS Police Say Youth May Only Be Lost, but Family Thinks of Abduction. BULLETIN. DOBBS FERRY, N. Y., Septem- ber 27 (#).—Grover A. Whalen, jr., 14-year-old son of the chairman of the board of Schenley Products Co., was-reported found late todav alive, after having been missing since 8:30 o'clock this morning. An effort was being made to con- firm the report. By the Assoclated Press. DOBBS FERRY, N. Y., September 27.—Dobbs Ferry police said today the son of Grover A. Whalen, former New | York City police commissioner, was missing and his father feared he has been kidnaped. The Department of Justice agents were reported to have been called into the case. The boy, Grover A. Whalen, while his bags were packed, standing on the front porch of his home. A | car was waiting to take him to the station to entrain for a private school. He was reported to have disappeared about 8:30 a.m. today. Young Whalen said he wanted to bid good-by to a gardener on the estate o Star FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. THEY SEEMED To LIKE TH1S BOLONEY, CHiee! 'Pedestrians Are Invited * - To Join Star Sdfety Drive Full Co-operation Asked Between All Walkers and Motorists to Cut Down Perils of City Streets. Believing that control of motorists e in the National Capital is insufficient | and went to look for him. He took a ' to completely cope with the dangerous traffic situation, The Evening Star py tne Associated Press ! direction away from the house leading | today invites its safety campaign members to urge upon all pedestrians the to a large woods which surrounds the | necessity of fullest co-operation with motorists. William A. Van Duzer, correctional institutior for New York | director of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Traffic, has made an juveniles and borders on several large estates. | State troopers hurried here with urgent plea to the District Commission It is believed that in enlarging t! streets and highways, another broad ers for the control of all walkers he city-wide drive for safety on the step will be taken in protecting the blood hounds from the barracks at pedestrians of the District of Colum-g Hawthorne as soon as it was decided to give out an alarm for the boy. Federal agents from the New York office of the Department of Justice ar- rived early in the afternoon. | Still, however, no widespread alarm | was flashed out. Patrick Costello, chief of police of | Dobbs Ferry, said: “So far as we know | the boy is merely missing. We have no | evidence to show that he was kidnaped. He was unfamiliar with the woods. He | might have been lost there. The case was reported to us by the boy’'s family ! at 11 o'clock this morning, and a re- quest was made that we conduct a ' search for him. “We were cautioned at the time | against making the matter public.” ——e NAZIS TO CONTROL ELECTRICAL POWER Dr. Schacht Announces Law Will Be Promulgated to Concen- trate Entire System. By the Associated Press. SAARBRUECKEN, Germany, Sep- | tember 27—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi minister of economics, announced today a law would be promulgated soon to concentrate Germany's en- tire electric power under the super- vision of the ministries of interior and economics for “protective” purposes. For “organization of Germany's sup- ply of electricity,” he asserted, both | privately and municipally owned pow- er plants will be incorporated into a Nation-wide system. “This system must be so skillfully planned that even the failure of some important electrical plant shall not endanger the necessary supply for energies for industries,” Schacht told representatives pf the power industry. | Sunday i “THIS WEEK” “Things to Come” H. G. WELLS —shows what may happen to us if war comes again, in a new serial beginning in “This Week,” The Star's magazine section. R e “Base Ball’s Biggest Thrill” BABE RUTH —says it comes just before the call, “Play Ball” in your first world series. He tells how play- ers are feeling now while they wait for the classic to start. * ok K k| “Let the Moon Do Your Work” HARLAN T. STETSON bia. It is not regarded as any in- fringement on the rights of any one, but pedestrian-motorist co-operation is needed to safeguard life and prop- erty here. | Full co-operation between motorists and pedestrians must be obtained be- fore the deadly peril of the streets can be removed, in the opinion of traffic experts. Nearly all pedes- trians are at times motorists, whether drivers or passengers, and on the other hand nearly all motorists are at times pedestrians. No real line of distinction can be drawn. Care should be employed by all. Jaywalking Must Go. | Proposed legislation to control pe- | destrians is legislation to protect | them. Jaywalking must go. It is to | be hoped that the Commissioners of | the District of Columbia will sup- port the director of traffic’'s stand. | From the outset of The Star's| safety campaign, hundreds of letters | from both men and women, drivers | (See SAFETY, Page 4. : Safety Broadcasts Today. 4 p.m., WMAL—Cabs and queries, interviews with taxicab drivers on what can be done to im- prove the Washington traffic situation, broadcast from the intersection of Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. 7 pm., WJSV—Interview with Prisoner 21007, broadcast from the District Jail. Prisoner 21007 is serving a 90-day term after conviction on charges of driving while in- toxicated and leaving after colliding. Tomorrow. am., WJSV—Interviews with passers-by in an effort to get them to sign safety pledge cards, broadcast from the in- tersection of Fifeenth street and New York avemue. 5:15 pm.. WRC—Death at the Crossroads—a broadcast on the reckless pedestrian. | WOMAN IS FOUND SLAIN BY HATCHET Mother of Washington Col- lege Professor Is Victim. Daughter-in-Law Held. By the Associated Press. CHESTERTOWN, Md.,, September 27.—Her head severely beaten with a hatchet or a hammer, Mrs. Effie S. | Buxton, 69, mother of Dr. Kenneth S. Buxton, head of the Washington Col- lege department of chemistry, was found dead in her apartment here today. State’s Attorney Stephen R Collins sald Mrs. Kenneth S. Buxton, 30, daughter-in-law of the slain woman and a native of Montreal, Quebec, was | detained in connection with the case. | Details were not immediately avail- able. Dr. Frank W. Smith, coroner, began impaneling a jury to view the body. No date had been set for the inquest. The slaying was believed to have occurred about 8:30 a.m. Mrs. Rich- ard H. Collins, jr, who occupies the apartment directly above the Buxton apartment, said she heard thumping noises coming from the Buxton apart- ment about that time. HURRICANE IS FELT ON COAST OF CUBA Strong Winds on Fringe of Storm Begin to Blow on South- ern Shore. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 27.—The Southern Coast of Cuba had begun to feel early this afterncon strong winds on the outer fringe of a tropical hurricane in the Western Car- ibbean Sea. . . . who wrote “Man and the vyStars,” says the age-old dream of power from the moon is com- ing true. He tells of a “tide- power” plant being built on the coast of Maine. * x ¥ X These, a host of other features, and a fine ar- ray of mew fiction will be ready for you the devil away.” A strange contrast was imparted today’s medieval rites by the presence of the entire diplomatic corps, in modern civilian attire and top hats. —in— The Sunday Star “A Pan-American Airways plane near Santa Cruz reported at 11 am. it was flying in a 35-mile northeast wind. Gordon E. Dunn, meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau office here, said the advance of the hurricane probably was causing strong winds along the Southern Cuban Coast between Guantanamo Bay and Cienfuegos. The steamer Gutan reported at 9 am., it was riding in a full hurricane wind, 75 miles an hour or more. At the time the Gutan was 75 miles south-southwest of the extreme west- ern tip of the Island of Jamaica. The Gatun’s barometer was at 29.53 inches and falling. SHYTHE CAPTURES SALING HONORS Sassy Rips Ahead in Open- ing Event of Presi- dent’s Regatta. Distancing not only her own field, but one that started 10 minutes earlier, E. Verner Smythe's Sassy today cap- tured the sailing race for comet class craft, to set a brilliant pace for the opening of the ninth President’s Cup Regatta. Expertly handled by her owner and Cushing Daniel, the Sassy was off in front as nine comets crossed the start- ing line off Hains Point, and then, one by one, picked up an equal number of sailing canoes that had answered the gun 10 minutes before in the open- ing race of the program. Never faltering, the Sassy beat down the Virginia side of Georgetown Channel, around Hains Point and up to the War College for the first leg of the 2!%-mile lap, and then, as though on a string, rounded the outer marker and was on her way back once more. The sturdy craft repeated this per- formance and then as spectators cheered crossed the finish line a good five minutes ahead of anything else in the two races, whose entries now were all intermingled, as the speedier comets were catching up with the canoes. The Sassy’s time for the 2 miles was 1:26:58. Van Kammen a Winner. ‘The canoe race was won by C. Van Kammen, sailing with the skillful 16- year-old Verna Kazzard, in 2:20:18, while the third race of the morning, that for moth class was taken by the Jaycee, skippered by W. Johnson of Baltimore, who capsized just as the first race started, but righted his boat, and went off. The moth class was only over one lap, 2% miles, as compared to the 5 miles of the other races, and the time was 1:01:18. The (See REGATTA, Page 3.) The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circelation, 128,474 Some Returns Not Yet Received. dkkk (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. KENTUCKY REBUFF GIVEN ROOSEVELT BY STATE LEADERS = == jLaffoon and Rhea Snub ilnvitafion to Conference | Aboard President’s Train. HIGHER WAGE PACT ENDS COAL STRIKE | | QVirginia and Hazard, Ky., District Operators Refuse to Sign, However. | A peace pact that spells the end of | the Nation's soft coal strike in all but | four producing districts was reached | early today. The miners will go back to work Tuesday, after being out since last Monday. | Union leaders and operators agreed in the early morning hours on a new wage contract giving the miners in- | creases in pay for virtually all types of work. The contract. replacing one | which originally expired last April 1.| | will extend until April 1, 1937 | | Representatives of operators in the | virginia and Hazard, Ky. districts | refused to sign the new agreement | until they received assurances that | mine owners in the Tennessee and Harlan fields in Kentucky would sign. Pact Satisfies Lewis. John L. Lewis, president of the | United Mine Workers, said the strike | would be continued in these areas | until the contract was signed. | After expressing satisfaction with | the new wage pact, Lewis criticized | the stand of the dissenting producers WHITE HOUSE ‘BARRIERS’ SCORED IN TELEGRAM McIntyre Fails to Explain Error Responsible for Not Asking Governor to Parley. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. September 27.— President Roosevelt's gesture toward | reconciling factional differences among Kentucky Democrats on the eve of the State gubernatorial election met with a setback today. Thomas S. Rhea of Russellville, de= feated by Lieut. Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler for the nomination as Gove ernor in the Democratic run-off prie mary, declined to meet the President today aboard his special train at Cine cinnati. In a sharply worded reply to an invitation from M. H. McIntyre, the President’s secretary. for a confere ence with the sid Gov. Laffoon and Chandler, Rhea said: Text of Telegram. “I am very much grieved not to be able to comply with any request of the President. However, in declining this invitation I feel justified by rea- son of the fact because of representas tion made to the White House by one Robert W. Bingham, you (McIntyre) and others concerning the situation i Kentucky and my friendship and that of Gov. Laffoon for the Presie dent the doors of the White Houss have been closed to me and my friends for the past several months. “And this notwithstanding both yox and Postmaster General Farley knew and Mr. Farley has publicly stated 16 was through my work and influence Kentucky instructed for the Presidens in his race for the Democratic nom- ination in 1932. It is also conceded by all vell-informed people that he | could not have been nominated at the Chicago convention without the vote of Kentucky. It is not my desua to break down or lower the barriers thus raised against me at the White House, but I assure you there is no individual or group of persnas, whether Democrats or chronic bolters (such as your Kentucky contingent) | can swerve me from my love of ard | devotion to the principles of the | Democratic party.” | “My loyalty is attested by " oting the straight Democratic ticket at each election for 40 consecutive years,” Rhea added. 1 Gov. Laffoon Declines. Chandler accepted the President's invitation to the conference, but Gwv. | who have been at loggerheads over | wage differentials for the competing | Laffoon, who supported Rhea in the fields. “The whole Nation,” he said, “should not be compelled to suffer and the coal industry returned to chaos be- 000 tons fail to find themselves in agreement with this contract.” He added that the union would ap- peal to the Government to provide relief for the miners thus remaining on strike. The new wage agreement, praised by President Roosevelt last night be- fore he left for the West Coast, pro- vides for an increase of 50 cents a day for day laborers, 9 cents a ton for the miners who dig and load the coal and a 10 per cent increase for yardage and deadwork (cleaning out slate, ete). Original Demands Shaved. Originally the union demanded a | 25 per cent increase for yardage and deadwork. The miners also asked for a reduc- | tion in working hours from 35 to 30 a week. Subsequently they agreed to continue the present 35-hour schedule. At the beginning of negotiations the operators insisted they could not increase wages and effered instead to continue the old rate of pay until next April 1. Later they met the demands of the miners on day pay and yardage and deadwork, but held out until early today for granting only a 7%-cent boost in tonnage rates. Will Raise Prices. Union officials estimated the wage increases would mean hikes in the cost ot coal to consumers of from 12 to 15 cents a ton. Union officials also said the new scale would represent a possible $90,- 000,000 fatter pay envelope during the year and a half the contract runs. “This contract,” Lewis said, “is en- tirely satisfactory to the mine workers under conditions existing in the in- dustry today. “It insures stability and an unin- terrupted supply of coal. The increases will go far toward enabling them to (See COAL, Page 2.) -— Maintains Gold Standard. AMSTERDAM, September 27 (#)— Premier Colijn today reiterated in Parliament the government's deter- mination to maintain the gold stand- ard in the Netherlands. He declared measures for controlling | the exchange market would mean sac- rificing the gold standard and said: | “The present cabinet will never take | this step of its own free will.” How to Pick Winners In Leading Foot Ball Games Do you want to know how the leading foot ball teams of the Nation, s well as those in this territory, may be expected to fare in their con- tests this Fall? Then consult the Williamson National Rating System, that ranks teams on a scientific basis and reaches conclusions that prove almost uncanny in their accuracy. cause operators producing only 3,500.- | 50-cent a day increase in day work.: 15 cents a ton for tonnage rates and were badly needed by the miners and | primary, declined In charging that “barriers” had been raised against him at the White | House, Rhea referred to Robert W. Bingham, Ambassador to England and publisher of the Louisville Times and | the Courier Journal | Resentment was voiced vesterday by Gov. Laffcon when he received a telegram from the White House ine | viting Chandler and Rhea to the cone ference, but not the Governor. He | tersely replied that Chandler could | be reached at Louisville and Rhea at | Russellville. It developed the word | “you” including the Governor in the | invitation had been omitted from the telegram through a transmission er- ror. Efforts of McIntyre to patch up the difficulty over the telephone were unavailing. The Governor was ada- mant that he would not go to the con- | ference. Since Rhea's defeat Gov. Laffoon, who is Democratic national commit- teeman from Kentucky. has re-ap- pointed Rhea to the politically power~ ful State Highway Commission. Speeding Across Country. The Roosevelt vacation special sped across the Middle West today, bearing the Chief Executive to four speaking engagements, a visit to the CaMfornia- International Exposition at San Diego and then a 20-day fishing cruise back | through the Panama Canal. During the trip the politically wise | 1ook for pronouncements with a bear- ing on the 1936 campaign. Also, the | President is ready for a series of brief chats with political leaders as the big special, carrying an unusually large party of officials and aides, flashes onward. Heading acrass Ohio, Indiana and Illinois today, President Roosevelt journeys tonight into Nebraska, home State of Senator Norris, veteran Re- publican insurgent and friend of Mr. Roosevelt. At Fremont, Nebr, toe morrow the President talks to a gath- ering of farmers on a regional radio broadcast set-up. Observers look for some remarks on the A. A. A. Other speeches will follow at Boul- der Canyon Dam, Los Angeles and San Diego. The entire White House secretarial stafl is aboard the train, as well as Secretary Ickes and Harry L. Hop- kins, principals in the huge work= rellef undertaking. Ickes and Hop- kins will accompany the President throughout the trip. It was a slightly tired President who boarded the train with Mrs. Roosevelt (See ROOSEVELT, Page 2.) R GIRL, 15, WHO FOUGHT OPERATION RECOVERING By the Associated Press. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., September 27.—City hospital physicians said toe day that 24 hours would “tell the story” of 15-year-old Margaret Kers- ton’s fight against acute appendicitis. Dr. Matthew F. Urbanski, who has attended the family, watched Dr, Martin S. Meinzer perform an opera- tion yesterday and said her chance to recover was “excellent.” The girl and her mother feared hos- pitals. Only the entreaties of priests, The first of his predictions on games tonight and tomorrow ap- pears today in the sports section. Don’t miss them. physicians and police persuaded them to chance the operation 12 hours after the appendix ruptured and Margaret's chance for life seemed slim. »