Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight, probably ending tomor- row morning; cooler tonight and tomor- gentle shifting winds tomorrow. row; ‘Temperatures — Highest, vesterday; lowest, 66, at Full report o page A- Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second class matter post office, Washingten, No. £3,387. 1L DUCE, REMAINING LOYAL TO LEAGUE, RENEWS OVERTURE FOR BRITISH PEACE Won’t Depart Until Geneva Takes Full Responsibility | ' for Steps Against Italy,| " Cabinet Members Decide. PROPOSALS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL SPURNED | Ministers Pledge Every Effort to| Prevent Spread of Conflict. | Committee of Five Held to Ig- nore Necessities for Expansion and Security. BULLETIN. GENEVA, September 28 (A).— Baron Pompeo Aloisi. chief of the Italian delegation to the League of Nations, left today for Rome. By the Associated Press. ROME, September 28 —Benito Mus- solini’s Italian cabinet today declared y loyalty to the League of nd made a new gesture of peace toward Great Britain. In & meet! world and Ethiopian situations, the ministers decided Italy will not aban- don the League until the League it- self assumes full responsibility for measures against Italy, and then de- clared: “Italy’s policy has no immediate or remote aims which could injure Great Britain's interests.” Ready to Negotiate. ‘The government, & cabinet_com- munique disclosed, “has communicated to Great Britain its readiness to nego- tiate for further accords which would harmonize with the legitimate inter- ests of Great Britain in East Africa.” At the same time Il Duce and his ministers spurned Ethiopia’s pro- posed withdrawal of troops from her frontiers, and asserted Italian troop movements to Africa are “being ac- celerated.” Yet thé cabinet announced the Fascist government “declares in the most solemn manner it will avoid everything that could extend the Italo-Ethiopian conflict to a wider fleld.” However, the cabinet declared in a eommunique that the proposals ad- vanced by the League of Nations Com- mittee of Five for a peaceful settle- ment of the Ethiopian row “took no sccount of Italy'’s necessities for ex- pansion and security, and ignored completely all treaties which at dif- ferent times, from 1889 to 1906 and 1926, recognize the priority of Italian | interests in Ethiopia.” | The communique, declaring Ethiopia has completed mobilization of all its forces, “with the intention so declared by Ras (Emperor Haile Selassie) of attacking Italy's colonial frontiers,” accused the League of Nations of | “Jocking itself up in formal labyrinths | of procedure.” Before the cabinet met, authorita- tive sources said Italy has been “de- ceived” again by the League of Na- tions and once again has withdrawn into its shell—ready to fight any and =licomers. Cabinet States Policies. Before adjourning the cabinet md; down the lines of its conduct in the | immediate future as follows: 1. Italy will not abandon the League of Nations until the day when the League Itself fully assumes responsi- | bility for “measures” which strike at Italy. 2. After having received a com- munication in cordial terms of a verbal message from Sir Samuel ¥oare, British foreign secretary, con- veyed by the British Ambassador to Rome, Sir Eric Drummond, the cabi- met declares yet again—as it has al- | ™ ready done at Bolzano—that Italy’s | policy has no immediate or remote | aims which could injure Great| Britain’s interests. 3. The Fascist government declares in the most solemn manner it will avoid everything that could extend the Italo-Ethiopian conflict to a wider feld. In rejecting Selassie’s offer to Ge- meva to withdraw his troops a distance of 30 kilometers from the Italian frontiers, the cabinet stated this “ab- solutely cannot be taken seriously by the Italian government or by any government worthy of such a name.” Strategic Aim Charged. ‘The Ethiopian offer, the cabinet said, had “a strategic purpose, not a pacific one. “It was designed to better conceal the preparations going on in the inte- rior, and to permit the Ethiopian forces to intrench themselves in more reliable positions.” In view of this stuation, the cabinet added, “the departure of our divisions (See ETHIOPIA, Page 2.) SUEZ TO STAY OPEN, OFFICIALS DECLARE Deny Report Question of Closing in Ethiopian War Will Be Discussed. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 28.—The Suez Canal Co. today indicated its inten- tion of keeping the canal open regard- less of what sanctions might be taken in the event of an Italo-Ethiopian con- flict. Company officials denied as “abso- lutely false” reports that the question of closing the canal would be discussed at the regular monthly meeting of its Board of Directors October 7. They also said no special meeting had been called, 4 ing of vital import to the | | Berlin press ciaimed, as a record of 82, at 3 pm. 6 a.m. today. 9. D. C. From War Fr Spears and Knives Bran- dished by Warriors in Fete of Maskal. By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, September 28.— Emperor Haile Selassie today sent printed proclamations of mobiliza- tion to all his provincial governors s0 that the governors can release them immediately if and when Italy's atti- tude warrants. Some of Selassie’s warriors were stirred to such a pitch of war frenzy today in the military pageantry mark- ing the end of the rainy season the Emperor feared for the safety of the Italian Minister. Count Luigi Vinci-Gigliucel, the Italian Minister, sat near Haile Selas- sie as tens of thousands of the latter’s warriors brandished spears, sabers and knives and yelled anew their al-| legiance to his cause. The Emperor quickly summoned | guards to attend his Italian guest and | | spare him not only possible physical ! assault but also insult. | The occasion was the festival of Maskal, which celebrates the passing of the rainy season, although rain fell heavily throughout. i The celebration also served to in- troduce modern arms to many of the | Emperor’s subjects. His favored unit, the Imperial Guard, were soldier-like despite their unshod feet. In their up-to-date equipment, they marched to the strains of a brass band. | WASHINGTON, Selassie Guards Italy’s Envoy enzy of Natives . | COUNT LUIGI VINCI-GIGLIUCCL Another item of the parade caused even the Italian minister to take a second look. It was a fleet of Ameri- can-made trucks—16 of them— mounted with machine guns. Two Red Cross ambulances and two radio trucks followed. ‘The Emperor, in a gold-embroidered black cape, white jodphurs and a tropi- cal sun helmet, sat in a golden ‘hrone under a crimson canopy, his steady gaze fixed on the distant slopes Fre- yond the legation quarter. | CRUCIAL ELECTION NEARS IN MENEL |Test to Lithuania and Ger-' many in Balloting Tomorrow. | By the Associated Press. MEMEL, September 28.—Beneath a surface calm, Memel boiled with sup- pressed tension today as its 68.000 voters prepared to cast their ballots Sunday for representatives in the | Landtag. | Seemingly a prosaic and humdrum | manifestation of democratic princi- ! ples, nevertheless the fierce rivalries | in the territory—often called the pow- | der keg of Europe—caused Great Britain, France and Italy to turn from | the Italo-Ethiopian crisis and watch with careful eyes what may be an- other threat to the peace of Europe. In Memel, battleground of German and Lithuanian nationalism, the struggle has been waged over the present 25-to-4 German majority in the Landtag. Want Showing for Germany. Lithuanians make no secret that they want the German representation decreased to permit more control | without risking any infringement of | the Memel statute. The German ad- herents, on the other hand, with all parties united in a common front with preservation of autonomy as a plat- form are anxious to make an impres- sive showing as a testimonial to the Reich's claims to the territory. Over both these interests, however, is suspended that of the signatory powers to the Memel Convention— Britain, France and Italy—to avold an international crisis of any kind. Lithuanian troops stood guard through the territory. A full regi- ment was stationed in Memel City, and another bivouaced close to the German border. " Concessions to Germans. Political leaders in making last minute concessions to German de- mands on voting procedure felt, they said, that they have made an honest effort to avoid trouble. Voters' books with 129 sheets from which will be torn 29 sheets with the names of the | desired candidates will be burned im- mediately instead of preserved, as the | how each individual voted. Germany also received representa- tion on the Central Election Commit- tee which will count the votes, a task which is expected to take a week or ore. Few statemenis were forthcoming from official quarters. The governor of the territory, Dr. V. Kurkauskas, however, in a broadcast appe-l to the voters, said that he expected the in- habitants of the territory to “perform their duty at the polls according to the dictates of their conscience re- gardless of outside pressure to. distort their will.” Germans See Illegal Actions. BERLIN, September 28 (#).—Ger- mans, once again in high emotional state over what they have been told is “barbaric treatment” of their blood brothers cut off from the home land by fate of war, will watch Memel’s voting, a government spokesman said today, convinced ‘hat from 10 to 15 per cent of the ballot will be illegal. This, however, it is admitted, is not expected to be sufficient to prevent Memel Germans from obtaining a majority in the Landtag. Officially insisting that. some 10,000 Germans have been disenfranchised while an equal numbe: of Lithuanians have been granted voting rights, they fee) tha., as Reichsfuehrer Hitler recently said, “A country of 65,000,000 persons have no more rights than a country of 2,000,000.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 28.—The dan- ger to Europe should Adolf Hitler yield to the temptation created by Italo- Ethiopian developments worried France today as Premier Pierre Laval considered stronger bonds with Great Britain. French diplomatic circles detected a possible accord beiween the third Reich, Hungary and Poland as a result of the current visit to Berlin of Julius Goembos, Hungarian prime minister. (Goembos is a guest of Dr. Hermann Wilhelfn Goering, German minister of air, on a shooting party.) France fears such a combination L4 France, Fearing Seeks Stronger Tie With Britain ROOSEVELT LAUDS A & A BENEFITS Says Act .Gives Farmer Chance for First Time in Generation. By the Associated Press. FREMONT, Nebr., September 28.— President Roosevelt told a farm audi- ence today the agricultural adjust- ment act is giving farmers “really a chance for the first time in this gen- eration.” He declared the effort to aid the agriculturists was “the true function of government under our Constitu- | tion.” Speaking in the heart of the grain belt while midway to the Coast on his Western tour, Mr. Roosevelt cailed the A. A. A, economically and con- stitutionally, “democracy in the good old sense of the word.” “The Government's part in this pro- gram is merely to supply the unifyiag element that the farmers themselves, in their past efforts, found so essen- tial to success,” he declared. “That, it seems to me, is the true | function of government under our Constitution—to promote the general | interfering unduly | welfare, not by with individual liberties, but by bring- ing to the aid of the individual those powers of government which are essential to assure the continuance of the inalienable rights which the Constitution is intended to guaran- tee.” Constitutionality of the act has been challenged in the courts. Cites Gain in Income. Mr. Roosevelt asserted that the in- come of the farmers has been in- creased by $5,300,000,000 over the 1932 level. He said many factors were involved in the readjustment. “Our monetary policy was one,” he said. “The drought was another. In- creased demand for products caused by the economic revival was another and the operations of our agricultural adjustment administration was still another. After reciting asserted improvements in the condition of agriculture, the President pointed to “the longer fu- ture,” prevention of soil erosion and floods, encouregement of forestation and removal of unprofitable submar- ginal lands from production. Farmers’ Human Rights. “I ke to think,” he said, “that agricultural adjustment is an expres- sion in concrete form of the human rights those farmer patriots sought to win when they stood at the bridge at Concord, when they proclaimed the Declaration of Independence, and when they perpetuated these ideals by the adoption of the Constitution. “Methods and machinery change, but principles go on, and I have faith that, no matter what attempts may be made to tear it down, the principle of farm equality expressed by agricul- tural adjustment will not die.” Mr. Roosevelt recalled he saw “farmers threshing 30-cent wheat and shelling 20-cent corn” when he visited Nebraska three years ago “and, most disheartening of all, thousands .of farmers were losing their homes by foreclosure.” “Three years ago I did not promise the millenium for agricuiture,” he said. “But I did promise that I should attempt to meet the intolerable situ- ation in every way that human effort and ingenuity made possible. “Coming back to you after three Yyears, I experience the extreme pleas- ure of recognizing that the co-opera- tive efforts in which the farmers them- selves, the Congress and the adminis- (8ee ROOSEVELT, Page 3.) Reich Alliance, because of Hungary’s friendliness with Rome, would give the other powers an easy way to negotiate with Mussolini. Germany believes, informed sources , that Mussolini would be unable hold out on three fronts—Ethiopia, Mediterranean and the Brenner D. C. HURRICANE MOVES NORTHWARD FROM CUBA TO FLORIDA Storm Expected to Strike Eastern Coast Late To- day or Tomorrow. F. E. R. A. WORKERS QUIT SCENE OF 400 DEATHS Terror Grips Havana as Gale Sweeps Island—Refugees Flock in From Provinces. BULLETIN. By the Assoclated Press. HAVANA, September 28.—Naval headquarters announced the cruiser Veinte de Mayo, now in Cien- fuegos Harbor, had reported 30 dead and 300 injured in the tropi- cal hurricane which shrieked through Cuba today. One thousand houses were de- stroyed in Cienfuegos, and the town of Casilda was destroyed by high seas, the announcement said. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., September 28.—Roar- ing through Cuba, a tropical hurri- cane brought apprehension today to Florida from Key West, north to West Palm Beach. No loss of life has so far been re- ported. At 9 am. today, the Belen Observa- tory at Havana announced the hurri- cane was “leaving the Northern Coast of Cuba, near Key Varien, traveling north or northeast, and will be dan- gerous this afternoon or tomorrow morning to the Eastern part of Florida and the Florida Canal.” Warnings Are Extended. 10:30 a.m. Eastern standard the Jacksonville Weather Bu- ordered northeast storm warn- ings extended north of Everglides City on the west coast to Tarpon Springs and north of Daytona Beach to Charleston, S. C. At that hour, the bureau said, a tropical disturbance attended by hur- | ricane winds was central about 150 miles to 170 miles south of Miami, moving northward. Hurricane warnings are displayed from Key West to West Palm Beach. At time reau threat for Florida. Not quite four weeks ago, on Labor day, winds pounded tons of water over the Florida keys, laying them waste and killing more than 400 persons. F. E. R. A. Workers Evacuated. ‘Today, F. E. R. A. and Red Cross relief workers, who were in the storm- | swept area cleaning up after the dis- | aster, were evacuated to places of greater safety. As it screamed across Cuba, the tropical storm from the Caribbean emptied the island’s coastal cities in its path and cut off news from many stricken sections. 8wept by a driving rain, Havana | was isolated from the rest of Cuba beyond a line just east of Colon. Mantanzas Province, and northwest of Cienfuegos, Santa Clara Province. The city of Havana was filled with hundreds of frightened refugees who poured in on special trains. Appar- ently the storm was very violent, offi- cials of the National Observatory said. Entering Cuba last night, the storm, marked by high winds and heavy rain, struck in Camaguey Province. With communications out, there was no report from that srea. Hurricane Warnings Ordered. At 8 am, Eastern standard time, the Jacksonville bureau ordered hur- ricane warnings between Key West and West Palm Beach. Special trains cartied more than 1500 refugees from Santa Cruz Del Sur into Havana during the night. These people, men, women and chil- dren, had fled before the pounding seas could rumble the arrival of de- structive winds. Reports from Cuba said the towns of Jucaro, Casilda, and Tunasdezazas, Trinidad, had been evacuated last might. Winds of 150-mile velocity swept over Jamaica early today with reported destruction of 35 per cent of 'the ripening banana crop. Shipping in Cuban waters was paralyzed. Fears weresexpressed for the safety of fishermen, especially those living on the Cayman Islands, in the direct path of the storm. Airlines operating between Havana and Santiago and Santiago and Guantanamo canceled their schedules. Pan-American service between Havana and Miami operated through yesterday. The natural fear of the hurricane was heightened among Cuban residents when the warnings of its approach placed it in the exact course of the storm of November, 1932, which killed 3,000. Inhabitants of Key West, long wise to the ways of trupical disturbances, boarded their homes and beached their boats as they made ready to re- main indoors for the duration of the storm. ‘The F. E. R. A, which has $1,000,- 000 at stake in Key West's future, took charge of the storm preparedness work. | Readers’ Guide Pages. Lost and Found - Melcher in Filmland. Sports __._..__.._..A-12-13 Washington Wayside ____A-10 Women's mzm-.A-u‘ B i I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER It was September’'s second storm | The Foening Star 28, 1935—THIRTY PAGES. #*% ALL OF MY DIRE. PREDICTIONS OF WHAT WOULD HAPPE) N T0 QUR. BELOVED COUNTRY IN CASE OF THIS DEAR BIRDS DEATH WOULD HAVE COME TRUE - A IF PROSPERITY HAD % Evening Star. curb reckless driving and jaywalking city the larger firms conducting most | of the business here daily. Individual | irms, members of the association, have already joined in the safety | movement in many cases, but to-| | day's action is expected to serve to unify the safety work of the city's| business men and to result in com- | plete co-operation which is certain | |to make its effect felt in the cam- ign. The Star Safety Council has re- |celved many commendations from motorists and pedestrians for broad- ening the scope of its safety paign to Include “reckless walking as well as reckless driving. The action of the Merchants and | Manufacturers’ Association as au- | nounced through its secretary, Edward D. Shaw, is as follow “The Board of Governors of the | Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso- | ciation, at its recent meeting, gave | campaign being conducted by | Evening Star, and urges its various | constituent trade groups to co-operate ! |in this campaign by having their employes exert the utmost care to! ' NOT ARRIVED. ( { Merchants’ Association Joins Star Safe-Driving Campa gn 400 Leading Business Firms Put Weight of Entire Organization Behind City-Wide Movement. The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Assoclation, Tepresenting more than | 400 of the leading business houses in Washington, has thrown its united | support behind the safe driving and walking campaign conducted by The Through its action the association has brought into the campaizn to on the streets and highways of the Safety Broadcasts TODAY. 5:15 pm.—WRC—Death at the cross roads. Is the pedestrian more reck- less than the motor- ist? TOMORROW. 3:15pm.—WMAL — Interview with Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Mur- phy on the fate of the reckless, speeding driver. Dr. Murphy performs the autop- sies on traffic victims. 10:35 p.m.—WJSV — Analysis of . week end traffic acci- dents. its unanimous approval to the safety r.g;ce the number of traffic accidents | on the streets of Washington. “These groups include the depart- ment stores, the ladies’ and men's (See SAFETY, Page 4.) HATCHET SLAYER FACES SANITY QUIZ | Examination of Mrs. Buxton to Be Held Tomorrow in Kent Jail. By the Associated Press. CHESTERTOWN, Md., September 28. — Twenty-seven-year-old Thelma | Buxton, wife of a Washington College professor and admitted “hatchet” slay=- er of her mother-in-law, the elderly | | Mrs. Effie Buxton, will be given a | mental examination tomorrow in the | Kent County Jail. An agreement on this point was reached today between State’s Attor- ney Stephen R. Collins and Defense Attorney F. Scott Beck at a pri- vate hearing in chambers before Circuit Judge Thomas J. Keating. An insanity plea was definitely an- nounced as the defense, No doubt was left on this point by Beck before he went before Judge Keating. Seeks to Avoid Delay. “I want some one to be able to testify as to her mental condition as close to the time of the homicide as possible,” Beck said, “and not three weeks later. Of course, insanity will be the defense.” The State, meanwhile, let it be known that it desired to have its own alienist test the mental condition of Mrs. Buxton, ordered held by a cor- oner’s jury yesterday a few hours after her 69-year-old mother-in-law was beaten to death with a hatchet in their apartment here. Collins announced he had requested Dr. George H. Preston, State com- missioner of mental hygiene, to ex- amine Mrs. Buxton in the event the defense was successful in obtaining a test by its alienist. Under a charge of murder, returned yesterday by a coronor’s jury seven (See SLAYING, Page 2.) —_—— COUZENS GOING HOME Senator, !;eling “Grand,” Has Gained Eight Pounds. ROCHESTER, Minn., September 28 (#).—Senator James Couzens of Mich- igan, feeling “grand,” he said, and “100 per cent improved” since he came here July 6, plans to leave for home today. An 8-pound gain in weight the last 10 days and the triumphs of Joe Louis and the Detroit Tigers con- tributed to Couzens’ cheerful outlook. Couzens, who underwent four op- erations, restricted political comment LAWYERS BATILE IN UTILITIES TEST Collusion Charged and John W. Davis Is Introduced to Own Client. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 78.— Charges of “collusion” between par- ties to the suit and a series of out- bursts of legal fireworks carried the first court test of the controversial Wheeler-Rayburn utilities company act into its second barrage of argument here today. Government counsel, headed by John J. Burns, chief of counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cited the measure, enacted into law after a stormy battle by the recent Congress, as a target for attack by the American Liberty League. In a surprise move, he followed his “collusion” charges by summoning all of the utilities counsel, headed by John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic pres- idential nominee and attorney for the Edison Electric Institute, to the wit- ness stand. Davis, a member of the American Liberty League, admitted he had never seen his client, Dr. Fred Lautenbach, local dentist, who entered an inter- vening petition in the case originally instituted by the American States Public Service Co. Lautenbach Creditor. Lautenbach was listed as a creditor of the company, which has filed bank- ruptcy proceedings, and seeks to have the utilities act declared invalid on the ground its provisions prevent the firm from effecting a reorganization. Under questioning by Government counsel, Davis admitted he had been approached by James Piper, counsel for the American States Co., prior to the filing of the suit last week. He said he had advised Piper he could enter proceedings only as counsel for a creditor for whom he would file an intervening petition. “I wrote that petition myself,” Davis testified. “I appear as his (Lauten- bach’y counsel and it is up to his (See UTILITIES, Page 2.) LEWIS HAS RELAPSE Moscow Physicians Maintain Hope, However, for Recovery. MOSCOW, September 28 (#).—Sena- tor J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who is ill here with bronchial pneumonia, suffered a slight relapse during the night, but physicians said today there was still hope for his recovery. Condition of the lungs was slightly to a prediction the United States would not enter any war. The Amer- {ean people won't consent, he sald. ' ’ iraproved and the principal concern was whether his heart could sustain uum'unwtum&!. holding | The only in Associated () Means Associated Pr PRESIDENT STARTS FOOD PRICE PROBE Farm Income Facts Asked | as Basis of Study of Cost to Consumer. Washington wit! evening paper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,638 Some Returns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. TYSON SETS NEW RECORD WINNING RACE IN REGATTA {Drives Half Pint 43.774 M.P.H., Leading Wood by Wide Margin. LARGE CROWD ON HAND DESPITE HEAVY CLOUDS Five Boats to Compete for Presi- dent's Trophy, With Finals Tomorrow. Establishing a world record of 43.774 miles an hour, Tommy Tyson, Chestnut Hill, Pa, today drove his Halt Pint to a spectacular victory in the outboard races for amateurs which opened the power boat division card of the Ninth Annual President’s Cup regatta. Gar Wood, jr., of Algonac, Mich., the former title holder, finished sec- ond in the M-45. Jack Van Deman of Red Bank, N. J,. was third with Frisky Miss The bespectacled Tyson set the new mark in the final 5-mile heat of the 10-mile race, making such a show of his fleld that he was pulling up to the judge's boat—the cutter Apache— to reecive congratulations before three of the six entries in the race had passed the finishing mark off Hains Point. Tyson, a student at Stevens Tech, actually set two world marks, his first heat time of 42.836 miles per hour shading the former figure of | 42.73¢ of Wood That mark only | lasted, however, until he had gotten on the course again. Same Order in Both Heats. | Acting just before he left for his Western trip, President Roosevelt has instructed the Federal Trade Com- mission to make a Nation-wide in- vestigation of agricultural income with a view to determine the cause | of high food prices, it was learned | today. | The disclosure was made in a let- ter the President wrote vesterday to | Representative Dingell, Democrat, of | Michigan, who had urged the White House to order such an inquiry, de- | | spite failure of Congress to provide | funds because of the late Senator | Long's filibuster. | Officials at the commission said a | plan of procedure for the inquiry may be perfected next week. The | economic and examinirg divisions are |at work on & program for study of the production, transportation and marketing of food products, with spe- cial reference to the disparity between | prices paid producers and those paid by the consumers. A. A. A. Hearings Close. The commission’s inquiry was | launched coincident with hearings | called by Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace to determine the future of the corn-hog adjustment program. At | these hearings, which closed yesterday, consumers’ organizations raised a cry against high pork prices and packers urged an end to the A. A. A. hog program. In his letter to Representative Dingell Mr. Roosevelt said: “I have withheld replying to your letter of September 5 with reference to an investigation of agricuitural in- come, in pursuance of public resolution No. 61, pending the determination of the question of the availability of funds which rose by reason of the faflure of the third deficiency bill, carrying an appropriation for this work. “However, I am now able to ad- vise you that I have authorized the Federal Trade Commission to utilize its present appropriation to the extent of $75.000 for the purpose of initiat- ing and conducting this investigation. “I am advised that the commission will promptly undertake this investi- gation and in connection therewith will dispatch agents to investigate conditions .in the Detroit area and that these agents will have instruc- tions to make contact with you for the purpose of getting such infor- mation as you may be able to furnish in connection with the investigation.” The object of the resolution to which reference was made by the President was to determine profits on agricul- tural products after they are started on the road to market. Representa- tive Dingell led the fight in Congress for adoption of the resolution. —— MDIVANI LEAVES MONEY TO BARBARA Alexis' Will Disposes of Two Trust Funds—Fortune Kept Secret. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 28 —The late Prince Alexis Z. Mdivani, who was killed last August 2 in an auto- mobile accident in Spain, divided his residuary estate equally among his divorced wife, Hutton, and his two brothers and two sisters, it was disclosed today with the filing of his will. The probate petition in surrogate’s court formally valued the estate at “more than $10,000.” ‘The residue includes two trust funds created for the prince on January 2, 1934, the day before the testament was executed. Attorneys for the estate declined to divulge the amount of the princi- pal of the funds, or to comment upon reports that they had been given to the prince as a marriage dowry. The will said that the residue “ex- pressly includes. the principals of two certain trust funds created for me bearing date January 2, 1934, under the first of which the City Bank Farmers’ Trust Co. and Millard F. ‘Tompkins are designated as trustees, and under the second of which the Chase Bank and said Millard F. Tomp- kins are Mulv a3 trustees.” the former Barbara | Tyson, Wood and Van Deman fin- ished one, two, three in both heats, and there was never any doubt of the superiority of the Half-Pint, though for a few seconds at the start. Wood was putting up a brisk battle. The time for the first heat was at the rate of 42.836 m.p.h. Scull Tops Professionals. The second event, the class A out- board, for professionals, went to C. Mulford Scull of Ventnor City. N. J. Fred Jacoby, jr, of North Bergen, J., was second in Fiy Awav, and Leslie Barton of Newark, N. J, third in Red Dust. Scull took both S5-mile heats, the first at 37.974 m.p.h, and the second, faster, 39.405. Jacoby won second place on point totals by virtue of finishing third in |both heats. This came about when | Edward Robinson of Phoenixville, Pa., who finished second in the Beanie in | the first heat was a trailer in the second. Barton, behind in the first heat, ran second in the final, to build up a point total that gave him third | for the event. Jacoby's performance was watched | with interest as he is at present in the |lead for the National Outboard Asso- | ciation high-point trophy. | Despite heavy clouds early indica- tions were that a huge crowd would | see today's card of 14 races, which | includes the first heat for the Pres- | ident's Cup. | Cars were lining the seawall as far as could he seen from the racing | course, and spectators were begin- | ning to cover the wall itself. There was disappointment expressed that the President’s Cup would be run without the presence of the | perennial victor, El Lagarto, which | was scratched because of engine | trouble. | Five Left in Field. ‘That brought the field to Miss Sara- nac, owned by Edmond Guggenheim, New York: Jay-Dee, Jack Dunn, Miami: Hotsy-Totsy II, Victor Klies- rath, South Bend, Ind.; Impshi, Hor- ace E. Dodge. New York, and Notre Dame, Herbert Mendelson, Detroit. Away to an auspicious start yes- terday, when a half-hundred sailing craft zig-zagged their way quietly along the wind to thrill speclators lining the course around Hains Point, the regatta today had been trans- formed into a grinding, roaring, smoke-clouded spectacle, where the brawn of steel cylinders hurled sturdy | craft through foam-crested water— with disaster always in the offing. Fourteen events were on today’s card, with the high spot coming this afternoon at 2:40 o'clock, when the | gun sounds for the classic from which the regatta gets its name—the Presi- dent’s Cup—a gruelling 45-mile test, to be run in three heats, 15 miles today and 30 tomorrow, when the regatta ends. But before and after that, stirring races are carded, on an average of every 20 minutes, start- ing at 11 o'clock. Outboard Amateurs to Race. In the list are two §-mile neats to decide the championship in “A” class outboard amate! “A” class outboard professional, class out- board amateur, “B” class outboard professional, and 135 and 91-cubic inch hydroplanes; the 5-mile “I” class inboard competition, the alle Washington sweepstakes at 10 miles, and the cruiser chance race at 5. | In the Washington Sweepstakes for | locally owned and driven boats, are Martha III, owned by T. T. Keane; Miss Lizzie, J. W. Orme; Machio III, Joseph C. Macchio; Ednandy IIL, Andrew A. Crawford; Wooden Horse, Gardner P. Orme; Damp Wash, Jay Conger, and an entry belonging to John S. Nolan. Canoe Races to Close Day. At the end of the day, there will be canoe races, officially recognized by the American Canoe Association, and including the women's four single blade; one man single blade; quad double blade for men; tandem single (See REGATTA, Page 3.) H. C. Fownes Dies. PITTSBURGH, September 28 (#).— H. C. Fownes, 79, steel magnate and golf enthusiast, died shortly before midnight last night of pneumontia. Fownes was credited with having made Oakmont Country Club’s golf course one of the world's most difficult.