Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1935, Page 2

TA2 ww PRESIDENT EYES WALSH BILL AGAIN Significance Is Attached to Casual Attitude Taken at Press Conference. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt's casual atti- tude toward the Walsh bill—a measure to regulate standards of labor on all Government contracts—is belidved to have a signficance far beyond the passing mention which he gave it at his last press conference before leav- ing Washington. i It will be recalled that the Walsh bill passed the Senate at the last ses- sion, but not the House. This was be- cause the leaders did not press for a vote. Now the Walsh bill is by all odds the most comprehensive measure that has been drafted as yet for Government regulation of business and industry. The New Dealers hereabouts have frankly conceded that, given the Walsh bill and the Federal Trade Commis- sion, the Federal Government could do about anything and everything that it ever hoped to do under the N. R. A. before it was held invalid by the Su- preme Court. Believed Constitutional. The Walsh bill differs from all the other New Deal regulatory measures in that it is probably constitutional. In- deed, the National Association of Manufacturers, in a brief filed against the measure, conceded that Congress had the right to prescribe the stand- ards under which work under Govern- ment contracts should be conducted, irrespective .of whether the companies are engaged in interstate or intra- state commerce. This is because the Government has the discretion that any other dis- penser of work has as to the condi- tions under which he will award the work for a given project. But if the Walsh bill had become law it would have been difficult for any company doing Government work 10 have one set of standards for the public projects or for materials sup- plied to the Government and another set of standards for private work. The Impossibility of separating the hours of labor or wage scales on different parts of the plants or work of a large manufacturing corporation is obvious. Diminishing Interest. Why then has the President shown & diminishing interest in the Walsh bill> What he told the correspondents earlier this week was that, if industry doesn't chisel on ontracts, then there is no need of the Walsh bill and that he hoped that industry would solve the problem. Now what is meant by this is sim- ply the same difficulty that arose after the N. R. A. was held unconsti- tutional. Would industry maintain the practices that it had agreed to * under codes? Would it cut wages and rates per hour in particular, and lengthen hours? There have been, of course, many changes here anc there throughout industry since the N. R. A. codes went out of existence, but, in the main, there has been no ‘general trend of | wage-cutting. ' Rather the wage rates of labor have shown an increase. Un- fortunately, this has been offset to some extent by the rise in the cost of living, so that the laboring man has had, in some instances, a cut in his purchasing power. But, supposing the Government found at the end of a few months, certainly by next January, that there had been some violations of the codes; that is, deviations from what must now be considered voluntary observ- ance of codes. What would the Gov- ernment do about it? Would it in- sist on the Walsh bill? Task Would Be Increased. The answer is that, if the Federal Government ever undertakes the re- #ponsibility of prescribing labor stand- ards for all companies that bid on Government work, especially these aays, when there is so much public work, the whole problem of regulat- ing industry so it can earn a return on its investment becomes a tremen- dous responsibility for the Federal Government to assume. The Presi- dent became pretty well worn out with the controversy over minimum wages growing out of the McCarran amend- ment, and he presumably sees now that, if a mere effort to pay security wages means constant conflict with labor unions, the job of the adminis- tration in trying to regulate wages in all industries ‘because of the Walsh bill would be 10 times as difficult. It is not surprising, therefore, that Mr. Roosevelt is stepping away from the implications of the Walsh bill, particularly because, if he pushes that measure in January, the so-called breathing spell for industry will come to a sudden expiration date over- night. (Copyright, 1935.) Utilities (Continued From First Page.) honor to say whether he desires that 1 shall continue in that capacity. That'’s my only connection with the | case.” Lautenbach, amid laughter, testi- | fled he did not know Davis was rep: resenting him, although a “fellow” who asked the dentist to sign the petition filed in his name did say “something about a Mr. Davis.” Court Gets Big Laugh. Davis immediately asked Lauten- bach if he would consent to be repre- sented by him, and the latter nodded. The two then were formally introduced as gales of laughter swept the court room. Dr. Lautenbach emphatically con- firmed Davis’ assertion that the mat- ter of a “fee” had “not yet” been ar- ranged. The fireworks were provided when Burns requested Judge William C. Coleman to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction. K Davis asserted he was “astounded” at the request, pointed at the “grave and paramount question” involved, and said the “suggestions” made by the S. E. C. counsel “would have been offensive to the dignity of a police court in his State of Massachusetts.” He further assailed the Govern- ment for asking a 30-day postpone- ment of the hearing to permit further preparation of its case. Claiming the act in question had been under public and private discussion for months, he cited the Government's presentation of the case as “unworthy, undignified and contemptible.” Both Government motions were de- nied by Judge Coleman. Opium Disguised. Sticks of opium disguised as lead pencils were seized at Rotterdam, Hol- ' ¢ What’s What Behind News In Capital Seasonal Workers Cre- ate a Relief Problem in Colorado. BY PAUL MALLON. ENVER, Colo—At the gate- way to the Golden West here, the nugget of the new national relief problem will be found nearer to the surface than elsewhere. Colorado has 1,000,000 people, and more than 200,000 are on relief, one in five. Little digging is required to uncover the fact that the bulk of these reliefers are Mexicans, among whom unemployment is considered an old Spanish custom. They work hard in the beet fields a few months a year, loaf or wander the rest of the time. The average citizen here rarely sees them. ‘Theirs is something like the prob- iem of the Christmas tree decorators, who wonder what to do the other 364 days. Aside from them, the community is almost thriving. A residential building surge is under way. Small new homes are not only being built, but are being sold. An actual shortage of skiled labor is predicted within 60 days by those who know the situation. ‘The mountain wonderland west of here attracted 25 per cent more tourists this year than last, even after a bad start caused by floods. Retail Trade Improving. Retail trade shows obvious signs of health, approaching briskness, Streets are crowded. There are few vacant stores. New signs of life are;evident also in the old mining towns, which lapsed or died years ago. Higher gold and silver prices have not caused anything like a boom. Both metals are somewhat unprofitable by-products of lead, zinc and copper, the prices of which have not suffi- ciently improved. But ghost towns are being reinhabited. Possibly 3,000 persons have been re-employed by this activity. The ghost hopes of persons hold- ing mining stocks (meaning a lot of people in Denver) have been similarly revived. There is even an inside rumor that John J. Ras- kob and his lawyer, Senator Pitt- man, are coming in to finance the reopening of abandoned properties, just as they did with the Comstock lode in Nevada. The point is that, with these lead- | ing industries (and even the beet sugar industry) getting along fairly well, no dent has been made in the seasonal loafing problem. None will be, even if there is a tremendous boom. Shouldering Work Burden. ‘Working citizens are shouldering courageously the burden of providing work for employables. After voting down a works bond issue several months ago, they recently changed their minds. Under good leadership, the city approved a few weeks ago an issue of $2,700,000 for water im- provements and $1,000,000 more for a sewage disposal system. This will furnish work for the 13,000 employables in Denver, but it hardly touches the broader problem which has a larger or smaller counter- part in almost every State. 1t is not uncommon for a Denverite buying a pack of cigarettes to toss a State sales tax token on the counter and say: “There’s token to that so-and-so Governor.’ Nor is it unusual for a person who can get his hands on the cigarettes first to walk out of the store and refuse to pay the tax. If any store- keeper is audacious enough to insist, he usually receives from this class of customer a merry invitation to go roll an oat. This is not peculiar to Denver. You find the same thing in Ili- nois. ‘ There, aluminum coins, representing mills, are commonly known as “Horner money,” in honor of the Governor. Also in Missouri, where pasteboard milk bottle tops, without rims, have been printed by the State to represent tenths of a cent. Law Stupidly Applied. ‘These personal Boston tea parties may not be important fiscally. Most people pay without a protest, because they know money must be raised for relief some way. The real trouble does not seem to be in the tax theory itself, but in the stupid way that legislators have ap- plied it. Merchants report few com- plaints in purchases above 50 cenis, where whole pennies, instead of mills, re involved. It is when the buyer {of & 5 or 10 cent article is required to load his pockets up with strange coins bearing only a nuisance value that the annoyance provokes revolt. ‘Unquestionably, this underlying sit- uation is doing more to awaken the man in the street to tax, budgetary and spending conditions than all en- lightened academic discussion. He and his housewife are greeted with token reminders of the problem 10 times or more each day. An Illinois State Senator tip-toed softly through Colorado recently. Only the most prominent Republicans noticed him, because they were the only ones he came to see. They got the idea that he was sounding out sentiment of the Knox presidential movement. If he was, he will report there in considerable Knox talk in this State. A louder visitor was the only ac- tive Republican presidential candi- date, Representative Ham Fish. He made speeches about the Con- stitution, and found every one out here was for it, although not neces= sarily for him to enforce it. Reublicans through here seem to be in & searching frame of mind, as re- gards candidates. ?flflmtm has not THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1935. DIEHL IS ELECTED HEAD OF CITIZENS Anacostia Group ., Chooses Him Successor to Dr. Havenner. By s unanimous vote, Milton E. Diehl was elected president of the Anacostia Citizens’ Association last night at. the first meeting of the sea- son in the Meth- odist Church Hall, Fourteenth and U streets southeast. He suc- ceeds Dr. George C. Havenner, who had headed the organization al- most continuous- ly for balf a cen- tury. Other officers elected included Mrs. Carrie G. Smith, first vice president; Mrs. Lincoln Roberts, second vice president; William J. Tucker, secretary (re-elected), and William J. Benhoff, treasurer (re- elected). The dele‘@ites to the Feder- ation- of Citizens’ Associations are Diehl and Capt. Frank M. Dent. The naming “of representatives to the Southeast Council was deferred until | the next meeting. The association adopted a resolution favoring abolition of the present per- sonal automobile tax in place of a weight tax on automobiles. They op- ! posed, however, the transfer of gaso- line tax funds to the general District revenues. Dr. Havenner assailed this practice, stressing the need of this income for streets and highways. A motion to pay expenses of the Traffic Department from the gasoline tax was tabled. Another resolution favored financing the planting of trees along | District streets and supporting the | street light system from the gasoline tax The safety campaign being con- ducted by The Star to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities on the District's streets was indorsed. A committee including Mrs. Paul Green, Mrs. Phyllis Plemmons and Robert Thompson were appointed to investigate the possibilities of securing | better bus transportation for the| school children of Eastern High School. RUMANIAN HELD IN SLAYING OF 21| Confesses, Saying He Got Spir- itual Satisfaction Out of Good Murder. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September 28.—Vasile Tcaciuc was held today for the mass murder of 21 persons, in- | cluding one woman. Police said the woman had been identified as a school teacher who had been missing for several weeks. Authorities said they had obtained a confession from Tecaciuc admitting that he “got spiritual satisfaction out of a good murder.” The alleged confession also stated that a 17-year-old girl induced him to commit the crimes and served as the lure of the victims. Among the men slain were a father and son, according to police, who expressed skepticism over a statement in the alleged confession that three women, in addition to the 17-year-old girl, aided in the crimes. It is unlikely, the police said, that | the schcol teacher could have been lured to her doom by a girl. All the other crimes followed a | common design, the police said. It was the slayer's practice to invite his victims to an isolated house, the al- leged confession stated, to meet the “women friends.” The arresting officers reported that the prisoner told them “I would use a hatchet and would always hide the body under the floor.” Teacjuc is known in the Rumanian underworld as “the giant.” LION BITE HEALING Film Actor to Be Able to Leave Hospital Soon. HOLLYWOOD, September 28 (#).— Charles Bickford, film actor, bitten in | the back of the neck by a movie lion, soon will be able to leave the hospital, | but Mabel Stark, wild animal trainer, injured by a tiger, was still in & seri- ous condition here today. Attendants of Miss Stark were un- able to say when she would be out of Dr. G. C. Ha SHERMAN STATES Found After Kidnap Scare Grover Whalen, jr., son of the New York police commissioner, pictured when found near his Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., home yesterday after a flurry of kidnap apprehensions. police, using bloodhounds, found the 14-year-old boy lying in a ravine near his home, where he had fallen, bumped his head and lost conscious= ness. He disappeared while a car waited to take him to school. Grover, jr., is shown in the center, bareheaded. former official’ greeter and one-time State ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. HE FOOLEDPOLCE Hurls Lie in Testifying He Gave Four Versions of Wife’s Death. By the Associated Press. WORCESTER, Mass.. September 28. —Newell Paige Sherman, husky choir singer-mechanic charged with drown- ing his wife for love of another, in- sisted today on the witness stand he gave four different versions of the 3 QUIT AS BERRY TAKESN.R.A. POST Coonley and Thorp to Enter Business—Record Work Defended. By the Assoctated Press Following the disclosure that three key N. R. A. officials have resigned, | another executive of that agency to- day warmly defended the work now | being done, declaring it would be | creased from 20 to 30 hours annually. | A new rate of pay on an unannounced | “almost criminal” to drop the job of | HULL ADVOCATES LIBERALIZED TRADE Expresses Faith That All Nations Will Strive for Broader Policy. By the Associated Press. A faith that all nations will exercise “political courage” in striving for more liberal international trading policies to stimulate world business and lay a better “foundation for peace” has been expressed by Secretary of State Hull. In a message to the Economic Com- mittee of the League of Nations, Hull interpreted recent resolutions adopted by the committee as, in effect, in- dorsing the American program for expanding trade through bilateral trade agreements based on the most- favored-nation principle. In his message, Hull said: “I have observed with the greatest «{ interest that many important gov- ernments of the worls in the committee close accord on an economic program, designed to assure a fuller and more satisfactory restoration of industry and commerce. * * * “The world will note that a leading conclusion of your committee is that the adoption of more liberal interna- tional trading policies is ‘indispen- able’ to further recovery.” Hull sald “Your committee has recommended the conclusion of bi-lat- eral trade agreements point out that the beneficial effects of such agree- ments will be the more widespread when based upon the principle of the most-favored-nation clause. * * ¢ “The proposed program assumes, no doubt, that each country will continue to develop its economy on domestic lines as fully as sound business calcu- | lations may justify, but recognizes the economic fact—which has been dem- | onstrated by bitter experience—that full and stable business prosperity, full employment of labor and satisfac- tory wages, and the need of a secure foundation for peace, wouild all require the restoration of a normal volume of international trade.” Hull's message was transmitted to the League Committee through Pren- tiss Gilbert, American consul at Geneva. The Secretary already has engi- neered reciprocal trade pacts with Cuba, Sweden and Haiti, under his own program, and pacts with Brazil and Colomb fication by those countries. : Ethiopian (Continued Prom First Page.) has assumed a considerably acceler- ated rhythm in the past few days.” Several war measures also were adopted by the Government. Mili- tary education in schools was in- tragic canoe ride which made him a | recording and analyzing the history | scale was ordered for military forces widower and now threatens him with | the electric chair | Obviously disturbed by the sharp, | quick questioning of District Attorney | Owen A. Hoban as he underwent | cross-examination in the closing chapters of his trial for murder, the defendant shouted “that's a lie" at | one point, and at another admitted | he intended and succeeded in de- ceiving the police who questioned him. Guilt Repeatedly Denied. Throughout the interrogation, he repeatedly denied his guilt, insisted the purported: confession signed by him was not true and clung to the statement that he loved the mother of his two children and that she drowned accidentally. Asked if he was not told he need not talk when first taken into custody after his wife drowned at Lake Single- tary, July 20, Sherman shifted his huge frame in the witness box and cried: “That's a lie.” Coercion Is Charged. He swore he signed a statement admitting a “terrible crime,” but in- sisted it was signed “under pressure.” Agreeing he was not told at any time during the original questioning by police that he was under arrest— the State contends he confessed the crime before being arrested—Sherman said he did not intend to tell the truth when he first told his story to police. He insisted he told one story, had | Junch and told another, returned up- stairs in the police barracks and !oldi a third and then gave another version | in court earlier in the trial during the jury’s absence. HAGEN, SARAZEN danger, admitting a serious infection was feared. She was attacked by a tiger September 21 in a circus per- formance at Phoenix, Ariz, and her left arm severely lacerated. Always New Furniture. MEDIA, Pa. (#)—Mrs. Howard Davis told the court it was easy to keep new furniture in the house. She sald she and her husband always paid $1 down, let the furniture go back for default of ayments and then started all over again. yet crystallized. Influential National Committeeman Phipps has not come out for any one yet. Al Smith Talk Evident. ‘There is bi-partisan Al Smith talk of considerable proportions. It is the first you will hear on a journey from Washington. Many Republicans are dissatisfied with old guard leadership. Every Santa Fe Railroad folder has the following item prominently dis- played: “The Santa Fe tax bill of $10,353,000 in 1934 equals 8 per cent of its gross operating revenues and 68 per cent of its net operating in- come.” The Democratic party is involved in an incipient factional split be- tween Senator Costigan and &ov. Johnson. The W. P. A. is in charge of a Costigan man, Paul Shriver. There is much anti-Roosevelt talk among Democrats, dut it seems to have a hopeless tone. Fussy welfare workers in the relief organization have become so unpopular that the word “welfare” was elimi- nated from the relief bill by the State Legislature. The fussbudgets insist on handling relief as a social problem rather than a relief emergency. A glaze-eyed Communist hawks his party paper from s main street corner, Just as in Washington, and with as little -quccess. No one ‘buys, most LEAD BRITISHERS Americans 5 Up on Perry and Busson at End of First 18 Holes. By the Associated Press. RIDGEWOOD, N. J., September 28.—Smothering their British rivals with a display of subpar golf on the second nine; Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, the American veterans, stood 5 up on Alf Perry and Jack Busson at the halfway mark of their 36-hole Scotch foursome match to- day in the international professional ! Ryder Cup series. Both sides went out in 37—one | over par—but the Americans shaved | a stroke off regulation figures on| the second nine, coming back in 3¢ for a par round of 71. The Britons were repeatedly short with their approaches and couldn’t match the putting accuracy of Sarazen and Hagen. Perry and Busson came back in 40 for a 77. Paul Runyan and Horton Smith further strengthened the American challenge to wrestle the international trophy from the British by leading Bill (Wiffy) Cox and Ted Jarman six up at the end of the first 18 holes. Out in 38, Runyan and Smith came back in 34, one under paJ, as the re- sult of a 25-foot birdie putt canned by Runyan on the short eleventh. ‘The Britons had a pair of 39s. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, Police Training School, Wil- lard Hotel, 6 p.m. Dinner, Zonta Club, Olney Inn, Olney, Md., 6:30 p.m. TOMORROW. Meeting, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Hamilton Hotel, 9 a.m. | they were considering resigning, and | of the Blue Eagle. The resignations followed the ap- | pointment of Maj. George L. Berry to| an apparently dominant position in the old organization. Prentiss L. Coonley, head of the division of busi- ness co-operation, and Willard Thorp, economic adviser to the N. R. A. A visory Council, will re-enter private | business, probably on Monday. It wag| stated a third official also is leaving, | but his name was not made public. Coonley said Berry's appointment as “co-ordinator of industrial co-op- eration” by President Roosevelt had | nothing to do with his resignation, | while associates said Thorp's leaving had been arranged some time ago. | Exodus in Prospect. Several other men high in the N. R. A. set-up, however, said privately | there were strong indications of a | wholesale exodus within a few weeks. The defense of the recording and | analyzing work now being done by | the 2600 N. R. A. employes was | made by L. J. Martin, acting admin- istrator, and L. . Marshall, director of the division of review. The latter, who is in charge of the historical work and the prepara- tion of the voluminous files for fu- ture reference, said his objective was | to save for posterity “the most tre- mendous mass of information on | business practices ever gathered.” About half df those still on the N. R. A. rolls are writing the history of N. R. A. and saving its records for future use. Another 700 are in the field, watching the results of code suspension; about 200 are trying to | develop the use of voluntary trade | agreements, while the balance ‘re in the service departments or working for' other governmental agencies. Martin disclosed that the field staff | also is making & Nation-wide survey of business sentiment on the advisa- bility of writing new legislation w0 re- place N. R. A, Some major officials indicated pri- | vately they felt the President's ex- | ecutive order naming Berry was not clear, and that they did not know | W Berry's powers would be. The President ordered, among other things, that Berry ‘“co-ordinate and report” on duties, compensations and function of N. R. A. officials. Wheth- | er “co-ordinal meant Berry was to | have final authority over Martin and Marshall was not immediately deter- mined. Martin said he was not “leaving the administration at present,” and as- sociates of Marshall said he intended to await developments. MASS TO MARK 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. John Sheridan Also to Hold Reception Tomorrow at Their Home. * Mr. and Mrs. John Sheridan, each 72, will celebrate their golden weddi; anniversary tomorrow at a speci mass in Our Lady’s Chapel, St. Aloy- sius Church, a breakfast at the Dodge Hotel and an afternoon reeeption at their home, 1322 North Capitol street. The mass will . egin at 8 am. and the reception at 4 p.m. They were married in Lockport, N. Y., in 1885 and 10 years later came to Washington, where Mr. Sheridan was employed as a proofreader in the Government Printing Office until.his retirement several years ago. They have two children, Francis W. Sheri- dan and Mrs. Alice Nolan, both of ‘Washington. New Auto Road. 5 About $4,000,000 will be spent on the new motor highway from Tokio to ‘Yokohama. Memorial service, American War Mothers, Wardman Park Hotel, § p.m. a “in case of the declaration of a state of war in East Africa.” A special censorshop was established on the Italian drama and officials were instructed to strengthen their supervision of “objectionable” printed matter. All foreign language motion pictures hereafter must be dubbed as such. This regulation heretofore applied only to long reels. Piqued By League Action. In the words o. a source close to the government, “Italy is sore all over” because of the decision at Geneva to | are now awaiting rati- | Slaying Figures DAUGHTER-IN-LAW QUIZZED IN HATCHET KILLING. MRS. THELMA BUXTON. PROF. KENNETH BUXTON. —Copyrignt, A. P. Wirephoto. | Slaying (Continued From First Page) | hours after her mother-in-law was | found hacked to death in the Buxton's apartment here, the young woman | was held without bond in Kent Coun- ty Jail. 5 Her husband reiterated through his wife's counsel steadfast love for the wife. Objects to State Police. Beck. amid preparation to seek Mrs. Buxton's release, registered otjection for two reasons to the presence of State police in the case. “First,” he said, “In bringing the State police into the county when the accused had already been arrested, } lodged in jail, and admitted the homi- cide, and, secondly, after counsel had been employed for her by her hus- band and had consulted for her, for the State police to subject her to this third degree examination over the protest of her counsel who was | | refused the right to be present.” ‘ . Beck asserted State troopers ques- tioned Mrs. Buxton after a physiciaa | had said she was in no condition to be seen. | The attorney announced he had| engaged Dr. C. A. Gillis of the Shep- | pard-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore to | examine Mrs. Buxton preparatory to | the attempt to free her on grounds of insanity. | Collins, however, refused to allow the psychiatrist to interview the ac- cused, Beck asserted. | Dr. Buxton's wife, formerly Miss Thelma Fraas of Montreal, surren- hold over the League of Nations As- sembly pending the report of the Com- mittee of Thirteen on facts and recom- mendations in tl.e Italo-Ethiopian dis- pute. This source pointed out that Italy disliked the invocation of the fourth paragraph of Article XV of the League Covenant, which provides for | the naming of the present commit- | tee of 13. It contends that the ap- pointment of that body presupposed an equal juridical right between Italy and Ethiopia. that Italy found it almost intolerable for the League to hold over the As- sembly to discuss a report which “will be founded on an article of the cove- nant which Italy thinks inapplicable | in this case.” Nevertheless Italy's delegation will remain at Geneva. ASSEMBLY, QUITTING, WARNED. League Body Held in Readiness for Emergency Call. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 28 _— The League of Nations Assembly ad- adjourned today in the face of a warning of “grave events” impending —but ready to meet instantly on an S O S call in any new Italo-Ethiopian emergency. Shortly after adjournment, sitting as a committee of 13, the League Council decided in private session to submit to the Italian government Ethiopia’s request for the dispatch of neutral observers to the troubled frontiers of Emperor Halle Selassie. Dangers Inspire Inquiry. Italy’'s views were sought, League officials explained, because the Council felt it would be difficult and perhaps even perilous for a neutral commission to proceed to Ethiopia unless guaran- | tees were obtained from both nations | that its work would be facilitated and the lives of its members protected. At the same time a belief was cur- rent in diplomatic circles that Great Britain, if worst comes to worst, would refuse to act alone in a naval blockade against Italy and would at least insist upon using naval ports such as Tou- lon, France, and Piraeus, Greece. Before they parted the statesmen were warned by Eduard Benes, presi- dent of the Assembly, that “grave events may still occur in a conflict which the Council has not yet been able to settle.” Sanction Talk Pushed. The impression gained in talking to diplomats of various countries to- day was that while talk of sanctions ‘was being held somewhat in abeyance in Geneva, conversations on that sub- ject were being pursued in capitals of the great powers with a more defi- nite co-operation apparent between Great Britain and France. The League Council, with Italy re- sentful and absent as an interested party, raced against time in an effort to complete its recommendations in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis before “in- cidents” make the tension intolerable. In the background, scarcely spoken of even unofficially, lay the hope that the United States might be persuaded to act with the League should sa: tions be applied following an “inci- dent” groummuu hostilities. It was pointed out | | dered to officers yesterday morning while her husband was conducting a class at the college here. She went to a nearby apartment, asked the neighbor to call Sheriff John N. Ben- nett, then said she had killed her mother-in-law. The elderly woman was beaten bad- ly on the head, three fingers of her left | hand were almost severed, and ner shoulders and left arm were mangled. | A bloody hatchet was found near her body. i Dr. Buxton, who is 32 and a gradu- | ate of Clark University and McGill | | University, said his wife had been | nervous and depressed in recent weeks and had made several atempts ai suicide. Dr. Buxton said burial will be at Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Effie Buxton | was the widow of Rev. Wilson R. Buxton, Congregationalist minister | from South Ashburnham, Mass. —— Chemical Loses. Exports of German synthetic cam- phor, which made large gains in 1934, | Should Follow Example are losing ground. | | Irvin S. Cobb l Set by Railroads. l SANTA MONICA, Calif., September | Says: . 28.—Having quit yeling for govern- | mental help and started helping them- selves, the railroads are putting on | streamlined, air- conditioned, swifter trains to compete against the busses and planes and trail- ers. Wouldn't it be lovely if the sleeping car folks could tuke a hint? Year after year, they've gone along, giving us coaches heated so hot in the Win- ter they stayed hot all Summer; and the same ventilation you'd find in a Siwash sweat-lodge, which has no ventila- tion; and windows.a burglar couldn't open without explosives; and steam: pipes just under your baked spinal column; and—oh, yes, those winsome little green hammocks. Nobody ever figured out their purpose, but the color was right—it matched the com- plexion of & car-sick passenger when he woke up in the morning. Still those folks did produce one tremendous executive stroke. They Jjust thought and thought and thought i and finally thought up that neat slot where you may dispose of old safety razor blades, unless you have a Scotch friend traveling with you. I think those powerful intellects hav® been e e he North American e R Sleeping Car Makers | WALKER CLOSING W. . A DIVISION Applications Office Done October 1—Hopkins May Return at Once. In accordance with President Roose« velt's order closing down on furtheg applicatiops for works relief funds, the Division of Applications and Ine formation, of which Frank C. Walker is the head, will fold up on October 1., Walker will be out of the actual spending program, but will continue as chairman of the National Emer- gency Council At his Hyde Park conference. Mr. Roosevelt set September 12 as a deade line on applications for projects undet the $4,000,000,000 drive to substitute employment for direct relief. The main functions of Walker's division automatically ended on that date, bus since he maintains a large press bus reau, his staff has been kept at work handling the deluge of press releases for the Works Progress Administra« | tion. The task of examining applications being ended, now that all works-relief money has been allotted, Walker's press staff will be absorbed by the | Works Progress Administration. The publicity mill wi'l be required ‘o grind at top speed fcr weeks to come. One of “Big Three.” Walker was one of the “big three” |of the works-relief drive, acting as ¢ -ordinator. In the absence of Harry L. Hopkins ‘Aubrey Williams, his chief deputy, is | in charge of the Works Progress Ad- ministration as well as the direct relief activities. At W. P. A. headquarters it was said today that Hopkins may return to Washington directly from the Paas cific Coast, instead of accompanying the President by boat from San Diego through the Panama Canal. He i3 | anxious, it is understood, to get back on the job. Despite frequent conferences bee .tween President Roosevelt and Cone troller General McCarl to avoid spend+ ing troubles, a dozen or more works relief projects have been rejected by McCarl, it was learned today. Informed officials said the President and controller general had talked over many of the projects before Mr, Roosevelt allocated the funds. In this manner, they said, McCarl's staff had a chance to pass on the allocations before work was started, thus taking away the sting of a public rejection. Projects Turned Down. A dozen or more projects wers turned down by the Accounting Office before formal allocation was made and without any hint of the action being disclosed to the public. Which projects were rejected is still a secret held in the files of the affected agencies, the Treasury and the ace counting office. TGMORROW! “Things to Come” H. G. WELLS —shows what may happen to us if war comes again, in & new serial begwnning in “This Week,” The Star's magazine section. * “Base Ball’s Biggest Thrill” BABE RUTH —says it comes just befcre tne call, “Play Ball” in your first world series. He tells how play- ers are feeling now while thev wait for the classic to start in “This Week.” * * % * % ¥ % Death Rides the Highway 36.000 killed—1,000,000 huri! That’s the traflic toll for a vear. What's to be done about it? The story on page 1 of The Star’s feature section will tell you . 3 \\I//‘ Ry x0T E “Let the Moon Do Your Work” HARLAN T. STETSON . . . who wrote “Man and the Stars,” says the age-old dream of power from the moon is com- ing true. He tells of 1 “tide- power” plant being built on the coast of Maine in “This Week.” ® %% Crossroads to War Great gray graboats of Great Britain suard Gibraltar, Malta and Suez as war clcuds roll over the Mediterrancan A full-page story, with pictures, in the feature section, will tell you what's happening in these waters. * X ok % “Fraud—By Mail” It's the same old gquackery of Mal Order Fakes. But a story in the feature seciion tells you how Uncle Sam’s alert agents catch on to them. . These, a host of other features, and a fine ar- ray of new fiction will be ready for you s The Sunday Star