Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 2

_A-2 &2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1935. “Grass Roots” Parley Organizer 2 PANAMERIGAN |[ What's What ||§, E.C. RULES HELD ZENGE ACCUSED WAR CRISIS HITS ENVOYS IN CLASH Balivian Reference to Chaco ~-Stirs Paraguayan Re- ¢ quest for Deletion. £ A flare-up which threatened to de- Yelop into an international incident between Bolivia and Paraguay was temporarily allayed toddy in a heated exchange of views between the min- isters of the two countries at the Pan- American Institute of History and @eography. . The controversy had begun Wednes- day with the presentation of a paper, “Bolivar, Man of Peace,” in which the Minister of Bolivia, Enrique Finot, had planned to deal with the historic back- ground leading up to the Gran Chaco ‘War between the two countries. For Jaek of time, however, he did not com- plete the document. In the uncom- pleted portion of the paper was a paragraph which the Paraguayan Minister, Enrique Bordenave, inter- preted to mean an accusation that Paraguay was the aggressor in the ‘war. + This paragraph in the paper has not been read and will not be read during | the sessions. Deletion Request Repeated. - While men of science today were de- livering learned theses on history and geography of American republics, the | two ministers sat near each other, €vidently awaiting an opportunity to take the floor. The Paraguayan minister was the first to speak. He protested the lan- guage of the paper and said he wished to “clear the good name of my coun- try.” He repeated his request of Wed- nesday that the disputed paragraph Dbe deleted from the document. As soon as Bordenave took his seat Alinister Finot jumped to his feet and made a lengthy statement, in which he said that he had merely quoted his- torical facts and had no intention of placing blame in this scientific session. He said he would be willing to with- draw the paragraph if it were not for the fact that mimeographed copies had been distributed and that news- yapers had published the fact that the paragraph is in the paper. He insisted that it remain there as a record in the institute. He also protested that the Paraguayan diplo- matic corps had been holding secret meetings for discussion of the paper Eince it was presented. Harmeny Is Urged. Ma}. Willlam Bowie, honorary presi- | dent of the institute, then made a| plea for harmony and for withdrawal | of the disputed paragraph. Dr. Wallace W. Atwood suggested that both statements be filed with the institute as a part of the record. He told the disputants that “under the advice of Secretary Hull we cannot debate this question here.” Minister Finot then seconded a mo- tion to have all statements made a part of the record. Minister Borde- nave of Paraguay also agreed that the matter should be dropped from discussion and that the statements Telative to it should be made a part of the institute’s records. GEN. GREELY WEAKER, THOUGH CHANGE SLIGHT Hero of Arctic and Military Ex- peditions Fights Complica- tion of Disorders. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, 91-yeaz- old hero of Arctic and military -ex- peditions, today continued a fignt which Walter Reed Hospital physicians say he cannot win. He is fighting a complication of disorders and no hope 1s held for his recovery. Physicians said Gen, Greely, criti- cally ill for more than two weeks, is growing gradually weaker, but noted no marked change in his condition to- day. e MRS. MACKENZIE WINS Defeats Helen Dettweiler for Con- gressional Golf Title. Mrs. Roland MacKenzie won the women’s golf championship of the Congressional Country Club today by taking her final-round match froma Helen Dettweiler, 5 to 4. Mrs. MacKenzie had a score of 80, S En R Ruhi Afnan to Lecture. Ruhl Afnan of Haifa, Palestine, great-grandso of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Bahai movement, will speak under auspices of the Washington Bahai Assembly, tonight at 8 o'clock at the Dodge Hotel tea house, 20 E street. His. subject is “The Spiritual Evolution of Man.” Sunday i The Feature Section R\ AN “Covering the War Front” The story of the men who match newspaper wits with military wits, plunging into the thick of battle to cover the war front and be first with the news back home. D B4 Lo “Heroes in the Air” Daring deeds which earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for Army men. e “A New Day for the American Indian” A new form of Government will be tried out in the United States giving real self rule to the red man. These and other features will be ready for you —in— The Sunday Star Behind News In Capital Long Communication Line Spells Defeat for Italian Forces. BY PAUL MALLON. HOSE who are wisest in the ways of war feel, that Musso- lini is in a very bad fix in Ethiopia. His smart Gen. De Bono is sending out glamorous tales of victories. to keep the Rome fires burning, but these cannot conceal his dangerous predica- ment from the wary eyes of those in the know here. The kind of victories De Bono has been winning against thin air may be all right for the crowds at the bulletin bourds in Rome, but the plain inside fact of the matter is that his unop- posed advance will soon cost Musso- lini far more than the whole of Ethi- opia is worth. The wise ones believe also that the | advance to Addis Ababa will require weeks, if not months, and that the war will not really start until Musso- lini gets there. Then his lines of com- munication (for food) will be stretched out more than 500 miles in two direc- tions and Haile Selassie’s raiding guer- illas will really go to work on them. In fact, the whole campaign sounds like such a foolhardy ad- venture that the smartest here suspect it is omy a little stage prologue to get things going for a bigger drama to come in Europe. One thing which strengthens this suspicion is the fact that Mussolini has left all his good troops at home. Those in Ethiopia are second-string men with little training. It mey seem strange to contend any one here could have worthwhile knowledge of what is going on in Ethiopia, but there are some who make it their private business to know. They do not know everything, but their studied deductions are about as good as anything you can get on the subject anywhere. You may accept them as well grounded and authentic. Must Build Reads. They see, for instance, the inside problem of De Bono. He first moved into Ethiopia 20 miles and sat down, although there was no real opposition in his front. He had to sit down in order to build roads behind him. He ! has built plenty of them, three dis- | 5 |tinct routes, each about 100 miles, | the stockholders vote overwhelmingly, back to his seaport base at Massaua. His further advance can progress no faster than his engineers can con- struct roads in his rear. Each mile he progresses means that he must |drop off troops to cover these com- municaticns. Thus, the more territory he ab- sorbs, the more vulnerable he be- comes. De Bono's line was about 60 miles long at Aduwa. He had about 100,000 men on it, with his colonial troops in the center, so they could be watched. His two best divisions were on the | | rear, back of the combat area. | His immediate strategy was thought to be a convergence on | Makale, which would shorten his | tine to 15 miles. There his real | stretch-out troubles will begin. | These are so real and so obvious that he may decide to go no Jarther. | The Ethiopians are also being smartly handled. No one knows for sure how many troops they have, and it does not make much difference. Their force at De Bono's front is sup- posed to number about 200,000, with Haile Selassie holding 50,000 in the rear around Addis Ababa. | The Ethiepians will never risk a pitched battle, if they can avoid it, probably not even at Addis Ababa. They will continue to drop back, put- ting obstructions in the way, harass- ing De Bono, gnawing at his flanks. At least this is what they will do if they make no mistakes, and they have made none so far. (Neither have the Italians from a technical military standpoint.) Danger in South. Mussolini’s Gen. Graziani, handling the southern advance, is not as highly regarded as De Bone. He is a swash- buckling type, who may not be cut out for the tedious military problem | confronting him. However, he started ’ofl wisely by biting off only 30 miles of Ethiopian territory before reaching | for his chair. He has about 80,000 in his front, waiting for him to get out of reach of drinking water in the | tall grass before harassing him. Graziani started out on the short | route to cut the railroad above Harar. | A very prominent military authority has said that he will never reach the rajlroad, even if he never encounters an opposing force.. That is an exag- | gerated view. but hic difficulties are thought to be even greater than De Bono's, in view of his smaller force and the water as well as the food problem, What interests military men most is the report that Mussolin1 is having -trouble getting food for his army. He is supposed to be buying beef from two British colonfes in South Africa fand paying double prices for all he can | get. Even so, they say, he receives more shanks and horns than steaks. The favorite Italian army dish may soon be ox-tail soup, an edible dish, but not much for an army to crawl on. (Copyright. 1935.) MARTIAL LAW DECLARED GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, October 18 (#).—Martial law was pro- claimed in t] flanks. About 133,000 more covered his | | troops. Several armies are hovering | CONGRESS INSULT Right of Petition Declared Impaired by License Compulsion. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. New rules just set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which’ probably will be a model for other agencies of the Government in reference to so-called lobbying, made it a part of the registration state- ment of all utility companies that they must not only make a list of all persons who come to Washington to appear before governmental agencies and Congress, too, but must disclose in their reports the subject matter and exact nature of their activities. It is to be noted that, unless a util- ity company complies with these rules, it is not considered to be registered properly, and, unless it is registered, it incurs all the penalties of the law, including the right to use the mails. More important than the alleged curb on the lobbyists is the principle involved. For it is implied that mem- bers of the Senate and House are not capable of resisting the wiles of lobbyists or that they perhaps are too susceptible to the entertainment or other sums spent in their behalf and that the S. E. C. must needs protect the Congressmen against themselves. Constitution Grants Rights. There’s a provision in the Consti- tution of the United States which issys Congress shall make no law abridging the right of citizens to peti- tion their Government for a redress of grievances. American bustnesses of petition as the farmers who erans, or the labor unions or any other group. Nobody in the Government would dare to make rules requiring that the labor groups must disclose what they do with the funds gathered from dues “for legislative purposes,” and it is doubtful whether any gov- ernmental agency would incur the wrath of the veterans’ organizations by demanding s similar accounting | from them. The fact is the demand for such | accounting does not proceed from any | real effort to find out about the ex- | penses incurred, but to discourage | the exercise of the right of petition | altogether. In Germany and Italy, where fascism holds sway, the suppression of the right of petition has been found necessary in order to prevent any | opposition from crystallizing. Like- wise, in respect to much of the New Deal legislation, there has arisen an effort to prevent criticism from being spread by one citizen to his | fellow citizen, and in the case of busi- | ness, notwithstanding the fact that |as they did in a recent instance, to | have the officers of the company | protect their investment by spending {whatevef funds seemed necessary to | carry the case to the court of public opinion and to the eyes of the legis- | tors themselves. | Puts Barriers on Appeal. There can be little doubt that the rules of the S. EE. C. with respect to so-called lobbyists are in plain | viclation of the conmstitutional right | of petition, because the purpose is | to put barriers in the path of those | who would approach Congress to ob- tain redress. If investors in com- | panies, whose life savings are fected, are prcvented by intimidation and restriction from presenting their | case to Congress, then in due time the right of petition will become a | dead letter along with freedom of speech. In a sense, the S. E. C. is merely carrying out the vague language of the law as passed by Congress at the last session. But it is easy to see how the provision in question can work an injustice. Assume, for instance, that a matter arises which demands immediate attention in Washington. | If the president of the company wants |to go to the National Capital, he can | do so only if he has previously filed “a statement of the subject matter of his employment.” If by chance he wants to send some other executive, and that individual has not procured a license, he must confine his activity only to those registered. To put it another way, a license has | to be taken out with the permission | of the 8. E. C. giving the employes of a utility company the privilege ,of talking to a Representative or Senae tor or any other Government official about the relations between that com- pany or industry and the Govern- ment. Thus is the right of petition made subject to a license and this can be revoked at will if the “state- ment of subject matter” is not to the satisfaction of the executive agency in question, namely the Secur- ities and Exchange (Copyright, 1935.) {SCOUTS PLAN, JAMBOREE FOR AMERICA IN 1937| Appointments Made for Prepara- tions, Gathering to Substi- tute That Called Off. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 18.—The Na- tional Executive Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted last night to hold a national scouting jamboree in 1937. The date and place will be deter- mined later. The jamboree will substitute for the one scheduled this year at Washing- ton and postponed by President Roosevelt because of the prevalence of infantile paralysis in the ares. Walter W. Head of St. Louis, presi- dent of the Boy Scouts, announced that George W. Olmsted of Ludiow, Pa,, had been named to the Executive Council and that Dr. William C. Men- ninger of Topeks, Kans, had been placed on the Committee of Awards. DERN OFF TO SHANGHAI War Secretary on Way to Attend Inaugural at Manila. YOKOHAMA, October 18 (#).— George H. Dern, United States Secre- tary of War, left aboard the cruiser, U. 8. 8. Chester today, for Shanghai, en route to Manila to attend cere- monies at the inauguration of the new commonwealth government. | are composed of citizens and they, too, | possess the same constitutional right | “march” on Washington, or the vet- | |“NEW DEMOCRATS” GIVE | SUPPORT TO FUSIONISTS Opens Drive for G. Harrison .E' Spangler Will Attempt to Line Up Middle W est. Iowa Farmer, Active in Party, Never Held Public Office. By the Assoelated Press. CHICAGO, October 18.—Harrison E. Spangler, selected by the Republi- cans to lead the Middle West back into the G. O. P. fold, rolled up his sleeves today for an intensive vote- getting drive. At the helm of the combined “Grass Roots” and Midwest National Repub- lican Committee headquarters, he opened the drive with the issuance of a bristling statement declaring war on what he called the national admin- istration’s “propaganda, insincerity and destructive policies.” Spangler, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is 52 and takes great pride in his saddle horses and kennel of Irish terriers, which he calls “one of the finest in America.” His commercial interests, he says, are two Iowa farms which he owns and operates as a “practicing farmer.” Never Seught Public Office. Of medium height, stocky, always meticulously dressed and suave of speech, the man cast in the role of Midwest G. O. P. Moses boasts that | he has been “in politics” for 39 years | without ever seeking public office or accepting & political pay roll job. Born on an Iowa farm, Spangler was graduated from the Liberal Arts (and Law Colleges of the University |of Iowa. He began the practice of law in Cedar Rapids, where he became | assoclated with the late James W. Good, subsequently a Representative and Secretary of War under former President Herbert Hoover. Spangler’s first political experience, he said, was in 1896 when as a boy of 0. P. Votes HARRISON E. SPANGLER. 13 he helped his father keep the poll lists during a township election. to county chairman, district commit- teeman, State Committee chairman, and, in 1932, national committeeman from Iowa and member of the Na- tional Committee’s Executive Com- mittee. Supported Theodore Roosevelt. He supported Theodore Roosevelt in the Bull Moose campaign of 1912, but otherwisc was always in the regular Republican ranks. . He conceived the Midwest “grass roots” parley early in 1935 and saw it culminate in a conference at Spring- fleld, I, at which party leaders, im- pressed by the public response, decided to make it a permanent campaign instrument. The purpose of the “grass roots” | demonstration, he explained, was to give the rank and file of the party an | opportunity for expression and to stimulate interest tn politics. Spangler lives on an estate outside Cedar Rapids with his wife, the for- mer Fay Mclntire of Ottumwa, Iowa. MASS SLAYER KILLED BY RUMANIAN POLICE Man Who Confessed Slaying 26 Shot to Death After Attempt to Escape. By the Associated Press. IASI, Rumania, October 18.—The | bloody career of Vasile Tcaciuc, Ru- | mania's mass murderer, ended in | death today when he succumbed to | bullet wounds inflicted by police. Teactue, by his own statement the slayer of more than 20 persons, was shot yesterday when he attempted to escape custody. He had confessed killing six more persons, burying them on the out- skirts of Jasi, and had offered to |lead officers to the spot when the | shooting occurred. He demanded his handcuffs be re- moved and, free of them, dove head- long through a window. As he leaped | to his feet police bullets found their mark. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., October 18.—Jos- eph A. Cantrel, Pusion member of the House of Delegates and chairman | of the recently organized new Demo-} cratic party of the seventh and tenth | election districts, announced today | that the party would support Mont- | gomery County’s Pusion commission- ers In a letter to the commissioners, Chairman Cantrel said it is the pur- pose and objective of the party “‘to champion good government in the county, and to that end we unselfishiy pledge our allegiance to the Fusion | commissioners and supporters of the | Pusion party.” He added he wanted to clear up a misunderstanding which had arisen regarding the new group's attitude to- ward the Fusionists. STO' ‘Woolen cloth. word below the definition and place the co-operation of The Star, is conducting AUBURN DODGE BUICK FORD CADILLAC HUDSON CHEVROLET HUPMOBILE CHRYSLER LA FAYETTE DE SOTO LA SALLE ‘The Star. Solve each puzzle, and not earlier out or published, and no entries will be Officials of the Washington A in whioh the solutions are submit Annual Automobile Show, will a motive LINCOLN NASH gmsuom COLLATERAL FORFEITED BY FOUR RESTAURANTS Violation of Health Regulations Charged as Drive for Cleanli- ness Continues. ‘The Health Department's drive against insanitary eating places re- suited in a forfeiture of collateral by four restaurant operators in Police Court today. Alex Hondros, 1408 U street, and Wiliam Dapsz, 434 N street, each for- | feited $10. The former was charged with having an unclean steam table and cooking utensils, stove, ice box, | counter, work tables and walls and | floors in the dining room and kitchen. | Dapz was charged with having an un- clean kitchen, sink, utensils, range, hood over range, ice box and steam table. Joseph Heflin, 1134 Pourth street southwest, and Alley Salley, 1343 U street, each forfeited $5 for having un- clean glasses. HENDERSON IS SINKING Condition Described as “Grave” by Bulletin. LONDON, October 18 (#)—The condition of Arthur Henderson, presi- dent of the World Disarmament Con- ference, was described as “grave” in & bulletin issued today at the nursing home where he was seriously ill after an operation. He has been suffering from jaundice. Fall's Condition “Fair.” EL PASO, Tex. October 18 (#).— The condition of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, was reported “fair” by members of his family today. Physicians at William , Beaumont General Hospital said Fall's condition is satisfactory, considering and asserted that his stay at pital is indefinite. his age, the hos- AUTO SHOW PUZZLE CONTEST THIS 18 PUZZLE NO. 11. MISERS | Affected smiles. ; i | | | down. | | ! i DANGLE } Dart suddenly. 1 | | | DEAN | Work into a mass. | ! | | EARN |l A place of combat. |. l | | | | I | [ | Military storehouse. Add a letter to each word shown in the left-hand column and rearrange | believed the date would be the letters to spell a word for which the definition is given. Insert the new added letter in the last column oppo- site the new word. If the pussle is solved correctly, the added letters will spell the trade name of one of the twenty-one (21) automobiles shown in the list below, to be exhibited at the Sixteenth Annual Automobile Show of Wash- ington, D. C., from November 2 to November 9, 1935, inclusive, at the Calvert Exhibit Hall, 2601 Calvert street northwest, opposite Hotel Shoreham, under the auspices of Washington Automotive Trade Association, which, with the this contest. PONTIAC STUDEBAKER TERRAPLANE '’ACKARD PLYMOUTH ‘The first puzzle was pubiiched October 8. The last will appear Octo- ber 28. Previous puzzles may be studied in the files in the business office of than October 29, but not later than will be final, will act as judges, and based Starting with the lowly office of | precinct committeeman, Spangler rose | OF UNHOLY PLOT Prosecutor Says Defendant Planned “Living Death” for Rival. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 18 —Jurors at the trial of Mandeville W. Zenge for the emasculation slaying of Dr. Walter John Bauer were told today by Prose- cutor Mal Coghlan that Zenge “de- creed a living death” for his rival in love, and intended, as part of his plot, that Bauer should live. Coghlan, opening final arguments in the case, declared: “Zenge wanted to frustrate Bauer's marriage to, Louise Shaffer. “He decreed a living death for him. It would have been far more merciful to kill the doctor. That's the hatred and malice this mind is capable of.” Defendant Unmoved. ‘The 26-year-old Missouri farmer sat staring straight ahead as the final arguments began. Without disputing the State's evidence that he attacked |and emasculated 38-year-old Dr. Bauer, 17 days after Bauer married pretty Louise Shaffer of Kirksville, Mo., Zenge's attorneys have pictured him as driven crazy by loss of the girl. Judge Cornelius J. Harrington speedily overruled a final effort to free Zenge by a directed verdict of acquittal. Detense Attorney Joseph Green made {t on the ground that the State had failed to show where the emascu- | lation operation took place, failing consequently to show that Illinois courts had jurisdiction. Although she has been near col- lapse many times during the trial Mrs. Alice Zenge, the prisoner's soft- spoken. white-hatred mother, came | to eourt. Capacity Crowd Hears Trial. To see and hear the case come to its climax brought out a capacity crowd. As stolidly as he watched the trial on October 9 the defendant witnessed the finale of the testimony. In rebuttal for the prosecution, Dr. Harry R. Hoffman, head of the Cook County Behavior Clinic, yesterday as- salled the defense picture of Zenge as a “maniac-depressive,” who lost control of his mental faculties when he learned that his sweetheart of 10 years had suddenly married an- other. “I examined Zenge the day of his arrest and I found nothing unusual about him,” said Dr. Hoffman. “He| appeared rational and the answers he gave to questions were rational.” The defense rested without any direct denial of the crime. 22 CHILDREN CHEAT DEATH IN BUS CRASH Three Pupils Are Cut by Glass. | Nineteen Others Receive Minor Injuries. Special Dispateh to The Star. MOUNT AIRY, Md., October 18— Twenty-two high school children nar- | rowly escaped death or serious injury about noon today when a school bus | in which they were returning from Westminster turned completely over | and made an about face of direction | on the highway about 3 miles from | Mount Afry. One boy, Charles Dodson, lost sev- | eral fingers, severed by flying glass, and two girls received severe cuts.| They are Kathryn Etchison and Re- | becca Milesworth. The other 19 es- caped with minor cuts and bruises. The school bus, owned and driven | by Oscar M. Unglesbee, 45, of Ridge- ville, Md.,, was returning from West- minster, where the children had been| rehearsing for a musical festival at the | State Teachers' meeting at Baltimore. | | A small automobie in front of the | | bus came to an abrupt stop, the driver failing to give the schoc' bus any! signal, according to Unglesbee. In an | effort to keep from striking the car, | Unglesbee braked the school bus so| sharply that it turned over on its topl and then rolled onto the other side, | breaking every window. The bus also | made an about face and headed back toward Westminster. The injured were hrough: to Mount | Airy, where they were treated by sev- eral physicians. It was thought none would require hospitalization. HIGH COURT MAY HEAR T. V. A. CASE ON DEC. 16 Tentative Date Is Agreed Upon at Conference of At- tcmyi. By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., October 18.— The suit of minority stockholders of the Alabama Power Co. against the Tennessee Valley Authority question- Ing the constitutionality of the T. V. A. act. probably will be argued before the United States Supreme Court De- cember 16, James Lawrence Fly, T. V. A. general solicitor said yesterday. “This date was tentatively agreed upon at a conference between attor- neys on our side and James M. Beck of opposing counsel,” Fly said. “For~ ney Johnston, representing the com- plainants, was not prefent, but it was agreeable to him.” Murder Suspects Willlam Cleary, above, and Ernest W. Myers, who are under investigation in eonnection with the murder of Allen B. Wilson, newspaper route agent. Myers is in the District Jail, while Cleary is being held incommunicado in a police precinct station. Wilson (Continued Prom Pirst Page) squad, said they would be back to- morrow. It was believed they went to Philadelphia, home of several of the suspects under arrest. Wilson was killed last October— apparently the victim of a bullet in. tended for Edward (Mickey) Mec- Donald, local gambler, who is reported to have incurred the enmity of the gambler now under investigation. Investigators believe the suspect hired assassins and sent them to kill McDonald at his home in Takoma Park. McDonald, however, returned to his home early on the night set for the murder, and when Wilson drove up to deliver a newspaper, the gun- men, hiding in & clump of trees across the road, shot him down by mistake. Police believe John (Slim) Dunn, now serving time in Alcatraz; Wil- liam J. Cleary, Dewey Jenkins and | Albert S. Sutton know something about the murder. Sutton is in the District Jail, while Cleary and Jen- kins are being held incommunicado in police precincts. Dead Man Named. Another man. Claude Bailey, who was killed recently in an attempted jail break at Lorton, also has been named by police in connection with the case. Department of Justice officials de- nied any arrangements have been made to bring Dunn here from Alca- traz, or that they have been asked to move him. It was said, however, that officials of the department have conferred with United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett on the procedure to be followed if they should decide later to transfer the notorious Tri-State gangster. Dunn is serving a 15-year sentence in Alcatraz for participation in the hold-up here of the Heurich Brewery. Another angle of the investigation was disclosed today with the an- nouncement that police will question Cleary concerning the robbery here last year of a well-known racketeer. The racketeer was held up and rcb- bed in Washington about the time | two Capital Transit Co. employes were murdered last January during the robbery of the Chevy Chase Lake car barn. Cleary, it was said, has been connected with “Tony the Stinger” Cugino, former Philadelphia racketeer. BAIL SYSTEM ASSAILED NEW YORK, October 18 (#.— Homer S. Cummings, Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, returning on the liner Washington last night, stated h> was convinced the greatest deterrent to crime prevention in the United States is abuse of the bail system. After five weeks' study of crime detection and prevention in France, England, Belgium and Italy Cum- mings pointed out as an example the speed with which England settles criminal cases. “In England,” he gaid, “with bail provided there is very speedy trial. Their judiclal ma- chinery moves with greater celerity than ours. Under our bail system men can prolong their escape from Justice indefinitely.” Udder of Dead Cow Gives Milk With Aid of Mechanical Heart By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, October 18.—By means of an artificial ‘heart the udder of & dead cow has been made to give milk, Dr. W. E. Petersen, University of Minnesota scientist, disclosed today. Dr. Petersen devised the artificial heart to aid him in studying the fat content of milk. He said it led to a new and better test for butterfat. The new test is known as the Minnesota Babcock put- terfat test, a refinement of the Bab- results. Dr. Petersen said that on one occa- sion he kept an udder “alive” for 13 ‘The arms are parallel but jut out from the disc at different levels. As the disc revolves, propelled by an electric motor, the arms press rubber tubes through which the blood riows. This gives the same pulsating effect as the heart in a living body, Dr. Petersen said. At first, efforts were made to keep the udder alive merely with the mechanical heart, but the attempts were unsuccessful becauee the blood deteriorated from lack of oxygen. Dr. Petersen then added a lung taken from a freshly slaughtered cow. 1t was inflated and deflated by an su- tomatic air hose. Before the lung was used the blood returning from the ud- der would be almost black, he said. ‘When it was circulated through the lung it came out & normal color. To keep it at body temperature the .| blood is passed through a glass coil immersed In warm water. Thirteen pounds of blood are used. His work also disclosed, the scientist said, that the fat content of milk is secreted in the udder independent of . " other milk ingredients. U.S. SILVER POLICY Rush of Gold From Europe Makes Buying Hard to Keep Up With. By the Associated Press. Europe’s crisis has had a queer, nightmarish effect on the Govern- ment’s silver-buying drive. Like men on a fast-moving tread- mill, the Treasury's silver purchasers now have to run if they want to stay where they are. A rush of war-scared gold from Eu- rope to the United States—something unforeseen when'the silver policy was laid down by Congress—is responsible. The law set forth a program under which the Treasury was to buy silver until there was one dollar of silver for every three of gold in the Nation's monetary stocks (or until the price of silver rose to $1.29 an ounce). 8o the Treasury started buying hun- dreds of millions of dollars worth of silver, only to find that the gold stock, instead of remaining fairly stationary so silver could catch up with its ap- pointed position, increased enormously as a nervous Europe shipped its gold here, $1,670,000,000 Silver on Hand. At the time the silver purchase act was passed, the Government had about $7,800,000,000 in gold and $915,~ 000,000 in silver, or 12 per cent a8 much silver as gold. Since then, according to the Treas- ury’s daily statement, the gold stocks have increased to $9.542,000,000 and |silver to about $1.670,000,000. The percentage of silver to gold has risen from 12 per cent to 17.5 per cent, but to reach the law's objective of 33!3 per cent, the Treasury must still purchase almost as much as in the beginning. If the gold stock had remained where it was when the silver purchase law was enacted, the Treasury would have had to acquire $1,650,000,000 of silver to reach the law’s objective. To- day, even with the large purchases that have been made, the Government is still $1,550,000.000 short of the goal. Despite the Treasury's acquisition of something like $750,000,000 in sil- ver over a period of 16 months, many of the silver Senators who fought for the purchase act are dissatisfled. Their real objective was not so much to acquire silver as to force the price up to the statutory level of $1.29 an ounce. | Price Virtually Pegged. | 4 They were elated as the purchase ogram forc¢ed the world price of the metal up from below 50 cents to about 80 cents, but since then the Treasury | has virtually pegged the price at about | 65 cents, or just about half the mone- tary price. Treasury purchases of silver are not | made public at any regular interval. so | an exact total on the amount held to- | day was not available. The last offi- | cial announcement, March 29, said | the Treasury had $1,445,000,000 of the | white metal. Prom the daily state- | ment, however, it can be roughly computed that the silver stock is now valued at close to the $1.670,000,000 | figure, representing acquisitions of about $225.000.000 since that date. At the beginning of this year the | silver held was $1.254.000,000, or about 15 per cent of the $8,200,000,000 of gold. On September 1, just before the re- cent gold rush, the Government held $1.524,000,000 of silver to $9.200,000.- 1000 of gold, or about 17 per eent. Since then silver stocks have increased | $140,000,000, while the gold total has | jumped up more }hnn $300,000,000. SUBVERSIVE LITERATURE |SUSPENDS 2 STUDENTS | University of Michigan Demands Written Pledge to Halt Activity Before Readmission. | By the Associated Press. | ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 18— The University of Michigan Discipline Committee has ordered the indefinite iluspenston of two members of the | National Student League for dis- tributing literature on the campus without faculty permission. | _ The students were Edith Folkoff of | New York and Ascher Opler of West- | brook, Conn. Miss Folkoff and Opler were in- | formed they would not be allowed to | re-enter the university until they had | agreed in writing never again to dis- tribute subversive literature. The | two students were charged with dis- tribution of pamphiets condemning war and urging student action to | force the readmission of three mem- bers of the league expelied last Sum- mer. Irvin S. Cobb Says: | { Story of Boy Who Died for Pet Was Most Tragic in News. SANTA MONICA, Calif., October 18.—To me, the biggest, most tragic story in the day's papers was not a war in Africa, or a Mexican border raid, or the pass- ing of a gallant American soldier. It was a little press dispatch from an Ohio town where a 12- ayear-old boy lived. house, no pennies to buy any food with. The little chap owned a rabbit, the par- ents voted that the rabbit must go in the pot to put strength into the stomachs of the hungry brood. Their son was hungry, too. But his rabbit was his pet, his one possession. So he went and he hanged himself with & loop of frayed clothes line. w8 People, including some who have plenty of it for themselves, are given to saying money isn't everything. Maybe not, but itll buy quite a lot of things. Just a little money in thas poor household would have bought a boy’s life. And a boy, who so dearly loved a dumb and helpless thing that he died rather than see it die, might have grown up to be somebody in & world which needs all the compassion and all the loving it can get. 1938, American omTrag Lo A L} ’