Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; mod- erate west winds. Temperatures—High- est, 68, at noon today; lowest, 43, at 6 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 33,415. ITALY'S “BIG PUSH" BEGING AS TROOPS HEAD FOR MAKALE Eritrean Soldiers March Into River Valley South of Aduwa. ETHIOPIAN CHIEFTAINS’ SURRENDER REPORTED Sporadic Bombing and Propa-| ganda Flights 200 Miles Ahead of Front Line. By the Associated Press. Mussolini’s legions marched today on Makale, strategic gateway to the | Ethiopian interior, as hopes dimmed in European capitals for an early | peace in East Africa. Native Eritrean troops advanced along the Faras Mai River Valley in northern Ethiopia. The valley, south of Aduwa, offers the most accessible | Toute to the highlands about Makale. | All along the way, a Rome com- munique said, chieftains surrendered | to the Italian forces and pledged their | — loyalty. In the Province of Tigre the Italians have freed 10,000 slaves, Italian headquarters announced. On the southern front, bombing planes operated over the Ogaden area | as far in the interior as Magalo, mid- ‘way between Italian Somaliland and Addis Ababa. Italy’s “Big Push.” To wmany observers, Italy's push” was getting underway. There was a psychological factor involved. Monday is the anniversary of the Fascisti march on Rome and week end victories would provide something to celebrate in Italy. ‘Warlike in manner. Mussolini greeted the Fascisti who mobilized in Rome for the opening of the fourteenth year of Italy under fascism. Il Duce denounced the League of Nations’ sanctions, characterizing them as: “big “A menacing economic siege that histery will brand as an absurd crime destined to increase disorders and misery among nations.” Fascist Italy. he said, greets the fourteenth year “in warlike style, with flags flying, with our will already tested by innumerable hardships.” Diplomatic Contact Severed. ‘The renewed activity on the North- ern front came after the last diplo- matic contact between Italy and Ethiopia was severed. Count Luigi Vinci-Gigiiucci, the Italian Minister, finally left Addis Ababa today, two weeks and more after Emperor Haile Selasst had or- dered him out of the country The drive on Makale reflected the pessimistic attitude toward peace pre- vailing in Europe, particularly in London. An authoritative spokesman, in Lcadon. said a stalemate. had been reached in efforts to end the Italian | conquest and there were no hopes for an early cessation of hostilities. The atmosphere in Britain was por- tentious. Nothing showed this as clearly as the declaration of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in reminding the British people “severer sanctions” might come from the League of Na- tions. In Washington a restatement of American policy was expected. There was no immediate indication it would include this Nation's views on tha possibility of a blockade of Italy in the Mediterranean. NEW DRIVE LAUNCHED. Move Seen Preliminary to Occupa- tion of Makale. ROME, October 26 (#).—The gov- ernment announced today that native Eritrean troops under Italian com- mand were moving forward to occupy the valley of the Faras Mai River. The operation was regarded here as foreshadowing an advance on Makale, since the river flows approximately south from Aduwa to what is gen- erally believed to be the northern army’s next objective, 70 miles south of Aduwa. An official communique said in- formation from the native chiefs in the region indicated the population was “anxiously” awaiting the Ital- ian occupation. Italian “aviators have made recon- naissance flights over the Aussa region, but the government stated they have disccvered nothing. It was also stated that there was nothing to re- port on the southern front. Air Bomb Campaign. A campaign of air bombs to the south and propaganda to the north moved Mussolini's armies slowly toward their hoped-for junction. The air raiders of Gen. Rudolfo Graziani, noted as a hardened colonial caimpaigner who cleaned up Libya, bombed the interior 200 miles ahead of his front line. They have reached north to Mogallo, half-way to Addis Ababa, and to Sasa Beneh, half-way to Harar, the site designated for the meeting of the two armies to join Italy’s East African colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland. On the northern front a stream of Ethiopian chieftains and their fol- lowers were reported by the Italian military ‘commanders to be still com- ing into the Fascist camps, clearing (See WAR, Page 5.) MACARTHUR WELCOMED Filipinos Greet General on Ar- rival to Train New Army. MANILA, October 26 (#).—Thou- sands of Filipinos and many Amer- jcans shouted a greeting to Gen. Douglas MacArthur today when the former American Army chief of staff arrived to start shaping Philippine de- fense forces upon inauguration of the commonwealth government Novem- military honors were accorded . MacArthur was appointed re- cently oy Full report on Page A-5. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. to train the new Phfllppm; C. Italy’s Envoy Leaves Ethiopia Locked in Train for Safety 'Enforced Departure of Minister Ends Problem of Selassie and Breaks Last Tie With Rome. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) ADDIS ABABA, October 26.—Italy’s Minister to Ethiopia, Count Luigi Vinci-Gigliucei, left Addis Ababa today, guarded closely but resisting, after having defied for 16 days a gov- ernment ultimatum to depart. With the count’s enforced depatture, the last diplomatic thread here bind- ing Italy and Ethiopia was broken. His military attache, Maj. Calderini, accompanied the Minister on a train to Djibouti, French Somaliland. They will be joined en route by the two consular agents from M-gallo for whom Count Vinci-Gigliucci in- sisted on waiting. The Minister was taken secretly from the home of Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, where he had been a virtual prisoner for a fortnight. He was lockec in a separate coach attached to the train outside the capital. Throughout the transfer, Vinci-Gigliueei, a close Premier Mussolini, was forbidden con- tact even with his friends At the request of Emperor Haile Count ch friend of | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fpening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1935—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Selassie, other members of the diplo- matic corps refrained from seeing_off the Italian Minister. All letters and telegrams, even those from Il Duce, were withheld from Vinei-Gigliucei until he was safely aboard the train. As a final mark of courtesy, Emperor [Hu‘ne Selassie sent one of his secre- | taries to bid farewell to the Minister, who will leave Djibouti almost imme- | diately for Rome. ‘To prevent any hostile act against Vinci-Gigliucei, the Emperor sent a large contingent of soldiers armed | with machine guns and rifles to guard the diplomat as far as the Franco- Ethiopian frontier. | The King of Kings expressed great | relief after the Italian Minister was | | placed on the train, having feared that Vinci-Gigliucei might resist de-[ | parture again at the last moment and create another international in- cident. | Associates of the Emperor said the | Minister’s persistence in remaining in (See ENVOY, Page 5. | SANGTIONS REPLY RUSHED BY U. §. }Answer to League to Be | Sent Tonight if Draft | Is Completed. By the Associated Press. American officials went to work to- | day on the final draft of a reply to the League of Nations' request for this Government's comment on the sanctions program against Italy. Indications were the answer would | be dispatched tonight to Hugh R. Wilson, United States Minister at Geneva. Although “specific informa- | tion as to the nature of the reply was withheld, it was understood the answer would make no comment on | the steps taken by the League to halt | the Italo-Ethiopian War, but would be confined generally to a statement | of the moves made by this country | | under the neutrality act and possibly | a restatement of America's hope for | world peace. ’ Addressed to Chairman. | The American communication will be addressed to the chairman of the Co-ordinating Committee, formed by the League under Article 16 to draft | the proposed sanctions against Italy. The administration yesterday de- voted a cabinet meeting discussion | and a conference with a former Sec- | retary of State to consideration of the neutrality policy. | A few hours before the cabinet | meeting, the first in more than a month, Secretary Hull called in his ! predecessor of the Hoover adminis- tration, Henry L. Stimson. Stimson had made a radio plea Wednesday night for American co-operation with other nations in their efforts to halt the Italo-Ethiopian war. Stimson declined to discuss his visit on leaving the State Department be- yond saying that he came to Washing- | ton to attend the horse show here. Hands-off Policy in Force. American policy, as it has been shaped so far toward the East Afri- can hostilities, has been one of direct contrast to that advocated by Stimson. President Roosevelt previously has followed a program of rigid non-par- ticipation in diplomatic and war trade | | affairs of the belligerents. This policy, it was believed in well- | informed quarters, will be enunciated in the America answer to the League. In his tour of duty in the post of chief diplomatic adviser to the Presi- dent, Stimson, like Hull, was con- fronted with armed hostilities abroad He twice invoked the Kellogg pact outlawing war—once against Soviet Russia and China when they clashed in a border dispute in 1929 and again against Japan in 1932 after it had occupied Manchuria and set up the independent government of Man- choukuo. Secretary Hull and President Roose- velt have avoided any references to the Kellogg pact in connection with the Italian campaign in Ethiopia in proclamations and statements voicing a desire for world peace. The impression prevailed here that this pact would not be utilized as an instrument of American policy, at least at this stage of the East African ‘war. Chinese Ban Recruiting. HONGKONG, October 26 (#).—The colonial government issued an order today prohibiting the recruiting of Chinese for service in Africa on behalf of either Italy or Ethiopia. Reports have been heard recently in Chinese quarters that coolies have been sought for service in Africa. . Roosevelt Advice On Socks M ay Irk Japanese People By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 26.—Japanese circles here today said that the ex- chonge of pleasantries between Vice President Garner, Speaker Joseph W. Byrns and President Roosevelt over the type of socks to be worn by Gar- ner and Byrns when received by the Emperor would not be regarded by their countrymen as humorous. They thought, however, that most Japanese would put the incident down as an American joke. The New York Times correspondent reported aboard the steamship Presi- dent Grant that the Vice President and Byrns each wirelessed to the President that the other’s socks were “all right” and that the President repliedy “Do as I am doing—wear none.” BRITAIN ORDERS SANCTIONS PLAGED Authoritative Sources See Efforts to End War in Ethiopia at Stalemate. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 26.—Authorita- ive sources said today that a stale- | mate had been reached in efforts to end the Italo-Ethiopian War and that there were no hopes for an early ces- sation of hostilities. At the same time, the Treasury De- partment ordered that Great Britain's financial sanctions against Italy be placed in operation next Tuesday. Effective Tuesday. The official treasury said financial sanctions were being applied under article 3 of the League covenant and refers to loans credits to or for the benefit of “(1) the government of any Italian territory, (2) and a person (not being a body | corporate) of whatever nationality resident in such territory, and (3) any person (wherever a resident) being a body corporate incorporated under the law of any such territory.” The Treasury Department explained that Italian nationals resident outside Italian territory were excluded from the provisions of these sanctions, but | their branches (of corporations) in other countries of corporations incor- porated in Italian territory were in- | cluded. Conversely, other nationals, includ- ing British, which are resident in Italian territory, are included under the provisions but the branches in Italian territory of corporations in- corporated in other countries are ex- cluded. Peace Efforts Fail. Informed sources saia that the progress of the peace negotiations of Premier Mussolini of 1italy and Pre- mier Laval of France had virtually broken down and that there was little hope for them unless the Italians came forward with new proposals which would be acceptable to the League of Nations and Ethiopia. These authorities” viewpoint was that the proposals thus far advanced | by the Italians are unacceptable to the league, are regarded as unsatis- factory by Great Britain, have failed to impress Laval and meet with Em- peror Haile Selassie’s disapproval. Emphasizing an official veiwpoint that no progress has been made on the pathway of peace, the British gov- ernment declared that the league's plans for sanctions against Italy would be carried on “absolutely as outlined,” with no weakening, and with no de- lay. Munitions Are Banned. Simultaneously it was officially an- nounced that the munitions of war sanctions against Italy became opera- tive yesterday. In addition to the financial sanc- tions, which go into effect Tuesday, economic sanctions are to be levied as soon as the League Council orders them, presumably early in November. All the British legal machinery for making sanctions effective was ar- ranged through the publication of orders in council and the official treas- ury anouncement prohibiting financial dealings of a certain character with Italians after Tuesday. Sir George Russell Clerk, the Brit- ish ambassador to France, was main- (See LONDON, Page 5.) BOY OF 2 DROWNED BY FALL IN CREEK Slipping away from his mother shortly before noon today, 2-year-old John Davidson, jr, was drowned when he fell face down in the shal- low waters of Oxon Run on the Cedar Hill Cemetery grounds. The boy had been playing in the house, which is on the cemetery grounds, and slipped out while his mother, Mrs. Cora Davidson, was en- gaged with housework. She missed him within 10 minutes and called two mechanics from a nearby garage. A few minutes later one of them, William Moyer, found him in the creek. The boy apparently had crawled under a wire fence between his house and the creek. The water is only from 2 dnches to a foot deep. His body was found about 200 feet from the house. ‘Taken to Casualty Hospital in a private car, he was pronounced dead on arrival. The Davidsons have one other child, an infant boy. e father is & tree surgeon. explanation | and | SUSPEGTED KILLER OF SCHULTZ FOUND STRANGLED BY TIE Body of Albert Stern Is Lo- cated in Gas-Filled Room. YOUTHFUL GANGSTER IS BELIEVED SUICIDE Beer Baron's Bondsman Surren- ders to Police as Hunt for Gunman Is Pressed. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., October 26.—Al- bert Stern, the youthful gunman, wanted by police for questioning in the Dutch Schultz tavern massacre and half a dozen other gang kill- ings, was found strangled in a gas- filled room in an Italian-American neighborhood today. Positive identification of the body was announced by Lieut. of Detectives Joseph Coccoza of the county prose- cutor’s staff. The body was found by Miss Cecilia Bracker, who smelled gas and traced | it to the room which the 21-year-old gunman had rented two weeks ago. She found Stern lying in bed, a | necktie knotted tightly about his throat. Gas was flowing from an open jet in the room. Police, who were immediately notified, found a note signed “Al" near the body. They refused to divulge its contents. Lieut. Coccoza said the identifica- | tion of the man had been made by a | | fingerprint comparison. Dead 10 Hours, Stern had been dead about 10 hours when the body was found. Al- though conceding the death had the | | appearances of a suicide, police with- | held a formal verdict pending an | autopsy by Dr. Harrison S. Martland, chief county medical examiner. { Stern had been hunted in connec- tion with the slaying of “Pretty Louis” | Amberg, Schultz lieutenant, in Brook< | lyn early this week, and was de- scribed by Police Commissioner Lewis | | J. Valentine of New York as a paid | killer. The rooming house where the body was found was at 474 Fifteenth avenue and Stern’s room was on the second floor. i Pictures distributed by police since | Stern was hunted for questioning in | the bloody internecine warfare which | has swept the underworld for the past | week showed him as a clean-shaven | | young man. To escape detection more | easily, the youth had grown a small mustache, Schultz Bondsman Surrenders. | About the same time Max SllVET-i man, Dutch Schultz bondsman, wanted | | for questioning about the tavern mas- | sacre, surrendered at police head- | quarters. Silverman was wanted by authorities because of stories of witnesses that he was closeted with Schultz in the down- town chop house shortly before it was ' swept by gunfire. . | Another important development was the news that Charles (Lucky) Luci- ano, Schultz foe and alleged member of the underworld hierarchy, which came into power with Schultz's demise, was in this city with lieutenants on the eve of the tavern shooting. As for Silverman, police said it was known he had conferred with Schultz | recently at the tavern in which the | racketeer and three lieutenants were shot by rival gunmen Wednesday night. | They said they wished to know about his movements and to learn if Silverman could give them any in- formation concerning Schultz's ene- mies. | Also on the sought list was the | (See SCHULTZ, Page 5.) MRS. G. P. MARSHALL GRANTED DIVORCE Decree From Sportsman Is Speed- iest on Record in Local Court. Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall, 4000 Cathedral avenue, has been granted an absolute divorce from George P. Marshall, business man and sports- man, whom she sued 10 days ago charging desertion. The decree was handed down late yesterday by Justice Luhring in Dis- trict Supreme Court and probably was the speediest on record here under new procedure by which uncontested cases are disposed of as quickly as possible. Marshall, represented by Attorney Milton A. King, did not appear in court. Mrs. Marshall was represented by the firm of Douglas, Obear, Mor- gan & Campbell. Mrs. Marshall gets custody of their children, Cath- erine, 14, and George P., jr, 10, with provision being made for their father to visit them. The couple was married in 1920, and separated in 1928. Mrs. Mar- shall's bill for divorce set out that maintenance provision was made in 1 | an agreement in 1929, ACOPY OF THIS WouLD BE A FINE CHRISTMAS GIFT TO THE NEW DEALERS / Trucking Concerns of U. S. Ask Affiliates to Join Safety Drive National Officers Sign S;ar Pledges and Arrange to Put Association Behind Move to Save Lives. Nation-wide support for the safel Same Period, 19 ty campaign of The Star has been called for by the American Trucking Associations through 75 affiliated State and local trucking organizations in all parts of the country., it was announced as national officers of the ascociation signed their personal safe driving pledges and arranged to put the whole weight of the association behind the drive for street and highway safety. The association has sent to all its%- affiliated membership throughout the country a bulletin outlining the pur- poses of The Star safety drive and calling upon member organizations and other groups of public-spirited citizens everywhere to undertake the same or a similar form of safety cam- paign to reduce the mounting tide of traffic accidents, which last year took a toll of 36,000 lives. The national association now fis working on a model campaign outline for its local State organizations and at the same time is undertaking a census of safety campaigns in progress throughout the United States. This census will show how many and what kind of safety drives are being made and by what organizations and is ex- | pected to pave the way for a Nation- wide co-ordinated safety movement " (See SAFETY, Page 3.) SPORT FANS FIND MENU ATTRACTIVE Many in District Travel to Navy Game and to Laurel Races. Although all the District’s college foot ball teams were playing on for- eign fields or idle, Capital fans today | were sitting in on the most attractive | sports program of the Fall. A sizable delegation from Wash- ington was expected to help make up the 60,000 attendance predicted at| Baltimore Stadium, where a strong Navy eleven was to meet undefeated Notre Dame. The Laurel race track also looked to a big day, with the $10,000 Wash- ington Handicap, drawing Discovery and a fine field, and the Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap scheduled. More than 20,000 were expected. The Inter-American Horse Show and Exhibition, centered around inter- national military and civilian jump- ing classes and many other events, was to open in Rock Creek Park at Chevy Chase, Md. The meet will last three days. American University, represented by the best team the Eagles have known, faced St. John's at Annapolis in the only nearby game involving a District team. VON PAPEN KILLS RUMOR BY RETURN TO VIENNA By the Associated Press. VIENNA, October 26.—Franz von Papen, German Minister to Austria, returned to Vienna today after see- ing Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, giving an effective denial to reports that he was about to be withdrawn. An impression persisted in diplo- matic quarters, nevertheless, that Von Papen lost prestige at Berlin when the recent Austrian cabinet change was effected without a hint of a soft- ening of Austria’s pronounced anti- Nazi attitude. Von Papen’s original mission to Vienna was to counteract official Aus- trian bitterness after the assassina- tion of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during the abortive Nazi putsch. Talmadge Ignores Navy Day; Hits Special Days as “Racket” By the Associated Press. , ATLANTA, Ga., October 26.—Com- menting that “special days and weeks” suggest “a kind of racket,” Gov. Eu- gene Talmadge has refused to pro- claim Monday as Navy day and Oc- tober 27 as Theodore Roosevelt Me- morial day. The Navy day proclamation request was made by Robert J. S. La Porte, New York, national president of the Young Men’s Council of the United States and general chairman of the organization Navy Day Committee. “I found after being in office a few months,” the Governor replied letter, “that there were requests special days and weeks that it seemed as if it by tor tly jconstant fium.m-qwmmum of a racket. I made a rule then to issue proclamations, except in rare instances, only on official business.” The Governor expressed his “ terest in an adequate Navy and a great merchant marine,” but said he would not proclaim Navy day. This designation has the indorsement of the Department of Navy. Mrs. John Henry Howard, New York, presidént of the Women’s Roosevelt Memorial Association, asked the Gov- ernor to proclaim October 27 as the seventy-seventh anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt. The Governor replied to her also that Le the press.” LA FOLLETTE SEES 10 PARTY LIKELY Appearance Sure in 1936, He Says, Unless Major Ones Shun Reaction. By th: Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 26.—Wiscon- sin’s Progressive party Governor, Phillip La Follette, predicted today | he emergence of a “strong third party” in the 1936 presidential elec- tion, “unless the two major parties | purge themselves of reaction.” His feet crossed on the radiator of | his hotel room, the young-looking son of “PFighting Bob” La Follette said “a great sentiment for new party alignment among Americans will compel progressivism, the old party lines or from a new party.” He declined to say in which direc- | tion his personal support would fall, | beyond the observation “if Roose- velt’s program is progressive I'll sup- port him. If the Republicans put up a man who presents a platform saner and more progressive than the Presi- dent’s I'll go that way.” Men Cited as Paradoxes. “The country is not going on in- definitely,” he said, “with two parties that have so little unity that they can embrace, as a Democratic ex- ample, Carter Glass and John W. Davis or Burton K. Wheeler and Ed- ward P. Costigan, or with the Repub- | licans, Herbert Hoover and George Norris.” Gov. La Follette returned yesterday from Bermuda. He will deliver sev- eral speeches in upstate New York next week. He said that many Western States have already indicated their dissatis- faction with conservative party poli- cies and have thrown support to personalities progressive beyond Dem- ocratic and Republican tenets. The ‘Wisconsin Governor mentioned specifi- cally his own State, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, and New Mexico. Sees Work First in States. Gov. La Follette opined that the third party would hgye to be built up in separate States before it could become & national entity, “because the laws of the States are not friendly to new parties, and the old guard Republicans and Democrats jealously have molded their election machinery to suit their ends.” He cited the theory that “the Demo- cratic administration is using Federal relief whip-like over the heads of Governors” and definied it as “bosh, so far as I can see.” “I have seen no indication what- soever,” he said, “that the Federal Government is making any distinction on the basis of politics to grant or refuse to grant relief funds to States.” The 1936 election, Gov. La Follette said, will be a matching of per- sonalities, with the Republicans facing the necessity of nominating a progres- sive—“spelled with a small ‘p’” he said—*“entirely divorced from the old order, which is dead, but scarcely Gov. La Follette said that he had received an invitation from the New York Commonwealth Federation to speak here November 15 on the same program with esota’s Farmer- Laborite Governor, Floyd B. Olson, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. either within | Bome Retur; Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,472 ns Not Yet Received. *¥ FRANK, THATS ONE GOOD RESULT OF NEW DEALISM' HE'S STUDYING THAT OL LANDMARK' PRESIDENT GOES 10 BRIDGE FET Will Attend Dedication of $1,340,000 Choptank River Span. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt left the White House this morning for Annapolis, where he boarded the yacht Sequoia to attend ceremonies at Cambridge, Md.. planned this afternoon for the dedication of the $1,340,000 Chop- tank River bridge. The Sequoia will be the first vessel to pass under the |draw of the mile-and-three-quarter | ribbon of steel linking Dorchester and | Talbot counties on the Eastern Shore. | The President was met at Annapolis by Senator Radcliffe of Maryland. Wearing a topcoat for protection against a cool, crisp breeze, he had ridden from Washington in an open car. Throngs poured into Cambridge | from all parts of the State to obtain | & glimpse of the President as the city declared a half-holiday and decked itself out in festive style. Mr. Roosevelt said at the White House today before he left for the trip he will neither speak nor go ashore at Cambridge. Accompanying him on the cruise across Chesapeake Bay were the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. David Gray of Portland, Me., the latter an aunt of Mrs. Roosevelt. The vacht will steam down the bay to the mouth of the Potomac after the dedication and then proceed up the river late tomorrow to arrive at Wash- ington Navy Yard shortly after dark. Mr. Roosevelt was looking forward to the brief rest this cruise will afford him, after his strenuous hours at his office since his return from the West | Coast Thursday morning. | Mr. Roosevelt has not yet decided definitely just when he will leave Washington next week for his home at Hyde Park, N. Y. but indications are he will depart probably Wednes- | day or Thursday night. He will take along with him a quantity of work which wili occupy him during the greater part of his days at Hyde Park. He will remain there until after election day, November 5, and then return to the White House. program is Gov. Harry W. Nice. In the stand behind him are to be three former Governors of Maryland—Al- bert C. Ritchie, Emerson C. Harring- ton and Phillips Lee Goldsborough. The Governors of four neighboring States were likewise on the list of nvited guests. They were C. Douglass Buck, Delaware; George C. Peery, virginia; George H. Earle, Pennsyl- | vania, and Harold G. Hoffman, | New Jersey. The bridge and its two approaches required more than a year and & half to build. The P. W. A. furnished the money for the approaches and gave a 30 per cent grant for labor and materials for the main span. 1 ,000 May Be Dead In Wake of Storm That Swept Haiti By the Associated Press. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, October 26.—Reports reached here today that hundreds of persons were drowned in the Jeremie and Jacmel regions of the island last week end in torrential rains which accompained the Carib- bean hurricane. The reports said 96 bodies have been recovered at Jacmel, where the death toll may reach 1,000. Communication with the entire Southern peninsula has been cut off since Monday, roads are impassable and the news now flitering is carried overland with great difficulty by cou- riers. An airplane stopped at the Port of Jermie yesterday afternoon and brought back reports of the flood ravages. The government is endeavoring to get aid to the stricken area where the scanty reports said thousands were homeless and the crops destroyed. SANTIAGO, Cuba, October 26 (#).— Three more bodies found among the floating debris of the flood-gorged rivers of Oriente Province brought the list of known dead from the re- cent Caribbean storm to 12 last night. Streams normally but a few yards wide have spread to several miles in places, taking houses, crops, animals and persons in their rush to the sea. At Mayari a dozen buildings, in- cluding & school and the court house with all its records, were carried away by the Mayari River and three men and a boy were | o (#) Means Associated Press. » Chief speaker on the Cambridge | TWO CENTS. CORN-HOG BALLOT OUTCOME DOUBTED BY A. A A. CHIEFS Farmers in 48 States Ex- press Opinion of Program in Voting Today. | \ TOTAL POLL EXPECTED |TO BE MORE THAN 500,000 Referendum Comes as Control Policy, Recently Defended by President, Is Warmly Debated. By the Associated Press. The New Deal's most far-flung agri- cultural control program underwent a ballot-box test today as farmers in 48 States voted in a crucial corn-hog referendum. The question confronting the pro= ducers as they went to 2.000 polling places was this: “Do you favor a corn-hog adjuste ment program to follow the 1935 pro= gram which expires November 30, 19352" The polls, which opened at 8 am,, local time, will close at 10 p.m., and first results of the balloting are ex= pected here by midnight. While ex= pressing hope that a program would be approved, A. A. officials said there was serious doubt about the out= come. They believed the total vote would [be larger than the 579,716 farmers { who balloted on a similar question in October, 1934. In that referendum, 389,139 voters approved a program, | and 190,577 opposed. Policy Debate Grows. The referendum comes at a time when debate is intensifying over the A. A. A. policy of crop control, with |its system od benefit payments to | farmers for adjusting production and | acreage. | Critics have charged regimentation; have assailed so-called “scarcity” eco= | nomics, and have called consumer at- tention to present high prices of pork. Defenders of the A. A. A. have said the control program is a Democratic | process; that farmers must fit pro- | duction to demand as long as indus' works that way, and that the present hog shortage is due to the drought. Observers watched for the effect on today's ballotting of a statement Pr: dent Roosevelt issued on the eve of | the referendum. Envisioning a “sin plified and more flexible adjustme program” of a long-term character, | he also referred specifically to corn | and hogs. “The time may come” he said, | “when the A. A. A. will prove as | important in stimulating certain kinds of production as it has been in re- moving burdensome surpluses. For example, an expanded production of | hogs, to replace shortages caused by the drought, is contemplated under the proposed new corn-hog program.” | Cut in Corn Acreage. The 1935 program, now in effect, called for a 10 to 30 per cent cut in corn acreage and a 10 per cent slash in hog production, but A. A. A. officials said that because of the drought, few farmers could produce as much as 90 per cent of their base hog production. An increase of from 25 to 30 per cent in hog production will be sought | for next year, A. A. A. officials have | said, but they added that if control machinery were not continued the bottom might drop out of hog prices | in 1937. There was a disposition among some | observers today to look on the presi- dential statement of yesterday as a possible ‘move to offset any critical | demands for the elimination of red tape, for reduced costs and simplified | procedure. Future Control Seen. A. A A officials, studying the Presi- | dent’s statement, said they saw a | future control program in which pay- | rolls would be reduced, management would be decentralized, and farmers given as nearly complete control as possible. Census Bureau siatistics say there are 4,500,000 farmers who produce some corn and some hogs. But farm officials say probably 2,500,000 of these produce only a little corn for feed on their own farms or only enough hogs for home consumption and would not be concerned with adjustment con- tracts. Records show 1,032.578 adjustment contracts have been signed by corn- hog farmers this year, with additional | contracts yet to be receivgd in Wash- | ington. The total last year was 1,155,- | 294 contracts. Success Predicted in Iowa. | DES MOINES, Iowa, October 26 (+). | —Corn-hog committees reported yes- terday that absent voters' ballots checked in two counties so far indi- cate a comfortable majority in the national referendum tomorrow on pro- duction control continuation. ‘Wapello County committeemen said that of approximately 600 apsentee ballots received, 80 per cent approved continuation. They said the large number of early ballots, cast by those unable to reach the polls today, indicates a heavy vote in Southern Iowa. Committeemen in Jasper County said that of 71 absentee ballots checked, 59 contract signers voted for continuation. Readers’ Guide Amusements Church News _ Comics __ Editorials Finance __ Lost and Found - Radio ____ Real Estate Serial Story .- ‘Washington Wayside Women’s Features -..