Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today, tomorrow mostly cloudy, possibly showers; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 71, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 6 a.m. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and yesterday. Full report on page A-16. No. 1,097-—-)0. 33,416. () Means Associated Prou. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Uhe WASHINGTON, D. C, TH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY MORN' G, OCTOBER HULL REAFFIRMS NEUTRAL STAND IN- PLEDGING LEAGUE PEACE AID; DUCE DECLARES SANCTIONS WAR United Ef forts to Halt War Backed. U. S. STANDS BY KELLOGG PACT | Traditional Ban on| Entanglement Is Re-emphasized. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘Re-emphasizing the policy of “no entanglements” of the United States, and reaffirming its stand of independ- ent neutrality in the Italo-Ethiopian ‘war, Secretary Hull last night in- formed the president of the Commit- tee of Co-ordination of the League of Nations, Dr, Augusto de Vasconcellos, that this country has done and will continue to do all in its power to contribute towards a peaceful settle- ment of the present world problems. The Secretary of Siate stated in unequivocal terms that the United States stands by the Kellogg-Briand pact and other peace treaties with the whole might of its moral influence. Will Work Toward Peace. “Realizing.” Hull said, “that war adversely affects every country, that it may seriously endanger the eco- nomic welfare * * * and even| threatens the existence of civilization, | the United States. in keeping with the | letter and the spirit of the pact of Paris and other peace obligations, un- dertakes at all times not. only to exer- cise its moral influence in favar of peace throughout the world, but to! contribute in every practicable way within the limitations ot our foreign policy to that end.” ’ ‘Without saying so specifically, Mr. Hull expressed the sympathies of this | country with the efforts of the other | countries to put a stop to the danger- | ous adventure in East Africa—that is | to say, with the measures adopted by | the League of Nations regarding United States,” Secretary Hull ‘views with sympathetic interest the individual or concerted efforts of their nations to preserve peace or to | localize or shorten the duration of | war.” Encouragement Seen. ‘This last sentence in the 3ecreta~y’s reply to the notification of the presi- dent of the Committee of Co-ordina- tion of the League of Nations is bound to be interpreted abroad as an en- | couragement to the League to entorce | the economic and financial sanctions in their fullest measure against Italy. Mr. Hull made it clear that the various steps adopted by the ad- | ministration before and after the | outbreak of the Italo-Ethiopian Warl were taken independently of the actions of the League of Nations and were dictated solely by the desire of the American people to see all con- flicts settled by peaceful means. “The Government and people of the United States are deeply in- | | operations. SECRETARY OF STATE HULL. DR. AUGUSTO DE VASCONCELLOS. ERITREAN TROOPS DRIVE TO MAKALE Two Ethiopian Towns Are Reported Taken by Na- tive Forces. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 26.—Italy thrust her military forces farther into Northern Ethiopia today. Italian correspondents with the invaders reported tonight. as | | native Eritrean troops captured two | towns fn a determined drive south- ward toward Makale. The dispatches received here said the Italian-trained natives occupied Debra Sion and Tecla-Aimanot (not | shown on maps). The first Eritrean advance column began its drive from | Edaga Hamus, about 50 miles north of Makale, and filtered into enemy territory along mule trails leading to Makate. (Edaga Hamus is a village 15 miles southeast of Adigrat, one of the first Ethiopian towns occupied by the Ital- ian Northern Army.) Other indigenous troops filed into the enemy territory along mule trails converging on Makale. Reported Hailed as “Liberators.” The troops were reportedly received as “liberators” by the Ethiopians, and lhe correspondents said “not a shot” was fired during the advance. The dispatches did not confirm re- ports circulating here that the com- ! bined Italian forces in mnorthern Ethiopia were participating in the | march on Makale. Makale, only 60 miles southeast of | Aduwa, is the next goal of Italy's northern army. An almost impassable | region of high mountains and ravines, however, has slowed up the Italian The Eritrean troops under I'.auan‘ officers advanced to occupy the Faras Mai River region. Italian flyers, modern day scouts, discovered no massed enemy in recon- | BUDGET §35.721,080 Extra Appropriation Added to Already Huge Sum for Shipbuilding. By the Associated Press ROME, October 26.—Italy, disap- pointed that Great Britain's fleet is still massed in the Mediterranean, announced a huge appropriation to- night to belster her own navy. A government decree authorized 441,000,000 lire (about $35,721 000! as | an extra approrpriation for ‘“new construction and transformation of naval craft.” Another decree set up a “high naval command” in Italy’s Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. The money will be spent as follows: 285,000,000 during the current fiscal year, 103,000,000 year and 26,000,000 in the year end- ing in 1938. Budget Already Enermous. Already the naval budget for this year was an enormous one, m(allmg TALY RAISES NAVY in the next fiscal SETH PERKINS SEZ HE NEVER CuLD GIT FIVE BUSHELS "Calls Fascists to Battle on ‘Injustice. LONDONORDERS FINANCIAL BAN Credit Prohibition to Be in Effect on Tuesday. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 26.—Benito Musso- lini lashed out at sanctions in a muli- tant appeal to his Fascist followers to- day and warned that Italy would fight against this “most odious of injus- tices.” His warlike words were in his annual | message to the Black Shirts as a salute | Sundlay Star 27, 1935—118 PAGES. \& SQUASH CENTER COMMENTS ON SECRETARY WALLACE’ S POTATO PUZZLE. Every Afternoon. N CENTS CORN-HOG VICTORY BY 81 VOTE SEEN IN FIRST RETURNS 173,853 for Control to 21,- 929 Against, Reported in 23 States. FIVE CENTS * IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS MY OL'GAL NEVER BELIEVED iNSANTA CLAUS WHEN SHE WUZ. GRAIN BELT BALLOTS BACK NEW DEAL PLAN | Doubtful State of Kansas Swept by A. A. A. Program, With Figures 13,106 to 1,883. By the Associated Press. A better than five to one balance in favor of continuing the A.A.A.'s corne hog control plan in 1936 was ree corded early today in partial returns from yesterday’'s national referendum. At 1 am, returns from 23 States showed this total: 173,853 for, 21,929 against A. A. A. officials who had expressed uneasiness over the outcbme showed both surprise and pleasure at the trend of the ballotting. to the fourteenth year of Fascism, opening Monday on the anniversary cf “ " the march on Rome. “Those who are ready to consum- mate against us the most odious of in- justices will perceive that the Italian | people is capable of heroisms like those of the soldiers who avenged Aduwa | with glory and carried civilization to the soil of Africa,” he said, referring | to sanctions. “Pride in Fighting.” “This is an epoch in which one must | | feel the pride of living and of fighting. | | This is an epoch in which a peopie measures upon a base of hostile forces its capacity of resistance and victory. | “Before an economic siege which history will brand as an absurd crime, destined to augment disorder and dis- tress among the nations, all Italians | worthy of that name will fight to or- | ganize the most intense defense, wiil | {00t ball horde of Notre Dame swept | distinguish between friends and en- | {rom out of the West today to sink the | emies and will long remember and |N8V¥, 14 to 0, in a bitter battle which | | transmit the memory and the lessons | ended Acnapolis' two-year reign over | of the fathers to the sons and to tae | the South Bend forces. nephews.” Mussolini gave his Black Shirt le- | glory they knew under their immortal gionnaires “duty and sacrifice” as a | Rockne, the Ramblers continued along watchword for the fourteenth year of | the trail of unbeaten and untied teams Notre Dame Ends Two-Year Reign of Middies Before 64,000 Fans. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, October 26— With two rapid, perfectly timed aerial becmbardments, the green-jerseyed SINK NAVY, 14700 Seemingly destined to regain the | Fascism. There are 14,000,000 mem- with a decisiveness that left little bers of the party among Italy’s 44,- | doubt in the minds of the 64,000 spec- 000,000 population. | tators as to which was the more pow- Referring to the eoming year, Il Duce 1,304,881,000, or about 80,000,000 lire | said: “We salute it in warlike styie, more than that of last year. | with flags fiying, with all the glory of Well-informed sources interpreted | our faith and with all our will already erful and potent machine. Navy, despite the moderate size of the score, was overpowered and out- | |classed by the hard-driving silk- | terested in the prevention of war |naissance flights over the Aussa re- and hence in the sanctity of treaties. \glon A government communique said, ® * * We are by tradition strong pro- | ponents of the principle that all dif- ferences between members of th81 family of nauuns should be settled | by pacific means.” After setting forth chronologically the various steps taken by this Gov- ernment to avoid the outbreak of the armed conflict between Italy and Ethiopia, the Secretary of State ! added: “When, however, it was found that | hostilities actually existed * * * this | Government, acting on its own initiative, promptly announced a number of basic measures primarily to avoid being drawn into the war and which also would not be without effect in discouraging war.” Secret Sympathy Disproved. By this statement Mr. Hull ex- ploded rumors spread by interested quarters that the action of the United States in declaring an em- | bargo as soon as President Roosevelt (See WAR, Page 3.) —_—— CALIFORNIA G. 0. P. HEADS FAVOR BORAH| County Chairmen’s Poll Shows 18 for Idahoan, 5 for Hoover, 4 for Col. Knox. SANTA BARBARA, Calif,, October 26.—A poll of the Republican county chairmen of California conducted by the Santa Barbara Morning Press to- day disclosed Senator William E. Borah of Idaho as their choice for President and Gov. Frank F. Merriam of California for Vice President. ‘The poll represented 44 of the State’s 58 counties. The first choice for President listed Senator Borah, 16; Herbert Hoover, 5; Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, 4; Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, 4; Gov. Merriam, 2; Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas, 2; Ogden Mills, 2; Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, John Winant, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, Lewis Douglas of Arizona, Senator George ‘W. Norris of Nebraska, Senator Ar- thur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cali- fornia and Mayor La Guardia of New York, 1 each. The first choice for Vice President listed Gov. Merriam, 9; Senator Mc- Nary, 5; Gov. Landon, 4; Col. Knox, 3; Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 3; Lewis Douglas, 3; Representative Fish, 2; Senator Borah, 2; Earl Warren, 2; Mayor La Guardia, 2, and one each for Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illi- nois, Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Ogden Mills, Hanford MacNider, John Winant, Senator ’Johnm and Senator La Follette, |in the south are driving forward to | meanwhile, “there is nothing to re- port” on the southern or Somaliland front. Drive on Mogalo. Forces under Gen. Rudolfo Graziani Mogalo, halfway to Addis Ababa, and | to Sasa Baneh, halfway to Harar. ! Harar has been designated as the | meeting point of the northern and | southern armies. Success in this objective woul link Italy’s colonies of Eritrea and Som- | aliland. The communique said “chiefs and | important residents” in the region of the Faras Mai River have “submitted | and affirm that the population awaits our occupation with anxiety.” {JOCKEY SAUNDERS SUED FOR $100,000 DAMAGES Action Is Outgrowth of Automo- | bile Ride Death of Louis- ville Woman. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky. October 26— Suit for $100,000 damages against Jockey Willie (Smokey) Saunders and Walter Schaeffer, race track exercise boy, growing out of the automobile ride death of Mrs. Evelyn Sliwinski, was brought in Circuit Court here today by the administrator of her estate. Saunders is under indictment for accessory to murder and Schaeffer for murder in connection with the death of the young married woman climax- the decree to indicate that work on | | Italy's two new 35,000-ton battleships | and on cruisers and other units which | she is authorized to build under the limits of the Washington naval treaty will be hastened. Italy was clearly disappointed that | Britain had not withdrawn some of | ‘recalllng a division of troops from Libya. A peaceful settlement of the Ethio- | pian problem, these quarters asserted. {is *“difficult” with British gunboats and battleships “hanging around.” ‘When Premier Mussolini sent two ships to bring back the division from Libya he supposed Britain would re- ply by withdrawing some warships. | London had regarded the Libyan con- centration as a threat to Egypt. Golden Opportunity Muffed. Thus pessimism replaced the opti- mism here of two days ago with the Italian claim that Britain had muffed a golden European peace. An official source said what needed is some “practical manifesta- | tion” of Britain’s friendship. “They tell us they are not un- friendly,” he asserted. “They tell us | they recognize our needs for expansion. They tell us they have no interest in Ethiopia. But what practical steps have they taken to assure us their protestations are sincere?” At the same time Italy was cheered by belief that there will be a delay in the enforcement of sanctions against her and that some British opinion is veering away from rigid sanctions. —— DOCTOR’S WIFE SHOT Sheriff to Investigate Death of Prominent Woman. ATHENS, Ga, October 26 (#).— Mrs. M. B. Allen, wife of a prom- inent Hoschton, Ga., physician, died in a hospital here late last night and a bullet wound. Circumstances of the shooting, which is reported to have occurred in Hoschton Thursday night, could not be learned. At the sherifl’s office in Jefferson, Ga., Deputy Sheriff Fred Culberson said the woman’s husband would be questioned. ing a drinking party here last Sat- urday night. At the hospital in Hoschton, Dr. Allen declined to discuss the case. Results of Leading Grid Games LOCAL. Maryland, 20; Florida, 6. New York U, 7; Georgetown, 6. Wake Forest, 7; George Washing- ton, 6. St. John's, 19; American U., 7. William and Mary (Norfolk branch), 31; Gallaudet, 0. NATIONAL. Notre Dame, 14; Navy, 0. Army, 14; Yale, 8. . Cornell, 0. ; Harvard, 6. Pennsylvania, 67, Lafayette, 0. Detroit. 19; Villanova, 15, Carnegie Tech, 7; Purdue, 0. Louisiana State, 7; Vanderbilt, 2. Alabama, 17; Georgia, 7. North Carolina, 19; Georgia Tech, 0. Minnesota, 21; Northwestern, 13. Ohio State, 28; Indiana, 6. Iowa, 19; Illinois, 0. Michigan, 19; Columbia, 7 Chicago, 13; Wisconsin, Marquette, 33; Ml&!lflippl, 6. Pittsburgh, 9; Penn State, 0. Holy Cross, 3; Colgate, 0. Rice, 28; Texas, 19. Kansas, Kansas State, 2. Nebraska, 19; Oklahoma. 0. California, 21; Southern Califor- nia, 7. Stanford, 6; Washington, 0. Caiifornia (L. A. branch), 33; Ore- gon, 6. (Full details of these games and of Discovery’s crushing defeat in the Washington Handicap, feature race at Laurel, may be found on the Sports Pages.) B e e —— tested by innumerable hardships.” iron production that smacks of some- Classes Selt With Farmers. thing of a masterpiece in the blend- Mussolini took pains to class him- |ing of brawn and brains. Carrying | self with farmers, asserting some had |on the traditica of the Navy, the | sought to fiatter him by pretending to | middies fought gallantly down to the | | discover that his ancestors were noble. savage end, but not once were they | “All generations of Mussolinis pre- |able to penetrate dangerously into pantied band from Indiana—a grid- | | its fleet following Italy’s gesture of | ceding mine have always tilled the sofl | Notre Dame’s territory. with their own hands,” Il Duce said. | He discussed farming, with an eye on African colonization. A “great mn-) | Jority of those soldiers in Africa,” he | said, “come from the farm.” The 13 years of Fascism, II Duce said, “have not passed in vain—the world of plutocratic and rzncuonary‘ i:go!sms is obliged to recognize that.” Time after its supporters ge B-9, Column 1.) SO0S CALLS FAINT Pacific Coast and Honolulu Hear Appeals for Help. SEATTLE, October 26 (#).—Two re- time Navy h (Continued or Mussolini’s Government. LONDON, October 26 (#).— The | Guard today. i ported hearing a faint distress call at opportunity to bolster | | is an attendant said she succumbed to| British government marshaled a for- midable battery of sanctions guns into | position against Italy tonight. The treasury department ordered that financial sanctions against st Italy | (See ROME, Page 3.) 6:24 am. (Pacific standard time) from an unidentified vessel. At 6:51 | Washington Coast also heard a Japa- | nese station sending an § O 8. | Nothing (urther was henrd District Guardsmen Are Urged To Support Safety Campm gn Col. Oehmann Declares Militia Is Duty Bound to Protect Citizens in Peace Time as Well as War. 26—9. Declaring that it is the duty of every member of the District of Columbia National Guard, as a private citizen and as a member of an organization which stands for law and order, to give the fullest possible support to the safety campaign of The Star Safety Council, Col. John W. Oehmann, Guard com- | mander, is leading the officers and men of the local militia in a co-operative effort with the council to eurb the tide of traffic deaths and injuries. “Both as a District official and as a National Guard officer,” Col. Oehmann said, “I am strongly in favor of the campaign which The Star is leading to cut down the unnecessarily high traffic death toll. I will urge every | member of the National Guard to do his duty as a Guardsman and a citizen | by personally signing a safe driving pledge card and then by living up to the terms of that pledge in the ull- est measure.” Sworn to Protect Citizens. The thought which should be in the back of the mind of every mem- ber of the National Guard at all times, it was pointed out, is that it is his sworn duty to protect the lives of his fellow citizens in case of military emergency, but that this duty also extends to peace times and that in this connection it is fully within the scope of his promise to his country to. aid in the saving of life on the streets and highways. “I want every member of the Guard to remember that, as a member of the local militia, he is in the public eye and that reckless, careless driving by a Guardsman reflects discredit on the entire organization,” Col. Oehmann said. “On the other hand, the signing of a Star safe driving pledge, followed by rigid observance at all times of its 12 primary safe driving rules, will not only be a performance of duty but will be to the everlasting credit of both the National Guard and the in- dividual.” ‘The duty of every member of the (See SAFETY, Page ‘ 17.), Safety Campaigners Are Asked to Return All Signed Pledges Return to-The Evening Star Safety Council, Room 609, Star Building, of all signed safe driving pledge cards now in the hands of individual drivers and organi- rations which are co-operating in the movement to reduce the death and accident toll on Dis- trict streets and highways, is requested. These signed cards will be tab- ulated and turned over to the District Office of Motor Vehicles and Traffic as an honor roll of those who have signified their will- ingness to co-operate in the fight to curb a form of slaughter which in 15 years has cost more lives than all the wars in which this country has fought since its cre- ation. Each motorist who has signed a pledge card is asked to display a windshield sticker on each and every moter vehicle he may drive or operate. If additional stickers are required for this purpose, they mhmflmmmm Council. | that 200 bodies had been recovered. | a.m. the Grays Harbor station on the | The first word was received today Efforts to Take Will Rogers’ Place| Denied by Walker By the Associated Press. ABOARD THE S. 8. MANHATTAN, | AT SEA, October 26.—Whatever Jimmy Walker does when he gets back to New York, he said today, he will not | try to take the place of the late Will Rogers. Asked if a report he had signed a writing contract formerly filled by Rogers, New York's former mayor replied: “Nobody can take Will Rogers’ place. Nobody can take his place with me, and I know that goes for all the | ill Rogers followers.” While walking the decks, dressed in a brown tweed suit and a red sweater, | | Walker talked of his plans when he | gets into New York next Thursday after nearly three years in Europe. Walker disclosed he has been offered an advance of $10,000 for his auto- biography, “Letters I Forgot t« Mail.” He has not completed the book. On his return Walker is dccom- panied by his second wife, the former Betty Compton, and her mother. HAIT'S HURRICANE TOLL MAY BE 1000 200 Bodies Are Reported| Recovered at Jacmel. Flood Adds Deaths. By the Associated Press. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. October | SANCTIONS EFFECTIVE TUESDAY, Ports of an S O S far out in the 26.—Belated reports that hundreds of | | Pacific, apparently near the Asiatic persons were drowned in floods ac- Britain Prepares to Put Pressure on | CO8St, Were reported by the Coast | companying a hurricane last week | | end caused officials today to fear that The cutter Ttasca, at Honolulu, re- |85 many as 1,000 lives may have been lost. The latest report from Jacmel was from the southern peninsula, isolated since Monday, of the heavy loss of life. An entirely unofficial estimate was | that there are 1,500 dead in Jeremie, which apparently was the heaviest hit. | The disaster in both cities was caused by a flood Monday night, after several days of abnormal rains. Thou- sands were reported to be homeless and hungry, with crops destroyed. The T (See HURRICANE, Page 4.) TWO CHILDREN PER PERISH, ONE INJURED IN BLAZE Pair Escape Fourth-Story Fire, One Walking on Ledge to Nearby Roof. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 26.—Fire that swept the top floor of a Brooklyn brownstone residence tonight claimed the lives of two children, Patrick Viat- tas, 15, and his brother George, 13. Their sister Elizabeth, 12, was taken to a hospital suffering from burns and from internal injuries when she jumped from a fourth-story window to the back yard. George Vlattas, a 10-year-old adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Vlattas, ran through the flames and reached the street unharmed. A fifth child, Athena Perdikakis, 12, of Jackson Heights, escaped by walk- ing & narrow ledge to an adjoining apartment house roof. Farm administration spokesmen con- ceded, however, that with more than half a million votes anticipated a heavy unfavorable return from a singls Kansas Votes “Yes.” Even the doubtful State of Kansas, | however, where an adverse majority was listed last year, showed a 13,106 to 1,883 count in the early morning hours. In other sections where the corn grows tallest some of the larger ma- jorities were shown. In Illinois pare tial returns recorded a count of 21,= 248 to 2.392 in favor. In Nebraska, the initial trend was not as wide, the post-midnight figures being 14,774 to 5339 Ex-Senator Says He Re-| ceived Gift Which Had Been Reported. | By the Associated Press. | | Former Senator James E. Watson of Indiana revealed yesterday the Justice Department had been investi- Indiana Also Favors Plan. gating his income tax returns for| Apother of the Corn Belt States, | two years, but flatly denied he had | Indiana, turned in an early count of evaded taxes. 14,722 1o’ 668. The former Republican leader of | In Georgia, where Gov. Eugene Tal- the Senate said he had received part| madge has waged a bitter fight against | of a fee that his old friend and for- | the New Deal and the A. A. A. in par- | mer campaign manager, Jacob R.| ticular, preliminary returns gave the Finkelstein, had received from B. J. A. A. A. 321 to 16. Grigsby, a radio manufacturer, in a| Partial returns from 19 Oklahoma business transaction, but that it was | counties were 3,507 for, to 855 against. | purely a gift and had been reported as such. The first report from Minnesota | gave unanimous approval to the A. A, Finkelstein, Watson said, received | A. 18 votes for adjustment and none the fee for negotiating the purchase of a radio tube factory for Grigsby. | The former Senator denied the sum | | was $150,000. He said he believed he | had received $50,000. Evasion Is Denied. “I was Republican leader of the Senate,” Watson said. “I would have been a great fool to engage in tax | evasion. Even if I had no moral/ scruples, T would have had too much | political sense for that.” The Government's investigation into Watson’s income tax returns was dis- | closed following indictment of Finkel- | | stein in Chicago on tax-evasion charges. Federal officials refused to discuss the status of the Watson case, | or to give any hint of its possible disposition. Watson denied published reports that the'fee was in connection with | lobbying done by Finkelstein. ‘ “That is absolutely untrue,” Wat- | son said. “If Finkelstein ever lobbied, I never knew it. He got the fee in connection with the purchase of a tube | factory. It had nothing to do with the Government or lobbying. “There was never any talk of a fee between Finkelstein and me. When he got his fee, he said ‘you are en- titled to half of this’ He had given me a lot of money. He was a great (See WATSON Page 5.) FOUR RACE RACE HORSES DIE IN VIRGINIA FIRE Stable Destroyed at Kilmer's Farm, Where Sun Beau Is Kept, Near Newmarket. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW MARKET, Va., October 26.— Four valuable race horses were burned to death late today in a fire of un-| determined ofigin, which completely destroyed a stable at Court Manor, Willis Sharpe Kilmer's farm 2 miles south of here, where Sun Beau, great- est money-winning horse in history, is kept. The four horses, said to be worth at least $25000 were Studios, Foxi- furtus, Duncan Stead and Sun Marks. The famous Sun Beau was confined in a stable across the road from the burning structure. The fire is believed to have started in the loft of the stable, where $3,000 worth of grain was stored. Fire de- partments from New Market and Har- risonburg were summoned, but arrived on the scene too late to do any more than prevent the flames from spread- ing to nearby buildings, including the stable occupied by Sun Beau. Ickes, Billed as Honor Guest, Shuns Buckshot Club Affair The old adage about the producer attempting to stage “Hamlet” with- out the melancholy Dane fades into comparison with the determination of the Buckshot Club of Government employes to go ahead with plans for a testimonial to Secretary of the In- terior Ickes tomorrow night, after the supposed honor guest “walked out” on them. It all happened, so far as Ickes is concerned, m an unexpected and du- “Bang!” in letters 2 inches high, cir- culated about the building yesterday inviting Interior and P. W. A. em- ployes to attend the testimonial to their chief at $1 per head, payable to Merrick. mc:iub treasurer, The Mayflower Hote! ball room had been reserved and after the testimonial program, at which H. K. Spalding, club president, was to read a glowing eulogy of the chief, dancing music was to be furnished by the Buckshot Club’s seven-piece orchestra. All went well until one of the hand- bills got to the desk of Secretary Ickes. Unable to recall such an invitation, he demanded an investigation. To his amazement, he learned the in- spiration for the testimonial came, of all places, from the headquarters of Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, where Treasurer Spald- ing of the Buckshot Club is employed. Taking his cut from the suggestive heading of the handbill, Ickes banged (See 105!, Page 5.), against. In Michigan, 23 counties, incomplete, reported the count 2,683 to 599 for a new program. VOTE EAGERLY AWAITED. G. 0. P. Assails Program as Ballots Are Cast. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Democratic and Republican leaders, particularly those in the Western farm States, will scan elosely the re- sults of yesterday's referendum on | the A. A. A. corn-hog program for | 1936. The size of the vote for the program will be seized on as a straw indicating the affection or lack of affection for the Roosevelt adminis tration. Indicative of the interest of the ad- ministration in the referendum, the President made arrangements to have | the reports reported to him aboard the yacht Sequoia, on which he is makipg a week end trip, accompanied by Sece retary of Agriculture Wallace. President Roosevelt, on the eve of this referendum, issued a statement in which he declared for a permanent Agricultural Adjustment Administra« tion. At the same time he proposed a change in A. A. A. policies—include ing a broadening of present farm ade justment operations “so as to give the " (See CORN-HOG, Page 4) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-14, Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—A-13. Lost and Found—A-13. Death Notices—A-13. | Educational—B-8. Sports Section—Pages B-9-13. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Natione= al Guard and Organized Re= serves—D-5-T7. Women's Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-6. Public Library—D-10. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-10. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-10. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-3, F-6, John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Haj spy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-2. Art Notes—F-4. Books—F-5. Stage and Screen—F-7. Music—F-8. Radio News and Programs—F-9, Automobiles—F-10. Aviation—F-10. Cross-word Puzzle—F-10. Children’s Page—F-11. High Lights of History—F-11. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1-4. Serial Story—G-5. Conquering Contract—G-5. ;Vtgo Are Y(fi?—o-s. mps—G-14. Resorts—G-14. 9