Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bure: Cloudy, propably occasional rain to- night and tomorrow; and tomorrow night. Highest, 65, at 1 p.m. y¢ 56, at 12:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 au Forecast.) colder tomorrow ‘Temperatures— esterday; lowest, -11. ah ¢ Foening Star ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 33,421, Entered as sec CAPITAL IS SHAKEN AS QUAKE ROCKS NORTHEAST STATES Trail of Jangled Nerves Left in Wake of Dis- turbance. IS SECOND FELT HERE IN LAST TEN YEARS Harvard Scientist Expects Recur- rence of Tremors, but Is Silent on Possible Intensity. ‘Spreading momentary terror through- out the Eastern part of the United States and nearby Canada, the most serious earthquake in this section in years rocked down from the North early today, leaving a trail of jangled nerves but little damage otherwise. From telegraphic reports, Washing- ton was on the southernmost tip of the disturbance, which seemed to cen-| ter around Ottawa, Ontario, and was felt to the west as far as Lake Michigan. The seismograph at Georgetown | showed the shock started at 1:05:33 | am. and was in evidence until 2:40. It was felt here for only a brief period | after its inception, but in that time | police stations, newspaper offices and any place else that seemed a likely source of information were swamped with calls as weaving walls brought to the mind of startled residents, gen- | erally awakened from sound sleep, al picture of the Helena disaster. | Scientists were in agreement that | By the Associated Press the likely source of the quake is al fault in the structure of the earth | morth of the St. Lawrence River. The Associated Press quoted Dr. L. Don Leet, Harvard seismologist, as saying| there would be a recurrence, but he could not predict of what proportion. Rev. Frederick W. Sohon, S. J., di- rector of the seismic laboratory at| Georgetown University, described the | disturbance as “of moderate intensity” and put the center at about 600 miles north of Washington. Inspecting his instruments this morning, Father So- hon reported that another quake— that in Montana—had been recorded yesterday afternoon, lasting from | 1:43:30 to 3 o'clock. The distance of | this was put at 1.700 miles. It was not ordinarily apparent here. Second in 10 Years. ‘This morning’s quake was the sec- ond felt here in 10 yvears. One account, which summed up the experience of observers generally, was that of LaBert St. Clair, former news- paper man, who now is with the Com- | merce Department. St. Clair, who! resides near College Park, said his family was awakened by the disturb- | ance, and that for just a few seconds *it seemea like our beds were being pulled from under us.” Mrs Eva H. Fisher, who resides at 2709 Wisconsin avenue, opposite Mount | Alto Hospital, said the shock also was ! decidedly in evidence there, members of the houschold being awakened by | rattling windows and swinging chan- | deliers. | At Emergency Hospital, it also was felt, one of the first calls received by the police coming from an unidenti- | fied nurse there. Shaking Pronounced. From Miss Caroline Davis, 3121! Sixteenth street, came a story of an | odd coincidence. She said she was in bed reading “The Earth, the The- | ater of the Universe,” a work by Clar- | ence H. Benson, which treats of | quakes, when the house started ‘o | &hake. She recommends the book for | those interested in earthly disturb- | ances, but is not partial to the illus- | tration, | Experience elsewhere paralleled that here, with observers saving the shak- | i ing ‘was the most pronounced in " years. It completed a triangle of earth- quakes on the continent. That ves- | terday afternoon which took two lives | in Helena was felt plainly over a 500- mile area in the United States and ‘Western Canada. In Honduras quakes added to the horror of flood. The As- sociated Press said, however, that sesimologists believed the disturbances | were coincidental. The Associated Press said also that there were two distinct temblors, and (See QUAKE, Page 4.) | R NEW QUAKES EXPECTED »Harvard Seismologist Sees Fur- ther Disturbances. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. November 1 (#).—Certainty that further earth- quake shocks would follow the quake that jarred the eastern part of the United States was. expressed today by Dr. L. Don Leet, Harvard Uni- versity seismologist. Dr. Leet expressed surprise that more reports of damage had not been received, and said its center must have been some remote spot, possibly in the Adirondacks. He pronounced it “probably more severe than the Long Beach (Cali- fornia) earthquake of 1933.” “It can be recorded as certain,” Dr. Leet said, “that there will be follow- ing shocks; some may be small, some large; we don't know how large.” Readers’ Guide Amusements Changing World _ Comics - Cross-word Puzzle Editorials Finance - Serial Story Short Story Society - Sports ‘Washington Wayside _ post office, Washington, D. . ond class matter WASHINGTON, Helena Stunned by Quake, Entailing Loss of $500,000 Subzero Weather Adds to Distress—T1vo Men Killed Beneath Toppling Brewery Chimney. mated the loss in yesterday's quake at “from $500,000 up"—not so severe as at first belleved. He said the total loss during the 20-day period of re- current quakes amounted to about $3.500,000. By the Associated Press. Two men died beneath a toppling HELENA, Mont. November 1.— brewery chimney yesterday, increas- Montana's capital city, stunned by its ing the number of quake victims since second death - dealing earthquake. | Octol_:er 12 to seven. They were Ed marshaled its forces of reconstruction | O'Brien and Vincent Kennedy, both of today after a night made miserable | S8lt Lake City. K | by dread of further shocks and sub-| Scores suffered minor injuries in Serolcai) yesterday's two devastating shocks, | Despite the cold. many feared to| Which were followed by a series of | return to their residences and spent | lesser tremors. the night with children from orphans’| The City Reconstruction Commis- homes in two special trains, rushed | $On was summoned into session by into the city to provide emergency | its chairman, Justice S. V. Stewart of | shelter. itlw State Supreme Court, to discuss | Others huddled in automobiles and | Femedial measures. lin relief shelters outside the city| Offers of aid came from a number | where no shock-weakened buildings | ©f Montana points, most of which| | could fall. | were_shaken themselves during_the | City Engineer Oscar Baarson esti-| (See HELENA, Page 5. NORWEGIAN SHP CHINESE PREMIER - 1S SUNK IN CRASH SHOT BY ASSASSIN Crew Saved After Collision|Wang Ching-Wei and Aide, in Lake Huron—Chief Wounded, Near Death. Engineer Hurt. Reds Blamed. (Copyrizht. 1933, by the Associated Press.) PORT HURON, Mich, November | NANKING, China, November 1.— 1.—The Norwegian freighter Viator |An assassin’s fire today critically | was at the bottom of Lake Huron wounded Premier Wang Ching-wei, | today, rammed and sunk, Capt. G. J. | generally regarded as pro-Japanese Steffensen of the Viator said, by the | leader, and one other official of the motor ship Ormidale in a dense fog. | Chinese Nationalist government. at & The crew of 18 was taken aboard | meeting of Chinese leaders considering the Ormidale without loss of life. | Japan’s advance in North vChma, | Chief Engineer Injured Chang Chi, former President of the | Exclusive Associated Press Wirephotos of earthquake de- struction in Helena, Mont., on Page A-5. | Washington Believed Headquar- | here, in Oklahoma City and New York, D. C., FRIDAY, BROKER INDIGTED [N ALLEGED FRAUD NETTING $500,000 Thomas J. Wightman Is Charged With Swindle in Oil Royalties. 13 OTHERS ARE NAMED IN GRAND JURY REPORT ters for Far-Flung Organization Operating Over Many Years. Thomas J. Wightman, head of the U. S. Royalties Exchange, with offices was indicted today by the District grand jury as the ringleader of an organ n alleged to have defraud- ed hundreds of investors of more than half a million dollars through the sale of oil royalties during the past three years. At the same time, officials identi- fled Wightman as Lewis C. Van Riper, whose name has figired prominently in newspaper headlines in connec- tion with various enterprises during the past 35 years. His Wall street brokerage offices in New York were | the scene of a sensational police raid in 1900 and since that time authorities frequently have had occasion to in-| vestigate his afawrs. In July, 1905, he was publicly ac- cused of connection with the cotton futures bribery case, which resulted in | the dismissal of a high Agriculture De- | partment official and achieved wide- spread publicity. Twenty years lat-r he was sentenced to five years in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta Iov his part in the well-known Parco cil case. Fourteen Are Named. Fourteen men in all were named br | the jury in today’s report, which had NOVEMBER 1, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,128 Some Returns Not Yet Received 1935—FIFTY-EIGHT Now, JIM, YOU'VE GOTT0 PUT SALT ONTHAT BIRD'S TAILY ONLY A BIRD PAGES. #%% (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT ITALIANS WILLING TOCONCLUDE WAR - UPON OWN TERMS | Indifference Expressed to Peace Talk by Geneva Spokesman. |BARON ALOISI RETURNS FOR LEAGUE’S PARLEYS Makale Is Reported Unofficially to Have Been Taken by Fascists at Dawn. Italian Army Plane Downed in Air Raid On Southern Front By the As ADDIS ABA An Ethiopian government com- munique said today that an Italian military plane either fell or was b wn during an White House Phone Operator Believes Quake Aids Church HOPKINSATTACKS LANDON ON RELEF 1936 G.0.P. Possibility and| Johnson Assailed by New Dealers. By the Associated Press. With the Nation bowling along to- | By the Associated Press The earthquake did not shake the White House, but it gave the man at the Executive Mansion's telephone switchboard a chance to make a snappy remark. When reporters telephoned to say that a quake was felt over much of the country, he said: “Business ought to be good in the churches next Sunday. A air raid day at Bourana near Dolo, on the southern front. n said there was no news from the other fronts. A principal adviser to Emperor Haile Selassie ed “painful store for the THDISTRICT CAFES ARE BLACKLISTED {Ruhland Moves to Prevent| License Renewals for Sanitary Reasons. A major drive against insanitary other gov- ernment of f Premier Mussol disregarded League of Nations imposition of ions and pressed on in war- he would find the entire Ethiopian nation mobilized to ac- cept his (Cop 935, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, November 1.—Italy ree ward the presidential test of 1936, Harry L. Hopkins and Secretary Ickes not been expected for several days.|pave taken the field as leading shock | | Capt. Steffensen, whose home port is Judicial Yuan, was injured slightly, | Bergen, Norway, sald that Norman | Petersen, chief engineer, suffered skull | and chest injuries. No other members | of the crew were injured and all were | taken aboard the Ormidale without | panic. Peterson’s condition is not | serious. physicians at the General | Hospital here said. “Petersen was in bed at the time of the crash,” the captain said. “The bow of the Ormidale crashed into the Viator and missed his bunk by an inch. The door of his cabin was smashed | and he had to be taken from the wreckage.” Capt. Steffenson said the collision occurred at 5:15 am. yesterday, 10 miles south of Thunder Bay Island. Neither Ship Had Wireless. Neither ship was equipped with wire- less. The first word of the sinking was brought to the Harbor Beach, Mich., Coast Guard station last night | by the freighter Cedarton, which had been unable to identify the sinking | steamer in the fog. | “The Ormidale took aboard the! whole crew while holding the prow of | the vessel in the hole in the side of the Viator,” Capt. Steffensen said | after he was put ashore here by! | organized plot by while the assassin. Sun Ming-hsun, was wounded critically—either by his own hand or by others—as bodyguards of the officials returned his fire. Reported Wounded Earlier. Tseng Chun-Min, vice minister of | interior for railways, and Kan Nai-| Kuang. chief ‘of the political bureau of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's headquarters, were not injured. Pre- ' vious reports had said they suffered | wounds. ‘Wang Ching-Wei, 50 years old. was | struck by at least three bullets and was | removed to the central hospital in critical condition. Police said the shooting was a “wel! Chinese Commu- nists.” A girl Communist was among the 11 suspects held. Sun Ming-Hsun was identified as a reporter for a Chinese news agency. The officials alleged that Sun used | a camera as a shield for his pistol in | the attack. Despite the consternation caused by | the attempted assassination, National- | ist government officials decided to con- tinue the meeting of the Central Ex- | ecutive Committee, with Finance Min- i | ister H. H. Kung acting for Wang as chairman. change. the Ormidale. “Then the Ormidale | backed out of the side and stood by until the Viator sank.” The capital took on the aspect of an armed camp. Streets were flled with policemen carrying rifles. The Viator, 1.400-ton vessel. sailed | from Bergen with a cargo of pulp, fish and cod liver oil for Muskegon, Mich.; South Haven, Mich, and Chicago. The Ormidale was bound from | Duluth to Buffalo with a cargo of | pig iron. It was due to reach Detroit | this afternoon, there a full report | will be made to Federal steamboat | inspectors — DOMINICAN PRESIDENT WILL VISIT U. S. SOON' Powerful Latin-American Polit-! ical Leader Due to Leave Next Month. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.—Advices from Santo Domingo indicated today that President Rafael L. Trujillo of the Dcminican Republic, one of the most politically powerful in Latin America, will soon visit the United | States, President Trujillo today put into effect two decrees by which the vice president and the president’s brother will have control of the administration and the army during the president's | absence. Trujillo, 44, has never been out of his country except for a visit during | the last year to the neighboring re- | public of Haiti, Trujillo indicated that he would Resistance to Japan Seen. Speculation was rife to the effect | that the shooting might be the first | blow by proponents of resistance to | Japan, who had become increasingly | in evidence recently after application | of new Japanese pressure on the North. The meeting of the Central Execu- tive Committee, expected to deal witn the question of whether to oppose or to | acquiesce to Japan's new demands in North China, had started auspiciously | with the greatest representation of | China’s leading militarists gathered | here in many years. Committee members were assembling | outside the Kuomintang (Nationalist party) meeting hall for photographs. Suddenly a Chinese standing with a group of spectators about 35 feet from (See CHINESE, Page 2.) —e McCormick Recovering. CHICAGO, November 1 (#).—Harold F. McCormick, chairman of the Inter- national Harvester Co., was reported recovering in St. Luke's Hospital today from an operation performed yester- day. Dr. S. W. McArthur said Mec- Cormick probably would be out of the hospital in a week. Keaton’s Condition Improves. LOS ANGELES, November 1 (#).— Buster Keaton, film comedian, was home today, greatly improved in heala leave Santo Domingo immediately after the preparation of the 1936 budget, probably next month. | after being confined for several days { in the national military home at Saw- telle because of a nervous breakdown. Entire Business 100 Per Cent This block, really more than a Pennsylvania avenue to Washington the Avenue. This is the first instance of its kind reported. Mrs. Parker has taken an active interest in the campaign of The Star. Not satisfied with merely combing the membership of her association, she has gone out in neighboring territory. _ Women'’s Features N After signing up the Lewis Hotel NG Block Signs in Safety Drive Area Exceeding Full City Square Found Solid for Campaign as Citizens’ Official Makes Fine Record. Traffic Deaths to November 1—92; Same Period, 1934—103 More than an entire city blcck in the business section of the city has signed 100 per cent the safety pledges of Thé¢ Evening Star and has lent active support in the campaign for careful driving and walking. block, is from Twenty-first street on Circle. The canvass, made by Mrs. Belle Cutler Parker. secretary and treasurer of the First Ward Citizens’ Association, takes in both sides of< Training Schools, she crossed the Potomac into Virginia and entering Federal lands, was successful in sign- ing up and getting the indorsement of all the units at Fort Myer. Not even the polo team was excluded. Later, Mrs. Parker was instrumental’ (See SAFETY, Page 7.) ’ since presentation of evidence in th2 case began only Monday Seven of | those charged operated here, which al- | | legedly was headquarters for a busi- | ness extending throughout the entire Eastern section of the country. | ‘The indictment was in 19 counts, | the first 18 charging use of the maus to defraud, and the last alleging con- spiracy to use the mails to defraud. All defendants are charged in ali counts. After naming 14 alleged vic- | tims, the jurors stated that others who | had been mulcted through activities | of the sales organization were “'too nu- | merous to mention.” Besides Wightman, those charged were: Charles Wightman, his son. who | worked in the Washington office. C. Reese Warde, office manager here | of the United Stetes Royalties Ex- | D. M. Ryan, with offices in the Denrike Building, who is alleged to | have been associated with Wightman in the sale of royalties. | A. C. Montell, jr., president of the | National Realty Valuation Corp. of New York City, said to have issued certificates to United States Royalties purporting to guarantee appraisals of oil leases. Geologist Indicted. Chauncey H. Black, consulting troopers for the New Deal Yesterday Hopkins slashed at Gov. | Alf. M. Landon of Kansas, one of | those frequently mentioned for the Republican nomination for President, | and at Gov. Eugene Talmadge of | Georgia, vehement foe of the New Deal. | ‘Then he joined Ickes in tossing some hot words back at Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, who has become a “friendly” but severe critic of some New Deal men and measures, Politics Seen. Hopkins’ remarks about Landon were considered significant as mm-| paign may take should Landon be | government. | Landon’s friends have emphasized balanced. “The State of Kansas, kins, the relief chief, said Hop- has never put | a. I know the Governor has never made an effort to raise any money.” | "e said the Governor, in balancing ' budget, “was taking it out of the hides of the people.” | Afte. this assertion, which was made | in a press conference, Hopkins' aides issued figures about relief in Kansas. | 8 of $19.881 145 | And that only $12 was found in the They said that out fright like that will send a lot of sinners to church.” THREE DIE BY GAS INMURDER-SUICIDE Couple and Boy Found Dead in Auto—Hose Pipes in Fumes. | cating the line the New Deal cam- | B the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, November 1.—Cor- | nominated as exponent of economy in | oner A. J. Pearse gave a verdict of double murder and suicide today in the deaths of three persons in an au- | | that the State budget in Kansas is | tomobile, which had been ingeniously converted into a lethal gas chamber. The coroner said papers found in the car “definitely established” 39; his wife, Mrs. Grace Loomis Davis, 44, and their 15-year-old son, Tre- maine, jr. Detect've Bernard Wolf said the ap- parent motive was lack of money, as- | serting that Davis obtained a $322 |loan in Los Angeles six months ago, geologist and petroleum engineer of {spent in 1934 $14.569.927 was fur- | [AMiY’s clothing Oklahoma City, who is alleged to have | written misleading reports on proper- | ties for Wightman as sales propa- | ganda. E. C. Clay and J. C. Verser, presi- dent and secretary-treasurer, respece tively, of the Verser-Clay Co. of Okla- | homa City, one of the largest oil| royalty firms in that section. They are alleged to have furnished pracucallyf‘ all the royalties which Wightman sold. | J. Bolton, John Perry and Bruno Cohn, alias B. Cole, salesmen for United States Royalttes working out of | ‘Washington. Louis Natelson, Boston, Mass., sales- | man for United States Royalties. John Zummerman, Brunnersville, Pa., a salesman for the same concern; H. A. Nichols, Pettus, Tex., an employe of the Verser-Clay Co. The indictment today was the re- sult of &n investigation extending over more than a year by Postal Inspectors Maurice Foster and L. P. Love and several months of work by Horace H. Hagen, Tulsa, Okla, attorney, who was appointed a special assistant to (See INDICTMENTS, Page 2.) Planned Buying Buying thought is stimu- lated and purchasing is plan- ned in thousands of Washing- ton homes every day through the advertising columns of The Star. In no other way can family spending be so wisely guided. It will pay you to read the advertisements in today’s Star. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) The Evening Star_ Bines. 91,140 49,704 31,927 2nd Newspaper___ 3rd Newspaper___ 4th Newspaper___ 12,569 5th Newspaper___ 9,735 ) 103,935 Total ( Newspapers. |son might be interesting, but where | nished by the Federal Government, | $5.311.815 by local subdivisions and | none by the State. Denies Flop. Gen. Johnson's contention that the $4,000,000,000 works program has | “flopped” was described by Hopkins | as “a lot of nonsense.” Ickes, whom Johnson had pictured | as the wrong man for the job of ad- | ministering a giant public works pro- gram, said: “My upexpurgated opinion of John- | could I express it? | “His principal objection seemed to be that the President had not turned | the Public Works Administration over | to the Army engineers. “That is a bit naive for a blunt- spoken Cavalryman. As a matter of fact, his objection was not that we had not turned P. W. A over to the Army, but that we had not turned it over to a certain ex-Cavalry officer. “The trouble with the general is that since he was bucked out of the saddle at N. R. A. he is suffering from mental saddle sores.” Six States Cut Off. Discussing aid for “unemployables,” whom the Federal Government is re- turning to the care of the States, | Hopkins said Gov. Talmadge was “un- willing to do anything; he believes in | the whipping post.” Six States already have been cut Other papers indicated. the officers said, that the elder Davis had been employed by one of the divisions of the Standard Oil Co. at San Fran-| cisco, The death-dealing gas had reached the interior of the car through a long line of garden hose, one end of which was attached to the exhaust pipe. The motor of the car was running. Edward Jackson. employed in the construction of a new post office sub- station on Cleveland's East Side, dis- | covered the tragedy when he walked | over to a tar-heating furnace at the edge of an adjacent parking lot. The noise of the heater had pre- vented earlier discovery that the mo- tor of the car was rupning. Jackson, finding the windows of the car were shut and covered with steam, opened one of the doors and saw the bodies. In the rear compartment were suit cases and a variety of household ob- Jects, indicating the family may have been carrying all of their possessions with them, — FEDERALS BOMB REBELS 25 Mexican Insurgents Reported Killed and Wounded. MEXICO CITY, November 1 @) —| ! A dispatch to the newspaper Washington restaurants was launched today by Health Officer George C. | Ruhland when he “blacklisted” 74 turned to the League of Nations battle= front today willing. according to & the | | up a thin dime for relief and as far | trig's identities as Tremaine E. Davis, n. to quit the battlefronts of | eating establishments for violation of | SPokesma th ns acceptable to rules and moved to prevent renewal of their licenses In a memorandum to Wade Coombs superintendent of licenses, he asked PPAC that new permits for these places be 3¢ withheld and that the District refuse to accept advance payment of license fees. New licenses are legally re- quired - today for all the 1.800-odd ;%Y a | Washington restaurants i eans military security in ! He asked that applications and the n provinces bordering on refuse to negotiate spokes! “but we after peace. v peace terms, to » Ttaly, must recognize reeds and second requirements. 5 & r coloni nd the actual territory payments in these cases be rejected OUr colonies an n until his office certifies the places as SO desperately needed igy.she expane Appar- | Sion of our people. approved for new permits. Froen Addis Ababe Huc ,‘*. ently new inspections must be Smade | before & move can be made to close up any of the 74 listed places. | In recent years the District has | permitted applicants for renewal of restaurant licenses to pay their fees, Aloisi Returned to Geneva. while awaiting annual inspection by| premier Mussolini returned Baron health office agents. Because of the | pompeo Aloisi, his personal represen- small stafl this work customarily |tative, to Geneva to confer with other takes one or two months. Restau- | representatives of League members. rant operation is permitted meantime., He was preceded to the city by Seeks to Avoid Suits. Premier Laval of France and by Sir Refusal of the license payments in ' Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, and advance of new investigations in the Anthony Eden, minister for League 74 cases was planned by Dr i off Great Brian h to avoid legal tangles which hereto- | These three met in the morning fore have snagged efforts to refund Aand it was reported they had agreed payments when permits were refused. | !0 85k the Co-ordination Committee graph reported an unofficial annot¥es ment said the Italians had captured Makale, their next major objective on the northern front, at dawn. Legal officers explained the cov have in some cases refused to prose cute restaurateurs in such cases. of the League to fix as early a date as possible for the enforcement of economic sanctions against Italy in off the Federal “dole” and Hopkins | Universal from Guadalajara today said Rural Routes The Star was one of the first papers in the United States to establish a Motor Rural Route service to sub- scribers in the country. Now 26 motor trucks each covers an average of 100 miles every evening and Sunday morning on Maryland and Virginia roads, a total of 2,621 miles daily, or 300 miles more than the distance from Washington to Helena, Mont. announced that New York City and 20 more States will be taken off No- vember 15. The remaining 22 States (See RELIEF, Page 5.) .. THREE GUNMEN ROB two federal planes bombed and fired machine guns at rebels near Santa | Maria del Valle, in the State of Jalisco, killing and wounding 25. The dispatch said federal cavalry followed up the attack, dispersing the rebels. One federal soldier was said to have | | illed. ® - PENNSYLVANIA BANK | poriec seciy camaséa by the rebei: Man and Woman Kidnaped by Band at Conneautville, Then Released. B the Associated Press. CONNEAUTVILLE, Pa., November 1. —Three gunmen escaped with an un- determined amount of money today after holding up the Farmers’ National Bank in this farm community and kidnaping two employes, both of whom were released later. ‘The employes, Mrs. Evelyn Kern, a clerk, and Fred A. Hayl, cashier, were alone when the gunmen entered. They told police one wore Lunting clothes and carried a machine gun beneath his jacket. While the “hunter” stood on the front steps of the bank and waved his gun menacingly at a half dozen pedestrians outside, the others forced Hayl to open the safe. Mrs. Kern and Hayl were forced into the robbers’ car and liberated a few miles from the city. The hold-up men fled toward Ohio. bullets. The Hunting Log A chronicle of interesting e of nearby Virginia and Maryland by Nina Carter Tabb Starts in The Star This is the season of the hunt and society is sojourn- ing in the picturesque count events. Keep informed and read THE EVENING STAR an effort to end the war in East Africa Their meeting came shadow of a report circulating in diplomatic quarters that Mussolini had told Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador to Rome, that ¢ | any humiliation to Italy “means war.” One of the “blacklisted” restaurant operators applied to Coombs this morning for a new permit. He was | given an application blank. but not a bill for 15 for the license. No | money was accepted. He was advised to consult with Dr. Ruhland. { The new move is a culmination of a campaign started several months No New Proposals Brought. ago by Dr. Ruhland. who found that Italian sources said Al was scores of eating places were violating ' bringing no new proposals from Rome | sanitary rules. More than 50 cases|but was coming here solelv because were taken to court in recent weeks. | the Italian government believes it de- “Some proprietors either are too ig- | sirable to continue the official cone norant to understand, or too indiffer- | tacts which have taken place in Lone ent to care, whether they are comply- ey = — ing with health rules,” Dr. Ruhland (See GENEVA, Page 4. | said at the time. In his statement to Coombs today Dr. Ruhland said “I understand that a practice has grown up in the District under which applicants for licenses have been mak- |ing payment pending ultimate issu- ance of licenses and that the courts have interpreted this practice to the | 7 (See RESTAURANTS, Page 2.) POPE PRAYS FOR ITALY Hopes Colonial Ambitions Will Be Satisfied, but Without War. VATICAN CITY, November 1 (/). | —A high authority said today Pope Pius still hoped and prayed that Italy’'s colonial ambitions might be satisfied—but without war This authority said the Pontiff maintained an unchanged position from that already publicly exoressed, favoring recognition of the “hopes, requirements and needs” of Italy. but sisting that the solution must be “with peace.” { His Holiness has made no public proposals, but the Papal Nuncio to Paris, Monsignor Maglione, has been conferring actively recently with Pre- | mier Pierre Laval. under the si Sunday —in— “THIS WEEK" “Midnight Express” ALFRED NOYES —deals with weird. supernatural elements to tell the story of a haunted man that may disturb your dreams. “A Plane Above the * Amazon” VINGIE E. ROE —writes the love story of two Romeos, a Juliet and a Cinderella, who round out the cast of a Hol- lywood drama. ok h “A Lover at Last!” JIM TULLY —tells of Charles Laughton, long- nosed and ugly Cyrano, as a screen lover—a new departure for the talented Briton, who rose from scullery boy to movie star- dom. vents in the hunting sections * k¥ X Today on Page B-5 These, a host of other features, and a fine array of mew fiction will be ready for you ry nearby for the big hunting i The Sunday Star