Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and colder tonight and tomor= row; probably occasional light rain; low- est temperature tonight about 48 de- grees. Temperatures—Highest, 70, at noon today; lowest, 61, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page A-2. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. ¢ No. 33,422. WORLD BL[]BKA[]Eicolonials, Riddled by Injuries, Tackle Rice in Homecoming OF TALY ORDERED BEGUN NOV. 18 BY COMMITTEE OF & Finance Sanctions, Boycott and Embargo to Go Into Effect in 2 Weeks—Laval Is Dejected After Ballot. Climaxes Annual Celebration. 1 Fireworks and Speeches| Mark “Pep” Rally Last Night. (Picture on Page A-16.) A desperate, injury-riddled George | was ready to take the field in Griffith Stadium at 2:30 p.m. today to try to upset the highly-favored Rice Insti- tute eleven from Texas in the feature of the G. W. homecoming program. The game was to climax, except for a ball tonight at the Willard Hotel, the annual celebration when alumni and students get together to pay | tribute to their alma mater. The festivities began last night when close to 7,000 present and for- mer pupils of the old school made " (See HOMECOMING, Page 2.) MEASURES’ EXECUTION PROMISED BY FRENCH Canada Leads in Move to Put More Teeth in Penalties by Proscribing Shipments of Oil, + Game and Ball Tonight| Washington University foot ball team | b he Zp WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER PROBABLE LINE-UPS Kick-off, 2:30 p.m. Pos, G LE L. . G. ays (J4) _ Sylvester (18) 27 McCauley (30)220] Friedman (26) Leemans Jenkins in’ch Note—G. ber in first column on red jerseys. Reserves. Rice—Anderson (10). (13 Smith B )._Owen, Royall Stern_(38). Bailey (38). Smith (40), Hughes {41) Seale ¢ Klindworth '(43). 'Stark (45). Daugherty 7). Biering (4%). Neece (50). Chambliss Young_ (52), Crawford (53). Moore 5). May (59) ” George Washington—Morrls (20-20), aufman (11-38). Tihila (:10-81), Saltu B (SR36) Lee (G4-64). De Angelis ( Sadler (37). e 26-41), Wat- ] Referee—Mr. Magoffin (Michigan). Um. vV ia). Field judge | (Gonzaga Head lines- | Mr Daniels (Georgetown). Time of e inaten ma quarte; Coal, Iron and Steel to Govern- ment of Mussolini. NATIVES REPORTED ROUTING [TALIANS | Ethiopians Say Guerrilla, Tactics Force Retreat eral Committee of the League of Na- Near Mussa Ali. tions. made up of 52 countries, today | formally designated November 18 as| (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) the date for the beginning of a world- | ADDIS ABABA, November 2.—The ! wide economic siege of Italy !E(hiuplan government st.ate_d officially Separate proposals fixing this date | today that Ethiopian guerrilla tactics | for financial sanctions as well as for | were forcing an Italian retreat north- | & boycott against Italian goods and we_st’ of Mussa Ali on the border of an embargo against shipping “key | Eritrea, the Italian colony. products” to Italy were voted by the | The position of the alleged retreat big meeting without opposition. | was specified as the Abdal Desert, just | The key products cover all goods | northwest of the mountain named | which the assembled experts believe | after Moses, which is called Mussa could be converted by Italy for use | Ali and where the Italians are estab- | in her war against Ethiopia. |lishing an aviation base. ‘The public session of the represent- | ‘The goveloment said Italian air- BULLETT (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, November 2.—An Ital- ian spokesman informed the As- scciated Press today that Italy has made definite concessions for a possible settlement of the Italo- Ethioplan war. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) | GENEVA, November 2.—The Gen- DEMOCRATS DENY NEW DEAL IS ISSUE Farley and Fletcher Clash as Assembly Fight Nears Close. _ By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, November 2—A Republican campaign to unseat Dem- ocratic control of the Assembly in President Roosevelt's home State ap- proached a close today, with Demo- crats attacking the contention of their opponents that the New Deal is an issue. “The New Deal stands at the bar of | public opinion in the native State of | its leaders,” commented Henry P. Fletcher, Republican national chair- man. i | pac. to offset growing Japanese in- atives of 52 nations opened at 4:18 | Dlanes were making daily flights to Alaleque, the location of the base, on reinforcement details. The Italians were reported by the government to be most active on the p.m. in a tense, crowded chamber. Laval Appears Dejected. Premier Laval of France appeared tired and dejected as he took his seat. He smoked one cigarette after another. | ye 0 050 T s outh, Hugh R. Wilson of the United 51815 " :rhe pascist advance was said to be gat among the observers in the Non- | toyard the Immemi Plains, with Dan- mg"_'b;;:::z‘v“mmenos of Portugal, | akil tribesmen hanging on their flanks o ssi vard movement president of the committee, announced | 2he h:i?}::l‘inxfie(::i;?x:;_” m that the body’s object was “to Testore : just and honorable peace.” | Planes Counter-Attack. ‘ The members at once adopted a reso- In retaliation, Italian airplanes were Jution inviting all governments to | reported to be flying over the Danakil take steps to put financial sanctions | region daily, bombing and machine against Italy for her war in East, Unning :‘i&e warriors below,‘ A Africa into operation before Novem- | e opian successes in the Ab- ber 18. & | dal Desert were attributed to the As- Sir Samuel Hoare, the British foreign | S3imera tribe, which reported it was secretary, told his colleagues that there | Making daily attacks at dawn, inflict- v::?‘;rgthmg mystermag: :r sinister” | in8 considerable casualties on the Ital- about the Franco-British conversations | 121 transport column. 1 in recent days | Tens of thousands of fanatical war- 3 | riors from the interior demonstrated He said that up to the present | o : | time, however, there has been “noth- | their prowess before Emperor Haille q | Selassie today, shouting that they who | ing more than an exchange of SUBBES- | \yjoq |ions leopards and elephants | tions—no definite oumome-and(here-ismgm_hmd'ed would find the exter- ! fore nothing to report.” i 5 b e Definite Form Awaited. mination of Italians child’s play. Sir Samuel declared that if any of | Ethiopian military headquarters | these suggestions should take a definite | ar¢ understood authoritatively to ! form later, they would immediately be | Dave laid plans to rush troops into | brought before the League. the central sector to stem any Italian | Premier Laval told the members | advance on the Addis Ababa-Djibouti that, at this moment when the com- | Railroad. 2 mittee had fixed a date for the en-| Expecting Italian Drive. forcement of economic sanctions, he! Headquarters were said to be ex- wished to recall that France was| Pecting daily that Italian forces in loyally applying the covenant. |the Mount Musa Ali region would Northeastern front with no news from | “France,” he promised, “will ex- | launch their heralded drive to cut off [the railroad, Ethiopia’s only modern | route to the outside world. | “Informed sources said the spear- ecute the measures which are taken in common with the different govern- ments.” The French premier said that they | head of the attack would be armored all, however, had another duty, called | Cars and tanks, and that the Italian for by the covenant, to fulfill. He |Objective would be the town of Afdem, said: “We must seek. as rapidly as|60 miles west of Diredawa. possible, for a friendly settlement of | The Ethiopian high command was the conflict. The French and British | understood to be ready to hasten its governments are in accord for col- Warriors from the Dessye, Harar and laboration in this domain.” | Diredawa areas to guard the railway, He has appealed for the election next Tuesday of a Republican major- | ity in the Assembly, Lower House of | the Legislature, now Democratic for the first time in 22 years State Issues, Says Farley. Postmaster General James A. Far- ley, Democratic State and national chairman, insisted the election in-| volves State issues only, but has ex- pressed willingness to make the con- test a New Deal test “if the Repub- licans want to have it that way.” One of the largest votes in an off- year election is anticipated. Registra- tion was nearly 750,000 more than 1931, the last comparable off-year. The Democrats now have 76 seats. the majority necessary for passage of bills, and the Republicans, 73. There is one vacancy in a normally Dem- ocratic Manhattan district. The Senate, likewise Democratic, does mot elect until next year. As- semblymen are chosen for one year and Senators for two. Throughout the Republican cam-| paign, launched as early as May: under personal direction of Sta‘e Chairman Melvin C. Eaton, the Neng Deal has been under fire. Speakers | claim the contest is a preliminary skirmish designed, in the event of success, to prepare for the State and presidential campaigns next year. Lehman Record Offered. The Democrats have campaigned | solely on their record under Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, completely ignor- ; ing the national phase. The Gov-| emnor insists that in no State “has any party more closely paralleled its promises than has the Democraic party in this State.” Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith made | a last-minute plea last night for the election of a Democratic Assembly. “If you want orderly Government,” he told a Brooklyn rally, “give Gov. | Lehman a Democratic Assembly.” | Most of the campaign has been | | been newly established for the ex-“ The resolution calling for financial | considered a vital element to the #anctions noted that 39 governments | which are members of the League have i taken or are taking measures “with a | view to rendering impossible those | financial operations with Italy which | are defined in the sanction proposal | and others have expressed a willing- | ness to take such measures.” i Canada led in a move, and was supported by other important coun- tries, to put mote teeth in that block- ade by including coal, iren, steel, and oil in the list of key products, the export of which to Italy is to be pre- vented. Hoare Warns Aloisi. Sir Samuel quietly but firmly warned Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy that tne anti-British campaign in Italy must cease and that the concentration of Italian troops in Libya might well he further diminished. & The Sanctions Committee of 18 adopted a sub-committee resolution to the effect that the enforcement ot sanctions against Italy should begin first and that details such as clear- ing balances should be settled later It was agreed, however, that sucn balances should be regarded as “good debts” to be recovered after peace is restored and the sanctions ended. Although pressure swiftly tightened around Mussolini’s East African ven- | ture, the situation in Europe itself ‘was not forgotten. Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium was here, reported- ly with a demand for the “revaloriza- tion of the Locarno treaty,” which his country regards as weakened through the departure of Germany from the (See GENEVA, Page 3.) —_—— AIR SCHEDULES SET United to Fly Quarter Million More Miles. CHICAGO, November 2 (#).—United Airlines has adopted a Winter flying schedule of 1,250,000 miles a month, & quarter of a million miles more than the company has flown in any pre- vious Fall and Winter season. ‘The schedule calls for nine flights between Chicago and New York daily, four from New York and Chicago to the Pacific Coast, and additional fly- ing on the Pacific Coast over that o."]ut Winter, reach graduates- of other educational America, which has its local head- quarters in the Raleigh Hotel, claims a membership of 240,000 throughout safety and defense of the empire. NEW OPERATIONS HINTED. Reconnaissance Activity Near Makale Is Intense. ROME. November 2 (#)—Renewal of military operations on the Eritrean (See WAR, Page 3.) Intercollegiate Organization’s Branch Joins Safety Campaign 11,000 Members in D. C. Will Be Pledged,| Thus Spreading Principles Adopted by All Leading Schools Here. Traffic Deaths to November 2—92; Same Period, 1934—104 I Augmenting its program of promoting Americanism, interest in the fundamental laws of the land and an active, progressive political leadership to inglude a movement for the elimination of unnecessary street and hight deaths, the District of Columbia Divislon of the Intercollegiate Organizaf of America has joined The Star Safety Council in its safety campaign. Under the active leadership of Leon Sclawy, 310 Allen street, co-chair- man with Eric Lloyd, 740 R street, ofy- the local division, the distribution of | special safe driving pledge cards to each of the 1,000 members of the division in Washington and vicinity has been undertaken. The local division includes in its membership students and graduates of many colleges and universities in Washington and the States. The | work of the District division of the intercollegiate organizations is in- tended to supplement the safety cam- paigns which have been undertaken by all of the leading colleges and universities in the District and to institutions living here. The Intercollegiate Organizations of the Nation. ‘The purpose of the organization, it was explained, “is to bring the students and graduates of all Ly concentrated in upstate counties, | where the Democrats have only 17 of 88 seats. In New York City the party has all but 3 of 62 seats. Republican Chairman Eaton pre- dicts victory .with a minimum 80 seats, and Democratic chieftains figure their own total will be at least 85. y colleges and universities in order to create and develop among them an active interest in the fundamental law of the d, the Constitution of the United Sthtes of America; pro- gressive political leadership and ac- tion; in enlisting the political con- sciousness of college men and women; to prevent the spread of radicalism and subversive influences and un- American doctrines in our colleges and universities.” Officers of the local division, in ad- dition to Co-chairmen Lloyd and Sclawy, are Joseph C. Richey, treas- urer, and Virginia C. Bailey, secretary. The national organization is plan- ning to foster a youth movement to aid in finding a place for the college graduate in the present social struc- ture, it was explained. “We ask,” officers of the organiza- tion explained in dealing with the (See . Page 8 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BEWILDERED CHINA WAVERS BETWEEN iz JAPAN AND RUSSIA Leaders Feel Nation Must Choose Between Tokio and Moscow. ADVANCES TO SOVIET RUMORED IN NANKING Government Reported Seek.ing Assurance. That Economic Penetration Will Stop. By the Associated Press. NANKING, November 2—Reports | of Sino-Russian negotiations for a fluence on the Asiatic mainland | evoked the comment from a North China government spokesman today | that China eventually may have to de- ‘! cide between friendship with Moscow | or Tokio. Though officials were reticent to discuss the rumored conversations, sources usually well informed hinted China has approached Russia on the question of assurances that Moscow will stop economic and political pen- | etration of Turkestan apd inner Mon- | golia. In return, said these sources, China ! has expressed willingness to increase purchases of Russian goods and aid Fussia in opposing Japanese advances across Northern Asia. Party Leaders Meet. “Chiny said the government spokesman, “has not yet been forced to decide between Japan and Russia, but sometime in the future, perhaps, China must make this momentous de- cision.” Officials of the Kuomintang (the Nationalist and dominant) party met today for an important decision tan- gent to the larger question of an even- tua Japanese or Russian alliance. ‘The Nanking government's premier, meanwhile, lay dangerously wounded by bullets fired by a Chinese described I as both anti-Japanese and a Com- | munist. Motive Undetermined. Official quarters were puzzled over | the motive behind yesterday's at-| ening 9 ~y 1935—THIRTY PAGES. Star Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,109 Some Returns Not Yet Received. L L 23 MISTER WALLACE | YA COULDNT HELP A | FELLER BY PLOWIN THESE. UNDER, COULD YE? Western High Student, Missing ' 5 Months, Sought by Hoover Asks Policg of Nation to Help Find Robert Cohen. BY REX COLLIER. Co-operation of the Nation's law enforcement agencies in solving the mystery of the disappearance more than five months ago of Robert Lee Cohen, 17-year-old Western High NCARL HOLDS KEY Gmmflnmmmwm {A. A. A. Awaits Funds to Enforce Act—Wallace Sets Allotments. By the Associated Press | A.A. A officials watched Controller | General McCarl's office today to see | whether they will be allowed to use (®) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. HAM AND FLEMING QUITW.R.E.POSTS IN CONTROL SHIFT Daniel J. Callahan Also Out Because of Move of Hold- ing Company. | THREE STILL MEMBERS OF THE PEPCO BOARD North American Transaction to Rid Itself of Control May Cause More Resignations. The president and two directors of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. have resigned, it was learned to- day, their action preceding the an- nouncement that the North Ameri- can Co. had notified the Federal Secu- rities and Exchange Commission that it proposed to divest itself of control of the railway company by issuing participating shares in place of the common shares of the W. R. & E. The resignations took place before the fil- ing of the notice with the securities board. They are William F. Ham, president | of the W. R. & E.: Robert V. Flem- ing. president of the Riggs National Bank, and Daniel J. Callahan. | _In admitting his resignation, Mr, | Fleming explained .that it was in con- nection with the move of the holding | company to divest itself of control of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. through the proposed issuance of participating shares, but he specifi- cally explained his resignation should | “not be taken as a reflection on this | transaction.” Mr. Ham declined to comment but the report of his resig- | nation was confirmed at his home. Law Requirement Cited. Asked for his reason for resigning, | Fleming said it was due “to the | stringent requirements of law in con- | nection with the filing of the regis- | | | | | School student, was asked today by $3,000.000 of special funds to enforce | tration certificate with the Securities tempted assassination of Premier Wang Ching-Wei. A phynums'i bulletin described his condition as | “satisfactory,” while his colleagues | weighed a Japanese demand for elim- | ination of anti-Japanese elements in | Narth China. The gunman was in a comatose state. He was identified as Sun Ming- Hsun, a reporter for a Chinese news agency. Police announced a search of Sun's offices disclosed the news agency had | press purpose of enabling him to gain entry to the Kuomintang meeting ror‘ the assassination attempt. They said he was formerly a sergeant in South China’'s famous 19th Route Army. A spokesman for the foreign office discredited a police theory that the shooting was the outcome of a Com- munist plot. The theory that the gunman was motivated by anti- Japanese sentiment was widely held. Wang Ching-Wei popularly is re-| ; garded as friendly to Tokio. - DEATHOF HALLOWEEN PRANKSTER PROBED School Superintendent Charged With Manslaughter in Shoot- ing of Youth. By the Associated Press. LA TOUR, Mo.. November 2.—Coun- ty Prosecutor Wallace Cooper said to- day he was investigating further evi- dencc in the slaying of Glenn Aldridge, 19, dalloween prankster, by his school superintendent. The superintendent, Charles F. Mc- Clure, 35, was charged with man- slaughter last night after Aldridge died in a Kansas City hospital. Con- viction would carry a penalty up to 10 years in prison. “If the evidence warrants, I will change the charge to first-degree mur- der,” Cooper said. McClure, held under $5000 bond, tolc. brokenly of the shooting, which occurred when a group of boys at- temptec. to carry away a school out- building. “I didn't intend to shoot him.” Me- Clure said. “He ran agaiust my gun and it was discharged. I only planned to frighten them.” TODAY Washington’s Auto Show Opens Be sure to see the many new models on display 580 TOMORROW The Star will tell you all about them in its Special Illustrated Auto Show Sec- tion. With two pages of ROTOGRAVURE PICTURES Read the Latest News of the Auto World Completely Covered the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. On the possible theory that young Cohen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Cohen of Lyon Park, Va, fell into | the hands of abductors while “thumb- ing” a ride home from the Key Bridge after school on May 22 last, J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. L director, has taken a personal interest in the case. The bureau, in its monthly bulletin sent today to approximately 12,000 | law enforcement agencies and offi- | cials throughout the country, pub- | lished a detailed description of the | boy, with his picture, and gave an account of the circumstances under which he disappeared. This unusual | move was taken because of the pos- | sibility of Federal law violation. The following appeal, | the potato control act. -If so, it was indicated, the A. A. A will quickly move forward with the task of deciding the number of Exchange Commission which was nec- essary in this transaction.” Fleming further stated he believed all matters in connection with this signed by ' ROBERT L. COHEN. Hoover, was attached: *“All law en- forcement officials and agencies are requested to conduct any investigation | toward the location of Cohen which seems advisable to them and to post a missing person’s notice in their re- spective files. It is further requested (See G-MEN, Page 2.) OYSTER DREDGERS OBTAIN LICENSES DISTILLERY GROUP bushels each individual farmer may transaction were being prepared and harvest and sell next year without' handled with the greatest care, but paying, a tax of about 45 cents a “that the detailed information which bushel. was required in filing the registration National and State allotments were Certificate was of such a nature that announced yesterday by Secretary it Would be impossible for him, in his | Wallace, but the individual allotments Judgment, to pass upon this informa- | were held up pending McCarl’s ruling. !ion in a manner which to his mind The national allotment was fixed D¢ Was charged with doing under the at 226,600,000 bushels. The State 1aw." allotments totaled 222,068,000 bushels.| The three directors who resigned | The difference of 4,532,000 is to be are still members of the board of the | used in adjusting any inequalities in| Potomac Eiectric Power Co., accord- the State quotas, officials said. ! ing to Dr. William C. McClellan, who All potatoes grown and marketed Nas succeeded Ham as president of in excess of the quotas must pay the the railroad company. penalty tax. The four remaining directors of A. A. A forecast that virtually all ' the railway company, who constitute the marketed potatoes would move & majority of the board are: Dr. Mc~ | into commercial channels without the | Clellan. A. G. Neal. vice president payment of any taxes. | and general manager of the railway The pur, of the Dotato oo | company; Eugene E. Thompson of act. subject of widespread controversy, | (118 €Ity 'and F. W. Doolittle of New |1s to prevent surplus prcduction, raise prices to farmers and give potatoes | the same purchasing power the crop | had from 1919 to 1929. | Ninety-five per cent of each State | allotment will be given tc farms upon | BARRED BY OHO York City, vice president of North American Company. These four, ac- | cording to Dr. McClellan, are sup- porting the new transaction and do | not intend to resign. The North American Co. filed a Boats Leave Annapolis Again After Being Driven Row of Davey Involving Press Brings Cancella- | which potatoes have been grown dur- | registration statement with the Ex- ing one or more of the years between | change Commission covering 1,625,000 1932 and 1934. The remaining 5 per | participating shares, representing the cent will be apportioned to farmers 65000 outstanding common shares of From Rocks. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 2.— After being driven from the oyster | rocks yesterday by State conservation | officials when they lacked licenses, & | fleet of oyster dredge boats put out from the harbor today, the majority | having obtained the required permits. | Clerks at the office of the State controller issued 39 dredging licenses | yesterday and last night, the office remaining open until 7 pm. A total tion of Advertising. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 2.— Carl A. Babcock, technical adviser for Ohio’s liquor monopoly system, as- who did not raise potatoes in those years. The allotment for Virginia was 10,- the Washington Railway. Meanwhile the District Public Util- ities Commission started an inquiry to | 348,000 bushels and for neighboring| determine what would be the ultimate | States: Maryland, 2.110,000; Norph effect of the proposal made to the Carolina, 4,375,000, West Virginia,| Securities Commission by the North serted today he has notified the Na-|955000. and Tennessee, 533,000. tional Distillers Corp. to withdraw its | liquor stocks from the State. | ed. Open predictions of defiance and Babcock said the action was taken | potato bootlgging have been made. At upon orders of Liquor Director James one time Wallace said- he would do W. Miller. He refused to state the |everything possible to keep from en- reason for the order, which he said | forcing the law. but at a potato was issupd to Arthur Reisenberger, growers’ hearing the next day the pro- Loud protests already have resound- | American Co. The District Public Utilities Com= | mission today started an inquiry to determine what would be the ultimate | effect of a proposal made to the Fed- | eral Securities Commission by the | North American Co. which was an- | rounced as a move by the giant util~ of 80 licenses have been issued since agent for the distillery. | tests were so vociferous that he re- | jties holding company to divest itself Thursday, compared to 114 licenses issued in 1934 and less than 100 in | 1933. | The dredging season opened yester- | day and the oyster men, accustomed to about a month's grace before license requirements were strictly enforced, found their operations halted by Con- servation Commission patrol boats. Only Sixteen Boats Remain. Many of the boats put into An- | napolis. Capts. E. N. Tyler, E. F. Island estimated that there were about 40 boats in the fleet that came up the Chesapeake Bay from Wico- mico, Dorchester and Somerset Coun- ties. This morning only 16 boats re- mained in the harbor, the others hav- ing shoved off, apparently provided | with licenses. Estimates of the number of water meh who were held up by the strict enforcement of the licensing laws yesterday ran from 200 to 600, dredge captains pointing out that the boats carry an average of five men for crew. Dredging licenses cost $3.50 for each boat ton, the State controller’s office placing the average cost around $75 or $80. The charge runs from $35 to about $160. Asks Aid From Nice. ‘When State Senator Harry T. Phoe- bus was informed of the action of the conservation patrol last night he tele- phoned Gov. Harry W. Nice request- ing that the oystermen be allowed additional time before enforcement measures were begun. Dredge boat captains sald last sea- son they were allowed until Decem- ber 5 before the law was enforced, giving them time to make the money required for their licenses. Phoebus said the Governor said he (See OYSTERS, Page 3.) e Evans and W. C. Smith of Smiths | TAX COLLECTIONS GAIN NEW YORK, November 2 (#)— Real estate tax collections for the second half of 1935 in New York City are more than $13,000,000 above re- s The Sunday Htar ceipts for the same period a year ago. City Controller Frank J. Taylor predicted mail returns might raise the year's totll, now set st $156,717,- 131, by snother $10,000,008, Earlier, Gov. Martin L. Davey, focal tracted. point of controversies since his inau- | S s sy so auces| PURVIS 1S : INVITED TO GUARD STARS had withdrawn their advertising from Ohio newspapers. The Cincinnati Enquirer asserted the st.rnuhhquor department had barred one of the companies from shipping | A its products into the State. Solymood S Mayi reamzel for Gov. Davey, who publicly criticized Protection Against the a “liquor trust” and assailed a chain of newspapers (Scripps Howard) for Underworld. its articles on the Ohio liquor situa- | tion, declared he had heard nothing | > jor 1 v WOOD. Galif. November 3 of the reported order from the liquor | _yrovicland's “he-men” and “yes- department barring the shipments. Taeh® "andlijist piain)starslmay or- R. J. Dustman, who handles the national advertising account of the |for protection against the underworld. National Distillers Corp., asserted that | Jack Larue, film actor, wants Mel- firm has withdrawn all of its adver- | vin Purvis, No. 1 ex-G-man, to head tising from Ohio newspapers. It |the “star protectors.” amounted to $50,000 a month in 31 Larue said he telegraphed Purvis, papers, he said. former chief of the Chicago bureau of the Départment of Justice, asking if he would consider such an offer to combat “racketeers and blackmail- ers living a parasitical life off the stars.” The idea of a “protective league,” Larue said today, bore the approval of Eddie Cantor, Sally Eilers, Samuel Goldwyn, the producer, Director Nor- man Taurog and others. Tariff Experts to Come Here. , OTTAWA, November 2 (#)—Trade and tariff experts representing the Do- minion government will return to Washington next, week to continue ne- gotiations for a reciprocal trade agree- ment with United States, it was learned on good authority yesterday. Follow the War With Color Maps The Star will publish tomorrow two maps cover- ing the theaters of action in the ltalo-Ethiopian conflict and the Mediterranean crisis. The maps, in four colors, showing the possessions of the major powers, are suitable for home or school-use. The map of Ethiopia contains all the towns likely to be involved in the Italian drive, while that of the Mediterranean area extends from Gibraltar on the west to the Suez Canal on the east. Turn to the Colo\r Section of -The Sunday Star ganize their own staff of “G-men” | of control over Washington's power and transit companies. The North American Co. now ine directly dominates the Potomac Elecs tric Co. and the Capital Transit Co. through control of voting power in the Washington Railway & Electric Co., which itself is a holding com- pany. The North American Co. in | a plan filed with the Securities Com= mission, proposes to issue 25 particie pating shares for each one of the common shares in the W. R. & E. and to sell its holdings to the public, according to statements to the Fed- | eral agency. Information Requested. The District Commission today ade | dressed letters to the Securities Come | mission as well as to the W. R. & E, company and to its new president, Dr. McClellan, seeking full infor- mation on the plan. At the same time, People’s Counsel William A, Roberts conferred at length with Mc- Clellan and will go Monday to the | Securities Commission for further | data. The action by the North American raised several questions. One was whether the effect of public sale of North American holdings in the local company would mean a local board of directors in complete control of the concerns here. Another was how (See CONTROL, Page 2.) Readers’ Guide Amusements - Church News Comics ___ Editorials Finance . Lost and Found Washington Wayside Women's wltuxeu -