Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly colder, lowest tem- perature about 40 degrees tonight; to- morrow fair, followed by light rain tomor- row night or Sunday. Temperatures— Highest, 59, at noon today; lowest, 46, at7 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 TALIANS NENACE BRTSH TANA AR AS MAKALE FALLS; GORRAHE! SEIZED #Raking Squadrons” Clash With Native Warriors in| Fertile Region of Partic- ular Interest to England. MARCH TO SOUTHWARD ON AMBAALGI MAPPED | 33,428. post oflice, Wa Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa Enters| Strategic City at Head of Vic-| torious Fascist Forces—Mys-T tery Danakil Warriors Act as Guards. | By the Associated Press. | The Italians made two important| conquests in Ethiopia today, captur- ing Gorrahei on the southern front and Makale on the north | In still another milit movement they drove “deep” into the region leading to Lake Tana, in which Great Britain is interested because it feeds the River Nile. | Mussolini has often disavowed am‘] ambitions toward Lake Tana. The‘ advance of his troops in that ar(-a.‘ however, may indicate a change in his | views and a determination to make ' his conquest of Ethiopia complete. In capturing Gorrahei, a strategic center, the southern Italian army has | removed another stone from its palh! of | toward Harrar, the walled city Ethiopia. TANA AREA PIERCED. | Anderson, 38, was slugged and kidnaped | fuehrer Adolf Hitler dissolved Ger- Squadrons Sent Deep Into Region Which Interests Britain. (Copyright, 1955. by the Associsted Press.) | MAKALE. Ethiopia, November 8.—| Runners from the Italian army corps of Gen. Pietro Maravigna reported today he had sent “raking squadrons” deep into the regions leading to Lake Tana, | headwaters of the Nile, in which | Great Britain is vitally interested. | Entered as second class matter ! ported | mately @he shington, D. C. Kingsford-Smith -Is Missing After Struggle With Monsoon Flames Seen Shooting From Exhaust of Plane Over Bengal Bay. By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, November 8.—Darkness fell over the Malacca Strait tonight without any further word from Sir Charles Kings- ford-Smith, missing on a flight from England to Australia. The noted Australian pilot and his | copilot, Tom Pethybridge, were last | sighted by C. James Melrose, who re- ported that he had flown over the missing flyers’ plane over the Bay of | Bengal in a raging monsoon. | Melrose, one of the prize winners in the London-Melbourne air derby | last year, reported that Sir Charles | and Pethybridge » were battling the | storm. Flames appeared to be shoot- | ing from the exhaust of Kingsford- | Smith’s monoplane, Melrose related. | The London-to-Australia flyers were about 150 miles from shore and flying | at an altitude of 200 feet, it was re- | SIR CHARLES KINGSFORD-SMITH. Melrose arrived at Singapore at 2:25 pm. (2:25 am, E. S. T.) and search tomorrow. said he passed Sir Charles approxi- |Of Bengal were warned by wireless to 12 hours earlier. Hec an- keep a sharp lookout. nounced that he was abandoning his | Aviation experts expressed fear for own flight from England to Australia the safty of the famous transoceanic to assist royal air force pilots in a | (See AUSTRALIAN, Page 5.) HITLER DISSOLVES MAN 1S KIDNAPED ONLEAVING TR Abducted After Four Are Conyicted in Gambling Ship Robbery. By the Associated Press. Steel Helmet Group Held Unnecessary—Nazis to Dedicate Temples. | By the Associated Press. 8.—Reichs- Ships in the Bay | REICH STAHLHELM WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star RULE OF INDUSTRY BY TREATY POWER WEIGHED BY N.R.A. Lawyers Study Pacts as Transcending U. S. Constitution. ‘SUPREME LAW OF LAND’ WORDING IN BASIC ACT Employment, Child Labor and Other Subjects Dealt With in Conventions. By the Associated Press. The possibility of using the Federal Government’s treaty-making power as the basis for future regulation of in- dustry is being studied by a group | of N. R. A. lawyers. They have been directed to explore every possible constitutional authority | on whicH new N. R. A. legislation | might be based if the Government should again wish to experiment with something of that kind. Canvassing the situation, the law- yers have become interested in the broad treaty-making power granted the Federal Government by the Con- stitution, That document provides that treaties shall be “the supreme {law cf the land, * * * anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” This clause of the Constitution reads: “This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be | bound thereby, anything in the Con- in pursuance thercof and all treaties | LOS ANGELES, November 8 —Red early today shortly after he left a Federal court room where four men were convicted of the $32,000 robbery of the gambling ship Monte Carlo. The victim, questioned last July in connection with the crime, was driv- ing home through the harbor district with a friend, Lars Holden. Holden told police that unidentified men, posing as officers, flagged them DECLIN I Novenbes stitution or laws of any State to the many’s Steel Helmet organization to- CORIFary notwithstanding. day in a letter to Franz Seldte, leader of the veterans’ body. the Third the lawyers also are studying the con- | Reich’s counterpart to the American | ventions, or treaties originating with Legion. | the international labor organization | The reason for the dissolution, Hit- | at Geneva, to which the United States |ler said in his letter, was that “with belongs. | the first call of recruits to the colnrs‘{ Wide Range of Subjects. November 7, the army 13 now Tecon- | aynough most of these conventions of '€ were negotiated before the United M0 States joined in 1934. and have not siituted and continuation Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets) | Following through with that idea, Lake Tana is 160 miles southwest down. He said they walked up to the of Makale, which the Italian army | car and slugged Anderson with a took today. blackjack, knocking him unconscious, The runners said the squadrons had | dragged him to their machine and | entered the Adiabo territory, dispers- | drove off. Holden was not harmed. Ing groups of the warriors of the Ethi- opian commander Ras Seyoum. They brought word that one of Gen. Maravigna’s light infantry columns, backed by mountain artillery, had left the Italian line along the Setit River, where they had been facing the Ethi- opian Ras Burro's troops. New Advances Reported. ‘This force had cut across country to the southeast, the runners said. taking up positions along the Tak- kaze River One column of light infantry, ope- | rating near Makale, was reported late in the afternoon to have occupied Donghea Pass, which commands the approach to Selicot. The latter town 1s 15 miles from Makale, along the 40- milé route to Ambaalgi, the next Italian objective. ‘The troops of Italy feel they must occupy Ambaalgi, not only for its strategic mountain position but for sentimental reasons as well. For that is the southernmost point reached in the disastrous Italian in- vasion of 1895-6. It was at Ambaalgi that Maj. To- gelli’s advancing force of 2,000 troops, mostly natives, was cut to pieces by the Ethiopians in December, 1895. ‘The culminating -disaster of Aduwa occurred a few weeks later. To Strengthen Makale Hold. Before another advance is under- taken, however, there probably will ensue an interval in which the Makale (See ETHIOPIA, Page 6.) “CURLY” BYRD HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Acting U. of M. President Cut on Head at Salisbury—Sum- moned to Court. By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., November 8.— H. C. (“Curly”) Byrd, acting president of the University of Maryland, re- ceived a painful cut on the head in an accident at a street intersection here. Byrd's automobile collided with a machine driven by Thomas Parsons last night. One of the cars then piled into a third machine. Chief of Police N. H. Holland sum- moned Parsons to appear before Peoples’ Court Judge Marion A. Humphreys next Thursday to answer @ charge of reckless driving. Byrd was summoned to answer for alleged failure to give right of way to an- other car. Byrd came here yesterday to address the Tri-County Homemakers’ Club. His injury, although not serious, was painful. He went today to Princess Anne to speak at Founders’ day exercises of the Princess Anne Academy. Reqders’ Guide Changing World Comics Cross-word Puzzle Editorials | Walter Miller, August Wunderlich ;’and Carl Carillo were found guilty of { the robbery by a jury last night. The | fourth, Frank Dudley, confessed and | turned state’s evidence. | The quartet was accused by the | Government of having descended on | the Monte Carlo about 4 am. July 8. | In the manner of pirates, the rob- bers bound the crew with handcuffs | and chains and left with cash and | jewelry taken from the ship's strong | | boxes. %ENGLISH ELECTION MOB SHOUTS DOWN M’DONALD Disorders Feature Campaigns at| | Seaham Harbor and London. Baldwin Greeted. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 8.—English ¢ ction campaicns were featured by disorder today. Tormer Prime Minister Ramsey | MacDonald, c1 the platform at a Sea- lam Harbor meeting, was shouted down when he tried to speak. At a London meeting attended by candidates, fighting between rival fac- | tions * okt up the gathering and po- | lice were called to quell the melee. Several arrests were made. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, arriving at Leeds railroad station, was ¢ 2eted by a throng of green-uni- formed Socia! Credit party members i who shouted, “Down with the bankers and the government.” Detectives drove off the demonstrators. longer necessary.” Hitler thanked the Stahlhelm for “past services in upholding the tra- ditions of the army” and ordered to i dividual members of the organi- zation facilities for entering Nazi bodies.- | Seldte irepliec that the Stahlhelm was content in regarding its mission as finished and said the organization furled its banners in loyalty to Hitler. To Honor Putsch Victims. Maenwhile, at Munich today Der Fuehrer inspected preparations for a | iriumphant dedication of temples erected to honor Nazis who fell in his first putsch. It was 12 years ago that the abortive putsch colla ~* in blood and slaugh- ter. Ac-ompanied by Paul Joseph Goebhels, minister of propaganda, | he visited the two honor temples at noon. Black-uniformed members of his elite guard were already on duty. Der Fuehrer viewed the sarcophagi in which the bodies of his 16 com- rades who fell in 1923 will be laid in their final rest tomorrow, the anni- versary of the ignominiously unsuc- cessful “beer cellar putsch.” Jditler wore a brown storm trooper uniform, a visored cap and a light brown trench coat. He talked ani- matedly with Goebbels, who also was i1. uniform, as they inspected the two h 10r temples and the two new granite structures nearby—the Fuehrer house and the administration building of the Nazi party. Throng Attend Hitler. Th. cistomary throng of enthu- sias * crowded around to see Hitler. Goebbels then inspected Munich’s city-wide loud-speaker system in- stalled for tonight’s and tomorrow’s erercises. Both he and Hitler were satisfied (See HITLER, Page 3.) Army Transports Join Drive, Expanding Own Safety Aims Nine American Legion Posts in Mary- land Also Affiliate With The Star Council. Traffic Deaths to November 8—92; Same Period, 1934—107 (The last fatal accident was on October 24, the victim died later.) ‘The Army Motor Transport Pool, Eighteenth street and Virginia avenue, which operates 118 Army trucks, passenger cars, ambulances and hearses day and night in all parts of Washington and vicinity, has expanded its own rigid safety program to co-operate with The Evening Star Safety Council in of Laurel, Md., Post, No. 60, of the De- partment of Maryland, joined with The Star Council last night in an effort to spread the safe driving campaign into the nearby Maryland counties. The posts put their weight béhind the gafety drive at a ceremonial meeting Armory at Laurel, Md., at which time incoming officers of four posts were installed. ‘The new Southern Prince Georges Citizens’ Association also has joined The Star Council and pledged its mem- bership of more than 100 to a program of co-operation in the safe driving move. The Army transport pool, under command of Capt. Raymond Dailey, Quartermaster Corps., has establishied an enviable safety record through rigid discipline and constant hammer- ing away at safe driving practices. “We feel, however,” Capt. Dailey said, “that our own safety work, suc- cessful though it has been in our L last night in the National Guard | the city-wide drive against traffic accidents. Nine American Legion posts in Maryland, under the leadership of Capt. Vinton D. Cockey, retiring commander % operations in Washington, does not fully discharge our duties here. We feel that it is our duty to also join and support the civic safety campaign now being conducted by The Star, as it is the duty of every organization and in- dividual driver using the local streets.” | Despite its continuous operations in | the thick of traffic, the Army trans- port service has not had a fatal acci- | dent since 1918, and for the past four | years never has had more than three accidents, however slight, during any one month. Sixteen months during the past four years have been wholly free from accidents of any kind and during 13 other months there was only one accident. During the preceding four years there was not a single month which was without accident and only one month showed two accidents or less. During two of those months there were 26 accidents, 13 in each month. Of the 118 motor vehicles maintained (See o Page &) | peen ratified by this Government, they | deal with such subjects as hours of | industrial employment, child | night work, minimum wages and | other conditions of employment. | What the lawyers are studying is such a convention, or a treaty Wwith a single nation governing working hoars in industry or some other con- dition of employment, the treaty would stand up as the “supreme law | of the land.” Other constitutional provisions being | exhaustively studied by the N. R. A. lawyers involve the Federal Govern- | ment's jurisdiction over interstate commerce, taxes and appropriations, post offices, Government contracts, tariff rates and war emergencies. The old N. R. A. was based largely | on the interstate commerce clause, but | the other powers have been used in various regulatory laws in the past. The Guffey coal bill and the social security bill are based largely on the Government's taxing and spending powers; control of the post offices has been used to prevent fraud; several proposals are now pending in Congress for substitute N. R. A. legislation based on jurisdiction over those who contract with the Government. Exploring Possibilities. L. C. Marshall, director of the N. R. A. Review Division, under whom the lawyers are working, said his staff was not drafting new N. R. A. legislation, nor “trying to formulate what ought to be done.” He said it was merely exploring the possibilities and assembling material “that would be useful if we should get to the stage where some kind of legis- lation was wanted.” If the next ses- sion of Congress should want material on which to base legislation regulating one industry or all industries, it will be ready, he explained. One man, Marshall said, has been assigned to assemble and study the proposals that have been made for future legislation. Correspondence and material on these suggestions fill five filing cases, he said. e WAVE OF BUYING SENDS STOCKS UP Utilities Jump With News of Decision Declaring Utility Act Invalid. NEW YORK, November 8 (#).—The largest wave of buying in the public utility shares in a long time swept through the Stock Exchange today, but it soon subsided. Initial gains of 50 cents to $3 a share were largely retained in later trading, however, and several other sections of the market, notably industrials, joined the advance. The uprush in utilities at the start, with blocks of 1,000 ‘to more than 50.000 shares changing hands, was in response to the decision in the Federal District Court at Baltimore yesterday, declaring the public utility act of 1935 ‘unconstitutional. Utility circles were jubilant, but some warned that the case still had to go to the Supreme Court for final decision. It was pointed out, also, that some utility lawyers had been hoping for “a clearer cut” case than that at Baltimore. American Telephone jumped $2.50, to $148.50, then slipped back a trifle. Western Union rose $3 to above $68 and held its gain. Industrials up $1 to $2 incluied Westinghouse Electric, Corn Products and International Har- vester. ‘The largest block to change hands ‘was 110,000 Cities Service common, on the Curb, up 50 cents, to $3.12, In dealings later 1t touched $3.25. ¢ 1abor, | whether. if the United States ratified | N “T.Gov. Wi AB CAMNDLERS @ \‘\AAQ\\\BK NORRIS TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE |Nebraska Senator An-| nounces He Will Not Be Candidate for Re-election. | By the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, November 8.— Senator George W. Norris, veteran Nebraska Republican, told the Desert News here today he will not be a can- didate for re-election to the Senate. | “I have been in the Senate for many | vears,” he said during a brief stop| | here en route to Compton, Calif,, to visit a daughter. “I am getting old, and younger men can and should carry on the work which I have tried I am not a candidate. “But a campaign would be a small disturbance compared to the trouble me. I have received hundreds of letters from all parts of the United States urging me to run next year.” Senator Norris sald he has not dis- cussed with Senator Borah the matter of the Idaho Senator’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomina- tion. “But I don't think he will be a can- didate any more than I will” he added. Senator Norris predicted the re- election of President Roosevelt. “There is no truth in the charge that the President wishes to nullify or modify the Constitution in any manner other than that provided by law,” he said. “His critics offer nothing in exchange for what he has offered. They are ‘chiselers.” They attempt to tear down without building up. Most groups opposing him would like to have at their disposal the jobs he possesses. I say that any party that is held to- gether by jobs cannot survive.” FRIENDS STILL HOPE. Independents Held Unlikely to Accept Decision. By the Associated Press. Announcement by Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska that he would not be a candidate for re-election (See NORRIS, Page 2.) SUNDAY e “THIS WEEK” “Why War?” F. BRITTEN AUSTIN —author of “The War God Walks Again,” puts the question square- ly: “Does the barbarous atrocity of war serve any useful pur- pose?” Read his thought-com- pelling answer. “He Borrowed $700”’ JIM TULLY —tells the life story of William Powell, popular play-boy detec- tive of the screen, whose fan mail is setting records in Hollywood. « s s “The Difference” JAMES HILTON —author of “Lost Horizon” and many best sellers, tells the un- usual story of a woman who judged a man by her own standards. These, a host of other features, and a fine array of ‘new fiction will be ready for you —in— The Sunday Star { to do during my years as a s:mmr,l my not being a candidate has mat1 WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1935—FIFTY PAGES. #%% The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. () Means Asscciated Press. IT'S A SAD STORY, COMRADES! My COLONELS DIDNT FoLLOW ME. W, - = 41’7, LAFFOON'S LAMENT! Author Here Seeks An Acquaintance of Mrs. Abe Lincoln By the Assoclated Press. Maury Madison came to the Capital today on a strange quest—he’s looking for some one who knew Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. Madison, a native of Bourbon County, Ky. whose hobby is gathering historical material about Presidents’ wives, has pre- pared a pictorial book entitled “Lincoln’s Kentucky Mary."” Now he wants “some one who actually knew her to write a brief foreword for it.” There must be some such person living, he said, but so far his quest has been vain. HOPKINS DENIES RELIEF POLITICS, |Questioned on Kentucky| | Grants—Says Critics Are Partisan. By the Associated Press. Harry L. Hopkins, chief director of the administration's relief activities, | | spread on the record today a vehe- | | ment denial that his office was in politics. He made the denial to reporters | who questioned him about charges | that Kentucky had received a big | batch of Works Progress Adminis- | itrnlion projects just before Tuesday's | | election. | “This office is not in politics,” Hop- | | kins replied, “and the politicians can | ’yell their heads off.” He likewise branded as “partisan” charges that his work relief policies and references in press conferences to New Deal opponents were intended to aid President Roosevelt's campaign | for re-election. “I would be betraying every trust that the Government puts in me,” he |said. “if I allowed myself to be iden- tified with politics. I'm not interested in politics, and if the things I say are interpreted as political, I can't help it.” | Silent on Kansas. ‘The relief chief declined to com- ment directly on a protest by John G. | Stutz, Kansas State relief director, | against a statement by Hopkins last week that Kansas “has not put up a thin dime for relief.” i Hopkins added in that statement that Gov. Alf Landon, prominently | mentioned as a possible Republican | candidate for President, had balanced | the Kansas budget by “taking it out; of the hides of the people.” Informed that State relief payments are forbidden under the Kansas Con- stitution, he said “a good many States have changed their constitution.” He acknowledged that Kansas cities and counties have provided “well” for the destitute. Discussing the progress of the drive to provide jobs and end the dole, the (See HOPKINS, Page 5.) — CLIPPER WINGING WORLD PROBLEMS GREET PRESIDENT Conference With Hull First of Duties on Return From Hyde Park. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,422 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. HOLDING COMPANY FIGHT REVIVED AS COURT UPSETS LAW S. E. C. Is Expected to Precipitate New Test by Fines. ACTION WOULD FOLLOW REFUSAL TO FILE DATA Decision by U. S. Judge in Balti- more Forecasts Stiffening of Opposition by Firms. By the Assoclated Press A new and immense struggle over the utility holding company bill is believed to be an imminent prob- ability, especially in view of a Bal- timore Federal judge's decision yes- terday that the whole act in unconsti- tutional. Some officials of the Securities Com« mission are known to believe the Baltimore result will stiffen the resist- anc: of the utilities industry, and that most of the holding firms will refuse to register with the commission at the deadline, December 1. If this should be the case, practi- cally the whole vast industry would be arrayed in determined resistance against the act which grew out of the Roosevelt administration's attempt to “simplify” the holding company set-up, to eliminate holding firms deemed “unnecessary” and to regulate the remainder. Requires Full Data. Unless the Securities Commission could win the court fight, its attempt to enforce the act would be halted at the very start. The registration precedure calls for filing of detailed information about the concern’s finan- cla. and operating structure. | Hyde Park, N. Y., home, today turned The act provides fines and jail sentences for those who refuse to register. If the Securities Commission should move to enforce these pro- visions, the result would be a test : case in which th { his attention to international prob. ‘-besan scu\'ccpar(; S lems. | “The re p z B quested data would be used Soon after arriving in the executive | 40" the ‘commission in deciding which office the President began & long con-| (,mnenies should be eliminated, & ference with Segetary Hull ‘“d‘_‘ question which, in general, hinges on KTY;";DCOYIS:;'; s :;""0‘2::; :]:g’:rz whether a concern holds sway over onfert 4 '¢ ' a territory considered too wide. latest developments in the troubled : BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt, returning to Washington after a week's visit at his WAY T0 ACAPULCO Roars Past Cuba on Way South- ward From Miami to San Francisco. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., November 8.—Two of her passengers sleeping peacefully in the lounge room, Pan-American Air- ways' giant China clipper roared southward past Cuba this morning en route to Acapulco, Mexico, and, ultimately, the Far East. At 11 am., Eastern standard time, the ship radioed it was 5 miles off the coast of Yucatan, just north of Point Yalkabu. She had covered approxi- mately 650 miles of her 1,503-mile flight. Her veteran captain, Edwin C. Musick, who took her off Biscayne Bay here at 6:11 am. (Eastern standard time) today, radioed at 9 a.m. he was about 115 miles north of Cape San Antonio, on the western tip of Cuba. The sky above was clear and the Gulf of Mexico below “very calm,” Musick reported and two passengers —who had to get up at 4:30 am. for the pre-dawn take-off on the 1,503- mile non-stop flight—were sleeping. 3 situation in Europe, and the visit to Washington at this time of Mackenzie King, newly elected Liberal prime min- ister of Canada. Budget Also Considered. Mr. Roosevelt also turned his atten- tion to the budget. He arranged to have Daniel Bell, acting director of | the Budget Bureau, take luncheon with him in his office and to spend an hour afterward going over budget figures. A silver a8h tray commemorating the beginning of the Florida Ship | Canal, with names of 36 Governors and 66 Senators inscribed, was pre- | sented to President Roosevelt this | morning by Senator Fletcher, Demo- | crat, of Florida. Mr. Roosevelt's special train arrived | at Union Station about 8:30 am., and | the President went directly to the ‘White House, where breakfast was; awaiting him. On his return trip from Hyde Park | President Roosevelt stopped off at New York City for about six hours to par- ticipate in the initation of two of his sons, James and Franklin, jr., into the Masonic order. ceremonies, speeches were made by Mayor La Guardia of New York, Fer- dinand Pecora, who recently was elected to the Supreme Court of New York, and Secretary of Commerce Roper. The President | briefly. Conference Participants. In the conference of State Depart- ment officials today were William Phillips, Undersecretary of State; Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary of State, in charge of trade agreement section; Henry F. Grady, chief of the trade agreement section, and John Hickerson. ‘The President had an opportunity to canvass the political situation in his overnight ride from New York. He was accompanied by Postmaster Gen- eral Farley, the chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee. Farley made no announcement on the talk with the President. U. S. Ambassador Received. SANTIAGO, Chile, November 8 (#)—Hoffman Philip, the new United States Ambassador, presented his cre- dentials in a brilllant ceremony here yesterday. The Proof of the Pudding Reading advertisements in ‘The Star is the only method of determining their value. In tens of thousands of Washington homes it is found profitable, convenient and de- sirable to read of the best offerings of the merchants that are invariably found in The Star. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) The Evening Star_ Lines. 60,093 36,589 18,541 16,904 10,359 ) 82,393 2nd Newspaper___ 3rd Newspaper___ 4th Newspaper___ 5th Newspaper_ Total ( “,‘..o,'.h:,'u, The circulation of The Star continues to grow year after year and is greater than ever before in Washington and suburban homes by several thousands, After the formal | responded | There was little doubt today among observers here that the Government | would fight if faced with a wholesale | refusal to register. It was recalled that, in the memorable controversy over the measure at the last session of Congress, the administration forces | kept pressing for its enactment as a measure necessary to reform evils, while the utilities fought it vehe- mently as unconstitutional and & threat to investors. As a result of the bitter fight, some changes were made in the bill before it could be passed, but its opponents still were severely critical of it. Federal Judge William C. Cole- man’s ruling was that the law was “grossly arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious.” The Baltimore litigation was between private persons interested in a holding company. The Securities Commission has taken the position it would not be bound by a decision of unconstitu- tionality in the Baltimore case, and might act against individual concerns which fail to register. The opinion was expressed by one official that a struggle over registra- tion would precipitate the whole hold- ’lng company issue into the 1936 cam- | paign. | It was reported in Securities Com- | mission circles that even before the Baltimore ruling several important utility lawyers had advised companies not to register. A. G. E. May Register. Informal reports have reached the commission that the Associated Gas { & Electric Co.. which fought the act bitterly in Congress and then figured prominently in lobbying investiga- tions, would register. Whether yes- terday's decision would change the company's plans was uncertain. Only one registration has been re- | ceived at the commission to date, and | that was for a small company. The larger concerns have maintained strict :'lence on their plans. Members of the commission de- clined to comment publicly on the (See UTILITIES, Page 5. 11 REPORTED DEAD IN BAHAMA STORM Commissioner Russell and Ten Others Killed on Great Abaco, Dispatch Says By the Associated Press. NASSAU, Bahamas, November 8.— Reports reaching this capital of the Bahamas today said Commissioner John Eldridge Russell and 10 other persons were drowned on Great Abaco when hurricane winds swept the island Sunday. g Five vessels of the spong fishing fleet were destroyed, it was reported, while three others were badly dam- aged. Other property damage was said to have been small. The hurricane was the same that lashed Miami Monday, causing five deaths in the Miami area and doing property damage set at $3,000,000. It passed over Great Abaco just after changing its course from south to west or west southwest. The storm, most of its fury blown out in the Gulf of Mexico, was re- ported by the Weather Bureau today off the Florida west coast in the vicinity of Cedar Keys. Infant Mortality at New Low. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, November 8 (®)—The odds that a baby bora in Illinois will live were the best today ever recorded in the State. The death rate for infants fell to a record low of 47 per 1,000 births for the first nine months of the year, Dr, Frank J. Jirka, State health director, reported. The most favorable previous “odds” were 52 deaths out of 1,000 births, in l.fl#