Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1935, Page 2

TA-2 s - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933. BLACK T0 PRESS FORSPHOURWEEK :Senator Announces Plan as Wallace Assails Foes of Crop Reduction. Derlaring private industry must shorten working hours or continue ‘o bear the unemployment burden #through dole-financing taxes, Senator #Black, Democrat, of Alabama, author o©f a 30-hour bill, said yesterday he ~vould press for its enactment at the Jnext session of Congress. * Black's statement was made in an 4nterview with the Associated Press | and came concurrently with a radio address by Secretary of Agriculture | Wallace, in which he declared an ®ndustrial reduction program” which *plowed millions of workers into the streets” was responsible for the bil- lions of relief expenditures. The bill which Black believes will take care of unemployment by sub- stituting private work for public works or a dole would require a 30-hour work week in business which: Engage in interstate or foreign com- merce. Receive Government loans. Supply materials for Government contracts. firms with Wage Level Maintenance., A further provision would require maintenance of present wage levels | “until a reasonable time elapses for ,emplovers and employes to adjust ‘them.” Although jail sentences and fines are provided for violators, Black said he believes the bill would be self-en- | forcing “because employes would see | that employers obey, and employers obeying would see that their com- petitors did likewise.” The Senator denied that a 30-hour week would curtail production and msserted that At presont wages it would “not necessarily mean A general increase in prices Compares Steel and Pigs, e resur- 0.000 pigs nistration h coupled h an at- ndustrisl er ad- campAaign rstanding” 1 1933 and 1934 Wallace g production by 3 per eel companies cut pig dustry in future reduction programs will not find it desirable to plow millions of workers out of their jobs.” Wallace said. “People are more important than pigs.” REV. R. A. GILCREST, EDUCATOR, EXPIRES Former President of West Ken- tucky College, 1888-9, Dies | at Home of Son. | Rev. Robert A. Gilcrest, 85. retired minister and educator, died Monday at the home of his son, Guy G. Gil- crest, 1322 Madison street, who is an | suditor of the Income Tax Unit, Treasury Departmefil | Rev. Gilcrest was president of West Kentucky College at Mayfield, Ky.. in 1888 and 1889. Some time later, from 1895 to 1900, he was professor of men- tal science and philosophy in the Bible department of Eureka College, Illinois. | He had entered the ministry in 1879 and served as pastor of churches of | the Christian denomination in Illinois and later at Centerville, Iowa. He was born in Paintersville, Ohio, and edu- cated at Eureka College and at Butler College, Indianapolis. He had been a resident of this city for the past eight Besides the son here, he leaves two‘ other sons, Paul A. Gilerest of Chi-| cago and Robert A. Gilcrest of Kansas | City, Kans.: eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. | Funeral services will be held at the | 8. H. Hines Co. funeral home at 2 p.m. | Friday. Rev. A. P. Wilson of Columbia { Heights Christian Church will offici- | ate. The body will be placed in a vault | in Prospect Hill Cemetery, pending re- ' moval later to Topeka. Kans.; for per- mafient burial, | BUSINESS MEN ELECT | AT COLUMBIA HEIGHTS Louis R. Gottlieb Named Presi .dent: and H. C. Phillips -~ Secretary-Treasurer. | Louis R. Gottlieb, manager of| Hahn's Shoe Store, was elected presi-| dent of the Columbia Heights Business | Men's Association at a meeting last night in the Tompkins Building, 3308 | Fourteenth street. Other officers elected included | George A. Ford. first vice president;| Leslle C. Rucker, second vice presi- dent; Miss Lillian Croper, third vice president, and H. C. Phillips, secre- tary-treasurer. Ambrose R. Swan, retiring presi- dent, was presented with a chair by fellow members. | . Dr. J. Winthrop Peabody, superin- tendent of the Tuberculosis Hospital, spoke in behalf of the District Medical Society on “The Present Tuberculosis Survey.” . INTOXICATION COSTS TWO POLICEMEN JOBS The Police Trial Board yesterday recommended the dismissal of two policemen who were convicted of in- toxication. They are George E. Kimmel, second | precinct, recently found guilty in Police Court on a charge of intox- ication, and L. I. Tudge, fourth pre- cinet, who was convicted of intox- | ication both on and off duty. Officer A. D. Mullins, eleventh pre- cinct, was convicted by the board on charges of neglect of duty and dis- courtesy. He was fined $10 on each of the counts. 2 Liquor Store Robbed of $110. A liquor store at "502 Nineteenth street was robbed of $110 last night by & colored man, who held up the manager, Manuel Gordon, with a re- volver and escaped. contracts or |[What's What Behind News In Capital Diplomatic Foils of Tokio and London Clash Over China. BY PAUL MALLON. ACKSTAIRS diplomatists here suspect that Britain is under- taking quietly to put Japan in her place, as well as Mussolini. The Chinese silver nationalization move is generaly known to have fol- lowed conferences between the Chinese | P | | | i Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British government. He went to | a sudden worry about China, strangely coincidental with its equally sudden | ate employment for German workers gram was “all good solid stuff.” ‘auprehenslnn! about the Mediter- ranean. | What Chinese nationalization of | silver means for Britain is: A | stronger centralized government in | China, a Shanghai financial stran- | gle hold on all China, a financial | defense against Japanese aggres- sion. That explains why Tokio was | shocked when it read about it in their newspapers. To ease the shock, Britain sent its Tokio envoy hurrying to the Japanese foreign office next | day to assure every one there was | no truth in the reports that China had | taken the move on Leith-Ross’ promise |to lend $50.000.000 for stabilization. | This was what is known among stu- | dents of the international wiles as a diplomatic assurance. BUYING OF GERMAN - STEEL PROTESTED Green Warns Ickes, Who Blames New York Bridge ‘Authority. BY the Associzted Press. A protest against purchase of Ger- man steel for New York's Triborough | Bridge with P. W. A. funds has been | forwarded to Secretary Ickes by Wil- liam L. Green, president of the Amer- | | ican Fedeation of Labor. | | Supplementing a similar protest from officers of the Amalgamated As- government leaders and Sir Frederick | sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-; mittee listed and described what it ers, Green's letter declared: | “Public works rellef funds spent Shanghai because London developed | for the purchase of material manufac- | tention of Harry L. Hopkins, works | tured in Germany would serve to cre while American working men, who are | ! thoroughly qualified and are seeking | an opportunity to p;oduce the same material, are idle. Points to “Millions Idle.” “American labor contends that P. W. A. funds appropriated for relief | funds by act of Congress should be used for the purpose of creating work opportunities for the millions of American working men who are idle. * * * Intense feeling s being aroused among the working people throughout the Nation. ® * *" | James A. Emery, general counsel for the National Association of Manu-| facturers, sald he interpreted newspa- | per accounts of the incident to mean the Government was “using American | funds for the purchase of foreign | goods at a time when all our efforts | are being directed to the relief of American citizens.” It was his understanding, Emery told reporters, that “a general policy had been pursued by the Government for nearly four years” under which Government funds were used for the purchase of domestically-produced | goods exclusively. Our most eminent authorities have | reason to believe that some one con- nected with Leith-Rass encouraged the Chinese to hope that a loan would be forthcoming. although nothing may have been done directly about it. The reason they suspect it is be- cause the subject was mentioned to the American Ambassador, Nel- son Johnson. by some one who looked very much like Leith-Ross himself. Note—This may explain why no comment has developed here about the Far East. although officials consider the situation as Important as Ethiopia. The loan background is that the Treasury has been thinking about it for ve: but doubts whether it could be done without congressional au- thority, No commitments were made. The Toklo Touch. Finesse used by the Japanese in reoccupying Shanghai is the admira- tion of all who appreciate the artistic | deception required in diplomacy. The Japanese remembered what Mussolini | forgot in Ethiopia—a good excuse. First, the Japanese were outraged because the Chinese had failed to ad- vise them in advance that a momentary move was under consideration. This shock was sufficlent pretense for land- | ing sailors. But & shock cannot last forever. so a Japanese sailor was found murdered in Shanghai There are diplomatic insiders here phlegmatic enough to suggest that the Japanese sailor was murdered by a Japanese bullet. In fact. that obvious suggestion has reached diplomatic quarters here in the form of a report The report may be erroneous, but the inference behind it is not. Peg at 29 Cents, You may expect the Chinese dollar to be pegged to the American dolia: at 29 cents. It has been 30 cents, but the Chinese want to make it 29. The Chinese government has been holdinz back on an announcement because of Japanese reaction. The Chinese made it 30 cents in establishing the man- aged currency because they did not care to arouse internal disturbances at that time. Once it hit a high of 31.9. The most interesting thing about China’s action is how closely it paral- lels our own, rather than the British. | The Chinese authorities apparently copied, step for step, what we did in| 1932. They have even copled Presi- dent Roosevelt’s somewhat misleadinz | phrases. We “nationalized” gold: China has “nationalized” silver. We ab- rogated the gold clause; China has abrogated the silyer clause. We un- dertbok to manape the external / value of our currency; China 18 doing the same. One of those congressional-investi- | gating committees is now privately in- | vestigating its own Investigators. You| may recall that the House Patents Committee once looked into allegations that some of its patent pool investiga- | tors acted as lawyers in private suils| against corporations they were sup- posed to be scrutinizing. - | Sworn evidence exists in Chicago that a former judiciary imvestigater for a House judiciary subcommittee split fees in a bankruptcy reorganiza- tion with a Midwest utiiities company. The present case will be more impor- tant if substantial evidence is found. '| The name of President Roosevelts | new Coast Guard yacht, for week end- | ing, is Electra. That lady's role in mythological history was to urge Orestes to vengeance. As a daughter of Atlas, she is also commonly known | as one of the lost stars. There is a | New Deal movement afoot to change ! the name. (Gcpyright. 19 ) TEXANS KEEP TURKEYS 17-Cent Price Held Out of Line. 20 Cents Asked. GONZALES, Tex., November 13 (#). ~—Thousands of potential Thanksgiv~ ing dinner drumsticks strutted about in their pens today because Gonzales County growers refused to sell their turkeys at the current price of 17 cents a pound. Declaring that there was a shortage of the birds and that the price was out of line “with everything else,” the growers said they would not market their turkeys until the price rose to | 20 cents. Less than 200 have been marketed here, although the capacity of two 'local dressing sheds is 10,000 daily. % I'ocean | tuberculosis and do not know it, Dr. | partment’s offer of free X-ray exam- | the Children’s Bureau, who presided, | and hoped her employes would follow Bridge Authority Blamed. At his press conference yesterday Ickes placed responsibility for the award of a $100,000 steel contract to Germany on the Bridge Authority and added: “If there isn't sufficient protection for the steel industry despite the ef- forts of the late Senator Dave Reed | of Pennsylvania, who wrote the steel provisions of the Hawley-Smoot tariff, the proper place is the Tariff Commis- sion.” Ickes commented sarcastically on the “strange coincidence” that Ameri- | can companies made uniform bids of 52 per cent above the German price for steel in the Morehead City, N. C.. | terminal. The purchase for the Triborough Bridge, also financed by P. W. A.. involved a difference of 47 per cent between the German and the lowest American bid, he said. Only Purchases to Date. These are the only purchases of foreign steel to date under either the old or the new P. W. A. program, Ickes said. He recalled that on the new $330.000.000 program P. W. A accept-' ance of higher bids by domestic steel men was a “tolerance” of 15 per cent on $10.000 orders—and said this coin- | cided with the Treasury Procurement | Division's regulations for Federal construction. Asked to account for success of the two German bidders. Ickes retorted: “I suppose it is because the bids for the foreign steel are lower than for the domestic steel.” He said cement manufacturers also had submitted identical bids on P W. A. construction. Although declaring “it would be de- sirable to advise ourselves of all condi- tions surrounding the situation and if there i dumping or sub-dividing.” Ickes said P. W. A. is not a proper agency for study of German steel im- ports. He declined to say whether he would recommend to President Roose- velt an increase in the P W. A. differ- | ential to assure use of domestic steel in new P. W. A. projects. The Triborough steel to be used for the Queens approach of the bridge has been purchased by a subcontractor. P. W. A, officials said there was no way for the authority or the P. W. A. | to interfere. The P. W. A. loan and grant of $42,500.000 contained a clause saying the lowest bid on materials | must be accepted, although this could be waived by consent of both parties. Ickes explained this clause was in- serted in accordance with N. R. A. policies. Asked if he had received a protest | from Nathan Burkman. chairman of the Bridge Authority, Ickes said he had not and “if I should I would have a good laugh.” | “That is purely within the jurisdic- | tion of the Triborough Bridge Author- | ity,” he contended. SAYS RULES PERMIT PURCHASE. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.—Robert Moses, chief executive officer of the Triborough Bridge Authority, under whose guidance the Queens-Manhat- | tan span Is being built, said last night | rules of the P. W. A. at Washington | permit the purchase of foreign ma-| terials by contractors working on the bridge construction. U. S. WORKERS URGED TO TAKE LUNG TEST X-Ray Offered Free by Health Department to Guard Against Tuberculos: Many Government workers have A Barklie Coulter of the Medical So- ciety told employes of the Children’s Bureau, Labor Department, yesterday in calling attention to the Health De- inations for Washington residents. Dr. Coulter urged the workers to avail themselves of the opportunity to find if their health is being under- mined. pointing out the X-ray revela- tions would be treated as strictly con- fidential and forwarded to the family physicians if desired. Miss Katherine Lenroot, director of said she would take the examination suit. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi- dent of the Board of Education. in announcing yesterday the four high schools in which the X-ray tests will be available, said: “There are 9,000,000 children in the Nation now infected with tuberculosis. With the high death rate in Wash- ington from this disease it is impera- tive that we do all in our power to control its spread and protect our own children.” The high schools designated for this purpose are Roosevelt, Western, Dun- bar and Garnett-Patterson. ¢ 6.0.P. SEESWASTE IN‘BOONDOGGLING' “Utterly Ridiculous and Fan- tastic” Projects Listed by Party. By the Associated Press. A charge that “hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars have been frittered away” on ‘“boondog- gling” work-relief projects was di- rected at the Roosevelt administra- tion today by the National Repub- lican Congressional Committee. In a 14-page pamphlet, the com- asserted were “utterly ridiculous and fantastic” projects, disputing the con- rogress administrator, that his pro- “Boondoggling,” the committee said, “is a comparatively new word in the American tongue. It is ‘frankly destructive” Roosevelt's pet way of wasting money. It turned the so- called New Deal into an ordeal 11 Million Held Jobless. Insisting that 11,000,000 persons were still unemployed, the committee said: “people still go hungry and seek jobs which the New Deal has not made available. The rights of every | civic subdivision from State down to the smallest hamlet have been in- fringed upon in the wild orgy of spending. “In but few instances have the e: penditures of the New Deal been wa. ranted in comparison with the few ' jobs made available.” | “Daily for months” the committee | added, “President Roosevelt has ap-| proved squandering in a way that shames efforts related In ‘Brewster's tically every want of her children, has Millions.” | sent the fish upstream at least two fllSM@&ASKEU additional millions te finish, Government Acts on Re- quest of Kent, Ohio, Tree Expert Company. By the Associated Press Hickory, or Winter shad, sometimes called mud shad, have made their appearance in the Potomac around Washington and are being snagged in large numbers. These fish are much larger than the herring, but, if possible, have more bones. However, the meat is sweeter than the herring and they are much sought by anglers. Mother Nature, who attends to prac- “Useless” Pupjects. “No more useless tHings have ever been concocted in the minds of men than are sponsored by Mr. Roosevelt | and his brain trusters. They are spread all over the country. They dot every ! town and hamlet “They show just how much reliance can be placed upon the Presidents| word because, when he announced his | works program, the President said it wouid be ‘useful—not just for a day| or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future wealth for the Nation. By request of the Davey Tree Expert “Tap-dancing. eufythmic dances,| Co. of Kent, Ohio. the Government making dolls. counting chickens, lea! | today moved dismissal of the com- raking. circuses and hundreds of pany's appeal to the Federal Board similar schemes must measure up to of Tax Appeals from an income tax what the President had in mind—at | deficiency assessment. lesab lusibis oRngopiui | Thegrequest was wired from Kent to the board, which had subpoenaed Mrs. Martin L. Davey, wife of the Ohio | Governor, to testify. Mrs. Davey, how- ever, did not appear “HONEST DOLLAR | .cawneif secember 12 at the reaes | of attorneys for the company. : ! Irving Tuller, Internal Revenue Bu- Variable Exchange Condemned ..., attorney. said the subpoena for by Taber at Annual Meeting. | Mrs. Davey still stood, but would not v A A A Changes | be enforced if the dismissal motion rges A. A. A. Changes. prevailed. By the Assoclated Press The case concerned an asserted de- SACRAMENTO, Calif. November | ficlency of $4.28336 for 1930 and 13.—Louis J. Taber, master of the 1931, Part of this concerned disal- Natlonal Grange, called for an “hon- | lowance of $4.416 by the revenue com- est dollar” at the sixty-ninth annual missioner of the $9.916 salary claimed meeting of the Grange here today. by Mrs. Davey. “The Grange believes there is a Gov. Davey is financially interested common-sense approach to the mone- | in the firm tary problem.” Taber said. “We are| Attempts to clear up the situation opposed both to unlimited inflation were being made, with action pos- and to deflation. sible during the afternoon. If the “We would restore the dollar to a appeal of the assessment were dropped buying power that would bring the the assessment would still stand and price level in reasonable adjustment have to be paid. and then keep it there with a dollar stable in value” * * * The National Grange head flouted “fantastic” wealth distribu- | tion schemes and declared “real Americans have no desire to take away property that honestly belongs| g Rail Reorganization. He praised the A. A. A. but sug-| Howard 8. Palmer, W. M. Daniels gested charges to give the farmer and James L. Loomis applied to the greater control, to prevent “bureau- |Interstate Commerce Commission to- cratic” methods. and to develop farm !day for ratification of their appoint- co-operatives with larger opportuni- | men: as trustees in the New York, ties for the tenant farmer and re- | New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. wards for growing crops of which | reorganization. there is a shortage. | An improvement in fdrm morale | and income was reported by the | stocky white-haired farm leader, al- | though the “total agricultural re- | turns to the farmers of America | President Roosevelt today appointed amounted to but $1 for each work-|John A. Tyson of Mississippi a mem- ing day for the past year.” | ber of the Board of Tax Appeals. Sale to Ford Protested APPLY AS TRUSTEES Palmer, Daniels and Loomis File TYSON IS APPOINTED i //'//'.//'/W Claimed to be the “oldest windmill in America,” this ancient landmark standing in & field at West Yarmouth, Mass., and bullt by the Pilgrims some 300 years ago, has been s0ld to Henry Ford for shipment to his museum at Dearborn, Mich. The sale brought sharp protest from residents of Cape Cod. It is visited annually by thousands of Summer tourists. —Wide World Photo, r/ & Winter Shad Invade Potomac in Vast Numbers ‘BUNU HOUSE EASE‘ | Little “Bobby” Cahill with some of the hickory shad caught in the Potomac at Chaln Bridge yesterday. They have never been seen in such vast quantities as are now running. many a catch of from 100 to 500 is being made daily. ‘months in advance of their sched- uled appearance, in order that many may be eaten or salted down for The early run of this specles is rathe: later use. | unusual. As the name hickory, or No bait Is necessary to catch them. Winter, shad implies, it usually makes They are snagged like the herring. ' its appearance during January or Feb- with the use of a long pole. a short ruary. It has been 11 years since these line and a three-pronged hook, or fish have appeared at this time, and any kind of a line, rod and reel never before in the memory of the old- These shad are now being caught all est inhabitant in such numbers. The are as thick as the usual run of her- ring in the Spring. mere than 1,000 being snagged this morning by a col- ored angler, along the river front, in the Tidal Basin and particularly in the narrov part of the river at Chain Bridge. It is a sport for the young and old, aid Held in Death WOMAN ACCUSED OF SLAY- ING WEALTHY FINANCIER. MISS VERA STRETZ. The 26-year-old blond was ar- raigned yesterday at New York on a charge of shooting to death Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, wealthy German financier and her employer. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. LOVE ANGLE BARED INBROKER'SDEATH Blond Faces Murder Charge in Slaying of Rich Ger- man Economist. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.—Prose- cution officials rushed today to seek the indictment of pretty Miss Vera Stretz as the slayer of her purported fiance, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt. wealthy German industrialist and economist. The 31-year-old ash blond's silence about the fatal shooting remained un- broken after & night in jail. Her lawyer backed her up. saying that neither he nor any of her family would disclose anything. Police expressed the belief that the killing was an act of jealousy. They said the woman told them that she had become engaged to the industrial- ist last December. Gebhardt, how- ever. had a wife and two children living near Karlsruhe, Germany. Recently Returned to U. S. The investigators worked on the theory that Miss Stretz had just learned of her fiance’s wife or had just been told their friendship must end. He recently returned from his homeland Gebhardt, former president of the Mannheim Automobile Co. and the Henschel Locomative Works, was shot four times in his twenty-first floor apartment in the Beekman Tower Hotel early yesterday. Miss Stretz, college graduate and a part-time clerk in the international exchange firm which he headed in New York, lived two floors below him. Girl Found on Fire Escape. She was found on & fire escape after the shooting. In her purse, police said, were a pistol, cartridges. a night- gown or slip stained with what ap- peared to be blood. an engagement ring and a key to Gebhardt’s room. Gebhardt was sprawled in a nlght" shirt on the floor of his room. Police found many affectionately phrased letters among the effects of the dead man and the prisoner. They also learned that the econo- mist's eldest daughter, a girl of 17,/ planned to join him here soon. This, they reasoned, might have encouraged him to break with Miss Stretz. William F. O'Rourke, assistant dis- | we knew nothing could be on fire, | kers trict attorney, said he would take the case before the grand jury shortly. Miss Stretz is being held for further hearing November 21 on an affidavit charging suspicion of homicide. TRUCK OFFERED JUDGE MILWAUKEE, November 13 (#).— Herman Ertl, a truck driver, stood be- fore Judge A. J. Hedding in District Court yesterday on a speeding charge. “Not guilty,” he said. “I was only driving 20. If that truck will go more than 28 miles an hour, I'll give it to| 00" ! At the court’s suggestion the truck was tested by an officer. He reported it reached 28 miles an hour; Judge Hedding fined Ertl, but did not claim the truck. r CAPITAL AWAITS STRATO EXPERTS i Capts. Stevens and Ander- son on Way Today From Chicago. The two stratosphere flyers and im- portant parts of their scientific equip- ment were on their way to Washing- ton today. Capt. A. W. Stevens and Ca vil A. Anderson. who piloted Ex- plorer II to new stratospheric heights a few days ago over South Dakota, arrived in Chicago this morning. Officials of e National Geographic Society, sponsors of the flight. were expecting them to proceed here by plane or train Among the scientific equipment ex- pected to it was a spore-collecting device which sc hope find out something of bacteria that inhabit the stratosphere and whether they can survive in less rate atmosphere. 1 <‘ | Cases Recovered. The National Geographic Society also announced that four battery cases, dropped as ballast, had been recovered. It was not necessary to throw out more important scientific instruments during the descent, the soclety said. because of the perfect behavior of the giant balioon. The spore apparatus tube of light er wall lined with a sticky substance. When released at the peak altitude reached by Stevens and Anderson. the tube plunged through the stratosphere col- lecting An auto- matic device sealed the tube as it reached the lowel level strato- sphere. It was recovered near Cham- berlain. S. Dak Other Apparatus Packed. Other scientific apparatus carried on the flight was being packed and sent to scientists who had had it in- stalled. Records of most of the in- struments were made automatically on photographic fiims, many of which | are being brought to Washington by Capt. Stevens. The meteorograph, by which the official altitude will be judged. is on its way here in the possession of Dr. W. G. Brombacher, representing the In- ternational Aeronautical Association. It will be calibrated by officials of the | National Aeronautical Association and the Bureau of Stancards. Officials of the National Geographic Society sald the gondola also will be shipped here for exhibition GREATER RECORD AIM. Battery s a hollow of Stratosphere Conquerer at Least 5,000 Feet Higher. CHICAGO, November 13 (.—A prediction that when he and Cap Orvil A. Anderson make another stratosphere hop they will go at Jeast 5.000 feet higher than the estimated 73.000 feet they achieved Monday was made today by Capt. Albert W. Stevens. “We have every confidence in the bag which took us up above Rapid City,” he said as they arrived in Chicago by train er route to Nashington, D. C. “As far as taking another trip up soon, of course, that's up to the National Geographic Soclety” (spon- sor of the ascent with the United States Army Air Corps). “But we had some ballast left when we came to earth. We took 800 pounds with us. Next tfme we'll measure it a bit closer and I think | we can go at least 5,000 feet Migher." He praised Capt. R. P. Williams, | ground commander of the flight, also | Washington-bound. “He was the| | meteorologist and had to take the | blame for the weather,” Capt. Stevens said. | “A phenomenon which hasn't been | explained yet was the vapor which | continued to emanate from the gon- | | dola, sometimes as dense as smoke. | Would Go | though, because all precautions had | been taken against it.” | Scheduled to take a plane to Wash- | ington, the balloonists changed their plans because of the size of their | party and said they would go by train. FLEET OFF FOR TEST | SAN PEDRO, Calif., November 13 (). —Secret military developments were due for a test under combat con- ditions today as the United States fleet moved to sea for maneuvers. One phase of the problem will test the efficiency of the new damage-con- | trol system, designed to preserve the fighting power of ships damaged in| ‘lcuon, One hundred ships and 400 | planes were divided into invading and | ' defending forces. ¢ (Copyright. : N MAY REQUIRE JURY Supreme Court Asked to Take Step in Halsey- Stuart Review. By the Associated Press. Government attorneys urged the Supreme Court todav to have mail fraud charges against Halsey-Stuart & Co, Inc, of New York City sube mitted to a jury The Government tion of a Wisconsin Federal judge in quashing the charges last April 16 The Supreme Court agreed Octcher 14 to review the case. Today's brief contended the New York City firm and others used t mail in selling $2.500,000 in gold de- bentures on the now defunct Ward- man interests in this city. when they knew the Wardman firms were un- le. Oral arg Novemoer is prolesting ac- ments are expected about 1 judge held the Gove not prove its charges. ent brief claimed oniv pass on the facts. It bonding house claimed erests had $29.000.« 000 chiefly in Washington property, when e was less than $20.000.000 Improper appraisals and fraudulent claims regar ncome were used, the Government co ded The Wardman in s erected and controlled m; e & ment houses and hoteds said the interests $18.549.000 of mort Indictments were ret eral gran t The Govern a jury could asserted the the War ac WAREHOUSE ACT RULING DUE SOON Controversy Involves Interprefa- tion of Interstate Com- merce. By the Associated Press A Supreme Cou may fix the legal New Deal activities is time in December. The controvers: eral warehouse ac! over it yesterday questions from the phasizing again the tive” division of the The case first arose wher ippi men were acct e bale: hough the act was passed long bee the New Deal. James M. Becs, er solicitor general and now a ) the American L pictured it as part of the sa on which N. R. AL A A new potato control act rested Co warehouse. is n am of commer Governmen He req bureaucrati fore leade state Feder: jurisdiction ¢ he court to curb of Federal st al ot known as a “lib- this argument. and General Joseph B. Keenan arg that the ware: house st was necessary for orderly te market When men steal cotton bonded Federal warehouse. their act a burden on commerce* He was ques appare; critical vein by van Devanter, McReynolds, and Sutherland theft from & one fi from a farmer's wagon in the same category? Keer said the cotton in the wagon had not reached the protection of the warchouse sys- tem, RAILROAD CONFERENCE OPENED BY Y. M. C. A. The human factor in transportation was to be the general theme of the Twentieth Triennial International Transportation Conference of the Y. M. C. A. scheduled at the Mav- flower Hotel for three days beginning today. More than 200 r oad officials are expected to attend. Among the speak- ers on the three-day program are John R. Mott. president of the World’ Al liance of Y. M. C. A. Associations: E. G. Buckland. chairman of the board of the New Haven Railroad: Richard ice Brandeis oned he said Butler | ¢. Morse, vice president of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Judge R. V. Fletcher, vice president and general counsel of the Association of American Railroads. and John E. Manley. gen- eral secretary of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A Irvin S. Cobb Says: Mysterious Hermit of Hol- lywood Probably Has Negative Ambition. SANTA MONICA, Calif, November 13—If you've been to movieland you've seen our fur-bearing hermits. As true recluses, these gentlemen have the innate desire to avoid being con< spicuous, which is ever character- istic of Holl wood. So they march the prin- cipal streets all day, with their long hair and their ditto whis- waving in the climate, and | wearing as few clothes as the law allows—and out here we allow few indeed. ‘There is a sin- gle member of the group who's dif« ferent. He's just as woolly as the others, but he doesn't parade up and down. Nor will he tell you his name or the address of his cave, or where he came from or where he’s going. Some think he has a secret past. But I think he has a great ambition It's my idea he wants to go down in history as the one who was not commissioned a colonel on the staff of the Governor of Kentucky. Probably the poor chap haso't a chance. So few escape it! 1935 by the North American ewspaper Alliance. Inc.)