Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain today; tomorrow fair with ris- ing temperature; moderate to fresh northeast winds. Temperature—High- est, 47, at 12 noon; yesterday; lowest, 41, Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page B-11 (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,600—No. 33,437. Entered as second class matte; post office, Washington, D. C. —— HOOVER-BORAH STRUGGLE OVER NOMINATION SEEN PRESENT PLANNING LASHED BY HOOVER IN OFFERING OWN FISCAL PROPOSALS Sharp Censure of New Deal Accompanies Plea for End to Spending on “Unneces- sary Public Works.” FAVORS TURNING RELIEF BACK TO LOCALITIES Plan Calls for Halt to Cash for “Visionary and Un-American Experiments” and Return to Gold Standard “on New Basis.” By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 16.—Former President’ Herbert Hoover spoke out tonight before 1,300 members of the Ohio Society of New York in sharp criticism of the administration’s “na- tional planning.” He detailed an 11-point fiscal pro- gram in an address punctuated by fre- quent applause and cheering. As a boy in Iowa, Mr. Hoover said, he learned “some very simple truths/ about finance. I learned that money does not grow on trees. It must be earned. “I learned that the first rule of a successful career is to keep expendi-| tures within the means of paying them. I learned that the keeping of financial promises is the first obliga- tion of an honorable man. “And I learned that the man who borrows without intent to repay is headed for bankruptcy or disgrace or crime. These may be platitudes, but| they are still truths.” “Return to Sound Policies.” ‘When he said, “There is a way to| settle all these questions—that way is through abandonment of present fiscal | policies and return to sound policies,” cheers, applause and even whistling greeted the pronouncement. Speaking in a low, even voice, only | occasionally lifting it to make his points against elements of the New Deal, Mr. Hoover made the second of | a series of addresses on national prob- | lems. The first was at Oakland, Calif., last October. Tonight's was his first strictly po-; litical speech in New York since the last campaign. Surrounding him were men prominent in the Republican party during Mr. Hoover's presidency. Mrs. Hoover sat in a balcony box across the room from the speakers’ table. She wore a blue velvet gown. She was given a standing ovation when she entered. The society celebrated its golden Jubilee at the dinner. Mr. Hoover is a member because his father was a| native of Ohio. | Frank R. Coates, president of the society, presented Mr. Hoover after re- | citing its 50-year history. Warns Against New Deal. Mr. Hover prefaced his declaration of a remedial fiscal program with a review of New Deal activities and a warning of their results. “We can express Government ex- penses in figures,” he said. “But no| mortal man can compute the costs. the burdens and dangers imposed upon 120,000,000 people by these actions. Its cost in national impoverishment far exceeds even taxes. Its losses will be larger than the national debt.” Asserting that the way to “settle” conditions which “we should no longer tolerate” was by abandonment of pres- ent fiscal policies, Mr. Hoover outlined his “constructive fiscal program” as follows: “The waste of taxpayers’ money on unnecessary public works should end. “The administration of relief should be turned over to local authorities. Federal expenditures for relief should be confined to cash allowances to these authorities to the extent that they are ‘unable to provide their own funds. “The spending for visionary and un- American experiments should be stopped. “This horde of political bureaucracy should be rooted out. “The provision of the Constitution (See HOOVER, Page A-4. EMERGENCY BRINGS QuUODDY PAY RAISE Prevailing Wage Given Workers on $36,000,000 Bay Project. By the Assoclated Press. EASTPORT, Me., November 16.— ‘Wages of all laborers engaged in building the $36,000,000 Passama- quoddy Bay project were raised to the prevailing hourly scale today as a 45-day state of construction emer- gency was declared. Lieut. Philip B. Fleming, construc- tion chief, said Harry L. Hopkins, re- lief administrator, had exempted Quoddy from the general relief scale until January 1 so that the model vil- lage for 1,200 administrative staff members could be completed before severely cold weather starts. The new scale, said Col. Fleming, will pay common labor 40 cents an hour, intermediate labor 55 cents an hour and skilled labor 75 cents an hour. In effect, the engineer declared, the new scale will more than double the ‘wages of all three classes. Under the old scale, common la- borers were paid $44 a month, inter- mediate workers $50 a month and skilled labor $63 a month. Heretofore, all works have been em- ployed on & 40-hour week basis. Until the emergency ends, said Col. Fleming, workers may work eight hours a day and six or seven days a week, as they choose, i Ex-President Believed to Be Target of Senator as He Pushes Own Plans for °36. By the Associated Press. The possibility of a Hoover-Borah struggle over the Republican presi- dential nomination and platform for 1936 has politicians guessing. As the former President returned to his attacks on the New Deal last night in New York, the impression that he himself is a target of his chief 1928 campaigner gained ground in the Capital. Borah has not said as much, but activities of Hooverites plainly have a bearing on his plans. The Hoover speech, one of a series, dealt exclusively with principles. He has been represented as believing the party should put principles first and personalities second, at least until the convention meets in June. Presumably this would make against | intra-party strife in the primaries and for key States, such as Ohio, sending uninstructed or favorite-son delega- tions. The rub comes where he and Borah differ on some fundamental principles, such as monetary policy. In the Senator’s view, States should he have an opportunity to express them- selves on such important questions so far as primary possibilities allow. Then, he has contended, the conven- tion would be more truly representa- tive of the party rank and file. Each man naturally personifies the principles he expounds. It is this axiom, considered in the light of Bo- rah’s vague but emphatic reference Friday to having an “objective,” which left little doubt among his hearers that he was ready to enter the pri- maries if it would help the G. O. P. as he wishes. Washington hears the Hoover mail brings more and more pleas to run. Borah says Hoover friends are “working.” No hasty decision by either seems likely, however. For the present, Borah evidently plans only some East- ern speechmaking and continued con- ference with State and national lead- e1s. He does not have to show his hand completely until March, when announcement of intention becomes (See BORAH, Page A-6.) [TALY WILL GREET LEAGUE SANCTIONS WITH FLAGS FLYING Council Summons Nation to “Implacable Resistance” to Penalties. By the Associated Press. ROME, November 17 (Sunday)— The Fascist Grand Council, after a lengthy meeting to chart Italy's course after application of League of Na- tions economic sanctions tomorrow, declared early today that Italy hence- forth will remember November 18, 1935, as “the day of ignominy and iniquity in the history of the world.” The council, highest body of Fas- cism, called on all Italians to observe Monday as the signal “for implacable resistance” to the sanctions that will be put into effect on that day by 51 nations. The nation was ordered to observe | the day as a national holiday, with all public buildings and most private houses flying the tri-color. The council meeting was held shortly before midnight last night, after Pre- mier Mussolini had given indication to the world that he would pursue de- terminedly Italy’s campaign in Ethio- pia. Command is Shaken Up. 11 Duce announced a shake-up in the high military command of his East African military forces, moving Gen. Emililio de Bono as commander in chief of the invading army, and ap- pointing Gen. Pietro Badoglio to suc- ceed him. 'Vigorously denouncing the sanction- ist nations, Il Duce’s Grand Council re- solved “that sanctions, which never be- fore have been applied, are denounced as a proposal to suffocate the Italian people economically, as a vain attempt to humiliate this people and to pre- vent the nation from realizing its (See SANCTIONS, Page A-3.) THREAT TO CAFFERY REPORTED IN HAVANA [Army Official Gets Letter De- manding Release of Man Held in Plot. By the Assoclated Press. HAVANA, November 16.—An official of the Army Intelligence Service said tonight he had received an anony- mous lette- threatening the life of United States Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. The officer said the letter demanded immediate release of Cesar Vilar, rad- ical labor leader, held in connection with a plot to assassinate the envoy. The writer said that unless Vilar was released “Caffery and Lieut. Santa Cruz of the Army Intelligence will pay with their heads.” 3anta Cruz is the officer who caused the arrest of Vilar. —_— STORM HITS MANILA Winds Howl Around Castle Where Garner Is Staying. MANILA, November 17 (Sunday) ().—Vice President John N. Garner and other officials here for, the recent commonwealth inaugural ceremonies were treated to a Philippine typhoon today. Winds howled around the historic Malacanan palace, where Garner is a guest of President Manuel Quezon, but the Weather Bureau forecast said the storm probably would not endanger Manila. The typhoon center was reported more than 100 miles northeast. Major Foot 100 PASSED N CHEST DRNE SPURT NEGESSARY {$1,200,000 to Be Raised for | 120% Success by Wednesday. More than a million dollars was in | the campaign coffers of the Commu- | nity Chest last night, but the 5,500 campaigners faced the tremendous task of ralsing' more than $200000 a day between now and Wednesday if the minimum goal of $1,877,900 is to be secured within the campaign period. Returns tabulated yesterday at a luncheon of Chest canvassers in the Willard Hotel brought the grand total of collections to $1,065,843.75, or 56.75 per cent of the goal sought under an estimate which excluded $400,000 | urgently needed to supplant Federal | relief. The sum announced yesterday represented gifts from 88,378 sub- scribers. Ignoring the holiday, the deter- mined army of workers today planned to continue its solicitation work un- abatedly and to intensify the drive in every section of the city during the final days of the canvass. Slightly more than $1,200,000 addi- tional must be raised in the closing days of the drive if the “120 per cent campaign” deemed necessary to avert | suffering—even starvation—is to be | achieved, leaders pointed out last| night. Spirit of Consecration. The solicitors were (o make their | rounds today with this exhortation by Chest Director Herbert L. Willett, jr.,| fresh in their minds: | “Translate dollar quotas into terms of human needs and go forth Sunday in the spirit of consecration, seeking additional pledges not for the Com- munity Chest but for the approxi- mately 130,000 persons who receive help from its 65 agencies.” In a stirring address at yesterday's meeting, Willett declared: “We are not working for only dol- | lars and cents, we are working for | the people and for what people need, | to the end that we may put something into their lives which they would not otherwise have. I think that we are generating spirit which is of tremen- dous value and which is over and above the financial considerations in- volved.” E In opening the meeting, Campaign Chairman William McClellan an- nounced his gratification over reports that funds collected in the little cedar chests which are passed at each meeting, were practically paying for the luncheons. He expressed appre- ciation at the large number of work- ers assembled and stated: “I can do nothing in this campaign (See CHEST, Page A-4) — MONASTERY MENACED Slides Peril Cellars Where Char- treuse Has Been Manufactured. By the Associated Press. GRENOBLE, France, November 16. —Continued rains today brought ad- ditional tons of rock and earth against the eleventh-century walls of the fa- mous Carthusian Monastery, already partly destroyed by landslides yes- terday. The inner cellars and laboratory, where the liqueur Chartreuse was manufactured for hundreds of years, are still intact, but the ancient walls guarding it are expected to give way at any moment. Fearing that debris soon would roll into the bed of the mountain creek guiers and form an artificial lake, gendarmes and 400 soldiers were work- ing frantically to protect bridges over the stream. Ball Results Local Teams. Catholic U, 20; West. Maryland, 6. Georgetown, 13; Manhattan, 0. Maryland, 0; Washington and Lee, 0 Virginia Union, 24; Howard, 0. Major National Games. New York U., 48; Rutgers, 0, California, 39; Pacific, 0. Mffinesota, 40; Michigan, 0. Dartmouth, 41; Cornell, 6. Princeton, 27; Lehigh, 0. Southern Meth,, 17; Arkansas, 6. Texas Christian, 28; Texas, 0, Army, 6; Notre Dame, 6. Navy, 28; Columbia, 7. Colgate, 27; Syracuse, 0. Duke, 25; North Carolina, 0. ‘Temple, 26; Marquette, 6. 24; Chicago, 0. Lafayette, 0. 41; New Hampshire, 0. Indiana, Yale, 35; Harvard, iy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION PUPILS WILL HEAR ABOUT “REDS™ IN SPITE OF RULING Ballou Says Teaching Sta- tus Is Unchanged by McCarl Action. CONFERENCE HELD ON MOOT QUESTION School Head and Donovan Dis- cuss Point With Controller General’s Counsel. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The factual history of Communism will continue to be taught in the Dis- trict public schools despite the anti- Communism yuling of Controller Gen- eral McCarl. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, made that clear in a state- ment to the Board of Education yes- terday in answer to McCarl's decision forbidding payment of salaries to teachers or other school employes who “teach or advocate Communism.” ‘The statement was made public after a conference between Dr. Ballou, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District audi- tor and budget officer, and Rudolph | Golze, chief counsel to McCarl. Dr. Ballou and Maj. Donovan went to the General Accounting Office to see McCarl to get an interpretation of the ruling which had puzzled both of them because it went beyond the scope of law itself and involved all classes of school employes and affected them while off duty. But they saw Golze instead. “No Change Intended.” At that conference both Dr. Ballou and Donovan are understood to have been given the impression McCarl had no intention of changing the present educational program in the public schools, and that his action was de- signed to set up a procedure to justify payment of salaries to school employes in view of the anti-Communism rider in the 1936 District appropriation act. Neither Dr. would make any comment about the conference. ent, however, issued the statement, which he prepared before the confer- ence, and found no reason to change it. Privately, District officials believe McCarl went beyond the law and ex- ceeded the intent of Congress in writing the opinion. They do not be- lieve any teacher or other school em- ploye charged with teaching or advo- cating communism :off school prop- erty could be denied & pay check in view of the language in the 1936 ap- propriation act. Aside from puzzling school and Dis- trict officials, the McCarl ruling stirred up comment in the White House, and Mrs. Roosevelt, at her press confer- ence yesterday, expressed the opinion Washington teachers are going to | have a hard time telling their pupils about Russia. While Dr. Ballou and Maj. Donovan were in conference with Golze, the | Board of Education received from the | Executive Committee of the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Associations a re- quest for an early hearing to discuss the desirability of eliminating “Mod- ern History,” by Carl L. Becker, and other text books of a like character now used in the public schools. Sub- stitution of a “clear and informative definition of communism and its evil | and atrocious aims and purposes” was proposed in lieu of the “treatment of Communism contained in such text books.” The federation’s request, submitted (See McCARL, Page A-6.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-12. Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—A-8. Lost and Found—A-13, Death Notices—A-13. Vital Statistics—A-13. Sports Section—Pages B-13-17. Educational—B-8. PART TWoO. Editorial Section, Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Features —D-! Civic News and Comment—D-4. Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-5. Veterans’ Organizations, Nation- al Guard and Organized Re- serves—Pages D-6-7. Stamps—D-8. Resorts—D-8. Serial Story—D-11. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-11. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-11. PART FOUR. Feature Section. NeFv]% . Features — Pages. F-1-3, John Claggett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Happy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-2. Art Notes—F-4. Books—F-5. Stage and Screen—F-7.° Music—F-8. Radio News and Programs—F-9. Aviation—F-10. Automobiles—F-10. Children’s Page—F-11. Highlights of History—F-11. Crossword Puzgle—F-12, PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1- Public Library—G-5. Classified Advertising—Pages G- ¥ Ballou nor Donovan | The school superintend- | Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1935—120 PAGES. #%* | WONDER F BENITO WILLGET 0FF ASEASILY A3 1 DID! KNOXBACKSBONUS - PAYMENT IN CASH {Sees No Reason for Econ- omizing “Solely on Veterans.” BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who has many | supporters for the Republican presi- dential nomination, last night de- clared himself for the immediate pay- | ment of the soldiers’ bonus out of the | | $4,880,000,000 appropriated by .Con- gress for relief measures. “The administration has between $3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000,000 still in the Treasury out of the amounts appropriated for the various spending agencies it has created,” said Col. | Knox. 1f the administration hid dedicated itself to rigid economy instead of em- barking on a great spending program, Col. Knox said, he believes the vast majority of the veterans would have stood firmly by the Government. “But I see no reason why the Gov- ernment should economize solely at the expense of the veterans,” he con- tinued. The arrival of Col. Knox in Wash- ington yesterday placed three of the outstanding potential candidates for the Republican nomination in the East. Former President Hoover was | Olson Asks Youth To Join Liberalsin Remaking Nation |Only Hope Is in Third Party, Minnesota Gov- ernor Says. NEW YORK, November 16 (#).— Floyd Olson of Minnesota tonight urged American youth to take an active interest in Government and “help make over this sick and palsied | structure in which we try to live.” | Appealing to it to join the Amer- | ican Commonwealth Political Federa- | tion, a Liberal third party movement, | Gov. Olson said in a radio address: “Youth today has nothing to hope | for by aligning itself with either of the older parties. | “The game is fixed: the dice ln} loaded. The door is shut in the face | of the very people upon whom the future welfare of our country de- pends.” SETTLEMENT NEAR IN CHINESE CRISS New Regime in North Is/| Likely to Ease Tension in New York, where he delivered an | address before the Ohio Society, at-| tacking the expenditures imposed on | the people by the New Deal economic | planning and suggesting remedies. | Senator Borah of Idaho, the third of these potential candidates, was await- ing the publication tomorrow of the | new Roosevelt reciprocal trade agree- ment with Canada before commenting | on that arrangement. Silent on Trade Treaty. Col. Knox, likewise, withheld com- ment on the trade agreement. It is well understood, however, that Re- publican leaders are ready to attack this agreement if it sacrifices American agriculture and industry in the home markets for the sake of expected gains in international trade. And the Re- publicans of the West will attack strongly if by this agreement with Canada agricultural products are to be admitted in American competition for the advantage that may be gained through the admission of manu- factured products into Canada. . Col. Knox, presidential possibilities, is not in- | clined at this time to attack the | A. A A and its benefit checks to the farmers or to offer a substitute plan “I will wait,” said Col. Knox, “until after the Supreme Court shall have passed on the constitutionality of the A A A" He did suggest, however, two angles from which the farm problem may be attacked, although he did oot put them forward as his own. The first had to do with crop loans to the farmers. The Government at present is making such loans. Col. Knox advanced the idea it would be far better to have such loans made by the banks, on warehouse re- ceipts. These loans, he said, could be used to help restrict production whea it was necessary, The restriction then would be voluntary on the part of the farmers, & method which the great majority of American farmers would prefer to the coercive plana of the A. A A he sald. Under such a plan, the banks would loan to a farmer, for example, on & 1,000 bushels of wheat and no more, according to the allooa- tion. The farmer could at his own (Seo KNOX, Page A-4) WATER POISON PLOT CHARGED IN HAVANA Cuba Intelligence Agents Jail “Key Man” of Alleged Mass Murder Plan. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, November 16.—Asserting they had unearthed a plot to poison the water supply of Havana, army in- telligence agents today arrested An- dres Rey, who they said was the “key man” in the alleged wholesale murder scheme. The poison plan, army agents said, was part of an anti-government cam- paign to prevent national elections December 15. The agents reported that papers found on Rey showed the plan was modified because participants like other Republican | Temporarily. Special Dispatch to The Star. PEIPING, China, November 16—/ ‘While Nanking witnesses the largesH gathering of major Chinese politicians in years, the North China crisis ap- pears to be moving toward a settle- ment which may prove only a tem- porary pause in the clash between Japanese imperialism and Chinese na- tionalism. On the basis of development thus far, the belief is prevalent that a new regime of sorts will be established in the north within the next week, quite possibly before the sixth nation con- gress of the Kuomintang, now in ses- sion, closes. The supposed dates for the showdown, however, have been bandied so often heretofore that con- servative observers keep their fingers crossed about the outcome now. Complete Break Unlikely. Maj. Gen. Kenji Doihara of the Kwangtung army, who helped create the “independent state-puppet re- gime,” is still in Peiping secretly con- ferring with Chinese officials. Political observers still believe that the ex- pected northern governmental organi- zation will not involve a complete | break from Nanking, but a regional regime which Japan can more thor- oughly dominate than has been the case in the north since June. It is reliably reported today that additional Japanese troops have ar- rived at Shanhaikwan, gateway in the Great Wall to North China from Man- churia. Latest information available is that the troops which have come there (See CHINA, Page 3.) IN THREE FAGE TRIAL INKING'S MURDER What Nations Helped Plot to Kill Alexander May Be Revealed. By th Associated Press. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, No- vember 16.—Three Croats charged with complicity in the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, more than a year ago, will go on trial Monday. Police said today they viewed the accused men—Mio Kraj, Zvonimir Pospechil and Ivan Rajtich—as mere- ly gunmen hired by persons who de- sired to change Europe’s peace treaty frontiers by violence. Their lawyer, Georges Desbons, en- gaged by Pittsburgh, Pa., Croats, as- serted his clients are “patriots, living only for the liberty of Croatia.” The defendants are expected to set- tle, by their testimony, the question of what nation, or nations, aided the Ustachi terrorist band, to which they belonged, in plotting the death of the monarch when he arrived at Mar- seille for a visit to France. Louis Bar- thou, French foreign minister, was slain at the same time. Hungary stands accused by Yugo- slavia at Geneva of harboring the | Ustachi group, but has steadfastly de- nied the charge. More than 500 mobile guards were brought to the scene of the trial today as a warning was received from police of other countries that Ustachi ter- rorists seldom reach court alive. The alleged leaders of the band, Dr. Ante Pavelich, and his assistant, Eu- gene Kvaternik, as well as Yvan Per- cevitch, alais Gustave Perchetz, will be tried, in absentia, on the same charges as the imprisoned trio—com- plicity in the asssassination and asso- ciation with known criminals. Pavelich and Kvaternik are in jail at Turin, Italy, although no formal charges have been lodged against them. The Court of Appeals there decided the assassinations were politi- cal crimes and denied France's re- quest for their extradition. Italian authorities declared France had refused to extradite 42 Italians wanted for “offenses against the State.” Sanctions against Italy by | France and 50 other nations, because of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, have only reinforced the Italian stand. Whether the prosecution will ask the guillotine or imprisonment for the three Croats has not been announced. ALABAMA STRIKE ENDS Coal Operators and Miners Reach Compromise. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., November 17 (®) (Sunday).—A compromise agree- ment between Alabama coal operators and miners early today ended the coal strike which has kept approxi- mately 18,000 workers idle since Sep- tember 23. Laundry To Promote Ple Net content with merely joining was announced by officials of theg company and all drivers of company motor vehicles are to be eligible to compete for cash prizes as the re- ward for safe driving. At the same time, the Podiatry So- ciety of the District of Columbia, composed of professionally educated men and women trained in the med- ical, surgical and mechanical treat- ment of the human foot, has joined The Star Council in its safety drive and is undertaking the pledging of individual members of the association to compliance with the safe driving refused to imperil the lives of their own families, ‘ Offers Drivers Bonus |Permanent Campaign Fixes Penalties for Each Accident With 18 Miles an Hour Standard. dge Observance as a unit in the safety campaign of The Evening Star Safety Council, the Pioneer Laundry is-planning to make the safety drive a permanent institution within its organization and has in- formed The Star Council it has set aside a bonus fund for careful driving and future compliance with the 12 primary safe driving promises of the pledge. ‘The campaign began yesterday and is to be continued “indefinitely,” it | campaign of the company, in co- | speration with The Star Safety Coun- | cil, E. H. Hutchins, president of Pioneer Laundry, said: “We are so interested in your safety campaign that we feel that giving it our closest co-operation will pay us good dividends in public good will and economy of operation of our fleet. “The appalling loss of life and serious personal injury that is the result of careless and reckless driving must be greatly curbed, in view of the fact that our streets are year 8, , Page A-12). | FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON AND SUBURBES Every Afternoon. CENTS EWHERE SLAIN LORING GIRL REPORTED SEEN IN BALTIMORE. NIGHT OF DISAPPEARANCE Experienced Matron of Rail Station Identifies Photo as That of Washingtonian With Whom She Talked. | TEN ELS] WOMAN’S ASSERTION CREDITED BY POLICE Discrepancy Is Reported Between Time of Conversation and Vic- tim's Absence From Mount Rainier Home—Appeared in Great Haste. An experienced railway station ma- tron, schooled in the recollection of faces, believes Corinna Loring was the “worried and impatient” girl whom she talked to in a Baltimore waiting room shortly after the 26- year-old bride-elect vanished from her home at 3110 Beech street, Mount Rainier, Md., the night of Novem- ber 4. There was a discrepancy in time, however, which seemed to refute the first information received of the girl's whereabouts between the time she dis- appeared from her home, after her mother left her at 8 o'clock that eve= ning, and the discovery of her gare roted body on the afternoon of No- vember 9 in a clump of pines about a quarter of a mile from the Loring home. Baltimore police last night gave considerable credence to the partial identification which was made by the veteran Baltimore & Ohio Railroad matron through a photograph and a conversation of some length with the girl. Matron to Be Quizzed. It was the matron who was to be questioned when Lieut. Joseph Itzel of the Baltimore homicide squad left Upper Marlboro for Baltimore late yesterday with the announcement that he was going to interview a woman believed to have important new information. Lieut. Itzel had not talked to the matron at an early hour today, it was said, although the witness discussed the case with a reporter. ‘The matron was positive she talked to the young woman between 8:15 and 8:20 pm., on Monday, November 4. It was pointed out, however, that Corinna was at home waiting for a visit from her flance when her mother, Mrs. Francis Loring, left for church about 8 o'clock. It is a fast automobile drive of 40 minutes from the Loring home to the Camden station. Paced Floor Nervously. ‘The matron, who talked to reporter on condition that her name be with- held, said she was on duty at the sta- tion when a girl came in shortly after 8:15 o'clock and went into the ladies’ waiting room. The girl, dressed in & dark coat, either blue or black, trimmed with light fur, paced the floor with every appearance of agitation. It was part of the duty of the matron to see to the needs of girls who come into the station, particu- larly those who seem to be traveling alone. The matron asked the young woman if she was coming in or going out on a train. The girl replied she had come from ‘Washington by automobile. “They brought me to Baltimore and then they went to the Lord Baltimore Hotel,” the girl said. “They are com- ing back for me.” The girl paced up and down the waiting room, peering nervously through the windows and acting as if in great haste to leave. Had Date at 9 O’'Clock. “You know,” she said, “if any one had told me an hour ago I would be in Baltimore tonight I'd have called them crazy.” The girl explained she had a date at home at 9 o'clock and must leave at once. The matron, she said, suggested that the young woman take a train. “That would not do,” she replied, “as I live outside of Washington and it would take too long.” ‘The Baltimore and Ohio line passes near Mount Rainier, but its trains do not stop there. The girl said she was a stenographer in Washington. When the matron no- ticed a ring on her finger which looked like a diamond, she remarked: “It looks to me as though you're having a night out after the big event.” The girl replied, with a smile, “You're a good guesser!” Incidentally, Corinna did not have an engage- ment ring, although she owned an expensive ring set with a diamond (See LORING, Page A-5.) JAPANESE PRESS HAILS PHILIPPINES Urges Right to Guard New Com- monwealth Against “In. vaders” in Future. Special Dispatch to The Star. TOKIO, November 16.—Japan is willing to participate in a pact guare anteeing the neutrality of the Philip- pine Islands and considers it her duty as the guardian of the peace of Asia to defend the Philippines against any invader, the newspaper Osaka Asahi declared in an editorial today com- menting on the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth. “We Japanese rejoice at the inaugu- ration of the Philippine Common- wealth,” declared Osaka Asahi, “and we congratulate the Fllipinos for two reasons: FPirstly, because they have rid themselves of alien rule, and, sec- only, because the United States has been decisive enough to make good its