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A—2 %% AL ROALS HEL ABOVECLRFEYACT Coal Purchasc Rules for U. S. Deals Believed Not to Apply. By the Associated Press. Regardless of their mail contracts, railroads were declared today by the legal department of the Association of American Railroads to be exempt from a ruling that companies dealing with‘ the Government must use coal mined | in compliance with the Guffey act. The Bituminous Coal Commission eontinued to study the case, meantime withholding comment. The opinion was prepared by R. V. Fletcher of A. A. R. counsel in re- sponse to a request from James B.| Hill, president of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. The opinion set out that the com- mission’s ruling was addressed to the reasury Procurement Division, which s exclusively with the purchase of sunplies The mails are carried on a “space basis,” officials of the association said, and could not properly be clasified as under the jurisdiction of the procure- ment division. The Guffey act seeks to impose a “little N. R. A.” on the soft coal in- du: through imposition of a wage, hour and production code enforced by a 15 per cent tax, most of which is rebated to complying producers. Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Penn- | sylvania, forecast meanwhile that if his coal control law is upheld by the Supreme Court the same kind of leg- islation will be applied to a number of other industries, particularly those involving natural resources. Guffey said he had already been urged by anthracite miners and opera- tors to apply similar control to their | industry He said he had replied that he would do nothing until the Su- preme Court acts. — CROAT’S ACQUITTAL MOTION REJECTED Contention of Hypnotic Subjec- tion to Ustachi Leader Is Ousted. | have reason to believe the De Bono What’s What Behind News In Capital ing Fences at Home in Recall of De Bono. BY PAUL MALLON. cuse for the recall of Gen. de Bono. He slipped out word that his Ethiopian to suit him. The Italian dictator may get away with that logical unofficial explana- boys here. The best of United States diplomatic and military authorities suspect a far more important half of De Bono may be old and cau- tious, but he is still Mussolini’s best general. Also, he is a more chief of staff, with whom he swapped jobs. His Ethiopian cam= paign, as far as the military ex- The change, stripped of official hooey, means simply that Musso- lini has moved his best gemeral also. The obvious deduction from this s that Mussolini has decided his most | Italy, not Ethiopia. See Link to British Vote. But there is more to this Lheoryi Mussolini Seen Repair- USSOLINI offered a good ex- campaigner was too old and too slow tion in Italy, but not among the wise the story has not been told. devoted Fascist than the Rome perts here could see, was flawless. home, where his best troops are important front right now may be in than deduction. War-wise authorities | recall had a close connection with the British elections, which occurred two days earlier, A week ago they picked up in- formation that Stanley Baldwin had| promised the British Labor party to| put an end to Mussolini if the Na- tional government was returned to the Assoziated Press AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, No- vember 19.—Georges Desbons, coun= | sel for three Croats on trial for al- | leged complicity in the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, to- | day lost a motion for the acquitttal | of one of them, Mio Kraj. The lawyer contended that Kraj, on trial with Ivan Rajtich and Zvoni- mir Pospechil, was “under the hyp- notic influence” of the reputed leader | of the Ustachi, terrorist band, and | was “irresponsible.” | In his testimony yesterday, Kraj ad- mitted to membership in the Ustachi, | whose chieftain is reputedly Dr. Ante | Pavelich He also said he was “led” to Marseille by Dimitrov Velitchko in | October, 1934, when the latter fatally | shot Alexander and Foreign Minister | Louis Barthou of France. B THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy and warmer tonight, followed by rain late tonight and tomorrow; lowest tem- perature tonight about 46 degrees; colder tomorrow afternoon and night; moderate southerly winds, shifting to northwest tomorrow. Maryland—Cloudy and warmer to-| night, followed by rain late tonight and tomorrow; warmer on the coast to-| morrow, colder in west and central portions tomorrow afternoon; colder | | Baldwinites. power. British labor is afraid of !u-; cism, would like to see Mussolini sent | to St. Helena. That is supposed to be | why they offered no more formidable campaign against the return of the| At any rate, the insiders here have been wondering since the Baldwin victory whether he will press for Mussolini’s downfall or turn him into a British marion- ette. They foresee no other pos- sibilities. To them, therefore, the return of | De Bono means that Mussolini will| fight for his life and job, at home as | well as in Ethiopia, with his most | trusted and popular army general at| his side. Luck and Diplomacy. It was luck as much as British di- plomacy which put the world's great- est dictator since Napoleon into the pickle jar out of which he is now at- tempting to scramble. British diplomatists themselves are said to have been surprised at the ease with which they corralled the small nations. It is well known they won the French by threats of deserting the united front against Germany. But when they picked up Hitler unerpectedly, they knew the gods were with them. A full explanation for Hitler's move | is still lacking. The best guess is that he noted the Franco-British line-up, with New Deal moral support behind it, and decided to join the side with tomorrow night. Virginia—Cloudy and warmer to-| night, followed by rain tomorrow and in the interior late tonight; warmer on | the coast tomorrow, colder tomorrow night and in west and extreme north | portions in the afternoon. | West Virginia—Rain tonight and tomorrow morning; warmer tonight, colder tomorrow. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy today. Report for Last 21 Hours, Yesterday— ‘oday— Temp. B: Temp. Baro. ng. R am 40 3013 Noon Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 53, 3 p.m. Yesterday. Year g0. 7 Lowest, 36, 7:15 am. todsy. Year Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 98, on July Lowest, on” January 28, Humidity for Last 21 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 76 per cent. at 5 a.m. today. tegyest.’ 34 per cent. at 4 pam. yes- rday, Tide Tables. (Furnished h& the United States Coast and eodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow, m. _3:19am. 8pm. 401 pm. 0pm. 10:46 pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises, 6:54 5 45 lam. 1:20pm. Automobile lights must one-half hour after sunset. Bejurmadio Precipitation, Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): 1935. Average. Record. E 7.09 82 3.55 November December - 2 Weather in Various Citi “usH S oo i RN T s i34 o b S RS BSOS o i 200 e IR0 9% 00 1 00 5 D1 e D i O30 0 New Orlean: New York, Oklahoma ' Cit; Omaha_Nebr: Emlld'lnhll EREERRRStLRRRE RS =-- Clear hoenix, Ariz lear ittsburgh. Pi Bortland. Me. Orez_ 3 Fhe NG oo 2ot S50 B e e e o SRS IRE R INao LD 3 2 2crze .| whispered conversation with a news- 1| pears to have occurred between them; the largest numbers. A convincing factor is supposed to have been a re- port from his army heads that his army will not be ready for 18 months at least. There may have been other reasons | for Hitler's decree against shipping raw materials to Italy, but no better one. Answer to War Query. A story is current among the best minds that the last time Mussolini threatened the British envoy, Sir Eric| Drummond, with starting a European war, Sir Eric replied: | becoming protectionists much like the | as between Eastern and Western fac- “With what?” Double Democratic Chairman-Gen- eral Farley was standing against the wall at the press conference when President Roosevelt announced him- self for Republican Progressive Sen- ator Norris. Mr. Farley immediately started a man about the weather. He shook hands with a few others and bowed himself out. If his face appeared to grow a little redder, it must have been due to a ray of sunlight which crossed his brow as he recalled what Senator Norris has said about him. More and more Influential in the formation of the New Deal political publicity lately has been Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early. He re- mains completely in the background, but his field of activity appears to have broadened even beyond that of the National Committee puhlicity di- rector, Charles (“Dispelling the Fog”) Michelson. No clash of opinion ap- none is likely. Townsend Eyes the East, Eastern Congressmen (particularly those from New Jersey and Massachu- setts) have been receiving increasing quantities of Townsend mail lately. Earlier they received little, the Townsend movement being then con- centrated in the West. The growth of the wild idea is further attested by the fact that shrewd Senator Borah recently made a speech at a Town- send meeting.. A good Democrat from Alabama proposes that the following, from John C. Calhoun, be printed on every wall in Washington: “The very essence of a free govern- ment consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. The system of political morals which regards of- fices in a different light—as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption of political tactics, and to be used and enjoyed as their proper spoils—strikes a fatal blow at the very vitals of free institutions.” ¥ Copwright. 1085.) /] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1935. IRABE PABT |N|]EX Court Room Packed at Patricide Trial 0 FUTURE GOURSE U. S.-Canadian Treaty Is Held Decision Against Isolation Policy. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. America has chosen. President Roosevelt, through the Canadian reciprocity agreement, has just taken a step of transcendent importance, not only to his administration’ but to the future course of the United States as it fights its way out of de- pression. The positive statement that America has chosen can be made today in answer to the famous query posed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in his pamphlet of nearly two years ago, entitled, “America Must Choose.” ‘What Wallace pointed out then was that there were two courses for America to pursue, and he was care- ful to express in unprejudiced argue ment the meaning of both courses. One looked toward self-containment, restriction of production, control of our economic life and even regi- mentation as an inevitable conse- quence. The other looked toward enlarged foreign trade by reduction of tariffs, politically dangerous, eco- nomically painful perhaps to certain groups or sections, but on the whole the traditional method of intercourse which the world has employed in the past. This week, by the announcement of the agreement reached with Can- ada, it may be said that America has chosen the path of foreign trade and that, as fast as markets can be recovered abroad, restrictions on production at home will be gradually removed. Times Make Decision Vital. The Canadian agreement marks a climax because, while the principle of reciprocity is not new, having been proclaimed by Republicans like James G. Blaine and later by Presi- dents McKinley and Taft, the appli- cation of the principle at a moment of high tariff warfare in the world | is of greater importance than it would | have been had the agreement been negotiated at any other period in our economic history. What Mr. Roosevelt has done is to yield at last to the persuasion of Sec- retary of State Hull, who has main- tained for a decade, in season and out, in the Senate and in pubic forums, that post-war economic na- tionalism must cease. The President in the Summer of 1933, by his mes- sage breaking up the London economic | conference, astonished the world by | taking the opposite tack. He sided | with the extreme nationalists and | self-containment school of thought and veered away from the Hull doc-| trines. In fairness to the President, | it might be said that he believed at| that time the monetary situation in| America was too unsettled for him to| adopt any other course. E But whatever may be the reason for the delay, the fact remains that, today Mr. Roosevelt has started in| the right direction. He will have on ! this issue the gratitude of all those who, since 1930, have been arguing that the way out of the depression was | by the removal of artificial barriers that strangled trade. He will win the support of those who fought bit- terly the imposition of the Hawley- Smoot tariff in 1930 as the worst piece of tariff insanity ever perpetrated. It| was this law that brought reprisals| and retaliatory tariffs which caused | American companies to abandon their plants and workmen here and estab- lish branches and assembly plants abroad, thus contributing to the acute deflation during the depression era. Tariffs Always Barbed. The tariff issue, of course, is a two- | edged sword. The Democrats from some sections of the country have been high tariff Republicans. The Repub- lican party has again and again split, tionalism, because of the tariff. It| has remained to be demonstrated this | week that the head of the Democratic party dared to take the risks of offending tariff beneficiaries in his own following by an experiment in tariff reduction with Canada. For something more than just an agreement with Canada is involved. If the principle now applied is suc- cessful, if it is not wrecked on the rocks of political manipulation as was the other Canadian reciprocity agreement in 1911, the whole world may see a reversal of the tide of high tariffs and & beginning of the restora- tion of foreign trade, so essential to world recovery. It is the frony of fate that the Canadian-American sgreement has to be announced at the very time when most of the nations of the world are undertaking an economic blockade of Italy for her violation of the League Covenant. But it is even more to the credit of Mr. Roosevelt and Premier Mackenzie King that they did not permit happenings in Europe to dissuade them from giving an example to the world of good neighborliness and sensible appraisal of the difficult problem of trade inter- course. Revisions Are Possible. ‘There will be protests on specific items. Perhaps many of these will be justified. After all, a complicated agreement on any set of tariff rates, whether it comes out of a congres- sional committee or out of s diplo- matic negotiation, is bound to have weaknesses in it. The attempt to work out a compromise leads inevitably to some hurts and injuries. The ma- chinery set up for negotiation between the two countries permits of a revision of mistakes, though naturally a determined effort will be made by both governments to avoid reopening the agreement for fear it may pre- cipitate on both sides of the line discussions that will impair the con- summation of the treaty. The simple facts of what has hap- pened are these: 1. Canada bought from us in 1929 about $900,000,000 worth of goods. She bought last year only $300,000,000 pensive process both to our enjoy- ment of natural liberties and in- creased purchasing power. Covrricip. 1008) A cross section of the crowd attending the trial of Edith Maxwell, charged with murdering her father at Wise, Va. SISTER DEFENDS TEACHER IN TRIAL Child, 12, Declares Virginia Hills Girl Was Threat- ened by Father. By the Associated Press. ‘WISE, Va., November 19.—Sobbing a story of a drunken father who tried to whip his 21-year-old dmughter, little blue-eyed Mary Catherine Max- well testified today in defense of her sister, Edith, charged with slaying their father, Trigg Maxwell, a black- smith of Pound. Midway her story the 12-year-old girl broke down and sobbed convul- sively. Mountain women in the court room also wept, and jurymen leaned forward on the rail in an effort to hear the little girl's words. Saw Father Drunk, Trigg Maxwell was drinking beer when she saw him at the Lonesome Pine Cafe about 5 o'clock on July 20, Catherine testified, adding that he was drunk an hour later when he saw her playing on the sidewalk and told her to go home. “I said T was going home,” she said, “but he better had come with me.” Catherine said she was awekened when her father came home about 10:30 p.m., then heard him go out and come back about two hours later. “Where's Edith?” she quoted her father as saying. “Mother said she went to Wise with Vernon Maxwell (a cousin of the defendant).” Tells of Quarrel, “A man ought to break her damned neck,” Catherine said her father re- plied. When Edith, & school teacher, re- turned, Catherine said Trigg Maxwell quarreled with her for being out late and said he was going to whip her and make her mother leave home the next day. “You might can whip me” Cath- erine quoted Edith as saying, “but you can't make mother leave. This house is as much hers as it is yours.” Catherine said she heard Edith cry “You can't stab me with that butcher knife” and then heard scuffling. Later, she said, her father wiped his hand | across his head and said to his wife, “Anne, look what she’s done.” The defense contends that Edith in- flicted blows on her father with a shoe as he advanced upon her after threatening the whipping. Sticks to Story. Under lengthy cross-examination Catherine, still sobbing occasionally, stuck to her story. Frequently & pusz- zled loak came over her face as she said: T don't understand the question.” Once, explaining about water being poured on her father's face, she told O. M. Vicara, prosecution questioner, “You don't know what I mean. Jumping from the witness chair she rushed over to the prosecution coun- sel's table to point out the location of & TOOm ON & Map. On direct and cross examination Catherine sald it was sometime after the struggle between her father and Edith that Trigg Maxwell was heard to fall on the fioor. He was lying on his back on the porch near the meat block, she said. Prosecution witnesses have testified that the altercation oc- curred about 1 a.m. and that Maxwell died about 2:30 am. Asked about the position of her father’s hands and about the color of his shirt, Catherine sald: “I didn't notice, and you wouldn't either if you had been as scared as Lays Death to Fall. Mrs. Maxwell, herself indicted in the case, has theorized her husband was killed by & fall against the chop- ping block. Schoolmates of the girl at East Radford State Teachers’ College, Miss Alta Cantrell and Ruth Baker, and & teacher, Conrad Bolling, yesterday testified she had threatened repeatedly to kill her father. The death penalty is not being asked. Mrs. Maxwell stuck firmly to her story under cross-examination. FRIENDS T0 FORCE BORAH'S ANSWER Will Enter Idahoan’s Name in G. 0. P. Primaries Un- less “No” Given. By the Associated Press. ‘Word reached the Capital today that friends of Senator Borah will enter | his name in a number of next year's presidential primaries unless they get | a positive “no” from the Idaho Re- publican. Coming from reliable polit- | ical sources, this word served to em- | phasize the possibility of a spectacu- | lar duel between Borah and former | President Hoover, either over the Re- \' publican nomination or the course the party shall take. Whether or not Borah and Hoover | become avowed candidates for the | nomination, this and other recent de- velopments have indicated they are rapidly moving into the leadership of two opposing factions within the party. Talk Only of Issues. Both are avoiding discussion of can- didates and talking only of issues, but the issues they present are in sharp contrast. Borah has minimized the spending issue, which Hoover has stressed, and advanced instead the question of monopoly. Furthermore, the Idaho Senator has pointedly de- manded reorganization of party lead- ership. ‘While Borah has refused to commit himself on his 1936 plans, the activity of his friends out in the States vir- tually assures that the Idahoan name and views will go before the primary voters and—if he wins—the national convention. ‘When Borah arrived here last week, his reply to inquiries as to whether he would enter the les was: “I can't say I won't.” According to word reaching here, unless he eliminates himself more positively than that, his name will be entered. Most of the primary States do not require the consent of a candidate for his name to be entered in the prefer- ential primaries. His friends can do it for him. Ohio is a notable excep- tion to this rule. Might Attract Opposition. There have been no indications yet whether Borah, if his name should be 3B8 8 EDITH MAXWELL, ‘The defendant, a 21-year-old former school teacher, as she listened to the | testimony on the first day of her trial | —A. P. Photos. | CHEVY CHASE BUS | PROBE S STARTED Service Found Inadequate| Since Line Divided, Say Complaints. An investigation of the service on the Chevy Chase bus line of the Cap- | ital Transit Co. was started today by | Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman of | the Public Utilities Commission. Complaints had been made to Keech | that since the line was split Sunday | by cutting off the Anacostia end the service on Connecticut avenue has been inadequate. One of the complaints came from Capt. Howard F. Clark, Assistant En- gineer Commissioner of the District, who told Keech a bus he rode on this morning was crowded when it reached Connecticut and Nebraska avenues | only about & half a dozen blocks from Chevy Chase Circle and had to pass | up passengers. | Keech said the division of the bus line which formerly ran from Chevy Chase Circle to Anacostia and Con- gress Heights should not have re- sulted in a reduction in service to either section. He immediately or- dered Fred A. Sager, chief engineer of the commission, to check the schedules of both the Chevy Chase and Congress Heights lines. Sager’s check showed that since the division in the line, 10 more busses are being operated from Chevy Chase Circle between 7:45 and 9:30 am. than before, but there had been a reduction from 33 to 16 busses in the period between 6:30 and 7:45 am. According to Sager, 73 busses leave Chevy Chase Circle between 7:45 and 9:30 am. Before the line was split 63 busses left the circle in the same period. La Guardia Joined Critics to Get Into Print, Says Ickes Praise of P.W.A. Would Not Have Been Printed, Asserts Secretary. By the Associated Press. Blaming other agencies for P. W. A. delays, Secretary Ickes asserted today that “red tape” criticism by Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York were prompted by his desire “to get his EARTH'S ELECTRIC FIELD ONE-SIDED Prof. Millikan Reports Val- uable Finding to Science Academy. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. UNIVERSITY, Va, November 19.— The earth is electrically lopsided. This was brought out in a report of the completion of a cosmic ray map of the globe presented to the National Academy of Sciences here today by Prof. Robert A. Millikan of the Cali- fornia Institute of Technology . He has finally, he said, charted the intensity of this most powerful of all radiation—some of it will go through a foot of lead—at the surface of the earth. As has been known for some time, the intensity decreases south- ward and northward from the two magnetic poles. This is due to the fact that the cosmic rays consist of negatively charged particles—or, at least, make their existence known by UTILITIES REVOLT HELD AGREED ON Registration Deadline Dec. 1 May See Lines Form for Legal Battle. By the Associated Press. Virtually all utility holding com- panies, it was predicted today in in- formed utility circles, will announce | shortly a refusal to register with the Securities Commission, as required by the holding company act, by Decem- | ber 1. This would be the signal, it was forecast by an authoritative spokes- | man, for 100 of the leading com- | panies to ask the courts to halt en- | forcement of the act, thereby bring- ing about a major legal battle on a | wide front. After December 1 they would, theo- | retically, become subject to the act's | penalties for not registering. Imme- diate effective administration of the | statute would become virtually impos= | sible, and might turn largely on the production of negatively charged particles which cannot get through the intense magnetic field over the Equator, but follow natural lines of force to the magnetic poles. | efforts to force compliance. The utility spokesman, who declined to be quoted on the ground he could not speak for the entire industry, con=- | ceded there was a possibility of last- But, Prof. Milllkan said, the chart minute changes by a few companies. shows that there is a notably greater dip in the eastern than in the west- | ern hemispheres. This decrease is at a maximum in the neighborhood of Madras, India. Hence the magnetic field itself must not be symmetrical, a fact not hitherto suspected and of great theoretical importance. Settle Dispute. ‘This means, he said, that the earth’s magnetic field is “lopsided in space.” From calculation, the shape of the fleld can be deduced to a distance of from 10,000 to 15,000 miles from the earth’s surface. Compared to such distances, the atmosphere is a very thin sheet and the observations settle finally any contention that cosmic radiation does not originate outside the atmosphere. Comparison shows, he reported, that the cosmic ray map and the terrestial magnetism map produced by the Car- negie Institution of Washington after years of exploration are very similar. He came to Charlottesville after con- ferring with Carnegie Institution scientists in Washington. Some of the effects of alcohol on nerves were reported by Dr. Carl C. Speidel of the University of Virginia, whose experiments have consisted in placing living tadpoles in dillutions of alcohol and watching the effects on the fibers of their transparent tails. ‘The alcohol causes nerve irritation and, by varying the strength of the dillution, almost any degree of neu- ritls can be secured. Mixtures heavy with alcohol, he found, resulted in rapid deterioration of the nerve fibers and death of the animal. He found, however, that a daily bath in a mix- | ture containing little alcohol—perhaps equivalent to a mild daily intoxica- tion—produced little damage and the tadpoles quickly recovered when placed in pond water. Seek New Pain-Killer. Although by juggling the structures of the morphine molecule it has been possible to produce more powerful drugs, in each case they have been more habit-forming, it was reported by Dr. Lyndon F. Small of the Uni- versity of Virginia. With 14 assistants he is engaged on the chemical side of a project fostered by the National Research Council, the object of which is to discover or synthesize pain- killing drugs which will be as affective as those now in use, but which will not set up any physiological craving in the system. This has met with failure in every direction so far as the morphine mole- cule itself is concerned, Dr. Small said. The main objective, however, is to synthesize such a drug from coal | tar derivatives and the chemists are | using the effects of variations in the | morphine structure to guide them in their purely creative work. The effects of the secretion from the | cortex of the adrenal gland apparently are exterted altogether on the carbo- hydrate and blood sugar metabolism of the body, it was reported by Dr. S. W. Britton of the University of Virginia Medical School. Several in- vestigators have reported that the fatal effects of a deficiency in this hormone were due to a disturbance of the sodium chlroide balance in the blood but the Virginia experiments show that there is an exactly opposite effect on such primitive animals as the opposum and the woodchuck, while the carbonhydrate effect is the same as on dogs and men. Reports On Meat Diet. Dr. Alfred Chanutin of the Univer- sity of Virginia Medical School re- ported on the effects of a heavy meat diet on rats whose kidneys already were damaged—stressing that there is no certainty that the same results would be found in human beings. The studies with rats showed the efficiency of already damaged kidneys were greatly decreased by heavy meat diets, although the functions of normaily functioning kidneys were not dis- turbed. A ball rotating on a jet of hydrogen at & maximum rate of 21,000 revolu- tions a second and producing a cen- trifugal force seven million times greater than the attraction of gravity was described by Dr. J. W. Beams, University of Virginia physicist. This is believed to be the fastest speed ever attained with a man-made device and the instrument has im- portant uses as a tool for scientific research. One application of it, Dr. Beams said, has been that of taking pictures of two events a hundred mil- lionth of a second apart by means of mirrors mounted on the rotor. A still more important application on which experimental work now is in progress is the separation by means of the cen- trifugal action of the heavier isotopes of some of the lighter elements. Like Cream Separator. This promises to be one of the most . | significant developments in the physics was & fine thing,” Ickes said at & press conference, “nobody would have printed it. In order to get his re- marks printed, he simply joined the red tape chorus. What he said was not up to his usual standard because he can usually think of something more original and striking.” La Guardis, in a speech before the United States Conference of Mayors, not only talked of “red tape” but of the future, and & quick means of separating the heavier fractions of the elements is in demand. The rotor would throw out the heavier frations— atoms or molecules—much as a cream separator throws out the heavier cream. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physi- cal anthropology of the National Mu- seum, reported to the academy on his Summer’s excavations of sites of a vanished people on Kodiak Island, Alaska, which resulted in the finding of some of the earliest human artifacts known in the New World. Dr. M. W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of Amer- ican Ethnology, told of the discovery of s threefold Indian burial mound at Belle Grade, Fla. It was composed of a primary mound of muck with two later additions built of sand, the latter containing objects of sixteenth century Spanish origin. Unique architectural features de- scribed by Dr. Stirling were a lime- stons pevement in front of s mound | Even this; he contended, was highly improbable, unless new and unpre- | dictable elements enter the situation. i The utility act is designed to pro- vide Federal control over the inter- | state utility fleld. and to eliminate | “unnecessary” utility holding com- | panies. New Argument Advanced. | A new argument against registra. tion by the holding companies with | the Securities Commission was ad- | vanced yesterday by Dr. Hugh S. Ma- | gill, president of the American Feder= | ation of Investors | “The best legal talent,” he said in | a statement, “seems to be quite unani- | mously of the opinion that if the com= | panies register under this act they will thereafter be deprived of the right to carry on even the normal processes of their business without bureaucratic approval, and that they will thereby | seriously impair their rights to protest in the courts against the unconstitue | tionality of the act. “Under the express provisions of this utility act it is an offense punish= able by fine and imprisonment ‘for any person employed or retained by any registered holding coempany, or any subsidiary company thereof, to present, advocate, or oppose any mat- ter affecting any registered holding company or any subsidiary company thereof, before the Congress or any member or com: fore the commission or Federal Power Commission, ny member, officer, or employe of either such commission,' unless such person shall have secured permission from the commission so to do by complying with certain rules which the commission may lay down.” May Seek Injunctions. ‘The utilities spokesman who would not be quoted said he expected the companies to seek injunctions against | enforcement of the act at about the same time in Federal courts throughe out the country. The initial suits later may be joined, or the utilities und the commission to- gether may agree on one or more suits to test the act's legality. | The utilities, he said, believe their action is warranted by the legal doubs cast on the validity of the act by the all-embracing decision in Baltimore Federal Court that it is unconstitue tional. | Registration on December 1, in ite self, means simply the filing of in- formation about a company’s financial and operating structure, together with a notification of intention to register more fully later. Full registration would enable the commission to deter= mine what companies should be pere mitted to live under the act. The commission has guaranteed ine itial registration would void no legal or constitutional right, but the utilities were said to believe past court de- cisions indicate the commission cannot legally give such a privilege. || Irvin S. Cobb | | | Says: Weak Nations Wake Up to Find New Flag Flying at Staff. SANTA MONICA, Calif.,, November 19.—Casualties seem to be almost | even as between the New York gang war and the Ethiopian war, but the New York dis- patches make | spicier reading | They print the names and ad- dresses - of in the ring. | may be distin- | guished from | some of the other hats in the ring by the fact that his is not a size 655, So there’s to be another new “empire” hatched in the Orient, with China furnishing the eggs and Japan the incubator. This certainly is a great year for weaker nations to wake up of a morning under a strange flag. And now a timely bit: At Panama a deadly serpent bit an Army lieutenant. He took serum and went to a party, and the snake died in 20 minutes. Heretofore, lieus tenants have been regarded as com- paratively harmless. (Copyright. 1635, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) CHESTER T. MELVIN DIES TAMPA, Fla., November 19 (#).— Chester T. Melvin, 52, president of the National Fertilizer Association, who was to preside at the Midwinter meeting of the organization in At lanta today, died this morning of bronchial pneumonia. He had planned to leave yesterday to attend the Atlanta meeting. He was vice president of the Gulf Ferti« lizer Co. of Tampa. and a log statrway leading up the face. More than 1000 burials were found. Here for the first time in Florida, Stirling said, was recovered = representative collection of kitchen midden artifacts, burial furniture and skeletal material, all from one site, Historical information links the siwe with the extinct Calusa Indians, thut making possible the identification of other sites with the same type of oulture. $ > ¢