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A—2 wx¥ “EFFECT OF CANADA PACT SCRUTINGZED ~Peek Prepares for Survey of Results as G. 0. P. De- nounces Treaty. * BACKGROUND— New Deal theories of lower trade barriers brought early uneasiness to business inteersts when the tarifi- minded Republican party stepped out of power in 1933. In the Spring .of 1934, despite administration foes, a bill authorizing the President to !negotiate trade treaties and to alter tariff rates without review by Sen- ate, became law. Two weeks ago, Prime Minister King of Canada arrived in Wash- - ington, conferred with President Roosevelt, hurriedly returned to Ot- - tawa. On Armistice day, President Roosevelt announced completion of a “good neighbor” treaty with Can- ada. The Ottawa Parliament rati- fled. The tert was made public. Business inteersts are divided in their reaction. George Peek, special adviser to; President Roosevelt on foreign trade - “began preparations today for a com- prehensive survey to determine the *‘effect on commerce of the new tariff- reduction treaty with Canada. Meanwhile Republicans denounced = the pact and State Deartment of- ficials lauded it as a step toward " elimination of world trade deterrents, without which, Secretary Hull said, there can be no permanent world | -economic recovery. Plans for the survey were an - nounced by the President at his sem! weekly press conference late yester- day. Just previously the President was in conference with Peek, who = told him he would have a full report ready when Mr. Roosevelt returns from his Warm Springs Thanksgiving trip. Hoover Leads Attack. Former President Hoover led the Republican attack on the treaty with a statement in Chicago that the pact “brings hardship to hundreds of thou- sands of dairy and other farmers,” adding: the abundant life—for Canadians.” At Republican Western headquar- ters, also in Chicago, Harrison Spangler tagged the agreement a “step toward free trade” and called for a referendum before it is made ef- fective. lican, Michigan was satirically critical. He said: “We are bound to get the worst of it under our so-called ‘most fa- vored nation’ practice, because we must give all these Canadian benefits to 30 other nations from which we get nothing in return.” Secretary Hull's praise of the treaty was contained in a brief message to the National Foreign Trade Council, meeting at Houston, Tex. He re- ported a growing realization that trade barriers must be leveled and con- tended that reciprocal tariff conces- sions tended toward a general reduc- tion of import levies. Speedy Tabulation Arranged. The customs service, in order to keep an accurate check on imports and exports under the new treaty, is creating a new high speed tabulating system which will be centralized in Washington with telegraphic fingers of reaching to Canada and various bor- | der points. The greatest difficulty lay in the pact’s establishment of new and re- “I presume it is more of | Senator Vandenberg, Repub- | What’s What Behind News . In Capital Canadian Trade Treaty Turned Into Big Cel- ebration by Leaders. BY PAUL MALLON. HE promulgation of the United States - Canada tariff treaty was staged here with what the critics would have termed the trimmings of an extravaganza. It was ballyhooed more, offstage and on, than any other act of the New Deal thus far. A 15,000-word defense was issued by the President. The signing was staged for the movies. Newsmen were called in to watch. They were later assembled in the Presi= dent’s study for private eplana- tions, a procedure usually reserved for the annual budget promulga- tion. The Canadians whooped it up equally as much. The premier made two trips to Washington, fulminated statements. His most annoying one was issued, appéirently indirectly, after he got back home. Canadians t en implied that he outsmarted the Yankee traders by giving them noth- ing more than they had in 1930, while | he walked off with additional agricul- tural concessions. Pleasure Over Treaty. ‘This ballyhr~ may have been partly political, but the personal pleasure | of all parties seemed to be genuine. What made Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull so glad apparently was the fact hat it was the first major accom- | plishment they were able to show for | their long labors on a new interna- tional trade policy. Also, they seemed | to have convinced themselves that it | will make for bigger trade. “HANDS ACROSS THE TARLE” Upon this question the most trust- worthy non-partisan economists here are not in agreement. It seems im- of the treaty will ripen within 8 to 10 months. Full effects will hardly be evident within a year. Protests Are Expected. | Yankee traders were less upset than {you may have imagined about loud protests from American lumber and whisky interests. They agreed among | themselves beforehand that the liquor | lobbyists could be put in their place | because domestic stocks of aged liquor {are deficient, but that the lumber | storm would probably have to be | faced. What the traders have been really afraid of, and are yet, is the farm re- {action. They fixed up the fruit farm- |ers at the last minute by getting | Canada to put oranges on the free list. But they are eagerly reading every word of reaction from the other farm areas. Policies Change Made Menace. A new kind of political argument, | yet unheard in public speeches, ap- pears to be sweeping the bridge tables | of the East. It is to the effect that THE 'EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1933. 1,800 DISTRICT GAS SHARES AUCTIONED Possibility Seen New Inter- ests Are to Be Part Own- ers of Properties. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 20.—The possibility that new interests were to figure in the ownership of important utility properties in and around the City of Washington appeared today as 1,800 shares of Washington & Sub- urban Gas Cos. changed hands at pub- lic auction. United Founders Corp. and General Investment Corp. offered today at auction in Jersey City the shares of beneficial interest, which comprise about 30 per cent of the capitalization of Washingtca & Suburban. The pur- chaser was the investment firm of Outwater & Wells, which paid $3.50 a share. At the offices of Outwater & Wells it | was said that the firm was acting as intermediary for another security dealer, whose name they refused to re- veal. As yet undisclosed financial in- terests were believed to be the real purchasers. ‘Washington & Suburban has 84 per cent control of Washington Gas Light Co. and 100 per cent of Alexandria Gas Co. and Washington Suburban Gas Co. The sale by United Founders and by General Investment Corp., in which United Founders has a substantial in- terest, financial circles said, represen‘- led a move to avoid the necessity of applying for registration with the S. | E. C. on December 1 as utility holding companies. NATALIE HAMMOND SUED FOR $100,000 Actor Charges Washington Artist Has Alienated Wife's Affections. Natalie Hays Hammond, artist | daughter of John Hays Hammond, wealthy mining engineer of this city, was named defendant yesterday in a | York City by Leonarfl Doyle, Broad- | way actor. In the complaint, filed in Manhat- | tan Supreme Court, Doyle charged that ress, in New Orleans in 1917 and that | Miss Hammond lured her away from his home in July. 1934. The actor’s petition asserted that | | Miss Hammond, who made her debut here some years ago, used her wealth | and position in society to exercise | Snow Blankets Pennsylvania Mountains Shades Glen, Pa., as the road was opened to slow and treacherous travel (on highway route 115) about 18 miles irom Wilkes-Barre, following the sudden heavy storm of Sunday. Trafic was blocked, cars and busses were unable to plow through and hundreds were forced to spend the night in their autos where they were stuck. 'FOREIGN COMMITMENTS FORCE FRANCE TO WALL Sympathy for Italy May Prove Too Strong for Laval in Deciding Future European Allies. The fear of war that is the out- standing factor in Europe’s state of mind today, and the reasons for it, are described here in a series of dispatthes from Walter Duranty, distinguished foreign correspondent. This is the second article of the series. BY WALTER DURANTY. Special Dispatch to The Star. PARIS, November 20 (N. A. N. A) — probable that the economic seedlin€S | pe married Leona Hogarth, an act- | France today is doubly in the shadow. | France shares the fear of war with the | rest of Europe, but in addition to that there is another, perhaps deeper, fear of civil strife within her borders, and a third fear besides these two, which is particularly atrocious to the canny French whose “bas de laine,” the a powerful influence over his wife and | money saved in the sock or hidden in sent and in opposition to my utmost | proverbial—the fear of a further de- peaceable efforts to obtain her from | valuation of currency, which will muti- Miss Hammond's control.” | late the national savings. Miss Hammond, well-known both! It is reckoned that more than a “has harbored Leona against my con- | the peasant mattress, has become | |in Europe and the United States for | third of the French currency issued, ! duced tariff rates on several com- |the defeat of President Roosevelt next modities, to be collected until a speci- | year by an adversary, however worthy, fically stipulated quantity has been | would mean another upset in Govern- received, then the old rates would be | ment dismissal of all who now have restored. | Federal jobs, abolition of relief, a com- Consequently, the treaty gave the | plete change of policies which would Customs Bureau a laborious task of | e economically bad, if not disastrous. bockkeeping, requiring a deluge of re- ports from ports of entry, which must | be tabulated promptly and totalled, so | Parlor talk is highly important politically. How it starts no one knows or can prove, but notions are thus widely spread among the great masses of people who are too deeply involved in their own af- fairs to spend much time person- ally studying the ins and outs of economic or political issues. Some- that the specified quota may not be | exceeded. Letters of instruction were under preparation today setting forth the new schedules in detail. Separate forms will be prepared for reports - i poxxl't 2 vi‘lllnbguxox::dgoggisllv é:t n?:it' By | times these parlor motions become ! when receipts approach the niuola‘ ;‘,fi,‘,‘}:’g’ fi;’;’b’;:;“”,',; "f{:"';.fofif{c" fi limit, i i - | 5 P telegraphic reports will be or- | leaders. Items for Special Checks. This particular one will not long re- The items on which special checks | M2in in the parlor category. The Re- will be required: | publicans are somewhat worried Cattle and calves on which reduced | 8bout it. duties apply to not more than three- fourths of 1 per cent or one-fourth of - 1 per cent, respectively, of the domes- + tic slaughter. Coys on which the tariff cut reaches only 20,000 head. Cream, on which the duty reduction | ; ‘@pplies to 1,500,000 gallons annually. | - Seed potatoes which benefit to 750,- 000 bushels. Douglas fir and Western hemlock | on which a 250,000,000-board-foot | limit is placed for the lower rate. | Shingles, which come in free, but | which you rarely hear was offered Another side of the relief story | ere limited to an entry of 25 per cent of the domestic consumption. CHEVY CHASE BUS CHANGES URGED " Reech Says Personal Survey Re- veals Many Needs of Im- provement. Many improvements can and should be made in the service on the Chevy Chase bus line of the Capital Transit Co., Richmond B. Keech, vice chair- man of the Public Utilities Commis- sion, said today after a personal survey of conditions. Keech made the check-up during the morning rush hour and said he ob- served “many things” that needed cor- rection if service is to be improved. The investigation followed com- plaints that the service was inadequate, that busses were overcrowded and in some cases passengers were riding on running boards. Keech said he did not see any in- »stances of passengers riding on run- ning boards, which is a violation of ~the regulations of both the commis- sion and the Police Department, but that several busses ran down Connec- «ticut avenue with “full” signs dis- played. In those instances, however, ‘he pointed out, another bus was be- hind the vehicle to pick up waiting passengers. - Keech also observed that two busses ;had been disabled and that others ‘headed for the section in the vieinity Jof Eighth and E streets carried heav- ler loads than those going to Tenth and Constitution avenue. The ex- press busses, he said, carried heavy Keech intehds to continue his study of the service on the Chevy Chase line with a view to making improve- ments that will give the Connecticut avénue section adequate and efficient transportation. TS L5 S A3k the other day by a mother of seven. She wrote to an influential authority nere, relating her experiences in seek- g relief, as follows: “Well, I paid my visits to the won- derful—(relief unit). After waiting 21, hours to be interviewed by a prominent attorney’s wife — who wanted to know the true story of 51 years and 9 months of my life. Also the history of every one in the home. ‘Wanted me to get certificates of birth of two youngsters in their eleventh year. Also authentic report of deaths | of their kin, trace up their ancestry for three generations back to find ouf who the Government could make sup- port them. Also get references from the last place three of working age in the home were employed, bring in the rent book and get a statement sworn to before a notary from one ot the neighbors to prove I had been living at —— during 1933. “After complying with the best part, went back yesterday at 9, staying un- til 11:30 to be told by a Mrs. nothing could be done to help me for 20 days until November 5. Was told to give a promissory note to a grocer to turn over my father’s pension check to allow me food during that period. I told her it was entirely out of my hands to make a promise like that. I told her I wouldn't take any chance being set out on the sidewalk as I was | positive the city wouldn’t permit me to camp there with furnfture and family of seven for 20 days.” She said nothing could be done. “Another welfare worker is Miss . She has been cutting off milk from undernourished chilren and do- ing everything she can, then has to go back to the sanitarium again to rest. Advises mothers of large fam- {lies to make study of birth contral.” ‘The heading put on letter by the mother was: “Chapter: 99 in the fall of our family.” = s (Copyright, 1935.) More Labor Unions. Ten more labor, unionsiare regis- tered in the Irish tate than a ear ago, anking & 2. her miniature work, entered a general | denial of the charges. She has not | lived at the Hammond home at 2221 | Kalorama road since her days as a popular member of Washington's | younger social set. i She gained quite a bit of notoriety | several years ago by denouncing the | offer of King Zog. of Albania, to marry some wealthy young American | girl. Miss Hammond is a member of |the Royal Miniature Society of | London. RS R 'MRS. ROOSEVELT RALLIES SLIGHTLY | President's Widow Will Recover| if Heart Attack Does Not Re- cur, Physicians Say. By the Associated Press. GLEN COVE, N. Y.. November 20.— As her children kept vigil near her hospital bedside, some improvement was noted last night in the condition of Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow of President Theodore Roosevelt, who suffered a grave heart attack Monday in the course of convalescence from a fractured hip. Mrs. Roosevelt'’s showing for the better was coincident with the eight- | eenth anniversary of the death of her youngest son, Quentin, who was shot down in aerial combat on the French | front. Yesterday was his 38th birth- | day anniversary. Mrs. Roosevelt’s physicians, includ- |ing her son-in-law, Richard Derby, | chief surgeon of the North Country Community Hospital, expressed the | opinion she would recover if there | were no recurrence of the heart trou- | ble. Mrs. Roosevelt was 74 in August. During the night Mrs. Roosevelt's four children stayed at the bedside. They were Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr.; Kermit and Archibald, and Mrs. | Ethel Roosevelt Derby. Alice Roose- velt Longworth, the President’s daugh- ter by his first wife, kept in touch | with the hospital by telephone from | | ‘Washington. ' TOWNSENDITE LEADS IN CONGRESS RACE By the Associated Press. KALAMAZOO, Mich., November 20. Verner W. Main, Battle Creek attor- ey, who advocated the Townsénd | old-age pepsion plan in his cam- | paign, held the Republican nomina- tion for Representative in Congress fim the third Michigan district to- y. Nearly complete returns from yes- terday’s primary gave him a majority in the field of five. Howard Cava- nagh, also a Battle Creek attorney, was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The special election will | be held December 17, to fill the va- !cancy caused by the recent death of Representative Henry M. Kimball, Republican, of Kalamazoo. The dis- trict has been Republican since 1898. With 167 of the 197 precincts re- | ported, Main had 10,082 votes; Wood- | bury Ransom, 28-year-old Kalamazoo banker, 3,165; Willlam P. Smith, Charlotte, 3,004; Willlam G. Kear- ney, Albion, 1,555, and Joseph A. Baldwin, Albion, 1,233 CREW OF SHIP IN RIOT NEW YORK, November 20 (#)—A religious dispute between Moham- medans and Brahmans, members of the crew of the British freighter City of Dunkirk, ended last night in a pitched battle below decks. The ship carried a crew of 70, of which 53 were Malayans and 17 Brit- ish. During the crossing the Moham- medan and Brahman followers among the Malays split into factions. Four Mohammedans, listed by the captain as ringle: were arrested for disorderly con which approximates 83,000,000,000 francs, is held tight by the population in the form of savings, tied up in the sock or hidden in the mattress. This. 100, is threatened today, with the re- sult that France is a prey to nerve- straining uncertainty and to pessi- mism. A prey also to fantasy. The wildest rumors run rampant down the boulevards, and, although few believe them, no one knows, because it is felt that anything may happen. Distinction Made Clear. In attempting to analyze the French situation, it is necessary to make & distinction between foreign and home | affairs. Of course, the former, as everywhere, depend largely upon the latter, but I propose to put the cart before the horse and discuss in this message the French foreign policy, re- serving internal considerations for a subsequent article. The Quai D'Orsay—the French foreign office—will tell you exactly what Laval has been saying in his speeches at Geneva and elsewhere, that France is loyal to the League and has the highest regard and respect for England’s rigid determination to keep the League afloat, without, however, forgetting a tender affection for its Latin sister, Italy. Furthermore, M. Laval, as the Quai D'Orsay will echo, | hopes, and is doing his utmost, to smooth away the unhappy friction which has arisen, recently, between Italy and England. Such soft soap cannot disguise the naked and unpleasant truth that Anglo-Ttalian interests are antagonis- tic, and that, in trying to reconcile the two, Laval has a harder task than Blondin performed when he carried a man on his back along the tight- rope over Niagara. Laval is a shrewd tight-rope dancer—no one doubts that —but Egypt and the route to India are far more than pawns in the British game and the colossal British assembly of naval force in the Medi- terranean was not merely pre-election bluff. Odds Against Amity. ‘Whether Laval likes it or not, the time is coming when he may have to choose between England and Italy. To avoid that choice, he naturally tries to bring the two together. If he can do it, well and good, but the odds are cruelly against him. For the moment, however, Laval is France, and there is little doubt that he is so heavily com- mitted to the Italians by his agreement of January T7—irrespective of secret clauses, if any, and what may or may not have been subsequent dealings be- tween the French and Italian general staffs—that he has no choice save to dance his tight-rope. There are two ways of covering news in Europe. One is to go to the for- eign offices and to obtain interviews with high-placed personages, like, for instance, M. Laval himself, and to write what they care to tell you. An- other method is to talk with people who are less directly interested—with business men and bankers, with one’s fellow reporters, with diplomats be- low the rank of ambassador (because ambassadors must observe caution), and finally with the man or woman in the street. I prefer this method, and, in the light of such talks, I am now attempting to explain the foreign policy of Prance, as follows: 3 Laval is playing a personal policy at present. He is committed—who knows how deeply—to Mussolini. He is committed to the League of Nations and to England. He has a commit- ment, which he himself undertook last Summer—not perhaps overwillingly— toward the U. 8. 8. R. There are also the alliances with Poland and the Little Entente. That is the fore- ground of the picture, and over it, in the. background, looms Germany like a thundercloud, not yet ready for its storm to burst but rolling on and growing darker. The key and pivot and fundamental basis of French foreign policy today is the certainty in French :flndl that Germany iw. to demand a further revision of * treaty of Versailles. What form that demand may take is relatively unimportant, but the knowl- | edge that the demand will be made is | the dominating factor in the foreign policy of France. Five Allies Against Hitler. Against Germany, France has five potential allies—Britain, U. 8. 8. R, Italy, the Little Entente and Poland. | Consider these potential allies through| the eyes of M. Laval, who, as I said, | is—for the moment—the director of| France's foreign policy. England, he} thinks, double-crossed him with the| Anglo-German naval agreement last| Summer. Poland, he sees, has made a deal with Germany, which the newly- signed German-Polish commercial treaty only serves to reinforce and em- phasize. The Little Entente, since the murder of Alexander of Yugoslavia, is a bruised and doubtful reed. The U. 8. S. R. might stiffen that reed to be- | come an iron bar, but Mr. Laval, rightly or wrongly, has little confi- dence in the U. S. 8. R. and is even |inclined to “view with alarm” its growing rapprochement with Rumania | and Czechoslovakia and the possibility | of its making a deal with Yugoslavia. | | It 1s freely said in Paris that M. Laval ! would like to block the ratification of the Franco-Soviet agreement. Whether he can do it or not is another matter, but he would like to. There remains Italy and finally the League of Na- tions. ‘The precise nature of the bond be- tween M. Laval and Mussolini is a | matter of mystery and conjecture in | Paris. He made the agreement of January 7 as foreign minister of the Flandin government, and, it is said | here, did it so thoroughly “on his own” | that neither M. Flandin nor the Am-| bassador of France in Rome at the time was aware of the exact terms. | Hence the boulevard stories about M. Laval's personal commitment. Italian Pact No Giveaway. It is more reasonable to suppose that Laval, who is no less shrewd than cautious, did not “give himself away” to Mussolini, but that he feels he is | the man who healed the long-time | breach between the Latin sisters, or, in other words, that the Franco-Italian rapprochement is his work, of which he is proud. This, too, comes back to| something personal. Laval, one might | say, stands for Franco-Italian rap- | prochement and is thus committed | more by his own action and attitude than by any secret clauses or possible strings to the January 7 agreement. No dispassionate observer of Eu- ropean affairs can doubt for a mo- ment that, from a French angle, the League has never been anything but an instrument to maintain the treaty of Versailles; that is to say, the French hegemony over Continental Europe. For this purpose, Stresemann was lured into the League, and, when Hitler left it, it was not so much the League as France which suffered a heavy blow, whose effects were in- creased by Hitler's subsequent defi- ance of the League and the Versailles treaty together. But the League is opposed to war—is perhaps the most valid obstacle to war in Europe nowa- days, save German unreadiness. The British don’t want war, nor do the Russians. Therefore, under their joint impulsion the League has imposed | sanctions against Italy as a war- maker. Laval was forced to acquiesce, not because he liked sanctions or wished to “punish” Italy, but because he knew there was always Germany in the background and that the very mechanism of sanctions and collective action which England and the U. S. 8. R. have put in motion against Italy might perhaps later, and even more effectively, be applied to Ger- many. All of which makes Laval's tight-rope yet more tenuous and dif- ficult. Game Has Been Overplayed. The greatest weakness of French foreign policy is that it is predicated upon a series of “combinaisons.” pacts, agreements and alliances which are so diversified and various as to have become, in certain cases, self-negating and mutually contradictory. For in- stance, the small case of Poland and Czechoslovakia, France's allies, which are spitting at each other like a pair of angry cats; or a larger case—Eng- A agreement game, which has reached a stage of insolu- ble confusion, The simplest answer of all would be a Pranco-German agreement, with which, it is whispered here, Laval is now coquetting, as many of his prede- cessors have done before him. This is the most Utopian of all the Utopian schemes and ideas in present Europe. Briand nearly put it over—at Locarno and of —with the support Sir Austen Chamberlain, but Hitler and Nazi Germany are very different from Stresemann and his social-demo- cratic regime. There can be no last- ing or genuine desl between France —Wide World Photo. FEAR OF POISON SODA GRIPS CITY 800 Pounds Sold to San Francisco Housewives at Bargain Prices. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 20— San Francisco housewives were warned today that 800 pounds of baking soda they had bought et “bargain pricrs” contained a deadly poisin, already blamed for three deaths. OPIUM FIND SPURS BALTIMORE CHASE 45 Pounds of Narcotics Dis- covered Near Docks and More Is Hunted. By the Associated Press, BALTIMORE, November 20.—With approximately 45 pounds of contra- band _opium already in possession of authorities, Baltimore police today scoured the Locust Point section of the city for an additional 80 pounds, re- ported found by an unidentified man. The seized narcotic was estimated | to be worth close to $100,000. With | the 80 pounds, the entire lot was valued at more than a quarter of a| million dollars, nearly equal to the| total legal importation into the United States in 1933. The narcotic, listed in three separ- ate discoveries, was believed smuggled into the country from ships anchored in the Baltimore harbor. One Man Reported Held. Southern district police said they | were holding about 15 pounds of raw | opium. Another lot, estimated at 30 pounds, was in possession of customs | officials. The third lot was being | hunted. The city police said they under- | stood Federal narcotic agents were | holding one man, whose identity had not been disclosed. Customs officials joined police in| the concentrated search of Locust Point, where the two seizures were made. Representatives of the local narcotic division of the Treasury De- partment could not be reached for comment. Although it was impossible to learn the exact value of the drug immedi- ately, physicians estimated that, in its pure state—as it was found—the nar- cotic is worth more than $1,200 a pound. U..S ARRESTS FIVE IN ARMORY THEFT Quintet Held at Berryville on Charges of Stealing Guns and Cartridges. Arrest of five men in connection with the looting last Saturday night of the National Guard Armory at Berryville, Va., was announced today at the Department of Justice. All have confessed, it was sta ‘The quintet, all held under Federal charges of stealing Government prop- erty, are Oakley Sealock, Charles Rit- ter, James Duke, George Buzzard and John Rinker, it was disclosed. The men are being held in the Berryville Jail, after their arrest Monday by special agents of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, who were assisted by Virginia State police and policemen from Winchester. Details were not divulged, but a spokesman for J. Edgar Hoover, head of the bureau, declared that most of the stolen property, 14 service automatic pistols and a quantity of ammunition, has been recovered. Officials said the arrested men were residents of the community. None of them has a previous criminal record, according to fingerprint files of the F. B. 1. here. —_— LAVAL UNDER FIRE AS CABINET MEETS Date to Be Set for Reconvening Parliament, Which May Oust Premier. By tke Associated Press Dropped in Flight. ‘The first report of the drug was recgjved early yesterday, police said. A special railroad officer, attempting & suspicious character leaving a liner at the Locust Point piers, re- covered a quanity of the narcotic. which the man dropped as he fled. Customs officials indentified it as raw opium. | Last night, an unidentified man entered a drug store operated by Wil- | PARIS, November 20.—Premier Lae val's cabinet met today to fix a data for reconvening Parliament, an act which informed sources believed might lead to the ministry’s downfall. The opposition in the Chamber of Deputies announced it would attack the ministry on the question of dis- solution of France's rival political leagues, such as the Nationalist Croix ! de Feu and left wing organizations. ‘The opposition took as a basis for Mysterious circumstances surround- | llam Morgenstern, and asked the latter | this attack a clasi Sunday between ing the sale of the lethal soda—so deadly that half a teaspoonful might cause death--led Dr, J. C. Geiger, city health director, to seek a police investigation. “I can't understand how so much poison could be mixed in the soda by accident,” he said. “I have no evi- dence jyet of any criminal activity, but circumstances frankly have me worried.” | to identify a brown gummy substance he was carrying wrapped in a news- paper. He said he had found 80 pounds of it on a vacant lot. | the store asserting he would retum today. The druggist, after a few tests, recognized the substance as raw opium. Suspected Smuggling. | He said he realized the drug might Morgenstern told police the man left | |have been smuggled from vessels Dr. Geiger sald contents of broken docked at the Locust Point pier, near packages of a widely known brand of | his store, and called police. | baking soda had been sold in barrel | On receipt of this information, | lots by a salvage firm to & San Fran- police radio cars were ordered to cisco department store for resale In search vacant lots near the docks. bulk. He said he thought the soda Shortly after midnight, Patrolmen may have been contaminated by hav- ing been placed in barrels which for- merly contained poison. The soda, sold over a period of sev- | eral weeks, was purchased by thrifty housewives for 4 cents a pound. The same brand in original packages sold for 10 cents a pound. In his warning, Dr. Geiger said: “Deadly poison has contaminated a large quantity of baking soda sold in bulk form and widely distributed in San Francisco. Use of that particular | Joseph Brown and Elmer Hefner | stumbled across a potato sack on a ‘Iot in the neighborhood. | __Police said the sack contained about 15 pounds of the material. About 30 | pounds, found previously, already was ! being held by customs officials. According to the Bureau of Nar- cotics of the Treasury Department, only 130 pounds of opium were im- | ported into the United States in 1932 The importation's valug at that time was listed at $273,816. soda will endanger the lives of untold numbers of residents of the city. “There is no danger in the use of standard brands of soda in their proper packages, but I ask that all persons having purchased soda in bulk form from the store in question bring MRS. HOYAL ASSAILS HANDLING OF IDLE | them to my office immediately.” The three persons whose deaths' Major Failure of Administration, were blamed on use of the “cheap” soda were Mrs. Marie Ogle. 60; Alfred | Terry, 81, and his daughter, Mrs. | Bessie Shufelt, 53. MISSOURI PACIFIG CONTROL DETAILE 0. P. Van Sweringen Says Al- legheny Corp. Owned 46 Per Cent in 1930. o By the Associated Press. “I know of no greater indictment CLEVELAND, November 20.—O. P.|that can be lveled against the Roose- Republican Committee Mem- ber Asserts. ‘ By the Associated Press. handling of the unemployment prob- lem was described as a major failure {of the Roosevelt administration last night by Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal. director of the women's division of the Republican National Committee. In a many-sided criticism of the New Deal, given in an address to the | Business and Professional | Republican Club of Massachusetts, she Van Sweringen, chairman of the board | velt administration than to say that | of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, said | he has borrowed money from future today at a deposition hearing before | generations to feed the unemployed Special Master Marion C. Early that from the hand of Government while, Van Sweringen interests held sufficient | at the same time, insisting upon the stock in the road “to materially in-|enactment of measures which have fluence it.” | kept the unemployed from securing He was the first of six officials of ' the one thing they want above all the railroad to be questioned by Spe- | others—jobs. cial Co-counsel Fred L. English for| “Time after time in the last few the St. Louis, Mo., Federal Court con- | months the President has said ‘we are cerning bankruptcy proceedings pend- on our way’ but he didn’t say where! BOSTON. November 20.—New Deal | Women's | ing in that court to effect reorgani- zation of the road. Special Counsel Fred L. Williams filed an opinion at St. Louis claim- ing that O. P. Van Sweringen should be held personally responsible for | losses the railroad suffered on pur- chases of $3,438,016 of its own stocks and bonds. Williams recommended that trustees of the road attempt to recover from Van Sweringen. The railroad magnate said that the Allegheny Corp., a Van Sweringen company owned “slightly more ‘than a 46 per cent interest” in the Mis- souri Pacific in 1930. “My brother (M. J. Van Sweringen) and I had a personal basket called the Vaness Co.,” he said. “It was through that company that we controlled these holdings.” He said he became chairman of the road in 1930. “The program of acquisition of shares had been over a period of some moenths previously,” he added, describing as “a practical majority” the amount of stock in the road held by Van Swer- ingen concerns. “QOur mhajority ownership lasted for some time,” he continued. “Allegheny needed some money later and I sold some of its holdings.” Other officials to be examined are Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Alva Bradley, George Sherwin, jr.; G. A. Tomlinson and William Wyer. English prefaced his questioning with a statement that he desired to ask about the purchase of 23,000 shares of Missouri Pacific preferred stock, 11,000 shares of Missouri Pacific common and g certain amount” of par bonds of the International Great Northern Railroad. e which no French statesman would dare, or care, to attempt. This “com- binaison,” however desirable in the- , is less possible in practice than E earlier ones, which themselves, as I have said, have no longer rhyme or reason. 4 That is the forelgn situation which M. Laval—and France—now faces. and y that would not involve the UP of the Versallles treaty, the North omrrel 1038, i “And recently after his elaborate and expensive Western fishing expedi- ‘we are on our way back because we planned it that way!' “Back to what? To the tyrannies of the old world, to a Communistic system of dictatorships whose admin- | istrators are drunk with spending and | powex: © S FLOOD HITS ECUADOR Residents Flee as Water Pours From Yanayacu River. GUAYAQUEL, Ecuador, November 20 (#).—Dispatches from Latacunga, | northeast of here, said last night resi- dents of the district were abandoning their homes and fleeing before a flood from the Yanayacu River. Houses and cattle had been de- stroyed, it was stated, and streets were filled with water. Ecuadorean soldiers had begun | salvaging effects. | GENERALS ARRESTED BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 20 (#).—Two professors and three pen- sioned generals were arrested today at | Academy of Medicine. The students struck in protest against | with writing and circulating a pamph- | let attacking King Carol and his par- ticular friend, Mme. Magda Lupescu. Duce to See Greek King. ROME, November 20 (#).—George II of Greece, en route to Athens to reclaim his throne, arrived from Flor- ence today aboard King Victor Em- manuel’s special train to confer with Premier Mussolini on Greco-Italian friendship. He also planned to call | on the King. The conference with Il Duce, it was said in informed circles, ifl mbrace the question of British nce in Greece. tion, he made a statement to the effect, | | a meeting of striking students of the | | the arrest of Prof. Georta, charged | the Croix de Feu veterans and Leftists at Limoges. Twelve men were injured. Authorities ordered an investigation. Laval faced further parliamentary hazards, his budget still being held up in a Chamber of Deputies come mittee. Confronting the domestic and inter- national issues simultaneously. Laval | handed the text of the French reply to Premier Mussolini’s note protesting sanctions to Vittorio Cerruti, Italian Ambassador to France. Officials said the French note cone tained “nothing new.” and only res stated France's support of the League of Nations in its efforts to halt the Italo-Ethiopian war. Both the French and British replies were expected to be published Friday, REGICIDE SUSPECTS ON HUNGER STRIKE Three Croat Terrorists on Trial Protest Disbarment of Attorney. By the Associated Press. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, No- vember 20.—Three Croat terrorists were on a hunger strike today over | disbarment of their attorney. Georges | Desbons, in their trial for com- plicity in the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. The French court trying them was adjourned until tomorrow to permi§ defense council replacing Desbons ta | study the case arising from the shoot« ing of King Alexander and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou October 9, 1934, at Marseille. Desbons, disbarred after the court ruled he had shown disrespect. was guarded carefully because of a war: ing of assassination he said he ceived from the United States. Desbons was originally hired by United States Croats to defend Mio | Kraj, Evan Rajtich and Zvonimir Pospechil, who face the guillotine if convicted. SECURITY REGISTRATION RULE DEFECT REMOVED By the Assoclated Press. ‘The Securities and Exchange Coms mission has closed a technical loop= hole in its rules for registration of over-the-counter dealers and brokers., The new rule permits revocation of registration, because of criminal or other improper action by the broker or dealer, between the date of apply~ ing for registration and its effective date. Heretofore registrations could be revoked only for causes arising after the effective date or before the filing date, leaving a few weeks between the two dates not specifically covered. Irvin S. Cobb Says: One-Man Band Serves as Precedent for One- Actor Movie. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Novem-« ber 20.—A man spends half a lifetime trying to learn to write, and, if he succeeds, he's lucky: and if he doesn’ he’s like a fellow whose wife is be- ing talked about —probably the last man in town to hear the bad news. But, overnight, | you can get to be an actor—at least you can get the actor’s viewpoint. For instance, I've just fluished a very bitter argu- ment at the stu- dio over the next picture we're go+ ing to shoot. There's a director wha insists on cluttering up the show with a lot of other people. He's also very tiresome about dragging in a plot. I still feel I have the right idea about a proper vehicle for the display of one'’s theatrical talents. It's a two-hour monologue, inter: only by tumultous applause, rupted Qcmm%' 1035, by the Noth Amerk |