Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Light rain, with lowest temperature about 36 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair and colder; moderate south and south- west winds, Temperatures—Highest, 54, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 37, at 3 am. today. Full report on page B-6. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 —_— No. 33,441 ILDUGE RELEASES 100,000 SOLDIERS 10 SPUR INDUSTRY IN SANCTION FIGHT Speeding of Agricultural and Factory Production Sought in 3-Month Leave for Portion of Army. ENTIRE FORCE SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE RECALL Selassie Pursued by Italian Planes as He Pays Air Visit of Inspec- tion to Southern Front—New Peace Attempts Are Started in Conferences at Paris. BACKGROUND— After months of diplomatic con- troversy, Mussolini last February dispatched first of long stream of troops and military equipment to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, furhered plans for invasion of Ethi= opia. On October 2, Italian troops were reported across Ethiopian border, drive was started from north and south. Better trained, Dbetter equipped and counting much on their air force, 300,000 Italian sol- diers have advanced slowly, steadily toward single railroad from Addis Ababa to the sea. With approval of most of rest of World, Haile Selassie, Ethiopian King, by personal activity and ap- peal, has attempted to rally natives to effective defense of country. BULLETIN. By the Associated Press. ASMARA, Eritrea, November 21. —-Ttaly’s northern army smashed the Ethiopian forces commanded by Ras Seyoum today in a sharp battle, the Italian field command reported. For the last two weeks the Italian expedition has been trying for a decisive battle with the elusive Ras Seyoum, who continually, during the Ttalian advance across Tigre Province, has stayed just out of reach. Today it accomplished its object. By the Associated Press. ROME, November 21.—Premier Mus- golini today granted three-month | leaves to 100,000 men of his army of 1,000,000 in & move to increase Italy’s egricultural and industrial production. The action was & new step in Il Duce’s program of combating the | League of Nations' sanctions, under which Italy cannot obtain many products previously imported. The government’s announcement said the move was without “interna- | tional significance.” | The 100,000 to be released temporar- | ily from military duty will be on call | for immediate service if needed. Farmers will be the first to be given leaves. The second group will include | men whose families need them, and | the third will be soldiers who have | good-conduct records during at least | eight months’ service. SELASSIE'S PLANE CHASED. Fascist Planes Follow Ruler Over Southern Sector. By the Associated Press. Emperor Haile Selassie was back in Addis Ababa today, having completed an aerial tour of the southern war frort shortly before two Fascist air- planes flew over the section he had surveyed. ‘The Ethiopian government an- nounced the Italian machines passed over Harar and Diredawa, in Eastern Ethiopia, just after the Lion of Judah started back for the capital, which he left only Tuesday. The communique said the Italian planes dropped no bombs, indicating they were “pursuing the Ethiopian plane” or reconnoitering. New peace moves were under way &t Paris, where Maurice Peterson, head of the Ethiopian department of the | British foreign office, was to resume informal discussions with French ex- perts, Negotiations Watched. Italian authorities said they were watching the negotiations, which had been suspended since October 29, to ascertain whether a basis for discus- sion, acceptable to Italy, would result. Informed quarters said, however, Italy would push forward in her ef- forts to secure and retain a large area of Ethiopia, defying the attempts of the League of Nations to stop the war Unexpected rains slowed the ad- vance of Gen. Rudolfo Graziani’s Italian southern army, as roads were clogged with mud, delaying the move- ment of guns, provisions and am- munition. Prepare for Refugees. Authorities at Djibouti, French Somaliland, sent a battalion of French Senegalese troops into the interior of that country to be ready in case of any frontier emergency and to handle Ethiopian refugees. ‘The border of French Somaliland is (See WAR, Page 3.2 Readers’ Guide Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Girls Spurn Beauty Contest to Prevent W earing Swim Suits W est Virginia Kiwanians Forced to Allow Reg- ular Clothing. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., November 21.—Beauty or no beauty, young ladies nominated here for a beauty contest declined to enter under the stipula- tion that they wear bathing suits and those in charge of the affair, a feature of the annual Kiwanis Club charity jamboree in December, have capitu- lated and entries will appear in clothes of their own choosing. The chairman of the committee, announcing the change, said he was able to get practically no entries on the bathing suit basis, although there appeared plenty of young ladies wait- ing to enter upon the “standard cloth- ing” basis. The bathing suit ruling had been adopted in an effort to make uniform the clothing of the entries and assist judges in making their decisions en- tirely upon physical beauty. DICTAPHONE FAILS LORING PROBERS Police Search -4n Vain for Clues to Murder of Stenographer. BACKGROUND— Two days before her wedding day Corinna Loring, 26, disappeared from her Mount Rainier home. Saturday, November 9, five days later, her garroted body was found in a woods a few blocks from the Loring home. Richard Tear, her fiance, was ar- rested; later released. Scores of wit- nesses have been questioned as po- lice seek to learn who lured girl from her house Monday night be- tween 8:10 o'clock, when her mother left for church, and 8:40 o’clock, when Tear arrived to see his bride-to-be. Led by Lieut. Itzell, ace Baltimore detective, investi- gators remain baffled. (Picture on Page B-1.) Police inquiring into the murder of Corinna Loring today examined 14 dictaphone records, used by the pretty | public stenographer, in an effort to| cast additional light on her business associates and possible enemies. Sergt. Ralph Brown of the Prince Georges County police went to the of- fice in the People’s Insurance Build- ing where Miss Loring had been em- played and scrutinized the records. The stenographer, however, had cleaned the surfaces of all the records for reuse. Lieut. Joseph Itzel of the Baltimore homicide squad reiterated today that the murder investigation would be a long drawn out affair. Although he has the typewritten statements of a score of persons relating to Miss Lor- ing’s movements prior to the murder, the detective was without a new lead. | Tear to Study Accounts. [ Meanwhile, Richard Tear, 29, fiance | of the murdered Mount Rainier girl, ennounced he expected to go over her bank accounts in an effort to learn| more of her financial affairs. The| one bank book which Lieut. Itzel has seen showed a deposit of less than $100. The girl is known to have at| least one other savings account. The Baltimore detective, who is in charge of the inquiry, said no motive had been revealed in his check on the girl’s financial affairs. An effort is being made to identify | a white sleeve torn from a man’s shirt and found on Saddleback Ridge about the time the girl's body was dis- covered in a clump of pines there Saturday afternoon, November 9. She was last seen on November 4 at her home, 3110 Beech street. Hicks Scrutinizes Sleeve. The sleeve was found within 2 feet of the head of the garroted girl and Robert W. Hicks, District criminologist, is making a minute mjcroscopic exam- ination of it to determine the estab- lishment from which it was purchased. ‘The sleeve was torn in two parts, its ragged edges indicating it might have been ripped in a struggle. It bore no blood stains, however, or any other marks that would link it definitely with the case. Examination of the sleeve thus far has convinced Hicks it was torn from a shirt of a compara- tively cheap variety. He compared the sleeve with the sleeves on about 100 new shirts in the stock of a men’s clothing store here, but failed to find any of similar texture. Hicks discovered 65 threads to a linear inch in the cloth, and after some laboratory tests designed to re- veal the shrinkage of cloth of that texture, he said he would be in a @h WASHINGTON, D. ELLSWORTH IN AR INSEGOND EFFORT TOFLY ANTARCTIC Explorer Takes Off Again From Dundee Island for Bay of Whales. FAVORED BY WEATHER IN HAZARDOUS FLIGHT Forced to Abanaon Hop Yesterday Because of 0il Leak in Polar Star. BACKGROUND— Determined to fly over uncharted areas of Antarctic continent, Lin- coln Ellsworth reached Dundee Island in ice-chocked Weddell Sea on November 12 with supply ship Wyatt Earp; unpacked plane. ‘After covering 400 miles of 2,140-" mile air route yesterday, flyer was forced back by broken oil line; said he would try again. Similar attempt in 1933 ended in crash in Ross Sea ice pack; bad weather blocked attempt from Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, in 1934. Financing own attempts, ex= plor.r hopes to strengthen Ameri- can claims to new land. Bv Radio to The Star. DUNDEE ISLAND, Antarctica, No- vember 21 (N.AN.A.).—The air- plane Polar Star took off from Dun- dee Island, bound for the Bay of Wales, at 3:03 am., Eastern standard time, today. The weather was clear, with a few light clouds. It was the second attempt in two days of Lincoln Ellsworth and his pilot, Herbert Hollock-Kenyon, to fly across the Antarctic continent. Yes- terday they were forced to give up the first flight and return to the| base ship, the Wyatt Earp, because | of an oil leak in their motor, after three hours and eleven minutes in the air. (Copyright, 1935 by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. and the New York Times Co.) TELLS OF FAILURE. Ellsworth Declares Discovery of Oil Leak Was Heartbreaking. BY DR. LINCOLN ELLSWORTH. DUNDEE ISLAND, Antarctic Ar- chipelago, November 20 (By Radio) (N.ANA)—We are back at the ‘Wyatt Earp, our base ship, after three hours and eleven minutes of fiying in our attempt to span the Antarctic Continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. In spite of ideal weather and a favorable take-off fleld, bad luck seems to dog us. We took off this morning at 7:46 Greenwich mean time (2:46 a.m. East- ern: standard time), which is about 4 a.m. by our ship time, and everything seemed to be in our favor. The engi- neers and the crew had been busy since before midnight hauling gas and preparing the machine, and we needed their help to move the machine from where the skis froze to the snow last | night. Once started, however, the machine taxied well and continued up the slope of Dundee Island, from where we reached a point from which we had a runway of more than a mile in each direction. There was a fresh north by westerly breeze blowing at about 15 miles an hour, and we headed into this and fortunately toward a slight down grade. The Polar Star did remarkably well, for, even though the temperature was 8 degrees beiow zero centigrade (about 18 degrees above zero Fhrenheit) and the coarse grains of the snow, drifting with the wind, made the surface gritty, she lifted the gross load of more than 7,000 pounds into the air in less than a half-mile run. It was a great moment and a thrill to feel that at last, after three years of effort, we were off with a full load of fuel, good weather and apparently every prospect of success. ‘We climbed immediately to 2,400 feet and headed for Snow Hill Island, our last year's base. A saffron-colored sun was skimming along a few degrees above the horizon, its rays tingeing th:dmounta.hu of Graham Land with gold. Tc the southeast a small atmos- pheric disturbance with its center to the west and beyond Graham Land was indicated by a long string of stratus clouds, leaving a dark-hued area. It was not far from blocking our way, but to the eastward and along our course the way seemed clear. ‘We passed to the west of Snow Hul Island, at an altitude of 4,500 feet, and were over the Larsen ice barrier at 8:30 a.m,, Greenwich time. As far as we could see to the southeast the Weddell Sea was open. The engine was running smoothly at 1,600 revolu- (See LORING, Page 3.) By the Assoclated Press. BARTLESVILLE, Okla, November 21.—The strong white wings and pur- ple-trimmed fuselage of the -Winnie Mae, the plane Wiley Post piloted on two round-the-world flights, were packed today into the cramped dark- _D-1-2-3-4 o..-.-.C-3 ness of a freight car for her last jour- ney. An old ship at the age of 5 years— ‘Wiley said “They ought to put her in a museum and maybe me with her” when she failed him on his last sub- stratosphere flight—the Winine Mae hang bergh's Spirit of St. Louis. plane—first (See FLIGHT, Page 5.) Winnie Mae, Museum-Bound, Makes Last Trip on Freight Car curator of seronautics for the Insti- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION c, CHEST WORKERS HOPEFUL ‘MOP-UP WILL BRING GOAL Drive Closed Last Night With $1,701,354 From 157,998 Subscribers. CAMPAIGNERS PRAISED FOR UNSELFISH EFFORT Clean-up Expected to Net $176,- 545 Deficit and $400,000 Asked by Commissioners. ‘With 90.59 per cent of their mini- | mum goal realized, the Community Chest campaigners today were en- gaged in a post-campaign clean-up which they hoped would send them over the top in their drive for $1,- 877,900 for Washington’s needy. The campaign closed officially last night with a rousing rally of workers in the large ball room of the Willard Hotel. The grand total of the 10- day canvass was $1,701,354.72, repre- senting gifts from 157,998 subscribers. In addition to making up the $176,- 545 deficit, the solicitors will strive through a “mopping-up” process to raise as much as possible of the $400,~ 000 additional asked by the District Commissioners for relief of former benefielaries of Federal direct relief. McClellan Is Hopeful. Campaign Chairman William Mc- Clellan expressed himself as grateful for the “splendid work” of the cam- paign organization in bringing the needs of the 65 Chest agencies to the attention of the citizenry and de- clared it was not the fault of the campaigners that the minimum sum was not attained within the 10-day period. He told the organization last would be wiped out when late returns are in. The Governmental Unit, under Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, former | surgeon general of the Army, led the four other major campaign units in | number of pledges, total subscribed and percentage of quota obtained. This unit secured $667,454 from 100,- 828 subscribers in the Government service. The sum represented 98.44 per cent of the unit’s quota. Special Assignment Second. Next in total subscribed and per- centage of quota was the Special As- signment Unit, led by Coleman Jen- nings. This unit obtained $512417 from 633 subscribers, or 91.96 per cent of its quota. The Group Solicitation Unit, of which John Poole was chairman, re- ported a total of $339,066.56 from 44,- 662 subscribers, or 88.1 per cent of its quota. The Metropolitan Unit, headed by Bernard Wyckoff, brought in $176,- | 253.76 from 10,632 subscribers, or 88.12 per cent of its quota. The Capital Unit, led by Col. West | A. Hamilton, and which canvassed in | colored sections of the city, raised $6,163.32 from 1243 subscribers, or 62.34 per cent of its quota. Gift of Property Disclosed. the Chest, announced the gift to the Community Chest and the Council of Social Agencies, by an anonymous friend of the properties at the south- and on the northwest corner of the same intersection. Earlier he had dis- closed the gift to the board of trustees of the Chest. The two properties are known as the Elizabeth Somers Home and the Elizabeth Somers Home Annex. They have been owned by the Young Wom- en's Christian Association, but the new benefactor of the Chest pur- chased them from the Y. W. C. A. and will transfer title to the Chest when repairs have been made to the build- ings. The Chest, Council of Social Agencies and several other welfare organizations are occupying the an- nex, which had been rented from the “¥.” The board of trustees formally ac- cepted the buildings at a m-eting yes- terday, upon recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Chest. At this meeting H. L. Rust, jr, was elected treasurer of the Chest, suc- ling William J. Flather, jr, Acquisition of the two buildings will enable the Chest to realize its dream of a “social service center.” A num- ber of Chest agencies will be moved to the new location. Pays Tribute to Workers. Dodge paid tribute to the untiring, unselfish services of the campaigners and pledged that the Chest itself would “take up the torch you hand to us and will keep it burning brightly.” He said the volunteer canvassers had inspiréd the Chest staff to carry on with a view to making 1936 the most effective year in Chest history. Chairman McClellan thanked the army of volunteers for its “conse- crated devotion” to a just cause. “I believe,” he declared, “the goal will be achieved when all returns are made and the cleaning-up process is done. We intend to finish this job. 5 e‘j”Ym:"lve t{mghz & good fight—you've e faith—and Was grateful for it.” iy Herbert Willett, jr,, director of the Chest, suggested that the deficit be considered not in terms of dollars, but in terms of human needs and that every effort be made to assure the city that these needs of the unfortunates 'lgt l;tmet 100 per cent. speakers included Joseph D. Kaufman, chairman of the :“e:“w Unltl; Wu}u’. head of the new! Civic Interest Unit; Chester Caywood, chairman of the Meetings Committee; James A. Coun- cilor, chairman of the Audit Unit, and Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, aide to Jennings in the Special Unit. Assignment night he was confident the deficit | Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of | west corner of Eleventh and M streets | PLANS PROPOSED' | | |Commissioners” Special| | Committee Makes Report to Meet $7,000,000 Deficit. | BACKGROUND— Hard pressed to make income | meet expenditures, District of Co- lumbia officials have been forced to neglect permanent municipal im- provements and meet only mainte- nance and operation demands; have communicated to members of Congress their apprehension over tazation problems of immediate fu- ture. Committee headed by Corpora- tion Counsel Prettyman designated to study District finances during congressional recess; group consid- ers application of new tazes, rais- ing rates of old: prepares to make recommendations to next session of Congress. BY DON S. WARREN. Prospects of having to obtain some $7.000.000 additional in annual rev- enue if the District is to make out- lays for permanent improvements and keep pace with rising maintenance costs, were faced today by municipal officials as they struggle to project balanced budgets for coming years. A considerable boost in the Federal payment and a solid increase in tax- ation on District residents will be needed if this objective is to be reached, according to the picture pre- sented by figures gathered by the Commissioners’ Special Tax Com- | mittee. Four Proposals Made. Four new tax proposals specifically are being considered by the commit- | tee at the direction of the Commis- | sioners, They are: Increased levies for utilities, an in- heritance tax, an automobile weight tax to take the place of the present personal property tax on motor ve- hicles and an increase in the gaso- line tax. These are calculated to pro- duce approximately $4,350,000 addi- tional revenue. A boost of $3,000,000 in the Federal payment would have to be added to the results of such an upward revision of District taxes to pro- duce the estimated needed additional revenues calculation’ shows. Municipal Center Raises Outlay. The rise in capital outlay during the period from 1929 to 1931, as shown by the committee’s chart, was due largely to the acquisition of the four-square site for the proposed municipal center. Approximately $7,- 000,000 was spent for this property, but thus far no funds have been pro- vided for erection of any buildings. The last session of Congress author- ized the Commissioners to borrow P. W. A. funds to erect a courts build- ing in Judiciary Square. Efforts to get the money, however, have been futile. The Tax Committee, headed by Cor- poration Counsel E. Barrett Pretty- man, has reached no conclusion as yet regarding new taxes or other revision of the present system, it was declared. ‘The committee will come to grips with the problem by next Tuesday, when it hopes to complete its findings. A report is expected to be iaid before the Commissioners next Wednesday. 15-Year Trend Shown. Indications of the size of the Dis- trict’s financial problem were illus- trated in pages of figures and charts prepared by the committee to reveal trends in maintenance and improve- ment costs during the past 15 years, and the relation between these and present revenues, including the Fed- eral payments, which has been dwind- ling in recent years in relation to the total District expenses. Prettyman and other members of the Tax Committee released this sta- tistical and chart data late yesterday. That maintenance costs have been mounting at & steady gait. ¢ Foening Star THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1935—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. IM NOT A CANDIDATE FoR ANYTHING! BEGONE! The only evening paper in Washington witfi lt:)he Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. L L Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,084 Bome Returns Not Yet Received. (#) Means Associated P BRI (3 2rimal Endusance Tonbid By “Shot” of New Extract Tests on Dogs Bare Power of Adrenal Cortical Drug Produced From Cattle at Great Cost. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UNIVERSITY, Va, November 21.— Can man'’s physical endurance be dou- bled or tripled by a “shot in the arm”? The running endurance of dogs, tested in a treadmill at the medical | school here, is increased more than 100 per cent by injections of ex- tremely minute amounts of an extract from the cortex of the adrenal glands of cattle. The animals, which ordinarily would - collapse from complete ex- haustion after 5 or 6 hours in the treadmill, were able to continue run- ning all night and at the end of the PRESIDENT OPENS U. 3. SAFETY DRIVE Threefold Effort to Curb Toll Launched by Government. At the suggestion of President | Roosevejt the Government prepared | today a threefold effort to reduce | the number of accidents, now costing | 100,000 lives annually. | Declaring accidents on land, sea and in the air “constitute one of our gravest national problems,” the Presi- dent authorized Secretary of Com- merce Roper to call a conference early next month to devise preventive measures. After appointing Senator Moore of New Jersey as general chairman of the council, Roper said three steps could be taken: 1. The Commerce Department, co- operating with State and local agen- cies, to gather and publicize sta- tistics. 2. To determine principal causes of accidents. 3. To find remedies and put them into effect. Lawyers, business men, political fig- ures, traffic experts and others will be invited. Other members of the council named yesterday by Mr. Roosevelt include Henry R. Meimann, Niles, Mich, chairman of Committee on Causes and Remedies; Senator Capper of Kansas, chairman of Committee on Rural and Home Accidents; Thomas J. Watson, New York, president of the International Business Machine Co., chairman of Committee on Urban Street Safety; W. Averill Harriman, New York, chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co., chairman of Committee on Co-operation With Common Carriers; John L. Lovett, Detroit, general manager of the Michigan Manufacturers’ Association, ordeal were no more exhausted than when they started. They ran 15 to 20 miles farther than their absolute | limit before the injection. Startling as are the implications, the effects of the drug on the en- durance of men have not been tested, and, of course, there are many cther factors to be considered in pushing | up the limits of human exertion. It was announced yesterday that the university Medical School has been given a $15,000 grant from the Rocke- feller Foundation for continuation of experimental work on the adrenal| cortical extract, especially with a view | (See EXTRACT, Page 5. MARYLAND RELIEF TANGLE REPORTED Veteran Workers Held Fur- loughed and W.P.A. Clients Given Their Jobs. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 21.—A dis- closure that veteran Federal employes | have been furloughed and Works Pregress Administration clients given their jobs projected itself into Mary- | land's relief picture today. ‘The development, first reported from | the Coast Guard depot at Curtis Bay, | assumed real significance to observers | here in the wake of reports of “whole- | sale” furloughs at the Army ordnance depot at Camp Holabird, on the out- skirts of Baltimore. At Curtis Bay the Coast Guard depot began furloughing experienced boat builders at almost the same time | a “boat-building” project was launched ! there under the W. P. A. Entire Department Affected. With the exception of four men, engaged on a War Department project for which Congress earmarked funds, the entire “utilities” department at Camp Holabird was furloughed last September. Since then the depart- ment's work has been taken over by a larger force of relief workers, re- ports stated. David S. Jenkins, chairman of the Anne Arundel County Welfare Board, questioned Capt. H. G. Fisher, Coast Guard commandant at Curtis Bay, on the situation yesterday. Capt. Fisher asserted it was “entirely a co- incidence.” The officer added that the depot had found the National Re-employ- ment Service unable to furnish boat- builders from relief rolls. Authority then had to be obtained, he said, to hire non-relief workers, and a number of the fumoughed men were (See CAMPAIGN, Page 5.) Second Division Joins Campaign To Promote Enrolls More Than 4,000 Members in (See MARYLAND, Page 5.) Traffic Safety Drive—Fifth Battalion of Marine " Reserves Also Co-operates. Traffic Deaths to Novgmber 21—98; Same Period, 1934—114 The list of patriotic and service organizations enlisted in The Evening | sWeet as the present cane or beet Star’s campaign against reckless driving was increased today as the Second | sugar, is being produced by Dr. Leroy Division Association of the American Expeditionary Forces threw its peace- | S. Weatherby, professor of chemistry time forces numbering more than 4,000 throughout the United States into [ at the University of Southern Cali~ action and indorsed the drive against traffic death and destruction. TWO CENTS. BRITISH PRESSURE HALTS JAPANESE POLIGY IN CHINA AS TOKID SEETHES Possibility of Upheaval in Government Seen Follow- ing Clash Between Civil Leaders and War Lords. LONDON BEHIND SHIFT, BACKING GEN. CHIANG Chinese Sources Express Fear De- lay in Making Five Provinces Autonomous Is Temporary De- spite Compromise Plan of Am- / bassador Hirota. BACKGROUND— Enforcing its politics with mili- tarism, Japan in 1932 assumed con- trol of Manchuria, paid little atten= tion to world protests and feeble Chinese resistance, set up puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1933 Jehol Province was em- braced in like manner. Then, while war sparks in Europe and Africa occupied international attention, Japanese leaders completed plans for similar domination of five addi= tional provinces, announced them on Monday, fell silent as complica- tions developed during succeeding hours. By the Assoclated Press. The possibility of an upheaval in the Japanese government over the North China situation was foreseen by Japanese political experts today due to the abrupt halt in plans for making North China autonomous under the protection of the Japanese army. The experts in Tokio described the near-crisis as a conflict between Japan's civil leaders and her military leaders on the Asiatic continent. Well-informed sources in London said that the British government was largely responsible for the halt in the North China independence move through bringing political pressure o bear in Tokio and by supporting Gene eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, the Chi« nese leader, at Nanking. Chinese sources in Shanghal exe pressed the fear that the delay in making North China autonomous was only temporary. Chinese bankers, in the Peipings Tientsin area, went ahead with the silver nationalization program, ta which the Japanese had objected ag interfering with trade. They inaugy/ urated a branch of the Currency Ree serve Board to protect silver reserves. BRITISH FORCE REVERSAL. Strong Policy Compels Tokio to Call Halt on Army. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) LONDON, November 2i.—The haly in plans for the establishment of an autonomous North China was said by an authoritative source today to have been due to pressure brought by Greas Britain. It was indicated that the British used their influence to stiffen the stand of Generalissimo Chiang Kais« Shek, Chinese national leader, in op= position to North China's split from the Nanking government. At the same time, it was said, the British played a strong diplomaiia hand in Tokio to check the handling of the situation by Maj. Gen. Kenji Doihara, commander of the Japaness Army on the Continent. In well-informed quarters it was stated that the British had assured the Chinese they had no desire ta interfere with normal, pacific Jap= anese economic penetration of the ter= ritory involved. The foreign office today announced Great Britain and the United States have exchanged views regarding the situation in North China. They are keeping in close touch with the incidents there, the ane nouncement added, pending clarificas tion of the situation, which the British foreign office described as “‘more hope- fui” Reports from Tokio that Japan is not bringing military pressure to bcar in North China gave satisfaction in authoritative quarters here. TOKIO IN TURMOIL. Upheaval in Government Feared With Shift of Policy. (Copyright, 1935 by the Associated Press.) TOKIO, November 21.—Japanese political experts close to the governe ment asserted today that the North China situation has developed inta an explosive issue within the Tokio government. An official source said the chief (See CHINA, Page 3.) DAHLIA BULB SUGAR SWEETER THAN CANE California Experiments May Yield Commercial Product and Big Saving. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 21.— Sugar from dahlia bulbs, twice ag fornia, and his research students. At the same time coming back from “The Halls of Montezuma,” the | Because the “sugar” of the dahlia Fifth Battalion, Fleet Marine Corpsg Reserve, “landed, had the situation well in hand” and joined The Star's safety drive. Not to be outdone, the Army and organization with the campaign. These organizations are new in full step with the American Legion and the Veterans who are taking s the Nation . In the Legion group the Laurel Maryland Post No. 60 is tak- ing a most important part. Maryland Legion Aids. Under the leadership of Vinton D. Cockey, pasi commander. of Laurel Maryland Post and now chairman of Legion Americanism the American Committee, safe driving pledge cards (8ee SAQERY, Page A-12) L bulb sucry more easily oxidizable than , Miss Florence M. Shelly, the professor’sgehief assistant, said experi= ments noW are under way to detere mine the value of the product in diabetic diets. If the experiments lead to produc- tion on a commercial scale, only half the amount of the new sugar, levu- lose, will be needed to sweeten a cup of coffee as is now required, Dr. ‘Weatherby lffl. i