Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow; killing frost tonight, with lowest tempera- ture about 26 degrees; moderate winds. Temperatures—Highest, 55, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 35, at 7 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full report on page A- Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 21, 22, 23 13 Entered as sec No. 33,442. FEDERAL FINANCIAL PRESSURE IS SEEN T0BAN U.S. GOODS 10 BELLIGERENTS Observers Believe Reported 0il Cargo Cancellations May Be Due to Refusal of Agencies to Extend Notes. ITALY VIEWS AMERICAN MOVE WITH SUSPICION Action Brings Her Closer to Ranks| of “Sanctionist” Countries Sub- ject to Reprisals, Say Fascists. First Real Fighting Is Report- ed Near Makale. BACKGROUND— Since October 2, 300,000 Italian soldiers have been advancing slowly into mountainous interior of Ethiopia toward railroad which runs to Addis Ababa, capital city. In 1896 Italy was routed by na- tive army. Last February Musso- lini, seeking to avenge this defeat, dispatched first of long stream of troops and military equipment to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, furthered plans for invasion. The European fighters are yet miles from their objective. The war of conquest has shaken Europe. The League of Nations has applied economic sanctions. against Italy. The United States, aloof from Geneva, has adopted a policy of neutrality which includes embargo on shipments of war ma- teriels to Italy or Ethiopia. If American petroleum is denied Italy, as Secretary Ickes asks, Il Duce’s seizure of Haile Selassie’s empire will be made vastly more difficult. BULLETIN. By the Associated Press. The Shipping Board has re- minded steamship owners and op- erators who owe it money that the shipment of raw materials to Italy and Ethiopia is contrary to the Government’s policy, it was re- ported today. By the Associated Press. Indications developed today that the administration either had begun or | was contemplating application ond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Freezing Weather Forecast Tonight; Motorists Warned Low of 26 Degrees Pre- dicted—Tomorrow to Be Fair. ‘Washington will get its first taste | of Winter tonight, when the tempera- ture is expected to drop to 26 degrees, a new low for the season. Ideal foot ball teather will prevail tomorrow, however, with fair skies and tempera- tures around 30 t. 40 degrees. ‘The mercury touched a low of 35 | degrees early today, but, aided by a | bright sun, soon started to climb toward the 50-degree mark. | The first killing frost of the season { will usher in the colder weather. Motorists were advised to take pre- cautions, such as changing to Winter grade lubricants, putting in anti- | freeze and checking the generator, | battery, starter, carburetor, spark plugs | and accessories. CHICAGO, November 22 (#)—Re- ports of subzero teamperatures and snow came today from States along | the northern borders of the Nation. In North Dakota the mercury dipped |to 14 below at Grand Forks. A low of 12 below was registered at Brook- ings, S. Dak. JAPANESE TRONPS | on Autonomy Policy in China. | BACKGROUND— War lords of Japan have domi- nated policies of the Oriental em- pire more than three years. Their first military undertaking was seizure in 1932 of Manchuria, now Manchukuo, in the face of world protest. China’s resistance was feeble. A year later Jehol province fell before Japan’s armies. Now the imperialistic militarists plan domination of five additional Chinese provinces, but protests from the empire’s diplomatic lead- ers threaten not only this program but the future of the war lords as government leaders. By the Associated Press. Chinese sources at Peiping reported today that Japanese troops were con- centrating along the Great Wall, with 1,000 already at Kopeikow, 70 miles arriving momentarily. This development came during a of | hitch in the plan attributed to Japa- | Th WASHINGTON, D. C, MASS NEAR WALL' Move Follows Tokio Debate | HOLDING COMPANY CRIVINAL ACTION BY 1. 5. 15 BANNED Cummings Warns Force Not to Threaten to Bring Proceedings. 'S. E. C. FORESWEARS HARASSMENT POLICY Offers to Accept Stipulation to Insure Constitutional Rights if Companies Insist. | BACKGROUND— Among the New Deal’s most des- perate battles has been the drive to control utility holding com- panies. After months of bickering Congress agreed to permit regula- tion of these groups by the Securi=- ties Erxchange Commission. The law demands registration of all holding companies by December 1. Utilities contend registration will cost them their constitutional rights. United Gas Improvement Co. has gone to court in Philadel- phia to prove the United States cannot force it to register. Hun- dreds of lesser units are following U. G. Is lead. By the Associated Press. Attorney General Cummings advised all United States district attorneys to- day “to refrain from bringing or threatening to bring any criminal pro- ceedings” under the holding company act. This action closely followed a state- ment by the Securities Commission that, for the present at least, it would under the act. In a letter to district attorneys. | Cummings said: “The department suggests that you refrain from bringing or threatening to bring any criminal proceedings under the act. If any injunction pro- ceedings is instituted against you, you will thus be in a position to disclaim any present threat of any criminal proceedings under such act. Such dis- claimer should be sufficient to dispose of any restraining order which may be sought agajnst you * * *.” Sees Failure to Register. The Attorney General ] e | | Institute that it had retained counsel to contest constitutionality of the act. “Consequently, it is probable that a drastic financial pressure to prevent ' nese military leaders for the auton- | bumber of companies will fail to reg- American trade with Italy and Ethio- omy of the five provinces of North |ister under the act. pia. Appraised of unconfirmed reports that some oil tankers and other ves- sels had mysteriously canceled cargo voyages to the Italo-Ethiopian war zone, both from Eastern and Gulf ports, officials expressed belief that might be due to the refusal of Fed- eral agencies to extend notes they hold . from shipping companies. The original source of this hint did not elaborate or explain what Federal agency might be involved. The Ship- ping Board, however, holds obligations against a number of American vessels. As this situation developed, officials let it be known they expected figures on oil exports in October to show at least a partial disregard of the admin- istration’s repeated admonitions against trade with belligerents. Meanwhile the United States found | itself in the line of fire from Italian reprisals against ‘“sanctions” coun- tries. As the “first real fighting on any scale since the war began” was re- ported from the Ethiopian -capital, Addis Ababa, Fascists in Rome ex- pressed open suspicion on the call issued on the American oil industry by the Washington Government to| halt shipments to Italy and Ethiopia. Commentators gave added signifi- | cance to the move by Secretary Ickes of the Interior Department, so far as | the effectiveness of international sanctions against Italy were con- cerned, in light of the cutting off of oil shipments to Italy by Soviet Russia. Italy's fleet needs oil, and Italy has little or no oil of its own. The action of the American Gov- | ernment, said Rome, brings America closer to the ranks of “sanctionist” countries subject to ,the reprisals which have been threatened to those nations which are trying to halt the Ethiopian conflict by economic and financial pressure on the land of the Fascist dictatorship. 300 Italians Slain. The battle reported from Addis Ababa occurred November 12 North of Makale, inside the Italian front line, a government communique said. Three hundred Italian soldiers and three Italian officers were slain by Ethiopians. One colonel was listed among the Italians killed; the battle occurred in the Womberta region. That a major engagement is yet to occur, however, was indicated in ad- vices to the Rome government, which said northern Ethiopian bands, routed by Fascist troops, were believed to be (See WAR, Page 3.) SAYER ISLE YIELDS NO TRACE OF FLYER Rescuers Off Siam to Continue Search for' Kingsford-Smith, However. By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, November 22.—Renewed hopes of find- ing Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith alive were dimmed tonight when a rescue airplane reported it had failed to find him on Sayer Island in the Bay of Bengal off Siam. The airplane went to Alor Star, British Malaya, for the night and will resume its search along the east mflt peninsula tomorrow, | China. Chinese national government offi- | cials were reported as nervous over | | indications that negotiations between | North China leaders and Japanese army officers have been resumed. Military and civil leaders in the Japanese cabinet debated their differ- ing points of view at a session which | observers said probably would deter- mine the Sino-Japanese policy. | There were no immediate indica- ;tiun.s as to exactly what attitude the | Japanese government would adopt, al- | though one foreign office spokesman | said the situation was “a matter of | Chinese politics.” TROOPS MASS AT WALL. ne Matsui and Three Aides to Meet Governor, PEIPING, November 22 (#).—The massing of more than 1,000 Japanese troops, including cavalry and infantr: at Kupeikow. 70 miles north of Peiping, was reported tonight by Chinese. Various sources said other details of Japanese forces were continuing to (See CHINA, Page 6.) SOUTHERN RICE MILLERS RENEW ATTACK ON A. A. A. Gen. Iwa | Petition Supreme Court for In- junction Against Process- ing Taxes. B the Associated Press. Again assailing constitutionality of ‘lhe A. A A amendments, eight Southern rice millers renewed in the | Supreme Court today their petition ior an injunction against processing iaxes. Yesterday Solicitor General Reed asked the court to dismiss the millers’ petition because the old policy on taxes was “to pay first and litigate later.” Answering this, the millers today said denial of their petition would mean they “should never be allowed to present to any court the grace constitutional questions involved in these suits.” “Bosses” A . Evening Star. Star Safety Council from one of the campaign against recklessness on the streets and highways of the District of Columbia and throughout the Nation. & As a result pledge cards and stick- ers are being mailed out to each mem- ber of Congress. The number of 531, e total delegation at the Capitol, not represent all, as secretaries ¥ | “It is, of course, not the purpcse | of the Government to harass the util- ity industry with a needless multi- plicity of suits. Equally, however, there is no public interest to be | served by vexing the Government with |a multiplicity of injunction suits which might embarrass and harass the Government in defending the | constitutionality of the act and which might result in the presentation of the issue of constitutionality on the basis of an inadequate record or a record not fairly typical of the situations | covered by the act.” The letter pointed out the law gives to the Securities Commission the duty of investigating violations. Loss of Rights Denied. The commission’s statement today said companies which register will lose no constitutional rights. Evidence obtained by the S. E. C.. ;to him for appropriate action. { “In enforcing the act it is proposed promptly to institute civil proceedings | against one or more large and impor- tant companies who may fail to reg- ister to enforce compliance with its provisions and to seek decisions from the Supreme Court sustaining the va- lidity of the act. “In the meanwhile, it is not pro- posed to institute criminal proceed- ings, and, if later it should become necessary to institute criminal pro- ceedings against any company, it is not the intention of this department to seek to exact penalties for earlier offenses which might unduly penalize the investors in the offending com- pany.” Several utilities companies have re- fused to register on the ground such a step would weaken their position in challenging the act’s constitutionality. The commission’s new rule states that if any court should hold the commis- sion had no power to preserve the companies’ legal rights, the registra- tion statement would become null and void. In addition to this, the com- mission issued a five-point statement of policy, saying it will proceed promptly with administration and en- forcement, but in an ‘“orderly and economical manner.” Members of Congress Will Join In Traffic Safety Campaign \Driving Pledges Requested by Office Forces on Hill for Own Use. Iso to Sign. Traffic Deaths to November 22—98; Same Period, 1934—114 Congress may not be in session, but at least its members and secretaries are, in connection with the safe-driving campaign being conducted by The Request for pledge cards and windshield stickers came recently to The secretaries on the “Hill,” stating that both Senators and Representatives would be only too glad to join up in the and members of their families are in- aswell. sent to the sec- make no request§ to the Justice De-| partment for criminal prosecution of | holding companies refusing to register | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, N OVEMBER 22, | KNow' WHaT M INTENTIONS ARE,BYD 1 CANT TELL You *g-,) 1935 —SIXTY ¢ Foening Star Yesterday’s Circulation, 133,167 Some Returns Not Yet Received. PAGES. |ASCAMPAIGN FALS *kk ok WHITE HOUSE GIFT 10 CHEST DOUBLED Roosevelt Expresses “Real Concern” Over Failure to Attain Goal. PESDENT 0 ADD O NEN TO Y Shapes Budget to Boost Personnel Regardless of London Parley. ~ ook et = BEAU BILL BORAH! ~ | IVSTERDUS M STRS LORNG QU Rumored Taken to Home, In Taxicab Before Girl Disappeared. Save Pig Bristles To Conserve Gold, Germans Are Told By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, November 22.—The German people were called upon today to collect pig bristles and turn them over to brush factories in order to con- serve raw materials. It every bristle is saved and utilized, Germany will not have | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. | WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 22.—President Roosevelt announced here today he will increase the per- sonnel of the Navy by 4,400 men, ir- respective of what the outcome of '.hl-:l London Naval Conference. | Mr. Roosevelt has intimated several times recently that he had this in mind, but this is the first time he has made a definite statement. Mr. Roosevelt said provision is be- ing made to boost the Navy personnel |in the 1936-37 budget. on which he is working, up to the 100,000 author- | ized in the Vinson Navy bill. By do- ing this, the President said, the Navy will be assured of always having an north of Peiping, and reinforcements | announcement of the Edisor Electric | gverage strength of 96,000. The pres- | ent average is 92,000, ’ Cost Is $4,000,000 Annually. ‘The cost of bringing the Navy per- (sonnel up to the full authorized |strength, Mr. Roosevelt estimated, would be about $4.000,000 annually. In revealing this much about the Navy budget today the President stated that no provision is being made now for new battleships to replace obsolete vessels. This part of the Navy program, he intimated, will await ac- tion by the London Naval Conference. | Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the | | modern destroyers require more men | ! than the destroyers of several years | ago because of their size. The new | ships require 200 men, the old ves- sels 110. | Budget Nearing Completion. | Mr. Roosevelt said se expects to have the Navy budget estimates completed before the end of next week. Daniel | Bell, acting director of the budget. and | Representative Buchanan of Texas, | | chairman of the House Committee on | | Appropriations, will visit him next | Monday to assist him in completing y.| Cummings said, will be transmitted | this task, as well as to decide other | | budget problems. | With Navy estimates out of the way, | the President will direct his attention | to the budget for the District of Colum- | | bia. He would give no intimation to- | ‘day what would be the fate of the estimates submitted by the District | Commissioners. He said he had not yet even glanced at these figures. There will be ene more departmental | budget to work on after he has com- pleted the District’s, but he could not| recall offhand which department. President Takes Swim, The President held his press confer- ence just before noon today, sitting in the old automobile he operates himself on his visits to Warm Springs. The day was mild and sunny. He was| hatless and wore no vest. Mr. Roosevelt was on his way to the pool for an hour’s swim. He said he| hopes to enjoy an hour of this sport each day during his stay. He inti- mated that after luncheon he would motor to his 1,000-acre farm in the hills 6 miles from here. Village Band Turns Qut. ‘The President arrived here at 4 pm. yestexday. Several hundred natives of Warm Springs village and nearby towns, as well as officials and patients from the Warm Springs Foundation, were at the station. The village band was there, too. President Roosevelt was especially enthusiastic over the quick mail service he is receiving. Turning to this correspondent, he said that air- mail made it possible for him to receive yesterday's edition of The Evening Star at about 9 o'clock last night. He added that it was “great” to get his Star the same day of publi- cation this far away from Washing- ton. Mr. Roosevelt denied reports in newspapers that Postmaster General Farley would join him here for a con- ference. BONUS MARCH URGED McAdoo Tells Veterans to Use Military Taotics in Fight. LOS ANGELES, November 22 (#).— W. G. McAdoo, Democrat, of Cali- fornia urged 1,500 World War veterans, last night to mobilize and march to ‘Washington at the opening of Con- gress. “You are soldiers,” he said. “Use military tactics in vour fight for ad- justed compensation. Go to Wash- ington in your hundreds and thou- with Congress and make with you until a satis- passed.” to import any and this will help Dr. Hjalmar Schacht to retain his supplies of gold and foreign exchange, it is said. At the same time school chil- dren are urged to collect beech nuts, just as they did during the war, because of the oil they con- tain. Also today a new ruling announces that hereafter houses must be painted with paint hav- ing no oil content. LAVA N 20 MILES OF HAWAVIAN CITY !13-Mile-Long Stream From | Volcano Nears Crucial Turning Point. . BACKGROUND— Red hot lava bubbles and steams always in the wide crater of Mauna Loa, 3 miles in diameter. The volcano, one of four on the Island of Hawaii, largest and east- ernmost of the Hawaiian group, is 13,760 feet high. Inside the rim of the crater the rock descends sheer for more than 500 feet, to the level of the molten rock, which overflows every few years. Nearby is the volcano Kilavea, which erupts independently of Mauna Loa. Last time Mauna Loa did any damage was in 1881. By the Associated Press. HILO, Hawaii, November 22.—The | Mauna Loa volcano sent a vast flow of lava 13 miles long down its slopes early | today, with the possibility it might be diverted toward this city of 20,000. | Hilo is 40 miles distant. The river of fire neared a critical | point of the Mauna Loa-Maunakea | saddle on the great mountain, from which it might turn toward Hilo or | away. With undiminished activity, new fountains replaced old ones in the crater, and the great mass slithered down during the night toward Maunakea, snow-covered peak of Hawaii Island. Hilo lies 20 miles due east of the point where the lava apparently will strike the base of Maunakea. It then | must turn to right or left. | ‘The volcano was stirred from two years’ slumber last night by an earth- quake which also sent & small but damaging tidal wave pounding against the shores of Hawaii Island The eruption lighted the country- side with a blaze of red light which was clearly visible in Honolulu, 200 | miles away. Ralph Buzzard, radio operator, re- ported from Pohakaulua C. C. C. camp directly across from the lava flow, that four flows could be clearly distin- guished, each about a mile wide. Below Timber Line. The most rapid stream he said was | advancing toward the northern tip of | Hawaii Island. “It is considerably below us,” he re- ported, “and below the timber line.” Two others were headed toward the Humuula sheep station on the saddle (See VOLCANO, Page 6. Readers’ Guide Pages. -8 A-3 C-5 C-5 ---A-12 -21-22-23 -A-13 Amusements ___ Changing World _ Comics ————-—- - Cross-word Puzzle Editorials Finance -- Lost and Found Radio - Serial Story Short Story Society Sports - Washington Wayside D-4 B-2 3 -2-3 -A-10 o it Db el Bt i il Women’s Features --'—4, C-8 lon that fatal mm‘t November 4| (See MRS, LORING, Page J.). EL L BACKGROUND— | For 13 days, baffled detectives | d police have combed a lonely wooded ridge in Prince Georges | has been received from White House Peanut Man.” QUOTA IS SUBSCRIBED BY FEDERAL WORKERS Dr. McClellan Says Job Not Fin- ished Until Every Source of Funds Has Been Tapped. Expressing his “real concern” over failure of the Community Chest to attain its goal of $1,877,900, President Roosevelt voluntarily has doubled his original contribution ‘o the campaign | fund. | In annourcing the extra gift today, | Chest leaders made public this letter | from the President to William J.| Flather, jr, treasurer of the Commu- nity Chest: “I have noticed, with real concern, | that the Community Cnest fund for | ‘Washington is still far behind its goal. I am, therefore, glad to send the in- closed check as an added contribution from Mrs. Roosevelt and me. (#) Means Associated Press. “Very sincerely, “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.” In accordance with Chest policy, the amount of the presidential gift was withheld. At the same time it was disclosed that a contribution of several dollars, representing one day's receipts from his peanut and popcorn cart at East Executive and Pennsylvania avenues, “Steve, the The gift | | was signed in just that way. U. S. Workers Over Top. President Roosevelt’s huge army of Federal workers also has done more than its share in raising the annual “mercy” fund required by the 65 | agencies of the Community Chest County and grilled witnesses in a vain search for clues which would solve the murder of Corinna Loring. The question of who lured the 26-year-old girl from her house to violent death 48 hours before her wedding day has replaced the Mary Baker slaying as Washing- Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland. chairman of the Governmental Unit. reported today sufficient post-c: paign returns to send his unit “over the top™ by a fraction of a percentage point. This is the first of the five major campaign units to attain its quota. ton’s leading mystery. Richard Tear, her fiance, denies knowledge of motive jor killing the girl, as does Mrs. George Loring, her mother. Corinna disappeared No- vember 4, her body was found No: vember 97 e Police investigating the murder of Corinna Loring today were tracking jdown a rumor that a Washington { man to the girl's home at 3110 Beech street, Mount Rainier, Md., about the time Miss Loring disappeared on the night of November 4. Lieut. Joseph Itzel of the Baltimore homicide squad, spent several hours | this afternoon discussing the case | with Rev. Robert Nevitt, pastor of the | Mount Rainier Methodist Episcopal | Church. Lieut. Itzel said no new ieads | were developed. Rev. Nevitt is pastor of the church ta which the girl's mother went shortly before Corinna disappeared. her daughter at home alone at 8| o'clock. Vogelsang Joins Probe. Lieut. Itzel obtained the help late | | today of a fcllow Baltimore detective, | Sergt. Leo T. Vogelsang. The latter officer was brought into the case to aid Itzel in checking a 1.000-page | transcript of statements taken thus | far in the case. | Authorities at Upper Marlboro have information from Detective Sergt. Arthur Fihelly of Washington that a taxicab driver brought an unidentified man to the Loring home at about the time the girl disappeared. Police were checking this rumor late today after the interview with Rev. Nevitt and a neighbor of the Loring family. Hubert Hoover, an electrical ap- | pliance salesman, in whose office | Corinna rented space in her work as A public stenographer, returned to Upper Marlboro late today for a sec- ond conference with Lieut. Itzel. Hoover said he merely wished to learn if any new information had been de- veloped. Friend Ts Quizzed. For more than two hours last night investigators talked to Earl Bass, 24, of Mount Rainier, a friend of Miss Loring, who had known her for many years. It was said that the girl's diary mentioned Bass, who explained he had not seen much of Miss Loring for at least three years. Lieut. Itzel said Bass was unable to give him any new information and that he talked to the young man as a matter of routine. Every acquaini- ance of the murdered girl is being interviewed, even those who knew her oniy slightly. Investigators said today they prob- ably would again question Mrs. Loring. No one has been found to date who saw Miss Loring after she vanished taxicab driver brought an unidentified | Gen. Ireland reported a grand total to date of $679.646.15. representing gifts from 105 subscribers. This sum is 100.24¢ per cent of the unit's quota. “As long as a single potential con- tributor remains unsolicited, the work {of the campaign is not done.” it was declared by Campaign Chairman Wil- | | liam McClellan. Marines Also Over. The Marines yesterday reported a contribution of $2,559.40, or 107 per cent of their assigned quota in the Chest drive. Lieut. Col. Jeter R. Horton. division chairman of the unit comprising United States Marine Corps Head- quarters and the Marine Barracks, declared: | “The contribution from the Marine Barracks this year is 30 per cent in- crease over the record made last year, due to the combined efforts of the | commanding officer, Lieut. Col. Thomas The mother, Mrs. Frances Loring, left | S. Clarke, and Capt. Reginald H. Ridgely, jr.” Col. Horton attributed the success of the campaign at Marine Corps Headquarters to these active workers: Miss Lillimay E. Powers, division secretary; Capt. C. H. Hartsel, Sergt. William O. Rice, Charles L. Snell, Mrs. Katherine M. Kinnear, Troy A. Nubson, Quartermaster Clerk Andrew s Ramsey, Miss Irene Scott, Miss Mar- garet Shaughnessy, Thomas P. Blank- | enship, Mrs. Carrie E. Thompson, E.| W. Dunsmoor, William E. Springer, | Miss Josephine McNulty, Mrs. Cath- | erine B. Seal and Mrs. Alma B. Swope Audit Next Month. Final audit of the Community Chest campaign will not be completed until | about December 6. This was an- nounced yesterday by Herbert L. Wil- lett, jr., director of the Chest. | In the meantime, Willett explained, | any pledges turned in by any of the Chest workers will be added to their | FLYER IS LOCATED AFTER 2-DAY HUNT| Kurtz Is Safe on Ranch, Where He Landed in Howling Winds. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo., November 22.— Frank Kurtz, 21-year-old cross-coun= try flyer, object of a two-day searck, was safe today, having landed in the face of howling winds on a ranch | soon after his Tuesday take-off from Cheyenne for the West. | As searching parties set out anew by plane, automobile and saddle horse, a farm woman telephoned that the | missing fiyer was at the ranch of | Hugh McPhee. | In Probe of Mrs. Franges Lering had “lot of suspicions” as to the slayer of her daughter Corinna, but they have all been blasted, and now she’s in just as deep a quandary as the investigators on the case. The gray-haired mother broke her silence toward the press today and re- vealed in an interview that she had aided police in the search for the slayer, telling them of - her suspicions. But, she said, “they have been cleared up.” Those suspicions, however, she did not reveal for publication. Mrs. Loring was dressing to go out when a reporter called at her little white bungalow in Mount Rainier, Md. She was in a hurry, but finally agreed ITl—other’s Suspicions Blasted Loring Slaying when she last saw her daughter alive. She broke into tears. “Must I go all over that again?” she said. “No, I can’t do it.” She braced herself, however, and skipped hastily over some of the de- tails, but not without giving away at times to her emotions and the strain she has been under for more than two weeks since her daughter's garroted body was found on Saddleback Hill. Mrs. Loring’s husband, a quiet, soft- spoken man of about 50, sat nearby reading a morning newspaper with a headline emblazoned across its front page: “IDidn’t Kill Corinna—Mother.” Her attention was called to it. “Did you say that, Mrs. Loring?” she was asked. to answer a few questions. But Mrs. Loring probably too often had told the story of what haj Mrs, Loring turned her head away. “Why do I have to be picked on all | transit company. TWO CENTS. CAPITAL TRANSIT WARNED SERVICE MUSTBE IMPROVED Public Utilities Commission Says Gaps in Headway Will Not Be Tolerated. CHAIRMAN ELGEN PLANS HEARING IN DECEMBER People’s Counsel Roberts to Cail on Citizens to Send in Complaints. BACKGROUND— Public Utilities Commission last Spring ordered major rerouting of Capital Transit lines and told the company it had an “opportunity” to improve its service and good will. Out of this grew elimina= tion of many miles of cartracks and substitution of busses. Since then the commission has received a flood of complaints to eflect cars and busses are overcrowded, late, slow. The rerouting climazed more than a year of study after cons dation in December, 1933, of Washington Railway & Electrie and Capital Traction into Capital Transit as @ move to better Dise trict transportation service. Blunt warning that the Capital Transit Co. must greatly improve the management of its street car and bus systems has been served on company officers by the Public Utilities Com- mission, it was made known today with the disclosure that commission investigations have shown that in some instances cars and busses schede uled at certain hours were not opere ated at all i Chairman Riley E. Elgen and other commission officials are convinced that better management is the answer to the mass of protests over improper, spacing of cars and busses, overloade ing and other faults. The commission had announced earlier it would call a public hearing soon to consider complaints and re- ports of investigations of charges of lack of proper service. The hearing expected to be held about the middle of December. Elgen declared there is evidence the management of operating divie sions shows lack of technical knowle edge. Cites Citizens’ Complaints. In its notice to the company, the commission said “Based on information of service rendered by the Capital Transit Co. obtained by the Engineering Bureau of the commission, as well as come plaints and reports received from ine dividual riders and prospective riders, citizens' groups and the people's counsel, the commission is of the opinion that the character of service rendered by the company requires prompt investigation.” As a prelude to a comprehensive reconsideration of the variety of fares charged on the different bus lines and street cars, Elgen announced his staff now has almost completed the task of bringing up to date the 1931 studies of the value of the properties of the He forecast action within a few months. Thereafter, he said, the commission will take up the | question of fares. Experts of the commission, he also revealed, are making analyses of the air in busses and street cars. Fred A. Sager, commission chief engineer, is lying means of improving circula- tion of air in the busses. Riders have been complaining. People’s Counsel William A. Roberts anrounced a new move to gather com= plaints. He said he would send blank (See TRANSIT, page 7.) SUNDAY IN “THIS WEEK" P ” “Mountains of Courage” Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt —writes a story of a brave little old lady who lived in the Virginia hills, a story designed to give the reader something additional to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. “The Fruits of a Fortune” Nicholas Murray Butler —a story of the rich legacy which Andrew Carnegie left to the peo- ple of his adopted country. Be- hind the gigantic force which impelled the “Laird of Skibo” to amass the wealth of a Croesus was a philosophy which is discern- ingly analyzed by one of the country’s foremost educators. “Wind from Hell Gate” Carl Clausen —the Orion, the ship in this tale of the sea, made its last voyage, but it was life,snot death, which held the helm. These and a host of other fea- tures and a fine array of new fiction will be ready for you The Sunday Star