Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Fair and continued cold today; tomor- row fair with rising temperature, dimin= Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos ishing north or northwest winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 37, at 4 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 31, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. und Full report on page B-4. () Means Associat No. 1,601—No. 33,444. ed Press. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. The WASHINGTON, GAMBLER KILLEEN SHOT T0 DEATH BY SCORNED WOMAN AFTER DRINK ORGY !‘{Irs. Lillian Maddox Admits ; Slaying D. C. Underworld King and Tells Police How | He Beat Her. PLANNED TO QUIT HER, CONFESSION DECLARES | Murder Revives Rumors Linking “Big Eddie” to Wilson Death. Police Confiscate Guns, Letters and Gaming Equipment in Hunt for Clues to Mystery. A blazing gun in the hands of an infuriated woman yesterday snuffed out the life of big Eddie Killeen, who won his crown as king of Washing- ton's underworld by ruthlessly crush- ing his rivals and ignoring the law. Five hours after she had pumped two bullets into Killeen's body from & snub-nosed revolver, Mrs. Lillian Maddox, the gambler's mistress, had been formally charged with the mur- der at Rockville, Md. Police said the 35-year-old blond talked with them willingly and readily admitted the shooting. “He said he was going to beat hell out of me,” they quoted her as saying. “It was his life or mine. beating me and he wouldn’t stop. Dur- ing the scuffle the gun, which had been lying on a table, was knocked to the floor. I snatched it up and began firing—I don’t know how many | times. “I Would Do it Again.” “I'm glad I killed him, and I would do it again.” Mrs. Maddox, who has a long police record and once served a prison term on narcotics charges, said Killeen fired at her left leg Friday night, say- | ing he was “going to cripple both of them.” The woman's right leg has been crippled for years. Killeen, grown wealthy from his numbers and bookmaking enterprises, met his death in the meagerly fur. nished bed room of one of his aban- | doned gambling houses near Brook- mont, Md., just across the District line on Conduit road. He had been there since early Pri- day night with the Maddox woman, drinking and quarreling intermit- tently. There were two versions of the cause of the fight immediately preced- ing the shooting—one that he had threatened to leave her and go to | Miami, and the other that a referenc to his estranged wife, Florence, aroused the ire of the 50-year-old gambler. Confession Signed. Montgomery County Policeman | James S. McAuliffe said Mrs. Maddox had signed a written confession. In this statement, according to the | policeman, Mrs. Maddox said Killeen called an unidentified man yesterday afternoon and told him to “put a stove in the boat” because he was going to Miami. She added, it was said, that he called another woman and said he was going to leave her (Mrs. Maddox) behind. McAuliffe and two other policemen went back to the house last night and in a basement room found new gambling equipment, valued at $3,000, which was confiscated. A dice table and a roulette wheel were included. House Watched for Weeks. Police, it was learned, have been watching the place for several weeks on a tip Killeen was going to open a new gambling house in the county. Persistent reports that Killeen was suspected of knowledge in the “mis- taken identity” Wilson were revived by a statement from Montgomery County State’s At- torney James H. Pugh that he had de- layed his presentation of the Wilson case to the grand jury to give Wash- ington police opportunity to investi- gate Killeen's possible connection with the crime. Wilson. a newspaper route agent, was killed more than a year ago when gunmen hired to kill Edward “Mickey” (See KILLEEN, Page 5.) JULIO LOZANO NAMED HONDURAS ENVOY HERE | cee Former Minister of Finance Scheduled to Leave for U. S. Early Next Month. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, No-| vember 23.—Julio Lozano, former minister of finance, today was ap- pointed Minister in Washington. He will leave early in December. Official word of the appointment of Julio Lozano as Minister in Wash- ington had not reached the Honduras Legation here latc last night. Attaches said, however, the ap- pointment would fill the vacancy that has existed since Dr. Miguel Paz Baraona, former Minister, was trans- ferred to Paris about three months ago. Dr. Julian R. Caceres, first secre- tary of the legation, has been acting as Minister. VOW CHEATS ALMSHOUSE Milwaukee Man Found Dead ‘Whern Prospect There Loomed. MILWAUKEE, November 23 (#).— Simon Arich, 78, kept his vow. .He said he’d never go to the poor house when he was taken before a Jjudge recently after his home had been condemned by the City Health Department. “I'l die first,” he shouted. Today they found his body. There was a bullet wound'in his head. Near- by lay a small pistol, A He began | slaying of Allen B.| Be Thrown By the Associated Press. Senator Borah bluntly asserted yes- terday that should he receive the “un- expected and great honor” of being President, he would veto as uncon- stitutional such legislation as the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. His stand was given in a letter to the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. It re- plied to one sounding his ylews, as a presidential possibility, the anti-lynching bill he has opposed in the Senate. The Idaho Republican’s quick re- sponse to the challenge, and his word- ing of it, furthered the growing belief in Washington that he will get into the presidential race. But it was un- usually outspoken for a presidential possibility. ‘Walter White, signing the associa- ‘tmns letter as its secretary, said he was writing “on behalf of 12,000, DOOI Boral’s Veto Pledge Arouses New Speculation on Candidacy Reply to Challenge on Anti-Lynching Bill Furthers Belief His Hat May Into Ring. American Negroes and of many white Americans who are deeply concerned with the alarming increase in lynch- ings in the United States.” He warned that colored votes hold the balance of power in many pivotal States. Borah replied that he had opposed the Costigan-Wagner measure because he had no doubt it violated the Con- stitution, and added: “That being my view, then and now, T shall vote against such measures as long as I am a member of the Senate, and should the unexpected and great honor come to me of being President of the United States and such a bill should reach me, under my oath and in the light of my con- victions, I would unhesitatingly veto i, e e . “I do not enter a discussion of what in my judgment is the utter futility of these measures aside from (See BORAH, Page 7. AN KILLS WIFE AND SELF IN ROW Shooting Follows Quarrel of Alexandria Couple, Wed 18 Years. | Failing in an attempted reconcilia- ;tiun, Wilbur C. Roland, 51, of Alex- andria, Va., last night shot and killed | his estranged wife, Emma, 42, and : then took his own life in & house at | 605 Eighth street northeast where Mrs. Roland had been living. Mrs. Roland died about a half an | hour after she was taken to Casualty | Hospital with a bullet wound near her heart. Roland’s death was almost instantaneous from a shot through the head. After an investigation, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald said he would| issue certificates of homicide and sui- cide in the two deaths. | Mr. and Mrs. Harry McVey, with whom Mrs. Roland lived at the Eighth | street address, told police the couple had been separated for several months. They had been married 18 years. Wife Goes to Door. Mrs. Roland relucatntly went to the door when her husband, a former Southern Railway employe, called to see her last night. According to wii- nesses, she did not want to talk to Roland because he had “attempted to have her dismissed from her posi- tion” in the mail equipment division of the Post Office Department. After a brief conversation, during which Mrs. Roland is understood to have offered to liquidate two insurance policies and give her husband half of the money, Roland drew a .38-caliber revolver and shot his wife, according to the McVeys. They said Roland then stepped inside the house and turned |the gun on himself before any one | could stop him. Roland has three grown sons by a | | former marriage, all of whom were |said to have been taken from an orphanage and raised by the mur- | dered woman. Two Sons Live Here. Two of the sons, Walter and Wil- | liam Roland, live in Washington. ‘Their exact addresses were not known. The other, Douglas Roland, is living at Knoxville, Tenn. His stepmother re- ceived a télegram from him yesterday, according to Mrs. McVey. The senior Roland also has a brother, Charles Roland, living at 603 South Washing- | ton street, Alexandria. Mrs. Roland, a native of Alexandria, is survived by several aunts, two of | whom, Mrs. Irene Langford and Mrs. Millie Brown, live in Alexandria. Roland, it was said, had worked in the Southern Railway shops, but had been laid off. He still had his railway pass when killed, but was without money. | EX-WIFE CUTS ALIMONY Street Car Employe Gets Reduc- tion From $40 to $25 a Month. SAN FRANCISCO, November 23 (4). —Charles Leasure, whose part-time earnings as a street car employe have been reduced, got a break today. His alimony payments were reduced from $40 to $25 a month at his ex- wife's request. She told the court, “I don’t think it is just to make him pay so much when he is having such a hard time.” AIRMAIL CROSSING THRILLS HONOLULU China Clipper Makes First Lap Easily on Way to Philippines. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, November 23.—The silver-winged China clipper brought | America’s first Pacific airmail to Ha- wail today, into an harbor ringing with the cheers of a “melting pot” population. The huge air queen, with 2 tons of letters in her hold, alighted smooth- | ly on Pearl Harbor at 10:19 a.m. (3:49 p.m., Eastern standard time). The arrival was a bit late besause she bucked headwinds hundreds of miles and had to veer southward. ‘The 2,400-mile first leg of the inau- gural trip from Alameda, Calif,, to | Manila thus required 31 hours and 2 | minutes. In veering southward the crew of | the thundering clipper got a glimpse | of Mauna Loa volcano in eruption 200 miles southeast of here. They sighted the volcano smoke 170 miles away. Sixty Army and Navy planes swarmed about Diamond Head, land- mark of Honolulu Harbor, to greet the history-making ship. Song Greets Crew. The white-clad Royal Hawalian Band played “The Song of the Is- lands"—customary greeting for in- coming liners—as Capt. E. C. Music and his crew of eight stepped ashore. Mainlanders, Japanese, Chinese and native Hawailans joined in mighty cheers. The flyers were greeted by name. They were known to many Hawalian residents because of their ploneering flights over the new ocean air route. Gov. Joseph Poindexter greeted the flyers officially and the band played “Aloha.” Figuratively, the big plane made the | long ocean flight without half trying. | The flyers said they kept its big mo- tors down to half throttle, using only 40 to 50 per cent of her power. ‘The head winds blew 18 to 25 miles an hour, making its average ground speed between 115 and 125 miles an hour. Pan-American Airways officials said this was a very good showing. To Continue to Guam. The China Clipper will continue on westward tomorrow to Midway Is- lands, 1,323 miles west; the following day to Wake Island, another 1,191 (See CLIPPER, Page 14.) e JUDGE BRODSKY SAILS FOR EUROPEAN STUDY Magistrate in Bremen Riot Case to Search British and French Criminal Laws. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 23.—Magis- trate Louis Brodsky, whose decision in the Bremen riot case recently pro- voked an international incident, sailed aboard the Lafayette today, but not for Germany. Magistrate Brodsky said he planned to spend a month’s vacation in Eng- land and France studying their crim- inal laws. Brodsky, dismissing six men charged with ripping the Nazi flag from the liner Bremen, said some persons might regard the swastika as a “pirate em- blem.” Germany protested. v Declaring that the toll of traffic deaths and injuries in the District has reached an “appalling” total and that “careful and thoughtful driving by motorists is’ more essential than ever before,” the Washington Federa- tion of Churches has joined with The Evening Star Safety Council in the campaign to curtail traffic accidents. The federation, representing 122 churches in 18 denominations, has an affiliated membership of approxi- mately 65,000 church-goers in Wash- ington and nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia. Of its member churches, 97 are in the District and 25 in the Mary- land and Virginia counties adjacent to Washington. The federation, under leadership of \Church Federation Aids Drive For Safety, Deploring Mishaps Pledges Being Distributed to Officers and Members of Group Represent- ing 122 Congregations. Traffic Deaths to November 24—98; Same Period, 1934—114 Rev. W. L. Darby, executive secretary, and Wilbur La Roe, chairman of the Committee of Civic Affairs, has ob- tained special safe-driving pledge cards, which are being distributed to federation officers and members. The first of these cards were signed at a board meeting during the past week and others are being sent out by mail and will be distributed at meetings of federation groups. Episcopal Support Voted. At the same time, the Northern Con- ‘vocation of the Episcopal Church, with & membership of 27 churches in Prince S D. C, ELLSWORTH RADIO STRANGELY SILENT ON ANTARGTIC HOP Explorer, Far in Antarctic Unknown, at First Tells of Mountains. ALL WELL, SAYS PLANE IN ITS LAST MESSAGE 13,000 Feet Reached, With Mer- cury at 21 Below Zero C.—May Have Landed for Night. BACKGROUND— In 1933 Lincoln Ellsworth barely escaped frozen death in the Ant- artic when his plane fell into a crevasse at Bay of Whales, Ross Sea. A year later he tried again to fly the 2,140 miles over the wastes of the southernmost conti- nent; bad weather forced him back. October 18 he left Monte- video for Weddell Sea in his ship Wyatt Earp for another go at the air journey over unerplored parts of the world’s bottom. He reached his Dundee Island base in Weddell Sea November 12. BY SIR HUBERT WILKINS, Member Elisworth Transantarctic Flight Expedition. By Radio to The Star. DUNDEE ISLAND, Weddel Sea, Antarctica, November 23 —Lincoln | Ellsworth and the airplane Polar Star, with Pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, were somewhere over the Antarctic| continent tonight, but out of touch with his base here. Whether Ellsworth has landed sev- eral hundred miles inland or whether | his plane’s wireless is out of commis- | sion it is impossibe to say. The last message received from him was at 16:05 Greenwich meridian | time (11:05 a.m. Eastern standard | time) when he was at a point plotted | from his own calculations and checkedu on board the supply ship, Wyatt Earp, | | from courses and speeds given in| previous messages, at about latitude | 76, longitude 79. Since then his wire- | less set has been strangely silent. All Well in Last Message. The last partially clear message from the Polar Star at 15:48 G. M. T. (10:48 am. Eastern standard time) was: “All well. T estimate we are at seven (jumbled words) or thereabouts. My guess is a (jumbled words) as that (jumbled) still clear (jumbled) at that (jumbled) country (many jumbled words). Little or no wind.” Then followed a series of jumbled words and Ellsworth apparently signed off. At 16:05 G. M. T. some signals from the plane caused the key here to clamp down and another jumble of words came through, but that ceased at 16,10, and since then we have had no signals. Ellsworth and Hollick-Kenyon took off from Dundee Island at 8:03 G. M. T. (3:03 am, Eastern standard time) this morning on their third flight in the direction of the Bay of | Whales, Ross Sea—the site of Little | America, Admiral Byrd's former base —and from his messages it appeared that they had more or less fair weath- | er. with some clouds, up to the time their signals ceased. Has Been at 13,000 Feet. Ellsworth had been flying over mountains at an altitude of 13,000 feet in a temperature of 21 degrees below zero centigrade, but toward the last of his messages he reported lower land. The airplane seemed to be (See ELLSWORTH, Page 6.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-12. Changing World—A-3. Lost and Found—A-13. Death Notices—A-13. Educational—B-5. Sports Section—Pages B-7-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Nation- al Guard and Organized Re- serves—D-5, Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-6. Conquering Contract—D-9. Public Library—D-10. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1, E-11. Well-Known Folk—E-3. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-10. Washington Wayside—E-10. Service Orders—E-10. Vital Statistics—E-10. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Featureg_—?nges F-1-3, John Clagett Proctor’s Article on 0Old Washington—F-2, “Those Were the Hné) y Days,” %y Dick Mansflel —F-2. Books——i‘-.’i Stage and Screen—F-T7. Music—F-8. Radio News and Programs—F-9. Automobiles—F-10. Aviation—F-10, Cross-word Puzzle—F-11. Children’s Page—F-12. High Lights of History—F-12. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- Pages G-1-4. Stam 3 -5, —G-5. clasc‘medsm;yAdvenhmz - Pages Resorts—G-14. e DAILY EVENING EDITION ay Star SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1935—116 PAGES. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS 0. S, CUTS SUPPLY NEWCOMER T0 AID IN LORING PROBE {Former Suitor Will Tell Po- lice Facts Tomorrow. Mother Not Suspect. BACKGROUND— Corinna Loring, quiet, home- loving bride-to-be, disappeared No- vember 4; her body was found No- vember 9. Richard Tear, her fance, was arrested, then released. Every friend and relative has been questioned. Lead after lead has been discarded by police. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Novem- ber 23.—Further police investigation of the murder of Corinna Loring will revolve around the theory that jul-\ ousy motivated the slayer, Police Chief | Eugene Plumer of Mount Rainier, one of the principal investigators of that town’s most shocking crime, an- nounced tonight. As the probe of the brutal garrot- ing of the attractive 26-year-old Sun- day school teacher, who disappeared two days before the date fixed for her marriage, reached a week end lull, police disclosed that a new figure will enter the case when they return here Monday. ‘The newcomer, according to those in charge of the investigation here, was described as a former suitor who has recently been away from Wash- ington, but returned and volunteered to impart to police information he be- lieves of importance. The officers de- clined to disclose his identity. May Requestion Tear. Lieut. Joseph Itzel, Baltimore homi- cide squad ace, who is directing the investigation, announced before re- turning to that city this afternoon that he planned tc requestion Richard Tear, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at- tendan. and flance of Miss Loring, on Monday. ‘Tomorrow Lieut. Itzel and Detective Sergt. Leo T. Vogelsang, also of Bal- timore, who entered the case yester- day, will go over the mass of testi- mony assembled since Miss Loring’s body was found on lonely Saddleback Ridge two weeks ago. As they study the transcript, Itzel said he and Vogelsang would frame new questions to ask certain witnesses, including Tear, for the purpose of “cleaning up the loose ends.” Such a list of prepared questions were propounded today to Mrs. Fran- ces Loring, mother of the slain woman, when she came to the court house for a third interview with the detective. Mrs. Loring Held Cleared. ‘When, after three hours of ques- tioning, Mrs. Loring, who had entered the inquisitorial chamber crying, emerged smiling, Lieut. Itzel told re- porters. “We asked her every conceivable question, sparing no detail of the pri- vate life of her family, and now can announce the first definite conclusion I have reached in this case—that Mrs. Loring knows nothing of the crime. She could not give us even a hint that would help us. Everything she (See LORING, Page 2.) GALE DELAYS KING’S RETURN TO GREECE Athens Postpones Welcoming Ceremonies When George Leaves Italy One Day Late. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, November 23.—Welcoming ceremonies for King George were post- poned until Monday when a wireless message was received from the cruiser Helle tonight saying the vessel would not arrive tomorrow. The ship had béen delayed in its departure from Brindisi, Italy, by & severe storm. King Sails One Day Late. BRINDISI, Italy, November 23 ()—Dressed in the uniform of an admiral, King George of Greece stood proudly on the bridge of a Greek cruiser today on the last lap of his trip back to his Greek throne—e throne from which he wu ousted in 1922. Chosen by a Greek pwbiaclh to rule his nation again, George sailed on the Greek cruiser Helle, receiving salutes from Italian warships as the ship left Brindisi, after one day’s delay because of & Officials at Athens estimated uo,ooc pllgrims have flocked to the city to welcome the returning monarch, Girl Guarding Candy Is Shot on Run by Boy Playing Bandit By the Associated Press, FERGUS FALLS, Minn, No- vember 23—Elizabeth Schoen- berg, 10, had a penny for candy. “Stick 'em up and hand it over,” said two juvenile robbers, one of whom had a pistol loaded with blank cartridges. Elizabeth refused to obey. She ran. One of the boys fired. A part of a cartridge entered her skull. At a hospital they said she would recover—if there are no complications. Juvenile authorities had not decided what action if any would be taken against the boys. CUBA CHAOSHINTS CHANGE INRULERS Mendieta Reported Ready to Quit as Court Rulings Menace Election. BACKGROUND— January 23, 1934, United States recognized the five-day-old Cuban government of Carlos Mendieta. August 12, 1933, President Machado had fled after revolution; Grau San Martin then held the reins for four months, Carlos Hevia for two days. Despite strife and bombings, Mendieta has remained in con- trol. April 30, 1935, four leading purties agreed to have national election November 1. Date post- poned to December 1. Mendieta favored this peaceful settlement of citizens’ wishes on presidency. Now strange confusion threatens bomb- less exchange of administrations. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, November 23. — Cuban politicians, jockeying for preferred spots in the national elections, had the nation bogged down in a maze of court rulings tonight and there appeared little chance of holding elections De- cember 15, as scheduled. So chaotic was the situation, after a series of demands and counter de- mands by the leading party leaders, that some observers predicted reper- cussions in the palace. Reports said President Carlos Mendieta was so chagrined that he was ready to step from the presidential chair. There was nothing to confirm them, but he has made it known on several occasions that he was not pleased with the situation. The trouble came a few days ago when a ruling by the nation’s supreme electoral court outlawed a coalition between the Marianistas, the National- ists and a part of the Liberal party. The coalition had as its candidate Miguel Mariano Gomez, former mayor of Havana. La Cruz Receives Liberals. The other major political party was the Menocalista group headed by Gen. Mario G. Menocal, twice presi- -/ dent of the island. In the background stood Carlos Manuel de La Crugz, attorney, whose candidacy had faded weeks before when a large part of his liberal party deserted him and went over to Gomez. ‘The Supreme Court’s ruling, which said presidential elections must vote for candidates of their respective parties regardiess of -coalitions, had the effect of giving back to De La Cruz the liberals who had strayed into the Gomez camp. ‘Threatening to withdraw from elec- (See CUBA, Page 3.) Maryland, 12; Georgetown, 6. Princeton, 26, Dartmouth, 6. Stanford, 13; California, 0. Yale, 14; Harvard, 7. Duke, 7; North Carolina State, 0. Notre Dame, 20; Southern Califor- Ion:. Ohio State, 38; Michigan, 0. Chicago, 7; Ilinois, 6. Leading Foot Ball Scores LOCAL. NATIONAL. Details of these found in The Stqr’s sports pages. NEW ARMS PAGT MAY LINK NATIONS French and British Diplo- mats Discuss Move With Hitler. BACKGROUND— Versailles treaty limited Ger- many’s army to 100,000 men. March 16 Hitler announced res- titution of universal military con- scription to bring army to 600,000 and take effect in October. June 18 Great Britain gave cognizance to this deflance of the treaty by signing Anglo-German naval pact granting Germany 35 per cent of British tonnage. French reaction was Dditter. British pressure on France to join a “stop Italy” move changed Gallic viewpoint of Ger- many. Two weeks ago Ambassador Francols-Poncet opened conversa- tions with Hitler on arms accord. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 23.—Diplomatic circles sald tonight the possibility of a three-cornered arms agreement as & step toward a Franco-German under- standing has been discussed French and British diplomats with Reichsfuehrer Hitler. The recent talks of the French Ambassador, Andre Francois-Poncet, with the German leader, and the calls which Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador, has made on Hitler have resulted, it was said, in a prelim- inary plan. Through this tentative formula, the three nations hoped to reach accords regarding land and air forces similar to the existing Anglo-German naval agreements, these quarters stated. Diplomatic circles expressed the opinion that Germany's increasing economic difficulties will force Hitler to make a sharp cut in his rearma- ment program, and will make him view favorably a limitation agree- ment. To Talk With Laval. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's confidential representative, is expected to come to Paris soon for talks with Premier Laval. At a time when Prance’s friendship with Italy seems endangered because of the sanctions program against Premier Mussolini, Germany is believed, in informed quar- ters, to bé ready to offer friendship to France. Premier Laval has long been cred- ited with a wish to go to Berlin and talk with Reichsfuehrer Hitler about a reconciliation between the two nations, French Policy at Stake. Prance’s whole foreign policy is feit to be at stake in the present situation. Laval must decide whether to adopt a limited policy extending only to the protection of her own frontiers—which an accord with Hitler probably would mean—or to continue attempting o keep Germany weak and to extend her eastern alliances to hamper Germany. Great Britain, diplomatic sources said, is behind the move to reconcile France and Germany. They are con- vinced England, with troubles con- fronting her in the Mediterranean, wants to be sure of no trouble on the Rhine. e Helena Feels 1,004th Quake. HELENA, Mont., November 23 (#). —Helena's earthquake “score” passed 1,000 today. ‘With five overnight shocks, the most severe a two-second tremor at 3 am., ‘Wehther Bureau records listed 1,004 since October 18 which were “per- ceptible to human feelings.” The five shocks produced no new damage. ‘Wilson Teachers, 19; Shepherd Col- lege, 6, Minnesota, 33; Wisconsin, 7. VoL A, 14; loynh (Calif.), 6. Mississippi suu, 25; Sewanee, 0. games will be |TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE OF SCRAP IRON 10 ITALY AS COTTON BANS ARE HINTED Shipping Beard Bars Sale of Obsolete Vessels to Belligerent—Delivery of One Metal Cargo Stopped. DUCE IN NEW PARLEY WITH BRITISH ENVOY Prevention of Textile Material Shipment Center of Specula- tion—Agricultural Chiefs Are Silent on Methods Considered to Halt Shipment of Products. BACKGROUND— In September, 1934, Senator Nye’s special committee began investi- gation of profits of munition mak- ers. In August, 1935, Congress empowered the President to elimi= nate these profits and supposedly guarantee peace through embargo on shipments of arms and “imple- ments of war” to belligerents. First application was against Italy and Ethiopia October 5. November 18, for first time since the League was launched in 1919, 26 members ap- plied economic sanctions against Italy—equivalent to boycott of credit and goods. Result is an ever-rising economic wall around Mussolini’s land. By the Associated Fress. ‘The administration yesterday cut off one source of Italian scrap iron amid increasing indications of & de- termination to keep American supplies from prolonging the Italo-Ethiopian war. Secretary of State Hull, in fact, hinted at a possible effort to prevent shipments of American cotton to the war zone, and asserted at the same time that any question of essential war materials shipped in abnormal quantities would be given prompt at- tention. But how far the administration in- tends to go in its campaign of finan- cial as well as moral pressure, as in the case of the Shipping Board's re- minder to its debtors Priday, was not immediately disclosed. New Problem Arises. A new problem was added to the situation, meanwhile, with word of a by | students’ demonstration directed at a group of Americans in Padua, Italy. Consular officials there were investi- gating and a protest was possible. The Shipping Board, coincidentally, followed its reminder to ship owners that the administration is opposed to shipping even potential war materials to Italy or Ethiopia, with a disclosure yesterday that it had stopped the de- livery of one cargo of scrap iron to Italy. It ruled that in the future, obsolete American vessels in which it has a financial interest could not be sold to Italy to be broken into scrap and later converted into steel—one of war’s first essentials. In addition, the board revealed that while two of three old vessels had been delivered to Italy for that pur- pose, the sale and delivery of the third had been halted since the ise suance of President Roosevelt'’s neu- trality proclamation. Duce in New Conference. From Rome it was reported Premier Mussolini and the British Amtassa- dor held another conference at the close of today which saw Italian re- sistance to sanctions swell to new proportions. The conversation between I1 Duce and Sir Eric Drummond lasted for about 20 minutes. Diplomatic circles see much signifi- cance in constant amtassadorial visits, particularly in Paris. Papal Nuncio Maglione and the Italian Am- bassador, Vittorio Cerruit, talked there again. Available methods of preventing cotton shipments became & subject of speculation. Hull did not say what he had in mind beyond leaving, in response to questions, a vague sugges- tion that the possibility was under consideration, Newspaper men at once sought to learn from administration agricultural chiefs what, if any, steps were con- templated to halt cotton or food ship- ments. They met with little success. Cotton Held Till February, Cully A. Cobb, chief of the A. A. A. cotton section, hinted at the proba- bility that the 4,450,000 bales of cot- ton controlled by the Government (See NEUTRALITY, Page 3.) MAN KILLED BY CAR; TRAFFIC TOLL IS 99 Elderly Colored Man Suffers Frac- ture of Skull—Driver Is De- tained at Fourth Precinct. ‘Washington’s traffic toll for the year reached 99 early today when an elderly colored man, identified as Richard Good, 488 L street southwest, was killed when struck by an auto- mobile at Seventh and Water streets southwest. The man died shortly after arrival at Emergency Hospital, where he was taken in the car of Joseph Chick, 28, of 1123 New Jersey avenue south- east, said by police to be the driver of the machine involved. Both of Good'’s legs were broken and he is believed to have suffered s skull fracture. Chick, was detained at the fourth precinct station for investigation, \