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TRENBS' CONFLICT IS SEEN IN BRAZIL H‘evolt,fl Now Quelled, Is Held “First Clash of Fascism and Socialism. BACKGROUND— " The Brazilian Republic, estab- lished after overthrow of the mone archy in 1889, has survived several attempts at revolution. Composed of 20 states, a federal district, one territory, the republic functions under a constitution modeled after that of United States. Drawn in 1891, it was amended in 1926 to give central government increased au- thority over state affairs. Present disturbances had beginning in ap- plication of this autkority; later it became test between government and military group. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, November 28.— | Bome political sources said today the | uprising in northeast Brazil and in| the capital itself, which the govern- | ment crushed with loyal troops, was | but the first sharp conflict between | Bocialistic and Fascist trends. With the dual rebellions by seditious trodps in the federal district crushed ama the last of the northeastern in- surgents put to flight, government authorities said the entire nation ap- parently was under control. | Twelve rebels were known dead and | five of the loyal army forces wounded after the government’s artillery and aviation smashed the abortive revoits | yesterday at the aviation school in the federal district and the 3d Infantry barracks at Praia Vermelha, on the beach beneath Sugar Loaf Mountain. | 300 Held Prisoners. | The government announced it held 300 participants in the local uprisings | prisoners and word came from the | State of iRo Grande Do Notre, scene | of the earlier northeastern revolt, that | Governor notified President Getulio Vargas, “the rebels abandoned Natal after a great amount of sack- | What’s What Behind News In Capital Six-to-Three Anti-New Deal Ruling Is Forecast. BY PAUL MALLON. T is going on behind the | red draperies of the new Supreme Court bench these days is a matter of consid- erable sotto voce concern to all who are close to the third branch of the Government. This branch operates necessarily in private. Its delayed technical judg- ments are the only solid clues to its activity. Thus far this session, the clues point clearly to an unusual clash of opinions emong the men who are sitting in judgment on the biggest part of the New Deal. A check of the first 17 decisions made this session shows disagreement among the jurists in 10. This is a sharply unusual percentage. In any ordinary run of 17 decisions, no more | than three or four dissents will gen- erally be found. When the technical order was issued the other day in the A. A. A. rice tax case, three justices, classed a liberals, registered dissent. This dissension was amazing to the in- side legal crowd. Court orders are generally issued as a matter of technical routine. Only rarely is there open discord. If the justices cannot agree about a court order, some safety measures may be in order for the coming decisions on the New Deal. Fancy interpreters are jumping to THE EVENING STAR,- WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935 Ethiopians Felled by Italian Bullets BUSINESS DOUBTS POLITICAL TRUCE Threatened and Coerced, It Shies at Overtures by New Deal. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. One by one, the leaders of industry, through their various trade associa- tions, are turning a cold shoulder toward the conference on business and labor co-operation called by George L. Berry, special co-ordinator ap- pointed by President Roosevelt. The significance of this occurrence |15 easily misunderstood, and yet the | incident goes to the root of the Roose- | velt administration’s difficulties in get- | ting 9,000,000 or more men back to work. Business and industry have been asked by‘the Government to “‘co-ope- rate” in one form or another ever since March, 1933. The biggest ex- periment in “co-operation,” that | turned out to be coercion, was the N. R. A Why do business and industrial leaders shun the invitation issued by Berry? The reason given publicly is that, despite denials by Berry, his real intention is to lay the ground- work for the revival of N. R. A, and business men insist that the “breath- ing spell” should be carried out now and industry given a chance to digest the regulations it already has had imposed on it. APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE FATAL T0 FIVE Six Also Injured as Blast _lonites Fort Worth, Tex., Building. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., November 28—Five persons were burned to death and six others were injured in a fire which destroyed the Hollings- worth Apartments here today. The dead were not immediately identified. Most of the injured were hurt in leaping from second-story windows to escape the flames. The fire started at 7:15 am. An explosion was reported to have preceded the fire. The injured included: Mrs. Minnie Robinson, 49, fractured skull. Miss Essie Martin, ankles, Mrs. Jesse Bowden, broken leg. Mrs. Myrtle Daugherty, operator of the apartment, was awakened by the screams of “fire.”” She could not lo- cate the blaze immediately, but ran out of a rearydoor. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mason, asleep downstairs, were awakened by the blast and fled from the house in their night attire. Firemen said they believed the fire originated in the room of Mrs. Cary Cashion and Mrs. Bell Stevens. They were unable to account for the blast. 21, sprained Roosevelt Role Shadowy. But there's a deeper meaning to accept Berry's summons. They do i not know whether he speaks for him- self or for Secretary of Commerce Roper, or for the President or for | union labor, in whose ranks he holds | a prominent position. This has been | the Roosevelt administration’s mistake from the start. The President has not put himself into the picture di- rectly, in some instances at all, leav- ing it to be inferred that he is back | of an administrator, but, at the same | time, leaving it to be inferred also on other occasions that the administra- tor is doing things on his own hook land probably without presidential ing. Means have been taken 0 NOr-'the conclusion that the six-to-three | approval. malize completely Natal and its com- | rjee order hints at a new division in- | munications.” ‘There is, moreover, a distrust of the | side the court. The line-up disclosed | fairness of some of these various Gov- Planes and ships pressed a search chief Justice Hughes and Justice ' ernment bureau and agency heads for steamship Santos on which the poherts in the company of the four |that is unfortunately preventing co- northeast rebels were reported to have | so.called conservative justices, leav- | operation rather than developing it. fled Natal, and authorities took Pre- ing the three so-called liberals on the | Thus, for example, one cabinet officer cautions under the State of seige to| maintain control. One however, said: “Brazil's real political struggle is between Fascism and Socialism.” First Socialist Efforts Seen. This politician, who asked that his name be withheld, said the abortive uprisings Sunday in Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte and yesterday in Rio de Janeiro were only the first effort by the socialistic National Lib- erating Alliance to create subversive outbreaks bidding for national power. “The alllance, which opposes a Fas cist trend, sees within Fascism two auain currents,” this source said. & “One is inside the government itself, hoping for establishment of a military Aictatorship. “The other is the more theatrical authority, | short end of the bench. Split on Technicality. It is probably a fair but haphazard | guess to prophesy a six-to-three de- | cision against much pending New Deal legislation, but not because of the rice decision. The split in the court there | was not on the Constitution but on the | technical question of whether the rice | millers should pay their tax to the | Government before the courts decide their suits. All the lower courts have impounded processing taxes. The lower ourt in the rice case refused to. The | Supreme Court merely applied the general rule to the rice growers. But in doing it, the court ignored a | processing tax payers to pay first and sue later for recovery. To that extent, the court held a provision of the A. A. Sntegralism, which serves the ends of | A act temporarily invalid until it could $hose of Fascist thought within the government and the military, and is| erefore tolerated by the same admin- istration which in July banned the alliance throughout Brazil. 4 “Brazil's army (65,000 conscripts ‘and 3,000 officers) is apparently torn between Fascist and socialistic strains. Prestes’ Name Recurs. “Many non-commissioned officers and privates incline toward socialism, whereas the higher command is in- clined toward Fascist ideology. “The rising in Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Notre and Rio de Janeiro was the first subversive movement in; a series rumored to be destined to | embrace all Brazil from December 18 under the leadership of Luiz Carlos | Prestes, chieftain of organized Social- | ism in Brazil." The National Liberating Alliance | table reach a final decision. the New Deal lawyers are doing little | to hasten decisions by the Supreme | “ Court in pending cases. In fact. there seems to be a studied tendency among { them to move deliberately until Con- | gress reconvenes. Whether delay is their purpose, it is, at least, the result of their actions. No decisions will be ready in any important New Deal case until ajter Congress assembles in January. The idea apparently is that, with Congress at hand, substitute legis- lation can be pushed through in 6 hurry to meet court rulings. 4 liberal newsman noticed Justice McReynolds lunching at a nearby in the new Supreme Court cafeteria the other day. The liberal | provision of the A. A. A. act requiring | More than a suspicton exists that | itsedf circulated a manifesto through- | segan talking in a loud voice about | or one administration spokesman like | | Undersecretary Tugwell of the Agri- cultural Department will, in the same month, be attacking business and call- ing it names, while Roper will be soothing it with assurances of the | administration’s intention to do every- thing in its power to maintain the capitalistic system. Honeyed Words Doubted. It is a matter of great regret that business and the Roosevelt adminis- tration do not get along well to- gether. Much of this arises out of the spirit of vindictiveness and gen- eral speech-making of a destructive nature which has been going on in the last two and a half years. These things are not erased overnight by honeyed words of reassurance that | from now on business will not be harassed. Businessmen, moreover, talk among themselves about various punitive measures that, by coincidence or ac- | cident or intent, have been visited |upon them by different agencies of | the Federal Government. Many a prominent man in the business and financial world who has been out- spoken in his opposition to the New Deal finds his income tax returns cuses with which to bring technical disputes. These business men tell their associates and others about it. As a consequence a deep-seated feeling arises that a kind of personal Gov- ernment is at work in Washington. Now it probably is nearer the truth that, after an era of harsh treatment due to regulatory legislation, business- men are oversensitive on some of these points, but whether their sus- the reluctance of business men to ! scrutinized by agents looking for ex- | out the nation denying charges by the government that the organization was communistic. The manifesto said the alliance’s aims were to appropriate foreign cap- italistic enterprises, respect Brazilian national enterprises, break up the “feudal” system of large land hold- ings and give more land to small farmers and workers. Loring (Continued From First Page) Loring on the day her body was found. Maccarone said he combed the woods about Saddleback Ridge with Tear and Lo Jacono, her brother-in- law, and declared he was nearby when & man exercising his rabbit dogs dis- covered the body. He said at that time he noticed a tall, dark man, bare-headed and clad in a black sweater and dark trousers, who acted so suspiciously he asked Chief Eugene Plumer of the Mount Rainier force to detain him. Left Hurriedly in Auto. Before this could be done, Macca- rone said, the man jumped into a sedan and drove rapidly from the scene. Maccarone also discussed Corinna’s friends and business associates with investigators here. Maccarone and his wife had the girl as their guest at meals in their home on New York avenue several times a week for a number of years. She talked over her approaching marriage with the couple and seemed extremely happy about the future. Lo Jacono was also interrogated for several hours late yesterday. He intro- duced Tear to Corinna about five months ago and was one of Tear’s best friends. He assisted with the search when it became apparent that Corinna had met with foul play. Tear also came to headquarters of the investigation here, as has been his wont every day for weeks. He explained he merely called to learn what, if anything, the detectives had been able to add to their knowledge of the case. JEWISH SHOPS STONED WARSAW, November 28 (#).— ‘Windows of Jewish-owned shops were smashed in anti-semitic rioting last night at Lwow, a city in Southeastern Poland. . The Polish government did not per- mit Warsaw newspapers to publish reports of the outbreak today, con- tending widespread publication of such actions spread anti-semitism. . The Warsaw Municipal Council 2dopte d a _ resolution condemning “anti-Jewish “‘excesses,” [ | what he thought the court should do. | The justice could have heard the subtle heckling if he had been a block further away, but he gave no sign of notice. The liberal was undoubtedly wasting his breath. picions are justified or not, the fact remains, as pointed out so penetrat- ingly in an article in Fortune Maga- | zine in the December issue, the busi- nessmen do habe these antagonisms. Business Has Tried. Nobody ever got anywhere trying | to sell ideas to persons who are first | antagonized. Resentfulness does not produce a setting for “co-operation.” Again and again, the Roper Council, composed of outstanding business lead- ers, gave the administration sugges- | | tions and recommendations as to how , | business and the Government could Certain New Deal attorneys have been disappointed to note how hale | and hearty comparatively all the jus- { tices are now. As Winter approached ! In years past, one or two jurists usually ‘have fallen ill. (The average age is 70.) | of illness has been heard. When court | attaches checked it up a few days ago, they found that the jurist in point was that moment out on a golf course. No One Will Pay Taxes. ‘The only practical effect of the rice processing taxes. At least no one will | suit. That will not make much imme- diate difference. Few were paying anyway. Up to last Tuesday the | Treasury had collected only $9,000,000 in processing taxes this month, com- ‘,pnred with $58,000,000 in the same | period last November. So far this year {i¢ has collected only 18 per cent of vhat it collected last year. This may be the most important angle of the pending A. A. A. case. The Treasury will be in a hole finan- cialy if the Supreme Court refunds all amount to at least $175,000,000. The movie critic of a national monthly magazine was employed by Dr. Tugwell's rural resettlement ad- ministration some weeks ago. He was to write a movie of resettlement work. | An.office was provided for him here. Until lately, the doorman had seen the critic only once. looked his office over, took the next train back for New York. Apparently he thought he could gather local color | for a rural uplift scenario as well in: | the rye fields of Manhattan. | (Copyright. 1035.) Man Granted Divorce. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Novem- ber 28 (Special).—Judge Joseph C. Mattingly Tuesday granted Amon R. Brown of Colmar Manor an absolute divorce from Mrs. Doris R. Brown of the 500 block of Eleventh street southeast, Washington. Brown ac- So far this year, only one rumor | order Is that no one will now pay| whose tax amounts to more than the | fee required to hire a lawyer to file | the impounded taxes, which now | He came in,| | get along well together, but the Presi- | dent pigeon-holed almost all of the | | suggestions. Notwithstanding this, if Mr. Roose- an invitation to business and indus- trial leaders to send delegates to a conference that he himself called, it ! would get nearly 100 per cent ac- ceptances. Saying ‘“No” to George one thing, and consulting with Mr. Roosevelt himself is quite another, Different Approach Needed. Business and industry would like to be on better terms with the Presi- dent, but thus far he has preferred to bombard the husiness and financial world with accusations and attacks, ness, promising further legislation on holding companies even outside the utility field, and generally producing an uneasiness that might well be de- scribed as unparalleled in the last 50-year period in which corporate structures have been built up. ‘This is Mr. Roosevelt’s most vexing problem, economic, political, personal —how to get business and Government working together. It is not an in- velt himself were to issue tomorrow | would be safe to assume that he) Berry and the N. R. A. background is | thréatening taxes on size and big-! The building is owned by Mrs. J. | M. Hollingsworth. Mrs. Bowden leaped from a second floor window, clutched a back yard | fence paling and screamed for help. | Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Voss, operators | of & next door apartment house, heard | her cries and found her grasping the paling, one of her legs broken. Shocked and terrified, Mrs. Bowden clung to the paling. The couple was forced to tear down the fence and | carry woman and fence away from | the flames and into the street. . JOE LOUIS’ AUTO TAG HAS KNOCKOUT LABEL “K-0" Plates Issued by Michigan Secretary of State to Fighter for 19386. By the Ac. siated Press. LANSING, Mich., November 28.— Joe Louis' automobile will bear his | knockout label next year. Secretary of State Orville E. Atwood | has announced that 25 special Michi- gan plates will be issued bearing a let- | ter and a zero. Louis was given the | plate “K-0.” while Boxing Promoter | Nick Londes of Detroit got “N-0.” Atwood said one plate will bear only the numeral zero, and said Q and I cannot be used. He has not decided who will get the other plates. NAZIS ARE FREED | FREE CITY OF DANZIG, Novem- | ber 28 (#.—The Danzig Volkstag in a | vote of amnesty yesterday freed many | Nazis charged with fighting with police. | All political prisoners and those | whose cases were pending as well as |cnmmal and civil prisoners serving | sentences up to four months were | freed. | Among those benefiting were 50 Nazis | awaiting trial for the alleged beating | of Danzig residents who failed to | salute the Nazi flag during a recent |is one of two new kinds of ice made | production for the domestic portion | parade and another sentenced to six | months for striking a leader of the | German National party in a court room. Co (Continued From First Page.) al Schechter (N. R. A) opinion.” Con- | gress set up no standards in these sections, he explained. The Schechter case “expressly holds” such standards | are necessary, he added. “The Government relies most strong- ly on the price-fixing provisions,” Ad- kins went on. “Upon consideration of all the facts, it seems to me that power | is within the power delegated to Con- gress by the commerce clause.” ‘The commerce clause in the Con- stitution permits Congress to regulate interstate commerce. an extraordinary night session in which the man who helped upset the N. R. A, pressed arguments that this same decision “clearly voids” the Guf- fey act. dinner session especially to allow Frederick H. Wood, New York attor- ernment counsel to conclude their oral lenging the constitutionality of the Guffey law. Wood, who successfully argued the Schechter poultry case in the Supreme ! Court, had asserted during the day | that all the Government’s arguments concerning the power of Congress to regulate the soft-coal industry were | the same as made in defense of the Blue Eagle. The decision of the Schechter case, he continued, is conclusive that the proposed regulation of wages and hours in the coal industry is as much beyond the power of Congress as the same regulation in New York's chicken slaughter houses. surmountable barrier or an impossible job to do. But it takes an entirely different approach than Mr, Roose- velt has been using, and it will prob- ably take concrete performance in the way of existing legislation—that is, recommendations for repeal or change—before the business world will believe that Mr. Roosevelt intends to give industry a real chance to re- cuperate and thus to re-employ the millions of persons now idle. (Copyright 1935.) N 'LIMBERGER FACE CREAM| Grocer Massages Man Charged ‘With Suspicion of Robbery. LOS ANGELES, November 28 () .— Redolent with the aroma of limburger cheese, John Pimer, 19, recently of New Haven, Conn., was assisted into a police station yesterday and booked for suspicion of robbery. P. A. Sullentrop, grocer, massaged the youth’s face with the cheese, police cused his wife of represented by Bird ¥y Dol sdid, as Pimer fled ghe store. Pimer|; surrendereds A Upper: Two Ethiopian troops, killed in the fighting in Northern Zthiopia, rest where they fell be- fore Italian bullets as their com- rades beat a hasty retreat before the forces of the Italian invader. Lower: A wounded Ethiopian be- ing bandaged with leaves in an effort to keep the wound clean. ‘Wide World Photo. PRESSURE DEVIE MAKES BOLINGICE Organic Substances Change Under Stress of 1,000,000 Pounds Per Inch. (Copyright. 1035, by the Associated Press.) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 28. —Announcement of new apparatus which imposes pressures of 1,000,000 pounds per square inch, makes ice hotter than boiling water, causes graphite to scratch steel and reveals matter in new forms was made yes- Fn w 5 L] | terday at Harvard University. The pressures are the highest ever | reached by man, duplicating those | several hundred miles down into the | earth. The pressures previously avail- | able in laboratories have been about half as great as these. | 'The new high pressures were pro- | duced in the laboratory of Dr. P. W. Bridgman, in the research laboratory | of physics. They were accomplished with two new types of apparatus. One is a pressure chamber, made of steel, cone-shaped, backed up by a form-fitting steel block, which makes | | possible pressures nearly twice the | limit that formerly made steel bulge like lead. BROOKHART GIVES OWN FARM PLAN A. A. A. Aided Midwest, So G. 0. P. Will Have to Raise Ante, He Says. By the Associated Press. Former Senator Smith W. Brook- hart of Iowa, following up his demand for a “progressive” Republican presi- dential '‘candidate, offered the party today a farm plan with which to com- bat the administration’s A. A. A. ‘Warning that the Republicans could not win on “mere criticism of the A A. A.” Brookhart suggested they offer farmers an income based on cost of Pistons Rotate. The other is & new tool which squeezes thin discs of matter between | two rotating steel pistoris. The pistons } reach pressures of 750,000 pounds. ‘ Their rotation sets up shearing strains | revealing new facts about high stresses | of the earth’s interior. | ‘The boiling hot ice—ice which melts | | Into water above the boiling point— | in the pressure cone. The other is a | of their crops, with the Government | new kind of cold ice. Five kinds of | handling the exportable surplus. ice were known previously, one hot,| The former Republican independent though not boiling. | Senator said the A.A. A. has aided The differences are due to changes | farmers. The Republicans, in order in crystal structure of the ice. The | to win, must offer them something original hot ice, also a discovery of better, he argued. Though farm in- Dr. Bridgman, was 100 warm to be | come has been raised by the New Deal touched. It was made by heating ice | program, he said, it was still far short under pressure of about 90,000 pounds. | of a fair proportion of the national The new ice, squeezed at about | income. 360,000 pounds, can be heated above | In a statement Brookhart said his Iv.he boiling point of water and still is | plan would place agriculture on a | ice. Even hotter ice may be had by | parity with other industries which fix The ruling was handed down after | The court had agreed to the after- | ney, who represented Carter, and Gov- | arguments in the original suit chal-| | higher pressures. The stress or shearing pistons made permanent changes in many organic | substances. Rubber loses its elasticity | | and becomes a translucent, horny m: terial. Paper is the same. Red phos- phorus turns permanently into black phosphorus. Soft graphite, ordinarily a lubricant, | at 1,500,000 pounds becomes hard | | enough to embed itself like a diamond | in glass-hard steel. “But there is no permanent change,” |Dr. Bridgman's report states of graphite, “although a change to dia- mond might have been looked for, be- cause diamond is a dense form of graphite. On release the graphite re- | | sumed its normal soft, slippery state. Dr. Bridgman has tried 200 sub- stances between the pistons. Nearly }hnlf of them change their forms, en- | tering a state classified as polymor-} | phic. | “These polymorphs,® the report | states, “must play an important part | in the constitution of the earth. It is| | found that the force required to shear | practically all substances under high | pressure is very much greater than | | would have been expected from pre- vious ideas.” Kissing Causes Epidemic. Kissing was stated to be responsible for the spreading of scarlet fever in a report of the medical officer of health submitted to the Moray and Nairn (Scotland) Public Health Committee. their prices on cost of production. He would have the Government fix cost of production for each crop. including allowance for labor and management, depreciation and a 4 per cent return on capital. Each crop year the Secretary of Ag. riculture would estimate the export-| able surpluses. Farmers would get cost-of-production prices for share of domestic crops—by Gove! ment price-fixing—and turn the bal- ance over to the Government. The Government would sell the sur- plus at the best terms available in the | world market and give the farmers their share, less cost of administration. Contending this was the only farm plan ever offered involving no ex- pense to the Government, Brookhart said the farmers of the Northwest could afford to give the entire export- able surplus to the Government, | though the cotton farmers could not. 200 SHOP BID $129,900 Bahen & Wright. Inc.. of this city, were low bidders for the job of con- | structing & machine and carpenter shop, garage and storeroom at the Zoo, it was disclosed last night by the Treasury Department. The firm offered to do the job for $129.900. Two other Washington bidders of- fered to do the work as follows: Charles H. Tompkins Co.. $130,300, and Harwood-Nebel Construction Co., Inc., $130,500. Start of Cross-Country Run Here Start of the second annual cross-country race of the Washington Track and Field Club in Rock Creek Park. ‘Winfree Johnson, -secretary of the District of Columbia A. A. U, was the official starter for the 38 entrants, who took off soon after 10 a.m, today at the Rock Creek Golf Club. John Sanders, Department of Agriculture, was the winner. His time was 37.05.4. John Leiss, Washinge —Star Staff Photo, ton Track and PField Club, finished second, with George Shorb, also of the Washington Track and Fleld Club, / theig | GOV. DAVEY DENIES | LIQUOR POLITICS Ohio Executive Assails Probe Agitator as Boot- leggers’ Friend. By the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohio. November 28.— Charges of politics and lyving, plus a promise of an investigation, cen- fefed today around 'Ohio's liquor mo- , nopoly, described by an official as “the model of the Nation.” Gov. Martin L. Davey and State Representative George J. Harter, Democrat, shot statements back and | forth in rapid succession. Governor Hits Motives. Harter's assertion that Davey had used political influence to block & pro- | posed legislative investigation of al- leged “favoritism, irregularities and corruption” in the liquor department drew this quick retort from the Gov- ernor: “He has hounded this office * * * and the liquor department for the |granting of * * * special licenses. He admitted that the people in whom he is interested are now bootlegging. | He proposed to favor law violators, which is & questionable practice.” | “Answering that,” replied Harter | from Akron, “in the usual words of | the Governor himself, that is a damn. able lie.” Probe “Welcomed.” Wellington T. Leonard, a bdard member, declared amid the storm: model of the Nation. We welcome any investigation. If anything is wrong, let's have it out.” Franklin County (Columbus) Prose- | cutor Donald J Hoskins had already i promised a thorough investigation of | Harter’s charges. asserted Democratic State Chairman Francis W Poulson had promised a | least one legislator a State job 1 | exchange for a vote against Harter's | resolution for a bipartisan investi- gation Poulson denied the assertion il;;al (Continued Prom First Page.) Chamber was the question of political “fronts” and “leagues,” such as th Left wing popular front, Right wing national front and the nationalistic veterans' organization, Croix de Feu, for civil war. Faces Two Attacks. Laval faced attacks on two fronts— for siding with Great Britain in sanc- tions against Italy for the Ethiopian war, and assaults by the left for his decree laws, cutting salaries of gov- ernment jobholders and, indirectly, wages of many in government-con- trolled or private industries. The left also charged Laval with lenience toward the Croix de Feu forces of Lieut. Col. Francois de la Rocque. This political question was set to come up after the financial debate, threatening possibly fatal conse- quences to the government. Edouard Herriot, minister of state in the Laval cabinet, was most prom- inently mentioned for the premiership in case of a change, but this leader of the dominant Radical-Socialist party was himself already under fire from the right. Laval's friends said he was anxious to keep at least the foreign affairs portfolio in hope of negotiating a final settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian con- fliet. Prepare for Quintuplet Film. TOLLYWOOD, Calif., November 28 {#)—Jean Hershodt, veteran char- acter actor, has been selected to im- pedsonate Dr. Allan Dafoe in the screen story of the Dionne quintuplets. Technicians and actors will leave | Saturday for Callender, Ontario, to fllm the bables, ; “The Ohio liquor monopoly is the ! Harter originally | which accuse one another of arming criticism by pro-Italian conservatives | [ \ SECRET OF GRAVES | DS WITH KLLER Holiday Suspends Hunt for Bodies—Man Suspegted in Nine Deaths. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, November 28, —The fate of nine missing persons re- mained a mystery today as Oklahoma’s fruitless search for bodies paused in obgervance of Thanksgiving day. Chester Comer, 25, itinerant ofl field worker, suspected of slaying persons who gave him rides, died late last night without adding to his mumbled confession of killing two men and a boy and hiding bodles, “oh, piles of bodies.” Fneumonia developed after Comer had been shot in the head during a pistol duel with an officer at Blanchard Monday. Attorney Missing. What befell Ray Evans, prominent Shawnee attorney, who disappeared a week ago last Tuesday? His car was found in a ditch near Maysville, where Comer allegedly abandoned it. What became of L. A. Simpson, Piedmont farmer, and his son Warren, 14, missing since Saturday? Comer was in their motor car when cornered and shot. These three, officers said, Comer admitted-he had killed Other questions Comer’s death left unanswered were Where is his first wife, Elizabeth Childers Comer, and his second wife, Lucille Stevens Comer, who have not been seen by their relatives or heard from in months? New Mexico Mystery. Could Comer have told the story behind the disappearance of Mr. and Mrs, George M. Lorius and Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Heberer of East St. Louis, II1, in New Mexico last Summer? The search for a trace of the miss- ing persons will continue. said Col. Charles W. Daley, head of the State Crime Bureau. “We have run down every faint clue ¥ he said. “National Guardsmen. voi- | unteers and peace officers have search- | ed every likely place. The investiga« tion will go on.” Acquitted in Child's Death. SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 28 (A —William N. Raugh was ace quitted vesterday of a manslaughter charge brought after Patricla O'Hare, 8, was found dead in his fish pond around which he had strung an elece tric wire to keep out dogs and cats. | . | Prisoner Sends Holiday Checks To Theft Victims Convict Plans to Make Full Amends Through His Savings., | By the Associated Press | CLEVELAND, November 28.—FPive Cleveland families received Thanks- giving greetings in the form of checks yesterday from Joseph Russell, who is | serving a term of 55 years in Ohio Penitentiary. The checks, totaling $90.60. were sent to persons who were victims of Russell’s depredations eight years ago, when he was known to police as “Specs,” the “goggles bandit,” and a very troublesome person. Philip Segel, a butcher, received a check for $20, the amount he turned over to Russell in 1927. Alex Pram, who once operated a small confece tionery store, received $20. A. C. Stevenson received $10.60. the amount he lost in the robbery of a drug store in 1927. Two other $20 checks were distributed, one to Mrs. Margaret Stasz, another to H. W. Chapman. Russell went to prison in 1927 when he was 19. He had played the trom- | bone and he soon became soloist in the prison orchestra. He started writing, first being suc- cessful in selling articles to a na- tionally known music magazine. He began to earn money in this way and | decided to repay his victims. He is having more trouble repaying them, however, than he had in robbing them, Police and officials of the Clevelan Association of Criminal Justice s: there were about 50 victims. Russell finally obtained a list of them. He purchased a typewriter and sent out | letters informing them of his inten. | tions. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Nation Will Give Thanks Per Usual Formula. SANTA MONICA, Calif., November | 28.—Folowing a set formula, comes now Thanksgiving. Anmnually, our President calls on one and all to give thanks, whether we've got any- thing to give thanks for or not. Thus, every year, is created a great national festival and, some years, | a proof that the | American people still have their | sense of humor left anyhow. So some go to church and give thanks, but more § g0 to the foot ball game, primed for especially sincere celebration if the right team wins. Hip-hip hurrah, with the accent upon whichever hip the quart is being carried on. In further observance, nearly every= body overeats. All civilized nations know that no holiday is complete without its indigestion tablets. Say it with hiccups. When I think back on the second helpings of cranberry sauce I've taken just to prove I was a patriotic citizen, I could burst out crying. And the squash pie, disguised in pumpkin's clothing, and the hot mince pie, and the gummy goo inside the turkey. Oh, turkey dressing! How many crimes are committed in thy name! Personally, I shall be in a’ duck- blind, giving thanks that teal are no faster and sprigtails no smarter. It's very saddening, being worsted in an intellectual contest with a sprigtailed duck. ight. 1035, by the North 1 'nn: 1935, by the Nogth American | |