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_A—2 x=» JAPAN INCREASES MILITARY BUDGET 46.8 of Estimates for Year to Go for Army and Navy. BACKGROUND— Under domination of militaristic clique, Japanese government has pursued course of aggression in Asia since 1931, insisted upon in- creased army, navy strength. Do- mestic eflect has been increase of tazes, burden of budget deficit; public debt increasing about 750,- 000,000 yen ($200,000,000) per year. Current military venture exrten- sion of influence over five North China provinces, adjoining Jehol and Manchuria, already under Jap- anese control. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 30.—The Japa- nese Army and Navy won cabinet ap- proval today for their greatest budget appropriations in the empire's history. Smaller than their original demands, a rhinor concession by the military permitted a compromise. A week-long stormy dispute over the framing of the budget for the fistal year starting next April 1, culminat- | ing in a 21-hour cabinet session, ended et 9 am, when the ministers agreed 4638 per cent of the total estimates should go to the army and navy. Cabinet acceptance of the estimates virtually assured their passage at the gession of Parliament opening De- cember 24. The new budget provided that the navy—determined to be built up to complete treaty strength by some time in 1937—should receive 552,000,000 yen (about $159,480,000). compared to 630,000,000 yen for 1835-36. The army engaged in movements in North China receives 508,000,000 §en (about $146,870.000), compared | to 491,000000 yen for the current budget period. The total new budget calls for 2,- 271,000,000 yen (about $658.590,000), compared to the present 2,122,000,000 jen. S’Defense Ministers Mineo Osumi of the navy and Yoshiyuki Kalashima of the army had asked larger grants during the days of heated debate, cit- ing Japan's relations with the United States, Soviet Russia and China as reasons for greater funds. A bond issue of 680,000,000 yen will be necessary to balance the new budget, maintaining the empire’s fall into debt. NEW STATE REPORTED. Provinces io Form Autonomous Re- gime, Shanghai Told. SHANGHAT, November 30 (#).—The correspondent of the Japanese News What’s What Behind News In Capital Light Opera Touch Is Seen in New Chinese State. BY PAUL MALLON. HE diplomats here used to get | excited at every step of Japa- nese aggression in China. Now they are doing very little view- ing with alarm. No one even took the trouble to laugh at the Gilbert and Sullivan touch behind Japan's latest move. The Mikado's men assured diplomats of the Western powers that the estab- lishment of the autonomous regime in Hopei Province under Gen, Yin Ju-Keng was purely a Chinese domes- tic affair, They failed to mention that Yin is married to-a Japanese whose brother is a high-ranking Jap- anese military official. The puppet strings on him will work easily. No protest is likely from us. The inner sanctum of the State De- partment takes the view that a protest would do no good, so why bother? Britain is maintaining close collab- oration with the State Department on both the Far Eastern and Italian was problems. But it is being done so quietly that the methods of the dis- tinguished British Ambassador, Sir Renald Lindsay, have lately also de- veloped & light opera touch. In speculation about his visit to the State Department, Sir Roland recently has favored the back stair entrance order to avoid publicity and and exit. He slips in and out that way, hustles along the corridors, in hopes that no one will see him. Alas, his hopes 5o far have been in | vain. News men have arranged a check on his movements which per- mit them to know about his visits soon after he has stepped out of the doors of his Embassy palace. Farley is Opposed. Those who are close to Postmaster General Farley are saying he does not THE EVENING STA PRESIDENT SHOWS SHIFTED STRATEGY “Point With Pride” 1936 Campaign Plan Instead of “View With Alarm.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt revealed in his Georgia speech the strategy of the 1936 campaign for re-election. Whereas in 1932, Mr. Roosevelt ap- pealed to the discontent of the Na- tiop, he will in 1936 appeal to the con= tentment of the people. His objective in speeches and statements will be to prove that the American Nation has progressed toward a sound recovery. This change of tactics from 1932 is natural and inevitable. Forg ob- viously, to argue that conditions are bad and that something must be done about it is to admit that the Roose- velt administration, though in power nearly three years, hasn't remedied the condition. It was easy enough to blame the Hoover administration in 1932 when Mr. Roosevelt, as the po- litical saying goes, “Viewed with alarm,” but now he must, of course, “Point with pride.” The President’s optimism about present conditions, his statement that the Federal Relief Administration can g0 out of business and liquidate and that there are more than 3,000,000 persons in work relief jobs will carry a certain amount of hope, but it will not prove convincing unless the ex- penditures for relief show a corre- sponding decrease. Will the trans- fer of relief to the States and cities increase their debt? Bankers’ Debt View. Mr. Roosevelt, for example, says bankers told him in March, 1933, that the United States could stand a public debt of between fifty-five and seventy billion dollars and that he has no in- tention of plunging the country into anywhere near that debt figure. But he was talking only of Federal debt. Today the Pederal debt is twenty- nine biilions and the State and muni- cipal debt is another twenty billions, having risen considerably in the de- pression, so that the total govern- mental debt is already in the neigh- borhood of fifty billions and will con- tinue to go up If the States and cities must absorb the people who are being transferred back to their relief rolls. ‘There’s another important aspect to Mr. Roosevelt's figures. He gave the impression by his contrasts that the Hoover administration really increased the total public debt more than has the Roosevelt administration. He pro- care for President Roosevelt's idea of supporting the independent Re- publican Senator Norris. Mr. Farley | himself has hinted as much privately to one or two Democratic Congress- men. Several of them have gone to | him protesting. What irks them most is that Agency (Rengo) reported from Tient- $in * tonight that Gen. Sung Cheh- Yuan, commander of the Peiping- “Tientsin garrison, had issued a circular telegram proclaiming the intention of Hopéh and Chahar Provinces to form an autonomous state. A yehement protest against alleged Japapese seizure of the Chinese post office in the North China demilitarized zone was presented today in China's third note to Japan within two days. Simultaneously, the foreign office mddressed identical notes to all em- bassies and legations in China, de- mnouncing the autonomous regime set up by Yin Ju-Keng in the demili- tarized zone of which he was Chinese pdministrator. The third Chinese note to Japan followed those filed yesterday, charg- ing the Japanese Army with respon- sibility for the North China autonomy movement and protesting seizure of the Fengtai railway junction point east of Peiping. At Tientsin Thinese sources re- ported 10 trainloads of fresh Japanese troops arrived at Shanhaikuan, east- ern gateway of the Great Wall from Mukden, Manchukuo. e NAVAL DELEGATION SAILS FOR LONDON Davis Hopeful Conference Will Prevent Warship Build- ing Race. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 30.—The | American delegation to the London Naval Conference was on high seas, bound for London today, avowedly hoping to prevent a warship building Face by the world powers. Norman H. Davis, head of the dele- [pation, expressed its hopes as the group sailed on the Aquitania. “The American delegation is pro- teeding to London imbued with the Bpirit of the good neighbor,” he said last night. “Our attitude will be one of ‘friendliness and good will. . “We fully recognize the importance €0 purselves as well as to all naval powers of avoiding competitive naval biillding. We shall, therefore, co- operate in every earnest effort to bring about an accord.” | Senator Guffey, chairman of the | Democratic Senatorial Campaign | Committee, has chimed in with the | President, They think Guffey’s job |is to support Democratic nominees | only. They say if Norris wants Demo- | cratic indorsement he should seek the Democratic senatorial nomination. Probably nothing will be done about it. Ez-Director of Budget Lewis Douglas has dug up the whole of Woodrow Wilson's “horse and buggy days” statement on the Constitu- tion. It puts an entirely different light on Wilson's views frqm that originally indicated by President Roosevelt's citation. Wilson said the Constitution was back to the time of “horses and temptation to overstep proper bounda- interpreting the of words * States.’ * Which part of the com- plex commerce may Congress regulate? Clearly any part of the actual move- ment of merchandise and persons from State to State. May it also regulate the conditions under which the merchandise is produced which is presently to become the subject matter | of interstate commerce? May it reg- | ulate the conditions of labor in field and factory? meaning LOOKIT. “Clearly not, I should say; and I should think that any thoughtful lawyer who felt himself at liberty to be frank would agree with me.” * * * “If the Federal power does not end with the regulation of the actual movement of trade, it ends nowhere, and the line between State and Fe eral jurisdiction is obliterated * * *” This is a horse with a different ‘buggy. (See Woodrow Wilson, “Constitu- tional Government in the United States,” Columbia University Press, 1908, pp. 169-171, 191-192) Land of Plenty. A check of Government figures on food imports indicates they have amounted to about $100,000,000 more during the first 10 months of this year than in the same period last Letters carried by Inca run- ners were varis colored, knot* ted cords. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS 2 'ON! of the most interesting forms of communication, of which ex- amples are rare, was the Quipu mes- used by the Incas, Mayas and ecs. These races had a pictorial writing but transmitted communica- tions in the form of colored strings knotted in various complicated fash- jons. There was & main cord from which dangled smaller knotted cords erent lengths and colors similar to m These were carried by an . year. Corn importations have jumped frem 1,000,000 bushels to 39,000,000; wheat has quadrupled from 4,500,000 to 19,000,000; rye from 3,000,000 up to 9,000,000; oats from 1,500,000 to 10,- 000,000. These grains are coming mostly from Argentina and Canada. The value of butter imports has leaped from $1,000,000 to $22,000,000; meat products from $51,000,000 to $95,000,000. The A. A. A. boys are trying to lay it on the drought, but it appears to be at least equally attributable to the curtailment program. House Appropriations Chairman Buchanan is supposed to have & sub- stantial group of Congress behind him in his move to curtail the budget. If Mr. Roosevelt does not do it, they say they will, but there is some ques- tion about that. The trouble is 1936 is a campaign year. Every Representative is up for re-election. Most of them will be for economy in all districts, except their own. (Oopyright, 1935.) Bandits Claim to Be Students. JEFFERSON, Wis. (#).—Hans Krause, tavern keeper, told the police three youths bound him and two pa- trons and stole $35 which the robbers said they needed te help pay their way through school. A fourth young man, who waited cutside in an suto- mobile, damaged a customer’s car to prevent purmiit, ¥ ceeded to credit his own administra- | tion with recoverable assets without | Tegard to the fact that these assets | were created under previous admin- | istrations. It is an important point, and Mr. Roosevelt has made the same kind of mistake that Dr. Rexford Tugwell made on this in his famous Los Angeles speech, which figures Mr. | Roosevelt, in a subsequent press con- ference, spoke of as “wild.” To un- | derstand the mistake, it is necessary | to repeat the paragraph in Mr. Roose- | velt's prepared speech, which reads | a8 follows: | “As 2 matter of actual fact, of | course, the gross national debt under the last administration rose from a little over $17,000,000,000 to $21,000- 000,000.” Hoover Debt Increase, This means, of course, that the Hoover adininistration increased the public debt by $4,000,000,000. Now note how Mr. Roosevelt refers to his own administration: | _ “Since March 4, 1933, the national not meant to hold the Government | debt has risen from $21,000,000,000 to elief administrations, or the amount | | $29,500,000,000, but it must be remem- wagons,” but added: * * * “The bered that today included in this Federal allotment. | figure is nearly $1,500,000,000 of work- ries has been particularly great in|ing balance in the Treasury and| the | nearly $4,500,000,000 of recoverable |* merce among the several | 8ssets which the Government will get | PT' back over a period of years, and which will be used for retirement of debt.” The plain inference intended to be derived from the above is that, while | Mr. Hoover increased the debt about | four billions, the Roosevelt adminis- tration actually increased it not $: 500,000,000 but only $2,500,000,000 because the working balance and re- coverable assets permitted the sub- traction of six billions. Ts such a subtraction fair, however? The loans made by the R. F. C. and other Government agencies prior to Mr. Hoover’s regime totaled about $2,- 115,000,000 of recoverable assets, of which $1,750,000,000 at least should be credited to the Hoover administra- tion and not to the public debt of the succeeding administration in this kind of a comparison, This means that, instead of sub- tracting from the $8,500,000,000 in- crease in public debt under the Roose- velt administration a six billion fig- ure, the amount subtracted should be nearer four billion. The remainder obtained would reveal for the Roose- velt regime a net increase in the pub- lic debt of about $4,500,000,000 in two years and & half, as compared with about $2,250,000,000 for the Hoover ad- ministration in its entire four-year period, Figures in Other Words. Had Mr. Roosevelt spoken of the its debts irrespective of what admin- istration incurred them, he could have said that there were $4,500,000,000 re- coverables and that the present public debt of $29,500,000,000 would be re- duced to $25,000,000,000 some day if the debts pay out at 100 cents on the dollar and if the public debt isn't in- creased either by further expenses or by losses arising out of the enormous contingent liability which Uncle Sam now has in farm and city mortgages and in other Government enterprises. ‘The President made no mention of these contingent liabilities, yet in any balance sheet of private business they would loom large and important and be a considerable factor in determin- ing whether & business deserves oredit. The Federal Government, according to the latest Treasury figures, has about $4,150,000,000 in these contingent or guaranteed liabilities which are an obligation of Uncle S8am if not paid by the borrowers. The authority has been granted to run this total up to about $8,000,000,000. But, assuming that the contingent debt doesn't rise any higher than it is today, it is a safe assumption that there will be Government losses here and on the $4,500,000,000 of other re- coverables. The Hoover administra- tion had no such contingent liabilities. The President is right in one thing—the credit of the Government is sound today, because business “is improving and wealth is increasing in value. His promise of decreasing deficits is welcome news. Financial experts have never been doubtful about America’s capacity to absorb even the Roosevelt debt, provided the spending did come to an early end and business was given a chance to be collected. 1088 L) Government of the United States and | unm-dhu'mhunlml ‘wounded. WASHINGTON, D. ©, Livermore Flies SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1935. Left: Jesse Livermore, noted market operator, and his present wife shown at the Kansas City Airport yestcrday en route to Los Angeles, where Jesse Livermore, jr., 15, his son by a former marriage, lies critically Police officials said the lad's mother shot him. Right: Undersheriff Jack Ross of Santa Barbara, Calif,, shown holding the gun and empty cartridge which figured in the shooting of young Livermore. Relief (Continued From First Page.) tensions of direct relief untll pay checks are received. 2. About 4,000,000 unemployables— the blind, crippled, widows with de- pendent children and others who are unable to work—are to receive no further Federal assistance and must depend on State and communities and the just-starting social security pen- sion system. Williams maintained, however, that | | both these problems would be solved. | | He said efforts were being made to | speed up delivery of work-relief pay checks. Most State and communities, which already have $500.000,000 to spend on unemployables this year, he added, could provide more. With 26 States and the District of Columbia already cut off Federal aid, the 22 receiving final allotments yes- | terday were . California, Florida, Il- | linois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachu- | setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsyl- vania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Mon- | tana, Washington, West Virginia and | Wisconsin, the territories of Alaska, | Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Telling newspaper men he wanted them “to keep it right,” Williams em- phasized that the State relief admin- istrators have a free hand in spending | | their final allotments. Quickly he | added, however, that there wouldn't| | be any more from Washington. | “We are projecting this on a realis- tic basis, meeting the needs in the States in anticipation of this employ- ment program,” he said. “The money will be used by these people to get them out of relief, including all obli- gations that we have authorized be- ! fore.” | Williams asserted he did not know the amount of unpaid bills of State of carry-over into December of the He said the money was distributed on a three-fold basis: 1. “Progress of the employment ogram.” 2. “What they've got in unencum- | bered balances of our money.” 3. “What they've got in the way | of problems and what they have of their own money.” Reviving the phrase “to end this business of relief” which President | | Roosevelt used in asking Congress for | | this year's $4,880.000,000 appropria- | tion, Williams said the States “may be using up some of this money six months from now.” i RECEPTION PLEASES PRESIDENT. Atlanta Speech Regarded as Keynote to Campaign, | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. WARM SPRINGS, Ga, November | 30.—President Roosevelt today is | awaiting the general reaction to his speech yesterday in Atlanta, which is ]lnwrpreud by many in this section as the keynote to his campaign for re-election, It is too early for the President to | get a definite idea of the impression his Atlanta utterances made on the country at large. He probably will not be able to estimate the reaction definitely for & day or so. In the' sixth precinet are shown examining Corinna .- Stains en the car learn whether they were made by 4 | Georgians who were on hand to hear | business and the improved credit 0(1 Examine Car in Loring Case blood. _ (Story on Pape 4-1.) meantime, he is enjoying hundreds of | telegrams and other messages of con- gratulations he has received over- night, many of these coming from far distant points. | In addition, Mr. Roosevelt has care- fully read a number of nearby news- papers and has been gratified by the manner in which his speech was ac- cepted. However, he will feel better satisfled when he has scanned a suf- ficient number of the metropolitan dailies to see how they treated him in their editorial columns. Response Enthusiastic. | ‘There is no mistaking the fact the | President was pleased with the re- | ception accorded him in Atlanta, and especially the enthusiastic response to his speech by the thousands of | him. Mr. Roosevelt would offer no amplification today to his utterances and made it plain that he has no desire to go beyond the text of the | Atlanta speech. 1 The President’s friends are looking forward to some response from indus- | try and business to his optimitic ref- | erences to the great progress made in establishing business and agriculture on a new basis, and to his references to a permanent breathing spell for the country, and the employment sit- uation. Mr. Roosevelt was deeply touched | by the rousing cheers inspired by his| speech yesterday. He mentioned this fact to the two Georgia Senators on the rostrum of the Atlanta Stadium, just before starting back for Warm Springs. Mr. Roosevelt did not linger long in Atlanta after this demonstra- tion. On his motor journey back to Warm Springs he and Mrs. Roosevelt and the members of his party stopped off at Fort McPherson, where they were the luncheon guests of Maj. Gen. Van Horn Moseley, commander of this Army corps area. It was dark when the President ar- rived back home. Despite his stren- uous day and the fact he had stood | for more than 20 minutes in a raw wind to make the address, Mr. Roose- velt displayed no signs of fatigue or weariness afterward. | Charles West, Undersecretary of the Interior, who was active during the last session of Congress as the laision officer between the White | House and Capitol Hill, joined the presidential party at Atlanta and re- turned with the President to Warm | S8prings. The Impression here is that the President desires to discuss with | West his tentative legislative program. With the Atlanta speech out of the | way and his budget labors put aside | until he returns to Washington, Mr. Roosevelt will spend little time at his desk today. It is his purpose to take a rest from toil before he again as- sumes the burdens of his office Mon- day. He went for & swim in the glass- covered pool before noon, and indi- | cated that he will spend the greater part of this afternoon motoring about the country, Auto Weight Tax Favored. Approval of an automobile weight tax and additional gasoline taxes was given yesterday by the District Truck- ing Association. The association recommended, however, that the tax money be used for improvement of streets, highways and related trans- portation facilities, Detective Thomas Nally (left) and Detective C. E. Cannon of the the automobile of Victor Redmond, ‘whe has been arrested for questioning in connection with the murder of are being studied in an effort to to Son’s Side < {velt to Witness Game. ~—Star Staff Photo. | Assistant Secretary, and Latrobe . Roosevelt of Philsdelphis, & cousin. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Livermore (Continued ¥rom First Page) he was a house guest of Mrs. Liver- more’s and engaged to marry her, re- called that young Livermore then an- notinced, “I'm going. to get sodden | drunk so mother will know how it | looks and she will stop her drinking.” ! Neville told Undersheriff Ross that young Livermore raised a bottle of whisky to his lips and his mother an- swered, “I'd rather see you dead than | drinking.” i Young Livermore then obtained the rifie and handed it to his mother, Neville said, saying, “Well, here you are.” From anéther room, Neville said, he heard a shot. Neville found the boy lying wounded on the floor and Mrs. Livermore be- | side him, crying, “I've shot my boy! | I've shot my boy!” | The son's face brightened, hospital | attaches said, as the distraught gray- | haired broker exchanged greetings ! with him. Fighting back tears, the ! | elder Livermore told of his trip and | the boy appeared to muster rapt at- | tention. | With his third wife, the former | Harriet Metz Noble, of Omaha, Liver- more slipped out a side door of the hospital a few minutes later, ap- parently to seek rest at a hotel. AELNTRIN 30-BILLION DEBT SEEN IN DECEMBER Treasury’s Borrowing l;llnl to Be Announced Monday—May Total $500,000,000. By the Associated Press. The Treasury's December borrowing plans—to be announced Monday—to- | day held potentialities for pushing the public debt above $30,000,000,000. The extent of the rise depended, of course, on how much new borrowing, as distinguished from the refunding of maturing securities, was intended. | |For the time being, the figure was carefully guarded. However, some who follow the sit- uation contended that, in the light | of the Treasury's current cash posi- tion the amount might run to $500,- 000,000, which would carry the debt to another all-time peak of more than $30.000,000,000. It stood yesterday at $29,585,000,000. Possibly preparing the public mind for the announcement, President Roosevelt, speaking in Atlanta yester- day, said that early in his adminis- tration the banking fraternity told him the country “could safely stand a national debt of between $55,000,- 000,000 and $70,000,000,000. At the same time he asserted he had no idea of running the debt to any such figure. He told the bankers, he said, “that only a moderate in- crease in the debt fop the mext few years seemed likely and justified. He | added: “That objective holds good to- day.” YOUTH HELD IN SLAYING Declared to Have Killed Father Following Threat. TAYLORSVILLE, N. C, November 30 (A).—Willard Teague, Alexander County youth, surrendered to officers here yesterday and was held in jail pending completion of an investiga- tion into the slaying of his father Porter Teague, Thursday night. Officers said Teague told them he shot his father when the elder Teague advanced on him with an ax, follow- ing & midnight quarrel. The father was shot through the heart and died instantly. Admirals Decamp For Grid Classic; Swanson Remains Mrs. Swanson, Mrs. Wil- son and Col. H. L. Roose- ‘There was scarcely a “corporal’s guard” of admirals around the Navy Department today, as most of the high officials joined the trek to the Army- Navy foot ball classic at Philadelphia. Secretary Swanson, however, re- mained in Washington. Those close to him said it was too chilly for the more than 70-year-old cabinet officer to brave the Wintry winds. In the Navy Secretary’s box at the game will be Mrs. Swanson, Mrs. ‘Woodrow Wilson, Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, commandant of the Marine Corps; Douglas Hall and Capt. and Mrs. Frank Jack Fletcher. Capt. Fletcher is aide to Secretary Sawson. In the Assistant Secretary’s box will be Col. and Mrs. Henry L. Roosevelt and _their daughter Eleanor, Lieut. Comdr. Jerauld Wright, aide to the WIDE NEUTRALITY ASKED BY.NORRIS Favors Extension of Ban to Incfude War-Purpose of All Sorts. By the Associated Press. Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska, lone survivor of the six Sen- ators who voted against American entrance into the World War, favors an extension of the neutrality act to embrace bans against all war-purpose commodities—"“including cotton, steel and everything else.” The veteran of the little group who also helped defeat the armed neu- trality bill of 1917 expressed his views yesterday as Augusto Rosso, Italian Ambassador, made his second visit to the State Department in three days. Officially, he explained the call was for a “general discussion” with Assist- ant Secretary of State Moore. Unofficially, major significance was attached to the incident in view of Italy'’s battle against League of Na- tions economic sanctions and espe- cially against a proposed blocking of the flow of the vital commodity, oil. Current American oil exports to Italy have been the subject of administra- | tion scrutiny. : Norris Hits League Policy. Norris insisted that the United States should remain completely dis- associated from the League’s sanctions program. “That,” he said of participation, “would immediately get us into the war itself. It would be a war policy, not a peace policy.” He conceded that a broad ban on shipment of American goods to bel- ligerents “would hurt us some, but it would hurt a lot less than to get into war.” “There can’t be any great war with- out our getting hurt,” he said. “But I don't think we ought to set up pri- vate gains against the destruction of human life.” Would Extend List. Norris said he felt Congress should extend the present neutrality -legisla- tion “to all articles that can be di- and steel and everything else.” He said this should include also oil—a commodity vitally necessary to pres- ! ent-day war machines. “Such a law ought to be mandatory against both nations,” he said. “If we want to deal with one nation dif- ferently, it ought to be up to Con- gress, and if we ever found it necés- sary to make an exception Congress should make it, because the exception might mean war.” $9,000,000 BAUSCH SUIT IS SETTLED Aluminum Co. of America Makes Payment to End Litigation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 30.—Attor- neys for the Bausch Machine Tool Co. of Springfield, Mass., Aluminum Co. of America announced today that their $9,000,000 damage suit, in litigation for seven years, had been settled out of court. The amount of the settlement was not announced, although persons con- nected with the case said that it was & comparatively small sum in favor of the Bausch Co. which had sued the Aluminum Co. for heavy dam- ages under the Sherman anti-trust act. On March 9 of this year a jury in the United States District Court at Hartford, Conn, awarded the Springfield company damages of $956,- 000, which under the Sherman act was automatically trebled into a $2,- 868,000 award against the Aluminum Co. of America. Case Is Ordered Back. The Federal Circuit Court of Ap- peals in New York on September 16 reversed the jury decision and ordered the case back to trial for the third time. DEMERDJIS PREMIER Greek Law Professor Accepts Post Under King George. ATHENS, November 30 (#)—Con- stantine Demerdjis, law professor and | former minister, announced today his acceptance of the premiership under recalled King George II. If Demerdjis succeeds in forming a cabinet, he is expected to sign meas- ures granting a wide amnesty, dis- solving the national assembly and ordering new elections. Irvin S. Cobb " Says: Picking World’s Best Dressed Women and Men Irks Him. SANTA MONICA, Calif., November 30.—I don't know when I've been so stirred up—just panting like a lizard on & hot rock. Every day, seems like, I read that a jury of experts has solemnly se- lected the 10 best groomed men. (Only horses had grooms when daddy was a boy.) or the 10 best dressed women. Or the 10 hottest hostesses. Or the 10 most ideally married couples— Hollywood en- tries barred for gougingin the clinches, Now I hear they're picking the 10 most prominent debutantes that our leading movie idol is likely to be snuck up on by. I can hardly wait. When the really vital competitions are closed, would it be asking too much of the judges to name, say, the 10 human beings who contributed most to the world’s betterment this past year? Or how about a better com- mittee in each town to choose the 10 worthiest cases for Christmas relief? No, on second thought, I guess not. In such lists as these there's practi- | cally no sex appeal. Still Lincoln's Gettysburg address was sort of shy on sex appeal, too, !:lfl 1t? (Copyright. 1035. by the Mgli.)hlnflfl.n and the POTATO TAX AT INEFFECT TONIGHT A.A.A. Officials Toil to Com- plete Preparations for Crop Curbing. By the Associated Press. A. A. A, officials worked hurriedly today completing preparations for the newest venture in crop regulation— compulsory tax control of potato proe duction. effective at midnight tonight. The drastic and controversial potato | law, passed at the last session cf Congress, provides for a tax of three- fourths of a cent a pound on all potatoes harvested after December 1 and sold in excess of a national 2l- lotment. An allotment of 226,600,000 bushels was fixed by the A. A. A. on Novema ber 1. Officials said grower commite tees in Florida, Louisiana. Texas and California now are working on indie vidual allotments. Work on such al- | lotments will be begun in other states as rapidly as possible, they said. The first potatoes of the new crop, to which the control system applies, probably will be ready for harvest late in December. Each grower will | receive from a county committee tax- exemption stamps to cover the amount of his allotment. The law says these stamps must be attached to packages when the potatoes are sold. Buyers ’,nnrl sellers of unstamped potatoes are | liable to a $1,000 fine, but A. A. A. officials say they will suggest an amendment to exempt the consumer | from this. A. A. A officials expressed belief the national allotment was large enough to cover the amount of po- tatoes usually sold in a year and that few persons would be required to pay taxes. The law says a grower should have an automatic allotment of 5 bushels, but officials said they believed they could increase this to 50 bushels. The tax-exemption stamps are the size of the ordinary postage stamp, gray in color, and printed in denom- inations of 2 to 50 pounds. Tax-paid stamps will be issued for growers of potatoes in excess of allot- ments, or for those who do not desire allotments. They are the size of a | rectly or indirectly used for the manu- | Special-delivery stamp, in 13 denome | facture of munitions, including cotton | inations ranging from 1 to 200 pounds. While preparing for enforcement of the law. officials have indicated they will seek modification of some pro- visions, | —— PURSUED 10 MILES, DRIVER FINED $300 16 Cases of Alleged Liquor Seized. Seven Charges Included in Arraignment. A wild chase which covered most of the extreme northwest section and | ended when the fugitive car stalled after running for two blocks on a railroad, resuited in the arrest early today of William F. Smith, colored, 1500 block of Fifth street, and the seizure of 16 cases of alleged liquor. When arraigned before Judge John | P. McMahon in Traffic Court, Smith | was sentenced to pay fines of $50 or serve 50 days each on five charges of passing stop signs and $25 or 25 days each on charges of speeding and driving on the wrong side of the street. His total sentences were $300 or 300 days. | In the United States Branch of Po- lice Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt or- | dered him held for the grand jury on a charge of possession of untaxed liquor. Sergt. George C. Deyoe and Pvt. William McEwen, accompanied by Federal Agent John T. Fisher, started after Smith at Eighteenth street and Florida avenue and traveled over ap- proximately 10 miles of city streets before Smith is alleged to have driven off of Sixteenth street into the woods, | continued to the railroad tracks and then to have turned left toward Silver Spring, Md., on the railroad right of way. He was finally stopped when his crank case was knocked off and all his oil ran out. NEW CITIZENS' UNIT SELECTS OFFICERS Progressive Summit Park Associa- tion Names Whipp Presi- dent. William R. Whipp was elected presi- | dent of the newly organized Progres- sive Summit Park Citizens’ Association | at a meeting last night in the East Washington Heights Baptist Church. Other officers elected were John T. Schnopp, first vice president; John Wolff, second vice president; Edwin L. Ford, treasurer; Lloyd B. Fields, financial secretary, and Mrs. Olga Blankenship, secretary. Composed of some members who withdrew from the Summit Park Cit- izens' Associaticn as well as a number of new ones, the new association seeks to have stricter building regulations enforced in the area, according to President Whipp. One of thesfirst actions of the new group was to distribute safety pledges of The Star Safety Council to be | signed by members. | Although not in attendance at last | night’s meeting, more than 50 mem- bers were admitted to membership, with the promise that an additional 20 or 30 more would be admitted by he next meeting date, the first Thurs- day of January. It was decided to hold the next meeting at this time % "m as not to conflict with the Christe i | mas holidays. —_— FEDERAL SCHOOL ASKED An effort to establish a national school of governmental affairs, whose graduates would do away with “brain trusters,” was promised yesterday by | Representative Disney, Democrat, of Oklahoma. “That would fix things up so each administration would not have a pet | brain trust,” Disney said. “We would | have scholars on government in the | Government. | Woman Fined $1 in Slaying. PORTLAND, Oreg., November 30 | #P).—Agnes Spadefore was fined $1 and given a suspended 18-month jail | sentence yesterday for killing her hus- | band, Carl Spadefore, 44, with a stove iron. | Convicted of manslaughter after | testifying she struck him because he beat her, Mrs. Spadefore was paroled by Circuit Judge John Winter that she might care for her five children, L)