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COURT CONSIDERS VITAL DECISIONS A, A. A, T. V. A and Bank- head Acts Weighed Pre- liminary to Rulings. By the Associated Press. “The nine justices of the Supreme Court assembled in their conference room today to debate decisions in four attacks on the constitutionality of New Deal legislation. 3 In this regular Saturday discussion of cases on which arguments have been completed, the court may make up its mind on the validity of the | Tennessee Valley Authority act, the agricultural adjustment act, amendments, and the Bankhead cot- ton control act. However, the proceedings are strict- Iy private, and no announcement was expected before January 6 at the ear- liest. At the court merely attempts to agree on @ decision. If'a decision is reached a justice is chosen to put the opinion into writing later. T. V. A. Arguments End. Arguments on the question whether the Government can go into the elec- tric. power business in connection with the vast Tennessee Valley develop- ment were concluded yesterday after- noon. James M. Beck, former solicitor general, branded T. V. A. as “revolu- tionary” and “socialistic,” while So- licitor General Stanley Reed replied that it was wholly within the Consti- tution. Among other things, the Govern- ment contends Muscle Shoals was designed primarily as an aid to navi- | gation and that the sale of power is incidental to this main purpose. Reed has admitted the law would be un- constitutional if the generation of power was the primary purpose. Among business considered likely to be considered today were petitions from the Government and the Carter Coal Co. for a ruling on the Guffey act. This law seeks to regulate the bituminous coal industry by applying and its| the Saturday conferences | What’s What Behind News In Capital President Finds Time for Fun Despite Budget Pressure. BY PAUL MALLON. E President’s playfulness with | his associates inside the White House has not suffered from the recent pressure of budget making, criticism and unfavorable political polis. One day this week was particularly heavy. His engagement list contained a dozen callers. Also a budget con- ference at which there was to be con- siderable fuming and fretting. Mr. Roosevelt found time, however, to dic- tate an unofficial letter to his military | aide, Col. “Paw” Watson, along these general lines: The President will give Col. Watson just 24 hours to answer certain charges. These charges are to the effect that you, Col. Watson, have | been bragging that you bagged two turkeys with one shot at the Wood- mont Gun Club a few weeks ago, whereas the truth of the matter is the turkeys were blind, and you are just trying to injure the reputation of the club champion. Admiral Cary Grayson, who never shoots turkeys which are blind, but only those which are tied. Col. Watson is supposed to have in- vestigated and learned that the charges against him were planted with the President by that great Demo- cratic planter, Bernard M. Baruch. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Film Cinderella MAGAZINE SALESGIRL SIGNS MOVIE CONTRACT. IRENE BENNETT HORSLEY, Of Enid, Okla., 22, who weut to & movie studio in Hollywood to sell magazines and instead won a long- In his reply, the colonel contended that Mr. Baruch could not bag a turkey, except with a fork, after it had been cooked. He demanded a | court of inquiry, which, he said, would prove that the turkeys were blind because he shot both through the eyes with the same shot. & prohibitive tax on coal mined by | concerns which do not abide by code regulations. The District Supreme Court held the act’s price-fixing provisions con- stitutional, but ruled out sections ap- plying to wages and hours. May Combine Suits. Nineteen Kentucky coal concerns also have carried to the high court an appeal from a Guffey case decision in a Kentucky Federal district court. This bench held the act valid. The Government indicates it is willing to have the Kentuckians join the Carter suit. Among controversies heading swift- 1y toward the Supreme Court is one involving the Wagner labor disputes act. In District Supreme Court yes- | terday Justice Jesse C. Adkins refused | to grant an injunction asked by the | Gate City Mills of East Point, Ga..and one of its employes, Mrs. Lola Echols. | ‘Arguing that the Wagner act was | unconstitutional because it attempted | to regulate intrastate industry and threatered to destroy Mrs. Echols’ freedom of contract, the petitioners sdught an injunction to prevent the National Labor Relativns Board from holding an election in the plant. The board had ordered the election to de- termine whether the United Textile ‘Workers represented a majority of the employes. While denying the injunction, Jus- tice Adkins granted a stay. This sus- pends the election until the Circuit Court of Appeals decides the case. An injunction would have banned the election. MAX HERRMANN, 48, STAR EMPLOYE, DIES Funeral Services This Afternoon for Lifelong Resident of Capital. Max Herrmann, 48, a pressman at | The Star, where he had been em- ployed 29 vears, died Thursday at his ' can warships being constructed in pri- | home, 1228 Owens place northeast, | after a short ill- | ness. He was a lifelong resident | of Washington. | Mr. Herrmann | was recording secretary of the | Newspaper Press- men’s Union, No. | 6, and a member | of the Saenger-| bund Club of| Prince Georges County. | Funeral services were to be held today at 2 pm, at the residence, ‘with Rev. Dr. C. H. Corkran, pastor of the Douglas Memorial Methodist Ebpiscopal Church, officiating. Burial was to be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Herrmann is survived by his widow, Mrs. Adele Herrmann; three sons, Philip, Oscar and Richard, and two daughters, Mrs. M. E. Nuthall and Miss Gertrude Herrmann. Max Herrmann, — = Mexico Banks in Rio Grande. MEXICO, D. F. (#).—Construction of levees to curb the annual Ric Grande floods is being pushed by the Mexican government. g@sw s s O3 The first trans- Atlantic mail by dirigible was brought into Canada in 1919 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS THE first transatlantic delivery of L mail by air took place in 1919 when the R-34 of England dropped 14 letters in Nova Scotia after a flight from England lasting from July 2 to July 6. The dirigible also carried | new board comes into being. All of the inside crowd doubt that a court of inquiry will be held. There term contract as an’ actress. She will use the name of Irene Ben= nett for her movie career. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MUSSOLINI SPURS AFRICAN CAMPAIGN to Franco-British Peace Terms. |is grave suspicion that a fair trial | would disclose a certain amount of Democratic propaganda in these con- tentions. The best shot in or near the club is known to be a Republican, and, worse, a Hoover Republican— Larry Richey, former secretary to Mr. Hoover. He never kills a turkey until he has shot off all its feathers, one by one. This saves time in dressing it. Why Credit Action Delayed. The meeting of the Federal Re- serve Board Open Market Commit= tee was mot as firm as its pub- lished statement indicated. More than one of the authorities on the board are supposed to have sug- gested that the logical time to in- crease reserve requirements and to impose margin restrictions on banks, is now, before the trouble starts. The four announced rea- sons for delay should have included a fifth reason, which was not men- tioned. This is that the terms of all board members expire in about 30 days. The majority may have been swayed as much by a desire to avoid commitments for the new board as by anything else. Also. all are supposed to be official or unofficial candidates for reappoint- ment. For this sufficient fifth reason, the best-informed authorities on that sub- ject now expect no action until the Story Behind Insurance Order, A significant confidential story lies behind the inconsequential insurance announcement made the other day by the Navy Department. The an- noucement said that, hereafter, Ameri- can insurance companies will under- write the full building risk on Ameri- vate yards. No explanation came from an offi- cial source, but American insurance authorities feel that recent case: suspected sabotage may have had something to do with it. First there was a fire in a shipyard where a most modern fighting ship is being constructed, then a bad “accident” to the machinery. NOTHING DOLI NG/ | If foreign insurance companies hold the policies, they mnaturally send erpert agents to investigate the extent of the damage. Thus, the ship might as well be con- structed in a goldfish bowl in Times Square, as far as protection of con- struction secrets is concerned. Foreign companies have done most of the underwriting; in fact, about 85 per cent of it in the last 10 years. The reason was that unusually large amounts are involved, sometimes $5,000,000 on a cruiser. American companies can and will now handle it. The peculiar .nickname of “Paw” was awarded to the White House aide, Col. Watson, when he was a cadet at West Point. There were two Wat- sons in his class. To distinguish them, the cadets called one “Paw” and the other “Maw”. The activity of ex-Senator George (“Sons of the Wild Jackass”) Moses is supposed to be causing considerable apprehension in the camp of Senator Keyes. It is being interpreted as a sign that Moses will be a candidate for Keyes' seat. Departing Frank Walker is supposed to have an understanding with Mr. Roosevelt that he will return before June, at the latest, to become Post- master General. That is the new deadline for Mr. Farley to get out before the national convention meets. A Texan writes: “I have come to believe that any man would be a fool to want to be President from 1936 to 1840, with the Senate against him, and the bills to be paid.” A New Yorker received in one day recently six separate treasury letters, mailed from Chicago containing ex- actly the same sales promotion ma- terial for baby bonds. He is writing the Treasury Department that he will buy a bond if he can get a satisfac- tory guarantee that the proceeds will mail on the return trip, which was made down the coast from Canada, qver Long Island and then home. » not be used in such a wasteful dupli- of | Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press. ROME, December 21.—Premier Mussolini showed his disdain for the | discarded Franco-British proposals | | for peace between Italy and Ethiopia {today by refusing even to reply to | them after ordering the East African | campaign to proceed. | An official spokesman said the deci- insued after a session last night. con- | stituted Italy's only answer to the | peace plan. | This decision referred briefly to | British “repudiation” of the proposals and said Italy would go on to the nation's destiny. People “Unshakeably United.” In directing confidently that his armies press on for conquest of Ethi- | opia, Mussolini posed his “unshake- ably united” people against the “dis- organization and contradictions” of sanctionist nations. He declared his conviction that fascism would triumph over both Ethiopia and League sanctions. The Fascist Grand Council, supreme organism of the state, which passes ’se]r‘ issued a communique after a meeting with Mussolini last night, | setting forth three main points: 1. That the Italian people, in con- League states, remain united and firm | in their course, as exemplified by the popular contributions of gold to aid abroad and resistance at home. Confident of Victory. 2. That the Fascist leaders confident of victory in Ethiopia. 3. That the nation will press on relentlessly for achievement of that goal. 11 Duce and his council, citing “dis- | organization and contradictions mani- fested in the conduct of sanctionist countries,” made only passing mention | of the ill-fated peace plan. | They announced that they “exam- ined the political situation as it has born of French initiative.” In support of their confidence over the eventual outcome of the crisis and former finance ‘minister, that em- ployers and workers in industry and agriculture alike backed the Fascist regime in its two-fold campaign. Resistance Intensified. Volpi asserted Fascist confederations solidated more strongly by “prolong- ing of the vain attempt at suffoca- tion” by the League, that producers were making Italy more independent economically under the League siege, and that they would intensify their resistance campaign. The council adjourned until Janu- ary 18, leaving to Mussolini sole com- mand of the military operations in | East Africa and the economic activ- ities in Italy. Accompanying his words with swift action, Il Duce dispatched 4,000 addi- tional Blackshirt militiamen and 800 workmen aboard the steamer Lom- bardia to East Africa to reinforce his armies in the field. At home 1,600,000 women swung into the economic campaign, that number—quintupling the party’s wom- an membership since the League siege began November 18—having joined the Fascist ranks in the fight against sanctions. Italians Expect Victery. Fascist sources said that, the Anglo- French peace plan having failed and League sanctions failing, Italy would eventually be able to conclude the war in Ethiopia—on its own terms— after a decisive military triumph. Before the council met it appointed to its membership Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Il Duce and hero leader of the “‘desperate” air squadron on the northern front. Christmas Seals Why I Buy Them—A Statement by Gen. Malin Craig. “Because every Christmas seal pur- chased will directly aid in saving & life endangered by tuberculosis.” cation of effort. - (Copyright. 1935.) ~ ‘ i (Signed) MALIN CRAIG, Chief of Staff, U, 8. A. 4 Refuses to Reply Formally| | sion_of the Fancist Grand Council, | “goal” designated by Il Duce as the | on measures dictated by Il Duce him- | trast to the conduct of opposition | the simultaneous campaigns of war | are | been determined since the repudiation | by the British of the Paris proposals, | they announced a declaration by | Count Giuseppe Volpi, grand councilor | in industry and agriculture were con- | TIME WRITES ‘30 FOR PAUL COWLES Retired Associated Press Executive Assistant Dies in California. By the Associated Press. SAN MATEO, Calif., December 21. ~Paul Cowles, retired executive as- sistant to the general manager of the Associated Press, died at his home shortly before midnight after an illness of several months. He was 68 years old. Cowles had a varied career in the A. P. service, his assignments in- cluding divisional direction of the service at San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta. He went to New York as executive assistant to Kent Cooper in 1929, retiring about three years ago. Coming to the old Western Asso- ciated PrPess in the 90s, Cowles be- came superintendent in San Fran- cisco, but left that post at the time of the Boxer rebellion to become a war correspondent. He was back in San Francisco to cover the earth- qQuake and fire in 1906. For a short time after his retire- ment he edited the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Press, then moved to San Mateo. He leaves his wife and a daughter by an earlier marriage, Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Creed of Fort Clay- ton, Panama. Funeral services will be held Mon- day at 11 am. at Woodlawn Crematory. Mr. Cowles was an honorary mem- ber of the Institute of Journalists of London. He is also survived by two sisters, Hazel Cowles Crary of Berkeley, Calif., and Mrs, Louis Beardsley of Evans- ton, Il KNOWN TO STAFF AS “P. C.* Glamorous Story of Career Reads Like History, By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 21.—Time tapped out “30” today for “P. C."— | the end of the story for Paul Cowles. For 42 years he had seen and heard that gignal “30”—the newsman's and telegrapher’s sign that he has come to the end of a dispatch or the day's work—flashed across unending wires. He was Paul Cowles to the world, but “P. C.” to every one in the As- sociated Press. The stery of his career reads like pages torn bodily from a history of | the last four decades. He entered the Associated Press service in 1890, and in 1893 he went to Honolulu, immediately after the rev- olution, when Queen Liliuokalani was deposed. In the island paradise he American newspaper readers the po- litical and economic changes which were the aftermath of the native rev- olution. Superintendent in 1898. Then he returned to San Francisco, | to become night manager of the As- ment to the superintendency of the Western division in 1898. Six years later a new power in the Pacific, yet to test its own strength, leaped into the headlines. Japan and Russia went to war. Cowles went to the Orient. While the Czar's forces were being trounced by a nation whose tions, Cowles was in charge of the Associated Press staff that kept a finger on the pulse of conquest. In 1906 he was back in San Fran- | cisco. Disaster struck. The proud city which was the Western gateway |to America was ravaged by earth- | quake and fire. Flames completed the damage started by the earth shocks. Cowles directed the coverage of the event. Twenty years later, in the same city, a President died when he was thought to be recovering. P. C. took nothing for granted. The story of Warren G. Harding's death went first to the world over wires which reached P. Cs office. In 1912, as superintendent of the central division of the Associated Press, with headquarters at Chicago, he directed coverage of the Eastland disaster. A thousand persons drownea in the overturning of the steamship | in the Chicago River. Saw Dayton Flood. The disastrous Dayton, Ohio, flood, too, came under his news jurisdiction. As houses were swept into the mael- strom, Cowles and his staff pictured to the news-reading public the stoic calm with which the populace faced certain death. In 1908 he was made superintendent of the Southern division, with head- quarters in Atlanta, and remained there until his appointment as super- intendent at Chicago in 1912. In 1920, at his own request, he was sent back to San Francisco as super- intendent of the Western division. He was honored by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler in 1928 when the direc- tor of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace selected him to represent American journalism on a two-month tour of the United States by British journalists. He had a wide personal acquaint- ance among newspaper publishers and editors in all parts of the country. He retired from the Associated Press in 1932 after service in New York as executive assistant to the general manager and became for a time editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara, Calif., press, a member of the organization he had served bril- liantly as employe. War __(Continued From First Page) _ Seyoum's followers or survivors of the ‘Takkaze conflict. Italian sources asserted there were continued submissions of chiefs and warriors of Ethiopia’s Ogaden Prov- ince on the southern front. SUPPLY LINES BROKEN. Italian Flyers Report Desta’s Force Is a “Lost Army.” WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY AT DOLO, Italian Somaliland, Thursday, December 19° (delayed) (#)—Italian bombing plane pilots reported today | they had been successful in breaking up the camel supply train of Ras Desta’s Ethiopian column which is trying to reach Italian Somaliland down the Dawa Parma River along the Kenya border. Desta’s column now is called “the lost army,” because the bombers ap- parently have cut off his supplies, causing abrupt moves, back and forth, by the Ethiopian troops. India’s Population. Indis’s population has just been offi- clally plsced st 180,000,000, ; + | remained six months to recite for| sociated Press office until his appoint- | | married Miss Mabel | voice was new to the family of na- | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1935. Send Yuletide Greetings to Far Lands For the third straight year children of diplomats here sent Yuletide greetings yesterday in an international broadcast that reached North and South America and crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific. Nineteen young- sters, representing 16 nations, took part and the United States Marine Band played each of the national anthems. Above are shown Luls Quintanilla, Mexico; Melba de Bayle, Nicaragua: Charles Francis Lombard, France; Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, Norway; Masako Saito, Japan; Castillo Najera, Mexico, Others who took part were Olmedo Alfaro, Ecua dor; Teresa de Yrujo, Spain; Gloria Finot, Bolivia; Mark Mark-Wardlaw, Great Britain; Camilla Torr, Great Britain: Canada; Yolanda Alfaro, Panama; and Leon Leonard, Belgium, PROF. BLISS WEDS SCHOOL REGISTRAR Miss Suzanne Warren Be- comes Bride in New York Ceremony. Prof. Louis D. Bliss, 64, founder and | president of Bliss Electrical School, | Takoma Park, Md., and Miss Suzanne | Warren. 53, registrar of the institution, | were married yesterday in New York City, it was learned here today. | The ceremony was performed in the Church of the Transfiguration late in the afternoon and was attended by only a few persons. Trip to Bermuda. The couple was expected to leave New York today on a honeymoon trip to Bermuda, returning to Takoma Park some time 1n February. Mrs. Bliss will resign her position at the school, it was said. | The bride was general secretary at the electrical school before she be- | came registrar about 12 years ago.| She formerly was active in affairs of the League of Republican Women here. Prof. Bliss founded the electrical | school in 1893 and two years later | Stickney cf‘ Washington. They had three children, | two of whom, Katherine and Donald | Bliss, are living. The first Mrs. Bliss died about three years ago. Born in New York. l Born in Newburgh, N. Y, Prof.| Bliss was educated in private and public schools of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and attended Columbian | College now George Washington Uni- | versity. | He is a director of the Takoma | | Park Bank and the National Metro- politan Bank, a fellow of the Ameri- can Institute of Electrical Engineers, an associate member of the Edison | Pioneers, and belongs to the Federal | Schoolmen’s, Cosmos and University | Clubs, | GLOVER PARK CITIZENS RE-ELECT M. R. WALKER President to Serve His Third Term—Other Officers Are Chosen. Myron R. Walker was re-elected | president of the Glover Park Citizens' Association for his third term last Other officers elected were Irvin Chilcote, first vice president; Frank M. Bright, second vice president; M. J. Wright, secretary; H. Odus Kephart, treasurer, and Henry Jueneman, ser- geant at arms. Walker and Juene- man were named delegates to the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Asscciations. Irvin S. Cobb Says: In Peace, War and at Christmas, Salvation Army Carries On. WESTWOOD HILLS, Calif., Decem- ber 21.—In peace: I knew streets in New York where citizens went at their own risk, and policemen walked in pairs, But some were as safe as though they'd a doctor with his kit; & nurse in :her uniform; a priest or a nun; a preacher or a rabbi, and always a Salvation Army worker. In war: Ask any veteran what organization, no matter how big its personnel, or how fat its purse, outdid the Salvation Army in service to our soldiers, whatsoever the race or the creed or the color. At Christmas: Who sends Santa down cold chimneys to gladden the hearts of children at hearthstones that elsewise would be desolate? Who brings a measure of holiday cheer to the misery-laden, putting clothes on the backs and dinners in the stomachs of the naked and the hungry? So, for their eleventh-hour drive for their Christmas fund, won't you please rally 'round and dig deep? Every cent goes where it should go when you give it to them, for verily 1 tell you, as one who knows, these are the shock troops of the Lord. Wed in Gotham Pola Fotitch, Yugoslavia, Peter Sokolowski, Poland; Sakiko Saito, Japan; Lotte Leitner, Germany; Mary Recinos, Guatemala, and Guillermo Charles Mahoney, —Wide World Photo. ISSUES OF BORAH MOVE CONSIDERED Constitutional Lawmaking and Curb of Monopoly Tentative Planks. By th. Assocfated Press. Two planks—one pledging constitu- | tional lawmaking and the other a| fight against “monopoly”"—are cnnsld-t ered certain to have prominent places in the *“liberal platform” Senator Borah wants the Republican party | | to adopt. The Idaho Senator, who said yester- | | day he would “co-operate fully” with MR. AND MRS. LOUIS D. BLISS. CHARLES (CY) RIGLER, UMPIRE, IS DEAD AT 53 moves to make himself or some other progressive the Republican presidential nominee, has dwelt much on both topics. Friends point to him as an out- standing authority on the Constitu- tion. As for “monopoly,” he has pic- tured that as a major evil. Only by “busting the trusts,” he says, can the Nation regain stable prosperity. Bill to Curb Monopoly. | A bill introduced by him, and now pending, would license all business in | interstate commerce and empower the | Federal Trade Commission to curb ! ‘monopoly. Already W. Kingsland Macy's Re- publican “progressives” in New York are preparing to fight for the smtz'si 90 delegates in a two-fold effort to put over Borah and unhorse the State’s so-called “old guard.” Macy's | long fight against this group cost him | the State chairmanship more than a year ago. | ‘The Macy group also understands | Borah will make a fight in the Ohio | primaries. Dispatches yesterday indi- cated, too, that backers of the Senate | dean were especially active in Massa- chusetts and Wisconsin. Borah himself insisted a liberal | platform is his objective, whether the nomination goes to him or some other progressive. “My primary objective,” he said, “is a convention of liberal delegates which will write a liberal platform By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 21— Charles (Cy) Rigler, National League umpire, died in a hospital today. He was 53. Rigler “called 'em” in more than 6,100 base ball games, but never played in organized base bali. He started as | an umpire in the Central League in night. | 1904 and joined the National League staff in 1906. The single umpire system was in vogue when he started officiating. He is credited with introducing the cus- tom of raising the right arm to denote a called strike, making the gesture when he umpired at Evansville in 1905, Rigler’s home was in Cleveland. In the off-season he was employed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. He was born in Massillon, Ohio. Early | in life he learned the machinist’s trade. Todd (Continued From First Page.) running board of Miss Todd's phaeton, in which her body was found. Cavett sald he believed these indl-l cated the actress struggled for life, almost got out of the machine, and then fell back unconscious. A dra- matic 1aidnight test by the district attorney’s office to determine one hazy circumstance in the case—whether the actress walked up 270 steps from | her sidewalk cafe to the garage and | her death—was disclosed. A woman operative, of Miss Todd’s physical proportions, and dressed similarly in furs, evening gown and dainty slippers, climbed the steps. Her slippers, compared with those of Miss Todd, showed the latter's were | not “scuffed” enough to indicate she made the long, steep climb, investi- gators reported. “And if she didn’t walk to the ga- rage how did she get there?” John- son asked. -“No one has come forward to prove she did walk there.” Heading the list of witnesses noti- fled to appear before the grand jury were Margaret Lindsay, dark-haired film player, ‘and Pasquale Di Cicco, | her reported fiance. Di Cicco, divorced from Miss Todd in 1934, was Miss Lindsay's escort Saturday night at the night club, where his former wife was the guest of Stanley Lupino, English comedian. Roland West, former film director and partner with Miss Todd in her cafe, who testified he locked her out of her adjoining living quarters Sun- day morning, also was subpoenaed, as was Sid Grauman, Hollywood show- man, who made a 2 a.m. call to West for Miss Todd at the nigbt club, £ | and name a liberal candidate.” Shortly after Borah issued the statement, William J. Campbell, Osh- kosh, Wis., lumber man, said he was | a candidate for delegate and pledged to the Senator. Robert M. Washburn, who lost to Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts last year. an- nounced at Boston there would be a | | Borah convention delegation in the State primary. | Speculation Aroused. Borah’s known views on many sub- jects, including money, aroused spec- ulation as to the extent of support he could expect from conservatives | in the Republican camp. For one thing, many members of that school | of thought do not look with favor | on his leaning toward measures which | they regard as inflationary. Among opinions expressed concern- ing the Borah -statement were those of Senator Steiwer, Republican, - of Oregon, and Senator Frazier, Repub- lican, of North Dakota. The former declared Borah's candidacy “will be well received in Oregon.” Frazier said Borah would “sweep the West and Northwest and is the only man | ln)my opinion who can beat Roose- velt.” 'YOUTH GETS LIFE Found Guilty by Ohio Jury. By the Associated Press. WARREN, Ohio, December 21.—| Ray Jutila, 21, escaped death in the electric chair today but faced life im- prisonment under a verdict for the torch murder of Mrs. James Tobin, 20. | The six men and six women on the | jury recommended mercy, making sentence of life imprisonment manda- tory. Jutila testified difhk and passion | caused him to beat the young woman | in her bed room last May 22 through | resentment for & remarg she made. | Jutila told how he assaulted the| unconscious woman after striking her, | then killed her dog, piled papers on | the bed and waited two hours for| darkness before setting fire to them in order to “erase everything.” Firemen | found the body. slain woman’s husband, was arrested the next day. Tobin and Jutila's wife Sylvia, 24, were among the small crowd of spec- tators in the court room early today. IN TORCH MURDER ; Pi Jutila, a long-time friend of the| BOND IS ARRANGED FORFOURINDIGTED Government May Ask $1, 500 Bail for Each in Army Case. Bond was being arranged today for & former New York Representative, a former general officer of the Army and two wealthy dealers in Army surplus supplies, who were indicted yesterday for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Assistant United States Attorney Irvin Goldstein said he had been ad- vised by Robert T. Scott, attorney in the office of A. Mitchell Palmer, that bond would be furnished Monday or Tuesday for Thomas J. Ryan, New York lawyer and former member of Congress; former Brig. Gen. Alexander E. Williams, recently dismissed from the service; Joseph Silverman, jr., and his brother, Nathan Silverman. May Ask $1,500 Bail. It was understood the Government will ask that bail be fixed at $1,500 each, and that date for trial be ad- vanced on the docket. Williams was saild to be on his farm in North Carolina and Ryan was believed to be in New York City. The Silvermans live here. ‘The four are accused of plotting to hide Frank E. Speicher, inner tube salesman and “mystery witness” of several lobby inquiries, at a time that Justice Department agents were seek- ing him at the request of the House Military Affairs Committee, Speicher Located. Speicher eventually was located i.i New York City by the G-men, who accompanied him back to Washington, Speicher gave sensational testimony about the Silvermans and Gen. Williams, as a result of which the latter was haled before a court-mar- tial of general officers and found guilty of accepting a $2.500 loan from the tire salesman, who was seeking Army business. Ryan, also summoned to the House hearing, admitted sending money for the Silvermans to a lawyer for Speicher, who was in hiding in New York City. Ryan testified the Sil- vermens warned Speicher to stay away from Washington, as they did not want to get “the old man,” idene tified as Williams, “in trouble.” SILVER IS “STORED” IN YARD AT MINT Sky Looks Down on $712,814 Shipment With Vault Space Exhausted. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, December 21.—A $712,814 shipment of bar silver; de- livered to the Philadelphia Mint yes- terday was greeted by overcrowded vaults and had to be stored in an inner courtyard, under srmed guard. The court is open to the sky, mint officials said, but is guared from the street by double gates and a guarded outer court. No extra guards were | hired, but the regular force was con= centrated on the spot. Officials said the predicament is the first of its kind in the mint's history. They stated more silver has been re- ceived in the last 10 days than can be coined, creating a surplus in the Bigger Sugar Output. Sugar interests of Java will increase their production materially. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Generally fair, lowest temperature about 15 de- grees tonight: tomorrow cloudy and somewhat warmer, probably followed by snow; moderate shifting winds. Maryland and Virginia—Generally fair, not so cold in extreme west por- tion tonight; tomorrow cloudy and somewhat warmer, probably followed by snow. West Virginia—Increasing cloudi- ness tonight, followed by snow tomor- row, rising temperature. Record for Last 24 Hours. Yes'day. Temp. Baro. Today. Temp. Baro. Deg. Ins Deg. Ins. pm R pm Midnight Report for Last 48 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Hishest, 133, at 1:30 p.m. yesterday. 44 14 at 7 am. today. Year ago. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 98 on July 20 Lowest,'—2, on January 28. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 51 per cent, at 2 p.m. yesterdaz, Lowest. 36 Der cent, at 7 p.m. yesterday. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) Hith - Low High Low Sun. today ___ Sun. tomorrow Moon, today . __. Automobile lights must one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Average. Record 700 |83 be turned on January February March Husband of Vietim Hears Friend | %6 9 3. Various Cities. Temp. Rain- 'h.Low.fall. Weath'r Weather in Stations. x Boston. Mass Buffalo Charleston. 8.C Columbia. Denver. Colo_ Detroit. Mich El Paso. Tex_ Galveston, Té: Helena, Mont. Huron.' 8. D Indianapolis Jacksonvilie New Orlean: New York, Oklahoma City. Omaha. Nebr Philadelphia Phoenix. Ariz to file any exceptions or to appeal. 1 Sentence was deferred for attorneys 2