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A—2 = HIERAN REACHES 1.5, ONGLOBE TR Reporter Thrilled by Voyage From Hawaii—Starts Last Lap. BY LEO KIERAN. ALAMEDA, Calif., October 24—The China Clipper roared over the Golden Gate at 12:10 pm. and settled down to a perfect landing here eight min- utes later, after making a 2,502-mile arc through space from Honolulu. I found the United Air Lines offi- cials awaiting me and ready fo fulfill the original schedule. lar trans- continental daily planes connect with the clipper ships from the Orient. I will board & United plane at-Oakland for New York immediately, keeping strictly to the original plan to use none but the regular travel modes. The tife of the flight today was 21 hours and 31 minutes. The first Jandfall came in view at 11:37 p.m. (Pacific Coast time), when the peak of Mount Tamalpais reared through the solid, overcast sky ahead. It fur- nished & thrill to all aboard. The passengers retired early last night, lulled by the throb of the four 950-horsepower motors. A myriad of constellar signposts pointed the way to the Golden Gate to Navigator George B. King. Clouds Hid Sea. Arising this morning, we found the gea hidden beneath a solid carpet of cloud. No break showed until the sun rose. Our landing on the mainland of the | United States virtually completes the | *round-world flight. What has been accomplished in commercial transportation since the | opening of the first transcontinental ship, it is hoped, has been shown on the current voyage around the world. The stunt feature of air travel and | circumnavigation has been entirely eliminated. No transportation has been used that cannot be used by any person who cares to buy a ticket. No elaborate schedule has been adhered to and the entire trip has been rest- ful, swift, luxurious and moderately economical. The trip can be duplicated at a fixed price, but the total elapsed time probably will be lessened, as on this trip the clipper was delayed four days by typhoons between Guam and Manila. Four Days Behind Schedule. Landing exactly four days late and taking into consideration the cause gives further proof of the reliability of modern scheduled transport. ’l'heI original schedule for this 'round-the- world trip was drawn up months ago. The officials of the Hindenberg, Im- perial Airways, the Dollar liner Pres- ident Pierce, Pan-American Airways clipper ship and United Air Lines were not separately informed of their part in the schedule, and connec- tions were made automatically by Readers; Guide News Summary The Sunday Star—Oct. 25, 1936. PART ONE. Main News Section. POLITICS Landon urges system to prevent world war, protect U. 8. Page A-1 Landon victory by 25,000 votes in New Jersey predicted. Page A-1 A. P. survey shows probable record presidential vote. Page A-8 Lemke charges New Dealers continu- ing “scarcity.” Page A-8 Senator Guffey promises io introduce new coal bill. Page A-8 Kennedy says Alfred E. Smith wanted dictator in 1933. Page A-11 Bainbridge Colby says Reosevelt is “afraid” of record. Page B-2 Father Coughlin sees U. S. preparing to extend war credits. Page B-2 West Virginia survey points to New Deal victory. Page B-3 President passes up cruise to work on final campaign speeches. _Page B-3 Historic Mecklenburg aids Democratic drift in North Carolina, Page B-§ NATIONAL. Son held in death of rich Hunting- ton, W. Va., widow. Page A-1 Maritime unions move to avert Pacific Coast strike. Page A-2 Supreme Court may review Wagner labor relations act. Page A-2 Pacific Coast fearful as shipping strike crisis nears, Page A-2 social security notices. Page A-9 FOREIGN. Insurgents bomb Madrid suburbs as land forces advance. Page A-1 U. S. Embassy in Madrid reopened as place of refuge. Page A-3 Mrs. Simpson's divorce suit due for hearing Tuesday. Page A-4 | WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Suit charges police-bonding victimiza- tion in Prince Georges. Page A-1 New Y. W. C. A. residence to be dedi- cated this afternoon. Page A-10 Complete Navy day program at Nav! Yard here announced. | Workers’ Alliance claims “moral vic- | tory” after hearing. Page B-1 Street car survey to be completed | soon. Page B-1 | Street’s annual report asks more relief funds. Page B-1 Two dairies file opposition to milk price increase. Page B-1 SPORTS. G. U. in tie with N. Y. U.; Maryland | beats Syracuse. Page B-6 | Catholic U. and American U. on short end of scores. Page B-7 Princeton nips Navy; Pitt smothers Notre Dame. Page B-8 | Lewis is called best first-year infielder in majors. Page B-9 U. S. Horsemen hold slight lead in international event. Page B-10 Talma Dee scores upset victory in big Laurel race. Page B-11 them without specific instruction or | any special privileges being accord- ed to the writer. Due to the four- day delay caused by the typhoon, the trip will take exactly four days more than the original schedule called for and a landing at Newark 24 days from the start will accurately demon- strate the feasibility of modern air transportation. The present speed record around the world, established in 1933 by the late Wiley Post, will, of course, defy as- sault for some time to come, but the passenger record made during this trip probably will be lowered by the | first person to attempt it, even though | he does not violate the commercial | status of his schedule by chartering | special transportation or obtaining | special privilege. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, inc.) SEVEN WRITERS ABOARD. Bix Take Air Liner for New York on Arrival at Alameda, BY the Associated Press. ALAMEDA, Calif, October 24.—A 17-day trans-Pacific air Odyssey ended | today when the China Clipper arrived here to complete its 16,000-mile pre- liminary passenger round trip to Manila. Seven news writers, in a great| hurry, stepped out of the big ocean | plane and dashed to & nearby field | where another airliner whisked six of them off in the direction of New York. Miss Dorothy Kilgallen, only woman in the party, boarded a private plane | for the East. The seven included five who made the round trip starting from here Oc- tober 7, and two others finishing a globe-circling jaunt. “It was a swell trip; I've got to be | going—goodby!” shouted Charles E. | Harner, Associated Press staff writer, | as he and his fellow travelers hurried toward the waiting New York plane. ‘The big Clipper, bucking head- | winds, required 21 hours and 31 min- utes to negotiate the last leg of her | history-making hop, the 2,400 miles from Honolulu to Alameda. Despite the fact that typhoons de- | layed the Clipper four days, she made the round trip in less time than the fastest steamships require for the one- ‘way journey. The surface liners travel from here to Manila in about three weeks. Besides Harner the China Clipper's round-trip passengers were Harry Frantz of the United Press; C. B. Allen, New York Herald-Tribune; L. D. Lyman, New York Times; William ‘W. Chaplin of Universal Service, and ‘William Van Dusen, Pan-American Airways official. ‘The China Clipper also carried Miss Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York ‘Times, who, with another reporter, H. R. Ekins, left New York October 1 on & round-the-world trip. Ekins com- pleted his voyage last Monday. e LECTURE ON MAGIC William Seabrook to Tell of Arabia and Haiti. ‘William Seabrook, author and lec- turer, will speak under the auspices of the Sigma Tau Delta, honorary Eng- lish fraternity at Wilson Teachers’ College, tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the suditorium of Roosevelt High School. ‘The speaker’s subject will be “Magic and Witcheraft,” the material for which was drawn from his visits to Arabia, where he spent a year and a half living with various native trimes, afd in Haiti, where he spent more than a year studying the voodoo wor- shipers. Marine League Plans Dance. ‘The Marine Corps League will cele- brate the birthday of the corps with & dinner and dance November 10, be- ginning at 7:30 p.m. at Epstein’s res- taurant. Reservations may be made through Detachment Comdr. E. B. MISCELLANY. | Washington Wayside. | Lost and found. Traffic convictions, | Vital statistics. | Obituary. | Young Washington. | Educational. PART TWO. Editorial Section. | Editorial articles. Page D-1 | Editorials and comment, Political Round-Up, ‘Winning contract. Civic news. ‘Women'’s clubs. Parent-teacher news. Cross-word puzzle. Military and veterans’ news. Public Library. Resorts. Page Pages D-3-5 Page D-5 Page D-6 Page D-7 Page D- Page D. Pages D-8-9 Page D-10 Page D-10 PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. PagesE-1-11 ‘Well-known folk. Page E-4 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-11 Stamps, Page E-11 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F-1- John Clagett Proctor. Page Dick Mansfield. Page Radio programs. Page Amusements. Page Automobiles. Page Auto show puzzle, Page Children’s. Page Highlights of history. Page PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Industrial recovery lags. Page D. C. business advances. Page Research brings new prod- ucts. Page Stocks turn dull (table). Page Sugar bonds climb (table). Page Curb list narrow (table). Page Classified advertising. Pages G-4-1 o $10,000 BAIL ALLOWED IN EXTORTION CHARGE Agents Secretive About Suspect in Case Involving Barbara Hutton’s Lunt. BY the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, October 24— Arrested on a charge of using the mails in an attempt to extort $3,000 from Mrs. Thomas Middleton of Pleasantville, an aunt of OCountess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, Melvin Strickland, 27, a mechanic of Atlantic City, tonight was under $10,000 bail awaiting action of the Federal grand jury. After his arrest in Philadelphia last week by Trenton Federal Bu- reau of Investigation operatives and arraigned before United States Com- missioner Marvin A. Spaulding and committed to the county jail in de- fault of bail Authorities tonight refused to dis- cuss the case, other than to say that they obtained information which led them to suspect that Strickland was the author of notes which warned Mrs. Middleton that her house would be bombed unless she made a payment of $3,000 to the writer. Federal agents kept secret until tonight the fact that Strickland had been arrested “last week” and given a hearing “sometime this- week.” They let it become known only when he was put in jai) in default of bail. — Baby Drowns in Milk. ABILENE, Tex., October 24 (P).— Doris Merle Hollingshead, 10-month- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hollingshead. drowned in a five-gallon can of milk at the home of her grand. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Key, near Gagrett, 2032 Otis street northeast. 4 A Gov. Earle asks probe of employes’| Page B-1| Page D-2 | State police detectives, Strickland was P THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., No Politician ||REVIEW EXPECTED Washington SHIP UNIONS MOVE ' TOAVERT STRIKE oOffer “Compromise” for Peace, but Threat of Dock _ Tie-Up Persists. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 24— Maritime unions prepared tonight what they said was a compromise proposal for peace on the water front, but the threat of a strike or tie-up still overhung Pacific Coast shlppinl.i The unions informed Rear Admirs! Harry G. Hamlet, Federal Maritime Commission representative, that a strike next week would *“not be neces- sary” if the ship owners would agree l.to four conditions in renewing old agreements. Hamlet was asked to put the pro- posal before the ship owners. He de- clined comment, but observers said the prospects for its acceptance did not appear encouraging because the employers already had waived their demands for modification of old agree- ments and probably would stick to their previous stand that the unions should do likewise. Wage Increase Proposed. An eleventh-hour proposal of for- eign and Eastern ship owners to in- crease longshoremen’s wages also faced & doubtful outlook. The union proposal called for a continuation of the presidential hir- ing of union men; cash payments for overtime to sea-going union members; a basic 8-hour day for licensed ship's | personnel and cooks and stewards, and assurance that the conditions | would be retroactive. With the result of a strike vote due | tomorrow, it was said Admiral Ham- let would present the proposal to ship owners as soon as possible. At stake for the unions were wages, | hours and working conditions of 37,- 1 000 men. Employers Want Old Agreements Employers avowedly stood ready to xtend old working agreements for one year, and reiterated that stand | today, but they were represented as | desiring assurance the agreements | would be observed. They complained the old agreements were repeatedly violated by unauthorized strikes. Immediately at issue was whether the maritime workers would strike | next Wednesday, as hinted in their recent demand that shipowners grant | basic demands at once and negotiate | settlement of other differences. The union members voted on <‘whelher to authorize their leaders | to call a strike Wednesday, in the | event peace had not been made. |PEEK ASSAILS FARM :I‘ormer Roosevelt Adviser Charges New Deal Attempting to Regiment Agriculture. BV the Assoctatec Press. KANSAS CITY, October 24— | George N. Peek, former agricultural adjustment administrator, said in a campaign speech today the Roosevelt | administration is attempting to regi- ment the Nation's farmers “under the guise of soil conservation,” ‘The former Roosevelt adviser also | told a Republican rally the Hull recip- rocal tarifff program was without | “beneficial effects” to the farmer and asserted the administration’s domes- tic farm program was unsound, “Henry Wallace,” he said, “is deep {in his dream of transforming the | United States into a sort of glorified Depar ment of Agriculture, with him- | self and President Roosevelt in the re- spective roles of Joseph and Pharaoh, ruling as dictators.” ORIENTE’S CREW VOTES TO RETURN TO WORK Delay Sailing by “Sit Down” Strike, but Reconsider Pend- ing Union Negotiations. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, October 24 —Members | of the crew of the New York and Cuba | Mail liner Oriente delayed the ship’s | scheduled sailing at noon today by a “sit down” strike, but voted tonight to return to work pending union ne- | gotiations with the line. The decision was reached after a police emergency squad had been called to the ship’s East River pier and line officials had promised to consider their demands next week. The strikers, who said the demon- stration involved 150 sailors, firemen, cooks and stewards, declared they were forced to work several hours overtime every day and wanted extra pay. They objected also that three non-union wireless operators were employed on the Oriente. Asserting that the strike involved only 20 deckhands, Vincent K. Hull, president of the line, said, “Our agreement with the International Sailors’ Union, signed last March, has until December 31, 1937, to run. The line expects the crew to live up to the articles they have signed!” -— COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS ST. AUGUSTINE PROJECT BY the Associated Press. A committee will meet here to- morrow to discuss a proposal to re- store the original city of St. Augus- tine, Fla., as it looked three centuries ago. ‘The project would involve the re- construction of buildings contained in the little settlement adjacent to old Fort Marion, which still stands. With an admitted interest in the restoration project, officials of the National Park Service arranged de- tails of the conference, which was called by Walter B. Fraser, Mayor of St.- Augustine. Mayor Fraser appointed 12 persons to serve on the committee, including some members of the National Park Service Advisory Board. CONTINUES CRUISE The new déstroyer U. . . Dray- ton, in European waters on her shake- down cruise, left Gravesend, England, yesterday for Algiers, where she is due Wednesday. ‘The Navy Department sald yester- day that the vessel will visit Ville- franche, France, and Genoa, Italy, be- fore returning to the United States, and she will dock at Norfoik Navy Yard 6n December 6. The Drayton is commanded by Comdr. Ralpb G. Pennoyer, United States Navy, who formerly was on duty in the office of Lthe judge advocate general here. ] ' AND TARIFF POLICIES, A Singer, Schipa St OCTOBER 25, icks to Musical Notes,'Ig-nofing Diplomatic Ones. TITO SCHIPA, Italian tenor, who will appear as soloist with the National Sympi doll character to which he sings. hony Orchestra in Constitution Hall today, poses with a ~—Star Staff Photo. ENIAL Tito Schipa, Itaiian tenor, who likes to go to the G movies and to dabble in modernistic art, is one of those present-day rarities—a man who Ppositively refuses to discuss politics. “As a politician I'm a guod singer,” he told newspape: men who sought to question him jesterday on the affairs of troubled Europe. Few men have seci: »s much of the the great personages of the times, vet, if he is interested in events, he keeps that interest stiictly to himself, He arrived in Washingion yester- | day afternoon for an apucarance to- | day in Constitution Hall as soloist with the National Symphony Orches- tra, whose director. Dr. Hans Kindler, | he greatly admires. ham Hotel, where he is stopoag, he | third floor to inspect some of the | more recent paintings of his friend, Juan Tomadelli, electrical engineer ! and artist. “My home in Italy is finished just like this,” he exclaimed as he eutered Tomadelli’s ultra-modernistic apart- ment. “I like this.” Quite recently Schipa has taken to sketching, but there he tones down considerably his modern tasces. thing I do to amuse myself,” said the singer of his hobby, denying that he world as has Schipa, or known so well | lations and | Shortly after he reached the Shore- | descended from the eighta to the | “It is nothing at all—iusc scme- | | was anywhere near good enough to | exhibit his works. Schipa’s passion for the movies is well known, and it has not been diminished by a two-year absence from America. He landed in New York only Thursday after a year on the operatic stages of Italy, but before he left yes- terday morning for Washington he saw four motion pictures. While in his native land he starred In one full-length picture, completing it just the day before he sailed. Next | April he hopes to go to Hollywood | and make his first major American | film. | Between now and then, however, | his time is all booked. There will be a concert in the Brooklyn Academy | of Musicaearly this week, and then | he will commence a tour which wili take him through the principal cities | of the East and Middle West, ending in Cleveland December 15. Two days | later he will sail for Italy for ap- pearances there, but will be back to America and probably to Hollywood by April. Then will come a tour of Australia, to be followed by a series of concerts in Japan. After that his plans are a little vague. Perhaps he will go back to | the Metropolitan Opera Co., of whichn | he formerly was a member. ‘While in California he will visit his home there, which he rented to Joe | Penner, the comedian of radio and screen. In leasing it to Penner he specifically banned the duck, he | pointed out yesterday. RADIGAL-SOCALST DARTYBACKSBLUN Conference Qualifies Vote of Confidence, Insisting That Strikes End. Br the Associated Press. BIARRITZ, France, October 24.— The powerful Radical-Socialist party ended its annual conference tonight with an unanimous vote renewing its support of the people’s front govern- ment of Premier Leon Blum, Coupled in a resolution pledging this support, however, was a party warn- ing intimating its backing of Blum would be withdrawn unless the gov- | ernment took strong measures to end | occupation strikes in factories and to prevent street fighting by extremists. | The resolution, sponsored by the party’s elder statesmen, Edouard Her- friot, president of the Chamber of| Deputies; Edouard Daladier, vice pre- mier and minister of national defense, and Camille Chautemps, minister of state, brought an end to a bitter fight | waged by younger members to effect | & break with the Communists in the popular front. The younger members of the party cast aside their violent resolutions when they were faced with the an- nouncement of Caesar Campincki, the party’s leader in the Chamber of Dep- uties, that a break with the Com- munists would be followed by Blum's resignation tomorrow. Emile Roche, chief of the party's the younger element, had introduced a resolution demanding that the Com- munists publicly subscribe to a four- point promise to “cease the campaign of violence.” “Think deeply about the conse- quences of such action,” Chautemps told the Congress, warning that civil war might follow the break-up of the popular front and the fall of Blum. o NEXT WAR IS SEEN ONE BRIEF BATTLE ! British Expert Says Democratic ‘Nations’ Defense Must Be Totalitarian. B5 the Assoctated Press. A prediction that the next war may possibly consist of one battle lasting but a “few hours” is made by Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller, noted British sol- dier, in an article to be published Monday by Army Ordnance, journal of the Army Ordnance Association. Increased use of scientific weapons of war, especially the airplane, will make it necessary, Gen. Fuller says, for all democratic countries, especially in Europe, to adopt totalitarian meth- ods of defense rather than rely on collective security pacts. There will be little or no place, he says, for the cumbersome machinery of the League of Nations, with its slow-moving sanctions and its collec- tive security, unless adherents sub- scribe fully to totalitarian warfare and keep great air forces ready for instant action. Under modern warfare, the British authority says, Army discipline “must be exterided to the Nation as a whole, that is, in its totality.” Buy Feeder Pigs. northern federation and leader of | ENBASSY OPENED TOU.S NATIOWALS Americans in Madrid to Have Place of Refuge, Wendelin Reports. By the Associated Press. Foreseeing a possibility of “dis- turbances” in Madrid as a result of | the Fascist army's approach, the American Embassy notified the State | | Department today it was reopening its building as a place of refuge for Americans in the beleaguered Spanish | capital. | It was estimated that more than | 100 nationals, now cut off by the en- | circling insurgent advance from | virtually all avenues of escape to the sea, had remained in Madrid in disre- gard of repeated official American warnings that they flee while there still was opportunity. 3 Without giving details of conditions then prevailimg in Madrid, Eric C. Wendelin. young Charge d'Affaires of the embassy, reported that he was re- opening the thick-walled building to the remnants of the American colony “in view of the serious military situa- tion and the possibility of disturbances mn Msdrid.” The embassy was closed as a place of refuge a month ago. At that time | the action was accompanied by a public statement issued by the State Department calling attention to re- peated opportunities made available for the evacuation of all those who wished to leave. ‘These included the dispatch to Spanish waters of four American war vessels, which ferried more than 1,000 Americans out of the danger zone. They now are stationed in nearoy waters for possible further emergency duty. Those who persisted in staying on in the revolution-threatened capital did so for business or family reasons. SEPTEMBER BUILDING UP 54% OVER 1935 Seasonal Decline of 129, Noted From Previous Month, Says Miss Perkins. BY the Associated Press. A 54 per cent increase in building activity during September, compared with the same month last year, was reported yesterday by the Labor De- partment. At the same time Secretary Perkins said there was a seasonal decline of ::: per cent from August to Septem- She said this was due to a lessened amount of public building. Private building showed an advance of 1 per cent in September over August. Miss Perkins said that, during the first nine months of 1936, permits is- sued for buildings in cities of 10,000 or more totaled $997,924,000, a gain of 71 per cent over the first nine months of 1935, Guessers Given Break. DES MOINES, Iowa (#).—E. C. Lytton, Drake University business ond-gussers will be given “plenty of opportunity to razs” coaches and | yesterday’s conference. 1936—PART ONE. OF WAGNER ACT Announcement Tomorrow if Supreme Court Has Decided. Br the Associated Press. Belief that the Supreme Court agreed yesterday whether to pass upon constitutionality of the Wagner labor relations act was expressed last night by Goverment attorneys. Challenges of the legislation by the Associated Press and by the Wash- ington, Virginia & Maryland Coach Co. were before the justices. If a decision was reached at their regular Saturday afternoon confer- ence, it will be announced at the noon session tomorrow. In the event the court agrees to review the controversy, it will hear arguments within a few weeks and later announce a final de- cision. It a review is refused, the decisions of lower courts sustaining the act will remain in effect. Through Solicitor General Stanley Reed, the Government joined in both requests for a review. Observers gen- erally believed that greatly strength- ened the probability that the justices would consent to pass on the dispute. Important Question. “Constitutionality of the national labor relations act,” Reed told the tribunal, “is an important question of Federal law, which has not been, but should be settled by this court.” The legislation, designed to guar- antee collective bargaining to workers, establishes a Labor Relations Board to settle industrial disputes. Another petition before the justices yesterday, on which action is possible Monday, was an application by Il- ficials to place the names of the party candidates for President and Vice President on the ballot for the No- vember 3 election. ‘The court already has ordered a re- cess from tomorrow to November 9, during which no arguments are to be heard. Its plans would have to be changed and unprecedented speed em- ployed to bring about a final ruling on the petition by election day. Justice Stone, who has been con- fined to his bed several days with an intestinal ailment, was absent from Aides said he had been put to bed as a precau- tion and was about recovered. Appeal From New York. In one of the labor relations cases which the court may review, the As- sociated Press appealed to the tri- bunal from a ruling by the Circuit | Court of Appeals at New York, direct- ing the reinstatement of Morris Wat- son, discharged employe of the press association’s New York office. In the other, the coach company appealed from a decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, ordering reinstate- ment of 18 discharged employes. Reimbursement of back pay to Wat- son and the coach company employes also was ordered by the lower courts. | In its petition, the Associated Press | contended “freedom of speech and | freedom of the press” is “seriously | Jeopardized” by the legislation. This was disputed by the Government. The coach company said its case | was the first presented to the court | “wherein the act has been applied to a company admittedly engaged in in- terstate commerce.” | been filed, but no announcement as to granting or refusing a review of them is expected before November 9. . JUDGE DENIES WRIT IN POISONING CASE Korean Houseboy Held on As- sault Charge in Deaths of Employer's Guests. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., October 24. Supreme Court Justice Frederick P. Close today denied an application for a writ of habeas corpus for Chang Soo Lee, 36-year-old Korean houseboy, held in the Westchester County Jail on a charge of first-degree assault with intent to kill. Lee is accused of having poisoned George Reeves, 50, a retired Indianap- | olis haberdasher, and his wife, who | were living at the home of Mrs. | Reeves’ widowed aunt, Mrs. Ida L. Churchill. His case will be presented to the grand jury Monday. Charles D. Lewis, defense counsel, argued Lee was being held illegally un insufficient evidence. Assistant District Attorney Elbert T. Gallagher told Justice Close tne State has documentary evidence Iee tried to kill Reeves and his wife and is confident the grand jury will in- dict him. —_— TROTZKY SUES PAPER Bolshevist Exile Plans to “Un- mask"” Policy of Soviets. OSLO, Norway, October 24 (P).— Declaring he intends to “unmask” the reckless policy of the Soviets, Leon Trotzky, Bolshevist exile, today an- nounced a suit against the newspaper Arbeideren, Norway's principal Com- munist organ. The suit was based on a dispatch from Moscow which the newspaper published last Auglst, headed “Kiroft Murder Committed on Trotzky's Di- rect Advice.” It accused Trotzky of co-operating with the German secret police. ARMS SEIZED IN CUBA. 11 Members of Radical Movement Arrested in Raid. By Radio to The Star. HAVANA, October 24.—Army secret service agents seized an arsenal of arms, ammunition and dynamite in 2 midtown raid here today and arrest- ed 11 persons, including three women, members of the Young Cuba radical movement. It was the second important arms seizure within 24 hours. Both caches were discovered in underground hid- ing places with anti-government doc- ents. 2 e (Copyright, 1936.) —_— 01d Rifle Kills Man, 64. EASTHAMPTON, Mass,, October 24 #).—A rifie in the hands of Victor Inglish, 12, killed the boy’s grand- father, Willlam Mitchell, 64, tonight. Medical Examiner 5";‘11 :.mnnen ham| rul ac- o "The oy found. an old 22 tather it was dischargsd. ck Mitchell in the fore- died immediately. linois Communists to compel State of- | Other cases involving the act have | Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. W. P. A. PROJECT. STORY of W. P. A. sunflowers was told in a downtown cock- tail room the other afternoon. ‘The narrator, recently re- turned from New York, described the desolate wastes that greet one the other side of the Holland Tunnel— the “Jersey Flats.” “They were really so barren and P. A, workers, in search of ways 10 utilize their crews and at the same time contribute to general improve- ment of the landscape, conceived tne idea of planting sunflower seeds sev- eral months ago along this highwav, The idea was to enliven the scene and obliterate certain objectionable signboards and dump heaps that had sprung up. “The sunflowers took root, sprang up and flourished. So now if Mr. Landon's forces are interested in se- curing boutonnieres, all they have to do is to cross the Jersey Dikes and collect W. P. A. sunflowers.” * x % x PUBLIC PULSE. Newspaper men usually feel that they can sense the public’s interest in news events. Now and then they are wrong. Recently one of the fraternity appeared before the Women's Club of Woodside, Md., to answer ques- tions on current events. Three subjects predominated among the questions — the Simpson divorce case, politics and the Spanish rev- olution. One subject brought 10 Questions and the other two 6 each. Returning to his office, he asked a number of associates which sub- ject they thought evoked the 10 Qquestions. They were unanimous in selecting the Simpson case. They were wrong. It was the Spanish revolution! * x x % MYSTERY. -MEN, who enjoy a world-wide reputation as super sleuths, were | put on their mettle recently by a postscript in a letter written to the El Paso, Tex. office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by a district coroner. cofficial business. a routine request for fingerprint cards, but this was the postscript: “P. 8.—Last Christmas my niece (she daughter my niece) had a case— her husband menaced her to do all bad he could—eand the door did re- sult broken and a bolt or bar was upon the little table, and put fire to | the mattress, blankets, dresses, etc., | | etc., nobody did see the misdoer. The | case was reported to the assistant dis- | trict attorney and he did nothing. What was the trouble?” * % ok x HEY, DIOGENES. AN OPTIMISTIC man who inserted an ad in a newspaper for the return of three $10 bills he lost on | the main street in Alexandria proved his faith in humanity the other day. B. H. Light, an employe of the | Alexandria Gazette, spilled the bills | out of his pocket on Saturday night. | | He advertised the fact in Monday's | paper, and received a special delivery | letter containing the bills early Tues- | day. A tourist found the money, saw | the ad, and returned the bills before | leaving the city. *x ok o* PERMANENT. One of Washington's furniiure salesmen tells on himself the story of the woman who came into the store and ezplained she wanted a chair to put in the living room, but didn't particularly care whether it matched any of the furniture there or not. “I see; you want an occasional chair,” he said. “I certainly do not; I want it all the time,” was the retort. * x x & CONTIDENCE. WITH the presidential campaign at its present stage there are prob- | ably few people who have not formed | definite conclusions as to the outcome. It is doubtful, at many takers of bets will offer $10 against your $2 that your favorite | candidate will not be elected, yet we | know one fellow who got these odds | and “he just can't lose.” Several weeks ago he placed a bet | of §5 against $3 that Candidate A | would be elected. Later he placed another bet on Candidate A of $10| against $9 with another friend. Telling a third acquaintance later | that he then had a chance of winning | a total of $12 against a risk of $15 if Mr. A is President next year, this| third friend said he was also sure | Mr. A would be elected, but he would “insure” his friend against losing his $15 for a “premium” of $2. Our betting friend accepted the “insurance” proposition and paid his insurer the $2. The situation now is that the betting man, having spent $2 for “insurance,” will clear $10 instead of $12 if A wins the election. If A loses, the better will have paid his “insurer” the $2 to stand good for his debt of $15. Sounds dizzy, doesn’t it? HUNGER STRIKE ENDS Coal Miners, Demands Accepted, Come Out of Pits. BEUTHEN, Germany, October 24 (#).—Eight hundred coal miners across the Polish border, ending a hungere strike, stumbled out of their pits tonight, exhausted by their four- day fast The management. accepted all their demands for more pay and better working conditions. The miners will back to work Monday | ? A uninteresting,” she said, “that W. | The text of the letter was | this stage, that | baker. DEMOCRAT OUTLAY SL014 FOR "% $1,324,416 Expended Be- tween Sept. 1 and Oct. 21, Committee Says. Ev the Associated Press. Campaign expenditures of $1.324.« 416 between September 1 and Octoe ber 21 were reported yesterday by the Democratic National Committee, bringing its outlay for the year to 1 $2,845,074. Receipts amounting to $1408947 since September 1 were listed in the committee’s 125-page report, filed with the clerk of the House. With earlier contributions, this gave the commit- | tee an income of $2,934,605 so far this year. The Republican National Commit« tee Thursday reported it spent $3,= | 161,617 and collected $2,987,765 bee | tween September 1 and October 18. ‘lls expenditures for the year were | $5,686,536. Total Republican contributions since January 1 could not be deter= mined exactly from records in the clerk’s office, because of accidental | damage to some of them, but since | June 1 they totaled $5,038,419. $40,000 from Walter Jones. A $100,000 donation from the United Mine Workers was the largest single contribution on the new Demo= cratic list, which was less than half as long as the Republican. The great- | est gift from an individual was | $40.000 from Waiter A. Jones of Pitts= ! burgh. | Donations of $25000 each were made by Curtis Bok. Philadelphia, and Lucius B. Manning, Chicago, while James W. Gerard of New York gave $15.000. Contributors of $10.000 each were Emil Schwartzhaupt, New York: Bert Fish, Deland, Fla.; John A. Turtlee taub, New York: Arthur Mullen, | Omaha, Nebr, and Nicholas M. | Schenck, New York. National and State finance come | mittees of Tennessee turned over | $24,000 to party headquarters, and the | Arkansas Finance Commitice gave | $18,000. Donations of $5.000 were | made by the Mississippi, South Caro- | lina, Virginia, Alabama, Connecticut | and Florida State Democratic organie | zations. $22,050 From Advertising. Miscellaneous receipts since Sep- | tember 1 included $22,050 from the | sale of advertising in the Democratic national convention book, and $142,711 from the sale of copies. The enrollment of “Roosevelt nomi- nators and electors,” most of whom paid $1 each, brought in $237,390 in the same period. The report showed unpaid obliga- tions totaling $581,307, including $36.- 876 borrowed from Joseph B. Kennedy of New York, $12,500 from M. L. Benedum of Pittsburgh and $10,000 from Robert B. Myers of New York. The national committee’s balance on hand October 21 was $84,531. | Two other Democratic organizations | —the Congressional Campaign Com- mittee and the National Congressional Committee—both interested primarily in contests for the House of Repre- sentatives, repéried contributions to- taling $32,731 since September 1. Much of this money, however, was advanced by the Democratic National Committee. Expenditures $27,817, Expenditures of $27.817 were listed by the two congressional committees for the same period. Statements filed by State divisions of the American Liberty League in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Northern California, Massachusetts and Maryland showed total receipts up to October 19 of $42,893, includ= | ing heavy contributions from national headquarters. Expenditures of both major parties showed substantial outlays for radio time and publicity staffs. Their dis- bursements also included large sums for campaign emblems, traveling ex- penses of candidates and postage. Final financial reports of political organizations prior to the election are due October 29. SOAP PISTOL WAVER UNDER OBSERVATION Man May Be Charged With At- tempted Assault for Antics in Home. BS the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 24.—Accused of threatening members of a house- hold with a “pistol” fashioned from soap in a bizarre hoax, John S. Hage gard, 27, of Ferndale, Mich, was committed to the King's Park State Hospital for observation today. Haggard was arrested in Ferndale yesterday on a Nassau County, N. Y, indictment charging him with ate tempted assault. He was brought here by plane by two detectives and examined by county physicians. Chief Thomas Eibler of the Rock- ville Center police, said Haggard ap- | peared two weeks ago at the home | of Nicholas Popp, wealthy retired He said Haggard's collar and vest were worn backward to simulate the garb of a clergyman. Eibler said Haggard told members of the Popp family they were heirs to a $4,000,000 estate of which he was executor and handed each an envelope supposed to contain a copy of the will. Instead, Eibler said, the envelop-s contained a threat Haggard was “about to commit a crime punishabie by death.” The chief of police said Haggard then flourished the soap “pistol” and fled, He was traced, Eibler said, through an unsigned radio sketch rejected by a Detroit station and left behind in the Popp home. ASHES OF COLUMBUS ARE PUT IN NEW URN | New Rock-Crystal Receptacle Pre- sented by President of Do- minican Republic. BY the Associatea Press CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic, October 24.—The ashes of Christopher Columbus were deposited today in a new rock-crystal urn. The urn, replacing the original lead casket, was presented by President Rafael Trujillo in observance of his birthday. High diplomatic officials attended the ceremonies at the Columbus tomb. The president asserted that the transfer was the first step in a pro- gram to end with & lighthouse memo- rial six years hence, the 450th anni- versary of the discovery of America,