Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight, probably ending early tomorrow; warmer tonight, with lowest temperature about 35 degrees. Tempera- tures—Highest, 38, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 27, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page A- Closing New York Markets, Page 12 33,835. 85th YEAR. NEW ULTIMATUM - GIVES CHANG DAY 0 FREE DICTATOR Punitive Operations to Be Resumed Tomorrow to Rescue Chiang. BREAKDOWN REPORTED IN PEACE NEGOTIATION No. Extension of Grace Period Earlier| Had Been Granted to Complete Tentative Compromise. BACKGROUND— Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and 20 other Chinese dignitaries kidnaped at Sianfu, China, one week ago by Marshal Chang Hsueh- hang, former Manchurian overlord, in effort to force inclusion of Com= munists in Nanking government and to force armed resistance to Japanese penetration. Uncertainty has ruled, fate of Chinese dictator, with assassina- tion being reported once by way of radio from Sianfu. Ultimatum given Chang to release Chiang. Meanwhile loyal Nanking troops close in upon Chang’s mountain stronghold. B the Associated Press. NANKING, China, December 19.— The Nanking government, suddenly switching its tactics against rebellious Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, ordered tonight that punitive military opera- tions against Sianfu rebel headquar- ters be reopened tomorrow unless Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is released. “The government's punitive expedi- tion, bombing operations and any other form of attack is deemed neces- sary, recommending Sunday morning, if the generalissimo is not released before then,” a spokesman announced. Three more days of grace in which to end the rebellion and release Gen. Chiang had earlier been awarded by officials to the mutinous young mar- #hal. Breakdown Uncorfirmed. The spokesman refused to confirm | 8 breakdown in the negotiations to | bring & quick end to China’s civil | war. 3 “With profound regret, we must disclose that our hopes for Gen. | Chiang have not materialized,” he | did say, however. “Throughout the day various ill- | founded rumors have circulated say- | ing the generalissimo had been re- leased and reached Loyang (capital of Bhansi Province, east of Sianfu). “These rumors caused false hopes in | the nation. But authorities who are | most anxious to broadcast such in- | formation are unable to believe or confirm them.” i He declared the situation was grow- ing more confused every hour. The spokesman also disclosed that | Dr. T. V. Soong. brother-in-law of | Gen. Chiang, had left Nanking sud- | denly by plane for Loyang, setting his trip ahead of original plans to go to | the_interior tomorrow. “Dr. Soong has gone on his personal initiative,” the spokesman said. “He | will act as a family representative. ‘The government will not participate in such degrading negotiations.” The first time extension came just as the previous “final” ultimatum to Marshall Chang demanding the gen- | eralissimo’s immediate return expired. Altnough the national government had set a deadline of 6 p.m. (5 am. E. S.T) for the release of their chief- | tain, an authoritative spokesman had | expressed open skepticism that Chiang ! would be released at that time, Optimism Growing. ‘The additional days of grace, it was believed, were given Chang to allow | completion of a compremise which was understood already to have been ten- | tatively agreed on. Optimism in informed Chinese cir- cles was growing that the crisis would be settled peacefully with the personal safety of leaders on both sides guar- enteed. Despite the seemingly well-ground- ed hope of an immediate end to the revolt, crack divisions of the loyalist army tightened their grip on the rebel stronghold of Sianfu. Should negotiations fail completely and the three-day “armistice” expire (See CHINA, Page A-3) YULE EARLY ON ISLAND 100 C. C. C. Boys Receive Gifts on Last Boat Until Spring. ISLE ROYALE, Mich., December 19 (#).—As far as 100 C. C. C. boys on this remote Lake Superior island were concerned, today was Christmas day, despite the testimony of the calendar. The Coast Guard cutter Crawford arrived last night with gifts, clothing and a Winter's food supply. It was the last time until Spring that the youths expected to see anybody from the mainland. They arrived at the island & month ago as volunteers to carry on forestry work during the Winter. Hurry Cadll Needy families and friends of needy families, in order to insure fulfiliment of their requests for Christmas baskets, should apply to the police before noon Monday, Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, chair- man of the Metropolitan Police mflatmu Party, announced to- Applications by mail should be postmarked before midnight to- morrow, while telephonic or other oral requests should be made as soon as possible by calling Metropolitan 1100 or visiting gift collection headquarters in .the District National Guard Armory. of each case and the receipt by the applicants of the requested baskets on Christmas eve. 10. @h Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. The King Mos. Simpson This, the fourth of a series of articles by Newbold Noyes, deals with the man whom he knew as King Edward VIII, ‘but who is now the Duke of Windsor. Mr. Noyes, Associate Editor of The Star and a cousin of Mrs. Simpson, spent 10 days in London conferring with Mrs. Simpson, the King and their friends. Both the ex-King and Mrs. Simpson have authorized this series and the information contained in it comes from their own lips and Mr. Noyes’ observations. BY NEWBOLD NOYES. ETHER he were Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, Duke of \ ;\/ Windsor or just Tommy Atkins, Wallis Simpson’s future husband could win the love of almost any woman or the sincere friendship of almost any man. He's the kind of person who takes a firm grip when he shakes your hand, who looks you in the eye and smiles when he says hello. You can feel his dignity, but more because he conceals it with his cordiality than because he forces it upon you. He likes a joke. His sense of humor is less English than American in its directness. He told me smilingly: “I understand that in your country there are certain marriages where the bridegroom has to be—shall we say, cajoled. You didn't by any chance bring & shotgun with you, did you?” An Ordered Informality. His costume the first time I met him typified one of his most marked characteristics—informality. He was, as I have said, in kilts. Yet the strength of the man’s personality stands out so strongly above his costume that at no time during the rest of the evening was I conscious of it. The Scottish garb he wore was complete in every detail—kilts, plaid, brooch and sporan. The colors were sky blue and black and white. Oddly enough, I cannot remember either his shirt or his shoes, but I assume that the shirt was such as he might have worn with a dinner jacket and that the shoes were black patent leather. I know, however, that the entire costume went admirably with his trim, athletic figure; his blond head and his obvious | delight at the prospect of an evening’s relaxation. | His informality is, in effect, & courtesy to his guests, and even to his ministers. But woe unto him who attempts to take advantage of it. ‘The King has been known deliberately to move to the furthest end of a long | council room, thereby forcing a minister who had affronted him to walk back- wards some 30 or 40 feet, bowing as he went. He has encouraged the use of “Sir” in conversation, as against the hitherto required “Your majesty.” And in the few addresses he made after mounting f the throne, he spoke as “I" instead of using the royal “we.” Edward VIII knew and rejoiced that this is the twentieth century. It was because he felt that certain traditions had become outmoded that he w (Continued on Third Page.) LANDON 70 CALL AT WHITE HOUSE HOOVER ASSAILS G-MEN'S CRITICS | day night. | plane’s regular course. Complaint of New York Po- lice Is Termed “Kinder- garten Stuff.” BY REX COLLIER. Deploring “unjustified and petty” criticism of his agents by New York police, J. Edgar Hoover today declared that it is such friction, coupled with & series of incidents involving jealousies and even underworld collusion, that has complicated the problem of police co-operation in Federal raids. The Federal Bureau of Investigation director. characterizing as “kinder- garten stuff” complaints by New York police that G-men “double-crossed” them in the capture of Harry Brunette, confessed kidnaper, asserted the New York officers have “nobody to blame but themselves” for their absence when the raid began. “If they had been on the job, as were the New Jersey police,” Hoover told the writer, “they would have had the same opportunity to participate as that afforded the New Jersey officers. But they chose fo leave at what turned out | to be the most critical time.” | Co-operation Is Problem. The whole question of co-operation among Federal, State and municipal | law enforcement agencies has given | Hoover much concern. He recently told a conference of | mayors that “traitors” exist in some ! police departments and that there have been actual instances of tip- offs by police to the underworld in advance of Federal raids. He made it clear nothing of this nature was in- volved in the New York controversy. Alvin Karpis, late “public enemy No. 1, told Hoover he had paid $5,000 for protection in one city. Harry Campbell, Karpis’ companion in crime, told G-men he had fished and drunk beer with a sheriff in the Middle West while the F. B. 1. was circularizing the country with his “wanted” posters. The sheriff later explained he had no idea as to the real identity of his friend. | good sense of humor and it is natural 'Accepts Roosevelt’s Invita- tion for Talk on Monday Morning. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt and Gov. Alf M. i Landon, whom he defeated so de- | cisively at the polls last month, will| sit down in the President’s office for a friendly chat here Monday morning. This will be the first time Mr. Roose- velt and his political opponent have met since early in the election cam- | paign, when Gov. Landon was one of | several drought State executives who | attended a conference with the Presi- | dent in Des Moines, Iowa. At that meeting they had little opportunity to become well acquainted, but Mr. Roosevelt is known to have expressed | himself later to the effect that he con- | sidered Gov. Landon a “splendid fel- low.” Gov. Landon is not coming here for the express purpose of visiting the President. His presence is primarily to attend the Gridiron Club dinner Monday night. When Mr. Roosevelt learned a few days ago that the Gov- ernor would be here, he at once sent him a personal invitation to visit him while in Washington. | Gov. Landon’s acceptance is under- stood to have been received and the meeting set for Monday morning. Both men are known to | to expect that they will have more than one laugh while discussing cer- tain features of the past campaign. It is expected also that the President will take this opportunity to solicit the Kansas executive’s opinion regarding some national problems, particularly those affecting agriculture. 500 Cotton Mills May Close. MANCHESTER, England, December 19 (#).—Five hundred cotton mills, employing 110,000 operatives, will stand idle in the great Lancashire textile area Monday unless there is In another Midwestern city Federal (See HOOVER, Page A-10.) A mounting volume of travel that is smashing all records is being loosed out of Washington. The increased movement got under way several days ago, but the flood really broke last night after many schools and college students were dis- missed for the holidays, and from now through Christmas Eve the surge will continue. Extra trains, extra cars, extra planes, extra busses—are moving out, jammed to capacity, as the exodus of thousands proceeded. ‘The report from the Atlantic Coast Line about summed up the situation: “It's a madhouse,” a member of the Records Smashed by Exodus Of Capital Holiday Crowds an eleventh-hour settlement of a wage dispute. 4 ¥ The Baltimore & Ohio reports that extra equipment is being used on everything East, and that the National and Capitol are running extra sec- tions to the West. The bulk traffic there is expected to start Tuesday. ‘The crack George Washington of WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SEARCH IS PRESSED FOR SECOND PLANE LOST IN FAR WEST Cry of “Help” From Idaho Wilderness Gives Hope to Rescue Parties. TWO PILOTS HUNTED IN SNOW-DRIFTED AREA Seven Aboard Airliner Missing Since Tuesday Feared to Have Perished. By the Associated Presc. SALT LAKE CITY, December 19.— A cry of “Help” from an Idaho wil- derness led snow-battling searchers to hope today for the safety of two pilots in a missing plane, but seven occu- pants of another vanished air liner were feared to have perished. Sherift's officers hurried into snow- drifted wilds of Kootenai County, in Northern Idaho, where a man re- ported hearing the distress cry. Searchers hailed it as the first definite indication Pilots Joe Livermore and A. A. Haid, lost yesterday while en route from St. Paul to Spokane in & North- west, Airlines craft, might be alive. Search for a Western Air Express transport, missing since early Tuesday | with two women and five men aboard, | switched to the bleak Kavich Moun- tains of Nevada when clue after clue in Utah failed. The plane disap- peared in Wintry weather on the way from Los Angeles to Salt Lake. Chicago Couple on Board, The plane bore Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wolfe of Chicago, Henry W. Ed- wards of Minneapolis and Carl Chris. topher of Dwight, Ill, the passengers, and Pilot S. J. Samson, Co-pilot Wil- liam Bogen and Stewardess Gladys Witt. A score of Eastern Nevadans insist they saw lights in the mountains that | might have been flares from the lost | plane. Some lights were reported | Tuesday. A few saw them Wednes- The region is far off the | A possible clue in the search for | the Northwest Airlines’ all-metal, 10W- | Ayutomobile Workers, a C. I. O. affil- | County, Md., reported 3 inches of snow. | she’s “up against about the toughest | wing transport was provided by 8,iate prepamed to make formal pre- | He said | gentation of their demands for col- | hazard in the mountains, where many Bayview, Idaho, storekeeper. a man told him of hearing a cry of plane was missing in the region, the man did not leave the trail because his wife and children were with him. | Another report to Nick Mamer,| the | ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1936—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #=* MR:PRESIDENT, How ARE YOU GOING To GET THOSE Two IN LINE? THE OBSTINATE TWOS! LABOR INTENSIFIES DEMAND ON FIRMS Some of Largest Industrial Concerns Face Spread of Bitter Warfare. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Spreading industrial warfare ap- peared dangerously imminent toda as organized labor, through the ma- | chinery of the Committee for Indus- | trial Organization, intensified its at- | tacks on some of the country’s most powerful corporations. In Detroit officials of the United lective bargaining privileges with the | “Help” yesterday, but, unaware a|General Motors Corp. At the same time, organizing efforts were being | redoubled in various plants of mxsi company. ! In Washington empleyes .of Snow Vanishes, Rain Descends In Capital Area Two to Seven Inches Reported in Virginia Mountains. Half an inch of snow. which whit- ened Washington early today, was be- ing wiped out this afternoon by rain nd warmer weather. Meanwhile, however, snowplows were called into action to clear moun- tain highways in Maryland and Vir- ginia. Srow fell to a depth of from 2 to 7 inches in the Allegheny Moun- tains of Virginia, and Washington A heavy sleet added to the traffic | highways were almost impassable. Road scrapers and plows were at work in Virginia and in Washington Coun- ty, Md.. the State Road Commissions reported. ‘The Weather Bureau here forecast The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,258 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. 10Y5 FOR NEEDY STACKED HIGH IN THEATER LOBBIES Thousands Trudge Through Snow to Aid Christmas Campaign. (P) Means Associated Press. GIFTS ARE REPORTED FINEST OF CRUSADE Cinema Managers Announce Rec- ord Pouring In of Presents at Annual Matinees. Snows from heaven fell for the Warner Bros. toy matinees this morn- ing as thousands of Washingtonians trudged through it with their children to 11 theaters all over the city. ‘Thousands more rallied to the cause of the forgotten than last years, the first snow of Winter seeming to bring them forth on behalf of the needy rather than stop their onrush. Finer gifts than have ever been pre- sented before in six years of Star- Warner Bros.-N, B. C. Christmas toy campaigns were received at all the theaters as the admission prices, man- agers report. Swamped With Gifts. ‘The Earle Theater reports that an early count there indicates that this theater alone has received more than two and a half times as many gifts | for needy families as were brought to | the theater last year, with more pack- | ages continuing to flow in as the day progresses. Charles Grimes, manager of the Earle, was about the happiest theater manager in town, as more than a thousand boys and girls, bringing Lh;ir parents along, braved the rain s and snow and filled the big downtown in Richmond. mave house to the back rows. “We are swam; i By the Associated Press. said. “We swwggd omm:mfra?ma RICHMOND, December 19.—Edith | packages. We know we've got 5.000 | Maxwell, under sentence of 20 years| gifts for the poor, and before the day | for the slaying of her father, Trigg|is over we'll have many more, as we Maxwell, obtained a job today as|are permitting patrons who missed the hostess and cashier in & Richmond | early show, on account of the weather, | restaurant. | to come with their toys to later per | Walter Kirsh, proprietor, said he formances in the afternoon. All they | offered Edith the job because he felt need bring is a toy for admission.” Exceed Last ar’ . thing a girl can face.” She will begin | The Metropnliva: e'x‘h‘,ea:rm':-hIreport.i her new duties at 5 pm., he said. about 2,500 gift packages with the The 22-year-old brunette is free | count incomplete. “This,” says Man- | under bail of us.ooo‘pendmz a hear- | ager Madden, “is about one and a half {ing on her attorney’s motion (o set times more than were received at this aside the verdict. | theat E ve | er last vear. It is a marvelous Judge Ezra T. Carter, who presided | showing,” he said, “in view of the EDITH MAXWELL GETS JOB IN CAFE Will Start Work as Hostess| and Cashier Today |at the recent trial, when a Wise |inclement weather. We had fewer | out of Utah's capital in a widespread | Northwest Airlines pilot, by two resi- | Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., & wholly dents led to fears that Haid and|owned subsidiary of the United States Livermore crashed on fog-shrouded Steel Corp.. continued their recital | Mica Peak, near the Idaho-Wasning- | before the National Labor Board of ton line. vidence tending to show domination 20 Planes Join Search. nd interference by the company in More than 20 planes and upward OPeration of thete G as . | tion plan. Charges to this effect were of 1,000 men and boys were directed | made to the board by C. L. O. offictals. search for the 10-passenger Western| John J. Kane, a machinist in the Air Express plane. | Duquesne works of the company, testi- | Leading in the Nevada search, Pilot fied that an employe delegation had Ralph Hall worked with a ground been directed to obtain the services of party that camped overnight south- Frank Hogan. Washington lawyer and east of Tonopah. | counsel for Andrew Mellon, as their From Salt Lake LCity airmen and | ground crews investigated reports flares were seen on the mountainside | west of Cedar Valley, 70 miles south of here. The plane carried three railroad | flares which burn 10 minutes each| with normal visibility of 50 to 60| miles and two parachute flares which show three minutes each at 200-mile visibility. Umberto Visits I11 Princess. TURIN, Italy, December 19 (A .— Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, it was learned today, has gone to Germnny‘ to visit his sister, Princess Mafalda, | who is seriously ill of influenza. Queen Elena left to be near her daughter several days ago. Summary of Page. | Page. Amusements_B-12 | Music -- [ C-8 _.--B-4-5 | Real Estal | Church News, C-1t0 5| B-6-7-8 | Short Story.. C-8 | Comies ... B-11 A-7| Editorial ... A-8 Finance _A-12-13 Lost & Found A-3 NATIONAL. Industrial warfare impends as labor makes demands. Ail J. Edgar Hoover assails criticism of G-men. Page A-1 Quick approval sought for President’s half billion relief fund. Page A-1 Second plane is lost in snow-drifted wilds of West. ‘. Page A-1 Gov. Landon to visit President at ‘White House Monday. Page A-1 Escaped election killer revealed heav- ily supplied with cash. PageA-11 FOREIGN. Hull's peace objectives slated for realization. Page A-1 Duke of Windsor begins health exer- cises at Enzesfeld. Page A-1 New ultimatum gives Chang ‘till to- morrow to free Chiang. Page A-1 Fog halts bitter fighting in University City section of Madrid. Page A-3 ‘Washington lawyer contributed toboth parties in campaign. Page A-11 -C Woman's Pg. B-10 | ernment controlled. Longshoremen’s president jostled by Baltimore strikers. Page A-11 Cuban House votes sugar tax; may oust Gomez. Page A-11 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Edith Maxwell gets job in Richmond restaurant. Page A-1 Holiday exodus from Capital breaking all travel records. Page A-1 First snow of season here due to be colored hold-up men. Page A-11 Change sought in allocation to aid Old Georgetown road. Page A-18 Curran recommends unif trafiic and 3 A-11 Accused youth grilled in itthews representative before a former Na- tional Labor Board. Kane said the company then had paid all expenses for the employe dele- gation to come to Washington to con- | fer with counsel and likewise had paid counsel for subsequent appearance be- fore the board. As it worked out, Kane T (See LABOR, Page A-11) Barbadoes Notable Dies. BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOES, West | Indies, December 19 (A.—Sir William Herbert Greaves, former chief justice of Barbadoes, died here yesterday. He was 80. He was the founder of the Sugar Industry Agricultural Bank and | was & prime mover in the scheme for making the island water supply gov- Today’s Star Three persons, including two sisters, killed in traffic. Page A-14 L. Firey, Commodore Hotel manager, found dead in room. Page A-14 Wider and more attractive Chain Bridge approved. Page A-14 Rives says new jail needed to solve crowding. Page A-14 | New regulation bans autos adorned with lemons. Page A-14 Welfare Board to seek Receiving Home funds. Page A-14 Dog sounds alarm at fire in rooming house, Page A-14 | Parking restrictions extended on 35 more streets. Page A-14 SPORTS. Kelley's “soccer kick” rated year’s out- standing freakish event. Page C-6 Major league base ball records fall in flocks this year. Page C-6 Dizzy Dean satisfied to stay with Cards if salary is right, Page C-6| National poll discloses some odd champs for this year. Page C-7 Bob Pastor's ring prestige soars by kayo of Impellitierre. Page C-7 REAL ESTATE. Formation of Washington Building Congress announced. Page C-1 Building Permits. Page C-1 Favorable building outlook for 1937. Page C-1 Survey shows D. C. is not under- built. C-1 Home Modernization. C-4 Designed for Living. C-5 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Stars, Men and Atoms. David Lawrence. % Paul Mallon. Mark Sullivan, Page Page A-8 A8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 Page B-10 Page B-10 rain ending early tomorrow, with a low tonight of about 35 degrees. Snow began falling here shortly be- fore daylight and whitened the city before it changed to sleet and rain about 8:30 am. The Weather Bureau said Washing- ton is on the line between snow to the north and rain to the south. Despite lowering clouds, the airlines to New York and the South continued to dispatch planes on schedule. The heaviest passenger traffic by air in re- cent years was reported. PRESIDENT PLANS 10 SPEED RELIEF Prepares to Ask Congress for Quick Approval of $500,000,000 Fund. By the Associated Press. Quick Congress approval was sought today for President Roosevelt’s request for an immediate $500,000,000 relief | appropriation. Current funds are expected to last |only another month, making actio necessary early in January if the work: relief program is to proceed without interruption. Mr. Roosevelt said yesterday he would ask for the appropriation, de- signed to meet Works Progress Admin- istration costs until June 30, during the first week of Congress. It con- venes on January 5. Estimates for relief needs in the next fiscal year, however, will not be sub- mitted until Spring in order to obtain a better idea of future needs. The President, in disclosing his re- quest, for the special appropriation and a study of methods to count the unem- ployed, said he had taken no action to stop cuts in W. P. A, rolls. Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. admin- istrator, began the reduction late in the Fall, describing it as an attempt to get rid of those who do not need relief. He said recently the number on the rolls probably would remain throughout the Winter near the No- vember level of 2.478,042. The cabinet discussed methods of enumerating the jobless yesterday aft~ (See RELIEF, Page A-3.) | County jury for the second time found | children in the house than last year, the former school teacher guilty of | byt many more adults from the downe | slaying her father, said the motion | town shopping districts.” ‘:E&dh be heard “some time before | Pred Thomas, manager of the Cols 7 ony Theater, received between 800 | Miss Maxwell said. “Next to acquit- | and 900 toys at the morning performe :(l)s:l”my trial, I guess I needed & Job | gpce—approximately 200 more toys . e | than last year. Despite the inclement | While awaiting court action on the | geather, patrons came to the theater second appeal Edith is living with her | is morning, and at 10:15 more than | mother, brother and small sister on a I,m persons had passed through the farm near Richmond. turnstiles, each bearing a gift to some | Less than 24 hours after she heard |, ehijg jn Washington. The toys the voice of & court clerk drum oUt| yere far beyond the average in price, 20 years in the State penitentiary” in | \y " myomac caid. It looks as if a suddenly quiet Wise County court | it room, the 22-year-old girl, a former | college student and public school | things she said she hoped to do while her attorneys battled anew for her permanent freedom. On a Chesterfield County farm nearly 400 miles from the little four- room house, where her father, Trigg Maxwell, died a year and a half ago, | Miss Maxwell declared she “just must | find work of some kind. “Next to having been acquitted at my trial that would be the best Christ- mas present I could get.” She had built her plans on an ac- quittal in her second trial, she said, and declared her knees “gave way"” when she heard the verdict convicting her of second-degree murder at the close of an eight-day trial. Miss Maxwell, however, expressed onfidence that her attorneys again ould be successful in an appeal in the event a motion to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial is over- ruled when presented to the Wise County Circuit Court March 1. Her first sentence of 25 years on a first-degree murder verdict was set aside by the State Supreme Court o! the grounds the evidence was insuf- ficient. She had steadfastly denied slaying her father, although testifying at her first trial she struck him with a “slip- per” in self-defense. She did not testify in the new trial which closed ‘Thursday. Auto Pricing Method Changed. DETROIT, December 19 (#).—The Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday it has discontinued the advertising of “fo.b.” or “factory list” prices. It stated that the “new method of quot~ ing prices will not change in any way delivered prices to the dealer or pub- lic.” Similar action was announced yesterday by the Automobile Manufac- turers’ Association, of which the Ford Co. is not a member. Qualters, Bay State Trooper, Made President’s Bodyguard Thomas E. Qualters, a Massachu- setts State trooper and a former half- back at Notre Dame, today was selected by President Roosevelt as personal bodyguard, succeeding Gus Gennerich, who died suddenly during the President’s South American visit. Selection of Qualters is said to have been recommenged by James Roose- velt, who also is expected to be identi- fled with his father's executive staff this Winter, Qualters was bodyguard for the younger Roosevelt during the latter's speaking tour of Massachusetts in the recent election campaign. He is repwesented as all the 9 | qualifications necessary for the presi- dential service. At the time thg, President moved him to the White §iouse, Gennerich was & New York officer and had been sasociated with Mr. Roqsevelt for two years while he was Governor of New York. When Gennerich came here he was given an appointment as a White House Secret Service operator. It is expected this status also will be given Qualters. ‘The work of the President’s personal bodyguard is unlike that of the other Secret Service men at the White House. 1t is his duty always to be close to the President and he always rides in the front seat of the presidential automo- bile, 50 as to be on hand to assist him in getting in or out of the car. Then, too, he always is seated near the Presie dent at banquets and other functions. Before becoming a trooper in 1933, Qualters was foot ball coach at Revere and Woburn high schools in Massa- chusetts and at John's Preparatory School. Itis he will be given leave of absench’ from his present duties, we’ll have a great Christmas for what might have been forgotten children.” Toys Pile High. teacher, turned her attention to ‘hei Unhappiness was swamped in & | mountain high tower of toys at thea- ters downtown and up, while Warner wickets all over the city accepted the generosity of young and old as tickets for well-planned performances. | “I've never seen anything like it | before,” said John J. Payette, general ‘zone manager of Warner Bros., as he watched new toys and clothing collect= ing in astonishing numbers at the | Earle Theater lobby at 9 o'clock this | morning. “It's impossible to estimate yet, but I should think at least 60,000 gifts have been received this morning alone.” Crowds began assembling at an early hour, as mothers sent their boys and | girls to the morning performance of neighborhood houses, equipped with contributions for the unfortunate. Downtown at the Metropolitan and Earle a larger proportion of older folk were present, but all 11 theaters were filled to capacity. Gifts have been pouring into the | T (See TOY DRIVE, Page ) 45 PCT. PROFIT SEEN | ON HANDSET PHONES Expert Tells F. C. C. They Were Best Even in 1907, but Not Allowed Unti! 1927, By the Associated Press. An assertion that adoption of hand- set telephones allowed Bell System telephone companies to net $24,000,000 in excess charges was entered today in the records of the Federal Come munications Commission. Charles Lynn Terrell, commission engineer, testified in the F. C. C. investigation of the American Telew phone & Telegraph Co. that the Bell companies had collected $53,000,600 in excess charges for handsets from the time of their introduction in 1927. He said 45 per cent of this was net profit. Cyrus G. Hill of the commission staff testified that 20 years before the handset was introduced it had been developed to an efficiency greater than that of older types of phones. It was not put on the market, Hill said, because of the A. T. & T. policy of “prolonging the life of equipment” to avoid the expense of replacing it. EXECUTIONER TO RETIRE Famed Headsman to Leave Guillo- tine After 50 Years. PARIS, December 19 (#).—France’s famed headsman, Anatole Deibler, hereditary executioner for the third republic, announced his intention to- day to retire after presiding at the guillotine for half a century. Weary of the Macabre position in in which he has performed 270 exe- cutions, the informed the to leave his post