Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1937, Page 2

TETLOW PLEDGES COAL STANDARDS Warns Producers to Keep Price Differential Out of Classitying. Es the Assoctated Press. Two members of the Bituminous Coal Commission lectured producers at a hearing yesterday on the necessity of JuneauRigs Up Garbage Can as Epidemic Lung New Respirating De- vice Ready for In- fantile Paralysis. By the Associated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, September 30.— An iron lung made from a garbage can was held ready for use today in the event of further outbreaks of infantile paralysis. keeping prices and price differentials out of their proposals for the classifi- | cation of coal | Commissioner Percy Tetlow, labor | member of the commission, asserted- that “many of the district boards have disregarded the orders of the com- | sion, which are clearly based on the | law, and I am very much displeased.” | Chairman Charles F. Hosford, Jr, | also was critical of the district pro- | ducers’ boards. The commission hear- | ings are being devoted solely to classi- fying coals according to sizes and other physical characteristics as a basis for co-ordinating minimum prices later { Sent Back for Revision. | Commissioner Hosford ordered classi- | fication proposals for the Indiana dis- | trict sent back to the district board for | revision because they included price | differentials, Tetlow, mild-spoken but firm, said | “I am of the opinion that no matter | how long it takes properly to classify coal, we are going to do that thing. We are g to do what the law re- quires if it takes six months to do it. Sees Tremendous Task. “We should not attempt in classify- coals to get an advantage over | ther producer. I am not accusing t boards of that, but we mendous task here. In the determine price differential e machinery is being slowed.” nan Hosford read the commis- | der on classifications and said: | “When this commission issues an or. it is the duty of the District | rd to comply with that order and ot refer it merely to its particular | nion.” PITTS TO TESTIFY AT TAX HEARING Subpoenaed by Revenue Bureau to Appear in Hart Case. G. Bryan Pitts, former Washington broker who is serving a 14-year term | at Lorton Reformatory in connection with the collapse of the F. H. Smith Co., testify at a hearing of the | Board of Tax Appeals October 7 under | an order issued yesterday by the Bu- reau of Internal Revenue. The board subpoenaed Ray L. Huff, superintendent of District penal in- utions, to produce Pitts for a hear- | g on alleged tax deficiencies of H. O. | Hart of Washington and Montgomery | County, Md. | Hart, who described himself as a public accountant, has asked the board to redetermine a $1,877 deficiency in 1932 income taxes and a $938 penalty for alleged' fraud in connection with | his returns assessed by the bureau. Hart said he had been employed by | Pitts as a public accountant in 1932, but had received no pay for his serv- ices during the year. He said he also negotiated with the F. H. Smith Co,, Wilmingto Del, for employment during 1932, but received no pay from the company during that year. Robert H. Jackson, then assistant | general counsel of the bureau, asserted | Hart filed “false and fraudulent” re- turns for 1932 “with intent to evade | tax."” COTTON PLAN HIT BY SENATOR SMITH | Nine-Cent Loan Program Held at “Variance” With Understand- ing With Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. Senator Smith, Democrat. of South Carolina charged in a statement last night the administration’s 9-cent cot- ton loan and subsidy plan is “at vari- ance” with an understanding between Southern Senators and President | Roosevelt shortly before adjournment of Congress. Quoting from an Agriculture De- partment statement, which said a con- dition of each loan is that the pro- ducer-borrower agrees to participate in and con y with the 1938 farm ad- Justment gram, Smith, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, | said: “My understanding. and I am sure the understanding of my colleagues was, * * * the loan was not to be contingent upon any agreement to conform to legislation that is subse- quently to be passed. “Of course, the subsidy, that is, the 8 cents which is the difference between 9 cents and 12 cents, will be subject to conformation or agreement with what- ever law shall be subsequently passed.” Smith said it also was his under- standing the cotton loan was to be “of the same character and principle as in 1935-36," and “should apply to all| ecotton produced, and not to any per- | centage of a base acreage.” NEW ORLEANS BANKER, ALVIN P. HOWARD, DIES Vice President of Times Picayune Succumbs Suddenly on Way to Texas Ranch. Py the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 30.— Alvin Pike Howard, 48, prominent New Orleans banker and vice president of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., died suddenly last night at Plainview, Tex. He was en route to his ranch. He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Hibernia National Bank at New Orleans and served as vice president of the Times-Picayune £ince 1915, with a year's interruption during services in the United States Army. Born in New Orleans, he was edu- cated at Dyer’s Military Academy, St. Paul’s, Concord, N. H., and Yale University. After acquiring a Ph. B. degree, he joined the faculty of Tulane University, where he remained until after his father's death in 1911. Cattle Seized From Smugglers. Large herds of cattle are being seized from smugglers at the Northern Ire- land-Free State boundary. ) ) | one daught: The apparatus, put together by Dr. Robert M. Coffey with the aid of a machinist, Kenyon McLean, trans- formed the garbage can into a respi- rating device which causes the subject to inhale and exhale at a rate of 26 times a minute. Territorial health officials three days ago prohibited Juneau children from traveling anywhere in Alaska as a precaution against the disease. Juneau schools were closed until October 11, with possibility they would be shut down longer if new cases developed here. Several suspected cases proved to be intestinal influenza. CAPT. ROSS DIES; WASNOTED EDITOR Deceased Was Connected With New Orleans States for 52 Years. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. September 30.— Capt. John Walker Ross, 69, editor of the New Orleans States, for which he worked 52 years, died today. He was nationally known-as an edi- torial writer and as a political reporter in the days of the Louisiana lottery fight. Capt. Ross suffered a broken arm in a fall several months ago. but was soon back at work. became ill in his office. Native of Louisiana. Born in Gretna, La., he attended school there and Tulane University and was first employved as proofreader | by the States in 1885. He successively became reporter, city editor, managing editor and then publisher upon the death of Col. Rob- ert Ewing, owner. was purchased by the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., four years ago, Capt. Ross remained as editor. In his early career he gained prom- inence as a reporter of sporting events. He wrote the story of how John L. Sullivan beat Jake Kilrain at Rick bourg, Miss, in their famous bare- knuckle encounter, and also reported livan lost his title to James J. Corbett here. Honored by President. thousands who paid him tribute on the occasion of his golden jubilee of newspaper service June 6, 1935. He is survived by two sons, J. Wal- ker Ross, jr., and Murphy Ross, S. J.; Mrs. Lee Tobin, and a grandson, J. Walker Ross, 3d. His wife, the former Miss Julia Murphy, died in 1934, |AIRCRAFT .CARRIER PUT IN COMMISSION | | Secretary of State, to plan the ap- | Yorktown, Costing $20,000,000, Must Operate at Reduced Speed Because of Defective Gears. By the Assoctated Press. NORFOLK, Va., September 30— The aircraft carrier Yorktown, built at the plant of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. at a cost of $20,000,000 steamed across Hampton Roads at dawn today and three hours later was commissioned as a unit of the United States Navy. With the carrier's crew of 2,000 officers and men lined up on her quar- terdeck as she lay alongside a pier at the naval base, the carrier was ac- cepted for the Navy by Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, commandant of the Norfolk Naval District, and then turned over to her commanding offi- cer, Capt. E. D. McWhorter. The Yorktown goes into active serv- ice on a reduced status because her reduction gears are defective and must be replaced within the next few months. She will operate with her flying squadrons in training maneu- vers in this area, but at reduced speeds. BRITISH EMBASSY AIDE HELPS IN HIT-RUN CASE Comdr. Mark-Wardlaw Assists Baltimore Police in Trapping Alleged Driver of Auto. Comdr. A. L. P. Mark-Wardlaw, as- sistant naval attache of the British Embassy, last night helped Baltimore police trap an alleged hit-and-run driver. Comdr. Mark-Wardlaw was driving in the Maryland city when he saw a car hit Joseph Adams, 25, and fail to stop. The attache gave chase in his car, but, unable to catch the fleeing vehicle, stopped and telephoned the license number to police, according to the Associated Press. Radio Patrolman George A. Glock later arrested a man who gave his name as Waltet L. Daniels, Chester, Pa, and charged him with reckless driving, failure to stop after an acci- dent and not having an operator's card in his possession, Adams suffered cuts about the head. —_— AGREEMENT SIGNED Seamen’s Union Makes Pact With Great Lakes Transit Co. CLEVELAND, September 30 (f).— E. J. Sullivan, Cleveland representa- tive of the American Federation of Labor Seamen’s Union, has announced his organization had signed a contract with the Great Lakes Transit Co., operating a fleet of package freighters on the Great Lakes. Sullivan said that under the agree- ment the men would receive approxi- mately a 20 per cent wage increase. The contract, Sullivan said, provides for the hiring of only A. F. of L. men, a T5-cent-an-hour rate for overtime, an increase from 65 to 75 cents in the hourly rate for laying up and fitting out ships. | ference visit to Buenos Aires last No- | improve Canadian relations included He remained at | his desk until September 21, when he | | flecked Puget Sound aboard the de- | ‘When the States | the championship bout in which Sul- | President Roosevelt was among the | /131 New Names Placed on Roll | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ROOSEVELT VISITS BRITISH GOLUMBIA Leaves U. S. First Time Since Buenos Aires Trip to Journey Across Sound. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, September 30.—President Roosevelt left American shores for a “good will” visit to Victoria, British Columbia, sailing on the destroyer Phelps at 9:40 am. (P. S. T.) in a pelting, gusty rainstorm today. He will return to the United States at Port Angeles, Wash., before nightfall. Stormy weather tonight and tomor- row was ahead over the Olympia Pen- insula area, the planned itinerary. Southeast storm warnings were ordered raised at all weather stations on the sound and along the coast. The President was to spend the night at Lake Crescent, in the wilder- ness of Northern Peninsula country, and drive 200 miles tomorrow, en- circling the péninsula to Tacoma be- fore returning to his special train, Refreshed by Rest. The President, refreshed by two nights and a day of rest after his cross-country trip, breakfasted at the Lawtonwood home of Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger, his son-in-law and daughter. A 22-mile drive through the residential district took them to the pier at Smith Cove, where they boarded the Phelps. On today's trip the President left American territory for the first time since his inter-American Peace Con- vember-December. It also was his second good-will trip to Canada in 14 months. July a year ago he went to Quebec after a sailing cruise around Nova Scotia and held up his Western Hemisphere “good neighbor” policy as an example for the rest of the world. | Lord Tweedsmuir, governor general of Canada, returned the President’s 1936 visit early this year. Steps taken under the Roosevelt administration to & reciprocal trade agreement and amendments to customs and tax laws. | The President’s goal today on his | three-hour journey across island- | stroyer Phelps was Victoria, on Van- couver Island. The destroyer Porter was enlisted as | an escort, In his party besides Mrs. Roosevelt were Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger and the latter's two children, Eleanor and | Curtis Dall; Senator Lewis D. Schwel- lenbach and Mrs. Schwellenbach, Sen- | ator Homer T. Bone and Mrs. Bone | and Representative M. C. Wallgren. | A royal salute from guards of honor | was to signalize the President’s ar- | rival at Victoria. Lieut. Gov. E. W. Hamber, as the | representative of his majesty the | King, had arranged to go aboard the | Phelps with a welcoming rnrnmmee: of provincial, civic and garrison offi- | cials. SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA PLANS SOCIAL SEASON in Current Year—Ball to Be in December. With 131 new names placed on the | rolls during the current year, the Ex- lMorgenthau Declines to Pre- ecutive Council of the Society of Vir-| ginia, the largest State society in the | city, met yesterday in the office of its president, R. Walton Moore, Assistant | proaching social season. The first ball will be held early in | December, it was decided, and the | George Washington memorial banquet held last February will be repeated. The society accepted an invitation | to take part in the memorial tree- planting program October 23 which is | part of the observance of the 150th an- | niversary of the signing of the Consti- | tution. The invitation came from Rep- resentative Bloom of New York, chair- man of the United States Sesquicen- tennial Constitution Commission. Rep- resentatives of the 13 original States will plant trees along the new road being built in Virginia from the Ar- lington Memorial Bridge to the Key Bridge at Rosslyn. The section will be ? known as the George Washington | Memorial Rarkway. | Those who attended the council meeting included Mrs. Richard A. Al- len, Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, Thomas Slater Settle, William Garnett Lee, sr.; Byrd Leavell, Fred Myers, Comdr. E. Maurice Blackwell, James IA. Somerville, Dr. Larry E. Arnette and George P. Grove. EXPORTS DUE TO OFFSET DROP IN OIL DEMANDS Bureau of Mines Statisticians Say World Conditions Have Caused Heavy Shipments. By the Assoclated Press. Bureau of Mines officials said today an “abnormal export situation” in the crude oil industry, with considerable oil going to the East, probably would counteract the usual Fall decline in oil demand and requirements. A bureau statistician said present world conditions undoubtedly had caused the increase in exports. The bureau has estimated the Oc- tober market demand for United States oil at 3,568,100 barrels, or 58,8060 bar- rels more than the daily average esti- mated for September. While records of exports to China and Japan for the last two months have not been made available here, those for the first six months of 1937 show exports of crude oil to Japan totaled 7,007,896 barrels for the period. GETS LIFE IN SLAYING OF T. E. ROWE, G-MAN By ke Associated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Septem- ber 30.—A Federal Court jury last night found George Guy (Bud) Os- borne guilty of first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Truett E. Rowe, Department of Justice agent, and recommended life imprisonment. Rowe, an agent of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in El Paso, Tex., was shot to death last June near Gallup, N. Mex.,, when he at- tempted to arrest Osborne for car theft and as a fugitive from Okla- homa justice, The jury deliberated about five hours before returning the \verdict with the recommendation “without capital punishment,” which makes life imprisonment mandatory. | Oscar Faces G-Man Firing Squad—and Survives Special Agent Walter R. Walsh of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, world .22 automatic pistol champion, did trick yesterday at shooting with Quantico. mirrors D. THURSDAY, Oscar, famed crime scene “m as Agent I. E. Nitschke (above) a SEPTEMBER 30, 1937 [jFH[}IAI_ R[FUSES Japan foers Bribes to Ease BUDGET FORECAST dict Balance This Year, Al- though Roosevelt Has. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau declined to- day to predict whether the Treasury will achieve a balanced budget this fiscal year. President Roosevelt had said Gov- ernment income and outgo will be bal- anced in the next fiscal period, which begins next July 1 At present the Treasury is making a survey designed to bring about all pos- | sible governmental economies in the current year. Morgenthau, however, | declined at & press conference to esti- | mate how much might be saved, or| whether spending could be bmughl‘i within income. | Neither did he elaborate on Mr. Roosevelt’s prediction of a balanced | budget next year. Asked whether he would recommend | higher taxes if necessary to balance | next year's budget, Morgenthau replied | that his last public statement on taxes | had been that the last Congress did ! not need to impose new levies. | “That was last session,” he con- | tinued, “which leaves my hands un- | tied for the next session.” Told there had been some specula- tion that the Treasury would conduct a8 major financing operation before the regular quarterly borrowing date December 15, the Treasury Secretary replied: “The answer to that is definitely no.” Morganthau surveyed the Treasury's | weekly short-term financing activities at a meeting yesterday with members of the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee. He reported no conclusions were reached regarding future policies. and that he would con- fer with committee members again next Wednesday. He announced that $50,000,000 in discount bills will be sold as usual Monday for the Treasury's weekly re- financing operation. ALVIN P. HOWARD DIES; NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVE New Orleans Banker, 48, Was Vice President of Times- Picayune. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 30.— Alvin P. Howard, 48-year-old banker and vice president of the New Orleans Times-Picayune Publishing Co., died at a Plainview, Tex., hospital late yes- terday after a heart attack. En route to his ranch near Floydada, Tex., with J. M. Massie, his land agent, Mr. Howard complained of feeling ill and was taken to Plainview. He was examined by a physician, communi- cated with his wife here and died a few minutes later. For years he had been active in banking, publishing and the cotton business. He was educated at Yale University and taught at Tulane Uni- versity until his father’s death in 1911, In 1915 he was made vice president of the Times-Picayune. Surviving are his widow, a son, Al- vin H. Howard, a student at the Uni- versity of Virginia; a daughter, Fran- ces Howard, and a brother, Edgar B. Howard of the University of Penn- sylvania. HOBBY WORK EXHIBIT AT WHEATLEY SCHOOL Banners Will Be Awarded Room ‘With Best Display at Judg- ing Tomorrow. An exhibition of “hobby work” intro- duced into the Wheatley School by the Parent-Teacher Association with a view to keeping the children off the streets during the Summer will be held at the school at 9 a.m. tomor- TowW. Banners will be awarded to the room with the best exhibit by judges includ- ing Miss Ida Lind, supervisor of ele- mentary work; Mrs. Florence Rogers, supervising principal of the sixth divi- sion; Miss Buelah Dove, -teacher of ele- mentary science; Mrs. W. Hardy o the Community Center Department and Mrs. Martin Johnson, president of the parent-teacher group. Among the hobbies to be presented will be soap carving, inkmaking, clay modeling, woven pocketbooks, phone sets, aquaria, boat building and vari- ous types of collections. Roper to Give Address. Secretary of Commerce Roper will speak at the opening Fall luncheon of the Democratic League of the District of Columbia at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. Joseph Robi- chaux will appear as soloist. Hugh V. Keiser, president of the league, will presite. urder victim” of the G-men, had some bad moments nd other fancy shooters of the F. B. I. entertained more than 450 members of the Internation al Association for Identification. The dem- onstration was in charge of T. Franklin Baughman, F. B. 1. gun expert and instructor, --Star Staff Photos. Opposition,Says Mme. Chiang Asks Chinese to Assist in Forming Autonomous State. The following is the first of @ series of articles by the American- educated wife of the head of the Chinese government, who herself is the active head of the aviation branch of the Chinese Army. Ad- ditional articles will appear from time to time as the occasion war- rants. BY MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, Wife of the Chinese Generalissimo, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star NANKING, September 30.—Judg- | ing from the activities of Japanese | secret agents in these parts, they must | | be feeling the strain of war seriously. ! They are offering bribes to Chinese officials in the Shantung and Shansi | Provinces to cease opposing Japan and assist them in the formation of an autonomous state of the five provinces north of the Yellow River. Further evidence of their difficulties is provided by Japan's treacherous use of Chinese colors as insignias on their airplanes in order to attack our | erto the Japanese Army has disdained | | their slaughter of innocents has evi- dently influenced Tokio somewhat, for | raiders visiting Nanking vesterday and today avoided the walled city. Hith- | MAGUIRE AUTOPSY AIDS VIRUS SEARCH Sleeping Beauty’s Brain Is Found Withered, in Part, Due to Disease. By the Associated Press ASK CO-OPERATION INU.S. CRIME WAR Cummings and Hoover Seek Closer Alignment of Police Forces. In the wake of the Brookings In- stitution’s criticism of Federal law enforcement agencies which fail to co-operate with one another, Attore ney General Cummings and J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, today made urgent pleas for a closer alignment of all crime fighting forces—Federal, State and local. Addressing more than 1.300 mem- bers and guests of the International Association for Identification in the great hall of the Department of Jus- tice, Cummings declared whole-heart- ed co-operation among law enforce- ment officers is essential to successful warfare on criminals. Turning toward Hoover, seated nearby, the Attorney General smil- ingly said “Mr. Hoover and I have always worked hand in hand. We, at least, have had 100 per cent co-operation.” The Attorney General made no di- rect reference, however, to the Brook- ings report, which charged that some of the Federal agencies are not work- ing together. Hoover Asks Co-operation. Hoover, in a vigorous speech, as- serted: “Co-operation is our only hope of | success against an enemy which main- tains an effective system of co-opera- tion within its ranks * * * Our every ‘omrzr must use the same weapons as h | other officers and with other organiza- | tions, so that all may present a united | the criminal, binding himself front against the viciousness of a criminal world which is constant] seeking to undermine our American civilization.” The head G-man assailed “medicine men” and “quacks” of law enforce- ment who have “patent nostrums for ending criminality overnight.” He also criticized “parole sob-sisters who are responsible for maladmi CHICAGO, September 30 —Doctors thumbed through autopsy records to- day, hoping to learn from Pa Maguire’s death what the li | to control of sleeping Dr. Eugene F. Tra sician who performed the post nination of the 32-year ste- pher's body, said one of his find- ings for science was that long inac- tivity had withered the frontal lobe of the girl’s brain “It may be the first step to the discovery cof a control for the disease,” he said. Miss Maguire, whose strange sleep began February 15, 1932, and ended in death Tuesday night, died of bron- chial pneumonia and sleeping sickness, technically known as encephalitis, the autopsy showed Dr. Traut said withering of the various air fields and the continuous | international opinion because it wuzbram lobe never before has rgsulted dishonesty of their radio broadcasts | not forcefully expressed, but the peo-| from sleeping sickness. The cells had that flood in upon our people Their disguised planes enabled them to bomb the Kwanteh Air Field yes- terday and today one scouted the ‘Wuhu Field. Finding it unarmed this plane led 12 officers there to bomb it and destroy four unarmed Douglas planes used for training purposes. The Japanese are piling proof upon proof that an undeclared war possesses possibilities of subjugating a weak na- tion in a way that does not exist under the canons of international laws which govern declared wars. They are mak- ing the fullest possible and undeterred use of this situation. However, world criticism against | ple of Japan will surely feel its effect | if the world reaction to these horrors | reaches their ears. I am certain, too, that properly applied economic pressure would | struction of our country relentlessly being pursued by the Japanese Army. I believe that world leaders would ob- ject to reducing the Chinese people to poverty and economic impotency. The manufacturing nations of the world would certainly rue the day they hesi- tated to prevent the destruction of the purchasing power of this potentially important market for their products. | (Copyright. 1937.) ARMS FUND BOST URGED ON FRANCE Bonnet Proposes $736,- 233,333 for *38, Compared With $634,333,333 in ’37. Ey the Associated Press. PARIS, September 30.—Finance Minister Georges Bonnet proposed today a sharp increase in French armament expenditures in presenting the 1938 ordinary budget bill to Par- liament. The budget draft, submitted to the Chamber of Deputies Finance Com- mittee, showed total national defense expenditures for 1938, in both ordinary and extraordinary budgets, would be 22,087,000,000 francs (about $736,- 233333), compared with the 1937 total military expenses of 19,030,000,- 000 francs (about $634,333,333). $53,400,000 Surplus Looms. ‘The 1938 ordinary budget (for nor- mal expenditures in government and normal defense) anticipates a surplus of 1,602,000,000 francs ($53,400,000). Receipts were estimated at 53,781,- 000,000 francs ($1,792,700,000) and expenses at 52,179,000,000 ($1,739,- 300,000). This compared with the 1937 ord- inary budget expenses of 48,146,000,000 francs ($1,604,866,666) and receipts of 40,000,000,000 ($1,333,333,333). The 1938 extraordinary budget (for special armaments and defense), which was fixed in a cabinet decree at 17,000,000,000 francs ($566,666,666), is to be covered by borrowing. Pay to Be Increased. ‘The budget bill said ordinary surplus would be used to increase pay and pensions of government employes, leaving a total 1938 deficit from both ordinary and extraordinary budgets at about 17,000,000,000 francs. The Bourse strengthened today amid reports of changes in the gov- ernment of Premier Camille Chau- temps and that extension of the tri- partite monetary accord with the United States and Britain is under consideration. Responsible financial quarters heard the reports the cabinet may be re- constructed “before Monday” to in- clude more moderate elements—an effort to improve the political at- mosphere while the government works to_bolster the franc. Official quarters reported last night that Bonnet was standing firm on his decision against exchange control de- -| spite. what financial circles described as strong and persistent speculative attacks against the franc. ST AREAD SR Baby Shows in India. Baby shows are being held in Bun- di, India, where native litfle ones formerly were kept strictly away from the rest of the world, . ’ SCHACHT STAYING, SPEECH INDICATES Gives Reich Reassurances on Future of Nazis’ Finance Policy. By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, September 30. —Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, still presi- dent of the Reichsbank, and still act- ing minister of economics, tried to calm both German and foreign ner- vousness about the future of the Nazi economic and financial policy, in the speech published here today which he delivered before the conference ipal and Savings Banks in Essen, yes- terday. The “wizard of the Reichsbank” even gave every indication, in his speech, of expecting to continue indef- initely to play a—if not the—lead- ing part in determining national pol- icy in these fields. Defending his strict control of the German credit market, Dr. Schacht said specifically, at one point, “Where support (of credits) of local govern- ment has been necessary I have al- ready taken pains to ease their posi- tions,” and he went on, “I shall in- tervene in the future also, to make exceptions in cases which are espe- cially justified.” It was a pointed comment on the insistent reports that he is “through.” More than this, Dr. Schacht under- took to reassure his listeners on three of the major questions of policy about which there is the most interest and uncertainty both in Germany and abroad: 1. The mark will not be devalued, he said, because devaluation would be a betrayal of those whose savings are absolutely necessary to the gov- ernment, would seriously handicap national policy and would wipe out the enormous profits (5,500,000,000 marks) the regime has made on its foreign debts, thanks to the devalua- tion of other currencies. 2. The Reich has not, and will not, embark on a policy of inflation, he declared. 3. The earnings of German indus- try must not be “taxed away,” Schacht said, but must be left to in- dustry itself for investment so that production can be made more efficient and increased by private initiative. (Copyright. 1937.) Add to Cottage Cheese. Cottage cheese may be varied by adding one tablespoonful of any of the following for each cup of cheese: Chopped pimientos, green peppers, chives, onions, horseradish, patsley, chopped pickles, chopped olives or pickle relish, | quickly terminate this disastrous de- | of the National Association of Munic- | shriveled from disuse just as an arm or leg would from inactivity. He em- | phasized the atrophy was a result, and | not a cause, of the illness. | “In this case—the first, I believe, where the sickness has lasted so long— every known method of combatting the disease has been tried,” Dr. Traut continued. “Perhaps this examination will re- veal what science has been searching for “Science only knows that this dis- | ease is caused by a virus—a virus that has been segregated before but never completely so. I hope by freezing the brain and by a careful microscopic study to find that virus. “When it is found, only then can we study the way to attack it.” ‘The doctor commented the girl's family for permitting the study. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. Saturday, with a requiem high mass at the Ascension Roman Catho- lic Church in Oak Park. Burial will be in Forest Home Cemetery. 16-YEAR SIEGE ENDS. Woman, 36, Died From Sleeping Sick- ness, Her Doctor Says. PORTLAND, Me., September 30 (&) —The strange sleeping malady which recently ended in death the five-year illness of Patricia Maguire, Chicago's 32-year-old “sleeping beauty,” had claimed a victim here today. Miss Verona P. Nichols, 36-year-old Portland woman who succumbed last night to a 16-year siege of a mysteri- ous disease, was pronounced today by Dr. A. F. Stuart, her physician, a victim of sleeping sickness. Dr. Stuart said Miss Nichols had been asleep for six weeks after she was first stricken with the lethargic | spells 16 years ago. She came out of the coma, Dr. Stuart said, and returned to her em- ployment at the Grand Trunk offices here, but soon afterward suffered a relapse. Since that time she had suffered periodic attacks of the malady, but never had lapsed into a prolonged coma, Dr. Stuart said. However, he said she had lost use of her limbs and talked incoherently. HOLD-UP SUSPECTS PLEAD NOT GUILTY Alfred H. Brauer, 22-year-old uni- versity student, who is accused of planning the S & W Cafeteria hold- up August 31, and Harry G. Smith, 35, described as the “trigger man,” pleaded not guilty today in District Court to three robbery charges, including the B & W case. At the same time, William P. Allen, 30, taxicab driver, in whose cab Smith is said to have made his getaway, pleaded guilty to the 8 & W robbery charge and to participating in the hold-up of a Sanitary Grocery Co. clerk July 27. The three men, together with James G. Bristow, 29, were charged with rob- bing Charles W. Harvey, grocery clerk, of $369 as he was walking in the 1000 block of K street. Brauer, Smith and Bristow pleaded not guilty to this charge, and Brauer and Smith denied participation in a pocketbook snatch- ing on Cathedral avenue, near For- tieth street, August 1. STREET CA.RS TIED UP If Capt. George R. Burgess, U. 8. A,, had had his car equipped with street car wheels he would have made it last night. But when he tried to follow the street car tracks at Fourteenth and F streets, around which the pavement has been torn away, his tires slipped off the rails and it took half an hour to get the car clear of street car traffic. ’ | sleeping girl could not reveal—a path | istration of parole in some of the | States. Cites “Parole Outrages.” Development of the fingerpr stem in recent years, Hoover sa. | has exposed “what tremendous out- | rages have been practiced in the name | of parole.” He said prison doors have | been opened to release “murderers, | thieves and sex criminals that they | might again descend upon the honest | citizen to rob and beat and kidnap | and rape and murder.” In his talk, the Attorney General | saic breakdowns in enforcement of criminal laws are due largely to fail- ure of personnel rather than to in- adequacy of the laws. Brains are replacing brawn in some police departments, he said, but there is much need for improvement of personnel standards in many juris- diciions. He declared it is “significant that in most States any person, regards | less of his intelligence quotient or his training, can become a Justice of the peace, a coroner, a prison guard, a parole officer or a sheriff.” Charges Laxness. Among “breakdowns” that has oce curred in law enforcement, the At torney General stated, are failure to make arrests, failure to prosecute those who are arrested, failure to con- viet through conflict of testimony by so-called “expert witnesses,” failure of juries to convict despite over- whelming evidence of guilt, delays in commitment of those convicted through appeals and paroling of pris- oners who should be kept behind bars. Federal Bureau of Investigation is | “a new and an encouraging develop- | ment.” In the crime scene room of the F. B. I criminologists this after- noon will see the remains of “Oscar,” the veteran wax “murder victim" used by G-men in studying crime scene investigative technique. Yesterday afternoon they saw “Os- car” face the high-powered magnum pistols of crack-shot G-men on their training range at the Quantico ma- rine base. The famous dummy came through the ordeal without a scratch— due to the fine marksmanship of special agents, who fired at pieces of chalk in his mouth and on his head, slices of potato in his hands and a playing card stuck in his fist. Staging a remarkable exhibition of trick shooting, the agents shattered the chalk and potatoes by shooting their revolvers upside down and side- ways, by turning their backs on the dummy and shooting through their legs and with mirrors, by covering their gun sights with a card stuck on the muzzle of the pistol and even by blindfolding an agent holding a pistol and letting another agent do the sighting for him. Two stunts which evoked greatest applause were the splitting of a play- ing card stuck in Oscar’s hand so that only ‘the edge could be seen by the pistol expert and the simultaneous firing of pistols held in both hands of an agent, who aimed at—and hit— two potatoes held in Oscar’s out- stretched hands. PRS0 STATE EMPLOYES’ SALARIES RESTORED Pay of 1,000 Maryland Workers Goes Back to 1933 Level at Midnight. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, September 30.—Wil- liam 8. Gordy, jr., State controller, today announced that 1933 economy cuts made in the salaries of State employes will be restored in full when the fiscal year begins at midnight. The budget, approved by the recent Legislature for 1938 and 1939, will be- come operative tomorrow. The Leg- islature made available $178,000 in 1938 and 1939 for the restoration of salaries to the pre-cut level. Joseph O'C. McCusker, chief deputy State controller, estimated that about 1,000 employes would be bene- fitted by the restoration. The Board of Public Works, which was given power to make the restora- tion, allocated $174,615.31 to depart= ments and other State agencies for the purpose in 1938 and $165,658.72 in 1939. The University of Maryland Hospi- tal will benefit most from the fund, receiving $27,000 annually in 1938 and 1939. The University of Maryland will receive $25,000 for each year. 50 SISl SN 134,000-Mile Weld. More than 140,000,000 pounds of steel welding wire are produced in this eountry annually, or enough to make a strong weld 134.000 mileg long.