Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer, with lowest tempera- ture about 50 degrees tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy and warmer; showers to- morrow night. Temperatures today— Highest, 55, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 40, at ’ The only evening paper in Washyington vgx th the Associated Press News 6 am. Full Teport on page A-11. and Wirephoto Services. . Closing New York Markets, Page 16 The Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 85th YEAR. EDENEXPECTSU. 3. T0 LEAD BRUSSELS ACTION FOR PEAGE Britain to Go Only as Far as America in Ending War, He Says. No. WASHINGTON INITIATED TALK, COMMONS TOLD Officials Here Suggested Brussels as Site for Conference, Sec- retary Asserts. BACKGROUND— British joreign policy during past five years has been directed at keeping out of war in both the Far East and the Mediterranean areas at the cost of great loss of prestige. Attitude toward Italy has stiffened, however, as Rome stoutly resists all pressure to with- draw her “volunteer” troops from Spain, where they are fighting for Gen. Francisco Franco. By the Associated P: LONDON, Nov. 1—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Commons today that Britain will go exactly as far as the United States in seeking an end to the Chinese-Japanese conflict at the Brussels Nine-Power Conference which opens Wednesday. Making clear that the United States is expected to take the lead in any definite action to control the Far East- ern threat to world peace, Eden said that Britain is prepared: “To go as far as the United States, in full agreement with them—not rushing in front, but not being left behind.” Heads Brussels Delegation. ‘The foreign secretary, who will head the British delegation to Brussels, gave the Far Eastern situation front rank in a frank pronouncement covering the whole international field. He also curtly tossed back Italy's bid for a return of Britain’s war-gained colonial mandates to Germany and upheld the government's course in the Mediterranean and Spain. ‘The United States, he said, took the initiative in convoking the nine-power conference and any action on the Far East “essentially depended on co- operaticn of the United States.” “We realize, that with conditions as they are in the world today,” Eden continued, “that we must realize the difficulties of the Far Eastern situa- tion. I assure the House that it is in this spirit that I go to Brussels, anxious to contribute what little lies in my power in a situation in which no one can envy a foreign secretary today.” The United States suggested that Brussels be the meeting place, he asserted. “I say without hesitation,” he added, “that in order to get full co-operation, on an equal basis, of the United States Government in the International Con- ference, I would travel not only from Geneva to Brussels, but from Mel- bourne to Alaska—the more particu- larly in the present situation of inter- national affairs.” Also Deals With Colonies. Eden, speaking in foreign affairs de- bate, dealt with the Far Eastern crisis, Germany’s desire for return of war- lost colonies and with piracy at sea 34,152. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D, C. ‘WASHINGTON, ‘Delicate Situation’ in Windsor’s Visit Scouted by Sir Ronald Ambassador, Arriving in New York, Says Duke Should Avoid Politics as Much as Possible. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United States, sald on his arrival from England that no “delicate situation” could possibly arise in connection with the Duke of Windsor's forthcoming visit to this country as long as the Duke “avoids politics as much as pos- sible.” The Ambassador was consistently vague about the part British officials will play in recetving the Duke and Duchess when they arrive here Novem- ber 11. I imagine the Duke will want cer- tain facilities, and I shall be proud and glad to give him the things he wants,” Sir Ronald said. “We haven't any policy at all,” he continued in a shipboard interview aboard the steamship Queen Mary. “The Duke may want a certain amount of help, and if he does I shall give it to him. I have only vague in- dications of what his plans are. I have them on a bit of paper, but they are 5o subject to change that I wouldn't want to show them now. “‘As for any delicate situatjon, there will be no difficulties about a man studying housing and labor and still avoiding politics.” Sir Ronald, in reply to questions whether his staff would accompany the Duke and Duchess on their cross- country travels here, replied: “I dont think he wants that. He was always the simplest sort of per- son.” “Do you plan to give a dinner to him and the Duchess in Washington?” a reporter asked. The Ambassador . chuckled. “I shall have to consult my wife,” he sald. “If your wife approves, will it be a large, formal dinner?” “It would seem she would have to do more than just approve, wouldn't it?” he smiled. Then, in more serious vein, he went on: “I have very little infcrmation on what they plan to do on this journey. The duke is coming in a private capacity and will be treated the same as any other member of royalty would in such a capacity.” Bir Gerald Campbell, British Con- sul General in New York, said he or some representative of the consulate undoubtedly would meet the duke as a “distinguished visitor.” “‘He is arranging everything through his friends here,” Sir Gerald said. “We will accord him any assistance we are called upon to provide.” DAVISAND DR K00 TALKAT BRUSSELS Subject Is Expected to Be Chinese Terms for Peace. BACKGROUND— Convocation of conference of signatories and adherents of nine- power treaty guaranteeing in- tegrity of China summoned last month by Belgium in eflort to stop Sino-Japanese warjare after Presi- dent Roosevelt had offered Ameri- can co-operation jor peace and had urged a united front of peace- loving nations against the contagion ©0f. aggression. Conference, origi- nally scheduled to open October 30, was postponed until Wednesday because of Belgian cabinet crisis. By the Assoctated Press. BRUSSELS, Nov. 1.—First practi- cal contact in preparation for the Nine-Power Conference came today in a meeting between Norman Davis, head of the United States delegation, and Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to France. Davis was expected to discuss with Dr. Koo, also chief of China’s confer- ence delegation, terms under which China would agree to peace negotia- tions in the Chinese-Japanese con- flict. China Willing to Talk Peace. Chinese officials in Paris already have indicated willingness to discuss Peace terms in Brussels, although they said they would not talk about “peace at any price.” Davis finished the draft of his open- ing speech at the conference early this morning and cabled it to Wash- ington for approval. When the conference convenes growing from the Spanish civil war. The foreign secretary advised Italy flatly, amid Commons cheers, that she need not expect the return of colonies to Germany while Premier Mussolini keeps territory which Italy won in the war. Thus, with what he described as his own “appalling frankness,” Eden answered Premier Mussolini’s urging in his address last week that Ger- many get back a *place in the African 8un.” ‘ Italy gained the German-speaking Bouthern Tyrol as a consequence of the World War. ©Of Spain, Eden bluntly told opposi- tion members of the Parliament that the Nyon accord to combat piracy had resulted in facilitating “the ar- rival of very large quantities of ma- terial at Spanish government ports.” “The House no doubt will have ob- served, during recent days,” Eden as- serted, discussing colonies, “that the country that had itself, as an outcome of the Great War, gained very con- siderable accessions of territory in Europe, and also received certain ter- ritorial concessions in Africa from countries which were its allies in the Great War, had now championed the elaim of Germany to African posses- sions. * * * I must declare plainly that we do not admit the right of any government to call upon us for contribution, when there is no evi- dence to show that that government is prepared to make any contribution of their own account.” Protest Ship Sinking. Eden earlier told the House the government had lodged a strong pro- test with Spanish insurgent author- ities over the sinking of the British merchantman Jean Weems. As the mighty battle cruiser Hood sped to Barcelona to investigate the defiance of the Nyon anti-piracy ac- ocord, Eden indicated Anglo-French Mediterranean reinforcements might be made as a result of the Jean Weems bombing. The insurgents, he said, “have un- dertaken at once to make a most searching inquiry” to fix the responsi- bility for the incident. - The Hood, armed with eight 15- inch guns, steamed toward the Catalan coast from Mallorca, where she was ordered last week. Crew to Be Interviewed. Her officers were instructed to in- terview the crew of the Jean Weems, all saved before the bomb-wrecked vessel went down Saturday morning. 'The officers also were told to get the storles of the two non-intervention obsgrvers on board the Jean Weems. The dispatch of the Hood to the scene of the bombing appeared to be evidence that Britain is determined on & sterner Mediterranean policy to lenforce the Nyon anti-piracy ace cord. A Wednesday, Davis probably will be the first delegation head to speak, after Belgium’s Foreign Minister Paul Spaak’s welcome. Committees to Be Named. After all delegation heads have been given opportunity to address the conference, necessary committees will be appointed. The procedure then will be to make & motion allowing the Chinese to ex- plain their position—probably behind closed doors. FORECAST FOR DISTRICT IS FAIR AND WARMER “Indian Summer” Weather Will Continue According to Weather Bureau. “Indian summer” weather was ex- pected to prevail in the District through tomorrow after enticing thou- sands of Washingtonians out into the parks and mountain retreats of nearby Maryland and Virginia yesterday. Rising gradually from a low of 40 st 6 am. today, the temperature reached 46 at 9:30 am. and was expected to go above 50 this after- noon and remain there during tonight. The forecast called for fair and warmer weather, with a minimum tem- perature of about 50 tonight, with tomorrow mostly cloudy and warmer. Showers are predicted for tomorrow night. ~ A maximum temperature of 58 was recorded yesterday. The mean tem- Pperature of 51 was exactly normal for October 31, the Weather Bureau said. The records showed the month just ended was the wettest October in the history of the Weather Buresu, A total of 8.81 inches of rain fell during the month. This compared with a normal precipitation of 2.84 inches and the previous record of 8.69 inches recorded in 1885, z: —— MILK STRIKE VIOLENCE Dairy Farmers’ Union Moves Against Distributors. UTICA, N. Y., Nov. 1 (#).——Minor violence continued to mark upstate picketing activities today as the Dairy Parmers’ Union pointed its 19-county milk strike directly at New York’s thfee major disfributors—Shefeld Farms, the Borden Corp. and the Dairymen’'s League. ‘Two cans of milk were dumped at Camden and stones were huried by pickets who, State Police Lieut. Martin Dillon said, attempted to halt a con- voy of trucks entering the Dairymen's Lesgue plant there. o0 FIELD WORKERS DROPPEDBYP.W.A. Substitution of Regional Dis- tricts Immediate Cause of Reductions. Approximately 500 field employes were served from Public Works Ad- ministration pay rolls today as the new regional set up went into effect. The substitution of seven regional districts for the 48 separate State units existing heretofore was the im- mediate cause of the initial reduction in personnel. Officials explained it was “just the beginning.” % A large majority of the estimated 6,300 persons remaining in the P. W. A. will be let out of the service in the next few months. With funds denied for new projects, it was esti- mated the existing program of public works will be completed within the next year. Then the P. W. A. will fold-up; unless, in the meantime, Con- gress provides funds for additional Pprojecta. Old Story to P. W. A, Staff, ‘These reductions in personnel com- prise an old story to members of the P. W. A. staff. In April,~1936, there were 10,936 employes in the fleld and in the Washington headquarters. ™n- cluding the dismissals today, the staff has been scaled down to approximately 6,300. A large majority of the 2,800 em- ployes in the Washington headquar- ters will be affected by future layoffs. The reductions here, however, will be fewer than in the field, as it will be necessary to maintain a competent working nucleus until the last chap- ter of the P. W. A. is written. 600 Workers Transferred. The 600 employes in ihe former Housing Division were transferred to- day by executive order to the new Housing Authority under Administra- tor Nathan Straus. This had been arranged by the President last week. P. W. A. officials were unable to say today if any of the housing employes are to be dropped when Mr. Straus |. personally takes over the new organi- sation tomorrow. The housing ad- ministrator had indicated in New Yo;: that some reductions are pos- sible. SIMPSON ARRIVES ON SURPRISE VISIT Parries All Questions to His Di- voroe and His Former Wife, the Duchess of Windsor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 1—Traveling in- cognito, Ernest A, Simpson, former husband of the Duchess of Windsor, arrived on & surprise visit to the United States. today on the Cunard White Star tiner Queen Mary. He parried all questions referring to his divorce and his former wife. Asked whether he planned to marry Mrs. Mary Raffray, London. society ‘woman, Simpson laughingly replied: “Oh, let’s have another drink.” He said he had come to spend three or four weeks visiting his mother, Mrs. Ernest,L. Simpson of New York, and to attend private business in connec- tion with his London ship brokerage firm. This has to do, he said, with the suggested purchase by his firm, Simp- aon, Bpence & Young, of the long-un- used American liner Leviathan. Four Tepresentatives of his compeny are ready to submit a bid to the United States Board. He did not think the ship would be worth a sug- ;:md bid of $3,000,000 for scrap iron, said. JAPAN REVEALS PLANS FOR PACT WITH ITALY By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Nov. 1.—A Japanese for- eign office today form of agreement with Italy to co- operate against Communism.” ‘The statement was the first official mehm::mbe:‘ = and Ty, it between Japan A Previously it had been insisted their negotiations were, confined to a new trade treaty. / le sources indicated Italy Join the German-Japanese ant!- D. C JAPAN' APOLOGIZES FOR INVADING U: S AREA AT SHANGHAI Hasegawa Tells Beaumont After Protest Incident Will Not Recur. OUTPOSTS’ WITHDRAWAL IS REFUSED BY BRITISH 7,000 Nipponese Shock Troops Cross Soochow Creek Under Cover of Heavy Barrage. BACKGROUND— American troops and nationals under constant fire around Shang- hai during Japanese invasion of China as part of campaign to con- quer flve northern provinces. Mis- directed Japanese and Chinese shells have several times brought death and injury to Americans. Three British soldiers were killed last Friday when Japanese shell struck outpost of Internatiopal Settlement guard. Japanese apologized. By the Associated Press. SHANGHALI, Nov. 1—Japanese Ad- miral Kiyoshi Hasegawa apologized today to the United States marine commander who protested against a Japanese foray on the American- protected side of Soochow Creek. A party of Japanese bluejackets hag crossed the creek to the American sector of the International Settlement in a rice-laden junk seized after scar- ing off the Chinese crew. Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont, marine commander in Shanghai, pro- tested to Hasegawa, who apologized and promised there would not be a re- currence of the incident. (At Tokio Foreign Minister Koki Hirota sent a formal note of apol- ogy to British Ambassador Sir Rob- ert Leslie Cragie for the machine- gunning of British motor cars October 12 near Shanghai. Craigie replied, expressing satisfaction.) 7,000 Cross Soochow Creek. The apology to Beaumont came as 7,000 Japanese shock troops, under cover of & thunderous artillery bar- rage, crossed Soochow Creek west of Shanghai. Closer to the Settlement, Japanese used the Chinese junk and other craft to negotiate the creek and attack Chinese positions along the south bank. As Japanese attempted to blast their way into Chinese positions and encircle Shanghai, Maj. Gen. A. P, D. Telfer-8mollett, commender of Brit- ish troops, refused to withdraw his soldiers from outposts in western sec- tions of the city. In answer to Japanese disclosure that Chinese machine-gun nests near British outposts along the Shanghai- Hangchow Railway would be sub- Jected to intense bombardment, Tel- fer-Smollett ordered British union jacks flown over all British dugouts and sandbag barriers. He served mnotice that the British would hold their lines regardless of eventualities. Tension Heightened. Tension between Japanese and Brit- ish troops became more acute, with British hlaming Japanese for 10 cas- ualties, including 5 deaths, suffered by their forces in Shanghai thus far. While Japanese planes dropped bombs dangerously near British out- posts on a neighboring battlefield, four Irish soldiers killed by misdi- rected Japanese shell were buried with impressive ceremonies. Three of thé soldiers were killed Friday and a fourth died Sunday of wounds suffered in the Friday shelling. British authorities refrained from (8ee SHANGHAI, Page A-3.) U. S. Fleet at Gibraltar. GIBRALTAR, Nov. 1 (#).—The United States cruiser Raleigh, flag- ship of Rear Admiral Arthur Fair- fleld, and the destroyers Hatfield, Kane and Claxton arrived here to- day. The new United States destroy- er Manley was expected November § and the Kane and Hatfleld were acheduled to return to the United States. Y LA PRESIDENT NAMES RAIL MEDIATORS Creates Board)in Dispute of Pacific Electtic Railway and Employes. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 1.—Pres- ident Roosevelt created an emergency board by proclamation today to me- diate a labor dispute between the Pa- cific Electric Railway and its employes represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The President named the following to the board: Isaiah L. Sharfman, Uni- versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dexter M. Keezer, Reed College, Port- land, Oreg., and John P. Devaney, Minneapolis, Minn. ‘The board was named, White House attaches announced, because the dis- pute threatens “substantially to in- terrupt State commerce within the State of California to a degree such 23 10 deprive that section of the coun- try of esseniial transportation service.” Action was taken under section 10 of the Railway Labor Act. Walkout Is Delayed. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (P).—A walkout of 2,000 Pacific Electric Rail- ‘way employes, scheduled for 2 a.m. to- morrow, was automatically delayed 60 days when President Roosevelt created by proclamation todsy an emergency board to mediate the wages and hours dispute between the company and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The action created the second ex- tensive delay since the union made its first pay increase demands several months ago. Directly affected by a strike would have been 200,000 persons who com- mute daily between Los Angeles and cities in five Southern California counties. The National Mediation Board failed in an effort to settle differences be- tween the railway and its employes. SAUD AIDE FEARED DEAD Sheikh Youssef Yassine May Be Syrian Flood Victim. DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 1 (#)— Sheikh Youssef Yassine, chancellor to King Ibn Saud of the Arabian Sau- dian Bmpire, was feared today to have been a victim of floods in which 1,000 may have perished. He has been missing since he left Damascus for Baghdad, Iraq, Thurs- day. ‘The bodies of 279 victims have been recovered and authorities feared the toll of dead would exceed 1,000 About 50,000 persons were destitute, Summary of Today's Star Sports Woman's \Pg. C-4 Obituary --.-A-10 WAR IN FAR EAST. Japan apologizes for raid on U. 8. area at Shanghal. Page A-1 Anglo-Japanese settlement looms at nine-power parley. Page A-4 All “lost battalion” members are pro- moted by Chiang. Page A-3 FOREIGN. Britain protests to insurgents on vessel's sinking. Page A-1 Davis confers at Brussels with Dr. Koo. Page A-1 NATIONAL. James Roosevelt begins perleys with agency heads. Page A-1 House group agrees on voluntary crop control program. Page A-1 Possibility of maritime mediation board is seen. Page A-2 Eccles summoned for Hyde Park con- ference. Page A-3 Alien “isms” hit by Army and Navy Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. P. W. A. drops 500 fleld employes from pay roll. Page A-1 Girls at National Training School riot again. Page A-1 Imitation of Mas West wins Halloween parade prize. Page A-2 One dead, dosen hurt in traffic acci- dents. . A-2 .| Women urge abolishment of “sweat- shops” in D, C. Page A-12 McNabb quits F. T. C. after 58 years in Government. Page A-12 Catholics celebrate Feast of Christ the King. . Page B-1 New avistion regulations become ef- fective today. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorjals. Page A-3 This and That. Answers to Queations. Washington Observations. David Lawrence, H. R. Baukhage. Dorothy Thompson. Constantine Brown. Lemuel Parton. SPORTS. Race for mythical grid title still wide . open. Page C-1 First half of football season takes 14 lives. Page C-2 Eastern oollege sports grouped in new set-up, Cal Giants hold it. Redskins .and grid- Griffman. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. City News in Brief. Page A-12 Bedtime Stories. Page B-10 Nature’s 'Children, Page B-10 Shipping News. Page B-13 Dorothy Dix. Page C-4 Betsy Caswell. Page C-4 Cross-word Puzxle. Page C-8 Letter-Out. Page C-8 ‘Winning ‘Contract. Page C-9 »- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937—FORTY-FOUR PAGES, *hns THEY'D LooK EVEN SWELLER. MY French Party Backs Reich’s Economic Plea By the Associated Press PARIS, Nov. 1.—7The Radical- Socialist party, leading unit of the People’s Front Government, yesterday urged convocation of a world confer- ence to satisfy Germany’s demands for raw materials. The closing resolution of the party congress at Lille, while emphasizing a friendly gesture to Germany, reiter- ated opposition to German demands for restoration of her lost colonies as an aid to her economic expansion. The Radical-Socialist party resolu- tion declared that “to establish real European peace it is desirable to work for the improvement of international economic relations, which are an es- sential condition of peace. “It seems inconceivable, even use- less, to accept the hypothesis of redis-’ tribution of colonial mandates, but the party does not refuse to envisage 3 survey of international markets which ‘would open to all people an equal and easy access to essential prime ma- terials.” IAMES RODSVELT BEG PARLEY M. L. Wilson First Agency Head to Brigg in Problems of Administration. By J. RUSSELL YOUNG. James Roosevelt, son of the Presi- dent and member of his secretariat, today held the first of a series of con- ferences with the heads of independ- ent and emergericy agencies to solve the administration problems and effect better co-ordination. The first was with M. L. Wilson, Undersecretary of Agriculture. The others scheduled for a half-hour each throughout the remainder of the day were with A. J. Altmeyer, chairman of the Social Security Board; Jobn C. Page, reclamation commissioner; Clyde L. Seavey, chairman of the Federal Power Commission; Joseph P. Ken- nedy, chairman of the Maritime Com- mission; W. A. Ayres, member of the Federal Trade Commission; C. F. Hos- ford, chairman of the Federal Bitumi- nous Coal Commission, and J. W. Mad- den, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. 5 %% Mr. Altmeyer, who was accompatiled by Miss Mary W. Dewson, member of the Social Security Boatd, said that, while nothing definite was dfscussed today, he felt sure the conferenoce idea will offer a splendid oppprtunity for agencies to lay their problems at the White Housé and obtain suggestions for bringing about. grester co-opera- tion. Mr. Page and Mr. Wilson gave reports which were virtually the same. Mr. Seavey said he was pleased to have such a medium of contact with the White House and that he had laid some of the problems of his commis- sion before young Roosevelt. ‘Today's conference schedule orig- inally included the names of Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and Marriner 8. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, who were out of the city today, and W. I. Myers, govertior of the Federal Farm Credit Board, who was ill at home, As outlined by the President, these conferences, intended to promote effi- clency and to save the President's Leaves for Winnipeg. CHICAGO, Nov. 1 (#)—8ir Hubert Wilking mz’::nzubyphumm- nipeg to Te| serial search for six er u;:.m > f TRAINING SCHOOL GIRLS RIOT AGAIN Nine Colored Inmates Iso- lated After Police Are Called to Quell Uprising by 30. BACKGROUND— Riots in recent months at Na- tional Training School for Girls were followed by dismissal Friday of Dr. Carrie W. Smith, superin- tendent, who had won sympathy of Mrs. Roosevelt for a $100,000 appropriation to improve conditions at the institution. Dr. Smith was appointed 18 months ago. Con- gressional investigation of condi- tions has been demanded by Rep- resentative Kennedy, member of House District Committee. Nine colored inmates of the National Training School for Girls were placed in isolated quarters today after po- lice were called fo quell a riot which began' when a group of about 30 girls demanded the release of nine others previously placed in confine- ment, The disturbance, the second since the dismissal last Friday of Dr. Car- rie W. Smith, superintendent, started in the dining room after the morning meal. A group of inmates refused to return to their rooms, left “their ma- tron and started milling about ~the yard in front of the main building. Several broke into a small shack outside and took baseball bats, pieces of hose and other articles which they brandished menacingly at instifution authoritles. A passerby summoned police from the seventh precinct. The officers singled, out several leaders in the uprising and forcibly took them to isolated rooms. Nine in all were placed in confinement. The nine already isolated were placed there Saturday and yesterday after disobey- ing rules. 3 Trying to Dictate. Dr. Lewald, acting superintendent of the institution, said the girls have been “trying to dictate the policies of the institution and run it the way they like.” “They've always had too much free- dom,” he said. He explained that trouble déveloped when the girls de- clared Dr. Smith had let them do “anything we wanted to do." “They knew we wouldn't allow that, 50 they started to take matters into their own hands,” he added. Dr, Lewald said today was the first {ime apy had been placed in isolated quarters for violence. In the dther cases this action was taken because -of violations of rules. Several inmates ‘who were given permission to leave the institution did not return when .they were st to do 30, and three left without permission. All but one of the Iatter group have been returned, he said. Some Cut Themselves. During today’s rebellion, Dr. Lewald said, two or three girls cut their wrists with broken pieces of glass. None was seriously hurt, however. None of the five white girls at the training school participated in the dis- turbance, officials said. There are 37 inmates there at the present time. The acting superintendent said the fact there is a*lot of Works Progress Administration construction going on there now has added to the turmoil because there is little room for out- side recreation. One of the white girls said she felt such disturbances “unnecessary.” Be- sides, she added, “every one here has to suffer when a few start fighting.” Dr. Lewald said the inmates now will be given as much freedom as they can use without license. The rebel- lious girls were confined on the sec- ond floor of the main building. FRENCH PLANE SPANS ATLANTIC FROM BRAZIL ek g : sl Clruisiin® 137,208 (Some returns not UP Means Associated Press. SUNDAY'S Circulation, yet received.) 153,431 TWO CENTS. HOUSE UNIT TAKES VOLUNTARY PLAN OF CROP CONTROL Wheat, Cotton and Rice to Be Regulated Thus in New Farm Measure. TOBACCO PROGRAM TO BE COMPULSORY Program for Peanuts and Potatoes Also Sought by Some—Corn Presents a Problem. BACKGROUND— To White House insistence last summer on a new crop-control law Congress paid no attention. But House and Senate leaders did agree to make crop control the first order of business of the mext ses- sion if the administration would make a cotton loan to bolster the price of the king crop. The loan was made, and not long afterward President Roosevelt called a special session for November 15, Crop control is one of the first items on its agenda. B) the Associated Press. ‘The House Agriculture Committes agreed today on the principle of vol- untary control of wheat, cotton and rice crops in the new farm bill. Chairman Jones, Democrat, of Texas said the group also has virtually ace cepted a proposal for compulsory con= trol of tobacco. The question of compulsory or vole untary regulation of crop production has been one of the most controversial before the committee, which is draft- ing a bill Yor presentation at the special session of Congress Nov. 15. The skeleton bill outlined by Rep- resentative Jones also provides for continuation of sofl conservation pay- ments, financing the new program by some form of tariff equalizing taxes and setting up marketing quotas in emergencies. It differs in many respects from a measure already drawn by Represenf- ative Flannagan, Democrat. of Vir- ginia, providing for compulsory erop control. Penalties of 50 Per Cent. The Flannagan bill would operate chiefly by means of marketing quotas and the imposition of penalties on farmers selling crops in excess of those quotas. pe Conimittee members ui{ the tobacco eontrol system under consideration would place penalties of 50 per cent of the value on buyers of surplus to- bacco rather than on the farmer. Some sentiment was sald to have developed for similar penalties for peanuts and potatoes. There also was opposition in the ttee on the ground that if these odities were given special treatment it would open the way to demands for special han- dling of additional crops. The difficulty of drafting provisions for corn remained one of the major problems. Undecided on. Representative C crat, of Nebraska, member #lbcommittee handling corn, said the group was as undecided about the commodity as when Congress adjourned last August. Eighty-five per cent of the corn produced is fed to stock and poultry without leaving the county in which it is grown. This factor presents a difficult problem of control and taxation, if processing levies are to be imposed. While the House committes Pro- ceeded with drawing a bill largely on the basis of voluntary control, one member of the Senate Agriculture Committee said a majority of farmers ‘wanted compulsory control. Senator Ellender, Democrat, of Louisiana said sentiment in the South was largely for compulsory control, but in the Northwest many farmers felt voluntary control would bring the same results. He has been attending subcommittee hearings in various parts of the country. 3 COCA COLA VOTES EXTRA DIVIDEND Profits for Quarter $2,000,000 Over Last Year—Bonuses Are Declared. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Coca Cola Co. today declared an extra dividend of $2 and a quarterly dividend of 75 cents on the coramon stock. A similar extra was paid last De- cember 15. The previous Qquarterly dividend was 75 cents. Both divi- dends are payable December 15 to stock of record November 26. Profits for the quarter ended Sep- tember 30, after dividends on class “A” stock, were $8,041,700, against $6,776,748 in the September quarter last year. The company announced payment of an extra month’s salary to all em- ployes outside the so-called manage= ment group had been authorized by directors. Additional compensation of $250,000 also was authorized to be distributed among the managerial Ppersonnel. September quarter profits wers equal to $2.01 a share on the common stock, against $1.70 a share in the 1936 September quarter. SOVIET DOOMS 6 MORE FOR MISMANAGEMENT By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—Six more per= sons were reported sentenced to death today for mismanagement of Soviet agricultural enterprises in Si~ beria. ‘The sentences, latest in a long list of similar decrees disclosed in recent weeks, followed by a day Joseph Stalin’s speech in behalf of newly- appointed industrial leaders seeking to speed lagging production.