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SU KIDNAPER,
EVADES PURSUERS
NEAR PHILADELPHIA
Delaware Police Certain,
Robinson Was One of Trio
in Light Sedan.
CAR BEARING MARYLAND
TAGS CHASED 10 MILES
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Abductor Also Reported Seen in
Reading, Pa., and Spring
field, Ohio.
(Pictures on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, October 19—A
man believed to be the kidnaper of
Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll roared toward
Philadelphia at 70 miles an hour today
with Delaware State Police in pursuit.
A search for the car. containing three
men, was concentrated in southwest
Philadelphia and adjoining towns.
Delaware policemen, who chased the
machine for more than 10 miles, said
they are certain one of the trio in it
was Thomas H. Robinson, jr., who is
the object of an intensive search
throughout the Southern and Eastern
sections of the country.
Spotted at Marcus Hook.
The fleeing car was spotted last In
Marcus Hook, a Delaware River town
about midway between Philadelphia :
and Wilmington, Del. It was said to ;
be carrying Maryland license plates, j
Motor cycle policemen and police j
squads in radio cars started a sys-1
tematic search of Southwest Phila
delphia. Township authorities ordered
lookouts in upper Darby and Eddy
•tone.
Robinson is charged with holding
Mrs. Stoll for the $50.000 ransom
which her family paid before she was
returned safely to her Louisville, Ky..
home a few days ago.
Supt. C. C. Reynolds of the Delaware
State police said the chase was made
by Pvts. William Workman and William
Davidson, and that one of them said
he thought Robinson was occupant j
of the car.
Car Had On? Headlight.
About 3 a.m. they were patrolling
the Du Pont highway at Hare's
Corners, about four miles south of
Wilmington, when they noticed a light
aedan. with only one headlight burn
ing. approaching them.
When they whistled for a halt, the
driver increased his speed. The troop
ers. also in an automobile, started in
pursuit. The fleeing car sped through
Wilmington etreets without slacken
ing speed and headed toward Phila
delphia,
At Penny Hill State police station.
8 miles Dorth of Wilmington, the po
licemen, then far behind, paused to
call Marcus Hook police to ask them
to watch for the car,
Marcus Hook policemen were sta
tioned on the main highway. One of
them saw the "one-eyed" car ap
proaching and stepped into th.j path
to signal for a halt. The driver swung
the wheel toward him, barely escaped
atriking the officer and sped away.
SEEN NEAR READING.
tVernersville Man's Tip Leads to AH
Night Search.
READING. Pa„ October 19 (A>).—A
man described as resembling T. H.
Robinson, jr.. abductor of Mrs. Alice
Speed Stoll, was seen in nearby Wer
nersville last night, and State police of
the West Reading Barracks conducted
an all-night search for the fugitive.
A. R. Schenauer, WemersvUle mer
chant, said: "He came into my store
to make a purchase. He was accom
panied by another man. I recognized
him by pictures I have seen, but the
realization that it must have been
Robinson or his image didn't dawn on
me until after he left the 'store."
U. S. AGENTS IN PURSUIT.
L*ave Springfield for Unannounced
Destination.
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SPRINGFIELD. Ohio, October 19
(&).—One jump ahead of the law. the
man hunted as the kidnaper of M^s.
Alice Speed Stoll left along his trail
today evidences of fear that his luck
can not hold out—that his capture is
inevitable.
Department of Justice agents,
studying tell-tale marks that Thomas
H. Robinson, jr., tarried here during
his fox-like flight from Indianapolis,
where the Louisville. Ky., society
woman was held, set out on new ex
cursions, occasioned apparently by
fresh clues on the line of flight.
With reports rife that the fugitive
has been seen at Dayton, Ohio, and
numerous other points, Melvin Purvis,
Department of Justice ace end nem
esis of the notorious John DilUnger.
aped out of the city after a hurried
visit last night, but kept his owr.
" (.Continued on Page 5, Column 2.)
SLAIN CONTRACTOR
IS FOUND IN ALLEY
Body of Well-to-Do Man Discov
ered With Head Badly
Battered.
By the Associated Press _
KEENE, Ν. H.. October 19.—Joseph
Sevigny. 56. well-to-do contracting
carpenter, was found dead with his
head badly battered in an alley in
the rear of his Marlborough street
home early today. Local and county
officials immediately began an in
vestigation to determine the cause
of death
Medical Referee Arthur P. Weston
vas ordered to make an examination.
County Solicitor Arthur F. Olson and
Chief of Police Harold Tibbetts were
Investigating. They ordered that
photographs be taken in the vicinity
where Sevigny was found.
Sevigny, a contracting carpenter
here for several years, owned consid
erable property in Keene.
He had been recently living alone,
^lice said.
War Lord Dies
GEN. VON KLUCK.
VON H DEAD;
LED PUS DRIVE
Former German Army Chief
Recently Observed
88th Birthday.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, October 19.—Gen. Alex
ander von Kluck died at his home to
day. He was 88 years old.
The aged field marshal long had
been saddened by the death of his
only grandchild, Alexandra, who suf
fered fatal injuries in a motor acci
dent near Bordeaux last March.
Von Kluck's name stood out among
those of German military leaders as |
the man whose forces nearly took !
Paris in 1914.
The name of Field Marshal Alex- !
ander von Kluck. "the man who nearly i
took Paris," always recalled to Ger- i
mans of the old school of patriotism
that thrilling first month of the
World War when their victorious
armies, after sweeping through Bel
gium. came within an ace of envelop
ing the French capital.
It was von Kluck. as commander
of the German first army In the west,
whose name was in everybody's mouth j
when official bulletins announced on
September 3, 1914, that his cavalry
patrols were "sweeping westward of
Paris." Great was the jubilation in
the fatherland for, after barely a
month of fighting, auguries pointed
to Another peace of Versailles like the
one that (ended the Franco-Prussian
conflict of 1870-71 and evolved into
proclamation of a greater Germany.
Then the tide turned. Von Kluck's
troops were diverted to help Gen. von
Buelow's 2d Army, which had got
ten Into difficulties through a French
counter-move. Tacticians have stated
than von Kluck here missed a chance
not likely «ften to occur m war.
German Hopes Dashed.
The outcome of the Battle of the
Marne clashed German hopes of cap
turing Paris, and von Kluck with
drew to the Aisne positions, where he
was seriously wounded, March 29,
1915, by shrapnel splinters while sur
veying positions in the front trenches
near Chateau Vauxel. He had to give
up his command and was placed on
the retired list in October of the fol
low ing year.
Taking up residence first in Koenigs
berg. then in the pleasant western
suburb of Grunewald, in Berlin, he
employed his leisure in writing a
couple of books on the conduct of the
war on the western front.
He gained the Iron Cross of the
first class for his exploits in that
section of the theater of war almost
simultaneously with his younger son
Eberhard, winning the same order of
the second class for courage in the
field while in charge of a field tele
graph section.
His eldest son, Karl Egon. a naval
lieutenant, fell January, 1915, in an
encounter at Lombartszyde in Belgium.
In 3 924 he celebrated his golden
wedding. Frau von Kluck was for
merly Baroness Fanny von Donop.
One single grandchild. Alexandra Mo
lino von Kluck, who has made a name
on the stage, brightened the old
couple's evening of life.
Hale and hearty on his 85th birth
day anniversary, May 20, 1931, the
old warrior received countless tokens
of affection. Flowers and touching
messages from old comrades, ranging
from President von Hindenburg down
to plain troopers, testified to his
popularity as a soldier and a man.
Alexander von Kluck was born a
commoner, the son of Karl Kluck, an
architect of Muenster, Westphalia,
May 20, 1846.
WRITERS TO SEPARATE
HOLLYWOOD. October 19 (A>).—
Adela Rogers St. John, writer and
scenarist, and Richard F. Hyland,
sports writer, have separated and
plan a divorce, she said last night.
Hyland formerly was a Stanford
University foot ball star. They mar
ried in March, '928.
PRESIDENT SPEEDS
TOWARD ROME
FOR HOSPITAL RITE
Roosevelt on 225-Mile Trip
Dedicates Roanoke Build
ing to Veterans.
TALK EXPECTED TO SKIP
BONUS PAYMENT ISSUE
Chief Executive to Beceive Degree
at William and Mary on
Return Journey.
BY JAMES E. CHINN,
Statl Correspondent ot Tbe Star.
ON BOARD THE PRESIDENTIAL
SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO
ROANOKE. Va., October 19 —Through
the picturesque valley of Virginia.
President Roosevelt, on a special
Southern Railway train, speeded
toward Roanoke today to dedicate
there a new $1.700.000 Government
neuropsychiatrie hospital for war vet
erans.
The President's dedicatory speech—
a message of assurance to deserving
and needy former service men—was
completed last night and he relieved
the monotony of the 225-mile rail
trip, absorbing the scenery and chat
ting with those accompanying him.
Those In the presidential party,
boarding the train in Washington in
cluded Senator Glass of Virginia,
Postmaster General Parley, Emil
Hurja, executive director of the Demo
cratic National Committee: Stephen
Early, a White House secretary: Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Cary T. Grayson,
Veterans' Administrator Prank T.
Hines and Mrs. Hinea and military
and naval aides.
The presidential special sped out of
Washington at 9:45 o'clock this morn
ing, and made one brief stop at
Lynchburg to pick up the remaining
members of Mr. Roosevelt's party—
Gov. Peery of Virginia. Senator Byrd
of the same State, and Representative
Woodrum. the singing member of the
House from Roanoke, who will preside
at the dedication ceremonies.
May Skip Bonus Inuc.
The President's speech is not ex
pected to be of the epochal "fireside
chat" variety that he makes over the
radio, but coining, as it does, close to
the American Legion Convention in
Miami, there had been some specula
tion he would touch on the ever trou
blesome bonus Issue. The feeling is
general, however, that he will skip this
question.
Mr. Roosevelt has maintained a gen
erous attitude ever since he went into
the White House toward those vet
erans injured in actual combat. His
policy with respect to those who could
not trace their ailments to actual war
duty, however, has been less liberal.
It will be recalled that in the last
session of Congress, his veterans'
policy was overridden to the extent of
putting back on the pension and com
pensation rolls, thousands of World
and Spanish War veterans whose pre
sumptive service connected disabilities
had been disallowed under the
economy act.
The exercises at Roanoke are
scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. The
President is expected to begin speak
ing & halt hour later. In addition
to his address. Gen. Hlnes is on the
program for a speech. Gov. Peery's
role will be to introduce the Presi
dent.
Hospital Has 472 Capacity.
The new Roanoke veterans hospital
is the latest addition to the neuro
psychiatrie institutions which the
Veterans Administration has estab
lished since the World War. It will
provide beds for 472 patients.
The hospital is located on a 445
acre site about two miles west of the
Roanoke city limits and about the
same distance east of the old town of
Salem, county seat of Roanoke
County. Sixteen buildipgs are being
erected, styled architecturally after the
late seventeenth and early eighteenth
century Virginia Colonial motif.
The President's trip into Virginia
will keep him away from Washington
until late Sunday night or Monday
morning. Immediately after the
Roanoke speech, he will leave for his
toric Williamsburg, arriving there to
morrow morning to participate in the
installation of Dr. John Stewart
Bryan of Richmond, as president of
the equally historic William and Mary
College. The college will confer an
honorary degree on the President
during the ceremonies.
Settled as a palisaded outpost
against Indians in 1633 and in 1669
the Capital of Virginia, Williamsburg
is now undergoing restoration to its
Colonial originality at the expense
of John D. Rockefeller, jr. Before at
tending the college exercises, Mr.
Roosevelt will head a procession to
dedicate the town's reconditioned
Duke of Gloucester street.
A luncheon in honor of the Presi
dent will follow the college exercises,
and after that Mr. Roosevelt will
motor to Yorktown, on the York
River, and board the Department of
Commerce Yacnt Sequoya for the
return trip to Washington.
Boy Peter Begins Life as King
By Giving Up Favorite Toys
By the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, October
19.—King Peter gave his toys to his
brothers today.
The 11-year-old monarch, having
recovered from the flrst shock of his
father's assassination, began his reign
bv turning his playthings over to
Tomislav and Andreas, who danced
with joy.
Peter II now is free to enter seri
ously his royal tasks under the re
gency.
The King took an early morning
ride with his brothers through neigh
boring woods. He was mounted on a
big. brown, spirited horse which Alex
ander gave him on his 10th birth
day to replace the fat old pony on
which he learned to ride.
He then returned to the palace,
where he received a number of Yugo
slav delegations who came here for
father's funeral. A patr
bearded man and a wrinkled old
woman bowed before the new King,
kissing the hem of his garment and
wishing him long life.
After receiving other visitors Peter
started hie lessons under his tutor,
C. C. Parrott, who returned with him
from London. Peter's favorite subjects
«re spelling, composition, history and
drawing. He dislikes mathematics,
botany and geography.
After finishing his lessons Peter
spent some time with his grief
stricken mother, whom he tried to
solace.
"Papa has gone, mama, but I'll al
ways be good and true to you," the
court chamberlain heard him say.
In order to give the King a chance
to travel and study abroad during a
part of the year, Prince Paul and the
other regents are trying to circumvent
a paragraph of the constitution which
says the King must preside perma
nently in Yugoslavia.
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NAVY COMPROMISE
By JAPANESE SEEN
Tokio May Seek Place Mid
way Between Present
Ratio and Parity.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 1» —Some In
formed observers said today they be
lieve Japan may suggest a global ton
nage naval basis, giving her a posi
tion midway between the present !
5—'5—3 ratio and parity.
This belief vu advanced u diplo
matic and naval circles speculated 1
over the extent Japan might go ·
toward a compromise with the United
States.
These two countries open bilateral
conversations next week with Great
Britain in an effort to lay the ground
work for the 1935 Naval Conference.
The biggest problem is to bridge the
wide disparity between Japanese and
AmwtaM '
Admiral Ixorolru Yamamoto's refusal j
to say Japan wants equality in actual
tonnage, as well as equality in prin
ciple, led to the belief he may take
a stand midway between parity and
the 5—5—3.
Oppone Change·.
So far British and American dele
gations flrmly oppose changing the
present relative positions. Spokesmen
for the three nations, however, said
the hope of a compromise is growing
stronger.
This is due in pert to Interchange
of views between Norman H. Davis.
American delegate, and Sir John
Simon, British foreign secretary, on
the necessity for continued naval
limitation.
The Japanese expect to finish writ
ing their plan today. The British
ind the Americans continued their own
separate consultations, but expect to
do little until Tokio's program is dis
closed.
Britain stands with the United States.
Prance and Italy—against Japan—in
wanting to continue basic principles of
the Washigton and London treaties, an
official British source has said.
Demand Treaty Scrapping.
That wu Britain's reply to Japan'·
demand that the treaties be scrapped
and others means of limiting navies
be set up.
As the British and American dele
gates to the conversations established
their first contact, the British spokes
man said his government wants the
treaties continued with only relatively
minor changes.
At the same time, he said, the Brit
ish will favor reductions in naval ton
nages.
Although Britain has opposed the
Global tonnage plan at previous con
ferences. the government is willing to
discuss that phase of Yamamoto's pro
gram with an open mind, he stated.
It was indicated Great Britain would
be willing to consider the Olobal plan
if it could be worked out so as mutually
to satisfy the United States, Japan
and Britain.
Both British and Americans have de
nied they had actually started talking
(Continued mi Page 5, Column 1.)
ALEXANDRIA SLAYER
OF THREE INDICTED
Former Policeman Roberts Named
by Special Jury After Three
Witnesses Testify.
Br m Stall Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va., October 19.—
After hearing only three witnesses,
a special grand jury of the Corpora
tion's Court today returned as true
bills three indictments charging for
mer Policeman George D. Roberts.
28. with murder of three members of
the Stuart family.
Roberts is alleged to have shot and
killed Willie E. Stuart. 66. and his
two sons. Ward Stuart. 42, and
George Stuart, 31, at a supper table
at their home last Sunday night.
The date for trial will be set next
week. Commonwealth's Attorney Al
bert V. Bryan said immediately after
the indictments had been returned.
AIRLINER LOST AT SEA
Τ·η Passengers Aboard Plane on
Trip to Melbourne.
MELBOURNE, Australia, October
19 (>P).—An airliner with 10 pas
sengers aboard was missing today on
the Launceston, Tasmania, to Mel
bourne route.
The plane, flying the 265-mUe sea
route from Launceston across Bass
Strait to Melbourne, left at the usual
time, but hu not been se·^ since.
PinchoVs Charges
Of Guffey's Debt
Denied by Mellon
'Never Owed Me M oney,'
Say g Former Cab
inet Member.
Br the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. October 1#.—An
swering charges by Gov. Gilford
Pinchot. Andrew W. Mellon today as
serted Joseph P. Guffey. Democratic
senatorial nominee, "does not owe me
any money and has never owed me j
any "
Mellon said that at the request of
the late Judge James H. Reed, father
of Senator David A. Reed, he under
wrote S75.000 of a $150.000 guaranty
needed by Guffey in connection with
his accounts in the alien property
custodian's office in 1931.
"I was never called upon to pay any
money," he added.
Gov. Pinchot. in an address at
Charleroi last night, charged Guffey
squared himself on a Federal embez
zlement Indictment by borrowing -
(406.001.36 from Mellon and "two or
three other Plttsburghers.- now dead.
The Indictment, returned while
Guffey was employed by the custo
dian's office, was quashed.
yugoWtIop
MOVES REPORTED
Rumor of Concentration on
Hungary's Border Is
ν Unconfirmed.
By the Associated Press.
MARIBOR. Yugoslavia. October 19.
—An unconfirmed report from a usu
ally reliable source said today that
Yugoslavia was concentrating troops
along the Hungarian border.
Neutral observers here regarded the
situation along the Hungarian-Yugo
slav frontier as "dangerous."
Pour former opponents of the re
gime of King Alexander were freed
today from the government ban
against them. They are Dr. Koroshetz,
former premier of Yugoslavia; Dr.
Kulovec, Dr. Natlacea and Dr. Obrivec.
It was generally believed here that
a general amnesty soon would be
granted all Croatian leaders who are
in prison.
The release of these four prominent
leaders of the Slovenian Clerical party
was viewed here as inaugurating a
"new deal" in Yugoslavia's internal
policy and as the death of the harsh
military regime instituted by King
Alexander.
The amnesty affecting the Croatian
leaders at present in jail, was expected
to be extended to a large number of
Croatian political leaders living abroad.
The liberation of Dr. Koroshetz, once
Alexander's premier and later one of
his most formidable opponents, was re
garded as an expression of the re
gency's announced policy to bring real
political peace and unity among the
racial groups of Yugoslavia.
HUNGARY HELD GUILTLESS.
Goemboes Denies Connection With
Assassination.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, October 19
(ΛΊ—Premier Julius Goemboes said
today Hungary "is entirely guiltless
of any connection with the foul
crime" of King Alexander's assassina
tion.
"We can prove we never harbored
the King's murderer or any other
assassin," he said, "and the idea of
Yugoslavia serving an ultimatum on
us is too puerile to discuss. Yugo
slavia has a good reason to remember
it was an ultimatum served on old
Serbia that provoked the World War.
Surely she does not wish to set
Europe on fire, again."
Goemboes left for Warsaw for im
portant political and economic con
ference» with the Polish government.
Guide for Readers
Page.
Amusements C-4-5
Comics .·; C-ll
Features C-10
Finance A-17-18-19
Lost and Fbund A-11
Radio C-12
Serial Story C-15
Service Orders B-16
Short Story C-2.
Society .B-2-3
Sports CH5-7-3-9
CITY POLICE COURT
IS PROBED BY U. S.
Irregularities in Bonding of
Prisoners Reported Under
Scrutiny Here.
Agents of the Division of Investiga
tion. Department of Justice, are mak
ing a thorough-going investigation of
the District Police Court as & result
of reported serious irregularities in
procedure there involving the bonding
of prisoner» and other related subjects.
The Investigation, under the per
sonal direction of J. Edgar Hoover,
has been under way for several week*. ·
and It was reported today that several
more weeks would be spent in com
pleting it.
While Justice Department officials
would not reveal any findings in ad
vance. from other sources it tu
learned that allegations under inves
tigation involve a series «I cases in
which defendants on boiid have left
the jurisdiction without the usual
legal result of having their bond for
feited.
Bond Application.
In one case, it was said, there was
an application before one of the Police
Court judges for release of a prisoner
on his personal bond. A routine In
vestigation by the judge is said to have
shown that not only was the defendant
in that case out of the District, but his
record showed he was on bond in an- I
other case, and the first bond had
not been forfeited.
There was a report that United
States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett is
the sponsor of the investigation, after
the facts in this and other cases had
been called to his attention. This re- :
port, however, could not be verified, as
Garnett is in West Virgins hunting
pheasants.
Nor would Police Court officials com- j
ment on the investigation. The presid-1
lng justice. Gus Schuldt. said there
was a "routine investigation" in ι
progress, but this was merely an audit j
of the court's books, now being handled :
by the division of investigation, instead I
of another branch of the Department I
of Justice, because of a change in the
governing legislation last June.
At the Department of Justice, how
ever, it was learned that two separate
investigations are under way. one the 1
inquiry into possible criminal prac- j
tices, and the other the routine audit ;
of the court books, such as is being I
made of the books of all Federal
courts throughout the country.
Hoover to Report.
Hoover said today that when the in
vestigation is complete, the facts will
be reported to Attorney General Cum
mings, who will decide what action
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
PLOT TO KILL MACHADO
BELIEVED TO BE NIPPED
Dominican Republic Bars Sight
Havana Students Thought
Sent on Killing.
Br the Associated Press.
SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Re
public. October 19.—Authorities said
today they believed they had blocked
an attempt to assassinate former
President Gerardo Machado of Cuba,
here in exile, through the barring yes
terday of eight supposed University
of Havana students who attempted to
land at Puerto Plata.
The eight students, who were not
Identified, arrived at Puerto Plata on
the S. S. Cuba. Authorities did not
permit them to disembark.
University of Havana students were
among the leaders in the revolution
which resulted in the overthrow of
President Machado.
Despite Powerful Senator's
Support, Issue Seems
Doomed to Fail.
REPEAL GIVEN BETTER
CHANCE THAN IN KANSAS
Democratic Candidate Goei Wet
After Avoiding; Issue for
Several Weeki.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Stall Correspondent of Th· Star.
OMAHA. Nebr., October 19.—It 1*
time to get out the dictionaries. Ne
braska has sprung. If not a new one,
at least an uncommon bit of nomen
clature on the public. It is the uni
cameral or monocameral system of
legislature. In plain English it
means a single house of legislature.
Senator George W. Norris, veteran
independent and a sworn foe of par
tisan politics, is responsible. He is
asking the electorate of his State to
adopt a constitutional amendment
providing for a single House, aban
doning the common bicameral system,
which works through a House of Rep
resentative® and a Senate. It was
Senator Norris who. after fighting for
years, brought about the adoption of
an amendment to the Federal Con
stitution doing away with the "lame
duck." or "short," sessions of the Na
tional Legislature. It was Norris. too, |
who has sought, so far unsuccessfully,
to have another change made in the !
Constitution to do away with the ;
electoral college, which originally was ■
set up by the framers to elect a Presi- j
dent and Vice President of the United :
States, but which has become rather a !
fifth wheel in the process of choosing i
a Chief Executive.
Giving up for the present campaign ι
all efforts to elect Democrats or Re- I
publicans in his State. Senator Norris
is out beating the bushes for his plan
for a one-house State Legislature. He
is speaking and writing constantly for
his proposed amendment to the Ne
braska Constitution.
Would Lift Party Line·.
In brief, his proposal Is that the
single legislative House shall consist
of not leas than SO nor nor· than M
members, the exact number being
left to the determination of the Legis
lature itself, and to be changed as the
requirements of the Stat* may de
mand. Furthermore, if Senator Ν arris
has his way. the members of this
single House will be chosen without
party designation.
The arguments advanced by Sen
ator Norris in support of his plan are
many. Principal among them is the
plea that It will do away with the
"Conference Committee"—the com
mittee which adjusts and compro
mises the differences between the
two houses of the Legislature. It is
Norris' contention that by this sys
tem legislation is actually enacted
into law by a "third House." a House
that has never been elected by the
people, a House that meets in secret
session and that often defeats the will
of the people themselves. Meritorious
legislation, he says, frequently fails in
conference, the houses being dead
locked. On the other hand, "jokers"
are often inserted in conference
stages of legislation and the two
houses of the Legislature are forced
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KINGSFORD-SMITH HOPS
TO BRISBANE AIR BASE
Weather Conditions May Block
Plan to Start Flight to U. S.
Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.
BRISBANE. Australia. October 19.
—Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith ar
rived today from Sydney, completing
a 540-mile hop in three hours, and
said he may start his trans-Paciflc
flight tomorrow
Weather conditions, however, may
delay until Sunday or Monday his
takeoff for Suva. Fiji Islands, en route
to Honolulu and San Francisco.
Aviation experts pointed out Sir
Charles has a 4.000-mile cruising
range when flying at 165 miles an
hour, which, they said, should enable
him to make his three over-water
hops comfortably.
FREIGHTER REFLOATED
U. S. Cratt, Aground Off Ger
many, Towed to Hamburg.
HELGOLAND. Germany. October
19 OP).—The American freighter Topa
Topa, which went aground several
miles off Helgoland yesterday, was re
floated today after all-night work.
Five tugboats then attempted to
tow her to Hamburg, 90 miles away,
despite a heavy sea. A great part of
the cargo of cotton was placed on the
tugboats.
The vessel, owned by the Waterman
Steamship Corp. of Mobile, Ala., was
en route to Bremerhaven from Mo
bile and Wilmington, N. C.
Red Cross Heads Quit in Body,
Protesting Members' Lethargy
Red Cross activities in Silver Spring.
Md., halted today on the eve of the
annual roll call, with the resignation
In a body of officers of the Silver
Spring Branch of the Montgomery
County Chapter ef the American Red
Cross.
The officers resigned, it was ex·
plained by Mrs. William Wight, chair
man of the branch and acting chair
man of the county chapter, as a
protest against "lack of co-operation"
by members of the branch and "in
difference" of the community to wel
fare needs.
The officers who submitted their
resignation* at a of the
branch to the new Jesup Blair Com
munity House last night, were Mrs.
Wight, the chairman: Mrs. Charles
E. Gebhardt. vice chairman, and
Harry Train or. secretary. Mrs. Waiter
Oliver, treasurer, was not present at
the meeting, but also resigned.
The registrations came, it ia said,
after officers had tried in vain to get
members of the branch to co-operate
in necessary work of the organization.
Meetings were called two or three
times but do one appeared.
National headquarters of the Amer
ican Red Cross had received no
official report en the resignations to
day. No action on the part of th>
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IL S. LO BUILD SO
RURAL-INDUSTRIAL
TOMMY
Hopkins Says He Is Certain
Projects Will Be Self
Liquidating.
12 TO BE STARTED
WITHIN SHORT TIME
Communities to House Between
150 and 700 Families—Gov
ernment May Lease Home».
By the Associated Press.
Harry L. Hopkins, relief adminis
trator, said at his press conference
today that 12 rural Industrial com
munities. housing from 150 to 700 fam
ilies each, would be built immediately
with relief funds in different sections
of the country.
The administrator disclosed that de
tailed plans for about 50 such projects
have been made at relief headquarters,
but that money to build all of them
was not yet available.
"I'm convinced that every one of the
12 communities which we're going to
build at this time will be self-llquldat
ing." Hopkins said.
He asserted it had not yet been de
cided whether the relief-built homes
would be sold to the occupants or
leased to them, but said that in any
event the coat of occupying these houses
would be "very, very cheap."
$1.6·· Ce*t.
Displaying pictures of one of the 150
small houses now being built at the
rural Industrial community of Red
House. W. Va., he said the house and
th· 10-acre tract on which it stood
cost only S1.800. He said 200 more
homes were planned at Red House.
Pointing to another project in prog
ress In Arkansas, he said 200 houses
already had been built there at a cost
of between $850 and S900. This proj
ect is to include 700 homes ultimately,
scattered over 28.000 or 29.000 acres.
Hopkins said the amount "actually
being laid out" for each unit, includ
ing farming tracts of 30 to 30 acres,
was between $1.300 and 11.300.
All of the rural communities built
with relief labor and relief funds are
to be occupied by families taken from
relief rolls.
Muatrh· Seek Site·.
Hopkins said live or six Industrie?,
two or three of them nationally known,
were trying to go into the Red House
cgnnuatty. He said some of them
«MM be permitted to establish plants
there, and that relief officials in
charge of the project would make no
effort to regulate the Industries estab
lished
"8ome day we've got to have hous
ing In America where people can pay
25 per cent of their income for a de
cent place to live." Hopkins declared.
Asked how soon that day was com
ing. he added:
"As far as I'm concerned, it's com
ing damn soon."
He told reporters he was "not im
pressed" by the just-announced Lit
erary Digest poll regarding the popu
larity of the Roosevelt administration.
"Just wait until election day," he
grinned.
Hands Off Coal Mining.
Asked if he intended to prevent
State relief administrations from us
ing Federal funds to mine coal with
relief workers, he replied:
"That's a State matter."
Representatives of the commercial
coal operators and the United Mine
Workers protested recently against re
ported plans of relief administrators in
the Southwest to lease idle mines and
put persons on relief rolls to work
digging coal for the needy unemployed.
Hopkins reiterated that the handling
of fuel supplies for the destitute this
Winter was to be left up to the State
relief organizations.
NEW SEAPLANE MARK
CLAIMED BY ITALIAN
Mario Stoppani Reported to Have
Completed 2,556-Mile
Non-Stop Hop.
i
By the Associated Press
! TRIESTE, Italy. Ocober 19.—Offi
cial* of the Monfalcone Airport re
ceived a radio report today from
Massaua, Eritrea, that an Italian sea
plane piloted by Mario Stoppani had
landed there at 11:30 a.m.. completing
a 4,122 kilometer i2.556-mile)· non
stop flight.
If the record la confirmed by the
International Aeronautic Federation,
the flight will be a new world record
for seaplane distance. The present
record is held by the American Navy
air squadron of six planes com
manded by Lieut. Comdr. Knefler Mc
Glnnls and Mark A. Mitacher, who
last January flew from San Francisco
to Oahu, Hawaiian Island, a distance
of 3,860 kilometers (2.494 miles).
The Italian record is 262 kilometers
(161 miles i longer than that of the
Hawaiian flight.
The Italian ship left Trieste at ?
j a.m. yesterday.
AKRON YOUTH REPORTS
TWO MEN KIDNAPED HIM
Forced to Drlv* Pair to Pitts
burgh, He Say·—Money Taken.
Wire· for Fund·.
I Br the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, October 19 —James
Snider, 21, ion of an Akron, Ohio,
Insurance official, told police today he
had been abducted In Akron last
night by two men who held him cap
tire on an automobile ride to Pitts
burgh.
Snider said the two men pointée
revolvers at him while he was sitting
in his car in Akron last night and
forced him to drive them here.
Near New Castle, Pa, the men held
up a gasoline station and at Pitts
burgh they forced him to leave the
ear. Snider told police.
He said the men took his money.
He wired his father for funds and
returned to Akron by bus.