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FIGHT ON CRITICS
OF PEACE PLAN
MAPPED BY BRITISH
Emergency Meeting of Cab
inet Is Called by
Baldwin.
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ETHIOPIAN OFFENSIVE
AWAITED ON FRONT
Italy's Southern Forces on De
fensive—“Sanctions" by Ford Hit
by Fascist Leader.
BACKGROVND
Italy, bursting with military
might created by Mussolini, last
Spring determined upon conquest
of Ethiopia as outlet for energy,
field, for colonization. October in
vasion brought November rebuke
from League of Nations, decision
to impose trade bans against ag
gressor. More recently England
and France submitted proposal for
peace negotiations, suggested land
cessions to Italy, aroused starm
of political protest in own coun
tries and League opposition of
small nations. In Ethiopia. Ital
ian advance continued slowly and
without outstanding success; fea
ture of drive has been occasional
air raids by strong aviation units
f\4 HATii eenlini
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By the Associated Press.
A counter-attack on critics of the
Anglo-French plan for ending thf
Italo-Ethiopian war is in preparatioc
by the British government.
In receipt of a crescendo of protest;
against what sharpshooters of the
plan contend is a formula for dis
membering the kingdom of Haile
Selassie. Prime Minister Stanley Bald
win, informed sources said today, i:
collecting material for presentation tc
the House of Commons.
The British cabinet, in token of the
leriousness with which Britain has
received the storm of criticism al
Geneva and in various European capi
tals evoked by publication of the Pari;
scheme for ending the war, met in an
emergency session.
Ethiopian Offensive Awaited.
News of a distinctly different flavor
came meanwhile from the southern
front, the area in which Premier Mus
solini would garner many thousands
of square miles of territory if the
Franco-British plan were accepted
■without reservation—that it will not
be was regarded as a foregone con
There, where Gen. Rudolfo Graziani
a few weeks ago was pushing per
sistently northward in a strategic
move to establish an Italian corridor
between Northern and Southern
Ethiopia, the Fascist army conceded
It had taken the defensive.
From Dolo, the Associated Press
correspondent dispatched, via courier
to Mogadiscio, Italian Somaliland, a
report that Italy's weary southern
forces were braced for an attack ex
pected momentarily from a mass ol
40,000 Ethiopian w rriors under Ras
Desta Demtu.
This would constitute the first major
t Ethiopian offensive. The Ethiopian
army consists of three main columns,
driving forward on a front 30 miles
from Dolo on the frontier of Ethiopia
and Italian Somaliland. The Italians,
however, planned a drive of their own
if the Ethiopians did not act soon.
• Ford "Sanctions” Hit.
The Italian commander on the
southern front attributed to Henry
Ford, the American automobile manu
facturer, "private sanctions” which,
he said, has held up his northward
drive. Ford, he said, failed to deliver
800 caterpillar tractors which had been
contracted and paid for. The contract
was canceled, he said.
An official communique issued at
Rome said Italian airplanes bombard
ed an Ethiopian force near Neghelli,
on the southern front. It added,
"There is nothing to report on the
Eritrean (northern) front. There
has been only some action of patrols
along the Takkaze River.”
In, a secret consistory, where he
created 20 new cardinals, Pope Pius
purposely avoided discussion of the
pending peace proposals because, he
said, any observation he might make
"would not be well understood, or
would be deliberately misconstrued”
in many places.
His holiness did, however, “pray God
fervently for peace with justice, the
truth and with charity.”
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Dessye, Ethiopia, Emperor Haile
Eelassie's field headquarters, quoted
the Emperor as saying his government
believed the Leageu of Nations Council
would reject the Anglo-French peace
plan.
The King of Kings further was
quoted as reiterating that the terms
* (See WAR. Page 3.)
SIX KILLED IN FIRE,
SEVEN ARE SAVED
Young Farmer Rushes Into Burn
ing Home Four Times to
Rescue Family.
By the Associated Press.
CARNEGIE, Okla., December 16.—
George Bailey, young farmer who
rushed four times Into his burning
dweUing to save members of his fam
ily while six others died in flames,
cried today: -
"It seems a fellow could have done
more. But after the celling fell, I
just couldn’t get the rest.”
“I don’t know what we’ll do,”
Bailey’s wife said, holding close her
only surviving child. Three of her
children, two nephews and Bailey’s
half-brother were burned to death.
Seven others escaped the Are, beUeved
caused by a defective flue.
“The whole family picked cotton
during the Autumn months and saved
$65,” Mrs. Bailey said. "This money
was burned up. It was aU we had.
Everything is gone.”
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Surgery Preserves
10 Fingerprints of
8-Fingered Man
•
W horls of Digits Lost in
Accident Grafted
Onto Wrist.
By the Associated Press
INDIAN APOLIS. December 16 —
Richard Growe, 28, two of whose
fingers were amputated 14 years ago,
was arrested on a minor charge—and
provided police Bertillion clerks with
a complete set ol 10 fingerprints.
A clerk had recorded the amputa
tions when Growe explained that
didn’t mean prints of those fingeis
were unavailable,
Growe pointed to the back of his
hand. Grafted there after a machine
shop accident 14 years ago, the skin
of the amputated fingers still thrives,
with the two finger whorls up near
the wrist.
MILNE'S FAMILY
Actor’s Wealthy Grandfa
ther Accepts Theory as
G-Men Join Hunt.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 16.—Spurred
on by a tailor’s story and the grow
ing belief of relatives that Caleb J.
Milne. 4th. had been kidnaped for
ransom, officials today intensified their
search for the mysteriously missing
24-year-old scion of one of Philadel
phia's first families.
The youth’s grandfather, Caleb J. j
Milne, jr„ retired textile magnate, re- '
luctantly agreed with the kidnap
theory. He had previously scoffed at
abduction reports.
While Federal G-Men joined New
| York State's "Scotland Yard" in the
search for the handsome young actor,
J. Schwartz, whose tailor shop is
across the street from the modest
Murry Hill apartment of Caleb and
his brother Frederick, told how a
strange man accosted them last Mon
rtav niffht
Note Sent to Brother.
1 It was to Frederic that a “ransom”
, note indicating Caleb was kidnaped
when he disappeared last Saturday
right, was addressed.
"Your brother he isn’t in Phila
delphia. we got him out in the coun
try,” the letter postmarked Pough
keepsie, N. Y., said, "but he will be
returned living If you will follow
; the letter we will send you.
“Available cash must come from
New York. Keep in touch with your
grandfather and phone. The letters
j will be signed Zwitler.”
The note was written in newspaper
type pasted on brown wrapping pa
per. It was wrapped around a Christ
i mas card of the 10-cent type showing
j a man and woman in a sleigh with
a Winter background and bore the
• legend, “Greetings to you.”
Clarence D. McKean, New England
i chief of Department of Justice agents,
said at Boston Federal men had been
; called in.
G-Men Silent.
Their investigations were conducted
in the utmost secrecy. Police and |
Federal authorities here refused to j
discuss the case. Milne was listed at
i ploice headquarters only in the miss
1 ing persons' file.
The youth's disappearance was re
ported yesteiday by Frederic, who is
18. Frederic told police his brother
left a note Saturday saying he had
: gone to Philadelphia with a “Dr. Green
(See MILNE, Page 4.)
JOB PROMISE CHARGED
IN OHIO LIQUOR FIGHT
House Member Says Davey’s Aide,
| State Chairman, Defeated Probe
by Strategy.
]Jy the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 16.—
Charges by blind Representative
George J. Harter of Akron that Fran
cis W. Poulson, Gov. Martin L. Davey’s
patronage dispenser, offered jobs to
legislators to obtain votes against a
proposed investigation of the State
Liquor Department came before a
grand jury today.
Donald J. Hosrfns, Franklin County
(Columbus) prosecuting attorney, said
Poulson, State Democratic chairman,
requested the inquiry.
Harter has declared himself "ready
to prove" assertions that favoritism
and irregularities prevail in the Liquor
Department.
Harter said Poulson promised Rep
resentative John Hewitt of Youngs
town jobs in exchange for a vote. The
House defeated the resolution.
60 STUDENTS HURT
IN PEIPING RIOT ON
TOKIO AGGRESSION
Swords, Guns' and Fire
Hoses Used by Police to
Disperse 1,000.
DEMONSTRATION HALT
DEMANDED BY JAPAN
National Strike Called by Youths
Insisting on Resistance by
China to Invasion.
BACKGROUND—
Making effective use of their mil
itary might. Japan sponsored "in
dependence" of Manchuria and
Jehol, North China provinces, in
1932-33. Last month. wh*l- ttcly
held world spotlight, five more
provinces were declared desirous of
“independence"; movement later
simmering down to Hopeh and
Chahar. Compromise agreement
reached with Chinese central gov
ernment. Not included in area
affected by “compromise" is East
Hopeh, where local military leader
yesterday seized Tangku and em
phasized "independence" while Jap
anese troops stood by.
(Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.)
PEIPING. December 17 (Tuesday).
—Chinese sources reported tonight 60
student demonstrators, protesting
“Japanese aggression.” were injured
when 1.000 students clashed with
police.
Swords, butts of guns and fire hoses
were used by the police in breaking
up the outbreak, the most serious
since Sino-Japanese tension recently
increased, it was stated.
Lieut. Col. Tan Takahashi. Jap
anese military attache at Peiping,
warned Mayor Chin Teh-Chun that
continuation of the student rioting
would constitute a violation of the
Sino-Japanese understanding of last
June and must be halted.
Demonstrators Marooned.
With the gates of the city locked,
several thousand student demonstra- j
tors were marooned for the night in- i
side the city, unable to return to their |
universities. They shouted anti-Jap
anese slogans in the bitter cold night.
The students, defying police clubs,
warning volleys of rifle f.re and
streams from fire hoses, had stormed
through Hsipienmen gateway earlier
in the day.
In a huge mass meeting at Chien
man Railway Station, just outside the
legation quarter. 7,000 demonstrators
decided to caU a national student
strike.
They voted to send a circular tele
gram throughout China, opposing
autonomy of North China, denounc
ing Sino-Japanese negotiations, de
manding that China yield nothing to
Japan and calling for abolition of the
semi-autonomous Hopei-Chahar polit
ical council.
Many Saved From Beating.
Many students were saved from be
ing unmercifully beaten by the in
tervention of foreigners, who were
among the spectators.
The demonstrators stood tor two
hours in the railway station shouting
their favorite slogans:
“Down with Japan."
‘•Down with traitors."
“Down with the new council.”
“Save China.”
Earlier, in the midst of the week
end student strike, the inaugural
meeting of the council was indefinite
ly postponed.
Gates Hurriedly Closed.
The gates to this ancient one-time
capital of China were closed hurriedly
when students from outlying universi
ties marched on the city.
This correspondent saw hundreds
of students of the National Normal
University fight through lines of po
lice armed with swords and riot guns
apd invade the north end of the city,
shouting slogans against autonomy
and “Japanese aggression."
Some students suffered sword cuts
and broken heads in the scuffling. In
most instances, however, the dem
onstrations were broken up almost im
mediately.
An attempt by 500 students of the
American-supported Yenching and
TSinghua Universities to march into
the city was frustrated by the clos
ing of the gates.
The 7,000 demonstrators attempted
to march to the offices of the city
government to present a petition, but
police blocked their way and fired over
the heads of the students. None was
struck by bullets.
Students also demonstrated near the
~ (See CHINATPage 37)
^Thro\n IT OVER,"\
‘CAP'^d Finish
VJHE*TEAt>ARTY.^
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162nd ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.
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ROOSEVELT PARES
1RELIEFBUDGET
Afternoon Conference Fixes
Tentative Slashes in
Expenditures.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt today concen
trated on slashing that part of the
budget for next year which will deal
with work-relief and unemployment.
The President set aside the greater
part of this afternoon for this task
and summoned a group of his asso
ciates who have been assisting him
in working out preliminary figures.
In this group were Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau. Daniel Bell,
acting director of the budget; Harry
Hopkins, works progress administra
tor; Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
public works administrator; Prank
Walker, chairman of the National
Emergency Council, and Dr. Rexford
G. Tugwell. rural resettlement admin
istrator. This is the first time this
group has been called together to
discuss next year’s program.
Inquiry Is Sought.
Meanwhile, provision for a sweep
ing investigation of all Federal relief
activities is being written into a bill
which Representative McLeod. Re
publican, of Michigan, a member of
the House Appropriations Committee,
intends to introduce as soon as Con
gress meets next month.
Representative McLeod said today
he expects to hold several conferences
next week with other House members
on the relief situation. He empha
sized that “the policies of the admin
istration. whether intentionally or not,
are creating in the minds of the pub
lic the very definite impression that
the administration is fostering a class
of people who will remain on some
form of relief indefinitely, if not per
manently.
Mr. Roosevelt long ago decided re
duction in next year’s expenses could
not be effected in estimates for the
old-established departments of the
Government. Therefore, estimates
for work relief and other emergency
expenditures must be slashed as low
as possible.
Amount of Cut Is Secret.
Mr. Roosevelt has carefully avoided
giving even a hint as to what may be
expected along this line. He has
gone out of his way to discourage
predictions made by others, saying
no one but himself will know what the
completed budget figures will be un
til his final approval has been given
the printed document just before it
is sent to Congress.
Chairman Buchanan of the House
Appropriations Committee, an ardent
advocate of balancing the budget, has
declared he and his committee will
work earnestly toward a large reduc
tion in the budget, although an ac
tually balanced one cannot be ex
pected this year.
While, as has been said, the Pres
ident has given no hints to serve as
a basis for calculations, there are
some in the administration's high
command who are expecting at least
a $1,500,000,000 slash in the relief
and emergency budget. Others are
looking for the President to pare this
part of the budget down to one-half
of what is was for the current year—
*4.880,000,000.
Mr. Roosevelt is hopeful of material
reductions because he is satisfied the
depression is over and that conditions
throughout the country generally are
improving and that from now on
business and Industry will be absorbing
those o*t the unemployed list.
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Sleeping Boy's Bed
Yields Bombs and
Dynamite in Raid
By the Associated Press.
MADRID. December 16—Police
awakened a 9-year old boy today
to seize a quantity of arms and
explosives under his bed.
They discovered nine bombs,
nine pistols, about nine pounds
of dynamite and some chemicals.
The materiel, said police, be
longed to a young anarchist as
sociation. One arrest was made. i
MODEL D. C. FIT
CONTROL ASSURED
i - I
Chairman O’Connor of
House Rules Committee
to Draft Measure.
B’ WILL P. KENNEDY.
As a direct result of President
Rooseve.t's comment, following the
Post Office Department fire, that
there be better control over fire haz
ards in the Government buildings.
' a model system for the Capital is
to be established, partly through act
! of Congress and partly by executive
order, it was learned today.
Chairman O'Connor of the House
Rules Committee is preparing to draft
legislation to carry out the Presi
dent's wishes. Backing the move
with him is Chairman Colden of the
Committee on Disposition of Useless
Executive Papers.
Meanwhile Representative Cochran,
Democrat, of Missouri announced he
would confer Wednesday with Public
Works Administrator Ickes to push
his plan for a warehouse to store
Government files now creating a fire
hazard here.
Plan Given Favor.
Cochran said last night a majority
of the Appropriations Committee fa
vors his plan. He declared the
Archives Building would be wholly
inadequate to care for the vast ac
cumulation of old records.
The features of the new fire con
trol system probably will be:
<1) Establishment of a board of
inspection with a continuing func
tion of systematic survey of fire
hazards in all Government buildings.
This board would include the District
gre marshal, the fire prevention ex
pert from the Bureau of Standards
and the archivist of the United States.
(2) An inspection plan with ex
act instructions regarding details and
completeness of the investigation re
garding all fire hazards, human
safety and protection of valuable Gov
ernment records.
<3) Institution by the board of a
code of safeguards and regular inspec
tion that must be inforced in all Gov
ernment buildings.
(4) Establishment of a special
wrecking crew', whose duty it would be
to be on hand as promptly as the fire
marshal, including those who under
stand the value of record;, prepared
to wrap up and carry away such rec
ords before they would be damaged
by either fire or water.
(5) Installation of a fire prevention
and detection system, rather than a
fire extinguishing Astern, known as
the “rate of rise" (in temperature)
system, with half-hourly inspection.
How serious may have been the
damage to Government records in
the Post Office fire has not yet been
(See HAZARDS, Page 2.)
U. S. SLAYER CONVICTED
Italy Gives Volpe Brothers’ Slay
er 30 Years. -
SALERNO, Italy, December 16 (JP).
—Giuseppe “Big Mike” Spinelli was
sentenced today to 30 years' imprison
ment for "premeditated homicide” in
the slaying of the three Volpe brothers
in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1932.
Spinelli returned to Italy a short
time after the triple killing in Pitts
burgh. His extradition was sought by
the American Embassy, and the Naples
Court of Appeals and the Supreme
Court granted the petition, but the
ministry of justice refused to accede.
Witnesses against Spinelli, arrested
in the town of Agropoll in 1932, in
cluded the father of the three slain
brothers. ~
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8 EH ,
Lays All Night in Fairfax
Woods After Shooting
Self in Chest.
(Picture on Page A-2.1
By a Staff Correspondent of The 8tar.
FAIRFAX, Va., December ld.-With
a self-inflicted bullet wound in hi*
chest that may prove fatal. Fred Mar
tin. 40, caught throughout the night
by a sheriff's posse lor the murder ol
his brother Isaac, 42, early today stag
gered into the home of an uncle, Ray
mond Washburn, a short distance
from the scene of yesterday’s shoot
ing where he later gave himself Uf
to police The shooting was witnessec
by the 76-ycar-old mother of the men
Weak from loss of blood and ex
posure he admitted to Sheriff E. P
Kirby that he shot and killed hit
brother yesterday in a quarrel ovei
a second-hand automobile -hat cli
maxed a long-standing feud between
them.
Taken to Hospital.
“I am in a mess," he told tht
sheriff prior to being taken to th«
Alexandria Hospital.
"I ran off in the woods and shol
myself and did not come to until thii
morning.” he said.
Sheriff Kirby said he would sweat
out a warrant today charging Fred
Martin with murder.
The shooting occurred about 4:3C
p.m. yesterday at the home, about 2
miles from here on the Burke Statior
road, where Fred and Isaac lived, witfc
their mother, Mrs. Sarah Martin, 76
The brothers had argued through
out the afternoon over damage to s
1931 cdupe owned by Fred, Mrs
Martin told police.
She tried to make peace betweer
them, she said, but Fred suddenlj
whipped out an automatic revolve!
and shot Isaac twice, through th<
heart and head.
As the latter fell at her feet, thr
(See SLAYING, Page 2.)
KIDNAPED CUBAN
FOUND BY ARMY
Millionaire Held for $500,00C
Ransom, Discovered on Out
skirts of Havana.
By th- Associated Press.
HAVANA, December 16.—Nicholas
Castano, millionaire, who was kid
naped a week ago and held for $500,
000 ransom, was found alive today
by the Cuban Army.
Details of Castano's recovery oi
whether the huge ransom had been
paid were not immediately available,
Police believed the kidnaping was
staged by Leftist revolutionary groups
Thousands of men had been thrown
into a search for the wealthy snatch
victim, including the National Army,
Navy and Police.
Army headquarters announced sol
diers had found Castano and his
chauffeur hidden in a house near th«
town of Santiago De Las Vegas, on
the outskirts of Havana.
Two men guarding the prisoner!
were arrested, it was stated.
TRANSIT HEARINGS
OPENED WITH CASE
AGAINS_TSERVICE
Eigen Predicts Order for
Bus and Rail Improve
ments Before Jan. 1.
COMMISSION ENGINEER
IS FIRST WITNESS
Three Volumes of Complaints on
Hand and 150 Civic Representa
tives Are Due to Speak.
Surrounded by three large volumes
of written complaints about Capital
Transit Co. service, and a score of
civic leaders standing by to add a
verbal protest, the Public Utilities
Commission today began its long
contemplated series of public hearings
to find out what is wrong with Wash
ington's mass transportation system.
Before the hearings started, how
ever, Riley E. Eigen, chairman, pre
dicted orders would be issued by Jan
uary 1 for improvements in both the
bus and rail service of the company.
The three piles of written protests,
containing 333 letters, were placed in
front of members of the commission
by James L. Martin, its secretary, as
exhibit A against the transit company.
All the letters were received either by
the commission or People's Counsel
William A. Roberts, since August 1,
and many of them included more than
, one indictment against the company's
service.
Ciftc Representatives.
Approximately 150 civic representa
tives are scheduled to testify before
the hearings close. Arrangements
have been made to call them in re
lays to prevent any undue waste of
time.
The commission itself started at the
outset of the hearings to make a case
against the transit company by call
ing as the first witness the commis
sion's chief engineer, Fred A. Sager,
who supervised the recent “trouble
shooting” Investigation of both bus
; and rail service.
Sager introduced in evidence a series
1 of 30 graphed charts, depicting by
lines and figures some of the frailties
and shortcomings in the transit com
! pany's service. These charts, however,
I covered rail operations only.
Schedule Seen Ignored.
i Sager took up the entire morning
explaining the charts, pointing out
; where failure to maintain uniform
service due to so-called "broken head
, ways” had caused overcrowding on
some cars while other cars that
trailed closely behind were without a
full passenger quota. In other cases
Sager revealed, the company did nol
send cars out according to schedule
but sandwiched them in at different
periods thereby creating Irregular
service.
The severest criticism was leveled at
! the Fourteenth street line. One ol
Sager's charts noting observations ot
northbound service at Thomas Circle
December 10. between 3 and 5 p.m.,
it was explained, showed an extraordi
nary situation of "extreme overload
ing" of cars and a shortage of 29
scheduled cars.
The most comprehensive chart re
vealed the observations of commission
inspectors at Nineteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue December 4. be
tween 1:50 and 3:30 p.m., in connec
tion with westbound service on the
Cabin John. Potomac Heights, Rosslyn
and Tenleytown lines. Failure of
cars on these lines to maintain an
even headway, Sager said, resulted in
a large excess in passenger seats.
Car IT Minutes Late, Charged.
The chart depicting service on the
New Jersey avenue line based on ob
servations of northbound cars Decem
ber 2, from 1:45 p.m. to 3 p.m.,
showed that three cars scheduled on
that line ran on the Florida avenue
line and that another car scheduled
to arrive at the point of observation
at 2:04 p.m. did not arrive until
2:21 p.m.
Observations at Finn ana F streets
December 12 of operations of west
bound cars on the Mount Pleasant
line between 7:30 a.m. and 9 am.,
according to Sager, revealed that
some cars did not start on schedule,
that there were a number of breaks
in headways, and seven cars sched
uled to run did not run, but that
seven others not scheduled to run,
did run, but were from 20 to 30
minutes behind the time of those
scheduled.
Chairman Eigen announced that
proposed one-man car operations
would not be considered at this time
but would be made the subject of a
separate hearing. He regards this
subject as so large and believes it
will involve such a quantity of testi
mony it should be considered inde
pendently.
Bulgarian Historian Dies.
SOFIA, Bulgaria. December 16 (A*}.
—Prof. Vassil Clatarski, 70, a his
torian, died today.
SEEMS
Ohio Representatives Feel
Sure of Winning Over Chi
cago and Kansas City.
DRIVES FOR CANDIDATES
UNDER WAY AT SESSION
National Committee Elects Mem
bers to Fill Vacancies Caused by
Death and Resignations.
BILLETIN'.
Republicans today chose Cleve
land for next Spring's party con
i vention to nominate a 1936 presi
I dential candidate.
(Picture on Page A-7.)
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Three cities — Cleveland, Chicago
and Kansas City—were competing to
day for the Republican National Con
vention of 1936, as the G. O. P. Na
tional Committee opened its meeting
in the Mayflower Hotel.
Cleveland seemed to have the Inside
I track.
| Chicago is the home city of one of
i the most prominently mentioned prob
able candidates for the Republican
presidential nomination—Col. Frank
Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily
News.
Kansas City. Mo., is just across the
line from the home State of Gov. Alf
M. Landon of Kansas, another promi
nent probable candidate. Ohio has
no candidate so far. Committee mem
bers therefore argued it would be bet
ter to take the national convention to
neutral ground.
Furthermore, there has been a sug
gestion that Roosevelt Democrats
might organize ar. A. A. A. march on
the Republican convention if it were
I held in Kansas City or Chicago, or
j any other city in the agricultural belt.
Such a march might prove embar
rassing.
Want Landon Nominated.
While the supporters of Gov. tan
don would be glad to see the conven
| tion go to Kansas City, they are more
interested in the nomination of Lan
don than they are in having the con
vention come to Missouri.
The first bid for the convention
was submitted to the committee by
Chicago. Albert D. Lasker, chairman
of the Chicago committee, opened
the arguments. He announced that
Chicago was ready to meet expenses
up to $150,000. The committee was
told that Chicago had been the site
of more presidential conventions than
any other city, and its central loca
tion was urged as a reason why it
should be selected for the convention.
Its hotel and railroad facilities also
were cited. It has a hall capable
of seating 22.000 persons.
Originally the Chicago committee
askid that 4,000 seats at the con
ven ion be turned over to the city,
prefamably to be given to contribu
tors to the convention fund. Pro
tests from members of the National
Committee, however, caused this to
be withdrawn before the Chicago bid
i was formally presented.
"We all know the New Deal is slip*
ping.” said Chairman Henry P.
Fletcher, as he called the National
i Committee meeting to order this
morning. There was a ripple of ap
plause from the committeemen repre
senting all the States and Territories
and the District of Columbia.
"We have the Democrats on the
run.” continued Fletcher. "It reminds
me of what happened in Cuba during
the Spanish-American War. Gen.
Joe wheeler, leading a charge, shouted,
‘We’ve got the Yankees on the run.’
(Gen. Wheeler was a general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil
War. but later commanded American
troops in the war against Spain.) The
New Dealers are no more Democrats
than the Spaniards were Yankees."
Drives on for Candidate.
While the main business of the Re
publican National Committee is to se
lect the time and the place for the
convention, it was obvious that strong
drives for various presidential candi
dates were under way. with the mem
bers of the committee being canvassed
and canvassing each other. Col. Knox,
Senator Borah of Idaho and Gov. Lon
don were the three possible candidates
who received the most attention, al
though other names were brought up.
Many of former President Hoover’s
friends were in attendance, either as
members of the committee or as ob
servers when the meeting opened to
day. If they intend to press for the
(S*e REPUBLICAN, Page 3.)
HOOVER REITERATES
CANDIDACY DENIAL
By thy Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. December 16—ThU
being Monday, former President Her
bert Hoover today gave his usual Mon
day answer to the question of whether
he was ready to make an announce
ment regarding his candidacy or re
fusal to be a candidate in the 1936
presidential election.
“I have noticed," he said, “that
every Monday I have to answer that
question, and my answer is. as it was
last Monday and the Monday before,
that my sole Interest is In placing the
issues clearly before the American
people. The issues, in my view, are
the greatest that have confronted our
people in many years.”
The titular head of the Republican
party arrived here at 8:30 a m. (Cen
tral standard time) from his Cali
fornia home to make the third in his
series of addresses attacking the New
Deal.
He will speak tonight at a dinner
of the John Marshall Republican Club,
and it was indicated he will deal with
the administration’s relief policies.
(The address will be heard at 10
p.m., Eastern standard time, over Radio
Station WMAL and a Nation-wida
hook-up of the National Broadcast
ing Co.)
Ship Wrecked at Sea Denied Aid
By Freighter, Captain Charges
By me Associated tress.
NEW YORK, December 16.—Capt.
Victor G. Malone of Miami, Fla., a
skipper without a command, arrived
in New York today aboard the Ward
liner Siboney ready for fisticuffs with
the man who, he says, refused to aid
him when the Hallie K. foundered.
“If I can only get hold of the skip
per of the Stella, he promised, "we’ll
settle it pronto on the floor.”
The boat which drew almost along
side in a storm off the Florida coast
last Friday he could identify no better
than that it was named Stella and
was a freighter.
Blood was in the captain’s eye as
he related the incident.
Thursday night, he recited, the
motor of the Hallie K., a motor
schooner, broke down and the vessel
sprang a leak, 30 miles northeast of
Jupiter Light Malone and his crew
maiuieu wir pumpa nu unjui uu uxcxx
storm-tossed ship. Then:
“We sighted the cargo steamer
Stella, flag and hailing port unknown.
We signaled her by blowing our fog
horn and lighting a gasoline-soaked
sponge. The course of’the Stella was
changed to starboard, making a wide
circle around, and passing within 200
feet of us. The Stella swung to port,
circled us and proceeded on her
course northward, making no attempt
to render assistance.”
The Slboney came upon the Hallie
K a few hours later, when water in
the schooner was six inches over the
floor boards. Rescued with Capt.
Malone were his engineer, Lloyd
Mitchell, also of Miami, and his two
man crew, Murray Cates and Alfred
Malone, young Nassau sailors.
The captain wrote In his hatband
they were rescued on Friday the 13 th.
50,000 Toys Are Collected
At Special Film Matinees
Money and Clothing Gifts Also Set
Record in Generous Response to \ f
Appeal for Needy Children.
Nearly 50,000 toys were collected
for the poorer children of Washing
ton as a result of the toy matinee
campaign.
All day long on Saturday, In re
sponse to The Star-Warner Brothers
National Broadcasting Co. appeal for
toys, money, clothing, and what-do
you-have for needy boys and girls,
people pioured in the 11 motion-pic
ture theaters that co-operated in this
gigantic collection. A final check-up
by 'John J. Payette, zone manager
of the Warner Brothers Theaters, ac
counted for a turnout that broke all
records.
Nearly 20,000 boys and girls and
their mothers and dads and all the
rest of the family came to see the
special morning shows. And every
one of them brought bundles. A toy,
just one toy, was the price of admis
sion; but, said Frank La Falce, pub
licity director for Warner Brothers
t \
(who Just wanted a peek insia | one
of the packages), “There were lour
pairs of stockings and two ta| in
one bundle! So, goodness only knows
some people didn’t believe Just ‘one
toy’ was enough."
At Toy Heaven, 933 G street, they’re
still counting toys apd still packaging
them for distribution. The Security
Storage Co., whose vans made a steady
stream from 11 o’clock Saturday morn
ing to 6 p.m. back and forth from the
theaters gathering up the bundles as
they flooded the lobbies, were still at
it this morning, according to Mrs. E.
O. Montgomery, who is secretary of
the Central Christmas Committee, un
der the Council of Social Agencies.
At Toy Heaven, too, the names of
families for whom these bundles were
wrapped first in the thousands of
homes In Washington, are pouring
In—too fast to take care of, too fast
(See TOY* Face 4.)