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Evening star., 1931-06-10
SCOTLAND is LOSING

Secretary of State Reports g Per
Cent Decrease in Population.
LONDON, June 10 (R.-Scotland has
been losing population for the last 10
years.
william Adamson, secretary of state
for Scotland, wrote in reply to ques-
tions from the House of Commons that
on April 26 the census stood at 4,842, :
554, a decrease of 39.943, or 0.8 per cent
under the figures for 1921. He said
these figures were subject to correction,
but we're substantiallyrco correct.
Evening star., 1931-06-10
L hat Key Log

Everybody is hunting for the key log When
it is knocked loose the business jam will end-the
flood, long held back, will be released.
Some alert Washington merchants say they
have found that key log and pred it loose. They
know of no jams. Business Is flowing. stores are
filed, goods are moving, clerks are busy
The secret? Retail prices have dropped with
commodity and wholesale prices. The margin OF
profit, in whole part has been made up with
increased volume of sales. If the shelves are
cleared and repeniShed, the wheels turning and
the dollars moving the jam is broken.
There is news in how these prices are being
knocked down to increase the volume of SaleS-and
it is being spread before the Washington public
every day through the advertising columns of The
Star. 1t is worth watching for.
YESTERDAYS ADVERTISING
local display
Lines.
The Evening Star. 37,177
I'd Newspaper 9,473
Sd Newspaper Observation-Disclosures $500
4tt Newspaper $3.50
5th Newspaper 1853
Total flour other newspapers) 26962
Evening star., 1931-06-10
REPLY DIsAPPoINTS POPE.

Rome Declares Action Society Units
Violated Lateran Treaty.
ROME, June 10 [P).-Premier Mus
solinRs answer to the Vatican's notes
of protest concerning the dissolution of
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Evening star., 1931-06-10
SIX MINERS KILLED

Four Rescued and One Is Missing
in German Shaft.
NEURODE, Germany, June 10 H).-
Six miners were known to be dead and
one was missing today as the result OF
the infiltration of carbon -dioxide gas
into the fourth level of coal mine at
kohlendorf, near here.
Rescue squads took four men, slightly
injured, from the mine and recovered
the bodies of six others. They were
still searching for the missing workman.
Evening star., 1931-06-10
BANDITS WOUND EIGHT
Three Women Reported Kidnapped
in Looting of Bus in Mexico.

MEXICO CITY, June 10 (P).-A dis
patch to Excelsior from Torreon, Du-
range, today said that eight passengers
of an automobile bus, including two
children, had been wounded by bandits
and three women kidnapped near there.
The bandits looted the bus and
escaped near Estacion Simon. Troops
were sent in pursuit.
Evening star., 1931-06-10
WEATHER.

(U. g. Weather Bureau ForecasD.
Cloudy and continued cold tonight;
tomorrow partly cloudy and slightly
warmer: moderate northerly winds. Tenn
peratures-Highest 66, at 4:30 pm. yes
day; lowest, 81, at z am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1931-06-10

Radio Programs on Page CT
Evening star., 1931-06-10

The Stars 6arrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
MARINES SLAIN
IN NICARAGUA
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could be ascertained, between IL
and 20 of the attackers were
either killed or wounded.
Fifty Marines were sent in
pursuit Of the ambushing party.
Wounded Man Escapes
According to information here,
the attack began shortly before
noon Wednesday, with the bandits
using automatics and rifles.
Sergeant Palrang soon saw the
hopelessness of his situation and
ordered Private HutchersOn. to
return to OcOtal for aid. An
enemy bullet halted him in his
mission, however, and forced him
to seek cover in the bushes.
Private Jackson stuck to his
position Until all others were
dead and the bandits left, crawl
ing into q cornfield to bind his
wounded shoulder.
The dead. with their next Of
kin and addresses, are:
Sergt. Arthur M. Palrang, A.
M. Palrang, father, Fort Lyon,
Col; Private First Class Irving
w. Aron. Irs. Cecilia Aron,
mother, Brooklyn, N. Y; Private
Lambert Bush, Richard H. Bush,
father. Bay Minnette, Ala;
Private Edward Everett Elliott,
V. Y. Elliott, grandfather, Des
Moines, Iowa; Private Joseph
Alfred Harbaugn, Blanche Moi
fat, grandmother, Washington,
Pa: Private Joseph Frank
Kosieradski. Peter Kosieradski,
father. Buffalo; Private Richard
J. Lltz, Pearl Litz, mother, In
dianapolis, ana Private Joseph
Arthur Mccarthy, John w. Nc
Carthy, father, Chillicothe, Mo.
The wounded are PrivateS Frank
Austin, of Lawrenceville. Ca, and
Mack Hutcherson, Of Shreveport,
La.
Attacking Party FIees
The first warning that . trap
had been set for them came with
. rifle shot. One Marine fell
ut first volIey; the others dis
mounted, dropped their tools and
sought cover, blazing away i'm the
direction Of their attackers.
For two long hours, according
to the repo.'ts, the uneven battle
ragged in the jungle thickness,
until all Of the Marine detach-
ment was either killed or
wounded. Then the attackers
faded quickly away.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
JOFFRE CLINGS
To LIFE SHRED
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radio station announced the Mar
shal's death, and an hour later
the secretary Of Premier Theodore
Steeg, coming out of the clinic,
left confirmation to the report by
the announcement, Hes dead"
The report of Papa" Joffre's
death was denied by official gov
ernment announcement, and
shortly afterward attending physi-
clans began again the issuance Of
bulletins on his state Of health.
One of the official announce
ments said the comatose state into
which the patient had fallen had
been mistaken for death.
Grows Steadily Weaker
His physicians at midnight last
night said:
"The marshal is still In 3
coma, resting quietly. He sui.
fers no pain. There has been
no modification Of his cOndi-
tion since II o'clock this morn
ing"
Although the official bulletin
plainly stated the marshal had
been in coma since that hour.
DR.. Faure, another Of Joffre's
physicians who left the clinic at
st. Jean de Dieu two hours
earlier, had said the marshal
"is not exactly in a coma, but
rather a kind Of sleep.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
PANAMA REBELS
JAIL RULER
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larino, a physician attached to
the Herrick clinic.
Launching the revolt at an
early hour Of the morning when
few people were on the streets
Kept casualties to a minimum.
Encouraged by their success, the
revolutionaries fired volley after
volley into the air.
U. s. Soldiers Guard Legation
AS in the case of previous
major disorders in Panama, Amer.
lean soldiers we're rushed from
their headquarters in the Canal
Zone, throwing up a protective
Gordon around the United States
legation.
American soldiers also guarded
the international Boundary be-
tween Panama City, AncOn and
Balboa, refusing to permit Ameri-
cans to cross over into native
Panama territory.
Spasmodic firing continued un-
til a late hour this morning, al
though government forces made
no further attempt to resist the
revolutionaries.
The revolution appeared to be
completely successful, with con-
certed resistance made impossible
by the arrest and imprisonment
of President AroSemena, unless
the United States decides to in
tervene.
All cable and telegraph COM
munications throughout the
1sthmus were cut by the inSUr-
rectionists, although wires in the
canal zone, which is under Amer
ican jurisdiction, were not mo-
leSted.
Revolt Is Surprise
Pont1cal opposition to Arose
mena, who took office for q term
OF four years in October, 1928,
has been seething for some time,
but the active revolutionary move.
ment took the authorities COM
pleCely by surprise.
Announcement that the reVolu-
ton had succeeded and a provis-
ional junta formed was made by
insurrectionary spokesmen a few
moments before American troops
arrived.
Colon remained quiet, but po-
lice launched a systematic search
for arms and ammunition in the
fear that the revolutionaries
might attempt to stage an upris-
ing in zone territory.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
POWER CHARGES
CONFIRMED
BYF|LES
Sensational Protest Against
Maneuver Found Among
0. C. Merrill Memoranda

Secret records were disclosed
yesterday supporting the charge
Of Senate insurgents that the re-
moval Of two Federal Power Com
mission officials is an attempt to
throttle all regulation Of power
companies.
These records, it was learned,
will be used by leaders in building
their case aga in st Chairman
George Otis Smith and Commis-
sioners GarSaud and Draper, whose
confirmation as power commits
Sioners they hope to revoke.
Sensational Protest
A sensational protest against
the Power Trusts earlier maneu-
vers to hamstring the commission,
made by former Executive Secre-
tary o. c. Merrill, has been
brought to light. This protest is
in the commissions files, but was
not disclosed to senatorial 1nvesti-
gators last winter.
It shows that:
The power interests fought
s@vagely against Merrill and
successive power commissions
to scrap official regulations
that were devised, and subSti-
tute an administrative plan
giving them public power sites
on their own terms.
Their attack on the account
ing Of william v. King, re-
moved as chief accountant BY
the new commission, was part
and parcel Of this greater fight.
Merrill himself branded ut
least part Of the attack on
Kings system as in reality IN
assault upon the. law and the
commissions regulations.
He found evidence Of .
masked effort to break down
honest accounting, by State
rs well as Federal egencies,
through attempted changes I'm
Kings system.
Left Service in 1929
Merrill left the commission in
1929 to become secretary of the
American section Of the World
Power Conference, financed by
the power interests.
His protest against the power
companies tactics was written
after the commission had twice
ruled against the compa .es' con-
tentionS, and four formal hearings
had been held, with innumerable
informal conferences.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Allan Potts Scores
As Skating Star

NEWBURGH, N. Y. Jan. 2.
Allan Potts, Of Brooklyn, today
held the distinction Of being the
speed skating star Of the East.
AlIe~ that honor yesterday
her nth "~- Il middle
national
ed off
e out
ul star
l1f-mile
ID tied
'etain
'orke,
The Washington times., 1931-01-02

ARTHUR DEMARS
ARTHUR DEMARS, insurance man, 2O14 Fifteenth
st. N W., had breakfast with the President yesterday
morning. Demars, with Charles T. Ruby of 1715
Fourteenth St. S. E. was waiting at dawn in front of
the White House. Secretary Lawrence Ritchy
them and told Hoover The President invited them
in for breakfast Here is Demars eating hasty lunch
later in the day.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
DEVELOPMENTS
IN LABORATORY
To AID RALLY
Sarnoff, Head Of Radio Cor.
poration, Cites New Services
to Public in Experiments

Necessity is energizing our
inventive and industrial genius.
Today research has been given
the signal Of full speed ahead,
the laboratories Of the nation
are hot with development, and
the tracks are being laid for
new industries and new ser.
vices.
Progress Noted
Sufficient progress has not
yet been made towards prac-
tical televisiOn to set q date or
. time for its introduction upon
nationwide service basis.
Nevertheless, progress Is cOntin-
uOuS."
Mr.. Sarnoff advanced the point
that while the barometer of q
business depression is always
clear enough, the signs Of pros
perity are rarely evident in tifns
to be seen by the average man.
The depression barometer, he
said, includes the changing colora
Of the balance sheet, recedins
stock quotations. reduced con
sumption and sales and q falling
off in the employment Of work.
men in the mechanical and com
mercial lines. 49,.
Competition Asked
In conclusion Mr.. Sarnoft
pleads for healthy competition
and the elimination OF monopoly
in industry, as well as for the
wiping away of archaic political
and legislative methods. Healthy
competition, he said, is essential
to progress, but overproduction
should be guarded against for
the benefit Of the consumer as
well as the producer. @
The Washington times., 1931-01-02

JANA UV0AOM -
FIVE YEARS In prison and q
$l7,500 fine are the penalties
Jack Gusick, Capone hench-
man in Chicago, must pay for
defrauding the government of
income taxes. The Government
proved Gusick had more than
$1,O00,0O0 in three years but
had paid taxes on Just 100000.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
294,896 FeWer r. r.
Workers in October

Glass one railroads reported a
total Of 1,454,963 employees as
Of October IA. Their total COM
pensation amount to $213,874,715,
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission announced today.
Compared with the same month
last year, the summary showed q
decrease in the number Of en-
ployes of 294,896. The compen-
sation showed a decrease of $49,-
786, ,638.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
First HOOUer Tutor
Is I'LL at IOIUG Home

WEST BRANCH, Iowa, Jan. 2
Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, who
taught Herbert Clark Hoover his
ABC's, today was reported seri-
ously i'll at her home here.
Mrs. Carran has been credited
with impresSing on the Presi6
the value Of simple livir
was his first tutor.
The day after
inaugurated Mr.
husband were
ne white Hol
N years old.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
ON DUNBAR STAFF

Mrs. Jennie Wilder, teacher Of
mathematics at the Garnet-Pat-
terson Junior High School, has
been transferred to Dunbar High
School to the post held by Sher-
man Jackson, who retired yester.
day from division 1913, after 80
years of teaching.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
POLICE EEK
CRIME iAD .
IND RY
Names Of IS Friends" Are
Found: onvict Being
Hunted; her Questioned

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Asp. No ct e has been placed
against .~'
The ril oody was found Wed
nasday morning by her brother.
He called her moth-r, Mrs. Dora
r. 1imerf and then called for
an anbul ce from Casualty Hos
pital. ! young inferno pro-
nounced girl dead from "lem-
orrhage" d the +"Te'N
to an UNI takers establishment.
Bull. Wound Found
Several h : later while pre-
uarinu the burial, the
undertaken foLn. d bullet wound
In the back of the head, the hair
carefully combed over it.
He at once notified police, and
the "hemorrhage" death stood
revealed as murder. Detectives
went to the house and discovered
q rs caliber automatic pistol
shell in her room near a stove
the girl had been shot with q
gun Of that size, it was de
termined.
Searching for the death weapon
polite have turned up four guns
but all of heavier caliber. A .36
caliber revolver was found in the
house and three other pistols
were found in a gasoline Fatior
where Vernon Limerick anc
another brother, Willis H
Limerick and Richard F ed are
ell employed.
Police are holding tn weap
ons but attach little b oortancC
To-, them. Search Of le room
where the girl was shf revealed
the diary which police old to be
the most important in the
case.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
20 red Army Man
01aed As Att0chE

u. Benjamin O. Davis, highest
ra king negro officer in the
United States Army has been
ordered to Monrovia, Liberia, for
duty as military attache, it was
learned here today.
He is expected to leave with
Charles E. Mitchell, newly ap.
pointed minister to that country,
early this month.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Sports Discussion
:, :. On Air Today

What does the New Year
nola Tor baseball fans? -.
NO one can answer that
question definitely, but Joe
Holman, baseball writer Of
The Washington Times, can
come az pear to it as anyone.
: Over Station >WMAL at S
o'clock tAday, Mr.. Holman
Ill 90 into the 1881 base
ball PROSPECTS and discuss
other phases Of the sports
trend. Tune in on WMAL
ct 5 O'clON and get the
last, touch on sports from
one who knA Aws.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Douglas Fairbanks
Off for Game Hunt

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 (U.S0.
Armed with guns and cameras,
Douglas s'airbanks yesterday mo-
tored tc San Francisco, from
where i>e will leave for French
Indo-C ma to hunt big game and
visit { entail potentates.
TIL !ctor Yill sail on the Bel.
genl via Honolulu.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Hunt Pl. Baby Girl
Born With 2 Teeth

On December II, Mrs. Bessie
Tynes, 26, colored, Of 1923 Hunt
Pl. N. E., gave birth to a girl,
and 10 and behold! when the
child opened it's mouth for its
first cry, there were two teeth in
it's lower Jaw.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02

BEST BET-COOTs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
BY DAVID J. WILKIE,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

DETROIT, February THE automo-
bile industry, some times called the
weather vane of American prosperity,
continues to show encouraging activity
While the momentum looked for is be-
ing gathered slowly, there has been no
disposition to revise earlier estimates
that the total production for 1881 will
be more than 100000 and possibly A.
500, 900 units.
If this estimated production for the
present year is approximately correct
the production facilities of the industry
soon will be thrown into high speed
Production for January and that esti-
mated for February is not on the basis
of a 4,000,0 00-unit year; in fact, the
175,000 estimated production of last
month marked the lowest January out
put in the last eight years. 1t compares
with 285,762 units in January last year.
February Output.
February production has been esti-
mated at approximately 100000 units,
also a low mark for the second month
of the year during the last eight years
Nevertheless, the industry, profiting by
the lessons laid down by the 1929 over
production and the subsequent collapse
of its buyer mart, is literally making
udSJS SLOWLY. "A SUedQy increase IN
buyer demand rather than a sudden de-
mand followed by another period of
stagnation is what the industry's leaders
desire.
1t is in furtherance of this program
that production is being increased
slowly, the factories being adjusted to
what the merchandising outlets can
handle without embarrassment.
Aside from actual volume of produc-
ton one of the factors regarded by
leaders of the industry as particularly
gratifying is the effort to increase and
maintain employment schedules. Any
steady employment period automotive
executives. are agreed, is bound to be
reflected in soma degree in the buying
of motor cars.
Working Day Increased.
Announcing a nine-hour working day
in his companys plants, Joseph B.
Graham, president OF the Graham
Paige Motors Corporation, said that
steady employment for the men is indi-
Gated despite the fact that the real
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
ECONOMIES ARE SEEN
IN RAILROAD MERGER
Yale Professor Believes Outcome Of
Plans Is Now Umpire
dictable.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 7-Reviewing
the postwar steps to merge the Nations
railroads into few great systems, Prof.
Winthrop M. Daniels of Yale University
and a former member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, concludes that
while the outcome is unpredictable the
economies inherent in consolidation are
sufficient to approve their realization.
Prof. Daniels, who terminated nine
years service on the commission in
1928, says that possible economies
through consolidation while impressive
in absolute amount have been shown to
be comparatively modest In his opln-
ion, if consolidation is to prove of it's
maximum benefit to the large systems
lit will be because it will free them
from internal rate retaliations, from
the fear of the big tonnage producer,
from the blight of the Clayton act, and
from the ever-present disquietude and
uncertainty of new and disruptive COM
binations of rail rivals"
The Yale professor of Transportation,
writing in the Engineering News-Rec-
ord, asserts that the commissions So
called final consolidation plan issued in
December, 1929, was "a veritable apple
of discord thrown into the group of rail
executives"
The four-system plan (for consolida-
ton OF Eastern railroadS) cuts squarely
across the commissions plan. Fer the
commission now to recede means re-
opening the endless hearings which
terminated in December, 1923. If, upon
the application of any one of the pro-
posed big four systems, the commission
makes essential changes in the set-up,
Wnere VIII the three remaining giant
powers be left?
will they still be bound to their
original agreement? These and count
less other matters make the outcome
unpredictable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
STRENGTH IN CORN
PRICE MAINTAINED
Demand From industries Re.
suits in Better Values
in Chicago Pit.
BY JOHN p. BOUGHAN,
Associated Press Market Editor.

CHICAGO, February 7.-Surprising
comparative strength shown by the corn
market is just now attracting special
attention of the grain trade. Reasons
given for corn price upturns are that
demand by industries readily disposes
of corn shipments to Chicago, and that
the corn visible supply unlike the STOCK
of wheat in sight is not showing an m
crease. Leading authorities say also
that the price of corn In relation 70
wheat is more in favor OF increased
feeding of corn.
Compared with a week ago, corn
values this morning showed l1s-l12
cents a bushel advance, with wheat UNI
changed to s. up; oats, unchanged 10
/ cent higher, and provisions, 20 to gu
cents down.
Experts Opinion.
Trade experts who have closely OBJ
served the corn market situation assert
that unless corn supplies accumulate
with much increased speed, the East,
which in particular has lelSurely nelo
back from purchases, may find II I'M
perative. to bid quotations up 10 OBTAIN
supplies in the Spring. Reports are
cited that owing to excessive rains In
Argentina the corn crop of that country
will be of rather poor quality, and that
this circumstance will prevent any i'm
portant movement from Argentina 10
New England Official estimates that
supplies of corn on United States farms
are 300 900, 900 bushels less than year
ago. elicit comment here that large
area has little corn to feed.
EagerneSs for corn is Illustrated by
advices that already blowing for the
new crop has been in progress north-
ward into Nebraska, that fairly gen
erous increase of corn acreage south is
indicated and that a moderate en-
largement in the main belt Is expected:
Meanwhile, above-average weight OF
hogs arriving at market centers appar-
emily shows that the chief feeding sec
tions are using corn on big scale. In
addition, many traders profess dlsbellef
in current estimates that rural stocks
of oats are 1OO,000,000 bushels in ex-
cess of last year. These skeptlcS say
heavy disappearance OF oats on farms
will be shown in the March reserve
figures.
Drought Situation.
Uneasiness regarding drought has
raised a question whether moisture de-
ficiency may not turn out more serious
in the Spring wheat region, both OF
the United States and Canada, than
over domistic Winter wheat sections.
The prairie provinces of Canada report
moisture shortage of 48 per cent in
December and SO per cent in January.
compared with normal.
Hedging sales by packers have ected
as weight on the provision market.