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Evening star., 1932-03-12
MILLS IN FAVOR
OF UNITING WORKS
Secretary Would Give Presi-
dent Broad Authority Over
Public Activities.
By the Associetad p-...

BY the Associated Press.
A recommendation that President
Hoover be given broad authority to con-
solidate public works was made today
to the House Expenditures Committee
by Secretary Mills.
The Treasury chief agreed with the
idea Of combining public works activi-
ties under new administrator, but did
not approve provisions of pending bills
directing the transfer of construction
agencies to that new bureau.
He expressed the idea this way: "It
seems to me that the wise course to
pursue would be to create an admin
istration of public works and then
authorize the Chief Executive, who,
after all, has broader and more COM
prehensive understanding of the whole
problem OF administration than any one
else, to decide which one of the con-
Struction and engineering activities can
with benefit to the public service be
consolidated In the new bureau"
Many Offer Possibility.
Mills said many of the varied con-
struction activities of the different de-
partments probably could be consoli-
dated satisfactorily
Representative Martin, Democrat, of
oregon, asked whether Congress could
not maintain its integrity by asking
the President to make specific recon-
mendatlons and approving or disapprov-
ing Them
Mills said he thought it would be
better business" to authorize the Chief
Executive to make consultations, sub
Ject to approval by Congress in 80, go
or 30 days. Then he added:
Outside Pressure Scored.
Whenever you (Congress) attempt
to effect one fthese consultations, IL
1t is important, there is always enough
pressure from the outside to stop it.
That Is what has held up the reorgan-
lzation of the Federal Government for
20 years"
Mills said President Hoover, because
OF his long connection with the Gov
ernment and his service as a cabinet
member, knows more about the Gov
ernment departments than any one liv-
ing," and consequently was qualified
to consolidate.
Suppose he is not re-elected?" asked
representative Cotton, Republican, of
Utah.
Assuming he will not be reelected,
ne knows more about the departments
and more about the Government than
any man who can be put in the White
House" Mills answered.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
PLANT CfILOROPE1YLL MAY BARE
KEY TO ALL LIFE ON EARTH
Synthess of Food From Sunlight and Air Nearly Solved
Harvard u. Scientist Reveals

pared by lack Of precise knowledge of
the structure, the arrangement of atoms.
IN tne green material. Solution of this
missing pattern is nearing completion
These discoveries were described last
nlgnt py Dr.. James B. Conant. head
OF the Harvard Chemistry Department,
Wnen ne received the Nichols Medal,
one one OF chemistry's highest awards
from the New York section of the
AZ american Chemical Society. He credit
ed the new knowledge not only to Har-
varo nut to other institutions. mem
tlonlng particularly DR.. Hans Fischer,
the German, who two years ago syn
of blood. AeN p4eA
There are two kinds of chlorophyll,
"A and B. 1t has been found at Har-
vard' DR.. Conant said, that the "a"
klnd Is composed of well known chem
lcal pofphyrin, reduced to its elementary
form, plus two hydrogen atoms. The
b kind is the same, except that the
nydrogsR atoms are substituted for by
a single atom Of oxygen.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
FL0RIDAN ACQUITTED
OF SLAYING HIS WIFE
Second Trial Wins Freedom Af+e,
Original Conviction and
Life Sentence.

By the Associated Press.
ARCADIA, Fla, March 12.-Willian,
R. Carver, former PHILADELPHIA and
Miami real estate operator, oriQinallv
convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, has been acquitted of a
charge of numbering his wife.
A Circuit Court jury freed him here
late yesterday and State attorneys said
charges Of Staying his infant son and
coloyed servant would be nolle pros
sed.
1t was the second time Carver was
tried in the Staying of his wife. The
first resulted in conviction and a SUBJ
sequent life sentence. The Supreme
Court granted his appeal for a new
trial, however, and he was given a
change of venue.
The three slayings took place April
2 1880.
Carver contended he shot the servant
when he found him in the act Of hack
ing Mrs. Carver and the child to death.
The State, by circumstantial evil
dence, attempted to prove Carver killed
his wife and child in an insurance
plot and then shot the servant to con-
ceal the crime.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
LOSS IN R|z|K FIRE
PLACED AT $4,000
Firemen and Janitor Over.
come in Blaze on Con-
necticut Avenue.

A fire in the basement and first
floor Of the fashionable RiZik Bros.
Women's Apparel Shop, 11os Connecti-
cut avenue, this morning did 5000
damage to stock, fixtures and building.
The flames broke out about $40 and
were first noticed by the janitor, John
Craig, %, colored, Of 2227 New York
avenue, who turned In the first alarm.
Craig was overcome by smoke and
taken to Emergency Hospital for treat
ment.
Two More Alarms Given.
In rapid succession thereafter, two
additional alarms were turned In,
summoning all downtown FIRE ap-
paratus to the blaze. Dense clouds Of
smoke billowed down Connecticut
avenue and attracted hundreds Of per-
sons to the scene,
One fireman. Presley Thrift, 81, of
433 Buchanan street, also was overcome
by smoke and taken to Emergency Hos
pita1
Firemen said that the origin of the
blaze could not be determined until
a1ter an inspection.
Sidewalk Hole Used.
The second alarm was sounded an
proximately Is minutes after the first
as clouds Of dense smoke billowed down
Connecticut avenue. Unable to get
into the basement on account of the
smoke, the firemen dug a hole IN the
sidewalk and poured streams of water
through it into the cellar.
Police lines were stretched opposite
the store, along the Mayhower Hotel
side of Connecticut avenue to hold
back and protect the crowds. Auto
mobile trafhc was shunted of the ave-
nue. between L and M streets, but street
cars were permitted to pass under hose
carriers.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Hope Pinned on Pressure Put
on Big Powers and Chang
ing Policy of Japan.
U. S. W0MAN'S ASSAILANT
AT SHANGHAI PUNISHED
Regret Expressed and Warning
Given Against Repetition.
Clash Near Kating.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

BY Radio to The Star.
GENEVA, March I2.-There is real
satisfaction in Geneva TODAY for the
hrst time in months. 1t is felt here
that the Far Eastern conflict at last
is about to be settled. The resolution
Of the League of Nations Assembly
adopted unanimously last night and
now juridically binding on all League
members, bids fair to succeed, it is said,
Where the Councils dilatory and inter-
mittent tentativeS failed.
The reason, it is suggested, is that
the big European powers, Great Britain,
France, Germany and italy. under the
moral pressure, on the one hand from
the United States and ON the other from
the smaller powers which dominate the
Assembly, have begun to take a stronger
stand against the japanese invasion Of
China.
furthermore, Japan itself, it is de-
clared In inside circles, seems to be
modifying for number Of reasons its
Chauvinistic belligerency and would
now be glad to find way out of what
appears, even from the japanese view
point, to be disastrous adventure.
Orientals Get Together Socially.
Naturally, it Is too soon to foresee a
genuine happy ending. Action speaks
louder than words at the present stage
of the Far Eastern conflict and only
when the Japanese do actually begin to
withdraw their troops, first from shang-
hal and later from Manchuria, will
skeptics and realists be convinced. Yet
there is little doubt today that the
ic no haoy1
a long time for peaceful, even a con-
Structive final settlement.
The atmosphere here has changed to
such an extent that the British, for the
first time since the affair began, were
able to get the Chinese and japanese
together socially last night. Sir John
Simon, British foreign minister, at an
intimate dinner entertained DR.. w. w.
Yen. Chinese representative; Tsuneo
Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador at
London; Hugh r. Wilson, American
Minister to Bern and Norman Davis,
member of the American disarmament
delegation.
There is reason to hope that the In
formal political conversations thus be-
gun will be continued. It is believed
that IL present at Sir Johns function
expressed themselves in utmost frank
ness with the view Of ultimately find
ing a satisfactory solution.
Two Important Points.
The League Assembly's resolution
does two important things: 1t estab-
fishes a new principle in international
law. first officially enunciated by Amerir
can Secretary of State Henry L. Stim-
son, and sets up an Assembly Com
mission to handle this particular dis
pute henceforth in place Of the League
Council.
The new principle of international
law, which now becomes automatically
Continued on Page 2. Column II
Evening star., 1932-03-12
K|DNAP|NGPROBERS
APPEAL TO NATION
Circular Distributed to All Pc.
lice Through Justice De-
partment Unit.

In their first formal appeal to the
police of the Nation, New Jersey State
police today asked cooperation Of
Americas law enforcement authorities
In the search for the Lindbergh baby
and his kidnapers.
Through the expansive and efficient
distributing channels of the United
States Bureau of Investigation, Col. H.
Norman Schwarzkopf, State police
chief, sent to more than 1,400 police
officials throughout the country large
descriptive circular asking for any in
formation available that might lead TO
solution Of the mystery.
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Bureau OF Investigation, confirmed the
fact that his bureau had distributed the
circular, following announcement of the
move at Hopewel by Col. Schwarzkopf
confirm or deny it.
Photographs Included.
Across the top of the broadside were
two photographs of the missing child
pictures already familiar to millions of
newspaper readers. They were not very
clear, but were the best snapshots OBJ
tainable Of the famous son of the flyer.
There was no new information on the
circular. It repeated the detailed de-
scription Of Charles Augustus, jr., al
ready published by the press, and urged
that police communicate promptly to
Col. Schwarzkopf any bit of informa-
ton that might help break" the case.
In our earnest desire to accomplish
the recovery Of the baby" the circular
said, "the police will welcome informa-
ton of any kind leading to its return,
regardless Of the source.
The identity of all people disclosing
information leading to recovery of the
baby, whether the information be val
Continued on Page 8, Column e.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Say Official Circular Promised
Only Confidential Treatment
Of Any Information.
FIVE PERSONS INVESTIGATED
In SUSPECTED KIDNAP PLOT
One Man Believed Involved Is Held
in Tombs-Scheme Reported as
Begun i'm November.
BY the Associated Press.


HOPEWEL j. March 12-Polce investigating KIDNAPPING
OF the Lindbegh baby have condenay
nation coming to them from but this
they promise immunity to the kdnapers themselves officially
announced today.
Disclosure that circular had been sent to every police
quarters in the country appealing for information promising
had led Interpretation
munity was being extended to the criminals
This fatty denied by COL Norman schwarzkop super
inendent OF State police who charge
Lindbergh homs
Expression Of Sincerity" T.
"Our guaranty of confidence concerning
SchWazkopf said official bulletin this morning
sion concerning information which
would result in return of the baby
The matter OF immunity to criminals is beyond control
The question OF immunity cropped repeatedly since
Lndbergh baby vas stolen the night March and
impossible make such promis which in effect would be
clare crime legal.
The nearest possible thing to promise of immunity
berghS to the which
Evening star., 1932-03-12
FINNS, CARRIED AWAY ON ICE,
FEED FISH TO STARVED HORSES
Last of 700 Fishermen Saved From Huge Floe Describe
Efforts to Keep Warm in Tents.

men normally. Into these fiimsy shell
ters, the survivors said today they
crowded Is at time and huddled to-
gether for warmth
BY Thursday morning the fodder
they had taken out for the horses was
gone and the provisions for the men
had to be rationed out to make them
last. The famished horses began
nibbling at the tent walls and these
began to leak, while the storm poured
rain and snow upon the castaways.
Then they decided to feed their fish
to their horses and all the animals
accepted the unnatural diet except one,
which starved to death.
Yesterday morning most of the cast
aways had been rescued, but 200 started
creeping over the ice across q 20-mile
channel toward the mainland
They went carefully in groups of 10,
roped together, and not until almost
nightfall had they reached safety The
ice was only one day old and several
times it threatened to break under
them.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March l2.-The riddle
OF chlorophyll. which possibly holds
one OF the keys to synthesis of food
from sunlight and air, is nearing solu-
ton at Harvard University.
Chlorophyll is the green coloring
matter of plants. 1t Is the substance
which enabled them to absorb the
energy Of sunlight and with it convert
carbon dioxide of the air into sugars,
starches and proteins.
Thus chlorophyll is the gateway to
all life on this planet, the primary
source of food, for animals and even
the fungi; plants which are not green
owe their lives either to plant foods
or to living on animals which subsist
directly on the plants
Chemists never have been able to
synthesize chlorophyll. Once that is
done scientists can use the green stuff
to pry out the secrets Of natures
process and possibly to learn how to
do the same thing artifcially in a
laboratory or factory.
This chlorophyn synthesis has been
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Angry Hippo Defies
Immunizers Trying
To Stop Zoo Germs
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March Ia
Immunization of the Swope Park
Zoo inhabitants because of an
outbreak of hemorrhagic sep
ticaemia struck a 3,800-pound
snag Thursday in Cleo, the hip
popotamus.
Two jabs at Cleo's thick skin
resulted in two sets of angry
growls and two lunges that sent
the immunizers scurrying for
safety.
Planks will be nailed across
Cleo's waterproof home and Mon
day an attempt will be made to
accomplish the immunization
with a needle thrust down
through crack in the improvised
roof.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
NATIONS ARE ASSURED

NEW YORK, March IL R.-In a
statement issued through the Argentine
Bureau of Information yesterday, Min
lister of Finance Alberto Hueyo assured
creditor nations that his country would
meet all interest service on foreign
debts
Minister Hueyo pointed out that the
Argentine government intended to en-
force the operation of a balanced budget
and reduce expenditures to meet the
falling revenues expected during the
fiscal year.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
HEISINGFORS Finland, March a.
A hundred hardy fishermen, picked of
the ice foes on which they had drifted
helpless for several days, came back
today to spin real yarn Of the North
land.
They were the last to be saved of TOO
carried of on huge foe which drifted
along the coast for three days while
rescuers were held OF by heavy ice.
They lived on cold raw flsh. and they
fed it TO the horses which had been
carried away with them.
This thing happens every year, but
never before has so large number Of
men been carried to sea at one time.
These TOO were six miles out on the
ice In the Gulf of Finland last Tuesday
when terrific storm broke OF enor-
nous foes on which the men and
horses had been hauling nets.
The storm blew all day Wednesday,
with the temperature about IL degrees
above zero and the only shelter a few
small tents, each big enough for three
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Stop Hoarding!

T T is wise to be thrifty. It is
sensible to lay aside some
thing for a rainy day. Then,
i why all this appeal against
boarding? Isn't saving
money the same thing as
"hoarding" 1t?
Not at all. Hoarding is the
antithesis Of thrift. The man
who boards money is not thrifty.
The thrifty man makes his dol
lars work for him, by sound in
vestment, by sound expenditures,
by deposit in a sound bank that
pays him for putting it there.
The hoarder buries his money,
denies it the right to work for
him and for others. A dollar
withdrawn from circulation
means five dollars withdrawn
from the channels of credit.
Credit is the lifeblood of trade
and industry.
Be thrifty-but be wise. Do
your part to bring an end to
short-sighted boarding that re-
tards the return of prosperity.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
ExTRADITlON is DENIED

NEW YORK, March IL (P.-A
charge against Michael Mindlin, 40 of
Cedarhurst, Of being a fugitive from
justice from Chicago. was dismissed
yesterday by Magistrate Stern after
Gov. Roosevelt, at Albany, declined to
sign extradition papers
Mindlin, owner Of several motion pic
ture theaters, was arrested at request
of William Shoemaker, Chicago chief
of detectives He was alleged to have
miSappropriated $4,000, said to have
been collected for the Chicago Valen-
tino Memorial Club.
He denied being in Chicago at the
time Of the alleged misappropriation
Evening star., 1932-03-12
$3.50 MORE GET JOBS

NEW YORK, March IL (P).-The
big push" to find jobs for the joblesS
rolled up $3.50 more posts yesterday,
bringing the total of persons returned
to work to 2l2,236. The goal IS l.
100000
Eighty-one communities reported the
1850 yesterday California led the
States with 3,460 The drive is called
the United Action for Employment
Campaign.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Movie Actors Trial POSTPONED.

LOS ANGELES, March IL CP.-Be-
cause court room was unavailable, the
o[laI OF kenneth Harlan, motion picture
aS.U[' accused OF driving an automobile
WINE intoxicated, was postponed yes
1loay untll Monday. Harlan was ar
lesteo early January /, 1882, after his
automobile had crashed into a n,iIk
wagon, injuring himself and a horse Sc
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Tree Made Famous
By Lincoln Felled
For Jobless Fuel
Nv the Associated Press.

by IIlB hSSUCIhVSU 7 OoS'
QUINCY, ILL.,, March l2.-Three-
quarters of a century ago Abra-
ham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
stood under a linden tree in the
public square to debate the issues
of the day.
Yesterday the tree was cut
down to provide fuel for the un-
employed.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
VATICAN ACTION SHOWN

"a Marriages Annulled and 80 Re
quests Rejected, Report Reveals.
VATICAN CITY, March IL CP).-The
Rota, Papal tribunal, annulled "a mar
riages last year and rejected 80 requests
for annulments, it was announced today.
The Rota's report is in Latin and did
not give the names or residences of the
parties making the requests.
There was no indication whether any
of the cases involved Americans.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
G. 0. P. HEADS WILL MAP
CONVENTION PLANS HERE
National Committee to Confer
Monday on Maze of Details Con-
nected With Chicago Session.

BY the Associated Press.
Some Of the thousand and one things
needed to get the Republican national
convention organized will be considered
at a meeting here Monday by the Con-
Ventlon Arrangements Committee.
Headed by Chairman Fess of the Ma
tional Committee, the group probably
VIII seIect a sergeant-at-arms and dis
cuss preliminary details regarding dec
oratlon' radio, telegraph and telephone
problems.
A temporary chairman is not ex-
pecteo 10 be named until some time in
may While the convention itself names
permanent chairman.
A keynoter also must be selected.
Fess made the 1928 KEYNOTE speech,
and Senator Moses of New Hampshire
was permanent chairman.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
U. S. GIRL, IL, KILLS SELF,
BOY ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Student Tragedy Revealed in Ger
many-Engineer's Son, 16, Is
Discovered Seriously Wounded.

BY the Associated Press.
NEU RUPPIN, Germany, March -.
The body Of Mathilde Dischmann,
l2-year-old school girl, whose home is
In New York, was found here today,
disclosing student tragedy.
Nearby Herbert Huelsen, 16, was
found suffering from serious bullet
wounds in the head Police took the
boy to hospital where he told them
in the head and then he attempted
suicide.
The two met at school. The girl was
living here with her uncle, a pensioned
aviation captain. The boy is the son
of an engineer, who formerly was en-
ployed In Russia.
Both disappeared Wednesday evening
and police said they must have spent
the intervening days In the woods.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
CHASED, SAVES OFFICER

Prisoner Freed for Saving Police
man From Lake.
SEATTLE, Wash, March IL R.-
Instead of running away when L. O.
Vanriper, harbor officer, fell into Lake
Union while trying to arrest him, w. L.
Ormley, a fisherman, jumped to a float
and pulled the oficer aboard.
Hence Ormley was free today Of dis
orderly charges. Vanriper, full of graft
tude. pleaded for him in Police Court
yesterday.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
KIDNAP "RACKET" FAILS
Convicted Swind1er Sought to
Raise "Search Fund"


NEW YORK, March IL CP).-The
racket" Harry L. Davis conceived from
the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
brought him an indeterminate term of
from one to three years in the peniten-
tiary yesterday.
He pleaded guilty to attempted petty
larceny as the result Of a plan whereby
he attempted, by use of stationery on
which the name of prominent men ap-
peared, to raise a fund to engage de-
tectives to search for the stolen child.
Davis, who is 81 and gave his ad-
dress as 258 Twelfth street, Detroit,
Mich, was arrested after he induced
Walter B. Cooke, an undertaken, to
contribute 500 two days after tine xii6-
naping. Police said he had been con-
victed for previous similar swindles.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
$4,000 WRITE LINDBERGH
"Cranks" and Well Wishers Mail
Him Surgestions.

Him Suggestions.
NEWARK, N. j., March IL CP.-In
the II days since kidnapers stole his
20-month hold son, Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh has received $4,000 letters
from "cranks" and well wishers offering
suggestions as to how he might re-
cover the child. ,,,
The figure was given today by Gov.
A. Harry Moore in an address at the
Newark Athletic Club. He, himself,
has received about 10000 communica-
tions about the case, he said.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
WEATHER.
%. Q. weather Bureau Forecast.

Cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair; little
change in temperature; gentle to mod
crate north, backing to northwest winds.
Temperatures-Highest, 81, at 4:30 pm.
yesterday: lowest, 26, at 8 am. today.
Full report on page IA.
Evening star., 1932-03-12

Continued on Page 8, Column A.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-18
STILL A WAYS TO GO

It isn't likely that even the new emphasis on base-running will dis lodge the modern records for this particular brand of larceny, much les5 the old marks made by Billy Hamilton and Harry Stovey with the old Philadelphia clubs.
 Ty Cobb set the twentieth cen Jury mark when he stole 96 bases in 1915. The best National league record within the same period was made by Boy Bescher of Cincin- nati who stole 80 in 1911.
 Stovey ran wild in 1888 when he was credited with 156 stolen bases but that was before the catching. defense was perfected.
 Hamilton in 1891, under condi- ltions more or less the same as today, stole 115 bases and this is generally recognized as the best on record.