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Evening star., 1932-11-18
AMY JOHNSON SETS
CAPE TOWN RECORD
Clips 10 Hours "a Minutes
From MoIIiSon's Mark in
African Solo Hop.

BY the Associated Press.
CAPE TOWN, Union Of South Africa,
November 18.-Amy Johnson, flying
alone from England, landed here at
1:30 pm, Greenwich time $3.50 am.
Eastern standard time) today, clipping
nearly II hours off the speed record
held by her husband, j. A. Mollison.
Last March Capt. Mollison made the
trip in days, II hours and 10 minutes
His wife's time was days, hours and
SIS minutes, or 10 hours and "a min
utes faster than his.
She brought her small monopiane,
Desert Cloud. down to q skillful land
ing to the accompaniment of shrieking
motor horns and the cheers of 1000
persons waiting to greet her. The
crowd gave the police some trouble as
it rushed to surround her.
Made Four Stops.
Miss johnson covered the $3.50 miles
from England with only four stops. She
was very tired. When Mollison made
the flight the strain was so great that
he cracked up at the finish. He ex-
planned later that he had had so little
sleep during the flight that in the last
landing he misjudged his distance. He
was not hurt and the plane was not
badly damaged.
When he came down Miss Johnson
was one of those who welcomed him.
Il think you're wonderful" she told
him then, and four months later they
were married. Two months after that
Continued on Page 2. Column u
Evening star., 1932-11-18
VANDENBERG GIVES
BEER BILL IMPETUS
Michigan Senator Declares
Wet Vote Is ian UndeniabIe
Mandate"

The drive for a change In Federal
liquor laws gained impetus today from
an announcement by Senator vanden-
berg, Michigan Republican, that he
favors immediate submission Of q pro-
hibition repeal amendment and nberali-
zation Of the Volstead law.
At the same time. Chairman Pou of
the House Rules Committee expressed
to newspaper men the hope that we
can get modification of the volstead
act behind us at the short session"
As head Of the powerful COMMITTEES
which has so much to say as to what
the House shall act on. the North Caro-
lima Democrat Is in a strategic position
In the House.
The two statements came after lead
ing vets in the House were seeking
to have the Ways and Means Com
mittee draft beer bill In time for
presentation when Congress convenes.
Chairman Collier agreed to refer to
committee members a suggestion from
Representative O'Connor of New York,
leader Of the Democratic wet bloc, that
the group meet before Congress con-
venes to draft beer measure.
"An UndeniabIe Mandate"
Vandenberg said he was in favor OF
Immediate resubmission of the eight
eenth amendment" because "a just re-
gard for the rights Of majorities and
the validity of law enforcement de-
mands it,"
The Michigan Senator voted last ses-
sion against the proposals for legalizing
and taxing beer, but ON the last day
Of the session, after the party conven-
tions, he voted with the Senate ma
jority to consider the resolution offered
by Senator Glass, Democrat. Of Vir-
ginia, to repeal the eighteenth amend
ment and substitute a ban against the
saloon.
The vote in Michigan repeating the
State prohibition act, Vandenberg said
demonstrates that two out of three
voters demand a change" He char
acterized the result as "an undeniable
mandate"
For two reasons" he continued, cit
should be validated at once. First
citizens who have spoken so convincing
ly are entitled as a right of popular
government to the earliest opportunity
to complete their conception Of ordered
temperance.
Would Avoid Chaos.
Second, pending this conclusive
action there Is an interlude Of chaos
which injectS new infirmity into all law
enforcement, precipitates new disputes
over Federal and State cooperation
skaters morale, and encourages lawless
and untaxed liquor latitudes."
Vandenberg said the repeal proposal
should preserve Federal cooperation in
protecting self-elected dry territory from
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-11-18
PRINCE CANTACUZENE
BADLY HURT IN FALL
Great-Grandson of U. S. Grant In
iured When Horse Fails
to Hurdle Fence.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 1S.-Prtnce
Michael Cantacuzene, great-grandson OF
former President U. S. Grant, was Sc
riously injured yesterday during hunt
near suburban Milburn, when his horse
failed to hurdle fence.
The prince, resident Of Chicago, was
taken to a hospital unconscious. Ply
sicians, while saying he was seriously
injured, declared he was not in grave
danger. X-rays were to be taken today
to determine the extent of his injuries.
Prince Michael, "a. is the son OF Julia
Dent Grant, the granddaughter of Pres
ident Grant and wife Of the Russian
prince, Michael Cantacuzene.
The accident happened during the
regular Thursday afternoon hunt at the
Onwentsia Country Club.
Prince Michael is the husband OF the
former Clarissa P. Curtis Of Boston
The prince, who learned to ride in
Russia, was considered one Of the best
horsemen at the club.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
ENDS
F. H. SMITH CASES
Asks Quashing of All Pending
IndiCtmentS-ZihIman
Main Beneficiary.

The F. H. Smith Co. Casa story
of one mans rise from obscurity to
great wealth and power by "high
finance" which subsequently sent him
to the penitentiary-came to an end
today when the Government asked the
District Supreme Court to quash all
indictments pending against the Vari-
Gus officials of the company.
The mortgage pyramids erected by
G. Bryan Pitts and his associates came
tumbling down shortly after the stock
market crash in 1929 at an estimated
cost of sSO,OO0,oOO to American in
vestors who had been lulled into false
sense of security by the Smith Co. s
boast-"57 years without a loss to a
single investor"
Pitts, whose speedy climb from a
minor clerkship in the company to alb
solute control was one Of the sensations
of conspiring to embezzle $5,000,0
from his company and sentenced to IA
years in prison. Later he was given an
additional year for contempt of court.
Two of his associates also are serving
prison terms.
Zihlman VIII Benefit.
The principal beneficiary Of today's
nolle presses, filed by Special Assistant
Attorney General Neil Burkinshaw, Is
Frederick N. Zihlman, who was serving
as chairman of the House District Com
mittee in 1929 when the grand jury
{v,I fnl hi a nj
in connection with the sale of Smith
, Co. securities.
Another cleared Of charges is Samuel
j. Henry, former president OF the
Smith Co.
C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Ed
wards, jr., former vice presidents Of
the company; Miss Helen Schneider, at
one time confidential secretary to Pitts
and Henry o. Hart, an accountant, are
among the others cleared. Anadale
and Edwards were convicted with Pitts
and are serving, respectively, nine and
three year sentences.
Perjury Charge Dropped.
The indictments against Pitts which
were quashed include one for perjury
growing out of the Hamilton Hotel
bankruptcy, the mail fraud charge, one
alleging IIlS eiIlDSAzlcLuSuG VI AlO1c tAoAi
81 600, 900 and another accusing him OF
conspiring to commit perjury.
The contempt-of-court charge which
resulted in the one-year sentence was
based on the alleged commission oi
perjury by Pitts in the conspiracy trial
He refused to testify before Justice F
Dickinson Let's on the ground that
to do SO might result in se1-incrim-
nation.
The trial Of Pitts and his two asso-
ciates on the conspiracy charge LASTED
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
HARRISON OPPOSES
DEBT REDUCTION
Senator Disapproves Sug.
gestion to Revive World
War Commission.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Opposition to cancellation or reduc-
tiop Of the foreign debts owed this
country and to the revival of the World
War Debt Commission was expressed
today by Senator Pat Harrison OF
Mississippi
Senator Harrison Is the ranking
Democratic member Of the Senate
Finance Committee, which deals with
the foreign debt matter. 1t is expected
he will be chairman of that COMMITTEES
when the new Congress meets after
March 4.
The Mississippi Senator is one OF
those asked to confer with the Presi-
dent on the debt question next Wednes-
day. He has accepted the invitation
Senator Harrison took the position
America should put on record the
debtor nations in Europe and there
would be no further curtailment of the
debts owed this country.
Conditions Changed.
"a different condition today is found
from that which existed in 1881 when
President Hoover called into conference
many of us and suggested the mora
torium Of the ntergovernmental debts, "
he said. ut will be recalled that at
that time constant drain had been
operating for several weeks on the bank
ing resources of Germany; that $685.
900, 900 day was being withdrawn from
the ReichSbank and that Austria was In
state Of financial collapse.
ut was so presented to us that If a
collapse, as seemed inevitable, happened
in these countries, it would affect great
ly the economic condition in other
countries Of Europe and would be in
furious to the United States.
we felt that something had to be
done to stop the run on those central
banks and to retard growing unrest ir
those countries. We commended the
move Of President Hoover for a mora
torium and championed it on the f1ool
of the Senate. We granted the one
year moratorium in the hope that II
would be a stabilidng factor in the
economic confusion that existed ano
might work as an encouraging factor ir
Europe and in this country.
THE same conditions do not prevail
now and some Of our foreign debtor:
have been able during the last 1.
months to put themselves on bettel
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
ROOSEVELT INVITES
ADVISER TO PARLEY
Prof. Raymond MoIey to
Come Here for Hoover
Conference Tuesday.
By the Associated Press.


ALBANY, N. Y, November 18.-His
plans complete for visiting President
Hoover at Washington next Tuesday,
Franklin d. Roosevelt has summoned
to the executive mansion Raymond
Moley, the Columbia University pro-
fessor, who win 80 TO the White House
conference on war debts and other mat
ters as Mr.. Rooseyelt's only adviser.
Prof. Moley arrived in Albany late
last night, several hours after he had
been named by the President ELECT as
his counselor for the meeting with the
President.
He went directly to the executive
mansion, where he planned to see Mr..
Roosevelt today.
Between now and o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, when the President-elect
will meet Mr. Hoover for an informal
conference on the whole situation" I"
close associates of the Governors be-
lieve he and Prof. Moley viii go over
thoroughly the matters they expect to
come up at the meeting.
Speaks to President.
Mr.. Roosevelt's choice Of Moley, Co
lumbia University's soft-spoken pro-
fessor Of public law, was announced
shortly after. the telephone call yester-
day, in which the President-elect in
formed President Hoover that he was
nearly ready to start South for his visit
to Washington and a two weeks vaca-
ton in Georgia.
Since Roosevelt was elected Governor
| in 1928 Prof. Moley has been one of his
| frequent advisers, and during the presi-
Dental campaign he was often at the
candidates side.
He helped Roosevelt prepare his ac-
| ceptance speech and other important
utterances In the campaign In which he
dealt with governmental problems, eco
nomic questions and other similar mat
ters on which the professor is consid-
cred an authority.
Frequently called upon by individuals
and governmental agencies for advice
and research, he was one of Alfred E
Smiths counsellors in his presidential
campaign Of 1928. He is vice presi-
dent Of the American Political Science
Association, O. writer and former OhtC
school teacher.
Today the plans of the President.
elect, who Is fully recovered from the
mild attack of influenza, which con-
fined him to the executive mansion
since last Friday, took him to the Statt
capitol for one Of the few remaining
occasions in which he expects to sit II
the executive chair.
Leaving tomorrow for Hyde Park, h,
will go on to New York Monday eve
ming, and the following morning vii
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column a.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
MCARL RULING FAVORS CLERKS
ON NADMINISTRATIV FURLOUGH
Legislative Deduction Held Applicable Only to Time
Worker Is on Duty Status

his salary for II months instead Of on
the amount he should have received on
a 12-month basis. Other deductions
are made accordingly.
The ruling was obtained by the Civil
Service Commission, whose funds were
cut so deeply under the economy pro-
gram that administrative furloughs are
entailed, ranging from minimum OF
eight days for workers in the $1,560
class. to 30 for those receiving $1,740
and more. The saving permitted viii
be appreciable IN some cases, amount
ing to 1857 for employees drawing
81, 400 annually.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
Nazi Chieftain to Meet Won
Hindenburg Tomorrow and
Give His Views.
.0THER PARTY LEADERS
ALREADY CONSULTED
Coalition Regime Believed to Be
Aim for Reich Government.
Schnee Believed Choice.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 18.-Adolf Hitler
came to Berlin today prepared to meet
President Won Hindenburg in a private
audience tomorrow and to lay before
him the program of the powerful Ma
tional Socialist party for dealing with
the stalemate in the Reichstag
The Hitlerite organ, the Voelkischer
Beobachter of Munich, remarked in con-
nection with the Nazi chieftain's trip to
Berlin that 1t was not asking too much
to expect the powers of the nation ito
harken to the masses" and entruSt
Hitler with the formation Of the new
cabinet.
Commenting on the resignation yes
terday Of Chancellor Franz Won Papen
the Nazi Organ said that "his chancel-
lorship has proved that the time OF
experiments and halfway measures is
over"
President Seeks Solution.
Herr Hitler, whose party is the most
powerful In a Reichstag in which no
party or group is able to swing a
majority, arrived in Berlin after Presi-
dent Won Hindenburg had personally
taken over the task of negotiating with
party leaders in an attempt to resolve
the Reichstag deadlock.
The President discussed the situation
separately with the leaders Of the Ma
81 -A-f.A @1Afr
party, but the result Of those confer
ences was not made public, each leader
being sworn to secrecy
The full weight of Germany'S domes-
tic crisis fell upon the aged President
Won Hin6enburg today es he set out
grinly to attain his cherished ideal of
national concentration government
tolerated, at least, by the deadlocked
Reichstag.
The President started alone on the
difficult road he has charted for him.
self as result of the resignation of the
junker cabinet Of Franz Won Papen
That government stepped aside yester-
day after two elections had failed to
give it working hold on the Reichstag
Only the Presidents secretary was
called to accompany the President at
conferences with various party leaders
each in private.
Confers With Leaders.
Selected for these talks today were
Alfred Hugenburg, the Nationalist party
leader; Eduard Dingledey, the German
Peoples (Populis) party chief, and DR.
Ludwig Kaas, acting for the Catholic
Centrist party.
Tomorrow the Chief Executive will
see Hitler and DR.. Schaeffer OF the
Bavarian Peoples party.
The Socialists were not invited be-
cause of their brusque refusal to meet
the resigning Chancellor Won Paper
Tuesday. Nothing was said, either, oi
the Communists.
An attempt on the life of Won Paper
on Tuesday was disclosed today wher
Mrs. Paula Budde was sentenced by &
special court to three months imprison'
ment for carrying dagger.
Arrested in ChancellOry.
She was arrested in the chancellory
on Tuesday, when she sought an inter
view with Won Papen. The chancel'
| lcr's secretary became suspicious a1C
telephoned the police, who said the!
found dagger foot long concealed
in her dress.
The woman's husband testified tina
she had told him she wanted to CIV
1Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1932-11-18
MISSOURI LION HUNTER
TAKES TO FIELDS AGAIN
st. Louis Manufacturer Carries
Two Cubs as He Leaves for
Secret Destination.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-, November l8.
Denver M Wright, st. Louis manu-
facturer, who headed the unsuccessful
home made" lion hunt in Mississippi
County several weeks ago, came here
last night, supposedly on quail hunt.
He left early today with two small lion
cubs, which he brought with him. His
destination was unannounced.
In his previous attempt to stage the
-hunt, Wright carted two nearly full
grown lions about South Missouri look
ing for a place to release them without
interference.
He finally let them out on an island
in the Mississippi River and went to
the mainland to eat lunch. When he
returned he found the lions had been
killed by a deputy sheriff Of Mississippi
County.
Wright said recently his unfortunate
venture had not dulled his eagerness
for a lion hunt and that he would try
again. The first pair OF lions have
been mounted and occupy q place ir
his game den.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
BY yIsCoUNT PHILIP SNoWDEN,

BY vISCOUNT PHILIP SNOWDEN,
Former Chancellor of the British Exchequer.
LONDON, November II (N.A.N.A0.-
The Hoover moratorium for the sus-
pension of payment of all reparations
and war debts for year expired last
June and resumption Of the debt pay
ments must be begun next month unless
an extension of the moratorium Is
granted by the United States.
Great Britain Is a debtor only to the
United States. France, Italy and some
of the smaller European countries are
debtors to both Great Britain and
America. All European debtor countries
have relied hitherto on the receipt
of German reparations to meet their
half yearly debt payments.
No reparations are forthcoming from
Germany, so European countries with
debt payments to make next month have
a choice among three courses-pay
their creditors out of their budgets,
default or appeal to the United States
for poStponement of payments due her
pending the revision Of debt agreements.
This, then, is the present position.
Failing some concession from America,
Britain must pay the half-yearly in
stallment due December Is: This
amounts to $4,000, 900, gold value.
To meet this there will be nothing
from Germany and nothing from Brit
aims continental debtors. 1t will be
Evening star., 1932-11-18
STALlN ACKN0WL
C0NDOLENCE MESSAGES
Soviet Leader Makes First Public
Comment on Death of
Wife.
b. the Associated Press.

BJ the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, November 1s.-Joseph
Stain, the leader of the Soviets, made
his first public comment on the death
Of his wife today in a letter to the
Communist party newspaper Pravda
The message said:
Il am earnestly grateful to all or
ganizations, establishments and individ-
uals who have expressed their con-
dolences with the death of my dear
Allilieuya-Stalina
(Signed) az. STAIN"
Mrs. Stain died last week in her
thirty-flrst year after aH illness, the
exact nature Of which was not an
nounced
Evening star., 1932-11-18

Government employees forced to take
administrative furlough in addition to
the legislative furlough involving loss
of months pay, will save some money
under a decision by Controller General
McCarl, made public today.
In this, McCarl held that the legis-
tative furlough deduction, amounting to
ga per cent, is applicable only to the
time on which worker Is on duty
status rather than to his basic salary.
For example, If an employe Is placed
ON administrative furlough for q month,
the Legislative deduction IS made ON
Evening star., 1932-11-18
Year May Have Been
Lost in Prediction
Of Leonid Display
BY the Associated Press.


BERKELEY, Calf, November 10.
Astronomers who pride them
selves on split-second predictions
Of eclipses and such may have
slipped up in the matter Of the
Leonid meteor shower, in the
opinion of DIR. w. F. Meyer.
Not just a small slip, either.
DR.. Meyer, an astronomer at the
University of California, thinks a
whole year may have been lost
somewhere.
The last time the Leonid
shower appeared was in 1899. On
schedule, as computed by mathe-
matical experts CT astronomy, the
next display of fireworks was due
in 80 years, or 1882.
But DR.. Meyer recalled that
last year really big shower came
and California scientists spent
hours counting many hundreds Of
streaks of fire. There is just a
possibility he says, the Leonids
may have gained year.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
Broker Convicted of Theft

Los ANGELES. November IS (R.-
NJ. M. Hartman, San Francisco broker,
was convicted yesterday on two counts
OF grand theft for stelling funds from
Helen Kearns, sister of the sports pro-
moier. Jack Kearns He will be SEN
teneed Monday. The prosecution charged
Hartman fraudulently obtained $500 In
cash from Miss Kearns and converted
at 90 his own use.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
NEW JERSEY DRY LAW
NULL AFTER DECEMBER 6
Attorney General Notifies State
and Municipal Police Agen-
cies of Repeal Change.

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., November 1S.-
New Jersey State and municipal police
agencies were advised yesterday by At
torney General william A. Stevens that
the Hobart State prohibition enforce
ment act would become imperative De-
cember 6.
Cooperation with Federal enforce
ment officers was optional the attorney
general ruled, responding to query by
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, super
intendent of State police.
The State enforcement act was re-
pealed at a popular referendum No
vember 8, but the act will remain In
force until the State Board of Canvas
sers certtfies the vote December 6.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
Kentucky Mine Cases Appealed.

FRANKFORT, KY. November lS Up.
Appeals from Harlan Circuit Court
;udements sentencing them to life i'm
nrisonment for murder in connection
with labor troubles In the Harlan Coun.
ty coal fields last year have been nieo
in the appellate court here py CEiestez
Poore and Rin Hudson.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
PLANES COLLIDE IN AIR
ONLY One of Four Men Aloft In
iured in Mishap.

SAN DIEGO, November 1s R.-one
Marine corps flyer was injured and
three escaped unscatched yesterday IN
a collision between two fighting planes
at an elevation of 1000 feet.
Piloted by First Lieut.. Albert d
Cooley and Second Lieut.. E. c. Dyer!
WITH Second Lieut.. j. S. Holmberg anc
Btaff Sergt Edwin o. Billings as gun
ners, the planes were engaged In Q
simulated aerial combat when the col
nslon occurred. The men jumped with
eheir parachutes and landed safely
Lieut.. Holmberg suffered q leg cut.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
NEW DELAWARE AID BILL
PROVIDES ST, 900, 600
Democrats Think Half Of Sum
Asked by Governor Sufficient
for Present.
BY the Associated Press.

By the ANSOcIALtu FfeBS,
DOVER, Del, November ia new
bill, cutting the proposed $1,000 900
fund for relief of Unemployment in
half, has been decided upon by the
Democratic majority In the Delaware
House Of Representatives, now In special
session, to provide aid for the idle.
Democratic spokesmen argue that
81 100000 would be SUFFICIENT for the
special session to provide, contending
the regular session In January can ap-
propriate additional funds If necessary.
Gov. C. Douglas Buck, Republican,
1t Is expected the revised measure will
name the commission to administer the
relief funds, instead of leaving its ap-
pointment to the Governor, as provided
In his measure.
Evening star., 1932-11-18
EXECUTES DEATH PLAN
Man Pays for Cremation, Then
Shoots Himself.

NEW YORK, November 10 [P.-Harry
w. Holly, Brooklyn manufacturer, ap-
peared at the United States Crematory
in Queens, arranged for his cremation
after death and paid the $35 fee. Then
he retired to a mems room and killed
himself with bullet through the head
The body was found yesterday, but no
motive was announced,
Evening star., 1932-11-18
PEACE PLAN RECEIVED
League Gets Argentina's Propo
sal for Non-Aggression.

GENEVA, November -8 R.-League
of Nations headquarters received with
great interest news of Argentina's pro-
posal for a pact of conciliation and nom
aggression which would embrace all the
nations of South America
On the basis Of reports received here
all the provisions Of the projected agree
ment appear to be entirely in harmony
with the purposes OF the League, 1t was
said
Evening star., 1932-11-18
Deportees Reach Portugal.

LISBON, Portugal, November Is tP1
The Brazilian steamer Siqueira
Campos arrived today with 78 deportees
aboard, all sent out Of Brazil after the
recent abortive revolution against the
regime OF Provisional President Getulio
Vargas