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Evening star., 1932-03-17
PASSES 18TH DAY
Of HUNGER STRIKE
DR.. WoIterS Has Eaten One
Peanut Since He Began
Fast February 28.

One peanut in 18 days is all the food
that has passed the lips of DR.. Fred F.
Woltcrs. ST years old, since he imposed
hunger strike upon himself February
2e to protest unemployment in general
and his own inability to find suitable
work" in particular,
DR.. Wolters, having essayed hunger
strikes on several previous occasions,
both here and abroad, submitted him
self to alienists for examination before
declaring this one lest it be said he is
insane.
Doctors Find Him Sane.
Himself graduate of the University
Of New Zealand and holder Of post
graduate degrees. DR.. Wolters was able
to convince the scientists of his sanity,
although they found him abnormal in
certain respects.
The hunger striker, interrupted while
taking his daily walk in today's chilly
drizzle, paused long enough to say that
he felt no hunger although he was
growing weaker daily. He was firm
in his determination, however, to
starve himself to death unless given
suitable" employment.
The single peanut DR.. Wolters picked
up while strolling through 5-and-10-
cent store, he said, but that was last
Saturday Dr. Wolters is former
employe of the Library of Congress
who resigned in 1926 to protest the
promotion of other employees over his
head, and since has failed in several
attempts to be reinstated.
Ekes Out Meager Living.
For the past five months he has been
living at tbs Salvation Armys Reliance
Hotel, ll9 Pennsylvania avenue, while
eking out meager living doing book
keeping and clerical work on an Odd-jOb
basis
With the small amount of money
earned in this way he has been able TO
exc out modest existence, but his life
savings are exhausted.
Since beginning his hunger strike,
DR.. Wolters has gradually lost weight,
with the result that his clothes are now
considerably too large for him.
DR.. WClters was born in Germany,
but is naturalized citizen of this
country.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
SALES TAX FOES
STORM GOVERNOR
Citizens March Into MiSsis-
sippi Capitol, Threatening
State Executives Program.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
JACKSON, Miss, March 17.-Plain
clothes men were placed on guard at
the Governors mansion as the result
Of a demonstration against the admins
tration's. sales tax proposal that cul-
minated in mass march of citizens
through the city and into the capitol
Efforts of the crowd to gain audience
with Gov. Martin Sennett Conner yes
terday were unsuccessful. One man
drew pistol and threatened those that
barred the door to the chief executives
Office, but was pulled back into the
crowd.
Rebuffed, the crowd milled about the
rotunda crying for The Governor to
appear and an hour later dispersed
after distributing anti-saleS tax pIacards
over the capitol grounds and the Senate
Chamber. The 3-cent retail sales tax
bill, approved by the House, is under
consideration by the Senate Finance
Committee.
After quiet was restored at the capi
tJl, Gov. Conner issued a statement in
which he said intimidation will not
solve Mississippi'S problems" He las
urged passage of the sales tax bill as
a necessity to balance the State budget.
The march on the State House fol-
lowed mass meeting of sales tax
opponents gathered here from over all
the State.
The meeting appointed a committee
to confer with the House Ways and
Means Committee and the Senate
Finance Committee in an effort to
nUnlua q c,ihcfif17ta for
the sales tax bill
Speakers at the meeting attacked
Gov. Conner legislators and the sales
tax proposal. A resolution which de-
scribed the tax proposal as dangerous
ana oppressive" and held that other
means could be found for raising the
necessary revenue was adopted.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
KING CAROL Is REPORTED
SEEKING RECONCILIATION
Rumanian General in Italy to Ar
range Money Allowance for
Former Queen Helen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FLORENCE, Italy, March l7.-King
Carol of Rumania was reported here
today to be trying to effect a reconcilia-
ton with his divorced former wife
Princess Helen, through a secret ennis
Sary, Gen. Candesco
The general left last night after
spending two days here. His mission
was understood to have been ostensibly
to arrange money allowance for the
former Queen, who recently arranged
to buy a 100000 villa but was obliged
to cancel the arrangement when the
Rumanian Parliament rejected an ap-
proposed by King Carol
From Paris Gen. Candesco recently
was reported as trying to effect a rec
onciliation between Carol and his
younger brother, Prince Nicholas.
Evening star., 1932-03-17

sence of Soviet troops from outer Mon
golia.
NJ Karakhan then asked the Ambas-
sador to explain further Japan'S mill
tary use of the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way and the disposition Of the japanese
troops on the Korean border. The Am
bassador replied he had nothing to add
to his previous answers to these ques-
tions, in which he denied any military
dispositions in violation of the Ports
mouth treaty between Japan and Rus
sia.
Willing to Cooperate.
dispatch to the newspaper Asahi
from Harbin said the Russian vice pres
ident Of the Chimes Eastern Railway,
M KuZnetsov. announced he had in
structionS from Moscow to express a
willingness to cooperate with the new
Manchurian government with respect 10
the operation Of the railway in con-
forrnity with the Mukden agreement of
1924 and the Kha baroysk protocol OF
1929
Under these treaties, regulations were
set up for the joint operation of the
road by Russia and the Chinese Ma
tional government at Marking. The
new Manchurian state plans to replace
the Marking government on the railroad
directorate
Although the foreign Office lacked
official confirmation of the press report.
officials said it probably was correct and
that no other course was open to Mos
COW.
AS an alternative. they said, Russia
might relinquish her interests in the
Chinese Eastern or attempt TO oust the
Changchu nominees by force, which
would be "unthinkable" in the present
situation
Evening star., 1932-03-17
MANY N0TABLES ATTEND
FUNERAL FOR EASTMAN
Gen. Pershing and Gen. Dawes Are
Among 60 Honorary PAIL
bearers Announced.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, March IL
Rochester was ready today TO say good
by to George Eastman, famous as an
inventor and manufacturer, and even
more famous as a philanthropist.
The public funeral service for East
man was to be held at an Epis-
copal church he occasionally attended.
Whether the body viii be cremated, in
accordance with Eastman's oft-expreSsed
wish or buried, had not been revealed.
Sixty honorary pallbearers. drawn
alike from the worlds great and from
old friends, were announced yesterday.
They include such famous men as Gen.
John J. Pershing. Lord Irddell and Gen.
Charles G. Dawes. Six old friends and
business associates were selected as pail
bearers.
Eastman shot himself Monday after
writing a note that his work was done.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
VOTE RECORD SET
IN NORTH DAKOTA
57,104 Democratic Ballots
Cast to Give Roosevelt
Easy Margin.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FARGO N. Oak, March 17.-Repub-
lican North Dakota made a record
breaking demand for Democratic bal
lots in Tuesdays primary election and
expressed preference for Gov. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt of New York as the
Democratic presidential choice.
How the voters by the thousands
surged into the Democratic primary to
vote in the contest between Gov.
Roosevelt and Gov. William H. Muir
ray of Oklahoma was told as returns
were compiled from more than half
the State early today.
Figures from 1856 of the States
2,235 precincts showed that 57,l04
Democratic ballots had been cast with
prospects that complete returns would
bring the total to around 10000.
G. o. p. Interest Flags.
The previous high vote of the DEM
ocrats in a presidential preference pri-
mary was in 1924. when 1918 were
registered. The high Democratic vote
his year was believed by some poll
tictans to be due in part to a general
lack of interest in the Republican con-
test, where only DR.. J. l. France of
Maryland and Jacob S. CoXey, Ohio,
President Hoover was not entered on
the preference ballot. DR.. France won
out over Coxey.
With the preference vote near COM
pletion, tabulation of returns on dele
gates to the national conventions was
begun today. The delegates are not
bound by the preference vote.
Both Gov. Roosevelt and Gov. Muir
ray are contesting for control of North
Dakota's 10 national Democratic dele
gates. Each has a slate of his own,
but since the delegates are listed on
the ballot alphabetically and not ac-
cording to their preference for Presi-
dent, split group is possible This
also complicates the tabulation OF the
returns.
Eleven Delegates for Hoover.
On the Republican side is a group
of IL national delegates favorable to
President Hoover and another in
structed if elected, to vote for a Pro
gresSive." Neither France nor Coxey had
any pledged delegates.
Returns from 1856 precincts gave.
for Democratic presidential preference,
Roosevelt. 37,270; Murray. 23.O35. For
Republican presidential preference,
l,468 precincts gave France, 24,914;
CoXey, 1879.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
ALLIGATOR IN COURT
TO PROVE DEBT CLAIM
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 1.-THE big
alligator, which waddled around the
foot ball field as mascot for the Florida
University team in the Thanksgiving
game here with the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles made an appear
ance In Small Claims Court Tuesday.
He was exhibited by his owner, Carl
Link, who testified w E. Jones, Florida
Alumni representative, rented the alli-
gator for the game, but failed to pay
the agreed price of SIS.
Link said he wished to prove the alli-
gator was q good mascot, even though
Florida lost the contest.
The, SIS was paid and the suit was
dismissed
Evening star., 1932-03-17
EMPLOYMENT INCREASES
Figures in Illinois Show Slight
Improvement.

CHICAGO. March II (P).-Employ-
ment in 1873 Illinois industrial estab-
llshments increased two-tenths of l
per cent during the month ending Feb
ruary Is, the State department of la
Dor said today.
Pay rolls decreased % per cent, how
ever, among the 296.746 wage earners,
due to wage cuts and curtailment of
operating schedules
The fur and leather goods industry
employed 63 per cent more workers
and increased its pay roll 124 per cent,
Offering the brightest picture in the
State. Wood products, textiles and
clothing and millinery industries also
reported expansion in operations.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
LAD" BELIEVED KIDNAPERS'.
"Jafsie" Message PrObed as Bearing on
Mystery.

NEW YORK, March IT GP).-Another
advertisement of the "Jafsie" series,
which some newspapers have speculated
might have some connection with the
Lindbergh baby kidnapping and arrange
ments for the childS return fer ran
som, appeared in a morning paper
today.
Il accept" the advertisement, in
Guided in the classification of Public
Notices" read: Money is ready You
know they won't let me deliver without
getting the package. Let's make it
some sort OF C. o. D. transaction.
Come. You know you can trust Jafsie. :"
Evening star., 1932-03-17
HONDURANS PROTEST

TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras, March
IT (P).-The foreign Office has sent a
new protest to Guatemala, alleging that
article XVI of the Washington abitra-
ton treaty of 1880 has been violated.
Honduras complaint is that Guate-
malan authorities and citizens are again
performing official acts on Honduran
Territory of Manguito and Chacha-
hualia.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
Nursing Glass Meets.

HERNDON, Va, March IT (SpeciaD.
Nine members of the Red Cross home
nursing class met at the home of Mrs.
r. s. Crippen Tuesday. The class,
which Is an outgrowth of the Red Cross
nursing class conducted here last Sum-
mer by Mrs. Fannie Lou Seamans, coun-
ty nurse, has been supplying articles OF
clothing to the nurse for use in Fairfax
County. tf------
Evening star., 1932-03-17
NO PROGRESS AT SHANGHAI.
Armistice Negotiations at Standstill,
DIR. Yen Tells League.

GENEVA, Switzerland, March II Cp).
DIR. W. w. Yen, representing China
on the League of Nations Council, told
the Assembly's Committee on the Far
East today that there had been no fur
ther progress in negotiations for an
armistice at Shanghai.
Naotake Sato, however reported, as
the Japanese spokesman, that the ne
gotiations were proceeding hopefully.
DR.. Yen disclosed that tentative
agreement had been reached at Shang-
hal yesterday providing that the Chi
nese troops would remain where they
are and that the japanese would with
draw to the position they occupied at
the end OF January
One of the japanese conditions, said
DR.. Yen, is unacceptable 1t is that the
Chinese government undertake to end
the boycott against japanese goods
This amounts to a political condition
he contended, and, therefore, is con-
trary to the purpose of the League As
sembly
Moreover, he said. China cannot ac-
cept the demand that a commission
composed Of Chinese, japanese and
neutrals supervise the establishment Of
an evacuated zone between the two
armies He described the situation at
Shanghai as still uncertain and dan
gerous."
2o0 CHINESE "ANNJuIT ATEny
Evening star., 1932-03-17
University to Start Building.

RICHMOND, Va. March II (Spe-
ciaD Work is to start Immediately on
Maryland Hall. the new biology build
ing of the University of Richmond, DR..
F. w. Boatwright, president of the uni
versity, has announced. The building
is to cost $l25 900, and will contain "a
rooms and large lecture hall. 1t is
expected to be completed and ready
for occupancy by the first of next year.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
HARVARD STUDENTS.
MISSING 7 WEEKS.
Police of Many Cities Fail to
Find Clue to Two
Wealthy Youths.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, March 17.-Nearly seven
weeks ago Floyd j. Stewart and Ma
thaniel E. Jones, students in good stand
ing at the Harvard School of Business
Administration, disappeared from their
regular lodgings in Cambridge.
Since 4:50 am, January 81, not a
real clue has been discovered to account
for their disappearance or indicate
where they went. An intense police
search has failed to give even hint of
their fate
Hope of finding them now hinges on
the discovery of Jones light convertible
coupe, but that ranished with the young
men.
The two young men are members of
families of wealth and position. Stew
arts father is James Josiah Stewart of
Garden City, Kans.. high official Of a
utilities holding company and promi-
nent in banking circles. Jones father
is Nathaniel R. Jones. president of a
widely known firm of Boston silk mer-
chants.
Considered Level-Headed.
Stewart and Jones were both % years
old. considered reliable, level-headed
and conservative by those who know
them.
Midyear examinations had just been
concluded. The young men had passed
them and were excused from the usual
study requirements during the succeed
ing week. They had been out with
friends on the night before their dis
appearance, but apparently had gone to
their separate rooms in the dormitories.
Shortly before am. Jones was re-
ported to have called Stewart from
bed. Stewart was said to have slipped
outer clothing over his paiamas and left
with his friend. That was the last
seen Of them. 1t was believed the pair
had less than $40 between them.
Only One Clue Found.
The aid of police throughout the
country and in Havana and Montreal
was enlisted Everything that ap-
without result. One report from Mon
treal appeared to be possible explana-
ton of some OF the mems movements.
A waiter in Montreal cafe said he
served two young men answering
Jones and Stewards descriptions a few
days after they disappeared. He said
they told him they were Harvard stu
dents, resting after passing examina-
tions, and that they were returning to
the United States. They had a small
coupe with United States plates. A
paWnbroker said a main resembling
Jones had paWned a raccoon coat in
Montreal at about the same time The
waiter later identified photograph of
Jones as one of the men he had seen
But nothing ever came of this clue.
A haf-hundred Boston society girls
who knew the men were questioned
An actress, 200 college mates and 9TH
ers who knew them, were helpless to
aid.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
BANK HEADS CUT PAY
Announce Voluntary Reduction of
Own Salaries.

SAN FRANCISCO, March II LP).-
Bank of America National Trust and
Savings Association, with numerous
banks in California, announced Tues
day its CHIEF administrative officers
have voluntarily accepted 20 per cent
salary reduction.
Coincident with the announcement,
which followed action by the board of
directors in curtailing their own fees
and various advisory boards in abolish
ing theirs, it was stated there would be
a general reduction throughout the
bank and affiliated subsidiary corpora
tions Of Transamerica Corporation,
ranging down to per cent. Employees
receiving less than $l0o a month will
be exempt.
Evening star., 1932-03-17

Continued From First Page)
due to the condition of the copper in
dustry in the Western States
At its meeting today the Ways and
Means Committee also discussed ex-
tending the exemption from taxation
of leased newspaper wires to leased
radio wires. but no decision was
reached.
Whisky Tax Considered.
1t also took up an amendment pro-
posed by Representative Dickinson,
Democrat. of Missouri to put an addi-
tional tax of IS a gallon on medicinal
whisky. This likewise was passed over
for another meeting.
Acting Chairman Crisp also said he
intended to introduce a bill to allow
corporations to deduct charitable con-
tributions from their income tax re-
turns Such action was recommended
by former Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon last December.
The present law permits individuals
to deduct contributions to charity. but
Goes not extend this right to corpora
tionS.
Belief that a manufactures sales tax
soon would be absorbed largely by in
dustry because of competitive condi-
tions was eXpre' sed today by Crisp.
Most of the protests / am receiving
against the 225 per cent manufactur-
ers' tax is from the manufacturers
themselves, who claim that they will
be compelled to absorb the taxes" the
Georgia Democrat told newspaper men.
Il believe that virtually all of the
sales taxes will be absorbed, and 1 hope
they WILL" the sponsor of the new
l,096, 900, 900 revenue bill added. Sci
dom will it be reflected in the price
to the consumer
Cooper Sees Jobs.
Meanwhile Representative Cooper.
Republican, Ohio, in a statement said
the l cent gallon on imported foreign
oil carried in the bill Woulo return
more than 100000 railroad employees
to work if it were approved.
No foreign trade will do this" he
said. The only cure for decreased
freight shipments that will have posi-
tive and permanent value is the in
creased consumption of American goods
in American markets.
Proper protection of the American
petroleum industry would revive en-
ployment in the great oil States west
OF the Mississippi and would enable the
22,0000 900 residents again to become
heavy customers for the Nations manu-
factured goods, stimulating a flow of
traffic which would save the railroads
of the Nation"
Evening star., 1932-03-17
Past Due Accounts of
Grocer, 81, Would
Stock Entire Town
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHENANDOAH, Iowa, March
l7.-John Mentzer, 81, proprietor
of a grocery store since 1861, was
i'll here today and his assets were
assigned voluntarily to creditors.
A check of his books showed
that accounts in arrears, if paid,
would provide sufficient money to
stock and equip every grocery
store. in the city.
The 1880 census gave Shenan-
doah a population of 6.5l9.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
Card Party at Braddock.

GROVETON, Va, March IT (Spe-
ciaD The Groveton Community Club
is giving a card party for charity to-l
morrow night at the home of Mrs. Ray1
mond Crupper in Braddock.
Evening star., 1932-03-17

president Of the New Jersey Association
of Police Chiefs.
Belief that the undercover agents of
Col. Lindbergh had made little head
way in their attempt to get the child
back was expressed by the same high
official. who said he believed the infant
was alive
The New York Daily News said the
colonel had hired a private detective
agency to augment the searching forces
and had given it full power to act for
Evening star., 1932-03-17
200 CHINESE "ANNIHILATED."
Attack on Japanese Garrison at Ninguta
Is Reported.

HARDIN, Manchuria, March II up.
Two hundred Chinese insurgents
who attacked the Japanese garrison at
Ninguta have been "annihilated," the
Japanese commander reported today.
PLY DECLINE rnrrrn1n-C
Evening star., 1932-03-17
Chinese Force Occupies City of $4,000
Southwest of Harbin.
INSURGENTS TAKE FU-YU.

CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, March II
R).-A powerful Chinese insurgent force
under a Manchurian leader named
Tsinghai and equipped with artillery at
tackled and captured Fu-Yu, city Of
10000 people, 100 miles southwest of
Harbin, last night, it was reported here
today.
Although nominally within Kirin
Province, Fu-Yu which is also called
Petuna or Sincheng, is a commercial
outlet for inner Mongolia. Prince Chai,
inner Mongolia's representative in the
new Manchurian regime here, main
tains a citadel near Fu-Yu.
Because of an earlier revolt in his
domains on February IA, Prince Chai
was reported to have sought to return
home to Fu-Yu but the revolters
blocked him, after which he returned
to Changchun.
Evening star., 1932-03-17
GOV. WHITE Of OHIO
FOR DRY LAW VOTE
Most G. 0. P. Delegates to
Convention Will Be Wet,
Leader DiSCIoSeS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, March 1.-Two sur
prising anti-prohibition developments
in Ohio, with possibly fsr-reaching
reverberations, entered the forefront of
national politics today.
In Cleveland, Maurice Maschke, ma
tional Republican committeeman, dis
closed that for the first time since
prohibition, majority Of Ohio's delega-
ton to the Republican National Con-
vention will be known to be wet
At Columbus, the Democratic Gov
ernor, George White, who was listed by
the Anti-Saloon League as a friend of
prohibition when elected two years ago,
was on record today as favoring a
referendum on the eighteenth amend
ment.
Gov. White, the States "favorite SON.
for the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton, made his referendum declaration,
for the first time, at a regional con-
ference of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union at Columbus last
night.
Asserting his belief that prohibition
supporters had erred in opposing a
popular vote, the Governor startled the
dry assemblage with the statement that
he favored reSubmission if for no other
reason than to refute claims that the
liquor laws were forced through during
the World War, when thousands of
citizens were overseas.
Semi-suppreSsed mays" greeted the
remarks of the gray-haired chief eXecu-
tive who started his career as a gold
digger in the Klondyke, but he con-
tinued; 1T is the right Of my record
at least to make these suggestions for
your careful consideration.
Declaring that the w c. T. u. and
the Anti-Saloon League were making
a mistake" in their battle against a
referendum, the Governor told the
women that prohibition had failed TO
meet the expectations of its supporters
and that the wisdom of continuing it
should be submitted to the people for
ton would remain dry unless a sub
stantial substitute for prohibition is
offered.
Dilemma Is Likely.
The status of Ohio'S delegates 70 the
Republican National Convention. as re-
vealed by Maschke, was interpreted by
several leaders Cf that party as pro-
viding additional imeptus for a serious
fight for a referendum plank il the
party's next platform.
1t also was seen as a possibly en-
barrassing situation for tho Ohio dele
CATION, which under ordinary circum-
stances would be expected to name
Senator Simeon D. Fess as the States
one member of the Convention Reso-
lutions Committee.
Fess, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, is an outstanding
dry, however, and if prohibition is
made a big issue at the convention
several Ohio leaders of the party said
the Buckeye delegation probably would
pass him up for some one with more
liberal views