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Evening star., 1932-02-18
WRITER ON FOREIGN
AFFAIRS WILL SAIL
DR.. G. L. Swiggett to Leave Tomor-
row on Trip to South
America.

DR.. Glen Levin Swiggett. lecturer and
writer on international relations. will
sail tomorrow night for South America
in connection with the work of the
Inter-American Federation of Educa-
ton. DR.. SWiggett is chairman of the
Committee on Organization of the fed
Grafton. The organization was to have
held its second preliminary meeting in
Mexico during the coming Summer, but
because of general economic conditions
Mexico found itself unable to be host
this year. Steps have been taken to
hold the projected conference in some
other Latin American country about
mid-December of 1882.
Headquarters of the federation is in
Washington and there are national CO.
livia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba,
the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras, Mexico,
Panama, the United States, Uruguay
and Venezuela.
DR.. Swiggett holds that to recover
from the economic depression We must
recover poise in our daily living and
re-establish moral foundations for hu-
man conduct"
Artificial trade stimuli help but lit
tle," DR.. Swiggett declared before leav-
ing. I'VE must work courageously for a
scientifically adjusted worldwide pro-
gram of liquidation to pre-war levels
or nearly so, of wages. profits, values
and prices" he continued. for only in
these levels shall we find the base from
which business can again develop in an
orderly and dependable fashion.
National and regional groups should
be encouraged to develop without politi-
cal pressure on their natural business
Real cooperation among these groups
will then become possible. International
conferences can then serve for mutual
advantage and international trade
channels and controls set up by these
conferences will function automati-
cally."
Evening star., 1932-02-18
PA|NLEVE FORMING
. FRENCH MINISTRY
Choice Means Continuation of
"No Disarmament Without
Security" Policy.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. February 18.-Former Pre-
m1er Paul PamItTe, son of a baker,
noted mathematician and one of
Frances most popular statesmen, today
accepted an invitation from President
Paul Doumer to form a cabinet to sue
ceed that of Premier Pierre Laval,
which resigned Tuesday.
One of M. Painleve'S slogans is mo
disarmament without security against
invasion" SO it was expected today that
if he succeeded in the difficult mandate
of forming a ministry there would be
no change in the French disarmament
program at Geneva
He Immediately began conversations
with parliamentarianS and planned to
give his definite reply to President
Doumer tonight.
Turns to Tardieu.
NJ Painleve indicated he would like
to see Andre Tardieu, war minister in
Premier LavaTs cabinet, become foreign
minister in the new ministry so he
could continue his activities at the
Disarmament Conference with au-
thority.
1t was understood that NJ Tardieu
was insisting his old pupil, M. Laval,
also be included in the new cabinet.
Painleve at 6s is an "old war horse"
OF French politics, but gained world
fame as an absent minded mathema-
tician long before he first became
member of the Chamber of Deputies in
1906
His first world renoWn in the political
field came during the World War, when,
as premier and minister of war in 1917,
he decided on policy of waiting for
the Americans"
There arose in France cry OF de
featism" and Painleve was otherthrown,
to be succeeded by Clemenceau, but he
had already helped form the Supreme
Allied Council.
He did not return to power until
1924, when, as leader of the Socialists,
he helped form the famous Left bloc
composed of Radicals, Republican So
cialists and his own Socialist group.
Beaten for Presidency.
He was beaten for the presidency in
1924 at the age of 81 and became pre-
mier for tie second time in 1925. He
fell on the same stumbling block as
his predecessor, Edouard Herriot-the
His elasticity and suppleness as a
politician often has enabled Painleve
to amalgamate his position and JOIN
various welded cabinets, including the
famous Poincare save the franc" min
istry of 1927
Like other French leaders, his foreign
policy leanings recently have stressed
French security and greater power Tor
the League of Nations.
Painleye's most important works IN
the mathematical field probably We're
his treatises calculus His greatest
difficulty has been his absent minded
ness. He frequently forgets where ne Is
to dine or speak, and has got himself
into amusing situations as result.
Proud of Origin
Once he was to give dinner as
president of the Chamber Of Deputies,
and instead went to a friends house
and sat down to an enjoyable dinner in
all serenity. Frantic efforts to find
the president" were Of no avail, and
his guests had to eat without him.
Painleve is proud Of his humble ORR
gin. He was a mathematical prodigy at
s, and a world famous scientist at 40.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
ALEXANDRIA WAREHOUSE
BURNS WITH $1,000 LOSS
Fire, Believed of Incendiary ORR
gin, Damages Storage Build
ing of Grain Concern.
special Dispatcb to The sta,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 18.-
Fire believed of incendiary origin,
caused damage estimated at $4,000 to
the storage building of the r. H. Wat
tie Feed and Grain Co.. on 200 block
Stand street early this morning The
two-story brick building was gutted by
the blaze, which destroyed Is tons of
hay and straw stored in the warehouse.
Oil-soaked waste was found in the
building by fremen. Three companies
of the Alexandria Fire Department
were kept busy for over an hour before
getting the fire under control. Fire
man Lester McMenamin of Engine Co.
No. received burns about his wrist in
fighting the blaze and was taken to,
the Alexandria Hospital for treatment.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Continued From First Page)
specific recommendations, except for
additional officers and to give him more
power"
Reference Made to Message.
Meanwhile, the Presidents special
message was referred to before the
House Expenditures Committee, holding
hearings on legislation to consolidate
the War and Navy Departments.
Chairman Cochran asserted: "The
President of the United States asks us
to do something His official family is
opposed to this bill
In response to question, Represent
ative Williamson, Republican, of South
Dakota said President Hoover had not
brought about some of the changes he
advocated because he had been unable
to get cooperation from one member
of his cabinet" He did not name the
cabinet member.
Letter From Macarthur Read.
A letter from Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. Army chief of staff, opposing
the consolidation, was read at the hear
ing.
No other measure proposed in recent
years." he said, seems to me to be
fraught with such potential possibili-
ties for disaster for the United States
as this one He said under certain
conditions it might involve the very
life of the Nation
Representative Schafer, Republican
of Wisconsin charged at the hearing
the House Democrats were trying to
railroad the bill through Congress.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
LAUNCHING is PLANNED

PITTSBURGH, February 1s R.-
The first Of the two superdredges to
be launched from Neville Island Ship
yards will hit the water Friday, Feb
ruary 26.
It is the channel suction dredge
United States Potter, an all-steel twin
screw self-propelling craft Of the dust
pan suction head type, constructed at
q cost of $450,000. The sponsor will
be Mrs. Lytle Brown, wife Of Maj. Gen.
Brown, chief of Engineers Of the Army.
A large staff of Army officers from
Washington, st. Louis, Cleveland, Men,
phis, Louisville. Huntington, Cincin-
natl and Vicksburg are expected to at
tend the ceremonies. =.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
ASKS MAGMA CHARTA."
German Spokesman Presents Proposals
at Geneya.

German Spokesman Presents Proposals
at Geneva.
GENEVA, February 10 (R).-A set of
drastic proposals, calling for dis
armament by other nations on the same
scale as Germany has had to disarm
under the Versailles treaty, was pro-
posed to the World Disarmament Con-
ference today by Count Rudolf Nadolny,
German spokesman.
Germany Is already disarmed," Am
bassador, Nadolny said, and German
disarmament must be considered in
dicative of the direction the dis
armament Of all other members of the
League must follow.
"The proposals made by the German
government are based on the principle
that in the future there can only be
one system of disarmament, equally
applicable to all countries"
1T would have been very simple FOR
Germany to have proposed the appli-
cation Of the provisions Of the YER
sailles treaty regarding Germany to
general disarmament" he said, but
she prefers a practical contribution.
which should have more chance Of
success"
Many of the German proposals, he
said already have been advocated by
other countries and he added that Ger
many would welcome prohibition OF
the transformation Of merchantmen
into armed cruisers Article VIII of
the League covenant" he said. must
regulate Germany's rights concerning
ornaments. There is no stipulation in
the treaty Of Versailles opposed to this
reasoning"
Referring to the French proposals,
ne said these did not solve the ques-
ton of disarmament. The need for
security," he said, should not prevent
disarmament. Those possessing small.
guns cannot shoot with big ones and
those possessing not even . revolver
cannot shoot at all"
He concluded by saying he hoped the
conference would produce the magma
charta" of ornaments and security.
Nothing New" Say French.
The French reaction to the German
proposals was that they are nothing
new and nothing not already advanced
by Germany during preliminary dis
armament talks" A spokesman said
the program was an attempt to shift
the discussion from the draft conven-
ton to the debatable ground Of equality
of armaments
Joseph Paul Boncour was present for
the French delegation as Germany an
nounced her proposals.
Germany's former ally. Bulgaria, was
| the next nation to present its disarma- :
ment plan and Unexpectedly proposed
a combination of both the German and
French principles. The BulgartanS IA
vored removal of one-Sided diSarna-
ment, but at the same time security
pact and the creation OF an interna-
tional army.
Hoover Policy Praised.
The Haitian delegate, Constantin
| Mayard, astonished the conference with
the longest speech yet made. 1000
words. He said Haiti had been disil-
lustioned on the point Of neutral as
sistance from the League Of Nations
because Haiti had since found herself
at the mercy Of q foreign force.
The situation was better, he said
since the Hoover goodwill policy" had
been instituted.
The Haitian, however, said he would
| support the French proposals COM
letely because "a large part Of the
blood that flows In our veins Is French.
Sir Granville Ryrie Of Australia
promised to support his government IN
any constructive proposal
Evening star., 1932-02-18
MAD TRAPPER SHOT TO DEATH
AS GUN DROPS THIRD OFFICER
Giant of Northland, Strength Expended,
Falls Fighting in Relentless Eight Weeks
Chase by Land and Air.

of his madness. Who he was and what
prompted his eccentricities none in the
Northwest territory know. He was under
49, powerfully built A man VINO knew
him in Saskatoon said:
He was a smart fellow. He was able
to do 40 miles day through the snow
with little more exertion than one might
experience from a Sunday walk. He
was a crack shot with rife or revolver
He went into the wilderness IL years
ago. He never came back"
Evening star., 1932-02-18

lect from the grocer's clerk. The two
detectives heard the men come to the
door of Slusher's room and demand
money. The youth invited them to step
inside, but apparently sensing q trap,
the pair ran into the hall.
Hidden in the corridor. Nally stepped
forward, gun in hand, to seize the two,
while Ogle slipped outside to prevent
their escape. Lewis lunged at Nally
kicking him on the thigh and knee.
The gun was knocked from his hand.
Mahoney slipped by the unarmed
detective and was seized outside by
Ogle, Nally, meanwhile. graphing with
Lewis. Finally both were subdued and
taken to the station house.
Further investigation. Of the mems
records was being made today.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
WOMAN FOUND IN COMA

NEW YORK, February 1s @.-A
woman, who registered as Mrs. Charles
Faber Of San Jose, Calf, was found IN
q coma in her room In the Hotel White
today.
She was taken to Bellevue Hospital
In q serious condition, suffering, ap-
parently, from poisoning. Police said
two empty bottles which had held
poison were found near her. Police ~
timated hsr aSs ct db6ut 81. -
Evening star., 1932-02-18
ROAD FUND APPROVED
Senate Committee Stands Pat on
HOuse Figure.

Senate Committee Stands Pat on
House Figure.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today stood pat on the $780,
000,00O road construction fund voted
by the House, refusing to add to the
Agriculture Department supply bill
$l35, 600, 900 more for highway con-
struction intended to relieve unem-
ployment.
Such an addition was proposed as an
amendment by Senator Hayden, Dem
ocrat, Of Arizona. and was approved
yesterday by the Roads Committee.
The supply measure carried $l75.-
100000 as 1t passed the House and was
boosted by some $4,000, 900 by the SEN
ate Committee. Included in the addi-
tions were $l,450. 900 for combating the
grasshopper pest and 81 ,000, 900 for Fed.
eral participation in the Chicago cen
tury Of progress celebration.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
BINGHAM VISITS GRANT
Retired General Former Director of
Public Buildings and Grounds.

Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant Sd, director
of public buildings and public parks,
had an opportunity to scan improve
ments that have taken place in the
last three decades here, when his pred
ecessor called upon his yesterday.
Brig. Gen. Theodore A. Bingham, now
retired from the Army and living at
1880 Connecticut avenue, was officer
in charge of public buildings and
grounds during President McKinley's
administration and took an active part
IN developing the city at the beginning
Of the century.
Gen. Bingham was instrumental in
getting an appropriation for developing
the Mall He secured the services of
prominent landscape architect in New
York City and his activity laid the
groundwork for the Macmillan Com
mission Of 1901, which was congress
sionA body.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Former Senator from Kansas, has been
appointed assistant to Charles G. Dawes,
president Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, and will assume his duties
tomorrow morning. Allen, who confer
red with Dawes today, said he did not
know what his new duties would be. For
several months he has been working at
the State Department in connection
With the St.tfIwrence waterway.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
1885 CUBANS ENLISTED
League of Nations Statesment
Shows S67 Officers.

GENEVA. February 18 (P.@Cuba's S
army now numbers 1885 men and 867
officers, according to a report submitted
to the League of Nations and the Dis
armament Conference and published to-
day. The navy has 1.159 men and the
air force 209. The tonnage of the navy
was given as $3.50 and the annual ex-
penditure S11 400 900.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
HOOVER is DESCRIBED
AS EXTRAVAGANT BY
HOUSE GROUP HEAD

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
Science Charts Tcelpe More Total Ecpes for United States
Next One After This Years Will Cross
 Alaska in l043

2017-Crosses entire United States from about Cape Blanco, Ore. near Denver, Nashville and Wilmington, N. c. 2024-Comes in from Mexico en- tering U. s. southwest of San Antonia, passes north to Jackson, Miss, and to sea at Atlantic City. 2044-Begins near Bismarck, N. D., pc sses into Canada. 2045-Enters U. s. between Los Angeles and San Francisco, pe sses south of Grand Can yen, New Orleans, and across Gulf of Mexico at Fort My e~s, Fla.
 2052-Crosses Florida near Tampa travelling almost due east. 2073-Passes close south of Brown vile, Tex, to New Orleans end out to sea at Charleston, s. c.
 The paths of the eclipses are approximate, as they have not been computed down to the last 100 miles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
MURPHY TO GET TOUGH BATTLER
 IN NEXT FIGHT
Dick Gordon, Bellingham Boxer, Meets Local
 Champion Labor Day

Miles Murphy, claimant of the Alaska middleweight crown, will stake his title on Labor Day in the main event of the American Legions usual card in a match against Dick Gordon, Bellingham, Wash, battler who has fought his way to The forefront of the l6O- pouni division in the Pacific north west.
 Gordon, who was offered the match several days ago, yester- day wired his acceptance of the terms, it was announced today by Red" Campbell, who is now matchmaking for the Legion naires. Murphy has already start ed his training for the bout, Camp bell said.
 Richmond Gets Return
 Young Richmond, who was kay oed by Granney Hulse in the Fourth of July smoker, has been given a return bout with the lat ter ol the Labor Day bill. Rich moni lad a slight edge over Hulse up to the lethal punch. This bout, which will be the semi windup, and the main go will be six rounders.
 Another member of the Murphy family, Eddie, a younger brother of Miles, is to make his debut on the same card. He is matched againsss Pierre Cooper in the spec ial event. Cooper lost to Jim Thomas on the Fourth of July after staging game exhibition. This will be six rounds of two minutes each.
 Nelson Meets Popovich
 Sammy Nelson, who hasn't fought in several months, comes back to the ring on the card. He is matched to fight George Popo- vich, who is rates as a good fight CT and has done considerable bat ting ill and around Seattle.
 Dick Harris and Leonard Stokes, both well known local youngsters, have been signed in the curtain raiser. It and the Nelson-P -Popo- vich go will be four rounds.
 Tickets will go on sale some time next week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
Nation May See l3 Be- tween August 3l and
 Year 2O73
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE

NEW YORK, Aug 17.-The to- tai eclipse of the sun in New England August 31 is only one of about 5000 which astronomers have located from 1908 B. c. to the year 2162 A. D.
 They foretell eclipses or dig up past ones by the same tables of mathematics which include such things as the Saros, nodes, perigees; or months of odd lengths with the queer names, sidereal, synodic, nodical, draconic and anomalistic.
 A dining table and a plate il- illustrates the problem. The table is the plane in which the earth revolves around the earth. A plate at the edge is the moons orbit arouna the sun.
 If the plate lay flat on the ta- ble, as a correct hostess would set it, there would be a total eclipse of the sun once a month, every time the moon swung between the edge 0, the table Cthe earth's sur face position( and the center of the table, the suns position)
 But this plate is tipped at an angle-of about five degrees. One side is higher than the table, the other lower, as if the plate were just tilting to fall off. So the rim Of the plate (the moons orbit) cuts the table only at two points which astronomers call the "nodsS."
 A total eclipse can happen only when & point of intersection with the table happens to be in direct line between earth" and "sun." But there's worse to come. The plate is slowly revolving like coin which has been spun.
 It takes IS years for the moon orbit ,or the plate) to make one of these revolutions. That time is the "Saros." It results in the points of intersection advancing so that they complete a revolu- ton in Is years.
 T!iese are part of the motions astronomers reckon with in pre- dictipg echpses. After August 3l the first in the United States will be in 1943-in Alaska. Up to the year 1876 there will be 12 total
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
KARNES LEAVES TO TAKE DRIVE
 INTO INTERIOR
Democratic Candidate for Commissioner of Edu-
 cation Goes West

To carry his drive for votes into the interior, A. F. Karnes, Demo- cratic candidate for Commissioner of Education and Superintendent of City Schools left here last night on the steamer Yukon for Sew ard He spent several days here and visited Haines and Skagway since coming from Ketchikan a week ago.
 MT Karnes was cordially receiv- ed here and was pleased with the reception. He held number of conference with local Democrats on the campaign with highly grat- flying results.
 MT. Karnes will cover Seward, Anchorage, and other rail points. A veteran of the World War and member of the American Legion, he will attend the annual conven- tion Of that organization in Fair banks next week He plans to go over Steese Highway to Circle, visiting mining camps enroute, and to return to the coast by Rich ardsoa Highway, covering all of the communities on that route to Valdez. He will return from there to Ketchikan and complete his campaign by mall. He is confident he will be elected with the rest of the Democratic ticket.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
Stock Broker to
 Travel with Circus

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. IT, Harrassed for a year by a falling stock market and wearied by worry over passed dividends, Harper Joy, vice president of an investment bank here, was acting bit queer today. But it was part of his work. For ms vacation he donned strange garb and joined a circus as a clown, intending to travel for two weeks before getting back to the stocks and bonds. He does it every year, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
ITALY IS TO CUT DOW N ON
 NAVY VESSELS
Not Only Will Ships Be Stripped of Crews, but
 Scrapping Follows

ROME, Aug. 17.-Approximately l35,000 tons of Italys fighting ships will be retired beginning August 25.
 This is the result of an economy move and sweeping reorganization of the fleet.
 Two battleships. three cruisers, nine light cruisers, twenty-five de- stroyers and a dozen submarines, all within the age limit of ships, will not only be stripped of crews but will be scrapped. This will serve as bartering point when the World Disarmament Confer ence resumes this fall at Geneva.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17

left last night on the steamer Yu- kon tor Valdez. He was accom- panied by his son Keith.
 MT Petrich will join other Leg ionnaires enroute and the entire party will proceed to the interior metropolis over Richardson High way.
 Several members of the Legion Auxiliary unit have left here with in the past ten days enroute to the convention. They travelled via Skagway, Whitehorse and the Yu- kon river route.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17

eclip5cs in the United States, and a thirteenth one that may touch it.
 These eclipses and their paths, according to the German authority Oppoizer, follow: 1943-Enters Alaska at Kayak Is-
 land and Boring Glacier. 1945-Starts east of Boise, Idaho,
 passes into Canada near the
 Montana North Dakota line 1954-Starts near Grand Island,
 Neb., crosses Mississippi riv-
 CT between Twin Cities and
 Lacrosse, exits into Canada
 near Marquette, Mich.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
More Advertising
 Urged by Professor

CHICAGO, Aug. IT. - Increased advertising was urged today by Dr. Paul H. Nystrom, professor of marketing at Columbia University, New York, in an address before the Interstate Merchants Council.
 "Mo.1 retailers must advertise" :" he said. ITO stop advertising 4s like trying to stop breathing Certainly when business is de- clining is no time to quit"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
Mrs. E. R. Mccormack No Longer in Danger;
 Condition Much Better

CHICAGO, H., Aug. .T.-The condition of Mrs. Edith Rockefel- Ter Mccormack is reported so im- proved that it is believed she is no longer in immediate danger.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17

Ms. Ted Doogan of Douglas, is the mother of a son born yes- terday in St. Ann's hospital in this city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17
WHEAT MOVES TO WEST

WHEAT MOVES TO WEST
 KANSAS CITY, Aug. 17.-zack Whea5, one-time veteran outfield- CT for Brooklyn, has sold his Missouri farm and taken his fam fly to California, where they will make their home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-17

l959--Starts at sea, just east of Long Island, probably miss ing U. S.
 1962-Enters Alaska near mouth of Yukon river, passes south of Mckinley National Park, and crosses New England near site of present eclipse. (Op- polzer's predictions revised by U. s. Naval Observatory) 1970-Crosses Florida near Tampa and Orlando.
 1979-Enters U. s. near mouth of Columbia river and exits near Glacier National Park, Mont, into Canada.