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Evening star., 1932-11-22
PLUNGE ENDS LIFE
OF BA[T|MOREAN
Blair Scott, Descendant of
Novelist, Conducted ReIig-
ious Meetings Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 22.-The
body of Blair T. Scott, 80 years old, an
attorney, of 4O3 Hearst Towers, Balti-
more, Md, was found today on the
fourth floor extension of the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel.
In room on the seventeenth floor he
had occupied and from which police
said he apparently had jumped were
found note to the hotel management
and letters to the press, the medical ex-
aminer and his attorney.
Regret causing you embarrassment" 4"
the note to the hotel management,
dated November 81, read. When my
motive Is revealed in the morning, it
may not turn out as embarrassing as it
now appears. Please notify my attor-
ney. Arnold L. Davis, esq, phone Sus-
quehanna 1898 or Rector 2-6700, and
he will send for my effects in the
morning"
Scott registered at the hotel two days
ago.
Davis had conference with the hotel
manager, after which the manager
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-11-22
SCHOONER CAPSIZES
OFF SMITH POINT, VA.
Crew Reported Missing as the Rap
pahannock Sinks at Mouth
of Potomac.

The fishing schooner Rappahannock
has capsized half mile of Smith Point,
Va, at the mouth of the Potomac River,
south Of Point Lookout. There Is no
sight of the crew.
This information was flashed today to
the Navy Department shortly after noon
by the Branch photographic Office at
Norfolk, Va. No further details were
given in the message, and the depart
ment was without information concern
ing the size Of the crew the craft carried.
E. c. Schmitt, engineer in the United
States Engineer once, which has juris-
diction over the Smith Point area, said
this afternoon that the Bureau OF Nav
igation's list of United States merchant
vessels shows the Rappahannock is a
steam fishing boat Of 146 gross tons, 121
feet long. 1913 feet in breadth, with a
depth of 80 feet
According to the records, she was
constructed in 1908 and belongs to the
Morris Fisher Co., operating out Of
Reedville, on Cockrells Greek, which
Mr.. Schmitt said, contains one of the
largest fish factories along the Atlantic
Coast. q
Evening star., 1932-11-22
For Washington's Sake

that charity that humanity
which all each do
the thousands fellow citizens of all
which will the Community Chest
remembering
a day life itself suffering person.
already the your
greater than did make additional pledge
below
the aid through
venience during that
filled in al
Columbia
muniy Chest 223 Building
Community Chest In the Grdron at the the
Community
poltan Unit will call pledge.
COMMITTEE.
Chairman Newbod Noyes Caday
John Pershing Corcon Thon
DR. Harold Mouton John OConno
COMMUNITY WASHINGTON Investment Building
(In Trust for So Agencies OF Mercy Washington D. c.
Sc &c a Day
Day Of Days
total OF $..........
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Monthly
Quarterly Payments. .adrs.,
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Evening star., 1932-11-22
H|TLER'S BATTLE
TO HEAD MINISTRY
AGAIN FRUSTRATED
Won Hindenburg Said to Have
Written Him of Lack
of Confidence.
NEWS OF PRESIDENTIAL
LETTER LEAKS OUT
Chancellor Must Be Sure Of a Safe
and Continuous Majority
in Parliament.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 22.-Adolf Hit
leris bid for the German chancellorship
has been frustrated once again, 1t was
generally thought today as the con-
tents of a letter to him from President
Won Hindenburg leaked out.
1t was understood the President, re-
spending to certain counter-proposals
advanced by Hitler in connection with
his acceptance of a mandate to form
a new cabinet, had reiterated that Who
ever gets the job must be sure of a
safe and continuous parliamentary ma
jority.
Cannot Be Obtained.
This Is something that Hitler can
not obtain. it appeared. Alfred Hugen-
berg, the Nationalist party leader, and
the leaders of the Bavarian party re-
jected overtures from Hitler's associ-
ates. Hitler's own party is the strongest
in the Reichstag, but without these two
others he cannot have a majority.
1t was expected. therefore, that some
time today he would send word to the
President that he cannot put together
a cabinet under the stipulation i'm
posed upon him.
The President was reported to have
written that he does not know Hitler
well enough nor has he enough con-
fldence in him to place him at the
head Of government responsible only
to the executive. He pointed out also
that in the past definite conditions al
ways were attached by the President
to any offer Of the chancellorship.
Political Scene Shifts.
The German political scene shifted
today to the study of President Won
Hindenburg, where the aged chief
executive was closeted with his closest
advisers on the cabinet crisis.
Among these were Otto Meissner. the
presidential secretary. and Gen. Kurt
Won Schleicher, minister Of defense and
the power behind the cabinet of Chan
cellor Franz Won Papen, which resigned
last week.
Nazi headquarters earlier intimated
that the core of the whole matter Is
Hitler's demand to know whether he
has been commissioned to form an au-
thoritary presidial cabinet-responsibl
primarily to Won Hindenburg-or
coalition government involving Reichs-
tag parties.
Hitler's Argument.
It was Hitler's argument that II the
President desires an authoritary gov
ernment, he cannot expect his chancel-
lor to be dependent upon Reichstag
majorities, but instead the weapon of
dissolution should be placed in such
chancellors hands.
The Nazi also is represented as feel
ing that II the President desires a coa-
lttion government, then it is incom-
patible with such an arrangement to
impose conditions as to cabinet mem
bers and policies in advance.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
FRANCE REJECTS
PACT WITH JAPAN
RumorS on Negotiations for
Military Alliance Declared
Confirmed.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

By Cable to The Star.
GENEVA. Switzerland, November %
Japan within the last few weeks has
offered a military alliance to France.
France has declined. Japan for nearly
a year has been trying to arrange a
loan or credits in Paris. France thus
far has refused.
These facts can be stated definitely
today on the best authority.
In q dispatch from Toxic November
/, rumors on this subject were reported
and yesterday DR.. Wellington Koo,
Chinese delegate, before the Council
Of the League Of Nations during the
Manchurian discussions referred openly
to Japan's recent attempt to secure
an alliance in Europe" But in inside
diplomatic circles Japan's unsuccessful
effort to secure a French alliance Is
now almost common knowledge.
Background Of Situation.
The background of the situation can
be sketched thus:
France has a treaty with Japan
dating from June 10, 1907, an essential
section of which reads:
THE governments of Japan and
France being agreed to respect the IN
dependence and integrity OF China as
well as the principle of equal treatment
in that country for commerce and sub
iects or citizens of all nations, and
having special interest in having order
and a pacific state Of things guaranteed,
especially in those regions OF the
Chinese Empire adjacent to the ter
ritories, where they have rights OF
sovereignty, protection or occupation,
engage to support each other for assur-
ing peace and security in those regions,
with a view to maintaining the respec-
tive situations and territorial rights OF
the two contracting parties on the
continent of Asia"
That this treaty has never been re-
pealed and is still effective has been
confirmed to this correspondent by jap
anese delegates here and also by the
French government in its official an
CONTINUED on Page Q, Column %
Evening star., 1932-11-22
DAVIS SCORES j. S.
FAILURE TO SAVE
Taxes Are Creating Night.
mares, Senator Tells AT.
of L. Convention.
BY the Associated Press.


CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 22.-
The Federal Government was criticized
today by Senator James j. Davis for not
laying away something for a rainy day.
Addressing the convention of the
American Federation of Labor, the for
mer Secretary of Labor said "a wise
business plans, and a wise government
should also plan"
IF the Government had emulated the
ordinary prudence of the great corpora
tton," the Pennsylvanian said, "and set
aside even as small an amount as per
cent Of the receipts in the last 10 years
we should now have something like
two and half billion dollars ready
for immediate public works"
Asserting taxes are giving the Amer
lean people Nightmares" Senator Davis
declared ALI forms of government, from
the village to the Nation, must find new
sources Of revenue-revenue that is easy
to collect and not too great a burden
for the people to carry"
Urges Dry Revision.
The Senator urged immediate modi-
fication of the Volstead act.
i have never seen home broken up
which had on its table a loaf of bread,
a piece of cheese-and glass Of beer, =
ne said. and II came from the homes
Of the workers" he added.
Turning to unemployment, he said,
mo government, not even the richest,
can give every man a Job. II
governments have failed because they
often have done too little, they have
failed quite as often because they have
tried to do too much.
But our Government the Senator
continued, lis not, or need not be, en-
tirely helpless in the matter Of proyid-
Ing Jobs While it cannot furnish q
job to every person who wants one, 1t
might do a great deal for industry
and the jobless by forwarding the work
on public buildings. That work has a
vastly stimulating effect on business as
whole
THE Government has done as much
as 1t could in the public works line
without the issuance of bonds. During
the Hoover administration there was
something like over two thousand mil
lion dollars spent in public works. It
has been estimated that for every man
working on a public building there are
three working to serve him with ma
terials."
Davis EulogiLed.
Representatives of the federation TO-
day waded into pile Of proposed
legislation designed to improve the
workers lot.
The work Of hammering out a plat
form at the convention was stilled long
enough, however, for the speech OF
Senator Davis and a tribute IN hin,
He was greeted by the convention as
"a loyal friend Of the workingman."
Frank j. Morrison, for So years secre-
tary of the federataion, said 49 Separate
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1932-11-22
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
REPRIMANDS VERA CRUZ
President Rodriguez Orders Troops
Into State to Prevent
Interference.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, November 22.-The
state government of Vera Cruz was
given severe public reprimand by the
federal government today when Presi-
dent Abelardo Rodriguez dictated an
order that hereafter federal troops
would accompany army and agrarian
engineers working in that state to pre-
vent interference with their work by
local Vera Cruz elements.
Under the new agrarian law land is
parceled out to individuals instead of
to communal groups as in the past, and
a large group of army engineers re-
Gently was detached to assist the
agrarian commissions in distribution of
such lands.
These engineers met opposition in
Vera Cruz, which is governed by Adal-
berto TeJeda, who favors q communal
grant.
President Rodriguez said the federal
agrarian law would be carried out at
all costs, and ordered federal troops TO
accompany all agrarian commissions to
prevent any interference on the part of
state officials.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
PREPARATIONS MADE
FOR ECONOMIC TALKS
Norman Davis Attends Meeting Of
Organization Committee
at Geneva.
BY the Associated Press.

GENEVA, November 22.-Norman
Davis, Americas representative, partici-
pated today in a meeting Of the organ
ization Committee for the projected
world economic conference.
The committee decided to call the at
tention of the League Of Nations eco
nomic experts to the necessity for pre-
pairing a program for that conference as
soon as possible. Mr. Davis suggested
that it would be good idea to have a
representative of China, as the biggest
silver country, included among the tech
nicians who will deal with the problem
of silver at the world conference.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
ASK EMBARGO EXTENSION
State Government Would Cover
All Oil Sources in Mexico.

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, November %
R.-The state government has filed a
petition with the district court asking
extension Of the recent embargo against
oil wells controlled by the Huasteca Oil
Co. (the Eagle Oil Co. of the United
States) to cover all oil sources In
Mexico.
At present the embargo effects IL
wells, among them the famous mo. 4"
which came in 16 years ago with q
production of 100000 barrels q day.
No. 4 is managed at present by an agent
Of the Department Of the Ipterioc.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
GARNER WILL SEE
ROOSEVELT TODAY
Arrives to Confer With Governor
Before Latter Goes to
White House.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Speaker John N Garner, Vice Presi-
dent-elect. arrived here early today to
confer with President-elect Roosevelt
before the latter discusses the war-debt
situation with President Hoover.
Garner said Gov. Roosevelt had re-
ouested him to meet him before the debt
conference with President Hoover and
to accompany him to the White House.
"I'u do what Mr. Roosevelt has re-
cuested," Garner said.
Garner has opposed any cancellation
or reduction of the war debts and op-
posed the Hoover moratorium last year
Accompanied by Mrs. Garner, the
Speaker appeared In vigorous condi-
ton. Both of them plan to stay here
until the opening Of Congress.
Garner said he would attend the
dinner given tonight by the Nationa
Press Club in honor of PreSident-elec
Roosevelt, but that he had no plan.
to go TO Warm Springs, Ga.
The Texan said President Hoover
also had invited him to attend the con
ference tomorrow of ranking member
of the House Ways and Means anC
Senate Finance Committee.
I've accepted the invitation" Garne
said.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Hoover's precedent-making
conference with President-elect Frank
lin D. Roosevelt this afternoon will be
held in one of the parlors on the main
floor of the White House instead Of the
Lincoln study on the second floor as
was announced yesterday.
This eleventh-hour shift in the
Presidents plan for the meeting with
Gov. Roosevelt, the second change he
has made in the past three days, was
announced definitely today at the White
House. 1t was said that the President
had not yet determined upon which one
of the three parlors on the first floor he
would select.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
DUCE MEETS COUNCIL

ROME, November % CP.-Financial
matters and foreign affairs were dis
cussed for more than two hours today
by Premier Mussolini and his highest
consulting body, the Grand Council OF
Fascism.
A brief communique did not reveal
whether war debts were discussed al
the midnight session, held behind closed
doors, but said it was attended by Min
ister of Finance Guido Jung and former
Minister Of Finance Alberto de Stefani
The council will meet again Wed
nesday night.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
LANKFORD TO CAST VOTE
FOR BEER AND WINE
Virginan Also to Support Resub-
mission of 18th Amendment
During Short Session.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, November 22.-Rep-
resentative Menalcus Lankford, Repub-
lican, Of Norfolk, heretofore regarded
as supporter of prohibition, today an
nounced he would vote in the coming
short session of Congress for modiflca-
ton of the Vols.ead act to permit the
sale of notwithstanding beers and
wines. He said he also would vote to
submit the question of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment to the people Of
the several States.
Mr.. Lankford was defeated for re-
election this month
Evening star., 1932-11-22
HOOVER RECEIVES SUCCESSOR
TODAY IN A MAIN FLOOR PARLOR
Choice Probably Rests Among Blue,
Red and Green Rooms-Decides
Against Lincoln Study.

Mr.. Hoover's final decision regarding
the room for this meeting will not be
made until just before the arrival Of
the man who is to succeed him as occu-
pant of the White House next March.
Gov. Roosevelt's train will arrive In
Union Station at $3.50 pm.
He will be formally met on behalf
of the President by Capt Walter N.
Bernou, chief White House naval aide,
and Warren Delano Robbins, protocol
officer of the State Department and
social arbiter at the White House. who
is a cousin of the President-elect, &C
cording to the White House announce
ment. The understanding is that Gov.
Roosevelt will be motored directly from
the station in White House limousine
to the south grounds of the White
House which will make it possible for
Mr.. Roosevelt to enter the residence on
(Continued on Page g. Column 81
Evening star., 1932-11-22
Grand Duke Alexander Ill.

MENTION, France, November % tP1
Grand Duke Alexander, pretender to
the throne Of the czars, Is seriously III
here Of sciatica. He Is unable to walk,
but his friends say his condition Is not
dangerous.
Evening star., 1932-11-22
Open Your Hearts, Washingtonians!
Oben Your Hearts

the Sake Of orphan children
For of o them
destitute families; the sick injured for the
delinquent guidance along
nfes dark pathway.
Evening star., 1932-11-22

CONTINUED on Page 8, Column /.
Evening star., 1932-11-22

co. g. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair, with lowest temperature about
% degrees tonight; tomorrow fair and
warmer; gentle variable winds.
Temperatures: Highest, 81, at 2:30
pm. yesterday; lowest, 80, at 8 am. to-
day. Full report on page o.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-20
West Africa No Longer
Submerged in Darkness

Many changes may be noted as
evidence of improved social condi-
tions in West Africa. Cannibalism
is nearly extinct. Slavery is wan
ing. Fetishism is greatly decreased.
Most of the harmful secret societies
are practically at an end. Murder
is very rare, as compared with it's
frequency in the United States. PO-
lygamy is very greatly decreased.
The language has been reduced to
writing and the New Testament, por-
tions of the Old Testament and
many textbooks have been printed.
The majority of the young men and
boys, and some thousands of women
and girls can read and write. Young
women have more freedom as to
school and marriage, and some are
taking nurses training courses
some become teachers, and others
dressmakers. Time was when all
days were alike. The introduction
Of the Sabbath was a novelty to the
people. and has proven a great
blessing. Last years statistics
showed that the attendance at Sun
day school averaged 94,000.-New
York Sun
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-20
PENSION GROUP MEETING
Five Applications Are Received
From Kent County

The monthly meeting Of the
Mothers Pension Commission held
at Dover, in the Supreme Coprt
room of the State House, was at
tended by all the members excent
one. From New Castle County
eight new applications were receiv-
ed for pensions, of which number
four were granted and three grant
ed for six months and one disal-
lowed. From Kent County five
new applications were received
Three were denied as ineligible mn
der the law. From Sussex Coun-
ty Miss Hazard presented -four
new applications of which none
was granted. Three were disa7-
lowed because of ineIigibility under
the Mothers Pension Act due IA
unsatisfactory home conditions
One case was held over for furth-
er consideration. Reports wara
made of the condition of y pen
stoned families in Sussex County
of which one was reduced because
the child had reached the age be
yond which pensions may not be
granted. One case was increased.
In Kent County reconsideration
was given nine mothers and two
discontinued because of remar-
riage. In New Castle County 10
pensions were reviewed; two dis
continued remarked; one discon-
tinued because of excess OF funds.
one discontinued for immortality:
two increased; one increased be-
cause mother had died; one reduc-
ed as mother had died and child
had been adopted.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-20
Aesop's Famous Fables
Survive Passing Years

OF course you are acquainted
with many of Aesop's fables. Have
you ever wondered just who this
famous story teller was?
AesOp is supposed to have been 4
Greek slave who lived from 600 to
$50 B. c. He had a brilliant mind,
but an ugly, crippled body. This.
however, did not prevent his becom-
ing famous as a wise man who
could teach moral lessons in short.
pithy stories.
So great did his reputation be-
come that his master freed him, and
he went to live at the court Of
Croesus, the famous and very rich
king Of Lydia. Once the king sent
him TO the temple of Apollo, at
Delphi, and there he met his death.
being thrown over a precipice by an
angered inhabitant of the place.
AesOp told his stories by word
of mouth, and they were handed
down from one generation to an
other. Two hundred years later they
were collected and written down,
only to be lost for 1000 years
Finally they We're discovered in a
monastery at Mount Athos in 1874
ard given again to the world.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-20
Evolution Of Shins

A special exhibition Of primitive
RATS and canoes was recently held
in London. They were designed to
illustrate the successive develop
ments BY which these primitive
craft have given rise to the built
boats Of modern Europe. About
forty models and sixty Illuminated
photo-transparencies showing native
canoes in actual use were placed in
the entrance hall Of the museum.
Items Of special interest included a
comparison between the method
used BY the ancient Egyptians in
bodybuilding and that still employed
il the almost exactly similar boats
OF the Gauges; also a suggestion as
70 the origin Of the Chinese sampan
rs a development from the cata-
maran of the Madras coast.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-20

THE Womanless Wedding" will
be staged in the Como Theatre to-
morrow and Friday evenings, Jan
uary 81 and %, under the direction
of the SIMPSON Levie Company.
It is being sponsored by the Tween
tieth Century Club of this town.
The cast is as follows: Butler, the
Rev. w. ]. Bone; punch girls, Bill
Hudson, Edward Dawkins; present
girls, Frank Robinson. Joseph JEFF
ferson; brides mother, Walter
Hynson; brides father, Elmer Cor
RE; bad little brothers, J. G. Man
nering, Charles LeCompte; key
Rosenstein, Bill Hamburg; old
maid aunt, Elwood Anderson;
brides grandmother, William G.
Roe; brides grandfather, w. o.
Hoffecker; Charlie Chaplin, George
Parker; uncle from Leipsic, How
ard Deakyne; aunt from Leipsic,
William Richardson; twin sisters,
Stewart Wilds, Howard Kemp:
Fritz Kreisler, Harry p. Shapley;
Mary Pickford, Dink Mccain:
groom's mother, CIV. w. Schantz:
groom's father, Ernest Slaughter;
fashion plate, Charles Swain: Sis
Hopkins, Nelson Everhart: hen
pecked husband, H. j. Lower; de-
voted wife, w. S. Rowland; Span
ish dancer, Davis Bell; the coun-
try cousin, Red Moffitt; President
Hoover, Ernest Blendt; Mrs. Hoov-
er, Frank McCawley; Annie Laurie
Bill Hobson; the fapper 1888,
Sonny" Handloff; Madame Schu-
mann Heinck, Bill Watson; negro
nanny, James Patterson: baby
sister, Albert Allen; Rastus, Gene
Porter; Sambo, Lester Goldsbor-
ough; Kentucky Colonel, Harry
Manlove; Kentucky Lady, George
Boehmler; village school marin.
Mccain; General Perish
ing, John Jacobs; Colonel Lind
bergh, James Everhart: Theda
Bara, Louis Pierce; John d. Rookie
Teller, VIM. Holland; Martinelli,
w. Townsend jefferson: bridal
party, Bishop, w E. Matthews;
groomsmen, George Walton, Ed
ward Everhart, Herman Robinson.
Frank Broadway; best man. Cliff
ford Jones; brides maids, Grover
King, Francis Yeates; maid of
honor, H. B. Radish; flower girls.
John Bone, William Everhart.
bride, J. Frank Webb; groom.
Guess Who ?; train bearer, Bill
Roe; ring bearer, Henry Lower.