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Evening star., 1932-12-29
Nv the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 29.-The auto
mobile theft business is f1ourishing and
neither economic recession nor lega!
interference can do much about 1t said
Municipal Judge Francis Borrelli today.
From the bench and by personal
trips into racketeers' hants he has ac-
lively concerned himself with suppress
sion OF what he termed one OF the
underworlds major enterprises which
nets its participants millions of dol
lars annually.
When an auto thief appears before
Judge Borrelli he usually takes an ex-
tended vacation" from business worries.
Judge Borrelli described an auto
mobile theft organization in Chicago
as being as efficiently conducted as
large business firm.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
MINE OWNER HOPES
7 STILL MAY LIVE
All Speed Ordered in Effort to
Reach Last of Men EntCmbed
at Moweaqua.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOWEAQUA, Ill, December 29-
Glenn Shaffer. owner Of the mine
where 81 men were entombed by an
explosion last Saturday. gave the still
missing "a good chance" to get out
alive today.
Refusing to give up hope despite
their five-day imprisonment, Shaffer
ordered all speed in reaching the last
of the victims. He said he expected to
know by noon whether they were dead
Its clear back there in the mine"
he said If the men had time to get
back far enough they are all right.
There is good chance that they are"
Rescuers found more bodies yes
terday, raising the total Of known dead
to At. A fresh fall of rock blocked
their part for while. Gas also was
discovered. 1t was cleared away.
Workers said conditions in the mine
prevented removal Of the seven bodies
found.
The last of the funerals for the first
40 victims were held today.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
INSULL is PLANNING
TO TOUR CONTINENT
Criticizes Proposed Move to Use
Diplomatic Channels to
Obtain Extradition.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Greece, December %
Samuel insult who made successful
fight against extradition to the United
State said today that while he had made
no definite plans to return to America
in the near future he contemplated a
trip through the continent and England.
He said his wife probably would meet
him here later.
Discussing his recent acquittal he
criticized Chicago attorneys for their
declaration that they would make diplo-
matte efforts to obtain his extradition.
what would be the impression in
America if a foreign country should
threaten to take diplomatic steps against
their judicial decisions?" insult asked.
The State Department is awaiting
full official information on the refusal
of Greek courts to extradite Samuel
insult before deciding on its future
course.
It received a cable today from Leland
B. Morris, the charge daffaires at
Athens, saying he could not report on
the case until he received transcript
of the hearing and decision.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
REALTORS PRESENT
DEFENSE IN PROBE
Board Seeks to Raise Stand
ards of Ethics, Counsel
Tells Senators.

Declaring the Washington Real Estate
Board strives to raise the standard OF
ethics and business practice and fol-
lows the same general lines of real
estate boards throughout the country,
Roger j. Whiteford. its counsel, made
vigorous reply before the Senate Rent
Investigating Subcommittee today TO
the various complaints leveled at the
organization by Oscar H. Brinkman,
attorney for the subcommittee.
Speaking for more than two hours,
Whiteford took up, one by one. criti-
and explained why the Real Estate
Board endeavors to follow certain rules
Bowie Also Makes Reply.
J. F. NJ. Bowie, former president OF
the Washington Real Estate Board, also
replied TO Brinkmans charges.
When todays meeting ended, the in
dications were that the hearings have
been brought to a close. The commit
tee. headed by Chairman Capper OF
Kansas. has until January 10 to make
a report to the Senate, after going over
the recommendations and arguments
submitted By both sides.
Whiteford denied that the board is
subject to prosecution under the Fed
eral antitrust law. as advocated by
Brinkman in his report. The attorney
for the board said it has endeavored tc
raige the standards and that real estate
boards in ether cities also have a code
of ethics laid down. Whiteford tcld the
subcommittee that realtors should be
regulated and that the Washington Rea
Estate Board since 1924 has been try
ing to have Congress enact real estate
license law. He said the board still
wants that law passed. He pointed out
that the proposed bill does not regulate
the business, but regulates the men
engaging in it just as lawyers are regu-
lated.
He told the subcommittee that many
of the things the Real Estate Board
has endeavored to accomplish ano
which the subcommittee counsel criti-
by the board if the licensing law were
in operation.
Whiteford denied that the real estate
men maintain tenants black list. He
said that about three years ago the
board did try to keep a list to see
who pays rent and who does not, but
finally turned the data over to a mer-
camille agency and that now agents
call such an agency for a credit report
on persons doing business with then
,Contin,led on Page . Column ~
Evening star., 1932-12-29
HERRIOT CONTINUES FIGHT.
Former Premier Still Hopes for Pay
ment of L. S. Debt.


PARIS, France, December %
Edouard Herriot, former premier Of
France. is conducting a vigorous pub
licity campaign to convince French
opinion that the December war debt
installment to the United States OF
S19.26l, ,432 should be paid.
Both in public declarations and in al
most daily newspaper articles, he is pa
tiently refuting the speciouS arguments
of the Socialists and Nationalist, who
combined to overthrow him recently
These articles are attracting much
notice, for respect for signed contracts
remains deep-rooted among the French
people.
Herriot personally voted against both
the Mellon-Berenger debt funding
agreement and the Hoover moratorium
because, in his opinion. neither suffi-
GENTLY linked war debts and repara-
tions He tried to get Washington S
consent to a poStponement OF the De-
cember payment and he Is convinced
that new settlement is essential.
But once Frances signature is given
he believes, it should be honored at anE
cost. else all treaties become merG
scraps of paper" and subject at any
time to unilateral suspension.
Following a meeting of the Executive
Committee of his Radical-Socialis!
party last night. Herriot said:
Respect for treaties is the only clear
policy. 1t is the only policy which can
be opposed to Japan, which refuses tc
evacuate Manchuria; to Germany, when
it wants to fortify the neutralized
Rhineland, and to Austria, which is
again threatening a union with Ger
many"
There is little doubt that Herriot'S
campaign is having effect. The French
people, who seem never to have clearly
understood the war debt situation ano
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
Report From North Carolina
Says M'Coin Feared Some-
thing Would Happen.
NO TRACE is FOUND
OF BODY IN MARYLAND
Discrepancies Suspected in Letter
From "Boy in Distress"-Vir-
ginia Official Is Skeptical.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HENDERSON, N. c.. December 20
Indications that r. S. McCoin had sus-
pected something might happen TO him
and expression of belief by Virginia
authorities that he had not been muir
dered today heightened the mystery
surrounding the Henderson attorneys
disappearance.
Meanwhile, however, there was no
let-up in the effort to trace clues con-
tanned in an anonymous letter which
described how McCoin was slain and
his body buried off the highway between
Hagerstown, Md, and Uniontown. Pa.
Sheriff Bruce Downing of Washing
ton County yesterday and last night
continued efforts to locate the spot
where the anonymous letter writer said
McCoin'S clothes were burned, and an
other where the body was buried. by
four youths said to have killed him in
Virginia when he refused to pay dam
ages for staged" automobile accident.
State Police Aid.
The sherifT's force was joined last
night by Maryland State police under
Instructions from Gov. Ritchie after he
had been requested by Gov. Gardner
Of North Carolina to press the search.
M A. Sutton and L. S. Sutton. nephews
OF McCoin, conferred with the police
and returned to Richmond without re-
porting progress.
The letter. addressed to the "Chief
Judge of the North Carolina Supreme
Court at Raleigh. was signed "A Boy
in Distress" 1t said the writer had
been forced to confess the Staying. al
though he had no actual part in it.
The letter said a motorist driving
car similar to McCoin's was killed and
his body carried into Maryland by four
youths who were en- route from Florida
in a stolen car.
First indication that McCoin might
have known of possible impending
trouble came from Raleigh, where the
News and Observer quoted an attorney
it did not identity as saying McCCin
recently approached him regarding pur-
chase of securities which could be
turned into cash Immediately by Mrs.
McCoin 'if anything happens to me-
Bought State Bonds.
The newspa per's account said that.
on the attorneys advice, McCoin, Co.
year-old member of the State Budget
Advisory Commission, had bought two
$1,000 North Carolina bonds.
The expression of belief that McCoin
had not been slain. or at least had not
been slain in Virginia, came from T.
Mccall Frazier. director of that States
motor vehicle division He said thor
ough check OF all Virginia angles led to
the belief, which was bolstered by his
doubt that the slayers would have trans
ferred the body to their own car in
broad daylight. The fact that the let
ter indicated their car was out OF gas.
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
ROOSEVELT ENDING
TERM AS GOVERNOR
Clearing Desk for Successor,
as Only Two More Days
Remain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y. December 29.-With
the end of his term as Governor OF
New York only two days away, Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt today was clearing
his desk for his successor, Lieut.. Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman. At the same time
the Governor was preparing plans for
seeking first hand information on the
Nations financial situation before COM
mitting himself to any tax policy de-
signed TO balance the Federal budget.
In connection with the gathering OF
this information, which his friends
feel will be one of the first tasks 10
which he will set himself after his term
of Governor ends Saturday, Mr.. RooSe-
welt was preparing for conference
with Vice President-elect John N. Gar
ner, Speaker of the House, either at his
Hyde Park estate or his New York City
home some day this week.
Silent on Budget.
His hesitancy attributed by his ad-
visers to an unWillingneSS to accept any
of the reports from Washington regard
ing the amount Of the national deficit.
Mr.. Roosevelt would not say whether ne
believed the Federal budget can be bal
anced during the present short session
Estimates of the Federal deficit have
ranged from S400,000,000 to a billion
dollars.
The President-elect yesterday ap-
proved a plan proposed by the American
Legislators Association, with headquar-
ters in Chicago, for an interstate con-
ference of legislators at Washington
February 3, Ito secure a better co-ordi-
nation of the revenue systems of the
Federal Government and of the 4d
States"
Praises Plan.
"a splendid idea,' he called the pro-
posal in letter to Henry Toll, head OF
the association.
Meanwhile. at the Executive Mansion
the Roosevelt personal staff proceeded
to gather together the family's belong
ings in preparation for moving out OF
the official residence of New York's
Governors at the end of the week.
A dinner for Col. Lehman. after
which the new Governor will be sworn
in privately, on Saturday night will be
Mr.. Roosevelt's last concern as host OF
the big Eagle street dwelling.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
COMMISSION ASKS
POWER RATE CUT
Opens Negotiations With
Company for Reduction
Effective February !.

The Public Utilities Commission to-
day opened negotiations for a reduction
in electric light and power rates in the
District, in a letter to the Potomac
Electric Power Co. suggesting that the
cut be made by agreement to become
effective February l, 1888. The reduc-
ton in electric light rates made by the
company during the current year was
arrived at by the same method and,
according to that agreement. the rates
entered into were to run until litigation
concerning the electric rates was COM
pleted.
The commissions letter today pointed
out that at the time this arrangement
vas made, effective February /, 1882, it
was not anticipated that the litigation
would be so long drawn out The law
suit, which involved the abrogation of
the consent decree under which electric
rates previously had been fixed, was
won by the commission July % last, but
the company appealed and the case Is
still pending in the Court of Appeals.
The commission offered the company
to make the suggested agreement for a
rate cut binding until the close of 1888,
regardless Of when the litigation is
settled.
For the first 10 months of 1882, ac-
cording to reports by the company to
the commission. its net earnings have
been S4.292 900, as compared with
s4247,0 900 during the same months in
1881. Thus. in spite of the rate cut this
year, which was intended to reduce the
profits by S860,00O, the profits actually
have increased.
At the same time the capital invest
ments of the company also have in
creased so that their return for 1882
on their valuation is expected to be ap-
proximately the same in percentage as
their 1881 return.
Although no figure is mentioned in
the commissions communication. it is
understood the commission looks for
ward to a reduction of about the same
size for 1888 as was made for 1882.
The last reduction lowered the pri-
mary domestic rate from AZ to 3.9
cents per kilowatt hour in the primary
domestic rate. with corresponding re-
ductionS in other schedules.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
Soviets Held Marking Time,
but Press Fears Early
Attack From South.
CHANG REPORTED HEAD
OF BIG JEHOL FORCE
Japan Relies on 10000 Picked
Soldiers With Most Modern Weap-
ons to Guard Manchukuo.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC, December 29-Besides In
ternal insurgency, Japanese army lead
ers today envisaged two possible sources
Oh menace TO the Manchukuo govern
ment whose protection Will be the first
mission Of readjusted japanese forces
IN Manchuria-red Russia's huge bulk
and embittered Chinas masses.
These have only recently resumed
contact by the resumption of diplomatic
relations between China and Russia
after a hve-year lapse.
Plans announced yesterday by the
japanese war Office call for an army of
10000 picked and highly trained SOL
diers, equipped with the most modern
weapons, as protection in Manchuria
against any possible storm over Asia.
Soviets, Bide Time.
Momentarily the Russian menace to
the Japane sponsored Manchukuo
state was considered quiescent. jap
anese leaders, including Premier Makoto
Od4CO, SlISSScO llOEt-S lOI CONTINUATION
OF RuSSo-Japanese friendship.
Vernacular newspapers, however, were
darkly painting war clouds gathering
over ManchukuO'S southern border. The
Chinese general, Chang Hsiao-Liang,
was reported already to nave sent three
picked brigadeS into Southern Jehol.
The Toxic war Office profeSsed to
consider this gesture as intended to ap-
pease a Chinese popular demand for
some kind Of action IN Manchuria,
rather than real menace to Japanese
forces, but they are watching the situ-
alton carefully.
japanese reports have told of several
recent clashes between Chinese and
Japanese troops in the vicinity Of Shan
halkwan, near where the Chinese Wall
comes to the sea and the JehOl-Man-
churia border. japanese reports said
Gen. Chang's troops in ShawhaikWan
train.
Want Jehol Annexed
CThe japanese military command in
Manchurla has admitted plans to an
mex Jehol to Manchukuo as measure
to curb banditry in that region. Chi
nese officials recently reported papers
were discovered on the person Of a slain
Japanese officer in Jehol revealing plans
to set up a "puppet" government in
Jehol similar to the Japanese sponsored
Manchukuo state.
A Mukden, Manchuria. dispatch said
large Chinese volunteer forces under
Gen. Chang were massing at border
points in Jehol, apparently preparing
for prolonged conflict
Evening star., 1932-12-29
JURIST ASSAILS USE
OF TROOPS IN OIL AREA
Next Chief Justice of Oklahoma
Declares Proration System Is
Departure From Basic Law.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ENID. Okla, December 29.-The use
of troops to enforce oil proration was
denounced by Justice Fletcher Riley of
the State Supreme Court before the
Oklahoma Bar Association here today
mo army of a State should be rented
out to an industry" he declared. The
recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court adverse TO martial law
in the East Texas oil field, he said,
Ought to make adequately clear that
the use of the militia is an emergency
corrective"
Troops have been in the Oklahoma
City oil field since August. 1881, by
edict of Gov. William A. Murray They
are maintained by levies on oil pro-
duced in the field
Assailing proration itself as "a de-
parture from the ancient landmarks
of American and English law JUS
tice Riley said. 1T embraces system
and organization involving common
ownership of the agents of production
and an approach to equality in the
distribution of the products of industry
1t is to that extent Communism"
Justice Riley will become chief JUS
tice on January for two-year term.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
AUTO THEFT BUSINESS FEELS
NO DEPRESSION, JURIST SAYS
Judge Borreli Knows For Daring Thief Steals His
Machine

Here's the division of labor in the Or
ganization as outlined by Judge Borrelli:
At the head are directors who study
the demand and regulate the supply,
take orders and see that they are filled.
Then there are robbers who want ma
chimes to use on their jobs, and the
men-generally young-who do the
actual stealing.
For anywhere from $25 to $50 you
can have a car stolen and delivered to
your door, said Judge Borrelli.
The judge recalled that several weeks
ago a new auto pushed by an old one
passed his house, arousing suspicious OF
his son, who gave chase. The would-be
thieves fled, leaving their intended
quarry.
That same night another automo-
bile was stolen in the neighborhood.
The owner of the car was Judge
Borreln.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
CHILD KILLED, a. BURNED
EXPLOSION OF LAMP
Ill Mother; Brother and Two Sis
ters Injured When Flames
Spread.

Ey the Associated Press.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, December
2a-Ten-year-ol Mildred Keys was
dead today and her mother, a brother
and two sisters were suffering from
burns following the explosion of kero-
sene lamp in their home, near Jones'
boro last night. -,
The mother, Mrs. Mary Keys, lay III
in bed when the lamp exploded, throw
ing a sheet of flame and setting fire to
the clothing of Mildred and her brother
Earl, 7. -,
Mrs. Keys and her two other chill
dren-Grace, IL, and Annie Kate, Is
we're burned badly trying to beat out
the flames. Earl is not expected to live,
physicians said.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
''WOIKING GOIL," FORMERLY PTTIED,
NOW ONE OF BEST CREDIT RISKS
ST. Paul Rating Concern Finds Her Judcous, Conserva-
tive, Safe and With Budgeting knowledge.

women are more cautious generally"
said Walker. They are the budget
makers. they buy wisely. use credit
wisely"
As q class, Walker says, single women
are better credit risks than single men,
because men take chances, women don't.
Often young men will 60 out and charge
things they are unable to pay for, hop
ing for a lucky "break" to pull them
through. Women generally, he said,
are not so imprudent.
Women also are the reason why the
low-salaried married man is one of the
best credit risks, he said. The working
girl, when she marries, generally weds
a man Of her own class, and into their
new home she carriers her knowledge Of
budgeting and judicious use of credit.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, December 29.-There was
time when the phrase pity the poor
woiking goil' would make strong men
cry and stern women soften in SYM
pathy.
But no more, for, as Ralph Walker, Sec
retary of the Mutual Credit Rating Ex-
come one of the best credit risks in the
country.
She has attained that rating, Walker
explained, because she used her credit
judiciously, knows what margin she has
for spending and for credit buying, is
a budget maker and keeps within her
income.
The secret Of It all, he said, y the
judicious use of credit.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
Nationalist Deputy Declares
1t Inconsistent With Turn
ing Down U. S.
HERRIOT IN CAMPAIGN
TO CHANGE OPINION
Former Premier Striving to Con.
vince French That Debt Settle
ment Should Be Met.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. December 29-Louis Marin,
nationalist deputy who led opposition
to the December IS debt payment to the
United States opened a fight In the
Chamber of Deputies today against au-
thorization of a loan to Austria with
the suggestion that the loan would be
inconsistent with the failure to pay
America
Deputy Marin asked:
How could we lend to Austria after
our gesture toward the United States,
our ally who fought on our side?"
Sees Money Lost.
Citing what he termed Austria's eco
nomic situation, he expressed the belief
the proposed loan of about $4,000 1000
would be money lost. of which the
lenders would not get back a SOU"
(The League OF Nations recommended
the loan to Austria to save that coun-
try from perilous financial straits.
France. Great Britain, Italy, Switzer-
land, Holland and Belgium were to
provide a total of about s43,O00,OO0, but
thus far only Holland has agreed to
participate)
Deputy Marin said Furthermore the
loan would benefit private bankers
rather than the Austrian state, express
ing a belief it would be used to reim-
burse England for a loan made to Aus
tria last year.
Disputes Arguments
Deputy Marin disputed the argument
of others that the lean would serve to
prevent an economic "anSchluss.' GA
condition laid down by the League was
that Austria would not attempt to re-
vive its Inflated customs union with
Germany, which NJ. Marin referred to.
The Austrian government accepted this
condition.)