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Evening star., 1932-11-21
CLAIMS FAKE ENTRIES
IN NEWSPAPER BOOKS
Former Employe Testi6es Finster
Continued" Circulating
Padding Policy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, November 81
Ola Scott, former employe of the
Youngstown Telegram, testified today
in the trial of four men charged with
fraudulent advertising, that Joseph
Finster, former Telegram circulation
manager, accepted and continued" q
policy of padding" circulation when
he came to the Telegram from Cleve-
land in 1880.
Scott was State witness in the
trial of Finster, John T. Waters, Tele-
gram business manager; James Morrisey,
circulation manager, and Thomas
Dowling, Scripps- Howard circulation
adviser, against whom are charges of
deceiving advertisers through publica-
tion Of incorrect circulation figures.
Scott testified Finster said he had
been sent here "to pass the Vindicator, -
competitor afternoon newspaper, in
circulation. Working with assistants
who were brought with him, Scott said,
Finster carried erroneous circulation
figures on the books, covering them up
with fake profit and loss entries. excess
commissions to distributors and bulk
sales credited to individual accounts.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
URGES u. S. DEMAND
FOR DEBT PAYMENT
Binghamton, N. Y, Publisher Calls
on Government to Stiffen
Attitude.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y, November
21--Willis Sharpe Kilmer, publisher
of the Binghamton Press, issued a
statement today in which he called
upon the American Government to tell
European debtor nations to stop cheat
ing. stop bluffing and pay"
France, England and Italy are pros
perous," asserted Kilner, who returned
from a European tour Just before elec-
ton. They are able to pay; their
poverty talk Is just so much poppy
cock
Pleading poverty to us, they are
using money they owe US to prepare
for another war Two of the battle
ships they have built in the past year
represent more money than the Decem-
ber Is payments. They built those
battleships with money that was due
us when they made their moratorium
bluff and got away with it.
why should this Nation be party
to Europe's preparation for another
war? The American Government can
help to prevent that war by telling the
debtor nations to stop cheating. stop
blufang and pay"
Evening star., 1932-11-21
PART IN LONDON RIOTS
BY PRoFINTERN DENIED
Communist Paper Says Elias Let
ter Purporting to Show Con-
nection Not Authorized.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW, November 21.-The Com
munist party organ Pravda denied en-
phatically today that the Profintern
was responsible for the unemployed
riots In London recently.
(Sidney Job Elias, who was arrested
in connection with the London riots,
was charged with writing letter from
Moscow to associates in England last
Fall which showed a direct interest of
Moscow Third Internationale In Brit
ish unemployed agitation. The proee-
cution said Elias was in Russia full
filling instructions from the Profntern,
which they called the section of the
Third Internationale aiming to control
world unemployed movements.)
Acknowledging the letter may have
been written by Sidney Elias when he
was here, the newspaper declares that
II so he wrote as private individual
and not in behalf of the Profntern. Il
said the Prohntern can no more Be
held responsible for the actions Of In
dividuals here than can the House Of
Commons for letters similarly written
to Moscow newspapers.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
SEEKS REOPEN|NG
OF 2U. S. PLANTS
Alexandria c. of C. Official
Starts Movement as
Jobless Relief.
BY a staff Correspondent Of The star.

BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 21.-A
movement toward getting the two
United States Government plants here,
the United States Naval Torpedo Sta
ton and the former Government ship
building plant, again in operation as an
aid to unemployment in this vicinity
was started today by Dan s. Hollenga
business manager of the Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce.
In letters to Representative Howard
W. Smith and Senators Glass and
Swanson of Virginia Mr.. Hollenga has
asked their cooperation in getting the
local torpedo station, which has been
practically shut down, again in full
operation. The torpedo plant at New
port, r. l., has practically superseded
the Alexandria station, he stated.
The three members of Congress from
Virginia were also asked by the cham
ber official to urge that some use be
made by the Government of the old
shipbuilding plant here, which has not
been In operation since Immediately
after the World War.
Although the former Shipbulldine
plant Is generally regarded as unfit for
further use, it is believed by Mr.. Hol-
lenga that the extensive grounds, dock
age and old buildings could be used by
the Government to advantage. Both
projects would materially aid unemploy-
ment in this vicinity.
Evening star., 1932-11-21

meet the objections to them complained
of by the Government.
In a statement accompanying q let
ter to stockholders, made public after
the decree was announced, David Sar-
noff. president of the Radio Corpora
ton. said an item of $17,938,733, cur
rently owed by Radio Corporation to
the General Electric and Westinghouse
Cos. has been disposed Of through the
purchase by the General Electric Co.
of the r. C. A. Building, at Fifty first
street and Lexington avenue, New YORK
City" - A..
statement says. at the present pooa
value" of the building, s4,745, 900
through the "issuances Of 10-year de-
hentI1Tes in the amount of $4,255, 900,
and as a part Of the readjustment, the
balance Of S8,938,733 is discharged by
the two electric companies in consider
alton of the new agreement.
THE statement adds that simulta-
neously with the announcement OF the
new contracts and arrangements by the
Radio Corporation with the electrical
interests, (which frees all parties from
the burden of expenses and protracted
litigation" announcement also is made
"of negotiations for broadcasting studios
and office space, undertaken When the
project OF Radio City was conceived,
has now been reduced to the present
requirements Of the Radio Corporation
of America and its subsidiaries"
"The notifications of the Radio City
leases" the statement accompanying
the letter adds, "in the amount Of space
to be occupied and the rentals to be
paid are being adjusted through the
Issuance to Rockefeller Center OF 100, ,00C
shares of the a preferred stock OF the
Radio Corporation"
"In separating from General Electric
and Westinghouse Electric and manu-.
featuring companies" the letter said
THE Radio Corporation, through its
established subsidiaries, and with then
present personnel. will continue to func-
ton as heretofore.
"In addition, the r. G. A. now re-
ceives patent rights and licenses for the
manufacture and sale of radio device:
useful in other than the generally recog.
nized lines Of radio business. Because
of the great variety of purposes tc
which the vacuum tube Is now beine
adopted, these additional rights will en-.
able the Radio Corporation to extent
its manufacturing business into new
phases Of the electronic art
Evening star., 1932-11-21
BLACK TOM "SPY
MESSAGE OFFERED
New Evidence Claiming Ger
man Agents Fired Plant
Given Hearing.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A chain of evidence was cast by the
United States today around a secret
message, written in invisible ink, to
link spies of the imperial German gov
eminent with the destruction of the
Black Tom Terminal and Kingsland,
N. j.. munitions plant
The German American Mixed Claims
Commission, sitting in its last case,
heard Robert w. Bonynge, American
agent, advance evidence that the secret
message supported his charge that Ger
man agents had destroyed the plant.
The message was sent by Frederick
l.. Hermann, German agent in Mexi-
CO City, to Paul Hilken, an agent in
the United States, in April, 1877.
Extensive testimony was introduced
by Bonynge in an effort to prove the
message was written ON the pages Of
magazine.
Has Trouble Proving Claim.
In the message, Hermann told Hill
ken the German minister in Mexico
City was suspicious" of him, and he
was having trouble convincing him that
he was an agent Of the German imperial
staff.
Hermann said he had told the Min
lister, apparently with view OF proving
he was an agent, of the Black Tom and
Kingsland destruction.
The two plants we're destroyed by fire
Just before the United States entered
the World War; and while they were
assembling munitions for the allies.
Hermann went at length in his mes
sage to instruct Hilken on dealings with
the other German agent in the United
States and mentioned by name several
men who the United States has claimed
were connected with the Black Tom and
Kingsland fires.
Name of Kristoff Mentioned.
Among those mentioned in the mes
sage by name was Michael Kristof,
who has always been claimed by the
United States to have been responsible
for the Black Tom fire
A previous decision by the commits
sion in favor Of Germany In the Black
Tom case had held there was in
sufficient proof that Kristof was a
German agent.
On the basis Of the secret message,
Bonyngr charged Kristof was a Ger
man agent and as such was respon-
sible for the Black Tom destruction.
The claims in the two cases aggre-
gate some S40,000,000 and the COM
mission has allotted three days for the
rehearing.
It was understood that Germany in
replying wednesday will claim the sec
ret message was fabricated"
Evening star., 1932-11-21
CHICAGO OPERA "BABIES"
PARENTS OF A SON
Henry, Jr., Born to Henry and
Marion Claire Weber, Youth
full Stars.

BY the Associated Press.
LAKE FOREST, III November al
A son was born at Alice Home Hos
pital last night to Marion Claire Weber,
the singer, and Henry Weber. The
child is the first born to the couple
who were called the babies" of the
Chicago Civic opera, where they were
married three years ago. He will be
named Henry, jr.
Weber. once the youngest conductor
Of q major opera company, will 60 to
Milwaukee soon to direct an orchestra.
His wife, affiliated with the Berlin State
Opera, will start an American concert
tour In January. They are living with
Mrs. Weber's mother in Lake Bluff, Ill
Evening star., 1932-11-21
BECK WILL DISCUSS
PROHIBITION In FORUM
Will Deal Tonight With Consti
tutional Questions Relating
to Dry Law.

1.-THE Constitution and Prohibition
Reform win be discussed by Repre-
sentative James M. Beck, Republican,
of Pennsylvania, in speech tonight
Forum. sponsored by The star and
broadcast over a Nationwide network
Of the National Broadcasting System.
Representative Beck will deal with
constitutional questions relating to the
proposed modification of the Volstead
law. which looms rs one of the most
bitterly fought legislative problems to
be considered at the incoming short
session of Congress.
A former Solicitor General and
Assistant Attorney General, Mr.. Beck
is Internationally known as an author
ity on the Constitution, having written
several books on this and related sub
iects. He has also been one of the
outstanding leaders in Congress in dis
cussion of the prohibition question.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
dyer SEES REPEAL
| OK. BY COMMITTEE
House Judiciary Action Ex-
pected Immediately After
First Meeting.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Dyer OF Missouri,
ranking Republican on the House Ju-
dietary Committee, predicted today it
would approve a resolution for repeal
Of the eighteenth amendment.
"I think-and with the greatest con-
fldence-that will be one of the first
things the committee will do after it
meets next month" he told reporters.
"All Democratic members viii be for
repeal because of their platform. There
won't be enough Republican opposition
to stop it.
81 can't see any necessity at all for
hearings"
Dyer said he would favor submitting
the repeal resolution directly to Legis-
latureS instead of conventions because
it would take less time"
vinson to Vote for Beer.
Representative Vinson of Kentucky,
leading Democrat on the House WAYS
and Means Committee, told newspaper
men he would vote for legalization Of
beer and repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment" He has supported pro-
hibition in the past.
Vinson said if Chairman Collier Of
the Ways and Means Committee wanted
to call hearings before Congress meets,
on bill to legalize and tax beer, he
would interpose no objection.
Representative Milligan of Missouri,
assistant Democratic whip In the House,
in statement today said the short ses-
sion should pass on a repeal resolution
and an amendment to modify the Vol
stead act.
Two-Thirds Support Question.
whether two-thirds vote can be
mustered for repeal is questionable in
this Congress" he added.
"It is my opinion that a majority
vote needed to modify the Volstead act
can be obtained in the December
session.
"If the Volstead act Is modified and
prohibitive or excessive tax Is levied
on beer, it will not raise the revenue
expected Neither will it destroy the
home brew or the bootlegger."
Evening star., 1932-11-21
GOV. MOORE DENIES
ARMORY TO MARCHERS
BY the Associated Press.


TRENTON, N. j, November 21.-Ex-
pressing belief that the unemployed
could be cared for at home, Gov. A.
Harry Moore today declined to approve
use of the Trenton Armory by unem-
ployed who are planning to march on
washington.
The Unemployed Council" and the
Hunger Marchers' Committee" Of
Trenton requested use of the armory
on the night of November 80 for 800
persons they expected to leave for
Washington on the next day.
I'm view of information from WASH
ington," Gov. Moore said, these peo-
pie could be taken care of better at
home" He mentioned that the State
has a s2o,o00,oo0 relief program for
this Winter.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
TRAIN KILLS 3 BOYS
AT CHESTER CROSSING
Engineer on Washington-New York
Passenger Informed of Tragedy
at Philadelphia.
By The Associated Press.


CHESTER, Pa, November 21.-Three
small boys were killed by Pennsylvania
Railroad passenger train on an elevat-
ed crossing In the center Of Chester
yesterday.
The boys, identified several hours
after the accident, were James Hamil-
ton. II; George Davis, jr., IL. and his
brother Westley, 8.
Police expressed the opinion the chill
dren had been playing along the tracks.
The engineer of the train, bound from
Washington to New York, was unaware
of the accident until it stopped in
Philadelphia, where railroad police In
formed him.
One of the bodies was thrown from
the elevated tracks to the feet Of two
pedestrians who were about to pass
beneath the crossing.
The second boy had dropped through
a space between two railroad ties and
had landed on wooden platform un-
der the crossing built to keep water and
cinders from pedestrians. The third
lay Is feet from the crossing to one
side Of the tracks.
Evening star., 1932-11-21

Continued From First Page.)
preferred not to comment upon the
conference.
Mr.. Britten, while commenting upon
the possible attitude of the President
toward such beer bill, recalled let
ter Mr.. Hoover, as Food Administrator,
wrote to Senator Sheppard of Texas,
dry leader, in which Mr.. Hoover said
a person would have to drink tre-
mendous quantity of 2.75 per cent beer
to become intoxicated.
New arguments, hinged on the ques-
tton OF IF beer comes back" prob
ably will be presented to Congress by
the Prohibition Bureau in asking funds
next year.
Congressional hearings on the appro-
priation which the Prohibition Bureau
will ask for its activities beginning July
will be begun week hence, before
Congress meets.
In the past the bureau has asked
funds mainly on the argument that
prohibition must be enforced For its
work during the present fiscal year the
bureau asked S10,250, 900, but Congress
cut the sum to $9,500,000. The pres
ert indications are that the bureau
VIII ask approximately the same sum
for next year as 1t received for this
year.
Woodcock Prepares Data.
With the beer question being mulled
over in and out of congressional circles,
however, Amos w. w. Woodcock, direc-
tor OF prohibition, intends to present
new contentious to Congress in asking
for his bureaus appropriation.
One OF these Is to be that the Fed.
eral Government Is being given the
entire responsibility of enforcement In
States which repealed their State en-
forcement acts in the recent election.
Another argument will be that, no
matter how Congress might interpret
public sentiment on repeal, modifca-
ton or resubmission, the eighteenth
amendment and Volstead act are still
law and must be enforced to prevent
notification
Fears Beer Tax Evasion.
Woodcock, however, plans still an
other argument this year in asking en-
torcement funds. He expects to tell
Congress that if beer should be voted
either at the forthcoming short session
OF Congress or in the new Congress, and
II the much-talked-of revenue Is to re-
suit from it, a rigid outlook must be
kept to prevent breweries sending out
non-taxed beer.
A number of prohibition organization
leaders were banded today in q dec
laration that the recent elections and
the referenda on liquor questions held
in number of States do not constitute
"a verdict of the people on prohibi-
ton"
The results of the referenda "were
Inevitable" said statement issued yes
terday over signatures of officers OF the
Anti-Saloon League, Methodist Board
of Temperance and Women'S Christian
Temperance Union, because all ma
tional candidates of the two major
parties were speaking in advocacy Of
change in the Constitution to legaIize
the liquor traffic" and no candidates
were presenting the argument against
the liquor traffic.
At the same time the drys said they
had determined upon IAN aggressive
program" involving a new campaign
for fundamental principles" including
the teaching of effects of alcohol ia
public schools and Sunday schools; re-
newed signing of total abstinence
pledges and similar temperance efforts.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
Curb Suspends Stock.

NEW YORK, November 21 R.-The
New York Curb Exchange today sus-
pended dealings in the capital stock Of
the Ungerleider Financial Corporation,
an investment trust. The suspension
was due TO the company's failure to
maintain transfer Office and regis
trar here as required under the ex-
changes rules. The action was be-
lieved to be largely formality In con-
nection with the Ungerledier company's IS
absorption by Atlas Corporation. The
latter early this year acquired more
than 80 per cent Of aUngerleider's capi-
tai stock
Evening star., 1932-11-21
st. Louis Financier Dies.

ST. LOUIS, November 81 P.-
Edward B. Pryor, 78, chairman of the
board of the Mississippi Valley Trust
Co, died of heart disease at his home
here yesterday. He had been Ill about
four weeks.
For almost II years, Pryor was re-
ceiver for the Wabash Railroad, with
drawing officially In 1928, although his
duties in the old receivership case vir-
tually were concluded in 1915. when the
road was sold and reorganized.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
LEAGUE LOAN POST
GIVEN AMERICAN
Wadsworth, Former Treasury Aide,
Joins Committee Acting on
Defaults.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 21.-Eliot
Wadsworth, former Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, has been appointed to
serve on the League Loans Committee
of London, which Is seeking to clear up
defaulted foreign loans which had the
sanction of the League of Nations, 1t
was learned yesterday.
Wadsworth is the first American to
be named to the committee, which is
seeking to bring about cooperation
among all creditors of countries which
received the moral support of the
League of Nations in obtaining inter-
national loans.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
SORE THROAT FATAL

TOLEDO, Ohio, November al lR.-
Dr. Henry John Doermann, AZ, presi-
dent Of the University of Toledo, died
yesterday of complications from septic
sore throat. He was native of North
Carolina. His posts included the di-
rectorste of Hampton Normal and In
,dustrial School. Hampton Va. -.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
Piano Is Given to School.

GLENN DALE. Md, November II
(SpeciaD Through the efforts Of
Miss Ethel Regan, county home demon
stration agent, piano has been given
the Glenn Dale School by Mrs. Claude
Warren of Riverdale. The money which
the school raised TO buy piano win
20 for books.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
HOOVER WON'T VETO
BEER LEGISLATION,
BRITTEN DECLARES

Continued From First Page.)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-29
HANFORD HAPPENINGS
(By Mrs. M. R. Slavens)

newick Monday afternoon to take w.
H. Burton, who had been suffering
from an attack of the flu and was
in need of hospital treatment.
Mrs. j. H. Evett spent Christmas
with her father in Walla Walla, going
down Friday and returning Monday.
The Masons have leased the old
Christian church building and have
been busy this week renovating it, SO
that 1t may be used as meeting place
for their lodge and for the Eastert
Star chapter.
The G. II. Young family have re-
turned from Prosser, where they spent
Christmas.
The Misses Hannah and Edith De-
Rigio were Christmas Day guests at
the Moffatt home.
January will be Visiting Day at
the Hanford high school, From 2:3o
to 800 p. m. the student body will hold
a meeting for their parents and friends
From 800 to $3.50 the Girls club will
serve tea.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-29
Lack Of Faith
Greatest Evil

One of the greatest evils resulting
from the present economic condition,
says John Dover, president of the John
Dover Lumber company, is the lack OF
faith in the future that has instilled
itself so firmly in the minds OF so
many business leaders. This condition
must be corrected before our country
can march on to new heights and
greater achievements. Faith and cour-
age should be our guides, especially to
those of us who are producers, the sue
cess of whom, means the success of
Our state.
"The rapid growth of commerce in
the Atlantic which made cities like
New York, Boston and Philadelphia"
says Mr.. Dover, "is now in active pro-
cess of duplication in the Pacific
Northwest. So near to us is this golden
era of the Pacific, that even the most
discouraged should take heart and
with new faith and courage bend our
efforts towards realization of this
greater goal"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-29
w. j. KINCAID,
VIM. S. WEBER,
G.. T. SLAVENS,
Board of Directors of Priest
Rapids Irrigation District.
Attest: D. S. WILKINSON,
Secretary
DISTRICT SEAL)
NOTICE OF HEARING

In the Superior Court of the State OF
Washington in and for Benton
County.
In the matter of the Estates OF
CRUDELI j. and CAROLINE DE-
REGIO, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to
order of the above entitled court, that
the Final Account and Report of Jo-
seph j. Deregio, as administrator of
the above entitled estates, has been
filed with the clerk of said court and
together Herewith and as a part there
of, his petition asking the court to
settle, allow and approve said Report
and praying that the property of said
estates be distributed according to law
and for his discharge as administrator,
and that Thursday, the 18th day of
January, 1888, at the hour of $50
o'clock in the forenoon at the Court
house at Prosser, Benton County,
Washington, has been designated and
appointed by the court as the time ana
place for the hearing of said final
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-29
Is ZEAL

r~~~<N>~-NNrN~N-~@~N ~~~~N~~>>N>N~~N~<N~S
NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO FILE
CLAIMS
In the Superior Court of the State Of
Washington for Benton County.
GIN PROBATE)
In the matter of the Estates of
RAYMOND COPELAND, Deceased
and VERA COPELAND, Deceased
Consolidated.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
letters of administration on the Estates
of Raymond Copeland, deceased, and
Vera Copeland, deceased, were granted
to the undersigned on the 5th day of
July, 1882, by the said Superior Court.
All persons having claims against
said estate, arerequired to serve them
with the necessary vouchers upon me
at the Office of Moulton & Powell, in
Kennewick, Washington, within six
months after the date of the first pub
lication of this notice, to-Wit, within
six months after the 9th day of De-
cember, 1892, and file the same with
the clerk of this Court together with
proof of such service, or they shall be
forever barred.
Dated at KenneWick, Wash, this 9Th