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Evening star., 1933-10-20
REYNOLDS MILLIONS
ARGUED IN COURT
SIS, 100000 Charitable Foundation
Proposed and Agreed To by
Smith Reynolds Heirs.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
RALEIGH, N c., october 90
The North Carolina Supreme Court
heard arguments today on the proposed
distribution Of Smith Reynolds share
of his fathers tobacco millions. under
which a charitable foundation of from
$4,000, 900 to s2O,ooo,oOO would be es-
tablished.
The proposal, agreed to by his heirs
and relatives, would establish trust
funds of S2,O00,000 for his little daugh-
ter, Anne Cannon Reynolds, I'd, and his
posthumous son, child of Libby Holman
Reynolds, former Broadway torch singer
Mrs Reynolds would receive $500,O00
the same amount given Anne Cannon
Reynolds, his first wife, when she and
Smith were divorced. The remainder of
his share CT his fathers estate would
be used for the charitable foundation
The agreement was opposed by the
Cabarrus Bank & Trust Co. of Concord
co-guardian of baby Anne Reynolds
Mrs Annie L. Cannon of Concord, the
child's grandmother and the other CO.
guardian, agreed to it.
The Cabarrus County Superior Court
approved the proposed settlement and
the bank appealed to the State Supreme
Court.
Evening star., 1933-10-20

(Contlnued From First PageD
Conference continues to remain nom
inally in existence, every cOuntry-in.
cluding the small states which hereto
fore have not found it necessary to in
crease their armaments-have started
on an intense armament race. Little
countries like Switzerland. Denmark
and Sweden. have asked their respective
parliaments to vote increased approprl-
ations for their armies and war ma
terial.
England Ready to Act.
Great Britain is now preparing its
public to make further financial sacrl-
fees to increase its aviation and the
navy. Similar steps are taken IN all
other European countries, although they
are less publicly advertised.
The fear that new war may eaten
any nation unprepared is spreading
rapidly and peace loving citizens like
those of Switzerland and Denmark arc
ready to loosen the strings Of their
purses to give the government the
necessary means for defensive prepara-
tions. -
In this atmosphere, 1t is said, 1t would
be almost ridicu' Gus to continue taking
reduction of ornaments.
Almost without exception, the nations
which are still represented at Geneva
consider a further adjournment OF the
conference as the only reasonable
course, and this adjournment Will be
passed on October 26, when the next
plenary meeting is scheduled.
Evening star., 1933-10-20

It means Jones own examiners will
make their own separate investigation
of each closed bank. Assets will be
scrutinized under the strong microscope
the r. F. c. uses on all who want to
borrow money from it. The easy ex-
animation policy of the Treasury is out.
The Jones process will take months
and perhaps years.
Must Show Something.
The story is going around that Jones
sympathies or the big thaw move can
be registered at about 80 degrees below
zero. That seems to be an eXaggera-
tion.
Jones' friends say he is in favor of
conmon-sense business-like methods of
appraisal He does not believe the
money should be doled out in phil2n-
thropic way merely to create purchas-
ing power.
Any one iDho iUGnts to get any
of his money Uiu haze to Show
something tor it. No one can
criticize that
Bruere has been left so much out in
the cold by the Jones maneuver that
they are trying to warm his heart with
rumors. One is that he will get Treas
ury Secretary Woodin's Job. another
that he will succeed Gov. Black OF tho
Federal Reserve. The last one may
come true Black is eager to get far away
from Washington as soon as the Presi-
dent will let him go. Bruere would fill
Blacks shoes amply.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
LEAGUE ACTS ASSAILED.
Semi Official Press Organ Explains
Germany's Withdrawal

BERLIN, October 20 CP.-Germany
withdrew from the League of Nations
not only because of the failure" of the
World Disarmament Conference, but
because the League had become a
forum for Jews and Marxists,' it was
asserted today in a statement by the
emi-ofhcial Wolff News Agency.
The statement followed close on the
heels Of the governments official noti-
flcation to the secretary of the League
at Geneva that the Reich was with
drawing In accordance with plans an
nounced week ago.
The League of Nations lost the right
to represent the civilized world because
1t mad become an anti-Fascist mass
meeting and platform for Jewish and
Marxistic oratory." the statement as
serted
Germany will no longer participate
IN such assemblies, which are a carica-
'ture on international cooperation"
Then, declaring that the official noti-
ncat1on leaves no doubt of Germany's
attitude, the statement continued:
The exit from the League is the logi-
cal consequence of the failure of the
Disarmament Conference, which, for
mally Independent, in reality was only
an instrument of the League"
Reviewing League failures, the state
ment said the Sino-Japanese conflict
had raised doubts everywhere concern
ing the Leagues efficacy and had has
tened Germany's decision to withdraw.
Besides the negative results of the
Disarmament Conference, the decisive
factor was the impression of the last
League of Nations meeting-where a
number Of states, in violation of all
usages and with the sole desire to pose,
made attempts to interfere with in
ternal German politics" 1t declared.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
PRAISES SUCCESS
Of WOMAN VOTERS
League President Reports on
Efforts Concerning State
Legislation During Year.

Efforts of the National League of
Women Voters in supporting and op-
posing State legislation have been un-
usually successful during the past year,
Miss Belle Sherwin. president, reported
today to the leagues Executive Com
mittee. meeting here this week.
In a summary of the work OF the 80
affiliated State leagues during 1888
legislative sessions, Miss Sherwin stated
that of 293 bills supported, 145 or 49
per cent were passed. and that of 13o
bills opposed, 103 or 70 per cent were
defeated.
The largest number of bills supported
by the league related to child welfare.
There were II of these measures en-
acted. Fifty-one bills supported and
passed were concerned with the struc-
ture and functions of Government.
Forty bills seriously crippling educa-
tional facilities were opposed and rs of
these were defeated.
Scarcely a State league" said Miss
She-win, escaped the necessity of de-
Tending educational standards. Over
one-half Of the leagues reporting sup
ported appropriations for maternity and
infancy hygiene work and in eight of
the nine States which ratified the child
labor amendment the league actively
participated in its passage. Ten State
leagues defeated bills breaking down
the direct primary laws. In nine States
the league successfully fought against
bills providing for discharge of married
women workers. In three of the seven
States where minimum wage laws were
passed the league was an important
factor in the outcome"
The Indiana League of Women Voters
ranked first among the State leagues
in percentage of success. Seven of the
nine bills it supported in the legislative
session were enacted.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
PUBLIC WORKS SUM
GIVEN ARLINGTON
$4,392,500 Goes to Office of
National Parks for
". Construction. IL

Arlington National Cemetery and the
battle-ground National Cemetery at 6625
Georgia avenue are included in a group
of allotments for improvements IN ma
tional parks and reservations an
nounced by the Public Works Admins
tration.
A total of 81, 1892 500 was handed the
ONCE of National Parks, Buildings and
Reservations of the Interior Depart
ment. which included 81 400 for drain
age at the battle-ground National Gem
etery.
Also in this group were awards for
reservations in Maryland and Virginia
The former. totaling $500. included
allotments Of $25, 900 to Antietam Bat
tlefield, $2.500. Antietam National Gem
etery, and $4,000 for roads at Fort
McHenry.
In Virginia. where $1,421 800 is to be
spent, $050,00 will 60 for new con-
struction, roads and trails, and ST., 100
for q water system at the Fredericks-
burg g-Spotsylvania Battlefield; 1898, 900
will 60 to buildings, repair and roads
at Petersburg National Military Park;
$1,000 will 60 for reconstruction Of the
Colonial National Monument, and 5000
for an entrance road to Fredericksburg
National Cemetery.
In a series of allotments to the
quartermaster general of the War De-
partment for SO national cemeteries,
totaling $557.16l, Arlington will receive
s232.299 for Improvements to roads,
buildings. monuments and walls.
Four other national cemeteries in Vir-
ginia will receive the following allot-
ments: Alexandria, repairs to lodge,
$3.50: Culpeper. repairs to walks, $500;
Hampton, extension of cemetery,
$50, 600, and Staunton, garage, $500.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
STATE INSPECTORS
TO SPEED UP WORKS
Administration to Appoint List to
Cooperate With Advisory
Boards.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne hSSOClhtcO freSS
State inspectors. charged with
speeding up the public works pro-
gram in non-Federal projects. are to
be named by the Public Works Ad-
ministration to cooperate with the
checking up applications for cash
awards
No appointees have yet been named
but Col. H. NJ Waite, deputy admin
istrator. now absent from Washington
is expected to have the set-up ready
within the next few days.
The move was said by some officials
to have resulted in part from numer-
Gus protests to the administration
against delays in spreading over the
country the actual cash from the So
300o00,000 public works fund. ovrr
half of which already has been allc-
Gated
The inspectors would be expected
to check up on project applications, SO
that so-called red tape might be cut
in an effort to expedite the actual dis
tribution of the money, thus putting
men to work.
The inspectors were expected to De
Federal employees. although working
with the State boards They would be
responsible to Washington headquar-
tiers of the Public Works organization.
Under the plan there would be one
Inspector for each State. but more
might be appointed in congested areas,
if deemed necessary to hasten work
Allotments totaling S12,325, ,683 were
made by the Public Works Admins
tration yesterday and today. Officials
estimated they provide 83,807 man.
months of employment.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
GASOLINE CONTROL
ORDERED BY |CKES
Threatens to Close Down
! Wells to Stop Excess Oil
Production.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of Interior Ickes yesterday
issued an order directed at controlling
gasoline as well as crude oil production.
He said he would stop excess oil pro-
duction by closing down wells if neces-
sary.
The Secretary, appointed by President
Roosevelt as oil administrator. instruct
ed his department to divide the Nation
into proper refining districts and au.
thorized the industry's Planning and
Co-or mating Committee to recommend
to every refiner the production found
desirable.
To Organize Regional Groups.
The committee. composed CT leading
oil executives, also was directed 10 Or
panize whatever regional groups may De
necessary to enforce the recommenoa-
tions. Violations of them were mace
an unfair practice punishable py law:
The Industry. for which an elaborate
schedule of prices has been fixed, to be
effective December l. now Is operating
under controlled crude production anu
a set of unfair practice rules covering
almost every angle of operation.
The Secretary has instigated suits
AGAINST producers of oil illegally pro-
duced and ag-inst cutthroat price op-
orators and has announced his readl-
ness to defend the oil price structure
in the courts.
The order yesterday was another step
In regulating the amount OF cruoe OIL
that NAV be refined into gasoline dur
ing a given period to prevent the ac-
cumulation of excess gasoline inven-
tories.
The first statistical report compiled
under the oil code on Oil stocks, made
public yesterday by Ickes, showed total
stocks of BAT .699 900 barrels on october
"a as compared to 348, ,739 900 on Oc-
tober land 45,Ol9,000 on August 81,
the first reporting date under the code.
Total domestic crude on August 81
was $40, ,987 900 barrels; foreign crude,
4O32,OO0; october 7, domestic crude,
345 ,861 900, and foreign, 2,S7o 600; oc,
tober IA, 345,079000 domestic and
2,62o,00O foreign.
Represent SO Per Cent.
These totals represent SO per cent of
all crude oil stocks except lease stocks
east of California.
The report said current oil statistics
indicated that crude oil production dur
ing the week ended October IA amounted
to 2,42O.0OO DarrelS dally. WHICH, Will
the addition of the daily average OF
112,OC1 barrels of domestic crude oil
draw from storage. showed daily
aver ~a utilization of domestic crude
oil O. 1882. 900 barrels.
Pet Jleum reflneries during the week
ended october IA refined daily aver
age of 2,445, 900 barrels. and gasoline
stocks during the week were increased
by $4,000 barrels. The report ex-
planned that the 920. 900 barrels of gaso-
line placed in storage is the equivalent
in crude oil of about 100000 barrels
daily which represents approximately
the excess throughout of crude oil at
domestic refineries during the past
week
Evening star., 1933-10-20
HUSTON ADDRESSES
COLUMBIA EDUCATORS
Miss Edith Louise Grosvenor Also
Talks at Meeting in
Dunbar High.

Charles H Huston, member of the
Board of Education, and Miss Edith
Louise Grosvenor, State director of the
National Education Association, were
guest speakers at the annual meeting of
the Columbia Educational Association
yesterday at Dunbar High School.
Officers were elected at the meeting.
Garnet C. Wilkinson. assistant su-
perintendent of schools, reported on
the convention of the National Associa-
tion of Teachers in Colored Schools in
Louisville last Summer. He spoke of
the part played by teachers of divisions
1913 of the Washington schools in
building up the national body and an
nouncsd the establishment of national
headquarters here.
A report on the National Education
Association Convention. held in Chi
oago, was made by j. c. Bruce, super
vising principal of division 49, After
the speaking program the following Off
GERS were elected:
M. Grant Lucas, principal of Worm
ley School, president; Miss Elsie Ran
dolph, principal of Washington Voca-
tional School. vice president; Miss Julia
E. Brooks. assistant principal of Dunbar
High School. secretary. and John E.
Syphax, principal of Birney School,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
JAPANESE JOIN PROTEST
AGAINST NAZI RACE BAN
Foreign Office Reveals Indignation
Over Sentiment Stronger Than
That Shown in q. S.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
TOXIC. October 20-Japan has add
ed her voice to those raised in protest
against Nazi racial discrimination.
The government and the people Of
Japan, said a foreign Office spokesman
in discussing the protest. are highly
indignant at Germany's branding us
inferior"
Germany's attention has been called,
he added, to "the fact that speeches of
Nazi leaders and legislation by the Ger
man government have specified discrim-
inatory treatment of the Jews. Negroes
and other colored races-banning mix
lures thereof with the Germanic race" !"
Even in the United States, the
spokesman went on, Japanese are not
subjected to the same treatment as
Negroes, yet Germany has linked them
in the same category.
The spokesman said the vice min
lister of the German foreign ofice had
promised careful consideration Of the
japanese protest.
Evening star., 1933-10-20

Jones has been working on another
inside scheme better than that one.
He is the kind of man who figures
out ways Of killing a whole flock OF
blackbirds with a single brick.
Turned Down by Boards.
He thought he had the New York
banking crowd cornered in favor of his
preferred bank stock plan, but they
waltzed out on him. After promising to
support his scheme they merely recon-
mended it to their boards of directors
and the boards turned it down.
Since that time Jines has been work.
ing on a certain large New York bank
to lead the way into the preferred stock
program by another route.
The bank insists it does not
need the money, but Jones has
pointed out the City OF NeU York
Let the bank take the money from
the r. F. c. and lend it to the
city, says Jones.
A deal along that line is supposed to
have been ready for announcement for
the past several days.
The whole thing will not be an
nounced as one deal. That would ruin
it,
First the bank will announce it is CO.
operating with the Jones preferred stock
plan. A few days later it may announce
the loan to the city.
The result will be success for the pre-
ferred stock plan, success for the city
of New York and no risk for the bank.
What could be sweeter?
Evening star., 1933-10-20
LIBRARIES CALLED
GUARDS OF LIBERTY
Association Warned Against Prop.
aganda Designed to Mold
Minds to Ideas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 20.-Howard M.
Jones of the University of Michigan
called Libraries and the ability to read
books the fundamental guardians of
popular liberty "in a diseased and des-
perate world" in an address prepared
for delivery before the American Library
Association today.
over the greater part Of the earth, ="
he said, "active and violent movements
are at work designed to mold the minds
of men into a single set CT ideas about
the state.
"Bolshevism, Fascism, Hitlerism,
ommunism-whatever the name, the
method in this respect is always one
it Is to destroy the circulation OF the
ideas of ones opponents and to make
propaganda for ones own ideas.
1.-The United States is still fortunate
ly to be counted in the list of those
nations where intellectual. liberty rules,
though there are uneasy indications
that the drive for regimentation OF
mems minds Is gaining ground with us.
"I count it among the fundamental
decencies of civilization that men
should everywhere have the freest pos
sible access to the knowledge OF ideas
through the ability to read and COM
prehend what they read. It Is, be-
lieve. a fundamental right. 1t Is the
charter of our freedom"
Evening star., 1933-10-20
ROOSEVELT TO Leave
FOR CHESTERTOWN
President to Get Degree at Wash.
ington Colleges Bicenten-
NAL Exercises.

President Roosevelt will motor to
Annapolis, Md. late today to board the
presidential yacht Sequoia, upon which
he will spend the night and tomorrow
journey to Chestertown, Md, to take
part in the ceremonies commemorating
the 2o0th anniversary of Washington
College.
The President will be presented with
an honorary degree of doctor of laws
and photostat copy Of similar de-
gree conferred by Washington College
upon George Washington, who was one
of the trustees
The cermonies will be held during the
forenoon tomorrow. After a luncheon
at the home of Hiram Brown, on the
outskirts of Chestertown, the President
will return to the Sequoia and spend
the week end cruising on the Chesa-
peake Bay and the Potomac River. He
expects to be back at the White House
Sunday night.
The President will be accompanied
on this expedition by Mrs. Roosevelt
and Marvin H. Mcintyre, one Of his
secretaries.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
Morgan Says Ne'o Bunk La,os
M Are Not Understood by Hin,
Financier,, Returning From Europe,
Grants Intervie,U, but Prefers to Talk of
Grouse Shooting-England Doing Well.

he said. Improvement certainly Is
well set in there. The heavy industries
are showing improvement and the
whole feeling there is that things are
better and improving.
Health Much Better.
II had six weeks Of grouse shoot
ing and uninterrupted good weather
and am feeling much improved in
health if that Is Of any interest"
He was asked if his comment on con-
ditions in England was based upon re-
ports by his own firm there.
"Yes," he said, I'VE get figures on i'm
proyement in trade and increase in en-
ployment, and it is marked. The sea-
Sonal unemployment has not taken
improvement and the basic industries
are getting better"
Isn't that good sign for all of us?"
questioned one of his interviewers.
DO you want me to prophesy?"
"Yes."
Il won't prophesy," he continued. 81
prefer to prophesy after the event"
He would not discuss Germany's
detection from the League of Nations
and the Disarmament Conference.
Universal craftsmanship, he said,
is not my business"
One Of the newspaper men told him
that 1t was now considered common
knowledge that the United States soon
would recognize Russia.
That's interesting" he said.
UNIFORMED on America.
Some bankers feel there is a ten
dency of the Government to drift to-
ward Socialism, he was told.
There again." he said, waving his
hand and putting hard on his meer-
schaum. "you are talking about an
American question and do not know
what mas been going on"
He was asked, also, about the current
inquiry into salaries received by bankers
and corporation officials
He snapped, "I'l not comment on
that"
rs there anything you can think Of,
Mr.. Morgan?"
Il can't think of thing that I want
to say" he replied
How about grouse shooting?"
"Oh. the grouse shooting is lovely"
and he sat up straight in the chair and
illustrated by gestures as he talked.
There you have those beautiful. roll
ing, heather-covered hills and passing
clouds 1t is the grandest sport there
is. OF course, a good duck shoot is
nice too."
Evening star., 1933-10-20
What's What
Behind News
in Capital.
Billion to Be Free d
Slowly to Banks
Under Jones.
BY PAUL MALLON.

r NFREEZING that billion dollars
in closed banks is going to be
a much more careful process
~ than the current ballyhoo
would indicate
1t is not going to be anything like
the breakup of the ST. Lawrence River
jam in May but more like the dripping
of ink from the frozen fountain pen OF
Jesse Jones. He will see to that.
The R. F. c. chairman has
phenagled things around on the
inside so he uiu be in complete
charge. He grounded out Henry
Bruere (Bo1oery Bank president)
and the Treasury officials tOho
had zig thaUing ideas.
And he did it after President Roose-
welt himself had picked Bruere for tce
job.
Will Examine Each Bank.
The way Jones operated was to work
things around so that r. F. c. money
would be used for the job. That was
not hard to do, because the Federal
Reserve banks decided their funds were
not available for such a purpose.
If Jones was going to be compelled to
use R. F. c. money, he wanted the say
so on how it was used. His argument
was unassailable.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 20.-J. p. Nor
gan, Americas most noted banker, was
in a quandary about the new banking
laws as he returned on the Berengaria
today from sojourn Of three months
In Europe.
1T is the business Of banks to obey
the law" he said. "but don't know yet
what that means"
Morgan's interview was the first he
ever granted to ship news reporters.
He talked enthusiastically about i'm
provement in England but declined to
comment on the N. r. A. or anything
that had been going on In his own
country.
Don't you see," he said, "I want to
those who do know what's going on"
do you feel" he was asked, that
private bankers will have to concentrate
on investment banking rather than
commercial banking as the result OF the
new banking law?"
Would Understand First.
when went away three months
ago." he replied, Il said didn't know
what the new laws meant and that we
would have to find out f1rst and then
do whatever we are supposed to do"
He was told that another banker had
stated the new banking law was 'im-
possible" and would have to be rewrit-
ten.
''If it makes banking impossible then
1t is hardly worth while to have bank
ing, Is it?" he said.
Morgan sat with his legs crossed
in a deep chair in the parlor of his
suite.
He folded his hands in front of him
and rubber them around and around
A meerschaum pipe, which he smoked
was. he said, one Of series that
keep going all the time"
He was extremely affable and he fire.
quently chuckled. often letting q
chuckle stand as his only answer to a
question He explained his former
reluctance to grant interviews with q
never could see the sense in seeing
the boys when had nothing to say
He added that he did want to be polite
however.
In declining to discuss any phase
Of the N. r. A., he said. II don't know
enough about it."
England is getting on very WELL