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Evening star., 1933-10-27
R. F. c. BUYS GOLD
AT NEW HIGH PRICE
Payment of $31.76 66 Cents
Above London Figure
in Manipulation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
A price of $31.76 an ounce for Re-
construction Finance Corporation pur-
chases Of newly mined gold was an
nounced today at the Treasury. This
is % cents higher than that Of yes
terday and Sc cents above the London
quotation.
The price for the metal had been
freshly advanced on the London mar
ket to the equivalent Of S3110 an
ounce on the basis of the s4741i
valuation of the pound at the opening
there.
The Roosevelt administration. with
each successive daily quotation, has
set the domestic price higher.
Wednesday. with the Inauguration
Of this policy, price Of $3l.36 was
established, and yesterday it was
$31.54
These figures compared with the
following world prices: 3l.O9, s3l .06
and $3ll0.
Silent on Formula.
Administration officials would net
reveal whether any particular formula
had been prescribed for the determina-
tion of the daily figure
As on yesterday and the day before
today's quotation was decided upon by
Chairman Jesse Jones of the Recon-
Henry MOrgenthau, jr., representing the
President, meeting with Acting Secre-
tary Acheson at the Treasury
In conjunction with his gold program,
a $5OOOOOOO lever for lifting commodity
prices is in President Roosevelt's hands.
ready for spending in shaping colds
The Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton made this account available TO
finance the dollar-control policy. 1t
was in Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion notes, purchaSeable in newly
mined gold. and made quickly con"
vertible into cash by the face declara-
tion that they are fully and uncon-
ditionally guaranteed by the United
States"
Just how much gold will be needed
to buy these notes-which mature Feb
ruary /. 1894. and on which gold owners
will get one-quarter of l per cent per
annum discount-was not certain. 1t
may vary from day to day.
Legality supported.
In pushing the price of gold sttl
higher. the administration is supported
by a formal opinion from Attorney
General Cummings upholding the legal
ity Of the method chosen for carrying
out the new monetary policy.
Nevertheless, news from the COM
modify markets yesterday brought the
first reverse in the campaign. Wheat
fell of to 3 cents a bllShel, cotton
so to IS cents bale, and leading
stocks 81 to 50 a share.
officials. however. expressed no dis
couragement A steady continuation
of the upward trend of Monday and
Tuesday was hardly to have been ex-
pected, they said. They saw nothing
in the days developments to indicate
that the economic theory behind Mr..
Roosevelts policy was unsound.
Yesterday also saw the issuance OF
an executive order by President Roose-
welt. authorizing the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to make the gold
purchases, and the publication OF
Treasury regulations instructing mints
and assay Offices in the manner in
which gold is to be handled.
Both the executive order and the
regulations, although issued yesterday,
were dated Wednesday, when the new
gold operations began. This. 1t was
Continued on Page g Column ~
Evening star., 1933-10-27
CAFE OWNER KILLED
BY SIX GANGSTERS
Patsy Damato Slain, Police Say,
Because He Failed to Pay
Gambling Concession.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 27-Six method
ical killers assassinated Patsy Damato,
80. today as he sat in his North Side
cafe. playing cards.
Suddenly six men at the bar turned
toward him as If by a signal. One
of them said: You dirty double
crosser. you won't get away from US
this time"
One of the killers fired, and Damato
fell with a bullet wound in the head.
Three more shots were fired into his
body. then the gunmen filed out OF
the place.
Police said Damato probably had in
CURED the ire of gangsters by op-
Grating gambling concessions IN the
cafe without paying for the privilege:
A previous attempt to kill him had
been reported several weeks ago.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
Roosevelt Phones, Sauing Man
lust Before Execution Time
Grants T'oo-Doy Repriere -Four Minutes
Before COlOred Prisoner Was Seized.
uled to Die at Jail Here.

Just four minutes before he was to
die in the electric chair at the District
jail this morning, the life of Charles
Edward Washington. convicted colored
murderer, was spared for at least two
days due to a personal telephone call
from President Roosevelt to Thomas M,
Rives, superintendent of the Jail.
The call came at 9:56 am. as Mr..
RiveS sat in his Office awaiting compile
tion of final preparations for the cleo
trocution.
President Roosevelt said recommen-
dat;on of Solicitor General James NJ
Biggs had led him to stay execution of
the death sentence for two days while
new evidence in the case is investigated
At 10 o'clock William C. Robinson,
another colored man convicted with
Washington for the murder of Mamie
Evening star., 1933-10-27
DEBT NEGOTlATORS
MAY CUT VISIT HERE
British Reported to Be Dissatisfied
With Progress-0fficials
Silent.
BY the Associated Press.


Unconfirmed rumors in diplomatic
circles today suggested the British war
debt negotiatorS were dissatisfied with
their progress and contemplated re-
turning to London.
When questioned Secretary of State
Hull referred newspaper men to the
Treasury, but officials there declined to
comment, other than to say another
meeting of the negotiators was sched-
uled next week.
Both Hull and Acting Secretary
Acheson of the Treasury conferred with
President Roosevelt today. Their topics
were not divulged
Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Am
bassador, had talked at length with
Secretary Hull this morning.
The debt discussions have been held
once or twice weekly for the past
three weeks.
Hull declined to confirm or deny
that Sir Ronald had brought up the
debts matter with him, although stat
ing that much Of their conference had
been occupied with what he termed
minor matter.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
,W0,OOO,OOO
Gold Lost Since
Discovery Voyage
Enormous amount Dis.
appears During 40
Years, US. Estimates.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Lost-five hundred million ounces Of
gold
This enormous amount. which would
be worth approximately $4,000 000,-
100000 at present prices. has disap
peared from the world during the past
440 years since the discovery of the
New World, according to United States
Bureau of Mines statistics.
The total production. up to the end
of 1882, is estimated at approximately
1.10e 800. 600 ounces. OF this. according
to the latest world figures available
there are 4O7.000.000 ounces left. A
total of 536. .563,329 ounces cannot be
accounted for. These are the figures
for 1927. but they cannot have essen
tally changed today. ..y-
Some Of the vanished gold-but prob
ably very small part Of the total
has disappeared into graves the world
CONTINUED on Page S, Column So
Evening star., 1933-10-27
DUCE SEES HOPE FOR World
IN FASCISM, NOV II YEARS OLD

around the ideas and realities Of the
revolution and face with abnegation and
discipline the hardships of the present.
The levies of youth, strong in spirit
and muscles, rise up without uncer-
tainty in their hearts and are ready
for a call to whatsoever sacrifice
I'VE march into the twelfth year of
fascism with full fervor and enthusiasm
of the proposition more decisive than
ever
Even at the beginning of the twelfth
year, the revolution will make step
forward, creating new labor disciplining
the economic forces, and making them
adequate to the necessities of the ma
ton.
Without alterations or involutions,
We 60 ahead, step by step, according
to Roman custom. and give the world
an example never before seen in its
history of q constructive revolution
which continues develops and evolves
as a daily creation Of the spirit and
will of the people,"
Evening star., 1933-10-27
HULL DELAYS TOUR
To MEET LITvINOFF
Secretary of State Will Sail One
Week Later Than Planned
for Montevideo.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Of State Hull today post
poned sailing next Saturday on good
will trip down the west coast of South
America and will leave week later
with the American delegation to the
Pan American Conference at Monte
video, Uruguay, sailing down the east
coast.
The suddenly rearranged plans will
permit the Secretary of State to meet
and confer with Maxim Litvinof,
Soviet commissar for foreign affairs,
who left Moscow last night on a recog-
milton mission to the United States.
Hull said his desire to meet Litvinof
was only one of several reasons for re-
shaping his plans. What he termed a
collection of problems remained to be
cleared up before he could sail, he
added
It was disclosed at the State De-
partment today that one feminine dele
gate might be named for the Monte
video meeting. Any hint of her name
was withheld, however, with the state
ment that final choice Of the delegation
now rested with President Roosevelt
and would be announced by him.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
MURDER 80 YEARS AGO
CONFESSED BY COUSIN
"Just Want to Get It Off My
Mind" Says Louisiana Rancher,
Surrendering to Police.

By the Associated Press.
MARSHALL, N c., October 81
Bronzed and looking years younger
than his age, James Lunsford, So
year-old Louisiana rancher, was back
in his native hills today to face a
murder charge from which he fled 80
years ago. Surrendering at the sheriff s
Office yesterday, Lunsford announced
he was wanted for the fatal shooting
of his cousin, Bud Lunsford, in 1900.
II know I was justified" he was
quoted as saying. but I just wanted
to get this thing cleared up and get
it of my mind" He told Officers he
had been living in Louisiana for more
than 80 years and had become we'll
to-do in the cattle business.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
LOYAL TROOPS CRUSH
SIAMESE REBELLION
Prince and Family Escape by Plane
as Insurgents Are Routed.
Many Killed.

BY the Associated Press.
BANGKOK, october 27.-Govern-
ment success in quelling the revolt un-
derway in Siam for several days was
believed assured today as the rebels
fed toward the northeast frontier be-
fore the drive of loyal troops.
The Korat district. the seat of the
rebellion, was occupied by government
forces.
Prince Bovaradej. the rebel COM
mander. and his family escaped by air
plane.
Many insurgents were killed or
wounded.
Business and shipping returned to
normal here.
Evening star., 1933-10-27

Solomon. a taxi driver. in a hold-up
on July %, 1881, marched to the chair,
not knowing his companion had been
spared.
Washington was unaware of his good
fortune until after he had heard the
hum of dynamOs as a charge of 1900
volts was sent into Robinson's body.
When Capt. M. M. Barnard, super
intendent of District penal institutions.
went to Washington's cell to tell him
the news, the colored man fell on his
knees In an attitude of prayer and cried,
God bless the President. God knows
I am innocent"
Rev. James L. Pinn. colored minister,
who has acted as spiritual adviser to
the condemned men, told Jail officials
Robinson confessed last night he had
actually done the shooting in the mur-
der. He said Robinson wanted WASH
ington to be saved because he hated
to take an innocent man to the chair
with him"
Previously President Roosevelt had
Continued on Page S, Column 3D.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROME, october 27.-Fascism is the
hope, of the world" Premier Mussolini
says in a message to the Black Shirts
which is to be read in every town IN
Ttaiv tomorrow on the eleventh ami
versary ves Of the Fascist march on Rome
The message reads: The eleventh
year of the regime closes with an i'm
posing balance OF works ana events:
One Of them is the decennial aerial
cruise, which has been the exaltatlon
of the revolution in the skies, ana
strated of what stuff is this new Fascist
The world of doctrines, against
which even from March, 1913, Fascism
rose, is retreating and capItulaung
everywhere. In Italy it is now far away
and squelched even In memory
"The Italian people" the message
continued, "are pressing ever closer
Evening star., 1933-10-27
CONVICT HUNTERS
INSTRUCTED TO KILL
Indiana En|iSts 620 Guards
men in Roundup of
Bank Bandits.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy lLc ASSO(Idttu fTeSS.
INDIANAPOLIS. October 27-The
State has decided to use its own trigger
men in an attempt to trip up the con-
vict gang that has roved Indiana and
Ohio since the Michigan City Prison
break a month ago.
Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub ordered
into service 10 officers and $50 enlisted
men of the Indiana National Guard.
selecting for duty men with expert
Workmanship ratings.
; A plan for using the Guardsmen was
evolved by Al Feeney, State safety di-
rector, and approved by Gov. Paul ".
McNutt The troops will be stationed
at A strategic centers in small squads,
each under a captain.
Feeney issued a warning to minor
criminals that all officers engaged in
the hunt had been ordered to shoot to
kill, and said those comporting them
selves as desperadoes may well under
stand that law enforcement officials
have no time to distinguish between
those who are attempting to trade on
the reputation of violence gangs and
those actually sought
Will Be Sworn As Deputies.
To prevent any controversy over their
authority. it was arranged tnat tne
Guardsmen be sworn in as deputy
sheriffS. At their disposal will be the
machine guns. rifles, side arms and tear
- In
Authorities were convinced the con-
vict gang is still in the State There
we're reports to police yesterday that
members of the gang had been seen
and some of these reports had marks
of authenticity. officers said.
The decision to use National GUARDS
men in the bandit hunt followed closely;
the entrance of Federal Department OF
Justice agents into the search.
Feeney decided TO defer acceptance OF
Indiana American Legionnaires to form
a shotgun army to assist civil authorl.
ties v M Armstrong, department
commander appointed a committee TO
study methods whereby the Legionnaires
could give assistance in the convict
chase.
Capt. Matt Leach of the State police
continued a relentless search Tor the
gang which he believes now consists of
at least 10 desperate men bound by oath
never to be captured alive.
Eight Still at Large.
The eight felons still at large after
the prison break of September 26 have
been joined by other former prisoners,
Capt. Leach declared
Harry Pierpont, one of the escaped
felons. is believed to have assumed
leadership of the convicts.
While Central Indiana authorities
continued investigation of recent bank
robberies at Greencastle, Fillmore and
Modoc. Chief of Police John B. Kues-
pert of South Bend went to Peoria, ILL.,.
Continued on Page 2. Column y
Evening star., 1933-10-27
L|Tv|N0FF MISSION
D|STURBS JAPAN
Departure From Russia Is
Shrouded in Secrecy; Toxic
to Watch Developments.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Although Maxim Litvinoff, the dele
gate of the SovietS, who will discuss
with President Roosevelt the question of
Russia's recognition. is on his way to
Washington. his trip is shrouded with
such secrecy that even the State De-
partment does not know yet how many
members the Russian delegation will
contain.
Because of the political speculation
IN connection with the pending recogni-
tion of Russia. it appears that Moscow
wants to keep the movements of its
representative as confidential as pos
sible. And there is no doubt that when
Moscow wants to keep something con-
fidential it can do so.
1t is not expected here that the Rus
sian official delegation will be very i'm
posing. Besides Litvinoff it is believed
that there will be only two or three
more high Soviet officials who are con-
versant with the problems which the
PRESIDENT Will have to discuss with Lit
Vlnot and on which the recognition de-
penos. Other specialists will follow after
an Official recognition has been extended
to Russia.
Various interpretations.
But while the Soviet government
maintains the strictest secrecy regard
ing its plans in Washington in diplo-
matte circles there are all kind of in
terpretations placed on the future rela-
tons between the United States and the
Soviet republic
Some European countries while ad-
mlttlng that politically, the recognition
OF the Sovlets might improve the gen.
eral political situation in Europe, Ger
1a'n countries might lose the Russian
markets because the United States is
In better position to extend long term
credits to the Moscow government.
IN Japan, however, the pending reC0g.
milton is regarded with a great deal of
apprehension. Although the officials of
the Toxic foreign office have made
statements to the effect that they con-
slider the renewal of American Russian
diplomatic relations as a help to the
general situation in the Far East, Jap
anese diplomats abroad and the mill
tary clique in Toxic have shown dis
tinctly that they are worried about the
possibility of an American Russian rap
proachement. The vernacular papers
and the propaganda quarters in Japan
have been discussing at length lately
the potential menace to Japan as a re-
suit Of the two republics which have
vital interests in the Pacific getting to-
gether again after so many years Of
rift
Interfere With Japanese Plans.
1t is an open secret that the Japa-
nese war Office considers the eventual
occupation of the maritime provinces
in Siberia as an essential part of the
Continued on Page g Column 81
Evening star., 1933-10-27
CASES TO BE PUSHED.
Cummings Orders Immediate Prosecu
ton of All Hoarders.

Attorney General Cummings has in
structed all district attorneys to pro-
ceed as soon as possible against vio-
lators of Mr. Roosevelt's antl-hoardlng
order.
Persons having quantities of the yel-
low metal in excess of $1OO were re-
quired to file returns showing the
amount held, and then to diveSt them
selves of it, under the executive order
of August %.
Mr. Cummings was reluctant to re-
sort to prosecutions, but felt that the
utmost had been obained from his pre-
vious method of persuading gold hoard
ers to turn in their holdings.
BY persuasion, the department had
succeeded in having $40,000,000 thus
turned in to the Government.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
TWO GOLD HOARDER
ARRESTS IN BOSTON
Municipal Clerk Charged With
Failure to Report $4,000.
Cummings Pushes Cases.
BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 27.--Gerald T.

Driscoll, 80, a Municipal Department
clerk earning 81 900 year. and Edward
Spiegel a State street lawyer, were ar
rested today as gold hoarders. They
were the first New Englanders arrested
under the gold boarding law.
Driscoll was charged in failure to re-
port that he had $4,000 in gold. and
Federal officials said the detailed charges
against Spiegel would be made public
later
Driscoll was taken into custody as
he was about to enter the office OF
the overseer of the poor, where he is
employed. and the warrant was served
on Spiegei while he appeared as counsel
in Municipal Court case.
The indictments against the men.
both of which were secret. charged that
Driscoll withdrew $4,000 in gold from
the Federal Reserve Bank on March
2 and another $4,000 March 3.
1t was reported at the Federal Build
ing that the chief allegation against
Speigel was that he withdrew $4,000
in gold coin from the Federal Reserve
Bank February % and later failed to
report it.
CASES TO BE PUSHED.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
Gets S3.433 for Loss of Eye.

COVINGTON, KY, october 27 (F1.-
A verdict for s3,433 damages for the
loss of his right eye. struck by a golf
club that slipped from the hands of
his golfing partner. F. E. Reusch has
been awarded j. B. Bertke of Caving-
ton by a Jury here. Bertke sought
S11,175 damages.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
FARM STRIKE FOES BAND.
Anti Holiday Group Organizes to Move
Products.

Anti-Holi Group Organizes to Move
Products.
Py the Associated Press
Dissention apparently has entered the
ranks Of some farmers in the strike
called by the National Farmers Holiday
Association to boost prices
An anti-holiday association was the
object of group Of Southwestern Iowa
farmers meeting at Glenwood They
took preliminary steps yesterday to
form an organization whose business
would be to keep farm products going to
market
Milo Reno, president Of the Holiday
group. today called a meeting Of the
associations Executive Board Sunday
to outline a program Of farm relief
proposals for presentation Monday to
a conference of Midwestern Governors
here.
Meanwhile. in Wisconsin. where the
cooperative milk pool went ahead with
preparations for milk embargo more
dairies were closed and others were eX-
pected to shut down later.
The milk pool embargo. scheduled to
start Tuesday. was opposed by the di-
rectorS of the Milwaukee Cooperative
Producers Association.
Other developments were:
The Executive Committee Of the Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation approved the
administrations corn-hog reduction
program, Offering aid.
Opposition to picketing was declared
by the executive board of the Nebraska
Farmers Holiday Association.
National GuardSmen deputized by
Sheriff William Demoss of Mills County
to keep open bridge over the Mis-
souri, River at PIattsmouth, Nebr.. were
withdrawn.
Wheat Embargo Refused.
BOISE. Idaho. october 27 GP).-Gov,
declined to join in the wheat embargo
proclaimed by Gov. william LANCER of
North Dakota
Il advised him 1 could see little ad-
vantage in the plan," the Governor
said
BATH. S. c.. October 81 [R-State
highway police clashed withsa group of
p1cketers at the Bath mill Of the Loring
chain of mills here today and hurled
tear gas bombs to scatter crowds which
were seeking to prevent workers from
entering the mill.
The pickets appeared at the mill as
the morning shift started to work
There were few minor disorders, and
three were known to be injured.
The mill continued operations. al
though with somewhat curtailed force
After committee of workers had ap-
pealed for protection" Gov. Blackwood
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
Austria Bars German Papers.

VIENNA, October 27 R.-Sixteen
German newspapers and illustrated
weeklies, including the Berliner Illus
trierte, the Muenchner Illustrierte and
Simplicissimus, today were barred from
Austria for one year.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
ADDS 1850 EMPLOYEES
Standard of Jersey Pay Rolls Up
S1,333. 900 Under Code.

NEW YORK. October q R.-The
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey today
reported that since adoption OF the Oil
added 1850 employees, at an additional
wage and salary cost of $1,333,000 an
nually.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
British Correspondent Is Still in
Jail on Treason Charge.

MUNICH, Bavaria, October q (P.-
The British consul today was allowed
to see Noel Penter. British correspond
ent who was arrested in connection with
his report of a speech by Chancellor
Hitler last Sunday.
Penter remains in Jail facing a high
treason trial on charge of violating
article 90 of the penal code.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
South Carolina Governor Or
ders Machine Gun Company
to Aiken County.
AUGUSTA IDLE SEEK
TO CLOSE UP PLANTS
Tear Gas Bombs Scatter Pickets
at Bath-Workers' Cry for
Protection Needed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. c., October 27.-Gov.
Blackwood today ordered out South
Carolina National Guard company to
protect mills in Aiken County from an
invasion by Augusta, Ga, strikers seek
ing to close them.
Charles H. Gerald. secretary to the
Governor. said Company H of New
Brookland had been ordered to the
scene.
The unit is machine gun company
of the 118th Infantry and will mobilize
with four machine guns and full equip
ment
A supply Of tear gas bombs was
sent to the scene of Aiken County
strike disorders today. Meanwhile, a
group Of special officers. headed by
State Constable Fred Newman, was
given instruction in the use Of gas
masks by officers of the South Caro-
lima National Guard.
Evening star., 1933-10-27

Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1933-10-27

(U. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy, probably followed by rain to-
nights and tomorrow; not so cold to-
night; moderate southwest winds.
TemperatureS-High IS, at noon
today: lowest, 80, at 4:30 am. today.
Full report on page A-l6.
Evening star., 1933-10-27
CONSUL VISITS PENTER

Continued on Page 2, Column 81