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Evening star., 1934-05-06
Japan REAFF|RMS
|. CH|NESEPROGRAM
Foreign Office Spokesman
Says World May Take
View 1t PIeaSes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, May 5.-The world was
invited by foreign Office spokesman
today to make its own interpreta-
tion" of Japan's white-hands-off- :
China policy and the recent japanese
pronouncements about it.
The spokesman himself refused to
clarity Foreign Minister Koki Hirota s
latest declaration about the doctrine,
except to say that this speech was
not a reply to an American note re-
garding the case.
Foreign diplomats gave the inter-
probation that Hirota served notice
Japan will not participate in con-
situations with other signatories of
the 1922 nine-power treaty which
guarantees China's territorial sover-
eighty and which Cordell Hull, Amer
lean Secretary of State, told Japan
must be observed.
Whether Japan refuses to engage
in conversations with the other sig
natories about relations with China
the spokesman refused to say. Some
diplomats believed Japan will decline
to discuss Far Eastern questions at
the 1885 naval conference and that
Hirota's firm tone in his speech be-
fore prefectural officers was intended
primarily for domestic consumption.
Japan cannot remain silent when
a third party disturbs relations be-
tween Japan and China" the foreign
minister said. Japan is the principal
protector of the stability and the
peace of Eastern Asia
SEE TREATY OBEYED
Evening star., 1934-05-06
BRITAIN TO AVOID
PART IN ARMS RACE
Statesmen Doubt Europe
Will Make Concerted
Move to Rearm.
Copyright by the Associated Press.

copyrisht by the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 5.-Against Euro
pean feuds and nationalistic ideas"
foreign Office spokesman today set up
a shortage of cash and memories OF
the World War" as factors preventing
new arms race.
British statesmen, he added, will
continue their intensive study of the
entire arms problem during the week
end, but it was understood London S
program will depend on soundings
Capt. Anthony Eden, the British lord
privy seal, is to make at League OF
Nations Council sessions later this
month.
1t was reliably reported that the
British have virtually decided only a
barely adequate defense policy is pos
sible in view of the shortage of money.
Reckless Race Doubted.
The British, fully informed about
plans of other powers, were said by
the spokesman to have indicated a
belief that there is little possibility a
reckless arms race, though national
istic arms schemes may ensue should
efforts to bring about disarmament
break down completely.
The viewpoint here, according to
the informant. is that the nations may
cease general moves to arrange an
arms limit should an impasse occur
and change to independent and non
cooperative programs. All. however,
would be bound by available cash and
public opinion.
Responsible persons in official cir
cles believe that what is left OF the
World Disarmament Conference" Is
unlikely to add anything constructive
to the picture, but, the informant
said British statesmen are hoping Tor
miracle" at Geneva.
The British cabinets Disarmament
Committee spent an EXTREMITY busy
week, but all interested officials en-
phasiZed that this country has not
yet completely developed an arms
program of any sort.
To Ascertain Final Word.
It is expected that Capt Eden will
ascertain the final word" of the
other powers at Geneva, but it was
indicated that there is apparently lit
tie possibility of an about-face on the
part of France and others. France
has refused to enter further arms no
gotiations outside Geneva and has
embarked on a program of increasing
her air. navy and land defense forces.
Just as firmly Germany demands re-
armament for herself or the disarma-
Y,oont of other rOuorS
From the ultimate decision On the
arms problem there is expected to
emerge a new British military and
political policy toward continental
countries and perhaps toward nations
In other parts of the world.
OffciaS declined to say whether
Capt. Eden's soundings will be COM
bined with an cffer Of new British
proposals and denied that a definite
new plan for European disarmament
was being studied.
Reports current during the past
weeks that the British air force may
be enlarged continued to be heard
despite lack Of official veriflcation.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CUT.THROAT INDUSTRY
PERIL, SAYS TOWER
Steel Institute Official Says Re-
turn of Practice Might
Wreck Recovery.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 5.-Walter S.
Tower, executive secretary of the
American Iron and Steel Institute,
tonight warned that any return to
the destructive cut-throat conditions
that formerly prevailed In the indus
try" might jeopardize the whole re-
covery effort.
Since last June" he said, "the
steel industry has re-employed more
than 10000 people, has raised wages
approximately So per cent, has elimi-
mated unfair practices and price dis
ordinations and has increased prices
moderately to support the labor pro-
visions of the CODE
Tower spoke over an N. B. c. net
work
Price increases, however. he said
shave not been sufficient to put the
industry upon a profitable basis as
yet. This is matter of concern to
the stockholders"
Evening star., 1934-05-06
DOCTOR SAYS "REFLEX ACTION''
MAKES DEAD DOG SEEM ALIVE

by direct and indirect stimulation" /"
DR.. CAN'T said. IF you will place
food in q decerebrated dogs mouth
he will swallow. Sometimes If you
start one reflex it will start another
one, because they often work in
chains. Thus. he might move his legs
and bark as well as swallow"
DR.. CAN'T said he had seen an
experiment in the Pavlov laboratories
in which the dogs head was cut of
and then kept "alive" for hours by
connecting it with the heart and
lungs of another dog.
The California experiment is ap-
parently continuation of this expert
ment, DR.. CAN'T said.
DR.. CAN'T said that as far as the
resuscitation of Thirteen's heart was
concerned, the heart of q dog had
often been revived by the injection
Of adrenalin Q or 10 minutes after
death.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Mississippi Flood
Work Is Aided BY
Rivers LO,U LeUeI
Employment of Several
Thousand Workers
Is Expected.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 5-Aided
by unusually low water for this period
of the year. Government engineers
are taking steps to expedite employ
ment of several thousand workers on
levee construction that ordinarily
would not get under way Until June.
In an announcement that will mean
the immediate employment OF ap-
proximately $500 on levee projects
along the Mississippi River. mostly in
Arkansas, the United States district
engineers ONCE here said today that
contractors have been instructed to
begin at once the cutting Of levees
at nine Arkansas points.
River Drops 13 Feet.
The levees will be cut, and dirt from
them used In the construction Of new,
higher and permanent levees behind
them, in conformity with the general
flood control program. The projects
will mean an average of four and a
half months employment for the
workers.
The Mississippi has dropped to 13
feet on the Memphis gauge today
and there was little likelihood of a
rise that would carry the water as
far back as the existing old levees.
Before the seasonal rise next year,
the new levees affected by the order
will have been completed and ready.
Steps Taken Elsewhere.
Although today's announcement ap-
piled to certain projects in the Mem
phis district alone, it is understood
that similar steps to expedite sea-
sonal employment are being taken in
other districts. The projects affected
are at Powers Island, Mo. where con-
tractors will need 152 men; Butler,
Ark, 240 men: Pinckney, Ark, 241; 4;
Williamson, Ark, ITO; Westover, Ark,
l72; Oldtown. Ark, 345; Snow Lake,
Ark, BIS; Moonlake and Friar Point,
Miss, 478
Contractors were instructed to pro-
tect existing levees should an unex-
pectedly high rise in the river occur.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
INVESTIGATE SUICIDE
AFTER GEMS LOSS
Police and Federal Officials Probe
Woman's Death Following
Theft.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 5.-Police and
Federal authorities started an inves-
tigation today of the suicide of Mrs
Ramona P. Brown at her home near
San Bernardino yesterday supposedly
in fit of dependency over theft OF
$4,000 in valuables several months
ago.
Police said five persons. including
Mrs. Browns former husband, James
Gormley. now of Beverly Hills. were
questioned April Is by New Orleans
authorities, but In the absence of any
warrant were released
Newspaper clippings on the case
were found pinned to farewell notes
left by Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Brown was the widow of Her
man Lynn Brown, who was killed in
an airplane accident near San Fran
cisco two years ago. Gormley di-
vorced her in Salt Lake City in 1920
to marry Helen Kelley. wealthy niece
of John Powers, former owner of the
Los Angeles Base Ball Club, for whom
Gormley was chauffeur. The Browns
married in 1924.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

A more beautiful Capital City will
be the goal of thousands of home
owners in the metropolitan area this
week as they lend support to Clean
up week.
Sponsored by the Washington
Chamber Of Commerce, this move
ment is timely complement to the
1000 Better Homes Contest now be-
ing conducted by The Star and stimu-
lating needed employment in the
building trades and at the same time
improve the appearance Of Wash
ington.
Already Endorsed by civic leaders
Cleanup week will be marked by
an aggressive drive through citizens
associations and service clubs, with
the mediums of newspapers and radio
added as additional avenues for pub
licizing it.
To Tell Advantages.
During the coming week the Cham
ber of Commerce announced yester-
day, prominent Washingtonians will
urge that properties be repaired. re-
conditioned and repainted, in a series
of radio broadcasts each day. Speak
ers in this series will include William
C. Miller, president of the chamber
c. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of National Capital Parks; Inspector
LAUDER of the Fire Department; Will
liam H. Rodda, chairman of the
Cleanup Campaign Committee; Mrs
H. o. Torbett, who will discuss gar
dening; P. NJ Cooke of the Cham
ber of Commerce; Arthur B. Heaton
who directed the Board of Trades
Renovize Campaign last year, and
others.
Dorsey w. Hyde, secretary of the
chamber, announced yesterday that
the Capital Transit Co. has agreed to
display the slogan. observe Clean
up week" on street car panels.
Home owners are expected to clean
their premises of rubbish and trash
paint and brighten up their homes
surrounding fences. trellises. garden
furniture. etc. They are asked to
undertake repairs and improvements
which might add to the appearance
OF their dwellings and raise the stand
ards of community beauty.
By SO doing. it is pointed out, citi-
zens can accomplish three advan-
tageous results: Reduce the fire haz-
ard. improve the appearance of the
city and increase employment.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
GREAT RAILROAD
DEAL |SFORECAST
Gigantic Van SWeringen Re.
financing Program Ru-
mored in Cleveland.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, May 5.-Financial
circles buzzed here tonight with talk
of a gigantic deal being planned by
the Van Sweringen railroad interests
to improve the status Of their huge
holding companies, the Allegheny and
Chesapeake Corporations. Sources
close to the Van Sweringens denied
one aspect Of the report was true.
The deal, said locally published re-
ports, is understood to be predicated
upon the fact that at present. Allie
ghany, owner of 10 per cent Of Chesa-
peake's stock, can capitalize only on
its market value, and not on the
higher actual value of the assets in
Chesapeakes portfolio.
Assumption Is Denied.
Banking circles drew the deduction
the brothers, o. P. and M. j. Van
Sweringen, might decide to clean up
all of Chesapeake's Indebtedness, now
about $55 900 900, by selling part of
its assets and then dissolve this $780,
OVN,oOO NOi POi dtAOli, lul LllIlS ONcT ~
per cent of its remaining assets to
Allegheny. On this point reliable
sources in touch with the brothers
asserted no such move was contem-
plated at all
The reports here had it that an
alternative step would be for Chesa-
peake to clear its debts and then
help Allegheny either by a loan on
Allegheny security or purchase Of a
part Of its assets.
The published rumors point out
that Chesapeake now owns 3.687 .237
shares Of the Chesapeake g. Ohio
Railroad, currently quoted around
s46, but with a breakup value
nearer $40.
$4,000, 900 Paid OF.
Chesapeake Corporation now owns
$1,000 shares of Pere Marquette and
$1,000 shares Of Erie. Through own
ership of Virginia Transportation
Corporation, it also has Is, 100 shares
OF Nickel Plate, 196,172 shares of
Chicago & Eastern Illinois and 3s1.-
ESQ shares of the Pittston Co.
In the last Is months, Chesapeake
Corporation has paid off about s13.-
100000 of its bank loans, which now
remain at about SI8,000,OO0 in add.
ton to s37,000,000 in bonds.
Current moves on the Van Swerin-
gen schedule include the present ef-
fort to convert s24, ,532 900 of Allie
ghany 5 per cent bonds due in 1850
into common stock. and the liquifying
processes revealed by recent quarterly
reports of the Chesapeake Corporation.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
LA GUARD|A SPURS
HUNT FOR SLAYERS
Orders Police Department
To Bring in CriminaIs-Of-
fiCerS Storm Underworld.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 5.-Mayor F. H
La Guardia, angered by the killing OF
Patrolman Arthur P. Rasmussen by
three young gunner. today announced
that the Police Department of this
city know their criminals and they've
got to bring them in and keep bring
ing them in"
Meanwhile posses of detectives and
uniformed policemen stormed into all
the city's known underworld haunts
seeking the men who shot Rasmussen
after robbing a grocery store in the
Lower East Side tenement district
yesterday afternoon.
Rasmussen died in one of two gun
battles between police and thugs. A
l0-month-ol baby, a young boy and
a young girl we're wounded by the
wild gunf1re Of the hold-up men who
felled the patrolman. In the morn
ing of the same day two patrolmen
and a barber in Harlem we're shot
down and all three are in a serious
condition.
Police Commissioner John F
Organ ordered the entire Police De-
partment to remain ION call" while
all the plainclothes men in the head
quarters squads who know records
and faces in the underworld we're ou,
on patrol. His order followed Mayor
La Guardias comment:
Giving these boys an inspectors
funeral isn't going to solve our crime
problems. The only tribute to these
men that means anything is for their
comrades to go out and bring back
the men who shot them down."
The two hold-up men who escaped
with their $3.50 loot after killing Ras-
mussen were described as young
rather slight men of foreign extrac.
ton, and the detectives of both the
homicide and the alien squads con-
centrated their search in the Italian
neighborhoods.
In the all-night search throughout
the city police returned to headquar.
ters with IL suspects. but all save one
was released and that one, Louis D
Chiara. 27, was charged with another
hold-up.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CONTROL OF TALKIES
CHARGED TO At. Ct.
Motion Picture Protective So
ciety Plans to Combat Al
legged. Monopoly.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 5.-Charging that
the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. controls the sound motion
picture industry, members Of the
American Society for the Protection
of the Motion Picture Theater met to-
day to formulate plans for fighting
the alleged monopoly.
Robert Robins of New York, execu-
tive secretary Of the group, asserted
the alleged control of the sound pic
ture field by the telephone company
began with the control of patents by
the Electrical Research Products, Inc,
a subsidiary. Major producing COM
panies, he charged, had been forced
into a position where they had to
relinquish control through stock sales
to the telephone company.
This control, he continued, has been
extended through the booking system
to the whole industry, including ex-
hibitors.
Robins charged the alleged monop-
oily had been strengthened through
the N. r. A. motion picture code.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
KING CAROL REWARDS
6 WHO REVEALED PLOT
Nom commissioned officer Is Made
Lieutenant-Col. Prekup and
Z Others Degraded.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, May 5.-King Carol
today conferred high decorations upon
six army officers most active in un-
covering purported Easter bomb plot
against his life.
A non-commissioned officer, Pzanu.
who first denounced the plotters, was
made lieutenant.
An opposite picture q few hours
earlier was the degrading OF Col.
Victor Prekup and seven other officers
convicted of participation in the plot
and sentenced to prison.
Before officers and troops they were
stripped of their insignia and their
swords were broken
Prekup, who aided Carols return
to the throne, shouted:
"This whole thing is a despicable
frame-up."
One of the civilian witnesses was
Alvin Owsley, American Minister.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CAR DROPS 70 FEET;
DRIVER NOT INJURED
Plunges Through Guard Rail Into
River-0ccupant Located by
Bubbles on Water.
BY the Associated Press.

RIVERTON. Va. May 5.-A large
sedan car with single occupant
crashed through an iron guard rail
on Long Bridge over the north fork
of the Shenandoah River here this
evening and hurtled 10 feet to the
bottom of the river.
The car cleared telephone wires
paralleling and level with the bridge
floor at a distance of 20 feet. 1t
landed on it's top, turned on its side
and settled to the bottom on its four
wheels
Beverly Cameron. a farmer work
ing in a nearby field. saw the accident
and. wading in to the engulfed auto
mobile, extricated the driver whose
position was located by bubbles on
the surface Of the water. He was
drawn out through an open car win
dow and walked to the shore He was
taken to the Office of Front Royal
physician, who said he apparently suf-
fered no serious injuries.
The man declined to give his name
The accident was apparently occa-
stoned by meeting a truck going in
the opposite direction at the entrance
to the bridge.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
EDUCATORS HEAR TALK

The Spring luncheon Of the Educa-
ton Association of the District was
held yesterday at the Kennedy Warren
apartments. Officers we're elected for
the ensuing year, and the meeting was
addressed by DR.. Burton P. Fowler,
headmaster of the Tower Hill School
of Wilmington, Del.
officers elected were pr. E. c. Hig-
bic, president; Hugh Smith, vice
president, and Joseph L. Kochka,
secretary treasurer. Delegates to the
National Education Association con-
vention here this Summer were Robert
L. Haycock, DR.. H. E. Warner, DR..
William G. Ruediger, and Miss Anna
Halberg.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Clean'Up Campaign This Week
Fosters Better Homes Ideals
Chamber of Commerce Drive Intensifies
Effort to Improve Capitals Beauty,
One of Stars Contest Goals.

The objectives of this drive are in
direct accord with the Better Homes
Contest of this newspaper, which,
however, is designed to continue
Throughout the Summer, concluding
September Is.
In this movement, The Star is Of
fering total Of $1,000 to the home
owners who complete the most out
standing home improvements during
the period of the contest. The Wash
ington Board Of Trade is providing an
additional 500 cash prize for the best
landScaping work accomplished.
With citizens associations under
taking the task of fostering the cam
paign in the various communities, The
Star has added 500 cash award to
be given the association stimulating
the most successful drive.
Wide Range of Improvements.
cluded in the contest are repainting,
redecorating. general repairs, addi-
tions. ref1nishing attics or Easements,
installing new plumbing, bath room
fixtures or kitchen equipment, alter
ing the exterior Of the home, adding
or changing porches. etc.
1t is not necessary to wait until
September Is for fling the entry. 1t
may be done as soon as the work. Is
finished. Three things should be in
cluded in sending the entry in: The
final entry form. filled out; before
and after" photographs, and letter
describing the project or projects in
not more than 300 words.
Judging in the contest will be in the
hands of the citizens themselves.
Each civic group is expected to name
flying squadrons" to stimulate home
repair work in each community, and
a Judging Committee of five or seven
members to pass upon entries. One
winner will be chosen in each section
and the selections will compete for
the capital prizes in a final contest
in which the Silver Star Model Homes
Committee will be the judges.
Two Groups Of Prizes.
The Stars prizes in the contest are
divided in two groups. For homes
valued at $4,000 and less the fol-
lowing awards will be made:
First prize, $3.50; second prize 500;
third prize. $50. and four honorable
mention prizes Of s25 each.
To the class of homes appraised
at more than $4,000 a similar set
of prizes will be given.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
BLACK DUE TO RESIGN
FEDERAL RESERVE JOB
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A yearning for normal life" is
expected to take Eugene Black out Of
his position as governor of the Fed
greSS adlourns,
Friends say he wants to get away
from Washington's hurly-burly and
go back to the comparative peace of
Georgia. where he used to preside over
the Atlanta Reserve Bank as gov
ernor.
Black is expected to stay on until
Congress quits. He Is vitality inter-
ested in several things still pending,
notably the loans o-heavy- industry
bill, which he worked out with Sen
ator Glass.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
YOUNG FLOWER THIEF
ENDS LIFE IN CELL
Boy Prefers Death to Torment
Caused by Stealing Armful
of Tulips.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. May 5.-Stealing flowers,
Alfred Struzik, 18, apparently be-
lieved, carried a stigma that made life
too heavy a burden.
The youth was arrested last night
and lodged in a cell. Today an officer
making his rounds of the cell blocks,
found him suspended by his own shirt,
which had been fashioned into a
moose of death.
officers worked feverishly in an ef-
fort to resuscitate him, but the tor
nado of emotions that led Struzik to
take his life will never be known.
His punishment at the hands of the
court probably would have been slight.
He had only helped himself to an
armful of tulips.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
FESS SEES PASSAGE
OF STOCK MEASURE
Says Senate Vote on Control
Bill Will Be Close,
However.
By the Associated Press.

Dy the associated Press.
YELLOW SPRINGS. Ohio, May S.
U. S. Senator Simeon D. Fess pre-
dicted today the Senate will pass the
Fletcher-Rayburn stock market con-
troll bill but not by a large vote.
Such legislation is very difficult"
said the Senator, vacationing at home
here.
Congress is made up of two schools.
one calling stock trading gambling
and wanting to stamp it out, and the
other calling it essential to trade,
especially as regards commodity
prices.
Sponsors of the bill want regula-
ton by making issuance of securities
open. They want to connect security
prices with values. The purpose is
good but how far regulation will break
down dealings is disputable.
The national securities act went
too far. Today regulation is so
wretched that there is practically no
market for corporate securities
Evening star., 1934-05-06
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 5.-Dr. w. Hors-
ley CAN'T, associate in psychiatry
at Johns Hopkins Medical School,
said, in effect. today that Thirteen
is dead and always will be dead.
Thirteen is the dog on whom reviv-
ification experiments have been con-
Quoted by DR.. Robert E. Cornish at
the University of California. The
heart of the dog was stopped clini-
cally and then renewed.
The fact that the dog still barks
and swallows his food are only nor
NAL reflex actions which have been
produced frequently in the laboratory
of Pavlov, the Russian scientist, ac-
cording to DR.. CAN'T.
In Pavlov's laboratory, said DR..
CAN'T, vital parts of the brain have
been actually removed and the dog
has continued to perform certain
functions.
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