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tunity TO display his voice to it,
best advantage.
The companion feature IL "The
Mad Age.
THE story begins with our en-
trance into the war--passes swift
" through the labor unrest of
Harding - Wilson's losing fight
for the League Of Nations. Then
the call for the Washington Dis.
armament Conference - followed
immediately by Q glimpse OF rolling
tanks and munitions factories.
Extremely graphic are the scenes
dcnoting the beginning Of the
boom era~-Inass pfoductIon~~beau-
ty shops and night clubs - gangs
ana rum-runners - buniou derby.
8hipwreck Kelly and Hacco- Venzets
Il - instaIIment buying - soaring
stocks and lofty buildings - the
stock market crash cf 1Dso--the
optimistic business forecasts -
prosperity right around the corner
bonus riots and farm, strikes =.
bread lines and neW president.
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Nations OF World
Issued Challenge
tcontinusd from Page y

II also lighted the way for other
nations 70 follow, II they choose,
10 that tho arms prohibition may
become Worldwide. The League OF
Nations council has such a propo-
saItlpn to DO discussed at an extra
ordinary session called for tomor.
rev.
What Davis Said
Geneva, May 29--tuP) (HFR)
Tho United states went sQuarel y
on record for peace ut tho world
arms conference today by offerln.
10 reduce its navy and TO join an
international agreement for con.
kFnl ~ tho traffic In arms. America
also declared It's willingness 10 con.
suit with other nations In event OF
trouble.
Tho action marked a climax In
tho long and losing struggle for
disarmament ut Geneva.
Norman II. Davis, special repre-
sentative OF President Roosevelt.
In opening debate the long.post'
npned fun meeting OF the confer.
onee, made q strong bid to prevent
III threatened collapse. lie said
"The people Of the United states
are aroused by the evils which are
being revealed IN the prod OF
and traffic In munitions. Tho Amer.
loan government In ready to join In
measures for suppressing this evil
and IL prepared TO negotiate In con.
fledtion with disarmament u treaty
dealing drastieally with this prob
iein."
Roafiirming President Roose.
gelt's offer 10 consult with other
powers II war threatens, Davis
added.
1--WE are willing TO go further
ana work out by International
agreement an effective system for
the regulation OF tho manufacture
Of and trailie In arms ana mum.
ITEMS"
Davis foroshudowed Gormany'H
poasiblo return 10 tho conference,
which she walked out IN disgust
last year. lilo expressed hope that
Germany soon would resume n0go-
tiati0ng with other powers.
Davis made n frank offer by the
United states 10 reduce itB naval
tonnage no VITO forestnll naval
race before tho 1895 naval confer.
sHas.
1--WE are willing 10 join other In.
atrested powers IN substantial
Efoportionnto reduction Of naval
tonnage" he declared.
Tho offer aroused intense interest
IN view Of tho current preliminary
NEGOTIATIONS about 10 DO held In
London, Involving japan, the Unit.
cd States, Grout Britain aud
France.
LET us 80 buck TO the British
draft convention OF last June u,
which has been accepted by all,
Including Germany. as tho basis
OF o future convention" Davis
urged.
The British proposals embodied
q modified form Of re-armament
for Germany and u general under.
standing for security measures TO
meet the demands OF France.
THE disarmament problem ls
susceptible Of u practical solution"
Davis said. 1T may he remarked
that a considerable measure of nc.
cord has actually been reached
with respect to the technical us.
pect OF armament and the kind of
disarmament convention [ h at
would BIO effective"
Davis argued that security may
be attained by nation M follows:
Firstly, by achieving oVerwholm.
Ink superiority OF ornaments, to-
gether with defensive alliances,
Secondly, by increasing It's pow
ers of defense aud simultaneously
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STATE Of CONNECTICUT, NEW
HAVEN COUNTY. WATERBURY,
MAY lG, 1894

May 10. 1884.
Then and there by virtue OF an
execution to me Issued by william
nj, Gillette, Clerk OF the Common
Pleas Court OF Waterbury, | will
sell at Public Auction on the thirty
first day OF May, Nineteen Hundred
and Thirty -four, at . a. m. stand
ard Time. 10 the highest bidder, at
the Public SlgHsPost. said sale to be
adjourned to 167 East Main street,
stock, flxtures and restaurant sup
plies belonging to George Makrls
and Peter Makris.
Attest:
SAMUEL ERsHLER,
6-17-24-2o Constable.
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STATE Of CONNECTICUT: DIS.
TRIcT.of WATERBURY, M. pro.
BATE COURT, May 28th, 1884.
ESTATE OF SIMON JUODSNUKIS
alias Yu0TSNUKfS, late OF thu
Town OF Waterbury. IN Said Dis
trict, deceased
The Court OF Probate for the Dis
trict OF Waterbury, hath limited and
allowed six months from the dato
hereof for the creditors OF said
estate TO exhibit their claims for
settlement. Those who neglect 10
tested within said time, viii be de-
barred recovery All persons In
debted TO said estate are request.
ed TO make Immediate payment to
ANNA J. KENANSIS.
D-ss-st Administrators,
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WITNESS in CASE

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IS COMMISSIONER

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Evening star., 1934-08-24
District Building
Hours Changed
To Ease Traffic
Staff Viii Go to York
and Get of IS Min
utes Earlier.

Beginning September 1, the 1900
persons employed in the District
Building will report for work IS min
utes earlier at 8:45 am. and be of
at Ais pm, under an order adopted
today by the Commissioners in a
move to lessen downtown rush-hour
traffic.
The Interior Department sometime
ago put into effect similar system.
Adoption of the plan by the District
government was proposed for study
some months ago by Commissioner
Hazen, later was recommended by
Traffic Director william Van Duzer,
and today was proposed for adoption
by a committee headed by Assessor
William P. Richards.
On Saturdays employees will leave
at 12:45 pm.
The city heads sent orders to de-
partment chiefs that the new rule
must be rigidly observed. This was
taken to mean that department heads
are no longer to accept trafic tie-ups
as an excuse for tardiness.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
SANATOR|UM SITE
REPORT DUE TODAY
Committee of Experts In
spects Glenn Dale and
Other Locations.

The long mooted question of a site
for the Districts tuberculosis sana-
torium for adults is expected to be
settled finally today when COM
mittee of experts, appointed by the
President, reports its choice to Public
Works Administrator Ickes.
The committee members spent this
morning examining the site at Glenn
Dale, Md, where the sanatorium for
tubercular children is receiving the
finishing construction touches. AL
though none has said what the deci-
sion will be, at least one member is
reported favorable to the Glenn Dale
site, in the absence of any other avail
able site of more than 5000 feet eleva-
ton.
Yesterday the committee spent the
entire day travelling to sites in the
Blue Ridge Mountains, including a
number in the vicinity of Bluemont,
Va. Members of the committee are
DR.. Lawrason Brown of Trudeau
Sanitarium, Saranac Lake; Col. C.
D. Buck, FitZsimons General Hospital,
Denver, Colo, and DR.. Charles M.
Griffith of the Veterans Administra-
ton. DR.. Brown and Col. Buck are
leaving for their respective homes to-
night, after two days of consultation
and examination of sites. DR.. Griffith
is stationed in Washington.
On their inspection trip this morn
ing and yesterday the committee
members were accompanied by Mai.
Paul Hodgson, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner, and j. M. Dent, chair
man of the first Site-Selection Com
mittee named by the Commissioners.
picture on Page 2)
Evening star., 1934-08-24
BUILDING TOO SMALL;
ENLARGEMENT CONTEMPLATED

Although the Archives Building has
not yet been completed, consideration
already is being given to enlarging it
by using the area now given over to
an interior open court.
Recent supplemental surveys have
shown more space will be needed
than is provided in the present
building.
Records to be stored permanently
in the Archives Building must have
historic value sufficient to justify their
being kept in this building dedicated
to the preservation Of the most highly
priced documents of the American
Government.
The question has been raised as TO
whether more space will be needed
not only for these historic archives,
but also for storing certain records Of
the Government out of which archives
may later be selected.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
''Pu Be Speaker,'' Byrns Says,
Leaning Campaign to Friends
Victory Certain Beyond
"ShadOw of a Doubt"
He Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. August 24.-Declar-
ing that "I am in line for it." Joseph
w. Byrris, Democrat, of Tennessee,
majority leader Of the House Of Rep
resentatives, said today that there is
not a shadow of doubt" but that he
would be elected Speaker in the next
Congress to succeed the late Henry T.
Rainey.
Byrns was back today from Carroll
ton, Ill. where he attended Speaker
Rainey's funeral.
II have refrained from making any
statement because of my close and
intimate friendship with Speaker
Rainey," Byrns told reporters. But
I have had kilograms, letters and other
assurances of support-all unsolicited.
MY friends understand that I'm
going to make the race, because they
feel and feel that am in line for
it. There is not a shadow Of doubt
about my election"
The Democratic leader emphasized
that I've done absolutely nothing so
far" toward organizing a campaign
or soliciting support for the post.
But a member called me up this
morning from Washington" he con-
tinued, "and he said, Why, every
Evening star., 1934-08-24
Other Registered Packages
Are Taken by Bandits
at Butler, Pa.
TWO SUSPECTS HELD
IN $427, 900 HOLD.UP.
Brooklyn Men, Seized in Phila-
delphia, Refuse to Talk-Money
Bag Clue Collapses.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUTLER, Pa, August 24.-Currency
estimated by postal authorities at
$4,000 was taken from a mail truck
today by three armed men, who fed in
an automobile.
The money, postal authorities said,
was being sent by registered mail
from the Pittsburgh branch of the
Federal Reserve Bank to the Lyndora
National Bank, at Lyndora, near
Butler.
The funds represented the pay rolls
Of the American Rolling Mill and the
Standard Steel Car Co., both located
at Lyndora.
Speed Away In Car.
State police said the robbers stopped
the mail truck, driven by Milton
Lackey, on Butler street. Pointing re-
volvers at him, they grabbed three
mail pouches, ran back to their car
and sped away.
The bandit car was found aban-
doned a short time later. 1t bore an
Ohio license tag.
Lackey, who has a contract for car
rying mail in Butler and outlying
towns, had left the post office a short
time before the robbery and was en-
route to Lyndora.
Warned by Woman.
Post Office workers first heard of
the robbery when an unidentified
woman appeared at a stamp window
and shouted:
"a mail truck was held up in front
Of the Clinton Hotel Just now."
State police threw a Gordon about
all roads leading from Butler and
questioned Lackey.
Postal inspectors began making
check, but outside the Lyndora ship
ment could make no estimate Of the
value of the rest of the mail. Several
parcels were registered, however.
Inspectors explained 1t Is customary
for large sums of currency to be sent
by registered mail to the Lyndora
Bank, which is affiliated with the
Butler County National Bank.
TWO SUSPECTS SEIZED.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
Says New Deal Must Adopt
Unemployment Insur-
ance Also.
RELIEF HEAD RETURNS
FROM EUROPEAN SURVEY
Predicts Revival of Wagner-Lewis
Bill-Work Projects to
Be Hastened.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Relief Administrator Hopkins, re.
turning from a six weeks study OF
European relief methods, said today
he had come reluctantly to the belief
that I'VE have got to have cash
benefit somewhere in the picture for
persons thrown involuntarily out of
work"
The administrator said he was
firmly convinced unemployment in
surance must be fitted into the new
deal.
He predicted revival of the Wagner
Lewis unemployment insurance bill
which was introduced in the last
Congress. It would have levied S
per cent tax on pay rolls to be turned
into an insurance fund.
Gets New Ideas.
Hopkins said he brought back from
Europe four or five definite ideas to
lay before President Roosevelt. He
would not discuss their nature, as
serting he planned to see the Presi-
dent tomorrow.
The administrator indicated work
relief projects would be hastened with
the approach of cold weather and
that the civil works program, which
gave temporary jobs last Winter to
100000 people, would not be used
again.
He said he did not believe any forms
Of unemployment insurance used in
European countries would be work
able the United States, adding that
it was doubtful whether an unem-
ployment insurance set-up could be
evolved that would not go bankrupt
in depression of such magnitude as
the present disturbance.
In such an emergency, he said. II
would be necessary to go outside the
insurance fund for payments, such
as has been done in Europe.
ut is unthinkable," he said, that
you could set up fund to guard
100000 people against unemploy-
ment."
Favored in Europe.
The administrator said he saw no
one in Europe who was opposed to the
principle of unemployment insurance
except in italy, where Mussolini wiped
1t out with a stroke of his pen.
Hopkins said that in proportion to
population England had less unem-
ployment than the United States
Each nation, he added, has cut the
total approximately one-third.
Claims of the American Tory
press that England has done this
without a new deal are untrue" the
administrator asserted. MY impress
sion is that England has tried many
more radical experiments than Presi-
dent Roosevelt had talked about
Some of them have worked, such as
the housing program"
Turning to the newly formed Amer
ican Liberty League, Hopkins COM
mented about its membership OF
ht-thinking people"
They are so far over to the right,
he said, mo one will ever find them.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
VAN METERS GIRL
HELD IN ST. PAUL
DiIIinger GangSter Slain in
Police Trap-Fifty
Shots Fired.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, August pa pretty st.
Paul girl who had been seen with
Homer Van Meter, slain Dillinger
gangster, on several occasions when
the desperate made the Twin Cities
his headquarters last March, was un-
der arrest here today.
It also was learned today from an
unimpeachable source that Marion
Mickey Conforti, known as Van
Meters girl friend for some time, was
in st. Paul two weeks ago in the
company of the gangster. Miss Con-
forti, who was one of the three wom-
en- arrested at Little Bohemia, Wis,
when John Dillinger, Van Meter and
several henchmen escaped q Federal
trap, is wanted by Federal authori-
ties for violating her parole at Madi-
son, Wis.
The girl seized lives only a few
blocks from where Van Meter was
killed last night by Chief Frank
Cullen and three aids, it was reported,
and it was believed he may have been
en- route to her home at the time he
was shot down. Police were reluctant
to discuss their prisoner.
Baited by Woman.
Van Meter, Jonn Dillinger's ace
gunman, walked into the police trap
last night and fell, full of lead, in
an alley. Dillinger himself was
similarly slain July %, baited to his
death-in an alley, toby woman.
Van Meter, the sixth of the Dillin-
ger mob to die, was betrayed unwit-
tingly by his interest in a woman.
Police said he had been going
around" with her and that her rela-
tives, suspicious of him, had gone to
the police. A check satisfied officers
the man was Van Meter and careful
plans were laid for his capture, dead
or alive.
For two weeks the hunt went on,
secretly. Last night the law and Van
Meter met, and Van Meter was shot
down.
Chief Cullen refused to disclose the
source of the information that led
them to the desperate but the tip
| that he was in the city came from
relatives of his unnamed girl consort
Chief Cullen said his men had
found several of Van Meters hideouts
here. On several occasions traps were
laid for him, but each time the outlaw
evaded them
Search Was Secret.
The search for Van Meter was car
ried on with the utmost secrecy, not
even Department of Justice agents or
police officers, other than the four
who shot him, being informed of the
| gunman's whereabouts.
The end of the hunt came near the
Continued on Page 4, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
FOULOIS' ANSWER
WAITS TRANSCRIPT
Air Corps Chief Informs Dern He
Cannot Reply to Charges Till
He Sees Records.
BY the Associated Press.

Mai. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois,
chief of the Air Corps. today reported
to Secretary Dern he would be unable
to reply to the House Military Affairs
subcommittee demand for his re-
moval until the committee made
available the testimony on which its
charges were made.
Dern said the Foulois letter was
accompanied by copies Of requests
made on Chairman Rogers and indi-
vidual members Of the committee,
along with copies of such replies as
he had received.
Under the circumstances" Dern
said, "he requests that action on the
committees demands be suspended
Until records are made available
which will enable him to prepare
final reply.
IT have forwarded Gen. Foulois'
statement to the committee with
letter outlining my position"
The Military Affairs Subcommittee
demanded that Foulois be removed as
chief of the Air Corps because of his
alleged inefficiency in directing the
Army's transportation of airman dur
ing the emergency and his purchases
of Army planes by negotiated con-
tracts instead of competitive bidding.
Evening star., 1934-08-24

No money Is available as yet for the
proposed addition, but the need has
been definitely established.
The original design of the building
by John Russell Pope, architect, pro-
vided for just such extension In the
future Windows have been con-
structed opening into the court which
easily can be transformed into doors
and the inside wall of the court is
now of brick, which can be used as
an interior wall
Construction Of the Archives Build
ing has been making steady progress
under the George A. Fuller Co., gen.
eral contractors. The schedule of
construction provides for its compile
ton some time early next year.
Already Congress has appropriated
$3.50, 900 for this structure. It Is
understood the addition will cost
somewhere between two and three
million dollars,
Evening star., 1934-08-24
FOWLER WILL GET
DATA ON HOUSING
Street Orders Insanitary Re-
ports Given D. c. Health
Officer.
The entire staff of 27o case workers

The entire staff of 27o case workers
and supervisors of the Emergency Re-
lief Administration was directed today
by Elwood Street, District welfare
director, to supply to the District
health officer data on insanitary con-
ditions in housing where relief clients
are quartered.
This action resulted from a request
by Health Officer William c. Fowler
for information on lack of sanitary
facilities in the dwellings Of Wash
ington's relief families, as revealed in
a survey of housing conditions here.
Unjustifiable Rents Seen.
The report of this survey, edited by
Leroy A. Halbert. relief research d.
rector, now being published, declared
many cases are shown Of unjustif1able
rents being charged for uninhabitable
dwellings, some of which had been
condemned as health menaces.
The survey was made last Winter
and dealt with the housing of some
10000 relief families. Usable data
was found in 6,595 cases.
Street said what information was
available In the survey material
would be turned over to DR.. Fowler
and that there now are $1,000 relief
clients, case workers had been directed
to report any additional cases of
insanitary conditions.
The order was forwarded to the
case work staff by Miss May o.
Hankins, acting director of emer-
gency relief.
Razing Abandoned.
The District abandoned efforts to
force the razing of buildings con-
demned as insanitary about six years
ago because court decisions required
the District to pay damages to prop
erty owners, which District officials
believed made the cost too great.
DR.. Fowler has called for reports
on insanitary conditions in the oelief
that he may order the abatement of
nuisances, even though buildings may
not be razed. He plans to place 16
of his inspectors at work checking
conditions as soon as reports are
turned over to him by the welfare
workers.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
WAR is IN THE AIR.
MUSSOLINI WARNS
II Duce Tells Officers Italy Must
Become Militaristic in
Mood.
BY the Associated Press.


BOLOGNA, August 24-The idea
of war ''is floating in the air" and
it behooves Italy, in preparation for
any development, to become a mill
taristic, even a warlike nation" Pre-
mier Mussolini said today in an ad-
dress to 5000 officers and military at
taches at the conclusion of italian
Army maneuvers.
mo one in Europe wishes war, "
he said, standing on the turret Of q
heavy assault tank as he spoke. "But
the thought of it is all around US.
"At the end of July an unforeseen
situation developed which was similar
to that which prevailed in 1914" he
continued. "If we had not sent our
divisions to the frontier, complications
might have resulted that could not
have been resolved except by the voice
of the cannon.
1T is not necessary to be ready
for the war of tomorrow, but for the
war of today"
While his officers cheered him vo-
ciferously, Mussolini continued:
1--WE must become military ma
ton, event a militaristic nation. We
might even ada warlike nation"
Evening star., 1934-08-24
WOMAN FLYERS PASS
FIRST NIGHT IN AIR
Two Texas Girls Are Attempt
ing to Set New Plane En-
durance Record.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 24.-With their
first night in the air behind them,
two girl flyers sought a new air en-
durance record today.
At 7:13 O'Clock, central standard
time, last night, the two, Jean Larene
and Mary Elizabeth Owens, both from
Texas, took of from the Curtiss-
Reynolds Airport in suburban Glen
view.
Another endurance flyer, Kenneth
Hunter, who with his brother set an
endurance record several years ago,
was at the controls Of their refueling
plane.
The present record is CAT hours. set
by Dale jackson and Forest OBrine.
The women's record of o days, %
hours and IS minutes is held by Helen
Richey and the late Helen Marsahs.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
FOUR MORE AIR CORPS
OFFICERS ARE DETAILED
Will Be Added to General Staff
as Result of Baker Com
mittee Recommendations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department today took its
first action on recommendations of
the Baker Special Air Corps Survey
Committee by Announcing that here
after four more Air Corps officers
would be detailed to the general staff.
The committee, which was headed
by Newton D. Baker, recommended
that the number of Air Corps officers
on the general staff be increased to
aid in a broader understanding of
Air Corps problems.
BY adding four Air Corps officers
the War Department will bring to
nine, which number would be that
branch'S quota if the basis for detail
were equal representation in accord
ance with relative strength Of the
various arms and services.
The War Department announced
that other reforms" recommended by
the committee would be made as early
as practicable.