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Evening star., 1934-02-27
Enter Young Prince Otto.

Prince Otto-he has l6 other Chris
tian nameS-is a still younger and
weaker man than Van Starhenberg.
Born in 1912, he has been kept under
a very strict supervision and was
brought up by his mother more like a
symbol than a man. Whatever per-
sonality he may have has been Su-
pressed by the very ambitious Empress
Zita. who even in this day and age
believes in the divine right of Kings.
II Otto returns to his ancestral
throne in the gloomy Hotburg, the
palace of the Hapsburgs in Vienna,
it is his mother and the old cour-
tiers Dho are going to rule.
In many ways Zita of Parma, an
other blue blood of the Bourbon
family. is an admirable woman. Almost
a pauper at the death of her husband,
Emperor Charles. she brought up her
seven children with all the surround
ings of imperial pomp. while she her
self had to go begging from other
royalty and from the loyal nobility
for enough money to maintain royal
spirit in her children.
But Otto has one great advantage
over Starhenberg. He is the scion of
a family which has ruled over Austria
for several centuries.
The inhabitants of the Tyrol and
Styria, the sturdieSt and most Warlike
inhabitants of Austria, are still de-
voted to the family of their former
rulers. For the time being they have
no use for the Vienna postwar poll
ticianS and their antics. They are a
pure Germanic race, consequently in
sympathy with the Nazis.
1t is through these provinces that
Hitler hopes to strike at the capital
Vienna.
But the unflinching loyalty of the
Tyrolese for their monarchy might
change the situation materially, if
Otto can be rushed from Belgium,
where he is studying at present, and
restored to his ancestral throne.
The concentration of rs 900 Italian
troops at the Austrian border is
calculated to intimiddte the NdziS
and delay their action. Should this
be the case and Otto be reinstated
in time, Hitler iDiH hare lost the
first game of the rubber.
What is worrying the European dip
lomats and statesmen today is who is
going to win the race, Hitler or Mus
solini?
Britain's Ambassadors.
The British foreign Office is planning
reshuffe in the diplomatic service
involving the Paris and the Washing
ton embassies-the two pluns of their
diplomatic service.
Sir Robert Vansittart, formerly
counsellor of the British Embassy in
Washington and at present permanent
undersecretary of state. is mentioned
as the most likely successor to Sir
Ronald Lindsay.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
UTILITIES BODY EXTENDS
PASS SYSTEM 3 MONTHS
Capital Transit Co. Requested
Continuation Until May 81.
5O.17O Sold Last Week.

The Public Utilities Commission, at
the request of the Capital Transit Co.,
yesterday extended for another three
months the use of the 81 and $1.25
weekly pass system. The original ex-
perimental period of two months
asked for by the company would have
ended Wednesday. The commission
order extends the experimental period
until May 81.
The company's experiment has thus
far proved a success, its officials be-
lieve. Last week SOTO Of the passes
were sold.
The company also has decided to
continue the sale of the passes until
Thursday of each week, instead OF
only until Tuesday. as formerly. 1t
was announced that the extension is
to meet frequent requests for purchase
of the passes made of conductors later
in the week than Tuesdays.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
TWO MEN ARE HELD
IN HIT.RUN DEATH
Broken Radiator Ornament Leads
to Arrest of Pair After
Accident.

After testimony before a coroner's S
Jury that Charles Thomas Vermillicn,
81. of 1855 Fifth street northeast. had
been knocked more than 100 feet by
hit-and-run automobile last Fri
day night. two colored men. alleged
occupants of the death car, were Or
dered held yesterday for grand jury
action.
Arrest Of the pair. Alton NJ. Scott,
%. of the 700 block of Fourth street,
accused as the driver, and James
Kelly. 26. of the 400 block HolliGge
court, was accomplished by the match
ing of a broken radiator ornament,
found lying under Vermillion, with
the car which Scott had been driv-
Ing. Vermillion was struck as he
was crossing the street near Fifth
street and Florida avenue northeast
He died in Casualty Hospital a short
time afterWard. Witnesses said the
car that struck him failed to stop.
The only evidence in the hands of
police besides description of the ma
crime as a small black coupe" was
the broken radiator ornament.
The morning after the accident.
Officer T. NJ. Poland, ninth precinct.
noticed an automobile parked in front
Of 638 Eighth street northeast The
front OF the car was damaged and
blood-spattered and the ornament was
broken from the radiator cap. Ex-
animation showed the attachment
fitted exactly on the radiator cap of
the car.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
CANADA APPROVES
PACT ON SILVER
Endorsement Marks End of
BimetaIIiSm in House
of Commons.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, February 27.-The world
silver agreement. negotiated in Lon
don last June as a move to stabilize
prices Of that metal, was approved
last night by the Canadian House Of
Commons
There was no recorded -ote.
Under the pact the United States,
Mexico, Peru, Australia and Canada
agreed to withdraw from the world
market 35,000O0O fine ounces of
silver. and not to debase their cur
rencieS.
Share Is Set.
Canadas share was put at 1871 :
802 ounces. but no steps have been
taken to buy this from Canadian
mines
Endorsement of the agreement
marks the end of debate on bimetallism
in which the linking of silver and gold
as a common currency basis was ad-
vocated by Thomas Reid and Finance
Minister E. N. Rhodes opposed the
suggestion.
Reid. Liberal member from British
Columbia. sponsored a motion to Gre
ate bimetallic currency on a fixed
ratio and the recognition of silver as
legal tender
Offers Amendment.
Mr.. Rhodes countered with an
amendment which would place the
House on record as approving the
signing by Canada Of a world agrees
ment to stabilize silver prices. He de-
clared bimetallism would be practic-
able only if adopted by all leading
nations.
If Canada pegged gold and silver
al definite ratio, there would be an
ebb and flow of the two metals from
! the country, depending upon the world
prices. said Mr.. Rhodes. Instead of
creating stabilization. this would re-
suit in disequilibrium. he added
Silver as legal tender would open
oriental markets to Canadian goods.
and would add credit and purchasing
power to gold supplies which are in
adequate to world demands, Mr.. Reid
contended
Evening star., 1934-02-27

ranged by the court and by relatives.
It's an old Chinese CUSTOM - she
said.
Two weeks after the wedding the
Empress resumed her English lessons
and continued them until November,
1924.
She knew that the Emperor had
studied English four or five years and
she was anxious to learn the Ian
guage," Mrs. Mayer said.
Had Excellent Taste.
"She learned rapidly and had little
timidity about using the words she
knew, and some she didn't know"
Mrs Mayer described the Empress
as being of an even temper, seldom
angry, fond of outdoor life. and of ner
pets that consisted of dogs, birds and
cats. She also had very excellent
taste in clothes and had exceptional
manners.
Mrs. Mayer said the Empress was
so slender that most persons thought
her tall; but she is not.
Mrs. Mayer said she had seen the
Empress several. times since she stop
ped the English lessons
She still was very beautiful" Mrs.
Mayer said. land quite charming
Evening star., 1934-02-27
PU-y| REHEARSES
CORONATION RITE
Ceremonies Practiced in
Subzero Weather at Man.
Chukuo Capital.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HSINKING, Manchukuo, February
27.-In sub-zero weather. the rites at
the Altar Of Heaven .Jhich will climax
the Environment of Henry Pu-Yi as
Emperor of Manchukuo were solemnly
rehearsed today.
Young Pu-Yi, present chief execu-
tive Of the Japanese assisted state, re-
manned indoors. He was fasting and
meditating in preparing himself for
Thursdays ceremonies.
But all Manchukuo and Japanese
officials and courtiers who are to par
ticipate enacted their assigned parts.
A high Manchu official took the
place of the Emperor-elect in per-
forming all Of the traditional acts.
The only sound breaking the frosty
stiffness was the high, nasal chanting
of the ritualists-intoning commands
and directions in the various rites in
ancient Manchu dialects.
Participants and onlookers alike
were chilled to the bone. The 28-
year-old Pu-Yis Octogenarian cour-
tiers suffered acutely.
Newspaper men were permitted q
brief glance at the earthen, three
TERED altar. On Thursday it will be
entirely obscured from foreign eyes.
Photographers will be forbidden.
The altar, as completed. Is cur
, tanned with high screens of yellow
bunting IL feet high. 1t is open only
at the top.
A huge, barbed wire stockade,
-;
surrounds the altar forming a scene
not wholly unlike that familiar at any
country fair.
The festive aspect is heightened by
numerous gingerbread triumphal
arches along the solemn, 3-mile
way over which the emperor designate
will pass en- route to worship at the
altar of heaven.
Newspapermen and photographers
Thursday will be permitted to stand
within the outer stockade, 100 feet
from the point where Pu-Yi will leave
his automobile and walk toward the
altar.
None. however. will be permitted to
photograph or even see the emperor
at the altar
Seldom Is any monarch guarded as
closely as will be the young ruler.
When he becomes Emperor kang Teh
meaning literally tranquility and
virtue-the area for miles around the
altar of heaven will be covered by
successive rings of soldiers armed to
the teeth and covering the site like
giant cobweb of steel.
Police and gendarmes daily are
rounding up persons suspected of
plotting to disturb the enthronement
At Harbin, 26 persons have been ar
rested and thousands of detectives
are aiding in the watch for suspicious
characters here
The new government will observe
the enthronement by issuing a large
cash grant for orphans. A special
fund will be created for the treat
ment of opium addicts.
Several new Libraries and museums
will be endowed.
Land and salt taxes will be re-
duced
Prison terms will be suspended or
shortened greatly
The government will restore con-
fiscated estates to all political Offend
ers who swear allegiance to the new
throne
Young PuYi will receive gifts, too.
The civil government will make grants
OF large areas of farming and forest
land to the Emperor. These lands
will become the perpetual property
Of the dynasty.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
LITTLE AMERICA"
MAY CAUSE NOTES
Britain Expected Again to
Remind U. S. She Claims
Land Near Pole.
Nv the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Pres
Admiral Richard Byrd and his
frigid Little America" may again be
the chilly subject of an exchange OF
notes between Great Britain and the
United States
Great Britain was reported today
in unofficial but usually reliable quar-
tiers to be contemplating, for second
time, reminding the United States
that King George has formally
claimed three separate large sectors
around the South Pole, including
the ice and snow of Little America"
Indications we're that Great Britain
would assert British claims by right
of discovery should Byrd discover"
and lay claim. for the United States,
to any land within the wide arcs of
horizontal space over which England
says its flag flies.
The State Department has received
no intimation, officially. that Great
Britain plans to send any reminder
OF prior claim"
Embassy Not Informed.
Attaches of the British embassy
likewise asserted today they had no
information that any immediate COM
munlcation on the subject would be
made to the State Department.
On November IT. 1923. the British
government addressed a note to the
State Department in which it asserted
that in addition to the Ross de-
pendency and the Falkland Island
dependencies there were certain
areas in the Antarctic to which
British title already exists"
The areas were listed as: Q
The outlying part of Coats Land
tthat portion not within the Falkland
Islands dependencies, t2D Enderby
Land, (3 Kemp Land. a. Queen
Mary Land, 80 the area which lies
to the west of Adele Land and which
on its discovery by the Australian
expedition in 1912 was called Wilkes
Land, 90 King George V Land, "a
Oates Land.
Admiral Cthen commander Byrd
was then at the start of his first
South Pole expedition.
Acknowledged Note.
The United States merely acknowl-
edged receipt of the note. but did not
say yes" to the British claims.
On his l928-30 expedition, Byrd
discovered land, which he named
Marie Byrd Land. just outside the
British-claimed Ross dependency.
The Rockefeller Mountains, dScov-
cred and named at the same time
however. are within the area claimed
by the British.
Lawrence Gould. geologist with
Byrd on his previous expedition
sledged toward the South Pole from
Little America" and raised the
American flag at the base of the
Queen Maude Mountains, also out
side the area claimed by Great
Britain.
The United States has never Off
cially claimed any of the land dis
covered by Byrd. but neither has it
admitted, officially. that Great
Britain or any other nation has prior
claims in the South Polar regions
explored and discovered by Byrd and
other Americans.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
T. V. A. Has Own brain Trust
Professors Direct Economic Educational and Social
Surveys O Determine Need of Each Section.

have come back and the effects on the
home folks.
Perhaps the most important Of all
is the health program. The T. v. A.
recognizes the vital necessity of a
population possessing sound minds in
sound bodies for. the success Of any
change. There are considerable areas
of malnutrition. Sanitary conditions
are often very bad. This is the land
of the Tennessee misery" a chronic
condition of low spirits. Asked after
his health the hill dweller will drawl:
Ave jest got the misery" The term
probably covers a multitude of alb
normal physiological conditions.
Malaria Is Scourge.
Malaria Is a scourge. especially In
the Muscle Shoals area where pools
let by the river floods have been ideal
breeding places for mosquitoes. A
sanitary census Is being conducted
in all the counties of the valley and, as
a C. w. A. work project, approximately
900 men are engaged in a sanitary
building program which is expected
to bring about considerable improve
ment in the future.
There is widespread illiteracy, espe-
cially in the rural areas. What are
the reasons for it? They must be
found and remedied in order to bring
about a condition where people re-
leased from unremitting work by the
magic of cheap electricity and a
planned economic system can make
use of the unfamiliar leisure.
Human relationships in the area are
being given the most intensive study
ever devoted to SO large region with
such diverse types of social and eco
nomic development. The committee
in charge consists of Charles P. White
and William E. Cole of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee: James w. Martin,
University of Kentucky: D. S. Camp
bell, George Peabody College: Dale S
Young, Alabama State Department OF
Education: James A. Cammack. jr.,
Kentucky Department of Education
Leo M. Chamberlain, University OF
Kentucky; Charles S. Johnson, Fiske
University; John w. Manning, Uni
versity of Kentucky; William r. Pou-
der, Tennessee Taxpayers Association
c. c. Sims, Tennessee State Teachers
College: T. j. Woofter. University OF
North Carolina, T. l.. Howard. Uni
versity of Chattanooga; Frank l.
Grove. Alabama Education Associa-
tion: Walter d. Cooking, Tennessee
commissioner Of education.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
Henry Pu-Yrs Wife Il Beauty,
But Not Dumb, Says Teacher
u. S. Artillery Officers
Spouse Instructed
Her in English.
E m ress Of Eren
Temper, Fond Of Pets,
Has Excellent Taste.

BY the Associated Press.
EDGEWOOD ARSENAL. Md, Feb
ruary 27-The wife of the Emperor
designate of Manchukua is beautiful.
but by no means dumb.
The authority for this statement Is
Mrs. william Mayer. who for two
years instructed the Empress in Eng
lish.
she is very, very beautiful" said
Mrs Mayer Beautiful. judged by
any standard. She also is very intel
ligent, and developed a remarkably
large English vocabulary during the
time I taught her"
Mrs. Mayer. who was reared in
Peiping. is the wife of Capt William
Mayer Of the United States Field Ar
tillery They have been stationed in
America since 1881.
Took Marriage Calmly.
She began teaching the Empress in
1922. At that time her 15-year-old
pupil was betrothed to Henry Pu-Yi.
who soon will be enthroned as En-
peror Of Manchukuo.
The Empress, whose maiden name
was Yueh Hua. continued her Eng
liSh lessons until the day before she
was married
"She did not seem particularly ex-
cited" Mrs. Mayer said in response to
question. She took it very philo-
sophically, although she realized that
in becoming the wife of the Emperor
and entering the Forbidden City her
life would be limited. At the same
time, she realized it was the greatest
honor that could be bestowed on a
girl of her nationality"
Mrs. Mayer explained that her pupil
had never seen the Emperor, nor had
he seen her. The marriage was ar
Evening star., 1934-02-27
FLYER DENOUNCES
AIRMAIL POLICY
Rickenbacker Declares Young
Men Are Being Killed
Needlessly.

BY the Associated Press.
WORCESTER, Mass. February 81
Denouncing Government action that
Cancelled commercial airmail con-
tracts. Capt. Eddie v. Rickenbacker.
speaking at an annual Army and
Navy dinner here last night. said
Government policy was needlessly
killing young men and robbing the
Nation of protection in a time of
emergency.
Prior to his speech. Capt. Ricken-
hacker said in an interview that II
the present policy Of the Govern
ment in relation to airmail trans
portation by Army planes continued
an unknown number of Army av-
iators would be killed and CONNER
cial aviation, which he termed the
backbone of national defense, would
be wrecked.
Politics and patronage. he asserted,
we're a motivating influence in the
situation which had developed.
President Roosevelt he claSsed as
sincere and capable. but said he be-
lieved the President had been misled
and ill-advised in the matter of can
cellationS.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
BY THOMAS p. HENRY.
(copyrisht. 1894. by The Evening Sta

(Copyrisht. 1894, by The Evening Star)
TINE Tennessee Valley Authority
has its own brain trust"-a
committee of IA professors
L drawn from the faculties Of
colleges and universities
throughout the area.
The foundations Of the new social
order are to be laid on solid bed
rock Of facts. The professors are di-
recting intensive governmental, eco
nomic, educational and social surveys
of the entire region. Already they
have $50 competent c. w. A. workers
employed in Tennessee, and others are
being put to work in Kentucky, Ala
bama and North Carolina
Each part Of the valley has its own
problems, not susceptible to satisfac-
tory solution by regimentation. Due
consideration must be given to local
inheritances. local prejudices. local
traditions. The roots of a peoples
life run deep into grooves. None real
ize this better than the directors Of
the great experiment. They are pro-
posing no changes without having at
them to form some judgment of the
ultimate effect of such changes.
Cart Wheel Counties" Common.
Take, for example, the matter of
the "cart-wheel counties" Such a
county is. roughly. circular in shape.
with the county seat close to the CEN
ter and distant a fair days horseback
ride from the border in every direc-
ton. This type Of political unit is
1t is an inheritance from more
primitive day when most travelling
was done In the saddle. When such
counties were laid out, they were quite
efficient instruments of local govern
ment. Now, with the automobile and
good roads, they are altogether too
small for economic administration.
They should be three or four times as
big But local jealousies and polit-
ical alignments provide difficult bar
rier against any change. This IS
merely one of the problems which the
committee, under the direction of DR..
F. w. Reeves of the T. V. A. staff, is
studying. They fini such units are
often intolerably expensive. What is
to be done about it can be determined
only by complete accumulation OF
facts.
DIR. Reeves has "a major projects
now under way. They include inten-
Evening star., 1934-02-27

sive studies, particularly as they apply
to Tennessee, Of county finances, the
statutory provisions for State and
local debts. property tax exemptions.
park and forest development, highway
administration, tax delinquency, ex-
penditures for State and local govern
ment, funds lost in bank failures, vo-
cational rehabilitation services, laws
Of the seven States in respect to local
boards Of control, legal requirements
for chartering private institutions,
legislation affecting education, total
expenditure by items for all local gov
ernment, expenditures for education
at all levels, adult education, school
consolidation, survey of life and social
conditions among the colored popula-
ton, local public utilities, school dis
trict organization and the effects Of
the depression on school systems.
Must Locate Poor Land.
Another job undertaken under d.
rection of the committee is that of
locating sub-marginal land, on which
farmers now are eking out pre-
cariouS existence and which should be
turned back into forest. The sur
veyors are talking with the back
country farmers. They are trying to
determine the strength of the preju-
dice which will be encountered in re-
firing from agriculture such poverty
stricken land.
Still another problem is that Of the
urbanization Of the rural population
and its effect on the local economics.
Much has been written during the
past few years on the drift to the
cities and back again. Very little
actually is known about it. The COM
mittee seeks accurate data on how
many young men and women left
definite areas for industrial towns.
what sort of adjustments they made
to the new environments, how many
Evening star., 1934-02-27
CUbANREVOLUT|ON
PILOT IS REPORTED
Threat of General Strike in
Camaguey Also Disturbs
Officials.
By the Associated Press.

by tHt hSSOIldte tIcSS.
HAVANA. February 27.-Threats
of a general strike in Camaguey
Province and rumblings of a revolu-
tionary plot in Havana last night held
the attention of government officials.
especially Col Fulgencio Batista.
commander in chief of Cuba's armed
forces.
The strike threat was centered in
the cities of Camaguey and Neuvitas
and some disorder was reported at the
latter place. Reports from Neuvitas
said a customs inspector was shot and
wounded by unidentified assailants.
Workers in the railroad yards at
Neuvitas and stevedores already were
on strike, but trains were running on
schedule. The strikes were called as
a protest against the railroad COM
panvs' dismissal of a locomotive engi-
neer.
Negotiations for a Cuban american
trade treaty were delayed until later
this week because preparatory work
of Cuban officials was not completed.
Percy Nadeau. who told authorities
llc " dS du hIilClISdII diIO NClCedlC
to the Washington Code Conference
on Shipping, was arrested in Neuvitas
and accused of melting crews Of two
steamers to strike.
He was brought to Havana for de-
portation to the United States Off
cials said they had documentary proof
that Nadeau, who was a fireman on
the steamer Lynghaug, is a profess
sional agitator.
President Mendieta accepted today
the resignsti ton of Santiago Verdeja,
secretary of sanitation. 1t was learned
that Verdeja and DR.. Ernesto Aragon
planned to fight a duel Tuesday be-
cause of dispute in connection with
the controversy over membership in
the medical federation.
A palace spokesman said VerdeJa
would be reappointed after the duel.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
TYRRELL'S RETIREMENT
CALLED AID TO PEACE
Hitler's Paper Declares British
Ambassador Is MAN of
Yesterday"
By the Associated Press.

BY the AsSOcIattd PftSS.
MUNICH, Germany, February 81
The retirement Of Lord Tyrrell as
British Ambassador to Paris was re-
ported in Chancellor Hitlers news
paper yesterday as "a point for peace" :"
His departure" said the Voel-
kischer Deobachter. sis a gain for
the pacification of Europe. and exor-
cises the baneful Versailles spirit he
fostered
Lord Tyrrell was man of yester-
day who simply could not understand
that a new era had dawned. He
acted throughout as the pacemaker
for Frances policy to keep Germany
down forever"