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Evening star., 1934-10-02
RITES TO BE PRIVATE
Sir John Adams Will Be Buried
Today.

LOS ANGELES. October 2 R).-
Private funeral services will be held
today for Sir John Adams, II, pro-
fessor of education at the University
of California and the first man to
be knighted for outstanding work in
the educational field
Sir John. who came here three
years ago. died Saturday night.
Born in Scotland. he became one
of the foremost educators in the
world. He had been president of the
Aberdeen Training School, the Glas-
gov Training School, and from 1902
to 1922 he was professor of education
at the University of London.
Evening star., 1934-10-02

only 65 per cent true, the Govern
ment claims.
1t was also falsely represented, the
indictment claims. that the common
stock promised attractive yields, and
was a good, safe and sound invest
ment." Actually, it is charged, earn
ings were never enough for dividends.
insult also inflated the price of the
stock, it is charged, by dealing in it
on the Chicago and other stock ex-
changes, using money from his other
companies-from Middle West Utilities
Co.. from Mississippi Valley Utility In
vestments Co., Utility Securities Co.,
to mention a few.
Two-Year Preparation.
Another part of the Governments
charge is that dividends were paid out
of stock, by splitting it
The Governments carefully prepared
case, the result OF two years work by
auditors, and investigators, double
checked by secretly conducted grand
jury Investigations, may answer many
debated questions about insult him
self.
Friends considered insult the great
est public utility executive in the
United States" but he had critics
among bankers and engineers who
claim his empire building was fire.
quently marrcd by costly fumbles.
The Government prosecutors pur-
sued insult for nearly two years to
force him to answer the criminal
charges. From Paris, where he was
staying when first indicted, he fed
to Athens. beginning a chase which
ended with his capture at Istanbul,
Turkey, April 2.
Civil suits totaling about s1OO.0GO,-
900 hang over his head. as does an
other Federal charge of bankruptcy
fraud and State charge of emhez-
element.
Others Accused.
Samuel insult, jr., is now an as
sistant to the president of Common
wealth Edison CO.
Stanley Field, banker, president of
the Field Museum of Natural History
and nephew of the late Marshall
Field, Chicago merchant, is one OF
the defendants.
Two other defendants in the case
have placed in this years Who's
Who" They are Harold Leonard
Stuart, president of Halsey Stuart
g. Co., and his brother, Charles B.
Stuart of New York, who was vice
president, both of Corporation Securi-
ties Co. and Of Halsey Stuart & Co.
Lawyer Is Defendant.
insults personal attorney, Waldo F.
Tobey, and Clarence R. Whitworth. the
accountant who certified that Cor
poration Securities Co. was in good
condition share in the charges. Others
on trial are:
Frank K. Schrader, Charles w. Sills,
Clarence T. MacNeille, Philip j. Nc
Enroe, John E. O'Keefe, all directors
or officials Of the company in ques-
ton; Edward j. Doyle, president of
the Commonwealth Edison Co.. Fred
H. Scheel, Robert w. Waite, Frank r.
Evers and George A. Kemp, all officers
of Utility Securities Co., another In
sull investment trust.
Evening star., 1934-10-02
HOOVER is REELECTED
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Harding Memorial Association
Also Names DR.. Carl w. Sawyer
Head of Trustees.

By the Associated Press.
MARION, Ohio, october 2.-For-
mer President Herbert Hoover yes
terday was reelected honorary presi-
dent of the Harding Memorial Asso-
citation at the annual meeting here.
DR.. Carl w. Sawyer, son of the
late Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer,
personal physician to President War
rem G. Harding, was elected presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees, sue
ceeding Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of
New Jersey
The financial report listed a prop
erty appraisal of $996,240, including
an endowment fund of $202,564 in
Government securities, cash and bank
balances,
Evening star., 1934-10-02
CUBA RETURNS FIRM
Telephone Company Is Ordered to
Re-employ 2O7 Strikers.

HAVANA. October 2 LP).-The gov
ernment yesterday returned proper
ties of the Cuban Telephone Co. to
the owners, ordering the company to
re-employ 2O7 of 256 former employees
discharged for strike activities.
The 40 strikers left without jobs
were leaders in sabotage campaign
against the company, officials charged.
The Cuban government took over
operation of the Cuban Telephone Co.,
largely American-owned, late in the
Summer, after labor troubles.
Evening star., 1934-10-02
King. III. in Seclusion.

CAIRO, october 2 (P).-King Fuad.
who recently suffered a slight at
tack of influenza, today cancelled his
usual receptions scheduled for Octo-
ber 9, the anniversary OF his accession.
Evening star., 1934-10-02
TRIAL OF INSULL
FOR FRAUD BEGINS
AFTER TWO YEARS
only 65 per cent true, the Govern
ment claims.

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-10-02
RUSSIA TO SELL
ROAD TOPAY j. 5.
Soviet to Pay First Debt In.
staIIment on Money Re-
Ceived From Toxic.

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-10-02
MAIL GUARD VICTIM
OF TRI-STATE GANG
IS BACK IN HOSPITAL

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Evening star., 1934-10-02

Of the negotiations will have a catas-
trophic political effect. especially in
the Far East.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
DENTISTS BEGIN
THREE-DAy CLINIC
Newest Methods and Dis.
coveries Are Demon
strated Before 500.

Dentists of Virginia, Delaware, Mary
land, West Virginia and North Caro-
lima began today three-day post
graduate clinic with the District of
Columbia Dental Society at the Shore
ham Hotel, with about 500 in atten-
dance.
Newest methods and discoveries In
the fields of dental surgery and med
icine are being demonstrated. This
morning there was a pyorrhea clinic
conducted by Drs. Arthur B. Crane
and Harry Kaplan, both of Washing
ton, who are specialists in this wide
spread disease of the gums. Some in
dications of pyorrhea, DR.. Crane told
the dentists, are almost universal and
are bound to appear at some time
during life.
This afternoon there was a demon
stration by Drs. Wilmer Souder and
William T. Sweeney of the research
work in dental materials being con-
Quoted at the Bureau of Standards in
cooperation with the American Dental
Association.
This evening there will be discus
sion OF the curious conditions that has
been found among the Bering Sea
Esklmos, where the extent of dental
decay seems exactly proportional to
the amounts of civilized" food used.
This will be led by DR.. Leuman Waugh,
professor of dentistry at Columbia
University.
DR.. F. M. Casio, president-elect of
the American Dental Association, will
be the speaker at banquet at the
Shoreham tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
FIRST SOUP KITCHEN
|FEEDS2,OO0STRIKERS
Haverhill Merchants Aid Shoe
and Leather Workers in
Seige Beginning.
BY the Associated Press.


HAVERHILL, Mass. March l9.-
Long lines filed by Haverhill's first
soup kitchen yesterday as 5000 strik-
ing shoe workers settled down for a
long siege in their attempt TO gain
new concessions from employers.
The kitchen, operated by the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union,
closed its second day having fed 1000
persons. Officials of the union said
they had enough food to last through
Wednesday and that S55, 1000 would be
placed at their disposal early his
week with which to continue the
strike. The money, the officials said,
was coming from locals of the union
in other communities.
Practically all of the food dispensed
thus far has been donated by local
merchants, the officials said. despite
the fact that local business has suf-
fered through the loss of the 100000
weekly pay roll.
The strike, now going into its third
week, was precipitated when manu-
facturers refused to accept a new
working agreement proposed by the
union. A meeting, to which repre-
sentatives Of the union and the manu-
facturers had been summoned, had
been called by the National Labor
Board for tomorrow. However, it was
postponed until Wednesday when the
representatives will meet in Wash
ington in an attempt to thrash out
their differences.
In the slow moving line today were
two children, aged and 8. They
bore note from their mother which
said:
please feed my babies. Their
father Is dead. He was in good union
standing and here is his book"
They were fed.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
Light Extinguished
As Norman Thomas
AssaiIs Utilities
Socialist Directs attack
at ]. Henry ROraback
in Waterbury Speech.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WATERBURY, Conn, March 10
The lights went out last night in the
Second Congregational Church Just
as Norman Thomas, Socialist leader,
closed an attack on public utilities
during which he termed j. Henry
Roraback the chief utility magnate
Of the State.
"It's not my fault If the lights go
out" Thomas remarked, "but it just
proves what said about the public
utilities"
AS the lights flashed back on, he
said:
II guess Roraback decided to let
the lights stay on"
Roraback, national Republican
committeeman, is president of the
Connecticut Light & Power Co., and
State Republican chairman.
Asserting that capitalism is dead,
Thomas said:
I'VE have the choice OF continuing
farm of capitalism under Fascism,
or establishing cooperative Social
ism"
Evening star., 1934-03-19
SCHOOL BOYS HOSTS
TO FATHERS TONIGHT
Powell Junior High Group to
Entertain With Bean
Supper.

Five hundred boys Of the Powell
Junior High School will entertain
their fathers at Dads night" cele-
bration to be held at the school to-
night An old-fashioned bean supper
will be served.
The boys will be assessed 20 cents
each for their beans, the fathers l
cent. Each man will need a boy as
host in order to get in.
The Powell Junior High Orchestra,
under the direction of Don McAdoo,
will provide the music. There will be
boxing bouts, wrestling matches and
entertainment by the Boys Glee Club,
under the direction of Mrs NJ. A
Towney.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
RAILWAYS YSDEMAND
Is PCT. WAGE CUT
Action Follows Rejection by
Employees of Continued
10 Pct. Reduction.
Continued From First Page.)

States in order to aid in effecting a
national recovery during the year OF
1894.
notwithstanding your declination
IN Saturday of this proposal we are
still willing that you should consider
1t. Your continued declination will
of course make it necessary that we
withdraw it.
Is Per Cent Proposal Left.
This will leave before us for con-
sideration only our notice of a Is per
cent reduction in basic rates of pay to
become effective on July /, 1884.
1T was to consider that notice that
this conference is held pursuant to
the agreement between your associa-
ton and our committee and under
the railway labor act.
I'm that agreement you and we
agreed that in the event that notices
OF change in rates should be served
by either party between February Is,
1884, and July l, 1884, the proceed
1ngs hereunder shall be conducted
pursuant to the provisions of the
railway labor act and such proceed
ingS shall be conducted nationally in
order that the matter may be handled
to a conclusion as expeditiously as
reasonably possible
I'VE, therefore, call your attention
to the fact that we are now here to
proceed under the terms of that
agreement and the provisions of the
railway labor act in respect to the
notice heretofore served by the rail-
roads upon you and the employees
whom you represent.
Labor Act Cited.
"The railway labor act requires
that conference such as we have
been holding should be held in re-
spect to such notice.
UNLESS we have misunderstood your
position you have without reserva-
ton declined to agree to the change
Of rates of which we have given
notice.
If that is SO and you persist in
your rejection of our proposal to defer
action Hereunder on condition OF o
continuance Of the present arrange
ment until April 30, 1885, it would
seem that nothing further is to be ac-
compliShed by continuing this confer
ence."
w. F. Thiehof, leader of the Con-
ference Committee of Managers, held
long conference yesterday with
other rail executives to shape their
reply. They were understood to have
completed the answer at that time,
but kept it secret until today's con-
ference.
The managers adjourned their
conferences subject to call
The chiefs of the 81 labor unions
Immediately assembled to consider
the situation.
Another formal conference may be
held tomorrow or Wednesday, but
this is uncertain.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Snow or rain
mixed with sleet tonight and prob
ably tomorrow morning: little change
in temperature, lowest tonight about
28 degrees; moderate northeast and
east winds, shifting to northwest
tomorrow.
Maryland-Cloudy, snow in west,
and snow or rain mixed with Sleet in
east portion tonight and probably to-
morrow morning; not quite so cold in
extreme west portion tonight.
Virgtnia-Cloudy with rain in
southeast, and rain or snow, possibly
mixed with sleet in north and west
portions tonight and probably to-
morrow morning: somewhat colder in
southwest portion tonight.
West Virginia-Snow in north, and
rain or snow in south portion, mixed
with sleet tonight and probably to-
morrow morning; somewhat warmer
in northwest, and colder in extreme
south portion tonight.
Report for Last 48 Hours.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
CENTRAL KITCHEN
READY FOR FIRES
Needy School Children Will
Get First Lunch From New
Unit Tomorrow.

New equipment in the central pub
lie school kitchen received final tests
today, and stoves will be lighted at 6
am. tomorrow to cook lunch for 6,724
children of needy Washington fam
lilies.
Mrs. Katharine NICK. AnSley is in
charge of the gigantic kitchen in the
old Wisconsin Manual School in
GEORGETOWN Workmen have been en-
Saged for the last two months in
eouipping the building, during which
time school meals have been under
charge of Earl E. Harrington, res
tauranteur.
The latest in cooking equipment has
been supplied the kitchen, and 1t is
believed the central idea will prove
more efficient than separate kitchens
in the different school buildings.
There are IA stoves and large sauce
pans. Several hundred three and
five gallon containers flank the walls.
These will be used to transport the
lunches to the various schools.
Trucks driven by c. w. A. workers
will carry the food.
Mrs. Ansley has 40 workers, includ-
ing II cooks, under her supervision,
attired in special uniforms made by
G. w. A. workers. They will work on
q 24-hour week.
Twenty workers will be required to
make 5000 sandwiches before $50
am tomorrow, under present ar
rangementS. They will be called upon
to distribute the thousands of oranges
that will be included in the lunches.
Harry M. Gardner is in charge Of
the purchase of supplies, although
much of the food will come from sur
plus Federal supplies. Miss Sue Frick
and Miss Ethel Nugent assist Mrs.
Ansley in operating the kitchen.
The kitchen will continue in oper-
alton during the school Spring vaca-
Evening star., 1934-03-19
FACTORS FIGHT
BELIEVED LOST
SpecuIator May Hear Judge
Order His Deportation
to England.
BY the Associated Press.

by Inc hSSOClhIcu HIcss
CHICAGO, March ia showdown
appeared imminent today in the fight
of the British crown to remove John
Factor, international speculator, to
England to face a charge of involve
ment in a $7000,000 stock swindle.
The one-time immigrant boy who
started on a "shoe- string" to run up
his fortune-reputedly to some S.
00G, G,00O-finally faced the possibility
of hearing Federal Judge Sullivan
order him placed in the custody Of
a United States marshal for return
to England by operatives of Scotland
Yard.
The hearing was called on the re-
quest of Franklin r. Overmyer, coun-
sci for the British crown, for cancel
lation of orders delaying Factors
eXtradition which were issued so he
could testify against the men who
kidnapped him for $4,000 ransom.
Factor was still pinning his hope to
escape extradition on an appeal to
the State Department at Washington,
but his less sanguine friends professed
to believe he had lost his fight.
If Factor loses it will mark the end
Of a threeyear struggle and he will
go back to his native land reputedly
broke" after a stormy career in
America, climaxed last July l, when
he was seized by gangsters and held
prisoner until he paid them ransom
demands. He was largely instru-
mental in helping the State send
four of his captors to prison for go
year sentences
Now Factor himself is confronted
with the possibility of incarceration
and processes to fear temporary de-
tention in an Illinois Jail more than
he does a British court.
In jail here" he said, there may
be people who don't see things as I
do. That's why hope the Judge per-
mits me to be in custody of a marshal
In my hotel room"
The people" he referred to are
friends Of the gang chief Roger
Touhy, who. with three associates, is
now in the State Penitentiary at Joliet
for Factors abduction.
Factor was born in Hull, England.
in 1892 and was brought to Chicago
as a boy and grew up In Chicago's
cosmopolitan West Side. One of his
first jobs was that of bill collector,
from which he jumped into the field
of finance Later he was involved in
stock promotion schemes in Canada
and England and also dabbled a bit in
the Florida real estate boom in 1925.
Big money came his way. He
played for big stakes and was once a
prominent figure at the gaming tables
Of Paris, as well as at Deauville, LIE
Touquet and other European watering
places. For three years he has been
under $4,000 bond to guarantee his
presence if and when the British
crown wins its fight to start him
back to England.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
Lightning Drains Well.

CRANE, Mo. @.-Walter N. Coble
reports the bottom has been knocked
out of a 96-foot well on his farm, near
here-and he says the lightning did it.
In a recent electrical storm a bolt
of lightning struck a nearby tree and
followed it into the well, Coble says
The next day he found the well dry.
A driller's bit showed that the un-
loosened bottom had been the ceiling
of an underground cavern.
Evening star., 1934-03-19

ployes ordered by Gen. Hugh S.
johnson, N. r. A. administrator.
The poll, to be held tomorrow, is on
the question of whether the employees
collective bargaining shall be done by
a company union or by the United
Auto Workers Union.
The workers, said by union officials
to number nearly 1000, also voted not
to participate in any election until
800 strikers, NOT yet reinstated, have
been returned tA work.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
THROWN FROM CAR
Hitch Hiker Believed Victim of
Robbery Attempt.

NEWARK, Ohio, March 10 CP.-
Frank Huppert, 20, of Pittsburgh, a
hitch tinker, lay near death in Zanes-
vile Hospital last night, the victim,
authorities believed, of an attempt
to rob him of So
The youth was found unconscious
early yesterday beside the national
road, his skull crushed at the base.
He was taken to GAINESVILLE, where he
rsgained consciousness and told county
deputies that he was struck on the
head and thrown from the automobile
OF a man who had consented to give
him a ride from Terre Haute, Ind, to
Wheeling.
Huppert said he was returning from
a visit to his sister in Los Angeles,
Evening star., 1934-03-19
STRIKE is VOTED

1000 Cleaners and Pressers in
Chicago to Go Out in Week.
CHICAGO, March 19 R.-Two
thousand members of the Cleaners,
Pressers and Dyers' Union today voted
to strike week from today unless
contracts are signed this week.
The contracts would call for q
minimum of SIS week for beginners
and a maximum of $47.5o for cleaners
OF fancy goods. The strike, union
officials estimated, would throw 5000
workers out of employment and tie
up business whose gross is about
S30,o00,000 annually.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
STUDENT is SOUGHT
Eastern High Youth Disappears
From Home.

From Home.
Police were making a search today
for Vernon w. Presgrave, 18-year-old
Eastern High School student, who
disappeared from his home, 116
Twelfth street northeast.
The youth was reported missing by
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Greer, who said
he had been living with them and
working in their bakery His mother
lives in the 1900 block of Wisconsin
avenue.
Evening star., 1934-03-19
AUTO CH|EFSSEEK
TO AVERT STRIKE
N. A. c. c. Directors Meet in
New YOrk-JOhnS0n
Awaits Call.
Continued From First Page.)

company unions as not in accord with
the collective bargaining provisions of
the N. R. A, have charged coercion
and discrimination against workers
desirous of bargaining through A. F.
of L. unions. From President William
Green down they have emphasized
their intention to make it national
issue, declaring their belief that the
fundamentals of the N R. A safe
guards for labor are involved.
The N. A. C. c., on the other hand,
declared: THE automobile manufac-
turers have complied with the N. R.
A in letter and spirit. Every
employe has the right to be repre-
sented by a spokesman of his own
choosing"
Appeals for Common Sense"
The strike threat comes at the peak
of the automobile season. Three or
four weeks from now the rush is eX-
pected to taper off. That fact led
observers to believe that the labor war,
if it comes, will come quickly.
An appeal for a common sense"
solution of the crisis was sounded last
night by Edward A. Filene, noted mer-
chant and chairman of the New Eng
land District Recovery Board.
This strike must not happen" he
said in Boston. ''All America looks
to the great American Federation of
Labor and the great General Motors
Corporation to prevent any such Ma
tion-wide calamity, which would not
only be dangerous blow to the PreSi-
dents recovery program, but seriously
injure the morale of the whole
Nation"
Ten thousand workers gathered at
mass meetings in Detroit yesterday to
discuss their grievances. William F.
Collins, representative of the A. F.
of L., read list of rules to guide them
if the strike is called. The rules
designate leaders and provide for
orderly picketing. Similar meetings
were called in Flint and Pontiac.
PITTS ISSIF Up To WORKERS
Evening star., 1934-03-19
PUTS ISSUE UP TO WORKERS.
n. A. c. c. Holds Strike Threat Comes
Only From A. F. L.

DETROIT, March 19 (P.-The Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, in a published statement to
automobile workers today, said that
cit is up to you to say whether you
want to surrender to professional labor
leaders your own right to deal with
the management of your companies"
Calling attention to recent reduc-
tions of working hours in member
plants to an annual average of 36
hours per week, and wage increases
of more than 80 per cent within the
past year, the statement says that
wage rates lin many cases are higher
than they were in 1929 at the peak
Of prosperity, and that twice as many
men are at work today as during the
depression
Evening star., 1934-03-19
Report for Last 48 Hours.
Record for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 78, at 2 pm. yesterday;
year ago, "A.
Lowest, 90, at 7:15 am. today; year
ago, 38.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 78, on March 10.
Lowest, -612, on February 8.