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The Washington times., 1934-10-29
MOVE
To KEEP KING

BANGKOK. Oct. 20 O.N.S).
The threat of King Prajadhipok
to abdicate unless his royal pre-
negatives are retained, hung over
Siam today. with the public anx-
ious to keep him on the throne,
and ministers, aware of this, striv-
ing to effect a compromise.
The Kings decision to abdicate
if certain laws curbing his au-
thority are not repealed was with
held from the public-officially,
at least.
The situation throughout the
country was normal, with no sign
of unrest, despite the critical
situation confronting the govern
ment. The cabinet, aware of
King Prajadhipok's popularity
with his people, was reported to be
opposed to his abdication.
It was possible one of the minis
ters would fly to England, where
the King is now staying, to discuss
the problem. The matter was the
subject of a day-long cabinet
meeting.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
POISONED
At DINNER

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. %
0.N.SO.-One hundred and fifty
persons-a major portion of the
entire staff of the University OF
Michigan Hospital-were seriously
i'll today from food poisoning, the
source of which has not been de-
termined.
The victims included Is sur
geonS, 10 women dietitians, and
125 nurses. All were expected to
recover, although their condition
was given as temporarily seri.
ouS." University authorities de-
clined to release their names.
DR.. Charles L. Brown, head of
the internal medicine department
of the hospital, said the victims
became i'll after eating dinner last
night in the basement dining
room Of the hospital. He said:
1--WE at first feared botuIism,
a type of poisoning which al
most always causes death, but
thus far in examining the
patients we have found no
evidence Of it. We cannot say
as yet were the trouble Origi-
mated"
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
VIEWS ON ARMS
PARLEY SOUGHT
BY LEAGUE
Secretary-GeneraI AvenoI on
Way to London to See U. S.
and British Spokesman
copyright, 1894, by International
News Service)

GENEVA, Oct. 29.-American
advice on what is to be done
about the Disarmament Con-
ference will be sought this week
in London, International News
Service learned today.
Secretary General Avenol, OF
the League of Nations, was to
leave Geneva for London today,
ostensibly to lecture before naval
and military staff colleges re-
garding the Leagues work, but
actually, it was learned, to sound
out the American and British
camps on the Moribund arms
parleys future.
The British cabinet, Arthur
Henderson, president of the arms
conference, and Norman H. Davis,
head of the American delegation
now in London for the prelim-
mary naval talks with British
and Japanese diplomats, were to
be the principal sources contacted
by Avenol
Three Courses Possible
Three courses were possible: to
keep the disarmament conference
in it's present state of coma, give
it a stimulant. or let it die.
An indication that France con.
Siders the arms conference a hope
less case-at least for the present
was seen in the fact that Avenol
planned to call on French arms
experts only briefly-between
train times. Neither Premier Dou-
mergue nor Foreign Minister Laval
were on his program.
In London, however, Prime Min
lister Macdonald, Foreign Minister
Sir John Simon, Davis and Hugh
Wilson, American minister to
Switzerland now consulting with
Davis, all were to be seen in an
attempt by Avenol to pull the
arms parley out of the paralysis
into which it fell with the with
drawal of Germany year ago.
Committee to Meet
The European and League aims
regarding the disarmament confer
ence at present are solely face
saving. and an earnest effort will
be made to swing Davis and Will
son around to the view that some
thing ought to be done if only for
appearances.
The conference steering COM
mittee probably will meet in
Geneva November 81.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
By RILLA SCHROEDER

The story of any trip with Mrs
Roosevelt would not be complete
without the dozens of laughable
and interesting little bits that
crop up wherever the Presidents
wife goes.
Mrs. Roosevelt's whirlwind tour
of upstate New York last week
for Mrs. Daniel O'Day, Demo-
cratic candidate for Representa-
tive-at-large, was no exception
The First Lady herself got the
greatest kick out of the trip.
To her party she confided:
II had forgotten campaign
ing was such fun. 1t is great
to be back in it,"
From city to city, Nancy Cook,
helping Mrs. O'Day with. her cam
paign, carried a huge package
of leaflets setting forth her can
didate's qualification for the job.
The meetings were all scheduled
as nonpartisan On the way
down to Buffalo, where the first
was held, Miss Cook worried:
81 wonder if Natalie Couch
MRS. O'Day's Republican OPP
pOnent) is remembering to
bring her literature. This has
to be a nOnpartisan meeting"
The Buffalo League of Amer
lean Pen Women (Mrs. Roosevelt
holds an honorary office in the
national league) asked that the
First Lady stop her car when
passing their headquarters and
wave.
Late for her next meeting, Mrs.
Roosevelt had her car slow up as
she passed the building. No one
was in sight. Out she jumped,
rushed into the building and
cried:
Ladies, I'm late. Sorry I
can't stay. GOOd-by."
1t was, she said, the shortest
speech of her career.
A pig-tailed little girl, about 10,
asked for an interview with Mrs.
Roosevelt in Rochester. She was
Helen Gilman, daughter of Mrs.
Harry Gilman. member of the
city school board.
The youngster informed the
First Lady that or a recent
visit to Washington she had noted
the White House flag flying after
sundown. as a Girl Scout she
knew that was all wrong.
Mrs. Roosevelt explained:
Someone must have for
gotten. I'll speak to Shem when
/ get back to Washington. We
can't have that happening"
At Buffalo was Mrs. Robert
Low Bacon, wife of Republican
Rep. Bacon and manager of Miss
COUGHS speaking tour.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
First Lady, on Stump,
Gathers SOmeLaughs

Asked about plans for her de-
butante daughter, Virginia, Mrs.
Bacon sighed:
'If the Republicans lose she
won't have any. We will give
her a sandwich shower"
After election the Bacons are
going to Puerto Rico and Haiti.
At the Buffalo meeting, Mrs.
Roosevelt frankly enjoyed the
talk of Mrs. Charles Roth, speak
ing for the Socialist candidate.
She laughed delightedly when
Mrs. Roth said:
"They say President ROose.
welt is a Socialist but he isn't.
Everything good in his pro-
gram, however, he got from us
Socialists"
At the conclusion of her Roch.
ester speech Mrs. Roosevelt was
presented by j. R. van InWagen,
Western Union representative,
with a gavel fashioned of wood
from the old Reynolds Arcade,
home of the first office of his
company. The building was built
in 1928, although the Western
Union did not move in until 1856.
Porters on the trains during the
trip asked that Mrs. Roosevelt
personally hand them her tips
They wanted the money from her
own hand.
On the train from Syracuse to
Albany, Ernest Johnson. porter,
told Mrs. Roosevelt he was from
the Virgin Islands. He said:
"Your husband is the first
President to do anything for us
since our islands were bought
from Denmark. If he is backing
Mrs. O'Day, we are for her"
There are 5000 Virgin Islanders
in New York State, he said.
At Syracuse, Mrs. Roosevelt
arriving at 11:45 a. m. just as
luncheon was scheduled, made a
16-mile trip into the suburbs to see
the Presidents protege, Leo Casey.
former New York State trooper
who was permanently crippled in
an automobile accident.
The luncheon guests had to wait
until ITO to see Mrs. Roosevelt,
but Mr.. Casey had his visit.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
SANITY HEARING
DENIED SHANK

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 20
G.N.SO. Chances of Mark H.
Shank, Arkon (Ohio) attorney
and convicted poisoner, to escape
the electric chair, grew simmer
today as the Arkansas Supreme
Court denied him a sanity hearing.
The State opposed the defense
plea on the ground Shank at his
trial had pleaded insanity.
Shank was convicted of poison
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Colley, of
Akron, and two of their children
with strychnine placed in grape
juice they drank at a picnic near
Malvern, Ark.
A new date for his execution is
to be set by Governor Futrell.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
DR.. r. C. Bruce
May Head School

DR.. Roscoe c. Bruce, former
superintendent of schools, Division
10 to 13, has been named as pos
sible candidate to succeed DR..
Robert Moten as president of TuS-
kegee Institute in Alabama.
DR.. Moten. who has been i'll for
several months, has resigned. He
had been president since the death
of DR.. Booker T. Washington,
founder of the school, 20 years ago.
DR.. Bruce is a Harvard graduate
and for the last decade has been
managing-directo of the Dunbar
Apartments, a colored housing pro-
ject in New York b. It by Rookie
feller interests.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
URGES
ZEPPELIN BASE
FOR SOUTH
Find "SuitabIe Place" Below
Baltimore for Coastal Site,
: German Declares

Science of Germany and com
mercialism of America crossed
swords today over Washington's
suitability as a Zeppelin base.
Representing scientific Germany
was DR.. Hugo Eckener, successor
to Count Ferdinand Zeppelin as
foremost lighter-than-air expert
in the world, who testified before
the Federal Aviation Commission
at the Commerce Department.
Must Find the Spot
Asked to comment on the ad
vantage of washington as a Yep
peIn base as contrasted with
Richmond and Baltimore, the
Herr Doktor based his answer
solely on the meteorological
problems involved, saying:
"What we must find Is q
suitable place along the At
lantic coast south Of Balti-
mOre's latitude which will en-
able us to take off without
being confined to our hangar
by bad weather conditions"
He admitted it is the general
area which interests him and not
the city.
On the other hand American
business, represented by P. w
Litchfield, president of the Good
year-Zeppelin Corporation which
will undoubtedly be the American
firm involved in any international
service, also testifying today, sees
very good possibilities of establish
ment of the Zeppelin base here.
Washington Favored
Interested in climatic conditions
here he nevertheless is deeply con-
cerned with certain commercial
aspects, saying:
st is generally accepted now
that the place chosen will lie
within the BaltimOre-W Washing
tOn-RichmOnd area.
"There is little difference in
weather conditions between
these cities and l believe Wash
ingtOn is better situated COM
mercially than Richmond. Ger
tainly weather conditions here
are superior to those of Lake
hurst"
Speaking of the tragic end of
the United States dirigible Akron
which dashed into a turbulent sea
during April, 1898, carrying 73
men to their deaths, DR.. Eckener
said ineXperience of American air
navigators was responsible. DR..
Eckener said:
can airship approaching a
Squall line at an altitude of
from 800 to 1000 feet, accord
ing to my experience, will al
ways be carried up, never down.
/ have, therefore, never felt a
danger that the airShip, in tur-
bulent air conditions, might be
thrown upon the ocean when
cruising over the sea. It is only
when cruising at greater alti-
tudeS of more than $500 feet,
passing through a line squall,
that the ship may be carried
down under certain conditions.
But these downward movements
of air gradually take a hori-
zOntal motion at an altitude
of perhaps 100 feet"
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
D 'CONNOR MOVE
HELDPOL|T|CAL
By EUGENE A. KELLY

By EUGENE A. KELLY
The real story behind an offer
made to j. F. T. O'Connor, Comp
troller of the Currency, of a job
as agent of the Federal Reserve
Board at a salary of $4,000 a
year may have been disclosed
today as gossip leaked from the
Treasury Department.
The whispering centered around
his future political life, about
which reams of copy already have
been written. The gossip mongerS
believe they now have the right
slant on the whole question Of
his supposedly imminent resigna-
ton.
The story now being circulated
in highly informed quarters is
that Mr.. O'Connor will go to
California if the Administration
is successful at the November
election in that State. It is an
open secret that the New Dealers,
since their open disavowal of
Upton Sinclair, the Democratic
nominee for governor, have taken
Mr.. Merriam, the Republican
candidae, to their bosomS.
The Administration, according
to authoritative sour ceS, is
dickering for a deal with Mr..
Merriam, and if successful will
send Mr.. O'Connor to take care
of it's interests.
That is said to be why Mr..
O'Connor will go to California,
if he goes at all.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
INSURANCE DIVIDEND

Seaboard Insurance Company of
Baltimore has declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of 1874
cents a share, payable November
Is to stock of record November 5.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
Sweepstakes Give
Legion Headache

MINEOLA, L. l., Oct. 29.-Sweep-
stakes doubtless will be nothing
but headache to Mineola legion
naireS.
The Nassau county American
Legion attempted to raise funds
by a sweepstakes patterned after
the Irish hospitals sweepstakes.
The race was run two weeks ago,
but only $342 was raised by sale
of tickets. Prizes promised to-
tailed $4,000. Belmont Park track
had been promised a "cut," coun.
terfeits turned up. and several
county police are in trouble for
having sold tickets while in uni
form.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
President Declines
Mooney Picture Bid

John w. jenkins, chairman OF
the Tom Mooney defense COM
mittee of Washington, called at
the White House today in an ef
fort to have President Roosevelt
witness a moving picture entitled
THE Strange Case of Tom
Mooney"
Mr.. jenkins was told that the
President could not be connected
in any manner with a matter
which belonged in the jurisdiction
of the State of California. The
picture will be shown Sunday, No
vember 18, at the Knights of Co.
lumbus Hall under auspices of the
Organized Workers of the Dis
trict and Tom Mooney Defense
Committee.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
Missionary Mass
Meeting on Today

The missionary mass meeting
for the Piedmont Convocation of
Virginia opened with a luncheon
today at l o'clock in st. Paul's
Parish Hall, Alexandria. Chief
speakers include Bishop Y. We.
lasco Salinas, Of Mexico; the Rev.
Richard Trapnell, of West Vir-
ginia, and Miss Emma j. Hall,
who will represent the National
Woman's Auxiliary of the mis-
Sionary society.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
BUSINESS MEET

The Georgia Avenue Business
Mems Association will elect Of
ficers at a meeting at 8 p. m.
tomorrow in Pierce's Cafe, 5000
block Georgia Ave. N. w. Eugene
MlnouX. president, will preside.
Evening star., 1934-11-18
20 down to his death without discredit

go down to his death without discredit
and in ease.
We Americans are curious people.
We want our statesmen to make no
money in politics If they do amass a
fortune, our papers publish pictures
of their palatial residences and under
them put the question, How can the
owner build such a house on $1,000 a
year?" If the statesman engages in
speculation we straightway cry lob
berry and corruption" and If he does
not spend all his salary we charge him
with stinginess and parsimony. Had
Blaine not been worth a dollar there
is no doubt but that he would have
been elected President. His fortune
cost him enough to throw majority
to Cleveland, and If you will look back
over the list you will see that from
the beginning most of the Presidents
have been poor men.
George Washington was, perhaps,
the wealthiest of them all, and Ruther-
ford B. Hayes will rank next. Martin
Van Buren had saved a fortune before
he came to the White House, and
during Harrison's campaign his enc
mics said he never ate with anything
else than a gold spoon. Fillmore re-
turned to Buffalo and the rise of
property left him enough at the close
Of his term to keep him the rest of
his life. But most of the other Presi-
dents have left the White House In
straiteued circumstances.
Evening star., 1934-11-18
Portuguese Expect Second Brazil'
Of Angola, West African Colony

LISBON @.-Portugal Is looking
to Angola. its West African colony,
as a second Brazil for the nation
which has written many pages in the
history of exploration and colonial
tion.
The average Portuguese believes
this colony may gain its independence
and become a prosperous nation like
Brazil.
Angola, stretching from the zaire
River in the north to the Cunene
River in the south and touching the
Belgian Congo and Rhodesia In the
hinterland. has all the natural po-
tential wealth. the climate and the
resources, the Portuguese say, to make
such program possible.
The prosperity of the colony de-
pends to a great extent upon agri-
culture, for which Angola's vast area
and diversity of climate are favorable,
but the story does not end there.
The territory is rich in mineral
wealth and Americans have taken q
prominent part in this development.
The recent suggestion that Angola
was under consideration as new
home" for 100000 Jewish refugees
from Germany and other parts Of
the world was positively denied in
official circles here.
A strict censorship which prevents
the publication Of news which may
Evening star., 1934-11-18
Sweden Is Forgetting Depression,
AS Money Piles Up, Lacking Outlet

STOCKHOLM CP).-The strange
penalty of too much money has
been placed on Sweden, nation of
100000 people, as the price of an
economic recovery that is regarded
as almost freakish in comparison
with many large nations.
Business in Sweden is not only i'm
proved, observers and economists are
agreed, but it has in many respects
been restored to the high point OF
pre-depression days.
Unemployment has been whitfield
down to $4,000, many export indus
tries have more orders than they can
handle, and talk of a depression has
dwindled to faint whisper.
The result, largely because Of the
world economic situation, and The
difficulty Of finding good foreign in
vestments, has been the unusual sit
uation of too much money"
What to do with money, how to
find profitable investments for it, has
become something of nightmare to
private bankers. The following state
of affairs has arisen:
l. More than 450,000,000 kroner
approximately $110,000,0e0) have
been deposited with the Central Bank
of Sweden by the private banks be-
cause the latter have no use for it.
This money is non-interest bearing
so much dead" capital.
2. Savings accounts are no longer
being welcomed by the private banks,
except in large amounts and for long
periods Of time. Interest on such
Evening star., 1934-11-18
''Brain Trust" Blamed
For Anti-Cermanism

BERLIN R1.-"President Roose-
velt's sympathies are not on our side, ~
claims Prof. Friedrich Schoenemann,
chief Of the Amerika Institut in Ber-
lin University writing in the monthly
"zeitschrift fuer Politik."
Here in Germany, people ere
either warm pro- -Rooseveltians or def
mite antis," Schoenemann asserts.
Analyzing the situation in the
United States as he sees it, the pro-
fessor says the New Deal" is no par
allel to the German Nazi revolution
1t could be that only If there had
been a real revolution in America,
which there hasn't been, he says.
Schoenemann thinks that most OF
President Roosevelt's ad-'isors and
brain trust" men are against the
Hitler regime, and he progresses to a
conclusion that such an attitude is
"as unwarranted as Is their unrea-
sonable worship of Soviet Russia"
As for the American people In gen.
eral, the professor says: Having lost
their prosperity, they have naturally
been casting about for a scapegoat.
Just as naturally, Germany became
the goat, seeing that anti-German
propaganda, imported from France
is aboundant, in addition to the home
made article.
Hitler is represented as the mad
dog of Europe and the Reich gen.
orally as the big bully and disturber
of the peace, and is held responsible
for most American ills as we'll
I'm this way, German American re-
lations are wantonly troubled and i'm
periled.
These facts are not in consonance
with President Roosevelts policy oi
good neighborship."
Evening star., 1934-11-18

accounts has dropped to around z
per cent.
3. The oficial rediscount rate BY
the central bank has been cut to
2l2 per cent.
4. Trust and insurance companies
are being forced to buy common
stocks. or put their funds in savings
accounts because Of the extreme lack
of first-class investments and high
bond prices.
5. A recent government loan Of
100000 kroner, at 81 per cent
interest, was oversubscribed five times
In 20 minutes.
6. On August 81 Of this year, pri-
vate banks had loans totalling g.
8ll 100000 kroner and deposits total
ling 3,627 100000 kroner, thus pro-
viding the abnormally low surplus Of
loans over deposits Of only 1874, 4,0oo, 900
kroner.
The major reasons for this money
situation in Sweden include: % The
extraordinary business improvement
in Sweden as compared with MANY
other countries; 90 the desire for
iquidity and security Of moneys,
rather than income, in view of the
world economic situation; (3) the
unwillingness Of private capital to
try for investments abroad; a. the
naturalization of Swedish industry
during recent years, including small
inventories and quick turnovers of
stocks, making large industrial loans
unnecessary; (5) lack Of domestic
bond issues to absorb new capital.
Evening star., 1934-11-18

in any way excite public opinion in
Portugal prevented the general public
in this country hearing Of the re-
puted Jewish plan until 1t had been
discussed in other European capi-
tails and denied by James G. Mac
donald, high commissioner of the
commission appointed by the League
OF Nations to handle the refugee
problem.
Later. however, an official COM
munique was issued by the govern.
ment propaganda secretariat. It said:
THE news in the British press re.
garding the settlement of 5000 900
Jews In Angola Is entirely untrue and
must have been inspired In order to
satisfy some underhand ambitions"
There was no explanation of the
source Of this inspiration" and
"underhand ambitions"
DR.. Armindo Monteiro, minister for
colonies. later. however, explained
that Portugal has no intention of
cutting OF any of its African pos
sessions as havens for refugees willing
to comply with existing regulations.
Evening star., 1934-11-18

word of prewar diplomacy, encercle-
ment. with reference to Yugoslavia-
an encirclement supposed to have been
created by Fascist Italy, dictatorial
Hungary and resentful Bulgaria.
What remains of all that after
hardly four years? Nothing. Just
short time before his assassination
last month the King Of Yugoslavia
paid visit to Sofia, where the Bull
garians gave him one Of the most
enthusiastic receptions in Balkan his
tory. This indicated that the two
governments, in Belgrade and in Sofia.
had decided to settle their old diff
ferences and quarrels peaceably. Late,
but not too late, the two sister nations
realized that it was foolish to 60 on
Evening star., 1934-11-18

being cat's-paws In the hands Of big
powers, be they old imperial Austria,
as used to be before the war, or, now,
Fascist Italy. And-I am glad to add
as an Italian whose constant thought
is the glory and prosperity of his own
country-all the better for Italy her
self. Only demagogues who need di-
versions to quell discomfort at home
might be tempted to fan the fire Of
Balkan jealousies.
British Joy Analysed.
This example proves that in our
modern times no dynastic marriage
may be taken as permanent symp-
tom or instrument Of the foreign pol
icy of a nation. Now let us come
Evening star., 1934-11-18
CONGRESSIONAL ISSUES
DURING THE EIGHTIES
Carpenter Describes Lively Scenes in
and About the Chambers of the
House and Senate.

This is the twenty-ninth OF a series
OF Deekly articles on interesting
persons and events In the National
Capital during the Sos, by Frank
G.. Carpenter, ioorld- famous author
and trdDeIer. The merit chapter in
the series ,DiH be published merit
Sunday in The Star.
Evening star., 1934-11-18
Sequence.

From the New Orleans Times-Picayuns.
Strangely, but none the less appro-
priately, a nomination as "public
enemy" In this country Is coming
to be more and more closely followed
by the funeral Of the nominee.
Evening star., 1934-11-18
BY COUNT CARLO SFORZA,

Former Italian foreign minister.
T v YILL the marriage Of the Duke
\ n of Kent-Prince George Of
wv England-and Princess Ma
Y rina of Greece on Novem-
Der 29 be a political event
Evening star., 1934-11-18

essence of true pan-Ameri-
canism is the application OF
the accepted rules of inter-
L national law to inter-Ameri-