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Evening star., 1934-06-18
RUSSIAN ACTION SHOWN.
Italian Press Reveals Dramatic At
tempt of Lityinoff

tempt of Litvinoff.
ROME. June Is CP.-A dramatic
attempt by Foreign Commissar
Maxim Litvinof of Russia a few
hours before Chancellor Hitler's de-
parture from Venice to bring Ger
many into an Eastern pact, having
the guarantee of France, was re-
Vealed yesterday by the Italian press.
The newspapers gave the impress
sion that Hitler confided Litvinoff s
approach to Premier Mussolini The
Giornale d'Italia related the incident
as follows:
'Germany's dissidence with regard
to Russia grew after the movement
toward a Franco Russian entente. A
Franco-Soviet pact was considered by
Germany as a new instrument of hos
t1llty and an enlightenment added to
the already existing system of mill
tary alliances.
ITO rectify this dissidence, the
Soviet government sent to Berlin on
the eve of the meeting in Venice a
proposal to include Germany in an
Eastern Locarno pact. Germany,
Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia
would participate in the pact.
This pact would have the guar
antee of France, and the French guar
antee would have as a counterpart a
Soviet guarantee to the pact of
Locarno.
"On June Is, the same day Chan
cellor Hitler departed from Venice, at
IL o'clock in the morning. Litvinoff
appeared suddenly in Berlin to ask
Of Foreign Minister Konstantin Won
Neurath a response to this proposal.
The answer was negative.
"The refusal did not exclude the
principle of consolidation with Rus
sia. but it did exclude the principle
OF regional pactS, that is, of endless
blocs.'
Evening star., 1934-06-18
FRANCO-RUSS|AN
ALLIANCE FEARED
Hitler's Trip to Venice and
RibbentrOp'S Visit Held
Result.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 18.-German fear of
q Franco Russian alliance was cred
tied In official circles today for Chan
cellor Hitler's trip to Venice and the
secret visit here of Joachim Won Rib
bentrop, special German disarmament
commissioner.
Reliable sources said Won Ribben-
trop got little satisfaction from his
conference here Saturday with Louis
Barthou, French foreign minister, who
insisted that the Reich come back to
Geneva"
Barthou Presses On.
Barthou pressed on with his pro-
gram of building up European de-
fensive alliances for France, designed
to place a fence" around Germany.
Bucharest, Belgrade, London and
Rome itself are capitals the foreign
minister plans to visit. He will go to
London July 8.
Direct talks with Hitler appear out
OF the question until Barthou has fin
iShed discussions with countries France
is counting on to help neutralize what
she calls the German menace"
In Won Ribbentrop's unexpected
visit French political quarters pro-
feSsed to see overtures for peace from
Berlin.
Germany, it was said, Is ready to
make concessions to French views,
possibly by returning to the League of
Nations and the Disarmament Con-
ference.
Berlin Seen Alarmed.
Berlin was represented as being
alarmed at reports that France and
Russia were drawing together and
that Russia is on the threshold of en-
trance to Geneva.
The French believe Won Ribben-
trop's visits to Paris were inspired
especially by the growing rapproche-
ment between France and Soviet Rus
sia. Barthou, it was said in authori-
tative quarters, confirmed indications
which reached Konstantin Won Neu-
rath, German foreign minister, that
France and Russia are drawing to-
gether. 1t is believed here that Hitler
now contemplates taking Germany
back to Geneva because of Russia's s
imminent entrance into the League
Won Ribbentrop sounded out the
French attitude on armaments. the
Saar and other thorny problems of
Franco-German relations, and found
Barthou Stonily opposed to all Ger
man demands, it was Indicated
RUSSIAN ACTION SHOWN,
Evening star., 1934-06-18
POLES TO HOLD MASS

Requiem mass for Bronislaw Pier
acki, Polish minister of interior, who
was assassinated at Warsaw June Is
will be held tomorrow at 10 am. at
st. Paul's Church, Fifteenth and v
streets. under auspices of the Polish
embassy.
Pieracki was one Of the most promi-
nent fighters for the independence OF
Poland. He fought in the Pilsudski
Legion during the World War. leaving
the service with the rank Of colonel
He was elected to the Sejm. the
Polish House Of Representatives, in
1928. and was made minister of in
terior In 1913.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
GIRL KILLED IN WRECK

BALTIMORE, June 18 (P.-Miss
Polly Fountain, 81, of Raleigh, N. c..
was fatally injured in an automobile
accident here early today.
Her companion, william w. Nc
Neil, jr.. Of Raleigh was injured, but
his injuries were not serious and he
was taken into custody by police.
The accident occurred on Eastern
avenue at the Back River Neck road
Mcneil, who was driving, apparently
tried to turn from Eastern avenue
into the Back River Neck road and
was unable to make the turn.
The automobile struck several mai
boxes and then crsbed into Q tree.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
u. S. FARM CREDIT UNIT
OFFERS NEW BOND ISSUE
131 Millions Will Bear 4 Per
Cent Interest, Myers
Announces.

A refinancing move on the part of
the Farm Credit Administration today
offered for sale s131 400 900 in con-
solidated bonds of Federal land banks
bearing 4 per cent interest.
The bonds, proceeds of which will
be used to retire $13l, ,381 900 of in
dividual Federal land bank bonds
bearing Az per cent interest, will be
offered at 1o0A, with the expectation
that they will yield 3.9 per cent.
Gov. William I. Myers Of the Farm
Credit Administration said the de-
creased interest rate would save the
Government about $685., 900 per year.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Ulster Expects Many.

Northern Ireland is preparing to
entertain more tourists this season
than in many years. Inquiries re-
ceived by the Ulster Tourist Develop
ment Association are greater than
ever before. Visitors began to ar
rive much earlier than usual and
large parties have already been seen
try
Evening star., 1934-06-18
NEW ENGLAND EDITOR.
w. E. HUBBARD, DIES
Publisher of Gardner (Mass.)
News, of Wide Reputation, Had
Been III Long Time.

News, of Wide Reputation, Had
Been III Long Time.
BY the Associated Press.
GARDNER, Mass, June 18.-Walter
E. Hubbard. Ct, editor and publisher
of the Gardner News. member of the
Associated Press. and widely known
New England newspaper man, died
yesterday after long illness.
A native of Guilford, VT, he began
his newspaper career N 1885 in the
Office of the Vermont Phoenix in
Brattleboro, VT. Starting in the COM
posing room, he later became a re-
porter, and in 1888 was made associate
editor He served as president OF the
Vermont Phoenix Co. from 1910 to
1918, meanwhile serving as corre-
spondent for Boston and New York
papers.
His paper later was merged with
the Brattleboro Reformer.
Subsequently he purchased con-
trolling interest In the Beverly (Mass.)
Times, disposing Of It In 1921 when
he purchased the Gardner News.
His widow and daughter, Mrs.
w. F.. Gordon Bell of Norwalk, Conn,
survive.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
ITALIAN ECONOMY HITS
POLITICAL PRISONERS

ROME LP.-Deflation has hit the
political and other prisoners detained
on the prison islands and "in con-
fino" on the mainland.
Political offenders used to receive
IS cents a day for food. clothing. etc.
They lived in well-guarded small cot
tages. but were not in jail
Now this sum has been cut in half,
and it does not go very far in Italy.
where prices are high.
One pack of 20 cigarettes and it is
gone, u
Evening star., 1934-06-18
DIESEL RACE PLANNED

MOSCOW, P.-A road race to test
the suitability of Diesel-motored cars
is to be run in July from Moscow to
Tiflis and return. Twenty foreign
firms from the United States, Eng
land, Germany, France, Switzerland,
Austria, Italy, Hungary and Sweden
are expected to have entries.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
CUPID OF ESSEN PARKS
PROTECTED BY POLICE
Minions of Law Watch for Ruff
fians, Vagabonds and Others
Who Frighten Lovers.

ESSEN, Germany R.-Dan Cupid
enjoys special police protection
o'nights in the parks and fore.;s of
this center of Germany's iron and
steel industry.
"Vagabonds, rufhans, reprobates
and other persons stunning the light,
pursue harmless young couples on
their walks and frighten them" a po-
lice ordinance reads.
Police squads are ordered to comb
parks and forests Systematically ito
save courting couples from molesta-
tions and permit them to chat undis-
turbed on quiet benches, hidden at
whispering places" the order says.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
WINES AGAIN SERVED
snecial pisnatch to The star.

bpeclaI Dispatch 20 The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, June 18.-
Champagnes and red wines are being
served In hotels and restaurants today
for the first time since liquor was
voted out here many years before ma
tional prohibition became effective.
Dispensers reported q brisk trade, par
ticularly for champagne and sherry
wine, despite the rather stiff prices
asked. Other wines were lower.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
P. w. A. SEEKS LAND
Plans Court Action to Start

= Iohc SSaAS @&SS~SA
Cleveland Slum Clearance.
Pushing ahead with It's housing
program, the Public Works Admins
tration today announced court action
will be instituted to acquire land for
q project in a slum district in Cleve-
land.
Secretary Ickes has requested the
Attorney General to file condemna-
ton proceedings In the United States
Court for the northern district Of
Ohio on II acres of slum properties
in Cleveland on the edge Of a down.
town area. AS soon as the Govern
ment acquires title the Housing Cor
poration Of P. w. A. will start con-
struction Of q $2,870 900 low-cost
housing project.
1t will be known as the Cedar Cen
trail project and will be the third in
the p. w. AS $146.0o0, 900 slum
clearance program, Two similar prof.
ects are under watfin Atlanta, Ga.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
MANCHUKUO EMPEROR
GIVES FRIENDS ORCHIDS
Meritorius Services to Japanese
Fostered State Will Be Re-
warded Hereafter.

CHANGCHUN, Manchukuo R.-
Emperor Kang- Teh, the former Henry
Pu-Yi, has decided that meritorious
services to his Japanese-fostered state
shall be rewarded with the Grand
Imperial Order of the Orchid"
There will be nine grades Of "Or-
child" decorations, the highest being
called 'the Collar Of the Grand Or
der of the Orchid" and the lowest
being the Grand Order of the Pros
porous Cloud"
A special order is being created for
foreign missionaries who have aided
the poor Of the realm. So far, how
ever, there are no applicants for this
decoration, the missionaries fearing
that their governments, which have
never recognized Manchukuo, would
disapprove acceptance Of such honors.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Indian Chief, Oil Fortune Heir,
Reads Death in Strange Fire

withdrew the picture. Pins pierced
the images forehead, arms and legs.
Silver Moon fed. Home again, he
puzzled. Then he remembered the
estate of A-Dah-Noe, willed to him,
but not yet in his possession. A
Dah-Noe was wealthy. On her land
drillers had sunk the second deepest
Oil well in the Nation. Could there
be a connection?
Authorities investigated, found on
the mothers grave the pierced photo
graph, the kerosene jar.
Silver Moon is not an uncivilized
Indian. Once he worked in the
library of the American Museum Of
Natural History, assisting in the
translation of the Caddo tongue for
a Caddo-English dictionary. He has
posed for sculptors, and once was
employed by q moving picture COM
pany.
But Silver Moon looks to the future
with foreboding. He remembers the
pin-pricked picture, obscured by o
dancing blue fame.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
BOTH APPEAR SATISFIED,

GENEVA, December IL R.-A
threatening Yugoslav- Hungarian quar-
rel was ended today. Both Hungary
and YugoSlavia at session Of the
Leagues Council last night approved a
resolution "deploring" the assassina-
ton of King Alexander of Yugoslavia
at Marseille. Not dissenting vote was
cast.
Hungary was asked in tactful way
to take punitive action against any
authorities whose capabilities have
been established" and to "communi-
cate to the council the measures which
it takes to this effect"
Both Yugoslavia, which had charged
Budapest with completely in the as
sessination by harboring terrorists, and
Hungary appeared satisfied.
Diplomats here said the agreement
proved that nations may make con-
cessions to the League which they
would find difficult to make directly
to the governments with which they
were at odds.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
ICkeS Leads Officials in Criti.
cizing East Potomac
Proposal.
MITCHELL TAKES PLAN
DIRECT TO ROOSEVELT
Planning Chiefs Declare Open
Hostility to Using Hains Point
Land for Terminal.
pictures on Page BID.

Complete lack of sympathy with the
proposal to convert East Potomac Park
into an air terminal for Washington,
as proposed to President Roosevelt late
yesterday, was voiced today by Secre-
tary Ickes.
At the same time, Federal park and
planning officials came out in open
opposition to the plan on the ground
that it would destroy for recreational
purposes one of the most widely used
of Washington's parks.
The proposal to use East Potomac
Park as site for a model commercial
air terminal was made by Assistant
Secretary of Commerce Ewing Y.
Mitchell and was laid before the Presi-
dent without recommendation by Clark
Howell, chairman of the Federal Avia-
ton Commission, at Mitchell's request.
Howell said the President expressed
himself as interested" and considered
the plan worth investigation"
Iokes to Investigate.
IT guess I'll have to investigate this
matter" Secretary Ickes said. Il ques-
ton the advisability of taking any park
development for use as an airport when
so much other land is available. You
know I am very keen on parks. We
had similar proposition in Chicago
for which there was absolutely no
need"
Ickes, as custodian of Federal parks
~. Iyre I'D, 6n
country, recently banned project to
build a flying field in one of the Ma
tional Parks Of the West.
c. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of the National Capital Parks, ex-
pressed opposition to the proposal, de-
claring that "our park areas are too
limited now to give up East Potomac
Park for use as an airport. For the
Southwest, where some of the poorest
families in Washington live, East Po-
tomac Park serves as a recreational
area. Southwest has no parks of its
own"
Transportation facilities to Hams
Point are not good and cannot be
made really efficient, Finnan said. He
also pointed out that the park, be-
cause of its low elevation, is difficult
to drain and was inundated last
August.
For this reason" he said, "it is
not suitable for an airport"
He said that plans are now Being
made to reclaim Gravelly Point and
that it will serve better as an airport
for Washington than East Potomac
Park. Use of Potomac Park, he said,
would rob the District Of golf course
very largely used, especially by Gov
eminent employees.
Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, also advocated develop
ment of the Gravelly Point area,
which, he said, has been thoroughly
studied and found entirely suitable.
Park officials were inclined to be-
lieve that an act OF Congress would
be required to release Potomac Park
for use as an airport.
Similar to Doe Plan.
The Mitchell plan is said to be
identical with that submitted in No
vember. 1888, by Capt. Thomas B. Doe,
then president of Eastern Air Trans
port. The Doe plan, vigorously op-
posed by park and civic officials, was
quickly abandoned.
The Doe Mitchell plans call for use
Continued on Page 4, Column ID
Evening star., 1934-12-11
RULING BY LEAGUE
CA[MS WAR FEARS
Hungary Accepts Request to
Punish Officials If In
voIved in Plot.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Another grave European rift ap-
peared today to have been solved
through Hungary's and Yugoslavia's S
acceptance of a League of Nations
resolution on the assassination of King
Alexander at Marseille.
The agreement automatically called
upon Hungary to punish any officials
who may have been guilty of connec-
ton with the death of the Yugoslav
ruler.
Statesmen in Geneva called 1t a
major triumph for the League.
London-Some newspapers said the
settlement averted a war. but fears
were expressed that 1t might prove to
be only temporary. The League was
praised highly.
Budapest - Semi Official sources
hailed the agreement as a happy
solution" Newspapers said it did not
defect upon Hungarian honor and
ended the tremendous tension of the
past three days.
Rome-Deep qualification was the
reaction here to the Geneva develop
ments. italy had supported Hungary's
cause before the League, as against
Yugoslavia and her fellow members of
the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia and
Rumania.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
COMMISSIONERS O. K.
$1,5OO,OOO HOSPITAL
Contract for Glenn Dale Institu'
ton Calls for Building Com
plete by July l, 1885.

The Commissioners today approved
the contract sent to them by Secretary
of Interior Ickes for use of ST 500, 900
for construction of the adult Tuber-
culosis Hospital at Glenn Dale, Md. on
the same site as that of the Children's
tuberculosis Sanatorium
The contract as drafted at the Pub
lie Works Administration requires that
the building be completed by July l.,
1896, and that the sanatorium be ready
for occupancy not later than October
/, 1886.
The document, signed by the city
heads, was to be returned to Secretary
Ickes this afternoon. Engineer Com
missioner Sultan has said he believes
construction on preliminary features
of the plan may be started next March
and that erection of the hospital build
ing proper should be under way next
July.
The time limit placed on completion
Of the building will forced a crowding
OF the planning and construction, Col.
Sultan said, but he believes the work
can be done on time.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
"Indescribable Horrors Found
In Galapagos Island Tragedy

dreaming of the horrors told in those
letters and what must have gone on
down there"
Charles, one of the Galapagos group,
is the island from which Rudolph
Lorenz and Trygve Nuggrud were re-
ported to have been banished without
food or water by Baroness Eloise
Bosquet Won Wagner Wehrborn, the
mad empress of the Galapagos" who
now Is missing.
The bodies found on barren Mar
chena Island we're identified as those
Of Lorenz and Nuggrud by Capt. G.
Allen Hancock, Los Angeles patron
of science, who wirelessed the story
Of the Punishment after his recent
arrival in the islands. The body of
a colored boy, who left Charles Island
with the pair has not been found.
Capt. Hancock also limited of
horrible tragedy on Charles Island.
Members of the crew of the Santa
Amaro indicated most of the letters
recovered from the Marchena Beach
were written by Mrs. Arthur Wittmer,
another of the handful of inhabitants
of Charles Island.
The letters, apparently, had been
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column a.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
~ Are Reported Injured in
Lansing Many Lose Lives by
Leaping From Death Trap.
DROWNED BODIES RECOVERED
FROM RIVER NEAR BUILDING
Scenes of Horror Related-MOre Than
Score of Michigan Lawmakers
We're Guests in Hosiery.
BY the Associated Press,


LANSING, Mich, December 11-Smouldering
and the the
police only approximately
Chief of Police Alfred appalling
counted for indicated
dead and the missing
when the
raging
through muc o. building.
Screaming and their escape jumped windows
River flows at the rear Of the building
Evening star., 1934-12-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY JQe ASSOCldLeu FIeSS.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, December IL
A story of horror, perhaps removing
the final mystery from the strange
death of three men on barren Mar
chena Island, off the coast Of Ecuador,
is in the hands of the United States
Government today.
The story is told in letters found
near two bodies on the island Novem-
Der IT, by the American tuna clipper
Santa Amaro. They were seized by
United States customs guards, pre-
sumably acting on behalf OF the
government of Ecuador, to which Mar
chena and the other Galapagos
Islands belong.
Capt. William Borthen of the Santa
Amaro said he had been ordered not
to discuss the letters.
But let me tell you," he ex-
claimed, things happened on Charles
Island that are too horrible for US
to imagine"
And Manuel Rodriguez, weather.
beaten fishing captain of the tuna
clipper, added:
Man, I've lain awake nights
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages Is, l4&l5
Wiley Post Plans
COast-tO-COast
Flight in 6 Hours
Will Use StratOsphere;
Col. Turner to Circle
Globe at Equator.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 1.-Two
of Americas fastest flyers, Col. Ros-
coe Turner and Wiley Post, let it be
known today that they have designs
on one another'S exploits.
Post, who flew around the world in
seven days, is contemplating a strato-
sphere flight from Los Angeles to New
York is six hours, thereby breaking
Turner's transcontinental record of
10 hours 3 minutes.
Not to be outdone, Turner has laid
plans for two trips around the world
next year, one around the equatorial
belt and the other over the North and
South Poles.
Col. Turner, however, does not in
tend to set any speed records. THE
flights would be solely in the interest
of science" he said. What I want
is to collect accurate and valuable
weather data, and to study flying con-
ditions and flying fields"
Evening star., 1934-12-11
List of Victims

BY the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich. December Ii
A list of the dead and injured, revised
at noon, in the fire which swept the
Kerns Hotel here this morning:
Known Dead.
Representative T. Henry Hewlett,
Gregory.
Representative Vern VOORHEES,. Al
bion.
Representative Charles D. Parker,
Otisville.
Representative Donald E. Sias, Mid
land.
Representative John w. Goodwine,
Marlette.
David Monroe, assistant manager of
the hotel.
l. Wishneff. Los Angeles.
R. S. Mcfarland, Dayton, Ohio,
salesman.
Five unidentified persons, including
one woman, about 65 years old.
Missing and Feared Dead.
State Senator John Leidlein, Sagi-
nav.
Representative Maurice Z. Post,
Kent County.
DR.. F. C. Thiedes, Grand Rapids.
Clarence Smith, Coldwater.
A. Bosmer, Grand Rapids.
Fred Van Dyne, Owosso.
Thomas Shedall, Caro-.
Lloyd Keck, Lansing.
C. H. Thompson. Grand Rapids.
William jacob, Rutherford, N. j.
Frank Sochia, Lansing.
Harris Silverberg, Detroit.
M S. Nolan, Battle Greek.
List of Injured.
Representative Charles T. Kimball,
Jonesville.
Representative D. Knox Hanna,
Caro-
E. S. Allen, Mancelona.
A. D. Carr, Bloomington, Ind.
A. B. Hanson, Oscoda.
c. B. Herrendeen, Grand Rapids.
r. c. Bliss, Saginaw.
Jay Peck, Detroit.
D. w. Pierson, Cadillac.
Ted Kleidinest, Blissfeld.
Alice Casterlin, II, resident of the
hotel
Kirk Patrick, Saginaw.
Nancy Parker, Lansing.
Harry Levine, Detroit.
r. Thomas Lowther. Ferndale.
James McMillen. IL, Petoskey.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Dollar Bill Pinned
To Post Card Goes
Safely to President
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Attention, Diogenes! A lot of
honest men figured in this one!
Believe it or not, a one-dollar
bill pinned on a post card has been
received at the White House.
If you receive the dollar that
has been pinned to the card, then
confidence in God has been re-
stored and love of money is
vanishing"
The post card was mailed in
Chicago a few days ago. The
White House referred it to the
Treasury. where the dollar has
been deposited in the conscience
fund" which includes anonymous
cash gifts to the Government.