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Evening star., 1934-08-25
PRIVATE CLAIMS
BALK SOVIET PACT
Debt Talks Nearly Collapse
as U. S. Rejects Russian
Settlement Plan.

Payment of s4oo 900 900 Of claims
from American citizens and corpora
tions for property alleged to have been
confscated by the Soviet Union after
its assumption to power was disclosed
authoritatively today as the chief OBJ
stacle to an agreement on the Soviet
American debt question.
Negotiations for a settlement ap-
preached a breakdown yesterday when
Secretary Hull and Assistant Secretary
Moore declined to accept a Soviet pro-
posal which did not, in the American
Governments opinion, adequately rec
ompense Americans for property al
legged to have been taken over by the
Soviets under their naturalization Of
property decree in 1918.
1000 Claims on File.
The State Department has on file
approximately 1000 claims by Amer
ican citizens and corporations. but has
never made public a list of the pay
ments or the exact amounts claimed.
Among the outstanding claims,
however are:
Singer Sewing Machine Co., ap-
proximately $25,000,000
International Harvester Co., ap-
proxmately S30,000,000.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufac-
turing Co., approximately $4,000, 900.
Vacuum Oil Co., approximately
$4,500,000
Smaller claims are understood TO
have been made by the Otis Elevator
Co. Babcock & Wilson Corp, New
York Life Insurance Co. and the
Equitable Life Insurance Co.
A large number of the individual
claims are understood to be for bonds
purchased from New York banking
firms which, before the United States
entered the World War, floated three
issues totaling $86,o0o,ooo
When the Soviet Union and Ger
many were negotiating supplementary
treaties called for by the Brest-
Litovsk treaty in 1918, it was learned
that German nationals were expected
to be Unidentified for damages to
their property in Russia. Many for
eign and Russian property owners
Immediately attempted to transfer
their property to German citizens in
order to insure their indemnification.
The Soviet, in order to cope with
the situation, hurriedly issued its de-
gree Matchmaking all property June
20, 1918.
Robbins Negotiated.
Col Raymond Robbins was at that
time conducting negotiations with
Lenin concerning American economic
cooperation and, although the legal
technicalities are confused, he was
understood to have obtained a prom
Use that American property would be
exempt from the naturalization de-
cree.
The General Electric Co., settled
its claim against the Soviet Union
through private negotiations before
the United States recognized that
government.
A claim by the Standard Oil Co. of
New Jersey, Is understood to have
been rejected by the Soviet govern
ment on grounds that the American
company had purchased the Baku
assets of a Russian when it knew
those assets had been nationalized.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
MIDWEST SH|VERS
UNDER COLD WAVE
Heat Wave SuppIanted by
Sub-Freezing Weather.
Records Fall.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With perspiration from record heat
hardly dry on their brows, farmers in
the Midwest shivered in frost nipped
fields today.
Prophets saw a long and severe
Winter in the sudden plunge of tenn
perature, but their views were without
official confirmation. Meterologists
said long-range predictions were un-
scientific.
Records fell as the mercury sank
to %, four degrees below freezing tenn
perature, in North Dakota, "a in Min
nesota, 36, in Yellowstone Park and
Iowa; 81 in Wisconsin, 80 in South
Dakota, 10 in Michigan, Montana
and Wyoming; Al in Nebraska: A in
Missouri; 46 in Colorado; 50 in Kansas
and Oklahoma, and Sc in Illinois.
Only few days ago, temperatures
rocketed to ITO degrees and over in
several Of these States.
Coal was fed to furnaces in base
ments where as recent as two weeks
ago families congregated for relief
from the sitting heat outside.
The drought was ended in South
west States by cooling rains which
totaled up to 492 inches in sections
of Texas.
The cold came suddenly, driving
thermometers down as much as so
degrees. Snow hurries ragged so fur
iously in Montana that a plane was
grounded at Big Timber.
But low temperatures were due for
short life in the North Central
States, with moderate weather prom
ised for most sections for the week
end.
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say how much the damage will be"
The eyewitness, a news man, gave
different picture.
"A mob of between 300 and 400
left off patrolling the streets afoot
and took to riding around in trucks.
These men are all non-union
workers and their sympathizers. AS
they ride about they grab any per-
son who refuse to ride and take them
out of town.
Law, Order Suspended.
"Law and order practically are suS-
pended.
IT am the only outsider who saw
the spiriting away of Odell.
Twice since I have been warned
to leave town."
Only a few hours before the spir-
iting away, the eyewitness said,
Odel- was arrested. The officers, he
said, refused to say on what charge
the president of the Agriculture
Workers Union, which is an afiliate
of the American Federation of Labor.
was taken into custody. His arrest,
however came only a short time after
the bombing Of the OFT home. Depu-
ties said dynamite was used.
Disturbances In Strike.
The difficulties in the Scioto Marsh
land date back to the start of the
strike of onion workers early in June.
The workers left the fields, demand
ing a wage of IS cents an hour. The
growers, who annually ship approx
mately a million dollars worth of
onions and other vegetables from the
rich auckland, asserted such q scale
of pay would bankrupt them and they
would prefer to let their crop go to
ruin rather than yield to the de-
mands.
Disturbances - clashes between
strikers and outside workers who came
to take their places in the fields
have cropped out periodically.
A Federal mediator visited the heart
Of the marshlands soon after the
strike started. He attempted to effect
. settlement, but returned to Wash
lngton without accomplishing his pur-
pose.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Johnson's Friends Sad
Over Decision in
Donovan Case.
BY PAUL MALLON.

The saddest tale of new deal lore
is the one about the National Labor
Board cutting off Gen. Johnson's S
nose to save the Blue Eagles face in
the Donovan case.
The generals pals break down even
now when they sob out the inside
story of how it happened Here was
the great master of all industry, who
told all employers what their labor
relations should be. Here he had
fired for insubordination an irksome
(to him) young agitator, John Dono-
van, union head Of N. r. A. workers.
Yet the labor court, which the mighty
general had helped to set up. over
ruled him and ordered Donovan s
restoration. 1t was hard to take.
With characteristic nonchdlunce,
the general took it in the surf.
That is to say, he ,Das summing at
small DeldDdre Beach resort
when the Labor Court Uerdict 1Dds
rendered, and, days later, he tOds
still swimming.
Apparently, he had not come up
for air in the interim, as the ener-
qetic efforts OF neUSmen to get
comment from him tUas complete
failure.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
SAAR SENTIMENT
RALLIES GERMANS
200 Special Trains Travel
Toward Rhine for CeIe-
bration Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 25.-More than
200 special trains rolled through Ger
many toward the Rhine today for a
great mobilization of loyalty to the
Saar Territory tomorrow.
This section, immensely wealthy in
natural resources, votes January l3,
1885, whether to return to German
sovereignty, remain under the man
date of the League of Nations, or be
attached to France.
The mobilization recalls the cele-
bration of the evacuation Of the
Rhineland four years ago, but this
time it is on an infinitely bigger scale.
Chancellor Hitler will speak.
French Left in 1880.
Celebrations in 1880 hailed the de-
parture of the last French troops from
Rhineland cities. Tomorrows loyalty
demonstration is designed to fore
shadow the march of German
sovereignty into the Saar.
The Reich's ponderous propaganda
machinery, which just a week ago
overwhelmed the nation with Sugges-
tions, admonitionS and commands to
vote yes" is hurting its whole weight
into the task of concentrating the
nations emotion on the Saar.
Millions who voted then in support
of Hitler's assumption of presidential
powers will tomorrow think and feel
the Saar. Literally hundreds of
thousands of them are travelling in
the general direction of the disputed
section, by train, steamboat, automo-
bile, bicycle and afoot.
Coblenz Center Of Show.
The Saar exposition opens Sunday
in Cologne, but the demonstration
will center in Coblenz. Not only
Chancellor Hitler, but also Franz Won
Papen, now special envoy to Austria,
but recently vice chancellor and Saar
commissioner, will speak.
BillboardS, banners, newspapers
and radios have proclaimed the pur-
pose and necessity of the Saar dem
onstration.
Hitler'S newspaper, the Voeklischer
Beobachter, described it as "a unique
demonstration of the third Reich's
loyalty to the struggling section of
our people on Germany's bleeding
west boundary"
Evening star., 1934-08-25
"Pure" Emotions
Declared to Last
Only Split Second
Photographer Delres
Into Sensations and
Finds Them Brief.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 25.-Leo
Aarons, the photographer, says he's
studied thousands of people over the
space of a year and learned that
pure" emotions last just so long
shock. for instance, one-three hun
dredth of second.
His timing apparatus was the deli
cate shutter of camera.
BY pure" emotions he means those
unmingled with others. Boredom, for
instance, standing on its own legs, can
last up to a second. After that it
turns into, or mingles with bewilder-
ment, disgust, hate or maybe pity.
Fright, he says, will last one-two
hundredth of second, while fear is
relatively eternal at one-tenth of a
second. Terror is little more fleet
ing, one-twenty-fifth of a second.
A second is so long to Aarons, he
calls any emotions Of that length
Sustained"
Melancholy, sorrow and despair are
all sustained.
Annoyance and anger are sustained,
but real honest-to-goodness fury is
just matter of one-two hundredths
Of a second.
Pleasure is sustained. So Is ecstasy.
The common, garden variety of joy is
only one -twenty-flfth of a second.
Affection, devotion, passion-all sus-
tanned.
Hysteria-he studied lot of women
for this-never lasts in the pure"
state beyond one-flftieth of a second.
tanned.
Bewilderment and defiance, far
apart in character, time together at
one-one hundredth of a second.
Sympathy, pity, curiosity, boredom,
disgust and hatred end the gamut as
sustained emotions
Aarons thinks neurotics have the
best time in life, feel more.
He says women are more fleeting
than men emotionally, also more able
to fake things.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
TRANSIT OUTLOOK CLEARS.
Fear Of General Tie-up in Chicago
Abated.

~~~ ~ -oP Ah SASoAV
Abated.
CHICAGO, August IS Cp.-Fear Of
general transportation tie-up in
Chicago abated somewhat today.
The Executive Board of the Anal
gamated Association of Street, Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach EN-
ployes of America declined in Detroit
yesterday to authorize a walkout of
elevated and surface line employees in
sympathy with striking motor coach
drivers.
Their decision did not forbid q
strike. 1t merely refused to have any
thing to do with one officially. The
board held that a strike could be
brought about by vote of the mem
bership Of the two locals.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Motor
Coach Co. maintained regular sche-
dulles, but their buSses displayed no
Blue Eagles. The N. r. A. ordered the
insignia removed Thursday, when the
company refused to reinstate rs en-
plOyeS.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
ROOSEVELT SEES
BUSINESS PROMISE
President Also Reassures
Merchant Marine in Fight
on Wallace.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt says he believes
American business on the whole looks
promising
Declaring conditions appear better
than he had expected, the President
also took occasion yesterday to re-
assure a specific branch of commerce
the merchant marine.
Both the Chief Executive and Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace said they
favored maintaining the merchant
marine. This was by way of reply to
critics Of o recent pronouncement Of
Wallace, in which he questioned
whether further extension Of ship sub
sides would be a good thing.
President Roosevelt said that since
getting back from his trip to Hawaii
he had received reports from banks,
industry, transportation and business.
These. he said. shaped up better than
he expected.
Wallace Raises Storm.
Secretary Wallace's statement about
subsidies, made in a recent letter to
Representative Bland of Virginia. had
raised something of a storm. He had
suggested that If other countries were
given more of chance at transport
ing American ocean-borne commerce
they would have more money to buy
American goods.
Both the President and Wallace
agreed that while this economic prob
lem must be weighed, there are other
factors, such as national defense.
Ofhcials said there was not neces-
sarily any conflict between the Presi-
dents views on business and the
monthly survey Of the Federal Reserve
Board. This report, issued shortly
after the President spoke, showed that
declines in some major business indi-
Gators during July and early August
were greater than usual.
The board said industrial production
dropped from SO per cent in June to rs
in July and continued to decline in the
first three weeks of August. Factory
employment fell per cent in July and
pay rolls also were off. Distribution
dropped more than usual.
Board Deals With Past.
It was pointed out the Reserve
Board contents itself with telling what
has happened, making no attempt to
foretell the future. 1t dealt mostly with
figures gathered last month and early
this month. The President said he
had recent information.
The Presidents statement followed a
recent speech by Secretary Roper in
which he said If business Courage"
had kept up with business statistics"
there would be need of machinery to
control a boom" The Republican
Senatorial Congressional Campaign
Committee asserted this was belied by
the facts.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
SEA FLOOR STUDIED

HAMILTON. Bermuda, August IS
P).-Dr. william Beebe and members
of mis- submarine exploration party
went to Almost Island yesterday, near
Nonsuch Island, where his record
bathysphere dive was made two weeks
ago, and investigated the ocean floor.
Equipped with a 65-pound diving
helmet, DR.. Beebe descended 35 feet,
bringing up excellent specimens Of
known fish, sponges and coral. The
day offered the first favorable weather
since the record dive.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
%27,O|)D HOLD-UP
REWARD PLANNED
Sum in Excess of $25, 900
Expected to Break Un-
derWorId Silence.
Rv the Associated Press.

os bhc AoSOSAabCO ACoS-
BROOKLYN, N. Y, August as
While police checked numerous re-
ports all along the Atlantic Seaboard,
the United States Trucking Corp pre-
pared today to offer reward "in ex-
cess Of s25 900" in an effort TO break
the underworld's silence on the $427,-
900 armored car holdup Tuesday.
r. S. Dempsey, vice president, said
the reward had been determined on
and that it would be offered some
time today.
Police and company officials have
decided that the best chance of
breaking the holdup is through an
underworld leak stimulated by a huge
reward. Police say there we're too
many involved in the gigantic theft
to have kept knowledge from leaking
out to the men and women of gang
land
Police were congregated at Long
Beach on the south shore of Long
Island today as the result of an
anonymous telephone call that said
the money was being brought into
Long Beach for the gangsters' divi-
sion of the loot
Eight Coast Guard vessels were
asked by police, through Washington.
to be on the lookout for vessel 100
feet long by Is feet wide.
Marine police with graphing hooks
were searching Jamaica Bay for
mahogany cruiser that might have
been one Of the boats used in the get
away to sea, the theory police still
believe most likely to prove correct
The cruiser was seen floating awash
not far from where q small boat wal
found scuttled shortly after the rob-
berry.
suspects gave police momentary hope
of developments in the solution of thu
Nations greatest cash hold-up bu;
after a few hours of questioning, the
Philadelphia authorities announced
they were convinced the men were not
involved.
One Of the men is Armour Lei
Phillips, identified by police as hus.
band Of Clara Phillips, convicted Cali
fornia hammer slayer" The threG
we're held for further questioning ir
! activities of other gangs.
A short time after the Philadelphia
arrests Brooklyn woman told police
she thought Phillips was man who
rented an apartment from her q yeal
ago and had frequent contact with
gangsters, including Waxey Gordon.
beer baron, now serving q long SEN
tence in Atlanta for income tax eva
sion.
Inspector John J. Ryan, directing
the search, said yesterday three wit
neSSeS had picked three rogues' gallery
pictures and said they resembled three
Of the robbers. However, he said the
police were not relying on the identi-
flcations.
Purple Gang Blamed.
Samuel Davis, held in White Plains,
N. Y, on charges of committing a
murder In Detroit, told authorities
there that all survivors of the no.
torious Purple gang were in hiding
In the swampy country west Of New
ark, N. j., and may have been respon-
sible for the hold-up.
Questioned by New York detectives,
he was reported to have said that the
gang came East several months ago
with the avowed intention Of staging
several big hold-ups.
Inspector Sullivan said Davis had
informed detectives that the gang was
running a gambling game on a boat
on Newark. Police have been ordered
to locate it.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
ROMANCE ENDS SUIT

LOS ANGELES, August rs R.-A
year ago Alberta Vaughn, movie act
ress, one-time "wampas baby star,
sued Joe Elgi. an assistant casting
director, for $3.50 in an automobile
accident case.
Yesterday Superior Judge Marshall
F. McComb dismissed the suit for
good and sufficient cause"-Miss
Vaughn is now Mrs. Joe Egh.
The couple eloped to Yuma, Ariz.
last April 8.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
FAIR, COOLER HERE.
Temperature of About 81 Tonight
Predicted.

Washingtonians intent on week end
outings should be favored by fair and
considerably cooler weather tonight
and tomorrow, the current forecast
says. Moderate northerly winds are
expected to lower the temperature to
about 81 tonight
The mercury climbed to 81 yester-
day afternoon before a light shower
sent 1t downward again. Only a frac-
ton Of an inch of rain fell Yester-
days minimum was 73 degrees.
Temperatures this noon were in
the lower S0s.
Evening star., 1934-08-25

from Cuba is continued in the agree
ment. Thus avocados remain on the
free list At the same time Cuba has
agreed to an exchange of notes by
which she undertakes to prohibit all
shipments of avocados to the United
States except during the months Of
June to September. inclusive, Of each
year.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
MOORE IN CHARGE

Virginian Acts as Secretary of
State in Chiefs Absence.
A Virginian served as Secretary of
State today for the first time in nearly
100 years.
R. Walton Moore of Fairfax Va,
Assistant Secretary of State, was conf
missioned as Acting Secretary by
President Roosevelt because of the
absence of Secretary Hull and Under
secretary Phillips.
Moore is the first Virginian to as
sumo the office. even temporarily,
since Abel p Upshur, who served
briefly in the administration of Presi-
dent Tyler in 1843.
Evening star., 1934-08-25

raw materials boosted 100 per cent,
and a processing tax imposed within
the last year.
At the same time, he said, 1t has
encountered in the last few months
a sharp falling of in demand.
With Sloan at the conference with
the Labor Board were w. D. An
derson of Macon, Ga; G. E. Buxton
Of Providence, r. T.; Donald Conner
Of Birmingham, Ala; T. M. Marchant
Of Greenville, S. c., all members of
the code authority; Bruere, Robert
L. Houston and Deputy Administrator
Prentiss r. Coonley of the N. R. A.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Shorter Hours Adopted.

Colombia's new eight-hour day de-
cree is expected to give work to 10000
more men.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
u. S. LABOR BOARD
MAPS PEACE MOVE
IN TEXTILE STRIKE

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Evening star., 1934-08-25
NEW PENNSYLVANIA
PENITENTIARY FIRED
AS CONVICTS RIOT

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UNION MAN DEFIES
MOB IN KIDNAPPING
DURING STRIKE ROW.

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Evening star., 1934-08-25
PRESIDENT FINDS
LIBERTY LEAGUE
FALLS FAR SHORT

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Evening star., 1934-08-25

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cissIs. sR tobacco: 80 80 300 a!5 !5' ial.;:
Fresh fruits and vegetables. Cuba
is producer of fresh fruits and
vegetables which mature much earlier
in the season than similar products
grown in this country. This fact
opened the way to concessions on a
seasonal basis, which will permit the
early Cuban products to enter the
American market prior to the time
when similar domestic products are
ready for market. The existing rates
of duty remain in force during the
remaining months when the market
is supplied by home production. On
this basis seasonal concessions in duty
have been provided for on the products
indicated in the following table.
Fruits and vegetables subject to
seasonal duties:
Grapefruit, August 1-September 30.
Lima beans, December l to following
May 81.
White or Irish potatoes, December l
to last day of the following February
Tomatoes, fresh, December l to last
day Of the following February.
Cucumbers, December | to last day
OF the following February.
Eggplant, December / to following
March 81.
Okra. December l to following
May 81.
Peppers, January l to April 80.
Squash, December to May 81.
AvocadOs on Free List.
1t should be observed that the re-
duced duties apply only during the
aforementioned periods. At all other
times the existing rates of duty will
be assessed on imports of these prod
uctS from Cuba, so that the market
in the United States will be effectively
reserved during the period of their
| marketings to domestic producers.
In view of the policy of this Govern
ment of reducing tariff barriers, as
expressed in the provisions of the
tariff bargaining law. the free entry
now accorded TO articles imported
Evening star., 1934-05-26
.1<T~ ROD AND STREAM
sSsIe- - by PERRX, -MILLER4N>

Capt. Robert Lee at Shady Side
reports that one of his boats re-
turned Wednesday from a trip to
Niger Head Buoy with 81 large hard
heads and one sea trout. The anglers
used both soft and peeler crabs.
Capt. Lee says the bay is alive with
alewives.
Capt. Noah Hazard at Galesville,
Md, says his feet of five boats now
is in operation. He says his nets
: are catching plenty of hardhead and
a good many blues and sea trout.
George Knight at Leonardtown re-
ports that hardhead are being landed
off Piney Point and in St. Marys
River. He says one catch amounted
to half barrel of fish.
Capt. Herry Woodburn at Solo
mons Island says that up to Tuesday
no fish had been caught in the
Patuxent River. He says his boats
had been making the trip across the
bay to Honga River and returning
with good catches.