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Evening star., 1934-11-15
JAPAN OFFERS HELP
IN OIL CONTROVERSY
Would Act as Intermediary Be.
tween Manchoukuo and
United States.
ey the Associated Press.

By tQc Associated FIcSSs
Japan is willing to act as an inter-
mediary between the United States
and Manchoukuo in an effort to reach
IN amicable settlement of the diplo-
matte controversy brought about by
Manchoukuo's proposed oil monopoly
Hirosi Saito, the Japanese Ambas-
sador, made this known today after
an extended conference with Secre-
tary Hull.
He told newspaper men that while
Japan was not responsible for Man.
choukuo's foreign affairs, and could
not NEEDLE in a sovereign nations
affairs, it would, since the United
States does not recognize the new
state. accept the responsibility of for
warding communications between the
two nations.
Saito emphasized that he had not
offered the Japanese government
service as mediator In his confer
ence with Hull, and that his discus
sion with the Secretary had been on
Far Eastern questions in general.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
BORAH TO DISCUSS
RELIEF IN FORUM
Idahoan to Speak on Waste in
Program Broadcast on N. B. c.
Next Monday.

Waste in the huge expenditures
made by the Government for relief
will be discussed by Senator William
E. Borah of Idaho in the National
Radio Forum Monday, November 10,
at 1890 pm. The National Radio
Forum is arranged by The Washington
Star and broadcast over the network
of the National Broadcasting Co.
Senator Borah has charged there
has been tremendous waste in the ad-
ministration of Government relief.
He does not oppose the idea Of grant,
ing relief to the destitute. His attack
is delivered because, he says, 40 to so
per cent of the total funds in some
cases go for administration. He has
demanded an inquiry and Federal Re-
lief Director Harry L. Hopkins already
has begun an Investigation.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
MERCURY TO CLIMB
TO sos HERE TODAY
Seasons Low Reached With "a
Last Night-Fair Weather
to Continue.

The brief cold snap is over, the
Weather Bureau said today, and the
temperature here will touch so degrees
this afternoon and 60 higher to-
morrow.
Last nights minimum was 27 de-
erees. Tonight the bureau said, the
thermometer probably would drop tc
about 80, climbing back into the sos
tomorrow.
For the next few days, at least, the
weather will be fair, but what the week
end probabilities are the bureau de-
elined to forecast today.
Snow which fell yesterday over the
lower Great Lakes region, in New
York, New England and North Caro-.
lima has stopped, it was said, and
the weather in these regions is grad.
pally growing warmer.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
.DATABAN IS URGED
TO flight NUMBERS
Suppressing Information Is
Requested by Hazen Pend.
ing New Law.

Melvin c. Hazen, president OF the
Board Of District Commissioners, be-
lieves that the only way-in advance
OF necessary !egislation-to break up
the numbers racket in Washington is
by the cooperation of newspapers and
radio in suppressing the numerical in
formation necessary to carry on the
business, and publication Of which
serves no other purpose than to assist
the gamblers. The publication OF race
track win, place and show numbers,
totaled, seems to be the life blood of
the numbers game, the Commissioner
believes.
On account Of the fabulous returns
Dragged about when some one Is lucky
at the numbers game, Mr.. Hazen be-
lieves that many persons play the
game in a spirit of desperation-hop-
ing against hope they might make q
fortune. The Commissioner tells of
one man he heard Of getting $400
from a small outlay. The majority Of
players, with these stories held before
them, do not realize that all this is
exceptional: that there is only one
chance in great number to win"
Urges Law to Work Both Ways.
Mr.. Hazen proposes law that works
both ways-one that would rule out
the whole game, penalizing the player
as well as the one who runs the game
Its hard to break up a racket
which citizens support" Mr. Hazen
opines. From what I hear, the cit
izenry of Washington support the
numbers game rather enthusiastically.
I am told that about one man in
every three plays this game-women,
too, and children. 1t seems to be a
city-wide custom
While this situation obtains, the
police have little chance in being
successful-even if they had a law
backing them, which they have not.
"Banditry and racketeering go
hand-in-hand with the numbers
game. Big money is the source of
the evil. That brings in the element
of adventure. Men are willing to
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Evening star., 1934-11-15
JAPANESE WARNED
BRITAIN WILL HOLD
T0NAVALPROGRAM
Will Grant Equality in Prin.
cipIe, but Not in Actual
Ship Tonnage.
ALLIANCE AGAINST U. S.
RIDICULED BY ENJOYS
Collusion Between England and
Toxic Secuted as Farley
Deadlock Holds.

(copyright, 1884, by the Associated Press.l
LONDON, November 15.- Great
Britain let it be known today that if
Japan rejects her proposal for naval
equality "in principle" she will not
grant Japan equality in the actual
tonnage of their fighting craft.
This indication, from an authorita-
tive source, was contained in state
nient that Great Britain still seeks a
method of approaching a compromise
on the difficult question Of a new naval
treaty, but that she will not go beyond
the recognition of equality in principle
for Japan.
This decision was made independ-
emily by Great Britain some time ago
and has nothing to do with any con-
versations her diplomats engaged in
the present preliminary naval parley
have had with the representatives of
the United States and Japan.
Agreement Seems Remote.
Both the British and Americans
here for the conversations said Off
cially that reports that Great Britain
and the United States were consider
ing an agreement were entirely false.
Both delegations said they wished the
situation was near the agreement
stage, but that actually the three pow
ers were just as far from an agreement
as they have ever been.
The British last week suggested that
the Japanese consider q compromise
principle, but by which the existing
ratios would be maintained. These
ratios give the United States and
Great Britain equal sized navies while
that of the japanese is go per cent the
size of either of the others.
The British proposal means that
the other nations concerned would
recognize that Japan, in principle, has
. right to equality but the japanese
navy would not be given actual equal
5ty In tonnage.
q. s. Resists Proposal.
The United States has opposed this
proposal her delegates saying they
believe Japan was given equality in
security By the Washington and Lon
don naval treaties which now control
the size of navies.
A spokesman said today the Ameri-
can naval delegation believed press
reports abroad of closely-related Brit
tsh-Japanese economic and naval
moves to be ridiculous"
Such development has been de-
MED by all delegations to the pre-
liminary conversations.
AS an indication of how "baseless"
there ports are, the spokesman said,
Norman H. Davis, American delegate.
did not refer to them in any way
yesterday during an important con-
ference with the Britions.
England, it was reported reliably,
sought unsuccessfully to get American
approval Of compromise proposals she
advanced to Japan.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
RECOUNT SOUGHT
IN FUSION VICTORY
Democratic Candidate for
Montgomery Board to
File Petition.
BY JACK ALLEN,

A petition for recount of the vote
that apparently ended the Democratic
organizations 15-year reign at the
helm of governmental affairs in Mont
gomery County and installed the
Fusion party as the political faction
in control Of the Board of County
Commissioners will be filed in the
Circuit Court at Rockville On Mon
day by County Commissioner John
B. Diamond.
The petition will ask for a recount
of the balloting in the second district
commissioner race, which Diamond,
president Of the current board and
Democratic candidate for reelection,
lost to Charles e. King, Fusion nomi-
nee, by margin Of SO votes.
Irregularities Charged.
Diamond declared today In formal
statement that he had received reliable
information which convinced him that
numerous Irregularities occurred in
the conduct Of the county election on
November 6 and in the counting of
the ballots in several election pre-
cincts.
He said he was further convinced
that had these irregularities not oc-
CURED the result of the election would
be materially changed, in that would
be shown to have obtained a sub
stantial plurality Of votes over Mr..
King"
The head Of the county board as
serted he had carefully considered
the question of contesting the election
and believed it to be his duty to have
the entire matter investigated and the
ballots counted under the careful and
impartial supervision of the court "in
order that the results of the election
may truly express the will Of the
people"
Confers With Attorney.
It was at first expected that the
petition would be filed in Circuit
Court this afternoon, but Diamond
stated after q. consultation with his
attorney, Capt. Joseph C. Cissel, that
it would not be possible to have 1t
ready for presentation until Monday.
It was the defeat Of Commissioner
Diamond, coupled with the triumph Of
Fusion candidates over two other
Democratic commissioner nominees,
Raleigh s. Chinn and Miss Lavinia
Engle. that gave the new party three
members and the controlling vote on
the Board of County Commissioners
after one of the most bitter elections
in Montgomery's political annals.
Diamond said that his decision to
ask for recount Of the second district
commissioner fight was reached after
conference with nearly so personal
friends and Democratic leaders last
night.
He declared 1t was their consensus
that the recount should be made to
determine definitely whether there was
any irregularities in the election which
caused his defeat and transferred con-
troll Of the board to the Fusion party.
Not only Is Diamonds political fu-
ture and the future of the Democratic
organization at stake, but it was
pointed out at the conference that vir-
tually every county employe viii be
dismissed and thrown out Of work II
the Fusion party takes control and
distributes patronage among its sup
porteys.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
FRENCH DEFAULT
PLANNED DEC. II
FIandin Cabinet Continues
to Play a Waiting
Game on Debts
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, November 15.-France will
default to the United States on its
war debt for the fifth straight time
December Is, when it receives an
American notification that payment
is due, it was learned today.
Pierre F1andin, new premier, op-
posed payment in 1882, when he was
minister of finance, and his cabinet
is now taking the same position as
the previous government-awaiting an
Anglo American settlement, which
would serve as a basis for Franco
American negotiations.
Plays Waiting Game.
1t was made clear that the Flandin
government would play the same
waiting" game as did the recent cab
met headed by CASTOR Doumergue.
Thus far the only idea for revision
of the debts that has met with any en-
a 10 per cent payment to correspond
with the reparations granted Germany
by the Lausanne agreement.
Premier Flandin's efforts to keep
the budget deficit down got the sup
port today Of the Chamber of Deputies
which voted to bar the introduction OF
private money bills in the 1885 budget
Only the government and the Cham
Der Finance Committee may present
such bills in connection with the
budget which, 1t Is estimated will
show o deficit of between one and q
half billion francs (about $97, 500, ,000)
and three billion francs.
Doumergue Leaves.
The Flandin victory came after his
predecessor, the beloved Castor Dou-
mergue, slipped quietly out of Paris
to return to private life.
Unobserved and unacclaimed, the
71-year-old former premier and Presi-
dent at Am. left the capital to which
he was called last February to save
the country from threatened revolu.
tion.
Mindful of his appeal to the people
to form union of peace" Doumergue
kept secret the hour of his departure
so it could not be made an occasion
for factional strife.
Doumergue resigned one week age
today, nine months after assuming
the premiership, when he was forced
out by the desertion of four Radical
Socialist ministers.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
PATRONAGE RIDER
HITS ALCOHOL UNIT
Group of High-SaIaried Jobs
in Internal Revenue
Thrown on Block.

The patronage rider" on the
Treasury deficiency appropriation
threw a group of the high-salaried
jobs in the alcohol tax unit of the
Internal Revenue Bureau on the block
today.
Topping the list is that Of Dwight
E. Avis, chief of the enforcement divi-
sion, who draws $500. There are
also a number of positions for assistant
supervisor of enforcement at $4,000 to
5,400 and investigator in charge at
$500 to $4,000.
Examinations Ordered.
Examinations were ordered for these
posts, under the terms of the rider, by
the Civil Service Commission today.
In all, there are about IS positions
affected, but some of these were not
properly within the scope of the rider.
Some of these to be examined were
patronage employees under the Demo-
cratic administration and will get
non-competitive tests. Civil service
employees, at whom the rider was
aimed, must take competitive tests.
As was the case with some 80 0em-
ployes of the unit who are losing out
December by reason Of the rider,
many of those other workers who now
must take new tests have had long
experience in service.
Along with this development today
there came a response from the Civil
Service Commission to an attack by
z. Claude Babcock, president of the
American Federation of Government
Employees, on the tests which operated
as the instrument for throwing the 900
out of service.
Held in Law Conformity.
At the commission, it was said the
examinations were the same as those
given in 1881 when additional help
was needed in the old Prohibition
Bureau and that the manner in which
they had been drawn was in con-
formity with the law.
In these tests, it was added, 10 per
cent credit was given for mental test
and 30 per cent for observation. No
credit was allowed for experience, 1t
was said, because this would have re-
suited in those who took the examina-
ton, which was supposed to be open
and competitive, having a different
status. The element Of experience
also was held to be obsolete when the
1881 examinations were being drawn,
it was said.
It was understood the commission
was preparing to answer criticism of
its course in detail.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
Woman Coal Operator Made
Member of ''Little Cabinet''
Miss Josephine Roche Is
Appointed as Assistant
Treasury Secretary.
Former Candidate for
Couernorship to Super.
rise Welfare.

Miss Josephine A. Roche Of Colo
RADIO was appointed Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury today by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. She recently was a
candidate for Governor of Colorado.
Miss Roche. coal mine operator,
will fill a post made vacant when
Secretary Morgenthau was elevated
from an assistant secretaryship to
head Of the Treasury. She will have
charge Of public health matters.
A noted figure In the Far West,
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-11-15
STRAW BALLOT FROM ANOTHER
LARGE DEPARTMENT STORE

The returns another large department store from
straw ballot charge customers to determine
what newspapers their homes almost duplicate
the relative figures the previous from
customers of other stores
The total number returned and tabuated by
this store was 1868.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
British Maintain
altitude Against
Payment of Debt
Chamberlain Replies to
OuestiOner in House
of Commons.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 15.-Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, told a questioner in the
House of Commons today that no COM
munication has yet been received from
the United States Government in
respect to the British payment of war
debt interest December Is.
Asked whether the attitude of the
government toward the ques tpn was
the same as last June (when b pay
ment was made) Chamberlain replied: !:
Before any communication has been
received, yes"
Evening star., 1934-11-15
Pilot Downed by Fog,

PARIS, November Is (P).-John H.
Wright, American flyer landed his air.
plane at Orly today because of bad
visibility on proposed fight from
Marseille to London. He probably will
continue on to London tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
Governmental Unit Holds
Lead, With Halfway
Mark Near.
$60O,457 Contributed
IN FIRST THREE DAYS
Pledges May Be Accepted Only
for Afiliates, Chairman
Rust Declares.

Continuing the tremendous pace
which is breaking early campaign
records, Community Chest volunteer
workers in the fourth day of their 10
day drive for $1.675, 900, neared the
half way point today in their cam
paign.
When the fourth daily report meet
ing closed at the Willard Hotel this
afternoon, it was found that $780,
04798, or 1881 per cent Of the total
quota, had been raised.
The Governmental Unit continued
in the lead with 6233 per cent of its
quota in hand. The Special Gifts
Unit has completed ASS per cent of
its quota, and the Capital Unit. by
virtue of an extraordinary drive,
jumped into third place with alta
per cent.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
L. w. Robert, the luncheon speaker,
predicted that the Treasury Depart
ment will be lover the top" by to-
night.
If the teams are able to strike
just slightly faster pace today than
they have maintained during the past
three days. it was announced, they
will reach the midway mark Of $837,-
500 before the close of the day. The
campaign is scheduled to continue
through November 81.
Although Yesterdays report meeting
closed with a grand total of $780,
457.08 officially reported, number of
late contributions, auditing Of which
was not completed until last night,
swelled the total before the close of
the day to $500, 0,457oS, or 1886 per
cent of the quota.
Must Be Affiliates.
No pledges for any organization not
affiliated with the Community Chest
can be accepted by the Chest in the
present campaign, it was announced
today by H. L. Rust, jr., campaign
chairman. Mr.. Rust explained that
the constitution and bylaws Of the
Community Chest absolutely prohibit
the acceptance of any contribution
for any organization either in the
District or outside unless 1t Is af1h-
ated with the, Chest.
Chest totals were swelled yesterday
by one $4,000 pledge and three
pledges Of $4,000 each. for total
of s45,000. The $4,000 contribution
is from the Potomac Electric Power
Co. Two of the $4,000 contributions
we're from donors who refused to give
their names for publication and they
were listed as "anonymous" in the
returns. Woodward g. Lothrop con-
tributed $4,000.
Individual contributors to the Chest
are giving more this year than in the
past, Chest oficials explained, follow
ing a study of the returns for the first
three days.
Average Gift Is s22.17.
The Metropolitan Unit is reporting
an average gift of s22.17, as compared
with $3.50 last year. The Specia
Gifts Unit reports an increase of more
than 400 per cent in the average siz'
of the contributions it is receiving
Where the average contributions re
ceived by this unit last year amount
ed to $500, they have so far this veal
averaged $1,280. Group Solicitation
workers reported slight increase II
the average donations, from SIS las
year to 1851. The Governmental Uni
has reported slight increase in it
Evening star., 1934-11-15

NEWSPAPERS TAKEN IN THESE HOMES:
THE EVENING STAR. .2,S75 1862
End Evening Newspaper. 776 21.8%
3rd Evening Newspaper. 571 16.0%
THE SUNDAY STAR. .2,811 S1.8%
End Sunday Newspaper. H. 100 30.9%
3rd Sunday Newspaper. :. S95 25.1%
1st Morning Newspaper 1881 37.4%
End Morning Newspaper. 945 26.5%
Statement From These Same People as to What
Papers They Use Guide to Shopping:
THE EVENING STAR. .2,725 1861
End Evening Newspaper. 525 14.7%
3rd Evening Newspaper. $50 1919
THE SUNDAY STAR. .2,491 70.0%
End Sunday Newspaper. 705 1887
3rd Sunday Newspaper. 472 1887
1st Morning Newspaper. 715 20.1%
End Morning Newspaper. 385 1887
1t is extraordinary how closely these different surv
parallel each other In is the relative position Of
'aper changed.
- AH OF the facts stated aboue apply only to the
replies received from the homes coueed By this sltey
Evening star., 1934-11-15

| Fire Destroys 100 Houses.
HAVANA, November Is R.-Fire
today destroyed 100 houses in Baracoa
All were Of wood.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
Average Gift Is S22.17.

Continued on Page 6, Column D.
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Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-11-15
WEATHER.

90 O weather Buresu ForecastJ
Fair and slightly warmer tonight and
tomorrow. lowest temperature tonight
about ~ degrees: gentle winds. mostly
west. emperatures--Highest, Il. at
noon today: lowest. a. at 8 am. today.
Full report on page B'l6'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-07
DOOLI7TLE QUITS
 RAGING PASTIME


 Detroit (UP)-Breakfast in St Louis, Mo, lunch in Detroit, dim ner in Williamsport, Pa, and still Jimmie Doolittle. famous retired army major, to-day announced he was definitely through with speed flying.
 Nope" he said, mo more of that reckless stuff for me. Srced- ing at a breakneck speed. I'm through, positively through"
 Doolittle, who has flown over mountains in endurance flights with both legs broken and whizzed through the air at 300 miles an hour, gave as his reason that his "laboratories'. had been taken away from him.
 His laboratory, Doolittle ex- plained, was the race course. "For years the little racing planes were the guinea pigs of aviation" he siad. "Now they're no longer nec- essary. Little, short winged planes of to-day are purely racing planes, they're no longer experimental.
 Maybe I've got vinegar in my veins, I'm not sure myself, but anyway I'm through with racing. See, I've got two little boys, nine and twelve-and besides, there's nothing to be gained now by this racing"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-07
CAROLINA ASKS
 FOR MILLIONS

Columbia, S. c. (UP)-The South Carolina Public Service Au- thority is seeking to gain $35,971,- 910 in federal PWA funds to finance the Santee-Cooper power project as a public enterprise sim liar in scope to the Tennessee Val ley program.
 The public service authority ap- piled for the sum in the form of a $26,632,766 loan and an outright grant of $s,339.144. The proposed gigantic hydro-electric waterway project would transform coastal Carolina into an industrial center and lower electric rates through out this section, sponsore of the project claim.
 The application was drafted af- ter another, asking nearly the same sum as a private loan to the Columbia Railway and Navigation company, failed to receive final approval.
 Transmission lines proposed would cover the eastern portion of South Carolina and would poten- tially extend into North Carolina and Georgia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-07
PARIS PLANS
 CONEY ISLAND
95,OOO,OOO Francs to Be Spent for 1887 Ex=
 position Project

Paris (UP)-Paris is going to have Coney Island. It is all de- cided for the 1887 Arts and Trades Exposition.
 Some call it "super-Lido," but the rose, by whatever name, will cost approximately 95,000,000 francs, and if they let the archi- tect, M. Antoine DuffleuX, have his way, Paris will be provided with all the facilities which it's inha bi- tants pay dearly for and travel far to obtain-bathing, boating and gambling.
 The French Coney Island will be set up at Choisy-le-Roi, a short distance to the south of the capi- tai. It will comprise magnifi- cent bathing beach, 300 feet wide and nearly a mile long; a sports training ground, and a stadium to seat 100000 spectators. There will be a casino, in and outdoor restau- rants, dance hall and air field. An even temperature of over 6S degrees will be insured by means of a special heating apparatus during eigh months of the year in an open-air swimming pool. At one end of the beach will be a small lake for boating, and in ad- dition, it is planned to make a miniature sports ground with a swimming pond for children. For years, Paris has not had adequate bathing facilities = that is, swimming facilities = and the new Coney Island is destined to prove a mecca for marine-minded mammals. Automobiles, trains and special busses will convey visitors to and from the big playground.