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Evening star., 1934-12-17
PROBATION URGED
AS CRIME CONTROL
NeWbo!d Noyes Advocates
Extension for Reformation
Purposes Among Youth.

Extension of probation as a method
of crime control was advocated today
by Newbold Noyes, member OF the
Executive Committee of the National
Probation Association, Of which
Charles Evans Hughes, jr., is presi-
dent.
Thousands of youths come before
our juvenile and adult courts every
year, charged with delinquencies,"
said Mr. Noyes in statement accom-
panying an appeal for the work OF
the association. Well organized pro-
baton departments are needed to Sc
cure for every court the necessary
information on which any plan Of
constructive treatment must be based.
Depends on Reformation.
at has been proved over and over
again that protection Of society de-
pends on the reformation of the GRIM
lnal. The correctional institution, with
It's attendant stigma and bad associa-
tions, too often drags the offender
down instead of restoring him to So
ciety. No one should wish first or
young offender sentenced to jail or
prison when investigation proves he is
either ignorant of the seriousness OF
the crime or was forced into 1t by
circumstances over which he had little
or no control, or who was truly re-
pentant and desirous of making
amends.
Probation treatment does not nee
essarily mean leniency to the offender.
It means individual study and treat
ment to fit each case. Probation Is
not for the confirmed or habitual Of
tenders, but for the large majority OF
youthful offenders when they make
their first misstep.
Probation is one of the strongest
forces the community has for saving
youthful or first offenders from a
career of crime, and society from
further offenses. The National Pro-
baton Association, in whose behalf
I am appealing for funds, is the one
national organization which exists for
the purpose of aiding the courts and
probation departments all over the
country in raising standards and de-
veloping well-organized probation and
pCIJCl OOulI CO14AlGAOl1os lAC oooONAo
tion is cooperating actively with our
Juvenile Court officials and with local
committees in preparing needed legis-
lation and in the progress now being
made to secure better trained proba-
ton officers. 1t is hoped that ulti-
mately there may be developed in
Washington model Juvenile Court
and adult probation service. The as
sociation is also actively interested
in co-ordinating the work of public
and private civic organizations to Sc
cure prevention of delinquency and
removal of its causes.
Contributions Needed.
1.-THE association is supported solely
by the voluntary contribution of the
far-seeing people of the country.
hope that all who can do so at this
time will send a gift for the indispens-
able work being carried on by this
organization
Contributions should be made pay
able to the National Probation Asso-
citation and mailed to Newbold Noyes
The Evening Star, Washington, D. c
Evening star., 1934-12-17
FIRST LADY SILENT
ON MARRIAGE RUM0R
Refuses to Say Whether Mrs
Dali Will Wed John
Boettiger.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's reply
today to the riImor that her daughter,
Mrs. Anna Dali, would marry John
Boettiger, former newspaper man,
was:
"You may have heard the rumor,
but I never have" Pressed by re-
porters for more definite statement,
Mrs. Roosevelt said with great finality
II have nothing to say"
Nothing to say" was the unvary-
ing answer of Mrs. Dall's secretary,
Miss Mollie Dorf
The rumor was stirred by Boettiger's
resignation from his position on the
Chicago Tribune to accept a position
in New York.
Mrs. Dali was divorced from Curtis
B. Dali in Nevada last Summer. Boet-
tiger also Is divorced. Both have chill
dren.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
WILSON'S PROPOSAL
FOR SECOND CANAL
REGRETTED BY TOXIC
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they believed President Roosevelt was
endeavoring to reach a general accord
with Great Britain on many questions
of this sort and that possible naval
accord was only part Of the situation
as a whole.
It was understood that this naval
accord would only be suggested by
the United States If there were nc
new naval treaty after 1895.
Washington's suggested new policy
it was said, may be the outcome oi
the speech made before the Disarma-
ment Conference in Geneva a yeaI
ago by Norman H. Davis, United
States Ambassador at Large, who has
| taken part in the naval conversations
here.
Plan Based on Treaty.
At that time, Davis said the United
States would be willing to consult
| the other powers on taking unilatera
action against belligerents to prevent
their obtaining supplies and the NUM-
tions if all powers agreed to a dis.
armament treaty. 1t was believed
here today that the United States
now is willing to take such unilatera
action on its own accord regardless Of
an agreement by all nations on sucf
a policy.
Above all, the belief here Is thai
President Roosevelt is trying to come
closer to the British policy on neu'
trality, perhaps Influenced by the re-
cent remarks at Glasgow of Stanley
Baldwin, lord president of the coun.
ell. Baldwin at that time declared
he believed Great Britain should con-
suit the United States before declaring
a blockade on any country In time
of war.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
nv the AsSoriafed Press

BY the Associated Press.
A threat of a costly naval race
among the sea powers drew closer to-
day as the capital awaited Japan's
formal notice that 1t would abrogate
the Washington limitation treaty.
Thursday, or soon thereafter, Hirosi
Saito, Japanese Ambassador. is ex-
pected to deliver to the State Depart
ment the official word that Japan in
tends to abrogate the treaty on De!
cember 81, 1896.
Saito said, however. that he had not
vet been instructed to take this step
When he does, and word of his call
on Secretary of State Hull has been
flashed to London, the tri-nation talks
that had been designed to smooth the
way for a 1885 naval conference are
expected to end automatically.
Japan Up to Ratio.
American officials say that the
United States and Great Britain nave
not built up to the "5" allotted them
in the famous 5-5-3 ratio.
Japan, however, has built or is
building new ships almost to the last
ton permitted in her "3" ratio. figures
! here indicate. -H'
Figuring only vessels under age,
| official American and japanese flg-
ures show that as 1886 ends the
United States win have 1l3 warships
of 7s4,580 tons, the British l25 OF
633, 1873 tons, and the japanese $50 oi
/ 597, ,429 tons.
Construction Figures.
Vessels still under age on Decem-
Der 81. 1896, and ships now under
construction or planned are expected
to give the fleets of the three sea
| powers the following strength:
Evening star., 1934-12-17
PUZZLE CONTEST
| TO BEGIN TUESDAY
500 and 100 Tickets to Be
Given by Auto Trade
Body.
The Washington Automotive Trade

The Washington Automotive Trade
Association through the cooperation
of The Evening and Sunday Star will
again present q series of auto show
puzzles, first of which will be found
Tuesday in the magazine section Of
that paper.
There will be 81 puzzles In all. each
one representing one Of the auto
mobiles that will be on exhibit at
the fifteenth annual automobile show
to be held at the Washington Audi
torium January II to 19, inclusive.
Skill is the key to the solving Of these
puzzles. In each puzzle will be found
a list of names. BY finding the proper
synonym the first letter placed in a
row will spell the name Of some par
ticular make.
Purpose Two-Fold.
The purpose of the contest is two
fold. First is the idea to stimulate
continuous interest in the forthcom-
ing show. The second is to provide
amusement for the workers of the
puzzles.
On top Of all this, $100 and 100
tickets to the show will be awarded
the winners in the contest. The prizes
will be distributed as follows: First
prize, $50 and IL tickets; second, $25
and tickets; third, $40 and 6 tickets;
fourth, SIS and tickets. In addition
there will be 10 more prizes Of 81
each and 2 tickets each. AS con-
ISOLATION for the next best contestants
Is awards of 2 tickets each will be
offered
1t costs nothing to enter the con-
test. Copies Of The Star may be
examined in the files in the business
Office. In case of ties duplicate
prizes will be given Of1cials of the
Washington Automotive Trade Asso-
citation will be the judges of the con-
test and their decisions will be final
Will Last FL Days.
The puzzles. starting Tuesday, will
last 81 consecutive days. Daily they
will appear on the woman'S feature
page. On Sundays they will be found
in the automobile section of The Star.
When the lists are completed, address
them to the Washington Automotive
Trade Association, room 407, 1927 ]
street northwest. With these answers
a slogan of not more than 20 words
describing why the Automobile Show
should be held in Washington every
year" should be inclosed. This slogan
is necessary. Accuracy and neatneSs
will be the deciding points.
Every one is eligible to compete
except employees of The Star and
the Washington Automotive Trade
Association. All inquiries should be
directed to the Office of the w. A. T
A. Complete contest rules will be
found each day at the foot of the
puzzle.
Winners will be announced in the
Auto Show section of The Star, Sun
day. January l3.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
WOMAN TO HANG

HULL, England, December II P).-
Mrs. Ethel Lille Major, AZ, will be
hanged Wednesday morning. She will
be the first woman to 60 to the
gallows in England since 1926.
The home secretary's Office reported
inability to discover any grounds for
the reprieve of the woman, who was
convicted of poisoning here 44-year-
old husband, Arthur Major.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
DOGS TO BE GIVEN AWAY

Dogs and cats of all descriptions
will be given away in time for Christ
mas to persons who promise to care
for them properly, according to an an
nouncement today by the Animal Res
cue League, II o street. Scores Of
these friendly animals have been col
lected by the league during the past
few months and can be had by apply.
ing at the league headquarters.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
BODY TAKEN TO CANADA
Victim of Fatal Fire Was Official
of Red Cross.

DETROIT, December II R).-The
body of Miss Meta H. Macbeth, who
burned to death in a fire in her
Crosse Point Farms apartment Sat-
urday night, was sent to London.
Ontario, today.
George Dansbury. chief Of the
Farms Fire Department, said he be-
lieved a cigaret caused the fire, ex-
planning that he thought Miss Mac
Beth might have suffered a heart at
tack while smoking.
Death was attributed to shock and
toxemia, following sixth-degree burns.
She was the local offlce manager OF
the American Red Cross.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
y shopping days
J TO Christmas
RUSSIA

In Russia under the Cars one
had to go to the provinces to see a
genuine Russian Christmas party
of the old style. In some districts
peasant boys dressed themselves as
animals and knocked at the doors
of the houses. 1t was etiquette to
express great fear at their terrible
appearance. Then they were in
vited in, the host expressing his re-
lief at the gentle manner of these
bloodthirsty beasts. The boys
danced and sang and were given
pennies and cakes.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
Boettiger Silent.

NEW YORK. December II R.-
John Boettiger. who today began his
duties as an assistant to Will H. Hays,
head of The Motion Picture Producers
and Distributors Association, said he
had mo comment" on published re-
ports that Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali,
daughter Of President and Mrs. Roose-
welt, was preparing to announce their
engagements
Evening star., 1934-12-17

Every one knows that you cannot
transform an elephant hide into the
skin the voters love to touch without
some healthy internal readjustments,
and the internal organs are resisting
DR. Borah's external pressure.
One reason is that they do not like
DR. Borah.
AS one wise and practical Republican
authority expressed it, in a different
metaphor, the other day: when q
man wants to put his house in order,
he does not call on the next door
neighbor to do it. Borah and Nye
have always been the next door neigh
bors of the Republican party"
Await Basis of Policy.
There is another more important
reason. The Washington Republican
authorities know that a reorganiza-
ton of the party must come, but they
do not believe e firm base exists for
it now. To them it is simple question
Of practical politics.
Reorganization now would center
largely in throwing out Chairman
Fletcher and replacing him with some
one who has a more innocent facial
expression. If some barefoot boy with
cheek of tan would leave off splitting
rails, or. whatever they split on the
farms nowadays, and take over the
chairmanship, the public front of the
party would have less of the best
dressed-gentleman appearance.
The Republican thinkers concede
it mould be better to hare some one
NTH more treckles than Fletcher
has.
But they consider that important
only it accompanied by the adop-
tion OF new party doctrines. They
do not see hotD that could be ac-
complished from a practical stand
point.
They consider Borah's anti-monop-
oily, constitutional liberty and wealth
redistribution ideas as good issues
mainly because any one can stretch
them or contract them at will to fl
his own transient conservative OF
liberal principles. In fact, they can be
stretched all the way from Huey Long
to Carter Glass, which is quite a dis
tance. But to adopt them as party
platform now is another matter.
This may be said to represent ir
varying degrees the private view of Re
publicans, from the Senator Couzen.
TYPE up. You will not find then
coming out and saying anything like
that, but you will be able to read il
In their actions from now on.
In view of their eminence and In.
fuence, it would appear that there
isn't going to be any party reorganiza.
ton right now.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
DR.. G. M. DEAN DIES
Assistant Surgeon Instructor at
Johns Hopkins Succumbs.

PORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, Decem-
ber II CP).-Dr. Gordon M. Dean, "a,
assistant instructor in surgery at Johns
Hopkins University, died here last
night after brief illness.
He came here a week ago In an
effort to build up his strength.
Surviving are the widow, his mother,
Mrs. George Dean of Aberdeen, Scot
land, and a sister, Mrs. Elsie MacFay-
den of Narrows, England.
DR.. Dean was born at London.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
Napoleon's Letters Sold.

LONDON, December II R.-A col
lection of 300 letters which Napoleon
Bonaparte wrote Empress Marie
Louise were bought at auction today
on behalf Of the French government
for $4,000 (about $75,000). Few Of
the letters have been published.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Borah's G. O. P. Plans
Get Cold Shoulder
of Party Chiefs.
BY PAUL MALLON.

Senator Borah's campaign to
beautify the G. o. P. elephant is
working out splendidly on the surface
but not SO well underneath.
The Idaho beautician is getting mail
sacks full of pats on the back from
out in the country. Editorial press
clippings on his desk are generally
favorable. But the inside fact is he
has been able to make no headway at
all with the general run of Republican
authorities who hang around Washing
ton in and out of Congress.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
HOLD CELEBRATION

New Mexico Sunday Is Observed
at Valley Forge.
VALLEY FORGE. Pa, December II
CP.-New Mexico State Sunday was
celebrated in Washington Memorial
Chapel yesterday with an address by
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, assistant COM
missioner of the General Land Office
in Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Funk, a native CT Santa Fe,
reviewed the history Of New Mexico
and described its advantages A trib-
ute to the State, prepared by the stu
dents of the high school at Gallup,
N. Mex, was read by Mrs. Joseph
Sharp, Sd, of Cliff, N. Mex.
Evening star., 1934-12-17

Of this year. In 1882, the previous
high year for fatal accidents, there
were 1913 persons killed.
The first fatal accident over the
week end was early yesterday morn
ing when Antonio S. Tasciotti, SIS, Of
400 G street southeast, died in Cas-
ualty Hospital from injuries received
when he was struck by an automo-
bile at Bladensburg road and Twenty
fourth place northeast. He was a
night watchman at a lumber yard
near where he was struck. Frank B.
Humphries, 81, driver of the machine,
was held under 81 900 bond to appear
at coroner's inquest, which has been
set for tomorrow.
Milk Official Killed.
William j. Ball, 80, of 1885 Thirty
third street, an official of the Am
bassador Milk Co., was killed early yes
terday when milk truck bound for
the Sisters of Mercy, Bethesda, Md,
collided with another car at Twenty
first and r streets. Ball was a pas
senger in the truck, which was driven
by Peter j. Deer of Bethesda. The
other car was driven by Robert D.
Manning 26, of 1882 Twenty-second
street. Both have been ordered to
appear tomorrow at a coroner's in
quest.
Another fatal collision was reported
at Pennsylvania and Alabama ave-
nues southwest. Ellsworth Jenkins,
SO, colored. of Dupont Heights. Md,
a passenger in a car driven by his
nephew, Louis E. Jenkins, 81, colored,
died in Casualty Hospital short time
after the accident. The other car
was driven by Lester v. Barrett, 36,
of 521 Fourth street southeast. AL
though both drivers were ordered to
appear at coroner's inquest, no date
for the hearing had been set this
morning
Evening star., 1934-12-17

Present Status.
The present status of the three
navies, as announced by Secretary of
the Navy Swanson, is:
United States-Now has 373 war
ships of 1902 OPS tons; 68 Of 234,-
900 tons under construction or ap-
propriated for; rs of 136,975 tons per-
mitted to be laid down before De-
cember 81, 1886. :. p.
Great Britain--Now has ATS war
ships of l,158,659 tons; So Of III, ,4l0
tons under construction or appro-
priated for: A of 132,963 tons per-
mitted to be laid down by the end
of 1886.
Japan-Now has 220 warships of
756,561 tons; As of 124.696 under con-
struction; and is entitled to build one
destroyer of. $500 tons before the
treaty ends.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
Individual Changes Many.

Your breath will be knocked out in
a few weeks when you find the extent
to which Republican Congressman al
ready have reorganized themselves in
dividually. Nobody knows the tortu-
GUS personal transformation they have
gone through since the last election.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
LONG STEAMS Up
MILL MACHINE
Kingfish Explains Measures
CurtIy to Railroads.
Bills Through.
BY the Associated 2re~

BY the Associated 2re~
BATON ROUGE, La, December II.
Senator Huey P. Long pushed for
prompt approval in the Louisiana
Legislature today parcel OF 35 meas
ures, ranging from new taxation and
punishment for Longs opponents to
enlargement of the State University.
The legislators, in their third spe-
cial session of 1894, were told few Of
the details of the bills, Long snatch
| ing them up and explaining them in
a few curt words.
The house referred them to the
Ways and Means Committee. which
will stamp them favorably and send
them back to the House at 8 pm,
where they will be sent to third read
! ing for final passage tomorrow. The
whole thing will be over Thursday,
with enactment of the 344th Long-law
of the year.
Festive Opening.
The session opened last night in an
almost festive air A huge blue lighted
Christmas tree stood in the ornate
! central chamber of the $1,000, ,00O
skyscraper State House.
Long moved about as the bills were
introduced in the House where the
titles were read sketchily. No one
had an opportunity to inspect them
The Senate met and promptly ad-
journed until tonight at o'clock.
No House bills can reach the Sen
ate until Tuesday, and legislators were
wondering why it was called to meet
at that hour. Senator Coleman Lind
sey of Minden, who moved for the
adjournment, explained: "There may
be some other business We may have
to do"
One of the 35 bills adds little more
to the franchise tax on corporations
This tax was raised from 81 fol-
every 81 900 of capital stock to S1.2s
at the first special session. The Sec
ond special session raised it to 81 so
and the present session is setting the
figure at 81.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
SAFETY CAMPAIGN
OPENS AS TRAFFIC
TOLL SETS RECORD

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-12-17
Pact Denunciation, Launching
Macy Race, Expected Thursday
Japan, Climbing Rapidly To,cord
Ratio, May Terminate Irritation
Talks Seeking accord.

Capital Ships.
Evening star., 1934-03-17
NAVY STATES HOP
BY 15 BIG PLANES
78 Officers and Men Take
Off From California to
Canal on April g.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, March IL
On what naval officers say Is a rou-
tine maneuver in connection with
feet operations, Is giant seaplanes
will hop from North Island for
Panama April 9, Rear Admiral Al
fred w. johnson, commander aircraft,
base force, announced yesterday. At
least four stops will be made en- route.
Admiral Johnson's flagship, the u.
S. S. Wright, will be one of the ships
stationed along the 2800-mile route.
Under command of Comdr. Harry
Bogusch, 18 officers and so enlisted
men will make the flight.
Admiral johnson had charge of
the Panama-San Diego one-stop flight
last Fall and the San Francisco
Honolulu nonstop hop.
The first leg will be La Paz. 600
Lilies (airline) from San Diego. From
there they will go to Acapulco and
then to the Gulf Of Tehuantepec. The
other contact point has not been Sc
lected, but it probably will be Corinto,
Nicaragua. A stop also may be made
at Bahia Honda, Panama.
Admiral Johnson said the planes
would return by the same route in
May.
Reports that the Navy plans an
other squadron flight to Honolulu
this Summer and a hop to Alaska
soon have not been confirmed.
Evening star., 1934-03-17

In his job Col Lindbergh has
earned as much money as his en-
ployers have given him, and prob
ably more
He is successfully dramatizing be-
fore the public the fight Of the avia-
ton companies to regain their air.
mail contracts. He has an edge on
Secretary Dern for the long run, be-
cause his name is bigger.
White House Hesitant.
The White House was never strong
for the move to make up with Col
Lindbergh.
1t was Mr.. Dern's idea. He received
the White House o. K. to go ahead
with it. but the White House group
carefully kept hands off.
There is apparently nothing in
the story going around in the inner
circle that uhile the colonel was
talking TO Mr.. Dern he receiUed q
message from the White House in
uiting him to call. He is reported
to haze stuffed the message in his
pocket without q yes, No, or
Thank YOU as he Uent of to
lunch Uith Dern.
Mr.. Dern told everyone from the
start that Col Lindbergh would not
be invited to the White House. The
military aide of the President would
have been the man to carry any such
invitation, and he denies that he went
near Col Lindbergh Such an invi-
tation would hardly have been offered
in writing anyway.
There is bitterness backstage among
the House Democrats. AS many as
81 of them broke the unwritten Law
in the veterans pay-cut fight.
Evening star., 1934-03-17
CAMBRIDGE CREW
DEFEATS OXFORD
Sets New Record in 86th
Renewal of Eight
Dared Race.
Nv the Associeted presr

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 17-Cambridge
today swept to a four-and- half
length victory over oxford In the
eighty-sixth renewal of their annual
eight-oared crew race and set a new
record for the four -and-quarter-mile
course of 18 minutes 3 seconds.
The light blue boatload was never
extended as it swept up the muddy
Thames from Mortlake to Putney to
score its eleventh straight victory over
Oxford and its forty of the Sc
rieS begun in 1929.
The new mark for the race dis
placed the record of 1929 set In Gil
by one of the great oxford crews
which ruled the English rowing world
for nine straight years before the
war.
The time first was announced as
1888, but check Of the watches
disclosed the new record.
Only at the start, where they
jumped to a half-length lead in the
first half mile, and again through
the fourth mile of the four -and-a-
quarter-mile journey did Oxford make
a race of 1t.
oxford spurted after the :hree-mile
mark to cut down two lengths of the
Cantabs three-length advantage. but
once the Cambridge crew saw them
coming and lifted the stroke it was
all over.