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Evening star., 1935-02-22
VENTzOFF ASSA|LS
PROFITS IN ARMS
Russian Delegate Proposes
Drastic Changes in
American Draft.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, February 22.-The Rus
sian delegate to the World Disarma-
ment Conference, M. Ventzoff, as
serted today that private arms fac
tories were the only enterprises real
izing profit during the economic de-
preston.
The Soviet representative made this
observation as he proposed a drastic
change in the American draft arms
convention to place the same reStric-
tions upon private as upon state man
ufacture of armaments.
1.-THE war industry" Ventzof said,
sis the only industry which despite
the world economic crisis continues
to provide owners and shareholders
ver-growing profits and dividends" :"
Information Desired.
He argued that not only should
private factories be controlled but that
their potential of production" should
be known. I'VE must know what is
going on behind closed DOORS" he
said.
Ventzoff said that if the war scourge
Is to he dealt mortal blow the
world must know everything about
war industries-capital investments
new equipment, increase in workmen
and maximum possible output.
The American draft provides that
the signatory powers shall forward to
q permanent disarmament commission
q list of state establishments with q
description of the implements of war
each is capable of manufacturing.
VentZoff moved that the words land
private establishments" be inserted in
the draft submitted by the United
States delegate.
Hugh Wilson, the United States rep
fesentative, defended the American
draft as good middle road attempt te
meet situation which must be RENE
died.
Ground for Distrust.
''The question of traffic in arms" the
American said, furnishes more ground
for distrust than any one problem
Provisions dealing with the traffic
must be precise and must especially
handle implements known as weapons
of aggression"
William Borberg, Denmark's dele
gate, created a sensation with an
allusion to the "lets simplify" slogan
of Lord Stanhope, British represent
ative.
1T seems to me-" Borberg said
dryly, this might be taken to mean
Tets nullify.'"
Lord Stanhope, who commanded
the British Horseguards during the
World War. refused to be beaten
down, however. He countered with:
"His majesty's governments proposals
do not imply notification; what they
do imply is that we want to get a
convention which the nations will
sign. Our gravest danger is an elab-
crate treaty which will fall by the
wayside as has happened in the past. "
Evening star., 1935-02-22

settler in Pennsylvania, and Of Mai.
John Mcdowell, who served in the 1st
Continental Infantry during the
Revolutionary War.
In his youth, Capt. Mcdowell had
won distinction as an athlete and.
with L. W. johnson, won the national
doubles sculling championship in
1907.
Evening star., 1935-02-22

nant fever for too many years to
answer to such temporary treatments
! They have all diagnosed the malady
correctly-jingoiStic nationaliSm, com.
plicated by collective jitters-but they
have failed to find the necessary cure
/ X
The air Locarno, which Is combined
with Western security guarantee, will
share the fate of the pacts and trea-
| ties concluded or proposed since the
end of the World War. 1t will 60 the
way of the other peace agreements
to the scrap heap.
! Commissar Litvinoff has expressed
some common sense thoughts again
to the great dismay of the would-be
foxy British Secretary OF State, Slr
John Simon.
The British government is anxious
to have peace assured in the West ano
does not care much what happens in
Eastern Europe. Hence, the proposal
contained in the Franco-British agree
ment that a pact shall be concluded
only between Germany. France and
Great Britain, and only as polite
! gesture towards Mussolini, Italy was
also to be included.
Comrade Ltvinoff came back yes
terday with note to Great Britain
and France. pointing out that peace
can not be maintained only by guar
anteeing 1t in the West, and that II
the East was ablaze, no power in the
world could prevent a general con-
! f1agration.
At the same time he rendered futile
| Hitler's attempt to drive a wedge
between the British and the French
by proposing independent discussions
between the three interested powers
Hitler is in favor of an air security
yuarantee-which interests Great Brit
ain more than anything else-but does
not want to give any security guaran-
tees regarding Austria's so-called
independence.
He knows that the British are only
family interested in the Danubian re-
| public. He hoped to reach separate
agreement with the British: then an
other. on the same basis, with the
French - the basis being leave
Austria to its own devises."
Litvinoff's note puts an end to that.
Much as the British desired to cir
cumvent their responsibilities to the
Rhine, they have to accept now the
doctrine that a war on the Vistula
or on the Danube is bound to spread
to the Rhine.
- -
Toyarish Litvinoff (now called His
Excellency the Soviet Commissar for
Foreign Affairs) is the most dynamic
of the trio, Simon. Laval, Mussolini.
He has had good apprenticeship in
his young revolutionary days and
knows that two bombs are better
than one.
simultaneously with the sending OF
the note to London, he also got Izves-
tia-the official government news
paper-to write a substantial story
about the German-Japanese-Polish
agreement to attack Russia at the
same time.
X X
The Soviets are not the only colln-
try to believe in the existence of such
a triple agreement. In fact, the jap
anese make no bones about it.
Last January. the Polish army had
some important military exercises. A
high ranking japanese officer at
tended them. At the end of these
maneuvers there was the customary
banquet. The Japanese military OBJ
server got up and thanked the Polish
general for the courteous reception,
congratulated the Polish army for its
Evening star., 1935-02-22
$4,000 Paw Roll Stolen.

CHICAGO, February % CP.-Three
robbers carrying machine guns and
wearing butchers aprons yesterday
terrified 125 employees of a packing
firm near the Union Stock Yards and
fed with $4,000 withdrawn from q
bank for the nav roll.
Evening star., 1935-02-22
This
Changing
World
Air Locarno is Doubted
as Means of Relief :.
for Europe.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

~HE fever chart Of Europe has
jumped suddenly, showing an
alarming temperature.
Il The doctors called in consul
tation-Laval, Simon. Musso-
lini and Litvinoff-are shaking their
heads and wondering what to do next,
To relieve the patient they have
prescribed palliatives such as the
Western air Locarno. but they realize
that it can not help much; the
patient has been lingering with malig-
Evening star., 1935-02-22
WOMAN FACING CHAIR
Husband Slayer Is First Of Sex
So to Die in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, February ~
@.-The electrocution of woman
for the murder of her husband was
ordered yesterday by the Illinois Su-
preme Court.
The court set April 10 as the date
for the execution of Mrs. Gertrude
Puhse of Granite City, H., who
will be the first woman to die In
the electric chair in Illinois. Sem
fenced to die with her Is Thomas J.
Lehne.
Evening star., 1935-02-22
DENY PIGMY DISCOVERY
Indians Blame Hoax for Circula-
tion of Report.

tion of Report.
VADNAGER, Baroda, India, Febru-
ary % R.-Local authorities today
branded as hoax widely published
report that fossil remains of a pigmy
race had been found here about q
week ago.
They had been swamped by cable
inquiries from all parts of the world.
In explanation, the authorities said
the rumor was started either by q
practical joker or as the result Of an
old Hindu superstition that spreading
a false rumor sometimes aids toward
solving domestic problems.
Evening star., 1935-02-22
SACHA GUITRY WEDS
Noted French Actor Marries Lead.
ing Lady Half His Age.

PARIS, February % R.-Sacha
Guitry, noted French actor play
wright-producer and erstwhile hus-
band of Yvonne Printemps, is SO.
Jacqueline de Lubac, his new lead
ing lady, is Is.
What more natural, said Guitry to-
day. than that she become my bet
ter half?"
She did, in fact. They were mar
ried today.
Mile. de Lubac was the third lead
ang lady Guitry has married.
Evening star., 1935-02-22

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Evening star., 1935-12-13

ment has sought by continuous moral
suasion to discourage abnormal trade
with both Italy and Ethiopia in com
modities such as oil, copper, scrap
iron and steel and other articles which
it labels ''war materials"
Apparently because Of dissatisfac-
ton with its ability to control such
trade in this fashion, the State De-
partment has indicated it will propose
wider discretionary authority for the
President in invoking embargoes.
Discretionary Power Urged.
Such a power would permit him to
extend the war implements embargo
to other commodities which the Gov
ernment might feel necessary to insure
this country's continued neutrality.
But there have been frequent Capt.
tol Hill criticisms Of suggestions that
the President enjoy a broad discre-
tionary power. Senator Vandenberg,
Republican of Michigan, only last
night voiced absolute opposition to
vesting discretionary neutrality power
in the Chief Executive.
Various other proposals for new
legislation have been advanced, In
cluding q plan for establishing quota
restrictions on the amount Of COM
modities that could be exported from
this country to belligerents in war
time: prohibition against any credit
or other financial aid to combatants,
and an arbitrary price fixing system
which would make it impossible for
dealers in war equipment to reap
large war profits in q conflict.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

For instance. q fiat sales tax on
automobiles would be o relatively
minor thing. collected only once on
the sale of the car. But ransac-
tions tax would lay possibly as many
as six or eight consecutive taxes Of
2 per cent each on some materials
going into the car. This would lift
the price of automobiles far more
than the glibly stated 2 per cent
figure indicates.
The iron for your cars steel body
is mined, SAP, by one firm. 1t 10
transferred to another for manu-
tacture into pig IRON, then to q
billeter. then to a sheeter, then to
a body maker, then to an auto
manufacturer, then to dealer,
then to. the public. Each one OF
these transactions irould be ntcked
By DR.. Townsend for per cent to
get his money.
SO also with cotton, which involves
transactions TO the dealer, middleman,
textile manufacturer and others be-
fore it becomes the upholstery in your
car.
It is easy to suspect from this that
the first economic e6sctSof Dg. Town.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
BERRY IS ELATED
BYA. F. OIL. STAND
Co-ordinator Declares Industry
Also Should Be Pleased
With Position.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
George L. Berry expressed himself
as elated today-and added that in
dustry should beat the position the
American Federation of Labor took
toward his industrial council plan.
President Roseyelt's co-ordinator for
industrial cooperation pointed to a
brief statement over the signature of
William Green, A. F. Of L. chief, and
Is other labor leaders, which said they
intended "to cooperate in every man
ner possible with the co-ordinator and
the representatives who have been
chosen by the several groups repre-
senting management to formu-
late q program which win deal effec-
lively and directly" with industry s
problems.
That's Industrial craftsmanship, NJ
Berry said.
He said he regarded the statement
as particularly significant in view of
the six-point economic program the
federation advanced at labor group
meetings which followed the turbulent
industry labor conference Of last Mon
day.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
THIRD PARTY PLAN
BYTOWNSEND
Candidates to Be Chosen for
National Ticket in 1886
Election.
By the Associated Press.


Decision to form a political party
and enter candidates for the presi-
dency and congressional seats In the
1895 election was announced today by
DR.. F. z. Townsend, co-sponsor of the
plan to pay 5000 a month to all per-
sons past so years.
He said, 1T is inevitable that we
have a third party as neither Of the
old parties appear favorable to our
cause"
He replied, 'T am not" when asked
whether he plans to run for President
He said likewise, that r. b
Clements, the other founder of the
movement, would not run.
Townsend said that Chicago, Cleve-
land and Los Angeles had asked that
a national convention be held in their
particular communities.
He claimed approximately 5000 600
members of Townsend Clubs and
said the total support for the move
ment consisted of about $4,000. .000
persons.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
TWO CHILDREN TRAPPED
IN FARM HOUSE FIRE
Brother and Sister Burn to Death
While Mother and Others
Escape.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MORGANTON, N. c., December l3.
Two children of Mrs. Ralph Spain
hour, a widow. were trapped and
burned to death early today in a fire
that destroyed their farm house near
here.
They were Barbara, II, and Dan, IL.
Mrs. Spainhour escaped with two
other children as did Mrs. w. l. Spain
hour, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Ralph
Spainhour, only other occupants Of
the two-story home.
Barbara, Dan and Mrs. w I. Spain
hour were sleeping upstairs. The
daughter-in- law said she was awaken
ed suddenly by an explosion and ran
from her room to find the stairway
fiame-swept. She said she was barely
able to escape. Fire cut her OF from
the two children and trapped them.
Preliminary investigation indicated
that an oil lamp exploded.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
NAVAL PROMOTION
LIST APPROVED
Rear Admiral Stark, Chief of
Ordnance, Among Those
TO Be Advanced.

Rear Admiral Harold r. Stark,
chief Of the Navy Bureau Of Ord
nance, whose permanent rank was
captain, was one Of the six new rear
admirals approved last night when
President Roosevelt indorsed the find
ings of a Selection Board, headed by
Admiral Joseph NJ. Reeves, comman-
der in chief of the United States
Fleet. twenty-five new captains also
were chosen.
President Roosevelt will transmit
these names as nominations to the
Senate, when it convenes next month,
for confirmation.
List Of New Admirals.
With Admiral Stark, the new rear
admirals will be: Capts. Lewis B.
Porterfeld, on duty at San Francisco;
Ralston S. Holmes, chief of staff of
the Battle Force; Charles A. Blakely,
now at Pensacola, Fla; Frank H. Sad
Ter, Newport, r. l., and Andrew Pick
ems, chief of staff of the Scouting
Force.
Washingtonians among the new cap
tains include Comdrs. Thomas c. Kin
kaid, Bureau Of Navigation; Olaf M.
Hustvedt, Office Of the chief of naval
operations; Harold r Smith, Bureau
of Engineering; Alva D. Bernhard,
Bureau Of Aeronautics; Penn L. Car
roll, naval operations here; Alan G.
Kirk, naval operations, and Francis
w. Scanland. photographic office
here.
Promoted to Captain.
Other new captains. with their pres
ent stations, are: Ernest w. Mckee.
U. S. S. Pennsylvania; william H.
Pashley, Sd Naval District, New
York; William r. Purnell, command
ing q s, S. Guyana and until re-
Gently on duty in charge of transpor-
tationsat the Navy Department; Fred
eric r. Van Auken, Navy Yard, Bos-
ton, Mass; Harry G. Donald. naval
inspector at Groton. Conn; Worrell
r. Carter, Norfolk, Va; Robert
r. N. Emmet, Newport, R. l.;
Samuel s. Payne, U. S. S. Arizona
Theodore S. Wilkinson, U. S. S. In
dianapohs; William w. Smith, U. S. S
Salt Lake City; David / Hedrick
U. s. S. Chester; Preston B. Haines
on. the staff of the commander of thu
Battle Force; Frank T. Leighton, De-
stroyer Division of the Battle Force
Benjamin. v. McCandlish, U. S. S
Portland; Joel w. Bunkley, now at.
tached to the Argentine Navy; Har.
old C. Train, former aide to tn,
President, now on U. S. S. Mississippi
Lee P. johnson, u. S. S. California
until recently commanding the nava
powder factory at Indian Head, Md.
and Monroe Kelly, serving at stht
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Nazis to Dictate
Type of Furniture
In German Homes
"Trash Inspectors Will
Var on Plush Sofas
Especially.
By Radio to The star.

By Radio TO The Star.
BERLIN, December 13.-The Nazis
intend to appoint trash inspectors" for
all dwellings in Germany. who win
decide on the kind Of furniture which
each family may have In its private
home, DR.. Robert Ley. ingenious head
Of the Nad labor front, says in O
speech published here today.
Trash" and rubbish" in private
dwellings, meaning furniture and dec
orations which DR.. Ley considers in
bad taste, must be gotten rid Of, DR..
Ley is quoted as saying. Old parlor
sofas, which often have Iseen handed
down for several generations, are es-
pecially undesirable. according to DR..
Ley, who charges that they are often
nothing but breeding places for moths
and other vermin.
One newspaper, whose copy reader
still seems to have . sense Of humor,
which may yet get him into trouble.
carried DR.. Ley's speech under the
headline. '.Big Offensive Against Plush
Sofas"
tccpyrisht. 1882
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Staying OF TWO
TRACED TO ENVY
Russian Assassin of Doctors
Declared Victim of "Per-
Secution" Mania.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 13-The
fatal shooting of two dental school
professors at the Columbia Presby-
terian Medical Center was blamed by
the authorities today on the "perse-
cution" mania of a frustrated man
who lost his job because OF ILL
temper.
The assassin, who killed himself.
was Victor KouSsow, 50, whose papers
showed he once occupied the high
place in Russian life he resented
others holding here.
Police Find Note.
''Koussow was undoubtedly suffer-
ing from persecution complex" said
Deputy Chief Inspector David ]. Nc
Auliffe. "You can tell that from his
actions and the note he left"
KouSsow's victims yesterday were:
DR.. Arthur Taylor Rowe. associate
dean of the Dental School.
DR.. Paul B. Wiberg, associate pro-
fessor of dentistry.
Another of the six cartridges Kous-
sow fired before he shot himself
wounded DR.. william H. Crawford,
also an associate professor.
Trained In Medicine.
An outline Of Koussow's life, found
typewriter in his book-strewn apart
ment, showed he had been trained In
medicine and in law, had held high
army commands in the White Russian
forces and in the civic affairs Of
Nicolaieff, a Russian city.
His familiarity with medicine, doc
tors said, had placed KousSow in the
medical center with the ofiicial Ca
pacity, "technician."
Koussow was discharged yesterday
by Dr. Rowe, who had warned him
about his irritable manner.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
DANGEROUS KIDS
FLEE REFORMATORY
Five Youths Intimidate Guards
in Oklahoma
Break.

6y the ASSociaVeo FFeSS.
Ell RENO, Okla, December 13.-
Five fugitives from the Federal re-
formatory here-"just kids. but dan
gerous"-were sought on the highways
of Oklahoma today.
Warden H. L. Merry said the five
youths probably had stolen motor cars.
I'VE had reports of four auto thefts
during the night" he saio. I'VE have
officers on all highways and most OF
the Sideroads looking for them"
The five escaped after night school
class by cowing two guards with
makeshift knives and using them as
shields to prevent effective rife fire by
tower guards as they fed.
They are Bennie Kerr, IT; Roy Henry
Lowery, 40; Richard Smith, IT; Jack
Brunson, 20; and Jimmie Lee Burns
Is, serving sentences for car theft,
counterfeiting and bank robbery.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
ACTRESS is JAILED

Dorothy De Bourd Gets Six
Months for Drunken Driving.
LOS ANGELES, December Is R.-
Judge Charles Burnell sentenced Dor
othy Du Bourd, blond 20-year-old
movie actress, to six months in the
county jail yesterday for drunken
driving.
Previously, Judge Burnef had SEN
fenced her to the wonen's prison at
Tehachapi, but yesterday he said that
was to give he. % good scare"
II never intended from the begin
ming to send this girl to prison and
ruin her motion picture career" Judge
Burnell explained.
She testified she drank three glasses
Of beer % an efnptr stomach.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
18TH BABY IS BORN
WITH TWIN ON 18TH
Pair Of Infants Weigh Total Of
81 Pounds, Maryland Doc
tor Reports.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORTHEAST, Md, December l3.-
Twin boys were born today-Friday
the 13th-to Mrs. George r. Culleys s6,
and brought to 13 the total number
of children to which she has given
birth.
DR.. ]. ]. Greenwald. Elkton physi-
clan, attending Mrs. Culley, said both
mother and children were doing
fine"
DR.. Greenwald said one infant
weighed II pounds and the other 10
Their combined weight, he said, was
pounds. rs ounces more than the
combined weight of the Dionne
quintuplets at birth.
Both babies, DR.. Greenwald said,
seemed in perfect condition.
IT never saw two nicer-looking
babies" he said.
The twins were born at 5:42 am, at
the Culley home here. 1t was the
second set of twins born to Mrs.
Culley and her husband. George, 60
year-olG Pennsylvania Railroad en-
ploye. The first set of twins, born In
July, 1894. died at birth.
OF the IS children born to the
Culley's. 7 are living.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
EXTRACONvENTDN|
DELEGATES ASKED
Western and Southern G. 0.
P. Leaders Fear Domina-
ton by Other States.
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
An effort af Western and Southern
Republican leaders to permit States
which went for Herbert Hoover in
1928 to have extra delegates at large
to the June convention was under
consideration today for the National
Committee meeting here Monday.
Party oflcials said that. as matters
stand, the East and Middle West to-
gether could control the convention.
New England, New York, Pennsyl-
vania. New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio,
Michigan. Illinois, Indiana and Wis
consin will have 500 votes.
There were 1854 delegates at the
1882 convention. rules permitting all
the 40 Hoover States of 1928 to have
three extra delegates.
Fewer Delegates.
Only six States - Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Vermont. New Hampshire,
Maine and Connecticut-votedR Repub-
lican In 1899, which would normally
make the 1885 convention 102 dele
gates smaller than that of 1892
1,052.
Some objectors to the present sys-
tenn wish to return to the prior ruling
which allowed the bonuses to all
States that went Republican at any
time.
This development came as commit
teewomen arranged an informal
caucus for Sunday to select a candi-
date for vice chairman of the ma
tional committee to replace Mrs. Alvin
T. Hert, Kentucky. resigned.
Mrs. Christine Bradley South OF
Frankfort has been chosen by the
Kentucky State Central Committee to
succeed Mrs. Hert on the national
committee.
Borah Confers.
A conference yesterday between two
Republican presidential possibilities
Senator's Borah of Idaho and Vanden-
berg of Michigan-Stirred political
speculation, but brought no enlighten-
ment from either participant.
Neither Senator would discuss what
took place so far as the Republican
presidential situation was concerned.
Hes an old friend of mine," COM
mented vandenberg, who visited
Borah's ONCE for the conference.
other political developments here
included speculation over the makeup
Of the Republican Senatorial Campaign
Committee. and the refusal Of Demo-
cratic leaders to comment on charges
by Mayor Frank Hague Of Jersey City.
that they we're not aggressive enough
in defending President Roosevelt s
record.