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Evening star., 1935-07-10
PRESIDENT SILENT
ON ''WH|SPER|NGS"
Bides Time to Give Con.
vincing Proof of His
Complete Health.
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt showed nttle
concern today over what some Wash
ington correspondents have noted in
their recent dispatches as the begin
ming of whispering campaign
dealing with his mental and physical
condition He lightly turned aside,
with a smile. a question from a re-
porter who wanted to know the Presi-
dents reaction to articles describing
word of mouth stories going the
rounds concerning his health.
AS Mr. Roosevelt sat at his desk be-
fore the crowd of more than 100
newspaper men he looked the picture
of health He seemed unworried and
unrufied by the stiff problems he is
facing, and while waiting for all OF
the correspondents to file into the
room and take positions he conversed
informally with those near him. He
talked mostly about Summer wearing
apparel and called attention to the
new striped seersucker suit he had on
for the first time, saying he considered
it ideal for hot weather.
May Challenge whispers.
Despite the fact that Mr. Roosevelt
treated the so-called whispering at
tack" indifferently today it does not
mean at all that he is insensible to
what is going on. There are reasons
TO believe he may later bring the sub
ject into the open and discuss it him
self
1t has been recalled that when he
first became Governor of New York in
1928 somewhat similar campaign got
under way and he discussed the mat
ter candidly with newspaper men at
that time.
The whispering" campaign in its
present form is to the effect that Mr.
Roosevelt has become unduly and
seriously overwrought. principally be-
cause of the administration political
reverses since the Supreme Courts N
r. A. decision. Some of these stories
have gone to curious length in queer
detail-for which there is no visible
foundation. But they are nothing new
as far as the experiences of former
Presidents are concerned President
Roosevelt is merely running into what
virtually every one of his predecessors
has experienced. The whispering cam
paigns have their origin in obscure
quarters and cannot be traced to their
source. The drawing rooms of Wash
ington have in the past served well
for the beginning and the spreading
of all manner of rumors
Predecessors Attacked.
Old-timers about the White House,
discussing similar stories of the past,
(See ROOSEVELT, page 81
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Baer Denies Rift With Bride,
Explains Seeing E1.Fiancee
Saws He Is Still in Lore With Former
ID. C.. Cafe Hostess and She 'Under-
stands about Dinner Party"

Ellen Sullivan, 32-year-old hostess at
the Willard Hotel coffee shop The
couple was married by Judge F.
Dickinson Let's at the latters resi-
dence here
When Baer returned to the airport
today from which he departed with
his bride scant two weeks ago. he
was en- route to Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai at Baltimore to, as he put it, get
my busted paws fixed up"
Baer's hands were injured, he said,
before and during the fight in which
James j. Braddock took the heavy
weight title month ago. Baer left
by automobile for Baltimore and ex-
pected to return to New York tonight,
probably coming here to take a plane
tSee BAER, page A.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Blind Man, on $25 Wage, jailed
For Not Paying Wife's Lawyer

alimony payments were reduced, he
said, he could apply the difference on
his wife's attorneys fees. If kept IN
jail he fears he may lose his job.
The judicial view OF Eick's plight
is hardly one of sympathy, said Judge
Philip J. Finnegan, who sent him to
the row for contempt OF court:
There is no merit in the case. He
has only himself to blame. He acted
in a defiant manner. He wilfully
refuses to comply with the court or
der, which is contemDt, and he was
imprisoned. The fact of his blind
ness does not enter into the case. He
is accorded the same treatment as
any one else.
Eick's oddly mixed companions In
Jail commiserate him, pilot him about
for his daily exercise. listen gravely
to the tappings and thumpings OF his
white cane.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
.HAPSBURG RIGHTS
AND PROPERTIES
RESTORED BY DIET
ArChduke Otto to Regain
Ancestral Estates and
Go Unpunished.
REVOCATION AWAITS
SIGNATURE OF MIKLAS
Exiled Pretender Reported to
Have Started Organizing Brain
Trust to Make Fight.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, July 10.-The federal
Diet today unanimously passed a bill
revoking punishments against the
former ruling family Of the Hapsburgs
and restoring the Hapsburgs their
confiscated property.
AS soon as President Miklas signs
the measure, it becomes law.
BY it, the Archduke Otto, Europe's
most discussed young man, regains
his ancestral properties.
1t was reported today that he has
adopted the brain trust idea for
working out imperial aims.
Organizing Plan Reported.
A monarchist just returned from a
visit to SteenockerZeel Castle in Bel
gium. seat of exile Of the pretender
to the Austrian throne, said today
Otto is organizing quasi-cabinet OF
the best monarchist minds.
This informant said the archduke
is thoroughly in agreement with Off
Cial statements of The Austrian gov
ernment to the effect that ''restora-
tion is not a question Of the moment
for Austria
With property and financial prob
lens of the Hapsburg family on the
way to settlement through a measure
scheduled to be passed by the federal
Diet today. Otto is II a position to
sit back and wait to work for resto-
ration on an imperial scale.
1t is in furtherance of this plan
that he is rounding up advisers to
coordinate tendencies in Austria and
other succession states toward an I'LL
innate reunion of the Danubian
states under the historic Hapsburg
scepter.
Restoration Question.
This information ZION, Steenocker-
Zeel supplements remarks dropped in
Hapsburg quarters mere to the effect
that restitution of the family proper
ties puts the whole restoration queS-
tion on simpler basis.
With Otto only % years old and
the family wealth restored. the Haps-
burgs can afford to take their time
to avoid selling out cheap that Is,
accepting limited restoration in Aus
tria only under conditions binding
their hands for the future
AS quoted by the monarchist who
saw him recently. Otto said: Il am
young and time is working for us"
His advisers have agreed that the
European situation is extremely liquid
in tendencies. not only in Austria but
also in other succession states,
strengthening daily the historic pull
of Hapsburg tradition On the minds
of Danubian populations.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
19 NEW WARSH|PS
PLANNED BY NAVY
II Destroyers, 6 Subma.
rines and BattIeship
Asked by 1887.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Swanson announced to-
day that the Nays building program
for the fiscal year beginning July l.,
1886, would include II destroyers and
6 submarines and possibly a battle
ship.
He explained at a press conference
that under the Vinson act 81 warships
SO destroyers and 18 submarines
would be required to bring the fleet to
treaty strength by 1912.
Swanson reiterated that no decision
had been reached on proposal to
replace one of the seven battleships
which will be over age on expiration
Of the Washington treaty. Deem
Der 81, 1886.
Construction could start on it
January /. 1887. he added. but
emphasized that the Navy was mot
starting any competition"
/. To Observe Quotas.
Swanson said the Navy intended to
go along under Washington and Lon
don quotas as long as other signatories
stayed within treaty limits.
He insisted Germany's decision to
increase her naval strength was a
European matter" and did not affect
American plans.
Swanson last month called for bids
on Is of the "A vessels authorized
for this years inStallment of the build
ing program. Bids will be opened
August for one light cruiser. one air.
craft carrier. eight destroyers and
three submarines. Bids are to be
asked later on one light cruiser. seven
destroyers and three submarines.
Swanson said estimates on the cost
of new construction had not been
prepared. He expressed belief that
battleship would cost $4,000, 900, but
Admiral William H. Standley. chief Of
operations, said the figure would be
nearer $4O,oO0,O0O.
Planes Program Reduced.
simultaneously, Rear Admiral Err
Eest King, chief of aeronautics, dis
closed that because of a reduced ap-
preparation for naval planes, fewer
cculd be bought than at first esti-
mated.
King said the Navy wanted to buy
SIS planes during the coming year, OF
which 282 would be requirements ana
273 additions. This would have re-
ouired about 100000, it was esti-
mated, but the appropriation provided
only s26, 700, 900, plus $8.500,000 to pay
for contracts negotiated during the
previous year and s6,600,o 900 to cover
contracts previously authorized. but
for which no funds were made avail
able.
King disclosed that the following
experimental planes are under con-
struction or being tested.
Two torpedo bombers operating from
carriers, two single-seater fighters
from carriers, two dive bombers op-
Grating from carriers. two battleship
observation planes and several scout
bombers.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
BY w. Fl. SHIPPEN. JR.

NO no, I never So d No 90
Max Baer was most emphaL,c this
morning as he alightad from Newark
plane at the local airport and faced
reporters inquiring aocu. his rumored
rift with his br d, OF less than two
weeks.
Reporters who fourd Baer 3ining
in a New York Iestsl-ant last night
with former fiancee plastered Man
haitian papers with quotation from
Max that his marriage here June %
was mo go because l am Jew and
she is a Catholic"
Baer declared that 10 years from
now I'll still be loviEs my wife as
much as I do at thl; minute" He
referred to the former Miss Mary
Evening star., 1935-07-10
SIX HELD IN H0L0.UP

Man Shot, Girl Arrested in New
ark Roundup.
NEWARK, N. j.. July 10 P-
Twenty policemen battled an alleged
hold-up gang of five men and a
woman at the Hudson tube station
today, shooting one man and captur-
ing the six.
Two truckloads Of radio tubes and
motors, stolen from the garage Of
Mckinley g. koetzls. Inc, were re-
covered.
The men were charged with rob-
berry. carrying concealed weapons and
s0Aein4 from &lsticee
Evening star., 1935-07-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
CHICAGO, July 10.-In its curious,
episode way. Chicago's alimony row
is constantly turning up some new
facet of the human drama.
Consider the case Of Arthur Eick,
blind piano tuner.
my wife divorced me and I was
ordered to pay $11 week for the
support of her and OUR child" he said
today. Il make S25 a week tuning
pianos in the public schools. This
leaves me $14. out of which I pay SO
a week for board and room. Five
dollars remains for carfare, laundry,
clothing, medical care and incident
ais"
He can keep up the alimony pay
ments all right, he said, but the rub
is the $95 which the court ordered
him to pay his wifes lawyer. II the
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Lawrence Fund Aids Children.

LONDON, July 10 P.-One of the
most valuable anonymous benefac-
tions of the late Col T. E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia-was disclosed to-
day, an education fund for children
of killed or wounded Royal Air Force
officers. The fund has expended
$4,000 (about S19.460).
The endowment fund was set up in
1928 from the receipts of the sale of
Revolt in the Desert" Lawrence's
chronicle of his Arabian campaign
during the World War.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
SILVER ACT CONFORMITY
PROMISED BY PRESIDENT
Buying of Metal Will Be Pur-
sued Gin Good Faith" Until
Limit Is Reached.

BY the Associated Press
In response to inquiry at his regular
press conference, President Roosevelt
said today the administration was
trying to conform to the silver act in
good faith.
1t provides that the Treasury shall
by the metal until it constitutes one
fourth of the Nations monetary stock
or until the price reaches $1.29 an
ounce.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not go into details
or figures on the silver program.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Flying Romeo Resumes Trip.

PARA, Brazil, July 10 R.-Juan
Ignacio Pombo resumed today his
flight from Spain to Mexico City to
see a senorita-the flight which was
halted temporarily when he cracked
up after spanning the South Atlantic
safely.
He took of here at 6 am. for Ma
rajo. Brazil.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Bear Injuries Two Children

PERRYVILLE. AK, July 10 P.-
Slipping its chain, a trained bear
rushed group of ohi)d1en at Torn
burg, 6 miles south OF here. injur-
ing two. John D. Boyet. 2, was cut
and scratched about tie face Doris
Powell. 8, escaped with scratches. The
animal, part Of q small circus. was
yecaptured BY its trainer.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Police Guard Reopened Plant.

LANSDALE, Pa, July 10 P.-The
Montgomery Clothing Co.'S plants at
Kulpsville, Sanford and Harleysville,
where a strike is in progress, re-
opened today under police protection.
State police were on guard as some
1000 pickets and strike sympathizers
gathered.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
TAX
FIGHT IS OPENED
Threat to Halt Hearings
Nips Bitter Debate on
Politics.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A threat to suspend the hearings
cut short another heated political de-
bate over President Roosevelt's tax
program TO-DAY before the House Ways
and Means Committee.
Frederick r. Kellogg. New York,
representing Community Chests and
Council, Inc, was on the witness stand
when Representative Treadway, Re-
publican. of Massachusetts,, suggested:
The tax bill ought to be put off.
but it won't because you (Democrats)
get orders, while We on this side
didn't"
Representative Cooper. Democrat.
of Tennessee. retorted with a demand
to be informed whether this MORN
ing is going to be wasted as yesterday
morning was, in a political discus
sion.'
If So" he said I'm ready to
suspend the hearings; I've got other
work I could do
Chest Deductions Urged.
Kellogg to proceed with Ais testimony,
in which he advocated that corpora
tions be allowed to deduct from their
taxable income amounts donated to
community chests up to S per cent of
their net income.
Another witness, Hugo Noren. Pitts
burgh, advocated replacing the present
complicated tax structure with sin
gle tax on land.
Some administration men on Cap
itol Hill fear trouble is in store for
that portion of the Presidents tax
plan which would apply graduated
levies to corporation incomes.
Already some members of the House
Ways and Means Committee report
they have received dozens" of tele-
grams protesting the idea of replacing
the present fiat 1894 per cent tax on
corporate incomes with a rate that
(See TAKES Page 81
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Parliament Dissolved.

WARSAW. July 10 R.-President
Moscicki today decreed the dissolution
of Parliament on the basis of the new
electoral law, which became effective
today.
The President will fix the next elec.
ton date within 80 days.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Demands Council Be Sum-
moned to Take Up Issues
After Failure of Confer
ence With Italian ENJOYS.
EDEN WILL ATTEMPT
NEW PEACE MANEUVER
Official Is Challenged in Com
mons to Put Italy in Position
of Challenging Britain's Honor.
U. S. Missionary Group Flees
Danger Zone.
BULLETIN.

Adds ABABA, July 10 (P.-
New instructions from Washington,
as a result of which the withdrawal
instructions to Americans in Ethio-
pia may be rescinded, were under
stood tonight to have been received
by w. Perry George, United States
charge d'affaireS here.
Evening star., 1935-07-10

(See Gould Lincoln's analytical
article on toddy's hearing-Pdge
A-4)
Evening star., 1935-07-10

(See TAXES, Page So
Evening star., 1935-10-24
CHICAGO IS FAVORED
FOR G. 0. P. IN 1886
Member of National Committee
Says Bid Acceptable on
Basis of Location.

tcopyright 1895. by the Associated Press)
CHICAGO, october 24.-One OF the
most influential members of the Re-
publican National Committee today
said the 1886 convention of TIE party
"unquestionably will be held in Chi
cago."
He said the city will be selected be-
cause of its comparatively central loca-
tion, the availability of hotels and the
desirable features of the Chicago Sta
dunn, where the 1882 G. o. P. Presi-
Dental Nominating Convention was
held. Democrats also met in Chicago
In 1882 at the stadium.
The site of the convention will be
definitely selected at meeting next
December or January of G. Q. p.
chieftains who control the party's
purse strings. The meeting probably
will be held in the East, although
there has not been any announcement
as to the city.
Cleveland, San Francisco. Atlantic
City, Minneapolis and Kansas City are
in the market for the Republican con-
vention. Usually the city that makes
the most attractive offer gets the
meeting. and Chicago, under the lead
ership of George F. Getz. has been
quietly attempting to line up financial
support for the convention.
Getz, who is treasurer of the Re-
publican National Committee, has not
announced just what progress has
been made with the fuSds campaign.
Evening star., 1935-10-24
4. Il. Il. Tobacco Tax PROGRAM,
AlIO,us for Moral ScrupIes

not planted larger acreage nor pro-
duced for market a greater quantity
of tobacco than they could have pro-
duced for market under contract.
The A. A. A. said that there are
several religious sects in Pennsylvania
whose creeds will not permit them to
sign any contracts with a govern
mental agency. These sects, the A.
A. A. said, are opposed to war and if
members sign contracts with the Gov
ernment there would be a possibility
they might be bound to support the
Constitution and in so doing might
be called on to 60 to war in defense
Of the country.
Warrants to each contracting pro-
ducer will be for the number of pounds
of tobacco that the grower is permitted
to market under his contract. Since
cigar binder and filler contracts con-
tain no provision for a production
allotment in pounds. the A. A. A. said,
the Secretary has provided form on
which each producer will make appli-
cation for . 1885 production allot-
ment.
The A. A. A. said that of about 2S,-
600 farmers who produce the types of
tobacco included In the plan an.
nounced today. approximately 27,500
are under contract
Evening star., 1935-10-24
Z BOATS MISSING
OFF ALASKA COAST
Three Founder in Gale and
Coast Guard Starts
Search for Others.
BY the Associated Press.

oJ LAG AooONAdbCO ELCSS.
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, October "a
Twelve fishing boats, missing in a
storm off the southeastern Alaskan
coast, were sought today by Coast
Guard and lighthouse service crews.
Three boats were known to have
foundered off Coronation Island.
Crews of two were rescued and the
fate of the third crew was undeter-
mined.
The gale. which blew Tuesday night
and yesterday morning, struck Ketchi-
kan, causing slide that blocked the
highway north of here. Telephone
communications to the south were cut
off.
Tents were ripped up, dust and snow
scattered and some slight damage
caused at the Governments land set
tlement project in the Matanuska VAL
ley.
The lighthouse tender Hemlock, first
to report the storm at Coronation Is
land, wirelessed that the fishing craft
Ivis, Nelson and Premier had sunk.
The Hemlock's message said the crews
of the IviS and Nelson were rescued.
A message from the Coast Guard
cutter Cyane at Rose Inlet on Dali
Island, so miles south of Coronation.
said IL vessels were missing.
Three ships hunted them. Fishing
craft often are reported missing in
Alaskan storms, but normally ride
them out on the open sea.
The storm apparently centered along
the Alexander Archipelago.
Evening star., 1935-10-24
BY the Associated Press.

Religious and moral scruples OF
tobacco growers which, perhaps, pre-
vented some of them from signing ad-
justment contracts, were taken into ac-
count today by the A. A. A. in an
ncuncing plans for distribution of tax
payment warrants.
The Kerr tobacco act levies on the
sale of tobacco tax of 33Ks per cent
of the price for which the tobacco is
sold. Tax payment warrants are is
sued to producers to be used in paying
the tax
Under plans announced today, tax
payment warrants will be issued for
cigar tobacco types Al. AZ, 43, A, 81.
So, SO. 81 and SIS. These types are
produced in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire, Vermont, New York,
Wisconsin. Illinois and Minnesota.
Producers entitled to tax payment
warrants for the 1885 crop are:
Contracting producers who comply
with terms of the contract;
Non-contracting producers who show
they could-not get an equitable base
acreage under contract in 1885;
contracting producers, who. be-
cause of religious or moral scruples,
did not sign q contract but who have
Evening star., 1935-10-24
CHURCHILL SEES
GERMAN MENACE
Warns England of Threat
as Nation Makes Ready
for Elections.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, October 24.-Winston
Churchill, former chancellor Of the
exchequer, told the House of Commons
today that "the whole of Germany
is an armed camp"
He said 100000, ,0oo-s4, ,000. 900 600
is being spent in the course Of the
present year in direct and indirect
military preparations by Germany"
The industries of Germany are
modified for war to an extent ours
were not mobilized even a year after
the Great War was begun" Churchill
warned. resuming the third day Of the
debate on international affairs.
"Germany's whole population is
being trained from childhood up for
war. A mighty army is coming into
being Many submarines are already
exercising in the Baltic. Big guns,
machines, tanks and poison gas are
fast multiplying.
Calls Air Force Weak.
Churchill declared Britain had no
speedy prospect for equaling or over
taking Germany in the air, whatever
we do in the near future"
Germany is already we'll on its
way to becoming incomparably the
most heavy armed nation in the world
90. 11ENIACE, pooa o.
Evening star., 1935-10-24
Great Battle Reported Raging
On Southern Ethiopian Front
Addis Ababa Startled by Ne,cs, bu1
Selassie Delays Joining Army,
Needing Soothsayer's Warning.
BY the Associated Press.


Adds ABABA. October 24.-Re-
ports of great battle raging in the
Webbe Shibeli River sector spread
throughout Adds Ababa today.
They rose soon after news of a
mountain concentration of Ethiopian
troops, drawn up to resist the Italian
invasion on the southern front.
Dedjazmatch Nasibu, Governor of
Harar Province and commander of
Ethiopia's southern forces, reported
from Diredawa that his warriors, al
though ridden with scurvy, were con-
centrating to defy the troops of Gen.
Rudolfo Graziani.
While there was no news from the
northern front to indicate that the
forces of Ras Seyoum and Gen Emilio
de Bono had escaped their stalemate,
military observers believed the Italians
would make another thrust next week.
Emperor Halle Selassie still intended
to respect his soothSayer's warning not
to go to the front before the fifth an
niversary of his coronation November
2, but it was believed a big Italian
push might send him hurrying to
Dessye, major troop concentration
point.
The Crown Prince, now at Dessye,
northeast of here on the central
plateau, was expected to command
the Adds Ababa garrison during his
fathers absence.
1t was rumored that the strength
of the capital garrison would be in
creased soon to $4,000, chiefly for pro-
lection of the railroad from Adds