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Evening star., 1935-04-21
PO[|C|ESSTUD|ED'
BYU.S. TRADE BODY
Criticism of New Deal Held
Almost Certain at
Meeting Here.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Formulation of a business plan to
overcome obstacles standing in the
way of complete economic recovery
has become major purpose of the
April 20 Convention Of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
Its development was regarded as
certain to include criticism of some
Roosevelt policies, especially those
viewed as Government intrusion into
business. The four-day meeting was
expected to list these among the "ob-
stacles.'
The background of business condi-
tions for the convention presented, In
the chambers opinion, a mixed pic
ture In its publication, the WASH
ington Review" the chamber noted
that the annual meeting comes at
time when there are evidences of
progress toward recovery, as well as
evidences Of adverse influences"
Output Is Lower.
The business background was por-
trayed similarly in the Commerce
Departments weekly review Of con-
ditions, which noted that industrial
output during the first half Of April
was below the March level, which in
turn was slightly lower than for Feb
ruary."
Retail trade, it added, made rel
atively good showing"
In announcing the convention,
Henry I. Hartman, chamber presi-
dent, said that the gathering would
mark a further important step in
formulating a national business posi-
ton on outstanding economic policies. F"
Hartman, who has served three
terms, will mot seek the chambers
presidency again. Harper Sibley,
banker and large-scale farmer Of
Rochester, N. Y, Is a leading candi-
date to succeed him.
legislative Proposals.
The chamber said much Of the con-
vention discussion will center around
legislative proposals effecting busi-
ness now pending in Congress"
Despite declining production In the
first half Of April, the Commerce De-
partment report noted that produc-
ton so far in 1885 was above the
same period last year.
There were declines in the first
half of April in cotton textile, steel
and bituminous production, but an
increase in steel production for the
week ended April 20 halted q recess
sion Of about two months.
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legislative Proposals.
STATE SOCIETY TO MEET
Wisconsin Group to Hold Last
Session of Season.

The Wisconsin State Society will
hold its last meeting of the season
Saturday. May 4, at the Shoreham
Hotel, DR.. D. o. Kinsman, president,
announced yesterday.
Miss Pearl Thurber, member Of
the board of directors, will be In
charge of the program, which will
consist of a prelude Of music and
group singing. followed by dancing
and contract bridge.
Evening star., 1935-04-21

ficials interested in population prob
lens.
The FIRST morning session OF the
conference will consist of q meeting
with census officials in the ofice of
the director Of the Bureau of the
Census.
Among the conference speakers
will be Floyd w. Reeves, personnel
director, Tennessee Valley Authority.
Evening star., 1935-04-21
VIOLET DIVORCED

RENO, New, April 20 R.-Quentell
Violet Of New York City and Calcutta.
India, was divorced on grounds Of
extreme cruelty here today by Mrs.
Ursula M. Violet, New York social
registerite.
They were married May 4, 1927. In
Madura, South India, and have a
4-year-old daughter, Judith.
Evening star., 1935-04-21
|N.R.A. BILL TO GIVE
| EMPLOYEES LEAVE
New Measure to Protect
Accrued Days Off,
Official Says.

Promise that the pending N. r. A.
extension bill will guarantee to recov-
cry agency employees use Of leave ac-
cumulated before June 16. the date
the present N. r. A. set-up Is to die.
was given yesterday by James ONeill,
the administration control ofi1cer.
O,Neill told Miss Jessica Buck. Sec
retary of N. r. A. Local 81, American
Federation Of Government Employees,
that Chairman Doughton, Democrat
Of North Carolina, of the House Ways
and Means Committee, had declared
he would sponsor an amendment max
Evening star., 1935-04-21
$1,000 THEFT REPORTED
Colored Man Who Lost Savings in
1888 Again Victim.

Clifford Thomas, colored, Of 1876
Sixteenth street northeast has hard
time keeping his money in safety.
Police were searching last night for
O colored man whom Thomas alleges
stole $4,000 in cash from second
story closet of his home. Only two
persons knew of the whereabouts Of
the money, hidden in wooden box,
Thomas said, adding it was an inher-
itas1ce received with the death Of q
relative some months ago.
Thomas lost most of his life savings
in the March, 1888, bank clnsings.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

policy of sanctions. I trust the
nations of the League will show that
they are prepared to make themselves
resist any attack, which may be made
on any one of their number"
Britain, political sources reported,
will not press for the imposition of
further League sanctions until and if
it is completely assured of the support
of other League members.
The Daily Mail, which has bitterly
opposed sanctions, reprinted this SEN
tence from a speech Prime Minister
Baldwin made May 10, 1884, to the
House of Commons:
There is no such thing as a sane
ton that will work that does not mean
war"
And this excerpt from a speech,
July II, 1885, by Sir Austen Chamber
lain:
ut is no good talking economic
sanctions without war"
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Mines Mother Calls in Doctor for
Her Son

Mines Mother Calls in Doctor for
Her Son.
WOODSTOCK. N. Y. December 81
R.-Heavily guarded by G-men,
Caleb Milne. 4th, was brought from
Doylestown (Pa.) Emergency Hospital
to his mothers home here at noon
today. His mother and his brother
Aubrey came home with him.
The Mines and six Government
men sped away from Doylestown in
two automobiles early today, their des-
tination unrevealed- until the cars ap-
peared in this CatskilI Mountain vii
lage.
Harold o. Nathan, assistant chief Of
the United States Bureau Of Investi-
cation. refused in Philadelphia to COM
ment on Mines guarded journey home
He said Milne was not in custody.
He has not tried to run away; we
are not trying to conceal him." he told
questioners.
Nevertheless. Mines arrival sur
prised his Woodstock neighbors
Shortly before, his aunt, Miss Anita
Smith, mad said she did not think he
would be brought here, but he would
be taken from the hospital to the home
Of his grandfather, Caleb Milne, jr., in
Germantown, Pa.
Pale and limping, Milne half walked
and was half carried into the house
by two of the Government men.
doctor called at the house later.
Twice on the trip Milne was given
medical attention.
DR.. Charles E. Parsons of Kingston
who called to see him this afternoon
said:
1.-THE boy is i'll, but his condition is
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Nosi Pamphlet Denies Christ
In Ens1lrining WOtan ds Cod

to have made a special study of re-
ligious systems for many years.
He traces the origin of the scrip
lures back to the rig veda Of the Indo-
Germanic peoples.
There is no question but that the
Jews derived their religion from the
Egyptians.
The story of the flood is an ale
gorical description Of the destruction
of Atlantis. the sunken continent from
which the Aryan tribes emigrated."
CriticiZes Luther.
The old church fathers come under
heavy fire from Obermeister, who does
not even exempt Luther from blame.
Luther was a slave to dogma and his
translation of the Bible from Greek
is full of errors Obermeister asserts.
"Wotan, the old Germanic god, is
the divine principle that dwells in us
ALL" he concludes, "and the Nordic
spirit alone can free us from outworn
and mythical church dogmas."
Evening star., 1935-12-22
COUNCIL CALL CONSIDERED

Session May Study League Police
Force Creation.
PARIS, December 81 CP.-A special
session of the council of the League
of Nations may be called, diplomatic
sources said today, to consider a Brit
ish suggestion that a League police
force be organized to support sane
tions.
Such a meeting, it was stated, Is
being considered in League quarters
for about January 10.
Discussion of the formation of an
international police organization, dip
lomatS asserted, might impress Italy
with the danger of continuance of the
Ethiopian war. They said it might in
fiuence Italy against upsetting Eu-
ropes peace by forcibly resisting sane
tions.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, December 21.-Nad be-
levers in the Teutonic conception Of
worship have started a fresh cam
paign against existing religions.
"The Bible Unveiled" is the title
of a pamphlet, announced to be the
first of a series designated as the
Aryan defense"
In it, Hams Obermeister, the author,
rejects the Bible as the work Of man,
badly done at that and utterly un-
trustworthy.
Its Jewish translators are branded
as rogues and Swindlers.
Denies Christ Existed.
Jesus Christ, says Obermeister, never
existed, nor did the Apostles Peter and
Paul.
There is no original sin; man needs
no redeemer, and there is no hell fire" :"
the writer goes on.
obermeister is not yet 40, but claims
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would not be lost upon Premier Mus
Solini.
But grave concern and uncertainty
as to how far developments have car
ried Britain into the danger zone
forced the still disorganized govern
ment to plunge ahead with precau-
tionary measures, even before the
wreckage of the late crisis was cleared
away.
Spain Delays Reply.
Turkey. Greece, Yugoslavia and
France have agreed to help Britain in
the case Of an Italian attack, it was
reported, but Spain has not yet re-
piled to London's request for its posi-
ton.
A reliable source said Britain was
considering further precautionary
measures and was firmly determined
to continue, even reinforce, sanctions
against Italy
For some time past, said dispatches
to the Associated Press from Cairo,
Great Britain has been assembling
tanks In the vicinity of Matruh. near
the Libyan border. However, London
has not made large concentration of
equipment or men there.
A headline in the Evening News: "If
Britain is attacked in the Mediter-
ranean?" typified the concern felt here
after death of the Anglo-French peace
plan in one of the most critical weeks
in governmental affairs.
While Prime Minister Stanley Bald
win continued conferences on pos
sible successors to Sir Samuel Hoare
as foreign secretary, the still leader
less foreign Office kept machinery in
motion to line up support of Mediter-
raneon nations in case of war.
Spain Ready to Meet Obligations.
CA Madrid dispatch said it was
learned that although the cabinet has
under consideration Britain's request
for information on Spain's stand in
the event of Italian aggression in the
Mediterranean, the government Is
ready to fulfill its obligations under
the Covenant of the League of Ma
tions.)
Baldwin is expected to name a for
eigh secretary tomorrow, before going
to his country home at Ashley Hall,
near Stourport, Worcestershire. for
the holidays.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, who once
held the post, visited Downing Street
today and talked with Baldwin. Sir
Austen is a half brother of Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, who also has been mentioned
for the foreign portfolio.
There were clear indications that
the Government is prepared to stick
by sanctions.
Neville Chamberlain, in a speech at
Birmingham, said: 1.-THE peace pro-
posals are dead, and they have already
been buried at Geneva. They will not
be revived presently, and I suppose
all attempts at peaceful settlemnt (of
the war; must be considered at an
end. -.m
I'VE must. therefore. 60 back to the
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Milne
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from the hotel register and brought
it to the Federal Investigation Bu-
reaus Philadelphia Offices for COM
parison with handwriting of young
Milne" the Record adds. Chester is
about 10 miles south Of Philadelphia.
THE Federal agents" the Record
says, "also showed Mcmahon their
complete set of photographs Of Milne
They refused to reveal his reactions
to them"
The paper also quotes Mcmahon as
saying he was alone in the hotel lobby
when the young man walked in Tues
day night.
Told of Long Trip.
He said he'd had a long trip"
the Record quotes the hotel clerk.
But his excitement and nervousness
didn't seem to indicate that.
"I remember he said he'd parked
his car at some garage. I also re-
call he had camel's hair overcoat on.
"I didn't see him when he left the
next morning, but our records show
he checked out at $50 am.
I'D forgotten all about him when
I picked up newspaper the next
afternoon and saw several pictures Of
Milne. said to another clerk, Good
heavens, that's the boy who stopped
here last night
The Record adds that Mcmahon
declined to say whether the Milne
pictures shown him from the Federal
files led to a more positive identifica-
ton" because the G-men who Ques-
toned him had instructed him not
to talk.
Tells of Route Taken.
This new angle of the investigation
was disclosed shortly after Nathan
confirmed officially for the first time
the report that Milne told G-men his
abductors took him by automobile from
New York to Phillipsburg, N. j., from
where they crossed into Pennsylvania
and drove to the kidnap hideout.
Nathan refused comment on the re-
port that the young actor-writer had
told authorities four men were In the
gang that kidnapped him.
The head of the Federal squad said
Evening star., 1935-12-22

that at no time was Milne 'in danger
of dying" from exposure and ill-treat-
ment he is believed to have suffered
at the hands of the abductors.
He revealed also that 8 needle
point marks were visible in the young
mans arm, and not 25 as had been
previously reported. He said he did
not know if these marks were made in
administering narcotics.
In all his investigations of kidnap-
ings, Nathan asserted, he never saw a
victim bound as was Milne when he
was found on the road Wednesday
night.
GUARDED BY G-MEN.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

good. I have not had a chance to
make a thorough diagnosis"
Late today observers discovered
three arrows, each about foot long,
on the hagstone walk. pointing to the
house. They had been marked with
chalk. about 10 feet apart,
Federal men would not comment on
their significance.
Two stenographers were called to
the house tonight and it was assumed
Milne was making a statement.
G-men refused to comment other than
say that if any announcement were
made tonight it would probably come
from New York headquarters OF the
Department of Justice.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Grange Names Officers.

LURAY, Va. December 2l (Spe-
ciaD D.-Massanutten, pioneer Grange
Of Page County, has elected the fol-
lowing officers: Master, Thomas
Shirley; overseer, Vernon Kaufman;
lecturer, Mrs Estella Long; steward,
C. p. RrlIbaker; assistant steward,
Marvin Bauserman; chaplain, g. H.
Clark; treasurer, ]. Kemper Burner;
secretary Miss Ella Brubaker; gate
keeper, D. E. Mauck; Ceres, Mrs.
Thomas Shirley; Pomona, Miss Mary
Brubaker; Flora, Miss Martha Bru-
baker; lady assistant steward, Miss
Elton Splitter; pianist, Mrs. c. P.
Brubaker.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
RELIEF WORKERS
GET HOLIDAY PAY
Day and Half Both Christ
mas and New Year Or
dered by Hopkins.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Day-and-a-half holidays-with nav
at Christmas and New Year. have
been ordered by Harry L. Hopkins
for all those on work-relief jobs.
President Roosevelt has granted
similar holidays for all other Federal
employees.
Hopkins earlier had directed that
extra efforts be made to see to it
that w. P. A. employees receive their
wages before Christmas In another
move to bring Christmas happiness,
he also announced that hundreds of
thousands of toys would be distrib-
uted to children of w. P. A. and relief
families.
Dolls, wooden soldiers, calico dogs,
cats and bears and a variety Of other
playthings which warm the cookies Of
youthful hearts," he said, have been
made in w. P. A. workshops"
Hopkins holiday order was that
relief workers be excused after four
hours on the job on December "a and
81. with full Christmas and New
Year holidays.
An official report by Hopkins dis
closed that on December 16 the ad-
ministration's work-rehef program was
still 23,2l8 jobs short of its goal Of
employing 100000.
This report conceded with one by
Secretary Perkins, which showed a
$4,000 decrease in private employment
in November and a s3,4O0, 900 drop in
pay rolls. She said, however, that
these declines were less than the usual
seasonal trend.
Just what additional funds Presi-
dent Roosevelt will ask from Con-
gress to continue work relief remained
in doubt. His only official announce
ment has been that he would request
another s50O,00o, 900 to complete larga
public works projects now under
way.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

7:30 to 8 o'clock and will be the first
of its kind ever staged in Washington.
It was described by Kenneth Berkeley,
program manager of the National
BroadcaSting Co.. as a Kaleidoscope
broadcast" a program that will take
in all the Christmas eve activities of
Santa Claus. To make sure Of its sue
cess Berkeley called In all the experts
of his outfit: Shannon Allen, produc-
ton manager; Fred Shawn, general
utility man, and A. E. johnson, divi-
sion engineer.
To Call at Hospital
One Of the first ports of call for
Santa Claus will be Childrens' Hos
pital. Miss Matte Gibson will conduct
the genial visitor through the wards
where sick children have hung their
stockings. From the hospital he will
the broadcasting men will follow him
to tell about the happiness in evidence
when Santa comes down the chimney.
Santa is fast stopper, but the radio
company is determined to keep up with
all his movements. Microphones will
be distributed at busy street corners.
While these arrangements were be-
ing made the women Of the Parent
Teacher Associations were busy at
home wrapping the toys and clothing
that Santa will carry on his rounds.
School buildings in the city-Wallach,
Emory, Hilton, jackson and others
have been turned into bundle wrap
ping stations. No one is trying to
count the toys. AS one Of the volun-
teer wrappers expressed it, ''They are
1nnumerable."
Evening star., 1935-12-22
NAVY BOARD TO MEET
to Commander to I :
Considered January 13.

Promotions to Commander to :
Considered January Is.
A Navy board to recomond officer
for promotion to commander will meet
here January 13. Secretary Swanson
said yesterday Rear Admiral George
T. Pettingill of the battle force will
be president and the following will be
members:
Rear Admiral William c. Watts,
commandant of the 4th Naval District
and the Philadelphia Navy Yard; Rear
Admiral John w. Greenslade. Rear
Admiral Henry E, Lackey, Rear Ad-
miral Alfred w. Johnson. Rear Ad-
miral Sinclair Cannon, Rear Admiral
Charles S. Freeman, commandant
Norfolk Navy Yard; Rear Admiral Ar
thur P Fairfield, Rear Admiral Wal
ter N. Vernon and Lieut.. Comdr. John
]. Patterson, recorder.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Girl Scout Council Elects.

Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes was elect
ed commissioner of the local council
of Girl Scouts for 1885 at recent
meeting. Mrs. j. Harris Franklin was
elected first deputy commissioner;
Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, second
deputy commissioner; Mrs. George T.
Scriven, third deputy commissioner;
Mrs. Martin Jones, treasurer: Mrs. E.
w. Sturdevant. assistant treasurer;
Mrs. Joseph Cox, recording secretary,
and Mrs. Donald Richberg, correspond
ing secretary.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
TAX SALE CANCELLED
IN FAU0UIER COUNTY
Error in Advertising Auction
Leads to Postponement
to Next Year.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, December al
There will be no sale Of property for
delinquent taxes in Fauquier County
this year. The sale was postponed
from December 9 to December % be-
cause by error the required notice OF
80 days had not been given.
Lawyers have held that a sale on
that date would not be according to
the new Virginia law, which requires
that it be held the second Monday in
December, so it has been postponed
to the second Monday in December,
1886.
E. S. Cox, county treasurer, states
that but few pieces of property would
have been offered for sale, as most Of
the amounts due have been paid.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury reported last night
ar upturn of IL per cent in gross, and
is per cent in net. for the Nations
taxpayers in 1884, as compared with
the previous year.
A statement, based on returns filed
up to August 81. 1885, showed gross
income of S14,7O8. $4,000 in 1884,
from which was deducted $2,252,-
$4,000 for losses, leaving net Of
,456,262,0o0.
The income for the previous year
crossed $13,117,545,25 and netted
Sl0,485, ,653,532 after making deduc-
tions of S2,271, ,a91 1872.
BY way of contrast, the peak of
prosperity years. 1929, showed a gross
income of $29946, ,952, ,209 and a net
of $24, 300, ,735,564.
Increase in Wages.
The statement last night showed
increases in wages and salaries and
in business income for 1884. The in
come from wages, salaries, ETC., was
up 13 per cent over 1888, and
Evening star., 1935-12-22

American exports OF raw materials 10
Italy and Italian-Africa shooting up
ward, Chairman McReyaolds of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee re-
ported yesterday he planned to intro
duce a permanent neutrality bill in
the next Congress.
He made this known at the Capitol
a short time after the Commerce De-
partment had reported shipments of
petroleum, cotton and other war ma
terials increased sharply in November,
as compared with October, despite ad-
ministration efforts to discourage trade
with belligerents.
Hints Mandatory Provisions.
McReynolds dropped hint his
measure might contain some man
datory provisions instead of giving the
President an entirely free hand to
determine how far the Government
should go in attempting to check trade
with warning nations. 1t has been
understood the State Department de-
sired broad discretionary authority for
the President.
The whole neutrality problem will
be discussed this week by McReynolds
with Assistant Secretary of, State r..
Walton Moore. Later the committee
chairman will talk again with SeCre-
tary Hull. They conferred Friday, but
neither would say whether the ques-
ton of banning war materials in a
new neutrality bill had been men
toned. Oil, cotton, scrap iron and
other such products generally are
classed as war materials.
The Commerce Department re-
ported exports to Italy alone during
November amounted to S9,054,9l5 as
compared with S6.821, 1866 in October.
Shipments of petroleum and petroleum
products increased from 1866 900 to
Sl,252,000. Similar shipments to
Italian Africa rose from $4,000 to
$451, 900.
Cotton Exports Heavy.
Raw cotton was the biggest single
item exported to Italy, totaIing So
$4,000. Refined copper exports con-
tinued heavy at $1,054,0oO, a few
thousand dollars less than in Oc-
tober, but more than twice the figure
for November, 1884.
Exports to Ethiopia amounted to
only $1,034.
President Roosevelt, in embargo
ing shipments of arms and munitions
to Italy and Ethiopia, warned that
American citizens trading with the
belligerents would do so at their own
risk. Since then administration
spokeSmen have sought to exert
moral pressure to stop sales of any
materials that might be useful in
carrying on warfare.
The present temporary neutrality
law, embargoing arms and munitions,
expires February %. President Roose-
velt has said permanent neutrality
legislation in some form would be
proposed to the next Congress.
In the Senate there has been a
strong demand for a measure making
1t mandatory upon the President to
embargo war materials as well as
arms and munitions. With Nc
Reynolds limiting some such provis-
ions might be incorporated in his
bill, observers believed a compromise
was being attempted.
McReynoids told reporters yes
terday:
Il am going to try and work out
something sane and satisfactory. My
present purpose, if can get a sat-
isfactory bill, is to introduce it to-
ward the first of the session and have
hearings on it at an early date"