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Evening star., 1935-12-31

Mr.. Roosevelt's pals have always
had a feeling that N. B. c. Subsidiary
of r. C. A. was less favorable to him
than were some of the other chains
There may have been insufficient rea'
son for the feeling, but it existed.
In fact, they haze not forgotten
the incident OF Mr.. HooUer's grass
groUing speech in NetO York DUR
ing the last campaign. 1t seems
that Mr.. Hoouer ioas late and the
announcer had to inlprouise. At
first he radioed all the usual gram
dioSities about the large size and
enthusiasm the cro,Cd Then he
began to rddidte. Running short
of ddjectiUeS, he offered "StGpen-
dous" and finally colossal"
The New Dealers always thought
there was something more behind it
than a colossal Improvisation.
You may rest assured now, how
ever, that such things will not hap
pen again next year. At least not to
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Business Gains Seen.
The sincerity behind business pre-
dictions this new year is more OF
less apparent.
Men whose judgment is best are
forecasting 1886 level of industrial
production 10 to 20 per cent above
this year. They base this prediction
primarily on an expectation Of SO
per cent increase in residential build
ing construction. This will really
absorb some, but not all, unemploy-
ment.
These authoritative predictions
are being made in the face of Dide
uncertainties. The continuing Gc-
emulation of gold here is conuinc-
ing economists that another me-
diun OF international monetary
exchange may proue to be neces-
Sary Uithin the year. War erctte-
nsent is prevalent in Europe and the
Far East. The Congress is meeting.
An unusually hot campaign is in
prospect. A presidential election
Wil take place, the outcome OF
Which is In doubt.
When you see rosy business prophe-
cies In the face of such uncertain
ties, it is a good indication of the in
herent strength behind the current
recovery movement.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
Year of the Mouse VIII Start
Tonight as 1886 Enters Cycle

In Japan the celebration will con-
tinue throughout the month of Janu-
airy.
Hanging on the walls Of each house
will be the shimenawa, rice straw
rope, sign Of publication for the new
year.
Okazari. a rice cake, will be placed
in little shrines erected to the memory
Of japanese ancestors.
New Year day also is the birthday
of every japanese. For a japanese is
considered to be year old on the day
Of birth and ? years old at the advent
Of the next year. Thus, a child born
December 81 celebrates his second
birthday next day.
Girls born during the coming year
Of the mouse should marry most suit
ably boys born during one of the
fierce" years. A particularly good
union is considered that of a wife
born in the year of the mouse and a
husband born in the year Of the tiger
Evening star., 1935-12-31
u. s. AND MEXICO
DISCUSS SILVER
Morgenthau Reports Sue
cessfuI Talk With Visit
ing Delegation.
Nv the AksnriatAd Press.

Secretary Morgenthau today re-
ported successful talk in prelimi-
nary conversations" with the Mexican
silver delegation.
The delegation, headed by Eduardo
Suarez, Mexican finance minister, con-
ferred with Morgenthau for more than
an hour. The Treasury head said
further conferences would be held
later in the week.
Both Morgenthau and the Mexican
delegation refused to discuss today's
conference. The Mexicans said they
would remain in Washington two or
three days more.
Visitor Dinner Guest.
Morgenthau is entertaining at din
ner tomorrow night in honor of
Suarez. A number from the congress
sional silver bloc also will attend.
Suarez arrived at the Treasury
early. He was accompanied by Fran
cisco Castillo Najera, the Mexican
Ambassador; Edward Reed, chief of
the State Departments Mexican Di-
vision, and Frederick Livesey. assist
ant economic adviser to Secretary
Hull.
Mexico is a leading world producer
of the white meal with a yearly out
put exceeding 10000 900 ounces.
Morgenthau has said the American
Government, under the silver purchase
act, has been buying virtually all Of
Mexico's output of new silver.
The conference today followed the
slump in the world price of the metal
from around IS cents an ounce to
below so cents as a result of a with
drawal of Treasury buying in the
London market.
Buyer and Producer.
It brought together representatives
of the worlds leading buyers of the
metal in the last year-the Treasury
and of the first-rank producer.
Morgenthau has indicated he was
still buying metal from primary pro-
ducing countries such as Mexico, Peru
and Canada, in addition to domestic
mines. Domestic producers are receiv-
ing about 77.57 cents an ounce for
their newly mined silver, in contrast
with the lower worlds price at which
Mexico has been selling to this Gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
By the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO. December 81
japanese all over the world will cele-
brate tonight the end of the year of
the boar-a year Of fierce aggressive
ness-and start greeting the year of
the mouse-a year of kindliness and
good viii.
Each year in q 12-year cycle is
named for a different animal. Thus,
1886, the year Of the mouse, will be
followed by years of the COW. tiger.
rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep.
monkey, bird, dog and then boar
again.
A new year means to the japanese
the start of a new life.
All business except the most neces-
sary will be suspended for the next
two weeks, during which japanese will
call on their friends every day to
share the sacred otoso, a sweet saki
(rice wine) dedicated to this most i'm
portant Of Japanese holidays.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
ESCAPING PRISONERS
COWED BY BULLETS
Pair Quit Ladder as Reformatory
Guards, clipped Of" in Ad-
vance, Open Fire.
' Aha Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY, December 81
An attempted break from the Frank
fort State Reformatory early today
failed when two young prisoners were
frightened from q ladder by the shots
Of guards.
The two who tried to break out
are Allen Gesns, alias James, as, and
Tennessee Wooten, "a. They were
bedmates in one of the prisons
crowded dormitories.
Guards M. H. Gregory and T. T..
Dean shot at the prisoners as they
were climbing a ladder to scale the
back wall. Neither was wounded.
Some undisclosed source tipped"
the prison ONCE that q break would
be attempted and the guards were
ready. The attempt took place shortly
after 1880 am.
Warden Elmer Deatherage, called
from his home nearby when the
alarm sounded, said preliminary
check-up revealed no prisoners miss
ing,
Evening star., 1935-12-31
BRUNO IS HOPEFUL
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Morale Held Excellent, but
Another Execution Un-
nerves Him.
By the Associated Press.


TRENTON, N. j., December 81
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's counsel
said today the man convicted of mur-
dering the Lindbergh baby was very
much encouraged" over the progress
of his fight to escape death in the
electric chair.
Frederick A. Pope declined to ex-
plain further. He and c. Lloyd Fisher,
also of the defense staff, visited
Hauptmann yesterday. Fisher report
ed him in perfect" physical condition
and said his morale was excellent"
Prison officials said Hauptmann,
sentenced to die the week of January
13, was slightly nervous yesterday be-
fore the electrocution of a fellow IN
mate of the death house, Romano
johnson, colored.
Nervousness Natural.
Col. Mark o. Kimberling, prison
warden, said the condition was "only
natural" and added he did not believe
1t presaged a breakdown in Haupt-
mann's attitude.
johnson, convicted of Staying a
Bridgeton housewife in a hold-up, was
the sixth man who has passed Haupt-
mann's cell to enter the death cham
ber. Hauptmann was on his cot, ap-
parently asleep, when johnson
passed by.
Hauptmann's counsel, meanwhile,
had not decided whether to ask the
New Jersey Court of Pardons to per-
init him to make a personal appear
ance before the court when it hears
his plea for clemency.
CAN Uncertain.
After meeting of the court yester-
day Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, an ex-
officio member, said there was no dis
position now to call Hauptmann.
He added that if Hauptmann
SHOULD have statement to make to
the court, then it could elect to call
him"
No date was fixed for hearing
Eauptmann's petition.
Both Fisher and Pope fatty denied
reports Hauptmann has made a par
tial confession. Pope said Hauptmann
has absolutely nothing to confess"
Evening star., 1935-12-31
fewer SEEK JOBS
WITH STATE ROADS
By the Associated Press.

Z By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, December 31.-State
Highway Commissioner H. G. Shirley
sees good business sign In the
'1essening of pressure" for jobs with
the State road forces.
Employment evidently is picking
up" he said today. Even discounting
the seasonal trend-people Just don't
want to work in this kind Of weather.
we can tell the change. Small en-
ployers seem to be employing more
workers. There is work being given
In addition to that supplied by gov
ernmental agencies"
Road projects planned as part Of
the emergency relief program are at
standstil in Virginia, the commits
sioner said, but contractors are ex-
pected to move in equipment and
gradually begin heavy work, such as
blasting and digging roadbeds and
building bridges, as soon as the current
had weather ends.
Evening star., 1935-12-31

-. NCoHIlnueQ from FlrSC Page.)
family of Aubrey Neil Morgan, broth
er-ln-law of Mrs. Lindbergh, said the
Lindberghs would be guests in tht
Morgan home "for some time" IN
Llandaff, near Cardiff
All motor cars. trucks and pedes-
trians were halted a mile away from
the docks and not permitted to go on
unless they produced specially signed
passes. Cars were carefully searched
by police.
A crew member said the Lindberghs
had been good sailors during the
rough trip. and had not been seasick.
Some of the crew understood Lind
bergh had a plane standing by at
an undisclosed airport in the British
Isles until last night, when orders
for the plane were Cancelled.
Some said they believed Mrs. Lind
bergh, who rarely left Jon alone in
the cabin, tasted all the boys food
before feeding him.
Confer With Officials.
Heavy rain was falling as O small
official party, consisting of members
of the Importers Shipping Co., i'm
migation authorities and Liverpool
detectives. set out in a small tug for
the ship prior to its docking.
The Lindberghs spent nearly two
hours in conference with the officials,
who then returned to shore. The
docking followed.
When the family left the United
States there were reports Lindbergh
was seeking sanctuary from threats
against his second son.
But crewnen of the vessel he chose
for his trip to British shores said these
rumors were not true;~ that, instead,
the flyer himself had asserted he did
not desire to be in America during
the week of January 13, the time of
Hauptmann's execution.
Among the persons who boarded
the Importer before it docked to greet
the Lindberghs was w. H Gregory Of
Morgan, Grenfell & Co., acting as a
representative of the Morgan bank.
Gregory, it was explained, made ar
rangements for the Lindberghs' COM
fort.
20 Some time after they reached the
. hotel the Lindberghs had luncheon
there. Afterward they rested in their
suite.
The Daily Mirror called the Lind
bergh journey "the strangest secret
voyage ever made across the Atlantic. I"
, IF it were not tragic" the paper
said, there weuld be something
farcical in the plight of these perse-
Lcuted people for whom high achieve
gment and excessive publicity meant
little but grief.
- But at least the problem is adver-
tised-for the good of Americans"
The newspaper urged the British
people to leave the Lindberghs alone
isss Disappointment Forecast.
The Morning Post warned that the
fyer and his family might be disap-
pointed in expecting to find seclusion
in England.
I'VE hope Col. Lindbergh will find
among us the refuge he seeks" it
said, though indications are not lack
ing that he may, as far as privacy is
ccncerned, be In no better case than
he was in his native land.
!9sFor exercise of scruples and for
bearance among us has sadly suffered
from an infection Of American stand
ards and methods. I" " We-are by
no means free from gangster crime;
we have no call to give ourselves too
many airs OF superior virtue"
Evening star., 1935-12-31
$4,000, 900 FREED
FOR YOUTH RELIEF
Several Types of Projects to Get
Fund Approved by
McCarl.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Approval by Controller General Nc
Carl Of an additional $4,000, 600 for
the National Youth Administration
was announced yesterday by Aubrey
w. Williams, executive director.
The sum brings the total released
for youth work projects to $20. .000, 900,
as an initial allotment of $4,000, 900
was made November 20.
The money will be apportioned
among the States on the basis of the
number of youths on relief and will
be used for projects falling within the
following classifications:
Youth community development and
recreational leadership, rural youth
development, public service training
projects, and research projects.
Projects will be selected by State
directors.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
MEANEST MAN NAMED

DENVER, December 81 Cp.-Dis-
trict Judge Henley A. Calvert dubbed
James Hayes "the meanest man Of
1885" yesterday.
He sentenced Hayes, clerk in the
Denver Relief Bureau transient die
vision, to S to 10 years imprisonment
for forging food orders on the bureau,
obtaining the food and selling It.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
UTILITIES BRIEF
H|TSU.S.FA|RNESS
Holding Company Attorneys
Challenge Registration
Contention.

The Federal Government TODAY was
accused Of insincerity in its contention
that registration with the Securities
and Exchange Commission should pre-
cede all challenges of the constitu.
tionality Of the securities act.
In rebuttal brief sent to District
Supreme Court, utilities holding COM
pany attorneys argued that If the Gov
ernment were convinced the concerns
have no standing in court. they should
seek dismissal Of the Injunction suits
filed by them.
Recently, Attorney General Cum
mings asked Justice Jennings Bailey
to stay proceedings under suits brought
by seven major holding companies for
injunctions against enforcement of the
act, which contains the so-called
death sentence" clause.
Jurisdiction Question.
In a subsequent brief Cummings
denied that the companies were en-
titled to challenge the act unless they
frst brought themselves under its
jurisdiction by registering with the
commission
Answering this argument today. at
torneys for the holding companies
stated:
If the defendants are sincere in the
assertion that the plaintiffs have
no standing in a court Of equity 10
question the validity o. other provisions
OF the act. since they have not COM
piled with the registration provision,
the defendants should raise this pont
to secure prompt adjudication there
OF by moving to dismiss the bills Of
| complaint Of the plaintiffs"
In its motion to stay, the Govern
ment had contended all attacks on the
act should be held in allegiance, pend
ing final decision by the United
States Supreme Court in its own suit
against the Electric Bond & Share Co.
Of New York.
This suit, 1t contended, would SETTLE
all constitutional questions concernins
the act.
Breakdown Threatened.
Meanwhile, the great number Of
suits brought by holding companies in
courts throughout the country threaten
by their volume to break down the
machinery of the Justice Department,
Cummings declared.
Because Of the variety of situations
which can arise under the act, the
Government has no right to deprive
the holding companies of their day in
court to test the law from all angles,
the utilities concerns replied.
The principal value Of the Electric
Bond g. Share case. they said, is that
it will furnish valuable precedent"
Meeting squarely the Government
argument that provisions of the act
are separable-that is, that some Of its
provisions may be invalidated without
affecting the validity of the others
the holding companies stated the in
separability Of the act is one Of the
bases Of their argument They asked
Justice Bailey to declare the act un-
constitutional in its entirety.
Evening star., 1935-12-31

loved him. They went where he sent
'em, and If they failed In their ohjec-
tive, they didn't come back. They
went instead to report at the sills Of
the Judgment seat the season why they
failed.
Behind his back, the buck privates
called him Uncle Ligg"-that ought
to give you the idea.
They'll like him over there-Israel
Putnam, and Stonewall jackson, and
Forrest. and Grant, and all the rest
Of our real ones. I'll bet there're big
doings in the heavenly mess tent this
night.
00'rsas a.vl5sS:. lsSs z 1zs.o IL soiss fns American
Evening star., 1935-12-31
Irwin S. Cobb
Says:
Hunter Liggett Was
An Officer Whose
Men Loved Him.

HOLLYWOOD, December $3.50
Hunter Liggett is dead at 78-the only
contemporary lieutenant general of the
United States Army. For 50-odd years
he wore with gallantry and with honor
the uniform of his country.
He fought Indians, fought border
bandits, fought Spaniards In Cuba,
Evening star., 1935-12-31

to run the State
next year." but
persisted in re-
fusing to tell how
he will handle
the situation.
The 1885 Leg
islature failed To
pass an appropri-
atoms bill for
1867. Talmadge,
who has gained
attention by his
attacks on the
New De al, re-
fused to call an
extra session and
said the S t q { c
Evening star., 1935-12-31
U. S. REQUESTS CHINA
TO PROTECT AMERICANS
Nine Missionaries Menaced by
Sudden 1ncursion of Com
munist Army.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, China, December ST.
The United States Embassy requested
the Chinese foreign Office today to
provide full protection for nine Amer
tcan missionaries, reported menaced
by a sudden incursion of q Com
munist army into Western Honan
Province.
The situation was described as
tense, with bandit advance forcing
some missionaries to fee to the
mountains.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
Lost Street Car Operator Ends
Long yunket at Wrong Born

Half an hour later nobody was sure
where they were. The passengers
asked the operator. 'Doggone If
know" he said. I'm lost. Let's call
1t a day"
He let the passengers out and set OF
for the west side car barn. After o
meandering trip through North Mime
apolis and over o Mississippi River
bridge, he sighted a car barn and
turned In. Il.
It was the east side car barn.
Company oficials said he was q new
man and would ect smother chance.
Evening star., 1935-12-31

1ougnt ternans
i'm France; and,
at the end
fought off death
for many drag
ging months.
I saw him over
seas, command
ing our splendid
1st Corps, which
he made more
splendid still. He
was as plain as
an old shoe, and
as easy to get
along with. His
officers respected
him, his soldiers
Evening star., 1935-12-31
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, December 31.-His
employers considered providing q map
and compass today for q one-man
street car operator who got lost with
his car for 80 minutes in the maze Of
downtown tracks, finally discharged IS
passengers to find their own way out,
then returned to the wrong car barn.
Some Of the passengers noticed the
operator had made q wrong turn last
night but he said:
"Just keep calm. I'll get US out Of
this"
Evening star., 1935-12-31
SOVIET RATE UPHELD

Government Denies Nulling Erect
of New Currency.
MOSCOW, December 80 R).-The
Soviet government officially denied
yesterday widespread reports that the
newly proclaimed exchange rate of
5 rubles to the American dollar would
be nullif1ed through the issuance Of
new Soviet currency.
Rumors during recent weeks said a
new bank note, to be known as "len"
or "stal," would be issued and that Its
exchange rate would be more favor
able to foreign currencies than that
set for the rubie.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
Record Silver Shipment.

SHANGHAI, December 81 R).--A
record shipment Of 100000 ounces
OF silver was sent to the United
States yesterday. aboard the s. s.
President Hoover. \-
Evening star., 1935-12-31
TALMADGE IS SURE.
HE CAN GET FUNDS.
Governor, in Assuming
Financial Dictatorship, Re-
fuses to Revea! Source.
Ry the Associated Press

by LIIU AbSOCIhLtu FTeSb.
ATLANTA, December 31-On the
eve of assuming financial dictatorship
Of Georgia. Gov. Eugene Talmadge
said today "therell be plenty OF money
Evening star., 1935-12-31

Australia Is considering the produc-
ton Of power alcohol from surplus
cereals.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
Lindbergh

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-12-08

In such exciting fashion "The Frame-Up, Erie Stanley
Gardner's serial, begins in issue.
Before Erie Gardner started writing he criminal LAWYER
He learned how gangers and work. and how crooked poll
outlaws proect them and work with them
His feeling against political corruption supplied the theme
for his latest and daring story. eff people generally will
interest themselves the stamping of crime he claims, cit
will gradually be of major Importance If the public
remains apathetic organizations will become
strongly entrenched dishonest political machines will continue
to prosper and police will become remain corrupt
"The Frame-Up has been written from Erie Stanley Gard
ners wealth of personal material and experiences Local
color for his stories obtained first hand many of the thrilling
related merely determinations of adventures that he
has lived
Small wonder that he FrameUp takes hold of the reader
in the very first page Lester Kay his fight clear his
brothers and neck hngman
The first nstament of this serial appears the
Evening star., 1935-12-08


his own name. T, L. Sending really
means: T. L. is sending this. Or this
is from Tom Lukens. And II. L.
means me, Helen Lukens." And she
insisted: did you notice the hand
writing? Was it very small, and per-
fectly clear?"
Yes"
That was - Tom'sI' Her voice
broke. then steadied.
THE letter didn't make sense"
Forsyth warned her.
"Of course not. 1t would be all
jumbled up. but we will surely be
able to read it, Where is it? Did you
bring it?" Forsyth shook his head.
Can we get it right away?"
It's in my safe deposit box"
Forsyth confessed, and glanced at
his watch. "And by this time, the
bank vaults will be closed, with a
time lock that can't be opened till
morning"
ID. b. Preswick spoke quickly. I'VE
may catch them" he said, stepped to
the telephone. What is your bank?"
Forsyth told him, and they stood
by Preswick's side as ne telephoned.
But - the vaults we're closed. Tenny-
son made sound of regret.
Can they be opened, Mr.. Pres
wick?''
mot without dynamite" Pres
wick admitted.
They stood for a moment silent,
considering this situation. What time
in the morning" Tennyson asked.
Probably nine o'clockw
The Englishman nodded thought
fully, and he spoke to Miss Lukens.
you and Tom had no code pre-
arranged, had your
mo. He was so sure ne would come
back safely. He promised to be home
for Christmas"
Forsyth felt a stir of memory.
There was something about crediting
draft to his account for Christmas"
he reflected. "A draft for five guineas."
Tennyson looked at him acutely.
"If Tom had no CODE" he said, he
would have put the key in the letter
somehow. We've nothing else to do
this evening. If you can remember
much about the letter, MIR. Forsyth,
we might get hold of the clew, and
save that much time in the morning."
There are some parts of it -
scattered phrases - that l can re-
member" Forsyth decided.
IF yol can hit on something that
seemed particularly meaningless, or
conspicuous" Tennyson suggested.
Forsyth said, Suppose go through
it in order. tell you anything l can
recall?"
Tennyson said: DO! At least it will