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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
S0V|ETS DEMAND
TROTzKY 0UST|NG
Exile Accused of Breaking
Pledge Not to Plot in
Norway Asylum.
Ey tie Associated Press.

MOSCOW, August 29.-The Soviet
government today officially demanded
that Norway expel Leon Trotzky, the
exiled Russian Bolshevist leader.
A government note handed to the
Norwegian foreign minister by the
Soviet representative in Oslo read:
The Soviet government expects the
Norwegian government will not delay
measures to deprive Trotzky of further
refuge in Norwegian territory"
There was no indication. however,
that the Soviet government had de-
manded the exile's return to Russia.
Interned Last Night.
The note made plain that Norway's
refusal would prejudice good relations
between the two governments and
would be considered a violation of
international Law.
Trotzky and his wife were ,nterned
by the Norwegian government last
night and their two male secretaries
arrested. The Norwegian governments
move presumably was caused by
charges that the exiled bolshevist
leader had broken his pledge not to
indulge in revolutionary plots.
In the Moscow trial OF 16 conspira-
tors against the Soviet regime wit
nesses charged Trotzl1y directly with
Matching the plot to substitute a reign
of terror In Russia for the pres
ent government and incidentally to
assassinate Dictator Joseph Stain.
Trotzky's Return Demanded.
After the execution of the Moscow
conspirators the official press of Russia
demanded that Trotzky be brought
back into Russia to stand trial for the
(See TROTZKY, Page A-4)
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Skullduggery Comes to Light
AtResettlement administration

Dakota, which always looks as though
the drought had come to stay.
In series II, another skull is posed
against o background Of scrubby
grass, useless for grazing. The locale.
according to the caption, Is penning-
ton County, s. OAK, which is IN the
Bad Lands.
r. A. officials here are not sure now
whether the skull was used as q NOV
able prop or whether there are two
skulls. To find out, they have written
the photographer, Arthur Rothstein,
who Is In Minnesota.
The involved question was raised
by the Fargo, N. OAK, Forum. q news
paper published In the heart Of the
drought country.
The editor published warning
two days ago for the benefit Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, whose train passed
through Fargo, to accept no false
stories about the drought, even when
substantiated by photographs.
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MYSTERY SHROUDS
Staying OF 2 MEN
New Workers Are Found Fatally
Wounded-Believed Killed
by Car Occupants.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 20. - Police
sought a solution today to the nlys-
FERROUS Staying on the lower East Side
shortly after midnight of Jacob Avnet
and q man tentatively identified as
Morris (Mush) Fried. Both were Is.
The two were shot, officers said,
apparently when called from their car
to talk to occupants Of sedan that
had pulled up diagonally to the curb,
blocking their way.
Avnet died almost instantly Of q
bullet wound in the heart and Fried,
shot in the abdomen, lived only q
few minutes after he was taken to
Gouverneur Hospital.
Police said they believed Avnet, &C.
companied by Fried, was driving q
coupe owned by his cousin, Samuel
Avnet. through Rutgers place just be-
fore the shooting. Deputy Chief In
spectors Edward A. Bracken and
Francis J. Kear investigated with .
squad Of officers.
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torn Spain and in Rome; secret for
tifications Of Italy's island strongholds
in the Aegean Sea-all indicate that
the valanche that swept away Halle
Selassie's black empire may only have
just begun to rumble through the
world.
Italy, q nation on the upswing,
looking for broader fields after VIC
tory over Ethiopia at arms and de-
f1ance toward Britain and the League
Of Nations in diplomacy, is credited
abroad today with q finger in every
troublesome pie.
Bitterly but conf1dentially, British
officials tell you that the money of
Italy and of Germany Is behind the
long drawn-out revolt Of the Arabs in
Palestine. They tell you that Italy
hopes the British will be forced out
Of the mandate there, leaving the
field open some time to fascism.
British secret service Is working
nightly right now to uncover proof of
Italy's activities. Secret reports which
I saw admit that irrefutable evidence
still Is lacking, but meanwhile the
danger of q religious war, igniting some
$4,000, 900 Moslenis in the Near and
Far East, gets closer and closer.
There Is no hiding In Rome or the
(see NEIL 3age A-2)
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BUSINESS
FUTURE FORECAST;
CASH GAINS CITED
Federal and Private Agen-
cies Point to Increases in
July and August.
PREDICTIONS INCLUDE
AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS
c. of G. Calls Attention to Gains
in Carloadings, Industrial Pro.
duction and Employment.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Cash gains in many fields of COM
merce and agriculture were recorded
today by Government and private
agencies.
The current business picture, in
GLIDING bright forecasts, covered such
activities as farming, building. trans
portation and industrial production.
The Chamber of Commerce Of the
United States called attention to in
creases during July and August in car
loadings. industrial production. EN-
ployment, use of electric energy, con-
struction and excise tax receipts.
All Of the evidence does not re-
fleet solely increased spending. either.
said the chambers review. adding
that, during the first half Of 1886. de-
positors in mutual savings banks in
creased by SOC, 900. The total in July
stood at 14,340.000, 1t said. topping
the 1929 figures by 20 per cent.
Building Increased.
The Labor Department, In a survey
covering 759 cities. reported July
building was greater by ~ per cent
than that of the previous month,
while the estimated cost of new homes
moved up 1877 per cent. Compared
with July. 1885, the number Of per-
mits for home construction was up
80 per cent and the estimated cost up
1922 per cent. For the first seven
months of 1886. the number of home
building permits increased 1913 per
cent over the same period in 1885.
Agriculture Departments figures in
dictated the drought had put more
money into the farmers pockets dur
ing July and stepped up the prices
received for their products during
August.
While thousands of farmers were in
distress because of ruined crops, the
figures showed cash income from July
farm marketings at Sill 900, 900, as
compared with s582 900, 900 the pre-
vious month. and s45l ,000, 900 . year
ago. officials reported July farm in
come the best since 1929 and noted
that cash to farmers during the first
seven months Of the year was $4,024.-
600, 900, the best for any similar
period since 1880.
Predict Larger Incomes.
While this farm trend was de-
scribed as characteristic under a
drought situation" the department
statisticians predicted the rest of the
year would show larger monthly cash
incomes than in 1885. This forecast
was based on indicated strong con-
sumner demand" and continuance Of
heavy live stock marketings."
Another sharp advance was reported
by the Association of American Rail-
roads. Operating revenues of 1l3 lines
were shown to have increased 27.4
per cent in July as compared with the
same month in 1885. Total revenues
for last month were $339,571 ,s5l,
while in the same period last year the
total was $3.50, 583,197.
Increases were reported in the net
(See BUSINESS, Page A-4.)
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FUNERAL Of DERN
HELD HERE TODAY
Capital to Pay Its Final
Tribute to Secretary
of War.

George Henry Dern, Secretary of
War and twice Governor Of Utah be-
fore he became a cabinet member, re-
ceived final tribute from the Capital
today. after which his body was to be
placed on a train for Salt Lake City,
where he will be buried Tuesday.
During the day the body Of the Sec
rotary, who died Thursday in Walter
Reed Hospital, rested in state in the
chapel of the Army Medical Center.
Funeral services we're scheduled for
4 pm. in Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church, l410 Columbia road,
with a guard of honor from the 10th
Brigade posted beside the flag-draped
casket.
Army posts throughout the country
and in all American possessions paid
the last tribute yesterday with half
hour salutes from their guns while
flags Few at half-staff.
Services to BE Quiet.
High Government officials and mill
tary officers. as well as the private
citizenry, mourned the War Secretary,
who succumbed to the ravages Of in
fluenza.
The funeral services here were to be
quiet, as the Secretary would have
wanted them. He always lived an I'M
ostentatious and quiet life in official
dom here and preferred to stay away
from the limelight.
After the services, with the Rev. DR..
Russell J. McClinchy oflciating. the
cortege was to proceed to Union Sta
ton, escorted by the I'd Squadron OF
the Sd Cavalry and the LIST Battalion
of the 10th Field Artillery.
At the station. the procession was to
be received by a guard Of honor con-
sisting of battalion of Infantry and
q battalion of Engineers.
The Police Department detailed $50
officers to funeral duty, with 100 to
be at the station and so to be posted
at Fourteenth street and Columbia
road during funeral services. All days
of for the department were Cancelled
for today by official order.
Aboard the funeral train to Salt
Lake City will be Mrs. Dern, her three
sons and two daughters, and a Cabinet
delegation, including Secretary OF
Commerce Roper, Attorney General
Cummings, Acting Secretary Of War
Woodring, Admiral william H. Stand
ley, Acting Secretary Of the Navy:
Acting Secretary OF Labor Edward F.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
Youth, 19,Criticized
As Poor Shot, Kills
Self With Revolver
Fires Sixth Bullet Into
Chest After Gallery
Worker "Kids" Him.
81 the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 29.-How 49,
year-old Alex Storm. jr., met criticism
of his craftsmanship by firing a bull
let through his chest was reported to-
day by investigators.
He died last night shortly after he
had startled a crowd at a shooting
gallery by sending the last shot in q
rented gun through his heart.
Nick Matt and Perry Santos, at
tendants, told police Storm had
earned the applause of spectators with
some difficult shots with a rife. Then
he picked up q revolver. His first five
bullets went wild.
II told him he couldn't shoot a re-
volver," Matt said. HE smiled and
aimed the revolver at his chest and
fired the last bullet. I was Just try
ing to kid him. I couldn't stop him"
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Pictures on Page A-3.J

skullduggery at the Resettlement
Administration came to light today.
The villain In the piece Is the sun
dried head Of q deceased steer.
It posed for perhaps five-certainly
three-pictures in May, before the
drought came.
Now for two months these photo.
graphs have been used to show the
plight of the drought-area jewellers.
Before then the skull was enlarged
and pasted on billboards to adver-
tise the resettlement movie-The
Plough That Broke the Plains"
But when the dry spell came his
likenesses were reclassified under the
heading: Land Use-Drought."
In series ! Of the saga the skull
q posed on cracking earth free Of
vegetation. The caption admits the
locale IL the Bad Lands Of South
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ROOSEVELT URGES.
DROUGHT SPENDING.
Relief Cost May. Be High at
First, He Declares in
Pierre, S. Oak.
BY tie Associated Press.

PIERRE, S. Oak, August 29.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in a rear platform
speech from his train today, reiterated
his advocacy of long-range drought
relief program. even though the cost
may be great at first.
Talking to several thousand persons
at the end of tour of Federal relief
projects, Mr. Roosevelt asserted:
ION the long-range program the
principal thing is better land use"
Pleading again for cooperation in
the task between all public agencies,
he said, UNLESS We do 1t we may lose
a very large investment. not only of
money. but human beings.
IF it costs $l,000,0 900 to save $l0,-
600, 900 I think it is worth while"
will Meet Two Governors.
Conferences with Cows. Berry and
Miller as well as Senators from those
States were arranged for the Chief
Executive during his four-hour stay at
Pierre. Then the special was to 60 to
Rapid City, s. OAK, for the week end.
Sunday night the President will start
for Salt Lake City to attend the funeral
of Secretary Dern Tuesday.
His conferences with Governors at
Des Moines, Iowa: Springfield. Ill,
and Indianapolis, Ind, next week will
be delayed two days from the original
schedule because of the Salt Lake
trip. This also has caused abandon
ment, until later in the year. Of the
visit to st. Paul, Mimi, and Lacrosse.
Wis, for further drought parleys and
cancellation of a motor tour of West
ern Iowa planned for the day follow
ing the Des Moines conference with
Gov. ALT M. Landon of Kansas and
four other State Governors.
Speaking to thousands packed
around his train at Aberdeen, Mr..
Roosevelt said he had been doing a
good deal of thinking about the fu-
ture-not just taking care Of the i'm
mediate needs caused by the drought
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4)
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WOMAN RUN OVER
BY HUSBANDS CAR
Man Leans Out to Assist Wife,
Easing Pressure on Foot
Brake,

Run over by her husbands auto
mobile, Mrs. Daisey E. Wilsher, 40, Of
1925 Maryland avenue northeast was
perhaps seriously injured today.
The husband, George F. Wilsher.
40, stopped the car on steep grade
on Potomac street, just north Of K
street, to let his wife out.
In alighting, Mrs. Wilsher slipped
on wet cobblestones. Wilsher leaned
from the car to help his wife and
took his foot off the brake.
Mrs. Wilsher slid underneath and
the right front wheel passed over her.
At Emergency Hospital it was said
she may have a fractured pelvis and
internal injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
MISS EARHART OFF
TO ENTER AIR RACE
Late Start BaIks Record
Attempt-Chatterton
Derby Begins.
Ey the Associated Press.

~ the ASSOclate0 HIeSS
BURBANK, Calf. August o.
Amelia Earhart took of at 7:29 am.
U0:29, Eastern standard time) today
in her new Flying Laboratory, bound
for New York and the start of the
transcontinental Bendix Trophy race
September 4.
A low-fying fog delayed her de-
parture, but when she finally took
the controls visibility was fair. She
plans to make her first stop at Kansas
City, where Paul Mantz, her technical
adviser, will leave the plane and re-
turn to Los Angeles. The lateness of
her departure this morning apparently
precluded any attempt at speed
records.
The third passenger aboard the big
$100, 900 transport sponsored by Pur-
due University was A. c. McNieley,
mechanic.
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flake DERN" PROPOSED
Change for Utah Pool Sought by
officials in State.

SALT LAKE CITY, August 20 (P).-
A sky-blue lake high in the rugged
Uintah Range southeast Of Salt Lake
City may perpetuate the name Of
George H. Dern, Secretary of War.
Civic and State officials said they
would request the National Geographic
Board to rename it Lake Dern" as a
memorial to Utah's distinguished
former Governor, who died this week
in Washington.
Dern, an outdoors lover, was a fire.
quent fishing and camping visitor to
the mountain pool and several years
ago it became of1cially known as
Governors Lake"
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"a OTHERS TAKE OFF.


Chinese Girl Flyer Leads Entrants in
Chatterton Derby.
CLEVELAND, August 20 P.-Miss
Katherine Sui Fun Cheung. Chinese
girl flyer from Los Angeles, took OH
at 1929 am. today on the first leg
of the Ruth Chatterton cross-country
derby, scheduled to end at Los Angeles
Friday.
Thirty-three other pilots. including
nine women, lined up and took of at
one-minute intervals after Miss
Cheungs departure. The first leg OF
the flight will end at Cincinnati where
the flyers will have luncheon.
Miss Chatterton, in her monoplane,
paced the flyers At dinner last
night she wished them good luck"
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$58,027,433 ASKED
BY DEPARTMENTS
IN 1938EST|MATES
Requests by District Off.
Gals Is $14,413,523
More Than for 1887.
COMMISSIONERS PLAN
EARLY PUBLIC HEARING
Schools Request $12,033,6l2 for
Maintenance and SIS, 492, 900
for Building and Grounds.

Appropriation Of a grand total Of
SIS, 027.4 33, or S14,413,523 more than
was approved for the current fiscal
year, an increase of about 80 per cent,
has been requested by District de-
partment heads for the next fiscal
year, according to tabulations made
today at the District Building. =
The increase was sought by depart
ment heads in the face of repeated
demands by the Commissioners that
requests for 1888 be held to figures
of strict economy.
Before the city heads begin to pass
Judgment on the proposals of the de-
partment executives, the public will
be given an opportunity to expires its
views on the details as we'll as the
total. The date has not been definitely
fixed, but Budget Officer Daniel j.
Donovan indicated today the hear
ings probably would start September Q.
As soon as the public has been
given its opportunity, the Commits
sioners at once will start calling de-
partment heads before them to ex-
plain their requests.
If trust fund accounts are added TO
the total. the aggregate proposed for
next year would amount to $50 ,462, 433,
as against total of s45,e48,910 for
this year.
Virtually all the major departments
asked for large increases which they
said were necessary to cover needs
which have piled up during past econ
omy years.
Schools asked s12, 033,612 for main
tenance and operation, an increase Of
S1,106,159 over this year, and S5,492,-
600, for buildings and grounds, an in
crease of s3,924,500 over this year.
All told, the schools seek an increase
Of approximately 40 per cent over this
year. Major increases also were asked
for welfare activities, police and fire.
departments and for health services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
SHIP CALLS FOR AID
Balboa Station Fails to Identity
Vessel With so Aboard.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August 20
@.-The naval radio station at Bal
boa, Canal Zone, broadcast last night
. request for assistance for an un-
identified vessel adrift on the coast
of Colombia with SO passengers
aboard.
Position Of the boat was given as
20 miles northeast Of San Marter,
about 5 miles Oh the coast.
The broadcast message was signed
by Lieut.. Earl" It did not name
the vessel or nature Of the difficulty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
Arab.Jew Fight Fatal.

JERUSALEM. August 20 (Palcor
Agency .-Two British soldiers were
killed and three injured in night Of
sporadic violence between Arabs and
Jews. The new military casualties
bring to 10 the total Of British col.
diers killed at the close Of the nine
teenth week Of disorders.
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by her " orld-
defying conquest
Of Ethiopia. If
indications q r e
accurate.
Signposts fgu-
ratfvely bobbing
out of the dusts
Of d e 8 e r t s,
through s q n d.
storms; CONVEX
sation arou n d
c q m p fires In
Abyssinia; frank
talks Of omcials
who were hiding
nothing in the
hardships of war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
LOWER TEMPERATURES
DUE FOR D. c. TOMORROW
Thundershowers Are Forecast for
This Afternoon or Tonight.
Rainfall obs Inch.

Already enjoying pleasantly cool
weather, the Capital tomorrow will ex-
perience even lower temperatures, &C
cording to the forecaster.
Thundershowers are due this after
noon or tonight. he predicted, while
tomorrow will be fair and slightly
cooler"
Yesterdays high" was IS degrees.
The temperature varied little over
night, the minimum this morning be-
ing SO. The rainfall was measured at
OILS Of an inch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
BY EDWARD ]. NEIL.

(Copyright, 1885, BY the Associated eress.)
NEW YORK, August 29.-Italy's
appetite for new lands, new power In
the great seething area Of the Near
East apparently has only been whetted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
POPE MORE CHEERFUL
Still Weak, He Again Abandons
Automobile Ride.

CAsTEL GANDoLFo. Italy, August
20 R.-Pope Piux xI, who has been
very weak recently. was reported to.
day in q more cheerful mood although
he again abandoned his customary
automobile ride In favor Of q short
rest In his Summer villa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29
ESCROW FUND FRAUDS
REPORTED IN CHICAGO
Assistant States Attorneys to Go
Before Grand Jury With
Charges on Tuesday.

ny the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 29.-ASsistant
States Attorneys Joseph Burke and
Robert Wright said today they would
appear before q grand jury Tuesday
with evidence against nine persons
in 90 cases of alleged escrow fund
swindles, in Superior Probate and
Circuit Courts. 90
The alleged fraud ring, they said,
obtained court orders to funds held
in escrow. They said they had evi-
dence In % cases in Probate Court.
80 in Superior Court and 43 in Cir
cult Court.
Investigator Eugene O'Connor Of
the States attorneys Office said he
had found that hoboes were repre-
scented as missing heirs to defraud
the courts of estate funds.
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Formosa Governor Named.

TOXIC, August 30 R.-The EN-
peror today sanctioned appointment
of Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, retired,
as governor general Of Formosa, sue
ceeding Keno Nakagawa, resigned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-29

(copyright, 1885, by the Associated Press.)
MADRID, August 29.-Fascist Rebel
aerial bombs exploded today in down.
town Madrid for the first time.
Several persons were wounded, hun
dreds of windows were broken and
important government buildings were
damaged.
The attack was the fourth Of the
week, but the first successful on
slaught against the city itself.
It was followed by a fifth venture
by the Rebels which was frustrated
by quick acting Madrid Socialist gov
eminent airplanes.
Citizens in the capital. accustomed
now to the sound OF bombs exploding
In outlying regions near the city and
ut airdromes, obtained their initial
drst-hand impressions of war from
the air.
Roars Down in Power Dive.
The Rebel plane, apparently flying
ut q great altitude, roared toward
the center Of the city In q power
dive shortly before midnight when
the streets were stil1 animated by
homeward-bound crowds.
A few moments later the engines of
the plane could be heard plainly. and
two bengal lights we're dropped. bril-
Hantly lighting vast area of the city
Immediately two bombs were re-
leased from the plane and fell in the
garden Of the Ministry of War, tearing
up great holes.
The bengal lights fell in the Plaza
Cibeles, lighting the great square
hanked by the Ministry of War, the
Bank of Spain and the general post
office.
Several hundred windows were
broken by the bombs blasts, including
those in the Bank of Spain, the post
office and one in the nearby Office of
the Associated Press. No other dam
age resulted.
Next Attempt Baked.
The next attempt to bomb the city
was baked when authorities from the
nearby town of Vicalvaro flashed the
warning of the approach of the rebel
airplanes.
Government planes took to the air
Immediately and flew in high circles
over the city.
Madrid militiamen mistook their
own craft for rebel planes and d.
rected heavy rifle and machine gun
fire at them, but the firing ceased
promptly when the soldiers realized
their error.
Appearance Of the rebel plane to
bomb the city itself produced an in
tense attack by government planes
and anti-aircraft guns which spat-
tered tracer bullets after the swiftly
yetreating rebel machine.
As 1t climbed. 1t dropped a third
bomb in Parquillo street near the
center Of town, causing a small FIRE,
which was quickly extinguished.
More Bombs Released.
In the southern part of the city
several more bombs were released,
one wounding several persons near a
military hospital.
Government airplanes patroled the
Gee CpAINI De-