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Evening star., 1936-12-02

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 2.-Gilmour
GLOOMY GiD Dobie, Boston College
foot ball coach and former Cornell
coach, and his assistant, Frank Muir
dock. suffered serious injuries when
their automobile crashed into bridge
abutment early today.
City hospital officials reported exam
ination showed Dobie escaped serious
head injury. but had fractured jaw
and cheekbone. They said spina
test indicated Murdock had suffered
a severe head injury in addition to q
fractured jaw.
Condition of the two was described
as fair" Their names remained on
the hospital danger list.
Police said that when they arrived
at the scene they found Murdock
standing dazed outside the car and
Dobie inside. The left side of the car
was crushed.
parently en- route from Boston to New
ton, where Dobie resides, when the
crash occurred.
Dobie came to Boston College from
Cornell University this Fall and con-
cluded his first foot ball season at
Boston College successfully last Satur-
day.
The former Cornell coach, known to
thousands of foot ball fans as Gloomy
Gill;" brought Murdock with him from
the New York State College as an
assistant
Evening star., 1936-12-02
TWO ELECTROCUTED
WHILE LOADING COAL
Colored Victims in Yard at First
and N Streets Northeast Had
Operated Feeder.

Two colored laborers were electro
cuted shortly after noon today while
operating an electric coal feeder In the
yard of Grifi1th- Consumers Co., First
and N streets northeast.
The men we're identified as William
L. Keys, So, of So Decatur court, and
John Davis, "a. of 1145 First street.
Police investigating the case were
unable to determine Immediately
whether the accident was caused by
a short circuit or whether the feeder
came in contact with high-tension
wire.
Keys, employed by Griff1th, and
Davis, who works for the Chapman
Coal Co.. had been loading coal from
q freight car on to q truck. While
there were no witnesses, 1t is believed
both men were gripping the sides Of
the feeder in an attempt to move It
to another section Of the yard when
they met death. 4
Evening star., 1936-12-02
DOOM Of HOLDING
COMPANIES SEEN
Wheeler Says Railroad In.
quiry Will Result in
Legislation.
BY the Associated Press.

A death sentence" for railroad
holding patterned after
the 1885 public utilities holding COM
pany act-was foreseen by Senator
Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, today
as an outgrowth of pending Senate
investigation of railway financing.
Wheeler, who is chairman of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, asserted that there is mo
justification whatever for railroad
holding companies" He predicted
the inquiry would result in legislation
abolishing them.
He will open the investigation De-
cember 7 with study of the Mid
America Corp, the holding company
through which the late Van Swerin-
gen brothers dominated a many
branched transportation network.
Among First Witnesses.
The heirs" to the Van Sweringens'
railway kingdom-George A. Ball,
Muncie, Ind, glass jar manufacturer,
and George A. Tomlinson, Cleveland
industrialist-will be among the first
witnesses called to the stand.
Investigators said they would be
asked to describe the methods used by
the Van Sweringens to control.
through holding companies, a trans
portation system valued at $3,000,-
100000 with the investment of "rela-
lively small sums" of their own
money.
(Soa nO0AG 49,. q
Evening star., 1936-12-02
HOSP|CE MATRON
BEATEN IN BED
In Serious Condition After
ProWIer Chokes Her to
Prevent Outcry.

Beaten and choked by q man. be-
lieved to be colored, who entered her
bed room early this morning. Mrs.
Gertrude stalcup, 54, matron of the
Lutheran Walther League Hospice.
1920 M street, was in a serious condi-
ton today.
She was still dazed from the effect
of a blow over her left eye, which
caused a cash requiring eight stitches
to close. During moment of con-
sciousness. she told police she had
been awakened in the night by a man
bending or kneeling beside the head
of her bed AS she started to cry out.
the man seized her by the throat and
choked her and then struck her. she
said. Physicians attending her at the
hospice today said X-ray photographs
would be taken to determine whether
her skull was fractured.
Police were at loss to find motive
for the attack. The rear door was
open and footprints in the snow led
to a nearby parking lot. Parking lot
attendants said car with New York
license tags had been parked at the
spot where the footprints ended. How
the intruder entered was a mystery.
However, nothing in the house had
been disturbed. One of the 18 girls
and young women who live at the
house heard groans issuing from Mrs
Stalcup's room and discovered her
plight. Mrs. Stalcup's room is at the
head of the stairs leading up to the
second floor.
Detectives from the second precinct
hazarded guess that the inside front
door may not have been latched by
the last person to return last night.
The outer door is not usually locked
at night.
Mrs. Stalcup's husband, G. G. Stall
cup, a construction worker, and two
children live in Hyattsville. Md They
were notified last night and were at
tending her today.
Evening star., 1936-12-02

Christmas spirit will be both on and
in the air tonight when half hours
program of entertainment is broadcast
beginning at 1890 o'clock over Station
WRC as a part of The Star-Warner
Bros.-N. B. c. Christmas toy CAM
paign and the sixteenth annual Metro
politan Police Christmas party.
Guitars, harmonicas. singing voices
and talking voices will unite to amuse
Washingtonians in the first Of a series
of air shows arranged by the National
Broadcasting Co. In the campaign to
prevent any child in Washington from
being forgotten this Christmas.
So that every one may enjoy his own
celebration of the birth Of Christ,
knowing that none of his neighbors
are trying to pretend to their children
that December IS is just another day.
Miss Audrey Sieber. mistress of cere-
monies at the Earle Theater will tell
Evening star., 1936-12-02

In Fleet street the rumor was
described as coming from high quar-
ters." Cabinet members preserved
stony silence.
Worried British ministers met, the
great Times hinted at possible break
up of the realm with the Duke and
Duchess of York as King and Queen
of Scotland, and the question OF con.
stltutional crisis" was sounded-open-
" and gloomily-by the Yorkshire
Evening Post.
This latter newspaper, one OF the
directors of which is the father-in-
law Of Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, warned:
National concern will be deepened
by the implication in some responsible
comment that the constitutional issue
may arise-the issue of the readiness
Of the King to be guided by his min
isters in regard to any step wherein
the welfare of the throne and tho
commonwealth may be involved"
Discussion Stirs Exchange.
The stock exchange, England's ira.
ditional barometer. was rife with dis
cussion of the Bishop of Bradford's
speech yesterday in which he ex.
pressed concern over the Kings
awareness of his need for Gods
grace
Brokers said they expected the
downward tendency to continue. and
grow worse, unless the meaning OF
the bishops remarks with all its i'm
plications should be made clear to the
business world.
In other words. the brokers said.
they want to know in pounds and
pence" what the situation means.
The general dull tone brokers as
cribed to the uncertainty over what
might happen in the supposed conflict
between Prime Minister Stanley Bald
wins government and the King over
| his American-born friend.
King Edward, meanwhile, outwardly
unruffled over the unprecedented in
vasion of his private affairs. inspected
the new blue walking out" uniform
(See KING, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1936-12-02
LEAGUE MAY PROBE
SPANIARDS' ARMING
Discussion of Plans Is Likely at
Next Weeks Session of
the Council.
By the Associated Press.

BY tne hSSOClateo FteSs.
GENEVA, December 2.-Discussion
of plans to send an international mill
tary commission to Spain to investi-
gate reports that foreign countries are
sending arms and soldiers to fighting
forces may come up at next weeks
Council session, League of Nations
officials said today.
They acknowledged such pro-
posal probably would encounter strong
opposition from Portugal and Insur-
gent Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Chile's recognition of Italian Ethi-
opia was declared to have evoked
criticism because, it was said, such
action was contrary to the League
covenant.
The newspaper Journal des Nations
demanded that Augustin Edward,
Chilean Ambassador to London, resign
as president of the League Council
for the forthcoming session on the
Spanish situation.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
Believed Carrying Threat of
Ministers to Quit Posts if
Edward Persists.
LONDON STOCK MARKET UPSET:
NEWSPAPERS GROW CRITICAL
Breakup of Realm, With York Ruling
Scotland, Hinted-Americans
Protest Interference"
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, December 2-Prime Minister Stanley Bald
win called upon King Edward at Buckingham Palace to-
night for what reported to be showdown in the const
Wallis Simpson
The plainspoken smoking premier believed to
have informed the bachelor King that the cabinet with the
backing of Parliament prepared to resign unless Edward
surrenders any plan he may have to wed the Amercanbon
divorce.
Earlier Engands stock market dropped sugghy rejecting
growing lest King Edwards romance with
Simpson resignation of the cabinet even the
abdicaton of the King.
wholly unconrrned rumo many hundreds about the
the cabinet had decided to resign on
unless the monarch accedes demand TO give up MS
friendship with American by that time.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
Lords Prayer May Be Recited
Correctly Half Dozen Ways

in all prayer books and used by all
Catholics. His indignation had been
aroused by report that q little girl
had been punished in school for per.
sisting in saying: Forgive US our
trespasses as we forgive them that
trespass against U.s." An oficjous
school official had thought that those
who trespass against us" was the only
correct version.
The letter was referred to Msgr.
Hugh T. Henry, liturgical expert OF
the Catholic University faculty, who
found that them that" those who"
them who' and "those that trespass
against US" are used almost inter-
(See PRAYER, Page AID
Evening star., 1936-12-02
SWEEPING LAWS
|. DECREED BY NAz|S
Death Penalty Adopted for
Hoarding Abroad-Youth
to Be Trained.
81 tie Associated Press.

b" ire associated PreSS.
BERLIN. December 2.-The brass
knuckle" policy of Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering's four-year plan for
the rehabilitation of Germany was i'm
plemented today by series of far
reaching laws and drastic penalties.
The death penalty for economic
sabotage" and a law for the "acceler-
ated exploitation of Germany's mineral
resources" we're regarded the most i'm
portant of the startling DEGREES pro-
mulgated by the cabinet yesterday.
The cabinet acted swiftly with
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler presiding
Der Fuehrer's own newspaper, Voel-
kischer Beobachter. said the action
was taken behind locked doors after
(See NAZIS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-12-02

inch of snow fell between $50 pm.
and midnight.
The snow arrived almost three weeks
earlier than a comparative fall last
year. The first measurable snow in
1935-1.2 inches-occurred on Dscem-
ber "a. An inch Of snow this early
in the season does not mean much a.
modern records go. however. 4 inches
of snow having fallen here on Novem-
Der 4, 1910.
The short-lived icy blast worked
hardships on the city's homeless, driv-
ing hundreds to the shelter Of mis-
sions.
At midnight the temperature stood
(See WEATHER, Page AID
Evening star., 1936-12-02
Rain Routs First Sno,pfall;
End of Cold Snap Is Forecast

Winters grip on the Capital was
pried loose temporarily today as rising
temperatures and rain erased traces
Of the first real snowfall of the season.
Winter was not due ofncially, however.
until December 81.
Rain Is due to continue through
out the afternoon and tonight, the
Weather Bureau said, and tomorrow
will be overcast and warmer, probably
followed by rain In the afternoon.
The minimum temperature tonight is
expected to be about IS degrees.
In climbing above the freezing mark
early today for the first time In "a
hours, the mercury changed steady
snow to sleet and then to rain. An
Evening star., 1936-12-02
1YPHOON STRIKES
CLOSE TO MANILA
Temporary Buildings Felled as
Storm Races Along Tayabas
Coast.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, December 2.-Temporary
buildings were flung down tonight by
high winds as a typhoon raced to-
ward this city.
The typhoon, 100 miles southwest
Of Manila, swept along the Pacific
coast of Southern Tayabas Province
with wind velocity of 60 miles an
hour.
The coast was battered by gigantic
waves. If the storm maintains its
present path its center would strike
close to Manila. The storm, travelling
at high speed, moved in a west
northwesterly direction toward Manila.
Typhoon warnings were raised here
at 1850 pm. (9:50 am, e. s. T0.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
% you know the Lords Prayer?

DO you know the LordS prayer!
The words are perhaps the most
familiar in the English language-and
yet there Is no absolutely authorized
ecclesiastical version of them.
There are at least a half dozen
ways of saying the prayer, each Of
so far as any evidence can be found
to the contrary, liturgically correct.
This surprising fact came to light
when an elderly Catholic priest wrote
to the Ecclesiastical Review, published
for Catholic University here, urging
that the university start . movement
for . standardized text to be printed
Evening star., 1936-12-02

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, December a.
President Roosevelt bade farewell to
a rain-drenched Argentina today and
prepared for his journey homeward.
ending three-day visit, during which
he was hailed by all the Americas
as an apostle of peace.
Argentines lined the route to the
cruiser Indianapolis. although a chilli
ing rain poured from leaden skies.
The way was the reverse of that
he took on his triumphant arrival
Monday, when Buenos Aires gave Mr..
Roosevelt the greatest demonstration
of enthusiasm ever accorded any one
here.
The visiting Presidents last official
act was a luncheon he gave at the
United States Embassy in honor of
Argentine President Agustin P. Justo
and which rs persons attended.
The visiting Presidents last official
act was a luncheon he gave at the
United States Embassy in honor of
Argentine President Agustin P. Justo
and which rs persons attended.
$4,000 Troops on Guard.
Twelve thousand troops. wearing
overcoats for protection from the
rain, guarded the way to salute Pres
ident Roosevelt.
On the pier. as on the day of his
arrival here, red carpet an eighth
of a mile long had been stretched.
Garlands of red roses festooned the
landing stage
Riding in an automobile with Pres
ident Justo and escorted by 10 other
cars containing members of the Ar
gentine cabinet and the Reception
Committee. Mr.. Roosevelt left the
United States Embassy at 2:06 pm.
02:06 pm. E. S. To.
United States Secretary of State
Cordell Hull and Argentine Foreign
Minister Narlos Saavedra Lamas rode
in another auto together. Hull was to
remain to lead the United States dele
CATION at the inter-American peace
parley.
The intensified downpour battered
the purple blooms of the jacaranda
trees along the Avenida Alvear in Pa
lermo Park as the procession passed.
At the Embassy a good-sized crowd
cheered as the Presidents car rolled
away.
Because of the rain President Roose-
welt rode in a closed limousine. The
windows of apartment houses along
the Avenida Alvear the Avenida Cal
lao and the Avenida Santa Fe-on the
with Argentines saluting and waving
at Mr., Roosevelt and his escort.
Secret Service men riding on the
running board of Mr.. Roosevelt's car
were drenched, as were the members
of the Indianapolis crew. who lined
up on the dock in their white, tropical
uniforms.
As the crowd swelled at the pier
40 Argentine Army and Navy planes
few overhead in salute.
Parley Sessions Begun.
The Peace Conference, spurred by
President Roosevelt's plea to consoli-
date Western World democracies
against aggression for "our mutual
safety and mutual good" launched
into informal organization today.
Delegates from many of the 81
American nations represented at the
conference enthusiastically praised
the opening address Of the United
States Chief Executive last night.
They predicted Mr.. Roosevelt and
President Agustin Justo of Argentina
had "set the assembly firmly on the
path to success"
THE opening was magnificent and
I am optimistic of the conferences
fSee PARLEY, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1936-12-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A sharp split developed on Capitol
Hill today on the question of grant,
ing further reductions in the $12,-
00o, ,O00. 900 war debt Europe owes the
United States.
1t followed a disclosure that France,
in an informal and wholly tentative
way, had made overtures looking to-
ward a possible settlement of the
debt question. France, which owes
the United States s4,061 ,234, 900, has
been in default five years, along with
II other nations.
Some legislators inclined to look
with sympathy on a new move to re-
move the long standing sore spot in
international relations. Others. how
ever, indicated that if some of the
debtors were planning to make some
small payments with the idea of be-
ing allowed to borrow more money in
this country they we're doomed to
disappointment.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat of
Wyoming. was among those who said
that some debtors might be seeking
to come to terms to open up the
possibility of borrowing more money
for future wars" Under the exist
ing johnson law. defaulting nations
are now barred from raising money
in the United States.
Congress Must Approve.
Before any new arrangement about
the war debt can take effect, Congress
must give its approval. The conflict
ing reactions of the legislators indi-
Gated that the debate on any proposed
settlement might be stormy.
However. Senator Clark, Democrat,
of Missouri forecast that Congress
would consider French proposals for a
debt reduction sympathetically IF
We have some assurance that the
new agreement actually will be carried
out" Otherwise, he said, he saw lit
tie reason for further reduction"
While Chairman Pittman. Demo-
crat. of Nevada. chairman of the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Committee, has
limited that the United States might
agree to liberal terms. Chairman
O'Connor, Democrat, of New York of
the House Rules Committee said there
would be mo sentiment in Congress
to readjust those debts"
Alone among the debtor nations.
Finland has signified its intention Of
meeting its December is payment Of
$231.315.
Move Only Tentative.
A note of caution against too early
optimism over the outcome of the
French overtures was sounded by r.
Walton Moore, Acting Secretary Of
State. Emphasizing the tentative ma
ture of the move, he said
1T cannot be too strongly said that
the conversations (between Bullitt and
Delbos) were marked by nothing what
ever in the way of definite proposals
(see WAR DEBTS. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-12-02

NATIONAL.
President Roosevelt bids good-by to
Argentina. Page Al
Death sentence seen for railroad hold
ing companies. Page Al
Gil Dobie, Boston College foot ball
coach, hurt in crash. Page Al
House members denounce Garner for
backing Rayburn. Page Az
Gov. Smith of Vermont freed Of bank
theft charges. Page AS
Coast maritime strike leaders call for
showdown. Page As
John Ringing dies, victim of bronchial
pneumonia. Page ALA
Wage earners urged to speed social
security returns. Page B-6
FOREIGN.
Nazis adopt sweeping laws to aid eco
nomic reaival. Page Al
Cabinet reported threatening to quit
over Kings romance. Page Al
Women and children slain in air raid
on Madrid. Page Al
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Seasons first snow turns to rain; mis-
sions crowded. Page Al
Transportation Is problem for crowds
attending concert. Page As
Agreement reached to end Cumberland
celanese strike. Page As
Car swerves to avoid child, strikes and
kills father. Page B-1
Jefferson Memorial site at Tidal Basin
favored. Page B-1
New plan proposed for trafhc war
rants. Page B-1
Senator Logan approves foreign. mar
riage ban. Page B-l
Landlord tenant arbitration unit urged
for d. G. Page B-1
Government closes case In Nolan
bribery trial. Page B-l
Suit filed In alien custodian seizure Of
5000. 4 Page B-1
Evening star., 1936-12-02
BLUM'S ARBITRATION
BILL WINS, 438 TO 13O
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, December 2.-Premier Leon
Blum's bill providing compulsory arbi-
tration of labor disputes was approved
early today by the Chamber of Depu-
ties by vote of 438 to 100.
Approval was given after a single
day and night session, and the meas
ure sent to the Senate.
The measure would oblige workers
to submit disputes for arbitration be-
fore declaration Of a strike, with q
government-appointed "super-arbi-
traitor" delivering the final. obligatory
verdict If conciliation failed.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
M0LLlS0N AND C0.PILOT
SPEED FROM KIMBERLY
England-South Africa Flyers Are
Delayed Slightly by Engine
Trouble.
BY the Associated Press.


KIMBERLEY. Union of South
Africa, December 2.-Capt. James A.
Mollison and his co-pilot, Capt.
Edouard Corniglion- -Molinier, arrived
here today. about 500 miles from Cape
Town. goal of their speed flight from
England.
After delay from engine trouble.
they took off toward Cape Town at
IL a.n.,, Greenwich meridian time
(6 am. Eastern standard time).
The flyers left Croydon. England.
Sunday morning in Mollison's speed
plane Dorothy, in an attempt to
break the England-South Africa rec
ord Of days hours 26 minutes. now
held by Mollison's wife Amy.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
British Warships Relieved.

MALTA, December (P.-Two Of
Great Britain's mightiest battleships
the Hood and the Repulse-left to-
day for Gibraltar to relieve other
ships in accordance with a long
arranged program"
Evening star., 1936-12-02
CARY SERIOUSLY ILL
Kentucky Representative Given


Blood TRANSMISSION.
CINCINNATI, December @.-
Representative Glover H. Cary, DEM
ocrat, of the second Kentucky con-
gressional district, was critically i'll
In Bethesda Hospital today after a
blood TRANSMISSION.
DR.. George Rockwell, physician who
operated on Cary two weeks ago for
complications that developed from
pneumonia last Winter, said the Rep
resentative had rallied somewhat since
being given the TRANSMISSION.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
debt PAIRING TALK
CAUSES j. s. SPLIT
Opinion Divided on French
OvertureS-AdditionaI
Loan Pleas Feared.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
France first detauIted When she
refused to pay the ,Cdr debt INSTALL
men due December IS. 1882. Pre-
n1ier Leon Blum, then q Deputy,
Uoted for the default, Uhich urecked
the cabinet of Edoudrd Herriot.
Unpaid instnllments since first de-
fault after Hooper moratorium OF
1881 total 1925 ,OS0,01S.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
Summary of Todays Star

Man held for assault despite wife's re-
fusal to prosecute. Page B-1
Hearing in Edward Peter case set for
December IL. Page B-5
Prince Georges to conduct own police
probe. Page B-5
Many entries made for Bethesda c. of
C. parade. Page Bill
Trial of seamen arrested at German
Embassy resumed. Page B-12
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That. Page Ala
Answers to Questions. Page Ala
Stars. Men and Atoms. Page Ala
David Lawrence. Page A-13
Paul Mallon. Page A-l3
Constantine Brown. Page A-13
Jay Franklin. Page A-13
Headline Folk. Page A-13
SPORTS.
Local coaches at odds over pass inter-
ference rule revision. Page 'C-l
Sharp drop In foot ball scoring this
season is revealed. Page C-1
Hoyas have fine chance to equal fine
=
Reds, Giants and Bucs held angling
for Dizzy Dean. Page ca
Manager Harris reported to be seeking
Catcher Peacock. Page C-2
Leaders approve plan for District Ten
mis- Association. Page c.
Accurate kicks rated more valuable
than long foot ball punts. Page C-3
MISCELLANY.
City News in Brief. Page B-6
Vital Statistics. Page Bill
Bedtime Story. Page B-13
Natures Children. Page Bis
Young Washington. Page As
Traffic Convictions. Page B-l4
Betsy Caswen. Page C-6
Dorothy Dix. Page C-6
Mems Fashions. Page BIB
Winning Contract. Page Bib
FINANCIAL.
Steel ingot rate at new peak. Page A-20
Rail bonds climb (table). Page All
Power index advances. Page A-21
Stocks irregular (table). Page A-22
D. G. bank votes special divi-
dend. Page A.22
Curb List mixed (tAbls)A Page AIS