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I 'k ExrclxtsivcAsscxnakd iiii The OAKLAND AND VICINITY Fair and mild too! Kb and Tbureday but with some cloudiness; sen tie, changeable winds. Temperatures 63, mln. Bl 1AIYFALL. v. 24 hoars ending at 7:00 a.

.00 Season to date Normal date" 3.20 Lmt year to date 3.03 Press Caftwttdated Press Association -TVOL CXVII THREE CENTS, SUNDAY TEN CENTS OAKLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932 32 PAGES 139 U.C. to Honor 8 DIE FROM ZERO COLD Hoover Returns to Capital And Plunges into Study of War Debt Difficulties $1,000,000 TO BE SPENT AT 'BIG GAME' RAN GETS I T0 10 YEARS FOR MURDER Armed Hiker Kidnaps and Robs Driver Afjer Ride Passenger in Car Forced to Leap Out; All Monterey Roads Guarded in Vain Roosevelt Prepares to President Confers With Advisors on Europe Pleas WILL ASK JP AY Leader in Congress Declares Revision To Be Barred WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 Confronted the pressing' war debt difficulties. President Hoover quickly went into the matter with his advisors on his return to Washington today. For almost half.

an hour, Secretary of the Treasury -Ogden Mills conferred with.the Chief Executive, He and the Sepretary of State, Henry Stlmson, were among the cheering throng' which welcomed the President and Mrs. Hooyer at the station In the early morning. Stlmson had a luncheon engagement at the White House, with opportunity to help the; president on arrangements being made for the meeting soon to come between him and President-elect Roosevelt. Although of flcla) Information wns lacking, the impression lit Informed quarters' was that this country would insist on Some sort of payments on amoents due -from the debtor nations' December IS. How accurately this represented the administration attitude remained purely conjectural, "however," none of the high officials familiar 1 with the situation being willing as yet to state their views for1 publication.

DATA ASSEMBLED' ON AMOUNTS Ttnv 1 1. ABsumoiuj oi aaia on me many financial intricacies 'tht -rVw Hon went ahead at th -jt and Treasury Departments. aklander As Last of First Class C. J. Wetmore to Be Feted at Big Game Ceremony for Only Survivor of '73 For 59 years, the first Unlversitv of California graduating class the class of '73; has kept faith with its Alma Mater, Commencement erclses, alumni as- 3 1 at ion gatherings, and pre-B 1 Game 1 a-tions at all of these the class of '73 has represented.

This year, Clarence J. etm re, 81, of Oak land, first 4m a mgn h. uni versity California student en-r 1 1 nt blank, and clakehce J. wstxore. only 1 I members of the class, will keep the faith alone.

On Friday he will be guest of honor at an International House celebration, and on Big Game day he will be a guest nt a reception given by President Robert Gordon Sproul at the president's home in Berkeley. With his daughter and son-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Hubbard, of Los Angeles, and a grandson, Jerry, 15.

he will go to Memorial Stadium to root once again for the Blue and Gold. Wetmore was not alone last' year. Just before the Big Game of 1931 he and the late Frank Otis, former mayor of Alameda, and a '73 man" met solemnly at the Hotel Oakland at an "annual class meeting." Both voted for Wetmore as president and tlwn voted for Otis ns secretary, the former office going to Wetmore because of his seniority on the enrollment roster. liast January Otis died. After tha Big Game, Wetmore's plans ara Indefinite, he said, but it Is likely that he may dine alone Saturday night alone wth mem orles of the class of '73.

GARBO WEARS 1 III PARIS Goggles and Wool Stockings Help Film Star to Avoid Recognition on Boulevard PARIS, Nov. 1A OP) Greta Garbo put a dark wig over her golden hair today and went out Into the boulevards to fool Parisians. The ex-Hollywood film actress who has been trying to see London and Paris without herself being seen, added the wig to her disguise wardrobe with a certain measure of success for she was able to take a long promenade without being recognized. Since her presence here was discovered, movie fans have descended on her hotel in groups, but the actress has been dodging every one. An extra detail of police was stationed In front of her hotel to keep traffic moving.

In addition to the wig, Miss Garbo has been using the same shell-rimmed glasses, heavy dark coat and woolen stockings which enabled her to get In and out of London without Identified. Trotzky Welcome At Athens Stopped ATHENS, Nov. 16. (UP) Leon Trotsky, en route to Copenhagen, remained In his cabin aboard the steamer Praga when the ship reached here today. Police frustrated an attempted demonstration by Communists.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 16, (UP) Leon Trotsky's visit to Denmark Is due principally to his wife's need to consult a Danish doctor, it was learned today, although the nature of Mrs. Trotsky'a Illness waa not divulged. Lindbergh's Tutor 1 Dies at Woodbourne PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.

OP) William T. Mackey, 60, Philadelphia educator who once tutored Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, died yesterday at Woodbourne, a suburb. Mackey, a cousin of former Mayor Harry A. Mackey of Philadelphia, taught Colonel Lindbergh when he was taken as a boy of 14 to Washington, D.

by his father. Geneva Chats With Tokyo by Telephone GENEVA, Nov. lt. -4A) The first telephonic conversation between Europe and Japan waa held last night when League of Nations officials talked by wireless tele phone from the secretariat with station Kemikawa, nelai-Tokyo. Thus the service through, the League of Nations was opened on the; eve ot tha-Lytton report oa j4 i As President Hoover was' returning to the capital to diacnss with government leaders and hit successor-elect, a 1 1 D.

Roosevelt, what America's position should be, Belgium Joined the lend, of her two fellow-debtors In Recking 'an extension ot the Hoover moratorium and reexamination of the huge war obligations held by 1 the United States. bwef note, making "th same coincided with' Indications the administration lieves this, government should adopt an attitude mora rigid than that of a free granting of. exten- stems. Apparently It was felt that some debtor nations were well able to pay their share of the 000 due December IS." i RAINEY SAYS CONGRESS WILL REJECT PLEAS IN MIDWEST Severe Weather, Together With Blizzanl and Wind, Brings Extreme Suffering Whole Area Between Main Mountain Systems of Country Is Affected HELENA, Nov. 16.

OP) Snow is fnlling at Helena and Havre, Mont. The heaviest snowfall was reported from the northwestern Montana area. Havre reported six below zero last night. By The Associated Press. Concentrating Its attack In the Missouri River Valley area.

Winter spread sub-freezing temperature, snow, rain and sleet over the vast area between the Rockies and the Appalachians today. Normal weather conditions pre vailed on the Pacific Coast south of Oregon, the Rockies, areas acjja cent to the Gulf of Mexico and in the New England and Middle At lantle States. At least eight deaths were ascribed to the unexpected bitter weather, four each in Missouri and Illinois. Five succumbed In train-motor car collisions, two in auto accidents and one drowned when a boat was upset by heavy waves. Snow blanketed virtual ly all of Missouri and Illinois, reaching near blizzard proportions in some sections ot the latter State and reaching a depth of nearly a foot in northern Missouri.

Travel both by air and land was hampered. Snow plows were press ed Into service and unemployed had Jobs clearing snow from streets and walks. A temperature of one above zero was recorded at Chanute, Kansas, today, the Ipwest for November on record, and the lowest since January, 1930, reported a minimum of 10 degrees above zero. Montana Was warmer after subzero temperatures. Gales ytere abating yaKing; the north Pacjflo Coast but heavy rains continued In sections of Washington vand Oregon.

Texas reported the coldest weather of the season. 1 In southwest Missouri agriculturists said the "freeze' would be worth a fortune" to farmers and fruit growers. They explained the sudden temperature drop would kill insect pests Infesting orchards and fields. Fair Weather for Big Game Likely Fair weather was promised aB a probability for the Stanford-California annual football classic at Berkeley on Saturday today "by Major E. H.

Itowle, government weather forecaster. Bowie declared that although it was not possible to predict weather conditions accurately so far in the future, he believed from present indications fans will enjoy clear ikies with crisp Meanwhile, the weather for tonight and tomorrow will be. fair and mild in the bay region, in the Sacramento, San Joaqualn and Santa Clara Valleys, and In southern California. Rain In Oregon and Washington and on the northern border of California was forecast as the result of a storm now moving across British Columbia. There may be some snow, also, Bowie stated.

Eureka had .20 Inches of Tain from the storm yesterday, it was reported. Severe Cold Southern States NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16 OP) Winter's most severe visitation swept into the deep South today. It brought near-record temperatures and a cold wave of wide spread proportions that drove east ward from Texas in a blast of stinging Inda. sleet and snow.

Fascism Only Hope Of World, Says Duce ROME, Nov. It. OP) "Salva tion for the tormented world can come only -from Rome," Premier Mussolini said today at the opening session of tho Chamber of Deputies. "If I like, I can change these gray halls into a bivouac for my troops," he declared in another part of his address, Gen. Dawes Quits-Politics for Good CHICAGO, Nov.

16. (UP) Charles Q. Dawes, former Vice-President and- former ambassador to Great Britain, has announced his retirement 'from politics will he permanent. Dawes said he would devote all his time to his banking business. Soviet to Discharge Men For Absence 'MOSCOW, Nov.

worker of official in Soviet Russia absent without Justification for one day during a month will be sublect to: immediate discharge and loss of his bread card, according to a decree to be issued today by the Council of Peoples Commissars, The Is aimed to vet come widespread, neglect, of duties, Chief Executive of Nation Back to HH 1 ace asKs DEBTS FIRST President Will Wait For Call From Successor By JOHN F. CHESTER Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. After two eventful weeks of transcontinental travel, President Hoover reached the capital at 8:30 o'clock this morning, prepared to deal with the troublesome problem of war debts due the United States.

The President carried with lilin, It was rciKirted in high quarters of his administration, a belief thnt declaration of another year moratorium such ns he onco sponsored would not provide the answer to the debt situation created by British, French and Belgian requests for a re-exami-nation of the whole subject. On the last stages of his return Journey to the national capital, the Chief Executive maintained silence on the debt policies he expects shortly to discuss with Presidentelect Roosevelt. He looked forward to conferences today with cabinet offioers intimate with international financial affairs, and to reviewing In detail all developments since the three requests for a suspension of payments due Dccemner 16, pending a reopening of debt negotiations. HOOVER CONSIDERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS He will await, also, the promised telephone call from Roosevelt, setting the time for his coming to the Whits House for a conferenoe expected to deal not only with debts but also other pressing national and International Issues. As he traveled back to conclude the final stae of his administration before turning the reins over to Roosevelt, Hoover has had 'under consideration, in addition to foreign debts, other matters he will outline In his annual message to Congress, due now In less than three weeks, and.

In the budget message to follow it immediately. REORGANIZATION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. During the Intervening time until the short seaslon convenes on December 6, the President hopes to prepare a series of executive orders -dealing with reorganization of the Federal Government. Under the economy bill passed by the last session these orders must He be fore Congress for 60 days, and if not objected to In that time will be plnccd in effectr With his. arrival In the capital todHy, the President sets for him self a record ot S383 miles of travel by rail through 22 states during the past two weeks, over half of this distance covered in his final campaign drive to California.

During the full course of his cam paign, he has traveled 16,000 miles, Lawful Urged to Tote Guns to Fight Crime NEW ORLEANS, Las, Nov. 16 OP) Gun toting by the law abld ing Is urged by 0oK Calvin God- dard, director of scientific crime detection laboratory of Northwestern University, as crime deterrent. "Our laws against permitting self-respecting adults to carry guns are one reason for our terrific crime wave," he told the In ternational Association for Identl fieation in conventloB here yes terday. "The crook who has no respect for the law carries a gun. The decent man who respects the law carries none and hb; life and prop erty are at the mercyT4he thug, Bolivians Repulse Paraguay's Attacks LA PAZ, Bolivia, Nov.

1. OP) The army general staff today an nounced three fierce Paraguayan attacks on Fort. Saavedra, in the strategic Munoz seator of the Chaco, had been repulsed. The Paraguayan casualties were reported large. The communique charged Paraguayan airplanes bombed the Fort Saavedra Hos pital, wounding a Walker Faces Lien On Suite at Hotel NEW YORK, Nov.

16. (UP) A lien on former-Mayor James J. Walker's belongings in his suite at the Hotel Ambassador was revealed when Deputy Sheriff Joseph A. Lanman attempted to seize some of the property to satisfy a $485 Judgment obtained by an interior dec orator who. did some on Walker's Mayfair house apartment, Illinois May Repeal, Prohibition Law WriNGFIELD, 111., Sept.

(UP) The House of Represents-tires today Sent to Governor Lotils Jfi' Emmerson irresolution urging that the chief executive call a special session of the; Legislature to consider repealing the State prohibition law, The 'Governor last repeal bllL Travel and Celebrations Expected to Bring Huge Sums to Bay Business 79,403 to Crowd Stadium At Berkeley; Hotels Prepare for Festive Night The "Big Game" means "big business" to the Bay region ana next Saturday's gridiron classic between the teams of the University of California and Stanford -will put approximately $1,000,000 in circulation here. This was revealed today as university authorities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, theaters and transportation companies prepared for another golden harvest from the game and its attendant gathering of students, alumni and fans. The Memorial Stadium at Berkeley, scene of this year's meeting of the traditional rivals, will be fHled to capacity, It was Indicated today. The Stadium has a capacity of 79,403 and to-day there were less than 2500 tickets unsold. The usual last minute rush" will take these, university authorities said.

federal rooms and rOLICE KEEP HANDS OFF Celebrations attendant upon the "Big Game" will not be marred by the Intrusion of Federal prohibition agents or San Francisco police unless some law other than the dry statutes Is violated. Prohibition Administrator W. O. Walker declared today that "not a single agent will go looking for liquor violations" although his quad would "stand by for emergencies." Police Chief William J. Qulnn took a similar stand, declaring his men -would not make arrests "except in cases involving disorderly conduct or some such offense." On the basis of a capacity crowd Uncl8am will collect $86 400 under the 10 per cent tar which means a "gate of more than TRANSPORTATION AIDED BY OUT OF TOWNERS Of the total number of tickets, approximately 40,000 have gone out-of-town including 26,000 to Stanford for students and alumni.

Some 15,000 out-of-town California alumni are expected. All that means "big business" for railroads, steamship and air lines, garages and sellers of oil and gasoline for the thousand, who will travel by automobile. Eastbay hotels will be taxed to the utmost, a survey showed today. The Hotel Oakland wilL use all three of its large dining rooms for the "Big Game" dinner, and anticipates at least 800 diners. There wilt'be special decorations, and the University of California piee Club, under the direction of Eugene Blanchard, will entertain during the evening, assisted by a revue and specialty entertainment from Stanford.

Rooms also are expected to sell-out, according to the management. The Hotel Claremont reports heavy reservations and expects-to entertain some 800 or 900 guests, of whom at least 700 will dine after the game. Special decorations and entertainment, Including a revue, are scheduled. OTHER HOTELS EXPECT TO DO BIG BUSINESS The management of the Hotel Whitecotton, Berkeley, says all rooms not occupied by permanent guests will be sold out. They expect to serve during the day, with more tW-1000 diners after the game.

The Hotel Leamington also reported heavy registrations and estimated a dinner attendance of at least 300 persons. The Hotel Alameda expects some 400 for Its "Big Game" dinner. rKL. ia.n Athletic chid is pre- XIIO li- Iftft Mrann at paring iu emcuw" dinner dance and entertainment. Advance estimates by other clubs 1 I.

EAAi are: Claremont uouniry tmu, Women's Athlet'irlub, 300; Orln-a rmmtrv Club. 200; Mount ntrv rinh. zoo. I 1 1 tU IVI uuuuuj i -a Ban jrancisco nuieia imported "big business." The St. Francis has already filled 850 room orders, and expects to be sold out for dinner reservations.

The Stanford team will be entertaiued ifi. i i rl A vominucu oil i age Today's Tribune Subject Amusements, Theaters Aviation Clarified Ads Page .26 r.27 2o Cornier ....25 ....24 ....24 ....20 ....24 ...27 ....12 Cross Word Puzzle Culbertson Contract Editorial Features Editorials Fiction Finance Geraldins Marine a Radio Society; Women's Events -Sports 10 13 Accomplice of rinhin and Egan, Who Testified for State, Given Leniency Judge Sends Him Back to Prison to Serve Time Concurrent With Old Term SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16. Verne Doran, whose confeslon to participation in the murder of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes sent former Public Defender Frank J.

Egan and Albert Tlnriin to prison for life terms, today was given a sentence of from one to ten years for his share in the crime. Superior Judge Frank H. Dunne, who also sentenced Egan and Tin-nin, also fixed the term to run con currently with the sentence of from one to fifteen years which Doran Is now serving for violating his parole op an old burglary charge. Action on a robbery charge still pending was continued until December 15 and Doran granted a three-day stay of execution before being returned to Sn Quentln prison. Doran was indicted for murder with Kgan and Tinnln following his confession that he and Tinnin had crushed the life from Mrs.

Hughes on the night of April 29 last at Egan's instigation. Subsequently he appeared as the principal prosecution witness In the trial that resulted In their conviction. PROMISED LENIENCY FOlt HIS TESTIMONY In return for his confession and testimony, Doran was promised a recommendation of leniency and today the promise was kept. Chief Assistant District Attorney I. M.

Golden, who prosecuted Egan and Tinnln, appeared In court with Doran to plead for leniency. Doran's cooperation, he Baid, hod been of "great benefit to the prosecution and the people of California," and he "should be rewarded." Judge Dunne then permitted Doran to withdraw his plea of not guilty to the murder IndictmeW and plead guilty to manslaughter. DORAN SENTENCED TO LEGAL TERM Then he sentenced Doran to "the term prescribed by law" which is from one to ten years and fixed the term to run concurrently with Doran's present sentence. This action permits the State Prison Board, if It sees fit, to grant Doran his freedom after the minimum time. For more than six months Doran has occupied a special cell in the city prison a room In the women's department with comfortable furniture, a radio and flower boxes.

In his confession Doran said he and Tinnin gained entrance to Mrs. Hughes' homo at 41 Lokewood Avenue through arrangement made by Egan. While he held the elderly woman's aims, he said, Tinnln knocked her unconscious with his fist. The two then dragged her to the garage beneath the house and while Tinnin held her, Doran said, he drove a heavy automobile back anil forth over her body. The body was then hauled a few blocks away and damped Into a gutter to lead police to believe the victim had been killed by a hit-and-run driver.

'Five and Ten Heiress Wearing New Ring LONDON, Nov. 16. (UP) The Daily Express reported today that Miss Barbara Mutton, Woolworth heiress, wore a blood ruby ring on her engagement finger at her twenty-first birthday party. She has been reported engaged to a titled Englishman and to various members of foreign royalty. The Dally sketch said the engagement would be announced SAKBA1A HUTTOK, tween Mar- a.

i piioto. garet Wigman, 20, one of the mos.t beautiful of recent debutantes in London, and Charles Sweeney, 22, American student at Oxford and well known amateur golfer. Sweeney and his brother, Robert, have golfed with the Prince of Wales and played in the most important British tournaments for several years. Citizenship Restored To 17 Anti-Fascists ROME, Nov. 16.

00 Citizenship was restored today to 17 anti-Fasclsts living abroad or in jail In Italy, under a royal decree. A decree on January 81, 1926, deprived these men ot Italian citizenship and confiscated their goqds. Among them were Gaetano Salveminl, the writer living in America, and Cesare Rossi, an early member of the Fascist grand council and close companion ef 11 Duce several years Rossi is now serving 80 years In prison for attempting to assassinate Musso- PALO ALTO, Nov. 16. Kid naped by a hitch-hiking gunman at San Ardo, 40 miles south of Salinas, Thomas' Boone, 60, Palo Alto insurance agent, was robbed of $10 today and forced to drive at breakneck speed to San Jose, where his captor escaped.

At the beginning of the wild ride the gunman forced Edward Hardy, also of Palo Alto, riding with Boone on a trip from San Bernardino, to leap from the automobile. Hardy somersaulted Into a ditch beside the road, nearly senseless from a blow on the head received as he 'Struck the pavement. Boone's captor released him, with a flourishing threat of his gun, In front of a stage depot in Palo Alto, and the victim drove on to his home here at 430 Forest Avenue, where he notified police. ARMED GUARDS ARE PLACED ON ROADS In the Interval following th kidnaping and Boone's arrival at his home, armed guards had been placed on all Monterey County highways by the sheriff's office at Salinas. Hardy, walking to San Ardo, notified the authorities of the kidnaping by telephone.

Boone told police he branded his captor a "coward" and offered to "fight it out with bare fists," despite the fact that the hitchhiker was only about 25. In reply, Boone said, the kidnaper merely shoved the muzzle of his gun deep into Boone's side and ordered him to "step on the gas or take the consequences." Speeding north, Boone said purposely Ignored several highway stop signs, hoping to attract 'a motorcycle -officer's attention to the violation, but the ruse failed to work. -FLAGGED CAR AND ASKED FOR RIDE The hitch-hiker flagged down Boone's car near San Ardo. "Thanks for the lift," he said as he climbed into the rear seat. A moment later he whipped out a revolver, pressed it to Hardy's back, and told him to "Jump, for your life." Although the car was traveling rapidly.

Hardy obeyed, tumbling out of the front seat of the machine and somersaulting Into a ditch, almost unconscious from his violent contact with the pavement. 'The machine, containing Boone and the gunman, increased Its speed and disappeared in the distance as Hardy struggled to his feet and started off for San Ardo. He telephoned from there to the sheriff's office at Salinas, and a heavy guard was Immediately posted about nil highways. T. IT.

ITS $9 DIVIDEND While Telephone Earnings Decrease, Strong Reserves Provide Margin of Safety NEW YORK, Nov. 16 UP) The American Telephone Telegraph Co. today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 32.25 a share on the capital stock, thus maintaining the $9 annual rate. Though earnings fell short of covering the dividend by about $1 a share for the first nine months this year, Wall Street through recent weeks remained steadfast In its belief that the regular dividend would be ordered. RESERVES PROVIDE MARGIN OF SAFETY The company's strong position In reserves was viewed by the financial district as providing a margin of safety for the dividend.

As of December 31 last the consolidated balance sheet showed cash of more than $50,000,000 and temporary cash investments of $239,289,893, a total of about $289,629,000. For the first nine months this year American Telephone's net income was equal to $6.92 a share compared with $7.01 a share In the like 1931 period. For the September quarter earnings equalled $1.90 a share compared with $2.12 in the September quarter last year. DIVIDENDS FROM BELL COMPANIES Of the $103,414,233 received by the company in the first nine months in dividends from the associated Bell however, approximately $18,000,000 was unearned, the company reported. In telephone lossess the company has been showing to better advantage during the past few months, although October failed to show a continuance of the toward reduced station losses reported in August and September, The $9 annual dividend rate has been in force since 1921.

Today' disbursement is payable. January 16 to stock ot'record December 20. Oklahoma to Fete Its Silver Jubilee OKLAHOMA CITT, Nov. W) Oklahoma today celebrated the silver Jubilee of statehood. Just 25 years ago, President.

Theodore Roosevelt signed the document made a stats' the Oklahoma, Indian; Territories', Meet Hoover ALBANY. N. Nov, With the time drawing near for his meeting with President Hooyer, Franklin D. Roosevelt is recovering from a light case of influenza and hastening to put his official business In order before departing for his visit to the White House. Planning to devote most of his working time between now and Saturday to the state budget, the President-elect avowedly is giving "no further consideration" at the moment to what will transpire at his conference with the nation's chief executive.

RECOVERS FROM ATTACK OF "FLU" There were Indications today that Roosevelt will suggest next Tuesday or Wednesday as the date for the meeting at which he has agreed to talk over Informally and personally with Hoover "the entire situation" pertaining to war debt matters and other national affairs. Propped up in bed at his first press conference in five days, the New York Governor; yesterday re vealed tnat tne com wun wnicii he went to bed last Friday developed Into "a slight attack ot the flu." EIGHT YEARS AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. W) Franklin D. Roosevelt, next week as President-elect will visit the White House on a mission" without precedent.

His conferences with President Hoover on war debts and other problems of state, not ex pected to be disposed of before he enters the mansion as chief execu tive next March 4, will add to a richness of experience already had In Washington. In the month that Woodrow Wil son waB inaugurated, na roaae Franklin Roosevelt his assistant Secretary of the Navy" For eight years, until 1920, he held the of fice, learning more of Washington's soheme of things, adminis trative, political and social. The last- time Roosevelt was in the White House, political portents already were shaping. On the occasion of the White House dinner to governors of states attending their annual conference last April at Richmond, Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt were guests of President and Mrs.

Hoover. PLOT MARKS WALES' VISIT Attempt Made to Derail Train Carrying Sightseers To Belfast Dedication BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Nov. 16. OP) An attempt to wreck a train taking sightseers from Kelts', to Belfast to the Prince of Wales -was thwarted today. Long lengths of rail were torn up and other sections were mined.

Rail officials had scented trouble and discovered the damage before a crowded train was due. The Prince, welcomed by a flag-waving and cheering populace and guarded by 12,000 men, dedicated the new Parliament Building for the Government of Northern Ire land. Ulster Nationalists took no part in the ceremony. They had pro tested against the Prince's visit, contending it tended to widen the breach between the North Coun ties and the Irish Free State. The protests, together with the recent unemployment riots in which several lives were lost, were the reason for the exceptional gOard placed on' the Prince.

Thousands of constables and volunteer Orangemen lined the five-mile route from the dock where the Prince's ship was moored to the Parliament Building at Btormont where, in his speech of. dedication, the Prince spoke of the herolo part played by Ulster In ths World War. Germans Seen on Right Bank of Rhim PARIS, Nov. 16 (UP)-rThe Strasbourg correspondent, tof newspaper Echo de Paris reported today that officers and soldiers of the German Relchswehr had been seen 'on the right hank of the Rhine near Settz, Wissemborg, Nov. 8, taking photographs of French fort near the bridge.

The Versailles treaty demilitarized the right bank of the Rhine for si distance ot $0 'miles Inland Don Moyle's Plane Stolen in Mexico NOOAT.Wa Mexico. Nov, Xm The airplane whieh Don Moyle'v flew across the Pacific Ocean last year from Japan to the United States, was reported stolen here today and a search was started in the United States and in is engaged in commercial flying between Nocnles and Hormosillo, 1 landed hee vcBterday jtfternoon. Possibly Indicative also of the ultimate Congressional decision on the debt question was statement ny uepreieniauva ainey, floor leader House, that any move" 'toward debt revi sion would be rejected- "i this or any other Factors in the' situation immedU tttely confronting; Hoover included Greece's default en payment due) last week' and Hungary's inotios) that she can not meet her December Belgium, -which has paid at 400, 680,000 and owes $2,125,000 In December, referred in- her not to the British and French requests, recalled that' she adhered to th moratorium and latere ''in the interests of peace and economlo recovery," to the Lausanne agreements. 'MUTUAIi ASSISTANCE URGED BY BELGIUM1 The note added: so doing; it. consented to make sacrifices; which were particularly heavy and have profoundly affected the financial situation of Belgium, Ths Belgium government rtmal convinced that difficulties with which the world is faced today cannot be overcome unless the nations pursue a resolute policy of cooperation and mutual assistance." Ralney said he saw "na Teasn why the United States governmen (Continued on Page 3, CoL I) of RESULTS! This TRIBUNE Want Ad FOUND, the doggie.

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