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DAILY ARGUS -LEADER Evening Edition Evening Edition "SOUTH DAKOTA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER' SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1938 PRICE THREE CENTS Ob Trains and New, Stands 5e Ml UUVJ TH 15) 'ts PAGES i Railroad Commissioners Recommend Wage Slice proposals Be Abandoned Dempsey Threatens To Quit Probe Nazis Continue Roundup Of Polish Jews FOOD BOOTHS, HUGE EXHIBIT BEING SET UP Plans Progress for Caring of 100,000 Expected Visitors COMPLETE COMFORT Temporary Tented Village Includes Postoffice and Fire Trucks a Poisoned Police Blockade Highways From East 10-Year-Old Car Driver Apprehended way 16 DEPORTATION OF THOUSANDS IS UNDER WAY Legal Snarl Develops Nations Combine Against Japanese FIREMEN SAVE MAN OVERCOME BY GAS FUMES Fred Sprague Falls Into Gasoline Tank Car Revived With Respirator Fred Sprague, 29, 830 North Indiana ave, was recuperating at his home today after police and firemen brought him back from the brink of death late Friday afternoon. He had been working at the Sinclair Refining company's bulk station, 829 North Indiana ave, pumping the gasoline from a railroad tank car. When the pump brought forth no more gasoline, Sprague climbed to the top of the car and peered down inside to see if he had got it all. Firemen said he Drobably was over- Patrolmen in three police radio cars blockaded highways leading into Sioux Falls from the east after they received a report from Lu-verne, late Friday that a car had been stolen there. Luverne police called at 3:31 p.

m. and within a few minutes, cars were stationed and waitlnir on U. S. highway 77, on the "Old Bran don" road and on U. S.

highway 16. Desk Lieut. Joe Wilcox dispatched the cars to their positions by radio. Fourteen minutes after he issued orders, Patrolmen Lloyd Zellhoefer and Emmett Robertson radioed from their car, stationed one-half mile east of the city limits on high Sioux Falls Municipal Port May Be Accorded Top Rating Says Reduction Would I Til A1 A 1 Not Meet nnauuoi Emergency Oct. Washington, iiroad investigating rTremmended today that the board recomm thelr emergency w.a!5v President Roosevelt, the carriers tiie cancel.

n0 sMiW. out that the re- ac tney im Son would made 1516 in September to investi- noOSf rad wage dispute, said that ptt the rad wage nQt as compared with wages colnrable of its lengthy opin- the wage situation, the 1011 reduction in the railroad irHmfrv would run Ifof wage rates in industry gen- erally." we nrhpn ear- ners serve rdVr brotherho voted to strike ratner inau Three-Man Board arrt.ine under oro- visions of the railway 'labor act ap- xinted tner mree-ium. composed of Chief Justice Sr. atn- of the North Caro lina supreme court, Professor Harry A Mulls oi ine uiiivcioiia nun M. LandlS 01 Cage, huu the Harvard university law school.

The members of the board presented the report to Mr. Roosevelt stacv asserted he did not know miifm Mr Roosevelt would take on the report, but that the chief executive proDiem now is wj vci i a strike." rai-lv white House secre- tary, told reporters the president had no comment, uw mu that he would confer Monday with leaders of railroad management and labor. In its summary opinion, tne Doara said that "a horizontal reduction of wages on a national scale would not meet the financial emergency of the industry, since the savings would not be distributed merely to the needy roads." The report added: Tile financial distress of the carriers which has obtained since Octo-hor when the last in- ac wpta prant.pd. is fi vet a irt-term situation. such, it cannot be regarded as grounds ior a wage reaucwon, especially in view of present indications of an improvement in the business oi trie carriers.

I'rges Withdrawal "In the light of these findings, the board concludes that the proposal of the carriers for a reduction of the wages, of railway labor should not be pressda and recommends the carriers withdraw and cancel the notices which would put such a reduction into operation as of December 1, 1938." Explaining the report, Stacy told reporters that while some railroad wages were substantial in amount, others were low. This situation, he said, keeps the wages of rail labor from being high Weather And Roads Wttthfr md to4 Information 67 Associated Press. Local tmDer-tat. barometer and wind velocity br J. H.

Bechtold. voluntary United State In Sioux Fall. Official Forecast SOUth Dakota- Comoro llir -fair- n- Hight anrl Sunriav warmer tonight and in' central and i ounaay. Iowa: Fair tonight and Sunday; SOmeWhat Colder in paer onrt cnnth- tentrai portions tonight; rising tem- rv.oiuir omiaav. Minnesota: Fair In east and south, ffiCreaSlne Clouriinpcc in nnrOintict coid in west portion tonight; cloudiness In uth.

becoming unsettled in north portion, warmer. Nebraska: Fair tonight and Sun-oay. not cool in west and north-. warmer Sunday, except In extreme northwest. forecast for Week and lower Missouri valleys not jature mostly near or above nor- Norhem and central great plains indicated; noS m05tly near or above Local Temperatures Joda? Vesterday 37 P-m ...63 a- 31 9 xJnm 35 12 Midnight! "45 59 Winrt WIT In ml Barmeter rising 1 1 sunset 5:37.

tion mur and precipita -7 Ar, riod ending M. today: Weather and Roads Siouy Poii. High Low Roads BrOflkinn," 33 KS ao. r.wi Pierre 61 25 Good Rum; 66 30 Good 9R rSnn.1 AberdePn fi 66 31 Good 15 23 25 Good Good Good oi atertown 59 60 lV id CD 59 Na ion Skies aI1 clear. National Weather Record for nasi recoatn 7 n.

m. High Low Free. FEES PROTEST WITH DIES ON GROUP POLICY Opposes Giving Publicity to 'Wild' Statements in Hearings Silver City, N. Oct. 29.

OP) A heated attack on the methods of the congressional committee investigating un-American activities came today from Rep. J. J. Dempsey (D-NM), a member who threatened to resign from the group if "wild" statements about outstanding citizens continued to receive publicity. Dempsey, campaigning for reelection, came here today from Lordsburg, where last night he made public a long telegram of protest to Chairman Dies (D-Tex) of the com mittee.

Request Refused Dempsey, who with Rep. A. D. Healy of Massachusetts Thursday asked and was refused a committee recess until after the elections, assailed what he termed "wild and irrational statements" being made about prominent and respected persons In testimony before the committee. "If this method Is to be followed," his telegram to Dies said, "it can only result in undoing what good the committee has accomplished and finally must result in total repudiation of these investigations.

"If we are to expect such a continuation I have no other alternative than to ask the speaker of the house to accept my resignation as a member of the committee and to insist that my name be used no further in connection with the committee's activities." Dempsey told Dies that when he was in Washington for an executive session of the committee, the majority decided the committee would conduct hearings in executive session "to protect citizens who were being attacked by irresponsible people, making harsh and detrimental statements which could not be substantiated." To Give Information He said it was decided to give to the public and the press "such information as was proved true and coming within the scope of our jurisdiction." "You at that time," the telegram to Dies continued, "called attention of certain members of the committee to the fact that partisan politics was being injected into the investigation, something that several members of your committee resented. "You say it would be cowardly to postpone further hearings until the entire committee can be present and all the members can voice their feeling with reference to procedure. I know of nothing more cowardly than to permit wild and irrational statements, which have no basis in fact and have only for their end the assassination of characters of men who are outstanding and who both you and I know to be American citizens of the highest type." Grateful Ex-Convict Halts Robbery Plan Policeman Buys Him Meal When He Was 'Down on His Luck $22,000 Saved Peabody, Oct. 29. (JP) The strange tale of a regenerate ex-convict who gave up a plan to rob the city hall because a policeman staked him to a meal when he was "down on his luck" was told today by Captain James F.

Murphy. The safe In the city collector's office, to which he had somehow obtained the combination, held $22,000 in collected taxes the night the plan was discovered. Murphy said. Grateful for a 25-cent meal the captain gave him when he walked hungry into headquarters last Tuesday, the man disclosed, the captain said, that he and two companions had planned to hide until city hall closed, then chisel away a door panel leading to the safe. The captain said he helped his informant obtain a job in a Peabody leather factory.

'INSTALLMENT PLAN' FOR FINES FAILURE Des Moines, Oct. 29. (JP) Persons given a chance to pay fines on the "installment plan" owe the Des Moines municipal court more than $6,000, court attaches said today. Some of the "overdue" accounts stretch back to 1930, the records show. They include reckless drivers, speeders, Intoxication cases, assault and battery charges and the like.

Many of the violators have moved out of town, the officials said. "The records show a majority of those released to pay do not do so." said Sol Qlick, city prosecutor. "Only the Judges have power to grant permission to pay at a later date. Maybe it's a bad practice." Simla, India, Oct. 29.

(iP) The government of India is taking steps toward stricter regulation of the steadily increasing shipment of monkeys. Exports mounted from" 16.220 In 1930 to 22.544 in 1936, of which the United States purchased 14,700. Railroads and steamship companies agreed to cooperate to insure adequate space and food and water for the animals in transit. "Calling station KBTY we have got the car thief and the car and we are heading for the station." A few minutes later the officers marched in, leading a 10-year-old boy who was small for his age. "He was so darned small," said Zellhoefer, "we could hardly see him behind the wheel." He said his name was Keith Hudson and that he was a third-grader in the Luverne public schools.

"I Just wanted the ride," he said. "I planned to turn around and drive back home after I got here." Luverne police were notified. And the lad was given a ride back home last night. Mayor Graff to Ask Aeronautics Officials for Highest Ranking When it has been completed, the Sioux Falls municipal airport may be placed in class 4, the highest rating given by the Civil Aeronautics authority at Washington. Mayor A.

N. Graff said today he would urge aeronautic officials to give the field top rating. He made the statement in connection with an inspection being made by L. W. Wilcox, Chicago.

Wilcox is an airport engineer connected with the civil aeronautics authority and is making a survey of all airports In North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. Cites Long Runways Wilcox pointed out the factors which will make the port here unexcelled in the northwest. He cited the following: Long runways. Two of the runways are 4,500 feet long and a third 5,000 feet long, sufficient for the landing of the biggest ships. Absence of obstructions.

'Wilcox pointed out that there were no flying hazards of this kind near the field. A natural, flat landing field. He said the tract on which the port is being constructed Is an ideal field for the purpose. Property available for expansion if necessary. In the event the airport was found to be too small in years to come, there is acreage to the north which can be acquired.

Another important feature, Wilcox said, was the whole-hearted support accorded the project by city officials and civic leaders. Now Rated Class 3 Wilcox said the field has been tentatively rated as class 3 but he said it had all the advantages necessary to a class 4 rating. All ratings are made by civil aeronautics authority officials, class 1 being the lowest and class 4 the highest in the scale. Wilcox said the authority was making a nation-wide survey of all airports with a view of assembling data on all of them and compiling a summary of aviation from all sec- tions. Graff took Wilcox on a tour of I the airport and explained all work being aone.

Philippines Show Exports Decrease Unfavorable Trade Balance Reported for First Time of 1 7 Years Manila. Oct. 29. (JP) A report on foreign trade issued today by the Philippine commonwealth department of commerce indicated the Philippines will have an unfavorable trade balance in 1938 for the first time in 17 years. A sharp decrease In exports was attributed to the decline of prices for major Philippine commodities including coconut oil, sugar, hemp, and lumber.

Japan's purchases of hemp and lumber have been greatly cut since war be(an In China. The report estimated the total unfavorable trade balance for the first nine months of 1938 at more than $13,500,000. Trade with the United States, however, showed a favorable balance of almost $1,500,000. Prince Eugenio Weds Lucia of Bourbon Munich, Oct. 29 (JP) Michael, Cardinal Faulhaber today solemnized the marriage of Prince Eugenio, Duke of Ancona, and Princess Lucia of Bourbon, whose civil wedding yesterday united two royal houses.

Cardinal Faulhaber read a telegram from Pope Pius expressing hope that the high Christian and civic virtues of their houses might be a heritage of the new family. The 32-year-old prince is a cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. an officer of the Italian navy and gov ernor of a province of Ethiopia. Princess Lucia is a daughter pf Duke Ferdinand of Calabria, head of the Neapolitan branch of the Bourban family. A tented city, with all the comforts of home, was complete today at the contest field near Dell Rapids where the national cornhusking contest will be held next Thursday.

One great tent, stretching more than four city blocks in length, housed 48 food concession booths. Another tent, 50 230 feet in dimension, covered a huge exhibit of South Dakota products which was characterized by W. H. Kircher, field editor of The Farmer, St. Paul, agricultural paper sponsoring the contest, as "the most outstanding exhibit ever shown at any cornhusking contest." Indian Town Set ITp Other units in the temporary "city" Include an Indian village, headquarters tent, press tent, scoreboard and officials' platform, an arena where picked corn will be judged and weighed after the contest, a telephone tent, public com- DEDICATION PROGRAM TO BE HELD SUNDAY Thousands of persons are expected to view the national cornhusking contest field for the first time Sunday afternoon when dedication ceremonies are held.

The program, starting at 2 o'clock, will include music by the Sioux Falls municipal band and an address by Dean E. B. Woodruff. Since all facilities for the contest are to be complete Sunday, visitors will have an opportunity of previewing these before the actual contest. Many food con-sessions will be open and readv for business.

The big exhibit of South Dakota resources will be spen. The contest field is on the J. N. Jensen field near Dell Rapids. The route is plainly marked.

The iedication ceremony, like the actual contest, will be free. fort stations, a radio tower and soundproof broadcast station, The Farmer's tent, a Red Cross tent, and mobile power exhibits. Approximately 200 carpenters, according to Secretary Paul K. Myers of the chamber of commerce, have voluntarily contributed their labor under the supervision of Henry Carlson, chairman of the construction committee, in the task of building' booths and other facilities. Fields covered in the big state exhibit Include forestry and lumber, geology and mining, fish and game, corn history, rural credits, agriculture, poultry and soli conservation, recreation, education and safety methods.

The largest section will be devoted to agriculture, poultry and soil conservation. Dog to Be Barbecued Approximately a score of Indians from the Pine Ridge reservation are to pitch camp on the grounds under the supervision of John White. Known as the "most native" tribe in the United States, the Indians will live in native style until after the contest. Next week they are scheduled to barbecue a dog for food. The official platform is located in front of the scoreboard and is 32 feet square.

Nearby is the press tent, ready to house correspondents and other writers during the contest. Special telephone, telegraph and electric circuits have been Installed at the field. Installation of much new line and setting of new poles was necessary. Amplifying equipment will be installed for announcements. Postoffice Set L'p The nerve center of the contest will be the headquarters tent, where an information service, a lost and found department and postoffice will be maintained.

First tent up was the exhibit quarters of the International Harvester company. Twenty men have been busy arranging this 50x200 foot tent for the last week, and work Is still ln- (Continued on page 2, column 8) Caffruy's Cnrncr Well, I see where Czechoslovakia averted another war by cleverly ceding more territory to threatening furriners. This time it was Hungary that was maneuvered into accepting a slice of property. And poor Czechoslovakia won't even get its cede back. But.

if Czechoslovakia "averts" any more wars, it is going to have to shorten Its name, as even now the map-makers have to make It to get it on their maps. Still, as long as holds out, the world should be safe for democracy. But, if we ever run out of good, fertile Czechoslovaks soil, with its rich black dirt and lush. Juicy grasses, it will be "Good bye, John!" There is considerable conjecture as to what nation will preemption rights to take-' up a homesteld in good. okT Czechoslovakia, but any interested pioneer wanting some of this choice property will have to act pronto, because this Czecho-slovakian real estate Is certainly being snapped-up.

1 GABE, BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Germany continued today to round up Polish Jews for possible deportation to Poland, the result of a legal snarl between Berlin and Warsaw which diplomats still sought vainly to solve. Jewish sources estimated that 6,000 Polish Jews residing In Germany had been sent to the border since the first German raiders began a nation-wide round-up yesterday and that half already were on the Polish side. A Polish law requiring all citizens who have lived abroad for more than five years to have their passports revalidated or lose their citizenship becomes effective at midnight tonight. Germany estimated 150,000 Poles are resident in Germany, many thousands of them Jews who might be deprived of their citizenship by refusal of revalidation. Thus, Berlin argues, they could not be deported and might become public charges.

Bonnet Warns French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet at the radical socialist meeting in Marseille warned that a firm peace could rest only on a foundation of solid economics and proposed: 1. Rational organization of world production and development of un-exploited world riches. 2. An international monetary agreement to spur exchange and consumption of goods. Bonnet let it be understood that France already was prepared to talk over economic arrangement of Europe with Brittain, Germany and Italy.

In Shanghai, American and British commercial interests in China combined against Japanese efforts to monopolize Chinese trade. Their united front followed reports of Japanese economic penetration almost at a pace with Japan's advancing armies and a United States note to Tokyo demanding equitable treatment of American commercial interests in China. Warning Issued "Failure now to secure correction of Japanese abuses of long-established treaty rights is likely to encourage the Japanese to further monopolistic encroachments and eventually bring conflict with the United States," warned a statement issued by the Shanghai American association in conjunction with the Shanghai American chamber of commerce. Another week's fighting on the world's war fronts brought major results in China, minor results in Spain. Japan, having captured Canton, South China metropolis, capped her long Yangtze rived campaign by occupying Hankow, the Chinese provisional capital.

Her forces today pursued retreating Chinese 50 miles beyond in a drive to consolidate big gains in central China. In Spain, insurgents twice tried unsuccessfully to crack Madrid's defenses and, as winter's first snows fell on the quiet northern fronts, both government and insurgent reinforcements moved to the Madrid sector. Driver Is Fatally Burned in Accident Companion Is Rescued From Flaming Car After Collision Three Injured Mankato, Minn Oct. 29. (JP) Percy Jaeger, 19, North Mankato, was fatally burned and a companion saved from the flaming car after their coupe collided with a truck east of here last night.

Melvin Rettlg, Mankato, who arrived on the scene Just after the mishap, rescued Donald Buckley, 19, North Mankato, from the flaming car. Buckley suffered a crushed chest, and concussion of the brain. Harry Guth, driver of the truck, suffered a fractured forearm, and Burt Daby, Mankato, riding with him, received a fractured Jaw, dislocated shoulder and lacerations of the face. 1,100 Attend Prep Press Convention Brookings, S. Oct.

29. All existing records for attendance at the high school press association convention were shattered here Friday when 1,100 students registered. Bruce high school with 56 members, the entire school, had the largest representation. Registration, addresses of welcome by Pres. C.

W. Pugsley and Mayor Charles Gaukel, and talks by Al-varo Boegler, prep correspondence supervisor. University of South Dakota, and Charles H. J. Mitchell, editor of the Brookings Register, comprised the morning program.

The main address, given in the afternoon following a business session was "Creative Editing" by Prof. Mitchell V. Charnley, Journalism department, University of Minnesota. Prizes were awarded to winning schools late in the afternoon. Convention delegates were guests today at State college's Hobo Day homecoming.

reome by the fumes and tumbled in. someone wno saw mm drop investigated. Thev found Sprague in side the car unconscious and sum moned the fire department. Carl Hunt, first assistant fire chief, believed the firemen saved Sprague's life with an inhalator- respirator aevice. tooK wem 3U minutes to revive the gas-stricken man.

At his home last night C. t. Sprague, the man's father, said Fred was still in bed but reeling somewhat better. He suffered gas burns on the side of his face from lying in on the bottom of the car. He was uninjured by the fall.

Firemen wearing gas masks lowered a ladder into the car and carried the man out. BORAH ASSAILS MUNICH TREATY Senator Says U. S. Does Not Consider Itself Responsible for Terms Washington, Oct. 29.

(P) Senator Borah (R-Idaho) said today that the real issue in present relations among nations was the "Irrevocable difference between governments which would destroy liberty and governments which would preserve it," Commenting on President Roosevelt's recent speech warning that there could be no peace extracted by force, Borah said he interpreted this as serving notice that the United States did not consider itself responsible for the terms and conditions of the Munich pact. The president's speech was broadcast last Wednesday night. "The Munich pact," the veteran member of the senate foreign relations committee told reporters, "makes the violation of treaties a cardinal tenet of modern diplomacy. The Munich pact makes the mere name of treaty a byword and a hissing. "I do not know what the president had in mind exactly but I like to think that back of his words was the determination to let it be known that, while we urged the peaceful settlement of the sudeten affair, we are not responsible for the terms and conditions finally entered into the Munich pact.

"The president may also have thought that this talk about the dictators and democracies loitering down the highway of cordial friendship has its limitations. So long as the attack continues upon the most sacred things of life, upon those things without which democracies can exist only in name, there can be no such thing as cordial relationship. And that ought to be understood." Precautions Urged on Contest Visitors Thousands of Automobiles to Concentrate Within Narrow Radius Pierre, Oct. 29. (JP) Secretary of State Goldle Wells today pleaded for motorists to use extreme caution In driving to and from the national cornhusking contest north of Sioux Falls next week.

Attendance at the contest is expected to exceed 100,000 persons, which means that thousands of automobiles will be concentrating at one point, she said. Although extraordinary precautions are being taken by those in charge of traffic at the contest, it is the duty of the motorists to be careful and courteous, she advised. The traffic force will include state highway patrol and investigation division personnel, Minnehaha county and Sioux Falls police officers and American Legion and other service men. With two months yet to go in 1938, the motor vehicle death toll of 106 in the first ten months already has exceeded the 12-month total of 105 in 1937, Miss Wells reported. NEGRO SLAYER GIVEN LIFE IMPRISONMENT Kalamazoo, Oct.

29. (JP) Willie B. Moore, 17 year old Negro, was sentenced in circuit court today to life imprisonment In solitary confinement after he had pleaded guilty to the attack slaying of Mrs. Josle Zeedyk, 68, last Wednesday. Moore said he had no intention of killing Mrs.

Zeedyk, until he realized she knew him. He then hit her on the head with a furnace shaker and slashed her with a knife. Mrs. Florence Peters, 38, of Wau-nakee. admitted in superior court at Madison, that eight years ago she fatally poisoned her first Husband, Henry K.essenicn (above).

She also admitted she gave poison to her second husband, John Peters, but he recovered. Late Bulletins New York, Oct. 29. (JP) Pat Crowe, 79, once sought in a nation-wide hunt as the kidnaper of Edward J. Cudahy, son of the millionaire meat packer, in Nebraska in the late '90s, died today in Harlem hospital.

Balcik, Rumania, Oct. 29. An nrn containing the heart of the late Dowager Queen Marie was enshrined today in a simple ceremony in the chapel of a monastery overlooking the Black Sea. King Carol and other dignitaries attended the ceremony and left for Budapest Immediately afterward. Kaunas, Lithuania, Oct.

29. W) The government propaganda bureau announced today that 12 years of martial law in Lithuania and Memel would end November 1. The government's security bills, intended to replace martial law, is now being protested by the Memel diet despite conciliatory revisions. Fort Wayne, Oct. 29.

Albert Jones, 35, his wife, Leota, and James Pondek, 42, were killed and George Lee, 45, was probably fatally hurt early today as cars driven by Lee and Harry Jenney, 27, crashed at an intersection. Jenney was held on a charge of operating an automobile while intoxicated. New York, Oct. 29. Friends of the Abraham Lincoln brigade received word today that Reino Tantilla of Minnesota had been killed in action in Spain.

The message gave no further details. Minneapolis, Oct. 29. (fP) Quail shooting season opened in five southeastern Minnesota counties today. Quail may be shot from 7 a.

m. to 5 p. m. until Sunday, Nov. 7, in Fillmore, Houston, Olmstead, Wabasha and Winona counties.

AMERICAN COMEDIAN DIES ABOARD LINER London, Oct. 29. UP) The death of Fred Duprez, 54, veteran American comedian, aboard the President Harding while en route to England, was reported today in cables from the liner to his former business associates here. The President Harding is due at Southampton November 3. His wife, the former Florence Mathews, is aboard the Bremen, which is due one day later.

DE MULE'S GRANDSON GIVEN PICTURE PART Hollywood, Oct. 29. VP) Cecil de Mille's new grandson, Christopher Quinn, is only two days old but already he's on the way to a motion picture career. Christopher was born Thursday night to Katherine de Mille, in private life Mrs. Anthony Quinn.

De Mille said the child will be seen in "Union Pacific," in a part calling for a two-month-old infant. Brookings Woman Killed in Illinois; Hit by Car Sycamore, 111.. Oct. 29. (AV-Mrs Sadie Searles, 45, Brookings, S.

was injured fatally last night when struck by an automobile while cross ing a street. Mrs. Searles walked to a doctor's home, but died a few minutes later. In comparison with other Industries. Stacy said that any savings from a horizontal cut in wages would be shared by strong railroads along with weak ones.

-No plan was offered, he added, to pool the savings from a wage reduction and use them lor the benefit of weaker roads. The proposed 15 percent wage reduction would affect about 1,000,000 workers on all the nation's major It would cut about annually off the gross railroad payroll. Elderly Employe of U. S. Treasury Leaves Her Post Mary M.

O'Reilly Serves 33 Years Known as 'Sweetheart of Treasury Washington, Oct. 29. (JP) Miss Mary M. O'Reilly, whose 33 years of service have won her unofficial designation as the sweetheart of the treasury, retired today. She left her duties as assistant director of the mint because she was 73.

The law says she should have retired three years ago, but President Roosevelt extended her service on the urgent plea of clerks and cabinet members alike. At her request there were no farewell ceremonies, but fellow employes persuaded her to accept a diamond-encrusted watch. All of the current coins were first circulated during her official tenure. The dime is her favorite because she considers it the most dignified and beautiful. The latest coin she has seen come from the mold Is the new Jefferson nickel, which will be made available to the public In about three weeks.

Miss O'Reilly entered government service two years before Joining the treasury staff. Rated an expert on coinage, she has been consulted by foreign governments. She was born in Springfield, and came to Washington from New Orleans. Warning Is Issued to Count of Paris Brussels, Oct. 29.

(JPh-The newspaper Peuple said today the head of the Belgian state police had warned the young Count of Paris he would be "deprived of Belgian hospitality" if he repeated his flight to France on October 21, when he issued a manifesto calling on France to restore the monarchy for "her salvation." The 30-year-old count, son of the Duke of Guise, pretender to the French throne, was born in Belgium and is barred under penalty of lonst imprisonment from the French soil his ancestors ruled. Nevertheless he eluded detectives last week, handed a manifesto to newspapermen in a farmhouse near Paris, and returned quickly by plane to Belgium where he lives with his father. His declaration called the French republican government "powerless" and said "irresponsibilities" of republican leaders had led France "to the brink of ruin." Democrats Welcome Probe in Nebraska Lincoln, Oct. 29. (JP) Asserting he doubted the Jurisdiction of a United States senatorial committee to Inquire Into the party's state campaign, James C.

Quigley, Valentine, chairman of the Nebras-ko democratic state committee, said last night the party would "waive the technicality and welcome investigation. State Republican Chairman Lyle Jackson, Neligh, has asked the senate campaign investigation committee to investigate alleged contributions from federal employes to the democratic party in Nebraska. Gov. R. L.

Cochran, democrat, who seeks a third consecutive term, dismissed Jackson's action with the comment, "I know absolutely nothing about it." IOWA LIQUOR STORE HEAD IS SUSPENDED Des Moines, Oct. 29. (JPh-Suspension of Ralph Pratt, manager of the state liquor store at New Market, for 30 days has been announced by Bernard E. Manley. chairman of the Iowa liquor control commission.

Manley said late yesterday Pratt was suspended after seiure of six liquor books, each issued in different names. The six books showed purchases of 643 bottles of liquor over a period of seven weeks. -The books were taken In a raid on a house at Clarlnda, by Page county officers. 68 40 62 48 56 48 61 40 56 34 58 38 78 43 74 48 6 46 64 4J 64" 42 5 42 58 46 70 40 70 58 6 46 Che 'vtnrie rar, tin.