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Rafael Sabatini Once ngain Rafael Sabatini has written a best seller. It is called "The Black Swan,” and it is a story of pirates on the Spanish Main. Published by HoughtonMifflin. 0 0 B BY WALTER I>. HICKMAN HAVE been asked to name a murder mystery story that will keep one from thinking of the heat these hot days and nights. That’s a pretty big order but I believe that I have such a book. I know that for several hours one hot evening I became so interested in "Murder in the Zoo,” by Babette Hughes, I forgot to turn my electric fan on. Such a book then has the right to qualify as cool reading on a hot afternoon or night. The “zoo” in this story is not a city home for wild animals but the animal room in a university psychological laboratory. In this strange smelling animal room in which professors and students experiment upon living animals, Dr. Brown, a professor, was murdered. When the body was discovered, a bloody hammer was near. It looked as if his murderer had crept up from behind and then dealt the fatal blow. But—maybe the hammer had nothing to do with the murder. And guess who solved the mystery. Not a regular detective but Prof. Ina Craig, who used a unique system in solving the crime. Yes, it was a woman who murdered Dr. Brown and the reason was that he would not divorce his wife and marry her. Fiction has some strange reasons for murder this season. The story is entertainingly told. It has plenty of speed and action. Good hot weather reading. Light? Yes, but effective fiction. It is published by D. Appleton & Cos. an n WHATEVER the Republican and Democratic parties do, prohibition is here to stay, according to Izzy Einstein, the famous prohibition sleuth who has nearly five thousand arrests to his credit. Izzy, whose name was once a terror to bootleggers and beer runners is now in the insurance business. He has written a book, “Prohibition Agent No. 1,” which will be published in the fall by Frederick A. Stokes Company. Izzy writes: “Professor Albert Einstein makes his discoveries in the sky, but Izzy Einstein makes his own in the cellar.” Such comment does not seem to be any too serious. bub Max Miller, who wrote “I Cover the Waterfront,” is writing Heywood Broun's column in the New York World Telegram for two weeks while Broun is on his vacation. You may read these same comments in The Times. Miller's book is one of the surprise hits of the season. It is now in its second printing. bub The first autumn book Lippincott will publish this year is "High Low Washington,” by 30 32. This is not the ordinary book of gossip about persons and events, in the national capital but a witty a . a searching book crammed with anecdote and analysis of our national and international predicament. m b b A biography of Napoleon 11, who died on July 22 a hundred years ago, written by Octave Aubry and now being serialized in the Revue dea Deux Mondes, will be published this autumn under the title, "The King of Rome.” * * * Two popular Lippincott authors celebrate their birthdays this month. On July 27 Hilare Belloc, whose “Napoleon” Lippincott will bring out in the autumn, will celebrate On July 10 Jane Abbott, whose novel "Silver Fountain” was published recently, observed her birthday. 0 0 B E. V. Lucas, internationally known author, was made & companion of honor in the recent list of King George's birthday honors. Mr.j Lucas’ latest volume, Lemon Ver-, bena. a collection of essays, will be published by J. B. Lippincott Company In the early autumn. 0 0B Harrisor H. Dodge's recent book. “Mt. Ve’ ion: Its Owmer and Its Story.” .i being printed in Braille for the use of the blind. * * • J. B. Lippincott Company has published three mystery stories during July: "The House on the Cliff." double-barreled thriller, by Laurence W. Meynell; "The Midnight Murder,” Captain Keetch and Scotland Yard sleuthing, by Paul Herring, and "The Green Knife," four murders and Dr. Eustace Hailey, by Anthony Wynne. A recent story by Wynne. "The Silver Scale Mystery,” was named by William Lyon Phelps as one of the “one hundred books of the year,”

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TITANIC RAIL MERGER PLAN IS APPROVED Commission Puts 0. K. on Mammoth 4-Way Combine Proposal. $9,800,000,000 INVOLVED Eastern Lines Get Greatest Chance for Comeback Since Depression. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, July 22.—The interstate commerce commission has | opened the way for a $9,800,000,000 i merger of eastern railroads believed i to give the carriers their greatest 1 opportunity for a financial come- | back since depression and truck i competition combined against them. The commission approved general plans for consolidation of more than 200 lines and 53,000 miles of track into four super-systems that would have a virtual monopoly on rail transportation in the richest shipping territory in the world. Great savings in operating costs w r ould be | possible. Under the approved plan prac--1 tically every railroad between Chicago and the Atlantic, between New England and the south, would be i consolidated under the standards of the New York Central, the i Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio | and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel ! Plate. Put Up to Railroads The commission's action puts the consolidation, long hailed as the only practical savior of rail transportation, squarely up to the railroads themselves. The commission’s approval was conditioned upon certain changes in the plan submitted by the four big systems. Most of the roads' own proposals were accepted. The commission completely withdrew from its original position, that there be a fifth eastern system headed by the Wabash and Seaboard Air line. The roads now must agree to the modified plan and then obtain the commission's approval for each of the scorch of transactions required to complete the four systems. This process may take years. 200 Lines Concerned Over 200 different railroad companies are concerned in the consolidation In brief., the four-party plan represents the commisison’s idea of the best possible means of building strong lines and yet retaining a maximum of competition. Every large city will be served by two or more roads, as will every port and every section. Important effects of the plan, as modified by the commission, are: The New York Central, through a connection with the Lackawanna, would secure anew direct route to Chicago and gain access to Lake Michigan for operation of car ferries to Wisconsin. It would get the Virginian and access to Virginia ports. The Chesapeake fc Ohio-Nickel Plate, the Van Sweringen line, would gain its long sought goal, entrance into New York and use of the Pennsylvania terminal. Could Shorten Route The Baltimore & Ohio would get the Western Maryland. It would be strengthened by trackage rights in the Cleveland and Toledo districts and will have access to the ; new Cleveland terminal. It could j shorten its New York-Chicago route, i Between Toledo and Detroit it would have trackage rights over the Pere Marquette. It would get the Lehigh & Hudson, a New England gateway line. The Pennsylvania gets both the Norfolk <fc Western and the Wabash. Another change concerns the Delaware Hudson, which the four roads wanted to divide between th.-m. The commission decided this should be left, for the time being at least, as an independent system. The commission also decided that the Seaboard Air Line be left out of the consolidations. The Chicago. Indianapolis I Louisville, called the Monon. was allocated to the Baltimore & Ohio under the original plan, but the commission agreed with the present owners, the Southern and the Louisville & Nashville, that it remain a north-south line and not be merged into any east-west systems. The commission also left the New York. Ontario & Western out of the merger. Commissioners Eastman and McManamy dissented to the majority report. BUILDERS GO GOLFING i j Indianapolis Congress Defies Heat in Outing at Idlewood. The heat wave was defied Thursday by members of the In- j dianapolis Building Congress, and the annual golf tourney of the or- ; j ganization was held in Idlewood I park, near Pendleton. A dinner was served following [the tourney. Frederick E. SchortI emeier, former secretary of state, ■was master of ceremonies. Horseshoe pitching, indoor baseball and swimming were other athletic stunts on the program.

WATCH THE WANDERING BARKER! HE EVEN TAKES STAINS OFF YOUR CONSCIENCE

'T'ODAY'S shopping crowd, win- -*■ dow as well as otherwise, is in full bloom on East Washington street. Youngsters straggle at the heels of perspiring mothers. Grandmas struggle with bundles of merchandise. Members of the crowd slow up so you stumble upon them, and cut through to spaces in vacant store-windows. They edge near a man, who stands near a spindlelegged table and shouts:

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KEEPING THE WORLD GUESSING Greatest Magician of All Picks ‘Sons’ to Carry On

Through the ages the mystic art of legerdemain has intrigued all men. Out of this ancient interest has grown a unique fellowship, the Society of American Magicians. Included in its membership are distinguished representatives of science, the professions, business and the world of affairs generally. Earl Sparling has written a series of articles about these interesting men and their strange gifts, the fourth of which follows: BY EARL SPARLING (Copyright. 1932. by t.he New York WorldTelegram Corporation) THE greatest of all amateur magicians—indeed, he • has been called the greatest magician living, bar none—is Samuel Cox Hooker, Ph. D.,-wealthy retired chemist and industrialist of 82 Remsen street, Brooklyn. Thereby, the story of a boyhood dream that did not die. Fifty years ago as a stripling in England, where he was born, Samuel Hooker wanted nothing of the world but to mystify it. He haunted the Egyptian hall in London, known as “England’s Home of Mystery.” Professional magicians were his demigods. He dogged them, was so persistent that the famous John Nevil Maskeleyne became his friend and teacher. At 16 the youth was giving benefit performances, and the* road to his ambition seemed straight ahead. Life got In his way. His family put him in the Royal College of Science, London, where he won a prize and a scholarship in chemistry. Then he was snipped away to the University of Munich, to become not a master of science, buta doctor of philosophy. And so, before long, there was no time for magic. He came to America in 1885, and there was still less time. Honors and cares piled themselves upon him. He became a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Elec-tro-Chemical Society, of the Franklin Institute and of similar bodies in England, France and Germany. He became a director of the Spreckels Sugar Corporation of the Great Western Sugar Company. b b a IN 1916, at the age of 53, he retired. Then, suddenly, the old dream got at him again. In the rear of his fine old home in Brooklyn was a stable, unused for years. He converted it into a comfortable two-story laboratory and began puttering. The results became known in 1918, when he invited about twenty members of the Society of American Magicians to visit him at his home. Dr. Hooker, an immense tall man with a heavy beard, said little. He ushered his visitors through the house, through a courtyard and into the converted stable. There they found themselves in a tiny theater, complete to the last detail. Dr. Hooker excused himself and the curtain went up on him, his "Impossibilities” and an imitation bear head that was ; to become famous around the world as “Miltiades III.” A borrowed pack of cards was placed in a glass houlette that stood on a skeleton table. Any card the magician called for rose slowly out of the houlette, settled back at his command. Any card the audience called for rose similarly. Any number of cards demanded would rise simultaneously. 0 0 B THE Queen of Hearts leaped into the air. The magician took It from the air and stood it on end without visibe support. The three other queens leaped out and were placed in a row, standing on edge. Perhaps it was done with threads. No, the magician placed a cylindrical glass cover over the houlette. Under glass, the cards continued to dance weirdly. Perhaps it was done by some mechanism in the skimpy table. No, the magician attached ribbons to the little glass houlette, which could contain no conceivable mechanism, and swung it in the air. The cards continued to rise at command, perform the same evolutions. They would rise swiftly, j slowly, jerkily, according to the j movement of any speclotor's hand. \ Then the magician turned to ; Miltiades 111, resting on another ! table. The imitation bear head came alive. It turned* its head right and left, rolled its eyes. It answered questions, yes or no, by opening and shutting its mouth. Name any card in any pack, and Miltiades would tell the card's exact location. Take any number of cards from any pack and conceal them in your i pocket. Miltiades would tell the j exact number. Finally, to the amazement of the visitors, Miltiades without warning ' arose in the air and. remained perched there without visible support. several feet above the table. Perched thus in mid air he continued to roll his eyes, turn his head and answer questions. B B B WELL, it wasn’t long until the news of this had spread everywhere among magicians. A steady trek set in for the house on Remsen street. Dr. Hooker had to give three shows a week to accommodate the demand. That lasted three or four weeks. In the various audiences sat the most noted professional conjurers

“Only a dime, ladies and gentlemen, you can get this needlethreader for just a thin dimejust two 5-cent pieces.” Or it may be a hawker of 10cent socks, card trick or safefy razor blades that are “just as good as those you pay half a dollar for.” Here today and gone tomorrow, these barkers haunt the areaways of unrented business buildings and garner the dimes and quarters by the magic persuasion of their voices.

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* Aluxnoiiand or Quimby, of court * months t 0 master the mechan | bigger success than the origin: J’jft presentation in 1918. Again note | ; in the little theaU Houdini, Howard Thurston. Fred ' ■ Roy, Theo Hardeen, Mme. Her- * J j 1 man, widow of Hermann the I j ‘ v i'.V| j All came away mystified. There j§ * f \ J was nothing in the secret lore of f 3*? |r magic to explain Dr. Hooker’s WM'-K V : I illusions. • a.J-

Professor Shirley M. Quimby of Columbia, who has brought to magic the invaluable aid of the scientist's laboratory. With John Muiholland, he is joint custodian of the impenetrable secrets of Dr. Hooker, the master magician.

in the land, Harry Kellar, Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston. Fred Keating, A1 Baker, Servais Le Roy, Theo Hardeen, Mme. Herman, widow of Hermann the Great, etc. All came away mystified. There w'as nothing in the secret lore of magic to explain Dr. Hooker’s illusions. When all the American magicians had witnessed his miracles the Brooklyn amateur closed his theater. It remained dark for twelve years, except for several special exhibitions requested by noted conjurers from abroad. HAVING bewildered all the magicians of the world, the elderly scientist was satisfied. He retired to his books, which forms one of the most scientific libraries in the country. -There was no more magic, except that Dr. Hooker continued to collect magical “gimmicks.” A “gimmick” is any piece of secret apparatus, never seen by the audience, which a magician uses to perform a trick. To see the “gimmick” is usually to understand how the trick is done. The Brooklyn amateur is said to have the finest collection of such gadgets in America, including every type used for centuries in a dozen lands, Chinese “gimmicks,” Hindoo “gimmicks,” Egyptian gimmicks,” etc. In 1929 it was suggested to Dr. Hooker that anew crop of magi-

ASKS FOR $56,325 AT BANK: GETS IT Fake Armored Truck Guard Steals Small Fortune. By United Press NEW YORK, July 22.—Some unknown "armored truck guard” has a small fortune today, some $56,325 n cash simply because he walked into a bank and asked for it. He walked into the bank last i Saturday, just before closing time, ! and announced he wanted "the i money for the United States TruckI ing Corporation.” And the teller, noting the proper uniform, and pistol holster, promply passed the money through the cage grillwork and received a receipt. It was not learned until Thursday that the signature was a fake. The bank is in the heart of the city’s financial district, a few feet off Wall street. BOYS BEAT ACROBATS Barnum and Bailey Gang Lose to Rhodius Water Stars. They came, they saw and were conquered. That, in brief, is the one-day history of acrobats of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus, who sought Rhodius park pool Thursday as heat relief. They entertained spectators with flips and flops and walked the tightrope on every available elevated object at the pool. Then, they proposed a game of water polo. Coach James Clark summoned his team. Acrobatic ability fell to the wayside. The Rhodius team defeated the circus team, 2 to 0.

ONCE in awhile a patrolman steps up to the street-barker and asks to see his license. The barker doesn't argue. The request is his notice to “vamoose.” As he has no license to peddle his wares, he packs his grip, folds his spin-dle-legged table and moves on to anew vacant building and anew crowd, until another copper appears. But let's stop awhile and listen to Bob Hart, barker extraordinary, in front of 127 East Washington street. c tv

cians had grown up in America during the years of his “Impossibilities” were gathering dust. ÜBB HE summoned to his Remsen street home Dr. Shirley M. Quimby, the Columbia professor in physics, and John Muiholland, young professor. He said to them, in effect, that he was getting older (he was now 66) and that the time had come to pass his knowledge of magic on to other hands. He pledged them they would reveal to no one else what he revealed to them until the time came when they were old, too, and must pass the knowledge on. At such a time they must exact a similar pledge. So the tin theater came to life again, in June, 1929, during the New York national convention of the Society of American Magicians. John Muiholland took the stage in place of Dr. Hooker. Professor Quimby was his invisible assistant, behind the scenes? Apparently there was work to do behind the scenes, which required the skill of a scientist and physicist. No clew can be gotten from

BOY SAVED BY PET Dog Battles Rattler to Death

By United Press DAYTON, 0., July 22.—She is a sleek Doberman Pinscher dog and answers to the name of Myra V. Stolzenvoss. Descendant of a long line of show winners, she had been groomed as a show dog by her owner, Louis Brennan, but never had won a ribbon. She served well, however, as the playmate for Brennan's 3-year-old son Gene. And today she was the toast of the town. As she lay in a doghospital, receiving every attention, townsfolk showered her with choice bits calculated to cheer the heart of a dog, and even with flowers. She had done more for her owner than all the blue ribbons in dog shows ever could have done. In a display of uncanny intelligence, dogged loyalty, and super courage late Thursday, she offered her life to save her playmate. The dog and little Gene were romping together around a rock pile. A wild rose among the rocks attracted the lad’s attention. He clambered on to the pile and reached for it. BBS MYRA V. BARKED frantically, grabbed the rear of Gene’s rompers and pulled him back. Gene started again for the red rose. The dog leaped against him and knocked him down. Again, the boy started for the rose bush and again the dog’s teeth caught the rompers and pulled him away. The boy, provoked, struck the

Bob’s a youth with a line. “Here’s the best little stain-re-mover you ever saw, folks. It'll remove the stains from your conscience, Japanese silk, shirts, hats, pants, or what-have-you. You men can use it to shave by. I do. “Now watch! I’m going to put some iodine on my shirt. Now chemists, doctors, professional men, will tell you that iodine is one of the hardest stains to remove,” and he suits his words to the music of motion by sprinkling his shirt with iodine,

Muiholland or Quimby, of course —except this, that it took them three nights a week for a number of months to master the mechanism. The 1929 revival was even a bigger success than the original presentation in 1918. Again noted magicians sat in the little theater and were bewildered. Dr. Hooker had created something which defied magicians themselves, which, it might be added, is a feat almost without parallel in the history of magic. To this day, no one has solved his illusions; no one has duplicated them. tt B B THE scientific appeal of such a physicist like Professor Quimby is apparent. Perhaps behind the scenes of Dr. Hooker’s tiny

theater he learned something about physics that is written in no text-book, something of fundamental scientific importance. No one knows. Dr. Quimby smiles, says nothing, and continues his pursuit of magic wherever he finds it. His proposed trip to Chicago to view engineer Joseph Freud's houlette illusion (which is somewhat similar to Dr. Hooker’s) is typical of him. Professor Quimby’s interest in magic dates back to a day a number of years ago when a tall young Horace Mann instructor asked if he could not use Quimby’s physics laboratory to make a table. The tall young teacher was John Muiholland, then an amateur giving magic shows in his spare time. What he was trying to make in the Columbia physics laboratory was anew "gimmick.” Quimby got interested and helped him make it; show him how it could be improved. Quimby has been making “gimmicks” ever since and inventing scientific illusions.

dog. It yelped and retreated. Gene reached for the rose. With a wild bark, Myra V. hurled her body between the boy’s hand and the red rose. Her teeth sank into the neck of a rattlesnake coiled about the stem of the rose bush just below the flower. The serpent’s fangs sank into the dog’s body and for long minutes the pair battled in a death struggle. It ended with the snake lifeless and the victor lying exhausted beside it. Gene’s mother had heard the boy’s scream, had seen the end of the fight. She rushed the dog to a hospital. Doctors said today that Myra V. will live. S7B IN CLOTHING~LOOT City Man Fires Shotgun Charge at Prowler in Bedroom. Clothing valued at S7B was taken from the home of Fred Tucker, 948 West Thirty-fifth street, Thursday night, while the family was absent, police were told. Entry was made through an unlocked basement window, Tucker said. Pharmacy of D. H. Darrah, 2210 East Washington street, was entered Thursday night by breaking glass from a rear window, and two watches and sls was stolen, Darrah reported to police today. One charge from a shotgun was fired early this morning at a marauder when F. F. McDermott, 728 North East street, Apt. 5, awoke and found the man In his bedroom. The man fled through thft unlocked window by which he had entered.

“Now I put this water on it. It’s water, folks. If it was gin, I’d give you a drink,” he adds as if to explain away the mystery of a pop bottle filled with white liquid. a a a NEAR the bottle is a can of well-known cleansing fluid. He picks up a toothbrush and rubs the stained cloth into a lather and, lo! the iodine spots vanish. The dimes drop on his upturned valise. “If it only takes out one stain it’s worth a dime,” and someone in the crowd nods his head wisely.

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BRITISH EMPIRE LEADERS ADMIT IMPOSSIBILITY OF WORLD TRADE BARRIERS Mother Country and Dominions Can Not Be “Closed Shop,” Belief Voiced at Ottawa Parley. CONCRETE AIMS ARE OUTLINED Committees Start Work on Problems, with Solutions Certain to Have FarReaching* Effect on Business. BY CHARLES M. M’CANN United Press Staff Correspondent OTTAWA, Ontario, July 22.—Five committees began work today on trade problems suggested for negotiation in speeches that opened the British empire economic conference, charged with the job of drumming up trade among empire units. There was an indication of the conference’s scope in the list of major committees agreed upon: Promotion of empire trade, customs administrations, commercial relations with foreign nations, methods of economic co-operation, and monetary and financial questions.

Promotion of trade among the units of the empire naturally came first. Chief delegates of Great Britain and some of the greatest dominions Thursday outlined concrete aims and offers upon which it was possible to begin the weeks of negotiations that may culminate in a series of trade agreements that will have world-wide repercussions. Closed Shop Held Impossible Delegations met this morning to discuss the exact proposals they will make before the committees, and the leading delegates assembled to pick out the personnel of the five major committees. Though most of the opening speeches were optimistic, a majority of the spokesmen for the ten units represented here brought out the importance of world trade to them, and the impossibility of trying to make a closed shop of the empire. It was Stanley Baldwin, promising that Great Britain could grant wider preferences to dominions under the mother country’s new high tariff system, who pointed out that 70 per cent of the empire's trade was with foreign nations. N. C. Havenga, South Africa,

World Economic Conference Is Set as Goal of British Empire

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripos-Howard Foreicn Editor OTTAWA, Ontario, July 22.—That complete recovery is beyond the power of any single nation or group of nations, however rich or populous, is the keynote of the British empire’s spokesmen, in conclave here since Thursday. Accordingly, a world economic conference will be urged to follow as closely as possible after this one, with the United States and the other great powers in attendance, to put an end to the paralyzing

U, S. HOLDS ALOOF IN ORIENT STRIFE Japan’s Invasion of Jehol to Be Ignored. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 22. The state department plans for the present to ignore officially Japan’s invasion of Jehol province, China’s storehouse of coal, oil, and timber. This tentative policy is believed by high officials to be the wisest | course just now. As far as can be i seen today, there will be no immediate protest to Tokio. The League of Nations investiI gating commission, including an American member, is now in China. It is believed here that this body can make any necessary recommendations to the league. The department’s policy does not mean that the United States has lost interest in defending the “open door” doctrine and the nine-power treaty, it merely indicates that no advantage is seen in further discussions with Tokio just now, even though officials are concerned seriously about Jehol. The Japanese consul-general in 1 Mukden is known to have assured i western observers that the bombing of Chaoyang by a Japanese ! airplane recently did not portend j the capture of Jehol. The Mrs. Seeks Election By United Press NEILLSVILLE, Wis., July 22.—For the first time in the history of Clark county, a woman is candidate for sheriff. She is Mrs. William Bradford, wife of the incumbent. Under state statutes, Sheriff Bradford can not seek re-election, since he has served two terms.

The dimes drop again. The crowd fades. “I had to move five times yesterday. This is a tough life. "No money in it. You know I always wanted to work for a newspaper. But you got to do what you can these days to get by,” *e said. We moved to anew areaway and anew barker, but as we moved Bob grabbed off anew crowd with “Stains on your conscience, mister? This will take them out. If you only remove one stain it’s worth a dime.” Yeah! if you only do.gp

brought out most clearly the almost general view that the empire can not be a self-contained unit under present conditions. J. G. Coates, New Zealand, got closest to specific facts in his speech, demanding quota restrictions on imports of meat, dairy products and fruit into England. Russia Is Target Prime Minister R. B. Bennett of Canada alone made even indirect reference to a particular country in his speech as host. It was Russia to which Bennett referred when he protested against England’s exports of wheat and timber from nations which have “state-controlled standards of living, siate-controlled labor, state-aided dumping dictated by high state policy.” As for the offer to give important preferences to Britain, naturally against the United States, there were the just published trade figures for June. Canada’s exports for the month, to the Untied States, were $15,751,485, an increase of $1,562,466 over May; to the entire British empire, $14,998,270, a decrease of $268,712. Canada can not reduce its imports from the United States without reducing exports.

blight of prohibitive tariffs, the international ‘ monetary chaos, and disturbing effects of reparations and war debts. On the authority of former Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain, Premier Richard Bennett of Canada, and other British leaders here, it now may be stated that the imperial Conference has a significance far vaster even than the British empire. Economic Order Changing In addition to that stated m the opening paragraph of this dispatch, the following points may be said : to have been set up to guide the I conference during the weeks to | come. First, that the world is moving 1 inexorably toward anew economic ' order of things. Second, the new plan of economic co-operation between the members of the British commonwealth of nations merely is in keeping with that trend. Third, international trade is so hampered by barriers of all kinds that the trend is toward groupments of nations, not necessarily political in character, but offering to members economic advantage in the 1 mutual opening of markets. Prohibitive Tariff Means Doom | Fourth, as trade is the life-blood of nations, prohibitive tariffs spell doom. Not even the British empire, 1 with one-fourth of the human race, profitably can shut itself off from contact with the rest of the world. Fifth, whatever trade agreements the several dominions may enter into here, the way must be left open to mutually profitable trade with other nations or groups of nations. It is the expressed hope of Baldwin and others that Ottawa will blaze the trail for a .world ferenceBaldwin, therefore, will battle her® for lower preferential tariffs as between the dominions, rather than higher, and what, in effect, would be prohibitive duties against outside products. GUSTUS MARTIN DEAD Glove Company Fireman Succumbs Suddenly at Home. Gustus G. Martin, 69, died sudI denly Friday night at his home, 705 | North Pine street. The widow, Mrs. j Sarah Martin, said he died shortly after going upstairs to retire. Dr. J. E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner] ordered the body sent to the city morgue. Death was attributed to heart disease. Besides the widow, he leaves a son, Emmett Martin, 1218 Central avenue. He was employed as a fireman at the Indianapolis Glove Company plant. Liberty and Michigan streets. PLAN “SCREEN PARTY Culver Officers, Alumni to See Film at Apollo. Officers of the Culver military academy and Indianapolis alumni will attend the Apollo theater tonight to observe “Culver night” at the showing of the picture' “Tom Brown of Culver,” portions of which were filmed here. Major R. H. Mowbray, head of the history department at Culver, will be included in the faculty party coming here for the event.*