Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1932 — Page 1

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Kiilnr 'Timm — HE MAN or whom else it ■*• might concern, in regard to a married woman working: I am a married woman and a mother. I am working, certainly not because I want to, but because I have to. I suppose you make at least a living wage, or else you would have plenty to do to mind your own affairs and figure out how to make a dollar go as far as two. Suppose you made only sl2 or sls a week or less, as lots of men do, and have two children, one in high school, and one in grade school. I suppose you think you still could be a He Man. You certainly would, but you would be a darned poor and hungry one unless you could see fit to take school away from your children rather than have your wife work. I work because it is my duty as a ■wife and mother and you he men who do not like it certainly are out of luck as far as I am concerned. Ahe man would be a small he man to do my work at any rate. WORKING WIFE AND MOTHER. u n n F.ditnr Timm — T NOTICE in The Times where Mrs. Walter Ferguson has her say, “Shall a Married Woman Work?” I wish to correct her in a few places or else I have been misinformed, that there are 1.500,000 more women in the United States than men. Then the head of the house should be the man. If we believe our Bible, man was made first and God saw it was good. Now, unless the woman is a widow, or the man an invalid, the woman’s place is in the home, or at least 99 out of every 100 will say so. I can name a few men in my neighborhood who don’t do enough work to keep healthy, but let their wives toil. Then I notice that where most of the women do the work, they either have no children, or very few. which is bad for this old United States. Other countries have all they can, because some day we will be at war again, and we will need some of the same kind of boys who did it the la§t, time. So I, for one, say a woman's place is in the house. P. S. THOMAS.

Hilit or Time *— Clarence h. geist, owner of the Water company, displayed a beautiful spirit—Geist is German for spirit—in advancing a direct sales tax as part plan for economic recovery. Would it not be more appropriate just to charge public monopolies a round price for use of our streets? This would take the place of donations to clubs in the shape of electric organs and possibly reduce the large incomes of such monopolies. A few years ago Mr. Geist purchased a $7,000,000 piece of property at Coral Gables. It may be quite pertinent to inquire how Mr. Geist became owner of the canal which was built bv the estate. CHARLES H. KRAUSE SR. n u Editor Timea — SO, Mr. Lodge Member, you think you are seeing things. If you had been in your snug little bed, all tucked in, instead of running around our streets, looking for s admiration and excitement, you woudl have saved your pure mind from the temptation of our wildspirited women. I am a mother, and if in dire need to feed my kids, I expect I would do the same as these poor creatures, who are not lolng those things from choice. So let our "no mean city” rest. AN ADMIRER OF YOU SAY IT. n v Editor Time* — I head in The Times, page four Thursday, about a person proposing marriage on the strength that the subject of his proposal obtain or give him steady employment. I'm just a stenographer and so naturally I have not the means to help Mr. "Anonymous" neither can I contribute $5,000 to the "220Pound Bachelor.” What I want to know is this: How can a man in the "evident” condition of Mr. "Anonymous" muster enuugh crust to ridicule such noteworthy predecessors as "Ted Louis" and the “Bachelor.” I think that if "Ted Louis" were to come out with an up and up proposition, he’d get plenty of good results. I, for one. would take a chance on his proposition. If I won, Id really win; on the other hand, I'd win only to lose. Girls as a general rule want someone to take care of them—not the How about it girls—true? Now come on. Ted—l think you have cold feet! You started something you won’t finish—show some of that Hoosier democracy! Mr. "Anonymous,” be it far from me to belittle your way of ending the depression for "yourself.” for I glory in the contemplation of your "big disappointment." But, who am I to judge? More power to you, Romeo! JUST A STENOGRAPHER. New York Stocks Opening (By Abbott. Hopptn A Co.i —Nov. 26 Amer Can 52‘j Goodyear 15 Air Red 54 Johns Man . ...21 7 , Allied Chein .. 74T, Lift A Mvers B 52> a Atchison 41 Mont Ward I2 3 , Anaconda Bs,8 s , N V Central ... 23 s , Am For Pwr ~ In 1 *n Omerlcan ... 27', Am Tel At Tel ..105*, Penn R R IS', Am Tob B *l s i Packard 2 s , Auburn 4S' Radio -S’. 'Beth Steel 16' * Cons Oil * Cons Oas 57* Std of Ind .... 22’, Byers A M .... 14', Texas Corp .... 14’* Case J I 39’. U BSSteel 31,3 1 , Ches A Ohio .. 24*. United Corp ... B', Dupont SSVUn Aircraft ... 25 Freeport Tex .. 23 s , On Carbide 23 Gen Foods .... 23 Vanadium 12 s * Oilette 17VWe*tln*h El 27 Gen Mot 13 Western Un ... 28 5 Gen Elec 15 s , Wool worth .... 3

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 171

SOVIET STUDY IS BEING MADE BY ROOSEVELT Decision on Recognition to Be Delayed Until He Has All of Facts. ‘BOTH SIDES’ SOUGHT ‘Foes of Communism’ Ask to Lay Views Before President-Elect. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Staff Writer WARMS SPRINGS, Ga.. Nov. 26 —President - Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is making an exhaustive study of the problem of recognizing Russia, but he will defer any decision until he has access to the confidential files of a recent investigation by the state department. Roosevelt is open-minded, but the task of reaching any decision before he assumes office has been handicapped by the vast confusion prevailing among so-called American economic, political and industrial experts on the subject. He indicated he would listen to any ideas which the American alliance, a committee opposed to Communism, wish to lay before him. Representatives of that organization, including the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown, VicePresident Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L. and Representative Hamilton Fish, have asked him to give them an audience before closing his mind one way or the other. They took this step because of repeated hints that his sympathies lie toward recognition of the Soviet as a cold, commercial proposition. Opens Conferences Today Roosevelt understands that the Hoover administration has a great deal of data, concerning the economic desirability of closer relations with Russia. The department of commerce is known to have gathered a great deal of material on the subject. The general belief is that recognition would mean the sale of at least $200,000,000 to Russia annually. Roosevelt begins his first conference on national questions with other than members of congress when he meets a committee of the national grange at “the little white house” here this afternoon. Fred J. Freestone, master of the New York Grange and one of Roosevelt’s power commissioners arranged the meeting. In the past this farm organization has favored the export debenture plan, while the President-elect has declared for the domestic allotment program. He Will Be “Good Listener” Democratic members of the house agriculture committee will see him next week. The next President has indicated that he will be a “good listener.” He realizes he will be the central figure in a tug-of-war between groups of conflicting opinion on all questions between now and March 4, and he will not commit himself any more than he has to. Many members of oengress have wired him they will stop off en route to the capital for the opening of the December session. Among those he expects to receive are Senator King Pittman of Nevada, who will probably urge quick action in calling an international silver conference; Minority Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Senator-Elect Bennett Clark of Missouri, Governor Richard B. Russell of Georgia. Senator John S. Cohen of Georgia, and Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. Lover of Trees Always Next Tuesday, the President-elect takes up a problem near his heart when he meets with the Georgia Forestry Association. It is easy to understand why the Governor appreciates trees. Encircling the knoll on which stands “the little white house” are groves of stately trees now caught in the late autumn flame that sweeps over Georgia's hills in autumn. On the music rack of the piano in his living room stands a copy of the musical version of Joyce Kilmer’s poem proclaiming “poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 31 9 a. m 30 7a. m 31 10 a. m 30 8 a. m 30

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Nila Cram Cook (above) an American girl who became a Hindu (note the caste mark in her forehead), has written to the Mahatma Gandhi from Delhi announcing that she intends to join him in his “next fast unto death.” Gandl;i has set Jan. 1 for his hunger strike in behalf of India’s miserable millions of “untouchalw*s.”

SERVANTS ‘GLAD TO WORK' FOR $4 A MONTH Depression Has Demoralized Domestic Workers’ Ranks, Says Magazine. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—The depression has demoralized the domestic servant situation, and now “hundreds of thousands” of maids are available for as little as $4 a month, according to the current issue of Fortune magazine. Los Angeles home owners can have their gardens tended for $1 a week, the magazine states; a dignified couple may be had for SBO a month to run the most exclusive Commonwealth avenue home :n Boston; many a Negro in Virginia will fry the family’s chicken, southern style, and do the family washing for $8 a month. “There are hundreds of thousands of families amply able to afford the true comfort of domestic service this year,” the magazine concludes.

PORKERS STAGE BRISK RALLY AT CITY YARDS Prices Move Up 15 to 25 Cents in Strong Buying Wave. Hogs staged a brisk upswing at the city yards this morning, most classes up 15 cents with a few lightweights 20 to 25 cents above Friday’s average. The bulk, 100 to 300 pounds, sold for $3.45 to $3.80. Early top held at $3.80. Receipts were estimated at $4,500. Holdovers were 89. Cattle were nominal on receipts of 50. Vealers were steady at $5.50 down. Calf receipts were 200. Little change was noted in the sheep market on the small supply here, numbering only 200. Ewe and wether lambs were salable up to $6.25. At Chicago scattered early sales and bids were steady to weak with Friday’s average. For 150 to 170 pounders a price of $3.50 was established; $3.35 bid for 270 to 280 pound weights. Receipts were 5,000, including 4,000 direct. Holdovers were 2,000. Cattle receipts were 300; calves. 200;the market holding strong. Sheep receipts were 2,000 with prices firm.

WAGE CUT IS VOTED Chicago Milk Drivers to Take Less Pay, Permit Lower Prices. By United Fress CHICAGO. Nov. 26. —The prospect of milk prices dropping from 11 to 9 cents a quart in Chicago loomed today after members of the milk wagon drivers’ union voted to accept a reduction in pay. A public accountant hired by the union to count the ballots, an nounced the union had voted 2.718 to 2,153 to accept pay reduction from $45 to S4O a week. It had been understood that if the drivers accepted the reduction, dealers would reduce the price to consumers.

WAIT HUNGER MARCHERS Unemployed Called to Mass Meeting to Greet Group Sunday. Indianapolis unemployed today were summoned by the local unit of the Workers International Relief to attend a mass meeting Sunday at Tomlinson hall and greet members of the “hunger march" which is converging on Washington. The marchers will be met at Eagle creek bridge by a delegation of Indianapolis workers and conducted to the hall.

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Money Belt Left on Table for More Comfort Gone in Morning. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 26—A. A. (Jack) Drummond, Tulsa <Okla.), rancher, told police today that when he ate so much turkey Thanksgiving that he had to remove his money belt and take a nap, someone stole the belt and $91,000 it contained. Drummond reported his loss to the manager of the Sherman Hotel, where the money belt disappeared. He said the belt was stolen between Thursday evening and Friday morning. Police questioned Drummond and expressed a belief he may have been swindled. Officers at first doubted Drummond’s story that he had $91,000 in cash in the money belt. He was indignant. They telephoned Elmo Thompson, vice-president of the Exchange National bank at Tulsa and learned that Drummond left there three weeks ago with at least $37,500 on his person. Nap Costs Him $91,000 Drummond said he registered at the hotel at 7 a. m. Thursday. ‘‘That evening I went to a restaurant and ate so much turkey that when I got to my room that night I had to take off my money belt, which I always wore,” the rancher said. “I laid this out on a little stand used for suitcases and went to sleep. When I woke up the belt and money were gone.” Authorties at Tulsa -telegraphed, in answer to queries, that Drummond owns a 35,000-acre ranch in Osage county; that he paid $750,000 for the ranch; that he is married and has an 11-year-old daughter, and that it is well known in his county that he frequently carries large sums of money. The rancher told police he left Oklahoma w'ith the intention of making “a big deal” in Pittsburgh. He said he obtained SIO,OOO from the Kansas City Fidelity Trust and Savings bank en route and made stops in St. Louis and Cleveland. Swindling Is Hinted Police suspected that because it was known that Drummond often carried much money and because he had done so much traveling he might have been swindled instead of robbed. They suggested this to him. “If that mob got the money, forget it,” he answeerd, “for I’ll get it back better than you will.” Questioned further, he recalled that throughout his trip several men had reappeared in his vicinity with such regularity that it was possible they were following him.

ARMY AND IRISH AT EVENMONEY Wet Weather Is Figured as Notre Dame ‘Break.’ BY JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Nov. 26.—Wet weather turned today’s big ArmyNotre Dame football game into a grand tossup. It washed down the 7-5 quotations favoring Army to even money as the green-jersied Ramblers and gold-helmeted Cadets waited for the starting whistle at Yankee stadium. All the 79,200 seats were sold for more than $256,000, and thousands of applicants turned away, bringing a rich harvest to ticket speculators, who charged tardy generals and colonels from $7 to sll for $4.40 seats. All the 1,200 cadets from West Point and an unusually large number of notables were to attend. Army is virtually at full strength, while Notre Dame may or may not be handicapped by illness and injuries. Only two men are out of the soldier squad, Djck King, star end, and Ed Herb, a back. Both are recovering from old injuries. Five of the Notre Dame squad, supposedly ill with influenza, included George Melinkovich. famous back; Jim Harris, sparkplug of the line, and Emmet Murphy, reserve quarter back. Ray Branchean, regular right half, and Pfefferfle, sec-ond-string tackle, were reported troubled w’ith Navy game injuries.

How the Market Opened

BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor NEW YORK. Nov. 26.—The firmer tone in evidence near the close on the Stock Exchange Friday carried over into today's trading and opening prices were fractionally higher. Steel common led the recovery. It opened at 33 7 s, up % and then improved on that price. Railroad shares met buying from shorts who feared a sharp rise, in car loadings. Consolidated Gas spurted 114 to 57 to head the utilities. American Telephone rose nearly a point to 105 *4 at the outset, while Western Union eased a fraction to 28 V Telephone continued to rise in the early trading. Atchison rose t 6 41. up 114, in the railroads where smaller gains were noted in Southern Pacific. New York Central, and Pennsylvania.

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DROPS JURY QUIZ IN RAID TIPOFF WAR Wilson Criticises Sheaffer, but Says Probe Will Not Be Made. \ TERRORISM, IS CHARGED Judge Goes Through Stormy Sessions With Goett and Ettinger. Although criticising Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer’s manner of conducting an investigation in the alleged “tipoff” of the raid Monday night of the Showboat night club, Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson today had dropped his proposed grand jury investigation of the case. Admitting he does “not want to step into the probe when the judge is handling it,” Wilson referred to Sheaffer’s alleged third . degree method in questioning witnesses by asserting the "judge would be on the safer side if he questioned them in open court.” Charges of Sheaffer’s alleged improper method of questioning persons suspected of the “tipoff” grew out of stormy conferences Friday with Henry O. Goett, city clerk, and Charles Ettinger, chief deputy county clerk. Secret Quiz Reported Wilson, in Lebanon for trial of a murder case, stated his decision to drop the investigation was made after he returned to the city Friday night following the police station caucus. “Sheaffer has a right to ask questions of any one, but he would be on the safer side, I believe, if he called the witnesses to his bench and questioned thme in open court,” he declared. Sheaffer was reported as having secretly questioned a woman employe of County Clerk Glenn Ralston. Goett Demands Explanation The woman, a widow and mother of three children, visited Goett in the latter’s office the day following the raid. The woman charged she had been accused of the “tipoff,” according to Goett. In the caucus Friday, Goett demanded of Sheaffer an explanation of Sheaffer’s alleged inferences that he, Goett, knew of circumstances of the tipoff. Sheaffer denied the assertion. “I said nothing of the kind to the woman or to anybody else,” the judge asserted, Goett said. ‘Overstepping His Bounds’ While the caucus was in progress, Ettinger appeared at the judge’s office, kicking on the door until he was admitted. Ettinger also criticised Sheaffer for his method of questioning the woman, he said. “I told the judge that he was overstepping his bounds and that he had no right to subject employes of the clerk’s office to the third degree.” Ettinger said. Charge Devices Dismantled Ettinger’s chief source of annoyance seemed to be the fact that he was not asked to attend the meeting.” Sheaffer said. The Showboat, popular dine and dance resort, was raided Tuesday night and Frank Cantwell, operator, and Claude Williams, were arrested. Officers charged the elaborate gaming equipment was dismantled before they arrived.

Bright Spots

By United Press Production of fifteen pictures will get under way soon at studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to comment in film circles. Pioneer Gold Mines Company doubled its dividend from 12 to 24 cents a share annually by declaration at Toronto of quarterly payment of 6 cents a share. Iron foundry operations increased 45.5 per cfcnt in October over September and steel foundry operations rose 15 per cent, accord to University of Pennsylvania. Wabash Railway Company in October earned net operating income of $446,460. against $310,980 deficit in October, 1931.

Foreign Exchange

(Bv Abbott. Hoppin & Cos.) —Nov. 26Open. Sterling. England Franc. France * Lira. Italy ®|lo Franc, Belgium *385 Mark. Germany 23‘8 Guilder, Holland .*Ol l Peseta, Spain wu® Krone, Norway *®63 Krone. Denmark *678 Yen. Japan 2113

CHARLES C. CARR CLAIMED BY DEATH

Charles C. Carr, 59, Indianapolis sporting goods store founder and former manager of the Indianapolis baseball club, died early today in a Memphis (Tenn.) hospital of heart disease, according to word received here. Mr. Carr was on a business trip. , Word of the death was received by the three daughters residing at the home, 4055 Broadway. Mrs. Carr died about three months ago. Widely known in baseball circles, Mr. Carr won the American Association pennant for Indianapolis in 1908 after rising in sport circles as first base player for the Cleveland

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Lewis Hines, 19 months old, swallowed an open safety pin. at his home in Billings, Mont. That started Lewis and his parents on a hazardous 1,000-mile night airplane flight over the mountains to Denver. A surgeon quickly removed the pin, so here are Lewfis and his mother feeling better, thank you.

CHARITY DRIVE ISJXTENDED Campaign Not to End Until Wednesday. Continuation of the Indianapolis Community Fund drive until Wednesday, instead of closing Monday, as previously planned, has been announced by Arthur R. Baxter, general fund chairman. Final report of the annual campaign will be given by volunteer workers at a dinner at 6 Wednesday night in the Claypool. Friday noon reports, made at a luncheon In the Claypool, raised the total of pledges to $684,077.85, representing 65 per cent of the $1,052,000 goal established by fund officials as the “absolute minimum necessary to care for the city’s needy next year.” Pledges reported Friday amounted to $64,133.69. and included a $20,000 donation from the Indianapolis Foundation. Other subscriptions reported by the special gifts division were from Mr. and Mrs. William H Coleman, $1,200, and the officers and employes of the Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, $1,275. Four teams in the individual gifts division have reached their quotas, it has been The team captaineand William Shepler, the first to reach its goal, still leads with a per cent of 128.9. No report meeting will be held today.

BOY IS KILLED IN DIRT SLIDE Youth, 16, Smothered in Strip Mine Mishap. By United Fret* SPENCER. Ind.. Nov. 26—Harold Fiscus, 16, was smothered to death late Friday when he was caught in a dirt slide at the John Kiser strip mine. Four years ago his brother was killed in a similar manner. , SEARCH FOrInCENDIARY Threat to Set Fire to Negro’s Home Is Carried Out. Search for an incendiary whp Friday night carried out a threat to set fire to the home of William Cotton. Negro, 917 West Eleventh street, is being conducted today by police and fire officials. The fire, originating from an ignited pile of rubbish on the outside of the home, was extinguished with small damage. After appearing as a witness in a juvenile court case, Cotton received several notes from the vanday ordering him out of the neighborhood, he told police.

and Washington American League clubs. Afterward, he formed the partnership of Bradley & Carr, sporting goods dealers, at Cleveland, 0., and later established the C. C. CanSporting Goods Company here. His factory is at 1019 Cornell avenue. He was oorn in Coatesville, Pa., and was graduated from Lehigh university. Surviving are the three daughters, Miss Lally Carr, Miss Elizabeth Carr and Miss Mary Jane CaiT. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

HOOVER TO ASK CONGRESS FOR DEBT COMMISSION AND IGNORE ROOSEVELTS VETO Replies to France, Britain and Belgium Indicate Course That Will Be Followed by President. HOPE IS HELD OUT TO DEBTORS Further Postponement of Payments Is Refused, in Firm but Sympathetic Notes Sent by Stimson. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—President Hoover plans to ask congress to ; set up a World war foreign debt commission, President-Elect Roosevelt’s veto of the project notwithstanding. This was made abundantly plain in Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson’s reply to the British, French, and Belgian notes asking reconsideration of the war debts, made public by the state department today.

The three notes, almost identical, declined to grant further postponement of payments, as the President’s war debts statement of last Wednesday foreshadowed. But some hope of ultimate review or revision was just as distintly held out to the debtor nations and a specific procedure was suggested. “Not only is there reserved to the congress of the United States the ultimate decision in respect to the funding, refunding, or amendment of these inter-governmental obligations under consideration,” the note to Great Britain observed, “but the congress in the past itself has provided the machinery in the shape of the World war foreign debt commission for investigation of the facts and for making recommendations upon which such action might be taken. “The executive might recommend, but the facts and evidence were submitted to and the decision made by the congress, acting through this machinery.” “The attitude of the President,

Britain Optimistic That Delay Will Be Granted on Payment

BY W. G. QUISENBERRY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 26.—Postponement of British debt payments to the United States, and an exchange of views on the world economic situation, are necessary to save the world from “economic madness,” according to British government officials. The British government still considers postponement of the debts due Dec. 15 possible, if the two nations will have “a real meeting together—if each side can put itseli in the shoes of the other,” Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald said. “We hope the United States will agree to, postponement of the war debt payments,” MacDonald said, in the first official reference to the present stage of the debts question. “We asked that the date of payment be postponed while there is copportunity for an exchange of yiews on the general situation . . . while war debts are legal obligations -they are tantamount to economic madness.”

French Deputies Fight Payment of Any Part of Debt to U. S.

BY RICHARD D. M’MILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov. 26.—Nationalist members of the French chamber of deputies took the initiative today in opposing “payment of any description” on the war debt to the United States. Deputy Louis Marin moved to table a motion proposing that the chamber refuse payment of any description, including the suggested payment to the Bank of International Settlements. The government was not expected to oppose the motion, and to permit immediate debate. If the chamber makes its own decision, Premier Edouard Herriot will escape the risk of defeat of his own government. The government, however, awaited the British decision on the Dec. 15 debt payment before deciding on the French attitude.

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therefore,” the note goes on “is that for any suggested study of intergovernmental financial obligations as now existing, some such agency as I have referred to should be created to consider this question Individually with each government as heretofore. “The President is prepared to recommend to congress that it constitute an agency to examine the whole subject.” Thus, despite the incoming President's categorically stated objection to such procedure, the outgoing President persists In going ahead with his own program. As congress alone has the power to change the war debts situation an iota, President Hoover intends to ask congress to act accordingly. Calmly ignoring the views of his successor. Hoover, in effect, invites the debtor nations to file their briefs with this government, plainly stating their reasons for asking revision. Meanwhile, the Stimson notes, sympathetic, but firm, strongly suggest the December installments should be met.

The pronouncements by the two cabinet ministers confirmed the growing impression that postponement would be fought for with characteristic British doggedness. The government will attempt to convince the United States that economic world recovery hangs in the balance. There was nothing in the remarks of either spokesman to indicate that President Hoover’s war debt note dampened in the slightest the official conviction that the Unitect States will concede postponement. On the contrary, the government grasped the opportunity to present anew and detailed case for postponement, to be contained in a note to Washington, expected to be dispatched Monday or Tuesday. This new note was expected to be Britain’s trump card in the war debts negotiations. Members of the cabinet were expected to gather at the prime minister’s country residence, Chequers, over the week-end for discussion of debts. Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon returned today from Geneva.

Meanwhile, it was learned from Marseilles that orders were given to rush overland to England shipments of Indian gold amounting to $7,500,000, now en route to the British capital. The gold will be taken off steamers when it reaches Marseilles from India, shipped across France by rail or motor, and transported across the English channel by fast boat. British officials were understood to have ordered speeding up of the shipment to support the pound sterling against the December debt payment.

VON PAPEN MAY BE RETURNED TO POWER Von Hindenburg Holds Conference With Ex-Chancellor. By VnitrU Prent BERLIN, Nov. 26.—Ex-Chancellor Franz von Papen was called into conference today with President Paul von Hindenburg, indicating that Von Papen might be asked to succeed himself as head of the cabinet. Only the president’s closest advisers were at the conference; Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, minister of defense; Otto Meissner, Von Hindenburg’s confidential secretary; CoL. Oscar van Hindenburg, the president’s son and personal adjutant. Te hope that tjie. new cabinet might obtain a truce among warring political factions was not abandoned in government quarters. It was reported thata neutral leader might undertake the necessary peace overtures. In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.: North northeast wind, 17 miles an hour; temperature, 31; barometric pressure. 30.50 at sea level; celling, scattered clouds, unlimited; visibility, 12 miles; field good.