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THOUSANDS THRONG INTO INDIANAPOLIS FOR SPEED CLASSIC 150,000 May See 33 Cars Start in 500-Mile Race Tomorrow Morning at Great Brick Oval. ONE FORMER WINNER IS IN FIELD Heavy Advance Ticket Sale Is Reported by Track Officials; Fred Frame Escapes Injury in Crackup. THE STARTING LJNEUP FIRST ROW

Kelly Petillo Red Lion (4) Mauri Rose Duray Special (4) Tony Gulotta ♦Schroeder Special (8) Bill Cummings ♦Boyle Valve (4) Louis Meyer Ring Free Special (4) George Bailey Scott Special (8) Deacon Litz Stokely Food (4) Dave Evans Cummins Diesel (4) Herb Fahrnow Superior Trailer (16) Charles Crawford Detroit Gasket (8) Gene Haustein Martz Special (8)

Willard Prentiss G. and D. (8) ♦Front Wheel Drive. fFour Wheel Drive.

America’s aces of speed, ready to battle over the bumpy, treacherous two and one-half mile brick Speedway oval in quest of the SIOO,OOO prize money and fame in the annual Memorial day 500-mile classic, drew thrill-seeking thousands

to Indianapolis today. Promptly at 10 a. m. tomorrow the pace car piloted by Big Bill Rader will roar away from the starting line, and the thirty-three speed creations which survived elimination tests will be on their way in the world's greatest auto race. Once around the track the pace car will pull off on to the apron and colorful Colonel Roscoe Turner will flag the carefully groomed race machines into the long grind. With an advance sale report 50 per cent heavier than last year, Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials today predicted the largest crowd in four years, w-ith 150,000 set as the probable figure. Hotels Are Jammed Hotels were jamed today as thousands from all parts of the country poured into the city in a steady stream. The line at the Speedway gate grew steadily, but the big push will not start until early tomorrow morning, when the merry throng will converge on the huge speed plant for the annual gasoline carnival. Only one former winner will face the barrier tomorrow. Louis Meyer, one of the greatest drivers of all time, who roared across the finish line triumphant in 1928 and again last year, hopes to establish an all-time mark of two consecutive victories and three wins. Tommy Milton, retired, is the only other double victor. Fred Frame/ 1932 winner, was eliminated from the 1934 classic by a last-minute smashup yesterday. Barreling into the northeast curve at 120 miles an hour during a practice spin, Frame - miraculously escaped death when the left steering arm on his front-wheeler, one of the fastest cars on the track, snapped suddenly. Frame had no control over the car, and it careened madly down the back stretch, striking the inside wall on the northwest curve. Both Escape Unhurt A1 Thiesen, dirt track racer who was out for a ride with the veteran star, and Frame both escaped unhurt. Frame and his mechanics labored furiously to get the speedy little buggy in shape before the 4 p. m. deadline for qualifying tests. At 4:02, the car was on the track, but A. A. A. officials ruled the trials ended. Another popular favorite with Speedway crowds will be missing from the starting field. Pete Kreis, handsome Knoxville (Tenn.) veteran, hurtled over the w'all on the southwest curve last Friday and plunged to his death against a tree. Harry Hartz’s Miller front-wheel-er was demolished, Young Bob Hahn, mechanician and Pacific coast dirt track racer, also was killed. Both died instantly. But many other veteran favorites (Turn to Page Ten)

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Wilbur Shaw Lion Head (8) SECOND ROW Chester Gardner Sampson Radio (16) THIRD ROW A1 Miller Shafer Eight (8) fourth row Ralph Hepburn Miller (8) FIFTH ROW Herb Ardinger Lucenti (8) SIXTH ROW A1 Gordon Abels-Fink (4) SEVENTH ROW Lou Moore Foreman Axle (4) EIGHTH ROW' Rex Mays Millcr-Duesenberg (8) NINTH ROW Doc McKenzie Cresco Special (8) TENTH ROW Stubby Stubblefield Cummins-Diesel (4) ELEVENTH ROW Chet Miller Bohnalite Special (8)

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BY VERN BOXELL Times Staff Writer

FAIR WEATHER IS PROMISED FOR RAGE Slight Chance for Rain, Says Armington. The weather man smiled benignly on race fans today and gave his blessings for a mild, but slightly cloudy day tomorrow. Although the skies will be darkened by drifting clouds, the rain which has been brewing on the Atlantic coast is not expected to play the role of the “big, bad wolf” for Speedway enthusiasts. Always somewhat cautious in predicting the fickle weather, J. H. Armington, local meteorologist, said, "There is not much chance of rain coming anywhere near Inidanapolis tomorrow.” From the standpoint of both spectators and participants, the weather outlook is nearly perfect for tomorrow. The gruelling sun which has beaten so mercilessly on the brick oval in years past, will be obscured at least part of the day. Valuable winds will cool the air and temperatures will remain in the seventies. JACKSON BARNETT IS DEAD IN LOS ANGELES Indian Became Immensely Rich From Oil Royalty. By United Press LOS ANGELES, May 29.—Jackson Barnett, who became the world’s richest Indian when a poor parcel of an Oklahoma reservation spouted forth oil, died here today. The exact cause of Barnett’s death was not immediately known.

Speedway Crowds Begin Invasion of City for Annual Classic

Every one’s racing—to Indianapolis. Highways from the compass points, excursion trains from bordering states, bus loads of men in white and two-tone suitings and women in flowery gowns and droopy hats, converged on the city today for the Memorial day 500-mile race. Even the pulse of citizens was stepped up many miles per hour. The grocery boy stepped on the gas a little more firmly on his rounds in a tuneup of spirits for the annual classic. Once again the whole town is definitely race conscious. Hotel rooms are at premium. Homes on the National road are making their annual “hay” by bedding down drivers of cars with every color of a license plate in the nation.

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Frank Brisko +F. W. D. (4) Phil Shafer Shafer Eight (8) Russell Snowberger Russell Eight (8) George Barringer Boyle Valve (8) William Cantlon Sullivan-O’Brien (4) Cliff Bergere Floating Power (4) Johnny Sawyer Burd Piston Ring (4) Joe Russo Duesenberg (8) Rick Decker ♦Carter Carburetor (8) Harry Mac Quinn Debaets Special (4) Johnny Seymour Streamline Miller (4)

Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

Contents Not Color — A NEWSPAPER is judged by what it prints rather than by the color of the paper it uses. For more than a year The Indianapolis Times has been changing its general appearance and adding features having an appeal to reason rather than to emotion. Its headlines and general makeup are clean and conservative. It does not strain for sensationism. Thousands of new readers have responded generously. The community has shown that it wants a newspaper which will fearlessly attack special privilege and print the truth so far as it is humanly possible to determine it. We have been trying to make anew and better Times —a newspaper which not only will serve the community, but which will be readable. In keeping with this policy we questioned the eye specialists of Indianapolis to discover whether the pink paper, on which The Times has been printing its last two editions, was more difficult to read than white. The answer was that black type on white paper was the best guarantee against eyestrain. Therefore, as a service to its readers, The Times will discontinue the use of colored paper on May 31. On that day all editions will appear on white paper. After all, it is contents, not color, that counts.

Little Serious Opposition Threatens Robinson at Republican Convention Political Observers Scan Probable Lineup of Remainder of State Ticket;Four Reported Seeking Auditor’s Post Nomination. With the Republican state convention only a week away and apparently little serious opposition to Senator Arthur R. Robinson’s renomination developing, political observers are scanning the probable lineup of the

remainder of the state ticket. The 1,671 delegates who converge on Indianapolis next Tuesday will have a plentitude of candidates and prospective candidacies to consider. Joseph Kyle, Gary, the unsuccessful nominee in 1932, apparently will be unopposed for the LieutenantGovernor post, an office the Republicans contend M. Clifford Townsend, Democratic incumbent, has vacated by accepting another office in the McNutt reorganization setup. Mr. Kyle is extremely popular in the party and besides, it is pointed out, he will get a nomination that may be nothing more than a legal test. Robinson Opposition Weak While talk of opposition to Robinson continues because of his weird charges hurled at the state committee, political observers insist that Robinson has the delegate strength and that none of the prospective .senate contenders carry enough weight to upset him. Those most prominently mentioned as the incumbent senator’s opponents are George Barnard, Newcastle, former public service commission member; Gus Condo, Marion attorney: Thomas Dailey, Indianapolis attorney; Gavin Payne, Indianapolis broker and tax expert; former Governor Harry G. Leslie, and former Lieutenant-Governor Harold Van Orman, Evansville. Some candidates for the state and judicial posts are announced and others merely are strong probabilities. Five State Secretary Aspirants There are five reported in the secretary of state race. These are Luther Draper, Spiceland, former Tenth district chairman; Reed McCain, Kokomo, former public service commission secretary; Bert Morgan, Indianapolis, former United States revenue collector and unsuccessful nominee in 1932; E. E. Neal, Noblesville, also a former collector, and James Slain, Lafayette, Tippecanoe county commissioner. Thus far, the only state treasurer candidate regarded as having any strength is Charles Lang, Bedford, former state senator. Sherwood Apparently Unopposed Another apparently unopposed candidate is Elmer Sherwood, Bloomfield, for clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. There are four contenders for the state auditor job. These are Vergil Erown, young Shelbyville attorney; Lawrence Orr, Columbus, accounts board examiner; James Showalter, Wabash, former state tax board member, and Herbert V. Tormohlen, Portland, former state senator. Candidates for superintendent of public instruction include R. K. Devricks. Lafontalne, and Ben Watt, Princeton, the loser in 1932. Myers Seeks Renomination Judge David Myers, Greensburg, only Republican justice in the supreme court, seeks renomination and a host of candidates are reported in the field for the four vacancies in the appellate court. Included among the entries in the so-called northern division from which two will be elected are: Ben Carr, Monticello; Superior Judge Henry Crumpacker, Michigan City; Clifford DuComb, South Bend; Dan Flanagan, Ft. Wayne; Charles E. Greenwalt, Gary, mayor candidate loser in the primary; Willis McMahon, Gary; Julius C. Travis, La Porte, former supreme court justice, and Oliver Starr, Gary. Among the potentialities in the so-called southern division are: A. N. Bobbitt, English, former state auditor; Alfred Evens, Bloom-

Speedway gates hold their quota of campers waiting in line for the starting line. Tourist camps are jamming. West Sixteenth street looks like a country carnival with its hamburger stands, cane-racks, and soft drink purveyors. Roadhouses on the city’s outskirts scurried for bacon to care for the sandwich trade. Orchestras let out notches of dance speed in preparation for race night fox-trots. Beer emporiums are prepared for the thirsty. City workmen are busy stringing banners informing visitors that oneway traffic holds forth on race day. Amelia Earhart, speed flier, was one of the first of the prominent arrivals. She flew in with her husband, Qeorge Palmer Putnam, pub-

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ington; Linn Hay and Clarence Martin Indianapolis, former supreme court justices; Elmer Q. Lockyear, Indianapolis, former appellate judge, and Connor Ross, Whiteland.

KLAN TO MEET NEARKOKOMO Fiery Cross to Burn 5 Days Beginning June 30, ' Program Says. The fiery cross of the Ku-Klux Klan will shed its baleful glow in the vicinity of Kokomo for five days beginning June 30, according to program plans disclosed today. Invitations announcing “a tremendous Ku-Klux Klan celebration to which other realms are invited” are being broadcast, The Times learned. The meeting, scheduled for Melfalfa park, four miles west of Kokomo, is to be held June 30 through July 1,2, 3 and 4. In red and blue letters, the invitations disclose that mail arrangements have been made, food and music will be provided and a continuous program is assured. H. B. (Doc) Farrell, state organizer of the K. K. K., with headquarters in the Knights of Phythias building, said two degrees, the Knights of Camelias and Knights of Mystic Forest, would be given. Religious services and a pageant will feature one Sunday of the meeting. The state organization's meeting will be held at 10 a. m. July 4. Delegates from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois are expected to attend the sessions. James A. Colescott, Columbus, 0., imperial representative, will be one of the speakers, Mr. Farrell said. GIRL’S DEATH BAFFLES SACRAMENTO POLICE Daughter of State Official Found Dead From Burns. By United Press SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 29. Conflicting evidence of murder and suicide confronted police today in the mysterious death of pretty Virginia Johnson, 22, daughter of state treasurer Charles G. Johnson, a gubernatorial candidate. The girl’s flame-seared body was found in a garage behind an apartment building. Kerosene had been poured over her clothing and a torch applied, burning her features almost beyond recognition. Inclined to assign her death to murder, detectives also considered the suicide theory. CHILD HIT BY TRUCK Girl, 9, Suffers Head Injuries; Taken to City Hospital. Alma Marvel, 9, Flackville, suffered serious head injuries today when she was struck by a truck driven by Glenn Webb, 30, Frankfort, and thrown twenty-five feet into the air at Thirtieth street and state road 52. She was sent to city hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 10 a. m 77 7a. m 65 11 a. m..... 79 Ba. m 74 12 (noon).. 80 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 84

lisher, yesterday at municipal airport. They will be the guests of Colonel and Mrs. E. S. Gorrell and Colonel and Mrs. E. V. Rickenbacker. L. P. Fisher, president of the Cadillac division of General Motors, was an early arrival at the Claypool. Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion, was due by plane today with a group of New York sport writers. A trainload of Ford dealers will leave Detroit tonight to attend the race. Thirty Ilnited States army ships from Selfridge field, Mt. Clemens, Mich., and from Rantoul, 111., are expected here race morning. Joe Dawson, winner of the 1912 race, has reservations at the Columbia Club,

U. S. OFFERS TO SLASH NAVY AT ARMS PARLEY

DROUGHT AND INSECT HORDE MENACECROPS Wheat Burns in Fields; Minnesota Farmers Pray for Rain. By United Press CHICAGO, May 29.—Dry weather, chinch bugs and grasshoppers plagued the American farmer today with the threat of a major crop failure. Scattered rains fell in some sections but they were so light as barely to lay the dust of one of the most extensive droughts in recent history. The weather bureau reported light showers at La Crosse, Wis., and Watertown, N. D., and the weather forecast gave some added hope in the form of unsettled conditions in several of the dozen states where dry weather has taken on almost the aspects of a disaster. The rain thus far reported, however, was insufficient to swell streams and rivers that have*- fallen so low as to make water shortage a reality in many towns and to endanger the fish left gasping in scattered pools of warm water. Bugs Destroy Barley Broad fields of wheat turned prematurely brown under the broiling sun that sent temperatures climbing rapidly toward the one hundred mark. Reports from grain traders' agents sent to survey the situation showed the crop badly burned in some sections and in others damage was reported such even with good rains immediately only half a crop will be harvested. Many fields will not be cut at all. Added to the ravages of dry weather insects took their toll. From Earl Park, Ind., came a report that one 120-acre field of barley was plowed up today because of damage from chinch bugs. In the Canadian wheat belt grasshoppers were .reported hatching with extreme rapidity In nearly every section. Wheat Price Lower Despite the flood of unfavorable weather and crop reports, wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade worked fractionally lower as traders changed over to the selling side after pushing prices almost to the dollar mark. At Minneapolis the magical dollar fivure became an actuality. In Fergus Falls, Minn., all business was suspended at noon today while resident flocked to a church to pray for rain. The services were under the auspices of all churches in the city and will be held daily until the drought is broken.

GENERAL JOHNSON TO RESIGN, CAPITAL HINTS Shifts in NRA Personnel Give Credence to Rumors. < Copy right, 1934. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, May 29.—Shifts, in NRA personnel and policy coincide today with new reports that Administrator Hugh S. Johnson will resign soon and that the White House has been canvassing possible successors. General Johnson has denied he would quit. One usually well informed source said W. Averell Harriman, railroad magnate and recently powerful in NRA, was among those suggested for job. Times Index Page Bridge 7 Broun 5 Classified 12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 7 Curious World 13 Editorial 4 Financial 8 Hickman-Theaters 11 L - lan /. 5 Pegler 5 Radio 2 Serial Story 13 Sports 10, 11 State News 2 Vital Statistics 8 World’s Big Shell Game., 5 Woman’s Pages 6, 7

Governor Paul V. McNutt will head a box party at the annual brick-scorching. Mail 'will not be delivered in the residential sections tomorrow. Usual holiday deliveries will be in vogue downtown. All city, county, federal and state offices will be closed. Banks, business places and department stores will shut up shop. The day’s more serious side will be observed by a Memorial day parade at 10 a. m. followed by rites for the war dead at the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument. At 3 p. m. the general memorial services will be held at Crown Hill with Frederick K. Landis, Logansport editor, as the speaker. Rites were to be held today at the Grove of Remembrance, Garfield park, under auspices of Hamilton -

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DOUBLE GUARD PLACED OVER PANAMA CANAL LOCKS, OFFICER SAYS

By United Press CRISTOBAL, C. Z., May 29. The military guard on the Panama canal locks has been doubled, it was reported today. A high army officer said the report was true, and added: “Perhaps those who are guarding the canal are sensitive about something.” It was recalled that during the recent naval maneuvers, when the fleet passed through the canal in a speed test, extraordinary wartime precautions were taken to guard it.

TOLEDO FEARS RENEWED RIOTS Troops Are Rushed to Three Factories as Unruly Mobs Gather. By United Press TOLEDO, May 29.—Threat of further rioting caused national guardsmen to be rushed to three automotive parts manufacturing companies today while federal mediators strove unavailingly to bring peace on Toledo’s troubled labor front. While one detachment patrolled the riot-torn Electric Auto-Lite plant, scene of disturbances which killed two men and injured scores last week, other troopers were called out by Colonel William A. Marlin for riot duty at the Bingham Stamping Company and Logan Gear Company. Army officers were informed that unruly crowds, armed with bricks, stones and clubs, had gathered about the two plants. “The situation is growing very serious,” said Charles P. Taft, chief federal mediator.

Rural Doctor Battles to Save Lives of Quintuplets Babies Still Alive as Medical World Marvels at Modern 'Miracle’; Mother, 25, ‘Doing Well.’ By United Press NORTH BAY, Ontario, *May 29.—The five daughters of farmer Dionne and his wife Olivia, born in the same child-bed, still were alive today, proving to doctors that the age of miracles is not past.

Dr. Dafoe, a country doctor treating a case which the world’s leading physicians would want nothing better than to attend, kept the tiny mites of humanity alive and felt that perhaps they might all puli through. Mrs. Dionne, 26, was already the mother of six children, when nature surprisingly enlarged her family by five. The quintuplets were born early yesterday, one of the very few cases where all babies survived for more than a few minutes. Dr. Dafoe gave as much attention to the mother as to the babies, the largest weighing three pounds, four ounces, the two smallest, two pounds, four ounces when weighed

Berry chapter Service Star Legion. Hilton U. Brown was to be the main speaker. ’ Other services scheduled for Memorial day in cemeteries are at New Crown, Mount Jackson, Glen Haven Memorial cemeteries and at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The Indians and Louisville Colonels will play afternoon and night games at the American Association ball park. All-night dances are planned -at several ballrooms tonight and tomorrow night. Movie theaters have scheduled special programs for race week. Amusement parks tidied up for capacity crowds. Groceries did a rush business today on chickens, pickles and sandwich fillings. Everyone’s racmg—to and in Indianapolis.

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Generous Gesture Toward Peace of World Startles Worried Delegates at Geneva. NORMAN DAVIS OUTLINES PLAN America Also Willing to Join in Control of Munitions, Conference Is Told; German Return Asked. By United Press GENEVA, May 29.—The United States went squarely on record for peace at the world arms conference today by offering to reduce its navy, and to join an international agreement for control of the traffic in arms. America also declared its willingness to consult with other nations in event of trouble. The action marked a climax in the long and losing struggle for disarmament at Geneva.

DILLINGER, PALS REPORTED HERE Police Kept Busy by Report on America’s No. 1 Desperado. Sinister influence of John Dillinger, “phantom bandit,” hovered over Indianapolis last night and early today as thousands arrived in the city for the annual Speedway classic. Police were kept on the jump as reports of the Indiana despreado centered in this city. Local and state police were informed by a “former neighbor” or Dillinger’s in Mooresville that he had seen the notorious gangster, with three other men, in a black sedan at Thirtyfirst street and College avenue last night. The black sedan, according to the informant bore Indiana license plates but he was unable to recall the numbers. The informant told police that he had known Dillinger many years and was certain of his identification. From Westfield today came reports that three business men of the community are convinced that they saw Dillinger, his companion, George (Baby Face) Nelson and two women there recently. The supposed gangsters ate supper in the town and filled their gasoline tank at a local gas station. After remaining in town an hour, the gangsters left Westfield, going north, they said. Refuting the statement of Homer Cummings, United States attorneygeneral, who believes that Dillinger is dead, Captain Mattt Leach of the state police told members of the Indiana University Club, he believes Dillinger to be “very much alive.” Milwaukee Workers Strike By United Press MILWAUKEE, Minn., May 29. Nearly 200 employes of the Crucible Steel Casting Company went on strike today when their demands for union recognition were turned down.

together. The combined weight of the five at birth was thirteen pounds, six ounces. Mrs. Dionne was in poor health during all of her pregnancy and the doctor was not pleased with her condition. He felt no doubt but what he would pull her through. Father a Bit Dazed The father still seemed startled. H\ didn’t know how he would provide for his large fqjnily, but felt sure God would provide a way. The five babies were in a huge clothes basket atop a bureau next to their mother’s bed. They received their first earthly meal this morning. “We’ve got our hands full all right,” said Dr. Befoe, who had remained with his charges all night. “We’ve got to feed those little duffers with an eye dropper.” Mr. Dionne hovering about, admitted he was proud and said he had very good reason to be. He is struggling to keep up the mortgage payments on his farm and is one of the few in the district not receiving relief payments. He does not intend asking for them now. House Built of Logs The farm house is built of logs and is very old. It has four small rooms. The windows are sti l boarded up Against the rigorous Ontario winter. A Kings county bounty of three pounds sterling was given to Mrs. Dionne today. The bounty is given to mothers of triplets or more. The couple were married nine years ago. The father is only five feet seven inches tall, weighing 128 pounds, while his wife is slightly smaller.

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Norman H. Davis, special representative of President Roosevelt, in opening debate at the long-postponed full meeting of the conference, made a strong bid to prevent its threatened collapse. He said: “We are willing to join other interested powers in substantial, proportionate reduction of naval tonnage,” he declared. “The people of the United States are aroused by the evils which are being revealed in the production of and traffic in munitions. The American government is ready to join in measures for suppresing this evil and is prepared to negotiate in connection with disarmament a treaty dealing drastically with this problem.” Reaffirming President Roosevelt’s offer to consult with other powers if war threatens, Mr. Davis added: “We are willing to go further and work out by intei national agreement an effective system for the regulation of the manufacture of and traffic in arms and munitions." Dr. Davis foreshadowed Germany’s possible return to the conference, from which she walked out in disgust last year. He expressed hope that Germany soon would resume negotations with other powers. Mr. David made a frank offer by the United States to reduce its naval tonnage now to forestall a naval race before the 1935 naval conference. Intense Interest Aroused The offer aroused intense interest in view of the current preliminary negotiations about to be held in London, involving Japan, the United States, Great Britain and France. “Let us go back to the British draft convention of last June 8, which has been accepted by all, including Germany, as the basis of a future convention,” Mr. Davis urged. The British proposals embodied a modified form of rearmament for Germany and a general understanding _ for security measures to meet the demands of France. “The disarmament problem is susceptible of a practical solution,” Mr. Davis said. “It may be remarked that a considerable measure of accord has actually been reached with respect to the technical aspect of armament and the kind ot disaimament convention that would be effective.” Security Aims Listed Mr. Davis argued that security may be attained by a nation as follows: 1. By achieving overwhelming superiority of armaments, together with defensive alliances. 2. By increasing its powers of defense and simultaneously decreasing its powers of offense. “The United States government believes that only by the second path can the peace and progress of the world and the material security of each country be truly promoted,” he said. Anxious as the United States is for disarmament, however, Mr. Davis said this country will not participate in any purely European political disputes or settlements, nor will it agree to the use of American troops or warships for settlement of disputes anywhere. “In effect, the policy of the United States is to keep out of war, but to help in every possible way to discourage war,” Mr. Davis declared. Munitions Control Asked In urging a stricter international control of the manufacture and sales of munitjpns of war, Mr. Davis cited the recent message sent by President Roosevelt to the senate. He the people of the United States “are aroused at the evils which are being revealed in the production and traffic of munitions of war. “The American people and government are convinced that by some means the production and traffic in engines of death, and the profits resulting therefrom, must be controlled or eliminated. Those who have a sordid financial interest in fomenting international suspicion and discord, which in turn increases the demand for what they have to sell, must be put in a position in which they do not have the power or the incentive to do so much evil.” The conference met today in an atmosphere of pessimism and confusion. The galleries were badly crowded and hundreds milled around the public entrance begging for seats.