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WEATHER. (U. 8. Wea Partly cloudy and morrow partly cloudy. ‘Temperatures: Highest, 84, at 1 p.m. toda; yesterday; lowest. 70, r Bureau Forecast.) cooler tanight; to- at 6 am., . Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 81161, Friored es seco Entered as second class matt. er shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the ociated service. Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 10],-308 GRAF GAINS SPEED AFTER PASSING FOG; STILL VEERS NORTH; 1,800 MILES ON WAY Plan to Approach U. S. as Far North as Seattle Ad-| vised Because of Weather' Conditions. 2-WAY COMMUNICATION BY RADIO ESTABLISHED Present Rate of Speed Will Put| Dirigible Over U. S. Coast Mon-| day—Covers First 1,660 Miles in | 26 Hours—Unscathed By Storm Near Tokio. SAN FRANCISCO, August 24 4.1 A radio message from the Graf| Zeppelin, intercepted here, gave the alrship‘s position at 7 am. Eastern standard time, as 43.50 degrees north latitude and 174.10} east longitude. The report indicated the air liner was about 1,800 miles out of Tokio and was traveling consider- ably faster than during the twol| previous hours. The big airship‘ also was still veering northward and was directly over the old sail- ing route from San Francisco to Yokahoma—the path followed Ly the Windjammers. This is some- | what south of the great circle. Because of meteorological distutb- ances along the Pacific Northwestern Coast, the United States Weather Bureau here advised navigators aboard the Graf Zeppelin today to abandon their plan to approach the American Continent as far north as Seattle. The airship would meet opposing winds in this vicinity, the weather officials statec ‘The adverse conditions forecast by the Weather Bureau would prevail for from 24 to 36 hours, it was said. A low barometer, with pressure below 29.40! inches, centering in the Gulf of Alaska, caused the disturbance which the Graf Zeppelin was advised to avoid. i If the airship sticks to the Great Circle =hip route leading to San Fran- cisco, it can take advantage of the Alaskan depression by riding southeast- ward in the “trough,” weather forc- casters said. In other words, the Graf Zeppelin, instead of headi into- the- low-pressure area, could remain just outside of it and ride speedily eastward on tail winds. Fog Encountered by Liner. A radio message sent from the Zep- pelin and intercepted here gave the air- ship’s position at 6 a.m., Eastern stand- ard time, as 43:30 degrees north lati- tude, 171.10 degrees east longitude, in- dicating the air liner was approximately 1,700 miles out of Tokio, that it was progressing more slowly than it had two hours before and that its flying through darkness and fog may have account somewhat for the apparent slowin; down. The Zeppelin's position at 3 a.m. was given in a message in German received by the MacKay Radio & Telegraph Co. station here as longitude 168 degrees 30 minutes east latitude and 41 degrees 5 minutes north. The message added: “Making 50 knots through thick fog.” ‘The distance indicated is about 1,600 miles from Kasumigaura air base, show- ing a speed of about 62 miles an hour since departure. Two-Way Communication. ‘The Radio Marine Corporation sta- tion at Marshall, Calif., established di- rect two-way radio communication with the Zeppelin at 12:20 a.m. ‘The corporation announced it ex- pected to retain continuous communi- cation with the dirigible during the :e- mainder of her voyage to Los Angeles. ‘The Dollar Steamship Co.’s radio sta- tion here picked up mesasges exchanged between the Zeppelin and the steamer Stanley Dollar, in which Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the airship, stated that his crew was “busy han- dling the ship.” The Graf Zeppelin and the steamer communicated with each other by radio while the airship was proceeding from Japan to the American continent and the vessel, several hun- dred miles to the southeast, at a point between the Hawalian Islands and the Orient, was traveling westward on a Tound-the-world tour. Capt. Robert Dollar, owner of the Dollar steamship line, and members ot his family were aboard the Stanley Dol- lar. After congratulatory messages ‘were sent, Dr. Eckener informed Dollar that the Zeppelin’s crew was busy handling the ship and that weather reports were being received from Cor- dova, a. In touch with radio stations on both sides of the Pacific, the bulky mistress of the air was able to make the most (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) 28 AMERICAN SOLDIERS’ BODIES FOUND IN RUSSIA CQmminlon Headed by Washing- ton Man Seeks 100 Others Killed in Action. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn., August ery of the bodies of 28 American sol diers, killed and buried in Russia more than 10 years lfi ‘was anounced today in a report to the National Council of Administration of the Veterans of For- of the United States. cil meeting was prel'minary to the opening of the national conven- tion of the organization Sunday. ‘The recovery of the bodies was effect- ed by a special’ commission of the veterans, headed by Edwin S. Bettel- heim of Washington, D. C. Search is boing made for bodies of 100 other American soldiers known to have been as members of the , on duty in Rus- ‘Worl a_dur! the ld_War. ‘I'l"beumt‘lm were included in the am- nual report of interim activities of the ‘councl, presented’by Eugene S. Carver, nat'onal commander. AIR DERBY RACERS (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SENATOR TYSON, TENNESSEE Member of Minority Party Had Been Decorated for ‘War Service. lected to Upper House in 1924—Was 68 Years of Age. - By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 24.—United States Senator Lawrence D, Tyson, Democrat of Tennessee, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal for ‘“ex- ceptionally meritorious and distin- guished service” during the World War. SOLDIER-PUBLISHER, IS DEAD died early today in the Manresa Manor ' Sanitarium, Stafford, near here, at the age of 68 years. Death followed a relapse suffered late vesterday. At his bedside when the end came were his wife and a daughter, Mrs, Kenneth Gilpin. The Senator was a veteran of the World and Spanish-American Wars and his five years in the Scnate were characterized by his interest in soldier legislation, Senator Tyson was brought to Jef- ferson Hospital in this citz July 29. He came here from his home in Knoxville, Tenn., accompanied by Mrs. Tyson. At LAWRENCE D. TYSON. the time it was stated he was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Shortly afterward he was removed to Dr. George F. Phelp's private sani- tarium. Dr. Francis X. Dercum, | emirent neurologist and one of the late | President Wilson's physicians, was s'im- moned in consulation. | _ Still the gallant warrior, who won the | distinguished service award for the of- | fensives in the engagements of Ypres- Lys and the Somme, Senator Tyson olumn 4.) REACH KANSASGITY Blanche Noyes Leads Woman Flyers on Trip From Wichita. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, August 24.—Blanche | Noyes of Cleveland, leading her com- petitors in the national women's air derby from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, arrived here at 10:15 o'clock this morning. The flyers took off from Wichita, Kans., this morning. May Haizlip of Kansas City was the second woman air racer to cross the line here. She arrived at 10:24 am. Ruth Elder of Hollywood arrived at 10:36 a.m., the third woman pilot to reach here from Wichita. She was closely followed by Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh, Neva Paris, Great Neck, Long Island; Opal Kunz, New York, and Gladys O'Donnell cf Long Beach, Calif. CONTESTANTS LEAVE WICHITA. B — . - Decision ,dMade: en Groundliig of Thea Rasche’s Plane. ‘WICHITA, Kans., August 24 ().— Led by Blanche Noyes of Cleveland, contestants flying from Santa Monica to Cleveland in the national womar's air derby sent their planes into a cloudy sky this morning toward Kansas Ciiy and East St. Louis, Ill, the day’s stops of the aerial argosy. Mrs. Noyes’ plane left municipal air- port at 9 o'clock sharp. She was fol- | lotw;dohy May Maizlipp of Kansas City at 9:01. An unidentified pilot was reported by a Western Air Express fiyer to have landed near El Dorado, Kans., taking off again almost immediately. Mary Von Mack of Detroit left at 9:04 o'clock. She was followed by the other 12 “lady birds” at one to three- minute intervals. In reverse order of their arrival here yesterday afternoon. Thea Rasche, German aviatrix, was permitted to continue with the others. No decision was received here on grounding her plane. The withdrawal of Miss Rasche from | th the race was asked by the Department of Commerce in a telegram to derby officials last night. The telegram said that the license for the German flyer's plane had expired on July 15. The offi- clals had announced no decision some hours previous to the take-off. Repairs Force Flyer Out. Florence Lowe Barnes, San Marino, Calif., quit the derby yesterday when it was learned several days would be re- quired to repair her plane, damaged Thursday when it ran into a motor car in an attempted take-off at Pecos, Tex. Blhe said she would fly here in another plane. Although there were five of the orig- inal contestants missing from the line- up here, there was a possibility that two of them would continue on to Cleve- land. Bobbie Trout of Los Angeles, de- layed early in the contest by plane trouble, landed at Pecos, Tex. last m%;n flomt El Plso.l” 15 argaret Perry, also of Los Angeles, who was suffering from influenza when she arrived at Fort Worth, terday, was still in a hospi day. Howevér, she has been given per- mission to continue in the race if recovers in time. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pitts- burgh held her lead in the heavy plane division of yesterday’s flight from Fort Her elapsed time out of Santa Monica was 13:25:53. In the light- plane class Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., also held her lead with an elapsed time of 16:30:16. . Several of the flyers were late in (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) mu: ‘n%ft MARTIAL LAW SET 129 Reported Killed and Many Injured in Rioting Over Wailing Wall. By the Associated Press. 2 JERUSALEM, August 24.—Martial law has heen proclaimed here and under [ it no one will be allowed in the streets after 6 o'clock in the evening. Cen- sorship on telegrams sent abroad also has been established. Sporadic fighting between Jews and Arabs continued outside of Jerusalem today, but the city itself was quiet after last night's clashes growing out of the wailing wall controversy. Thus far 11 Jews and 18 Arabs have been killed in the encounters. sev- enteen Jews and ten Arabs seriously wounded and 45 Jews and the same number of Arabs slightly wounded. (Jewish telegraphic agency dispatches from Jerusalem place the number of Jews killed at nine.) The trouble started in the city after prayer at a_mosque adjoining the wail- The Arabs. who had gathered hboring villages, began an at- tack on the Jewish quarters, which were successfully defended by the Jewish in- habitants and the police. ‘Warships on Move. VALETTA, Malta, August 24 (P).— Rumors were current, today not imme- diately verified, that four warships had received unexpected instructions leave for Palestine in connection with Wailing Wall riots in Jerusalem. The ships mentioned are the Barham, the Courageous and two light cruisers. ‘Troops Dispatched to Scene. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, August 24 (). —It was understood here today a bat- talion of troops was being dispatched immediately to Palestine in connection with the rioting about the Wailing Wall at Jerusalem. Request for Warships. LONDON, August 24 (#).—The_ ad- miralty announced today that the Brit- ish warships Barham and Sussex were sailing from Malta to Palestine tcday at the request of the high . commissioner ere. DURATION SP.{IP STILL UP. Chicago—We Will Is Given Two Refueling Contacts. CHICAGO, August 24 (A).—The air- plane Chicago—We Will, which took off at 11:31 am. (Central daylight-saving time) yesterday on an endurance tlighv to seek the world record, now held by the St. Louls Robin, was soaring over the sky harbor airport early today, with every indication that all was well with the pilots, C. E. Steele and Russell Mossman. Two refueling contacts were made yesterday and the third was scheduled for this morning. The Chicago—We Will previously made two attempts to break the rec- ord, but landed each time after less than four hours of flying. Wilson Her- ren, who accompanied the other two on the previous flights, lost the flip of a coin yesterday and was left on the ground. vimmE T she | Mexico's New Penal Code 0. K.'d. MEXICO CITY, August 24 (#).—The new national penal code abolishing the death penalty for common crimes and substituting trial by committees, made of alienists and other experts for the jury system will become effective January 1. President Portes Gil has ordered the new code put into force under extraor- dinary powers granted him by Con- gress. FATHER LEADS RAIDERS TO STILL OF SON TO “TEACH HIM A LESSON” James Moore, Former Kentucky Moomhinzr,' Turns! Against Boy, Who Says Parent Taught Him Trade. By the Associated Press. ¥ LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 24.—A 20- year-old boy was in jail here to day be- cause his father, who had “done time” for making moonshine whisky, led Federal officers to his son's still and asked them to arrest him. ; The father, James Noore, insisted that he was “doing the best the boy” and that “it was the to teach him a lesson.” The liam Arthur Moore, on the was bitter, blaming hff father. E Moore led the officers country_about 20 y":umy?ynu son and head, 40, were tending it. H §§; i St P i i Hil % against_the | UPIN JERUSALEM to | DEBT INTERVENTION BY MDONALD SEEN INHURRIED FLIGHT London iInterprets Quick Trip to Mean Premier Will Go to Hague. PRIME MINISTER MAY | ALTER PAYMENT DEMAND i Report Also Says Snowden Consid- ering Call to Downing Street. By the Assoclated Press. ELGIN, Scotland, August 24.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald left here ;by airplane at 9:20 a.m. for London, where he was expected to arrive at 3 pm. (10 am. eastern standard time). Unexplained important business was the ! cause of the trip. | The premier said as he left: “I am going straight to London. Matters seem still indefinite at The Hague and I can only go back to Downing street and await events.” Dispatches from London said pos- sibility was advanced in some circles there today that Premier MacDonald would make a hurried airplane dash to The Hague to confer with Philip Snow- den, British chancelior of the ex- chequer, and Arthur Henderson. for- eign minister, regarding the situstion at the reparations conference there. i Most of the London morning news- | papers described the situation at The Hague as one of chaos and confusion It was felt the prime minister migat wish a final observation of the situation before deciding finally against the move which would allow it to continue to a probably successful end. Another report was current in some quarters that both Mr. Snowden and | Mr. Henderson would go to Londoen to { talk to the premier. | "~ Premier MacDonald, it was believed, by ordering a modification of Chancel- lor Snowden’s attitude on the Yourg plan, might yet save The Hague con- i ference, despite the distance it has gone toward breakdown. SNOWDEN WANTS ACTION. Tells Jaspar British Have Nearly Come to End of Patience. THE HAGUE, August 24 (#).—Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer and storm center of The Hague reparations conference, again moved into the forefront of the deliber- | ations today with a letter to Henri Jas- | par, Belgian premier, in which he de- | clared the British delegation had exer- cised nearly all the patience at its com- mand in deba tain's demands for a lai share of Young plan payments with four war-time allies. 5 Mr. Snowden said there must be a ! final decision one way or the other without further delay .in stating the British position for the fourth time ic his colleagues of- the allied delegations. He cut short a conversation of the British with the four other creditor powers, which were counting on con- cessions by Germany to make possible an increase in the British share of reparations, making clear that Greal Britain had no desire to have her dc- mands_satisfied by further sacrifice on the part of Germany. Delegates Gloomy. Pessimism deepened to gloom at The | Hague as the contents of the letter be- came known this afternoon. “It is all over,” was the comment of French circles. “We cannot go on con- | tinually making offers which are in- variably met with the single word.‘No.’ Chancellor Snowden declared in his letter that reports were false which said that he desired or had solicited a concession from the Germans to make up the sum necessary to give back to the British their Spa percentage of the yments. 3 1‘”!1! emphasized the fact that the| | British delegation could not take at | their allies’ estimates the verbal offers | which have bsen made him during the | past week in riously amended forms. Urges Discussion. He reminded the other creditor pow- ers that time was passing and that; there could not be much further delay !in coming to a decision. & A meeting of the six inviting powers which had been previously postponed i from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., p2nding examina- tion of the chancellor’s letter, was fin- ally abandoned when the text became known. There will be no further conference of thoss powers until Mr. Snowden has raceived and passed upon the written proposals with which the four other creditors intended to confirm, their verbal offers. The next important meeting sched- uled for the conference remains the| plenary session of Monday, but doubts ‘were expressed it would even be held. Look to Two Leaders. The confernece today looked to two men to save it from a disaster which smay irritate Europe for decades two men were Premier Briand jand Gustav Stresemann, German for- eign minister, both of whom expect to Jeave The nln‘mu: for th:lr tfi:pét:ls Monday eve: prepare for 2 tember meeting of the Assembly of tge League of Nations. uuror nearly %l;‘eeh the governmen tions assem! here has been that Chancellor Snow: den would recede from his demands for a larger share of German reparations and for other concessions. ‘With Mr. Snowden’s refusal yester- day of an offer by France, Italy, Bel- gium and Japan of 75 per cent (French i + lins and his associates estimate) of the amount demanded by Mr. the national delegates ’ RN Ay x\:\ N AR “Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us! “Be thou a spirit of health, or that I will speak to thee.” goblin damn’d. . . . Thou comest in such a questionable shape —*“Hamlet,” Act I, Scene IV. THREE POLICENEN SUED FOR 0.0 Act of Prince Georges Officers | in Arresting Man With Sick | Wife Is Grounds. | | | Claiming to have been damaged to| the extent of $150,000, Raymond Fern- | strom, Paramount newsreel photog- rapher, and his wife, Mrs. Mabel L. Fernstrom of the Alban Towers, Wash- ington, today filed two suits in Circuit Court at Upper Marlboro, Md., against three Prince Georges County police offi- cials, and the son of a deputy sheriff, who arrested the photographer a week ago on the Defense highway for speed- iny !i‘he charge was dismissed in the Prince _Georges County Police Court, when Charles C. Collins, attorney for | the American Automobile Association, convinced Judge J. Chew Sheriff that Fernstrom Wwas ru: his wife, who'| Tion Sgeican for wreattacnt, "o ician for trea 3 ‘The ps!end-nu named In the suits are Deputy Sheriffs A. W. Hepl Harry T. Robinson, County Policeman V. M. Nichols and A. W. Hepburn, jr., | son of the deputy sheriff. Mrs. Fern- | strom is suing the quartet for $100,-| 000 and her husband asks $50,000. The | couple are represented Attorney Col-; in private prac- tice, Albert E. Brault and M. McArdle. Ordered Home by Doctor. In her declaration Mrs. Fernstrom recites that while visiting at the home of friends in Sherwood Forest, Md., on August 16, she was taken 11l and ordered | by a physician to return to her home in Washington as speedily as possible. She says that while proceeding toward | ‘Washington about midnight on a lonely | stretch of road her husband was forced stop his automobile by the defendants, each of whom came to the front and ' blocked his passage. ! ‘The woman claims that Hepburn, jr.; | Nichols and Robinson were dressed in civilian clothes and approached the Fernstrom car with flashlights so that both she and her husband thought they were being held up by highwaymen. Although she claims the men were told of her illness, Mrs. Fernstrom declares she was forced to proceed to a physi- cian's office and then taken before & justice of peace, so that she was de- layed four or five hours in reaching Washington, as a result of which she suffered hemorrhages, became seriously ill_ and is “permanently injured.” Fernstrom's _declaration cites the same facts, adding that he was obliged to expend $100 for a $1,000 bond. He says that, although the charges against him were dismissed, his arrest has brought him into public scandal, infamy and disgrace, and greatly injured his credit and reputation. Single Day in Jail Is First Sentence Given by Justice Penalty Imposed After Prisoner Waits Four Months for Trial. Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the Dis- trict Supreme Court imposed his first criminal sentence today. He gave Les- NAVAL CUT DEAD MOTHER UNCLAIMED.{FAE‘”UNS I:AV[]R Mrs. Viau, Hanged With Man in' Canada, Awaits Potter's Field. claimed by any of her eight children, | EXPEDI."NG IAR'FF the body of Marie Viau lay in Huli | Jail today awaiting burial in a nearby potter’s field. The 43-year-old woman, hanged with | Naoision Before December of her husband, Zephyr Viau, spent the | A hours before she mounted the gallows R etz :‘""h?‘ };"J Migh Avoid Delay Because cl ren, er mother and other rela- R tives. Al her letters remained unan- of Politics. Lefebvre's body was claimed by his | :ntherm an hour after it was removed | By the Associated Press. s Lo C Rl The contending tariff factions in the Senate are again professing a willing- '"ME ness to bring the issue to a decision | camp that, unless the tariff bill is acted 2 . i upon by January 1 it will be laid aside British-American Sea Power ustil nest year's political campaigns | . HULL, Quebec, August 24 (#.—Un- Philibert Lefebvre, 32, for the poisoning swered. before the regular session begins in | are over. | December. i rumor of a threat from the Republican | Leaders of the Democrats and the | Republican independents give this in- ‘Vtormll assurance coincident with the Equality May Be Reach That threat séems to have emanated q B y May Be Reached !lrom high authority in the adminis- etween 1934- | tration leadership at the Capitol, which % 34-40. neither confirms nor denies it. The ad- ! ministration apparently is determined not to have the controversy over such a vital issue dragged along and injected By the Associzted Press. The British-American naval discus- | sions have advanced to & point where | into the primary campaigns which begin a specific time is being sought for at-| next year. The Republican leadership tainment of the equality in sea power | also holds that President Hoover de- { which already has been agreed upon by | serves to have his program for the extra Prime Minister MacDonald and Ambas- | session_acted upon during that session sador Dawes. The expectation here is and other work attended to in the reg- that some year between 1934 and 1940 | AT SeSsion- will be selected. Under the parity agresment, not only the battleships and airplane carriers covered in the Washington arms limita- tion treaty, but cruisers and other cat- egories of vessels of the two navies are to be brought to a level of equality in strength, which is to be measured, pre- sumably, in terms of age, speed, armor and gun power as well as tonnage. When that can be done to best ad- | vantage is now cne of the most impovt- ant questions before the London nego- tiators, 20,000-Ton Reduction. The probiem, considered on the basis of present bullding programs of the two governments, involves many factors ard experts have almost as many opinions of the probable answer. As these pro- grams now stand, Great Britain would have a cruiser superiority of about 80,000 tons in 1940, which would be re- duced to 60,000 if the British made per- manent MacDonald’s action suspending work on two 10.000-ton ships. The year 1936 is regarded by some as the most logical time to effect equality. In that year, about 65,000 tons of small British cruisers will become obsolete, and experts calculate that, if they are not replaced, the two navies will be on a basis of approximate equality as far as tonnage is concerned. That apparently simple answer« is complicated, however, by the different desires of the two nations in the matter of cruiser types. The United States prefers the 10,000-ton ship, while the British lean strongly toward the 6,000~ ton type. To Test “Yardstick.” It is in measuring the relative strength of such vessels that the com- Dlicated “yardstick” theory advanced by Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson before the Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Democrats Concur. Democratic leaders have replied that they concur. Their answer is that they feel the Republican tariff bill is good campaign material for the Democrats and they are ready to settle the ques- tion in Congress and go to_the polls on the result. Also, the Democrats say they are willing that Mr. Hoover's extra session program be disposed of in the extra session. Senator Borah of Idaho, a spokesman for the Western Republicans who are opposing the tariff measure framed by the administration Republicans, says he has no intention of delaying a final vote. ~Under no circumstances, he says, will he seek to filibuster against it. “As a matter of fact,” declares, “if that bill were rewritten in 10 days to meet my views I would be ready to vote upon it.” Hoover Stand Problematical. ‘Whether President Hoover would con- cur in the rumored proposal to put the tariff bill aside’ after the first of the year if not acted upon then is prob- lematical and none of his advisers at the Capitol hazards a guess. Meanwhile, the runtbred threat is regarded by some as a club seeking to force early action on the tariff. Cer- tain it is that the administration wants early disposition of the bill. Callers have been informed of this by Mr. Hoover himself. Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican, leader, also is striving to as- sure early disposition of the bill. How- ever, two months seems to be the earliest l?hwbleh the measure can get through the Senate. The bill will be taken up September 4. If it is acted upon by the middle of November Re- publican leaders will be happy. ML Kentuckian Dies in Crash. FULDA, Prussia, August 24 (P).— | tij Joseph Gross of Louisville, o killed in an air crash near hzlr‘ey lodwl.; By the Associated Press. LO CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR REFUSES TO EVEN WALK AFTER A VOTE at|E. M. Riedling, Louisville, Ky., Democrat, and Executive e Board at Odds Over Campaign. should name the mbon anm:l’zlmewm 3 t - mittee, on petition of a of = didates, named Ben F. %’, (mrmr not_yet accepted, the committee ‘and raise the funds. it shall accept here are usually blicans have held 12 years except for ths in 1927 when Democrats | Thi defeated at a '.pé"éfli FOREIGNERS HELD INPERILAT AR ASCONFIGTNERR Diplomatic Body at Peiping May Order Flight of Nationals. TOKIO HOPE FOR PEACE IS DOUBTED IN LONDON Reports of Border Violation Are Unconfirmed as Chinese Mobilize Men and Munitions. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August '24.—A Peiping dispatch to the Daily Mail today said the diplomatic body thers was consid- ering ordering evacuation of all na- tionals from Harbin, Manchurian rail- road centcr, in view of continued re- ports of a Russian advance against that city. Anticipation of serious trouble in the event the Soviet Far Eastern army moves against the railway seat was held here to be back of their deliberations. The Soviet advance has been reported :ii imminent for the last two or three ys. Peace Held Doubtful. ‘The London Times, summarizing cvents of the past week editorially, to- day seemed doubtful that peace would b2 maintained and thought the hope- ful tone tak>n by Tokio could be dis- counted by the fact it was to Japan's interest to see that war was averted. The Times suggested Japan's wishes were father to the thought. Oth:r Far Eastern dispatches con- tinued to refer to the probability of Soviet attack and violation of the Manchurian frontiers, but thcre were no trustworthy reports that the ad- vance actually had begun. Among scanty advices seeping in rom th: frontier was a dispatch to the Mail which said Ken Ksi Shan, governor of Shansi Province, has col- lected materials for construction of an arsenal at his capital, Tia Yuan Fu, and that Feng Yu Hsiang. erstwhile { “Christian gencral,” was stated to be ireceiving munitions. The inference idrawn from -the r:ports was that | President Chiang Kai Shek had failed to achieve the national unity he sought. Moscow Denies Invasion. As China continued its intensive preparations for any eventuality in Manchuria, oficial denial was made in Moscow of any Soviet invasion of that | territory. | The “foreign relations committee of ithe Nationalist government met in { Nanking and in sccret session drew up ‘pmpflsa]s for defense. which were sub- mitted to the Sfate Council. A'Ja dispatch from Nanking said that $2.- 000,000 Mexican had been placed at the disposal of Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang for purchase of war materials other military costs by the centr#-gov-" ernment. This marked the first time that credit had been extended the Manchurian government by the Na- tionalist government. Despite the Russian denial that its troops had crossed the Manchurian { border, Chinese unofficial sources main- tained that the Russians still held ‘Tungning, near the eastern border, over which a severe battle was reported to have been waged several days ago. An Associated Press dispatch from Peiping indicated that Soviet border j raid- both east and west probably had i as their purpose to stop coal supplies |for the Chinese Eastern Railway, an ithus paralyze the chief artery of traf- fic i Manchuria. REPORT ARRIVAL OF PLANES. Mukden Learfis Bombers Are Received From France. SHANGHAI, August 24 (P).—A dis- patch from Mukden, capital of Man- churia, to Tachung, semi-official news agency. today said: “A large shipment of military bombing airplanes arrived from France August 23" destined for i the Manchurian border defense forces. LAND OF THE SOVIETS REACHES KURGAN, SIBERIA Russian Plane Makes 200-Mile Flight From Cheliabinsk in Good Time. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 24 —The Russian airplane “Land of the Soviets,” piloted by the Soviet ace, Semyon Shestakov, on his second attempt to fly from Mos< cow to New York, landed at Kurgan, Siberia, early this morning. The “Land of the Soviets,” a plane similar in construction to the first all- Russian airplane which was wrecked in Siberia recently, took off here yes- terday, and last night reached Chelia- binsk, Siberia, just beyond the Ural mountains, after a flight of more than 1,000 miles. Shestakov and his three comrades made the distance in little ‘more than 10 hours flying time against a strong headwind. ‘They took off for Kurgan early today and made the 200-mile flight in good ime. CALIFORNIAI.U IS KILLED. Fletcher L. Walker, Jr., Dies in Plane Crash—Brother Hurt. WESTWOOD, Calif., August 24 (#). —Fletcher L. Walker, jr., 25, member of one of the wealthiest and most prom- nt families in_ Californla, was killed nd his brother Kenneth, 23, was seri- ously injured late yesterday when their &r:nu:ly owned plane fell 100 feet near ‘Westwood Airport. The brothers recently returned from Africa, where they gathered rare orni- thological specimens for Stanford Uni- €| versity, of which they were graduates. gt o King George Goes to Sandringham. George. and’ Queeh Mary left Bucking: al n e ing- mPnhu shortly nrt.};r 12:30 wd:y for the country palace at Sandringham. They traveled in a closed motor car to the nfl::‘y station, where a special mmm- ited them for the journey Marshal Von Sanders Dies. BERLIN, August 24 (#).—Field Mar- shal Liman von Sanders, 74, who di- rected operations against the British in Gallipoli during the World War, died jursday at Munich. . Radio Programs—Page 32 and--~