Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 1

\WWEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and_continued cool tonight; to- morrow partly ecloud: Temperatures: . yesterda, Tow Ful <Coosing N. Y. Market: Highest, Il report on page 9. y. 86, at 3:30 est, 60, at 6 am. e s, Pages 10 and 11 Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORN ING EDITION n Sfar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier svstem covers every city block and the' fegular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulaticn, ‘109‘,6.32 31,165, e, post tered as second clas Washington. ¥ matter . 5 Joy D. WEDNESDA , AUGUST 28, 1929 —THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. LT () Means Associated Pre TWO CEXNTS. HEAD WINDS DELAY JEPPELIN CROSSING CONTINENT ON WAY WASHINGTON, Government Turns/ Government Turne CERMANY REFUSES Guegenbeim Fiight 10 ACCEDT Y(UNG | jected After Hop to At- | tend Air Meeting. :nxprnsrk of Harry F. Guggenheim, i millionare member of the , National | Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and ' often a flying companion of Col. Lind- | bergh, when he travels to a committee meeting in a_privately owned plane, | unless the travel is specifically author- | 1zed, Controller General McCarl has jruled in disallowing a claim for $58.14 Graf, * Following Northern Route to Lakehurst, Makes Effort to Retrieve Time Lost Over Texas. — | ST riruine e g motwiihtanding BIG CRAFT IS AVERAGING !v-hp appeal of Joseph S, Ames, chair- 50 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR ! man_of the National Adviso FERSE ! Giant Ship Expeeted to Visit Cleve-, 1 World Flight at New Jerseys Naval Station. i 3 Los Angeles and Graf Are Due to Meet This After- noon at Cleveland. KIRKSVILLE. Mo., August 28 (™.—The Graf Zeppelin passed over Kirksville almost. due east, from Milan. It was headed for Chicago in the dircction of Keokuk,, Iowa. :n- the Assoriated l‘rr;'! . = 5 CLEVELAND, Ohin, August 28 Stipping through the clouds i {0 cangs of speetafors at the national a grim attempt to retrieve time i races turned from the fieet craft of Jost during the night over the!army, Navy and derby racers to the rugged. storm-infested mountain | larger and more awesome liners of the | filed on behalf of Guggenheim, it be- | - since it involved Germany's surrender area of Western Texas, the Gral|skies today as the courses of the two Zeppelin was speeding toward the | great dirigibles, Gral Zeppelin and Los Fast from the Southwest today on the last lap of its round-the- world cruise. , | Angeles, | airport | The Los Angeles, largest of the United | States Navy's flest of lighter-than-air converged above Cleveland Strong head winds, which ap-icratt. was ordered from the base at parently prevailed at all height: still prevented the big silver ship | from equaling the high speed a!“ which it crossed the Pacific from Tokio to Los Angeles, but the 40 to 50 miles an hour at which the sullen waste country of the Sier Diable and Quadalupe mountain. was traversed had been increased to approximately 60 miles an hour over Oklahoma and Kansas. The direct line which Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the craft, adopted after reaching the Texas Panhandle late last night showed that he intended to waste no time in reaching Cleveland, where he promised 1o maneuversover tha city as part of the national air exposition program before pro- ceeding to Lakehurst, N. J., term- inus of flight. Will Visit Cleveland. | Lakehurst. N. J., for arrival here in mid- afternoon. The Graf Zeppelin, beating its way eastward on the fourth and last iap of a flight around the world, was | awaited some time later. | Stub Mast Built for U. S. Ship. A stub mast erected under the direc- tion of Navy fivers has been built for mooring the Los Angeles at the airport overnight. The Graf, flying on to the |end of the cruise at Lakehurst, will | await the return of the Los Angeles there tomorrow, when orders of Navy officers call for the ship's return. | i _A reception outdoing any yet seén at the races was planned for the arrival of ! the two giant craft. Airplanes of Navy | detachments, which have maneuvercd | and stunted through the course of three | days, as well as bombers, pursuit ships | and 'scout planes of Army air forces | here for the races, combined for a g to-the. Los Angeles, with smaller | blimps o the Goodyear Tire & Rubber | ! Co., four of them appearing here dur- {ing the event. | Their preparations for the Graf went | ! further ‘still. All were joined for the | celebration. their greetings augmented | [Voucher for $58.14 Re- PI.AN AGREEMENT Dr. Stresemann Tells Crcdi-i ‘ tor Nations Sacrifice Is | Too Great to Make. SURRENDVER OF DAWES’ SURPLUS IS INVOLVED General Feeling That Agreement ¥s Possible at Expense of Some Concessions. By the Associated Prees. THE HAGUE, August 28.-Dr. Gus- tav Stresemann, German foreign min- ister, told the five creditor powers today that Germany could not make the sacri- fice demanded of her in the agreement | | on the Young plan reached last night. | The foreign minister announced the German position at a meeting this| morning to consider the agreement | reached last night giving Great Britain between 70 and 80 per cent of the de-| mands sct forth by Philip Snowden, | British chancellor of the exchequer. This agreement was tentative, Ger-| many’s acquiescence being necessary of its share in the surplus of the Dawes plan payments between April and Sep- tember of this year over the payments | called for in the Young plan. Germany Reaches Limit. The chief of the Reich's delegation | said that the Germans in Paris had gone 1o the limit of their country’s vos- | sibilities when they accepted the sched- ule of annuitics under tne Young plan. They were now asked to make another | sacrifice in order to facilitate an accord among the creditors as to the distribu- tion of reparations money which after all does not concern the German gov- PROVISIONS MADE Commission Bi-partisan, ernment. He set up a definite claim to a share in the surpius of the Dawes plan pay- ! ments over the Young annuities rom pyt April to September. i In the face of this new check to the; progress of the confcrence and what ! haa promised a complete agrcement by | compromise, it was decided that thei German and creditor experts go over tne ngures submitted by Dr. Stresemann. Meanwhile the delegates took a recess | until later in the atiernoon, Despite the apparent setback, the | general feeling at this morning’s meet- | Ing was that an agreement would be of some concessions, and there was some up the conference. i Dr. Stresemann showed a spirit of ! conciliation with respect to the 300.- 000,000 mark surps - on which the | creditors count to provide a part of ihe increase in the British annuities, but declared in that case that Germany | President Hoover would be given pow- er to reorganize the Tariffl Commission, required to keep it bi-partisan, under a revision approved by Republi- can members of the Senate finance committee in the House tariff bill. This decision was disclosed in the 4R3-page text of the document made public today by Chairman Smoot. The President in his message to the special session recommended that pro- { vision be made for reorganization of the tariff body. As now written the bill provides for A commission of six members, the same | possible with Germany at the expense | as at present, as against seven in the House bill. with terms of 6 years as greet- | talk of a full session tomorrow 10 wind | against 13 now and 7 in the House measure. . ‘The President under the rewritten bill would be empowered to end the term of one or all of the commissioners. but in selecting their successors he would be bound by a provision in ex- isting law that not more than three by plans for a municipal demonstra-| would insist that the costs of occupa- | could be of the same political party. Dr. Fekener radioed officials of the | tion and an exchange of greetings be- | tion of the Rhineland be paid as from | The House bill proposed. that appoini- air_exposition would reach Cleveland about noon to- cay, but adverse winds and electrical storms, encountered early last night, re- 1arded progress to such an extent that it appeared the ship would not be able to reach Ohio until late evening. According to the original schedule of the Northern route sclected by Dr. Eck ener, the dirigible was to fly irom Kan zas City to St. Louis, then to Chicago. from which place it will make a bee- line for Cleveland and Lakehurst. Encountering its first storm after leaving Los Angeles at 2:14 am. (cen- tral standard time) yesterday, an elec- trical disturbance between San Dicgo. [ and Yuma, Ariz., the big ship nosed down the eastern ridges of the Rocky Mountains, once more victorious over the elements. In midafternoon the dirigible passed over the continental divide of the Rockies, then, bucking head winds, zoomed -over Arizona and New Mezxico, arriving at El Paso at 5:13 am. (central standard time). Goes Into Mexico. After hovering over the West Texas city for 15 minutes, the Graf dropped across the international boundary line into Mexico. A few minutes later it reverted fo its eastern course, following the Texas & Pacific Railway line to Sierra Blanca, Tex. Finding small but vicious storms in its path, Dr. Eckener there turned north, abandoning an announced in- tention to visit Fort Worth. After crossing a corner of New Mex- ien the ship lined across the Texas Pan- handle, entering Okln}gmn‘! southwest - ern corner. The dirfgible followed a compass_course through Oklahoma. The Zeppelin passed over Kan:as City shortly before 10 a.m., Central #tandard time, today and headed for Chicago. After eircling the city for 11 minttes ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8) ECKENER TO VISIT | Eckener, direct'ng the flight of the Graf.| i Dirigibles Break Schedules. i The event broke into a schedule of ,races for the day which included ar- jrival of two cross-country dirigibles, a i number of closed course events, glider | contests, a sham battle by Army pur- suit squadrons and national parachute jumping contests. | Another derby. the non-stop dash {from Los Angeles. figured on today's program, inasmuch as but on epilot, Lee Schognhair, has made the flight. | Entrants may leave when they wish, | | provided they arrive during the after- ynoon. Two pilots signified their inten- tions of leaving tonight. | | The two cross-country derbies ending | | here today were the Philadelphia race | and that from Oakland. Calif. The Philadelphia Derby reached Syracuse, N. Y. last night's control point, with Errett Williams of Green- ville, 8. C.; in the lead with an elapsed | time of 4 hours and 16 minutes. The flight. by way of Boston and Albany | yesterday, with one stop at Buffalo on | the finish flight today, was marked by | the deaths of E. J. Devereaux. his me- chanic and Mrs. Devereaux, a passenger, | all fatally injured when his plane crasked in landing at Boston. Yost Escapes Disaster. Williams landed at Buffalo from Syracuse Airport at 10:02 a.m,, Eastern | standarl time, today, first of the field | of eight fiyers to finish the fourth leg | of the air derby. The fiyers took off | from Amboy Airport, Syracuse, at 9 a.m, Eastern standard time. . Lioyd Yost of Conyngham reported | on his arrival in Buffalo that while | over Rochester the steel nose of his| ship had been torn off by a sudden gale | and' the fuselage badly damaged. He | said he experienced extreme difficulty in righting the plare. With him were | Mrs. Yost and George C. Colton, also of | Conyngham. Emergency repairs were | made here to allow him to complete the race. Misfortune also followed the Oak- | | | | | specting Other complicated computations re- | the balances Germany was asked 10 give up were referred to the experts. i Regarded as Snowden Victory. | The. conference of the governments | on reparations, held for a month in | seemingly 1nzoluble stalemate, before | dawn today arrived at an agreement by means of which it may proceed {o r place the Dawes plan with the Young plan. | The agreement, tentative until Ger- many acquiesces, generally was regarded as a victory for Pnilip Snowden, British chancelor of the Exchequer. | By the terms of the arrangement Greut Britain will receive between 70 | and 80 per cent of the additional share | Britain also will obtain a sizeable cut in the German unconditional annuities | and in kind. The concessions which made the ar- rangement possible were principally by France, with Belgium and Italy cos tributing. The agreement involved German sur- | render of its share in the surplus ‘of the Dawes plan payments between April | and September of this year over the ‘payments prescribed in the Young plan. Broadly the’ agreement reached by the creditor nations and Great Britain gave the London government 40,000,- 000 marks out of 48,000,000 asked | (about $9,600,000, against $11,640,000.) | Of the 40,000,000 marks 36,000,000 ; were sald to represent unconditional | commercializeable German nnnuimx.! nearly all of which had been allotted to | Flunce in the Paris draft of the Youngl plan. A The third phase of the agreement ! was concessions to Britain in payment | kind. Among these was the agree- ment by Italy to buy an additional 000,000 tons of coal annually for the sm';' railroads on_ the reparations ac- | count. i | that the land Derby. stop overnight, at Fort Wayne, Ind., b bt these pilots left | in- the race. Two were forced down | yesterday. Loren Mendell} Los Angeles endurance fiyer, led the derbyists in elapsed time. CAPITAL FOR REST German Charge Indicates Com- | mander of Graf Will Come to Washington. Bar Fixtures Stolen. MEXICO CITY. August 28 (M).— —_— T‘hk}v:es bdroke ::m :n l:n;: rlcln-t:‘wnrfi " greyhound racing tracl 2 and re- Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Graf Zeppelin on its round-the-world cruise, | moyeq, every vestige of the bar which Seeks Bank for Londow. Mr. Snowden, having obtained three- quarters of what he asked for in in- creased reparations under the Young Iplln, is now making a strong effort to | have the bank of international settle- ! ments located in London. ! He posed his question at lasj night's | conference at which represenatives of | Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan,| Germany and Belgium* were present, but they refused to discuss the ques-: tion in connection with the financial | features of the plan. H is expected to come to Washington for | 11, mi | B ey e ‘a0 OF Test After ‘the KTANID | i e o iy AT lands at Lakehurst, N. J. _Mr. Snowden declared he should (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) This was made known: today by Dr. ©O. C. Kiep, charge d'affaires of the German embassy, and Dr, Otto Meiss- ner, secretary to President ven Hinden- burg of Germany, who ‘is visiting this country, and who were callers at-the White House today. Dr. Meissner only arrived in the Capital this morning. Dr. Kiep believes the dirigible pilot will come to Washington almost im- mediately upon his landing at Lake- hurst, He thought it likely that Dr. Fckener would come by airplane with William P. MacCracken, Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce in charge of aero- nautics. who is to_be at Lakehurst to ' welcome the Zeppelin commander on behalf of ident Hoover and con- vey a message of congratulation from the latter. In the event of Dr. Eckener visiting ‘Washington he will be a guest at the; home.of Dr. Kiep, at 3228 Idaho ave- nue. Dr. Kiep and Seccretary Meissner are | to leave Washington this afternson for Lakehurst to greet the Zeppelin. TWb. ARE LEFT IN LAST MAN’S CLUB| AS DEATH CHECKS OFF JOHN GOFF| Survivors of Minnesota Civil War Troop Organization,i Formed in 1885, to Attend Comrade’s Funeral. ST. PAUL, Minn., August 2!.—Dtlth| has checked another name from the membership Toll of the Last Man's ! Club. Today only two members sur- vive. John Goff, 86, of St. Paul, youngest | of the trio who for two years have kept | the . famous organization of Civil War | Veterans in existence: died yesterday at a comradeship which only dissolve. One by one the been emptied;” until today . Hall, 91, of Atwater, Lock: , 89, of in, S, Dak., remain. They are expected to Mttend the funeral of their comrade at Stillwater Priday. At the first’ meeting.of the clib, in 1885, a_bottle of wine was set aside. It was m‘tefl:rnefl by the last man, who was to d themselves to death terday that his ship | {ween air race officials and Comdr. Hugo September 1 by the occupying powers. | ments be made without regard to party afliation. The bill retains a House provision to authorize the President. under the fiexible provisions, to consider differ- ences in competitive conditions instead of the cost of production alone, as pro- vided in existing law, in determining rates of duty. ¢ The Senate Republicans eliminated from the House bill a provision making Canadian wheat imported and milled in bond for export pay a duty, when shipped to countries granting Amer- ican flour preferential tariffs. equal to the amount of such preference. Buffalo millers have opposed the.provision. while Southwestern millers were strong advo- cates of it. No changes in the proposed rate schedules tentatively adopted and pre- | of German reparations it asked. Great | Viously made public were contained in the printed text. The bill also atruek out-a House pro-4 concessions with regard to deliveries | vision to prohibit the refund of 99 per | cent of wheat duties upon the exporta- tion of flowr made from imporled wheat. It restored existing language. making such refunds applicable only when wheat imported for re-export, was mixed with not less than 30 per cent PAYMASTER FAKES CITY HALL ROBBERY Alexander Hamilton, P.h,i]adelphin . Admits Hoax to Cover Small Shortage. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. August 28.—Direc- tor Lamuel B, Schifield of the Depart- ment. of Public Safety announced today “daring City Hall hold-up and pdy roll robbery” yesterday was a | fake, staged partly to cover up alleged embezzlements of Alexander Hamilton, assistant paymaster of the Department of Public Works, who told of being waylaid at pistol point. Hamilton was sald to have confessed after an all- night grilling. which figured in the case had been recovered. He said that Hamilton and two other men had been arrested on charges of larceny, conspiracy and re- ceiving stolen goods. . Hamilton is 44 and has been em- ployed in the Public Works Department for 18 years. His salary is $1,800 a vei A ‘There was no hold-up in the City Hall yesterday afternoon,” Direct Schofield sa “It was & hoax con- ceived by the assistant paymaster of the Department of Public Works, Alex- ander Hamilton, with the aid of two other men. All the stolen money has been recovered. “Hamilton, who has been living be- yond his means for a long.time, has been stealing from the pay envelopes of the Department of Public Works for seven months. Hé has stolen, according to his statements, between $600 and $1.,000. ring an audit, he €onceived the idea of staging a fake hold-up and per- suaded the others to help him.” Bank Statements ‘Washington: clearing house, $3,923,- 241 .44, a toast to those who had B . Two years lg) however, the three survivors opened the wine and the three of t. | the Veterans’ Hospital at Fort Snelling. 1t was at Stillwater, Minn,; July 21, & | State Newsp Pages 6 and 7 | 1885, that 34 members of B pany. them drank -the toast st Minnesota Regiment, W) it | They decided % that it would be too great | New York clearing house exchange, $1,688,000,000. New . York clearing” house balance, $170.000,000. I lance, 5101,143,166.95. FOR TARIFF BODY President Would Be Empow- | ered to Reorganize, hut Keep The director stated that' the $4.089 | Democratic Solitaire. Polly Would Use Her Whole Repertoire if She Could Read This By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. August 28.—Polly want a cracker? No! Polly wants Dawes! When Ambassadcr and Mrs, Charles G. Dawes de- parted for the Court of St James Polly drooped her wings. - folded up a high school educa- tion and an excellent ability o say “Hell 'n' Maria” and started down the well known pining scale. But today Polly is purported to have perked up. A letier came from Mrs. Dawes saying she would be home several months ahead of time in an effort to cheer up the 30-year-old pet. GLASSMAN NAMED INRUM NDIGTMENT Gdrage® OWner ‘and Eleven Others Formally Accused of Liquor Conspiracy. Hgrbert Glassman, garage owner. at 1319'L street and 2101 Fourteenth street, who ‘also conducts the Glassman Sales Co., the Glassman Rent-a-Car Co. and the Glassman's Studebaker sales and service, was indicted today by the grand jury with 11 alleged employes and asso- clates on a charge of conspiracy to vio- Jate the national prohibition act. It is alleged that he permitted his garages to be used for the storage of intoxi- cants in violation of the law, and as a distributing center, from which liquor | was distributed to various parts of the Distriet continuously throughout | period between January 1, 1928, and the present time: Those accused in addition to Glass- man are Samuel his brother: Julius Sandsrs. Rohort C Jones, Prangis J. Paxton, Harvey O'Con- nor and Jacob Miller. Eleven of the accused have appeared before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage and have pleaded | not guilty. They are all at liberty-on bail bonds, some of $5000 and" others been found. @ Detaits Set Forth. Mcre than half of the indictment is | occupjed with the setting out in detail of 33 alleged overt acts in furtherance -of the alleged conspiracy. Glassman is said to have' given permission in April or May, 1928, io Goldstein & Cissel to store trucks loaded with liquor in the L street carage. Gnldstein & Cissel are | said to have stored such laden trucks, wiich ‘were driven. it 15 charged. by Cissel. Jones is said to have driven a large number of whisky-laden trucks int e garage during the months of May, June and July. Paxton is charged with driving a truck into the garage 928. ldstein and Behrle are said to have (Continued on Page 2, .Column 8) o 'DONIE BUSH RESIGNS AS PIRATE MANAGER , Dreyfuss &K; Reason for Action, Which Is Effective Immediately. September 7, -1 By the.Associated Press. . PITTSBURGH. August - 28.—Donie Bush, . manager of the Pittsburgh Na- tional League base ball club, today ten- dered his resignation to " President Barney Dreyfuss. ' The owner of the club accepted the resignation without comment, ‘The resignation took . effect imme- diately and Dreyfuss named Jewell Ens, i Radio HANNAIS VAGUE " ONNEW ROUTIG Prefers to Postpone Study Until After Corporate Mer- ger Is Agreed Upon. John H. Hanna. president of the Cap- ital Traction Co.. was recalled to the witness stand by the Public Utilities Commission today and put through a lengthy and detailed questioning by En- gineer Commissioner Willlam B. Ladue as to his opinion on ‘a great many definite features of possible re-routing and joint operation of the lines of the Capital Traction Co. and those of the ‘Washington Rallway & Flectric Co. The | questions were similar to those asked yesterday by Chairman Mason M. | Patrick of the commussion of William F. Ham, president of the Washington Rail- way Co. Mr. Hanna. however, went much more into detail in his answers than Mr. Ham. ‘Throughout the morning Mr. Hanna constantly repeated that it was difficult if not impossible to estimate the ad- vantage of anv individual track or route change without considering merged op- erations_of the two companies as a | whole. He said that he had given no | consideration 1o the details of merged operation as that was an important | matter that should be taken up only | after the corporate merger of the two | compantes had been accomplished. Merger Plan Questioned. He said further that if, he and Mr. | Ham were to get together and endeavor | to outline some system of joint oper: | tion to serve the new population ce: | ter to be set up by the Federal acti {ties in the Pennsylvania avenue-Mall that in itself would amount triangle. | in effect to merger, which the the | companies have no right to undertake | Jewieh Telegraph A ut express authority of Congress.~Egypt, at 1 am. today sald withor When the hearing recessed at moon entire case of both street | today the fes in their petition for oar compan! fo the present c: no change of ,hr:.‘s’wu to be considered at the afternoon session. As 500n as the hearing opened this : motning John H. Hanna, president of In the afternoon British Marines fired | ook the stand | on both Jews and Arabs in quelling a | g | the Capital Traction Co. | and was questione | sioner Ladue about various suggestions of $2.500. Robert C. Jones. the twelfth for rerouting Capital Traction cars | member of the alleged- Ting, has not over portions of the Washington Rail- danger with 2.000 armed men, includ- | . way & Electric Co.’s tracks. | + Questions 12-Car Schedule. | . Commissioner Ladue first asked Mr. Hanna whether the present headway | of 12 cars per hour via Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue to the Union Station was adequate. the demand, which often varied. ‘The- next suggestion of Commissioner might be run north and south to and from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from Fourtéenth street and New York avenue over the tracks of FANATICAL TRIBESMEN 'ASSEMBLING TO ATTACK BRITISH IN PALESTINE ‘M(_)slcm Uprising - Throughout ' “Holy Land” Looms—Refugees ‘ Report Situation Worse. DEATH LIST NOW FIXED AT 143 JEWS AND ARABS; 426 WOUNDED 20,000 Desert Men Stage Demonstration in Damascus—Soldiers Fire at Will in Haifa—Sniping Menaces Jerusalem. | By the Associated Press. Moslem uprising throughout Palestine. Syria and Transjordania, with attendant horrors of fire 2nd sword, loomed today as a possi- | bility unless British power in the Middle East could crush quickly the rising spirit of unrest among fanatical tribesmen. 27 " The situation already today seemed to have passed far beyond | the original dispute between Arabs and Jews over use of the Wailing* | wall, and observers generally here looked to Ibn Saud, mighty King | fnf the Hedjaz, whose ultimate attitude could turn the scales one | way or the other. It was considered certain that facts rapidly being )assembl»d did not bear out the optimistic tone of official com- | These fixed the dead and wounded muniques. in the last five days' fighting between Jews and Moslem Arabs at 143 and responsible for the riots of the last five days. He declared: “We are certain that if the Palestine government had d closely by Commis- 426, divided as follows: Killed—46 Mos- Jems. 4 Christians, 93 Jews; wounded- 118 Moslems, 39 Christians. 269 Jews It was added an accurate check of casualties was impossible. Judean Frontier Closed. Upheaval among the trans-Jordonian Arabs. growing out of the Palestine fighting. has become so violent the government, has found it necessarv to close the eastern Judean frontier against possible invasion by sympathetic no- mads. but armed Bedouins crossed the Jordan despite guards placed on the bridges. The Beersheba tribes were said here to be arming and gathering by the thousands for the mnorthward march. which gave rise to fear of a clash with British soldiery at Hebron, scene Sat- urday of a massacre in which Arabs literally cut to pieces Jewish men, women and children. Refugees arriving from trans-Jordonia said the situation there is becoming worse. Although the Jews thus far have been made the obiect of the Arab at- tacks, the situation has become such that a few fanatical “holy men" might easily turn the fellahs—moslem peas- ants—against the Christians and Brit- ish rulers. Some idea of the widespread Moslem sympathy with the Palestine Arabs could be gleaned from the dem- onstration vesterday of 20.000 Moslems in the Jewish quarter of Damascus. Troops finally dispersed the tribesmen. Proteet Children’s Village. Haifa seems to have suffered from considerable fighting. with many deaths in the shepardic quarter near the rail- way station. The American consul here asked the British authorities for inf- mediate protection to prevent - any trouble in the children’s village™ there. where many refugee children from the Ukraine are being cared foy-by the Near East Relief. s Sniping continued in Jerusalem. but it was expected the arrival todav of Sir John Chancellor, high commissioner. |and continual arrival of British troops by air from Egypt should result in restoraiion of complete order here. Foreign ronsuls have been in frequent conference regarding the seriousness of the situation. Uncensored telephonic advices to the gency _at Cairo, A!hfin! be- tween Jews and Arabs cotinued in | much of Palestine, with the smaller colonies bearing the brunt of Mcslem Goldstein, Harry | higher car fares had been completed. Attacks. Behrle, Alton Cissel, Irving Rosenberg. The case of the Washington Rapid Antonio D'Ambrosio, David Glassman, | Transit Co., which was ‘made a party | . ‘although it seeks | Reports Heavy Fighting. “A day of heavy fighting with many | new casualties and one dead passed in | Haifa, Northwestern Palestine.” it was said. “In the evening quiet prevailed.” Moslem attack on the Jewish quarter. Two barracks were destroyed in flames Jerusalem was described as in grave 1 | ing Druse tribesmen, marching on the ;(‘"y. ‘Three Jewish houses in the old ‘Qulrter were set afire. The Jewish colony, Motva, near Jerusalem. was in flames at the time of the telephone call. A part of the colony Tel Joseph was | Zionist Organization, sent an-urgent ap- al to the American consul for help. | there shortly afterward. Isaac Ben Zvi, leader of tne Jewish Defense Corps, in a telephone message, | sald the Defense Corps was being dis- sent to patrol the Arab demonstrations on Friday at leas the same number of police it sent to patrol the Jewisn demonstration on Thursday. order would have been maintained in the Holy City.: “It 1s the government of Palestine which alore is responsible for the hor- rible events. The Palestine government, repeated its orders. ‘not to shoot.’ even when there were already more than 24 Jewish dead in Jerusalem alone. Even later the Palestine government did not assist the Jewish sclf-defense.” % CABINET INQUIRY LIKELY, Great Britain May Investigate Into’ Palestine’s Clash Qrigin. ' LONDON. August 28 (P.—Well In- formed circles today expressed lef: the cabinet of Prime ‘Mihister MarDons ald would consider shortly some ferm of inquiry into the origin of Arab- Jewish fighting in Palestine. It was understood some ministers oven believed it would be wiser for the government to reconsider the entire question of Britains responsibility in. the Holv Land. but this view was not supported generally. B In military circles it was expected. al- _;}::r:(h _l]n:confirme:! officially, a pexm!a‘i i military_garrisos lished in Palestine i A:ha’l‘;lfi two infantry and ope-calvary regiments. Mednwhile reggrcussions of the dis- turbanees w tard on every hand. with most of‘the press seeing danger 1 fhem to a large section of the empire. The London Times broke its editorial si- lence on the matter to after chary aefefizing the fighting “the outceme {of a premeditatec and organized move- ent”: Firmness Demanded. . “Our plain duties in Palestine are i firmness and_decision. Palestine is & test case. If we hesitate or chang our accepted policy there we shoufi soon have greater dangers confronting us elsewhere, 4 “Special grief and indignation is felt at the report a number of young | American students have been massacrec at the Hebron Talmudic School. We =hall act in all respects as though these voung men were our fellow subjects. | . “There is much more to be done than Just restore Jaw and order. Manifestly there must be prompt and searching in- vestigation nto the responsibiljties for ::f v\ulrbrnkAdhm{h of the eriminals emselves and of those we plact authority in Palestine. S | “The colonial office describes the sit- | nation as ‘wel in hand.' although they acknowledge there is still a giod deal of murder and outrage 2t various poin‘s. But the situation ought never 1o have got out of hand. “The- British public and public of all nations who have citizens in Pal- | estine have a right to know the more | immediate and remote reasons for the | lamentable events of the past few days.” A ‘similar vein was followea by the Daijly News and Westminster Gazstte. Appeal to Indians. The Syrian-Palestine committee in Cairo has sent a telegram to Indian | Khalifatists 1n Bombay. India, statinz ! that “hundreds” of Palestinian jfoslems MT. | pyrned down yesterday. Meicr Shfeya,|have been killed by Jews ani1 police Hanna thought it was, but said the |, settlement maintained by the junior | while defending the Wailing Wi frequency of the cars depended uUpon | gadassah, American Young Women's | Jerusalem. { The committee apgealed to their In- | dian brethren to favor the Moslem Ladue was that Capital Traction 'm"rmmm—y detachment was dispatched | cause by all means at their disposal, addirg that the situation was sl dag- | gerous. |~ Oeuvre, Pariz daily. today sald Arab leaders in palestine had lost control of g:: Washington Railway & Electric | grmed and arrested. He added refugees | their partisans, who did not heed their Mr. Hanna did not approve of|,irjving from Tel Aviv. all Jewish!appeals to reason. The paper said this this change for two reasons, first, that | the tracks between New York avenue | and Pennsylvanis avenue on Fourteenth | street are already very crowded, and second, because he did not think very | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ANCIENT HEBRAIC LAW PLEA WINS colony near Jaffa, reported a lack of bread and other foodstuffs, Assails Fovesnment. ion the Palestine government alone was | Ben Zvi expressed the emphatic opin- | TAILOR MARRIAGE ANNULMENT I Will Not Bring Shame on the Tribe of Aaron,” Counf here | Through hig marriage to Dayis, 50, r‘wlm and By the Associated Press. 3 CHICAGO, August 28.—From the book of Leviticus, xxi.14, Judge Joseph B. David yesterday took authority to annul the marriage of Louis Leon, 61. Leon told the court he was a de- scendant of Aaron, brother of Moses, and the first high priest. Under Jewish orthodoxy he is a “Cohn,” a title in- herited by all_male descendants of Aaron. ' As such. he told the court, he is’governed by the special laws of his faith concerning priests, though by pro- fession he is a tailor. Mrs. Rose a divorced woman, he lost his title, was barred from worshi) and forfeited the privi- of ‘burial in hallowed ground—a g _decree for an orthodox Jew, 3 he_explained. Tt was "‘“‘"!.‘.“‘ after his marriage Jast, said. that he learned . Tells Chicagoan Who Married a Divorced Woman. she had been twice married before, her first hushand dying, her second having been divorced. Thus, he told Judge David. he had twice violated the mosaic law as laid down in Leviticus: ‘A widow or a divorced woman # * ¢ these shall he not take: but he %ll take a virgin of his own people to Seeking relief in Tllinois statutes, Leon was beaten to court by his wife, who sought separate maintenance, Leon's attorney countered with suit for divorce, basing his petition solely on the ancient Hebraic law. He produced witnesses and ‘records to substantiate n's claims. Judge David delayed- decision until he had time to consult several promi- nent rabbis. They agreed that under ‘l”l!l'h“h l‘" lhaon had forfeited his ts of worship. “T will not br’& shame on of Aaron,” Judge said. unhder the laws of this State vou | almost no eclaims, T will sign the order.’ e | appeared to be due to the fact the | Arabs were provoked hyv voung Israelites | belonging to a sect hnowa 4s “Jewish | Pasciste The Beirut ghazaars were closed this | morning and” sympathizers with the | Palestinian Arabs participated in a pop= | ular demonstration. TRADE JEALOUSY IS BLAMED. Moslem Leaders Are Seeking to Regain Control. Says Observer. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. NEW YORK, August 28—A clash of modern economic interests lies behind the ancient blood feuds of Palestine, ! which, within the last few days. have taken more than a hundred lives, in a savage outbreak of murder and pillage. This is the opinion of David A. Brown, chairman of the Palestine emer- gency fund, chairman of the board of the Broadway National Bank and a prominent figure in international Jewry. Mr. Brown sees in the attacks in the congregation at the Wailing wall a year ago, and in the climactic rders and brutality of the last few weeks, a highly ized propaganda, from economic motives, rather primarily, from the old racial e paganda organized and 2 roj N ‘Was an the | atthcks engineered.” said Mr. control ‘when the British accepted the mandatory control of Palestine. They their lost ascendancy, as the modern eco- e country left no organi ‘pan-Moslem springing “Eln» S. Brown, “by Moslem leaders who lost . have kept up a steady drive to regain