Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 1

\ WEATHER. (D. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in Temperatures: Highest, 79, at 4:30 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 61, Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 temperature. at 2:45 a.m. today. ch WITH SUNDAY MORN ING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,680 Entered_as secol post office, Wa No. 31,166. nd class matter shington. D. C. WASHINGTON, FREEDOM CLAIMED FROM BRITISH RULE BY ARABIAN TRIBE IN' PALESTINE CITY | Flag of Turkey Is Raised by Moslems in Nablus—Situa- tion Under Control in| Larger Cities. SOLDIERS CHECK THREAT | OF BEDOUIN HORSEMEN Troops Are Checking Disorders in Holy Land. but Spread in Vil- lages Is Feared—Guerilla War- fare Continued, Raiders Burning Houses and Granaries. Er the Aseociated Press JERUSALEM, August 29.— Arabs in Nablus. Central Pales- tine City, were said here today to have declared their inde- pendence from England and to have raised the Turkish flag. | the Associated Press. British army, naval and air forces today held Palestine under control except for marauding bands in outlying villages, after six days of fighting between Arabs and Jews growing out of the re- ligious rites controversy at the Wailing Wall. Threats of trouble from Bedouin | horsemen of trans-Jordania were reported to have been effectively checked by British soldiers. The population of Palestine, British, Arab and Jewish, was being rap- idly disarmed. All essential services, such as telegraphs, railways and tele- phones, escaped undamaged dur ing the fighting. Communication from Jerusalem to Cairo was open by all these means today. Reports Called Incomparable. In London the British colonial office comblained that reports of the govern- ment’s policy attributed to Dr. .Weiz- mann, president of the Zionist Execu- tive. after his conference yesterday with Lord Passfield, “fail by reason of their incompleteness and want of accuracy to convey the purport of Lord Pass- field's conversations with Dr. Weizmann and cannot be taken as authoritative.” On the Zionist side, Dr. Weizmann charged _the Palestine government “clearly has been guilty of gross in- competence.” Travelers arriving in Cairo from Je- rusalem described terrible scenes of slaughter of men, women and children in -the Arab attack on Hebron Satur- day. Sixty Jews, including 15 American students, were killed and their bodies mutilated. Guerrilla Warfare Continues. Rioting in Jerusalem was ceasing to- day with the steady arrival of British troops, but guerrilia warfare was in progress in the Jewish colonies, whera Arab raiders are burning houses and granaries. As the situation came under control within the larger cities today. there was still fear of a further spread of Moslem disorders in the remoter regions. British forces have been occupying most of the Jewish colonies. and the colonists are evacuating the places where troops cannot be sent. M 4 the refugees are flocking to Tel Avi Sir John Chancellor, the high com- missioner, arrived in Jerusalem this morning after a visit to England. A Jewish delegation immediately went into conference with him. Tiberius Move Rumored. By Ru! incipient movement by the Arabs at Tiberius, on the Sca of Galilee, Gaza and in Transjordania. As troops con- tinued to arrive, however, confidence was felt that every movement could now be checked. | British cwilfan volunteers in Jeru- galem, have been under arms since Priday night. and are being relieved by the regular troops n Jerusalem the timidly opened for business today. Tension was not relaxed and fear persisted that the uprisings in Palestine portened a more far-reaching Islamic disturbance and Bedouin uprising. Such peace as was obtained seemed th2 result of ish military repressive m asures, which clamped authority on Jew and Arab alike. As detachments of troops were sent tn the various localities to restore order British airplanes scanned the hills and eountryside for belligerent Arabs and opened fire_on Arab_parties in the e 2, Column 4) ' GOOD S ON NEW ORLE Prepares Bill to Provide for Federal Care of Famous Field Where Andrew Jac! By the Associated Press Secretary Good believes the Fedcral Government should shoo the cows off the site of the Battle of New Orleans. So firm is his bellef that he has pre- pared a draft of a bill to provide for the “care, custody, control and main- tenance of the existing monument and grounds” by the Federal Government. It has been submitted to the House military committee. For @ score of years, efforts have been made to have Congress authorize the War Department to make a national military memorial of the battlefield, where the American Army achieved its outstanding victory over the British in the War of 1812, Congress, however, never indicated a drsire for a survey of the site, It did appropriate $25,000 toward a monu- ment erected in 1907 on the grounds. which were to have been cared for by the SBtate of Tonjsi-na and the United Deiightrve 22 17 4 ors were circulating today of an st Jewish shops | EEKS “SHOO GRAF ZEPPELIN MAKES NEW | ppATT ASKS POLICE RECORD CIRCLING GLOBE; ENDS HOP WITHIN 22 DAYS Big Ship Moored at Lakc-‘ hurst at 7:13 This Morning. MANY RUMORS HEARD | Dr. Eckener Will Not Go | To Germany on Huge Dirigible. BY W. W. CHAPLIN, Graf Tour Highlights By the Associated Press. First aircraft to circumnavigate the globe. Total distance covered. 20,000 miles. spanning three continents and two oceans. Total elapsed time, 21 days plus, establishing new world record for around-the-world travel. (Pre- vious record. set by Collver and Mears in 1928, 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes, by plane and steam- ship.) Total flying time, 11 days. Start, naval air station, Lake- hurst, N. J., August 7. Stops en route, Friedrichsha- fen, Germany, August 10; Tokio, Japan, August 19; Los Angeles, August 26. Finish, Lakehurst, August 29. Aasnciated Fress Staff Wril NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKE- HURST, N. J., August 29.—Loopinz the loop around the world in one of the greatest exploits of flying history, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin settled to earth at 7:13 o'clock Eastern standard time this morning, just 21 days, 7 hours and 33 minutes after leav- ing on her 20,000-mile journey. Actual flying time, deducting the time spent on the ground at Fried- richshafen, Tokio and Los An- geles, the only three stops that | were made, was 11 days, 23 hours and 14 minutes, both flying and elapsed times breaking all pre- vious records. The last leg of the flight from Los Angeles was completed in 51 hours and 59 minutes. Breaks Previous Record. } The previous record for elapsed time around the world was madc last year by John Henry Mears and C. B. D. Collyer, who used planes over land and ships across the Atlantic and Pacific. Their time was 23 days, 15 hours and 2i minutes. | The only previous flight around the world in any sort of aircraft w; made in 1924 by the United Stat Army fiyers. They took 175 days to get around, of which 15 days and 6 hours was spent actually in the atr. The weather was perfect as the Graf reached the end of the first flight around the world of a lighter-than-air | ship. A warm morning sun shone on the great bag's silvery sides as it floated in front of north after a visit to Manhattan. Lazily it circled ove: the field, a crowd of some 5000 per- sons racing along the ground to be clost at the landing, and pointed its nose downward. Overshot Land Crew. The ship overshot the landing crew of 450 sailors and Marines and they | had to scamper across the field after the dragging ropes, which were iow- | ered to the ground at 7:07. Once they | had hold of them the operation of | lowering the dirigible to the ground was performed with expert precision. | As the Graf was being hauled down | Comdr. Hugo Echener, its veteran com- | mander, waved from a cabin window | and Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosen- dahl, U. S. N, who made the entire world trip, leaned out beside him to | wave a gray scarf to the crowd below. | The crowd was handled without any | trouble by well drilled sailors and Marines, and the whole scene was one of complete lack of excitement. Sev- eral dogs romped about the fleld us'a the ship was coming down, and there was an air of casualness about the en- tire procedure of landing. Leeds Buys Paper. | As the ship touched the ground Wil- liam B. Leeds, one of the Americans to | appeared at the open cabin door and becsoned with a bill to a newsbay. After several futile | attempts the boy managed to duck through the Marines, delivered his pa- per and came grinning back with the | bill, The landing was made at 7:13, and at 7:40 it was safely berthed in the hangar. empty because of the Navy Los (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) IDAWES MAKES CALL | AT DOWNING STREET| Ambassador Sees Prime Minister Again on Disarmament [ Negotiations. | | By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 29.—Ambassador | Dawes, smoking his famous pipe, strolled | | over to Downing street today for a fur- | ther conversation with Premier Mac- Donald on the question of naval affairs. | In well informed quarters consider- able satisfaction was expressed with the | excellent progress reported to have been | made in the Anglo-American negoti-| ations to secure naval reduction, and | there was said to be reason to believe that an agreement between Great Brit- ain and the United States on a formula | for reduction may be achieved within | the next 10 days. First eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean by any type of air- craft. Passengers, at start. 21: at fin- ish, 16, Of thes», 9 made the world flight. The Zeppelin carried 36.000 pieces of mail around the world, in addition to that delivered at stops. GRAF COMMANDER ARRIVESIND. C. Distinguished Flyer to Pay Respects to President and Other Officials. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the world girdling Graf Zeppolin, arrived here_this afternoon to pay his respects to President Hoover and greet other high officials of the American Govern- ment. The distinguish=d fiyer reached here at 2:04 pm. and was at the White House in a half hour. He was very genial when he emerged from the huge transport monoplane and stood paticntly for several minutes while motion picture newsreel men and photographers took a score of shots, Plans Air Built Ships. He told newspaper men that upon his return to Friedrichshafen, Ger- many, he planned to attempt an or- zanization of a lighter-than-air craft corporation to operate Zeppelins in the transatiantic passenger service. H2 said that he did not expect to take up the proposition during a day stav in America, but that he hoped the lighter-than-air craft corporation would be an American-German one. The German fiver sald he did not contemplate at_the present any other long flights similar to the “world flight other than the return of the afrship to_Fricdrichschaven. When asked if he thought Germany had surpassed the United States in Aviation progress he smiled, shook his head, and said: “I can't concede that flatl: Accompanied on Trip. | He was accompanied on the trip here | by Dr. O. C. Kiep, charge d'affaires of | the German embassy: Assistant Secre- | tary MacCracken of the Department of | Commerce and Rear Admiral William | A. Moffett, chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics. Lieut. Rutledge Irvine and Lieut. A. P. Storrs were the pilots. The reception committee at the Naval Air Station included Capt. G. F. Neal, ide to Secretary Adams: E. L. Baer. secretary to the German embassy Comdr. John Towers, assistant, chief of | the Naval Burcau of Aeronautics. and Capt. A. H. Douglas, commander of ths Anacostia Naval Air_Station. | Sccretary of the Navy Adams' car was at the air station for the distin- guished_visitor. Dr. Eckener plans to return to New York by plane at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. THREE PERISH AS FIRE | SWEEPS TENEMENT 11 Are Injured, Suffering Chiefly From Smoke, in New York [ Blaze, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 29.—Three per- sons were killed and 11 were injured early today in a fire in a four-story tenement house on the lower West Side. | Fire Lieut. Michael Coyle, swung from | an adjoining house, while held by two | other members of his company and res- | cued Moritz Brunwasser, 48, who was | trapped on a third-floor windowsill with | the flames at his back. | Charles Hollander, 65, who lived on the top floor, was killed when he leaped | to the back yard. The bodies of Mr=. | Sophie Brunwasser, 46, and her 17-| year-old son, were found in their third- floor apartment. Their deaths were | caused by smoke and burns. The in-| jured suffered chiefly from smoke. ALLEN NAMES PAGE. -ER” FOR CATTLE| ANS BATTLE SITE! | kson Halted British. in- | The subject has been revived by D the | quiries from persons interested in preservation of the battlefield, wmch! disclosed that cattle had invaded the! luscious | grounds_to graze upon the grass. It was held that the State had | not made adequate provision to main- | tain the grounds, while the funds sup- | plied by the United Daughters wcre understood to be insufficient to care | for the monument. One of the reasons advanced why Congress has attached so little signifi- cance to the site, is that the engage- ment was fought several weeks after peace was declared by an American force led by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jac'son | and British reguls commanded Dby Maj. Gen. Edwin Pakenham. The battle was fought at Chalmette, on the outskirts of New Orleans. Nine | thousand British attacked 4,500 Ameri- | cans, including the pirates, headed by Plerre and Yon Lefitte, and their licu- | Kansas. | Distant Relative of Hoover Is Given Senate Place. WICHITA, Kans. August 29 (@).—| Appointment of Arlington Davis, jr., 14, | of Wichita, a distant blood relative of | President Hoover, as a page in the United States Senate, was announced | today by Senator Henry J. Allen of | The boy'’s uncle Clark Hoover, of Emporia, Kans,, is a third cousin of | the' Chief Executive. Arlington is the | son of Mrs, Betty J. Davis of Wichita. i e sl Children Shot by Father. SPINDALE, N, C., August 29 (P).— Clarence Tate, 40, y_was arrested after two of his children had been shot | seriously and he had_held officers at bay for 30 minutes. He is said to be | mentally deranged. Bank Statements | Washingten clearing house, $3,668,- 988.19, New York clearing house exchange, | $1.415,000,000. |” New York | $176,000,000. Treasury balance, $100,412,246.02. " clearing house balance, | tenant, Dominique You. The British | suffered 2.137 killed and wounded. wh!~ [ tha American casnalties wm\h»-r-’i i) | | State News, Pages 10 and 11 ‘ 10- | D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929 —-FIFTY PAGES. EX L3 () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FORCE OF 1,500 MEN IN ANNUAL REPORT City Protectcd by Only 176 Men, Major Discloses in Citing Need. 530 OFFICERS COMPOSE PATROL FOR 24 HOURS Higher Salaries Are Recommended to Attract Applicants of Better Caliber. Disclosing that Washington has only | 1176 policemen to protect its estimated | population of 530,000 at any given time, | | Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of | | police, in his annual report submitted to the Commissioners today, recom- mended “as a matter of most urgent an immediate and substan- tial increase in the force. . hile the regular force is composed {of 1,262 men, Maj. Pratt pointed out [ that orly 530 are available for patrol {duty and when divided into three shifts | 0148 hours cach, about 176 actually are ! working at any one time, covering an | area of approximately 70 square miles. | Maj. Pratt said the regular force | should be increased to a minimum of | 1,500, the personnel of the detective bu- | reau ‘should be raised from 50 to 100, ’nnn 16 additional lieutenants should be appointed so that the lieutenants now ! attached to the department will not | have to work more than 8 hours a day. | Problems More. | “Police problems are daily becoming more numerous and more complex.” | Maj. Pratt deciared, “and in order to | | most satisfactorily cope with the many | ! difficultproblems presented I deem an { immediate increase in the force es- | | sential.” H | In addition to the total regular force lof 1262, the police department, the | | report explained, has 51 street railway | crossing officers, whose salaries are paid | by the traction companies, and 76 civil- ian employes, making a total personnel | 1of 1.389. The actual patrol force, how- ever, it was pointed out, consists of 44 ' |officers on duty in automobiles, 17 as- | |signed to bicycles, 14 horse-mounted 3¢ assigned to motor cycles and 421 on foot patrol. | | These 530 officers, Maj. Pratt said. represent the total uniformed patrol for | the entire 24 hours, “which period of time is divided into three shifts of eight hours each, from which it will be seen | that one third of that number, or about 1176, are on duty at any given time, af- | fording police protection and service ito a population variously éstimated at {530,000 souls in An area of approxi- mately 70 square miles.” | Besides a larger personnel, Mal. Pratt | | asked the Commissioners to seek legis- | lation to increase salaries, pointing out | that the character of service rendered | | by the police force of the District should | set the standard for all other American municipalities, and if this condition is to be brought about, the salaries must be high enough to attract men of the highest caliber. A minimum salary of SEATENBY RUTHS Goose Goes Around Alone,’ Babe Has 2 on—Yanks | Win, 5 to 4. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, August 20.—The Yankees won the first game of the double- | header here this afternoon. The score was 5 to 4. Fred Marberry and Herb Pennock, & left hander, were the pitching selections for the first game of the sixth double- header of the year between the Na- tionals and the Yankees. About 8,000 were present when the opening game of the double bill got under way. Good base ball weather prevailed. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON — Judge grounded | out, Gehrig to Pennock, covering first; | Pennock making a one-hand catch of Gehrig's throw. Lary made a good | stop to his left of Rice grounder and | threw him out. Goslin lined to Byrd| in right center. No runs. { NEW YORK—Byrd singled to short left. Lary's_looper to short right dropped at Rice's feet for a single, sending Byrd to third. Ruth flied to | West in deep right center and Byrd | scored after the catch. Durst struck | out. Lary was caught stealing, Spencer | to Cronin. One run. SECOND INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Byrd went back for Myer's high one. Lary threw out Cro- nin. West took a third strike. No runs. NEW_ YORK—Gehrig singled past Myer. Lazzeri struck out. Dickey forced Gehrig, Myer to Cronin. Durocher fan- ned. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON—Spencer got the first hit off of Pennock, a single be- tween Durocher and Lazzeri to center. Haycs dropped a Texas leaguer in short center. sending Spencer to third. Marberry flied to Byrd and Spencer scored the tying run after the catch. Durst got Judge’s fly in short left. Rice singled to left, putting Hayes on sec- ond. Durocher went back of second to get Goslin's grounder and threw him out. One run. NEW YORK—Pennock grounded to Judge on the first pitch. Judge got Byrd's foul near ‘the fleld boxes. Cronin went back for Lary's high one. No runs. FOURTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer _ doubled to the right-field corner. Cronin flied to Ruth and Myer took third after the catch. West singled sharply to right, scoring Myer and putting the Nationals in front. In a hit-and-run play. Spencer grounded to Durocher and West made second and Spencer was safe_when Gel dropped Drroche: (Continued on Pu}z, Column 3.) ] CLAYTON MAY BAL CARFARE INGREASE Citizens’ Counsel Will Move to Suspend Hearings and Value Properties. William McK. Clayton. counsel for the Pederation of Citizens' Association, gave notice at the hearing today on the increased car fare case that as soon as the evidence offered by the companies is completed he will move to suspend the hearings and proceed to value all the properties involved. The effect of the granting of Mr. Clayton's motion should the Public Utilities Commission decide to do so when it is formally made, weuld be to delay for many months, and probably for years, any change in the present car fare levels. Mr. Clayton said that he gave this advance notice out of courtesy to the commission and to counsel for the com- panies involved. Hearings Recessed. After brief testimony today from wit- nesses for the Capital Traction Co. which is petitioning for the establish- | ment of a 10-cent car fare, with the sale | of four tokens for 30 cents, the hearings | adjourned until 10 o'clock. September {at which time the case of the Wash- | ington Rapid Transit Co. will be con- |tinued. The delay was granted for the | convenience of the company’s lawyer, | George P. Hoover, who told the com- mission _yesterday that he wished to take a short vacation and would not be | in town again until that date. There was no objection from any quarter to the postponement. Heberle First Witness. J. E. Heberle, chief statistician of the Capital Traction Co., was the first wit- ness to take the stand this morning. He read into the record a number of in- volved statistical explanations of var; ous figures appearing in the compal accounts, concerning which questions were asked last week by Commissioner Hartman. Some of these questions were intended to show whether or not various ex- penditures by the Capital Traction Co. upon leased lines or lines operated in Maryland had been included in the company's claimed ‘“‘fair” value of $26.- 080,144, Mr. Heberle said that certain costs for block signal installations, track and feeder connections, and overhead line work, necessary in connection with Capital Traction lines with those of the ‘Washington & Maryland Railroad Co., which runs to Takoma Park, were in- cluded in the “fair” value, and contend- ed that they were proper additions to the company’s property in the District | of Columbia. One of the questio of connecting the Capital Traction line with the Kensington line. Mr. Heberle said an item of $7.234. covering the cost | for which a large proportion of an ap- | of track connections and a signal system, had not been included in the District | should be made primarily to your su- | of Columbia value, but had been allo- cated to property value in Maryland. Certain assessments on property of the company had not been included in the valuation figures, Mr. Heberle explain- ed, because the property itself was not | taxpayers $15.000.000 a year as 5,000 | included in the present valuation for various reasons. = Some of the prop- erty referred to, he said, had been dis- posed of. ‘Taking up a long list of items. rang- ing from a few dollars to several thou- sand dollars, Mr. Heberle explained why some had been included and some ex- cluded from th any's valuation. | I te compey. ™ | day that the refusal yesterday of Po- | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) . CHINESE ATTACKERS Three Border Violations Are Re- ported by Soviet Forces in Manchuria. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 29.—Reports re- ceived early this morning from Blagove- schensk on the Northern Manchurian border charged the Chinese with three separate border violations. Soviet border posts 10 miles from the | station of Manchuria, on the Western frontier of the Chinese district of that name, were said to have been fired upon by artillery from the Chinese side. The captain of the steamer Karl Liebknecht and several passengers were wounded when the vessel was fired on when about 15 miles from Blagove- schensk. The Chinese also were alleged to have fired on a Soviet cutter in the Ussurl River near Iman. o Radio Programs—Page 36 ConcRATULAToNs 2 1 SA DEAR DoCTor . s> 4] | y ‘I”::Y HOWLED & AND CALLED M VISIONAIRE!, 7 Trapper’s Skeleton Found When Rifle Bullets Explode | By the Associated Press. GREAT FALLS, Mont.. August 29.-—The skeleton of a trapper undisturbed perhaps for half a century was uncovered by a for- est fire in the Lewis and Clark Forest, when the cartridges in the dead man’'s gun were ex- ploded by the heat. Firefighting crews heard the ex- ‘ plosions, but were unable at the time to investigate because of || the flames. The fire was controlled vesterday and the curious men Teturned to_the spot where they heard the shots. i They found the skeleton of th> man. who, apparently, had been killed by an animal, where he had made his camp. Beside him was a rifle, bearing the date 1873 and an old heavy iron skillet. A salt shaker. rusted almost away, and two bottles of poison of a type used by trappers also were found. WHALEN CRITICIZES U. 5. DRY OFFICIAL Police Leader Says Federal | Agencies Should Halt i Liquor Flow. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. August 29.—Criticism of Maurice Campbell, prohibition ad- ministrator for New York district, for “passing the buck to State law enforce- ing officers” is contained in a letter sent to Campbell by Police Commis- sioner Grover A. Whalen. The letter was written after a conference yester- day with the district attorneys of the five boroughs of New York City. | It was in reply to one Campbell had sent to Commissioner Whalen, in which the dry administrator inclosed numer- ous liquor complaints received by his office, and suggested that the police department act on the complaints under the State nuisance law. “With respect to the apprehension and prosecution of persons charged with violation of the public nuisance law, your agents have exactly the same standing in the magistrate's courts of this city as have police officers,” Whalen said in the letter. your sworn obligations to the Federal | sion of your inability to effectively | direct the activities of the department propriation is allotted, the admision periors in Washington,” hte letter con- tinued. Whalen declared that Campbell's plan for city police to act on the prohibition department’s complaint would cost the | additional police would be needed. | LOWMAN GIVES OPINION. Responsibility Rests on Whalen, Treas ury Official Says. By the Associated Press. Assistant Secretary Lowman said to- | lice Commissioner Whalen of New York | to co-operate with the prohibition bu- | reau in closing speakeasies and road- | houses under a New York State nui. | sance statute placed the responsibilit: | for their operation upon the commis- | sioner. | "I have read the statement of Police | Commissioner Whalen in which he re- fuses to take any part in suppressing | speakeasies and suggests the ~matter thorities,” Lowman_said. | “The New York Court of Appeals has | held that speakeasies and roadhouses can be suppressed as nuisances under a section of the penal law of the State of New York. “The Federal prohibition bureau has no authority to compel district attor- neys and peace officers to perform their duties under this law, but if they fail to do so and such roadhouses and speakeasies are permitted to run the responsibility is their: —_——— TREMBLOR KILLS FISH. SAN FRANCISCO, August 20 (#).— The Coast Guard office here yesterday notified headquarters in Washington, ID. C., that large schools of dead fish | about, Lieut. F. L. Austin said that an off- shore patrol boat recently passed through an area of dead fish about 30 miles in length. He attributes their death to g submarine disturbance. 1 vou are unwilling to_discharge | should be handled by the Federal Iu-‘ DAVIS LABOR DAY " SPEECH I FORUM Secretary’s Message to Fea- ture Star-Columbia System Broadcast Saturday. Secretary of Labor Davis' Labor day message to American workers will be delivered Saturday night through the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Evening Star and conducted under auspices of the Columbia Broadcasting Co., of which station WMAL is the lo- cal representative. This message to labor, which will deal intimately with the labor problems of the country, will be broadcast over a Nation-wide hook-up and is expected 1o be one of the important contribu- tions to the labor question since the beginning of the present administra- tion. Not only will the labor head discuss the present-day labor problems and the steps being taken by his department to solve them and to meet the new situa- tions as they arise, but he will touch upon some of the subjects closely re- lated to the administration of his big Government department. Among these Iatter will be immigration. Has Studied Unemployment. Secretary Davis has been making a close study during the Summer cf the unemployment question and the ques tion of distribution of employment, and as these subjects have such an im- portant bearing upon the general theme of labor, they will occupy an important part of the Secretary’s message. Be- cause of the care he is taking in the | preparation of this important message and the intimate manner in which he . will treat his subject, this message is expected to serve as a forerunner of the more important subjects he will in- corporate in his annual message to be transmitted to the next regular session of Congress. Probably no one man in this country is more competent to discuss the gen- eral subject of labor than the present head of the Labor Department. Not only has he risen from the ranks of organized labor himself, but he came to this country as & penniless immi- grant. Experience has fitted him for his administration of the affairs of his department. He is completing his ninth vear as Secretary of Labor and has had | the satisfaction of seeing his depart- ment grow tremendously in prestige and usefulness in that time. Moreover, he has the satisfaction of having success- fully met many troublesome labor sit- uations throughout the country. He has served under three Presidents— Harding, Coolidge and now Hoover. His retention in the cabinet of the latter was looked upon as a high personal | compliment and as an indication of the efficient and capable manner in which ns related to costs | Government or wish to make a confes- | FREVAC A0C CAPANT TEARET on, KBCR | partment is held by the latter. i Is Interesting Talker. Secretary Davis is an interesting talker and is probably in more demand throughout the country than any other member of the President’s official fam- ily. He knows his subject well and he speaks with an informal intimacy which has created a popular demand | for him as & speaker. | _This important message of Secretary | Davis will be 1at 9 o'clock l delivered Saturday night 'SLEEPING SICKNESS i SPREADS IN JAPAN i By the Associated Press. § TOKIO. August 29—Sleeping sick- ess prevalent in southwestern pre- ectures continues to spread, particularly | i in the prefectures of Kagawa and Hiro- | {shama. A total of 349 cases, with 136 | deaths, was reported today. The figures were incomplete. i The medical authorities described the { epidemic as a sort of “cerebral influ- enza,” usually beginning with a cold and spreading to the brain, causing coma. / EUROPEAN. POWERS FIX NEXT JUNE AS DATETO TERMINATE RHINE: OCCUPATION Reparations Conference Po- litical Committee Takes Ac- tion as Result of Agree- | ment Reached Today. \WITHDRAWAL TO START WITH PLAN ADOPTION | Belgium and Britain Will Complete Evacuation in Three Months, While Mainz Bridgehead Must Be Free of French Troops by End of June, 1930. By the Ascociated Press THE HAGUE, August 29.— The creditor powers and the Germans reached an agree- ment on the Young reparations plan at The Hague conference this afternoon. A full session of all the pow- ers represented at the confer- ence will be held at 10 am. to- morrow to conclude officially the business for which they met on August 6. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE. NETHERLANDS, August 29.—After nearly four weeks of hard labor, The Hague reparations conference today reached a definite decision on Rhineland evacuation which is still dependent, however, on final agreement on the Young plan. On a report of Foreign Secretary Henderson of Great Britain, the political committee today decided that evacuation of the Rhineland must be begun at once, that it must be terminated as far as con- cerns the Belgians and British and the second French zone with- in three months after adoption of the Young plan and that the last zone of occupation, the bridgehead at Mainz, must be cleared of foreign troops before the end of June, 1930. This decision fell a little short of German desires. The Germans held out long and strongly for earlier liberation of the occupied territory. They wanted to be able to celebrate complete evacuation by Christmas, but it was con- tended by the French that it would be physically impossible to get all French troops away so quickly. Beginning of evacuation of that zone, however, will_start as soon as _the French and German Parliaments have ratified" the Young plan. and is to be hastened in every way possible. Spe- cifically, the French are given eight months in which to accomplish the withdrawal, but it is understood that in no case must it go beyond the end of | June. 1930 This decision of the political com- mittee will become effective only in the event that there is an agreement here on the financial aspects of the Young plan. Unless the Germans accept & compromise satisfactory to the French respacting payment of the cost of occu- pation after September 1 the agreement will not be binding and the negotiations will have to be renewed The fact that there is now a definite decision with a fixed date for evacu- ation is thought in some reparation cir- cles to provide good argument in seek- ing a concession by the Germans on other disputed points. Consequently hopes have again been raised that the conference may end successfully with- out running into another week. Briand Makes Offer. Premier Briand of France, in behalf of the French and Belgians, wrote For- eign Minister Stresemann of Germany a letter, saying that they would pay one-fourth of the cost of the expenses of the occupation after September 1 if the Germans would adhere to the ar- rangement among the creditors and make an accord possible. This letter was the subject of discus- sion among the three occupying powers concerning the Rhineland in the full political committee. German representatives again early today declined to participate in the compromise of France, Italy, Belgium |and Japan. with Great Britain to se- | cure British adherence to the Young | reparations plan. | 'The Germans, headed by Dr. Gus- tav Stresemann. German foreign min- ister, reiterated their feeling the Reich | had ‘made all concessions possible to it |by accepting the Young plan at the | Paris experts’ conference. Germany Not Concerned. The problem of the creditor nations in splitting the German reparations among themselves the Germans consid- ered to be a problem in which they were not _concerned particularly other |than as observers and in which they | were under no obligation to participate. ‘The German representatives made it | plain. however, that if the creditor na- | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) {PRESIDENT PLANS TO EXTEND CAMP VISIT i OVER LABOR DAY ‘Chief Executive Contemplates Returning in Time for | President Hoover is going to declare a holiday for himself on Labor day. | At least he is going to extend his week end visit to his camp in the Virginia House until Tuesday forenoon. Mrs. Hoover and their son Allan and a party of about 8 or 10 will accompany the President on this occasion. His guest list has not been e’npleud today. Cabinet Meeting Tuesday. but it is understood that it will include | most of the members of the Federal | Farm Board. |~ The party will leave Washington to | morrow afternoon about 3 o'clock, ar- have been found in the Pacific Ocean | Mountains to include that day. and|riving at the camp in time for the 100 miles off Golden Gate., will. therefore. not return to the White | evening meal. The President plans to be back at the White House in time to meet with his cabinet as usual Tues- \d"'v meorning at 10:30. This will neces- | sitate his departing from his mountain | Tetreat by 7 o'clack in the marning.