Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 1

] ‘ ; ! phia were moved to Tel-Aviv for safety. ' Airplancs + dties. , renewed street fighting in Jerusalem, | Telpioth, Jewish residential suburb of | to threats of reprisals by the British WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer morrow. tonight and to- ‘Temperatures: Highest, .“fi 11 am. today; lowest, 55, at 6 a. Full report on page 5. New York Stock Market Closed Today he Entered as secol post office, 31,168. 0. Was nd class matte D. C. shinzton, WASHINGTON, D. o $i € ety aan ¥Ry ST RASEE R % pemm WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION » Sta The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. * news Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,995 (S SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. * () Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. AMERICANS KILLED INARAB ATTACK ON OLD CITY OF SAFED Rabbi Samue! Cohen and Wife Among Victims of Moslems Thursday Night. GATHERING TRIBESMEN MENACE JORDAN TOWNS Jews Make Appeals for More Troops for Defense and Money for Refugees. T the Asociated Press. | JECRUSALEM, August 31.—Rabbi Samuel Cohen and his wife, believed | to be Americans, were killed in the| attack by Arab Moslems Thursday night on ancient Safed, Northern Gelileean | city. Arabs last night attacked the Jewish | colony at Gederah and later burned the granary in the colony.of Kfarba- ruch. Children of the colony Bethal- The greatest fear was held gencrally of movment of tribes in Northern S)‘rln.i patrolled the southern | colonies. British military in Palestine. harassed by disorders within the mandated ter- vitory itsclf, moved today to check a full-fledged _although disorganized in-| vasion by Syrian and Transjordaniar. ! Arabs. | Arabs Cross Border. “Considerable forces” of the Mus- sulmans were said officially to be enter- | ing Plestine from Syria and airplancs and troops were dispatched to intercept and ascertain their strength. Incursions of Arabs from Transjordania have been checked so that they are not getting across the border in great numbeis but the infiltration has continued, nevertheless. The Arab force. according to wow: received in qgficial quarters, was moving | south. A party of Jewish high school | ter Ship Rams Barge at Same Time As San Juan Crash | | By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif.,, Au- gust 31.—The White Flyer Line steamer Humboldt, sister ship of the {ll-fated San Juan, which sank off Pigeon Point after being rammed by the S. C. T. Dodd, was in another crash at approx- imately the same hour as the San Juan disaster, it was reported here. The Humboldt rammed the fishing barge Jane L. Stanford, which was anchored in Santa Parbara Channel. A hole was torn in the Stan- ford’s hull by the prow of the Humboldt, and the barge had sunk almost to the water line. The Humboldt, San Francisco bound, struck the barge when heading for the Santa Barbara wharf. The liner was slightly damaged. GRAPS STARTHONE SE FOR 1IDNGHT Zeppelin, Carrying 17 Pas- sengers, Will Sail for Ger- many Without Eckener. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J, August 31— Preparations went forward today to send the globe-circling Graf Zeppelin into the air at midnight; bound for her home port, Friedrichshafen, Germany, | and the end of her historie cruise, | Seventeen passengers, 3,300 pounds of freight and a quantity of mail will be aboard the great a#ship on her fifth crossing of the Atlintic. When she reaches her station she will have traveled approximately 27,000 miles since she left on her first crossing to Lakehurst a month ago. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Zeppelin, who was feted as a hero in ew York yesterday, will see his be- oved ship point her nose for home ithout him. He has arranged 1o re- | main in this country for two weeks at- | tending to business in New York and | RUSSIANS ACCEPT CHINA'S PROPOSALS FOR ARBITRATION Dramatic Eleventh-Hour Move Is Made by Soviet Union Government. JOINT SETTLEMENT MEASURE PROPOSED Decision Checks Agitation in Mos- cow Over Reported Execution of Rail Men. Br the Associated Press. MOSCOW. August 31.—Just when war clouds seemed blackest the Soylet Union government has made a dranfatic cleventh-hour acceptance of Chinese proposals looking to settlement of the | crisis arising out of Manchurian seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Maxim Litvinoff, vice commissar for | foreign affairs, in a note to Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, German Ambassador, an- nounced the U. S. S. R. was willing to sign with the Nanking government a joint declaration for settlement of all questions. arising out of the dispute. Agitation at Peak. The Soviet acceptance of the Chinese proposal was announced at a time when agitation for punitive measures in China was reaching a peak as the result of advices of the execution of four Soviet citizens by the Chinese government. Soviet officials hailed the move of the foreign commissariai--as _indicating a | real desire for peace and firm adher- ence to the Kellogg anti-war pact. The dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railway is of long standing. Originally constructed under a czarist regime as a shortened outlet for the Transsiberian Russian road, the line became a bone of contention between the infant Rus- sian and the Chinese Nationalist gov- ernments. Propaganda Ts Seized. In May raids conducted by Chinese | students, including 14 Americans, was | visiting Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. | officials in Harbin and elsewhere in| near the Syrian frontier on an outing | Capt. Ernest Lehmann will have charge Manchuria were said to have revealed and an appeal was made to the | American consul for protection for them | in view of the Arab advance. i The position of isolated Jewish cal- onies in the Jordan Valley greatly | alarmed authoritics, The cituation of | Tiberias was regarded as particularly | dangerous and encrgetic measures wers taken for its defense. The Arabs were zaid to have boasted that the samc fate was in store for it as at Safed. ;l;‘h"e were only four British soldiers ere. Excited by Reports. The Jordan Valley Arabs were great- | 1y excited over reports that several of | their fellow triiésmen had been killed | by Jews in the neighboring colony of | Kinereth. They were said to be gath- ering at Semakh from all surrounding villages. Reports reaching here from Safed Indicated that city, which lies to the north of the Sea of Galiles, had suf- fered greatly at the hands of the Arabs. Nine Jews were killed. 70 wounded and the city looted and al- most. destroyed by fire. There were renewed attacks at Haifa and Acre, which were checked by the author- Thirty-five Jews were wounded in decpite presence of British soldiers who patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Jerusalem, which previously had been looted, was attacked again. Arabs at Qulonia, paying no attention deouty commissioner there, burned the mill and other buildings yesterday. Five days ago Jewish homesteads there were burned and two girls tied together and burned alive. Druse Tribes Feared. British military authorities pointed | out that only a considerable guard | could prevent the dangerous Druse tribesmen, who have caused the French Syrian authorities so much trouble, from crossing the long frontier. France governs Syria under a mandate similar to that by which the British control Palestine. The British authorities have exerted every means to nip invasion from both Svria and Transjordania in the bud. Mithcal Lel Faiz, first sheik of the powerful and dangerous Beni Sakhi tribe in Transjordania, who xllppedl through the frontier guards with three companions and penetrated to Jeru- salem, has been captured. He came as far as the Jordan in a motor car and crossed the river, pro- | ceeding afoot and leaving his car and chauffeur on the other side. He was discovered here in the ordinary attire of the low class Arab and was detained. In Jerusalem a representative of the ‘National Council of Palestine Jewry re- auested the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on behalf of the council to broadcast an appeal to Jewish communities throughout the world, declaring that the situation throughout the ecountry was one of great danger, with “acts of dnetruction and extermination by Arabs continuing.” Two Essentials. The appeal added: “Two things are essential. First to urge the govern- ment to take strong measures for ces- eation of destruction and the safe- guarding of the remaining life and property; second, urgent financial aid t» feed the thousands of refugees.” Information reaching today from £afed was that the Arabs burned and ooted that city for two hours Thurs- Cay night until British troops arrived 2 of the airship on the fiight. i Repalrs to a rudder, crumpled when | | the airship struck the ground while |brought almost to the verge of hostili-| leaving_Los Angeles, have been com- | pleted. Into the cells have been pumped | 850,000 cubic feet of ethane fuel gas| and 450,000 cuble feet of hydrogen. Cleveland Woman Is Passenger. | Although Lady Grace Drummond Hay left the ship here, the Graf has a| woman on the passenger list for the | trip home. She is Mrs. Charles B. Parker of Cleveland, widow of Dr. C. B. Parker, surgeon and member of the | faculty of Western Reserve University. Althcugh Mrs. Parker has been a great traveler since the death ‘of- her ‘hus- band 10 years ago, she never has made | an airplane flight, and the flight to | Germany will be her first in a dirigible. | The United States Navy will be rep- | resented by three officers, making the | flight as guests of Dr. Eckener. They are Lieut. Comdr. H. V. Wiley, com- | | manding officer of the Navy dirigible | Los Angeles; Lieut. Comdr. J. M. Shoe- maker, head of the aeronautical engine service of the Navy, and Lieut. Roland G. Mayer of the Navy Construction Orps. | cégwnrd P. Frost, brother of the late | Jack Frost, pilot. who was lost in the Dole flight from San Francisco to Hono- lulu, is on the passenger list. He was formerly an airplane pllot and now is a New York stock broker. He is going to meet his wife in Italy. Business Men to Make Trip. Dr. Willlam M. Scholl, Chicago manu- facturer of orthopedic foot appliances; John W. Schnitzler of Froid, Mont., president of the First National Bank of Froid and a member of the Republican national committee, and R. A. L. Bogan of Syracuse, N. Y., general manager of a bus company, are other new passen- gers. Dr. Scholl booked passage to make a hurried business trip to Frank- fort. Germany. In addition to these there are seven | who joined the Graf Zeppelin at Fried- richshafen for the world cruise and two who are going on, although their cir- cumnavigation of the globe ended at Lakehurst. These last are Joachim Rickard, Boston and Madrid, corre- spondent for a Spanish news syndicate, and Heinz von Eschwege-Lichbert, Ger- man newspaper man. ‘The seven whose world cruise is not completed are Dr. J. Mogias, physician to King Alphonso of Spein; Lieut: Col. Christopher Iselin, retired Swiss army officer; Dr. 8. C. Seilkopf of the Ham- burg weather bureau; Leo Gerville- Reache, French correspondent; H. Von Perkheimer, German camera man, and H. Geisenheimer and Gustav' Kauderm, German newspaper men. Freight which the Graf Zeppelin will carry consists of 113 packages, includ- ing lawn mowers, women's pajamas, machine castings, oils, shoes, scientific instruments, dental instruments and a radio set to be presented to the King of Spain. These goods were sent by the fihflldelyhll Business Progress Associa- on. Great Ovation Given Eckener. Dr. Eckener, who had been occupled in Washington end with the welooming ceremonies in New York yesterday, since he guided his airship to a landing from her record-breaking flight, seized the opportunity today to snatch a few hours rest before ‘he took charge of sending the Zeppelin away toward Grmany. The demonstration in his behalf yes- terday was pronounced onme of the greatest ovations New York has ever accorded a celebrity. The E‘fifle from the Battery to the City Hall through a storm of torn paper was likened to the greeeting to Col. Lindbergh on his | sage, which was relayed here by the Soviet propagandizing activity, with the | The situation was| road as a base. | ties in July, when the Chinese made | further raids and arrests of employes and officials of the line, expelling many. | For several wecks both nations have | maintained large armies along the Man- churian border and belief in many quarters was that actual hostilities were imminent. TEXT OF SOVIET'S DECLARATION. | Redemption of Peiping Accotd Included in Draft. < ~MOSCOW,-U#8; 8. R., August 31 (#}" —The text of the Soviet Union govern- ment draft declaration for a settlement | of the Chinese Eastern Railway contro- versy with China follows: “Both parties-declare they will settle all pending questions between them in conformity with the agrecment of 1924 and in particular agree upon conditions for the redemption of the Peiping agree- | ment. “Both parties will appoinf immedi- ately properly accredited representa- tives to a confercnce to settle all ques- tions mentioned in the previous clause. Both parties belleve the position of the Chinese Eastern Railway that developed | after the dispute must be altered in ac- cordance with the Peiping and Mukden agreements of 1924, on the understand- ing that all such alterations shall be settled by the conference provided for by the previous clause. 'he Soviet Union government will COAST GUARD CUTTER FINDS WRECKED CREW Fifteen Men From Norwegian Ship Rescued From Island Off Alaskan Coast. By the Associated Press. Coast Guard headquarters was notified today by the Coast Guard cutter North- land that she had picked up the entire crew of the Norwegian ship Elisis wrecked off Cape Blllings, Siberia, August 10. The crew of 15 men was found rn Dionided Island, off Alaska, which ‘he ship-wrecked men had reached after rowing 400 miles in open boats. The Northland radioed that she was proceeding to Nome with the crew. No | further details were given in the mes- commandant of the Seattle Coast Guard, but headquarters here said theyl believed the Northland had found the ship-wrecked men by accident. ‘The crew of the wrecked Norwegian fur schooner Elisif was reported fyom Alaska on August 13 to be on its way for East Cape, Siberia, in small boats after the hull of the ship had been damaged in heavy ice on August 10. The Elisif had wintered in the north- ern ice and was reported clear.on July 29, when cargo .was unloaded at North ape. Messages picked up at St. Paul, Alaska, from R. S. Pollister, supercargc and part owner, asked the United States Coast Guard cutter Nerthland to pick up the crew at East Cape about Seg; tember 10. His messages indicated the | return from his transatlantic flight. #t 8:20 p.m. The Moslems knifed many Jows, killing and wounding seriously 70. Still okthen were sent to hospitals hock. ‘r%estmpsu evidently, were considered insufficlent for defense purposes, for 3.000 Jewish residents were ordered to cuate to police barracks, but when ® | reinforcements arrived today they were . po rmitted to return to their homes. Demonstration by British airplanes | over the Mosque of Omar yesterday, the | day to have averted remewed clas A almost ) was every { town. &, Mohammedan sabbath, was believed l‘::; between, Jews and Arab Moslems in the city. ‘Arabs; keyed bigh by the religious ‘worship, ;mljzu{cm :ll:h ing n-v:: the appeare 'u:nuhnd and circled w.““ populace, which had trepidation in- ml'l’c.l; remonies. - In the hour after the incident an ex- ‘cursion about the eltytl;ww;d its m deserted except for troops. appearance l;! a besleged thelr emotions fervor of their e crew was in no danger, but that the ! schooner was a total 3 TWO ANSWERING AND SAME CHARGE CONFUSE JUDGE TO SAME NAME Cousins Held in Traffic Case Say They Had One Set of License Plates Between Them. : By the Associated Press. OAK PARK, Il., August 31.—The Frank Zizzos were a bit confusing, for a time, to Magistrate Feron in Police Court. 3 Every time the court said “Frank Zizzo,” two young men, closely re- sembling each other, arose, bowed and a ted the nomination. mt hich of is the k Zizz0 nmd'!qr mflm«:@um license plates?” thecourt persisted. T = r honor,” uld.aq of I"Thlt‘l right ad one set of plates between thnna were both guiity. The court did its duty, therefore, y. 7 | Radio ‘P rageamn . Page: e | Gehrig. | short center. | Spencer dropped the ball and made no VANKS WIN FIRST OF TWINBILL 49 Homer by Paschal in Fifth Is| Start of Elimination of Braxton. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, August 31.—The Yan- kees won the first game of the double- header here this afternoon, The score was 4 to 0. Southpaw slabmen were picked for the first game of the double-header. Garland Braxton, at one time a Yankee, was Manager Johnson’s choice, while Edwin Wells, former National, was sent to the box by Manager Huggins. About 15,000 were in their seats when the first game began, and many more were pouring into the stands. The dni\; was bright and cool; fine for base ball. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Judge fouled out to Rice hoisted to Paschal. Du- rocher threw out Goslin. No runs. NEW YORK<Cronin made &~ gosd stop to his left and threw out Paschal. Lary walked. Ruth lifted a foul to Spencer. _Lary stole second and took third on Spencer's wild throw. Hayes threw out Meusel. No runs. , SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer flied to Meu- sel. Cronin fouled out to Dickey. West grounded out to Gehrig. No runs. NEW YORK-—West made a fine run- ning catch of Gehrig's hoist to deep center. Lazzeri dropped a single in Lazzeri stole second. throw. Dickey singled to center, scor- ing Lazzeri. Durocher sacrificed, Brax- ton to Judge. Myer came in fast for Wells' slow bounder and threw him out. One run. THIRD INNING. . WASHING TON — Meusel took Spencer's drive in short left. Hayes fouled to Meusel. Braxton struck out. No runs. NEW YORK—Hayes threw out Paschal. Myer went back for Lary's short fly. Ruth struck out, swinging at a high pitch. No runs, FOURTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Durocher made 2 flashy stop and threw out Judge. Wells tossed out Rice. Goslin hoisted to Paschal in right center. No runs. NEW YORK—Cronin threw out Meu- i sel. Gehrig lofted to Cronin in short left. Hayes got Lazzeri's grounder, but he (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Box Score FIRST GAME. WASHINGTON = e Judge, 1b. Boss, 1b. Rice, rf. Goslin, If. Myer, 2b. Cronin, ss. West, ef. - - Hadley, p Gooch eccscemcccce COSCH e N CHMuEZMcURSHSS P cecmmusocsscceh o 124 Gooch batted for Hadley in ninth. NEW YORK - @ ® » ml CeummummmSeE e - Paschal, ef. Durst, of. Lary, 3h. Ruth, tf CShapSHRmE - cleccceccsccenm al puccccenmce? 8len ach Runs batted in—Dickey, Paschal. Ruth, Left on bases—Washington, 2; New York. 6. on Braxton, 2; Wells. 1. l;'u:s:u;'c—n Braxton, 15 by Hadler, 2; by s —on raxton, @ in 41-3 tonings, - Umpirss—Messrs. Vend %- and This is the second of d series OLD RAG, Va, August 31.—"* * | home and went into the bear's house. of large famiiies. | _When Miss Miriam M. Sizer, graduate | English student at the University of Virginia and public sehool y Te- opened the Nicholson Hollow School for two months this Summer as an experiment, she recruited from the neighboring “hollows” classes of both aduits and children. Appalled by the conditions she found in some of the cabins, Miss Sizer hoped to teach some of the sallow, hungry mothers the rudiments of the proper care of chil- dren, together with the standard primer. BY THOMAS | But these are not wide-eyed 3-year-olds. She found that the mothers hardly ~— MOUNTAIN ADULTS INTRIGUED BY CHILDISH STORY OF BEARS; ;Teacher Finds That Only Three or Four of ! Twenty Children Have Seen American Flag—None Knows Nature. of five articles describing conditions among some of the mountain pcople of the proposed Shemandoah National Paric arca—Icss than a hundred miles from Washington. . HENRY, * a great big daddy bear rcared, Ugh, ugh, ugh. Somebody's been eating my porridge.” The old nursery classic, to which so many generations of 3-year-olds hav listened in cper-mouthed wonder at bedtime is approaching its climax, and poor little Goldilocks is fast asleep upstairs in baby bear's bed. And it is story hour in the one-room log cabin school at Nicholson Hollow in | the Blue Ridge Mountains, just under the frowning face of old Stony Man crag. The pupils are gathered about the teacher hearing for the tenth time with un- abated interest of the adventures of that naughty little girl who ran away from | W,z.re able to grasp—or at least to gen- erate much interest in—the simplest | possible explanations of household hygiene. g text book was as simple to read as a primer, especially designed | for illiterate adults going 1o school for the first time. But Miss T's pupils | —mothers of 10 and 12 children— owed a much greater interest in the | real first grade primer and in the story | of Goldiloeks. They had married in their early t ey | birth_to_child lumn 8.) EADURANCEFLYER * LLEDINPLUNGE Cleveland After Setting Solo Record. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 31— Pilot Thomas Reid crashed to earth and was killed here early today a short time after he had established a new record for solo endurance flights, ex- ceeding by at least two hours the old mark of 36 hours, 56 minutes and 36 seconds. ‘The plane disappeared at about 3 o'clock this morning, watchers at the airport said. At dawn the wreckage was found. Reid established the new record at a short time after 1 o'clock this morn- ing. He continued in flight above the alrport for some time, but later the sound of his motor died away in the darkness. Timers in the flight held their stations at the airport, however, belleving that he had changed his course fo vary the monotony. Absence Causes Alarm. As the hours went by, however, his continued absence caused alarm, and when no trace of him could be found .at daylight a search was organized. First reports were that he had gone to sleep at the controls and allowed the ship to get from under ‘control. Reid had been in the air since a few min- utes after, 11 o'clock yesterday morning. ¥ehld'a home was in Downey, Calif. e a tree Fairview Village by Pilots Bill Butters, chief pilot of the Stewart Aireraft Corporation, and Dale F. Dryer, who went up to look for Reid at daybreak. Plane Sirikes Tree. Flying about the vicinity of the afr- they saw the plane scattered near he tree, with Reid’s body lying 25 feet away. Dryer said that the only con- clusion was that Reid had gone to sleep. A wing was torn from the plane when 1t struck the tree and its fuel tank was found unused. Dryer said that he belfeved Reid fell almost immedia after he first was re| estimated the shortly after 2 am. ‘Timers in the attempt were still at their watch at the airport when the body was found. Dryer said he and Butters called an ambulance after land- . He as the American autical Association provide that g'hm- in altitude and en- durance flights must come to earth the®point nlwhhlnlnofl.- ‘The will ‘stand, jae |Thomas Reid Crashes at lane was found shattered against | thai cocl itely | Judge INVITE TESTIMONY OF JUDGE SELLERS Gallinger Investi Response Has ceived From Complainant. tions at Gallinger Hospital reported to The Evening Star ultimately led to the | investigation of the hospital now be- |ing conducted, has been formally in- ! vited to make any statements she cares ‘ko the committee. Judge Sellers has not yet answered the invitation, but the time in which she was asked to make a reply has not expired. These | statements were read into the record of the investigating committee at iis session today in the board room of the | District Building by W. W. Millan. Mr. Millan did not state when the time mentioned would expire. ‘Three letters were also read in denial of Judge Sellers’ specific criticisms of hosptal treatment of patients. They were written by Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of the hospital, to George S. Wilson, director of Public Welfare, on August 9 and 10. Dismissed Thompson .Case. ‘With respect to Nettie Thompson, who died at the hospital after an op- eration, Dr. Bocock’s letter stated that the woman's treatment and diagnosis had been carefully discussed at a staff meeting after her death and that all the physicians agreed that her treat- ment had been entirely proper, but t she died from a combination of anatomical disturbances accompanied by post-operation shock. As to Anne Huber, the probation of- ficer of Wayne County, Mich., who was taken to the hospital suffering from an overdose of verinol 186 months ago, Dr. Bocock reported that both the phys- iclan and the nurse who had treated this patient had since left the hospital, that from f hos- :'il"al it petnahzhntlheh:dm 2\ i ap] receive sroper treatment and that she was over to an Wyz of the Juve- : Court when called for. Dr. Bo- said there was o evidence of Sellers having been to patient, having post. a bond for delivery of the as Sellers was 28 said in the article in In the case of Regina lee Purch from whom a blood transfision was (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ”fl:‘mm.muumu house, $4,503,- oo LA Yoe, cxhane 3 ‘ork clearing house balence, New York ' $90,672,054.65. $186,000,000. ‘Treasury They are the fathers and mothers | They have trudged in over miles of mountain pathways and the dry courses of streams to hear once more about Goldilocks—for in heart and mind they still are children, with the interests of children. 0.S:1S EXPECTED TODEFER ACTION ONWORLD COURT Senate May Take Up Ques- tion of Entry in Winter or Next Spring. INTEREST SHOWN HERE IN NEWS FROM GENEVA Domestic Issues Are Likely to Be Given Precedence by Hoover, However. By the Associated Press. President Hoover is expected by polit- {deal and diplomatic circles here to ap- proach the submission to the Senate of the question of American adherence to the World Court with caution and after careful consideration. Word from Geneva that the question | of the accession of the United States tc | the World Court had been placed on | the agenda of the session of the Council | was received with interest In Washing- ton, Eut there are no indications that President Hoover contemplates any im- | mediate action on the matter so far| as the Senate is concerned. Political | circles generally expressed the opinion | that the Root formula, designed to find a way around the fifth reservation at- tached by the Senate to American ad- herence, would be placed before the' Senate for advice and consent either | in the Winter or next Spring. i Formula Devised by Jurists. ‘The stumbling block to American participation in the World Court related ! to advisory opinions, by which, in ac- | cordance with Senate qualifications to | adherence of the United States, the Washington Government refused to e bound, except conditionally. In an ef- | fort to overcome the objections of most | of the adhering powers to the condi- | tions of the Senate, a committee of | jurists. including Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, devised a formula to pave the way for American participation. |~ An opportunity to discuss with the League Council any American objections | to a proposed advisory opinion is given | the United States by the formula before the Council votes. If the American Government prefers an exchange of views after the request has reached the 1 court, they will take place and the court | must stay all proceedings pending the negotiations. ! has the right to resign from the court Lif it feels it cannot abandon its ob- jections to a request for an advisory opinion on a question possessing an | interest to the United States. The new | protocol replaces one dealing with i American reservations found unsatis- factory by the United States. Question Is Delicate. | Objections were raised by the signa- | tories to the following part of res-rva- | tion five of the Senate: “Nor shall it (the court) without the consent of the United States entertain any requests for any advisory opinion | touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims ! an_interest.” ‘The question of entrance into the ‘Worid Court is considered by political circles in Washington to be one of the most delicate with which the Hoover administration is faced, particularly since a large section of the Senate has ;been opposed to American participa- | tion in the tribunal. Most circles con- sider it unlikely that the President will bring the matter before the Senate before more immediate issues such as the tariff are disposad of. \DAVIS WILL SPEAK | Labor Day Méssage Will Be Broad- cast at 9 P.M. by WMAL and Big Hook-up. Judge Kathryn Sellers ‘of Juvenile| . | Court, whose statements as to condi- | WMAL and a transcontinental net- work of Columbia Broadcasting System stations will broadcast to the Nation tonight the Labor day message of Sec- retary of Labor James J. Davis. Secretary Davis will be the speaker in the weekly National Radio Forum arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcast- ing System. He will go before the microphone at 9 o'clock. Secretary Davis will deal with the labor problems of the country in all their varied ramifications, and outline the steps being taken by his depart- ment to solve them. He also is ex- pected to touch upon some of the sub- Jects closely related to the administra- tion of the Labor Department. ‘Throughout the Summer Secretary Davis has made an exhaustive study of the unemployment situation, the question of the distribution of employ- ment and kindred subjects, and is therefore intimately familiar and pecu- liarly well qualified to discuss labor conditions. AUTO WRECK GIVES CLUE TO MISSING FLINT MAN Blood Stains on Car Lead to \Be- lief Real Estate Dealer Was Killed. By the Associated Press. ST. JOSEPH, Mich., August 31.—Ef- forts to find Arthur Stacey, A Flint, | Mich., real estate dealer, were redoubled | today following the discovery of his wrecked and blood-stained automobile shreds of his cloth- contal charred ing on a deserted road 19 miles south of here late yesterday. Berrien County voiced the belief the man had been slain. A blood-stained rock was found beside the car and nearby the officers found bonfire in which 1 "traveling beg, of a traveling beg. tified as having band’s ‘when he left for St. Louis, Mo., 10 days ago. Concern for the man's safety -was first felt when a stranger appeared at the Stacey home in Flint last Wednes- day and informed Mrs. Stacey that her husband's body would be found beside his wrecked “car near St. Joseph. Stacey had left in his automobile for St. Louis with a stranger, who was to share the expense in return for trans- portation. | the question arose as to ‘The United States also| N FORUM TONIGHT| SAN JUAN DEATH LIST MAY REACH T4, CHECK REVEALS Officials Admit There May Have Been as Many as 116 Persons Aboard. EARLY BOOKINGS ONLY RECORD OF PASSENGERS Charge Crash Resulted From Fail- ure of Tanker's Officers to Keep Adequate Watch, . By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 31.—The possibility that the coastwise passenger steamer San Juan carried 116 persons instead of 110, as previously reported, indicated today that the loss of life in i Its sinking 55 miles south of here early yesterday may have been as high as 74 persons. Albert E. Gillespie, manager of the Los Angeles and San Franclsco Naviga- tion Co., owners of the San Juan, ad- mitted that there may have been as many as 66 passengers aboard and thai the crew may have numbered as high as 50. Gillespie declared that the list of 65 passengers, the only one available m the records of the company here, was based upon bookings made several hours before the ship sailed and that the crew list of 45 was as of last month. The company's manager said tickets sometimes were sold aboard the ship by the purser and that half a dozen persons may have paid their fares after sailingz. The purser, John Cleveland, appareatly perished. so no means of checking the new figures was available. 67 Names on Death List. The death list of the San Juan con- tained 67 names today, indicating that 41 passengers and 26 members of her crew perished when she went down 55 miles south of here after colliding with the Standard oil tanker S. C. T. Dodd. As the search for the bodies in the sea off Pigeon Point, Calif., continued, the responsi- bility for the collision. Eye-witnesses ac- counts of the disaster indicated that the ships sighted each other about the same time about midnight Thursday night and that the collision occurred as each adopted the same tactics in an effort to avoid the erash. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Navigation Co., owners of the San Juan, yesterday filed in United States District Court libel suits for $1.500.000 and for $300.000 against the owners of the Dodd, declaring the crash resulted { from failure of officers of the tanker | to _keep adequate watch. Capt. H. C. Bleumchen of the Dodd, in newspaper statements and in te: mony late yesterday before a hastil; called hearing by United States steam- | boat. inspectors. declared the collision resulted from failure of the San Juan j to_maneuver properly in response to | signals from the Dodd's whistle. | O. V. Saunders. third officer of the | Dodd. was on the bridge when the acci- {dent occurred. The lights of the pas- | senger steamer were first seen over a stretch of about three quarters of a mile of water. he declared. Sent Call for Captain. “At 11:3¢ pm. the weather was i clear,” Saunders said. “At 11:45 the | fog began to come in, but it was com- paratively light, althought it piled up thicker and thicker. When the fog began to get heavy, I sent a call for Capt. Bleumchen. | _“While the captain was coming up I started to blow the fog whistle. “Then I saw the masthead lights of a steamer coming toward us. She was 'nbnut three-quarters of a point off the | starboard bow, and three-quarters of !a mile to a mile away. “If the San Juan had held to her course. she would have passed us with- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) COURT TAKES OVER NEWSPAPER STOCK Order Signed in Hall-Lavarre Suit Changes Custody Pending Judgment. By the Associated Press. MACON, Ga., August 31.—Federsl Judge Bascom S. Deaver today ordered into custody of his court by agreement of counsel all of the stock nf four news- | papers involved in the Hall-Lavarre newspaper suit and approximately $54.- 000 remaining in the hands of William | Lavarre. As signed by the court, the order was a stipulation of counsel and listed Ia certified check for $18.094.24, $15,000 {in the hands of Lavarre’s attorneys and checks for $21,546.09 on Spartanburg 1 and Columbia, S. C. banks. The addi- tional sum of '$7,500 was also entered, but it was stipulated that it was sub- ject to attachment of Palmer, DeWitt % ll’(llmer. newspaper brokers of New ork. The money was ordered held “subject to further or final decree” of Judge Deaver without “prejudice to the de- fendant (William Lavarre).” In the event, however, that a receiver is not. appointed or continued in the case it was stipulated that the clerk would return the securities and the money to attorneys of record for Lavarre, 300 ESCAPE IN BLAST. RENTON, Pa., August 31 (#).—Three hundred miners escaped and 12 others were burned in an explosion in the Ren- ton mine of the Union Collieries here today. — NOTED BIOLOGIST DIES. ‘TOKIO, August 31 (#).—A dispatch from Yokohama announced the death of John Sterling Kingsley of Berkeley, Calif., on board the steamship Presi- dent Taft on August 29. The cause of death was given as heart disease. The President Taft arrived at Yokohama State News, Page 6