Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1930, Page 1

“From Press to Home Wishin the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every ity block and the edi- tion is delivered to thin.ton homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,342 TWO CENTS. WHO'S WHO OF AIR he Fpening WASHINGTON, D. C, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 and 13 31,525, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. CRAFT POUNDED TO PIECES, No. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. TOTAL OF 2,308,151 UP) Means Associated Press. & CUBAN PRESIDENT i REPORTED BARRING 40 ESCAPE lD ift Helple ssl IN LIFEBOATS UntllThyC ash Into FREE ELECTIONS| vLewes, Det, b ater After By Blown to Sea by Gale. Havana Paper Says Machado Has Reasserted Personal Control Despite U. S. NEW COMPLEXITIES FOR GUGGENHEIM Ambassador Faces More Conversa- tions on Guarantee for Opposition Party BY WILLIAM HARD. Advices nuhnu hm md-y h'om vana, to Cuban Pnudem Gen. Genrdo m- chado, has firmly reasserted his per- lmllunfinlof&lb‘nlflllulnm of efforts the U face by Ambassador, Harry F. oumnluun w negotiate between President Machado uflmmuunmmnw hich ance with the governmental “liberty” guaranteed in the “Platt amendment.” ‘Thus the complexities caused by the “Platt amendment” in the relations between the government at Washing- ton and the governmeni at Havana have come to another new stage. The Havana newspaper El Pais con- tains complete statements by Antonio Gonzalezs de Mendoza regarding what been understood at the State 31‘ in Washington that this after having been recom- Gen. the mnl law Gen. Crowder while ng the United States # new electoral remur and that Gen. Machado to you the liberty of im- dor Guggenheim did in- send such a message to Mr. would have been in line with all known facts about the negotia- tions, but it 1s seen to afford large for new conversations between Ambassador and President Machado, ‘who is now thus reported to have frus- ‘Ambassador's expectations ‘ho is on his full way to conduct- the Cuban congressional elections November without the help of any 4mported American electoral ideas. (Copyright. 1930.) SECRETARY DAVIS TO PLAY CLARINET IN TOWN BAND Candidate for Senate, Back in 01d | Home, Will Take Place in Concert Today. 23.—The | mnmpmormnmnuume . James J. Davis will be just plain "Jl-" Dlvk. cllr!nfl- player in the Old Citizens’ Ban GERARD’S 64 BLAMED Pine Declares Men Named Are Be- sponsible for Depression. By the Assoclated Press. LEWES, Del, August 33—Blown to sea on the wings of a 50-mile gale in one of the worst storms the Delaware Bay has seen in years, 40 men of the crew of the fisherman Emily A. Foote stepped ashore here today with a dra- matic and thrilling story of their ex- periences, Their 100-foot, Deisel-engine craft pounded to pleces beneath their feet and blown to sea in two small boats, the exhausted crew found safety early today only when their lifeboats crashed against the stone wall of the outer breakwater. Helping each other up the slippery sea-washed walls, the little band walked three miles across the top of the wall to the harbor refuge n.h? whm they huddled together mr‘:tull its home port, dl- tion up the Delaware Bay and met the advance of a northeastern gale shortly before 10 p.m. last night. Its loss is imated at $100,000. Capt. John M. of Palmer, Va., realizing it was imposs! to make shore in the face of the terrific storm ordered 5 tconcmuedonl’ll!fl.oohlmn'l) INCOME TAX CUT 10 BE RETAINED, HOOVER BELIEVES Prohablllty of Continuing Emergency Reduction Also Seen by Mellon. By the Associated Press. Clouds on the financial sky lifted to- day with word from the White House and the Treasury that prospects were the reduction authorized by Congress asury experts. Publication of these reports brought a round of con- 1S, THOUGHT GO OF GERMAN PLINE ON SURPRISE HOP Von Gronau and Three Com- panions Land in Greenland, 11 Hours From Iceland. By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 23. —Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, German aviator, and’ three companions today were at Ivigtut, Greenland, presumably on their way to the United States, after a flight from Reykjavik, Iceland. Greeniand authorities reported the fiyers' arrival there yesterday afternoon after several hours of mystery as to their course after they left Reykjavik, avowedly going to Germany, but actu- ally heading in the opposite direction. Flight of 11 Henrs. yesterday Departure from . |was at 6:35 a.m. l(!;q’k,h-m Eastern standard time). One lmm-mmwtlnhficmmmu—h President Hoover's statement on of continuing the reduction "nn:lwul.hu of decreasing rev- enue and increasing during (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) nes|NEED OF SUCCESSION LAW IN BRITAIN SEEN Suggestion Based on Birth of Daughter Instead of Son to Duchess of York. By the Asscclated Press. LONDON, August 23.—The Daily Sketch says birth of a daughter instead of a son to the Duke and Duchess of York has necessitated passage of a spe- cial act of Parliament to put beyond a question the succession to the throne. The principal point of the paper's contention is that the British law of primogeniture does not apply to sisters. Thus if there is no male heir, two or tions the Pflnceli Elizabeth and her baby sister conceivably may some day become co-heiresses to the throne. ‘This would create an impossible posi- tion, the paper says, and the crown might even go into abeyance, The con- tingency is recognized as remote, but lt is contended the provision against i nacessary. g school for commercial airplane pilots at Warnemuende, BERLIN EXPRESSES SURPRISE. Flyer Was on Usual Long-Distance Training, Says Spokesman. BERLIN, August 23 (#).—The trans- portation ministry was most sul today when informed of the landing of Capt. von Gronau and three com- panions in Ivigtut, Greenland, after a flight from Iceland. “Von Gronau started on his usual long distance tnlnlng' flight,” a spokes- man said, “and if he planned to fly across the ocean certainly none in the ministry knew anything of it. “Even when he landed in Iceland there was nothing unusual about it be- cause that has been done before in the course of training flights. We ourselves are puzzled as to why he went further.” was not at all “the daredevil.” “He isa quiet, deliberate, sensible man with & scientific mind,” he sald. “Last year's Iceland flight resulted in extremely val- uable information for both the Weather Bureau and aeronautics. His experi- ences during that flight were published in the scientific magazines. SECRECY ASKED BY FLYERS. Request to Land in Greenland Told By Government. COPENHAGEN, August 23 (#).—The g:e!rnment said today a request had n received two months ago from the German Metallbau Gessellschaft for air- ment to land in Greenland. A request was made to keep the application sccret. ‘The government sent gasoline for the airplane by a Danish steamer, the Spi~ l(‘erbol"fl, which discharged it at Jullane- A telephone bell rang in the office of Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, vice presi- s | dent of the Nat'onal Geographic So- | clety, at noon today while that official was recelving a verbil report from Frederick Stmpich, leader of the so- clety's merjal survey of the islands of | the Caribbean and Eastern South America, !:::o had returned to Wash- u:en mln be some mistake,” said Dr. La Gt “He In calling frem l-nu g0, Chile,” explained the opereto! “T 'X!l talk with h!.ln replied Dr AIR PHOTOGRAPHER TELEPHONES FROM CHILE TO OFFICE IN CAPITAL 'Cflpt. A. W. Stephens Calls National Geographic Society 4uee th by Wire and Radio. of the members of the society’s ex- still in South America a | passengers are permilted | 0 carry cameras in s in fights ver that country, except under strictly military surveillance. Capt. Stevens' voice was carried over 900 miles of wire from Santiago over Alres, Al’lel'leh':e then mflm:"a af mm--;:u radio WN J.. ‘where was picked and-tarried tb New Yort City, uun relayed to Washinglon. The Wllh. ington end of the conversation traveled York City, La to another radio J.. thence Armmu o station in’ lained mnwm.mummnm continent) to avold WRYSS, . ‘ ‘The spokesman said that Von Gronau | | WORKERSLISTEDAS | JOBLESS IN CENSUS 40 Per Cent of Population Employed, While 2 Per Cent Look for Work. MICHIGAN TOPS LIST WITH 3.3 OF 100 IDLE South Dakota and Mississippi Con- ditions Best, With Only 1 in 5 200 Needing Jobs. A total of 2,508,151 ablebodied Americans, comprising 2 per cent of the country's total population, were list- ed today by the Census Bureau as un- jemployed: last April and looking for work, The totdl.was announced on the basis jof preliminary returns from every sec- tion of the country. The Bureau ex- plained that six other classes of unem- ployed were not included in the present total, but added that those “without a Jjob, able to work and looking for a Job" unquestionably constituted the bulk of those to be listed as unemployed. Because tabulations have not been completed on the number ol persom now gainfully employed, & parison was not available. ’rhe Bum\l estimated, however, employed would ap- proximate 40 per cent of the total pop- ulation. This would bring the number idle to approximately 5 per cent of the normally employed population. Michigan at Top. percentage of job in South Da- Rhode 33 in Michigan. mnf.herehne-tobemvzndby ununemlnymm lude those having jobs, but llldbfl'ithfiut pay; unable to work, those having ists and others drawing pay, but not at work. ‘The group laid off without pay 1y lmpomn I.n burea dl.mmmanmth-nno(o themselves laid ofl med last Winter and Spring over esti- mates of unemployment given out by Secretary of Labor Davis. make it appear that unemployment was on a far smaller scale than actually existed, the census figures given out to- :| day show that Secretary Davis, on the other hand, overestimated the unem- ployment situation by more than half a million. ‘Speaking in the National Radio Forum, al d by Ev on TROOPS SEIZE TOWN IN PERUVIAN REVOL Government Rushes Fleet to Are- quipa, Where Garrison Stages Revolt. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, August 23.—A serious { military revolt in Southern Peru today threatened the administration of President Augusto B. Legula. The garrison at Arequipa, third city of the republic, was at the helm of the movement. Revolting under the lead- ership of officers, the garrison arrested the civil and military chiefs of the de- partment and today was in complete * control there. [, The government was said officially to be taking appropriate stej There were reports that these involved send- ing of a fleet to Mollendo, port nelrb’ry to Arequipa, and in moving alrcraft against the city itself. Rail Terminal Closed. Mollendo, which is at the end of the railroad from Lake Titicaca, on the Bolivian border, through Arequipa to the Pacific coast, was closed by official order, both to national and foreign commercial vessels. Areqmp- was closed also to commercial airs] An officlal pronouncement by Cd BlnChel Cerro, revolted this morn- ing at about 11 The revolt was based on lorged army ordinance say- m. nu uu and troops and re- edr nlu ‘The rebels nrmmd the department prefect, Federico Fernandeini, and the chief ol the Arequipa division, Brigade Gen, ldo Arias, but there was no bhodlh . The rebels took posses- ston of "g:e city. The [owl;mi;:m has taken necessary steps e hope order in Arequipa ‘Word Brought by rly!r A commercial hich gll latior f{ Arequi) W] a popu- n_of Doy B, uu¢m the first it Gfl ,000 refl le, bre |bou y Rumors gained B um not only had Arequipa allen rebels, but that other nmnlnm phee- were in their hands. President Leguia reached the Pe- ruvian presidency on July 4, 1919, by & coup d'etat, and established a strength in ',l'meuu lu: ?m‘ 0] n out South Am e was re-inau- gurated in 192 and in 1929, to hold bn_entirel; rate route (to New | office until 1035, by 'RM « Al persons jobs and voluntarily idie and vacation- | THE NEBRASKA IDEA. | MARKEY-YEOMANS WININ SEMIFINAL Will Meet Jennings and De Lara, Conquerors of Consi- dine and Mitchell. Y'mnmn (Bud) lnrkey em-nu, Dllm n: p- yesterday's matches were 5—17, 6—4, 51, H, Team Play Smooth, In both their quarter-final and semi- final matches today, Markey and ‘Yeomans dlavhyed smoother team play, their pe formances at the net E: rticularly strong. They continued the it work which has marked their ly from the outset doubles and which wu featured by their stunn! upnr- vmory wur the Lejeck brmr-. IT of Chicago, The t was the fourth set ot m Jvnnhu De Lara-Considine-Mitchell match saw the tide turn toward the kurl ‘The victory of the latter at 9—7 in this l:t unques the Wash- ment had dgeided | feip tled vallantly in the Afth set, but were unable to show consistent strength. Jennings' Play Excellent. ‘The high spot of the match was the partments was of order, but hh exhnm.lm at_the net throt t the .pecr.wuhr De ‘showed not so well in the early stages of the mllch but his work improved remarkably as play pm(reund Mitchell showed strongly, but was off his game. The Considine to net cost the Washington team a number of points. FIRING IS RESUMED ON INDIAN FRONTIER Heavy Fighting in Progress Near Kharlachi—British Airplane Is Attacked. n; By the Associated Press. SIMLA, India, August 23 —Heavy firing has been resumed on the several frontier districts of the Northwest nrovlnec durlnl the last 24 hours. A body of 3,000 Afridis has assembled at h 'l'nnnu and other Mohmand tribes- men left for Gandao yesterday to offer resistance to the hostile forces. 2 reconnoitering yuumy an | the airplane of the British Royal Alr Force was fired upon in the up Kumm near mllthl eight Parachinar. At that point nuvy n.m. ing was going on last night and the night before. Peacefully lined Af- ghans have arrived at Parachinar in an effort to secure terms for withdrawal of the enemy forces. It is reported.from Waziristan um being | Souther, n! scalp, today that his life is not in d Blames Marital Woes On Spouse’s Memory Of Peggy H. Joyce memory of Peggy Was bllmed for the marital iness of successor as e of Everett Allen Archi- bald in & divorce petition filed 2 DXOAPTAL WOMAN =5 DIES AT DEAUVILLE e | Mr's. Mm Souther, Formerly ‘Miss Harsington, Expires Suid,gnly at Party. . By the Associated Press. DEAUVILLE, PFrance, August 23.— The police-of this seaside resort today made public the details surrounding the mysterious death of Mrs. Alice described as the wife of George Souther of New York, whose divorce proceedings were pending. Mrs, Souther, who formerly was &y of Wi , D. C. b'uure be- | dicted the casting of e due to the tense feelin; woman, said her by “superinduced by acute aleohnum " Continue Investigatio Rose's injury nmtuud several stitches in the but docwfl said Paulin lddthlt ite of the Yact that Mrs. Souther's dea to be du lice mine whether an autopsy should be pmormed EGYPTIAN LEGATION DENY CHANGE IN CONSTITUTION Announce Government Does Not Intend to Establish Auto- cratic Regime. 3 The Egyptian Legation yesterday ofllcuuy denied reports that the an government intended to effect in the eqnn.lmfiou or estab- ‘The follow- tain government is pen- ted e constitutional spirit, and that its action will always be in- pired by this spirit.” - | were branded, t TEXANS ARE VOTING IN RUN-OFF FIGHT Mrs. Ferguson and Sterling End Bitter Campaign for Governor Nomination. By the Assoclated Press. DALLAS, Tex., August 23.—The “ate of Miriam A. Ferguson's attempted today as the State’s former wo..an Governor opposed Ross D. Sterling, Houston publisher and capitalist, for the nomination for Governor in the Democratic run-off primary. Sterling, chairman of the State High- way Commission, #nd Mrs. Ferguson, emerging from & field of 11 candidates in the first primary, & vitri- olic campaign Jast night % aroused | | the State. James E. Ferguson, ousted Governor, barred from the race by his impeach- ment, conducted his wife's campaign on the promise of “two governors for the price of one.” Notable among his cam- all imprisonéd violators of the prohibi- |tion law would ‘be liberated if Mrs. | Ferguson won | she would Im 2,000 convicts. in government as mount issue.” In the tossing to and fro of sonalities sterll.n( was aided by A Dan_Moody, who stro: denounced State Fer- the para- ngly record, and Benutor cuntmm who called “three circus.” lmdefl of t.hl:" muom - g whk:h grew out of campaign. COMMUNISTS BRAND CONVERTS ON CHESTS Use of Red Hot Iron Reported by Refugees to Prevent De- sertions, ¥y the Associated Press. A HANKOW, August 23.—Chinese Com- munists were on the chests of their converts in Hunan Province the sickle, :mblem of CGmmunhm. to assure loyalty to m El of this practice was brought today by numerous refugees who esca the clutches of Communists and reac] shughn after they themselves were bran: The use of the red-hot iron was or- dered by Red leaders, the reports said, to mark permanently converts, MI’! it easy to recognize they deserted. Entire armies !\Il of dulon.lzy said, in tl area terrorized thmu(h killing, lmrnxn' ey looting. ass e D 1 Dead, 1 Missing in Blast. KANSAS cm August 23 W)—John Toole, foreman, is missing and a colored laborer was tuled in an dust which set fire to and Homan Milling Co.’s warehouse here. e SHIP NEARLY OUT OF COAL MAKES PORT FROM RESCUE SCENE Warnings of the forces at that point have spread throughout the districts and today air- plane scouts were keeping elon watch upon the TENNIS FINALS DELAYED Rain Halts Women's Play at Forest Hills This Afternoon. NEW YORK, August 23 (#)—The finals of the women’s nati tennis Hoon a¢ e il were. postponed beuuufinmmmmr BERKELEY TO ADVANCE Norwegian Steamer - Kept Vigil Where Tahiti Went Down, Captain Sitting in Cross-trees Whole Day. By the Associated Press. SUVA, Piji, August 23—The Nor- ::dlndm'gmuu'l\hlflm sat in_the and about MWM | INCHICAGO TO SEE 1930 RACES START Speed Events and Many Other Features on Program of Opening Day. SIX CONTEST DERBIES ADVANCE TOWARD GOAL National Aeronautic Association Holds Annual Banquet and Honors Byrd. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 23.— The 1030 national air races roared into reality today. The knights of the sky rode hun- dreds of jousting planes into the open- ing maneuvers at the Curtiss Glenview Airport. Six contest derbies advanced on Chicago. The program provided thrills aplenty— Hawks, cross-country speedster; circus flying by Lieut. Al Willlams, Navy racer, lndthzm-hnlelummnm night anti-aircraft barrage, -nd-nnmuamw.vmnoouw. in his “mystery” Moth—all on the openln;dny The tvo-mln derby from Browns- ville, Tex., after an overnight set-down 'nlm 8t I, was scheduled to sh_at Glenview in late afternoon, political comeback was in the balance " paign utterances was the promise that .m -mv-dmummmmw;. Association' the election. He said| Aerona mirll! fl new s “feet” motors in the wings. He offered to place his order for such a fiying machine, adding: “But I will Rot. tel} you for what purpose I would uun" mmmmmm d!cfi.unzollvhm Pell 'hlch. he said, in he has been not been motored - shij prot four years aviation would CIVILIANS FEATURE SHOW. Service Arms Participate in Races Less as Ald to Commercial Flying. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, cn;a: oc:mm of The Star. August 23.—The grow- ing f the civilian and non-mili |n eu"“uzm and Navy ( (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SCHNEIDER TAKES OFF Hopes to Complete Flight From Wichita to New York Today. to New York wiinous stopDiog n Touse o