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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) tonight and tomorrow; not much in ture, Fair change Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 31,527, post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, AMERICAN OFFIGER HELD AS PERUVIAN DICTATOR 15 OUSTED Embassy Acts to Assure Safety of Capt. Grow of Naval Reserves. LEGUIA FLEES COUNTRY. MILITARY BODY RULES President Pushed Modernization Program Despite Opposition. T. S. Diplomats Surprised. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The American embassy at Lima, Peru, advised the State Department today that Capt. Harold P. Grow of the American Naval Mission to Peru was captured by revolutionists at Camana yesterday morning. Grow is a lieutenant commander in | Captured by Rebels | LIEUT. COMDR. HAROLD P. GROW. ~—Underwood & Underwood Photo. 5. 0.P. INSURGENTS the Naval Reserve, and holds the title of captain in the Peruvian Navy. Grow Tesigned from active status in the navy two years ago to accept an appoint- ment as director general of the Peru- ‘vian air forces. Although working with the United States Naval Mission to Peru, he was not attached to it be- cause of his civilian status. The embassy is seeking assurance of his safety, communicating through informal channels with the revolu- tionists. Airplane Seizure Investigated. Inquiries are also being made by the embassy regarding the seizure at Are- quipa by the insurgents of an airplane of the Faucett Aviation Co. Elmer J. Faucett, an American citizen, listed by the State Department as from Savona, N. Y., who heads the company, i be- lieved to be in Arequipa. ‘The Peruvian Ambassador to Wash- n, Manuel Freyre de Santander, y had received no official communi- cation concerning the revolt. Embassay officials said they did not consider the insurgent movement would affect the embassy or Ambassador Preyre, as he had been & career man since his youth, and has always ab- stained from politics. State Department officials expressed over the rapid turn of events in the Peruvian revolution and icu~ ver dispatches from Lima that by American officials United States and as one who co-0p- erated in_pan-American affairs. Acting Secretary of State Castle said fenile the State rtment had been advised of some itary unrest in Peru. the reported resignation of the presi- dent and the apparent mece;. of the n was unexpected. - added t while Peru was suffering some ec;n& e, he t.:‘:n not know ‘whether was & contributing cause to the revoit. Detained While Refueling Plane. BUENOS AIRES, August 25 (P).— Reports received py the nenfaper la Nacion state that Capt. Harold Grow, American aviator, was detained Sunda; by revolting troops in the State of Arequipa, Peru, imediately after he had landed in his plane at Camana near Mcllendo. t Capt. Grow d landed at ‘(A:r-mm ula. :(u’el, lnrtdzndln‘ to fly over equipa later in order to drop proc- lamations issued by Pmmmrcwkmn. Wwho has since resigned. It also was reported that Elmer Faucett, another American fiyer, de- seribed as owner of a civil air line, was detained in Arequipa. LEGUIA RESIGNS AND FLEES. President Forced to Quit After Modern- izing Dictatorship of 11 Years. LIMA, Peru, August 25 (#).—Au- ®usto .B. Leguia, one of the “strong men” of South America, whese career as President of Peru began with popu- lar rejoicing following a coup d'etat 1n 1919, ended 11 years of power today and fled in obscurity toward Panama #board the cruiser Grau. ‘The 67-year-old President resigned In consequence of a revolt begun in the department of Arequipa last week under the directorship of Lieut, Col. Sanchez Cerro, and today the Peruvian government was under control of a mili- tary junta, which already has named a cabinet. Cheered at Race Track. Legula made his last public appear- #nce and heard his last ovation in Peru yesterday. He Rkgd luncheon at the home of a son and in midafterncon left for a horse race track. He en- tered the official stand, filled with prominedt Peruvian figures and diplo- mats frem Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Chile, and this group began an ovasion. . Hardly more than 50 persons were in this party, but they cheered loudly, the President reciprocating with smiles and handshakes, At_night his_period_of glory was (Continucd on Page 2, Column 1.) AMMUNITION TRAIN BLOWN UP IN. CHINA Nationalist Forces Suffer Severe! Loss in Destruction of 19 Carloads of Shells. By the Associated Press. KWEITEH, Honan, August 25—A Nationalist govemment ammunition train, composed of 19 cars, was blown up near here today. Loss of life, though undetermined, was believed small. While cause of the blaze which set bff the explosion was unknown, it was rumored rebel spies were responsible for the conflagration. Explosion of the ammunition, which consisted largely of heavy caliber shells and aerial bombs, ripped out the railroad right of way, twisted steel cars, and hurled: deb Explos With the Nationalist government su fering a severe loss from b\u’nllfi the train, it was reported fighting the Halchow-Tungkwan Railroad was 8t a low ebb as a result of the unprece- «ented heavy rains in Northern Honan “ovince. of ong HIT MATTHEW WOLL Labor Leader Charged With Campaign to Weaken In- fluence of La Follette. BY WILLIAM HARD. Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor and chairman of America’s Wage Earners' Protective Conference, famed for his high-tariff influence in the course of the enactment of the present tariff law, and still more famed for his recent efforts to exclude from the United States virtually all products of Soviet Russia, is now charged by Northwestern Insur- gent Republican elements with having undertaken to defeat Philip La Follette for the Republican nomination for Gov- ernor in Wisconsin, This is called a move toward weaken- ing and destroying the titular crown prince of all Northwestern insurgency, Senator Robert Marion La Follette the younger, who gave to the present tariff law in the Senate on roll call an em- phatic “nay.” Hit Rawleigh Record. The charge arises out of articles cir- culated through the trade union press of the United States by the Interna- Freeport, Ill, who was the principal campaign contributor to the presiden- tial endeavors of the senior Senator La Follette in 1924 and who has been con- tinuously a mainstay of La Follette's political and legislative activi- ties. These articles in criticism of Rawleigh have accused him of main- taining anti-union open-shop conditions Y |in his vast plant at Freeport and in ef- fect have classified him as an enemy to “labor,” with the implication that can- didates to whom he gives his support would properly fall under labor suspi- cion That implication Is strenuously resented by La Follette advocates who heartily assail Woll and his associates in the American Federation of Labor as traitors to the progréssive labor cause, ‘The La Folletteites stand by Rawleigh strongly. Their Madison, Wis, - lication, called the Progressive, has succeeded to the ownership and circulation of La Follette's ine, calls Rawleigh a “public benefactor” and gives him amply earned credit for being about to establish at Free- port a vocation trade school for boys in furtherance of a report on the Henry Ford Trade School in Detroit, made last year by Philip La Follette, at Raw- leigh's request, The Folletteites further point out that Mr. Rawlelgh at h;s ow:mexpem: proe‘}lged the services of a inguished icago lawyer to United States Senators ‘l‘l‘w in the last session of the Federal Congress were striving to perfect the bill introduced by the Farmer-Laborite, Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesotag for restricting the power of judges to e injunctions in labor disputes. Anti-Unionism Charged. The La Folletteites further contend that laudations of Gov. Walter Jodoc Kohler of Wisconsin by labor spokes- men in alleged league with Woll are a further proof of a design by Woll to try to ruin Philip La Follette during his present contest with Kohler for the Wisconsin governorship Republican nom- ination. 'They charge Kol with op- erating an anti-union open shop in his manufacturing plant at Kohler, Wis., and they contend that whatever con- siderateness he may have shown to some labor legislation while Governor does not exonerate him of being in ef- fect an enemy to “labor.”” (Copyright, 1930.) PLOT TO KILL PREMIER OF EGYPT IS BALKED Man, Dressed as Waiter and Armed With Sharp Ax, Is Found on His Train. By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, August 25.—What was | believed by authorities to be an at- tempt to assassinate the Egyptian premier, Sidky Pasha, was frustrated today. A Berberine dressed as a walter, and armed with a very sharp ax, was discovered in the corridor of & train outside the compartment in which the premier was traveling from Alexandria to Cairo and was arrested. ‘The man was discovered shortly after the train left Alexandria this morning. An inquiry into the affair was ins tuted immediately. LODGE’S TUTOR DIES LOWELL, Mass,, August 25 (#).—Dr. Thomas P. Shaw, 86, a disti authority on both medicine and law and former tutor to the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, died here today after having spent the last 40 years of his life in a wheel chalr, a helpless mh. due to & fall which injured his ti- | MANDATES GROUP CONDEMNS BRITISH HOLY LAND POLICY Failure in Palestine Is Scored in Putting Riot Responsi- bility on England. LONDON’S SHARP REPLY BRINGS REPORT CLASH Henderson Declares League Group | Rejected Shaw Commission Data, but Accepted Jewish Story. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, August 25.—A sharp clash of opinion on responsibility for the bloody Palestine disorders of last Au- gust was disclosed officially today when the League of Nations published its Mandate Commission report on an ex- amination of the situation, with the British government’s comments on the report which will be placed before the League Council next month. The Mandate Commission, composed of the strongest powers of the League, accused the British government of hav- ing failed in its administration of the Palestine mandate specifically in failing to satisfy the political aspirations of the Arabs, in failing to procure security for persons and property, for establish- ment of the Jewish Home and for be- ing taken by surprise by the outbreak of last August. Hendersor Replies. . Secretary Henderson, replying,tersely for his government, declared the Com- mission itself did not foresee the August trouble and that the Commission in many instances has rejected the find- ings of the Shaw Commission and ac- cepted the declarations presented by Jewish agencies upon which the gov- ernment had no chance to comment. Mr. Henderson pointed out the diffi- culty of satisfying the political ambi- tions of the Arabs and at the same time advancing the cause of a Jewish national home, while ‘carrying out orders of the League of Nations to maintain the rights of all inhabitants tfifmhklune regardless of race and re- ion. The League Council, to which the re- port will be presented, will begin its session on September 8, but the report will not be considered until near the close of the meeting, probably about October 1, after the end of the League Assembly session. ‘The British government, commenting on the report, considers the charge of artial inaction “the more . view of the fact that the mandates commission, although having examined the mandatory’s t from year to reporf hor | year, has not foreshadowed in any m the charges now brought manner in which the man ‘power has been carrying out its obli " The subject of the Wailing Wall was dealt with by the commission and by the British rejoinder as well. Quarrels over the Wailing Wall, the commission report declares, “the symbolic signifi- cance of which was not evident in its full gravity to a foreign observer,” gave rise among the inhabitants of Jeru- salem, “and through them, throughout a large part of the Palestine, to a state of nervousness and suppressed excite- ment likely on an early occasion to develop into an outbreak of violence.” Arab Demands Invelved. Dealing with the commission’s asser- tion that, political disappointments pro- voked Arab resentment against the mandatory power, Secretary Henderson observed that the commission “failed to take account of the paramount fm- {:"“‘“‘“ hitherto attached by Arab aders to the political issue and ig- nored the fact that the demands of the Arabs have always been for a r.l’- i form of representative institu- tions which would be plainly incom- Eflme with execution of the mandate. peated offers of his majesty's gov- ernment to associate the Arabs and Jews in a form of representative gov- ernment which would be compatible (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) NATS AND MACKS TIED, 2-2, IN FOURTH Sad Sam Jones Clashes With Lefty Grove in Second Game of Series. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, August 2.—Wash- ington and Philadelphia were tied, 2-2, today in the fourth inning. Cronin ac- counted for Washington’s runs when his homer in the third scored Manush, FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer fanned on three pitched balls. Rice beat out a grounder to Bishop back of second. Manush drove into a double play, Foxx, taking his grounder, touched first and then threw to Boley, getting Rice going into second. No_runs. PHILADELPHIA—Bishop fouled to Judge. Cronin threw out Summa. He al<o threw out Cochrane. No runs, SECOND INNING. WASHING TON—Cronin fanned. | Judge filed to Simmons. West lined to Summa. No runs. PHILADELPHIA—Bluege threw out Simmons. Foxx walked. Miller drove into a double play, Cronin to Myer to Judge. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHIN G TON-—Bluege fanned. Spencer flied to Miller. Boley threw out Jones, No runs. PHILADELPHIA—Bluege threw out Dykes. Cronin threw out Boley. Grove bounced to Judge. No runs, FOURTH INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Myer singled to left and made second safely when Bishop dropped Simmons’ throw. Grove threw out Rice, holding Myer at second. Manush hit to Boley and Myer was run down, Boley to Dykes to Bishop, Manush faking second. on the play. Cronin hit a home run against the upper left bleachers, scoring Manush ahead of him. Bishop threw out Judge. Two runs. PHBIIL ush's head t:dnevl R i over Manush's left. Summa doubled down the left field foul line, scoring Bishop. Myer threw out Coch- rane, Summa going to third. Simmons walked on four pitched balls, Foxx flied to West and Summa fcored after the catch, Simmons holding first, Miller lined to Myer. ®wo runs. ¥ News Note: bration in honor in the old Home Town Band. ' 1930 —-THIRTY Star. Associated service. Sunday’s The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Saturday’s Circulation, 101,510 Circulation, 111,068 PAGES. ##*#% Sharon, Pa., the boyhood home of Secretary Davis, gave a home-coming cele- of the Republican senatorial nominee, who insisted upon playing the clarinet FALLS CHURCH CITIZENS FORCED TO €CARRY WATER FROM CAPITAL Towuspeople to Meet Tonight to Seek| Solution—May Ask Use of Army Trucks in Emergency. Drinking water is being carried 8 miles in jugs from Washington to Falls Church, Va., by the residents of that Virginia community. So serious has the water shortage in the town become that a public meeting has been called for tonight at th®home of Mayor-elect L. P. Daniel, who feels that the time has come for drastic action. A majority of the families in Falls Church depend upon individual wells for their water, and in numerous in- stances the situation jhas become so acute that use of water for bathing and similar household and sanitary pur- posés is out of the question. While exact figures are not available, it is believed that approximately 25 per cent of the families in the town are entirely out of water, or so nearly out that the scanty supply left in the wells has to be conserved with the utmost care. A situation described by Maj. Daniel as “most_acute” prevails among the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) MEETING CALLED IN MOVIE DISPUTE Managers and Musicians to Confer Today—Agreement Would Avert Strike. Representative committees of the Mu- siclans' Protective Union and the Mo- tion Picture Theater Owners’ Association will meet this afternoon in the board room of the latter organization in the Earle Building to thrash out the dispute between the two over, the renewal of contracts for theater otchestras. ‘This decision, made known following 2 meeting of the Owners' Association at noon today, was the result of a mutual agreement on the part of both factions, it was explained. John E. Birdsell, secretary of the Musicians’ Union, said early this aft- ernoon that he had been in communi- cation with A. Julian Brylawski, presi- dent of the owners' group, and that ar- rangements were made for a meeting between the union and the employers. The controversy, which arose over the refusal of the managers to renew con- tracts for the musicians, which expire August 31, and the unwillingness of the musicians to work on a strictly wage scale without contract, has threatened to darken all Washington theaters after the end of this month, Stand Remains Unchanged. Meanwhile Fred J. Stevens, president of the Moving Picture Machine Opera- tors' Union, announced that the stand of the organized theatrical employes to walk out at midnight August 31 if no satisfactory agreement is reached between the musicians and their em- ployers by that time remains unchanged. Unless the controversy is settled by Friday, the Palace Theater will not start its scheduled stage show Satur- day, Michael Cullen, manager of the Loews theaters here, said this morning. Inasmuch as the musicians' contract expires at midnight Sunday, at which time they will be released unless they will go to work on a strictly wage basis without contract, Mr. Cullen said that the stage show will be dispensed with. However, the vaudeville troup, which is playing. this week in Jersey City, will be called here in the event of a last- minute settlement with the musicians, he sald. In case no agreement is reached, Washington will be dropped from the circuit. ‘Fox Theater, according to Hardie Meakin, manager, will start its current stage feature Friday, s usual, but if no agreement is reached with the musicians by Sunday, talking variety subjects will be substituted. Fox Representative Here. Mr. Brylawski, in explaining the presence here since last Thursday of J. E. Winkler, labor relations repre- sentative of the Fox Theaters Corpora- tion, said that Mr. Winkler was here “to help where he can.” The Fox representative has been participating in meetings of the managers since his ar- rival here. He was at one time presi- dent of the musicians' local union.in Chicago, and took an important in directing a strike of musicians there in 1919. He was later retained by the Fox organization to offer his services in just such emergencies as that which has arisen here. The controversy has been virtually 1 deadlocked since the musicians made clear their stand last Thursday, which the managers refused to accept as an invitation to resume negotiations, Since then each has been awaiting ac- tion by the other. The theater own- ers, however, have maintained through- out that ne matter what turn events take, local theaters would continue to operate. lliini:nn;uhpl-s DR. BAKER 10 GET MURDER CASE CAR Campbell’s Attorney Protests Release of Machine to Victim’s Father. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover today notifled Herbert 8. Ward of coun- sel for Herbert M. Campbell, charged with the murder of Mary A. Baker, that he has decided to stdnd by his decision to permit Rev. Thomas P. Baker, father of the slain git], to have possession of the car in which the former Navy Department clerk is sup- posed to have been murdered, Rover told Ward that his office had committed itself to the return of the automobile after taking photographs of the car and he saw no reason for chang- ing that decision. The prosecutor called up William C. Gloth, commonwealth at- torney of Arlington County by tele- phone and advised him to surrender the car to Dr. Baker, who had announced his intention to come for the car today or tomorrow. * Fear Prejudice to Defense, ‘Ward saw Rover Saturday and asked ,for a reconsideration of the decision to surrender the automobile, claiming that it might prejudice the defense of Campbell in the event of his ‘trial on the murder indictment. He pointed out that ' it was improbable that while driving the car a person could fire a pistol and inflict the wounds shown in the girl's body. Witnesses for the prosecution had stated that shortly after a quarrel at Seventeenth and B streets the automobile was driven away and shots were heard. The attitude of the prosecution, it is understood, is that the: defense may arrange with the girl's father for use of the car as defense evidence, if the attorneys desire to do so. Counsel for Campbell regard the au- tomobile as of possible vital impor- tance to Campbell's defense, in that there are no apparent bullet holes in the car to substantiate claims of the prosecution that Campbell shot the girl during a struggle in the front seat of the machine, Furthermore, a palm print, at one time thought by investi- gators to have been left on the car by the murderer, does not match Campbell's palm prints, ‘The automobile now is under lock and key in the garage of Arthur M. Dawson of Lyon Village. Campbell Languishing in Jail. Campbell, meanwhile, languishes in the Alexandria jail, awaiting the next step in the legal battle over his pro- posed transfer to the District of Co- lumbia for trial under a murder in- dictment. United States Commissioner J. Barton Phillips, in Alexandria, has ruled the prisoner should be removed to Washington, but the transfer order must be issued by the Federal District Court in Norfolk. Judge D. Lawrence rt | Groner of that court is on vacation un- til some time next week. LONGWORTH FRIEND DIES BELFAST, Northern Ireland, August 25 (A).—It became known today that Robert Livingston Resor of Cincinnati, Ohio, has died in a Belfast hotel at which he was spending a holiday with his wife. Mr. Resor is sald to have been a %‘ friend of Representative Nicholas orth. R AR T utham, , Wi be hgen on board the steamship Homeric for burial in the Ohio city. GLIDER PILOT HURT IN AIR RACE CRASH Craft Fails to Release From Tow Line When Being Jerked Off Ground. By the Associated Precs. CHICAGO, August 25.—Kenneth Carr of Detroit, entered in the National Alr Races as from Ypsilanti, Mich., suf- fered a possible fracture of the skull today when a glider in which he was giving a demonstration nose dived and crashed. Carr’s glider, & Franklin PS-2 type, failed to-release from the tow line with which it was being snapped into the air. The civilians’ balloon bursting contest yesterday also won by pilot Livingston, proved an exciting affair for the crowd. Each plane was given three minutes to release and burst two bal~ loons, Livingston required just 28.5 seconds. Freddie Lund of Troy, Ohio, placed second and J. B. Storey of Kansas City, Mo., was third. W. H. Harris won the primary dura- tion gliding contest, remaining aloft 423; seconds. B. C. Skeels of New York City placed second and A. Bradiey, Jr., of Winnetka, Ills., was third. i J.‘ K. ‘g'uiur:h of Ah'm‘;; Ohio, took rst prize in the secondary landing contest, placing his glider 32 feet from the flag despite a stiff breeze. Ivan Stoughton was second, E. B. Palmer of 8t. Joseph, Mich., third. Sulian apeed roared “Faster, faster” at the National Air Races today. Pilots and planes were accelerated the sultanic command. Everywhere it ‘was speed and the eyes of thousands snapped around the 5-mile race course at the Curtiss-Reynolds Air~ port. The finish of the Pacific derbles ‘held odds-on favor. Gladys O'Donnell, who has led the “powder puff” dash since it left her home airport at Long Beach, Calif., was assured of victory, barring mishap. She had an elapsed time lead of more than five hours over second-place Mil- dred Morgan, Beverly Hills, Calif., at the last-leg take-off from Madison, Wis., this morning. Blum's Lead Slight. John Blum, Seattle, held only a 20- minute elapsed time lead over Nick Mamer, the Spokane “Sun God” pilot, at the take-off of the Men's Pacific Derby in St. Paul. ‘The finish of both derbies was on the midafternoon program. The take-off of the non-stop speed classic from Los Angeles has been set (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) it HURLED INTO RIVER Detroit Man, Reported. Wealthy, Dies Following Rescue. DETROIT, August 25 (#).—A 40-year- old electrical contractor was thrown from an automobile into a railroad slip in the Detroit River in the suburb of Ecorse early today and died at a hos- pital soon after being taken from the water by railroad employes who heard his cries for help. The man, Francis Whalen, a resident of the La Salle Hotel, was said by ac- quaintances to be in the habit of carry~ ing a large sum of money. Police be- lleved robbery was the motive for his abduction. b lone long air " trip. () Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. FOG BREAKS JUMP OF GERMAN PLANE ON HALIFAX FLIGHT Capt. :Von Gronau Leaves Queensport on Leg of: Trip to U. S. LANDS TO TELEPHONE ABOUT WEATHER AHEAD Destination in America Not Named, but New York Office Is Told Craft Will Arrive Soon. By the Associated Press. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, August 15— The German seaplane D-1422, carrying Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau and his crew of three from Ciermany to New York, arrived at Halifax today after a one-stop flight from Queensport. The seaplane descended today at Marie Joseph, interrupting its jump from Queensport in order fo inquire by telephone about fog conditions. A dense fog prevalled here at the time. 600-Mile Leg s Finished. ‘Their ultimate destination, a port in the United States, was undetermined, but the first stop en route from Queens- port was Halifax, where the air- men planned to take on fuel and oil. The last leg of thelr flight was from Cartwright Bay, Labrador, about 600 miles distant. ‘Their plane, & big Dornler Wal fly~ ing boat—one of two used by Roald Amundsen in his 1925 Arctic expedi- tion—swooped down upon the harbor here at 1:45 p.m. yesterday completing the fiight from Labrador in 6 hours and 45 minutes. But for a heavy fog blanket and incomplete weather charts, Capt. von odk!tmf.‘l‘ egfl:’l:fil‘i. they would hay e ly ax. ';:m‘munmn left the Island of Sylt in the North Sea on their transatlantic flight last Monday, keeping their des- tination secret. They flew to th Faroe Islands and thence to Reykja- vik, Iceland, where they announced they were returning to Germany. Fog Only Difficulty. Friday the plane left kjavik, but chose -yew:upmwud Gx-ne:{lnd instead of toward Germany and after report- ing tion occas] by radio landed at Ivigtut, Greenland, in the afternoon. Fuel had been sent on there Hhica ta. Cartwright Bay,” Eabrador, Y, . from Cartwright Bay was at m c-.}n. von Gronsu said apart from the fog toey met with no difficulties on the flight. wm mnnunt::n 4 'estward crossi 0 tic, the other two, hnvev';rfi having been non-stop crossings. They were that of the Bremen, carrying Capt. Her- mann_Koehl, Baron von Huenfeld and re the North Atlan- the Southern Cross, captained by Wing Comdr. Charles Kingsford-Smith. The first ended at Greenley Island, Labra- dor, and the second at St. John's New- foundland. Pilot Is Air Student. Capt. von Gronau, who is chief of a commerial air service school in Ger- many, is described as a serious-minded fiyh Each year his school sponsors ‘The journey last {;u to Iceland proved very profitable “Reteonlntwd information and flight Besides Capt. von Gronau, there are abroad the sfilp Edward Zimmer, avia- tion student; Pranz Hack, mechanic, and a wireless operator named Albrecht. All _are attached to the flying at Warnemuende,, Germany., BERLIN PAYS LITTLE HEED, Press Remarks Scantily on Flight Over North Atlantic. BERLIN, August 25 (#).—The feat of the Germans, led by Gronau, in flying across the Atlantic, was but scantily remarked by the German press up to today. Their arrival in Green- land and Labrador was treated as secondary news. Only today did two of the morning newspapers_report ar- rival of the fiyers in Nova Scotia with front-page banner lines. . All of the newspapers have refrained from editorial comment on the flight. Gronau, who was born February 25, 1893, entered the navy in 1911. After 1915, he devoted himself exclusively to seaplane . At the end of the ‘World War he had risen to the rank of first lieutenant. As head of the army commission charged with trying out new seaplanes he is credited by ex- perts with many advances in German seaplane construction. Assistant Pilot Edouard Zimmer Is 26 years old. He was graduated recently from the commercial pilots’ school of the Island of Sylt, of which Gronau is the head teacher. Zimmer hails from Darmstadt. It now develops that Gronau, with Edouard Zimmer, Franz Hack and Fritz Albrecht, recently made extended flight over north Germany, evidently in preparation for their transocean attempt. ROAD INTO SHENANDOAH PARK IS NAMED HOOVER HIGHWAY Scenic Route Link to Commemorate Sojourns of Presi- dent and First To commemorate the week end sojourns of the President and Mrs. Hoover at their Rapidan camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains the Virginia State Conservation Commission has named the first highway into the new Shenandoah National, Park in their honor. At the instance of Mrs. Hoover the commission has staked out a 20-mile stretch of scenic route, on which it is expected construction work will start in the Fall, when sufficient water will be available. The work was to have been Ahrudh this Sumln!{, but was held up by the severé ng p'n:{- new road, to known as the Hoover Highway, will be the first link in the main artery of the new national park which is to take up the main sec- Lady at Camp. tion of the beautfful Blue Ridge over 200 miles Jong and from 12 to It includes the site of the President’s camp. ‘The first link to be staked out skirts the President's Rapidan camp, crosses the Marine guard camp a mile away, and continues to Hawks Bill Peak, the highest in the Blue Ride Range in Vir- ginia. From its 4,000-foot summit the highway will coptinue to Crescent Rock, one of the beautiful spots on the trail, and will follow the backbone of the mountain ranges over to Skyland and Stony Mountain, From there it will Ltnfl down the mountain and exit at uray. The President, and particularly Mrs. Hoover, have taken a deep interest in the new National park, Mrs. Hoover on se! lent & hand in king o lnc’:n hich have ‘worl out pri Wl been followed in phn& the preserve. Col. James Pitzmaurice, and that of |thjs yolm{ aviator, greatly interested in the | lice sclentific and 1 | quarter, when the bombs were 43 SLAIN, 25 HURT, 12 MADE PRISONERS IN INDIAN FIGHTING British Troops Suffer Heavily on Way to Arrest Wazir Agitator Leaders. POLICE COMMISSIONER CHASES BOMB THROWER Conference Under Way to Arrive at Terms for Abandonment of Gandhi's Campaign, By the Associated Press. SIMLA, India, August 25.—A British force has suffered severe casualties in a serious battle with Hathi Khel Wazits in the Kurram region of the northwest frontier province of Peshawar. In hand-to-hand fighting. with the tribesmen, Capt. Ashcroff and eight men were killed. Ten others were wounded. ¢ Native casualties totaled 32 killed, 14 wounded and 70 prisoners. The Bannu Kohat road has been closed to Europeans. Detalls of the encounter show that a mixed force of regular infantry frontier constabulary and police moved from Bannu early yesterday to occupy & po- sition where a meeting under a hostile Mullah named Fazal Quadar was to take place. Emissaries Sent Out. ‘Their aim was the.arrest of the lead- ers of the agitators. The Mullah ap- peared with a large force of armed tribesmen. He sent a message that he would surrender on condition that he-be permitted to march first to the meeting lace and then to the Bannu jail, where is followers would give themselves Emissaries were sent the leaders, but the Mullah and hostile forces continued to advance platoon of infan croft accom, the British captain was attempt defend himself he was shot dead behind by another of the enemy. A general engagement at close quar- hand-to-hand mmm.-n- ting in heavy casualties to Fazal Quadar, fell, wounded, during the clash subsequently died. Offensive Planned. 1t and 18 the third | from as Afridi who attacked lage Friday evel have been by the Kurram militia with hea: ualties. A fresh ati it made to raise Afghan fight n on, but the naf pe to disperse. A Royal Force message states that. surveys over Mohmand territory yesterday revealed considerably lessened activity there. The Massozai tribesmen, with whom negotiations have been ‘m ceeding, have given security for future good behavior. £ GecupIed by SiF Chanies -'n‘e.‘m""’m“" car occupied by les. commissioner, in Calcutta . Both exploded in the road, injuring the driver and damaging the motor car, but leaving Sir Chfl{}:fl l:mhurt One of the assassins was y flying fragments of his missile and he was mortally wounded. Chases One of Four. Tegart was driving through Dal- housie Square, in the European business thrown. Sir Charles sprang from his chased the second assailant, whose flight was halted by the police. Another man also was arrested with two bombs in his possession, the authorities stated. It is believed that four men were con- cerned in the affair. One policeman is missing, several are seriously injured and one native is dead as a consequence of a fight Saturday in the village of Shahapur, Betul district. Many natives were injured. The disturbance began when lce attempted to arrest a leader of a mob of thousands® of Gonds—Low-caste na- tives—who were breaking the forest law, but did not succeed. They then but could not break up the gathering. The working committee of the All- India Congress today was declared an unlawful association in Delhi province. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, Indian leader, who has engaged in talks with Mahatma Gandhi and other imprisoned national~ ist chiefs with a view to abandonment of the civil disobedience campaign, ar- rived here today in response to an ur« gent call from his colleague, ML Jayakar. He and Mr. Jayakar conferred fc two hours immediately with regard the political situation, their conversa, tion, it was believed, taking up details of Jayakar's conferences with Vicero: Lord Irwin since his arrival here Thurs. day from Poona. where he saw imprisoned Gandhi. Many Obstacles Left. Upon the shoulders of the viceroy and of Mr. Jayakar, and now of Sir Tej, has lain the burden of negotiations built around Mamatma Gandhi's terms for settlement of the Satyagraha movemen and, to judge from the worrled mien of eaclrlx, the burden has not rested there wel 4 “There are many obstacles to be over= come before both sides are saf » Mr. Jayakar told the Associated Press today. “The negofations have been pro= ceeding exactly a month and five days and none can say_how much longer they will continue. “I came here from seeing Mr. Gandhi at Yeroda Prison, Poona, expecting a yes or no, but there is no whether I shall have either. But I 3 realized when Sir Tej and I agreed undertake the mission that it would be a task of a day and, of course, I going to see it through.” The viceroy Insisted upon the deta®h of such incidents as police c! witg laths or staves, and requested rugondent'u summary of the anc economic situation. He referred to Gandhi several times and, although the viceroy is never quoted, it is safe to as- sume that he core Will Serve U. 8. at Chile. Harold M. Randall of Fairfield, today was apointed assistant attache at Santiago, Chile, by the Com« merce it