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/ i / field fence for a home run, that again w. Fair, continued c row faw; slowly rising temperature, ‘Temperatures—Highest, pm. yesterday; lowest, 45, ‘at 4:30 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 8. Weather Bure 00l tonight; tomor- 64, at 3:30 @b ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNI ¢ Foening Star NG EDITION Entered_as second class matter Washington, 5 post office D, ¢ W4 SHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER “From Press The to Home Within the Hour” Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,451 - ] = 1930 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. “@ M s Associated P TWO CENTS. MACKS TAKE SECOND GAME FROM GOCHRANE'S HOMER N FIRST CHAPTER STARTS Gt PIONG ON HITNG SPRE Simmons Also Scores on Foxx’s Double and Athletics Increase Lead in Third and Fourth Innings. Westerners Are Now Forced to Return Home to Resume Seriesl on Saturday With Two Defeats to Tomorrew. Overcome—Teams Travel BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor of The Star. SHIBE PARK, PHILADELPHIA, Oc- tober 2.—The Athletics took the second straight game from the Cardinals here = this afternoon, and the Westerners are now forced to resume the series at home two games behind the American League rivals. The score was 6 to 1. Cochrane’s homer, his second of the gerles, started the Athletics off in the first. Simmons scored in the same frame on a double by Foxx. The same pair again crossed the rubber in the third, after Watkins collected. & homer for the Cards in the third. Boley and Bishop counted on Dyke’s double in the fifth. FIRST INNING. ST, LOUIS—After Douthit and Adams were disposed of on flies to Dykes and Simmons, Frisch clouted a double to left field, to establich a new world series record of 43 hits, one more than the old mark held by Capt. Eddie Collins of the A’s. Earnshaw worked fearfully on Bottomley and the count had gone to 3 and 2 when the St. Louls | first baseman lifted a high fly to Haas in center field. No runs. ATHLETIOS—Rhem had hurled one ball and one strike to Bichop, when Max lined to Douthit in center. After missing a swing, Dykes fouled for strike } two. A wide one followed and Jimmy then belted 4 hot smash down the third | kase line, which Sparky Adams took | fare of. With two bells and two strikes fharged against him, Cochrane dupii- | ‘cated his performance of yesterday and sent the ball soaring over the right got the Athletics off in front, as the capacity throng of 38,000 roared its ac- | claim. Rhem got ahead of Simmons | with two strikes and one ball, but with the next pitch Al lined a clean safety to center, to the tune of more cheering. Fouling the first pitch, Foxx then clout- ed a double to left center, which scored Simmons from first base with the Mack- men's second run, putting the fans in an uproar. Miller had one ball called be- tween two strikes, two wide ones fol- lowed, and Bing then topped a ball to | Bottomley, who gathered it in and tag- ged him on the line. Two runs. SECOND INNING. ST. LOUIS—Hafey swung at the first ball pitched and fouled for strike one, then popped to short center, where | Bishop got under the ball. With a count of two and two, Watkins, making his first appearance at bat in the series, | duplicated Cochrane’s swat for a_home | run over the right field fence. It was| a healthy wallop, which cleared the | barrier with plenty to spare. Mancuso | then came along with a rap to Boley in deep short, which he beat out for a hit. With two strikes charged against him, Gelbert connected for a crack that | bounded over Bishop's head to center field, this single sending Mancuso to third bese. But for the extra high bound the ball took Max could have | handled the chance easily. Earnshaw disposed of Rhem, his pitching rival, on strikes, using only four deliveries. Dout- | hit swung lustily at the first pitch and | Jifted an easy fly to Bishop, which left e Box Score | Douthit, ef | Adams, 3b. 2b Mancuso, ¢ | Gelbert, ss. Rhem, p. { Lindsey, p. Johnson, p | Fisher Fisher batted for Lindses in the Seventh, { PHILADELPHIA. | Bishop, ’ Dykes, 3b. { Cochrane, Simmons, Foxx, 1b. Miller, rf. Haas, of i Boley, | Earnshaw, p. BY MANAGER STREET SCORE 234 1000 o220 Summary: Runs batted in—Cochrane, ler, Dykes (2). hits — Frisch, Foxx, 1 St. Louis. .. 0 Athletics. Watkins, Simmons, Home runs—Cochrane, Stolen base—Frisch. Sterifice—Dykes. Double_plays—Gelbert (unassisted); Dykes 5 : Philadelphia, 5. Base on balls—Off Rhem, 2; off Johnson, off Earnshaw, 1. \ Struck out—By' Rhem, 3: by Lindsey, Johnson, 2; by_E: 5. Hits—Ofl Rhem, 7 | 5. mone in 2 2-3 innings. | Umpires—Messrs. ~Rigler, Geisel, Riordon and Moriarity. CUBA MAY SUSPEND LAWS IN DISORDERS President Calls Special Ses-| sion to Act on Setting Con- stitution Aside. Watkins. by mings; off Lind- By the Assoclated Press. | kitchen cabinet. FURNITURE FIRM : EMPLOYE ADMITS STARTG FRE L ) ! Loader at Hub Warehouse Says He Accidentally Caused Disastrous Blazes. MATCH HEADS FLEW IN DARK, HE DECLARES Man Employed by Company Six Years Declares One Blaze Was Due to Smoking. Lingan Asbury Butler, 4 employe of the Hub Furnitur 0., mitted to the police today that he had been responsible for four of the five fires which have caused losses of more | than $250,000 in warehouses of the | company during the past two years. Butler, a loader, who has been em- ployed at warehouses of the company for the past six years, claims that he set the fires accidentally. He was ar- rested yesterday as the result of an intensive investigation, which began when fire wrecked the warehouse at 80 L street northeast, September 24. He lives at 1453 U street southeast. The police questioned him last night and again this morning. Shortly after noon today he began to talk. Heads Flew Off Matches. Three of the fires, he said, were start- ed when heads flew off matches which he said he lighted in dark parts of the warehouses to see the numbers on fur- niture crates. He admitted that he had the numbers and declared that he now realized that he did wrong not to re- port that he knew. how the fires started. ‘The fourth fire. he said, was started when he dropped a match after light- ing a cigarette. He said he did not report that one because it was against the company’s rules to smoke in the buildings. He said that in the case of the fire of September 24 he was attempting to read the number on a crate about a He pulled the paper away, he said, and lighted the match. The head flew off and ignited the paper and the warehouse was soon a mass of flames, he continued. Last Fire September 24. ‘The last of the five fires which have damaged warehouses of the furniture HAVANA, October 2.—Suspension of all constitutional guarantees until after | the national elections November 1 will | be asked tomorrow of the Cuban con- | gress, convoked in special session. President Machado last night an- | nounced his intention of calling con- | gress together for that purpose. | Dr. Guan Incan, speaker of the| House, and Clement Vasquez Bello, | president of the Senate, promised him | their support in putting through an | authorizing measure, To Meet Disorders. The projected suspension of the con- | stitution would give the administration | almost earte blanche in dealing with | disorders during the pre-election cam- | paign. | In some quarters the presidential re- | quest was connected with a momentary | censorship imposed yesterday by the government on outgoing and incoming | cable messages. The censorship was | withdrawn because it was found to be | without constitutional sanction. The | newspaper El Pais said censors in—i spected all matter intended for their | columns prior to publication. Police Methods Approved. ‘The President, in a manifesto, pro4| claimed his approval of methods adopted by police Tuesday in suppressing a dem- onstation of 300 students and others who attempted to march on the presidential palace. Six policemen and six stu- dents were injured in the fighting. One of the injured students died yester- day. Although the Machado administra- tion has been firmly intrenched, a growing opposition recently has made itself felt and there have been several the A's with a one-run lead. One run. ATHLETICS—Haas _attempted to | eatch the Cardinal infield napping, | bunting the first pitch, but the ball rolled foul for a strike. Rhem was over | with the next, which was called strike | two, and after taking one ball, Mule fanned. Swinging st Rhenvs initial de- ive field. Earnshaw was given a hand as| he approached the plate. He was dis- | posed of in short order, flying to Hafey | on the first ball pitched. ST. LOUIS—Earnsh; on Adams with two straight strikes, then missed the corner for a curved ball before Sparky lofted to Miller in right. Earnshaw was wide with his initial ch to Prisch. On the next delivery Frankie swatted one toward short whi Boley knocked down but failed to re cover. He was charged with an error, the first misplay of the series. The count on Bottomley was one and one, svhen he raised a high fly on which Bishop missed in a desperate effort for catch in foul territory. He was not charged with an error. Bottomley then missed with a swing for a third strike. With one Hafey, Prisch set sail for second. He made it in safety, and when Cochrane’s soor throw carried to center field, he continued on to third. Mickey was “an error. With the count umn 6.) william J. Graham, presiding judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, underwent an ap- pendieitis operation at Garfield Hospital late yesterday and was reported at his office today to be resting comfortably. Judge Graham was appointed to the court in 1924 by President Coolidge after having served four terms in Congress from Tllinois. His home is at | Aledo, IIl. , Boley popped to Watkins in right | the nation No runs. | THIRD I> | w got the jump | ball recorded against | minor disorders. Opponents of the government claim that free speech is| stified. Approves Police Action. ‘The manifesto said it had been known for several months that seditious propa- ganda opposed to the economic life of had been in circulation. The government has watched with a careful land prudent eye, the statement said. ‘The President said the government was aware that anti-national students Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) company within the last two years oc- curred September 24, at the plant at 80 L street northeast. is_ blaze, causing ioss estimated by Fire Depart- ment officials at $50,000, boosted to more than a quarter of a million dol- lars the aggregate damage in the series of fires, Three of these blazes were of major importance, each requiring concentra- tion of every resource of the Fire De- partment before they were brought u: der control. Several “smoke eaters’ were injured while combating the flames and other lives were endangered. Perhaps the most spectacular of the series of blazes was the most recent. Huge billows of smoke were whipped into the heavens by a strong wind. Firemen were forcad to wear gas masks in order to combat the poisonous fumes created by the burning of large stocks of furniture and a tar-covered roof. Four Other Blazes. In addition to this fire, official records | disclosed there have been four other | disastrous blazes in the warehouses of the Hub Furniture Co. since February 8, | 1929. The first caused a loss of $78,300, | the second $400, the third $497 and the | fourth $149,294. The far-flung investigation of the series of fires was instigated at the instance of P. W. Nicholson, acting chief of the Pire Department. He de- clared the Police Department should delve into the situation because he was certain “there was something queer about these fires.” ATTORNEY COMING HERE T0 PROTEST HOOVER DAM Arizona Official to Challenge Val- idity of Swing-Johnson Act in Supreme Court. Attorney General K. Berry Peterson | of Arizona reached Washington today | to file in the Supreme Court on Mon day a suit lenge the validit yof the Swing-John- | son act authorizing its construction. He has perfected arrangements for | his admission to practice before the court and will be in a position to pre- sent the case when the court meets. Arizona has fought the construction | of the dam, contending that under con- gressional legislatioh authorizing it the State would not receive its fair share of the hydroelectric power to be de- veloped mor its full share of the water of the Colorado River. i Finds Self in Possession o { | a Stafl Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, October 2.—Prflsl-i dent Hoover made it apparent yester-| cven Presidents are no different from HOOVER POSES WITH “FIRST BALL,” THEN SLYLY SLIPS IT IN POCKET f Souvenir When Umpire Starts | Game With Another One. the President for the group of pho- tographers took a ball from his pocket | and tossed it to Lefty Groves in the | day while at the world series game that | pitchers' box and signaled to “play ball.” When President Hoover found him-! not been sent to the warehouses to get | small boys when it comes to possess- celf still clutching the ball he was to | ing a big league base bail-—especially | have thrown out he looked about a little | a ball that has figured in a world sheepishly anc: discovering that no one series. | was paying any attention to him, he Mr. Hoover was handed the first ball | slipped the ball in his pocket and gave to be used in yesterday's game for the | his atiention to the game. | purpose of formally tossing it to the| He is understood to have told his | umpire to start the game. “As soon as| friends later that he was going to take the ball was in his hand the battery of | that ball back to the White House cameramen had him pose with his arm | with him and keep it as ome of his extended in the act of pitching. This| souvenirs. picture-taking took some little time.| This interesting incident was learned Some of the more modest photograph- | after the game was over Wwhen the ers wanted close-ups and they crowd- | President was asked to settle the dis- ed_about him. pute as to whether or not he actually By the time they had finished and|threw out the ball. No one recalled cleared away and the President got a|having seen him heave it, although it view of the diamond he was surprised to see that the game was under way. The umpire had cvidenty growa tired of waiting and not being able to sec [ was known he was scheduled to do s5 and his picture was taken while P in the attitud: of throwing the | ball. ARDS, 6-1 KELLEY ARRIVES HERE FOR INOUIRY - OF OIL LAND DEAL | | | Says He Is Ready to “Sub- stantiate Charges in Full.” Prober Asks Details. RICHARDSON HOLDS i ACCUSER “ACTED QUEER” | Assistant Attorney General Holds Kelley Had Been Invited to Take Charge of Section Here. the Associated Press. Ralph Kelley, former chief of the Federal Land Office at Denver, who has {charged the Interior Department with {a maladministration of oil shale lands in Colorado, arrived in Washington to- day and said he intended to “sub- stantiate in full” all his charges “I not only intend to give details and proof of my statements,” Kelley said, “but I shall insist upon the opportunity Ito do so.” Meanwhile, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Seth W. Richardson, assigned to| investigate the charges, sought from Kelley a statement of specific cases and objections mentioned generally by him in a letter to Secretary Wilbur. Kelley resigned at the same Yime charging oil companies were attempting to obtain illegally from the Government concessions to Colorado oil shale lands. Secretary Wilbur suspended him and asked an investigation, asserting the charges were ‘“nonsense.” Answered Nye Letter. Kelley said today he had answered a letter from Chairman Nye of the Senate Lands Committee asking him to confirm his charges, offering to con- fer with the North Dakotan at any time. The former Denver official reiterated his charge that “concession_after con- cession has been given to Colorado ofl applicants because of political or other pressure brought to bear upon the Secretary Richardson said he intended to invite Kelley to confer with him, adding he would “offer him an office and all stenographic facilities without charge 50 that he can make a recorded state- ment of his charges and objections.” The Assistant Attorney General said he was having made & review of all con- troversial ofl shale cases, and that the Interior Department was now preparing a list of the files involved. He added, if Kelley would name specific cases and objections “it would save us nine-tenths | of this work.” Was Offered Post Here. Richardson said he thought the for- | mer Denver official had acted “queerly” in making his charges against the In- terior Department. He explained Kelley had been invited to Washington by Secretary Wilbur to | take charge of oil shale matters in the department, but had left suddenly with- out conferring with any official and published his resignation and charges Without talking to the Interior Secre- ry. “It there is basis in what he says,” | Richardson said, “and ofl lands are be- ing so administered that valuable prop- erty can be wrongly taken from the Government, then almost any action of his might be justifie | BOY FLYER FORCED DOWN | ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., October 2 (#)—Robert Buck, 16-year-old flyer at- tempting to set a new junior transconti- | nental flight record, was forced down | at Glenrio, N. Mex., by motor trouble { this morring shortly after leaving Amarillo, Tex., it was reported at the ‘Western Air Express Field here. Me- chanics were sent by automobile from Amarillo to make repairs, field officials Furniture Fashions A Nation-wide demonstra- tion of improvement in de- sign and construction of furniture is attracting the attention of many Wash- ington people. An opportunity is offered at this time to those inter- ested in Home Furnishings to visit the Furniture Style Show now being held by Washington furniture deal- ers in their respective stores. Desirable offerings in today's Star include: Living Room Suites, Bed-Davenports, Rugs and Linoleums, And many others. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Lines. 45,400 17,021 12,588 6,046 4,419 40,074 The Evening Star 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper 5th Newspaper Total Four Other Newspapers. The Star’s circulation is now about 5,000 copies ahead of last year, and 10,000 ahead of two years ago. This additional cir- CAPT.R.E. DOYLE DIES SUDDENLY: PICTURESQUE POLICE FIGURE | Stood Trial on Charge of Insubordination for Backing Allen. Veteran Commander of 8th Precinct Stricken as He | | Enters Lunch Room. ‘ Capt. Robert Emmett Doyle, com-! manding officer of the eighth police precinct, central figure of & spectacular police trial last year, collapsed suddenly as he was entering a lunch room at | Fourteenth and U streets today and | died as he was being taken to Garfield Hospital. Capt. Doyle was 59 years old. He was a veteran of the Police Department CAPT. ROBERT E. DOYLE. and one of its most picturesque figures. | Although Capt. Doyle had been on |tirement from the force. Latest re- duty regularly, he had been under the ;g:sr;rn:&wel?r} rmxircl:;d ntr?;‘trl::t hfig { care of a physiclan for more than & |pooq pressure was returning to normal. year, due to high blood pressure, which | Capt. Doyle red the Pal lunch at one time foreshadowed his early re- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) TREASURY SURPLUS D. . CAR TAGS NAY REVEALS DECREASE AR 40 S VOTERS Smaller Sinking Fund Is Anne Arundel G. 0. P. De-i Noted in First 1931 Fis- clareg Registrants Are Wash- cal Report. ington Residents. By the Assoclated Press. The Treasury finished the first quar- ter of the 1931 fiscal year with a sur- plus of $52,292,255, approximately $3,- 000,000 less than the surplus for the same period of the 1930 fiscal year. Special Dispatch to The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, Md, October 2.—The ownership of automobile licenses issued by the District of Columbia is expected | to figure largely in determining whether Total receipts were $868,940,213. Ex- |or not about 400 alleged residents of e ar cagsg - 'S 8" the District of Columbla have a right The_ receipts were about $150,000,000 to have their names placed on the reg- lctssufihlrllgggllecwd lnhfiheufust q\nr('fir | istration books of Anne Arundel County of the year, while the expendi- z : { e I oo | Local Republican workers have traced | the names of this number of former | The chief difference in the expedi- tures was in the sinking fund, to which | District residents on the suspect list in | They was added only $65,000,000 this year as | several precincts of the county. compared with $236,864,000 last vear. |claim these persons have ot the kind | Ordinary expenditures of the GOVeIN- | o¢ residence in this county which en- ment_increased approximately $30,000, | (it1is them to- vote here. 000 this year to a total of $751,586.958. | “'T¢"ic Turther ajleged that in applying Customs revenue dropped from $161.- | for “automobile licenses in the District 000,000 in the first three months of 1930 | (o ormepile Meenses in the Bistrieh | their ‘residence there and_consequently | they cannot have a residence in this | county. The persons whose right to vote in this county has been challenged will | have their cases considered by the reg- | from $161,000,000 to $156,000,000. istration officers in the precincts next | Tuesday. An appeal will lie from the | FIRE BOMB HELD lact of the registrars and the:cases will BARN BLAZE CAUS | ultimately be settled by the court. Those whose right to vote in this| | county has been questioned are chiefly | former residents of the District who have | established “part-of-the-year” homes | on the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries | {at points in close driving distance to: | Washington. i year. Income tax receipts dropped from $609,000,000 to $554,000,000, while mis- cellaneous internal revenue dropped Witnesses Say Plane Flew Over Miner's Farm—Sheriff Doubts Reports. 'CRAMTON LOSES i BY 84 IN RECOUNT| By the Associated Pre: MADISONVILLE, Ky., October Reports that a barn had been fired in | the country near here by an airplane, | which dropped a fire bomb, were re- | ceived at the sheriff’s office today. i 2 z Sheriffl O. E. Barnett said he was in- | Michigan Representative Again clined to doubt that the airplane had nnythhlng 'fi c\l:uwns hthe burnmg! of Protests and Wolcott Cer- the barn. He believed, however, a plane # 5 tificate Held Up. \WIFE LIFTS DUMPLING POT LID; SPOUSE GETS DIVORCE AND PANS had passed over the place, but so far had no proof that it dropped a blazing torch, as reported. The farm belonged to James Smith, 1 Associated Press. employed at the No. 1 mine of the LANSING, Mich, October 2.—Com- Ross Coal. Co. He estimated his 10ss | pletion of the recount in the Republican at_$300. primary in the seventh congressional | The barn caught fire before dawn. | district today gave Jesse P. Wolcott of | Reports to the sheriff and to Wil-| Port Huron, an attorney, & majority of | liam Ross, president of the coal com- |84 votes over Represenattive Louis C. | pany, chme from severai persons who |Cramton, House dry leader. Certifica- | said t)#y heard the plane and were |tion of Wolcott's nomination, however, | trace its movements. was held up pending decision of protests | July an airplane dropped half | filed by Cramton. g mbs near Providence, where [ On the face of original returns Wol- it isg estimated that $100,000 damage [cott, who campaigned in behalf of a | has been caused by violence as a re-|referendum on the prohibition question sult fof labor troubles in the mines,|and expressed disapproval of the opera- I no damage was caused by that | tion of the dry laws, won by 102 votes. E: culation in itself represents a very considerable audience of Star readers. . e . test against some of the rulings of the board of canvassers which made the re- count. planie. ’ Representative Cramton filed a pro- Radie Programs on Page C-11 | lawry of war. 28 NATIONS SIGN FINANCING PACT £ |Agree at Plenary Session of League to Aid Victims of Attack. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, October 2.—Representatives of 28 states today signed a convention guaranteeing financial assistance to a state which is the victim of attack by another nation. The ceremony took place in a plenary session of the As- sembly of the League of Nations. Signatories were Australia, Lithuania, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Cuba, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Latvia, Norway, Holland, Peru, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, | Jugoslavia, Czechoslavakia, Sweden and Albania. The Irish Free State later signed the convention, bringing the total number of states to do so to 28, of which 22 are European states. DISAPPOINTED BY DELAY. British Delegates Score Failure Harmonize Pact and Covenant. By Radio to The Star. GENEVA, Switzerland, October 2.— The famous “gap in the covenant”— which permits war in certain circum- stances—is as big as & barn door today as a result of the decision to delay for another year the attempt to harmonize the covenant of the League of Nations and the Kellogg pact. As a ‘Tesult of this decision, most governments of the world are still pledged under one instrument, the Kellogg pact, to forswear war eternally, while under another equally sacred, the League covenant, they are authorized in some contingencies to make war. This is constru>d at Geneva today by dis- appointed delegates who hoped to end this anomaly as a direct assault on the validity of the Kellogg pact. Both Lord Cecil and Philip Noel Baker, British delegates, repeatedly in- sisted that failure to harmonize the pact and covenant struck at the very root of the American principle of out- Defeat of the harmoniza- tion means that nations pledged to outlaw war can legally make it. The subcommittee, as a whole, was unwilling to put teeth into the Kellogg pact— that is, transfer its moral values to the actual working of the covenant. British Backed by French. This is one of the rare instances where the French and British have been united on an_issue before the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) SUICIDE REVEALED AS HOME BLOWS UP By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 2.—An explosion which wrecked his home in suburban Oak Park revealed the suicide tragedy | of Frank A. Porlick, 50, importe?, early today. Pmylh.‘k's body was found in the ruins. His throat and both arms had been slashed with & razor. Three sealed notes were found, one addressed to Porlick’s estranged wife, who has & divorce suit pending, and another to his children. A third di- rected that his body be sent to his sis- ter, Mrs. T. V. Maurer of New York. Police believed that Porlick, after slashing his throat, turned on the gas in the kitchen. What set off the ex- plosion, which aroused the neighbor- hood, could not be determined. to ! 1t FISHER ENDS 1980 SELEBRATIONWORY, CHAREIG USTER Officer of Local Group Claims He Was Forced Out for “Doing Too Much.” DECLARES ACTION TAKEN AT “SECRET” MEETING Dr. Marvin, Announcing “Termina- tion” of Services, Declines to Elaborate on Statement. Coincident with formal announcement by Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, chairman of the District Bicentennial Commission, of the “termination” of Frederick V. Fish- er's term of service as executive officer of the local body, Mr, Pisher today is- sued a statement charging he was asked to resign because “I did too much work this Ewamer.” Mr. Pisher made public a letter he has received from Mrs. Philip Sidne Smith, secretary of the co; - hlt" Monday advising him his “'are terminated as of October 1” and sug- gesting that he tender his resignation. In protesting the action of the com- mission, Mr. Fisher claimed that in dispensing with his services the local bicentennial group “practically cancels most of the great in the gram of 1932” calling for a wm'm celebration of the 200th by Representative and Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. Claims “Secret” Meeting Held. The charge also is that resignation was called for at a meeting which' he was not attend and at which “many most important members of the mission” were not present. ber of the comm! declared but two members of the the executive meeting, pr than a quorum.” Chairman Marvin's statement brief, and he refused to elaborate mlnmi;‘le em.upl mfl“nk Fisher, who was o} a_period of four months as executive officer of the com , terminated those ices on October 1. ment in this connection will be made in the near future.” Letter Is Made Public. Mr. PFisher made public the following | letter from the commission: “Dear Mr. Fisher: “In accordance with the terms of your | employment, dated June 1, 1930, as | executive office of the District of Co- lumbia Commission for the 200th an- | niversary of the birth of G-orge Wash- | ington, which stated thet you were engaged for the period of {sur months, from June to September, 1930, inclusive, at the expiration of which time the employment might be terminated, either by the commission or by yourself, the commission hereby notifies you that your services are terminated as of Oc- tober 1, 1930. “The commission desires me to say that you are granted two weeks’ salary, or the sum of $250, and also that it would be entirely satisfactory t"edfl to submit your resignation, effe October 1, 1930, which will receiv: prompt consideration. Your resigna- tion would not affect the two weeks’ compensation. “The commission desires to express its appreciation to you for the report which you placed on file today cover- ing the period of your employment and to thank you for your sincere efforts in its behalf.” ‘The letter was signed by Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, secretary of the com- mission. Mr. Fisher's statement follows: “Four_years ago, while I was mak- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) JAPANESE EMPEROR SIGNS NAVAL TREATY By the Associated Press. TOKIO, October 2.—Emperor Hiri- hito today signed the London naval treaty. The imperial seal was affixed to the document, thereby completing Japanese ratification. Premier Hamaguchi and Count Ma- kino, lord privy seal, were both present at _the simple ceremony. ‘The action brought into full effect the treaty, Great Britain and the United States having previously ratified it. Prance and Italy were not included in_its more important provisions. Signing followed a long investigation of the pact and its implications by the, Privy Council, which yesterday noti- fied the Emperor of its approval and advised that he sign it. | Judoe Rules Peeping Was “Act of Cruelty” in Case of Oakland, Calif., Couple. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., October 2.—Charles W. Brown, who admitted he was an expert dumpling maker, appeared in Superior Judge Harris' court, seeking a divorce. “My wife, Rose, made me do all the cooking,” Brown testified. she never was so happy as wkv\’en telling me | “You can make dumplings?” de- manded Judge Harris, greatly in k. “Yes, your honor, can _make dumplings if I am let alone. hapry because I knew the dumplings would be a great success, and then Rose came in, and as usual, lifted the pot lid and t! dllmpunfl went flat.” al his hand. what & poor cook I was. “One day, your honor, I was making | @umplings. I had them simmering in e pgt ¢ *