Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1930, Page 2

BYRD IS CRITIGAL | OF DROUGHT RELIEF U. S. Measures Inadequate for Virginia, He Tells Federal Official. E7 the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., October 17.—The opinion that aid so far announced by the Federal Government is not in any way adequate to meet the conditions produced by the drought in Virginia ‘was expressed today by Harry P. Byrd, chairman of Virginia’s Drought Rellef Committee in a lengthy communication to ©. W. Warburton, secretary of Lh!i Federal Committee. ‘The letter is in reply to & telagnm from the Federal secretary setting ferth the drought relief measures offered by the Federal Government. Byrd today criticised these measures as so bound up with restrictions as to make them far from adequate, - especially .to aid those most in need of assistance. Mr. Byrd said: “If I am correct in my interpretation of what has been done, the Federal Government, as such, has done one thing only to aid in the emergency, and that is to permit the tnt:gplucn of the 1931 road fund as soon as the projects can be approved. Value Is Doubted. “Even this will be of very doubtful walue, because, as previously stated, this fund must be expended on costly roads under drastic restrictions, and will only contribufe to a small degree to the re- 1lef of unemployment. On the authority ©of the Governor of Virginia, however, I can state that Virginia will avail her- self to the limit of this fund, although I anticipate disappointment as to its beneficial results.” Chairman Byrd requests the secretary ot the Federal Committee to make owh before the meeting’ of the. Siate an-mu October 22 whether ad- ditional measures are contemplated by the Federal Government. He suggested at the same time three measures, As follows: (1) That Congress authorize a erous road appropriation to be matched by the States, to be expended on cheaper HTErR Saight be given shroughous the ment ht ven u State instead of on a few costly proj- ects. (2) The extension reasonable L T ey ens pa; 3 s :e.nry restrictions. cost. in order the Federal measures which Mr. Mrs. Hoover attended the first showing of rare orchids when the di opened at the Willard Hotel terday. Everett Gann. They are sta THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, lay To the right of Mrs. Hoover is Mrs. ling behind the largest orchid in existence. —Wide World Photo. BRITISHER CHOSEN FOR FIRST ORATOR Drawing for International | Contest Held Today—Seven Others to Speak. Jack Mallard German, England's candidate for the world champlonship in | high school speech making, will be the | first of eight young speakers to take the | stage in the fifth International Ora- | torical Contest finals in Constitution Hall Saturday night, October 25, o gy g Y Neéwbold, business manager of The Eve: ning Star, to determine the speaking order of 'the ocontestants, " were a nounced by Randolph’ Leigh, contest WORK WILL START SOON ON NEW CARRIER FOR NAVAL AIRCRAFT 4 (Continued From Pirst Page) - priations totaling $4,050,000 have been made by Congress for starting struction. Bids for the carrier were opened - ';:r’: three companies seeking The Navy's two glant aireraft car- U.8.'8. and mu- it under the Washington Arm: treaty, y were redesigned as aircraft car- TS, tal aircraft oar- Tier, U. 8. 8, ', was 1 ly & fcollier, H Loss Here of $600,000 i Construction of some of the turret icture for the new crulser, to be built of meacly 380000 . ,000 that would to the local yard, The mm Al guns and ordnance equipment, finder izance of the Bur:n of Ord- , Navy Department, for the new o be_bull 4t Newport News, Y. b uilt at Ne e ., will be built at the local yard, :‘lflcilll Baid, but will not alter the employment situation here materially. The Bureau ©of Construction and Repair of the Navy Department, of which Rear Admiral George H. Rock is the chief, has decided that instead of having the turret fea- re, t at the e R g re le it that the decision to have mtm work done on the West Coast does not m the workmanship at the ‘ashin, Navy Yard, but insisted that this is a readoption of a long untey st Watkingion. ey ark had done quite - Dit of work on tered to , before o .:ulcm were lorm vance ideas shipbuilding, the officials said, it decided to permit the local yard ish the revised was :lfifllfldu\dflnh will involve the loss | pe Custom to Parallel Work. The evolution of the modern cruiser from the comparatively light vessel to heavier armor has had a large part in the decision to ship the work from Washington, the officials said. It has been the custom in the case of battle- ships to have the shipbuilder construct the turrets at the same time that the ship was built, they explained, having the two processes parallel. As Uncle Sam's cruisers have now al es ] have decided 1o revert to the practive, now obtaining 4n ‘battleship construction, under which the turrets are bullt by the constructor, near where the vessel is being raised. Naval officials declined to disclose ‘what ordnance the new saircraft carrier ‘will be uipped with, but the new cruiser which is to be a sister ship of the New Orleans, now under construe- tion at the New York Navy Yard, will be equipped with nine 8-inch guns, four :gehmg'u reraft g\;a. and two 21- m&u tubes, Officials of the Bureau of Ordnance it all guns and ordnance under izance of that bureau would n. it director general. In the drawing, the names of the represented nations were | printed on slips of paper, which then were turned face down. Mr. Newbold selected the slips one at a time and as the countries’ names were read, their respective orators were listed for the program. Lioyd George Is Topiec. After young German's oration on “Lloyd George,” the other contestants and their ulmuve speech subjects will e heard in following order: Clemente Peres-Zanartu of Santiago, tional g - Andre P, J.-Ploux of Montferrand, France, on “Liberty, Equality and Fra- ity”; Javier Vivanco R.. of Mexico Oity, Mexico, on “Nationalism and Its New Ideology’ Marshall Is Guillon’s Theme. Edmund A. Gullion of Washington, champion of the United States, on “John Marshall and Federal Suprem- William Hayes of Rathfarnham, Ire- land, on “Ireland.” Young Gullion, the Western = High 8chool , Who captured the United Btates champlonship in the National finals here last May, was the third ora- tor 10 speak in that contest. As set up by the drawing, the various la; are fairly well distributed oh tI gram. English ns and closes the meet and from standpoint of the audience, the con! nt orations will assembly, talking, in or- 3 h, Spanish, German, French (for Prance), French (for Canada), Spanish, English and lish. The judges, whfingn F o -nm’:;“dl ', are mul , capal of wei the merits nfunu the orations in the languages used. TOWN CAPTURED, COUNCIL ROUTED Armed Mexican Band Takes Reins of Government at Comitan. By the Associated Press. | MEXICO CITY, October 17.—A dis- patch to Bxcelsior from Comitan, State of Chiapas, today said that a body of armed men, headed by Leocadio Velasco, had taken possession of that town, oust- ing muricipal authorities and calling leading citizens to a conference to choose a new municipal councl. ‘The correspondent said the movement apparently was against state au- thorities, federal officers in Comitan being unmolested. The custom office continued to function and commercial establishments remained open. The llté was described today as tranquil. itan is the most important de- partment in the State of Chiapas, and has about 60,000 inhabitants, of whom one-sixth live in the city of Comitan, which is several miles from the Guate- malan frontier. Sues for Personal In;nriel. Anthony Barbra, trading as Universal Electric Co., 624 E street, was sued for $10,000 damages by Lawrence W. Burke, 334 Indlana avenue, who charges ligence in leaving unprotected a cellar door. The plaintiff says he was walking along E street in front of the defendant’s place when he stepped into & hole and was thrown against an iron door leading to the cellar. He sustained serious injury, he asserts. Attorney 1 Q H. Alward appears for the plaintifr, to be built. Taking into account the new cruiser to be constructed at Mare Island, only 6 of the 15 are being built " | at present. It has been found necessary !‘0' reduce the number of men at the e today | et in nguages | to he pro- THREE PERSONS DIE IN TRAIN COLLISION Four Others Injured as Big Four Locomotives Crash in Cleveland. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, October 17.—Two mail trains of the Big Four Rallroad smashed head-on within the city -early today, killing three of their crews and in- puring four others. Through some mix-up, & westbound train, departing for St. Louls, was on the same track as another train coming into the station from the divisional yards at Linndale. They collided rounding a curve near the Fulion rosd bridge. Three Trainmen Killed. Engineer Henry Sprouse of the east- bound train and Pireman Charles Graff, 85, and Conductor Jerry Dickson, 50, of the westbound train were killed. Engineer Frank McCarthy of the west- bound train and Firefnan Olarence Sheffeld, 35, of the eastbound train, were seriously scalded. Thomas Hena- han, 59, fireman on the eastbound train, and Willlam F. Dee, flagman on the westbound train, suffered minor in- All were from Cleveland. Offieials of the road declined to com- ment on the accident and witnesses were unable to explain how it hap- ‘pened. Each locomotive was pulling g e lfldh':?l fr scalded v raff were steam, ;.hlh bmcg son was pinned’ between the cab a tender trying to jump. McCarthy and Sheffield were too seriously injured to tell how the wreck occurred. No Warning of Crash. Henahan, whose left arm was para- lyzed, said the east-bound train was rounding the curve at a slow rate of speed. was no warning of the crash, he d, and he had only a glimpse of the headlights of the on- coming locomotive before the impact. Dee saved his life by jumping and was knocked unconscious. ‘The Jocomotives telescoped, then sank back with their noses buried into each other. The heat of the steam rush- ing from the broken boilers was so in- tense that rescue workers were forced work several hours with acetylene torches to free the body of Dickson. NATION-WIDE PROBE OF BUS OPERATIONS OPENS NEXT MONTH (Continued From First Page.) gress by Representative Parker of New York, 2 member of the House Commit- tee on Interstate and Foreign Com- merce. The bill is now in the status of “unfinished busingss” of the Senate. Extension of Policy. 1In its report on the bill the House committee said: “The principle of Government regulation of public utili- ties has been generally mgma in this country, both in Federal and State mat- ters. ‘The enactment of legisiation of the character proposed will be merely the extension of this principle to a utility which, although comparatively new, is one which is developing with great rapidity in all parts of the United States and bears a close relation to the public interest.” The original recommendation of the commission called for Federal control of all interstate passenger traffic on the highways to the extent that rates and fares be regulated, certificates showin, public convenience or necessity require and liability insurance or indemnity bonds be demanded of the carriers. It is recalled that although the origi- nal investigation by the commission embraced motor transportation of freight as well as traffic, the commis- sion deemed it advisable at the time to urge regulation only of commercial passenger traffic. The forthcoming in- vestigation also will cover the broad fleld of motor transportation. Regulation Favored. Federal regulation of interstate bus and truck traffic apparently meets with the approval of the transportation in- | terests Involved. The National Associa- tion of Motor Bus Operators recently indorsed the Parker bill, and the action of the bus operators, in turn, has just been approved by the Executive Com: mittee of the American Ele¢tric Rail- way Association. Henry R. Trumbower, professor of economics at the University of Wiscon- sin and economist of the United States Bureau of Roads, advised the recent International Road Congress here that “co-operation between railroads and a tomobiles is one of great require- ments of the age.” opera monopoly,” the congress was COUZENS OPERATED UPON DETROIT, October 17 (#).—Senator James Couzens wad operated on At Hnrgcr Hospital today for the removal of three bladder stones. The operation was performed by Dr. Max Ballin, assisted by Dr. W. K. Rexford, who re- roru the Senator’s condition satis- actory. Senator Couzens enteréd the hospital in the turrent plans will not mean any great for examination Tuesday and will re- main there for about three weeks. ITREATY COURIER | COMPLETES FLIGHT Reaches New York After Dash Which Cost Life of Lieut. Caldwell. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—The offi- clal text of Japan's ratification of the' London naval treaty was here today, brought across the continent by air, courier on its way from Tokio to London. | Lieut. Irving A. Woodring landel at| Mitehel Field last night, ending the last stage of a dash from Victoria, British Columbia, with the document, which was brought from Japan on & fast steamship. Plerre De L. Baol, assistant chief of the Division of Western EuropeAn Af- fairs of the State Department, will board the Leviathan with it tomorrow to de- liver it to Ambassador Matsudaira in London. Being Rushed to London. ‘The ratification is being rushed to get it to London before the opening of the session of the League of Nations Dis- armament Commission at Geneva. ‘The gffort to hurry transmission of the document by airplane cost the life of Lieut. Willlam V. Caldwell, 27 years old, who was killed Wednesday when his escort plane crashed near Lookout, Wyo., during a blissard. His body was found yesterday. Lieut. Woodring left Victoria Wednes- day in a fast Army pursuit plane, escort- ed by Lieut. Caldwell. The plaries be- came separated in the blizzard. Wood- ring got through to Cheyenne. Changed Planes in Ohio. He took off n yesterday morning, and after making brief stops for fuel at Omaha and Chicago, changed at Cleve- land to a safer plane, piloted by Lieut. Stanley Olmstead for the dash across the Alleghanies. ‘The body of Caldwell, a member of the Air Corps Reserve, was found by Ray W. Meskimen, a Boeing airmail pilot. The plane was. shattered. The motor was found 50 feet from the wreckage, indicating the plane had struck the ground with terrific force. Caldwell's body was taken to Cheyenne. WINTER SWEEPING TOWARD CAPITAL Effect of Chilling Wave in West | to Be Recorded Here by Tonight. By the Associated Press. KANBAS CITY, October 17.—Win-| ter's first threat,” which blanketed the | today had chilled the Great Plains, the | Mississippi Valley and was sending a | brisk norther across the Texas prairies. | Damage to late crops, danger to stock | and even loss of human life was re- ported from various sections which felt | the storm. A searching party yester- | day discovered the body of Benedict Umbhoefer, 42, Great Falls, Mont., who | had perished in a snowstorm. Blizzards swept along the Judith | alley of Montana early today, where a minimum temperature of 7 above zero | was reported. Temperatures continued to fall in other parts of the State as the snowstorm of yesterday sbated. A heavy snowsiorm swept the We- natchee Valley in Washington, said by residents to be the earliest snowfall since 1916. low clouds over the Cas- cades threatened a renewal of the storm ! there. 8now was reported, too, throughout the Rocky Mountain region, the Da- kotas and Minnesota. Rapidly falling temperatures in Iowa, Nebraska and Missour! brought threats of eariy frosts. Freezing temperature struck Western Kansas late yesterday. In Oklahoma the temperature had tumbled from 78 degrees at & a.m., yes- | terday, to 44 at midnight, with the drop | continuing. A cold northerly wind wes Sweeping across Texas chilling the | State, which enjoyed temperatures well | over 80 yesterday. | ‘The unseasonably warm weather here for the past week will be broken to- | night, when the effects of the cold wave which passed over the Rocky Mountains | several days ago will be felt in the Na- tional Capital, the forecaster at the Weather Bureau predicted today. A | temperature of about 48 degrees will be | reached some time tonight, he said, with | possible showers. While stating it will be colder here, the forecaster emphasized that there is no “cold wave” in immediate prospect for the District of Columbia, but stated | it will seem much colder due to the un- seasonably warm weather, which is pass- | '3 A 70 ALLEGED SPYS HELD IN RUMANIA ROUND-UP Unofficial Report Says Many Rus- sians Believed Implicated in Arr By the Associated Pres BUCHAREST, Rumania, October 17. —Beventy arrests have been made in a round-up of alleged espionage agents, | in which, an unofficial report toda: sald, many foreigners, including Rus- sians, are belleved implicated. The report said that the affair would probably prove to be the most sensa- tional exposure of intrigue in favor of Russia ever made in the country. Its discovery apparently was “made by the authorities only today and de- tails have not been disclosed, although it was admitted that the arrests had Itnfin effected and that others were to ollow. McBRIDE TO BE FREED Ohio Officials Will Not Pay Costs of Extradition. Emmet McBride, 50-year-old brother of Dr. F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, held in cus- here since Tuesday -afternoon awaiting word from the Steubenville, Ohlo, authorities, where he was reported wanted on bad-check charges, will be released this afternoon. Ross H. Cunningham, chief of police of Steubenville, notified the local police that the State would not defray the ex- penses of extradition proceedings. In- spector William S. Shelby, chief of de- tectives, col red with Dr. McBride ip an effort to assist the brother. LAW BOARD ADJOURNS Report on Bnforcement Delayed Until After Blection. ‘The lfwmmforcemuaz Ooxmmluplgrrx‘, engaged in the preparation of a re on prohibition, recessed today until after the November 4 elections. Chairman Wickersham clamped tight the lid of secrec; the commission broke up. He indicated, however, that there had been no division within the commiission upon prohibition. ‘The members were notified by the chairman to resume their work here the day after elections. | surrounded by the insurgents, and their Y | cated in the southeastern part of the | ot $30,000 by E. L. ; 1 e, 5 BRAZILIAN REBELS CAPTURE CAPITAL Aracaju Capitulates With Little Struggle to Ta« vora’s Forces. (Continued From First Page.) government to resign and at the same time added a warning that if the gov- ernment should insist upon opposing the revolution, the insurgents would not be responsible for the shedding of blood. Gen, Costa’s message follows: “Brazilians: Five thousand gauchos (cowboys), constituting the advance guard of the liberation army, have already occupied Itare, Capella, Ribeira and various other secondary places. “In order to prevent further shed- ding of blood, we invited the minister of war to send Yllnes to examine the railroad from Itarare to Marcelino Ramos, and we told them that their lanes may land in our field at Pirahy, nta Gorssa, and Castro, where we shall provide them with all the ele- ments that they may need. We gave them our word of honor to allow them to come and go freely and we are ready to give them all the necessary help. In this manner they may realize the immenseness of our resources and the vast possibilities lying ahead of us in our mafch northward, to effect a junction with the forces which hold the north. . Ultimatum Is Delivered. “By the defeat already inflicted In the battles of Joinville, Quiatigua, Af- fonzo Camargo and Singues it may be seen that it is useless for them to sac- rifice more lives. “In all these encounters the federal forces, demoralized, without the will to fight, surrendered en masse or fled at the outset of the battle with the brave defenders of the national cause. The indescribable enthusiasm with which we have been received everywhere proves the sacredness and the popularity of our cause, “Within a few days our. troops will pass through Sao Paulo territory, where we are expecting a large number of ad- herents. With all this we feel powerful and we have absolute confidence in a complete victory, for which reason we shall accept no conditions. “Convinced of its own impotence, the federal government should resign, de- FRIDAY, OCTOBER T INVITE HOOVER TO AD SESSIONS H ] ;| Members of the Executive Committee of the National Advertisers’ Associa- tion called at the White House yesterday to invite Presid: their convention in Washington November 10. B. Mcintire, Boston, Ma: New York City; A, E. Hasse, New York ; Bennett Chapple, Middletown, Ohio; Lee In the group, i yn Bristol, City, and O. N. Solbert, Rochester, N, Y. —Wide World Photo. LENIENGY T0 END FOR COMMUNISTS 16 Now Under Arrest for Series of NEW YORK, October 17 (#).—An end to official leniency toward Com- livering _themselves to our generosity [munists demonstrations was predicted and to the loftiness of our ideals—ideals for which we are fighting and which are the constitution of a Brasil great and free from professional politicians. Victory is Expected. “Should the federal government insist in their vain effort to ®ppose the reali- zation of the revolutionary ideals, we ‘want to tell them that after the victory, which soon will come as the reward of our efforts, we will not be responsible for the fate of those who are to be :}::’nded for the useless shedding of “Signed Gen. Miguel Costa.” Less than two weeks ago, Capt. Ta- vors, leading an army of 8,000 and as- | Parahyba, raided Pernambuco and, after considerable fighting, seized the city and established a revolutionary government there. Consolidating his forces, and reinforced by thousands of volunteers from Pernambuco, he in- vaded the State of Alagoas, taking Macelo, capital of the state. He stayed there only a few days be- fore beginning his march into Sergipe. ‘The communique stated that a heavy concentration of troops was in progress along the Parana-Sao Paulo frontier, a region where the federal and insurgent | armies have been gathering for the last few days for what has loomed up | as & major engagement. Observers, in fact, today expressed the opinion that the present gathering of troops along this line was the greatest concéentration ever seen in Sputh America. Report Regiment Saurrender. ‘While not stating the number of sol- diers involved, the insurgents made the claim that 60 companies of federals at Catharina had gone over to the revolu- tion. These men were said to be under the command of Capt. Mario Carvalho. Two machine guns and much more ma- terial were taken over. The federal regiment reported to have surrendered was described as the 11th Infantry, stationed in the state of | Minas Geraes. These troops had been surrender was said to be without condi- tion. In reporting this victory. the official rebel communique stated that thus far the rebels had not met with a reverse in Minas Geraes. INSURGENTS VICTORIOUS. Important als Begin Advance. ! MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, October 17 (#)—An official revolutionary —com- minique today said that insurgent Bra- silian forces had captured the important | interior eity of Sao Joao D'El-Rey, the | 110th Federal Infantry stationed there | surrendering unconditionally. Sao Joac 'DEI-Ray is located on one of the two rail routes from Rio Janeiro to Bello Horizonte, capital of the state, and is a city of 60,000 population. The infantry regiment had been besieged by the insurgents since beginning of the revolution. Brazilian federal reports from Rio de | Janeiro claimed that the federal armies | were advancing “on all fronts” in Minas | Geraes, and that in many localities the | troops were encountering no resistance. Rebel troops were said in Rio de Janeiro | dispatches to have abandoned Santa Rita do Jacutinga and retreated to Im- busiero. ‘The dispatches said that many pris- oners had been taken by the feder: in the Juiz de Fora sector, which is lo- state, about 50 miles southeast of Sao Jono D'El-Ray, now occupled by rebels. The Rio de Janeiro sources also said that there had been another attack on Itarare,important rail head, on the bor- der of Parana, in Sao Paulo, and that 300 prisoners had been taken. Two hundred of these arrived at Sao Paulo by special train. INPIAN LEADER ARRESTED BOMBAY, India, October 17 (#).— Osman Sobhani, who was elected preai- dent of the All-India National Congress War Council last Wednesday, ‘was ar- rested today. Mrs. Annie Besant, theosophical lcuder, arriving here today, said in an interview: “I am and have always been against the campaign of civil disobedi- ence and have not béen prepared to fol- low it myself.” She paid tribute to- Weigwood Benn, secretary of state of India, who, she | declared, was sincerely working for In- Other arrests today included Secre- tary Kersondas of the Boycott Commit- tee, Meherally, dictator of the Youth League; Parekh, editor of the proscribed .Congress Bulletin, and Bhuta, secretary to the War Council. EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGED OKLAHOMA CITY, October 17 (#). —A complaint charging embezzlement itagerald, Coving- ton and Billings banker, was filed here yesterday by Roy St. Lewis, United States district attorney. ‘The Billings National Bank, in which Pitzgerald was principal stockholder, and the American tate Bank of Covington, in which he was an active officer, had been closed. Lewis alleged . Fitsgerald appropriated money, _funds am credit of the Billings Bank by placing in the bank a worthless issue of $30,000 in Covington city bonds. i Interior City Taken—Feder- : today as the party's candidate for lieu- tenant governor and several Red sym- pathizers awalted arraignment on charges growing out of a series of riots yesterday. Mayor Walker, whom one Communist called a “dirty grafter” in a meeting of the Board of Estimate just before night sticks came into play, declared today the rioters got what they deserved from the police. . Cites Disorderly Behavior. “Every opportunity for orderly “pro- test was given a Communist delegation admitted to a budget meeting of the Cascades and Rockies deep with snow, |sisted by volunteers from the State of | Board of Estimate,” he said, “but when their spokesman insisted on discussing unemployment out of its proper place in the business calendar, I asked if they ’;‘rfifl‘ud to be orderly or disorderly, hey preferred to be disorderly.” The administration, the mayor said, has done everything it can to relieve unemployment, but rioting will accom- plish nothing constructige. Threatened to Thrash Speaker. Personal abuse from one Communist at the meeting did not bother him, th mayor sald, until it reached a int “where the people of the city had the right to expect me to be a man or resign from the position I hold.” He was referring to his threat to retaliate with his own hands for the insults flupg-at him by the Communist speaker. POLICE SEIZE 16 RIOTERS. Reds Invade City Hall—Dozens Hurt as Police Disperse Crowds, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—Six- teen persons were under arrest today as the result of a series of Communist riots which came to a climax when a party of Reds invaded City Hall and one of them called Mayor Walker “a grafting Tammany politiclan and a crook.” An attzmpt by a group of Communists to present an unemployment petition at a meeting of the Board of Estimate, over which the mlxor was presiding, pre- c{pllflwfl the disturbance in the City a Hall. Another clash occurred in City Hall were Dorens Injured. A young woman suffered minor in- juries when she was trampled by a policeman’s horse, and dozens suffered | bruises and alight cuts as police used nightsticks and blackjacks to disperse the yelling, fighting mob. Among those arrested was Louis J. Engdahl, secretary of the International Labor Defense and Communist candi. date for lleutenant goverpor, wi tempted to make speeches outside after he had been ejected from the Board of Estimate meeting. ‘The flghtlnl in the City Hall was pre- cipitated when Sam Nessin, who as- sumed charge of the petitioners after 5;1 glhl'l ejection, shouted -to Mayor alkers Called “Grafter and Crook.” “You are a lot of grafting Tammany liticians. I would rather be a mem- r of my working class. than one of your grafting officials. You are a graft- ing Tammany politician and a erook.” ‘The mayor rose from his seat and replied, “That little remark prompts me to come down and thrash the life out of you.” Members of the audience and police surrounded Nessin and his companions and rushed them out of the room and down the stairs, pummeling them the meanwhile. Pelice took a hand, and after much disorder in which Nessin was severely beaten, he and two others were arrested. Nessin was charged with inciting a riot, and Robert Leless and Milton Stone were held for assault. Maude White, a negro woman in the delegation, escaped. ‘The second riot broke out when Com munists and sympathizers rallie arotnd Engdahl in front of the Weol- worth Building, where he attempted to speak. Mounted police rode their horses 1ll.“o the crowd several times to break up. Jabs Police Horse With Pin. A woman jabbed a pin into the flank of one of the policé horses &nd when the animal plunged, the erowd pressed against the window of a. drug store, shattering it. A moment later another window was smashed in. Other disturbances oceurred at-Sixth avenue and Fort'-th street, where six persons were arrested, and at Sixth avenue and Thirty-ninth street, where police took four more prisoners, inelud- ing a woman. A night court hearing for those ar- rested in the City Hall and vicinity was the oecasion.for another demonstration. Engdahl and two woman prisoners spurned an offer of lenlency from Magistrate Gotlieb and . delivered a tirade, after which 1l was ordered taken back to the prisoners’.pen. He and the two men were held in 4500 bail each for appearance in Tombs Court today. Leless and Stone wer. anud in custody of their eys jor. examination November 20, Norman W. Mowbray, one of the most expert of the ttish moutitain elimb- !"rl, fell 300 feet to his death in"Ar- e, | | Riots—Walker | Called “Grafter and Crook.” | HODVER CONFERS WITH B, M. BARUCH |Business Situation Discussed in Series of White House Talks With Leaders. President Hoover conferred for several hours last night upon the general bus- iness situation with Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier and nationally prominent Democrat. Mr. Baruch was & guest at dinner at the White House, and afterwards he and the President talked in the latter’s study on the sec- ond floor until the time arrived for Mr. Baruch to hurry to the station to catch the midnight train back to New York. Last night's conference is looked upon a8 of real importance, not only because of Mr. Baruch's position in the financial | world, but because it was one of & series of such conferences Mr. Hoover will hold from time to time with finan- cial and business leaders. Keeps President Posted. According to the President himself these conferences are for the pui of keeping him posted as to bu conditions and ible trends. Also, the President is known to have advices to the effect that a busincss revival is on the horizon and t5 substantiate this he | 1s_seeking the opinions of men whom he believes are in positions to advise him correctly. Additional importance is attached to last night's conference as well as to the | one praceding it because of the specu~ lation to the effect that President Hoover is eager to do what is possible to steady the stock market, particularly | sellers. | It is known that the President has been advised by administration asso- clates that the Federal Government is without power to take any direct action to curb bearish assaults and therefore it is understood that in his detstmina- tion to do something hslpful Mr. Héover 18 calling men of finance and business, | not only to get their views but their co-operation. Other Leaders Seen. Mr. Hoover's -conference with' Mr. Baruch followed close upon the heels of | other conferences hela last Sunday | night at the White House with Richard | Whitney, president of the New York i Stock Exthange, and Allen Lindley, | chairman of the Business Conduct | Committee of the New York exchange. | Other prominent figures who have con- forred with President Hoover since he initiated these conferences about three | weeks ago are Alfred P. Sloan, presi- dent of the General Motors Corporation, |and Charles Hayden, Boston and New York banker and broker. | The President also has conferred re- cently with Eugene Myer, jr. the new governor of the Federal Reserve Board | Mr. Myer, by the way, is one of the | President’s associates who holds that the Government can do nothing offi- clally to steady the stock markst if he 50 desires. Other than to say that the general | business situation was discussed during | the President’s conference with Mr. | Baruch last niiht‘ the White House to- day would make no further comment. It did state, however, that the Presi- dent expects to hold more of these con- ferences from time to time. Mr. Baruch |was advisory commissioner of the | Council of National Defense during the | World War and chairman of the Com- | mittee on _Raw Materials for the War | Industry Board and otherwise promi- | nently identified with the Wilson ad- | ministration throughout the war. Baruch Declines Comment. NEW YORK, October 17 (#).—Ber- | nard Baruch, New York capitalist, de- clined to comment today on his confer- ence with President Hoover last night, | merely stating that he discussed the “general economic situation.” |BOY AIR RECORD SEEKER HOPS OFF FOR ST. LOUIS Buck Leaves Wichita After Spend- ing Three Days There to Es- cape Fogs. B the Associated Press.” WICHITA, Kans,, October 17.— Rob- ert Buck, 16-year-old Elizabeth, N. J., fiyer, attempting to better the junior West-East transcontinental flight rec- ord, took off at 7:18 am. (Central standard time), today for St. Louls. Due to unfavorable weather, the youthful aviator's flight from Los An- geles to New York has been interrupted frequently. He tarried three nights in Wichita hoping to escape strong head- | winds and fogs, He was forced to remain in Amarillo, Tex., two days, finally breaking away in the face of a storm. His total elapsed flying_ time to Wichita was 12 hours and 9 minutes EXPELLED FOR SMOKING, GIRL, 14, ENDS HER LIFE Mother Says Pupil Felt She Had Been Disgraced and Brooded Over Dismissal. By the Associated Press. 17.—A 14-year- be- er Her mother said the gifl, Berger, had denied the accusation and "“'fiu qmopm“rrwm hom % Last a e, 7 Tent her motner and sister identined her body in the county miorgue. under the repeated attacks of short | FASCISTS DEGLARE PEACE PACT VOID Hours of Bedlam Mark Ger- man Reichstag Session After Street Riots. = (Continued From First Page) to end the demonstration the Hitleri! at & 1 from & floor leader, shoutes three #imes, “Germany, awake!"” Offer Radical Motion. After Strasser's address the Fascists introduced a motion in the Reichstag demanding “éxpropriation without in- demnification” for the benefit of the German peoples of the entire capital of bank and Bourse magnates, of East European Jews and others of foreign race who had immigrated to Germany since August 1, 1914, To make the motion more ‘sweeping, it was extended to the families of rela- tives of these and to moneys invested and increased since that date through war, revolution, inflation, deflation and profiteering.” ‘The motion also demanded that the government take over immediately all banks, including the Reichsbank. e Communist Wilheim Pleck. used the forum chiefly for a tirade against metal manufacturers, but he:also de- livered a bitter attack against the gov- ernment, while his colleagues cried ‘Red front!”. He spoke before an al- most empty house. . Centrist Alds Government. The Centrist, Joseph Joos, declared that his party supported the govern- ment's declaration. He said, “By the very fact of remaining in office, our g:vnrnment has strengthened the con- dence of foreign countries In Ger- many.* g - There were no concillatéry utteran voloed in the Reichstag totiay, A high- "’1‘“ nnf* t;:“mm uee‘ came when 3 - Strassar, {turning to ~ the' Social ) atic | bénches, shouted, “If the Prussian Diet is ‘not _dissolved now, we do not mind. We can wait because the future is with us. The time is not distant when we will use law for protéction of the re- public against you. ! “We are for.the and we “power on elements - previously had heckled Finance Minister Dietrich-and all but made ft impossible for him to explain the government's fiscal needs. Outbreak on Streets. ‘Today's Reichstag disturbances had followed a more serious outbreak in the streets of the Wedding industrial district in the nlght. which had spread over a considerable area. During these disorders, the police said, half a dozen shots were fired by snipers from windows and roofs, and the authorities had to take cover. This section of the city was under heavy guard today, while armed officers searched of firearms every person at- tempting to enter the area. No house- ness | to-house search was undertaken, but there was no let-up; of .v nee. - The harass the police the dispersed rioters, before daylight, burst inflated paper bags, tating «gun . shof . Injured by Rocks. Semlnfl( no policeman was wound- ed by bullets, bui several were > ously injured by rock throwers. '& Commu; , to whom the authoril n;:c"hedd'g: blame lfi;.rh fi\e a{:la;rdeu. «l some 0f e had been shot. i They sald thelr members had fired shots into the air during the shodting from the other side, but had taken care not to hit ahybody. The streets of ‘the gone. today. ware litterzd ‘with crockery, saucepans, flower pots and. kindred . objects which had been thrown upper windows on the riot or 22 3ce4 A storm arose almost at the ‘Gutset of the debate, shortly- after- the .Com- munist, Theodor Neubaucr, arose to dis- cuss the government measure. authoriz- ing an international loan of $125,000,~ 000 covering Germany’s deficit. Threats Are Defied. . President Loebe ‘trizd . vigdrously f’lo restore order, ringing his bell and, call- ing the hecklers by name, warning them that they would be suspended. “Throw them out;” the Socialists call:d at the Right benches. “Just try to throw any of us out,” the Fascists shouted back. Herr Dietrich pleaded with the Fas- cists, or Natie Socialists, not to_in- crease the feeling of panic in the goun- try by constantly challenging each esti- mate presented in connection . with the financial program. z In a raised voice, he eried! “You sim- ply cannot smash everything and rob our people of the last ounce of courage by saying ‘events will show conditiohs worse than you anticipated.’ Defends Finance Plan. “I doubt whether by painting every- thing blackest you are rendering a serv- ice to the German people. You have never yet, made a constructive proposal how to get out of our debt. Our plan wipes out tne floating debt in three years.” 3 The Fasciste introduced a new note into their * pailiamentary tactics when Former Chancellor. Mueller, one' of the signers of the treaty of Versailles, mounted the rostrum en behalf of the Social Democrats. The Fascists ex- claimed in & chorus, “Mueller of Ver- sallles, Mueller of Versailles!” and walked out of the hall. 4 ‘The example of the National Soclalists was followed by the Natlonalists, headed by Dr. Hugenberg, and by the Farmer’s Federation so that virtually all benchies to the right were astentatiously empty. Later, however, six or seven Fascists re- turned to their seats and joined the Communists in heckling the: former chancellor, who proceeded .imperturb- ably to defend his course at Versailles. Party Reserves Decisions. Herr Mueller declared that if times were not so serious the Socialists would oppose the government and especially the ministers, Schiele and Treviranus, but in view of the Fascist and Nation- alist attitude hic party would decide for itself when to vote no confidence. ‘To & Fascist deputy named Koch from East Prussia came the distinction -of being the first member of the present Parliament ordered out of the plenary hall by President Loebe. When he in- sisted upon interrupting the speaker, Loebe first threatened and then ordered him out. B 3 Koch tried at first to remain, de- flant, but the better counsel of his friends prevai'ed and he departed peacefully, Workless on Increase. " Herr Dietrich explained the German floating debt mnow is 1,213,000,000.000 (about $304,250,000). Increas- ing unemployment, he said, has neces- sitated vastly higher unemployment doles than had been originally assumed. The budget, he said, has therefore been revised on the assumption of 1,600,000 unemployed receiving doles would by February have increased to 2,600,000, Nevertheless, he pointed out, the new budget, provided for 1,000,000~ 000 {;l,:rh' :‘- expenditure than dur- past year. ln{n res to a challenge from the floor Herr Dietrich stated emphatical- ly that in negotial the credit of $125,000,000 to cover the Reich deficit the government offered no German base, nor had it re- Miss England IN which Sir Henry Segrave is being recondi