Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1931, Page 22

KARACHI APPLAUDS AMERICAN FRIENDS Ex-Missionary and Educator, Dressed as Hindus, Close Associates of Gandhi. Wy the Associated Press. KARACHI, India, March 30-—Next to Mahatma Gandhi, the most con- spicuous figures at the sessions of the All-India National Congress here are two Americans dressed in Hindu fash- fon. They are Carlton Washburn, su- perintendent of schools at wm%m.. and d W. Tucker of Mansfield, Ohio, who have joined India’s independence movement. Mr. Tucker, formerly associated with the Methodist Episcopal missionary or- ganization and now with the school of the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, is Gandhi's personal guest. He lives in a tent adjoining the mahatma’s quar- ters and participates in all of the Na- tionalist leader’s prayers. The Ohioan goes barefoot and eats the Hindu ritualistic food. Although as a missionary he gave the British a pledgs to observe neutrality and refrain from taking part in politics, he has ac- tiveiy associated himself with the work of the congress. Gandhi often consults him and often asks him to correct his English. Mr. Washburn is studying educational THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1931. the world. ‘Wearing white Hindu in the congress. natives. friends,” is the reply. In Disfavor With British. regard their conduct with disfavor. conditions abroad for the Rosenwald radical Foundation in Chicago, which is trying | gained notoriety to synthesize the educational systems of loin cloths, homeuman cotu;a x{:;wh.‘mt:m O:indhl caps and sandals, these two Americans are objects of constant curlosity among | tPEQWIng the British power. s0 many brown Hindus and Moslems “Who are the white faces in Khad- dar ‘and Gandhi caps?” whisper the “They are mahatma's American ‘While the Indians consider it a great compliment to their race for the Amer- James, & fend American radicals. N Heat Continues in Lima. cover. Nearly half the mutton and lamb sold e Similar criticism has been directed | in the London central markets last year | Russia’s powerful broadcasting station by the British against Edward Holton was from New Zealand. of Boston, Muss, who| PRISONER HANGS' IN CELL Sucn-g‘n‘num case. A!t-h::lhh‘l;e re; s —— tains Americanism nof adopted the Hindy dress or oo Coral Gables Police Find Body of he is sald by the British to have en- cour the Nationalists toward over- Pennsylvania Man. CORAL GABLES, Fla., March 30 (#). itish government has decided | —The body of & man listed by police to allow him to remain rather than of-|as Graham Spencer of West Chester, Pa., was found hanging from the top of a cell in the Coral Gables City Jail yesterday. LIMA, Peru, March 30 (®).—Al-|_Chief of Police L. R. Weston said Spencer was taken to the jail yester- | though Summer officially ended here | agu from a hospital where he had been March 23, hot weather continues. The |treated for alcoholism. Weston said thermometer vesterday afternoon reg- | Spencer had cut a rope from a cell foans to identity themselves with the | istered 91 degrees Fahrenheit, under | mattress with a plece of glass taken independence movement and dress in Hindu fashion, the British authorities from a window. 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