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. * REFUGEES SEEK SHELTER | 7 R | | 1 P WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau and tomorrow, not much Palr | Forecast.) Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,759 Entered as gecond class matter post _office,, Washington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 14, -1931—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. %8 NICARAGUA REBELS SLAY 4 AMERICANG; GUNBOAT ORDERED 10 LAND FORGES ,Three Civilians Also Missing as Rebels, Under Sandino and Others, Advance Against Puerto Cabezas. 'ALONG THE WATERFRONT Marine Forces Reported Divided With inmr[entl' Groups—Bridge Burned, Ham- pering Operations of Defending U. §. Forces. B the Associated Press, Four Americans today were re- ported killed in and around Puerta Cabezas, Nicaragua, and three re-! ported missing as a result of at- tacks by insurgents in the past 48 hours. The State Department also an- nounced orders had been dispatch- ed to. the gommander of the Gun- boat - Asheville to land forces to protect 300 American citizens at Puerta Cabezas, which is endang- ered by an advance of the insurg- ents. # The Asheville' arrived at Puerta Cabezas last night. The Ameri- can residents of that port, mostly T of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Co., and the Brag- | man’s Bluff Lumber Co., today were reported concentrated on the 3 Rebel “Force Imereased. utmch‘mzunutau lieved. They are of the rebel forces that have been in unaer Sandino, apparently mvlnc'mur.;t'mnu ‘a—nfll&nmlhnm,unrm one en-| Otherwise, until the Asheville’s férce | was landed, the city's only ion protect] Was an untrustworthy naiive civil| ¢, | diver and near t of Darrah’s Death Doubted. Reports that Darrah had been killed ‘were ted by a later report that he had in telephone communica- tion with Capt. Wood, leading anothér Guardia patrol fo his relief. Marine airplanes from Managua flew | over the Logtown district yesterday afternoon and reported the Darrah pa- trol holding out at Moss Farm, near m. ‘The bridge at that point had been burned. The Navy’ yesterday ordered the cruiser - Memphis to go from Guan- tanamo, Cuba, {o the troubled zéne, but these instructions were countermanded shortly after she weighed anchor. Sec- | Adams said the cruiser would not proceed to Nicaragua unless further trouble developed. TRUCE BELIEVED OVER. War Ordered Against Marines, Aide Declares. MEXICO CITY, April 14.—As his con- | tribution to America-vide celebration of Pan America day today Gen. Augustino Sandino, Nicaraguan insurgent leader, was sald by his foreign representative, | eda, to have ordered lities against United States Marines on all fronts. The instructions, Dr. Zepeda said, state that the fight will be continued “until the last American soldier has left Nicaragua.” He denied that the figh ing at Logtown, where an American Ma. rine officer was killed, was a violation of the truce proclaimed by Sandino, in view of the earthquake relief ‘work, (lumh;: that the Sandinistas had bcen Dr. Perdo Jose of attack PREMIER’S SISTER WEDS MINISTER TO U. S. TODAY Betwaan’ i [10.DIE, 17 ESCAPE - {sibody. of Capt. James F. Play Ball! f Upper: Lloyd Brown, Nats. : Roy Spencer, Nats. AS BLAZE RAGES IN CHICAGD SEVER Firemen and Workers Perish | in Gas and Heat That Melts Divers’ Suits. By the Associated f CHICAGO, () —The O'Nefll, twelfth vietim of the blazing West Side ‘tunnel, was brought out from & Tole bored through Twenty-second street at 1:20 p.m. today. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 14.—Eleven firemen and six workmen emerged -alive at 9 am. today- from the blazing sanitary district tunnel that had been a tomb | for 10 of their {:llows during the night. L:d by Division Fire Marshal Patrick Pierce, the survivors crawled, unaided, to the surface through the shaft that had béen an avenue of death for the 10 firemen and tunnel workers trapped in lethal gas and unbearable heat. They had saved their lives through ! 12 hours’ imprisonment by sealing themseives in safety air chambers at | Press, April 14 Heat Melied Diver's Suit. Heat that melted the rubber suit of fumes that chok:d blinded the daring forestalled thorough a d smoke from the chamber 50 feet under | ground and forced air down, clearing a path to ty for th: en- tombed men. Once on the surface they | were rushed to St. Anthony's Hospital, where 28 other firemen already were patients, suffering from injuries and the effects of gas. The smoke ejector is the invention of | Peter T. Pirsch, a Kendsha contractor, | who hastened to complete his first | model at 3 a.m. today and sp:d here | with his son to give the machine its | baptismal test. Billows of smoke poured | from the tunnel mouth as its pumps | began functioni and fresh, cool "air was driven into the flaming tube. It was a dramatic moment as thz} little group of workmen rose to the| street. Firemen were pumping away, watch- ing the shaft opening tensely, ready to attack any fiames that reached the sur- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. POPE BLESSES HOGANS { {Capital Attorney and Wife Are| Received by Pontiff. | | ROME, April 14 (#).—After a private | | sudience with Pope Plus XI yuurdly‘! | Prank J. Hogan of Washingion, D. C., | attorney in the Albert Fall case, Mrs. Hogan Jeft today for Florence. The Pontiff imparted his apostolic blessings to the Americans, presented by Mgr, Cacciadominioni, papal major- | domo. |~ “Mr. Hogan recently was made a Com- mander of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre while visiting Jerusalem. and | | i . Dramatic Moment. | %05 | today destroyed 30000 IN STANDS - | ASHOOVER TOSSES OUT FIRST BALL| . . President, After Brief Wind- up, Throws to Altrock as Throng Cheers, ARTILLERY SALUTE ADDS TO NOISE IN STADIUM South American Dignitaries At- tend as Feature of Peace Conference. The Line-up. PHILADELPHIA, Bishop. b, Bodbiast !lmrnor;;" . mpi Guthrie. Before a colorful throng of more than 30,000 base ball fans of high and low estate, President Hoover this afternoon tossed out the first ball at the opening game of the great American sport at Grifith Stadium. ‘The blare of military band music, artillery in salute and the cheering of an eager itude in the flag-draped stands formed s_symphonic mme to the stentorian “Play ball” w] her- alded the inaugural rlash between the Nationals and the World. Champion Athletics. Tosses fo Nick Altrock. President Hoover, America’s - leading fan, showed the beneficia) effects of Spring training with the medicine ball when he rose in the flag draped presi- dential box and, with brief wind-up, hurled a brand new ball to the waiting Nick Altrock, The gave vent to crowd i & roar of approval as Nick gathered the {rrow in and waved to the stands in exaltation. An impressive international asset to the big game was the presence of a distinguished company of Pan-American visitors who were honored with a pre- e eafors of 20" Latia Ametican Tre flags of. 10 Centrsl and South bies from the Iy constructed center fleld, where they had been ted during an impressive band ceremony. 21-Gan Salute Fired. ‘The flag-raising was marked by the firing of 21 guns by an Army fleld bat- tery. One gun was fired as each fla to the top and the twenty: nm.un-l:‘{wfimeumuo(m Star Spang] nner. This ceremony was preceded by a nd march of the Washington and hiladelphia teams to centerfield, led by the United States Army Band and headed by Secretary of State Stimson and Clark Griffith, president of the Netionals. The band played a strain of the na- All reservea grandstand sests had been sold long before the opening day. but “garden seats” attracted several thousand bleacherites, who began filing into the. park as soon as the gates were opened at 11 o'clock. 'nuremvm several thousand early 8 cheer when they about 12:30 o'clock in their ‘white uniforms. werm sun Jast few days had put the dia- mond in perfect condition. ‘The presidential party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Herbert Hoo- ver, ' jr. and Allan Hoover,- youngest son of the President, arrived promptly at 2:40 o'clock, as the Army Band (Continued on FIRE DESTROYS PLANT Montgomery Ward & Co. Store Loss Is Placed at $250,000. RUTLAND, Vt., April 14 (®).—Pire dstroyed the three-story brick store of Montgomery Ward & Co. here early to- day, causing a loss estimated at $250,- . The cause of the fire was not de- termin For a time the danger of the fire’ spreading’ to "other bul on Mer. cg':nl" Row, in the center of the city, was so_great that aid was summoned from the West Rutland Fire Depart- ment. The building will be rebuilt im- mediately, officials said. Eleanor Patterson Dies in Florida. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, April 14 Patterson, concert York during the Summer. She ha not been well this Winter, but was eble to sing at several concerts here. $250,00¢ Fire in Illinois. CHICAGO, April 14 (#).—Fire early the stone-crushing plant, machine shop and blacksmith shop of the Consumers Co., east of Lemont, IIi, at an estimated damage of $250,000. i Miss Bennett Becomes Bride of Mej. Herridge in Ottawa Cere- mony in Afternoon. \*FLYING FORTRESS” IS SUCCESSFUL IN SECRET TESTS IN NEW JERSEY Ship Carrying Quarter Ton of Bombs ‘.:xd 6 Machine Guns Reported Faster Than Pursuit Craft. d | nations of America closer to one an- | rights of states. { period of international {our countries. ~Without the slightest o, COOPERATION [ s SEES AMERCAS AS PEACE ARBITERS Hoover Describes Aims to| End War as Major Gift to Civilization. Western Hemisphere - nations were | envisioned today by President Hoover as | in the near future settling every major difference by the “orderly processess of copeiiation and arbitration.” Teading officlal Washington in its celebration of the first Pan-American | day, observed simultaneously through- out the 21 Latin American republics, the Chief Executive described the com- mon purpose of the Americas to elim- inate war as a major contribution to modern civilization. He spoke before the governing board of th: Pan- Amerigan Union i the organization's | Bevenieenth strect headquarters. | Among the other speakers were Sec- | retary Stimson, chairman of the board; | Ambassador Tellez of Mexico, dean of the Washington diplomatic corps, and Ambassador Ferrara of Cuba. | By proclamation of President Hoover, | flags were displaved in the Capital as | on_national hclidays. President Hoover recalled toat during | his 1928 visit to 11 Latin American | countries it became increasingly evident to him that the various nations have everything to gain by keeping in close | contact with each cther and by devel- oping a spirit of co-operation having its roots in reciprocal understanding of national aims and aspirations. Have Heavy Responsibility. “A peculiarly beavy respcnsibility,” Mr. Hoover said, “rests upon the na- tions of the ‘Western Hemisphere, a re- sponsibiiity which at the same time is th privilege. Richly endowed by nature, we ‘enjoy the great advantage of inhabiting a hemisphere away from the jealousies and antagonisms which have proved such cbstacles to progress and prosperity in other sections of the world. We have developed an interna- tional system based on the principle of equality, combined with a full recogni- tion of the obligations as well as the | “The American republics are today rapidly approaching the time when every major difference ex'sting between them will be settled by the orderly proc- esses of conciliation and arbitration. . . . From the earliest period of their history, the governments of the repub- lics of this hem re have been ear- nest advocates of the peaceful settle- ment of international disputes. . . | The common purpose to eliminate war and the dnummlv.hn"w lchle’\;,e peace and security represent a major con- tribution eythe Americas to modern civilization.” Stimson Cites Achicvements. Secretary Stimson asserted that Pan- American day, which President Hoover had imed, was “intended to em- those basic principles of inter- service which tend to bring the pl national other.” n'?'.!"h! constructive achievements of the last 40 years,” he said, “give promise of even larger-résults in the future. We have in this hemisphere entered upen a dsvelopment which I firmly believe is- destined to give the whole world an outstanding example of mutual helpfulness in the solution of the problems common to all attempt at compulsion—in an atmos- phere of mutual respect and confidence —we are endeavoring to place the expe- rience of cach at the service of all, thus promoting the well-being of our re- spective peoples. The :ecumld the intended inter- (Gontinued on Page 3, Column 5.) 20,000,000 FORDS NOW Auto to Tour U. 8. and Then Rest in Museum. April 14 . —The 20, Reds Take Patung, Massacre Scores And Loot Province By the Associated Press. HANKOW, China, April 14.—A story of indiscriminate killing and looting by C:mmunists who vap- tured the town of .atung, West- ern Hupeh Province, April 4, was descrived in dispatches re- ceived herc today, saying bodics of victims covered the bank of the Yangtse River there. The town was completely looted and Reds were continuing pillaging in the vieinity. Survivors down the river. Scores of junks, crammed with refugees, headed fcr Ichang, 30 miles down. Rev. Maryn Aeons, Belgian Franciscan pist, captured dur- ing the Initlal raid at Patung, had not been seen since. The Reds tied and best him, then took him to the mountains. SETS FAMILY AFIRE AND KILLS BOARDER |Ohioan Hangs Self Aftef He| Burns Kerosene on Wife and . Stepson, Who Dies. By the Associated Pr WEST SALEM, jo, April 14.—Sud- denly going insane, James McGregor, 65, poured gasoline on his wife and step- son and set them afire at his home, near heré, early today, fatally stabbed a boarder and then committed suicide. The stepson died a few hours later in a hospital at Lodi. . Neighbors discovered the tragedy, about two hours after it happened, when McGregor's stepson, with his clothes burned off him and in a dying condition, staggered to the ncarby home of Mrs. Paul Whittemore. Hangs Self With Chain. At the McGregor home the neighbors found Mrs. Alice McGregor critically burned. Clayton McAffes, the boarder, was dead, with a butcher knife wound, and McGregor's body was found in a shed in the rear. He had hanged him- self with a log chain. The house was on fire, Its interior showed the effects of a struggle made by McAffee and the stepson, Harold Riddle, 25, in efforts to subdue the crazed hisband. Was Jealous of Wife. » Officers said McGregor had become insanely jealous and accused his wife of infidelity, Before she became unconscious, Mrs. McGregor said she and her son were seated on a davenport in their home when her husband suddenly poured gas- oline on them from a kettle and then set them afire before they could escape. Coroner E. L, Crum of Medina gave a verdict that McAffee and Riddle were mgr:red and that McGregor committed suicide. START REBUILDING HOMES AS FOREST FIRES SUBSIDE Hundreds of Wisconsin and Mich- igan Citizens Left Homeless by Widespread Blazes. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 14.—Resi- dents of fire-infested forest and marsh land -lr:u in Northern Wi mmm.and m ichigan projected rel lon while blages grad- MMM “nnn”flt Ty | | HOLDS PROHIBITION ISNO LONGER SSUE |Mrs. Sabin Asserts Contro- | | versy Is Between Absti- | nence and Temperance. | Party lines are disappearing in the | face of growing wet sentiment, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New York, national chairman of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibi Reform, told delegates to the seeond annual confer- | ence of the ory n, which_ this afternoon got under way at the May- flower Hotel. | Making her annual report to repre- | sentatives from 32 States and the Dis- trict of Columbia. Mrs. Sabin recounted | gains of anti-prohibitionists, and de- | clared: i |, “The real controversy today is no . _'l'fiosnlyovonin. ; in Washington with the . Associated service. Press Yesterday's Circulation, 118,462 (P Means Associzted Press, King in Madrid tonight. (Copyright, 1931, by last Sunday and stepped out. leader, Alt) At found i to the less a within not be reality. exactly at 6 o'clock, after a final with the cabinet in the A Republican Alcala Zamora as immediately. KING ALFONSO SCHWAB BONUS PLAN ongzr the sucess or fallure of ths na- | tional prohibition law, for even the most ardent prohibitionist must admit its| | failure. The controversy now is be. | tween the advocates of total abstinence | and the advocates of temperance.” | | Further, she asserted, the report of | the Wickersham Committee “has made | the necessity of repeal plain in every | honest mind.” | 1,000 Expected at Conference. | Approximately 1,000 women from va- | rious lines of endeavor. including many who are socially prominent, were ex- | pected here during the convention, | which will be concluded tomorrow. Besides Mrs. Sabin, other speakers | this afternoon were Mrs. August Bel- | | mont of New York and Miss Bell Gurnee of Washington, chairman of the local division, who welcomed the visitors. “Sentiment for the cause in which we believe has crystallized and wn tremendously from one end of the United States to the other,” Mrs. Sabin said at the outset ot her report. “This has been instanced in many ways. The increase in our own membership points to it. So does the change in the com- | plexion of Congress. It is stressed also | by the refusal of more and more of the States to spend ‘money and effort for the enforcement of a law repugnant to | | their people. And the findings of the i Wickersham Commission as to the fails | ure of prohibition are unescapable. i “It is not too much to say that the | debate between prohibitionists and anti- prohibitionists is no longer on the value | | of prohibition; the debate now is upon%} | the best method of ridding ourselves of | its admittedly glaring and ever more and more threatening evils. In this debate party Jines are disappearing, to the dismay of timorous politiclans whose only strength has been in party regu- larity. They find themselves facing a situation which demands not rgularity but patriotism. “Patriotism Above Party.” “This is the demand which our or- ganization made at its inception, and which it has continued to reiterate—the demand that patriotism shall be placed above party.” Touching on the growth of theor- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) FLYERS UP 52 HOURS' i Lees and Brossy Seek Record Held by Two Frenchmen. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 14 (). —Their motor droning steadily and | without a sign of stopping, Walter Lees | and Frederick Brossy, Detroit fiers, | soared on today in an effort to better the present world non-refueling en- durance flight record of 75 hours and 23 minutes held by two Prenchmen. At 12:52 p.am. «Eastern standard gme) Lees and Brossy had been up 52 ours. By the Associated Press. “gm 14—G. ufiflc‘“ was S trans today while police sought two casual acquaintances of his. Case wants the back which they took from him in s of a $150 bet. “TRANSPIRES” AS IT “TRANSPIRES”. “TRANSPIRE” MEANS TO “SWEAT” Bettor Convinced Otherwise Until Casual Acquaintances Take His Car in Settlement of Wager. automobile | mean ttlement SHOWDOWN DELAYED Bethlehem Minority Holders Get Restraining Order on Court's Balloting Plan. B the Assoelated Press. NEWARK, N. J., April 14.—Minority stockholders -of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation won postponement of a showdown today in their fight against the corporation’s bonus plan, under which $36,000,000 has been paid to offi- cers since 1917, Two hours before the annual stock- holders' meet:ng was to be called this afternoon the minority group obtained a restraining order from Vice Chancel- lor Back:s. The order prevents the stockholders’ meeting from making an official record of any action it may take concerning the bonus, but it stiplulates that the stockholders may vote on ths proposi- tion and that the resuit of the vote— be it for or against—may be filed with the secretary of the meeting, but it must not appear in th: minutes of to- day’s meeting until it has been approved by_the court. ‘The vice chancellor’s action was taken in Trenton carlier in the day, but the order was signed here. First reports from Trenton indicated the barring of any announcement of the result of today’s vote. This proved er- roneous when the text of the order was made public. Among the high officials of the com- pany present were Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board, and Eugens M. Grace, president. USE COOLING SYSTEM White Employs Early Record Seen. It became so warm in the White House executive office this morning that the cooling system installed a year ago was started. This probably sets a new record for starting at such an early date. The thermometers about the execu- tive office were registering in the neigh- borhood of 80 when the order was given (to cool things. President Hoover did not seem to mind the sudden Summer temperature, but it was apparent the heat was being felt by the clerks in the | basement, lon of the office: House Device. ol /LONDON, April 14 (®.—A dispatch to Reuter’s Madrid said that Admiral Aznar, former premier, informed newspaper men at 7:00 p.m. that martial law would be declared -in jail Presiden been an unquestion political crisis for the past few days, it was not until the last moment that he stepped from power. conseq The hour went by, and then minutes after timatum had the lbdlefl.m:'h :'ul the King TWO CENTS. .. AS PROVISIONAL HEAD " OF SPANISH REGIME ‘Steps Out After Receiving Demand to Retire or Ac- i COPE Consequences: BUST OF KING AND ROYAL FAMILY TRAMPLED INTO DUST BY MOB Crowds Cheer Proclamation of New Rule in-City of Barcelona and Elsewhere in Spain—No Bloodshed Reported. ency from BY CLARENCE DUBOSE. the Assoeiated Press.) MADRID, April 14—King Alfonso, the last of the Bourbons, ab- dicated at 6 o'clock this evening (1 p.m., Eastern standard time), ;- Thé monarch, who was born 2 King and had reigned in the an- clgnt_sp.nl;h capital more than a quarter of a century, this afternoon bowed to the sweeping demands for a republic that his subjects voiced Niceto Alcala Zamora, Republican who not so many weeks m - f‘or his activities, is nal hough the King’s abdication has outcome ofs the 4:45 pm., 'Alcala Zamora had t necessary to send an ultimatum King's' ministers saying that un- repu:llc wus‘re formally accepted an hour the Republicans would responsible for them uences. b 15 a The anouncement was made &t session R President, took charge As the King left the cabinet room embraced his ministers with wmuerl: ble emotion. Conscience Tranquil. He sald that he left the throne with his conscience tranquil, having always | worked for the welfare of the country.,' The Republican flag was fiying all public buildings l"tl‘ the car tion was announced. Excited crowds full vent to their joy. Red flags. a Zamora led Gen. Sanjuro N T ‘What trouble appeared. For. s e were hurried. Agullar, the King's chief siclan and surgeon, was sald to ‘been called to the palace, after he gave instructions at his home to pack his grip and to have 5,000 pesetas ready. fimw;xwmmwmuwnym Tentative Cabinet Chosen. 4 The following tentative cabinet of the new provisional Republican governmeni was announced as follows: Niceto Al- cala Zamora, President; Migual Maura, | minister of interior; Idalecio Prieto, finance; Alvaro Albornoz, justice; Ale- lmnflm Lerroux, foreign affairs; Manual | Azana, war; Marcelino Domtngo, labor; | Francisco Largo Caballero, public works; Fernando de los Rios, instruction; Ca- sares Gil, economy. No announcement of a navy minister in the new governmefit was named. Simultaneously with the staccato events in Madrid another republic was being proclaimed at Barcelona, where Prantisco Marcia, Catalan independent leader, marched from the City Hall to the provincial palace, taking over in the name of himself as president of a Catalan republic. Separate Catalonia Rule Doubted. In some circles here it was denied that a separate republic had been set up in Catalonia. Col. Macia, it insisted, had declared that the ce. Pictures and busts of the King and royal family were thrown out of & window, where a screaming mob tore the portraits and trampled the bust, ‘mfi - ported that th 11 Was re) at the (ami]. %l::‘. fio by automobile wwmnr.e o{- The proclamation of a Barcelona was accom; police resistance or Tepublic at lished without, hting. ~ Great. there of intense jubilation. Some of demonstrators were injured in the crush and a few fist fights developed. Move Spreads Rapidly. Reports flowing into Madrid from all Spain indicated that a Tepublic was being proclaimed at many places, jn- cluding Barcelona, largest eity in the Province of Catalonia. were that the movement was rapidly. In each case m$ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) e e DISTRICT’S “PRINCESS” Miss Rosalie V. Brown to Attend ‘Winchester Fete.

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