Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, probably light frost and some- ‘what colder, lowest temperature about 37 degrees; tomorrow fair, slowly rising tem- perature. Temperatures—Highest, 70, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 8:20 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 3. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 ~@h ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION e Foening Star. The only Associated service. evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,224 b Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 31,768, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931 —FIFTY-TWO PAGES. (M Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 200 Japanese Dy Workers on Hunger Strike Locked in By the Associated Press TOKIO, April 23—Two hun- dred men, employed by the Japan Dyeing & Weaving Co. at Hashibasho, a suburb of Tokio, are on a hunger strike as a pro- test against the discharge of a fellow worker. They locked themselves in a warehouse Tuesday and leaders announced today that they had eaten nothing since, despite the company's effort to tempt them with various kinds of food, in- cluding raw and fried fish and boiled eggs, ordinarily considered “dainty morsels.” In addition, sympathizers are tossing fruit, candies and other dainties through the warehouse windows, but to no_avail. One hundred girls employed in the factory stopped work in sympathy with the men, but re- fused to join the hunger strike. PROBES COLLAPSE - OF SCHOOL FRAME iMunicipal Architect Acts | After Steel Falls on Play- ground Here. NEW PARKING RULE “WARNINE” PERAD T0 END TOMORRDH Police to Arrest Those Who Violate Morning Ban in Downtown Section. LENIENCY IS DECREED | FOR VISITING AUTOISTS | Improvement Noted Today, With Most of Infractions Being by Tourists Near Hotels. Future violations of the new traffic regulation prohibiting parking between 8 and 9:30 am. in the downtown con- gested area will result in arrests, it was announced today by Inspector E. W Brown, in charge of the traffic bureau. ‘Warnings have been given violators on the first two days of the parking ban. Inspector Brown believes motorists now have had sufficient time to become famillar with the no parking zone, and intends to issue instructions to traffic officers to put tickets on cars found there during the forbidden period. Tag Numbers Taken. ‘Traffic officers have compiled a list of tag numbers of cars parked in the Investigation of the collapse of the jmajor portion of the stecl framing of the new Roosevelt High School Audi- |torium, at Thirteenth and Upshur K cars parked in the | streets, during moderately high wind last e andCatible Wil not. be accepted, | MiSht was launched by the Municipal Inspector Brown said, if the drivers | Architect’s Office in the District Build- | again violate the regulation. Police il |ing today. continue to be lenient, however, With| mpne macs of twisted steel collapsed ¢ who are unaware of : . N partly on the playground of the Mac- the parking restrictions. farland Junior High School, where, four Compliance with the new regulation this morning, Inspector dBrcwn S;'d‘ hours earlier, pupils of that school were Vs far better than esterday mornie: |at play. Steel work:rs also had climbed number of violations, he declared, bus | down from the structure only a few | howss before. Preliminary examination of the a majority of them were caused by wreckage Indicated that inadequate gu visitors. Visitors Park All Night. iing of th: frame was responsible for Around hotels in the congested arca |the crash. police found cars from other States,] 5 which apparently had been parked there Temporarily Bolted. all night. Visilers, of course, Inspecior | Observers explained that in Brown said, are not familiar w th tue course of the erection cf stezl work the parking prohibition, but the hotel er- |frame is temporarily bolted together and should advise the guests. |until it can be accurately plumbed. the | tor Brown also said that the ent of conditions in the no- pariing a-a resultzd in an vninter- rupted movement of ‘raffic and pre- dicted that the situation would coa- tinue to get better as traffic readjusts itself to the change. i When sprung into line, th> permanent rivets are driven. Only the temporary boits were in place yesterday, it was ex- plained, when the collapse from a wind | registered at the Weather Bureau at { 39 miles an hour, struck it. Simultaneously with the field exami- Inspector Brown branded as “utterly | nation of the wrecked frame, Maj. H. ridiculous,” reports that a traffic jam L. Robb, Assistant Engineer Commis-+ TEST FACES CARD OF SOVETLUNBER REACHINE LS PORT !Arrival at Providence Affords First Study of Ban on Convict «Products. DENOCRATE CHEF HISFESS ANSHER N IGATNE RO ;Shouse Denies He Said Re- publicans Bought Copies of Religious Attack. w MOSCOW PAPER SUGGESTS BOYCOTTING AMERICA HOLDS CHARGES BASED ON NEWSPAPER REPORT | | | | | i | | | Comments on Outcome of Retalia- tions Affecting Other Nations Are Made by Izvestia. | Declares He Said Raskob's Name \ Had Been Used in Attempt | to Renew Bigotry Issue. | By the Assoclated Press, PROVIDENCE, R. I, April 23—The | Finnish tramp steamer Anversoise ar- |rived here today, seven weeks out of | Leningrad, Russia, with & cargo of lumber from Soviet Russia, consigned | By the Assoctated Press | Chairman Shouse of the Democratic | National Executive Committee today, de- nied the charge by Cbairman Fess of the Republican National Commiltee that he had sald in a California speech the Republican organization purchased|to & local dealer, and a knotty prob- for distribution 10,000,000 copies of aflem for Treasury Department officials | magazine article attacking John J. “’r“n hours after officials boarded the | Raskob on religious grounds. | battered tramp they would not advance | Shouse said Fess’ allegations were | besed upon “an alleged publication in [a San FPrancisco newspaper’ which | quoted Shouse as saying the Republi- |can committee purchased 10,000,000 | copies of a magazine containing an ! anti-Raskob article by Robert Cruise McManus, a newspaper man. Never Heard of McManus. He said he had never heard of Mc-, Mal and added he referred in his| | San Francisco speech to an article pub- | lished in Scribner's Magazine last Sep- | cargo. The cargo is expected to furnish the first test case as to the validity of | Russtan lumber for import into this | country. The Treasury Department de- creed an embargo against such imports i February 10 unless the shippers can prove the imports are not produced by convict labor. Examination Awaited. Treasury officials in _Washington awaited exammation of the cargo to detcrmine whether Russia had really {sent it to test Treasury regulations or mber. “I stated,” he d, “that the Repub- ol G P in|had only made s gesture to satisfy lican National Committee reproduced in | pamphlet form excerpts from this ar- | home insistence for actlon. ticle under the heading, ‘Smear Hoover | Frank Dow, acting commissioner of | —Raskob Order to His Subsidized Prop- | customs, said when the ship officers | agandists,’ a copy of which I have now &ppear at the customs house to declarc before me. “I charged, and I repeat, that this pamphlet constituted a large part of the Republican publicity in the congres- | sional campaigns of last Fall. | | “I charged that because of John Raskob's prominence as a member of | the Catholic Church his name in this | instance, and in numerous other in- stances, has bcen brought forward by the high command of the Republican National Commi! with the definite | While no official would sy definitely, | purposc of attemvting to relight the it was intim: that even if the cargo fires of religious bigotry which played | came from Southern Russia, the im-| so deplorable a part in the campaign | portces might be required to submit | S ortse R b o I AN T s Aen ety o & wtter | comment to make later upon Fess' state- | of form collector of customs would determine whether the shipment came within regulations. The collector would then report his decision to Washington, after which the Custems Burcau would issue in- structions at to whether the cargo | should be admitied Cargo May Be Admitted. lany opinlon as to the status of the | ment which charged the Democratic Treasury officials later said that if! HONGURAN FORCES CLAM VCTORES Fierce Fight Continues Near | Chamelecon—Yesterday's ;' Dead Totals 29. the cargo and present the manifest the | H By the Associated P. H EGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 23 The government today claimed im- | portant victories against revolutional | armies in Northern Honduras. Heavy fighting continued near Chamelecon, not far from San Pedro Sula, and rein- forcements were rushed to aid the regulars. A total of 29 dead and many wounded was counted In yesterday’s fighting in veral minor engagements, but so flerce was the battle being fought in the San Pedro Sula area that it was impossible Jobless Waitress Captures 3 Bandits Taking Last $6.35 By the Assaciated Press KANSAS CITY, April 23.—Miss Gertrude Harper, 20-year-old waitress out of work, fought with such fury to defend her last $6.35 that three young hold-up men fled in_disorder, only to be cap- tured later by the irate young woman. Accosted by the trio, the girl rapped them sharply over their heads with her pocket book, which one of them finally snatched and vith Miss Harper in hot ausing to recruit police he waitress resumed T assailants. Suddenly the girl leaped from the police car and rained blows upon two youths sauntering along the street. Police rescued them. They gave their names as Billy Wright, 17, and Louis Fink, 21 Lester Norris, 22, was arrested | | ncarby. Miss Harper's $6.35 and her pocket book and cigarette l'ghter were recovered. FOUND 00 R Chicago Grand Jury Discov- ers Abnormal Bank Ac- counts in Officials’ Names" By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, April 23.—A definite an- nouncement was made public by pros- ecutors today that 12 of the first 17 Chicago police captains whose finances are under investigation by a special grand jury, have bzen found to have ex- cessive bank accounts. The announcement was made by As- sistant State's Attorneys Charles J. | Mueller and Charles J. Lounsbury, and !J. A. Parmar, foreman of the special | grand jury which is investigating al- | leged corruption in the Police Depart- in the vicinity of Pennsylvania avenue |sicner of the District, announced that and Fourteenth street at 4:30 o'clock ja close check was being made of the . yesterday afternoon, was caused by the | structural plans of the new school to prohibition against parking, which is| effective only for an hour and a half in | the moming. Due to Rare Cirgumstances. ‘The tie-up, he explained, was due to | & combination of circumstances—ihe | rainstorm, the White House reception | in honor of delegates to the convention | of the Daughters of the American Revo- | lution and a fire near Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Traffic jams are not unusual in the | vicinity of Fourteenth and Fifteenth | streets and Pennsylvania avenue when- | ever there is a reception at the White | House, when the Government depart- | ments_clcse, Inspector Brown pointed out. The tie-up yesterday aftcrnoon was intensified, he said, by the rain, which caused a sudden influx of taxi- cabs into the Government triangle south of the avenue, and the fire near Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, which occurred at the height of the afternoon rush hour. “I fail to understand how these con- ditions could be attributed to the pr hibition against parking in the mor: ing,” declared Inspector Brown. i CUBAN ARMY MAIOR HELD IN 44 DEATHS | | | | | | | | i Suicide of Aide to Removed Mili-| tary Supervisor Is Key to Mystery Murders. By the Assoclated Press. SANTIAGO, Cuba, April 23.—A war- rant for the arrest of Maj. Orsenio Ortiz, until last week m. ervisor which have occurred in Oricnt: Pr during the past few months, was today. Named with Maj. Ort rant are 15 other persons, t undisclosed, but understood military aides, politic affiliated with him during Tule here. Lieut. Felipe A. Valles, Ortiz, and placed by him 1 8 the Santiago jail, shot and killed hi self during the night with two bullets i his chest and one in his head. He left | a note which accused Ortiz as his determine whether faulty design could have contributed to the collapse. Maj. | | Robb expressed the opinion, however, that insufficient guying of the frame was responsible. 1In the unstable con- dition of the structure prior to the riveting, he explained, ample cables would have been required to prevent it from collapsing under undue wind stress. The theory of inadequate guying also | was adhered to by Jere J. Crane, busi- ness manager of the public school sy: tem, who is himself a practicing archi- ec The Roosevelt High School is being erected under contract by the National Construction Co. Inc., with offices in the Tower Building. The steel con- tract, in turn had been let to the Le- high Structural Steel Co., of Allentown, Pa., which, while supplying the material, | had Jet a subcontract to the Heron Todd Co. of Washington, for the actual erection of the frame. Loss Put at $3,000 to $4,000. Estimates of the damage, loss of material and expended labor, ranged from $3.000 to $10,000. Maj " (Continued on Page 2, Column 17.) WOMAN MISSIONARIES RELEASED BY CHINESE American Is One of Two Reported Freed—Fate of Third . including Uncertain. By the Associated Press. IANKOW, China, April lon headquarters re s from Kingchow, saving ries, Miss Esther Nordl cleased today by bandits who ped them April 17. Headquarters ion are at Chicago. e dispatch gave no de s on the Rev. Oscar Ar dish missionary, kidnaped e time. he releases, which came un are thought to have resulted cial military pressure agains captors had demanded $100,000 . (about $21,000 gold) som Gen. Hadjitch Dies in Belgrade. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, A officer with a deliberate falsehood and | there was no suspicion of convict labor offered to donate $10,000 to the Dzmo- | 1"e 10, 0 SEoECA cratic Publicity Bureau if Shouse could | Gfficials satd they did not believe prove the alleged statement. American importers would have pur- | Holds Report Incorrect. chased the lumber had there been any ! question about its being admitted and —Gen. Stefan Hadjitch, most famous of the 44 assassinations, “In a moment of done things 1 am asham Heretofore I have been known a spected as an honest man In Havana Maj. Ortiz yest res Machado, who a week ago relieveq b of his post after numerous com of his administration in Oriente inc. Ortiz is reported to have sought with two newspaper men, the Conde de Rivera, director of Diario de Ja Marina Havana, and Milla Ortiz of this city, be- | cause of what he regarded as editorial elurs, but it is not beiieved that they will materializ:. LAKE VENTURE FATAL Eody of William Kegg Found Dead | Near 20-Foot Sloop. CHICAGO, April 23 (#).—The body of Willlam Kegg, 26 years old, an in surance inspector of Chicago, missing since Saturday when he set zail from South Haven, Mich., in a 20-foot sloop. taken from Lake Michigan yester- Kegg, an employe of the: Lumber- man’s Mutual Insurance Association of Mansfield, Ohlo, bought the sloop last week and went to South Haven to sail it home Saturday. He Cid not expect 1o reach here until Sunday. His friends did not become alarmed until Tuesday, when a general scaich was started. The body was found near the water-logged CTaft 3 milae o Saneh (hican Havhor efter a stroke CHINESE BANDITS TURN ATHLETIC;| WILL TAKE EQUIPMENT AS RANSOM! Willing to Accept Phonograj | By the Assoclated Press. | thirsty bandits are softening. ‘The latest report from Frank P.Lock- hart, American consul general at Hankow, indicates that gramophone music now has charms to soothe the ravege bandit breasts. Instead of get- their amusement out of torture picturesque freebooters of the upper Yangtze River now are ready to turn to tennis, basket ball and chess. Lockhart informed the State Depart- ment today that the bandits who have been holding Bert N. Nelson, American take out part of ‘ame jone recort Balls. ‘basket bal’ ball: chess boards, balls, fresh fruit d similar articles. Payment for Freeing U. S. Missionary. China's hitherto ruthless and blood- missionary, formerly of St. Paul. Minn., had notified him of their willingness to | Oscar Anderson. Nelson's_ransom in | American , tennis racquets (nm: | Swedish. oot | “Dr. Fess is as near correct as usual,” Shouse said. “His allegation that 1 have made a misstatement concerning the activities of the Republican Nation- al Committee is based upon an alleged | publication in a San Francisco news- paper, which contained the following statement: “‘Mr. Shouse then turned to an arti- cle on Chairman Raskob recently pub- lished in an eastern magazine stating that the article was written by Robert Cruise McManus, a newspaper man, and attacks Chairman Raskob on re- ligious, political snd other grounds. After colling the attention of the as: sembled diners to this article, Mr. Shouse asserted that the Republican National Committee had purchased 10,000,000 coples of the magazine for nationwide distribution.’ “I have never heard of Robert Cruise McManus, have no knowledge of any article that he has published in any magazine and if there has been such publication have never before heard of it. 1 have never, anywhere at any time, charged that the Republican Na- tional Committee bought 10,000,000 cop- ies of a magazine containing an article | by McManus or anybody else.” Senator Fess Statement, In his statement, Senator Fess said “In the m 0 belief that his broadcasting time had ended. Jouett Shouse. chairman of the Democratic | Natjonal _Executive Committee. pro- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BANDI'i'S FIRE BANK, FLEE WITHOUT LOOT;f Blaze Set by Acetylene Torch Routs | Men After They Kidnap Watchman. By the Associated Press. COLDWATER, Miss., April 23 —Four bandits kidnaped the town night watch- man and broke nto the Citizens’ Bank here early today. but were prevented | from looting the vault by fire their own | ne torch started. bandits seized the watchman, J. B. Moring, in an alley, and one Tobber | seld him while the others entered the | bank. Their torch had burned almost | through the vault door when the in- terior of the building was ignited and they fled. Moring was forced to ac- company them in an automobile, but was e two miles out of town. Residen the fire with ! slight damage. ascd ts extinguished ph Records and Fruit as Part| | I Nelson and Kristofer N. Tvedt, a Nor- | wegian missionary, were captured in! Northern Hupeh Province last October. Tvedt, released on payment of ransom, has just reached Hankow. He reported Neison was well and that the bandits had promised to release him as soon as the ransom was paid. Nelson T. Johnson, Minister to China, has =zsked the Nanking minister of foreign affairs, Dr, C. T. Wang, to use' the power of the National government | to obtain the early release of three mis- sionaries captured by brigands near | Kingmen, Western Hupeh, about April | 19. “They are Miss Esther Nordlund of | Chicago, Miss Augusta Nelson and Rev Miss Nordiund is an and the others | citizens Gen. Ho Chen-Chun, Nationalist com- . | mander at Hankow, has informed Con- They are demanding $10,000 (Mexican), | sul General Lockhart that the local less the amount spent on their sports commander at Ichang has been ordered earipment. 1o abtain the freedom of the trio. 199,610 MEMBERS they felt that the importers were pre- pared to submit evidence that no con- vict labor had cntered into the pro- duction of the cargo. BOYCOTT OF U. S. SUGGESTED. Moscow Paper Comments on Effects "'i Retaliations. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star. MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R, April 23— Based on Austria’s revocation of the ban | on Soviet eggs. following Moscow's re- | taliatory prohibition of imports from that country, the Moscow Izvestla, Com- | munist party organ, comments on the possibility of similar measures against | the United States and France, and the happy possibilities out of the recent| Soviet-German trade agreement. Such a prohibition of imports now applies to Canada foliowing the latter's exclusion of Soviet anthracite. Broad Economic Relations. “The Soviet-German agrecment shows | ! the possibility of developing broad eco- nomic relations between the Soviet Union and capitalist countries, on the| condition that our partners have no| adventurist plans cr hopes to reduce the of our socialistic industrializa- ays the inspired comment. It explains the decree, authorizing the | commissar of trade to boycott any coun- | try, enacted following France's dis- | crimination against Soviet exports and ' that country is now, convinced that those were not empty words. i Difficulties for Exports. “There is another country where ex- perience may show that creating diffi-| culties for Soviet imports means diffi-| culties for its own exports” Izvestia continues. “We refer to the United States. The latest figures on Soviet- | American trade show that since the | United States has applied preventive | measures, based on senseless causes Soviet exports and imports with th United States have been greatly re-| | duced.” | The Soviet Union does not conceal its | desire to develop economic relations with the outside world, but it does not appear in the international arena in-| terested in any kind or any quality of orders and is willing to accept any con- diticns, 1931 OUSTED BY COMMUNIST PARTY (Copyright. Action Charges After Considerable “Cleansing” Period. By the Associated Press MOSCOW, U. S. S. R, April 23— or a considerable “cleansing” period, the Communist party announced today that 99,610 members had been expelled on a variety of charges, including sym- pathy with Leon Trotsky, exiled lead- er, anti-Soviet activities, drunkenness and “anti-morality.” The number of members subjected to the “cleansing” process was listed at 1,273,000, of which 130,497 were ordered dropped, but thousands appealed and were reinstated. Reprimands were issued to 156,916, Other charges on which the expulsions were based were embezzlement, lavish living and ostentation, belief in religion and falling to disclose that near rela- tives were traders, priests or army offi- cers under the old regime. Manufacturer Is Dead. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., April 23 (#).—William M. Hanes, 49, vice presi- dent of the P. H. Hanes Knitting Mill Co., died today after several years' illness. e Radio Prfi.‘l’llél’ on Page D-4 | to estimate the casualties there, | Chamelecon Fight Renewed. The battle at Chamelecon, which has for its prize the railway key point at San Pedro Sula, between Tegucigalpa and the coast, began Tuesday night The government forces repelled an at- tack on the town and there was a lul but the attack was renewed yesterda afternoon. Latest word from the area sald the | government troops were holding the rebels, but aid was asked and troops | were rushed to the regulars' assistance. Loyalists Kill 14 Rebels. Federal troops attacked a rebel de- tachment, commanded by Col. Salva- dor Canales at Guaymas, from Tela, and defeated the group, kill- ing 14 rebels including Col. Canales. Several prisoners, including Capt. Ro | dolfo Montes, were taken. The govern- ! ment troops lost 3 dead and a few | wounded A rebel attack on Olanchits was beaten off with a loss of 12 insurgent dead. ‘The rebels left some baggage behind them, including a rubber rain- coat with initials indicating it belonged to Gen. Arturo Ordonez, one of the chief rebel leaders Telephone and telegraph communi- cation between Tegucigadpa and North- {ern Honduras were cut off during the night. EAST HONDURAS COAST QUIET. Work Resumed on Farms There and in Nicaragua, Nav By the Associated Press. Conditions along the east coasts of | Honduras and Nicaragua were described as quiet today In a rep Department from Rear Admiral Arthur { St. Clair Smith, chief of the special service squadron. Despite rebel activities in Honduras and movements of Sandino bands in { Nicaragua, Smith's message said work was beng resumed on farms. Naval forces in Nicaraguan waters augmented by the arrival at Pu: .r[o | Cabczas of the aircraft carrier Langley 'and destroyers Schenck and Dupont. | the State Department that except for {a few skirmishes in the region of San disturbed by the revolutionary outbreak The Minister said the major Iebel Icnnccmrnuon near San Pedro Sula, | which is inland from Puerto Cort | westernmost of the banana ports, con- sisted of not more than 400 poorly |armed men. He sald there were no !signs of any considerable rebel of- ri of Taken on Variety | feraiven {WIND OVERTURNS BUS, 40 CHILDREN SHAKEN LBoy Injured in Crash of School Vehicle Near Upper Marlboro. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. —One boy was hurt and 40 other school children escaped with a shaking up when the wind blew a school bus from the highway into a ditch and over- turned it near here today. Harry Tayman, driver of the bus, said a gale struck and overturned the bus as he was turning into the Crain Hig] way on his way from Croome to Ma boro with the children. James Tay- man, son of the driver, received head injuries which required several stitches to_close. Passing motorists aided in extricating the children from the overturned bus. They were then placed in private cars and continued their journey to school ment. | Although these officials refused to re- | veal in detail the findings of the jurors, they did mention that one captain was found to have been engaged in manipu- TAMMANY SEEKS to the Navy | Minister Lay, to Honduras, informed | | Pedro Sula, there have been no military | activities in northern districts recently | * FACTS ON INQURY ‘anrd of Strategy Anxious to Know Exact Powers of Seabury Group. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 23.—Tammany is preparing for the coming investiga- | | legislative committee. | The “board of strategy” of Tam- many will meet soon to consider Its | | policy toward the legal issues involved | in the investigation. Party lecaders | were represented today as being anxlous to know the exact powers of the com- mittee so advice might be given to | witnesses. The committee began its work when its counsel, Samuei Seabury. subpoena on James A. Higg! missioner of accounts. The subpoena directed the commissioner to for examination May ¢ and to produce the records of all complaints filed with appear | | lations amounting «w more than $100.- | 000. He had accounts, it was announced, | in six banks and had engaged in exten- | sive stock market operations. The names |of the captains would be withheld, the officials said, until they have had op- portunity to show whether they got | their money legitimately. |~ “We do not clam,” said Mueller, “that | every captain who has a small fortune | obtained it through dishonesty. No | doubt some of the captiins will be able | to show that they made money through shrewd business investments or by pri- { vate business enterprises in which they are_interested. | “On the oth'r hand we do not believe | that _every one of the captains whose 8 kilometers | tlon of New York Clty affairs by a |accounts show substantial or abnormal ‘dcpas!ts. will be able to convince lhei jury that the money was obtained le- | gitimately.” The jurors indicated they may go outside of the city and State for rec- ords of the financial dealings of various | officials. PARLIAMENT CONFLICT STIRRED BY LAND BILL Lords Reject Major Clauses MacDonald Predicts Fight in Next Session. As | him, as well as the record of all his | | investigations over the last five years. Newspapers attributed to Tammany leaders the opinion that the action in- | volving Mr. Higgins is an indirect | thrust at Mayor Walker, against whom removal proceedings have been filed with Gov. Roosevelt by the City Affairs Committee. The rebuttal which the City Affairs Committee is preparing to the mayor's answer to the charges is expected to call attention to the fact Mayor Walker has never made public the findings of | Commissloner Higgins' investigations. Some papers forecast that Walker would be questioned privately about Higgins' report. 'BOAT BLAST, INJURING | FOUR, SHAKES VILLAGE Gasoline From Leaky Carburetor Blamed for Explosion at Dock in Ontario. By the Associated Press. SUDBURY, Ontario, April 23.—With a deafening explosion that shook the fishing village of Killarney, about 60 miles from Sudbury, the Killarney | quarry mail boat blew up at the dock | late y erday. Four of the five persons aboard were injured, but all will re- | cover. Walter Burke, the operator, who was unhurt, said he believed the blast was caused by gasoline from a leaky carbu- retor. The injured included Mr. manager of the Dominion Quarry Co., near Killarney. McNair, Mines & | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 23.—Con- stable John H. Muirhead started a fight and got himself arrested yesterday in order to “get his man.” for A. E. Coen, wanted for jumping bail on a bad-check charge. ' Yester- street. Mairhead fumbled for the war- rant, then remembered it was fn an- other coat. ( v For two months he had been looking | day Muirhead saw him in a downtown | By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 23.—Seeds of bitter | conflict between the House of Lords and | House of Commons were seen today ;with rejection by the Hcuse of Lords ‘of some of the most important clauses gf” the government's land utilization The measure aims at ascisting in solution of the unemployment problem | by putting unemployed on the land. It had already passed the Commons. Lord Danbury, Conservative, put down amendments for the rejection of 18 out of the bill's 26 clauses, the only clauses spared being those dealing with cultivation allotment. I The government will reintroduce the [bill next session, and, according to ! Prime Minister Ramsay {there will be a “fight to a finish, with gloves ofl.” SMUGGLERS ARRESTED Alcohol Found on Mexican Ranch With Flying Field. MEXICO CITY, April 23 (#).—Belief | that a well organized alcohol smug- gling gang was broken up in arrests recently near Ciudad Mier, State of Tamaulipas, was expressed in reports reaching here today 1 Customs agents from Ciudad Mier | went to the ranch called El Tanque, | 50 kilometers away and near the in- ternational border, and seized 72 tin | containers of alcohol. A landing field | was found on the ranch. and it is be- | lieved a ring was engaged in flying alcohol across the border into the | United States. 'CONSTABLE PICKS FIGHT AND GETS |ARRESTED TO JAIL BOND JUMPER| UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 23.| 3 5 Resorts to Battle on Discovering He Left Warrant for Fugitive at Home. | “I'm sure,” remarked Muirhead. squar- | ing off in front of Mr. Coen, “that I | can lick you with one sock.” | Mr. ted a moment in sur- | prise—i let go' battle” was af |Mr. €oen far ahead on 501 dy called “the wagol At the police staifon offi | nized Muirhead and Mr. C charges, the one about 'and assault ‘and battery. his left. height, with ints, when | 'S recog- n' faced bond MacDonald, | 1 FISH D. A R, SPEECH CENSORED TO AVOID HITTNG U. 5. POLIY |Congressman Accepts Dele- | tions of Criticism of State Department on Nicaragua. ) i {DEMAND FOR STRONG | NAVY VOICED AT SESSION Nine Nominations Made in States’ Rivalry for Vice Presi- dents General. Admission that officials of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution had censored & speech prepared by Repre- sentative Hamillon Fish, jr, of New York for delivery before the Continental Congress tomorrow because it con- { talned sharp criticism of the State De- partment policy with reference to the killing of American citizens in Nica- ragua, was made today by Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president general, and other prominent members of the so- clety. Representative Pish was absent from Washington today, but it was said at his office here that the D. A. R., not | wishing to be put in the light of sanc- tioning criticism of the administration, {had requested him to delete certain iparts of his speech which were con- |strued as an attack on the State De- | partment. Mr. Fish expressed an entire i willingness to do so, it was said, par- | ticularly as he is to deliver the unde- {leted address for the “talkies” on Sat- urday. This is the first time the remarks of guest speakers have been censored, it became known today. In Mr. Fish's case it is all the more unusual, for the chairman of the special House {gToup investigating Communist activi- ties is a favorite in the ranks of the D, A R. | Indications Are Construed. The action of the Program Commit- tee, headed by Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, to whom the Fish speech had been sub- mitted in advance, was construed by some to indicate the national officers of the organization are endeavoring to make amends for reported disagree- {ments over some of the policles of President Hoover. The explanation given at Mr. Pish's office was that he was informed that the press of the country usvally at- tributed D. A. R. indorsement of every utterance made by a speaker before the Continental Congress. In this case, it was said, the organization did not want to be put on record as sanction- ing what the New York Representative had to say about the State Department. Not all of Mr. Fish's reference to the | Nicaraguan situation, however, was de- | leted by the D. A. R. blue pencil. His | secretary said a charge that Com- | munists in this country are financing the bandit expeditions of the rebel Sandino and are encouraging him to kill American civilians as well as Ma- rines, was permitted to remain in the | copy of the speech. Mrs. William Sherman Walker of Seattle, chairman of the National De- fense Committee and one of those who requested Mr. Fish to allow certain changes in his speech, substantiated in a statement the explanation given at Mr. Fish's office that the D. A. R. did not wish its position misinterpreted by the reading public. “To this request he most graciously consented, with the result that the original introduction was recalled,” Mrs, Walker sald. “The Daughters of the | American Revolution are on record as beartily approving the splendid work of Mr. Fish and his committee in the re- cent investigation of Communistic ac- | tivities.” | The instance served to create a turmofl {among the national officers when the | censorship had become known. Mrs, Hobart, the president general, was called from the platform to pour oil on the troubled waters The situation also furnished the chief topic for cloak-room caucuses. It rivaled interest taken in the spirited balloting and the work of the election tellers in counting, behind guarded doors, the votes cast for the 10 candidates for vice presidencies Within recent years the administra- tion that happens to be in temporary power at the convention has been able to control remarks and discussions. But as speakers are carefully chosen far in advances of the sessions of the cengress from officials with whose views the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion are thoroughly in accord. surprise { was expressed today over deletions in Mr. Fish's speech | | For Full Navy Strength. An appeal to the Nation to lose no | time in building up the Navy to the { full strength permitted under the Lon- don naval treaty was made in the re- port of the National Defense Committee submitted by its chairman, Mrs. Wil- liam Sherman Walker. The report also assailed “the con- centrated effort of pacifism to eliminate military training from the schools and coileges,” called attention to the in- adequate mobile strength of the Army and recited the Nation-wide campaign (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) BRITISH OFFICIAL DIES IN PLANE COLLISION Air Vice Marshal Felton Vesey Holt and Pilot Are Victims at Seahurst Park. By the Assoclated Press. SEARURST PARK, Sussex, England, April 23.—Air Vice Marshal Felton Vesey Holt, commander of the air de- fenses of Great Britain, was killed to- day in an airplane collision. * His piiot, Flight Lieut. Henry Moody, also was killed, but the occupant of the other plane escaped injury. Vice Marshal Holt was one of the Dioneers of the Royal Air Force and had received the distinguished service order for valor. He was promoted to his present post January 1 and appointed alc officer commanding the fighting area of air defense of Great Britain,” as recently as April 7. | A