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A—Z ¥ 'BRIAND RESIGNS -POST N GABINET Persuaded- to Stay in Office Until Tasks at Geneva Are Completed. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 14. istide Briand, de-. feated in yesterday's presidential elec-, tion, today offered his resignation as foreign minister, & post he has héld for seven years, but Premier Laval and his othér colleagues in the cabinet per- suaded him to remain in that important office at least until his immediate tasks at Geneva are completed. ‘The cabinet decided that he should g0 t0 Geneva tomorrow for the meeting of the Committee on European Fed- eration, as he had planned to do before the election. ‘When Briand left the Quai D'Orsay, where the cabinet met, he confirmed the report of his resignation, adding, “They refused to accept it,” but indi- cating that the resignation still stands. | Communique Issued. An official communique issued after | the meeting said: “M. Briand informed | the cabinet he considered it his duty to place his resignation at the disposal of the President and the premler. The premier, unanimously supported by every member of the cabinet, insisted that M. Briand accept the mission to Geneva to defend the nation’s interests before the Committee on European Union and the Council of the League of Nations along lines laid down by the vote in HE EVEN Chilean Flyer Meets Hurley COL? MERINO STUDIES ARMY. the Chamber of Deputies. M. Briand cansented. Francois Poncet was desig: nated to accompany him as second dele; gate.” The Parisian press fodsy generally rejoiced ab the sclection of WL Doumer as President. There wrte & few ex- ceptions, sk as the Soviali organ, Populaire, whicn him “the can- dit for reaction and treachery.” Berlin Press Regrets Outcome. The Petit Parisien, widely circulated and representative of the views of the average Frenchman, saluted Doumer as a man whose humble origir and long career in the service of Th® republic evidenon by the :m placed in mlflt,flklu omage paid him. Pe:‘umx, in Echo de Paris, fnarked that mixed with considerations af local litics though Briand's defesd might , it demonstrates a falling off in presufg and confidence. Berlin newspapers generally swgretted his defeat, and the Tageblatt com- mented: “May 13 must now be reck- oned as a black day for French poli-' tics.” Vossiche Zel declared that his defeat was caused petty - mentarians distrustful of & man of his caliber, who is rare in. post-war Eu- Tope. HOME TOWN HAILS DOUMER. { Friends Recall When Father Worked for 40 Cents a Day. to the presidency feelingly, but none the less frugelly, 'as befits the Auver- gnats—the French equivalent of Ver- CHINESE MAY SEEK PARLEY ON SILVER Delegates to International Cham- ber Meet Carry Conven- tion Suggestion. e By the Associnted Press. SHANGHAI, May 14.—Chinese bank- ing circles indicated tfoday the Na- tionalist government was expected to insugurate a movement seeking an in- ternational silver comference in China. T. V. Soong, minister of finance, was . expected to lead the movement. News that the government might take the initiative in seeking a conference was indicated shortly after the receipt at Nanking of requests that the admin- istration act in that direction as sug- gested by the International Chamber of Commerce st Washington May 9. The international chamber’s resolu- by Chinese. delcgutes to. the Wesning. ton meeting. " — DEBTS BAR SILVER PARLEY. Smoot Favers U. S. Entry in Interna- tional Meet. SALT LAKE CITY, May 14 (#)— Senator Reed 8moot of Utah sald yes- terday that problem of war debts and other international complications make it “next to impossible” for the United States to call an international con- ference looking toward stabilization of the price of silver. “The countries that are indebted to #merica would demand before accept- ieg an invitation to such a conference to have an understanding that the question of cancellation of their debts ‘would be considered by that conferf- ence,” said the chairman of the Senate Pinance Committee. “I know that our Government is tloing everything possible to determine if some effective world action can bz taken, and no one is more deeply intzi ested in this question than President Hoover. “The whole silver problem revolves ' sround India and China and the Brit- izh Empire, and does not revolve around ; the United States, although the United | &5, States s vitally concerned. | “The difficulty now is that India has been and is selling silver at any price, | inasmuch as she is now on a gold i whereas before the war India was al-| ways a large buyer of silver, because | she was on a silver basis. This, of course, is a matter that the United States cannot control and is the key to R e Government 1s all it " vernmen! can to work out some em:u% of co- operation.” e Paper Founder, 99, Dies. May 14 (®).—Emanue! min, 99, who founded the Intelligencer, Belleville, Ontario; is dead. ford received here told of his deathh at Nor- Bay, Quebec, Tuesds: U. 5. MUST REPLACE LEGATION LIQUOR Action on $300 Worth Taken| by Thief Required Under | Diplomatic Law. The commander of the Chilean Air Force, Col. Arturo Merino, is shown as he paid his respects at the War Department today. Left to right are Col. Fred- erick H. Payne; Assistent Secretary of War; Col. Merino, Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, and Don Carlos G. Davila, Chilean Ambassador. —Star Staff Phot. OLLOWING a non-stop flight, |cope with the world-wide depression. which, despite bad weather, is|The personnel of the military force of believed to have established a |his country has been reduced, along % new #peed record betweeh Miami | with salaries of the higher grades, he shd the Capital, Col. Arturo |said. Merino, chief of the Chilean Air Force | Part of the reduction in military and sub-secretary for tion, con- |forces, he sald, was accomplished ferred today with United States avia- | through consolidation and abolition of tion officials in preparation for a study | old units, a few of which have been re- of military aviation in thiz country. (plued by modern units. , Flying in an American transport Call on Hurley. monoplane, piloted by Lieut. James H.| Tnis morning Col. Merino, accom- , famous former Army fIyer, | nanied by Flight Capt. Dario Murgica Col. Me-ino made the tiip from Miami |and First Lieut. Felipe Latorre, of his in 6 hours and 15 minufes. Because of | staff, who made the flight here with bad weather they had to follow the | him yesterday, called at the War and coast line a large part of the Way,|Navy Departments to pay their respects bringing the total distance covered t0 | to the Secretary of War, the Chief of approximately 1,000 miles. it-fl -n_gh the acting Secm o;e the avy. ey_were presen! Yy Senor Sy = waoes. Don’ Carlos G. Davila, Chilean Ambas- Records of the National Aeronautic |sador. Associztion fail to show any flight be- | At noon the Chilean officers were tween Washington and Miami in less presented to President Hoover at the time. The last 100 miles of the trip | White House and then went to the were flown through weather to bad all | Chilean Embassy for a formal luncheon. other planes were on the ground. Doo- | After two weeks spent in visiting little Janded at Bolling Field at 5:30 | American airports and airplane fac- o'clock yesterday. . tories, Col, Merino is to go to England, Col. Merino said a reduction of arm- | where he has been invited by the ament by Chile has been ordered as a |Prince of Wales to observe the British part of a general economy program to |air maneuvers in June. 5 X of Alexandria Hears Reporters’| Man-Handling Brought Unfavorable Pubiicity. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ntinued From Pirst Page) . Va., May 14—Re- gret over the incident'at the Winchester Apple Blossom ' Festival recently where and outside the authority of that or- ganizetion. £ Maj. Henry G. Praft, chief of police, refused to comment on Secretary Stim- son’s action. From other sources. how- ever, it was learneg local police officials are not in a position financially to throw additional police guards around the em- bassies. It was also pointed out that the problem is primarily one for the | Federal Government. Commissioner Crosoy sald he had re- ceived no communication from the State Department, but that the police would co-operate .n ahy suggestions mad¢ by the department. He estimated that to maintain a police guard on each of the 54 embassies and legations would ye- quire 162 policemen. A special police’ guard has been sta- tioned at the Salvadorean legation, and local police are holding on: man in con- Landied by State police, was expressed by ‘John A. Petty, executive secretary of the Wi Real Estate Board, zpeaking before the annual conference of building and loan associations of | Virginia here' early this afternoon. As a result of the incident, Mr. Petty said, ‘some very unfavorable publicity :‘u given<Virginia, while co-operation th ~ the ° news-distributing _agencies would have multiplied what favorable publicity was given many times. Evenis such as the Apple Blossom Festival, he said, depend almost entirely cn the co- operation of the s news agencies. . Hold Important Positicn. ‘The importance of the responsibility WASHINGTON COURTAULD BARES | STORY OF ICE PERIL Rescued Scientist Tells of " Being Snowbound Two Months in Igloo. (Continued From First Page.) side before the blizzard began. Part of his supplies also were outside. ‘There was no opening to the outside world from the murky igloo except by the chimney, which he had to_keep open and provide him with air. For a month he was without & permanent light and depended for occakional mer upon a little gasoline lamp which he used to melt snow to obtain g water. He said that he spent most of his dreary time in his sleeping bag dozing and thinking, telling himself to keep his Scenes during the pontificial military field mass held at Qatholic University Stadium. Archbishop Michael J. Curley (center), with Mgr. James H. Ryan, rzotor of Catholie University (left), and Mgr. Edward H. Pace, vice rector of the university. Archbishop Curley.officiat:d at o™ T In the center ph:to is military mass. —Star Staff Photo. ~ _(Copyrisnt, 1831 RESCUER TELLS HIS STORY. Mystified by Stir at Home as“Expedition Followed Set Plan. ™. By Wireless to The Star. NANGMAUSAL!K, Greenland, May 14 s just returned from the ice cap ‘.aunn with Augustine Courtauld, who n the second day of our march back from the station we were greatly flew over us. It dropped some dog food and man food down to us. Un- on the ice cap after we had taken out the luxuries, since we already had on quired and we were als> bringing back 448 pounds of dog food for use on This airplane also dropped some let- ters and we learned for the first time England by the whole matter and that “airplanes and ice-breakers” were on ‘We were somewhat mystified by this, as everything had gone more or less for the expedition in England a year 0, Courtauld and I had both decided to have one man alone at the ice cap station, owing to the difficulty of car- of us minded the idea of being alone. Also we had made up our minds that there would not bs any danger, Unable to Reach Interlor. nd consequent difficulty in making up fficient food, for two men, Courtauld provisions enough on a fairly generdus scale to last him until April 30. Ac- would last a good deal longer. It had been hoped that we might be able to had unusually bad weather all this year, and we were unable to move into the The actual relief took place on May 5, five days late, and when the party food enough left for another two months. ing out the earlicr sledge party, under James M. Scott, surveyor and dog driver, the extremely bad weath surface and bad visibility cap station with only one week's supply of food left. tives. First, that they mak: careful search of the vicinity; but owing to the blizzard, they knew that this search might end unsuccessfully. When they would have to walk out, living on their dogs. y alo knew that if they did that, Angmagsalik very late and might not | find any suitable dogs to make for, Secondly, they might make a hurrfed search and, if it should prove unsuccess- to pi re for a mew journey a:lsch would still have been in plenty of —_— BY H. G. WATKINS, = N.A.).—Rymill Chapman and I riectly fit and well, surprised when suddenly an airplane fortunately, we had to leave the food ! our sleds more man food than we re- future journeys. an enormous stir had been caused in their way from Europe. according to plan. While preparing that it would sometimes be necessary rying sufficient food for two. Neither for one man who had Arctic experience Last December, owing to bad weather remained alone at the station, with tually, he knew that these provisions relieve him early, but Greenland h: interior. reached the station Courtauld still had Perhaps the only mistake lay in send- to attempt an early relief. Owing to reached the neighborhood of the ice ‘The party was faced with two alterna- enormous snowdrifts raised by a six-day had run out of all of their food, they lh;ry would arrive back at the base near g;e“l:fle:ld relief journey into the in- teri ful, undertake a quick journey back to he base nd they would be certain of find- | of our way. In the darkness we reached ing the station and Courtauld, 00, |the island, but could not go 'around on owing to the improved snow condif the ice, because the open wat:rway over S50 tee weatlies In May. the steep island was new to us, 20 we Decision Proves Wise. decided to camp. [t e o e e | FIRST LADY TO LAY |DEPOSITIONS TAKEN ‘ CATHEDRAL STONE| IN SMITH CO. SUI of building and loan association men in furthering and ing home owner- ship was stressed by Mr, Petty. Men in this field, he nll, occupy a neutral position in that they are not engaged directly in busimess for a profit and be- cause of this they are constantly sought for advice and giidance in matters per- taining to home ownership. ‘The development of Northern Virginla bordering the Potomac River must go forward in harmony with the great plan for the Nation's Capital City, he said ‘These develdpments, he continued, will be of unestimable value to the entire State and for this reason the State should co-operate whole-heartedly in the development. The conference was opened at the | W: George Mason Hotel here today by State Senator John A. Lesner of Norfolk, president, who declared his belief that real estate taxes in counties, cities and towns of Virginia could be reduced 30 to 40 per cent by the development of & more equitable system of local taxa- tion, through State legislation, and by the institution of economies, dependent on an aroused public interest in govern- mental affairs, and with disturbing efficiency. Relief Declared Essential, Senator Lesner asserted that ‘relief for real estate from the existing tax burdens, by which it paid from 60 to 70 per cent of the cost of city and county government, directly, and con- tributed indirectly to the support of the State treasury, another substantial pro- portion, was essential to the return of prosperity in Virginia counties and cities and urged the development of co-opera- tion between countles and citles for mutual benefits in this direction. He suggested the State take over a greater part of the support of public schools and other State-directed activities now charged up to localitles, 5o as to reduce local real estate taxes. While not presenting a concrete plan, the Norfolk Senator, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, urged a thorough study of the problem. He praised the Byrd State tax system as stabilizing the State's finances, and asked that a legislative program be urged that would work similar benefits for the counties and cities. The conference will be in session two days. Other speakers were R. H. Flest, president of the Building & Loan As- Sociation, Richmond, Va., and H. Mor- fish, executive manager of the | United States League of Chicago, Iil. At a luncheon today at the George | Mason Hotel, Frank W. Noxon, presi- (fl_'.'om of the ]Alex:dndgl Chamber of mmerce, welcomed the delegates and :.nuod.‘izcred{[‘l;: :. H:ellznn.“mmlneu of chamber, wh A o made & o FALLS FATAL TO TWO NEW -YORK, May 14 (#)--George Bowman of Rochester, N. Y., was found | dead today in an arcaway seven floors below the window of the room he oc- | cupled in the Commedore Hotel. Hi s did not say whether | as accident Wi Abe, 45 years old, was killed when he fell or jumped from a fire- | tower on the nineteenth floor of a build- H ing at Twenty-sixth street and Broad- early today, nection with the robbery, but no charge has been placed against him. A palr of tortoise-shell eyeglass rims, worn by Dr. Lelva's assailant, was found in the hall of the legation by Detective Sergt. Lawrence O'Dea. The detective also found a .45-caliber bullet imbedded | pase in the celling of the hall. Leiva said he planned to make no representations to the department re- garding the incident. A slight skull fracture will require Leiva to remain in the,hospital be- yond the day or two originally planned. Dr. Joel T. Boone, the White House physician, called to examine his wounds. Informed that his wife in Salvador contemplated advancing her trip to ton from the original schedule which she had planned for arrival June 2, the envoy insisted his condition was in no way serious and should not cause her to change her plans. Meanwhile, unperturbed by the furore created by the robbery of their colleague, the staffs of the other embassies and legations are quietly going through their daily routines. A dozen embassies were visited by a Star reporter today and at each place attaches said their liquor stores hld! never been molested. They are not ! taking any special precautions and don’t want any extra police protection, “Liguor robbe: one attache asked with a puzzled look when approached by the reporter. “Ah, yes, I remember now. I heard there was a story in one of the newspapers about something of that sort.” He was not in the least concerned about the safety of the in. toxicanis at his embassy. A representative of the German em- bu:{ smiled broadly when asked if any special precautions were taken to safe- guard the liguor there. “Liquor thieves,” he smiled. “They had better stay away from here. Pritz is loose in the cellar at night” He explained that Fritz was a specially trained police dog who, in the opinion of embassy attaches, is thoroughly competent to deal with intruders. At the Spanish embassy it was said the liquor was kept in a storeroom se- cured only by a small padlock. The suggestion that it might be stolen drew only an amused smile by way of an answer, Other embassies and legations vis- ited included those cf Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, France, Italy, Poland, Turkey, burg road gambling resort is being held in connection with the assault on Dr. Belva. He was arrested at his place of employment, after investigators dis- covered the engine of his automobile was hot. pyesum:bly because of a hard, fast drive. He denied having used the car, however, and was unable to -ex- plain the warmth of the motor. According to Don Roberto Melendez, second secretary of the legation, the robbery was the second within the last few months, Shortly before RFaster, he sald, the legation was visifed by thieves, who escaped with a quantity of beer, whisky and olive ofl. —e l gave up Joseph Wharton, who, 50 years started harton Scho at the veroity of Pennsyivania, 2'sy catabe the fu:t profitabie nickcl .and f‘?“n works in America st Camden, Scott chose the latter alternative, which proved to be the wise one. soon as they arrived back Rymill Chap- man and I prepared for & journey to the station and started off on April 21. We were back here at the Angmagsalik with urtauld in 20 days. We have never asked for any help and did not _feel that we actually required any. The rescue expeditions from Euroj were, of course, prepared without our knowle Apart from the wonderful ocean flight made by Capt. Ahvenberg the only benefits we received from -all of these rescue efforts, as it turned out, were six packets of milk- chocolate and two tins of maited milk which we ex- tracted from the rations dropped down to us when the Swedish airmen errived on the scene. Before ever it was a question of re- lieving Courtauld the Winter gales had frequently interfered with the air route expedition plans. Early this year a storm at Angmagsalik, the largest set- tlement in East Greenland, wrecked one of our airplanes. was most necessary to drop food on Scott’s Ice Cap party, a sudden blizzard fl);i':d l‘};e B;Jrl;vlvln;‘mmchlne. mpton, the engineer, at Angmags- alik, was sending urgent mem:el o spare parts to complete his repair work, and the only thing to do was to sledge 60 miles and get the gear over in that . All the best dogs were away, with Scott's party or with Stephenson, the chief surveyor, and the g;gg.‘ dogs lv:;:lhké WAenre six borrowed 2 pastor a 2, Capt. Lemon's team. SNSRI ) Passage From Report Quoted. As an indication of the trouble that beset our routine work at that particu- lar period, the following passage from Capt. Lemon's report may be quoted: “We started at 4 am. for the Kar- tartussiak settlement on this side of the Sermilik Fjord. The way lay for 8 miles across the two fjords, 'sur~ rounded by a tongue of land along the frozen stream and over much of rough country. “We crossed a magnificent lake 3 miles long, surrounded by an ice fall and high mountains, and then had to step 2 miles up th: smooth glacier. We reached the summit of the glacier in about four hours and felt certain that we should reach Igloo in another five hours. “Five miles down the glacier we had to stop to dxl)& on to the Peterson Bight in the Sermilik Fjord, which went fairly well, not so quickly as we had hoped, as the borrowed dogs gave us trouble in the de¢p and crossed snow, loosening an already awkward load. “On the fjord, with 9 miles to go, our trouble started. The surfac:, which was an appalling 1-foot layer of saft snow on the top of 6 inches of wet slush. brought our rate of travel dewn to 2 miles per hour. The snow got deeper, and finally the clergyman’s dogs the unsqual struggle. One sledge had to be left on the ice 5 miles from Kartartussiak. “We hitched both teams to one Ahgs and after a prolonged fight between the teams we got the sledge going. But the borrowed dog’s had done their day's work and they had to be taken out of harness. *Meanwhile the weather -thickened and soon we had no ides of our direc- tion except from a drift of falling snow. Later, just when it e “But now we discovered that our dogs had eaten the bottom of our tent b:g and we had lost the mosi important part of our equipment. Consequently we ipassed a rather comfortiess night in a ski-supported lean-to. “Leaving the dogs and sledges. we started off on skis et dawn for Igloo and breakfast, expecting to rea'h i« ‘n an hour. The fine sunthine enzouraged P | us, but three hou's saw us about 2, C0 I feet up, still three miles from the settle- | ment, which was on top of a stzep hill, vith apparently no possitle way down. Luckily a nativé out seal-po:ting | saw us and ‘ame to meet us. Our hou's journey took us there. We were soon enjoying & meal from 'the hosritable natives. “One Jago went ‘round by Kayzk to feed the dog team and discovered the clergyman’s dogs had arriv.d and eaten our new sealskin clothes.and many otber useful articles. He was back in half an | hour, but meanwhile “wisps of snow | were coming off the mountain tops and of the natives warned us that a m was brewing, ‘Did you drive the sledge off the ice?’ we asked. “‘No' said Jago. there going to be a gale?’ we es, big gale,’ sald Jago. ‘'Will the ice go out and the sledge 1t?" we asked. ‘Oh, yes,’ replied Jago. ‘Our feelings can be imagined. Sixty-Mile Wind Blows. “Ten minutes later a 60-mile wind was driving sheets of soft snow across the hills. Watkins and I, with an Eskimo, set off to get the sledge up on the land. We may be excused for not ing as it was, in places, a 45-degree slope. All the next day the storm raged, and it seemed certain that the ice would break up far back, as the first sledge was now only 2 miles from the water's edge. “However, our luck turned and the gale abated The following day Wat- kins and I' did the return journey in six hours on a hard wind-blown surface, while Cozens went on to Angmagsalik with the gear.” Copyright, 1931, in United States by North | American Newspaper Alliance, New York Times, elsewhe: pinc.. and Times. All rights reserv y London CHICAGO U. STUDENTS STAGE DEMONSTRATION By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, May 14.—The first annl- versary of the University of Chicago riots, staged last year to protest against campus student snoopers, obediently celebrated. Twe hundred students buflt & huge bonfire near the, campus last night, fed it with lumber from the new me dormitory and part of the university tennis court bleachers. ‘Two mounted campus policemen, who tried to disburse the crowd, were greet- ed with over-ripe eggs, various soft nul;a1 and finally a barrage of white- wash. The celebrators were finally disbursed by city police who sprayed them with water from a fire having seen the right way that morn- | has been | T Iorful Ceremonies. to Mark Events at Washingion Edi- fice on Mount St. Alban. Mrs. Herbert Hoover was to place, the first stone in the north porch of the Washington Cathedral and dedi- cate it as a gift of the women of America in colorful ceremonies this afternoon at Mount St. Alban. | The stone-laying was o0 follow ‘the | National Cathedral Association’s a nual meeting; at which more than 1,000 prominent man and woman members | C] ss Declines to Testify to Appointed by Wil- ington, Del.,, Court. a sult filed W Wil- mingt-n, Del ifiy stockhsiders *against the F. H. Smith Co. were taken here today by Miss’ Gladys Stone, notary appointed by the court. . , Of the three witnesses ‘called, onl; one, Edward H. Childress, former con- Depositions Co., declined to testify. He explained he would rather not' give appr<ximate 0PPOSE PAY.CUTS, - LABOR CALL URGES - A. F. of-L. Demands Indus- trialists to Keep Faith With Hoover. ___(Continued From First Pagey selves not to initiate any movement for age reduction. was pleased that pay levels had mnnruned during the d The labor council asserted that an apparent move toward lower “is indefensible both from an ethical and economic” viewpoint. ‘“There are strong indications that we are facing a third Winter of unemployment.” the council forecast, ‘n::mg that delnll.:". Jocreased earn- power “a numl employers attempting to further reduce the pur chasing power through the imposiiion. of wage Teductjon: Rubber Companies Cut. ‘The -statement referred particularly to pay cuts it said had beenp:nnmmned Ry the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. “How .these industries can find & market for their products if the buying power of the people is still further lowered is difficult to understand,” the council added. “Every one knows that what we need is a restoration of buying power and the preservation of the American stand- ard of living. “‘Apparently, those employers wi would ‘attempt to enforce :!:{Icflofllhl: wages think only in terms of increased production. The executive council of the American Federation of Labor firm- ly believes that the wage cutting poliey rtain vers shor ectively swpmdl,"m = ‘The labor representatives agreed no movements for wage lncru.nth.f yond those already under way would be stasted and that eve: ‘co-operation: would be given to aid h;ythe President's Soon after returning from Carib- his Dean cruise President Hoover was de- scribed at the White House as highly Leaders Pledged Selves. ‘The President’s conference referred I: the labor states < s 1 clu in the Henry Ford, who announced ln’ in- ng Ford employes termined upon; Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Co.; E. G. Grace, pres- ident of the Bethlehem Stécl Corpora- gzmé rfimfi% Sloan, jr., it of ,_and chairman of E: 1. du Pont de Nemons WAGE CUT PLAN DENIED. NEW YORK, May 14 (®)—Fred N. :eaxecuuve managsr of Federation of Labor, he said: “The American Bankers' Assdciation has in no way any move to Teduce wages and has made com- ment on such moves. s As far n:”l know o organization of ers, e'ther State ACTION IS DEFENDED. AKRON, Ohio, May 14 (#).—Cone servation of the llvug standards of American labor is greater im- portance than maintenance of “a fixed s rtain banking interests and employers” an attempt to “bring about a general re- du:_tl.t':n in wages. “The matter of tting men now unemployed back uflf a position is of first employed should get less per hour than th:,y received “;h normal tims ers no an employes should ge and I b':llasvse are treme - | struction-accountant with the Smith | cerned to see that reduction: be less than réductions in It _Officials cf the Goodrich Co. assemble to discuss the progress of the | figures of the construction costs of the | clined to comment. huge edifice. Bishop James E. Pree- man_presided at the meeting, which | was held at Whitby Hall in the Cathe- dral Close. ) | Laying of the first stohe-—a block of. white Indiana limestone, typical of | the several hundred %o be used as con- | | struction units in the north por as to present a colorful spectacle, ith the clergy and men and boys of the choir in full vestmemts. - Mrs. | Hoover was to ald in spreading the | mortar for the stone, true it and read an appropriate dedicatory sentefice. The exercises were to be broadcast over a coast-to-coast hook-up. . Immediately afterward Mrs. Hoover was to_receive members of the Na- ‘tlonll Women's Committee, of which | she is honorary chairman, and of the| Cathedral Association_in the Hishop's garden, {NYE CALLS SESSION -~ | OF PROBE COMMITTEE | TO DISCUSS:CANNON . | ___(Continued- Prom First Pay | the authority of the committee, called on Chairman Nye today to ask about | future plans of the committee. The bishop was informed that the committee would make them known to hith not later than Monday, . A At the last meeting of-the commiitee Miss Ada Burroughs of Richmond, former treasurer of the anpti-Smith or- ganization in Virginia' in 1928, declined to supply the committee with the in- formation it sought and challenged its authority to make the investigation. - DENTAL MADE IN CAPITAL. Dr. J. O. Knott Reveals Letter From | | Bishop Moore at Dallas. Denial was made here today of & Richmond, Va., dispatch saying ‘Times-Dispatch of that city had learnéd that a decision to deprive Bishop James Cannon, jr., of his succession to the idency of pres the Methodist Episcopal was reach:d by bisl of the coll !at an informal mpeting in Nashville preceding the regular session on May 2. A letter recelved here recently e R A Santiago- Probeg Reports Blaze the pBish company's buildings when the actusl costs were available in company rec- ords. Frank E. Tyson, former manager of the -Investment Building, - testified 75 per cent of the value of th> land and buildings was the average represented m first mcrtgages held by the Smith Co. Questions conceruing the handling of the company ‘finances, Tyson said all [ — he knew about it was that he collected rents and ‘turned them over to the 3 did ‘he never“drew “a ceft in salary,” but deductéd regular brokejage cofhmissfons from his rent cbllections. Gustav” C. Hertz, who said he was president of :he Neorth American In- ‘vestment Bankers, inc., gave detailed testimony as to bond issues of- the ariolis Smith Co. properties, in which he said he Nad dealt extensively. Prices on $100 par building bonds now .range betwien $2 and $85, Hertz saj ith the market “extremely narrow’ for & few isSues. - UNIVEBSITY BURNS . except of $500.000 Was Set. 1 SANTIAGO; Chile, May 14 (#).—Fire of undetermined" origin today damaged the Catholic University here to the extent of $500,000. Police are investi- gating reports that jt was set by in- cendiaries. 3 A fireman said he had overhead sev- eral med in a restaurant talking about “setting fire to the Catholic Univer- sity.” Three caretakers at the univer- sity have been detained for questioning. a Congregationalist, connected with the Mount Pleasant church. In this letter Bishop Moore sald about 25 communications in all, with about 50 signatures, were read at the the College of communica- ing more was sald. At the regular meeting of the Col i Cannon presented a Bg his claim to the the Wi the jail, Galll ‘Hospital municipal mmthm.p‘ i CIVIC AND TRADE LEADERS CONFER .ON BUDGET PLANS (Continued From Fist Page) adjourned to continue their study &t the detailed estimates whick; is expected to last two or three wecks longer. - For -the many activities under the control cf the Board of Public Wel- fate the 1933 detailed estimates, made public yesterdey by District Auditor Donovan, ¢all for appropriations total- ing $6,193,645, an increase of -$732,244 over the approprmtions carried in the 1932 act. Many additional employes are asked in order to allow the agen- cies controlled- by the board to obey the Satiyday half-holiday law. At. present not only must this law be dis- obeyed, because of a shortage of help, but, in many’ cases employes are on-a 10-hour day and the s at the jail werk & 12-hour day. Ir all 189 ° new employes ure asked in order to reduce the. working hours of the bal- ance to the proper, level. , Crowded * conditions at’ Gallinger Municipal, Hospital rdzsul'ffl’ in fi; ;;; uest for & new Wwar qlmilv similar to the an"I neenn{l structed, at a cost of $700,000. overflowing from the ward buildi are new bel houszd in old ures, some-of which-are not even fireproof. Additionz] appropriations are asked * to meet the expected increased per capita cost of taking care of District charity cases at Emergency and Ohil- dren's Hospitals, the raises bel from $30,000 to $45,000 and from §: $40,000, respectively. . Gallinger Hospital seeks 20 more pil nurses and four more graduaie: sides 43 additional employes. The work house and reformatory wants 63 more employes, the Tuberculosis pital 12 and the t“ll 5 ¢ Among the other new "construction projects asked are consolidation of the houses and heating plants cn hich are located and om:; rches at the Tubercujosis crease its capacity, an tdmm buildin, mep?m 1¢ been too sick. pe the presi- | holds for a cr the Infirm, a swimming pocl and athlele and o ‘chiel engincer's cotings &b, 1he | an ‘s institution. P s