Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast). Generally fair and today; tomorrow probably local afternoon. No.' 1,372— No. *31,84%. T5KILLEDINU.S. AS JULY 4 MISHAP CLAIN HEAVY TOLL Crashes in Traffic and Air, Plus Nation’s Drownings, Take Over 100 Victims. FIREWORKS DEATHS LAG, BUT MANY ARE INJURED Most of Nation Cool as Weather Causes Five Heat Fatalities, Total Nearing 300. By the Assoclated Press. The Nation's 155th birthday party yesterday took a toll of human lives that had approached the 175 mark late last night. Unlike former' years, fireworks ac- counted for only two deaths—one in the Southwest and the other in New England. A Washingtonian, John Michael Me- Donnell, 1954 Columbia road, was drowned on a visit to a friend at Edge- wood Arsenal, Md. - Two Washingto- nians were injured by firearms, eight others by fireworks and eight in trafic accidents. Crashes and Drownings Lead. Automobile accidents and drownings in the United States each had ac- counted for more than 50 lives, or ap- proximately two-thirds of total killed throughout the Nation. Twelve persons were drowned in Los Angeles. Scores of injuries, many serious, also were reported from traffic accidents due 1o the crowded conditions of highways. Fh‘ewornh,l ‘"hg:“h n‘oD:“ flymull.nl -:l many deaths as previ , ac- counted for scores of injuries. Wis- consin alone reported 42 such casugities. Six Die in Air Wrecks, Alrplane wrecks were responsible for six fi-m and one man was killed in an automobile race in Colorado. The rear guard of the heat wave, sweeping eastward, took 4 more lives in Pennsylvania and 1 in Ohio as its death toll neared 1300. The rest of the country as a whole was cool and comfortable, with scattered showers. D. C. MAN DROWNS. Accidents in City Caused by Fireworks Injure 10 Persons. One Washingtonian died and 18 were injured, none seriously, in accidents traced to holiday celebration over the Fourth. ‘used in of July the field of injured with 10 receiving treatment at hospitals. Of these, only 3 were seriously hurt. Trafiic mlnu yesterday and last night caused in- Jurles to eight persons, two of whom ere reported by hospital authorities as serious. Throngs Visit Capital. i trains, busses and airplanes, lumxmm'bd by & heavy cavaleade of private automobliles, brought into Wash- ington a host of guests wiiich more than compensated for the pleasure- seeking many who quit the District for the various beach and mountain resorts. Trafiic through Union *“normally dhu;yy,';lm ade x":.“.’l‘u’r,“-’zm declared that aj 1y 45,000 persons t{-m, g:uwny to '.hel oes‘l)y‘ rought more than 1, York, while & 14-car excursion fl"n‘\’n gr d hundreds of Washing- ians to Montreal. wr‘hx Ludington Alr Line carried its share of holiday travelers in and out of the Capital in 28 ¥ inns last night ac- tammodlflomn vll.rtu;ll"y’.l fl,'.l:d as a Te- t of -the lux of 3 > B aendle the crowds which miiled ut_the streets as and in (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) RIP TIDE TAKES LIVES / OF 14 BATHERS IN SEA West Coast Swept by Inrushing Current—Toll of Swimmers May Mount Higher. . . Bythe Assoclated Press. i LOS ANGELES, July 4—Fourteen persons are known to have drowned and fear is felt that the holiday life loss in @ surging rip tide, which swept the crowded Southern California’ Coast today, may mcunt higher. 77, at 4 pm. yesterda increasing ' cloudiness, in the A,. econd class matter post o ‘Washington, D. C. 'Wind-Tossed Pigeons Lose Race With M. P. FOURTH FRENTRYS WATGHED BY 700 James G. Rogers, in Oration, Sees U. S. Fulfilling World’s Hopes. A crowd of 75,000 people drawn to ‘West Potomac Park and the Monument grounds by clearing weather witnessed the fireworks which last night lit Wash- ington’s skyline for miles and split the air with deafening explosions in official honor of the closing of another Inde- pendence day observance. Duplicated at the same hour in lesser degree in outlying communities of the city, the spectacular fireworks display served as a climax to an inspiring mass- of State James Graf- ton Rogers, praise absent at the Rapidan over the week end, for making ‘“America’s offer to take up a burden for the common wel- fare of a troubled globe.” “U. 8. Fulfills Hope.” in line, stage set in the hollow of the - theater.” Patriotic music was played the United States Marine Band. After - the introductory remarks of ‘Thomas P. Littlepage, chairman of the committee, Dr. James Shera Montgom- ery, chaplain of the House of Repre- sentatives, delivered the invocation. era~ | probably will 51 -k the future another meaning changes of time and even the wl_o!_ Temembrance need not “The world is h now as it was "h clouded with 'E“nf’:m“"" as wi mur} lems distress. The world is rugy‘ to re- n, i ot “Transiated Into New Terms.” Lifeguards responded to aundreds of | calls for help. Several bathers were reported misring tonight were drcwning off Terminal near Long Beach, said 20 swimmers were in distress and calling for help nearby. 'rhie drowned near Terminal Island were William Nagata, 25 years old, Uni- wersity of Southern California Mfll‘n‘: Susumi Sego, 18 years old, Glendale; Clarence P. Haley, 30 years old, San Pedro; Pedro Caro, 24 years old, Los ‘Angeles, and Eleanor Echevesta, 1% Jears-old, Los Angeles. An unidentified girl, believed to be among the vietims, was_heard calling m-”helv. ington Beach. Coast Guard cutter 250 was to_search for a Leonard (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Regarding . | that the education the church, the President Hoover, | 0! he S WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY ‘5, 1931—EIGHTY-EIGHT PAGES. POPE MAY RECALL NUNCIO TO ITALY AS ADDED PROTEST Action Might Follow Papal Encyclical on Fascism. Reply Lacking. OFFICIAL SILENCE RULES, BUT RESENTMENT FELT Contention Between Mussolini and Vatioan Centers on !onthlnl Education. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, July 4.—Possibility of the withdrawal of the papal nuncio at Rome was & subject of discussion by diplomatic observers tonight as a re- sult of the widening of the breach be- tween the church and state by the encyclical of Pope Pius XI on fascism. Nothing approaching a diplomatic rupture was foreseen, but observers be- lieved the Vatican might withdraw its nuncio as a gesture of indignation to emphasize the Fope's reiterated disap- proval of Premier Mussolinl's action against the Catholic clubs. Government Silent. The government remained officlally silent on ‘the tonight,* but it was evident that it felt a resentment as much to the form of the document as to_its manner. The last Italian note to the Vatican protested against what it called . the pontifl’s “trying his case” before world public opinion. the pontiffi’s contention of youth belongs to Pascist creed is so squarely opposed to. this that neither the government nor the Vatican au- thoritles could see any real hope for a This is the fundamental between kept the Popes “prisoner” on papal ter- ritory. VONELMTO MEET BURKE FOR TTLE Detroit Golfer Saves Open Championship Chance by 18th Hole Putt. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM, Staff Correspondent of The Star. INVERNESS COUNTRY CLUB, TO- LEDO, Ohlo, July 4.—George Von Elm, the lone wolf of semi-professional goif, former holder of the amateur cham- 1550~ | plonship, will piay 36 holes of medal foreseen. A great deal of Fascist criticism being leveled at the Pontiff’s method the encyclical. Fascists’ Move Next. ‘The next move, it was ccnceded, is up to the government. The Vatican has demanded reopening of the thousands of closed clubs. The govern- ment’s reply, it was understood 1 nuncio he would leave a d:mopd.'::- faires as the medium of further con- %. pending a li&tlmt 'h:lc.h might ached through some secre X gnhuunkzmmeumm&m e concordat , Neither side, it was believed, considers that there has been a complete rupture or nullification of all of work ac- complished by these treaties. Foreign Publication Hit. 1 3 forthcoming. sideiine “&e“n:l the . The Italian office & brief outline otwme?domme’:: ‘was furnished by newspaper men. ITALIAN TOFLY IN U. S. Commander de Bernardi to Take Part in Cleveland Air Races. ROME, July 4 (#)—Comdr. Mario de Bernardl, Schneider Cup fiyer, will participate in the. air races at Cleve- llnd.(:hlo,w”,llwumnmmud encyclical Guards Rout Spanish Jobless. BARCELONA, July 5 (P).—Civil this afternoon fired into a group ho were shouting BOY’S FONDNESS FOR POLICEMEN [3iske SAVES HIM FROM FOURTH CROWDS |35 “I’s Lost,” Says *Byub” Phillips, Lost m Monument Throrg, to Capt. Holmes—Sleeps in Car After Cone. ks | Scoutmaster, the aid of several body at Sunset Beach. | and Porter, 25 years old, Pasa- | ordeal beca: body was recovered. Life guards sald the number of fa- talities set & record for Southern Cali. dornia beaches, His father, employed in ternat enlisted Boy Scouts f e for the Meantime “Bub” wandered all over tonight, | Bu Magazine Section. e | Pt Ehe Moo Wol play tomorrow against Billy Burke, the Americanized Pole from Connecticut, for the national open golf champion- ship of the United States. The blond tiger from Detroit, only “business man golfer” in the world, sank a curling, twisting 7-foot putt on the eighteenth green of the Inverness course late this afternoon to tie with Burke for the title which Bobby Jones relinquished. Their totals were 292, which is an average of 73 for each of the four rounds of the championship distance, and also is an average of two strokes above par for each of the four circuits of the course. Von Elm Covers Mistakes. Blowing himself right out of the championship by three consecutive 5s holes, starting with the 1-!:xmr, which gained him a tie with e. That putt to tie with a birdie 3 on the eighteenth came two holes after Von Elm had seemingly tossed away his chance at the sixteenth hole, where he nazeded three 4s to tie and missed a 2- foot putt for a 4 at the sixteenth. That left needing 4, 3 to tie, and that is just what he did. Bob Jones once remarked that they all blow during the final nine holes of the open championship. He has done it himself, and he should know. And blow is exactly what von Elm did. Standing on the tentlt tee he needed 38 to win on the same nine where he had made @ 32 yesterday afterncon. He :uma_j ':d skid .:.lu the twelfth, whmm he over green. Then mlllednl a six-footer at the fourteenth, and the stage was set for the driving finish ' to the wire. Burke Watches Putt. Burke was in, up at the club house, watching von Elm from the vantage point of an upstairs window. But as (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) i TODAY’S - STAR m""&o‘f-f’é Gardener—Page ' B-6. T TWO—8 PAGES. ' PAR! Editorials and editorial features. PART THREE—S PAGES. Section. PART FOUR—$ PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen Pra -Page 5. Atmy. and ews—Page 5. Serial amr;j'""x"n’: Lucky Lawrences”— Page 6. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 6. \ News of the of Veterans Y. W. C. A, N Marine Corps News—] T SIX—S PAGES. ’A=m and Classified tising. . PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Adver- 14. orid—] 18, Hooks_ram i1 18, 19, N -Music Reviews of the New s and QI muw-:,mw , Billiard Opponent - Of President Grant Dies at Age of 94 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 4.—Charles Rosenthal, former tobacco manu- facturer and department stcre owner, who played billlards with President U. 8. Grant in the late fitties at Galena, Ill, died today of illness due to old age. He was 94. On a sailing vessel he came to America from Germany in 1853, surviving cholera, mutiny and shipwreck during the three months’ crossing. He retired 15 years ago. Surviving are his daughters, Mrs. Hattie Fleischman, Mrs. M. H. Brand, Mrs, 1. F. Brand, Mrs. Nora Koller, Mrs. Prederick Fleischman, and one son, Isalah Rosenthal, of Scranton, Pa. TOKIO FLYERS PLAN 10 HOP OFF TODAY Arrival of Refueling Plane at Fairbanks Will Be Sig- nal for Start. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., July 4 —Expected word of the safe arrival of the refueling plane in Fairbanks, Alaska, will be the signal for Reg. L. Robbins and H. S. Jones, Texas aviators, to leave Seattle early tomorrow on their projected non- l'* flight to Tokio. e two pilots were prepared tonight for the journey over Alaska and down the coast of Siberia, and were only waiting for a message from J. J. Mattern and Nick Greéener, also from Texas, that they had reached Fair- banks. Mattern and Greener, pilots of the Tonton: Alberta, and were expecied (o monton, , and were arrive in Alaska City . The snow-white lane Fort ‘Worth, Robbi they call rough at In- | toda; MEXICD ASKS .S, REPORTONKILING Ambassador Tellez Instructed | to Get Data on Slaying of Two Students. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 4.—It was stated in Government circles today that the foreign office had cabled instructions to Ambassador Manuel Tellez in Wash- ington to ask the State Department for 2 report on the United States Govern- ment investigation into the shooting at Ardmore, Okla., on June 8, of two| Mexican students, one & nephew of President Ortiz Rubio. s Orders Sons to Canada. It was stated yesterday in the same circles that the president had ordered his two sons, Fernando and Guillermo, to leave the United States and arrange for college courses in Canada. Semi-official comment here today was that the instructions to Ambassador ‘Telles were in line with Foreign Secre- tary Estrada’s recent statement that Mexico could not consider the incident closed with the acquital, June 27, of Deputy Sheriff W. E. Guess, who was tried for the slayings. Incident Not Ended. Immediately following the shooting, Mezxico was informed that the United States Government would make an ample investigation of the affair. It was said at the foreign office today that Ambassador Tellez had visited Acting Secretary of State Castle to in- form him that Mexico would not be nt(;l:’led now to consider the incident ended. TELLEZ ACTS ON ORDER. Note Requesting' Slaying Report Sent 1o State Department. . Ambassador Tellez of Mexico last night said as soon as the report cf the United States State Department on the slaying of two Mexican youths in Oklahoma was received by him it would be rushed to the foreign office in Mexico City. ‘The Ambassador declined to ccm- ment on the order he received from Foreign Minister Estrada to request the United States for the report upon the possible future action of Mexico in the case. ‘The Ambassador said the repcrt was requested of the State Department in a note written by him yesterday and transmitted today. S et e Tairpanks: [UNVEIL ISTANBUL TABLET ECT IN DRY CASE ADMITS $33,500 THEFT By the Assoclated Press. GREENSBORO, N. on, who sald H 5 ga 883 i o® il i ¥ x.‘ ghs ?’ Lo ;ri § §§ £ § Esxs ] 8 efié i1 STUNT PLANE KILLS TWO Pilot and 18-Year-0ld -Student Flyer Victims: in Indiana. PERU, Ind,, July 4 (P)—A and Memorial to Isaac Bliss Marks Centennial of Mission Work. ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 4 (#).—A f Isaac Bliss was un- velled today at Istanbul Bible House in ¢ | canection with the centennial of Amer- Y. ‘The tablet was sent by Silvester Bliss, assistant treasurer of the New York Central Railroad, son of the . The elder Mr. Bliss was agent for the Ammmnm Bible Society here from 1847 to 1889. © ° 20 HURT IN BUS WRECK READING, PA, July 4 (#.—About twenty passengers traveling form New “From Press to Home Within the Hour” " National 5000 to start immediate delivery. (P) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS| ELSEWHERE FINAL DEBT MEETING TOMORROW EXPECTED TO CLEAR LAST ISSUE German Reparation Only Point Unsettled—Memorandum on Question on Way Here. GOVERNMENTS RECOGNIZE YOUNG PLAN' CONTINUITY * Central European Countries to Be Aided by Loans From Banks of U. S, France and England. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.. An accord between the United States and France on President Hffiver’s deht-suspen:i'&;n plan has :eenkreu:hed on all except one point—German reparations payments in kind—it was said last night in high official circles here. s * A memorandum from the French government dealing with the question of payments in kind by Germany during the coming year ; i:n ol;.:gwly frgm Paris {.ouwmmmn. hnt it prove acceptable to rnment, a complete agreement between the t - ments in principle will hapve beeg achieved. it be comglebed by Monday night. Thi of the details are omitted. to governments. Basis of Complete Debt Agreement Is | Reached in Paris | By the Associated Press. can statesmen early this morning reached the basis of a compleie agree- ment for the application of the Hoover plan for economic relief to Germany. President Hoover's plan consists of the granting of a moratorium on Ger- man reparations payments to her Eu- Topean creditor nations from July 1, 1931, to July 1, 1932. In return, the United States proposes to forego Euro- pean war debt payments due it during the same period. After a series of negotiations which had been always laborious, and some- times delicate and even ecritical, the statesmen reached their accord after midnight. ‘The draft of the text, which was to be cabled to Washington immediately, is subject to the approval of President Hoover and his governmental colleagues. If the President finds that it con- forms to the principles of his plan, a final decision is expected on Monday, and the agreement will be put into final form at another conference of the French and American statesmen ;‘hlch probably also will be held Mon- ay. It will then be initialed by the ne- gotiators. . 12 Years for Repayment. Havas News Agency said that the Franco-American agreement fixed 12 years as the length of time to be allowed Germany for repayment of the delayed funds. It said the thorniest part of the dis- agreement was the French demand for the continuation by Germany of pay- ments in kind, to which continuation the American Government was funda- mentally opposed. It added that the interviews of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand on Saturday with Secretary Mellon: and Ambassador Edge were on the subject of Germany’s good faith. Briand was said to have explained that France was willing to help Ger- many, but that she required assurance that the credits extended would not be used for armaments and that efforts at an hegemony must not disturb confidence. ‘The negotiators were said also to have deliberated tonight how this might be_put to Germany. It was learned that an important ac- companiiment to the agreement will be the convocation in Paris at & very early date, of a conference of repre- sentatives of the nations which adhere to the Young plan. Experts to Confer. This conference probably will be one of experts rather than of diplomats, and will have as its object the dovetail- ing of the projected Franco-American accord into the Young plan. The out- standing problem will be the question of & guarantee fund which France is obligated to deposit with the World Bank for International Settlements. inmlt stacles to the acceptance of the agree- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) RUSSIA TO AID ZEPPELIN . (&'l POLAR FLIGHT FINANCING “E%! German Newspaper Trust Also to Pafidpate Following _ Withdrawal of Support by Hearst. ‘The Zeppelin will carry Prof. R. L. and of his assistants, vi:owm a 3 ¢ unstudied PARIS, July 5—French and Ameri-| Secretary Mellon and Ambassador Edge are to meet the French government’s representatives in another and, it is expected, final conference on Monday, it was said. The strongest kind of hope was expressed that the accord would Government made public here last night the text of = memorandum which was transmitted from Washington Friday and handed by Secretary Mellon to the French. This memorandum out- lines the points on which an accord has been reached, aithough some Payments to Be Reloaned. The two governments have agreed, it was said, on the proposal that France is to retain none of the payments of nnmndmorn‘:l upnl rations, which will be made by Germany into the Bank for Interna« tional Settlements. These payments are to be made by the German Rallway. Immediately they are to be reloaned by the Bank for Inter- national Settlements back to the German Railway. By this means it 1s possible to avoid the restriction in the statute of the Bank for International Settlements that the institution shall make no loans ‘The German Railway is & government concern, and the unconditional repars- tions are paid that institution to the Bank of In itional Settle- ments. The two governments in their agree- ment recognize the Dfln#e of the con- tinuity of payments under the Young plan for German reparations, s prin- ciple insisted upon by France, as s sine qua non to its joining in the pro- posed intergovernmental debt suspen- sion plan for one year. E Banks to Make Leans. ‘The iwo governments are in virtusl agreement over point raised by France that some of the Central European na- tions shall be cared for i the debt sus- pension plan. The French urged thas Al eparations paid B Gemmaay into the 'fl'fi?u mmmm ments this year should be loaned to these Central European countries, in- cluding Poland, Rumania and Czecho- slovakia. To this the American Gov- ernment objected on the d that such an arrangement wfl“:ot give T piymerts which was Contempiated pa; W] ‘was con! in the President's . It has now been agreed, it is said, 50 far as possible between the two gov- ernments, that these Central Eu countries are to be aided through is said. Agree on 12-Year Payments. The two governments have reached for payments of the suspen debt payments. The French bave urged these payments be made in & five-year period; the United States pro- posed a longer period running up to 25 years. The agreement is for pay- ments in & period of 12 years, with no payments 10 be made the first two years. g As to the French “guarantee fund" point of difference, this Government has said to France: This Government under- stands that France says this matter can be dropped so far as the United States is concerned, in view of new ini - tation of the guarantee fund, wl France will propose. This ind ta- tion is that France shall be obl to pay into the Bank for International Settlements only so much of the 500, 000,000 marks as and when such pay- n.ent becomes necessary. This inter- pretation is sald to be acceptable to nu:u& Itisa m‘:ug l'::lenr. v':_.uh mus! agreed signatories %‘Mm Yu‘n.nl plan om;rnt.hln France. hope is expressed t such i ment will be forthcoming. o Memorandum Points Way. High Government officials here said last night that the United States, in Tetary Mellon yésterday, and by him el pL ly, and handed to the French, had Dozhfl [ way out of any remaining difficulties which have arisen in the minds of the French government to participation the Hoover dept suspension plan. This way out is the submission of all tech- for Internationsl Settlements. bl ‘The United States, it was said, would Expects to Work Out Details. Once the plan has been by , it was could be left the ‘committee to work out, and the