Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1931, Page 1

- e ——— WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Iorecast). Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; ocal thundershowers; not much change in temperature, —Highest, 90, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 73, at 5 a.m. today. probabl Temperatures Full report on page 12. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 @b ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1 as second class matter Washington, WASHINGTON, B D. C, TUESDAY, ) JULY Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,276. 1y 1931—THIRTY-E IGHT PAGES. #HH (/) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. EARLY EXPERTS SESSION EXPECTED TO WORK OUT DETAILS OF DEBT PLAN Technical Study May Wait for Bastille Day. FLANDIN LAUD HOOVER PLAN Mellon and Edge Praise krance in Reaching Accord. By the Associated Prese PARIS, July 7.—-With the ir hardly dry on the documents es tablishing President Hoover's one- year debt suspension as an inter- national fact, negotiations already are under way for a meeting of experts to work out the technical issues involved in the Franco- American protocol accept Hoover plan. Such a conference may be held at the end of but it is more likely that it will go ov into next week, because of the French national holiday on July 14. It is not expected that Chan- cellor Bruening and Foreign Min ister Curtius of Germany w come here for a mecting w French statesmen before the end of this month. Surprised French. In the view of official France, Germany must repatriate the capi v left that country toward restorati assurance of succ plan. Pierre Flandin, said today that nificant feature of signed last night is provides that the Uni te herself from tr world, even should she w The Hoover pro as a surprise to who did nct real of Germany Y “The French government “has adhered to the Hoover initia nt a financial ¥y, which -reaching and di sequences and would have proved pa ticularly bad for continuous payment of reparations to Franc “Supplemental negot:: gin_as soon as may spirit which marked the between France and the U “Reestablishment of international confidence has as great an importance to resumption of business now as had tion of confidence in the value of the 3 m or sh t col- ench franc in 19, The protocol of the tialeu in the red diaw ord was ini- the Treasury Andrew Ambassador Waiter E. ing the United Statc Pierre Laval, For:ig Briand, Finance Minister F! other officials representing As Mr. Mellon started to tials the pen broke at Premicr Laval smilingly other. When all was grasped Mr and Mr. beatcoup.” orangead: graced Statement of Americans. Mr. Mellon and Mr. Edge collaborated on a statement at the end of the nego- tiations. “The American negotiators express to the American public the this occasion,” they said preciation of the generous e Prench government to 1 ment destined to rehabil cial structure of the wo Most of the ne sgreement as the chapter in history since the Treaty of Versailles. “Without abandoning French government found cord with the firm, friend! Mellon and Edge," said Le Matin. “In spite of the difficult situation ereated by Mr. Hoover's sudden initia- tive, the French negotiators succeeded in maintaining integrally the principles of the Young plan and thus leaving ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) ENGINEER AND SON GUILTY IN FRAUDS Sentenced to Five-Year Terms for Sale of Automotive tock. n: Laval nd with emotion plied with “Merci f champagn~ #nd e conference table. orts of the n ag! the finan- hailed the momentous the signing of er, who began life 69 years ago in a Michigan lo3 cabin and became a dis- tinguished engineer and inventor, was | sentenced with his son, Wyman C. Parker, today to five years) imprison- ment on cach of 11 mail fraud counts and two years on a conspiracy count. Classing the defendants as enemies of society, Federal Judge Woolsey said he would extend no leniency except to let the sentences run concurrently, which will free the father and son from At- Janta Penitentiary in five years, They also were fined $11,000 each. ‘The Parkers were charged with fraud In connection with sale of Automotive Royalties Corporation stock. The elder Parker, who is a great-grandfather, has long been a trustee of the Church of the Strangers and has held numerous smportant positions. Several years ago he was an engineer for the Cadillac Motor Car Co. in De- troit at a salary of $30,000. Then he organized the Parker Rustproof Co. to promote one of his inventions, but the Michigan Securities Commission had him enjoined from selling stock of the company 2nd compelled him to ccase #ll connection with it. | Prostrated by Heat. | Rebert M. Broning. 29, of 329 Rhode land avenue, was prostrated by the at today while ing near Twenty- hird street and Naylor road southeast. | c was taken to Casualty Hospital. | By the Assoctated Pr French and U. S. Agree After 11 Days. EXPECT AGENTS’ CHOICE AT ONCE Agreement Text French Government Makes Public Result of Debt Conversations, July 7.—The text of the war ension accord, approved yes- by France and the United given out last night by the It follows “After exchanges of views the French government states that it is in agree- ment with the United States on the essential principles of President Hoover's posal and propusitions which may be sed thus: t—The payment of intergovern- mental debts is postponed from July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1932. “Second — However, the Reich will pay the amount of the unconditional annuity. To Be Placed in Bonds. “The French government agrees in so far as it is concerned, that the pay- ments thus made by the Reich shall \Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) GERMANY PLEDCES YEAR OF ECONONY Thiree Months Seen Necessary to End Huge Task. By the Associated Press. With all nations agreed upon jhe principle of President Hoover's debt suspension plan, the Ameri- can Government expects Yuick appointment of the committee of experts that will work out the technical phases of the plan. Acting Secretary Castle of the State Department said today he expected Young plan signatories to appoint their members of the committee at once. The Ameri can Government already has sig- nified its willingness to co-operate with the committce, although it will deal with problems in which the United States has no direct connection. Castle said the interested pow- ers knew the need for speed and that he expected it would take the committee at least three .months to work out the hundreds of technical details which must be clarified before the plan can go into actual operation. Proclamation Declares Money Will Be Used Exclusively for Business Recovery. an official morning the government promises the world money released by the Hcover pensione will be used without on for the country’s economic ued this Reparations Most Important. The first and most important of these details deals with the intricate prob- lem of payment of reparat.ons in goods. Already many contracts have been igned which car designated by P holiday, the process of ses Ger- ed Stales, iment expr to the Ur s the sacrifices which other dent Hoover as a and other contracts were in over into the time | naticns must make to help Germany, and warns the German people that they wust economize now as never before. It expresses the hope that the Hoo- ver year may solve the world's economic troubles, but asserts that if that hope is to be realized. co-operation of all the nations is imperative. Not a Final Solution. Success of the Franco-American nego- cannot reasonably be to clear Germa financial at one stroke. it is agreed short-time foreign credits re- called over the week end still have to be met, and these obligations will overlap into the next few s, A credi: of 400,000,000 marks (about $100.000,000) granted the Reichsbank by the international banks of the Bank fof Settlements was exhausted several days ago. and a $50,000,000 credit with the International Acceptance Bank at New York had to be drawn upon to keep the Reichs- bank’s gold and foreign currencies above the lezal 40 per cent. The Reichsbank authorities were re- tuation Te. negotiation when the | INTER naTy o BuULLeTi\. FRANCE. AcRrees To HOoVER, MorATORI UM ! PROPOSALS to Pull Having lost a lively foot race to & po- lice sergeant this morning, 23-year-old | William David Webb sat in a cell at No. | 11 precinct today and earnestly sought { to explain why he turned East Central | Washington into a bedlam of wailing sirens and roaring motors by sending in {10 false fire alarms in a little over two hours early this morning. | “Why,” d manded a policeman, “why | did you'do it? { The prisoner, sitting on his cell bunk in an attitude of profound thought knotted his brow. “I was lonely,” h: suggested. “Lonely!" snorted the officer. “You e NN 7 Y 'LONELINESS PROMPTS YOUTH Captured by Police Sergeant in Chase, He GiVCS Several Reasons fOl" Impulse BOXCS. se T fell out with “You fell out with vour fam vou?” The officer was hardly sati “Maybe you just wanted to sce the red Wagons ru = Again bb shook heard them a-comin when they got ther else. “I think T must have done it just to get put away for awhile. Yes, that's it Some time In ja vould do good. I knew I'd get caught, you see “You didn’t act objected the officer, “when Sergt. Thomas took after {you down at Ninth and D.” Webb looked per- H. Thomas, wailing This was a_poser w. PITTS' SECRETARY ANDHENRY 0. HART PLEAD NOT GULTY Coblentz, Pitts and Edwards | to Be Arraigned Later in | F. H. Smith Co. Case. 1$20,000 BAIL IS POSTED BY TWO DEFENDANTS | Frederick Politician Issues State-| | ment Denying He Helped | “Frame” Evidence. Miss Helen L. Schneider, who was private secretary to G. Bryan Pitts, | former head of the F. H. Smith C> and Henry O. Hart, former accountant ! for the company, were arraigned today befora Justice Gordon in District Su- preme Court following their indictment | | yesterday on charges of “aiding in the | | commission of perjury” at the recent ! conspiracy-embezzlement trial of Smith | Co. officials. i The reading of the indictment was waived by counsel for the accused, each of whom entered a plea of not guilty. | At the request of Assistant Attorn POPE REPLY LATER bond at $15.000 and th: cffect of Vatican Attack to for Miss Schneider at $5,000. Bond for | each was furnished by Miltcn Kron- Be Studied Before Fram- ing Answer. heim. Coblentz to Appear. Emory L. Coblentz, prominent Mary- land politician and banker, also indicted | cn the same charges, is expectod to ap- pear here within a day or two for ar-| raignment. Pitts, now under a prison sentenc and John H. Edwards, jr.. former Smith | Co. vice president, who is serving a torm at Lorton, Va., also Were indicted | again yesterday and will be arraigned later. | The new indictments grow out of au- | thorizations signed by Pitts or Coblentz. which purported to warrant Pitts to take money which, the Government al- leges, was embezzled Fron his home in Fredefick, Coblentz disclaimed any wrongdoing. and de- ROME. —Italy's reply to the apal encycliczl “concerning Catholic ion” may not be prepared for several w it was learned today. In official quarters it is said the gov- 1nt will take its own time in de- ng the rep! aiting to observe the cance of the papal letter scue was to have been discuss:d at a meeting of the directors of the Fascist P by the indictment. Explains Signature. His statement follows: “I have just received information that my & been connected with an indictment by | the Federal grand jury in Washington ! relating to certain evidence presented | proposed to go direc clared he was “surprised and Sh’zrilcd"" WHEAT SITUATION SEEN AFFECTING Curtis and Senators Watson and Capper to Push Fight on Selling. FARM BO>AéD REFUSES REVISION OF POLICY Asked to Held Grain From Market Up to 85-Cent Level. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Believing that the wheat situation in this country threatens to become more grave and that other agricultural prices cannot fail to be affected, Vice Presi- dent Curtis, Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Scnate, and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, indicated todsy that they have not abandoned their effort to have the Federal Farm Board withhold from the market for the next few months all of the wheat which the board took over in the stabilizi ations of 1930 and 1929 Just what the will be on the part of the S the Vice President has not yct been indicated. The Vice President and Senator Cap- per appealed to the Ferm Board itself vesterday in a two-hour conference to revise its statement of policy, but witt- out success. So far they have not tal the matter up with President Hoovr, it was said today. Nor did the Vice President or the Senators say they t to the Chief ecutive in the matter It seems pr abl>, however, that after the final rush rgovernmentz1 debt sus tiations is p2st this matter of may be called s v to the attention of the Price Vital Matter. Senator Capper said price of wheat is of the farmers of th Both he and Sen be given traders in grain at holdings ment should to the effect tk to sell no wheat either fo or that price of wouid be a pericd of uld not on the proposal was made, % didn’t need the whol: Metropolitan Fire Casile said a conservative estimate of | Department to keep you company, did the separate problems which the com- mittee would have to solve would be 1,000. Many of these, however, are of minor importance. In addition to dealing with technical points growing out of the hegotiations between France and the United States the committee will have to settle a uamber of contentions resulting from we positions of other powers, such as Greece and Belgium. The Acting Secretary talked for some time with President Hoover today. but said afterward that no developments had arisen overnight “I came just to talk things over,” he satd. Accord Reached Yesterday. Castle has been one of Pr Hoover's closest advisers on the tiations with France since they began two weeks ago. He and Acting Secre- tary Mills of thé Treasury have been closeted with the Chief Exccutive many hours each day since the President’s proposal was made. Prench and American accord on the ident nego- principle of President Hoover's plan for a year's holiday on_intergovernmental debts was announced late yesterday by the Chief Executive at the White H It brings every imporiant creditor na- tion into agrecment, thus uniting the former allies of the World War in a fight for general economic relief by a postponement of debts growing out of the four-year conflict. The agreement was reached after 11 days of negotiations be:ween the French (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) BASE BALL BAT USED luctant to reduce that percentage, al-, though the law permits them latitude in that direction as a “temporary” measure. ‘The §50.000.000 credit in New York alread; ced to the extent of about 75 per cent understood, and it _scems plain that the Reichsbank is (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) CONFESSES BOMBING “L"\ Chicago School Engineer Admits Doing Act as Tenants Quit. { you?” | Webb, a clear-eyed youngster, who said | he was a sheet m-tal worker by trade. | | considered this. *“No.” h: admitted plexed. Sergt for a street on his way to No. 11 preeinct, had seen the youth pull a box and leave the vicinity at a rapid pace “Why did vou run from the sergeant?" “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | | - VISIT BY SURPRISE | {Post and Gatty Board Train | to Gotham at Early Hour | [ for Oklahoma Hop. | Wiley Post and Harold Gatty were back in New York today after receiving the acclaim of the Capital in a series of ovations lasting from noon until nearly midnight. Ahead of them was another New York reception before they take to the air again tomorrow on a one-stop flight to Oklahoma for a | week's visit. { The two aviators who circled the globe in less than nine days left here | by train at 1 o'clock this morning after | another last-minute switch in plas. | Reaching cne of those abrupt dead- | of-night decisions for which they be- GLOBEFLYERSEND | nearest her home. DRAG RIVER INHUNT FOR MISS WILSOF New York Police Probe Mur- der Thzory in Disappear- ance of Actress. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 7.—Marine police began dragging the Hudson River to- day on the chance that Evelyn Wilson, missing 23-year-cld actress, might have becn slain and thrown into the water. A rruor%hal he had been seen get- ting into/a taxicab near her sister's home. from which she vanished at 1 am. Sundav. is the only clue uncovered in the investigation of her disappear- ance. Roofs and cellars in the neigh- borhood are to be searched by detec- tives. also that part of Central Park in the possibility that. if murdered, her body might have been hidden. party, but the meeting has been post- poned ind finitely. Official Italy is described as displeased over the diplomatic negotiations with the Vatican and coubtful as to their eventual effectiveness. Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of the premier, said in Popolo d'Italia today that the Vatican and the state had fust’ about reached an agreement on the Catholic action controversy when the Pope's encyclical “spoiled it.” He said the controversy rested on wo points—the Elosing of fhe Catholic on Youth Clubs and the education talian youth, and that the latter em had practically been solved. The encyclical raised protests ad. but these protests actually were the fruit of aversion against Ttaly,” he said. “Many people love Italy s a garden spot, but condemn her and hate her as a power.” The differences between the church and the state are common in countries whose relations with the church are governed by a concordat, he said. BOY SCOUT, 14, SAVES the trial of G. Bryan Pitis in Decemb Pl e last. “I was formerly interested in two properties owned by corporations the stock of which Pitts subsaquently pur- |chased. During my connection With these properties it was my Quty to siga certain authorizations and papers in conpection with payments that were actually and properly made to parties to whom they were due. “After my connecton Wwith these properties had been terminated, I was requested to sign certan of these au- thorizations that had not been executed before, in order to complete the cor- porate records. “Shortly before Pitts’ trial, T learned for the first time that these two prop- perties weie involved in his alleged embezzlements, which occurred _after 1 had terminated my connection and he became their sole owner. I mediately communicated with both Pitts and hf counsel and insisied that under no circumstances were these | papers to be used as evidence, and was assured that not only would they not be used but they actually had been destroyed. Says He Was Surprised. im- | SECOND FROM DEATH Rescues Drowning Man From Creck After Efforts of Three Others Fail. “I was naturally astonished when! these papers were presented at the, t.ial, and since then have given to the, Department of Justice every assistance | | within my power in investigating the | matter. “I want te emphasize that I have| never received any profit, either direct cr indirectly, from these properties. I am surprised and shocked that my| name has been used in ccnnection with | | these indictments. My conscience is| entirely clear and I ask that the public ! | reserve its judgment until all of the! facts become known. By the Associated Press COOLEEMEE, N. C,, July 7.—Everett Walker, 14-year-old Boy Scout, of Mocksville, N. C.. today was credited with saving a second life. Last Ociober he plunged into the bl>zing Mocksville Hotel and dragged his younger brcther to safety. a bushel. The assurance by reatly berefit being pres gey fore their w} harvested. | “The wheat crop in Kansas | less acreage than last year, p: be big, and the wheat crop for the en tire c-untry i cted to be millicn { of bushels than last year. | this be the case, unless there are crop ed A that such a the Farm Bo: growing nati year will be augm plus from this year | Senator Capper and Senator Wat- son_both that President Hoover's plan. now agreed to, move and would undou world situation, and eral condi aid the American farm sisted, however, that somec be done to improve t! | American wheat, and Tes { confidence of the farmers and the buy- i ers of wheat. This could be done, they ! said, by a prompt redeclaration of pol- |icy by the Farm Board The wheat situation in the West in 2dditicn to its economic possibilities ¢ ty of political possibilities in the Western States for the most part are They look, however, to the admin! tration for relief and if they do not it the G. O. P. may suffer next year in the rational elections. Despite the | fact that Kansas is reckoned a strong Republican State, it elected last year a Democratic Senator and a Democratic Governcr. The Republicans in Kansas are hoping to supplant both these offi- clals n ear. They are looking for- ward to carrying Kansas for President admit, however, t too. The C July 7 (#).—John Graff, ic school engineer, was held by after confessing, they said, that he bombed the Howard street terminal ing flight, the flyers suddenly decided ! to abandon plans to catch the 7 o'clock TO BEAT CARPENTER t came famous during their record-break- | tine today after collision with the liner | France off Ambrose Light during heavy vards of the elevated railroad becau the r: ¥ys noises caused him to los tenants in his nearby apartment build- ing. He exonerated John Bauer, his jani- | or, and Alfred Nelscn, another janitor. Lies TUnconscious Three Days. Wife and Boarder S2id to 0 Have Confessed. were released. Graff said he lit the fuses of threc | bombs, only one of which exploded. It did slight damage. SHIPS IN COLLISION France Conti By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 7—Un- | conscious since July 4, when he was | attacked in his sick bed and beaten | severely, Joseph Tomasunas, sr., 46, carpenter, was discovered by his three small children today and taken to a hospital, where doctors said practically every bone in his body was shattered. | Doctors said he likely would die. | Police are holding his wite, Mary, 42, g . and a boarder, Nicholas Kramer, 37. The frelghter had a small hole on it | Authorities said the pairconfissed PO e France, which 107 Jos Hight for | e e’ G LLE, e helpless e , LS i or | man wi a base ba at. e chil- Europe, continued its trip when the | dren had been excluded from the room ‘Ca.rma. inbound, refuszd its offer of as- ;“hcre their father was on the plea of sistance. | the mother that the father was too sick The Carnia left Palermo, Italy, on |to see them. Police said the motive for June 18. | the attack had not been determined. HOOVER AND RITCHIE TO ATTEND ues Trip After Crash With Italian Freighter. NEW YORK, July 7 (#).—The Italian freighter Carnia anchored off quaran- fog. | TODAY’S GAME AT GRIFF STADIUM| | President Hopes Press of Affairs Will Be Relieved by Agreement on War Debts. ‘The “Not at Home" signs were dusted | the season opened, when the Athletics off this morning at 1600 Pennsylvania ’nlso were opposing the Nationals. | avenue and the Governor’s mansion at | Mrs. Hoover and a small party of }Ammpons as the distinguished occu- | friends, with a member or two of the pants, with a couple of base ball bees | cabinet, were to accompany the Presi- {in their bonnets, prepared to spend|dent and occupy the private box of |' | Ludington Line plane and instead went to Union Station and left by train. ; Leave Suddenly by Train. | Following a testimonial banquet last night at the Willard Hotel, during| which Post broke his silence and made | the longest speech of his career, the flyers went to their rooms and, instead | | of going to bed, as they had been ex- | | pected to do, suddenly decided to leave town. Shortly after midnight they called a | | surprised desk clerk and asked for light | | breakfasts in a hurry. A few minutes | later they checked out of the hotel, and | at 1 o'clock were on their way out of Union Station with their wives and F.| | C. Hall, Oklahoma oil millionaire, who | | financed their flight. | | At 6:45 o'clock this morning, when local Ludington Line officials were an-| "(Continued on page 4, column 1). HEARING ON FALL'S SENTENCE DELAYED Rover Says Examination Convinces Him Former Secretary Can Start Term. By the Associated Press. | Justice Bailey of the District of Co- lumbia Supreme Court today postponed l action in the case of Albert B. Fall un- til Thursday. Government counsel had anncunced they would ask Justice Bailey today to order that Fall's sentence of a year in prison be carried out immediately. The hearing was put off because of other | Retrial of Showman and Three Set | Police were notified that Joseph Sheeran of Jersey City. former fiance of the actress. who Is said to have broken off the engagement at the request of her family, was prepared to give any aid he could. | POLICE SUSPECT HOAX. 0ld Stunt of Trying to Get Publicity, Officer Says. EVANSTON, IiL, July 7 (#).—Police of Evelyn Wilson's home city today dropped their investigation of the | actress’ disappearance .n New York and labeled it a hoax. Detective Lieut. Ca:1 Ekman said her father, Harry Wilson, had produced none of the letters, expressing fear of abduction, which he said his daughter | had written to him, and could not re- call names of any suitors whose “ardent proposals” she had spurned. “It looks like the old stunt of trying to get notoriety when jobs are scarce,” Eckman said. “We have information that she is alive, well and in safe hands in New York.” Ekman said the girl's parents had separated over their daughter’s stage career, the father wishing her to drop it. Wilson is a Post Office employe and former stock company performer. PANTAGES MAY GO FREE IN “GIRL MARKET” CASE | to Begin Next Monday. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 7.—Tom | Whelan, district attorney, said today | conspiracy and morals charges against | Alexander Pantages, theater magnate, and three others might be droppe Retrial of the group is to open next Monday. Pantages is accused of conspiring with Jesse H. Shreve, a San Diego busi- ness man, and Olive Clark Day and William Jokelmann, salleged operators of a Hollywood “girl market,” to bring Yesterday, after three men had failed | to bring the unconscious body of Boone Stonestreet from the 14-foot bottom cf Dutchmans Creek, Walker dived in and rescued Stonestreet. 2 “I want it distinctly understood this | matter is entirely a personal one and | no financial institution or other cor- | poration with which I am connected | Hoover again, | that there are difficuities which must | be ironed sut in the Sunflower State if i they are to be successful. And one of |or assoclated is in any way involved,{ their problems is to make the farmer: | Schultz, | against his activities. | Epicures of Three Continents Linger Over Grape-Fed| The youth was awarded the Carnegle Medal for his heroism during the Mocksville Hotel fire. { interested or affected.” { Replying to Pitts’ suit to regain cus- | tody of papers seized in a vault at e Palm_B:ach, the Government yester- | day declared the seizure was legal and asked that the suit be dismissed. DUTCH SCHULTZ CLEARED | — Hart was represented at today’s ar- i i ! raignment by Attorneys Leon Tobrincr Bronx Racketeer Wins Dismissal of |raignment by Atforneys Leon Tobriner ‘ |tin L. O'Donohue appeared for Miss | | Schneider. Counsel for each was grant- | |ed 20 days in which to decide if they | would attack the indictments, Gun-Toting Charge. NEW YORK, July 7 (#).—In a crowd- ed and heavily guarded court room, Arthur Flegenheimer, alias Dutch Bronx beer runmner, won dis missal today of gun-carrying charg and complete victory in the police drive Martin Krompier, charged with Schultz, also was freed. SHOT, BUT DIDN'T KNOW IT! CHICAGO, July 7 (#)—Matthias s = | Stieren, 36, was shot and wounded Denominations Share Church. | July 4, but didn't know it until yes- WILMINGTON, N. C., July 7 (®.— | terday. The little chapel cn the boardwalk at | A headache prompted him to call a Wrightsville Beach, near here, is owned | physician. He was taken to a hos- and used by two denominations. The | pital, where a bullet was found in the | rector of St. James Episcopal Church | fleshy part of his neck. | and the pastor of the First Presbyterian | Stieren remembered that he thought | Church, both of Wilmingten, conduct | something had hit him July 4, but services on alternate Sundays. ! paid no attenticn to it at the time. CONNOISSEURS SIP RARE VINTAGE | AND TALK OF WINES’ SOUL MATES Pigeon Pie and Taste “Chateau Margaux.” bed of aubergines. James Murfin_of Detroit is head of the American Committee of the wine continents — Europe, _Australia _and | tasters conference. He is regarded as a America—are gathered in London 10| connoisseur and keeps a well stocked | taste and pass judgment upon wmei cellar in the Savoy for the use of his By the Associated Press. a LONDON, July 7.—Epicures of !hreel rare old wines of proven worth and guests. some newer upstarts which yet must| ™., " o0 icenr lifts & glass to his man::mt:e‘ir n‘t’“fi}? ‘Bh:v:;orlfiom_ lips, mulling it with his hands, sniffing a bit more satisfied with their lot. Talk Is Speculative. Talk that Vice President Curtis stand on the wheat question lines hirl up in opposition to the administratior is the merest kind of speculation. The Hoover admifistration is strongly sup- ported by Senator Capper and by Sena- tor Watson, and will continue to be, al- though they have taken the same posi- tion as the Vice President in this wheat ma.ter. The Vice President is still as mum regarding his own political plans for next vear as he was before he left Washington to return to his home ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 'WATERWAY PLAN PROGRESS IS SEEN MacNider and Herridge Confer With President on St. Lawrence. By the Associated Press. Strong indications were evident in official circles today that Canada and the United States were making progress toward an agreement to proceed with the St. Lawrence waterway project. Hopeful intimations that Premier Bennett of Canada would be willing to push forward the waterway project have reached the Washington Govern- ment. Hanford MacNider, American Min- ister to Canada, and Maj. W. D. Her- ridge, Canadian Minister to the United States, talked with President Hoover at the White House today, but there was no official statement as to the purpose of the visit. Acting Secretary Castle of the State Department described the visit as of “no significance,” but has suggested that a commission be ap- pointed representing each country to the afternocn at Griffith Stadium, where the Nationals and Athletics are engaged in their bitter struggle. From the White House came word that, with the moratorium negotiations at a successful conclusion, President Hoover hoped that the press of other affairs would relax enough to allow him to attend his first game since & ases. District Attorney Rover said an ex- amination of a report on Fall's phys- ical condition had conyinced the Govo ernment that the former Secretary of the Interior was l’t:‘l‘e "t: ccme here from El Paso to begin Tm. Fall was convictzd of receiving & bribe from Edward L. Deheny 1o cont nection with the lease of a ulvirluo reserve during the Hu_gnx administra- ton, ol h) | President Griffith of the ‘Washington ‘cluh. behind first base. Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland | is coming over with a half-dozen friends and may see in action another celebrated Marylander, Robert Moses Greve of Lonaconing. Radio Programs on Page A-12 Lydia Nitto, a minor, to a hotel party here for immoral purposes October 30. At the first trial the jurors disagreed, nine fayoring acquittal. _Whelan said he had not definitely de- términed his future actions, ertified copy of Miss Nitto's birth cer- | tificate on file in Genoa, Italy, failed to international wine tasters contend that every wine has a dish which is its soul mate. For example very rare red claret “Chateau Margaux 1914” was served at a luncheon with pie made of grape- mushrooms. arrive this week a continuance would be requested. 5 yiog en » : its bouquet and rolling a drop or so under his tongue to get the taste. :‘here is very little drinking actually one. ‘Tastings will proceed for a month. but if a| fed pigeons and trimmed with wild | Among the 350 rare vintages to be | tasted is a bottle of 1810 Madeira it to perfection, settle the differences remaining after vears of discussion of the project. In- Gications have been, however, that Can- ada would prefer to negotiate through diplomatic conferences. Premier Bennett is now engaged with | the work of Parliament, but officials A “Winkler Hasensprung 1925” noted | which, when in the cask was taken here expressed a hope that a favorable for its raciness was served with fllets twice around the world in a salling move would be forthcoming after Parlia- sole’ cooked in, butter ment adjowrned. . 4 2