Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1931, Page 2

A2 sxs HOOVER DENOUNCES i <SHORTS"™ IN GRAN. Charges Speculators With; Driving Down Prices, Depriv-! ing Farmers of Profit. i By the Associnted Bress. President Hoover has again recog- nized the plight of wheat growers, this time charging speculators selling shoit with driving down prices and depriving farmers of their just profits. With wheat at the lowest levels in 30 years and a heavy movement of the new crop under way, he called ugon them to cease their activities until the markets have been reyived. His denunciation vesterday was ad- dressed to a “limited number of specu- lators” and was not intended to refer to legitimate traders. “If these gentlemen.” he said. “have that sense of patriotism which outruns immediate profit, and a desire to see the country recover, thev will close up these t:ansactions and desist from ' their manipulation Asks Board to Define Policy. Two weeks ago Mr. Hoover, in re- sponte to widespread demands (hat the Farm Board hold the 200,000.000 or more bushels of stabilization wheat off domestic markets in an effort to bolster : prices, suggested to thé board that “in ! View of the unusual conditions growing out of the depression” it define its sales policy more clearly Vice President Curtis, Senator Capper of Kensas and Senator Watson of In- diana, Republicans, have sought to im- press upon the President the need for | relief to farmers, who have wilnessed | declining prices for more than a year. | Farm organizations, civic clubs ~and individuals have joined them | Mr. Hoover expressed regret he could not. under the law, expose the names | of the short sellers.” With emphasis, he | a “If I could, I would gladly do so0.” [ Williams Gives Indorsement. The President’s statement was in- dorsed by Carl Willlams, Parm Board | member, who advocated amendment of the grain futures act permitting pub- lication of those playing the short side. | Pitiless publicity, he added. was the vemedy for those operating for private gain and against the public interest.! The board itself had warred time and again with the grain trade. Chairman Stone has accused tiaders of attempting to prevent farmers from organizing “I do not refer” Mr. Hoover said. | “to the ordinary hedging transactions | which are a sound part of our market- | ing system. 1 do not refer to the, legitimate grain trade. I refer to a| limited number of speculators. 1 am | not. expressing any Views upon econo- | mies of short selling in normal times. | “But in these times this activity has | a public interest. It has but one pur- | pose and that is to depress prices. It tends to destroy public confidence. - | “The intent is to take a profit from | the losses of other people. Even though | the effect may be temporary, it de-| prives many’ farmers of their rightful income.” 1 Replying to the request of the Presi- | dent &nd others. the Farm Board has | agreed to limit wheat sales to 60,000,000 bushels a year, exclusive of sales to foreign governments under considera- tion. This has fafted to satisfy Capper and Curtis. Pressure is still being brought for & pledge to hold the wheat for a fixed period. HOOVER DIAGNOSIS ACCURATE. Head of Farm Organization Indorses Stand on Speculation. | ST. PAUL, Minn., July 11 (®.— *There is no doubt about the accurcey of President Hoover's diagnosis of the operations of speculators in the wheat market,” C. E. Huff, president of the Farmers' National Grain Corporation of Chicago, sald here last night in com- | menting on the President’s statement | on speculation. “I admire the President for his cour- age in calling to the attention of the public the short-selling episode,” Mr. Huff said. “The clamor that the private grain trade has set up against the Farm Board's position on stabilization stocks furnished the basis for bear raids on the market by speculative short sellers. “Thus we find that certain elements | In the grain trade are deliberately beat- | ing the market down, and at the same time seeking to convince the wheat pro- ducers that the Parm Board and the co-operatives are responsible for the de- clining wheat prices.” | CONVENTION TO CHANGE | LIQUOR LAW PROPOSED. Florida Senate Plea to Congress and | Other States Is Placed on Cal- " endar for Action. By the Associated Press. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. July resolution requesting Congress to call a | convention to consider a change in the eighteenth amendment was placed | before the Florida Senate yesterday. It was introduced by Senator A. M./ ‘Taylor, St. Augustine, who later said his idea was “to get better liquor for ! a lower price and to do away with the | hypocrisy of the present enforcement | of the prohibition law.” The resolution carried a clause authorizing it be sent to other Legis- latures with the request that they concur in it. Under Senate rules the resolution was placed on the calendar for later action. The resolution said one of the princi- pel oblections raised to the prohibition aw was that it was conceived and rati- | fied by a source far removed from the ' people. DR. DARR AGAIN HéADS ‘ COLUMBUS UNIVERSITY | Former President of Washington 11—A| | { | | | Chamber of Commerce Named at Elections Yesterday. Dr. Charles W. Darr, former president | of the Washirglon Chamber of Com- merce, was re-elected yesterday as president of Columbus University. Willlam G. Feely, former State deputy of the Knights of Columbus, was chosen vice president of the university. sur- rendering his post as chairman of the board of trustees to his successor as head of the order here, Albert E. Mc- Carty. Manning J. Willcoxon was named treasurer. WILL SEEK SUNKEN GOLD Tug to Attempt Recovery of Bul- lion in Liner off Virginia Capes. NEW YORK, July 11 (#).—The Sub- ocean Salvage Corporation announced yesterday that a tug will be sent to a location oft the Virginia Capes where the liner Merida sank in 1911 to at- tempt to recover gold coin bullion valued at several million dollars which was aboard the ship. ‘The corporation was formed several years ago by piominent New Yorkers, including Vincent Astor, Lyttleton Fox, Rhinelander Stewart, Albert Qallatin and E. Vail Stebbins. On bosrd the tug will be Harry I. Bowdoin, 63-vear-old inventor, who will use a metal suit and deep sea tanks in which he hopes to reach the wreck. " | Pennsylvania soft General’s Widow Marries ADMIRAL'S ARIS, July 11 (P).— American exhibit at the Colonial of Washington. D. C. by Rector Frederick W. Beekmal She is the widow of Gen. P SON WEDS MRS, EVE THE ol KLEMM. Carl Baenzer Klemm, assistant hostess of the Exposition, and Charles M. Remey. both were married today in the American Cathedral | n. Klemm, U. 8. A.. snd he is the son of the late Rear Admiral Ge:rge C. Remey, U. §. N. The bride wore a la | trimmed dress of beige chiffon and & matching picture bat. MINERS' SUFFERI WIDESPREAD IN STRIKE AREA| gator Finds F Squalor and Dire Investi —Harris-Ewing. NG FOUND Want in Situation Pinchot Termed “General Calamity.” ‘This is the first of several daily er- ticles depicting conditlons amonk the Tamilies Of the strikinz soft coal miners in Western Pennsvivania. Gov. Pinchol. in an ppeal 1o the Red Cross 1o pra. vide fo0d for the children in the strike area. termed the situation a “general calamity - BY ROGER BATCHELDER. Special Dispatch to The Star PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 11 (N.A N.A)—The country’s attention was called this week to the distress in the coal district, when Gov. Pinchot appealed to the Red Cross to provide focd for hungry children there and to aid generally in relleving | what he termed a “national calamity.” The Red Cross replied that this was impossible, that the use of its funds is restricted to natural disasters and that they could not be applied to strike areas. A visit to the district discloses a tragical situation. Here is a typical in- nt: “Mcmmie, I've got supper.” A 9-year-old boy, closely followed by three children under 7, came into the kitchen of one of the shacks of the Buffalo mine, in the nearby Washingtcn County district. Boy Is Breadwinner. There was the wisp of a smile on his white, wn face, something ap- proaching triumph in his dull "eyes His father, long out of work, sat mo- rosely on the porch, watching some half-starved chickens and the boy had become the breadwinner In & tin pail. he had plantain leaves. dandelions, wild mustard sprigs. It was 10 be his supper, and that of the rest of the family. He them from & particularly luxuriant spot of ground mnear the dump where refuse was constantly beng inciner- ated. “Thanks, Harry,” said s 30, who looked 50. “I'm afraid that it's all we'll have, because I couldn’t get any bread from Aunt Maggie. But s d she might get some tomor- voman of Tall with revolvers in holsters attached to filled cartridge belts, stalk here and there in the valleys thal almost per- petually are in A smoke haze. They do not look at the women who pass in their bare feet. or at the emaciated children. These men are the law, and the law is supreme in Washington County. The kitchen began flling, with the smoke from the dump that was just behind the rominent row of out- houses, and the hostess apologized. It was hot, 100, for the coal stove was in operation. The “vegetables” had to be cooked for supper, the second meal of the day. There had been a brave attempt to make the place attractive, No paint was on the outside of the drab wooden struc- tures that had been put together 15 years ago, but in 1922 the family had been able to get enough wall paper to | cover the walls of the living room. No running water, no electricity, only kero- sene lamps. The American-born family, whose husband and father had been a war veteran, was about to be evicted, and in the two rooms upstairs, which housed six people at night. pitiful ragged gar- ments were piled up, waiting for the dread knock at the door. Not a cent in the house and wild growth {nstead of food. . “1 didn't mind so much,” said the young woman, “when I had enough for the children to eat. bul they are get- ting sick all the time—and I'm a little afraid. Then the men next door, who came in as strike breakers, make so much noise that the children are fret- ful at night. “What will we do? We never know." Picture of Despair. The husband looked eagerly burning cigarette. It had been a ek since he had a smoke and his hands shook as he took a profered package. He said “Thanks” and lapsed into his hopeless reverie. The children just sat on the floor and never moved. Chil- dren don't play in the soft coal regions nowadays. They think, unless they are too sick “How long since you have been to the movies?” Harry was asked. went once, & long time ago,” he said. “Would you like an ice cream cone? " ‘I pever have them.” “What will you do when you grow up?” ‘Work in the mines, I guess.” Washinglon Counly. geogrephically, is beautiful, with rolling hills and lovely landscapes that are broken only every 5 miles or s0 by the min ‘Then, on wooded hillsides. one sees Tow after 10w of the weather-beaten cottages, all utterly alike, and men with bowed heads sitting on the frent steps. The ma- Jority are natives, though many are had culled | handsome men in gray shirts, | onily & generation or two removed from Southeastern Europe. Strangers are not welcome, because of the constant fear of eviction.. but the people who have been sent ut with their belongings onto the highways. with permission to stay there for hours. are willing to ta'k if they are sure that the stranger has not come from “the company.” H. B. Mitchell of the Manifold Mine 2 miles out of Washington. the county seai, had plenty to say. He s & great, strapping fellow, with the physique of a Dempsey, and the education of the averege person of the East who has had, perhaps, two years of high school learning His belongings had been put of company “patch.” as the settlements are called, and he was up against it. Until this noon, when he had his first| the Rapidan camp that Mrs. Connor | sirloin steak in_months, he had “gotten used to being hungry.* dren are pallid, and they have not had proper sustenance since the strike of 1927, when Mitchell “got in wrong with the companies. ;. Home Broken Up. Mitchell wasn't complaining, how- ever, and he had the energy to solve his ‘problem temporarily. Instead of leaving the furniture on the road for the State troopers to pick up and store—at & fixed rate—he became friendly with a farmer, who gave him permission to store his worldly belong- ings, which were worth about $25, in a vacant barn. His wife and children he distributed here and there with per- sons slightly more prosperous than he. *Of course, the children haven't had & drop of milk in six months.” he said, grimly, “and the thing that worries me is that my garden, which I planted with seeds given -out by the county, has been taken over by the company. in to get some fresh vegetabies for the kids, I'll be in jail with other tres- passers. Walter McCullough, who once lived | on the “path” at Canonsburg and worked for the Chartiers Creek Coal & Gas Co. Mine, was on the job in the | district for 12 years “If 1 didn't work, hunger didn't matter so much, and the children had more. But when I had to g0 out all day, I had a cup of coffee for breakfast and a plece of bread. We haven't seen butter for years. My | bucket has at noon two slices of bread | spread with lard and molstened with water. That's what we call & ‘water |sandwich.’ Sometimes I could have a | few beans or a little meat, if I had made enough in the morning. Sought Job for Years. “But there were days when I came |out and couldn't draw anything at all |and I couldn’t eat unless I ‘bummed’ | something. _The children lived the They had no shoes and just a few regs for clothes. They looked the same when I was working as they |do mow. T've been looking without !any luck for & job for a year, and I hope, for the children’s sake, that I | get one pretty soon.” Virginia Bielinski, 12, with the ma- ture face of a young woman of 20, opened the door to the barracks run by the relief funds of the Pennsylvania- | Ohio striking mine workers. There were two rooms, one with a_coal stove, which must remain unlighted until the family can afford a stove pipe. Mean- | while, they “mooched” on the neigh- bors, so far as cooking was concerned. | Virginia sald quietly that she had never heard a radio, except from the street in town, where the mine superin- tendents had them in their homes. Six Sleep In Two Beds. Her mother was out somewhere look- | ing for food and her father is in jail, but she was in very capable charge. There were two beds for six people. | “And no sheets” for only a blanket | was nfll’eld over each lumpy mattress. “Why, I've never slept under a sheet in my life,” sald the child. “When we | are lucky, sometimes, we get some flour sacks and sew them together. They feel much nicer t) the rough blankets | when we can't afford nighties, But | we're better off than Mrs. down the line, for she hasn't any mattresses.” J Next door in the long building that |reminded one of Army days. except | for its inexpert construction, was Mrs. | Clyde Alleman. In the room that | served “as parlor, bed room, kitchen and bath—when the water was brought in from the pump on Saturday nights— | she and her husband slept with the five children, There were no pictures, | nothing decorative except & tiny bunch of rambler roses, set in & Jelly glass. “I picked them along the road this moining,” she explained. like pretty things.” it ot | (Mr. Batchelder's second articl nts of t of the more " descriptive inci coal region and the detailed bus average miner.) [ (copyrigng, 19n1. b American ¥ the North hee. Tne.) amilies Living Amid! 24 | It T go| My babies | Color - STAR. N PRISON SHOWN jRackeleer Obtains Bribes for Transfer of Prisoners by Forceful Methods. (Continued From First Page.) more pleasant prison camps elsewhere. H's bank accounts are to be examined Five prisoners were on their way back to Atlanta today from Fort Wads- worth, 1n New York Harbor, to which thev had recently been transferred. The prisoners are Harry Goldhurst, stockbroker adviser of Bishop Cannon, | who was sentenced for mall fraud: John | T. Locke, a'so sentenced for mail fraud; i Paul Rabkin, who was found In pos- | session of a letter which revealed the ialleged system of money payments; | Solomon Rubman and Joseph Y. Pearl- iman. The last three were convicted of smugg'ing watches. Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island, was formerly en Army post. There ar 19 prisoners to each guard. The fort over- looks the bay. It is cool. The barracis {are clean and roomy. There are base ball games and radio. Prisoners may | visil one another. 1t was & leti=r from another prisoner found in Rabkin's possession which re- vealed the system of alleged bribes, Assistant Federal Attorney Sylvester |sald today. The official denied. how- | ever, & report that the watch smuggler {had’ confessed to him that he paid 1$1,000 for his transfer to the breezy | | 180 prisoners quartered at Fort Wads- | worth Camp will be returned to At- {lanta, among them George Graham Rice. serving four years for fraud in the sale of copper stock. Federal Attorney Medalie expressed surprise that Locke, Rice and Gold- | hurst had been moved to the Staten |Isiand post. and. it was learned that |as late as June 5 Rice was listed here as being an inmate of the Atlanta ! prison. bor. |HOOVER PARTY GUESTS CONGRATULATED FOR AUTO CRASH ESCAPE (Continued From First Page) were comparatively minor. She is suf- fering from shock and a lar bone. Mr. Connor received only slight bruises. The accident occurred near Fairfax Va.. while the five cars in the Presi- dent’s party were said to have been traveling at a high rate of speed over slippery roads. The Connor car skid- ded, sccording to witnesses, and col- lided with & big passenger bus Apparently neither the President nor members of his immediate party saw the accident, their cars continuing on the journey to the Rapidan. Another car, bearing newspaper men, preceding | Mr. Connor's car, stopped to give as- i sistance f | Mr. and Mrs. Connor weré taken to |a physician’s office at Fairfax Court | House, Va. by other newspaper men, |and later were brought to Washington {and admitted to Emergency Hospital. | Mr. Connor returned to his home after treatment. but Mrs. Connor remained in the hospital to recuperate from { shock. An x-ray taken early today de- | termined that the collar bone | fractured. | ‘The White House was in touch with ff the Emergency Hospital early today througi | one of the President's | Theodore Josiin, H immediately informed secretaries. He ! spent a comfortable night and would be His five chil- ready to leave the institution within a | | tew days. An cxamination early today indicated that Mr. Connor had strained a leg ligament, and Naval Hospital facilities were placed at the newspaper man's disposal by the White House. Mr. Con- nor is an old friend of President Hoover. Before being connected with the Heraid-Tribune Bureau here. he was sttached to the New York World's staff here for 20 years. President Hoover heard of the acci- dent when he reached the camp and immediately made _inquiries Secretary Lawrence Richey. Dr. Joel T. Boone, the White House phys! called the hospital from the camp and was assured Mrs. Connor was nol seri- ously injured. Dr. Boone was asked by the President, however, to inquire as to her condition later in the night. Slippery Road Blamed. The accldent was attributed to the | slippery condition of the road, ex- | cessive speed und failure of the bus to give Tight of way to the car: President’s caravan, which was not protected by police escort President Hoover had left the White House at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, selecting a route through Anandale, Va. At that poirt the Washington highway turns into the turnpike lead- ing to Fairfax Court House. As the President’s car made the turn the large bus was sald to have cut in between him and the secret service car im- mediately behind. The bus, bound for New Orleans. paced the President’s car closely, and it was said that the cars bearing news- | paper men were obliged to travel at a speed of 55 miles an hour at times to keep up with it. With difficulty the | Secret Service car passed the bus. The third car in_the caravan, bearing Mr. Richey and Dr. Boone, is said to have raced the bus for 3 miles before it swung around. Z Bus Hits Auto, ‘The first car of newspaper men suc- j ceeded In passing. but when Mr. Connor, driving his own car, attempted to pass. his machine’s left rear wheel slipped off the road and the automobile was thrown directly in the path of the bus. The automobile was hit sauarely and throwa into a ditch, and rolled over twice be- fore it came to & stop upright, 25 feet off the highway. Despite the fact that the automobile was badly damaged the White House sald today that newspaper men were able to drive the machine to Fairfax Court House with the injured. The car was towed from the Virginia town to Washington later in the night. About one year ago a Washington woman motorist crashed into 'Mr. ichey's car on the way back from amp, That resulted in orders being issued that only the secret service car, the car bearing the White House secre- taries and press cars should follow the President immediately. The guests have left the camp at intervals of 10 minutes before or after the President’s departure. Riding with the President and Mrs. Hoover yesterday were Commerce Secre- tary Lamont and Mrs. Lamont. Other Accidents Recalled, - Accidents to newspaper men accom- panying Presidents in the past were re- called by yesterday's incident. Ben Allen, a correspandent for the Cleve- land Plain-Dealer, was killed and Stan ley M. Reynolds, late managing editor for the Baltimore Sun, severely injured while accompanying President W: on a motor trip in 1919, ) In 1923 Sumner Curtls of Chicago, public_relations counsel for the Repub- lican National Committee, and Thomas Dawson, formerly with the Assoclated Press and at the time representing the ‘olorade orical Soclety, were killed and Donald A. Cralg, representing the New York Herald gnd now with the George Washington Bicentennial - mission, was seriously injured while trafeling by automobile with President Harding. The accident occurred in Colorado. WASHINGTON |GANGSTER TAGTICS | fort on ‘the shores of New York Har-| Newspapers expressed the belief to- | day that others wmong the more than pital, where physicians said her injuries | actured col- through ; n the | fison | bandmaste! ATURDAY IGERMANY REFUSES PARIS LOAN TERMS i i {Von Hindenburg and Bruening ' Ready to Resign Rather Than Grant Concessions. (Continued From First Page.) will not be imperiled and that peace- ful co-operation with France within {the fremework of Briand’s United | States of Europe will dominate Ger- | many’s foreign policy. Must Restore Confidence. Herr Luther is understood to have | been informed in his conversations | with Premier Laval, Pinance Minister ! Flandin and Governor Moret of the Bank of Prance that French sssist- ance depends on the action of the { German government in taking financial | and political steps to restore confidence | !in the stability of her condition both at home and abroad. f | He is sald to have requested credit advances amounting to $385.000.000, to {be repaid in monthly instaliments; & renewal of the $100,000,000 30-day loan | granted by the banks of Issue of the { United States, Enghand and France and |the World Bank, falling due next Thursday, exension of that loan by $100,000,000 and & one to two year loan of $4000,000.000 for the Gold Dis- ount Bank of Germany. The Government was sald unofficially , to favor granting the Rceihbank a sub-| stantial short-term loan in co-ope:ation | and agreement with British and Amer- jcan banks. Germany's finances could then be taken before a committee f! experts of the European Economic Unlon. It was seid, and conclusions could be expecied in August, ratifica tions to b: adopted by the union i Seplember. | i May Visit France Soon. ! The Rhine pact negotiated by the late Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand, | with Great Britain and Italy undertak-| ing to guarantee peace on the Rhine! in the event of aggression by eithe Germany or France, was an attempt to assure the permanent peace which | France now would like to develop into | & genuine entente cordiale. Dr. Lyther, it is believed. has been asked to tell Chancellor Bruening and | Forelgn Minister Curtius that Paris | | would welcome them for a diseussion | {of political questions, and the impres | sion prevails that the German states- men may visit Prance sooner than had been generally expected. { The conservative newspaper Le Petit | | Parisien, summarizing the French views at this juncture, said today. “It is in-! conceivable that Germany can hope for | financial assistance on & big scale with- | out furnishing serious proofs of her po- | litical good will. French public opinion never could understand the granting of | large credits country where parti- | sans of a pol! ression occupy the center of the stage and do not even try | to conceal their antipathy.” No Official Statement. At Le Bourget this morning Dr Luther climbed into & plane bound for Berltn. There were three other pas-| sengers aboard No official statement was lssued at |the finance ministry and M. Flandin, | head of the department. went to the seashore for the week end, which will | extnd over Bastille day Other ministers also who have been through the severe strain of the recent | negotiations escaped to the country or the seaside to store up fresh energy, {for the work still ahead. They will all be back on Wednesday for the ar- | rival of Col. Henry L. Stimson, the American Secretary of State. ! When he comes the issue will be dis- | | armament. France has marshaled her ideas on that issue undoubtedly will tell Col. Stimson that further re- | duction of armaments must be mad= proportional to the increase of the French national security. France be- lieves Germany can help in this. ‘The nature of the French counter | demands to Dr. Luther’s request for ap- proval of a loan and the seriousness of the siiuation in Gernany were made plain in the press. Le Matin was of the opinfon that the question was not of written promises. but of the realization of how urgent it was that German of- ficials should come to Paris for a talk with Premier Laval. “Needs Guarantees.” “Germany Is on the verge of bank- ruptey—of that there is no doubt,” the paper sald. “France, through the Bank of France and other esiablishments, | can help put her on her feet. But she needs guarantees—financial guarantees that the withdrawal of capital in Ger- {many will be held within reasonable limits, political guarantess so that con- fidence can revite, Flandin exposed these ideas with the greatest clearness to Luther.” Petit Parislen takes the same stand in these words: “Since it is the case of Germany, whose asttitude is often vari*d in & disquieting manner, the guarantees must be both economic and | political.” Echo de Paris says: “We are not in A position at present to grant Germany a loan after our generous gesture of six days ago was so little appreciated by our debtors. Even if the Reich gov- ernment. brings itself to a sincere, pro- found act of & nature to relax the strain toward France, will that suffice for the French banks to work together to save Germany from the crash that threatsns them by a loan of three to four bil- | lions? To ask the question is almost to answer it.” STIMSONS VISIT CASTLE. | | Secretary and Wife to Spend Week End on Tyrrhenlan Sea. ROME. July State Henry L. Stimso) son left today for a week end visit to beautiful S8an Gallo Castle, on the Tyr- rhenian Sea, about 40 miles from Rome. They were accompanied by Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and Signora Grandi and American Ambassador John W. Garrett and Mrs. Garrett. They spent the forenoon sight-seeing here and left by automobile after lunch with the! hope of having & cool rest by the sea. | JAPAN NAMES EXPERTS T0 LONDON CONFERENCE | Three to Represent Nation When Young Plan Is Discussed in Debt Holiday. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 11.—Japan will be rep- resented at the London meeting of Young plan experts next Friday by M. Kuriyama, counselor to the Japanese embassy at Paris; M. Kiuchi, acting financial commissioner, and M. Yumoto, representative of the finance depart- ment. Baron Shidehara, foreign min- ister, imparted this information today to 8ir Oswald Lindley, the British Am- bassador. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmerman, Anton Pointner, assistant. .Panella March, “Civic Pride”. . | By the Associated Pre Overture, “Willlam Tell Scenes from the opers, “Der Rosenkavalier”. "Richard Strauss Fox trot noveity, Express”. .. Waltz wg,ul‘r.. in the Valley Finale, “With All My Hear Duet for B flat clarinet, TLittle Bullfinches o 3 Musiclans Ch"r‘fl‘l Darby and “The Star 'ptmhd Banner.” Kling Louis JULY 11 Fire an_d Death Probed BODY OF WOMAN FOUND IN RUINS OF HOME. HE partly G found July 9 on a second-ficor burned to death. Mrs. Berrian, i) destroyed Forest Hills, N. Y., home of the late Lieut. Comdr. Berrian, U. S. N., in which the body of his widow inset) was She had been years ago in the porch of the ruins . who was known “Follies” as Marion Day, had been believed away from home at the time of the fire. was overlooked. Police are invertigating PARTY WIDOW GAVE STIRS DEATH PROBE Friends With Her Before Flames Swept Home, Officials Told. By the Associaled Press NEW YORK, July 11.—Evidence that a party had been in progress in the Forest Hills home of Mrs. Marion Day Berrien, former follies actress, less than an hour before the fire which damaged her hous> broke out, was revealed yes- terday by Inspector John J. Gallaher, who is Investigating the woman's death Informed by Friend. ‘The information, police said. was ob- tained from Lewis Gompers. friend of Mrs. Berrien, whose charred body was found in her home Thursday The party, police leainsd. started sometime Mgnday nigh. =nd lasted un- tl 1:20 o'clock Tuesday. Fire broke out at 2 a.m. Tuesday. Mrs. Berrisn was missing the time, and her arrest was ordered by Chief Fire Marshall Brophy, who believed the fire was in- cendiary. Others to Be Questioned. Inspector Gallagher said he has vet to question other of Mrs. Berrien's asso- ciates and friends before determinin2 whether the fire and death were acci- dental. The body will be examined for bullet or other wounds. Gompers, another man and woman attended Mrs. Berrien's party, police said. Mrs. Berrien was the widow of Com- mander Thomas Berrien, U. 8. N., who died in 1930. |BANK RUN INDICTMENTS MAY BE INCREASED' Mineloa, N. Y., Grand Jury Probes Others After Holding Man and Wife for Rumors. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., July 11.—The Nas- sau County grand jury, after indict- ing Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Froelich of Hewlett, Long Island, for causing a run on a Woodmere Bank, was today considering handing up indictments against_other persons. The Froelichs were accused of start- ing & run on the Hewlett-Woodmere ' National Bank by drawing out their $1,000 and spreading the reports that the bank was insolvent. The Froelichs told the district attorney's office - that a mysterious voice tclephoned them to take out their money. They did and | told a few of their friends, they said. ! Other persons who withdrew accounis are to be questioned by the grand jury. | BANK BANDIT KILLED IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT Companion Is Weunded and Cap- tured in Gun Fight With Friend- | | ship, Tenn., Officers. .. FRIENDSHIP, Tenn., July 11.— Trapped by officers, who had been | warned an attempt would be made to rob the Bank of Friendship, one | man was killed and his companion was | wounded and captured in a gun battle | at the bank yesterday. | Advised by Inspector Will T. Griffin of the Memphis Police Department that the hold-up was contemplated, the offi- cers stationed themselves in the bank d ted eventualities. The slain bandit was identified as Claude McCleish and the other as| Hughey Mullen, both of Haywood County, Tenn. | DOROTHY MACKAILL “DEFINITELY” ENGAGED By the Associated Press. | 1LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Dorothy | Mackalll, film actress, returned from Honolulu yesterday with the announce- ment she is “definitely and officially” engaged to marry Neil Miller, Honolulu sugar ma Miss Mackaill and Miller arrived on | the same ship. They said no plans for | a wedding have been made. | Miss Mackaill has been reported gaged no less than three times on pre- vious trips to Hawall. Previous reports linked Miss Mac- kaill's name with Walter Byron, actor; John McCormick, film producer, and Joel McCrea. en- | | JOBLESS RIOT IN POLAND CHELMNO, Poland, July 11.—A mob of -unemployed which stormed the town hall yesterday demanding rellef refused to retreat when police used gas bombs and rifies. One man was killed. So many policemen were injured by stones that help was summoned from & nearby town. When the reinforce- ments arrived order was restored. ‘Unemployment riots also took place yesterday in various towns in Polish Silesta. | Symphony Orchestra, A search of the building was made after the blaze, but the p-rch a murder theory P. Photo, AVIATION TO FEEL L03S OF FORKER Resignation of Designer - Speeds Trend Toward All-Metal Planes. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 11—The trend away from use of wood in airplane manufacture yesterday was emphasized by the resignation of one of its chief exponents from General Navigation Corporation and Fokker Aircraft Cor- poration of America Anthony H. G. Fokker. director en- gineer of the two companies since their formation, stepped aside yesterday into comparative Tetirement. It was be- lieved his successor would be Herbert V. Thaden of Pittsburgh, acting chief engineer and general manager of Fok- ker Aircraft. He is & specialist in all- metal airplane construction. Fokker has clung to the use of wood as most desirable for certain airplane parts. Fokker Aircraft is a subsidiarv of General Aviation. which is virtually controlled by General Motors Corpora- tion. Fokker's withdrawal was followed by announcement that he would remain as a director in General Aviation and re- tain his large stock interest. J. M Schoonmaker, jr.. president of General Aviation and its lesser concern, made public the news. G. 0. P. 1932 CHANCES HELD 90 PER CENT P. F. Snyder Tells Young Repub- licans to Study Party Principles. Asserting that “we have an 80 or 90 per cent chance of electing a Repub- lican President in the next campaign,” Peter F. Snyder, assistant to Secretary of Labor Dosk and member of the Re- publican National Committee Speakers’ Bureau, last night urged members of the Young Republican C.ub to study the party's principles and history before the next election. In an address before the organization Mr. Snyder also advised the Young Re- ns to study the career of Grover eland, Democratic President for two terms; the life and letters of Walter Hines Page, the life of John Marshall and Andre Siegfried’s “America Comes of Age.” . SOKOLOFF PESSIMISTIC NEW YORK, July 11 (#).—Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland returned today from Europe. He said he had found little new or interesting compositions while in Europe, that creative music is at the moment in its doldrums, and there is no intimation that either a Bach or a Beethoven is on the horizon. Mr. Sokoloff said he would go to his farm at Westport. Gift Anti ARLINGTON MANSION GETS’ VALUABLE CLOCK. que The Robert E. Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, of Kan- sas City, Mo., has presented this ancient timeplece in connection with tie re- habilitation of Arlington House. It was made in 1762 by the Dutch craftsmen, Jacobus de Deurwaer. GERMAN PEOPLE N FIVANGE PANE {Fear Crash Will Come Before Preventive Steps Can Be Taken. By the Associated Pr BERLIN, July 11.—The tension with | which Germany awalts the outcome of the credit-seeking race against time of Hans Luther, president of the Reichs- bank, today took on In wide sections of the Reich the semblance of hysteria People with small savings are buvirg American dollars, the families and wealth of many of the well-to-do are heading toward Switzerland. Many of the German buyers of for- elgn currency are ccllecting dollars, pounds or francs because they are wor- ried about the possible actions of Adolf { Hitler and Alfred Hugenberg. leaders of the oppositionist parties. Others have | &pparently resigned to the despalring | belief that a financial and industrial crash will come before preventive meas- | ures can be agreed upon. Either way, their purchases of foreign currency are helping to stimulate the perilous. persistent drain on the Reichs- ! bank's gold reserve, already suffering | enough from the withdrawal of short- term credits abroad. Indicative of the extent to which scme have surrendered to the panic psychosis is the fact that there are many applications at banks for gold dollars, paper currency even of the American issue having lcst its ap- peal. Bankers have pointed out that there is no dangei of another inflation—the real danger being a credit crash—but their aigument goes over the heads of the little people, who lost their lifé sav- ings in the post-war inflaticn, and thev g0 to the bank with what they can scrape together 1o ask for its equivalent in_foreign money. The gloom in government circles over Prance’s disposition to make credit assistance to Germany contingent on political concessions hasn't been light- ened any by the merging of the Hitler i and Hugenberg forces into & united | “Nationalist opposition” nor by tne | subsequent declaration of the Steel Hel- met organization that the Hoover debt suspension plan is doomed to failure because with its present government | Germany is “at the mercy of the French policy of ‘might.” Chancellor Brueninz. caught between the French demands and the new aggressiveness of the Na- tionalist opposition, is sald to wonder whether the French are trying to oust | him to make room for a Hitler-Hugen- { berg government or whether those fire- \brands are deliberately trying to ruin 2ll chances of forestalling a credit crash. Press Ts Indignant. The press is practically indignation over de. The Rightist | “French blackmail | Vorwaert sees it as “Paris pressure on | Berlin.” The pro-republican press con- | demns the Natlonalist action as “a stab |in the back” at the most delicate stage {of the Luther mission, while the | Vossiche Zeitung scoffs at threats of a putsch with the question: “Are Hitler | and Hugenberg trying toscare us?” The Nationalist press bureau replies ! with the statement that the opposition | would glady get behind the Bruening | government if there was confidence {that it was capable of leading the na- Ition in a struggle to revise the Ver- | sailles treaty. “We know that those | responsible for Germany’s present plight | haven't the strength to oppose France's will to destroy.” the paper says. “The | way theyre losing their heads now, trying one desperate move after an other, is the proof thereof.” The Natibnalist oppbsition is ready to take over the responsibility of the government at the proper time, it 18 | said. and hopes that will come “before { Germany has entirely collapsed and be- | fore the political and economic nego- | tiations as to Germany's future have begun.” NEWSPAPER MOVES unanimous the French att- papers call it nd the Socialist in | | World-Telegram Takes Over New Plant in New York. NEW YORK. July 11 (#).—The New York World-Telegram started moving { today from its old plant in Dey street to its new home in West street. between Barclay and Park place. The new plant represents an invest- ment of more than $3,000.000. In it | are installed new presses, new stereo- | typing and composing room machinery and new equipment for the editorial. irculation and business offices. The paper also has auxiliary plants in West 33d and East 45th streets. GEN. NOBILE.SEES STARS | | i That's Why He Must Go to Arctic, He Says, Announcing Trip. HELSINGFORS, Finland. J (7> —Gen. Urhberto Nobile of riving_ at Helsingfors yesterday, told newspaper men that the starry heaven | over the northern ice fascinated him so | that he could not help going to the polar regicn. | Gen. Nobile will accompany the Rus- ! sian polar expedition to Franz Josef |Land on the ice-breaker Maligin, the Russians having invited him to be the: guest on the expedition. | ASKS $25,000 FOR HURTS ! . Miss Eva Miller Says Messenger on Bicycle Ran Her Down. | Miss Eva Miller. 1308 Clifton street, hes filed suit in the District Supreme Court asking $25.000 damages from tne | Western Unfon Telegraph Co. for per- | sonal injuries alleged to have been re ceived when run down by a bicycle operated by a messenger of the com- pany on F street near Seventeenth street. Through Attorney Emmett L. Shee- han, Miss Miller said she was injured about the arms and knees, and suffered a permanent facial deformity through and injury to her nose POLICEMAN DISMISSED Commissioners Uphold Sentence of Board on Pvt, Milstead. Delmar Milstead, a private attachec to the eleventh police precinct, was or- dered dismissed from the force vester- day by the District Commissioners. who upheld the finding and sentence of the Police Trial Board in his case. Milstead had been found guilty of intoxication and telling an untruth to a superior officer. DRIVERS PAY $43,000,000 Canadian Motorists and Visitors Go 9,000,000,000 Miles in Year. OTTAWA July 11 (#).—Canadi | motorists and _visiting United | tourists traveled over 9.000.000,000 mil | | | | | in the form of gas tax, & ers’ licenses, aggregating poeri 000,000, the Dominion Deps~tment Trade and Commerce said today. (4