Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast). Fair today and probably tomorrow; slightly warmer today. Temperatures—Highest, 83. at 2 p.m.* terday; lowest, 64, at 5:30 p.m. yes- rday. Full report on page 5. No. 31,848, “SPARTAN MOVES™ WEIGHED T0 AVERT GERMAN COLLAPSE Bruening and Cabinet Mem- bers Hold All-Night Meeting. Reach No Decision. 1,373— No. BANKERS ARE SUMMONED; U. S. MESSAGE DISCUSSED Bitter Attitude Toward France Is' Shown as Luther's Loan Mis- Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Richest Townships At Odds Over $24 Spent for Welfare By the Associsted Press. MOUNT CARMEL; Pa., July 11. —Two of the richest townships in the world are at odds over $24. Coal township today ordered its solicitor of poor, Harold Bonno, to Dbring suit against Mount Carmel township for $24, which Coal township officials allege is due for keeping four Mount Carmel subjects four years ago. Coal township has a valuation of $18,000,000 and Mount Carmel township $16,000,000, due to rich coal deposits. CONGRESSHAYACT TO B “SHORTS sion in Paris Fails. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 11.—Chancellor Breun- ing and members of the German cab- inet adjourned this morning at 2 am., tired and haggard after an all-night meeting spent in discussing what were j called “Spartan moves” to avert a financial crash in Germany. They decided to meet again at 11 am. and announced no definite deci- sions as the result of the conferences. A semi-official communique issued after the adjournment stated the en- tire cabinet might be called together this afternoon. Bankers Summoned. At 1 am. a number of leading Ger- man bankers were called to the chan- ! cellory _to participate in the confer- ence.” No official explanation for the calling of the bankers was given, but it was understood that a message from Washington was being discussed. Am- bassador Sackett remained at the American embassy throughout the night to await further news from Wash- ington. The cabinet session began after the arrival of Reichsbank President Luther by airplane from Paris. President Luther came home without having ob- tained Prench assistance for a German loan and with no hope of obtaining it without what were considered “im- possible” political concessions. Among the moves to forestall a finan- cial crash in Germany considered by the cabinet was the appointment of a special “commisar of devisen” (foreign | exchange) with authority to scize | foreign currencies and other media of | peyment, including precious metals, in “the interest of national safety.” The advisability of abandoning the gold standard and of placing all Ger- man exports under government mon- | opoly also was discussed. Stampede From Mark Feared. ‘The most pressing problem before the government, however, was what to do| tomorrow to safeguard the Reichsbenk. Cabinet members feared the public re-| action to yesterday's phenomenal out- flow of devisen. which amounted to approximately $25,000,000, might take | the form of a stampede away from the ' mark. Hope that international banks would ; come to the rescue with short-term re- | discount credit sufficient to carry the Reichsbank through next week, at least, dwindled as the members of the Bruen- ing government met. ‘The acceptance of international bank- however, was vigorously opposed by both Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius. Whatever other dif- "{erences of opinion may exist, the chan- llor and his colleagues are determined that Germany will not open the door %o what they term “political dictation.” The government's feeling is that the fcceptance of foreign credit under the conditions. suggested by France would | Jbe such a blow to national pride, par- ticularly at the present moment, that' . %; ithe cabinet responsible for it would no & lm‘}ger remain in power. | 'he government, it was said, is not opposed to discussing such matters as the suspension of ‘“vest-pocket” cruiser | construction if they are brought up at the proper time and in the spirit of International equality. The cabinet feels, however, that what it terms the pinning of a disarmament demand upon & purely financial transaction would be deeply resented in Germany, the more deeply because it is felt that President Luther’s hasty trip to London and Paris in search of credit would not have been mnecessary if the Hoover plan had met #peedy acceptance in Paris. * Soviet Basis Considered. ‘The question of placing all German exports under a government monopoly was also said to be one of the measures the cabnet met to consider. Such a step would be sensational. It would amount to putting German cufrency and ex- ports on what might viet basis. The reason the cabinet felt compelled to consider it, it was said, is that the Reichsbank’s gold reserve is now so low as to cause a fear that to- morrow’s demand for foreign cur- rencies would sweep the few remaining | gold millions out of the bank’s reserves in a few hours, On Tuesday the Reichsbank's gold coverage for currency still amounted to 1,421,000,000 marks, of which 600,000.000 consisted of borrowed money—the gold | ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) CONVICTS KIDNAP | GUARD AND ESCAPE: Two From Missouri Prison Re- lease Him Near Kansas City. By the Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, July 11.— Two Missouri Pentitentiary convicts to- day kidnaped a guard in the crowded ‘business district of the city, forced a convict chauffeur to drive into the ccuntry, where they forced him out of the car, and drove away with the guard. ‘The d, Harry Willlams, had ac- the convicts, R. E. Miller they returned to the car, they forced the driver, Jack London, to drive them ncrthwest from Jefferson City. London reported being tiarown from the car at Elston, 16 miles northwest of here. He said the two convicts threatened with knives, apparently stolen in the physician’s office. Two carloads of guards were rushed to Elston where they picked up London @nd continied to searcn for the small ‘brown sedan in which the escaped con- wicts were riding. Late today Willlams notified officials he was safe in Kansas City, the two “econvicts who kidnaped him § forced him from the car near the city Bmits. termed a S0-| dividual_amount to having | Grain Legislation Held Likely as Result of Hoover’s At- tack on Speculators. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A drive to curb short selling on the grain exchanges, or certainly to give the widest publicity to such trans- actions, may develop in the next session of Congress as a result of the attack leveled by President Hoover on the | speculators selling wheat short on the market today. Members of Congress in Washington vesterday said that bills for this pur- pose had been introduced many times in the past in both houses of Congress, but nothing had been done with them. They intimated that the grain trade had been too strong in its opposition to this kind of legislation. ‘While officials of the Government who have knowledge of the wheat situ- ation admitted 1ist night that short | sclling of wheat at this time has some- thing to do with the drop in price of that commodity, they pointed out that the real root of the situation lay in the this year about 200,000,000 bushels more wheat thin can be consumed in the United States. In Excess of Surplus. Furthermore, attention was called to the fact that this 200,000,000 bushels of wheat is in excess of the surplus wheat carried over from last year. Much of that surplus is in the hands of the Federal Farm Boird, purchased in its efforts to stabilize the price of wheat for the farmers in 1930 and 1929 In addition, the world surplus of wheat last year was about 364.000.000 bushels. produced in the world in excess of { what the importing countries bought and the exporting countries consumed. ‘The Department of Agriculture has estimated that the wheat crop of this | country this year will reach a total of 869,000,000 bushels. the crop amounted to 863,000.000 bushels; in 1929 it was 815,000,000 bushels and in 1928 over 900,000,000 bushels. The consumption of wheat in this country for food, seed and feed is not over 650.000,000 bushels a year. Under thess circumstances the problem of A year ago difficult to understand though very dif- ficult to solve. Drought in Canada. The American wheat farmers may be aided this year by the conditions prevailing in Canada, where the wheat crop is said to be in bad shape, due to the drought, so bad that it may not amount to more than half the usual crop. There are bad crop con- ditions reported, too. from Australia and Argentina, both big wheat-export- | ing countries. | A campaign of education regarding | the wheat situation in this country |and throughout the world has been tunderway for several years. Efforts {have been made to get the farmers to reduce their acrcage. The size of the wheat crop this year, however, does not indicate that the campaign has had any particular effect so far. The price of wheat on the Chicago exchange took another drop of i a cent yesterday. Just what the administration can do at present regarding the short selling of wheat on the exchanges in this country is not clear, President Hoover’s .denunciation of the specula- tors who are indulging in this prac- tice now may bear results, but in the opinion of members of Congress un- less there i3 legislation to curb the gamblers little will be accomplished. U. S. Knows Speculators, Under the so-called grain futures act, the Department of Agriculture must be notified when sales of wheat in a single day by any concern or in- 500,000 bushels or (more. But under this act there is a (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ———e PRIEST IS KIDNAPED Jalapa Ecclesiast Forced Into Car by Assailants. MEXICO CITY, July 11 (#).—A dis- I patch: to the newspaper El Universal Grafico from Jalapa said that the Rev. Daniel Mesa, canon of Sacred Heart Church at Jalapa, apparently was kid- | naped this morning. When leaving the cathedral, the dis- patch said, the canon was forced into an_automobile. Jalapa is the capital of the State of Vera Cruz where a law limiting the i By the Assoclated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, July 11.—Plans for a brilliant wedding this afternoon at which . Edwina _Triplett Putman, daughter of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Rus- sell B. Putman of the Marin2 base here, was to have beceme the bride of Lieut. | Willlam V. Deutermann, U. 8. N., w: shattered today by a telegram from th: prospective bridegroom, missing since yesterday. Th~ telegram to the Putman family stated there would be no wedding to- day. An hour later the Rev. M. L. Kain, pastor of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, who was to have read the ceremony, received a wire from Lieut. Deutermann from Van Nuys, Oalif., which said simply: “Your services will not be & this a " Lieut. Putman -ld. “There is fact that this country was producing | That is the amount that was | the wheat producer in America is not | WASHINGTON, TROOPS AND POLICE " CURD MILL TOWN AFTER THREE RIOTS 148 Hours of Uprisings Bring Patrol of Plants by Armed Forces. CIVIC GROUPS MOVE FOR “RED” RIDDANCE Polish Club Seeking to Expel Com- munist Element From Strike | Activity. By the Assoclated Press. s CENTRAL FALLS, R. I, July 11— State and local police, armed with ma- chine guns and tear gas grenades, guarded this city tonight while some of its citizens, aroused by recent strike developments, took steps to rid it of communist agitators. Three times within forty-eight hours the city was obliged to call all of its police resources and those of the State to fight back mob attacks on the prop- erty of the General Fabrics Corpora- tion, where a strike is in progress. Stones, sticks and debris were thrown freely by the crowd, while the police relied upon their night sticks and tear gas. Seek “Red” Riddance. ‘The Polish-American Citizens’ -Club today received permission of police to hold a meeting with the local strike committee for the announced purpose of eliminating the communist element from the strike activity and placing leadership solely in the hands of the strike committee. ‘The Polish organization issued an in- vitation to all civic and political or- ganizations In the ecity to join it in & meeting tomorrow to develop means for settling the strike. Maching Guns Placed. Meanwhile police continue their vig- flance. Machine gun crews were placed on the roof of the Fal Corporation | mill. strong flood lights also were in- | stalled and focused on the streets and { adjacent property. Steel helmets were jssued to the State police officers who | moved into the mill property with cots |and cooking equipment. | Members of the textile striker's com- mittee failed to respond tonight to an invitation for a parley with the Polish | Club. Woman Warns Strikers. Emmissaries to the strike leaders’ homes learned, they said, that Anna Borlac, Communist leader. had been there before them and had warned i z;mbcommmgemen not to appear at the | club. Joseph Koszlowskl, president of the club, said the attmpt to get together had been prompted by an’ appeal of some members of the Strike Committee | themselves He went aheed with plans | for a meeting of civic and political or- | ganizations in the city tomorrow to |form a Citizens' Committee to settle | the strike. Leaders of the National Textile Work- | ers’ Union also called a mass meeting for tomorrow afternoon. 'CROCKER RESIGNS AS G. 0. P. LEADER 'Mark L. Requa Succeeds San Francisco Banker as Com- mitteeman. | 7 By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.—Willlam H. Crocker, San Francisco banker, re- signed today as Republican na al | committeeman from California. The | Executive Committee of the Republican State Central Committee elected Mark L. Requa, close personal and political g&:nd of President Hoover, to succeed m. “I have served for 15 years and I be- leve that is long enough,” Mr. Crocker sald. “I am a great admirer cf Presi- dent Hoover. I hope to be of some service in his coming campaign.” PLANE CRASH KILLS TWO Colorado Business Men Victims of Unexplained Accident. ‘TRINIDAD, Colo., July 11 (#).—Mar- tin J. Gleason and F. L. Hazeltine, Trinidad ess men, were killed late today when their airplane fell at Trin- idad Afrport from a height of 500 feet. Gleason was a pioneer resident of Trinidad. Both men are survived by widows and Hazeltine leaves several children | The exact cause of the crash was un- | known. Hazeltine was a licensed pilot 1and Gleason did much iraveling with him, Convict Dry Agent Slayer. By the Associated Press. COLLINS, Miss. July 11 (#).—Guy Fairley, Covington farmer, was convict- |ed tonight of the murder of Homer L. | Everett, Federal prohibition agent. The jury debated less than rn hour. The ! number of priests was recently passed. | verdict carries the deail sentence. |BRIDEGROOM CALLS OFF WEDDING BY WIRE ON DAY OF CEREMONY Big Coast Event Halted as Lieut. Deutermann Halts| Marriage to Edwina Putman. nothing I can say exeegt that the wed- ding has been called off.” Miss Putman was understood to have ne into seclusion at the home of iends and could not be reached. Licut. Comdr. K. C. Christian, com= mending officer of Lieut. Deutermann's ship, the submarine Bonita, said the utonant was on week end leave. Christian s2id he had received a tele- ;gram from Deutermann asking him to | “tell the gang the wedding has been | pestponed.” ‘ The tea dansant at which the young couple’s engagement was announced last month, was one of the most bril- liant affairs of the social season here. Lieut. Deutermann is the son of Mrs. William Deutermann of White Plains, N. Y., ’:::g.iu P'x't:: from An- an atiended the University of California. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ! g DO 14y =\ = PTY \! THE “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sundsy morning to Washington homes by ‘The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. SUNDAY ' MORNING, JULY 12, 1931—-100 PAGES. ROOR PRESS PICKETERS! By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 11.—Safety of the Hoover dam is questioned—is said to risk repetition of the St. Francis dam disaster—in the July issue of Civil Engineering, officlal publication of th American Soclety of Civil Engineers. ‘The writer 8 M. H. Gerry, jr., a con- sulting engineer, of Sas Francisco, and member of the society. Hoover dam, 727 feet high, the great- est hydraulic structure ever undertaken. is still in the blueprint stage, but the | design has been selected and the con- tract let, and the safety questions are raised about this design. The danger ENGINEER WARNS HOOVER DAM LACKS SAFETY IN ITS DESIGN Fear Expressed That It Will Slide on Slip- AT SANTA FE URGED pery Rock Base—Similar St. Francis Dam Failed. which th: dam will rest rather than in the structure itself. ‘This risk, the article claims, can be wiped dut for an additional expense of $5,000,000 or less. “It should not be forgotten,” says th> writer, “that three years ago the St. Francis dam, built by the city of Los Angeles, did fail, and without the slightest warning. Even & cursory ex- amination of the plans now proposed will convince engineers tha® the Hoover dam is designed in accordance tn is sald to be due to the rock upon | { the same school of thought and on al- | together similar lines, | ““Like the St. Prancis dam, it is de- ficient in gravity secton when uplift |is_considered: it 15 curved_in plan. on | T"(Continued cn Page 2, Column 8., DENMARK APPEALS 10 WORLD COURT Greenland Occupation. Feeling Is Tense. By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, July 11.—A com- | plaint against the Norwegian occupa- tion of Eastern Greenland was ad- dressed to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague tonight by the Danish Government. The complaint alleges that Nor- wegian hunters, in flying the Nor- wegian flag over the section last month, and the proclamation of occupaticn |from Oslo_ constituie a violation of Danish rights. The note pleads that Explorer Given Authority. At the same time the Danish repre- | sentative at Oslo was instructed to protest vigorously to the Norwegian government and inform it of the com- | plaint made to The Hague. Police authority in Eastern Greenland was telegraphed today to Lauge Koch, leader of a Danish exploration expedi- | his tion here. The government does not inted to recall J‘?e Danish Minister from the Norwegian capital, but Premier Staun- ing told the newspaper Berlingske Tidende that Norway's proclamation of | occupation, based on fact that a group of hunters and students had planted the Norwegian flag on the territory in question, already had :‘flecmd & break between the two coun- res. Public feeling here was intense today. There was much press comment that the government had been too friendly and too easy in the controversy. Position Is Defended. It was pointed out that Denmark had not considered her sovereignty ques- tioned until recently and that Nor- wegian traders always had been treated in a friendly fashion and had been given every facility in Greenland. It was learned that the line to be taken before The Hague tribunal by the Danes is that Norway in 1821 relin- quished all claims and that the agree- ment ‘in 1924 which gave Norwegian hunters and sealers access to Eastern ‘;:m‘htn tli:mmlt'lon of Danish sover- el ere. mnenymnk. it is -mwdmhe:, has dm’: extensive surve; Greenland mwgn“lo and u%fl Eskimo colonies as far back as 1894. NON-STOPPERS DELAYED l!-xho Hop Flyers Held Up in Flight Take-off. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., July 11 UP).—A hitch in_ the plans cf Seth Yerrington and Edward Maloney m? s Aiermoon, cae ity They an: el or Mexico 3 :eeunud': a delay of several hours had en maide necessary. The non-st-p trip had been scheduled for about 6 p.m. The siatement the take-off ‘could not be made before £ and might even then be deferred. Argentina Arbitriting Dispute. BUENOS AIRES, July 11" (®—A dispatch to the newspaper La R"’;g from _Asuncion, , today that President ounced had the good offices :I‘Gh tina in solving the controversy | the “occupation be declared null and | void. Greenland was tantamcunt to Nor-| ARMY POLO STAR FRAGTRES S 1Asks Ruling on Norway’s Col. Willis V. Morris, Once} Stationed Here, Critically Hurt in Fall. By the Associated Press. WESTBURY, N. Y., July 11.—Col. ‘Willis V. Morris, 55, United States Army | polo s‘ar, rated as cne of the coun'ry's | best backs, was seriously hurt tod: | when his mount fell and rolled upon him at the Meadowbrook Country Club. Watching & match on an adjoining field. a few yards away, were King Parjadhipok of Siam, his queen and others of the royal party. Col. Morris, known as “the father | of United States Army polo,” was rid- |inx hard in the final chukker when his | pony crashed into one ridden by Capt. | Martin Bradley of the opposing team, ) the Vipers. Martin’s mount fell, but the rider w | thrown clear and unhurt. When Col. Morris’ mount rolled away he was un- consclous. | Carried from the field by members of team, the Governors Island Four, | Col. Morris was removed to the Na | sau_County Hospital, where Dr. James | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—18 PAGES. | General News—Local, National | . Forelgn. | D. C. Naval Reserve—Page B-4. | Organized Reserves—Page B-4. | District National Guard—Page B-4, Y. M. C. A. News—Page B-4. Army and Navy News—Page B-T7. | PART TWO—8 PAGES. | Editorials and Editorial Features. American Legion—Page 6. Spanish War Veterans—Page 6. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society Section. | Marine Corps Reserves—Page 5. | News of the Clubs—Page 10. | The Home Gardener—Page 12. Serial Story, “Moon of Delight"— Page 12. PART FOUR—10 PAGES. | Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 3. and Screen PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Pinancial News and Classified Adver- tising. : PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Magazine Section. The Bridge Forum—Page ¥. News of the Music World—Page 16. Reviews of the New Books—Page 17. ‘Cross-word Puzzle—Page 18. ‘The Boys’' and Girls' Page—Page 19. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 20. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. H Mr. and Mr t | Moon Mullins; Tarzan; the Timid Soul; Reg'lar P‘b’l:n':‘ Lit, Histosy "and Mt aaa Jo8 ¥ FALL CONFINEMENT | Physician Says He Made No Objection to Suggestion of Penitentiary There. By the Assoclated Press. EL PASO, Tex., July 11.—Dr. J. H. to Prank Hogan, Washington counsel for Albert B. Fall, that the former Secretary of the Interior be imprisoned in the New Mexico State Penitentiary rather than the E! Paso County Jail. Gsmbrell, who s Fall's personal physician, said he telegraphed the recommendation on his own initiative after talking to the former Secretary. | Fall, who is in Il health, expressed no | cian expla: Hogan had requested Gambrell to { inform F211 of a decision today of Jus- | tice Bailey, of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who refused to suspend a year's jzil ‘sentence, imposed for the | acceptance of a bribe. Has Hospital Facilities, ‘The El Paso Jail had no place where prisoners can get plenty of sunshine and fresh air, Gambrell stated, and no nospital facilities, while the New Mex- ico Penitentiary has both. Moreover, the jail is badly crowded. “The New Mexico Penitentiary is the only one in this part of the country where Fall can have the surrount essential to his health,” he said. “I understanding with the penitentiary whereby it takes care of certain Fed- gral, priconers, just as the El Paso Jail as.” In his telegram Gambrell said: _“Telegram read to_patient. Bgcause (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) . EIGHT PLEAD GUILTY | TO CHARGES OF ARSON |Four Men Sentenced to Prison; Women in Ring Get Sus- pende’d Terms. | By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla,, July 11.—Au- thorities here today expressed belief that an arson ring, with activities ex- tending into several States, was broken {as four men and four women pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and ar- son. The men were sentenced to prison terms ranging from nine months to four |years and nine months. The women also were sentenced, but their terms were suspended. Those who pleaded guilty today and their sentences are: August Smith, operator of a local ho- tel and alleged leader of the ring, four years and nine months, for arson and conspiracy; C. H. Lloyd, conspiracy; J. B. Coran, conspiracy; J. R. , conspiracy, all of Jacksonville, nine months each. The women, who drew nine months’ suspended sentence, are Mrs, Elsie Smith, wife of August; Simers Coran, Mrs. Osgood and Mrs. Pearl Zettle. objection o the suggestion, the physi- ined. | (P) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS 1 PRICE DROP FORCES KANSAS OIL WELLS T0QUITPRODUCING Operators of 22,000 Plants Agree to ‘Producers’ Strike’ as Drastic Remedy. 30,000 MEN LOSE JOBS THROUGH SUSPENSIONS 110 to 22 Cents a Barrel Below Cost of Production—"Stupid Con- _gress” Blamed for Ills. By the Associated Press. WICHITA, Kans, July 11.—Imme- | diate shutdown of Kansas oll wells, esti- mated to number 22,000, was agreed upon by more than 300 independent operators at & conference here late to- day to consider & remedy for low prices | for crude. Speakers declared that present prices | of from 10 to 22 cents a barrel posted by purchasing companies were under | the cost of production. In joining the producers’ strike under | way in other States of the midconti- | nent area the operators estimated the | suspension in Kansas would throw | 130,000 men out of work. ! | The wells affected by the shutdown | agreement have a daily production of | approximately 102,000 barrels, with a | | potential of more than 200,000 burrels.; Will Pump Water. | The suspension will not apply to wells subject to introduction of water. They | will be permitted to remain on pump to | prevent destruction. Although the suspension agreement is to become effective at once, another meeting of the producers will be held to complete final arrangements of details. ‘The vote followed a speech by Thur- | man Hill, member of the Kansas Public | Service Commission, blaming a “stupid Gongress” for the plight of the industry. Gambrell of El Paso today fecommended | “Perhaps the proration law could be | | strengthened.” he said. “But would that benefit producers without a tariff | and limited embargo? The first remedy is a special session of Congress." Hill praised the Kansas operators for { their orderly production, adding they “should have been rewarded with a price increase rather than having their | bread and butter taken away.” Today's action in Kansas followed proposal made yesterday by operators of the Oklahoma City, Okla., field that wells be sbut down in the six principal producing States of the midcontinent area. Shutdown Opposed. Operators in Texzs, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas, the other four | States concerned, have not held meet- ings. Executives of the four States, | however, today said they did not be- | ieve the shutdown plan to be feasible. | It was the concensus of opinion that the Governors did not have authority to order the proposed action, 8s sug- gested by Oklahoma producers. Operators pointed out that Louisiana, which consumes most of its own oil; Arkansas, which buys considerable ofl outside of the State and the States where proration regulations are in ef- fect, did not have so much bearing understand the Government has an | On the situation as Kansas, Oklahoma ! |and Texas, where pools are flush and | overproduced. | - Further Curb Looms. The entire situation is believed to hinge immediately upon conferences | scheduled next week between operators | in Kansas, Texas snd Oklahoma and on an appeal which is expected to be taken to the Ofl States Advisory Committee, of which Cicero Murray, Oklahoma City, is chairman. Thirteen companies with & potential of ‘more than 2,000,000 barrels daily | in the Oklahoma City field. Tonight it was announced that the Indian Terri- tory Illuminating Oil Co. and Phillips Petroleum, holding the balance of power in the field. had agreed to sbut down ,000, aily potentiel, provided t | be allowed to open sny of their wells which are offsetting producers. UNCONSCIOUS 82 HOURS ] | No Hope Held for Recovery of In- Jjured Tour Flyer. MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, July 1 (#)—Charles Sugg, St. Clair, Mich, fiyer whot was injured when his plane d"uuhed .)‘1 Yorkvm;..&hl%‘lan w’;dng- 8s he was cipating e national air tour, tonight had passed his eighty-second hcur in an uncon- sclous state, Doctors at the hospital where he is confined said Sugg's con- dition was “extremely critical” and that | there was no hope he would recover. Sugg suffered a fracture at the base of the brain. {Rush Order Placed for Ne Eleven days of the new fiscal year have elapsed and as yet no dog tags are in sight for the thousands of Tow- sers, Fidos and Rovers whose masters and mistresses have applied in vain to the District. The issuance of the tags is being held up by & regrettable lapse in the office of the District auditor, who tried to shuffle the business off onto the to the tax assessor. When to- shift the d has On second thought, haps there are really not thousands of Towsers waiting. For fashions change, even in the matter of giving a dog a bad In fact, it may well be there are no Towsers at all. amination of the records of the name, taking the mu\d Rover. 1} mwn-" R . that official managed | mugh! back NOBODY WANTS DOG TAG DUTY SO D. C. ISSUANCE IS DELAYED w Forms—Styles in Canine Names Change, Records Show. 1200 as & fair sample, is Pat, who is represented seven times. His tradi- tional colleague, Mike, is represented five times, as is Jack. Then there are Buddy, Peggy and Sport, with four each; ‘Spot, Pal, Prince and Brownie, with three each; Mickey, Flufy, Belle, Curly, Jiggs, Trixie, Buster, Snookums, Beauty, Fannie; Boots, Nip, Mita, Scotty and Patricia with two each. ‘The White House dogs, which one t expect to find with names sucl as Moratorium, Depression, Farm Re- {lief and the like, have, on’ the con- trary, very democratic names. Patrick, | Big Boy, Mark and Gillette make up the first kennels of the land. The records are diplomatically silent as to the breed of the dogs, contain- ing only the names, colors and sexes. Brown seems to be the prevailing . by white and next by the varicolored species such as “black and tan,” “spotted” and “brindled.” ‘There is a fair amount of doggage in .town, as the official for 19,132, und this does the stray dogs who occasionally are rounded up by Poundmaster Smith and dmu!nJ to the bappy barking grounds. production already have closed down | ! TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE BRITISH LEADERS PLEDGE NATION T0 REDUCTION OF ARMS MacDonald, Lloyd George and Baldwin Address Over- flow<Crowd in London. MAJOR PARTIES SINK DIFFERENCES IN CAUSE Each of 65 Nations to Participate in Geneva Conference Repre- sented in Parade. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 11—Through the leaders of her three great parties, Great Britain tonight dedicated herself to the task of persuading the nations at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva next Spring to reduce “the enormous | and disgraceful burden of arms.” Speaking from the same platform in Albert Hall, Prime Minisier MacDonald, Laborite; Stanley Baldwin, Conserva- tive, and Lloyd George, Liberal, de- clared their unanimous support of dis- armament. Ten thous2nd persons heard and ap- plauded them. The aud:ence was al- mcst unanimously entnuslastic, al- though at the beginning of the meet- ing a woman created a disturbance by throwing a stench bomb at the emi- nents on the rostrum. Later on a few hecklers spoke up. Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, chairman cf the meeting. 'set the key- note by calling fcr ““a reat reduction in | les, navies and air forces of the Bir William said he had spent 50 years in the study and practice of the {arts of war and confessed that “war hurts everybody. benenits only the | profiteers and settles nothing." Overflow Crowd in Park. ‘The Albert Hall audience was only the nucleus of the crowds that heard the leaders of the three political parties sink their differences in the cause of disarmament. Across the street under the trees of Hyde Park there was an overflow meeting of neariy 1 In addition the speeches Te broadcast throughout Great Britain and to | America. | A peace parade neary a mile long { wound through London from the i Thames embankment to Piccadilly and | Hyde Park before the meeting. Each | of the 64 naticns which will participate |in the negotiations at Geneva was rep- i resented by a section cf the procession. In the front row in Albert Hall were gathered the diplomats of all countries accredited to the Court of St. James. | The disturbance at the beginning of the meeting caused by the tossing of & bomb at Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Robert Cecil and other prominent personages on the {platform, was quickly put down and | the woman responsible for it was hus- tled out of the hall. Lloyd George Replies. ‘The hecklers, too, caused little diffi- culty. Lloyd George answered one of them, who urged an organization of | international police to maintain world | peace, to be eatisfied with “one thing at a time.” Mr. MacDonald, who showed no trace of his recent iliness, was moved to rare | eloquence. “Unless we reduce men, guns, ships, air destruction; unless we can reduce !armaments of ‘the various nations to less than they have now, we will not have done our duty at Geneva,” he said. “Geneva must give results.” | “Mr. Baldwin, with the qu ing manner he employes in argument in the House of Commons, said he could not attempt the Celtic eloguence of the prime minister, but as a plain English- {man he was in complete agreement in | Great Britain's pledge regarding dis- armament. | The audience gave each speaker an ovation, but Lloyd George's was the |most prolonged. Waves of applause rolled around and around the great circular auditorium as he stood, his long white hair shining under the glare of bright lights. With a” seeming touch of cynicism, he traced the world's efforts for dis- armament during the past dozen years, telling how each new treaty and pledge had resulted only in increasing the armies and navies of the world. “In the Hearts of Men.” But he concluded with this note: “You will never disarm, you will never effect real disarmament until you re- nounce war not merely on a scroll of paper, but in the hearts of men. “But let us take every step, let us make every effort to teach and influ- ence the minds of men in that direc- tion. When that is done the pact to renounce war will be a reality.” ‘Throughout the speeches there was emphasis on the lead Great Britain has taken in the disarmament as well as references to the urgent need for aid from the United States in solving Eu- rope’s problems. “We want her help in these appall- ing problems of reconciling national interests and disarmament,” Mr. Bald- ‘win declared. ‘The prime minister did not mention the names of any foreign nations - in his address, but the Conservative leader spoke of the need of American partici- pation in the League of« Nations and also referred to increasing armaments in Western Europe. Mr. Baldwin rejoiced because the two great nations which are not mem- bers of the Russia and the United States— be represented at Geneva. b t, convine- MAN HELD IN SLAYING SUES ON FALSE ARREST San Diego Man Files $10,000 Suit Against Sheriff and Prober in Girl's Death Mystery. By the Associated Press. SAN IEGO, July 11.—Charging false arrest in connection with the un- soived kidnaping and slaying of 10- year-old Virginia Brcoks, John Coberly filed suit today in Superior Court against George Sears, police investi- gator, Deputy Sheriff Blake Mason, and others, asking $10,000 camages. Coberly chargad that Sears, Mason and three other officers ccnspired to arrest him April 18 last, while he was innocent of any connection with the schoolgirl's murder. Virginia Brooks disaj early in February and a month later her slashed body was found on Camp Kearny mesa, Several arrests were ut all the