Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1931, Page 1

\WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, followed by local thundershowers to- morrow afternoon or night; little change in temperature. Temperatures—High- est, 94, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 4. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Che Entered as sec No. 31,852. post office, Washington, D. ond class matter, . WASHINGTON HUNGARIAN FLYERS REPORTED LANDED AT BUDAPEST GOAL Magyar and Endres Reach Home Airport After Suc- cessful Flight. JUSTICE' FOR HUNGARY SEEN AT 8:30 A.M,, E.S.T. Capital Prepares Welcome for Air-l man as Thousands Gather at Airport. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 16 (#). —Capt. George Endres and Capt Alexander Magyar landed the trans- atlantic monoplane Justice for © Hungary late today. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, July 16.—Capt. George Endres and Capt. Alexander Magyar, fiying the transatlantic monoplane Justice for Hungary, were reported sighted over Aspern Airdrome, outside Vienna, at 5:53 p.m. (11:53 a.m. Eastern | standard time) and were expected 1o | reach Budapest at 7:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. Eastern standard time). Previousyy the airdrome authorities haa reporied them sighted over Linz, Austria, 98 miles 1rom Vienna, the' lime | of their passing over tnal town beng given at 0:25 pm. (11:0 a.m. wasters | s.aznaard ume) A lew minuies after they sticaked over the Aspern Alrurome ey were aeported over srauslava, Czachosio- vagia, only a Iew mules Irom their goal | THOUSANDS AWAIT FLYERS. Budapest Prepares for Welcome to Magyar and Endres. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 16 (#).— The Hungarian ryeis, Capt. Alexander | George Endres, | Magyar and Capi. bringing Justice lor Hungary across the transatlantic air lanes, were await- ed hopefully today by thousands of thelr countrymen. Special trains were transporting hun- dreds to Matyasold Airdrome, where FOUR ARMY FLYERS T | |LLED AS PLANES |G % COLLIDE N MIDAIR Cadet, Former Washington Student, Among Victims Near San Antonio. |TWO CRAFT PLUNGE 400 FEET TO GROUND | | Other Pilots Witness Fatal Acci- | dent and Land in Effort ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931 —FORTY: CADET ENDICOTT LONGACRE. to Give Help. | when the two planes in which they were flying collided in the air. All four were on duty at Brooks Field. They were Maj. Charles V. Hart, flight_surgeon and pilot; Capt. Carlos J. Chamberlain of New York City, Second Lieut. K. Austin Rogers, flying instructor, nd Cadet Endicott Longacre. Cadet, Washington, Georgetown University. The two planes, piloted by Maj. Hart Increase and Lieut. Rogers, were fiying at an altitude of 300 or 400 feet when they crashed in midair and plunged to the ground. The accident was seen by other pilots, who landed nearby and suménoned an ambulance from Brooks Fiel Maj. Hart was one of the few flight IN FARM PRODUCT RATES NECESSARY Langacre formerly lived in having been a student’at |J. ). Pelley Says Demanded Despite Low Price Level. |- B | “By the Associated Press. | SAN ANTONIO, July 16.—Three | officers and one flying cadet were killed four miles south of Brooks Field today | SURREN 'MRS. HENDERSON. NEAR DEATH RECONCILED WITH MRS. WHOLEAN Capital Social Leader Suffers [ surgecns in the Air Corps holding a pilot’s rating, and was one of the | ploneers in flight surgeon work. By the Associated Press. The intention of the 1 ds to in- sist upon & flat 15 per cent increase on farm preducts was voiced to the Inter- state Commerce Commission today by a witness for the roads. Maj. Hart in fiight surgeon member of the New Guard. At the same time an explanction of _ Lieut. Rogers was a flving instructor the manner in which the roads px'o-’;;‘,g‘; ":“““;\y_m‘;’y‘?gss?;’:‘”{o‘“%_‘é:: posed to deal with coal and coke, which | Longacre at the time of the c-ash. | they will handle separatcly. was given | Cadet Longacre was taking the basic the commission. Under their method, | course. He is the son of Capt. Longacre as outlined by Roy S. Kemn, a Pitts- | O 1Ne Quattermastor Gorps and was on burgh rate expert, coal rates would in | most cases approximate 15 per cent| CADET LIVED IN CAPITAL. jabove the present ones and in certaln | specific instances would “exceed that training to become a Chamberlain was a. York National | Endicott Longacre Attended G. U. From | Capt. Chemberlain was flying with | Stroke at Bar Har- bor Home. Has Held Prominent Position in Society and Politics for 70 Years. Mrs. Mary Foote Henderson, 90-year- | 0ld widow of Senator John B. Honder- | son and for the last 70 years one of the most prominent women of Wash- 1927 to 1920. | Cadet Endicott Longacre lived in| | & & elley, president of the New K Washington until last February, when | | York, New Haven and Hartford rail- | he went to the Texas flying fleld for | i road, speaking for tha eastern carriers, | aviation traiging. While here he at-! | percentz.ze. Pelley Speaks For Carriers. the airmen were expected this afier- | 101d the commission it was their policy | : ; to ask for the increase on farm prod- noon. Aviaticn experts were inclined | ycts gespite the low prices for which to believe, however, that the flight | many were selling. would not be non-stop on account of | Pelley said tbat without an in- e the distance overland from the Atlantic, | créased_income the roads could not Hopes ran high on the basis of re- assuring weather reports from the meteorological station telling of good conditions all over the North Atlantic. But reports of poor visibility and low- ‘hanging clcuds over Ireland gave rise to fears that the airmen might lose their way. Radio amateurs were tuned in on a 600-meter wave length to pick up their signals. Prepare for Reception. By noon 100,000 enthusiastic Hun- garians had gathered at the airport and every hour trains rolled in loaded | to capacity. ‘The official Welcoming C:-mmittee, modeling its plans on the American style, has arfanged to take the flyers by automobile slong the principal streets of Budapest to the City Hall “This is an honor which never has been granted before. ‘Throughout Hungary those who had | Jost hope that a flight of this kind ever would be made arc filled with un- bounded enthusiasm, for the Justice for Hungary has become a symbol of the trials and disasters through which the naticn has passed. GOTHAM PLANS WELCOME. s and Hillig Arrive on Maure- tania Tonight. NEW YORK, July 16 (#) —New York City, alded by a detachment of citizens frcm Liberty, N. Y., today made prepara- tions for another welcome to air con- querors of the Atlantic. Holger Hoirlis, pilot, and Otto Hillig, passenger-photographer of the plane Liberty, which zocmed its way to Ger- many and Copenhagen, arrive on the Mauretania tonight. They will be met by New York City officials, a group of Liberty rooters and by representatives of several Danish and German socleties. Tomorrow they receive a welcome from Mayor Walker, after a ride up Broadway from the Battery. Several receptions will fcllow, and on Tuesday they fly to Liberty to receive a home- town welcome. RUSSELL LEADS TOUR. Planes in National Event Headed for Corpus Christi, Tex. HOUSTON, Tex., July 16 (#).—Plancs of the national air tcur headed toward Corpus Christi, Tex., today. ‘The weather cutlook was for rain. Officials, however, believed the take- offs would be mad: as scheduled. Harry L. Russell of Dearborn, Mich,, led the field with 33,647 points when he reached here yesterday from Shrevepert, La. James H. Smart of Pine Bluff, Ark., was second with 31,236, and the seven other contesting pilots who had checked in at the municipal airport ‘were, roughly, 10,000 pints or more behind. Lowe!l R. Bayles of Spring- field, Mass., was third. George Edward Dickson of Pitts- burgh, the tenth and last surviving contesting pilot of the group which jeft Detroit July 4, was expected here t>day {rom New layed him. LEAVE FOR MOSCOW. French Flyers on Way to Paris for Second Attempt. MOSCOW, July 16 (#).—Joseph Le Brix and Marcel Doret, French airmen, left Nijni Udinsk, Siberia, by train for Moscow today on their way back to Paris to have another try at & non-stop flight to Tokio. They were accompanied by their mechanic, Rene Mesnin. Civil aviation authorities here are ar- yanging to speed them on their way ‘with whatever parts of their plane they Were unable to salvage. They crashed 3In Central Siberia several days ago, after ihey had covered about two-thirds of *‘t Journey. Orleans. Bad weather de- | nue to give-the service required {of them. | { Henry Wolf Bikle, general counsel | | for the railroads. urged that the com- { mission grant the increase and hold | the case open for future developments | to determine whether there should be | additional increases or whether they | should be lowered. | Immediately afterward Mr. Pelley | testified that it was felt that without additional revenues, such as would be i afforded by the 15 per cent increase, | i the railroads could not continue the | transportation service “which it is their duty under the law to provide and which is essential to the public wel- fare.” | Bikle told the commission that it | | cbviously was impossible to tell when | the present depression would change. | “Therefore it seems impossible for us | to set a date for expiration of the rate | increase,” he said. | | "I was asked yesterday if the railroad intended to make this increase per- manent. Ask Case Be Kept Open. “The railroads now suggest that if and when an increase is granted the commission keep the case open and before it 5o that it can be recalled and (Continued cn Page 2, Column 3.) |ITALY SEEKS SENDERS | OF BOMBS BY MAIL Numerous Arrests Made at Genoa After Two Fascists Are Injured by Exploding “Pens.” By the Associated Press. GENOA, Italy, July 16.—Numerous persons have been arrested and exam- ined by the police in an effort to find the one who sent through the mail to Fascist leaders 40 small bombs dis- guised as fountain pens. ‘Two of the “pens” exploded, wound- ing the recipients, minor Fascist offi- cials, on the hands and face. The bombs, police learned, were sent through the local mail, most of them addressed to local Fascist headquarters in the Cordoni Palace. Police also are questioning the ar- rested persons regarding a bomb ex- plosion on the dock here in which none was injured. Similar explosions have | occurred in Turin, Bologna, Rome and Genoa. | Duncan Field, Tex., February 15. | resigned as a director of the Washing- | Light stock and Mr. Thom is under- \WIFE KILLS OSTEOPATH {Note Reveals Cleveland Woman | Mrs. Gorman had planned to kill her tended Georgetown College from 1927 to 1930 and was essistant editor of the | Quartermaster Review, of which his | father, Capt. Clarence Longacre, was | editor. Before entering Georgetown he was a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point for two years. The family lived at 3842 Legation street until Capi. Longacre was ordered to duty At He is survived by both his mother and father. T~ - THOM RESIGNS POST Says Pressure of Business Causes Him to Leave Di- rectorate. the has Corcoran Thom, president of American Security & Trust Co., ton Gas Light Co., according to an-| nouncement made today at the offices of the gas company. Mr. Thom gave as the reason for his; action that pressure of business has| forced him to cut down on some of his financial activities. The resignation has been accepted. Mr. Thom's resignation comes about | a month after the election to the gas | board of E. A. Plerce of Chicago, head | of the Central Public Service Corpora- | tion. The trust department of the Amer- ican Security & Trust Co. has charge of a large amount of Washington Gas stood to be a large personal holder of | the company’s securities. AND TAKES OWN LIFE| Planned Murder and Suicide “to Final Details. AKRON, Ohio, July 16 (#)—The bodies of Willl: Gorman, 41, Cleve- land osteopath, and,his wife, 40, be- lieved to be victims of a murder and suicide committed by the latter, were found at their home at West Richfield, 15 miles northwest of here, late yes- terday. Notes found in the house indicated husband and then herself. She wrote that ner body would be found in the basement. DISAPPEARS AS CHICAGO’S MYSTERIOUS MADONN A SHADE IS PULLED {Six-Day Wonder That Attracted Huge Throng Proves to Be Merely Reflection From Arc Lamp, | By the Assoctated Press. { CHICAGO, July 16.—Some one in the home of Sam Genna, once notorious as | | the leader of a liquor gang, pulled down | a shade last night and Chicago's six- day wonder—the image of a mother | and her child—which appeared on the | side of an apartment building in South | Ashland avenue vanished while 20,000 | s >ctators watched. | Genna’s home is directly opposite me! apartment building to which as many | as 50,000 persons were attracted by the | appearance of the figure on the wall. | An arc lamp some distance away had been throwing its beams upon a bay dow pane, light upon the wall of the apartment, in turn, had reflected the: | with a lace curtain adding a shadow | He asked the police to investigate at|Kennedy somewhat dim re- | the Genna home. Lieut. Joseph Pieroth | polsoned that resulted in a i semblance of the Madonna and chud.‘ With the discovery of the cause of e. the crowd went;nme dis- | appointed. Some of them had been in the neighborhood all day. At éne time crowd was so dense police reserves had t> be called out to maintain order. During the excitement some of the spectators threw rocks at the police as they tried to force their way through the crowd. One woman, Mrs. Paul Wimmler of Milwaukee, Wis, was hit, but was not badly hurt. Peanut venders and hot dog men did a big business, while pickpockets reaped | a harvest. A newspaper reporter helped in a solution of the mystery. Toward mid- night he held up a handkerchief be- - he i~ ntence. window ir the Genna home. The win- | tween the fi~ure and the window of the | year vflso!&r I‘:] e state submitted & Genna home and noticed that its | shadow partially obscured the image, |purported confession in which went into the place and examined the shade, repo) back that the mystery had been solt . ington, is dving at her Summer home in Bar Harbor, Me. | Associated Press dispatches today sald no hope was held for her recov- ery and it was said_that death might come at any time. fered a stroke of paralysis. | During the 10 days she has been ill, a reconciliation was reported to have been affected with her foster grand- daughter, Mis. Beatrice Van Rens- selaer Henderson Wholean | Februgry. Mrs. Henderson disin- | Yesterday she suf- | herited Mrs. Wholean and disclosed she was a foundling adopted by her " (Continued on . Column 6.) POLICE DISCAAREE HRED FORVER Department Drops Two Ac- cused of Framing Dry Law Cases. Dismissal of Leslie Pitcher and Wil- liam A. Varner, police informers, ac- cused during recent Police Court trials of framing two defendants in dry law cases, was announced today by the the headquarters vice squad. Pitcher was accused vyesterday of | planting” liquor in a suit case, caus- | ing the arrest of Daniel Martin, colored | bootblack in a Pennsylvania avenue | barber shop on July 2. The informer, testifled he made two buys from Martin | befcre the arrival of police, who found | the bootblack holding a suit case con- taining two. gallons of liquor. Martin said he carried the satchel | from Pitcher's automobile at the in- | former’s request. ‘The bootblack was | acquitted of a sale charge by a jury that was unable to agree on a second count charging possession. | Didn’'t Like Testimony. 1 Immediately after the trial David A. Hart, assistant United States attor- ney, announced he would not try Mar- tin ‘again on the second count because he “did not_like the testimony of the| informer.” It was reported today that | the charge would be nolle prossed. Judge Robert E. Mattingly, speaking from the bench Monday. accused Var- ner of “lying and keeping money with which he said he bought whisky,” when 2 crippled colored woman, _arrested through Varner's efforts, was arraigned | before him for possession. He dismissed the case. “They were told their services were no longer needed by the department, said Sergt. N. O. Hoimes, leader of the police raiding squad. “No further ac- tion will be taken in either of the cases.” he said. ; On Pay Roll for Months. | Both Varner and P‘tjtlcher l’i‘l\‘e 'Pefeol;‘ regular salaried “special employes lhg last several months, both having participated in a large number of cases in_ which the principals were either Jailed or fined. Only yesterday Varner testified in the trial of Sherman Wiley, found guilty of possession by a jury that re- turned acquittal verdicts on two other counts. Wiley - will be sentenced by Judge John P. McMahon Saturday. Several cases in which the dismissed informants figured are still on the Po- lice Court docket. It was not made known what action will be taken in these cases. WOMAN GETS NINE YEARS FOR POISONING BABY A “m"m Mo., July 16. HARRISO! ., — Miss Martha Kennedy, 52, charged '!’:.uh poisoning a 21-months-old baby, = u: night was found guilty of "‘“‘"‘“51 a by.a jury, which also - At the g uoted as saying she m’u?n%n the family of Blmer York, a tenant farmer, so the York children wouldn't drink so mul Winfr ch. | ed York, 2L old, slied, MRS. JOHN B. HENDERSON. SOX LEAD GRIFFS, 32 IN SEVENTH Jolley’s Homer With Appling on Sends Chicago Ahead_ as Time Is Called. First Game Line-up. WASHINGTON. West, ¢f Manus] Croxin, Herris! Kuhel. 15 Bluege, 3b. es.’ b Sullivan. 3b Reynolds, «f as. nolds, cf 1. Fonseca. ' T Fathergill, 1t s » smpi ldebrand and van Grafan BY JOHN B. KELLER. A home run by Jolley. pinch hitting for Grubz, avith Appling on second base, in the seventh inning. gave the White Sox a 3-t0-2 lead over the Nationals in the first game of a double-header at| Griffith Stadium this afternoon. Time was called on account of rain at the end of the seventh. FIRST INNING. CHICAGO— Blue grounded to Kuhel. Sullivan singled to center. Reynolds drove into a double play, Hayes to Cronin to Kuhel. No runs. WASHINGTON—West hit - Thomas’ first pitch for a triple to left. It was his 100th hit of the season. Kerr threw out Manush, West scoring. Cronin was hit by a pitched ball. Harris forced Cronin, Appling to Kerr. Kuhel lined to Fonseca. One run. SECOND INNING. CHICAGO—Fonseca flied to West. | Hayes threw out Fothergill. Kerr fiied | to West. No runs. ‘WASHINGTON—Fothergill came in fast for a diving catch of Bluege's liner. Hayes got a single to deep short, and took second when Appling threw wild to first. Spencer fanned. Marberry lined to Blue. No runs. THIRD INNING. CHICAGO—Appling was safe when Bluege threw wild to first. Grube drove into a double play, Cronin to Kuhel. Thomas flied to Harris. No runs. WASHINGTON—West fouled to Sul- livan. _Sullivan threw out Manush. Reynolds came in for Cronin’s high one. No runs. FOURTH INNING. CHICAGO—BIlue got a hit which passed Kuhel to Hayes. Sullivan got a sacrifice which was too late for Kuhel to get Blue at second. Reynolds bunted a pop to Kuhel. Cronin fumbled Fonseca's grounder and the bases were filled. Fothergill flled to Manush, Blue scoring with the tying run. Marberry tossed out Kerr. One run. WASHINGTON—Kerr_went b ~"(Continued on Page 2, Colu FINDS PORTO RICO DRY SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 16 (). —A. W. W. Woodcock, United States prohibition commissioner, said today he had found violations of the prohibition act in Porto Rico small. ‘Woodcock, who is sailing today for New York, where he will arrive Mon- day, said the Porto Rico dry enforce- ment unit gradually would be increased from 4 to 10, so as to provide closer contact and better co-operation with k_for 2) Foening Star. -EIGHT PAGES. #%% T DER o CORNWALLIg WL BAR BUSSES * FROM BUSY AREAS Public Utilities and District Commissioners to Keep Lines | From Congested Zones. | Interstate busses were barred from | the first_congested zone, effective April {1, 1932, by an order of the Public Util | ities Commission and the District Co | missloners sitting as & joint board to- ay. | _ Beginning August 1. 1932, none of | the busses will be permitied to stop at | the curb to discharge passengers in the | second congested zone, amithough tkey | will be allowed to have terminais in the | second zone, 50 long s “he busses are | kept off the street. | The order adopted today refers only | to what are defined as “Class A busses,” which “run on regular schedules car- rying passengers, making occasional | trips between Washington and other | | metropolitan are: | The order dces not refer to bus lines | Tunning to Alexandria, Hyattsville, | Sligo »nd other points which are con- | sidered within the Washington metro- | politan district i Before August 15, 1931, every opera- ior of a class A motor bus in the Dis- ' quired to fils with the Public Utilities Commission full reports show- | ing the routes now being followed by | the vehicles in the District, all stop- ping points ard terminals, full sched- ules of the arrival and departure time | of all busses, the origin and terminus | of each trip entering the District and | | & full description of all busses engaged | | in such service. | ‘ After August 15, 1931, no class A bus | may operate in the District except over | such route or routes and to such stop | or stops as may be approved by the commission. The first zone, in which no terminal | whether on or off the street will be | | allowed atter April 1, 1932, is bounded | by the east curb of Seventh street. the south cutb of H street from Seventh | street to New York avenue, the south curb of New York avenue to Fifteenth street, the west curb of Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue and the south curb of Pennsylvania avenue to Seventh The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday's Circulation, 109,143 TWO SIX NATIONS TO MEET GERMANY TO TAKE UP FINANCIAL SITUATION CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. Bruening Invited to Paris and London to See Representatives of Other Powers. :'R[OTS BREAK OUT IN CbBLENZ. | WHERE MOB ATTACKS POLICE That of Experts Called to Con- sider Young Plan. By the Associated Preas Developments in the situation arising from Germany's financial crisis are succeeding one another with a rapidity unusual in inter- national diplomacy. | Representatives of the principal World War allies, including See- |retary of State Stimson, met at Paris and invited Chancellor Bruen- !ing to come there as soon as he can. Seven Nations to Confer. Prime Minister MacDonald of England canceled a visit to Berlin which he was to have made tomorrow and will remain at London for a meeting there on Monday of representatives of the principal world powers, including the United States, Italy, Belgium and apan, as well as Great Britain, France and Germany. This meeting may supersede that of the Young plan experts, who were to have gath- |ered to dovetail that plan with the Hoover debt suspension plan. | At Berlin the banks which were closed two days ago by govern- ment decree reopened to meet the mid-month pay roll. The cabinet ‘rex:age?i 1‘;1 session considering Chancellor Bruening's trip to Paris an ndon. Coblenz Mob Atiacks Police. Disorders, during which two policemen were injured and 70 per- sons were arrested, took place at Coblenz last night. The police were pelted with bottles and rocks, while shots were fired from upper windows. The old part of the city, where street lamps were smashed by the mob. was shut off by the police, who ]mndéla t2:ousel-to»house search for the rioters. d | ashes also occurred between Communists and polic Many shop windows were broken and several arrests ?ere!n:fid’ref'v”' | Two New Conferences Press. BERLIN, July 16.—The reopening of | By the Associated Press. | By the Associa LONDON, July 16.—Germany's peril- " ous financial situation tcday moved the world powers to make radical changes in plans for a series of international | conferences, and statesmen of seven | nations are to meet in London on Mon- | | day to evolve a plan cof extending speedy ! | assistance to Berlin. . | First, however. Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Julius Curtius, his foreign minister, are expected to go to Paris. where representatives of the principal World War sliles, including the United | States. met today. { From that meeling came an invi- | tation to the German chancellor to stop at Paris on the way to London. | He may make the trip tonight. MacDonald Cancels Trip. i Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald has canceled & trip to Berlin which he and | Arthur Henderson, the British foreign | secretary, were to have made tomorrow. Mr. Henderson, who now is in Paris, will stay there for the important meet- ings to be held tomorrow and will return to London with representatives of the other nations who will attend Monday's meeting here. At the meeting will be Secretary of State Stimson for the United States, Dino Grandi for Italy and represent- atives of Belgium and Japan as well as Great Britain, France and Ger- many. Secretary Andrew W. Mellon also may sit in for the United States. although street. The second zone in which termins will be allowed after August 1, 19 only where the busses are kept off the | street, is bounded by the north curb | of L street and New York avenue, from | Eightcenth to Fourth street; the west | curb of Fourth street from New York | avenue to I street; the south curb of I street from Fourth to Sixth streets; the east curb of Sixth street, from Massa- chusetts to Constitution avenues: the south curb of Constitution avenue, from Sixth to Fifteenth streets; the | west curb of Fifteenth street, from Constitution to New York avenues; the | south curb of Pennsylvania avenue, | from Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets: | |the east curb of Seventeenth street. | | from Pennsylvania avenue to G street | the south curb of G street, from Seven teenth to Eighteenth streets, and the ! west curb of Eighteenth street, from | G to L streets. | The meeting at which the order was adopted was the first to be held by the | Joint Board, set up by the new traffic| act, which went into effect July 1. The Public Utilities Commission had | previously made attempts to regulate ! trafic in the District by interstate busses, but the interstate lines had successtully Tesisted its efforts by court | proceedings. The Joint Board was set | up_in an effort to overcome this legal | difficulty. NAVAL WORK AWARDED | | Announcement was made today at the Nevy Department: that the Bureau of Yards and Docks has jpst completed awarding contracts totaling $49,398 for public works construction over the country. It gave the United States Marble Co., Inc.. of Philadelphia, a contract for’ $48.300 for a promenade tile rof for terraces at Bancroft Hall at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. | ernment has sequestrated an anti- he is in the south of Prance for a holiday and had planned to go home without taking part in any further negotiations. Hugh S. Gibson, American Ambassa- | dor to Belgium. who is here for a | meeting of Young plan expeits, also may_attend. | The atatus of the experts’ meeting | is somewhat uncertain pow since events have followed one another with such | rapidity. Originally it was to have con- ducted its negotiations prior to a meet- ing of political representatives of the nations concerned. There seems to be a possibility now that the experis may not meet as scheduled As explained unofficially but in suthoritative quarters, the significance of these sudden changes is that Ger- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) by, e ITALY ARRESTS AUTHORS OF ANTI-PAPAL PAPER| Suppression of Pamphlet Entitled “Away With Vatican” Seen 3 As Peace Move. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 16.—The Italian gov- | Papal pamphlet “Away With the Vati- can” and ordered the arrest of its four authors. | One of the authors is Emilio Setti- melli, who was editor of the recently defunct Rome newspaper, ‘“Inpefo,” which carried the banner line, “Mus- solinl Is Always Right.” | A Vatican authority interpreted the | sequestration and gradual lessening of the newspaper campaign as presagini something akin to peace. Settimelli h: been so violently loyal to the Duce and | so often in trouble that he long ago was expelled from the Fascist party. Detective Sergeant Reaches A mouse is believed to have caused District polics to run at full speed early today to the Government liquor ware- house, 322 Thirteen-and-a-Half street. It is in this warehouse that police store all whisky they seize in raids in Washington. At 8 o'clock this morning the warehous: burglar alarm m was touched off and police headquarters, fearing a hi-jacking scheme, summoned all radio patrol cars to the scene. Deteetive Sergt, James Collins in & cruising machine in the vicinity of American University. 4 miles from the . scene, T the mesage. De- MOUSE MOBILIZES POLICE CARS AT FEDERAL RUM STOREHOUSE versity as Fast as Headquarters Squad. Scene From American Uni- tective Sergt. Arthur T. Fihelly ex- pressed surprise when he saw Collins drive up to the warehouse a few min- utes after his own arrival from police uarters, a short distance away. Pol say they found all doors and windows secured and no evidence of entry. An employe explained that the alarm is extremely sensitive and he expressed the belief that either a mouse or a jar caused by heavy traffic near the ware- house set off the system. the banks after & two-day holiday and the curbing of the purchase of foreign currencles today led the German gov- ernment to hope it had averted s dan- gerous financial erisis. At the same time alarm was felt over the spread of riots by Communists and iobless through a large part of the Reich. At least one person was killed, & number were injured and many were arrested as police Jaid & heavy hand en attempts to create internal dissension. “Money Csar” Appointed. Appointment of Hermann Schmitz, privy counselor to the German dye trust, as federal commissioner for finance, was announced in today's newspapers. This is the post of “money csar.” creation of which was determined uson by the cabinet as one of the emergency measures by which the government is trying to bring order out of finarcial chaos. It 1s said the commissioner's powers wiil be far-reaching. including control of all the banks in Germany. ‘Herr Schmitz is hurrying to Berlin from Lucerne, where he participated in the international nitrate conference. Call for Sporting Spirit. Finance Minister Dietrich and a gov- ernment broadcaster announced the lat- est measures to instill confidence in the economic structure of the fatherland in a nation-wide broadcast last night, appealing to the people to show “a sporting spirit and get along somehow for a few days more.” All over the land radio listeners sat up late and heard & program that could scarcely be listed as entertainment. They heard that the banks would be open but not for withdrawals of sav- ings. that the currency had been ex- panded by something less than a billion marks, that the sale and purchase of foreign currencies temporarily would be a reichsbank monopoly. that fines and imprisonment awaited the bootlegger of foreign money. and that confiscation faced the bargain hunter who tried ille- | gally to trade his marks for other units, The vigorous admeonishing voice of Herr Dietrich was heard warning against wild rumors and urging cool- ness sand common sense. “Even the strongest government can't lead a na- tion that has lost its nerve,” he said. Credit Sharply Restricted. Rumors (hat the printing presses once more were turning out bales of marks were described as sheer false- (Continued on ' Page 2, Column 1.) STOCKS ARE HIGHER IN LIGHT TRADING Recovery in Sterling and Better Tone in Foreign Markets Teflected Here. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 16.—Demoralized conditions in the foreign exchange mar- kets reminiscent of war times continued today, but security marxets developed = better tone, and there was a notable re- laxing of nervous tension. News that the German government contemplated no moratorium on the service of government and industrial bonds held abroad caused partial recov- cries in German securitiss. The New York stock market after yesterday’s sell- ing flurry, again dritted dully, but the London, Amsterdam and Paris markets closed higher. : Yesterday's severe pressure against the Brit‘sh pound sterling was lightened and while it made but scant recovery, & simultaneous decline the franc was regarded as an indication of steps to check any important seepage of gold from the Bank of England. At any rate, it was regarded as it that the Bank of England did not feel forced to increase its discount rate at fts weekly meeting. ‘The German mark wes nominally Hundreds of cases of whisky are stored in the building. 4 quoted at 23 cents, or about 2 cents higher, but actual transfers were rare. : ¥