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W) " e we Oenerally morning folle A Temper pmo el LIT ) AL " lowest 1onight ol by omorrow afternoon Migheat L oo b and oAt ham WITH SUNDAY MORNI AT PARIS ON RELIEF FOR REICH PENDIN BRUENING ARRIVAL Germans Restore Order After " Serious Communist Riots in Industrial Ruhr District. Reds Plunder Stores. AMERICANS ARE ACTIVE IN NEGOTIATIONS ABROAD Young Plan Experts Recess After Short Session—Ministers’ Con- ference in London May Fall Through Unless Talks in France Are Successful. B the Associated Press American statesmen are taking an active hand in the rapidly de- veloping European situation, with Secretary Stimson attending con- ferences in Paris and Ambassador Hugh 8. Gibson sitting in oh the London meeting of Young plan experts. The Paris meeting concerned itself principally with financisl details of helping Germany, await- ing arrival of Chancellor Biruen- ing and Foreign Minister Curtius tomorrow. The Young rlan experts ad- Journed until after the meeting of representatives of seven nations at London on Monday. There ap- peared to be a possibility that session might be postponcd feor a day or so until conversations at Pais are concluded. In Berlin the Reichstag Steer- ing Committee voted down a de- mand for an extra session, and quict appearcd to have becn re- stored in the Ruhr, where there were serious Communist riots overnigit. COMMUNISTS RIOT IN RUHR. Internal Germany Stirred by Serious- | ness of Crisis; Reichsiag Cail Rejected. BLRLIN. July 17 (#).—Pistol” shots from behind Commun s. barricades in the indusirial Rubr tcday emphasized the scriousness of the financial situation which is spceding German ofiicials to Paris tonight for a parley with French &tatesmen, Rioting broke cut in Gelsenkirchen and police battled Communists for pos- session of the stree.s. About the same time a Communist was killed and two | were wounded by gunfire in a brawl with National Socialists at Darmstadt. In Gelsenkirchen, 40 siores were plundered. windows were smashed, ghts were knocked out and pavements were torn up. The rioters threw up fortifications in three thoroughfares and gefied the efforts of the police to dis- Jodge them, replying with bullcts, bricks and bottles. Similar frays occurred in Dusseldorf and Coblenz. Police Fire on Mobs. At Coblenz pistz? Sre by pclice pre- vented Commun/. efio1™< to make bar- ricades of stro:t paving N At Dusseldorf po';-e fired on a mc~ afier Being pelted /ith stoncs. Disorders ~t home, however, were not the only critical clements in the sit- | mation. “When Chancelicr Bruening and (Contitued on Page 3, Column 5.) CHEN ON WAY TO JAPAN, CHINESE PRESS CLAIMS Canton's Foreign Minister in Hong- kong but Grants Newspaper Interview. on Secret Mission, Br the Associated Press HONGKONG, July 17.—Eugene Chen, foreign minister of the new Canton government. arrived hete secrztly today, but his visit was disclosed by a nows paper interviewer who had lecated him. Chen said he was merely visiting Macao, near here, but the Chinese press said he was going to Japan. The Canton government is establish- ing a matca monopoly alleg=dly in opposition to a Swedish concern which has been buying up bankrupt factories in Canton. The southern government also formal- 1y approved a plan for the purchase of NG EDITION WASHINGT ON, B, « FRIDAY, ONCRETE PLAN SEEN BRUENING'S BEST WEAPON General Situation American Security | BY EDGAR ANSEL By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, Germany. July 17.—The | fover has abated end the patient passed | a ccmfortable night and is now breath- | ing quietly. Careful nursing, self-| restraint, a full ciet and a peaceful convelescence for a few months should bring about a_complete cure. So might run a financial physician’s report on Germany’s condition this morning. The authorities have decided to re- | train from any atiempt to widen gov- ernmental control over banks and in- dustries. So soon as security is given | by the banks of Chicago and Boston and scceptance houses in London and ‘ Fariz, Holland, Sweden and Switzer- iand will follow the example of 11 New York banks and meintain outstanding German credits. In all Lnes, the im- mediate financial _difficulties will be surmounted and the Germans will be | in & posilion (o await the outcome of the Paris and London meetings. With the e:ception of bad Com- munist ricts in the industrial town of Ge'senkirchen, in the Ruhr, the popu- lation hrs behaved with admirable calm, giving a magnificent example of that passive strength in adversity which is Germany's greatest asset. The initiative now passes ta the poli- (icians and the responsibility of the STIVSON 0 AVOID POLTICAL ISSUES President Tells Secretary to Confine Work to Economic Matters—Mellon to Attend. MOWRER. By the Associated Press. President Hoover has formally structed Secretary Stimson to confine active American participatien in the London confersnce of ministers to economic issues. The Chief Executive's instructions were cabled to the Secretary in Paris preparatory for his leaving for London to take part in the conference. They followed a series of transatiantic tele- phonic conversations direct between the Preident and Mr. Stimson. President Hoover today also Amba-sader Dawes to speed his return to his Loncon po:t and assist Sccre- taries Stimson and Mellon at the con- ference. in- Wil Sail July 22. Acting Secrctary of State Castle said the. President had asked the Ambassa- | Gor to hurry tack to London. Davwes is | now in Chicago and will sail July 22 on | the Mauretania. Tt was said on high authority today | that during the past few days, thz | President himself had been taking part in the transatlantic calls betwecn the | White House and American representa- tives abroad. Discussed U. S. Policy. During his talks with the ranking cabinet members, the policy which the United States would follow at the premicrs’ conference was discussed. The nstructions limiting American participation to economic lssues and precluding active injection of the United States into political issues were sald by a h'gh administration author- | ity today to be in line with a specific policy acopted for the present situation as well as in line with a general | American policy to keep the United | Statcs separate from European political | involvements. Secretery Stimson talked by trans- | | atlantic telephone today with President Hoover and the Actinz Secretary and to~ them of the steps taking place in | rapid succession in Europe on the gen= eral European situation. The Secre- tary has reported the French attitude | on political demands on Germany in | the findings of such a group as a matter | ;¢ conncct on with financial relief for the Reich. There was no official comment | on the political angles of the situation. Three Points Cited. It was strongly intimated that if the present French attitude was followed at | the London meeting it would be re- jected by the United States. | Unofiicial reports of the French at-| titude, of which there was no confirma- ton in official circles, enumerated three | points, These were a French demand | ior Germany to maintain over a 10-year | period the present status of her mili- tary budget. Maintenance of the political status | quo for a 10-year period, a customs guarantee for a $500,000,000 loan to Germany to be taken up by the other | interested governments or guaranteed by them. y Acting Secretary Castle said Secre- | tery Stimson had mentioned the figure cf $300,000,000 as that of the loan pro- jected under the French plan. 1 In commenting, in response to qu!s-i (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) | $2.000,000 worth of American airplanes. CHILDREN’S PARE | NTAGE REVEALED| BY DIFFERENT SENSES OF TASTE Scientists Discover Reactions Allied to Inheritance. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. COLD SPRING HARBOR, N. Y. July 17.—A child’s parentage may here- after be defermined by his sense of taste. ¢ Discovery that inkieritance plays such » big part in taste that it is a useful clue to disputed parentage was made | recently at the laboratores here of tne Carnegie Institution of Washington. The findings are made public in Eu- genical News, official organ of the Eu- genics Research Association and of sev- | eral other scientific Eugenic Societizs. The experiments are reported by Dr. | Albert F. Blakesiee and M. R. Salmon of the Carnegie Institution. For tests of taste they used a synthetic chemical, phenyl thio carbamide. Thié stuff is tasteless to some persons, while to others it is more or less bitter likz quinine. They credit Dr. A. L. Fox with dis- covery of this taste “blindness.” Tracing it further, they find that the “blindness” follows rather closely the usual laws of inherited characteristics. “Enouzh iz known,” they report, “to enable one to make predictions. Both parents are negative the children will all be negative. If one parent tests “P” (no taste for phenyl) and a Ir| to Various Chemicals Closely | | child is found to be A taster, the other | parent must be a taster. | “Practical use may thus be made of | taste tests in the same way in which | eye color and blood groupings are used |in caces of disputed parentage.” A somewhat similar “blindness” in sense of smell was found alsc, and the | report states: “It is likely that other| | differences in smell and taste discrim- ination are to be found among humans. The peculiarities in odor and taste al- ready disclosed should be of interest to students of eugenics, in that they show innate differences in sense perceptions. “A relatively few cannot perceive cer- tain colors and are called color blind. A high proportion of people, however, are unable to perceive certain odors and certain tastes. If we are blind to cer- tain tastes, we cannot rightly complain if others make wry faces when they taste these same substances. A biolog- ical study of sense perceptions should make us more tolerant of the feelings of others.” ‘The report says the experiments “suggest that females are somewhat more acute tasters than males” and that children seem to have a higher sense of taste than parents. But there in 7Reic]’1 Improved. nist Riots Only Disturbing Factor. | dent was not identified immodiately. are not sufficient observations to make these two conclusions Nsfi"' L FOR GERMANY Awaited—Commu- German delegation in Paris is immense. | Circles around Chancellor Hein'ich Bruening are depressed by Paris new: paper talk of a ctanding foreign super- vision over German finances, but it is realized that the best way to avoid this —considered_insupportable here—is for Chancellor Bruening to appear with a concrete plan for German financial. ad- ministrative and political reform, which is about five years overdue. The new plan must bz of a nature to prevent repetition of similar erises. The reasons for the German debacle are manifold. Peihaps the strongest has heen the financial extravazance of the Reichstas, | | based on a system of political compro- | mis and general ignoance The second cauce w2s an attempt to combine an “astive” anti-French 2nd | anti-Polish revisisionist foreign policy | with financiad dependence on & world which especially today is bound t> con- | sider any sttempt al political revision wn inlolrabe disturbance. This active policy vas the cut“ome eith of the Getmans® overestimaticn of the strength or of a blind defionce bosed on Geliberate exaggeration of the degree to which Germany was being kept in humiliating b-ndage. 1t is difficult to believe that German ' leaders like Chancellor Bruening really (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) HOOVER REICTS | NAVY PROVOTIONS Capt. Boone’s Name Missing From List of Recommenda- | tions by Board. l | { For the first time since the Wilson administration the White House has just rcjected the findings of a naval| selection board. | President Hoover. it was learned to- day, has turned down the recommenda- tions of a selection board of the Navy! Devartment Bureau of Medicine and Surgery appointed recently to choose about seven lieutenant commanders for | promotion to commander in the Navy Medical Corps. | As a result, it was indicated today at the Navy Department, a new medical, sclection board, probably consisting chiefly of captains, will be convencd shortly to submit further recommenda- tions lor promotion. ; Capt. Boone’s Name Missing. The name of Capt. Joel T. Boone, the President’s personal physician. who holds the temporary rank of capiain Guring his term of duty at the White House, was missing fom the list of recommendations as submitted by the board, it was said. Capt. Boones permanent rank in the Navy is a lieu- tenant commander, and he was eligible for promotion. | Naval officials pointed out that Capt. Boone, who holds his present rank due | to recent legislation by Congress, vas junior on the list of available lieu- tenant commanders to be chosen for advancement. Officials of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery declined to comment on the P.esident’s action. Last Rejection in 1916. | The report of th» selection board had been at th> White House for a| numb-r of days, the board having com- | pleted its 10-day deliberation some time | ago. The rcport wes forwarded to Pr-sident Hoover by Secretary of th> Navy Adems after it had been referred | to the judge advocate general of the | Navy, Rear Acmiral David F. Scllers, | 2ke sure it was in due logal form. 4 It was said to be the first time since | 1916 that the findinis of A Navy selec- tion board had been refected. Usually. it was said, the President approv's | of course, FREAK TRAIN WRECK KILLS SLEEPING MEN| Wind Blows Cars From Siding Into| Passenger Locomotive—Three | Dead, Three Hurt. ! By the Associated Press. HORACE. Kans.,, July 17.—Three men—two of them identified as Virgil | Graber, 25, and George Miller, 20, of | high wind propelled four box cars from | a siding into the path of & Missouri, Pacific passenger train here last night. | Three others were injured, one per- | haps fatally. The victims were sleeping | in the sidetrackzd box cars. Passengers and crew of the train es- caped injury. Miller was identified by means of papers in his pockets. The identifica- | tion was verified by Mrs. Fred Miller, his mother, at North Platte. She said | her son’s companion was Graber. after | receiving a description of the body. The third victim of the freakish acci- | He was apparently 50 years of age. Mrs. Miller told authorities at Tribune, near Horace, where the bodies were taken, that her son and Graber were harvest hands. Apparently they had entersd the cars to sleep during the wind and rain storm. 0IL EMBARGO ASKED Texas Independents Send Petition to. President Hoover. President Eoover today reccived a petition from the Independent Petroleum Association o1 Texas asking a tempo- rary embargo on foreign oil. The p tition was raferred to the In- terfor Department where it will join a half hundred other similar raquests re- eeived during the last year from vari- ous producing groups. e Abyssinia Gets Constitution. ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, July 17 () —Emperor Haile Selassie’s new con- stitution, providing for two legislative chambers subject to the control of his majesty, was placed in effect today. ‘The constitution reserves to th> present dynasty the right ef succession to the throns JULY 17, 1931—THIRT VATICAN 1S SHAKEN BY BOMB AIMED AT STPETER'S BASILIGA Janitor Discovers Missile, Made From Milk Can, Near Altar in Cathedral. BLAST OCCURS IN FIELD ON OUTSKIRTS OF CITY Dud Found Outside Gates Ten Days Ago—Gevernment Policing Held Inadequate. By Cable to The Star. ROME. Italy, July 17 today a bomb cxploded with & Vatican City. Only the vigilance of papal gendarmes frustrated &n attempt by outsiders to comolicats the situatiol between the Vatican and Ttaly by set- ting off a high-powered bomb in St Peter's Basilica | As it was, Vatican City got a thorough shaking when the bomb. after being discovered in St. Peter's and carried to an open space in the outskirts of Vati- can City exploded with a roar Thi. is'the sccond bomb discovered in Vatican City in recent days. An- other one, which proved to be a dud. was found just outside the bronze gates 10 days ago. Made From Milk Can. The bomb which exploded today was discovered by a janitor at 7:30 o'clock last night. It was made from an evaporated milk can loaded with high explosive and, carefully wrapped in paper, was placed under the movable | pulpit near the statue of Clement XIII In St. Peter's. Th2 statue is located at the right back of the high altar. Notified by the janitor. Papal gen- rmes g:ngerly and hastily carried the da ast of bomb to an empty meadow northe: | vatican City. where the bomb exploded | without injuring any one or doing any | camage. Hold Policing Tnadequate. Vatican authoritics do not blame the Italian governmeni, bui they think that policing could be more adequate, con- dering conditions. Recently there has been a series of bembings throughout Italy, particularly in Bologna, Milan, Genoa and Rome resulting in three fatalities. The Italian police have been on the watch to ap- prehend the bombers. and make a sys- | tematic search of all automobiles en- tering large centers. Just who is behind the movement is not yet known, but it is thought to be those outsiders who would not like to see the Vatican and the Italian govern- ment living together harmoniously. (Copyright, 1931.) POLICE CHIEF’S WIFE HURT LIGHTING BOMB Thinks Infernal Contraption Found in Yard Is Fireworks Left Over From Fourth. By the Associated Precs ST. CLAIRSVILLE. Ohio, July 17 _Mrs. Don Hardesty, wife of Police Chief Hardesty, was injured and her grandson was stunned by the explosion of an improvised bomb the child found in the yard of their home. Several windows were broken, a concrete side- walk was damaged and a large holg was_torn in the ground. The grandson. Donnie Hardesty. Cleveland, found the bomb and took it into the house. Mrs. Hardesty said she noticed the fuse had gone out. Think- ing 1t was fireworks left over from the Independence day celebration, she took it into the yard and lighted it. Mrs. Hardesty received bruises about the head and arms. The grandson re- covered quickly. Chief Hardesty said boys had found a similar bom| another part of his yard. The police chief said the bombs were he had learned b in | thrown into the yard during the recent | hunger march of striking miners on St. Clairsville, when he had orders to pre- vent the staging of any demonstrations. | SMALL HOUSES RAZED BY ECUADOR QUAKE One Killed and Many Injured in Lat>cunga—Police Reinforced by Troops in City. | North Platte, Nebr.—were killed when a By the Associated Press. QUITO, Ecuador, July 17.—President Avora, returning this evening from 2 quick trip to Latacunga, which was shaken by an earthquake last night. said most of the buildings in the city had been damaged, but only the small- est_houses were destroyed. One person was killed and a number were injured. Most of the panic- tricken populace remained in the fields all of last night. but went back to their homes this morning. Police were reinforced by troops in the business center, but most of the stores were open today. The popula- tion of Latacunga is about 10,000. U. S. TO SIGN TREATY FOR DRUG CONTROL Delegatiqn to Geneva Parley Gets Order ot Enter Into Pact With 37 Nations. By the Associated Press. The American de]{esnuon to ;:e Geneva narcotic conference was in- structed today to sign the recently formulated convention to control manu- facture and distribution of +habit-form- ing drugs.’ ' . gl'he t‘relty atready has been signed by 33 nations. The American Govern- ment instructed its delegation to reserve its right to imposs stricter regulations than provided by the convention. Stuart J. Fuller, assistant chief of the Division of Far Eastern affairs of the State Department, in announ Government's decision to sign the treaty said 1t was considered the ‘biggest a vance in the control of dangerous m;a mu‘c drugs that hhw accomplish so0 far.” 3 = | | | News Note MRS. HENDERSON'S FUNERAL ARRANGED iRites to Be Held at Castle on 16th Street Monday. Burial in Brooklyn. With the death at Bar Harbor., Me. . last night of Mrs. Mary Foote Hender- con. §0-year-gjd widow of Senmatcr John B. Henderson, famous Union gen- jeral and statesman of the Civil War | period, there has passed from the { picture of Washinzt'n's soci’l and civic life one of its most unusual characters. Mrs. Henderson's death had been ex- pected for some time, the elderly social 4‘r.m,v.:r of the Nation's Capital having been unconscious during mcst of her 10 days’ illness at her Summer home. | Her end came peacefuliy. Stricken with | paralysis, she remained unconscious to the last. It was sald the funeral party would leave Bar Harbor today for Washington. Scrvices will be held Monday in the grest turreted mansi-n, Boundary | Cas which the Hendersons built more than 40 years ago at [lorida ave- ! nue and Sixteenth street. Then the | body will be plac>d t=mporarily in a vault at Rock Creek Cemetery and later { taken to Brooklyn, N. Y., to lie beside her husband’s. Niece at Her Bedside. | At her bdside when the end came {was a niece, Miss Frances Arnold (f {New York. Miss Arnold with her brcther Robert are the only remaining { bicod relatives of Mrs. Henderson Another constant attendant_during the critical filness was Mrs. Beatrice Henderscn Wholean, her adopted grand- daughter. Mrs. Wholean. wno figures in civil suits involving Mrs. Henderson, has a home nearby. but returned to the Henderson hous: too late to be at the bedside when Mrs. Henderson died. When Mrs. Henderson last Winter sought to give her new Sixteenth stre-t mansion to the Government as a home for the Vice Presidents, Mrs. Wholean | brought suit in_ the District Supreme { Court to block the offer and have Mrs. Henderson set aside as ine executor cf j her husb>nd’s and son's estate. Mrs. | 7 (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) |TWO MEN Dlé IN PLANE { FALLING AT FORD HOME | 2 | | Bodies Are Burned in Wreckage | After Dive Into Orchard of | | Michigan Estate. BY the Associated Press. i | DETROIT. July 17.—Harold Palmer, | | 28-year-old 'pilot, and his passenger. | | Charles. Riddels,” 25 years old, were | killed last night when their plane | crashed in the orchard of Henry Ford's | country home, n suburban Plymouth. | The wreckage was ignited and the bedies could not be removed until the | firs burned out. i ! Mrs. Riddels saw the accident from | the Triangle Flying Field nearby. from i which the men had just taken off. ‘Witnesses s:id the plane went into a dive, for which no cause was learned. Both victims were of Detroii. |COTTON MANUFACTURER . FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL Body Is rouimiv'in D‘:y Bath Tub by Persons Entering Room to Extinguish Fire. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C,, July 17.—The body of B. Mabry Hart, rich cotton manu- facturer of Tarboro, N. C., was found in a dry bathtub in his room at a ho- tel here today by persons who entered the room to extinguish a small fire. Coroner L. M. Waring said it ap- peared Hart either suffered a heart at- tack or was cvercome by fumes from the fire, The coroner said, a partial autopsy failed to disclose any evidence of foul play. The fire started after a' party in Hart’s room last night. Miss Julia Clark of Kinston, N. C. and Miss Norma Brewster of Tarboro, who occu- pied the room next to Hart's, were held for the inquest. One of the women told the coroner she lost a pocketbook in Hart's room. Hart, who was 45, leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. Hart was one of the leading figures in strike disorders in Marion, "N. C., during the Summer of 1929. He was then president and principal owner of the Clinchfleld mills and when employes went on strike, he recruited a number of loyal workers and ignoring ihreats of union leaders, resumed oper- ations on a part-time scale. Radio }mmm on Page B-7 | house 2 miles south of here. | n ing, "hlma vheld 5 miles south of he Foening Star. From Press Srar's b The car Yesterday Within the Hour" rer k and the delivered to Washing! as fast as the papers &re printed Circulation, 109,128 —— Y PAGES. P Means As TWO CENTS. Ex-President Caolidge is spending hic vacation at hic old home in \'ermont. From Jail Due to Chicago Heat Wave By the Associated Press CHICAGO. July It got so hot here yesterday—96 to be exact—that a prosccuting attor- ney decided he didn't have the heart to keep a woman in jail. Mrs. Justina Urbek, 32 vears old. the mother of four children, was the woman. She had served three days of a six-month sen- tence for contempt of court for attempting to influence a juror. An assistant State's altorney appeared before Judge Joseph B. David and said “It’s very hot 1 think this woman allowed to go home.” Judge David mopped his brow and agreed. POSSE KILLS MAN IN'RACIAL PROTEST Two Officers and Trio Shot as Co'ored Men Demand your honor. and should be By the Associated Press CAMP HILL, Ala., July 17.—One 6ol- ored man was killed and five others were wounded early today as pesses sought leaders of a mass meeting near here at which Gov. B. M. Miller was threatened with violence unless he re- leased eight Negroes under death sen- tence for an attack on two white girls near Scottsboro, Ala.. last March. Posses were organized after Sheriff | J. Kyle Young was wounded seriously and his deputy sheriff, Jack Thompson, | was hurt slightly when they sought to question Ralph Gray, coiored, who was slain by officers. Sheriff Young was reported in “fair” condition at the hospital in Alexan- der City after an operation to remove the shot that struck him in the ab- domen. Chief of Police J. M. Wilson said the five colcred men, one of whom was wounded seriously, were shot in an ex- change of fire with the posse. Hail of Fire Greets Posse. | Chief Wilson said 30 had been ar- resied and the posse sought 5 more. The colored nen opened fire on the| . Chief Wilson said, when attempts | re made to force entrance into a| Firing | through doors and windows, the colorea men sent the 15 or 20 possemen SCUITy- | ing for cover under a hail of at least 50 shots, Wilson said. None of the semen was injured. ! Chif Wilson declined to give names | of the colored men wounded, but said one was in fail here in a serious condi- | tion. He was non-committal regarding | the other four colored men. | “They went out to get stovewood and haven't r:turned vet,” he said. He did not explain that statement. He said at leasv 30 colored men had been placed in jail here at dawn and announced ne was setting out with a posse of b:tween 300 and 400 in search of others. “We want five more,” he said. “including a colored man from Chattanooga, who organized the meet- ing. All of the possemen are armed and we expect furth:r outbreaks any w said last night's meet- here, was the second called in protest of the Scottsboro sentences. The first meeting was held Wednesday hight at another point 6 miles west of here. Eight Sentenced to Die. He sald colored men attending the meeting told him they were to protest the death sentences and that they threatened violence to Gov. Miller un- less he freed the colored men. Deputy Sheriff A. J. Thompson re- | turned here from the scene of the dis- orders and reported the church in which the colored men held the meet- ing had been burned to the ground. Some of the eight colored men sen- tenced to death in Scottsboro were from Chattanooga. They were charged with attacking two white girls who were hoboing on a train. The International Labor Defense, a Comntunist organiza- tion, has organized a world-wide protest against the death sentences on the grounds the charges were a “frame-up.” fore the Alabama " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. i S Jxilsida e V. S. Actress Paralyzed. VIENNA, July 17 (#)—Physicians at- tending Anne Booker Ringers, Americal vaudeville performer who was seriously injured during her diving act several days ago, said today there had been no improvement in her condition and that | America, she was :uflwn( from partial paralysis. - i JUNE EMPLOYMENT SHOWS DECREASE Drop in Pay Rolls Is Also Revealed in Bureau of Labor Report. By the Associated Press A further drop in both pay rolls and | employment today by tistics. One set of figures. representing 15 major industrial groups, showed em- ployment. dropped 2 per cent and pay roll totals 4.5 per cent as compared with the previous month. Another set. based on manufacturing industries, gave & 2.6 per cent slump in emplcy- ment and a falling off of 6.2 per cent 4n June pay rolls against those for May. The few bright spots in the indus- trial groups were canning and preserv- ing plants, with a 26.1 per cent in- crease in employment: laundries, with an 8 per cent rise, and dyeing and cleaning. with a 2.4 per cent hike. Drop in Many Industries. But decreased employment was shown in the following industries, besides man- ufacturing: Anthracite mining, 5.2 per cent; bituminous mining. 4.9; metallif- erous mining. 3.8: quarrying and non- metallic mining, 3.6; crude petroleum producing. 4.2: telephone and teie graph. 0.6: power, Light and water. 0. clectric railroads. 0.7: wholesale trade. less than one-tenth of 1 per‘cent: re- tail trade, 0.9, and h-tels, 1 per cent. In the manufacturing industries the ‘most pronounced employment increa; ranging from 4.2 to 143 per cent were shown in the following sugar, radio, ice cream. aircraft. woolen and worsted goods, beverages and rub- ber boots and shces. Increase in Rocky Mountain Area. Decre: in employment were re- ported follows: cent; pianos and organs, silk 'goods, 12.3; agricultural impl ments, 11.7; automobiles, 6; foundry and machine shops, 4.2; iron and steel, 4.8; cotton goods, 2.6, and electrical machinery, 2.3 per cent. Only one of the nine geographical di- visions—the Rocky Mountain—reported more employment and bigger pay roll totals. The great>st slumps in both (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) for June was reported the Bureau of Labor Sta- HELEN’S DEPARTURE SEEN STEP T0 EXILE Queen Believed Prepared to Take Up Permanent Residence Outside Rumania. Br the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 17.— Queen Helen's departure from Rumania today was believed to mark a step toward permanent exile. She said in a letter to the marshal of the court that she was going abroad to , elatives and would not be back | visit until the end of Octpber, adding the trip had the approval of King Carol. Her journey was reported to have | prompted by disappointment in | been not being allcwed to spend the Sum- mer with her son, Crown Prince Michael, and in not being invited to the marriage of Princess Ileana. It was Teported some time ago she would | shortly leave Rumania for good and take up residence in Prance. AL WAGEISUE BARREDNHEARNG N RUTEMREASE I. C. C. Member Blocks Ques- | tion, Declaring Pay Is Under i Different Authority. 'WESTERN LINES STUDY HIGHWAY COMPETITION } l Representative Says Schedules on Canadian Wheat Would Be Raised Under Proposal. The question of railroad wages was injected today into the Interstate Com- merce Commission’s hearing on the pe- tition of the Nation’s railroads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates. Tt was met, however. by & statement from Commissioner Meyer that “we shall have to deal with wages as they stand.” W. R. Cole. president of the Louis- ville & Nashville Railway, a witness at, today's hearing. described the railroads’ condition as a potential threat “to the entire financial and industrial struce ture of the Nation.” In the face of the appeal for the freight increase. the Interstate Com- merce Commission today ordered revi- sion of live stock rates in the West. in most, cases the changes being reductions from the old rates. The decision on an investigation ordered undtr the Hoch- Smith resolution was handed down as into its third reight rate in- the commissio day of hearing crease petition. n swung on the f Questioned on Wages. At the outset of today's hearings. H. A. Scandrett, representing the Western carriers, was cn the stand when the matter of wages was brought up. “Do you think wages are too high?” an_attorney asked | “Before Scandrett could reply Com- missioner Meyer interrupted. He exe plained that wages were “under another autgority.” ndrett was questioned at length by State and Interstate Commerce ners and by attorneys. In reply to a question. he said West- ern roads were concerned with bus and truck competition. “Have the carriers been able to form any judgment about the effect of truck operation on their business?” he was asked. “We have studied it." Scandrett re- plied. “but the Milwaukee system hasn't feit justified in going into tfe trucking business.” Effect on Canneries Studied. A representative of Minnesota vege- table growers asked Scandrett if the effect of the proposed increase on the Minnesota and Winconsin canning in- dustry had been considered Scandrett answered that he supposed his traffic department was studying this and other factors. He was told ghat increases ranging from 30 per cenf to 50 per cent on cer- tain classes of vegetables in the Wis- consin and Minnesota districts had been authorized and was asked if he would still insist on the increase if he knew that the effect of the proposed 15 per cent increase, in addition to the other raises, would reduce revenue in that section. “The fact that the commission has increased the rates already on cc:tain products,” Scandrett answered. “is con- clusive proof that it feels that the raises will bring them into more harmonious relationship with rates generalty. If cach specific rate were considered, we feel that it would take much too long to get any relief whatever.” Losses on Passenzers. He added that he did not feel that any railroad would put permancntly into_effect rates which would drive freight to other carriers. “Isn't your passenger business in Wis- consin causng you losses that hate to be made up through freight rates?” the ratlroad executive was ask: _“We sre having losscs on passengers (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) MAN SLAIN RESISTING ROBBER, GIRL SHOT Bandit Accosting Auto Party im Park Fires as One of Victims Shows " Fight. By the Associated Press. CEDAR RAPIDS, Towa. July 17.—J. H. Peck, 46, Towa City, was shot and killed, and Miss Rose Zoller, Cedar Rapids, was seriously wounded early today by a robber, who accosted them in a city park. | Police were told the shooting was pre- cipitated when Peck resisted the hold- up, striking the robber. Peck was shot through the heart and Miss Zoller was | wounded in the abdomen as she ran from behind the machine upon hear- ing the first shot. The robber then fled. According to stories told police, E. J. Boland. Iowa City, owner of the car, and Miss Zoller were on one side of the cor and Peck and Hazel McNulty, Cedar Rapids. on the other. Tre bandit | first_robbed the former couple. taking | $40 in cash, a wrist watch. fountain pen and diamond ring. He then turned | to Peck and his companion. The robber was believed to be the same one~who committed two other !robberies in the city last night. FIRST AUTOGIRO FLOWN IN U.S. TO JOIN SMITHSONIAN EXHIBIT Machine Will Be Brought Here by James G. Ray for "Presentation Next Wednesday. The first autogiro flown in the United States will go into the Smith- sonian Institution next Wednesday as a permanent exhibit among those trac- ing . the history of man's conquest of the air. The craft will be flown to Washing- ton Wednesday from Willow Grove, Pa. and will end its last flight by landing in the small semi-circular park clear- ing in front of the Arts and Industries Building, or “old brick museum.” ‘The machine will be flown here by James G. Ray, famous test pilot and vice president of the Autogiro Co. of , who during the past few weeks landed autogiros in the White 1l,i,ouse Grounds and on the Capitol aza. ‘The presentation will be made by Harold P. Pitcairn, president of the company manufacturing the plane, and the craft will be accepted for the ‘Smithsonian by Charles G. Abbot, secretary. The ceremony will take place before a distinguished gathering of Gove! ent officials and aeronau- tical leaderé. After the" presentation the ship will be taxied under its own power to the door of the Arts and Industries Build- ing, where it will be dismantled and taken into the building for assembly and permanent exhibition in the hall with the Wright 1908 plane, and first uovern‘;n-owned plane in the su.