Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1931, Page 2

A—Z %% N ING STAR, WASHINGT( 9 D ... FRUDAY, GLOBE-CIRCLING FLIGHT DELAYED Pangborn and Herndon Alter Plans After Averting Crash in First Start. Br the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., July 17. ~-Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, who narrowly escaped crashing in an | attempted take-off early today, an- | nounced shortly afterward they would hop for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, about midnight and from Harbor Grace continue to Moscow Their ambition is to lower the world- girdling mark of Post and Gatty Dump Fuel to Avert Crash. The fivers explained they wanted to | land at Harbor Grace by daylight. By taking off at midnight they hoped to reach their Newfoundland _destination before tomorrow noon. There they would refuel and take off for Moscow. By breaking their flight to Moscow | with a stop at Harbor Grace they wil be relieved of the necessity of carryin the heavy load of fucl which nearly caused them fo crash on their attempt- ed take off this morning i They failed to go up in the air after speeding their plane down the mile- long runway at Roosevelt Field, No 1.| and to save them from disaster, dump- ed part of their gasoline. Mothers Awaits Sons' Return, They started off at 6:30 a.m, Eastern standard time, rolled the full runwa went over an embankment and c tinued on to field No. 2. in hopes of g with their 8000-pound load With a_hangar and wires endangering them, the fivers dumped their fuel and | were able to rise above the building, averting a crash by scant inches. They then landed and taxied the plane back to their starting point. An escort plane which took off when they started. with Mrs. Dixon Board- man. mother of Herndon as a passen- ger. landed before the big red Bellanca Mrs. Boardman scrambled out of . the escort ship and stood waiting for ‘her son and Pangborn to bring their plane back to the hangars, FETED BY COUNTRYMEN. Magyar and Endres Arrive at Budapest After Forced Landing. BUDAPEST. Hungary, July 17 #®.— | Focusing the world’s spotlight on their | native land with the first transatlantic | flight from America to Hungary. Capts. | Alexander Magyar and George Endres gave themselves up today to the plaudits of their countrymen nded the monoplane Justice r Hungary near the village of Bicske, miles from Budapest. at 7:40 p.m 40 pm. Eastern standard time) last ‘missing their goal by the scantiest gins because their fuel ran ‘out. d flown 3.239 miles from Harbor wfoundland, in 26 hours and m! es since Wednesday noon, after a short hop from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., on_ Monday | Their plane came down in a forced | Janding by the side of a railroad track, damaging the propeller and cne wing, but inflicting no injury on the pilots. They crawled out and telephored the news of their arrival to Matyasfold Air- drome. Another plane brought them to | the city. Ocean Wrapped in Fog. A crowd had waited to receive them, but thousands had gone home in! despair. The men were taken first to the home of Premier Bethlen, where he and members of the cabinet felici- tated them on their achievement in behalf of Hungary's rights. Later, over tankards of beer, they told how diminishing gasoline over land and | heavy storms over water had made their feat a hazardous one. “We hardly saw anything of the ocean during the trip.” one of them said, "It was wrapped in dense blankets of fog. We were overtaken by a severe storm ! toward midnight last night. The storm lasted three hours and shook the plane | very badly. When we first reached Hungarian | territory our fuel had nearly given out | and in the neighborhood of Bicske we | could not keep the motor running any | longer and were forced to come down.| It was'a sad decision we had to make before landing. but there was nothing else for it.” Glad to Be Home Agail Capt. Maygar said he was glad to be home again, but he considered his com- panion more fortunate because he had a wife and children waiting for him.! Both were in the Hungarian air force during the war and are now Army Re- serve fiye:s. They plan to remain here about a month and then make a return cross- ing of the Atlantic via Africa and South America. Their ship must be repaired | and reconditioned before they can start | the homeward fiight to receive the con- gratulations of their adopted country. Aviation authorities were enthusias- tic in praise of the airmen’s piloting and navigation ability. It was pointed | out that not since Col. Lindbergh made his historic hop to Paris and Coste and Belionte backtracked the Lindbergh trail had any fiyers come so close to their objective. Expert use of radio.| intelligent blind fiying and juliclous nursing of their fuel were credited for their success. Flight Protest of Treaty. The object of the flight was to call | the world's attention to what the air- men_considered were the wrongs suf- fered by Hungary through the treaty of | Trianon. By that treaty her popula- | tion was reduced to 7,500.000 and much of her territory was ceded to Rumania and annexed by Italy. It was the twelfth successful east- ward crossing of the North Atlantic by | air and the third this Summer. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty preceded them in the Winnie Mae on the first stage | of their now famous circuit of Lhe | world and Capt. Holger Hoiriis and Otto Hillig in the Liberty did the trick & few days later. Lindbergh Inspired Trip. The example of Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh in flying the Atlantic stimulated Magyar and Endres on their hop to Hungary, they said today in a message to the American people. After rendering thanks to divine prov- | idence for Laving protected them and | their airplane, they sald: “We wish to express with all modesty our gratitude to the great American Na- | tion and to those Hungarians living in | the United States, especially our friends whose combined efforts enabled us to bring this great Hungarian venture to a glorious conclusion.” The fiyers spent the night in a sana- torium with their womenfolk watching over them, Magyar’s mother and En- dre's wife sitting by their beds until daylight. FAILURE IN BUSINESS. Magyar's Friends Reveal Struggle in Vancouver, B. C. VANCOUVER. British Columbia, July 7 (P —How Alexander Magyar. a suc- cess as a transatlantic fiyer, was a fail- ure in business here and even aban- doned his correct name to make his flight to direct attention to alleged wrongs to Hungary, was unfolded by members of Hungarian colony here to- day. N The Hungarian immigrait was well known here by his correct name, Wil- chak. | “Anna Obelensk: { threw herself into space Swimmer Wins Al’s Plaudits CONGRATULATED BY FORMER GOVERNOR ON NEW MARK. LFRED E. SMITH in the 1-mile and 100-meter A-AL U, While winning the mile 1,500 meters by more than 27 seconds. PRINCESS PLUNGES. LEGISLATORS URGE T0 DEATH I PARS Police Learn Russian Killed at Eiffel Tower Is Bride of Prince Troubetzkoy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 17.—Paris was amazed today to learn that Princess Anna Obolensky Troubstzkoy, & young bride, had killed herself in a plunge from the ramparts of the Eiffel Tower while the city was celebrating Bastille day Tues- day.” It was assumed that was an ordinary Russian emigre until advices from New York told of her recent mar- riage there and her intention to rewed her husband by a Russian orthodox church ceremony in France. Princess Anna Alexis Obolensky was married by a civil ceremony in New York last month to Prince Serge Gregory Trou- betzkoy. Police said a purse found after the plunge contained farewell letters signed and revealed she lived with her sister. Mme. Chrepto- vitch, in Clamart. & suburb of Paris Le Petit Parisien. in commenting on her death, said: “None of the numerous visitors on the third platform thought the elegant young woman wished to die. They could not prevent her from getting over the parapet when she After striking crashed to she the tronwork, earth.” FATHER SAYS FOOT SLIPPED. ‘ Parents of Russian Princess Say Pair ‘Were on Honeymoon. NEW YORK, July 17 (P.—A_ fatal plunge by Princess Anna Alexis OBolen- sky Troubetzkoy, a bride, from the dizzy heights of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, was termed an accident today by her parents, Prince and Princess. Alexis Obolensky of this city Detalls of the death of the 20-year- old daughter of Russian nobility of Czarist days came by telephone to her father. ‘The princess was on & honeymoon in Prance. She was married in a_civil ceremony in New York May 14 to Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy. They left for France June 25 and were to have been remarried in August at the bridegroom's family estate near Paris by a Russian orthodox church ceremon Father Says Foot Slipped. Prince Alexis, after talking with his brother, Prince Alexander, in Paris, | said of his daughter's death: | “She went to the Eiffel Tower on a sightseeing party with a girl friend, | Miss Natalie Pissaress. The girls went | to the fourth floor, at the top of the tower. This floor_is not,closed in, as are other floors. Prince Alexander told me that my daughter was leaning over a railing and her foot slipped. It was entirely accidental.” Sister Wed Groom's Brother. The Troubetzkoy and Obolensky fam- | ilies have intermarried for generations. The mother of the dead princess was a Troubetzkoy. Prince Alexis is a concert baritore and a teacher. His other daughter, Princess Alexandra, married a brother of Prince Serge. Prince Serge is a cousin of Prince Alexis Obolensky, who is the husband of the former Alice Muriel Astor, sister of Vincent Astor.. Il Duce Hears McKinney. ROME, July 17 (#)—Premier Mus- solini today received Prof, Roland J. McKinney, director of the Baltimore, Md., Art Museum. Prof. McKinney outlined plans for an exhibition of Italian art In America with paintings chosen from the Quad- rennial Exhibition in Rom: her body cessful, and turned his attention to aviation. He had been a flight lieuten- ant in the Hungarian army during the World War. He went to Detroit early in 1929 with a dream of flying the Atlantic. He adopted the name Magyar, which means “Hungarian,” sacrificing the personal glory to direct attention to his native Tand. ‘WILL RECEIVE $10, Lord Rothmere Wires Premier Bethlen to Reward Fiyers. VIENNA, July 17 (#).—Capts. Alex- ander Magyar and George Endres, who | flew the monoplane Justice for Hun- | gary across the Atlantic, are to re- | ceive the Lord Rothmere prize of $10,- | 000 for the feat. The British publisher today tele- | graphed congratulations from Baden- ! 0 PRIZE. former Governor of New York, was one of the crowd congratulating Helene Madison, Seattle swimming star, for her victories fre women’s swimming championships at Bronx Beach, N. Y. race Miss Madison broke the world mark for | of the fire that destroyed the church | l | - tyle events in the outdoor national —A. P. Photo. | PARDON FOR FALL Telegram Asks Hoover to| Consider Petition From New Mexico. By the Associated Press SILVER CITY, N. Mex. July 17— | W. B. Walton, district attorney and | member of the Sixty-fifth Congress. has urged President Hoover to consider a | peiition by members of the New Mexico Legislature asking a pardon for Albert B. Fall. “Justice.” | Mr. Walton said in a tele- | m to the Presiden “has been more | than satisfied in Mr all's cose if men- tal and physical suffering. bankruptey and national obloquy are considered punishment.” The petition was forwarded to the | President recently. The request that he consider it was the second presented this week. The first was made in a tele- gram signed by United States Senators Sam Bratton and Bronson Cutting and Gov, Arthur Seligman. INSPE TE S PE Fall's Physician Will :\Make Report on Living Conditions. | EL PASO, Tex.. July 17 (#,.—Aibert | B. Fall waited with interest today a re- port on living conditions at the New Mexico Penitentiary, where he is to serve a term on conviction of accepting | a bribe while Secretary of the Interior. Dr. J. H. Gambrell, pers-nal physician of the former cabinet officer, revealed | in Albuquerque, N. Mex., last night that | he had visited the Santa Fe prison to | inspect the quarters in which his | patient 1s sentenced to serve a year and & day. “I did it out of personal interest,” Dr. Gambrel! said. “nothing else." Dr. Gambrell, returning by train to El Paso. said he had not ccnsulted | Santa Fe physicians in regard to treat- ment of Fall's pulmonary ailments at the prison hospital. Members of the former Secretery's family said he was “not very well” as a result of the heat and that pending the | arrival of commitment papers, they | did not know when he would leave for the prison. Possibility of delay was seen in illness of Mrs. Jouett Elliott, Fall's daughter, after receipts of word her former hus- band, Brant Elifott. had died in Fred- ericksburg. Va. Married in 1919, the Elliotts were divorced three years ago. POSSE KILLS MAN IN RACIAL PROTEST AGAINST EXECUTION (Continued From First Page.) ing social and political equality were delivered at the meetings. A large quantity of literature, officially described as “inflammatory,” was seized. Chief of Police Wilson said the origin was not determined. Officers were in- | vestigating to determine if incendiarism was involved. GOVERNOR SILENT ON PROTEST. Will Withhold State Troops Unless Re- quested, Miller Declares. | MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 17 (®)— Gov. B, M. Miller today said he had no official reports of the disturbance and radical meetings of colored persons | in Tallapoosa County and unless local | authorities_requested troops he would not send National Guardsmen to the county. | He made no comment on reports that he was threatened with violence at the meeting last night unless he released the eight colored men held in Kilby Prison_here under death sentence for an attack on two white girls near Scottsboro last March. | The colored men were sentenced last April to be executed July 10, but an | appeal to the Supreme Court actgd as| an automatic stay of execution. Dur- | ing the trial of the men the Interna-| tionai Labor Defense of New York de- manded the Governor “immediately re- lease” them or “be held personally re- sponsible.” Since the conviction more | than 1700 protests have been received by Gov. Miller from various branches ' of the International Labor Defense in | this and other countries. All the protests have been in the, same vein, charging the men were con- | victed on “trumped-up” charges. CAPONE AIDE ACCUSED PEORIA, IIL, July 17 (#).—Another of Chicago's “public enemies,” Ted New- berry, Capone henchman, was named-in a warrant issued here vesterday charg- ing prohibition law violation. Newberry, described by Federal offi- Coming from Hungary five years ago. [ Baden and sent another wire to Premier | cials as one of the main cogs of the he launched @ small manufacturing | Count Bethlen asking him to give the | Capone liquor syndicate, along with 17 concern in partnership with a fellow flyers the $10.000 check representing | other men, is accused of operating a countryman, Kernal Kiraly. up‘ltzr two and & half yenry- unsuc- from the United States to Hungary. He gave the prize he posted for the first flight ' huge liquor still at Carbon Cliff, near Rock Island, Tk | for the tour of the Nation, which be- | | made for ITALIAN AIRMAN DIES | Speed as well as regularity is of great POST AND BACKER BREAK-RELATIONS Oklahoma 0il Man Is Seeking Crew to Better Time of Winnie Mae. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 17 (CP.A.) —Wiley Post and the man who made it possible for him to encircle the globe in 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes, have broken relations, and F. C. Hall, the wealthy Oklahoma oil man who put up $50,000 to insure the success of the venture, is looking around for another | crew to go out and bzlle\the time of the Winnie Mae. The break between Post and Hall had been impending since the day the fly- ers arrived back in New York after circling the world faster than any other human beings. On the day they were winging their way from Edmon- ton, Canada, to this city on the final,| lap of the record-breaking flight, a gap in the relations of the two men began to widen, until it now has reached the HURLEY ADVOCATES SHOALS FARM: AID Tells Commission Aim Great Experiment Station to Make Fertilizer. By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, Ala., July 17.—Secretary wof War Patrick J. Hurley today told & joint commission appointed to consfder disposition of the Government's de- velopment at Muscle Shoals that its task would be to find & method for devotion of the project to the interests of agriculture. Flylng here today from Washington, Mr. Hurley inspected the $150,000,000 develooment and went into conference with the commission, members of which were appointed by President Hoover and the Goyernors of Alabama and Ten- ! nessee Yo lay groundwork for a basis of future efforts to dispose of ,the project. Unpecessary for Defense. “The progress made in the field of chemistry by industry makes the prop- Is! JULY 17 Wind Plays With Roof . CAPRICIOUS STORM | point where Hall says. “1 am through. | erties at Muscle Shoals no longer nec- | Wiley has lost the best friend he evel had.” Trouble Over Press Age The whole trouble hinges on the ! hiring of the firm of Bruno & Blythe as press agents by Post just before he hopped off on his globe-encircling dash without consulting the backer of the flight. Many things arose during the | ceiebrations in New York City which caused friction between Hall and the publicity men. who had a contract signed by Post and Harold Gatty, the | navigator on the flight. Mr. Hall was irkcd st the arrange- ments made by the publicity men. He disliked the plans to exploit the two fiyers, and sbove sll other things he | became angry at the selection of a hot:l for the men other than the one he had selected for them. He told Richard R. Blythe, one of the members of the firm, in no uncertain words what he thought of the arrangements, but he took a back seat when the fyers arrived and declined to raise his voice against the fivers while the celebration was in progress. Plans Another Flight, Just before the Winnie Mae hopped for Oklahoma after the round of re- eptions here, Mr. Hall confided to the | riter that he had not decided just | what he would do about permitting | Post and Gatty to make what he termed an_“exploited. press-agented tour of the United States.” After the receptions were over in | Oklahoma. Mr. Hall permitted Post 1o fiy the Winnie Mae back to New Yor gins today with a flight to Schenectady, | N. W. While declining to come out publicly and denounce post, the Okla- Tioma oil man disclosed his true feelings | by announcing that he is planning to | back a flight to better the record of the ' Winnie Mae. Wiley Post. at_his hotel here. de- clined to discuss the break with Hall. (Copyrisht, 1931.) ERS TO BROADCAST. jan Stations To Carry Post and Gatty Talks. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 17 () ~The Post-Gatty Australian-American 1adio brosdcast tomorrow morning will be put on the air in the Antipodes over | a network of four stations. The con- versation of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, world fiyers, with friends and | celebrities in Australia will be handled in this country over the WEAF network. Officials of the General Electric Co. | over whose short-wave station Gatty | and Post will talk between 6 and 6:15 | a.m., Eastern Standard Time, amwunc—i ed today 1hat arrangements had been the N. B. C. brondcast to be rebroadeast over the following stations on the under side of the globe: Sydney, | 12-FC: Melbourne, 3-LO:_Adelaide, 5- | CO: Hobart, Tasmania, 7-ZL. | The parents of Gatty. Mr. and Mrs. | James Gatty. live on the outskirts of Hobart end have been invited to listen | in on their son's talk. Among the| speakers st the Australian end of the iwo-way short-wave talk will be Charles Ulm. transpacific fiyer, and Sir Keith Smith, who made the pioneer England- | to-Australia fiight in 1919 { Flight Comdr. Charles Kingsford- Smith, Ulm's companion, does not e pect to be able to talk with Post and Gatty because of & business engagement at the time of the broadcast. Four Austr: AS TOUR RACE BEGINS Mechanic Killed and Pilot Hurt at Capo di Chino—36 Ships Will Circle Nation. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 17— An aviation mechanic was killed and his pilot injured today in the crash at Capo di Chino of one of & group of 37 planes starting on a| tour of Ital Premier Mussolini was up at dawn| to start the ships off in the interna- tional competition. Some of Italy's best pilots are con- tending with a considerable number of | European flyers. Last year Miss wm:-“ fred Spooner. English aviatrix, was a close fourth, defeating many of Italy’s | aviators, after having damaged her plane in a collision at the take-off. This “racing” tour of Italy consists of six principal jumps between Paler- mo, Rimini, Venice, Milan, Turin and Rome ,a total distance of 3,495 miles. importance in determining the winner of the nine-day tour. DUPONT YACHT BURNS Gasoline Explosion Damages Big Craft at Newcastle, Del. essury for national defense, whether in time of peace or war,” Secretary Hurley told the commission. “Therefore. your major purpose is o find a method fof its devotion to interests of agriculture.” Co-operation snd not dictation will be the policy of the War Department in Hurley said. He said the nitrate plants were obtolete so far as their use for munitions in time of war was con- cerned, adding that their use for this | purpose in time of war would not be practical as & stabilizer of prices. “The whole thing.” he suld. “is primarily to estublish & great sgriculture experiment station for munufucture of fertili; Flys to Fort McClellan, The commission set August 4 as the date for an organization meeting to be | held here and tentatively set September 1 for the first meeting at which actual work will be launched, which it hopes will ultimately set the machinery of the glant project In motion. Secretary Hurley left by plane for an inspection of Fort McClellan, landing ' there at 10:20 o'clock. RAIL WAGE ISSUE BARRED IN HEARING ON RATE INCREASE | (Continued From First Page) all over the Milwaukee system,” Scan- drett answered A. N. Hendricks asked Scandrett on cross-examination whether the railroads had considered | that international rates on grain from | Canada to Duluth would be involved in an increase, and whether they had considered that grain is carried between these points in bond “It is my understanding.” Scandrett replied. “that it i the intention to in- crease those international rates if we get authority.” Bars Grain Discussion. Hendricks then began to discuss the parity of this situation, but Commis- sloner Mever internipted, observing there was 50 much in the records on grain rates he saw no use of it here. “In view of the rate increases North Dakota, the condition of raflroads and of the farmers, do you believe the increased rates can be sup- ported?” Hendricks asked. Asserting that the railroads were “en. tirely sympathetic with the farme: Scandrett said he believed it was to his interests for the railroads to be main- tained “so they can give him the serv- ice he needs.’ Following Scandrett's appearancs, the railroad situation was described by Cole a#s a potential threat “to the entire financial and industrial structure of the Naticn.” tive of Southern carriers “The relation between railroad earn- ings and fixed charges is vital." Cole said. “and controls the credit standing of the railroads. In 1930 the earnings of the railways in the Southern region were only 1.35 times their fixed charges. “When we consider that the statutes in of some of our States prescribe as a | condition of the eligibility of a railroad bond for investment by savings banks a requirement that the earnings of the railroad whose bonds are being consid- ered shall be not less than 1.50 times he fixed charges for five out of six Preceding years, including the year im. mediately ~preceding. this figure of Southern earnings assumes the gravest significance. Bond Values Endangered. “With the enormous decrease in rail- below those of 1930, it is evident that the availability of most 1ailroad bonds for such investments is 2ot only seri- ously threatened, but will certainly be destroyed if some way is not found to improve railway earnings. “It would be difficult to overestimate the potentia] threat to our entire finan- cial and industrial fabric which this sit- uation discloses. “A railroad is absolutely dependent in obtaining new capital upon the earn- ing power of the property, and earning power is in turn dependent upon the rate level of the volume of traffic. “The inadequacy of the present rate level is amply demonstratsd by the in- ability of the railroads to earn a fair return upon an unprecedented volume of traffic generally during the period 1926-1929, inclusive. n the prescnt emergency, it is no longer a question of a fair return, but of & return sufficient to avoid the dis- aster of receiverships in the case of | many railroads and the maintenance of reasonable credit on the part of all of | them.” Cole said “heroic measures to meet the existing emergency” had been adopted by Southern roads. “The increase of 15 per cent now the minimum increase which would even measurably relleve the present emergency, although the level of rates so produced would fall far short of the WILMINGTON. Del.. July 17 (#).—qStatutory rate of return.” The yacht Tequilla, owned by Henry B. du Pont and said to be valued at $150,- 000, was badly damaged by fire yester- day while it was anchored at the New Castle Yacht Club basin, at New Castle, The fire started from an explosion of gasoline. the cause of which has not been determined. Paul Holton, chef, was the orly person on the vessel. He was slightly burrfed. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band, this evening, at the Capitol Plaza, at 7:30 o'clock. _Williata Stannard, leader. Thomas Darcy, second leader. March, “Friendship’ Overture, “Orpheus” ... Marimba solo, “Jovial ‘Jasper”.. John Baumann, Soloist. Selection, “Echoes” .. Waltz. “Gold and Silver i Fantasia “A Spanish Festival” Demersseman March, “Garde du Corps”...Chambers “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Community Center Band, this evening, at Tenth and U streets, at Althouse New Live Stock Rates. Today's live stock decision fixed new rates based on mileage of hauls for cattle, ‘calves, hogs, sheep and goa set minimum carload weights, fixed te: minal charges and dealt generally with the live stock situation. The rate on cattle and on hogs, sheep and goats in double-decked cars was fixed at a minimum of 11 cents a hun- dred in Western trunk line and South- western territories, increasing 1 cent every 10 miles and bevond this point by 1 cent for varying distances. For calves and hogs in single-decked cars the minimum was fixed at 12.5 cents and for sheep and goats in single-decked , 14 cents. % mountain and Pacific territory the rate on cattle and on calves, hogs and sheep and goats in double-decked cars was fixed at & minimum of 12 cents, EX-POLICE OFFICIAL DIES George §. Dougherty of Gotham Succumbs After Operation. 7:30 oclocl}.fl mes E. Miller, director. loria.” The Belle of Mexico"” Waltz song, “Good Night” Selection, “Atlantic” .Jolo Conrad pra Lucas ..Evans -Suppe Hoffman NEW YORK. July 17 (#).—George 8. Dougherty, formerly second deputy police commissioner and chief of de- {ectives, died yesterday. He had been in i1l health since he was operated on four months ago for & severe stomach disorder. A former newspaper man, Dougherty of North Dakota ' the | Cole testified as a representa- | road earnings during the current year | sought,” Cole said, “is believed to be | | | working with the commission to seck a | | solution for the 10-year-old project, Mr. | HE playful windstorm which vesterday preceded the thundershower which ! hit the city lifted this tin roof from the home of Andrew Gravette, on | HANGS TIN ON LINE. Zigrag avenue, in Brentwood, Md., and hung it up.to dry on the telephone lines nearby. The roof was move LOW WHEAT PRI FOR NEW CROP SEEN Fears of Agriculture Depart- ment Based on Big Supply Still on Market. By the Associated Press | The Agriculture Department said to- | day the present world wheat crop pros- pects and indications of probable de- mand “point to another year of very low prices for the world as a whole.” The present low domestic wheat price has focused attention of farm leaders or: the Southwest Winter wheat section whete a bumper crop is now being harvested. Farmers have been offered as low as 25 cents a bushel with sub- | sequent appeals to tne Farm Board for assistance. “No bumper crop.” the department said. “is expected this year for the world s & whole, but the very large stock remaining in North America, Argentina and Australia promise a plentiful world supply even though yields should be very low. Russian Acreage:Increased. “Furthermore, increases in the Rus- sian aczeage which have been made this year would, with average yields, | result in a crop almost as large as that obtained with the high yields of last ! year. “Due to drought condition a reduc- tion in the Noith American crop is in | prospect. Smaller productions aiso are expected in the Danube Basin countries of Europe, but probably will be par- | tially offset by larger crops in European | importing countries. Indications point | to reduced acreage in Argentina and | Australia. Stocks of old wheat, how- ever, will likely be larger than last year and about as large as 1929, “The present very low levels of prices | for new wheat,” the department said, “are resulting in very small returns to farmers, even in the Winter wheat re- gions, where yicids are good. Elsewhere, especially in the Spring wheat region, where ylelds are likely (0 be very low, returns to wheat growers will be ex- | appears to be small prospects for any great improvement in world prices. “It should be borne in mind. however, that developments as to Russian ex- ports will have an important bearing upon the course of world prices during the season and that indications as t0 the probable volume of such exports during the 1931-1932 season are at the present time almost wholely lacking. Farm Board Lacks Funds. ‘The Farm Board is doing everything possible to help out in the wheat crisis, but it lacks funds to undertake new stabilization operations to relieve the | chairman of the board, said vesterd: To attempt price stabilization woul mean continuous purchases until next June, Stone said, adding “We haven't the funds to for that length of time.” In its two stabilization operations the board has invested millions in buying more than 200,000,000 bushels of wheat |it now holds. On July 1, it had left more than $200.000.000 » working capital from the $500,000.000 which Congress appropriated for its activities. {1t quit buying wheat last month when | the new crop started to come in. | Stone expressed doubt whether a stabilize declared, as has been proposed in the wheat belt. He said it was | bankers, manufacturers and merchants were forced to demand sale of the new |crop to meet current obligations of farmers. Holding Crops Advised. Stone said the situation in the South. west, where farmers are receiving the lowest prices in history for wheat, could their new crops on the farm. While several million bushels of wheat have been sold in the Northwest to meet millers’ demands, the chairman said the board is following its July 1 policy of not selling more ‘than 5,000,000 | bushels monthly. He empasized that the board was acting in conformance with the demands of some Republican Senate leaders that the stabilization wheat be held from the market, although it has declined to fix a minfimum price at which the grain would be sold. Chairman Stone is to speak Monday night over the Columbia Broadcasting System on “The Truth About the Wheat Situation.” FORSYTH GETS 0B Civil Bervice Act Waived for Kin of Knickerbocker Victim. By direction of the President, A. D. Forsyth has been appointed to a va- cancy in the subprofessional service, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department, at $1,620 per annum, “without regard to the civil service act or rules.” That action was taken on the recommendation of the Acting Sec- retary of the Navy. Forsyth is the siepson of Willlam G. | Hughes, who was employed in the Bu- reau of Construction and Repair for 31 .Hall contributed many _articles on crime years. and lost his life in the collapse problems to maga: and newspapers. of the Knickerbocker Theater in 1922 in'emtly small, indeed. Neverthless, there | present] low prices. James C. Stone, | moratorium on farmers’ debts could be | unfortunate that | be materially relleved if they would hold | d all in one piece. —Star Staff Photo. 'Senate Snuff Box Thieves Barely Paid| For Their Labor olen Containers Missed Being Antiques by Sev- eral Scores of Years, The snuff boxes, which nave been a traditional accessory of the Senate since the early days of the Nation, have disappeared recently. but if souvenir hunters took them with the idea these were historic old relics the joke is on them While snuff boxes have been kept in! niches in the walls of the Senate chamber through the p: ficials at the Capitol said today they have been replaced from time to time, and the ones which vaniched this Sum- mer were bought only five or six years ago. And the tradition of the snuff box will not end. John J. McGrain. deputy sergeant-ai-arms of the Senate. said new ones will be bought. And. as has been the custom through the years, snuff will be kept in them When Congress is not in session the Senate chamber is usually being cleaned or painted, and at such times the large number of visitors have easier access to the chamber. ONLY TENPORARY HEAT RELIEF SEEN Thundershowers Forecast for District This Afternoon and Tomorrow. No appreciable relief from the heat wave is in sight for Washington before Sunday, the Weather Bureau announced today. The official rcading at the bureau at 10 o'ciock was 86 degrees, under the figure for the, same hour yesterday. This slight improvement was attributed to overhanging clouds. which probably will be dispelled later in the day, when the temperature is expected to climb again above 90. A slight possibility of local thunder- showers was foreseen for this after- | noon. with more likelihood of relief in this form tomorrow. It was pointed out, however, that stowers at best can bring but temporary relief under pre- vailing atmospheric conditions. The storm yesterday afternoon caused slight damage in northwest Washing- ton and nearby Maryland. The principal damage in the city yes- terday was confined to the uprooting of several trees by a 42-mile-an-hour wind. Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan, 1400 block of Twenty-ninth street, was bruised slightly by a falling limb, but refused medical attention. Numerous telephone poles were broken off in Prince Georges County, tem- porarily disrupting the service, and the home of Andrew Gravette, on Zigzag avenue, Brentwood, was unroofed. No one was injured. JOBLESS MAN SEEKS FUNDS TO BURY WIFE; Claims Body of Gas Victim, But Has No Money to Pay Funeral Costs. William Gedeon, an unemploved printer, was seeking funds today to de- fray the funeral expenses of his wife. | Mrs, Mary Gedeon. whose body has lain at the Morgue for a fortnight since it was found in her gas-filled apartment in | the 1100 block of Eleventh street. Gedeon learned of his wife's death ‘Wednesday in Cleveland. where he had | gone to seek employment. He returned immediately to make an eflort to save the body from the potter's field, al- thoush he told Morgue attendants yes- terday he had no idea where he could Taise any money. Mrs. Gedeon had requested that her body be cremated. and this last wish Gedeon hopes to fulfill. The lowest. pos- sible cost, he said, would be $50 for the cremation. Meanwhile police have notified mem- bers of Mrs. Gedeon's family and friends in Cleveland, New York City and Scran- ton, Pa. None of those notified has sufiiv{fled an intention of claiming the SCOUTS PLAN OUTING Members of the District Council, Boy Scouts of America, will spend July 27 | at_Glen Echo. Under the supervision of Col. E. L. Mattice, assistant to the scoutmaster, the boys will “take in" all the various amusements, in addition to plunfmg into the new crystal swimming pool. Three Killed ini(ouu Crash. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 17 (#.— ‘Three persons were killed, four were missing and 16 injured in the collapse ll':d-y of & house under constructio) re. I 3 degrees | ILODGE'S DAUGHTER ANSWERS ‘MIRRORS Denies Discussing Hoover’s Party With Roosevelt at Dinner Here. Mrs. Constance (Gardner) Williams, daughter of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, a_dis- patch published in the Boston Globe says, has declared “wholly fictitious" the version of a 1920 dinner party con- versation attributed to her and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York in ‘the Mirrors of 1932, published ansny- mously, regarding the candiddcy of | President Hoover for the nomunation in 1920. The dispatch came from.the Summer home of Mrs. Williams at Hamilton. The anonymous author of the Mir- Tors of 1932, the dispatch says, “en- deavored to show that Mr. Hoover, whose name was entered as a con- tender for the Democratic nomination for President in the Michigan prima- ries in 1920. had been persuaded by Mr. Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Franklin K. Lane, President Wiison's Secretary of the Interior, to campaign for the presi- dency under the Democratic banner. “But, according to the author, Mr. Hoover was won over to the Repub- lican party by the late Senators Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, “The dinner party conversation be- tween Mrs. Willlams. then Mrs. Gard- ner, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Spring of 1920. repudiated here today by the former, purports to be verbatim, and represents Mrs. Gardner as saying, ‘Mr. Hoover is going to announce him- self us a Republican’ and Mr. Roose- vell us replying, ‘Oh, no. he is going | W aunounce himself us a Democrat.’ Mrs. Williams is quoted then as having | said that Mr. Hoover had promised her | father, Senator Lodge, that he would come out as a Republican. “'I never had any such conversation | with Mr. Roosevelt.” satd Mrs, Williams. ‘I don't think that T have talked with | Pranklin Roosevelt since 1918. He and | my husband (the late Representative Gardner) were great friends, but I am sure I haven't seen Mr. Roosevelt since the war, “‘Purthermore. I never heard my father discuss Mr. Hoover until after Mr. Hoover entered the Harding cabinet “‘In those days, 1 remember that I admired Mr. Hoover's work as fond administrator, but I am sure that I never thought of him at all then in | a party sense.’ " |STIMSON T0 AVOID POLITICAL TOPICS AT LONDON PARLEY | 2 | - (continued Prom Pirst Page.) g years, of- | |tions by newspaper men. on the pro- | posed premiers” conferences Monda |the acting secretary said the Ameri | can Government had no reason to be- | lieve that the meeting would not be held. | "“The principal purpose of the meeting. | he reiterated, was to meet the emer- { gency situation in Germany. | " He said the leadership at the con- | ference might be taken by almost any | other country. The Chief Executive late yesterda announced Secretary of the Treasu Mellon had been requested to be in London Monday provided it would not | run_contrary to his plans. Mellon is in Southern’ France. Acting Secretary of State Castle pre- viously made known that this Govern- ment planned to avoid any possible en-, tanglements in European politics. How- ever, Mellon and Stimson are to partici- pate in the conference on an equal basis with the other nations’ representa- tives, and not as observers. In' announcing this Government's plans, President Hoover sald “As has already been announced, Secretary Stimson will attend the con- ference in London which has been call- ed by the British government for Mon- day to consider the present emergency problems in Central Europe. I have asked Secretary Mellon. if consistent with his plans. also to attend in order that we may have the benefit of his ice as well. “It_is our understanding that | conference is limited entirely to q tions of, the present emergency. Senator Watson of Indiana, the | publican floor leader, and an of American participation in the of Nations and the World Courf, mid he understood “only financial |8re to come up at the meeting. said any involvement in European poe litical affairs would be a mistake, Mellon Leaves for Paris. ST. JEAN CAP FERRAT, July 17 (&) —Secretary Andrew W. }lon, who has been here on vacation, i started for Paris by train this evening. He will confer with Secretary of State Stimson there tomorrow and. probably, will go with Mr. Stimson to the Confer- ence of Ministers at London on Mon- day evening. JUNE EMPLOYMENT DROPS 2 PER CENT, STATISTICS REVEAL (Continued FProm First Page.) earnings and employment came from the East North Central division. Per capita earnings of manufacturing industries in June were 3.7 per cent less than the preceding month. IMPROVEMENT INDICATED. Economic Bureau Survey Finds Period Fluctuations Analogous. If history repeats itself the business depression soon will relinquish its crushing grip on the country. The Economics Bureau in the Agricul- ture Department said today it had found, in tracing similarities in past business depressions, that the fluctua« tions in the periods 1878-1895 and 1914. 1931 were analogous. Thus, it added, a revival of business in the near future is suggested. From a low of 80 per cent in June, 1894, business rose to about 98 in Jan- uary, 1895, the bureau said. In the next quarter it added, a decline dropped the index to slightly below 90, but a rise followed. bringing business to about 106 in the Autumn of 1895. A low of 71 was recorded in January !in the present depression. The indi- jcator went to 77 in the first quarter of this year, but the chart for the second quarter is incomplete. Comparing the chart for -the 1858- 1877 period with the 1914-1931 period. the bureau said striking similarities stood out. “Enormous war-time price inflation gave way to deflation” it added, “that of 1864-65 being accompanied by a bus- iness depression in 1865, and that of 1920-21 by a depression in 1921. “Eight years later, after periods marked by recoveries and minor reces- sions, industrial booms developed, one in 1873, the other in 1929. The depres- sion following 1873 lasted for about five years, when the boom of 1879-1880 set in. .The current depression has been on for a year and a half. “During the two post-war periods, commodity prices declined from a level of about 240 to 120 in about 10 years, the post-Civil War decline being fairly continuous, the post-World War decline being interrupted by a period of relative stability from 1922 to 1929.” ‘The bureau added the 1914-1931 pe- iod fluctuations compared with those onlonl:'ll'l”i indicating similar condi-