Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1931, Page 2

AL CHINA LRGED TOWARON JAPAN President Chiang Makes Pro- posal in Offering to Resign. By the Assoclated Press. HONGKGNG, July 22.—The insur- gent Canton government today an- nounced receipt of a telegram from Chang Hsueh-Liang. Governor of Man- churia, in behalf of Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Nationalist government, in which the latter conditionally offered to resign and suggssted that all China unit> in declaring war upon Japan. ‘The telegram assertedly proposed in behalf of Chiang that all provinces in China contribute toward sending 500,- 000 trocps to the Korean border as a military operation against Japan. Since the Canton government was represented as not approving the war proposal, the telegram as yet has not been answered. Willing to Resign. President Chiang, whose retirement was set forth as one of the principal purposes of the formation of the Can- ton government, was represented in the telegram as being willing to resign the Nationalist presidency, but desired to remain as commander in chief of the Nanking army and navy. Chiang was quoted 8s having sug- gested the elevation of Hu Han-Min to the chairmanship of the Adminis- trative Council, the highest office of the Nationalist government, now held by Chiang himself. The Nationalist chieftain also proposed, according to the message, the selection of Wang Chaing-Wei, Leftist leader, as head of the Kuomintang, or People's party. The People’s party is the political organization behind the Nationalist regime. The organizers of the Can- ton government are for the most part members of the Kuomintang who bolted the party because of their opposition to Chiang Kai-Shek. They sought his defeat on the ground that he had schemed to establish an autocracy in- stead of working for a full fledged republic, the original goal of the revo- lution. Leader of Canton Faction. Wang Ching-Wei is one of the lead- ers of the Canton movement. Hu Han- Min formerly was head of the legis- iative department of the Nationalist government, but was imprisoned at Nanking for a time for opposing the plans of Chiang Kai-Shek. Later Hu Han-Min joined the Canton faction. The message in behalf of Chiang was said to have suggested the forma- | tion of a council of elder members of | the Kuomintang at Canton and lhal‘ all important measures have its sanc- tion before becoming law. el The Canton government appointed C. C. Wu. former Chinese Nationalist Minister to the United States, as chief justice of the southern governmen Supreme Court and head off its judicial | department. Wu recently resigned as Nationalist Minister to the ~United States because of his sympathy with| the Canton cause. Chiang Kai-Shek's alleged proposal that all Chinese factions unite and make war upon Japan recalls the trouble between Chinese and Koreans in three Korean cities early this month. The trouble started when about 500 Chinese attacked 200 Koreans at Wampaoshan because the Chinese ob- jected to the employment of Koreans on an irrigation project there. Shortly thereafter the Koreans re- taliated with mob action which re- sulted in the death of many Chinese and the destruction of considerable Chinese property. Japanese police finally restored order. Subsequently the Chinese Nationalist government announced strong _representations to Japan and | ments it had made | Rolf McPherson, son of Aimee Semple THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931. McPherson, and his bride, the former Lorna Dee Smith of Alva, Okla. CANNDN FLES SUT ACAINST EARST $1,500,000 Libel Charged to Washington Times and Herald by Bishop. James Cannon, jr., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has filed suits in the District Supreme Court totaling $1,500,000 damages against William Randolph Hearst and the Washington Times Co. for alleged libel. The sum of $1,000.000 is ask~d in one of the suits for articles appear- ing in the Times in July, 1930, and the sum of $500.000 for simile:" state- made in the- Washington Herald in the same month. The articles complained of referred to the courtship of the clergymen with Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom he married last year in London. The Bizhop complains that the publications brought him into public scandal and lessened his influence as a bishop. He is represented by Attorney Robert H. McNeill, Sued for $5,000,000. Bishop Cannon first brousht suit here last October against Hearst, individual- ly, asking $5,000,000 damages for al- leged libel in’ connection with articles appearing in the New York Evening Journal and the Los Angeles Examiner. The bishop charged the publisher had pursued him and members of his family with intent to discredit him and mini- mize his influence. Early last month the bishop filed | suit_here against Representative George for a time there was fear that reprisals | H. Tinkham of Massachusetts for $500,- in Manchuria and | would take place the thousands of Mongolia _against Koreans there. Chang Hsueh-Liang. who as die- | tator of Manchuria was instrumental | in bringing an uprising against the Chinese Nationalist government last | year to an end favorable to Nanking, subsequently was made vice commander in chief of the Nationalist Armies. Since then he has been co-operating with Nanking in holding Northern ;:hma against the other Northern war ords. MISS HAMMOND TO WED Daughter of Former Ambassador to Marry Italian Count. NEW YORK. July 22 ().—Ogden H. | Hammond, former United States Am- bassad:r to Spain. and Mrs. Hammond have announced the engagement of Mr. Hammond's elder daughter, Miss Mary Stevens Hammond, to Count Guerino Roberti, son of Count and Countess Piero R-berti of Rome, Ttaly. Miss Hammond is a_granddaughter of the late Gen. John Henry Hammond, who served on Sherman's staff during the Civil War. Court Roberti formerly was attached to the,Italian foreign service, BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band this evening at th: United States Cap- atol at 7:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur Witcomb, second leader. Festival march from “The Queen of Sheba” ..... Goldmark | Prelude third ac Trombone solo, Principal Musician Robert Clark. Grand scenes from “Andrea Che- nier” . T .....Giordano “Meditati . .Massenet “Gavotte,” from * Thomas Bestet from “Lucia”...... ... Donizetti Sevina Leader Arthur Witcomb and Musicians John White, Robert Clark, Herbert Erisman. Peter Hazes and Wil- liam Santelmann. “Loreley 4 Overture, “Tannhai Marines' Hymn, “Thy Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band this | evening at the Navy Yard Bandstand at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, assistant leader. March, “Manhattan Beach”. erture, “Tanored” lo for cornet, Sousa . Rossini ‘Premier a,” Llewellyn ‘Musician Birley Gardner, Excerpts from “The Red Mill,” Herbert ‘Three songs— “End of a Perfect Da; “Sweetheart” Kylophone solo, and Scotch Airs i Musicia: i Excerpts from: “Mlle. Modiste,’ ‘Waltz, “Calanthe Belection, “The Desert Song' “Melody” . ‘Anchors Aweigh.' “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band this evenin; at the Sylvan Theater, Monu- ment Grounds, at 7:30 o'clock. Willlam Ztannard, leades; Thomas Darcy, sec- tatiens March, “Matadore”. .. Ramoniz Overture, “The King of Yvetot”..Adam “‘Patrol of the Scouts”......Boccalarri Selection from “Mefistofele”. . .. .Bof ‘Waltz, “Ciribiriban”. Tn his first address ever made at Eton College the Prince of Wales told of the lessons he learned in South America. G = e 000 damages For this action, he claimed he had been injured by the publication in a New_York newspaper of a_statement by Tinkham repeating charges made on the floor of the House concerning disposition of money received by Can- non for use in the last presidential campaign. Challenge Follows Charges. Cannon had criticized the statements and had challenged Tinkham to repeat them outside the House, where he would not be protected by congressional im- munity. Tt was Tinkham whose charges resulted in the Senate Lobby Commit- tee’s inquiry into Cannon’s handling of money donated for the anti-Smith campaign in Virginia. The United States Marshal has never been able to serve Hearst in either of these two suits. PRILADELPHIA RECORD SUED. Bishop's Lawyers Decline to Make Charges or Sum Sought Public. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 22.—Bishop James Cannon, jr. of the Southern Methodist Church ~ yesterday filed damage suit against the Philadelphia Record Co., publishers of the Phila- delphia Record, a morning paper. No amount of damages sought or grounds for the sult were given in the initial court _papers. Garrett F. George, counsel for Bishop Cannon, refused to disclose in- formation other than that the suit was filed and that additional would be initiated within a week. Robert N. McNeill and Herman listed as attorneys for the DRY RAIDERS SEIZE Police and U. S. Agents Condnct Series of Drives Through- out City. Three persons were arrested and a large quantity of liquor confiscated in a series of raids yesterday. Led by Sergt. N. O. Holmes, police raided a house at 315 Thirteenth street southwest, where they arrested John L. Abenschein, 30, of that address, and ‘Thomas L. Glascock, 26, of tbe 200 block of Twelfth street southwest, on charges of illegal possession of liquor. More than 700 bottles of beer, 30 gal- lons of liquor and distilling equipment were confiscated. In a raid at 142 Carroll street south- east police arrested John Hearley, 37, and charged him with illegal possession of 14 uarts of alleged I'quor. The raid at the latter place was led by a Federal dry agent, according to police. Sergt. A. E. Miller and Pvt. F. J. Knobls No. 2 police station seized 78 gallons of alleged liquor stored in a house at 153 Pierce street. The house is said to have been unoccupied and no arrests were made there. ey USED ROLLER COASTER Man Who Never Came Back Di- vorced by Wife. CHICAGO, July 22 (#).—The “girl he left behind” when he rolled awac on a roller coaster two years ago got a divorce yesterday from James Thomas. Mrs. Lucille Thcmas, the girl, told the judge her husband hecame angry when she refused to r'¢> the roller coaster with him, got on alone, glided away over its dips and curves—and never came back. litigation | | Woodward Winburn of Washington also | were ;| PlaIntifT. THREE AND LIQUOR| EXCURSION PARTY VIEWS RUM CHASE 'One on Detroit River Church | Outing Hit as Speedboat Escapes Guards. By the Associated Press. 3 DETROIT, July 22—An excursion steamer with 1,000 members of a church Young People’s Society on board be- came the center of a brush between toms border patrolmen on the Detroit River last night, and one of the shots wounded an excursionist in the arm. The fugitive speedboat and its crew of two escaped into Canadian waters, having dumped & part of its cargo. The consensus of witnesses to the fast- moving drama was that the shot which wounded Arthur Gajeski, 23, on the steamer Ste. Claire probably ricocheted from the hull of the rum boat as it sped past the steamer. The Ste. Claire’s rail was lined with merrymakers, who had | deserted the dance floor to watch the chase. 40 Shots Reported Fired. First stories told by the passengers after they landed were that the rum boat had taken refuge from three pur- suing boats alongside the stcamer, and | that the crew of a border patrol boat had fired 40 shots at the two liquor runners, with the Ste. Claire in the line of fire. Waiter S. Petty, assistant United States collector of customs, after inter- viewing the patrolmen involved. said it had been a running fight between the rum runner and the patrolmen, started by the smugglers. and that the patrol- men had withheld their fire when the Ste. Claire and a yacht that was pass- ing in the channel came in line. He said 12 shots were fired by the patrolmen, all directed away from the steamer. ' If a border patrol bullet struck Grajeski, it must have ricocheted, | he said. Petty said the patrolmen told him they had seen the liquor boat heading | toward a private dock on the American side, and. after waiting for it to tie up, approached it. Three automobiles were | waiting to receive its cargo, he sald. Pursuers Fired On. At the approach of the patrolmen. he said. the rumboat sped for the Canadian | shore, one of the runners opening fire | |at the pursuers from behind a steel | shield back of the driver’s seat, and | dumping bulky sacks overboard. “The fire was returned by patrol of- ficers.” he said, “which continued until | they reached a point 600 feet from the | ship channel, when our men stopped fir- | ing on account of the proximity of the | steamer Ste. Claire, going down river.” Two more shots were fired when the | rumboat veered back toward the Ameri- | can shore, he said. then the fugitive boat | circled toward Canada again. ahead of | the vacht on the starboard side of the Ste. Clair and escaped. 'KANSANS GIVEN | Wheat Farmers Benefit by Plan in 17 Counties Hit by Low Prices. P . | By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, July 22.—Many Kansas counties have declared a mora- torium on taxes in an effort to assist farmers of & country's chief wheat- producing State, who are offered the lowest prices in history in a year which brought their largest crop. A survey reveals officials of at least 17 counties out of 105 in the State post- | poned for periods ranging up to one month the datz fixed by law for pay- ment of semi-annual tax installments without penalty. Under the statute, a 5 per cent penal- ty must be added for second-half in- stallments of annual tax assessments unpaid on Juns 20 of the- succeeding vear. Under a strict interpratation, however, the penalty nced not be charged against the delinquent taxpayer until July 1. Walter Pleasant, chairman _of t tax cormission, and Roland Boynton, attorney goneral, asserting there was no legal authority for extension of the deadline, have refused to give their sanction of the procedure. LIKES U. S. GIRLS BEST Joseph Hergesheimer Back From Europe With Opinion Unchanged. NEW YORK, July 22 (#).—Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist, has returned from Europ: with renewed enthusiasm for the American girl. Comparing her with the European girl, he says she has a better sense of humor, more in- telligence and a prettier figure. One can kid American girls and have a good time, and they'll take it all in fun, but Eurcpean girls think a man is getting serious if he asks her to An American company will construct a railway bridge et Kuegyik, China, to cost nearly a quarter-milion dollars. TAX MORATORIUM HONEYMOONBEGINS FOR AIMEE'S SON Rolf McPherson and Bride Depart After Ceremony at Angelus Temple. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 22.—Rolf Me- Pherson, son cf Aimee Semple McPher- son, evangelist, and his bride, the for- mer Lorna Dee Smith of Alva, OKla., were honeymooning today. They were married by Mrs. McPher- son before an audience of 5500 last night at Angelus Temple, headquarters of the “Four-Square Gospel” Church, The ceremony was broadcast and fol- lowed a two-hour program which in- cluded light opers, drama and vaude- ville. Excluded From Wedding. A daughter of the evangelist, Ro- berta Semple Smyth. and her newly acquired husband, Willlam B. Smyth, former ship's purser, who were to have been bridesmaid and best man, were withdrawn from the wedding party list. Mrs. McPherson said the program had been “arranged around the four- square idea” and that since Smyth is not identified with any of the four temple departments, it “was impossible to place him in the group.” Smyth decided recently that he would not enter temple work and got a job keeping books for an automobile con- cern, $250.000 Suit Filed. A $250,000 breach of promise suit was on file here today against Guy Ed-| ward Hudson, making the third legal action involving him since he went through a marriage ceremony recently with Mrs. Minnie A. Kennedy, mother of the evangelist. ‘The breach of promise case was filed yesterday by Mrs. Ethel Lee Parker Harbert, who asserted Hudson had re- fused to marry her after winning her love and taking her on a pre-nuptial trip in 1929. While Hudson had the new suit to worry bim, Mrs. Kennedy-Hudson was preparing to go to court tomorrow to have her name lopped off at the hyphen. She filed suit last week for annulment of the marriage. The couple was mar- ried last month gt Longview. Wash., in a picturesque moonlit setting on the banks of a lake. Bigamy Charge Looms. Mrs. Kennedy-Hudson annulment petition alleged that at the time of her marriage to Hudson he was dlrcady |legally wedded to Mrs. L. Margaret | Newton-Hudson. The latter has filed | suit for divorce. In Cowlitz County, Wash., Prosecutor witnesses 1o testify to the marriage of Mrs. Newton-Hudson as a step toward the possible prosecution of Hudson on a bigamy chaige. PUBLIC CHAfiiTIES ] FUNDS ARE URGED TO AID IN RELIEF (Continued From First Page.) | i = | propriating Federal funds for drought and unemployment relief. the question arose today in connection with the Burns report whether any provision tribute to the relief fund. That in it- self, Mr Croxton declared, is a ques- tion with which the committee can make no definite statement. He em- | phasized that the purport of the Burns | report was to the effect that responsi- { bility for the raising of relief funds rests with municipal and county gov- ernments Way Must Be Found. ! “If it develops that with local re- localities which will require outside | aid,”” Mr. Croxton said, “a way must be communitfes, and this will no doubt re- quire assistance from more fortunate localities. and the size of the problems can be | more aceurately determined if organiza- tion of local resources goes forward rapidly.” Should an emergency arise highly out- | side the possibility of local relief aid, | Mr. Burns pointed out, then the ques- | tion of Federal contribution of funds probably would come up for a decision. The drive, it was said, would be known as the “welfare and relief mobil- ization” end will be conducted through- out the country from October 19 to November 25, ending ebout two weeks before the next Congress convenes. Surveys in 184 Cities. Mr. Burns' preliminary report was on the besis of surveys conducted in 184 of the 376 cities to be included in the drive. These findings are being analyz- ed as they are received so that the President’'s Employment Committee may have a clear picture of the entire sit- uation b-fore October 19. Only two general conclusions can be drawn from the information thus far in hand, Mr. Burns reported, but these “stand out with steadily increasing boldness.” “First, that regardless of im- provement in business conditions the relief demands will be greater because of the exhz2ustion of resources by thou- sands of families.” “Second, that private philanthrophy cannot possibly raise all the funds to meet aggregate demands:” and that the “larger perccntage of the direct relief burden must be met through municipal and county appropriatjons.” Find No Exaggeration, “We find there was no exaggeration in the statement of the President’s com- mittee that ‘no emergency since the war has demanded the thoughtful help of public-spirited organizations more than that of the present unemployment sit- uation and the problems growing out of it " the Burns report stated. “Improvement in business conditions cannot alter this phase of the situation. In many cities we find the number of dependent families doubled over last year's estimates. This does not neces- sarily indicete an increase in unem- ployment; it means that thousands of families, even where the bread- winner may have returned to work, have reached the end of their resources. It is evident that we must prepare now f%l; a major task in social statesman- ship.” Referring to the fact that most of the direct relief burden must be met through municipal and county appro- priations, the report pointed out that public officials in many cities already reaiize this.” City of Boston Aids. “In Boston, for example, 95 per cent of the direct relief burden is being met from the city treasury, and there is every intention of maintaining this per- centage. In Chicago, with all its finan- clal difficulties, at least of the relief burden is being, and will be, met out of public furids. “In many places, notably Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York, all funds raised for emergency relief from private sources have been exhausted, with the year only half gone, necessitating not only additional emergency campaigns, but additional emergency appropria- tions, The situation demands joint planning in each city by public officials and private welfare agencies.” In 68 cities of 50,000 or more popu- lation, the Pr!;ldfi;:t'l (;;mmim"l;n Employment sai jay, the percentage of direct relief aid from local tax funds in 1929 was 60 per cent on an average. In 1930, with the greater collapse of private philanthrophy, this percent | Cecil C. Hallin said he was looking for | liquor runners and United States cus-| would be made in the Nation-wide drive | for the Federal Government to con- | sources organized there are less favored | found to relieve human distress in such | The extent of these areas | tage to benefit by the Youngsters Storm Glen Echo Park 1,000 UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN ARE GUISTS"OI CENTRAL UNION. MISSION. Central Union Mission. M WOODCOCK SCOUTS KRESS DRY CHARGE |Finds “No Substance” Complaint of Resigned Administrator. By the Associated Press. Prohibition Director Woodcock today sald investigators thus far had found “no substance” in charges made by Charles W. Kress, former senior investi- gator in Northern New York, who re- signed after protesiing against enforce- ment conditions there. Most of Kress' charges, Col. Wood- cock said, were against Lowell D. Smith, deputy prehibition administrator for Northern New York. Smith was charged by Kress with “collusion with local dry- law violators,” Woodcock said. Says Charges Old. Asked whether the charges involved persons politically prominent in New York. the Pederal dry chief said some of Kress' statement apparently “harked back to old stuff concerning incidents before the Justice Department took over | prohibition enforcement.” “I do not intend to give currency to charges,” Woodcock said, “unless I belleve they are true. Don't think we are satisfied with the enforcement of the law in New York State, but at the same time I have found nothing to show there was collusion between officials and violators there." Kress Is Praised. Woodcock praised Kress as “a good | man and smart investigator.” He added, | howeyer, that Kress apparently had “a | disinclination to work under certain people.” Kress was suspended by the prohibi- tion bureau last October for his re- fusal to work under Smith. He re- signed from the service recently rather | than accept transfer to New York City | under Andrew McCampbell. Woodcock | said Kress also had made charges | against McCampball, but that they cen- | tered principally upon his refusal to rename Smith. | WARRANTLESS RAID STORIES CONFLICT | Three Police Tell Court of Seeing Through Windows Three Others Hold Dark. | Conflicting testimony of six police- men today in Police Court marked the second day of the trial of Louls Palumbo and William Baroni, arrested iwo months ago after a “warrantless” raid on an alleged gambling estab- lishment at 408 Ninth street. Meanwhile, decision of Police Judge John P. McMahon in regard to the legality of the warrantless entry was awaited in & similar case. Three police officers told Judge Ralph ! Given and a _jury they were able to | see into the Ninth street house, once window located near a barred door. Three others subsequently declared the window was darkened and it had been impossible for them to see anything that was going on inside. Police also were unable to agree as to who admitted them to the premises. Two stated they thought Palumbo did. while a similar number were convinced it was Baroni who first opened the door. ‘After about half of the witnesses had testified in the other “warrantless” case, moved to strike out the evidence. and asked Judge McMahon to direct a ver- Thomas Simon, 915 Ninth street, on the grounds that police entry was illegal. Judge McMahon announced he would render a decision this afternoon. Previously Simon had admitted he ran a gambling place at the Ninth street address, stating that Nichols had nothing to do with the place. He denied the police story that he had agreed to their entering and said the officers forced him to open the door. Should Judge McMahon decid> that police had a right to raid the Simon place it is unlikely the case will go to the jury today. In the other trial, very little defense testimony has been heard. ] of public aid had increased to 72 per cent in the same cities. Conditions in Washngton, it was industrial centers where unemployed workers have greatly increased during the past year. With the steady Gov- ernment peyroll, a business confined chiefly to local retail trade, the number of families in Washington requiring public support was said to be negligible. Washington is one of the few large cities of the country which makes no contributions through taxes to public reliet. In conducting the drive for relief funds, Mr. Burns pointed out the coun- try has been divided into 10 regions to promote efficiency and intensive co- operation. Each region is to be served by an experienced executive to aid pub- lic officials and welfare authorities in determining local needs and stimulating the necessary organization. Nine Executives Named. Assignments already have been made to nine of these regions and three re- onal executives ‘are already in the id, covering the New England States, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Il- linois and T a. This concentrated drive does not mean that Community Chests normally holding Spring campaigns will be obliged to e, Mr. Burns said, al- though several of them, notably San Francisco, now represented on the Board of the National Ascociation by 3 Lyman bur, Secretary of the Interior, have tarlly done 80 program. in| used as a pool room, through a small | Attorney Harry Whelan for the defense | dict in the trial of Steve J. Nichols and | said, are not to be compared with great | ORE than 1,000 children, each with a picnic Junch box tucked under arm, left this morning for Glen Echo Park for a day of sports, games and a general free whirl at the park's amusement features. They were guests of the —Star Stafl Photo. Lone Girl Stages Riot and Injures Three Policemen | Blocks Store Doorway and Punches Men Trying to Enter. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22.—A one-girl riot is what police called it. A report that 500 men and women were milling about and fighting in the street was the first intimation the police had that there was anything wrong. | Riot squads were sent out, but when | they arrived they found that all of the | 500" except one were spectators. The | exception was Miss Marie Gallagher, | who, the police were told, had an- | nounced she was descended from a line of fighting Queens and would brook no interference. For some reason, unrevealed to police, | she was blocking the doorway of a | store. Several men who tried to enter were punched by her. The police arrested Miss Gallagher, but not until Sergt. Michael Jennings had been struck on the nose, Police. man Charles Foote had bruises and cuts where Miss Gallagher kicked him and | Policeman James Clune had begn bit- ten so severcly that he had to be taken to a hospital. Mies Gallagher weighs about 130 pounds. AUSTRIAN ATTACKS CUSTOM PACTFOES Guarding of Independence Seen as Cloak for Policy of Ruin. | By the Associated Press THE HAGUE. Holland. July 22— Taking up Austria’s argument for ap- proval of the Austro-German customs | union before the World Court. Dr. | Erich Kaufman, professor of law at Vienna University. charged today that “safeguarding Austrian independence,” it is interpreted by some nations. nlmoums almost to a policy of annihila- tion. | He was developing the major premise laid down by Dr. Victor Bruns, Ger- many's representative, that Austrian independence, guarded by post-war treaties, is not threatened by the pro- posed customs arrangement “Some theories would so completely ‘safeguard’ Austria,” he said, “as to re- duce her to a second or third rate power.” Cites 1922 Promises. This, he said, would be at variance with the promises of the powers London in 1922 in which they forswore a policy of aggressiveness in Austria at a time when -they were seeking to at- tract foreign investors to bolster Aus- tria's weakened financial structure. Concluding Germany's side of ‘the proposed Austrian customs_treaty, Dr. Bruns yesterday told the World Court that the projected treaty alicnated Aus- tria’s sovereientv no more than did | Germany's relations with the United s‘mu on the Mixed Claims Commis- slon. Discussing the aspect of violating Austrian sovereignty and independence as opponents of the projected customs |accord put forth, Dr. Bruns said “Ger- | W. Dernoeden, 23 years old, of Phila-| many never aliermated her independence by acting on & committee With the United States in matters following the war. Says Austria Not Endangered. American umpire and they did,” he said. “After many years experience, I am happy to say that Germany cannot complain of an American majority on this commission. Did Germany alienate her independence when she placed her future in the hands of an American?” A blanket denial was made by Dr. Bruns that any function of the Aus- trian government whatsoever would be in the slightest way infringed by the projected union. Dr. Bruns discussed the Austro-Ital- lan accord under which both nations set an arbitrary list of customs duties on interchanged products, and said this is no farther than the Austro-German project planned to go. A. A SHORTEST NAME IN WORLD, HE CLAIMS, ___ (Continued From First Page.) plons. Mrs. V. Ek, not to be outdone, claimed not only the women's title but the mixed doubles champicnship. A Iormté‘ Duluth policeman said his name was Then Fairmount, Minn., entered E. Py, farme Clinton, Iow: put forward C. Au, J. Au and W. Au, triple threats; Indiana offered Ed Py, inmate of New- castle Jail, and Indianapolis made a poor try with Fix Ax. Mr. A of 5931 Elston avenue, Chicago, quietly waited on the side lines until Just before the entries closed. His name really is Aarcn A, but he likes the dis- tinctiveness of A. A, the world's short- est name—the name that leads all :;htrl 'lnh:hbeet Chicago Mleplhone ;llreli- Ty, A ically as well as longi- tdinally, > Mr. A said he has no idea of the origin of the family name, but insisted it was not hand picked. His ancestors were jewelers in Saxony, but he has m unable to trace the meaning of his e. “llgl‘\“lffl Bloomfield of !h‘e lg;lven'l:‘y icago, professor of rmanic philology, dw"A" in old German meant. “river” and expressed the opinion the family name “A" came from the in | “We requested America to name an | | ORIGINAL AUTOGIRG COMINGHERE TODAY Will Land on Museum Lawn for Formal Presentation to Smithsonian. The first autogiro flown in America will take its place among the Nation's most_famous aircraft in the halls of | the Smithsonian Institution following a presentation ceremony in the museum grounds this afternoon as the climax of the final fiight of the historic ma- chine from Willow Grove, Pa.. today. | The historic “windmill plane” took | off from Pitcairn Field, Willow Grove, | at 8:55 o'clock this morning, accord- | ing to Associated Press dispatches, with | James G. Ray, famous autogiro pilot and hero of House Grounds and on the Capitol plaza, at the controls. Pitcairn Goes Along. Harold F. Pitcairn, president of the Autogiro Company of America, flying a modern type autogiro, took off at the | same time to escort the museum-piece | to its final resting place. | | | land the machine in the circular lawn |in front of the Arts and Industries | Butlding of the museum group. where it will be exhibited in the hall with : the Wright 1908 biplane. The landing |15 expected to be nearly as spectacular | s his landings at the White House and | Capitol. since many high trees,and the | Smithsonian and Arts and Industries Buildings ring the park arca. Was Built by Spaniard. | | _ Pitcairn will present the autogiro to | Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in ence of governmental and aviation | notables. After the ceremony the ma- | chine will be taxied under its own | power to the door of the Arts and In- | | dustries Building, dismantled, and moved inside for reassembly and perma- | nent mounting. - | The historic craft was built in Eng- land under supervision of Juan de la Cierva, Spanish inventor of the auto- giro principal. It first was flown in England, was brought to the United States during the celebration of the| twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wright | hrothers' first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., and was flown for the first time in America near Phila- delphia, on December 19, 1928. AIR MILITIAMEN'S DEATHS ARE PROBED Pennsylvania National Guard Fly- ers Killed in Crash of Plane. By the Associated Press MIDDLETOWN, Pa. July 22.—Maj. J. Sidney Owens and a board of inquiry today were investigating the cause of the airplane crash in whick two mem- | bers of the Pennsylvania National Guard air unit met death late yes-| | terday. | The dead flvers are Lieut. Frenklin | A. Johnson, 43 years old, of Drexel Hill, near Philadelphia, communications | officer, and his observer, Sergt. Paul | deiphja. Both were connected with the 1103d Observation Squadron, of which | Maj. Owens is commanding officer. ‘The airmen were burned to death | to the ground behind the officers’ quar- ters at the Army air depot here. Student Pilot Is Killed. BAXTER SPRINGS, Kans. () —Charles Stone, 17 years old. student flyer, was fatally injured last |night in an airplane crash. Harold | Norris, 23 years old, the pilot, was | injured ecritically. | The plane was a reconditioned one. July 22 JACK DIAMOND WITNESS | ARRAIGNED IN PERJURY | |Dr. D'Urglo Who Told of Seeing Gangster Far From Assault Scene, Pleads Not Guilty. By the Associated Press. TROY, N. Y, July 22.—Dr. Joseph D'Urglo of Brooklyn was arraigned in Police Court today on a charge of per- Jury growing out of the alibi testimony at Jack Diamond’s trial here last week. He entered a plea of not guilty and the case was adjourned until Fri- day. Dr. D'Urglo was arrested yesterday at Catskill. Diamond’s sole defense was his alibi that he was in Albany the night the State said he assaulted a Cairo truck- man in the Catskill Mountains. 3 D'Urglo was one of a number of men who swore they had seen the gang chief in Albany. Perjury committed during the trial for a felony carries a sentence of 10 to 20 years. - STREET CARS TIED UP Splitting of Switch Delays Traffic at Fifth and F. Street car traffic was congested at Fifth and F streets when a Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co. car split a switch about 7 o'clock this morning. The car’s front wheels jumped the track, accérding to F. P. Martin, the motorman. landings in the White! Ray at 2 o'clock this afternoon is to | the pres- | When their plane hit a tree and crashed | a | 'WHOLEANS MAY GET HENDERSON ESTATE Effort to Cut Off Grand- daughter May Invalidate Woman’s Will. (Continued From First Page) and $100,000 to be held in trust for his use. Shima had been employed by Mrs. Henderson for the past six years. He was known as a confidant and adviser of the dewager, He is 26 years old and unmarried. An examination of court records to- day revealed another interesting site uation. Mrs. Henderson's will left the great bulk of her estate to her niece and nephew, Frances A. and Henry N. Arnold 'of New York City. On February 2 last Attorney Gatley filed for Mrs. Wholean a bill for ap- pointment of a trustee to effect a division of the estate, It was alleged that Mrs. Henderson. because of age and illness, was mentally and physically incapable of managing the estate and carrying out the terms of the son's will. Miss Arnold was named as one of the defendants. Court Signs Order. Although served with a subpoena, she failed to appear in court to answer the suit. Justice Jesse C. Adkins, there- fore, on March 17 signed an order that the 'bill fifed by Altorney Gatley be taken as confessed by Miss Arnold. This, 1t was pointed out, amounts to an admission by Miss Arnold on March 17 that Mrs. Henderson was mentally and physically incompetent. This gave rise to speculation as to how she will attempt to uphold the will executed 22 days later by Mrs. Henderson. in which she was left much of the estate. A will ex=cuted by Mrs. Henderson on November 17. 1930, was fyod in District Suprere Court today by 'llmm“)' Nor- man B. Landreau This will specifically revokes a former will in which substantially all of the estate was left to the Battle Creek Sani- tarium and Hospital. Mrs. Wholean is cut off with $100 and the balance of the estate is ordered divided equally among the Arnolds, Jesse S. Shima, H A. Seay, C. K. Hasegawa and William Carter. Mrs. Wholean was to have received the bulk of the estat> of her mother- by-adoption, Mrs. John B. Henderson, under the first of four wills, executed by the society leader prior to thz one filed early vesterday. by which Mrs. Wholean was disinherited, and Shima was_bequeathed $200.000, | This was brought out late yesterday { when the four prior wills were filed by Hollingsworth. trust officer of ropolitan Bank, | where the wills had been left for safe- | keeping. They are dated February 23, 1924; April 16, 1026; February 11, 1027, and July 13, 1927 In the earliest will, Mrs. Wholean 15 bequeathed, in addition to the bulk of | the estate. the right to live { property known as “Boundary Castl |at 2200 Sixteenth street so long as she desirzd $365,000 Trust Set Up. By the will of February 11, 1927, she is given only the household and per- sonal effects. with the right to use the Sixteenth street mansiom or other resi- | dences belonging to the estate. The | statement is made that no further pro- | vision is made for her because of the establishment of a trust of $365,000 for her benefit The latest { of the four prior wills, that of July 13 . bequests that Mrs. | Henderson’s body be cremated, after | being cut through the neck to make sure of death. In this will the houses hold effects are given Mrs. Wholean, [ but no further provision is made. A | trust fund of $100.000 is provided for | Mrs. Henderson's niece, Frances Arnold of New York: $5.000 is given to the American Humane Association and a like sum to Adolph A. Hoehling, for- | mer justice of the District Supreme Court, described as a personal friend of her son. After a number of smaller bequests Mrs. Henderson left the rest of her es= tate to the Battle Creek College of | Battle Creek. Mich.. as an endowmeng for the spreading of biological ideas, | She names the National Metropolitan Bank and Mr. Hoehling as the execus tors of the estate and enjoins on them that if any Sixteenth street property is sold it shall be with restriction that no building more than 70 feet high be erected on it. FRANCE REJECTS EQUALITY IN ARMS IN LEAGUE REPLY, ___ (Continued From Pirst Page.) | ject to the regulations of the Washing= ton naval treaty. Capital ships of 52791 tons not subject to Washington reguia= tion: irst-clase cruisers, 124,424 tons, ex- clusive of one old cruiser. Other light surface ships, 108,233 tons. Submarines, 97.875 tons. Air forces, 1,210 planes. only 30 more than in 19 three lighter-than-air ships; 62 naval planes. Three hundred | and ninety-five airplanes and seaplanes are overs There are 46 sanitary planes. (Copyright, 1931.) PUBLIC INTEREST SLIGHT. By the Agsociated Press. PARIS, July 22—France’s disarma- | ment memorandum to the League of Nations, setting forth that her arma- ments had becn cut to the irreducible minimum, aroused slight interest in Paris. Most of the papers printed the summary supplicd by the foreign office without comment. Only one, L'Echo de Paris, which is Nationalist and consist- ently opposed to the policies of Foreign Minister Briand, printed the full text of the memorandum. FIRST TEXAS VICTIM OF WAR IS REBURIED Body of Ernest H. Gragg Is Re-in- terred at Arlington With Full Honors. ‘The body of Ernest H. Gragg, a Navy seaman, the first Texan to die in the World War, wes re-interred with fuil military honors in Arlington National Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The first, burial was in Ireland. Gragg died of exposure when the | Rochester, a merchant vessel, was sunk off the Irish coast in 1917. He was a member of the armed guard of the boat. The seaman died after he and other members of the crew drifted in | an open ‘boat for four days, death being due to exhaustion and exposure. The body arrived a weck ago, but the | funeral was delayed in abeyance pend- ing the arrival of his mother, Mrs. Cona Gragg, Corpus Christi, Tex. She had traveled, en route to Wash- ington, as far as Birmingham, where a son, who was accom) her, was stricken seriously ill. Re] sentative Buchanan of Texas charge of funeral arrangements. 19 Fish on One Hook. ELING, England, July 22 (.—An ; angler here caught a tope, a member of the shark family, and found he had 19 fish. There were 18 small fish ine side the tope, .